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A43114	The Quaker converted to Christianity re-established, upon the same, sure, safe, and only foundation, Jesus Christ crucified, and his righteousness imputed for justification : having yet no mind to change the sweet and easie Yoke of Christ's Gospel, for the Old Covenant-Yoke of Quakerism, which he found so burdensome and intolerable, or, A full reply to a book entituled, Rebellion rebuked written by John Crook and William Baily, both in the ministry among the Quakers / written by William Haworth ... ; with an account from William Dimsdale ...	Haworth, William.; Dimsdale, William.	1674 (1674)	Wing H1196; ESTC R513	168,839	185

Resurrection of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 3.21 The Answer of a good Conscience through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ no Man can rightly Answer the accusation of his Conscience for not coming up to that absolute Perfection that the Law requireth but by Faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ who rose again for our Justification Rom. 4.25 Now one may have the Light within which you speak of and yet want Faith and this young Man it 's manifest had one at this time but wanted the other therefore his Peace was naught 4. Withal if this will hold many ungodly ones most prophane have the Spirit the Comforter for they have Peace both living and dying Psal 73. There are no bands in their Death and they say Peace in their Lives 1 Thes 5. They stretch themselves upon their Couches and Ch●unt at the sound of the Viol Amos 6.4 5. I read on page 31 and meet with nothing but the same over again which the Judicious Reader will take notice of till we come to that passage viz. That there is 〈◊〉 name under Heaven by which Men can be saved observe this is the second time of Baylies Blasphemy applying this to the Light within every man that is no more than Nature which can be attributed to none but Jesus Christ the Mediator calling it also the Deliverer and Counsellor from Isa 59. as well mightest thou call the Soul Reason Understanding of Man by these Names And whereas thou askest in this same place is there any other Spirit and Light which can deliver from sin and give power over it but what is of Jesus Christ Reply The young Man never owned this Light to deliver from and give power over sin as thou here intimates nay the scope of his Relation speaks the contrary and in the 17. Page he saith in the greatest of his purity and perfection there were longing desires after evil which he could be delivered from no manner of ways Observe Reader how these people make lies their refuge to defend their tottering Opinions if any deliverance it was only in externals Lust had as much power within as ever and this as hath been shewn may be had without the Spirit of Regeneration viz. external Reformation Before I conclude this let the Reader observe that Baylies Question runs thus viz. Any Spirit but what is of Christ why the Light of the Sun is of Christ the Wind is of Christ as a Creator is it therefore the Spirit of Regeneration proceeding from Christ as Mediator No surely But again in one place that we mentioned he calls the Light within the Tree of Life and in another a little before the Name whereby all must be saved the Deliverer and the Counsellor now here only of Christ a Spirit of Christ see what consistency is in these Mens lines Bayly Is it not the Light of Christ that makes sin manifest mentioing Ephes 5 Reply What Passage it is that thou hast thine eye upon I know not except the 13. Whatsoever makes manifest is Light Now this is true of all kinds and sorts of Lights they all make manifest but they act according to their several Natures yet Christ is the Author of them all the Light of the Sun will not make sin manifest yet another Light will the Quakers Light that every Man hath will manifest some sin but not all and it appears by the young Mans Relation for it will not shew desires to evil to be sin if they be not consented to according to what Paul doth testify in Rom. 7. I had not known sin but by the Law So then this Light thou pointest to in Ephes 5. was of ●nother sort in that all things were reproved by it and in that it was but lately bellowed on the Ephesians not having it before for in ver 8. Ye were sometimes darkness notwithstanding all the Light within that they had from the Womb. Bayly And doth not the Apostle say in that same place v. 8 9. the Fruit of the Spirit is in all Goodness Righteousness and Truth Reply By what I said before the Spirit spoke of in Ephes 5. is not the Light that every Man hath for they were darkness all that time they had that till Faith came This spoke of in the Ephesians was the Spirit of Grace Faith Adoption Regeneration the Spirit of the Son now the Root being different the Fruit must be different this Goodness Righteousness and Truth must be and is of another better sort and kind than that which yet is