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 BRIEF 
 
 OBSERVATIONS 
 
 O N A 
 
 PAMPHLET, 
 
 INTITULED 
 
 The HISTORY of Modern 
 
 Enthufiafm, from the Reformation to 
 the prefent Times; 
 
 So far as relates to the People called 
 
 QUAKER S. 
 
 By JOHN LEWIS. 
 
 Blejfed are "je when Men [hall revile you^ &c, 
 Mat. V. II. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 Printed by L u k e H i n d e, at the Bible 
 
 in George-yard, Lombard-Jlreety 1759,
 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 Kind Reader, -7-^ /_5' 
 
 jl Pamphlefy intituled The Hiftory of 
 ^yh Modern Enthufiafm, &c, the feconi 
 Edition, printed in 1757, having lately fallen 
 accidentally into my Hands -, the Confideratioji 
 thereof fo far as relates to the People called 
 Quakers, engaged my Attention, It is not Am- 
 bition to fee my Name in Print, that induces me 
 to crave thy ferious Perufal of the following 
 Lines, but a real Concern to fee my Country-men^ 
 particularly the rifmg Generation, fo grojly im- 
 pofed upon, by one who no Doubt profeffes himfelf 
 a Minifter of the Gofpel -, but what Sort, I 
 fubmit to the impartial Reader, when in Page 
 21 of his Preface, after mentioning the Happi- 
 nefs of the Proteftant Churches abroad, their 
 being free from thefe fars, Difcords and Divi- 
 fions, that are the Refult of fo many different 
 Seftaries tollerated in this Kingdom, he fays^ 
 ' T^here is never a Diffenter that dares lift up his 
 * Head in the e[tablifl:ed Churches o/' Sweden and 
 ' Denmark.' 
 
 I fjall make no Comment upon this Affertion -, 
 
 it does, I think, plainly manifeli the Difpofttion 
 
 of the Author : But, after acknowledging my 
 
 A 2 Thankfulnefs
 
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 ^ankfulnefs io dlmtghty Gody and Gratitude to 
 the Government, under whom we enjoy our ReJi'^ 
 gious and Civil Liberties^ which ought to be high" 
 ly prized by all Men^ I recommend my Reader 
 to^ the Guidance of the Grace of God ^ in th^' grand 
 Concerns of his immortal Souly that he thereby 
 may become wife unto Salvation^ which is my 
 Jincere Dejire. 
 
 t might have been much more copious in E^ttrdBs 
 from our Friends Writings^ as well as from many 
 other I'exts of Scripture, and many more ColleBs 
 of the Church of England, and Rotations from 
 her mofl approvedWriterSy in Support of the A/V- 
 ceffity of Infpiration, or the inward Revelation 
 cfthe holy Spirit, in order to teach the Things of 
 Godfavingly and eff equally, but have endeavoured 
 io be as brief as I well could, without doing Injury 
 to my prefent Defgn, which was to prevent the 
 Honefl and Sincere from being impofed upon, and 
 deceived by the bold, but groundlefs, Affertions of 
 the prefent Author. And 1 would entreat the 
 Reader, ferioufly io weigh and cojifider the f aid 
 Quotations, which are moftly colleEled out of the 
 holy Scriptures, from approved Authors of the 
 Church of England, and out of their own Publick 
 Service. 
 
 mverfordr^efl, lift of the Tn W XT T T? W T Q 
 
 1 2th Month, called V:^ J O H ^ 1.. hW 1 b. 
 
 member, 1758, 
 
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 BRIEF 
 
 Obfervations, <Itc. 
 
 TH E Author of a Pamphlet, intituled 
 Ihe Hiftory^ of modern Enthufiafm, &c; 
 does therein pretend to give the Pub- 
 lick an Account of the Rife and Origin of the 
 People called fakers, in Language very un- 
 becoming the Charader he aflumes, and which 
 he eafily might have done with more Candour 
 and Truth, had his Prejudice, not to fay his 
 Malice, permitted him ; he treats them in a 
 very unchriftian Manner, ufing fundry unbe- 
 coming Terms, fuch as t^y?^r/&^,&c.pag. 85, 
 in which he feems to have a fertile Invention ; 
 and renders an Account of their religious 
 Tenets out of the Books of their Adverfaries, 
 fiich as Lejley, Cotton Mather, &c. (whofe 
 Malice, Envy, and grofs Impoiition on the 
 Publick, have long fince been laid open to the 
 World) or any other Author he thinks to his 
 Purpofe, how falfe foever ; who by curtailing 
 Paffages out of our approved Writers, or, like 
 him, perverting the plain Senfe of fuch Paffages, 
 have endeavoured to render us Hetorodox-, which 
 true Charity would have obliged them to place 
 the moft favourable Conftrudtion upon. 
 
 Such
 
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 Such Method or treating a Chriftian Society 
 will but terminate to his Shame, when well-dif- 
 pofed Perlbns, who are willing to be informed 
 ^^or^henifelves, iliall have Recourfe to Variety 
 of Trads that are extant, relating to our Faith 
 and Practice, fo that there feems to be nothing 
 new to offer -, for we always were, and ftill 
 are, willing to fubjed: our religious Principles 
 to the ftridteft Examination, being convinced, 
 that Truth will ever appear the brighter, for 
 being infpefted or fearched into. 
 
