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A54129	A defence of a paper, entituled, Gospel-truths against the exceptions of the Bishop of Cork's testimony by W. Penn	Penn, William, 1644-1718.; Penn, William, 1644-1718. Gospel-truths. aut; Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713. Testimony of the Bishop of Cork. aut	1698 (1698)	Wing P1274; ESTC R218266	58,772	142

Ministration certainly which he calls Earthly in Comparison of Christ's So that the Baptist in his Watery Dispensation did but Fore-run Christ in reference to the Kingdom that he was to set up in Men. He pointed to Christ and shewed what Christ was to do viz. to Wash Fan and Throughly Purge his Floor that is His People and Sanctifie them throughout by his Spiritual Baptism according to the Apostle in Body Soul and Spirit 1. Thess 5. 23. So that in short Practice Properly can be no Institution where the thing Practic'd has no Commission which I suppose the Bishop will not think fit to deny But says he It has a Commission Mat. 28. 19. which is under favour bur his say so and that I think it is no more I do with all Humility and Submission say First I cannot tell how to reconcile it to Good Sense or Common Usage in Sacred or Civil Matters that any thing should be in force by a Commission that is not so much as once named in the Commission I say to me it does not appear Congruous any more than Cogent or obliging And this is the Cause in hand For there is not a word of Water in the Text alledged for Water nor yet in the Context And unless there were no other Baptism than that of Water as there are several it must at least be allowed to be a Question what Baptism Christ meant in that Commission when he sayd Go ye therefore and Teach all Nations Baptizing them in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost But it may be returned upon me nor does the Text say it is the Baptism of the Holy Ghost and so the Bishop is upon equal Terms with me Grant it that the word Holy Ghost is not litterally joined to Baptizing any more than the word Water in that part But if I am able to shew that the thing is there and that the Baptism of the Holy Ghost was the Subject of Christ's Discourse when he gave that Commission at his Farewell I presume it will be granted me that Christ intended a Spiritual and not a Water Baptism and that is what I shall do I hope with much Clearness First the Fact and then my Arguments Matthew the Evangelist large in his History upon other Points seems short and abrupt in the Context of this Commission as the Reader may observe And as it is usual for one Evangelist to explain another which was the great Wisdom as well as Goodness of God that those Christian Memorials might come with less Suspition to the World of any Humane Contrivance So Luke supplies the shortness of the other Evangelist in his Context to this Commission Luke 24. 45 to 50. particularly the 47 48 49. verses And ●hat Repentance and Remission of Sins should be Preached in his Name among all Nations beginning at Jerusalem And ye are Witnesses of these things And behold I send the Promise of my Father upon you But tarry ye in the Ci●y of Jerusalem until ye be endued with power from on High Where as it is plain that this Evangelist in his Account of Christ's Commission to wit the Work Christ gave his Disciples to do Names no Baptizing at all tho' that which it Implies in my Sense of the Word is there viz. the Promise of the Father which is the Power from on High They were to tarry at Jerusalem for So is there not one Word of Water here mentioned to induce us to think that Christ intended to give it any Place in his Commission In short it appears that the Disciples were to be Qualified before they were to go forth as His Witnesses and that this Qualification is the Promise of the Father that he would quickly send them Now I must desire my Reader to turn to the Acts of this Evangelist Chap. 1. 4 5. where he further opens the Manner and matter of Christ's Discourse and Farewell to his Disciples And Christ being Assembled with them commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem but Wait for the Promise of the Father which saith He ye have learnt of me For John truly Baptized with Water but ye shall be Baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence It can be me-thinks no longer a doubt what Baptism it is that Christ's words Mat. 28. 19. refers to since we see not only that Christ distinguishes betwen John's Baptism and His own and between Water and Holy Ghost but also He assigns Water Baptism to John as his Baptism and not Christ's and thereby declares the Holy Ghost to be his own Baptism and none of John's and which yet is no more than what John had said before So that Comparing both Texts together Mat. 28. 19. with Acts 1. 