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A54245	Urim and thummim, or, The apostolical doctrines of light and perfection maintained against the opposite plea of Samuel Grevill (a pretended minister of the Gospel) in his ungospel-like discourse against a book entituled A testimony of the light within, anciently writ by Alexander Parker / by W.P.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1674 (1674)	Wing P1393; ESTC R27610	28,857	34

and his Spirit and Grace whereby is ministred Strength unto us to perform those things that are command●d which the Books of themselves still cannot do though they declare of that which can Not that we would lessen them as our ungodly Wresting Adversaries say or that we would take off People from reading them but if they of themselves could do or had that Power which belongs to the everlasting Gospel how comes it that so many Studiers of them receive no clearer Knowledge and living Sence of God Christ the holy Spirit Scriptures c We do teach That to read them with a good Understanding Men must come to that which g●ves it which is the Inspiration of the Almighty Job 32. 8. But it is worth our while to consider what Work he makes of A. P's saying That the Gospel is the Power of God to Salvation an absolute plain Scripture as any in the Bible A. P. d●th not deny that the Gospel was before all Time consequently that it is the Essence of God and he is a Disciple of the Heretick Swingfield Did ever Man pretending to Sense or Seriousness make such wild forreign and lame Conclusions These are it seems to serve for Bugbears to scare the People He might have as well said The Quakers believe the Life Everlasting and conclude Therefore they make it the Essence of God which as reasonably proclaims the Church of England a Company of Hereticks nay all the World that believe that Article as he can brand A. P. for one because he said The Gospel is the Power of G●d and Everlasting which the Scripture calls it In these things he truly partakes with the F●lse Brethren he speaks of mentioned Act. 15. 24. who did not only teach and establish against the abolishing Power of the Gospel transient Observations but their own vain Trad●tions for Doctrines glorying in them as did the Jews crying The Temple The Ord●nances while they neglect the weightier Things and make void the Commandment of God and Christ the Old Commandment and the New Commandment the same that was from the beginning the First and the Last even that which ●ndures forever Methinks these Hireling Ministers are like some Mercenary Souldiers or Souldiers of Fortune as they are called that cannot bear to think of the Enemy's being totally routed lest their War end and their Pay with it Such Persons instead of pursuing the Enemy turn about against their valiant and faithful Followers that cry They run They run we shall utterly rout and subvert them No! rather then highten and pursue that Resolution they will basely betray the Cause its most sincere Abettors into the Arms of the publick Enemy They make no Scruple of doing this Evil not that Good but Gain may come of it They had rather the Devil were unsubdued then they disbanded that his being unconquered might be a Pretence for keeping such Mercenaries alwayes on foot who are therefore the greatest Enemies of Christ's Kingdom in the Hearts of his Children These are they that will flee because they are Hirelings and care not for the Flock John 10. And it so falls out that now we have not only the old Adversaries but these also betwixt them and us who instead of going on against them first turn themselves manifestly against us and endeavour what they can to obstruct our March But the Lord God Jehovah is sufficient our Pillar of Cloud by Day and Fire by Night he goes before us Power and Might and Majesty are with him whose Holy Pure and Clear Voice we have certainly heard and in whose Blessed Appearance we have firmly believed and it is so well with us who retain our first Love to him and his pretious Truth in the inward parts that we can sing for Joy though in a weary Land and in the midst of many Distresses And this we know assuredly That he will shake terribly the Nations and bring Amazement upon the People Their Consciences will he suddainly awaken and with terrible