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Show ( ~6) !J~\,n. 30, '?ar beyo1!cl the Sea, that thou jhouldft Jay, Who fhaQ ll ,I2,go .tfp for t;s to Heaven ?--Or who jhalt go over the n 1 3, 14-• Scr1, to bri11g Chri(l? But the 1pord is nigh thee, in ao-..om.c ,r 8o.. ti:,J J M out b an d m. t h'J fleart, .& c. N. or I.S Cb nJ;n''. i?J Heaven wirh a Carnal b~t Spiritual Body ; and t~1at the r.xprejj words in the Pre4ch17fents of tho(e f2.!_taking hol4er!-fortp (as 'tis in Print, attefled by Jqme of tbemfeZ.ves, that had fo much Chriftianity, qJ to leave them upon the Scandal of it) have been, that it is the ;v:rk of the Devil, to cau(e People that. have profeft the Appearance of Chrift in the Heart, to re(peEI the Perfon of Chrift without them; and that it i.t a Delujion, to direCf the Minds of People to re~ [feel Chrifl, as he is nolf i~ Heaven above the Cloutll. A.nfw. AJI this ~ return upon him a~ Lyes, tiJJ he prove whoever fpoke fo, or produce his .prinr artefied by fuch as he fays, w £ell in what ~n d whofe Preachment it was fo held forth, wirh his fcoffing Term on ir, and then we may ~l(o fee, whether it was not for fome orher ~cand.d, and not Chr~ltianiry ~ chat they Ief~ them. · · ' f30~ ip- ' ·' C. 1\I. Ipid. Th~J (lilecl (h(J{e blind Be"fli (terms t n\: ~~ . we ~o 'not ufe to ufe) and Lyars, 1JJh (J fho"td fay, That the Scriptu res Reveal God; and nfjirmed it tb~ greatefl Error in the World, and tbe Ground of all Errors; to fay, The Scripture~ are a Rrde for Chriftian. r: A11j'w. Tho"' rhe Scriptt~res fays, No Man ~l·lt h,r r. knoJ~etb i~e Son_, bt.Jt the Father ~ neither kn.owet4 27. any Man the Fatb~r, {ave the Son, and be to wbomfoe7,) er the Son will Re<.Jeal him ; yet the Scriptures \ :!k<:· 1 • 1 • are a Declaration · of him : And I never read in . any Q2aker's Book, no'r heard any one affirm, as J reme!!1ber, · That i£ is rhe Grcarcfi Error in ~he World (much Iefs the Ground of all Errors) to fay, The Scri prures are a Rule for Chrifiians; f ~ w ~ · Iv:ays il!ow'd them to ~e a R,ule, an~ . ' \~i~ ( 67 ) wilh at I that call them their Rule, were ruled by lhem ; rho' nor the only or principal Rule, as c:xcluding the Spiric of God, from which rhey were given fonh, and without which they can· not be underfiood or known, as Eraj~u1, Lu-ther, Pettr llda i't'llr, John Br~tdlfiord, Calv in Bl"' a v· o" , .. I ' "'-' ) l b 'J I l• Tindal, 1ewel, and many more (Xprefly 2ffirm. Goz. .RJll~ , See W. Penn·s Chrifl. ~~Jk. 2d Edit. p.228,229 C. M. Ibid. That the Scriptures tlocl not te!J Peo- 2 3 °~ ple ~f a Trinity, nor Three Perfons ih God, but that ~tint·~ thofe Three Perfons are brot,f.ht in by the Pope. Anfiv. p. !hat the Term, Three Perfons in God, was brought m by the Pope, or A poftate Chdfiians, is rrue enough, fot the Stripmres do nor fpeak of it, rhar I tan find; and if C. M. can fhew where they do tell of a Trinity of Three Perfons in God, ~e'll own it for an Error ; ana in the !llean ume charge it on him as one rill he prov~ . l£ : Yet the Three that bear Record in Heaven, the Ilohn 'i -:·! Father, the Word, and the Holy Gbofl, &c. we own; Jutlfft .. and that.Jufl,ification by the Rigbteoufnefs which Chtifl ration~ ft~~lfilled m hu own Per{on .without m, u a DoCfri11f! of Devils. _Anfw. The words were, wholly with-o~~ m, whtch to be fure is linle 1efs, as exdu ... dm~ a?y in us, and fo encouraging People in thetr Stns, as if aU was done wichom them and which is contrary to rhe Agreement of 'John ~otton, and dfe Synod he fets down, p. '7· c. 1 . That God's Effectual Calling of rhe Soul unto : -tQe ~ord Jefus Chrift, a~d [he Soul's appre .. , hendmg, by an Att of Fanh, £he offered Righ .. , teoufnefs of the Lord Jefus Chrifi is in ordet , of Narure, before God's Atl: of J uftification upon rhe Soul, &c. So nm wholly wichom us_; yer we own the rughreoufnefs of Chrift Wlthout us, as [he Efficient or procuring Caufe and that wrought in us, as the formal Caufe of our |
