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<P>A VINDICATION OF <HI>W. P.</HI> FROM THE Erronious and Fal&s;e Te&s;timony OF Thomas Budd: BEING In An&s;wer to a Sheet of his, ENTITULED, <HI>A Te&s;timony for Truth, again&s;t Error.</HI> By <HI>Jo&s;eph Wyeth.</HI></P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed and Sold by <HI>T. Sowle,</HI> next Door to the <HI>Meeting-hou&s;e</HI> in <HI>VVhite-Hart-Court</HI> in <HI>Gracious-&s;treet;</HI> and at the <HI>Bible</HI> in <HI>Leaden-hall-&s;treet,</HI> near the <HI>Market,</HI> 1697.</P>
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<HEAD>A VINDICATION OF <HI>W. P.</HI> FROM THE Erronious and Fal&s;e Te&s;timony OF <HI>T. B&V;DD;</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>HAving met with a Sheet, Entitu|led, <HI>A Te&s;timony for Truth again&s;t Error,</HI> Sub&s;cribed <HI>Thomas Budd,</HI> in which he Charges <HI>W. P.</HI> with denying &s;ome of the Chief Principles of Chri&s;tianity: After Reading the Sheet, I was very de&s;irous to get tho&s;e Books of <HI>W. P</HI>'s mentioned by <HI>T. Budd,</HI> that I might ex|amine the Quotations from which he pretends to draw this Charge of Error; accordingly I did (with &s;ome difficul|ty) get them, and have Examined the Pages refer'd to by <HI>T. Budd,</HI> and have
<PB N="4" REF="3"> ju&s;t rea&s;on to be Amazed, that after &s;uch picking, leaving out, and &s;ometimes forging <HI>W. P</HI>'s Adver&s;aries Words for <HI>W. P</HI>'s; a Man &s;hould have &s;o hard a Fore-head as to Entitule it, <HI>A Te&s;timony for Truth;</HI> when in truth, it is a Te|&s;timony of as great Villany as one Man can be capable of towards another; and nothing but Malice and Apo&s;tacy could be the Parent of &s;o Mon&s;truous a Producti|on; which yet I know cannot at all in|fluence tho&s;e who know, and imparti|ally con&s;ider the different Caracters and Qualities of <HI>W. P.</HI> and <HI>T. Budd:</HI> But to &s;ome who know them not otherwi&s;e, than as this Erronious Te&s;timony again&s;t Truth repre&s;ents, may (not having the Books to examine) take this Mon&s;ter of a Draught for <HI>W. P</HI>'s True Figure. For the Information of &s;uch (and now ha|ving the Books by me) as al&s;o to do Ju&s;tice to <HI>W. P.</HI> I have undertaken this, wherein I &s;hall do little more than to &s;et down the places as they are quoted by <HI>T. Budd,</HI> and then &s;ubjoyn the places as they are in <HI>W. P</HI>'s Books, &amp; which will be found &s;ufficient to prove, that <HI>W. P.</HI> do's not de|ny, <HI>The Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit</HI>
<PB N="5" REF="3"> to be <HI>God,</HI> nor that Chri&s;t was wound|ed for our Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions, and bore our Griefs; nor deny that Je&s;us Chri&s;t was the Son of God, that died at <HI>Jeru&s;alem;</HI> nor that we are Ju&s;tified through the Righteou&s;ne&s;s of Chri&s;t; nor that Je&s;us is the <HI>Me&s;&s;iah,</HI> the Chri&s;t of God; or the Re&s;urrection of the Body; nor Under|value the Scriptures: All which Bla&s;phe|my, Here&s;ie and Error he pretends to find in the Books following, as they are Cited by him.</P>
<P>His Fir&s;t Quotation is out of <HI>Sandy Foundation,</HI> p. 12, 13, 15. <HI>If God, as the Scriptures Te&s;tifie, hath never been declared or believed, but as the Holy One, then will it follow, that God is not a Holy Three, nor doth &s;ub&s;i&s;t in Three di&s;tinct or &s;eparate Holy Ones; and &s;ince the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Spirit is God: Then unle&s;s the Father, Son and Spirit are Three di&s;tinct Nothings, they mu&s;t be Three di&s;tinct Sub&s;tances, and con&s;equently Three di&s;tinct Gods:</HI> Thus he. Now to give &s;ome Light in this matter, it may be convenient to give the Reader a Brief Account of the occa&s;ion of this Book and method which the Author <HI>W. P.</HI>
