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<P>THE GRACE of GOD A&s;&s;erted to be <HI>Saving and Increated:</HI> AND <HI>JAMES FORBES</HI> PROVED A Fal&s;e Witne&s;s, In affirming it to be no Grace, AND A Great NOTHING.</P>
<P>BEING A Reply to his Book called, <HI>Nehu&s;htan.</HI></P>
<P>By <HI>JOHN ELLIOT.</HI></P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Heb. 10.28.29.</HI></BIBL>
<P>He that di&s;pi&s;ed Mo&s;es Law, dyed without Mercy under two or three Wittne&s;&s;es.</P>
<P>Of how much &s;orer Puni&s;hment, &s;uppo&s;e ye, &s;hall he be thought worthy who hath troden under Foot the Son of God, and hath counted the Blood of the Covenant wherewith he was Sanctifyed an &V;nholy thing, and hath done de&s;pite unto the Spirit of Grace.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL><HI>1 Cor. 12.7.</HI></BIBL> But the Manife&s;tation of the Spirit is given to every Man to proffit withall.</Q>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed for <HI>Tho. Northcott</HI> in <HI>George-Yard</HI> in <HI>Lombard-&s;treet.</HI> 1695.</P>
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<HEAD>THE PREFACE Dedicated more particularly to James Forbes HIS AUDITORY.</HEAD>
<P>THE former Treati&s;e did I make (Friendly Neighbours) in cordial Love to your Souls, be|ing de&s;irous (it falling to my Lot) to do my endeavour, that this Di|vine Principle of &s;aving Grace, or Chri&s;ts Spiritual Appearance in the Heart, (the point in Controver&s;y between us) might be cleared up to
<PB REF="3"> you; and &s;o through yo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> der&s;tanding thereof, migh<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> truly to believe therein, and thereby livingly experience more of the Di|vine Virtue that comes therefrom, and which is in an abundant manner participated of, by all that are faith|ful thereto.</P>
<P>Now this my Labour of Love, I believe hath not been altogether un&s;ervicable, even among&s;t &s;ome of you, (or that have been of you) though unfriendly rejected by others of you. Who, as your Pa&s;ter cer|tifies, are (contrariwi&s;e) &s;o &s;ati&s;|fied with what you have heard Preach|ed by him, that the mo&s;t Judicious among you (it &s;eems) pre&s;t the pub|lication thereof, that others might reap the like Advantage, as they have reaped, and (not only &s;o, but) that it may contribute &s;omething to|wards the preventing the growth of Quakeri&s;m in other places, as well as here. And what he hath done, being as directed (he &s;aith) <HI>viz.</HI> Doctrinally, and Practically, to
<PB REF="3"> Di&s;cu&s;s this Point. And loth to trouble the People, or polute the Pulpit, with Replies to the Imper|tinences of <HI>J. E</HI>'s. Scrible, de&s;igning that, as di&s;tinct from this, with purpo&s;e al&s;o to publi&s;h if I have any fre&s;h Provocation. Now though I have here written a fre&s;h, yet hope have not given him any ju&s;t Provoca|tion of offence, as did not before that I am yet &s;en&s;ible of; but if here|upon, he will run him&s;elf into a great Paroxi&s;m of furious Zeal, and his Spirit be in &s;o great a ferment, as to add wilfulne&s;s to his weakne&s;s, to the falling more fouler upon our Principle, and us who profe&s;s it, the fault will be in him&s;elf, not me, and the greater will be his Condem|nation.</P>
<P>I would have him con&s;ider, that though I began to Print, I did not to write, that was the Act of <HI>J. Green.</HI> But I greatly que&s;tion whether <HI>J. F.</HI> him&s;elf was not the cau&s;e thereof, or con&s;enting thereto, as its now confe&s;t by him&s;elf in
<PB REF="4"> Print, that he was the Author of the la&s;t Lines (according to my Be|lief therein before) though come forth in the former Per&s;ons Name. With|all let him weigh the matter with re&s;pect to my Weakne&s;s, mean Qua|lification, more Confidence than Strength of Rea&s;on, and hearkning to fooli&s;h Coun&s;els, not to &s;ay wor&s;e, (all which he &s;aith of me:) Which (on the other hand) his own labo|rious Lines, the effect of his long Study, many Sermons, and perhaps refining thereof &s;ince, whereby (doubt|le&s;s) he doubts not but that he hath proved the Point, as in his Title Page is A&s;&s;erted. The&s;e things put together and well weigh|ed, I &s;ay, methinks he &s;hould &s;o &s;light &s;uch mean matter (accoun|ed by him) as not to per&s;i&s;t to print again&s;t what of the &s;ame im|port is here made publick, from &s;uch a weak Opponent, again&s;t his (&s;uppo&s;ed) &s;trong Lines; and in vindication of my former, called by him (A crude, indige&s;ted, em|pty
<PB REF="4"> Script;) I doubt not but he will deem this the like, and that this my Rejoynder is no An&s;wer to him, therefore con&s;equently to be &s;lighted by him; but if he &s;hould take &s;uch cognizance thereof, as to appear again&s;t it, whether then it may not be concluded that he (contrariwi&s;e) hath a different Opi|nion concerning it; but leaving it to him to do what he &s;hall think be&s;t, I have true freedom (not from fooli&s;h Councels) but from the mea|&s;ure of the Spirit of Truth in me (which hath not deceived or trap|paned me, nor brought &s;hame and confu&s;ion of face upon me) further to oppo&s;e him, in my weak manner (for indeed I am &s;o far humble, that I account my &s;elf much weaker than many thou&s;ands in <HI>I&s;rael</HI>) and hope that it will be further &s;een of &s;ome, by what is here further ad|ded, That its further manife&s;ted he is &s;till gro&s;ly Erronious, and there|fore ought not to be hearkned to herein, but withdrawn from: And
<PB REF="5"> that he had better been &s;ilent, and &s;till not to have printed, than held up his Head again, thus to endeavour the preventing the growth of Gods Eternal Truth, called by him Quakeri&s;m.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jo. 1.1. Rom 10.7.8. 1 Pet. 1.23.</NOTE></P>
<P>Now that, Chri&s;t, the Word, (nigh in the Heart) who lives and abides forever, may have free cour&s;e and be glorified: And that in or|der to your being really advantaged, and ble&s;t with Spiritual Encrea&s;e from above, you would depend up|on God, through his Holy Spirit of Grace, as inwardly appearing; and &s;o Indepency, in this re&s;pect, may not grow, but decrea&s;e,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Is the fervent Prayer of your &s;incere and well wi&s;hing Friend, <HI>Iohn Elliot.</HI></HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE><HI>The 23d. 5th. Month, 1694.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>INTROD&V;CTION.</HEAD>
<P>THE Lord God Everla&s;ting, who created Man for a pur|po&s;e of his own Glory, and de&s;ires not the Death of a Sinner, but rather that he &s;hould Return and Live, having in this his Univer&s;al Love, &s;o far reached to me, as to Illuminate my Under&s;tand|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ng, and give me to Believe in him, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hrough his Holy Spirit in my Heart, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd thereby have witne&s;&s;ed (in mea|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ure) a being renewed in the Spirit of my Mind, and changed from an Evil Life, and Vain Conver&s;ation, and &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nternally have &s;een and ta&s;ted that the Lord is good, through a real partici|pating of his Spiritual Comforts, i&s;&s;u|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ng forth from him in my Soul, (pure <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rai&s;es be returned to him for the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ame) and being in a continued &s;en&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">f his Goodne&s;s, de&s;iring al&s;o that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">thers might be more in love with this
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<PB N="2" REF="7"> Divine Power, and &s;o be &s;en&s;ible (wit<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> us) more of the overcoming Virtu<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> that comes therefrom; likewi&s;e having a Godly Zeal for the Lord, and this his Spiritual Appearance, therefore<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> here again appear on behalf thereof&punc; and again&s;t the Gro&s;s Errour and Bla+&s;phemy of <HI>James Forbes,</HI> who affirms in his Title Page, That what I cal<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Saving Grace in all Men, and an In+created Being, he hath proved it to b<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <HI>No Grace,</HI> and a <HI>Great Nothing:</HI> Again&punc; comparing it to Images, and al&s;o t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Brazen Serpent which <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> made that the Children of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> burnt In|cen&s;e to, which therefore <HI>Hezekia<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> brake in pieces, and called it <HI>Nehu&s;h|tan.</HI></P>
<P>I being no Latin Scholar, therefor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> it may not be expected that I &s;hould follow him in his Way of Logick, no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to u&s;e Politene&s;s of Language, or Rhe|torical Flori&s;hes of Words; it's that, he &s;aith, that hath been contrary to his own natural Genius, and yet me|thinks he (contradictorily) is much found therein, having &s;trained greatly thereafter: What I write, may there|fore be like a Mechanick, (or Trade&s;|man) and that being in a plain way, and according to Scripture, therefore
<PB N="3" REF="7"> I hope it will not be &s;lighted; and make it my Reque&s;t, That it may be unto the end &s;eriou&s;ly peru&s;ed, and impartially con&s;idered.</P>
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<P>NOW then to the Point, the which con&s;i&s;ts in the&s;e three Particulars, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
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<ITEM>I. <HI>Whether the Saving Grace of God, hath not appeared to all Men, as well &V;nbelievers as Believers?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>II. <HI>Whether this Saving Grace, men|tioned</HI> Titus, 2.11. <HI>and the Light,</HI> Joh. 1.4, 9. <HI>and the Spirit,</HI> Joh. 16.7, 8, 13. 1 Cor. 12.7. <HI>are not (though differently denominated) but one and the &s;elf &s;ame thing?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>III. <HI>Whether the &s;aid Grace, Light, or Spirit of Christ in Man, is a Crea|ture, or Increated; a meer Fruit, Work, or Effect of the Spirit; or whe|ther Chri&s;t, as the Cau&s;e, be not real|ly in Spirit working in the Heart, convincing and reproving the &V;nre|generate, and comforting and uphold|ing
<PB N="4" REF="8"> True Believers, and &s;o the Spiri<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> and its Work to be differently con&s;i|dered and di&s;tingui&s;hed?</HI></ITEM>
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<P>As to the Fir&s;t, touching univer&s;al &s;aving Grace in all, This he denyes; and &s;aith, <HI>It is not what it is called by &s;ome: Neither is &s;o to be called, nor de|&s;erves that denomination;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Vide Colo|tions.</NOTE> <HI>for that which is in all Men, is not Grace,</HI> pa. 1, 6, 7. Thereby plainly contradicting the &s;ay|ing of the Apo&s;tle <HI>Paul,</HI> viz. <HI>For the Grace of God that bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all Men,</HI> Tit. 2.11. Then to Unbelievers as well as unto Believ|ers. And that this is the &s;ame in Na|ture with what is in Believers, Read, <HI>Cor.</HI> 12.9. <HI>Acts,</HI> 20.32.</P>
