esteeming the Holy Scriptures but the Precepts and Traditions of Men as most unjustly is charged upon the Quakers by E. P. and consequently by his approvers William Allcott and Henry Loader who had need to retract this and the rest of their Charges which are notoriously false in fact And E. P. thou hast no cause to boast or insult over us touching the Writings and Sayings of our ancient Authors which thou hast so foully wrong'd and perverted and when thou hast made Lies upon them then falsly to say they directly contradict the Quakers new Faith when by deceitful Perversions false Citations base and falacious Forgeries thou hast attempted such Contradiction as thy self and abettors may for ever be ashamed of and hast great cause to renounce and explode the same rather than we our ancient Friends Writings And to evince thy contempt and scorn thou shalt take no notice at all of the confused Profession of Faith that G. W. makes p. 34. No thou art too big too great too high in thy own proud Conceit to take notice of what such a mean contemptible person as G.W. or any of us testifies of our Belief how sincere soever But I must tell thee if thou goest on in this thy wicked Course of Defaming and Scandalizing us I hope we shall take further notice of thee and thy base malicious Work to thy own and abettors perpetual shame to keep your Infamy in remembrance and when we have fully cleared our Consciences I doubt not but the Righteous Judge of all whose People thou hast evilly entreated and reproach'd will meet with thee and rebuke thy Envious Spirit To extenuate thy notorious Lie and Forgery against Geo. Fox of taking the Name of the Eternal Judge of quick and dead to himself quoting p. 6 7. of Saul's Errand Now thou art fain to beg the Question viz. Why may not G. F. take the Name to himself as well as approve of those blasphemous Titles given him by Jos. Coal in his Letters from Barbadoes p. 35. cited in Antichrist in Spirit p. 43 44. Ans. The Charge here of approving and giving blasphemous Titles is very high against two persons deceased who we believe ended their days in peace and my present Answer is 1 st I have cause to question whether the said Letter be truly and intirely copied or cited from the Original by thee E. P. 2 dly I do not believe 't is an intire Copy 3 dly Whence hadst thou thy Copy and Credit thereof And what Persons that are no Parties nor Adversaries to us will attest thine to be true and an intire Copy according to Jo. Cole's original Letter 4 thly If thou canst not produce the Original then what validity is thy Charge of if the Credit of all the Copies thou canst produce be called in question for want of impartial Witnesses or the Original to compare them with For I do really question the truth of thine and when thou givest an unquestionable Copy thereof probably I may give a further Answer for I doubt not but I can clear that honest Man Jos. Cole from giving any blasphemous Titles and that from his own printed Testimonies and G. F. also from receiving by his known publick Christian Profession unto Christ Jesus both as God and Man according to the Holy Scriptures And where and when did G. F. say in a Meeting I have power to bind and to loose whom I please p. 36. What Meeting and who are Witnesses of this Story I do not believe it To prove E. P.'s false Charge That they i. e. the Quakers say that Christ hath no Body but his Church Antichrist in Spirit p. 29. This being shewn not to be the Quakers Saying but something like it objected against One Person by some persecuting Priests as in Saul's Errand p. 2. Now E. P. again is fain to beg the Question and shuffle viz. And why may not G. F. deny Christ to have a personal Body besides or distinct from his Church as well as G. Whitehead Dip. pl. p. 13. Ans. I am the Person here falsly accused again they are none of my words or negation nor so much as mention'd in the place quoted in Dipper plung'd p. 13. but the terms God-man a person without thee question'd as not Scripture-Language answered before which was not on the Question Whether Christ hath a Body distinct from his Church Also answer'd presently Whereas E. P. objects against what I said in answer to Tho. Jenner's saying Christ sitteth at the right-hand of God in Heaven with a Natural Body And accusing us with saying Christ hath but one Body E. P. should have been so ingenuous as to have recited my whole Answer in that case in our Apology p. 33. quoted by him p. 37. and that will clear me from his impertinent Objection against the words viz. They should produce Scripture that say Christ hath two Bodies Here E. P. leaves out a Natural and a Spiritual which is very unfairly done And in the Question Where doth the Scripture say that Christ's glorified Body in Heaven is of Human Nature After Is he leaves out a Natural Body and as his terms are whereby I grant that Christ hath a Spiritual Glorious Body of his own Also E. P. takes no notice of my Explication in these words viz. If T. Jenner supposeth that we intend the Natural Bodies of Men to be the Body of Christ without distinguishing between them he is mistaken for the Natural Body and Spiritual Body are two And if Christ's Body in Heaven be Natural whose Body is it that is Spiritual Glorious c is it Christ's yea or nay And I further add in my Answer Apol. p. 34. If so be Christ's Body in Heaven be Natural then where the Apostle said he shall change the Body of our lowness that it may be fashion'd like unto his glorious Body Phil. 3. This were all one in Jenner's sense as to say he shall change and fashion our Body which is Natural like unto his Natural Body c. By all which I grant Christ's own glorious Body in Heaven distinct from those natural Bodies of Men on Earth though I must own a Spiritual Vnion or Oneness between that and his Church so as his Body in its Fulness is but One Body And in my Appendix to reason against Railing p. 23. I plainly confess I believe he hath a Spiritual glorious Body distinct from all these earthly sublunary Bodies and that the Heaven that must receive him is above and larger than the Hearts of Men Append. p. 24. To E. P.'s repeating that J. Parnell calls Water-Baptism a formal Imitation and Invention of Men and now addeth that He J. P. saith so p. 37. whereas it was plainly shewn him that he did speak this of Sprinkling Infants which E. P. calls Baptism and yet saith the Name Anabaptists belongs not to them p. 13. And why so If Sprinkling Infants be Baptism are you not Anabaptists when you Re-baptize them or Baptize them again
