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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

upon the blind persecuting Professors in New-England these Professors were in as much Unbelief as ever they were before as it may appear more at large in the Record of New-England's Persecutions And also this Josiah Coale's Labour and Travels in Holland and in the Low Countries concerning the Gospel of God and his Truth where ever he came he did bear his Testimony against that spirit that did oppose the Truth and he did live to see much of it over-thrown And also when this Josiah Coale was weak the Power of the Lord was fresh in him and a little before he died I spoke to him that the Friends that were with him might go forth of the Room for I had something to say to him and when they were gone I asked him if that he was clear or whether any thing did lie upon him to write to Friend in England or any other Parts of the World beyond the Seas to Friends and he said that he was clear of writing to them and how that the Lord by his Power and Majesty had carried him through England and other Nations and so he had nothing to write but desired his love might be remembred to all the Friends and said that one thing did lie upon him He did understand that I had a Book in answer to Muggleton and that when he was gone Muggleton and his Company would boast against him wherefore he desired that I would put a few words of his last Testimony against Muggleton in my Book and I bade him to write them out for I was to go to see a Friend hard by and would come to him presently again and at that time as he was sitting in his Chair by the fire he spoke them forth in the Power of the Lord God as fresh as if he had ayled nothing and a Friend took it in writing which Testimony is inserted in the latter Part of this Book as is before noted After this was done Josiah Coale desired me to pray that he might have an easie passage and when I came to him again he was sitting by the fire as before in the Power of the Lord and full of it and after seeing him to begin to be haevy I bade him to go and lie on the Bed which he did and with Friends help rose up again and sate on the side of the Bed and Friends sate about him and heal'd him and I went to him and heal'd him and he was full of the Power of the Lord and his Seed and Life that was over all and so in that he departed away in the Arms of Friends as he sate on the side of his Bed and had a very easie passage through the Life in which he remaines His Age when he died was 35. Years and two Moneths and he was in the Service of the Lord preaching his Gospel about twelve Years and did convince many to the Lord's Truth and brought many from the vain Rudiments of the World to the Gospel You may see some of his Epistles and Writings in this following Book which he left in writing being carefully copied out and placed together which is but some of what he hath written and spoken Gorge Fox A few Lines concerning Josiah Coale IS dear Josiah gone yes he is gone He 's gone from us in the Eternal One Where he from all his Labour is at Rest I' th Bosom of the Father who is forever Blest Ah Valiant Champion for God's Truth so pure Thy Name 's as precious Oyntment thy Memory shall dure In upright Hearts from them nothing can hide Thy Worth thy Faithfulness shall still abide To their Refreshment though thy Body 's laid I' th Bowels of the Earth yet as thou said God's Majesty was with thee and the Crown Of Immortal Life is on thee and that will renown Thy Name to Generations yet unborn When they shall hear Josiah did adorn The Gospel of our Lord by Doctrine that was sound Within his Native Land ye he was found In forraign Islands spreading forth the Fame Of his beloved Lord and that his Name Might be advanced thought no Travel long Let God be Magnified that was his Song His Travels they were sore within and eke without His Recompence was large yes there 's no doubt Now he shines as a Star of no small magnitude Who by the Power of God hath convinc'd a Multitude Many are the Children he hath gathered To the Knowledge of the Lord and Christ their Head He rightly did divide the Word of God Gave Milk to Babes but Fools are for the Rod He sweetly comforted the Meek Ah he was strength unto the Weak But terrible he was to the Stout-hearted Who verily was smote before they parted The Workers of Iniquity by him Were trampled under foot the man of sin Was sorely wounded by his powerful Hand The Hypocrites before him could not stand But by the Power of God he did them slay But now alas he 's gone he 's gone away And we who lov'd him though our Loss is great Yet being fix'd in God we are compleat There meet we with his Spirit who gather'd is Into the Mansion of Eternal Bliss Praised be God and Magnified be He Who never waxeth old nor chang'd can be M. F. THE CONTENTS OF HIS EPISTLES 1 AN Epistle to Friends in the Prisons of London Hartford c. pag. 33. 