 It is with no fmall degree of Reluftancc, 
 that I have undertook to put Pen to Paper on 
 this Occafion ; for which Reafon, I fhall with 
 all Brevity jufl obferve, his unbecoming and 
 fcurrilous Manner of treating all who diffent 
 from him, and that thofe ridiculous Aflertions 
 of bis, in relation to the ^akers^ are Calum- 
 nies and grofs Untruths, that ought long fmce 
 to have been buried in Oblivion, being too 
 ftale to be of any Service to his Caufe ; moft 
 of which, upon Examination, will be found 
 to be the Work of his famous PredecelTor, as 
 well as favourite Author, * LeJIey, whofe fcarir 
 
 dalous 
 
 ^ Charles Lejley, a nonjuring Jacobite, was well 
 known about fixty Years ago, not fo much for his 
 hmgtiihtv Learned or Reverend, as this Author 
 often calls him, as for his Virulence againfl Dif- 
 fenters of ail Denominations, and tor his open and 
 avowed DifafFedion to the Protejlant Succeffion in 
 the Houfe of Hanover, He Jikewife was faid to be 
 
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 dalous Impofition on the Publick has long 
 fince, in the Efteem of others, been fufficiently 
 deteded by the Authors of T& Switch for the 
 Snake. 
 
 I {hould not at this Time have efteemed any 
 Thing he has advanced worthy my Notice, had 
 he not attempted to impofe on the World, by 
 reprefenting us as Entbujiafls in the worft Senfe 
 of the Word ; w^hich v^^e muft furely be, if 
 what the Vicar faith is true, * That what we 
 
 * mean by the Light within, may either be the 
 
 * Effed: of Melancholy or Enthufiafm ; yea, 
 
 * or fometimes the Suggeftion of an evil Spirit/ 
 See his Book^ P^g* 79* io 
 
 This unchriftian Method of reprefenting us 
 to the Publick, many of whom I was afraid 
 might (according to what my noted Author 
 i2iy%m hi3 Pr,ejkc^. ^gag-r^-) jQQkufm our Silence 
 
 „:' ^y/'{:K\\-^^ i-*^;.'"r^>!'f V fir 
 
 tJ^e Author of a Scheme to unite the Papfis and 
 'Froieftants\ by making fuch Conctflions ro the 
 former, as hardly any but a Fapft could do ; which 
 fuiHcJently declared his Principles. As to his Book, 
 called The Snake in the Grafs^ wrote a gain ft -the 
 Sluakers^ it was iuliy anlwer'd by Jofeph Wyetb \rx 
 the Year 1699, and his Falfity and Malice againft 
 them properly expofed therein ; the Book was in- 
 tituled, A Switch for the Snake in the Grafs \ to 
 which we never heard he made any Reply. The 
 fa id Book, called ^he Snake ^ was likewife anfwered, 
 in great Part, by Daniel Philips in his Vindiaa 
 Veritatis ; and in the Year 1732, by Jofeph BeJFe^ 
 ih his Anfwer to Patrick Smith,
 
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 for Confent^ induced me to contribute my Mite, 
 in as concife a Manner as I poffibly could, ta 
 expofe his fallacious Performance, t") it?b 
 
 F/r/?, By fetting forth, out of approved Au- 
 thors among ourfelves, what kind of Ent'hu- 
 Jiafm, or Infpiration, or immediate Revelation^ 
 We own, and what we rejedt. 
 
 Secondly y I (hall offer a few Scripture Texts 
 in Support thereof. 
 
 *' -^thirdly and laflly, A few Colleds of the 
 Kational Church, together with the Sentiments 
 of her mod eminent Writers on that Subjedt ; 
 all which is humbly recommended to the feri- 
 ous Perufal of the fober Enquirer after diving 
 Truths. /;* 
 
 How far the learned Vicar may boaft of his 
 Performance I know not, but I find he con- 
 feffes he has already been cenfured, for mani- 
 fefting a Bitternefs of Spirit not of late to be 
 equalled j nor can I obferve in him any Marks 
 of that Chriftian Virtue called Charity, 
 without which, all our Performances are but 
 us founding Brafs^ or a tinkling Cymbal, i Cor. 
 xiii. I. Of quite different Sentiments, con- 
 cerning us, was the judicious and learned Judg^ 
 Haky when our Principles were not fo well 
 known, nor efteemed, as now ; ' The ^akerSy 
 ^ (faith he) take away fome Singularities, the 
 * Men are as gther Men y fome indeed very 
 
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 * fober, honeft, plain-hearted Men, and found 
 ' in moft, if not in all the important Dodrines 
 
 * and Pradices of Chriftianity.' Nature of true 
 Religion, pag. 15. 1684. 
 
 Firji J Now I proceed to the Sentiments of 
 fome of our approved Authors on Infpiration^ 
 or immediate Revelation^ fetting forth what In- 
 fpiration we own, and what rejedt. 
 
