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A47156	The light of truth triumphing over darkness and ignorance, error and envy manifested in Robert Gordoun's late pretended testimony to the true Saviour : wherein every one whose eye is open may see his seat, and who have salt in themselves may favour his words, work and spirit and discern his deceitful dealing by smitting the innocent in secret, yet not with that subtilty which is able to cover in this day wherein light is manifesting the works of darkness : so, the Devil was here deficient but envy slays the foolish man : given forth in the 2 moneth 1670 / by George Keith, & G. White-head.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; Gordon, Robert, fl. 1669-1675. Testimony to the true Saviour.	1670 (1670)	Wing K179; ESTC R2048	34,830	44

in thy soul for term of life and is not sin th● Serpents nature and if it cannot but live in thee does thou not retain yea entertain it in thy soul for surely sin cannot live in any measure where it finde● no entertainment yea as to this matter art thou not in con●usion and contradiction to thy self for though thou blames them who pretend to the imputed righteousness of Christ but under all this re●aining yea entertaining the serpents nature pag. 6 yet p. 16 thou expresly pleads for Redemp●ion in another for us while ●in is within and to 〈◊〉 otherways thou calls it an arguing with God and charging him with folly how wilt thou rid thy self heir of Confusion and contradiction to th● self I might take notice of divers other unfound words of thine from pag. 1. to pag. 10. but desiring to be short I shall pass them and onely take into consideration another piece of confusion and contradiction to thy self for pag. 9. thou says Of one who is dead in sins and trespasses and remains so still that he is a child of wrath as well as others and is altogether so sti●l and yet pag. 12 thou affirms that God is fully attoned perfectly reconci●ed to man c. sing●y and solely upon the acco●●t of the active and passive obedience of the man Jesus Christ of Nazar●●h done in his crucified body without us ●nd this thou would inter from 2 ●ar 5. 18. and thou further add● that he to wit Paul in the cited place mentions not any consideration qualificatio● or work wrought or to be wrought in any man by any Light or Spirit whatsoever now is not this confusion and contradiction to ●hy self First to say a man dead in ●ins or unsanctified altogether is altogether a ch●ld of wrath Secondly to say that God is fully and perfectl● attoned and reco●ciled with him in this state for what 〈◊〉 ●t to be a child of wrath but that the wrath of God is upon him and against him and yet says thou God is fully reconcil●d with such altogether children of wrath and yet God is fully attoned perfectly reconciled with them is it not palpable confusion and contradiction nor does that cited place 2 Cor. 5 18 prove what thou intends onely thou wrests it as that thou say● he says not God is yet to be reconciled but he is alread● fully reconciled but say I with whom is he 〈◊〉 reco●c●led with unbelievers and unsanctified persons but the Apostles words are in that place hath reconciled us viz. us who believe and are sanctified but of the world he saith reconciling so not reconciled yea in the sa●e place he mentions a qualification to be wrought by the Spirit on their parts in order to their full reconciliation viz that they be reconci●ed to God be ye reconciled to God said he And pag. 13. I hou affirms that faith is but the evidence of that red●mption and salvation already wrought by Christ for us citing that Scripture Heb. 11. 1 but though the Apostle say faith is the evidence of things not seen he does not 〈◊〉 it is but the evidence as excluding it from being any quali●●cation requisite unto redemption or justification yea he calls it also a sub●ance of things hoped for And here I shall take not●ce how thou art fallen into that principle of the 〈…〉 so c●lled who maintain that men are justified with God before 〈…〉 and that faith is onely the evidence of ju●●●fication But 〈◊〉 th●n brings no s●fficient proves of Scripture to 〈…〉 53● 6 of 〈◊〉 nor 2 Cor. 5. 18. 2● nor Act 4. nor Gal. 44. Give any ground for it that God is fully attoned perfectly reconci●ed with u●beli●vers for though he was made sin for us and that God had laid ●n him the iniquities of us all yet the unbelievers do still remain under the burthen of sin and they are concluded in it wrath is revealed in them against it as saith the Scripture and God is against them in it till they be agreed with him through faith and fancti●●cation ag●●e said he with th●ne adversary c. and there is ●o peace to the wicked saith my God it is not s●id there is no evidence or intimation of peace to them but there is no peace to them while they so continue as for the one o●●●ing once for all yet the fr●it and effect thereof is not given unto ●ll so ●s that all ●re justified for many are condemned he that believeth not said Christ is condemned already I come now to examine thy