Antichrist in Flesh Unmasked, AND THE Quakers Christianity Vindicated, FROM THE Malicious and Injurious Attempts Of 

Edward pay,  
William Alcott, &  
Henry Loader,    
In their late Defaming Confused BOOK Falsely Styled, Antichrist in Spirit unmasked, or Quakerism a great Delusion, Wherein their Causeless Outrage, Folly and Falshood are deservedly Exposed.  But ye are forgers of lies, Job 13.4. 
London, Printed for Thomas Northcott, in George-yard in Lombardstreet, 1692.   

CHaritably hoping that many among the People commonly called Anabaptists, are more Tender and Honest minded than some of their Ministers or Leaders, who have shown their Envy and Bitterness against us, I would tenderly propose a few things to the more Honest, Moderate and Charitable among them in and about Deptford and elsewhere, that may be concerned in reading that Scandalous and Malicious Book against us, Falsely styled, Antichrist in Spirit Unmasked, or Quakerism a Great Delusion; lately Owned and Published by their Brethren, Edward pay, Henry Loader, William Alcott,  
I. That they have Causelessly and Unjustly begun a Quarrel against us, to Defame us, as a People who have had nothing but Love and  to them and that People, and maliciously tending to Reproach and Blast our Credit in what we have solemnly professed, as to our Christian Belief and Religion, both to the Civil Government and Nation.  
II. They appear Envious against our Present Liberty, as Men of a Turbulent, Persecuting Spirit, by seeking to invalidate and make void one Condition of our present Liberty, which through God's Providence is granted us and them; and that is our Profession of Faith, in the three Divine Witnesses in Heaven, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, being one God, blessed for evermore: And acknowledging, the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration.  
Which Profession, though sincerely owned and consented unto by us before the Parliament, and accordingly accepted and inserted in the Act For exempting their Majesty's Protestant Subjects, dissenting from the Church of England, from the Penalties of certain Laws, and therein confessed to be a Profession of their Christian Belief: Yet contrary thereunto these Persons have grossly Belied and Misrepresented Us, the People called Quakers; accusing us with Vilifying and Contemning the Holy Scriptures, and that we own not the Scripture, but seemingly allow it, Epist. and Pag. 14. And that The Quakers are great Enemies to, and Contemners of Holy Scriptures, p. 20. both contrary to our Sincere and Christian Profession, before-cited, and to the Civil Government's Belief and Acceptance thereof; wherein these Anabaptists have neither done honestly towards us, nor prudently towards their Superiors, thus to contradict, and consequently to affront the Government in its Belief and Charity towards us, and to set Subjects at Variance, and to raise Persecution against us again, instead of being humbly thankful for their and our present Liberty.  
III. They have not only abused particular Persons, but a People, a Religious Society, fearing God, and truly esteeming the Holy Scriptures; when we have solemnly and sincerely declared to the Government, That we believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are given by Divine Inspiration: Wherein we are Believed, Accepted and Tolerated by the Government. Two or three Anabaptist Preachers divulge the contrary to the World in Print, That the Quakers are great Enemies to, and Contemners of Holy Scriptures, and no Christians, but deluded Impostors, and their Profession a Compound of Heresies, p. 8, 20. And what's the Consequence, but therefore the Quakers are not fit to be tolerated, nor to have their Liberty of Conscience or Exercise of Religion? And no Doubt, had these angry Anabaptists Power, we should not enjoy our Liberties, the very Nature and Tendence of these their Bitter Lying Invectives, being to bring Persecution upon us, as a People not to be given any Credit unto, in our solemn Profession before Authority.  
IU. Pray observe, That much of the said Pamphlet, or Book against us, styled, Antichrist in Spirit, is collected out of other Books and Pamphlets of our Adversaries, long since Answered and Refuted; and their Authorities are utterly denied by us. As the Westmorland Petitioners, who were Envious Persecutors, Thomas Hicks his Fictitious Abusive Dialogues, who was proved a notorious Forger of Lies: And a most Malicious Libel, styled, Tyranny and Hypocrisy, etc. without Author's Name, yet cited and insisted upon against us. Thus Credulous and Malicious are these Persons, Edward pay, Henry Loader, William Alcott, as to take Scandalous Pamphlets on Trust, whose Authorities we utterly Deny, and Challenge them to prove them Authentic; they having been long since sufficiently Answered, Disproved and Refuted, in our Friends Books; one entitled, The Christian Quaker, in Folio; another, Reason against Railing; another, The Counterfeit Christian, in 8ᵒ. another, Judas and the Jews; another, The Divinity of Christ, etc. in 4ᵒ. another, The Christianity of the People called Quakers vindicated, in Answer to Dr. Ford; and many others of our Friends Books, which contain sufficient Answer to all the chief Objections and Reproaches scraped up in this Inveterate Lying Pamphlet aforesaid.  
