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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85544	A cure of deadly doctrine; which is death in the pot: or Mr. Royles light proved to be darknesse. By J.G. a lover and a member of the holy army of God, although the most unworthy.	Graunt, John, of Bucklersbury.	1649 (1649)	Wing G1590; Thomason E566_26; ESTC R206221	6,748	8

A Cure of deadly Doctrine Which is death in the Pot OR Mr. Royles Light proved to be Darknesse By J. G. a lover and a Member of the holy Army of God although the most unworthy SIR YOur Glimps of some truths as you call it is a mysting and darkening of the cleere light of the Scriptures an adding to and taking from the testimonies and Books of the Prophesies of God which whosoever doth is to bring upon him all the plagues that are written therein and to deprive himselfe of his part in the booke of life and in the holy City and of all the precious things that are written in Gods Records And first for the generall title of your Paper it is palpably false to ascribe to your particular matters the name of truths and to be made knowne in these last times when as many in London know them all to be old Germane errours The first publisher wee reade of who plainly openly profest them was David George one Henry Nicholls sometimes a tradesman in Holland who through pride fell to grosse and strange delusions of Satan and printed many blasphemons tenents in divers small books knowne by severall titles As the Gospel of the Kingdome The Prophesie of the Spirit of love the Proverbs of H. N. The glasse of Righteousnesse and divers others many of them being lately reprinted as The Revelation of God The spirituall King of P●… and the Prophesie of the Spirit of Love in all of them setting forth himselfe to be greater then Jesus Christ our Lord having these expressions in one of his books There is eight through breakings of the light and each one exceeding the other and the last the greatest in which number he makes Jesus Christ the seventh and himselfe the eight and as Jesus of Nazareth was greater then all or any before him so himselfe H. N. to excell in all manner of gifts and graces our Saviour Christ for he saith Christ is no other in the Scripture then Anointing and in that he himselfe exceeded And the Names also that are given in Scripture to Christ onely by them he calls himselfe as the Son of God the holy One of Israel c. And now to your three particulars and first of the first how you can prove your affirmation by Scripture or reason that all the offices gifts and ordinances given to the Apostles were figurative these are your own words and I shall keep you close to them for he that makes error his Proposition can make no better of his Conclusion I confesse the terme Ordinances as you expound them to be the Supper of the Lord and Elements Baptisme are figurative but how you will prove the other two terms offices and gifts figurative it is very doubtfull to conceive for if you meane the office of an Apostle Deacon Evangelist Bishop Elder Overseer or any other office mentioned in the New Testament then how are they figurative And by gifts if you meane as the Apostle doth 1 Cor. 1 2. the manifold gifts of the Spirit some peculiar to the Saints alone who are spirituall others common to all beleevers although carnall then how in either respect are they figurative for in right reason of ordinary expression a figure cannot be the thing it selfe but some other thing that hath in it the resemblance of the substance it signifies as in Circumcision the Passeover the Brazen Serpent the Manna the Sacrifices the Priesthood the washing away the filth of the flesh and the Bread and Wine in the Lords Supper Againe I require of you to shew in right distinction and sound understanding ●● what respect the Apostles gif●● and those with them that had received the gifts of ●he Holy Ghost descending on them at Jerusalem Acts 2. that th●se should be weake in their gifts and dispensations compared with those after them in St Pauls ●●me and now in our time ●● you seems to prove it by Rom. 8. 18. If you have not a new way to cleare this the Scriptures will make it very soule against you Againe where doe you read● that the coming of Christ in the flesh put an end to all the Ceremonies of the Law to them of whom they were required And how can you prove that the promise of his coming againe is fulfilled in the sending giving or powring forth of his Spirit I hope you hold the distinction of the persons in the God-head Father Sonne and Holy Ghost neither confounding the persons Excellencies or Offices of either so that these Appellations are onely proper to the Sonne and not to the Father or Spirit Th 〈…〉 y ●o●●● this day have I begotten thee Againe The Lord hath sworne and wil not repent thou art a Priest for ever c. Againe The Lord said unto my Lord sit thou a● my right hand c. Againe Whom t 〈…〉 s must containe or receive till the restitution of all things c. And againe As you have see●● him goe so shall you see him come Now observe it is said he shall come ●● is no● said the Father or the Spirit wherefore doe you straine the Text And whereas the Lord saith ●● will send the Spirit he doth not say nor meant he will send himselfe for as he hath assumed the humane nature and exalted it ●● God 's right hand even so there he i● to abide and continue till the time appointed of his returne Likewise other Scriptures speaks properly of the Father and not of the Son nor Spirit as this is properly spoken of the Spirit and not of the Father nor the Sonne therefore vaine and incredulous is it to affirme that Christs sending his Spirit to his Church is his second coming or coming againe to them according to the Scriptures Joh. 14. 2 3. Heb. 9. 28. Matth. 16. 27. Luk. 19. 11 12. c. Friend if I may call you so take heed how you expound Scriptures for th●● to affirme as you have done is to abuse the Scriptures and to force violate injure wound and kill the Witnesses of God which whosoever doth shall perish and be slaine by them Rev. 11. 5. For fi●e proceedeth out of their mouth and devoureth saith the Text such enemies The truth is when a Christian wants his principles and beginnings of Christ and yet will take upon himselfe to be a Teacher in Christianitie he is like the Martiner that takes upon him the office of a Pilot and yet understands not the Art of Navigation for to know the common tearmes without the perfect skill in the mystery by the theorick or by the practick the more he acts the farther he ingages the Ship to destruction notwithstanding all his pretences to the contrary Sir Blame mee not thus to charge you for you prove your selfe to be the unskilfull Christian as in what is past so in that which is to come for you using the tearme Baptisme and not rightly distinguishing in the different acceptation thereof you make that obscu●e in your reasonings