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ia opposition to him or to his fulness , considered as in himself , or without us 5 nor can any measure or degree of light received from Christ , be properly called the fulness of Christ , or Christ as in fulness , nor exclude him from being our complete Saviour
and where the least degree or measure pf this liglit and life of Christ within , is sincerely waited in , followed and obeyed , there is a blessed increase of light and grace known and felt : as
the path of the just , it shines more and more , until the perfect day ; and thereby growing in grace , and in the knowledge of God and of our Lord and Saviour , hath been and is truly experienced" Prov . iv . 18 5 2 Pet . iii .
18 . Eleventh . Wherefore we say , that whatever Christ then did , both living and dying" , was of great benefit to the salvation of all that have believed , and now do , and that hereafter shall believe in him unto justification and acceptance with God . But the way to come to that faith is to receive and
obey the manifestation of his divine light and grace in the conscience , and which leads men to believe and value , and not to disown or undervalue Christ as the common sacrifice and mediator ; for we do affirm , that to follow this holy light in the conscience , and to
turn our minds and bring all our deeds and thoughts to it , is the readiest , nay the only right ivay , to have true living and sanctifying faith in Christ , as he appeared in the flcsli , and to discover the Lord ' s body , coming- and sufferings aright , and to receive any
real benefit by him , as our only sacrifice and mediator , according to the beloved disciple ' s empliutical testimony , 'If we walk in the light , as he ( God ) is in the light , we have fellowship one with another , and the blood of Jesus Christ Ins Son cleanseth us
from all sin . ' " 1 Cor . xi . 21 ) ; 1 John i . 7 Twelfth . " By the propitiatory sacrifice of Christ without us , we , truly repenting" and believing , are through the mercy of God justified from the imputation of sins and transgressions
that are past , as though they bad never been committed . And by the mighty toork of Christ within us , the power , nature and habits of sin are destroyed ; that as sia once reigned unto death , even so now , grace reign-
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eth through righteousness , unto eternal life , by Jesus Christ our Lord . " Rom . iii . 25 , iv . 8 , v . 20 , 21 . "Signed on behalf of the Meeting " , "JONATHAN EVANS , Clerk . "
In transcribing this singular production for your Journal , I have taken the liberty to xnark such passages for insertion in italics , as appear to require the particular attention of a certain , and I trust an increasing * class of your readers , carefully noting with
inverted commas every text which was so distinguished in ray MS . I was desirous of comparing it with a printed copy , particularly on account of the exceptionable manner in which the far greater part of the texts quoted are mixed up with the assertions , notions and confessions of the faith of its
compilers , as if their opinions and doctrines were of equal authority with those of the sacred writers ; but I have not succeeded in obtaining the sight of a single copy of the large edition which was printed . Such an intermixture of the doctrines which Christ
and his apostles taught , with their own apprehensions concerning revealed truth , distinguishable as they easily are by the well-informed scriptural Christian , is not to treat the Divine
Oracles with becoming respect and due veneration ; though such a practice may induce the simple but honest inquirer to mistake the hay and the stubble of man ' s invention for the
foundation which Christ hath laid . To others 9 who more justly appreciate the true character of the sacred records , such doings will rather evince the great extent of the self-delusion of its authors . Yet I do not , after their example , account it •* a delusion of the Devil . "
The 1 st , 4 th , and the six last Articles of this symbol of their faith , exhibit each of them one or more examples of tins improper practice , the true character of which in each case , will be apparent on examination . Trusting the memorable rejection of this
intended imposition on the Yearly Meeting of Friends , held at Philadelphia in 1823 , will , wherever it is known , liave a tendency to prevent any similar attempt being successful among thtem , on this or on that side the Atlantic , I am , &c . BEREUS-
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342 The proposed American Quaker Creed *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1824, page 342, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2525/page/22/
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