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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65873	The light and life of Christ within and the extent and efficacy thereof demonstrated. And the Quakers principles justified by the scriptures of truth, the doctrine of Christ and his Apostles, from the false and blasphemous constructions put upon them by William Burnet, in his book, stiled, The captial principles of the people called Quakers : herein the rest of the Baptists that own him may see, his antichristian spirit and doctrines detected ... / by ... G. Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1668 (1668)	Wing W1941; ESTC R20094	56,660	72

in darkness and is there to be turned to within and taken heed unto till the day dawn So to say they have none shining nor hid in them is a contradiction to the former saying that every man hath a Light convincing of sin and the substance or body of the moral Law in him which enjoyns truely to love the Lord God c. and the Law within is Light Again to that of Joh. 14.17 The world not receiving the Comforter or their rejecting the Spirit is no reason to prove they are not enlightened by it but reather the contrary for the Spirit reproves the world of sin and to them that resisted and acted despite against the holy Spirit it was given and did check them or else how could they be said to resist it and that the Spirit shall not alwaies strive with man Bapt. Again In answer to that of Joh. 1.9 That was the true Light that lightens every man that cometh into the world the Baptist gives this meaning viz. that it was the Word before he took flesh which was God and this Word Co-Creator with the Father so he was the Light of the World and lighteth every man for the Light of Reason and the Light of Nature P. 10. Answ. First It is to be noted that a Light of Reason c. is hence confessed to be in every man which still contradicts his saying before of some having not any Light in them and nothing but darkness in them 2. If as God he lighteth every man this Light is spiritual for he is a Spirit who doth enlighten every man In him was Life and the Life was the Light of men Joh. 1.4 so that 't is as absurd to say that God's Light that immediatly shines from him is natural or created as to say the light of the natural Sun is spiritual and increated for it 's said of the Word That was the true Light that enlightens every man coming into the World which he might as well say is natural in the fountain as in the stream 3. To tell of the word God Co-Creator with the Father is all one as to tell of God being Co-Creator with God if the Father be God and this is to make two Gods two Creators c. for God Co-creator with the Father plainly implyes two Thus Nonsence Confusion and Blasphemy is heapt up against the Light within to lessen misrepresent and undervalue it and the Doctrine of it so truely held forth by us How greatly are the Baptists herein repugnant to the Testimony of John Baptist and the Apostle John touching Christ the Light Bapt. The spirit in man and obedience to it is not the cause of mans union with God But the reception of the spirit and obedience the effects of mans union Answ. Which is all one as to say that a man hath union with God before he either receives or obeyes his Spirit which is whilst he walks in darkness which he that so sayes doth lie 1 Joh. 1.6 And then what is the ground and cause of mans union with God if obedience and reception of the Spirit be not the cause but the effect of that union is not the true begining in the Spirit and is there not obedience to it in beleiving in it before man's new creation in Christ be effected the spiritually minded do know Again If the Kingdom of God was in the Pharisees Luk. 17. as is granted they being wicked it 's in every man in some degree contrary to his assertion P. 12. But he tels us these words within you may be read in the midst of you in the Margent of the Bible So here we must be accused from the margent as being in error for holding what is in the chapter which is truth according to other Scriptures Besides his telling of Christ and the Gospel being taken out of them implyeth they were sometimes in them and as to receiving the Kingdom as a little Child from whence he denies it to be in every man that is no good consequence for the Pharisees were neither converted nor yet in the state of a little child when Christ said the Kingdom of God is within you Luke 17.21 for it may be in men though but as a grain of Mustard seed when they are not in it Bapt. Though Christ be in his Saints he is not there as a Saviour Answ. That 's false doctrine for he saves them from sin and is manifest in them for that end to destroy the Devil's work and elsewhere it 's confessed that if Christ be in you the body is dead because of sin But farther he adds as followeth Bapt. Or a Light to be turned to for to guide them in their obedience God-wards without the Scriptures But as a Comforter by the application of his promise Answ. Herein is the sufficiency of Christ and his Light to guide opposed and denyed without the Scriptures by this our opposer as if the Scriptures must needs help Christ the Light or Spirit and as if the guidance of the Spirit now were not to be esteemed of as Scripture inspired as well as the Scriptures were when given by inspiration to the men of God of old Or when it 's confessed that Christ within is the Comforter he means by the application of promises without which is still to detract and diminish from the Spirits sufficiency both in guiding and comforting though it leads into all truth and brings to know the right use of the Scriptures which we do own in preferring the Spirit and owning its guidance to lead into the knowledge of the truths in Scripture Bapt. As to the essence or being of Christ it is at the Right hand of God in the Heavens which must retain him nay which must receive him Acts 3.21 22. But this the Quakers scoff at a Christ above the Clouds or at a distance from them Answ. What does this talk and reflection upon us tend to but to exclude both the being of Christ and the Heavenly state out of his people and to confine both God Christ Gods right hand of power and being all remote from his people and then how is their conversation in Heaven how are they in the Fathers right hand and what Heaven is it and where are the heavenly places the Saints were in which Christ and the Son of man was in when upon earth was it a natural Heaven or a spiritual and is not that the Heaven of Heavens or the chief Heaven which is most near to God most spiritual But unto whom shall I speak wisdom or utter knowledge they that shut their eyes in prejudice will not be made to see or understand We know and confess that Christ ascended far above all Heavens and yet fills all things and Gods presence fills Heaven and Earth But in answer to the question How then is Christ in his people Bapt. 1. By the beams of his light 2 dly by his holy Spirit Rep. Then by this the holy Spirit in his people is

