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

there was of old Elymas the Sorcerer and Simon Magus that bewitched the people of Samaria and 〈◊〉 there are now some such among the Papists so among you some th● be witch the poor Country people with Sorceries For one to be humble in his Carriage among his Neighbours to day surly dogged and proud to morrow courteous in his Salutes to day Bruitish and unmannerly to morrow affable and discoursing now presently 〈◊〉 silent morose to day speaking honourably of Christ Scripture Lo● Supper to morrow either contemning of them o● quarrelling with them or else down-right speaking against them When as this day he came among God's people to morrow he will not come near them nor pray with them to day he prays with his Family next day no● now he is sedate and quiet in his Spirit within a while trembling restless raging to day love to his Relations next day runs away from them or little regards them if not Quakers in one day his whole Garb Carriage Love Words Gestures will be changed and which is remarkable they shall all agree to speak against the old substantial fundamental comfortable Truths of the Gospel yea the nea● the Truth is concerning Christ Jesus his Person Natures or Officer the more against it withal every one of them endowed presently with a sly cunning jugling Jesuitical temper for equivocations mental 〈◊〉 servations waiting to catch at words that are spoke to them all plain-heartedness and ingenuity is gon And again how worldly stingy reserved all freeness right generosity and nobility is all departed now is this the blessing Who can think but that another Spirit that is not Christ doth enter O Lord arise and let thine Enemies be scattered It 's very manifest now the Lord remedy it and deliver this poor blind people from these Regions of Darkness wherein they sit to the sweet Light of the Gospel which begetteth the quite contrary eff● in the Saints What if a Spirit should possess any fill him toss him tumble him up and down throw him into Trances act him to pray yea to speak like an Angel and enable him to endure sufferings yea and in some measure he is at peace and in comfort yet loves not Christ Jesus nor his Gospel what would this avail was it not a Spirit of de●on and would not that person be in a deplorable Condition J. C's POSTSCRIPT OH that these smitings may be as Balm for they are the words of a Friend to thy poor lost Soul as at present thou art oh feel them feel them and be not wroth because of them lest the gate of Mercy be shut against thee Answ In Luke 18.23 If I have spoken evil hear Witness of the 〈◊〉 saith the Lord Christ but if well why smitest thou me so if I live writ any thing false confute it plainly if not why dost thou rail at me how then can I receive those smitings for bearing witness to the Truth as Balm when-as it is not the Balm of Gospel-Love but like the Vinegar and Gall they gave to Christ and the words of this Friend but like the kisses of such a Friend as Judas was that would betray 〈◊〉 redeemed Soul into the hand of damnable errors that would ●roy it thou bid'st me feel them I have felt them and perceive from what Spirit they proceed by the sharpness of them and cannot but be grieved that there should still remain in thee such a keen bitter proud Pharisaical Socinian Spirit against such a good ancient wholsom sound comfortable saving holy Truth as the Imputed Righteousness of Christ to poor fallen lost undone sinners without strength to keep the Law and save themselves and a Spirit of Hell and Satan directly contrary to the blessed Angelical Spirit the Angels rejoyce when a Sinner is converted but thou and thy Brethren are very angry at this young Man's Conversion Now I am not wroth as thou thinkest because of thy smitings but they have stirred my Zeal against er● for the Truth the more which shall by the Grace of God be improved to the utmost in preachings and writings against your ways ●ycing that the Keys are in Davids hand Jesus Christ's not thine for then the Gates of Mercy would be shut against all such as we are but they stand open and for such Rebels as thou art to the Grace of Christ Jesus and such Apostates from the Truth if peradventure God will give thee Repentance to the acknowledging of the Truth that thou mayest be recovered out of the snare of the Devil that art taken Captive by him at his Will 2 Tim. 2.25 26. An Answer to the Aditional POSTSCRIPT THe Christian Judicious Reader having passed the foregoing lines by this time seeth that what followeth in this Postscript Pag. 18. is but a meer fallacious harangueof words purposely stitched together to deceive some weak ones this Testimony of thine is indeed like the Apples of Sodom touch them and they immediately moulder into dust let them be examined and they are found to be hollow rotten shouking but I have done it already and therefore need not do it over again And now that all may know thou art a dissembler I challen●e thee to Answer to these following Queries in thy next Book to which if thou Answerest me plainly briefly cordially properly to the truth of them thou wilt discover thy self that one of these two things will follow Either that thou art a perfect Cheat in these lines thou haft writ and so gross a Heretick that thou art not worthy that a Chriss●an should eat or drink with thee Or Secondly that thou hast presently renounced Quakerism and if so why then we desire thee to publish thy Repentance withal promising to Answer any Question thou wilt put to me to try the Principles of my Religion by and in thy Answer let me have I pray thee a solemn appeal unto God that thou speakest according to the bare literal ordinary meaning of the Words and Phrases which hath been received among the serious Professors of the Christian Religion this may do much to put an end to the controversie and satisfie many 1. Dost not thou know that the Independent Presbyterian and Anabaptist party are both in their Preachings and Writings for an Experimental spiritual knowledg of Christ and that they do generally assert that a bare Dogmatical and Historical knowledg of Jesus of Nazareth is not sufficient for Salvation without the Truths be inwardly taught by the Spirit because thou dost insinuate so much in the 8. P. as if they were only for an Historical and against an Experimental Knowledg 2. Dost not thou believe that some may know the Mystery and so be 〈◊〉 without ever hearing of or knowing the History of Jesus of Nazareth 3. Whether is Jesus Christ now a Person out of Man or only a Principle or Quality in Man 4. Dost thou believe that Man that was born of Mary the Virgin at Bethlehem in Judea to be the Messiah the Christ of

