Quakerism
a
great
Delusion
.
THE
Substance
of
their
pretended
Faith
may
be
reduced
into
these
six
general
Heads
.
I.
In
the
first
and
last
Articles
professed
,
they
say
,
they
believe
,
according
to
holy
Scripture-Testimony
,
in
the
Trinity
,
or
those
three
Divine
Witnesses
that
bear
Record
in
Heaven
,
&c.
and
that
they
believe
and
own
the
holy
Scriptures
,
contained
in
the
Books
of
the
Old
and
New
Testament
,
and
to
be
given
by
Divine
Inspiration
,
and
to
contain
all
matters
of
Doctrine
and
Testimony
,
&c.
necessary
to
be
believed
and
practised
in
order
to
Salvation
and
Peace
with
God
,
&c.
II.
They
say
their
Belief
is
,
that
in
the
Unity
of
the
God
head
there
is
Father
,
Son
and
Holy
Ghost
,
being
those
three
Divine
Witnesses
that
bear
Record
in
Heaven
,
the
Father
,
the
Word
,
and
the
holy
Spirit
,
and
that
these
three
are
one
,
&c.
III.
They
profess
to
believe
the
Divinity
and
Humanity
of
Christ
,
the
Eternal
Son
of
God
,
&c.
and
that
he
is
the
one
Mediator
betwixt
God
and
Man
,
the
Man
Christ
Jesus
,
&c.
IV.
They
profess
to
believe
and
expect
Remission
of
Sins
,
Justification
,
Redemption
and
Salvation
,
through
the
Sufferings
,
Death
and
Blood
of
Christ
,
and
not
by
their
own
Works
,
Righteousness
or
Merits
—
this
is
professed
in
their
third
and
fourth
Articles
specified
in
their
Pamphlet
.
V.
They
profess
to
believe
and
own
the
Divine
Offices
of
Christ
,
as
King
,
Priest
and
Prophet
,
over
his
own
Church
and
People
.
VI.
They
evade
and
deny
Baptism
in
Water
,
and
the
Supper
of
the
Lord
instituted
in
Bread
and
Wine
,
to
be
now
in
force
,
as
standing
Ordinances
in
the
Church
of
Christ
.
They
say
nothing
of
those
two
great
Articles
of
the
Christian
Faith
,
the
Resurrection
of
the
Bodies
from
the
Graves
of
the
Earth
,
and
the
eternal
Judgment
;
tho
they
are
not
ignorant
that
their
Faith
hath
been
questioned
herein
.
Before
I
proceed
to
examine
their
pretended
Faith
professed
in
their
Pamphlet
,
I
shall
take
notice
of
its
Title
;
it
is
called
,
The
Christianity
of
the
People
commonly
called
Quakers
;
and
could
we
take
them
at
their
words
,
their
Profession
looks
like
good
and
Orthodox
.
But
as
the
Apostle
saith
,
2
Cor.
11.
13.
there
were
deceitful
Workers
,
transforming
themselves
into
the
Apostles
of
Christ
;
using
feigned
words
and
fair
Speeches
,
was
the
old
way
of
deceiving
the
Hearts
of
the
simple
.
As
our
Enemies
at
Sea
,
either
to
defend
themselves
from
our
Stroak
,
or
to
draw
us
into
their
Snare
,
will
put
up
the
English
Flag
:
So
the
Quakers
see
it
necessary
upon
this
occasion
,
to
make
a
very
plausible
Profession
.
The
gilded
Pill
is
not
so
irksome
to
the
Palat
;
but
if
we
are
cautions
in
taking
Money
,
and
if
a
Piece
be
fair
and
large
,
yet
if
the
Metal
be
suspicious
,
we
bring
it
to
the
Touch-stone
.
1.
Christianity
is
a
very
high
,
holy
and
honourable
Profession
,
which
hath
caused
many
to
lay
claim
to
it
without
a
just
Title
,
who
will
needs
have
the
Name
,
tho
strangers
to
the
Nature
of
Christianity
:
many
have
no
better
a
Title
to
this
Name
,
than
their
being
born
in
a
Nation
called
a
Christian
Nation
.
Others
depend
upon
Morality
alone
,
and
bless
God
they
are
not
so
bad
as
some
other
Men.
Christianity
is
to
lay
hold
upon
Christ
by
a
true
and
Evangelical
Faith
,
in
his
Death
,
Sufferings
and
Merits
,
for
Redemption
and
Justification
;
to
believe
him
in
all
his
Offices
,
and
obey
him
in
all
his
Ordinances
.
Christians
are
Disciples
or
Scholars
of
Christ
.
Acts
11.
26.
The
Disciples
were
first
called
Christians
at
Antioch
.
A
true
Gospel-Profession
,
from
a
real
and
Evangelical
Faith
,
attended
with
a
pious
Life
;
for
Morality
is
included
where
there
is
true
Christianity
.
2.
Quakerism
,
with
respect
to
the
Name
,
is
not
derived
from
a
Person
so
called
,
but
from
a
Gesture
used
much
amongst
them
formerly
in
their
Meetings
,
as
was
manifest
by
what
was
alledged
against
them
by
the
Westmoreland
Petitioners
,
viz.
That
their
Practice
did
exceedingly
savour
of
Saucery
,
because
of
the
Swellings
,
Quakings
,
Roarings
and
Foamings
that
were
amongst
them
at
their
Meetings
.
And
in
the
Quakers
Answer
to
this
Petition
,
they
deny
not
swelling
,
foaming
and
quaking
:
See
their
Book
,
p.
35.
But
they
deny
Saucery
and
Blasphemy
:
They
justify
quaking
and
trembling
,
as
being
used
by
the
Saints
of
old
,
Heb.
12.
21.
Jer.
33.
9.
Acts
9.
6.
Ezek.
12.
18.
These
Texts
are
urged
by
Ja.
Nailor
,
p.
16
,
17.
of
his
Book
called
,
The
Power
and
Glory
of
the
Lord
shining
out
of
the
North
:
He
takes
pains
to
prove
their
Name
,
and
justify
their
Practice
;
for
,
saith
he
,
search
the
Scriptures
,
and
holy
Men
of
God
do
witness
Quaking
and
Trembling
:
This
is
true
,
and
the
same
may
be
said
of
wicked
Men
and
Devils
,
Acts
24.
25.
James
2.
19.
and
Luke
9.
39.
we
read
of
him
that
was
possessed
,
that
he
foamed
,
when
the
Diabolical
Spirit
did
tear
him
.
I
shall
say
no
more
of
their
Name
,
it
is
of
their
own
procuring
and
defending
,
tho
no
discriminating
Character
of
Christianity
or
Saintship
.
2dly
;
As
to
their
Profession
,
for
ought
that
ever
I
could
gather
from
their
own
Tongues
or
Pens
,
is
a
Labyrinth
of
Confusion
,
or
a
great
heap
of
Contradictions
,
tending
to
the
Subversion
both
of
the
Foundation
and
Fabrick
of
Christianity
;
being
a
Compound
of
Heresies
,
having
Affinity
with
the
Sadduces
,
as
Mr.
Brown
notes
,
in
the
discovery
of
the
Leaven
of
the
Sadduces
hid
among
the
Quakers
,
p.
5.
which
Sect
was
divided
into
two
Branches
,
Epicures
and
Stoicks
;
these
encounter'd
St.
Paul
,
Acts
17.
18.
calling
him
Spermologus
,
which
our
Translation
renders
a
Babler
,
because
he
preached
Jesus
and
the
Resurrection
;
and
with
the
Heresy
of
Hymeneus
and
Philetus
,
1
Tim.
2.
18.
who
said
,
the
Resurrection
was
past
already
;
and
had
overthrown
the
Faith
of
some
:
and
they
have
Affinity
with
the
Gnosticks
,
who
say
,
that
Christ
did
not
take
Flesh
really
,
but
in
a
Figure
;
so
have
the
Quakers
said
,
as
will
appear
.
See
Saul's
Errand
to
Damascus
;
compare
Epiphanius
,
Heres
.
26.
And
they
have
Affinity
with
Seleucus
,
a
great
Heretick
,
who
denied
the
Humanity
of
Christ
,
and
Water-Baptism
;
he
lived
in
the
time
of
Theodosius
Magnus
.
See
August
.
lib.
de
Heres
.
Both
which
Errors
are
maintained
by
the
Quakers
,
repugnant
to
the
holy
Scriptures
Testimony
.
Again
,
They
have
Affinity
with
the
Papists
in
their
Master-veins
of
Popery
:
for
as
the
Papists
do
introduce
all
their
vain
Conceits
by
this
Maxim
,
That
the
Church
cannot
err
:
So
the
Quakers
usher
in
their
Dreams
,
that
they
are
perfect
,
and
so
cannot
err
.
And
as
the
Papists
make
the
Writings
of
their
General
Councils
equal
with
the
Scriptures
,
so
do
the
Quakers
their
lying
Pamphlets
;
nay
,
prefer
them
above
the
Scriptures
,
as
will
appear
.
And
they
have
Affinity
with
the
Muggletonians
,
who
utter
their
execrable
Imprecations
,
Curses
and
Sentences
against
their
Opposites
.
And
I
must
leave
them
in
this
Deluge
of
Errors
and
Heresy
,
and
proceed
to
examine
their
Pamplet
in
its
respective
parts
.
1.
In
the
first
Head
,
being
part
of
the
first
and
last
Articles
professed
in
their
Pamphlet
,
they
profess
to
believe
holy
Scripture-Testimony
,
and
that
the
holy
Scriptures
,
contained
in
the
Books
of
the
Old
and
New
Testament
,
do
contain
all
matters
of
Doctrine
and
Testimony
necessary
to
be
believed
and
practised
in
order
to
Salvation
and
Peace
with
God
;
and
that
they
desire
to
live
in
the
Faith
,
Knowledg
and
Practice
of
them
,
&c.
in
all
things
appertaining
to
Life
and
Godliness
.
Holy
Scripture
being
given
by
Divine
Inspiration
,
is
profitable
for
Doctrine
,
Correction
,
Instruction
,
that
the
Man
of
God
may
be
perfect
,
throughly
furnished
unto
every
good
Work
;
able
to
make
the
Man
of
God
wise
unto
Salvation
,
through
Faith
in
Christ
Jesus
.
Indeed
there
is
a
present
occasion
for
this
plausible-Profession
;
for
the
Promoters
of
it
have
now
set
up
a
Meeting
in
Deptford
,
a
place
where
their
corrupt
Notions
have
had
but
little
footing
;
and
it
is
also
a
place
where
the
Word
of
God
hath
for
many
Years
been
faithfully
and
powerfully
preached
;
so
that
except
they
appear
in
Sheeps
Clothing
,
they
cannot
draw
Disciples
after
them
.
It
is
said
of
the
Oracles
of
the
Heathens
,
that
they
were
made
to
look
with
two
Faces
,
that
they
may
the
better
effect
their
Deceits
.
It
is
not
easy
to
conceive
the
many
Meanings
and
Reserves
that
lie
couched
in
this
Paragraph
.
But
not
to
trace
them
into
all
their
equivocal
Reserves
,
I
conceive
the
best
way
to
understand
the
Quakers
Sentiments
about
the
Scriptures
,
is
to
have
recourse
to
their
own
Construing
Books
.
And
I
shall
begin
with
Humphrey
Smith
,
a
forward
Asserter
of
Quakerism
:
see
his
Book
called
,
A
true
and
everlasting
Rule
,
p.
29.
he
affirmeth
in
the
Face
of
Men
and
Devils
,
That
there
are
no
other
Rules
,
Ways
or
Means
by
which
Men
shall
ever
come
to
walk
with
God
,
but
by
that
which
is
manifest
of
God
in
him
;
and
that
it
is
sufficient
to
guide
in
all
the
Ways
of
God
without
Scripture
,
or
any
other
outward
Rule
.
Doth
not
this
tend
to
make
null
what
is
before
professed
?
If
that
in
Humphrey
Smith
be
a
sure
Guide
,
and
his
Book
be
a
true
and
everlasting
Rule
,
how
then
are
the
Scriptures
necessary
?
and
wherein
are
they
profitable
for
Doctrine
,
Instruction
,
&c.
since
all
things
necessary
may
be
taught
without
them
?
See
also
James
Nailor's
Answer
to
the
Jews
,
p.
4
,
22
,
25.
It
's
Blasphemy
for
any
to
say
the
Letter
is
the
Word
of
God
,
it
is
the
Devil
that
contends
for
the
Scriptures
to
be
the
Word
of
God
,
&c.
Here
you
have
the
Sentence
of
one
of
their
great
Prophets
passed
against
the
Scriptures
.
George
Whitehead
being
asked
,
Whether
they
esteem
their
Speakings
to
be
of
as
great
Authority
as
any
Chapter
in
the
Bible
?
He
affirms
,
in
his
Apology
,
p.
49.
That
which
is
spoken
by
the
Spirit
of
Truth
in
any
,
is
of
as
great
Authority
as
the
Scripture
,
yea
,
and
greater
.
What
can
appear
more
clear
,
than
that
the
Quakers
Inspirations
are
of
as
great
,
if
not
greater
,
(
But
why
do
I
mince
it
?
)
ay
,
and
greater
Authority
than
the
Scriptures
?
Let
us
add
to
this
James
Parnell's
Testimony
,
Shield
of
the
Truth
,
p.
19.
he
also
that
saith
,
The
Letter
is
the
Rule
and
Guide
of
the
People
of
God
,
is
without
,
feeding
upon
Husks
,
and
is
ignorant
of
the
true
Light
,
&c.
By
this
Man's
Verdict
,
the
Scriptures
are
condemned
as
Husks
,
or
a
false
Light
.
Could
either
Papist
,
or
Atheist
,
more
plainly
oppose
the
Holy
Scriptures
?
But
since
we
want
no
Evidence
to
detect
these
Impostors
,
let
us
add
a
few
more
from
their
own
Pens
;
see
James
Naylor's
Light
of
Christ
,
p.
19.
God
is
at
liberty
to
speak
to
his
People
by
the
Scriptures
,
if
he
please
;
and
where
they
are
given
by
Inspiration
,
doth
so
;
and
he
is
also
at
liberty
to
speak
by
any
other
created
thing
,
as
to
Balaam
by
his
Ass
.
I
think
I
do
not
wrong
them
,
if
I
infer
from
hence
,
that
the
Sons
of
Men
may
as
well
expect
Teachings
and
Rebukes
from
an
Ass
,
as
from
the
Scriptures
,
one
hath
as
much
Authority
essentially
in
it self
as
the
other
;
one
hath
in
it self
as
much
Authority
to
guide
,
teach
and
instruct
the
Sons
of
Men
,
as
the
other
;
neither
can
teach
Men
,
except
God
immediately
inspire
them
.
You
see
by
this
,
how
these
divinely-inspired
Men
esteem
the
Scriptures
of
Truth
.
See
the
joint
Consent
of
two
of
their
chief
Guides
,
Fox
and
Hubberthorne
,
Truth
's
Defence
,
p.
101.
they
say
,
The
Scriptures
are
no
standing
Rule
,
and
that
it
is
dangerous
for
the
ignorant
People
to
read
them
.
Surely
if
they
had
bin
brought
up
at
St.
Omers
,
they
could
not
more
positively
have
denied
the
Scriptures
.
I
hope
the
Reader
will
remember
how
these
chief
Guides
amongst
the
Quakers
,
agree
with
the
Account
in
the
Pamphlet
,
see
pag.
29.
of
Mr.
Hicks's
Dialogue
;
One
Thomas
Holbrow
,
a
great
Zealot
among
the
Quakers
,
as
appeared
by
the
Journey
he
took
to
deliver
a
Message
to
one
James
Nobs
,
which
he
said
was
immediately
delivered
to
him
from
the
Lord
:
But
it
so
unhappily
fell
out
,
that
James
Nobs
was
forty
Miles
off
when
the
said
Holbrow
came
to
the
Meeting
;
so
that
either
the
God
that
sent
Holbrow
did
not
know
Nobs
,
or
else
at
least
was
ignorant
that
he
was
gone
from
Home
at
that
time
,
for
he
delivered
the
Message
to
a
wrong
Person
.
This
I
have
had
testified
to
me
as
a
Truth
by
several
in
those
Parts
.
And
in
p.
27.
Dial.
But
this
is
not
what
I
intend
,
for
afterwards
Tho.
Holbrow
having
some
Reasonings
with
James
Nobs
and
his
Wife
,
the
said
Nobs
urging
many
Scriptures
against
Holbrow
;
the
said
Holbrow
replied
,
What
dost
thou
tell
me
of
Scriptures
,
which
are
no
better
to
me
than
an
old
Almanack
?
It
is
like
,
when
Humphrey
Smith's
True
and
Everlasting
Rule
came
in
date
,
the
Scriptures
became
no
better
than
an
old
Almanack
.
The
brevity
of
this
short
Discourse
,
will
not
admit
me
to
draw
the
proper
Inferences
that
would
naturally
flow
from
these
Premises
.
These
are
the
Men
that
in
their
Pamphlet
profess
so
high
an
Esteem
for
Holy
Scriptures
.
See
James
Pernell's
Book
,
Christ
Exalted
,
p.
4.
Christ
is
the
Word
,
the
Scripture
is
not
;
Christ
is
the
Light
,
the
Scripture
is
not
;
he
is
the
Ruler
,
Guide
,
Teacher
and
Judg
,
the
Scripture
is
not
.
And
thus
he
goes
on
,
like
a
Cloud
carried
with
the
Wind.
It
is
like
,
from
the
Title
of
his
Book
,
he
concludes
from
these
Expressions
,
to
exalt
Christ
;
when
indeed
he
casts
the
greatest
contempt
upon
him
;
Christ
saith
,
If
any
Man
love
me
,
he
will
keep
my
Word
.
What
are
the
written
Words
of
Christ
,
but
Scripture
?
But
more
of
this
hereafter
.
Dialog.
1.
p.
24
,
25.
Christian
,
is
it
then
ingenuous
and
honest
for
you
to
deny
the
Scriptures
to
be
a
Rule
to
others
,
tho
at
the
same
time
,
but
by
misinterpreting
it
,
you
make
it
a
Rule
to
your selves
?
