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A39886 Nehushtan, or, John Elliot's Saving grace in all men proved to be no grace and his increated being in all a great nothing by J.F. J. F. (James Forbs), 1629?-1712.; Elliot, John. Saving grace of God. 1694 (1694) Wing F1444; ESTC R29851 45,242 37

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all that do visibly bear the Image of Christ That there is so little of Love among those that have all one Father one Redeemer one Sanctifier that are all the Objects of God's special Love and Favour that do all walk by the same Rule according to the measure of Light and Knowledge received that are all one in the Great and Fundamental Truths of the Gospel that are all in good earnest for Holiness here and do hope for the same Heaven and Glory hereafter Is it not matter of humbling That you live not every day as if it were to be your last day That your thoughts are so little taken up about the Glory you are going to in the other World and that ye are not at all times like unto them that look for the coming of the Lord Luke 12.35 36. 2 Cor. 5.1 2 3 4. 2 Tim 4.6 7 8 These are only Generals I have spoke somewhat largely of these following Particulars If you would admit of a due thorough and impartial Consideration how much Sin is in your Thoughts that would humble you If you would take a view of all your Words you could not but acknowledge in many things we offend all And If any Man offend not in word the same is a perfect Man and able also to bria●e the whole Body Jam. 3.2 If you would call to mind the Sinfulness that adheres to your Affections you would see cause with the Leper under the Law to cry out Vnclean unclean If you would but as near as you can remember all your Omissions and how you have left the Good undone which ye ought and might have done If you would make Reflections on that little good you have done together with the manifold Defects sinful Failings and Infirmities that hath attended you therein If you would mind the Iniquity of your Holy things that you have been so little serious sincere and spiritual in Duties of Worship If you would lay to Heart the Guilt which you have contracted and do daily contract in managing the Duties of your Callings And lastly If you would narrowly look into your Relative Sins as Parents as Children as Husbands as Wives as Masters as Servants you will see enough and enough that might cause you say as Psal 130.3 4. If thou Lord shouldest mark Iniquities O Lord who shall stand But there is forgiveness with thee that thou mayest be feared Psal 143.2 And Enter not into Judgment with thy Servant for in thy sight shall no Man living be justified Psal 19.12 Who can understand his Erros Cleanse thou me from my secret Faults Psal 40.12 Innumerable Evil●s have compassed me about mine Iniquities have taken hold upon me so that I am not able to look up they are more than the Hairs of my Head therefore mine Heart faileth me The reason why I pass over the many particulars contained under the pre-mentioned Heads is because I would not swell this small Piece to a greater Price than the Purse of those that desire to be satisfied in this Point can conveniently reach Thus you have had the first Improvement of this Truth It concerns you to be well grounded in the Belief of this That the Grace of God in Believers is no Increated but a Created Being as that which would conduce much to the keeping you very humble and everlastingly low in your own Eyes I should now come to a second Improvement of this which is also a very genuine deduction from the Premisses and that is If true Grace in Believers be a Creature yea a weak and imperfect Creature without a continued Communication of fresh Influences every moment from the Original and Creator thereof then it is as clear as the Sun in the Meridian that John Eliots must be in a great Error in that Piece which he hath published Called The Saving Grace of God which he asserts to be in All Men and to be an Increated Being with more Confidence than strength of Reason If that within him teaches such false Doctrine as this and hath committed so great a mistake as to put him upon writing on this Subject when so meanly qualified for this Service this is a Caution to all to beware of this Principle of his It hath made him think that he was in a Capacity of confuting holy and learned Flavel But I have drawn up another short Tract to demonstrate That his pretended Answer both to him and me is no Answer at all It will be his Wisdom to be silent if not he must thank himself if in the Second he have more plain Dealing than in this They that are of his Perswasion will see what a weak Advocate they have to plead their Cause And if they are not above all Advice from others I humbly offer it as a thing worthy of their serious Consideration whether this Principle in many that have profess'd and Practised it since the Year 1653 hath not been attended with many humbling Providences which call for a deep Humiliation before the Lord rather than that J. E. should after all be still over and above magnifying that within him and others as an Increated Being I have been all my days a Man of a peaceable Spirit and would fain continue at Peace with all as much as in me lies without Sin It is some extraordinary provocation draws me into the Field If he writes any more he will know that I am better acquainted with the Writings and Works of these Men than he is aware he may be like to hear of many things that may not please him I can give him a large Account of the Principles and Practices of G Fox Ja. Naylor and others I can tell him that the Actings of some of their Principal Leaders have been a practical Confutation of the Grand Principle That every Man hath that within him which is sufficient without any thing else to teach instruct lead guide and direct him For G. Fox penned down Orders to be observed by every one and they that did not observe them were censurable and to be disowned as not in the Vnity to use their own Phrase The Absolute Submission which was required to be given to G. F. and the Body as they called it at Devonshire-house was a renouncing this Principle in the Face of the Sun as may be seen in The Spirit of the Hat And in the 7th Part of the Christian Quaker Page 4. There was a Paper subscribed in Barbados by 82 Persons in these Words I desire to give up my whole Concern if required both Temporal and Spiritual unto the Judgment of the Spirit of God in the Men's and Women's Meetings as believing it to be more according to the Universal Wisdom of God than any particular measure in my self or any Particulars with which the Men and Women's Meetings have not Unity Is not his a giving up the Cause so hotly contended for He is a great Stranger in our Israel that knows not the Contests that were between G. Fox and John