<P>The Second particular mentioned, I conclude will not be denyed; and I take it for granted, from his own &s;ay|ing, <HI>viz. Call it by what Name thou wilt, the Grace of God within thee, and others; the Light that is in thee, and others; Chri&s;t, or the Spirit within thee, and others</HI>&mdash;. Saving Grace, <HI>pa.</HI> 17.</P>
<P>Thirdly. <HI>That the Grace, Light, or Spirit of God in the Heart of Man, is
<PB N="5" REF="8"> a meer Fruit, work, or a created Excellen|cy:</HI> That I deny.</P>
<P>He proceeds to make proof thereof in pa. 2. But before I pur&s;ue him therein, I think good fir&s;t to &s;ignify briefly, that I deny that his diver&s;ifyed Argument hath made out his A&s;&s;ertion in pa. 1. <HI>viz. That nothing of Chri&s;t, his Light, Spirit, or Grace, is in Hea|thens and other unconverted Per&s;ons.</HI> But the particular di&s;qui&s;ition thereof I &s;u&s;pend till after I have treated of the la&s;t Head; and in the mean time, de|&s;ire the impartial Readers, that until that is heard al&s;o, to defer giving Judg|ment, as that what <HI>J. F.</HI> hath there mentioned, is of &s;ufficient force, co|gency, and validity, utterly to over|throw the foundation of my Book, and the whole &s;uper&s;tructure al&s;o there|with; I hopeing through the A&s;&s;i&s;tance of Gods Grace, to Refute his &s;uppo&s;ed Confutatory Arguments to their &s;ati&s;|faction.</P>
<P>So now to proceed, and that as &s;hort as I well can.</P>
<P>His Po&s;ition, which he &s;ignifies, he hath &s;een cau&s;e to in&s;i&s;t chiefly on, runs thus, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<Q REND="indent"><PB N="6" REF="9">The &s;aving Grace of God in True Belie|vers is no increated Being; that which is Grace in tho&s;e that are Chri&s;tians indeed, is a Creature, a meer Creature, and an imperfect Creature.</Q>
<P>Then for method &s;ake he proceeds to &s;tate (but not rightly) the Que&s;tion, or thing in Controver&s;y between us; and &s;o in his la&s;t Preliminary &s;peaks on the word Grace, that in the Scrip|ture it hath a double acceptation&mdash;It is the &s;ame with Divine Benignity, or God him&s;elf, freely willing to communi|cate the &s;pecialties of his Favour even to tho&s;e that are mo&s;t unde&s;erving&mdash; 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15.10. <HI>I am what I am by the Grace of God</HI>&mdash;.<NOTE PLACE="marg">page 6.</NOTE> This is the Original of all good things we have&mdash;. It is God him&s;elf&mdash;. 2. There is Grace <HI>viz. Any Gift that is be&s;towed on us of the Love, Favour, and Bounty of God,</HI> citing 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 8.7.&mdash;Where the Apo&s;|tle &s;peaking of Faith, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> excites that Church, that they abound in this Grace al&s;o, <HI>viz. Liberally di&s;tributing towards relieving the Nece&s;&s;ities of the Poor Saints at Jeru&s;alem.</HI></P>
<P>That the word Grace in Scripture is of a double acceptation I deny not;
<PB N="7" REF="9"> But pray let it be Ob&s;erved that this Divine Grace, <MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> or Thing in Contro|ver&s;y, which I &s;tand for, as in its &s;elf to be &s;aving, and increated, and not a meer imperfect Creature; is not meant by me, to be any meer Fruit, or &s;ingle Effect of the Spirit as he in&s;inu|ateth, (as Faith, Hope, Charity, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> (called al&s;o Gifts and Graces) as is plainly mentioned by me in my former Book, <HI>pa.</HI> 28.) But the Cau&s;e pro|ducing that Effect, that is to &s;ay, God as manife&s;ting him&s;elf in Man by his own pure Light, Life, and Spirit, or Chri&s;t within, as he gave me leave to call it, and which is &s;o called in Scripture, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 13.5. <HI>Col.</HI> 1.27. <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And in this &s;en&s;e, without doubt, he hath all along taken me, in that all along before I have &s;o expre&s;&s;ed my &s;elf. But by his words it may now be per|ceived that he owns not that Chri&s;t, or his Spirit is really in Man, but that in true Believers its but a &s;pecial Work of the Spirit of God, a &s;pecial Gift, as Faith&mdash;<HI>Nature renewed in re&s;pect of Qualities,</HI> pa. 2, 7, 8. This is the &s;ub&s;tance of his Faith in this point, if I mi&s;take him not. And &s;o (although he is &s;en&s;ible that I believe otherwi&s;e, yet he, as if I was one with him therein,
<PB N="8" REF="10"> doth proceed in high oppo&s;ition again&s;t me with relation to what I a&s;&s;erted not, <HI>viz. That this Grace,</HI> to wit, Faith (or any &s;uch like Virtue) <HI>is not an Increated Being.</HI> Therefore I conclude, that if it be not &s;ophi&s;tically, it is very im|pertinently, and unnece&s;&s;aryly done by him, thus to make &s;uch a do and fill his Book &s;o full, and trouble his Reader &s;o long (as he did his Hearers al&s;o be|fore) about that which was not affirm|ed, and is quite be&s;ide the point. What I think is, and de&s;erves cogni|zance, I purpo&s;e to &s;peak to, in order as I find it mentioned, and the re&s;t may pa&s;s over as unnece&s;&s;ary to be taken notice of.</P>
<P>Now for proof of his Propo&s;ition he begins thus, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<Q REND="indent">There is no per&s;on or po&s;itive Entitie in Heaven or Earth, but what is Crea|ted of the Lord Jehovah, Father, Son and Spirit, <BIBL><HI>pa. 2.</HI></BIBL></Q>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> What then? Are the Father, Son, and Spirit, as Spiritually manife&s;ted in Believers a Created Being? &s;urely, Nay.</P>
<P N="3">3d. Preliminary, <HI>p.</HI> 2. <HI>There is a pa&s;|&s;age in my Opponents Pamphlet, p.</HI> 26.
<PB N="9" REF="10"> <HI>which &s;avours &s;o much of un&s;oundne&s;s, that I cannot let it pa&s;s without &s;ome animad|ver&s;ion; his Words are &s;peaking of Grace in his &s;en&s;e,</HI> It is of his Divine &s;aving Nature, but yet not the only entire God, Eternal Jehova.</P>
<P>As to this pa&s;&s;age which he hath took notice of, I, <MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> by many Scripture Texts immediately following, evi|dently proved it, as may there appear. The point he in &s;hort hath mentioned, and hath not attempted to di&s;prove it by Scripture, but lightly pa&s;&s;ed my Scripture proofs over; and &s;aith, <HI>Doth not this imply that Grace is God, though not Jehova? and that Jehova is a divi&s;ible and compounded being?</HI> Let him from Scripture confute (if he can, if he write again) what I have Scripturally written in relation hereto, &s;ignifying withall his &s;en&s;e of <HI>Jo.</HI> 3.34. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12.7 <HI>Eph.</HI> 4.7. and after he may expect to hear further on the point. But in the mean time he may under&s;tand that I acquie&s;ce with him, That God doth not admit of any of the&s;e Compo&s;itions mentioned by him. And he al&s;o al|lows, that there are mea&s;ures of the Spirit, p. 4.</P>
<P N="4">4th. Preliminary: He &s;aith, <HI>The He|terodoxy of &s;ome Expre&s;&s;ions of our Author,
<PB N="10" REF="11"> put me upon making this a di&s;tinct Preli|minary, The E&s;&s;ence of God is incommu|nicable to Creatures.</HI> And recites the&s;e my Words, viz. <HI>Though this mea&s;ure be not the fulne&s;s, or the whole intire E&s;&s;ence, yet it is of God, in a mea&s;ure of his own Spirit, which is not di&s;tinct therefrom, but is one with it,</HI> 1 Jo. 5.7. <HI>and therein com|municable to Men.</HI> This he endeavours to Enervate, (without Scripture proof likewi&s;e) by quoting the &s;aid Ver&s;e at large, <HI>viz. There are Three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Gho&s;t, and the&s;e three are one.</HI> And then &s;aying, <HI>That God, Fa|ther, Son, and Spirit, are E&s;&s;entially one,</HI> as if therefore con&s;equently the Eter|nal Spirit and the mea&s;ure thereof in Man were altogether di&s;tinct. And upon my expre&s;&s;ion <HI>That the Holy Spi|rit of God in Man was not di&s;tinct, or altogether &s;eperate from God,</HI> he comes off with, <HI>There's Divinity for you.</HI> Which whether his, or mine be mo&s;t Orthodox, let &s;ome of the former Scriptures here recited, <HI>viz. I&s;a.</HI> 57.15. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 3.16, 17. &amp; 6.19. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6.16. <HI>Jo.</HI> 14.16, 17, 20. &amp; 17.23. <HI>Zach.</HI> 12.10. &amp; <HI>Heb.</HI> 10.29. with other Scriptures of the like import, be duly weighed. God is a Spirit,
<PB N="11" REF="11"> <HI>Jo.</HI> 4.24. and incomprehen&s;ible, &s;o that the Heaven, and Heaven of Hea|vens cannot contain him. 1 <HI>Kings.</HI> 8.27. And though he be that high and lofty One, that Inhabiteth Eternity, yet (&s;aith he) I dwell with him al&s;o that is of a contrite and humble Spi|rit, to revive the Spirits of the humble, and to revive the Hearts of the con|trite Ones. Now though I a&s;&s;ert not, that the whole entire E&s;&s;ence, or the God-head preci&s;ely taken, is in us, he being incomprehen&s;ible; yet I con|clude according to tho&s;e Scriptures foregoing, that he, by his Holy Spi|rit which is in&s;eparable from him, is really &s;o to be witne&s;&s;ed, as to be &s;een, felt, heard, and under&s;tood by the inward &s;en&s;es of the renewed Man; <HI>Jo.</HI> 1.4. In him (viz. <HI>Chri&s;t the Word) was Life, and the Life was the Light of Men.</HI> Con&s;equently the Light within Men is of the E&s;&s;ence and &s;ub&s;tance of the God-head.</P>
<P>And Although the di&s;proportion between God and Man, be as great, as between Finite,<NOTE PLACE="marg">page 3.</NOTE> and Infinite&mdash;And that whatever it is that Man is, or is in Man (as a part of Man) compared with God, it is imperfection it &s;elf. But this in truth it cannot be &s;aid by
<PB N="12" REF="12"> him, with re&s;pect to the Holy Spirit that is given of God for <HI>a Light to Man that &s;its in Darkne&s;s, and in the &s;ha|dow of Death, and to guide our Feet into the way of Peace,</HI> Luke 1.79.</P>
<P N="5">5th. <HI>Preliminary,</HI> He &s;aith, <HI>Chri&s;t and his Spirit are in Believers to exert and put forth gracious acts and Operations upon them, as their re&s;pective Exigencies do require, to humble them, when they want humbling; to give a check to their corruptions, and mortifie them when there is occa&s;ion; to recover them out of the Snare of the Evil one, when entangled therein; to enlighten, and enliven, quick|en and comfort them; to corroberate and &s;trengthen them, in and under all their Weakne&s;&s;es, Infirmities, Trials, and Temptations.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">page 4.</NOTE>Al&s;o its declared po&s;itively, its a Spiritual Union; in re&s;pect to the Veriety thereof its real, not Imagi|nary; in re&s;pect of the things Uni|ted, its &s;ub&s;tantial; in re&s;pect of its way and manner, its clo&s;e and inti|mate.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">page 5.</NOTE>Likewi&s;e divers Scriptures are re|cited by him, which make mention of God, Chri&s;t, and the Spirit dwell|ing with, or living in Believers. And al&s;o &s;ome lines following, its owned
<PB N="13" REF="12"> that the Spirit of God dwells in Saints. Very well, and worthy Ob&s;ervation, &s;ay I.</P>