2 An Epistle to Friends Exiled or sentenced to Exilement p. 37 3 An Epistle to Friends in Holland p. 44 4 An Epistle to all People in Jamaica p. 47 5 The 1st Epistle to Friends in New-England p. 51 6 The 2d Epistle to Friends in New-England p. 54 7 The 1st Epistle to Friends in the Province of Maryland p. 57 8 The 2d Epistle to Friends in the Province of Maryland p. 63 9 An Epistle to the Flock of God p. 71 10 The first general Epistle to Friends p. 80 11 The second general Epistle to Friends p. 85 12 The third general Epistle to Friends p. 90 13 The fourth general Epistle to Friends p. 95 THE CONTENTS OF THE BOOKS 1 AN Invitation of Love to the Hungry and Thirsty p. 3 2 A Salutation to the Suffering Seed p. 7 3 To all the Babes in Christ c. p. 15 4 A Warning to the King and both Houses of Parliament p. 21 5 England's Sad Estate Lamented and her Abominations Discovered p. 28 6 The Whore Vnvail'd or the Mystery of the Deceit of the Church of Rome reveal'd p. 53 7 A Testimony concerning that faithful Servant of the Lord Richard Farnsworth p. 117 8 A Song of the Judgments and Mercies of the Lord p. 131 9 A Vindication of the Light Within against the Darkness Error and Blasphemy of John Newman in his Book entituled The Light Within c. p. 369 10 A Testimony concerning Lodowick Muggleton p. 343 11 What he spoke a little before his death p. 344 To all Dear Friends OF TRUTH Who are Sufferers at this day for their TESTIMONY to the TRUTH And for

Purity and Self-denial through the Sanctifying operation of the same I had intimacy with him above many but so mixt was his kindness with seriousness and his familiarity with a stay'd and examplary Behaviour as he was ever an honour to the Truth and therein a confirmer of his holy Testimony and weaker Brethren He was an incessant Labourer in the Gospel and Few more spent in its Service his Soul seem'd wholly bent to the Renowning of it and its Enemies he ever accounted his His Declaration was to the Ungodly World like an Ax an Hammer or a Sword sharp and piercing being mostly attended with an eminent appearance of the dreadful Power of the Lord to the cutting down of many a tall Cedar and to the making of many lofty Oaks to bow but to the Faithful and diligent who mind the things of Christ more then their own O the soft and pleasant Streams of Life Immortal that have run through him to the refreshing of those the Lord's Heritage yea 't was his life and joy to be speaking the Word of the Lord and not his own And many thousands doubtless rest behind who are living Testimonies to the Power Vertue and Efficacy of his Ministry but above all terrible was he to the Sowers of Strife secret Back-biters and such as rend the holy Body and separate from the Life Love and Fellowship of the Blessed Truth Who in their own selfish spirit set themselves over the holy Brethren by feignedness and deceitful appearances to the betraying of the Simple-hearted and ketching the Innocent in their Snares Yet was he ready to reach out an helping Hand to save the upright Hearted whose desires were to the Lord and the Fellowship of the Faithful He was Hardy Valiant and fixt not of those that shun the Cross or sell their Birth-right for a Mess of Pottage He baulkt no Danger for the sake of his blessed Testimony but ever met in the Lord's Armour by which he has many times overcome in England Holland Barbadoes Virginia New-England Mary-Land c. where through many difficulties he boldly preached the everlasting Gospel Christ in him the Hope of Glory He was a good Example as well for his Liberality as Faithfulness for as I am a Witness that the prosperity of God's Truth and dear Friends was above all things most in his Eye so was he alwayes cautious of making the Gospel chargeable to any but having some Estate of his own he freely imploy'd it in the Lord's Service counting nothing too dear for the Name and Service of the Lord. And thus having laboured his natural strength away in this heavenly Warfare for the promotion of the glorious Truth of the Lord and the advancment of its Interest and Dominion in the World for about twelve Years together he did with perfect understanding and in an extraordinary enjoyment of the Lord's Life Majesty and Presence to the refreshment of the Beholders on the 15th of the 11th Moneth 1668. he chearfully laid down his Mortal Body it being in the five and thirtieth Year of his Age that he might be perfectly cloathed on with Blessed Immortallity which is the Wages of the Work and the Eternal Recompence of his Temporal Tribulations And now is he truely ascended above and beyond every Trouble and Temptation where all Tears are wip'd away from his Eyes and upon Mount Zion does he stand amongst the rest of our holy Brethren and those Martyrs who kept the Testimony of Jesus in their day singing the Song of the Lamb for evermore Therefore shall his Memorial remain as a sweet Oyntment with