assertion page 10. which tho● indeavors to confirm through the most part of thy paper and it is this Secondly says thou there is another snar● carrying death also in the bosome of it though covered with the smooth words of power spirit and light within and it is tha● spirit that publisheth that the light that enlightneth every man that comes into the world is the true Christ our only Sa●iour Mediator and Redeemer and that there is not another and that man 〈◊〉 to head and to be joyned to this light as that which as 〈◊〉 condemns him so i● able of it self to save and rede●m him as he becomes obedient thereun●o Here with open mouth thou smi●es against our principl● even Jesus Christ the true light that en●ightens ●v●ry man that c●m●th into the wo●l● that all through him might believe though thou may remember that some time formerly thou h●●t c●nfess●d to it and also pleaded for it but thou hast given way to the darkness which hath clouded any sma●l conviction of thi● truth in thy soul and now turned thee into ●nmity against it and that th● darknes● hath ruled thee in this work appears plain●y from thy manifold confusion and contradiction to thy self wherein thou art intangled pag. 17. thou says this Doctrine declari●g the Light and Power 〈◊〉 Spirit within to be Christ the only Mediator and Saviour asserts another Christ another Saviour then him J●sus Christ of Nazareth wh● 〈◊〉 conceived of the Holy Ghost and born of 〈◊〉 Ma●y and yet pag. 5. tho● ple●ds for Christ within and blames them who neglect in thems●lv●s and oppose in oth●rs the mistery of Christ wi●hin yea page 7 〈…〉 for Christ formed within men saying to them that without dyi●g to the old Nature of sin and rising i● the new 〈◊〉 of right●o●s●●s● 〈◊〉 so Christ formed within you you cannot in●●rit the Kingdo● who of the weak●st disc●rning cannot see thy self contra●●ction here ●ea and thy enmity to the mist●ry of Christ within though at times forge●●ing and contradicting thy ●elf thou seems to be for ●t but if thou were indeed for this mistery Christ within as he is the seed the 〈◊〉 the Power and the Life tho● would not say that such Doctrine asser●● another Christ then him Jesus Christ of Nazareth for Jesus Christ is still one and the same the Saviour and Mediator and R●deemer is still one and not divided there ●re not two Christs

the Christ to whom John came to bear witness and there is not another he is the word made slesh pag. 31 32. the word was not converted into flesh but remain'd the word still pag. 22. Observation This man preacheth up that in one place to be the Christ which in another place he preaches down or denies it to be For that Christ that Iohn came to bear witness to that was the word that became flesh and tabernacled in them was the true light that enlightens every man that comes into the world mentioned before Ioh. 1. But this R. G. Further shews his Self-confutation Enmity and Anti-christian spirit against the true Christ who is the light See here R. G. his Anti-christian doctrines against the universal light and power of God and his Son Io. 1. ch Viz. 1. That the spirit that publisheth that the light that enlighteneth every man that comes into the world is the true Christ is a snare carrying death in the bosom of it pag. 10. 2. That the light that enlightens every man that comes into the world is not he to wit Christ pag. 20. 3. That the worker of redemption could not be the light and power pag. 21. 4. That the bearer away of iniquity cannot be a meer spiritual Christ altogether light and power within pag. 22. 5. That the true Christ man's only Saviour and Redeemer and the light and salvation of the Gentiles prophesied of Esa. 49. 6. is not the light that enlightens every man that comes into the world pag. 26. 27. 6. That the unbelieving Iew who rejected Christ yet had a clearer sight of him then they have who assert that the light that enlighteneth every man that comes into the world is he and that such are wholly ignorant pag. 29. 7. That none of the Prophets ever witnessed the light that enlighteneth every man that cometh into the world to be the true Christ pag. 32 33. 8. That they deny the Lord that bought them who set the light that enlightens every man to be the true Christ and Saviour pag 40. 9. That such are miserably beguiled who preach up the light enlightening every man that comes into the world for the true Christ pag. 37. R. Gs. Contradictions to his Principles before cited He is Iesus Christ the same yesterday to day and for ever without beginning or end of dayes he is the word by which the world is made yea of the Son it is said thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth and thus he is the wisdom and power of God pag. 23. This is the Christ to whom John came to bear witness and not another he is the word pag. 31 32. Redemption is see● by the light of the glorious Gospel shining in our hearts pag. 25. Old Simeon was a devout man obedient to the light in his conscience he waited for the consolation of Israel and it was revealed to him by the holy Ghost Luk. 2. 