<P>Now, the&s;e Conce&s;&s;ions con&s;idered, with his own Verbal acknowledgment that he hath of Gods Holy Spirit in him&s;elf, How can he a&s;&s;ert that there is nothing in Man that is increated, without a gro&s;s Contradiction to him|&s;elf; con&s;idering withall that he con|fe&s;t the &s;aid Holy Spirit was not a Creature? Let him reconcile him&s;elf if he can, and get quit of this Confu|&s;ion. As yet he hath not, that I &s;ee, though he was before urged to do it; and that he ever will be able to extri|cate him&s;elf out of the Circle he hath drawn him&s;elf into, I do not believe he with all his skill can. And his Si|lence therein to what was queried, &s;hews his inability of doing it; for if he could, no doubt but he would, but in&s;tead thereof, becau&s;e unpo&s;&s;ible to accompli&s;h, he endeavours to darken Councel, by multiplying many Words impertinently.</P>
<P><HI>He hath divers Rea&s;ons again&s;t a per|&s;onal Inhabitation of the Spirit in Belie|vers; one is,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">page 4.</NOTE> viz.</P>
<Q REND="indent"><PB N="14" REF="13">If the Per&s;on of the Spirit be in the Per&s;on of every Individual Belie|ver, then every Individual Belie|ver is two Per&s;ons.</Q>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> For my part I never before, that I remember, ob&s;erved it Written, or heard it Spoken, That a per&s;onal In|habitation of the Spirit was pleaded for by any. Believers are Per&s;ons made up externally of Fle&s;h, and Bone, <HI>&amp;c. And a Spirit hath not Fle&s;h and Bone,</HI> &s;aith the Scripture, <HI>Luke,</HI> 24.39. Con&s;equently the Spirit is not a Per&s;on having Fle&s;h and Bone, and therefore not in a Per&s;onal manner in Believers. And though we own that the Father, and the Son, by the Holy Spirit, are in true Believers; yet I conceive not that therefore it may be ju&s;tly charged upon us, that we own him to be in a Per&s;onal manner in us. Neither that it may be inferred, that there are &s;o many Spirits of God, as there are true Believers in God; the &s;ame being one unlimitted Spirit of God, <HI>who thereby &s;earcheth the Heart, and tryes the Reigns, and &s;heweth unto Man his Thoughts,</HI> Amos 4.13. Jer. 17.10. <HI>And enables Man through his Joyning
<PB N="15" REF="13"> therewith, to bring forth the Fruit of the Spirit.</HI> Gal. 5.22, 23. So it may ap|pear that its not we, but our Oppo&s;ers that confounds, and confu&s;edly jum|bles the Spirit of God, with the gifts and qualifications di&s;pen&s;ed from it; for we di&s;tingui&s;h the Cau&s;e from the Effect; but then its to be always ob&s;erved and well weighed, that the Cau&s;e producing this Effect mu&s;t really be witne&s;&s;ed in a Spiritual manner within us; and con&s;equently the &s;ame increated.</P>
<P>He hath an Argument,<NOTE PLACE="marg">page 7.</NOTE> and it runs thus, <HI>viz. That which a little while ago was a non-entitie, cannot be an increated Being; &s;uch was Grace inherent in this, and the other Man. Therefore</HI>&mdash;Again in pa. 8. <HI>If they that have Grace in them to Day, had it not Ye&s;terday, then the Grace which is in them to Day, is no in|created, but a created Being: But &s;o it is with them that are Saints to Day, and were Sinners Ye&s;terday; Therefore</HI>&mdash;</P>
<P>The Saving Grace, <MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> or Spirit of God in Man, before Man is made Gracious, or Holy by it, is not a non-entitie, but in &s;ome degree hath exi&s;tence in Man, preceding that Godly &s;tate, though unreceived and di&s;obeyed; it being this Holy Spirit of Grace that in the
<PB N="16" REF="14"> Heart teacheth ungodly Men to deny their ungodline&s;s, convinceth them of it, and reproves them for it, in order that they may for&s;ake it, and live the Holy Life of Righteou&s;ne&s;s, <HI>Tit.</HI> 2.12. <HI>Rom.</HI> 1.18.19. <HI>Jo.</HI> 16.8. Con&s;e|quently this Gracious Spirit is in Man antecedently, and the &s;ame no Creature. And in relation hereto, pray take no|tice what him&s;elf &s;aith in the &s;aid 8th. pa. <HI>viz. &V;pon the Souls of Sinners. This</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>denotes the Objects on which the Grace working Arts, and Operations of the Holy Gho&s;t, are terminated, con&s;i|dered antecedently to his working this Work, in and upon them.</HI> That is, while Sinners, not Saints, as him&s;elf there confe&s;&s;eth to his own overthrow.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>By the Preaching of the Go&s;pel.</HEAD>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">page 8.</NOTE>This, with his mi&s;application of <HI>Pet.</HI> 1.23, 24, 25. and <HI>Rom.</HI> 10. is de|ferred to be Spoken to, until I come to pa. 20.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">page 8.</NOTE><HI>Whereby Nature is &s;o far renewed in them</HI> (viz. Sinners) <HI>in re&s;pect of Quali|ties, that all Old things are done a|way.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n&s;wer.</NOTE>Thus to be renewed, <HI>(viz.)</HI> the Mind that was before dark and ignorant, is
<PB N="17" REF="14"> now inlightned. The Will that was Stubborn, ob&s;tinate and aver&s;e from that which is good, is now made free|ly to will that which is repre&s;ented to it, as good. The Affections that were Carnal, are &s;et upon things which are above&mdash;) its very true, is the Work of the Spirit of God in, and upon the Souls of &s;inners; Therefore (as before) the Spirit of God mu&s;t needs be there in the Soul to effect this great Work, and &s;o the Work-Man is thus di&s;tingui&s;hed from the Work of his Hand; and not one put for the other. The Spirit is but one, but his Gifts divers; The manife&s;tation of the Spirit is given to every Man&mdash;and no Man can &s;ay Je&s;us is the Lord, but by the Holy Gho&s;t. <HI>It is the &s;ame God that worketh all in all,</HI> 1 Cor. 12. So to the end that Man may be Renovated, <HI>God</HI> (according to 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 4.6. &s;cited here by him in <HI>pag.</HI> 8.) <HI>who commanded the Light to &s;hine out of Darkne&s;s, hath &s;hined in our Hearts, to give the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</HI> Therefore unto this Divine Light in our Hearts, as a mo&s;t &s;ure word of Prophecy, we do well to take heed, as unto a Light that &s;hineth in a dark place, until the Day-Dawn, and the Day-Star (Chri&s;t)
<PB N="18" REF="15"> ari&s;e in our Hearts, 2. <HI>Pet.</HI> 1.19. For the Nations of them that are &s;aved &s;hall walk in the Light of the Lamb, <HI>Rev.</HI> 21.23, 24. It being this very Light of Chri&s;t the Lamb of God, through Man's Obedience to it, that effectually makes a new Creature, <HI>i. e.</HI> a Chri&s;tian indeed, one that is in Chri&s;t, having Union with Chri&s;t; and evidencing that Unity,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 8.</NOTE> by a new Creation, <HI>viz.</HI> a new Spirit, new Head, new Principles, new Practices, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> But then this new Creature, and that which creates anew, are not one thing, but two. For that which thus makes a new, is (according to his fol|lowing words, <HI>pag.</HI> 9.) the &s;ole Power of God, which Power of God is Chri&s;t, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 1.24. Therefore this Power (Chri&s;t) by which this new Work is wrought, mu&s;t be within, and con&s;e|quently increated. The Father, Son, and Spirit, as the Church of <HI>Eng|land</HI> hath it, (and is generally owned,) being increated; their appearance Spi|ritually within Man, is certainly no Creature.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 9.</NOTE>He cites, <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 10. We are his Workman&s;hip&mdash;And <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 4.24. And that ye put on the new Man.&mdash;And <HI>Col.</HI> 3.10. And have put on the new Man.&mdash;And then concludes thus, <HI>viz.</HI>
<PB N="19" REF="15"> The new Man renewed in Knowledge, after the Image of God, and Grace inherent, are <HI>Identical,</HI> they are one and the &s;ame thing.</P>
<P>But the new Man, <MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> or Man renew|ed,&mdash;and that Divine Spirit in Man, that creates anew, and of which we mu&s;t be born again, if enter God's Kingdom, <HI>Jo.</HI> 3.5. are not one and the &s;ame thing. Which is a &s;ufficient An&s;wer al&s;o to <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 43.1. and other Scriptures following, added by him.</P>
<P>Having (&s;aith he) gone over the parts of the la&s;t De&s;cription of Grace&mdash;I proceed to &s;ome other Arguments,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 10.</NOTE> to prove this Po&s;ition, <HI>That Grace in Believers is no increated Excel|lency;</HI> and &s;o proceeds, fir&s;t menti|oning that the Humane Nature of Chri&s;t is no increated Being.</P>
<P>To this, <MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> there needs no other Re|ply, than that I know no one a&s;&s;erts it is; but his Divine Nature, or God|head is increated.</P>
<P N="2">2.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 11.</NOTE> If (&s;aith he) that Grace which was, and is in the Humane Nature of Chri&s;t, be no increated Being; Grace in Believers is not &s;o: The for|mer is true, therefore the latter. If tho&s;e Supernatural Divine Qualities, wherewith the Humane Nature of
<PB N="20" REF="16"> Chri&s;t was Endowed, did not com|mence, or begin to exi&s;t, till the Hu|mane Nature did begin to exi&s;t, they were not increated, but created Ex|cellencies; the former is true, There|fore&mdash;<HI>An&s;w.</HI> <MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> The Grace, or Holy Spirit that appeared in the Humane Nature, was no created Excellency; and had Exi&s;tence before it, even from Eternity.</P>
<P><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 11.1, 2, 3.&mdash;<HI>There &s;hall come forth a Rod out of the Stem of Je&s;&s;e, and a Branch &s;ball grow out of his Roots, and the Spirit of the Lord &s;hall re&s;t upon him.</HI>&mdash;The Rod that was to come forth of the Stem of Je&s;&s;e&mdash;was the Me&s;&s;iah con&s;idered according to his Humane Nature, a created Being: Therefore &s;o was al&s;o the Spirit that was to re&s;t upon him, a created Spirit.</P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> O mo&s;t gro&s;s Bla&s;phemy, and in|con&s;equential therefrom as well as Contradictory to him&s;elf; who affirm|ed that the Spirit of God in him, was no Creature.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 10.</NOTE>An increated Being is impa&s;&s;ible (&s;aith he) or incapable of Suffering: God (who is an increated Being) &s;aith by the Mouth of his Prophet, <MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> behold I am pre&s;&s;ed under you, as a Cart is pre&s;&s;ed that is full of Sheaves, <HI>Amos</HI>
<PB N="21" REF="16"> 2.13. And al&s;o it is &s;aid, <HI>Heb.</HI> 6.6. that &s;ome did Crucifie to them&s;elves the Son of God, and put him to an open &s;hame: But this is not to be taken in that &s;trict &s;en&s;e, as that the God-Head it &s;elf in the ab&s;tract, could be thus done unto.</P>
<P>He proceeds to prove that Angels be created Beings, and that the Soul,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 12.</NOTE> and Glory are created Beings, and that there is not any thing that's act|ed by us, can be an increated Being,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 14.</NOTE> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 16.</NOTE> as, <HI>viz.</HI> Repentance, Faith, Love, Hu|mility, Patience, Hope, Fear of God, Meekne&s;s, Zeal.</P>
