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A65891	The true light expelling the foggy mist of the pit and the gross confusion and blasphemy of the beast, which is gone forth against the light of Christ and the scripture within, from an old professor, called Francis Duke of Westminster, in his book stiled, An answer to some of the principal Quakers, who therein boasts as if he had a great skil in divinity so that his pretended divinity in the said book is here discovered, and the true light and scripture within here vindicated from his gross aspertions cast upon the light, and them that walk in it / by George Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1660 (1660)	Wing W1967; ESTC R19779	12,599	15

is it the Communion with the divine nature thou speaks of before or what is it How darkly hast thou here spoken and seeing thou hast judged all these Churches and professions what art thou thy self and what particular Church or people that is standing dost thou own what dost thou own the Church of Rome seeing thou hast set her against the light within but the light witnesseth both against her and thy abbominations and blasphemies And whereas thou art pleading for such pretended respects as bowing one to another from Abrahams bowing himself to the ground as thou saist Gen. 18. And from Davids falling on his face to the ground and bowing 1. Sam. 20. And Abigals bowing her self on the ground 1. Sam. 25. With several others which before Christ came in the flesh and not after among the Christians in the new Testament and why do not you who are in pride and respecting persons as well fall down on your faces to the ground every time you meet one another as bow and cringe and complement one to another from these examples which are not a Law thou quotest for bowing seeing these examples are as well for falling with your faces to the ground as bowing but you can make use of some part of Scripture to serve your lusts and ends and leave out what you your selves will but the faith of Christ is not held with respect of persons neither can they believe that receive honour one of another and seek not the honour that comes from God onely John 5.44 James 2. And yet we honour all men in the Lord without respect of persons which honor stands not in vain and heathenish complements which serve to satisfie the proud vain mindes And where provest thou by Scripture that the Devil the old Serpent is an Apostate Angel as thou affirms he is and that the Devil actuated a dumb beasts tongue to wit the Serpents tongue that he spake most perfect Hebrew to dissolve the union which the first parents had with the divine nature as also thou affirms Seing the Devil was that Serpent that deceived Eve What would thou make the people believe that the dumb beast or creature was the deceiver and what then was the forbidden fruit which the Serpent tempted man to eat of and wouldest thou have it that the Devil and the dumb beast are as wise as the divines so called in speaking most perfect Hebrew surely the Serpent hath much deceived thee and thou never knew the state of an Apostate Angel who keeps not his habitation in the power of God And whereas in page 39.40 Thou accounts that the good Angel that acted Balaams Ass to reprove his madness doth make use of us and actuates our tongues and pens to repove the madness of the generality of the Ministers of our Lord Jesus Christ for neglect of their studious pains and labour in the sacred oracles of God or a sneaking Covetousness or their proud strife and vain glory or seeking prayse and glory with men rather then with the infinite God In which thou hast spoken falsely the Ministers of Christ are free from these things as sneaking covetousness pride strife vain glory and the like for them whom we reprove for these things are the covetous hireling Priests of the Nation who it seems thou intends in thy words who are not the Ministers of Christ for thou hast confessed that thou art confident in England there was never more men to talk of God but art afraid never fewer to walk with God which is a great shame for the Priests and such as thou art to make so much talk of God and to bring forth no fruit to God and how hast thou shamed the Priests and their hearers in this thy confession And what have the people of England given such vast sums of mony and hire to the Priests for if there were never fewer to walk with God then now and then what good have the Priests done with all their preaching if they have brought none to walk with God all this time And where thou accusest us as f●r having our tongues and pens actuated by the old Serpent and sayest that he is our Teacher and that he is in our mouthes and pens in this h●st thou lyed and thy own words contradict thee for then how doth the good Angell actuate our tongues and pens and make use of us as thou hast confessed but thy folly in this as in the rest of thy durty stuff is easy to see as is thy saying that the good Angel shall leave us alive in everlasting torments wch thou sayest shal be our wages for our work in gathering the seed of God Wherein thou hast shewed thy self an