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A96387	A charitable essay, in order to allay the outrage of a contentious apostate inverting his error (from true Christian faith and charity) upon him, in his book, falsly stiled, New Rome unmask'd, &c.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1693 (1693)	Wing W1903; ESTC R233852	12,571	8

Testimony Read Joh. 17.23 2● 2 Cor. 13.5 Creed 6. All Teaching which is given for● by Jesus Christ is to bring up the Hearers 〈◊〉 Perfection even to the Measure Stature and Fulness of Christ c. On which he REMARKS viz. Come and see once more this dar● dismal antichristian and uncharitable Creed of the● deluded Souls c. They like the Pharisees hold SINLESS PERFECTION c. Answ Come and see once more what F. 〈◊〉 holds e converso to the contrary viz. That 〈◊〉 Teaching or Ministry given by Jesus Christ is 〈◊〉 to bring up the Hearers to Perfection that is Sinles● tho' it was to present them perfect in Christ a●● that all might come in the Vnity of the Faith and 〈◊〉 the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect Ma●●● and unto the measure of the Stature of the fulness 〈◊〉 Christ as the Apostle expresly declares Ephes 〈◊〉 Oh! what sad and dismal darkness of Apostacy 〈◊〉 the Man fallen into Contrary both to Chri●● and his Apostle's express Testimony Read Jo● 17.21 22 23 34. c. Ephes 4.11 12 13. In Creed 6. ibid. He that hath the same Spir● that raised up Jesus from the dead is Equal w●● God which we do deny quoting Saul's Erran● c. p. 8. and also Great Myst●ry p. 78 127 28● where quoth F. B. their being equal with God 〈◊〉 not denyed but strongly implyed Answ We deny both to be any part of o●●● Creed The first as being some acciden● Mistake in Saul's Errand as 't is really su●pos'd being also contradicted by G. F. in his 〈◊〉 ownng the Charge and denying himself or a● other Creature to be equal with God his Creato● But testifies the Son and Holy Ghost to 〈◊〉 equal in Power and Glory with God the Fathe● Great Mystery p. 127. and p. 254. and Saul's 〈◊〉 p. 5 6 8. Let us take a view of some of F. B.'s 12 ●●●rors charged on the Quakers Doctrin on whi●● with his 6 fictitious Creeds his 12 Chapte 〈◊〉 and much of his Book are grounded 1. Against G. P.'s Great Myst p. 89. viz. T. 〈◊〉 the Quakers have a Spirit given to them beyond all Fore-fathers since the days of the Apostles in Apostacy c. The very intent and meaning of G. F.'s wo●● herein was not beyond all the Fore-fathers with●● exception but beyond all in the Apostacy And further And they can discern who are Saints 〈◊〉 who are Devils and who are Apostates without spe●●ing ever a word But add further They that be Power and Life of Truth as G. F. there saith 〈◊〉 so discern between Saints and Devils c ●●d that's possible as 't is for humble Men to ●ern wicked Persons even by their proud and ●●y Looks wanton and scornful Eyes envious 〈◊〉 fallen Countenances the shew of whose ●●untenance testifying against them and more ●●ecially by the Gift of discerning of Spirits given 〈◊〉 some in the Church of Christ Apostates and ●●ked Spirits are discernable from Saints The 〈◊〉 part that a Spirit of Vnderstanding and Dis●ning was given and among us beyond all such ●●●e-fathers as were in the Apostacy F. B. did long ●●ieve was no Error But now if he 'll have it ●●e invert it upon him and then it must be in 〈◊〉 sense 1. That 't is an Error to profess a Spirit ●●en us now adays beyond all the Fore-fathers in 〈◊〉 Apostacy 2. That they that be in the Power and ●●●e of Truth cannot discern between Saints and De●●●● especially when silent These being opposite ●he Doctrins he deems Erroneous by the first has excluded himself as well as others from 〈◊〉 Spirit of Christ which is beyond all the Fore●hers in the Apostacy and thereby he hath ●luded Christ and his Spirit which the true ●●ostles had consequently he 's endued with the ●rit of Apostates and in a great Apostacy 〈◊〉 only from the Christian Society of the People ●●ed Quakers but also from Christ himself his ●●rit Light and Truth By the second he has ●●osed and excluded himself from the Saints ●●ht of discerning by the Power and Life of ●●uth between Saints and Devils His 11th Erroneous Principle charged on the ●●kers chap. 1. out of Good Advice p. 39. 〈◊〉 That Edward VI. by Archbishop Cranmer was ●●pelled to sign a Warrant to burn poor Joan of ●●nt counted an Enthusiast for which F. B. sadly ●●t on presumption vilifies W. P. c. p. 72 〈◊〉 and which he saith He does not believe but ●●ges it upon him G. W. and the rest as a Lye until ●●prove it by a Protestant Author Answ See Speed's Chronicle p. 1103. how ●●arly it is proved and how averse Edward VI. ●●s to signing the Warrant to burn Joan Butcher 〈◊〉 how Dr. Cranmer his Godfather Archbishop ●oured to induce him to set his Hand to the ●●rant of her Execution and with what relu●●ncy he did it but not without Weeping See 〈◊〉 Boker's Chron. p. 311. Now F. B. mayst ●●u not be horribly confounded and ashamed of 〈◊〉 precipitant foolish rashness in reviling and ●●ustly condemning us as Lyars in this Mat●●● 〈…〉 12th supposed Error I affirm the true Church is in the true Faith that is in God and we must either believe this AS the true Church believes or else it were but both a Folly and Hypocrisie to profess our selves Members thereof This he charges upon my self as one of the Quakers great Errors wherein I did not make the Church the Foundation but Example of our Belief whence it follows inverting it to his contrary Principle ●mplyed that either the true Church is not in the true Faith that is in God and therefore we must not believe as she believes or else that tho' the true Church be in the true Faith ●hat is in God we must not believe this as the true Church believes or we must not believe in God as the true Church believes let him take which he pleases seeing he opposes my Affirmation as erroneous and then behold this blacksliding Adversary's Faith and return upon him Oh! horrible Apostacy from the Faith of the true Church If F. B. says the aforesaid Inversions are not his meaning then what did he oppose as Erroneous pray Must not the contrary Sense of every thing he opposeth be taken for his Sense Or did he wittingly and wilfully oppose Truth It must be the one or t'other Take which he pleases and let him wind off the Dilemma if he can The most of the rest of his Articles that concern Doctrin are answered in divers other Books as in my late Answer to the Baptists at Depiford and Enquiry into a late Pamphlet stiled Some of the Quakers Principles and Doctrins c. And in my Answer to Dr Ford's Preservative against Quakerism At present I wave and pass by many of his Personal Abuses gross Detractions Raileries and Slanders and unjust Comparisons between Vs and the Papists and Popes and many of his foul Reproaches cast upon the Servants of Christ