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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65867	The glory of Christ's light within expelling darkness being the sum of the controversie between the people called Quakers, and some of the non-conformist priests, as manifest at two publick disputes in Essex : between George Whitehead (called a Quaker) and Stephen Scandret (Presbyter) being at the latter dispute assisted with five more of his brethren, the priests, to wit, Nathaniel Barnard, Henry Havers, Henry Coleman, Nath. Ball, and Robert Billoes : wherein are several.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1669 (1669)	Wing W1930; ESTC R39125	35,191	47

it was to the Saints and true Believers of old who according to their several attainments were to walk by the same Rule and God would reveal to them Phil 3 16. and they had attained to divers measures and degrees of the Spirit of God and accordingly their states were written unto in several Epistles that which was to one state was not to every particular state and condition among the Churches neither do we read that the Church at Gorinth was to go and make the Epistle to the Church at Rome their Rule nor that the Churches at Ephesus Philippi or Thessalonia were to go to the Corinthians for Paul's Epistles to them to compare theirs with and to be their Rule but that of the Spirit or Light within to which they were all directed and which was the Rule of the new Creature whereby the things of God were revealed and made known unto the Saints who could say we have not received the Spirit of this World but the Spirit which is of God whereby we know those things that are freely given us of God III. S. S. Go Baptiz● there is a Command for it the Light saith nothing of it Go Teach and Baptize that 's Christs Command And then he urged to have us speak to Water Baptism but durst not declare who he intended as the Subjects of it whether Babes or Believers which G. W. and some of us often urged to know whereupon if he had told us ingeniously his intention we proffered fairly to dispute it but S. S. and his Brethren durst not be plain with us in this matter but shuffled and evaded calling out over and over Do ye grant Baptism with water Go Baptize with water water c. You Rebels you Rebels go Baptize you Rebels can Rebels be saved c. Thus and after this manner he continued bawling and railing for some time that little fair dealing we could have Answ. Go teach all Nations baptizing them cannot intend Infants neither is there water mentioned in the Command Matth. 28. And it was proffered these Priests that if they would stand for Baptizing Infants or Plunging Believers we would dispute that with them Or if S. S. would be plain and ingeniously tell us in what capacity he stood in whether in the capacity of a Popish Priest Episcopal Priest Presbyterian Priest or Baptist but hereunto we could have no other Answer then his general clamor as before for water water c. and therefore G. W. proferred to speak something to both Sprinkling Infants and Plunging Believers to shew the rise of the one and the other not to be in force nor continuance under the Gospel but G. W. was interrupted as often he was by these Priests S. S. Water Baptism is Gospel a Dispensation of the Gospel was committed to Paul c. Answ. The Gospel is Everlasting so is not Water-Baptism and Paul said Christ sent me not to Baptize but to preach the Gospel 1 Cor 1. 17. and surely his Commission was as large as the rest of the Apostles S. S. Christ sending him not to Baptize but to Preach is meant not so much to Baptize c. as in Hosea 6. 6. it is said I desired mercy and not Sacrifice c. Reply This instance doth not prove his meaning which perverts the Apostles words who thanked God he baptized none of them but such as he mentioned 1 Corinth 14. 15 16. For Christ sent him not to Baptize but to Preach the Gospel a full reason for his not continuing that then permissive practice of Water-Baptism which if it had been a Command in force surely he would neither have thanked God for not obeying it nor yet have said Christ sent me not to Baptize And where it is said in Hosea 6. 6. I desired Mercy and not Sacrifice those mentioned verse 5 7. whom he had hewed by his Prophets who transgressed and dealt treacherously against the Lord their Sacrifice could not be accepted therefore he desired Mercy and not Sacrifice and the Knowledge of God more then Burnt-offerings and indeed if this Mercy and the Knowledge of God had born sway among them there had been no need or occasion for Sacrifices Burnt-offerings or Sin-offerings the Sacrifices of God being a broken spirit and a contrite heart Psalm 51. 16 17. S. S. Water Baptism is necessary to Salvation being affirmed to be Gospel to be binding of necessity c. Answ. What then will become of all them that never came under it Must they all be damned for want of Sprinkling or Plunging in Water A sad sentence that Baptism which saveth is not the putting away of the filth of the Flesh but the answer of a good Conscience c. Giles Barnadiston urged That there is one Faith one Baptism Ephes. 4. And asked these Priests what Baptism it was whether that of Water or the Baptism of the Spirit to which S. S. answered S. S. There is but one Baptism and it consists of two parts an inward part and an outward the inward part was with the Spirit and the outward with water Reply Did you ever read or hear such Doctrine before he makes the Baptism of the Spirit and the Baptism with outward Water both but one Baptism and so whereas he hath made such a bawling for water-Water-Baptism now it is but the outward part of Baptism he should rather have said as it is in the Common-Prayer-Book It is the outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual Grace However in Scripture there is a plain distinction between the Baptism of Water and the Baptism of the Spirit as there is between John's baptizing with Water and Christ's baptizing with the Holy Ghost and with Fire but this ignorant Opposer S. S. makes them both but one Baptism IV. And further we add an other instance against him and his Brethren in behalf of the Light within out of the Common-Prayer-Book in the Collect for the third Sunday after Easter viz. Almighty God which sheweth to all men that be in error the Light of thy Truth to the intent that they may return to the Way of Righteousness c. Now here is the Light of the Truth confest unto both in its general extent and in its sufficiency as Guide and Rule to lead men into the Way of Righteousness which these men have all this while opposed here is more of Truth confest in this particular in the Common-Prayer-Book then these men will confess to who think themselves better Reformed with their Covenant Directory Confession of Faith and Catechisms while yet in their Darkness they are opposing the Light of Truth within but it is set over all their heads and hath manifested their darkness and confusion V. Now concerning Justification the question being asked what it is it was answered Priest To make Righteous and S. S. confest That Justification is by the Righteousness of Christ through Faith Answ. That 's true but men are not Justified that is made Righteous nor in the