<PB N="6" REF="4"> has taken in the Writing of it: As to the fir&s;t, <HI>viz.</HI> The occa&s;ion it was this, <HI>Thomas Vincent,</HI> in a Meeting of his, &s;aid, <HI>That the</HI> Quakers <HI>held Damnable Doctrines. George Whitehead</HI> being pre&s;ent, &s;tood up, and as it was his place, willingly would have given the People an Information of our Principles; which, if Objected again&s;t, he was ready to defend them by the Authority of Scripture and Rea|&s;on; which <HI>T. Vincent</HI> prevented, and put the following Que&s;tion: <HI>Whether we owned one Godhead Sub&s;i&s;ting in Three di&s;tinct and &s;eparate Per&s;ons?</HI> This was the occa&s;ion of this Book, next as to the method it is this, <HI>W. P.</HI> refutes the the Doctrine built upon the fore-going Que&s;tion; fir&s;t from Scripture, next from Right Rea&s;on; &s;hewing many Irreligi|ous and Irrational Con&s;equences flowing from that Doctrine; and all this inter|mix'd with many Informations and Cauti|ons concerning it. Now the two fir&s;t Lines of <HI>T. Budd</HI>'s Quotation are part of an Ar|gument drawn from Scripture by <HI>W. P.</HI> a|gain&s;t the Doctrine in the Quotation above, and the re&s;t of that Quotation is part of one of tho&s;e Irreligious Con&s;equences which
<PB N="7" REF="4"> <HI>W. P.</HI> &s;hews in the Book before Cited, to be the re&s;ult of the &s;ame Doctrine: But be&s;ides this abu&s;ive patching, and &s;etting down as <HI>W. P</HI>'s Sentiment; what <HI>W. P.</HI> &s;ets down as an Irreligious Con|&s;equence. <HI>T. B.</HI> does not come up to the Terms of Que&s;tion which is con|cerning Three di&s;tinct and &s;eparate Per&s;ons Sub&s;i&s;ting in one God. If he can prove this from Scripture, then he proves what <HI>W. P.</HI> hath denied. But while <HI>T. Budd</HI> does only &s;et down the Te&s;timony of the Apo&s;tle, <HI>viz. That the Father, the Word, and the Spirit are the Three that bear Record in Heaven, and are One God.</HI> He does not at all &s;hew him&s;elf to be|lieve the Que&s;tion in the Terms <HI>W. P.</HI> denies it. And for &s;uch Holy Three, as is mentioned in Scripture, which have none of the Terms <HI>W. P.</HI> oppo&s;es, he hath &s;ufficiently &s;hewn his Belief there|of, not only in the Confe&s;&s;ion of Faith hereafter mentioned, but al&s;o in his <HI>In|nocency with Her open Face;</HI> and his <HI>Key.</HI> And many of his Books which do at all border upon that Point of Faith. This for <HI>T. Budd</HI>'s fir&s;t Charge.</P>
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<P>His Second is, The Denial of Chri&s;t's Satisfaction; for Proof of which <HI>T. Budd</HI> hath made a Quotation out of the &s;ame Book, <HI>viz. Sandy Foundation,</HI> p. 16, 18, 21, 22. <HI>W. P.</HI> &s;aith, <HI>The Ju&s;tice offended being Infinite, his Satisfaction ought to bear a proportion therewith, which</HI> Je&s;us Chri&s;t, <HI>as Man, could never pay, he being Finite; and from a Finite Cau&s;e could not proceed an Infinite Effect&mdash;Since Chri&s;t could not pay what was not his own; it follows, that in the payment of his own, the Ca&s;e &s;till remains equally grievous, &s;ince the Debt is not hereby ab&s;olved or forgiven, but tran&s;|fer'd only; and by con&s;equence we are no better provided for Salvation than before, owing that now to the Son which was once owing to the Father. It no way renders Men beholding, or in the lea&s;t obliged to God, &s;ince by their Doctrine he would not have abated us, nor did he Chri&s;t the lea&s;t Farthing.</HI> Hitherto <HI>T. Budd</HI>'s Quotation, but the Doctrine which <HI>W. P.</HI> does in the Pages before Cited oppo&s;e, is menti|oned by <HI>W. P.</HI> in p. 14. of <HI>Sandy Foun|dation,</HI> and is in the Terms following:</P>
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<Q>Doctr. <HI>That Man having Tran&s;|gre&s;&s;ed the Righteous Law of God, and &s;o expo&s;ed to the Penalty of Eternal Wrath, it's altogether im|po&s;&s;ible for God to remit or forgive without a plenary Satisfaction; and that there was no other way by which God could obtain Satisfacti|on, or &s;ave Men, then by In|flicting the Penalty of Infinite Wrath and Vengeance on Je&s;us Chri&s;t the Second Per&s;on in the</HI> Trinity, <HI>who for Sins pa&s;t, pre|&s;ent, and to come, hath wholly borne and paid it, to the offended Infinite Ju&s;tice of his Father.</HI></Q>
