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A65874	The nature of Christianity in the true light asserted in opposition to antichristianism, darkness, confusion, & sin-pleasing doctrines : being a looking glass for sin-pleasing professors of all sorts / written upon particular occasion herein signified, by a servant of Christ, G. Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1671 (1671)	Wing W1942; ESTC R39132	54,802	75

no God but me for there is no Saviour besides me Hos. 13.4 Deut. 6.4 I even I am the Lord and besides me there is no Saviour Isa. 43 11. and 44.6 8. and 45.15 And all Flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and Redeemer the Mighty One of Jacob chap. 49.26 and 60.16 Jer. 50.34 I will mention the Loving-kindness of the Lord c. for he said Surely they are my Children People that will not Lye So he was their Saviour Isa. 63.7 8. Thy People shall be all Righteous c. chap. 60.21 O the Hope of Israel the Saviour thereof in time of Trouble Jer. 14 8. He Saved them from the hand of him that hated them and redeem'd them from the hand of the Enemy by this he made his Power known Psa. 106.8 10 21. With the Lord there is plentious Redemption and he shall Redeem Israel from all his Iniquities Psa. 130.7 8. See also Psa. 19.14 and 20.6 and 28.8 and 34.22 and 49.8 Draw nigh unto my Soul and Redeem it Psa. 69.18 He shall Redeem their Souls from Deceit and Violence and precious shall their Souls be in his Sight Psa. 72.14 The Redemption of their souls is precious Psa. 49.8 And Mary said My soul doth Magnifie the Lord and my spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour Luk. 1.46 47. see also 1 Tim. 1.1 2.3 4.10 Tit. 1.3 2.10 God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son that whosever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting Life Joh. 3.16 Our Saviour Jesus Christ gave himself for us that he might Redeem us from all Iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar People Tit. 2.14 But after that the Kindness and Love of God our Saviour towards man appeared not by Works of Righteousness which we have done but according to his Mercy he Saved us by the washing of Regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost which he shed on us aboundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour Tit. 3.4 5 6. I and my Father are one Joh. 10.30 Jesus of Nazareth was a man approv'd of God by Miracles and Wonders and Signs which God did by him Acts 2.22 The Son can do nothing of himself but what he seeth the Father do Joh 5.19 30. We have seen and do testifie that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the World 1 Joh. 4.14 He is the Propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole World 1 Joh. 2.2 Lord thou wilt ordain Peace for us for thou also hast wrought all our Works in us Isa. 26.12 The Nature of Christianity in the true Light c. In Answer to Robert Gordon The first Part. The Title of R. G's Pamphlet CHristianity Vindicated or the Fundamental Truths of the Gospel Concerning the Person of Christ and Redemption through Faith in him maintained Answer These are covertly and deceitful Insinuations implying that we deny Christianity or deny Redemption through Faith in Christ both which are very false for it is Antichristian Sin pleasing-doctrines which oppose and slight the inward Work of Christ in his People that we oppose And what we have said on this account are neither Cavils nor groundless Exceptions as we are falsly accus'd R. G. to the Reader saith Having lately published a Book intituled A Testimony to the true Saviour Concurring with the Voices ●f all the Prophets and Apostles to the Man Christ Jesus c. Answ. Nay it was a heap of Confusion which could add nothing to the credit of the Prophets nor Apostles if they had been question'd but their Testimonies of the Man Christ Jesus we never doubted of nor oppos'd as wickedly and falsly he hath mis-represented us R. G. And unto Reconciliation Justification and Redemption as already in being in him purchased compleated and perfected with God for Sinners by the price of his whole entire and perfect Obedience in his crucified Body without us to be made effectual by the operations of his Spirit c. Answ. That perfect Reconciliation and Redemption c. were in being both in God and his Son for us while Enemies we assert but not receiv'd by us till we were made Friends and so reconci'd in our Minds by the Spirit or Word of Reconciliation operating within But R. G. to thy matter I query first How and of whom Reconciliation Justification c. are purchas'd for Sinners and so perfected whilst not made effectual by the workings of the Spirit within Or are men justified when no good is wrought in them by any Light or Spirit whatsoever as thy Doctrine was and is And thou shouldst have plainly spoke-out and told us what thou meanest by the words Purchased with God whether in the sence of Satisfaction and Payment to God in our stead as thy Tutors the Presbyterians and Independants hold yea or