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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B10044	A testimony concerning the life and death of William Sixmith, being sent with the following matter to London, in order to be made publick.	Sixmith, William, 1655 or 6-1677.; Sixmith, Bryan, d. 1679.	1678 (1678)	Wing S3923B; ESTC R184261	13,685	28

Honour and Renown To have it stay'd and fi●t in the true Joy It s after this my panting Soul doth Cry To have it gather'd out of Earthly Things And have it plac'd in that where true Contentment Springs My Eye beholds the place where I would Be I would enjoy the same as well as See But I this Scripture do witness Fulfilling The Flesh is Weak but ah the Spirit 's Willing Which makes me breath unto the Lord that I May conquer that which doth me so Annoy That I might with the Apostle Paul thus Say Not I that live but Christ that lives in Me. Here is the perfect holy Christian's State In which the Lord did Adam first Create For he created was to live to Him Not to the Flesh but to live without Sin O! if that he had kept that holy Station In which the Lord plac'd him in the Creation He had partook of that great Mystery In which consisteth true Felicity W. S. A Letter of William Sixmith to J. D. John Dunbabin I Do acknowledge thy Kindness in lending me John Cheyney's Book for when I heard of it I had a desire of reading it but they were kept so close that I could not procure one of Ten Days after they came down and when I got one it was but for two or three Hours and that on the Market day but ● now have perused most of it especially the Praemonition to the Reader and the Inspection c. as he calls them It hath been my Desire to try all things and hold fast that which is good So the Truth in his Book I assent to but by his Writings I perceive a Spirit of Persecution to lodge in his Heart incensing the Civil Magistrate against us Grudging our Prosperity even striving to Besmeer us which manifests him to be no Minister of Christ neither ruled nor guided by his Spirit and from an Envious Lying Spirit do his Works proceed and he beholds us with an Evil Prejudicial Eye which always looks asquint As for his Praemonition it s stuffed with seven Notorious Falshoods which he can never prove more properly belonging to himself than to the Quakers from which I believe he cannot easily clear himself His other Work being chiefly to speak Evil of the Light of Christ Jesus even the Illumination of God's holy Spirit calling it Dagon an Idol a Blind and Deceitful Guide making it guilty of all sins of Omission and Commission comparing it to a Drunken Coach-man saying There is never a Soul in Hell but may blame the Light within with a great deal more Wicked Ungodly Speeches though in Contradiction of the same he saith in his Book called Two Sermons of Hypocrisie c. page 233. where thou mayst read him praising the Light calling it The Excellency of the Man saying The vilest man by reason of this is of more price than all the World which makes the Soul of man Superlatively pretious by this it is capable to live Everlastingly in Heaven or in Hell To speak against this Light simply as such is to speak against God the Author of it and to undermine all Religion Now let any moderate Person seriously consider whether he hath not Indicted himself and is found guilty of Blasphemy for Blasphemy signifies to Reproach Revile or speak Evil of And is it not before apparent that he hath Reproached Reviled and spoken Evil of the Light and so is condemned out of his own Mouth to have spoken against God the Author of it and to undermine all Religion In page 100. of the same Book he gives a very large Testimony for us saying There is that in your Bosoms more than Ten Thousand Witnesses Now by the Mouth of two or three Witnesses every thing is confirmed but this he confesseth more than Ten Thousand Surely this then may be believed and approved In these same two pages before quoted he hath said that which Overthrows all his Works And in this pag. 100. beareth a very large Testimony to the Quakers Doctrine which for bevity I transcribe not but desire thee seriously to peruse it In his Advice to the Quakers pag. 218. he entreats them To be earnest in Prayer and not to tarry till the Spirit move to Prayer but when we have time and place convenient to provoke themselves to Prayer c. So he would have them take his Advice contrary to the Apostle's Exhortation Praying always with all Prayer and Supplication in the Spirit Ephes 6.18 Also it s absolutely contrary to that positive Assertion of the holy Man in Rom. 8.26 We know not what to pray for as we ought but the Spirit it self maketh Intercession for us So it s not in him that wills nor in him that runs for the Lord heareth his own Spirit and another Spirit he will not hear Not that I thus write that I disown Prayer for the Prayers of the Faithful avail much and they know the Lord preparing the Evening and Morning