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A60654 Something written concerning the worlds creed, or, What they teach their children to believe for a belief of words cannot save the soul, but a belief in the light, Christ Jesus, the word of God ... Smith, William, d. 1673. 1660 (1660) Wing S4332; ESTC R10110 4,741 10

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Something VVRITTEN Concerning the Worlds Creed Or what they Teach their Children to BELIEVE For a Belief of Words cannot save the Soul but a Belief in the LIGHT CHRIST JESUS the Word of GOD And this is Written unto them who have been so long time in the Words out of the thing that they may come at length into the thing out of the Words and know that of God in themselves which is to be believed in LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Signe of the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1660. I Believe in God the Father Almighty saith the Child Maker of Heaven and Earth c. now mark he that believeth in God believeth in the Light for God is Light 1. John 1.5 ver. And so becomes his Children For not believing in the Light you deny your own belief your own Creed who say you believe in God and in Jesus Christ his only begotten Son which was Conceived of the Holy Ghost born of the virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was Crucified dead and buried c. Nor is there any who believe in the Son but who believeth in the Light wherewith Christ hath enlightened them who lighteth every man that cometh into the World that all men through him might believe John 1.9 Who saith believe in the Light that ye may be Children of the Light John 12.36 ver. Nether do they know any thing of his birth Conception or ascension which are from the light in their own particulars and in it do not believe where the same nature is reigning that was in Pilate that crucified him and there he is not Lord where his light is not obeyed and received who is meek and low in the heart and teacheth all so to be that learn of him for such confest him heretofore in word that in works denyed him but where the light is followed and obeyed there Christ the everlasting Father is believed in and there he comes to rise and thou with him in the power of his life which before lay dead in thee who was buried under the earth and ascends the same that ever was who descended first into the lower parts of the earth and led Captivity captive sitting on the right hand of the Father above all principalities and powers who in all things hath the preheminency Eph. 4.9 whose judgement is eternal judging down self in thee and raising up his own witnesse by his own power through which his Resurrection is witnessed and he reigning above the corruptible part and there he becomes Lord and none believeth in the holy Ghost but who believe in the light which enlightneth their understanding nor know the general Assembly of the Church of the first-born whose names are written in Heaven neither are they come to the Communion of Saints that are not come to the light in their own particulars through which the Saints the holy Ones come to have fellowship with God who is holy and one with another who can have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darknesse but rather reproves them Eph. 5.1 and if you say you believe such a thing as the Communion of Saints and the remission of sins why do you not come to the bloud of Christ to cleanse you for they who were of this communion said If we walk in the light as he is in the light then have we fellowship one with another and the bloud of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin 1 Job 1.7 But who say they believe the remission of sins and yet tell people they cannot be free from sin while upon the earth do not such deny their own Creed or belief and so keep people in bondage in sin and unbelief out of the blessed mans estate whose sin is forgiven and iniquity not remembred and out of the new and everlasting Covenant of God where sin and iniquity comes to be blotted out and remembred no more Heb. 8. and are such Teachers to be followed or hearkned unto that keep people out from God and out of Gods kingdom where nothing that defileth can enter or is not Christ Jesus the Light rather to be hearkned unto the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world then them that say and tell people they can never be free from sin or he that taketh away the sin and so leads into the kingdom let the sober minded people judge that love their own souls And will not this be grader tidings to men through the bloud of the Covenant to have ratified the forgivenesse of sin then to tell a man he can never be free from sin and so make the bloud of Christ of none effect and be shut out from God for ever which doctrine the Teachers of the world have brought up but the children of the light who are children of the new Covenant come to the remission of sins and he who was a Minister of Christ was sent to turn men from darknesse to light and from the power of Satan unto God that so they might come to witnesse the remission of their sins and inheritance among them that are sanctified Act. 26.18 and that was the true Ministers work for the perfecting of the Saints and to bring people to the faith through which the heart comes to be purified and such believe the life everlasting which of it are made partakers who believe in the light which is the life of men and he that believeth hath everlasting life saith Christ Joh. 3.36 and so believes a thing that is that he hath and not a thing that is not that he hath not is a witnesse of the Spirit that hath been quickned by the Spirit and so a living witnesse But how can you believe these things who are out of the light and see them not Christ descending into hell ascending into heaven or resurrection from the dead which is a mystery untill the light be turned unto the mystery is hid and not revealed Christ within the hope of glory Col. 1.27 or know the Judge of quick and dead that are from the light by which he is known and death and destruction may say we have heard the fame of a God and of a Christ and of such things Job 28.22 and so may they that are strangers in their minds and ignorant of the mystery Christ within the hope of glory that know him not there and so in the reprobate state according to the Apostles own words Know you not that Christ is in you except you be reprobates 2 Cor. 13.5 and the Apostle spake of some who-were men of corrupt minds lovers of pleasures more then lovers of God reprobate concerning the faith 2 Tim. 3. but who believe in the light to know Christ within the mystery come out of the reprobate state and light is come into the world and the world is set in mans heart 2 Cor. 4.6 and who cometh to it must come where it is come in the heart where it shineth and that is the light which in the