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A45480	The Quakers house built upon the sand. Or, A discovery of the damnablenesse of their pernicious doctrines With a warning to the people of God, and all others that tender the salvation of their immortall soules, to build upon the rocke Christ Jesus, and his righteousnesse, to confirm the faith once delivered to the saints. In answer to a rayling pamphlet, lately put forth by George Whithead. This is published for the securing the saints, keeping others out of the snare, and (if possible) the reducing some of those that have been seduced by their destructive principles. By the unworthyest of the labourers in the Lords vineyard, and teacher to a church of Christ, Samuel Hammond.	Hammond, Samuel, d. 1665.	1658 (1658)	Wing H623A; ESTC R215874	18,572	28

THE QUAKERS HOUSE Built upon the Sand. OR A Discovery of the Damnablenesse of their pernicious Doctrines With a Warning to the People of God and all others that tender the salvation of their immortall soules to build upon the Rocke Christ Jesus and his Righteousnesse to confirm the Faith once delivered to the Saints In Answer to a Rayling Pamphlet lately put forth by GEORGE WHITHEAD This is Published for the securing the Saints keeping others out of the snare and if possible the reducing some of those that have been seduced by their Destructive Principles By the unworthyest of the Labourers in the Lords Vineyard and Teacher to a Church of Christ Samuel Hammond Now the Spirit speaketh expresly that in the latter times some shall depart or Apostatize from the Faith giving heed to seducing spirits 1 Tim. 4.1 Gateshead Printed by Stephen Bulkley 1658. The Quakers House Built upon the Sand OR A Discovery of the Damnablenesse of many of their pernicious Doctrines c. SInce the great Shepherd and Bishop of our Soules hath called so unworthy a worme into the work of the Ministry for the gathering in and building up of the body of Christ the Lord can witnesse with me that there are some things that I have mainly designed First To study the Gospel in the great Mystery of Justification and the Power of the Death of Christ Secondly To be much with God about the reality of the Gospel and the Teachings of his Spirit Thirdly To be zealous for and Faithfull to the name and interest of Christ And this I profes Not as though I had already attained either were already perfect but I follow after if that I may apprehend that for which I am apprehended of Christ Jesus And hence is it That when I perceive Satan is under any eminent designe by his instruments to seduce soules from the Truth as it is in Jesus from the Foundation Principles of the Gospel my heart is moved within me to appear for the Lord and his Christ and thence comes it that I have been made a man of contention long with almost all different Judgements And I am the rather drawn out at such alaruming times for securing soules with whom I have to doe in the Ministration of the Gospel to warn them of the damnablenesse of those Doctrines which wholly lead from Jesus Christ and the true spirit of the Gospel and leade into the first Adam first Covenant and false righteosnesse I say I am the rather drawne out to goe this way because I find the Apostles when-they had to doe with false teachers that led them back from Christ to the Law and the Covenant of Works they shewed the damnablenesse of those Doctrines and the impossibility of Salvation that way The Church of Galatia was wonderfully infected with this designe of bringing people back from Christ to the Covenant of Works which hath been Satans designe from the Apostles times to this very day it hath been a great part of the spirit of Anti-Christ it runs through the Doctrine of Socinians it constitutes the Principles of the Quakers And when Paul discovered it he bestirs himselfe exceedingly and speaks home to the impossibility of salvation in that way Reade Galatians 2.16.17.18 Gal. 4.9.10 11. Gal. 5.2 Behold I say unto you that if yee be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing Ver. 3. For I testifie againe to every man that is circumcised that he is a debtour to doe the whole Law Ver. 4. Christ is become of none effect unto you whosoever of you are justified by the Law ye are fallen from Grace Here you see Pauls zeale against such Doctrines and his way of declaring it It is That they cannot be saved if they leave Christ and fly to the works of the Law for justification or mingle the works of the Law with Christ for justification and I shall afterwards make it plainly appear That the Quakers in their Doctrines are notoriously guilty of both these with many other grosse and damnable Opinions Now this example of Paul in Writing to the Church of Galatia