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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

besides any right aim For Christ as the Word the ●rue Light the power and wisdom of God the Redeemer from all iniquity and as in his Saints the giver of life and victory over the world c. He is the true Operator of God and the Author of Faith the worker out of Sin the Saviour and Redeemer from iniquity and so an Operator as such he is given for a leader for light life and salvation to all that believe in his light which will shine live prevail and prosper against all the darkness dark spirits and enmity which oppose it Something further added HEreby it may appear and be very obvious to every impartial Reader how disingeniously injuriously and falsly this R. Gordon hath dealt by us called Quakers whom he chiefly smi●es at chiefly for our so much owning and preaching the true light that enlightens every man having in many things he hath writ neither given a true account of our principle nor stated our words nor the Authors nor cited our Books or Pages that it might be seen how he hath wronged us worse then many of the Priests have done insinuating several falshoods against us which were never our principles and then making war against them and drawing false inferences and consequences upon us which have neither natural dependence nor any relation to our principles as may be seen at large in his bundle of impertinencies and confusion And whereas R. G. several times confesseth Christ and his spirit to be within us revealing and evidencing within us what God hath wrought for us in the body of Christ as that love God commended to us in his Son through his suffering and death according to his 1. 4. and 23. pages Now mark herein he hath in some degree assented to the truth of our principle though to his own confusion for that it follows that our preaching Christ and his Spirit in the true Believers doth not oppose nor make void his sufferings without but evidence and make known the benefit and living effects thereof within and bring both into the fellowship of Christs suffering and to a conformity unto his death But this R. G. in contradiction to himself like a malitious injurious person insinuates ●gainst us the dividing and opposing Gospel truths one to another and a denying the mystery of God in the flesh of Christ as a matter of any necessity to redemption reconciliation c. falsly adding these words viz. R●ck●ing to accomplish this in their own bodies each for himself through obedience to the law or light in his conscience c. pag. 5. This is a false conclusion put upon us and contrary to what this man hath confessed before For it s not of our selves but God that works in us to will and to do by his spirit and power which evidenceth and revealeth in us life and salvation by Jesus Chri●t who is our Saviour and Redeemer and by him and in him hath God appeared to reconcile us to himself who hath wrought all our works in us Isa. 26. 12. and to this we testifie in his Son who is made unto us wisdom righteousness sanctification and redemption and against all such dark spirits and opposers of his light and work within as this our Opposer is who saith that God man in his crucified body without us and before any good wrought in us hath already subdued all things finished transgression made an end of sin abolished condemnation and death hath for ever as our head in himself compleated the work of redemption reconciliation with God for us c. God having already finished wrought and accomplished all things for us in the body of Christ pag. 3 4 5 9 12 13. And further he adds pag. 26. v●z having already vanquished in his crucified body and buried in his grave sin and death and all the powers that were against us But in contradiction to h●s asserting all these things as wrought in his body he layes it otherwhiles upon purchase as redemption reconciliation righteousness c. being already purchased for us in his crucified body without you without respect to any works wrought or to be wrought within you by any light whatsoever Thus far R. G. pag. 4 5 9 23 42. But to go round again in contradiction to this of all this being wrought accomplished and purchased without in his crucified body without respect to his light and work within R. G. confesseth and tells us of God working all things in us by Christ the mystery of Christ within and the operations of his spirit working all their works in them p. 4 5. From whence it then follows that all is not wrought and accomplished without them nor ought the work or light of Christ within thus to be disrespected as this man most blindly doth neither is mens sin and death either vanquished or buried in the grave with Christs body without for sin and death reigns in and over all men till they be quickned and renewed by the spirit of Christ within and raised up out of sins and trespasses and in this sense we own true beleevers and sanctified ones to be purchased unto God and hereby an everlasting inheritance obtained or purchased and that God hath purchased his Church with his own blood Act. 20. 