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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65864	Enthusiasm above atheism, or, Divine inspiration and immediate illumination (by God Himself) asserted and the children of light vindicated : in answer to a book entituled, The danger of enthusiasm discovered / by George Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1674 (1674)	Wing W1926; ESTC R24552	32,776	82

doth savingly enlighten or afford super-natural Revelation in an immediate Way hath at once excluded and denyed both the Knowledge of God and Christ and this is the very Way to bring in Atheism for what shall assure us either of the Knowledge of God Christ Scripture or true Preaching if immediate Illumination be denyed us And yet this man to his own Confutation pretends not to exclude the concurrent Operation of God's Spirit upon the Heart p. 18. But how should we believe that he really owns the Christian Doctrine contained in Scriptures to be any Rule at all either of his Faith or Practice while he opposeth the very thing which it directs us to viz. The New Covenant the Spirit 's Teaching immediate Illumination c. Sect. II. Of the Divine Unction Light New Covenant and Use of the Ministry ANd this Opposer will have his Sense and Meaning upon some plain Scriptures contrary to their very Import as upon 1 Joh. 2. 20. But ye have an Unction from the Holy One and ye know all things And again ver 27. But the Anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you but as the same Anointing teacheth you of all things and is Truth and is no Lye and even as it hath taught you ye shall abide in him About this he appears very much puzled and cannot tell how to wind off the plain Words on the Behalf of the Anointing and its full and plentiful Teaching And after he hath spoken doubtfully about the Sense of this Scripture he concludes our Notion of the holy Spirit 's Teaching Men that live under the Gospel cannot be the Sense of it when the Words are plain Ye need not that anyman teach you but as the same Anointing teacheth you of all Things Nor would this render the Design of John in this Epistle and other Writings needless p. 64. while his Epistle and Writing proclaims the Sufficiency of the Anointing wherein he writes both to little Children young Men and Fathers and what he writes was as he had received from the Anointing and not meerly as Man's Teaching and argued no Defect in the Anointing at all but rather exalts it and tends to encourage others to continue in it to abide in the Truth it being confest That both the Apostles other Believers were established in Christ by the Anointing of God upon them from 2 Cor. 1. 21 22. As also That they were induced at the first to believe the Doctrine to be from God because they perceived the Anointing of God to be upon them that preached it p 66 67. So that here it is confest that Believers Establishment in Christ both Preachers and Hearers was by the Anointing of God upon them as he which stablisheth us with you in Christ and hath anointed us is God and that they were induced to believe the Doctrine to be from him because that they perceived that Anointing to be upon or in the Preachers Surely then there was a spiritual Eye opened in them so to perceive And this is our Method both for believing obeying and saving Men which one while this Man hath opposed as contrary to God's Way another while he confesseth to it but then he darkens the Matter again upon the Words Ye have an Unction from the Holy One and ye know all Things he gives this Meaning viz. Not that by this U●ction the commmon Christians were immediately inspired with the Knowledge of all Truths but that by it they were assured of the Truth of all things which the Apostles had taught and further adds It is not said that this Anointing did teach them all Things but that it did teach of all Things that is of or concerning the Truth of all Things to which it was a Witness or Evidence p. 66 67. He seems to lay a great stress here upon the Particle Of as if the Anointing did only teach them Of or concerning those Doctrines which the Apostles preached but not the Doctrines themselves and then who taught the Apostles to preach Was it not the Anointing And did not several Gifts flow from one Spirit But the man overlooks the Words of the Apostle cited by him viz. Ye need not that any man teach you but as the same Anointing teacheth you and did not this Anointing teach the Believers in the Apostles Absence and when they had not their Epistles read among them Or was it only a Witness or Evidence to what they spoke or preacht Or did it abide in them not to speak to them in the Absence of the Apostles and their Epistles but only in their Presence What a strange Limitation would this be that indeed endeavours to stop the Mouth of the Anointing And his denying that by this Unction the common Christians were immediately inspired with the Knowledge of all Truths leaves the Matter still doubtful on his Part and seems at least to be a Sense twarting the Apostles Words Ye have an Unction from the Holy One and ye know all Things He should have told whether he believes that the common Christians as he calls them were inspired with any Truths necessary to Salvation If he denies this then he bids adieu to all divine and saving Knowledge as to those Christians Whereas the same God that anointed the Apostles to preach and established them in Christ did both anoint and establish those Believers to whom they preached so their Ministry was effectual only through that Anointing which enabled them to preach And we never denyed the Apostles Preaching in order to direct men to that Anointing All which still prefers the Anointing as the principal Means and Rule and owns true Preaching as in Subordination to it But does not therefore oppose or deny the Anointing's immediate Teaching or Sufficiency to save them that believe in and obey it And because all are not converted or come to this divine Unction within or Dispensation of the New Covenant God hath been and is pleased to make Use of such effectual Means and to accommodate his divine Truth to mens low Capacities by Preaching and Demonstration of the Spirit as may be for their Help and Advantage in order thereto So that the Controversie is brought to this narow Compass viz. our present Opposer pretends to own super-natural Revelation and divine Illumination but not now in an immediate Way but only in a mediate Way of Preaching and Scripture We own and assert divine Illumination and super-natural Revelation in an immediate Way as also that God is pleased to make Use of such mediate Wayes and Means as are attended with his Presence and divine Illumination without which no outward Means can be effectual or to any real Advantage to the Soul This Opposer reckons that God operates now only in a mediate Way we own that God works both immediately and mediately as also we assert the sole Sufficiency of the Spirt's immediate Illumination and Teaching both as the Ground of the Effectual Ministry and of