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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63486	A faithful and true witenss to the light of Jesus Christ, or, Word of faith within in the heart and conscience proving that God alwayes did, and doth reveal himself in it, and through it to the sons and daughters of men, that they may believe and be saved ... : also a postscript in answer to some base lyes and reflections cast upon me by William Haworth, an independent preacher / Christopher Taylor.	Taylor, Christopher, ca. 1615-1686.	1675 (1675)	Wing T264; ESTC R25802	11,574	18

such who are at present wilfully bent and set to oppose the Light Here is Law and Gospel to be revealed spiritually in the Light the Promise witnessed the promised Seed the Power of God to Salvation made manifest the same witnessed in this Light that both kills and makes alive the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus that makes free from the Law of Sin and Death Oh blessed are they that believe in this Light that they may be the Children of it through the true Judgment that is in it they will come to know the Mystery of Eternal Salvation and rest with the Lamb for everm●re But some perhaps will object and say Why did Christ Jesus say to his Disciples he would send them the Comforter if he went away from them in that bodily Appearance which should convince the World of Sin Righteousness and Judgment if the Manifestation of the Spirit was already in the World to convince them of Sin Righteousness and Judgment and to comfort true Believers I answer surely none will or can deny who profess Christianity but the Apostles in some Measure before Christ's outward Departure from them had the Comfort of the holy Spirit in them and were both Believers and obedient Children in their Measure when he sent them forth in his Name before his Departure and they returned rejoycing because the Devils were made subject c. to that living Authority they were sent forth in and the World was also convinced of Sin Righteousness and Judgment in Measure before the Promise of this sending and great pouring forth of the Spirit but this was a fuller Ministration promised of Gospel-Glory both for the further and fuller Convincement of the World and also the fuller Revelation of this great Mystery to them Christ within the Hope of Glory for their exceeding great Satisfaction and Increase of that Comfort and Faith which in some Measure they had before and gifting and impowering them for that great Work whereunto they were appointed And therefore all the World may see that are not wilfully blind that it alwayes was and is and will be the same forever that reveals the Comfort of the Holy Ghost to such as are true Believers in Christ Jesus and also convinces the World of Sin Righteousness and Judgment the Principle is one the Spirit of Truth the Light the VVord of Faith the same forever in all Ages and Generations according to its Manifestation that all through it believing and by the Means of it may know the Lord and his Sufficiency forever for by what Means do People come to see when they are tempted or when Evil is presented in their Hearts and a Consent of Heart is pressed unto by the Enemy doth not this Light of Christ in the Heart immediately give them VVarning and by believing and hearkning to the Counsel of its Teaching are they not preserved even in Heart from Consenting and is not this an Act of true Faith through the vertuous Blood of Jesus and is not this the Presence of God's Power in Christ made manifest in the Light that gives Ability to resist and is greater in such to preserve out of Evil then the Power of Darkness to prevail and lead into it Oh that People would consider what belongs to their Peace and know the great God near them with his Light within the Ground both of their Sight and Strength to let them see Evil in its first Appearance and give them present Power and Help against it and that all may be ashamed who have lift up a Weapon against the Power and Sufficiency of its Teaching and repent is the true Desire of him who is a Lover of true Righteousness Christopher Taylor A Postscript FOrasmuch as VVilliam Haworth an Independent Preacher makes mention of my Name in his Reply to the Book written by John Crook and VVilliam Bayly in Answer to his called The Quaker converted and it is there printed in his Epistle That I called the Doctrine of Election a Devilish Damnable and Blasphemous Doctrine which is a most wicked and notorious Lye from the Father of Lyes which is the Devil who hath got such Power and Head in VVilliam Haworth's Heart that he is grown desperate and Fool-hardy But I affirm that W. H. in the hearing of Jeremy Swift of Hartford and another Man in his Prison-Chamber there we falling into Dispute about the Doctrine of Election and Reprobation and I asking him in these Words Whether God ordained People to be wicked before they were born answered Yes and did affirm it which I might perhaps Justly call a Devil●sh Damnable and Blasphemous Doctrine and his I noted down in Writing and afterwards writ a Paper and sent to the afore-named Jeremy Swift one of the Members of his Church so called wherein was mentioned this wicked Doctrine with other of the same kind but that ever I said the Doctrine of Election was a Damnable Doctrine I utterly deny and he knows in his own Conscience he notoriously belyes me for in all our Reasonings about such Things I affirmed both the Doctrine of Election and Reprobation according to Scripture but that God ordained People to be wicked before they were born let him prove that damnable and wicked Doctrine if he can or else own himself to be a wicked Heathen and a Ranter for if so then God is the Author of all Wicked●ess Also he said That I with others of my Fellow-Prisoners contended against Original Sin unto which I answer That I alwayes affirmed that the Devil alwayes was and is the Original of Sin in Mankind who obey him it was alwayes my Judgment that Adam sinned by hearkning to the Devil and disobeying the Counsel of the Lord but how there can be any other kind of Sinning then through Vnbelief and Disobedience to God's Law and Gospel I know not that is how Innocents or Infants in the Womb of their Mothers can sin or be guilty of Sin until they have transgressed the Law of God and contract●d Guilt by that Means I understand not Therefore this Doctrine of concluding Infants in the Womb Transgressors before they have done Evil either in Thought Word or Work is a cruel unnatural Doctrine and he ought to prove his Charge of Evil or Sin against them or else be ashamed and charge Innocents no longer until they have done Evil for Thousands and Ten Thousands by this Vngodly and Vncharitable Doctrine are condemned who are Innocent Again whereas he saith how often did I hear this Man repeat in his Preaching do this and Live hereby insinuating as if I pressed People to the Observance of Moses's Law only in the Letter for Life and did not press unto the Obedience of Faith in Christ Jesus Vnto which I answer That he never once heard me repeat so but a lying Spirit hath possessed him and from the Heart so possessed proceeds Lyes but I alwayes directed to Christ Jesus the true Saviour and his Light within that through Faith in