following are left out viz. as received and proceeding immediately from that Spirit and spoken in the Sense thereof as Christ's Words were of greater Authority or Power when he spake than the Pharisees reading the Letter and them in whom that Spirit speaks not and their Speaking we deny whereby I did prefer the Spirit in it's Living and Powerful Ministry above the Letter but not a Word of preferring any Pamphlets to the Holy Scriptures God knows it never entred into my Heart to prefer any Pamphlets or Books extant in the World much less Lying Ones before the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament but do prefer and esteem them before all other Books or Writings extant whatsoever When Humphry Smith 's True and Everlasting Rule came in date the Scriptures became no better than an Old Almanack this from a Story of Tho. Hicks against one Tho. Holbrow though we know no such Person Dialogue p. 27. to which Edward Paye c. addeth these Words viz. These are the Men that in their Pamphlets profess so high an Esteem for the Holy Scriptures Antichrist in Spirit p. 13. Pray observe here These Men here accused with esteeming the Scriptures no better than an Old Almanack are therein most wickedly belied and scandaliz'd being those of us who publisht the Paper in Print entituled The Christianity of the People commonly called Quakers asserted wherein we sincerely declare the quite contrary to what 's here implicitly charged by E. P. c. against us namely That we do believe and own the Holy Scriptures contained in the Books of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration c. Tho. Hicks in his Dialogue I. p. 24 25. and Edward Paye c. on his Credit Falsly and Wickedly Personate the Quaker thus viz. When we make use of Scripture it is only to Quiet and Stop their Clamours that plead for it as their Rule but for us had the Scriptures never been we could have known what is therein contained I hope quoth Edward Paye the Reader by this may perceive the Reason why the Quakers talk so much of Scripture in their Paper Observe we own not the Scripture we seemingly allow it but our End in this is only to stop their Clamours that plead for it as their Rule You see here quoth E. P. the condescending Spirits of these Men c. Antichrist p. 15. We do in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ utterly deny this Passage and Declaration as laid down in the Quakers Name and Person as no Declaration or Speech made or thus declarable by the Quakers on their Principle but a Horrid Abusive Forgery of Thomas Hicks long since detected and which you Baptists now may be horribly ashamed to bring forth or suffer to be renewed in Print The Names they i. e. the Quakers give the Holy Scriptures viz. No better than an Old Almanack a Dead Carnal Letter p. 18. But on second Consideration E. P. deems it a difficulty to prove that the Quakers do now in the present Tense say The Holy Scriptures are but a Dead or Carnal Letter as his other Pamphlet Raylings p. 23 24. and yet chargeth them in the present Tense with giving such Names to the Holy Scriptures but now 't is a Difficulty to prove his own Charge Among the Names which E. P. falsly chargeth the Quakers to give the Holy Scriptures viz. That they are the Precepts and Traditions of Men p. 18. That Obedience to the Scriptures is the Harlot's Child p. ibid. These are both utterly denyed by us the said People and the pretended Proof of the first is hereafter examined and proved false The latter I really believe could never be so said nor ever was held by the Quakers so to term sincere Obedience to the Holy Scripture but rather to reflect upon an Hypocritical Profession and Imitation of some Shadows and outwardward Things and neglecting the Substance of the New Covenant Dispensation That the Heaven they i. e. the Quakers intend wherein the three Divine Witnesses bear Record is No where else but within their Mortal Corrupt Bodies they intend no other Heaven than what is within them Antichrist in Spirit p. 20 21. This is expressly contrary to our known professed Principle of the omnipresence of God and his Spirit both in Heaven above and in Earth beneath and whom the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain And I take the Charge to be but E. P's own Consequence which he himself has drrawn from some Words he has partially and mincingly taken up against James Parnell Thomas Lawson Edward Burroughs c. First For a Pretext quoting James Parnell's Book as he calls it Satan's Design Discovered But I know no Bok of James Parnell's so entituled upon the Reviewing the Titles of his Books nor any of the rest quoted that oppose or disown God's Omnipresence much less that the People called Quakers are guilty of any such Charge I would desire E. P. if he will still be so injurious as to reassume this Charge against the People called Quakers that he would yet be so ingenious as fairly and fully to cite the whole Passages of the Authors quoted by him relating to the Matter intended and for Proof of his Charge without his own Consequences and Perversions That if it shall appear that any of them have opposed or denyed the Omnipresence of God or his Eternal Spirit we may shew our dislike thereof But I believe there 's enough in our Friends Books to clear them if honestly viewed and