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A71239	The son of perdition revealed by the brightness and light of the Son of God in his saints, and the preachers of his light within and their doctrines & principles (concerning the mysteries of God & the weighty things of salvation) vindicated and cleared ... / by the light of the Son of God in his servants Geo. Whitehead & Edw. Burroughs.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1661 (1661)	Wing W1962; ESTC R21454	71,956	92

believers being conformed to the Image of the Son of God that he might be the first-born among many Brethren as in Rom. 8.29 which thou puttest afar off as to be attained but at the Resurrection of their bodies from the graves which thou tells of and then thou blindly sayest Christ will give himself unto it viz. unto his Church and make it like glorious with his own glorified humane nature and then the Church shall resemble her head c. Herein hast thou perverted both that Scripture of Rom. 8.29 30. and that of Eph. 5.25 26.27 for the Apostle does not put that cleansed and glorious state of the Church wherein they were made conformable to the Image of Christ afar off till after death as thou hast done for the Saints were come unto the Church of the first-born and knew Christ born in them as he is the first-born in many Brethren 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and who he justified them also he glorified Rom. 8.30 and Christ gave himself for his Church that he might sanctifie and cleanse it and present it to himself not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish Eph. 5. Now doth not the Church resemble her head when she is brought into that state of purity for which Christ gave himself which refers to the time past it s not said there that he will give himself as in the future Tense so to cleanse his Church at the Resurrection of the bodies out of the graves as thy words imply who also to prove that the Believers partaking of the Divine Nature in this Life is but in part bringest Rom. 7.25 With my mind I serve the Law of God but with my flesh the Law of sin wherein thou hast implyed that the Apostle was not freed from serving the Law of sin while he was in this Life what a sad life wouldst thou make Paul to live and so like the deceivers and blind guides hast put freedom from sin afar off till after death that the bodies shall be raised out of the graves and when that shall be thou knowest not when as the Apostle passed thorow the warfare and attained to the victory over sin and the Law of the spirit of life in Christ did make him free from the law of sin and death which sometime had ruled in his members and he could say before his decease I have fought the good fight c. though several times he condescended to several states or conditions below his own as he did to the Romans and others and became as weak to the weak and as one under the Law to them that were under the Law c. And thou sayest p. 139. That humane nature by personal conjunction with the Divine Nature being become so spiritual that it may be truly said The last Adam that is the created substance in Christs person is now made into a quickening spirit c To which we say how then is all mankind of the same substance with Christ as thou said before what are they all quickening Spirits or is the Humane Nature of all man-kind a quickening Spirit Canst thou not distinguish betwixt that which is Humane or from the earth and a quickening Spirit What gross absurdity hast thou herein implyed And what a vast difference wouldest thou make betwixt Christ and his Nature now when he is in a glorified states further then in the dayes of his flesh as if he were become a quickening Spirit which is divine but there is a nature in him that is Humane so the Nature of the quickening spirit is of the earth according to thy words as the first Adam was and so thou canst not distiguish betwixt the first Adam and the second though the first Adam and his Humane Nature is of the Earth but the second and his Nature and Image is Divine and Heavenly according to himself who is Lord from Heaven whose state is glorified spiritual and immortal wherein that which was mortal which in time he took upon him is swallowed up of life and immortality and he as Glorified with the Father before the world began made higher then the Angels though they be ministring Spirits And whereas thou J. W. countest it Blasphemous and of Antichrist to think that any part of man Spirit Soul or Body is of the Divine Eternal and uncreated Substance c. To that we say Is not that wherein the Soul hath its immortality of the Eternal Life or Substance else whence had the Soul its Life and Immortality and what is it in it self For shall not the Soul if saved from the power of sin be eternally in the feeling and enjoyment of the Love of God And if not so saved shall it not Eternally be under a sence of his Anger And was not man made in the Image of God and had the Breath of Life from God in him whereby his Soul lived Was not that Image and Life Immortal And whereas thou seemest to admit of a