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A33498	The books and divers epistles of the faithful servant of the Lord Josiah Coale collected and published, as it was desired by him the day of his departure out of this life.	Coale, Josiah, 1632?-1668.; Coale, Josiah, 1632?-1668. Collection of the several books of Josiah Coale.; Coale, Josiah, 1632?-1668. Whore unvailed.; Coale, Josiah, 1632?-1668. Vindication of the light within.; Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1671 (1671)	Wing C4751_PARTIAL; Wing C4760A_PARTIAL_CANCELLED; ESTC R23397	193,793	414

of the Lord and your souls are not satisfied with all that ever you received from them And why then will you spend your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which doth not satisfie your souls Oh hearken diligently unto the voice of God who is Light that you may eat of that which is good and your souls may be satisfied for why should your souls be in poverty and dry and barren now the Fountain of durable Riches is open but because you are alienated from the Lord and Strangers to his Covenant of Light Wherefore the Restoration all wait to know by him who brings back again that which hath been driven away that the return of your Captivity you may come to know and witness out of Babylon that great City whose desolation cometh suddenly and be ye separated from the abominations thereof touch not the unclean thing that you may be receiv'd of the Lord into my Fathers house where my dwelling is in which there is no want of any good thing for here is all plenty of Heavenly rich vertue and sweet Consolation wherefore I cannot but invite all who are hungry to come freely for the Fountain is open and whosoever thirsts may drink of the water of life freely But now my Friends this know that the Way that leads to this Ocean of Rest Kingdom of Grace and Fountain of Life is strait and norrow and none can walk therein but through Self-denial and taking up the daily Cross to the Carnal Mind which may seem hard to such as enter into Reasonings and Consultations with the wrong nature which would still live but that being deny'd the Light being joyn'd unto which manifests the Way the Cross being taken up and the Yoak submitted unto then the Power of the Lord you will feel which will subject the contrary nature and will make the Way easie and plain before you yea and delightful unto you though it be in the midst of the paths of Judgment for the Righteous will rejoyce therein And though many oppositions sometimes many difficulties you may find in the way yet keeping to the Light in singleness and feeling the Power of God and the secret working thereof it will keep the mind cool and exclude the Consulter And then the way thou wilt see open clear before thee through all difficulties and as thou waitest in the pure fear of the Lord keeping thy mind stayed upon him thou wilt feel his good hand of love reaching unto thee daily administring renewedness of strength unto thee whereby thou wilt be sufficiently encouraged to press on in the strait and narrow way and the way of his Commandments will be delightful unto thee and not grievous and he will replenish thy heart with his Grace and make thee know the aboundings of his love which wil exceedingly enlarge thy heart So let none stumble or start aside at the straitness of the Way but be willing to submit to the Cross that the Crown thou mayst come to receive which is Immortal and Eternal and then it will never repent thee whatsoever thou art made to deny For an Hundred-fold thy Reward will be in this life from the Hand of the Lord and Peace and Life everlasting thou wilt have the assurance of and it thou wilt possess and enjoy and this is of more value with the Upright in Heart then all the Love Glory or Friendship of the World for that lasts but for a little season and then passeth away but this Inheritance is Everlasting and never hath End Wherefore let not your Minds be captivated with any perishing thing whatsoever but in that which will redeem the mind out of all that is perishing in that dwell and you will know a daily dying unto sin and to all things of that nature which keep the soul in Death and thereby you will be quickened unto God and the Desires and secret Breathings which are in you after God will more and more encrease and be renew'd and Fervency of heart and Zeal for the Lord will encrease also And where these fervent Desires and Breathings are in any one nothing will satisfie but the Presence of the Lord And as this is dwelt with in sincerity and in singleness the Lord in his own time will manifest himself to thy everlasting Satisfaction Comfort Joy and Content Wherefore let not any thing be accounted dear for his sake For he that loveth Father or Mother Wife or Children or any thing more then me saith Christ is not worthy of me Wherefore I now publish the Decree of the Almighty unto all Nations That whosoever will not serve worship and obey the God of Heaven who is Light and searches the heart of man even he shall dye and Darkness shall be his Covering and gross Darkness his Pavilion and Death shall be his Life and the Terror thereof shall compass him about World without End JOSIAH COALE A VINDICATION Of the Light Within Against the Darkness Error and Blasphemy of JOHN NEWMAN in his Book Entitul'd The Light Within c. Concerning The Scriptures The Word of God The Only Rule The Light Within The True Saviour The Body of Jesus The Spirit 's Guidance THE main Controversie with John Newman being at this time Whether or no the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament so called be not properly and principally called the Word of God and that distinct from Christ whose Name is called the Word And whether the Scriptures be not a perfect Rule for all men to walk by and none other Who for the proving of the Affirmative hath instanced several places of Scripture My Work at this time will be to shew That those Scriptures produced by him do not any wise serve to prove his Affirmations but rather the contrary though he hath much wrong'd them by wresting of them as is usual with those who labour to pervert the Right Way of the Lord as John Newman hath endeavour'd to do which I doubt not but I shall sufficiently shew hereafter The first Scripture that he produceth as a Foundation from whence to argue the Scriptures to be the Word of God is Luke 11.28 where Christ said Yea rather Blessed are they that hear the Word of God and keep it Now saith he in page three whether it be Jesus Christ which in Scripture is stil'd the Word of God a Name which is given unto him or whether the words which God hath spoken by his holy Prophets and Blessed Son and Apostles in the two Testaments of his Will c. be not the Word of God Answer Christ did not intend the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament at that time when he so spoke but he meant himself who was the Word that was with God in the beginning John 1.1 whom they were to hear and obey as the Father had given Commandment by the Mouthes of his Prophets and also by Immediate Voice from Heaven as by Moses who said A Prophet shall