cited and we have great cause to Question and detect his unfair Citations as I have this following Instance against my self for Proof of his said Charge 8. Quoting Dipper plung'd Christ without us is not Scripture Language but the Anthropomorphites and Muggletonians Antichrist in Spirit p. 22. But E. P. in his other Pamphlet Railings p. 29. varies in his Repetition of his Charge thus viz. G. W. Dipper plung'd Jesus Christ a Person without us is not Scripture-Language c. Observe here in the one it is Christ without us where after Christ E. P. leaves out God-Man a Person i. e. without us which I said is not Scripture-Language c. In the other it is Jesus Christ a Person without us is not Scriture-Language where after Christ he leaves out God-man again and yet both charged by the same Credulous Person E. P. though both be falsly cited and unjustly charged upon me as mine For to Tho. Hick's strange Phrase viz. Jesus Christ God-man a Person without thee Dial. p. 9. My Answer was This is not Scripture Language but the Anthropomorphites and Muggletonians who profess a personal God denying him to be an Infinite Spirit Dipper plung'd p 13. Wherein my Objection was not against the Words Jesus Christ without us for he is both without us and within us but my Question was of the Words God-man a Person without us including God as well as the Man Christ Jesus as
preaching People to a lost God a lost Christ and then E. P. c. cries out of G. K's being Inspired by the Prince of Darkness to talk of a lost God and a lost Christ to be Sought and Saved p. 42. Oh horrid and abominable Falsifying and Perversion See G. K's own Answer and Detection to Tho. Hicks in this very Matter entituled George Keith 's Vindication from the Forgeries and Abuses of Thomas Hicks shewing that when he speaks of a lost God and a lost Christ he saith whom they i. e. People had lost and from whom they were separated by their Sins And this Hicks and his Brother E. P. take no Notice of in their Citation or False Inferences much less of G. K's Vindication p. 8 9. viz. The Plain and Open Sense of my Words is this That as Jesus Christ came to Seek and Save the lost Souls of Men and to Raise up and Recover the Image of God in Men again so all the true Ministers of Christ Preached People to God and Christ near them whom though Men had lost yet were near unto them to save them and to bring them into the enjoyment of him and Fellowship with him His other Instance in p. 42. is against James Naylor's Love to the Lost falsly quoting p. 30 47 48. citing him thus viz. That there is a Seed to which the Promise of Redemption is which Seed is that which ONLY wants Redemption and that Christ is the Elect Seed And then draws this Consequence from a false Position That Christ came to Redeem Christ. We do not find the Citation true no more than we own the Position we find not that his Words are That this Seed Christ ONLY wants Redemption but WHEREIN only Redemption is seen and received namely That in the promised Seed Redemption is only to be seen and received by Man or the Creature that wants it Now I find a Distinction in J. N's Writing of the Seed as between the Seed Christ who is the Redeemer and the Seed of Abraham i. e. Believers whom Christ Redeems the Children of the Kingdom the Children of the Promise are counted for the Seed And this Distinction appears in J. N's own Words following That 't is the Seed of Israel whom Christ redeems as J. N. saith and tells man no further art thou Redeemed by Christ Jesus And that Salvation IN the Seed is placed and the Heritage of Faith is the Seed that is Redeemed which all who know Redemption by the precious Blood of Christ are redeemed from the vain Conversation for this End he gave himself for us to redeem us from ALL Iniquity thus far J.N. Love to the Lost p. 59 60 61 62. concerning Redemption but no such Words as that the Seed which is Christ ONLY wants Redemption Is it not a great Shame and Reproach to Religion that any Preachers should be so Credulous and Envious as to receive such down-right Lyes and gross Perversions to Reproach their quiet Neighbours and thus confidently to Expose them to the World as these Anabaptist Preachers have done and thereupon to roar out and cry Blasphemous Absurdities Gross Contradictions to Truth p. 43. When such Absurdities and Gross Contradictions are their own Malicious Forgeries against us Fomented and Exposed by Thomas Hicks and on Trust from him by Edward Paye Henry Loader and William Allcott Whereas Christ hath all Power in Heaven and Earth given him and he is our Saviour and Redeemer and as he had Power to lay down his Life and take it up again so his own Seed of Life Word or Plant in the Soul though for a Time under Suffering and the Load of Man's Iniquity he hath Power to Raise it up and therein to bring forth an Immortal Birth and Holy Generation which is his Seed whom he shall see as the Fruit of his Soul's Travel Such his Condescension and Humiliation under Suffering both inwardly and outwardly argues no Deficiency nor Impotency in Christ himself who is the very entire Christ of God in whom all Fulness dwells and who received the Spirit not by Measure but 't was his own free Love and Act of pure Condescension and Humility to descend into the Heart of Man to Redeem and Raise up Man his Soul and Spirit out of his Fallen and Captivated Estate and from under the Bondage of Corruption who in that State ONLY wants Redemption and not Christ for how much soever he Suffers or is Spiritually pierc'd or grieved by Men's Iniquities he can take unto him his great Power when he pleaseth and ease himself of his Enemies and his own Arm can bring Salvation to him We never Entertained or Believed any such Doctrine as these Adversaries enviously and falsly insinuate as that the Seed Christ ONLY wants Redemption for so to render him Impotent were to oppose his All-sufficient Power and Dignity but that 't is the