 * I know the monftrous Conceit fome have 
 
 * of our Meaning by Revelation^ fancying we 
 
 * underfland whimfical Raptures, ftrange and 
 
 * prodigious Trances ; but fuch imagine evil of 
 
 * Things they know not : We difclaim any 
 
 * Share or Intereft in thofe vain Whimfies and 
 
 * idle Intoxications, profeffing our Revelation 
 
 * to be a folid and neceffary Difcovery from 
 
 * the Lord, of thofe Things that do import 
 
 * and concern our daily Condition, in reference 
 
 * to the Honour which is due to him, and 
 
 * Care owing to our own Souls.* W. Penn^ 
 Serious Apology, pag. 87. 1671. 
 
 * We diftinguifli betwixt a Revelation of a 
 
 * new Gofpel, and new Dodtrines, and a new 
 
 * Revelation of the good old Gofpel and Doc« 
 
 * trines ; the laft we plead for, but the firfl v^e 
 
 * utterly deny.' R, Barclays Apology, pag. 9 1. 
 
 * We diftinguifli of immediate Revelation, 
 
 * and fay 'tis two -fold, either in Kind or 
 
 B * Degree ;
 
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 * Degree ; now tho' we believe the immediate 
 ' Revelation which we have, is from the fame 
 ' holy Spirit that opened in the Prophets and 
 
 * Apoftles, and them that gave forth the holy 
 
 * Scriptures j yet we do not fay, it is the fame 
 
 * Revelation for Degree which they had, but 
 
 * that it is the fame for Kind. Secondly, We do 
 ' not plead for any new Gofpel, Faith or Doc- 
 ^ trine, in Oppofition to or different from that 
 « which Chrift and his holy Prophets and 
 
 * Apoflles taught, and is recorded in the Scrip- 
 
 * tures of Truth, but for the Revelation of that 
 ' which they taught, and is therein recorded/ 
 i2. Claridges Lux Evangelica, pag. 84. 
 
 * The Revelation which we own, is the 
 ' Difcovery or Illumination of the Light and 
 ' Spirit of God, relating to thofe Things that 
 ' properly and immediately concern the daily 
 ' Information and Satisfadion of our Souls, 
 
 * in the Way of our Duty to God and our 
 
 * Neighbour/ Fullers Reply to Boyfe, Seft. 3. 
 pag. 40. 
 
 * We renounce all fantaflical and whimfical 
 
 * Intoxications, or any Pretence to the Revela- 
 
 * tion of new Matter, Gofpel, Faith or Doc- 
 
 * trine, in Oppofition to or ditFerent from that 
 'which our Saviour, his holy Prophets and 
 ^ Apoflles taught, and is recorded in the Scrip- 
 ^ tures of Truth. Ibid.' 
 
 Secondly,
 
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 Secondly^ Some Scripture Texts in Support of 
 
 Divine Infpiration. 
 
 * But there is a Spirit in Man ; and the In- 
 
 * fpiration of the Almighty giveth them an 
 
 * Underftanding. Job xxxii. 8. 
 
 * That was the true Light, which lighteth 
 
 * every Man that cometh into the World. 
 John i. 9. 
 
 * But the Manifeftation of the Spirit, . is 
 
 * given to every Man to profit withal, i Cor, 
 xii. 7. , 
 
 * That which may be known of God, is 
 ^ manifeft in them ; for God hath (lie wed it 
 
 * unto them. Rom, i. 19. 
 
 * For the Grace of God that bringeth Sal- 
 
 * vation, hath appeared to all Men ; teaching 
 
 * us, that denying Ungodlinefs, and worldly 
 
 * Lufts, we (hould live foberly, righteoufly, and 
 ' godly in this prefent World, looking for that 
 
 * bleffed Hope, and the glorious Appearing of 
 ' the great God, and our Saviour Jefus Chrift, 
 
 * who gave himfelf for us, that he might re- 
 *■ deem us from all Iniquity, and purify unto 
 ' himfelf a peculiar People, zealous of good 
 
 * Works. Thefe Things fpeak and exhort, and 
 ' rebuke with all Authority. Let no Man de- 
 [ fpife thee, Titus ii. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 
 
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 * No Man knoweth the Son but the Father : 
 ' Neither Knoweth any Man the Father fave 
 ' the Son, and he to whomfoever the Son will 
 ' reveal him. Mat, xi. 27. 
 
 * No Man can fay that Jefus is the LotA, 
 ' but by the holy Ghoft. i Cor. xii. 3. 
 
 * But ye are not in the Flefh, but in the 
 ' Spirit, if fo be that the Spirit of God dwell 
 ' in you. Now if any Man have not the Spirit 
 ' of Chrift, he is none of his.— But if the Spirit 
 
 * of him that raifed up Jefus from the Dead, 
 ' dwell in you -, he that raifed up Chrift from 
 
 * the Dead, (hall alfo quicken your mortal 
 
 * Bodies, by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. — ■ 
 ' The Spirit itfelf beareth Witnefs with our 
 ' Spirit, that we are the Children of God. 
 Rom. viii. 9 — 11 — 16. 
 
 * But God hath revealed jthem unto us by 
 ' his Spirit : For the Spirit fearcheth all Things", 
 
 * yea, the deep Things of God. For what 
 
 * Man knoweth the Things of a Man^ fave the 
 
 * Spirit of Man which is in him ? Even fo 
 
 * the Things of God knoweth no Man, but 
 ' the Spirit of God. Now we have received 
 
 * not the Spirit of the World, but the Spirit 
 ' which is of God ; that we might know the 
 
 * Things that are given us of God. i Cor. ii. 
 lOj II, 12. 
 
