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A27139 The true Christ owned in a few plain words of truth, by way of reply to all such professors or profane who lay to the charge the elect people of God called Quakers that they deny the bloud of Christ, and his body, and resurrection, and that they deny the Lord that brought them, and trample the blood of the Covenant under their feet ... / by William Bayly. Bayly, William, d. 1675. 1667 (1667) Wing B1542; ESTC R25915 15,895 23

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incorruption And in the 24th verse saith Awake to Righteousness and sin not for some have not the Knowledge of God I speak this to your shame which were such as he called Fool that questioned and imagined about the Resurrection of the Body and what manner of Body it should be before they were awakened to Righteousness and left off sinning in which state they could not discern the Lords Body not the Resurrection for Sin is Darkness and the Wages of it is Death and what can you see in the Dark and when ye are Dead What knowledge of God have them that are in the Grave Therefore I say Awake and let your Eyes be opened and contend no longer against the Light within for it is that which gives the knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Christ Jesus And such as know the Power of his Resurrection being made conformable to his Death have seen his Glory To whom be Praise and Eternal Glory and Thanksgiving who is the Immortal Invisible the onely Wise God blessed forever Amen And much more might be written as to manifest your Darkness and Ignorance in the things of God and of the very Letter of the Scriptures and so denying the Light which should give you a good Understanding ye do err not knowing the Scriptures nor the Power of God see Matth. 22.29 which was spoken concerning the Resurrection Post-script THe Key that opens the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God is the Spirit of God and without it no man can rightly understand or judge of them or have any true sight thereof for the Natural man is blind and so speaks by imagination not at all perceiving them because they are spiritually discerned as it is written 1 Cor. chap. 2. And so often it happeneth with such to speak evil of those things they know not but in what they know naturally in those things they corrupt themselves mark naturally it s an easie thing for any vain Man or Hypocrite to talk or dispute about a natural thing as you may see how these Natural Professors use the word visible about the Body and Blood of Christ which I do not find written in all the Scriptures of Truth as to those particulars And so because we do not speak to answer their wills contrary to the Scriptures they are highly offended with us as Matthew Caffen was with me because I said God dwells in his People and that Christ sitteth at the Right-hand of God but M. C. said with a loud voice My Saviour that I own Salvation by is that visible Man Christ that is ascended up into Heaven and there sitteth at the Right-hand of God that visible Man with the same Flesh and Bones which he took of the Virgin Mary Which Heaven dost thou mean said I to him I mean said he that visible Heaven up there pointing over his head towards the Sky What up there where the Sun Moon and Sars are said I Yea said M. C. this is my Faith and my Principle I care not who knows it though you Quakers hide yours and will not deal plainly but are ashamed of what ye hold c. That is false Then said I Did Paul speak Truth and honestly to the People or did he mock them and deal deceitfully with them when he bid them seek the things that are above where Christ fitteth at the Right-hand of God c Or did he speak of impossibilities to them For if he meant up there where the visible Sun Moon and Stars are the visible Heaven How was it possible Or wherein was it any way profitable for them to seek things up there Or what things were they there to seek O● did ever any of them obey his Exhortation to whom he thus spake Did any of them clime up thither and find Christ fitting there in a visible single Person as M. C. said he was there so And what things are there to be sought as pertaining to Salvation let the Witness of the living God in all People that have but the least understanding judge and answer And whether these men in their imaginations have not made to themselves the likeness of things in Heaven or things in Earth contrary to the command of God For Christ doth not always sit where he is though he mentioned sitting signifying a place of abode but Stephen saw Heaven open and Jesus standing at the Right-hand of God when he was before the Council bearing a Testimony That the Most-High dwelleth not in Temples made with Hands as saith the Prophet Heaven is my Throne and Earth is my Foot-stool What House will ye build me saith the Lord Or what is the Place of my Rest Hath not my Hands made all these things Acts 7.48 But Stephen was full of the Holy Ghost looking up stedfastly into Heaven and saw the Glory of God and Jesus standing on the Right-hand of God which they that gnashed with their Teeth on him did not see for they did alwayes resist the Holy Ghost as their Fathers did and they stopt their Ears and ran upon him with one accord as all the Professors in Christendom so called have done against the harmless People of God in this Age such as resist that which is Holy in themselves must needs resist and reproach and persecute them that are filled with it and born of it and so the Scripture is fulfilled they hated me before they hated you John 15.18 And so though men may be wise and zealous and learned and prudent and great and rich and mighty and be Rulers and Teachers c. yet if they resist the Holy Ghost or Spirit of Truth the Mysteries of God and of his Kingdom are still hid from them though they profess and talk of them with their mouth and lips yet their foolish heart is still darkened because they like not to retain God in their knowledge but like to retain only a kind of outside knowledge of those things that his Children do witness the Life and Power of within and so they are inwardly ravened from that which only can give the true and saving knowledge of God and of his Glory 2 Cor. 4.6 And so from the Wise and Prudent of the World in that which is natural and visible God hath hid and doth hide the Mysteries of his Heavenly Kingdom and Dominion but doth reveal and shew them plainly to Babes whom he forbids to cast their Pearls before Swine such as feed upon the Husk lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and rent them yet are we rent with divers and manifold Reproaches and Persecutions by such as pretend themselves the Sheep of Christ and People of God But by their Fruits ye shall know them and especially from the Teachers of the Letter of all sorts do we meet with much opposition but Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ their strength is but a Reed of Egypt where Death and Darkness is which may be felt and the Lord is