to secure them from such Doctrines under paine of Damnation is my Patterne for doing the like This he carryed to other Churches where these false Apostles were seducing of them Hence the Apostles usually called them Damnable Doctrines Doctrines that Destroy the Faith of some wrest Scriptures to their own Destruction There were other things moved me to that plainnesse and faithfulnesse in warning of the damnablenesse of many of the Quakers Doctrines About December last many of them were here gathered together and were endeavouring to make it their great Worke to seduce the People And then first that of I say came upon my heart chap. 59.19 When the Enemy shall come in like a Flood the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a Standard against them And then that of Ezekiel 33. where it was much upon my soule that I could not be free from the blood of the people unlesse I gave them warning against those damnable Doctrines And thus having given the Reader an account of my so publike appearing that time against them I shall now apply my selfe to a Pamplet set forth by George Whithead full of sinfull Doctrines and vile reproaches pretending to Answer what I then Delivered In my Reply to it I doe first professe what I once told two of the Quakers I should blesse the Lord when he should open a Doore of Providence to me to hold forth my testimony to the World of the impossibility of salvation by their Principles which I then onely declared to a Congregation In the answering of this Paper I shall propound this Method First To shew the Grounds of the Quakers delusions and what it is leads them into and keeps them in these pernicious Principles that others may discover their snares and beware of them Secondly To demonstrate the impossibility of salvation in and by their Principles Thirdly To Answer the most materiall Cavills in this Pamphlet of Whitheads and then leave my Name and Work and all in the hands of a Faithful God As to the Causes of their Delusions 1. A spirit of giddinesse hanging loose to the Truth and the love of it and thereupon Gods just giving them up to strong delusions to be led captive by Satan at his will Now for the better understanding of this we must know that there are three sorts of people turne Quakers The first sort of them are unlearned and unstable wresting Scripture to their own destruction and these are generally those that formerly were ancient Professours but having unstable minds runne from Forme to Forme from Principle to Principle till Satan hath caught them in the Quakers snare Another sort there are of yong Men and Women amongst them and these having been under some convictions and awakenings of the Law have followed the light of an awakened conscience and sit down under that before they closed with Christ and think that terrours and shakings are fittest

Baptized with Water as is plaine in the Acts and they Celebrated the Lords Supper with Bread and Wine 1 Cor. 11.23.24.25 but pride and fancy will throw off every yoke Page the thirteenth Then he goes on to rage against the Ministers of Christ and their maintenance And whereas I had said We had the warrant and example of the Apostles for receiving Wages and amongst other Scriptures that I quoted as 1 Cor. 9.14 So hath the Lord ordained that they which Preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel c. he repl●s to that 2. Cor. 11.8 where Paul calls his not taking Wages for Preaching the Gospel to them abasing himselfe and addes that he robbed other Churches taking Wages of them to doe the Corinthians service Here he either wantonly or impudently charges Paul with robbery What will not Quakers say to serve their turne he is the first that ever I read or heard charge Paul with it as a sin and corrupts the Scripture grosly quoting that Scripture with 2 Cor. 12.13 where Paul desires them to forgive him the wrong of not being burthensome to them in a way of surcasme not mentioning there at all his robbing of other Churches to serve them Is not this very sinfull thus to adulterate Scriptures And for the greatnesse of Pauls Wages thinke but of the Primitive Saints laying down their Estates at the Apostles Feet and then judge of it But the Scriptures are so wonderfull plain in the Ministers maintenance and the institution of Christ for their wages that all I will add is this That it is not rayling will obliterate the standing Ordinances of the the Lord Jesus the labourer is worthy of his hyre and take heed of the curse of hindering the Labourer of his Hire Pape the fourteenth He goes on and quarrels with my saying That the Priests under the Law had house and lands and tythes of their own by Gods appointment And then asks me where I can prove they had houses and lands and tythes for their service Did not I tell you before That I was perswaded that this Whithead had little skill in the litterall Knowledge of the Scripture Would you see where they had houses and lands see Levit. 