 ' But
 
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 * But ye have an Unftion from the holy 
 
 * One, and ye know all Things. — But the 
 
 * Anointing which ye have received of him, 
 
 * abideth in you : And ye need not that any 
 
 * Man teach you ; but, as the fame Anointing 
 
 * teacheth you of all Things, and is Truth, and 
 
 * is no Lie. i "John ii. 20 — 27. 
 
 * And hereby we know that he abideth in 
 ^ us, by the Spirit which he hath given us. — 
 
 * Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and 
 
 * he in us, becaufe he hath given U5 of his 
 'Spirit, I "John iii. 24. and iv. 13. 
 
 ^ God who commanded Light to (hine ^)ut 
 
 * of Darknefs, hath (hined into our Hearts, to 
 •'give the Light of the Knowledge of the 
 
 * Glory of God, in the Face of Jefus Chrift. 
 
 * But we have this Treafure in earthen Veffcfct 
 z Cor. iv. 6, 7. 
 
 * Thou gavefl alfo thy good Spirit to inJEltuft 
 '•'them. Nehem. ix. 20. 
 
 c * I will put my Law in their -invwifd Paits, 
 ^'and write it in their Hearts, and will be their 
 ^ God, and they (hall be my People. And they 
 
 * (hall teach no more every Man his Neigh- 
 
 * hour, and every Man his Brother, faying, 
 .* Know the Lord : For they (hall all know me, 
 e^from the leaft of them to the greateft of them, 
 ♦f faith the Lord. Jer. xxxi, 33, 34. 
 
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 ' I will put my Spirit within you, and caufe 
 Vyou to walk in my Statutes.' Ezek. xxxvi. 27. 
 
 It is manifeft to all unprejudiced Perfons, 
 that infinite Wifdom has not left us to ourfelves,^ 
 but that he is near us, during the Day of our 
 Vifitation, to teach and inftru6l us by his Grace 
 and holy Spirit, what we {hould avoid, and 
 what we ihoujd come up in the Pradlice of, 
 agreeable to the afore-mentioned Faffages of^ 
 the Apoftle in his Epiftle to 'Titus, How far 
 the Author of the Modern Hiftory, or any 
 others, may think proper to defpife the Ex-' 
 hortation of the infpired Penman, well merits 
 Confideration. * ^ 
 
 (.1 /■' lo • 
 
 Thirdly, and la/lly, Some ColleBs of the Na- 
 tional Church ; to which are added, the Senti- 
 ments of fome of her moft eminent Writers on 
 that Head. 
 
 Firii ColleB in the Communion Service. * Al- 
 ^ mighty God, unto whom all Hearts be open; 
 ^ all Defires known, and from whom no Secrets 
 ^ are hid, cleanfe the Thoughts of our Hearts 
 
 * by the Injpiration of thy holy Spirit, that we 
 ■*• may perfe(3:ly love thee, and worthily magnify 
 \ thy holy Name.' it ^ 
 
 Coll for the fifth Sunday- after Eafler, * O 
 
 * Lord, from whom all good Things do come, 
 
 * grant to us ^hy humble Servants, that by th^ 
 
 * holy
 
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 * holy hifpiration we may think thofe Things 
 
 * that be good.' 
 
 A Prayer jor the Clergy and People. * Send 
 
 * down upon our Bi(hops, and Curates, and all 
 
 * Congregations committed to their Charge, the 
 
 * healthful Spirit of thy Grace! 
 
 A Prayer for all Conditions of Men > ' More 
 
 * efpecially we pray thee for the good Eftate of 
 
 * the Catholick Church, that it may be fo 
 
 * guided and governed by thy good Spirit? 
 
 St. Stephen'^ Day. * And being ^lled with 
 
 * the holy Ghojl, may learn to love and blefs 
 
 * thofe who perfecute us, Sfr/ 
 
 ^linquagefma Sunday. ' Send thy holy Ghoft^ 
 *■ and pour into our Hearts.' 
 
 Good Friday 2d Coll. ' Almighty and ever- 
 ' lading God, by whofe Spirit the whole Body 
 
 * of the Church is governed and fandtified/ 
 
 Whitfunday. * God, who as at this Time 
 
 * didft teach the Hearts of thy faithful People, 
 
 * by the fending to them the Light of thy holy 
 
 * Spirit \ grant us by the fame Spirit/ 
 
 Ninth Siniday after Trinity. ' Grant to us, 
 
 * Lord, webefeech thee, the Spirit to think and 
 
 * do always fuch Things as be rightful. 
 