Are
you
not
ashamed
of
this
Deceit
and
self-condemning
Partiality
?
Quaker
,
Thou
mistakest
us
,
we
own
not
the
Scriptures
to
be
our
Rule
;
and
whereas
thou
hast
said
many
things
to
render
us
guilty
of
condemning
this
in
others
,
whilst
we
our selves
seemingly
allow
it
to
be
so
,
which
is
but
thy
own
Imagination
;
for
when
we
make
use
of
Scripture
,
it
is
only
to
quiet
and
stop
their
Clamours
that
plead
for
it
as
their
Rule
;
but
for
us
,
had
the
Scriptures
never
been
,
we
could
have
known
what
is
therein
contained
.
I
hope
the
Reader
by
this
may
perceive
the
Reason
why
the
Quakers
talk
so
much
of
Scripture
in
their
Paper
;
observe
,
We
own
not
the
Scripture
;
we
seemingly
allow
it
;
but
our
End
in
this
,
is
only
to
stop
their
Clamours
that
plead
for
it
as
their
Rule
.
You
see
here
the
condescending
Spirits
of
these
Men
,
that
they
should
allow
the
Scriptures
to
others
,
ay
,
and
make
use
of
them
to
please
others
,
and
yet
not
own
them
as
a
Rule
themselves
;
but
their
End
is
to
stop
clamorous
Tongues
.
But
here
is
their
great
disadvantage
,
the
old
Birds
will
not
be
caught
with
this
Chaff
,
their
seeming
Allowances
will
not
pass
for
Christian
Principles
;
When
the
Mask
is
taken
off
,
as
Westfield
said
concerning
Christ
,
you
are
not
able
to
bear
what
we
have
to
hold
forth
concerning
him
;
should
we
deliver
what
we
hold
concerning
Jesus
Christ
,
we
should
be
stoned
in
the
Streets
.
Westfield
a
Quaker
,
Dialog.
p.
74
,
75.
And
indeed
should
they
hold
forth
in
their
Teaching
what
hath
dropt
from
the
Pens
and
Mouths
of
their
chief
Guides
at
some
times
,
they
would
draw
but
few
in
their
right
Minds
into
their
clouded
Delusions
.
But
observe
what
is
before
said
;
As
for
us
,
had
the
Scriptures
never
been
,
we
could
have
known
what
is
therein
contained
:
This
I
have
also
heard
from
their
own
Mouths
.
Then
I
desire
the
Quakers
to
resolve
me
in
these
two
Questions
;
it
is
said
,
John
21.
25.
And
there
are
also
many
other
things
that
Jesus
did
,
the
which
if
they
should
be
written
every
one
,
I
suppose
that
even
the
World
it self
could
not
contain
the
Books
,
&c.
Again
,
it
is
said
,
John
8.
6
,
-8.
when
the
Woman
taken
in
Adultery
was
brought
to
Christ
,
that
he
stooped
down
,
and
wrote
with
his
Finger
on
the
ground
,
&c.
Now
let
the
Quakers
resolve
me
by
their
immediate
Inspirations
,
what
those
things
were
that
Jesus
did
that
are
not
written
,
and
what
were
the
Contents
of
that
Writing
on
the
Ground
?
or
else
let
their
proud
Boastings
of
immediate
Inspiration
,
be
condemned
to
perpetual
silence
,
and
Shame
cover
their
Faces
.
And
waiting
for
their
Resolve
herein
,
I
proceed
to
examine
the
Suffrage
of
great
George
Fox
,
who
thinks
he
doth
the
business
effectually
;
see
his
Difference
of
Ministers
,
pag.
1.
he
discants
upon
John
1.
1.
Thus
John
did
not
say
,
the
Declaration
was
the
Word
,
but
saith
in
his
Declaration
,
the
Word
was
God
;
and
he
that
saith
the
Letter
is
the
Word
,
is
a
Deceiver
,
and
errs
.
The
Argument
lies
here
;
because
Christ
is
called
the
Word
,
the
Scriptures
must
not
be
so
called
.
John
said
,
the
Word
was
God
;
then
the
Scriptures
cannot
be
the
Word
,
except
they
be
God
also
.
It
seems
by
the
Quakers
Logick
,
they
are
Deceivers
and
err
;
that
call
the
Scriptures
the
Word
of
God
,
the
Reason
is
,
because
Christ
is
so
called
.
Why
then
let
us
see
1
Cor.
10.
4.
Israel
in
the
Wilderness
drank
of
that
spiritual
Rock
that
followed
them
;
and
that
Rock
was
Christ
:
But
are
there
not
other
Rocks
properly
so
called
?
A
Rock
is
a
hard
congealed
heap
of
Stone
.
John
10.
1.
God
is
called
an
Husbandman
;
but
are
not
Men
that
plow
and
till
the
Ground
properly
so
called
?
Christ
is
called
a
Vine
,
a
Door
,
and
a
Shepherd
;
but
are
there
not
other
Vines
,
Doors
and
Shepherds
in
a
proper
sense
?
Sure
the
Quakers
will
grant
there
are
,
Christ
is
called
the
Light
of
the
World
,
and
yet
Mat.
5.
14.
he
tells
his
Disciples
,
they
were
the
Lights
of
the
World
.
We
own
Christ
to
be
called
the
Word
of
God
,
and
yet
the
Scripture
is
so
called
in
a
true
and
proper
sense
.
Christ
is
the
only
begotten
Son
of
God
,
Joh.
3.
16.
1
Cor.
8.
6.
Eph.
4.
5.
But
he
hath
more
words
than
one
,
Mat.
4.
4.
a
Scripture
from
Deut.
8.
3.
to
oppose
the
Devil's
,
Assault
;
Man
lives
not
by
Bread
alone
,
but
by
every
Word
that
proceedeth
out
of
the
Mouth
of
God
.
Prov.
30.
5.
Every
Word
of
God
is
pure
.
Jer.
23.
36.
the
Complaint
is
,
The
false
Prophets
had
perverted
the
Words
of
the
Living
God
.
A
great
Evil
,
and
too
common
in
this
day
.
But
would
the
Quakers
have
the
Word
always
to
intend
Christ
?
Mark
4.
19.
The
Cares
of
this
World
,
and
the
Deceitfulness
of
Riches
,
and
the
Lusts
of
other
things
entring
in
,
choke
the
Word
.
Will
the
Quakers
say
,
these
things
entring
in
,
choked
Christ
?
Surely
no.
By
all
this
the
judicious
Reader
will
see
the
Endeavours
that
have
been
used
by
the
Quakers
to
explode
the
holy
Scriptures
,
not
only
to
rob
them
of
their
Nature
,
Use
,
Power
and
Efficacy
,
but
also
of
their
very
Name
.
But
let
all
Christians
learn
to
prize
them
,
and
carefully
improve
them
,
and
be
thankful
to
Divine
Providence
,
by
which
they
have
been
preserved
through
all
Times
,
and
against
all
Tyrants
.
Psal.
19.
7
,
8.
David
sets
forth
the
worth
of
them
:
The
Law
of
the
Lord
is
perfect
,
converting
the
Soul
;
the
Testimony
of
the
Lord
is
sure
,
making
wise
the
simple
.
The
Statutes
of
the
Lord
are
right
,
rejoycing
the
Heart
:
the
Commandments
of
the
Lord
are
pure
,
enlightning
the
Eyes
.
2
Tim.
3.
15
,
16.
They
are
able
to
make
wise
to
Salvation
.
Soul
,
thou
needest
not
fear
miscarrying
,
if
thou
makest
▪
the
holy
Scriptures
the
Rule
of
thy
Faith
,
and
Guide
of
thy
Life
.
This
short
Treatise
will
not
admit
me
to
enlarge
:
I
shall
leave
this
short
Scheme
,
by
which
the
Reader
may
judg
what
an
Esteem
the
Quakers
have
for
holy
Scriptures
they
so
much
pretend
to
in
their
Pamphlet
.
|
The
Names
they
give
the
holy
Scriptures
.
|
|
Scriptures
no
standing
Rule
,
it
is
dangerous
for
the
ignorant
to
read
them
.
|
|
No
better
than
an
old
Almanack
,
neither
Rule
,
Guide
,
Light
nor
Teacher
.
|
|
A
dead
carnal
Letter
.
|
|
They
are
Precepts
and
Traditions
of
Men.
|
|
Paper
,
Iak
and
Writing
.
|
|
The
Letter
without
,
Swine
feeding
on
Husks
.
|
|
Obedience
to
Scriptures
is
the
Harlot's
Child
.
|
|
You
may
as
well
expect
God
to
teach
or
rebuke
by
any
other
Creature
as
the
Scripture
,
as
he
did
Balaam
by
his
Ass
.
|
The
Names
they
give
their
own
lying
Pamphlets
.
|
|
A
true
and
everlasting
Rule
.
|
|
The
Royal
Law
and
Covenant
of
God
.
|
|
Love
to
the
Lost
.
|
|
News
out
of
the
North
,
written
from
the
Mouth
of
God
.
|
|
The
pure
Language
of
the
Spirit
.
|
|
A
Salutation
to
the
Seed
of
God
.
|
|
The
Lip
of
Truth
.
|
|
The
Spirit
of
Truth
.
|
|
A
Trumpet
from
the
Lord
,
sounding
out
of
Zion
.
|
|
A
true
Prophecy
of
the
mighty
Day
of
the
Lord
.
|
|
The
Word
of
the
Lord
,
and
a
Word
from
the
Lord
,
p.
13.
of
the
Mighty
Day
of
the
Lord
.
|
Blusn
O
Heavens
,
and
tremble
O
Earth
,
at
the
Pride
and
Ignorance
of
these
Impostors
!
I
shall
add
but
two
or
three
Passages
more
concerning
their
Contempt
of
the
Scriptures
:
see
Tho.
Lawson
,
Vntaught
Teacher
,
p.
6
,
7
,
8.
The
Scriptures
are
not
a
Rule
whereby
Men
may
know
the
Will
of
Christ
.
And
in
Pag.
2
,
and
3.
of
the
same
Book
,
he
denies
that
the
Ministers
of
Christ
,
endowed
with
the
Spirit
of
Christ
,
ought
to
minister
or
preach
from
Scripture
.
Add
to
this
what
is
said
in
Cloud
of
Witnesses
,
a
Book
of
theirs
,
p.
1
,
3
,
4.
But
the
Priests
of
England
,
the
blind
Guides
—
they
do
teach
the
People
,
and
say
,
Hearken
to
the
Word
of
the
Lord
,
as
it
is
in
such
a
Chapter
and
Verse
.
Now
is
it
not
a
sign
that
the
Quakers
are
untaught
Teachers
indeed
:
but
let
the
Word
of
God
be
true
,
and
these
Men
Liars
.
Did
not
our
Lord
make
use
of
the
Scriptures
in
teaching
,
Mat.
21.
42.
saith
Christ
,
Did
ye
never
read
in
the
Scriptures
,
The
Stone
that
was
set
at
naught
by
you
Builders
?
and
Mat.
22.
29.
Ye
do
err
,
not
knowing
the
Scriptures
.
Surely
they
will
not
deny
Christ
to
have
the
Spirit
;
and
he
proves
the
Resurrection
of
the
Dead
by
Scripture
,
Exod.
3.
6.
Surely
Peter
had
the
Spirit
,
yet
he
proves
Christ
to
be
the
great
Prophet
,
Acts
3.
22.
from
Deut.
18.
15.
And
will
they
deny
Philip
to
be
endowed
with
the
Holy
Ghost
?
Acts
8.
35.
he
preacheth
Jesus
to
the
Eunuch
from
Isa.
53.
And
Acts
17.
2
,
11.
Paul
reasoned
and
preached
out
of
the
Scriptures
,
and
the
Bereans
searched
the
Scriptures
,
to
try
whether
Paul's
Doctrine
was
true
or
not
.
The
Reader
may
see
from
hence
,
with
what
an
open
Face
these
deluded
Impostors
will
assert
apparent
Falshoods
.
From
all
this
it
appears
,
the
Quakers
are
great
Enemies
to
,
and
Contemners
of
holy
Scriptures
,
and
that
what
they
say
in
their
Pamphlet
is
a
great
Falshood
.
II.
I
proceed
to
examine
the
other
part
of
their
first
Article
professed
in
their
Paper
.
Article
.
Our
Belief
is
,
That
in
the
Unity
of
the
Godhead
,
there
is
Father
,
Son
and
Holy
Ghost
,
being
those
three
Divine
Witnesses
that
bear
Record
in
Heaven
,
the
Father
,
the
Word
,
and
the
holy
Spirit
.
This
Profession
looks
like
good
and
Orthodox
Christianity
;
but
yet
when
it
comes
to
be
weighed
,
it
will
be
found
wanting
.
I
shall
only
examine
what
Heaven
this
is
the
Quakers
intend
:
not
in
the
glorious
Heavens
above
,
beyond
the
Clouds
and
starry
Heavens
,
no
by
no
means
;
it
's
ridiculous
to
speak
of
an
imagined
God
beyond
the
Stars
:
it
is
the
Heaven
within
thee
where
these
three
Divine
Witnesses
are
:
you
will
hear
their
severe
Rebukes
by
and
by
,
if
you
will
have
any
other
Heaven
to
be
meant
as
their
Residence
.
See
James
Parnell's
Book
,
Satan's
Design
discovered
,
p.
19
,
25.
he
affirmeth
,
They
that
confess
not
Christ
to
be
come
in
their
Flesh
,
are
the
Antichrist
;
and
also
affirmeth
,
That
by
preaching
of
Christ
in
Heaven
,
the
Devil
gets
his
Work
done
on
Earth
.
Pray
,
what
is
fairly
to
be
inferred
from
hence
?
why
the
Heaven
they
intend
is
no
where
else
,
but
within
their
Mortal
Corrupt
Bodies
;
or
else
Christ
is
not
one
of
those
three
Divine
Witnesses
they
speak
of
in
the
Paper
:
for
they
will
allow
of
no
other
Christ
,
but
what
is
in
every
Man
.
And
see
further
,
Tho.
Lawson
in
his
Book
against
William
Jeffery
,
calls
him
,
Thou
Image-maker
,
thou
Cockatrice
,
hatching
Eggs
,
Vulters
Eye
,
&c.
because
William
Jeffery
had
said
,
that
Christ
was
ascended
into
Heaven
with
that
Body
that
was
raised
from
the
Dead
.
And
they
intend
no
other
Heaven
than
what
is
within
them
,
and
thus
they
must
be
understood
in
their
Pamphlet
:
for
see
Lawson's
Book
,
p.
9
,
and
19.
they
say
that
they
have
eternal
Life
now
really
in
Possession
.
But
would
you
have
it
more
plain
,
that
the
Quakers
Heaven
is
within
them
,
take
a
Testimony
out
of
Edward
Burrough's
Works
,
Pag.
9
,
149.
a
chief
Guide
among
them
,
therefore
you
may
take
his
word
for
it
:
We
say
,
he
that
was
slain
upon
the
Cross
,
is
the
very
Christ
of
God
,
and
the
very
Christ
of
God
is
in
us
.
Tho
Lucock
being
ask'd
several
times
before
many
Witnesses
,
where
that
Heaven
was
that
Christ
did
ascend
into
,
and
now
was
in
?
he
answered
,
clapping
his
Hands
upon
his
Breast
,
Within
me
,
Within
me
.
I
shall
not
trouble
you
much
more
in
discovering
to
you
the
Quakers
Heaven
,
and
what
they
intend
by
it
.
G.
Fox
in
his
Great
Mystery
,
p.
16.
writes
thus
;
Thou
art
deceived
,
who
saith
,
Christ
is
distinct
from
the
Saints
.
Can
any
Man
eat
the
Flesh
of
Christ
,
if
his
Flesh
be
not
in
them
?
Can
you
call
him
Christ
in
Man
,
if
the
Man
be
not
there
?
George
Whitehead
,
Dip.
Plong
.
Christ
without
us
is
not
Scripture-Language
;
but
the
Anthropomorphites
,
and
Muggletonians
,
and
Socinians
,
saith
he
,
tell
us
of
a
Personal
Christ
,
and
that
the
Man
Jesus
our
Lord
hath
a
place
in
Heaven
remote
from
the
Earth
.
Let
this
serve
to
satisfy
the
impartial
Reader
,
that
the
Quakers
believe
the
Heaven
they
intend
,
to
be
within
them
:
and
they
are
but
Hereticks
that
believe
in
a
Christ
in
any
other
Heaven
remote
,
or
at
a
distance
from
them
;
for
it
is
plain
,
that
they
deny
Christ
to
be
a
distinct
Person
without
them
.
And
in
like
manner
all
the
three
Divine
Witnesses
they
speak
of
,
that
bear
Record
in
Heaven
,
are
within
them
also
;
for
the
Light
within
them
is
really
and
compleatly
Christ
,
and
Christ
is
God
:
But
this
will
further
appear
under
the
next
Head
.
But
let
all
Christians
believe
that
Jesus
Christ
is
at
the
Right-hand
of
the
Father
in
the
glorious
Heavens
above
.
However
the
Quakers
do
endeavour
with
their
false
Glosses
to
abuse
the
World
,
and
bethrone
Christ
.
We
own
and
believe
those
Scriptures
in
their
true
and
proper
sense
:
2
Cor.
13.
5.
Know
ye
not
that
Christ
is
in
you
,
except
ye
be
Reprobates
?
1
Cor.
6.
19.
Ye
are
the
Temples
of
God
;
and
Christ
in
you
the
Hope
of
Glory
,
&c.
And
it
is
also
true
,
that
the
Saints
are
said
to
be
in
Christ
,
2
Cor.
5.
17.
If
any
Man
be
in
Christ
,
he
is
,
or
let
him
be
,
a
new
Creature
.
And
he
that
dwelleth
in
Love
,
dwelleth
in
God
,
and
he
in
him
.
How
often
doth
Paul
speak
of
the
Faithful
in
Christ
Jesus
;
and
he
also
speaks
of
some
that
were
in
Christ
before
him
.
Now
the
Quakers
,
if
they
are
not
stark
blind
,
may
see
in
what
sense
Christ
is
said
to
dwell
in
the
Saints
;
that
is
,
by
the
Gifts
and
Graces
of
his
holy
Spirit
,
Ephes.
