A DEFENCE

OF THE

CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES

OF THE

SOCIETY OF FRIENDS;

BEING A REPLY TO THE CHARGE OF DENYING

THE THREE THAT BEAR RECORD IN HEAVEN,

THE DIVINITY AND ATONEMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS

CHRIST, AND THE AUTHENTICITY AND DIVINE AUTHORITY OF

THE HOLY SCRIPTURES,

RECENTLY REVIVED AGAINST THE EARLY QUAKERS, BY THE FOLLOWERS OF

ELIAS HICKS.

IN TWO PARTS.

THE FIRST. PART CONTAINING

A refutation of a Pamphlet lately published, entitled “ The Sandy Founda:

tion Shaken, &c. to which are added, Extracts from the writings of divers of our primitive Friends on the Divinity of Christ, Atonement, the Scriptures, &c.;" in which the compilers' mutilations and perversions of the language and meaning of the authors whom they quote, are detected and ex, posed.

PART SECOND, CONSISTING OF Extracts from the writings of FOX, PENN, BARCLAY, PENNINGTON,

WHITEHEAD, CLARIDGE and others, showing the consistency of their belief with the doctrines of HOLY SCRIPTURE.

PHILADELPHI.1.

THE THREE THAT BEAR RECORD IN HEAVEN,
THE DIVINITY AND ATONEMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS
CHRIST, AND THE AUTHENTICITY AND DIVINE AUTHORITY OF

THE HOLY SCRIPTURES,

RECENTLY REVIVED AGAINST THE EARLY QUAKERS, BY THE FOLLOWERS OF

ELIAS HICKS.

IN TWO PARTS.

THE FIRST. PART CONTAINING
A refutation of a Pamphlet lately published, entitled “ The Sandy Founda:

tion Shaken, &c. to which are added, Extracts from the writings of divers
of our primitive Friends on the Divinity of Christ, Atonement, the Scrip-
tures, &c.;" in which the compilers' mutilations and perversions of the lan-
guage and meaning of the authors whom they quote, are detected and ex,
posed.

PART SECOND, CONSISTING OF
Extracts from the writings of FOX, PENN, BARCLAY, PENNINGTON,

WHITEHEAD, CLARIDGE and others, showing the consistency of their
belief with the doctrines of HOLY SCRIPTURE.

PIIILADELPHI.1.