17. through it in himself he waited the appointed time c. Observation Christ said I am the light of the world Io. 8. 12. ch 12. 46. and ch 3. 19. and that was the true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world Io. 1. 1. read on and that light which brings to see Redemption and revealed the consolation of Israel to wit salvation by Christ was his light within wherein Simeon and others of the holy men of God waited and this was a light of the glorious Gospel or power of God shining in the hearts c. R. Gs. Principle That the light in our consciences that shews good and evil is not given for righteousness nor able to reveal or give life any more then the law writte● in Tables of Stone p. 11. R. G's Contradiction Yet Old Simeon was obedient to the light in his conscience c. Redemption is seen by the light shining in our hearts c. as before Observation Then the light in the conscience is given for righteousness if to be obeyed for it manifests evil and leads out of darkness and sin where it is obeyed and every one that doth truth cometh to the light that his deeds may be manifest that they are wrought in God Io. 3. wherefore the light in the conscience is given for righteousness and the path of the Just is a shining light and the life that was the light of men is above and before the Letter or Law writen in tables of stone as to giving of life R. G. God said to Adam in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt die it could not be revoked who could fulfil the requirings of Wrath and satisfie not Light and Power c. But he who trod the Wine Press of his Fathers wrath alone P. 19. 20. R. G's Contradiction The Chastisements of our Peace were upon him c. p. 21. Observation Mark here Wrath and Chast●sements are two differing things and differ in the execution as Chastisement is in love to Gods People who receive the Attonement but Wrath and Vengeance due to Rebellion and is to come upon them whom he will tread down in his anger and trample in his fury even in the Wine-press of his wrath as Isai. 63. Now it appears this R. G. takes this as Christs stopping or treading down the Fathers wrath as his words import wherein he is greatly mistaken for it is rather an executing of his wrath and revenge upon the wicked or Persecutors whom he will trample in his fury for the deliverance of his own Seed and ransomed ones And this Christ who is both the wisdom light and power of God can and will do by whose power also salvation for sin and death is witnessed in them that believes in the Divine Light and Power which is able to give us all things pertaining to life and godliness 2. Pet. 1. 3. R. G. Redemption is a Mystery which by the Principles of right reason cannot be discerned Contradiction But is seen by the light of the glorious Gospel shining in our hearts p. 25. Answer Right reason doth spring from the true light that shineth in the heart and the good that this light teacheth and sheweth is reasonable or consistent with right reason however this man seems to decrie right reason in some degree therein resembling Lod. Muggleton the false witness who saith Reason is the Devil But this R. G. again in Contradiction to himself seems to set up right reason to justifie his Principle as where he saith p. 2● concerning Mary that the light in her Conscience is not the Son called Jesus conceived in her Womb Surely that agreeth not to right reason ●aith he But surely if he denie the light of the Son of God to be in her Conscience because of his Conception or taking on him Flesh in the Virgins womb he might as well denie and oppose his Divinity for 〈◊〉 was not limited into that comp●ss as not to be in her Conscience nor was the Son of God and his

you by any light whatsoever p. 42. o The work of Redemption is already 〈◊〉 at once in the Crucified b●dy without us p. 21. 23. The Ope●●●ion of the Spirit of Christ within us 〈…〉 Redeem 〈◊〉 p. 23. Thus far R. G. hath shewn himself one while like a Quaker so called having gotten many of their words another while like a Presbyterian or Independant shewing his self-contradiction and instability And what may the Reader think of him but that he hath gathered and learned something from the Quakers or out of their Books though he was never of us However like a perverse Apostate he chiefly smites at them in his enmity chiefly to the injury of his own Soul and Conscience who for all his opposition cannot wholly forget and drive the Quakers principles out of his mind but is forced to confess to the truth of them to his own confusion and overthrow And it 's remarkable that the most of his Pamphlet is confu●ed But where he acts the part of a Quaker so called whom he further imitates in this wise viz. R. G. Christ's Death and Sufferings his Resurrection and Righteousness will not avail thee thou remaining in thy self wholly unchanged unsanctified by and through the operation of the Spirit of Christ within thee whereby they may become of use to thee Thou wast dead in Sins and Trespasses and remains so still thou wast a child