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A54196	Primitive Christianity revived in the faith and practice of the people called Quakers written, in testimony to the present dispensation of God, through them, to the world, that prejudices may be removed, the simple informed, the well-enclined encouraged, and the truth and its innocent Friends, rightly represented / by William Penn.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1696 (1696)	Wing P1342; ESTC R15209	43,826	145

had the Honour of being his Image and by his Resemblance to God as I may say came his Kindred with God and Knowledge of him So that the nearest and best way for Man to know God and be acquainted with him is to seek him in himself in his Image and as he finds that he comes to find and know God Now Man may be said to be God's Image in a double Respect First As he is of an Immortal Nature and next as that Nature is Endued with those Excellencies in small and proportionable to a Creatures Capacity that are by Nature Infinitely and Incomparably in his Creator For Instance Wisdom Justice Mercy Holiness Patience and the like As Man becomes Holy Just Merciful Patient c. By the Copy He will know the Original and by the Workmanship in himself he will be acquainted with the Holy Workman This Reader is the Regeneration and New Creature we press and according to this Rule we say Men ought to be Religious and Walk in this World Man as I said just now is a Composition of both Worlds his Body is of this his Soul of the other World The Body is as the Temple of the Soul the Soul the Temple of the Word and the Word the Great Temple and Manifestation of God By the Body the Soul looks into and beholds this World and by the Word it beholds God the World that is without End Much might be said of this Order of things and their respective Excellencies but I must be Brief CHAP. VIII Sect. 1. Doctrine of Satisfaction and Justification Owned and Worded according to Scripture Sect 2. What Constructions we can't believe of them and which is an abuse of them Sect. 3. Christ Owned a Sacrifice and a Mediator Sect. 4. Justification Twofold from the Guilt of Sin and from the Power and Pollution of it Sect. 5. Exhortation to the Reader upon the whole Obj. 1. THough there be many good things said how Christ appears and works in a Soul to Awaken Convince and Convert it yet you seem not particular enough about the Death and Sufferings of Christ And it is generally Rumour'd and Charged upon you by your Adversaries that you have little reverence to the Doctrine of Christ's Satisfaction to God for our Sins and that you do not Believe That the Active and Passive Obedience of Christ when he was in the World is the alone ground of a Sinners Justification before God Answ § 1. The Doctrine of Satisfaction and Justification truly understood are placed in so strict an Union that the one is a necessary Consequence of the other and what we say of them is what agrees with the suffrage of Scripture and for the most part in the terms of it always believing that in Points where there arises any difficulty be it from the Obscurity of Expression Mis-translation or the Dust raised by the Heats of Partial Writers or Nice Criticks it is ever best to keep close to the Text and maintain Charity in the rest I shall first speak Negatively what we do not own which perhaps hath given occasion to those who have been more Hasty than Wise to judge us defective in our Belief of the Efficacy of the Death and Sufferings of Christ to Justification As § 2. First We cannot Believe that Christ is the Cause but the Effect of God's Love according to the Testimony of the Beloved Disciple John Chap. 3. God hath so loved the World that he hath given his only Begotten Son into the World that whosoever believeth on him should not perish but have Everlasting Life Secondly We cannot say God could not have taken another way to have saved Sinners than by the Death and Sufferings of his Son to satisfie his Justice or that Christ's Death and Sufferings were a strict and rigid Satisfaction for that Eternal Death and Misery due to Man for Sin and Transgression For such a Notion were to make God's Mercy little concerned in Man's Salvation and indeed we are at too great a distance from his Infinite Wisdom and Power to judge of the Liberty or Necessity of his Actings Thirdly We cannot say Jesus Christ was the greatest Sinner in the World because he bore our Sins on his Cross or because he was made Sin for us who knew no Sin an Expression of great levity and unsoundness yet often said by great Preachers and Professors of Religion Fourthly We cannot Believe that Christ's Death and Sufferings so satisfies God or justifies Men as that they are thereby Accepted of God They are indeed thereby put into a state capable of being accepted of God and through the Obedience of Faith and Sanctification of the Spirit are in a state of Acceptance For we can never think a Man justified before God while Self-condemned or that any