A new way of reading the Bible according to the three Norfolk clergy-men, those champions against the Quakers. Edward Beekham, D.D. and rector of Gayten-Thorpe. Henry Meriton, rector of Oxborough. Lancaster Topcliffe, L.B. sometimes Sen. Fell. of Gon. and Caius College, Cambridge. Norfolk. Gouldney, Henry, 1656 or 7-1725. 1699 Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2008-09 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A41715 Wing G1449 ESTC R217423 99829090 99829090 33526 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. 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Quakers -- England -- Norfolk -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800. 2007-09 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-11 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A New Way of Reading the Bible , According to the Three Norfolk Clergy-Men , THOSE Champions against the QUAKERS . Norfolk . Edward Beekham , D. D. and Rector of Gayten-Thorpe . Henry Meriton , Rector of Oxborough . Lancaster Topcliffe , L. B. sometimes Sen. Fell. of Gon. and Caius College , Cambridge . Inferr'd from an Instance of Theirs , in a Book Entituled , A Brief Discovery of some of the Blasphemous and Seditious , Principles and Practices of the People called Quakers , taken out of their most noted and approved Authors : Humbly Offered to the Consideration of the King and both Houses of Parliament . UPon sight whereof I was curious to peruse a Book that carried so rare and extraordinary a Title : And to be brief in my Observation thereupon , shall only consider their first Paragraph , and therein shew how Egregiously these Scholars and Divines stumbles at the Threshould : And that I may be just to them , take the Paragraph at large ; a Justice they have not observed towards the Quakers ; They say , George Fox , the first Founder , and great Apostle of this Sect , Great Mystery , Pag. 209. saith against his Opponent thus , This Light , that doth enlighten every one that cometh into the World , which he ( viz. G. F's Opponent ) calls Conscience , is not Conscience . And in Pag. 331. ( G. F. further faith . ) . The Light which every one that cometh into the World is enlightned withal , is Not Conscience ; for the Light was before any thing was made , or Conscience named . And again , to aggravate the supposed Blasphemy upon them , they make this Marginal Note , viz. The Quakers teach , that the Light within , by which they are guided is not Conscience . Now this being in the Front of their Book , to be sure it was not intended for one of the least of the Quakers Blasphemies ; though they might as well have called it Sedition ( the other Crime they lay to their Charge ) as to make it Blasphemy , to say , That the Light within is not Conscience . But if this be Blasphemy , pray let us hear how the Scripture will Read after their new way of Translating Conscience for Light , which the Quakers , according to the Holy Evangelist , &c. call Christ , and they call Conscience . John 1. 4 , 9. In him ( meaning the Divine Word ) was Life , and the Life was the Conscience of Men : And the Conscience shineth in Darkness , and the Darkness comprehendeth it not . There was a Man sent from God , whose Name was John , the same came for a Witness , to bear witness of the Conscience , that all Men through him might believe . He was not that Conscience , but was sent to bear witness of that Conscience : That was the true Conscience , that lighteth every Man that cometh into the World. John 8. 12. I am the Conscience of the World , he that followeth me , shall not walk in Darkness , but shall have the Conscience of Life . And also , 1 John 1. 2. 5 , 6 , 7 , 8. This then is the Message which we have heard of Him , and declare unto you , That God is Conscience , and in him is no Darkness at all : If we say we have fellowship with him , and walk in Darkness , we Lye , and do not the Truth ; but if we walk in the Conscience , as he is in the Conscience , we have fellowship one with another , and the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all Sin. Again , Rom. 13. 12. Put on the Armour of Conscience . Lest the Conscience of the Glorious Gospel , &c. 2 Cor. 4. 4. God , who commanded the Conscience to shine out of Darkness , hath shined in our Hearts , to give us the Conscience of the Knowledge , &c 2 Cor. 4. 6. Lastly , The Nations of them that are saved shall walk in the Conscience of the Lamb. But to read those Scripture Quotations truly , leave out the word Conscience , and read the word Light instead thereof . It is to be lamented , that Men that wear so Religious a Character , and would pass for the Key and Keepers of the Holy Scripture to the People , should be so much too hard for themselves , by letting their Mistake of the Quakers Principles carry them into so great an abuse of the Scriptures , as to be guilty of the Crime they would fasten upon them ; as certainly they all are , who degrade the Divine Light of Christ , in alledging it to be Conscience , which may as well be Blind and Defiled , as Knowing and Pure . Besides , it is to be admired , that these Three Clergy-Men , who by vertue of their Function , are obliged frequently to read the Common-Prayer , should be ignorant of a Principle so Emphatically Exprest therein , as may be read in that Book , viz. The Gospel on Christmas Day . The Collect. on John the Evangelist , and the Epistle on the same Day , with the Collects on Whitsunday and Munday ; and many other places , too tedious to mention , considering my intended Brevity . And why they should Brand the Quakers , that agree with the Church of England in so great a Principle , I know not , unless in Reallity they are not what their Character bespeaks them to be . FINIS .