the Righteous and time shall never blot him out of their remembrance for amongst the Worthies shall he be reckoned in the Generations to come because he loved not his Life unto Death but chos'd to pass through the many Tribulations which have given him an enterance into the Everlasting Rest where his spirit lives and remains with God for ever My Soul is often heavy and bowed down in the sence of the loss of these Valiants at this time of the day but herein am I satisfied that our God that raised them will fill up their places and daily bring forth by his Eternal Arm many noble Champions for his Glory who shall sound forth his Wonders to the Ends of the Earth and stand as Saviours upon Mount Zion to the Nations And therefore woes to the dark hellish sin-pleasing persecuting Priests Professors and Prophane of the whole Earth for the Lord God Omnipotent is taking to himself his great Power and he will Reign whose Kingdom stands in Righteousness and is an Everlasting Kingdom and of whose Government and Dominion there shall be no end W. Penn. AN EPISTLE TO THE READER As Concerning Josiah Coale HE did labour much in the Power of the Lord and did stand in the Power of the Lord against the spirit of the World and against all the Opposers of the Truth to his dying day yea within one Hour and a half of his death see his Testimony against the dark blasphemous spirit of Muggleton in the latter end of this Book and besides the several Opposers of the Truth of the several Sects in New-England Barbadoes Virginia Mary-Land and other Islands and the several Cruel and Inhumane Sufferings and Imprisonments by the chief Priests Professors and Rulers which would be to large to mention and would make a great Volumn that he suffered amongst them And also his sore Travels among the Heathen in America concerning the Truth and preaching the Gospel and when the cruel murdering Priests and Professors of New-England which Murdered and Martyr'd and Spoyled so many of the Goods of our Friends and burned some of them with their hot Irons and cut off the Ears of some of our Friends for the Truth and Gospel's sake These New-England persecuting Professors said to some that they did persecute Why did not our Friends come thorow the Heathen by Land from Virginia to New-England thorow the Wilderness on foot for they looked for Miracles but Josiah Coale and another was that very Time passing thorow the Heathen and the Wilderness from Virginia to New-England and the persecuting Professors of New-England then did not think that they were so near them that did pass thorow the Woods and Wildernesses which immediately came among them having passed thorow the Woods and wilde Wildernesses and thorow the danger of the Men-Eaters and wilde Beasts and venomous Creatures but when they came through much Hunger and Cold and Weariness through the Bogs and Waters into New-England they found worss entertainment among the New-England persecuting Priests and Professers then they had found among the wilde and venomous Beasts and Men-eaters yea they were worss to them and others of the Disciples of Christ as I said then the Heathen and Men-eaters who had passed thorow much danger of their lives and oft times were fain to cut down Chest-Nut-Trees for the Nuts for Food when they were hungry And nevertheless when these came immediatly

after God in Righteousness and true Holiness And so here walking every one in your own measures in Faithfulness to the Lord you will feel the Lord administring unto you of his rich Vertue to the filling of your Hearts and to the making of your Cups to overflow for this I testifie unto you and that by the Spirit of the Lord That the Lord's Love and Mercies and the Riches of his Grace did never more abound in the Hearts of his People in any Age or Generation than it doth in this our Day in the Hearts of all who obey and follow him and give up freely unto him in all his Leadings and Requirings And therefore once more I say unto you my Beloved Ones give up in singleness to follow the Lord in whatsoever he leads you unto And walk with him in the Power of his own Spirit of Life and let the Righteousness of God go before you and his Everlasting Glory shall be your Reward And so Dear Hearts Feel your selves covered with the Spirit of Life for that shall and will remain when all false Coverings shall be ript off and all empty Professions and out-side Shews will wither and have an end and come to nothing Therefore ye as Wise Virgins have Oyle in your Lamps and see that your Lamps be kept trimmed and burning that so you may be kept ready at all times to enter in with the Bridegroom into his Marriage Chamber so will you have Joy and Felicity and Gladness of Heart and no cause of Sorrow will there be while you enjoy the Bridegroom of your Souls present with you who will be an everlasting Comforter unto you with whom you will know an Everlasting REST And that Peace you