28. And that such as were a chosen or purchased people or generation were a royal Priesthood a holy Nation a peculiar People to shew forth the praise of him who had called them out of darkness into his marvellous light 1 Pet. 2. 9. So such did not 〈◊〉 and oppose the light within nor disrespect its work within as to the purchasing and redeeming man to God as this blind Opposer hath done whose confusion runs after this manner viz. all things are already wrought and compleated for us in the crucified body without nay God works all things in us by Christ the mystery the operations of the spirit of God works all their works in them See here how inconsistent this mans work is and how he hath broke the neck of his own cause But for whom doth R. G. reckon hath this God-man as he calls him or God and Christ in union wrought and compleated or purchased all as redemption salvation righteousness c. was it for all or but for a few See his Answer R. G. pag. 13. For the sins of the whole world past present and to come c. A large confession and latitude to the world indulging them in sins to come as the sin-pleasing professions are wont to do and further to hearten them on therein all their dayes he reckoneth God doth not see their sin in them pag. 39. And surely they cannot be hindred of salvation for all this nor it in justice be detained from them because it s so dearly purchased and paid for and wrought wit● God by his Son when no good is wrought in man if you believe R. G. which doctrine tends to make a merry world in their sins and not to regard the

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

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

all through him might believe and in believing might all aim unto eternall life and salvation R. G I have seen and considered thy book or paper entitled A T●stim●ny to the true Saviou● and I find somewhat in me from the Lord to answer thee in Love to thy soul and in a zeal for God and his truth and people whom the spirit that hath set thee on work to write this book hath laboured to vail and cloud that the light of the glory thereof might not shine forth but its work is in vain for the truth shineth forth in brightness over all that confusion mist and darkness by which it seeks to hinder it and indeed the youngest child of truth may see thy weakness and confusion herein and how thou figh test as one beating the air against that precious people and their testimony whom though thou doest not expressly design yet any who reads thy book and are acquainted with us and our principle wi●l see that thy book is levelled mostly against us and our principle its very design being to cast mire and durt upon us and to marre the visage and beauty of that precious truth the Universal light which is within but it is returned upon thee and this stone which thou rejects and seeks to perswade others to reject is set over thee and will be too b●rthensome for thee if in time thou repent not I finde not my self concerned to take a particular notice of all thy words so as to give a particular answer to them onely so far as thou manifests both thy own confusion and self contradiction on the one hand and thy opposition to the sound and wholesome words of truth together with thy disingenious stating and wresting of that pure do●ctrine affirmed and declared by us on the other In the second and third page thou writes of two snares wherewith some are intangled which are summed up in this to wit the dividing these two great Gospell Misteries and setting the one in opposite terms against the other contrary to the tenden●y of the Holy Scripture● and what these Snares are thou more particularly expresses pag. 5. But there are some upon the one hand so zealous for Christ thou says and what he did for u●●n his Crucified body without us that they n●glect in themselves and ●ppose in others the mistery of Christ within as a matter of no co●cernment at all to them c. and this thou reckons the first snare and indeed a snare i● is and that very dangerous and dreadfull but for all thy work to discover this snare to others thou art found intangled in it thy sel● and intangling others with thee as much as thou can ●s I may afterwards make appear The second snare thou mentions is that some on the other hand pretend so much zeal for this mistery Christ within the opperations a●d acting of the Spirit of God in themselves that they deny the mistery of God in the flesh of Christ as a matter of any necessity to them as to redemp●ion reconc●liation and justifica●●on c which charge thou plainly directs against us ca●led in d●rision Quakers as may appear by the import of thy discourse though th●u does not expre●ly name us to which I say it is a fa●se charge nor are we guilty of it as also thou false●y alleadges tha● we recko● to accomplish this in