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A46867	The friendly enquirer's doubts and objections answered concerning the light within, the word of God, the church of Christ, gospel ministers, ordinances in general and in particular, water baptism, and the Lord's supper : together with a brief testimony against oaths and swearing / first intended and written for the satisfaction of some particular acquaintance and now published for more general service by James Jackson.	Jackson, James, fl. 1674-1708.	1698 (1698)	Wing J73; ESTC R34952	26,741	110

he or look we for another Tell him what ye have heard and seen the Blind receive their sight the Deaf hear the Lame walk Lepers are cleansed and to the Poor the Gospel is preached and blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me Even so in a spiritual sense the same may be as truly affirmed now of him the true Light who is spiritually in the World and the World knows him not nor whence he is tho' he hath enlightned healed cleansed and quickned Thousands and the poor and wounded whom none of the Proud Covetous Priests regard even the Poor by Virtue of the Light have the Everlasting Gospel of Salvation freely preached to them Object 4. But ye are against all Gospel Ministers Churches and God's Ordinances viz. The Sacraments of Christ instituting viz Water Baptism and the Lord's Supper Answ 1. As concerning Ministers all that are truly the Ministers of the Gospel who are Ministers of the Spirit we own but all they whom the Lord is against we deny behold saith the Lord I am against the Prophets that steal my words every one from his Neighbour and against them that use their Tongues and say he saith Who prophesie false Dreams and do tell them and cause my People to Err by their lies and by their lightness yet I sent them not nor commanded them therefore they shall not profit this People at all saith the Lord Jer. 33.30.31.32 2. And we are against all such who oppose and set themselves against the Lord his Truth and People such as Peter declared against They that stood up and gathered themselves together against the Lord and against his Christ Acts 4.26 such as blaspheme falsly accuse and speak evil of the Spirit and Light of Christ of which the Lord saith He that speaketh against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him neither in this World nor in the World to come because they said He had an Vnclean Spirit Mark 3.30 3. We are against all ignorant and blind Guides who know not God believe not in Jesus Christ and to whom the Gospel is hid and such are all they who believe not in the Light and denie Immediate Revelation for saith Christ No Man knows the Father but they to whom the Son reveals him And the Gospel which Paul preached he saith It is not after Man neither received he it of Man nor was he taught it by Man but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ Gal. 1.11 12. but all who abide in Darkness and hate the Light unto such the Gospel is hid 2 Cor. 4.3 Wherefore saith Christ I thank the O Father Lord of Heaven and Eurth because thou hast hid these things from the Wise and Prudent and hast revealed them unto Babes even so Father for so it seemed good in thy sight All things are delivered to me of my Father and no Man knoweth the Son but the Father neither knoweth any Man the Father save the Son and him to whomsoever the Son will reveal him Mat. 11.26.27 4. We are against all such who with Simon Magus to maintain their Carnal Priest-craft for filthy Lucres sake would Merchandize with and set at sale the free gift of God and the Misteries of his Kingdom whom Peter sharply reproves saying Thy Mony perish with thee because thou hast thought the gift of God may be purchased with Mony thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter for thy Heart is not right in the sight of God repent therefore of this thy Wickedness and pray God if perhaps the thought of thy Heart may be forgiven thee for I perceive thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of Iniquity Now if it be said this affects not the Ministers you oppose I answer They either have the same thought and so are in the Gall of Bitterness or they have not if they have not such a thought that the Gift of God may be purchased with Mony then are they the vilest Wretches and greatest self condemned Cheats in the World to set that at sale for Mony which they esteem the Gift of God and which they know cannot be purchased with Mony and this to delude Milions of Souls But if they have such a thought then are they excluded with Simon Magus from having any part or lot in the Ministry Acts 8.20 5. We are against all those Teachers who with Balaam loving the Wages of Unrighteousness and Earthly Rewards have forsaken the right way and gone astray and changed the Gospel Ministry Order and Worship both as to Matter Manner and Maintenance from that which was practised by the Apostles walking directly contrary unto and wholly perverting the Apostles Doctrine who saith Feed the Flock of God taking the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly nor for filthy Lucres sake but of a ready mind neither as being lords over God's heritage but as being examples to the Flock 6. We are against all such Teachers who with those evil Spies prejudice the People against the good Land of Promise Will neither enter