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A77832	A vindication of the book called, Some Gospel-truths opened; according to the Scriptures, and the opposition made against it by Edward Borrough, a professed Quaker, (but proved an enemie to the truth) examined and confuted by the word of God. And also, the things that were then laid down, and declared to the world by me, are a second-time born witness to, according to truth: with the answer of Edward Burrough to the quæries then laid down in my book reproved. And also, a plain answer to his quæries, given in simplicitie of soul; and is now also presented to the world, or who else may read, or hear them; to the end (if God will) that truth may be discovered thereby. / by John Bunyan ...	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.; Bunyan, John, 1628-1688. Some gospel-truths opened according to the Scriptures.	1657 (1657)	Wing B5606; ESTC R170889	81,202	76

and thou shalt live The Spirit saith that Christ Jesus came into the world to save those that by transgession had broken the law For for this cause saith the Spirit he Jesus the son of Mary the man Christ between God and us 1 Tim. 2.5 is the Mediator of the New Testament For what That by means of death for the redemption of the trangressions that were under the first testament they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance Heb. 9.15 Now I would not be mistaken I do not say that the Spirit of Christ doth give the least liberty to sin God forbid But it's convictions are of a more saving and refreshing nature than the convictions of the law and do more constrain the soul to holiness then that The Law saying Work for life the Spirit saying Now to him that worketh not for life but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousnesse Rom. 4.5 as thus If I should owe to two Creditors ten thousand talents the one should say unto me thou owest me five thousand talents pay that thou owest the other shoul say thou owest me five thousand talents and I frankly and freely forgive thee all Now these expressions are contrary one to another Even so is the end of the convictions of the Law not according to the end of the convictions of the Spirit of Christ the one saying Pay me that thou owest the other saying Thou art frankly and freely forgiven all The next thing thou utterest is where I say Those that are alive unto sins have not the Spirit of Christ But sayest thou It is given to every man Mark thou saiest It is given to every man The Apostle saith Some are sensual having not the Spirit Jude 19. Who must we now believe the Apostle or you Certainly your doctrine is not according to truth but a lie as is clear in that you will affirme that which the Apostle doth deny Then thou saiest I bring other vain arguments to prove that every one hath not the Spirit of Christ This one is enough to prove it that the Apostle saith Some men have it not But that which thou callest vain I am sure neither thou nor any of thy fellows are able to answer One is to this purpose The Divels are so convinced of sin that they did fear the torment that was to come upon them for their sins and did fear also that the Son of man was come to torment them for their sins and yet the Divels have not the Spirit of Christ So that it is evident that we may be convinced of sin and yet not by the Spirit of Christ A second argument which thou callest vain is this Man in his coming into the world hath this Conscience given him which doth convince of sin Joh. 8.9 yet man in his coming into the world or as he cometh into the world hath not the Spirit of Christ given him for that must be received ordinarily afterward by the preaching of the Word which is preached by the Ministers and servants of Jesus Christ Act. 10.44 While Peter yet spake to the people the holy Spirit fell on all them that heard the Word But farther thou saiest Untill I prove the light of Christ contrary to the spirit of Christ thou wilt say that every man hath that which is one in union and like the spirit of Christ even as good as the spirit of Christ in its measure Answer Friend I have proved already that every man hath not the Spirit of Christ though they have that which thou doest call the Spirit of Christ which is conscience and nature it selfe And this I say again th●t thou hast laied open thy weakness very much to say that every man hath that which is as good as the Spirit of Christ Friend seeing the Scriptures say some have not the spirit of Christ how durst thou so blaspheme as to say then it is as good as the spirit of Christ in its measure Was there ever such a deale of ignorance discovered at one time by a man as to say that every man hath the Spirit or that which is as good as the Spirit though the Spirit saith plainly that some have not the Spirit as I have proved plainly Jude 19. Friend what is there besides the Spirit that is as good as the Spirit Be silent and say no more so least thou do through ignorance or presumption set up thy coscience or nature as high and as good as the Spirit of Christ when indeed they are not worthy to be compared with it being weak and not able to do that which is and hath ben done by the Spirit of Christ Then thou art offended because I said the Devill doth deceive poor souls by bidding them listen within and see if there be not that which doth convince of sin Friend All men have not the Spirit though they have that conscience that doth convince of sin John 8.9 Now seeing all men have not the spirit is it not a great deceit of the Devill to perswade poor soules that because they are convinced for sin by their owne consciences therefore they have the Spirit of Christ Surely it is from the devill First because he would make thee believe that Conscience which is but a creature is the Spirit of Christ by whome the world was made Again because the Soule being perswaded that it hath the spirit when it hath it not as all men naturally are without it Eph. 3.13 If it kept off from s●eking and begging for it being allready perswaded falsely that it hath it And whereas thou saist the voice of the Gospell is to bid listen within the heart as Paul preacheth I deny that Paul biddeth listen within But the Scripture that you would faine make shelter for your errour is this where he saith The word is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thy heart That is the Word of Faith which wee preach Now friend Faith is that which layeth hold of or beleeveth the Gospel And that this is the meaning read the next verse That saith he If thou shalt confesse with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that GOD hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved So that it is cleer that the Word of faith is to believe assuredly from the very heart that God hath raised up Jesus from the dead out of the grave into which he was laid by Joseph And that he was raised again for my justification Rom. 5 25. as it is written· 1. Cor. 15. Moreover Brethren saith he I declared unto you the Gospell which I preached unto you at the first which also you have received and wherein you stand by which also you are saved if you keep in memory or assuredly believe what I preached unto you unlesse you have believed in vain But what was that Gospel you preached Why saith he ver ● I delivered unto you first of all that which

