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A47156	The light of truth triumphing over darkness and ignorance, error and envy manifested in Robert Gordoun's late pretended testimony to the true Saviour : wherein every one whose eye is open may see his seat, and who have salt in themselves may favour his words, work and spirit and discern his deceitful dealing by smitting the innocent in secret, yet not with that subtilty which is able to cover in this day wherein light is manifesting the works of darkness : so, the Devil was here deficient but envy slays the foolish man : given forth in the 2 moneth 1670 / by George Keith, & G. White-head.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; Gordon, Robert, fl. 1669-1675. Testimony to the true Saviour.	1670 (1670)	Wing K179; ESTC R2048	34,830	44

through the violence of men acted by Sathan and much more the blood of him who as a Lamb offered up himself without spot to God as a sacrifice of a sweet smell who was delivered for our offences and rose again for our justification G. K. Writ 7. 2. mo 1670. Here follows Robert Gordon's answering and confuting himself some of his manifest Contradictions to his Principles being insert in his own words And the Pages of his Book noted where they are R. Gs. Principles GOd man in whom all things pertaining to mans redemption c. were transacted not in our persons or within us but in his crucified body without us before any good wrought in us He hath already subdued all things finished trasgression made an end of sin page 3. and 4. R. G's Contradiction The mystery of Christ by his spirit dwelling in his Saints call'd in the holy Scripture Christ within you whereby God works in us c. God working all things in us by Christ pag. 4. his Spirit working all their works in them pag. 5. Observation See his manifest contradictions How is sin and transgression finished and made an end of without man while no good is wrought in them And seeing God works or transacts all things in Believers by the mystery of Christ and his holy spirit within and all their works in them how is all done and finished without them before any good is wrought in them R. G. Some pretend so much zeal for this mystery of Christ the operation of the Spirit of God in themselves that they deny the mystery of God in the flesh of Christ page 5. Contradiction The mystery Christ within you whereby God works in us through faith the fruit and effect of the work already wrought c. Christ within us whereby through faith we have evidence in our selves c. page 4. Observation We cannot too much own or be over much zealous for the mystery of Christ within or the work of God through his spirit within us nor thereby deny the mystery of God in the flesh of Christ or the effect and benefit of his sufferings in his body as falsly is implied and insinuated against us since that in owning Christ in the mystery we cannot but own the evidence thereof R. G. In the crucified body of Christ perfected and wrought at once Redemption Iustification and Reconciliation finished and compleated in Christ for us pag. 13. not in our persons pag. 4. Contradiction He was delivered for our offences he was raised again for our justification O remember the work of regeneration is to be wrought within thee pag. 9. Observation If Redemption Justification c. be not to be fulfilled by Christ in man or not in their persons what are you redeemed ●●stified or regenerated from or out of Surely not from iniquity or sin as true believers were and then you hypocriss ●in is remaining in your persons foa all your pretenses of being redeemed justified c. without But take thy contradiction O remember the work of regeneration i● is to be wrought within thee R. G. He was made sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him He mentions not any consideration qualification or work wrought or to be wrought in any man by any light or spirit whatsoever A gross errour but singlely and solely upon the account of the active and passive obedience of the man Iesus c. pag. 12. in the crucified body justification c. finished compleated for us pag. 13. Contradiction Who seeing the travel of his soul was satisfied that he might make it effectual within every man that should come to God through him he counted to his Apostles the word of reconciliation as his Ambassadors in his steed to beseech men to be reconciled to God Work out your salvation pag. 12. Observation But first Were the Saints made the righteousness of God in Christ without any inward qualification or work of his light or spirit What a gross errour contradiction and sin-pleasing doctrine is this Is not this the Priests very notion of imputation while men are corrupt and sinful in themselves while they neither partake of the divine nature nor divine image in themselves And then Secondly what need was there for the Apostle to besee●h them to be reconcil'd to God or to work out their salvation if it was already wrought and finished without them before any good was wrought in them R. G. The Lord doth not direct man to that light in his conscience that shewed him his loss nor to light and power c. But promiseth him another kind of Saviour Contradiction A great mystery God manifest in the flesh c. He alone and none else then the very Word the love of the Father must be this great undertaker c. viz. for man pag. 20. Observation See his manifest falshood and contradiction For God the very word or love of the Father which doth redeem deliver and save the soul are not of another kind then the Light and Power But the same divine Light and Power by which the promised Seed did and doth bruise the Serpents head and overcome him that man might be redeem'd from the hand of his enemy R. G. The worker of the Redemption could not be the light enlightening every man c pag. 21 Contradiction Yet the very word pag. 20. God manifest in flesh p. 18. Observation Here his gross error and contradiction in denying Christ the Word and Redeemer to be that light that enlightens every man and yet the very word doth redeem and save And was it not the Word that was with God that was the true Light that enlightens every man coming into the world See Io. 1. 