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A65874	The nature of Christianity in the true light asserted in opposition to antichristianism, darkness, confusion, & sin-pleasing doctrines : being a looking glass for sin-pleasing professors of all sorts / written upon particular occasion herein signified, by a servant of Christ, G. Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1671 (1671)	Wing W1942; ESTC R39132	54,802	75

art yet a Stranger to R. G. Vnwilling to be manifested in the Light not telling us what that further influence and service was more then being a bare Example pag. 11. Answ. Jesus Christ in the dayes of his Suffering was not alone in his Testimony but as he said I and my Father c. and I can of mine own self do nothing He was endu'd with Power from on High whereby h●s Coming Offering and Testimony had a divine Influence upon the hearts of them that knew and receiv'd him and still hath And they who attain to the Blood of Sprinkling to have their Consciences thereby sprinkled and purged from dead works and to eat of the Flesh and drink of the Blood of the Son of Man do truly experience the End of his coming who hath given his ●lesh for the Life of the World and Himself a Ransom for all for a Testimony in due time which things are Mysteries hid from all Hypocrites and such who are dead in their sins R. G. Which of all the Prophets or Apostles ever so wrote of a Ransom an Attonement a Propitiation a Price of our Redemption as of a Work to be done in us as it was in Christ or that in these Christ was an Example to us that they might be over again effected in us And which of all those Holy Men ever so wrote of a Believer's being brought through the Ministration of Death Condemnation and Wrath after the Example of the Man Christ c pag. 12. Answ. Thou hast perverted our words by adding as it was in Christ and hast also shew'd thy wonderful Darkness for though we do not suffer in all Points after the same manner that Christ did yet it follows not that he was not a real Example of Obedience and Humility in his Suffering But how contradictory to thy own confession hast thou reasoned which is That Reconciliation Justification and Redemption are to be made e●fectual by the workings of his Spirit in all who through Faith receive the Attonement And did not the Prophet say to the Lord Thou hast wrought all our Works in us Isa. 26. And because the Chastizement of our Peace was upon Christ does it therefore follow That we must never be chastiz'd This is like thy doctrine Redemption was in Christ therefore not to be done in us Christ passed through Death therefore we must not be crucified nor perfectly dead to sin in this Life Is not this the very tendency or sum of much of thy Doctrine But is it not Sin and its Enmity within which Christ came to redeem and reconcile man from Thou art yet in Death far from being redeem'd or thus reconcil'd who hast not known the Ministration of Death Condemnation and Wrath but questionest the Believers passing through it though it be a plain Truth that they did and many do so pass they passed from Death to Life and through the Law became dead unto the Law And did not the Commandment which was ordain'd to Life work Death in the Apostle Paul who also knew the Terrors of the Lord But thou hast in thy Imaginations fram'd up a more easie way to Heaven or Redemption c. then through the Ministration of Judgment through which Sion is redeem'd and her Converts with Righteousness or of Death and Condemnation which in its time is glorious which is fulfilled where the Righteousness of the Law is fulfilled within even in them that walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit R. G. This new-coyn'd M●stery of Faith in the Light in your Conscience or within you as your Saviour ●nd Obedience thereunto to be done and perfected in your bodies c. pag. 12. Answ. It s evident that the true Light and Perf●ction by it and in it were ever oppos'd by Darkness and its Children which cannot comprehend the Light of Christ within And this is Darkness to be felt that scornfully calls Faith in the Light a New-coyn'd Mystery But Jesus Christ the true Light that enlightens every man gave a better Testimony of the Light when he said Believe in the Light that ye may be Children of the Light Joh. 12.35 36. And so did his Ministers in these words God who commanded the Light to shine out of Darkness hath shined in our hearts to give the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4.6 And if we walk in the Light as he is in the ●ight we have Fel●owship one with another and the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin 1 John 2.7 And the Anointing which ye have receiv'd of him abideth in you and even as it hath taught you ye shall abide in him verse 27. See also 2 Pet. 1.19 and Rom. 2.7 10 13 14 15 16. And hath not the Grace of God which brings Salvation appear'd unto all men Titus 2.11 See how manifestly this man hath oppos'd both Christ and his Apostles plain Testimonies which are on the behalf of his Light within and B●lief in it and Obedience to it in order to Perfection Cleansing from all Sin or a perfecting Holiness in the Fear of God Are these New-coyn'd Mysteries Nay they are Gospel Truths which stand against the Devil and his Darkness R. G. We who since we believ'd receiv'd that Attonement shall after our bodily death be rais'd from the Grave and be made Partakers of that Salvation which through Faith and Hope we wait for while in the Body pag. 13. Answ. Thou puttest Salvation at a great distance shewing thy self yet in the Grave of Corruption Is this thy meaning of Salvation that thou hopest and waitest for while in the body to be rais'd from the Grave after thy bodily death What strange Nonsensical Language is this And was this the Salvation that Christ's second Appearance was lookt for to effect Heb. 9.28 If thou livest and diest in thy Sins and be'st not saved from them nor rais'd out of them here thy Resurrection will be miserable and thy State sad hereafter even that of the Unjust which is to Condemnation R. G. It pleased the Lord to bruise him he was he hath left out we did esteem him smitten of God the Chastizements of our Peace were upon him then he adds This man should thus answer the Prophet Isaiah Is that divine Justice to take Vengeance on Wound Smite bruise the Innocent and let the Guilty go free Answ. The Prophet said he was despis'd and we esteem'd him not surely he hath born our Griefs and carried our Sorrows yet we did esteem him Stricken Smitten of God and Afflicted but he was wounded for our Transgressions c. Isa. 53.3 4 5. There are still those that reject and dis-esteem Christ and that esteem him smitten or plagued of God and even to have under-gone the Wrath and Vengeance of his Father in their stead to acquit them from Punishment though they live and dye in their Sins not expecting Salvation till after their Decease Whereas

