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Light from the sun of righteousness discovering and expelling darkness, or, The doctrine and some of the corrupt principles of the people called Quakers briefly and plainly laid open and refuted ... / by H.G.
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which was and which is to come the Almighty Also vers 17. And when I saw him saith John I fell at his feet and he laid his right hand upon me saying pray observe it I am the first and the last But may be some will say Who is this Was this Jesus of Nazareth that was crucified for that you are to prove c. Read the very next words and you may see who it is I am HE that liveth and was dead and behold I am alive for evermore Let such fear and be troubled when they reade this and such like Scriptures who deny the God head of the Lord Jesus or do affirm that Person or Man was not the Christ and Son of the Highest who was slain upon the Cross for what doth more clearly prove the marvellous and mysterious Union of the Humane and the Divine Nature in one Person than these Scriptures and Arguments which have been mentioned 7. I argue again yet further he is the most high God unto whom spiritual Worship or Divine Adoration doth appertain or belong and that this belongs unto the Lord Jesus Christ see Matth. 8. 2. chap. 28. 17. Luk. 24. 52. Joh. 9. 38. Nay further 't is said Heb. 1. 6. And again when he bringeth in his first begotten into the World he saith And let all the Angels of God Worship him At the Name of JESUS saith the Apostle Phil. 2. 10. every knee shall bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is LORD to the glory of God the Father 8. He who hath power to forgive sins or to pardon all iniquity which may be forgiven unto men is God but that Jesus Christ hath such power is evident Matth. 9. 1 2 3 4 5 6. And Jesus knowing their thoughts said Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts vers 4. For whether is easier to say Thy sins are forgiven thee or to say Arise and walk vers 5. But that ye may know the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins c. compare this with Mark 2. 5 6 7. Luk. 5. 21. 9. He to whom the Saints ought to pray is the most High God but that the Saints do and ought to pray and call on the name of the Lord Jesus it is very clear Acts 9. 14. Rom. 10. 9 10 11 12. 1 Cor. 1. 2. 10. He that hath power to give the holy Spirit and the saving Graces thereof is God but that Jesus Christ hath power to baptize with the Spirit or to give the holy Spirit and all the heavenly Gifts and Graces thereof See these Scriptures Matth. 3. 11. Mark 1. 4. Ephes 4. 8 9 10 11. 11. He that was in the form of God and thought it no robbery to be equal with God and whom the Scriptures call God's fellow must needs be the Eternal God now that this is said of Jesus Christ is evident Phil. 2. 6 7. Zech. 13. 7. 12. But yet once again He who had power to lay down his life and also to raise it up again must needs be God but that Jesus Christ doth so affirm see Joh. 2. 19. Joh. 10. 18. 13. He who is the Object Author and Finisher of the true Believers Faith is God Eternal blessed for ever Amen but that Jesus Christ is the Object Author and Finisher of the Believers Faith see Joh. 14. 1. Ye believe in God believe also in me Joh. 9. 35. Heb. 12. 2. 14. He who can by his own Name proper Power and Authority give power unto others to become the Sons of God must needs be God himself but that Christ doth and can do this is evident Joh. 1. 11. He came unto his own and his own received him not but as many as received him to them gave HE power to become the Sons of God even to them which believe in his Name vers 12. He doth Adopt Regenerate or make others the Children of God by the effectual workings of His blessed Spirit in their hearts by which they are interested into all the Priviledges Promises and Blessings of the Covenant of Grace which none can do save God alone I might urge many other Scriptures and Arguments for the further proof and confirmation of this glorious Truth viz. He is our life Col. 3. 4. See Deut. 30. 20. Moreover he is said to be present alwayes with his People and dwelleth in their hearts by his Spirit c. It was by and through his Name that all those mighty Miracles were wrought he confirmed his Doctrine by Signs and Wonders by vertue of his own Power he raises and quickens whomsoever he will he as it appears to me lay claim to that glorious Title or Name by which God made known himself unto his People of old Exod. 3. 14. I am that I am this is my Name saith JEHOVAH and this is my Memorial to all Generations vers 15. And much after the same manner doth our Lord Jesus speak Joh. 8. 