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A85050	Vindiciæ mediorum & mediatoris. or, the present reigning errour arraigned, at the barr of Scripture and reason. Wherein is discovered the falshood and danger of that late borne opinion, that pretends to an immediate enjoyment and call of the Spirit of God, both above and against its owne fffects, [sic] cause, word, ministry, and witness, in all respects. Occasioned by a pamphlet, intituled, The saints travell to the land of Canaan, or a discovery of seventeen false rests, &c. By one R. Wilkinson, a preacher of this errour about Totnes in the West. In the treatise following, the reader shall finde, most of the maine fundamentall doctrinall truths that this age doth controvert, faithfully vindicated, cleared, confirmed. By F. Fullwood, minister of the Gospell at Staple Fitzpane in the county of Somerset.	Fullwood, Francis, d. 1693.	1651 (1651)	Wing F2521; Thomason E1281_1; ESTC R202060	131,348	337

the stresse of immortality be not deceived you cannot gather Grapes of Thornes or figs of thistles If the foundation be strong and surely laid the house that is built thereupon may stand But if the foundation be rotten or sandy the house must fall Your ground is false your rest cannot be true O take your Babell down and build your house your soules your rest upon the sure foundation Yea take it down in time least worse it fall and great and lamentable the fall thereof while you are buried in its ruins Now of the things which we have spoken concerning this immediate Evidence of the spirit this is the summ 1. That which cannot be certainly known to be true cannot be a certain or infallible Evidence 2. That which is not true in it self cannot be a true Evidence And we have found that the spirit that refuseth to be tryed by any signes rules effects or relations whatsoever cannot be certainly known to be true yea is in it self certainly untrue Therefore such a spirit cannot be a certain nay cannot be a true though uncertain evidence of Heaven to us And must be therefore concluded and added for the eighteenth false REST. A farewell to the Reader NOW at length have I brought thee dear Christian Reader to my Journies end and since over paths so rocky high and dangerous with as much haste happily as might be with good speed It is said of Anger that when unable to do any more if it Iratus si nihil aliud possit cum molestus inimico fuerit atque animo morem gesserit multum promovisse putat can but a little satisfie it self in molesting its enemy it counts it hath atcheived some great matter and as I must readily profess my self Zealously affected against this Errour though indeed not so much mine as my Saviours enimy so it being now in its increase I should deem my pen very happy in its pains might they be blessed but with so much successe as but to stop it a little in its course and my very service I count would be too great a reward might I with-my labour as Aaron with his Censer stand betwixt the living and stay the Plague from spreading Num. 16. 48. further Yet did I hate the maintainers of this Error with a perfect hatred I would only renew the Atheneans return towards that impious ambious command of Alexander upon it since he hath Quonium vult Alexander Deus esse Deus esto a desire to be a God let him be a God or as Michaiah to Ahab go and prosper For thus I judge that were it but lawfull to suffer it to soar aloft in its Aery notion and Phansy a while without interruption it will certainly and suddenly fall down and setle upon the very dregs of Socinianisme or Atheisme with an interchangeable uncertain motion shee boweth and promiseth herself to both Though for that with saddest eyes the Mother may behold and bewail many of her Children but lately deceased to the Errour in question confusedly miscalling in their Grave of darknesse every thing God but owning none Imbracing The Ranters each other yee serving themselves in stead of God Not only not denying but professing ungodliness and worldly lusts monstrum horrendum c. such desperate experience of late hath discovered her inclining more to the later to wit Atheisme The Serpent was wont to ly hid heretofore under the herb in the way of God and thence to sting the World with delusion and Errour but hath not his late too great success converted the Serpent into a Lion and ah how bold and impudent while casting of and renting the divine Visard the waies of God he roareth out defiance against the God of Israel the Lion of the Tribe of Judah The man of sin is charged with exalting himself above al that is called God or is worshipped 2 Thes 2. 4. in that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God but the way of this Errour razeth the very Temple even with the Ground and willnot suffer one stone thereof to be left upon another of how much higher presumption shall it be thought guilty of how much sorer punishment shall it be thought worthy the Zeal of the house of the Lord hath eaten me up It was Archimedes his fond opinion that had he but a place to stand upon and he could raise the frame of the whole Earth and if he could raise the Earth out of the Center then he could hang the Earth upon nothing and if he might hang the Earth upon nothing then he might stand upon nothing How right hath this Errour attained Archimedes this vain boasting having gotten its footing in the spirit it hath overturned overturned overturned the whole World of Religion and by its witty contrivance having hung it as a Castle in the Aire upon nothing by miserable consequence stands upon nothing It s subtill chymistry resolves and rarifies all into spirit which yet secretly Evaporates a spirituall wickednesse It construeth every thing into a Mistery and there looseth it the mistery of Iniquity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Yet though as a Mistery t is difficult to reveil Sententias vestras prodidisse superasse est Prima fronte apparent blasphemi e Jerom of the Palag in Epis ad Tessa 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hard to be interpreted since by its discovery its iniquity appears and to know the opinion is to know it an Errour especially with such as have their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their intellectuall faculties of relishing their senses exercised this hath been my resolution at least as the light gave ability to comprehend the darknesse Inventum tibi curare metu adduclum My care what ere I may moreover The truth of th' Errour doth discover But to conclude good Reader least I should seem to infringe the Gospel liberty as this is thy priviledge so my advise and yet not mine but Pauls yea and the spirit of God in him Try all things c. the Heathen Poet may add the reason Nimium creduli saepe lactatur animus he that is too apt to beleeve is too easily deceived therefore good Reader consider what is said and laying the same with an even upright hand in the seal of a serious consideration the Ballance of the Sanctuary excercise an act of impartiall judgment upon it and as the end and blessing upon thy true indeavour the Lord make thee able to discern betwixt the cruelty of Errour and the weight of truth things that differ Consider what is said and the Lord give thee understanding 2 Tim. 2. 7. in all things Farewell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gloria cuncta Deo FINIS