called by the same names springing from another Root viz. the Light that every Man hath B. And doth not W. H. Say it is the Spirit that maketh known 〈◊〉 which was not seen before then whenever any seeth sin it is the Spirit that makes it known and puts this word viz. Mark to it as a thing that he is happy in the hitting upon it and that what he saith is convincing and unanswerable Reply Now Reader see how acute this Man is in catching one in an Argument and holding one fast in it what a formidable Enemy I have to deal with This was spoke by me you may see in the sixth page of the little Book upon that Scripture viz. He shall Baptiz● you with the Holy Ghost and with fire Luke 3.16 Saying that the Spirit did operate after the manner of Fire i. e. by Light and Heat As to the Light the Spirit maketh known sin when it cometh thou shouldest have repeated that Phrase and then said Mark but as often as thou re●ea●edst this thou ever omittedst that phrase is this fair play It followes as the shining of the Sun through a Crack into a dark Room we may behold every small dust within that compass these are the words 〈◊〉 let me reason with thee a little every one hath the Light within you grant but is every one Baptized with the Holy Ghost and Fire is it not such a Spirit spoke of here wherewith every one is Baptized that is regenerated and none else which cometh to us at that time and worketh and dwelleth in us and we had it not before a Spirit that will shew the dust and. Atoms of sin and lust in our Souls which this Light that every one hath will not I will pass over and take no notice of thy railing Words that thou art full of here and elsewhere but the Conclusion will hold still which thou art angry with viz. That the Spirit of the Quakers is a Spirit of delusion and let the Reader 〈◊〉 by our Lives whether thou or I are more like the clamorous Woman thou speakest of I must desire the Reader to turn back to the 27th Page there is something that Bayly saith which I cannot well omit to speak something to it 's that which this Man doth frequently touch upon and his Brother 〈◊〉 I could not well Reply to it before because I would take all the objections I could gather and Answer them in order Bayly And yet he

follows to give the Light of the Knowledg See still they had it not in them before Again of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ Now look into those that are well acquainted with the Greek Language they will tell thee this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth properly a Person Answering to that Hebrew word used in Levi● 19.15 Thou shalt not respect the Person of the Poor And it is used in 〈◊〉 1.11 by the means of many Persons Now was no the Per●o● Christ without them That which in 1 John 1. they had seen 〈◊〉 their eyes it was external to them And most of the Glory of 〈◊〉 did shine forth in Christ's personal coming Therefore when he 〈◊〉 which is the next Scripture thou bringest We have this Trea●●e in Earthen Vessels It was the Knowledg the Apostles had in their 〈◊〉 of the Person without Pag. 42. Parag. 2. Thou ownest the Work of God without If thou wast plain-hearted and honest we would thank thee And we do say with thee there are none knoweth the things of God aright but by the Spirit And it 's the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead that dwels in his people and will at last quicken their Mortal Bodies But thou hast a reservation in all this Is it any less than Blasphemy to say that the Light within raised Christ from the dead and shall raise the Saints Mortal Bodies in the day of the Resurrection As that Scripture Rom. 8.11 i● to be understood All discerning ones by this time see that the Quakers deny the Resurrection of the Body and so consequently Christ's Resurrection Then this quickning of the Mortal Bodies mentioned by Baily is no more than what as the Quakers apprehend is attained by attendance to the Light within Are the Quakers Christians Baily Next quoteth Rom. 8.9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16. to prove the Apostle preached Christ within Reply Not for Justification those Scriptures speak of Sanctification He had spoke of Justification before which is the Cause of this and this an evidence of the other Baily And Christ Preached the Kingdom of Heaven within people Luke 17.21 Reply This place is much made use of by the Quakers Now it 's plain he speaks to the Pharisees whom he calls there Vipers Hypocrites said Satan was their Father Is it likely that Christ would give a Specimen of what his Kingdom was by it's being in the Pharisees What Children of the Devil and Unbelievers and yet the Kingdom of Heaven within them What the Holy Ghost's Sanctification Faith Love Holiness Peace and Joy For the Kingdom of God consists in these things what all these in the Pharisees The Quakers Light I grant was in them but is this any where called the Kingdom of Heaven What is Nature the Kingdom of Heaven