into the Kingdom of God themselves nor suffer others that would to enter therein Numb 13.31 They brought up an evil report of the Land saying It is a Land that eateth up the Inhabitants thereof and all the People that we saw in it are Men of a great stature and there we saw the Gyants the Sons of Anak which come of the Gyants to whom we in our own sight were as Grashoppers and so we were in their sight then all the Congregation murmured Crying Deut. 1.28 whether shall we go Our Brethren have discouraged our Hearts saying their Cities are great and walled up to Heaven their Men mighty and stronger than we even Giants the Anakims and we have heard say who can stand against the Sons of Anak Even so this present generation of Priests and Teachers disswade and discourage the Hearts of their People 1st By their envying and bitter infectives against the good Land of Promise the Spiritual Canaan Christ's Kingdom of Light and Righteousnes 2d By magnifying the Power and Dominion of Sin and Kingdom of Darkness and suggesting an impossibility of Conquest 1. They discourage and deter the Hearts of the People by belying and traducing the holy and blessed Appearance of Christ's Spiritual Kingdom even as those spies gave a false report of Temporal Canaan contrary to the Character and Description the Lord by his Servants have given thereof as appears in Deut. 8.7 Moses saith It is a good Land a Land of Brooks of Water of Fountains and depths that spring out of Valleys and Hills Verse 8. A Land of Wheat and Barly and Vines and Fig-trees and Pomegranates a Land of Oyl Olive and Hony Verse 9. A Land wherein thou shalt eat Bread without scarceness thou shalt not lack any thing in it a Land whose Stones are Iron and out of whose Hills thou may'st dig Brass Deut. 11.9 A Land that floweth with Milk and Hony Verse 10. It is not as the

and not in the Letter whose Praise is of God and not of Man Rom. 2.28 wherefore we affirm that he is not a Christian who is one outwardly only neither is that the Baptism which is with Water but he is a Christian who is one inwardly and the one Baptism is that of the Heart in the Spirit for saith the Apostle 1 Pet. 3.21 The Baptism which doth save us is not an outward washing or putting away the filth of the Flesh but the answer of a good Conscience towards God through the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ And thus much for Water Baptism which the Scriptures call John's Baptism and belonged to that middle Ministry between the Prophets and Christ but the Baptism of the Spirit which is Christ's we own and know and with evident demonstrations of Truth declare and testify the one and only Baptism of the new Testament and by one Spirit we are all baptized into one Body saith the Apostle whether we be Jews or Gentiles Bond or Free and have been all made to drink into one Spirit 1 Cor. 12.13 And this Baptism was but one in all Ages and Generations even the very same before Christ's coming in the Flesh as since Believing Jews and Gentiles both of the old and new Testament were made partakers of it though the one more fully than the other so that altho' many both before and since might not have the Baptism of Water yet not one Member of the true Church hath ever wanted the Baptism of the Spirit But the more apparent manifestation of this Spiritual Baptism followed after that of John's Baptism as appears by the promise of Christ He that believeth on me out of his Belly shall flow Rivers of Living Water this spake he of the Spirit which they who believe on him should receive for the Holy Ghost was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet glorified John 7.38.39 wherefore the Disciples waited at Jerusalem as the Lord had commanded untill the promise was fulfiled Acts 1. Now the ground of our true Comfort lies in that we are baptized not with the same Water wherewith Christ was but with and into the same Spirit for as many as are baptized into Christ have put on Christ Gal. 3.27 this therefore is the one and only Baptism For 4. This Baptism makes us partakers of the Divine Nature John 3.3 the Spirit 's Baptism gives a new Birth and therewith a new Nature and so the true Foundation of Christianity comes not from Water Baptism but is that of Faith and a new Creature 2. This Baptism giveth a new Name I will write upon him the new name of my God and the name of the City of my God which is new Jerusalem which comes down out of Heaven from my God and I will write upon him my new Name as the Lord said to Jacob thy name shall no more be called Jacob but Israel for as a Prince hast thou Power with God and hast prevailed and thus saith the Lord to all that joyn themselves to the Lord that keep his Sabbaths and that choose the things that please me and take hold of my Covenant even unto them will I give in my House and within my Walls a place and a name better than of Sons and of Daughters I will give them an everlasting Name which shall not be cut off Isa 66.4.5 and to him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden Manna and will give him a White Stone and in the Stone a new Name written which no Man knoweth saving him that receiveth it 3. This is the Baptism which makes all that partake thereof Members of the true Church of Christ For by one Spirit we are all baptised into one Body when the Sons of Zebedee desired to sit