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A65849	Christ ascended above the clouds his [brace] divinity--light in man, his being [brace] the Word in saints the only way and rule [brace] vindicated [brace] from the cloudy, erroneous, heretical, and blasphemous conceits of John Newman and his brethren : and the only rule of faith demonstrated for the general information of professours (and people) of all sorts, and the said J.N. his book stiled The light within &c. (with his manifest contradictions) both scripturally, historically, and rationally examined / by a servant of Christ, G. Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1669 (1669)	Wing W1904; ESTC R38309	50,991	74

CHRIST Ascended Above the CLOUDS His Divinity Vindicated From the cloudy erroneous heretical and blasphemous Conceits of John Newman and his Brethren His Light in Man Vindicated From the cloudy erroneous heretical and blasphemous Conceits of John Newman and his Brethren His being The Word Vindicated From the cloudy erroneous heretical and blasphemous Conceits of John Newman and his Brethren His being In Saints Vindicated From the cloudy erroneous heretical and blasphemous Conceits of John Newman and his Brethren His being The only way and Rule Vindicated From the cloudy erroneous heretical and blasphemous Conceits of John Newman and his Brethren AND The ONLY RULE of FAITH DEMONSTRATED For the general Information of Professours and People of all sorts And the said J. N. his Book stiled The Light within c. with his Manifest Contradictions both scripturally historically and rationally examined By a Servant of Christ G. WHITEHEAD Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee Luke 19.22 His mischief shall return upon his own head Psal. 7.16 Behold they belch out c. Psal. 59.7 The mouth of them that speak lyes shall be stopped Psal. 63.11 Let them be confounded c. Psal. 129.5 London Printed in the Year 1669. The PREFACE to the Unprejudiced Reader IT is real Love and Zeal for God's living Truth and People which constrains me thus to appear in these Controversies against such inveterate scornful Spirits and Antichristian Principles as tend to invalidate and make void the very Life of Christianity and Power of Godliness by their slighting and reviling the Light within professed by us the reproached People called Quakers Which Light being the very Principle which vvould direct the mind to God and Christ by whom it is given Reader such occasions of publick contest are not of our seeking nor is it desirable to us thus to appear against any People professing Religion called Sectaries but it hath been some few angry men called Baptists and some other Professors partly of their Faith who have publickly both in Preaching and Print given us such occasions by their implacable Enmity vented against us and the truth professed by us as also by their dis-ingenuous false and injurious dealing with us and our Principles by mistaking and perverting of them in many things making themselves matter and work to make War with us as this John N●wman hath in several things which he hath forged against us as our Principles which are none of ours But its prejudice and pride makes such blind men presumptuous Reader we find no new thing nor any more profundity brought forth by these prejudiced Baptists against us than the persecuting Hireling Priests did nigh twenty yea●s ago in their Railing Pamphlets and Pulpits One main Subject of this John Newmans in his Book is to prove the Light in every man not to be Christ which he should not need to have done until it had been so affirmed by us for though we do affirm a spiritual divine Light of God and of his Son to be in every man yet it is not our Principle to say that Christ is in every man or that every man hath the Son but a measure of his Light Grace or heavenly Gift in all which would lead out of darkness and give the knowledge of God's Glory in the face of Christ and so reveal the Son of God within whom he that hath hath the Father also But this J. N. his enmity against the Light within hath led him so far besides any true sense of God or reverence to his Gift as to call it but a feigned Light within though he hath neither demonstrated what the Light within is in its self nor shewn any reason against it and also to endeavour to exclude both God and Christ out of all his People endeavouring to perswade us that neither God nor Christ can be in any man contrary to the manifest Testimonies of both the holy Prophets and Apostles Reader in moderation peruse what follows and let the Truth and its Light within not prejudice and darkness j●dge concerning these matters which are principal things in Controversie between us called Quakers and the Baptists with other Professors of th● same Spirit and here thou mayst see the Controversie is about the Word 2dly about the only Rule of Life 3dly About Jesus Christ 4thly and about the Scriptures whether they be properly to be called the Word the Foundation and only Rule of Life for all men as J. N. asserts of them or Jesus Christ his Spirit within to be the only Way and Rule yea or nay These Controversies are Scripturally and Rationally discussed in the Sequel The Principal Passages of this John Newmans Book against our Principle are in the same Book contradicted and plainly confuted by himself and his chief Principles and Contradictions are herein laid down as collected out of his own Book and briefly noted Reader It may seem very wonderful to thee that any men should have the confidence to undertake to confute others when they can write very few Pages without contradicting and confuting themselves and thereby manifesting their own Folly Distraction and Confusion as this J. N. hath done against us as much as ever I knew any of our Opposers do What reason can any have to follow or depend on such who have neither Soundness Stability nor Consistancy in their own Principles let the Moderate and Rational Reader judge This J. N. had been answered when his Book was newly Published but that we had several more noted An●agonists to deal withal wherefore I waved his Book and did not take time so much as to read it over till very lately being desired by some Friends a little to take notice of it we have a large Answer to part of it by another Friend which is laid by till the rest of his Books be published Reader I have waved much Falshood and Nonsence and many Tautological Impertinencies in J. N.'s Book as not willing further to obtrude upon thy Patience therewith also thou mayst take notice that divers of the Subjects here treated on as that about the Light within and the Scriptures with other matters of Controversie are more fully Discussed and Resolved in our dear Friend Samuel Fisher's Book entituled Rusticus ad Academicos in Answer to John Owen Tho. Danson John Tombs and Rich. Baxter wherein Presbyterians Independants and Baptists are concerned though none of them could ever Reply to it but it lyes upon their heads not Answered by them until this day Also several considerable Books besides have divers of us writ in Answer to many peevish Reviling Pieces of the Baptists which they never yet Replyed to but the Truth is and will be over their heads and over those envious Spirits among them Moreover The Contradictions of some Principal Baptists and others about their Assertion of the Scriptures being the only Rule in Two late Discourses in London may be taken notice of in the sequel As also here is Finally a Bill of