2.
22.
the
Saints
are
the
Habitation
of
God
through
the
Spirit
.
For
if
any
Man
have
not
the
Spirit
of
Christ
,
he
is
none
of
his
.
These
Gifts
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
Christ
promised
,
John
16.
7.
I
go
to
my
Father
,
and
he
will
send
the
Comforter
,
this
Spirit
of
Truth
,
to
guide
into
all
Truth
;
which
was
accordingly
poured
upon
the
Apostles
and
Disciples
,
Acts
2.
at
large
.
And
Acts
19.
2.
Paul
asks
those
Disciples
at
Ephesus
,
whether
they
had
received
the
Holy
Ghost
since
they
believed
?
that
is
,
this
Comforter
that
Christ
had
promised
,
that
when
he
went
to
the
Father
he
would
send
,
Acts
5.
32.
and
give
to
them
that
obey
him
;
albeit
the
personal
Ascension
of
Christ
is
fully
witnessed
to
.
And
to
put
this
out
of
doubt
,
read
Luke
24.
49
,
50
,
51.
And
behold
,
I
send
the
Promise
of
my
Father
upon
you
:
but
tarry
ye
in
the
City
of
Jerusalem
,
till
ye
be
endowed
with
Power
from
on
high
;
and
then
go
and
prosecute
the
Commission
I
have
committed
to
you
:
And
he
led
them
out
as
far
as
Bethany
,
and
he
lift
up
his
Hands
,
and
blessed
them
.
And
it
came
to
pass
,
that
while
he
blessed
them
,
he
was
parted
from
them
,
and
carried
up
into
Heaven
.
Compare
Act.
1.
9.
He
was
taken
up
,
and
a
Cloud
received
him
out
of
their
sight
;
And
while
they
looked
stedfastly
towards
Heaven
,
as
he
(
that
is
,
Jesus
)
went
up
,
behold
,
two
Men
stood
by
them
in
white
Apparel
,
which
were
two
Angels
,
ver.
10.
which
also
said
,
Ye
Men
of
Galilee
,
why
stand
ye
gazing
up
into
Heaven
?
This
same
Jesus
which
is
taken
up
from
you
into
Heaven
,
shall
so
come
,
in
like
manner
as
you
have
seen
him
go
into
Heaven
.
Ay
,
saith
George
Whitehead
,
in
like
manner
,
but
every
Like
is
not
the
same
:
Pitiful
shift
!
Thus
you
plainly
see
the
Certainty
of
Christ's
Ascension
,
and
that
the
Holy
Ghost's
Descension
,
Acts
2.
3
,
4.
&
ver.
38.
promised
to
the
penitent
believing
obedient
Soul
.
But
Act.
3.
20
,
21.
He
shall
send
Jesus
Christ
,
which
before
was
preached
unto
you
:
Whom
the
Heavens
must
receive
,
till
the
times
of
Restitution
of
all
things
,
which
God
hath
spoken
by
the
Mouth
of
all
his
holy
Prophets
since
the
World
began
.
Now
this
Restitution
is
not
yet
,
tho
the
Spirit
was
come
.
See
Acts
7.
55.
But
he
(
that
is
,
Stephen
)
being
full
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
(
mark
that
)
looked
stedfastly
up
into
Heaven
,
and
saw
the
Glory
of
God
,
and
Jesus
standing
on
the
Right-hand
of
God
:
ver.
56.
and
there
he
saith
,
I
see
the
Son
of
Man
standing
at
the
Right-hand
of
God
.
Observe
,
Stephen
was
full
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
or
of
the
Spirit
of
Christ
,
when
he
had
this
glorious
sight
of
Christ
in
the
Heavens
at
the
Right-hand
of
God
,
and
in
the
Glory
of
the
Father
.
Now
it
is
the
Faith
of
Christians
,
that
Christ
shall
come
in
this
glorious
Body
the
second
time
from
Heaven
,
Phil.
3.
20
,
21.
We
,
saith
Paul
,
look
for
the
Saviour
,
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
;
not
for
a
greater
Fulness
of
the
Spirit
,
as
the
Quakers
dream
;
for
what
greater
Fulness
could
Paul
expect
,
if
the
Quakers
Notion
were
true
,
if
Heaven
and
the
whole
Trinity
were
in
him
before
?
But
,
saith
Paul
,
we
look
for
the
Saviour
,
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
;
who
shall
change
our
vile
Bodies
,
and
make
them
like
his
glorious
Body
.
Yea
,
saith
Christ
,
you
shall
see
the
Son
of
Man
come
in
Power
and
great
Glory
,
and
every
Eye
shall
see
him
,
&c.
Mat.
24.
26.
It
is
more
than
probable
,
that
Christ
pointed
at
this
Generation
of
Impostors
,
the
Quakers
,
who
say
,
Behold
,
he
is
in
the
secret
Chambers
,
ay
,
within
thee
,
not
at
a
distance
from
thee
.
Believe
them
not
,
saith
Christ
,
for
my
second
coming
shall
be
visible
as
the
Lightning
,
or
the
Sun
that
riseth
in
the
East
,
and
shines
to
the
West
;
every
Eye
shall
see
me
,
&c.
Let
this
serve
to
construe
what
they
intend
in
their
Paper
,
when
they
speak
of
three
Divine
Witnesses
bearing
Record
in
Heaven
;
it
is
the
Heaven
within
they
intend
.
III.
I
proceed
to
the
third
Head
collected
out
of
their
Pamphlet
,
as
proposed
to
be
examined
;
and
that
is
,
they
profess
to
own
the
Divinity
and
Humanity
of
Christ
.
I
shall
therefore
proceed
to
examine
their
Belief
herein
;
and
still
I
know
no
better
way
,
than
to
make
use
of
their
own
Construing
Books
,
as
the
surest
way
not
to
wrong
them
:
for
by
comparing
this
professed
Faith
with
the
Writings
of
some
of
their
chief
Guides
,
by
that
you
will
see
whether
they
believe
as
they
say
,
or
whether
it
be
not
only
a
gloss
to
deceive
the
Hearts
of
the
Simple
.
And
in
examining
this
Point
of
Faith
professed
by
them
,
I
shall
begin
with
their
greatly
admired
George
Fox
,
in
his
Great
Mystery
,
&c.
p.
71.
he
says
,
Christ's
Nature
is
not
Humane
,
which
is
Earthly
,
for
that
is
the
first
Adam
.
But
this
looks
too
bare-fac'd
,
not
the
Conclusion
drawn
from
some
prepared
Premises
.
See
immediately
before
;
Where
doth
the
Scripture
speak
of
Humane
?
now
we
do
not
deny
that
Christ
,
according
to
the
Flesh
,
was
of
Abraham
,
but
deny
the
word
Human
to
be
Scripture-Phrase
.
He
would
by
this
shift
perswade
the
World
,
that
he
doth
not
deny
that
Christ's
Body
is
constituted
of
Human
Nature
,
being
of
Abraham
;
but
he
will
not
allow
the
word
Humane
.
Why
then
do
they
,
in
their
Pamphlet
,
speak
of
the
Humanity
of
Christ
?
But
one
may
discern
,
without
Spectacles
,
that
his
End
is
to
deny
Christ's
Body
of
Flesh
.
But
one
would
have
thought
that
great
George
,
who
pretends
to
translate
the
Greek
into
English
,
in
his
Book
called
,
The
Mystery
of
the
Great
Whore
,
should
now
have
found
as
much
as
Humane
in
the
Greek
,
though
not
in
the
English
,
it
being
several
times
used
in
the
Epistles
,
which
in
the
Latin
is
more
Hominum
Humanorum
,
after
the
manner
of
Humane
;
and
Christ's
Human
Nature
is
no
more
than
his
Man's
Nature
,
Smiths's
Primmer
,
p.
9.
Sword
of
the
Lord
,
p.
24.
They
that
are
false
Ministers
,
preach
Christ
without
;
your
Carnal
Christ
is
utterly
denied
by
the
Light
.
What
can
be
meant
here
,
but
the
fleshly
Body
of
Christ
,
or
his
Humanity
?
this
is
denied
by
the
Light
;
that
in
their
sense
is
the
same
to
say
,
That
the
Divinity
denies
the
Humanity
of
Christ
;
most
horrid
Confusion
!
But
would
you
have
it
in
plainer
Terms
from
their
own
Pens
,
then
see
Pennington's
Questions
,
an
eminent
Quaker
,
p.
33.
who
speaks
with
an
Infallible
Spirit
;
This
we
certainly
know
,
and
can
never
call
the
bodily
Garment
,
Christ
,
but
that
which
appeared
and
dwelt
in
the
Body
,
&c.
They
own
that
there
was
such
a
Man
as
Jesus
,
who
was
the
Son
of
Mary
,
and
that
God
was
in
him
:
But
this
is
no
more
than
what
they
say
of
themselves
;
but
the
Man
Christ
he
calls
here
,
the
bodily
Garment
,
and
saith
,
they
can
never
call
that
Christ
:
So
that
if
this
be
not
fully
to
deny
the
Humanity
of
Christ
,
I
know
not
what
is
.
But
see
what
is
asserted
in
Mr.
Hicks's
Dialogue
,
pag.
44
,
45.
When
Mr.
Hicks
hath
professed
his
Faith
in
the
Humanity
of
Christ
,
namely
,
That
he
was
the
Word
made
Flesh
,
and
God
manifest
in
the
Flesh
,
called
also
Immanuel
,
or
God
with
us
,
not
the
meer
Godhead
of
the
Son
,
nor
the
meer
Manhood
,
but
God
and
Man
united
in
one
Person
,
that
is
the
Christ
.
To
which
one
Stephen
Crisp
,
a
leading
Quaker
,
answered
,
Then
I
know
the
Beginning
and
Date
of
thy
Christ
.
Mr.
Hicks
asked
him
,
Whether
he
considered
what
he
said
?
He
answered
,
I
say
again
,
I
know
the
Beginning
and
Date
of
thy
Christ
.
I
query
whether
the
plain
meaning
be
not
,
I
know
the
Beginning
and
Date
,
i.
e.
The
End
of
thy
Christ
?
And
whether
this
be
not
a
total
denying
of
the
Divinity
,
as
well
as
the
Humanity
of
Christ
?
Now
what
is
this
,
but
another
Christ
and
Gospel
than
that
which
Paul
preach'd
Gal.
1.
8
,
9.
which
he
pronounceth
accursed
?
Another
Passage
,
pag.
45.
of
Dialogue
,
&c.
Richard
Stubs
,
a
Quaker
,
asking
Elizabeth
Weatherby
,
How
she
expected
to
be
saved
?
She
answered
,
By
that
Jesus
who
was
born
of
the
Virgin
,
and
died
at
Jerusalem
.
Stubs
told
her
,
That
was
the
false
Christ
,
and
an
Antichrist
.
Horrid
Blasphemy
against
the
Son
of
God!
But
see
what
George
Fox
saith
in
his
Mystery
,
pag.
206.
If
there
be
any
other
Christ
but
he
that
was
crucified
within
,
he
is
a
false
Christ
,
or
the
false
Christ
;
and
he
that
hath
not
this
Christ
that
was
crucified
within
,
is
a
Reprobate
.
And
pag.
207.
he
says
,
God's
Christ
is
not
distinct
from
the
Saints
.
I
think
,
here
is
a
bare-faced
piece
of
Blasphemy
,
and
down-right
denying
the
Lord
Christ
.
What
,
was
that
the
false
Christ
that
died
at
Jerusalem
,
without
the
Gates
of
Jerusalem
?
Ay
,
saith
George
Fox
,
if
there
be
any
other
Christ
than
he
that
was
crucified
within
,
he
is
the
false
Christ
.
By
being
crucified
within
,
is
meant
within
that
Man
the
Son
of
Mary
;
not
the
Man
that
was
crucified
was
Christ
,
he
was
but
the
outward
Garment
;
that
is
,
he
that
was
born
of
the
Virgin
,
that
lived
in
the
World
,
in
Fastings
,
Weakness
and
Temptations
,
Hunger
,
Thirst
and
Weariness
;
that
was
in
an
Agony
,
and
sweat
great
Drops
or
Clods
of
Blood
;
that
was
crowned
with
Thorns
,
and
crucified
upon
the
Cross
without
the
Gates
of
Jerusalem
;
that
was
in
all
Points
tempted
like
as
we
are
,
yet
without
Sin
.
This
they
will
not
allow
to
be
the
true
Christ
,
or
God's
Christ
.
Is
not
this
plain
denying
of
the
Lord
that
bought
them
?
Surely
their
gross
Blindness
,
and
thick
Darkness
,
is
to
be
lamented
,
and
that
especially
since
they
labour
to
keep
a
Christian
Mask
over
their
Antichristian
Face
.
One
Wolrich
a
Quaker
,
in
his
Declaration
to
the
Baptists
,
pag.
13.
says
,
That
Christ
was
never
seen
with
any
carnal
Eyes
,
nor
his
Voice
heard
with
any
carnal
Ears
.
No
,
were
not
the
Eyes
of
the
Multitude
fastned
upon
him
?
Did
not
the
Jews
that
crucified
him
,
see
him
?
Yes
,
they
cannot
be
ignorant
hereof
.
But
the
meaning
is
,
that
was
not
the
Christ
that
the
Jews
saw
and
crucified
,
that
was
but
the
outward
Garment
,
the
true
Christ
was
crucified
within
that
Vail
.
Thus
the
Humanity
of
Christ
is
fully
denied
,
that
Man
was
no
more
Christ
,
on
their
account
,
than
George
Fox
.
And
,
Saul's
Errand
to
Damascus
,
pag.
9.
they
say
,
That
Christ
hath
no
Body
but
his
Church
.
But
I
shall
refer
you
to
Mr.
Grantham's
Book
,
Christianismus
Primitivus
,
Book
4.
Treatise
11.
where
you
have
an
Account
of
a
Conference
betwixt
Thomas
Granthan
and
John
Whitehead
▪
a
Quaker
,
about
Christ
having
a
Body
of
Flesh
and
Bones
;
which
John
Whitehead
denied
him
to
have
,
and
deridingly
asked
Tho.
Grantham
,
What
a
one
that
Body
was
,
and
how
big
?
To
which
Mr.
Grantham
replied
,
Such
a
one
as
mine
,
or
any
other
Man's
,
Sin
and
Corruption
only
excepted
.
Now
John
Whitehead
falls
to
using
that
Craft
,
without
which
Quakerism
would
soon
be
extinguished
.
Well
,
Thomas
,
saith
he
,
I
will
satisfy
thee
,
if
I
can
:
I
say
,
Christ's
Flesh
was
such
as
Tho.
Grantham
'
s
Flesh
,
all
Corruption
excepted
.
One
would
have
thought
J.
W.
had
fairly
owned
the
Humanity
of
Christ
here
:
But
Tho.
Grantham
being
suspicious
,
asks
him
one
honest
Question
more
,
Dost
thou
not
mean
,
by
all
Corruption
excepted
,
my
whole
Body
,
and
the
Flesh
of
all
Men
?
But
now
,
instead
of
answering
this
Question
.
J.
W.
cursed
T.
G.
in
these
words
,
Thou
whited
Wall
,
God
shall
smite
thee
;
the
Plagues
,
and
Curses
,
and
Vengeance
of
God
is
thy
Portion
.
To
which
Thomas
Grantham
replied
,
I
am
taught
of
God
,
not
to
render
Railing
for
Railing
,
&c.
So
that
J.
W.
if
he
could
,
would
have
had
his
counterfeit
Coin
have
passed
muster
,
in
his
meaning
,
which
appeared
to
be
this
,
Christ
had
a
Body
like
another
Man
,
all
the
Body
and
Flesh
of
another
Man
excepted
;
then
Christ
must
have
no
Human
Body
at
all
;
so
that
this
was
politick
Priest-craft
indeed
.
From
all
that
hath
been
said
,
what
can
be
more
clear
,
than
that
these
People
really
deny
the
Humanity
of
Christ
,
the
Lord
that
bought
them
?
I
shall
conclude
this
Head
,
with
an
Instance
or
two
more
:
Several
Queries
being
put
to
Edward
Burroughs
,
(
a
Man
famous
amongst
the
Quakers
)
whose
Works
are
a
large
Folio
;
the
famous
Epithets
,
and
honourable
commendatory
Epistles
that
are
prefix'd
before
his
Works
,
by
Whitehead
,
Fox
,
and
others
,
would
even
daunt
a
modest
Pen
to
transcribe
.
The
Queries
are
said
to
be
propounded
to
Burroughs
,
by
one
Philip
Bennet
;
they
are
no
less
than
twenty
,
which
you
have
repeated
,
with
their
Answers
,
in
the
Book
aforesaid
,
from
pag.
29
,
to
34.
at
large
,
which
will
be
too
tedious
to
transcribe
:
I
shall
give
you
two
or
three
,
with
their
Answers
,
and
by
that
you
may
guess
at
the
rest
.
Query
3.
Whether
did
the
Man
Christ
really
and
indeed
suffer
in
his
own
Person
,
for
that
End
,
and
after
the
same
manner
as
he
did
upon
the
Cross
at
Jerusalem
,
before
that
time
,
or
since
that
time
?
Quaker's
Answer
;
Here
,
thou
full
of
all
subtilty
,
hast
manifested
thy
Poison
and
Enmity
;
but
thou
art
seen
with
the
Light
,
and
with
it
condemned
for
ever
:
Christ
Jesus
,
in
his
own
Person
,
doth
,
and
ever
did
,
suffer
by
thee
,
and
such
as
thou
art
:
After
the
same
manner
,
thou
blind
Pharisee
and
Blasphemer
,
wouldst
thou
have
Christ
have
more
Ends
in
Suffering
than
one
.
Burroughs
,
Ibid.
p.
30.
You
see
here
what
a
railing
Answer
this
renowned
Father
gives
:
Let
the
Reader
judg
whether
the
Answer
hath
not
more
like
Poison
and
Blasphemy
in
it
,
than
the
Question
.
But
the
Design
of
the
Question
is
not
to
be
born
,
and
a
direct
Answer
must
not
be
given
,
for
they
believe
not
the
Sufferings
in
that
outward
Garment
,
as
they
call
it
,
upon
the
Cross
,
to
be
the
one
Offering
,
or
alone
Sacrifice
,
nor
any
more
available
,
as
is
easily
made
appear
,
than
the
Sufferings
in
his
Saints
;
yet
,
Heb.
