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Show ( 6~ ) and dead Works, to ferve the Living God, that Heb.9.t4. they might come to know his pure Spirit in themfelves to be the Root and moving Caufe of all their Words and Actions, chat fo they might i 2 ' 28• come w ferve him acceptably ; ~or want ~f which, its plain, the Lord hath. reJeCled t~e1r Sacrifices, as not required at thetr Bands, bemg . in the Spirit of Cain, u:ho flew hi! Brother', be c~ufe I )ohn 3. his own Works 2Ve1'e Evzl, and hu Brothers Rzgh- 12" teo&ts'; for which rhe Hand of the Lord halh been againft theni ever fince. C. M. Ibid. Thofe Perfons in tle Ma!fachufers <Lffiatrb- Colony, whofe Office it w tU to be J1/a tchmen of it, llltn·a[. were much allarmed at the .Approach of fo great a Iattn'lt Plague. Anfw. Had 'they been true Watchmen, that watch for the Soul, they would nor, nor need not have been fo allarm'd ar the Approach of a few innocent Perfons, that came only to feek the good of their Souls, and nm any thing they had ; nor have been at fuch a Lofs, how to prevent, or have took fuch ways ro keep them fi·om coming amongft rhem ; nor was Pri{ons, Whips and Gallo1JJS) &c. ever ufed by the True Church ( againft whom the Gates of J!ell fhall not .\tatth.x6. prevail) · ro keep any from commg among~ · 18 · rhem; no; that's the Weapons of the falfe Church; who· rlrunk the Blood of the Saints anJ Martyrs of Jefu:r, who thereby put the Good and Blej]ing AR~V. I 7·6 • from them, and rendred tbemfelves unworthy of \.lS 13• / b 46. Eternal Life, 'and fo kept · the P ~gue ro t em· · mt'tS· tetifnl tb~ fan it. ' ' I' felves; as you have done, and whtch hath foJ .. lowed you one way or other ever fince. Ibid. Altho' QEakerifm hm been, by· the new Turn tbiZt fitch ingenious Men as M1·· Penn have·giv en to it, become quite a new Thing. Anjw. Whar he terms (0akerifm, hath received no new Turn, nor any Turn ~y 'fV. P e'iJ1J, or any. one. elfe, but is rhe : goo~ good old Religion, menrioned in Scripture, of Trembling at the Worrl of the Lor4, and a 2J!al~ing 1Gra. 66• 4~· . h h' . h . h h I d ll d ' CIJ. S·2 Wlt tm m t e Lzg t, w ere 1e 1pe s, <:~n m i Tim. ~•. Chrifl, as Ne1v Creaturu, ro whom Old Things I -5. a~·e paft away, and alJ Things are become Nnv. Yet 2Cor.s.i7 (fays he) the old Foxian ~akerifm 2vbicb then vijired New-England, 'Jvas the gr(Jffifl Colleflion of Blafphemies and Confu(ions that 'JJJaJ ever beard of. Anfw. This is bur his own grofs Slander, yvhg is himfelf rhe Blafphemer and in Confu(ton, a~ aforefaid, and proves norhing but his (cofting railing Spirir, · which therefore is deniep, and rerurned to him ·again, with his t9rn.1, Foxian, bur what he calls 0!akerifm, w a,~ no orh ~r, for fubfiance, than as above expreft. C. M. Ibid. The Cb1·ift then witrujfed by tbe 0!a- <trJnHt. ken, was a certain lfeavenly Divine Borly, conflitu-ted of invijible FlepJ, Blood and Bones, in 'JJJhich Chrift came 'from Heaven. Anfiv. Tho' ·rhe term, Divine Br;dy, be not found jn Scripture; yer, h-it be meanr of the Fleth and Blood of Cbrift ~hat came down from Heaven, Qn which rhe .Saints Fee·d, and are thereby npuri{}led up unto Eternal Life, which rhe Scr!prure fpeaks of, 1ohn 6. and which we O\Yn, ·as ~~ ell ~s that he rook o( the Virgin: I do nor fee 'vhar Error there is in ir ; ' ff any have ufed ir viz.. as a Divine Seed or Body, and which o~r old and his new Friend, G. Keith, ufed, as much a~ any 011e ; yet what ~aker ever faid (as he pretends) Th~r he put that Body into the other Body of our Nature-: an~ that outermoft Body he left behind, when he ~f~en4ed znto f!e~v~1!_, no Body ~nows where, fays he, nor whoever fatd fo,fAy I. All rhefc are bur c. M'$ b~d Affe!t~ons; withou.r Proo~ which I return ~}Un . _h~m, as "alfo his fayit1g, That thi& heavenly (,.! .7'1~ {pn'rt~al Eody, 'JJ.7hic~ the f<.:!akers at length erqa- . . . . .. · ' · porat~ |