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A54129	A defence of a paper, entituled, Gospel-truths against the exceptions of the Bishop of Cork's testimony by W. Penn	Penn, William, 1644-1718.; Penn, William, 1644-1718. Gospel-truths. aut; Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713. Testimony of the Bishop of Cork. aut	1698 (1698)	Wing P1274; ESTC R218266	58,772	142

Uncircumcision but a New Creature Gal. 6. Also the Fruits of the Spirit Chap. 5. among which there is not one word about Water Baptism or the Outward Supper with many more Passages that are Close and Cogent His 18th and last Paragraph tells us He will not judge us and yet his whole Paper is but one Continued Judgment of us But from God as he says and as his Minister he bids us Judge our selves First We thank God we are before-hand with the Bishop having Judged our selves and that by the Judgment of God upon us and so have right to Judge others according to that Judgment Secondly We have no proof that the Bishop speaks from God to us Nor can I tell how he should that does not acknowledge the Inspeaking Word of God in the Soul Thirdly For his being God's Minister he has not shewn us his Commission yet and I fear it will not be from Heaven when ever he does But if my Reader will take the pains of perusing this very Paragraph he will not only see a Judging Spirit but that the Bishop holds out abusing of us to the last rendring us as bad as bad can be viz. That we Subvert the Faith once delivered to the Saints and equal our Conceits to the Divine Oracles Using and Disusing what Parts of God's Instituted Worship we please adding I will not Interpose your making Gain your Godliness But as I have already taken ample notice of this Charge so I shall say no more of his Irreligious Slant at our Sincerity than this That I cannot pretend to tell the Bishop what Tribe of Men in Christendom it is that have long made Gain their Godliness and the Pretence of it their Worldly Inheritance since he has been so much more Sensibly instructed in this Affair than my self But one thing I am sure of that if Gain and not Godliness was our Motive to be the People we are we mightily Mistook our way when we left the Bishops For Afflictions Spoiles Prisons Banishments yea and Death it self have attended us since God was pleased to manifest his Truth to us And if under all those Calamitys that have followed us since we were a People for the sake of our Unfashionable Profession the Bishop or any else is so Unnatural as to envy us the Blessing of God upon our honest Industry and to render that which is an Effect of God's Goodness the Reason and End of our Religion God forgive them I could Enlarge upon this Topick but time would fail and the Discourse swell beyond Bounds as indeed it hath already beyond my Expectation for which I should Excuse my self to my Reader but that it was not Simply from the Regard I had to the Bishop's Sheet since that could not have deserved this Notice from me but might have been answered as Concisely as that was written had I only considered his Undertaking and Treatment and not my Readers Satisfaction in the better Knowledge of our so much Misrepresented Perswasion Especially in a Nation where of late I had occasion so Generally to Travel and the Bishop's Paper hath been I suppose as Generally Disperst I owe it therefore to My Profession to My Self and to the Country to Vindicate the One and to Express my Christian Regard and Acknowledgment to the Other having received a more than common Civility from the Inhabitants in General To whom I wish as to my own Soul the Saving Knowledge of the Truth as it is in Jesus That Christians Indeed and at Heart They may be to the Glory of God their Creator and the Eternal Salvatiou of their Souls through Jesus Christ the alone Redeemer and to whom with the Father by the Holy Ghost be all Honour and Glory Thanksgiving and Praise World without End FINIS BOOKS Printed and Sold by T. Sowle next Door to the Meeting-House in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-Street And at the Bible in Leaden-Hall-Street near the Market 1698. SAmuel Fisher's Works in Folio The Works of the Long Mournful and Sorrowful Distressed Isaac Pennington's in Folio William Bayly's Works Quarto The Works of that Memorable and Ancient Servant of Christ Stephen Crisp containing also a Journal of his Life giving an Account of his Convincement Travels Labours and Sufferings in and for the Truth Price Bound 5 s. A Collection of the several Writings and Faithful Testimonies of that suffering Servant of God and patient Follower of the Lamb Humphry Smith Price Bound 2 s. 6. d. A Collection of certain Epistles and Testimonies of Divine Consolation Experience and Doctrine Written by that Faithful Patient and Long-suffering Servant of Christ William Bennit Price Bound 1 s. 8 d. The Memory of the Righteous Revived being a brief Collection of the Books and Written Epistles of John Camm and John Audland Together with several Testimonies relating to those two Faithful Labourers Price Bound 2 s. Truth Vindicated by the Faithful Testimony and Writings of the Innocent Servant and Handmaid of the Lord Elisabeth Bathurst Deceased Price Bound 1 s. Baptism and the Lord's Supper Substantially Asserted being an Apology in behalf of the People called Quakers concerning those Two Heads By Robert Barclay Price Bound 1 s. A Catechism and Confession of Faith By R. Barclay Price Bound 9 d. No Cross No Crown A Discourse shewing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ By W. Penn. In Two Parts The Fifth Edition Price 3 s. An Address to Protestants of all Perswasions more especially the Magistracy and Clergy for the Promotion of Virtue and Charity In Two Parts By W. Penn a Protestant The Second Edition Corrected and Enlarged Price Bound 1 s. 6 d.