10.
10
,
14.
the
Body
of
Jesus
is
said
to
be
offered
once
for
all
;
and
it
is
called
the
Offering
of
one
Sacrifice
.
But
this
they
cannot
endure
to
hear
of
,
but
conclude
Christ
to
be
crucified
in
them
,
as
well
as
in
that
Man
at
Jerusalem
;
as
appears
in
his
Answer
to
the
2d
Query
,
that
being
too
large
to
transcribe
,
take
the
Conclusion
of
it
thus
;
Thou
Antichrist
,
which
lookest
at
Christ's
Death
at
Jerusalem
alone
;
so
let
all
they
that
are
thy
Congregation
,
see
what
they
hold
up
that
follow
thee
.
Edw.
Burroughs
,
p.
30.
Query
4.
Was
not
that
Death
which
the
Man
Christ
suffered
once
,
and
but
once
upon
the
Cross
at
Jerusalem
,
so
satisfactory
for
all
the
Sins
of
the
Elect
,
as
that
the
Justice
of
God
did
not
,
doth
not
require
any
suffering
or
working
upon
that
account
,
either
from
Sinners
or
Saints
?
Quaker
Here
thou
Jesuit
art
pleading
for
a
Christ
afar
off
thee
;
that
Christ
that
died
at
Jerusalem
did
not
satisfy
for
thee
,
who
art
an
Enemy
to
him
,
and
art
under
the
Woe
,
&c.
And
after
spending
many
Lines
in
uttering
the
like
invective
Stuff
,
he
concludes
,
Let
all
People
see
whether
thou
be
not
a
blind
ignorant
Sot
.
Ibid.
p.
30
,
31.
It
seems
it
is
Jesuitical
to
plead
for
him
to
be
the
Christ
that
died
at
Jerusalem
,
on
the
Quaker's
account
;
it
is
not
to
be
suffered
by
Edw.
Burroughs
,
for
the
Querist
to
plead
for
a
Christ
afar
off
.
It
is
too
large
to
repeat
the
blasphemous
self-contradictions
Railings
included
in
this
Answer
.
Query
5.
Whether
you
be
reconciled
to
God
by
any
other
Obedience
,
than
that
very
Obedience
which
Christ
performed
in
his
own
Person
?
or
by
any
Sufferings
or
Death
,
than
that
which
Christ
suffered
upon
the
Cross
at
Jerusalem
?
Quaker
.
Silence
Flesh
;
wouldst
thou
,
who
art
an
Enemy
to
God
,
know
how
we
are
reconciled
to
God
,
and
by
what
Obedience
?
Own
the
Light
in
thy
Conscience
,
and
be
obedient
to
that
,
then
thou
shalt
know
by
what
Obedience
we
are
reconciled
to
God
;
for
yet
thou
knowest
no
Obedience
,
but
art
an
Enemy
to
the
Cross
of
Christ
,
and
in
the
Mystery
of
Iniquity
,
and
in
the
dark
Power
of
the
Man
of
Sin
:
What
hast
thou
to
do
to
talk
of
Obedience
?
thou
art
blind
,
and
in
the
broad
way
that
leads
to
Death
▪
p.
32.
It
is
not
worth
while
to
give
you
a
Repetition
of
his
Bedlam-like
Answers
to
these
twenty
serious
Questions
;
take
a
Breviat
of
his
profound
,
sober
and
convincing
Answers
(
you
have
them
at
large
in
Burroughs
▪
s
Works
,
from
pag.
29
,
to
34.
)
as
followeth
.
Thou
Reprobate
,
and
Child
of
Darkness
,
the
Light
condemns
thee
and
thy
Generation
eternally
:
We
witness
thee
to
be
in
the
Sorcery
and
Witchcraft
:
thou
art
Darkness
it self
,
thou
Dragon
;
thy
Queries
are
conjured
in
the
Black
Art
,
out
of
the
Bottomless
Pit
,
thou
Diviner
;
we
witness
thee
to
be
the
Beast
which
wars
with
the
Lamb
;
thou
Antichrist
,
which
lookest
at
Christ's
Death
at
Jerusalem
alone
;
thou
art
seen
with
the
Light
,
and
with
it
condemned
,
thou
blind
Pharisee
and
Blasphemer
:
Thou
Jesuit
,
art
thou
pleading
for
a
Christ
afar
off
thee
?
Thou
art
under
the
Wo
,
and
from
that
Wo
thou
shalt
never
hee
.
Let
all
People
see
whether
thou
be
not
a
blind
ignorant
Sot
;
here
thou
repliest
thy
sottish
Queries
concerning
the
Body
of
Jesus
,
as
the
Devil
did
about
the
Body
of
Moses
;
thou
disobedient
One
,
upon
whom
God
will
render
Vengeance
in
flaming
Fire
;
thou
art
accursed
,
thou
Beast
,
to
whom
the
Plagues
of
God
are
due
,
upon
whom
the
Wrath
of
God
must
be
accomplished
;
thou
art
shut
out
from
God
for
ever
,
thou
blind
Hypocrite
;
and
much
more
to
the
same
purpose
.
But
let
this
suffice
to
shew
you
the
immediate
Inspirations
of
these
perfect
Men
:
And
after
he
hath
uttered
these
railing
,
cursing
and
condemning
Answers
,
he
concludes
thus
;
Blessed
be
the
Lord
that
hath
discovered
thee
!
so
thy
Queries
are
answered
in
the
Eternal
Life
and
Light
of
God
,
and
Judgment
is
given
upon
thee
and
them
,
which
thou
shalt
eternally
witness
.
Thy
Queries
are
answered
lovingly
,
and
plainly
,
and
in
the
Scripture-Language
and
Terms
;
and
with
the
Eternal
Light
and
Life
of
God
,
set
thee
in
thy
own
Place
,
which
thou
shalt
eternally
witness
.
Ibid.
p.
34.
This
famous
Piece
had
its
birth
into
the
World
in
the
Year
1672.
But
was
there
ever
such
a
Bundle
of
Blasphemy
,
Cursings
and
Damnings
,
(
uttered
upon
no
Provocation
)
from
the
vilest
Heathen
,
or
from
Muggleton
himself
?
and
that
which
is
worst
of
all
,
he
entitles
this
to
the
Eternal
Life
and
Light
of
God
.
Could
the
Devil
himself
have
been
more
vile
and
prodigiously
arrogant
,
to
take
upon
him
to
determine
a
Man's
endless
Condition
?
Let
all
that
are
,
or
would
be
Christians
,
say
with
Jacob
,
Gen.
49.
6.
O
my
Soul
,
come
not
thou
into
their
Secrets
;
unto
their
Assembly
,
my
Honour
,
be
not
thou
united
.
Let
this
serve
for
confutation
of
their
pretending
to
own
the
Humanity
of
Christ
;
and
let
all
Christians
believe
in
that
Jesus
that
was
crucified
without
the
Gates
of
Jerusalem
,
that
died
,
was
buried
,
and
rose
again
.
Luke
24.
39.
saith
Christ
,
It
is
I
my self
;
Behold
my
Hands
and
my
Feet
;
handle
and
see
,
for
a
Spirit
hath
not
Flesh
and
Bones
,
as
you
see
me
have
.
This
I
say
is
the
Christ
of
God
,
as
Peter
testifies
,
Acts
2.
36.
Therefore
let
all
the
House
of
Israel
know
assuredly
,
that
God
hath
made
the
same
Jesus
whom
ye
crucified
,
both
Lord
and
Christ
.
I
pass
this
,
and
leave
what
hath
been
said
,
and
the
Opinion
of
the
Quakers
about
the
Humanity
of
Christ
,
to
impartial
Consideration
.
But
lest
any
should
suppose
the
Quakers
do
not
own
such
blasphemous
,
condemning
and
railing
Answers
,
as
Edw.
Burroughs
gave
to
the
twenty
Questions
before
hinted
at
,
some
of
which
being
about
the
Person
or
Humanity
of
Christ
,
and
Place
of
his
Residence
;
you
have
Mr.
Penn
warranting
this
Answer
from
God
,
and
by
the
sense
of
the
Eternal
Spirit
;
for
he
declares
,
It
was
the
Portion
,
and
only
fit
Answer
to
be
given
to
those
trapanning
Questions
:
and
,
saith
he
,
had
Edw.
Burroughs
gone
into
a
familiar
opening
unto
his
vulterous
unclean
serpertine
Eye
,
all
the
deep
Things
of
the
Spirit
of
God
,
and
Mysteries
of
Holy
Kingdom
,
who
was
in
that
nature
that
crucified
the
Lord
of
them
,
Edw.
Burroughs
had
brought
the
Wrath
of
the
Eternal
God
upon
himself
,
instead
of
the
Priest
.
Will
.
Penn's
Reas.
against
Railing
,
p.
164.
IV.
They
profess
in
their
Pamphlet
,
That
they
believe
and
expect
Salvation
and
Justification
by
the
Righteousness
and
Merits
of
Christ
,
and
not
by
their
own
Righteousness
or
Works
;
and
that
they
believe
Remission
of
Sins
,
and
Redemption
through
the
Death
,
Sufferings
and
Bloodshed
of
Christ
.
This
they
make
a
plenary
profession
of
,
in
their
Answer
to
their
third
and
fourth
Questions
propounded
.
I
must
now
examine
whether
they
believe
what
they
have
here
so
plausibly
professed
:
And
there
are
three
things
to
be
enquired
into
,
which
together
with
the
circumstances
and
Concomitants
,
will
unfold
their
meaning
in
what
they
have
here
professed
.
1.
What
do
the
Quakers
intend
by
the
Death
and
Blood
of
Christ
?
They
do
not
believe
in
that
Blood
that
was
shed
upon
the
Cross
;
for
Robert
Ruckhill
,
a
Quaker
,
saith
,
in
his
Paper
sent
to
Tho.
Grantham
,
That
the
Blood
of
Christ
,
or
Blood
of
Sprinkling
,
never
mortal
Eye
beheld
.
And
in
pag.
11.
of
the
same
Paper
,
he
condemns
all
Professors
that
know
no
other
Blood
of
Sprinkling
than
that
which
the
Jews
saw
.
So
that
the
Blood
that
our
dear
Lord
shed
upon
the
Cross
,
they
do
not
intend
;
for
,
John
19.
34.
the
Souldier
pierced
his
Side
,
and
Water
and
Blood
came
out
of
his
Wounds
,
in
the
piercing
of
his
Hands
and
Feet
;
this
the
Souldiers
and
his
Crucifiers
saw
.
But
this
is
not
the
Blood
intended
;
see
Tho.
Lawson's
Book
,
pag.
18.
I
suppose
they
will
not
deny
him
to
be
a
thorow-paced
Quaker
;
he
saith
,
The
offering
of
Christ's
Body
to
be
broken
,
and
his
Blood
to
be
shed
,
avails
not
,
so
as
through
Faith
therein
to
set
free
from
Sin
;
but
Blood
in
a
Mystery
,
and
a
Body
in
a
Mystery
,
which
we
know
not
what
it
is
,
saith
Lawson
.
But
(
saith
Pennington's
Questions
,
pag.
33.
)
this
we
certainly
know
,
and
can
never
call
the
bodily
Garment
,
Christ
;
That
is
,
in
plain
English
,
that
Body
of
Flesh
that
they
can
never
call
Christ
.
Pennington
in
another
Page
of
the
same
Book
,
asks
,
Can
outward
Blood
cleanse
the
Conscience
?
we
witness
the
same
Christ
that
ever
was
,
now
manifest
in
the
Flesh
.
This
Isaac
Pennington
was
an
approved
Quaker
.
Now
if
this
be
not
the
Mystery
of
Iniquity
,
I
know
not
what
may
be
called
so
;
and
it
this
be
not
to
bring
in
those
damnable
Heresies
,
denying
the
Lord
that
bought
them
,
2
Pet.
2.
1.
prophesied
of
by
Peter
,
what
is
?
for
the
Blood
shed
upon
the
Cross
,
is
not
available
,
say
they
.
Now
why
should
these
Impostors
talk
of
the
Blood
of
Christ
,
and
labour
to
perswade
the
World
that
they
expect
Justification
,
Redemption
and
Salvation
,
and
the
blessed
Effects
of
his
Suffering
and
Dying
,
even
Salvation
?
See
Pennington's
Questions
,
pag.
25.
Can
outward
Blood
cleanse
the
Conscience
?
can
outward
Water
wash
the
Soul
clean
?
What
plainer
denial
can
there
be
of
the
Efficacy
of
the
Blood
of
Christ
shed
on
the
Cross
?
E.
Burrough's
Trumpet
,
&c.
p.
17.
All
the
Presbyterians
and
Independants
,
with
their
feeding
upon
the
Report
of
a
thing
done
many
hundred
Years
ago
.
Thus
they
deridingly
speak
of
such
as
believe
in
the
Death
and
Sufferings
of
Christ
upon
the
Cross
.
I
shall
conclude
this
Confutation
of
their
pretended
Profession
of
Faith
in
the
Blood
of
Christ
.
Now
if
the
Quakers
will
assign
some
other
Blood
of
Christ
,
besides
the
Blood
of
the
Man
Christ
Jesus
crucified
on
the
Cross
,
that
is
of
this
redeeming
Nature
and
Efficacy
,
then
I
shall
be
inclined
to
turn
Quaker
,
and
not
before
.
But
let
Christians
believe
in
Christ's
Death
and
Blood-shed
upon
the
Cross
,
for
Justification
,
Sanctification
and
Redemption
,
and
let
the
Word
of
God
be
true
,
and
these
Men
Liars
,
Rom.
3.
25.
Rev.
1.
5.
It
was
this
Christ
Jesus
that
was
crucified
upon
the
Cross
,
that
loved
us
,
and
washed
us
from
our
Sins
in
his
own
Blood
.
Heb.
9.
14.
Col.
1.
14.
We
have
Redemption
through
his
Blood
.
Heb.
13.
12.
Wherefore
Jesus
also
,
that
he
may
sanctify
the
People
with
his
own
Blood
,
suffered
without
the
Gate
,
&c.
See
Rom.
5.
9
,
10.
Col.
1.
20.
Let
us
believe
that
Christ's
Blood
shed
upon
the
Cross
,
was
to
reconcile
us
to
God
:
Let
us
for
ever
admire
God
for
this
unspeakable
Gift
of
his
Son
to
die
for
us
,
that
he
by
the
Grace
of
God
should
taste
Death
for
every
Man
,
Heb.
2.
9.
Again
;
Let
us
believe
,
love
and
obey
so
dear
a
Lord
,
that
so
freely
gave
his
Body
to
be
broken
,
pierced
and
mangled
in
that
shameful
manner
,
to
redeem
,
sanctify
and
justify
such
that
lay
hold
upon
him
:
Let
the
Love
of
Christ
constrain
us
to
be
followers
of
God
as
dear
Children
,
and
walk
in
Love
as
Christ
hath
loved
us
.
2.
Under
this
fourth
Head
they
pretend
to
believe
and
expect
Justification
and
Remission
of
Sins
by
the
Righteousness
and
Merits
of
Christ
,
and
Redemption
by
him
.
I
shall
now
examine
,
whether
they
do
believe
and
expect
Justification
,
and
Remission
of
Sins
by
the
Righteousness
and
Merits
of
Christ
?
Now
if
you
will
believe
their
Writings
,
you
will
see
this
their
Profession
to
be
but
a
painted
and
deceitful
Flourish
:
for
Justification
and
Remission
of
Sins
by
the
Righteousness
of
another
,
is
not
by
them
believed
.
See
Edw
Burrough's
Works
in
Answer
to
the
14th
Query
,
p.
33.
God
doth
not
accept
any
where
there
is
any
failing
,
or
who
do
not
fulfil
the
Law
,
and
answer
every
Demand
of
Justice
.
This
,
were
there
no
other
Instance
,
confutes
their
plausible
pretence
to
Justification
and
Remission
by
the
Righteousness
and
Merits
of
Christ
.
But
see
Will
.
Pen's
Sandy
Foundat
.
p.
25
,
&c.
Justification
is
not
from
the
Imputation
of
another's
Righteousness
,
but
from
the
actual
performing
and
keeping
God's
righteous
Statutes
.
How
is
there
Remission
and
Justification
by
the
Merits
of
Christ
,
according
to
their
Profession
in
their
Pamphlet
,
when
it
must
be
by
the
perfect
and
exact
Performance
of
the
Law
of
God
in
the
Creature
?
Lawson's
Book
,
p.
18.
affirms
,
That
the
offering
of
Christ's
Body
to
be
broken
,
and
his
Blood
to
be
shed
,
avails
not
,
so
as
through
Faith
therein
to
set
free
from
Sin
.
What
is
this
but
a
plain
denying
Remission
of
Sins
by
the
Blood
of
Christ
?
And
seeing
we
have
Instances
enow
,
or
too
many
,
why
should
we
spare
them
?
Will
.
Pen
speaks
out
:
See
Apolog.
p.
148.
Justification
by
the
Righteousness
of
another
,
or
which
Christ
fulfilled
for
us
in
his
own
Person
wholly
without
us
,
we
boldly
affirm
to
be
a
Doctrine
of
Devils
,
and
an
Arm
of
the
Sea
of
Corruption
,
which
doth
now
deluge
the
World
.
See
also
Mr.
Pen's
Sandy
Foundation
,
p.
25
,
—
30.
It
is
a
great
Abomination
to
say
,
God
should
condemn
and
punish
his
Innocent
Son
,
that
he
having
satisfied
for
our
Sins
,
we
may
be
justified
by
the
Imputation
of
his
perfect
Righteousness
.
O
why
should
this
horrible
thing
be
contended
for
by
Christians
!
O
,
and
why
should
the
Quakers
be
such
grand
Deluders
,
as
so
plainly
pretend
to
believe
it
,
and
say
he
died
for
your
Sins
,
and
rose
again
for
your
Justification
!
when
,
ibid.
p.
16.
Mr.
Pen
saith
,
That
the
Consequences
of
such
a
Doctrine
is
both
irreligious
and
irrational
.
