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A43114	The Quaker converted to Christianity re-established, upon the same, sure, safe, and only foundation, Jesus Christ crucified, and his righteousness imputed for justification : having yet no mind to change the sweet and easie Yoke of Christ's Gospel, for the Old Covenant-Yoke of Quakerism, which he found so burdensome and intolerable, or, A full reply to a book entituled, Rebellion rebuked written by John Crook and William Baily, both in the ministry among the Quakers / written by William Haworth ... ; with an account from William Dimsdale ...	Haworth, William.; Dimsdale, William.	1674 (1674)	Wing H1196; ESTC R513	168,839	185

thou mentionest 〈◊〉 the Pharisees themselves with their erroneous Principles directly such ● sort of People as the Quakers as thou mayest see in the Answer to Crook and the Lords hand will assuredly pluck up all Heresies and H●reticks in due time In Pag. 33. He pretends to describe the Glorious State of the Kingdom of Christ as brought in by Obedience to the Light Within Read it over for it is too long to Transcribe and you will see this is the sum of it viz. That all the Earth would become outwardly reformed living Peaceably Sobe● Civil Neighbours one to another not wronging one another that Law-Suits and Wars would be no more but every 〈◊〉 growing Rich Building and Planting they would all have Vines and Fig-trees and so sit under them in Peace and Eat and Drink the good of the Land Live merry sensual proud lives yet all this while Carnal Ignorant have Lusts Reigning in their hearts not a Dram of the Knowledg of a Mediator or any thing of the Spirit of the Son upon them not a word of that in all this but only guided by the Light within i. e. In a word the Subjects of this Kingdom and all Inhabitants of the World will all be Quakers honest civil Heathens and Baily apprehends this Kingdom will never come till we all take up this Principle of obeying the Light of Nature and so turn Quakers Baily saith peremptorily that Christ's Kingdom would come this way viz. By attendance to the Light and appeals to the wise in heart to Judg. Now let the Judgment be made from these two Scriptures that he hath quoted Isa 2.4 and Micah 4.2 For out of Zion shall go forth the Law and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem Whether is this the Light within that every Man hath or the Preaching of the Gospel by Apostles is the question Now to resolve it what we are to understand by the Law going forth from Zion and the word from Jerusalem whether it was not the Apostles Preaching first to the Jews according to their Commission they were sent to the lost Sheep of the House of Israel and not to go into the way of the Gentiles and this they did and when they had done it then they turned to the Gentiles The Preaching of the Gospel did thus go out of Zion and from Jerusalem from among the Jews to the Gentiles the Law of works was from Mount Sinai but the Law of Faith as it is called Rom. 3.27 did come from Mount Zion according to that in Luke 24.47 That Repentance and Re●●●● of sins should be Preached in his Name among all Nations beginning Jerusalem Whether was it this Doctrine or the Doctrine that George Fox ●●●ght out of the Mountains in the North about 20. years since that 〈◊〉 in the Kingdom of Christ Let the wise Judg 〈◊〉 34. Baily Thou art running the same round again like in the 2 Paragraph thou hast this How would the very Root of wickedness decay and wither inwardly if all were ceased from outwardly would it 〈◊〉 speak Barrenness if no Fruit appeared Reply By this it 's clear what the Quakers Kingdom of Christ is that this Man hath spoke of what a Reformation they would have wrought in the World only outward if this be not right Pharisaism where is there any to paint the outside when all is full of Rottenness within not a word of any change of heart but thou supposest necessarily that if no Fruit outwardly the Root must decay when-as some external means as Cold Mildews Blastings Shakings by Wind may the away all the Fruit of a Tree and yet it 's Root be in it 's full Life and Vigour may not fear of the Law awe of Parents the strength of 〈◊〉 Disease Old Age take many off their Practice of Sin when-as at the same time the Love of it is in their Hearts thus we have counted the number of the Beast as thou biddest us and see that the Quakers Religion is meerly external Before we leave this let the Reader take notice how this blind Man perverts that Scripture 1 John 3.8 For this purpose was the Son of God manifested that he might destroy the works of the Devil and puts a mark upon it applying it to the Light within every Man calling it the Son of God who was of the same Nature with the Father the Jews knew that who-ever called himself the Son of God made himself God and therefore they charged Christ with Blasphemy and would have stoned him when he called God Father now here it 's plain he calls this Light of Nature the Son of God coequal coeternal with the Father An Eternal Father must have an eternal Son this is the 5th time of thy Blasphemy Now would you know what the manifestation of the Son of God is nothing but Obedience to the Light and Christ's destroying the works of the Devil only some outward Reformation attained by Obedience to the Light according to the Quakers The other Scripture is Matth. 