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A40134 Christ's light the only antidote to overcome and expel the poison of Satans greatest temptations also a measuring rule concerning liberty and persecution, and who have been the persecutors and who have been the sufferers from the beginning. Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1662 (1662) Wing F1761; ESTC R30468 8,437 14

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know the right use of the creatures waiting in the Light so wait for power from the Lord in the Light which shews you all temptations which comes from the Lord for power to stand against all temptations Mat. 13 33. and so that all may be condemned with the Light that is contrary to it and so you may come to witness the leaven that leavens into the new lump and see him that makes intercession Heb. 7.25 who is able to save to the utmost 1 Cor. 10.13 and so with the Light you will see there is no temptation you are taken with but which is common to man So if you mind the Light and in it stand you will see the Lord giving issue whereby you will find deliverance standing in the Light which comes from the word which is as a fire and a hammer and a sword which beats down that which is contrary to the Truth Jer. 23.29 divides and burns up which keeping the word the temptations will not come nigh but the word of reconciliation be witnessed and the word of faith which makes clean and purifies 2 Cor. 5.10 and sanctifies Where the old Garment is put off and the knowledge in the flesh denied and the knowing in the Life in the Spirit where nothing comes to reign but Life and Power where all is overturned and with the power of the Lord comprehended the dread and life of the living God to whom be all honour and glory forever A Measuring-Rule concerning Liberty and Persecution CHristians should love one another that is the Command of Christ and is a mark by which they are known to be his disciples Secondly they should love their very enemies and by this they differ from the Jews and Heathens and all other people Now as for the late Act concerning the people of God called Quakers there is no penalty laid upon any man for the not breaking up of their Meetings or not putting the Oath to them therefore it will try and manifest what spirit men are of and that which is in people will be made manifest now because the Act is lest to the Executor of it without any penalty Which Act had it been in the dayes of the Apostles would have taken hold of Christ and his Apostles for he had Twelve that often met together and by this he might have but three for if there were five it had been in the transgression who also had seventy Disciples more Now I say if it had been in the days of Christ it would have taken hold of him and his Disciples Would Christ and his Disciples the Wisdom of God do you think have obeyed this Act and not met with his Disciples Or if the Jews should have made Laws to limit him but to four do you think that Christ the Wisdom of God would have obeyed it or his Disciples And also Christ said to his Disciples that they should wait together at Jerusalem and not depart and they did meet together and you know that their meetings were different from the Jews and heathen and they were to wait together at Jerusalem until they received power from on high before they were to go to gather the Churches And this was according to the wisdom of God Which if the Jews now had spoken to them that they should not meet do you think the disciples would have obeyed them or the command of Christ And when the Apostles had gathered Churches out of the Jews and the Gentiles and setled them to whom they wrote their Epistles and builded up one another in the holy Faith and not to forsake the assembling of themselves together For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the Truth then consider what is to be looked for So now mark if the Jews or the Heathen out of whom the Hebrews the Galatians the Colossians the Thessalonians and the Corinthians were gathered into several Churches if the Heathen and Jews had made Laws against them that they should not meet saving four do you think they would have obeyed it Therefore consider of these things and do as you would be done by that is the Law and the Prophets Did not many suffer in the ten Persecutions for meeting together in the time about 650 years before there was a Pope And hath not many suffered for meeting together by the Papists since as look through the Book of Martyrs how they suffered by the Papists and called them Conventicles and also in the time of the Martyrs sufferings in the ten Persecutions and since the ten Persecutions did they not make Laws they should not meet And did they not call them Conventicles And yet did they not meet in Barns or Houses Woods and Fields as you may read in the Book of Martyrs Were these Martyrs disobedient in the ten Persecutions and since to the Papists in which so many thousands suffered for meeting together for not paying Tythes and for not swearing and not yielding to their Principles and practice that persecuted them Was it evil in them that persecuted them And is it good now in you that make us to suffer for the same things So are the Martyrs and Persecutors and you one or the Martyrs and we one who have suffered all along Whether they have not the nature of the Heathen that make to suffer and not the nature of the Apostles Likewise have not many suffered here as we now for meeting together and not swearing now in these dayes As consider in Oliver's days above three thousand suffered Imprisonment and some to death who suffered for not Swearing and for Conscience-sake as many of the Martyrs in the Time of the ten Persecutions did and by the Papists and as we do now Therefore consider these things for it is Christs command that we do obey and the Apostles Doctrine which saith Swear not at all Consider now would not they in the ten Persecutions and the Papists have punish'd Christ for preaching this Doctrine and made him to suffer as we do now that own it which saith Swear not at all but let your yea be yea and your nay nay c. and the Apostles for holding it forth for we do not these things in contempt or rebellion to any man for our love and tenderness is that all Magistrates and People would live in God's fear and receive his Wisdom by which all things were made and created that by that they might be ordered to God's glory and order that which God hath given them under their hands to his honour that to God they may be a blessing in their generation And consider Daniel and the three children met and disobeyed the King's command and Mordecai who would not bow disobeyed the Kings command and the Midwives disobeyed Pharaoh's command for not putting the Children to death And the Woman who had seven sons which suffered by the Kings Law because they would not eat Swins flesh and one of her sons spake to his Mother
Christs Light THE ONLY ANTIDOTE TO OVERCOME and EXPEL the Poison of Satans greatest TEMPTATIONS ALSO A Measuring-Rule CONCERNING LIBERTY AND PERSECUTION And who have been the PERSECUTORS and who have been the SUFFERERS from the beginning Printed in the Year 1662. Christ's Light the onely Antidote to Overcome and Expel the Poison of Satans greatest Temptations THe ground of Desperation is out of the Light Gen. 4.8 for Cain when he Despaired went from the Light that killed the just he that killed the just within killed the just without And Esau who despised his birth-right who was a profane person did seek to kill the just and he that rose up against the beloved of God David 2 Sam. 28.15 31.4 Mat. 27.5 who despaired there he rose up against the just And the Jews did despair and doubted they did not believe in the Light and were against the just though they professed all the Scriptures and Judas which despaired turned from Christ the Light to the changeable Priest so the cause of desparation is going from the Light for that which will presume will despair which riseth up in that nature which acts contrary to the Light and that is it which wanders to and fro up and down and hunts abroad and builds that which God confounds I am the light of the world Gen. 25 27. and doth enlighten every one that comes into the World saith Christ he by whom the world was made Now every one being enlightened with the Light that comes from him who is not of the world who was tempted in the world to make himself away who was tempted to lust after the Creatures who was tempted to worship the Devil who is out of the Truth but overcame all Luk. 4.9 6 5 8. Now every one of you that come into the world having a Light from him that is not of this world that was thus tempted who entered not into the temptation it is not a sin to be tempted for he was tempted but to enter into the temptation So if you see temptations with the Light that comes from Christ the Light the Truth and the Life look at him who was tempted who overcame the temptations Heb. 4.15 who was not of the world having a Light from him whose name is called The Word of God who saith If thou keep my word Rev. 3.10 I will keep ●●ee in the hour of temptation which shall come upon all the world and it shall not come near thee which shall come to try all that dwell upon the earth For having a Light from the Word by which all things was made and keeping the Word the power is received against all temptations and they shall not come nigh Art thou tempted to make away thy self Rev. 3.8 so was Christ Look not at the temptations but look at Christ and there thou wilt receive power Luk. 4.3 Art thou tempted to the Creatures doth the Devil he that is out of the Truth who is a destroyer tempt thee to the Creatures Luk. 4.7 so was Christ he by whom all things was made Art thou tempted to worship the Devil Doth the Devil who is out of the Truth tempt thee to worship him Heb. 2.10 look to Christ he was tempted who overcame Look to him who overcame Joh. 14.6 he is the Captain of our Salvation So every one having a Light from Christ Jesus which is given to him to watch and to pray and to seek and to knock after Christ who is the Door the Way the Life the Covenant of Peace So look not at the temptations but at Christ neither be troubled at them but look to him from whom your strength comes Isa 45.22 that lets you see them and there stand still for there Salvation is received and your strength Have you made a Covenant with death Isa 28.16 17 18. who contrary to the Light in your Consciences have acted Have you made Covenants with Hell and the Grave and Satan which is out of the Light Isa 42.6 out of the Truth and that is the Devil that is out of the Truth the destroyer the devourer Therefore being turned to the Light which comes from Christ the Covenant of God Isa 49.9 God's Covenant of Light there waiting the Covenant of death is broken and in it believe for there Gods mercy is received against which Covenant Hell gates cannot prevail let her open her mouth never so wide and all the bonds of iniquity promises which you have made with the fleshly mind and the lusts being turned to the Light the Covenant of Life breaks all the bonds and the promises of the fleshly mind Therefore in patience wait in the Light which comes from Christ the Covenant of peace which ye may receive Lam. 3.26 to have peace with God and never look at the temptations but at the Light which shews them and there stand still to receive power from him from whom all power is received for that which is out of the Truth that tempts to draw from the Light and from the Truth and out of it therefore every one having the Light from Christ who is not of the world which is come into the world that will let you see the temptations Thou that keepest my word John 17 16. they shall not come nigh thee but power shall be received to trample upon all And the worship in the Spirit and Truth will be known Rev. 5.10 and the wisdom by which all the Creatures were created will be received with it to use them to the glory of God John 8.44 to which end they were created and that which is out of the Truth which tempts to murther Mat. 11 29. for that is the murtherer which is out of the Truth and out of the Light will with the Light be seen judged and condemned but before he will lift up and exalt and the same will bring to despair But learn of Christ the Light who is meek and lowly and he is kept out and down who is out of the Light But before this he will tempt into the creatures to get into the creatures he who from the Light and from the Life and so a devourer of them and so out of the wisdom by which they were created therefore as I said before wait in the Light which comes from Christ the Life that with it ye may come to receive refreshing from the Lord and to know the wisdom of the Creation with which it must be used to the glory of the Creator So having a Light from him by whom the world was made to whom all power in Heaven and Earth is given wait in the Light from him to receive power which brings out of the worlds lusts and defilements John 9.51 which the Light which cometh from him will shew you all the temptations to the creatures or obeying the will of him that is out of the Truth but you will come to