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These Opinions following are affirmed to be the Opinions of the Quakers, by Toldervey, who was a Quaker, which he af∣firmes in his Retractation Intitled, The foot out of the snare.
THat the Word of God is [not the Scripture, but] the life or the substance whence the Scriptures are spoken.
That the substance the Word of life, is the measure of God manifested in man, the gift of the holy Spirit manifest in flesh, made known in all.
That this substance is the same holy Ghost by which the Apostles were endued, and the Christ of God the Redeemer from sin.
That the Garden of Eden is the world, that the Trees thereof are all living be∣ings. That Paradice is in man. That man fell by harkning to the wicked, which was the fleshly mind, and that not the Woman properly, but the silliest and weakest part was the Woman that tempted him. That Adam was the earthly na∣ture in Man.
That the Redeemer of Man is not that person the Son of God that dyed at Je∣rusalem, but the light which is in every particular Man, by which he is given to see sin, and inabled by it if obedient to be redeemed from sin. That searching the Scriptures is not the way to find out the knowledg of Christ, but the turning the mind within, there to be taught the measure of God, the Law written in the heart.
That Scripture ought not to be interpreted.