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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63486	A faithful and true witenss to the light of Jesus Christ, or, Word of faith within in the heart and conscience proving that God alwayes did, and doth reveal himself in it, and through it to the sons and daughters of men, that they may believe and be saved ... : also a postscript in answer to some base lyes and reflections cast upon me by William Haworth, an independent preacher / Christopher Taylor.	Taylor, Christopher, ca. 1615-1686.	1675 (1675)	Wing T264; ESTC R25802	11,574	18

Generations the Lord hath afforded the Means of Salvation even in the Dayes of the greatest Ignorance that ever was in the World which he is said to wink at yea amongst the Gentiles that which might be known of God was manifest in them for he shewed it unto them Rom. 1. 19. even the Light of his Son Christ Jesus that true Light which lighteth every Man that cometh into the World which was the Cause of the Revelation of the Wrath of God from Heaven against all Ungodliness and Unrighteousness of Men who held the Truth in Unrighteousness Rom. 1. 18. For the very Gentiles were l●st without Excuse because when they knew God they glorified him not as God c. Ver. 21. Here therefore is the Means to all Mankind in general the Word of Faith in their Hearts that they may believe and understand what God requires of them in their Day and Time and they in all Ages that have feared God and eschewed Evil so far as they were convinced in their Hearts by this Principle of God's absolute Requirings and joyned their Hearts to this Principle trusting in it and refusing the Evil though they did not know the Name of it in such Clearness as we do in this Day yet in Measure they were Believers and Partakers of the Vertue of it by Means whereof they received Strength and were kept from Evil and were God's Witnesses and reproved the Wickedness of the Times they lived in and in that they knew not so much of God as after-Generations had revealed unto them yet they wore accepted in their faithful Obedience to what they knew in their Day and was necessarily required of them So that the Word of Faith was testified unto by Moses in his Day Deut. 30. 11 12 13 14. And it was the same Word of Faith which the Apostles preached Rom. 10. 6 7 8 c. And therefore it was the same in the Day of Moses the Word of their Faith that they might believe and obey the Lord's Commands and in all Times Ministrations and Dispensations it was the same and it was God's spiritual Witness in the Apostles Dayes when they preached their Spiritual Powerful and Heavenly Gospel there was a Witness in Peoples Consciences when they preached their Gospel mark that they had their Witness in every Man's Conscience which evidenced and witnessed the Truth of the Apostles Doctrine though they rejected it and therefore with this Light they were condemned for their Unbelief and the Apostle was clear of their Blood and of the Blood of all Men because they would not hear or regard the Gospel preaching though they were capacitated by this Word of Faith to have believed and obeyed it but they whose Hearts did not believe to Righteousness were such as loved their Evil Deeds and hated the Light and it was their Condemnation O the malicious Sottishness of some professed Preachers of that they call Gospel who are notorious Wicked against the Truth and in my hearing have called this blessed Light of Jesus Flesh and altogether Darkness whither will not Malice transport People so that what Blasphemy will they not utter who hate the Lord 's Christ and his blessed Appearance Oh Rebellious Teachers and Blind Leaders of the People who drag the People into Mischief instead of bringing them unto Christ or turning them to his Light that they may believe and be saved the Hand of the Lord is against such vain Bablers and filthy Teachers who deny the Lord that bought them and tread his precious Blood under their wicked Feet and will neither enter themselves into the Gospel-Faith that they may be saved nor suffer others to enter whom they can hinder I speak this of such wicked shameless Zealots as have sold themselves to do wickedly and are not ashamed in the Face of the whole World to oppose the Light within in Malice and Hypocrisie whatever it costs them yea they are as wicked as the worst of Christ's Enemies ever were who cryed Away with him Crucifie him his Blood be upon us and our Children with what Force have they endeavoured in like Manner to destroy the Truth and quench the Spirit Breath and Life of it And it may be some of those in former Times were by this very Principle they so perfectly oppose convinced of Sin and then had some Sence of the VVeight of their Iniquities upon them and in that Day there might be some Tenderness wrought in them and they might have Openings of Light and Truth so far as to let them see there was a Necessity of separating from the Sin of the Times they lived in and from their VVayes and VVorships and the Lord owned them as they feared him and were an enquiring