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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65862	The divine light of Christ in man, and his mediation truly confessed by the people called Quakers. In a brief and gentle examination of John Norris his two treatises concerning the divine light. Intended to wipe off his undue reflection of grossness and confusion on the Quakers notion of the light within. With a postscript to J. N. By G. W. a servant of Christ.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1692 (1692)	Wing W1924; ESTC R220968	14,045	25

conclude this Comparison for reconcilement Although R. B. and J. N. acknowledge Christ the Divine Word or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be the Light within even that Light which enlightens all Men the one supposeth 't is as in the spiritual Body of Christ and the other cannot tell he knows not but there may be such a thing However both confess the Light to be a substantial Light of the Divine Essence and Nature of the Deity I think in the main the difference is not very great not so great as to deserve such severe Reflections and Reproach from J. Norris As That the Notion of the Light within according as the Quakers explain and represent it is really ridiculous enough to make the Patrons of it so and well deserves all the scorn and contempt that is cast upon it p. 3 4. Treat 2. But I must take leave to tell him I cannot believe this his Reproach and Contempt which he hath cast on us and our Notion as he calls it nor that it can any ways become his Profession either thus to gratifie Scorners and Contemners or thus to teach the wicked their way who scorn and contemn Religion and Truth but rather I take it that he writ this scornful and contemning Passage against us very inconsiderately and from a groundless Passion of which the Lord make him truly sensible and forgive him And also of his undue censorious and scurrilous detraction viz. That the Quakers only Cant in some loose and general Expression about the Light which they confirm with the Authority of St. John ' s Gospel tho' they understand neither one nor t'other p. 24. Herein he was too censorious we know in whom we have believed we thank God and what inward sense and experience we have of his Light and Grace in our Hearts for Life and Salvation from Sin and Death and what real change and reformation it has wrought and brought forth in us in Life and Conversation● Blessed be the Lord our God for ever Yea we can sincerely say Glory be to the Father Son and Holy Ghost And seeing J. N. saith That to the like purpose Mr. Keith another of their most considerable Writers speaking of the Seed of God saith c. By his words to the like purpose he means like as R. B. hath declared about the Spiritual Body of Christ c. To which I say then what has been said for R. B. in the case may serve for Answer to him about G. K. Howbeit that Faithful Man R. B. being gone to his rest and not here to answer for himself I was the more concerned to take notice of him and of his own Explications in this Matter It may be R. Vickeris or some else may find cause to answer J. N.'s two Treatises more particularly and fully for themselves but that I leave What J. N. saith That to be a Light to the Mind of Man is to be to it the Principle of Understanding to furnish it with Idea's and to be the immediate Object of its Conception immediately present to the Mind and to have the whole perfection of being the Idea's of all things and to be an Universal Representative which conditions especially the last no creature either has or can possibly have and therefore no creature is able to be a Light to the Soul of Man p. 23. Treat 2. These Propositions we shall not need to dispute nor oppose the Inference which affects not our Principle of the Divine and increated Light of God and Christ in Man and therefore shall not need to examine J. N.'s large Philosophical Demonstrations of the same Propositions being not denied but the same in effect asserted by R. B. In his concluding it A meer Calumny for any one to say That the Quakers Exhort People to believe in a meer Creature Apol. 798. Besides where such Creatures as the Saints in Christ were called the Light of the World and the Salt of the Earth and those that were sometimes Darkness were become Light in the Lord when converted they were such not of themselves nor as meer Creatures but as joined and united unto and made partakers of Christ Jesus and to God in him who was their Light their Life and Salvation and that heavelily Salt that seasoned and sanctified them And if they were Light in the Lord who was their Light much more Christ Jesus who is the Fountain of Divine Light and Universal Illumination in whose Light and not as in a Creature Men ought to believe that they may be Children of the Light And although we believe in God through Jesus Christ and 't is through him as our Mediator that our Faith is truly in God and not without respect to Christ and living Faith in him he being the Author of our Living and Divine Faith who said Ye believe in God believe also in me Joh. 14. 1. 'T is evident that accordingly R. B. testifies unto Jesus Christ the Son of God both as God and Man Creator and Mediator saying Apol. p. 274 275. 1. That Word that was in the Beginning with God and was God by whom all things were made c. and that this is that Jesus Christ by whom God created all things by whom and for whom all things were created that are in Heaven and Earth c. Col. 1. 16. Who therefore is called the First-born of every Creature Col. 1. 15. As then that infinite and incomprehensible Fountain of Life and Motion appeareth in the Creatures by his own Eternal Word and Power 2. So no Creature has access again unto him but in and by the Son according to his own express words See Matt. 11. 27. Luke 10. 22. Joh. 14. 6. Hence he is fitly called the Mediator betwixt God and Man c. And that there is no knowledge of the Father but by the Son and that he is the only Mediator p. 368. POSTSCRIPT Friend John Norris ON the serious perusal of the Controversie 1. I do not find that thou hast exalted the Divine Light of God and his dear Son more than the People called Quakers yet am glad thou hast exalted it so much as thou hast done beyond many if not most of thy Brethren and I truly wish thy mind may be turned into it and kept in it out of all fleshly Wisdom and Imaginations that thou mayest feel true Divine Life Power and Wisdom in it as well as have a Notion of it 2. I do not see but our Friends exalt Jesus Christ as Mediator betwixt God and Men more than thy self For which please to consider 1. Thy supposing the very Essence and Substance of the Deity to be so intimately united to our Minds as that there can be no Medium between God and the Creature p. 22. Treat 1. p. 8. Treat 2. 2. Thy supposing the Light within to be a Man's natural and ordinary way of Vnderstanding and saying This is Reason this is Conscience speaking of the Light p. 22. 55. Tr. 1. This I