4 5. we may see if we please that the Commission in the one is to be explained by the Qualifications in the other which was omitted by the first Evangelist There They are bid to Go here They are bid to Stay That is to say Stay before you Go and receive your Qualification before you go to Qualify viz. the Promise of the Father that is the Baptism of the Holy Ghost which is followed by the Power from On High verse 8. And indeed had we not this express force on our side from the Text it self the Word Therefore in the Commission referring plainly to the foregoing Verse as the Reason of what follows justifies our sense For whereas the Bishop has objected against our Assertion that it must not be a Spiritual Baptism because that was the work of God and not of the Apostles It is plain that our Lord takes off the force of his exception since the Reason why he bid them Go c. is because says he all Power in Heaven and in Earth is given unto me Verse 18. As much as if he had said Go do all that I have said unto you and be not Doubting or Fearful about the performance of It for All Power in Heaven and Earth is given unto me that bids you Go and Lo I am with you alway even unto the end of the World Which need not have been said as an Encouragement to them in reference to Water Baptism since that was practised by them as well as by John's Disciples long before Nor is this all for the very Text duely considered will not have It to be Water since that could Baptize none Into the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost and so the Bishop knows the Greek Text runs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for they that are Baptized Into the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost must be baptized with the Baptism of the Holy Ghost Since it is to become their Likeness and bear their Image which is Holiness And had not the Apostles understood their Commission as I render it when they had Baptized with Water they would certainly have used the Terms that bore the Force of their Commission viz. In the Name of the Father

God The Nature of it is to Discover Sin Reprove for It and Lead out of It all such as Love and Obey the Convictions thereof It is a Principle of Divine Life that Quickens the Obedient Heart to Newness of Life It Raises the Mind above the World to God and searches out and reveals the Deep things of God to the humble and waiting Soul And be it known to the Bishop and all that with him profess Ignorance about what we mean by the Light of Christ within Man This is It I have been treating of and I have writ I bless Almighty God My own Experience the Taste and Relish I have had of Its Excellency and Sufficiency in the Course of far the greater and best part of my Life But the Bishop must excuse me if I say I ●annot but take it very Ill at his hands to ●orbid us in his following Words to pretend ●o give an Account of what we Believe unless ●e can make him understand our meaning And ●ecause he does not penetrate our Sense to ●all our way of Wording that blessed Prin●iple of the Light of Christ in Man a Per●ect Banter This to me is one of the seve●est Persecutions because Spiritual things ●re only to be Spiritually discerned and un●erstood I would fain know how a Rege●erate Man can possibly make a Carnal Man understand the New Birth It is cer●ainly the Gift of God to understand Divine Truths as well as Rightly to Believe So that supposing our Assertion of the Nature Power and Excellency of the Light of Christ in Man to be true not to have leave to say so unless we could make every Man rightly take our Sence and Meaning whether he be Spiritually Discerning or not looks Antichristian as well as Unreasonable We speak Wisdom says the Apostle among them that are perfect 1 Cor. 7. 6. It seems others understand him not must He therefore not have wrote of the things of God The very Preaching of the Gospel was Foolishness to the Wiselings of Jews and Greeks they could make neither Head nor Tail of It by Their way of Judging of Truth Must not the Gospel therefore be preach'd When the Apostle Paul preach'd to the Athenians some of the Men of the Gown the Philosophers of that Time Opposed and Despised him saying What will this Babbler say But had they known what he meant we cannot think they would have said so to Him Wa● the Aposlte then or the Athenians in faul● that they did not understand Him Or was it Bantering as well as Babbling because he did not make them understand his meaning which is only the Work of the Holy Ghost to do Who was it I pray tha● said The World by Wisdom knew not God And can we suppose any thing else blinded the Scribes and Pharisees and the High-Priest of the Jews from discerning the Messiah when He came For they wanted not Academical Learning if that could have enlightned them nor yet the Scriptures but they Resisted the Holy Ghost their only True Interpreter and so stumbled and fell Let the Bishop also have a Care In the Second Chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians he will find that the A●ostle spake the Wisdom of God in a My●tery which the Prinees of this World knew ●ot