<P>What need all this, did, <MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> I a&s;&s;ert the contrary?</P>
<P>What Man is in his E&s;&s;entials or In|tegrals,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 14.</NOTE> in his Naturals or Superna|turals, in his Morals or Spirituals, he is a Creature of God, and nothing more, and whoever &s;ay otherwi&s;e, they neither know God, nor them|&s;elves, Nature, nor Grace, nor any thing el&s;e aright.</P>
<P>Methinks herein he hath not &s;hewn deep knowledge, <MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> for I know no one denies it.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 14.</NOTE></P>
<P>The Soul is more Excellent than Grace, or any quality that is in it. And there is nothing in the be&s;t of Men, that is an increated Being, <HI>pag.</HI>
<PB N="22" REF="17"> 16. <MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> I deny it: The Spirit of God in the Soul, infinitely excels the Soul, and he (as before) hath confe&s;t it to be the Spirit of God within, and that the &s;ame is no Creature.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 15.</NOTE>God intending to make a Creature Happy, gives it a Principle capable to under&s;tand, and enjoy him&s;elf, the Ob|ject of that Principle to be under&s;tood and enjoyed.</P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> An&s;wer, Well, what is that Princi|ple in the Creature Man, that is capable to under&s;tand and enjoy God, which wanted that Under&s;tanding and Enjoy+ments?</P>
<P>Is it the Spirit of God? No, that was never without the Knowledge or Enjoyment of God. Is it a created Be|ing or Principle, or rea&s;onable Soul that was capable of lo&s;ing the Knowledge or Enjoyment of God? Then God and his Spirit mu&s;t be the Object thereof; it is the In&s;piration of the Almighty that gives Under|&s;tanding to the Creature; and this Di|vine Principle that is to be under&s;tood and enjoyed by the Creature, mu&s;t there+fore be in the Creature, and cannot without Bla&s;phemy be deemed, No Grace; Or, A Great Nothing. Its not the Rea&s;onable Soul, but the Spirit of
<PB N="23" REF="17"> God is that Principle, which makes the Rea&s;onable Soul in the Creature capable to under&s;tand, and enjoy God, and to call that Spirit or Principle no Grace, but a Creature, or a great no|thing, is Bla&s;phemy: In relation to this, take the Apo&s;tles &s;aying, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 2.11, 12. <HI>The things of God knoweth no Man, but the Spirit of God:</HI> Now we have received the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God; whence it follows, that God to make a Creature happy, gives it a Princi|ple (or Rea&s;onable Soul) capable to under&s;tand and enjoy God, and a di|vine Principle by which this Know|ledge and Enjoyment is given to Man; which mu&s;t be the Spirit which is of God, and this Spirit mu&s;t be in the Heart; as the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>we have received the Spirit, or, as ths Apo&s;tle</HI> John <HI>&s;aith, hereby we know that he abi|deth in us by the Spirit which he hath given us; con&s;equently the Spirit of God, which makes the Creature capable to under&s;tand thus, is within, and the &s;ame is no Crea|ture.</HI></P>
<P>I cannot contentedly pa&s;s from this,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 16.</NOTE> without putting all upon making &s;ome improvement hereof.</P>
<PB N="24" REF="18">
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> I heartily wi&s;h that he would right|ly improve the Talent, or mea&s;ure of God's Spirit given to him to profit with, that condemns for Sin, and not thus Evilly treat it.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 17.</NOTE>Next, he proceeds to &s;ome Particu|lar Con&s;iderations to induce to Hu|mility, as that which ties all other Graces together.</P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> But I do not find in either of them, that he directs to the Spirit of God in the Heart; whereby only we can put on (or be Cloathed with) Humi|lity, <HI>for without Chri&s;t, we can do no|thing, (and what may be known of God, is manife&s;t in Men; for God hath &s;hewed it unto them,</HI> Rom. 1.19.) And as <HI>J. F.</HI> him&s;elf, &s;aith, we could (or can) do nothing towards the Salvation of our own Souls, con&s;equently its by the Spirit of Chri&s;t within, (and not of our &s;elves) that we can come to know that ble&s;&s;ed State of being truly hum|ble, or cloathed with Humility: And therefore, the Holy Spirit within &s;hould have been recommended to, as the mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary way to the attain|ment thereof; but in&s;tead thereof, he rather declares again&s;t it, as may ap|pear in the&s;e his words, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<PB N="25" REF="18">
<P><Q>Take Man now in his lap&s;ed E|&s;tate,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 19.</NOTE> and put him in &s;ome part of the World, where nothing is known or heard of Salvation for Sinners by the Son of God; and there is no|thing in him that does, or can tell him of this, or any &s;uch thing.</Q></P>
<P N="1">1. Admit Man was put into &s;uch a remote part of the World, <MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> where no|thing is known, or outwardly heard of Salvation for Sinners by the Son of God; its boldly &s;aid, but not plain|ly proved by <HI>J. F.</HI> that there is no|thing in him that does or can tell him of this, or any &s;uch thing.</P>
<P N="2">2. How then did God intend to make the Creature happy, <MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> by giving him a Principle capable to under&s;tand, and enjoy him&s;elf as the Object there|of, as is granted by <HI>J. F?</HI> Did not God per&s;ue his own intention? And did he not give Chri&s;t to be a Light to the Gentiles, and to be his Salva|tion unto the ends of the Earth? And cannot this Light tell and &s;hew them, that this Salvation is in, and by him, whom God hath given for the &s;ame end? Namely, the Son of God, who is the true Light that enlighthened every Man coming into the World; which Illumination is Divine and in|ward,
<PB N="26" REF="19"> and to &s;ay this can't tell Man of Salvation by the Son of God, without being outwardly told thereof; what le&s;s than Bla&s;phemy is this? For is not this as bad, as to &s;ay Chri&s;t can|not &s;hew or di&s;cover him&s;elf to be a Saviour in remote Parts of the Earth; &s;eeing he is an Univer&s;al Light to Man|kind?</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 20.</NOTE><Q>He alledgeth <HI>Peter</HI>'s Confe&s;&s;ion in <HI>Matt.</HI> 16.13. and at la&s;t, from thence concludes, as that Chri&s;t, in Effect, &s;aid to <HI>Peter,</HI> Thou could'&s;t never have known him to be the Me&s;&s;iah, and Saviour of Sinners, if thou had'&s;t not been told it from without.</Q></P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> But as it is not there &s;o mention'd, &s;o it is not in that &s;en&s;e to be under|&s;tood; but that is a wrong Inference drawn by him there from, appears to me very plain from this very Text cited by him, <HI>viz. Fle&s;h and Blood hath not revealed it unto thee,</HI> (by this I un|der&s;tand it is meant no Per&s;on with|out him,) but my Father which is in Heaven, which being God, con&s;equent|ly this Revelation of the Father unto <HI>Peter</HI> was within.</P>
<P>And thus al&s;o it appears, that the ground of what true Knowledge he had concerning Chri&s;t, was from the
<PB N="27" REF="19"> Revelation of the Father in him; therefore <HI>J. F.</HI> is under a grand mi|&s;take al&s;o herein, as well as a Contra|dictor of him&s;elf, for but ju&s;t before his above recited wrong Conclu&s;ion, as that <HI>Peter</HI> had not known the&s;e things relating to Chri&s;t, if not told it him from without; yet he words it, as that Chri&s;t did in effect &s;ay to <HI>Pe|ter,</HI> The Contents of this Creed no Man dictated to thee, they come from above, from the Father of Lights; well granted: Now then, why may not the Father of Lights, as he inwardly, &s;piritually Revealed the Son of God to <HI>Peter,</HI> and that Revelation was the ground Cau&s;e of his Belief in Chri&s;t; Reveal him al&s;o to &s;uch that are put into &s;ome remote part of the World? Its po&s;itively expre&s;s'd that he light|eth every Man, <HI>John</HI> 1.4, 5, 9. <HI>And that the manife&s;tation of the Spirit is gi|ven to every Man to profit withal,</HI> 1 Cor. 12.7. <HI>And that the &s;aving Grace of God hath appeared to all,</HI> Tit. 2.11. <HI>And that this Grace teacheth to deny &V;ngod|line&s;s,</HI> ver. 12. <HI>this Spirit reproves the World of Sin,</HI> Jo. 16.8. <HI>this Light ma|nife&s;teth all things that are reproved (or reproveable,)</HI> Ephe. 5.13. <HI>Al&s;o its te&s;tifi|ed, That Chri&s;t is a Light to the Gentiles,
<PB N="28" REF="20"> as well as he is the glory of his People</HI> I&s;rael, Luke 2.32. <HI>The &s;pirit of God as inwardly revealed, is the very way to have the knowledge of Chri&s;t in the Mi&s;tery,</HI> Eph. 3.3, 5, 6. <HI>and to have the benefit of his coming, according to the Hi&s;tory or holy Scripture;</HI> which ble&s;&s;ed Hi|&s;tory as we that are ble&s;t with the injoyment of it, ought to own and believe it, &s;o tho&s;e that re&s;t barely in an outward belief thereof, and do not know and believe in Chri&s;t within, the mi&s;tery, <HI>Col.</HI> 1.27. but are vilifiers and bla&s;phemers again&s;t him, and his Spirit, as manife&s;ted within; as their Faith is vain, &s;o they doubtle&s;s are in a wor&s;e &s;tate, than &s;uch ju&s;t Gentiles, that through Obedience to the Law of God in the Heart, witne&s;s him in the mi&s;tery, who yet have not of the Hi&s;tory. Now that the Gentiles did believe in God, that he enlightned all Men with a &s;aving Light, that Men ought to live piou&s;ly, that the Soul is immortal, and that there is an eternal Recompence, may be de|mon&s;trated by abundance of their own Te&s;timonies, and the &s;ame concurring with the holy Scripture; al&s;o that it was not, (or cannot be) unpo&s;&s;ible for Gentiles to believe in the Son of God,
<PB N="29" REF="20"> without being outwardly told of it, (as he &s;aith) take this recited In&s;tance concerning <HI>Plato,</HI> viz.</P>
<P><HI>Marcil Fieinus,</HI> who writ the Life of that great Gentile, tells us, among many other things, that being &s;eri|ou&s;ly asked by &s;ome that vi&s;ited him, as the la&s;t thing they had a mind to be informed about; How long Men &s;hould attend to his Writings, of which he &s;eemed &s;o cheary; living and dying in the Belief of what he recommended to the World? He &s;o|lemnly An&s;wered, <HI>Till that more Holy and Divine Per&s;on &s;hall appear to vi&s;it the World, whom all Men ought to follow.</HI> At once, both believing &s;uch a one to appear, and then forbid|ding all to prefer that le&s;&s;er di&s;covery he had given the World, through the improvement of his Talent of Light, to that greater Manife&s;tation which that Divine Per&s;on would bring with him into the World. Al&s;o my Au|thor, who tran&s;cribed the above Lines &s;peaking of <HI>Virgil,</HI> out of <HI>Cumea,</HI> de|clares, that enough is afforded to prove the great fore-&s;ight &s;ome of the Gentiles had of Chri&s;t, being Conceived by the Holy Gho&s;t, Born of a Virgin, and finally coming in the
