The Christian-Quaker and his divine testimony vindicated by Scripture, reason, and authorities against the injurious attempts that have been lately made by several adversaries, with manifest design to rendor him odiously inconsistent with Christianity and civil society : in II parts. / The first more general by William Penn ; the second more particular by George Whitehead.

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The Christian-Quaker and his divine testimony vindicated by Scripture, reason, and authorities against the injurious attempts that have been lately made by several adversaries, with manifest design to rendor him odiously inconsistent with Christianity and civil society : in II parts. / The first more general by William Penn ; the second more particular by George Whitehead.

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Penn, William, 1644-1718.

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[London? :: s.n.],

1674.

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Contents

• title page
• TO THE Noble Bereans Of THIS AGE.
• THE PREFACE.
• THE CONTENTS OF THE First Part.
• THE CONTENTS OF THE Second Part, Entituled, The CHRISTIAN-QUAKER, and his Divine Testimony Vindicated: Which consists of several Treatises.
• THE CHRISTIAN-QUAKER And his DIVINE TESTIMONY VINDICATED, &c. Viz. The Universality & Sufficiency of Christ's LIGHT WITHIN, through all Ages to Eternal SALVATION: fully Stated and Defended.
  • CHAP. I.
  • CHAP. II.
  • CHAP. III.
  • CHAP. IV.
  • CHAP. V.
  • CHAP VI.
  • CHAP. VII.
  • CHAP. VIII.
  • CHAP. IX.
  • CHAP. X.
  • CHAP. XI.
  • CHAP. XII.
  • CHAP. XII.
  • CHAP. XIV.
  • CHAP. XV.
  • CHAP. XVI.
  • CHAP. XVII.
  • CHAP. XVIII.
  • CHAP. XIX.
  • CHAP. XX.
  • CHAP. XXI.
  • CHAP. XXII.
  • CHAP XXIII
  • CHAP. XXIV.
  • CHAP. XXV.
  • CHAP. VI.
• appendix
  • title page
  • OF THE GENERAL RULE OF Faith and Life.
  • OF THE Judge of Controversie.
  • The Conclusion.
  • Errata for the First Part.
• part - 2
  • title page
  • To the Unprejudiced READER.
  • Some of the Doctrines and Contradictions of Thomas Hicks declared at a Discourse between him and some of the Quakers (so called) in Alderman-Berrey London, the twentieth of the third Month 1672.
  • Christ's Light within asserted, as it is Divine (and therefore a sufficient Rule of Life unto Salvation to all that truely obey it) and vin∣dicated from Tho. Hicks his dark Exceptions; fallasious and impious Arguments (consi∣sting of manifest Ignorance, Confusion and Ranterism) which are here inserted as they were exhibited in a Paper, afterwards owned and signed by him.
    • Here follows T. H. his after-Charge.
  • THE CHRISTIAN-QUAKER AND HIS Divine Testimony VIDICATED, In a more particular and direct Answer to the Baptist's Dialogue.
    • Section I. The Light Within proved Divine and Saving, &c.
    • Sect. II. The Life which is the Light of Men, not a Creature, or meer Effect, &c.
    • Sect. III. The Baptist's Quarrel grounded on his Mistake about the Light, and our Testimony of it.
    • Sect. IV. Christ guides to Salvation by his Inward Light, and the Baptist con∣founded in his opposing it.
    • Sect. V. The Dipper proved a Blind Guide, and in gross Confusion in underva∣luing the Light within.
    • Sect. VI. His Ignorance of the Divine Principle.
    • Sect. VII. His Madness and Self-Contradiction about the Light.
    • Sect. VIII. Christ as the Rock of Ages, and the Intent of his coming in the Flesh not known to Baptists, while they oppose his Light within.
    • Sect. IX. The Dipper plung'd in a Laborinth of self-Contradictions, and the Light within proved a Rule above the Scriptures.
    • Sect. X. The Subject Understanding and Obeying the Light within, unknown to the Cavilling Baptist.
    • Sect XI. Concerning the Soul of man, as under divers Considerations and States, and G. Fox's VVords so considered with; ight Queries added.
    • Sect. XII. The Neck of the Baptist's Cause broken by his own Concession to the Light within, in which Christ and his Testimonies are effectually received.
    • Sect. XIII The Baptist's Impious Forgery upon the Quakers about the Scriptures, which are in Reality owned and used by them.
    • Sect. XIV. His impious Abuse about Revelation, Light within, Scriptures, &c.
      • Elizabeth Marshal saith in answer to the Dia∣logue, pag. 27.
    • Sect. XV. His partial Relation against John Story.
      • Devizes the 21st of the 11th Month, 1672.
      • Chippenham the 15th of the 11th. Month 1672.
    • Sect. XVI. The Baptist's Disparagement of the Light within contrary to his own Pretence.
    • Sect. XVII His Slander about the Person, Offices, Sufferings and Blood of Christ and continued Abuse of the Light within.
    • Sect. XVIII. The Baptist's Quarrel against S. Crisp removed.
      • Stephen Crisp's Answer to T. H.
    • Sect. XIX. The End of Christ's Coming, Example and Suffering more truely owned by the Quaker then the Dipper.
    • Sect. XX. The Baptist's Ignorance and Cavil about Redemption and the Spiritual Discoveries of Christ and his Seed.
    • Sect. XXI. The Baptist's Imperfect Work against Perfection.
    • Sect. XXII. Tho. Hicks his groundless Calumny and malitious Railing against G. Whitehead.
    • ct. XXIII. The Baptist's Abuse against G. W. about a Meeting with them at Devonshire House, the 18th of the 7th Month, 1672. and T.H. taking part with a Socinian Pamphlet.
  • treatise
    • title page
    • THE CONTENTS.
    • TO THE READER.
    • Lux Exorta Est: OR THE LIGHT SPRUNG UP IN THE Despised Quaker, With Evident Testimony against the Darkness and Prejudice of the Old Anabaptist
