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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65849	Christ ascended above the clouds his [brace] divinity--light in man, his being [brace] the Word in saints the only way and rule [brace] vindicated [brace] from the cloudy, erroneous, heretical, and blasphemous conceits of John Newman and his brethren : and the only rule of faith demonstrated for the general information of professours (and people) of all sorts, and the said J.N. his book stiled The light within &c. (with his manifest contradictions) both scripturally, historically, and rationally examined / by a servant of Christ, G. Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1669 (1669)	Wing W1904; ESTC R38309	50,991	74

Absurdities of thee and such blind insolent Opposers who oppose the Light within and the power of Godliness as thou J. N. hast manifestly done And now J. N. here follows a few of thy gross Lyes and slanderous Accusations laid down and implyed against us which I return back upon thy own head 1. THat no●hing that is of man shall at the last be saved but only the Pure Seed This is a gross abuse for the Redemption Re●toration and Salvation of the whole man we own 2. False it is That our Family Preacheth and Printeth down the Scriptures and the Commands of Christ as Carnal c. 3. False it is That the Scripture is not to be owned by Saints 4. False it is That they bid People turn to a feigned and pretended Light or Spirit within 5. False it is That our Family doth use the Scripture but as a Cloak to carry on a design of darkness when we own the Scripture in its proper place 6. False it is That the proper place of Scripture is but to stand by us as a Stalking-Horse 7. A malitious slander it is To charge us as crafty Fowlers with shooting the simple Soul through by deceitful darts 8. False it is That we cast behind our backs all the Order and Discipline of the Primitive Churches of our Lord and Master For the Worship in Spirit and the Living Way which Ch●ist set up and Consecrated we Testifie to and for 9. We do not make use of either God's Word or Scriptures in hypocrisie as most slanderously is implyed against us 10. And that of b●inging a mist and fog upon the Scripture out of the bottomless Pit and bringing it to such a low rate by Evasions and Contradictions These things J. N. thou and such peevish sl●nderers are guilty of and not we as thy work and self-Contradictions sufficiently have discovered 11. A gross and manifest slander it is That we will not own the Man Christ to be risen 12. False it is That we own not a Rising or Resurrection of the the Dead c. at the last ●ay according to the Scrip●ures Though not according to the unscriptural conceits of some busie Intrude●s or Fools who now as formerly are contending and asking How are the Dead raised and with w●●t body do they come 1 Cor. 15.35 36 37. 13. And as to these dreadful Opinions and Delusions of not owning an Eternal Life c. of drawing all the glory after this life into a present enjoyment and in this life to make an end of all our happiness c. These are none of our Opinions nor ever owned as Principles among us but judged as Atheistical and therefore are most injuriously and falsly drawn or inferred against us But I have heard of some of the Baptists that have held the Mortallity of the Soul that it dyes with the body c. 14. Also a false Inference it is against us That the Grave will be the farthest Journey that man shall go towards Eternal Life For as touching the Righteous or Ransomed of the Lord who believe in his Light within they own and witness to an Immortal state and receive Power in Him who is the Resurrection and the Life over Death Hell and the Grave And as we do own a Resurrection both of the just and unjust according to the Scriptures and that each shall have rewards according to their works so neither Death nor Hell nor Grave nor Earth nor Sea shall detain or keep back the wicked from their just rewards and punishments due for their Iniquity Rebellion and Transgressions who have rejected the Light within and hated to be Reformed For there is a Lake of perpetual torment for the Devil and wicked men for the Beast and false Prophet that War against the Lamb the Light and his followers for such as receive his Mark and such as are not found written in the Book of Life Rev. 19.20 20.10 to the end Yea and further it is said That the Fearful and Unbelieving and the Abominable and Murderers and Whoremongers and Sorcerers and Idolaters and all Lyers shall h●ve their part in the Lake which burneth with Fire and Brimstone which is the second Death Rev. 21.8 Wherefore J. N. and thy Brethren take heed how you go on in your Envy Lyes and Slanders against an innocent Peop●e but Repent repent of your wickedness therein which hitherto divers of you have often appeared in in ●our malicious Spirits But the Lord will sweep away your Refuge of Lyes and Slanders and he knoweth how to deliver the Godly out of temptations and to reserve the Unjust unto the day of Judgment to be punished 2 Pet. 2.9 And whereas thou J. N. chargest us with dreadful Delusion as bringing all to an invisible state all within man and that there is no visible God no visible Christ c. p. 133. Answ. Dreadful Delusion is without any proof against us it s thy own who opposest the invisible state and inward enjoyment of God who is invisible and that which may be known of God is manifest wi●hin And what Rule in Scripture hast thou for these words visible God visible Christ c. Here thou hast not squared thy Work by the Rule thou pretendest for is not Christ the Image of the Invisible God Col. 1.15 And did not Moses by Faith see him that is Invisible when he had respect unto the recompence of Reward Heb. 11. And is not that recompence of reward viz. Eternal Life Peace and Felicity inwardly and spi●itually received by those that patiently now suffer for Christ whose sufferings of the present time are not to be compared unto the Glory that shall be revealed in them Rom. 8.18 But thou that art so carnally imagining and thus shutting out the weighty things of Salvation out of man and like the old Heretic●l Egyptian Monks the Anthropomorphites and late Muggletonians art telling of a visible God and Christ remote not in any and despising the Light within as but feigned What could we expect better from ●hee than such darkness ignorance and confusion as hath appeared in this thy malicious irrational Book against the Light within and the Children or Family of Light called Quakers against neither of whom hast thou urged any reason or validity so as to disaffect any that are unprejudiced against us but the more against thy self and them that will own thee Wherefore my advice and caution to all that are simply-minded who read this that they seriously minde and follow the Light and Unction from the Holy-One within that thereby their minds may be kept out of prejudice and enmity and over and out of the perverse wayes of imaginary conceited dark and prejudiced spirits who pervert the Scriptures and deride at the Light within and abuse the Children of it as thou hast done But the Truth is set over thy head and all those of thy Fraternity whose spirits the Devil hath inveterately set against that which you shall one day know will be

