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

A Table of the Chief Things.

• Abraham’s Faith, 19.
• Adam; See Man, Sin, Redemption.
• What Happiness he lost by the Fall, 74.
• What Death he died, 75.
• He retained in his Nature no Will or Light capable of itself to manifest spiritual Things, ibid.
• Whether there be any Reliques of the heavenly Image left in him, 78, 117.
• Alexander Skein’s Queries proposed to the Preachers, 347, 348, 385.
• Anabaptists of Great Britain, 39, 322.
• Anabaptists of Munster, how their mischievous Actings nothing touch the Quakers, 36 to 40.
• Anicetus, 37.
• Anointing, The Anointing teacheth all Things; it is and abideth for ever a common Privilege, and sure Rule to all Saints, 34, 35.
• Antichrist is exalted when the Seed of God is pressed, 118.
• His Work, 273, 274, 275, 279, 280.
• Antinomians, their Opinion concerning Justification, 175.
• Apostasy, 224, 270.
• Apostle, who he is, their Number was not limited, and whether any may be now-a-days so called, 275, 276, 277, 278.
• Appearances; See Faith.
• Arians, they first brought in the Doctrine of Persecution upon the Account of Religion, 439, 440.
• Arius, By what he fell into Error, 270.
• Arminians; See Remonstrants.
• Assemblings are needful, and what Sort, 299, 300, &c.
• See Worship, they are not to be forsaken, 341.
• Astrologer, 44, 45.
• Aurelia, There ten Canonicks were burnt, and why, 385, 386.

B

• Baptism is one, its Definition, 355, 358 to 364.
• It is the Baptism of Christ, and of the Spirit, not of Water, 365 to 368.
• The Baptism of Water, which was John’s Baptism, was a Figure of this Baptism, and is not to be continued, 367 to 387.
• Baptism with Water doth not cleanse the Heart, 359, 369.
• Nor is it a Badge of Christianity, as was Circumcision to the Jews, 372, 385.
• That Paul was not sent to baptize is explained, 372 to 374.
• Concerning what Baptism Christ speaks, Mat. xxviii. 20. it is explained, 376, 377.
• How the Apostles baptized with Water is explained, 378 to 382.
• To Baptize, signifies to Plunge, and how Sprinkling was brought in, 382, 383.
• Those of old that used Water-baptism, were Plunged, and they that were only Sprinkled, were not admitted to an Ecclesiastical Function, and why, 383.
• Against the Use of Water-baptism many heretofore have testified, 385, 386.
• Infant-baptism is a mere human Tradition, 355, 387, 388.
• Bible, The last Translations always find Fault with the first, 60.
• Birth, The spiritual Birth, 47.
• Holy Birth, 217, 218.
• See Justification.
• Bishop of Rome, concerning his Primacy, 38, 39.
• How he abused his Authority, and by what he deposed Princes, and absolveth the People from the Oath of Fidelity, 438, 442.
• Blood, To abstain from Blood and Things strangled, 418, 419.
• It hath been shed, 398.
• Blood of Christ; See Communion.
• Body, To bow the Body; See Head.
• Books Canonical and Apocryphal; See Canon, Scripture.
• Bonaventure, 302.
• Bow, To bow the Knee; See Uncover the Head.
• Bread, The breaking of Bread among the Jews, was no singular Thing, 406, 411.
• It is now other Ways performed than it was by Christ, 401.
• Whether unleavened or leavened Bread is to be used; also it is hotly disputed about the Manner of taking it, and to whom it is to be given, 411, 412.
• See Communion.