Then this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is but intra vos or apud vos i. e. with you or among you used by the Greeks in their Translation of the Old Testament 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 among you there is no more in it than 〈◊〉 1 John 26. There standeth one among you These Pharisees dreamed 〈◊〉 an Earthly Kingdom in Earthly Glory Therefore he saith 〈◊〉 Kingdom cometh not with Observation Their Eyes were blinded 〈◊〉 this Conception of theirs and they stumbled at the lowness and 〈◊〉 verty of Christ and would not believe that he was the Messiah 〈◊〉 were inquiring for the Kingdom Now he tells them It cometh 〈◊〉 with Observation but it was come he being come and it was among them he in Person being among them working Miracles in the midst of them They sought for the Messiah as absent when he was present and very near them We still grant Sanctification within but here the Kingdom of Heaven is taken for the personal coming of Christ that is without Baily And the True Worship of the Father is in Spirit and in Truth Reply But had not the Father an existence of himself without 〈◊〉 before any had their beings Do ye Worship the Father within by the Light or Spirit as ye call it within And was not the Fathers powerful work in sending his Son And the Righteousness of Christ without notwithstanding this Worshipping of the Father in Spirit and Truth Baily And said what and if ye shall see the Son of Man ascend 〈◊〉 where he was before John 6. It is the Spirit that quickneth the Flesh profits nothing When they cryed How can this Man give us his Flesh ●● eat Whose Minds were wholly without like many of yours Reply These Jews did not believe that Christ was God but did despise his low estate He is convincing them here that he was God as well as Man though he did vail his Glory thus in the Flesh for the present Therefore he asserts his Original that it was from Heaven and his Eternal existence before he took Flesh and saith here the Son of Man was in Heaven before he took Flesh He useth a Phrase that is common in Scripture Attributing that to his humane Nature which was proper to the Divine Otherwise as the Son of Man he was not in Heaven before his Ascension from the Earth It 's well if thou and thy Brethren did Believe that he is now Ascended into Glory as he is the Son of Man But is evident ye do not That of his Flesh profiting nothing must be understood thus viz. That his Manhood is nothing for Salvation taken alone and apart from his Deity called the Spirit there And they believed him not as we said to be God The reason why they stumbled at that saying viz. That he would give them 〈◊〉 to eat was because they were ignorant of the way of Faith 〈◊〉 gross Conceptions of eating his Material Flesh with their Ma●●● Teeth We Glory in the Flesh of Christ and know that it pro●●● i. e. the Son of God taking Mans Nature into Union with him●● and therein fulfilling the Law and bearing the Curse of it Of●●ng that Body on the Cross Thus he is the Bread of Life and by 〈◊〉 in this as done for us we have Life and entrance into Glory 〈◊〉 New and Living way which he consecrated for us through the Veil 〈◊〉 to say his Flesh Heb. 10.20 Baily And said 2 Pet. 1.19 We have also a more sure Word of Pro●●ty to which ye do well to take heed as unto a Light that shines in a 〈◊〉 place until the day dawn and the day-Star arise in your hearts 〈◊〉 Jesus is the Bright and the Morning-Star Reply Remember Reader that these Scriptures are brought to prove 〈◊〉 the Apostles did Preach Christ only within Now let us see whether in this Scripture Peter doth not point them to the Person of Jesus Christ and this day dawning and day-Star arising in their hearts was but a more clear knowledg of Jesus Christ Certainly he is pressing them to get into their hearts a more distinct knowledg of Jesus Christ's Person and of the

be seen his Justice the Holy Nature of God is such that he cannot but be against sin and punish it he cannot indure iniquity to speak properly there is no such thing in God as Wrath as it is a boyling up of anger to the height but it is his Holiness Justice this is attributed to God after the manner of Men in that God when he comes forth in Justice to punish he Acts as if he was in Wrath Now if all the sins of the Elect were charged upon Christ then all that Wrath i. e. Justice of God that was obliged to punish these sins must exert it self upon him that had those sins Yet is there Wrath enough i. e. Justice in God to punish sinners that believe not nor trust to the Grace of God in Christ such proud Pharisaical ones as thy self if God give thee not Repentance who mocks thus at Christ's Cross I say again that Justice of God which the sins of all the Elect for whom Christ died deserved which was infinite was exerted upon Christ and God doth no●●●g toward the Elect to satisfie his Justice All Afflictions are Chastise●ts in Love towards them as the Scripture speaks but