that proceed from hence were they not his own was it Christ or Paul that Believed Loved Prayed c all the Logick thou hast Baily cannot gainsay but that it was Paul and if so then it was not madness and folly to say but the Wisdom of the Spirit of God taught him so viz. That he would be found in Christ not having those Gifts and Vertues that the Spirit had wrought in his Mind to Justify him in God's sight for there are defects in all these Gifts Faith Love c. and in all our Holiness and remember God chargeth his Angels with folly and might well have charged Paul with Madness and Folly if he had trusted to his own Righteousness to Justify him in his sight I wish thou wouldst see thy own Pride Hypocrisie Ignorance Pharisaism Answer any of you Could ever Paul have the least temptation to trust to his Pharisaical Righteousness after he was converted then surely it was this Sanctified Righteousness he here speaks of which he saw would come short to Justify him but thou art otherwise mindded as it 's said in Phil. 3. by Paul God reveal it to thee in due time many of us were thus minded for some time but now through inlightnings we follow Paul's example in this Truth and are like-minded with him herein B. And pag. 11. Thou sayest viz. The Quaker goeth about to make his own Righteousness to stand yes and blame him not if it consists in those Gifts and Vertues that the Spirit of God worketh in his mind how is any a true Christian without these Reply Thou hast said more here through thy ignorance of the Righteousness of God than thou darest stand to darest thou say that thou wouldest stand or fall before the infinitely Holy God and have him deal with thee for ever in his exact Justice according as thou hast been found in the most holy Exercise of any of the Gifts and Vertues of the Spirit speak The Prophet saith Enter not into Judgment with thy Servant for in thy sight shall no Man living be Justified Psal 143. 2. but here is a Prophet saith Thou mayest Lord to the utmost Judg me for I have Gifts and Vertues enough of the Spirit in me to Justify me in thy sight In Psal 130.3 The Psalmist saith If thou Lord shouldest mark iniquities O Lord who shall stand Yea saith this Pharisee but I shall and my Righteousness too for it consisteth in the Gifts and Vertues of the Spirit and let God mark iniquities never so narrowly I shall do well enough Job a perfect and upright Man speaketh on this wise Chapt. 9.2 How shall Man be Just with God v. 3. If he will contend with him he cannot answer him one of a thousand But here is a perfect Man that saith Man may be Just with God and if God doth contend with him he hath the Gifts of the Spirit which Job belike had not and this Righteousness shall stand and thus W. B. can Answer God every thing in every thousand that is laid to his Charge V. 15. Whom though I 〈◊〉 Righteous yet would I not Answer but make my supplication to my Judg yea v. 21. Though I were perfect yet would I not know my Soul 〈◊〉 30 31. Though I wash my self in Snow water and make my hands ●●ver so clean yet shalt thou plung me in the Ditch and mine own Clothes ●●all abhor me But W. B. saith he will Answer God in this his perfection and this shall be his Answer viz. That his Righteousness shall stand and he will know his own Soul thus adorned and let God plung him if he can he will adventure it The Heavens are not clean in 〈◊〉 sight the Scripture saith in the Book of Job but Baylies Righteousness is clean in God's sight He chargeth his Angels with folly no mat●●● for that Bayly cannot be charged for his Righteousness consists in the Gifts of the Spirit But have not the Elect Angels the Gift of the Spirit But it 's likely not in such a Degree as this Man or they have more mixture of evil in the exercise of them than this Prophet I err not in calling thee a bold proud Man for this saying I will give thee a Testimony out of Foxes Monuments of one of the Martyrs see how it agrees with thy Doctrine in the third Volume pag. 418. Anno 1555. in a letter of Robert Samuels written to the Christian Congregation declaring the Confession of his Faith these are his words viz. All the Works Merits Deservings Doings and Obedience of Man towards God although they are done by the Spirit of God in the Grace of God yet being thus done be of no Validity Worthiness Merit before God except God for his Mercy and Grace account them worthy for the Worthiness and Merit of Christ Jesus c. And thou contradicts thy Brother John Crook who in his words acknowledgeth that he looks to be accepted not for works of Righteousness that he had done not for the works sake only though wrought by the Spirit yet here that which is wrought by the Spirit must Justifie us in Gods sight otherwise thou sayest nothing for we say that none are true Christians without the Gifts of the Spirit but yet these do not Justify them in God's sight Justification and Sanctification go hand in hand our state and Relation is changed there is Justification our Nature there is Sanctification the Gifts of the Spirit and Regeneration flow from Justification in order of Nature though not of times we are Justified before we are Renewed forgiven before Sanctified Pag. 37. I cannot well pass over one passage in Bailies Railery saying that I am like Jannes and Jambres that withstood Moses proclaiming 〈◊〉 folly a Phrase used frequently by the Quakers Reply After that lof●y Anti-evangelical Speech that he had used before touching his own Righteousness how it must stand it will 〈◊〉 be amiss to cast our eye to the Scripture where this is mentioned 2 Tim. 3. 8. and view that sort of Men there described and see if they were not Quakers if of any sort v. 2. Boasters proud Blasphemers v. 3● fierce dispisers of them that are good v. 4. Heady high minded v. 5. Having a form of Godliness denying the Power v. 7. Ever learning never coming to the knowledge of the Truth v. 8. Men of corrupt minds of no Judgment concerning the Faith These were they that were Seducers which did resist Pauls Doctrine as you may read in this Chapter B. And it 's known to thee and all the world that the Quakers own 〈◊〉 other Righteousness to be Justified by but the Righteousness of Jesus Christ the Righteousness which is of God by Faith in him Reply But now it 's too late to deceive with these good words We see your cunning Craftiness this Righteousness of Jesus Christ that you plead for he is only the Author of not the Subject it is no●●● his Person according to your Divinity but in