An answer according to truth that trembles not, nor quakes, nor quayleth : given to thirty six queries, propounded by James Parnell (commonly called the Young Quaker) to an ancient countrey-minister : with some counter-quæries returned by the same minister unto the said young Quack and his fellowes.

26 Quaery, Can any be set free from sin while they are upon earth? And when must they be cleansed if not upon the earth?

Ans. There is an earth, or earthly being, which is sin it self, Colos. 3. 5. Mortifie therefore your members which are upon earth. In this earth there is not a man that sinneth not, Eccles. 7. 20. yea, there is not a man upon the outward earth which hath not often sinned, Christ himself excepted. But when I look upon one main end of Christs coming, which is to redeem us from all iniquity, Tit. 2. 14. Ephes. 5. 24, 25, 26. upon his power to do the work, Matth. 28. 18. Heb. 7. 25. and upon the promises to that effect, Amos 9. 8. Micha 7. 19. Luke 1. 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, &c. 2 Pet. 1. 4. I cannot but acknowledge that all iniquit▪ both

may and ought to be subdued here. Nor do I know any other place of purgation after we are out of the body. And these things have been held forth by my self and others long before we heard any thing of the Quakers; yet we shall own that or any other Truth that comes from them.