C

• Calvinists; See Protestants.
• They deny Consubstantiation, 38.
• They maintain absolute Reprobation, ibid.
• They think Grace is a certain irresistible Power; and what Sort of a Saviour they would have, 147, 248.
• Of the Flesh and Blood of Christ, 393, 396.
• They use leavened Bread in the Supper, 411.
• Canon, Whether the Scripture be a filled up Canon, 69, 70.
• Whether it can be proved by Scripture that any Book is Canonical, 70, 71.
• Castellio banished, 442.
• Ceremonies; See Superstition.
• Christ; See Communion, Justification, Redemption, Word.
• He sheweth himself daily, revealing the Knowledge of the Father, 8.
• Without his School there is nothing learned but busy Talking, 9.
• He is the Eternal Word, 11.
• No Creature hath access to God but by him, 11, 12, 13.
• He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, 13.
• He is the Mediator between God and Man, 12, 170.
• He is God, and in Time he was made Partaker of Man’s Nature, 12.
• Yesterday, To-day the same, and for ever, 22.
• The Fathers believed in him, and how, ibid.
• His Sheep hear his Voice and contemn the Voice of a Stranger, 51, 258, 261.
• It is the Fruit of his Ascension to send Pastors, 63.
• He dwelleth in the Saints, and how, 113.
• His Coming was necessary, 115.
• By his Sacrifice we have Remission of Sins, 115, 152, 170.
• Whether he be, and how he is in all Men, is explained, 115, 116.
• Being formed within, he is the formal Cause of Justification, 164, 189.
• By his Life, Death, &c. he hath opened a Way for Reconciliation, 190, 191, 192.
• His Obedience, Righteousness, Death and Sufferings are ours; and it is explained, that Paul said, He filled up that which was behind of the Afflictions of Christ in his Flesh, 173.
• How we are Partakers of his Suffering, 213, 214, 215.
• For what End he was manifested, 209, 210.
• He delivers his own by suffering, 210.
• Concerning his outward and spiritual Body, 390, 391.
• Concerning his outward and inward Coming, 417.
• Christian, How he is a Christian, and when he ceaseth so to be, 5, 10, 25, 26 to 31, 220, 244, 245, 246, 247, 257, 258.
• The Foundation of his Faith, 45.
• His Privilege, 46.
• When Men are made Christians by Birth, and not by coming together, 236, 237.
• They have borrowed many Things from Jews and Gentiles, 356, 357.
• They recoil by little and little from their first Purity, 415, 498.
• The Primitive Christians for some Ages said, We are Christians, we Swear not, 485.
• And, We are the Soldiers of Christ, it is not lawful for us to fight, 495, 496.
• Christianity is made as an Art, 10.
• It is not Christianity without the Spirit, 24 to 27, 49, 50.
• It would be turned into Scepticism, 267.
• It is placed chiefly in the Renewing of the Heart, 238.
• Wherein it consists not, 313.
• What is, and is not, the Mark thereof, 371, 372, 385.
• Why it is odious to Jews, Turks, and Heathens, 395.
• What would contribute to its Commendation, 454.
• Church, Without which there is no Salvation; what she is; concerning her Members, Visibility, Profession, Degeneration, Succession, 232 to 255.
• Whatsoever is done in the Church without the Instinct of the Holy Spirit, is vain and impious, 160.
• The same may be said of her, as was in the Schools, of Theseus’s Boat, 280.
• In her Corrections ought to be exercised, and against whom, 427.
• She is more corrupted by the Accession of Hypocrites, 435, 436.
• The Contentions of the Greek and Latin Churches about unleavened or leavened Bread in the Supper, 411.
• The Lukewarmness of the Church of Laodicea, 246.
• There are introduced into the Roman Church no less Superstitions and Ceremonies than among Heathens and Jews, 237.
• Circumcision, a Seal of the old Covenant, 373.
• Clergy, 275, 276, 279, 289, 290, 412.
• Clothes, That it is not lawful for Christians to use Things superfluous in Clothes, 467 to 470, 500.
• Comforter, For what End he was sent, 8.
• Commission, The Commission of the Disciples of Christ before the Work was finished was more legal than evangelical, 263.
• Communion, The Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ is a spiritual and inward Thing, 388.
• That Body, that Blood is a spiritual Thing, and that it is that heavenly Seed, whereby Life and Salvation was of old and is now communicated, 388, 389, 390.
• How any becomes Partaker thereof, 393 to 395.
• It is not tied to the Ceremony of breaking Bread and drinking Wine, which Christ used with his Disciples, this was only a Figure, 388, 395 to 406.
• Whether that Ceremony be a necessary Part of the new Covenant, and whether it is to be continued, 406 to 424.
• Spiritual Communion with God through Christ is obtained, 75.
• Community of Goods is not brought in by the Quakers, 427, 453.
• Compliments; See Titles.
• Conscience; See Magistrate.
• Its Definition, what it is; it is distinguished from the Saving Light, 418 to 421, 426.
• The good Conscience, and the hypocritical, 226.
• He that acteth contrary to his Conscience sinneth; and concerning an erring Conscience, 426.
• What Things appertain to Conscience, 427.
• What Sort of Liberty of Conscience is defended, ibid.
• It is the Throne of God, 428.
• It is free from the Power of all Men, 442.
• Conversion, What is Man’s therein, is rather a Passion than an Action, 121.
• Augustine’s Saying, ibid.
• This is cleared by two Examples, 122, 123.
• Correction, how and against whom it ought to be exercised, 427.
• Covenant, The Difference betwixt the new and the old Covenant Worship, 32, 298, 299, 324 to 337, 369 to 371.
• See also Law, Gospel.
• Cross, The Sign of the Cross, 385.