Soul of Fallen Man and Woman that wants Redemption and not Christ who is the Redeemer and Saviour of it this does plainly appear to be our Belief from our Apprehension of the Nature and Being of the Soul of Man as a Creature and not the Creator viz. That the Soul of the Creature Man is not God nor Christ But the Spiritual Being and Principal Part of Man Created in the Image of God and Divinely Inspired and Enlightned by its Creator and Redeemer who formed the Spirit or Soul of Man within him for the Soul or Spirit of Man as distinguished from the Body is often in Scriture rendred one and the same thing more livingly perceived and felt in that Divine Light and Life of Christ whereby our Souls live to God than by any Philosophical or School Definitions Edward Paye's Second Pamphlet styled Raylings and Slanders Detected Examined WHereas in my late Brief Treatise entituled Antichrist in Flesh unmasked I did complain against the Envy and Persecuting Spirit of Edward Paye and his Abettors William Allcott and Henry Loader as appearing Envious against our present Liberty 1. By seeking to make void one Condition thereof which was our Profession of Faith In the three Divine Witnesses in Heaven c. according to 1 Joh. 5.7 and acknowledging the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration being sincerely owned by us before the Parliament when proposed to us and accordingly accepted and more fully inserted in the Statute for Exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting c. from the Penalties of certain Laws and therein confessed to be a Profession of their Christian Belief 2. That in Contradiction thereunto these Persons aforesaid have grossly Belied and Misrepresented us the People called Quakers accusing us with vilifying and contemning the Holy Scriptures and with saying We own not the Scriptures but seemingly allow them and that the Quakers are great Enemies to and contemners of Holy Scriptures Epist. and p. 14. and 20. of their first Pamph. Antichrist in Spirit both contrary to our Sincere and Christian Profession and
the Prophets and Apostles did for something commanded in Scripture is and may be truly in it self a Duty for all but cannot be truly understood nor performed without the Assistance and Guidance of the Holy Spirit and that Spirit will not be wanting to assist in both as truly heeded 5. I never knew our Friends the Quakers so called deny the Resurrection of the Just and Unjust though probably your gross Sense thereof but we have only pleaded for the Spiritual Celestial and Glorious Bodies in the Resurrection as far excelling the Natural Earthly and Corruptible Bodies and sincerely believing the Holy Scriptures in that Case Luke 20.35 36. Joh. 5.28 1 Cor. 15. Hosea 13.14 Phil. 3.20 6. I never knew our Friends the People called Quakers deny the Body of Christ that suffered to be raised from the Grave or Sepulchre but divers declare their Belief to the contrary namely That his Flesh saw no Corruption or did not Corrupt but rose again the Third Day and that Christ in the same Body Ascended into Heaven yea also that he ascended far above All Heavens that he might fill all things 7. As to that Point of your Water-Baptism and your Bread and Wine you must excuse us we are not yet satisfied that they are Gospel-Ordinances and to continue always in Force under the Gospel and New Covenant-Dispensation being a Dispensation of Substance and not of Shadows nor do we believe that you Baptists have any immediate Call from Heaven to Baptize People in Water nor that your observing Breaking of Bread or Drinking of Wine can properly be called the Lord's Supper either in the Figure or in the Substance yet we do not Despise or Contemn either Water-Baptism or Breaking of Bread as we are falsly accused as once practised nor as observed by such now as are Conscientious therein from a Belief that 't is their Duty to observe the same we charitably think they mean well therein but wish they might more mind and partake of the Substance both as to the Spiritual Baptism and the Bread of Life from Heaven for their poor Souls Relief and Safety in Christ the Substance 8. We never held that pernicious Tenet of Believing That no Blessedness is to be enjoyed by the Saints after Death as is most unjustly insinuated against us from Suggestions grossly false p. 9. and elswhere detected 9. We never denyed Justification by Christ's Works Righteousness and Merits much less call it a Doctrine of Devils as we are most horridly belied p. 9. as is clearly evinced 10. We are not ashamed to say and affirm That Christ is the Light of the World and that he is that True Light that enlightens every Man coming into the World and that God is our Light and our Salvation and is not this Divine Light within think ye Doth not both God and Christ in some degree appear within to be known within suppose ye else how should that which may be known of God be manifest within seeing there 's no knowledg of God but by Christ 11. And as to Billingsgate Complements charg'd and for Moderate and Mild Treatment of our Antagonists The truth on 't is the former I like not but the latter I am truly for Moderation and Mildness even in treating Antagonists if they are any whit Treatable Rational or Fair Opponents But if I find an opposing Adversary guilty of Envy Lying Forgeries gross Perversions Wresting and Turning my Words to a contrary Sense than they naturally import or ever was intended by me then I hope I may tell and shew him his evil and injurious Work and justly reprehend him for the same and yet I not be justly deem'd guilty of Billingsgate Complements or Rhetorick either for I can make no better of a gross Lye or Forgery than 't is nor give it a better Character than it deserves or that lying Spirit from whence it comes which I have plentifully met with in Edw. Paye's Works of Envy against us for which I think he justly deserves to be paid off by just