Word and Gospel is the power of God unto salvation spirit and life and directly the means of sanctification so called and acknowledged by truth it self John 17. 17. Sanctifie us through thy truth thy Word is truth But Then if the spirit be indifferent with respect to the Word and other means which is your most pleasing and acceptable sense how fals it out that the Church of God is onely found where the Gospel dwels What reason can be given why God hath not an equal number and share of Professors among the Indians Is the spirit free yet surely it doth prize value and countenance that air to live and breathe in much more that is fill'd not to say blessed and purified with the sound of the Gospel A general darkness we see covereth the People where the Oracles of God give no advantage while the Land of Goshen is full of light But we have here most room and occasion to take notice and clear that Text on which indeed hang both the Law and the Prophets of Anti-scripturisme Obj. Some men do acknowledge the Scriptures are used to teach us our Rudiments and beginnings of the knowledge of Christ but this Milk is for Babes and strong men must have stronger meat when they have received the spirit once they put away these childish things to live above the Scriptures and harden themselves in such a practice as this upon that notable Scripture 2 Pet. 1. 19. We have also a more sure word of Prophesie to the which ye do well that ye take heed as unto a Light that shineth in a dark place untill the day dawn c. Hence say they we did take heed to Scriptures while we were ignorant untill we received the spirit but now what need have we thereof this place of Scripture it self inviting us to take no more heed thereto Answ This Text beareth to many weak sighted and prejudiced Christians a very fair gloss for the thing pretended But could we but stay a little upon it and take its genuine sense along with us we should certainly understand and know it to be otherwise There are two gross mistakes committed in this same fallacious construction of the words this way The first may be occasioned by the pointing of the words Let us leave out the Comma at the word Place read the words thus We have a sure word of Prophesie whereunto ye do well that ye take heed so far we both agree but these men would construe next untill the day dawn c. but upon what account let us reade construe and understand them as they lie in the Verse Whereunto ye do well that ye take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place untill the day dawn c. Which words are not to limit the time how long but to describe the manner how we ought to take heed It is not we must take heed unto this Prophesie till the day dawn but to it as a light that shineth in the dark till the day dawn The second and more dangerous misconstruction and mistake is of the sense of the very termes themselves they reade the words as a Collation between the whole Book of Scripture and the coming of the spirit and indeed it is onely of the Law and the Prophets and the coming of Christ as the Context doth most clearly manifest The Prophesie of old shining in those Dayes that were dark till the Day not properly of the spirit but of Christ did dawn i. till the Gospel for Christ is called a Sun the Light of the Gentiles at whose coming into the World The day spring from on Luke 1. ult high did visit us And the Times and Dispensation of the Gospel the Day and the Children of the Gospel Children of the Light and of the Day God 1 Thess 5. 8. Ephes 5. 8. that commanded Light out of Darkness shining thence in our hearts to give us the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 2 Cor. 4. 6. Therfore this is the sum of the Apostles sense in that place he having given them a glimpse of the Vision wherewith he was blessed with Christ on the Mount in vers 16 17 18. He seemeth in vers 19. somewhat fearfull least he should by this means have stirred up a hankering in their mindes after such Visions to the weakening of their heed and respect to the Writing of the Prophets and therefore thus addes We have a more sure word of Prophesie More sure i not more true in it self but as to you which you have means of more assurance of having been a long time received for the Word of God c. whereunto ye do well that ye take heed and not to slacken your faith or heed thereunto any thing said by me of my Vision notwithstanding but least they should err on the other hand and prize the Law and the Prophets above the Light of the glorious Gospel he addeth further whereunto ye do well that ye take heed but you must heed it no otherwise but as a Light that shineth in a dark place before the day or untill the day dawn the Dayes of the Gospel being Dayes of greater Light then the Dayes of the Prophets yet not to undervalue these Prophesies neither we must know this first No Prophesie Vers 20. in the Scripture is of any private Interpretation though we must look upon them as shining in a dark place untill the day dawn yet must we bear respect and heed thereto as unto the Word of God also For the Prophesie came not in old time by the will of man but holy Vers 21. men of God spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost And now what advantage have any from hence for the Deniall of the Gospel or to make the Word of God of none effect for our teaching CHAP. XI Of the Scripture as profitable in its commands for obedience THis Error would strike at the very Majesty of God and his divine Authority in the holy Scriptures and therefore sticks not to deny the Commands thereof they being not by any to be heard or hearkened to as the voice of God And this I conceive upon a double respect as they look to the wicked and unregenerate world or relate to the godly and spiritual Church and upon this dilemma because the commands of Scripture cannot come in upon us at this or that door they must be shut out Reas 1 With respect to men unregenerate they imply the command is vain such having no power to obey it and God cannot inforce or intend it to them who doth nothing in vain Reas 2 And with relation to men regenerate the command is needless also they having the spirit the Law within them written in their hearts there is left no need no use of the letter or the Law without As the natural man receiveth no help so the man that is spiritual hath neither helpe nor need of