      • I. Concerning the Light within.
      • II. Concerning Redemption Justification, &c.
      • III. Of the Lord's Supper.
      • IV. Of Baptism.
      • V. Of the Anionted
      • VI. Of Jesus and his Body; of Man and the Body of Man.
      • VII. Of the Resurrection.
      • VIII. Of the Word, the Light, the Sufferings of Christ and his Work within.
      • IX. Further about their Ordinances.
      • X. Of knowing Christ and his Coming, Reign and Deity.
      • XI. His Erroneous Distinction about the Light.
      • XII. Our Doctrine for turning People to the Light within justified.
      • XIII. Of Christ as at the Father's right Hand. &c.
      • XIV. Of Perfection.
      • XV. The Light within above an Historical Knowledge.
      • XVI. His unlearned Question.
  • treatise
    • title page
    • The Heads of the following Treatise.
    • THE Angry Anabaptist Proved BABYLONISH, IN Answer to H. G's Pamphlet, stiled, The Baptist not Babylonish.
      • I. Of the Light of the Eternal Word in Man, and the Anabaptist confounded about it.
      • II. The Sufficiency of the Light within, to reveal God, Christ, &c.
      • III. The Effect of Christ's Sufferings only known in his Light within.
      • IV. The saving Work of the Spirit.
      • V. How the Light in Man is a Gift, and H. G's distinction between the Meritorious and instrumental Cause of Salvation examined.
      • VI. The Lord's Supper in the Type and in the Anti-Type, the Shadow and Substance distinguished.
      • VII. The Anabaptist's Imposition about their shadowy Baptism.
      • VIII. Their Definition of the true Saviour and his Being.
      • IX. The Hypostatical Union.
      • X. His Charge against the Quakers Principles and Doctrines (of the Light within) proved impure, vile and ignorant; and the Spiritu∣ality, Divinity and Sufficiency of the Light within further asserted.
      • XI. His sad and impious Prayer against the Light in all, which Light is proved of the same Nature (or kind) with the Witness in Believers.
      • XII. His Groundless Comparison and Distinction (between the Light of God in Man, and the Light of Christ or Gospel) further Refuted.
      • XIII. His belying us with denying the Man Christ Jesus, to cloak his own Absurdity and Ignorance of Christ and his Being.
      • XIV. That Scriptural Distinction between the eternal Son of God, and the Body Prepared sor him, further maintained, and the Anabaptist Perscuting spirit Reviling and Tradcing the Innocent, Reproved.
      • XV. A Warning and Reproof to Hen. Grigg, &c.
      • XVI. The Baptist's nine Questions Answered.
  • THE CONTENTS OF A Bill of Excommunication, Exhibited by the Baptists at CHICHESTER; Together with a Brief Answer thereunto.
    • Some Confessions concerning the bapti∣zed Churches, made by their Messen∣gers in their bewailing Epistle from Twerton, dated the 18th Day of the 7th Month, 1657. and signed in their Names, and by their Appointments, by Thomas Colliar, Nathniel Strange and Thomas Glass, and directed, viz.
  • treatise
    • title page
    • THE Presbyter's Antidote TRYED, &c.
      • S. Scandret's Sense about the Points in Controversie examined.
      • Concerning Justification.
    • CHAP. II.
    • CHAP. III.
    • CHAP. IV.
      • AN APPENDIX, Wherein The Controversie is summed up and resolved, part∣ly by Way of Question and Answer, with a plain Intimation of my Sense thereof, as relating unto the 2d, 3d and 4th Chapters before.
        • The Difference between the Terms or Tenour of our Opposers Gospel and ours.
        • II. The Sense and Terms of our Gospel, according to what follows.
    • CHAP. V.
      • contents
      • A Brief Introduction TO The following Discourse concerning Election and Reprobation.
      • A POSTSCRIPT about the Will of God, Election and Reprobation.
    • CHAP. VI.
  • treatise
    • title page
    • to the reader
    • THE ANSWER To Tho. Hicks about the RESURRECTION, &c.
    • A Serious Reflection Upon some of Will. Burnet's Chief Arguments, about the Resurrection of the SAME FLESH, In his Book, stiled, The Capital Principles of the People called Quakers.
      • Here follow some Passages out of a Manuscript by W. B. against me, with a Reply, detecting his Ignorance in consounding the Carnal Body and the Spiritual:
    • THE RESURRECTION, Future Glory and Felicity of the SAINTS, Further asserted (according to the Holy Scriptures) Discovering, How far short of the true Vision, Sight, or Revelation thereof our present Opposers are in their gross Thoughts and Traditional Conjectures: Being An Examination of Thomas Danson's Argu∣ments and Doctrines (about the Resurrection, Future State and Glory of Believers) in his Synopsis.
    • A Summary of the Difficulties, in the Point in Controversie.
    • Thomas Vincent's Illustrations ABOUT THE RESURRECTION, Which we may look upon as the Sense of the Rest, and as the Explication of their Doctrines and Opinions, who are Opposing the Spirituality of our Testimony about the Resurrection.
    • Something for the SPIRITUALITY OF THE RESURRECTION, Being some Passages touching the NATURE of the BODY OF CHRIST After his RESURRECTION and ASCENSION; (Whose Glorious Body ours shall Resemble.) Out of H. Moor's Search into the Nature of a Glorified Body, Apol. Chap. 3. (pag. 494. of his Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity.)
      • Touching the Sameness of the Body.
    • A POST SCRIPT By way of Animad version and Counsel.
  • A Conclusive ADVERTISEMENT.
  • ERRATA TO THE SECOND PART.