of it and neither of them owning the Scriptures as we have them and never like to be Converted by such shallow Contenders and impertinent Preachers as thou art And as for the Law and the Testimony thou speakest of pag. 125. they are yet unknown to thee for the Law is Light and the Testimony of Jesus Christ is the Spirit of Prophesie Prov. 6.23 Rev. 19.10 which were before the Scriptures And How are Spirits to be tryed as John exhorted 1 Joh. 4.12 To this thou sayest The holy Touchstone by which they are to be tryed is that golden Rule by which the noble Bereans tried the Doctrine of Paul even the Scriptures to know by what Spirit he spake And then thou addest By this we shall know the Spirit of Truth from the spirit of Error and not to prove a Spirit by a Spirit within From whence thou observest That that Spirit which will not be tried by the Scriptures is the Spirit of Antichrist p. 125. Answ. What gross Ignorance Error and perverting the Scriptures hast thou herein shewed thy self guilty of For first Where provest thou in all the Rule thou pretendest That the Scriptures are the Touchstone and golden Rule to try the Spirits by Produce us plain Scripture for this thy Doctrine or else confess thy Error 2dly The tryal of Spirits is more mysteri●us than meerly the trying of Doctrines by comparing them with Scriptures for many false Spirits bring Scripture who are not discerned to be such without the Spirit of God which searcheth all things 3dly John did not say That the Scriptures were the Touchstone by which they were to try the Spirits whether they were of God But he saith plainly These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you but the Anointing which you have received of Him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you but as the same Anointing teacheth you of all things c. 1 Joh. 2.20 26 27. Now then the tryal of Spirits being ●uch a weighty thing which they were concerned in this Unction in them was the Touchstone and that is the Spirit of Antichrist that opposeth this 4thly The Scripture doth not say That the Bereans tried Pauls Spirit by the Scriptures but that they received the Word with all readiness of mind mark that and searched the Scriptures daily whether those things were so Acts 17. It is not said They searched them to try Pauls Spirit by them for their receiving the Word with all readiness of mind implyes some good belief they had of the Spirit in Paul by which he preached And when they had received the Word they daily searched the Scriptures not with prejudice against the true Ministers or Light within as many of you do but simply to see whether those things were so Now this kind of searching them we own the Word being received within which gives the understanding of the Scriptures And as for thy scoffing at the word Pure Seed calling it New-coyned without Book c. pag. 97. And thy saying Which Seed we vainly say is Christ begotten in us c. p. 98. Thou hast scofft herein without any ground and thereby discovered thy own folly For Is not the Incorruptible Seed a pure Seed and doth not the Apostle call the Seed Christ Gal. 3.16 And is not Christ in the true Believer where the Body is dead because of sin But thou that so nicely carps at words as pure Seed which is Christ within as being without Book what Scripture or Book thereof hast thou for thy calling the Scriptures the only Rule for Salvation for all men to the Worlds end and no other the Touchstone the golden Rule to try or know the Spirit of Truth from the Spirit of Error the ground of Faith c. Produce plain Scripture for these words or else confess thy Error who so ex●ctly pretendest the Scripture thy Rule how dost thou square thy work by it what Rule canst thou produce for us to believe thou speakest truth when thou givest those Characters of the Scriptures which are not to be produced in them And was not the end of Paul's labouring with the Jews to turn them from Darkness to the Light within which thou contemptuously callst a pretended Spirit p. 127. Was his perswading them to believe in Christ in opposition to his Light within surely no but all in order to turn them to his Spirit or Light within But thou hast confessed his perswading them was concerning the Kingdom of God to teach them to believe on the Name of Jesus and direct them to the Kingdom of God see how manifestly thou art here Contradicted by thy own words for was not the Kingdom of God within Luke 17.21 And the Name of Jesus and its Power thou seest not who hast vilified His Light within and the Scriptures thou citest are against thee as that of Rom. 9 10 11 Chap. for both the Righteousness the Word of Faith and Grace were inward and spiritual Again To prove that the Scriptures make manifest the Righteousness of God thou citest Rom. 1.17 which is thy gross abuse of that Scripture for it saith that I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for it is the Power of God unto Salvation and therein is his Righteousness revealed from Faith to Faith c. It is not said the Scriptures are the Power of God for the Power of God or Gospel was preached to Abraham before the Scriptures were written And to thy saying Faith hath a holy End which it leadeth to even the Salvation of Souls not now in man but at the last day when our bodies shall be raised out of the dust p. 123. And where provest thou this Doctrine Is not the Soul in man And is not its Salvation deliverance and safety from sin wrought within by the Power and Arm of God How dost thou essay to frustrate the End of the true Faith which is Salvation whilst thou sayest It leads to the Salvation of Souls not now in man but at the last day when our bodies shall be raised out of the dust And when thinkest thou shall that be Must all the S●ints have their Hope Expectation and Faith for Salvation of their Souls unanswered till then what is become of their Souls all this while since their decease if they have not received the End of their Faith to wit Salvation in them Surely thou art yet in the dust and death and da●kness have power over thy mind or else thou wouldst never shew thy self such an ignorant Papist as here thou hast done for thou hast though at unawares run thy self into rank Popery putting Salvation of Souls so far off till thou knowest not when according to thy earthly and carnal conceits which thou wouldest have us believe for gracious Truths which thou sayest Quakerism doth not own unless in a Mystery to deceive But this is not thy first slanderous Conclusion against the Quakers who only oppose the graceless Errors and