are all Elect 〈◊〉 all Faith Are there not multitudes that believe not and so are 〈◊〉 punished here and damned for ever There is Wrath i. e. Ju●●●ce upon them that will not come to Christ and receive the Atone●●t As to that passage viz. fear of miscarriage I say this Doctrine 〈◊〉 ours begets in them who have the Faith of it and see themselves interessed in Christ Confidence Comfort Joy Establishment insomuch that those tormenting slavish despairing fears of being damned lost reprobate are dispelled therefore it is expressed by the young Man to this purpose viz. fear of Miscarriages to the loss of my Salvation a true fear of God lest they should offend their Father by ●nning against him is never separated from those that believe this Doctrine yet this is true Luke 1.74 Being delivered from our Enemies we should serve the Lord without fear in Holiness and Righteousness But W. B. Thou art for such a sound Doctrine it seems in the belief whereof thou mightest still fear miscarriages to the loss of thy Salvation i. e. so as to despair and be damned and likewise such a Doctrine that teacheth that some of Gods wrath might light upon thee unless by thy works from the Light that every Man hath without the Atonement of Christ thou couldst satisfie and appease it Baily And that satisfaction was made 1600. years ago for all sins past present and to come The Devil might play what Cards he will ●●w if this be true there is no need to fear the loss of Salvation through miscarriages Reply The Papists are of this mind viz. That there is no assurance of Faith to be attained in this Life but that it 's the Duty of Christians to doubt all our days thus likewise the Quakers But remember Baily though thou sayest the Devil might play what Cards he would yet the Devil is never so beaten as when this blessed Doctrine of Free Grace is revived Witness Luther's time the Doctrine of Justification by Faith alone in Christ's Blood which that Worthy of Christ maintained in the Face of all Merit-Mongers and Shavelings and Hypocrites did in very many places and among multitude of Souls put the Devil quite off his play and laid open his shuffling tricks praise to the most high for that time Luthers followers were Holy and yet believed the forgiveness of all their sins by Jesus Christ Could we but know your ●hind concerning this Truth we would write more but it is not your time as yet to open your selves but let me query are any sins at all forgiven by Christ's sacrifice and Atonement If so then I ask if the● sins are only sins past i. e. only those committed before we attend 〈◊〉 Light if so then how are those sins pardoned that are fallen into afterwards We do believe according to the Scripture That the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth from all sin 1 John 1. That being in Christ God hath forgiven us all Trespasses 2 Col. 13. Acts 13.39 By him all that believe are Justified from all things c. all sins past and present are Actually forgiven us all sins to come not yet committed virtually If any one sin be charged upon us there is condemnation but there is now no Condemnation to them that are in Christ Rom. 8.1 Baily And that was needless Doctrine of Christ to bid his Disciples Watch and Pray Matth. 26.41 And of the Apostle Peter who bid them give all diligence c. Reply These Exhortations are means that the Lord makes use of to continue the Elect for whom Christ died in perseverance and God thinks them not needless Baily Who among all the ungodly in Christendom so called would turn their ears from this kind of Doctrine O ye Daubers and so Railes on Reply This Doctrine of Grace and free Remission of sin is sent on purpose for the ungodly and sinners remember Christ came to call such not the Righteous to Repentance i. e. those that think themselves Godly and are not as the Quakers do despise this Doctrine W. B. who wouldst thou have saved only Godly ones i. e. those that think themselves so and have no need of an Atonement and forgiveness O that all the ungodly in Christendom would turn their Ears to this sweet Doctrine it would effectually change their Hearts Blessed be God we have so good a Doctrine to Preach for we are all ungodly ones by Nature and are all transgressors of the pure Spiritual Law of God I see the Pharisees are still angry with the Gospel Baily Was there ever such a Doctrine Preached by any of the Holy Men of God as this since the beginning of the World Reply But what Doctrine dost thou mean It must be that viz. that the Righteousness of Faith by which we are Justified is wholly without us now that this Doctrine was asserted in all Ages by all the Holy Men of God let the Scripture be Judg betwixt us I have said enough to this in my Answer to Crook which I pray thee peruse and the Lord open thine eyes for I know thou art blind there the Reader may see we own Faith to be within but the Righteousness that Faith Embraces is without for Christ's Person is the Subject of it and 〈◊〉 either as an Act or Work of our Mind is not the Righteousness that Justifieth B. Search the Scriptures and see which ye call your Rule Reply Are they not worthy to be called the Quakers Rule which 〈◊〉 call your Rule wouldst thou like that Language used to thee if thou art married the Woman thou calledst thy Wife if thou hast an Estate the Ground the Land the Houses thou callest thine would i● not imply a denyal of thine Interest Property Title and that the Man that spake so had a mind to wrong

