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A85546	A holy lamp of light: discovering the falacious allegorizing of scriptures, to destroy not only the reallity of the person of Christ, but all other truths, from his conception to his exaltation; the generalll [sic] resurrection, and the generall judgment-day, falsly avowing all to be fulfilled here in this present life. Or a defence against Mr. Royle his reply. / By Iohn Graunt.	Graunt, John, of Bucklersbury.	1650 (1650)	Wing G1593; Thomason E596_9; ESTC R206957	9,446	8

A Holy Lamp of Light Discovering the falacious allegorizing of Scriptures to destroy not only the reallity of the person of Christ but all other truths from his Conception to his Exaltation The generalll Resurrection and the generall Judgment-day falsly avowing all to be fulfilled here in this present life Or a defence against Mr. Royle his Reply By IOHN GRAVNT SIR YOVR owne Answer to all that are single-eyed is a plaine evidence and manifestation against your selfe for denying the reality and making an Allegory of the Divine and Humane nature of the Messiah the Saviour of all men the Lord Jesus Christ the King of glory and Lord of his people and also in every other particular concerning his humiliation and exaltation thereby destroying the truth both of the Doctrine of Regeneration Perfection and the assured hope of his Saints at his appearance and Kingdome under your dark and obscure Expressions never meant nor sent from God but form'd and fram'd by the spirit of delusion so that the children of wisedome may condemn you by your own words Yet lest the purity of the Doctrine of salvation wisdome and counsell of God should any way suffer through your sophismes or receive dishonour by your cunning subtleties in behalfe of it and the Lord thereof I that am the meanest of all his servants thus make my defence against you as followeth And first for your censuring me for passionate reproaches and bitter expressions under the terms of fancies conceits false allegories delusions and olde Germane Errours This you say is my language which in saying so if I speak truly then I am not to be blamed but rather justified being therein warranted both by precept and president in holy Scripture which commandeth to reprove such sharply And also saith Thou shalt not suffer sinne upon thy brother but thou shalt in any wise rebuke him Luk. 19. 17. And all to this end that they may be kept and found in the faith Tit. 1. 13. And woe be to them that justifie the wicked and condemn the righteous that put darknesse for light and light for darknesse that call bitter sweet and sweet bitter So that wee ought to say that those that speak not Gods Word unto the people they speak their owne fancies And such as are given up to strong delusions ought to be called deluders or lyers and the bad or evill Tree ought not to be called a good Tree nor the Bramble the Vine but the truth ought to be spoken of all And the expressions thereof ought not to be termed passion or bitternesse And that I have spoke truly in what I have spoke against you a briefe examination of the particulars will manifestly declare And it will not serve your turne in the Tryall to say I am in a low Dispensation but when I come higher in the which you are in then I shall be of your mind wherefore I proceed not in the Letter alone which is the corps of the Scriptures but therewithall the meaning the solue the life the light of truth and power of the Spirit of God that doth accompany the Letter And first for those faire words and smooth expressions from your selfe it is the way that Sathan hath and will use to deceive with from the first that was made to the last that shall be born And the Apostles jealousie of the faithfull makes him to say I feare lest by any meanes as the Serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ 2 Cor. 11. 3. And this I say saith hee lest any man should beguile you with enticing words Col. 2. 4. For the presumptuous and selfe-willed beguile unstable soules 2 Pet. 2. 14. And there are some that by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple Rom. 16. 19. In the second Page of your Paper you speak of Johns Baptisme Christs Baptisme and of the offices and gifts which Paul and the rest had received and that you apprehend them all to be types and figures of that glory revealed in us which glory in us you make the estate of the Just and perfect man glorified here before the dissolution of the body Sir I pray take notice how you expresse and declare your selfe ignorant of the Principles and Beginnings of Jesus Christ as also of the accomplishment and perfection of a true Christian indeed Therefore be it known unto you that Iohns baptisme was not water in a literal but in a spiritual sense the worke of repentance unto life was his baptisme and externall washing with materiall water was a signe of his administration of that heavenly grace of repentance He shall come saith the Prophet in the spirit and power of Elias Mal. 3. And he shall turn the