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A43114	The Quaker converted to Christianity re-established, upon the same, sure, safe, and only foundation, Jesus Christ crucified, and his righteousness imputed for justification : having yet no mind to change the sweet and easie Yoke of Christ's Gospel, for the Old Covenant-Yoke of Quakerism, which he found so burdensome and intolerable, or, A full reply to a book entituled, Rebellion rebuked written by John Crook and William Baily, both in the ministry among the Quakers / written by William Haworth ... ; with an account from William Dimsdale ...	Haworth, William.; Dimsdale, William.	1674 (1674)	Wing H1196; ESTC R513	168,839	185

ashamed I hope J. C. pag. 6. Thou sayest that thy dayly Prayers to Christ are that we all meaning thy Brethren in the Ministery may be made able Ministers of the New Testament and to this it is Answered Then it seems you are not yet so by your own Confession therefore be silent till you are made so Answ Yea and I continue my Prayers for my self and Brethren in this manner yet this doth not follow that there is no ability already to Preach the Gospel John 17.17 Christ prays sanctifie them through thy Word by this way of reasoning it would follow that then these he prays for were not sanctified at all yet in v. 6. he saith he had manifested his Name unto them And v. 8. That they had received his words and in v. 20. That they did Believe not for these alone but for them that shall Believe It is evident that it was for more degrees of Sanctification and a continuance of it so then here when I pray that we may be made able c. it 's for a continuance of that Ability that we have already and further degrees thereof Paul intreats the Colossians Chapt. 4. v. 3. that they would pray for the Apostles that God would open unto them a Door of utterance to speak the Mysterie therefore according to thy Logick they had no faculty for that Work Ephes 1. the Apostle prays that God would give unto them the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation Therefore though Saints and faithful ones in Christ they had none of the Spirit How wouldst thou have me pray if not thus wouldest thou have me pray that we should be made weak Ministers of the Old Covenant of Works J. C. Pag. 7. Thou sayest thou hast but Law and Gospel to Preach Where in all the New Testament dost thou find the Apostles preaching the 〈◊〉 and saying they were sent to Preach the Law but a Dispensation of the Gospel was committed unto them and they were made able Ministers of the New Testament not of the Letter or Law but of the Spirit Answ It follows in the Epistle which thou mightest have writ the Law for the knowledg of Sin and might have understood by that and what follows that we Preach the Law in order to the Gospel to prepare the Spirit of Man by convincing of Sin and so humbling the Soul to a welcome reception of the Grace of the Gospel the Soul being weary and heavy laden seeing its weakness to keep the Law flies to Christ for Rest and laying hold of the free Remission of sins by the Blood of Christ so that when thou enquirest Where in all the New Testament do I find the Apostles Preaching the Law thou hadst forgot a passage when but three pages lower These are thy words 〈◊〉 And as for the Moral Law Christ is so far from repealing it that in Matth● he binds it faster and closer to his Disciples How now John is Christ and the Apostles Ministry in a different way Method and tendency and dost thou not here say the Apostles Preached not the Law in all the New Testament and yet the Apostle of our profession Christ himself Heb. 3.1 preacheth the Law and the Moral Law and to his Disciples and binds it faster than Moses to be kept for Life thou meanest surely of which afterwards But again do not the Apostles in several places speak of the Law explaining the nature use of it Rom. 3. That by the Law is the Knowledge of Sin in the Corinthians the Letter killeth in Galatians how it was added because of Transgression how it is a Schoolmaster to Christ in Timothy how it is not for the Righteous in the Hebrews how frequently is the Law spoke of now is not this Preaching the Law 〈◊〉 grant that the main work was to preach the Gospel they but Preach the Law in subserviency to the Gospel Thus they were Ministers 〈◊〉 of the Letter only for this doth but kill but of the Spirit the Gospel by the dispensation of which the Spirit of Adoption is communicated But Christ wounds as well as heals he kills as well as makes alive The one he doth by the Preaching of the Law the other by the Gospel The Spirit of Bondage accompanies one the Spirit of Adoption the other J. C. ibid. But why dost thou divide betwixt