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conscience_n	blood_n	evil_a	sprinkle_v	1,886	5	11.1905	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71239	The son of perdition revealed by the brightness and light of the Son of God in his saints, and the preachers of his light within and their doctrines & principles (concerning the mysteries of God & the weighty things of salvation) vindicated and cleared ... / by the light of the Son of God in his servants Geo. Whitehead & Edw. Burroughs.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1661 (1661)	Wing W1962; ESTC R21454	71,956	92

were upheld by a Law And where proves J. W. that outward Baptism in Water does signifie or resemble Christs death burial or Resurrection as he hath implyed We hope he will not say that Believers dye in outward Baptism and are buried three daies in the Water as Christ was in the Earth so that Water Baptism when it was practiced by a command from heaven as John did it had rather a resemblance or signification of the state of Believers and their inward washing then of the state of Christ in his sufferings and Resurrection And where J. W. as a proof for his Water Baptism brings Rom. 6.4 Col. 2.12 We are buried with him by Baptism into death c. In this he hath contradicted himself for before this Baptism in Water was but to signifie the Burial and Resurrection of Christ and the fellowship of the Saints in his death and therefore it could not be that Baptism by which they were buried with Christ into death so all may see what Idolatry he is in about Water and how he is mudled in his confusion though he without just cause is offended that we should count their Baptism a carnal empty shadow or low thing that God is gone out of though it be both true and apparent enough since they make such an Idol of it and practise it without either immediate command from Heaven or motion of Gods Spirit for it but onely do it by tradition and imitation from the use of it in the time of the Churches Infancy when peoples minds were not redeemed out of such things And as for Christs sending the blind man to wash his eyes in the pool of Siloam who when he had washed came seeing John 9.6 7. This is no proof for your plunging or baptizing People in water though J.W. thou hast brought it for thy proof so that thou hast but herein discovered thy idolatrous Spirit and for all thy Baptism in Water thou art yet blind thy eyes are not opened though thou hast had more of thy body outwardly washed then thy eyes And further in p. 39. and 40. Joseph VVright saith That Baptism in VVater in the Name of Jesus Christ is unto the Repentant Believer the way of Salvation because Christ hath walked therein to make it so c. and that as the sinner comes to be washed in his body with pure water so he comes to be sprinkled in his heart or spirit with the bloud of Christ from an evil conscience and to prove it he cites Heb. 10.22 Answ. Here it may be seen how this Baptist goes on in his Idolatry and what a great Idol he hath made of Water Baptism to account it the way of Salvation and so he hath set up another way for Salvation then the true Ministers did for Christ is the way of Life and Salvation and the Rock from whence comes the water of Life which sprinkles the heart from an evil Conscience and this is not a carnal or visible Element of the world so that this Baptist in preaching up water Baptism to be the way to Salvation he would limit Christ and his salvation as if none were in the way of salvation but a company of Baptists or such as are plunged by them in outward Water and so if that water-Baptisme be the way of Salvation then it is Christ but this is another Christ then the true Apostles preached so that this Doctrine herein must needs be Antichristian from which also it follows that those that would know the way of salvation and come to Christ they must go to the Baptists for Christ and Salvation which if their Water-Baptism be it then they can make Christ and make a way of Salvation and then in such places where there is not outward water enough to be found to plunge people in over head and ears there they must want salvation if then Water-Baptism be it and if the sinner comes but to be sprinkled from an evil conscience when his body is washed in outward water and that be the way of cleansing a heart from an evil conscience then it seems that all mens consciences are evil but the Baptists And thus he hath discovered his absurdity and grosse Idolatry as one that never knew the way of Salvation nor that living water which cleanseth the heart from an evil conscience nor that one Baptism of the spirit which the Saints preached by which they were all baptized into one body which is the substance wherein the antitype and end of shadows and figures and how far they reached is seen and manifested and J.W. thy doctrine of Idolatry tend more to strengthen the Papists in their way for the Popish masse then theirs who preach up the Light within though thou hast charged such a Preacher of the Light with denying the bread which is eaten in that you call the Lords Supper to be made of Corn or the Wine that is drunk to be the fruit of the Vine as in Pag. 48. but him whom thou hast so accused thou hast not discovered by name nor where he spoke it for there is none that truely owns and Preaches the light within that will say that outward bread which is eaten in that called the Lords Supper is not made of Corn or deny the outward Wine that is drunk to be the fruit of the Vine But this we know that the Lords Supper is a mysterie which you who live in deceit and iniquity who are doating about outward shadows as bread and wine and water never came to eat or drink at but only they who are come to the Lamb of God that takes away sin and to the marriage Supper of the Lamb who saith behold I stand at the door and knock if any man hear my voice and open to me I will sup with him and he with me and here at this supper that bread and that fruit of the Vine is received in the Paradice of God which is not outward changable nor carnall and to this Supper Drunkards Malitious persons and Liars cannot come and wherein page 47. thou judgest such as preach the Light within for their reward to have the mist of darknesse reserved for ever In this thou hast but discovered thy self to be in the gall of bitternesse and in the enmity of him who is the Father of Lyes whose work thou art in against the Light and the Children of it and that will be thy own reward which thou hast judged others with unless thou repentest more of thy folly and confusion about these carnal things which thou art doting about might be mentioned which at present are omitted but thou hast discovered thy self sufficiently already as one that never knew the way of Salvation nor the cleansing of thy heart from an evil conscience for all thy Baptism in water which thou hast accounted the way of Salvation and cleansing though others of you Baptists have openly said as some did at a Dispute in Southwark there is no stresse for Salvation upon

