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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65881	The Quakers plainness detecting fallacy in two short treatises : I. The first in answer to an abusive epistle, styl'd, The Quakers quibbles, and the comparison therein between the Muggletonians and the Quakers, proved absurd and unjust, II. The second, being a brief impeachment of the forger's compurgators (in their Quakers appeal answered) whose injustice, partiality and false glosses have given the chief occasion of these late contests / by George Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1674 (1674)	Wing W1949; ESTC R38608	33,527	88

be the Divine Essence the Light must be so also for such as the Cause is such the Effect must be Thus G. W. in a Manuscript Whereas it is not thus laid down either in this Method or Form of Argument in any Manuscript of mine that I know of or an remember or find out and yet I do own That the Life which is the Light of Men that true Light wherewith every ma● is enlightened Joh. 1.4.9 in its own Being is God and Christ and not a meer Effect of Power as a made or created Thing but Divine and Increated It appears that these Witnesses have received divers Things on the Credit of their Brother T. Hicks who in like Manner layes down the Argument in his first Dialogue yet they have the Confidence to subscribe thereto though I confess I laid down my Reason to prove that Life which is the Light of and in Men Divine thus far viz. If that Life which is the Light of Men be of the divine Being then the Light must be so also Unto which I may now add the following Proposition But that Life is of the Divine Being or of a Divine Nature therefore the Light of Men spoaken of Joh. 1.4 9. must be so also I also grant that the Cause and Effect were spoaken of upon T. H. his esteeming the Light within but an Effect c. to explain my Sense of the Cause and Effect though not laid down in such an inconsistent Argument is placed upon me It was only admitted a● between that Divine Life and its immediate Illumination or Lightning in Man which naturally flows or proceeds from the Life So that if I should go meerly in the Form of Argument there being different Causes and Effects I should first distinguish between them As there are Causes and Effects or Products of one Kind or Nature so there are of different Kinds As the Sun and the Shining or Beams thereof are of one Kind and the Fountain and Streams thereof are of one Kind or Nature but so are not the Carpenter and the House that he makes c. as I plainly signified my Intention and Sense about that Immediate Light in Man being Divine Supernatural by a Reason of the contrary As the Light or Immediate Shining of the Sun in the Firmament is Natural because the Sun it self is a Natural Light so the Immediate Illumination or Shining of God in Man's Heart or Conscience must needs be Divine and Supernatural because he himself is so who is the Fountain of Light That Eternal Life which was with the Father 1 Joh. 1.2 is Divine and that Life was and is the Light of Men Joh. 1.4 And so 't is God who hath shined in our Hearts to give the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4.6 And his shining we hope will not now be denyed to be Divine being immediately of and from himself and he so shined in their Hearts before they were come to the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Christ Jesus in Order to give them that Knowledge And I further add let it therefore suffice that it is my Principle That the Life which is the Light of Men mentioned Joh. 1.4.9 is Divine Supernatural and so Increa●●d and it was never my Judgment or Words that it was but a mere Effect as a Thing made but that in its own Being 't is no other then the Life of God and so himself and that every Measure or Degree of his Immediate Light Inshining or Illumination in Man is Divine and Spiritual and able to direct the Soul to God Christ from whence it cometh knowing also that God's Love and Grace in Christ is universal and free to all Mankind And why we should be Vnchristian'd for confessing Christ to be that Light which enlightneth every Man that comes into the World or for saying that the Light in Men is Divine I do not understand since T.H. himself hath confessed That Christ is the Life and Light of men Dial. 1. p. 22. Though this he hath often contradicted and since made it an Article against us to prove us No Christians that we hold That the Light wherewith every Man is enlightned is God when he himself hath confessed that it is Christ as namely That Christ is the Life and Light of Men. Sect. V. A slanderous Accusation of T. Hicks's against the Quakers removed AS to Matter of Fact Whereas we are charg'd to say That it concerns us to render our Adversaries as ridiculous as we can and to make our Friends believe they do nothing but contradict themselves and if this fail that we will insinuate by way of Question something that may be a Slander to them Dial. 1. pag. 72. and Qu. Ap. answ pag. 22. To prove this Charge T. Hicks saith that G. W. in his Answer to Mr Danson insinuates a Slander upon him by way of Question by saying That he styleth himself Minister of the Gospel at Sandwich but is not rather that Report of him true That he is given to Gaming and Bowls c And again T. H. addeth This Question was put meerly to slander him A notorious Untruth It was not put with any such Intent as meerly to slander him for it is true that such a Report was given to me of him and seem'd not improbable or then incredible to me such Recreations so call'd being common to men of his Coat It is true that by the Question before I did oppose a Gamster or Player at Bowls to a Minister of the Gospel but that I neither made the Report nor design'd to slander T.D. by way of Question or otherwise as I am slanderously accused see the following Certificate As concerning the Report that hath been made Question of touching T. Danson ' s exercising himself at Bowls c. when Minister at Sandwich I can certifie that I had this Report from an Independent who was an Inhabitant at Sandwich and who if Occasion require I question not but will evidence it and accordingly I made mention of this Report to George Whitehead witness my Hand Isaac Chatwode Now judge serious Reader how unjustly T.H. hath represented me as putting the Question meerly to slander T. D. whether he be concern'd or not I determine not which thing hath been perversly hinted in several Pamphlets against us And whether or no the said Question doth prove it our Answer Words or Principle to say That it concerns us to render our Adversaries as ridiculous as we can or that we will insinuate by way of Question something that may be a Slander to them as T.H. hath Dialogued the Matter in our Name after a most abusive sort beyond all Bounds of Honesty or Civility who farther attempts to prove that my Question before was put meerl● to slander him from what W. P. alledges in this very thing which is Who knows not that the Priests give themselves a Liberty in more