And
why
should
they
believe
Justification
by
Christ's
Righteousness
,
since
Tho.
Lucock
affimed
,
That
he
was
as
perfect
without
Sin
as
God
is
;
and
blames
others
because
they
say
with
the
Apostle
,
In
many
things
we
offend
all
?
and
this
Doctrine
of
Perfection
,
that
is
,
a
Sinless
living
,
is
the
known
Doctrine
of
the
Quakers
.
But
let
not
Christians
say
they
are
without
Sin
,
lest
they
deceive
themselves
,
as
the
Quakers
do
,
1
John
1.
8.
And
let
us
believe
that
the
Lord
laid
upon
Christ
our
Redeemer
the
Iniquities
of
us
all
,
Isa.
53.
6.
And
as
by
one
Man's
Disobedience
many
were
made
Sinners
;
so
by
the
Obedience
of
one
,
shall
many
be
made
righteous
,
Rom.
5.
18.
3.
They
profess
to
believe
Redemption
and
Salvation
by
Christ
.
Let
us
examine
what
they
intend
by
Redemption
:
First
,
Not
Redemption
of
their
Bodies
from
the
Graves
of
the
Earth
,
for
this
is
positively
denied
by
them
;
tho
all
Christians
own
it
as
a
great
Article
of
the
Christian
Faith
.
Secondly
,
Then
what
is
to
be
redeemed
and
saved
,
not
the
Soul
;
for
George
Fox
saith
that
is
part
of
God
,
without
Beginning
or
End
;
surely
then
it
needs
no
Redemption
:
and
God
did
not
send
his
Son
to
redeem
himself
.
Take
the
natural
sense
of
what
is
exprest
,
Great
Mystery
,
p.
29
,
and
p.
90.
See
further
what
George
Keith
saith
,
Christ
came
to
save
that
which
was
lost
,
and
that
which
was
lost
is
still
in
Man's
Heart
,
and
there
it
must
be
sought
,
for
it
remains
still
in
the
House
;
that
is
,
Man's
Heart
;
this
is
the
thing
to
be
sought
for
;
this
Christ
came
to
seek
and
to
save
:
and
all
his
Ministers
preached
People
to
this
,
the
Lost
in
Man
,
that
it
may
be
found
;
a
lost
God
,
a
lost
Christ
,
this
was
the
sum
and
substance
of
their
Doctrine
.
G.
Keith
,
Immediat
.
Inspirat
.
p
75
,
76.
May
we
not
think
G.
K.
to
be
inspired
by
the
Prince
of
Darkness
?
or
that
he
had
lost
the
very
Light
of
Nature
,
to
talk
of
a
lost
God
,
and
a
lost
Christ
to
be
sought
and
saved
?
O
were
ever
God
and
Christ
in
a
lost
Condition
!
But
poor
Man
was
,
and
we
believe
he
came
to
seek
and
save
Sinners
,
who
had
lost
the
Image
and
Favour
of
God
.
You
may
see
more
to
this
purpose
,
Fox's
Great
Mystery
,
p.
100.
at
large
.
Neither
do
they
believe
any
other
Salvation
than
what
they
are
in
the
Enjoyment
of
already
:
see
Lawson's
Book
,
p.
9
,
—
19.
see
two
Passages
in
Nailor's
Book
,
Love
to
the
Lost
,
p.
47
,
48
,
30.
There
is
a
Seed
to
which
the
Promise
of
Redemption
is
,
which
Seed
is
that
which
only
wants
Redemption
,
p.
30.
he
saith
,
Christ
is
the
Election
and
Elect
Seed
.
Fox's
Great
Mystery
,
p.
224.
tells
us
,
The
Seed
to
which
the
Promise
is
,
is
that
which
hath
been
laden
as
a
Cart
with
Sheaves
by
Sinners
,
which
Seed
is
the
hope
Christ
.
The
natural
Consequence
of
this
Doctrine
is
,
that
Christ
came
to
redeem
Christ
,
a
lost
God
,
and
a
lost
Christ
,
as
before
said
.
Might
not
the
Heavens
blush
,
and
the
Earth
tremble
at
such
blasphemous
Absurdities
!
But
I
shall
not
in
this
short
Discourse
trace
them
in
their
gross
Contradictions
of
Truth
,
and
each
other
,
about
the
Light
within
,
the
Seed
,
Christ
,
and
the
Word
.
But
let
this
suffice
to
confute
and
unmask
their
pretended
Belief
aforesaid
.
V.
They
profess
to
own
and
believe
the
Divine
Offices
of
Christ
in
his
Church
,
that
he
is
both
King
,
Priest
and
Prophet
to
,
and
over
his
Church
and
People
.
I
shall
proceed
to
examine
the
Truth
of
this
Profession
,
which
if
it
were
true
,
were
very
comprehensive
of
a
great
part
of
the
Christian
Religion
.
But
what
hath
been
made
appear
already
,
shews
us
,
that
by
no
means
their
word
must
be
taken
.
First
;
How
do
they
believe
the
Kingly
Office
of
Christ
,
are
they
not
mistaken
?
Let
us
examine
some
Appellations
that
they
have
taken
from
Christ
and
given
to
Geo.
Fox
senior
.
See
a
Book
entituled
,
Tyranny
and
Hypocrisy
detected
,
p.
18
,
19.
Sol.
Eckles
celebrates
Geo.
Fox
thus
,
Blessed
be
the
Man
that
came
out
of
the
North
;
blessed
be
the
Womb
that
bear
him
,
and
the
Breasts
that
gave
him
Suck
:
and
ibid.
p.
19.
a
Letter
written
by
Josias
Coal
,
a
Quaker
,
from
Barbadoes
to
G.
Fox
,
21
day
,
12th
Month
,
1658.
Dear
George
Fox
,
who
art
the
Father
of
many
Nations
,
whose
Life
hath
reached
through
us
thy
Children
,
even
to
the
Isles
afar
off
,
to
the
begetting
of
many
again
to
a
lively
hope
;
for
which
Generations
to
come
shall
call
thee
Blessed
;
whose
Being
and
Habitation
is
in
the
Power
of
the
Highest
,
in
which
thou
rulest
and
governest
in
Righteousness
,
and
thy
Kingdom
is
established
in
Peace
,
and
the
Increase
thereof
is
without
end
.
Now
what
is
more
apparent
than
that
by
these
Appellations
,
the
Scepter
is
wrested
out
of
Christ's
Hands
,
and
given
to
G.
Fox
?
Now
this
Letter
was
not
judged
by
the
infallible
Spirit
of
the
inspired
Elders
to
be
a
transported
Flash
of
a
misguided
Zeal
:
For
G.
Fox
and
his
Peers
ordered
it
to
be
recorded
amongst
things
worthy
to
be
register'd
,
tho
the
Contents
of
it
would
make
a
modest
Heathen
blush
and
tremble
.
Take
the
Contents
particularly
.
1.
He
doth
expresly
ascribe
to
him
a
Kingdom
;
Thy
Kingdom
,
&c.
and
thou
rulest
and
governest
.
Now
he
that
rules
and
governs
in
his
own
Kingdom
,
must
of
necessity
be
an
actual
King
.
2.
He
describes
to
us
the
Subjects
of
this
Kingdom
,
who
,
next
to
himself
,
are
Josiah
Coal
,
and
the
Elders
or
Peers
,
whom
he
calls
,
us
thy
Children
;
and
remotely
,
those
to
whom
the
Life
of
G.
Fox
hath
reached
through
the
Elders
,
to
the
begetting
them
again
to
a
lively
hope
,
and
they
are
many
,
therefore
he
calls
him
the
Father
of
many
Nations
.
3.
He
tells
us
what
kind
of
Power
and
Authority
it
is
in
which
this
King
rules
and
governs
,
and
that
is
,
in
the
Power
of
the
Highest
,
a
Spiritual
and
Divine
Power
,
not
like
that
of
the
Kingdoms
of
Men.
4.
We
have
here
the
Stability
of
this
Kingdom
;
'
Thy
Kingdom
is
established
in
Peace
.
5.
The
Extent
of
this
Kingdom
;
The
Encrease
thereof
is
without
End
,
it
is
a
boundless
Kingdom
.
6.
The
Excellency
of
this
King
is
such
,
and
his
Happiness
so
great
,
that
,
Not
only
the
present
Age
,
but
Generations
to
come
shall
call
him
Blessed
.
So
that
here
you
see
G.
F.
fully
invested
and
throned
in
Christ's
Kingly
Office
;
and
why
should
the
Quakers
be
angry
,
as
they
have
been
,
for
calling
G.
Fox
the
King
of
the
Quakers
,
since
he
is
as
really
so
on
their
account
,
as
Christ
is
the
King
of
Christians
.
I
suppose
all
Christians
conclude
,
Isa.
9.
6
,
7.
where
several
of
these
Terms
are
included
,
to
be
spoken
of
Christ
,
as
the
Prince
of
Peace
;
Of
the
increase
of
his
Government
and
Peace
,
there
shall
be
no
End
,
&c.
Luk.
1.
32
,
33.
and
he
shall
reign
over
the
House
of
Jacob
for
ever
,
and
of
his
Kingdom
there
shall
be
no
End
.
Luke
11.
27.
Blessed
be
the
Womb
that
bare
thee
(
G.
Fox
)
and
the
Breasts
that
gave
thee
suck
.
And
Isa.
9.
6.
Everlasting
Father
,
or
Father
of
the
Ages
to
come
.
Heb.
2.
13.
Behold
,
I
,
and
the
Children
which
God
hast
given
me
.
Mich.
5.
4.
And
he
shall
stand
,
and
feed
,
or
rule
in
the
strength
of
the
Lord
,
&c.
He
shall
be
great
to
the
ends
of
the
Earth
.
Now
one
would
have
thought
,
that
such
Expressions
as
these
,
out
of
which
Coal
and
Eckels
had
theirs
,
might
have
intended
Christ
:
But
you
see
these
divinely-inspired
Men
,
by
virtue
of
their
immediate
Revelations
,
apply
them
to
George
Fox
,
with
blasphemous
Confidence
enough
.
But
it
may
be
they
will
say
,
That
the
Scriptures
mentioned
,
point
at
Christ
as
the
Figure
or
Type
,
and
G.
Fox
as
the
Substance
;
for
they
say
,
in
Saul's
Errand
to
Damascus
,
p.
6
,
7.
That
Christ
in
the
Flesh
was
a
Figure
.
And
where
-
〈◊〉
Paul
saith
,
2
Cor.
5.
10.
We
must
stand
before
the
Judgment
Seat
of
Christ
;
and
,
that
the
Father
hath
committed
all
Judgment
to
the
Son
.
But
read
p.
6
,
7.
Saul's
Errand
to
Damascus
,
and
George
Fox
takes
the
Name
to
himself
,
saying
,
He
is
the
Eternal
Judg
of
Quick
and
Dead
.
But
it
may
be
it
is
the
Christ
in
George
Fox
,
that
hath
this
Regal
or
Kingly
Power
.
But
why
then
was
it
not
so
expressed
,
P.
44
,
45.
Tyranny
and
Hypocrisy
detected
,
saith
Rebekah
Trevers
,
a
great
Prophetess
amongst
them
,
If
she
had
a
Motion
from
the
Lord
,
as
she
believed
,
yet
if
George
Fox
did
not
own
it
to
be
so
,
she
would
deny
it
.
So
that
George
Fox
is
not
only
a
King
of
the
Quakers
,
but
also
of
the
Light
or
Christ
in
them
,
for
those
believed
Motions
must
give
way
to
the
Motions
of
George
Fox
.
Spirit
of
the
Hat
,
pag.
27.
you
have
this
saying
of
King
George
repeated
,
Friends
,
although
I
have
not
told
it
you
,
I
do
now
declare
it
,
I
have
power
to
bind
and
loose
whom
I
please
,
&c.
Ay
,
and
well
he
may
,
since
he
hath
deprived
Christ
of
his
Kingly
Office
.
Now
who
can
imagine
that
these
Men
can
believe
the
Kingly
Office
of
Christ
,
who
thus
strip
him
of
his
Regal
Power
?
But
it
may
be
the
Quakers
will
say
,
It
is
not
George
Fox
,
but
the
Light
,
or
Christ
within
him
,
that
assumes
this
Kingly
Power
.
Well
,
and
if
the
same
Light
and
Christ
be
in
another
,
must
the
Christ
in
George
Fox
rule
or
reign
over
the
same
Christ
in
another
?
for
,
it
seems
,
the
Light
,
or
Christ's
Motions
in
Rebekah
Trevers
must
be
denied
and
rejected
,
if
the
Light
or
Christ
in
G.
Fox
opposeth
it
;
so
that
then
Christ
reigns
as
King
over
Christ
.
But
who
G.
Fox
left
to
sway
this
Scepter
I
know
not
,
except
it
was
G.
Fox
junior
,
who
in
his
Book
,
pag.
53
,
54
,
55.
you
may
observe
him
speaking
thus
;
I
will
make
you
know
,
that
I
the
Light
,
which
lighteth
every
Man
that
cometh
into
the
World
,
that
all
through
me
should
believe
,
am
the
true
Eternal
God
which
created
all
things
,
that
by
me
,
the
Light
,
all
things
are
upheld
,
and
that
there
is
not
another
besides
me
can
save
;
and
I
will
purge
out
all
your
Iniquities
,
and
forgive
all
your
Trespasses
;
and
I
will
change
your
Natures
,
and
I
will
make
you
new
Creatures
,
if
you
will
hearken
to
me
,
and
obey
me
the
Light
in
you
.
What
I
have
here
written
is
the
words
of
the
Father
,
who
is
one
with
Christ
the
Son
,
gave
me
to
write
,
in
which
words
the
true
Christ
is
renewed
,
and
a
Testimony
given
of
him
,
and
no
other
.
But
this
is
more
than
enough
of
this
Blasphemy
against
the
Son
of
God
.
So
that
it
appears
to
every
seeing
Eye
,
that
the
Quakers
do
not
own
the
Kingly
Office
of
Christ
that
died
at
Jerusalem
,
no
more
,
no
nor
so
much
neither
as
the
Kingly
Office
of
George
Fox
;
for
the
Laws
of
Christ
are
made
null
by
him
,
and
the
Ordinances
of
King
Jesus
contemned
and
rejected
by
him
,
as
being
more
powerful
and
infallible
,
as
may
further
appear
anon
.
2.
I
shall
examine
how
they
own
Christ's
Priestly
Office
,
which
upon
diligent
search
will
appear
nothing
so
as
professed
by
them
,
but
a
meer
flourish
to
delude
the
Ignorant
and
Easy
.
And
that
the
Quakers
deny
the
Priestly
,
Mediatory
or
Advocatory
Office
of
Christ
,
will
appear
for
these
Reasons
.
1.
They
deny
the
Person
or
Humanity
of
Christ
,
as
hath
been
before
shewed
;
then
they
cannot
own
Christ's
Priestly
Office
,
for
1
Tim.
2.
5.
There
is
one
Mediator
betwixt
God
and
Man
,
the
Man
Christ
Jesus
.
Now
if
Christ
hath
no
Body
but
his
Church
,
as
when
occasion
calls
for
it
,
I
shall
shew
:
But
let
what
hath
been
beforesaid
suffice
at
present
;
then
I
argue
thus
:
Arg.
If
Christ
had
a
Body
that
was
broken
for
the
Church
;
then
he
had
a
Body
besides
the
Church
:
but
he
had
a
Body
broken
for
the
Church
.
Ergo.
The
Major
is
out
of
doubt
,
or
else
he
gave
his
Church
to
be
broken
for
his
Church
,
which
is
absurd
.
The
Minor
is
proved
from
Mat.
26.
26.
Luk.
22.
19.
where
Christ
saith
of
his
Body
,
that
it
was
broken
for
them
.
Now
if
the
Quakers
say
,
Christ
was
never
seen
with
any
carnal
Eye
,
and
that
he
hath
no
Body
but
his
Church
,
it
will
appear
they
deny
the
Mediator
,
the
Man
Christ
Jesus
.
2.
They
deny
the
Place
where
Christ
our
High-Priest
is
enter'd
,
which
is
the
Heavens
,
the
Holy
of
Holies
,
according
to
Heb.
4.
14.
Seeing
then
that
we
have
a
great
High-Priest
,
that
is
passed
into
the
Heavens
,
Jesus
the
Son
of
God
,
let
us
hold
fast
our
Profession
.
But
see
what
the
Quakers
say
,
Smith's
Primmer
,
p.
8
,
9.
They
that
are
false
Ministers
,
preach
Christ
without
,
and
bid
People
believe
in
him
as
he
is
in
Heaven
above
:
but
they
that
are
true
,
preach
Christ
within
.
It
seems
by
the
Quakers
,
it
is
false
Doctrine
to
teach
People
as
Paul
taught
the
Hebrews
,
namely
,
that
their
Mediator
is
in
Heaven
,
that
their
High-Priest
is
there
.
They
that
are
false
Ministers
preach
Christ
without
;
your
Carnal
Christ
is
utterly
denied
by
the
Light
;
your
▪
imagined
God
beyond
the
Stars
.
But
none
can
witness
this
whose
Eye
is
outward
,
looking
at
a
Redeemer
afar
off
,
&c.
Smith's
Primmer
,
p.
9.
Sword
of
the
Lord
,
p.
24.
Shield
of
Truth
,
p.
30.
But
there
hath
been
enough
of
this
before
.
They
deny
any
other
Heaven
than
what
is
within
them
,
as
hath
manifestly
appeared
.
Arg.
Those
that
deny
Christ
to
be
entred
into
the
glorious
Heavens
above
,
deny
the
Priestly
Office
of
Christ
:
But
the
Quakers
deny
Christ
to
be
entered
into
the
glorious
Heavens
above
.
Ergo
,
they
deny
the
Priestly
Office
of
Christ
.
The
Minor
hath
been
before
proved
;
namely
,
that
the
Quakers
deny
Christ
to
be
in
the
glorious
Heavens
above
.
The
Major
is
evident
from
Scripture
,
Heb.
4.
14.
Seeing
then
that
we
have
a
great
High-Priest
,
that
is
passed
into
the
Heavens
,
Jesus
the
Son
of
God
.
Heb.
8.
1.