<PB N="30" REF="21"> Fle&s;h for the Salvation of the World: And al&s;o the time when, namely, with|in that Age, which was the Reign of <HI>Augu&s;tus Cae&s;ar,</HI> in the beginning of which <HI>Virgil</HI> wrote, and about the end of which Chri&s;t was Born.</P>
<P>From what hath been &s;aid and in&s;tan|ced, I judge it may be ju&s;tly concluded, and hope that all impartial &s;en&s;ible Per|&s;ons that are peru&s;ers hereof, will with me agree; that the beginning and conclu&s;ion of <HI>J. F.</HI> his 7th. weighty &s;o called Con&s;ideration, in <HI>pag.</HI> 19, 20. is &s;ufficiently refuted.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 20.</NOTE>In the next place, he hath rai&s;ed an Objection, <HI>viz.</HI> <Q>We do not &s;ay that the knowledge of &s;upernatural Truths is attainable by the Light of Nature, but Chri&s;t being now come into the World, he hath given a mea&s;ure of his Spirit to all, and if they would but hearken thereunto, it would teach them all things.</Q> &mdash;</P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> As we do indeed &s;ay, that the know|ledge of &s;upernatural Truths is not attainable by the Light of Nature, &s;o we do al&s;o &s;ay, that Chri&s;t hath given a mea&s;ure of his Spirit to all, and hath enlightned every Man that cometh in|to the World, with a Divine Light, according to <HI>John</HI> 1.4, 5, 9. which if
<PB N="31" REF="21"> hearkned to, believed in, and obey|ed, would teach them all things need|ful to their eternal Salvation.</P>
<P>He an&s;wers the Objection thus: Not|with&s;tanding of Chri&s;t being come in|to the World, there be none that do actually participate of his Spirit, or &s;piritual Benefits by him, but by the Go&s;pel Preached to them, by &s;uch as are called Commi&s;&s;ioned, or Authoriz|ed thereunto.&mdash;</P>
<P>He gro&s;sly Errs herein; <MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> for its very apparent from the la&s;t mentioned Text, that Chri&s;t hath enlightned e|very Man with a Divine Light; mo&s;t &s;urely it is then that they actually participate of his Spirit, and are there|by put into a capacity of witne&s;&s;ing &s;piritual Benefits. Yet Preaching of the Go&s;pel in the Demon&s;tration of the Spirit, by &s;uch that are called thereunto, we own to be very helpful, and of great benefit; and that God doth ordinarily by and through the powerful Mini&s;try of &s;uch qualified Preachers reach to the Con&s;ciences, and an&s;wer the witne&s;s of God in the Hearers, and by the inward word of Faith, that powerful Mini&s;try, works true Faith in them; &s;o the ground of true Faith in God is Chri&s;t, the word
<PB N="32" REF="22"> of Faith, the word of God, which is not the Scriptures, neither are they the Go&s;pel; he cites, <HI>Romans</HI> 10.13, 14, 15, 16, 17. <HI>Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God:</HI> For proof of his a&s;&s;ertion, that none do actually participate of the Spirit, or &s;piritual Benefits by him, but by Preaching of the Go&s;pel; al&s;o the 1&s;t. <HI>Pet.</HI> 1.23, 24, 25. <HI>being born again, not of Corruptible Seed, but of Incorrup|tible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.</HI></P>
<P>And this is the word which by the Go&s;pel is preached unto you: Now that this word, and Go&s;pel, here menti|oned, is not meant to be the Scripture, let what briefly follows be duly con&s;ide|red. The Apo&s;tle in the 6.7. and 8th. ver&s;es of the 10th Chapter to the <HI>Ro|mans,</HI> thus expre&s;&s;eth him&s;elf <HI>viz. But the Righteou&s;ne&s;s which is of Faith, &s;peaketh on this wi&s;e, Say not in thine Heart, Who &s;hall a&s;cend into Heaven? (That is, to bring Chri&s;t down from above) Or, Who &s;hall de&s;cend into the deep? (That is, to bring Chri&s;t again from the dead) But what &s;aith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy Mouth, and in thy Heart: That is the word of Faith which we Preach.</HI> So now the word of God
<PB N="33" REF="22"> from which Faith cometh, mentioned in the 17 ver&s;e quoted by him for proof of his afore&s;aid principle). And the word of Faith preached nigh in the Mouth and in the Heart, ver&s;e 9. is one and the &s;ame thing, and the very &s;ame meant to be Chri&s;t within (ac|cording to our principle) is &s;o clearly demon&s;trated in the &s;aid 6th. and 7th. ver&s;es, that methinks it &s;hould be readi|ly acknowledged by all that &s;eriou&s;ly peru&s;e, and rightly under&s;tand the &s;ame; con&s;idering withall, that his name is called <HI>the word of God,</HI> Rev. 19.13. <HI>And was the word in the be|ginning, and was with God, and was God,</HI> Joh. 1.1, 2, 3. Col. 1.16. And with|out Controver&s;y it is the very &s;ame word (Chri&s;t, and not the Scripture) that is meant 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 1.23, 24, 25. (quoted likewi&s;e by him) <HI>which liveth and endureth for ever.</HI> And this is the word (Chri&s;t) which is preached by the Go&s;pel the power of God (and not only the Scripture) <HI>For the Go&s;pel is the power of God unto Salvation,</HI> Rom. 1.16.</P>
<P>And the Holy Scripture owned by us to be a true declaration thereof <HI>Luke</HI> 1.1. Which Go&s;pel <HI>Paul</HI> &s;aid <HI>was preached</HI> to (or in) <HI>every Creature under Heaven</HI> Col. 1.23. Which cannot be
<PB N="34" REF="23"> under&s;tood with re&s;pect to the Scrip|ture, a great part of the World not yet having it; &s;o whether <HI>J. F.</HI> hath not al&s;o mi&s;applyed (through mi&s;under|&s;tanding) <HI>Rom.</HI> 10. and 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 1. Let the Judicious Judge: As al&s;o whether from hence it be not likewi&s;e very ap|parent that Chri&s;t (the Word) is with|in, and con&s;equently the &s;ame no Crea|ture, much le&s;s to be rendred <HI>A great nothing.</HI> Al&s;o I deny what he affirms from 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3.14, 15, 16, 17. To wit <HI>That the whole of &s;upernatural Reve|lation that is needful for us to know,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">page 14.</NOTE> <HI>beleive and practi&s;e, is contained in the Scripture; for its needful for us both to know and Believe in God and his Son Chri&s;t Je&s;us whom the Heavens of Heavens cannot con|tain, much le&s;s the Scriptures.</HI> And like|wi&s;e I di&s;own what he a&s;&s;erts from <HI>John</HI> 16.13, 14. <HI>Chap.</HI> 14.16. as <HI>That we have no ground to look for Gracious Acts and perations of the Spirit on us but by the Scripture,</HI> The &s;aid Ver&s;es prove|ing no &s;uch thing, but they prove that the Scripture is profitable, and that the Holy Gho&s;t would bring all tho&s;e things to remembrance that Chri&s;t &s;aid to his Di&s;ciples before he went away, is acknowledged: But then it doth not from thence follow what <HI>J. F.</HI> hath laid down in the&s;e his Sentences,
<PB N="35" REF="23"> whereby he denies the &s;ufficiency of the Holy Spirit with its In&s;piration or Re|velation within Mans Heart without the help of Scripture, and Limits all the gracious Acts of the Spirit on us to the Scriptures without us: Where|as in tho&s;e very Scriptures mentioned by him, its declared, <HI>That when the Spirit of Truth is come he will guide you in|to all Truth, and al&s;o &s;hew you things to come; he will abide with you for ever.</HI> The Spirit of God being all-&s;ufficient can graciou&s;ly operate in us with|out the Scripture, but the Scripture cannot &s;o operate without the Spirit.</P>
<P>Nature is now &s;o deeply depraved in all,<NOTE PLACE="marg">page 22.</NOTE> that nothing &s;hort of an Effectual work of the Holy Gho&s;t can renew, &s;anctifie and change it. This is a work too high for Nature improved to the utmo&s;t: Art and Education cannot new make it when there is no more than mere human ju&s;titution and in&s;truction; they cannot cau&s;e old things to pa&s;s awa and all things to become new. This is too high for the mo&s;t refined Philo&s;ophy, ancient or modern, taught by <HI>Socrates, Pythagoras, Plato,</HI> or <HI>Ari&s;totle:</HI> It is no Academical Learning can reach this: It is not being under the mo&s;t powerful and Spiritual Mini&s;try: It is not the mo&s;t Argumentative moral &s;wa&s;ions made
<PB N="36" REF="24"> u&s;e of by Men: It is not a Mans own de&s;ires and endeavours to for&s;ake all and every Sin; it is not being in the Ex|ternal practice of all Religious Duties; it is not being of this or other per&s;wa&s;i|on, &s;ubmitting to this or the other ordi|nance, being of this or the other Church and receiving the Sacrament, that changes Nature, for all the&s;e things may be where there is no Heart Re|novation, <HI>John</HI> 3.3. <HI>Verily Verily I &s;ay unto thee, except a Man be born again he cannot &s;ee the Kingdom of God.</HI> The &s;ame Truth is reiterated in Ver&s;e 5. That <HI>Nicodemus,</HI> and all others con|cerned, might take the more &s;pecial notice thereof till it be impre&s;&s;ed upon their Hearts, and till they know it in their own experience, <HI>Verily Verily, I &s;ay unto thee, except a Man be Born of Water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. There is nothing &s;hort of the Divine power and Efficacy of the Spirit of the Lord can clean&s;e Souls polluted with Sin,</HI> Ezek. 36.25. Thus far <HI>J. F.</HI> and very good Doctrin. Con|&s;equently then this Divine powerful and Efficacious Spirit of the Lord is really in the Soul to do it, and in the Soul before all this work is done or begun, and the &s;ame no Created Being or great Nothing: It mu&s;t needs be
<PB N="37" REF="24"> &s;omething that can do all this, for nothing can do nothing:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 14.</NOTE> Wherefore here <HI>J. F.</HI> in this great work of Heart-Renovation, and Sanctification, new Birth, and new Creation, all thy Art and Education, thy human In&s;titutions, all thy refined Philo&s;ophy, all thy Academical Learning and all thy argu|mentative, &s;wa&s;ions, all thy External practices of all thy Religious Duties, with all thy &s;ubmi&s;&s;ions to this or the other Ordinance, and thy being of this and tother Church, and all thy Preach|ing, all the&s;e are Nothing, they can do Nothing in this great work of Heart-Renovation, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> There is no|thing &s;hort of the Divine power and Efficacy of the Spirit of the Lord can clean&s;e Souls polluted with Sin. Is it not high time for thy Hearers to turn from thee and thy Nothingne&s;s, to that Something which is the Grace and Spi|rit of God and Chri&s;t in them, which I have and do a&s;&s;ert to be the &s;aving Grace in all Men? Which thou Bla&s;|phemou&s;ly A&s;&s;erte&s;t to be no Grace and a great Nothing?</P>
<P><Q>Even after the Spirit of God hath been effectually at work upon the Soul,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 22.</NOTE> and hath infu&s;ed &s;upernatural Habits of &s;aving Grace, there is that which may &s;till keep him humble and low in his own Eyes.</Q></P>