Law and Gospel 〈◊〉 they were not one in the End and Nature saying the one is for the conviction of sin and yet thou callest it Spiritual Answ How this agreeth with the former that in all the New Testament the Apostles Preached not the Law but the Gospel and here they are not thou sayest to be divided but are one in the End and Nature is not this a Contradiction Why then the Apostles when they Preached the Gospel Preached the Law And why shouldest thou quarrel with 〈◊〉 for saying we have the Law to Preach for the Law and the Gospel are one in the End and Nature Why then when the Apostle Paul said we are able Ministers not of the Letter or Law which thou addest above i. e. not of the Gospel or Spirit for the Law and Gospel are all one in their Nature it will cost thee some Sweat to untie this Knot What strange Divinity is this But when the Lord hath infatuated and left 〈◊〉 through Pride to delusion what will they not speak Law and Gospel are one in the End and Nature then are Moses and Christ one yet 〈…〉 came by Moses but Grace and Truth by Jesus Christ then Ha● Sarah are one Ishmael and Isaac one Jerusalem beneath and that above one Thou hast brought Heaven and Earth together Gal. 〈◊〉 there the Apostle makes them distinct then the Covenants are one and the same Heb. 8. one made with the People when he brought them out of Egypt and that afterwards spoke of in Jeremiah then no difference betwixt Mount Zion and Mount Sinai they are come to●●●●● Thou John canst remove Mountains they are now both one In the Galatians The Covenant and Promise the Apostle saith was 430 years before the Law but John Crook saith the Apostle was out in his Chronology for they were both delivered at once for the Law and Gospel are one the Spirit and Letter are all one that which was Engraven in Stones and that work of God on the heart by the Gospel This is like the Divinity that you may hear from Quakers when you have discoursed them a little which I have seen in Jacob Behmen All things are but one so here Light Spirit Word and Gospel Heaven and Earth and Sea all but one The Creation is God and God is nothing but Creation what we do he doth O Confusion what 〈◊〉 this to but Rantism indeed and Atheism yet hitherto tends this admitting of no distinction of Law and Gospel But let us proceed 〈…〉 were not one in their End and Nature thou sayest John the Nature of the Law is by the Apostle described in 2 Cor. 3.6 the

distinguish of things not to confound them as thou dost which shall be more plainly shewn thee in the Answer which follows I Believe and speak that Light which every Child of wrath hath as he cometh into this world is not the Spirit as he is spoke of in the New Testament the Spirit of Regeneration Adoption the Spirit of the Son nay whatever thou wilt call it it is but Flesh whatsoever is born of the Flesh i.e. what ever Man is in his first-Birth he is but Flesh John 3. and in the 1 Pet. 1. All Flesh is Grass all called Flesh till the New-Birth of the incorruptible Seed which every Man hath not yet I have given and will give this Light its due and say it is from Christ he is the Author of it that gave Man his Rational Soul and created all Lights and had not the Lord preserved this Light Mankind had not been the Species would have been extinct and we like bruits and hereby is Man made fit for humane Society and Common-Wealths and through the restraining-Grace of God joined with this for I attribute it to that indeed chiefly as in the case of Abimelech Gen. 20. I kept thee c. else the Light within would not have done it Man is preserved from many gross outward evils One can distinguish between many things that are good and evil by this Light but to say as thou and others do that it is the Spirit Christ Regenerating Grace God as thou dost in thy words in this Epistle as I understand it let others judg of it calleth it the Son of God King of Zion applying that of the second Psalm to this Light therefore it is the Rule the Life the Blood the Principle such horrid Blasphemies as these dethroning Christ's person turning the God-Man into the Reason Conscience or Soul of Man making them all one and God the Spirit the same with this which is in every Murtherer Robber was in them Job 21. goes with the damned to Hell remains with them there Hear ye Heavens and give ear O Earth and be horribly ashamed of such Tenents as these my Soul through the Grace of God utterly abhors and detests them and I am and will be a professed Enemy to them as long as I have being in this world and doubts not in the least but Christ will stand by me in this his cause Oh how doth this puff up poor proud fallen Man that there is something left in him yet that will restore him when