of wrath as well as others and thou art so still c. And in his 35 page he goes on thus viz What will an Historical faith ●s of things altogether without avail thee while thou hast not the evidence within thy self by a lively faith of thy being redeemed through the Redemption that is in him A ●●attering hypocritical extolling of Christ in his Offices as King Priest and Prophet without thee while thou deniest him in the exercise of these Offices within thee by the Operation of his Spirit c. And this is thy own condition R. G. as appears by many passages in thy Book contrary to what here thou hast confessed as may plainly be seen in comparing thy contradictions before and who but one presumptious and impudent would have appeared thus publick as thou h●●t done to confute others and to undervalue and oppose the sufficiency of the Light Power and Operation of Christ within as to Redemption Salvation and Justification c. with such a heap of darkness and confusion as thou hast vented who yet otherwhiles art made to confess to the Operation of the Power and Spirit of Christ within whose Light is set over the head of all thy Darkness Deceipt and Enmity and over all such Backs●iders as are in the same spirit of Enmity and Opposition with thee such as R● Cobbet Elizabeth Atkins and Rob. Rich who is of a Ranting Principle to whom we may add Muggleton or his railing against us who have spread abroad their confused malitious P●mphlets with their lies and slanders against us wherein they do but gratifie malitious spirits Apostates and Ranters And seeing that Michael Stantcliff who came some years amongst us professing the Truth with us and owning the light within and to some yet doth formally seem as if he were a Quaker which appea●ance no doubt he hath found to make for his Interest yet is turned into so much dimness darkness and enmity again●● the People called Quakers as to opprove of this Rob. Go●don his Pamphlet ●iled A Testimony to the true Saviour as being an Ingenious clear Piece and that which we could never get through c. As also to help to convey or spread them abroad against those that Preach the true light that enlighten● every man that cometh into the world to be Christ c. R. G intending chiefly the people called Quakers against whom he hath insinuated divers forgeries and slanders Wherefore we say to thee M. Stantcliff be ashamed and repent of thy approving and countenancing such a bundle of Confusion against the truth and against an innocent People whom thou once own●d●t remember from whence thou art fallen and how thou persistest in enmity and prejudice against Truth and us least the Lord cut thee off and thou end thy days in trouble and anguish we have desired and sought thy good though thou hast rewarded us evil for good And now we wish thy Repentance and pray the Lord forgive thee that thou mayest not end thy days and perish in thy Perverseness and gain-saying Here follows a brief account of some places of Scripture sent to Robert Gordon by Gawin Longworth R. G. his Answer to them Ioh. 1. from 1. verse forward in the beginning was the Word 12. chap. ver 46 I am come a light into the world 15. chap. ver 5. I am the vine ye are the branches Rom. 8. 10. If Christ be in you c. 1. Cor. 1. 24. Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God 2. Cor. 13. 3● Seeing you seek experience of Christ speaking in me Tit●● 2. 14. Who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity c. 1. Ioh. 5. 12. He that hath the Son hath life Chap. 4. v●r 4. Greater is h● that is in you then he that is in the world Robert Gordons Answer to these Scriptures viz. I Have considered the Scriptures thou mentioned and I find that in none of them it is testified who the true Christ our only Saviour is but what he is through the operations of his spirit in Believers called therefore the Anointing within or Christ within but these operations of his spirit within are no where in Scripture called the Lord's Christ our only Saviour And if thou own no other Mediator Christ or Saviour then what is described in these Scriptures thou mentions then necessarily thou disowns the Lord Iesus Christ of Nazareth a man approved of God c. Thus far R. G. telling us of the writings of that enlightned man Iacob Behm Observe Here the ●enour and tendency of R. G's Answer how Antichristian it is he appears here plainly as owning another Mediator Christ or Saviour then that Christ that said I am come a light into the world I am the vine c. and we ask was not he Jesus of Nazareth and of whom it is testified in Scripture Christ in you Christ the power and wisdom of God He that hath the Son hath life who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity c. But R. G. doth not own this Christ to be the Lord 's Christ or Jesus Christ of Nazareth but he must have some other Christ then this Christ that is described in those Scriptures before but dare he say that Iacob Behm owns his doctrine herein for this Christ who is the Word the Light the Christ in Believers the power and wisdom of God speaking in Sain●s R. G. deems but as operations of the Spirit and not Christ the Operator Saviour or Redeemer wherein he is greatly mistaken and has out-run himself