 Nineteenth
 
 Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity, * Mercifully 
 ^ grant, that thy holy Spirit may in all Things 
 
 * dirc(^ and rule our Hearts/ 
 
 Article 13. ' Works done before the Grace 
 *ofChrift, and the Infpiraticn of his Spirit, 
 ' are not pleafing to God,' 
 
 The Litany, ' That it may pleafe thee to illu^ 
 
 * minate all Bifliops, Priefts and Deacons, Qc' 
 
 In the Ordination for Priefts, &c. The 
 Bifliop having acquainted the Perfons who are 
 to be Ordained, of the great Excellence and 
 Dignity of their Office, and their Infufficiency 
 for it of themfelyes. Power and Ability being 
 given them of God alone, thus befpeaks them : 
 
 * Therefore ye fee how ye ought and have Need 
 
 * earneftly to pray for his holy Spirit. — Adding, 
 ^ We have good Hope, that you will continu- 
 
 * ally pray for the heavenly Affiliance of the holy 
 ' Ghoft from God the Father, by the Medi- 
 
 * ation of our only Mediator and Saviour Jefus 
 ' Chrift, that by daily reading and weighing 
 
 * of the Scfriptures, ye may fo wax riper and 
 ' ftronger in your Miniftry.'— After which, the 
 Bifhop puis feveral Queftions, to which they 
 are feverally to anfwer. — Then the Congrega- 
 tion are defired, fecretly in their Prayers to 
 make humble Supplication to God, for the 
 forefaid Things ; for the which Prayer, there 
 fliall be a certain Space of Silence, — Then the 
 Bifhop prays, and among other Expreffions 
 
 ' faith.
 
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 faith, ' Almighty and heavenly Father, — We 
 ' humbly befeech thee, — That we may daily 
 
 * increafe and go forward in the Knowledge 
 
 * and Faith of thee and thy Son, by the koly 
 
 * Spirit! — Which when ended, the Bifhop, 
 with the Priefts prefent, fliall lay their Hands 
 feveraily upon the Head of every one that re- 
 ceiveth Orders, the Receivers humbly kneeling 
 upon their Knees, and the Biftiop faying, 
 Receive the Holy Ghost. 
 
 Archbifnop Usher. ' It is required that we 
 
 * have the Spirit of God, as well to open our 
 
 * Eyes to fee the Light, as to feal up fully to 
 
 * our Hearts the Truth which we fee with 
 
 * our Eyes ; for the fame holy Spirit that 
 ' infpired the Scripture, (r Cor, ii. jo. and 
 
 * xiv. 37. Ephef. i. 13.) inclineth the Hearts 
 
 * of God's Children to believe what is revealed 
 
 * in them, beyond all Reafons and Arguments, 
 ' that thefe are the Scriptures of God'. Sum 
 and SubjloJicc of the Chriilian Religion, pag. 11, 
 12. 6th Edit. 
 
 * The Tedimony of God's Spirit in the 
 
 * Hearts of his Faithful, is greater than any 
 
 * human Perfwafions grounded upon Reafon, 
 ' or Witneffes of Men.* Ibid. pag. 12. 
 
 Blfliop Jewel. * Flefli and Blood Is not able 
 
 * to r.nderiknd the holy Will of God, with- 
 ' out fpecial Revelatio?! ; therefore Chrift gave 
 
 * Thinki; uiito his Father, for that he had re^ 
 
 C * ve.i ed
 
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 * sealed his Secrets to the little Ones, Mat. xi. 
 ^ and likewife opened the Hearts of his Dif- 
 ' ciples, that they might undei^jland the Scrip* 
 ' tures, Luke xxiv. 45. Without the fpecialHelp 
 
 * and prompting of God'^s holy Spirit ^ the Word 
 
 * of God is unto the Reader, be he never fo 
 
 * wife or well learned, as the Vifion oi 2i fealed 
 
 * Book J Reply to Harding*; Anjwer, pag. 534. 
 
 Archbifhop Sandys, in a Sermon preached 
 before Qiieen Elizabeth, on Pfal. Ixxxvi. 1 1. 
 Teach me thy Ways^ O Lordy and I will walk 
 in thy Truths has the following Expreffions. 
 
 * Chrift only openeth the Book of Knowledge, 
 
 * giveth Underftanding, and revealeth unto us 
 
 * the Will of his Father.-- The Spirit only is 
 ' the Schoolmafter, that inwardly guideth the 
 ' Heart in the Way of Truth/ See his Sermons 
 printed in 16 16, Pag. 49. 
 
 Bifhop Fowler of Glocefler, in his Defgn 
 of Chriftianity, Pag. 106, treats of xht fending 
 the Holy Ghoil to excite us to our Duty, and 
 aiiift, chcar and comfort us in the Performance 
 of it ; and then fays, ' This doth the Gofpel 
 ' affure us of, as alfb that thofe which do not 
 
 * refill and repel his good Motions, Avail be 
 ' fure to have always the Superintendency of 
 
 * this ble[jed Spirit, and that he will never for- 
 
 * fake them, bat abide vvith them for ever, and 
 ' carry them from one Degi-ee of Grace to 
 
 * another.' 
 
