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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65864	Enthusiasm above atheism, or, Divine inspiration and immediate illumination (by God Himself) asserted and the children of light vindicated : in answer to a book entituled, The danger of enthusiasm discovered / by George Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1674 (1674)	Wing W1926; ESTC R24552	32,776	82

called the Bright and Morning-Star and who is the only Way and Rule to all the Children of the Light But this Writer as but a meer Literal Professor and Traditional Out-side Christian inveyes against those that he saith have vented high Speculations and almost or altogether unintelligible Notions and new-coyned Phraises Expressions concerning the Work of God in the Soul and of Union with Christ and Communion with God of living by Faith and walking in the Spirit and that these have been accounted Evangelical Preachers And tells us That this Way obtained a great Reputation among a great many of Christian Professors and that many Persons have been tempted hereby c. Here the serious Readers may take a View of the man's Ignorance and Scorn thus to sleight and contemn those Serious and Seriptural Expressions of the Work of God in the Soul Union with Christ Communion with God living by Faith and walking in the Spirit such Phrases as these he counts unintelligible and new-coyned You may easily perceive what little Understanding he hath in the Mysteries of God and how much void of the true and spiritual Speculation concerning the Dispensation of the New Covenant and Spiritual Condition of true Christians therein Again This Opposer concludes That if we do not make the Doctrine of Christ in the Scriptures the adequate Rule of the Motions and Inclinations of our Minds and Actions of our Lives whereby to know when they are of God and when not we have then no certain Rule to go by but are continually liable to most Horrible Mistakes See here how he hath shut out all Divine Light Spirit and God's immediate Teaching both from being in us and from being any certain Rule though we do not oppose what the Spirit teacheth to Christ's Doctrine for the Spirit teacheth the same immediately Yet what is it but to promote Atheism to exclude God and Christ and Spirit and Light within as no certain Rule and to exalt the Scriptures above them all and to give the Scriptures that high Epithete which no where they give themselves as Adequate Rule of Inward Motions and Inclinations Whereas the inward Light of Christ which makes manifest all things that are reproved is therefore the most suitable Rule to try inward Motions for unto this Light he that doth Truth cometh that his Deeds may be manifest that they are wrought in God and it is the same Light that reproveth the Evil Deeds of those that hate it see John 3. 19 20 21. It is not two kinds of inward Lights one Natural and another Spiritual The kind of Language which this Writer treats us withal and applyes to us is such censorious harsh and scornful Stuff as follows viz. Enthusiasts call'd Quakers Narrowness Austerities Incivilities Deceived Proudly exalt and justifie your selves Great Absurdities Your great Talk of your Light within abused that 1 st Chapter of John vers 9. Your Enthusiastical Notion viz. touching the Light of Christ within You stumble Your Wild Notion of men's being guided by the Internal Teachings of the Spirit without Outward Teaching Your bold and confident Assertion Enlightened not in your pretended Way a very ill Mind False Accusers Romish Factors You Dissemble Tergiversation and Shuffling Pretences for a Blind Your Enthusiasm Enthusiastical Fancies Your Spiritualizing Baptism and the Lord's Supper Your invented Mystery of the Redemption of the Seed in men Your New Notions and Speculations of your being taught only by the Light within No Light in you Desperate Error New Mystical Notions Taught of God immediately These Dreams Fancies and High Conceits You have cryed down the Bravery and Pride of the World which others retain Voluntary Humility Vainly Pust Up A Rough Garment to deceive Ravening Wolves Your own Conceits Inward Pride Over-valuing your selves Groundless Confidence Strangely deluded Your Whimsi●s and Phantasies bring a Scandal upon the Christian Religion to encourage Romish Agents Your Newaffected Modes and Phrases did insensibly lead you from one Noval Conceit to another until you have exceeded all Bounds of Sobriety and become perfectly Drunk Your New Taken-up Way not Spiritual but Carnal More Self-conceited Proud and Disdainful c. With more such hard Language and manifest Untruths together with plain Contradictions hath this Opposer of Immediate Illumination treated us for which I say the Lord grant him Repentance and Forgiveness We have Information of his Name and what an uncertain Temporizer he hath been in his latter years about Religion but understanding that in former times he has had a Sincerity in him believing that he hath sought after Good Things and more Spiritual Matters formerly then now we forbear publishing his Name at present seeing he was not willing to it himself desiring that he may secretly consider these things and this following Answer and that the Lord may give him Understanding to acknowledge his Truth For God knows we would not have him dye under the Guilt of his Apostacy and Iniquity he hath brought upon him by his Groundless and Fruitless Opposition against God's Truth and People The Substance of the following Answer was written soon after his Book came out but the Accomplishment and Publication was hindred by other Matters of more Weight interposing I desire the Reader to take notice of one Instance that makes for us and against our Opposer on the behalf of God's immediate Mission Inspiration and Teaching out of the Book of Martyrs namely J. Huss on the behalf of Joh. Wickliff gives this Testimony speaking of Preachers invisibly sent of God that invisible sending of God is much better then the sending of Men and of the private Law which by the Instruction of the Holy Ghost is written in the Heart and that the Private Law is much more worthy then the Publick this he speaks of Augustine in his Sixty Fifth Book of Question unto Orosius and further addeth For the Spirit of God is a Law and they which are moved by the Spirit of God are led by the Law of God And who is he that can worthily Resist against the Holy Ghost Whosoever therefore is led by the Spirit of God albeit his Bishop doth say him Nay let him go freely for the Law is not appointed for the Just Man Where the Spirit of God is there is Liberty and if ye be led by the Spirit ye are not under the Law From whence he infers thus viz. Behold here it is affirmed that the sending by God through Inspiration is not bound under the Bondage of the Law for that Law is more worthy then the publick Law Secondly That the Law is made for Transgressors and Offenders and not for the Just Thirdly That whosoever is led by the Spirit of God although his Bishop stand against him he may proceed unto a better Life Whereby it is evident that a Deacon or Priest disposed to preach and being led by the Spirit of God may freely preach the Gospel of Christ without the Spiritual Licence