to be saved within whereas my words were thus Yet the Soul yea and the whole man is to be saved with in and through the Seed whoever believe in Christ and are joyned to him The Error in Printing is that within was put for with in and upon thy own Mistake and Abusing me thou raisest a Callumny as if I held That the full Salvation was only from sin within whereas I said The whole man was to be sav'd and I say still not only the Soul but the whole Man is to be sav'd both from sin and all the effects and consequences of it whether inward or outward And the Redemption of the Body and the Resurrection I do believe according to Scripture contrary to what thou falsly insinuatest against me And whereas thou queriest By what Scripture can I prove that Christ died for a Seed in man that needed Redemption which Seed is Christ in every man Answer Thou abusest our words herein which are not that Christ needed Redemption but that he redeems his Seed which he taketh upon him but Christ died for men that men who were dead might become alive and no other way can men live but by having Christ to live in them Gal. 2.20 And the Life of Christ in the Saints is in a rais'd Seed he who was crucified in them who could not be crucified in them but as in the Seed coming to live in them but if thou wert not ignorant of this Birth thou wouldst not propound such an ignorant Question and the Scripture speaketh expresly of Christ as having been crucified in some as Gal. 3.1 crucified in you and 1 Cor. 2.2 crucified in you for so are both places in the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And said Christ Joh. 6 39. This is the Fathers Will which hath sent me that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing but should raise it up again at the Last Day Now what it is that whereof he should lose nothing but should raise it up at the Last Day That I slight the Work of Man's Redemption or what Christ did or suffer'd in order thereunto is falsly charg'd upon me nor dost thou produce the least ground for it Did I slight his Redemption because I said in Contradiction to w●at thou didst alledge on us That it was not without respect to Christ as outwardly Born and Crucified I said also more and could say more but what was said was enough to clear us of thy false Accusation Pag. 10. Thou alledgest I did not in my first tell what further tendency the Sufferings Testimony and Example of Christ had unto our Reconciliation then that of Paul 's or any other Martyr's Answ. That is false both G.W. and I expresly affirm'd That he was a Sacrifice most acceptable and satisfactory so said G.W. yea and W.P. in his Book said as ●uch whom thou falsly hast accus'd and a Ransom a Propitiation and Offering for the sins of the whole World but not that men should be justified while in their sins but in having forsaken them yea in the very next two pages thou confessest That we have mention'd him an Attonement a Sacrifice a Propitiation for Mankind in his Sufferings and Death in the outward and this is more then Paul or any or of all the other Martyrs were and had a greater and more weighty service and tendency then the Sufferings of all others for of none else can it be said that is true of him who is the universal Offering Attonement Propitiation How ● art thou not asham'd thus falsly to charge us and yet a few Lines after in contradiction to thy self to clear us again Pag. 13. Thou accusest me as unfaithfully repeating thy words to make them speak what thou intend'st not but thou dost not mention one particular wherein I have so done nor canst thou only thou tell'st m● That I leave out that part of the Sentence in the Apostle's words that is most weighty against me viz. Being Reconciled In Answer to which I say That I did not leave out these words as making against me and that I mention'd them not was not on any such design but that the mentioning or not mentioning of them was not material to the thing in hand nor dost thou gain the least by these words being reconciled for he doth not say so of any while remaining Enemies as being reconcil'd And for a confirmation of thy false and confus'd doctrine as that Men while yet enemies and so remaining before and without respect to any inward Operations of the Spirit of Holiness are reconcil'd to God and God to them Thou abusest that Scripture Rom. 5.10 both corrupting it as it s in the English and wresting it to a wrong sense 1st in that thou addest the word yet as importing A remaining Enemies which yet is not in that verse Rom. 5.10 2d that thou draw'st from this place That God is fully reconcil'd to them while yet remaining Enemies Whereas the Scripture saith not When we were Enemies God was reconcil'd to us but thus as it is in the English When we were Enemies we were reconiled to God And that the Apostle cannot understand that they were reconcil'd to God while remaining Enemies is manifest because he inviteth Enemies to be reconcil'd to him which imports they were not already reconcil'd to him Yea thou grantest That it is a Qualification on our part as to receiving the Attonement that we be reconcil'd to God But because the English Translation at first view seemeth to favour thee I shall therefore refer thee and others who have any skill in the Greek to the Greek Text and you will find the words run thus If we being Enemies Graece 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were reconcil'd to God c. this doth not import that they were both Enemies and reconconcil'd at one and the same time more then it imports that where it is said Eph. 2.1 And you being dead in your sins c. hath he quickned for so it is in the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that they were dead and quickned at one and the same time both Expressions importing not a remaining Enemies dead but a passing from being Enemies and dead to be quickned and reconcil'd And that it is said We were reconcil'd by his Death implyeth that his Death had an influence in order thereunto but not that we were then at his Death fully and perfectly reconcil'd as R.G. affirmeth for we are said to be sanctified through the offering of the Body of Jesus c. Yet who will say we were then sanctified Pag. 15. Thou desir'st me to ask the Boyes in the Grammar School whether was reconciling and hath reconciled do not both denote a time past Saying that I am very hard put to it Ans. If thou not I hadst not been put hard to it thou wouldst not have fled to such a weak Refuge and seeing thou appeal'st to the Boyes of the Grammar School let them determine whether was reconciling