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Show ~5o 'f~e Sandy Foundation Sbak~n. V ai. I. r668. thority, a1 wtll to refu.fe tber_n to all ~lker-Vifitant.s, as prohibit them tl1e · Liberty of their Ctmfcrences rn fregumung our .Meet111g.t. . ~ AU rehich we cotttJ. not for the Trmh·Sake, lu pafs tn S~lence, m;d then. fore did require him to fer liS have a P11blick .Muting, in wbrc!J V:' mrgbt ha.ve Lib(rty to anfwer on the Beb~tlf both of our jelve~ and Prmczples; mbulJ tt/ter Jome Demur, was granud, the ~ay be appomttd, and at the Second Hour in rbc Jifrcrnoon. Bur that be mrgbt not wa!tl t.be Jlppfapfe of many Voices, and doubt/eft to prevmt our Friendt, as ( 1 am mformed) bifpoke bu ufual Auditory to be there ar Ont'; and, as a ftfan that would 11~1 ove:Jpend b. ifeif, cf inckr a lfon·plus for Want of Seconds, be bad bu Thrrd and F::'urtb' to wit Thomas D:mfon, Thomas Doolittle, and - Maddocks, -who a; their Times (and ofren out of them) did ifu~rpofe, to whom George Whitehead mofl!y anfwercd; nor bad there any Tbrng been fpoken by an~ thcr, b11t from their own Exampl~. . . . . The Jl1atter·in Controverjie, wtll be re!au4 m the Bt,£tnm'!g of r.hrs Trtfl'o ti{e, tU a nece.lfary Preladium, or lnrrodullton to the jolJowtng Difcourfe .· The Manner of it was fo grofs, that I kn~w not bow ~o rep,_·efcnt 11 bet!cr, tf1an by rbe Levity and Rudcnefs .of fame Pn.zc ;_ Laughmg, Hiffing, Sbovemg, Strikiag, and Stigmatizing 1n wah tbe Opprobrwrn Terms of Confident Fcl· low, Impudent Vilhin, Bl:J.fphemer, f5c. .And, tU t.be "':'fua/ ~efuge of Shallow Perfons (when they ~av_e liule elfe to fay, to prcpo.Defs tbetr Hr~ren with Prej11dice againjl rbe Prmczp/es of[ucb as do oppofc them) be !JUejh~~td much wbetbu I was nor Jome Jefuit; Xot t"emembnn.t:, or. at leapum~dlt11g to let the People k.norD, that none kave been, n_or Qre more mfl.mu rn the Vin" dication of rbat DoUrine bt and bu Brother 1td offert, (~o uut, God Subfiiting in Three Diftin£t Perfons) tbon rbe Jcfum: ,So ~1Jat if I fooul~ nor as uea 1·ej{e8 11. Sctmdal upon their L~arning_ bJ. a_ Co111pnrijo_n, as be drd upon my Principle, I could more truly wverr jeiultlfm upon btmfelf: I~ JPort, they neither twuld keep to Scripturf Ttrmr rbc_mfelves, '~or Iu.ffer zt m, ot1;er~; but /o(Jking upon G. Whitehead s Expl~nalton of t betr Terms, a'!d 1\_tdtlflton iJ[tbeir Matter (if poffible) to a ~cr~pture Senft (rbertb)' fiumg tt to ~he .Auditors .Apprebenjion) to be. n_!l tndtre8 Way of nnfwerzng (a~ that whub nakedly did expt~{e rhezr T~adm~nol Folly to rbe Vu_lgar) T.V. m m1 abrupt Manner feU ro bi.r Prayer. tn whrcb be Ja!Jly, and nath many {lran_gdy nffetld Whines, nccuf_ed 1u for Blafpbemers unto God~ and thor be nng~r.prevenr the clearing OJ our Jdves, be drjired the People, when be had .fini]hd, to bt gone, giving rbem an Exa.mplt by hi.r and three lJrcrbren's Retrca~: Bill we being dejironJ further to m]orm the People of our Innocency, they dtd not otlly (as before) endeavour to pull us dolon, hut putt be Candl~s ou_r, ~hou_gb fevcral Perf~m, of good Epeem, conri1t1Jed wbdfl ue Jpol:.e In Vindtcatton ofoNr ]elves from the !nve8tves of our .A.dverfartet. Tbe.' People Jlill remaining u'!d~fperfed, T .. y. came. verY. p~lely down t.be Stairs (having a Candle. in bu Hand) regutrrng t!mr Dijinij}iott, at wbuh Time he promifed zn, at oul' Requefl, an~ther Meet111g; bur as one t~ot k11erD nor well wh11t be faid, or never purpos d to perform what be promts'd,, bas given us fince to underfland, be can'~ in <;onfcience fp:ue us fo rnu~h T1me; yet to Jatisjie G. W. and m1 fe/f, tn Pnv.nte, be could agree ; w1Jic~ Jurely can't be urm'd another .!11eetzng, jince tben 1t mufl relate to -,be prccedmg one: But bow near the Relation it beuvixt an .Accufarion before Handredt, and a SarUfallion before none, mufl need.t be obvious 10 (Vtry unb;yas'd Perfon :Our Right foould have been altogether as publick. as our Wrong:--- For tJJbicb Caufe we were ncce.ffitatcd to vijit hit Meeting, tobere, on a LeEl:ureDay, (after a continued Stlence during aU his Wor/hip) we madeft!y intrCtlttd. we might be clear'd from rhofe unjuft. RejleOions before his Congregation, leaving a Difpatation (if he could not then attend it) to fome ffl(lre .feafonahlt Opportunity: .But or one, wbo.refolv'd ll!jujlice to Men'.r Rrputatum, as o:ell as Cowardize, in bau/king a Defence of his an:n Principles, he flunk mojl jhnme{ully away; nor would any there, though urg'd to it, o..ff11me bis Plnce to vindieatt l1is PraOhe rort:~ardsus, or bis Doflriftcstbtn deliveld. Re:~.der, VoL. I. The Sandy Foundation Shak~'!