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A67211 Primitive Christianity continued in the faith and practice of the people called Quakers being in answer to a pamphlet entituled, Primitive heresie &c. and which may serve as an appendix to a book entituled, An antidote against the venom of the snake in the grass, by George Whitehead / Joseph Wyeth. Wyeth, Joseph, 1663-1731. 1698 (1698) Wing W3761; ESTC R27627 39,601 74

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is God over all Blessed for ever Page 4. Christ in dying for us is our Example in Sufferings and The Brazen Serpent lifted up c. 1655. By R. Farnsworth way to the Father for Christ in Dying for Sinners and Ungodly died for all for was not all Sinners and Ungodly guilty of Christ's Death but it is by his Blood that we are Justified and by his Life that we are Saved In following his Counsel and obeying him through the Cross which slays the Enmity as he became obedient to the Death of the Cross who is our Leader and Example and is the Author of Eternal Salvation to all that obey him but none else We believe that all things which are spoken by the Holy A new Catechism 1664. By W. Smith Prophets and Apostles concerning Christ are true according to the Scriptures We believe that all the Dispensations of God which are manifested by the Scriptures are altogether true and that they were all fulfilled according to the determinate Will and Counsel of God So that our Faith concerning Christ in us and the Work which he there worketh for us doth not all make void any of the Dispensations of God which in times past were revealed unto his Holy Prophets and Apostles and by them testified in the Scriptures so that the Work which the Father then gave unto the Son to do we believe that he fulfilled according to the Father's Will and that all things pertaining to Life and Salvation were FULLY and PERFECTLY in him and that he humbled himself to the Death of the Cross and from Death did rise again And we believe that he is the Resurrection and the Life and gives Eternal Life to all that believe in him P. 19 20. We Believe and Testifie that this Jesus of Nazaretio Rebellion Rebuked c. 167. by John Crook and William Bayly wrought out fulfilled all Righteousness in his Obedience both in DOING and SUFFERING the Holy Law and Will of God and that this Righteousness so wrought out and fulfilled was not for himself but for or because of all such as truly seeing they have no Covering or Righteousness of their own flee unto and lay hold of him and his Everlasting Righteousness by a True and Living Faith We Believe and Testifie That his Blood exceeds not only the Blood of Bulls and of Goats but the Blood of the best Man or Men that ever was or shall be in the World And we do in the sight of God really own the Blood of the Son of Man both according to the History and in the Mystery as we do his Cross both as Shed for us and to be Drank by us both as bespeaking Remission of Sin past through Faith in it and as Sprinkling the Conscience of True Believers and Cleansing them from all Sin But because we Testifie that it 's not the Notion or bare Historical and Literal Belief of those things that Justifie or make us Really free from that which comes upon every Soul of Man that doth Evil whether Jew or Gentile Professor or Prophane but only the Life and Virtue of this Blood received into the Heart by that Living Faith which Christ alone is the Author of Therefore are we Branded with Slighting the Blood of the Man Christ c. though we Testifie our Esteem thereof both in the History and in the Mystery and that without the Life and Virtue of this Blood there is no Remission P. 9. Therefore we do Confess to his Sufferings according Truths Vindication c. 1679. Eliz. Bathurst to the Scriptures for Christ also hath once Suffered for Sin the Just for the Unjust that he might bring us to God being put to Death in the Flesh but Quickened in the Spirit we 1 Peter 3. 18. own his Death as an Acceptable and most Satisfactory Sacrifice to God for the Sins of all and is of Blessed Advantage to all that receive Faith in his Blood Whom God hath set forth to be a Propitiation through Rom. 3. 25. Eph. 5. 2. his Blood to declare his Righteousness for the Remission of Sins that are past through the Forbearance of God and he hath given himself for us an Offering and a Sacrifice to God for a Sweet Smelling Savour Also we Believe that as Christ Died for our Sins so he was Buried likewise and rose again according to the Scriptures But now is Christ 1 Cor. 15. 3 4. 20. 21. Risen from the Dead and become the first Fruits of them that Sleep For since by Man came Death by Man came also the Resurrection of the Dead The Apostle mentions this as the Assurance which God gave to Men of his Judging the World at the Great Day by his Son Jesus Christ namely Acts 17. 31. his having Raised him from the Dead P. 31 32. And the Preaching of this Jesus Powerful Shepherd and A Mirrour c. 1683. by Sam. Wattson Bishop of our Souls was in the Heavenly Authority of his Father in which he spoke forth all things appertaining to Life and Salvation and are left upon Record by those who were Witnesses of his Coming in a most Special Manner by Matthew Mark Luke and John who were Witnesses with many more of his Doctrine Life and Suffering which laid down his Life for his Sheep as 't is Written They stripped him and put on him a Scarlet Mat. 27. 