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heart_n	accuse_v	law_n	nature_n	2,158	5	6.6427	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65874	The nature of Christianity in the true light asserted in opposition to antichristianism, darkness, confusion, & sin-pleasing doctrines : being a looking glass for sin-pleasing professors of all sorts / written upon particular occasion herein signified, by a servant of Christ, G. Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1671 (1671)	Wing W1942; ESTC R39132	54,802	75

the Immediate Gift of God Christ as the Word being confessed to enlighten every man whose Light is not natural nor by natural generation convey'd as most grosly R.G. words it neither is it the spirit of man which simply knows but the things of a man but it is that Light which lighteth kindleth and stirs up the spirit of a man whereby it is the Candle of the Lord neither is it a Light or Thing form'd or made as the spirit of man is Za. 12.1 but a divine and spiritual Light manifesting the Good-will of God unto the Creature Again It is R. G's gross Error That the Law or enlightening in every man is the form'd spirit in man and yet in contradiction adding enlightened by him that made it pa. 29. So that the Law or Enlightening is not the form'd spirit of ma● it being the Light of him that made it p. 29. So that the ●aw or Enlightening is not the form'd spirit of man it being the Light of him that made it that enlighteneth man's spirit Thus this R.G. is involved in his own Confusion as one in a Labyrinth Now concerning the nature by which those Gentiles did the things contain'd in th● Law R. G. gives this expl●nation of it viz. As being born of the Seed and after the kind of Man they are naturally or by nature Men so being born of the seed of Man they do naturally or by Nature the things contained in the Law being written in their Hearts c. pa. 29. Answ. I would ask this man Whether this Nature he speaks of was pure or impure corrupt or incorrupt These Gentiles had not the Law outwardly but they had the Law inwardly written in their hearts according to which they should be either accus'd or excus'd in the Day when God should judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ this Law or Light in them was not Natural but Spiritual excusing the Obedient and accusing the Disobedient before God unto which Law the awakened and convicted Conscience doth bear witness and testifie either a mans Condemnation or Peace These Gentiles who obey'd it shew'd the Effects of it they had more of the Life of Christianity in them then many of the Professors of Christianity who are disobedient to his Law and Light within placing Christianity meerly in a dead Faith and Profession of Christ without the Knowledge of his Work of Righteousness within or the Obedience of Faith or Effects of his Law in the heart the Christianity of such is but meerly pretended and fa●n'd and not real And the Life State and Nature of those Gentiles who obey'd the Law written in their hearts as they witnessed against the Jews outward so shall these Gentiles rise up in Judgment against you Hypocritical and Fain'd Professors of Christianity who are Strangers to the true Life Power and Nature thereof And what Confusion doth this R. G. show in saying That the Law or Light in every man is neither the Light of the Gospel nor the ingrafted Word within that is able to save the soul And yet confess That by it the Eternal Power and Godhead may be known How hath he broke the Neck of his own Cause Is there any higher Power then the Eternal Power and Godhead And can any Law or Light then what is Divine and of a Gospel Nature discover it For the Gospel is the Power of God unto Salvation to all them that believe and it is the Gospel of God show'd forth or manifested by the Light of his Son and Preach'd in every Creature under Heaven And by this Light of Christ within is the Love Good-will and Grace of God to Mankind declar'd and signify'd both in its being so universally given and in its living Testimony in ma● against sin and corruption and for Truth and Righteousness in order to direct man to Life and Salvation in the Son of God who is the Power and Wisdom of God the Brightness of his Fathers Glory and the express Character of his Divine Substance who proceeded and came forth from God whose Power and Glory is Eternal and Divine seen Spiritually not Carnally his own Royal and Peculiar Off-spring do in his Light behol● his Glory as that of the only Begotten of the Father As to R. G. his saying His Apostles and all his Ministers in all Ages all in one joynt Voice pointing to Jesus the Son of Mary this Son of Man with an Hosanna to this Son of David and to none before him or to any ever since Answ. That the Holy Prophets Apostles and Ministers both pointed and testify'd unto Jesus Christ both as man born of the Virgin or to his coming in the Flesh and unto his Divinity and Manifestation in Spirit this is own'd But that they all cry'd Hosanna to the Son of David is a Mistake for it was the Multitudes that went before and that followed when Christ rid to Jerusalem that cry'd Hosanna to the Son of David Matt. 21.9 Mark It was the Multitude that cryed Hosanna to the Son of David Many can now cry Hosanna who never knew his Salvation within nor believ'd in his Power but rather spiritually crucify him And the Scribes and Pharisees could talk of Christ's being the Son of David and some calling him the Carpenter's Son when they neither truly believ'd nor o●n'd him that was the true Christ either as the Root or Off-spring of David But Christ ask'd these Pharisees and Scrib●s who said Christ is the Son of David this Questi●n saying What think ye of Christ whose Son is he They said unto him The Son of David He said unto them How then doth David in Spirit call him Lord saying The Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou on my Righ-hand till I make thine Enemies thy Foot-stool If David then call him Lord how is he his Son And no man was able to answer him a word neither durst any man from that day forth ask any more Questions Matt. 22. and Mark 12.35 36 37. Now was not this the true Christ whom David in spirit call'd Lord before he took upon him Flesh or came of his seed And what is Hosanna Is it not Save now I beseech thee And did not David call to and beseech God to save him and to shew Mercy unto him long before Christ as of Mary was born How ignorant and confus'd doth this our Opposet shew himself see Psa. 3.7 6.4 28.9 I perceive he is ignorant of Christ both as the Son of God and as the Son of Man for according to the Spirit he was the Son of God and as the Son of man it s said of him that no man hath ascended up to Heaven but he which came down from Heaven even the Son of Man which is in Heaven John 3.13 And what if ye shall see the Son of Man ascend up where he was before John 6.62 But it appears further that R. G's Hosanna and pretended Adoration and claim of Salvation is only to him as the Son of