ledge of Chrift; of the primary Rule of Faith, and of the Ufe of the Scriptures; of the Light within, and of immediate Infpiration; of Infallibility, and finless Perfection; of the Ministry, and Worship; of the Perfon of Chrift, and of his Performances for us, as without us; of his outward Baptifm and Supper; of his coming again to Judgment; and of the Resurrection of the Dead; and of many other things, wherein they all unanimously or generally agree.

Par.

The CONCLUSION.

D

EAR Sir, I am abundantly fatisfied with your Anfwers, to all that I have proposed to you; whereby you have fufficiently discovered to me the grofs and dangerous Errors of the Quakers, and inftru&ted me in the true Principles of the Chriftian Religion; and I think my felf exceedingly obliged to you, for the Pains you have taken, to preserve me from fuch ftrange Delufions, and to confirm me in the Communion of the Church.

Min. Good Neighbour, I am highly pleafed that my Pains has not been in vain, and that my poor Endeavours have been fo fuccessful. I fhall only add, that as we have the Happiness to be of a Church, which excells all others for found Doctrine, and pure Worship, and Apoftolical Government; fo we thould think our felves obliged to excel all others, for pious and good living. And if

our

our Lives be but fuitable to our Principles, we cannot but be in a fafe and fure way to eternal Happiness and Blifs. But all the Advantages of the best constituted Church, the moft Primitive Government, the most Orthodox Faith, and the most excellent Form of divine Service, will not bring us to Heaven, without a truly Pious and Chriftian Life.

Merciful God, who haft made all Men, and bateft nothing that thou haft made, nor wouldeft the Death of a Sinner, but rather that be should be converted and live; have Mercy upon all Jews, Turks, Infidels and Hereticks; and take from them all Ignorance, hardness of Heart, and contempt of thy Word, that they may be faved among the Remnant of the true Ifraelites, and made one Fold, under one Shepherd, Jefus Chrift our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, and the Holy Spirit, one God World without end. Amen.

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Almighty God, who fheweft to them that be in Error, the light of thy Truth, to the intent that they may return into the way of Righteousness; grant unto all them that are admitted into the fellowship of Chrift's Religion, that they may efchew thofe things that are contrary to their Profeffion, and follow all fuch things as are agreeable to the fame, through our Lord Jefus Chrift. Amen.

THE EN D.

Tho' the foregoing Piece, confidering the great
Variety of Matter which it contains, is the
moft concife that poffibly can be; yet it may not
be amifs, for the fake of fuch as have not
Leifure, or Memory, to go through, or attend
to the whole Series of the Difpute, and of
fuch as would be glad to have immediate Re-
courfe to particular Articles, to infert the fol-
lowing very ample INDEX of the PRINCIPAL
MATTERS.

What makes a Man a good Christian,

5

The peculiar Articles of the Chriftian Faith, as di-
ftinguish'd from Natural Religion,

ibid.
Christianity contains Matters of Faith, as well as of
Practice,

Principles of a true Chriftian Life,

ibid.
6

Christians bound to perform the Duties of the Law
of Nature, as well as to obferve the Precepts of
the Gospel,
ibid.
Law of Nature an effential Part of Chriftianity, 7
The Holy Scripture comprehends the Wisdom of the
wisest Men in all Ages, and of all Nations and
Sects, without any Mixture of Superftition or Ig-

norance,

ibid.

ibid.
Natural Duties turn'd by the Gofpel into Christian
Graces,
What are the greater Helps which we receive from
the Gospel, than from the mere Light of Nature,

ibid.

What are the greater Motives afforded us by the Gof-
pel to do our Duty, than could be had from the
mere Light of Nature,

SECT. II.

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Effentials of Christianity not to be learnt without the
Scripture, or outward Teaching,
9
Principal Foundation of Quakerifm erroneous, ibid.
Quakers falfe Conftruction of the Text, John i. 9.
ibid.

The Meaning of Chrift's being called the true Light,

II

The different Kinds of Light wherewith Chrift en-
lightens Men,

II, 12

The different Manners by which Chriftians are en-
lighten'd,

12

Every individual Man not enlighten'd with the Gof-

pel,

13

The Meaning of the Words every Creature, Col. i. 23.

14

Quakers do not learn from the Light within, but from

one another,

15

Mini-

16

Miniftry of Men, and outward preaching to the Ear,
the ordinary way of conveying the Knowledge
of the Gospel in the Apoftles Days,
Our Saviour refers the Rich Man's Kindred to Mofes
and the Prophets, and not to the Light within,

If

17

Of dangerous Confequence to fay, that the inward
Light is fufficient to teach Men all the Effentials
of Christianity,
ibid.
every Man has a Light within him fufficient to
teach him all Things neceffary, what have the
Quakers to boast of more than others? 18
Muggleton acted more ftrictly upon the Quakers Prin-
ciples, than they themselves do,
ibid.
The Knowledge of the Scriptures, and of Christia-
nity, of no Efficacy or Signification, according to
the Quakers Notion of the Light within,
Quakers ought to work Miracles, to juftify their Pre-
tenfions to the Knowledge of Evangelical Truths
by inward Light only,

What is properly the Gospel,

19

ibid.

20

What may be known of God by the Heathens, 22
Quakers Hiftorical Faith infufficient,

23

Light within, how infufficient to teach the Effentials
of Christianity,

Two of the Quakers fundamental Rules,

ibid.

24

God and Chrift called the Light in Men only in a
figurative Senfe,

ibid.

Meaning of the Text, that the Life of the Word was
the Light of Men,

25

Those who worship the Light within one another,
as Chrift and God, guilty of Idolatry,

26

A groundless and imaginary Notion of R. Barclay,

27

Intermediate Things and Vehicles rejected by the
Founders of the Quakers,

28

In what Sense the Light within may be innocently
taken,

ibid.

The Notion that the Light in particular Perfons is to
be try'd by the Light of the Body, advanc'd by
fome Quakers, introduces a blind Obedience to
the Church, and is. the very Effence of Popery,