The Light of Truth Triumphing Over Darkness an●●gnorance Error and envy Manifested in Robert Gordouns late pretended testimony to the true Saviour Wherein every one whose eye is open may see his Seat And who have Salt in themselves may favour his words work and Spirit and discern his deceitful dealing by smitting the innocent in secret yet not with that subtilty which is able to cover in this day wherein Light is manifesting the works of darkness SO The Devil was here deficient BUT Envy siays the foolish man Given forth in the 2 Moneth 1670. By George Keith G. White-head Printed in the year 1670 R. G. Having had knowledge of thee from the beginning and acquantance with thee through many years and a love for the● ●nd regard to thee I found a readiness in 〈◊〉 to signifie My sense of thee and sorrow for thee in that spirit and mind which could d●light to do thee a service in Love But indeed thou appearest before me as one very uncapable in that spirit and state wherein thou stands of a return to the Lord or of a steady Conductor to thy bewildred minde the traversing of which without a guide hath centred it in a Whirle pool And in thy reelings thou art now resolved thou wilt fight neither with great no● small but with the King of Israel The Light of 〈◊〉 I have often wisht thee to come under its banner that it might have become thy covering then had not darkne●s covered thy understanding nor the Fogs of lirror so confounded thee but that thou might have seen thy way out of the mire and clay wherein thou art toyling thy self travelling in pain and bringing ●orth th● wind It did not a little astonish me upon a view of thy book to find thee whom I judged had attain'd a measure of reason setting up thy own shaddow in thy own immagination and then cudggelling it down again as though thou wert encountring an Army for where did 〈◊〉 the people called Quakers deny that body prepared of God to do his will in which suffered at Jerusalem by wicked hands which thou seems to take for granted and then labours like a man in a sweat and indeed thy labour is in the fire to prove its existence in that day of its service and its necessity as to mankind which by them was never denyed and I dare thee and all men upon the earth to prove they did or do I take notice of thy acknowledgement in the 4 pag. of thy book that the manifestation of God in the flesh of Christ was that their by way might be opened for the ministration of the other mistery 〈…〉 separating them and making the one subservient to the other and yet after runs against it ●n the whole scope of thy work which is m●nifest beyond all gain saying 〈…〉 qualification and a work to be wrought and that by a Spirit too ●ven as though the words had been expresly written to give thy words th● lyc I am really sorry for thee and my very 〈…〉 d●sir●d and doeth thy good and mark thy self that if possib●● thou might see the confusion ●hy enemy drives thee into fo● within ten lines after on the same page thou says seeing the travel of his soul rested well pl●ased that he might make it effectual within every man end yet before no work to be 〈◊〉 in any man by any light or spirit Oh Robert whether drives thou whether art thou driven I marke one thing more pag. 4. thou says He hath already subdued all made an ●nd of sin compleated the work of 〈◊〉 redem●tion dyed for Us and reconcil●d Us to God c. and as I was weighing it in my mind what or whom thou did intend by the words Our and Us That other part of thy book came before me pag. 13. where thou says he did bear Our sins in his body on the tro● Propitiation for the sins of the 〈◊〉 world past present and to come so then it appeared by the word Us thou intends the whole world Nevertheless to go round again thou pleads with a generation saying that their pleading a faith in his death and sufferings interest in the satisfaction and attonement made to God through his blood pag. 6 Will not shelter them from the wrath of the Father pag. 7. What I not shelter them and yet Christ a propitiation for their sins past present and to come what incongruous work is this which they that runs may read Several other pass●ges in thy book are observable and I do not charge thy intention with blasphemy but thy work unawares Vergeth near it for pag. 22. thou says of Christ who was never defiled having the iniquities of us all in h●s body c. how unsound are thy words and in pag. 24. thy words are Spiritual m●sticall ●l●goricall Christ light within us Spirit and po●er in the man Christ. And now does thou know what thou speakes to Catigorize a Spiritual and an Alegoricall Christ identically and so in effect mak● them both one Thou hast sometimes accused some for Alegorizing his body of flesh but now thou darest do it to his Spiri● I wish thou knew the weight of this and what tendency it hath to make void the faith converting its object into a Chimaera In the same page