vindicate the same operation in this day as that same Power is manifest amongst People And it is the Power of the Lord not the spirit of witchcraft or uncleannesse as J. W. blasphemously affirms but we know that thousands in these our dayes have been pierced to the heart by the word of the Lord and have been smitten in their Consciences and been made to cry out and roar and tremble through the disquietnesse of their hearts and have been brought as low as Hell even to the sides of the Pit and to know their bones broken as David did and they have lain disconsolate for many dayes and yet the Lord hath after this raised them up into peace and joy and comfort and blotted out their transgressions and washed them away by the bloud of Iesus and hath restored comfort for mourning and the spirit of praise for the spirit of heavinesse according to his promises so that were not J. W. a man more ignorant and malitious then a man of Knowledge and good Conscience he would never presume to have vented such malicious and rayling tearms against us for and because of the self same operation of the Power of God amongst us as is so largely demonstrated by examples throughout the Scriptures so that he hath not onely reviled us at this day but also the Saints of God in former ages so declaring himself to the world to be ignorant of the Scriptures and of the Power of God to Salvation and a Blasphemer against both And his Reason to prove it an unclean Spirit that leads them to tremble is because some have stripped off their Cloaths and gone naked for a sign c. To which we Answer By the same reason he might as well have said that was an unclean spirit that led Isaiah the Prophet to put off his shooes and walk naked and bare-foot as a sign and wonder upon Aegypt when as it was the Spirit of God that moved him to that work Isa. 20. and Saul also when he went to Naioth and the Spirit of God was upon him and prophesied and he stript off his Cloathes and lay down naked all the day and all that night wherefore it was said is Saul also among the Prophets 1 Sam. 19.23 24. And thus J. W. may see the errour of his own judgement who hath condemned that Spirit to be unclean which led Isaiah and Saul to go naked by his censuring such now as are led by the same Spirit but against his reproachful tongue we do vindicate such a thing in it self and that the Spirit of the Lord is not limitted but may lead some at this day to the same thing though if any do such a thing in imitation and deceit we justifie them not CHAP. VII Concerning the sufficiency of the Light and the annointing within to teach all that do believe AGain the next thing observeable that we can digg out of his heap of Confusion is he chargeth us with dissimulation that we never intended that every man should be guided by the Light in them though we Preach it up and direct every man to it as a guide his Reasons for it are First Because we intend to communicate a Teacher from without Secondly Because we declare to men and women that if they will but wait in silence they shall receive virtue and Life from us though they never see us more by which it appears saith he that we intend to give a spirit to such as adhere to our Doctrine Thirdly Because when we take hold of the hands of men and women yea when we have taken hold of the wrists of some they have been taken with a trembling c. Fourthly Because we are constantly visiting them that are inclining to our Principles c. Fifthly Because we run up and down to spread our Doctrine and by our Printing such a multitude of Books to Teach men in our way we cry down Preaching saith he and that we lay aside Gods Word and set up our own word and that Gods Holy Scriptures we reject and our own unholy Writings we exalt c. Sixthly Because the Light which is in every man doth not lead us and our followers to do those things we do c. page 158 159 160 161 162 163. Answer To all these we Answer That we do turn people to the Light of the Spirit of God within them and Preach the free Gift and Grace of God that he hath given to the Sons of men in order to their Salvation and we acknowledge notwithstanding all J. W. his Scornful and Ignorant Railings against us for Preaching the light within that we are sent of God and t is our Message that we have received to Preach to all the World and that we are sent to turn from the darkness to the Light as the Apostle Paul Acts 26.18 and this Light to which he turned them was not a visible Carnal Light without them but an Invisible and Spiritual Light that shone in their Consciences and to this Light Paul was sent to turn them even to the light that shined in their Hearts 2 Cor. 4.6 The light shined in their Hearts that gave them the light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Christ and the light of the new Covenant is the Light of the Spirit of God that shines in mens Consciences for God hath said I 'le put my Spirit within them and write my Law in their Hearts so that whosoever doth Preach the new Covenant must Preach the light within but of this about Preaching the light within more in another place therefore here we pass it and shall examine his fix feeble Reasons by which he would prove that we dissemble with people in Prrac●ing the light within and we never intend what we say which is a notorious slander that shews J. VV. hath neither wit nor good Conscience for might not he as well have brought all these his Reasons against the Apostles who Preached the same Doctrine of the light within as we do now for when Saint John said to the Church ye have anointing within you and ye need not man to Teach you but as the same annointing teacheth you 1 John 2. might not J. W. as well have said to him John thou dost not mean as thou speakest but dissemblest with them for thou sayest they have annointing or light within them and they need no man to teach them but as that doth teach them and yet thou thy self art a Teacher without them and thou givest exhortations to them by Declarations and Epistles and tellest them if they abide in the anointing that they have received and in Christ they shall not sin and though the Saints in former Ages were thus taught by the anointing within them yet they did constantly visit one another and prayed one for another as the annoting led them but hadst thou J. W. lived in their dayes thou mightest have said John thou dost plainly declare that the anointing in the