all the Light he had before could not preserve him from falling This thou hast heard at least was the old rotten gangrene of the Pelagians pleading for Nature O cease John cease perverting the right ways of God pleading for Nature in opposition to the Grace of God As for the Bands which thou mentionest of Christ the Son spoken of in the second Psalm and for his cords they are welcome to me I embrace them and it is my Liberty to be his Captive and Prisoner It 's freedom from my lusts I have found it so and do But no false Prophets as thou and others while you maintain these Doctrines shall ever bring me into bondage again to the cursing Law and the works of it looking for Life that way Yet do I wholly stoop to this King of Zion Jesus Christ as my Lord as he that hath subdued all my Enemies virtually already and will actually in time which I wait for and hath given out Rules how he will be served and worshipped which according to my Light I desire to be found in desiring this glorious King by the power of his Spirit to subdue all evil in my Soul But let me entreat thee John to use plain words when thou speakest of the works of God in the heart of Man by the Spirit at least say no more than what is said of it in the Holy Scriptures and do not use to strain Scripture and wrest it from its proper literal meaning when there is no need so to do but the doing of it takes off from the Glory of it and the Authority of the Truth contained in it Here thou turnest that great Scripture in Zachary into an Allegory which is a Prophecy of the Messias coming for the comfort of his people and was fulfilled in the Letter which was very glorious and bespake him to be the true Messias the ground of all Comfort to his people and he came in this low and mean way to shew his contempt of the World who could have commanded all the Glory of the Creation to attend him in this Triumph and State and yet this he did to shew forth something of his Authority and Majesty being really a King Now John why wilt thou go this way to work to use these uncouth Allegories is it not for want of plain and substantial knowledge in the Scriptures Dost thou not know what mischief this way of speaking hath done The evil one hath made use of this way in the World in false Teachers to take off from the Authority of the Scriptures I pray God this be not your intent in going this way if many senses of the Scripture then no one sence is certain for I have heard thee my self say this viz. He brought his Son out of Egypt i.e. out of the Egyptian darkness of our hearts Why doth not this take off from the History as if that were nothing as if such a thing had never been the Man Christ brought from that Country so called really and truely but as if this was the great intendment of the Holy-Ghost in it as to the work of God upon Mans heart now this was gross thick darkness such as might be felt why then surely there is no Light before Christ be brought forth and yet you call the Light Christ John it savours not right to say God brought his Son out of Egyptian darkness That work of the Spirit in our hearts is not God's Son and to say God's Son is brought out of darkness Egyptian darkness who was with God from Eternity and was God and was Light the Light of the world as Mediator and so the Author of all saving Light it is absurd But this is not so bad as that which thou spakest in Sarah Whites Chamber in London in my hearing and the hearing of others of my friends viz. the only begotten Son begotten in us Now John whereas thou chargest me with Blasphemy which shall be examined who now is guilty thou blushest surely to think on it you often speak of my tenderness how hard are your hearts that you can hear and speak such things as these and no shame upon you whereas at that time I was so tender that I could not but interrupt you by my Friend Oh! John how hath thy Pride and Itch to be a Teacher of Allegorical Mysteries Transported thee to be accounted a profound Doctor Some things thou spakest there that were true but Oh what a deadly poyson didst tho● throw presently