28. Robe and when they had platted a Crown of Thorns they put it on his Head Nailing him to the Cross Spitting upon him and Mocking him saying Hail KING of the Jews tho' he had done nothing worthy of Death yet the Hard-hearted who Rejected the Corner Stone said We have a Law and by our Law this Man must Die So refusing the Just One and the Saviour of the World they chose Barrabas to Live This Cruelty Acted it self in a Guileful Spirit to Destroy him in whom was found no Guile neither ever was it in his Mouth This is he who Suffered under Pontius Pilate was Crucified Dead and Buried and the Third Day Rose again who ascended and sitteth at the Right Hand of God the Father from whence by his own Power he comes to Judge both the Quick and the Dead This is he in whom I Believe and is my Saviour in and through whose Precious Blood is my Salvation and Redemption and not in another which Thousands with me are Witnesses of whose Blessed Promise we Believe in and in measure made partakers of that he would send the Comforter the Spirit of Truth whom the World could not receive because they knew him not he shall bring all things to Remembrance and shall lead and guide into all Truth And he that is in you shall be with you to the end of the World This is the Blessed Saviour whose Appearance is in Spirit as the Apostle Testifies of his Second Appearance without Sin to Salvation which cannot be known but by his Spiritual Work in the Inner Man whose Appearance
P. 11 12. It is objected against us who are called Quakers That Concerning the Sum or Substance c. Isaac Pennington we deny Christ and look not to be Saved by him as he was manifested without us but look only to be Saved by a Christ in us To which this is in my Heart to answer to such as singly desire satisfaction therein We do indeed expect to be Saved yea and not only so but do already in our several measures witness Salvation by the Revelation and Operation of the Life of Christ within us yet not without relation to what he did without us For all that he did in that Body of Flesh was of the Father and had its Place and Service in the Will and according to the Counsel of the Father But the Knowledge and Belief of that since the days of the Apostles hath been very much held in the Unrighteousness and in the Separation from the Inward Work of the Power and Life of Christ in the Heart which as so held cannot Save any But whoever feels the Light and Life of Christ revealed in him and comes into Union with God there-through he feels the Work of Regeneration of Sanctification of Justification of Life and Redemption and so comes to reap Benefit inwardly and to partake of the Blessed Fruits of all that Christ did outwardly Yea he that is thus one with Christ in the Spirit cannot exclude himself nor is excluded by God from the Advantage of any thing nor every thing that Christ did in that Body of Flesh P. 243. The Doctrines and Principles of the People called Immediate Revelation c. By Geo. Keith Quakers as well as the People do indeed more acknowledge the Man Christ Jesus than any of them all Inasmuch as we do believe and acknowledge that a measure of the same Life and Spirit of the Man Christ Jesus which dwelt in him in its Fullness and had its Center in him which came in the Flesh and was born of the Virgin Mary and is now glorified in Heaven is communicated unto us and extends it self into our Hearts and Souls and whole Inward Man so that the Man Jesus who Simeon imbraced with his Arms according to the Flesh is according to the Spirit our Life and Glory by whom we receive Light Grace and Truth and through whom we have access unto God P. 358. Yet notwithstanding for your Satisfaction we do now Journal Geo. Fox plainly and sincerely declare That we Own and Believe in God the Only Wise Omnipotent and Everlasting God who is the Creator of all things both in Heaven and in the Earth and the Preserver of all that he hath made who is God over all Blessed for ever To whom be all Honour and Glory Dominion Praise and Thanksgiving both now and for evermore And we do Own and Believe in Jesus Christ his beloved and only begotten Son in whom he is well pleased who was Conceived by the Holy Ghost and Born of the Virgin Mary in whom we have Redemption through his Blood even the Forgiveness of Sins Who is the express Image of the Invisible God the First-born of every Creature by whom were all things created that are in Heaven and that are in Earth Visible and Invisible whether they be Thrones or Dominions or Principalities or Powers all things were Created by him And we do Own and Believe that He was made a Sacrifice for Sin who knew no Sin neither was Guile found in his Mouth And that he was Crucified for us in the Flesh without the Gates of Jerusalem and that he was Buried and Rose again the Third day by the Power of his Father for our Justification And we do Believe that he ascended up into Heaven and now sitteth at the right Hand of God This Jesus who was the Foundation of the Holy Prophets and Apostles is our Foundation And we do Believe that there is no other Foundation to be