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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34436	The Quakers cleared from being apostates, ok [sic], The hammerer defeated and proved an impostor being an answer to a scurrilous pamphlet falsly intituled William Penn and the Quakers either apostates or impostors, subscribed Trepidantium Malleus : with a postscript containing some reflections on a pamphlet intituled The spirit of Quakerism and the danger of their divine revelation, laid open / by B.C.	Coole, Benjamin, d. 1717.	1696 (1696)	Wing C6047; ESTC R29716	43,852	97

is the Devil For verily he took not on him the Nature of Angels but he took on him the Seed of Abraham Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his Brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful High-priest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for the Sins of the People Again For we have not an High-priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our Infirmities but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin And as to his Suffering both in Body and Soul and thereby becoming a most compleat Sacrifice for the Remission of the Sins of the whole World according to Isaiah Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him he hath put him to grief when thou shalt make his Soul an Offering for Sin he shall see his Seed he shall prolong his Days and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his Hand He shall see of the travel of his Soul and be satisfied by his Knowledge shall my Righteous Servant justifie many for he shall bear their Iniquities Neither by the Blood of Goats and Calves but by his own Blood he entred in once into the holy place having obtained Eternal Redemption for us How much more shall the Blood of Christ who through the Eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God purge your Conscience from dead Works to serve the Living God Again Who gave himself for us that he might Redeem us from all Iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar People zealous of good Works Again For Christ also hath once suffered for Sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God being put to Death in the Flesh but quickened by the Spirit Again And walk in love as Christ also hath loved us and hath given himself for us an Offering and a Sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour That I may know him and the Power of his Resurrection and the Fellowship of his Sufferings being made conformable unto his Death With many more all which we as truly and as faithfully Believe as any Protestants whatever and he must have a Face of Brass that will say the Quakers either deny or undervalue any part of it And for the Trinity as he calls it we as much believe it as the Scripture declares it viz. For there are Three that bare Record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these Three are One. And there are Three that bare witness in Earth the Spirit and the Water and the Blood and these Three agree in One. And as for the Body of Christ turning to Dust is so great an untruth that he must set up for the Trade of Lying that attempts a greater for the Quakers Believe according to the Acts of the Apostles which saith Ye Men of Galilee why stand ye gazing up into Heaven this same Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into Heaven Again He seeing this before spake of the Resurrection of Christ that his Soul was not left in Hell neither his Flesh did see Corruption This Jesus hath God raised up whereof we all are Witnesses Therefore being by the Right Hand of God exalted and having received of the Father the Promise of the Holy Ghost he hath shed forth this which ye now see and hear For David is not ascended into the Heavens but he saith himself The Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou on my Right Hand until I make thy Foes thy Footstool Therefore let all the House of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have Crucified both Lord and Christ Again Whom the Heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the Mouth of all his holy Prophets since the World began So that as his Flesh saw no Corruption he Ascended far above all Heavens and sits at the Right Hand of the Majesty in the Heavens c. Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum We have such an High-priest who is set on the Right Hand of the Throne of the Majesty in the Heavens And though Christ was Anointed with the Oyl of Joy and Gladness above his Fellow referring to his Manhood which the Quakers readily confess yet never called it Anointings as he says for what reason I know not unless to abuse the Quakers And that all Christians have a degree or measure of the same the fulness of which was in him is sound Doctrine and to be believed and lookt for since he that has not the Spirit of Christ is none of his and since the Hammerer don't expect it no marvel he is so great a Slave to Sathan as he is His Scoffs at Perfection and Freedom from Sin I shall next take notice of and answer as follows That by Perfection the Quakers never pretended to any other than a being freed from Sinning and of a growth from one degree of Grace to another to the perfecting of Holiness but a Perfection of the fulness of Knowledge or of Glory is what is not to be expected in this World nor did we ever pretend to it but if a being delivered from sinning is not attainable the Quakers are indeed Fools to pretend to it and our Adversaries are in the right to reflect on us for it but if it be who is Fool then And that it is is most clear from Mat. 5. 48. Luke 6. 40. 2 Cor. 13. 9. 2 Tim. 3. 17. Eph. 4. 11 12 13. Heb. 6. 1. or else we must Charge an Absurdity on the Holy Ghost for injoining what was impossible to be attained to and where will that Centre And whereas he often reflects and abuseth the Quakers for denying Prayer and particularly Page 78. They must wait for the Spirit 's Call to Prayer saith he then asks how they and the Spirit came to be such Strangers that it calls not to them all the Day Week Month or Year long to pray alone or in their Families This also is like the rest and what that is is plainly made appear for 't is a hard matter for him to speak Truth in any one thing unless it be where he can strike us in the Teeth with a Demas or Judas an Alexander or Hymeneus or Philetu or a Nicholas c. which that we should be without is more than can be expected since the first Planters of Christianity were not yet that neither rendred the Christians Impostors or Apostates nor their Religion the Sink of Heresie though our Hammerers Elder Brethren thought it and them so and prosecuted them accordingly as their Rabbies did their Lord and Master Now as to Prayer in Families and alone as well as in publick Meetings this is the known practice of the People called Quakers but because they have not set hours for it any more than