enemy to the seed of God and to his work of gathering them who are of that Seed And what confusion hast thou uttered in saying That after right believers are cleansed from all sins guilt and punishment by Christs blood yet there remains sins in them therefore in this life thou sayest They can do no perfect good Which is absolute contrary to the Scriptures see Psal. 119.1 2 3. Isa. 60.21 Zeph. 3.13 Mat. 5.48 1 Pet. 2.21 and 4.1 1 John 3. to the 10. vers. And where provest thou That though the soul of man be a spirit yet it perceives not the Nature of Angels as thou sayest For does not the spirit search all things yea the deep things of God And does not the soul that is quickened by the spirit of God therein perceive the Angels of God and their nature when they can perceive the Nature of God And whereas thou sayest That Angels perceive not the spiritual and naked essence of God but by the help of some created manifestation Where provest thou that by Scripture Do not the Angels see the face of God continually Surely F. Duke in seeking to appear wise above what is written by intruding into things he hath not seen hath discovered his ignorance folly and prophanesse And where thou F. D. sayest That we would bring mans will to be Gods own essence And sayest That J. Naylor in his Book Love to the Lost pag. 60. l. 16. saith Mans free will is the Plant of God the Will of God the Mind of God the Heart of God In these hast thou shamefully belyed us and J. N. his words for in that very place mentioned in J. N. his Book he speaks of him that is born of the spirit the Plant of God who hath the Will of God the Mind of God the Heart of God and not that mans free will is the Plant of God but J. N. plainly discovers how the will of him that is born of the flesh is in bondage In like manner hast thou shamefully belyed John Rouse in saying That he said to thee that God may do as much by any other man as he did by Christ Jesus who lived and died at Jerusalem As also in many other things hast thou notoriously belyed us as all unprejudiced persons who reads thy

N. and the rest of us and thy pretended proof against J.N. as seconding T.J. words is his saying of our light Christ within that it is but one in all unchangably just equally holy to which thou F. Duke replyest in these thy words viz. Truly James ye might more properly atribute all this to the Cat that sits in the Chimney corner for that is some thing but this light in the dark Lanthorn of your brains is an Idol To which I answer you may see here how ignorant this F. Duke is of the light of Christ within who in his esteem hath set the Cat in the Chimny corner above the light of Christ which is but one in all which is the light that we speak of and preach for he hath here as his words plainly implyes accounted it more proper to say that the Cat that sits in the Chimny corner is but one in all unchangably just equally onely then to say so of the light in all what blasphemy scorne and contempt hath this Idol powred forth against the light was there ever an Idiot that writ such stuffe as this before you may see this great pretended divine and what such divinity he boasts of who thus hath uttered forth his malice and blasphemy against the light of Christ which is but one in all and yet this pretended divine F.D. hath acknowledged in pag. 20. That Christ is every where in respect of his divinity when but in this 21. page he hath esteemed the Cat that sits in the Chimney corner above the Light in all as if it were more proper to say that the cat that sits in the chimney corner is but one in all unchangeably just then to say so of the light of Christ in all and thus he hath blasphemed against the light of Christ and sought to put him to open shame but thereby hath openly shamed himself And whereas we preach witness to the light of Christ and the Scripture or Law of God in the heart and have charged some with getting the imitation in stead of the thing this doth Francis Duke compare to an ape who he saith looking upon a Glasier that was setting up a great Glass window and observing how he drove in the tacks with his hamer did whilest the glasier was gone to dinner get up upon the Ladder took the hammer and fell to work as he falsely saith we do and broke the glass window all to pieces to which he compares the preaching or owning the Scripture within To which I answer here you may see Francis Duke his malice against the Scripture within and his ignorance of it and how he hath cast reproaches and contempt upon the Scripture within as counting our walking according to and preaching of the light and Scripture within no better then an Apes breaking a glass window as he in his vain story declares wherein he might as well have reproached the true Prophets and Apostles as us for they owned the Light and Scripture within and the word of God was in their hearts and the Scriptures of truth were given by inspiration of God and so were in the saints before they were given forth in paper and inke and saith the the Lord I will write my Law in their hearts and put my spirit in their inward parts and the Gentiles who obeyed the