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A47156	The light of truth triumphing over darkness and ignorance, error and envy manifested in Robert Gordoun's late pretended testimony to the true Saviour : wherein every one whose eye is open may see his seat, and who have salt in themselves may favour his words, work and spirit and discern his deceitful dealing by smitting the innocent in secret, yet not with that subtilty which is able to cover in this day wherein light is manifesting the works of darkness : so, the Devil was here deficient but envy slays the foolish man : given forth in the 2 moneth 1670 / by George Keith, & G. White-head.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; Gordon, Robert, fl. 1669-1675. Testimony to the true Saviour.	1670 (1670)	Wing K179; ESTC R2048	34,830	44

death whose suffering sacrifice mediation in●ercession and offices with the blessed effects thereof within we own and confess according to the Scriptures of truth as inwardly revealed and evidenced by the spirit which we do not admit either o● sins past to be unrepented of nor of sins present to be committed nor sin ●o come to be persisted in however this or other Opposers and Prof●ssors do sooth and flatter themselves therein under their traditional notion of a satisfaction and imputation without them p. 16. as after R Gs. q●estions How can there be redemption where conscience ●hargeth of sin is it not against reason to believe redemption in another for us while sin is within To this he thus answers To this spirit I say who art thou that thus a●gues with God Which indeed is no answer nor proof but a meer s●lly begging of the question nor any demonstration that such a belief that is both contrary to conscience and the conviction of the light therein is either true or right in the ground of it whereby any are thus credulous either of their being redeemed saved or j●stified wi●hout them whilst they lie under the guilt and imputation of sin in their own consciences sin being then their burden and bondage which is contrary to a redeemed and justified state but such a blind and dead faith and conceit of redemption and justification as this man hath appeared in hypocritical Professors are w●nt to sooth up themselves withal in their sins And R. G. further adds p. 1● viz. Indeed it is a mystery of the Gospel that man's r●ason cannot comprehend the believer to be pure and beautiful as in Christ his head while weak in many things in himself in his body 〈◊〉 ●ath a law of sin but in the Lord he hath put it off as he walks by ●ight he is in the earth in labors ingroanings warefare and imperfections but as he walks by faith he is in Christ walking in rest in victory and perfection these ●r● paradoxes reason cannot fathom Answ●● This man thinks hee 's gotten beyond reason in his parado●es which indeed do appear so contradictory confused and unreasonable that every rational man may see his darkness herein to conclude the believer in war●ar● and imperfections in the body with a law of sin while pure beautiful walking in rest in victory and perfection in Christ his head which is all one as to say he i● in Christ and out of Christ pure and impure perfect and imperfect at the same instant or as the hypocritical Priests and Professors have said that men are imputatively righteous and justified while inherently and actually sinful and unjust and yet for all this R. G. makes account in pag. 39. that the law sin and death are so charged on Christs crucified body that sin is purged away out of the sight of God while yet he does not believe h●s people act●●lly ●reed from it which is corrupt Antinamionisme but these and such like paradoxes ●e cannot own as either reason or truth For how is Christ the Believers and Saints head or they perfect in him if they be imperfect or impure in the body are they not members of Christ and is not their faith their victory over sin and death And is it no perfection they have wa●ted and travelled to be ●e●ewed into the image of the heavenly Where 's the new birth new creature perfect on righteousness and true holiness so much preached and testified of by the holy men of God in the Scriptures of truth if men must be reckoned pure and perfect and in Christ when yet they are not washed from their fi●thiness in which state many are when yet they conceit that God counts them pure and j●stified Bu● he that j●●t fieth the wicked and he that condemneth the just they both are abo●ination before the Lord. R. G. We find thou hast no● brought forth any new thing as to matter or substance in these matters but art p●●nged in the old dark stuff of Priests and Professors who have writ against us though thou art more confused and appearest more malitious against us then many of them ●however thou pretendest love and bowels p. 40 which cannot hide thy dissimulation and enmity and thou hast not methodized nor worded their principles so well as many of them thou being confounded and mangled between truth and their corrupt traditional principles which we perceive thou dost not see the bottom and tendency of however thou thinkest thou art wise but the devil hath blinded thee with prejudice and conceit as he hath all that take thy part and spread thy books or else thou durst never have brought such a piece of folly falshood and mixt mangled stuff to publick view as thou hast done who also to shew thy ignorance of redemption thou usest these words viz The operation of the spirit of Christ within us not to redee●us p. 23. and Christ came into us by the ministration of the spirit not to redeem us pag. 38. Answ. This is contrary to the testimonies of both Prophets and Apostles who witnessed the redemption of their souls from under the bondage and power of sin and death so from the hand of the enemy Psa. 107. 