with all their Wisdom For the things ●f God fays the Apostle knoweth no Man but the Spirit of God by which those Christians knew those things that were freely given to them of God Which thing also we speak says He not in the Words which Mans Wisdom teacheth but which the Holy Ghost teachetb comparing Spiritual things with Spiritual But the Natural Man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him Neither can he know them because they are Spiritually discerned Now according to the Bishops treatment of us the Apostle ought not to have writ of Faith and Salvation unless he could have made all that read his Writings understand his Meaning And it must be a perfect Banter to talk of speaking Wisdom in a Mystery and not in the Terms that Man's Wisdom teacheth But the Lord Jesus Christ was of another Mind when he said I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth because thou hast hid these things the Truths of the Kingdom from the Wise and Prudent and Reveal'd them unto Babes Even so Father for so it seem'd Good in thy sight It is hence beyond all Dispute that God hideth the Mysteries of His Kingdom from the Wisdom of Man when Simplicity and Sincerity fail not to Reach and Understand them Here it was that poor Nicodemus was absolutely at a loss for Christ's meaning when Christ said Unless a Man be born again he can in no wise enter the Kingdom of God John 3. Insomuch as he asked Christ upon his Discourse of the New Birth How can these things be At which Christ seems to admire in a sort of Reproof upon Nicodemus Art thou a Master of Israel and knowest not these things As much as to say Art thou a Man of thy Station in the Church of God Ignorant of the Way to Heaven Whoever reads that notable Interview between Christ and Nicodemus will find that Christ resolves the Matter into Two Births That which is Born of the Flesh and That which is Born of the Spirit and these are Contrary And therefore no wonder if they differ in their Understanding of the Holy Scriptures being a Declaration of the Faith and Experience as well as Doctrine and Practice of the Servants of God that were Enlightned and Born of the Holy Ghost Nor is this all for they that are Born of the Flesh Persecute them that are Born after the Spirit So that when they can no longer commit Violence upon their Persons and Estates they will Persecute them with their Tongues and Pens They are Hereticks Blasphemers Illiterate and Ignorant yet Presumptuous Enemies to Caesar and Disobedient to Government if they will not give God's due unto Man viz. Conscience And if they choose to deliver themselves in Scripture Stile and speak earnestly of the Necessity of the Work of the Spirit of God in order to an Experimental and Saving Knowledge of the Truth declared in Holy Scripture and that Christ's Ministers are made by the Holy Ghost and not by Humane Learning and that the Worship which is acceptable to God must be in the Spirit and in the Truth that is with Clean Hearts and Right Spirits Kindl'd and Inflam'd with the Holy Spirit of God They must be called Enthusiasts Unintelligible Men of Cant and Banter And here I leave the Bishop upon this Paragraph desiring him to Consider whether his Knowledge of God the Father and Jesus Christ whom rightly to know is Life Eternal John 17 be by the Revelation of the Son of God in his own Soul since Christ himself Teacheth and Affirmeth that no Man knows the Father but the Son and He to whom the Son Reveals Him I should be glad

Spirit to open and move upon our Hearts before we dare offer Sacrifice to the LORD or Preach to others the way of his Kingdom That we may Preach in Power as well as Words and as GOD Promised and Christ Ordained Without Money and without Price John 4. 23 24. 1 Thess 1. 5. Isa 55. 1. Rev. 22. 17. Matt. 10. 8. IX This also leads us to deny all the vain Customs and Fashions of the World to avoid Excess in all things that our Moderation may be seen of all Men because the LORD is at hand to see and judge us according to our Deeds Tit. 2. 12. Rom. 12. ● Philip. 4. 5. Eccl. 12. 14. Mat. 16. 27. Rom. 2. 6. Rev. 20. 12. X. We believe the Necessity of the One Baptism of Christ as well as of his One ●upper which he promiseth to Eat with those that open the Door of their Hearts to him being the Baptism and Supper signified by the Outward Signs which tho' we disuse we judge not those that conscientiously practise them Mat. 3. 11. Ephes 4. 1. 1. Pet. 3. 21 22. John 6. Rev. 3. 20. XI We Honour Government For we believe it is an Ordinance of GOD and that we ought in all things to submit by Doing or Suffering But esteem it a great Blessing where the Administration is a Terror to Evil Doers and a Praise to them that Do Well Rom. 13. 