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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

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

its guidance to be the rule of Faith and Life when as it is the spirit of Truth that leadeth into all Truth John 16.13 Rom. 7.6 And this F.D. his assertions tends to exclude all the Holy men out of the Faith and Life who believed before the Scriptures were written as also he would shut out all the believing Gentiles as unbelievers who had not the law or Scripture without and thus he would limit God and all his people to the letter or Scripture without as the onely rule for their Faith and Life when as they served him not in the oldnesse of the letter but in the newness of the spirit And yet this F. Duke to discover his confusion hath granted That the Scriptures as they are an humane expression as written or printed with Ink and Paper by the art of the Writer or Printer so considered they are but dead letter p. 33.34 Wherein he hath plainly confuted himself for if the Scriptures as they are written or printed in Ink or Paper be but dead letter then the light or Spirit of Truth must write and open the Scriptures within by inspiration and the light and Scripture within which so often F. D. hath reviled and blasphemed against is preferred before the dead letter without So then how can the Scripture or dead letter without be the onely Rule for the living faith and life of the Saints as often F. D. implies And yet we do not make null the Scriptures without as falsly he hath accused us but in owning the Light within do witnesse the fulfilling of Scripture without 4. F. Duke also saith That we and our Friends would bring all men to believe that if they follow and bring themselves to be guided by the light which is within them it will bring them to perfection even in this life To which I say Here are words also in this particular which are falsly put upon us for we do not tell all men of bringing themselves to be guided by the light within them as if they could do it of themselves for that must be done through the drawings of God by the light in them and not by themselves And all that deny the attainment of perfection by the light of Christ within which is perfect they deny the work of Christ and the Saints Ministry and life for Christ is able to save to the utmost all that come to God by him and his blood cleanseth them that walk in his light from all sin Now the rest of F. D. his Book that is grounded upon these four said particulars how should the matter of it be good when it is founded upon so much falshood as is in all these particulars Also F. Duke Thou hast done exceeding foolishly falsly and wickedly in so often accusing us with John Tauney and what he hath writ in his Book of ten Epistles and reckoning him as one of the principal Quakers for it s known that we who are scornfully so called never owned him as one of us and it s known that he hath both spoken and written against us So whereas thou hast writ much of thy Book against J. Tauney it doth not touch us for he was none of our Friends as often thou hast falsly said neither do we own his corrupt Principles And where in page the 43. thou hast confessed That thou thy self art an Idiot and a poor Idiot p. 80. And yet boasts That thou art taught in Jehovahs Law and that thou wilt not turn thy back to the most learned of us all in Divinity Indeed it is the trick of a fool or Idiot to boast and to be confident as thou art but they that shall hereafter read and see thy Divinity they will judge thee no better then an Idiot indeed And how hast thou proved against us as thou sayest That we would bring all men to believe that the light in every man is God himself When thou thy self hast confessed p. 9. That Jehovah fills Heaven and Earth and all created Natures with his Divine Nature And in p. 11. thou hast confessed That God is in every thing and excluded out of nothing and that he fills Heaven and earth by his essence in p. 14. Wherein thou hast in part granted to truth against thy self for if God be excluded out of nothing and fill Heaven earth by his essence then what we say of his light being in every man is true for God is light and then why hast thou so much in many other places wrangled against us for Preaching this light of God in every man and so blasphemed against it as thou hast done in a horrible gross manner as further is discovered And where thou sayest thou wilt destro● our fancied Idol light our no true Scripture within our no true Christ within our no true God within To this I say in thy calling our light within an Idol thou hast blaspemed against God and Christ for God and Christ is the light who dwells in his people and Christ is in them whom we own and witness and no other And thou in saying thou wilt destroy our no true Christ within our God within hast not onely blasphemed against God but also hast grosly confounded thy self in denying the true God in us seeing in other places thou hast confessed that he is in every thing and is excluded out of nothing but fills Heaven and Earth and all Created natures with his divine nature and that his light extends in all men page 18. so that the true God and Christ cannot be excluded out of us so as for thy threatning to destroy our light our scripture our God and Christ within who is the true God the Reader may see how thou hast attempted to destroy God and Christ and his light wherein pap 19 Thou sayest thou concludes that our fancied light within as thou calls it is no Scripture no Christ no God onely it is a lowsie Christ or vermin bred in our own addle brain thou sayest I answer Oh what gross blasphemy and impudency hast thou shewed thou art in here To count Christ or the Light within a lowsie Christ or a vermin and thou hast openly and grosly appeared against the Apostles doctrine who preached Christ within the hope of glory who is the mystry that hath been hid from Ages and the Law of God is written in the hearts which is Scripture within so did ever any except an idiot blasphemer give forth such unsavoury words against Christ the light and the Scripture within as thou hast done And wherein pag. 21 thou accusest John Chandler as being seconded by Theaura John in saying that the flesh of Christs body profits no more then your own flesh nor the words spoken of him as also thou chargest James Naylor with seconding this in the third place in which thou hast wronged both John Chandler and James Naylor and shamfully belyed them for these exppessions thou accuses Theaura John which are denyed by I. C. and J.

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