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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

to them Now though plenteous Redemption Salvation and Peace were in being in Christ for us while Enemies and that God commended his Love towards us in that while we were Sinners Christ died for us vers 8. which doth explain the intent of the words If when we were Enemies we were reconcil'd to God by the death of his Son c. yet it is not the nature of Reconciliation for men to be Enemies to God I appeal to the Conscience of both R.G. and all other Professors Whether Enmity and Reconciliation do not differ And whether while Persons are at enmity they be then actually reconcil'd Though while we were Enemies we were reconcil'd by the death of his Son intentionally on God's Terms but not actually in our selves till the Enmity was slain in us as God with reference to his Purpose speaks to Abraham I have made thee a Father of many Nations before he was actually so made For Paul in the following words saith God who quickeneth the Dead calleth those things which be not as though they were Rom. 4.17 And also Zacharias being filled with the Holy Ghost he Prophesied saying Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for he hath visited and redeemed his People Luke 1.67 68. and to the end of the chapter Now though this Redeemed be spoken of as a thing done yet it was spoken of in the Prophesie of Christ the Horn of Salvation whose Salvation is Deliverance and Preservation out of the hands of our Enemies that we may serve him without fear in Holiness and Righteousness before him all the dayes of our life This was not witnessed when the Enemy rul'd and no good was wrought in us Further If Reconciliation and Redemption had been actually finish'd without us when no good was wrought in us what needed the Apostle so earnestly beseech and pray them in Christ's stead to be reconciled to God 2 Cor. 5.20 They might have said that is done and complated already Or to say Tbat Jesus Christ gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all Iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar People c Tit. 2.14 They might have said we are redeem'd at once already without us while no good is wrought in us What needst thou to tell us of redeeming from all Iniquity or of being purified We do not expect any such thing while we live here and yet we are redeemed justified and perfect in Christ. This is according to R. G's Doctrine and Sense but the Apostle's Sense is contrary as where he saith You that were sometimes alienated and Enemies in your minds by wicked works yet now hath he reconciled in the Body of his Fl●sh through Death to present you Holy and Vnblameable and Vnreprovable in his sight if ye continue in the Faith grounded and se●tled Col. 1.21 22 23. Mark here the nature and tendency of a reconcil'd state● and how it differs from that of Enemies in the mind as you were sometimes Enemies yet now reconciled viz. Ye Saints and faithful Brethren in Christ which are at Coloss chap. 1.2 But the mind of him that is an Enemy in his mind is not reconcil'd to God or his Truth Drunkards Swearers and Ranters are not in a reconcil'd State nor justified State neither is God reconcil'd to them nor in Union with them Again The words Purchased and Redemption are us'd by R. G. in an Unscriptural Sense while he doth so nonsensically render it as God man having purchased all of God without and so justified man when no good is wrought in him by the Spirit of God and as if Christ's Works without were the previous purchasing cause of the Love of God and also states man's Justification and Redemption as only without and preceeding the work of the Spirit within whereas redeeming from all Iniquity and Bondage under which man was sold is not wrought without the opperation of the Spirit of God within but it is a Work to be fulfilled within where Sin and Bondage have ruled and being Washed Sanctified and Justified by the Spirit are plac'd in their proper order 1 Cor. 6.11 Sanctified being plac'd before Justified And the Apostle Paul saith You are seal'd with the Holy Spirit of Promise which is the earnest of our Inheritance note that until the Redemption of the purchased Possession unto the Praise of his Glory Eph. 1.13.14 So mark here The Holy Spirit of Promise was the Earnest of their Inheritance until the Redemption c. And grieve not the Holy Spirit whereby you are s●aled until the Day of Redemption Eph. 4.30 But with R. G. the Day of his Redemption was long since over many years before he was Born he was redeemed and justified above Sixteen Hundred Years ago but then he must suppose or conceit himself an Elect person before that or else the whole World is as much justified as he See how plainly these Scriptures refute R. G. as also God purchased his Church with his own Blood Acts 20.28 So his chosen People were a purchas'd Possession God was in Christ reconciling the World unto himself but the Saints who are hi● Friends are actually reconcil'd he hath fulfill'd it in them And now because those terms in Scripture relating to Christ and his Works are mis-understood and p●rverted by many Professors and Priests as this man hath done I shall state them with the natural and simple sense thereof as followeth viz. Jesus a Saviour who saveth from sin of whom it was said by the Angel Thou shalt call his Name Jesus for he shall save his People from their sins Mat. 1.21 Christ is Anointed for he was anointed with Power from on High Propitiation a Sacrifice well-pleasing which is to purge away sin and in Scripture sence to make nigh to God and which imports Forgiveness Reconciliation Favour Mercy Kindness c. as Propitious is favouable merciful c. Sacrifice an Oblation or Offering which is to Consecrate or make Holy Reconciliation an Agreement a Peace-making between them that have been Friends and afterwards Foes a setting at One. Covenant an Accord Agreement a Contract a Treaty a Condition c. Attonement Peace Quietness c. between them that are reconcil'd or in mutual Friendship Redemption a Ransoming Buying again Rescuing or Recovering such as were under Bondage or sold under Slavery Salvation a Saving Preserving or a making Safe from the hand of an Enemy Destroyer or Oppressor c. Imputation an Ascribing Attributing to laying to the Charge of or an Accounting Reckoning or Thinking Justification a making Righteous Just Upright Vertuous Good Perfect c. and also an Adjudging Pronouncing and Sentencing one that is made Righteous to be so Now if Professors come not to feel and experience these things or works of Christ fulfill'd within them they are but meer empty Professors and Talkers of them without the true Life and Power of Christianity and true Religion Certain Scriptures touching the Saviour Redeemer Redemption and Salvation c. Thou shalt know