thou says if in every man this seed or Christ is not saved doeth it remain for ever under condemnation There is a supposition and a question from it of thy own forming and presently thou concludes it a doctrine of some others saying oh how contrary is this doctrine First it is gross confusion in thy self to call a supposition and question a doctrine and secondly it is a smitting in the dark by thy implying and raking for granted there is a people that hold it If thou meanest the people called Quakers a●cuse them openly if not then clear them of the many inconsequent implycations of thy book which many do and will understand to be against them until thou put off thy Viza●d But it is enough to me and I wish it may be serviceable to thee for good that some faith●ul friends of truth have in love to truth and to thee set thy work before thee as in a glass that happily thou may see thy self by their labour of Love which after followes else I might have found in my heart to have dealt with thy book throughout and I am satisfied in due time thy own words will become thy burden but still I wish it may be for thy good for I have a real Love to thee and regard for thee as I said at first A. Robeson Light set over Darkness In somewhat writ in answer unto a printed paper published by R. G. so far as it Concerns us the people called in deri●ion Quakers and our principle wherein he hath both difing enuously represented us and darkly and ignorantlly opposed our principle even Iesus Christ the true light w●h enlightning every man that comes into the world that

through the violence of men acted by Sathan and much more the blood of him who as a Lamb offered up himself without spot to God as a sacrifice of a sweet smell who was delivered for our offences and rose again for our justification G. K. Writ 7. 2. mo 1670. Here follows Robert Gordon's answering and confuting himself some of his manifest Contradictions to his Principles being insert in his own words And the Pages of his Book noted where they are R. Gs. Principles GOd man in whom all things pertaining to mans redemption c. were transacted not in our persons or within us but in his crucified body without us before any good wrought in us He hath already subdued all things finished trasgression made an end of sin page 3. and 4. R. G's Contradiction The mystery of Christ by his spirit dwelling in his Saints call'd in the holy Scripture Christ within you whereby God works in us c. God working all things in us by Christ pag. 4. his Spirit working all their works in them pag. 5. Observation See his manifest contradictions How is sin and transgression finished and made an end of without man while no good is wrought in them And seeing God works or transacts all things in Believers by the mystery of Christ and his holy spirit within and all their works in them how is all done and finished without them before any good is wrought in them R. G. Some pretend so much zeal for this mystery of Christ the operation of the Spirit of God in themselves that they deny the mystery of God in the flesh of Christ page 5. Contradiction The mystery Christ within you whereby God works in us through faith the fruit and effect of the work already wrought c. Christ within us whereby through faith we have evidence in our selves c. page 4. Observation We cannot too much own or be over much zealous for the mystery of Christ within or the work of God through his spirit within us nor thereby deny the mystery of God in the flesh of Christ or the effect and benefit of his sufferings in his body as falsly is implied and insinuated against us since that in owning Christ in the mystery we cannot but own the evidence thereof R. G. In the crucified body of Christ perfected and wrought at once Redemption Iustification and Reconciliation finished and compleated in Christ for us pag. 13. not in our persons pag. 4. Contradiction He was delivered for our offences he was raised again for our justification O remember the work of regeneration is to be wrought within thee pag. 9. Observation If Redemption Justification c. be not to be fulfilled by Christ in man or not in their persons what are you redeemed ●●stified or regenerated from or out of Surely not from iniquity or sin as true believers were and then you hypocriss ●in is remaining in your persons foa all your pretenses of being redeemed justified c. without But take thy contradiction O remember the work of regeneration i● is to be wrought within thee R. G. He was made sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him He mentions not any consideration qualification or work wrought or to be wrought in any man by any light or spirit whatsoever A gross errour but singlely and solely upon the account of the active and passive obedience of the man Iesus c. pag. 12. in the crucified body justification c. finished compleated for us pag. 13. Contradiction Who seeing the travel of his soul was satisfied that he might make it effectual within every man that should come to God through him he counted to his Apostles