nay And whether the Love which is infinite was not the cause of his sending his Son into the World that the World through him might be sav'd and so the coming and manifestation of Christ in his Life Works Doctrines Sufferings tasting Death for every man c. Effects of the Love of God to Mankind yea or nay And tell us plainly where doth the Scripture say That Justification and Redemption are purchas'd of God and perfected without us by the crucified Body when no good is wrought within And if all these things are so purchas'd and perfected without for Sinners or the whole World what must be the Spirit 's operation within And how then can God condemn any for sin if thy Doctrine be true If thou sayst it is because of their Unbelief then this hath respect unto the Work of the Spirit and Faith within without which men cannot be sav'd nor justify'd wherein thou R. G. dost plainly contradict thy self whatever thou or carnal Professors imagine of your Justification c. being purchas'd and perfected without you you are not yet purchas'd nor redeem'd from Iniquity nor from a deceitful spirit wherein thou hast shew'd thy pretended love to be Enmity and Falshood against us and the Truth as will further appear R. G. That there are some pretending to be Teachers among them under the disguise of the names of Light and Power within thereby bring in damnable Errors to pervert the Faith among whom these four Men have numbred themselves by their voluntary opposition against the plain Truth left us upon record by the Prophets and Apostles and testified by me c. Answ. It s our Testimony of the Light and Power within that perplexeth thee and such dark and lifeless Professors as thou art who are in the spirit of Enmity And why dost thou Envy and Belye us call'd Quakers or those for whom Christ died as well for thy self If we had oppos'd the plain Truths of the Prophets and Apostles in Scripture as thou hast most falsly accus'd us it had been thy part and duty to have prov'd the Scriptures true if we had

denied them and not to impose thy impertinent Tautollogies upon us which thy Book is fill'd with if we were either Jews Turks Jesuits or Papists which in any thing deny'd plain Scripture thou takest but a mean course to convince us by thy imposing and begging the Question But hadst thou dealt plainly and only brought us plain Scripture without thy Confusion Corrupt Glosses and Sin-pleasing Fancies we should not have had these Controversies nor such mudled stuff and ramblement to deal withal as thou hast divulg'd And as to thy speaking of two Gospel Mysteries viz. What was wrought in Christ and finished and perfected as once by that Sacrifice of his crucified Body and the second of what is to be wrought by Christ in us c. Answ. Truly to know Christ crucified and the Fellowship of his Sufferings and Conformity to his Death as also his Vertue as a Sacrifice by eating his Flesh and drinking his Blood is a Mystery which none but the Children of the Light know and receive who only receive Life thereby and such are they that see and walk in the New and Living Way which he consecrated through the Va●l that is to say his Flesh and so witness the New Covenant or Testament which he the Testator confirm'd through his Death who in the Body offer'd up himself once for all to end the many Offerings and often sacrificing under the Law that Once is oppos'd to the many He offer'd up ●imself by the eternal Spirit to break down the Partition-Wall between Jew and Gentile and to abolish that Enmity that w●s between them in putting an end to that figurative Dispensation wherein the Jews gloried against the Gentiles that they might be reconcil'd in one Body and by the Spirit come to have the Mystery of Christ within and Fellowship of the Gospel reveal'd Now this was not to indulge any in sin or enmity thereof in themselves nor yet for any to plead that they are redeem'd and perfectly justified at once without them while in their sins and no good wrought within them for in that state they are so far from receiving the Attonement that they are Enemies to Christ and to his Cross and guilty of his Body and Blood not discerning either And this is thy state who thinkest thy self justify'd before thou wast born above sixteen hundred Years since and yet art in thy sins pretending to the Work of Christ in thee when otherwhiles thou reckonest all done without thee but now sayst It is daily doing in many Bodies till Mortality be swallowed up of Life And when dost thou think that will be Will it be on this side the Grave yea or nay Dost thou not expect a perfest Sanctification and Deliverance from Sin till after thou art deceas'd If thou dost not how art thou in the Method of the Gospel and how art thou perfectly justify'd It s they that are wash'd and sanctify'd that are justify'd As to the Sufferings of Christ without though the Scripture-Relation of them be true yet thou hast but a Traditional and Historical Faith thereof with some particular Conceits and wrong Constructions whilst thou coverst