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A65980 Antichrist's strongest hold overturned, or, The foundation of the religion of the people called Quakers bared and razed in a debate had with some of them in the castle at Lancaster and in an additional account of the light within ..., here also is shewed the occasion of their rise and growth, together with the right way of discovering their secret delusions ..., hereunto is annexed an appendix wherein their evil language is discovered ... / all which is published ... by J.W. Wigan, John. 1651 (1651) Wing W2096; ESTC R30213 71,934 77

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in the flesh and that this God-man was justified in the spirit and assumed into glory and also saith that this God-man was seen of angels preached unto the Gentiles and believed on in the world But this people as the Spirit speaketh expresly some should do in the later times 1 Tim. 4. 1. do revolt or depart from the faith of this great mystery affirming that the light that is in every man is Christ the Redeemer And if so where then is the person of Christ where is God manifest in the flesh This is denyed in their saying that the light without the flesh is the true Christ as also is the assumption of this God-man to the throne of glory In like manner do they who hold this opinion deny the Lord that bought them according to that prophesie of the later times 2 Pet. 2. 1. For the Lord that bought them is no other then God manifest in the flesh who purchased them with his own blood Acts 20. 28. which is contradicted and denyed by this opinion which saith that the light alone is the Redeemer Secondly this Opinion is guilty of setting up a gross and dangerous Idol which will appear to any man who shall impartially consider and compare this Opinion with the description of an Idol An Idol is any thing besides the true God that mans imagination seigns to it self to be a God and to which he ascribes a Deity whether it be exhibited to the body or minde Exod. 20. 3. Thou shalt have no other Gods besides me 1 Joh. 5. 21. Keep your selves from idols Now this people do set up and call the light that is in every man God Christ the Spirit which yet is not God nor Christ nor the Spirit as hath been proved Therefore they set up an Idol in stead of Christ And inasmuch as it is light and a light within and hath a greater likeness to God then other representations of him have which are set up in stead of the true light by so much it is a greater and more dangerous Idol The more like any thing is to God the sooner is man induced to call it God himself therefore Satan who seeketh the possession of Gods throne doth more effectually deceive and draw men to worship him as God when he appears as an angel of light 2 Cor. 1. 14. Thirdly admit this Idol this grand lye for the corner stone and the whole superstructure will consist of lyes for as the Apostle observes 1 Tim. 4. 1. when men have revolted from the faith of the great mystery of godliness they presently attend to erroneous doctrines to wit the doctrines of Daemons either to doctrines taught by Daemons or devils or to doctrines concerning devils as Mede understands the place Those are the very Rocks which this people concerning the faith having made shipwrack do further run their souls upon For having set up this Idol the light that is in every man that comes into the world as God and as the Anointing which is to be attended and obeyed as their Teacher they do not onely open a way for Satan being transformed as an angel of light to suggest unto them as many lyes and erroneous doctrines as he pleaseth of which I shall name some afterwards but while they do worship that light as God they do deifie and worship Angels Fourthly this Opinion doth necessarily lead all such as own it and are true unto it to walk according to the suggestions and motions of their own mindes without any respect had to the Scripture as a rule for as they affirm that the light in all men is Christ and is the same Anointing both in believers and unbelievers so they say it is a perfect rule in every mans conscience whereby he ought to be guided Whence it will unavoidably follow that whosoever shall give up himself to obey and be guided by this light as a perfect rule will no longer hold himself obliged to walk after a certain Scriptural rule but must follow the uncertain motions in his own minde whether those motions lead to actions good or evil And hence it hath come to pass that some who have followed this guide have been led to many heady rash unclean unjust actions altogether unwarrantable by the rule of the Scripture of truth Of such as these the Apostle speaks 2 Pet. 3. 3. where he foretels that in the last days there should come such as would scoff at the second personal coming of Christ as this people do walking after their own lusts that is according to the Greek walking after that which is in their own mindes Fifthly Open this as the first door of entrance as they do and it leads into a Babel of confusion and errours No sooner is a man entred in at this deadly gate but he is in the Citie To●u where first if his eyes be anointed with eye-salve by the true Jesus he may behold this Image of Jealousie i. e. the light that is in every man that comes into the world set up and worshipped in prayers and praises all the honour and attributes due to the true Redeemer alone being ascribed to it which is an idolatry so much worse then that of Jeroboam or of the Papists by how much it is more mysterious and in shew more spiritual and so less discernable whence it comes to pass that multitudes are ensnared by it according to that 2 Pet. 2. 2. Many shall follow their pernitious ways The falling down to this Image is that whereby every particular person is matriculated or registred into their Sotiety of Friends for now and not before as they say he hath received the Truth and notwithstanding many defects is accepted as a friend The next thing to be beheld is a company of worshippers in great confusion praying and singing or teaching and singing all or many together with loud voices contrary to 1 Cor. 14. 33 40. For God is not the author of confusion but of peace as in all the Churches of the Saints Let all things be done decently and in order If he ask how this company is called the answer will be A Meeting not A Church and the particular members Friends not Brethren and Sisters For though the Apostles and primitive Saints constantly called the Assemblies gathered into the fellowship of the Gospel Churches and the particular members thereof Brethren and Sisters yet this people having set up another Jesus and Gospel then that which the Apostles preached do also characterize themselves by new names Though he cannot finde the name or office of Pastor Teacher Elder Deacon which Christ set in his Church in this company nor hear the Scriptures read or alleadged for proof of any of their doctrines nor scarce finde a Bible amongst them yet he may hear not onely men but women-teachers contrary to 1 Cor. 14. 34. Let your women keep silence in the Churches for it is not permitted unto them to speak