We
have
such
an
High-Priest
,
who
is
set
on
the
Right-hand
of
the
Throne
of
the
Majesty
in
the
Heavens
.
Burrough's
Works
,
p.
127.
They
that
deny
Christ
to
be
the
Light
in
every
Man
,
are
Antichrists
.
Smith's
Primmer
,
p.
8
,
9.
The
false
Ministers
preach
Christ
in
Heaven
,
saith
Smith
the
Quaker
,
and
the
true
preach
Christ
within
,
and
these
have
no
more
Fellowship
together
than
the
East
and
West
.
So
that
there
is
just
so
much
difference
betwixt
the
Doctrine
of
the
Apostles
and
Quakers
,
as
there
is
between
East
and
West
.
3.
They
deny
the
Blood
of
the
Sacrifice
,
Christ
our
High-Priest
offered
upon
the
Cross
.
This
I
have
before
proved
,
and
shewed
the
scornful
Contempt
they
have
cast
upon
it
at
large
.
And
much
more
might
be
said
if
need
were
;
what
else
means
their
dropping
such
words
as
these
?
Says
Edw.
Billing
,
The
Mystery
of
Iniquity
lies
in
the
Blood
of
Christ
.
And
say
they
,
Dost
look
at
Christ's
Death
afar
off
?
What
will
that
Blood
avail
?
didst
ever
see
any
of
it
,
that
carnal
Blood
!
Can
outward
Blood
cleanse
?
if
thou
hadst
a
great
deal
of
it
,
would
it
do
thee
any
good
?
How
apparently
do
they
scorn
that
Blood
of
Christ
shed
upon
the
Cross
?
But
it
's
most
evident
they
deny
Christ's
Priestly
Office
.
4.
The
Quakers
cannot
believe
the
Priestly
or
Mediatory
Office
of
Christ
,
because
they
have
no
need
of
a
Mediator
.
For
if
they
are
as
perfect
without
Sin
as
God
is
,
says
Leucock
,
and
are
come
to
the
end
of
Faith
,
as
saith
Lawson's
Book
,
p.
10.
And
if
Burrough's
Works
,
p.
33.
say
true
,
That
God
doth
not
accept
any
,
where
there
is
any
failing
,
or
who
doth
not
fulfil
the
Law
,
and
answer
every
Demand
of
Justice
:
and
this
they
say
they
do
,
and
are
perfect
;
then
what
need
have
they
of
the
Mediatory
Office
of
Christ
?
It
is
certain
Christians
own
a
Perfection
,
according
to
Gen.
17.
1.
to
be
sincere
;
and
as
our
Saviour
saith
,
Be
ye
perfect
.
Secondly
,
We
believe
a
Perfection
through
the
Merits
and
Intercession
of
Christ
,
Philip.
3.
12.
Not
as
tho
I
were
already
perfect
.
For
if
we
say
we
have
no
Sin
,
we
should
deceive
our selves
,
as
the
Quakers
do
.
But
1
John
2.
1.
If
any
Man
sin
,
we
have
an
Advocate
with
the
Father
,
Jesus
Christ
the
Righteous
:
In
and
through
him
the
Saints
expected
Perfection
.
But
Christians
also
expect
compleat
Perfection
when
they
come
to
Glory
,
on
the
other
side
of
the
Grave
;
even
when
Mortality
is
swallowed
up
of
Life
.
But
the
Quakers
believe
they
have
the
Kingdom
of
Christ
,
and
are
in
the
glorious
Possession
of
it
already
.
But
that
they
are
not
,
I
prove
thus
.
Arg.
Those
that
are
in
the
Possession
of
that
Kingdom
,
neither
marry
nor
are
given
in
Marriage
,
&c.
But
the
Quakers
do
marry
,
and
are
given
in
Marriage
:
Ergo
,
the
Quakers
are
not
in
the
Possession
of
that
Kingdom
.
The
Minor
is
self-evident
;
that
they
do
marry
,
&c.
The
Major
is
proved
from
our
Lord's
words
.
But
let
what
hath
been
said
suffice
to
make
it
appear
,
that
the
Quakers
deny
the
Priestly
Office
of
Christ
.
3dly
,
I
shall
proceed
to
examine
how
they
own
his
Prophetick
Office
,
which
they
say
,
yes
verily
we
believe
and
own
,
&c.
Now
how
can
it
be
,
since
they
have
so
plainly
denied
Christ's
Human
Body
?
as
hath
been
shewed
.
And
Deut.
18.
15.
The
Lord
thy
God
will
raise
up
unto
thee
a
Prophet
from
the
midst
of
thee
,
of
thy
Brethren
,
like
unto
me
,
(
i.
e.
a
Man
)
unto
him
shall
ye
hearken
:
he
shall
be
according
as
you
desired
of
the
Lord
in
Horeb
,
v.
16.
You
were
afraid
of
God's
speaking
to
you
;
he
shall
raise
you
up
a
Prophet
,
a
Man
,
the
Man
Christ
Jesus
,
of
your
Brethren
,
like
to
me
;
you
shall
not
be
terrified
with
the
immediate
Voice
of
God
,
Exod.
20.
19.
Now
this
is
Christ
,
whom
Peter
shews
and
declares
,
Acts
3.
22.
Him
shall
ye
hear
in
all
things
whatsoever
he
shall
say
unto
you
.
And
it
shall
come
to
pass
,
that
every
Soul
that
will
not
hear
that
Prophet
,
shall
be
destroyed
from
among
the
People
.
This
is
he
that
God
the
Father
from
Heaven
testified
of
,
Mat.
17.
5.
saying
,
This
is
my
beloved
Son
,
hear
ye
him
:
This
is
he
that
was
crucified
and
put
to
Death
on
the
Cross
;
and
that
rose
from
the
Dead
in
his
Body
of
Flesh
and
Bones
,
Luke
24.
39.
This
is
he
that
told
Mary
,
Joh.
20.
19.
I
go
to
my
Father
,
and
to
your
Father
;
and
to
my
God
,
and
your
God
:
The
Disciples
did
not
expect
this
Christ
to
come
into
them
.
But
,
as
I
promised
before
my
Death
and
Passion
,
so
I
will
send
you
the
Comforter
.
This
is
he
that
declares
he
hath
all
Power
both
in
Heaven
and
in
Earth
,
and
that
gives
his
Commission
to
his
Disciples
,
Mat.
28.
19.
injoyning
them
to
teach
and
publish
all
his
Commands
;
and
he
saith
,
He
that
heareth
you
,
heareth
me
;
and
he
that
heareth
me
,
heareth
him
that
sent
me
,
&c.
This
is
the
Person
denied
by
the
Quakers
to
be
this
great
Prophet
,
as
hath
been
shewed
.
2.
They
deny
the
Method
used
by
this
Prophet
;
namely
,
preaching
from
the
Scriptures
,
which
he
frequently
did
:
Mat.
21.
42.
saith
he
,
Did
ye
never
read
in
the
Scriptures
,
The
Stone
that
was
set
at
naught
by
you
Builders
,
the
same
is
become
the
Head
of
the
Corner
?
Mat.
22.
29.
Ye
do
err
,
not
knowing
the
Scriptures
.
John
5.
39.
Search
the
Scriptures
,
&c.
What
was
more
frequent
,
than
for
Christ
to
preach
from
the
Scriptures
,
and
to
convince
his
Opposers
by
them
?
But
the
Quakers
deny
this
Method
;
for
saith
Lawson's
Book
,
p.
14.
The
Scriptures
are
not
a
Touch-stone
to
try
Spirits
withal
.
And
p.
15.
he
saith
,
The
written
Law
doth
not
convince
Men
of
Sin
.
And
in
his
Book
called
,
The
untaught
Teacher
,
p.
2
,
3.
he
denies
that
the
Ministers
of
Christ
endowed
with
the
Spirit
,
ought
to
minister
or
preach
from
the
Scriptures
.
O
blind
Stupidity
!
Do
they
deny
the
Apostles
to
be
Christ's
Ministers
endowed
with
the
Spirit
?
And
did
not
they
preach
from
the
Scriptures
,
Acts
3.
22.
Peter
proves
Christ
to
be
this
Prophet
from
Deut.
18.
15.
And
Acts
8.
26
,
&c.
did
not
Philip
preach
Jesus
to
the
Eunuch
out
of
the
Prophet
Isaiah
?
Acts
18.
28.
Apollos
mightily
convinc'd
the
Jews
of
the
Truth
of
Jesus
being
the
Christ
,
out
of
the
Scriptures
.
Acts
17.
11.
the
Bereans
searched
the
Scriptures
to
prove
Paul's
Doctrine
;
and
Paul
adviseth
Timothy
to
study
rightly
to
divide
the
Word
.
Surely
these
were
Ministers
endowed
with
the
Spirit
.
But
,
3.
As
the
Quakers
do
not
own
the
Person
,
nor
Method
used
and
appointed
by
Christ
the
great
Prophet
;
so
they
disown
the
Doctrine
taught
by
him
and
his
Apostles
,
and
like
not
those
Directions
given
for
Doctrine
:
for
say
they
,
'
All
things
are
to
be
taught
and
'
learned
by
and
from
the
Light
within
;
all
they
direct
to
is
that
.
No
,
see
Zech.
7.
2
,
3
,
—
7.
Sherezer
and
Regem-melech
were
sent
by
the
Children
of
Israel
to
enquire
of
the
Priests
and
Prophets
,
Whether
they
should
weep
in
the
fifth
Month
,
separating
themselves
as
they
had
done
many
Years
before
.
Turn
to
the
Light
within
,
saith
the
Quaker
;
but
the
Lord
speaks
by
the
Prophet
,
saying
,
Should
you
not
hear
the
words
which
the
Lord
hath
cried
by
the
former
Prophets
?
&c.
John
Baptist
,
who
was
a
burning
and
shining
Light
,
sent
two
Disciples
to
Jesus
,
saying
,
Art
thou
he
that
should
come
,
or
look
do
we
for
another
?
Turn
to
the
Light
within
,
saith
the
Quaker
.
But
saith
Christ
,
Go
,
and
tell
John
the
things
ye
have
both
seen
and
heard
,
&c.
Such
outward
Means
were
returned
by
Christ
,
the
true
Prophet
and
Light
of
the
World
,
for
John's
Satisfaction
,
Luke
7.
19
,
22.
Luke
3.
10
,
—
14.
The
People
came
to
Jesus
,
saying
,
What
shall
we
do
?
Also
the
Publicans
,
saying
,
What
shall
we
do
?
And
the
Souldiers
said
,
What
shall
we
do
?
Turn
to
the
Light
within
,
saith
the
Quaker
.
But
saith
Jesus
,
who
had
another
Spirit
;
He
that
hath
two
Coats
,
let
him
impart
one
to
him
that
hath
none
:
Exact
no
more
,
&c.
Do
Violence
to
none
,
Accuse
no
Man
falsely
,
Be
content
with
your
Wages
.
Mat.
19.
16
,
—
21.
a
certain
young
Man
came
to
Christ
,
saying
,
What
good
thing
shall
I
do
that
I
may
inherit
Eternal
Life
?
Turn
to
the
Light
within
,
saith
the
Quaker
:
But
saith
Christ
,
Keep
the
Commandments
,
and
sell
what
thou
hast
,
and
give
to
the
Poor
,
and
thou
shalt
have
Treasure
in
Heaven
,
&c.
Joh.
6.
28
,
29.
the
Jews
demanded
of
Christ
,
saying
,
What
shall
we
do
that
we
may
work
the
Work
of
God
?
Turn
to
the
Light
within
,
saith
the
Quaker
.
But
saith
Christ
,
this
is
the
Work
of
God
,
That
ye
believe
in
his
Son
,
that
is
,
in
me
that
talk
with
you
,
that
came
into
the
World
to
die
for
you
.
Lord
,
what
wilt
thou
have
me
to
do
?
saith
Saul
;
Turn
to
the
Light
within
,
saith
the
Quaker
.
Acts
9.
6.
saith
the
Lord
Christ
,
Go
into
the
City
,
and
it
shall
be
told
thee
.
Acts
22.
10-16
.
Arise
,
and
go
to
Damascus
,
and
there
it
shall
be
told
thee
,
of
all
things
that
are
appointed
for
thee
to
do
:
And
that
not
by
a
Light
within
,
for
Ananias
was
to
instruct
him
into
the
Will
of
Christ
the
great
Prophet
.
So
Acts
2.
37
,
38.
The
poor
Jews
,
pricked
in
the
Heart
,
cried
out
,
Men
and
Brethren
,
what
shall
we
do
?
Turn
to
the
Light
within
,
saith
the
Quaker
.
But
saith
Peter
,
one
that
had
the
Holy
Ghost
,
Repent
,
and
be
baptized
,
for
the
Remission
of
Sins
,
&c.
I
might
weary
you
with
shewing
how
the
Quakers
oppose
the
Teachings
of
Christ's
Prophetick
Office
.
And
that
the
Quakers
deny
the
Prophetick
Office
of
Christ
,
it
appears
by
their
denying
his
Gospel-Ordinances
;
and
this
brings
me
to
the
Sixth
Head
,
as
I
observe
in
their
Pamphlet
.
VI.
and
Last
.
In
which
they
would
insinuate
to
the
World
,
That
they
believe
,
and
are
fully
perswaded
,
that
Baptism
which
is
essential
to
Salvation
,
or
Christianity
,
or
the
Laver
,
without
which
none
can
be
true
Christians
,
or
saved
,
is
the
inward
or
spiritual
washing
of
Regeneration
by
the
Word
of
Life
.
This
is
the
saving
Baptism
into
Christ
and
his
Church
,
which
produceth
the
answer
of
a
good
Conscience
towards
God
,
of
which
the
outward
was
a
Figure
,
1
Pet.
3.
21.
This
is
that
one
Baptism
of
Christ
,
by
one
Spirit
,
into
that
one
Body
whereof
Christ
is
Head
.
And
then
,
that
they
may
not
appear
with
open
Face
,
but
under
a
Mask
,
in
striking
at
Christ's
Ordinance
,
but
still
with
the
same
Design
,
they
alter
the
stroak
seemingly
,
and
go
on
;
As
for
Dipping
,
or
Sprinkling
Infants
or
young
Children
,
we
find
no
Precept
or
Precedent
in
Holy
Scripture
for
the
practice
thereof
;
and
therefore
we
cannot
think
our
not
believing
it
,
essential
or
necessary
to
Salvation
,
or
making
Christians
,
a
sufficient
Argument
to
prove
us
no
Christians
,
unless
it
can
be
proved
that
none
are
saved
without
it
,
and
that
all
are
saved
that
have
it
,
&c.
The
scope
and
medium
of
this
Article
,
is
to
make
null
and
abolish
the
sacred
Ordinance
of
Water-Baptism
:
And
as
to
what
they
say
,
that
their
not
believing
Sprinkling
or
Dipping
of
young
Children
to
be
essential
to
Salvation
,
or
making
Christians
,
can
be
no
sufficient
Argument
to
prove
them
no
Christians
.
No
certainly
,
I
believe
that
no
Advocate
for
that
Cause
could
do
it
from
those
Premises
.
I
shall
proceed
to
examine
their
Sentiments
touching
that
Sacred
Ordinance
of
Water-Baptism
;
and
it
appears
that
they
deny
those
two
great
Ordinances
instituted
by
our
Lord
and
great
Prophet
,
namely
,
Baptism
in
Water
,
and
the
Supper
administred
in
Bread
and
Wine
;
then
one
good
Argument
,
amongst
many
,
may
be
drawn
from
thence
to
prove
the
Quakers
no
Christians
.
Let
us
therefore
have
recourse
to
their
Construing
Books
,
and
see
what
they
say
.
Pernell's
Shield
of
the
Truth
,
p.
11.
The
Baptism
.
we
own
,
is
the
Baptism
of
Christ
with
the
Holy
Ghost
and
with
Fire
,
but
we
deny
all
other
.
See
p.
12.
Here
the
Quakers
fully
deny
Water-Baptism
.
See
also
James
Naylor's
Salutation
to
the
Seed
of
God
,
p.
33
,
34.
where
he
slights
and
denies
Baptism
in
Water
,
calling
it
a
carnal
thing
.
But
Edw.
Burroughs
,
with
open
Face
,
and
great
Confidence
,
testifies
against
Christ's
Ordinances
being
now
in
force
;
I
do
affirm
,
saith
he
,
that
Circumcision
is
as
much
in
force
as
Water-Baptism
;
and
the
Pafchal
Lamb
,
as
the
Bread
and
Wine
;
for
the
continuing
of
them
would
have
been
a
Judaizing
of
the
Evangelical
Worship
:
To
assert
their
continuance
,
would
be
as
much
as
in
such
lies
to
pluck
up
the
Gospel
,
or
Spiritual
Worship
,
by
the
Roots
.
Hence
that
Appellation
,
Ordinances
of
Christ
,
I
do
renounce
as
unscriptural
and
unevangelical
,
and
can
testify
,
from
the
same
Spirit
by
which
Paul
renounced
Circumcision
,
that
they
are
to
be
rejected
.
Burroughs's
Works
,
pag.
108
,
109.
Here
is
a
compound
of
Ignorance
and
Confidence
with
a
witness
;
because
Christ
put
an
end
to
Circumcision
and
other
Ceremonies
of
the
Law
,
as
Paul
teaches
;
therefore
by
the
Spirit
of
Delusion
,
and
gross
Ignorance
in
the
Quakers
,
E.
B.
will
renounce
and
put
an
end
to
Christ's
Ordinances
.
Surely
these
Men
have
learned
to
put
Darkness
for
Light
,
and
Light
for
Darkness
;
for
what
can
be
a
more
effectual
way
to
pluck
up
Gospel-Worship
by
the
Roots
,
than
to
make
null
and
renounce
Gospel-Ordinances
?
But
the
wickedness
of
this
deluded
Man
lies
chiefly
in
patronizing
his
notorious
Falshoods
to
the
same
Spirit
that
Paul
had
,
which
was
the
Spirit
of
Christ
:
What
is
this
but
blaspheming
the
Holy
Spirit
?
See
Pernell's
Shield
of
the
Truth
,
p.
12.
where
he
calls
Water-Baptism
,
A
formal
Invention
and
Imitation
of
Men
,
and
so
a
meer
Delusion
.
