seeing there was a certain Rule to the Holy Men of God long before the Scriptures were written which was more infallible than they even that of the Spirit which is above and greater than the Letter as is confessed Reader take notice of this his ample confession to the Spirit against himself and his carnal conceits in his so highly exalting the Letter as he hath done in much of his Book J.N. his Doct. There are a People that have need to have more Christ's than one otherwise I know not how they will have a Christ in every man especially those who cry up a Light in every man which this Opposer stiles a feigned Christ or Light within p. 18 29 61 72 74. Answ. See the ignorance and scornful spirit this man shews forth in this erroneous stuff For 1. Jesus Christ that was in every Saint and true Believer was not more Christs than one He was still one and the same Christ how or in whomsoever manifest 2dly His Light in every man is a true divine and spiritual Light and not a feigned Light as blasphemously he accuseth it 3dly It 's a falshood still to accuse us with affirming That Christ is in every man For we say a true Light or Gift of Jesus Christ is given to every man whereby to enlighten the Consciences of mankind J. N's Contrad The Word in their hearts Rom. 10.7 was not Christ. The true Christ doth not dwell in any man as he is Christ as he is properly and principally Christ he cannot dwell in man If he be with the Father then he is not in man pag. 54 60 61 66. Christ may be said to dwell in man I shall freely own the giving forth of his blessed Spirit into the hearts of his children whereby they are directed in his most holy will by the enlightening of their spirits So far as the Spirit of God and Christ dwelleth in men or any of his Attributes so far God and Christ both may be said to dwell in his Saints If we Love one another God dwelleth in us He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him p. 77 78 79 80. Animad To the first part I say his insinuation against us of Chrisâ—â—eing in every man is still false and not our Principle but that a spiritual Light of Christ is his Contradiction and Confutation to himself is obvious in 1st asserting that the true Christ doth not dwell in any man 2dly The true Christ doth dwell in man viz. in good men in that the blessed Spirit doth dwell in his Children and direct them in his most holy Will and is not this their Rule then J. N's Contrad God dwelleth in them Now the Apostle doth not intend the real Being of God viz. in Saints in his Glorious and Immortal Substance God and Christ are out of all men in order to their Glorious and Immortal Being Those that receive Christ's blessed Spirit such are said to receive his Father yet neither of them in their real Being pag. 79 80 87. This Indwelling of Christ in his People is by his Word and blessed Spirit and other pure Graces that are of his pure Nature and Being dwelling in his Saints and his Saints dwelling in the pure Life of the same so Christ may be said to dwell in them and they in him When we dwell in the Life of his Word and powerful operation of his Spirit and the Life of those Gifts and holy Graces being of the same Nature with Christ. God and Christ cannot be separate in in their givings forth Christ in them the hope of Glory p. 81 82 83 86 87. Animad The manifest Contradictions in these passages run thus viz. God and Christ in their Immortal Being are not in Saints yet the Spirit and pure Graces that are of his pure Nature and Being dwell in Saints So then this eternal Spirit of God and Christ who are inseparable is of the glorious Immortal Being of both and in the Saints And when God and Christ are said to dwell in them dare J. N. say they are divided from their own Being What place is God in where his Being is not And who art thou that wouldst limit the infinite being of God from his place and habitation in his Saints J. N's Contrad â—oh 1.1 proveth the Word to be God for Christ was not Christ in the beginning but Christ was in time when the Godhead took flesh to it self and not before he was born of the Virgin Mary And it cannot be in reason concluded that Christ was the Word before Christ was c. p. 50 51. Of Christ He was not the Son of man from the beginning for then he was only the Son of God and the Son of Man aâ— he was of the Seed of Abraham pag. 66 67. Animad What a gross Error is it to affirm That Christ was not from the beginning or that he was not the Word in the bâ—ginning