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A62877	True old light exalted above pretended new light, or, Treatise of Jesus Christ as He is the light which enlightens every one that comes into the world : against the sense both of the Quakers, Arminians, and other assertors of universal grace, whose light is proved to be darkness / delivered in nine sermons, by John Tombes, B.D., and commended to publick view by Mr. Richard Baxter.	Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing T1824; ESTC R21431	110,239	95

for him And he is before all things and by him all things consist Col. 1. 16 17. And to like purpose it is said Heb. 1. 2 3. By whom also he made the worlds and upholding all things by the word of his power Sect. 2. Christ enlightens the world with the knowledge of God as the Prophet of the Church There are other sorts of light which are from Christ as his Fathers Officer sent into the world and anointed for the recovery of man sallen by sinne 1. There is the light of the knowledge of the glory of God which is by the enlightening that is in the face or person of Jesus Christ as Paul expresseth it 2 Cor. 4. 6. Whereby it is that we see as through a glass the glory of the Lord with unveiled face 2 Cor. 3. 18. Not as it was with Israel when they could not look on Moses without a veil over his face as it is ver 7. 13. Till Christ appeared in the flesh the Gentiles were darkness Paul saith of the Galatians Gal. 4. 8. Howbeit then when ye knew not God ye did service unto them which by nature are no Gods Of the Ephesians Ye were once darkness but now are ye light in the Lord Eph. 5. 8. Of the Corinthians Ye know that ye were Gentiles carried away unto these dumb Idols as ye were led 1 Cor. 12. 2. The Jews also had their mindes blinded the vail remained untaken away in the reading of the old Testament which vail is done away in Christ 2 Cor. 3. 14. The being of the true God was so little known to the Gentiles till Christ appeared to be a light to the Gentiles that they were not only without God in the world Eph. 2. 12. Insomuch that the Athenians themselves sensible of their ignorance of him inscribed their Altar thus To the unknown God Act. 17. 23. confessing God was unknown of them But they were also so vain in their imaginations that they imagined those things to be Gods which were no Gods but creatures made to serve them being imparted unto all nations under the whole heaven by God Deut. 4. 19. Yea and under divers resemblances the meaner sort of living creatures Rom. 1. 23. And dead men and Devils 1 Cor. 10. 20. And for the Jews they understood not the counsel of God in giving of the Law and the appointing sacrifices and ceremonies till by the light of Christ the end of these things was revealed But the only begotten Son which is in the besome of the Father he hath declared God Ioh. 1. 18. revealing his true being and thereby undeceiving the Gentiles and his counsels in the giving of the Law and appointing the legal worship and thereby hath enlightened the Jews And this enlightening is proper to him who tells us Mat. 11. 27. All things are delivered unto me of my Father and no man knoweth the Son but the Father neither knoweth any man the Father but the Son and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him This light is derived from Christ as the great Prophet of the Church of God Sect. 3. Christ as high Priest enlightens with the light of peace and joy in God 2. There is a light of peace with God which is by Christ who is our peace reconciling both Jews and Gentiles in one body by the cross having slain the enmity thereby Ephes. 2. 14. 16 This is that peace which Christ calls his peace which he promiseth to his Apostles Joh. 14. 27. where he saith Peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you not as the world giveth give I unto you let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid And again Joh 16. 33. These things have I spoken unto you that in me you might have peace in the world ye shall have tribulation but be of good chear I have overcome the world So that this light of peace with God begets the light of peace and joy in the hearts of those that are Christs insomuch that being justified by faith and having peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ they rejoyce in the hope of the glory of God and not only so but they glory in tribulations also Rom. 5. 1 2 3. This peace of God which passeth all understanding keeping as a guard their hearts and mindes through Christ Jesus Phil. 4. 7. Hence it hath come to pass that even when the wicked are driven away in their wickedness as with a storm yet the righteous hath hope in his death Prov. 14. 32. As Oecolampadius when his light failed him near his death told them about him that he had light enough within him Hereby the holy Martyrs and Confessors when the heavens were black over them the rage frowns threats tortures of tyrants violently rushed upon them yet stood unmoved without being shaken by any terrour or grief from them Who shall separate us saith Paul Rom. 8. 35 36 37 38 from the love of Christ Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword Nay in all these things we are mare then conquerours through him that loved us For I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. This light is derived from Christ as the high Priest of the people of God Sect. 4. Christ as King of Saints enlightens with the light of glory 3. There is yet a higher and more illustrious light from Christ to wit the light of glory which is termed by the Apostle Paul Col. 1. 12. the inheritance of the Saints in light and by our Lord Christ Joh. 8. 12. the light of life which is that eternal life which is said to be the gift of God through Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 6. 23. This is that blessed light of the new Jerusalem which hath no need of the Sun neither of the Moon to shine in it for the glory of God doth lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof and the nation of them that are saved shall walk in the light of it Rev. 21. 23 24. Of this light the glorified Saints shall be fully partakers at the resurrection when the righteous shall shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdome of their Father Mat. 13. 43. Their vile body or body of debasement shall be changed by the Lord Jesus Christ that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body Phil. 3. 21. which is now more glorious then it was on the Mount Mat. 17. 2. and yet then he was transfigured and his face did shine as the Sun and his raiment was white as the light And for their spirits doubtless they shall then have farre greater light Now we see through a glass darkly or in a riddle but then face to face Now I know in part but then shall I know