<P>AGain&s;t this Rigid and Un&s;criptural Doctrine <HI>VV. P.</HI> brings about Fif|teen Texts of Scripture, and from them &s;hews the great Forgivene&s;s of God; after them in p. 17, 18. he refutes this Doctrine from Right Rea&s;on; &s;hewing,
<PB N="10" REF="6"> why <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> as Man, could not be a plenary Satisfaction; the place is thus, p. 18. 6. <HI>Tbe Ju&s;tice Offended, being Infi|nite, his Satisfaction ought to bear a pro|portion therewith, which Je&s;us Chri&s;t, as Man, could never pay, he being Finite, and from a Finite Cau&s;e could not proceed an Infinite Effect; for &s;o Man may be &s;aid to bring forth God, &s;ince nothing below the Divinity of Chri&s;t it &s;elf, can rightly be Stiled Infinite.</HI> Of this Rea&s;on <HI>T. Budd</HI> cut off the la&s;t Line. But to go on, <HI>W. P.</HI> having in this, and &s;ix or &s;even particulars more, &s;hewn the contrariety of the Doctrine above, to Right Rea&s;on, he then numbers up nine Irreligious and Irrational Con&s;equences from the afore Doctrine: The &s;eventh and eighth Con|&s;equences in p. 19. runs thus, <HI>Since Chri&s;t could not pay what was not his own, it fol|lows that in the payment of his own, the ca&s;e &s;till remains equally grievous; &s;ince the debt is not hereby ab&s;olved or fogiven, but tran&s;|fer'd only; and by con&s;equence we are no better provided for Salvation than before; owing that now to the Son which was once owing to the Father.</HI></P>
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<P>8. <HI>It no way renders Man beholding, or in in the lea&s;t oblig'd to God, &s;ince by their Doctrine he would not have abated us, nor did he Chri&s;t the lea&s;t Farthing, &s;o that the acknowledgments are peculiarly the Sons; which de&s;troys the whole Current of Scrip|ture Te&s;timony, for his good will towards Men. O the Infamous Portraiture, this Doctrine draws of the Infinite Goodne&s;s: Is this your Retribution? O Injurious Sa|tisfactioni&s;ts.</HI> Of this, <HI>T. B.</HI> in his Quotation hath taken but about two Lines.</P>
<P><HI>T. B</HI>'s Third Charge is, That <HI>W. P.</HI> hath denyed Je&s;us Chri&s;t, the Son of God, that Died at <HI>Jeru&s;alem;</HI> his Quota|tion is out of <HI>Serious Apology,</HI> in An&s;wer to <HI>T. Jenner,</HI> p. 146. <HI>W. P.</HI> &s;aith, <HI>He</HI> (T. Jenner) <HI>takes up a whole Chapter in his endeavours to prove, That we deny the Lord that bought us, becau&s;e we deny that Per&s;on (the Son of God) that Died at</HI> Je|ru&s;alem <HI>to be our Redeemer.</HI></P>
<P>It will be convenient here, to give &s;ome Brief Account of this Book, before I give the Quotation out of it, in order to its bet|ter Under&s;tanding, which in &s;hort is this: This Book, Entituled, <HI>A Serious Apology,</HI>
<PB N="12" REF="7"> &amp;c. was written by <HI>W. P.</HI> in An&s;wer, and for the Clearing of the People called <HI>Quakers,</HI> from the Malicious A&s;per&s;ions, Erronious Doctrines, and Horid Bla&s;|phemies of <HI>Tho. Jenner</HI> and <HI>Timothy Taylor,</HI> in a Book of theirs, Entituled, <HI>Quakeri&s;m, Anatomized and Confuted:</HI> In which Book among other things they &s;ay, The <HI>Qua|kers</HI> deny the Lord that brought them, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> In reply to this, <HI>W. P.</HI> in p. 146. of the <HI>Apology,</HI> &s;ays, <HI>1&s;t. He takes up a whole Chapter in his endeavours to prove, that we deny the Lord that bought us, though very fal&s;ly, and with equal in&s;ucce&s;s.</HI> And here he brings in a Quotation out of <HI>Quakeri&s;m Anatomized,</HI> &amp;c. p. 153, 154. The Quotation is thus out of <HI>Jen|ner, Becau&s;e we deny that Per&s;on (the Son of God) that Dyed at</HI> Jeru&s;alem <HI>to be our Redeemer.</HI></P>
<P>And immediately <HI>W. P.</HI> &s;ubjoyns, which mo&s;t horid Imputation has been An&s;wered more (I believe) than a Thou|&s;and times; that is, <HI>That he that laid down his Life, and &s;uffered his Body to be Crucified by the</HI> Jews, <HI>without the Gates of</HI> Jeru&s;alem, <HI>is Chri&s;t the only Son of the mo&s;t High God: But that the outward</HI>