People after him then and they had some of them Openings of further Discoveries at Hand and glorious Times to come and they would speak of the Teaching of the Spirit within and a VVork within and were a breathing People and there was some Greenness amongst them and they were in Measure hated and persecuted and all this and if they had had a Thousand Times more Experience of God it was by and through this Light and pure VVord of Faith as God opened to them in it but departing from this Inward Light and Teaching and sitting down in the Form of that which in some Degree they had had some Tast of and not waiting in Tenderness in that Light and Spirit which opened good Things unto them and let them see that blessed Things were at Hand to be revealed and further Manifestations of God in Christ they fell from their State and departed from the Light and Spirit within and lost their Strength to withstand the Enemy and so he got Power over them and in Heart they have backslided and in that State they have rebelled against the Lord and his Truth in their own Particulars and found out a VVay to excuse themselves by calling themselves Believers in a State of Sin and Christ dyed for them and they are the Elect of God and the like and God imputes Christ's Righteousness to them and sees no Sin in them but looks upon them in Christ though the Enemy bears the Rule and p●ss●ss●s the Heart a meer Cheat but if they had stood in God's Heavenly Light and Counsel he would by his Eternal Almighty Power soon have subdued Sin under them and they would have witnessed Christ in them the Hope of Glory greater then he that is in the World and have known the VVork of true Regeneration and Peace and not have needed such vain Covets and Beggarly Shifts as now they are got into and with the Pharise●s say they see and yet their Sin remains in their Hearts spiritually persecuting the dear Lord Jesus yea if they had kept to their first Integrity and waited in the Light they would have been able to have read God's pure living Dispensations with his People in this the Day of his pure Power but it is hid from the Eyes of

such who are at present wilfully bent and set to oppose the Light Here is Law and Gospel to be revealed spiritually in the Light the Promise witnessed the promised Seed the Power of God to Salvation made manifest the same witnessed in this Light that both kills and makes alive the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus that makes free from the Law of Sin and Death Oh blessed are they that believe in this Light that they may be the Children of it through the true Judgment that is in it they will come to know the Mystery of Eternal Salvation and rest with the Lamb for everm●re But some perhaps will object and say Why did Christ Jesus say to his Disciples he would send them the Comforter if he went away from them in that bodily Appearance which should convince the World of Sin Righteousness and Judgment if the Manifestation of the Spirit was already in the World to convince them of Sin Righteousness and Judgment and to comfort true Believers I answer surely none will or can deny who profess Christianity but the Apostles in some Measure before Christ's outward Departure from them had the Comfort of the holy Spirit in them and were both Believers and obedient Children in their Measure when he sent them forth in his Name before his Departure and they returned rejoycing because the Devils were made subject c. to that living Authority they were sent forth in and the World was also convinced of Sin Righteousness and Judgment in Measure before the Promise of this sending and great pouring forth of the Spirit but this was a fuller Ministration promised of Gospel-Glory both for the further and fuller Convincement of the World and also the fuller Revelation of this great Mystery to them Christ within the Hope of Glory for their exceeding great Satisfaction and Increase of that Comfort and Faith which in some Measure they had before and gifting and impowering them for that great Work whereunto they were appointed And therefore all the World may see that are not wilfully blind that it alwayes was and is and will be the same forever that reveals the Comfort of the Holy Ghost to such as are true Believers in Christ Jesus and also convinces the World of Sin Righteousness and Judgment the Principle is one the Spirit of Truth the Light the VVord of Faith the same forever in all Ages and Generations according to its Manifestation that all through it believing and by the Means of it may know the Lord and his Sufficiency forever for by what Means do People come to see when they are tempted or when Evil is presented in their Hearts and a Consent of Heart is pressed unto by the Enemy doth not this Light of Christ in the Heart immediately give them VVarning and by believing and hearkning to the Counsel of its Teaching are they not preserved even in Heart from Consenting and is not this an Act of true Faith through the vertuous Blood of Jesus and is not this the Presence of God's Power in Christ made manifest in the