Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... And herein I am afraid the Quakers are guilty of a gross Heresy, who call us from a Christ without us, to a Christ within us: yea, it hath been a dispute in the Plantation, called Pennsylvania, whether we must believe only in a Christ within us, or a Christ both within and without us, and it was carried mostly in the former Sense: But let no man be drawn from placing his entire confidence in Christ the Son of God, both God and Man in one Person, who suffered Death on the Cross, to make atonement for Sinners, and now sits on the right hand of God to make intercession for us.
2. If by a Christ within, they mean that called Light within, either Free will or Natural Conscience, or a power to help our selves without special Grace, its an exploded Error, and it’s to be feared, the Jesuits deliver their Popish stuff out of these men’s Mouths with refined Language. 3. If by Christ within, be meant Christ’s Person in the Believer, that he is Christed or Goded, ’tis blasphemy. 4. If by this expression, Christ within us, the hope of glory, Col. 1.27. or Christ dwelling in our hearts by faith, Eph. 3.17. ...
For more, see Oliver Heywood on the Christological heresy of the Quakers.
2. If by a Christ within, they mean that called Light within, either Free will or Natural Conscience, or a power to help our selves without special Grace, its an exploded Error, and it’s to be feared, the Jesuits deliver their Popish stuff out of these men’s Mouths with refined Language. 3. If by Christ within, be meant Christ’s Person in the Believer, that he is Christed or Goded, ’tis blasphemy. 4. If by this expression, Christ within us, the hope of glory, Col. 1.27. or Christ dwelling in our hearts by faith, Eph. 3.17. ...
For more, see Oliver Heywood on the Christological heresy of the Quakers.