1 2 3 4 5. This hath all a long been the General Stream and Tendency both of our Ministry and Writings as our Books will make appear notwithstanding what Ill-minded and Prejudic'd Persons may have strained to Mis-represent Us and our Christian Profession Dublin the 14th of the 3d Month 1698. William Penn. Thomas Story Anthony Sharp George Rooke THE TESTIMONY OF THE BISHOP OF CORK As to a Paper Intituled GOSPEL●TRUTHS held c. by the PEOPLE called QUAKERS And Delivered to Him by an eminent Member of them Friends I Am such a Reader as in your Paper you desire I have read and soberly weighed the account you give of those things which you say are chiefly Received and Professed amongst you And I will exercise so much Moderation and Charity as to lay a great weight on that word chiefly hoping these are not the Only Things or All that you Believe I should have been heartily glad to have found that you had been in the Truth as I am well assured I my self am But as I professed when the Paper was given Me That if I took it you must expect I should bear my Testimony touching It or against It So I now must tell you I think my self bound in Conscience to perform what I then professed and that upon more Reasons than I will now trouble the World with You must not be offended if I say You have such a way of Writing and Speaking that it is very hard in many matters of Religion to know what you mean But as far as I understand you I will candidly acknowledge what Truths you have sufficiently or tolerably exprest I will shew you with meekness how far your Faith if this be your Faith comes short of being sufficient or Christian and I will sincerely tell you what I apprehend to be the cause of your Delusion and how dangerous a condition I really fear nay believe you to be in And first The only Articles in which you have exprest a sufficient Christian Belief are your IV. which is touching Justification and your last touching Government and your Submission thereto I wish you may always stick to this Belief and Practice And I heartily rejoyce to find you acknowledging the Necessity of Christ as a Propitiation in order to Remission of Sins and Justifying You as Sinners from Guilt 'T is the first time I have heard of it amongst you As to all the rest of your Articles I mean those which I understand I must tell you the declaration of your Faith comes so short of what is required from People to denominate them Christians that except under each Article you believe more than you have declar'd you cannot be accounted Christians For first in those Articles of Faith which you have thought fit to mention you have set down only some little Ends I had almost called them Snaps of the Article And Secondly many more whole Articles of the true Christian Faith and which are of no less import you have intirely omitted waved or suppressed You acknowledge in your I. Article there is a God and you own his Providence as to the other Life But that He made Heaven and Earth that He is the Almighty and at present by his Sovereign Power most wisely and holily Governs Orders and Sustains all by his Mercies as well as Judgments even in this World not ●●aving Himself without witness you say not 〈◊〉 word Creation in the beginning and Providence as to this World at present are not here acknowledged by You. We hope you believe both Your II. Article is wholly true for it is express Scripture 1 John V. 7. But it is onely what the Apostle there had occasion to say and what was to his purpose touching the Father Son and Holy Spirit far from being the sum of what the Holy Scripture teaches of them and therefore i● not a sufficient Confession of Faith on that head In your III. Article you acknowledge indeed the Son of God to have been made Flesh but neither Conceived by the Holy Ghost nor Born of the Virgin Mary So that it does not appear by this your Confession but that He was at first an ordinary corrupt sinful Person Nay you own Him not so much as Jesus or the Christ the great Saviour who delivereth from the wrath which is to come or the Great Prophet Priest Lord and King of his Church You acknowledged him indeed to have dyed for Sin but not to mention the Articles inferible from and relating to the Circumstances of his death You have not one word of His Resurrection from the Dead or of His Ascension into Heaven which i● may be proved some of you have expresly denyed saying He is not ascended into Heaven He is in us Nor again of H●… sitting now at the right hand of the Majesty o● high And so you seem not to own any thing of His Mediation Intercession or Appearing now in Heaven for us Nor further have you said a word of his coming again to Judgment or the End of the World Thus indeed You have here neither own'd the Creation nor Dissolution of the World so that it does not appear by this Account of your Faith whether you do not judge it Eternal and so otherwise Infinite Yet again Not a word of One Church which it may be feared you strike out of your Belief because you are resolved never more to return into the Unity of the Church but to make and maintain a Schism or Party for ever Nor further have you a word of the Resurrection of the Body which divers of you have been