Smith
the
Quaker's
Primmer
,
pag.
39.
Thy
Baptism
,
Bread
and
Wine
,
rose
from
the
Pope's
Invention
.
I
shall
only
bring
in
the
Verdict
of
Robert
Ruckhill
;
see
Mr.
Grantham's
Christianismus
Primitivus
,
Book
4.
Treat
.
11.
See
how
Ruckhill
condemns
the
Baptized
Churches
,
for
keeping
the
Ordinances
of
Christ
as
they
were
delivered
to
the
Saints
,
&c.
O
ungrateful
Men
,
saith
he
,
unworthy
,
till
you
repent
and
loath
your selves
,
the
Name
of
Christians
;
hath
the
afflicted
persecuted
Church
been
.
banished
into
the
Wilderness
for
many
hundred
Years
;
and
now
at
her
return
,
when
she
is
expecting
a
far
more
exceeding
and
eternal
weight
of
Glory
,
both
Inward
and
Outward
,
which
her
great
Afflictions
have
wrought
for
her
;
will
you
now
,
I
say
,
allow
her
no
better
Ornaments
,
but
these
very
same
she
wore
1600
Years
ago
?
which
also
for
many
hundred
Years
have
been
revelled
in
,
and
filthily
polluted
by
that
nasty
Whore
of
Babylon
.
Poor
Bride
,
must
she
now
put
on
those
old
Clothes
and
rotten
Rags
again
?
&c.
Will
you
deny
this
beautiful
Bride
,
the
Lamb's
Wife
,
that
Priviledg
your
own
Wives
will
scorn
to
be
denied
by
you
?
O
how
weak
are
your
Hearts
,
saith
the
Lord
God
.
To
which
great
and
swelling
words
of
Vanity
,
Mr.
Grantham
gives
a
full
and
pathetical
Answer
.
But
from
all
this
you
may
observe
,
that
as
Ananias
and
Sapphirah
agreed
to
lie
against
the
Holy
Ghost
,
so
these
against
the
Ordinances
of
Christ
.
But
the
misery
of
it
is
,
altho
their
Design
is
the
Death
of
the
Object
,
yet
as
the
Testimonies
of
the
two
Elders
against
Susannah
,
and
the
false
Witnesses
against
Christ
,
they
cannot
agree
in
their
Testimony
against
the
Gospel-Ordinances
.
For
saith
Smith's
Primmer
,
p.
39.
Thy
Baptism
,
Bread
and
Wine
,
rose
from
the
Pope's
Inventions
.
So
saith
Higgins's
Warning
,
p.
5.
But
Ruckhill
saith
,
They
were
the
Churches
Ornaments
1600
Years
ago
.
This
he
plainly
confesseth
;
Now
either
the
former
,
or
the
latter
of
these
inspired
Men
,
with
all
their
Infallibility
,
are
infallibly
Liars
;
for
if
they
were
the
Churches
Ornaments
1600
Years
ago
,
as
Ruckhill
confesseth
,
then
they
were
not
invented
by
the
Pope
,
as
Smith
and
Higgins
pretend
,
there
being
no
Pope
of
that
Antiquity
.
So
that
I
must
leave
you
to
clear
your selves
if
you
can
tell
how
.
I
proceed
to
examine
R.
Ruckhill's
great
and
empty
flourish
,
and
swelling
words
of
Vanity
.
1.
Here
R.
Ruckhill
pretends
much
skill
in
the
time
of
the
Churches
going
into
,
and
returning
out
of
the
Wilderness
:
But
I
suppose
,
were
he
asked
,
What
this
Wilderness
is
,
and
the
exact
Time
when
the
Church
went
in
and
came
out
of
it
?
he
would
give
but
a
bewildered
Answer
.
2.
It
appears
from
hence
,
as
I
have
before
shewed
,
that
the
Quakers
believe
the
Eternal
weight
of
Glory
,
both
inward
and
outward
,
is
to
be
received
by
the
Church
at
her
return
out
of
the
Wilderness
,
and
enjoyed
here
on
this
side
the
Grave
in
this
mortal
State
.
3.
Here
R.
Ruckhill
is
forced
to
confess
,
that
the
Ordinances
of
Christ
were
the
Churches
Ornaments
1600
Years
ago
;
but
now
they
are
a
great
dishonour
and
deformity
to
her
,
therefore
he
disdainfully
calls
them
old
rotten
Rags
;
as
though
1600
Years
were
time
enough
to
rot
all
the
Ordinances
of
Christ
,
and
wear
them
out
to
Rags
.
4.
He
disdains
these
Ordinances
,
because
the
Whore
of
Babylon
hath
revelled
in
them
,
and
polluted
them
.
But
for
all
R.
Ruckhill's
skill
in
the
Churches
Apparel
,
there
were
also
other
Ornaments
,
as
the
Belief
of
the
Scriptures
,
Faith
,
Holiness
,
Love
,
Charity
and
Patience
,
Mercy
,
&c.
Now
have
not
all
these
been
corrupted
and
abused
by
the
Whore
of
Babylon
?
and
counterfeit
Ordinances
,
counterfeit
Scriptures
,
counterfeit
and
feigned
Faith
,
Holiness
,
Love
,
Charity
,
Patience
and
Mercy
,
set
up
in
the
room
thereof
?
doth
it
therefore
follow
,
that
all
these
Vertues
must
be
thrown
away
,
because
the
Whore
hath
polluted
them
?
No
surely
,
the
Quakers
will
not
say
so
,
nor
account
Prayer
,
Preaching
,
&c.
old
rotten
Rags
,
because
the
Whore
hath
revelled
in
them
.
Was
the
Ark
of
God
ever
the
worse
for
remaining
some
time
in
the
House
of
Dagon
?
Israel
were
sometimes
a
long
space
without
the
true
Law
,
true
Worship
,
and
true
God
,
being
involved
in
Idolatry
and
Darkness
,
yet
both
Asah
and
Hezekiah
were
for
returning
to
the
true
God
,
and
true
Worship
,
when
that
Darkness
was
dispersed
,
2
Chron.
15.
3.
2
Chron.
30.
5.
Even
so
now
the
Lord
having
dispersed
that
Fog
of
Popish
Darkness
;
may
not
R.
Ruckhill's
Lamentation
be
taken
up
against
the
Quakers
and
others
?
O
ungrateful
Men
,
hath
God
dispersed
these
Clouds
of
Popish
Darkness
,
and
discovered
his
Laws
and
Ordinances
in
their
Primitive
Purity
,
and
will
you
now
reject
and
contemn
them
as
old
rotten
Rags
,
and
rebel
against
the
Light
?
But
R.
Ruckhill
would
now
by
all
means
have
the
Church
to
have
a
new
Coat
,
her
old
Ornaments
being
worn
to
Rags
.
And
R.
Ruckhill
must
needs
have
the
Church
to
have
new
Ordinances
,
as
often
as
Mens
Wives
have
new
Clothes
,
or
else
she
must
go
naked
.
But
,
saith
Robert
Ruckhill
,
in
the
forementioned
Discourse
,
We
do
not
deny
Baptism
,
or
any
other
Ordinance
,
when
the
Spirit
of
the
Lord
leadeth
to
them
.
It
's
but
fair
to
conclude
,
that
the
Quakers
have
not
the
Leadings
of
the
Spirit
of
God
to
guide
them
into
this
Gospel-Ordinance
.
But
,
R.
Ruckhill
would
recal
this
again
,
saying
,
It
hath
appeared
,
that
the
Spirit
of
the
Lord
leads
forward
,
not
backward
;
upward
,
not
downward
,
(
and
then
he
presumes
to
say
)
else
the
Spirit
may
as
well
lead
into
Judaism
,
as
into
the
Ordinances
aforesaid
.
What
profound
Ignorance
and
gross
Darkness
is
here
,
to
imagine
that
the
Spirit
of
Christ
,
promised
,
John
14.
26.
&
16.
31.
to
guide
into
all
Truth
,
and
to
bring
to
remembrance
the
Doctrine
Christ
had
taught
,
might
as
well
lead
them
into
Judaism
,
which
Christ
had
and
came
to
abolish
,
by
R.
Ruckhill's
Argument
?
When
Ananias
is
sent
to
Paul
,
compare
Acts
9.
17
,
18.
Act.
22.
16
that
he
may
receive
his
sight
,
and
be
filled
with
the
Holy
Ghost
,
he
said
,
And
now
why
tarriest
thou
?
Arise
and
be
Baptized
.
Might
not
Paul
have
said
,
I
am
filled
with
the
Holy
Ghost
already
,
What
,
must
I
go
back
to
the
Shadow
,
to
such
a
carnal
thing
as
Water-Baptism
?
But
Paul
had
the
Spirit
of
God
,
and
not
of
the
Quakers
,
and
therefore
he
readily
submitted
to
this
Holy
Ordinance
,
and
stands
not
to
confer
with
Flesh
and
Blood
.
See
also
Acts
10.
from
44
,
to
48.
While
Peter
was
preaching
the
Gospel
to
Cornelius
,
and
those
with
him
,
the
Holy
Ghost
fell
on
all
them
that
heard
the
Word
;
and
they
heard
them
speak
with
Tongues
,
and
magnified
God
.
Then
answered
Peter
,
Can
any
forbid
Water
,
that
these
should
not
be
baptized
who
have
received
the
Holy
Ghost
as
well
as
we
?
&c.
Doubtless
had
R.
Ruckhill
,
or
any
of
the
Quakers
been
there
,
had
there
been
any
such
a
Creature
in
those
Days
,
they
would
have
forbid
Water
,
and
told
Peter
,
he
was
mistaken
;
Hold
,
Peter
,
they
have
the
Substance
,
the
Baptism
of
the
Spirit
,
wilt
thou
lead
them
back
to
the
Letter
,
to
the
carnal
Thing
of
Water-Baptism
?
If
G.
Fox
had
been
there
with
his
Book
,
The
Great
Mystery
,
pag.
65.
he
would
out
of
that
have
proved
to
Peter
,
that
Paul
told
of
the
Spirit
's
Baptism
,
and
brought
the
Saints
off
from
Things
that
are
seen
;
and
Water
is
seen
,
and
its
Baptism
;
from
that
Text
2
Cor.
4.
18.
Would
any
Man
in
his
Senses
have
drawn
such
an
Inference
?
But
it
is
a
lamentable
thing
,
that
these
Men
care
not
for
the
Scriptures
,
except
it
be
to
abuse
them
.
But
to
return
,
Vers.
48.
Peter
being
of
another
mind
,
having
another
Spirit
than
the
Quakers
,
Commanded
them
to
be
baptized
in
the
Name
of
the
Lord
.
From
whence
I
groundedly
conclude
,
That
the
highest
Attainments
,
or
greatest
Measures
of
the
Holy
Spirit
,
do
not
exempt
or
excuse
Men
from
,
but
fit
them
for
Gospel-Ordinances
.
But
I
have
shewed
you
before
,
it
is
the
Baptism
of
the
Spirit
,
and
no
other
,
that
they
will
allow
.
This
is
that
they
contend
for
in
their
Pamphlet
;
they
say
,
The
Baptism
of
Water
was
put
an
End
to
at
Christ's
Death
;
and
then
that
of
the
Spirit
succeeds
,
of
which
that
of
Water
was
a
Type
.
This
is
their
common
Opinion
.
To
which
I
answer
,
That
it
was
Water-Baptism
that
Christ
gave
in
Commission
to
his
Disciples
to
Administer
,
after
he
was
risen
from
the
Dead
,
Mat.
28.
Mark
16.
First
;
They
were
not
to
administer
that
of
Sufferings
;
his
Disciples
nor
Apostles
were
not
to
persecute
,
nor
lay
Sufferings
upon
others
.
Secondly
;
If
they
say
that
the
Apostles
were
to
baptize
with
the
Spirit
,
as
some
of
them
want
no
Ignorance
or
Confidence
to
affirm
.
First
;
I
demand
,
Whether
the
Administration
of
that
were
not
peculiar
to
Christ
,
Mat.
3
▪
11.
He
,
meaning
Christ
,
shall
baptize
you
with
the
Holy
Ghost
,
and
with
Fire
?
Secondly
;
Whether
that
if
the
Command
,
Mat.
28.
18.
Mark
16.
16.
be
to
command
the
Apostles
to
baptize
with
the
Holy
Ghost
,
and
Fire
?
If
it
were
,
I
demand
when
and
where
they
obeyed
it
?
Thirdly
;
Whether
we
may
not
groundedly
believe
,
That
the
baptizing
Men
and
Women
in
Water
,
in
the
Name
of
Christ
,
which
the
Apostles
did
,
was
not
in
obedience
to
some
Commission
from
the
Lord
so
to
do
?
Fourthly
;
Let
the
Quakers
shew
when
and
where
the
Lord
gave
them
command
so
to
do
,
if
this
of
Matth.
28.
and
Mark
16.
was
not
it
?
Fifthly
;
If
Peter
had
not
Authority
from
the
Lord
to
baptize
with
Water
,
Acts
10.
latter
end
,
I
demand
whether
you
do
not
conclude
he
finned
in
so
doing
?
for
he
commanded
them
to
be
baptized
in
the
Name
of
the
Lord
;
see
Deut.
18.
20.
But
the
Prophet
that
shall
presume
to
speak
a
word
in
my
Name
,
that
I
have
not
commanded
,
that
Prophet
shall
die
,
saith
the
Lord
.
I
wish
this
were
seriously
weighed
by
all
that
counterfeit
Christ's
Ordinances
.
Sixthly
;
That
whereas
it
is
alledged
that
Baptism
may
be
done
,
or
left
undone
,
that
it
is
a
thing
indifferent
:
Then
I
demand
,
whether
it
was
not
as
great
a
Sin
in
Peter
,
Acts
10.
48.
to
command
them
to
be
baptized
,
as
it
was
in
those
,
1
Tim.
4.
2
,
3.
who
command
to
abstain
from
Meats
,
and
forbid
to
marry
,
which
are
things
left
at
liberty
?
For
to
command
to
do
what
God
hath
left
at
liberty
,
to
do
or
not
to
do
,
is
equally
a
Sin
to
the
same
extent
,
with
forbidding
what
God
hath
left
to
Mens
liberty
:
Therefore
I
would
have
none
to
count
the
Ordinances
of
Christ
Things
indifferent
.
Let
what
hath
been
said
be
considered
.
But
the
Apostles
in
pursuance
of
the
aforesaid
Commission
,
Mat.
28.
18
,
19
,
20.
Mark
16.
16.
did
preach
and
baptize
with
Water
;
that
being
the
only
Baptism
they
were
to
administer
.
That
of
Sufferings
by
Persecution
being
from
the
Devil
and
wicked
Men
;
that
of
the
Spirit
being
peculiar
from
Christ
,
and
that
of
Water
by
his
Apostles
and
Disciples
.
And
thus
according
to
the
Commission
of
their
Lord
,
you
find
them
administring
,
Acts
2.
38.
and
reaching
;
Repent
and
be
baptized
for
Remission
of
Sins
,
and
ye
shall
receive
the
Gift
of
the
Holy
Ghost
.
Acts
8.
12.
When
they
believed
Philip
,
preaching
the
things
concerning
the
Kingdom
of
God
,
and
Name
of
Jesus
,
they
were
baptized
both
Men
and
Women
.
Ver.
36
,
37.
saith
the
Eunuch
,
See
,
here
is
Water
,
what
doth
hinder
me
to
be
baptized
?
Philip
answered
,
If
thou
believe
with
all
thy
Heart
,
it
is
lawful
for
thee
;
as
most
truly
read
.
And
they
went
down
into
,
and
came
up
out
of
the
Water
,
&c.
Acts
10.
47
,
48.
And
he
commanded
them
.
to
be
baptized
in
the
Name
of
the
Lord
;
and
none
could
forbid
Water
,
tho
they
were
baptized
with
the
Spirit
before
.
So
that
altho
the
pouring
forth
of
the
extraordinary
Gifts
of
the
Spirit
are
comparatively
called
a
Baptism
;
and
the
Greatness
and
Over-whelmings
of
Christ's
Sufferings
are
so
called
comparatively
:
Yet
there
is
but
one
Baptism
in
a
full
and
proper
sense
,
and
that
is
that
of
Water
,
in
which
the
penitent
Believer
is
buried
,
Coloss.
2.
12.
Rom.
6.
4.
And
whatever
the
Quakers
pretend
,
Ephes.
4.
5.
Christ
is
that
one
Lord
;
and
to
believe
in
him
,
his
Offices
and
Doctrine
,
is
this
one
Faith
,
and
to
be
baptized
in
Water
is
the
one
Baptism
;
and
how
ridiculously
they
abuse
that
Text
in
their
Pamphlet
,
1
Pet.
3.
21.
In
ver.
21.
he
speaks
of
God's
Patience
in
waiting
upon
the
old
World
while
the
Ark
was
a
preparing
,
wherein
eight
Persons
were
saved
by
Water
:
The
like
Figure
where
unto
,
even
Baptism
,
doth
also
now
save
us
;
not
the
putting
away
of
the
Filth
of
the
Flesh
,
that
is
,
not
the
end
of
Water-Baptism
,
to
cleanse
the
Filth
from
the
outward
Man
,
as
were
the
many
Washings
under
the
Law
;
but
it
is
the
answer
of
a
good
Conscience
towards
God
;
in
shewing
your
Obedience
to
his
Law
,
as
it
is
said
,
Luke
7.
30.
The
Pharisees
and
Lawyers
rejected
the
Counsel
of
God
against
themselves
,
in
not
being
baptized
of
him
;
and
so
contracted
Guilt
to
their
Consciences
.
And
their
saying
,
Water-Baptism
was
a
Figure
of
the
Spiritual
,
is
an
apparent
Falshood
,
the
Text
under
debate
hath
no
such
meaning
:
But
thus
,
as
eight
Persons
believed
in
the
Lord
's
preaching
,
by
the
Ark's
building
,
when
the
old
World
was
threatned
,
they
got
into
this
Ark
,
when
the
unbelieving
World
mocked
at
it
;
the
Water
bears
up
the
Ark
,
and
those
in
it
,
and
saves
them
whilst
the
others
were
destroyed
.