Law of God in them shewd the work of the Law written in their hearts so here was Scripture within which F. Duke like an Ideot hath dispised who hath better esteem of the Cat that sits in the Chimney corner and can better discern the Cat and the Ape then he can the light and the Scripture within Again Francis Duke in p. 40 layes down these words against the light within without exception in this wise viz. Truly many antichrists have done villanously but thou O light within in villanies surmounts them all for as Jerusalem justified Sodom so thou light within dost justifie the Roman Antichrist To which I answer here the language and blasphemy of the beast which blasphemeth against God and his Tabernacle plainly appears So see the blasphemy and confusion of this Ideot F. Duke how absolutely he hath blasphemed against the light within without exception and yet in other places of his Book he hath confessed that God fills Heaven and Earth by his essence and that he is in every thing and that God enlightneth every man that cometh into the world and hath spoken of the same Light in all men extending to the rational union and comunion with the divine nature and that Christ is every where in respect of his divinity in pages 9. and 11 14. and 18. and 20. In which things there is some truth though against himself for God and Christ is light and they are one in the Saints so that F. Duke in charging the light within to surmount all the many Antichrists in villanies and with justifying the Roman Antichrists and with having abominations is as much as if he had charged God and Christ who is the light within to surmount all the Antichrists in villanies and with justifying the Roman Antichrist And then when he like the beast hath uttered all this blasphemy against God and Christ he brings a piece of an Esop's fable against the Light and saith O thou light within she meaning the Church of Rome abhors thy abominations except it be in the case as the fox loves to here the Crow sing Thus hath F. D. shewed his scorne lightness contempt and blasphemy against the light within and yet in page 20. this F.D. saith to Theaura John that he nor no man else knows what our light within is and such like to John Lylburn page 12. so that he not knowing what our light within is and yet so often having spoken so grosly against it as he hath done he hath spoken evil of the thing he knows not as the natural bruit Beasts did who were to be destroyed as the Scripture saith 2. Pet. 2.12 So that all that this Francis Duke hath written against the light within is done in his ignorance as a man without understanding who would appeare wise and yet therein appears a fool and an idiot so that had he been silent and done nothing his folly had not so much appeared but fools love to be medling And whereas Christ said he that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me and I in him John 6.53.56 To this F.D. gives his meaning thus viz. That is saith he as the Sun dwells in the eye by its beames and as the eye dwells in the Sun by its shining which his comparison is unequal for Christ dwells in the Saints hearts and his life is manifest in their mortal bodies which is much nearer to them then the Sun in the Firmament And what is it thou sayest is in Jesus Christ which is neither in an Episcopal Church Government nor in Presbiterian nor in an Independant Government nor in a Rebaptism nor Calvinism page 21. What

Book will see and be ashamed of thee for so doing And whereas in thy rambling stuff which thou writes to John Lilburn who is deceased several years ago then sayest We deny the Trinity To this I say We do not deny the God-head nor any thing pertaining to it but own the three that bear record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Spirit and these three are one but whereas from Deut. 6.4 thou sayest Our Elohims is one Jehovah and afterwards telleft of a second Elohim and a third Elohim To this I say is not Elohim God according to thy own confession and is it proper to say there is a first God and a second God and a third God as if there were three Gods and one before another as thy words implyes And where provest thou the word Elohims Is it not Elohim And that of Deut. 6.4 which thou bringest proves not thy confusion and non-sence for there it saith the Lord our God is one Lord And to prove the Scriptures to be the Word of God which thou sayest is that which declares the Mind of God to man thou instancest How God conveyed his mind to man and what God said unto Adam to Cain to Noah to Abraham To this I say The Scriptures of Truth are Writings and a Declaration of these things that were surely believed amongst the Saints Luke 1.1 Acts 1.1 but God conveyed his Mind by his Word unto these mentioned before the Scriptures were written So that which conveighs the Mind of God to the mind of man is the word of God in the heart which was in the beginning before the Scriptures were written Iohn 1.1 Rom. 10.8 Deut. 30 14. Now we own that in the Scriptures are the Words of God which were spoken forth from the Word of God which was in the Saints hearts as also in another place