Infidelity

Infidelity

In order to the proof whereof, if they be guilty of Infidelity, that do not believe in Jesus Christ as a distinct Person at God's Right-Hand in Heaven without us, as no true Christian that owns Scripture Testimonies of his Ascension into Heaven, will offer to question.

Then those our depraved Quakers of our Foxonian Stamp, having not only often denied him, as a distinct Person as God's Right-Hand in Heaven without us; but also utterly detested all Faith in him as distinct from the Saints as abominable; under pretence, That he went from his Disciples as a Shadow; with more to this purpose; those our depraved Quakers are guilty of Infidelity.1

2dly. If they that believe not in Christ as God and Man in one Person, be guilty of Infidelity; then those our depraved Quakers having expressly declared, That they see no need of directing Men, either to Jesus Christ or his Blood for Justification; under pretence, That as the Scripture no where says, It was shed at Jerusalem for {Page 106} that end; so the true Apostle directed them to the Light (meaning the Light given to all Men coming into the World) for the Blood of Jesus to cleanse them, &c. which Light as they come to, they cease remembring his Death at Jerusalem, as a Doctrine that need not be preached; with more to this purpose; the depraved Quakers are guilty of Infidelity.2

3dly. If they that expect not Justification by and through the Blood of Christ, as it was shed without the Gates of Jerusalem for that end and purpose, be guilty of Infidelity; then those our depraved Quakers having so expressly declared, That they see no need of directing Men, either to Jesus Christ or his Blood for Justification; under pretence, That as the Scripture no where says, It was shed at Jerusalem for {Page 106} that end; so the true Apostle directed them to the Light (meaning the Light given to all Men coming into the World) for the Blood of Jesus to cleanse them, &c. which Light as they come to, they cease remembring his Death at Jerusalem, as a Doctrine that need not be preached; with more to this purpose; the depraved Quakes are guilty of Infidelity.3

4thly. If those that believe not the Blood of Christ upon the Cross to be more excellent and precious than the Blood of any other Saint, as to the Essence and Matter of it, be guilty if Infidelity; then our depraved Quakers having so expressly denied it to Matter and Visibility of it; those our depraved Quakers are guilty of Infidelity.4

Not to insist on their Denial of Justification by that Righteousness of Christ, which he in his own Person fulfilled for us, wholly without, as a Doctrine of Devils, and Arm of the Sea of Corruption, &c.5

5thly. If they that believe not in Christ any other way, than as a certain Seed or Principle in Man to which the Promise was made, be guilty of Infidelity; then those our depraved Quakers not believing in Christ any other way, than as a certain Seed or Principle in Man to which the Premise was made; under pretence, That the Body he took upon him in the Womb of the Virgin, strickly considered, is not the Seed spoken of in Gen. iii, &c. those our depraved Quakers are guilty of Infidelity.6

{Page 107} 6thly. If they that expect not to be saved by Christ without a performance of the Works of the Law, and answering every demand of Justice, &c. may be said to be guilty of Infidelity; then those our depraved Quakers having so plainly told the World, That God doth not accept of any, where there is any failing, or who doth not fulfil every demand of Justice under pretence, That Justification of Persons, is not from the imputation of another's Righteousness, but the actual performance and keeping of G9d's righteous Statues, &c. since, if that Doctrine was granted, G9d's Ways would not be equal, &c. those our depraved Quakers are guilty of Infidelity,7

7thly. If they that expect not Christ's second coming in his glorified manner, with his Saints with him in order to the Restitution of all Things, according to the Sense of those Scripture Texts heretofore notified under the Head of their Error, may be accounted guilty of Infidelity; then those our depraved Quakers being so far from expecting any such glorious Appearance of Christ for that glorious purpose, as that they expressly tell the World, That as those who took heed to the Light, will cease from all outward expectation of his coming, their Opponents might look till their Eyes drop out, before they saw him so come to save them; under pretence, of their having witnessed him to come the second time without Sin to Salvation in their Flesh, as the end of their Faith and Hope, &c. those our depraved Quakers are therein also guilty of Infidelity, in Evidence if this my Charge against them.8

{Page 108} In further proof whereof, the Reader may find many more Instances in Robert Gourdon's Christianity vindicated, compared with Sect. 10. of the Snake in the Grass, and Defence of the same against G. Whitehead's Antidote, with G. Keith's Several Narratives of his several Conferences, &c. to which I refer them for more full satisfaction, and shall descend to give Instances of their Hypocrisy, as a natural Consequent of this their Crime that leads to it.

  1. See Fox's Great Myʃt. p 174. Whitehead's Chriʃt aʃcendred, p. 24, 44, 69. Brieʄ Diʃcovery, p. 14. Appendix to Reaʃon againʃt Railing, p. 17. Fuce's Fall oʄ a great viʃible Idol, p. 15, 19, 21. Sword of the Lord drawn, p. 5. Burrow's Works, p. 38. Howgil's Works, p. 251. Ang. Flag. p. 204, &c.  ↩︎

  2. See their Sword oʄ the Lord drawn, p. 5 &c. as deʄended p. 174. oʄ their Fox's Great Myʃt. as cited p. 571. oʄ Fr. Bugg's Retroʃpećtive Glaʃs.  ↩︎

  3. Geo. Whitehead's Light of Chriʃt within, p. 38, 39, 53, &c. Great Myʃt. p. 250. Several Papers printed 1670, p. 22, 58, 59. Serious Apol. p. 148. Whitehouſes Doct. of Perʄećtion, p. 19. Quakeriʃm a new Nick-Name, p. 6, 12.  ↩︎

  4. Antidote Ven. p. 223. Light of Chriʃt within, p. 58, 59. in Deʄence of their Friend Solomon Eccles.  ↩︎

  5. Apol. p. 148. Reaʃon againʃt Railing, p. 67.  ↩︎

  6. Jacob ʄound in a Deʃart Land, p. 6, 7. Brieʄ Diʃcovery, in Anʃwer to John How, p. 21, &c. Naylor's Love to the Loʃt. Pen's Part of the Chriʃtian Quaker, as they call it, p. 97, 98. Ang. Flag. p. 213. compared with the Inʃtance recited, p. 125, 126, 129, 134. oʄ the 1ʃt Part oʄ the Deʄ4nce of the Snake, againʃt G. Whitehead's Venomous Antidote, &c.  ↩︎

  7. Burrow's Works, p. 32, 33. compared with p. 25. oʄ Pen's Sandy Foundation, and p. 22, 25, 26. oʃ Naylor's Anʃwer to the perʄećt Phariʃee, as cited p. 2. oʄ the Quakers Jeſus. Pen's Serious Apol. p. 148.  ↩︎

  8. John Whitehead's Reproof from the Lord, p. 4. Geo. Whitehead's Nature oʄ Chriʃtianity, p. 29, 41, &c. Light and Life of Chriʃt within, p. 18, 40, 41. Some Principles of the Elećt People p. 71. Fuce's Fall, p. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 19, 20, 34. Appendix to Pen's Reaʃon againʃt Railing, p. 26, 47. Antodote Ven. p. 112, 195, 197. Eccle's Muʃick Lećture, p. 19, 20. Norton's Manuʃcript, ascited p. 98 of the 2d Part of the Deʄence of the Snake, againʃt Whitehead's Antidote.  ↩︎

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