1. 4 9. R. G. Redemption and all things already wrought purchased c. for us in the crucified body not within us but before any good wrought in us pag. 3 4 5 without the help of any thing to be wrought in us pag. 20 Contradiction He to wit Christ ever liveth Mark this man ever liveth to make intercession for them O bear with me a little not satisfie your selves until you have a real evidence of your being particularly redeemed by experimentally witnessing the Living power of truth in your inward parts pag. 7. Observation Note his contradiction here For first if all things be already wrought in the crurified body what doth he interceed for Is it for that which God cannot justly with-hold if this be true Secondly are all things already wrought without the help of any thing to be wrought within And yet we must have a real evidence of our part●cular redemption by the living power of truth in our inward parts See how he hath confuted himself herein R. Gs. Erroneous and envious Principle That such as preach and print up the light inlightening every man that comes into the world to be he to wit Christ reject him and set at nought the stone c. pag. 32. Contradiction This is

not say the seed is condemned unless by such a spirit as thine as drowns it calling it but a Natural thing as the Iews condemned Christ calling him but a Man the Carpenters Son and then in thy ignorance and envy thou asks if in eve●y man this seed or Christ is not saved doth it remain for ever in some under condemnation I answer nay for though for a time it suffer yet in the time appointed of God it is raised up in all even the most ungodly over all their ungodliness to minister in them the Wrath and righteous judgement of the Lord against them without mercy as thou wilt find by sad experience if in time thou repent not which I wish from my heart even that repentance may be given thee for all thy enmity and hard speeches against him and his truth Again how grosly and disingeniously thou wrests the words of some of us viz. That Christ was sometime preached a● crucified to the Iews but more generally a light to the Gentiles as if there were one Christ says thou to wit a crucified Christ preached to the Iew● and another Christ to wit a Light enlightning every man that comes ●nto the World prea●hed unto the Gentiles but this is a most piteous and abominable wresting of these words aforesaid which do not import 2 Christs but but one and the same in a twofold way of manifestation or appearance and though Prophets and Apostles preached him as in the form of a man yet they preached him also and that more generally as a light to the Geutiles yea and to Iews also Thou would also perswade simple people as if we did separate the benefit of Christs outward coming from inward while thou speaks after this manner How are you thus iniferably be beguilded to preach up the Light enlightning ●vory man that comes in●o the World for 〈◊〉 Christ to cry up a light within 〈◊〉 cry down the blood without to preach him as an example to cast out the 〈…〉 but though we preach him as the sight that enligh●ens 〈…〉 and cry up the light within yet we cry not down the blood without no● in preaching him as an example do we deny the a●●onement 〈◊〉 are bu●●hy false and groundless insinuations and as touc●●ng our preaching him as the light that enlightens every man that comes in●o the world that all though him might believe and so be saved thou 〈◊〉 as well have bespoke Iohn after that manner saying O● thou miserable begui●ed John who preaches the light that enlightens every man that com●s into the world to be Christ for so he preached him and so did others I shall yet take notice of two or three passages 〈◊〉 in thy book and so leave it for to trace and follow thee in all thy confusions and dark imaginations were neither worth the travel nor the time for by these few hints the weakest of any true judgement may perceive what a bulk of confusion thy book is Pag. 27. thou says That light and salvation of the Gentiles prophesied ●f 49. 