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A46888	The strong man armed cast out and his goods spoiled, or, The poor man sitting at Jesus's feet clothed and in his right mind being a true convert's testimony of the power of the Lord in turning the soul from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God ... / formerly given forth in writing unto my relations and acquaintance the professors called Independents in Nottinghamshire, declaring the cause of my leaving their assemblies ... by James Jackson, formerly a parish priest and a teacher amongst the Independents and now ... made willing to take up the daily cross and walk with the despised followers of the Lamb in scorn called Quakers.	Jackson, James, fl. 1674-1708.	1674 (1674)	Wing J75; ESTC R34953	24,289	34

Thine Enemies shall be found Lyars unto thee and thou shalt tread upon their High Placet Yet to make it appear more plain that this Light within which indeed is our Principle is the Truth and the Mighty Power of God for Salvation to all that believe in it and obey it will be further manifested by its Nature and Effects The NATURE of this Light It is a Living Immortal Unchangeable Undefiled Righteous and Perfect Principle of pure Holiness which never fell comply'd with or consented to any Evil But hath ever opposed and stood cross to the whole corrupt Nature Will and Affections of faln man For I know that all Adam's Posterity are by Nature faln under Guilt Pollution Condemnation and Darkness So that the Light I speak of is nothing of Man's Nature but of the pure Divine Nature even that Seed promised Gen. 3.15 yea the Son of God which is sent into the World that whosoever believe on him should not perish but have Eternal Life The EFFECTS of this Light When Christ was upon Earth John saw and bare record That he was the Lamb of God which taketh away the Sins of the World Yet the Lord said A greater Testimony have I then that of John for the Works that I do in my Father's Name they testifie of me So say we of him now he is spiritually the Light in man however sleighted rejected and undervalued by men yet is he chosen of God and pretious the alone Saviour of the World and the Works he accomplishes daily in the Souls and Consciences of men testifie the same wherefore if his Works be not such as none else can do believe him not Effect I. Hereby the Sinner is convinced judged reproved and condemned plainly and experimentally for all the Sins that ever he committeth of what Kind or Nature soever they be Come said the Woman of Samaria and I will shew ye a Man that hath told me all things that ever I did John 4.29 is not this the Christ Effect 2. The Fear of the Lord which is the Beginning of Wisdom is never truly placed in the Heart till this Principle be witnessed and owned for while a Man looks at God and Christ at a great Distance circumscribed in some Place beyond the Stars the Sinner rageth is confident but when the Mind Understanding is perswaded that the Pure Holy Righteous Omnipotent and Omnipresent Lord God is not only nigh him but within him also he is then brought into awful Apprehension of the most High forced to cry out with Job I have heard of thee before by the Hearing of the Ear but now mine Eyes have seen him by this Means the Mind is melted into much Tenderness and Brokenness and with the Prophet complaineth Wo is me for I am undone Now consider this all ye that despise the Light within Joh. 9.30 This is a Marvelous Thing said the Young Man that ye know not whence he is and yet he hath opened my Eyes since the World began was it not heard that any Man opened the Eyes of one that was born Blind Effect 3. Waiting humbly in this pure Dread Fear of the Lord Man's Insufficiency to answer the Requirings of the Holy Commandment is discerned but perfect Power and Strength in Christ the Light is discovered for indeed in him are hid all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge and standing up to the Manifestation of this Light the Judgment of the Lord is felt as a Refiner's Fire which throughly purifies and as Fullers Soap that leaves no Spot then the Soul knows that flaming Sword which kept faln Man out of Paradise but now discerns the new Birth which bears the Image of the Heavenly Nature the strong Man armed which before held Possession bound casting out and all his Goods spoiled by the Powerful Entrance of Christ into his Temple Effect 4. Waiting and abiding in this Light for Counsel and Teaching the whole Man being emptyed of his own Will and Wisdom standing singly and purely in the Will of the Lord ready to be disposed ordered and guided universally by the Light the Soul now