Judgment will he plead with all the Proud Professing as well as Prophane Flesh in this Land it shall wither as the Grass and the Beauty of it fade as the Flower of the Field And in that Day shall Obedience to and Communion with the Light of Christ within be honourable and desirable in the sight of Thousands and the Truth shall have the Victory and the Dominion shall not be any longer the Devil 's but the Saints of the Most High over Hell Death and the Grave the Ancient of Dayes will bring it to pass Then shall Babylon fall and her Merchants howl for the great Judgment will surprize them as Travil a Woman with Child and the Lord God will reckon with them for the Souls of his People O fear before the Lord ye Priests and turn you unto him all ye Children of Men. W. P. Pag. 3. l. 27. f. former r. Form Pag. 4. l. 36. r whom I dare 1 Joh 9. Isa 2. Joh. 3. 21. Pag. 5. Pag. 7. Acts 14. 15 17. * Paul teaches that whatever is reproved is made manifest by the Light Ephes 5. 13. And whatever may be known of God is manifested in Man Rom. 1. 19. And that which manifests is Light as saith the same Apostle Ephes 5. 13. And he desired to be made manifest to the Conscience Then there was Light for Men were reproved Rom 2 15. and they could not be r●prov'd without it Ephes 5. 13. Col. 1. 26. Eph. 2. 7. 3. 5. * Was not that Mystery the great Work of Redemption And were not Thousands redeemed before If it was hid it was to such as had lost it by Rebellion It was the same Light not the same Degree that ever saved So Tryphon ask'd Just Martyr as I remember why Christ came nosooner * This proves not they had no Light at most it only sh●ws to us that it did not shine so clearly forth which stil● implies that it was the same in Nature How could those in Iob rebell again the Light if they had it not Codurcus ●usius Clarius Vatablus and others are not of his Mind for it is an invincible Truth that such as rebelled against the Light as Iob 24. 13. and God's good Spirit as Nehem. 9. 20. 26. notwithstanding their Formality and external Preciseness could not receive Christ Jesus but crucified him when he came John 1 9. Prov. 8. 4. 31. Iren. l. 5. c. 18. Justin Martyr Apo● pro Christianis p. 51. Orig. Commenon Rom. 2. 14. pag. 428. Stan. Vit. Philos Ursin Paraus Quest 6. Quest 92. Acts 17. 27. Grot. on that Place Pag. 1. Pag. 3. Luke 6. 31 32. Rom. 2. 14 15. David Paraeus in his Epitome of Arminian Artic. 3. Rom. 1. 19. ●very Grace or Gift of God is perfect Jam. ● 17 Psal 19. 7. 9 Rom. 7. 14. Ursin Qu. 92. and Para●us Orig. Com. ad Rom. p. 428. 1 Joh. 2. 7. Tertul. advers Judaeos §. 2. de Coron §. 6. See Chryso●● 1 To. Hom. 17. Oecumen on Jam. 5. 12. Basil on Psa 14. Hil. on Mat. can 4. Gal. 3. 10. Vers 19. vers 24 c. Origen ut supra Rom. 8. 1 2 3 c. Mat. 18. 1. Acts 3. 21. 1 Jo. 3. 5 8. Titus 2. 14. in loc citat Bp. Sanderson de Cons regul prelect 4. §. 31. Hebr. 9. 9. 1 John 5. 3. Calvin Remigius 1 Joh. 4. 18. John 14. 15. Rom. 13. 10. pag. 10. pag. 11. Gal. 3. 12 Neh. 9. 10. Rom. 1. 21. Rom. 2. 5. Isa 5. 3 4. 6. 9 10 11 12 Joh. 12. 31 42. Mark 12. 9 10. Phil. 3. 12. 2 Tim. 4. 6 7. Vers 2. Vers 9. See Zegerus and Grotius Erasmus on the place Pag. 12. Hebr. 5. Mat. 14. 31. See Grotius on the place John 7. 31. 1 Cor. 14. 20. Ignatius Epist to the Ephesians saith He that possesseth the Word of Jesus can truly hear also his SILENCE that he may be PERFECT p. 26. 1 Kings 8. 46. Eccl. 7. 20. pag. 13. Grotius on the place 1 Pet. 4. 1. Zegerus on the place Rom. 6. 18 2 Tim. 4. 7. Erasmus and Grotius on Rom. 7. pag. 8. 1 Cor. 3. 17. Zegerus on Rom 7. 24. I. Capellus and Drusius on Rom. 7. 24. Grotius on Rom. 7. 23 24. Ibid. on Rom. 6. 6. See D. Gell's Essay serm 19. p. 775. pag. 15. Mat. 12. 26 27 28 29. Luke 11. 1 Joh. 3. 5 6. B. R. Sand de consc reg Prel 4. Sect. 34. ●is Oxf. le●● Tit. 2. 11 12. 2 Cor. 12. 9. Ibid. §. 29. §. 31. Rom. 8. 3. B. San. ibid. §. 32. Joh. 15. 22. Grotius on 1 Joh. 19. A direct Knock to S. G Mat. 7. 18. Heb. 6. 5. 2 Tim. 1. 6. Gal. 3. 5. Acts 7. Ephes 6. 19. Chap. 3. 3 16. Col. 1. 26. 1 Tim. 1. 11. Epist ad Philadel p. 44. Orig. Comment n● Joh. pag. 9. Clem. Alex. Pedagog l. 1. p. 111. R. Allen on the Gos p. 1. P. Martyr Comm● Places p. 3. c. 2. Mat. 23 23 Luke 11 4. 1 Joh. 2. 7 8. Psal m 19. 9. 1 Cor. 13. 8.

