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A65864	Enthusiasm above atheism, or, Divine inspiration and immediate illumination (by God Himself) asserted and the children of light vindicated : in answer to a book entituled, The danger of enthusiasm discovered / by George Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1674 (1674)	Wing W1926; ESTC R24552	32,776	82

ye are not under the Law p. 73. And Paul exhorted Eph. 2. Be filled with the Spirit in order to their speaking to themselves in Psalms and Hymns and spiritual Songs Ephes. 5. 18 19. p. 74. And he cites Acts 26. 17 18. viz. Unto whom I now send thee to open their Eyes and to turn them from Darkness to Light p. 85. Now I ask If this Darkness was not within that they were to be turned from And if this Light they were to be turned to was not also within in some Degree and that in an immediate VVay And also Did not the Apostle turn the Gentiles to the Light that they might receive Forgiveness of Sins and an Inheritance among them that are sanctified by Faith that is in Christ Further he confesseth to the Truth in these words If all good Christians then had been guided by an infallible Light within they would not have needed to have bin taught and re-taught what were the first Principles of the Oracles of God as some of them were Hebr. 5. p. 105. Is it not plain here that he hath placed the Fault or Deficiency upon those that needed so to be taught as being awanting to themselves not following the Infallible Light within and not upon the Light it self but justified it as a sufficient Rule and Teacher and that they that are guided by it need not mens Teaching And he also confesseth That the Humble God will teach and the Meek he will guide in Judgment Psal. 25. And also that the Spirituality of Christians is such that they are Partakers of the spiritual and divine Nature or Likeness to Jesus Christ in Purity in Lowliness Humility Meckness and in Love to God and Charity to men in Peace and Gentleness in Contempt of the World c. on the Account of which spiritual Qualifications Christians are said to be one Spirit with Christ and by this Spirit and Temper we know that we dwell in him and he in us and if any man have not the Spirit of Christ in some measure he is none of his pag. 119. Is not this a plain Confession to the Immediateness of Christ's In-dwelling in us And does not he then teach us by himself immediately It is also confessed We are also exhorted in a due Sence of our own Weakness and Insufficiency and of the great Need we have of the constant Assistance of God's holy Spirit in all to make instant and important Supplication to God for it p. 122. Here he plainly grants to the Necessity of Divine Inspiration and immediate Assistance of God's holy Spirit which plainly overthrows and confuteth the Body of his Work to the contrary And further observe that in his Postscript he confesseth That he hath not so plainly represented the Nature of Faith which is the condition of the New Covenant and that he that Believes and considers Christs Doctrine must needs be under the Influence of the most powerful Motives to Repentance of a bad and lead a good Life And that Faith works that Change in men by which they become new Creatures are born of God and sanctified and that it doth evidence to the Soul of things not seen and that a Believer is described by his coming to Christ John 6. 35. For mens coming to learn of him is the Effect of their believing him to be the Son of God and Believers are described by the Receiving of Christ John 1. 12. As many as received him to them he gave Power to become the Sons of God even to them that believe on his Name and that Believers are described by their trusting in Christ or relying on him Eph. 1. 12. p. 135. Now mark serious Reader how he has confessed to the Truth of Believers coming to Christ to learn of him receiving Christ trusting in and relying on Christ And what is this but a Confession to a Believer's immediate Enjoyment of Christ himself and his immediate Teaching and Assistance For if men come to Christ to learn of him or be taught by Christ himself is not this immediate and the End of Outward Teaching to those that come to this Blessed Attainment See how the man hath justified that Enthusiasm as he calls it which he he hath bestowed so much Pains against Now Reader by this time thou mayst see where the Stress of the Controversie consists and that it is not about the word Enthusiasm but about the Doctrine of God's Immediate Way of Enlightening Working which this man in a Way of Opposition is pleased to term Enthusiasm and the Quakers Enthusiasts for owning that Doctrine Some other more particular Fling sand Groundless Objections he has against us of less moment which I pass by as Trifles not deserving my Time and treating about G. W. A Postscript by another Hand ENthusiasm all along used by Plutarch in Discourse about Apollo's Nu●n or Prophetess ceasing to give Oracles in Verse and about the ceasing of Oracles which was in his time about Anno 100. after the Apostle John's Decease this word Enthusiasm he uses to that Divination and Inspiration which the Heathen Oracles gave through their Priests Clemens Alexandrinus writes that in his time which was almost 200 years of Christ Divine Inspiration