thrives in the Fear and Love of God bringeth forth the peaceable Fruits of Righteousness and liveth in that Faith which purifies the Heart and getteth Victory over the World Sin and Death These Things with many other which might be mentioned do make it manifest that whoever deny despise and reproach the Light within deny God the Father of Lights despise Jesus Christ the Light Saviour of the World and reproach the Holy Spirit which maketh manifest and reproveth the Sins of Men Wherefore all ye Professors that look out for another Saviour remember the Answer of our Lord Jesus unto John Baptist upon the like Account Art thou he Luke 7.21 or shall we look for another Go saith Christ and tell him that sent you what you have heard and seen the Blind receive their Sight the Deaf hear c. Even the same in a spiritual Sense may be as really affirmed of the Light within hereby have the Eyes Ears and Mouthes of the Blind Deaf and Dumb been opened the Lame Lepers and the Dead cured cleansed and quickned and the Poor whom none of the Proud Covetous Clergy so called regardeth they by Vertue hereof have the Everlasting Gospel preached unto them and forever blessed are they who are not offended in the Light but love it believe in it and obey it in all things Object 1. But we are afraid of being deceived this is a new and strange Doctrine did ever Christ or his Apostles bid Men believe and obey the Light within Answ 1. Art thou not already deceived Consider therefore well thy Condition if thou art delivered out of the deceived State in which the greatest Part of the World yet remains art thou yet in a sinful transgressed Estate For the Woman being deceived was in the Transgression 1 Tim. 2.14 Answ 2. We that believe and abide in the Light know that we are not deceived neither seek we to deceive any neither fear we any deceiving us though indeed while we walked in the Imaginations of our own deceitful Hearts and warmed our selves by the Sparks of our own kindling that then as the Serpent beguiled Eve through his Subtilty so our Minds were corrupted from the Simplicity that is in Jesus in which State we see many yet to stand whom the Lord will undeceive in his own Time But Evil Men and Seducers will wax worse deceiving and being deceived Answ 3. Never fear Deceit in such who turn you to the Light whereby ye may discern betwixt Good and Bad Truth and Falshood plainly I would much fear that he had a Design to cheat me who leads into the Dark and denyes the Benefit of the Light Answ 4. Search with Freedom and examine throughly this Doctrine condemn it not unheard speak not Evil of any Thing unknown for so mayst thou soon condemn the Innocent and make thy self guilty Answ 5.

Good-will of God to the Poor and preached Peace to the Broken-hearted testifying the Love of God to Mankind in sending his Son to them to open their Blind Eyes and recover them out of the Snare of the Devil exhorting Men to believe in the Light lest Eternal Darkness come upon them And all that was done in his Ministry was not from any outward Encouragement or Reward but moved only hereunto from the Tenderness of his Pitty and Compassion to poor Sinners So it is at this Day all that are born of the Spirit are true Ministers of the same Gospel and publish it freely in the Constrainings of the Love of God which layes a Necessity upon them to minister freely without Expectation of Gifts and Rewards But do they deserve the Name of Gospel-Ministers who preach another Doctrine then what Christ or his Apostles ever did confidently affirming That the Doctrine of the Light within or to say the Light in every Man's Conscience is the Light of Christ this is Blasphemy but tell Men that Light which doth convince them of Sin is not the Light of Christ but Natural Conscience and therefore not able to sanctifie and save such as believe in it and obey it and yet they say There be some whom they call Saints and Believers in whom there is true Saving Light but as for the greatest Part of the VVorld they are altogether destitute hereof and yet though they make a seeming Distinction between Saints and Sinners yet they themselves confess they are Sinners yea and believe that they must be so while they breath upon Earth And thus are People held in Ignorance Unbelief and Confusion their blind Guides having caused them to err from the Truth for verely this hath been and is the Doctrine of these eminent Men. Qualif 5. That Gospel which Jesus Christ had preached and witnessed to in his holy Life he confirmed and seal'd by his Death in his Blood Now this Last is that which crowned and compleated his Ministry and the same Spirit is in all the Faithful