One who is the Way the Word the Truth c. And indeed the whole scope or drift of the Scriptures or of what is contained therein is to direct and enduce people to walk in him and according to him who is the Way the true Shepherd that carries his Lambs in his Arms Mark if his Lambs are in his Arm then he is essentially present with them And I do no where read in the Scriptures that they are called the New Testament or the New Testament Way but they testifie of the New Testament that it is the Spirit that giveth Life as in 2 Cor. 3.6 the Apostle saith Who hath made us able Ministers of the New Testament not of the Letter but of the Spirit for the Letter killeth but the Spirit giveth Life And they testifie of the Way that it is Christ so that the Way of the Spirit which is the New Covenant is Christ and they that are led by the Spirit they walk in Christ the New Testament Way so that if J. N. had proved the New Testament Way to be a perfect Rule c. it had served nothing for his purpose to prove the Scriptures a perfect Rule they being proved not to be the New Testament as also said the Angel unto John cap. 19. vers 10. The Testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophesie though I do acknowledge as before That this New Testament or New Covenant or Testimony of Jesus is testified of in the Scriptures of Truth yet they are not the thing nor do they contain the thing in them which they testifie of as J. Newman seems to imply they do as hereafter may be signified But instead of proving the New Testament Way a perfect Rule he goeth about to prove the Scriptures a perfect Rule but never proves nor goes about to prove them to be the New Testament Way but takes that for granted as far as I perceive although that is the principal matter wherein the Controvesie lies betwixt us which I plainly perceive J.N. doth not understand though he hath so deeply engag'd himself For if he could have proved the Scriptures called the New Testament to be the New Testament Way I should not have put Pen to Paper to have contended against their being a perfect Rule for all men to walk by But herein is the great Mistake amongst many as also in this man They put the Dead Letter for the Living Word and the Scriptures for the Way and so would set them in the stead of the thing which they do but testifie of and thereby keep people alwayes learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth which sanctifieth and setteth free 2 Tim. 3.7 Joh. 8.32 Joh. 17.17 Then J. N. like a man fighting with the Wind or like one that sets up a Poppit of his own and supposeth it to be anothers and then lies fighting with it when he has done rumbles over a great deal of stuff like one that wanteth Work contending against a Third Covenant or a Third Testament Way arguing in the 26th page of his Book That if a Third Covenant or a Third Testament Way hath not been any where promised of God then the Second is still in force for all men to walk by and none other And for my part I know none that assert a Third Covenant or a Third Testament Way nor yet any that deny the Second to be in force so that J.N. hath busied himself to no purpose as I said before like one beating of the Air but I do not intend so to busie my self to contend against him about things in which I am not concern'd For as I said I own no other Covenant nor Testament Way but the Second Covenant which God promised by the Mouthes of his Prophets saying Jer. 31.33 This shall be the Covenant that I will make c. I will put my Law in their Inward Parts and write it in their Hearts and will be their God and they shall be my People And they shall no more teach every man his Neighbour saying Know the Lord for they shall all know me c. And in Isa 59.21 he said This is my Covenant with them saith the Lord my Spirit which is upon thee and my Words which I have put into thy Mouth shall not depart out of thy Mouth nor out of the Mouth of thy Seed nor out of the Mouth of thy Seed's Seed saith the Lord from hence forth and for evermore Mark This Law and Spirit within the New Covenant the New Testament Way testified of in the Scriptures of Truth to be an Everlasting Covenant this we own to be a Perfect Rule for all men to walk by unto the End of the World and none other And for a third Covenant or third Testament Way I know none assert it therefore I shall not trouble my self to contend about it but shall leave that part of his Book for those whom it concern if there be any though I cannot well but observe that he hath offer'd many foolish falacious and ignorant Arguments pretending thereby to prove the New Testament Way still in force and to be so to the End which I have already granted and shall be ready so to do at all times but still he mistakes the matter by putting the Dead Letter in the place of the Quickning Spirit and directeth people to the Letter for Life when it s only the Spirit that giveth Life as before is signified and so he stumbleth at the Stumbling-Stone a Rock which many have run against and have been split And so after he hath rumbled over divers sylogistical Argments which serve to signifie that he loves to hear himself talk Logick thereby still labouring to prove That no Third Covenant or third Testament Way is to be expected for which cause the Second is to stand in force unto the End c. He then in page 42. of his Book comes to lay down some sad Consequences Which will as he saith follow by denying the Scriptures to be the Word of God and by making them insufficient as a Rule in order to Man's Salvation and first saith he It taketh away the general Ground of Faith from all men 2dly It denyeth the Ground of Faith for the Remission of sins 3dly It maketh void the Exercises of Faith in the precious Promises of God for what hath Faith to exercise it self in but only the Promises of God in the Scriptures 4thly It denieth the Comforts of Faith for all the Comforts that Faith can bring to the soul must be brought from the precious Promises of God in the Scripture 5thly It Destroyeth the Support and Supplyes of Grace to the Soul in a time of Affliction and to deny the Scripture to be the Word of God is to deny the Fountain and Well-spring of Comforts to the Soul 6thly It denieth the Knowledge of Acceptance with God 7thly If the Scriptures be denied to be the Word of God and thereby made insufficient as a Rule