6. Isa. is not said I will give it the light that enlightens every man that comes into the world for that was already given to every ma● as he came into the worl● but it is I will give speaking of one to be given that which was not actually given for a lig●ht to the Genttles but this is a most weak and shallow manner of reasoning for though Christ was given in some measure for ● light from the beginning and even in the darkest times yet afterwards he came to be given in a greater measure of light and manifestation so here is not another light then was given at first but a further measure of the same for in ●he beginning was the word Christ Jesus and in him was life and the life was the light of men And thus all thy other empty shallow reasonings may be answered in many other place which speaks of Christ as a light a Prophet c. which thou would confina onely to him as outwardly come as particularly that of Moses a Prophet shall the Lord your God raise unto you like unto 〈◊〉 which thou would onely hint and confine to his outward coming and becoming many in the land of Judea for otherwise thou says it could not be said that he should be raised up l●ke unto Moses for Moses was a man But the light and power and spirit within is not a man as Moses was But if we go to scan too narrowly upon this word like unto me as if it did import every way a like it will not answer thy intent for Christ even as man in divers weighty circvmstances was unlike to Mos●s Christ was bo●n of a Virgin so not Moses Christ never sinned so not Moses and many others migh● be named but if thou say Moses and Christ were like to one another in that likeness understood by the spirit so say I which yet is not confined simply or onely to his manhood for even Christ in spirit was and is raised up like unto Moses insomuch that as Moses was given of God as an outward deliverer of the out●ard Israel from out of Egypt and from under Pharoah in the outward destroying their enemies without and leading them through a red sea and wilderness outward into a good outward land and giving them Laws and Precepts from God c. So Christ even in Spirit is given of God as an inward deliverer of the inward Israel from out of spiritual Egypt and from under spiritual Pharoah destroying their inward and spiritual Enemies leading them through an inward and spiritual sea wilderness into a good spiritual land giving them spiritual Laws Precepts from God and stoning them to death with a spiritual stone who do not observe them and is this no likeness at all intended by the spirit of God as the sense of these words of Moses How has thy prejudice blinded thee in this and many other things Last of all I cannot but reprove thee for thy disingenuous and deceitful insinua ion in the last page of thy Book in these words How much sor●r punishment shall he be thought worthy of that hath trod under foot the Son of God and counted the blood of the Covenant an unholy thing 〈◊〉 the blood of any ordinary man ●r beast But did thou ever read or hear from any of us as if we counted the blood of Christ even in the outward as the blood of any ordinary man or beast or thinks thou to infer such a conclusion from our principle as because we say Christ the light within us is precious and saving that therefore we account his blood as the blood of any ordinary man or beast but I must tell thee thy inference is bad and deceitful and doth no wise follow from our principle as is evident from what is aforesaid yea the spilt blood of his Saints and their death is of great account with the Lord when brought to it

death whose suffering sacrifice mediation in●ercession and offices with the blessed effects thereof within we own and confess according to the Scriptures of truth as inwardly revealed and evidenced by the spirit which we do not admit either o● sins past to be unrepented of nor of sins present to be committed nor sin ●o come to be persisted in however this or other Opposers and Prof●ssors do sooth and flatter themselves therein under their traditional notion of a satisfaction and imputation without them p. 16. as after R Gs. q●estions How can there be redemption where conscience ●hargeth of sin is it not against reason to believe redemption in another for us while sin is within To this he thus answers To this spirit I say who art thou that thus a●gues with God Which indeed is no answer nor proof but a meer s●lly begging of the question nor any demonstration that such a belief that is both contrary to conscience and the conviction of the light therein is either true or right in the ground of it whereby any are thus credulous either of their being redeemed saved or j●stified wi●hout them whilst they lie under the guilt and imputation of sin in their own consciences sin being then their burden and bondage which is contrary to a redeemed and justified state but such a blind and dead faith and conceit of redemption and justification as this man hath appeared in hypocritical Professors are w●nt to sooth up themselves withal in their sins And R. G. further adds p. 1● viz. Indeed it is a mystery of the Gospel that man's r●ason cannot comprehend the believer to be pure and beautiful as in Christ his head while weak in many things in himself in his body 〈◊〉 ●ath a law of sin but in the Lord he hath put it off as he walks by ●ight he is in the earth in labors ingroanings warefare and imperfections but as he walks by faith he is in Christ walking in rest in victory and perfection these ●r● paradoxes reason cannot fathom Answ●● This man thinks hee 's gotten beyond reason in his parado●es which indeed do appear so contradictory confused and unreasonable that every rational man may see his darkness herein to conclude the believer in war●ar● and imperfections in the body with a law of sin while pure beautiful walking in rest in victory and perfection in Christ his head which is all one as to say he i● in Christ and out of Christ pure and impure perfect and imperfect at the same instant or as the hypocritical Priests and Professors have said that men are imputatively righteous and justified while inherently and actually sinful and unjust and yet for all this R. G. makes account in pag. 39. that