thee as to thy Wife and Estate to take them from thee What can be the tendency and import of this Phrase so frequently used in thy Book only that you think we have no Right or Claim to the Scriptures as our Rule or that you would if possible take them from us as the Pope from the People Your Rule we are sure they are not otherwise you walk not according to your Rule for ye practice not many things that Christ commanded in the Scriptures Baily It follows that the Faith that Justified them and their Salvation was without by a Righteousness or Person wholly without as ye do Reply I am not here concerned to Answer in that these are not my words nor the young Mans words my words were cited a little before in that same Page of thine line 4. the Reader may see them is this to do Justice Arguments of Baily to prove Man to be Justified by inherent Righteousness Answered B. PAg. 36. Did they not say their Faith wrought by Love Reply The Faith that receiveth Christ's Righteousness doth work by Love but as it works by Love in us it is not the Righteousness that Justifieth nor receiveth it any vertue or efficacy from this working by Love to Justifie us in the sight of God but still the Righteousness that Justifieth us is in the Person of Christ as its Subject Baily And purified their Hearts Acts 15.9 Reply There is a purifying the Heart in Sanctification and in Justification also and both are through Faith it is upon Faith we are Actually forgiven by the merits of Christ thus our hearts are cleansed from the guilt of sin and this is chiefly to be understood I apprehend in this Text. Again by Faith our Hearts are purified in that the New Creature begins in Faith upon our believing we are turned to God begin to Repent and be Holy but yet our Justification is not our Regeneration nor this purifying of the Hea●● in our Sanctification the Righteousness whereby we are Justified B. And that the Righteousness of the Law was fulfilled in them who walk not after the Flesh Reply That Scripture Rom. 8. That the Righteousness of the L●● migh● be fulfilled in us cannot be meant that it should be fulfilled in our persons in that in v. 3. before he saith For what the Law could 〈◊〉 do in that it was weak through the Flesh Now if we could in our own persons fulfil the Law then might we be Justified by the deeds of it but in this v. 3. he had said the Law could not Justifie because it was weak through the Flesh i. e. since the fall none ever that was but meen Man could keep it so it was invalid to Justifie then it follows God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful Flesh c. That the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us By Christ coming in the Flesh and being a Sacrifice the Law was Answered in us he having our Nature and being our Head and Surety in our Room and the Law is not fulfilled by any other nor in any other way thou sayest in one place of thy Book that thou hast known the Scriptures from a Child O! that thou hadst but understood this one great place of Scripture thou wouldest never have turned Quaker B. And that the Anointing was in them and was their Teacher and that it was Truth and no Lie Reply May not this be true and yet the other Doctrine also The Spirit here spoke of is in all the Saints and is their Teacher what then did the Spirit therefore dye for the Church shed its Blood on the Cross was that made under the Law is there no distinction to be made betwixt Christ and the Spirit Is that which the Spirit works in the heart of a Saint that very self-same work and suffering and Obedience which Christ acted and sustained in Judea and at Jerusalem we are for inward Righteousness but this is not compleat enough to Justify us B. And was he not their Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption Reply In this Scripture these two viz. Righteousness and Sanctification are plainly distinguished which thou wouldst confound we have both from Christ and by him but they are not both one B. How their Salvation was wrought out with fear and trembling and ●…t it was God which wrought in them to will and to do of his own good ●…ure Reply As to the first of these we shall have an occasion to mention when we come to that part of the Book wherein he goeth about to prove all God's people to have been Quakers The other is true and 〈◊〉 own God's working in us both to will and to do every thing that 〈◊〉 good but yet neither our willing nor doing by his enabling of