Light that gives Ability to resist and is greater in such to preserve out of Evil then the Power of Darkness to prevail and lead into it Oh that People would consider what belongs to their Peace and know the great God near them with his Light within the Ground both of their Sight and Strength to let them see Evil in its first Appearance and give them present Power and Help against it and that all may be ashamed who have lift up a Weapon against the Power and Sufficiency of its Teaching and repent is the true Desire of him who is a Lover of true Righteousness Christopher Taylor A Postscript FOrasmuch as VVilliam Haworth an Independent Preacher makes mention of my Name in his Reply to the Book written by John Crook and VVilliam Bayly in Answer to his called The Quaker converted and it is there printed in his Epistle That I called the Doctrine of Election a Devilish Damnable and Blasphemous Doctrine which is a most wicked and notorious Lye from the Father of Lyes which is the Devil who hath got such Power and Head in VVilliam Haworth's Heart that he is grown desperate and Fool-hardy But I affirm that W. H. in the hearing of Jeremy Swift of Hartford and another Man in his Prison-Chamber there we falling into Dispute about the Doctrine of Election and Reprobation and I asking him in these Words Whether God ordained People to be wicked before they were born answered Yes and did affirm it which I might perhaps Justly call a Devil●sh Damnable and Blasphemous Doctrine and his I noted down in Writing and afterwards writ a Paper and sent to the afore-named Jeremy Swift one of the Members of his Church so called wherein was mentioned this wicked Doctrine with other of the same kind but that ever I said the Doctrine of Election was a Damnable Doctrine I utterly deny and he knows in his own Conscience he notoriously belyes me for in all our Reasonings about such Things I affirmed both the Doctrine of Election and Reprobation according to Scripture but that God ordained People to be wicked before they were born let him prove that damnable and wicked Doctrine if he can or else own himself to be a wicked Heathen and a Ranter for if so then God is the Author of all Wicked●ess Also he said That I with others of my Fellow-Prisoners contended against Original Sin unto which I answer That I alwayes affirmed that the Devil alwayes was and is the Original of Sin in Mankind who obey him it was alwayes my Judgment that Adam sinned by hearkning to the Devil and disobeying the Counsel of the Lord but how there can be any other kind of Sinning then through Vnbelief and Disobedience to God's Law and Gospel I know not that is how Innocents or Infants in the Womb of their Mothers can sin or be guilty of Sin until they have transgressed the Law of God and contract●d Guilt by that Means I understand not Therefore this Doctrine of concluding Infants in the Womb Transgressors before they have done Evil either in Thought Word or Work is a cruel unnatural Doctrine and he ought to prove his Charge of Evil or Sin against them or else be ashamed and charge Innocents no longer until they have done Evil for Thousands and Ten Thousands by this Vngodly and Vncharitable Doctrine are condemned who are Innocent Again whereas he saith how often did I hear this Man repeat in his Preaching do this and Live hereby insinuating as if I pressed People to the Observance of Moses's Law only in the Letter for Life and did not press unto the Obedience of Faith in Christ Jesus Vnto which I answer That he never once heard me repeat so but a lying Spirit hath possessed him and from the Heart so possessed proceeds Lyes but I alwayes directed to Christ Jesus the true Saviour and his Light within that through Faith in

A Faithful and True WITNESS TO THE LIGHT OF Iesus Christ or Word of Faith WITHIN in the Heart and Conscience Proving that God alwayes did and doth reveal himself in it and through it to the Sons and Daughters of Men that they may believe and be saved And that no People ever knew God or themselves in any Measure in any Age or Generation under any Dispensation or Ministration whatsoever but in this Word of Faith that through it they might believe and be saved Also a Postscript in Answer to some base Lyes and Reflections cast upon me by William Haworth an Independent Preacher Christopher Taylor Printed in the Year 1675. A Faithful True WITNESS TO THE Light of Jesus Christ c. TO you all Professors and People a Word of Exhortation that you turn in your Minds to the Light of Jesus Christ within in your Consciences that with it you may see where you are and find the true Way to Everlasting Life and do not call that natural in Opposition to the Light and Spirit of Christ which revealeth to Man his Thoughts and lets him see the Intents of his Heart whether they be good or evil and all that ever he doth for no other Way can any Man come to the Knowledge of God or of himself but by this Means neither did ever any Man know God but by this Way Christ the Way Truth and Life who enlightneth every Man that cometh into the World this was the Word of