 The
 
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 The learned Daniel Whitby, Chanter of 
 the Church of Sarum, Author of a Paraphrafe 
 and Commentary on the New T^eflament^ hath an 
 Jppendix to the fixth Chapter of the fecond 
 Epiftle to the Corinthians, to fhow the Ne- 
 ceflity of the inward Help of the Grace of God, 
 to enable us to perform our Duties, and live 
 as becometh Chrijiiam \ in which he largely 
 proves, ' That it is neceffary to aflert that God 
 
 * vouchfafes to Men, not only the outward 
 
 * Difpenfations of his Word, to be the ordinary 
 ' Means of their Converfion and Sanc^ification, 
 ' but alfo feme inward Affiftances and Opera- 
 
 * tions of his holy Spirit :' In which he fays^ 
 ' To fay thefe Things and thefe Expreffions, 
 ^ concern only the Times in which the extra- 
 
 * ordinary Gifts and Operations of the holy 
 
 * Spirit were vouchfafed, is to make future 
 
 * Ages, fmce the Ceafmg of thofe Gifts, defpair 
 
 * of being quickned, fandtified or comforted, 
 
 * or even enabled to purify the Heart, or to 
 
 * mortify the Deeds of the Fledi, to live or 
 
 * walk in the Spirit 5 and confequently to defpair 
 
 * of being now the Sons of God, united to Jefus 
 
 * Chrifl, or having any of the Fruits of the 
 
 * Spirit wrought within them. — This Abode of 
 ' the good Spirit with us, is reprefented not 
 ' only as the higheft Privilege, but as the in- 
 
 * eftlmable Advantage of the Chriflian' With 
 much more ftrong and excellent Doftrine to 
 the fame Effedl, through eight Pages in Folio 
 ia the fiid Appendix j to which we muft refer. 
 
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 Dr. Lu'CAs, in his Enquiry after Happinefs, 
 Pag. 89, fays, * I can eafily believe that my 
 ' Ten^per may be transformed, my Corruptions 
 ' may be put off, and I be made Partaker of a 
 ' divine Nature, fince the Spirit of God will 
 
 * dwell with me, the Light of God will always 
 
 * fljine upon me, and the Power of God will 
 
 * 2L\\s'^ysJuccour me* 
 
 John Lock, in his fecond Volume in Folio, 
 Pag. 537, fays, * To thefe I muft add one Ad- 
 
 * vantage more by Jefus Chrift, and that is the 
 
 * Promife oi AJJifiance ; if we do what we can, 
 
 * he will give us hi^ Spirit to help us to do 
 ^ what and how we fhould. 'Twill be idle fm* 
 
 * us, who know not how our own Spirits move 
 
 * and ad us, to alk in what Manner the Spirit 
 ' of God fliall work upon us ? The Wifdom 
 ' that accompanies that Spirit, knows better 
 
 * than we how we are made, and how to 
 ^ work upon us/ 
 
 In his Paraphrafe op i Cor, ii. 10. he fays, 
 ' But thefe Things that are not difcoverable by 
 ' Mens natural Faculties and Power, God hath 
 
 * revealedio us by his Spirit.* — On i Cor, xii. 3. 
 he fays, * All that own our Lord Jefus Chrill 
 
 * and believe in him, do it hy the Spirit oj God -, 
 
 * that is, can do it upon no other Ground but 
 ^ Rrjelation coming from the Spirit of God! 
 
 Ihid.
 
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 Ibid, Pag. 302. * 'Tis the Spirit of God 
 ' alone that enlivens Men, fo as to enable them 
 ' to caft off the Dominion of their Lufts/ 
 
 Dr. Waterland, on tht Importance of the 
 DoBrine of the Trinity, Pag. 62, 63, 64, quotes 
 with Approbation the following Words from 
 Dr. Sherlock; ' Our Salvation by Chrift-, 
 
 * confifts not only in the Expiation of our Sins, 
 
 * ^c, but in the Communication of divine 
 
 * Grace, and Power to renew and fandify us ; 
 
 * and this is every where in Scripture attributed 
 
 * to the holy Spirit, as his peculiar Office in the 
 
 * Oeconomy of Man's Salvation : And it muft 
 ' make a fundamental Change in the Dodlrinc 
 
 * of divine Grace and Affiftance, to deny the 
 
 * Divinity of the holy Ghoft. For can a Crca- 
 
 * ture be the univerfal Spring and Fountain of 
 
 * divi?ie Grace and Lije ? Can a Creature make 
 
 * fuch clofe Application to our Minds, know 
 
 * our T^houghts^ fet Bounds to oiir PaJJions^ in» 
 ' fpire us with new Affections and Defires, &c.' 
 
 Bifhop Stillingfleet, in his Origines Sa- 
 bres, Book 2. Cap. JO. Sedt. 5. fays, * God has 
 ' promifed his Spirit to be a Witnefs within 
 
 * them, (Believers) that by its working and 
 ' ftrengthning Grace in their Hearts, it may 
 
 * confirm to them the Truth of the Records of 
 
 * Scripture, when they find the Counterpart of 
 ' them written in their Hearts by the Finger 
 ' ©f the Spirit of God/ 
 
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 In a Treatife intituled, T'he Life of God in 
 the Soul of Man^ recommended by Bifliop 
 Burnett, are the following Words, pag. 97. 
 