with Christ in his Kingdom the one on his right Hand and the other on his left Jesus asked if they were able to drink of the Cup that he drank of and to be baptized with the Baptism that he was baptized with And they sayd unto him we are able Jesus answered ye shall drink indeed of my Cup and be baptized with the Baptism that I am baptized with c. now tho' their request savoured to much of ambition yet shall they have part in the Kingdom through sufferings 4. It is the one Baptism only which qualifies fits and enables to the work of the Ministry all the sharpest Wits profoundest Learning and the most exquisite Accomplishments and curious Polishings of natures chiefest Perfecting cannot make a Gospel Minister it is the pouring out and work of God's Holy Spirit which makes a workman that needs not be ashamed And in those days saith the Lord I will pour out of my Spirit upon all Flesh and your Sons and your Daughters shall Prophesie Joel 2.28 which is witnessed Acts 2.4 to 17. and they were all filed with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other Tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance And Blessings Glory and everlasting Praises to our God who after a long Night of Darkness and Degeneracy hath in this our Age and Generation visited a remnant who are brought forth through the new Birth to feed upon the sincere Milk of the Word of eternal Life who find it their strength in stilness and silence to wait upon God with an intire dependance on him who act not in their own wills nor speak their own Words but as the anointing which they have received and abideth in them teacheth them all things that appertaineth to Life and Godliness so that their Ministry is of the Spirit and not of the Letter but done according to the ability which God giveth and by the movings of his Spirit and if any thing be revealed to another that sits by the first doth hold his Peace that all may speak one by one and that only as the Spirit moves and gives them utterance that all may learn and all may be comforted 1 Cor. 14.30 and amongst those there is no despising of the weak nor do the weak envy the strong but they wish with Moses that all the Lord's People were Prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them Numb 11.29 5. This one Baptism maketh all those One with Christ who partake of it John 17.23 I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one and know ye not saith the Apostle that so many of you as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his Death that like as Christ was raised up from the Dead by the glory of the Father even so also we should walk in newness of Life for if we have been planted in the likeness of his Death we shall be also in the likeness of his Resurrection whence it appears that by and through this one Baptism all that are thereby sanctified are one with Christ in his Life 2ly in his Death and 3ly in his Resurrection Rom. 6.3.4 6. This is that one and only Baptism which

and have been yet are and while in their carnal Sinful State will be Persecutors of the true Church Gal. 4.29 but in the true Church they are all Righteous Isaiah 60. from the 1st to the 20th and hereof it may be tru●y said Who is like thee O People saved by the Lord the Shield of thy help and the Sword of thine Excellency Thine Enemies shall be found Liars unto thee and thou shalt tread upon their high-places yea this poor despised persecuted Flock are the Temples of the Holy Ghost 2 Cor. 6.16 And the Body of Christ Eph. 4.4 in which Body 1st there is but one Head 2ly there is not one dead Member 1 Pet. 2.4.5 3ly there is no Law of force but every Member acteth by the Law of Love 4ly all Members united into this Body sympathize one with another both in Comfort and Afflictions please therefore to see 1 Cor 12.25 This One Body is unite● by one Spirit into one Hope 〈◊〉 one Lord and hath but one Fai●● and one Baptism Eph. 4. 〈◊〉 which one Baptism leads me 〈◊〉 Answer the third Branch of the last Objection Answ 3. As concerning Ordinances in General 1st The Scripture calls nothing Sin or any thing Practical but that which is prohibited or expresly commanded by the great Legislator neither shall any be saved or are to be judged in Spiritual matters by any Law but by the Law of God or by any Lawgiver but by Jesus Christ He that speaketh evil of his Brother and judgeth his Brother speaketh evil of the Law and judgeth the Law thou art not a doer of the Law but a judgé James 4.12 There is one Law-giver who is able to save and to destroy and Isa 33.22 The Lord is our Judge the Lord is our Lawgiver the Lord is our King he will save us Col. 2. 