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A89842 The light of Christ, and the word of life. Cleared from the deceipts of the Deceiver, and his litterall weapons turned upon his owne head. Also the man of sin found out, who is hiding himselfe in a heape of confusion, pretending Antichrist is not yet come. Occasioned by laying open some deceipts in a booke titled, The deceiv'd and deceiving Quakers discovered; subscribed Mathew Caffin and William Jeffery, brethren in iniquitie, who are joyned to deny God, Christ, the light, and spirit, in his saints, and calls it teaching Christs spirit apart from his body, and an evill spirit, to witnesse the spirit of Christ in the saints. Set forth that the simple may see the wiles the devill hath to keepe them from the word of life, the soules salvation. / By a lover of Israels seede, called James Nayler. Naylor, James, 1617?-1660. 1656 (1656) Wing N293; Thomason E877_1; ESTC R206580 19,351 24

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THE LIGHT OF CHRIST AND THE WORD OF LIFE Cleared from the Deceipts of the Deceiver and his litterall Weapons turned upon his owne head Also the Man of sin found out who is hiding himselfe in a heape of Confusion pret●nding Antichrist is not yet come Occasioned by laying open some Deceipts in a Booke titled The deceived and deceiving Quakers Discovered Subscribed Mathew Cassin and William Jeffery brethren in iniquitie who are joyned to deny God Christ the light and Spirit in his Saints and calls it teaching Christs Spirit apart from his body and an evill Spirit to witnesse the Spirit of Christ in the Saints Set forth that the Simple may see the wiles the Devill hath to keepe them from the word of Life the Soules salvation By a lover of Israels seede called James Nayler Even now there are many Antichrists and whosoever denyeth the Father and the Son the same is he that is the lyar and the Antichrist Abide in me and I in you for without me you can doe nothing LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle near the West end of Pauls 1656. THE LIGHT OF CHRIST and the word of Life MATHEVV CAFFIN who to shew thy selfe amongst the body of opposition hath raked up a heape of filth out of thy owne heart to cast on the Children of light adding lye to lye so begins and so ends for in thy beginning thou sayes even now are there many Antichrists And in the end of thy booke thou say'st that Antichrist will but be one single man And as is the beginning and ending so is the whole bulke a lumpe of lyes slanders and Confusions as one would thinke the Devill himselfe might blush at As that the Quakers saith and cannot but say that Christ ascended not into heaven with that body which God raised from the dead and glorified And that we say the body and blood of Christ is unprofitable That we Imagine Christ never dyed That we say that the offering of Christs body to be broken and his blood to be shed avails not so as through faith therein to set free from sinne And that we deny the holy Scriptures And much such like which to write after thee might fill a volume but seeing they are but slanders most of them cast upon our persons and that our practises doe every day testifie against them so that none but who are willfully blind but they may both heare and see contrary and seeing we need looke for no other but that all manner of evill must be spoken against us without cause by the lyar who is that Antichrist for his names sake who hath called us out of darknesse we shall therefore willingly receive it as great rules till the Lord our righteousnesse make Esau ashamed at his envies There is onely two things which as to the way of God may prejudice some who are simple which I shall lay open thy deceipts in and for the rest leave it to discover its author and by what spirit he is guided which the least Child of light may easily Judge being nothing but a heape of slanders from the old roote severally spoken to in other places Those two I shall mention is touching the light of Christ and the Word which thou denies to set the letter in the stead which two things being cleared the whole worke falls to nothing but false ●ccusations The first is thy envie against the light of the world that lighteth every man that cometh into the world And to undervalue this thou sayes That false and erronious is that Spirit that bids men give attendance to a light within as their onely teacher And that Christ did not Commend people to a teacher within And that men are not led into all truth by a light within them And that to suppose that God in men is their teacher is an Error not knowing the Scriptures And that it is not to be found in all the Scriptures that Christ or any of his did counsell ignorant people to waite upon a light within them c. And that to declare the light within is another report and another Spirit than Christ and his Ministers and much the like thou inveighs against the light shewing thy selfe utterly blind and a Child of darknesse And yet sayest thou the Gospell is hid and the Creature lost where the God of this world hath blinded the minde and yet wilt thou have no light within And sayest thou it concernes us to have our lights burning yet denies the light within but doth not tell people where their lights must burne without them nor where their enlightened minds must be without them And much such darke mudd●e stuffe comes out from the waters of Babylon too much to gather up after thee whereby thou seekes to darken and undervalue the light of the world as not to be a teacher sufficient that so Antichrist might keepe people in blindnesse and so in their sins Such a worke as none was ever found in but the Devill and his Instruments quite contrary to Gods Covenant and the end of it even the Covenant of light in which God hath placed all his promises and power yea where God himselfe dwells even in the light of Christ the true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world which was the message that the Ministers of Christ was to declare which Antichrists Ministers oppose And that this light is the onely leader and guide to all sorts of people and in all estates and that without beleeving and following this there is no salvation but without it all are in darknesse I shall make it plaine by the Prophets Christ and his Apostles and their testimony of it against whome thou beares thy testimony and the rest of the Children of darknesse even against that light which is the anoynting which was typified by that pure oyle of the Tabernacle of which the Law and the Prophets prophesied even the everlasting Covenant of light both to Jews and Gentiles As saith the Prophet Isa 42. 6. And in the 49. 6. God calls it a light to the Gentiles and for salvation to the ends of the earth And this thou would limit onely to such as thou calls beleevers which indeed appeares the greatest enemies to it And in the 10●h Chapter 17. he saith This light shall burne up as a fire the briers and thornes in his day Also Isa 60. 3. 19 20. And through his whole Prophesie he makes it the summe of his worke to foretell the Coming and beautie and power of this light and all the rest of the Prophets which would be too large to mention And John Baptist the greatest of the Prophets who came to see this light he testifies of him what he is and what he doth that through him all might beleeve whose whole testimony was of this light John 1. he saith This is the true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world and calls him the Word that was in the beginning by whom