D

• Dancing; See Plays.
• Days, Whether any be Holy, and concerning the
• Day commonly called the Lord’s Day, 301, 405.
• Deacons, 414.
• Death; See Adam, Redemption.
• It entered into the World by Sin, 83.
• In the Saints it is rather a Passing from Death to Life, 84.
• Devil, He cares not at all how much God be acknowledged with the Mouth, provided himself be worshipped in the Heart, 10, 149.
• He haunts among the Wicked, 210.
• How he may seem to be a Minister of the Gospel, 271 to 273.
• When he can work nothing, 220, 221.
• He keeps Men in outward Signs, Shadows, and Forms, while they neglect the Substance, 398, 399.
• Dispute, The Dispute of the Shoemaker with a certain Professor, 260.
• Of an Heathen Philosopher with a Bishop in the Council of Nice, and of the unlettered Clown, 367, 368.
• Divinity, School-divinity, 256.
• How pernicious it is, 268 to 279.
• Dreams; See Faith, Miracles.

E

• Ear, There is a spiritual and a bodily Ear, 8, 20.
• Easter is celebrated other Ways in the Latin Church than in the Eastern, 37.
• The Celebration of it is grounded upon Tradition, ibid.
• Elders, 17, 279.
• Elector of Saxony, the Scandal given by him, 349.
• Eminency, your Eminency; See Titles.
• Enoch walked with God, 216.
• Epistle; See James, John, Peter.
• Esau, 309.
• Ethicks, or Books of moral Philosophy, are not needful to Christians, 268.
• Evangelist, Who he is, and Whether any now-a-days may be so called, 277.
• Excellency, your Excellency; See Titles.
• Exorcism, 385.

F

• Faith, Its Definition, and what its Object is, 18 to 21.
• How far, and how Appearances, outward Voices, and Dreams were the Objects of the Saints’ Faith, 19, 20.
• That Faith is one, and that the Object of Faith is one, 20.
• Its Foundation, 45.
• See Revelation, Scripture.
• Farellus, 411.
• Father; See Knowledge, Revelation, 18.
• Fathers, so called, they did not agree about some Books of the Scripture, 50, 60.
• They affirm that there are whole Verses taken out of Mark and Luke, 60.
• Concerning the Septuagint Interpretation, and the Hebrew Copy, 60.
• They preached universal Redemption for the first four Centuries, 101.
• They frequently used the Word Merit in their Doctrine, 200, 201.
• Concerning the Possibility of not sinning, 222.
• The Possibility of falling from Grace, 226.
• Many of them did not only contradict one another, but themselves also, 270.
• Concerning Baptism, and the Sign of the Cross, 385.
• Concerning an Oath, 478.
• Feet, Concerning the washing of one another’s Feet, 407 to 410.
• Franequer, 284.
• Freely, The Gospel ought to be preached freely, 183, 284.