hearts of the children to their Fathers c. The disobedient to the wisdome of the just His baptisme saith St. Luke Chap. 3. is the baptisme of repentance as it is written in the Book of the words of Isaias the Prophet The voyce of one crying in the Wildernesse prepare yee the way of the Lord make his paths straight which Scriptures declare not only the name of his Baptisme but the heavenly nature operation and vertue thereof even to turne prepare bruise soften and break the hearts of sinners So likewise as our Lords Baptism is of a more higher and excellent degree of the work of Gods Spirit the Scriptures also sets it sorth in such tearms as expresseth the more excellent nature and operation thereof as comforting exceeds mourning healing brokennesse liberty captivity satisfaction want and the truth of purity and holinesse the preparation thereunto and spirituall riches that of spirituall poverty and therefore it is that our Lord himself saith The Spirit of the Lord is upon me And he hath anointed me to preach the Gospell to the poore which is to heale the broken-hearted to deliver the captivated to give sight to them that are spiritually blinde And this word speaking peace by Jesus Christ began after the Baptisme that Iohn preached and there is great reason for it for freedome and deliverance follows bondage and thraldome as curing and healing doth the member that is wounded and broken And by these two heavenly Baptismes and spirituall Operations a sinner is begotten to God and made a Saint And as by our fleshly birth wee came to have a naturall being and subsistance so by this heavenly birth of repentance and remission of sinnes Gods children come to have a holy and spirituall being and subsistance in which holy righteous children Saints God dwels by his Spirit and endows them with gifts graces of the holy Ghost which are not figures and shadows as you term them nor things to be done away but are reall for substance and durable for continuance And as Christ and Melchisedech so are all these regenerate Priests of an endlesse life and the gifts and graces of Gods Spirit in them remain and continue

to be Gods Witnesses testifying for God in the earth as it is written There are three that beare record in earth the Spirit the Water and the Blood Joh. 5. 8. And those that by these are spiritually born begotten and brought forth of God are the little ones that Christ blesseth the humble ones that Christ teacheth the wise ones that only and truly understand for unto those onely it is given to know the secrets and mysteries of God This new born man is the righteous and just man the blessed holy man and becomes thus righteous just not by any inherent righteousness which is originally within him as you say and is to be raised for you affirm it dead in every man And when risen then the flesh is destroyed and the new man quickned But the righteousnesse of the truly righteous is by imputation of anothers righteousnesse from without him For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners so by the obedience of one mark what the truth saith not of our selves shall many be made righteous And as Abraham the Father of the Faithfull was not made righteous by his own righteousness but by the imputation of anothers righteousnesse Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe on him that is on Iesus Christ Rom. 4. 23. 24. And of the justified ones it is said their righteousnesse is of me saith the Lord Isa. 54. 17. Now observe it is a meer tale or fable for any to say that a man becomes a righteous man by having the righteousnesse within him as hee is borne into the world And so although he liveth yet that is dead and to be quickned asleep and to be awakened and that Christ the anointing is in all men either concealed under the ashes of corruption or kindled into a flame of illumina●ion this Doctrine is sottishnesse to heavenly wisdome and nonsence to true Divinity For thus saith the Truth That which is borne of the flesh is flesh that which is born of the Syirit is Spirit The ode birth is from below of the earth earthly the other is through the Lord from above spiritually and heavenly as it is written Except a man be born again from above he cannot see the kingdome of God Now such spirituall men were Peter and Nathanael and all the faithfull Apostles and Saints to whom flesh and blood was not their Teacher and Revealer but Almighty God himselfe and these heavenly perls of regeneration and the gifts of the holy Ghost their spirituall anointings were not figures and shadows to cease and passe away but the very immortall Word Councell Spirit and Covenant of God that abideth and continueth for ever against which the gates of Hell shall not prevaile contrary to which in Page 5. you affirm in these words I do not mean that outward Ceremony of water but also the baptisme of the holy Ghost and gifts to be figurative and typicall Yet in another place Page the 2. you are pleased to say thus to me but if you say that those Offices and gifts which were given