Paragraph seems so much to Respect His first Exception in this Paragraph i● at our Incapacity For he says we have never been able yet that he could find to make out what we mean by the Light of Christ within Perhaps the Bishop has never sought or has sought amiss which as great and learned Men as himself have done before ●ow and so mist what they have sought ●or And then it cannot be a wonder that he has not found out what we mean by the Light of Christ in Man But that a Bishop ●hould represent this an unintelligible doctrine after reading so distinct and plain an account of it in R. B's Apology not to mention divers other Books and which is of ●reater Authority the Scriptures of Truth ●s no ordinary Surprise to me Has the Bishop forgot the first of John and the 4th ●th and 16th Verses where speaking of ●he Word-God he says in him was Life and the Life was the Light of Men. This is that Light of Christ the Quakers Assert and desire to turn the Minds of all People too For all must have it if it be the Light of all as the Text plainly tells us it is The Ninth Verse is yet more express viz. That was the True Light which lighteth Every Man that cometh into the World then which nothing can be more Express to our purpose And that the Bishop should feel no share in this Glorious Light of Men renders him very unfit methinks for an Over●seer of them I know some read this Text otherwise a● indeed he did to me in Cork viz. That wa● the true Light That Coming into the World lighteth all Men referring the word Coming to Christ and not to Man But all th● Versions I ever met with and I have see● more than twenty render the verse as it● in our English Translations And all C●●ticks and Commentators except the followers of Socinus Read and Render it as ●word do And while we have so much Company and so great Authority I think we nee● not be solliscitous about the success of thi● point But besides that the foregoing veri●● tells us that the Divine Life of the Word God is the Light of Men which shews all Mankind have it in them for it is the Light of their Minds and not of their Bodies it is impossible that Interpretation should be true in a strict Sense For the Coming of Christ in that Blessed manifestation was to the Jews only He says it himself he was not sent but to the lost Sheep of the House of Israel Matth. 13. 24. Again he came unto his own and his own received him not John 1. 11. And within that narrow ●ompass he could not be said to be the Light of all Mankind that had did and ●hould come into the World for so both the ●th and 9th Verse plainly import viz. The Light of Mankind without restriction to This or That Manifestation of God to Men. But the Bishop is still at a loss what to ●ake of this Light and what we would be ●t for says he You will not allow it to be ●ither the natural Rational Faculty or common ●nnate Notions or natural Conscience or Conscience Illuminated by the preaching of the Gospel and the Operation of the Holy Ghost ●hereby We say we would have it to be what the Scriptures say it to be viz. The Light of Christ the Son of God who called himself John 8. 12. the Light of the World and if so then Every Mans Light the Light of every Mind and Understanding and consequently the Light of Christ within too hard it seems for the Bishop to comprehend and yet so very easie to the meanest Capacity that observes the Discoveries and Convictions of it in their own Hearts But since it is as he rightly terms it a Fundamental with us we will follow the Bishop in his Inquiries a little further We say first then It is not the Natural Rational Faculty of Man for then It would be Man or a part of his Composition meerly as Man But that It is not but a Manifestation in the Soul of Man of Christ the Word-God the Light of the World the Second Adam the Lord from Heaven the Quickning Spirit who was full of Grace and Truth and of whom Man hath received Grace for Grace To wit a Tallent a Proportion suited to his Want and Capacity to Convince and Convert him to Renew and Restore him fro● his great Lapse unto God his blessed Maker again In short our Natural Rationa● Faculty is our Sight but not our Light● That by which we descern and judge wha● the Divine Light shews us viz. Good from Evil and Error from Truth But as the Ey● of the Body is the Sensible Faculty of seeing External Objects through the Discovery that an External Light as the Sun in the Firmament makes to the Eye but is not That Light it self so does the Rational Faculty of the Soul see Spiritual or Immaterial Objects through the Illumination of the Light of Christ within but is by no means That Light it self any more than the Eye is the Sun or John the Baptist was our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ that was but Servant and Fore-runner of his blessed Manifestation in the Flesh As for the Bishop's Innate Notions and Natural Conscience if by them he means Impressions or Principles wich are born And come with us into the World viz. the Law of God in the Heart of Man I must tell him first that this is not the Language of the Law and Testimony he referrs us to in the same Paragraph And next that as the Work is not the Workman so They are not properly the Light of Christ but the blessed Fruit and Effect of the Light of Christ the Word-God in Man which shines in the Heart and gives him the Knowledge of God and of his Duty to Him So that the Innate Notions or Inward Knowledge we have of God is from This true Light that lighteth every Man coming into the World but is not that Light it self Just so the Bishop's Natural Conscience must only mean a Capacity that Man has by Nature that is in his Creation of making Judgment of himself his Duty and Actions according to the Judgment of God manifested to him by the Light of Christ within Not that such a Capacity is That Light but that It sees or understands by the Inshining of the Divine Light the things that belong to Man's Duty and Peace Nor is it Conscience Illuminated by the preaching of the Gospel and the Operation of the Holy Ghost thereon which is the last of the Bishop's Constructions but That very Principle of Life Light which Illuminates the Conscience and was the very Spring and Force of the Apostolical Ministry and of the Conviction and Conversion of their Hearers and which Opened their Hearts to receive the Gospel when preach'd unto them In short this Excellent Principle is in Man but not of Man but of