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Quæries propounded to George Fox and his ministers to answer from a paper wrote by George Fox, intituled An epistle from the people called Quakers to all people to read over ... / by a lover of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was born of the Virgin Mary by the power of the Holy Ghost for the Christ and mans saviour, as that promised seed that God to Adam said should break the Serpents head.
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that Christ shed for cleansing from all sin or by Faith see the merit of the blood shed upon the Cross to the receiving the promise to wit the Spirit that cleanseth the conscience from all sin Whether Christ is the true light as he is the Son of God personally come in flesh without man or the light in the conscience be the true light and Saviour that is in Man explain Whether since we are to wait upon Christ for the receiving of his Spirit is Man to wait upon the light in his conscience as his Christ and giver of the Spirit or upon Christ who is without him as the Christ and sender of the true Spirit explain Whether Peters witness in his conscience who confessed to Christ to be the Son of God who had the words of Eternal Life was not as much God and Christ as the witness in you explain Whether Peter trusted in the witness in his conscience for his Saviour or expected Salvation by it and not in Christ that said unto him when thou art converted strengthen the bâethren explain Whether Cornelius that feared God and walked righteously before him in Prayers Fastings and giving of Alms from an awakened conscience that stood in subjection to God had Salvation from the light in his conscience or from Christ the Son of God whom Peter preached to him for Saviour without him explain Whether Cornelius did believe the witness in his conscience to be God and Christ and to this witness as God or Christ Fasted Prayed and gave Alms that by his works his witness as God or Christ should save him or did he believe on God who hath made the Heavens and the Earth whose dwelling is in that high and lofty place of Eternity explain And being said Zacheus this day is Salvation come to thy house whether it was Christ that brought Salvation who that day came to him he being the Saviour that gives Salvation or Zacheus light in his conscience that that day brought Salvation unto hâ explain Whether the witness or light in Pauls conscience that lead hâ to persecute the church of Christ from his zeal he had to Goâ being instructed in Moses Law was God Christ or Saviour Christ even Jesus of Nazareth who spoke to him in a bright shiniâ light out of Heaven Saul Saul why persecutest thou me explain Since it is said Christ in you the hope of Glory whether Chriââ be in Man before he is revealed by God in Man explain For is written that the Spirit of Christ the World cannot receivâ because said he they do not believe on me And Christ being revealed in Man whether it means himself iâ person or his Spirit who give the knowledge of God in the Facâ of Christ by bringing in the light of Christ in which he is gloryfâed into tho heart that fills the heart with exceeding joy in believing explain Since that Paul saith While in the body absent freââ the Lord and thence desires to go hence to be present with the Lord. And in that the body must be put off for that it hinders the inward Man in its being with the Lord Quaery what is this inward man Is it a creature or is it God Is it the Spirit of Man that God said he would not always contend with for if he should iâ would fail before him and the Soul that God hath made or is it Christ explain And the inward man of the heart being absent from Christ the Lord whilst it is in this body whether Christ as he is in his own being be not distinct and apart of himself without and separate from his creatures and the Man in heart distinct and apart as a creature and own self subsistence explain Whether the ownness of Christ and his Saints be such an incorporated unity that from their conjunction with him they are oâ Christ without seperability or whether the Union of the Saints ãâã God and Christ be the heavenly injoyment wherein the is felâwship with God and Christ in the light explain Since in divine writ it is said of God I the Lord create the darkness ãâã form the light whether the light that God formed is not natural ãâã since it is also said if the light in you be darkness how great is that âdness which light in man being his sight is it of any other quality ãâã the light of nature which God hath formed explain And the light in man being but a formed light that God hath created âhether this light be Christ the son of God as the word that was âod that with the creature is become the Christ and mans Saviour ââplain And since of man it is written that he is the Image of God whether he ãâã the Image of God as God is God in his Deity or is the Image of âod in a creatural form from Gods principles of nature explain And if man be the Image of God in his Deity as God is God who out and beyond all nature and creature how is it possible otherwise be but so many men so many Gods explain and if this could in ây possibility be admitted then is not the omnipotency in the creaâre as a God and if so how is it possible for him to be condemned And since the light and darkness is the creation of god and but his âeation it is manifest the creation is not he himself and the creature âing a substance created out of nature having in him darkness and âght whether the creature in his creat be as a creature any thing more ât a creature consisting of a natural make explain And since the Body returns to dust and the Spirit to God that gave ãâã what is the nature of that body and its properties and what is the âature of the Spirit and the properties of it in that it goeth to God âat gave it at the breaking of the body since it never dyeth but abideth âever explain And since you say that the soul of Man is not a creature and that thâ soul is saved or damned and that the soul is of an Eternal subsistency whether if the soul is no creature is it God and if God doth he savâ part of himself in some men and part of himself in others damn explain For the rest of your Paper I pass it over acknowledging that thesâ principles for yours have been published to the World before now to wit 1. That the light of or in conscience a measure whereof every man hath that comes into the world is Christ the Justifier thâ advocate the mediator the Redeemer and the Saviour 2 That thâ sufferings death resurrection and ascention of Christ and his blood iâ but the professors stuff 3. That Christ was not Christ in his person but that which was Christ was something that was in his person 4. That Christ dyed not for satisfaction but for example 5. Thaâ the mercy of God without any satisfaction by Christ made to God foâ man doth save the creature as