thy self in thy sins with a Profession thereof And so art upon a false Bottom not sanctified nor justified by the Spirit of God which is the immediate Cause of both unto them that believe in the Name of his Son Christ Jesus whose sufferings for Sinners was two-fold both inward and outward he bore the Burthen and Weight of the sins of the World And whereas thou wouldst have G. K. to prove That Christ doth bear Sins but as he did bear them in his Crucified Body p. 5. To which I say He was a Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World the Righteous Seed hath suffer'd through all Ages by the seed of Rebellion there is a spiritual suffering as well as there was a bodily suffering his Soul was made an Offering for sin he bore the sin of many and made intercession for the Transgressors Isa. 53. And said the Apostle The Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with Groanings which cannot be uttered Rom. 8.26 And do not these Groanings imply an inward and spiritual suffering And was not Christ spiritually crucified in Sodom and Aegypt And that he doth suffer besides that in his crucified Body at Jerusalem is evident to them that know the Fellowship of his Sufferings though not to thee as the Apostle Paul witnessed when he said Who now rejoyce in my Sufferings for you and fill up that which is behind of the Afflictions of Christ in my Flesh for his Body's sake which is the Church Col. 1.24 And whereas thou accusest the Author of the Book intituled The great Mystery of the Great Whore with saying That the Soul is infinite in it self without beginning more then all the World a part of God of his Beeing coming from God and returning to God again the Power of God c. And addest Doth a Part of God infinite need to be saved c And in p. 27. on the same occasion sayst This is the very Root of Rantism c. Reply We have alwayes distinquish'd between the Soul of Man and that which saves it and between the soul as in death under transgression and as quickened and united unto God by his Son as is plain to be seen in that Book accus'd by thee where mention is Of the Soul being in Death in Transgression and man's spirit not sanctified p. 91. And of the Soul being immortal and living in the Covenant of God where Christ is the Bishop of it it being in the hand that saves from Transgression And that Christ brings up the soul to God whereby they come to be one Soul page 129. In which state the soul is in Union with God as he that is joyn'd to the Lord is one Spirit And they that are Baptiz'd into Christ have put on Christ through whom they come to obtain the answer and end of his Prayer viz. That they all may be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us c. And the Glory which thou gavest me I have given them that they may be one as we are one John 17.21 22 23. And it s said That Man is the Image and Glory of God 1 Cor 11.7 Now how absurd would it be to question Doth the Image and Glory of God need to be saved For man is called so he partaking of that Image and Glory and so it is no otherwise intended of the soul as to Divine Immortal and Infinite then as by participation of that Life and Light which is divine and infinite wherewith the soul is cloth'd and adorn'd in the renewed state But as to its being the Power of God a Part of God I find not these words so asserted by the Author of the said Book nor any thing like them with that general intent and consequence as strained by this Accuser for the Power of God is that

of David shall Raign over the House of Jacob forever First Whether or no the Throne of David which was promised to be given him to sit upon be an outward Throne Secondly Whether or no he shall outwardly Raign in Person Thirdly Whether or no his Kingdom that shall have no End be an outward Kingdom seeing Christ said My Kingdom is not of this World And now R. G. thou showest thy self in a most inveterate Rage against me as one highly angry'd at me in thy parcel of Confusion and Ignorance and Reviling wherein thou hast not at all clear'd thy self nor reconcil'd thy manifold Contradictions which I laid upon thee in my Part of the Book about which thou hast but made a meer Scraffling Bundle of Confusion against me and us instead of candidly answering our Book Thou begin'st to charge my Part as that of a clamorous Woman having only brought forth a meer Libel stuffed with a bundle of currilous Expressions which is but thy own Clamour and Malice against me and it doth not touch me nor what I writ for the Truth asserted by us stands over thy head and thy Confusions and Self-contradictions remains on record against thee to thy own perplexity which beca●se I have so plainly manifested on my Part thou appear'st instead of clearing thy self thereof as if thou would'st be reveng'd of me at once by seeking to make People believe That not only I have contradicted my self but G. F. also in these Passages viz. Where I s●id in my Answer to Newman That though we do affirm a Spiritual Divine Light of God and his Son to be in every