us is the Righteousness that Justifieth us in the light of God These are all thy Arguments to prove we are Justified by a Righteousness within not without how strong they be let the Reader Judg. After some Repetition of my words in the Epistle viz. Of Christ's being amongst us and that I said we eat his Flesh and drink his Blood that we have Christ both within and without c. Thou Paraphrasest thus B. Now if Jesus Christ dwelleth in you doth not the Saviour dwell in you and if you eat and drink his Flesh and Blood is it not then in you Reply The Saviour Christ is in us by his Spirit but yet neither is the whole person of Christ in us for he is Man as well as God this Union doth not confound our Person and his Person nor our Actions and his but they are distinct neither is this In-dwelling and Union the Righteousness that Justifieth us we eat and drink his Flesh and Blood by Faith so have the benefit of his Obedience Sufferings and Death the Spirit causing us to trust to the Merit of them as Sinners but yet the Flesh and Blood of Christ is not in us unless the Quakers will turn Carpocrations that asserted that they did really eat the substantial Bodily carnal Flesh and Blood of Christ or Papists that assert the very Flesh Blood and Bones of Christ are turned into the Bread or rather the Bread into the Body of Christ Yet the Quakers have asserted this that the Man Christ is within us meaning nothing but the Light within but of this before Thou intimates thus much here Baily that the Flesh and Blood of Christ is nothing else but the Light that is in every carnal wicked Man In the close of Pag. 36. B. Would not this be madness and folly for Paul to say I count all loss and dung that I may Win Christ and that I may be found in him not having those Gifts and Vertues which the Spirit of God worketh in me Reply I query and Answer plainly whether those Gifts and Vertues of the Spirit which he had within him were not his own Righteousness i. e. his own Faith Love Humilty and Prayers Tears Fastings

things put together here with which thou art angry 1. That there is a Light that e●ry Man hath not 2. That there is a Righteousness imputed 3. That Salvation is from a Person wholly without which are all Truths and I am ready to defend them The First thou begins with and asks Whether the Apostles of Christ did Preach a Light or of a Light that every Man hath not 1. Now I assert and will make it good that the Scriptures do frequently speak of a Light that every man hath not Jude 19. Natural or Souly not having the Spirit Now the Spirit is Light and he that is but a Natural Man hath it not Then this Scripture speak● of a Light that every Man hath not John 14.17 The Spirit of Truth whom the World cannot receive If the World i. e. Worldly Carnal Men cannot receive it be sure they have it not Luk. 8.10 To you it is given to know the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God but to others in Parables that seeing they might not see c. Now here is a Light that the Disciples had which the others had not Matth. 11. Thou hast hid those things from the Wise and the Prudent and hast revealed them to Babes Then the Wise and Prudent to whom the Father reveals not Heavenly things want this Light that other Babes have Isa 60.21 Darkness shall cover the Earth and gross Darkness the people but the Lord shall arise upon thee and his Glory shall be seen upon thee A Prophecy of the Church that should be in Gospel-times All excepting these he saith will be in Darkness as Goshen had Light when all the rest of Egypt were in Darkness Here is a Light that the Church hath that none other hath This Light that they were to have in a distinguishing way was the Spirit in their Hearts and Gods word in their Mouths According to God's New Covenant Isa 59. and the last verse As for me this is my Covanant with them saith the Lord My Spirit that is upon thee and my words which I have put in thy Mouth c. When thou writest be sure thou omit not answering these Scriptures plainly or else Recant for saying that it is a strange erroneous Doctrine quite contrary to the General Testimony of all the Holy Men of God in all ages B. saith What is that other Light beside the true Light That it may be known distinctly according to plain Scripture And in the next Parag● If you are not able to give us an account of this Light which every Man hath not a measure of we shall justly Judg it to be a meer dark and vain Imagination of your own Brains and asks in p. 41. Whether every one hath two Lights in him And whether they differ in degree only or in kind nature Reply This is something worth while to Answer to I am glad following thee step by step in every line that I have brought thee hither It had been fair if thou hadst promised that if in any plainness I lay down this thing thou desirest and Answer thy Objections that thou wouldest have left the dark vain Imagination of thy Brain and own this to be a Truth and ceased thy