V They have Unjustly and Falsely Curtalized and Perverted divers of our Friends Words and Passages in their Books, leaving out the Explanatory Words and Sentences.  
VI They have argued fallaciously in divers things, deducing Inferences and Charges from a particular to a general, as from a particular Person, chargeable (as supposed) they charge the General, that is, a Body of People, which is very unjust; as if where we find false Logic, Absurdities and Errors committed, by these particular Persons, Edward pay, Henry Loader, William Alcott, we should charge them upon their whole Society or Body, surely they would not be so served.  
VII. It would be well for their Hearers, who are more Peaceable and Prudent, not to be subject to such Envious and Turbulent Teachers; whose Work tends to Sedition, Strife and Discord, among their Neighbours; but rather to reprehend their Rage and Raillery, and caution them to live peaceably among their peaceable Neighbours, that mean them no harm.  
VIII. It is a manifest Sign the Lord has forsaken their Shadows and Forms of Profession, who are turned into so much Envy and Bitterness as these Men are, against other Dissenters more Christian like than themselves: That they are turned from the Spirit into the Flesh, which Envy is a fruit of. The Primitive Tenderness, Simplicity and Spiritual Discoveries and Preaching that were formerly among some of their Ancient and Eminent Brethren being now lost, and slighted by these gainsaying Adversaries, (which is their sad Apostasy) who instead of owning the Sufficiency of the Spirit's Teaching, as they did formerly, now oppose Immediate Inspiration, p. 16. and possessing the Kingdom of Christ, p. 52. and say that, The Disciples did not expect this Christ to come into them, p. 53. (who is the same only and very Christ of God, of whom the Holy Scriptures testify) they Quoting Deut. 18.15. Acts 3.22. Mat. 17.5. Luk. 24.39. Joh. 20.19. p. 52, 53. And also deriding at the Quakers exhorting People to Turn to the Light within, p. 54, 55, 56. Thus Carnal, Blind and Dark, have these Baptist Preachers shown themselves, and how grossly Ignorant of the Spiritual Appearance and Kingdom of Christ and his Light within, and his own and Apostles Testimony thereof. The Lord deliver well-meaning People from such blind Guides.  
Of the Word Quakerism (which is a Nickname in Derision put upon our Christian Profession) you tell us, It's derived from a Gesture used Much among them formerly in their Meetings; (meaning the Meetings of the People called Quakers) as was manifest (say you) by the Westmorland Petitioners, viz. That their Practice did exceedingly savour of Sorcery, because of the Swell, Quake, Roating and Foaming, that were among them at their Meetings, p. 7, 8.  