c. 1 Tim. 2. 10 11. Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection But I suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the man but to be in silence Teaching lyes in the name of the Lord and causing their weak captivated disciples to erre by their lyes as that woman Jezabel did Rev. 2. 20. Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee because thou sufferest that woman Jezabel which calleth her self a prophetess to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed to idols As for instance in a few particulars These Teachers affirm 1. That the Scriptures are not the rule of faith and conversation to walk by contrary to 2 Tim. 3. 16 17. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect thorowly furnished unto all good works Hence it is that Water-baptism the Supper of the Lord and Censures and other appointments of Christ are rejected by them 2. That the light in every man is Scripture within 3. That the light in every man is the perfect law of liberty a perfect rule in every mans conscience where man is guided by it And that it leads those that are obedient to it to purity holiness and uprightness Hence they say what they do in obedience to this light is done in obedience to the Lord and therein they sin not So that though they speak untruths falsly accuse persecute with the tongue or otherwise do acts of injustice c. yet they will not be brought to acknowledge a fault because therein they were obedient to their guide and so to the Lord. 4. That the Light within every man is the object of Faith 5. That it is a common sufficient Light that it is Salvation to all that obey it 6. They teach free will 7. They teach and set up an inherent legal righteousness denying the imputed righteousness of Christ which was wrought in the person of Christ without us without which none can be saved 8. That Christs fulfilling the Law in us or the Spirit mortifying and sanctifying and so fulfilling the Law in us is justification 9. That there is that in the Spiritual man which being turned into and followed can redeem and make atonement and that in him the atonement is made which destroyes the atonement made by the blood of Christ 10. They teach that there is no coming of Christ but that within and so deny the Assumption of Christ God and man to the throne of glory and his second coming in his glorified person contrary to the Scriptures of truth These and many more Arminian Popish and long since profligated Errors are laid upon the forementioned sandy foundation by the hands of their chief builders as may be seen in the Books of James Naylor George Fox Hubberthorn Deusbury Farmworth Burrows Howgill Parnel Mason and others But having done with their first and main principle I shall not enlarge upon their hay wood and stubble being assured that the removing of their foundation will easily bring down their whole building While I am considering and writing these things I cannot but say as in the presence of the Lord I bear a hearty love to their persons and am moved with bowels of compassion towards their precious and immortal soules and that my soule yearns after their recovery and return to the true Jesus who is the way the truth and the life and that it is only their abominable Errors that I loath and have levelled this discourse against And having thus born my testimony against that which appears in this people to be against the mystery of Christ crucified I have no purpose for the future to trouble my self in making replies to any of Papers or Queries for that I observe a designe of Satan moving them to multiply questions tending rather to strife then edification and am warned by the Apostle to avoid such 2 Tim. 2. 23. But foolish and unlearned questions avoid knowing that they do gender strifes Yet in as much as they have since our debate set many Papers upno the doore called often upon me to make good my assertion and have given me a paper wherein they challenge all the Sons of Adam to discourse with them of this their fundamental principle though I be nothing know well my insufficiency to such an undertaking above many others Yet I say if satisfaction be not received from that which is here writ I further declare my self willing and ready as far as it becomes a prisoner again to debate this point in difference with Geo. Fox or any of his friends before the high Sheriff or any other persons in the commission of peace who can regulate our meeting if they shall require him and me to come forth for that end not doubting but in the light and strength of Christ to maintain by Scripture-evidence what I have already asserted and proved And further to make it appear That he who shall affirm the light in every man to be Christ is a deceiver and an Antichrist And here notwithstanding I have thus freely and faithfully declared my judgement against the deceit of this people and more especially against that which is the very Soul and life of all their principles I cannot let pass without mentioning some commendable things in them left through my silence I should seem to condemn that which I allow Which that I may more orderly come unto I shall briefly touch upon the means or occasion of the great success which their way hath had in the world which will administer just ground of Jealousie that their pleading for those good things which ought to be owned by all hath rather proceeded from the Serpentine subtiltie acting principally in their leaders to cloake and more insensibly to carry on a pernicious designe against Christ then from a true zeal of a godly reformation for the honour of Christ The principle then here opposed hath had its advantage for acceptance and growth with great applause of multitudes from some or all of these means following 1. From the ignorance pride covetousness idleness formality looseness corrupt customs Idolatrous superstitions and cruelty of Parish-priests and the generality of their hearers 2. From the too great formality legality and manifold divisions of separated Congregations 3. From the open Testimony this people have borne against the forementioned evils together with a greater pretence of spirituality unity purity holiness righteousness gravity zeal and perfection in them then did appear in any of the former Antichrist doth never oppose Christ more then when he appears in a mystery most like him when he comes in the name of Christ and pretends to be all for Christ reproving much that is evil and pleading for many commendable things Thus our Saviour tells us many false Christs shall arise Matth. 24.