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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65861	The dipper plung'd, or, Thomas Hicks his feigned dialogue between a Christian and a Quaker, proved, an unchristian forgery consisting of self-contradictions, and abuses against the truth, and people called Quakers : wherein Tho. Hicks hath seconded (though in envy exceeded) his brother Henry Grigg, in his babylonish pamphlet, stiled, Light from the sun of righteousness : howbeit, they have both notoriously contradicted themselves, and each other, as is hereby evinced / by G.W.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1672 (1672)	Wing W1923; ESTC R20065	11,473	20

and Spiritual Ends which the Scripture doth Alas whereto doth the Best of Men's Actions naturally tend but to Swell them with Pride and Conceit of themselves p. 37. T. H. Contrad The Heathen in many things with Respect to Morral Goodness there was something Commendable in them The Jews had a Light in them by which they might acknowledge God ought to be Worshipped contradicted again yet that Light could not direct them how that Worship should be performed so as to Please Him pag. 36 37. Anim. In the first he puts Corrupt Proud Nature for the Light in the next Contradiction the Light is Commendable for Morral Goodness in the last he Opposeth the Sufficiency of the Living Word Good Spirit or Light which was given to the Jews and this accuseth Moses and the Prophets with directing them to an Insufficient Light See Deut. 30.14 Neb. 9.20 Isa. 2.5 chap. 63.10 T. H. We Oppose not the Scriptures to the Holy Spirit but to the Light Within p. 39. which Opposing of theirs is thus explained The Scriptures are the only Rule of Faith and Practice the Light Within to be Rejected T. H. Contrad Neither will this Common Light rise above its Source Nature Vse and End wherefore Affront no more the Grace and Wisdom of God in Superadding more p. 37. Anim. See how this Man 's Plung'd One while he is setting the Scriptures in Opposition to the Light Within another while the Degree of it is so far from being to be Rejected that 't is to have more Added to which granting it follows that the Addition of more must come through the Improvement of the Less Degree and Degrees do not vary the Nature or Kind T. H. We see that the Light in one man teacheth one thing and the Light in another a direct Contrary so that there can be no certainty of Truth or Error Sin or Duty by this for that which is Sin to one man is and may be Duty to another and consequently Sin is nothing page 42. Answ. Now he renders the Light within Men so commended before as no Real Light but as Corrupt and Variable as the Erroneous Minds of Men and so Blasphemously p●ts Dark●ess for Light But how agrees this with his saying Christ is the Life and Light of Men p. 22. no Disparagement to the Light Within each Degree of Light is Serviceable to its End p. 36. we being Accountable for every Dispensation of Light according to its kind p. 13. But if there be no such thing as a Real Light to Distinguish between Sin and Duty what should they be Accountable for What Atheistical Bedlam Work has this T. Hicks made against the Light Within H. Grigg I affirm That Jesus Christ is a Man consisting of Flesh and Bone p. 30 31. Humane p. 33. T. Hicks Contrad The Son took Flesh upon him p. 35. The Word took Flesh p. 47. The Father did prepare Him a Body p. 83. Anim. There 's no small difference between Consisting of Humane Flesh and Bone and his T●king Flesh or having a Body Prepared for him As for the Son of God to consist of such a Body implies He was not before that Body but to say the Father did prepare him a Body implies That he was before and so he was and is Ascended Up where he was before Glorified with the Father c. John 6.62 chap. 17.5 Whilst T. H. expects to be Perfectly Freed from Sin in Heaven after Death p. 50. and yet questions Whether it shall be the Priviledge of any on this side Death p. 55. He is very Uncertain in his Opposing the Doctrine of Perfection as Attainable in this Life to be sure his Sinful Course here is not the Way to Heaven hereafter neither doth his Rehearsal of Personal Mistakes and Failings in Motions or Actions if granted against several Persons divers of whom I believe he wrongeth p. 26 27 28 29 52. overthrow immediate Revelation or the Doctrine of Perfection nor yet prove the Light of Christ within so Uncertain as to teach one man one thing and another a direct contrary nor yet to shew no certainty of Truth or Error Sin or Duty as Erroneously he represents it p. 42. As it is his Iniquity to Reflect upon a People in general from the Failings of some so he sheweth himself a Silly Logition to Reflect upon Principles by Personal Weaknesses though this is his kind of Logick whilst he sleights Revelation and for an Instance against it tells us of a Revelation that came from Paul Hobson who on purpose to try them spake through a Trunk yet could they not distinguish his Voice from the Immediate Voice of God p. 27. And who was this Paul Hobson Was he not an Eminent Baptist Preacher and Brother of these Men 'T is true we have heard that he served a Poor Shatter'd Whimsical Man as his Brother T.H. relates viz. That he Feigned a Voice and called as from God through a Trunk and so Deceived this Silly Man Do you think that this adds any thing to the Credit of the Baptists Cause thus to publish boastingly their Brother's Wickedness And which was Worse think you Paul Hobson the Deceiver or the Person whom he Deceived Is this a Valid Argument against Revelation And would T.H. and his Brother Will. Kiffin take it well if I should make their Brethren's Miscarriages and their Brother Hobson's said Wickedness an Argument against them as never Called of God either to Preach Dip or Plunge people in Water Judge Reader how Silly they are in these their Attempts and Work against Us. Here follows some of Thomas Hicks's Chief Assertions and Phraises viz. T.H. I. That the Light in every man is a Creature p. 6. No more then a meer Creature p. 46. Answ. Contrary to plain Scripture which saith In him was Life and the Life was the Light of Men John 1.4 This Life and Light of Christ is Divine and Increated T. H. II. Jesus Christ God Man a Person without thee p. 9. Answ. This is not Scripture Language but the Anthropomorphites and Muggletonians who profess a Personal God denying him to be an Infinite Spirit T.H. III. The Scriptures are the Word of God the Rule of Faith and Practice p. 17. Answ. Do not these men count the Scriptures the great Rule of Speaking also Then by what Rule must we believe that the Scriptures are the only Rule of Faith and Practice while they no where do call themselves so But Christ the Word the Way the Truth and the Life c. whose Divine Light being the Rule of the Understanding is therefore the Rule of Faith and Sound Judgment which only can truly open the Scriptures and bring man to the right Use and End of them T. H. IV. The Bible is the Means of our Knowing God p. 41. Answ. He Idolatrously sets up the Bible in the place of Christ For no man knows the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son Reveals him Mat. 11.27 T. H. V. There