Were you Eye or Ear-Witnesses of these Gestures? No, you had this Story from the Westmorland Petitioners; and what were they but a Company of envious persecuting Priests, and Magistrates whom they had Instigated to Persecution? Are you not so Credulous as to take upon Trust any old Story to render the People called Quakers Odious and Ridiculous? Is this your Christianity and Religion? Lord deliver every well-meaning Person from you and your Envy. We deny your Story of Swell and Foaming, as charged on Us or our Meetings in Westmoreland, etc. But that there has been Weeping, Trembling and Lamentation, sometimes in our Solemn and Religious Assemblies in Westmoreland and other Places, I and many more were and are Witnesses; when the glorious Power and Day of the Lord arose and broke forth in our Meetings, to the Breaking, Humbling and Tendering many Hearts, from a living Sense of his Divine and Dreadful Presence, which was truly felt among us; and that the Holy Men of God did Witness Quaking and Trembling, as Holy Scripture testifies: This you grant is true. And the same (say you) may be said of Wicked Men and Devils. And what then? God's dreadful Power and Presence can make all Dread and Tremble and Bow before it, even both good Men and bad Men, yea and Devils also; yet the Power is the same that's over all. Wicked Men and Devils have been sometimes terrified by it, and made to tremble for fear of his Wrath, because of their guilt of Iniquity; and good Men and Women have in an humble and a contrite Heart and Spirit, Trembled in a Holy Reverence and Sense of the Presence and Power of our Lord Jesus Christ among them, in their Inward Attention upon him and his Word, and in their fervent Prayers and Supplications to God. And how can it be better than Blasphemy to account this Sorcery? Such wicked Construction and Insinuation we utterly deny and testify against, and put you to prove it who have received this false Story against us, of Swell and Foaming, and Sorcery, etc. at our Meetings, with such wicked defaming Constructions. I myself was frequent at our Meetings in Westmoreland very early, near the very beginning of them in that Country, and solemnly Declare it, I never saw such Gestures, as Swell and Foaming: And I have lately enquired of several of our Ancient Friends who were conversant at those early Meetings in the North, and they Declare the same, That they never saw such Postures in our Friend's Meetings. But set case any have been disordered through some Natural Infirmity Distemper, Swooning or Falling Sickness—  
— What does this affect us or our Meetings on a Religious Account? It may be some of your own People's Case. And suppose it should be made appear that divers Anabaptists, after they have been Dipped and received into Church-Fellowship, have run Mad or Distracted; and others guilty of great Enormities; how would this affect either their Church-Profession or Society? Pray consider it, have you done well, or as you would be done by, in raking up and aggravating old Stories against the People called Quakers, to render them as black and deformed as you can? Upon this Story you make this farther Aggravation, from Luk. 9.39. We read of him that was Possessed, that he Foamed when the Diabolical Spirit did tear him. True, and what then? Is this any Proof against the Quakers, that they are so Possessed or guilty of Sorcery? No sure.—  
— We read further also concerning that Man that was possessed, That when he was brought unto Jesus, as soon as the Spirit saw him, he tore him, and fell down on the ground wallowing and foaming; and that when Jesus rebuked the  Spirit, and charged him to come out of him, and enter no more into him; then the Spirit cried and rend him sore, and came out, Mark 9.20, 25, 26. Luke 9.39, 42, 43. Now, suppose, that in any meeting of the People called Quakers, any such Operations or Gesture has been in any particular Person formerly, that some Unclean Spirit has so torn and disordered him or her; we may charitably believe it has been because Jesus Christ has come in Spirit and Power among them, to rebuke and cast out such Unclean Spirits, and to deliver them that were infested thereby; When our Friends have been solemnly met together in his Name and Fear, in Fasting and Prayer, to wait upon and worship him. And that such Unclean Spirit did not enter them in such Assemblies as ours, but when they were Followers of the Envious Persecuting Priests (who used to Revile and Rail against the Quakers in their Pulpits) and of such Malicious Preachers as these Anabaptists, who, as persons possessed with a Lying, Unclean Spirit, are now still foaming out their own Shame and Malice against an Innocent People, as these Men have done in their Lying Abusive Pamphlet, falsely pretending to Unmask Antichrist in Spirit, whilst their Work of Malice and Falsehood bespeaks Antichrist, in their proud puffed up envious Flesh and Fleshly Minds, scurrilously perverting our Words, detracting and defaming others more Harmless than themselves, and no whit inferior to them, as Men, in Education, Parts or Morals. And I hope we are and shall be of more Credit and Reputation in what we solemnly declare and write, than they in falsely telling the World, That 'tis nothing so believed by us, as pretended in our Pamphlet, meaning that Paper concerning our Christianity; which they not being able to refute, now falsely tell People, That 'tis nothing so believed by us; as Henry Loader and William Alcott, have unjustly done in their Epistle to the Reader; though they are so credulous of their Brother Edward Pays Work or Pamphlet, as to Believe neither Ambition, Self-Interest or Prejudice moved him to it; but purely the Honour of God, Defence of Truth, and Good of Souls: And they also Hope and Believe that he hath been careful truly to cite the Quakers own Authors. But we know the contrary, and that he hath both falsely cited, grossly belied, and perverted the Quaker's Words and Authors, and taken many false Things on Credit, and in their Implicit Faith; not only the said Story from the Westmorland Petitioners, but also out of his Brother Thomas Hicks, his abominable Forgeries and Lies in his fictions Dialogues, and others, long since refuted, to his own and his Compurgators and Abetters utter Shame and Disgrace. And you who are such credulous Approvers and Espousers of this Edward Pays malicious Work against us, do charge us with this horrid Lie, viz. That the Holy Scriptures, this Generation of Men contemn and vilify.  