judgest the Deportment and Carriage of all the Godly in the Nation to be Light Vain Confident and Lofty because they are not found in those mimied punctilio's of denying the Hat in Salutation and giving the Hand which the Quakers use if this Turkish mode which you have taken up of late in not stirring the Turbant be the thing and that affected demureness I am then Guilty my Light being not for it Be not angry John if Christ having made me free and restoring Comfort to my Spirit more of late the● formerly the Spirit of Adoption enlarging my Soul I express it in my Carriage in a more chearful Gravity walking as one that doth Believe in Christ whom be hath delivered from Mount Sinai to Mount Zion We are not Children of Hagar the Bondwoman but of Sarah not Ishmaels but Isaac's whose name is laughter I am to manifest my rejoycing in Christ and that I have received not the Spirit of Fear and Bondage but of power Love and a sound mind And this is for the honour of my Lord and his Doctrine Thou dost but bewray in this the same Spirit of the Pharisees who were angry with Christ that be kept Company with Publicans and Sinners and because he came eating and drinking they called him a ●lutton and Wine-Bibber I place not my Christian Religion John in denying the Civil salute of the Hat or any Courteous behaviour towards my Neighbour whereby I expr●ss my Love and Friendship as you do making if essential to your way and a signal Character of your Proselytes as appears by thy Brother Baylies Answer But I have well nigh done rejoycing that the little Book we writ hath ext●rted from thee some good words of Confession which how thou understandest them shall be scanned afterwards and how thou agrees with thy Brethren thou shalt see wh●n things are compared It 's well if the Body at Devonshire-House and your Metropolitan George Fox approve of this Confession Though thou art infallible John yet thy infallibility must vail and strike Sail to the infallibilty of the Body If thou Believest as thou speakest in some things why didst thou rent from Christians if thou wouldest return John it would be better with thee than it is now If thou understandest some Truths as thou writest them and all of you assent never were people Guilty of such uncharitableness as you in your Railings against all other sorts of separation and division in keeping your Meetings distinct not in the least owning our Worship as appears by your irreverent Behaviours when you come into our Meetings But I am greatly jealous of thee and not without ground having conversed with you so long and knowing how frequently you are found in Jesuitical equivocations and mental reservations that thou hast but covered Poison in guilded words and wrapt thy self in a Cloud False Prophets must come in Sheeps Cloathing else no deceiving It was a Golden Cup that Antichrists Poison was in I pray God I may find it otherwise Thy Brother Penn is plain and honest down-right in his assertions against Christ and the Scriptures and satisfaction by the Death of Christ c. In the close let me say that I am thoroughly satisfyed that I am defending the noblest Cause under Heaven and call God Men and Angels to Witness That if I were convinced you were in the Truth I would not for a Million of Worlds in the least oppose you Lately at Hartford Bigg and Martin confessed that our Principles were directly contrary Let it then be tried who is in the Truth by the Holy Scriptures and the Lord be Judg betwixt you and us in this Matter I can heartily say appealing to him that searcheth the hearts and tryeth the Reins that as you are my Country-Men you are dear to me and I could wish my self deprived for some time of the Love of the Saints which is highly valued by me and no pains or travel of Body or Soul Night or Day should seem great to me to reduce any of you from that dreadful ●postacy which you are fallen into through the cunning Craftiness of some Deceivers There is a Woe upon you I am satisfied because that Offences have been given by some Carnal Gospellers and Libertines in our day that have turned God's blessed Grace into wantonness and have not walked worthy of this Glorious Doctrine I have heard some of your way that lately have acknowledged this viz no reason in Doctrine but in Practice for your departure Now blessed are those that are not offended in Christ A 〈◊〉 to them that stumble 〈◊〉 this stumbling stone I my self through weakness have been ●ear to this but his Grace hath kept me and the Truth is dear to me still and Jesus Christ though many that professeth the Faith adorn it not in their Conversation And now you are multiplied me see you are a people of the like infirmities and passions therefore may you that are tender 〈◊〉 in again to the Truth by the same Reasonings But oh how strong is interest and faction when once ingaged Well my Prayer to the Lord hath been and yet is that those among you that have not sinned unto death by a wilful opposing in hatred and emnity the Glorious person of the Mediator may be brought back that whoever of you belongs to the Election of Grace may be undeceived as this young Man was My labour in this kind in other places hath not been in vain and I will not cease but hold on Believing firmly that I do service to Jesus Christ therein And I am the hold●r 〈◊〉 this work in that I can say the Lord