2. David said draw nigh unto my soul and redeem it ps 69 ●8 So he did not put redemption afar off for the God of Israel was near whom the people owned for their Saviour and Redeemer from all in●quity Ps. 130. 7 8. And as the Apostle exhorted grieve not the holy spirit of God whereby ye are sealed uno the day of redempt on Eph. 4. 30. So that there was a day of redemption to be expected unto which they were sealed by the holy spirit which redemption was a freedom recovery or purchase from all iniquity which could not be effected without the operation of the spirit of Christ within who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all inquity Titus 2. 14. But this R. G. would impose on people a faith concerning redemption reconciliation and justification as all being finished wrought or purchased without them without respect to any works wrought or to be wrought within them by any light whatsoever p. 42. See Reader how erroneously he hath excluded the work of God and Christ from within as to the ransoming or freeing of man from sin and making him righteous and so bringing him into unity peace favour and friendship with God which is the true sense of redemption justification and reconciliation which are not effected nor obtained without the operation of the spirit of holiness within though Christs testimony suffering and example without had a tendency thereto 1 Cor. 6. 11. For it was by the spirit of God that the Saints were both washed sanctified and justified how ever tke Devil and his Agents endeavour to exclude and invalidate the inward operations of God Christ or his Spirit G. W. Errata Page 1. l. 37. ' for consider read crucifie p. 4. for 1. r. 4. l. 6. for enl●ghtening r. enlighteneth p. 12. l. 27 for any and. p. 14. l. 1. for is this r. is not this c. p. 15. l. 38. for no r. not p. 16. l. 12. for spent r. shut p. 17. l. 39. for hint r. limit p. 18. l. 1 for many r. man Second part p. 2. l. 30. for counted r. committed p. 8. l. 7. r. Christ now come dele to p. 12. l. 2 for Longworth r. Lawrie

the Christ to whom John came to bear witness and there is not another he is the word made slesh pag. 31 32. the word was not converted into flesh but remain'd the word still pag. 22. Observation This man preacheth up that in one place to be the Christ which in another place he preaches down or denies it to be For that Christ that Iohn came to bear witness to that was the word that became flesh and tabernacled in them was the true light that enlightens every man that comes into the world mentioned before Ioh. 1. But this R. G. Further shews his Self-confutation Enmity and Anti-christian spirit against the true Christ who is the light See here R. G. his Anti-christian doctrines against the universal light and power of God and his Son Io. 1. ch Viz. 1. That the spirit that publisheth that the light that enlighteneth every man that comes into the world is the true Christ is a snare carrying death in the bosom of it pag. 10. 2. That the light that enlightens every man that comes into the world is not he to wit Christ pag. 20. 3. That the worker of redemption could not be the light and power pag. 21. 4. That the bearer away of iniquity cannot be a meer spiritual Christ altogether light and power within pag. 22. 5. That the true Christ man's only Saviour and Redeemer and the light and salvation of the Gentiles prophesied of Esa. 49. 6. is not the light that enlightens every man that comes into the world pag. 26. 27. 6. That the unbelieving Iew who rejected Christ yet had a clearer sight of him then they have who assert that the light that enlighteneth every man that comes into the world is he and that such are wholly ignorant pag. 29. 7. That none of the Prophets ever witnessed the light that enlighteneth every man that cometh into the world to be the true Christ pag. 32 33. 8. That they deny the Lord that bought them who set the light that enlightens every man to be the true Christ and Saviour pag 40. 9. That such are miserably beguiled who preach up the light enlightening every man that comes into the world for the true Christ pag. 37. R. Gs. Contradictions to his Principles before cited He is Iesus Christ the same yesterday to day and for ever without beginning or end of dayes he is the word by which the world is made yea of the Son it is said thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth and thus he is the wisdom and power of God pag. 23. This is the Christ to whom John came to bear witness and not another he is the word pag. 31 32. Redemption is see● by the light of the glorious Gospel shining in our hearts pag. 25. Old Simeon was a devout man obedient to the light in his conscience he waited for the consolation of Israel and it was revealed to him by the holy Ghost Luk. 2. 17. through it in himself he waited the appointed time c. Observation Christ said I am the light of the world Io. 8. 12. ch 12. 46. and ch 3. 19. and that was the true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world Io. 1. 