The Quakers Pedegree Trac'd, Or, Some Brief Observations on Their Agreement with the Church of Rome (Paperback)

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. 1703 Excerpt: ...sand all Men, in all ages ( who yet thave the t of God ) must apply our selv.es to study, o reading such things as by the Evangelists Apostles were for that end left in writing and emitted to the Churches. 'tmothy had the Spirit of God, yet must he not ect New Revelations: or depend upon New In """""""-x uuons. But he must give attendance to Reading, . sim. 4. 13. He must continue in the things he had l'r: . knowing of whom he had learned them, z Tim. 3.14. And must hold fast that form of found words he had heard from St. Paul, 2 Tim.. 13. For the Writings he was to study and unto which the Apostle fends him, Were none ether but the Holy Scriptures, which were able to make him wife mo falvation, 2 Tim. 3. 15. He was not to Expect that the Light within him, or his own private Spiiitwithin him, fhou'd dictate all things to him: but he must have ( as was noted before ) recourse to the Scriptures, and study therein. Study, faith St. Tri, to shew thy self approved unto God, a Workroan that Beedeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of Truth, 2. Tim. 2. r 5. v readi ( who We yet farther believe, and teach, that i; and studying the Holy Scriptures, all M' yet have the Spirit of God) in all things cannot at all times infallibly understand the fameFor there are some mysteries which are not easily; apprehended: which makes such diversities OB Judgments and Opinions in the Christian World: as hath been but too evident in all Ages evcr; since the glorious planting of the Gospel. Whence else I pray you, sprang all those hot Disputes ii' the very Days of the Apostles, about Circumciand Legal Purifications, and other Mixtures: LeviticaJ Law with the Gospel, which gavi 1 early disturbances to the Church, that ev a Council of the Apo...