order to give them a day of Visitation wherein the tenders of Life and everlasting Salvation may be held forth unto them that believing and receiving the Son of God they may be sav'd from Sin and Death in themselves for he is the Saviour of all men but especially of them that believe whose Faith is not a meer Historical Faith of things only done without but a FAITH in the Name and Power of the Son of God a Heart-purifying Faith a justifying Faith a Faith that worketh by Love a Faith that is victorious over the World by which Faith we being justified we have Peace with God and by which Faith we have received Christ in Spirit and know him after the Spirit The Traditional Knowledge Faith and outward Profession of him as meerly after the Flesh will neither save nor justifie The Pope and Papists have as much of these as Robert Gordon who hath only his Tradition and Faith or Credulity for his Religion and Profession Although the concurring Testimonies of the holy Prophets and the four Evangelists and true Apostles and Ministers of Christ concerning his outward Birth Life Miracles Suffering in the Flesh Death Resurrection and Assention we never deny'd nor hereby in the least oppose by treating of the Nature and Effects of Faith in him as the Son of God the Foundation the Power and Wisdom of God the Light Life Salvation Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption of true Believers For he that believeth in and hath the Son hath Life but he that believeth not in him the Wrath of God abideth upon him How then is he or such perfectly justified with God Reconcil'd and Redeem'd at once without them a●●ording to R. G. while the Wrath of God abides upon them and while no Good is wrought in them Is it good Doctrine to say That men are perfectly justified while under the Wrath of God And that th●y are perfectly Redeem'd and reconciled and so at Peace and imputatively Righteous while actually under the Wrath of God in themselves Were it not as good Doctrine to say That they are imputatively saved while actually Damned But this is something like the Doctrine of R. G. and his Teachers or Ministers the Presbyterians and Independants under whose Ministry he hath receiv'd what he hath testified which he deceivedly thinks came from the Lord. And whereas R. G. having deny'd that this Light which enlightens every man is Christ in which G. K. and I oppos'd him and to our saying So John Preacht him c. R.G. again answers in scorn Thou should rather have added So G. F. Preacht him and so others among the Quakers And further addeth John or any of the Pen Me● never so wrote of Christ neither canst thou show me one place of Scripture wherein it is inserted of Christ that the Light enlighteneth every man that comes into the World is the true Christ. Rep. What is this ●u● to deny the Divinity of Christ or to deny him to be that Word or Life which was the Light of men testified of John 1. which Word became Flesh and tabernacl'd in us Was not this still ●●●ist that John testified of that was the true Christ that enlig●●●●s every man that comes into the World Is it not Anti-christian Doctrine to deny this enlightening true Light to be Christ and to scoff at us for asserting it And because I distinguished between Christ the Enlightener and his Gift of Light or Illumination in man R. G. hath judg'd me severely as to be in Self-contradiction for my saying That we affirm a Spiritual Divine Light to be in eve●y man yet we do not say that Christ is in every man or that every man hath the Son though still I own the Son to be the Enlightner of every man This he counts a Contradiction but herein he hath but slightly overlookt and censured my words for there is no Contradiction in them any more then in saying Christ the true Light enlighteneth every man so that there is Christ and his Illumination yet every man is not a Child of Light walks not in the Light hath not the Son is not attain'd to the Revelation of Christ and yet hath a degree of his Light and Illumination in them wherein is his power and capacity of believing and receiving the Son of God or otherwise it is sufficient to leave them without Excuse yea the least Measure of Christ's Light is sufficient in each respect although this Opposer most ignorantly s●ights the Work of any Law or Light in man or Obedience wrought thereby as not able to deliver him from the Condemnation and Curse of the Law so as to obtain Justification with God the●eby pag. 25. Whereas the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ makes free from the Law of Sin and Death and this Law of the Spirit of Life is within this Law is Light this being obey'd thus freeth man from the power of Sin and Death where true Obedience to the Light is sin is not obey'd neither sin nor death doth raign in the Creature but Righteousness raigns within unto Life sin being forsaken the cause of Condemnation and the Curse is remov'd and where there is no Condemnation there is Justification even to them that walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit And is not this a state accepted of God seeing its the Doers of his Will that are just and justified But after this R G. hath oppos'd and scoff●d at that saying That this Light that enlightens every man that comes into the World is Christ having deny'd this he in plain Contradiction to himself is forc'd to acknowledge the Truth in these words I also acknowledge that it is said John 1.9 of Christ Jesus that was the true Light which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 illuminat enlighteneth every man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 venientem coming into the World for so it is in the Greek and that every man is enlightened by Jesus Christ as he is the Word that made the World c. pag. 27 28. See here R. G. against R. G. one while the true Light which enlighteneth every man is not the true Christ with him another while Jesus Christ was the true Light which enlighteneth every man that cometh into the World Do you think this is a trusty man to give credit to let the unprejudic'd Readers judge And further We do not call the enlightening in every man the Christ but the Light of Christ having already distinguished between the Enlightener and the Illumination and between the Giver and the Gift And now as concerning the Law and Nature by which the Gentiles did the things contain'd in the Law R. G. saith This Law or Enlightening thus planted in man'● nature by generation is by Generation convey'd into every man as he cometh into the World and that it is called by Solomon the spirit of man which is the Candle of the Lord c. Pro. 20.27 Answ. This Law and Light that inwardly taught the Gentiles was