1. read on and that light which brings to see Redemption and revealed the consolation of Israel to wit salvation by Christ was his light within wherein Simeon and others of the holy men of God waited and this was a light of the glorious Gospel or power of God shining in the hearts c. R. Gs. Principle That the light in our consciences that shews good and evil is not given for righteousness nor able to reveal or give life any more then the law writte● in Tables of Stone p. 11. R. G's Contradiction Yet Old Simeon was obedient to the light in his conscience c. Redemption is seen by the light shining in our hearts c. as before Observation Then the light in the conscience is given for righteousness if to be obeyed for it manifests evil and leads out of darkness and sin where it is obeyed and every one that doth truth cometh to the light that his deeds may be manifest that they are wrought in God Io. 3. wherefore the light in the conscience is given for righteousness and the path of the Just is a shining light and the life that was the light of men is above and before the Letter or Law writen in tables of stone as to giving of life R. G. God said to Adam in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt die it could not be revoked who could fulfil the requirings of Wrath and satisfie not Light and Power c. But he who trod the Wine Press of his Fathers wrath alone P. 19. 20. R. G's Contradiction The Chastisements of our Peace were upon him c. p. 21. Observation Mark here Wrath and Chast●sements are two differing things and differ in the execution as Chastisement is in love to Gods People who receive the Attonement but Wrath and Vengeance due to Rebellion and is to come upon them whom he will tread down in his anger and trample in his fury even in the Wine-press of his wrath as Isai. 63. Now it appears this R. G. takes this as Christs stopping or treading down the Fathers wrath as his words import wherein he is greatly mistaken for it is rather an executing of his wrath and revenge upon the wicked or Persecutors whom he will trample in his fury for the deliverance of his own Seed and ransomed ones And this Christ who is both the wisdom light and power of God can and will do by whose power also salvation for sin and death is witnessed in them that believes in the Divine Light and Power which is able to give us all things pertaining to life and godliness 2. Pet. 1. 3. R. G. Redemption is a Mystery which by the Principles of right reason cannot be discerned Contradiction But is seen by the light of the glorious Gospel shining in our hearts p. 25. Answer Right reason doth spring from the true light that shineth in the heart and the good that this light teacheth and sheweth is reasonable or consistent with right reason however this man seems to decrie right reason in some degree therein resembling Lod. Muggleton the false witness who saith Reason is the Devil But this R. G. again in Contradiction to himself seems to set up right reason to justifie his Principle as where he saith p. 2● concerning Mary that the light in her Conscience is not the Son called Jesus conceived in her Womb Surely that agreeth not to right reason ●aith he But surely if he denie the light of the Son of God to be in her Conscience because of his Conception or taking on him Flesh in the Virgins womb he might as well denie and oppose his Divinity for 〈◊〉 was not limited into that comp●ss as not to be in her Conscience nor was the Son of God and his

light to be under such a limitation either as to time or place as a finite creature for his out-goings were from of old from everlasting Micah 5. 2. Here follows a further Account of some passages taken out of R. Gordons Book wherein his Confession to the Truth professed by us as to the work of the power and spirit of God within and his erroneous Contradictions to the same are set opposite that his self Confutation and breaking the neck of his own Cause may be obvious to every 〈◊〉 Reader R. G. his confessing to truth R. G. erroneously contradicting R. G. p. 6. First there is a spirit of Error a and its work is to deceive and its end to destroy such in whom it ruleth and its deceit is seen under this fair Covering a pretending to the imputed b righteousness of Christ pleading a faith in his Death and Sufferings interest in the satisfaction and attonement made to God through his blood but under all this retaining the serpents c nature In their soul preserving alive in themselves unmortified corruptions bearing dominion c over them d O be not so easily decieved God will not be thus mocked he sees not as man sees e he trieth the heart and reins Know of a truth such as you sow such shall you reap to whom you yield your selves servants to obey his servants you are whether of ●in unto death e or of obedience unto rightousness and on the day of the Lord every Kingdome shall have its own on the day of that wonderful severation when the Lord shall judge the world by the man Christ Jesus every thing shall be severed to be for ever included in that state whether of light or darkness into which it was sown according to that righteous proceeding of the son of man Matt. 25. He shall s●y to the sheep on his right hand Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom But to the Goa●s on the left hand depart from me ye cursed and on that day your supposed coverings though of the imputed f righteousness of Christ your high pretences though to his death and sufferings your crying Lord Lord will not shelter you from the wrath of the Father you being wholly altogether of the nature of those Goats on