28.18 All Power is given to me in Heaven and in Earth Bayly Why dost thou leave out these last words viz. in Heaven and in Earth why dost thou quote Scriptures as Satan did omitting 〈◊〉 thereof now Answer is all power in Heaven and Earth given to the Light within which is in every Drunkard Swearer and Robber● If so this Light then is to send forth Apostles as Christ did at that time he spoke this of himself and they are to Preach in the Name of this Light and teach them to observe all things that this Light commandeth and this Light is with them to the end of the World and this would enable them to cast out Devils to convert many and would give Eternal Life to as many as it pleased John 17.2 there it is said as tho● hast given him power over all flesh that he should give Eternal Life to as many as thou hast given him Doth not thy Ears tingle Reader and thy Heart tremble at these Rampant Blasphemies B. pag. 35. And W. H. saith that the Righteousness of Faith by which we are Justified is wholly without us and that the Father hath poured out all his Wrath upon his Son Jesus Christ now if this Doctrine 〈◊〉 true and sound Doctrine there is no need to fear miscarriages for there is 〈◊〉 Wrath left to punish sinners if all be poured out upon Jesus Christ Reply I have already given Answer to this Cavil consisting of two Branches As for the first touching the Righteousness of Faith I have abundantly spoke to it as the Reader may find in many places both in my Answer to Crook and this Caviller and to the other concerning Gods pouring out his Wrath but will add here a little to that This is true Baily rightly understood as it 's spoke of in the Epistle viz. That the Father poured out all his Wrath upon his Son Jesus Christ by the Wrath of God we understand as in the Epistle may

name I forbear to mention which were to my best remembrance these viz. Young Man I would have thee prepare thy self if it be upon the hearts of any our friends to write to vindicate the Truth that thou should'st not think they do it out of envy but in all meekness to reclaim thee For your Love and Care of me I humbly thank you being willing to learn knowledg in the Gospel by any But your Titles which you put upon me are not such as should Reclaim me viz. A Rebel Blasphemer Traitor wicked Person Dangerous to be believed in words or trust●● in Actions Had these things proceeded out of my Mouth I have just ground to Judg thou wouldst have counted them fruits of envy by what thou toldest me of W. Haworth but I leave it to others to Judg what they are in you After a Repetition of several of my sayings in pag. 27. of my little Book I find thee W. Baily condemning me for setting forth my Condition while I was obedient to the Light in my Conscience for Life and Salvation by the similitude of Israel's being in Egypt Which thou l●st strained to make Confusion and render me odious to the World According to this Rule of thine might I say of Paul in Gal. 4.24 25. That the Covenant of Grace was no more than giving Abraham a Son in his old-Age And Hagar the Bond-Woman which bare Abraham a Son is the very Mount Sindi in Arabia on which God gave the Law Also I might say from Luke 18.3 c. That God is unrighteous and that he will not hear his People unless they trouble and urge him with their Cry Which God forbid I should say or think I know no more wickedness in setting forth working for Life and Salvation by Israel's being in Egypt than for the Scripture to set forth God by an unjust Judg. Is this abusing my Similitude in this manner a Fruit of the pure Light within But why may not my Condition in obeying the Light within be compared to a state of Bondage Seeing this Light teacheth the things contained in the Law though not all things contained in the Law as they ought to be taught As not to kill not to Steal not to Commit Adultery and many more and saith in this Language viz. Do this and Live Which is plainly the Covenant of Works This Light teacheth That the Man that keepeth his Statutes i. e. the Commandements of the Light he shall live in them As in Levit. 