at this day whereby Christ's Ministers are enabled to declare the Truth in the Life and Power of the Eternal Word without the Help and Assistance of acquired Parts Arts and Studies for to such saith Christ It is not you that speak but the Spirit which speaketh in you and thus declaring what they have seen tasted and handled of the Word of Life they are not ashamed of their Work nor afraid of Men neither will they conceal their Meetings in Time of greatest Danger nor slip out at Back-Doors to avoid Sufferings but are in a continual Readiness and Preparedness to forsake all that is dear to them rather then to turn their Backs upon the Work of God or in the least to prove Unfaithful by Denying or Betraying the Truths of Christ Wherefore now consider these things all ye Admirers of Men and give place to the Witness of God in your own Consciences and see if one of your Gifted Brethren Pastors and Teachers be thus qualified Object 4. But the Scriptures are very plain that Vnbelievers and Reprobates are without Christ as in Ephes 2.12 and 2 Cor. 13 5. wherefore though we do believe that Christ is in every Believer yet we cannot understand that the Light in every Man is the Light of Christ. Answ 1. Indeed one of these Scriptures at first Appearance seems to contradict all that hath been said before it will be therefore necessary to speak to them severally That in Ephes 2.12 plainly affirms That before Conversion they were without God and without Christ in the World And truly I can witness this Scripture fulfilled in my own Particular for I know the Time when I was without Christ and without God in the World when I lived in Sinful Pleasures and Delights fulfilling the Lusts of the Flesh with Greediness I lived then as if there was no God in the World yea without any awful Respect to the Eye of God and Christ And yet I can as truly affirm that at that Time the Light of Christ was in me testifying against my Iniquity And this may seem a Mystery that a Measure of his Light should be within a Man when that Man is without Christ yet I have experienced the Truth hereof and therefore testifie that its one Thing for the Light of Christ to be in a Man and another Thing for a Man to be in the Light of Christ and thus it is the Light of Christ may be in a Man and yet that Man out of the Light of Christ whereupon I affirm and declare that the Light of Christ is in every Man but no Man is in Christ till he be a new Creature And as to that other Scripture 2 Cor. 13.5 Know ye not your own selves how that Jesus Christ is in you except ye be Reprobates This Place doth not at all oppose what before hath been written if it be seriously considered but doth greatly confirm the Truth of this Doctrine If therefore by Reprobates be intended such as have sinned out the Day of Grace and done Despight to the Strivings of the Spirit of God as the old World did yea and as those eminent Professors whom Stephen reproveth saying Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in Heart and Ears ye do alwayes resist the Holy Ghost as your Fathers did so do ye Acts 7.51 And as Jerusalem which remained Impenitent in the Day of Visitation till the Things of her Peace were hid from her Eyes Luke 19.42 And as those Guests which had been often invited and yet refused to come making light of those many renew'd and reiterated Tenders of Grace entreating the Messengers spightfully and slew them wherefore the King was wroth and protested against them that none of those Murtherers should taste of his Supper Mat. 22. Or like that Fig-Tree which the Master of the Vineyard when he had come three Years expecting Fruit and found none required the Dresser to cut it down and cast it into the Fire Luke 13.7 And like those who had tasted of the Heavenly Gift and of the Good Word of God and of the Powers of the World to come but after to fall away and crucifie to themselves the Son of God afresh put him to open Shame these bringing forth Thorns Bryars are rejected and are nigh unto Cursing whose End is to be burned Heb. 6.7 8. And such as the Lord complaineth of by the Prophet Jeremiah saying They are all grievous Revolters walking with Slanders they are Brass and Iron they are all Corrupters the Bellows are burnt the Lead is consumed of the Fire the Founder melteth in Vain for the Wicked are not pluck●d away Reprobate Silver shall Men call them because the Lord hath rejected them Jer. 6.29 And the Spirit speaketh expresly that some shall depart from the Faith giving heed to seducing Spirits and Doctrines of Devils speaking Lyes in Hypocrisie having their Conscience seared with an Hot Iron and so are past feling 1 Tim 4.2 Now