Faith in Adam's Heart whereby he knew what God required of him in his Paradical State it was the Word of his Understanding and Belief and in this there was Power to have preserved him if he had trusted and staid his Mind in it and in it he had known no Evil but in the Eternal Sence of the Love Power and Wisdom of the Creator he had been preserved but going from this he fell into Sin and Transgression of the Mind of the Lord and was ashamed because that which he fell from and turned from the Counsel of revealed unto him his Sin and his Nakedness and then he would have hid himself to have escaped Shame and Condemnation so that here was his Condemnation the Light and is the Condemnation of all in him and with this Light all the Sons of the disobedient old Adam are found out whether they be Professors or Prophane and it is in vain for any to hide themselves under any Pretence or Profession of Religion whatsoever for they will be found out condemned and be made ashamed and their Nakedness will appear Oh all ye Professors and Prophane consider and hearken to the Counsel of God in the Light be wise-hearted and learn in it first to know your Estate and Inward Condition and also to know the Lord the Seed of the Woman to bruise the Scrpent's Head for by this Principle he doth and ever did speak to Mankind in general even to their Hearts and Consciences and it was the true Word of Faith in their Hearts when God spake to Abraham Isaac and Jacob and Moses and the holy Prophets who spoak forth the Scriptures as they were moved by the Holy Ghost and in this Principle the Light or Word of Faith they received the holy Doctrine of God by this Infallible Spirit and Guide raised up to open their Understandings by which they knew the Lord and the Revelation of his Mind what they were to speak or reveal to any People it was the same in that Day the Light of God or Christ the Word of true Faith and if any would nicely distinguish and say it was the Light of God the Father or Creator but not of Christ the Saviour and Redeemer I answer the Lord God made the World by the same Word that was in the Beginning with God and was God which Word became Flesh in whom was Life and the Life was the Light of Men and so God made all Things by him and without him was nothing made that was made and all Power in Heaven and Earth is given to him Mat. 28. 18. And all Judgment Joh. 5. 22. Neither can there be Eternal Judgment without him in the Hearts and Consciences of Men therefore it is absurd to say It is not the spiritual saving Light of Jesus Christ the Word or Son of God for if it be a Light that either judges or condemns for Sin within or saves from it then it is the Light of Christ and no other and therefore spiritual and saving and powerful in the working and a Manifestation of it to all that believe because it is a Measure of and from the living God and his Eternal Powerful Word and Wisdom and is piercing and searching within to discover unto Man his Sin though never so secr●t and with it and in it God tryes Mens Hearts and Reins and God's Eternal Judgment is set up in it And therefore this is to check the Absurdity of that base Reflection cast upon it by many who profess to teach others the Way of God who say It is a Natural Light in Opposition to the Spiritual Light of Christ and herein they manifestly contradict their own Doctrine who in Word preach for Doctrine and say Christ is all in all and confess That all Judgment is delivered to the Son and yet deny it again and yet most of them confess that to be true Judgment set up in the Hearts of Men and Women by this Light within and hereby they confess People may read their Condemnation and that it judges People for their inward Thoughts Words and Deeds and yet they call this Natural and cry down the Spirituality of it as from Christ Jesus and so derogate from their own Doctrine and Christ's Authority who imagine another Judgment set up in the Heart and Conscience before Christ come by a Natural Light and if so then all Power and Judgment is not committed to the Son neither is Christ as to Mans Salvation or Condemnation all in all and therefore they are in the Dark groping for the Light at Noon day and put Natural for Spiritual for the Light must needs be spiritual which judgeth the spiritual Matters of a Man's Heart and Conscience his secretest Thoughts of his Heart that ever he thought his Affections and his Inteutions which are all Spiritual or from a Man's Spirit to be judged or discerned by no Natural Man or Natural Thing All will grant That no Man knows the particular Thoughts and Intents of another Man's Heart as relating to Good or Evil but by the Revelation of Gods Spirit therefore it must needs be the Revelation of God's Spirit and Light within that makes manifest to a Man his own inward Thoughts and spiritual Cogitations that he may discern whether they be good or evil So this Light and Manifestation of the Spirit of God was alwayes the same in its Nature it never changed nor ever will but stood and stands a Witness for God in all Ages and Generations to witness