25.32 Notwithstanding the Cities of the Levites and the houses of the Cities of their possession may the Levites redeem at any time Ver 24. But the fields of the suburbs of their Cities may not be sold for it is their perpetuall possession Is it not here plaine they had whole Cities Houses and Lands If you look into the 35. of Numb. 2.3 c. there God commands that they shall have five and forty cities with their suburbs 1 Sam. 22.19 there Nob is called the city of the Priests Deut. 27.21 And for Tythes the Old Testament is full of the proofes of it besides the Sacrifices and many other things the Priests had which doth far surmount our usuall maintenance yet then I declared how I did blesse God for what we had For Tythes though its fully known that the Ministers of Newcastle doe not live upon them yet they are a lawfull maintenance and their lawfulnesse hath been formerly proved by some of us when providence called a loud for it Page the fifteenth He quarrels at my opening of that Scripture try all things where I shewed the genuine meaning of it first negatively That it did not bind us to try sin id est by an experimentall practice to find out what is in it as to try drunkennesse by being drunke or comming into drunken company or any other sinfull lusts in our personall experiment And I instanced in Solomon how this tryall of sinfull courses cost him a sad Apostacy where he childishly cavills at the Phrase cost him an Apostacy when any sober understanding would take it to signifie that he fell into a sad Apostacy by it And dare any Quaker bid his companion try all pleasures as Solomon did But sayes he he found wisedome afterwards thanks be to free grace that heal'd his backslidings but no thanks to his trying sinfull pleasures neither was that the fruit of his trying I instanced also in Adam and Eves eating the forbidden fruit who lost Paradise by trying what it would doe here he trifles ridiculously and cryes out false Doctrine to call it an Apple I aske him what Fruit it was and when he can tell me a better name for it I le learne of him But the question is whether the trying the forbidden Fruit was not a great sin I say it was notwithstanding this rule but I shal adde that the Apostles bidding try all things does not bid them heare deceivers or false teachers Shew we where ever Paul bids them heare the false Apostles he plainly bids them turne away from them Iohn in his 2 Epist. 7.8 bids them look to themselves when deceivers were abroad Ver. 10. If there come any unto you and bring not this Doctrine receive him not into your house neither bid him God speed Ver. 11. For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evill deeds He calls their false Doctrine evill deeds And must the Magistrates of Newcastle be rayled at for not bidding God speed to the Quakers such great deceivers Now what warrant to goe heare Quakers Shall a man goe to heare the Jewes Service or Popish Masse because Paul sayes try all things No no Paul never bid them doe evill Would Christ have us heare seducers who Rev. 2.20 threatens the Church of Thyatyra so severely for suffering the Woman Jezebel which calleth her selfe a Prophetesse to teach and to seduce his servants And for positive trying doe with the Doctrine of Quakers as you doe with the Doctrine of Papists you doe not goe to heare the Papists to try their Doctrines but you take some sound Orthodox Writers against them who confute them by plaine Scripture and so you try them Doe so with the Quakers reade those Writers that are sound in the Faith that plainly confute them by Scriptures and so try them Page the sixteenth In stead of answering what I said to the second Objection he falls a rayling bitterly the Objection was Doe not the Quakers speake against sin My answer was I appeale to your consciences whether in our Preaching the Gospel we doe not speake against sin and that loudly too He cavills at my calling Preaching against sin a part of the Ministration of the Gospel I say it is when Gospel is taken into a large sense for all Christs revealed will though in a stricter sense it is the word of reconciliation As to that of denying the Deity of Christ look into the Perfect Pharisee and you shall see what blasphemy about the God head and Trinity and Christ they vent Page the eighteenth He turns his Discourse to the people with a most loathsome heape of rayling against the Ministers of the Gospel Oh that I could entreat this Wbithead to reade the third of James to learne to bridle his Tongue I hope we are