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<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> I own we ought &s;till to keep low and humble, and as we keep to Gods Grace in us, we &s;hall be kept therein, it being as &s;aid <HI>Flavel,</HI> the Nature of Grace to humble, aba&s;e and empty the Soul.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 23.</NOTE><Q>They that have True Grace, may in an hour of temptation, and when left to them&s;elves, fall into &s;ome hainous, and &s;candalous Sin, whereby the Spirit of God is grieved,</Q></P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> True; But the cau&s;e of the fall of &s;uch is in them&s;elves in their not keep|ing to the Spirit of Grace within, no more to be &s;poke again&s;t, in relation thereto, than God him&s;elf; and when Man through unfaithfulne&s;s falls into Sin, this Spirit of Grace (during the Day of his Vi&s;itation) &s;trives in him to bring him to repentance, which if he yields to and not continues rebelling a|gain&s;t it, it will re&s;tore to him the Holy Joys and Spiritual comforts which he once had, and this (as <HI>J. F.</HI> &s;aith him&s;elf &s;ome lines after concern|ing &s;ome that may be exerci&s;ed with Divine de&s;ertion) cannot be experien|ed till the Lord him&s;elf come and do it; con&s;equently this mu&s;t be by this Spi|rit of Grace revealed within, and the &s;ame no Creature.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 24.</NOTE><Q>And what if it does not exempt Per&s;ons from Afflictions or from be|ing
<PB N="39" REF="25"> obnoxious to the a&s;&s;aults of Sa|tan? Doth it therefore follow, that the Grace is either in&s;ufficient,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 15.</NOTE> or a Creature, or a great Nothing? Did not the Lord &s;ay to <HI>Paul,</HI> when Buf|feted, <HI>My Grace is &s;ufficient for thee,</HI> 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12.9. then able to &s;ecure the Proprietors and Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors thereof, from falling under the power of the Devil, as <HI>James Forbes</HI> fal&s;ly affirms it cannot, <HI>pag.</HI> 27?</Q></P>
<P>He goes on next briefly, mention|ing moreover many Matters of hum|bling or cau&s;ing for being humbled, but yet directs not in any one of them here neither, to the holy Spirit of God in the Heart, by which only (as aforementioned) we can be truly hum|bled, and duly con&s;iderate and di&s;|creet, or &s;piritually wi&s;e; but in&s;tead thereof, hath another fling at the Spi|rit, <HI>viz.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 28.</NOTE> <Q>When ye have con&s;ulted your &s;elves, con&s;idered all Circum|&s;tances, hearkned to what&s;oever that within you can &s;ugge&s;t, yet we find cau&s;e enough &s;till for your going un|to others for Council, and when ye have been with them, and have all they can &s;ay, you come away as wi&s;e as ye went. This leaves his Hearers de&s;titute of help and &s;ecurity both from within and without; a &s;ad &s;tate
<PB N="40" REF="26"> indeed!<NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 15.</NOTE> Al&s;o hereby &s;till manife&s;t|ing his di&s;re&s;pect to, and contempt of the holy Spirit within, and to be one that declares again&s;t the teachings of it, and &s;o appears in direct oppo|&s;ition to the Holy Scripture, which greatly recommends thereto, and chiefly commends the teaching there|of, as before in &s;ome degree is herein demon&s;trated.</Q></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 29.</NOTE><HI>So con&s;idering his unacquaintance with an unbelief, in this pure appearance of God's Spirit of Grace within, there is indeed cau&s;e enough for</HI> J. F. <HI>to &s;ay there is little of a true Zeal for God and his Glory, and again&s;t Sin, as &s;uch; but whe|ther then a great part of the fault thereof be not chargeable on &s;uch Mini&s;ters of the Letter, that in&s;tead of directing to the Spirit of Grace within, undervalue it as this my Opponent hath done.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 30.</NOTE><HI>Thus</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>you have had the fir&s;t improvement of this Truth, it concerns you to be well grounded in the belief of this, That the Grace of God in Believers is no increated, but a created Being, as that which would conduce much to the keep|ing them very humble.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> But thus &s;ay I, he is quite wrong in endeavouring to ground his Hearers (and Readers) in that his fal&s;e Faith: And here, as in an other place, his gro&s;s
<PB N="41" REF="26"> darkne&s;s in relation to the Spirit of Grace within, is &s;o manife&s;ted, that it is as clear to me as the Sun in the Me|ridian, that <HI>J. F.</HI> is in great Errour and Confu&s;ion; and whether he, and his holy Learned <HI>Flavell</HI> be not confu|ted herein, let the Religious and Rati|onal judge.</P>
<P>Thus I have traced him in his Tract to near the end thereof, and hope by what is written, its proved to &s;a|tisfaction, that the Grace, Light or Spi|rit of Chri&s;t, (who is God over all, ble&s;&s;ed for ever) is really in a divine &s;en&s;ible feeling manner, to be witne&s;|&s;ed within Man's Heart: As al&s;o, that this his &s;piritual appearance is no meer fruit or created Excellency; or let no one be mi&s;taken, the Point is not whether the work, or effect of the Spirit be a Creature, but whether Chri&s;t the Word, by his Spirit is re|ally in Man, and he thus con&s;idered, be created or increated? Here is the Cau&s;e in &s;hort truly &s;tated, (as is be|fore manife&s;ted,) and herein we are divided, and con&s;equently both can|not be right, but he mo&s;t certainly wrong, in denying of, or not agree|ing with, but oppo&s;ing what the holy Scripture herein &s;o evidently holds forth: And being &s;en&s;ible of his &s;ecret
<PB N="42" REF="27"> working (under a Mask) again&s;t this &s;piritual appearance and true Faith therein; therefore I can in truth and humblene&s;s of Mind declare, that (not in enmity to him) I found my &s;elf under a Godly Concern, to appear on behalf thereof, in mo&s;t &s;incere Love to the Souls of my Relations and friendly Neighbours. More particu|larly, as I do al&s;o the like at this time, and heartily wi&s;h its good ef|fect among&s;t you, who are called In|dependents; and if it be not by you therein received, but rejected, my Peace will be continued, having &s;o far cleared my &s;elf with re&s;pect to you, in thus declaring the truth to you, and farther manife&s;ting <HI>J. F</HI>'s. Antipa|thy thereto, with his Errour Bla&s;phe|my, and &s;elf Contradictions; he him|&s;elf being in Yea and Nay: No and So, going about, and about. And for proof, to revive it to you, take this one repeated notorious In&s;tance, <HI>viz.</HI> Fir&s;t, he verbally owned the Spirit of the Lord in him was no Creature, and in Print, <HI>pag.</HI> 11. he &s;aith, <HI>The Spirit of the Lord that was Prophe&s;ied, &s;hould re&s;t upon Chri&s;t, was a created Spirit; what more greater Contradiction, and gro&s;&s;er Errour and Bla&s;phemy can be a&s;|&s;erted?</HI></P>
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<P>So now I think it time to go back to in&s;pect, and briefly reply to his di|ver&s;ifyed Argument in <HI>pag.</HI> 1&s;t. which begins thus, <HI>That which is in every Man, is in Heathens and profe&s;&s;ed Pa|gans: But the &s;aving Grace of God is not in Heathens; Therefore not in eve|ry Man.</HI> I deny his A&s;&s;umption, it being contrary to expre&s;s Seripture, <HI>Rom.</HI> 1.19, 20, 21, 28. <HI>clearly evincing that which might be known of God, was manifest in them, yet they liked not to retain God in their knowledge:</HI> His proofs are <HI>Rom.</HI> 2.14. &amp; 3.9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. <HI>Eph.</HI> 2.3. the &s;ub|&s;tance of which, as may appear upon reading thereof, is an account what Man is naturally, <HI>viz. A Child of wrath, and &s;ubject to Sin,</HI> and doth not declare that God gave only Nature, and no Grace to them, whereby the might be regenerated and &s;aved from Sin: There|fore they are no proofs in the ca&s;e. And to prove the contrary, pray ob&s;erve the next Ver&s;es after his fir&s;t Text, and the 18 and 19 Ver&s;es of the forego|ing Chapter: By the fir&s;t it doth ap|pear that tho&s;e Gentiles which did the things contained in the Law (as his Proof &s;pecifies,) had the work of the Law written in their Hearts. Pray who is it that thus writes the Law in the
<PB N="44" REF="28"> Heart? Its very evident in <HI>Jer.</HI> 31.33. to be the Lord. And the other two ver. of <HI>Rom.</HI> 1.18, 19. are to the point, affirming that which may be known of God, is manife&s;t in them as before, (in whom, namely, tho&s;e that hold the Truth in Unrighteou&s;ne&s;s,) for God hath &s;hewed it unto them, <HI>He hath &s;hewed thee O Man what is good,</HI> Mica 6.8. By what doth God &s;hew it? By his Light or Spirit: Al&s;o all things that are re|proved, are made manife&s;t by the Light; for what&s;oever doth (&s;hew or) make manife&s;t, is Light, <HI>Eph.</HI> 5.3. and where is this Light. Its within Pray peru&s;e, <HI>Jo.</HI> 1.4, 5, 9. &amp; 3.19, 20, 21. &amp; 8.12. all which makes void his pretended Arguments and Proof, and proves the Point plainly again&s;t him.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 14.</NOTE><HI>If Heathens and all &V;nconverted Per|&s;ons are without Chri&s;t, Aliens from the Common-Wealth of</HI> I&s;rael, <HI>Strangers from the Covenants of Promi&s;e, having no hope, and without God in the World: Then that which is in them is not Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The former is true,</HI> Eph. 2.12. <HI>there|fore al&s;o the latter.</HI>&mdash;</P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> I deny his fir&s;t Propo&s;ition in its con&s;equence; their being without God, and without Chri&s;t in the World, when in the unconverted &s;tate, proves
<PB N="45" REF="28"> not that neither God nor Chri&s;t nor his Divine Light was in them in that &s;tate. The con&s;equence of the fir&s;t Propo&s;ition is &s;ophi&s;tically deduced, and not per&s;uant to the terms there|of, <HI>viz.</HI> His words then, <HI>That which is in them is not Chri&s;t,</HI> do not truly follow the foregoing; for on his own Propo&s;iti|ons and Principle, the Argument &s;hould run thus, viz. <HI>If Heathens and all &V;ncon|verted Per&s;ons be without God and Chri&s;t in the World, then they have neither God nor Chri&s;t, nor his Light or Grace in them,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>I deny the Propo&s;ition again, as to the con&s;equence of it, it plainly oppo&s;|eth the Omnipre&s;ence of God in his Creatures, and leaves all Unconverted Per&s;ons de&s;titute of help for their Recovery.</P>
<P>Their being without God and with|out Chri&s;t in the World, &s;ignifies their being without the Knowledge and Ex|perience of God and Chri&s;t, but not their being out of his pre&s;ence, nor excluded the extent of his Light and Grace; for the World not knowing him that made it, is no Argument to prove that he that made it is not in it; See the contrary, <HI>John</HI> 1.10.&mdash;</P>
<P>And did not the Apo&s;tle give a bet|ter Te&s;timony for God, even to the Heathen, referring to certain of their
<PB N="46" REF="29"> own Poets confe&s;&s;ing, <HI>viz. Acts</HI> 17.28. <HI>For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain al&s;o of your own Poets have &s;aid; for we are al&s;o his Offspring:</HI> Which is enough to confute <HI>J. F.</HI> his arguing again&s;t God or Chri&s;t being in the Heathen, and &s;hews &s;ome of them were of a better judgment than him&s;elf therein: And if by Grace they were &s;aved through Faith, and by the holy Spirit made an Habitation of God, then this Grace, this Spirit mu&s;t in &s;ome mea&s;ure be in them, be|fore this great Work was accompli&s;hed on them: The former is true, therefore the latter.</P>