Reprehension And of his mild Treatment you may hear anon To excuse his envious and scornful Story from our Persecuting Adversaries the Westmorland Petitioners about Sorcery cited in his other Pamphlet against the Meetings of the People called Quakers p. 7 8. Antichrist in Spirit Now E. P. saith viz. For my part I have seen them Quake and Foam at the Mouth besides several that have been Eye and Ear-Witnesses of it Railings p. 10. But neither tells us the Persons nor in what Meeting or what Place he saw them in both those Postures nor who else besides himself were the Eye and Ear-Witnesses thereof And what reason have we to believe his Testimony any more in this than in many other notorious Falshoods And Corrupt Notions and Deceivable Gestures p. 11. he hath not proved against us But instead of Proof is now fain to beg Questions and come to his Supposition viz. Suppose you formerly used to Quake Tremble Roar Swell and Foam at the Bull and Mouth in London the Westmorland Petitioners may say true c. p. 11. See how faintly he comes off for those Westmorland Petitioners and their Story to render us odious As for Quaking and Trembling I ask him If these be the Deceivable Gestures which he accuseth us of And as to Roaring Swelling and Foaming which he would fain Insinuate against us I neither know nor remember these Gestures among our Friends at the Bull and Mouth Meeting or elsewhere in London ever since I knew the Meeting in that place which has been above 34 Years E. P. grants Christ present in Spirit but the reason of Fasting his being personally taken from them into the glorious Heavens above beyond the Stars and they obliged to Prayer and Fasting c. till his second personal Coming p. 15. Whereas Christ assigned another cause of Prayer and Fasting even when personally present with his Disciples for the casting out the unclean Spirit Mark 9.29 and the Apostles approving themselves Ministers in Watchings in Fastings by Pureness c. 2 Cor. 6.5 was not because of Christ's personal or outward absence And as for your being obliged to Prayer and Fasting 'till Christ's second personal coming I do not believe you 'l fast so long G. W. denies not Quaking and Trembling quoth E. P. p. 16. And what then Was that all the Instance the Westmorland Petitioners were brought for Does that prove either Sorcery or a Diabolical Spirit Swellings or Foamings in our Meetings as they insinuated or deceivable Gestures as he has accused us Where proves he Quaking and Trembling without exception deceivable Gestures Or so called in Scripture Pag. 18. E. P. I have it 's true examin'd the Quakers Appeal by way of Charge against Tho. Hicks wherein they charge him with Lies and Slanders and Forgeries And I have perused Mr. Hicks 's Answer to their Appeal where Mr. Hicks clears himself both of Lies and Forgery I find his Answer to their Appeal subscribed
they know not but what they know naturally as Bruit Beasts in those things they corrupt themselves 11. Wo unto them for they have gone in the way of Cain c. 12. These are Spots in your Feasts of Charity c. 13. Raging Waves of the Sea foaming out their own Shame wandring Stars to whom he is reserved the Blackness of Darkness for ever Many other Instances might be given of the Prophets Christ his Servants and Ministers giving severe Judgment against the Wicked And what think you now do not these Instances contain as much Sharpness of Language and Judgment if not rather more as either the said E. B. or any of our Friends have given their Envious Adversaries and yet 't were not warrantable to compare them to the Muggletonians much less to the Devil's Vileness or prodigious Arrogancy The Lord open these Men's Eyes and soften their hard Hearts and make them more charitable if it may yet stand with his good Pleasure And I perceiving the very same Bitter Envious Spirit of Persecution in these present Adversaries Pamphlet styled Antichrist in Spirit I could do no less than tell them of their Hypocrisy Envy and Bitterness their Turbulent Persecuting Lying Spirit their Gross Lyes and Falshoods c. for which I am not condemned of the Lord nor conscious to my self of Wrong done them for these Evils are apparent in them but really believe the Just God will Rebuke and Judge them and plead our Innocency And seeing Ed. Paye upbraids us with the Sweet Convincing Language of the Quakers I will not so unequally retaliate and say I shall give the Reader a Breviate of the Sweet Convincing Language the Anabaptists use to treat their Antagonists withal But to speak in his Terms of the Sweet Convincing Language which Edw. Paye and his Brethren Will. Allcott and H. Loader have treated the People commonly called Quakers withal in their said Pamphlet Antichrist in Spirit viz. Quakerism a great Delusion their Deceit their pretended Faith proved a Counterfeit Title their Profession a Labyrinth of Confusion a Compound of Heresies corrupt Notions Equivocal Reserves Proud Boastings the Pride and Ignorance of these Impostors these deluded Impostors the Quakers great Enemies to and Contemners of Holy Scriptures The Quakers dream This Generation of Impostors the Quakers who say Behold he Christ is within thee to deceive the Hearts of the Simple Horrid Blasphemy They labour to keep a Christian-Mask over their Anti-Christian Face a Bundle of Blasphemy Could the Devil himself have been more Vile Why should these Impostors talk of the Blood of Christ their Pofession but a Painted and Deceitful Flourish The Quakers Grand Deluders Blasphemous Absurdities By no means their Word must be taken blasphemous Confidence The Title on each Page is Quakerism a great Delusion above 70. times over and Turn to the Light within saith the Quaker 7. times over in three Pages repeated in Derision and set in Opposition to Christ's Doctrine c. The Spirit of Delusion and gross Ignorance in the Quakers These Clouds of Popish Darkness These Men care not for the Scriptures