the word of reconciliation as his Ambassadors in his steed to beseech men to be reconciled to God Work out your salvation pag. 12. Observation But first Were the Saints made the righteousness of God in Christ without any inward qualification or work of his light or spirit What a gross errour contradiction and sin-pleasing doctrine is this Is not this the Priests very notion of imputation while men are corrupt and sinful in themselves while they neither partake of the divine nature nor divine image in themselves And then Secondly what need was there for the Apostle to besee●h them to be reconcil'd to God or to work out their salvation if it was already wrought and finished without them before any good was wrought in them R. G. The Lord doth not direct man to that light in his conscience that shewed him his loss nor to light and power c. But promiseth him another kind of Saviour Contradiction A great mystery God manifest in the flesh c. He alone and none else then the very Word the love of the Father must be this great undertaker c. viz. for man pag. 20. Observation See his manifest falshood and contradiction For God the very word or love of the Father which doth redeem deliver and save the soul are not of another kind then the Light and Power But the same divine Light and Power by which the promised Seed did and doth bruise the Serpents head and overcome him that man might be redeem'd from the hand of his enemy R. G. The worker of the Redemption could not be the light enlightening every man c pag. 21 Contradiction Yet the very word pag. 20. God manifest in flesh p. 18. Observation Here his gross error and contradiction in denying Christ the Word and Redeemer to be that light that enlightens every man and yet the very word doth redeem and save And was it not the Word that was with God that was the true Light that enlightens every man coming into the world See Io. 1. 1. 4 9. R. G. Redemption and all things already wrought purchased c. for us in the crucified body not within us but before any good wrought in us pag. 3 4 5 without the help of any thing to be wrought in us pag. 20 Contradiction He to wit Christ ever liveth Mark this man ever liveth to make intercession for them O bear with me a little not satisfie your selves until you have a real evidence of your being particularly redeemed by experimentally witnessing the Living power of truth in your inward parts pag. 7. Observation Note his contradiction here For first if all things be already wrought in the crurified body what doth he interceed for Is it for that which God cannot justly with-hold if this be true Secondly are all things already wrought without the help of any thing to be wrought within And yet we must have a real evidence of our part●cular redemption by the living power of truth in our inward parts See how he hath confuted himself herein R. Gs. Erroneous and envious Principle That such as preach and print up the light inlightening every man that comes into the world to be he to wit Christ reject him and set at nought the stone c. pag. 32. Contradiction This is

death whose suffering sacrifice mediation in●ercession and offices with the blessed effects thereof within we own and confess according to the Scriptures of truth as inwardly revealed and evidenced by the spirit which we do not admit either o● sins past to be unrepented of nor of sins present to be committed nor sin ●o come to be persisted in however this or other Opposers and Prof●ssors do sooth and flatter themselves therein under their traditional notion of a satisfaction and imputation without them p. 16. as after R Gs. q●estions How can there be redemption where conscience ●hargeth of sin is it not against reason to believe redemption in another for us while sin is within To this he thus answers To this spirit I say who art thou that thus a●gues with God Which indeed is no answer nor proof but a meer s●lly begging of the question nor any demonstration that such a belief that is both contrary to conscience and the conviction of the light therein is either true or right in the ground of it whereby any are thus credulous either of their being redeemed saved or j●stified wi●hout them whilst they lie under the guilt and imputation of sin in their own consciences sin being then their burden and bondage which is contrary to a redeemed and justified state but such a blind and dead faith and conceit of redemption and justification as this man hath appeared in hypocritical Professors are w●nt to sooth up themselves withal in their sins And R. G. further adds p. 1● viz. Indeed it is a mystery of the Gospel that man's r●ason cannot comprehend the believer to be pure and beautiful as in Christ his head while weak in many things in himself in his body 〈◊〉 ●ath a law of sin but in the Lord he hath put it off as he walks by ●ight he is in the earth in labors ingroanings warefare and imperfections but as he walks by faith he is in Christ walking in rest in victory and perfection these ●r● paradoxes reason cannot fathom Answ●● This man thinks hee 