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A65873	The light and life of Christ within and the extent and efficacy thereof demonstrated. And the Quakers principles justified by the scriptures of truth, the doctrine of Christ and his Apostles, from the false and blasphemous constructions put upon them by William Burnet, in his book, stiled, The captial principles of the people called Quakers : herein the rest of the Baptists that own him may see, his antichristian spirit and doctrines detected ... / by ... G. Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1668 (1668)	Wing W1941; ESTC R20094	56,660	72

THE Light and Life OF Christ within AND The Extent and Efficacy thereof DEMONSTRATED AND The Quakers Principles Justified by the Scriptures of Truth the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles from the false and Blasphemous Constructions put upon them by WILLIAM BURNET in his Book stiled The Capital Principles of the people called Quakers Herein the rest of the Baptists that own him may see His Antichristian spirit and doctrines detected By a Servant of Christ G. WHITEHEAD His Doctrinal and self contradictions compared By a Servant of Christ G. WHITEHEAD His Ignorance and Errours discovered By a Servant of Christ G. WHITEHEAD His Envy and Feign edness reproved By a Servant of Christ G. WHITEHEAD Professing themselves to be wise they became fools Rom. 1.22 London Printed in the Year 1668. The PREFACE I Should very willingly have forborn to appear thus publick in such Controversies at this time if the Truth might have been otherwise cleared for I have a life in peace more than in contests and a tender respect to the more Conscientious of all sorts professing Religion that have a tenderness and sincerity in them but I am necessitated thus to appear because of the hardness and perversness of some Baptists and their publick reproaching and scandalizing the Truth professed by us called Quakers both in words preaching and print and their clamouring up and down the Countries against us both in Buckinghamshire Surrey Sussex and other parts in which thing Matthew Caffin their great Agent and Contender and W. Burnet of Chertsey are chiefly concerned against us whereby they have to their power supplied the Persecuters place now in this little time of liberty like persons implacable envying our liberty and prosperity William Burnets personal reflections in his Book against some amongst us which he has gathered from Reports as the former persecuting Priests were wont to do I could more easily have passed by than his wronging perverting opposing the truth of our Principles though several of his Reflections are false and slanderous for that any particular fall or failings of persons cannot rationally be alleaged to destroy principles fallen from But considering the divisions that are amongst Baptists even the Leaders as to their Principles it might have been some stop to W. B. his outrage in this matter and they should have agreed among themselves before they had thus appeared against us some being for a particular Election of persons and both denying saving Grace to be free to all and Christ's dying for all Others being for Christ's death for all and General Redemption and some pleading for Free-will Several of their Teachers and some Hearers are for and observe the Seventh-day-Sabbath imposed on the Jews and have preached writ and printed for the imposing of it on Christians many others of them are against it And why doth not our Opposer plead for his Water-Baptism and Seventh-day-Sabbath here against us but therein he would not be popular enough Many affirm Christ to have done and compleated all for Man on the Cross without But some that the Offering was not compleated nor the Type under the Law fully Answered till he was entered into Heaven or the Holy-Place Many of them are for paying Priests Tythes rather than suffer others have writ against it as Antichristian and yet few stand out of it Some of their Teachers have contended and printed for taking the Oath several gratifying the Persecuters and swearing themselves out of Prison by which others have suffered the more which hath been a grief to some who were more Consciencious many of them running into holes and corners not daring to meet publickly if but a little storm break forth And has not W. B. heard how Thomas Tillam their great Seventh-day-Sabbath man and his fellow-prisoner deceitfully made escape out of Ipswich Prison which was no small blot upon them And have not some of them gotten into the Priests places Pulpits preached for Hire Tythes c. as Tombs and others when permitted As also two of their eminent Leaders viz. Robert Everard and Jo. Attaway of Brantree in Essex turned Papists and become great Contenders for the Church of Rome These things I mention as having been most obvious and publick besides gross corruptions both as to principle and practice might be further manifest against some of their Chieftains which at present I shall forbear to mention here And now though this W. B hath shewed his envious and persecuting spirit which hath put forth its sting against us We do in the Elect Seed tread upon its head and are not pierced thereby And that spirit shall be crushed and the Elect shall reign over it in the power of Christ and I have as much satisfaction in appearing against the persecuting spirit in W. B. as against it in other open Opposers and Persecutors For what could we reasonably expect from him and such as he is if they had power but they would be as great Persecutors as any that we have suffered under whilst they shew such enmity and implacableness at this time a day against us And whereas W.B. in his Epistle sayes he shall leave it the Cause is God's and whatever reproach he undergoes therein he hopes he shal quietly bear c. By which he seems as if he would be quiet now when he has done his worst against us But 't is probable he would have had more quietness and peace if he had never appeared thus against the Upright as he hath done in his confused Book Now Reader take a view of some of his Doctrines and apparent Contradictions hereafter whereby he hath given a deadly blow to his own Cause which is proved none of God's VV. Burnet his Contradictions HEre are several of William Burnets Contradictions collected in his own words out of his Book and compared as followeth W.B. in pag. 3. of his Book saith Paul preached a Christ made of a woman and not a Christ in them that God will redeem the world by But in contradiction he saith I do not deny that the fruits and effects of our Justification doth shew it self both within and without Pag. 4. Paul's knowledge of sin came by the Law and not by the Light within Contradiction The Grace of God received and the Love of Christ revealed in the work of Regeneration doth principle the heart with an enmity to sin and the Grace received in the work of Reconciliation begets a hatred to it so that it is from the principle within Pag. 5. I would not give any one ground of jealousie that I should judge that our obedience is any cause either of our Justification or Sanctification And p. 10. The spirit in man and obedience to that spirit is not the cause of mans union with God But in contradiction pag. 35. We are sealed by an obedience to the Gospel And Pag. 8. The Spirit is alive because of Righteousness Paul's knowledge of sin came by the Law not the Light within Contradiction P. 8. That Light is

