London :: Printed by Henry Hills, and are to be sold at the sign of Sir John Oldcastle near Py-corner,
1655.
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Society of Friends
Prophecies
End of the world
Quakers -- England
Bible. -- N.T. -- Commentaries
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"The worlds wonder, or the Quakers blazing starr." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A93315.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.
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The second word to the people called Baptists.
I have been a great while since convinced that you are the peo∣ple who are best able, according to the exemplary rules of Christ and his Apostles in the Gospel, to prove your selves to be the visi∣ble Church of Christ amongst men, being necessitated by my Antagonists in a publick disputation against Infant-baptism to fly unto your practice and rules for my own defence, ever since which time I have more and more seen the clearness therof, al∣though not yet carried forth to the practice thereof my self, judg∣ing that the Lord did not require any of our ages to walk so, but yet did very gladly own and receive such who out of sim∣plicity of conscience and obedience to Christ did take it up, thinking also that it was but a creaturely act whereunto any car∣nal man might be brought through the convictions of his own heart, as well as Simon Magus.
But indeed that which I conceive did most keep me from it, was these comforts and refreshments which I do receive from the Lord without it, and having also communion with my former society, which now is wholly broke off through the mysterious workings of Antichrist, and I am afraid that I shall receive some Eclipse of my former enjoyments and divine operations, yet I know whom I have believed, which thing if it shall be joyn∣ed to the loss of my communion with Creatures, I hope they shall produce much diligence to inquire further into that admi∣nistration of Baptism, and make me more entirely one in the
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will of the Lord concerning it, and I would gladly desire you upon the terms of Christian love to use often those words of Paul, Col. 1.9, 10, 11. and when you use them, let me be your object, as the Colossians were Pauls; and I would desire you also to walk so dexterously, that you might ever more and more prove your selves to be the Church and Disciples of Christ, and that you would endeavour to remove all things that might be an occasion of stumbling to any weak creatures, and that you would so far deny your selves that you might not live in the pra∣ctice of such things which neither Christ not his Apostles would by any means allow of.
The Lord help you and me to walk blameless.
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