The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers: Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrencs.Sewel, William
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The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers: Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrencs.
Sewel, William
Society of Friends -- History -- Early works to 1800
to wrest words from him to their own purpose, said, ‘How soon have you
forgot the works of the bishops, who are now found in the same, seeking
to ensnare the innocent.’ Whereupon they rose up, and with bitterness
of spirit, burnt what they had written before, and so left him with
some bemoaning expressions; and when they were departing, he desired of
them that the parliament would send him such questions in writing as
they desired satisfaction to, and give him leave to return his answers
in writing also.
[15] The most that I find in his examination, either in Bristol
or London, before the committee of parliament, as published from
their report, was, that he owned Christ in him, but never that
he was Christ; and that he took the honour given, not as to
himself, but to Christ in him; which yet is more than any man
ought to receive; for when the beloved disciple, John, fell at
the angel’s feet to worship him, he, (though an angel,) said unto
him, “See thou do it not, I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy
brethren that have the testimony of Jesus, worship God.” Rev.
xix. 10. And if an angel ought not, surely no mortal man ought to
receive or accept it, on any pretence whatsoever; though falling
down, or kneeling to one another, is too frequently used by some
other people, and if it is not to their person, it must be to
their function, quality, or character in the church: but that he
received it to himself, as a creature, he utterly denied, Trial,
p. 15. And that there could not be a more abominable thing, than
to take from the Creator, and give to the creature, &c. J. W.
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