Sacrifice and so in his own time offer it up unto him which he doth hear and answer and these Prayers are amongst us both in publick and in private though he wickedly says contrary And though he insinuates in pag. 241. That this Light was never intended to be sufficient of it self to Salvation yet the Scripture saith that which was given for a Light was given for Salvation to the Ends of the Earth Isa 49.6 Mat. 13.47 As for his asserting The Light goes down with the Soul into Hell and being turned into a Self-tormenting Light he can bring no Scripture to prove it for we read that the Talent the sloathful Servant had given him was commanded to be taken from him before that dismal Sentence Cast him into utter Darkness was pronounced against him Mat. 25.8 He owns this Light within should be man's Guide and is charged to watch over the Soul but doth not see his Book Skirmish pag. 13 c. Now where in Scripture doth any read that God gives any other Guide any other Leader to Mankind universally but Christ Jesus Oh that he would consider what he hath belched forth against the Son of God! For this I am certain of that the Quakers preach no other Light then Christ Jesus the Light of the World John 8 1● no other Spirit then the Spirit of God a Measure or Manifestation of which is given to every one to profit withal 1 Cor. 12.7 no other Grace then that which is in Christ Jesus 2 Tim. 2.1 and hath appeared to all men Tit. 2.11 He hath not brought one Scripture that will favour these gross ●ssertions of his before cited he thinks Mat. 6.22 23. makes something to his purpose which I shall transcribe The Light of the Body is the Eye if therefore thy Eye be single thy whole Body shall be full of Light but if thine Eye be Evil thy whole Body shall be full of Darkness if therefore the Light that is in thee be Darkness how great is that Darkness From this Scripture he cannot make the Illumination of God's Spirit Darkness for Christ here speaketh of the Single Eye and the Evil Eye for as it is written in Eccless 2.14 The Wise Man's Eyes are in his Head c. but the Fool 's are in the Ends of the Earth Prov. 17.24 There is a Single Eye the Wise Man's Eye which is in Christ the Head and the Evil Eye the Fool 's Eye which is Darkness and is in the Ends of the Earth So there is a Distinction to be made betwixt the Eye and that which opens or illuminates the Eye which is the Spirit of God and that which darkens and blinds the Eye which is the Spirit of this World But J C. is in Confusion and call Evil Good and Good Evil Light Darkness and Darknes Light and plainly appears to be one of Babel's Builders who know not Scripture-Expressions or else quarrels with them because the Quakers use them witness his Cavil at the word Measure saying God cannot be cut into Measures Shreds or Pieces when it s a word the Apostle Paul much useth look Ephes 4.7 13. But unto us is given Grace according to the Measure of the Gif● of Christ Till we all come in the Vn●ty of the Faith and of the Knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect Man unto the Measure of the Stature of the Fulness of Christ Also John the Baptist speaking of Christ saith God giveth not the Spirit by Measure unto him John 3 3● plainly implying that to others be giveth his Spirit by Measure 2 Cor. 10.13 14 15. Ephes 4.16 And J. C. must either confess that he hath not the Spirit of God or that he hath it by Measure or else in Fulness which we read of none but Christ that had which if he affirm he makes himself equal with Christ if he hath not the Spirit he is none of his if ●e owns it by Measure ●e owns the Quakers Doctrine So under some of these censures he must needs fall Read Rom. 13.3 with the other Scriptures which I forbear writing at large J. C. i●to be pitied if what he hath written be through ignorance and blind zeal and I wish that he hath not gone contrary to Knowledge and that the Lord may open his Understanding and of all that are simply led astray by him for it is my Belief that what he hath written against the Light will be more heavy than a Milstone in the Day the Lord calls him to an Account O! that he could Repent and consider For it s the Life of God which is the Light of men which shines in Darkness and the Darkness comprehends it not John 1.4 5. This is the Stone which J. C. rejects which is become the Head of our Corner This is the Stone of Stumbling and Rock of Offence to J. C. which is become to us Elect and Pretious and the very Rock of Salvation Is he not in the Saints the Hope of Glory a Comforter a Saviour And in the Wicked a Judge a Condemner I cannot but Admire that he should withstand such Sound Doctrine which the holy Scriptures do so fully declare But no We●pon that is formed can prosper against them that have on the Armour of Light William Sixmith Warrington the 23d of the 1st Moneth 1677. THE END Swarthmore Hall FRIENDS HISTORICAL LIBRARY SWARTHMORE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA