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B02800 Dulcedo ex acerbis. Sound doctrine from the errors contained in Mr. Keith's sermons and apologies. / By a member of the Church of England. O D M T. 1700 (1700) Wing D2517A; ESTC R174771 37,276 25

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or the Law and the Prophets which was all the written word was extant in Peters time is but untill the day dawn and the Day or Morning Star which is Christ the inward word Ap. 22. 16. arise and shine in the Heart It is no more at thy word as some said to their Preacher the Samaritain Woman Joh. 4. 42. that we have Faith or Believe but because we our selves have heard Christ and know from him that he is really the Christ and the Saviour of the World Which shews that the inward word goeth beyond all the Scriptures and Scripture Revelation And thirdly that Christ himself by these words I have yet many things to say to you which you cannot as yet bear before the Holy Ghost comes but when he comes to guide you into the Truth of all things he will suggest them to you nay and shew you things to come Joh. 16. 12 13. which last things viz. things to come the Scripture declares no where but Enigmatically as in the Revelations shews us since he had as yet many things to say to us and doth refer us for them to the Light and the guidance of God's Spirit when he comes that all that he had to say is not contain'd in Scripture and that the Light comes from it is not so great and so full as that of the Inward Word And since what he had to say is as Necessary to Life as what he had said except we suppose and grant that he might speak idle words that sha'nt stand but pass away Matth. 24. 35. and hath condemned himself Ch. 12. 36. the Scripture doth not contain all that is necessary for life and for Salvation and so is not the compleat rule of Faith and of Practice St. Paul to shew that he did not take the word he preach'd for the compleat rule of Faith nor for a sufficient Revelation of the things to be known and believed refers those he preached to for the Truth of what he preach'd to the Revelation of God by the word in them Phil. 2. 15. as being that which God speaks to the Saints by since Christ's time Hebr. 1. 2. St. John also by saying that the World would not contain the Books might be written of all that Christ did Ch. 21. 25. and Taught Act. 1. 1. shews that the written Word doth not contain all the Laws and Doctrine and Works of Christ which he did for an example 1 Cor. 11. 1. Pet. 2. 21. that its Laws are not so full as those writ in the Mind and Heart by the Inward Word and that it is not therefore the compleat Rule of Conscience 27. Mr. Keith in his Wisdom being conscious of this Truth for he had formerly taught Immediat Revel pag. 96. that he that seeks for the Light in the writtin outward Word and for Life or to get Life or be Born again by it seeks the living among the dead the Light being not therein but in Christ the Inward Word adds to this Doctrine of his pag. 9. and 11. that the Knowledge and the Faith of the Mysteries and things revealed in the Scriptures which he relates pag. 10. are given us by the Word Preach'd and heard outwardly with the illumination and working of the Spirit or Word of God inwardly And would not have any think Retract p. 12. that he relinquisheth God's inward Revelation and teachings by his Spirit Joyning here both the inward and outward word together as necessary for Faith and the right understanding of the Scriptures c. but ascribing Faith before wholly to the outward Word Thus affirming in one place that which he will not confess but denies in the other and confounding both at last I mean both the inward and outward Word to confound and surprize the unwary and to leave some holes open for himself to evade at For if both necessary for understanding and Faith why doth he lay such stress upon the outward elswhere saying it is the compleat and adequate Rule of Faith And what hath this Learned Man disputed for all the while 28. The Truth is that both these words do very well together being the two witnesses that do testify of Christ Joh. 5. 39. 15. 26 27. and in the Mouth of which two every word which we read in the one is confirmed Ch. 8. 17. But the outward word alone is far from being capable of guiding into the Truth of what it saith or relates of convincing and being the full rule of the Conscience Being but like a Parable or dark to natural Men. Mark 4. 11. 1 Cor. 2. 14. who witness all the errors of so many Christian Sects cannot find the Truth by it and imperfect of it self teaching no where for instance what are the fiery Tryal and those Sufferings of Christ St. Peter makes mention of 1 Ep. 4. 12. and how God hath brought himself into Nature and into Man and the World What death Adam died of on the day he Transgressed Gen. 2. 17. what was the Sin of Angels and many other such things Besides as I have shew'd by several instances it is not well translated nor divided in Verses making two Verses of one as of the 15. and 16. of the 2d of Romans which ought to be but one Verse And over and above this it is contradictory containing contradictions by no means reconcileable Such as between Act. 9. V. 7. where it is said that the Men which were with Paul heard the voice that spake with him and Act. 22. 9. which saith that they heard it not And above a hundred such which I have collected not to pick holes in Scripture for they do rather confirm the Truth of it in the main than blast its Authority for it shews that its Pen-men did not combine together to make a formal story or they had agreed better And why should I be more offended at Christ as God for so many faults and lies put upon him in that word and made by the Transcribers than for all the Sufferings put upon him in his Flesh Matth. 11. 6. I see him through them all believing no more in him at the word in the Scriptures but because I know him and could as well as others demonstrate him to the Jews if there were no more Scriptures left to prove him in the World Tho' they serve me still to do what I do here with them viz. to confirm and to prove to those that make use of them the Doctrine and the Notions the inward word suggests me 29. The way for a Man to know the Will and Doctrine of God and direct his ways by it according to Gods own Word is not so much to peruse and to study the Scriptures as to do the Will of Christ Joh. 7. 17. that Will or Law which the Light of Nature shews and dictates and to follow and to work what it suggests to be good as many Wise Heathens did Act. 10. 2. For any Man that doth so is acceptable to God V. 35.