Primitive Christianity Revived; In the Faith and Practice of the People Called Quakers: Written in Testimony to the Present Dispensation of God

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 edition. Excerpt: ... SECTION I. 1. Their fundamental principle. 2. The nature of it. 3. Called by several names. 4. They refer all to this, as to faith and practice, ministry and worship. 1. That which the people called Quakers lay down, as a main fundamental in religion, in this, That God, through Christ, hath placed his Spirit in every man, to inform him of his duty, and to enable him to do it; and that those who live up to this, are the people of God, and those that live in disobedience to it, are not God's people, whatever name they mav bear or profession they may make of religion. This is their ancient, first and standing testimony. With this they began, and this they bore, and do bear to the world. 2. By th's spirit they underslood something that is Divine; and though in man, yet not of man, but of God; and that it came from him, and leads to him all those that will be led by it. 3. There are divers ways of speaking, which they have been led to use, by which they declare and express what this Spirit is, about which I think fit to precaution the reader, viz., They call it, The light of Christ within man, or, light within, which is their ancient, and most general and familiar phrase; also the manifestation or appearance of Christ, the witness of God, the seed of God, the seed of the kingdom, wisdom, the word in the heart, the grace that appears to all men, the Spirit given to every man to profit with, the Truth in the inward parts, the spiritual leaven, that leavens the whole lump of man: many of which are figurative expressions, but all of them such as the Holy Ghost hath used, and which will be used in this treatise, as they are most frequently in the writings and ministry of this people. But that this variety and manner of expression may not occasion any...