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A62877	True old light exalted above pretended new light, or, Treatise of Jesus Christ as He is the light which enlightens every one that comes into the world : against the sense both of the Quakers, Arminians, and other assertors of universal grace, whose light is proved to be darkness / delivered in nine sermons, by John Tombes, B.D., and commended to publick view by Mr. Richard Baxter.	Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing T1824; ESTC R21431	110,239	95

not Christ did in his Name cast out Devils Luk. 10. 49 50. And by this he refuted Luk. 11. 19. the Pharisees who imputed his casting out Devils to an assistance of the Prince of the Devils 2. By the concomitants and consequents of his lifting up which was his death on the crosse Joh. 11. 32 33. For 1. The prediction of it with the fulfilling thereof shewed he spake from God whose property it is to foretell future contingents as certain 2. The things themselves proved him to come from God 1. The wonderfull accidents that hapned at his death Mat. 27. 54. the renting of the Vcil of the Temple and of the rocks and the quaking of the earth and opening of the graves made the Centurion and his Souldiers say Truly this was the Son of God 2. His Resurrection not withstanding all the obstruction used by Pilate and the Jews with the rising of many bodies of the Saints which slept and appeared to many in Jerusalem manifest by the many and undoubted signs thereof to many persons many times proves his descent from God 3. The giving of the Spirit on the great day of Pentecost in the sight of Proselytes from all Countries which was also done by Apostles in other places together with many Miracles in his Name proved that he taught the truth he received from the Father 4. The dispossessing of Satan of his Empire in the worship of Idols and the giving of Oracles as from them and the drawing of the Gentiles to him as he foretold Joh. 12. 31 32. in which was part of the great mystery of Godlinesse 1 Tim. 3 16. which we at this day see accomplished together with many other Prophecies of the destruction of Jerusalem its treading down of the Gentiles the Preaching of the Gospel over all the world the calamities of the Jews the persecution of the Christians with other things Matth. 24. Luk. 21. and elsewhere abundantly demonstrate that he was the true light which came down from Heaven in respect of the Doctrine he taught and words he spake His words also appear to be the true light from the matter of them and the ends whereunto they tend and the effects of them For 1. The matter of them is pure like God containing holy Precepts not amorous Poems or sophistical quirks of wit or curious devices of art or cunning maxims of State policy or glorious atchievements of war or any thing that tends to exalt man but such Precepts and Revelations as make man spiritual heavenly wise like unto God There is nothing vain and fabulous like to the frothy wit of men nor deceitfull like to the wily old Serpent but solid and weighty concerning peace with God conversion unto him denying our selves taking up our Crosse following of Christ in patience contentednesse meeknesse humility and such like things as shew faith in God and hope of a reward in Heaven all plain without flattery of men to induce them to follow him in hopes of earthly preferment and worldly wealth or pleasure or praise of men but the clean contrary yet are they such things as when declared appear so necessary for sinners so full of goodnesse and congruity to Prophetical Predictions that the conscience of men not listed up with pharisaical concei's of self-righteousnesse nor obstinately addicted to their own lusts will assent to and embrace them 2. The ends of them and the effects are the salvation of man and the glory of God All that Christ spake it was to comfort the humble and afflicted soul Luk. 4. 18. to ease the burthened Matth. 11. 28. to direct them to God to reform the evils in Gods worship to take men off from covetousnesse hypocrisie and such evils as are pernicious to believe in God to love each other to lay up our treasure in Heaven not to be excessively carefull for the things of this life with whatever else might bring men nigh to God and alienate them from this present evil world And accordingly so were and are the effects regeneration or new birth rejoycing in God mortification of the deeds of the body comfort in tribulation a life of faith love to the Brethren in Christ and everlasting consolation and good hope through grace All which with inumerable other Characters and Symptomes of Christs Doctrine and Testimony do shew that he was the true light and that what he spake to Pilate Joh. 18. 37. was right To this end was I born and for this cause came I into the world that I should bear witnesse unto the truth every one that is of the truth heareth my voice Lastly That in respect of his sincerity or moral truth he was the true light it is manifest in that as he said to the Jews he sought not his own will but the will of the Father which sent him Joh 5. 30. That he sought not his own glory Joh. 8. 50. Which appears in that he sometimes forbad the spreading of his fame withdrew himself when they would have made him King Joh. 6. 15. was content to be deprived of ordinary conveniencies Luk. 9. 58. In a word made himself of no reputation or emptied himself and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likenesse of men and being in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient unto death even to the death of the crosse Phil. 2. 7 8. that he might give Testimony to the truth Sect. 8. Application by way of Vindication of our selves from the Accusation of Quakers as if we denied the Light John 1. 9. and warning to shun false Lights From that which hath been said 1. It may appear that those who go under the name of Quakers do unjustly accuse publique Preachers as if they did deny the true light which inlighteneth every man that cometh into the world that they deny Christ the light for so in their speeches and books they do frequently charge them None that I have seen is more profuse and frequent in these charges then G. F. that is George Fox in his Catechism who saith p. 7 Toat neither the Jews nor Christians do believe in the light which doth inlighten every man that cometh into the world though they professe some of Christs and the Apostles words which the Jews do not P. 9. he saith Teachers by the will of man meaning publique Preachers in England and Professors say that Christ doth not inlighten every one that cometh into the world and they deny Christ. P. 13. That none can confesse Christ but who confesse the light which every man is inlightened withall But frequently in the same paper he terms such as acknowledge not the light which he imagins every one hath Antichrists Deceivers not Teachers of Christ but deniers of him p. 15. But this crimination is but the raving of men that are used to make clamours and outcries without any proof Though the text plainly enough distinguisheth the light inlightening and the light in every man from that true