G

• Games; See Sports.
• Gifted Brethren, 254.
• GOD, How he hath always manifested himself, 4.
• Unless he speak within, the Preacher makes a Rustling to no Purpose, 7, 8.
• None can know him aright, unless he receive it of the Holy Ghost, ibid.
• God is to be sought within, 8.
• He is known by Sensation, and not by mere Speculation and syllogistick Demonstrations, 8.
• He is the Fountain, Root, and Beginning of all good Works, and he hath made all Things by his Eternal Word, 12.
• God speaking is the Object of Faith, 18.
• Among all, he hath his own chosen Ones, 6.
• He delights not in the Death of the Wicked; See Redemption.
• He hath manifested his Love in sending his Son, 170, 190, 191.
• See Justification.
• He rewards the good Works of his Children, 201, 202.
• Whether it be possible to keep his Commandments, 204, 205.
• He is the Lord, and the only Judge of the Conscience, 425, 428.
• He will have a free Exercise, 435.
• Gospel; See Redemption.
• The Truths of it are as Lies in the Mouths of profane and carnal Men, 5, 28, 29.
• The Nature of it is explained, 32, 33.
• It is distinguished from the Law, and is more excellent than it, 33, 53.
• See Covenant, Law.
• Whether any ought to preach it in this or that Place, is not found in Scripture, 254, 255.
• Its Works are distinguished from the Works of the Law, 195.
• How it is to be propagated, and of its Propagation, 429.
• The Worship of it is inward, 370.
• It is an inward Power, 138, 139.
• Grace, The Grace of God can be lost through Disobedience, 224, &c.
• Saving Grace (see Redemption) which is required in the Calling and Qualifying of a Minister; See Minister.
• In some it worketh in a special and prevalent Manner, that they necessarily obtain Salvation, 123, 124.
• Your Grace; See Titles.

H

• Hai Eben Yokdan, 166.
• Hands, Laying on of Hands, 256, 419.
• Head, Of Uncovering the Head in Salutations, 449, 451, 464, 467, 499.
• Heart, The Heart is deceitful and wicked, 57, 76.
• Heathen, Albeit they were ignorant of the History, yet they were sensible of the Loss by the Fall, 159.
• Some Heathens would not swear, 485.
• Heathenish Ceremonies were brought into the Christian Religion, 385.
• Henry IV. King of France, 438.
• Heresies, whence they proceeded, 313.
• Hereticks, 431.
• High; See Priest.
• History of Christ; See Quakers, Redemption.
• Holy of Holies, the High Priest entered into it once a Year, 17.
• But now all of us at all Times have access unto God, 33.
• Holiness, your Holiness; See Titles.
• Honour; See Titles.
• Hypocrite, 431, 435, 436.

I

• Jacob, 309.
• James the Apostle, there were of old divers Opinions concerning his Epistle, 51.
• Idolatry, 297, 298.
• Whence it proceeded, 355.
• Jestings; See Plays, Games.
• Jesuits; See Sect, Ignatian.
• Jesus; See Christ.
• What it is to be saved, and to be assembled in his Name, 133, 168, 305.
• Jews, Among them there may be Members of the Church, 233.
• Their Error concerning the outward Succession of Abraham, 244.
• Their Worship is outward, 371.
• Illiterate; See Mechanicks.
• Indulgences, 166.
• Infants; See Sin.
• Iniquities, Spiritual Iniquities, or Wickedness, 313.
• Inquisition, 436.
• Inspiration, where that doth not teach, Words without do make a Noise to no Purpose, 7.
• John the Apostle, concerning his second and third Epistles, and the Revelation, there were sometime divers Opinions, 51.
• John the Baptist did not Miracles, 254.
• John Hus is said to have prophesied, 71.
• John Knox, In what Respect he was called the Apostle of Scotland, 278.
• Judas fell from his Apostleship, 245.
• Who was his Vicar, 260.
• His Ministry was not purely evangelical, 262, 263.
• He was called immediately of Christ, and who are inferior to him, and plead for him, as a Pattern of their Ministry, 263.
• Justification, The Doctrine thereof is and hath been greatly vitiated among the Papists, and wherein they place it, 165, 166, 167, 190.
• Luther and the Protestants with good Reason opposed this Doctrine, though many of them ran soon into another Extreme, and wherein they place it, and that they agree in one, 167, 168, 173.
• It comes from the Love of God, 170, 190.
• To justify, signifies to make really just, not to repute just, which many Protestants are forced to acknowledge, 180, 181, 184 to 188.
• The Revelation of Christ formed in the Heart is the formal Cause of Justification, not Works (to speak properly) which are only an Effect, and so also many Protestants have said, 164, 166 to 169, 180 to 200.
• We are justified in Works, and how, 164, 173, 174, 193 to 200.
• This is so far from being a Popish Doctrine, that Bellarmine and others opposed it, 172, 200, 202.

