Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism, List of Quaker heresies
READER.
I intended once to have given thee some short animadversions on G. Keith's way cast up, so far as concerned maters of doctrine; but finding that they would make this book too big, I thought best to reserve these to some fitter occasion. Only to fill up some vacant pages, I shall present thee with some heeds of abominable Quakerisme, contained in that book, which, together with the Index, insert after the Preface, will give thee a fuller view of the many blasphemous heterodoxies, which the Apostate Quakers maintaine; The pages here cited are of his book, and such as have it may, if they please, see that I wrong him not.
1. CHrist and his Apostles preached Christ within men, as well, as his coming in the flesh, in that prepared body, which was crucified.
72
2. Christ, as Man, was and is before all, the first & the last
38, 93, 96, 97, 101
3. To say, there are three distinct persons in the Godhead, is to darken that mystery
86, 87
4. The Godhead of Christ is not properly a person, but an invisible power and life
89
5. It is a most foolish distinction, to distinguish betwixt the Personality, and the nature of man, in Christ
89
6. Christ as man excelleth all other men, in nature and substance, as far as heaven doth the earth
90
7. Of this distinction betwixt the nature and soul of Christ, as man, & the souls of other men, speaketh Paul 1 Cor. 15:45, 47.
90
8. The man Christ influenceth all men by his life, and is in them
90, 106, 107, 108, 109
9. The Word made flesh created all things, an… the …ord only is not properly the Christ
93
10. Christ as Man came down from heaven
94
11. Christs flesh and blood came down from heaven
94
12 Thus Christ hath spiritual flesh and blood
94, 95
13. Of his spiritual flesh and blood did the saints of old eat and drink
95
14. The Man Christ Jesus is the mediator
96
15. The Man Christ is to be understood Prov. 8:23. Psal. 110:1, 2, 3.
97, 98
16. The Man Christ is God's High-Priest
98
17. A measure of the life of the Lamb lived in Adam in innocency
99
18. This measure came to be slain by transgression, and to undergo deep sufferings
99
19. Thus Christ was the lamb slaine from the foundation of the world
99
20. It was this life of Christ, as man, that was pressed as a cart, &c. Amos 2:13.
99, 100, 108
21. Thus Apostats crucify to themselves againe the Son of God, Heb. 6: vers. 6.
100, 108, 109
22. Thus hath Christ been crucified by the wicked from the beginning
100
23. Christ the heavenly man li…ed in Abraham and Moses, &c.
100
24. Christ was true and real man before he was borne of Mary
102
25. The soul of Christ, or the inward man that dwelleth in the outward flesh, is the man
102
26. This is the man, that was seen Ezek. 1:26, 27. Dan. 7:9. Rev. 1:13-19. Esai. 6. Gen. 3:8, 9, 10.
102
27. The Word was made flesh from the beginning, and dwelt in us
103
28. The centre and spring of Christ's soul and life, was for the most part in heaven, until it descended and clothed it self, with the likeness of our flesh, in the Virgines womb
103
29. In all the Scripture it will not be found, that Christ became Man, and took to himself the soul of Man; but only that he took flesh
104
30. According to his heavenly nature, even as Man, he was the Son of God
104
31. Christ is not only in Men, but in all the world, else he should be discontinued, in & discontinued places
110
32. Christ is hid and vailed in unbeleevers
112
33. Christ is otherwise in the Saints, then he was in that Vessel or Temple, that suffered at Ierusalem
113
34. The spring & centre of Christ's Soul, light & life, is in that Vessel
113
35. Christ hath given to all mankind eternal life, as to its seed & principle
115, 116
36. The Man Christ is the object of divine Worshipe, as well as the Father
118
37. Christ as Mediator is to be Worshiped
121
38. The Man Christ is every where
123
39. That is, his soul is extended into all, in his divine seed and body, which is his heavenly flesh and blood
123
40. And this they prove by their Worshiping of this heavenly body, & praying to it
123
41. It is not enough to say, Christ is present as God; for if the Man be not present, he is not to be Worshiped
124
42. The Man Christ, could not know our inward prayers, if he were not immediatly present in us and with us
125
43. That which Christ hath left with us of his divine body, is God's throne of grace, in which we have accesse, Heb. 4:15, 16.
126, 127
44. It is of the same nature and one entire being with that above, the altar, the mercy seat, the cherub Ps. 18:9, 10.
127
45. This Cherub is the Man Christ
127
46. Christ is the heavens, that God boweth
ibid.
47. Christ as Man knew the thoughts of men, in the dayes of his flesh
128
48. Christ as Man is omnipercipent, and therefore omnipresent
129
49. Christ thus near us in his divine life, soul, seed and body, is the Incarnat Word
133
50. The word made flesh, which Iames calleth the ingraffed word, dwelleth in them
134
51. And that by way of an emanation
136
52. The blessed Deity is as centrally and essentially in us, as in the Man Christ Jesus
136
53. The soul of Christ is that ladder, Ioh. 1:51.
142
54. This soul of Christ is not the Nephesch of his soul, but the Neschamah
143
55. Even that divine Spirit of life, that God breathed into Adam, the candle of the Lord, the ingraffed word, the word made flesh
ibid.
56. The Nephesch is that of the soul of Christ, which is common to the souls of other men
ib.
57. By the Neschamah they underderstand the substantial dignity and excellency thereof
ib.
58. Whether these two be two distinct principles; or two faculties of one principle, he determineth not
ibid.
59. Christ cannot sanctifie us, but by his soul extended to us
144, 145
60. The Spirit or Soul, that was in the Son of Mary, is in all men, but not in its fulness, as it was in him, but by emanation from him
157
61. And thus Christ is in us immediatly, and God through him
157
62. If Christ be mediator in the Saints, then he is Man, and the word incarnat, in them
158
63. Christ sowed the good seed of Regeneration, in all ages, and in all places of the world, and not in some corners only
159
64. This seed is a measure of the same divine and heavenly nature, that is in himself
ibid.
65. The universal presence of Christ, as Man, is proved from Luk. 2:49, 50.
160
By all which, considered and laid together, though mayest see, What the Apostate Quakers think of our Lord Jesus Christ; and how this Man more then confirmeth the charge given-in against them, in that Postscript to Mr Rutherfoords letters, Edit. 3. which I would desire all to read, and read over againe, that they may see their duty in this day, wherein the very aire of Christianity is made blak and infected with Quakeristick Antichristian Blasphemies.
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End of the text · John Brown, Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism (1678)