was in their Assemblies For in his 3d Book of his Paedagogu● cap. 11. thus he complains of some who did not abide in that which they had tasted in the Assembly nor walk in it and worthy of it or else dissembled it saith he These putting away the inspired Thing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Congregation after their Departure thence are like them with whom they converse or else they are found to be such as they were not thought to be Eusebius lib. 9. Eccl. Hist. saith Prophecying continued till Constantine's time which was above the 300 year of Christ his words are these If any man inspired by the Grace of God should speak unto the People they all with great Silence fixing their Eyes upon him gave such Attention as if he had brought them some Errand from Heaven See Jacob Acontius Satan's Stratagems p. 128. The same Clem. Alex. saith Stromat lib. 5. Exod. 33. Moses saith Shew me thy self evidently noting that God cannot be taught to men nor expressed by words to men but that he can only be known by that Power which is of himself The same lib. 2. cap 4. Paedagog saith Before sleep it is a holy thing to give Thanks to God as enjoying his Bounty and Favour so as we go to sleep divinely inspired The word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 divinely inwardly for he is a Greek Writer Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 contracted is made 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whence comes the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Enthusiasm not Enthysiasm as it is in the Latin Dictionary of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is another word signifying sacrificing I have found where the Mistake is by s●arching the Greek so it must be written Enthusiasm There was a Sect called Enthusiasts which Theodoret speaks of in his 4 Book of his Ecclesiastical History The word in the Scripture is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 theopneustos the Scripture is called so 2 Tim. 3. 16. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 graphe theopneustos Scripture breathed of God scriptura a deo spirata Spencer of Prophecy p. 110. A Synod in Germany called on purpose against vulgar Prophecies declined it saying Yet no Church or Consistory or University had altogether rejected or condemn'd such kind of new Prophecys and why would we be first Cyprian Epist. 71. saith Many things are better revealed to several Clemens Hom. a very ancient Book in the primitive Times sayes That Operation is more certain then Vision see p 726 728. See Book of Martyrs 2 volumn of the Prophecy of Huss and certain others in the History of Luther 3 vol. of Dr. Sands John Rogers c. John Fox himself touching the Lady Hennage's Recovery see his Life Bishop Jewel fore-told the Reformation Bp. Ridley's Burning his own Sickness then the precise day of his death see his Life THE END Joh. 6. 45. p. 24. p. 5. p. 123. pa. 24. p. 15 41 24 33. pa. 79. p. 80. p. 42. p. 76. p. 98. p. 110. * So there is a Spiritual Baptism and an Eating and Drinking with Christ in his Kingdom ‖ See Isaiah 53. 10 11. Psalm 22. 30. Jo. 6. 39. Gal. 3. 16. 4. 19. Act. Mon. v. 1. f. 593. * These are also said to be the Words of Pope Urban pleaded by Jo. Huss P. 47 61. John 1. 4. 9. 2 Cor. 4. 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 affler numine an Inspiration Entheatus numine afflatus 〈…〉 in quo Deus est ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 et 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deus Divine inspir'd See the Copious Dictionaries * Where hath he a Scripture for God's Teaching in Person Unsavoury Expressions not according to sound Words * He had almost said Truth p. 88 89 90 91. Mal. 3. 8 9 19. Deut. 14. 28 29 p. 90 91. p. 91. p. 41 86 87. p. 56. p. 88 89 90 123. p. 47. 84. p. 41 42. Note That mens not believing in the Sou and their rejecting his light within are equivalent bothtend to the same End

of his Bishop it is evident for so much as it is good that a Deacon or Priest do live well and preach fruitfully Ergo he may proceed from Idleness unto the Labour Office of Preaching and so unto a better Life See here how plainly these things make for us and against our Opposer and his Gainsaying the Immediateness of Christ's saving Illumination the sending the Spirit to guide all Christians by its immediate Motions wherein his Opposition tends to Atheism and to reject the Saving Knowledge of God and Christ for that which may be known of God is manifest in man And the true and living Knowledge of him is by the Revelation of his Son the Enjoyment of whose immediate Power and Presence is beyond all Outward Teaching Words or Expressions Again It manifestly tends to Atheism to conclude that no Divine or Saving Illumination is immediately conveyed to man's Soul by his Maker but only by such mediums as the Scriptures or Man's Teaching for then what is Man and in what Capacity is his Soul before he either know the Scriptures or have man's Teaching or if there be nothing of a Divine Nature Life or Light in men immediately from God who have not those Outward Means how are their Souls Immortal and capable of Future Rewards And what better then a Beast doth it render man as to a future Condition to suppose he hath no Divine Life and