own Practises without the immediate guidance of the Spirit And therefore this Woman hath cause for ever to bless the Lord th●● she turned from them if she continue in this Anointing within which is true Thirdly As to that 2 Tim. 2.17 1 Tim. 1.20 These concerned such as did blaspheme and used profane and vain bablings of whom was Alexander and also Hymeneus and Philetus who said That the Resurrection was past already and overthrew the Faith of some But no such thing as vain Bablings Blasphemy or saying That the Resurrection is past already have these Baptists proved against this Person whom they have Excommunicated And therefore it is 1st A great sin in them thus to misaply the Scriptures against such as they were never intended And 2dly A great presumption in them to assume an Authority from the Apostles words 1 Tim. 1.20 to deliver up to Satan when they have no Commission Power or Authority given them of God so to do as the Apostles had c. 3dly What great folly and madness do they shew and bewray in Rejecting Excommunicating or Delivering up to Satan such as have before rejected and denyed them and refused to have any Communion with them as this Hester for some time hath for such as were rejected and cast out of the true Church they were either such as would have continued among them in scandalous Practises as Fornication c. 1 Cor. 5. Or 2dly Such false Brethren as by Blasphemies or Heresies troubled the Church and would have sown Sedition and Strife amongst them for Testimonies in truth against such we own Fourthly As to that of Acts 3.22 23. It 's on the behalf of Christ that great Prophet ●hom every one ought to hear in all things And it 's said Every Soul that will not hear that Prophet shall be destroyed from among the People c. Now it is not every Soul that will not hear you Baptists and come under your Water and Ordinances as you impose them that must therefore be de●troyed however you pretend to deliver such to Satan but every Soul that will not hear Christ that great Prophet of God in all things that Soul must be cut off And can you say that you have ever heard the Voice of Christ who pretend your selves to be his Church which we both deny you to be As also we deny that you have any Call from Christ to the Ministry Do you judge that none hear his Voice but such as you plunge in Water And that all must be condemned who cannot own you in your imposed Shadows called Ordinances upon pretence of the Scripture being your only Rule when you never yet did either prove or demonstrate that ever you heard the immediate Voice of Christ or had a Call from him for your plunging People under Water which is but a Shadow Much less can we believe that you hear him in all things else which you practise and impose for Christ is the Life and Substance and they who hear him in all things receive Life and the One Spiritual Baptism which yours is not John Newman set against himself HIS Book and corrupt Principles being Answered by John Newman himself His Principles and Contradictions are Collected and set opposite in his own words and the Pages of his Book cited where they are and briefly Noted and Annimadvertized upon particularly as followeth Whereto is added Tho. Danson W. Kiffin and Jer. Ives their Contradictions J. N. his Contradictions THE Scriptures of the two Testaments is properly and principally called the Word of God and that distinct from Christ This is asserted above twenty times over Pages 3 4 5 7 8 9.10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 22 42. Jesus Christ in Scripture is stiled the Word of God a Name that 's given to him his Name is called The Word of God Rev. 19.13 but then again to shufle off this J.N. adds Christ is not alwayes really that which in Scripture he is called comparatively He is called a Door a Vine c. pag. 3 46 47 49. Animadversion Surely the holy Men who spake and writ Scriptures from the Spirit of God knew how to speak properly and truly better than J.N. who in effect reflects on them all as for speaking improperly what bold presump●ion and pride is it in him when they called God or Christ or his Name the Word and said In the beginning was the Word c. Therefore Christ was principally the Word for the Scriptures were not in the beginning nor do they any where call themselves the Word as improperly J. N. doth For Scriptures signifie Writings And is not Christ really the Door in the sense intended to them that enter in by him Howbeit he was really the Word before his Name was held forth in the many Parables J. N's Contrad The Scriptures of the two Testaments in which is contained the Will of God properly and principally the Word c. Or Way of God in which is contained the will of God p. 5. The Prophet saith God's Word is a Lanthorn to his feet and a Light unto his paths Psal. 119.100 105. Animad Christ is the Way the Word and Light and not the Writings they are not Christ And the Word that was a Lanthorn and Light to David was within him before he wrote the words and when much of the Scriptures of the two Testaments were unwritten And said he I have hid thy Word in my heart that I may not sin against thee Psal. 119. J. N's Contrad The Scriptures of the Two Testaments principally called the WORD distinct from Christ. God's perfect Way enlightned David p. 4. and this is called the Word Psal. 18.28 30. Thou wilt light my Candle the Lord will enlighten my darkness Animad God's perfect enlightening Way and Word and the Light and Candle of the Righteous which was Spiritual Living and Powerful was before the Scriptures were written J. N's Contrad The Scriptures principally called the Word The words that God hath spoken by his holy Prophets blessed Son and Apostles p. 3. Animad Is there no distinction between the Word and words In the beginning was the Word but since were the words spoken and Scriptures written Besides the holy Prophets and Apostles who preached the Word from the immediate Power of God were living witnesses of what they spoke and their Ministry was attended with the same Power and the plain Evidence of the Spirit went along with it which was more than barely the writings received by tradition J. N's Contrad The Commands of God in the first Testament or Scriptures of the Prophets the Word p. 7. I shall labour to prove That the Scriptures of the new Testament is also called the Word distinct from Christ. The Teaching and Preaching Jesus Christ according to the Scriptures is called the Ministry of the Word is stiled is called the Word of God Act. 4.25 26 27. 5.45 Animad The Word was in the beginning before the Commands Words or Writings