18.5 Rom. 10.5 Gal. 3. 〈◊〉 The Quakers words are these viz. Mind the Light heed obey the Light and turn to the Light which reproveth and such-like expressions Which words are good in their place but when Justification Life and Peace with God are placed herein they are stark naught For then the Gospel and the Honour and Glory of Christ are destroyed That Christ which was dead and is alive and liveth for ever Revel 1.18 Which cannot be the Godhead without the Manhood So then he that submitteth to the Light and obeyeth it doth not Steal as he that heeded the Covenant of Works And this Light as that Covenant shuts up people unto Good works only to do them for fear of punishment So that they that are thus obeying the Light differ not from those that all their Life-time were subject to Bondage by reason of the fear of Death Heb. 2. 15. Now Paul calls it no other than Bondage to be under the Law for Life and Salvation Gal. 4.25 Why therefore may not I compare it to such an Estate without such Wickedness as you speak of How often do you say there must be a cleansing from all sin in this Life else no Salvation Doth not this speak that the Righteousness in which Man is to live must justify him Is this any other than the Covenant of Works which is perfectly to be kept or no Salvation to those that are under it Where is Gospel-Repentance now Where is a freedom of Will and delight to do good It is all out of doors This I remember upon my own Spirit when the Lord enlightned me to see Justification by the personal Righteousness of Christ then came in a freedom of will to good and a Delight and sweetness in doing Good which I had not before Neither can this be in any where this Change is not There may be in you Quakers a Legal Repentance which is a turning from Wickedness to Civility because ye are bound so to do for Life and Salvation as you think But Gospel-Repentance is an Obedience to the Faith which Justifieth without Works And such an one receiveth thankfully and accepteth of the Righteousness of that Person Jesus Christ for his Justifying Righteousness And from thenceforth in Love to Jesus and for the honour of his Name liveth soberly as a Son obeyeth his Father But doth not look to be made a Son and owned to be a Son and so accepted and received by these works wrought in him and by him Which kind of Repentance the Light within every Man sheweth not So let him which hath the 〈◊〉 Judg of the Tree by its Fruit as thou sayest If the Spirit the 〈◊〉 are in be not the Spirit of Bondage which Paul speaketh of in 〈…〉 15. When as the fear and dread of the Majesty of God un●●● the Covenant of Works is such to those that remember that there eternal punishment for sinners that they dare not go on in sin 〈◊〉 this But then it is with them If I may draw a Similitude once 〈◊〉 as with a Merchant on the Sea loaden with rich Treasure which 〈◊〉 truly loveth and is loath to part with But there ariseth a Storm 〈◊〉 Tempest So that he must either part with his Goods or lose his ●●●e and then he says farewel my Treasure which I so dearly loved 〈◊〉 a kind of Will such a Repentance is theirs who are shut up in 〈◊〉 under the Law and bound to be obedient to the reproof of the 〈◊〉 that they may be delivered from the wrath of God and the punishment of sin 〈◊〉 farther because there is a Light in every Mans Conscience which 〈◊〉 Check for evil as was in Adam after the Fall Genes 3.10 un●o which I have been pointed by some And the more it is heeded the 〈◊〉 it will work So that when going to act some evil this Light ●●oeth and the fear and dread of God because of punishment and 〈◊〉 of shame that will ensue seizeth upon Man so that he hath not 〈◊〉 to go on in sin Hereupon dark blind blockish Reason con●●deth this is the Christ and the Power of God to Salvation By this 〈◊〉 of deceit I came to believe the Light and Power within to be 〈◊〉 Christ the Saviour of the World As some of the Quakers do ●nowledg the Light in overy Man to be They say it is both the 〈◊〉 and the way to the Saviour Upon this ariseth Love to the 〈◊〉 esteemed falsly to be the Lord