 * That there is a New Birth, and a divine in- 
 
 * ward Operation of the Spirit of God, which 
 ^ does conftantly exert itfelf in the Souls of the 
 
 * adopted Sons of God, but chiefly in their 
 
 * "Regeneration^ is a Truth fo facred and certain, 
 
 * that none who have any Acquaintance with 
 
 * the inward Ways of God, can fo much as 
 f queftion it/ 
 
 \ 
 
 ' Ibid. pag. 99. * This is mojft facrilegioufly 
 
 * reftrained to the extraordinary Effujion of the 
 
 * Holy Ghoft on Tentecojl. • — This is clearly 
 
 * contrary both to the Promifes of the Old and 
 
 * New Teftament, and the v/hole Current of 
 
 * the New, and to nothing more than our 
 
 * Saviour's mojl divine Prayer^ wherein he ex- 
 
 * preffes he w^as not interceeding for his Dif- 
 ^ ciples only, but for all that (hould believe on 
 
 * him through their Word. — So that all thofe 
 
 * fublime Effefts of the divine Spirit, of being 
 
 * one in God^ that Chrijl might be in them^ &c. 
 
 * are there prayed for, and certainly granted 
 *them; • id bt>imio;iq • 
 
 John Smith, of Cambridge, in his Eek5l 
 Difcourfes, pag. 384, fays, ' Befides the out- 
 
 * ward Revelation of God's Will to Men, there 
 f is alfo an inward Impreffion of it on their 
 
 * Minds and Spirits, which is in a mpre fpecial 
 
 * Manner
 
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 * Manner attributed to God. — We cannot fee 
 ^ divine Things, but in a divine Light.' 
 
 Dr. Hammond, in the Preface before his 
 
 Paraphrafe on the New Telia?nent^ pag. lo. 
 fays, ' There is Need of God's illuminating 
 
 * Spirit to alTilt our weak Eyes, our dark Fa- 
 
 * cuhies.' — And on Lt^ke xxiv. 45, he fays, ' By 
 
 * the fpecial Operation of his Spirit, He (that 
 ' is, Chrift) gave them the Underftanding o(i\\Q 
 *• Scriptures, in thofe Things efpecially which 
 
 * concerned the Mejfias? 
 
 . Dr. John Edv^tards, in his Free Difcourfe 
 concerning Truth and Error ^ pag. 481, fays,^ 
 
 * God is the -^z/r/:?(9r of all divine Truth, and of 
 
 * the Di/covery of it made to us. An inward 
 
 * Enlightning and Irradiating the Mind by the 
 ^ holy Spirit, is abfolutely neceffary for the 
 ' apprehending of the divine Myfteries which 
 ' are contained in the Dod:rines of the Gofpel.* 
 
 Archbiiliop Tillotson, in his Sermons on 
 the Gift of the Holy Ghofl, which are N^ 12 
 and 13 of the loth Volume in S''^- pag. 352, 
 fays it fignifies ' A fpecial Power and Prefcnce 
 
 * of the Holy Ghofl with Believers, or the 
 ^ immediate Operation and Alfiftancc of the 
 ' divine Spirit communicated and imparted to 
 
 * them. — It doth alfo fignify and comprehend- 
 
 * in it, a more ordinary and gentle Influence of 
 ' God's Spirit upon the Minds of Aien, to all 
 ' holy and good Purpofes j by which 1 mean, 
 
 ' an
 
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 * an immediate Operation and Affiftance of the 
 
 * holy Spirit afforded to Men, to relieve the 
 
 * Weaknefs and Impotence of human Nature, 
 ' to help and ftrengthen us to the Performance 
 
 * of what the Golpel requires of us/ — After 
 which, he opens the Nature of it, and the 
 Neceffity of it, to enable us to perform the 
 Condition of the Gofpel Covenant, and * That 
 
 * this Povi;er does continually dwell and refide 
 
 * in all U'ue Chrijliam^ if we do not grieve the 
 
 * Spirit of God, and provoke him to withdraw 
 ' it from us/ — But for the bleffcd Effcds there- 
 of, and its Extent as to Perfons and Things, 
 we muft refer the Reader to the faid two Ser- 
 mons, which are well worthy his perufing ; 
 juft obferving that he fays, ' This divine In- 
 
 * fluence and Affifbance, was not limited to the 
 
 * extraordinary Effufion of the holy Spirit on 
 
 * the.^Day of Pe?jtecofl, but that it is to all fuc- 
 
 * ceeding Ages -^ which he fully proves from 
 Scripture. 
 
 And in the fiift of thofe Sermons are the 
 following excellent Words, ' But after all this is 
 
 * done for us, we are fl:ill without Strength^ 
 
 * our Nature being depraved and funk into that 
 ' Impotency and Weaknefs, that without the 
 ' powerful Affiftance of Divine Grace^ v/e are 
 
 * utterly unable to perform thofe mod equal 
 
 * and reafonable Conditions, which the Gojpel 
 
 * requires of us, being, as the Scripture expreffes 
 
 * it, dead in T^7'efpqjjes a?id Sins, cuid eft ranged 
 'from the Life of God through the Darknefs 
 
 * that
 
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 * that is in us, and the Blindnefs of our Hearts, 
 ' Being enjlaved to vitious Habits^ - and having a 
 
 * carnal Mind^ which is Enmity to God, and 
 
 * renders us incapable to receive or reliili Divine 
 
 * and Spiritual Things : So that noiwithftand- 
 ' ing all that our blelled Saviour hath done and 
 
 * fufFered for us, and all the merciful Overtures 
 
 * of Pardon and Happinefs, which the Go/pel 
 
 * makes to us, all this will fignify nothing to 
 
 * our Benefit and Advantage, unlefs our Impo- 
 
 * tency be relieved, and new Life and Strength 
 
 * be conveyed to us, to awaken and excite us 
 ' to that which is good, to enable us to mortify 
 
