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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96406	The voice of wisdome, uttered forth against antichrists folly and deceits, and the freeness of Gods love to the creature, and the effects of his righteousnesse in his people truly discovered. ... and this is in answer to a book, falsly titled The Quakers folly made manifest to all men. Given forth by Tho. Danson, a priest at Sandwich in Kent ... / By a friend to them that regard true instruction, and a witness of Christs righteousnesse, George Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1659 (1659)	Wing W1972; ESTC R186533	21,823	56

false Ministry Priest My words were that the Gospel is an external light as that of the sun Answ That also is false for the Gospel is the power of God which is invisible Rom 1 16 20 and not external as the light of the Sun for that is created but the Gospel is Eternal Priest That I denied that the Saints were justified by that Christ that was in them To which he replies to Rich. Hub. Thou lovest lying rather then to speake righteousness Psal 52.3 Ans Rich. Hub. hath not belyed thee at all for when I asked thee whether the Saints were justified by that Christ that was in them yea or nay thou answeredst no as many heard thee so seek not to blind people with covering thy errors as now thou wouldst in pretending that it is but one and the same Christ that justifies and sanctifies wherein thou hast flatly confuted thy self for if it be the same Christ that justifies and sanctifies then it s but one and the same righteousness which effecteth both these in and for the Saints And see how again thou hast contradicted thy self in owning but one Christ when in page 23. thou hast plainly affirmed two Christs Christ personal and Christ mystical and so hast shewed thy self to be of Antichrist for the Saints preached but one Christ which was in them their hope and he it is whose fulness is thorow all filling all things so he that preacheth another Gospel or Christ then the Saints preached let him be accursed Gal. 1.9 Priest The righteousness which God works in us is but finite as well as other effects p. 39. Ans And yet this said Priest in p. 37. hath owned that the righteousness whereof Christ is the subject and that whereof he is the efficient are of one species or kinde see his confusion then I say the righteousness which God effects in us is not finite but infinite for Christ is Gods righteousness and Christ is formed in us Gal. 4.19 and so that righteousness which God works in us by his Spirit it s of the same kind and nature with that which worketh it for the Saints are made partakers of the divine nature 2 Pet. 1.4 which this Priest being ignorant of he confutes himself and such would divide the justifying righteousness from being in the Saints and would make that righteousness in them but finite when as Christ his infinite righteousness and the Saints are in one another in one Covenant and he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are one Heb. 2.11 and whatsoever God doth it shall be for ever Eccles 3.14 then Gods righteousness in us is not finite but infinite In page 40 and 41. the Priest saith I affirmed and do among those that hear the Gospel salvation is offered to more then to whom it is intended I should rather think our preaching is to more purpose because we know not who are elected for the ignorance of that gives us a ground to hope well of any man Ans Here people may see the Priests Ignorance concerning Salvation and how their hope is grounded upon their Ignorance but Christ is Gods salvation to the ends of the earth offered to all men with an intent that they might beleeve and be saved and for them that are condemned it is not because Salvation was not intended of God for them but because that when Salvation was offered and intended to them they beleeved not in it as a promise of entring into Gods rest may be left unto a people and yet they not enter into the rest because of their unbelief Heb. 4. And men are not condemned for want of having a saving light given them or because God hath afore purposed their destruction and thereupon deprived them of saving grace as the Priests imagine but this is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather then the light John 3.19 And Christ came not to condemn the world but to save the world so that these Priests who are ignorant of the elect and have their hope of any mans welfare grounded upon that Ignorance their hope is a false and a blind hope for how can they hope well of any man when they know not who are elected and do not beleeve that salvation is intended as free for all men so herein have the Priests largely made manifest their blindness and their blind hope and their preaching and praying for people to be of none effect for if salvation be not free or not intended for all to what purpose is the Priests bidding all their Hearers lay hold upon Christ and putting them all into a hope for that which they say was never intended for many of them but herein is their ignorance and blind hope which they strive to beget people into plainly manifested for the true hope is not grounded upon Ignorance but in that spirit whereby the precious is discerned from the vile and the sheep known from the goats by the true Shepherds and Ministers Priest That the Spirit was not wont to be effectual without the Letter or that he wrought upon the souls of men in and by the Letter of the Word and I gave you that instance Rom. 10.17 Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God Ans He might as well have said That the Apostle Pauls Ministry was not wont to be effectual as to say That the Spirit was not not wont to be effectual without the Letter for Paul was not a Minister of the Letter or Writing but of the Spirit or of the thing declared of 2 Cor. 3 6. and as for that of Rom 10 17 that hearing comes by the Word of God that is against this said Priests principle for there is a difference between the Word and the Letter The Word liveth and abideth for ever 1 Pet 1 23. so doth not the Letter and the Spirit was wont to be effectual among the Saints Patriarcks and Prophets before the Letter was written or given forth and the Spirit or Word was effectual among the Gentiles who had not the Law or Letter of it outwardly so how Ignorant these Priests are of the Spirits efficacy all that know it may easily judge and how would they ever convince the Turks or Heathens of Christ with their preaching if the Spirit be not effectual without the Letter Priest That the works of Christ in some respect are not perfect I spake these words in reference to sanctification which I affirmed to be imperfect in this life p. 44. Ans Here he hath falsely charged the works of Christ with imperfection for all the works of God are perfect And by one offering God hath for ever perfected them that are sanctified Heb. 10 14 And Christ perfecteth the work of sanctification in them that beleeve as Christ said Sanctifie them through thy truth thy word is truth and the glory which thou gavest me I have given them that they may be one even as we are one I in them and

