The way of life and perfection livingly demonstrated in some serious animadversions or remarks and answers upon the book entituled The middle way of perfection, with indifferency between the orthodox and the Quaker, herein considered, and the naked truth as it is in Christ Jesus, opened in real love to the souls of men / by George Whitehead.
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- The way of life and perfection livingly demonstrated in some serious animadversions or remarks and answers upon the book entituled The middle way of perfection, with indifferency between the orthodox and the Quaker, herein considered, and the naked truth as it is in Christ Jesus, opened in real love to the souls of men / by George Whitehead.
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- Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
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- [London :: s.n.],
- 1676.
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- Humfrey, John, 1621-1719. -- Middle way of perfection, with indifferency between the orthodox and the Quaker.
- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
- Christian life -- Quaker authors -- Early works to 1800.
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"The way of life and perfection livingly demonstrated in some serious animadversions or remarks and answers upon the book entituled The middle way of perfection, with indifferency between the orthodox and the Quaker, herein considered, and the naked truth as it is in Christ Jesus, opened in real love to the souls of men / by George Whitehead." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A65896.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.
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Friendly Reader,
THE Publication of this ensuing Treatise, is from a Necessity that came upon me for the holy Truth sake, to remove Occasions of stumblings out of the Way of the simple, and honest minded Inquirers after the Way of the Lord, which is perfect, so that although, by Reason of other weighty Concernments (the Press being also clogged with other Books) this hath lain by in Manuscript above a Year after it was finished, being written at sundry Oportuni∣ties, when I could find some spare time, yet I could not be clear in Conscience, that my La∣bour in it should so remain obscure, or the Ser∣vice frustrated, which I hope it may be of to such serious and unprejudiced Readers, as desire after the Knowledge of the Truth, as i•• is in Chrst Jesus, which is the Aim and End of my Labours and Travails; I could have been con∣tent only to have sent a Copy of this Treatise unto the Author of the Book stiled The Middle Way of Perfection, if that would have cleared Truth from his Mistake, and removed the Bur∣den off me; but that could not be sufficient, in
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regard his Book was so publick; and if he come seriously to consider, and see wherein he hath been mistaken, and misrepresented us, called Quakers (especially in the latter Part of his Book) it is to be hoped, that out of a Respect to that Christianity, Justice and Moderation, profes∣sed by him, he will as publickly do us Right, in retracting his Mistakes, and Misconstructi∣on put upon us, as to some Things of weight and moment, which in this Treatise are seriously (and from a Sense of the Foundation of God) spoken to, and opened in Love both to this Man's Soul, and the Souls of all who desire true Information in these weighty Matters of Salva∣tion, herein treated on.
London the 12th. of the 12th. Moneth 1675.
G. W.