man yet not that Christ is in every man or that every man hath the Son And yet I said thus of thee Let the Impartial Reader judge of R. G's Confusion and Ignorance not owning the Light that enlight●ns every man to be Christ or the Son of God contrary to Scriptures To which thou add'st Oh strange be ●sham'd c. Truly thou may'st be asham'd of thy Ignorance to attempt to fasten a Contradiction upon me without either right Judgment Sense or Consideration for I do still assert That Jesus Christ the Son of God is the true Light that enlightens every man that comes into the World and that it is R. G's Ignorance and Antichristianism to deny that it is Jesus Christ that so enlightens And yet I say it is no Contradiction in me to say That the Light Gift or Illumination of Christ that is in every man is not Christ himself the Giver or Enlighterner his universal Illumination being consider'd as a Measure of his Light Grace or Gift for there is the Giver and the Gift which is given in divers Measures and Degrees as the Creature is capable of receiving from the infinite Fulness of Light and Life so there is a distinction as to the Creature between the Giver and the Gifts as every good and perfect Gift comes from God who by his Enlightnings enlightned the World and the Earth trembled and shook Psa. 77.18 Now here is God the Fountain of Light and his Enlightenings which do enlighten and yet he is Infinite and Omnipresent and so I may say of Christ as God over all he is without and beyond Limitation or Bounds of Place the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain God his Presence filleth Heaven and Earth although his Light or Life appears and shews it self by Degrees to the universal capacities of Mankind and not in the fulness thereof that being beyond the reach of the Creature 's capacity But to come to R. G's Objection as neer as I can to make him understand my clearness of contradicting my self or G. F. as also to see his own Ignorance I say Jesus Christ the Living Word is the true Christ that enlighteneth every man that cometh into the World here is the true Light and its Enlightening distinguish'd as plain as Lux and Lumen he being that vera Lux quae illuminat c. as to speak in a low similitude not for proof nor absolute comparison but illustration there is the Shining the Beams or Illumination of the Sun in Houses which are not the Sun it self though this is but a P●rable limited to the word Enlighten Much might be said in these Matters But whereas thou add'st That thou supposest there may be so much Honesty in G. F. to rebuke me openly and bring me to a publique Confession before him thereby at least to vindicate his own Book Printed 1659. wherein thou say'st it is often affirm'd That the Light in every man is Christ and that Christ is in every man see page 9 10 19 20. Now by the way it is observable That thou hast rather justified that Asse●tion That Christ is in every man in pressing to have G. F. rebuke me openly which Assertion thou hast not only deny'd at other times but also deny'd that the true Light which enlighteneth every man is Christ But thy Scorn and Falshood and Wronging us both in this matter is very manifest from his said Book and the very Pages cited by thee For as G.F. with me often asserts That Christ is the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World Yet he also asserteth in the said Book and pag. 9. in answer to John Bunion these very words Thou never knew Christ form'd in thee nor the raigning of the Seed and how was the Lamb slain from the Found●tion of the World but amongst such as thou art And Reprobates may talke of Justification in whom Christ is NOT who witness him NOT within he is not ●our Justification M●rk now where is the Contradiction between G. F. and I D●th this contradict that Saying that it is not our Principle to s●y T●at Christ is in every man intending as form'd rev●al'd or u●ited to man or that ever● man hath the Son and yet a spirit●al divine Light of God and of his Son is in every man See now how thou art deceiv'd in thy Conceits and Bragging as if thou had'st fasten'd such irreconcilable Contradictions on us who notwithstanding thy Insinuation to make G. F. rebuke me openly thou would'st have such among us who have known any thing of the Teachings of the Spirit to cease from us as if we were all Deceivers and yet supposest Honesty in G. F. as to rebuke me for a Contradiction as thou falsly imagin'st but now would have People cease from us as if we both taught Untruths which thou thus represents That Christ is not in every man yet that he is in every man if neither of these be true shew us another Truth between them but thou rather showeth thy own Confusion still Again I neither clamour nor am angry at any Scripture Proofs concerning Christ as falsly thou accusest me but thou dost not answer my matter where I question thee concerning thy words God Man and his Purchasing all with God so I must still leave the Question upon thee For whom dost thou reckon hath he compleated