GOSPEL TRUTH DEMONSTRATED, IN A COLLECTION OF DOCTRINAL BOOKS, GIVEN FORTH BY THAT FAITHFUL MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST, GEORGE FOX: CONTAINING PRINCIPLES ESSENTIAL TO CHRISTIANITY AND SALVATION, HELD AMONG THE QUAKERS. "Seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; but have renounced the hidden IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. 1. PRINTED IN THE YEAR 1706-RE-PRINTED 1831. PHILADELPHIA: MARCUS T. C. GOULD, No. 6, NORTH EIGHTH STREET. NEW YORK: ISAAC T. HOPPER, No. 420, PEARL STREET. J. HARDING, PRINTER. 1831 麴 JS AN EPISTLE BY WAY OF PREFACE TO THE UNPREJUDICED READER. THE books and treatises in the following collection being perused, we find the doctrine of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and those matters, essential to salvation and true christianity, so plainly asserted, and fully demonstrated, according to holy scripture testimony, as may sufficiently obviate our former and present adversaries' objections, and refute their calumnies and aspersions to the contrary. And, though the most eminent reformers and martyrs have been most envied and misrepresented by their adversaries in all ages, as this true servant and minister of Christ was in his day, and since removed, his name and memory most unjustly defamed by envious spirits; yet the good report and fame, through which he, through faith, (and blessed effects of his faithful labours, great travels and sufferings) obtained, will outlive the great envy of his and truth's adversaries. And as he was a true minister and witness for Christ and his kingdom, both in life and doctrine, so he was a plain and true witness against antichrist, and his kingdom; and although he gave preference to the holy spirit, as all true spiritual christians do, yet his true love to, and sincere esteem of, the holy scriptures, (being given by divine inspiration,) was clearly manifest. 1st. In his frequent advice to Friends to keep to scripture language, terms, words and doctrines, as taught by the Holy Ghost, in matters of faith, religion, controversy and conversation, and not to be imposed upon, and drawn into unscriptural terms, invented by men in their human wisdom. 2d. In his great industry in searching the holy scriptures, and frequently quoting, reciting, aptly applying and opening the same in his writings, as will appear in the following collection. He truly testified, both in his ministry and writings, for Christ Jesus, his power and coming in the flesh, and in the spirit; he was both for the sacred history and ministry of Christ, revealed according to the holy scripture testimonies of him, respecting his sufferings without, the work of his power within, and his kingdom and glory; under whose conduct, this his minister faith |