God knows the contrary, and he will judge righteously between us. You have herein Grossly Belied and Defamed us, our real Intention, and our Solemn Profession for the Holy Scriptures, and sincere Esteem of them, as therein we have been Credited by the Government, and many others, we doubt not but we shall still have Credit against your shameful Lies and Defamations to the contrary; whereby you have most Diabolically and Foully Foamed out your own Shame and Envy, as will farther appear, That the Foaming Unclean Spirit, and Lying Devil is not cast out of you. Oh! how well it would be for you, if you would humbly wait for and own Christ's Appearance in Spirit, and Power to cast out that Unclean, Lying Spirit that Possesses you, and has moved you to approve and divulge so many gross Lies as are in your said Book.  
Out of your Brother, Thomas Hick's Dialogue, you represent the Quaker to answer thus, viz. When we make use of the Scripture, it is only to quiet and stop their Clamours that plead for it as their Rule, p. 14.  
This is one of your Brother Hick's gross Forgeries in the Quaker's Name, which you have taken on Trust out of his fictitious Dialogue. Oh! blush and be ashamed of adopting and promoting such False, Deceitful Stuff; and also of your subjoyning in the Person of the Quakers this Forgery, viz. We own not the Scripture; we seemingly allow it, but our End in this is only to stop their Clamours that plead for it as their Rule.  
These Words, subjoined to Hick's Forgeries, I charge upon you Edward pay, William Alcott and Henry Loader, as abominably False and Slanderous. Will this Deceitful Method bring any Honour to you, or honest Proselytes to your Church, think ye? Would you be Popular and Famous by such gross Forgery? Is this the Fruit of your Religion, you Dip and Proselyte People into? You are hard put to it: It is a Sign your Dispensation is decreasing, and your Glory eclipsed, when you can espouse and invent such gross Forgeries, and make Lies your Refuge. woe unto you Lying Hypocrites; When and where did ever we, the People called Quakers, say, as you say in our Name? viz. That we own not the Scripture; we seemingly allow it, but our End in this is only to stop their Clamours, etc. These your horrid abusive Forgeries will be a sore Blot and heavy Burden upon you.  
And now, pray, observe what strange Test or Proof, your Agent, Edward pay, puts upon us to evince Immediate Inspiration, viz. Now let the Quakers resolve me by their Immediate Inspirations, What those Things were that Jesus did, that are not written, John 21.25. And what were the Contents of that Writing on the Ground, John 8.6, 8. or else let their proud Boastings of Immediate Inspiration be condemned to perpetual Silence, and Shame cover their Faces. And waiting for their Resolve herein, etc.— p. 15, 16.  
And why so? If we do not resolve by Immediate Inspiration what those things were that Jesus did, that are not written, John 21.25. And what were the Contents of that Writing on the Ground, John 8.6, 8. Hereupon you have past Unjust Judgement, and falsely charged us with proud Boasting, and argued absurdly against Immediate Inspiration, as if none have the Spirit of Christ unless they know and can declare all things it knows; or could write as many Books of those Things Christ did, as (was supposed) the World itself could not contain, John 21.25. And then, by this, you Baptists will greatly fall short of being Christ's Ministers or Ambassadors, and have shut yourselves out from any Share in the Spirit of Christ, or Divine Inspiration. And how then will you prove your Call to Baptise People in Water? Though herein you have most egregiously contradicted yourselves, in pretending to Christ in you, from 2 Cor. 13.5. and to be the Temples of God, 1 Cor. 6.19. To be in Christ new Creatures, 2 Cor. 5. p. 22. And to have the Spirit of Christ, or else none of his, p 23. And that Christ gives his Spirit to them that obey him, Acts 5.32. p. 69. But does he give the Knowledge of all those other things that he did (which are not written) to all them that obey him, think ye? Or otherwise is it just to condemn them all to perpetual Silence and Shame, for owning that Christ has given them his Spirit, when they cannot tell all those other things? Must we needs be as omniscient as the Spirit of God is, or else be condemned as wholly destitute thereof? Do you think you have well argued, or given just Judgement in this Matter? Oh! Blind Guides, self-contradicting and self-condemned Hypocrites. How hath Antichrist appeared in your Proud and Envious Flesh against Christ in Spirit?  
