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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35122	A defence of the true church called Quakers (come and coming out of the wilderness, Babylon, and the dark night of the apostacy of Antichrist into their own land, which is Sion the mountain of holiness, there to worship the Lord in spirit and truth) against the several sects and sorts of people, called Independants, Separatists or Brownists, Baptists, Fift-Monarchy-Men ...	Crook, John, 1617-1699.; J. C. (John Collens), d. 1682.	1659 (1659)	Wing C7202; ESTC R35612	46,726	58

holdeth forth so ye may if ye are not wilful see your mistake in separating Nature from the God of Nature and that that which naturally sheweth man what is good and what is evil is the pure principle of God or the word by which all things were made which is Christ the light for saith the Apostle whatsoever may be known of God is made manifest in them to wit by nature or from their birth for God hath shewen it unto them which he hath not shewen unto a beast because of the lower Region he was created in so that men are not in this sence by nature Children of Wrath but Children of the Day to wit as man was at first brought forth into that which shewed him what was good and what was evil for so he was in the Image of God but as going from the good and chusing the evil so acting in self in distinction from the power or pure Principle of God which inclination is since become natural or is in him from his birth and so by nature is a Child of Wrath as the inclination to evil acts it self forth and whereas Jude speaketh of some who in whatsoever things they know naturally as living Creatures void of reason for so it is in the Greek in those things they corrupt themselves that is not in those things which they know onely from the Eternal light manifested in them which is Gods faithful Witnesse which none but a Creature that hath reason is capable of but in things pertaining to the five Senses of Seeing Feeling Tasteing Smelling and Hearing for the Sensitive Beast knows by the instinct of Nature or from his birth which is also the Principle of his Creator in him in his kind that he is to eat and drink to satisfie himself as feeling when he hath enough meat and drink to give off and chew the cud or lie down to sleep c. whereas these men as many do now feasted and fed without fear inordinately or drunk inordinately and so corrupted themselves in such things wherein the Beast was more moderate and this is the Natural man that perceiveth not the things of the Spirit of God the light being obstructed by sense and sensuality in him and in this sense whatsoever a man doth by nature or in his own sensual will distinct from the feeling of the Life and Power of God all that he doth is rejected and accursed though the works may be good in themselves and shewen by the Eternal Light yet he that is charitable to the poor which the light sheweth to be good if he give his Alms from a wrong ground or to a wrong end though he cannot witnesse acceptation in his Work with the Lord yet he shall judge another who is Rich and yet so covetous that he shutteth up his bowels from the Poor and Needy and so might the Gentiles also condemn the Jews though themselves sensually performing some good actions were not accepted because not reconciled to the light in themselves which shewed the action to be good But notwithstanding this is a real and infalible Truth that it is no other than the pure Principle of God or his Word in the heart which is the true light that sheweth man by nature or from his birth what what is good and evil which Principle it self was never born or had a beginning any other-wise than was in manifestation in man whose Soul came out from the breath of the Almighty who is out of time in time But some may say what great hurt or inconvenience can come unto us though we do not own or believe that which is nigh every man to shew him sin and evil and which convinceth in his Conscience to be Christ the true light since we believe Christ to be the true light in himself and to be tbe Judge Saviour Teacher and Comforter of his People according to the Scriptures I Answer as Paul in another case much every way for first thou shalt never come aright to know what is good and what is evil what is sin and what is righteousness but wilt be ready to call good evil and evil good and wilt be still in an uncertainty concerning what the good and perfect will of God is and how then shouldest thou do it for thy mind being abroad thou art in the wandring state and although thou searchest the Scriptures never so narrowly and diligently yet therein will appear thwarting 's and contradictions scruples not through default of the scriptures but by reason that thou art not staid in that which should reconcile them Hence have arose for many years past those which they call Casuites who have under-took to Answer Cases of Conscience for people from the Scriptures when as those very Resolvers being themselves from that which should Resolve all doubts and difficulties have like unskil●●d Physitians left tender Consciences half quieted yea and oftentimes made the scruple and trouble greater than before and so the leaders of the people have this way caused them to err Neither wilt thou so see the odiousnesse of sin as it is in it self and as thou oughtest to see it for that which searcheth and pricketh to the heart makes men cry out What shall they do they seeing sin staring them in the face with a dismal Countenance and how it hath separated them from God the fountain of all good they are even at their wits end and so their stony and stubborn heart comes to be broken and they are willing to deny their wills lusts and pleasures for the enjoyment of his favour whom they have transgressed against but men may and do hear the plagues and judgements of God declared against sin and sinners in the Scriptures a long time as God shall wound the hairie scalp of him that goes on in his wickedness the wicked shall be turned into hell and all that forget God how that their worm shall never die nor fire never be quenched that they shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone which is the second death and such like and yet they never be moved at it but either are apt not to believe it or to put the day of evil far from them for all outward Declarations or threatnings without that which rips man open and set him naked and bare before the Lord are but as shot that flies over the head but never toucheth the body and so do no execution upon the transgressour So neither can man if at any time he be wounded for sin be truely healed and comforted because that which smites must heal and that onely Now if any one see his sickness as Ephraim did and go not to the true Physitian but go to Egypt how should he have a true and thorow cure Now at such a time one may fetch and gather in all the promises in the Scriptures and endeavour to apply them or have them applied to himself and strive to believe that they do belong to