laid but that which is laid even Christ Jesus who we Believe tasted Death for every Man and shed his Blood for all Men and is the Propitiation for our Sins and not for ours only but also for the Sins of the whole World P. 149. We do Believe in One Only Holy God Almighty who A Serious Apology c. 1671. By G. Whitehead and W. Penn. is an Eternal Spirit the Creator of all things And in One Lord Jesus Christ his Only Son and express Image of his Substance who took upon him Flesh and was in the World and in Life Doctrine Miracles Death Resurrection Ascention and Mediation perfectly did and does continue to do the Will of God to whose Holy Life Power Mediation and Blood we only ascribe our Sanctification Justification Redemption and Perfect Salvation And we Believe in One Holy Spirit that proceeds and breaths from the Father and the Son as the Life and Vertue of both the Father and the Son a measure of which is given to all to profit with and he that has one has all for those Three are One who is the Alpha and Omega the First and the Last God over all Blessed for ever Amen To these foregoing Citations I could add very many more both of older and later date but as I would not needlesly quote Instances so I hope the Reader will not account me hitherto Superfluous in rescuing our selves from Calumny and Abuse in a Charge which appears so plainly to be False for a plain as is the Sun when on its Meridian so plain is it that we sincerely own and heartily believe all that the Holy Scriptures testifie concerning the Incarnation of Christ and the Union of both Natures that is as God and Man SECT III. HIS next Calumny in the order of his Charge is That we deny the Truth and Reality of his Death and Sufferings In proof of our Belief whereof I am already in good part prevented by the foregoing Testimonies in almost all of which there is some mention of his Crucifixion as well as of his Birth But however I am content to answer exabundanti not wanting Instances of our Belief herein from whence I can allow Measure pressed down and running over Some Testimonies to the Truth and Reality of Christ's Death and Suffering Page 3. Before Abraham was I am who was in the Beginning The Path of the Just Cleared 1655. By G. Whitehead which was the Word by which all things were made which Word became Flesh and dwelt among John 8. 58. John 1. the Disciples and Suffered at Jerusalem and witnessed a good Confession before Pontius Pilate whom Pilate delivered up to the Jews and the Chief Priests and Elders whom they mocked and despitefully used and put to Death concerning the Flesh but is raised up by the Spirit and ascended into Glory which Glory he prayed for even that Glory John 17. John 5. 22. John 10. 30. whereby he was at first by his Father glorified in wherein he is glorified in his Saints and
more Merits Advancement in Spain than in England He begins a Quotation thus Their Doctrines are of the Devil who but he has left out what follows denies the Truth which the Scripture bears Witness of Thus good things are spoiled by ill Handling and Orthodox Sentences made Heretical but this is not to be wondered at when an Inquisitor has Cut or a Snake Bit them His next Quotation is in p. 191. and here he is playing the like Pranks for when he has made up a Period pick'd out of three places the last of them Concludes These are Damnable Heresies even to the Denying the Lord that bought them And leaving out what follows and which shews who they are that do so for they Deny the Light of the Lord Jesus Christ given to every Man to be the only Teacher and the only Guide of Man and they that do deny the Light of Christ with which every Man that comes into the World is Lighted to be sufficient to lead to Christ and to the Kingdom of God as these Teachers in this Age do they do deny the Lord that bought them He continues his Quotation out of Page 644. of E. B's Works but here as before he hath cut off I should shew you according to Scripture Sure this Man has an Enmity to the Holy Scriptures when mentioned by us that he thus cuts out the Word when he meets it in his way But by this time it may appear that his Charge of Hideous Blasphemy and Outrage proves to be a Hideous Stinking Vapour and that himself deserves to be added to the Congregation at the next Edition of the Index Expurgatorii Page 10. Speaking of his Discourse of Water-Baptism he says It seems to have had some Effects already even with G. Whitehead himself He says true it has had some Effect for it did occasion a Chapter in G. Whitehead's Answer An Antidote c. in which Chapter the Malice and Impertinency of that Discourse is some-what shewn But if he thinks it had any other Effect the Boast is full as Vain and False as his former ones of which I have already taken notice This will best appear by G. Whitehead's own Words which he has neither fully nor truly given by so imperfectly Quoting them The place in Page 114. of the Antidote is this Yet others being more Conscientiously tender in the Observation thereof we are the more tender to these so as not to Censure or Condemn them meerly for Practicing that which they believe is their duty either in Breaking of Bread or Water-Baptism yet desire they may see further and come under the Higher and Evangelical