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world_n	light_a	light_n	shine_v	1,940	5	9.1283	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89828	An ansvver to twenty eight queries, sent out by Francis Harris to those people he calls Quakers: wherein his spirit is tryed, to be contrary to that spirit that was in all the children of Light, by his own words and infallible proof: his slanders being removed, his queries are groundless: and so the truth cleared, in the sight of the least of the Lords people. / Written in defence of the truth: and for the freeing the Israelite out of the hand of the Ægyptian. J.N.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing N262; Thomason E854_8	19,189	28

thou art assured that this is the last in which God wil ever appeare unto the sons of men I say thou art in the way that that generation ever was in putting God affar off who would never own his apperance present yet this generation of you exceeds all your fore-fathers herein who would wholly exclud him never to appeare more unto the sons of men as some of your Rabbies have lately said that God hath spoken his last and so that you being spiritually deafe and blind do conclude that God is dead like your selves and as you know him so you worship him literall knowledge literall worship for who knows not in Spirit cannot worship in Spirit and with such as have God within so is his worship which stands not in outward meats and drinks nor carnall things not in oldness of the letter but in newness of the Spirit Que. 9 In this Query thou asks if we do not delude people in affirming that there is a pure light of Christ in every man and woman by nature according to which if they walke they shall avoyd sin and ●e saved if they refuse to hearken to it they shall perish c. Ans The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor thou speak truth without lying did thou ever heare us say men and women have this light by nature we know this light we speake of to be spirituall and the light of Christ wherewith he enlightens every one that comes into the world and that it is pure and that whosoever believs John 1. 9. and follows it shall not abide in darkness but shall John 8. 12. have eternall life and he that beleivs it not is damned John 3. 17. and whoever draws people from this spirituall light to observe any traditions without this light though by God they have beene formerly commanded are the seducers nay the Apostle calls it witchcraft and thou that Gal. 3. saies the Scriptures tells you the contrary belies the Scriptures for Christ saies the Kingdom of God Luke 17. 20 21. is within even the Pharises who though they were as blind as thou and could not beleive it yet was not they so impudent as to deny it in plaine words as thou dost how blind are you in this age more then ever any was before you the Jewes who in the Old Covenant denyed Christ shall in the day of Judgment arise against you who profess the new Covenant in Spirit and yet deny the light of Christ within to lead to God out of the world art thou a spirituall man who hast thy law and light and word and Christ to seeke without Is the Kingdom of God within and is he not Luke 17. 21. in his Kingdom art not thou he whom the God of this world hath blinded the eye of the mind and so the Gospel is hid and thou lyest groping in the dark loe here loe there who art gone out into the world to deceive being deceived given up to beleive lies and tell lies who would make people beleive it was Adams sin to looke to the light within whose sin was to looke out to the Counsell of others who had lost their guid in Spirit and art now teaching people to waite for a power of 2 Cor. 13. 5 Christ without them and not Christ within so the Reprobate is turned teacher Que. 10 And this is a full answer to thy tenth Query onely see thy own confusion and confession first in denying Iohns words Iohn 1. 9. That this light is not in the heart of every man and then saies till this light shine in the soule it remaines in the dark hearts of men and brings Iohn 1. 5. to prove it O that ever men should be so sottish to appeare in the world in print in such confusions first to deny the light within and then to prove it remaines in the dark heart till it shine forth and brings Hos 6. 3. Eph. 5. 8. 2 Cor. 4. 6. to prove thy own confusions Que. 11 In this Query thou goes on adding thy lies saying that we say this light is in men and women by nature Que. 12 and as that we put the light of nature in the room of Christ when it s thy work all along to put the light of nature in his room and thou askes if people may not by the light of nature do the things contained in the law c. Ans I say no other light nor nature but the divine light and nature can do the things contained in the law and who follow that light have a law unto themselves within themselves written in their hearts by which law of Rom. 8. 1. the Spirit they are made free from the law of sin and death their conscience bearing them witness excusing or accusing according as God shall judge the world by 2 Cor. 1. 12 the Gospel and this is not fallen nature neither do we attribute it thereunto but to the divine nature and power which all that beleive in the light come to be partakers 2 Pet. i. 3. 4 of though they never partake of the letter for where this Spirit is knowne and followed the light that is in them is not darkness that 's their condition where the talent is hid neither doth the Scripture speake of any light but the light of Christ all else is darkness though darkness may imagine it to be light as the blind generation ever did who put light for darkness and darkness for light who walke not according to the testimony of the light in their conscience neither thou nor the Preists but according to your own wills lusts and imaginations and by them are guided and thus sets up your posts by Gods posts your foolish hearts being darkned and ●o become vaine in your imaginations who did not like to retaine God in their knowledge because that which may be knowne of God is manifest in them Rom. 1. 19 so become filled with all unrighteousnesse and these are the idolaters thou speaks on which are not under the Gospel as thou saies they are but under their imaginations and so set up a naturall light to walke by in stead of the light of Christ which is grosse darkness to the things of God and here thou maist read thy selfe and thy 12th Querie also answered Que. 13 In this Querie having repeated thy former lies with an addition thou askes if our crying out against some grosse sins railing against Priests tythes hirelings and the like be not Satan in us c. Ans Railing is thine own and lying also but denying the hirelings and the Priest that took tythes with their Heb. 6. tyths is the work of Christ and his Apostles which all his ever owned and that 's Satan in thee which opposes it and thou art his minister who art pleading for the hirelings and his tythes contrary to Christ and so would overthrow the foundation of the Gospel and Gospel ordinances who cals the hirelings the