will be Heirs of and possess which passeth the Understanding of the World and in this you will have strong Consolation and Comfort even that which can never be blasted but whatsoever flourisheth and may seem prosperous for a time if it be not in and by the Power of the Lord that will the Lord blast and cause to wither as the Flower of the Grass and this your Eyes shall see if you keep in the eternal Power of the Lord which keeps the invisible Eye open which alone perceives the things of God So in the pure Power of the Lord dwell and keep that you may be kept in a clear Discerning and sensible of your own particular Conditions and how it stands with you in the Presence of the Lord that you may know your Peace and Unity with him and one with another that so all being kept in the Power and Unity of the one Spirit in that you may exhort one another and so much the more as you see the Day approaching that so you may be strengthened one by another and may build up one another in the Precious Living Truth and therein edifie one another in Love that so you may stand over the World and over that part in which the Enmity stands which is against God so will it appear unto all men That you are the People which God hath Blessed And now my dearly beloved Friends These few Lines have I written unto you from the aboundings of the Love of my heavenly Father which he hath shed abroad in my heart towards you all and by this Love only was I constrain'd thereunto wherein in some measure is manifested that real and unfeigned Love which dwells in me and daily extends it self unto the whole Houshold of Faith wheresoever they are with whom I am at this time even wrapt up with the Garment of Praise And in the pure Unity of the Spirit of Life and Endless Unspotted Love do I purely salute you all leaving you to the Protection of the Almighty whose tender Care is over all his and watcheth over his own Inheritance Night and Day so that the Devourer cannot prevail to lay it waste nor desolate Wherefore let your Confidence and Trust be in him alwayes and continue you in the Grace of God which hath appeared and the Sufficiency thereof you will more and more see and witness daily And Blessed in the Name of the Lord God Almighty are all they whose Trust and Confidence is in him alone for they shall never be ashamed nor confounded but shall be as Mount Sion which cannot be moved So the Lord God Almighty of Heaven and Earth keep you all and preserve you all in the enjoyment of the Fulness of the Blessing of the Gospel of Peace where you all may know the Rest to remain that neither Stormes can disturb you nor Tempests make you afraid in which I am with you all who are of the Family of God Written in the Island of Barbadoes the 27th of the 7th Moneth 1661. Your Truly Loving and Faithful Brother JOSIAH COALE A Collection OF THE Several Books Given forth from the Movings of the Spirit of the LORD in his Faithfull Servant and Minister Josiah Coale The Memorial of the Just is Blessed the Righteous shall be had in Everlasting Remembrance but the Name of the Wicked shall Rot. Printed in the Year MDCLXXI AN INVITATION OF LOVE TO THE HUNGRY THIRSTY Who truly hunger after the Food of Life and a Call to such to come from off the Barren Mountains and from feeding upon vanity into the Everlasting Kingdom and House of my Father where the least of his Servants have Bread enough With some Information of the Way which leads thereunto EVery one that hungers and every one that thirsts and every one that breaths after Righteousness Come the Fountain of Life is opened and the Everlasting God of Jacob is arisen in this day of his Power to gather unto himself the dispersed of Israel into his Everlasting Fold of Rest and into his Everlasting Covenant of Light Life and Peace with him to dwell And for this very end hath he caused the Eternal Light of his Son to shine forth and hath set up his Standard and displayed his Ensign to the Nations to which the gathering is and the Call is gone forth and the Spirit bids Come and every one that hears let him Come and drink of the water of Life freely For the Fountain is now opened and the true Shepherd now Calls and his voyce is heard and all who are wandering upon the barren Mountains and in desolate places and are weary and heavy laden with sin may Come and follow him who leads to the Everlasting Fold of Rest which is Jesus Christ the true Shepherd and the Light of the World and Way to the Father who is now arisen in this his Day for his Seeds sake to gather his Sheep from off the Barren Mountains where they have been scattered and driven away in the dark and in the cloudy day And to make manifest the way of Life freely to all who hearken to his Counsel and obey his voyce who declares unto man what is his thoughts And by his Light makes manifest the Secrets of the heart and reproves the deeds

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