<PB N="13" REF="7"> <HI>Per&s;on</HI> (or Body only, which is what <HI>VV. P.</HI> meant as appears by what follow) <HI>which Suffered was properly the Son of God, we utterly deny, and it is a perfect Contradicti|on to their own Principles;</HI> A Body ha&s;t thou prepared me, <HI>&s;aid the Son; then the Son was not the Body, though the Bo|dy was the Sons; this brings him more un|der the charge of making him but a meer Man, than us, who acknowledge him to be One with the</HI> Father, <HI>and of a Nature Eternal and Immortal; for he was Glori|fied with the Father before the VVorld was.</HI> The Patching and Horrid Forgery of <HI>T. Budd</HI> in this place is &s;urely without Ex|ample, for here he has not been content only to pick a Line, but al&s;o to joyn to it (as <HI>VV. P</HI>'s, a Quotation which <HI>VV. P.</HI> took out of his Adver&s;aries Book to An&s;wer as above. To this Forgery, he has al&s;o added Folly in that after pick|ing two or three Lines of the la&s;t Quo|tation, he has laid them down in his Sheet, as a Charge of a different Nature from the la&s;t mentioned, which he makes his Fifth Charge; but this his Folly, Blind Malice, and Forgery, falls back upon him&s;elf: Such is the Shame and Con|fu&s;ion
<PB N="14" REF="8"> of him, and all others; who, by Apo&s;tatizing from the Spirit of Truth, are become Darkne&s;s. I proceed now to <HI>T. Budd</HI>'s Fourth Charge, drawn out of p. 148. of this &s;ame Book, and which is, That <HI>VV. P.</HI> denies Ju&s;tification by an Imputative Righteou&s;ne&s;s</P>
<P><HI>T. Budd</HI>'s Quotation runs thus, <HI>That we deny Ju&s;tification by the Righteou&s;ne&s;s which Chri&s;t hath fulfilled in his own Per|&s;on for us (wholly without us) and there|fore deny the Lord that brought us.</HI> In An&s;wer to this <HI>VV. P.</HI> &s;aith, <HI>And in|deed this we deny, and boldly affirm it, in the Name of the Lord, to be the Doctrine of</HI> Devils, <HI>and an Arm of the Sea of Cor|ruption, which does now delude the whole VVorld. If Men may be Ju&s;tified while Im|pure, then God quits the Guilty. Death came by actual Sin, not imputative in his Sen&s;e; therefore Ju&s;tification unto Life, comes by Actual Righteou&s;ne&s;s, not Imputa|tive.</HI></P>
<P>But in the <HI>Apology</HI> it appears: That <HI>VV. P.</HI> does in this Page of 148. bring a Quotation out of <HI>T. Jenner</HI>'s Book, p. 155, 156, 157, viz.</P>
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<Q>That we deny Ju&s;tification by the Righteou&s;ne&s;s which Chri&s;t hath fulfilled in his own Per&s;on for us (wholly without us) and therefore deny the Lord that bought us.</Q>
<P>TO this <HI>VV. P.</HI> &s;ubjoyns, <HI>And indeed this we deny, and boldly affirm it in the Name of the Lord, to be the Doctrine of</HI> Devils, <HI>and an Arm of the Sea of Corrup|tion, which does now deluge the wbole VVorld.</HI> And then goes on, <HI>I &s;hall not &s;o much in&s;i&s;t upon this, as I have not upon the other four particulars, they having been Ir|refutable Con&s;idered and An&s;wered by my Friend and Partner in this Di&s;cour&s;e, in the fir&s;t Part of this</HI> Apology: <HI>Only this I &s;hall ob&s;erve and add:</HI></P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>No Man can be Ju&s;tified without Faith</HI> (&s;ays <HI>Jenner)</HI></P>
<P><HI>No Man hath</HI> Faith <HI>without</HI> Works <HI>(any more than a Body can Live without a Spirit</HI> (&s;aith <HI>James)</HI> viz. the Apo&s;tle.)</P>
<P><HI>Therefore the VVorks of Righteou&s;ne&s;s, by the Spirit of Chri&s;t Je&s;us, are nece&s;&s;ary to Ju&s;tification.</HI></P>
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<P>Secondly, <HI>If Men may be Ju&s;tified, whil&s;t impure, then God quits the Guilty; contra|ry to the Scripture, which cannot be.</HI></P>
<P>Thirdly, <HI>Death came by Actual Sin, not Imputative in his Sen&s;e; therefore Ju|stification unto Life comes by Actual Righ|teou&s;ne&s;s, and not Imputative.</HI></P>