either with or against the Resolves of Councils and Synods c. but being truly exercised in the Gift of the Spirit in Waiting and Attention on it as well as Prayer and Supplication it 's most certain the Matter will be cleared up and the Doubts resolved as it shall conduce to their Spiritual Advantage In short it 's not so much about plain Scripture Authority we differ but about the Authority of those Councils Synods and Assemblies of Divines so called that have undertaken to Expound Scriptures and Decree Articles of Faith For all our Confessions of Faith and Acknowledgment to the Truth of Christianity in plain Scripture Terms is little with them but Cant unless it be in the Terms of the several Councils or Westminster Divines c. and yet they are the People that cry up the Scripture for their Rule though they make it a meer Nose of Wax to turn to every thing that either Humour or Interest trumps up Thus one Council hath Contradicted what the other hath Determined And another thing in which 't is common for these People to Abuse and Belie us in is about our Lord Jesus Christ which this Adversary saith page 80. That he was the Anointings of God and when Dead his Body turned to Dust and that afterwards the same Anointings were in others But who or when any Quaker said so he mentions not a word and in Answer to it I say he would have as truly represented the Presbyterians as he hath done tho Quakers If he said of them that they held Universal Grace and that there was never any such thing in the World as the Solemn League and Covenant and no such Man as the Bishop of St. Andrews Murthered or that King Charles the First cut off his own Head or that they never Hanged Men only for being Quakers or that their Brethren in Scotland were for Universal Liberty notwithstanding their Barbarity to the Episcopal Clergy and their Design to Excommunicate the last Year all Persons that should Buy or Sell with or Entertain a Quaker which had took effect had not the Clemency of the King interposed to break their Mischievous Designs I say as the Matters and Things abovementioned lye are as true the one as the other so I Charge him for a Notorious Impostor thus to abuse and deceive his Reader and under the specious pretences of speaking Truth to vent such apparent Fals-hoods Now although I positively deny what Anonymus affirms and put him upon the proof which I am sure he can never do yet for the sakes of others that may be deceived by this Lying Spirit I shall freely express our Faith herein since that is the part which affords me the greatest Satisfaction in this Undertaking But if I should not do it in the Terms of the Schools though in never so plain Scripture Terms perhaps it will find but little Credit with our Adversaries notwithstanding the great Talk and Boast they make about the Authority of the Scripture But however let them do as they please I hope we shall not receed from the Testimony of Holy Scripture As to the Heresies of the Socinians and Sabelleans which he endeavours to fix on the Quakers since so much has been said already in Confutation thereof so to reassume the Argument and give it a fresh Confutation would swell this beyond my Intentions but besides many others that has done it I shall refer to one that in this Author's Esteem is both Honest and Ingenuous whose word I hope then he will not question and that is G. K. in his Way Cast up which was Written in Defence of us and our Principles to which I refer the Reader for though G. K. hath changed his Mind since that time the Quakers have not and therefore his Arguments in Defence of our Principles are as much in force against our Adversaries as ever since we did then and do now approve of them whate'er we may do by the Man for many a Man has declared the Truth and turned from it afterwards but Truth is not to be denied because of that In short besides G. K. and the many Quakers that has Writ on that Subject the Quakers believe the Substance of the Nicene Creed as truly as any of their Adversaries which cuts up all this Hammerers Allegations at the Roots as it is reported by Socrates Scholasticus in his first Book of the Ecclesiastical History Chap. 5. Page 222. which I shall insert the Substance of save also the Curse at the latter end of it upon them that held contrary Opinions WE Believe in One God the Father Almighty Maker of all things visible and Invisible and in One Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God the Only Begotten Son of the Father that is of the Substance of the Father by whom all things were made both the things in Heaven and the things in Earth Who for us Men and for our Salvation came down and was Incarnate He was made Man He Suffered and Rose the third Day He ascended into the Heavens He shall come to Judge both the Quick and the Dead And we Believe in the Holy Ghost Now though we chuse rather to express our Faith in plain Scripture Terms than in the Terms of any Council whatever yet where Matters of Faith are laid down in plain Scripture Terms by them we never were so cross-grained to refuse an Assent because it was the Determination of a Council But though the above abundantly clears us from his false and wicked Charges of denying the Divinity and Humanity of Christ and the Trinity yet we have more to say for the sakes of those whose Innocency has been destroyed by such Impostors as this Adversary Know then that as the Holy Scripture declared the Divinity of Christ so we as Faithfully believe it according to Micah But thou Bethlehem Ephratah though thou be little amongst the Thousands of Judah yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be Ruler in Israel Whose going forth have been from of old from Everlasting or the Days of Eternity Again In the Beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God The same was in the Beginning with God All things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made Again Who is the Image of the Invisible God the First-born of every Creature Again for by him were all things Created c. Who was the Root and Off-spring of David the Bright and Morning-Star The Heir of all things the Brightness of God's Glory and the Express Image of his Substance who upholds all things by the Word of his Power And by whom also all things were Created And for his Humanity according to the Hebrews Forasmuch then as the Children are partakers of Flesh and Blood he also himself likewise took part of the same that through Death he might destroy him that had the power of Death that