Heresy

{Page 20} HERESY

1st. If it be damnable Heresy to deny the Lord that bought us, as the Apostles 2 Pet. ii, &c. hath affirmed.

Then since those our depraved Quakers have so expressly denied the Lord that bought us1, by disowning any other God or Christ, but what is within Man; under pretence of their being false Ministers, that preach Christ in Heaven above, none having a Glory and a Heaven, but what is within them; those our depraved Quakers are guilty of Heresy.

2dly. If to deny the Body of our Lord, which ascended towards Heaven in the sight of his Apostles, to be his glorify'd Body whom the Heavens must retain, until the time of the Restitution of all Things, spoken of in Acts iii. 21, &c. be to deny the Lord that bought us.

Then since John Whitehead, a not3d Quaker Preacher, has, in the Quaker's Name, not only in effect denied that Body of Christ2, by confessing, that he hath several times denied Tho. Granthame's Assertion, That Christ hath now a Body of Flesh and Bones, circumscript or limited in that Heaven which is above, and out of every Man on Earth, under pretence, that his Opponent stood in that which discerns not the Lord's Body of heavenly Flesh, Blood and Bones, which he affirms is within us to eat upon. But also Joseph Fuce, another of their Preachers, in confirmation of this their Doctrine, hath expressly told the World, That he went to his Father from his Disciples as a Shadow, and is at the Right Hand of God in us all; his Body he had in the Womb of the Virgin, being translated {Page 21} into that he had with the Father before the World began, &c.

The afore-mentioned Whitehead, with this his Brother Preacher, and all that abetted them by the approbation of their Books, are guilty of Heresy. In pursuance whereof,

3dly. To pass by their Friend Atkinson's denial of Christ to be God and Man in one Person, &c. upon account of their Friends Whitehead's Hypocritical Renunciation of the Author on't, since his Execution for Felony.

If to deny Justification3 by the Righteousness of Christ, which he in his own Person fulfilled for us, wholly without us, be to deny the Lord that bought us.

Then our depraved Quakers, having expressly denied Justification thereby, as a Doctrine of Devils, and an Arm of the Sea of Corruption, which dothnow deluge the World, (under pretence, that Christendom hath talked long enough of Christ's Flesh and Blood, which they who have eaten his Flesh, have passed through, none being justified, but such as fulfil the while Law personally) those our depraved Quakers are guilty of Heresy.

4thly. If to deny the Matter of Christ's Blood (as to the visibility if it) to be more then the Blood of another Saint4, be a Heresy, as no true Christian, who is in any measure sensible of the Divinity of his Generation above others, will offer to question: Then our depraved Quakers having {Page 22} so expressly denied it (as well as Person) to be so in their Writings, our depraved Quakers are guilty of Heresy.

5thly. If to deny the Person of Christ5 to be distinct from every Believer, be Heresy, as none who believe Acts iii., &c. will offer to question; then those our depraved Quakers having so expressly denied his Person to be distinct from every Believer, under pretence, that as Christ is not distinct from his Servants, as their Opponent imagin'd, the very Christ of God being within them, those our depraved Quakers are guilty of Heresy.

6thly If the forbidding of Marriage, which the Apostle calls a Doctrine of Devils6, be Heresy; then our depraved Quakers, having not only forbidden our Marriage with any besides our own Sect, (under pretence of all other Christian Professors being Infidels) but also, besides the several Orders against our proceedings in order thereto, without Guardians Consent for (or with it, within a Year after our former Wife's Decease) hath by another of their Orders, absolutely prohibted our lawful Marriage with our first Cousens, un the Penalty of our exclusion from Church Communion, &c.

Our depraved Quakers are guilty of Heresy herein also. as they are in many other Respects too tedious to mention7, in proof whereof those that would be further satisfied, may persue those several Books and Pages instance'd in the Margin, amongst many others that might be refer'd to, and find enough if them ti confirm the Truth if this my Charge against them; and that not without reason by their own Sentiment, since, if they be Hereticks who deny the true Foundation, and err from the true Faith, which the Saints possessed and lived in, as the Quakers themselves have confess'd, then those our depraved Ones, having in those several Matters (amongst these here referred {Page 23} denied the true Foundation, and erred from8 the true Faith the Saints profes'd and lived in, those our deprav'd Quakers are no better then Hereticks by the effect of their own Confession; which brings me to my next Charge of their Uncharitableness, as a natural Consequence of those their Heretical Impertinences: In order to the proof whereof

  1. Smith's Primer, 1st Impression, p. 8, 59. *as explain'd in his ʃaid Primer, compared with p. 45. of his Collećtion. Fox's Great Miʃt. And p. 29 of E. Burrow's true Faith of the Gospel contended for.*  ↩︎

  2. Quakers Refuge, p. 39, 40, 41 with Fox and the two Whitehead's brief Discovery, p. 7, 8, 9, 14, &c. Naylor's Second Answer p. 13, 14, 15. Smith's Banner of Love, p. 10. Contrary to the Doćtrine of the Christian Martyrs, as ʃet ʄorth in p. 13, 25. oʄ J.F.'s Aćt and Monuments. Fox's Great Miʃt. p. 37. Fox's General Epiʃtle, p. 18. Fuce's Fall p. 15, 19, 21, &c. F. Howgill's Works, p. 289.  ↩︎

  3. Fox's Great Miʃt. p. 250. Several Papers printed 1671. p. 59. Pen's Sandy Foundation, p. 25. Serious Apol. p. 145. Reaʃon againʃt Railing, p. 67. Pen's Part of Chriʃtian Quaker p. 97. Burrow's collećtion, p. 16, 27, 33. Fisker's Ruſticus, p. 8. Voice of him that is escaped from Babilon, p. 41. &c.  ↩︎

  4. See Eccle's Assertion as cited by Tho. Elwood, p. 116. of his Truth deʄebded, compared with Shewing's Treatiʃe oʄ Thoughts, p. 37. Light and Life, p. 59.  ↩︎

  5. Great Miʃt. p. 207, 254. Burrow's Collećt. p. 149. as cited Ang. Flag. 223. Howgil's Popish Inquisition, p. 45. Atkinſon's Sword drawn, p. 5, &c. Whitehead's Dipper plung'd, p. 13.  ↩︎

  6. See Moses Weſts Book about Marriage, together with their ʃeveral Orders on that Subjećt as notified in my 14 Inʃtances of their Apostacy yet in MSS.  ↩︎

  7. Popiʃh Inquiſʃition newly erećted, p. 45. G. Fox jun. Works, p. 4, 52. Quakeriʃm, a new Nickname, p. 6.  ↩︎

  8. Iſhmael and his Mother caʃt out, with their Sword of the Lord drown, p. 5. Judgement ʄix'd, p. 336. Chriʃtian Quaker, 1ʃt Part p. 97. Fox's Great Miʃt. p. 206. 250. compared with thoʃe Bugg mentions, p. 88., 92. of his Narrative of our, Sleeford Conference. Pićture of Quakerism, p. 24, 25, 26, &c. Sećt. 2 of the Snake in the Grass, and G.K's ʃeveral Narratives oʄ his Proceedings in order to their Detećtion; together with thoʃe ʃeveral Inʃtances referred to in Part 1. oʄ the Defence of .the Snake againʃt G. Whitehead's Antodote.  ↩︎

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