thou sayest The Scripture is these words of God which we own but in this as in other things hast thou confounded thy self And where thou sayest The Scripture is the ground of your faith p. 73. and that the Word of God in the Scriptures was the ground of Christs Faith p. 74. I answer Herein hast thou discovered thy ignorance of the true faith and the ground of it as also thou hast set the Scriptures above Christ in counting them the ground of his Faith for he is the Author the ground and foundation of the Saints Faith and from that faith were the Scriptures given forth to be believed and fulfilled so Christ and his Faith which is the Faith of Gods Elect was before the Scriptures were written for another foundation can no man lay then that which is laid which is Christ Jesus And thy saying That Christ kept his mind close to the word of God in the Scriptures that were written by Moses to repell the Tempter and his Temptations I Answ. Here again thou hast set the Scriptures above Christ as if he had received his power from the Scriptures to repel the tempter when as it was through faith and patience in the power of the Father which was in him that he overcame the tempter and in the authority of that power he spoke Scripture as they do who are in it for cannot the Scriptures he made use of in the faith but they must be the ground of faith how comes any then truly to believe what is written in the Scripture And where thou sayest we affirm there is no word of God but that light which is in man In this thou hast accused us fasly for it was from the word of God which is the light in the heart that the words of God in the Scriptures of truth were given forth And whereas in page 77. Thou sayest that the Devils and all damned Creatures their being life and motion is in God I Answ. How is the Devils being life and motion in God when as the Devil abode not in the truth but rebelled against God and was a lier and muderer from the beginning what is the Devils motion in God when he moves to lying and murdering and the like And the Devil is the power or Prince of darkness but God is light and in him is no darkness at all So how blindly and foolishly hast thou appeared in these things for the Devil And now whereas thou art telling of four things in which God doth manifest himself to us thou sayest the first is the fabrick of the Creation the s●cond is the Scriptures but thirdly thou sayest that which doth manif●st most of all and is therefore light is the spirit of God And fourthly thou sayest there is in all men a light within which enlightenth every man which cometh into the world which is the spirit of God I Answ. By this account thou might as well say there are many more things then four by which God manifests himself for what thou mentions as a third and a fourth thing is but one as if thou hadst said the third thing which doth manifest God most of all is the spirit of God and the fourth thing is the spirit of God what an Ignoramus art thou to utter such non-sence as thou hast done But whereas thou ownest That there is a light in all men which is the spirit of God and that he doth write the effect of the Law of God in the hearts of all men from whence they do by nature the things contained in the Law which shew the effect of the Law written in their hearts and it was written to this end that from this light within suteable to the Scriptures they might come to Christ that he might give them life or on the contrary if they by custome in sin extinguish this light within this will leave them in their own consciences without excuse thou sayest To which I say If there be in all men a light which is the Spirit of God and which is to lead them to life in Christ or leave them in their consciences without excuse if they continue in sin according to thy words then hast thou granted to the thing which we say of the Light of Christ in all men and then why hast thou so much reviled and scorned us and the light which we preach which is the way to Christ and to eternal life in him Which at length after thy many scofs blasphemies and revilings thou art made to confesse to though to thy own confusion and condemnation and by this light in thee shalt thou be left without excuse in thy own conscience and condemned for ever if thou continuest in thy wickednesse scorn and blasphemy I reject the rest of thy many lies and false doctrines which are in thy puddle of dirt in thy slanderous confused book as not worth mentioning nor further wading in and it were well if thou and such as thou art would own this Scripture in the feeling of the Light which gave it forth where the Apostle saith who is a wise man and endued with knowledge let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meeknesse of Wisdome but if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts Glory not and lie not against the Truth Iam. 3.13 14. From a Friend to the Truth of God which is professed and owned by his people called Quakers THE END ERRATA Page 3. line 21. for nan r. man p. 4. l. 4 for that we read for we p. 7. l. 33 for this Idol r. this Idiot Rom. 10.8 2 Tim. 3.16 Jer. 31. Heb. 8 Rom. 2.15