Quakerism 1. I Grant that there is a Light in every Man a spark remaining in ●llen Man of that Light that Adam had in a full Flame before his Transgression in his time of Innocency If ye ask me what it is I Answer some Principles of Common Truth fixed in the Mind of Man 2. What can it effect How far can it go 1. By this Man may know some Divine things viz. That there is a God and that he is to be Worshipped Therefore every Nation have had some kind of Worship 2. Hereby Man may discern betwixt some Moral Good and Evil. As the Heathens saw hereby Murther and Adultery to be Evils and therefore made Laws to punish those that were guilty of them 3. Man may hereby and by the help of Conscience and the Common Restraining Power of God be kept from many Evils and do many Duties that lie before him for the profit of his Neighbour for the good of the Society or Common-Wealth wherein he dwells for this one thing he seeth by it viz. the Judgment of God i. e. Justice to punish sin and this makes him fear 4. From this Light is that power in Man which he feels of condemning and excusing He may know many things to be good and his duty to do them now when he doth according to this knowledg of his reflecting upon it he hath Peace his Conscience will be quiet if not there will be trouble through the many reasonings that will be in Man and fear of Judgment 5. This Light is greatly helped and increased by the consideration of the Works of Creation Rom. 2.19 20. 6. More by the reading of the Scriptures hearing the Word preached converse with Christians And let it be noted that the Quakers had the Improvement of the Light this way though they will not acknowledg it In India we hear but of little Improvement of it 7. Many that live not up to this Light will be very inexcusably Condemned 8. And those that walk according to it doing some things contained in the Law do shame Judg and Condemn those that pretend to Christianity and yet live not in Righteousness and Sobriety And shall not Vncircumcision which is by Nature if it fulfil the Law Judg thee who by the Letter and Circumcision dost transgress the Law Rom. 2. 27. Quest 3. What can it not shew to Man 1. It cannot shew to Man how sin came into the world None of the Heathens ever spoke of this it is known only by the Revelation of the History of it in the Scriptures 2. It doth not shew to Man neither can it that the first motions to evil in the heart though not consented to are sin None of the Philosophers saw this Paul saith Rom. 7.7 I had not known Lust i. e. Concupiscence Desire to be sin he means except the Law That is Moses Moral Law had said thou shalt not Covet or desire He knew it not by all the Light of Nature within 3. It doth not shew Unbelief to be a sin a slighting and contemning and rejecting Jesus of Nazareth as the sealed Mediator John 14.8 He i. e. the Comforter shall convince the World of sin because they believe not Now this is plain in the Quakers who following the Light do so much contemn the Person of Jesus and his Righteousness 4. It shews not to Man some Moral Evils The Heathens saw not Fornication to be a Sin by all the Light they had Poligamy was not accounted a sin by them Nor Revenge a Sin Nor Vain Glory c. 5. It doth not shew the right way of Worship that is by Scripture-Revelation only Therefore the Heathens always ran into Idolatries and false Worships 6. It will not shew to Man the necessity of the New-Birth Every Man

as having Eternal Vertue in them for the taking away of sin appeasing Justice making his whole Church compleat I wonder not ●at any such should Quake and Tremble In a dying hour they will ●●mble more In the day of Judgment most of all Any that will ●ave no Saviour but the Light within and no Righteousness but what 〈◊〉 in Obedience to that to Justify them in God's sight such will call for the Hills and the Mountains to cover them in that day In the end he casts out like the Dragon a flood of Railing but I must not will not return Reviling but have learned to bless them 〈◊〉 that curse me and to pray for this Man that the Lord would not ●y this sin to his charge viz. of speaking evil of the Truth and of me ●ut forgive him for he knoweth not what be doth Let not the Gospel O Lord be hid unto him Let not the god of this World blind him that the Light of the Glorious Gospel may shine into him Give him the eye●●●e open his dark Vnderstanding Let the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation be upon him in the acknowledgment of the Mystery In thy Light ●et him see Light Hide Pride from him bring down every high thing in him every thing that exalteth it self every thought into Captivity to the Obedience of Christ that he may come as a helpless Sinner to be reconciled to God through Christ and not any longer despise the Cross of Christ and count the Doctrine of it foolishness through a Confidence in the flesh lest he wonder and perish Amen WILL. HAWORTH An Answer to Mary Stouts Letter AH