except it be to abuse them A Spirit of Delusion Their impertinent Evasions and manifold Corruptions of the Scriptures The Quakers are greatly deluded What Horrid Contradictions and gross Absurdities attend this Spirit of Delusion The Quakers vainly feed themselves with Wind in Imagining that they have the Holy Spirit who rebel against Christ contemn his Blood despise his Ordinances c. With much more such like Treatment in their said Pamphlet in pages 8 16 18 20 24 25 28 29 34 35 37 39 40 43 46 54 55 56 58 62 64 69 70 71 75 76. which as 't is unmerited so it is utterly denyed by us Take a View farther of some of Edw. Pay's Sweet Language he treats us withal to convince us in his Second Pamphlet styled Railings and Slanders detected viz. The Folly and Heresies of the Quakers Quakerism a great Delusion in the Title Slanderous confused Raileries Ill-shapen Cub Your Defects in Truth and Reason Gross and abominable Errors All their Authors Books full of Railings and Blasphemy that they have formerly called it a Doctrine of Devils viz. Justification by Christ's Works Righteousness and Merits which is an abominable Falshood I have seen them Quake and Foam at the Mouth Your Corrupt Notions and Deceivable Gestures Suppose you formerly used to Quake Tremble Roar Swell Foam c. G. W. an old Stickler for Quakerism Mr. J. Faldoe saith How generally were their Meetings either Silent or taken up with sudden and violent Eruptions of dismal Howlings and horrid Ravings Shaking and Foaming at the Mouth c. G. W. is so daringly Confident his Impertinent and Absurd Evasions This small Bundle of Railery written by G. W. Like raging Bears Their Ragings The confused Profession of Faith that G. W. makes p. 1 2 6 7 9 10 11 12 15 22 24 27 28 34. I am not willing to trouble the Reader in this Place with more of E. P's sweet Treatment or rather his sowre scurrilous Contemning and undeserved Detractions he had better have let what he calls the Quakers Sweet Convincing Language alone than to have reflected so scornfully upon us unless his own had been sweeter than 't is and more Convincing and obliging though I confess this his latter Pamphlet is not quite so bad as the other An Examination of those Exceptions and Passages which Edward Paye has set opposite as the Quakers Contradictions of their Profession of Faith in his said Pamphlet styled Railings and Slanders detected Excep SMith's Primmer p. 9. They that are false Ministers preach Christ without and bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above p. 29. and not within also nor in Peoples Hearts they preach Christ without and in Heaven only excluding him Men's Hearts as William Smith's Book shews that to be his Intention Excep Your Carnal Christ. Who so wrote and on what occasion We know not But suppose if any Quaker did he struck at some Carnal Imaginations about Christ for the true Christ of God could not be intended for he is a Spiritual Divine and Heavenly Christ. Exc. Your imagined God beyond the Stars Who hath so writ I know not nor on what occasion but if any among us did the Intent was this viz. That the True God is not such a God as you or some Men imagine he is not an imagined God limited or circumscribed only beyond the Stars but is also on this Side the Stars a Real True Infinite and Omnipresent God both in the highest Heavens and lowest Hearts 'T is true I did question some Socinians and Baptists their defining Christ under the Terms of a Personal Being a Human Body and consisting of a Human Body asking them what they meant by Human Body in Heaven And if Human Body be not an Earthly Body Appendix to Reason against Railing printed in 1673. p. 21 22. This is impertinently alledged against me by E. P. p.
30. whilst he unfairly passeth by and leaves out what I Grant Ibid. Reas. aganist R. p. 23. If by Personal Being he means a Body distinct from ours I believe he hath a Spiritual Glorious Body distinct from all these Earthly Sublunary Bodies If by Personal Being he means the Manhood of Christ our confessing the Man Christ as Mediator is sufficiently evinced To the Question then put Is the Heavens that must retain him only the Hearts of Men My Answer was It is whom the Heaven must receive Act. 3.21 And this is above and larger than the Hearts of Men. Reas. against Rail p. 24. Excep G. F's Great Mystery p. 71. Christ's Nature is not Human which is Earthly and yet they profess to believe the Humanity of Christ. 'T is evident by Human in this Place he understands Earthly and therefore esteems it not properly applicable to the Heavenly Man Christ or his Divine Nature We may believe the Manhood or Humanity of this Heavenly Man and yet not his Nature to be Earthly as the first Adam's was G.F. in the very same Place alledg'd confesseth That we do not deny Christ according to the Flesh to be of Abraham Gr. Myst. p. 71. Except Against G. F. again Bunion is deceived who saith God is distinct from the Saints By the Words Distinct from here if not mis-printed he means Divided or Separate from as many in common Acceptation understand them for though God and his Saints be different or distinct Beings yet not separate or divided one from another Excep See Mr. Hayworth's Animadversions p. 11. One W. Bates a Quaker said more than once That what Christ took of the Virgin had now no Being p. 30 31. I know not how to credit this Story which E. P. is so credulous of but rather think 't was a Mistake or Misunderstanding in the Hearers for such Words are disowned by us and therefore not justly to be imputed to us Excep p. 31. Mr. Penn's Justification is not by the Imputation of another's Righteousness but from the actual Performance and Keeping God's Righteous Laws Sandy Found p. 25. This is not fairly cited for the Scripture Ezek. 18.20 26 27 28. from whence W. P. argues is left out and so are the Words or Condemnation after Justification and the Word Laws added instead of Statutes or Commandments