Christs left hand though pretending to the Sheeps cloathing Oh! hear with me a little to plead with you in tender compassion to your immortal souls that you might be perswaded Yes intreated to inquire a little into this matter not satisfying your selves to say that you believe there is a Redemption g already purchased you in Christ until through a living faith in your selves h you have a real evidence of your being particularly redeemed by experimental witnessing the living power * of the i Truth in your inward parts which in words you outwardly profess Consider the words of our Lord to Nicodemus Except a man be born again k he cannot inherit the Kingdom of God there lyeth an impossibility in this thing he placeth not Goats remaining such in their state in the same place with Sheep there is a great gulf between these two They are of two contrary natures Two opposite States and Kingdoms prepared for them Therefore without being changed without being in your minds renewed translated out of darkness into sight without dying to the old Nature of Sin and rising in the new nature of Righteousness And so Christ l formed within you you cannot inherit this Kingdom because without this real change wrought in some measure within you through the Operation of the Spirit of God within m there is only a dawbing of the old Sepulchre while rotteness is ●till within a talking of being justifyed through the Redemption already purchased in Christ without wi●nessing the Life Power and Virtue of the thing it self within n Therefore I do exhorts thee 〈…〉 Spirit in thy mind thou art subjected to for as many as are led by the Spirit of God are the Sons of God and if any man have not the spirit of Christ ●he is none of his ●o that it will not be enough to say that Jesus Christ dyed for sinners and that his righteousness is imputed to thee as altogether from without thee O remember the work of Regeneration is to be wrought within thee R. G erroneously contradicting R. G. a All things pertaining to man● Redemption were transacted in God-man Christ not in our persons nor within us but in his crucified body without us before any good b wrought in us God having already wrought all things for us in the body of Christ as being our rightousness p. 3 4. c He hath already subdued all things finished transgression made an end of sin abolished condemnation and death and so hath for ever in himself compleated the work of Redemption c. with God for us p. 4. d To bear my testimony to the Redemption and Rightousness already purchased in his crucified body for u● the son buried our sins in his grave all things are finished sin death and the flesh in the body of Christ p. 5. 16. e It is a mystery of the Gospel the believer to be pure and beautiful as in Christ while weak in many things in himself in his body he hath a law of sin but in the Lord he hath put it off as he walks by sight he is in the Earth in Labours in Groaning warfare and Imperfections c. p. 16. f The Law Sin Death charged upon his Crucified body he buried them in his Grave thus abolished Sin out of the sight of God p. 39. g Redemption c. already wrought purchased in his Crucified body for us without us p. 4. h The light in the Conscience is not able to reveal or give life p. 11. h There is a Spirit in some that declares that we are Redeemed Iustified Saved and made Righteous and accepted with God by the work of the Spirit * of God wrought within us p. 11. i What ever Spirit shall declare Christ now coming or coming to within us to Reconcile to Attone to Redeem us c. is no other than a Denier of Iesus our Saviour notwithstanding its high pretences to light and power and Spirit within p. 15. 16. k But know thou O Man that that Doctrine how misterious soever in shew that teacheth Redemption to be by Operation of the Spirit within us and not by that alone * Operation of God in the man Christ Iesus is it may be agreeable to mans reason but a fearful co●tradiction to that blessed Mistery of Grace p. 17. l Vnder this Mental Reservation the seed the light the nature of the Dove in me is he the Christ c. but is this a form of sound words pag. 31. m Come down from the heights of your reason to believe your Redemption already finished the law of sin and death already abolished p. 3. 7. through what he did and suffered without you without respect to any works wrought or to be wrought n within

work of God within as it hath made many hypocrits and many such merry also over God's witness or light in them which would have wrought good in them had they own'd it to have wrought evil out of them But seeing R. G. hath run into the Priests and Professors doctrine in his confused way and method maintaining their principle of satisfaction and imputation opposing the light and work of Christ or the spirit within as to justification redemption or salvation within Let 's first inquire how he states this satisfaction or work that he thinks was wrought with God by the man Christ but not in man R. G. God said to Adam in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye and because he is God it could not be revoked the justice of God must stand firm in the execution of this sentence he is just and righteous as well as l●ving justice to be answered to the full who could break thorough this stir'd up wrath who could have answered the requirings of love and fulfil the requirings of wrath that would hold man captive in death and yet satisfie both Not its light and power in