W. H. What is become of that tenderness that once was upon thy heart Answ That which was true tenderness in avoiding what was really evil is still through Grace maintained in me But Childish scrupulosity and that Bondage-Spirit that sometimes I have been in and which the Quakers remain in is removed from me through more Gospel Knowledg given to me M. Stout Then wast thou little in thine own eys Answ I am now nothing in mine own eyes as I am in my self By Grace I am what I am And this is the way to be little to have 〈◊〉 sence that by Nature we are sinners and Enemies to God and without strength fallen short of Gods Glory Children of Wrath And so humbly to receive the Doctrine of free Justification by imputed Righteousness which your Teachers oppose Whether is likely to be less in hi● own eyes he that seeth he hath nothing to justifie him but what i● without which God by a free Act of his imputeth to him or 〈◊〉 that thinks there is enough within from the Birth if it be obeyed 〈◊〉 which he hath Will and Power to do the Lord open thine eye● Mary and humble thee Mary Thou didst then confess to the Truth Answ Christ's Person is the Truth John 14.6 I am the Way th● Truth and the Life I am still confessing against the Errors of the Quakers who are certainly against the person of Christ and set up another Christ a Quality that is in every Murderer and Robber which here thou callest Truth and yet it will not teach many things necessary to be known But with this which thou callest Truth and attendan●● on it many have gone astray Witness all the Heathen World an● the Quakers at this day wandring in desperate Errors I have a● ways given this Light it 's due in its place which is that I suppose tho● meanest by Confessing to the Truth I never any otherwise professed Quakerism For then indeed had I been guilty of the highest Rebellion ●maginable to own the Light in every Man to be the Christ of God to lift Nature into the Throne of God to make a Deity of the Cre●ture which the Quakers do The Lord convince thee Mary of th● Truth Mary And the Quakers were honest people in thy account Answ There may be honesty where no Godliness I should be glad if the Quakers were as sound in their Judgments as Moral in their Lives Though of late they have much declined from Morality Whatever thoughts I had of them formerly I know now them better and have no Reason to call Darkness Light having had so much Experience of them how honest soever they be in their Callings I know assuredly there are Errors and Scarlet Errors of a deep dy among them and the Scripture calls Error Iniquity 1 Tim. 2.19 They are then such an honest people among whom there is much gross Iniquity Mary How well had it been with thee if thou had'st grown in tenderness Answ Through Grace I am grown so in tenderness that I cannot but bear my Testimony against the Quakers Errors Where indeed is thy tenderness Mary when-as thou canst bear with such Blasphemies that are in thy Brother Bailies Book Yea Witness to them as Truth That is but a narrow-Tenderness that extends only to witness against some Pride in Apparrel against saluting with the Hat and in the mean while can hug embrace and kiss these Serpents Crocodiles Plague-Sores of Blasphemies I find my Spirit and rejoyce at it growing in this Tenderness every day more and more to loath Corruption stench and rottenness not only in Mens lives but in their Judgments Mary But it is just with the Lord that all them that have rebelled against the Light of his Son should be hardened Answ The Light that every Man hath of which thou speakest is no where in Scripture called The Light of the Son of God Thou mayest learn from Reading this Book that it is but the Light of Nature Your Teachers have beguiled you by putting a false Name upon it Thou might'st as well and may'st as properly call the Sun in the Firmament the Light of the Son of God It 's a far better and higher Light that should be so stiled As for my Rebelling against the Light thou mentionest I can say in a great measure I followed and obeyed it when a Child and a Youth But knew a time when I had a better guide bestowed upon me I have now that Light in me walks not contrary to it But it is not my Guide nor Rule But the Spirit of Christ leads me to the Holy Scriptures as the Rule There have I seen higher and greater things than the Light could discover to me Why should'st thou have me and others walk by Moon-light as in the night when we have the Sun-light to direct us in the day of the Gospel Take heed Mary lest thou hast not rebelled against the knowledg thou once had'st from the Scriptures That God hath thus left thee to Delusion and hardned thee in Error Mary It would be well for thee to consider where thou art and what thou art a doing Answ I cousider my self to be in Christ and that I am doing that which Christ would have me to do for him in my Generation Mary For doubtless thou art now found fighting against the Lord. Answer The Light