So
the
Threats
of
perishing
eternally
are
pronounced
in
the
Gospel
against
Sinners
.
Now
the
penitent
Believer
puts
on
Christ
by
Water-Baptism
,
Gal.
3.
27.
which
is
the
initiating
and
ingrafting
Ordinance
;
and
I
demand
of
the
Quakers
,
if
they
can
,
to
prove
where
Water-Baptism
is
called
a
Figure
of
the
Spiritual
;
and
also
to
shew
me
from
the
Scriptures
where
any
were
commanded
to
observe
the
Figure
,
when
at
the
same
time
they
enjoy
the
Substance
.
But
Paul
,
and
Cornclius
,
and
others
had
the
Spiritual
Baptism
,
and
yet
were
commanded
to
be
baptized
with
Water
.
Another
impertinency
in
their
Pamphlet
is
,
they
say
,
they
cannot
believe
dipping
or
sprinkling
Infants
,
unless
it
can
be
proved
that
none
are
saved
without
it
,
and
all
are
saved
that
have
it
.
They
seem
here
most
directly
to
strike
at
Infant-Baptism
;
but
their
design
is
to
root
out
that
sacred
Ordinance
of
Christ
,
Believers
Baptism
:
And
therefore
I
demand
,
whether
the
Quakers
believe
,
that
all
that
are
baptized
with
the
Spirit
,
as
they
count
it
,
tho
a
Spirit
of
Delusion
,
shall
infallibly
be
saved
?
if
they
say
they
do
,
then
what
is
the
Reason
they
own
or
believe
falling
away
,
and
going
from
the
Light
?
and
why
do
so
many
turn
wet
Quakers
,
and
become
as
vile
in
their
Lives
,
as
they
are
in
their
Principles
?
But
if
they
do
not
own
an
Infallibility
of
being
saved
by
that
Spirit
's
Baptism
they
pretend
to
,
then
what
is
in
these
words
?
And
to
conclude
this
Head
,
I
would
not
have
the
Quakers
pretend
to
be
baptized
with
the
holy
Spirit
,
till
they
believe
in
Christ
,
and
obey
his
Appointments
;
for
Acts
5.
32.
he
gives
his
holy
Spirit
to
them
that
obey
him
.
To
conclude
this
,
let
all
that
would
be
Christ's
Disciples
,
learn
of
him
that
hath
led
in
the
way
of
Righteousness
,
when
by
Faith
and
Repentance
you
have
laid
hold
on
Christ
,
O
delay
not
to
put
him
on
by
Baptism
!
and
so
you
will
become
visible
Members
of
his
Mystical
Body
,
be
Heirs
of
the
Promise
of
the
holy
Spirit
,
and
other
blessed
Priviledges
,
as
a
Right
to
the
Lord's
Table
to
sup
with
him
in
this
Kingdom
of
Grace
,
and
dwell
with
him
in
Glory
hereafter
.
2.
The
Quakers
in
their
Pamphlet
,
in
like
manner
with
Falshoods
and
Impertinencies
evade
the
Supper
of
the
Lord
instituted
and
administred
in
Bread
and
Wine
.
Say
they
,
The
Supper
of
the
Lord
we
own
and
tenderly
consider
in
a
twofold
sense
.
First
,
In
the
Figure
:
Secondly
,
In
the
Substance
.
1.
That
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
at
his
Supper
with
his
Disciples
did
eat
the
Passeover
,
which
was
for
the
fulfilling
and
Consummation
of
the
Feasts
under
the
Law
,
Luke
22.
and
at
his
Supper
he
did
take
and
minister
the
Bread
and
the
Cup
to
his
Disciples
(
for
there
was
no
Transubstantiation
)
saying
,
This
do
in
remembrance
of
me
;
and
saith
the
Lord
,
As
often
as
ye
eat
this
Bread
,
and
drink
this
Cup
,
ye
do
shew
forth
the
Lord's
Death
till
he
come
;
1
Cor.
11.
After
this
they
did
more
clearly
know
his
Coming
,
and
Christ
after
the
Spirit
,
Jesus
Christ
in
them
,
2
Cor.
13.
5
,
&c.
The
Reader
may
see
with
what
deceivable
words
these
Impostors
go
about
to
evade
and
make
null
the
Ordinance
of
the
Lord's-Supper
administred
in
Bread
and
Wine
.
But
before
I
come
to
answer
their
impertinent
Evasions
and
manifold
Corruptions
of
the
Scriptures
,
I
shall
shew
you
that
they
plainly
deny
the
Supper
of
the
Lord
administred
in
Bread
and
Wine
,
to
be
now
a
standing
Ordinance
in
the
Church
of
Christ
,
and
practicable
by
Christians
.
Let
us
hear
them
speak
out
more
plainly
before
we
answer
them
.
Parnell's
Shield
of
the
Truth
,
p.
13.
Feeding
upon
Husks
and
Shadows
that
are
carnal
,
for
the
Bread
which
the
World
(
that
is
,
all
that
are
not
Quakers
)
eat
,
is
natural
and
carnal
;
so
also
is
the
〈◊〉
which
they
drink
,
and
there
is
no
Communion
but
natural
,
outward
and
carnal
.
Smith's
Primmer
,
p.
39.
Thy
Bread
and
Wine
in
the
Lord's
Supper
are
the
Popes
Invention
.
See
how
bare-fac'dly
they
can
lie
against
the
Truth
.
See
Nailor's
Love
to
the
Lost
,
p.
56.
Which
all
know
who
are
come
to
his
Supper
,
where
the
Father
and
Son
are
come
in
and
sup
with
the
Creature
,
which
all
the
Imitators
and
Observers
of
Times
are
ignorant
of
,
whose
Contention
is
about
outsides
.
Lastly
,
Let
us
have
the
Testimony
of
George
Fox
le-Grand
,
Great
Mystery
,
&c.
p.
16.
says
he
,
Christ
has
triumphed
over
the
Ordinances
,
and
blotted
them
out
,
and
they
are
not
to
be
touched
;
and
the
Saints
have
Christ
in
them
,
who
is
the
end
of
outward
Forms
:
and
thou
art
deceived
who
thinkest
to
find
the
Living
amongst
the
Dead
.
You
see
by
this
how
miserably
these
Men
abuse
the
Scriptures
.
Now
it
appears
by
all
this
,
that
either
the
Apostles
were
ignorant
about
the
nature
and
manner
of
Christ's
second
Coming
,
or
else
the
Quakers
are
greatly
deluded
in
saying
,
he
is
come
the
second
time
already
.
But
to
clear
the
Apostles
and
Primitive
Saints
from
that
Ignorance
the
Quakers
cast
upon
them
,
and
to
make
it
appear
that
they
did
not
believe
the
giving
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
Acts
2.
to
be
the
second
Coming
of
Christ
.
1.
Because
the
Apostles
are
found
in
the
administring
,
and
the
Primitive
Christians
in
partaking
of
this
Ordinance
,
after
the
Holy
Spirit
that
Christ
promised
to
send
,
was
come
,
as
hath
been
before
said
of
Baptism
.
This
appears
from
Acts
2.
42
,
46.
They
continued
stedfast
in
the
Apostles
Doctrine
and
Fellowship
,
in
breaking
of
Bread
,
and
Prayer
.
Acts
20.
7.
The
Disciples
came
together
to
break
Bread
.
All
Expositors
that
I
know
of
conclude
,
this
was
to
celebrate
the
Ordinance
of
the
Lord's-Supper
;
see
this
fully
manifest
,
1
Cor.
11.
1
,
2.
compared
with
Verse
23
,
to
the
29th
at
large
;
Be
ye
followers
of
me
,
even
as
I
also
am
of
Christ
.
Montanus
,
an
approved
Interpreter
,
reads
it
thus
,
Imitatores
mei
●stote
,
sicut
&
ego
Christi
:
Be
ye
Imitators
of
me
,
as
I
am
of
Christ
.
Now
I
praise
you
,
Brethren
,
that
you
remember
me
in
all
things
,
and
keep
the
Ordinances
,
as
I
delivered
them
unto
you
.
Ver.
23.
For
I
have
received
of
the
Lord
that
which
I
delivered
unto
you
.
As
if
he
had
said
,
those
Ordinances
that
I
praise
you
for
the
keeping
of
,
are
the
same
that
I
received
of
the
Lord
:
And
this
is
one
,
that
the
Lord
Jesus
the
same
Night
in
which
he
was
betrayed
,
took
Bread
;
blessed
it
,
and
brake
it
,
&c.
Now
if
the
Quakers
were
not
stark
blind
,
or
wilfully
ignorant
,
would
they
conclude
that
Paul
and
the
Primitive
Saints
did
not
know
that
Christ
was
come
in
Spirit
?
or
,
that
the
Promise
of
the
Holy
Ghost
was
given
?
So
he
goes
on
and
tells
them
,
ver.
26.
As
often
as
ye
eat
this
Bread
,
and
drink
this
Cup
,
ye
shew
forth
the
Lord
▪
s
Death
till
he
come
.
So
that
the
giving
forth
of
the
Spirit
was
not
the
second
coming
of
Christ
,
as
the
Quakers
dream
;
for
how
improper
were
it
for
to
celebrate
an
Ordinance
in
remembrance
of
him
that
was
within
them
,
I
leave
to
the
Reader
to
judg
.
2.
Christ
is
not
come
,
because
that
Kingdom
is
not
come
that
Christ
speaks
of
;
I
will
not
henceforth
drink
of
the
Fruit
of
the
Vine
,
till
I
drink
it
new
with
you
in
my
Father's
Kingdom
;
notwithstanding
the
Quakers
do
so
abuse
that
Saying
of
our
Lord
.
For
it
is
the
Duty
of
the
Disciples
of
Christ
to
pray
for
the
coming
of
that
Kingdom
;
and
it
is
most
evident
,
that
the
Will
of
God
is
not
done
upon
Earth
,
as
it
is
in
Heaven
;
for
the
greatest
part
of
the
World
live
in
Disobedience
to
the
Will
of
God
:
neither
doth
Christ
now
drink
of
the
Fruit
of
the
Vine
with
his
Disciples
,
because
he
is
at
his
Father's
Right-hand
in
the
glorious
Heavens
:
and
his
Disciples
upon
Earth
are
to
break
and
eat
Bread
,
and
drink
of
the
Fruit
of
the
Vine
till
he
come
,
in
remembrance
of
his
broken
Body
,
and
Blood
shed
for
their
Redemption
and
Salvation
;
in
which
Christ
hath
spiritual
Communion
with
them
,
not
personal
,
which
he
will
have
after
his
second
Coming
.
And
,
3.
Paul
and
the
Primitive
Christians
did
not
believe
the
givings
forth
of
the
Spirit
,
to
be
the
second
coming
of
Christ
,
because
they
believed
and
expected
him
to
come
in
a
personal
,
glorious
and
visible
manner
;
Phil.
3.
20.
We
look
for
the
Saviour
,
who
shall
change
our
vile
Bodies
,
and
make
them
like
his
own
glorious
Body
:
that
being
one
thing
that
will
be
done
at
Christ's
second
Coming
.
And
Paul
and
the
Christians
did
look
for
Christ's
second
and
personal
Coming
,
because
they
were
told
,
Acts
1.
11.
That
the
same
Jesus
should
come
in
like
manner
(
visible
in
his
Body
of
Flesh
and
Bones
)
as
he
did
ascend
,
as
hath
been
before
proved
more
largely
;
and
as
Christ
himself
shewed
his
Disciples
,
Mat.
24.
at
large
,
that
his
coming
should
be
glorious
and
visible
;
Rev.
1.
7.
Long
after
the
Spirit
or
Comforter
was
come
,
faith
John
,
Behold
,
he
cometh
,
every
Eye
shall
see
him
;
and
they
that
pierced
him
,
shall
mourn
.
1
Thess.
4.
6.
For
the
Lord
himself
shall
descend
from
Heaven
with
a
shout
,
with
the
Voice
of
the
Arch-Angel
,
and
the
Trump
of
God
,
&c.
4.
If
the
Quakers
will
need
have
this
to
be
true
,
which
no
Christians
can
allow
them
,
that
Christ
is
come
the
second
time
,
as
the
Scriptures
have
foretold
of
him
,
and
as
he
himself
said
he
would
;
and
from
thence
they
conclude
that
Baptism
and
the
Supper
of
the
Lord
are
at
an
end
;
I
would
know
whether
all
other
Gospel-Ordinances
are
not
at
an
end
also
,
as
Preaching
,
Prayer
,
Acts
of
Mercy
and
Charity
,
and
the
like
?
And
if
so
,
why
do
the
Quakers
pretend
to
Preach
and
Pray
?
for
in
that
Kingdom
there
is
no
need
to
teach
any
to
know
the
Lord
;
no
need
of
Prayer
,
for
then
the
Saints
possess
the
fullest
Enjoyments
they
can
pray
or
wish
for
;
they
shall
hunger
no
more
,
and
so
have
no
need
of
Alms
;
and
in
that
Kingdom
,
they
neither
marry
,
nor
are
given
in
Marriage
;
neither
can
they
die
any
more
,
Luke
20.
35
,
36.
But
the
Quakers
pretend
to
Preach
,
and
Pray
,
and
give
Alms
;
they
Marry
,
and
they
Die
.
See
then
what
horrid
Contradictions
and
gross
Absurdities
attend
this
Spirit
of
Delusion
.
And
to
what
End
they
bring
1
Cor.
10.
15
,
16
,
17.
Rev.
3.
20.
Prov.
9.
4
,
5.
with
Joh.
6.
I
know
not
,
except
to
abuse
the
Scriptures
,
or
confute
themselves
.
All
Christians
own
Christ
to
be
the
Bread
of
Life
,
and
have
spiritual
Communion
with
him
in
his
Ordinances
;
which
spiritual
Communion
they
cannot
have
,
whatever
they
pretend
,
who
do
not
obey
Christ
in
his
Ordinances
,
but
flight
,
vilify
,
and
contemn
the
same
,
as
the
Quakers
do
.
But
those
that
open
when
he
knocks
,
by
the
Hammer
of
his
Word
;
those
that
receive
his
Word
,
Ordinances
and
Appointments
,
he
will
come
into
them
by
his
Spirit
;
and
having
Communion
one
with
another
,
as
one
Bread
,
so
their
Fellowship
shall
be
with
the
Father
and
the
Son
spiritually
,
and
so
he
hath
promised
to
be
with
his
Church
in
the
participation
of
his
Ordinances
to
the
end
of
the
World
?
And
though
we
highly
own
and
honour
the
Ordinances
of
Christ
;
yet
as
we
believe
those
that
reject
and
despise
them
,
whatever
they
pretend
,
have
no
spiritual
Communion
with
Christ
:
so
also
those
that
are
not
duly
fitted
and
prepared
for
them
,
may
not
expect
any
Benefit
or
Advantage
by
them
.
In
the
next
place
,
they
talk
of
the
Seals
of
the
New
Covenant
:
Which
term
,
in
the
plural
,
I
deny
;
and
believe
,
that
the
Spirit
,
or
Holy
Ghost
,
those
Measures
or
Gifts
thereof
that
God
bestows
upon
Christians
,
is
the
Seal
of
their
Acceptance
with
him
;
as
Ephes.
1.
13.
After
ye
believed
,
ye
were
sealed
with
the
Holy
Spirit
of
〈◊〉
.
Whoever
accounts
these
Gospel-Ordinances
the
Seals
of
the
Covenant
,
are
so
far
mistaken
,
for
they
are
part
of
the
Covenant
it self
.
Saith
Christ
,
If
ye
love
me
,
keep
my
Commandments
;
and
I
will
pray
the
Father
,
and
he
shall
give
you
another
Comforter
,
that
shall
abide
with
you
for
ever
,
even
the
Spirit
of
Truth
.
This
Spirit
which
is
promised
as
a
Seal
,
is
upon
the
Terms
of
keeping
Christ's
Commandments
,
of
which
are
Baptism
,
and
the
Lord's
Supper
.
Acts
5.
32.
He
gives
this
Seal
of
the
Spirit
to
those
that
obey
him
,
duly
observing
and
obeying
Christ's
Ordinances
and
Commands
,
from
a
real
Faith
in
his
Word
and
Promises
,
as
well
as
in
his
Death
,
Blood
,
and
Merits
;
and
also
to
attend
this
.
Gospel
Faith
with
a
pious
Life
;
and
so
resigning
up
our selves
to
be
Christ's
,
he
hath
promised
us
the
Seal
of
his
Spirit
,
as
an
earnest
of
our
Inheritance
,
which
is
hereafter
to
be
enjoyed
.
But
vainly
do
the
Quakers
feed
themselves
with
Wind
,
in
imagining
that
they
have
the
Holy
Spirit
,
or
Seal
of
this
new
Covenant
,
who
rebel
against
Christ
the
Minister
of
the
Covenant
,
condemn
his
Blood
,
despise
his
Ordinances
,
&c.
So
that
from
hence
it
appears
,
they
have
nothing
to
do
to
take
his
Covenant
into
their
Mouths
,
seeing
they
hate
to
be
reformed
.
And
as
for
their
next
Impertinency
,
in
talking
of
one
outward
Type
or
Shadow
,
being
a
Type
of
another
outward
Type
;
I
am
an
Advocate
for
no
such
Notion
,
neither
do
I
believe
that
Circumcision
was
a
Type
of
Baptism
,
but
of
the
Circumcision
of
the
Heart
;
nor
that
the
Passover
was
a
Type
of
the
Lord's
Supper
,
but
of
Christ
the
true
Paschal
Lamb
,
slain
for
the
Sins
of
the
World
.
And
now
to
conclude
,
Let
all
Christians
admire
the
Grace
of
Christ
,
who
gave
his
Body
to
be
broken
,
and
his
Blood
to
be
shed
;
and
not
only
so
,
but
in
love
to
his
People
,
hath
left
this
Ordinance
of
his
Supper
in
his
last
Will
and
Testament
,
to
be
celebrated
,
he
before
knowing
our
Frailties
,
we
being
subject
to
forget
his
Kindness
.
Let
us
therefore
observe
it
,
with
the
rest
of
his
Ordinances
;
and
blessed
is
the
Servant
whom
the
Lord
when
he
cometh
shall
find
so
doing
.