 * and fubdue our evil and corrupt Inclinations, 
 
 * to break off our vitious Habit Sy and to walk 
 
 * in the Ways of God^s Commandments -, for we 
 ' are not fufficient of ourfelves, as of ourfelves, 
 ' for any of thefe Things, but our Sufficiency 
 
 * is of God : Without Chrift we can do nothi?2gy 
 
 * and it is only through him ftrengthening of 
 
 * us, that we are able to do all thefe Things, 
 ' which are neceffary to be done by us, in order 
 ' to the obtaining that Happinefs and Salvation 
 
 * which the Gojpel has promifed, and our &- 
 ' viour hath purchafed for us. And therefore 
 
 * our merciful Redeemer^ that he might not 
 ' leave his Work imperfed, hath fent his blefTed 
 
 * Spirit into our Hearts, to enlighten the Eyes 
 
 * of our Minds, and to open and difpofe our 
 ' Underftandings, for to receive of divi?je and 
 
 * fpiritual Truths, to conquer likewife the Per-^ 
 
 * verfnefs and Stubbornnefs of our fFills, and 
 
 * to fet us at Liberty from the Slavery of our 
 
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 * Lujls, (for where the Spirit of God /i, as St. 
 ' Faul tells us, there is Liberty) to renew our 
 ' Natures, and to purify our Hearts, to mortify 
 
 * our corrupt AfFed:ions, and to affift us to 
 / every good Word and Work, to ilrengthen 
 
 * us againft Temptations, to Inpport us under 
 
 * Sufferings and Perfecutions, and in a Word, 
 
 * to keep us by the mighty Power of God, and 
 
 * gracious Affiftance of his Holy Spirit, thro* 
 ' Faith unto Salvation! 
 
 I heartily wifli the foregoing Hints might 
 engage the ferious Attention of all, into whofe 
 Hands they may drop j becaufe, from what 
 little Remarks I have been capable of making, 
 the moft pious Men, in all Ages, have efteem- 
 ed it of the greateft Importance, to be ac-^ 
 quainted with the Teachings of the Grace of 
 God, in order to arrive at the faving Know- 
 lerige of his Will concerning them, that they 
 might he Chriftiam indeed in his Sight, fuch in 
 whom Chrift by his Spirit tabernacles with ; 
 for we are affjred, that if he is not in us^ (not- 
 withftandlng ail v/.ir Pretences to Religion) we 
 are Reprobates^ 2 Cor. xiii., ;. And, if we have 
 not the Spirit of Chrift^ we arj none cf his^ Rom. 
 viii. 9. 
 
 I have frequently admired, how any pro- 
 fefling to be Miniliers of the Gofpel, or indeed, 
 to the noble Name of a Chrijlian, (liould deny 
 and ridicule fo important a Dodrine, treating 
 
 that
 
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 that with Contempt, by making it the Subjcdt 
 of their profane Jefts, which would be exceed- 
 ing profitable for themfelves heartily to em- 
 brace ; it being fupported by Sacred Authority, 
 as well as by the Labours and Sentiments of 
 the moft pious and orthodox Chri/iians^ of all 
 Denominations, in all Ages. 
 
 I am far from being a Lover of Contro^erfy^ 
 much lels do I efteem myfelf qualified for it, 
 iincerely declaring, I have no View herein but 
 the Honour of God, and the Good of Souls» 
 and as fuch, (hall leave thefe few Lines to fare 
 as it may happen to them ; concluding with an 
 Extract from a Treatife, intituled The glorious 
 T'ruth of univerfal Grace and Atonement : At 
 the Clofe of which, the Author excellently ex- 
 preffes his Defire, that all the Profeflbrs of 
 Chri/iianity may, with him, ' Wind up their 
 
 * Spirits, not in the Love of Controverfy, but 
 ' in the Love of God, and Life of RighteouC- 
 ' nefs ; that though as our Lineaments and 
 ' Features are different, fo our Sentiments in 
 
 * divers Rcfpedls may be different ; or though 
 
 * we may have different Ideas of Things, yet 
 
 * that our Differences may not be fuch, but 
 
 * that we may come to unite upon a Bottom 
 
 * of Love and univerfal Charity, and may be 
 
 * brought to dwell in him who is Love ; one 
 
 * divine, effential, and undivided Fountain of 
 
 * Love, and infinite Ocean of divine Bright- 
 
 * nefs ', the Glories of whofe Prefence can never 
 
 *be
 
 * be defcribed, nor the Beauties of his Love fet 
 
 * forth to the full ; He is all Love and Light, 
 
 * Truth and Goodnefs, who is our Rock for 
 
 * ever ; of the Height and Depth, Length and 
 ^ Breadth of his Love, there is no End, Limit, 
 
 * or Bound. Let the Senfe of Divine Love 
 
 * take hold upon your Spirits^ O ye ProfefTors 
 
 * of Cbri/lia?iityy and feize powerfully upon 
 
 * vour Souls, that the Life and Subftance of 
 
 * Religion may be your Portion, your Crown 
 
 * and Glory for ever/ 
 
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