Dispensation of the Spiritual Communion and Bread of Life and Cup of Blessing from Heaven which can only Nourish the Soul unto Eternal Life and of the Spiritual Baptism of Christ which only is the Souls Sanctifying and Saving Baptism so that this One Baptism and this One Bread which is the Substance they may Livingly partake of Now Charles from thy Maiming of this place it is much easier for George Whitehead and all that will Read it to be confirmed in a Certain Knowledge of thy Baseness than to be Converted to the Communion of One who makes Lies his Refuge and Deceit his Support As to our Belief with Respect to Baptism and the Supper it has been very frequently Published in Opposition to the False Constructions of our Enemies and while we most Stedfastly Believe Assert and in measure Witness that Baptism which is not a putting away the Filth of the Flesh And that Holy Supper of which Christ hath said I will come into him and Sup with Rev. 3. 20. him and he with me we cannot go back to less Beneficial Types Who please to see these Scripturally and very Largely Defended and Discussed may find it done in Robert Barclay's Apology which is very easie to be had whether I refer the Honest Reading Enquirers for further satisfaction herein And come to his next Charge of being Gnosticks Denying Marriage and Preaching up Fornication He might have as easily said We were Nicolatians and then upon an express Text Warranted our Damnation It is time for us to examine his Charge why that is That the People called Quakers forbid to Marry and Preach up Fornication which is implied in the Title Page and abundantly Charged in the Contents This is general enough for I cannot find one Married or Single Quaker left out Now it is time to Prove it when it is so home laid in order for Proof I come to Page 12. and there he says He does not Charge all the Quakers with this no nor the greatest Number of them only those called New Quakers in America The first Charge runs over England and all the rest of the World where there are Quakers the last is Limited only to America Ah Charles Dost think this Loosness will carry thee off This is a very Loose way of Charging and is at best an Equivocal Lie But after his hasty running from his Charge he stops at a distance But the Quakers are thus far Answerable That all this Wild Extravagance is a Natural Consequence of their Common Principle and Notion of the Light within I looked for his Proofs but he has none here and therefore I suppose it is he asks us two Questions to see if he can Snap us with Poor Silly Answers For it is a Jest to think he will allow us any other Well since I can get nothing else from him I will take his Questions which are Now let me ask the Old Quakers Are they the Children of the Resurrection They must answer Yea or go against their own Avowed Principles And if Yea then the Text is plain against their Marrying This is a Shrewd Question and has a Strange Consequence but I shall not Reply to it till I have given the other Question too Let me ask again Are they THE CHILDREN OF THIS WORLD They will all say NAY For that is the common Epithet by which they Describe the WICKED and is a Term that they put in Opposition to THE CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT which they bestow upon THEMSELVES Now it is Written That THE CHILDREN OF THIS WORLD MARRY Therefore say the New Quakers MARRYIAGE IS A WICKED THING and Consequently of the Devil And the Old Quakers have not yet Answered their Arguments that I can hear of Then it is high time it be done now which I will perform by-and-by but I must take my turn to ask Charles two Questions to which he shall true Answer make in like manner as he has before made the Old Quakers My first is Charles Art thou a Child of Wrath He must answer Yea or go against his own Avowed Principles And if Yea then the Text is plain against his Inheriting the Kingdom of Heaven This is very hard a Man should send himself thus to Hell but don't Wonder till we see what the next Question will do Let me ask again Charles Art thou a
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and Manifestation is to Destroy the Works of the Devil which is Sin Unbelief and all Unrighteousness whatsoever that he alone may Rule and Reign in Man and Woman who brings Salvation to their House This his Second Charge of our Denial of the Truth and Reality of Christ's Death and Sufferings is I think by the foregoing Testimonies sufficiently Cleared it appearing from them that his Charge of our having left the Body of Christ as a Forsaken Vail and Garment Prim. Here. c. P. 7. to Rot in the Grave And Careless of what is become of it as a thing now of no Virtue or Consequence with Vs is False if a Succession of Testimonies of our Belief herein produced for about Forty Years can Prove it yet if these are Judged too few I have many more in Store not that I can at all doubt that these are not enough to satisfie Honest Enquirers at a distance and also to Invite them to a nearer View of us herein and in the whole System of one Faith it being for the sake of such that we find our selves Concerned to Oppose the Truth of our Profession to the Falsity of our Enemies Charges For with respect to our selves we do Enjoy great Peace