16. let no Man therefore judge you in meat or drink c. which were a shadow of things to come but the Body is of Christ wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the Rudiments of the World why as tho' living in the World are ye subject to Ordinances Touch not Taste not Handle not which all perish with the using after the commandments and doctrines of Men Touch not Taste not Handle not which things indeed have a shew of wisdom in will-Worship c. all which perish in the using 2ly the Scriptures reject all Religious performances that are done without warrant from Heaven Isa 1.12 When ye come to appear before me who hath requir'd this at your hands to tre●● my Courts Bring no more va●● Oblations Incense is an Abom●nation to me c. and Micah 6.6 7 8 3ly the Scriptures declare that all outward Ordinances are Temporary only till the time of Reformation and to be abolished by Christ Heb. 9.1 to 14. Col. 2.6 to the end Eph. 2.15 4ly the Scriptures shew us that the outward abolished Ordinances and the Traditions of Men hinder and prevent Obedience to Christ and Submission to the will and commands of God This is the will of God even your Sanctification 1 Thes 4.3 this is the work of God or the work he requires saith Christ that ye believe on him whom he hath sent John 6.28 And this is the commandment saith John that we should believe in the Name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another as he hath given us command But alas how is the work of God laid aside his will and commands neglected and the beggerly Rudiments and Elements of this World pleaded for and maintained and mostly by such who reject the command of God and Christ that for secular ends keep and observe their pretended Ordinances and make the Word of God of none effect by their Traditions Mark 7.5 to 13. Mat. 23.23 5ly as Man cannot be polluted or defiled by that which is without him no more doth any thing be it what it can Bread or Wine or Water from without cleanse or comfort the inward Man according to Mark 7.14 to 23. 6ly nor yet in matters of Faith and Worship are we to receive our Measures or Rules from Councils or Synods or the best of Men further than the express command of the Lord for their warrant Moses had no Authority to institute any Laws or Ordinances but to teach the People Obedience to those God had prescribed Exodus 24.12 and Christ's Commission to the Apostles was go Teach them to observe whatsoever I have commanded you and Lo I am with you to the end of the Word Mat. 28.20 And now more particularly concerning the two Sacraments so called and first touching Baptism or rather Baptisms for there be many we read of divers sorts of Washings or Baptizings as the Baptizing of Pots and Cups for so it is in the Greek Mark 7.8 and we read of the Doctrine of Baptisms Heb. 6.2 and now concerning John's Baptism which in its time was not only New but mighty Famous insomuch that the People mused and were all in expectation whether John were not the Christ but he confessed that he was but a fore-runner and that his Baptism was weak and imperfect and temporary an elementary Figure and Shadow of Christ's Powerful Spiritual and Saving Baptism from hence its evident that the Baptism of John and the Baptism of Christ are and ever was two distinct Baptisms and as the Heavens are high above the Earth so vast a difference is betwixt them 1. They are two in Name Apollos an Eloqent Man and mighty in the Scriptures knew only the Baptism of John to whom Aquilla and Priscilla expounded the way more perfectly Acts 18.25 2. They differ in time He that comes after me shall Baptize you with the Holy Ghost Mat. 3.11 and said Christ John Baptized with Water but ye shall be Baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence 3. They are two in Nature the one a created visible Element the other an holy invisible quickening Spirit 4. They differ in their Effects John's reacheth only to the outside the Spirit 's Baptism cleanseth the Soul and Conscience 5. John's Baptism was but a Sign a Shadow and a Legal Ceremony but the Baptism of the Spirit is the Substance and the Truth of that which Water typified 6. John's Water Baptism was Temporary of short duration and continuance as all Legal Signs and Ceremonies had an end so this being nearer the Truth and Substance and to the day of Christ than they was of less continuance and being a shadow must fly away by the glorious rising and brightness of his Son And so John's Baptism was of use a little before Christ's manifestation in the Flesh and was to continue till his Ascension and then when Christ's Baptism began the shadow must by degrees decrease and vanish and give way to the Substance the Sign abolished and the Truth exalted the Letter resigns to the Spirit the Servant to the Son So that Christ's Fire Baptism put an end to John's Water Baptism for as all the Prophets were

done despight to the strivings of the Spirit as the old World did such as are complained of Jer. 6.29 and such as Stephen reproves Acts 7.51 even such as God hath given up cast off and rejected yet doth not this prove but that the Light and Spirit of Christ was once in them and at work in their Hearts Answ 3. And yet further in the next place the Love of Christ constraineth us thus to Judge because if Christ died for all then were all dead 2 Cor. 5.14 and as Christ dyed for all Men so his grace is free for all Men For the Grace of God which brings Salvation hath appeared to all Men Tit. 2.11 for he is able and willing to save all that yeild obedience to the tenders of his boundless endless unlimited universal love to Mankind without exception and this we are verily persuaded of from these and such like considerations 1. Because the Lord is no respecter of Persons he maketh his Sun to rise on the just and on the unjust and sendeth Rain on the evil and on the good he accepteth not the Persons of Princes nor regardeth the Rich more than the Poor for they all are the work of his Hands 2. Because that Light which shined in our dark ignorant unclean and unbelieving