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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44794	The heart of New-England hardned through wickednes in answer to a book, entituled the Heart of New-England rent, published by John Norton appointed thereunto by the General Court. The doctrine of the Quakers uindicated [sic], his ignorance manifested, and his lying doctrines brought to light and judged with the word of truth, and truth cleared from his aspersions and slanders. By him that waits to see the throne of righteousness exalted above all deceit. Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3166; ESTC R223647	32,471	42

or against the light of the Spirit must needs be sinful and then if it be as thou hast said and if this must be the true sence of that Scripture that it must be understood of natural light and that natural light thou construes in opposition to spiritual and saith it is contradistinct to the light of the Spirit and in opposition unto it that which is against the Spirits light or the light of the Spirit must needs be darkness sinful and evil and yet thou hast confessed it will teach that none ought to lye or steal and to know one God and the Creator and Eternity and Omnipotency and yet it must be taken in opposition to the Spirit and contradistinct from the Spirit that which leads to know the Creator and Eternity and Omnipotency is that Spirit of God through which God and the things of God are revealed and that that teaches that a man should not lye that is truth and that that leads from sin and accuses for evil-doing and convicts that is the Spirits light as it is written he shall convince the world of sin and so thou like a man who hath lost all aim rambles up and down in every by-path and like a blind man gropes but cannot enter into the Treasure-house of Wisdom thou hast called the light that every one is lighted with the Righteousness of the Law and no Gospel light and in opposition to spiritual and contradistinct to the Spirit and in a word hath made at it at the best construction but bad and evil and then when thou hast done thou confesseth that it will put a difference between good evil and shew that God is to be worshipped and Eternity is known and Omnipotency And are not these the deep things of God And so B●bylon is the Land of thy nativity and thou reels and staggers up and down like a drunken man and would be a Teacher and knows not whereof thou affirms nor of what thou speaks Further thou saith That this little light there is is much miscarried and thy Reason is because it is managed by the reigning power of darkness and the judgement of man is corrupt and then thou goes on the light of nature since the fall is not to be compared saist thou with the light of the Image of God before the fall and it hath no proportion with Gospel light but is gross darkness nay is worse then gross darkness Answ. And how did the light miscarry thou blind-man and when did the Reigning power of darkness manage it seeing that there is no fellowship betwixt light and darkness and the light which every man is lighted with hath born witness against darkness and the Reigning power of it and though the judgment of man be corrupt his miscarriage is because he hath not minded the light and because he hath turned his back on it and then sin entred and then came to Reign in the power of darkness and corrupted the heart and this hath made man miscarry and though thou say that the light which lighteth every man is not compared with the light of the Image of God before the fall and hath no proportion I 'le tell thee a riddle go learn what it means the light of the Image of God before the fall is the same in it self after the fall and holds its proportion and is no whit lessned or deminished in its purity in its self although fallen man do not see it neither can behold it because sin hath entred and death by sin and that is it which obscureth the Image of God from man and its light yet the light shined in darkness but thou concludes it is darkness yea worse then grosse darkness and thou brings a proof to prove it ye were darkness the Apostle doth not say that the light which shined in darkness was darkness or worse then grosse darknesse as thou ignorantly saith but he said the Ephesians or the men of Ephesus were darkness and not the light in them which shined in darkness though the darkness comprehended it not but how now John Norton what will the General Court of Boston say when they see thy confusion laid open and the deceit made manifest to thine and their shame and ignorance thou confest in the 16. page that it would lead to know God and the worship of God and Teach not to lie and steal and so forth and to discover some of Gods Attributes as Eternity omnipotency and the like here was some good in it in thy own account but now it s become grosse darkness in the 18. page and worse then grosse darkness and so hath made as bad if not worse then any Principle that is in a Beast and it may truely be said of thee even in thy own phrase Quanta sub nocte Jacebat Nostra dies But now thou comes to a further interpretation of 1 Job 9. and thou saith the light which we are enlightned with it is either the light of nature the light of reason or the light of saving Grace and the light enlightning is either the Word considered as the second Person or Christ the Son considered as Incarnate Answ. It seems that thou knowes not which it is but gueses like a blind man and like a wild Archer shootes at random and why dost thou make such distinction betwixt the Word the Son of God and Christ the Son of God thou made but three Persons in the Trinity before but it seems by thy arguing thou would now make four And as for thy Collective and distributive light the distinctions is that which would cast a mist before People eyes and thou brings the Judgement of Calvin Besar and Piscator and others that as concerning man endued onely with the light remaining since the fall they conclude him to be darkness and unable to comprehend the light or to improve it to salvation their judgements is more sound then thine though thou would bring them to strengthen thee that the Son of God hath not enlightned every man they confesse the man in the fall is in darkness and darkness is over him and in that he is not able to comprehend the light which is in him and as to the improvement of it in the darkness man hath not power to improve it to salvation but what doth this invalidate the light which is in darkness the power of improving is in the light being turned to again and received and what if I say it is the light of Life in its self though thou deny it I know what I speak for in him was life and is life and that life is the light of men and the light of the world and so that light which every man is lighted with is of the life and from the life and so may truely be said to be the light of life in it self though man in the transgression doth not feel it so as to him but may truely say it is the light of condemnation because he feels it so

in the operation thereof being in the transgression it convicteth reproveth accuseth and condemneth for evil and therefore it cannot be the light of life to him till it be received closed with obeyed and followed and then the back is turned upon the transgression and man is come out of the darkness and therefore the Apostle spoke well and understandingly according to knowledge that which was ordained for life wrought death in him that was because the Law was against him and he in the contrary nature to it the ignorance of many wise men so accounted in this generation is such that when they see or feel contrary effects they judge there must needs be contrary subjects or objects because there are different effects for now the same light which shewes evil and accuses for it and judges for it there is one operation and excuses him that loves it and obeyes it here is another operation that which convinceth the world of sin of Righteousness of Judgement and that which consolates and gives peace to the believer is the self same spirit so here is not two spirits or two lights so that he which kindles a fire in the Earth and appears in flames of fire and rendreth vengeance upon all them that obey not the Gospel which is the Power of God here is one work or operation of Christ the same bringeth Peace Joy and gladness and refreshment and makes the springs of life to buble up in them that believe here is another operation yet the same Christ these things I write to inform thee and all where this may come that that is truely an appearance of Christ which sheweth sin and condemns it in any measure and he alone is the Judge of the quick and the dead and if all Judgement be committed to the Son then to be Judged for lying for stealing and for wronging any man it is the work of Christ and the work of the Son Oh man thou hast much to repent of and thy ignorance is great which hath called Christ the light or the light of Christ or the light of life darkness and contradistinct to the Spirit and worse then grosse darkness so this is thy conclusion against the first of John and the 9. that Christ hath not enlightned every man or all men that come into the world but all men so qualified of every sort so then by thy conclusion the first of John and the 9. verse gives an uncertain sound like the 17. of John and 22 so then its qualifications of men that procures light from Christ and so it s not of Grace but of debt but if it be of debt which is owing unto a Person so qualified then it is not of gift but thou errs in thy Judgement for it is by the gift of righteousness that Justification comes upon all that believes it is not this or that qualification before their conversion which is any cause of Gods enlightning them but it is the free love of God unto man without exceptions or respect of Persons that he hath lighted every man to the intent that all and every man might see his Error and depart from it and turn to him that shewes him it who would have all men saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth and such is the large love of God unto whole man-kind which thou wouldst restrict and bind up to such and such Persons so qualified as though qualifications of Persons were a Meritorious cause wherefore Christ was bound to give them light this is rank Popery and not according to the Doctrine of godliness And thou citest the 2 Pet. 1. 19. We have a more sure word of prophesie where unto you do well that you take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place untill the day dawn and the day Star arise in your hearts hence it is inferred thou saith that after the reception of the Spirit there is no need to attend to the Scripture and so thou goes on and sayes the word of prophesie is the Scripture of the Old Testament that thou art to take heed unto untill the day dawned and the day Star arised in their hearts and that untill signifies for ever Asw. And here thou art in confusion I know none that makes any such inference but thy self for the Scripture is seen most clearly who know the day dawn and the day-star arisen in their hearts and first thou sayes we are to understand the Word of Prophecy the whole Scripture and then in the same page saith that Peter expounds the word prophesie of the Old Testament onely so then Peters Exposition by thy account and thine is different thou sayes he spoke of the Old Testament and thy interpretation is of the whole Scripture but thou hast mist it both of Peter and thy self for Peter wrote unto People in that Epistle in several States yet they all might be said to be believers according to a proportion of faith given unto them and in that which thou hast cited 2 P●t. 1. 19. we have also a more sure word of Prophesie Here is to be understood first a sure word Secondly a more sure word for the Apostle in that Chapter speaking of their diligence towards them that did believe and declared unto them that they had not followed devised fables when we made known unto you the Power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ but are eye witnesses of his Majesty verse 16. and heard the voice from this excellent glory this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased when we were with him in the Mount this was as sure a word to the Apostles as any that ever the Prophets had spoken before was to them and so the Old Testament could not be more sure then this which they had from the excellent glory but this was not so sure unto them to whom Peter wrote and this was only the Apostles Declaration but the word of prophesie unto which he exhorted them unto was nearer them then any of the Prophets words or the Apostles Testimony of what they had heard in the Mount the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophesie to wit that which bears witness against sin and to righteousness from this the Prophets spoke and this was that publike thing or Spirit and they that speak not from it speak from a private spirit of their own and this word of Prophesie or that wherein they could see or foresee things to come they were to take heed unto as unto a light which shined in a dark place and this was the more sure word which he directed to which in all thy Book thou quarels against and through this they saw the appearance and knew the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in Power and great Glory and did see the day dawn and the day Star arise in their hearts and they were to attend to this not onely before but also after for by the Word of his Testimony the Saints did overcome and