not Christ did in his Name cast out Devils Luk. 10. 49 50. And by this he refuted Luk. 11. 19. the Pharisees who imputed his casting out Devils to an assistance of the Prince of the Devils 2. By the concomitants and consequents of his lifting up which was his death on the crosse Joh. 11. 32 33. For 1. The prediction of it with the fulfilling thereof shewed he spake from God whose property it is to foretell future contingents as certain 2. The things themselves proved him to come from God 1. The wonderfull accidents that hapned at his death Mat. 27. 54. the renting of the Vcil of the Temple and of the rocks and the quaking of the earth and opening of the graves made the Centurion and his Souldiers say Truly this was the Son of God 2. His Resurrection not withstanding all the obstruction used by Pilate and the Jews with the rising of many bodies of the Saints which slept and appeared to many in Jerusalem manifest by the many and undoubted signs thereof to many persons many times proves his descent from God 3. The giving of the Spirit on the great day of Pentecost in the sight of Proselytes from all Countries which was also done by Apostles in other places together with many Miracles in his Name proved that he taught the truth he received from the Father 4. The dispossessing of Satan of his Empire in the worship of Idols and the giving of Oracles as from them and the drawing of the Gentiles to him as he foretold Joh. 12. 31 32. in which was part of the great mystery of Godlinesse 1 Tim. 3 16. which we at this day see accomplished together with many other Prophecies of the destruction of Jerusalem its treading down of the Gentiles the Preaching of the Gospel over all the world the calamities of the Jews the persecution of the Christians with other things Matth. 24. Luk. 21. and elsewhere abundantly demonstrate that he was the true light which came down from Heaven in respect of the Doctrine he taught and words he spake His words also appear to be the true light from the matter of them and the ends whereunto they tend and the effects of them For 1. The matter of them is pure like God containing holy Precepts not amorous Poems or sophistical quirks of wit or curious devices of art or cunning maxims of State policy or glorious atchievements of war or any thing that tends to exalt man but such Precepts and Revelations as make man spiritual heavenly wise like unto God There is nothing vain and fabulous like to the frothy wit of men nor deceitfull like to the wily old Serpent but solid and weighty concerning peace with God conversion unto him denying our selves taking up our Crosse following of Christ in patience contentednesse meeknesse humility and such like things as shew faith in God and hope of a reward in Heaven all plain without flattery of men to induce them to follow him in hopes of earthly preferment and worldly wealth or pleasure or praise of men but the clean contrary yet are they such things as when declared appear so necessary for sinners so full of goodnesse and congruity to Prophetical Predictions that the conscience of men not listed up with pharisaical concei's of self-righteousnesse nor obstinately addicted to their own lusts will assent to and embrace them 2. The ends of them and the effects are the salvation of man and the glory of God All that Christ spake it was to comfort the humble and afflicted soul Luk. 4. 18. to ease the burthened Matth. 11. 28. to direct them to God to reform the evils in Gods worship to take men off from covetousnesse hypocrisie and such evils as are pernicious to believe in God to love each other to lay up our treasure in Heaven not to be excessively carefull for the things of this life with whatever else might bring men nigh to God and alienate them from this present evil world And accordingly so were and are the effects regeneration or new birth rejoycing in God mortification of the deeds of the body comfort in tribulation a life of faith love to the Brethren in Christ and everlasting consolation and good hope through grace All which with inumerable other Characters and Symptomes of Christs Doctrine and Testimony do shew that he was the true light and that what he spake to Pilate Joh. 18. 37. was right To this end was I born and for this cause came I into the world that I should bear witnesse unto the truth every one that is of the truth heareth my voice Lastly That in respect of his sincerity or moral truth he was the true light it is manifest in that as he said to the Jews he sought not his own will but the will of the Father which sent him Joh 5. 30. That he sought not his own glory Joh. 8. 50. Which appears in that he sometimes forbad the spreading of his fame withdrew himself when they would have made him King Joh. 6. 15. was content to be deprived of ordinary conveniencies Luk. 9. 58. In a word made himself of no reputation or emptied himself and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likenesse of men and being in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient unto death even to the death of the crosse Phil. 2. 7 8. that he might give Testimony to the truth Sect. 8. Application by way of Vindication of our selves from the Accusation of Quakers as if we denied the Light John 1. 9. and warning to shun false Lights From that which hath been said 1. It may appear that those who go under the name of Quakers do unjustly accuse publique Preachers as if they did deny the true light which inlighteneth every man that cometh into the world that they deny Christ the light for so in their speeches and books they do frequently charge them None that I have seen is more profuse and frequent in these charges then G. F. that is George Fox in his Catechism who saith p. 7 Toat neither the Jews nor Christians do believe in the light which doth inlighten every man that cometh into the world though they professe some of Christs and the Apostles words which the Jews do not P. 9. he saith Teachers by the will of man meaning publique Preachers in England and Professors say that Christ doth not inlighten every one that cometh into the world and they deny Christ. P. 13. That none can confesse Christ but who confesse the light which every man is inlightened withall But frequently in the same paper he terms such as acknowledge not the light which he imagins every one hath Antichrists Deceivers not Teachers of Christ but deniers of him p. 15. But this crimination is but the raving of men that are used to make clamours and outcries without any proof Though the text plainly enough distinguisheth the light inlightening and the light in every man from that true