Man can be in Christ who is not a New Creature or that God looks upon Men otherwise than they are We think it a state of Presumption and not of Salvation to call Jesus Lord and not by the Work of the Holy Ghost Master And he not yet Master of our Affections Saviour And they not saved by him from their Sins Redeemer And yet they not redeemed by him from their Passion Pride Covetousness Wantonness Vanity Honours vain Friendships and Glory of this World Which were to deceive themselves for God will not be mocked such as Men sow such they must reap And though Christ did Die for us yet we must by the Assistance of his Grace work out our Salvation with fear and trembling As he Died for Sin so we must Die to Sin or we cannot be said to be saved by the Death and Sufferings of Christ or throughly justified and accepted with God Thus far Negatively Now Possitively what we own as to Justification § 3. We do Believe That Jesus Christ was our Holy Sacrifice and Attonement and Propitiation that he bore our Iniquities and that by his Stripes we were healed of the Wounds Adam gave us in his Fall and that God is just in forgiving true Penitents upon the Credit of that Holy Offering Christ made of himself to God for us and that what he did and suffer'd satisfied and pleased God and was for the sake of fallen Man that had displeased God And that through the Offering up of himself once for all through the Eternal Spirit he hath for Ever perfected those in all times that are sanctified who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit Rom. 8. 1. Mark that § 4. In short Justification consists of two parts or hath a twofold Consideration viz. Justification from the Guilt of Sin and Justification from the Power and Pollution of Sin and in this Sense Justification gives Man a full and clear Acceptance before God For want of this latter part it is that so many Souls Religiously inclin'd are often under Doubts Scruples and Dependencies notwithstanding all that their Teachers tell them of the Extent and Efficacy of the first part of Justification And it is too

Gifted by God taught and influenced by his Heavenly Spirit that can be qualified for so great so inward and so Spiritual a Work § 4. Ministers of Christ are his Witnesses and the Credit of a Witness is that he has heard seen or handled And thus the Beloved Disciple states the Truth and Authority of their Mission and Ministry 1 John 1. 1 3. That which we have heard which we have seen with our Eyes which we have looked upon and our hands have handled that declare we unto you that your Fellowship may be with us and truly our Fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ I say If Christ's Ministers are his Witnesses they must know what they speak that is they must have experienced and past through those States and Conditions they Preach of and practically know those Truths they declare of to the People or they come not in by the Door but over the Wall and are Thieves and Robbers He that has the Key of David comes in at the Door Christ Jesus and has his Admission and Approbation from him anointed by him the alone High Priest of the Gospel-Dispensation He it is that breaths and lays his hands upon his own Ministers he anoints them and recruits their Cruice and renews their Horn with Oyl that they may have it fresh and fresh for every Occasion and Service he calls them to and engages them in § 5. Nor is this all but as they Receive freely freely they Give They do not Teach for Hire Divine for Mony nor Preach for Gifts or Rewards It was Christ's Holy Command to his Ministers to give freely and it is our Practice And truly we cannot but admire that this should be made a Fault and that Preaching for Hire should not be seen to be one yea a Mark of False Prophets when it has been so frequently and severely cried out upon by the True Prophets of God in former times I would not be Uncharitable but the Guilty are desired to call to mind who it was that offered Mony to be made a Minister and what it was for if not to get Mony and make a Trade or Livelihood by it and what answer he met with from the Apostle Peter Acts 8. 18 19 20. The Lord Touch the Hearts of those that are giving Mony to be made Ministers in order to live by their Preaching that they may see what ground it is they build upon and repent and turn to the Lord that they may find Mercy and become living Witnesses of his Power and Goodness in their own Souls so may they be enabled to tell others What God has done for them which is the Root and Ground of the true Ministry and this Ministry it is that God does Bless I could say much on this Subject but let what has been said suffice at this time only I cannot but observe that where any Religion has a strong Temptation of Gain to induce Men to be Ministers there is great Danger of their running faster to that Calling than becomes a true Gospel-Minister § 1. Object But does not this sort of Ministry and Worship tend to make People careless and Spiritual Pride in others may it not give an occasion to great Mischief and Irreligion Answ By no means For when People are of Age They of right expect their Inheritances and the End of all Words is to bring People to the Great VVord and then the Promise of God is Accomplished They shall be all taught of me from the least to the greatest and in Righteousness pray mark that they shall be Established and great shall be their Peace To this of the Evangelical Prophet the beloved Disciple agrees and which is a full Answer to the Objection These things have I written unto you concerning them that Seduce you But the Anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you and ye need not that any Man teach you but as the same Anointing teacheth you of all things and is Truth and is no Lye And even as it hath taught you ye shall abide in him In which Three things are observable 1st That he writ his Epistle upon an extraordinary Occasion viz. to prevent their Delusion 2dly That he asserts a nearer and superior Minister than himself viz. The Anointing or Grace they had received and that not only in that particular Exigency but in all Cases that might attend them Thirdly That if they did but take heed to the Teachings of it they would have no need of Man's Directions or fear of his Seducings At least of no Ministry that comes not from the Power of the Anointing Though I rather take the Apostle in the highest Sence of the Words 2 Thess 4. 9. Thus also the Apostle Paul to the Thessalonians But as touching Brotherly Love ye need not that I write unto you For ye your selves are Taught of God to Love one another But Helps are useful and a great Blessing if from God such was John the Baptists but remember he pointed all to Christ John 1. 26. Lo the Lamb of God! I Baptize you with VVater but he shall Baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with Fire Mat. 3. 11. And so the true Ministry does And while People are Sensual and under such an Eclipse by the Interposition of Sin and Satan God is pleased to send forth his Inlightning Servants to awaken and turn them from the Darkness to the Light in themselves that through Obedience to it they may come to be Children of the Light John 12. 36 and have their fellowship one with another in it and an Inheritance at last with the Saints in Light for ever And as it is the Way God has taken to Call and Gather People so a Living and Holy Ministry is of great advantage to VVatch over and Build up the Young and Comfort and Establish the feeble and simple Ones But still I say the more Inward the less Outward The more People come to be taught Immediately of God by the Light of his Word and Spirit in their Hearts the less need of outward means read Isa 16. 19 20. which is held by all to be a Gospel Promise and the Sun and Moon there as general understood to mean the external Means in the Church Compare them with John 1. 13. Rom. 1. 19. 1 Cor. 2. 11 15. 1 Thes 4. 9. 1 John 2. 20 27. Rev. 21. 22 23 24. All which points at what we assert of the sufficiency and glorious Priviledge of Inward and Spiritual Teachings And most certainly as Men Grow in Grace and know the Anointing of the Word in themselves the Dispensation will be less in Words though in Words and more in Life and Preaching will in great Measure be turned into Praising and the Worship of God more into Walking with than Talking of God For that is VVorship indeed that Bows to his Will at all Times and in all Places The truest the highest Worship Man is capable of in this World And

it is that Conformity that gives Communion and there is no fellowship with God no Light of his Countenance to be enjoyed no Peace and Assurance to be had further than there is Obedience to his Will and a Faithfulness to his Word according to the Manifestation of the Light thereof in the Heart I say this is the truest and highest State of Worship for Set Days and Places with all the Solemnity of them were most in Request in the weakest Dispensation Altars Ark and Temples Sabbaths and Festivals c. are not to be found in the Writings of the New Testament There every Day 's alike and every Place is alike but if there were a Dedication let it be to the Lord. Thus the Apostle but he plainly shews a State beyond it for to Live with him was Christ and to Dye was Gain for the Life he Lived was by the Faith of the Son of God and therefore it was not he that Lived but Christ that Lived in him that is that Ruled Conducted and bore Sway in him which is the true Christian Life the Supersensual Life the Life of Conversion and Regeneration to which all the Dispensations of God and Ministry of his Servants have ever tended as the Consummation of God's Work for Man's Happiness Here every Man 's a Temple and every Family a Church and every Place is a Meeting-Place and every Visit a Meeting And yet a little while and it shall be so yet more and more and a People the Lord is now Preparing to enter into this Sabbath or Degree of Rest Not that we would be thought to undervalue Publick and Solemn Meetings We have them all over the Nations where the Lord has called us Yea tho' but Two or Three of us be in a Corner of a County we meet as the Apostle Exhorted the Saints of his time and Reproved such as Neglected to Assemble themselves But yet shew we unto thee O Reader a more excellent Way of Worship For many may come to those Meetings and go away Carnal Dead and Dry but the Worshippers in Spirit and in Truth whose Hearts Bow whose Minds Adore the Eternal God that is a Spirit in and by his Spirit such as conform to his Will and walk with him in a Spiritual Life they are the True Constant Living and Acceptable Worshippers whether it be in Meetings or out of Meetings And as with such all outward Assemblies are greatly Comfortable so also do we meet for a Publick Testimony of Religion and Worship and for the Edification and Encouragement of those that are yet Young in the Truth and to Call and Gather others to the knowledge of it who are yet going astray and Blessed be God it is not in vain since many are thereby added to the Church that we hope and believe shall be Saved CHAP. XI Sect. 1. Against Tythes Sect. 2. Against all Swearing Sect. 3. Against War among Christians Sect. 4. Against Salutation of the Times Sect. 5. And for Plainness of Speech Sect. 6. Against mixt Marriages Sect. 7. And for plainness in Apparel c. no Sports and Pastimes after the manner of this World Sect. 8. Of Observing Days Sect. 9. Of Care of Poor Peace and Conversation § 1. AND as God has been pleased to call us from an Human Ministry so we cannot for Conscience-sake Support and Maintain it and upon that Score and not out of Humour or Covetousness we refuse to pay Tithes or such-like pretended Dues concerning which many Books have been writ in our Defence We cannot Support what we cannot Approve but have a Testimony against for thereby we should be found Inconsistent with our selves § 2. We dare not Swear because Christ forbids it Mat. 5. 34 37. and James his true follower It is Needless as well as Evil for the reason of Swearing being Vntruth that Men's Yea was not Yea Swearing was used to awe Men to Truth Speaking and to give others Satisfaction that what was Sworn was true But the true Christians Yea being Yea the end of an Oath is answered and therefore the use of it is Needless Superfluous and cometh of Evil. The Apostle James Taught the same Doctrine and the Primitive Christians Practised it as may be seen in the Book of Martyrs as also the earliest and best of the Reformers § 3. We also believe that War ought to cease among the followers of the Lamb Christ Jesus who taught his Disciples to forgive and love their Enemies and not to War against them and kill them and that therefore the Weapons of his true Followers are not Carnal but Spiritual yet mighty through God to cut down Sin and Wickedness and Dethrone him that is the Author thereof And as this is the most Christian so the most Rational Way Love and Perswasion having more Force than Weapons of War Nor would the worst of Men easily be brought to hurt those that they really think love them 'T is that Love and Patience must in the end have the Victory § 4. We dare not give worldly Honour or use the Frequent and Modish Salutations of the Times seeing plainly that Vanity Pride and Ostentation belong to them Christ also forbid them in his Day and made the Love of them a Mark of Declension from the Simplicity of purer times and his Disciples and their Followers were observed to have obeyed their Masters Precept It is not to Distinguish our selves a Party or out of Pride Ill-breeding or Humour but in Obedience to the Sight and Sence we have received from the Spirit of Christ of the evil Rise and Tendency thereof § 5. For the same Reason we have returned to the first Plainness of Speech viz. Thou and Thee to a single Person which tho' Men give no other to God they will hardly endure it from us It has been a great Test upon Pride and shewn the Blind and weak Insides of many This also is out of pure Conscience whatever People may think or say of us for it We may be Despised and have been so often yea very evilly Entreated but we are now better known and People better Informed In short 't is also both Scripture and Grammar and we have Propriety of Speech for it as well as Peace in it § 6. We cannot allow of mix'd Marriages that is to joyn with such as are not of our Society but Oppose and Disown them if at any time any of our Profession so grosly err from the Rule of their Communion yet Restore them upon sincere Repentance but not disjoyn them The Book I writ of the Rise and Progress of the People called Quakers is more full and express herein § 7. Plainness in Apparel and Furniture is another Testimony peculiar to us in the degree we have bore it to the World As also few Words and being at a Word Likewise Temperance in Food and Abstinence from the Recreations and Pastimes of the World All which we have been taught by the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