the law sin and death are so charged on Christs crucified body that sin is purged away out of the sight of God while yet he does not believe h●s people act●●lly ●reed from it which is corrupt Antinamionisme but these and such like paradoxes ●e cannot own as either reason or truth For how is Christ the Believers and Saints head or they perfect in him if they be imperfect or impure in the body are they not members of Christ and is not their faith their victory over sin and death And is it no perfection they have wa●ted and travelled to be ●e●ewed into the image of the heavenly Where 's the new birth new creature perfect on righteousness and true holiness so much preached and testified of by the holy men of God in the Scriptures of truth if men must be reckoned pure and perfect and in Christ when yet they are not washed from their fi●thiness in which state many are when yet they conceit that God counts them pure and j●stified Bu● he that j●●t fieth the wicked and he that condemneth the just they both are abo●ination before the Lord. R. G. We find thou hast no● brought forth any new thing as to matter or substance in these matters but art p●●nged in the old dark stuff of Priests and Professors who have writ against us though thou art more confused and appearest more malitious against us then many of them ●however thou pretendest love and bowels p. 40 which cannot hide thy dissimulation and enmity and thou hast not methodized nor worded their principles so well as many of them thou being confounded and mangled between truth and their corrupt traditional principles which we perceive thou dost not see the bottom and tendency of however thou thinkest thou art wise but the devil hath blinded thee with prejudice and conceit as he hath all that take thy part and spread thy books or else thou durst never have brought such a piece of folly falshood and mixt mangled stuff to publick view as thou hast done who also to shew thy ignorance of redemption thou usest these words viz The operation of the spirit of Christ within us not to redee●us p. 23. and Christ came into us by the ministration of the spirit not to redeem us pag. 38. Answ. This is contrary to the testimonies of both Prophets and Apostles who witnessed the redemption of their souls from under the bondage and power of sin and death so from the hand of the enemy Psa. 107. 2. David said draw nigh unto my soul and redeem it ps 69 ●8 So he did not put redemption afar off for the God of Israel was near whom the people owned for their Saviour and Redeemer from all in●quity Ps. 130. 7 8. And as the Apostle exhorted grieve not the holy spirit of God whereby ye are sealed uno the day of redempt on Eph. 4. 30. So that there was a day of redemption to be expected unto which they were sealed by the holy spirit which redemption was a freedom recovery or purchase from all iniquity which could not be effected without the operation of the spirit of Christ within who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all inquity Titus 2. 14. But this R. G. would impose on people a faith concerning redemption reconciliation and justification as all being finished wrought or purchased without them without respect to any works wrought or to be wrought within them by any light whatsoever p. 42. See Reader how erroneously he hath excluded the work of God and Christ from within as to the ransoming or freeing of man from sin and making him righteous and so bringing him into unity peace favour and friendship with God which is the true sense of redemption justification and reconciliation which are not effected nor obtained without the operation of the spirit of holiness within though Christs testimony suffering and example without had a tendency thereto 1 Cor. 6. 11. For it was by the spirit of God that the Saints were both washed sanctified and justified how ever tke Devil and his Agents endeavour to exclude and invalidate the inward operations of God Christ or his Spirit G. W. Errata Page 1. l. 37. ' for consider read crucifie p. 4. for 1. r. 4. l. 6. for enl●ghtening r. enlighteneth p. 12. l. 27 for any and. p. 14. l. 1. for is this r. is not this c. p. 15. l. 38. for no r. not p. 16. l. 12. for spent r. shut p. 17. l. 39. for hint r. limit p. 18. l. 1 for many r. man Second part p. 2. l. 30. for counted r. committed p. 8. l. 7. r. Christ now come dele to p. 12. l. 2 for Longworth r. Lawrie

work of God within as it hath made many hypocrits and many such merry also over God's witness or light in them which would have wrought good in them had they own'd it to have wrought evil out of them But seeing R. G. hath run into the Priests and Professors doctrine in his confused way and method maintaining their principle of satisfaction and imputation opposing the light and work of Christ or the spirit within as to justification redemption or salvation within Let 's first inquire how he states this satisfaction or work that he thinks was wrought with God by the man Christ but not in man R. G. God said to Adam in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye and because he is God it could not be revoked the justice of God must stand firm in the execution of this sentence he is just and righteous as well as l●ving justice to be answered to the full who could break thorough this stir'd up wrath who could have answered the requirings of love and fulfil the requirings of wrath that would hold man captive in death and yet satisfie both Not its light and