knows I have been an hundred times hurried into your way and Opinions like a Child tossed to and fro with every Wind of Doctrine but I am brought now into a consistency and fixedness through electing Love influencing of me and have my senses exercised 〈◊〉 discerne of things and Persons and in Christ's strength fear not the Gates of Hell Oh that this contention and Tryal of Truth might by the effectual working of the Holy Ghost upon thy mind beget some thoughts of returning to thy first Husband the God-Man Christ Thou art the Dearer to us John in that thou hast been a Stone once in Christ's Buildings and Oh that the calls of God's people to thee from thy Apostacy might be blessed to thee that thou mayst Blaspheme no more All knowledge that Men are apt to be puffed up withal and soaring into is but Air Wind and Fancy but the knowledge of Christ Take heed of that Spirit in the false Apostles that disdained Pauls Doctrine as low and Carnal so hath Henry Nicholas Swenkfeldius and Beheman and surely you do and your People speak it Believing that you come forth with a new Prophecy as some of old pretended they were sent to Preach the everlasting Gospel in opposition to the old Gospel In the Revelation some are spoke of that talked of the depths which John adds Satan to This

then speak the same things with the Spirit in the Scriptures which it doth not and agree with it self in others of God's people in the Nation and it is directly contrary 1 Cor. 12.3 Wherefore I give you to understand that no Man speaking by the Spirit of 〈◊〉 calleth Jesus Anathema Now I have heard Jesus slighted by you 〈◊〉 one will aver it that Naylor said Mary was a Whore and her Christ 〈◊〉 a Bastard Now John I am not perswaded that it is the Spirit of Christ a Spirit there is if not of the same Christ it 's against Christ and in the Room it 's exalted by you above all that is called God and worshipped Fox the younger pag. 53. saith I will make them know that I the Light am the true eternal God that Created all things it sits in the Temple of God shewing it self that it is God i. e. you 〈◊〉 called it God you and your people believe it is God your people 〈◊〉 worshipped it as God attributed that to it that is not to be given to any but God is not this the spirit of Antichrist Let the Reader 〈◊〉 Faldoes Book and turn to that part called the Quakers Idolatry How plain now is it that it is the Spirit of Antichrist that deni●h Jesus to be come in the Flesh 1. John 4. Now the known Comment of the Quakers is in the Flesh i. e. the present Flesh the Light being in them the Offices of Christ have been denyed his Prophetical in that they deny the Scriptures to be the Rule and all Ministry but their own 2. The Priestly in that they say he was and is crucifyed 〈◊〉 offered in them Kingly in that they deny all the Government and Discipline of Christ and Ordinances that he hath set up and have 〈◊〉 up a Monarchy at Devonshire-House is not this their Spirit of Antichrist The Parallel will run better betwixt Francia Spira and thy self in that thou hast forsaken and denyed that way thou once was of in London and those that once thou prayedst with and had Communion with It is the Grace of God I acknowledge that hath kept me from 〈◊〉 hitherto and from his condition whom yet many in Charity apprehend was saved As for thy last words of Madness and Distraction I know that the Lord might in Righteousness send it upon me when 〈◊〉 pleaseth and if he do he is just he may do with me as he will but 〈◊〉 recoils of Conscience for writing that Epistle will not occasion it for there are none I can say John that if God turn thee presently into Bedlam nay if with Nebuchadnezzar for seven years together among the Beasts of the Field to converse with them and eat Grass among them till thou hast Hairs like Feathers and nayls like Claws till thou shouldest be like a Vultur or some Ravenous Bird God would he Righteous because thou hast been exalted and lifted up and hath not given neither yet doth give that Glory to Jesus Christ of Nazareth which is due to his Name Dan. 4. Those that walk in Pride he is able to 〈◊〉 J. C. Par. ibid. My Soul could even pitty thee because if thou 〈◊〉 not of these and the like Passages viz. That the Quakers Spirit is a Spirit of delusion and their Doctrine Antichristian Gods displeasure will break out as fire c. Answ What I write I write deliberately I have known the Quakers these twenty years and have Conversed with them and tryed them and believe that if Paul and Peter Moses and David Luther and Calvin had been on Earth they would have said the same and the Generation of the Godly throughout the Nation say the same and therefore in threatening me with God's displeasure