58. Before Abraham was I am As much as if he had said I have my being from none but have it of and from my self and am from Eternity according to that saying Prov. 8. I was set up from everlasting or from the beginning or ever the earth was when there was no depths I was brought forth vers 23. c. Again He is the Almighty the Omnipotent and the blessed and only Potentate Revel 1. 8. 1 Tim. 6. 16. Finally He was own'd and acknowledged of all to be no less than the Son of God The Father from Heaven doth testifie that he was his only begotten Son in whom he was well pleased He is declared to be the Son of God by the holy Spirit Rom. 1. And The Angels positively affirm the same concerning him yea and the holy Apostles I have shewed you have born witness to the same truth Nay those who had a hand in putting of him to death when they saw the Earth-quake and the vail of the Temple was rent they feared greatly and said Truly this man was the Son of GOD. Nay 6. I might add further The Devil himself is forced to acknowledge this thing See Mark 5. 7. And cryed out with a loud voice and said What have I to do with thee Jesus thou Son of the most High c. And now from all that hath been said it may appear to the weakest capacity That Jesus of Nazareth who was born of the Virgin was in very deed a MAN and did partake of the same flesh and blood WHICH THE CHILDREN partake of That he was made of a Woman and of the Seed of David according to the flesh being really man finite weak subject to passion and sufferings as we are and in all things made like unto his brethren sin only excepted and yet also the very eternal God and omnipotent Creator of the same essence or substance with the Father and the holy Spirit and that he had a personal existence or subsistence before he did assume our Nature and that He the Word or second Person of the glorious Trinity as so considered viz. respecting subsistence was incarnate that the Divine and Humane Nature being in a mysterious and wonderful manner united together is that same one Lord Jesus Christ perfect God and perfect Man in one Person subsisting in two real distinct Natures each Nature retaining notwithstanding this glorious Union it s own natural Propertties and Attributes I might now come to Answer and remove those Objections that are brought against what I have said concerning this glorious Truth but because I have been larger already than indeed I intended or thought I should have been when first I entered upon this work I must forbear and leave the Objections to some other season And now Reader if thou hast received any spiritual benefit from what hath thus occasionally been written by a poor worm weakling and nothing Creature see thou dost not forget to return the praise to JEHOVAH who alone deserves it and labour for soundness in judgement and stability lest thou also beest carried away with these divers new and strange Doctrines Remember the Apostles counsel Heb. 13. 9. The times you see are difficult and perilous and ye knowing these things before 2 Pet. 3. 17 18. Beware lest ye also being led away with the error of the wicked fall from your own Steadfastness but grow in Grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ To him be glory both now and for ever Amen FINIS
3. 11. yet how is this stone in these dayes as well as he was in former times set at nought and dissallowed by many who take upon them to be builders some wholly do disown him others in a mysterious manner lay him aside for notwithstanding their fair pretences of making him their pattern yet the foundation upon which they build is quite another thing And a third sort there be who build upon him but in part and few they are by whom Jesus Christ is alone exalted c. It is the great grief and trouble of my Soul to see what new and strange Opinions are daily hatched and fomented by the Spirit of Errour and Delusion concerning Jesus Christ Some deny his glorious Godhead Deity or Divine Nature Others though they do assert that Jesus Christ is the most high God yet will they not grant that Jesus of Nazareth that man who was born of the Virgin is the Christ and very God but rather as thou mayst perceive by this precedent discourse they absolutely assirm that that inward Light Power or Godhead distinct and apart from the Human Nature or Body that was prepared for him was the Christ that is to say the Spirit or the Anointing and not HE who was therewith anointed And what is this less than to deny the Lord who laid down his life and was crucified to make peace and reconcile us to the Father c. Notwithstanding somewhat hath already been spoken to refute this strange Doctrine yet I am stirred up to add this after-word hoping it may prove through the blessing of the Almighty for a further confirmation of the weak in the truth of the Gospel That which I intend to do is to prove and more clearly make appear that Jesus Christ is truly Man but more especially to shew that he viz. Jesus of Nazareth is the most high God First That he is a Man consider and weigh well these Scriptures that give to him that Appellation The Prophet Isaiah calls him a Man of sorrows Isa 53. 