to the Apostles continue still and were not figurative Then shew me say you that power of visible glory held forth in these that now doe dispense as in them heretofore To which I answer If I have manifestly declared and described the righteous plant the good Tree and the holy Temple then they that are spirituall may discern the fruits with the power the light and glory thereof for this good Tree is not barren but exceeding fruitfull and this spirituall House Temple Spouse all glorious within Now in the time of her Lords personall absence who when he comes to be personally present she with him and he with her shall be wonderfully revealed and manifested with power great glory cloathed visibly with it even before all their enemies that will not now acknowledge it but declare against it as your selfe hath done and many others that have thanks for it of them that should have reproved them for was there ever such blasphemy witnessed and testified too as is under your own hand in denying the Lord that bought you For you boldly affirme in Page 6. though wofully and impudently That the Incarnation of Christ his death resurrection and intercession and what ever else is spoken of him as that he was circumcised baptized crucified dead bured risen and ascended All these expressions and removes say you I looke upon to be no more but as types and figures holding forth that whole mystery of Truth which shall be made out and finished in us by times and degrees and in severall measures which when it is accomplished in us will be the end of all things And further you say this is that generall Resurrection and great day of the Lord and the world to come and this is all fulfi●led in us before this vaile of flesh be laid down These are your own words wherein you affirme nere as many blasphemies as you have written words for here you make Christ himselfe to be a Type and Figure as before you made the gifts of the Spirit which hee gave to his Apostles for you deny Christ to be reall and personall and affirm him to be a Quality an Unction of your own devising And that there is no resurrection of the body out of the earth nor no day of judgment nor no world to come then what you have imagined and fancied in your own conceit besides and contrary to Gods word And because you will not be tryed by that rule of Truth you blush not to say in page 5. That the fountain of truth doth not fix or confine you so to any expressions as that you should not express or declare any thing but what is according to Scriptures tying you to those written words no say you Oh Sir look and consider how you exalt your self above all that are called God above Christ above his Word as I told you before in my Answ Your Doctor H. N. had done in page 2. above his Church above all the holy Prophets and Apostles yea all the lights and stars of God from the beginning of the world to this day but it cannot be otherwise because you refuse the counsell that teacheth the truth to the Law and to the Testimony If this be not in you it is because there is no light in you And that it may be manifested there is no light in you do but take a short and briefe view of your own darknesse ignorance and grosse contradictions in your Reply as you call it For in page 5. You affirm that I mistake you in saying you make Elias and the Messenger of the Covenant one the same And yet as with the same breath you presently affirm that the Messenger of the Covenant which was Christ is that Elias the Prophet even Christ that unction of Truth in us see from

your own mouth the effect of your owne darknesse in leaving and slighting of Gods Word and the light thereof which saith Mat. 11. That Iohn Baptist was Elias that was to come And the Prophet Malachi makes the Lord Christ to be the Messenger of the Covenant and the Baptist to be the Lords Messenger to prepare his way before him by preaching repentance as before is touched And he tels you plainly himselfe you speak falsely of him Io●. 1. 20. I am not the Christ saith he meaning Christ Jesus the Lord the Messenger of the Covenant and the Apostle John his witnesse is against you also Iohn 1. 8. He was not that light but was sent to bear witnesse of that light saith he Is it not now clear that that higher dispensation you speake of is very grosse dark ignorance and contradiction that you are fallen into Mr. Royle as in this you have no weapon left for your defence so your nakednesse will also appear in the rest that is to follow I pray Sir why did you not reply particularly to the Scriptures I brought to prove the Resurrection of the body wherefore I entreat you again to consider of one or two Texts more in John 5. 