Illumination from his Maker but only that all must be infused into him Instrumentally through his natural Organs or Sense And how should he receive a Gospel-Ministry or Advantage by it if he have no Gospel-Light in him before conveyed to his Soul immediately by his Maker himself To conclude this Introduction let these Positions be seriously considered First to Deny the True God who is Light is Atheism But to Deny his Immediate Light in Man is to deny the True God Secondly To oppose that which gives the Knowledge of God and his Glory in the Face of his Son and therefore to be without his Knowledge is Atheism But to oppose God's Immediate Illumination or In shining Light in man is to Oppose that which would give him the Knowledge of God and so to be void of his Knowledge Thirdly To Deny the Immortality of the Soul is Atheism But to deny the Immediateness of his Divine Life which is Light in the Soul by which it immortally subsists is to Deny the Soul's Immortality Fourthly And to go about to stop the Mouth of God from teaching his People Immediately is the very Way to introduce and set up Atheism Because of this Anti-Enthusiast his opposing the Immediateness of Divine Light Teaching and Illumination of God's Omni presence and his immediate Life in the Soul without which the Soul cannot Immortally subsist either in a State of Happiness or as to its own Being I therefore conclude him and all who are of his Opinion to be therein guilty of Atheism which I desire the Lord to give him and them a Sence of unto Repentance and the Acknowledgment of the True and Living God and Jesus Christ and his Light within unto Salvation From a Lover of Souls G. W. London the 22th of the 5th Moneth 1674. ENTHUSIASM Above ATHEISM OR Divine Inspiration and Immediate Illumination by God himself Asserted Sect. I. Divine Inspiration and Immediate Illumination Asserted BY his Title The Danger of Enthusiasm We must understand The Danger of Immediate Illumination from God or God's Immediate Teaching the Spirit 's Immediate Direction and Working Immediate Revelation and Inward Teaching of God's Spirit or the Light within the Spirit 's teaching Men Immediately by Internal Illumination Operation c. According to his own Explication See Danger of Enthus pag. 13 14 16 40 46. 60. So that he should have stil'd his Book The Danger of divine Inspiration then his Blindness would more plainly have appeared then by that hard Word Enthusiasm which we are not to understand in this Controversie according to the Heathen's Acceptation of it as In●pired by their Gods nor as their Infused Oracles received and taught by their Idolatrous Priests or Sacrificers for these we never owned in Principle nor in Practice but Enthusiasm taken simply as a divine Inspiration or Breathing into by a Deity we do assert and contend for in the best Acceptation However the Word hath been used in Scorn Contempt by Popes and their Agents against Men professing divine and immediate Inspiration who have opposed the Apostatized Church of Rome and the Pope's limiting People to believe worship by Tradition His accusing the Quakers with being guilty of changing God's Method of bringing Men Salvation is as false as his Title contemptuously applyed against us For our asserting divine Inspiration and the Sufficiency of the Spirit 's Teaching and that Men ought to wait upon God's divine Illumination that they may be all taught of God as he hath promised This can be no changing of God's Method but in Order to the fulfilling of his own Promise which is God's Way and Method That all his Children shall be taught of him The old beaten Path of the Christian Doctrine p. 9. leads us to God's Immediate Teaching which they that oppose are all out of the Chr●stian Doctrine and Enemies to it As for E. Burroughs his saying His pure Spirit is put into the inward Parts to be the Rule and Guide of Life in all things and only by the Teaching of the Eternal Spirit is the living God known in the Creature c. And W. Penn's saying that our Belief concerning the Scriptures is that inward Testimony that we have received from the holy Light within us to the Truth of those Sayings wherefore the Scriptures are so far from being the great Rule of Faith and Practice that the Light of Christ within is both our Warrant and Rule for Faith in and Obedience to them And is this either contrary to God's Method or quite different from his Way as this Man grounds his Objections let the spiritually minded judge how he hath opposed the very Tenour of the New Covenant and God's Promise therein namely his Spirit put into the inward Parts which should guide into all Truth And this Opposer himself confesseth That Christians are said to be one Spirit with Christ and by this Spirit and Temper when given us we know that we dwell in him he in us and if any Man have not the Spirit of Christ in some Measure he is none of his p. 119. This is the Man that undertakes to overthrow Enthusiasm and doth not own God's Immediate Enlightning Teaching in these Dayes but counts it contrary to his Way and Method but now it is by the Spirit that we know that we dwell in him and he in us and he that hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of his See how the Man hath broke the Neck of his own Cause and surely if God dwell in us and we in