Besides his Argument is mistaken for it is not to oppose Salvation or Justification by Jesus Christ his Righteousness Merits and Works for there cannot be any true actual Performance or keeping of God's Commandments by any Person whatsoever without Christ or without his Righteousness and Work being partaken of And did not the Lord say He that hath walked in my statutes and hath kept my judgments to deal truly he is just he shall surely live Ezek. 18.9 And if the wicked will return from all his sins that he hath committed and keep all my statutes and do that which is lawful and right he shall surely live and shall not dye v. 21. For as the real Righteousness of another belongs not to that Person that 's wholly Unrighteous but the Righteousness of the Righteous shall be upon him only that 's truly the Righteous Person so Christ's Righteousness cannot truly be reckon'd theirs that have none of It wrought in them but are wholly Unsanctified and Polluted for then 't is his and not theirs But who are made Just or Righteous by Christ Jesus Both he and his Righteousness is theirs so far as they are made Partakers thereof Without Christ we can do nothing 't is he that has purchased us to God 't is he that works all our Works in us 't is he that enables us truly to obey and follow him and 't is our Duty to obey him and to keep his Commandments So that both the Merit of our Redemption and our Sufficiency for true Obedience is Christ's and of and in him and not of our selves Excep p. 31. E. B's Works p. 33. God doth not accept any where there 's any Failing or who do not fulfil the Law and answer every Demand of Justice Here E. B.'s next foregoing words are left out viz. those that love God keep his Commandments and they are not grievous Whence it follows that they that do not keep his Commandments do not love him The Question is Whether God accepts them that do not love him 'T is true the words or who do not fulfil the Law and answer every demand of Justice seem partly to relate to a state under the Law according to James 2.10 11. Gal. 3.10 Heb. 2.2 Rom. 2.13 and partly to that sincere Obedience required under the Gospel and 't is certain God accepts none in any disobedience neither the Law nor the Gospel allows of sinning against God or Christ. See Luke 12.47 Joh. 14.21 1 Cor. 7.19 2 Cor. 10.6 Joh. 10.14 2 Thess. 1.8 1 Joh. 3.6 8. 2 Joh. 9. But every Disobedience is to be repented of Except Pag. 32. Truth 's Defence p. 101. They say That it is dangerous for Ignorant People to read them i. e. the Scriptures That is such Ignorant People as pervert them to their own destruction that must needs be dangerous yet profitable to the Man of God and those who are guided by his Spirit to the true understanding of them the Book quoted more fully clears it self Christ by his Divine Light and Spirit is the Only Rule and Guide of God's People both in the knowledge of his Divine Will and of the Holy Scriptures Christ is the Only Way and Means of Mens coming to walk with God and the Only Rule of Faith and Practice Christ who is the Author of living Faith must needs be the Only or Chief Guide Way and Rule unto his true Spiritual Followers And this answers most of p. 32 33. Except p. 33. See what my Antagonist saith Dipper plung'd p. 13. and then judge If the Scriptures be No Rule yea if it be Idolatry to call the Bible A Means as G. W. expresly saith Obs. I am very unfairly cited and wrong'd in both these and 't is notoriously false to say G. W. expresly saith either that the Scriptures are No Rule or that 't is Idolatry to call the Bible A Means for in the very place quoted my words expresly are these viz. 1. By what Rule must we believe that the Scriptures are the Only Rule of Faith and Practice while they no where do call themselves so 2. To Tho. Hicks's saying that the Bible is The Means of our knowing God Dial. p. 41. My Answer was He Idolatrously sets up the Bible in the place of Christ for no Man knows the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him Matth. 11.27 Now pray observe further 1. My not granting the Scriptures to be the Only Rule implicitly grants them to be a Rule or some Rule my Question being on the Word Only in this case 2. By my not assenting that the Bible or Books are the Means of our knowing God
the highest Attainments of the Holy Spirit do but fit Men for Water-Baptism as if that were higher than those Attainments or the Spirit Inferior to the Element of Water 3. But in contradiction to themselves herein they tell us That Water-Baptism is the initiating and ingrafting Ordinance whereby the Penitent Believer puts on Christ p. 68. Obs. For which they quote and misapply Gal. 3.27 which shews That it is by Faith in Christ Jesus that they were Children of God being baptized into Christ v. 26 27. and Rom. 11.19 20 23. 4. That there is but one Baptism in a full and proper Sense and that is that of Water in which the Penitent Believer is Buried for which they unduly quote Coll. 2.12 Rom. 6.4 and on Eph. 4.5 say To be Baptized with Water is the one Baptism Pa. 66 67. Obs. This appears directly Popish Doctrine and accordingly held by the Rhemists contrary to the Protestants and wholy excludes Christ's Baptism by the Holy Spirit 5. 1 Pet. 3.21 Applyed to Water-Baptism as the Baptism that doth now save us the End whereof is the Answer of a good Conscience towards God p. 67. Obs. If Water-Baptism be the one-saving Baptism then out of the Baptist's-Church there is no Salvation This is not only Popish but contrary to that very Scripture 1 Pet. 3.2 that Saving Baptism being not the putting away the Filth of the Flesh c. 6. That our saying Water-Baptism was a Figure of the Spiritual is an apparent Falshood p. 68. Ob. No 't is an apparent Truth John's Baptism was a Figure of Christ's Saving Spiritual Baptism and Washing of Regeneration See Matth. 3.11 Mar. 1.8 Luke 3.16 Joh. 1.26 27. Tit. 3.5 6. 