thou threatnest all the people of 〈◊〉 in the Nation calling us all but so many Bryars and Thorns ●it 〈◊〉 nothing but to be burned As for thy Pitty Oh that thou would●● 〈◊〉 thy self and thy followers who ere long will be summoned 〈◊〉 appear before the Tribunal seat of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to give 〈◊〉 account of all your slighting thoughts and hard Speeches of him 〈◊〉 hath been and is the great stumbling stone and Rock of offence among you to this day against which you shall all be broken if you 〈◊〉 not from your errors and one day he will gri●d you to poude● 〈◊〉 know that this our High Priest pittieth us and hath compassion 〈◊〉 wherein we go out of the way through ignorance he will give Repentance unto Life J. C. To burn thee up among the Bryers and Thorns that muster up 〈◊〉 in Battel against him and his ever blessed appearance in Spirit 〈◊〉 power in the hearts of that poor despised people Answ We do wait for and love Christ's glorious Appearance and ●●cond Coming in Person and detest that wicked error of yours in pre●●ding to the Appearance of the Light in you for the overturning of 〈◊〉 his blessed personal Appearance Oh how will you be ashamed then 〈◊〉 cover your Faces because you have changed the Christ of God into Robbers Light that goeth down to Hell with him in a word none 〈◊〉 despise the Quakers for their Poverty as thou seemest to intimate 〈◊〉 for their desperate Pride Scornfulness Stiffness and Hardness in 〈◊〉 strange Opinions It 's well if we could see them coming out of 〈◊〉 errors as fast as out of their Poverty John thou art worse than ●am the conjurer for he did but endeavour but thou hast actually ●ed all the Israel of God Your Religion will turn at length into ●letons Religion I fear several of you do center there that is a cur●●● Religion let your inchantments fall upon Babylon and Hell from ●nce they came there is one cursing them whom God hath blessed 〈◊〉 blessing of Abraham is upon us through Jesus Christ who will one ●judg betwixt you and us J. C. Pag. 16. God hath and doth always bless the Faithful among 〈◊〉 and they shall be blessed Answ This is John Crooks Testimony in the end of his Book We 〈◊〉 like wise that God doth bless the Quakers and that very much 〈◊〉 alas it is with Esan's Blessings and Ishmael's Blessings left-hand Blef●ings those that are faithful as thou sayest i.e. industrious and honest in their callings with the Riches of this World the highest Blessings we 〈◊〉 see is only this that being faithful to the Light within they continue in Morality but they live not at all in the knowledg of 〈◊〉 Christ but the God of this World doth strangely blind them 〈◊〉 Now if the Gospel be ●id it 's ●id to them that are lost 2 Cor. 4 3.● what an efficacy of error do we see upon this people presently to believe so many ●ies what a fore heavy hand of God is against you in that they are left to such scattered naked bewildred Judgments in the things of the Gospel that we can conclude no other and have every day more ground for it than other that as

the Spirit to us viz. Christ is the end of the Law for Righteousness to every one that believeth Rom. 10.4 Now it is not the Office of the Spirit the Comforter much less of the Light within every Man which deserveth not the Name of the Comforter to work Righteousness in us to justifie us though it doth lead to Holiness Neither to bring us to fulfil the Law in our persons to be justified thereby before God 1 Cor. 4.4 Though I once was entangled with an opinion of this Nature viz. That it was Christ by the Spirit which wrought in me therefore it was not my Righteousness but his and this for Justification Jesus was put to death Crucified cut off not for himself he was an Offering for sin for ever Heb. 10.12 A sacrifice well pleasing to God And he rose again for our Justification Rom. 4.25 Signifying so much that he had satisfyed the Justice of God for the Sins of his people and could not be held of Death Now the Spirit taketh of these things when Man is as we have said before under the sence of the wrath of God and applyeth them unto his heart giving him Faith herein saying Christ was made a Curse for thee Gal. 3.13 i. e. in thy place room and stead He was in a bloody Agony he was forsaken of God and all for the sake of his people His Blood therefore cleanseth from all sin Now the Blood is not within us as the Quakers say Any Sacrifice any Crucifying withi● Man to purge to purify to make Reconciliation with God But the Spirit doth apply the Merit of the Sacrifice the Bloodshed of that Person Jesus Christ which was 1600. years since He it was not the Light within every Man that is often called the Redeemer in the Prophets And as Paul