power in the man Christ or the light enlightning every man that comes into the world not the word alone but Iesus Christ partaking of our flesh and blood as being the Son of the Virgin Mary pag. 19 20. Note his errour in denying the light to be Christ and so opposing Christs Divinity Let the impartial Reader judge of this man's confusion and ignorance herein in these his distinctions about God and Christ and between Christ and the light and power within not owning the light that enlightens every man to be Christ or the Son of God contrary to Scripture whereas the light that enlightens every man is that eternal word that made all things which to say this cannot answer or satisfie love and wrath is a blasphemous opposing the omnipotency and power of God as if he could not satisfie himself in either and his sl●ghting and debasing the divine light and power of Christ in man and so undervaluing God as if he were no Saviour especially while this man thinks God was so displeased and his wrath so stirred up that it would hold man captive in death unless Christ as the Son of Mary should satisfie and answer this wrath and undergo this death another while in contradiction it was as God man that he satisfied c. which if he take it to be an eternal death or wrath that was threatned on man for disobedience I ask if Christ did undergo that either as God or as man or as both and dare any say plainly that God executed wrath and revenge from himself upon his innocent Son or take vengeance upon the Son of his love or could that be an answering of divine Justice so to take vengeance on the innocent and let the guilty go free with their sins past present and to come and then if all be if all be thus wrought and purchased of God by Christ paid and satisfied for in his crucified body and that for the ●ins of the whole world and in their stead and that for their sins past present and to come then how can God in justice execute wrath or revenge on any for sin if his innocent Son hath undergone it and satisfied it all and that for all men for sins past present and to come And then what manifest contradiction is it for this man to confess to his intercession his ever living to make intercession for them that come to God by him though this we own But how doth this agree with the doctrine of such a rigid or severe satisfaction and payment as before implied For if the Son endured the Fathers wrath to the full and thereby stop● it for Priests call it vindictive Justice doth not this ●ender God to be more severe than his Son yea and unjust also As if a Creditor should keep or leave the Debtor in prison and alwaies be interceded to either for his deliverance or forgiveness when his Surety hath paid and satisfied to the utmost farthing that could in the rigour of the law be exacted upon the Debtor which much less can be either mercy forgiveness or remission But if it be granted that forgiveness of sins must be asked at God's hand for Christs sake and that man must repent and be converted that his sins may be forgiven and blotted out and that he may be under God's terms and under an obligation to believe obey and follow the spirit of Christ within in its inward operations and teachings then this confutes this man and all such carnal professors For all is not done without nor● man absolved or discharged in the Court of Heaven as Priests use to say either from the guilt or punishment of sins past present and to come seeing that all judgment is committed to the Son and men are not acquitted by his sufferings without either from the obligation or obedience of his law within which is that of the spirit or new covenant which is inward but are liable to the censure and judgment thereof if they disobey it and walk contrary to the spirit of truth within wherein we are not without the law to God but under the law to Christ. And God is not satisfied with men in their sins his wrath being revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness of men how ever they may imagine Christ to have satisfied is in their stead and removed it out of God's sight And further as to that death that came over Adam in that day he transgressed it was not the sentence of eternal wrath and destruction given and fulfilled by God but a death from that innocent life and communion which he had with God before as the fruit of his transgression which God foretold and threatned them with before not as from an obligation upon God presently to take full revenge on man or to cut him off for ever the same day he transgressed for that he did not neither was his divine justice such an obligation upon him as to limit him from shewing mercy or forgiveness on repentance and salvation without such a rigid payment or severe kind of satisfaction as is supposed for he said I am a just God and Saviour and besides me there is no Saviour and in his mercy and love to lost man in general he both promised and gave a seed to bruise the Serpents head and to be a ransom attonement and most acceptable and satisfactory sacrifice as a Lamb without spot to God not as the subject of wrath or vindictive Justice but as a sweet smelling sacrifice to God and propitiation for mankind and to be a living example through all not only to end the law and sacrifices without but also to bring the true believer through and beyond the ministration of death condemnation and wrath within into peace and union with G●d who out of his infinite love sent his Son to save man from sin and