<P>And the &s;ame Apo&s;tle confirms in his &s;aying, <HI>That even when we were dead in Sins, he hath quickned us together with Chri&s;t: By Grace, ye are &s;aved,</HI> ver. 5. Now that which thus quickens Man while in Sin, and converts and rege|nerates him, is the holy Spirit in the Heart, <HI>John</HI> 6.33. &amp; 3.5. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6.11, 19.</P>
<P N="3">3dly. Again, &s;aith he, if Heathens, con&s;idered Antecedently to the Go&s;pel's being Preached to them, do &s;it in dark|ne&s;s and in the &s;hadow of Death, hav|ing the Under&s;tanding darkned, then that which is in them is meer Dark|ne&s;s, and no Go&s;pel Light; the for|mer
<PB N="47" REF="29"> is true, <HI>Luke</HI> 1.7, 9. <HI>Eph.</HI> 4.18. therefore al&s;o the latter.</P>
<P>That Heathens, <MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> and all other Per|&s;ons that are Unconverted &s;it in Dark|ne&s;s, and have their Under&s;tandings darkned, is true: But that therefore his Inference therefrom is Genuine, as that there is nothing but meer Dark|ne&s;s, and no Go&s;pel-Light in them; I deny, and by expre&s;s Scripture can plainly prove the contrary, and that is from <HI>John</HI> 1.5. <HI>And the Light &s;hineth in Darkne&s;s, and the Darkne&s;s compre|hended it not:</HI> Now let it be remarkt, that this is &s;poken of the Divine Light, which was the Life in Chri&s;t, the Word which was with God, and was God, and &s;hineth in Man while regenerated; and who naturally is Darkne&s;s, <HI>Eph.</HI> 5.8. But now &s;aith the Apo&s;tle, (in the &s;ame ver&s;e,) <HI>are ye light in the Lord.</HI> How came they to be &s;o? <HI>By believing in the Light,</HI> John 12.36. <HI>By following of the Light,</HI> Chapt. 8.12. <HI>By taking heed to the more &s;ure word, as unto a Light that &s;hineth in a dark place until the day Dawn, and the day Star ari&s;e in the Heart,</HI> 2 Pet. 1.19. <HI>Who hath called us out of Darkne&s;s into his marvellous Light,</HI> 1 Pet. 2.9. <HI>For God, who commanded Light to &s;hine out of Darkne&s;s, hath &s;hin|ed in our Hearts, to give the Light of the
<PB N="48" REF="30"> Knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Je&s;us Chri&s;t: But we have this Trea|&s;ure in our Earthen Ve&s;&s;els, that the Ex|cellency of the Power may be of God, and not of us,</HI> 2 Cor. 4.6, 7. <HI>And it is tho&s;e that hate the Light, who doth Evil, and love Darkne&s;s rather than Light, yet the Light is in &s;uch (as abovementioned) and is their Condemnation,</HI> John 3.19, 20.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, &s;aith he, <HI>If that which is in Heathens, is the Devil, and the Spirit of the Devil, then that which is in them is not the Spirit of God, for what Communion hath Light with Darkne&s;s, what Concord hath Chri&s;t with</HI> Beliall? 2 Cor. 6.14, 15. The former is true, <HI>Eph.</HI> 2.2. <HI>Acts</HI> 26.18. <HI>Col.</HI> 1.13. <HI>Jo.</HI> 8.44. 1 <HI>Jo.</HI> 3.8.</P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> Its a very &s;ad thing that this Prea|cher <HI>J. F.</HI> can find nothing in Uncon|verted Souls, but the Devil and Dark|ne&s;s; doth he e&s;teem all his Hearers Converted? If not, what doth he ap|peal to in the Con&s;ciences of the Un|converted? What can he find nothing but the Devil and Darkne&s;s in them? Alas! poor Hearers! what a &s;ad &s;tate are you rendred to be in? Is it not wor&s;e than that of the Bruit Crea|tures.&mdash;For, although in Heathens, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd all other Per&s;ons who are in their natural &s;tate, the Spirit of the Devil
<PB N="49" REF="30"> hath the preheminence and govern|ment, yet neither of tho&s;e Scriptures proves his Con&s;equence; the fir&s;t men|tions, that, that Spirit, <HI>viz. The Prince of the Power of the Air, worketh in the Children of Di&s;obedience;</HI> &s;o it is plain they were Di&s;obedient; but to what? to God, to his Divine Light in them, wherewith he had enlightned them: And this Divine Light within was doubtle&s;s the &s;ame which the Apo&s;tle <HI>Paul</HI> in <HI>Acts</HI> 26.18. (<HI>J. F</HI>'s &s;econd proof) declares of, <HI>That he was &s;ent even to the Gentiles to turn them to, for,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>to open their Eyes, and to turn them from Darkne&s;s to Light, from the power of Satan to God;</HI> from which it may more rationally be inferred, <HI>That as the Darkne&s;s and Power of Satan was within, &s;o the Light and Power of God was within al&s;o, and if they were not Di|&s;obedient thereunto, they might receive for|givene&s;s of Sins, and &s;o be delivered from the Power of Darkne&s;s, and tran&s;lated into the Kingdom of his dear Son,</HI> (ac|cording to his third proof,) <HI>And the Kingdom of God is within, and was de|clared by Chri&s;t to be even in the unbeliev|ing</HI> Phari&s;ees, <HI>Luke</HI> 17.20, 21. <HI>Yet they were not in the Kingdom, or tran&s;lated into it, as all the &V;ngodly are not, but
<PB N="50" REF="31"> they are of their Father the Devil, com|mitting Sin,</HI> (according to <HI>J. F</HI>'s. la&s;t Proof:) But (as the latter part of his la&s;t Proof &s;aith,) <HI>For this purpo&s;e the Son of God was manife&s;ted, that he might de&s;troy the Works of the Devil,</HI> 1 Jo. 3.8. <HI>the which Evil Works come from within, as Chri&s;t &s;aith,</HI> Matt. 15.19. Mark 7.20, 21, 22, 23. <HI>con&s;equently he by his powerful Spirit mu&s;t be within al&s;o, to de&s;troy tho&s;e Works of the Devil, and his coming within to bind the &s;trong Man armed to overcome him, and &s;poil his goods,</HI> Matt. 12.29. Mark 11.22. So its very true, <HI>Chri&s;t hath no Concord with</HI> Belial, according to his recited Text, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6.15. Yet notwith&s;tand|ing that Di&s;union as <HI>J. F.</HI> &s;aith in <HI>pag.</HI> 22. <HI>There is Fle&s;h as well as Spirit; &s;o &s;ay I, there is Spirit as well as Fle&s;h,</HI> (as the Apo&s;tle &s;aith in the &s;ame place,) <HI>which Lu&s;teth one again&s;t another, being contrary to each other,</HI> Gal. 5.17.</P>
<P>And <HI>J. F.</HI> him&s;elf, <HI>pag.</HI> 8. &s;peaking concerning the working of the Spirit of God upon the Souls of Sinners, &s;aith, <Q>This denotes the Objects on which the Grace-working Acts and Operations of the holy Gho&s;t are terminated, con&s;idered antecedently to his working this work in, and up|on
<PB N="51" REF="31"> them, they are Sinners, not Saints: Al&s;o &s;aith he, <HI>pag.</HI> 21. Alas, alas, here is matter of Lamentation,</Q> <HI>The King of Glory knocks at our Door,</HI> Rev. 3.20. But who opens for him to come in? Likewi&s;e, &s;aith he, <HI>pag.</HI> 27. <Q>Have you not too too often quenched and grieved the holy Spirit of God, after he hath been at work upon your Spi|rits? And again, <HI>pag.</HI> 28. It hath much interrupted your Communion with God, and cau&s;ed an Eclip&s;e of the Light of his Countenance, &s;o that you have not had the bright &s;hinings thereof, as otherwi&s;e you might have had: Doth not <HI>J. F.</HI> here|in imply, and yield that Chri&s;t by his Spirit is at work in and upon the Souls of tho&s;e that are Sinners, not Saints? And con&s;equently this his Con|fe&s;&s;ion, his own evident Confutation he hath fairly given away his own cau&s;e in this and &s;everal other pa&s;|&s;ages.</Q></P>
<P>Now having gone through his diver|&s;ified Argument, and proved from Scripture that God in his univer&s;al un&s;peakable Love to the Souls of Man|kind, (not de&s;iring the Death of Sin|ners, or willing any &s;hould peri&s;h, but that all &s;hould come to Repentance,
<PB N="52" REF="32"> and to the knowledge of the Truth, and be &s;aved, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 18.32, &amp; 33, 11. 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3.9. 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2.4. and in order to it) hath given unto Gentiles, or all Unconverted Per&s;ons, &s;omething more than Nature, namely, &s;aving Grace, otherwi&s;e called Light, Life, Spirit or Power, by which it may appear, that Chri&s;t may in &s;ome degree be in &s;uch Per&s;ons, and yet they not be in him, but without God in the World, that is, they not being in the know|ledge of Chri&s;t, but out of Unity and Fellow&s;hip with him, but yet he by his Light and Spirit &s;o &s;hining in the Unconverted doth convince them of Sin, and excite them to God: And though the &s;ame be a common or uni|ver&s;al Gift from God, yet it is al&s;o a &s;pecial Gift, its Spirit or true &s;av|ing Grace in and to them, that &s;ubmit to be taught and led by it.</P>
<P>I &s;ay, having thus An&s;wered him, let the impartial (with whom he left it, and I do al&s;o) give Judgment in Righteou&s;ne&s;s, whether the founda|tion, and &s;uper&s;tructure of my for|mer Book be overthrown, or whether he, with his &s;elf-contradicting work be not vanqui&s;hed; and hereby it be confirmed, that he de&s;erved to be
<PB N="53" REF="32"> plainly dealt with, (yea, plainer than he was,) for calling without any ex|pre&s;s Exception, that <HI>A Great No|thing,</HI> which I according to Scripture a&s;&s;erted to be in me (as well as others,) a &s;aving and &s;ufficient Gift of God's Spirit, and no Creature, which Truth Scripturely maintained, &s;till &s;tands o|ver him, unrefuted by him, and is that which he with all his Learning and Logick can never be able to do.</P>
<P>So our foundation and &s;uper&s;tructure is firm and good, and not naught as &s;aid by him.</P>
<P>Wherefore it is in my Heart, in Bowels of unfeigned Love, again fervently to be&s;eech you my Relations and Friends of the Society aforemen|tioned; with whom el&s;e, unto whom the&s;e &s;hall come, who are like minded with you, or tho&s;e of you that impor|tunately pre&s;t the publication in Print what your Pa&s;tor had Preached again&s;t this &s;aving Principle: Oh! that you with him (who&s;e wellfare my Soul de|&s;ires) would de&s;i&s;t oppo&s;ing of God &s;lighting, contemning, undervaluing, and Reproaching his Holy Spirit of Grace in Man. And Oh! that you would come rightly to believe in it
<PB N="54" REF="33"> and be true followers of it, delighting to retire to it, and to wait upon God and &s;eek him in it and be Guided by it; for as he will be &s;ought unto and waited upon, &s;o mu&s;t it be in his pure lively Spirit within, otherwi&s;e unaccep|table to him: Wherefore it is our in|cumbent duty to love and have a reve|rent e&s;teem of it, it being the Principal means ordained of God to lead to Sal|vation, and not to count it an Idol, nor compare it to Images, or call it a great Nothing; For this is that which &s;tands a witne&s;s for God, &s;hews Man his Sin, reproves him for it, in&s;tructs him to for&s;ake it, and &s;trives with him that he may abhor it, and &s;o come to be joyned to the Lord, to his Spirit within which thus works: And as Man comes thus to be &s;ubjected to the ope|ration thereof, as to give up in obe|dience thereto, he mo&s;t certainly feels of the mighty power of God that is therein, to the creating him anew in Chri&s;t Je&s;us unto good Works; for a&s;&s;uredly there is that Divine power in it, that is able to accompli&s;h it; And, therefore, Oh! that it might be more proved and An&s;wered through true Faith therein and thereby the Holy one be &s;en&s;ibly feelingly known (to be near|er