And what a denyal of his Divinity like the old Hereticks And how plainly contradicted in confessing the Son of God was from the beginning and was then I ask If the Son of God was not Christ Or the Anointed of God Seeing he was the Son of God before he took flesh or was born of Mary and the Anointed then also for God created all things by Jesus Christ Eph. 3.9 and by the Son he made the Worlds Heb. 1.2 The Anointing was Spiritual and spiritually received by the Heavenly Birth the Anointed the holy Seed which is spiritual as that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit c. Much more might be said on the behalf of the Divinity of the Son of God or Christ who was the Word in the beginning and with the Father in his Glory before the world began J. N's Contrad Christ was remote from them Christ doth not dwell in any man Christ in person remote at the right hand of God viz. in his body of flesh Personal being transhapen manhood a glorified body of flesh at the right hand of God c. pag 55 60 63 66 67 71 73. The Indwellings of Christ by his Word and Truth being of the same nature with him Joh· 15.4 to v. 11. Christ is setting forth himself to be the Vine and his People the branches and adviseth them Abide in Me and I in you from Eph. 5.30 for we are members of his body of his flesh and of hiâ— bones pag. 75.83 Animad If the Indwelling of God and Christ be such in his People and the Saints in such near union and conjunction with Christ as the branches with the Vine and members with the Body Then 't is false and a lying Imagination to imagine either Christ God and his right hand so remote as not to dwell in any man no not in their own People and these wordâ— Christ in Person remote in his body of flesh c. and not in any man are not Scripture but added What strange conceits and limitations would J. N.
and it is the Spirit of Promise the Comforter having the Life of all Gods Promises and Truth of Scriptures in it self from God the Fountain and this Spirit is infinite and so not â—ontained in the Scriptures though it contains the truths that are in the Scriptures of Truth for they came from the Spirit and it opens the understanding in the Scriptures as it 's waited in J.N. His sad Consequences which he thinks do follow the denying the Scriptures to be the Word and Rule proved inconsequent and his great Ignorance therein detected In Answer to his 43 44 45 pages There are no sad Consequences as he asserteth in denying the Scriptures to be the Word and Rule for Salvation And Fiâ—st I doth not take away the ground of Faith for Remission 2dly Nor Assurance for Christ and his Light within is the Ground and Foundation of Faith and Assurance 3dly Nor doth it make void the Exercise of Faith in the precious Promises for the Spirit of Promise both as a Rule manifests the Promises exerciseth Faith in and fulfils them 4thly Nor doth it deny the Comforts of Faith from the Promises the Spirit of Promise being both the Comforter and sheweth us things to come 5thly Nor doth it destroy the support supplies of Grace to the Soul in affliction For these we receive from God in his own Spirit and not from the writings outward 6thly Nor doth it deny the knowledge of Acceptance for that is given to us by the Spirit of God by which we are sealed unto the day of Redemption and know that we are oâ— God and the Mystery of Life and Salvation is revealed unto us by the Spirit 7thly Where the Spirit of Truth and its Light within is obeyed and truly owned to be the Guide and Rule it leaves not men in the dark nor out of the knowledge of God or enjoyment of Life eternal But to deny the Spirit or Ligh◠〈◊〉 Christ to be the Rule for Life and Salvation doth leave 〈…〉 dark void of saving Knowledge and Life J.N. 8thly Without this viz. the Scriptures to be 〈◊〉 c. we know not that there is any God or Christ or Salvation by God in Christ nor by what means it may be obtained all men are left in the dark and no man knoweth how to enjoy Life Eternal pag. 45. Neither do we know what God counteth unclean and what holy And in short without the Scriptures we know not any promise that belongeth to this life or that to come these dreadful conclusions will follow denying the Scripâ—ures to be the Word and Rule to Salvation and it leaves men to walk by fancy and imagination Answ. Poor men you hâ—ve shewn your selves sâ—fficiently herein and what an empty implicit Faith you are in and how void both of the knowledge of God Christ and Salvation