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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39374	Three letters to the author of a book, entituled The Lord's day vindicated, or The first day of the week the Christian Sabbath together with animadversions on a railing pamphlet, entituled The sauciness of a seducer rebuked, or, The pride and folly of an ignorant scribler made manifest / by Edmund Elys ...	Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.	1694 (1694)	Wing E696; ESTC R41126	4,935	8

THREE LETTERS To the Author of a BOOK Entituled The Lord's Day Vindicated OR The First Day of the Week the Christian SABBATH TOGETHER WITH ANIMADVERSIONS On a Railing PAMPHLET Entituled The Sauciness of a Seducer Rebuked OR The Pride and Folly of an Ignorant Scribler made Manifest BY Edmund Elys a Servant of JESUS CHRIST 1 John 1. 5. This is the Message which we have heard of Him and Declare unto you that GOD IS LIGHT and in Him is no Darkness at all LONDON Printed for T. Northcott in George-Yard near Lombard-Street 1694. Three LETTERS c. SIR THE Love of Christ constrains me to Admonish you to give Satisfaction to the World for the Vast Scandal you have given in Publishing such an Impious Conceit viz. That JESUS CHRIST did Not Make the World This you could never have done if you had not Fallen from the Profession of the Faith of the Church of England I Believe in one Lord JESUS CHRIST By Whom All things were made Does not our Blessed Lord JESUS CHRIST say Before Abraham was I AM He IS Before Abraham He IS Before All Worlds I pray God to give you Vnderstanding in All things Octob. 27. 92. Your most hearty Well-wisher F. F. SIR I Shall not say one word in Answer to your Personal Reflections Our Dispute may be Reduc'd to a very Narrow Compass If these words JESVS CHRIST According to the Holy Scriptures do not Signifie the HVMANE NATURE ALONE but THE ETERNAL PERSON of Our Blessed Saviour Then it must needs be Impious to Say That JESVS CHRIST did Not Make the World But these words do not Signifie the Humane Nature Alone c. I am Your Sincere Well-wisher E. E. SIR I Deny that these words JESVS CHRIST in all places in the Holy Scripture Signifie Both Natures Hypostatically United they always Signifie the Eternal Person that has Assum'd the Humane Nature but sometimes they Signifie this Blessed Person as Praexistent to His Incarnation Which I Prove by these Texts of Scripture 1 Cor. 10. 4 9. 1 Tim. 1. 15. You may say if you please that 't is Nonsence to say that Jesus Christ as Such viz. as the words Signifie Both Natures Hypostatically United Created the World But yet I say still you are Guilty of a Great Fault and I Hope in time your own Conscience will Testifie the same to you in saying that The Lord Christ did Not Make the World For HE or that Person whom the Holy Scripture calls Christ As The Lord Created All things in Heaven and in Earth I syncerely Wish you All Happiness and remain Your Servant in the Demonstration of the Truth E. F. Animadversions c. THE Sauciness of a Seducer Rebuked Pag. 6. J. N. And therefore I desire thee Reader to keep thy Mind near to the Light of Jesus Christ in thy own Heart and Conscience that so thou mayest understand what thou readest Anonymus After a small Blunder the for thee out comes the rare Catholicon with which these Q●●●ks do greater wonders than ever did Puntaeus with his Balsam or Ointment and that is the Light Within Reader if thou canst but get Joseph Nott to spare thee a few Ounces of this choice Medicine call'd Light Within prize it above Aurum potabile or the Philosophers Stone But if he will not part with any of it follow my Directions and thou mayest obtain it thy self Strip thy self of Lace Ribbons and all other Babylonish-Garments c. I shall say little of This but that I Abhor it as Open Blasphemie For most certainly there is no Other GOD but He who is The Light Within To Scoff thus at The Light within plainly shews that the Scoffer is under the Power of Darkness that He most Shamefully and Dangerously Errs not Knowing the Scriptures nor the POWER of God The Light Within is Indeed the Only True Catholicon If Our Self-Will do not Hinder its Operation It will most certainly Cure All our Diseases and make us at length Fully and Perfectly to Partake of the only True and Eternal Felicity Pag. 12. It seems convenient that I should Animadvert upon what I find in this Page before I say any thing of what I Observe in some of the precedent Pages Rare edifying Discourse says the Man in the Dark Christ is the only Rule The Gift of God's Spirit in our Hearts is the Rule And the Light of Jesus is the Rule And all these are one and the same Rule There is no difference if you believe these acute and subtil Doctors between Christ and the Light Within Christ and the Spirit are one and are in every Man's Heart and yet they pretend to own the Doctrin of the Trinity Answ They hold indeed that Christ and the Spirit or the Holy Ghost are One in Essence and are in Every Man's Heart Converting or Convincing him in order to his Conversion or in proportion to the Repugnancy he makes against the Divine Illumination Tormenting him c. as I have said in a Letter to a very Learned Man of Our own Communion What does the man mean by saying And yet they pretend to own the Doctrin of the Trinity Would he have us Believe that the Doctrin of the Trinity is Inconsistent with this Assertion that Christ and the Spirit are One and are in Every Man's Heart If The Father The Son and The Holy Ghost be The Only True God is not Christ and the Spirit One If GOD be The ONE ABSOLUTELY INFINITE He Is In All Creatures and in a Peculiar Manner in All Rational Souls When we say CHRIST is the Rule our Meaning is that He is the Grand Exemplar or Pattern that by the Idea Image or Manifestation which He Gives us of The Only True GOD The ONE Infinite in All Perfection we are to Form All our Notions or Conceptions in Reference to our Duty both towards GOD and towards Men and to Order and Regulate our Wills and All our Affections I shall leave it to any Syncere Christian to Judge whether this Anonymus be not Guilty of much Prophaneness in producing these Serious and Truly Christian Expressions in such a way of Scorn and Derision Pag. 7. J. N. For the great Mystery which hath been hid from Ages and from Generations is Christ Within the Hope of Glory Col. 1. 26 27. Anonymus In these Verses which Joseph Nott for reasons best known to himself hath alter'd and curtail'd c. Answ Joseph Nott's words are not by him pretended to be a Text of Scripture but are produc'd as an Evangelical Assertion Grounded on Col. 1. 26 27. The next Clause saith Anonymus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being as Saint Peter saith of some things in Saint Paul's Epistles hard to be understood this Prefacer being unlearned and unstable hath wrested it as he doth also other Scriptures to uphold his Error Being Ignorant of the Original he thinks which refers to Mystery whereas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being of the Masculine Gender hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and