unwilling to come to the Light to be proved than we False it is That the Quakers slight Scriptures It is a lying story p. 23. That the last Summer the Quakers at London were startled and went from one to another to ask counsel to know what to do upon one's coming out of the Country and telling that the remaining part of the City should be burnt and that the Fire should begin the next day c. Whereas there was no such thing or occasion given by any Quaker But I am informed that a distempered bad man no Quaker nor yet out of the Country and two women who were so far from being Quakers that they were wont to oppose us and rail against us openly did declare of the destruction of the remaining part shortly and thereupon the Women left the City And that young Bolton the Goldsmith should look like Ashes for fear This has come from some false tale-bearer like himself And as for the storie he sayes he was told of one of our Teachers by R. Cox about his false prediction of being taken at a Meeting in Middlesex Why did he not name this pretended Teacher if he had we should have appeared the more to be clear of this however the person intended is none of our Teachers neither was he ever much owned amongst us False it is that the Quakers raised and blew about that report That the Baptists were play'd away with Fidlers from a Dispute in Chertsey and that it was so reported from one Ball in Amersham Parish is also false and he denies that ever he reported it but only asked the question of one of Amersham concerning the report and he of whom he asked the question clears him in this particular False it is That the Quakers Christ is not God's Christ or that they deny the Man-Christ or the Christ that is in the Heavens Did not W. Burnet learn this distinction of the Quakers Christ from Matthew Caffin False it is that we uncrown the Lord or put the honour due to Christ to a Light of Nature And A slander it is That our Principles are poysonous False it is that we hold Christ fulfilled not any type or part of the Law by his suffering on the Cross A malicious slander That our Principles are Hell-hatched Errours fomented by Satan A slander also That we trample under-foot the Blood of the Covenant and make the Offering of the Cross a meer fiction of the brain For we have a reverent esteem of both Also we do not deny the Resurrection as falsly we are accused There are many more Falshoods in his Book which are teadious to repeat but the falsness of these Charges against us will more appear in the sequel The Light of CHRIST within and its Sufficiencie THe Light within which we the Suffering dispised People of God called Quakers do bear witness to is that principle of Life and Righteousness in man to which the Scriptures of Truth do amply testifie and it hath proved as a burthensome stone to all such empty and carnal professors of the times that have set themselves against it and opposed it and many have been confounded and broken to pieces by it who have made warr with it for it is the Light of Christ that comes from the eternal Word that we own and testifie of and that Life that was in him was the Light of men And this we do own and confess to as a fundamental principle of our Faith and the binding uniting principle or the thing upon which all the rest hang and even this Light within as W. Burnet the Baptist saith who hath undertaken to discover and overthrow this principle as held by the Quakers which is a task too hard for him that which none of his Brethren nor others far wiser than himself could ever do But herein his ignorance of the true Christ and his Light in man and his gross errors contradictions as also his peevishness and envy against an innocent people to render them odious will evidently appear to the impartial and unbyassed Reader And now our principle of the Light within being true the rest must needs be true that depend upon it and this will be proved and appear in the following Answer to this our Antagonist who often over hath in scorn and derision against our principle of the Light within called it the Quakers Christ whereas it is the Light of the true Christ and no other that we own and profess And first he accuseth George Fox the younger for being the mouth of his Saviour or his representative in his first and second page in these words viz. You have in your imaginations put me afar off and will not owne me the Light the Life in you because my appearance is and hath been to make manifest sin and evil and to check and reprove for it and to call you out of it I the Light will overturn Kingdoms Nations and Gathered-Churches which will not own me the Light in them to guide and lead them I will make you know that I the Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world that all through me should believe am the true Eternal God thus far G.F. Now VV. B. bids George give him leave to tell him he is not bound to believe what he hath writ either to come from God or to be agreeable to the Word or Will of God but the contrary a meer delusion of Satan and a stratagem of the enemy of mankind fomented to draw away the hearts of the simple from the simplicity of the Gospel for this is a Gospel that neither the Prophets nor the Apostles nor Christ ever preached and a path-way they were strangers to saith he In reply to which I shall take leave to tell VV. Burnet that his unbelief touching the Light within and his charge of meer delusion of Satan against what is writ for it before is no ground for us to believe him nor any reason or proof to confute us or our principle of the Light within but also a wrong to the Prophets Apostles and Christ to say they never preached it or that it 's a path-way they were strangers to for darkness was not their way And G. Fox hath truly represented and testified unto the Light and Life in men which is Christ's Light and Life and that this true Light lighteth every man that cometh into the world This is Scripture-language See John 1.4 9. which is so ignorantly opposed and cavelled at by an unbeliever And this Life which is the Light of men or Light of Christ in every man doth truly both repres●nt and manifest Christ the giver of it and he speaks and operates by it to them that believe in it as he exhorted in this they receive him and so power to become the Sons of God But then in stead of a proof further to confute us This VV. B. gives us a Challenge in these words viz. I would challenge any one of them