you are and how yet in your sins having denied Christ and his Light within to bâ— your Rule Way and Foundation as he is to his followers and so you are walking by your fancies and imaginations wâ—o â—et the Scriptures in the place of Christ as your only and absolute Rule and Ground of your Faith and Knowledge And then if one should ask you How you prove the Scripâ—ures to be true if they must be the absolute and only Rule and none other then you mâ—st prove them by themselves or plead their own authority from an implicit Faith you have of them which is but still an absurd way of reasoning or assaying to convince gain-sayers being but Petitio principii a begging the Question And how would this convince either Papists Turks Jews Infidels or Athiests to tell them our Bible or Scriptures are infallibly true and the only Rule to know there is a God and a Christ and Salvation by him and to know what God counteth unclean and what holy And then what a sad sentence of no less than Condemnation doth this pass upon all People and Nations who have not the Scriptures as being all void of knowledge thâ—t there is either God Christ Salvation good or evil whereas there is a living Evidence throughout the Creation or Works of God therein of the eternal Power or Maker see Psal. 19. Rom. 1. Job 12. and many do know and have known these things written of which concerns Salvatâ—â—â— by the Light of God and Christ in them that never could 〈◊〉 or had the Scriptures outwardly as those Gentiles which 〈◊〉 the Law yet did those things contained in it and shewed 〈◊〉 â—ffects of the Law written in their hearts Rom. 2. though the Scriptures are profitable to the Man of God who hath them being led by his Spirit which opens them J.N. The Eternal Power and Spirit that was in Christ cannot properly be called Christ this Power or Spirit is God and not Christ. Answ. Contrary to plain Scriptures opposing both the Divinity and Deity of Jesus Christ who is both the Power and Wisdom of God 1 Cor. 1. The second Adam the quickning Spirit ch 15.45 And the Father the Word and Spirit are One 1 Joh. 5.7 J.N. The will and mind of God is contained in the Scriptures in order to mans Salvation p. 49. Answ. The Word contained is erroneously place for the Writings contain only a Declaration of the Mind and VVill of God in order to Salvation God and his Mind Thoughts VVill and Wayes are Infinite and the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain Him J.N. The Word was in the beginning but Christ was in time not till he had taken Nature upon him and became in the likeness of sinful Man being born of the Virgin Mary Christ was not the Word before Christ was pag. 50 51. Answ. This Assertion opposseth the Deity and Divinity of Jesus Christ and contradicts the faithful Testimonies of the Holy men of God in the Scriptures of Truth For if the Son of God was not the Word nor in the Beginning nor before the Virgin Mary then Jesus Christ was not God but is represented as a finite Creature But the Erroneousness of this is apparent for the Word was with and was God in the beginning by which he created the Heavens and framed the Worlds Joh. 1.1 2 3. Heb. 11.3 And that this Word was Jesus Christ is plain seeing it's expresly said God created all things by Jesus Christ Eph. 3.9 Yea all things visible and invisible were created by him Col. 1. But if Jesus Christ the Son of God was not in being before he took flesh in the womb of the Virgin or was not before Mary how could all things be created by him And Nebuchadnezzar was of a better belief than to think that the Son of God was not in his time for he said Lo I see four men loose walking in the midst of the fire and they have no hurt and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God Dan. 3.25 And was not this before Mary or Christ's outward-birth of her All ye Baptists answer me what Scripture had he