<P>There are Three more Conclu&s;ions which follow, and which for brevity &s;ake, I omit, willing only to recite &s;o much as may take in all that <HI>T. Budd</HI> has here and there pick'd to make up his Quotati|on, only next immediately after the Three Conclu&s;ions; which, I &s;ay, I have left out, there follows a &s;hort Confe&s;&s;ion of our Faith, which it may be of Service to the Hone&s;t-minded to publi&s;h; as al&s;o a Te&s;timony again&s;t the Apo&s;tacy, Hypo|cricy and Envy of <HI>T. Budd,</HI> who could not but &s;ee it when he mangled that part of the Book, as he thought, for his Ser|vice: It is in p. 149. <HI>VVe do believe only in one Holy God Almighty, who is an E|ternal Spirit, the Creator of all Things.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And one Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, his only Son, and Expre&s;s Image of his Sub&s;tance, who took upon him Fle&s;h, and was in the VVorld, and in Life, Doctrine, Miracles, Death, Re&s;ur|rection,</HI>
<PB N="17" REF="9"> <HI>A&s;cen&s;ion, and Mediation, perfectly did, and does continue to do the Will of God, to who&s;e Holy Life, Power, Mediation and Blood, we only a&s;cribe our Sanctification, Ju&s;ti|fication, Redemption and perfect Salvation.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And we believe in one Holy Spirit, that proceeds and breaths from the Father and the Son, as the Life and Virtue of both the Father and the Son, a mea&s;ure of which is given to all, to profit with; and he that has One has all; for tho&s;e Three are One, who is the</HI> Alpha <HI>and the</HI> Ome|ga, <HI>the Fir&s;t and the La&s;t, God over all, Ble&s;&s;ed for ever,</HI> Amen.</P>
<P><HI>T. Budd</HI>'s Sixth Charge again&s;t <HI>VV. P.</HI> is, <HI>The Denying the</HI> Me&s;&s;iah <HI>the Chri&s;t of God;</HI> for which he Cites a Book, Enti|tuled, <HI>The Chri&s;tian Quaker;</HI> written by <HI>G. VV.</HI> and <HI>W. P.</HI> again&s;t the Injurious Attempts of many Adver&s;aries; and it will &s;tand again&s;t the weak, though black, Attempts of this Man, who in this Quotation of his, has with a hardned Face, cut a Sentence a-&s;un|der in the mid&s;t, which I que&s;tion whether any <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Inqui&s;itor has yet done, when he willingly raked in a Book for Here&s;ie; his Quotation is
<PB N="18" REF="10"> thus, <HI>Chr. Quaker,</HI> p. 96. <HI>Abraham</HI> &s;aw my Day and Rejoyced: <HI>They &s;till harping upon that vi&s;ible Body, not Thirty Years Old, Replied,</HI> Thou art not yet Fifty, and ha&s;t thou &s;een <HI>Abraham? Taking that to be the</HI> Me&s;&s;iah <HI>the Chri&s;t of God, and Saviour of the World;</HI> he meant, <HI>which they &s;aw with their Carnal Eyes.</HI> I &s;hall now give the Quotation from the Book it &s;elf, but am obliged to Recite the whole Para|graph (the above Quotation being in the middle) and the whole being &s;o de|pendant upon every part, that it can|not, without &s;ome hurt to the meaning of the whole, be &s;eparated; it is thus, <HI>Chr. Quaker,</HI> p. 96. <HI>Before I conclude, take this notable &s;aying of Chri&s;t to the Jews, and what may be collected from it to our purpo&s;e,</HI> Before <HI>Abraham</HI> was, I am: <HI>Abraham</HI> &s;aw my Day and Rejoyced, <HI>John</HI> 8. 56, 57, 58. <HI>which affords us briefly thus much: That though he was not &s;o vi&s;ibly come, yet it was the very &s;ame HE that came about One Thou&s;and Six Hundred Years ago, who was with the Fathers of Old; and that</HI> Abraham, <HI>who Lived Nineteen Hun|dred Years before that outward Appearance, &s;aw him, and his Day. If this be not the</HI>
<PB N="19" REF="10"> <HI>import of the place, I know none; for the</HI> Jews, <HI>not believing him to be the</HI> Me&s;&s;iah, <HI>thought it high Per&s;umption for him to compare with</HI> Abraham; Art thou greater than our Father <HI>Abraham,</HI> who is Dead, and the Prophets are Dead? <HI>&V;nto which he an&s;wered (that he might prove him&s;elf to be the true</HI> Me&s;&s;iah, <HI>the Chri&s;t of God)</HI> (the foregoing part of this Sentence, as al&s;o the explanatory Parenthe&s;is <HI>T. B.</HI> cut off, and begins his here) <HI>Abraham</HI> &s;aw my Day, and rejoyced: <HI>They &s;till harped upon that Vi&s;ible Body not Thirty|three Years Old, replied,</HI> Thou art not yet Fifty, and ha&s;t thou &s;een <HI>Abraham? Ta|king that to be the</HI> Me&s;&s;iah, <HI>the Chri&s;t of God, and Saviour of the World, he meant, which they &s;aw with their Carnal Eyes. To which he rejoyned with a</HI> Verily, Verily, I &s;ay unto you, before <HI>Abraham</HI> was, I am; then took they up Stones to ca&s;t at him, &amp;c. <HI>By all which it is mo&s;t clear, that unle&s;s our Adver&s;aries will deny him that &s;o &s;poke (which yet</HI> T. Hicks<HI>'s Anti-Scriptural Opinion doth imply) to be Chri&s;t, who &s;ingled and di&s;tingui&s;h'd him&s;elf as the</HI> Me&s;&s;iah, <HI>the Chri&s;t of God, and Saviour of the World, from that Vi&s;ible Body, not</HI>
