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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86646	Quaking principles dashed in pieces by the standing and unshaken truth. Being an examination of the tenents held forth by certain northern people, viz. 1. Slighting of the written word. 2. A speaking to that within man. 3. Denying the use of reason in the matters of God. 4. A denying of the ascension and being of the body of Christ. 5. A denying of all the ordinances of Christ. 6. A denying honour to men. 7. Affording absolute perfection at one instant. / By Henoch Howet.	Howet, Enoch.	1655 (1655)	Wing H3152; Thomason E821_2; ESTC R207358	15,546	20

our comfort or hope should be taken from us For comfort and hope they are in two respects First what cause of comfort is there when all our experiences are the same that have been of old declared in Scripture And if Satan in the time of Gods withdrawing should go about to perswade us that our experiences were false and we would say they were revealed from God and the same that were written in the Scriptures of truth Dan. 10.21 What a comfort would that be to us Note here in this place of Daniel when the Angel would comfort him he doth it not onely by touching his lips by lifting him up by speaking to him but also that he might seal up all his experiences he saith I will shew thee what is written in the Scriptures of a truth there is none that holdeth with us but Michael your Prince The second respect wherein we are comforted by Scripture is in respect of our exspectation when we hope for nothing but what God hath in Scripture promised this makes us come boldly to the Throne of Grace Dan. 6. I Daniel understand by Books c. and I set my face to seek the Lord by prayers and supplications c. and when things come to pass that God hath promised it fils the heart with praises and will make all that have Davids spirit to say In God will I praise thy Word But now lest some should say that I make the Scriptures the sole cause of knowledg which the Saints are to look unto for Life and Salvation I answer No I minde them to be but the testimonie of Christ but yet such a testimonie as is able in the hand of the eternal Teacher to make the man of God wise to Salvation yet if we come not to Christ by the drawing of the Father we can have no saving life nor light although we have the whole outward knowledg of them in the written letter John 5.39 Sure it is they that were instructed by Moses had the outward teachings of the now written letter and so still for the organ of the ear or eye letteth into the understanding whilest God applieth it to the heart and by this means the Saints in the hand of God are humbled at his feet to receive of his Word as in Deut. 33.3 Though Moses spake these words of Christian experience yet they administred to the ear that sweet dropping oration in Deut. 32.33 which by the Spirit of God applying is made powerfull in operation and is now left also upon record for our instruction according to that of Christ who saith They have Moses and the Prophets when they had but the words which Moses writ The Scriptures prove the work of the new birth counsels us to buy of God milk and wine and teacheth us to bear the hand of the Lord patiently till he bring us forth to the light and shew us his righteousness Micah 7. from the 7. to the 9. v. It teacheth us perseverance to the end and he that heareth and knoweth this except he do it it availeth nothing in Ezek. 33.31 32. And divers sweet directions and promises together with records of Saints former experiences all which applied by Gods spirit to the believers heart is able to make the man of God wise to Salvation And now I come to the second of their mistakes that is A speaking to a thing within thee I would fain know what can be meant by the thing within men for there is nothing in man to be spoken to but man if it be Light it hath enlightned man and then man is to be accounted and spoken to as enlightned so then they cannot speak to his Light as distinct but to man enlightned for Christ and his Apostles always spoke to man It 's true Satan that hath sent forth his Angels transforming himself into Angels of Light to publish his delusions and deceits may and it 's likely hath therewithall sent forth a spirit in men to perswade the receiving that his dark and delusive Light and hereupon the Angels of Satan without may speak to the spirit of Satan within under the notion of Light but unless they speak unto Satan or some of his Legion in man I know not how they can speak unto any Light in man distinct from him It may be his language but it is none of Gods for it 's no form of sound words which we are commanded to hold fast 2 Tim. 1.13 And now I come to the third of their mistakes that is The denying the use of reason or consideration in the matters of God calling it Serpentine and many other terms of contempt and upon this ground they will not do as the Apostles of Christ and Christ himself who did dispute or reason with the gain-sayers of the truth Christ disputed with the Jews 6 8. chap. of John and Stephen Acts 6.9 10. There arose certain of the Synagogue called Libertines and Cyrenians and Alexandrians and of Cilicia and Asia and disputed with Stephen and they were not able to resist the wisdom and spirit by which he spake And why was it but because of the strength of demonstration that was in it The Spirit of God makes use of reason or wisdom and tongue in man and all the faculties of bodie and soul in a godly man to honor himself and to resist unto bloud striving against sin and to contend earnestly for the faith once given to the Saints So that ye see how far different these men are from the words and practice of Christ and his ministrie As for reason carnally implied we justifie it not which hath this character it is pitying it self and therein Satan is conversant for when Peter said to Christ Master pitie thy self none of these things shall befall thee c. for this Reason where it rules will not let any follow God or Christ further than they can carrie their own things viz. their own honors pleasures ease worldly beloveds that their worldly lusts may have life and delight and so throw by the things of Christ his Cross his afflictions c. and consequently his Crown too this made the Apostle complain All men seek their own things and none the things of Christ. We allow and honor reason in considering the works of God Eccles 7.13 As thus in so much that God hath made one creature I mean the Air that is present in all places at once and without it no creature that hath life can live And another creature to give light to the whole frame of nature I mean the Sun How easie a thing then is it by reason to conclude this God to be in all places at once viewing wickedness and creating new hearts and giving light to all though they sit in darkness and in the shadow of death Like to this David reasons Psalm 94 9 10 11. 2. In so much that God is the Author of all memorie and wisdom whereby all things in the earth may be remembred some things by