28 29. Our Lord affirms plainly using no parrable or allegory That all that are in the graves shall heare his voyce and shall come forth Mark this expression It is not said they shall be raised in us but they shall come forth of their graves they that have done good to the resurrection of life and they that have done evill to the resurrection of condemnation Now but that you say that in your dispensation you are not bound to accord with the Scripture this testimony would confute your Errour for all the generall Resurrection you speak of in your Reply is this Christ being raised in us the mistery of Truth finished in us page 6. before the putting off of this vaile of flesh when Gods word plainely makes the generall resurrection to be the raising of all mens bodies out of their graves where they are buried the good to salvation the evill to damnation Consider Mr. Royle how you have declared and proved your selfe a faithlesse hopefull man for all that have hope towards God believe and allow that there shall be a resurrection from the dead both of the just and unjust Acts 24. 15. And here see and observe what a discord there is between your spirit and the Spirit of God in the Scriptures even by your own words testifying against you And look again on your Paper how you reply to my Answer against your ignorant position that the comming of Christ to judgement is his spirituall appearance in men For this you affirme in Page 4. That it is clear that Christs comming againe is fulfilled in sending giving or powring out his Spirit into men See againe how you in your high Dispensation are directly opposite to Christ and the Apostles holy Doctrine for all Scriptures are not spoken to the weakenesse of Creatures as you say but to the comfort and joy of the Saints that they through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope Rom. 15. 4. And the Scriptures doe not say he shall come in us as you say but to us I will come againe saith our Lord that is to be with his in bodily presence as he was with them before he went from them when he ascended from his Apostles he went not out from within them but ascended from their company so doth the two men cloathed in white Apparel assure the Apostles this same Jesus say they which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as you have seen him goe into heaven Now was not the manner a personall ascention from amongst them and so shall the manner of his comming in the Clouds be againe personally into their company so that it cannot be as you say in a figure of fleshly appearance but really in his glorified body Behold he commeth with clouds saith the Spirit and every eye shall see him That is all men shall see the person of the Son of Man comming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory Observe again it is not said he comes into men but he comes from heaven unto men in such great eminent and personall glory that every eye shall behold And his appearance shall be to the looked for and much desired joy of his Saints but to the shame and confusion of his Enemies and such as be lye him And take heed now you do not smother this clear light of Christs personall appearance with the smoak of your expression You are skilfull in the letter for let me tell you plainly that whosoever makes his spirituall sense wholly contradictory to the letter of the Scriptures renders himselfe both truthlesse and senselesse for such an one hath none to bear witnesse with him and whosoever bears witnesse of himselfe his witnesse is not true Wherefore once againe I beeseech you consider further seriously what is written of this great and glorious truth in these 7. particulars 1. The person that commeth 2. The time of his comming 3. The manner of his comming 4. The parties that pray for and desire his comming 5. The company that attends him in his comming 6. The end effect of his comming and 7. The place to which he commeth In every which particular your conceit of his comming into men by spirituall appearances will be utterly confuted and overthrown And fi●st for the person that commeth And mark this it is a person not a quality and such a humane person as there was never the like for he is the sonne of a Virgin And although shee his mother a sinfull woman of her selfe yet he that tooke flesh of her without sinne the son of sinfull man yet be no sinner Behold a wonder yea a wonderfull person yea such a person as is the Captain of our salvation the Bishop of our soules the Apostle of our profession He is called the High Priest the Messiah the Mediator yea the only Mediatour between God and man the King of Kings and Lord of Lords the greatest personage for Majestie that ever was or shall be And yet the same person in his power glory reign as in his contempt and suffering only now glorified and not before 2. His comming again shall not be till the end of this World when there shall be an end of sinning an end of dying an end of labouring and an end of the Curse an end of sorrowing suffering weeping and of hungring and thirsting not in a feigned conceit but really as it was in the estate of innocency before any of these things had their being and beginning 3 The manner of his comming shall be glorious in a two fold respect Amiable to his Saints and servants but terrible to his Adversaries and Enemies as it is written The Lord himselfe shall descend from heaven with a shout with