K

• Kingdom of God, 329, 419, 428.
• Knowledge, The Height of Man’s Happiness is placed in the true Knowledge of God, iii.
• Error in the Entrance of this Knowledge is dangerous, 1.
• Superstition, Idolatry, and thence Atheism, have proceeded from the false and feigned Opinions concerning God, and the Knowledge of him, 3.
• The uncertain Knowledge of God is divers Ways attained, but the true and certain one only by the inward and immediate Revelation of the Holy Spirit, 5.
• It hath been brought out of Use, and by what Devices, 10.
• There is no Knowledge of the Father but by the Son, nor of the Son but by the Spirit, 4, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.
• The Knowledge of Christ, which is not by the Revelation of his Spirit in the Heart, is no more the Knowledge of Christ, than the Prating of a Parrot, which hath been taught a few Words, may be said to be the Voice of a Man, 15, 16.

L

• Laicks, 275, 276.
• Laity, 279, 280.
• Lake of Bethesda, 120.
• Law, The Law is distinguished from the Gospel, 32, 33, 371.
• The Difference thereof, 33, 214. See Gospel.
• Under the Law the People were not in any Doubt who should be Priests and Ministers, 240.
• See Minister of the Law, Worship.
• Learning, what true Learning is, 264.
• Letter, The Letter killeth, quickeneth not, 214.
• Light, The innate Light is explained by Cicero, 159, 160.
• Light of Nature, The Errors of the Socinians and Pelagians, who exalt this Light, are rejected, 74.
• Saving Light; See Redemption.
• —— Is Universal; it is in all, 107.
• It is a spiritual and heavenly Principle, 112.
• It is a Substance, not an Accident, 113, 114.
• It is supernatural and sufficient, 131, 136, 137.
• It is the Gospel preached in every Creature, 138.
• It is the Word nigh in the Mouth and in the Heart, 141, 142.
• It is the ingrafted Word, able to save the Soul, 145.
• Testimonies of Augustine and Buchanan concerning this Light, 162.
• It is not any Part of Nature, or Reliques of the Light remaining in Adam after the Fall, 117.
• It is distinguished from the Conscience, 119.
• It is not a common Gift, as the Heat of the Fire, and outward Light of the Sun, as a certain Preacher said, 151.
• It may be resisted, 108, 111, 120, 121, 222, 224.
• By this Light or Seed, Grace and Word of God, he invites all, and calls them to Salvation, 142, 143, 144.
• None of those to whom the History of Christ is preached are saved, but by the inward Operation of this Light, 145 to 150.
• It is small in the first Manifestation, but it groweth, 146.
• It is slighted by the Calvinists, Papists, Socinians, and Arminians, and why, 147.
• None can put it to Silence, 148.
• There are and may be saved by the Operation thereof, who are ignorant of the History of Christ, 87, 88, 109, 115, 116, 143, 150 to 159.
• An Answer to the Objection, That none can be saved but in the Name of Jesus Christ, 153.
• Literature, Human Literature is not at all needful, 265, &c.
• Liturgy, 303, 324.
• Logick, 268.
• Lord, There is one Lord, 22.
• Love, Of a love Feast, 415, 416.
• Lutherans; See Protestants
• They affirm Consubstantiation, 38.
• Of the Flesh and Blood of Christ, 395.
• They use unleavened Bread in the Supper, 411.