having the immediate evidence of the Spirit in it from God which the Letter or outward writing hath not for it is directed and given to us traditionally though I intend no invalidating of it hereby but do oppose that spirit and doctrine which sets it out of its place that calleth the Letter the Only Rule for Salvation and so leaveth no room for the Immediate Teachings of God's Spirit or Light as the Rule in these days Which is the old defign and work of Antichrist which thou J. N. and others of thy Brethren are carrying on to keep people in blindness in a dark faith under your trâ—ditional teachings who can give no certain demonstration for the ground of your Faith and yet thou hast granted the Spirit to be more vertuous and greater than the Letter p. 112. Enough to confute thy opinion of the Scriptures being the only Rule for now the Spirit is greater But then again thou tellest us The sufficiency of the Saints Rule and Guidâ— standeth in the Spirit and Scripture both For sayest thou they cannot be separated in their Nature Purity c. p. 110. At if thou wouldest not freely grant the Spirit 's sufficiency without the Scriptures or to those that have them not but seemest to limit or tye up the Spirit to the Scripture as being inseparable in their Nature and Purity as if the Nature of the Writing were â—he Nature of the Spirit and equally Pure with it whereas the Spirit cannot be corrupted and its Râ—le is more infallible than the Scriptures according to thy own Confession and also thou hast confessed That in all Dispensations God never left his People without a word of Direction either written or immediately from his own mouth p. 106 110. So that here it appears some had immediate Directions from God who had not the letter and so may many now for ought thou knowest for God is not limitted though thou wouldest limit his Spirit and the Saints to the letter as if none were Saints and Believers but who had the Scriptures Oh! Ignorance and yet thou hast confessed That the Spirit is of more efficacy and greater than the Letter p. 110 112. How then is the Letter the only Rule And I ask Is that Word the Scriptures or Letter which thou sayest Christians are nursed with the sincere Milk of Does Milk flow from Letter or Spirit And is the nourishment of the new-born Babes 1 Pet. 2.2 the Letter Or are none true Babes but who have the Letter What ignorance narrowness and pinching work art thou found in who hast so tyed up all to and in the Letter as Spirit only Rule sincere Milk Well-spring of Comforts c. And yet grants p. 115. That the Spirit is the Key of Divine Knowledge which overthrows thy work about the Scriptures in thy setting them out of their place As also to the Query p. 117. Whether the Spirit that gave forth the Scriptures be a sufficient Rule and Guide To this thou answerest viz. Who is so ignorant as to deny the sufficiency of God's Spirit If thou doest not deny it Why doest thou go about to tye up all men to the Worlds end unto the Scriptures as the only Rule when now thou doest not deny the Spirits sufficiency as Rule and Guide nor darest thou assert the Scriptures sufficient without the Spirit though thou grantest That the Spirit is sufficient apart from the Scriptures which thou callest â—â—e Word pag. 118. Then the Scriptures are not the only Rule the Spirit being the Key of divine Knowledge the sufficient Rule above the Scriptures and greater than they As Also in pag. 116. thou confessest That there are secrets and private discoveries that God makes to the Soul by his blessed Spirit which are not manifest to any but to the heart that doth enjoy it These secrets are to those that fear him c. Where note That these secrets and private discoveries are not manifest to all that have the Scriptures but to those that fear God 2d That they are not made manifest or revealed by the Letter or Scripture outward but by the blessed Spirit inward unto the heart and soul that feareth God or hath Communion with him in his own Light Life and Spirit which is greater and above the Letter Again A further Confutation to thy self appeareth pag. 108. where thou grantest in the best sense That the Spirit is the Rule in its own Administration To which I say This still confutes thy work for that Administration is immediately and inwardly received from the Spirit which in the best sense is the Rule and this Spirit being the greatest all wholesome Doctrines Teachings and Directions are contained and summed up in it and so the Scriptures of Truth are not hereby made void though not the only Rule but fulfilled in them who walk after the Spirit or Rule of the New Creature for if you walk in the Spirit then are you not under the Law and they begun well who begun in the Spirit But whereas thou turnest â—ound again tying up the Spirits Rule to this viz. Doctrine and Teaching delivered in words also written in Scriptum est sayest thou As also that the word Regeneration signifies twice born to wit both after the flesh and from a state of sin whereas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to