<PB N="20" REF="11"> <HI>Fifty Years Old indeed; both Chri&s;t that &s;poke then mu&s;t needs have been long be|fore</HI> Abraham<HI>'s Time; and that &s;uch Ho|ly Ancients were not without a &s;ight and pro&s;pect of him, and the day of his Glori|ous Appearance, or that mo&s;t Signal Mani|fe&s;tation of him&s;elf in that Body prepared for that Great and Holy Purpo&s;e, witne&s;s the exceeding Clear and Heavenly Prophe|cies, that were as &s;o many Fore-runners or Introductions of the Evangelical State.</HI> This true Quotation does &s;ufficiently &s;hew <HI>W. P.</HI> to own and believe in the <HI>Me&s;&s;iah,</HI> the Chri&s;t of God.</P>
<P>I come now to <HI>T. Budd</HI>'s Seventh Charge, <HI>viz. Chri&s;t, the Son of the Vir|gin, denied by W. P. to be the Seed of the Promi&s;e.</HI> In this Charge <HI>T. Budd</HI> has hid his head; he having made a Quo|tation, but named no Book, nor any Page where his (I doubt not) fal&s;e Quota|tion may be found; therefore I pa&s;s it by without notice.</P>
<P><HI>T. Budd</HI>'s Eighth Charge is, <HI>The Re|&s;urrection of the Body denied by</HI> W. P. The Book he quotes is W. P<HI>'s Rejoynder to</HI> John Faldo, p. 369, 370. his Quota|tion runs thus: <HI>W. P.</HI> &s;aith, <HI>But &s;up|po&s;e</HI>
<PB N="21" REF="11"> J. F<HI>'s Relative (it) to hold, I do deny that this Text (viz.</HI> It is Sown a Natural Body, it is Rai&s;ed a Spiritual Body) <HI>is concerned in the Re&s;urrection of Man's Carnal Body at all.&mdash;I &s;ay, this doth not concern the Re&s;urrection of Carnal Bodies, but the two States of Men under the fir&s;t and Second</HI> Adam.</P>
<P>In this, as in the former, he has plaid the Inqui&s;itor, taking here and there a Line, as be&s;t liked him; only his pre|tence may be more fairly made for clipping this than any of the former; for they were all Engli&s;h, but here is a little Greek and Latin; yet of the Engli&s;h he has not taken all he ought and might have done. I will Recite the two Pa|ragraphs out of which he has pillaged his Quotation. The Greek Text is fir&s;t &s;et down, and then the Latin Tran&s;lation, it runs thus, <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">, 1 Cor. 15. 44. <HI>Seritur Corpus animale, re&s;u&s;citatur cor|pus &s;pirituale.</HI> i. e. A Natural Body is Sown, a Spiritual Body is Rai&s;ed: <HI>That is, They lay down a Natural, and take up a Spiritual Body, or in lieu of a Natural receive a Spiritual Body; not that the</HI>
<PB N="22" REF="12"> <HI>Natural Body &s;hall be Tran&s;ub&s;tantiated into a Spiritual Body, or that admitting of &s;uch an exchange, that the Spiritual is the &s;ame Numerical Body, that was the Natural; for &s;o the Natural and Spiritual Body would be one and the &s;ame; but &s;uppo&s;e</HI> J. Faldo<HI>'s Relative (It) to hold, I do utterly deny that this Text is concerned in the Re|&s;urrection of Man's Carnal Body at all. I will Recite it with the five following Ver&s;es as they lye in our Engli&s;h Tran&s;lation.</HI></P>
<P>It is &s;own a Natural Body, it is rai&s;ed a Spiritual Body; there is a Natural Body, and there is a Spiritual Body; and &s;o it is written, The fir&s;t Man <HI>Adam</HI> was made a Living Soul, the la&s;t <HI>Adam</HI> was made a Quickning Spirit; howbeit, that was not fir&s;t which was Spiritual, but that which is Natural, and after|ward, that which is Spiritual; the fir&s;t Man is of the Earth, Earthy; the &s;econd <HI>Adam</HI> is the Lord from Heaven; as is the Earthy, &s;o are they that are Earthy; and as is the Heavenly, &s;o are they al&s;o which are Heavenly; and as we have born the Image of the Earthy, we &s;hall al&s;o bear the Image of the Heavenly, <HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49. <HI>I &s;ay, this doth not</HI>