Covenant the Priests Lips were to preserve the Peoples Knowledge which yet was not exclusive of all immediate Teaching whereas in the Dispensation of the New Christ is both our King Priest and Prophet who is given for a Covenant unto the People for a Light unto the Gentiles and to be God's Salvation unto the Ends of the Earth Therefore to conclude that there will be alwayes need of Teaching by man's Ministry under the New Covenant is contrary both to the Tenour of the New Covenant the Tendence and End of Christ's Ministry Which was not of of man and to John's plain Testimony Y● have an Unction from the Holy One and ye know all Things the Anointing which ye have recived of him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you but as the same Anointing teacheth you of all things and is Truth and is no Lye and even as it hath taught you ye shall abide in him Mark here he sole Sufficiency and Absoluteness of the Anointing to those who walk in the Light of it and obey it Sect. IV. Our Clearness from Error and Incongruity about the Light within and our Opposer justly chargeable with both IT is true that we affirm the Light of Christ within to be an absolute Rule teaching men that follow it what they ought to know believe and do and that it is necessary to call upon Men to believe and obey it forasmuch as many do not But I must look upon this man's Inference upon us in this Case as supposing for Truth that which is a manifest gross and most dangerous and pernicious Error to be unjust viz. That we suppose it is not as well necessary to teach men by the Scriptures and by the Ministry to know and believe what is necessary to their Salvation as it is to perswade them to do what is necessary therete p. 83 84. Which falsly supposeth a Defect in the Light and in our Ministry directing thereto Whereas the Light of Christ is able to teach men to know believe and do what is necessary to Salvation and to open the Scriptures as Christ said Believe in the Light that ye may be the Children of the Light And how could they be such if the Light did not teach them both to know believe and practise what is necessary to Salvation yet that many men are not come into the Light though it shine in their Darkness is very plain while they rebel against the Light and know not the Wayes of it because they abide not in the Paths of it But what is this to those who are come into the divine Light and holy Unction within As for his charging us with Incongruity of Opinion and Practice dissembling the Matter Tergiversatton and Shuffling Inconsistency of Pretences and Practices Pretences for a blind a perfect Piece of p. 93 94 95. What 's now the Matter this man appears so envious and reviling where is the Incongruity but that men being taught of God himself by his Light and Spirit within now und●r the New Covenant need not be taught by men and yet for all that we take upon us to teach the People our selves p. 93. Here is no more Incongruity then in God's Teaching both immediately and instrumentally in both which his own Power appears and operates We take not upon us to teach People our selves nor to hold forth man's Ministry but Christ teacheth in us and by us also shewing forth his own Praise in a Testimony without him we can do nothing and hi● Presence goeth along with us in a living Ministry both to open the Scriptures and to shew men their Duty both in believing and obeying what is necessary and so our Gospel is not of man nor by man but from Christ and therefore not guilty of this man's unjust Imputation either of pernicious Error or Incongruity As for being against all other mens Teaching but our own p. 94. And yet for the Teaching of the Light within Unto this I say we are satisfied that our Ministry is from God and his Light and have no Reason to have any mens Teaching whatsoever imposed upon us which does not flow from the Light nor from God's immediate Inspiration and Teaching which they opposing their Ministry is but of man and by the Will of man And therefore it is no Inconsistency in our Principle and Practice to confess to the Teaching of Christ's Light within and to teach others as that teacheth us in order to turn them to the Light that they may be taught as we are and so to deny all meer mens Teaching who are not taught by the Light within but gain-say God's immediate Teaching in these Dayes as this man doth who also falsly accuseth us with this Error viz. That God doth by a Light created in every man sufficiently teach them what they ought to believe and do p. 87. But this is his Mistake and false Foundation on which much of his Structure is framed as also in p. 15. p. 41 42. he takes it for granted that 't is but a natural Light in men that we direct them to but this is contradicted by himself in his confessing That it is God Christ the holy Spirit by immediate Illumination of our Minds that doth shew us what we ought to believe and do and that this is our Notior p. 13. But his is not by God's immediate Teaching and Operation p. 40. So be sure God was not with him in his Study as his Teacher in bringing forth his Book against God's immediate Teaching and Operation And the man is grosly mistaken in concluding it to be a created natural Light in man whilst he confesseth We ground our selves much upon Joh. 1. 9. where it is said of Christ That was the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World p. 41. whereas that true Light was neither created nor natural as a Thing made for in him was Life and the Life was the Light of men Joh. 1. 4. This Life was not created nor natural in that Sense but supernatural and divine However this man gives us his Sense of this Scripture cited viz. That Christ indeed as God Creator doth enlighten every man that comes into the World with the Faculty of Reason and Understanding by which he may know that there is a God that he is to be worshipped and that he is placable and the Difference between moral Good and Evil in many things p. 42. And this he calls Natural Light supposing it sufficient to direct the Heathen to as much as God expects from them but not sufficient to direct those that live under the Gospel to believe and do what they are bound viz. To believe Jesus to be the Christ the Son of God and Saviour of the World and that upon Pain of Damnation p. 42. Serious Reader Consider the Tendency and Import of these Things as first He grants that Christ enlightens every man that comes into the World with such a Light as