On Matthew 24.26. you say, It is more than probable, That Christ pointed at this Generation of Impostors, the Quakers; who say, Behold he is in the Secret Chambers, [which is a gross Lie, by the way] ay within thee, not at a distance from thee, etc.  
To deem them Impostors that say Christ is within thee or them, is to render the Holy Apostles Impostors, who preached Christ within the Word, nigh in thy Heart, Rom. 10.6, 7, 8. (which therefore was not separate from them, and only at a Distance) yea and to render yourselves also Impostors, who have confessed the same Truth of Christ within, p. 22, 23, 69. from 2 Cor. 13.5. 1 Cor. 6.19. 2 Cor. 5.17. Eph. 2.22. John 16.7. Acts 5.32. Thus you Anabaptist Preachers have contradicted yourselves, as well as shown your Antichristian Spirit against Christ within; and that you are blind Guides, and self-contradictory Opposers of the Mystery of Christ, as well as Defamers of us for his sake.  
You most shamefully belie the People called Quakers in your Comparison, p. 18. where you say, The Names they (i. e. the Quakers) give the Holy Scriptures, viz. no better than an Old Almanac, Precepts and Traditions of Men, etc.  
Pray where do they (that is, the People called Quakers) give the Holy Scriptures those Names you charge upon them? They are such gross, notorious, old Lies, that it is high Time for you to be horribly ashamed thereof, as they are quite out of date with all sober minded People that know us; so we doubt not but you, who are now the Promoters thereof, will be as much out of Credit as the first Fomenters, have long been.  
You abuse and wrong us about the Titles of our Books (as if higher than we give to the Holy Scriptures) perverting them by leaving out the Explanatory part of the Titles; as for instance [A true and Everlasting Rule] being the first Words of the Title, you leave out the next following in the same Sentence, viz. [from God discovered] thus you deal very disingenuously by them and others. p. 18, etc.  
We know none among us that call the Holy Scriptures, a Dead or Carnal Letter, nor do we own the Words. By the Holy Scriptures we intent the Holy Testimonies and Doctrine of Faith and Practice therein contained, which is both Living and Spiritual to them that are alive unto God in Christ. Though the outward Letter or Writing in itself alone be Dead, the Holy Matter contained in it is Living, to them that are Living and Spiritual. There is the Letter of the Shadows of the Law and Old Covenant, which is abolished by Christ, and therefore Dead. And all Shadows and Carnal Ordinances, comparatively, are but dead Letter. When Paul preferred the Newness of the Spirit to the Oldness of the Letter, and the Ministry of the Spirit above the Letter; this was not to slight or contemn the Holy Scriptures: No more do we in allowing the Holy Spirit, the same Preference which the Scripture allows. Moreover to them that are Dead to the Spirit, to God and Christ, the Scripture is Dead, the Words therein are Dead, and even the Spiritual Living Ministry is Dead as to them; The Savour of Death unto Death, in them that Perish; but the Savour of Life unto Life in them that are Saved. As the mere Characters or Letters, as written in Paper and Ink, have no Sound nor Voice till Sound be given them by the Reader; so, the Words contained in them, or Preaching from them, have no Life, but as the Spirit gives it, without which all Preaching is Dead and Fruitless. I am persuaded in Conscience, That in these things our Friends real Intentions in their Writings is explained (and never to contemn the Holy Scriptures) and our Adversaries hard and ill Constructions answered. And though the Holy Spirit, from whence the Holy Scriptures proceeded be of itself All sufficient to guide in all the Ways of God both with and without the Scriptures (or where they are not in Writing) this is not to contemn or slight them where they are; but to use them with the help of the same Spirit, rightly to understand and practise them: It being the Inspiration of the Almighty that giveth Understanding of the Mind and Will of God, and without which the Scriptures cannot be truly understood. It was from the same Inspiration (or Spirit of God) the Holy Scriptures first came; and from thence they had their Authority and real Credit. And by no other Argument or Demonstration can the Divine Authority of Holy Scriptures be effectually proved or evinced, to such as question their Authority, but by the same Holy Spirit of God in Man, bearing Witness to the Truths therein contained. It must be something superior to the Scriptures, that must so prove their Divine Authority to them that question the same, which we do not at all, blessed be God; and therefore Challenge these Adversaries E. pay and W. Alcott to prove, that the People called Quakers, or any Persons continuing in Society with them, do say, The Holy Scripture is but a dead carnal Letter, or that so call the Doctrines or Testimonies therein contained; for we positively deny any such Expressions.  