and Quiet though thus Evilly spoken of as knowing it was by our Saviour so foretold it should be who also himself was said to have a Devil to be a Seducer a Samaritan and a Winebiber his Apostles and Servants of Old found such-like Treatment Stephen being Stoned as a Contemner of God of his Law of Moses and of the Temple And the Apostle Paul was accounted a Heretick a Deceiver a Mad-man a Blasphemer a Seditious Person and a Contemner of the Law of his Fathers What better may we then expect from the same Spirit working in that Snake which hides himself in Grass or other Subterfuge SECT IV. I Come now to his third Charge That we deny the Resurrection and Future Judgment which upon enquiry will be found as False as the foregoing Charges and it cannot well be otherwise for it is next to impossible to be Orthodox in them and Heretical in this their dependance on each other is such And the Apostle's Argument is very strong If we had hope only in this Life we were of all Men most Miserable For true Religion cannot incline a Man to believe and be obedient to such Principles as here expose him to utmost Dangers and hereafter to no Joys Christianity is a Complex of more rational Truths than so to Clash and Jarr And however Foolish the Man accounts us we are more Learned in the School of Christ than to deny or be ignorant of so inestimable an Advantage as is the Resurrection by Christ to Eternal Glory and of that Future Judgment by which the States of Men must be determined I now subjoyn some Testimonies hereof P. 4 5 of his Works Therefore Wo be unto all Epicures who The Lying Spirit c. 1658. William Smith put the Judgment of the Lord afar off and sit down at ease in the Flesh and make their Belly their God minding Earthly things devouring God's Creation to satisfie a Lustful Appetite and so Treasuring up Wrath against the Day of Wrath and Revelation of the Righteous Judgment of God who will render to every Man according to his Deeds when the Workers of Iniquity will not be known by him but must all depart from him into Everlasting Fire there to abide under the Eternal Judgment P. 332. And he that dieth in his Sins not believing in the Humphry Smith's Works about 1660. Light which makes an end of Sin cannot come where Christ is and so the Tree falling there it lieth and as Death leaveth Judgment findeth so shall the Reward according to the Deeds be and then shall every Man stand or fall to his own Master the Servants of the Devil to their Master and the Servants of God to their Master and there is no more Masters but them two and no Man can serve them both Again concerning Christ We believe that he is one with the Edward Burroughs his Works P. 440. Father and was with him before the World was and what the Father worketh it is by the Son for he is the Arm of God's Salvation and the very Power and Wisdom of the Creator and was is and is to come without Beginning or End And we believe That all the Prophets gave Testimony to him and that he was made Manifest in Judea and Jerusalem and did the Work of the Father and was Prosecuted of the Jews and was Crucified by his Enemies and that he was Buried and rose again according to the Scriptures And we believe he is now ascended on High and exalted at the right Hand of the Father for evermore and that he is glorified with the same Glory that he had before the World was and that even the same that came down from Heaven is ascended up to Heaven and the same that descended is he that ascended And we believe even that he that was Dead is Alive and lives for evermore and that he cometh and shall come again to Judge the whole World with Righteousness and all People with Equity and shall give every Man according to his Deeds at the Day of Judgment when all shall rise to Condemnation or Justification he that hath done good shall receive Life and he that hath done Evil Everlasting Condemnation P. 197. of his Works And thus in the Blindness of their Uncircumcised God's Virtue c. 1670. By Tho. Taylor Hearts they heap up Wrath against the Day of Wrath and Revelation of God's Just Judgments upon them Where is he that comes from the Dead to tell us what is in another World Let 's Eat and Drink and take our Fill of Pleasures for to morrow we Dye and are not say they P. 9. And how God hath anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the A Testimony c. 1677. By George Fox Holy Ghost and with Power who went about doing good and Healing all that were Oppressed of the Devil for God was with him and we are Witnesses of all things which he did both in the Land of the Jews and in Jerusalem whom they slew and hanged on a Tree him God raised up the third day and shewed him openly and we did eat and drink with him after he arose from the Dead and he commanded us Acts 10. 41. to preach unto the People and to testifie that it is he that is ordained of God a Judge of Quick and Dead And to this do we testifie which are the People of God in Scorn called Quakers P. 159. of his Works Marvel not at this for the Hour is A Catechism 1673. By Robert Barclay coming in which all that are in the Graves shall hear his Voice and shall come forth they that have done good to the Resurrection of Life and they that have done evil to the Resurrection John 3. 28 29. of