9.24 And to bring in everlasting Righteousness prophecying of the Messiahs coming in the flesh he saith Seventy weeks were to be accomplished to make reconciliation for iniquity atoning justice by being cut off vers 25. not for himself then it was to be and not till then not before he offered not himself before Heb. 9.26 But now once in the end of the World hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself Abraham David Paul none of them brought in this Righteousness was Paul crucified for you 1 Cor. 11.3 yet is this Righteousness an everlasting Righteousness the working of it was now and fulfilling of it in his person taking flesh upon him but yet everlasting in that it was first the Righteousness that the Father had from eternity designed Secondly the Righteousness of the eternal word Thirdly a Righteousness of an eternal virtue and efficacy Fourthly a Righteousness that remained forever where-ever it is imputed Fiftly a Gift never by God repented of Therefore it is very frivolous and argu●s nothing but that thou wantest matter to fill thy paper with to cavil in this wise as if it could enter into my thoughts that any either before or after were saved but by vertue of this Righteousness when-as against Papists Socinians Quakers I am pleading that all those I named viz. Abraham David Ezra Daniel Job Isaiah had no Righteousness that would save them but this because the other Righteousness they had in them was imperfect as appears by their Confession of sin and God will accept of nothing but what is intirely and absolutely perfect As to that Micah 5. I cannot find the word everlasting but only in the vers 2. where it is thus written whose goings forth have been of old from everlasting which is certainly spoke as to Christ's Deity for his coming forth from Bethlehem was in time there mentioned and then did he bring in and fulfil and not till then this Righteousness that I am speaking of In the fulness of time God sent his Son Gal. 3. Behold I come to do thy will A Body hast thou prepared me Heb. 10. J. C. pag. ibid. We Believe Salvation only by that Jesus which witnessed a good Confession before Pontius Pilate Answ This is a good Confession if only by him then not by the light within for that is not Jesus that witnessed before Pontius Pilate if only by him exclusive of all things else then not by the Vertues Gifts and Graces of the Spirit for they are not Jesus that witnessed amp c. J. C. pag. 10. For Answer to the Heathens Knowledg of God's Vengeance and sight in the Deity I refer the Reader to the Reply to the young Mens Book Answ I shall also defer my Answer in full till I come to that only say that I find you Brethren in iniquity in abusing so grosly my words If you do it not with purpose and design then you be more ignorant than School-Boys If designedly it is Jesuite-like my words are these viz. They saw speaking of that Barbarous people in the Deity a Vengeance ready to punish Now would not a Boy of seven years of Age take it thus viz. They saw a Vengeance ready to punish sin in the Deity i. e. to be in the Deity and thou with thy Brother makes this phrase viz. in the Deity to be the modus of their seeing the Vengeance when-as before I said that God had Justice in him there is the Subject of it the very Light of Nature sheweth there is the way and manner of their seeing it not as you say and make use of it as a Concession for your turns sight in the Deity i. e. Light that was in their Consciences believing the Light to be God himself O horrid Blasphemy you would make me speak-like your selves I believe no other Light in those Heathens but that of Nature and this was not the Deity But 〈◊〉 the Reader take notice that J. C. wholly passeth over this Paragraph concerning that of Christ's Righteousness as indeed he doth the other two before which consists in his sufferings and making satisfaction and not a word unto that Vengeance that is naturally in God lest he should discover himself to be a Socinian Oh for a little plainness from this people for if this be true that God hath a Vengeance in him and that naturally his Nature engageth to punish sin and all have sinned I would know how all the Righteousness of meer Man will or can atone this but I had like to have omitted something material J. C. pag. ibid. But for thy own knowledg of it I find thee like the Pharisees of old casting all God's Vengeance upon Christ an easie way of thou could'st so escape it by imagining his doing and suffering God's pleasure to be reckoned thine by a bare belief of it wholly without thee Answ I do not understand thee help me herein I pray thee how the Pharisees did cast all God's Vengeance upon Christ as a way to escape the wrath to come Mat. 3.7 I never read this or heard of it It is written who hath warned you to fly from the wrath to come and that followes bring forth Fruit meet for Repentance so then they having some convictions upon their Consciences and apprehensions of wrath through John's Ministry betake themselves to the Baptism of John believing that an External submission to this would be sufficient to 〈◊〉 their Consciences in the mean while being destitute of any inward change of heart or any real Holiness in their lives and all this while had no whit of Faith in Jesus Christ which is always accompanied with true Repentance as the beginning of it These Pharisees were very ignorant of Christ if not altogether they were Vipers John calls them so they placed their Religion in their carnal kindred to Abraham v. 9. and were Chaff to be burnt up v. 12. yet thou dost make their Faith as good as the Faith of any of the Godly in the Nation my Knowledg of the Vengeance of God is this which I express in the Epistle if it should rest upon thee or me or any of the Sons of M●● or all Mankind it would burn to the neithermost Hell Therefore having felt something of it in my Conscience in the sence of Sin and knowing more of it was due to me for my sins I fly by Faith which the Spirit works in me by the hearing the Gospel to Jesus Christ 〈◊〉 be delivered from this wrath to come 1 Thess 1.10 believing through Grace that all that Vengeance and Wrath that was due to me for transgression was upon that person Jesus my Surety in my stead and room and though thou dost scurrilously call the Faith we have Imagining yet this is the Faith of God's Elect Isai 53. The Chastisement of our Peace was upon him which we should have born in the same kind v. 7. the right reading of it is it was exacted and he answered and whoever believes not thus

be seen his Justice the Holy Nature of God is such that he cannot but be against sin and punish it he cannot indure iniquity to speak properly there is no such thing in God as Wrath as it is a boyling up of anger to the height but it is his Holiness Justice this is attributed to God after the manner of Men in that God when he comes forth in Justice to punish he Acts as if he was in Wrath Now if all the sins of the Elect were charged upon Christ then all that Wrath i. e. Justice of God that was obliged to punish these sins must exert it self upon him that had those sins Yet is there Wrath enough i. e. Justice in God to punish sinners that believe not nor trust to the Grace of God in Christ such proud Pharisaical ones as thy self if God give thee not Repentance who mocks thus at Christ's Cross I say again that Justice of God which the sins of all the Elect for whom Christ died deserved which was infinite was exerted upon Christ and God doth no●●●g toward the Elect to satisfie his Justice All Afflictions are Chastise●ts in Love towards them as the Scripture speaks but are all Elect 〈◊〉 all Faith Are there not multitudes that believe not and so are 〈◊〉 punished here and damned for ever There is Wrath i. e. Ju●●●ce upon them that will not come to Christ and receive the Atone●●t As to that passage viz. fear of miscarriage I say this Doctrine 〈◊〉 ours begets in them who have the Faith of it and see themselves interessed in Christ Confidence Comfort Joy Establishment insomuch that those tormenting slavish despairing fears of being damned lost reprobate are dispelled therefore it is expressed by the young Man to this purpose viz. fear of Miscarriages to the loss of my Salvation a true fear of God lest they should offend their Father by ●nning against him is never separated from those that believe this Doctrine yet this is true Luke 1.74 Being delivered from our Enemies we should serve the Lord without fear in Holiness and Righteousness But W. B. Thou art for such a sound Doctrine it seems in the belief whereof thou mightest still fear miscarriages to the loss of thy Salvation i. e. so as to despair and be damned and likewise such a Doctrine that teacheth that some of Gods wrath might light upon thee unless by thy works from the Light that every Man hath without the Atonement of Christ thou couldst satisfie and appease it Baily And that satisfaction was made 1600. years ago for all sins past present and to come The Devil might play what Cards he will ●●w if this be true there is no need to fear the loss of Salvation through miscarriages Reply The Papists are of this mind viz. That there is no assurance of Faith to be attained in this Life but that it 's the Duty of Christians to doubt all our days thus likewise the Quakers But remember Baily though thou sayest the Devil might play what Cards he would yet the Devil is never so beaten as when this blessed Doctrine of Free Grace is revived Witness Luther's time the Doctrine of Justification by Faith alone in Christ's Blood which that Worthy of Christ maintained in the Face of all Merit-Mongers and Shavelings and Hypocrites did in very many places and among multitude of Souls put the Devil quite off his play and laid open his shuffling tricks praise to the most high for that time Luthers followers were Holy and yet believed the forgiveness of all their sins by Jesus Christ Could we but know your ●hind concerning this Truth we would write more