Strangers from the Covenant of Promise and walking according to the course of this World in that sence they were said to be without Christ and without God in the World their understandings being darkned and their minds alienated but it does not follow that they had none of Christs Light in them or that the Spirit did not reprove them they being in the World for the Spirit reproves the World of sin surely it would be a blind inference to say That neither God nor his Spirit were in the World because they were without God in the World and sometimes afar off whereas his Presence fills Heaven and Earth and from his Presence Spirit Hell cannot hide nor the deeps cover though God beholds all the wicked a far off and they are without him as to any living sense union or injoyment their minds being estranged from his Light in them which in that state appears or shines in darkness though it comprehends not the Light and these are those that rebel against the Light that know not its wayes because they abide not in its paths Job 24.13 and that say to the Almighty Depart from us we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes Job 21.14 wherefore the Almighty is nigh unto them convicting and striving with them by his Spirit though it shall not alwayes strive with man so that they may be said to be both without God and without Light as to the true knowledge and possession and yet have both nigh to them even reaching their Consciences Bapt. Those were in Eph. 2. without God and Christ in the world what then can such turn to within for Life and Salvation Answ. To the Light of Christ wherewith every man 's inlightned and the reproofes of the Spirit of Truth which reproves the world of sin that they may know the true God and his Son which is Life Eternal Bapt. The cause of acceptance is what God hath done for man and not mans unspotted Life that doth perform his obedience but Christ becoming obedient to the Father for man Answ. The unspotted Life is an effect of God's work in reconciling man in Christ and this is acceptable to God which the spotted corrupt life is not Neither will your applying Christ's obedience render you in your spotted lives and sins acceptable or justified for he came in the likeness of sinful flesh that he might condemn sin in the flesh that the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in them that walk not after the flesh but after the spirit Mark within is the fulfilling and effect of Christ's obedience Rom. 8. Again for W.B. to argue that because the Saints were in darkness in the time of their unregenerate state that therefore no man can be said to have either God Christ or the Spirit in him in that state This argument is fallacious for he might as well argue that the light cannot shine in darkness whereas a man may have the Light in him when he i● not in it or walks not in the Spirit and if he should say that God or his presence is not in the world because the world knows him not but is in darkness and in that sence without God this were absurd and fallacious of the nature of his argument Bapt. To what then shall such turn within for Light that have there nothing but darkness Answ. This contradicts his former confessing that Light is in every man that doth convince of sin which is something besides darkness But there are those that put darkness for light and he hath herein done no less to his own confutation and surely that light in every man that convinceth of sin is worth the turning to to lead the mind out of sin Bapt. The fourth proof Esay 8.20 From this may be gathered that those that are not principled with the knowledg of the Law of God and testimony of Christ but contrary thereto do exhort are in the dark and blind without any light in them they have no light in them if that be so there be a people that have no light such have neither Father Son nor Spirit in them P. 9. Answ. That of Isa. 8.20 No light should be no morning as in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Shachar i. e. Aurora but there is a light shining in darkness Before the day dawn and day-star arise or the morning appear in them But how has this man flatly contradicted himself whilst in other places he ha's confessed to a convincing light in every man that doth reprove him for sin and by which a wicked man upon sins commiting receiveth checks from see Pag. 8 16. tells us of the Light of Nature Creation-Light Spirit that God hath plac'd in man every man by nature having the Law plac'd in his heart viz. the Ten Commandments that is to say in the substance of them Thus far he hath in plain words confessed to a Light in every man though other whiles he affirms they have no Light no not any Light in them Who know not but act contrary to the Law of God And thus the Reader may see how he has given a deadly blow to his own evil cause against the Light for might not I as well argue against him that if some have not any Light in them then no convincing Light and how then is the Law and substance of the Ten Commandements in every man But then on the other hand if the substance of that Law or those Commandments be in every man then this is not natural but Spiritual the Law is Spiritual as writen in the heart and the substance of this Law enjoyns to love the Lord God with all the heart and soul and thy neighbour as thy self which Christ said to the Lawyer This do and thou shalt live after he had asked him what he should do to inherit eternal life Luke 10.25 26 27 28. Now that Light which leads to eternal Life must needs be the Light of Christ saving and this is in every man which teacheth so to love God as is confessed that life eternal may be inherited which to say is the light of nature an uncertain guide as the titles of his pages and to scorn it as the Quakers Christ this shews the great ignorance and folly of this our opposer and his gross and apparant contradictions and it is not his scornfully saying over and over thus you may see the Quakers Christ that can confute us or destroy our Christ who is Gods Christ. Bap. It would be a vain and fond saying to say when the natural Sun is hid under a Cloud or the darkness of the night therefore there is no Sun there but these have none neither shining nor hid in them To what should such turn to within then for Life and Salvation Answ. Yes there is some Light hid in men who are dark By the same reason as before the Light of Christ may be where it is clouded and vailed with darkness and it doth for a time shine