URIM AND THUMMIM Or the Apostolical Doctrines OF LIGHT AND PERFECTION MAINTAINED Against the Opposite Plea of Samuel Grevill a Pretended Minister of the Gospel in his Ungospel-like Discourse against a Book entituled A Testimony of the Light Within anciently writ by Alexander Parker By W. P. This then is the Message which we have heard of him and declare unto you that God is LIGHT and in him is no Darkness at all If we say that we have Fellowship with him and walk in Darkness we Lye and do not the Truth But if we WALK in the Light AS HE IS in the Light we have Fellowship one with another and the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from ALL Sin 1 John 1. 5 6 7. Printed in the Year 1674. THE EPISTLE Candid Reader SInce it hath pleased the Everlasting God to visit a poor despised People in this Nation with a more direct immediate and clear Sight Sence and Knowledge of him then heretofore they had by the Shinings of his Eternal Light and Spirit in their Hearts thereby giving them a true Discerning of the Ways and Worships that have been in the World which gender towards meer Outside and lifeless Formality and of that Pure Straight and Narrow Way that stands in the Power of God and holy Life of Righteousness many very many have been their Tryals Exercises and deep Sufferings and that of Slandering them and their most precious Faith has not been the least in their Eye for by that Practice hath the Enemy of Christ's Kingdom cast such Mists and Vails over the Truth as have obscured the divine Beauty and Excellency of it from the Sight of People insomuch that some have dreaded nothing more then the Reception of that Principle which bears true and faithful Witness for God in their own Consciences It is cryed down for Insufficient by such as never tryed the Power and Efficacy of it and termed a Natural and Dim Light though It discovereth and instructeth Man in and about Spiritual and Supernatural Things O that they would obey this Day of small things and remember that Obedience is far better then Sacrifice How much is there of the latter But how little O how very little of the former What Degeneracy is there among all Professions Their Tenderness is withdrawing their Greenness withering apace with the former do they earnestly contend as the Jews of old against the very Power and Life of Godliness and see not that the God of the World has entered those Out-sides of Religion wherein perhaps the Lord may formerly in Condescension have appeared that he might lead them nearer to the Substance it self and for want of a true favoring Spirit in this Matter Millions are deluded yea so far as therein and therewith to oppose a more clear and heavenly Appearance of God to the Sons of Men thus do they resist the Visitations of God's Love to their Souls and reject their own Mercies Oh that an inquiring tender Spirit were more generally raised in the Hearts of People that they would consider our Relation to the latter dayes how much it concerns them in these New Covenant Times to be in Covenant with God which it is utterly impossible those should ever be who rebel against the Light by which he has visited them with daily Reproof and Instruction I have given him said the Lord of his Son for a Light to lighten the Gentiles and for my Salvation to the Ends of the Earth This is that true Light which enlightens the Souls of all as John testified and the Nations of them that are saved must walk therein Come let us walk in the Light of the Lord. This Measure of Light leads to God who is Light and this Measure of Grace and Truth guides the Soul unto him who is full of Grace and Truth where Salvation is known and plentious Redemption witnessed Blessings and Praises be to his Name forever Reader This Controversie begun by S. Grevill who calls himself a Minister of the Gospel near Banbury though briefly handled is of great Weight for it consists of two fundamental Doctrines of the Gospel and indeed the very Bottom of our Testimony viz. Christ's Manifestation of himself in the Hearts of his Children and the End of that Manifestation namely To make and End of Sin destroy the Works of the Devil finish Transgression and bring in everlasting Righteousness John 1. 3 5 8. Dan. 9. 24. These two Principles or rather Christ Jesus within the Principle and his Work compleat Redemption are lately opposed by S G● as laid down by Alexander Parker in a Book by him set forth about Seventeen Years since This is a sober Consideration and I hope a plain Enervation of his utmost Force in Defence of those Evangelical New Covenant Doctrines I recommend it to God's Witness in thy Conscience who will judge Righteous Judgment whose Servant I am in Body Soul and Spirit and whom dare not but confess and vindicate before men W. P. A General Defence of the LIGHT WITHIN by way of Introduction THough there be no Passage or Proposition to be found from one End of holy Scripture to the other more clearly laid down then that in John 1. 9. That was the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the World yet so strong hath been the Envy and so subtil the Endeavours of the Prince of Darkness as scarcely any one place hath been more wrested and abused on purpose to hinder Mankind from minding the Manifestations of it and yielding all ready Obedience to it as the way appointed of God to Eternal Life and Salvation Some will have it to be a Natural Light though it be the very Life of that Word which is God over all blessed forever and wrapt up within those Verses which only concern his Eternal Power and Godhhead Others will have it read thus Not that he enlightens all Mankind but that all who are enlightened are enlightened by him thereby not only narrowing and wronging the Text but rendring God so partial and injust to his Creatures as to cause his Light of Righteousness to arise on some without ever visiting the greatest part of Mankind with so much as a Day of Salvation though he sayes He would not the Death of any but rather that all should Repent and come to the Knowledge of the Truth There is a third sort that will needs have it understood not of any Illumination by a Divine Light or Spirit but the Life Christ lived and the Doctrine he preached when visibly in the World which neither reacheth the hundredth part of Mankind nor can be consistent with the Nature of that Part of John's History which wholely relates to his Divinity or what he was before he took Flesh 'T is true Christ was the Light of the World in that very Appearance and shined forth by his Heavenly Doctrine and Self denying Life a most holy Example yet not so as the exclude himself from