7. That Christ is not come because that Kingdom is not come that Christ speaks of I will not henceforth drink of the fruit of the Vine 'till I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom Matt. 26.29 Luke 22.18 p. 73. compared with p. 74. In that Kingdom they neither marry nor are given in marriage neither can they dye any more Luk. 20.35 36. Qu. How then shall they drink new Wine with Christ in that World to come and in that State wherein they shall be equal with the Angels of God in Heaven suppose ye And as neither can they dye any more so neither shall they Hunger nor Thirst any more Rev. 7.16 Isaiah 49.10 What occasion for New Wine then 8. That his Disciples upon Earth are to Break and Eat Bread and Drink of the Fruit of the Vine till he come to wit in a Personal Glorious and Visible manner Phil. 3 2â— Who shall change our vile Bodies and make them like his own glorious Body at Christ's second personal coming visible in his Body of Flesh and Bones p. 73 74. Qu. And shall those glorious Bodies then have occasion to drink New Wine with Christ in his Father's Kingdom do you think or are you not rather too Carnal in your Expectations in this Matter whilst you mean literally and then do you not delay and put off the Spiritual Eating and Drinking with Christ Rev. 3.20 Luke 22.30 in his Spiritual Kingdom 9. No Christians can allow them i.e. the Quakers that Christ is come the second Time p. 74. Obs. Yes true Christians can allow it tho' these Baptists cannot wherein they contradict the true Believers Expectation and Experience of Salvation by Christ's coming Heb. 9.28 Tit. 2.13.14 10. That the Quakers say they are perfect viz. without Sin this is not true by the way but that to be so is both required of us in this Life and attainable in Christ Jesus but Christians expect compleat Perfection that is a living without Sin as 't is explain'd by E. P. Rail and Slan p. 38. when they come to glory on the other side of the Grave c. p. 51. Qu. When do these Men expect to be made clean in the Grave or at their expected Resurrection unto Glory If not until they are in their Graves they dye in their Sins and then whither Christ is gone they cannot come John 8.21 If not until such their expected Resurrection what shall become of their Sins inherent Pollutions and Defilement between their Death and Resurrection A few more of their Unsound and Antichristian Doctrines about Inspiration Christ within his Kingdom and Light within 1. That if the Quakers by their immediate Inspirations do not resolve what those many other things were that Jesus did that are not written Joh. 21.25 and what were the Contents of that Writing on the Ground Joh. 8.6 8. then their boasting of immediate Inspiration is to be condemned to perpetual Silence and shame to cover their Faces Antichrist in Spirit p. 15 16. Contradiction Things that are Secret and not written not at all belonging to us but to the Lord as in E. P. Rail and Slan p. 20. Obs. There they have imposed such a Proof of immediate Inspiration upon us as doth not at all belong to them if things not written do not all belong to them 2. On Matth. 24.26 they say 'T is more than probable that Christ pointed at this Generation of Impostors the Quakers who say Behold he Christ is within thee c. p. 25. Obs. Antichristian Doctrine contrary to Christ and his Apostle's Doctrine Joh. 17.23 2 Cor. 13.5 Coll. 1.27 Rom. 10.6 7 8. 3. That those that are in the Possession of that Kingdom viz. the Kingdom of Christ neither Marry nor are given in Marriage c. but the Quakers do Marry ergo not in possession of that Kingdom p. 51 52. Obs. Marriage in the Lord hinders not his People from the Enjoyment of Christ's Kingdom therefore the first Proposition and Conclusion of this Argument is contrary to plain Scripture Coll. 1.13 Rev. 1.9 Matt. 16.28 Mar. 9.1 Luk. 9.27 4. That the Disciples did not expect this Christ to come into them Namely This Christ the Prophet whom ye shall hear in all things Deut. 18.15 Acts 3.22 He of whom God the Father from Heaven testified Matt. 17 5. This is my beloved Son hear ye him This Christ that was Crucified and Rose from the Dead Luke 24.39 This is he that told Mary Joh. 20.19 I go to my Father and your Father to my God and your God Hereupon these Baptists affirm as before the Disciples did not expâ—ct this Christ to come into them p. 52 53. Qu. What Christ then Is there two Christs See 1 Cor. 8.6 Is not this Antichristian Doctrine contrary to Christ's own express Testimony Joh. 14.20.17.23 And to these Baptists own Confession on 2 Cor. 13.5 c. 5.17 1 Cor. 6.19 Coll. 1.27 Ro. 8.9 Eph. 2.22 p. 22 23. 5. Turn to the Light within saith the Quaker This these Baptists have in contempt repeated seven times over in less than three Pages and all under the Title of Quakerism a great Delusion to prove that the Quakers disown the Doctrine taught by Christ and his Apostles and that they oppose the Teachings of Christ's Prophetical office p. 54 55 56. Obs. Here they have opposed and contemned the Doctrine of God's Prophets Christ and his Apostles who were all for and preached the Light within see Ps. 56.13 Isa. 2.5 Jo. 12.36 1 Jo. 1.7 and 2.10 Acts 26.18 and how can the Light of Christ within either oppose his Doctrine Ministry or Offices And 't is no other Light we exhort People to turn to The Lord open these Men's Eyes that they may come out of Darkness which they cannot do unless they turn to the Light within FINIS Charg 1. Answer Answ. Observ. * Where proves he these to be the Quakers words from which he himself varies p. 11. viz. That all things necessary may be taught without them and what less have Baptists heretofore confessed by approving Samuel How 's Sermon for The Sufficiency of the Spirit 's Teaching printed 1655. A Gross Lye Answ. Answ. Answ. Observ. * This is a gross Forgery Observ. Observ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. * Contrary to Christ's own Testimony Matt. 16.28 Mark 9.1 Luke 9.27