Note also, that these Adversaries have apparently perverted and wronged George Whitehead's Words, both in Citation and Construction, about the Holy Scriptures and the Person of Christ, p. 11, 12. and 22. And likewise grossly Abused, Wronged and Mischarged G. Fox, James Parnell, G. Keith, foully perverting and misconstruing their Words, p. 28, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 59 And they have also Abused, Vilified, Defamed and Wronged, W. Smith, H. Smith, J. Naylor, E. Burroughs, Isaac Pennington, S. Crisp, W. P. and others, Men of better Fame and Repute than themselves, and more Righteous and Innocent than their Defamers.  
Now I would seriously inquire of you William Alcott and Henry Loader,  
1. Was Edward pay deputed and approved by your Congregation, or any select Assembly of Elders or Ministers of the Baptised People or Churches, to Write and Publish his said Book against the People called Quakers? Or did he do it on his own Authority and Head, with your Approbation only?  
2. What Ministers or Elders of your Churches, besides yourselves, did peruse and approve of Edward Pays said Book before Printed, and of the Printing thereof, to defame us as a People?  
3. Is the said Edward pay indeed esteemed among you and your Society a good Christian, a Person of a Godly and Sober Conversation, of sound Judgement Piety and Parts, meet to manage Matters of Controversy about Religion?  
4. Do you intent to stand by him the said Edward pay, in all the Matters that he has Written in Charge, both against certain Persons and against the People called Quakers, in his Book?  
Pray give us your direct and plain Answer to these Questions; the Reason whereof being, 1. That Edward pay and you also have concerned us as a People, in your severe and unjust Accusations, in his and your Book. 2. That we have an Answer drawn up more Comprehensive and Particular, reserved for Publication, if we may find a farther Occasion or Necessity for it. Therefore 'tis but equal and reasonable you should be so Ingenuous, as to tell us plainly, whether your said Book with our Answer may affect yourselves only, or your whole Society of People; seeing it affects us as a whole Society of People. If your Book against us, be only your own private Act whose Names are to it, and not more generally owned, nor stood by among your People; we would be so just as not to reflect it on your whole Society or People.  
London, the 2d of the 1st Mo. 1691/2. By a Lover of Peace, and the Souls of Men, George Whitehead.   

TO conclude in general against your false Charges, and manifold Abuses and Calumnies, contained in your said Book, i. e. Antichrist in Spirit, & to anticipate farther Objections on the Matters herein.  
We sincerely Profess and Declare in the Sight of God and Men, that we do faithfully Believe and Profess, That the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament were given by Divine Inspiration: And that the three Divine Witnesses in Heaven above, namely, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, are one True and Eternal God, Blessed for evermore, whose Omnipresence and Omnipotency, we also Believe and Profess.  
And the Divinity and Humanity or Manhood of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the Eternal Word of God: And that in the fullness of time he took Flesh, being Miraculously Conceived by the Holy Ghost and Born of the Virgin Mary, and suffered the cruel Death of the Cross, as an Universal Offering and Sacrifice both in his Body and Blood shed thereon, for the Sins of the whole World, and was Buried, and Rose again the third Day, and Visibly Ascended (was seen in his Ascending) and passed into Heaven and Glory: And that he Ascended far above all Heavens, that he might fill all Things: And that by his Suffering and Sacrifice he hath obtained Eternal Redemption for us, which through Faith in his Name and Power, true Repentance and Conversion, we livingly receive and effectually partake of.  
That we are not Pardoned, Justified, Redeemed or Saved by our own Righteteousness, Works, Merits or Deservings; but by the Righteousness, Merits and Works, of this our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, being both imparted and imputed to us, as he is of God made unto us Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification and Redemption. Our Reconciliation, Redemption, Pardon, Sanctification and Justification, having respect both to his suffering Death and Blood upon the Cross: (As the one Peace- Offering and Sacrifice, and as our High Priest, thereby making Atonement and Reconciliation for us, and giving himself a Ransom for all Mankind.) And also to the effectual saving Work of his Grace and good Spirit within us, bringing us to experience true Repentance, Regeneration and the new Birth, wherein we partake of the Fellowship of Christ's Sufferings and Power of his Resurrection.  