but it is not your time as yet to open your selves but let me query are any sins at all forgiven by Christ's sacrifice and Atonement If so then I ask if the● sins are only sins past i. e. only those committed before we attend 〈◊〉 Light if so then how are those sins pardoned that are fallen into afterwards We do believe according to the Scripture That the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth from all sin 1 John 1. That being in Christ God hath forgiven us all Trespasses 2 Col. 13. Acts 13.39 By him all that believe are Justified from all things c. all sins past and present are Actually forgiven us all sins to come not yet committed virtually If any one sin be charged upon us there is condemnation but there is now no Condemnation to them that are in Christ Rom. 8.1 Baily And that was needless Doctrine of Christ to bid his Disciples Watch and Pray Matth. 26.41 And of the Apostle Peter who bid them give all diligence c. Reply These Exhortations are means that the Lord makes use of to continue the Elect for whom Christ died in perseverance and God thinks them not needless Baily Who among all the ungodly in Christendom so called would turn their ears from this kind of Doctrine O ye Daubers and so Railes on Reply This Doctrine of Grace and free Remission of sin is sent on purpose for the ungodly and sinners remember Christ came to call such not the Righteous to Repentance i. e. those that think themselves Godly and are not as the Quakers do despise this Doctrine W. B. who wouldst thou have saved only Godly ones i. e. those that think themselves so and have no need of an Atonement and forgiveness O that all the ungodly in Christendom would turn their Ears to this sweet Doctrine it would effectually change their Hearts Blessed be God we have so good a Doctrine to Preach for we are all ungodly ones by Nature and are all transgressors of the pure Spiritual Law of God I see the Pharisees are still angry with the Gospel Baily Was there ever such a Doctrine Preached by any of the Holy Men of God as this since the beginning of the World Reply But what Doctrine dost thou mean It must be that viz. that the Righteousness of Faith by which we are Justified is wholly without us now that this Doctrine was asserted in all Ages by all the Holy Men of God let the Scripture be Judg betwixt us I have said enough to this in my Answer to Crook which I pray thee peruse and the Lord open thine eyes for I know thou art blind there the Reader may see we own Faith to be within but the Righteousness that Faith Embraces is without for Christ's Person is the Subject of it and 〈◊〉 either as an Act or Work of our Mind is not the Righteousness that Justifieth B. Search the Scriptures and see which ye call your Rule Reply Are they not worthy to be called the Quakers Rule which 〈◊〉 call your Rule wouldst thou like that Language used to thee if thou art married the Woman thou calledst thy Wife if thou hast an Estate the Ground the Land the Houses thou callest thine would i● not imply a denyal of thine Interest Property Title and that the Man that spake so had a mind to wrong

those that are chose in him Is the Light within the Elect Seed Then it must be saved yet it goeth to Hell with many how comes that to 〈◊〉 But ye lose your selves for want of found knowledg and sound 〈◊〉 you speak you know not what following your Teachers 〈◊〉 chusing to use them rather than Scripture-Language The four next lines I have Answered before in the Body of the Book 〈◊〉 in the last line of the 55 Page thou callest it the Light of the Son of 〈◊〉 and a little before The Son of God and Elect-Seed See thy ●onsistency Mary Which he hath given for a Leader to his people to lead out of all 〈◊〉 into all Truth And those that have followed the Lord fully and ●●●thfully therein have found Life and Salvation According to that 〈◊〉 he shall save his people from their sins not in their sins Answ What an Efficacy hath Error upon the minds of poor people when the Lord hath given them up to blindness of heart How 〈◊〉 thou call the Light within every Man The Leader of the people which is applyed to Christ's Person in the Prophets who leadeth 〈◊〉 people by his Spirit in the use of the Holy Scriptures Is Nature ●me the Leader Fallen blind Nature the Captain of your Salvation What tumbling into Ditches must there then needs be What a ●phetess art thou in Israel to say likewise that this Light is Jesus 〈◊〉 therefore had that Name given it as it was to be born of Mary His 〈◊〉 shall be called Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins So 〈◊〉 why not Emanuel as well God with as in us God have mer●● on thee It 's Recorded in History that when some malevolent Spirits 〈◊〉 