man who was laid in the manger hanged on the Crosse c. I say it sheweth that those who do not lay hold on what he hath done and suffered without them in his own body on the tree through the operation of his Spirit which he hath promised to give to them that ask him or else they have not yet been convinced of the sin of unbelief and so are still in a perishing condition notwithstanding their strict obedience to the light within them or to the law And now tell me you that desire to mingle the law and the Gospel together and to make of both one and the same Gospel of Christ Did you ever see your selvs undone and lost unlesse the righteousnesse blood death resurrection and intercession of that man Christ Jesus in his own person was imputed to you and untill you could by faith owne it as done for you and counted yours by imputation yea or no Nay rather have you not set up your consciences and the law and counted your obedience to them better and of more value than the obedience of the Son of Mary without you to be imputed to you and if so it is because you have not been savingly convinced by the Spirit of Christ of the sin of unbelief Other things thou doest quarrell against but seeing they are in effect the same with the former I pass them by and shall come to the next thing thou doest think to catch me withall and that is because I say that God only is the Saviour there is none besides him Therefore sayest thou how contrary is this to that in page 24. where I say how wickedly are they deluded who owne Christ no otherwise then as he was before the world began Now this is no contradiction as thou wouldest have it for though I say there is none but God our Saviour Yet I did also then in my book shew how he was our Saviour namely in that he came into the world being born of a Virgin made under the law that he might redeem them that were under the law by his obedience in that nature by suffering in that nature by his rising again in that nature and by carrying that nature into heaven with him as the Scriptures at large declare and therefore though I say God is our Saviour and none besides he yet they that owne him to be the Saviour no otherwise then as he was before the world began are such as deny that he is come in the flesh and so are of Antichrist 1 Joh. 2. For before God could actually be a Saviour he must partake of another nature then the divine even the nature of man Heb. 2.14.15 Again thou sayest it is a slander put upon the Quakers to say they slight the resurrection Answ What say you Do you believe the resurrection of the body after it is laid in the grave Do you believe that the Saints that have been this four or five thousand years in their graves shall rise and also the wicked each one with that very body wherein they acted in this world some to everlasting life and some to everlasting contempt Answer plainly and cleer your selvs but I know you dare not for you deny these things But if you speak doubtfully or covertly in answer thereunto I doubt not but God will help me to find you our and lay open your folly if I shall live till another cavill by you be put forth against the truth The next thing thou cavillest at is that Quaery raised from Eph. 4.10 and thou sayest I have not answered it You should have answered it better or else have confuted that answer I gave unto it and then you had done somthing but the great thing that troubles thee is because I say further in my book he that ascended from his Disciples was a very man For handle me and see saith Christ a Spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see me have Now let the adversary shew by the Scripture said I that there is in them any place called heaven which is able to contain a man of some four or five foot long or a competent man of flesh and bones for the space of fifteen or sixteen hundred years but that above the clouds which troubles thee so that it makes thy tongue run thou canst not tell how But know that when the Son of man shal come from heaven to judge the world in righteousness that which thou callest foolishness now thou wilt finde a truth then to thy own wrong if thou close not in with him who said handle me and see for a Spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see me have Luk. 24.38 39 40. Another thing that thou art troubled at is in that I do reckon the Quakers to be of the deluding party when alas all men that have eyes to see may easily discern that you are of that generation as will appear in part by your own expressions both now and also at other times But that you may take off the brand from your selvs you say that the false ptophets and Antichrist were in the Apostles days as though there should be no false prophets now when the very time we live in doth manifestly declare and hold forth that there are many who at this day seek to beguile unstable souls of which sort you are not the least though for ought I can learn as yet you are the last that are come into the world but that you may the better shift it from your selvs you say that in those days there was not a Quaker heard of namely in the days of John Friend thou hast rightly said there was not a Quaker heard of indeed though there were many Christians heard of then By this you your selvs do confess that you are a new upstart sect which was not at other times in the world though Christian Saints have been alwaies in the world Friend here like a man in the dark in seeking to keep thy self out of one ditch thou art fallen into another instead of proving your selvs no false prophets you prove your selvs no Christians saying there was not a Quaker heard of then But if Quakers had been Christians then they would have been heard of to the glory of God and his Christ Again to defend thy self thou throwest the dirt in my face saying If we should diligently trace thee we should find thee in their steps meaning false prophets through famed words through covetousness making marchandise of souls loving the wages of unrighteousness Friend doest thou speak this as from thy own knowledge Another of his false accusatons or did any other tell thee so However that spirit that led thee out of this way is a lying spirit For though I be poor and of no repute in the world as to outward things yet through grace I have learned by the example of the Apostle to preach the truth and also to work with my hands both for mine own living