True Old Light EXALTED ABOVE Pretended NEW LIGHT OR TREATISE OF Jesus Christ He is the Light which enlightens every one that comes into the world 〈◊〉 the sense both of the Quakers Arminians and other Assertors of Universal Grace whose Light is proved to be Darkness Delivered in Nine Sermons by JOHN TOMBES B. D. And commended to publick view By M r Richard Baxter PSAL. 43. 3. 〈◊〉 thy light and thy truth let them lead me let them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to thy holy Hill and to thy Tabernacle LONDON by A. M. for Thomas Underhill at the Sign of the Anchor and Bible in Pauls Church-yard 1660. To the Honourable S r THOMAS WIDRINGTON Knight Serjeant Teril Serjeant Fountain Lords Commissioners of the Great Seale of ENGLAND THe incessant and importunate inculcation of this monition by the miserably deluded Quakers look to the light within you not distinguishing but confounding it with Christ giving thereby cause to conceive that they acknowledg no other Christ as their Saviour but such a fancied one as they have imagined to be in them being sadly resented by me as causing one of the most pernicious Schismes of our dayes in drawing many weak though perhaps well meaning soules to neglect Scriptures Ministry of setled Teachers Christian-Church-Communion which tends to Atheisme irreligion and perdition moved me at first to Preach and since to compose for the Press these ensuing Sermons In which I have endeavoured to shew Christ to be and how he is the true universall lighting Light and the insufficiency of that magnified Light in each which those forenamed erring persons with the assertors of universall grace and selfedisposing freewill of man have avouched It is charged hotly by many on those whom they term Anabaptists though not rightly as if they were Authors or Fautors of this delusion of Quakers and much to that purpose was objected against my self by that Reverend Brother whose Epistle is prefixed to these Sermons in his Letter to me which is Answered by me in the 63 d. Section of the 3 d. part of my Review intitled Antipoedo baptism But I hope that by our Declaration Printed Decemb. 12. last to which I find two Quakers have made injurious Answers and by my Answer in that Section together with the reading of these Sermons the truth will be cleared and my self with those other Brethren who joyned with me in that Declaration will be discharged from those evill surmises and insinuations which heighten our devisions for the taking away or lessening of which if I were offered upon the sacrifice and service of the faith of Gods Elect I should count my self happy The Author of the Epistle hereto annexed imputes the rise or spreading at least of the errors of Quakers and divisions of the godly to a Popish Jesuiticall practice for the undermining and ruine of the Churches of Christ in those Nations and this Commonwealth and he feares nothing so much as a toleration of Popery in England as the meanes to destroy the Protestant Churches now near an utter destruction by the union of Popish Princes and plots of Romishs Agents I hope the Lord will not so desert the Parliament your Honours or any other of the assertors of our just Liberties as to allow such a Liberty as will bring the whole State and all the Churches of God into the servitude of the Roman man of sinne We have had experience of their and Satans devices by them their implacable hatred of all that Idolize not the Pope and a piece of Bread to make us wary how we permit such Serpents to lye in our bosomes Their activity subtility perfidiousness cruelty beyond any sort of men that ever yet appeared in the world especially to really godly Persons should alarm and awaken us to bethink our selves afore it be too late of preventing their intrenching among us And sith Quakerism is but a posterne to let in Popery which English Protestants would undoubtedly fight against to the death if it marched under its own Colours and Leaders it is necessary that such an eye be had on Quakers as that the Preaching of the Gospell be not hindred by them nor their growth such as may oppress those whom they revile and hate without a cause To shew the falsehood of the chief foundations of Popery the supposed Cathoticism of the Roman Church the Supremacy of the Pope and the truth of their unwritten traditions I have written a Book now in Press which hath an Epistle of the same Reverend Brother whose Epistle is here Printed prefixed by which appeares our union and concurrence in the common cause of Christ against oppugners of it And having regard to your Honours and the esteem which is due to you as being a constellation of the first magnitude in this our Commonwealth I presume to offer this Writing to your Honours for your use and to subscribe my selfe Your Honours humble Servant in Christ John Tombes Lemster in Hereford shire the 3 d day of the last Moneth vulg Febr. 1. 1659 To the Reader Reader IF thou live in England it 's like thou hast heard of if not seen that new and strange generation of people called Quakers And if thou be one that hast not lost thy faith and wit I may presume that thou art grieved for their folly and impiety and wonderest at their brazen-faced impudency and lamentest the dishonour which they bring upon the Christian name and blushest at them as the Nations shame But all understand not their originall and tendency who sends them forth and what is their designe Had there been no other discovery of these they are legible enough in their doctrines and their workes He that is no stranger to Popery and is conversant in the writings of the Fryars and Jesuites may perceive who taught them their doctrine of universall sufficient light of Perfection against imputed righteousness of the necessity of an infallible judge that concupiscence antecedent to consent is no sin their undervaluing the Scriptures and many the like The principal work of the Papists and Quakers is to take off the people from the holy Scriptures and from the Reformed faithfull Ministers This is none of the work of Christ who teacheth his Discipies by his Spirit Word and Ministers conjunctly He that would have no Ministry would have no Church and no Christ And he that would have another Church and Ministry in reason should tell us plainly which is the Church and Ministry which he would have If it be the Papal why do they not speak out and say so doth jugling suit with matters of eternall life or death If it be not the Papal but the Quakers it cannot be the Church and Ministry of Christ. For the Church and Ministers of Christ have been not only conspicuous since his Ascension and sending the Holy Ghost but also have been that part of the world which providence hath tendered and for which the earth hath been sustained and for whose happinesse all things do conspire But