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A47158	A looking-glass for all those called Protestants in these three nations Wherein they may see, who are true Protestants, and who are degenerated and gone from the testimony and doctrine of the antient Protestants. And hereby it is made to appear, that the people, called in derision Quakers, are true (yea the truest) Protestants, because their testimony agreeth with the testimony of the antient Protestants in the most weighty things wherein the Lord called them forth in that day. Particularly, with the testimony and doctrine of William Tindal, who is called a worthy martyr, and principal teacher of the Church of England;faithfully collected out of his works. By George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Tyndale, William, d. 1536.	1674 (1674)	Wing K180; ESTC R218561	10,288	42

upon and within it hath Pith Kernel Marrow and all sweetness for Gods Elect which he hath chosen to give them his Spirit and to Write his Law and the Faith of his Son in their hearts CHAP. IV. Concerning the Heathen that they had the Spirit of God and that Pharoh had the Spirit of Grace before his heart was hardned In his Prologue upon Matthew ANd Paul Writeth Rom. 1. that the Heathen because when they knew God they had no list to honour him with Godly living therefore God powered his Wrath upon them and took his Spirit from them and gave them up to their hearts lusts to serve sin from Iniquity to Iniquity till they were throughly hardned and past Repentance And Pharoh because when the Word of God was in his Country and Gods People scattered throughout all his Land and yet he never loved them nor it therefore God gave him up and in taking his Spirit of Grace from him so hardned his heart with covetousness that afterward no Myracle could convert him hereunto pertaineth the Parable of the Talents CHAP. V. Concerning Good works through working of the Spirit of God how that they help to continue us in the favour and Grace of God In the same Prologue LEt us Arm our selves with this remembrance that as Christs works justifie from sin and set us in the favour of God so our own deeds through working of the Spirit of God help us to continue in the favour and the Grace into which Christ hath brought us and that we can no longer continue in favour and Grace than our hearts are to keep the Law CHAP. VI. Concerning a believer and spiritual Man that is renewed how he needeth no outward Law In his Treatise on the Parable of the wicked Mammon AS thouneedest not to bid a Tree to bring forth Fruit so is there no Law put into him that believeth and is justified through Faith as saith Paul in the first Epistle to Timothy chap. I. neither is it needful for the Law of God is Written and Graved in his heart and his pleasure is therein And in another Treatise of his called the Obedience of a Christian Man He now that is renewed in Christ keepeth the Law without any Law written or compulsion of any Ruler or Officer save by the leading of the Spirit only Chap. Obed. of Subjects CHAP. VII Concerning Faith how that the true Faith is a feeling Faith In his Answer to Sir Tho. Mores Dialogue 1530. THere are two manner of Faiths an Historical Faith and a Feeling Faith The Historical Faith hangeth on the Truth and Honesty of the Teller or on the Common Fame and Consent of many as if one told me that the Turk had wone a City and I believed it moved with the Honesty of the man now if there comes another that seemeth more Honest or that hath better perswasions that it is not so I think Immediately that he lyed and lose my Faith again And a Feeling Faith is as if a man were there present when it was won and there were wounded and had there lost all that he had and were taken Prisoner there also That Man should so believe that all the World could not turn him from his Faith even likewise if my Mother had blown on her Finger and told me that the Fire would burn me I should have believed her with an Hystorical Faith as we believe the Stories of the World because I thought she would not have mocked me and so I should have done if she had told me that the Fire had been cold and would not have burned but assoon as I had put my Finger in the Fire I should have believed not by reason of her but with a feeling Faith so that she could not have perswaded me afterward the contrary So now with an Historical Faith I may believe that the Scripture is Gods by the teaching of them and so I should have done though they had told me that Robinhood had been the Scripture of God which Faith is but an Opinion and therefore abideth ever fruitless and falleth away if a more glorious reason be made unto me or if the Preacher live contrary But of a Feeling Faith it is written John 6. they shall be all taught of God that is God shall writ it in their hearts with his Holy Spirit and also teftifieth Rom. 8. The Spirit beareth record unto our Spirit that we be the Sons of God and this Faith is none Opinion but a sure feeling and therefore ever fruitful never hangeth it of the honesty of the Preacher but of the Power of God and of the Spirit and therefore if all the Preachers of the World would go about to perswade the contrary it would not prevail no more than though they would make me believe the fire were cold after that I had put my finger therein Of this ye have an ensample Job 4. of the Samaritanish Wife which left her Pitcher and went into the City and said come and see a man c. but when they had heard Christ the Spirit wrought and made them feel whereupon they came unto the Woman and said We believe not now because of thy saying but because we have heard our selves and know that he is Christ the Saviour of the World for Christ's Preaching was with Power and Spirit that maketh a man feell and know and work too and not as the Scribes and Pharisees preached and as ours make a man ready to cast his gorge to hear them rave and rage as mad men CHAP. VIII Concerning the Inward Preaching Teaching and Speaking of the Spirit of God unto the Soul and inward reading and hearing and that true Believers believe the Principles of their Faith not because they are written in books but because they are inwardly taught by the Spirit of God In the same Treatise of his Answer to Sir T. Moors Dialogue WHen thou art askt why thou believest that thou shalt be saved by Christ and of such like principles of our Faith answer thou wottest and feelest that it is true and when he asketh how thou knowest that it is true answer because it is written in thine heart and if he ask who wrote it answer the Spirit of God and if he ask how thou came first by it tell him whether by reading in Books or hearing it Preached as by any outward Instrument but that inwardly thou wast taught by the Spirit of God and if he ask whether thou believest it not because it is written in books or because the Priests so Preach answer no not now but only because it is written in thine heart and because the Spirit of God so Preacheth and so testifieth unto thy Soul and say though at the beginning thou wast moved by Reading or Preaching as the Samaritans were by the words of the Woman yet now thou believest it not therefore any longer but only because thou hast heard it of the Spirit of God and read it written in thine heart CHAP. IX