calls him from thence A Deliverer to come 〈◊〉 of Zion Rom. 11.26 when the time of his Birth drew nigh he was pointed at to be the Person Mat. 1.21 Luk. 1.31 32. to accomplish the Work This is said he gave his Life a Ransom for many Mat. 20.28 Now the Spirit as we said taketh of these things and applyeth them to his people and saith he hath not he will redeem but hath Redeemed us from the Curse of the Law Gal. 3.13 and hath made them Sons through Faith Gal. 4.6 though they had infirmities and had need of Reproofs and Exhortations to good works as may be seen in the Epistle he having obtained everlasting Redemption through the means of his Death entring into the Holy Place once with his own Blood Heb. 9.12 15. These things I say doth the Spirit Preach to the Souls of poor Men As an Ambassador receiveth of the King his mind and declareth it is a far Country so the Spirit receiveth of Christ's Love his Riches Care for his people and gives them to understand them for themselves for their own Comfort But to the last viz. He shall glorifie me So is it indeed the Spirit doth mightily exalt the Person of Christ it proclaims him to the Soul to be the fairest among ten thousand to be altogether Comely No deformity at all in him How excellently is he set forth in the Book of the Canticles And when the Spirit doth thus reveal Christ in his loveliness and Beauty they cry out O what a wretch was I that I should sin against so Gracious a God! That such as Jesus Christ must d● for my Salvation We that stood in the stou●ness of our Spirits and slighted and scorned to accept of his personal Obedience 1600. years since Now do melt in the remembrance of our hard hearts And thus is 〈◊〉 got likewise in the heart of Man a Love to live to the praise of the Name of Christ for ever because of a Rebel he hath made him a Son because he hath made Reconciliation by the Blood of his Cross from henceforth he would fear him and serve him as a Father that hath done so much for him that he cannot do so much for Christ never require or make amends So then you see it is not as the Quakers say Obey the Light within and submit to the power thereof that your peace may be made that ye may get into the Love and favour of God that you may be made the Sons of God by the Righteousness which the Light hath wrought in you according to that I have read that George Fox the younger hath writ These are his words viz. If ye would believe and wait in me or obey me the Light in you I will purge out all your iniquities and forgive all your Trespasses and I will change your Natures and make you New Creatures if you will hearken to me and obey me the Light in you Ye see the Motive of one and of the other Light to Obedience is different Again another difference is that the Light of the Spirit of Christ layeth a Man more humble and low in his own Soul than the Light the Quakers plead for It sheweth him that he hath nothing to boast or glory in but all is freely given him Nay if God should deal in Justice with him that he is a wicked person in that he hath sin dwelling in his flesh a corrupt nature if God should look upon him as in himself this might justly befal him to be condemned So that he cannot vaunt it over his Neighbour and say I am Righteous thou art Wicked I am good thou art evil I have done Righteousness thou hast done Wickedness and thou mayest be Righteous and hold on and do good if thou obey the Light in thy Conscience the voice of the Lord calling unto thee in the inward parts which thing the Quakers say by their Light and I have said it in heart many a time before the Lord humbled me to accept of the personal Righteousness of Christ for my Justification as I am a poor sinner Again there are things which the Light of the Spirit discerneth to be sin which the Light in every Man cannot discern to be sin As First to seek for and look for Justification Reconciliation Acceptance with God in with or by the Righteousness in which we live acted in our persons It seeth not this to be a Despising the Righteousness of Christ a corrupting the Gospel eclipsing the Glroy of Christ a contradicting God in his Way and appointment for the Salvation of poor sinners It seeth no evil in this which yet makes Christ of no Advantage not submitting to the Righteousness of God Yet I am not ignorant my Adversaries will say They are justified by the Righteousness of Christ and they do not despise the Gospel with many more good words as they have writ which would to God were true But I would here Answer a Question or two and then proceed If it should be in the mind of any to ask Quest What shall we do that we may attain to this Gospel-saving Spiritual Light Answ I know thou wilt count that which I am