regenerate is to beget again not after the flesh Here Thy Divinity and Scholarship may both go together for where the Rule of the Spirit thou limittest to the Writing how consists this with the Spirits sufficiency to them that have not the Scripture or to its sufficiency apart or alone But 't is no strange thing for thee and such to be found in such manifest self Contradictions However thou wouldst have us take notice that thou art both a Divine and a Scholar And thy saying That Christ cannot be a Rule for any man in his Personal being p. 94. What makes this for thy purpose May it not be here implyed that he hath a spiritual being and that he can be and is a Rule in it to his People as He is their Way to walk in And where hast thou these words Personal being in thy Rule Is the Essence or Being of the Son of God Personal Was not his Being Divine before his Incarnation or Appearance in Person But thou appearest as ignorant both what Essence or Being is and what Person is which are different Again Thou appearest as grosly mistaking the state of the Controversie where thou sayest viz. What if my Spirit lead me to Mahomets Rule Or if my Spirit perswade me to believe the Popes mouth to be infallible c. Now it is not thy Spirit that may thus egregiously mislead thee that we are pleading for the Rule of but it is the infallible Spirit of Truth which gave forth the Scriptures neither is thy Assertions concerning the Scriptures any valid Plea or Argument to convince either Turks or Papists who are both out of the Truth and the Spirit
for the Rule of Faith Life and Salvation must likewise be infallible pure and incorruptible Christ being the Author of the holy Faith and his Light the Rule of the right Understanding Conviction and Perswasion and consequently of the Belief J. N's Contrad The Gospel which was preached unto every Creature under Heaven was the Scriptures of the New Testament The Everlasting Gospel The general ground of Faith and Assurance Now to deny the Scriptures to be the Word is to deny the very Fountain and Well-spring of Comforts to the Soul in Afflictions pag. 12 35 42 44. The Scriptures is corrupted by man Prayer and Supplication to God by his Spirit by Faith in Christ God approveth Christ saith Ye will not come to me that ye may have Life pag. 20 24 44. Animad Both many Creatures and the Gospel were before the Scriptures were written and the Light of the Gospel is more general to ground Faith upon than the Scriptures and it is the Light of the Power or Gospel of God in the hearts And the Gospel is preached in every Creature under Heaven And eternal Life is in Christ the Incorruptible Seed the VVord Spirit Life and Light And God is the very Fountain whose fulness is in Christ and the Well-spring of Comforts to the Soul not the Scriptures This Opposer might as well say the Scriptures are God as the very fountain and well-spring of Comforts And those Unbelievers that thought to have Eternal Life in the Scriptures were like J. N. and his Brethren who will not come to Christ that they might have Life And if we must Pray and Supplicate God by the Spirit then the immediate guidance of the Spirit of God must be to us a Rule therein not the Letter J. N's Contrad The Scriptures are a perfect absolute Rule in order to man's Salvation for all men to walk by and none other For the sons of men to walk by unto the ends of the world pag. 32 33 34 35. A Second Covenant of his VVill he foretold Jer. 31. is still in force for all men to walk by and none other The Second Covenant was confirmed by the Blood of that spotless Lamb c. The Second Covenant of God's Will in order to man's Salvation was confirmed by the Death of his only begotten Son pag. 27 28. Animad If the second Covenant or new Testament may be the perfect Rule for all men to walk by and none other as is confest then must the immediate Teachings of God in his Spirit be followed and obeyed as the perfect Rule for the New Covenant-way is spiritual to wit the Law and Spirit of God in the inward parts and this is above the Writings or Letter outward which many in remote parts of the world have not Many have not the Bible who have a spiritual Light or Law of God within as the Gentiles had Rom. 2. And Paul was not a Minister of the Letter but of the Spirit wherefore thou that sayest the Scriptures are the absolute Rule for Salvation for all men to the worlds end when many of whom have them not therein thou hast shut out the spiritual Rule of