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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54246	A winding-sheet for controversie ended	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1672 (1672)	Wing P1394; ESTC R217516	14,041	11

therefore G. F. a Blasphemer which is the meaning of his quoting it but this Lye is for the Lake Neither G. F. nor S. E. nor the Quakers own any such Inference neither was the Resemblance in that of the Worlds being made by him Good Men may be resembled to Christ in one thing not in another Methinks he that believes him only to be an Example should not deny such Doctrine but he is angry it should be thought Christ made the World be came into he cannot abide that Verse should meet him any where Neither should he refuse S. E. a mystical Defence for himself had he thought great things of G. F. when he himself believes it was not the Visible Creation No he thinks Christ no more made this World then T. Firman did What then Will he call Men Blasphemers from other mens Principles But let him take World which way he pleaseth the Comparison lay not there And if it was esteem'd Dis-ingenuous in me to mention two Letters of a Man's Name by way of Reproof for open Slanders against a man by name at Length after he had retracted though I knew it not certainly it is dishonest with great Aggravation to question that which has been so often explain'd and denied as taken by the World and that in Print too But what would not H. Hedworth do to dirt the Quakers but we are not to be Hang'd by his Straws nor Fetter'd by his Cobwebs Now let sober Persons judge whether the Beginner of this Controversie knew well how to employ his time who thought to run down a Folio Book of neer 400. Pages the Author and with him the Quakers as Impostors Lyars and False Prophets with five or six Sheets stuff'd with dull Ignorance and Cavils at G. F's putting Within for In In for Among c. O shallow Head O Envious Heart The Spoils in thy Triumph will scarcely cover the Brow-beats thy own Weakness has given thee in the sight of the World Sect. III. Of the Rule § 1. BE it known to the World that this Socinian Agent who in the Dark Hectors every Perswasion has shown himself unworthy the Name of a Man who has turned his Book upon 25 Scripture Arguments 6 Reasons 2 Answers to 2 Objections about the Quakers denying the Scriptures 15 most clear Authorities from Papists Protestants and Socinians themselves to prove the Infallible Spirit of God to be the true Christian Rule of Faith without so much as taking them into any other Consideration then to fasten down-right Lyes upon us in general and me in particular affirming that I say Men are to be guided by immediate Inspiration in opposition to Scriptures c. a Lye as Black as Hell such words are not to be found in my Book And the very next Paragraph Now if this be his Meaning then tell me if Tollet Mald. Dr Ham. Hutch Soc. Sclith Crel were of his Mind Here he doubts what before he asserted Rare Confutation to 31 pages of serious Christian Argumentation Well I will suppose those men never understood it so nor did ever any Quaker in England to his great Dishonesty and Shame I assert it for we say that the true Knowledge of the Scriptures is most Heavenly and Divine Knowledge but the holy Spirit that brought those holy Men out of that they reprove and into that blessed State they Exhort to is onely able to make that Condition Ours by its secret Strivings Discoveries and Operations We know God may and does by his Spirit reach to the Conscience by Scripture and Preaching but then it is the holy Spirit that makes it efficacious by fresh and living Touches and we cannot call it our Faith or Knowledge till quickned to it by that Eternal Spirit be it mediately or be it immediately and this shall Break the Serpents Head Maugre the Force of these Lattern and Mungril Socinians which roundly checks his saying That I bestow'd 32 Pages to prove G. F's Spirit to be Infallible for that belongs simply to God's alone and then those that are led by it which was my Question and in which sense he is and all such Persons are Infallible as he himself confesseth pag. 27. and if he fool'd himself by any other Belief of us before let him look to that But he quarrels at my Use of the Word Spirit and thinks it Erroneous that God should be intended by it God is a Spirit nor can he be without his Spirit But H. H's Notion of a Spirit is a created third Person and so God is separated from his own Spirit indeed A Doctrine of late standing Pag. 10. 11. § 2. But perhaps I should not have been so free with him To conclude He allows G. F. to have a Conscience that to be an Infallible Rule that God is the Author of it that the Spirit may be said to have taught G. F. that God did work upon him by it c. therefore I infer G. F. to have an Infallible Rule in him and that both Conscience and the Spirit of God are said by him to be this Infallible Rule which Reader is more then any Quaker in England ever said unless Conscience be taken for Christ's Light within or God's Light within for H. H. abhors to think Christ should be God enough to illuminate any Man in that sense But let it be observ'd that this Person who calls the Light of God in the Conscience an Infallible Rule call'd it Imperfect in his Letter contradicting his Dialogue-Man J. Faldo and himself too For then must every Man have a Rule in himself Sect. IV. Of the Light of Christ Within § 1. THis gravel'd him sorely his beloved Socinianism is shaken by it this will have him that was and is called Christ to be the only Wise God whether H. Hedworth will or no. But that he might avoid discovering of himself and his Judgment of the first 10 Verses of John's History he would not say a word the Design had been known and Plot broken with which he hopes to blow up some Independants and abundance of poor Anabaptists therefore does he willingly pass over my Eight Arguments for the Divinity of Christ and his Light within and the Testimonies of Ancient and Modern Writers in their Defence O notable Champion He needs a better Prayer to excuse his Weakness then that in Controversie-Ended Pag. 23. But he sayes that I am mistaken about 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Coming that the Arabick and Aethiopick the three French and Low-Dutch Translations are for him that I wrong Erasmus by putting too ambiguous for ambiguous a Triffler that Maldonat says my Sense is neither false nor absurd Grotius much approves of the Exposition which is extant in Cyr. and Aug. Dr Hammond reads it so § 2. But I will prove him an Ignorant or malicious Lyar. The Arabick hath it thus Quod erat Lumen verum illuminans omnem hominem Venturus in mundum That was the true Light which inlightens all Mankind