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An Apology for the True Christian Divinity / Being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers

Chapter 201: §. XI.
By Robert Barclay
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The work presents a systematic defense and explanation of Quaker theology, arguing for the primacy of immediate, inward revelation alongside scripture. It advances propositions on human fallenness and universal redemption, the nature of justification, perfection, and the possibility of falling from grace, and practical matters such as ministry, worship, baptism, communion, and civil authority in religious matters. The text combines theological argument, scriptural interpretation, and responses to critics, and concludes with guidance on social conduct and conscience, aiming to vindicate the movement's beliefs and practices within a reasoned and ordered framework.

[134] Ephes. 5. 13.

§. XI.

In Tenderness of Conscience, God winketh at our Ignorance.Lastly, If any now at this Day, from a true Tenderness of Spirit, and with real Conscience towards God, did practise this Ceremony in the same Way, Method, and Manner as did the Primitive Christians recorded in Scripture, I should not doubt to affirm but they might be indulged in it, and the Lord might regard them, and for a Season appear to them in the Use of these Things, as many of us have known him to do to us in the Time of our Ignorance; provided always they did not seek to obtrude them upon others, nor judge such as found themselves delivered from them, or that they do not pertinaciously adhere to them. The Day is dawned wherein God is risen, and worshipped in Spirit.For we certainly know that the Day is dawned, in which God hath arisen, and hath dismissed all those Ceremonies and Rites, and is only to be worshipped in Spirit, and that he appears to them who wait upon him; and that to seek God in these Things is, with Mary at the Sepulchre, to seek the Living among the Dead: For we know that he is risen, and revealed in Spirit, leading his Children out of these Rudiments, that they may walk with him in his Light: To whom be Glory for ever. Amen.