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truth_n	life_n	spirit_n	way_n	4,708	5	4.7817	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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