our own bodies each for himself throu●h obedience to the Law or Light in his Conscience which Light they call Christ Redeemer a●d onely Saviour without r●spect to the ●rue Christ and ou● onely Saviour Jesus Christ of Nazareth I say this is false for ●hough we say Reco●ciliation and justification and Redemption is wrought in us by Christ yet not without respect to Christ even as outwardly manifest born and crucified c. for our justification c hath a true and real and certain respect to Christ both as inwardly manife●●ed in us and also as manifested in that body of flesh which was crucified in 〈◊〉 c for we do believe that he took upon him the form of a servant ev●● in the outward and died even in the outward and offered up even his very flesh through the eternal Spirit in the outward as a sacrifice of a sweet smell and atonem●nt unto God in order to our justifica●ion and reconciliation with God so as thereby he prepared or made ready the way for our justification though our justification was not s●●ply and absolutely thereby wrought as if no more were to be done by him and his Spirit in us or as if his outward body flesh blood and life were the onely sacrifi●● and propitiation exc●uding the inward And now if I should stop here and proceed no furthe● I give a sufficient testimo●y ●gainst thy f●lse charge upon us yet I must say somewhat f●rther for the clearing this matter for whereas thou not onely affirms that Salvation and justification hath a necessary respect to Christ his taking on him the form of a Servant or man in the outward and ●umbling himself therein even to the outward death which we also grant God having so ordained it to be but also thou seems to affirm that the express knowledge and b●li●f of his taking on him the form of man and his ob●d●en●● and sufferings therein is of a●s●lute necessity unto all and every one for salvation so as none could be saved without that express knowledge though it was never revealed to them This I deny how canst thou prove this by Scripture for may not the benefit of Christ his taking on him the form of a man redound unto many who do not expresly know it they having a true light within them even as a diseased person may receive benefit of a cure applyed to him thou●h he has not an express knowledge of all the names and ways ●ow from first to last it hath been prepared and even as many have s●ffered hurt through the disobedience of the first man to wit Adam who have not known expresly that ever such a man was or the manner of his disobedience So why may not even many receive benefit through the obedience of Christ in the outward who have not known expresly his outward coming and sufferings otherwise Adams disobedience were more effectual for mans destruction then the obedience of Christ were for his Salvation As for what thou writes against those who pretend to the imputed righteousness of Christ c. but under all this retaining and indeed entertaining the Serpents nature in their souls c. as in pages 6 7 8 9 10 11 it toucheth not us for we have no such principle not beliefe and thou hast need to examine thy own heart lea●t thou be found in this snare thy self does thou retain or entertain nothing of the Serpents nature in thee yea art thou ●ot of such a belief that sin doth of necessity live in thy soul and thou cannot be freed so from it but that it must live in some measure

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

light to be under such a limitation either as to time or place as a finite creature for his out-goings were from of old from everlasting Micah 5. 2. Here follows a further Account of some passages taken out of R. Gordons Book wherein his Confession to the Truth professed by us as to the work of the power and spirit of God within and his erroneous Contradictions to the same are set opposite that his self Confutation and breaking the neck of his own Cause may be obvious to every 〈◊〉 Reader R. G. his confessing to truth R. G. erroneously contradicting R. G. p. 6. First there is a spirit of Error a and its work is to deceive and its end to destroy such in whom it ruleth and its deceit is seen under this fair Covering a pretending to the imputed b righteousness of Christ pleading a faith in his Death and Sufferings interest in the satisfaction and attonement made to God through his blood but under all this retaining the serpents c nature In their soul preserving alive in themselves unmortified corruptions bearing dominion c over them d O be not so easily decieved God will not be thus mocked he sees not as man sees e he trieth the heart and reins Know of a truth such as you sow such shall you reap to whom you yield your selves servants to obey his servants you are whether of ●in unto death e or of obedience unto rightousness and on the day of the Lord every Kingdome shall have its own on the day of that wonderful severation when the Lord shall judge the world by the man Christ Jesus every thing shall be severed to be