a mind to make disturbance in the Nation in the absence of the 〈◊〉 their treasonable way was to set up a Counterfeit to whom 〈◊〉 would give the Name of him that had Right to the Crown Thus 〈◊〉 Quakers do give all the Names Titles Attributes to the Light 〈◊〉 every Man that is but Nature that this way they might lift 〈◊〉 into the Throne of God Which is desperate Treason against Christ the Lord. Whose Glory he will not give to another Mary And therefore come down out of that high and lofty Spirit and 〈◊〉 that which convinceth thee of sin For all that will not how there●● will be broken thereby Answ The Law of Moses is greater than the Light that every Man ●●th It will shew more sin in Man than the Light can Rom. 7. 〈◊〉 not known sin but by the Law But to make the Law of Moses Jesus Christ would be an intolera●ble thing But it 's a higher villanie to make Nature to be the Christ 〈◊〉 to be be worshipped as here thou dost At the Name of Jesus every Knee shall bow Phil. 2. 10. To the Law in my Conscience I have been faithful in 〈◊〉 drive me to Christ the Mediator By the Law is the Knowledg of 〈…〉 is this or the Light within every Man That Jesus that every 〈◊〉 must bow to Doth either the Law or the Light within convince of 〈◊〉 in order to drive to it self as the Saviour O what darkness is 〈◊〉 Christ and none but he is that Stone that whoever trusts not to 〈◊〉 be broken to pieces Mary There is not an easier way unto Life for thee than there 〈◊〉 for us Answ The Scripture saith Luke 13.24 Many shall seek to 〈◊〉 and shall not be able Many of the Jews did strive but missed 〈◊〉 they sought it as it were by the Works of the Law Rom. 9. 〈◊〉 as the Gentiles that followed not after Righteousness did attain to 〈◊〉 Righteousness of Faith You Quakers go the same way with the Pharisees I know th● Christ Jesus is the only way the Veil of his Flesh Faith in this 〈◊〉 10. He that confesseth with his Mouth the Lord Jesus and believeth 〈…〉 heart that God hath raised him from the dead shall be saved The Spirit make this way short and easie The work of the Law upon my Conscience hath compelled me to this way And this is the way for 〈…〉 you will be saved He that believeth not shall be damned Exce● Believe saith Christ that I am He ye shall die in your sins 〈◊〉 8. 24. Mary And yet we have no Cause to complain of a burdensome Yoke or that the Lord is a hard Master For the Yoke of Christ is easie and 〈◊〉 Burden is Light Answ Following the Dictates of Nature is not the Yoke of Christ for it leads into the Covenant of Works which is a heavy-Yoke 〈◊〉 work for Life And ye are under it And as many as are of the 〈◊〉 of the Law are under a Curse Galat. 3.10 Only you relieve your 〈◊〉 with that which is false As thou mayest see pag. 56. viz. that ●●ons to evil within us are not sin if not consented to And so 〈◊〉 interpret the Law as the Pharisees that thought they kept it 〈…〉 they broke not out into external sins Christ is no hard Master For he gives strength to do that which he commands But the Light of nature is not our Master as it is yours For we call no thing nor person Master but Christ Jesus to teach us by his Spirit Mary And do not flatter thy self with vain hopes of our fall For the 〈◊〉 look for that shall perish in their holes 〈…〉 My hopes are that your Errors shall be blasted that every which the Father hath not planted shall be plucked up by the Roots This Hope shall not be in vain If I live not in the Body to see it yet 〈◊〉 be If the Tares which the Envious one hath sown grow till the 〈◊〉 they shall then be weeded out and thrown into the Fire The ●ture speaks it And now it is sufficiently manifest to all the Coun●● that there are great Errors amongst you You have been weighed 〈◊〉 found too light tryed and found dross 〈◊〉 For we are built upon the Rock of Ages and though the storm ●ction beat on one hand and the raging Sea which casts up mire and in the other hand yet shall we stand for our foundation is immoveable the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against us Answ O that ye were built upon Christ the Rock His Person is Rock of Eternity not the Light that is in every Man but the of Man Christ Jesus This is the foundation the Apostles laid and 〈◊〉 can any of Right lay But ye have gone about to lay another 〈◊〉 your building is according to the foundation You may hold out in an hour of Mans Persecution and Opposition but 〈◊〉 the Tempestuous Sea of Gods Justice beats upon you and his bil● go over you and the Whirlwind of his fiery indignation ●●eth upon you in an hour of Death and in the day of Eternal ●●●gment to come the Sandy foundation of your own Righteousness ●all and great will be the fall O the sad disappointments of 〈◊〉