<PB N="23" REF="12"> <HI>concern the Re&s;urrection of Carnal Bodies, but the two States of Men under the Fir&s;t and Second</HI> Adam, <HI>Men are Sown into the World Natural, and &s;o they are the Sons of the Fir&s;t</HI> Adam. <HI>but they are Rai&s;ed Spiritually, through him who is the Re&s;ur|rection and the Life, and &s;o they are the Sons of the Second</HI> Adam, <HI>the Lord from Heaven, the Quickning Spirit. The very words of the Apo&s;tle undeniably prove this to be the Scope; how el&s;e could the Fir&s;t</HI> Adam<HI>'s being made a Living Soul, and the Second</HI> Adam <HI>a Quickning Spirit, be a Pertinent In&s;tance to prove Natural and Spiritual Bodies; upon which follows,</HI> that the Natural was Fir&s;t; <HI>that is, the Fir&s;t</HI> Adam; <HI>and then that which is Spiritual,</HI> which is the Second <HI>Adam,</HI> the Quick|ning Spirit, the Lord from Heaven, <HI>who came to rai&s;e up the Sons of the Fir&s;t</HI> Adam, <HI>from their Dead to his Living, their Natural to his Spiritual, State.</HI></P>
<P>Having now given the Paragraphs intire, out of which <HI>T. Budd</HI> had pickt his Quotation, and which does &s;ufficient|ly Confute the wrong Sugge&s;tions there|of, I may not well omit to take &s;ome little notice of his Reply to the above
<PB N="24" REF="13"> Quotation: It is thus, <HI>Therefore let</HI> P. W. <HI>know,</HI> &amp;c. (he has forgot to place the Letters right) I can a&s;&s;ure <HI>T. Budd</HI> that <HI>W. P.</HI> does know, and believe the good Doctrine of Chri&s;t's Crucifixion, and the advantages of a true Chri&s;tian upon it; and I can al&s;o a&s;&s;ure <HI>T. Budd,</HI> that I look upon him no more Cordial an Advi&s;er to <HI>W. P.</HI> than Satan was to our Saviour, when he repeated the Text to him, <HI>And he hath given his Angels Charge over thee,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>T. Budd</HI> hath done with Advi&s;ing, and now Threatens: <HI>And if he thinks to &s;top our Te&s;timony,</HI> &amp;c. And I do tell <HI>T. Budd,</HI> that if he thinks to go on without Oppo&s;ition in Forgery and Wre&s;ting, then I think he will find him&s;elf mi&s;taken, &s;ince we have <HI>Solo|mon</HI>'s advice for to u&s;e the Rod: And in|deed the Night is &s;o far &s;pent, and the Day &s;o dawned, as &s;ufficiently di&s;covers where to apply it. But now <HI>T. Budd</HI> would appear one that can Calculate My&s;teries, and point at a Bea&s;t by its number; but if he will take the Nu|merical Letters of his own Name, he will find he makes up Three times that Bea&s;t, and Seven to &s;pare. As for what
<PB N="25" REF="13"> he Promi&s;es for the Year 1700 and 1750, I can without &s;uch Calculation tell him, That let the freedom of the Upright-hearted and Faithful towards God be as in his Divine Wi&s;dom he &s;hall &s;ee meet; yet <HI>T. Budd,</HI> with all that Apo&s;tatize from the Spirit of Chri&s;t, and turn their backs upon his Holy Law, will &s;till be in &s;evere&s;t Bon|dage.</P>
<P>I now come to his la&s;t Charge again&s;t <HI>W. P.</HI> which is, <HI>That he hath &V;nder|valued the Scriptures.</HI> The Book <HI>T. Budd</HI> quotes, is <HI>Chri&s;tian Quaker,</HI> p. 144. 142. (I am not to account for his Folly in Po&s;tponeing the bigger number) his Quotation is thus: <HI>Chri&s;t left nothing in Writing, as the Rule that we hear of; and doubtle&s;s had he intended the Rule of his Followers to have been a Written Rule, he would have left it upon Record with all Punctuality; this mu&s;t be believed, and that done on pain of Eternal Death. If the Scriptures were the Rule of Faith and Life,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>then becau&s;e they cannot be the Rule in their Tran&s;lations, &s;uppo&s;e the An|cient Copies were exact, it cannot be the Rule to far the greate&s;t part of Mankind;</HI>