the man Christ or the light enlightning every man that comes into the world not the word alone but Iesus Christ partaking of our flesh and blood as being the Son of the Virgin Mary pag. 19 20. Note his errour in denying the light to be Christ and so opposing Christs Divinity Let the impartial Reader judge of this man's confusion and ignorance herein in these his distinctions about God and Christ and between Christ and the light and power within not owning the light that enlightens every man to be Christ or the Son of God contrary to Scripture whereas the light that enlightens every man is that eternal word that made all things which to say this cannot answer or satisfie love and wrath is a blasphemous opposing the omnipotency and power of God as if he could not satisfie himself in either and his sl●ghting and debasing the divine light and power of Christ in man and so undervaluing God as if he were no Saviour especially while this man thinks God was so displeased and his wrath so stirred up that it would hold man captive in death unless Christ as the Son of Mary should satisfie and answer this wrath and undergo this death another while in contradiction it was as God man that he satisfied c. which if he take it to be an eternal death or wrath that was threatned on man for disobedience I ask if Christ did undergo that either as God or as man or as both and dare any say plainly that God executed wrath and revenge from himself upon his innocent Son or take vengeance upon the Son of his love or could that be an answering of divine Justice so to take vengeance on the innocent and let the guilty go free with their sins past present and to come and then if all be if all be thus wrought and purchased of God by Christ paid and satisfied for in his crucified body and that for the ●ins of the whole world and in their stead and that for their sins past present and to come then how can God in justice execute wrath or revenge on any for sin if his innocent Son hath undergone it and satisfied it all and that for all men for sins past present and to come And then what manifest contradiction is it for this man to confess to his intercession his ever living to make intercession for them that come to God by him though this we own But how doth this agree with the doctrine of such a rigid or severe satisfaction and payment as before implied For if the Son endured the Fathers wrath to the full and thereby stop● it for Priests call it vindictive Justice doth not this ●ender God to be more severe than his Son yea and unjust also As if a Creditor should keep or leave the Debtor in prison and alwaies be interceded to either for his deliverance or forgiveness when his Surety hath paid and satisfied to the utmost farthing that could in the rigour of the law be exacted upon the Debtor which much less can be either mercy forgiveness or remission But if it be granted that forgiveness of sins must be asked at God's hand for Christs sake and that man must repent and be converted that his sins may be forgiven and blotted out and that he may be under God's terms and under an obligation to believe obey and follow the spirit of Christ within in its inward operations and teachings then this confutes this man and all such carnal professors For all is not done without nor● man absolved or discharged in the Court of Heaven as Priests use to say either from the guilt or punishment of sins past present and to come seeing that all judgment is committed to the Son and men are not acquitted by his sufferings without either from the obligation or obedience of his law within which is that of the spirit or new covenant which is inward but are liable to the censure and judgment thereof if they disobey it and walk contrary to the spirit of truth within wherein we are not without the law to God but under the law to Christ. And God is not satisfied with men in their sins his wrath being revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness of men how ever they may imagine Christ to have satisfied is in their stead and removed it out of God's sight And further as to that death that came over Adam in that day he transgressed it was not the sentence of eternal wrath and destruction given and fulfilled by God but a death from that innocent life and communion which he had with God before as the fruit of his transgression which God foretold and threatned them with before not as from an obligation upon God presently to take full revenge on man or to cut him off for ever the same day he transgressed for that he did not neither was his divine justice such an obligation upon him as to limit him from shewing mercy or forgiveness on repentance and salvation without such a rigid payment or severe kind of satisfaction as is supposed for he said I am a just God and Saviour and besides me there is no Saviour and in his mercy and love to lost man in general he both promised and gave a seed to bruise the Serpents head and to be a ransom attonement and most acceptable and satisfactory sacrifice as a Lamb without spot to God not as the subject of wrath or vindictive Justice but as a sweet smelling sacrifice to God and propitiation for mankind and to be a living example through all not only to end the law and sacrifices without but also to bring the true believer through and beyond the ministration of death condemnation and wrath within into peace and union with G●d who out of his infinite love sent his Son to save man from sin and