conscience were able to lead a man to justification by following it that promise was made in vain by Jesus the son of Mary when he said I will send you mark I will send you the Spirit and he shall lead you into all truth for they had a light before But it is evident that that was not sufficient because they must have another sent them by Jesus Christ and that must be the Spirit 5. Quaer Whether is not the same light in him that hates it as it is in him that loves it Joh. 3. If there be a difference in the light shew it wherein whether in the natu●e or otherwise Answ First that Scripture quoted in Joh 3. Light is come into the world c. is not meant of that light or conscience that every man hath but the man Christ Jesus is speaking there of himself as God-man come into t●e world born of the Virgin if thou compare ver 19 20 21. with ver 14 15 16 17 18. of the same Chapter it is clear for they all do speak of the same thing namely the son of Mary And again saith he I am the light of the world Now the man Christ though he was then in the world and walked up and down in the same yet he was not within any man in the world as man though he calls himself the light thereof though he was in some I say in some as God by his Spirit Now the light which was the man Christ was the very same whether loved by some or hated by others but if you conclude every man hath Christ or that light spoken of there Joh. 3. within him That I deny having proved the contrary But secondly Whether is there a difference in the light Answ First there are more lights than one there is a light that may be suspected to be darknesse where he saith If the light that is in thee be darknesse c. Again there is the light of the Law Prov. 6.23 Again conscience also will convince of sin Now there is none of these that can save a sinner from the evil of his waies Take the best of them which is the righteous law of God that cannot For had there been a Law given which might have given life then verily righteousness had come by the Law But if you conclude that righteousnesse or everlasting life cometh by the Law you must conclude this again that Christ did die in vain Gal. 2.21 So then these things being not able to save the soul the next thing is the Son of God the son of righteousnesse arising with healing under his wings he is also a light and indeed the saving light far surpassing all the other mentioned Now though Christ doth not differ in himself yet there is a difference in the power of these lights the law Christ the one not being able to save the other being able And again there is also a difference in the nature of them the one being a condemning light the other a saving light It is Moses that accuseth you saith Christ even Moses in whom yee trust But do not think saith Christ that I will accuse you to the Father No saith he it is Moses or the Law given by him But again where Christ speaks for himself as a Saviour he saith God sent not his Son into the world to condemne the world but that the world through him might be saved Joh. 3.17 so that I say First that light spoken of Joh. 3. which is the man Christ is not in every man that coms into the world Secondly that the man Christ or the light spoken of there is not against himself Thirdly there is the light of the Law conscience and nature it self which are in all men which things are altogether insufficient to save a man from death by his seeking of justification thereby Again there is Jesus Christ he is the Saviour but not in all men And again neither is the man Christ Jesus the condemning light 6. Quaer Whether is it possible that any can be saved without Christ manifested within If no then whether is not the doct●ine of salvation wbich is only necessary to preach Christ within and is it not the whole mystery of salvation God manifest in the flesh Answ There can none be saved but they that have the Spirit of Christ given unto them But it is not the Spirit of Christ given to the Elect that doth work out the salvation of their souls within them for that was obteined by the blood of the man Christ Jesus on the Crosse Hebrews 9.12 compared with Heb. 13.12 Again every one that is or shall be saved must and shall have the Spirit of Christ within them yet doth it not follow that to preach Christ onely within is the onely doctrine of salvation For then also the preaching of the blood of Christ shed on the Crosse as I said before must be of none effect But he that doth preach the doctrine of salvation aright must first begin to preach that doctrine that Paul preached in 1 Cor. 15.1 2 3 4. For I delivered unto you saith he first of all how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures and that he was buried and that he rose again according to the Scriptures Now Christ or the Spirit of Christ is received by such preaching as this is as is clear from that Scripture Act. 10.38 to 44. where Peter speaking of the word that was published throughout all Judea How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth or which dwelt at Nazareth with the holy Ghost and with power who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the Devill for God was with him And we are witnesses of all those things which he did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem saith Peter whom they slew and hanged on a tree Him God raised up the third day and shewed him openly not unto all the people but unto witnesses chosen before of God Even to us who did eat and drink with him after his resurrection from the dead And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testifie that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead And is that all No. But to him give all the prophets witnesse to him even Jesus of Nazareth whom the Jews crucified on the tree that through his name whosoever beleeveth in him shall receive remission or forgiveness of sins Now mark And while Peter yet spake these words the holy Ghost fell on all them that heard the Word While Peter spake these words that by Jesus of Nazareth forgivenesse of sins was preached to them that believe in his name the holy Ghost fell on all them that heard the word Namely which Peter spake this is the way in which the Spirit is given Namely by preaching a crucified Christ But now no man can be saved without Christ or the Spirit of Christ be given to him because