for ever included in that state whether of light or darkness into which it was sown according to that righteous proceeding of the son of man Matt. 25. He shall s●y to the sheep on his right hand Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom But to the Goa●s on the left hand depart from me ye cursed and on that day your supposed coverings though of the imputed f righteousness of Christ your high pretences though to his death and sufferings your crying Lord Lord will not shelter you from the wrath of the Father you being wholly altogether of the nature of those Goats on Christs left hand though pretending to the Sheeps cloathing Oh! hear with me a little to plead with you in tender compassion to your immortal souls that you might be perswaded Yes intreated to inquire a little into this matter not satisfying your selves to say that you believe there is a Redemption g already purchased you in Christ until through a living faith in your selves h you have a real evidence of your being particularly redeemed by experimental witnessing the living power * of the i Truth in your inward parts which in words you outwardly profess Consider the words of our Lord to Nicodemus Except a man be born again k he cannot inherit the Kingdom of God there lyeth an impossibility in this thing he placeth not Goats remaining such in their state in the same place with Sheep there is a great gulf between these two They are of two contrary natures Two opposite States and Kingdoms prepared for them Therefore without being changed without being in your minds renewed translated out of darkness into sight without dying to the old Nature of Sin and rising in the new nature of Righteousness And so Christ l formed within you you cannot inherit this Kingdom because without this real change wrought in some measure within you through the Operation of the Spirit of God within m there is only a dawbing of the old Sepulchre while rotteness is ●till within a talking of being justifyed through the Redemption already purchased in Christ without wi●nessing the Life Power and Virtue of the thing it self within n Therefore I do exhorts thee 〈…〉 Spirit in thy mind thou art subjected to for as many as are led by the Spirit of God are the Sons of God and if any man have not the spirit of Christ ●he is none of his ●o that it will not be enough to say that Jesus Christ dyed for sinners and that his righteousness is imputed to thee as altogether from without thee O remember the work of Regeneration is to be wrought within thee R. G erroneously contradicting R. G. a All things pertaining to man● Redemption were transacted in God-man Christ not in our persons nor within us but in his crucified body without us before any good b wrought in us God having already wrought all things for us in the body of Christ as being our rightousness p. 3 4. c He hath already subdued all things finished transgression made an end of sin abolished condemnation and death and so hath for ever in himself compleated the work of Redemption c. with God for us p. 4. d To bear my testimony to the Redemption and Rightousness already purchased in his crucified body for u● the son buried our sins in his grave all things are finished sin death and the flesh in the body of Christ p. 5. 16. e It is a mystery of the Gospel the believer to be pure and beautiful as in Christ while weak in many things in himself in his body he hath a law of sin but in the Lord he hath put it off as he walks by sight he is in the Earth in Labours in Groaning warfare and Imperfections c. p. 16. f The Law Sin Death charged upon his Crucified body he buried them in his Grave thus abolished Sin out of the sight of God p. 39. g Redemption c. already wrought purchased in his Crucified body for us without us p. 4. h The light in the Conscience is not able to reveal or give life p. 11. h There is a Spirit in some that declares that we are Redeemed Iustified Saved and made Righteous and accepted with God by the work of the Spirit * of God wrought within us p. 11. i What ever Spirit shall declare Christ now coming or coming to within us to Reconcile to Attone to Redeem us c. is no other than a Denier of Iesus our Saviour notwithstanding its high pretences to light and power and Spirit within p. 15. 16. k But know thou O Man that that Doctrine how misterious soever in shew that teacheth Redemption to be by Operation of the Spirit within us and not by that alone * Operation of God in the man Christ Iesus is it may be agreeable to mans reason but a fearful co●tradiction to that blessed Mistery of Grace p. 17. l Vnder this Mental Reservation the seed the light the nature of the Dove in me is he the Christ c. but is this a form of sound words pag. 31. m Come down from the heights of your reason to believe your Redemption already finished the law of sin and death already abolished p. 3. 7. through what he did and suffered without you without respect to any works wrought or to be wrought n within