<PB N="55" REF="33"> than only above the Skies,) by his Spirit Tabernacling within, to unut|terable Joy &s;urpa&s;&s;ing Peace, and cer|tain Divine &s;atisfaction and con&s;olati|on, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P><HI>I have,</HI> &s;aith he,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 30.</NOTE> <HI>drawn up another &s;hort tract to demon&s;trate, that his preten|ded An&s;wer both to him and me</HI> (i. e. <HI>J. Flavell</HI> and him&s;elf) <HI>is no An&s;wer at all.</HI></P>
<P>His fir&s;t not having done it, indeed, <MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> he therefore may if he plea&s;e proceed to publi&s;h his &s;econd, which not ex|pecting neither that it will demon&s;trate it, and firmly believing on good ex|perience ble&s;&s;ed be the Lord, that Truth is on my &s;ide, and fearing not his plain dealing, which in his fir&s;t is intimated, I may expect in his next: Therefore I think it not Wi&s;dom to be &s;ilent as he premi&s;eth, but have put on Courage in the Name of the Lord, though but as a Stripling, through the help of the little Stone cut out of the Mountains, that is rejected by this wi&s;e, Ma&s;ter Builder, to Encounter with him that appears like a <HI>Goliah</HI> with his Armour of Greek, Latin, and Rhetorical Flou|ri&s;hes in Engli&s;h, di&s;daining at the Army of the living God, and not only &s;o but al&s;o &s;lighting the inward and Spiritual
<PB N="56" REF="34"> appearance of the Captain of our Sal|vation, to wit Chri&s;t. Now in Ca&s;e I do fall before him, that &s;o vaunts over me and reckons the Day his own, the Victory may not be accounted great, I being &s;o weak an Advocate in his Eye and &s;o incon&s;iderable an ingager, I doubt not but that the Lord will rai&s;e up one more abler to ingage more man|fully with him. But if he proves to be foyled, as I hope hitherto it plainly appears to the Impartial he is, the Victory may be deemed the more Con|&s;iderable, and the only wi&s;e God the more worthy to be prai&s;ed. <HI>Even &s;o be it,</HI> &s;aith my Soul.</P>
<P>He &s;ignified that he can do this, and he can do that; and pre&s;ently after|wards doth &s;omething at it; but let him do all he can, this Divne Light, Grace or Spirit in the Heart, doth &s;till and ever will continue pure and perfect, and all-&s;ufficient, notwith&s;tanding the fai|ler of any that hath profe&s;&s;ed it; the cau&s;e of &s;uch their falling being not be|cau&s;e of any inability therein, but their &s;werving from it, and practi&s;ing that which is contrary to it, and condemned by it; and &s;o the &s;ame not having proved it &s;elf <HI>A Great Nothing,</HI> but
<PB N="57" REF="34"> being really a mea&s;ure of the Spirit of Truth, it ought not to be deemed as de&s;erving Humiliation, or to be deba|&s;ed; but on the contray de&s;ervedly to be magnified and exalted as an increa|ted Being; and con&s;equently he &s;till gros&s;ly Bla&s;pheming and committing great Evil, in affirming the contrary and calling it <HI>Great Nothing.</HI></P>
<P>The beloved Di&s;ciple 1 <HI>Jo.</HI> 2.27. when &s;peaking hereof under the Name of Anointing, &s;aith, <HI>It is received of God, and abideth in you, and that ye need not that any Man teach you, but as the &s;ame Anointing teacheth you of all things; and is truth and is no lye. And</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>even as it hath taught you, ye &s;hall a|bide in him;</HI> which plainly &s;hews that herein the Apo&s;tle directly differs from <HI>J. F.</HI> and doth not account it <HI>A Great Nothing,</HI> or a Spirit of Delu&s;ion, nei|ther do the whole Univer&s;e be&s;ides our &s;elves &s;ee it to be &s;o as he fal&s;ly &s;aith.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 31.</NOTE></P>
<P>But now its not from the&s;e Words of the Apo&s;tle to be inferred that he excludes all teaching from an In&s;tru|ment, that doth it from the Holy Spi|rit; for its to be ob&s;erved that in the very next ver&s;e, as in divers others of the &s;ame Epi&s;tle, he in a particular manner doth it him&s;elf, and his ge|neral
<PB N="58" REF="35"> Epi&s;tle doth in a general way, prove it; yet never the le&s;s its there|in held forth, That the Holy A|nointing received and abiding in us, and we in real &s;ubjection and obedience to it, is in it &s;elf &s;o all-&s;ufficient, as that we need not that any Man teach us, but as the &s;ame anointing teacheth and yet &s;till it may not from hence be concluded, That nece&s;&s;ary In&s;tructi|on, for good Government in the Church (being recommended to be ob&s;erved and an&s;wered by the Members thereof) are unnece&s;&s;arily and contradictorily urged and required, as may be abun|dantly demo&s;trated out of the Holy Scripture; but in &s;hort &s;hall only men|tion that of the Apo&s;tle in <HI>The&s;&s;.</HI> 2.15. <HI>Therefore, Brethren, &s;tand fa&s;t and hold the traditions or precepts which ye have been taught whether by Word or our Epi&s;tle,</HI> which Chap. 3.6. <HI>Now we command you Brethren in the Name of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, that you withdraw your &s;elves, from every Brother that walketh di&s;orderly, and not after the Traditions which ye received of us:</HI> Herein being &s;ufficient to prove the Point in each re&s;pect, as that the Apo&s;tle both by Word and Epi&s;tle, did teach Believers and al&s;o recommend Traditions or In|&s;tructions
<PB N="59" REF="35"> to be kept too by them. And yet the &s;ame Apo&s;tle in the &s;aid 2d. Chap. compared with another of his Sayings to the Church of <HI>Corinth.</HI> 1. Cor. 3.16. A&s;&s;erts, <HI>That Believers are the Temple of God;</HI> and <HI>That the Holy Spirit is given to and dwelleth in them,</HI> The&s;&s;. 4.8. Therefore Believers had &s;omething in them that was increated, and &s;ufficient to Teach, In&s;truct, Lead,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 30.</NOTE> Guide and Direct, and al&s;o to pre&s;erve them; and if then, con&s;equently now, and yet notwith&s;tanding, as then, &s;o now, outward helps proceeding from the &s;ame Spirit are not to be rejected, as un&s;erviceable, and u&s;ele&s;s; for <HI>J. F.</HI> believes the Scriptures are the only Rule, and a &s;ufficient one, for his Hearers, and yet makes u&s;e of other means to them, as Preaching, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> If he &s;ay the Scriptures allow it, I may al&s;o &s;ay the &s;ame on my part: And as the Holy Scripture doth give prefer|ence to the Holy Spirit, and in many places directs thereto, as that which Principally is to be regarded, in that we cannot live, or attain to the Holy Life therein mentioned and required, with|out its Divine a&s;&s;i&s;tance (and the &s;ame mu&s;t be received in the Heart) &s;o cer|tainly
<PB N="60" REF="36"> &s;uch that do regard it and are guided by it, or are an&s;wering its Holy Will and requirings, they are led into the performance of all &s;uch good or|ders and outward Rules as are by this inward Spirit of God recommended through outward In&s;truments, to be faithfully ob&s;erved and practi&s;ed; &s;o the malicious out-cry of wicked Apo|&s;tates, Di&s;contentedne&s;s of Libertins, and Enmity of any other Enimies are in the holy Zeal of the Lord to be trampled upon, and the Divine Spi|rit of God, and its good orders and in&s;tructions ought to be ob&s;erved and obeyed: For the holy Spirit of Grace and Light is in Unity with it &s;elf, and mo&s;t certainly leads all tho&s;e that are not Rebellious, Wilful, and Exalted, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> but real followers of it, <HI>into true &V;|nity and Fellow&s;hip with the Father, and with his Son Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and one with another,</HI> 1 Jo. 1.3, 7.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 30.</NOTE><Q><HI>J. F.</HI> &s;aith, he has been all his days a Man of a peaceable Spi|rit.&mdash;</Q></P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> But if he write again, he threatens what he can do again&s;t us, and &s;eems re&s;olved not to &s;pare us; but if &s;o, whether he will not manife&s;t him&s;elf
<PB N="61" REF="36"> to be futurely otherwi&s;e than he &s;aith of him&s;elf, he has been all along for|merly, that is, more revengeful than peaceable; and whether it will not be better for him to &s;tudy to be quiet.</P>
<P><Q>And therefore,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Page 21.</NOTE> if he is not above the Advice of me, that am &s;o weak in his &s;ight, I offer it as a thing wor|thy of his &s;erious Con&s;ideration to pau&s;e upon, his threatned further proceedings (as expre&s;&s;ed by him) before the Publication thereof, and weigh well in him&s;elf, (taking along with him al&s;o the &s;en&s;e of his judi|cious Hearers,) whether his work will be to Edication, or whether it will not rather be matter of Scorn to the loo&s;e and prophane: And &s;o upon mature deliberation, not be &s;o indi&s;creet and wilful as upon his failure of proving by the Scripture, that the univer&s;al &s;aving Grace, or Spirit of God in Man is <HI>no Grace, and a Great Nothing:</HI> He therefore to endeavour to make it out, in&s;i&s;ts upon (&s;uppo&s;e it be Zeal) mi&s;car|riages, or mi&s;takes of Profe&s;&s;ors of it. Let him rather if he will write again, make out from Scripture what
<PB N="62" REF="37"> he can, if he have any thing more to ade for Proof, that this gracious Spirit of Light is not really in Man, or that <HI>it is a Creature, a meer Creature, and an imperfect Creature,</HI> and that will be to the Point. And to &s;top him in his intended doing, I premi&s;e withal for him to con&s;ider, that in the Primitive times there were &s;ome differences among&s;t the Apo&s;tles and true Believers, and al|&s;o, that many through Tran&s;gre&s;&s;i|ons fell, mi&s;carried, and came to a great lo&s;s, &s;ome of them were rai&s;ed again, <HI>And others turned with the Dog to his Vomit again, and the Sow that was wa&s;hed to her wallowing in the Mire,</HI> 2 Pet. 2.22. And yet concerning &s;ome of them, the Scripture plainly evi|denceth that they had the Spirit of God in them. Therefore as <HI>J. F.</HI> ought not to charge the Spirit of God with any thing thereof, &s;o if &s;ome that have &s;omewhat believed in the Spirit, now have through the Wiles and Power of the Enemy been prevailed upon, to Apo&s;tatize from it, or to write again&s;t it, or the con&s;tant Believers in it, or if &s;ome profe&s;&s;ing of it, do not in all
<PB N="63" REF="37"> things accord, or &s;ee each as far as others: He therefore by the &s;ame Rea&s;on ought not now to reflect up|on the Spirit; for no Errors, Mi|&s;takes, or failings of Men are in the lea&s;t to be charged upon it.</Q></P>
<P>Wherefore upon &s;econd thoughts, it will be his wi&s;dom to be &s;ilent, le&s;t he bring further &s;hame and confu|&s;ion of face upon him&s;elf: So go not forth ha&s;tily to &s;trive (as <HI>J. G.</HI> did at fir&s;t) le&s;t thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy Neighbour hath put thee to &s;hame, <HI>Pro.</HI> 25.</P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Reve. 22.17.</HI></BIBL> And the Spirit and the Bride &s;ay come, and let him that heareth &s;ay come, and let him that is a thir&s;t come, and who&s;oever will, let him take of the Water of Life freely.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chri&s;t &s;aith.</NOTE></Q>
<Q><BIBL><HI>John 7.37, 38, 39.</HI></BIBL> If any Man thir&s;t, let him come unto me and Drink: He that believeth on me as the Scripture hath &s;aid, out of his Belly &s;hall flow Rivers of living Water; but this &s;pake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him &s;hould receive.&mdash;</Q>
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