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spirit_n	know_v	scripture_n	truth_n	7,532	5	5.8743	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56429	Christ exalted into His throne and the Scripture owned in its place.	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing P527; ESTC R33021	8,562	8

as ignorant as the Pharises who onely supposed him to be the Son of Joseph yet wondred at his power and the works that were done by Mat. ●… 55 56. him as these doe now wonder at the prosperity of this ministration of light and to see how it prevailes upon the hearts of the people so that they know not what to think of it they are not able to encounter with it but that they see it strikes so much at their Diana and lyes so hard at their foundation so that it makes their building totter therefore the Rulers Priests and Pharises takes counsell together saying one to another if we let this people alone all men will goe after them and they wil draw away whole Nations therefore they take the same course as ever the false Prophets did joyning together with the earthly powers to make war with the Lamb persecuting stocking whipping imprisoning and shamefully intreating his messengers whom the Lamb sends forth to bear testimony of this light in peoples consciences where we have a witnesse both in them that beleive and in them that perish and also striving all the wayes they can by their evill incensing lying raylings and false accusings and reporting to defame this light and leaven your mindes against it that if it were possible to put it out that still they might uphold their fathers kingdome of darknesse and bear rule by their means over the blinde carrying captive the mindes of people but who is able to make war with the Lamb or who shall withstand the day of his coming Saul Saul it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks And though they call the Scripture their Rule and guide yet in this it witnesseth against them to be in Caines way and Balaams way and in the gaine saying of Core and so have not God Jude 11. 2 Iohn 9. but are found to be the generation who are borne after the flesh persecuting them that are borne after the Spirit Gal. 4. 29. And though they call the Scripture their Rule and guide yet they receive not power from it to enable them to walk according to it but are altogether erring from it in any thing that crosseth selfe but as many as receive the light receives power to follow it and come out of the corrupt sinfull nature which they live in who know not the light Iohn 1. 12. And here the light is above the Scripture and though they say the Scripture is the Judge and tryer of spirits yet in the same it witnesseth against them to be lyars and bears witnesse of Christ to be the Judge and tryer and searcher of the heart and discerner of the thoughts Heb. 4. 12. Rom. 1. 16. 1 Pet. 4. 5. and that whatsoever makes manifestation is light Eph. 5. 13. therefore that which makes manifest false spirits is the light and not the letter which light manifested and discovered false spirits before the Scripture was written and also though they say the Scripture is the Judge and tryer of spirits yet by the Scripture they cannot discerne or Judge of spirits else what makes all this difference in iudgement amongst them who professe to try spirits by the Scripture and professe it to be their Rule and ground their judgements upon it yet are so confused in the same and never a one knowes which is the truth when as the way is but one so that it followes that they have nothing but the Scripture without are still without in darknesse and confusion as all those appears to be who call the Scripture their Rule and guide and Judge and tryer of spirits and yet knowes not the truth but are jangling and wrangling and arguing and disputing and contending about the Scripture every one with a several judgement upon it surely this distraction is not in the Scripture for it was spoken from one and all agrees in one therefore you that so professe the Scripture see if you can finde it out by the Scripture and see where you are but they that are in the light have fellowship one with another 1 Iohn 1. 7. and are of one heart and one soule Acts 4. 32. and all agree in one and are Epistles wrote one in anothers heart 2 Cor. 3. 2. and by the light they try and discerne false spirits and in it are able to judge them and open the Scriptures without wresting adding or diminishing and by it doe know they are of God because they love one another with the same love with which Christ loved them 1 Iohn 4. it is not such love which is to day and to-morrow crosse the will and it is turned into wrath and anger nay that love stands in the corrupt will but this love stands in the bond of peace which doth indure and here againe the light is above the Scripture and though they say the light must be received from the Scripture yet in this the Scripture doth witnesse against them and bears witnesse of Christ to be the light of the world and doth enlighten every one that cometh into the world and they that could never read letter of the book have this light which is sufficient to teach them and lead them into all truth after they come to the knowledge of it and from this light the Scripture was spoken 2 Pet. 1. 