3. The Apostle Peter calls him a man approved of God see Acts 2. 22. Ye men of Israel hear these words Jesus of Nazareth a man approved of God among you by Miracles and Wonders c. John the Baptist called him a Man Joh. 1. 30. This is he of whom I said after me cometh a MAN c. The Apostle Paul calls him a Man 1 Tim. 2. 5. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and Men the MAN Christ Jesus And the Author to the Hebrews in several places calls him a Man see Heb. 7. 24. 10. 12. But this Man after he had offered one Sacrifice for sins for ever sat down on the right hand of God Secondly as he is called a Man so 't is evident and plainly affirmed in Scripture that he was made flesh Joh. 1. 14. or did assume our Nature Forasmuch then as the Children are partakers of flesh and blood he also himself likewise took part of the same Heb. 2. 14. compare this with vers 16. For verily he took not on him the nature of Angels but he took on him the seed of Abraham Moreover the Apostles saith Rom. 1. 3. That he viz. Jesus Christ was made of the seed of David according to the flesh And Gal. 4. 4. the same Apostle affirms That God sent forth his Son made of a Woman c. and from hence he is called the Son of David and the Off-spring of David c. But to proceed Thirdly The Scriptures sayes He was made like unto us in all things sin only excepted he had the very form shape and fashion of a man Phil. 2. 8. That he was born of the Virgin and laid in swadling clothes and that he grew in stature or bigness as others do Luke 2. 52. That he was subject to hunger and cold Matth. 4. 2. and that some times he was found to mourn and weep and at another time to rejoyce and also that of some things he was ignorant and that he was exposed to temptation Matth. 4. 1. Heb. 2. 18. and also unto the rage and fury of wicked men that he was put to death his side the Scripture sayes was pierced and that out of it came water and blood that his feet and hands were nailed to the Cross and that he was buried or laid in a new Sepulchre and that he rose from the dead Now 't is clear and undeniable that all these things could not be said of him were he not in very deed a man as we are c. The next thing that I am to do is to shew and make appear unto you from the holy Scripture That this very man viz. Jesus of Nazareth though he is truly man yet also he is the most high and eternal God and that the Humane and Divine Nature make but one Christ there being such a glorious wonderful and mysterious Union of the two Natures in one Person And for the proof of this observe the Answer of the Apostle Peter to the question our Saviour put forth Matth. 16. 13. Whom do men say that I the Son of man am To which Peter answered vers 16. Thou art CHRIST the Son of the living God This Answer our Lord approved of and therefore said Blessed art thou Simon Bar-jona for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee but my Father which is in heaven And again at another time when Jesus asked his Disciples whether they also would go away Simon Peter answered him Lord to whom shall we go thou hast the words of eternal life and we believe and are sure that thou art THAT CHRIST the Son of the living GOD. And to this agrees the saying and Testimony of the Angel to Mary Luk. 2. 36. The holy Spirit shall come upon thee and the power of the Highest shall over shadow thee therefore also that holy Thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God It may not be amiss also if I mention the words of Nathaniel Joh. 1. 4 9. Nathaniel answered and said Rabbi Thou art the Son of God thou art the King of Israel And that I may further make this appear that Jesus of Nazareth is truly God yea the most high God as is the Father and of the same substance and essence though distinguished from the Father as touching his personal subsistence I shall lay down these following Arguments taken from the holy Scriptures First Because he hath that very name or application given unto him See Heb. 1. 8. But unto the Son he saith Thy Throne O God is for ever and ever compared with Acts 20. where the Apostle chargeth the Elders of the Church of Ephesus to take heed unto themselves and to all the Flock over which the holy Spirit had made them Overseers to seed the Church of God which HE observe hath purchased with his own blood vers 28. Now all men know that he who gave himself for the Church to purchase the