<PB N="26" REF="14"> <HI>indeed to none but Learned Men.</HI> In this part of the Book <HI>G. W.</HI> and <HI>W. P.</HI> come to &s;peak concerning the Scriptures, which were a&s;&s;erted to them, to be a <HI>General and Perfect Rule of Faith and Life (viz.</HI> to all Men) they have divers Argu|ments to &s;hew the contrary; their Eighth Argument lies thus: 8. <HI>Furthermore, if the Scriptures were the Rule of Faith and Life,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>then becau&s;e they cannot be the Rule in their Tran&s;lations, &s;uppo&s;e the Antient Copies were exact, it cannot be the Rule to far the greate&s;t part of Man|kind, indeed to none but Learned Men; which neither an&s;wers the Promi&s;e relating to Go&s;pel times that is &V;niver&s;al, nor the nece&s;&s;ity of all Mankind for a Rule of Faith and Life.</HI> (Here he cut off the conclu&s;ion of this Argument) In p. 144. There is another Objection thus, <HI>But if the Law engraven and delivered to</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>was a Rule to the</HI> Jews, <HI>why &s;hould not the Law delivered by Chri&s;t, and writ|ten by his Apo&s;tles, be the Rule to Chri|&s;tians.</HI></P>
<P>To this it is An&s;wered,</P>
<P>An&s;w. <HI>Chri&s;t left nothing in Writing as the Rule, that we hear of; and it is</HI>
<PB N="27" REF="14"> <HI>not to be thought he was le&s;s Faithful in his Hou&s;e than</HI> Mo&s;es (This la&s;t Sen|tence <HI>T. Budd</HI> cut out) <HI>and doubtle&s;s had he intended the Rule of his Followers to have been a Written Rule, he would have left it upon Record with all Pun|ctuality, This mu&s;t be believed and that done, on pain of Eternal Death</HI> (what follows <HI>T. Budd</HI> has cut off) <HI>Nor did his followers Write in the Method of a Rule, as the Law was Written; nor did they &s;o Call or Recommend what they Writ.</HI></P>
<P>Having now done with all the Fal&s;e Charges of <HI>T. Budd</HI> upon <HI>W. P.</HI> and put the &s;everal Quotations in their true Light, from whence the Unprejudiced Reader may make a Solid Judgment of them. I &s;hall in few words be&s;peak the Readers Patience, while I more parti|cularly &s;peak concerning this <HI>T. Budd,</HI> who was in Unity of Profe&s;&s;ion with <HI>W. P.</HI> divers Years after all the Books afore-cited by him were VVritten; and in which he now pretends to find &s;uch Errors and Here&s;ies, and I doubt not was acquainted with all, or a great
<PB N="28" REF="15"> part of them: But now (like <HI>Eve)</HI> his Eyes being opened, he is become a Man of <HI>Gath,</HI> one who gives Information to all (as him&s;elf &s;ays) who &s;eek after Truth and Righteou&s;ne&s;s; but which, I am &s;ure, is not to be found in this his Te&s;timony, nor in any Te&s;timony that ever was given forth by the Spirit of Apo&s;tacy, in which he is. He calls him|&s;elf <HI>A Servant of Chri&s;t.</HI> To this his Claim it may be proper to ask him the Que&s;tion which was put to the Man in the Go&s;pel; <HI>Friend, how came&s;t thou hi|ther?</HI> It is but a few Years &s;ince he made publick Profe&s;&s;ion of what he now calls Errors and Here&s;ies; and the di|&s;tance is very great betwixt the Erroni|ous and Heretick, and him who is tru|ly a Servant of Chri&s;t; and we have not &s;een any marks of Repentance and Recantation, in order to this his pre|tended Re&s;toration; and it is not to be allowed in the Nature and Order of Conver&s;ion, for a Man who hath through Ignorance embraced Error, and through the viciou&s;ne&s;s of his VVill fol|lowed Here&s;ie, to become reallya Servant of Chri&s;t, and a True Member of a
<PB N="29" REF="15"> Chri&s;tian Society without deep Sorrow, hearty Repentance, and great Acknow|ledgments of God's Goodne&s;s, and his own former Vilene&s;s and Ignorance; of all which we have heard nothing, but have often heard, that like the <HI>Pha|ri&s;ee,</HI> he is crying out, <HI>I am more Righ|teous than thou;</HI> from whence I con|clude he is at great di&s;tance from a true Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of this Claim. I &s;hall now, hone&s;t Reader, give thee a Di&s;|mi&s;s, only de&s;iring that the Quotations truly made may be to thy Edification, as the Detection of <HI>T. Budd</HI>'s Fraud will be, I hope, to thy Satisfaction.</P>
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