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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54014	The discoverer discovered; or, The lot cast, T.C. taken, and the Babylonish garment found hid under his stuff Being a reply to a late pamphlet, entituled, A discovery of the accursed thing, &c. subscribed T.C. With some remarks upon two papers of John Penny man's. By E.P.	Penington, Edward, 1667-1701.	1695 (1695)	Wing P1143; ESTC R217510	24,798	49

yet may serve to testifie the Value I have for and the Filial Respect I bear to the Memory of a worthily Esteemed deservedly Honoured and truly Honourable Father Who though by F. B. whom this Man vindicates in way of Contempt be termed a Devout Heathen was well known by those who knew the Truth in which he lived and in which he died and had any Acquaintance with him to be a sincere Christian and true Minister of the Gospel of Christ not of the Letter only but of the Spirit as was the Apostle Paul And his endeavour was to fix People on that Rock which would abide the Storm and preserve them from falling viz. That spiritual Rock which followed Israel which Rock was Christ But by reason of his vindicating the living and lively Faith of Christ spiritually revealed in the Heart without which the Literal Faith would be so far from saving them that it would but add to their Condemnation I say for this his Zealous Defence of the Gospel of Christ and exalting the Spirit above the Flesh though they could never prove him guilty of denying or slighting the outward Appearance of Christ in the Flesh he was not without a share of the Slanders and Calumnies of Adversaries of all sorts while living and though he hath now been dead several Years yet T. C. will not let him rest in his Grave but must rake in his Ashes for Dirt to fling at him And truly he is an Author who hath been much quoted by T. C. in most if not all the Pamphlets he hath published against that Church whereof my said Father was an Eminent Member Formerly his Perversions of his Writings tended to make him speak contrary when Dead to his Brethren with whom he was in true Unity while Living and then T. C. could quote him as Authentick and by him approved for sound Doctrine But since that would not effect his Design now his Writings must be Apocryphal and he a Publisher of false Doctrine to prove the Quakers guilty thereof too but how far he falls short in his Proofs I hope to evince by and by He hath had several touches at him in some of the foregoing Paragraphs of his Pamphlet but without naming either Book or Author but now in the close to pin the Basket he gives us three Letters of his Name viz. Is P. yet names no Book neither But I knowing that The Question to Professors c. hath been a Choak-pear to the meer Letter-mongers of our Times I imagined it might be out of that Book that he took his Quotations which he quarrels so with and upon perusing it found them there and therefore for the Honour I bear to the Memory of so near a Relation and so good a Man I shall endeavour to wipe off the Aspersion which T. C. casts upon him He says And it 's astonishing to behold how they contemn our Lord Jesus and Deifie him viz. G. F. thereby making way for themselves to be so many Christ's as appears by Is P's saying Doth not the name belong to every Member as well as to the Head Now if the whole Query from whence those words are taken do not tend to contemn our Lord Jesus Christ or for making way for themselves to be so many Christs then is T. C. a false Accuser and to prove him such I shall transcribe the Query Verbatim only with the Addition of those Scriptures at length in Parenthesis's which he quotes in proof of his Assertions and leave it to the unbyassed to judge whether it hath such a tendency or no Or whether it be not sound Apostolical Doctrine Part 2. p. 15. of Is P's Collection Qu. 24. Is not the Substance the Life the Anointing called Christ where-ever it be found Doth not the Name belong to the whole Body and every Member in the Body as well as to the Head Are they not all of one yea all one in the Anointing Was not this the great desire of his Heart to the Father that they all might be one even as the Father and Christ were one John 17.21 23. That they all may be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us I in thee and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one And so being one in the same Spirit one in the same Life one in the same Nature 2 Pet. 1.4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious Promises that by these you might be Partakers of the Divine Nature even Partakers of God's Holiness Heb. 12.10 For they verily chastened us after their own Pleasure but he for our Profit that we might be partakers of his Holiness Christ is not ashamed to call them Brethren Heb. 2.11 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one for which cause he is not ashamed to call them Brethren nor is the Apostle ashamed to give them the Name Christ together with him 1 Cor. 12.12 For as the Body is one and hath many Members and all the Members of that one Body being many are one Body so also is Christ The Body is the same with the Head one and the same in Nature and doth not the Name belong to the Nature in the whole So that the Name is not given to the Vessel but to the Nature to the heavenly Treasure to that which the Lord from Heaven begets in his own Image and Likeness of his own Substance of his own Seed of his own Spirit and pure Life Thus far my Father Now I observe upon the whole That he doth not assert that every Member is a distinct Christ any more than every Member is a distinct Body thereby making way for themselves to be so many Christ's as T. C. falsly affirms But so far as every one is a Member of the Body whereof Christ is Head and of the Anointing from whence the Name Christ is derived so far have they a Title to the Name Christ or Anointed as being Christed or Anointed begotten by him the Incorruptible Seed sanctified through his Blood and thereby made Partakers of his Righteousness are become one with him his Brethren Children of the same Father Hei●s of the same Glory according to their Measures Neither doth this tend to the contemning of Christ for this Union doth not imply an equality though the Members are all anointed with the same Holy Oil as is Christ the Head yet he is anointed with the Oil of Gladness above his Fellows Heb. 1.9 The Scripture abounds in setting forth the Mystical Union between Christ and his Church as particularly Eph. 5. where the Apostle giving Directions how Husbands and Wives ought to demean themselves towards each other stirs them up to mutual Love by the Example of Christ's Love to his Church and comparing their near Alliance to each other by the Union of Christ with his Church he saith v. 30. We are Members of his Body of his Flesh and of his Bones