's gotten beyond reason in his parado●es which indeed do appear so contradictory confused and unreasonable that every rational man may see his darkness herein to conclude the believer in war●ar● and imperfections in the body with a law of sin while pure beautiful walking in rest in victory and perfection in Christ his head which is all one as to say he i● in Christ and out of Christ pure and impure perfect and imperfect at the same instant or as the hypocritical Priests and Professors have said that men are imputatively righteous and justified while inherently and actually sinful and unjust and yet for all this R. G. makes account in pag. 39. that the law sin and death are so charged on Christs crucified body that sin is purged away out of the sight of God while yet he does not believe h●s people act●●lly ●reed from it which is corrupt Antinamionisme but these and such like paradoxes ●e cannot own as either reason or truth For how is Christ the Believers and Saints head or they perfect in him if they be imperfect or impure in the body are they not members of Christ and is not their faith their victory over sin and death And is it no perfection they have wa●ted and travelled to be ●e●ewed into the image of the heavenly Where 's the new birth new creature perfect on righteousness and true holiness so much preached and testified of by the holy men of God in the Scriptures of truth if men must be reckoned pure and perfect and in Christ when yet they are not washed from their fi●thiness in which state many are when yet they conceit that God counts them pure and j●stified Bu● he that j●●t fieth the wicked and he that condemneth the just they both are abo●ination before the Lord. R. G. We find thou hast no● brought forth any new thing as to matter or substance in these matters but art p●●nged in the old dark stuff of Priests and Professors who have writ against us though thou art more confused and appearest more malitious against us then many of them ●however thou pretendest love and bowels p. 40 which cannot hide thy dissimulation and enmity and thou hast not methodized nor worded their principles so well as many of them thou being confounded and mangled between truth and their corrupt traditional principles which we perceive thou dost not see the bottom and tendency of however thou thinkest thou art wise but the devil hath blinded thee with prejudice and conceit as he hath all that take thy part and spread thy books or else thou durst never have brought such a piece of folly falshood and mixt mangled stuff to publick view as thou hast done who also to shew thy ignorance of redemption thou usest these words viz The operation of the spirit of Christ within us not to redee●us p. 23. and Christ came into us by the ministration of the spirit not to redeem us pag. 38. Answ. This is contrary to the testimonies of both Prophets and Apostles who witnessed the redemption of their souls from under the bondage and power of sin and death so from the hand of the enemy Psa. 107. 2. David said draw nigh unto my soul and redeem it ps 69 ●8 So he did not put redemption afar off for the God of Israel was near whom the people owned for their Saviour and Redeemer from all in●quity Ps. 130. 7 8. And as the Apostle exhorted grieve not the holy spirit of God whereby ye are sealed uno the day of redempt on Eph. 4. 30. So that there was a day of redemption to be expected unto which they were sealed by the holy spirit which redemption was a freedom recovery or purchase from all iniquity which could not be effected without the operation of the spirit of Christ within who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all inquity Titus 2. 14. But this R. G. would impose on people a faith concerning redemption reconciliation and justification as all being finished wrought or purchased without them without respect to any works wrought or to be wrought within them by any light whatsoever p. 42. See Reader how erroneously he hath excluded the work of God and Christ from within as to the ransoming or freeing of man from sin and making him righteous and so bringing him into unity peace favour and friendship with God which is the true sense of redemption justification and reconciliation which are not effected nor obtained without the operation of the spirit of holiness within though Christs testimony suffering and example without had a tendency thereto 1 Cor. 6. 11. For it was by the spirit of God that the Saints were both washed sanctified and justified how ever tke Devil and his Agents endeavour to exclude and invalidate the inward operations of God Christ or his Spirit G. W. Errata Page 1. l. 37. ' for consider read crucifie p. 4. for 1. r. 4. l. 6. for enl●ghtening r. enlighteneth p. 12. l. 27 for any and. p. 14. l. 1. for is this r. is not this c. p. 15. l. 38. for no r. not p. 16. l. 12. for spent r. shut p. 17. l. 39. for hint r. limit p. 18. l. 1 for many r. man Second part p. 2. l. 30. for counted r. committed p. 8. l. 7. r. Christ now come dele to p. 12. l. 2 for Longworth r. Lawrie