Hearts before Conversion is the very same in which we ought to live and abide since our Conversion that which formerly stood by and in us was an Eye witness too and bore a faithful Testimony against us while we walked in Darkness is the same which since the time of our Believing and abiding in his Light witnesseth with our Spirits that we are the Children of God That very Light which before reproved convinced judged and condemned us for all unbelief and unrighteousness both in Heart and Life is still the same which doth convert confirm cleanse justify and save yea that Light which before shined in Darkness when we were as vile as the worst of Sinners doth now to the praise of God shine out of Darkness whereof we are not Ashamed 3. Because our Lord Jesus who cannot lye hath said that Man's Condemnation ariseth only from the contempt of and disobedience unto this Light saying this is The Condemnation that Light is come into the World but Men love darkness rather than light John 3.19 Now most certain it is that Man's Damnation is occasioned from viz. either want of Light or thro' the deficiency of this Light or rather from Man's Rebellion and disobedience to this Light First we may not think so hardly of God that Man's Condemnation ariseth from the want of saving Light this is to charge God with Injustice as the evil and unprofitable Servant said Lord I knew thee to be an Austere and hard Man reaping where thou hast not Sown and gathering where thou hast not strewed And what greater Unmercifulness can be charged upon God Than that he withholds from any Man the benefit of his saving Light or withdraws it before Man's Rebellion against it And Secondly 'T is no less than Blasphemy to say that the Light of Christ is insufficient and not able to save all that come to God thereby for tho' his appearance at first be as the day of small things as the least of all Seeds a little Stone disalowed and despised of Men who stumble and are offended at him yet chosen of God and exceeding precious to all that Believe who know him to be the Almighty Arm and Power of God to Salvation the alsufficiency whereof is further demonstrated by its Divine Nature and Powerful effects 1. The Nature of this Divine Light in which we believe and Know to be that measure of the immortal unchangeable undefiled and perfect Principle of Life Light and Holiness which never fell nor consented to any Evil but ever opposed and stood against the whole corrupt nature will and affections of faln Man a Measure I say hereof is given to every one to profit withal 1 Cor. 12.7 so that the Light I speak of is nothing of Man's Nature but of the Divine Nature whereof he hath made us partakers by revealing his Son in us even that great Mistery Christ in you the hope of Glory the blessed Seed promised Gen. 3.15 yea even the Son of God who is sent into the World that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have Eternal Life 2. The Effects of the Light when Christ was upon Earth John saw and bare Record saying Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the Sins of the World and yet the Lord said A Greater Testimony have I than that of John for the Works that I do in my Fathers Name they testifie of me so we say of his Light however slighted and despised by the World if his Works be not such as none else can do believe him not Effect 1. Hereby the Sinner is convinced of and condemned for all Sins that ever he commiteth of what kind or nature soever they be John 16.8.9.10.11 Come said the Woman of Samaria and I will shew you a Man that hath told me all things that ever I did Is not this the Christ John 4.29 Effect 2. Hereby the true fear of the Lord which is the beginning of Wisdom is actually planted in the Heart for while a Man in his Imaginations supposes God and Christ only as circumscribed at a great distance he persists with boldness in his evil ways but when his mind is turned into the Light he is thereby made to understand and see his condition and misery and to see him whom he hath pierced which forces this or the like general Cry Lord I have heard of thee by the hearing of the Ear But now mine Eye sees thee wherefore I abhor my self in Dust and Ashes Effect 3. This causeth not only repentance thorough Faith in Christ the Light but also worketh in the Heart Obedience of Faith Rom. 16.26 Effect 4. Hereby Man's insufficiency to answer the requirings of God is discerned and the Alsufficient Strength and Power of Christ discovered The Spirit of Truth shall guide you into all Truth for he shall Glorifie me For he shall receive of mine and shew it unto you John 16.13.14 Effect 5. They who have believed and do abide in the Light and they only are hereby enabled and made willing freely to declare and preach their experiences to others and to confound and put to silence the weakness ignorance and folly of all that reproach and oppose this Doctrine as the illiterate young Man did to the learned Scribes and Pharisees Why this is a marvelous thing said he that yee know not whence he is and yet he hath opened my Eyes Since the World began was it not heard that any Man opened the Eyes of one that was born Blind J●hn 9.30 wherefore let all who look out for another Saviour remember the answer of Christ to John Baptist on the like account Go saith Christ and tell him that sent ye to ask saying art thou