21. and without this light none can read the Scripture with understanding and here the light is before the Scripture and out of it all the children of darknesse are shut with their busie mindes and vaine contending spirits and though they say they must receive life and salvation from the Scripture yet in this the Scripture witnesseth against them and testifies of Christ to be the alone fountaine of life and salvation and that there is no other name under heaven by which we can be saved Psal 30. 9 and 144. 10. And that the Pharsees had the Scripture yet had not the light neither could see that he was the Christ though the Scripture bare testimony of him or either would come unto him for life and salvation but trusted in the scripture thinking there to find eternall life and therein found it not Ioh. 5. 39 40. As all you are now who are seeking the living among the dead and here againe the light is above the Scripture which light is within us the hope of glory Coll 1. 26 27 and those that cannot witnesse this are in the reprobation though they have the Scripture without 1 Cor. 13. 5. and from it we receive life and salvation and from no other and this alone is our guide teacher Judge and Law giver if we never see letter Luke 1. 79. Iohn 6. 45. Isa 33. and this alone is the ground and foundation of our faith and hope by which we are made able to to cry Abba Father 1 Cor. 3. 11. Rom. 8. 15. And here it is not self that judgeth or condemns but Christ that liveth in us Gal. ● 20. and it is not selfe that justifies us but Christ that liveth in us and here Christ is exalted into his throne and the Scripture owned in its place without contempt or undervaluing And they found the Ministers of Antichrist who would cast Christ out of his throne and take the Scripture out of its place to exalt above him applying to it that Authority which alone belongs unto him for their own by secret selfe ends so that in that they apply such Authority to the Scripture they in the same rob Christ of it and undervalues him as the Pharises did who thought in the Scriptures to finde eternal life but would not come to Christ that they might have life in whose steps ye and your teachers are now found professing Christ in words but in life denying him and therefore must be judged and condemned by him as they was And if you Priests doe alledge there is a false light as well as a true light I Answer that is it in you which blinds your minds so that you cannot receive this Gospel but from you it is hid 2 Cor. 4. 3. 4. And therefore you bring another Gospel calling the foure Books Matthew Marke Luke and Iohn the Gospel in which these foure Books will witnes against you and beare witnesse of Christ to be the Gospel which is the power of God unto salvation who is the Lambe of God slaine from the foundation of the world who came to take away the sins of the world and blessed are they thar are not offended in him Iohn 1. 26. and vers 13. Luke 7. 23 and also that is a false light in you which leades you into the forme or resemblance or outward shew of holinesse but denies the life and power 2 Timo. 3. 5. and to profess the Scripture no be your Rule but in life and practice deny it and to be short leades into a profession without possession but that which leades into the life and power is no false light for it leades into the possession before the profession and so the profession is from the possession but your profession is from anothers possession and so boasts in anothers line by which you beguile both your selves and others and therefore in that you goe about to arme your selves with the Scripture to oppose the light by exalting it above the light thinking thereby to debase the light and so to keepe peoples minds from the light that they may still remaine in darknesse and blindnesse under you You do but in the same bring a weapon to cut off your own heads and raise a war to destroy your selves and increase more light to the people and manifest your selves odious and to be the blind guides of the Nation who are to be denyed and turned away from us deceivers to be held as accursed who 2 Iohn 9. 10. bring another Doctrine in opposition to the true Doctrine which is held forth in the Scripture for the Scripture and the light agrees in one from both which you are shut with jangling contentious spirits by which you would wrest the Scripture out of its place to clash against its Orignall thereby to uphold your father Antichrists Kingdome and therein doe the more manifest your selves to be the ministers of Antichrist who under profession of the true Christ doe oppose him and make war with him 2 Cor. 11. 13 14 15. but your weapons are weak as is dayly made manifest James Parnell FINIS