· Reader, What's thy Opinion oj1his Savage Entertainment? Would Socrates, Cato, or Seneca, whom tbry call Heathens, have treated ~s ,wirb fucb unjeemly Carriage ? I fuppoJe no_t: Lind well i.r it for the Tr11IY, Sober and Confcientio!'r, they a':.e nor liable to rboJe fewre Lajhu, and t~at ptevijh Ujage, ~h1ch are the mfepnrab!e .dp~endix ~o a Scotch Direa.;>ry, whofe cold and cuutng Gales ever b(lve dejign d to mp and b!ajl the fttirefl Bloffomt of greater Reform11tion. So much lor Hiftory. What remains, is to m[orm tbt Rea~er, that with great Brevity I have difcuft, ~nd endttfVO/Ired a_tota/ Enervatto.n of rhofe Cardinal Point.r, and Chief Do(lrmcs fo firmly. b~bevfd., and contmuaOy impos'd for Articles ofChri/1ian Ft~~tb:. J. The ':frmay of .Separ~te Pcrfons, in the ~ity of Effence. 2. Gods Incapactty to _forgt_ve, wtt~out the fulleft SausfaEt:ion paid him bJ: another. 3· A Jufttfi~at~on of -tmpure Perfons1 from an imputative Rtghteoufnefs .. Whuh Prmctp!es let me tell thee, Reader, are not more repllg~ anr to Scrrptur~, R~afonJ .and Soult·Security, than mofl JeflruOive. ro Gods HonOJ", m hn Umty, Mercy, and Purity. Therefore I befeecb !bee to exterminate Pll}fom from her Predominancy in the Perufal of t1Jis abrzdg'd Difcourfe, jincc it W(U writ in love to tbee~ ;liar' fJ.}hiljl 'tu thy Dejire to ~now, love, and fear Go'd .Almighty above Mens Prec~ prs, tboa mayfl fOI f!~ifs fo £oq4 11n End, by the blind "Embraces of Trqdi ... ttolf. for Tr11th. 'But 1~ the 1\.obtltty of a /rJJ& Berean, fearcb and enquire; ltlltng the good old Vcnty, nota prercml.ed .Antiquity, (whil.f l ameernovelry) andfo!rd Reafon, nor.a_n over·fond C~eduiity, fway the Ballance of rhl ]Jtdgmenr, that both Stabzluy and Certamty may accompany thy Detcrmmarionr. Farewel. A fbort Confutation by Way of Recapitulation, of what was objefJed againjl "" at Thomas Vincent's Meeting. . I F Difputations prove at a~y '!ime ineffectual, it"s either to be imputed to t~e l.gnorance and ~mh1guuy of t?e Difputants, or to the Rudenefs a~d PreJUdice of the Andlfory ' All wh1eh may be trult affirmea of T. V. wuh h1s three Brethren, and Congregation. ~he Accufation being general, vi.:;. Tbat the Quakers held bamnaD!e DoO: m.es: George WhirebeL!d on their Behalf ftood up, and as it was his place, wtl!~ng~y W?uld have. gt\'en the People an Information of our Principles, whrch.tf ObJeCl:ed aga1nfl, he ~as as ready to defend them by the Authority of Scnpmre and Reafon ; but mftead of this better Method T.V. as one !hat's oft~n employ'~ in.~atechifiical Le8:ures, falls to lnterr~gatories beg· Ing that hrmfelf, he rn hts Slander had taken for granted to wit the Know-ledge of our Principles. ' ' 2)i 1668. ~ .T~e Queition was this, Whnhrr we oton'd one God-head,jllbjiflihg in Three DiflmO and Separate Perfons, as the Refult of various Revifes and Amendmenu; w_hich bei~g denied by us, as a Doarine no where Scriptural, T. V. frames thts Syllog1fm from the beloved Difciple's Words. There are three that be or Record in Heaven, the Pat her, the Word, and the John ,. 1• Holy Ghofl; and rbefe Three are one. Thife are either three Manifeflatioits, three Operations three Stlbjlance.r or threefomerbings elfe bcjide Subjiflences. ' ' But they ore not three Manife{1ations three Op(ratiurts three Subftancet nor three any thing el{e be fide Sabfiflenc;r: . ' , Ergo, Three Subfr/lences. G. TiT. Utterly rejeEl:ed his Terms, as not to be found in Scripture, nor ded.uceable fr?m the Pl~ce he inHanced: Wherefore lte defires r·heir Expla'natt? n of thet~ Terms, mafmuch as God did not ufe to·wrap his Truths up tn Heathemfh Metaphyficks, hut in plain Language: Notwithftanding. we could not obrain a better Explication than P'erfon or of Perfon than the. Mode of a ~ubfbnce; To all which G. w: and ~Y felf urged feveial Scnptures, provmg God's compleat Unity: And when We queried how God K k 2 W13' .. |