the New Covenant and art one of them that tread the blood of Christ under foot by which the second Covenant was confirmed and ratified And why hast thou such hard thoughts of God as to think thaâ— all Nations that have not the Scriptures outwardly are deprived of Salvation for want of them But in plain Contradiction to thy self The second Covenant is a perfect Rule still in force for all men to walk by and no other J. N's Contrad The Scriptures of the New Testament so confirmed are a perfect Rule for all men to walk by and none other p. 29. The New-Testament Letter is to be our Rule pag. 103. In the second Covenant of his VVill in order to man's Salvation there is the Man Christ Jesus at the right hand of God c. In his second Covenant he hath promised himself to be â—he God of his People 2 Cor. 6.16 17 18. pag. 29 30. Animad The Scriptures Writings or Letter outward whether of the Old or New Testament And the second Covenant which is spiritual and inward are two distinct things In this second Covenant God is the Teacher of his People himself immediately by his immediate Spirit Power or Unction within which teacheth the spiritual minds of all things which is true and no lye And what Scripture have Baptists for saying that the New-Testament Letter is to be our Rule Let them produce plain Scripture proof for their Assertion herein or else confess their error For Paâ—l expresly testified that God had made them able Ministers of the New-Testament not of the Letter but of the Spirit c. 2 Cor. 3. He doth not say they were Ministers of the Letter of the New-Testâ—ment his words will bear no such meaning for he plainly distinguisheth between the New-Testament and the Letter as he doth between Spirit and Letter Many both Priests and Baptists have and preach from that he calleth the Letter of the New-Testament who never knew the Spirit in its living ministration although the Scriptures testifie thereto J. N's Contrad The Scriptures are a perfect Rule in order to Salvation for all men unto the end of the world The very fountain and well-spring of Comforts to the Soul pag. 44. Act. 3.23 It is said A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your Brethren saith Moses like unto me him shall you hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you observe that Him shall you hear c. In the second Covenant Salvation and Eternal Life to those that obey the same in his Son Christ a way to bring us to Life pag. 23 31 39 40 50. Animad See how manifestly this Opposer hath in these passages broke the neck of his own Cause For if the Son of God must be heard in all things and he the way to Life and Salvation be in him as confest then the Scriptures are not the fountain and well-spring of Comforts God is the Fountain not the Scriptures as most ignorantly and blasphemously is assetted of them Also note how J. N. hath totally confuted and destroyed his Cause of the Scriptures being the only Rule in what follows J. N's Contrad Abel Enoch Abraham Isaac Jacob Noah and the rest of the Holy Men before Moses day I grant they had a sufficient Rule before the Scriptures were written They had a more infallible Word to walk by viz. from God's own mouth than is now to us for it 's possible that some Scriptures might be corrupted This may be granted in the bâ—st sense that the Spirit is the Rule The Spirit is of more efficacy than the Letter I shall freely grant that the Spirit is greater than the Letter c. pag. 104 106 108 110 112. Animad Here 's enough granted to make void all the Baptists work for the Scriptures being the only Rule
put upon the unlimited God like the old Heretical Monks of Egypt called Anthropomorphites contrary to his own confession J. N's Contrad Christ sitteth Advocate with the Father to plead the vertue of his blood that as there are new sins committed we might through Faith have fresh grace in the pardon thereof pag. 73. The Condâ—scention of God and Christ into the hearts of his People to work up his Saints into the same nature with himself c. God and Christ is holy so his Word is holy Heb. 4.12 and through Faith in this Word Christians are wrought up into the nature of it self and into God Gal. 4.19 Little Children in whom I travel in birth till Christ be formed in you and this to bring them forth into a Gospel purity in heart and life Finally Brethren farewel be perfect be of good comfort c. pag. 78 84 87 88. Animad Wherein the Baptists or others do preach up or plead the continuance of