Mystical if I should say not Christ Mystical but Christ Personal is our Saviour would you not speak wisely think you to say Oh! you make two Christs this distinction you may finde and to prove a Christ Personal he brings Colos 2.8 9. and Christ Mistical he brings 1 Cor 12 12 Answ He hath here perverted these Scriptures in going about to prove two Christs which before he denyed and in denying Christ Mystical to be our Saviour for Christ is but one and the same for ever who is the Mystery hid from Ages and Generations Christ in you the hope of Glory Col 1 27 and ye are saved by hope Rom 8 24 And Christ saith I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one c. Joh 17 23 So now they that heard Thomas Danson at the dispute deny that he Preached Two Christs may now see that he hath preached two Christs and how therein the Truth hath contradicted him and where this said Priest in George Whiteheads name saith Priest I will prove by the Scriptures that we are Justified by our Sanctification Answ In this he hath wronged Geo Whitehead as in several other things for the words were not so spoken by George Whitehead but what if the words had been so spoken Christ is made to us Wisedome Righteousnesse Sanctification and Redemption and by this Christ are we Justified and no other 1 Cor. 1.30 IV. Concerning the Scriptures Priest THomas Danson hath gone about to prove the Scriptures the word of God and the rule of Faith and Life and in page 29. he saith their is no other standing rule but the Scriptures Answ The Word of God is in the heart of every one that believeth in Christ and such are taught how to walk by that Word or Anointing in them and that is their standing rule and the Spirit of Truth leadeth them into all Truth and of this Word or Spirit which this Priest hath shewed his Ignorance of the Scriptures are a true declaration but are not the Word or Spirit though Words of God be Recorded in them and if there be no other standing rule but the Scriptures as this said Priest ignorantly hath affirmed Then what was their rule who spoke forth the Scriptures and what was the Gentiles rule who not having the Law yet did those things contained in the Law Rom 2 14 and what must be their rule who cannot read the Scriptures they have souls to be saved as well as others and are not to be condemned because they cannot read the Scriptures but if they be disobedient to the light in them which manifests in them the righteous Law of God then they are condemned and do the Priests believe that all that could not read the Scriptures without were without a rule and were all condemned seeing thus they have affirmed no other standing rule but the Scriptures which by the Scriptures they cannot prove Priest Joh 20 30 31 And many other signes truly did Jesus in the presence of his Disciples which are not written in this book but these are written that ye might believe c. Suppose that we had the signes which are not faithfully Recorded in writing yet were they not our rule because God did not give order for them but has assured us as much as is sufficient to create and preserve faith in the Gospel which we have Answ So then he having owned no other standing rule of Faith and Life but the Scriptures in these his words he intendes these Scriptures that are upon Record are sufficient to create and preserve Faith in the Gospel which how false this is its easie to see for faith is the gift of God not created and preserved by the Scriptures though they were written to be believed but by Christ the author of faith and this is the work of God that yee believe in him whom God hath sent Joh 6 29 And again this Priest in his affirming no other rule but what we have Recorded in Scripture if the fignes that Christ did were all faithfully Recorded which are not he hath plainly contradicted himself in pag. 44. in his saying that those things that were not written might have been useful if they had been written for they were done for the very same end with those which are left us c. so then many things that are not written in Scripture might have been as useful as that which is written in the Scriptures if they had been Recorded See the confusion of these Priests that professe the Scriptures which are Recorded to be the word of God and the onely rule of Faith and Life and how therein they deny the leading of the Spirit of Truth and its sufficiencie Priest saith As for your participation of the Infallible Spirit if that were granted that inferres not a participation of the Spirits infallibility pag. 32. Answ This tends to divide the Spirit from its infallibility as if such as partake of the Spirit do not partake of its infallibility was there ever such folly as this seeing that the Spirit of Truth leads them that partake of it into all Truth which is infallible Priest As for our want of infallibility t is no valid plea against our Ministery page 33. and another such a like Doctrine he hath laid down in page 46. that the Spirit of God may accompany a Ministry and the Minister not have the Spirit and to prove these he hath brought Acts 20.17 also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things c. and Matth. 23.2 3. the Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses seat c. Answ His falsehood here Appeares plainly for they that want infallibility and have not the Spirit of Christ they are out of the Truth and are fallible and their Ministry is not of the Spirit seeing they speak not from the Spirit but from their own hearts which are deceitful where they want infallibility so out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh And how can ye being evil speak good things Matth. 12.34 and they that ran and the Lord sent them not they profited not the people at all Jer. 23. and the Scribes and Pharisees and them that spoke perverse things against the Apostles the Spirit did not then accompany what they ministred they being out of the Spirit Here followeth something in answer to what the said Thomas Danson hath replyed to Richard Hubberthornes Paper Tituled the difference of that call of God to the Ministry c. PRiest saith None of my people can set to their seal that my Ministry hath brought them to a perfect man T is readily granted Nor was the Ministry intended for that end pag. 35. Answ This is false Doctrine for the true Ministry was for the perfecting of the Saints till all come into the unity of the Faith and the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man Ephes 4 11 12 13. So that Ministry of theirs which is not for the perfecting is a