In which Grace we ought to persevere in newness of Life and faithful Obedience unto him, unto the end that we may be Heirs of the Eternal Salvation, which Christ is the Author of.— We sincerely Believe also, That the Man Christ Jesus is the only Mediator between God and Men, our Intercessor and Advocate with the Father; and that he exerciseth his Kingly Office, and his Priestly and Prophetical Office in his Kingdom and Church here on Earth, wherein he Governs, and plentifully affords both Immediate Inspiration and Instruction to his Faithful Followers, who walk in his Light to guide them into all Truth; and he that hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of his.— And that this same Lord Jesus Christ, who died for all Men, enlightens every Man coming into the World, and was and is the Light of the World, the Way, the Truth and the Life; and that the same Christ that was Crucified and put to Death, as concerning the Flesh, and quickened by the Spirit and Power of the Father, he is Inwardly Revealed and Spiritually in the Hearts of True and Spiritual Believers, by his Holy Spirit, Life, Light and Grace: And that therefore his coming and appearing Outwardly in the Flesh and Inwardly in the Spirit, cannot render him two Christ's, but one and the same very Christ of God blessed for evermore.  
Also the saving Baptism, which is, that of the Spirit and the Lord's Supper in his Church and Kingdom, we believe and receive in him the Substance Spiritually, not apprehending ourselves bound to remain under any outward Shadow or Type thereof in the clear Gospel-day of Christ.  
The Immortality of the Soul of Man, being Created in God's own Image, and Inspired by him that form Man. And the Resurrection of the Dead and Eternal Judgement: And that every Man shall be reserved in his own distinct Being for his due and future Reward; the Wicked unto the Day of Judgement, Destruction and Wrath; but the Righteous unto Eternal Life and Glory, in their Spiritual Bodies like unto Christ's Glorious Body, where they shall be equal to the Angels of God in Heaven. These Things we sincerely Believe and Profess according to Holy Scripture-Testimony, and as set forth therein, as the Lord is pleased to give us Understanding thereof.— Being ready and willing to give more large Account and Demonstration of our Holy and Christian Profession, as the Lord shall lay a necessity upon us. And our Belief and Profession of these Matters is not new to us, but according to that Light and Understanding we have received of the Lord and believed from the Beginning, since we were a Suffering People gathered by him; as also divers of our Ancient Friend's Ministry, Books and Writings, do more fully signify and demonstrate.   

POSTSCRIPT.  
To evince with what Consciences these Anabaptists, E. pay, W. Alcott and H. L. have writ against the Quakers, pray observe these two or three Instances more.  
1. E. P. etc. p. 46. read p. 6, 7. Saul's Errand to Damascus. And G. Fox takes the Name to himself, saying, He is the Eternal Judge of Quick and Dead.  
Answ. This is notoriously false in Fact, being in the very same Book Saul's Errand, recorded among those Matters Falsely charged on G. F. by his Adversaries the Priests and others, in the County of Lancaster, in their Petition, p. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. of Saul's Errand, where G. F. opposeth and answereth their Objections.  
2. E. P. etc. p. 29. That they (meaning the Quakers) say, That Christ hath no Body but his Church. Quoting Saul's Errand, p. 9  
Answ. Which is notoriously false again. For it was the said Priest's Objection against L. F. that he professed, That Christ had never any Body but his Church, Saul 's Errand, p. 2. Which was also false, and there recorded among their other false Charges objected; tho' in the Answer it is confessed, That Christ's Church is his Body: 'Tis also confessed, That we are Members of his Body, of his Flesh, and of his Bones: Which grants his particular Body, and his Church's Union therewith. Therefore, far from such Profession, as, That Christ had never any Body but his Church.  
E. P. etc. p. 59 See Parnell 's Shield of Truth, p. 12. Where he calls Waterbaptism a formal Invention and Imitation of Men, and so a mere Delusion.  
Answ. This James Parnell speaks not of Waterbaptism, without Distinction, as they state it against him for he saith it was a Figure, (meaning as John and the Disciples used it) but of Sprinkling Infants, as he saith, He received Water upon his Face, as his Parents told him. This he calls an Invention of Men (and so do Baptists, I think) p. 67, 68 Collection of J. P. is Write. Thus Immorral and Unjust are these Anabaptists in writing against us.  
FINIS.