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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65872	The law and light within the most sure rule or light, which sheweth the right use and end of the Scripture, manifested in opposition to several false principles inserted in a book intitled Scripture light the most sure light, by William Bridge, the great pastor and Reverend Father, so accounted, of the Church at Yarmouth in Norfolk / confuted by George Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1662 (1662)	Wing W1940; ESTC R39128	7,236	9

of God for that is revealed in the hearts of believers Eph. 3.20 Pr. In page 9. and 10. A very good man may be much in the dark temptation time is a dark time yet this Scripture light he hath alwayes by him to the law and to the Testimony Ans. A very good man is born of God and walketh in the light and though he be tempted entereth not into the temptation for the wicked one toucheth him not as John said and that is the most sure light to him which keepeth him out of temptations which light was before the Scriptures were and the Law is light and the testimony is the Spirit of prophesie which was in the Saints before they wrote the Scriptures which are not the light but testifie of it Pr. page 7. Joseph when Mary was first with child he did not know what to do in the case till the Angel of the Lord appeared to him Ans. Which flatly contradicts his former words for then the Angel of the Lord and what he revealed to Joseph was more sure to him then the Scriptures of the Prophets for they did but foretell of Christ but the Angel convinced Joseph concerning Christ that he must not put away his wife as he would have done as by the Scripture touching fornication which she was not guilty of as the Angel convinced him Mat. 1.19 so that Revelation was more sure then the Scripture Pr. page 10. Wicked men have the light of the Scripture as a blind man hath the Sun the Sun is in the firmament over the head of the blind man yet it is not light to him Ans. Here again William Bridge hath contradicted himself for then the Scripture is not the most sure light to the wicked because the wicked are as far from understanding the Scripture as the blinde man is from seeing the light of the Sun by this mans words and yet he bids them that are wicked in the dark take heed to the word written which is no better then to bid a blind man follow the light of the Sun but that is the most sure light which shineth in the hearts and opens the blinde mans eyes and brings to Divine Revelation which the Scripture without doth not but testifies of the light and of Revelations which the light of Christ brings to Pr. page 12. The Scripture light is the most excellent safe and sure light it is the light of lights there are many false lights in the world Ans. God is the light of lights the Father of lights James 1.17 and not the Scripture for it is the writing not the light and if God be the Fountain of lights from whence did these false l●ghts come surely William Bridge hath spoken here much out of the feeling for that which is false is not the Light though deceit may transform like the light but no deceit is really light Pr. page 12. In looking in the Scripture this great looking-glass ye see the truth that are therein contained concerning God and Christ there is God seen especially and Christ seen there also you see your selves and your own dirty face this is that manifesting light under Christ. Ans. Here is confusion and false Doctrines added to confusion for if the wicked have the Scripture but as the blind man hath the Sun how should they see their dirty faces in the Scriptures or see the truth or God or Christ in the Scriptures when the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain God 1 Kings 8.27 much less the Scripture and he that would here divide the Scripture light from Christ as if the Scripture light were one and Revelation were another he is blind for the Light which the Saints have in Scripture is in them and is the light of Christ without which the Scriptures cannot be understood so that is the manifesting light which gives the true understanding of the Scriptures and the Letter or Writing not the light Pr. page 15. Scripture Light is the highest Light Scripture Dispensation the highest Dispensation the Dispensation of Visions and Revelations was of a lower rank Ans. Herein hath William Bridge both shewen his ignorance and contradicted his brethren the Priests for many of the Priests do account the Dispensation of the Prophets and Apostles of Christ which was a dispensation of visions and revelations far higher then theirs who now have the Scriptures but do not own revelations to be manifest in these dayes when as no man knoweth the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son will reveal him Mat. 11.27 so William Bridge in his counting visions and revelations of a lower rank then the Scripture he might as well say that the knowledge of God and Christ which is revealed is lower then the letter when as they were in a Scripture dispensation and had the letter of the Law and Prophets who persecuted Christ and Paul was there when a persecutor but when he received the dispensation of God given him by revelation whereby he was made a Minister he knew that which was above or beyond the Scriptures even Christ revealed in him the mystery and so preached him unto the Gentiles and did not sleight divine revelation nor set the letter above it as William Bridge hath done Gal. 1. Col. 1.27 2 Cor. 13.5 Pr. page 15. If God should now speak unto you by Visions or Visional Revelations how would you know that this were the voice of God but by the Scripture and who doth not know that the Devil will speak an hundred truths Ans. Here his grose ignorance of the voice of God is seen for God is able to manifest his own voice to them that have not the Scriptures without as he did before they were written and the sheep of Christ knows and hears his voice what doth William Bridge believe that the Sheep of Christ must all go to the Scripture without and try his voice thereby when the devil can speak Scripture or a hundred truths then what must try the devils voice and how then must they try voyces and spirits that cannot read the Scriptures now all that own the Spirit of Truth which searcheth all things whereby words voyces and Spirits are to be tryed they may soon see the Priests ignorance in these things Pr. Pag. 18. I am to be so far from desiring God to speak in this way of a vision as I am bound rather to be backward to it Ans. Here William Bridge his desires are contrary to the true Ministers desires for they went on to Visions and Revelations and preached what God had revealed by his word in them but in this he hath manifested himselfe to be like the Priests of old from whom the vision was departed and the day was become dark over them that they might not have a Vision and where there is no vision the People perish Mica 3. 2 Cor. 12.1 Pr. Pag. 18. If any have a revelation to try or confirme any Gospel doctrine 't is a delusion of Satan Ans. Which is quite