sin in all men even Believers c. term of life This is flatly contradicted in J. N's following words viz. That God and Christ works up his Saints into the same pure Nature with himself which is not a sinful Nature however he tells us of new sins committed which he saith Christ pleads for pardon of And that through Faith in the Word Christians are wrought into the Nature of it self and into God in whom is no sin nor imperfection And where Christ is formed in man he doth not say in a personal being remote and men thereby brought forth into Gospel purity in heart and life c. Such do not alwayes commit or renew new sins which renew the old man but are renewed in Grace and in the new-man by the Spirit of Holiness knowing Christ's Intercession answered viz. that they might be kept from evil Joh. 17.15 to the end The sins of such being done away and blotted out by the blood of Christ which in his Light within is experienced in its vertue and power by such as believe and walk in it 1 Joh. 1.7 Now if J. N's Contradictions as implyed should be thus placed viz. Finally Brethren farewell be Perfect be of good Comfort There are new sins committed c. How would this answer the end of the Command Be Perfect c. Or be any comfortâ—ble Doctrine to any that truly desire perfect freedom from sin and not to live any longer therein Here followeth the Contradictions of Tho. Danson W. Kiffin and Jer. Ives upon their Principle which was viz. Contradict THat the Scriptures are the only Rule of Faith T.D. The Scriptures without divine illumination are but the foundation of an Historical Faith and not of a saving Faith The divine illumination of the Spirit is the Foundation or Rule of saving Faith Contradict T.D. W. Kiffin The Director and Rule of Faith and Salvation are two distinct things as the way to Bristol and my Director into the way Yet that Christ is both the Director into the way to God and the Way it self they could not deny Irational Inconsistences Contradictions T.D. That the Light which the Gentiles had Rom. 2. was not sufficient for Salvation That their disobedience to the Light they had was the cause of their condemnation Yet That if they lived up to their Light it would not lead them to Acceptance with God Their Contradictions at the latter Discourse Contradictions W. Kiffin The Spirit of God considered as a Rule is absolutely excluded c. Jer. Ives The Scriptures including the Spirit are the only Rule Our saying the Scriptures are the only Rule does not exclude all other Rule or the Spirits illumination any more than to say God only hath Immortallity doth exclude all else from having Immortality Jo. Newman his Contradiction to W.K. This may be granted in the best sense that the Spirit is the Rule It is of more efficacy than the Letter Contrad W. K. and Alderm Hayes Quest. Whether the Scriptures are the only Rule of Faith yea or nay affirmed by them Jer. Ives in his Letter I never owned this Question in their words Animad Here it 's manifest how these men have shaked their own Foundation destroyed their own Cause and are confounded in their Babylonish building they having rejected the chief Corner-stone but they who believe in the Power of God which is known in his Light within and trust in his Everlasting Name shall never be confounded THE END The faults of the Press the ingenuous Reader may perceive by the sense of the matter whether they be points letters syllables or words which are not to be imputed to the Author but corrected whereof these are some ERRATA In the Preface pag. 4. l. 25. the parenthesis is misplaced read it thus Light within not prejudice and darkness judge P. 13. in the Margent read Soc. Scho. l. 30. r. Theodotus P. 14. l. 11. for heirs r. haeresie P. 22. l 4. blot out P. 28. l. 12 dele without P. 35. l. 34. r. or Inferred P. 62. l. 25. for it r. iâ— Of the Scriptures * Note Jer. 2.18 Psal. 36.9 Joh. 4.10.14 7.38 39. Of Christ. See Euseb. Soc. Ecc. Ecc. Cro. fol. 572. Christ called by several Names Christs Resurrection owned and Ascention 1 Cor. 10.4 Christs Body real Professors Confusion about the Body Of God's right hand Euseb. Eccl. Chro. fol. 584 588. Of Christ his second coming Heb. 9.28 Matth. 16.27 Luke 9.26 Heb. 6.6 Revel 11.8 Joh. 3.19 20 21. Job 24.13 Rom. 10. Deut. 30.14 Jer. 8.8 9. 1 Joh. 2.19 2 Tim. 2.17 1 Tim. 1.20 Acts 3.22 23. * Gross ignorance is God any where without His real Being * Christ's Spiritual Birth owned Mat. 5.48 2 Cor. 13.11 1 Pet. 1.14 15 16. Lev. 11.44