Perfection that Believers may attain unto and yet sayes that the perfection of God and of the Divine Nature of Christ is of a different Nature from the perfection of man c. This is as blind a business as thy former denying the Divine Nature to be in any but Christ for there is no true perfection of Holiness that the believers attain to but what they have in God and Christ according to his Divine Nature in which they pertake of in him who hath exhorted the Saints to be Perfect as their Heavenly Father is Perfect that they might be Holy in all manner of conversation so that thy sinful Doctrines which are for sin the tearm of Life do tend to make the commands and Work of Christ of none effect CHAP. III. Concerning the Resurrection and J. W. his silly reasoning and vain conceits about it ANd as concerning the Resurrection from the dead we do not say that the Resurrection is past with us as J. W. in page 63. doth falsly accuse us for we are in him who is the Resurrection the Life and by whom comes the Resurrection from the dead John 11.25 1 Cor. 15.21 and we are against those that in saying the Resurrection is past have gone about to destroy or do overthrow the Faith of some 2 Tim. 2.18 for through Faith many are in the way to attain to the Resurrection of the just and so according to the Scriptures we do own a Resurrection both of the just and unjust and that some shall come forth to the Resurrection of Life wch they that abide in the Faith until death shall attain to and others to the Resurrection of Condemnation which is their portion who believe not in Christ who is the Resurrection and the Life wherein the Righteous shall shine as the Stars for ever and ever but the wicked shall rise to shame and contempt Dan. 12.2 3. And why does J. W. count it absurd as in pages 54 55. that the

a good Conscience been made to trample upon and discover our enemies works which have so often been brought to nought this might have hindered this untimely and monstrous birth of J. VV's from coming abroad which though he hath been a long time a bringing it forth it must be turned back into the pit of Darkness and belly of Confusion where it was conceived though it appears he was so conceited in his work and impudency and pride was so high in him that he thought to prevail more then the rest of his Predecessors who were of the Dragons Army that have opposed the Truth before him and that his work would have been more effectual then any besides that hath been brought forth against us but herein is he and all that believe him and his work deceived for both the weakness confusion and falshood of his matter is easie to see by any unprejudiced persons who have but common sence and reason for he hath not onely openly and falsly reviled us whom the Lord hath delivered out of darkness into his Light and Life made manifest in us but also he hath set himself to oppose and revile the Light of Christ in all men and hath done what in him lies to keep all people at a distance from Christ who is the true Light as one not willing that Christ should have any room to dwell either in his people or in any upon earth for this Jos. Wright who saith he hath been appointed by many of you for a defence c. in his Epistle to you whom he calls the beloved flock of Jesus Christ he writes To all them that call upon the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ who sits at the right hand of God the Father in the Heavens out of every man on earth he saith and to such wisheth blessings riches of grace c. wherein you that own this J. W. as a defence of Truth may note first how absolutely he hath set himself against Christ and the Truth who herein hath gone about to limit or divide the Holy One from his People and members as also further appears in his following matter and whose Doctrine tends to keep all out of the Faith of the true Church and so in the reprobate state contrary to the Apostles Doctrine who saith 2 Cor. 13.5 Examine your selves whether ye be in the Faith prove your own selves know you not your own selves how that Jesus Christ is in you except ye be Reprobates so that he that knows not that Jesus Christ in him is out of the Faith and so a reprobate and much more he that preaches to keep all from knowing Jesus Christ in them while on earth 2. And in that J. W. hath accounted Christ as he is at the right hand of God the Father not to be in any man but out of every man upon earth he hath gone about to separate the Saints from the right hand of God and so hath discovered himself both ignorant of Christ and of the Fathers right hand and of the Kingdom of Heaven in the Saints for they that are come to Christ and to know him in them they are come to the Fathers right hand and being Christs sheep none shall pluck them out of his Fathers hands 3. Also about this thing hath J. W. confuted himself for he hath acknowledged that blessings glory and praises are to be ascribed unto the onely wise God throughout all ages in the Churches by his onely Son Jesus Christ which plainly implies that then Jesus Christ must be in the Churches or how should praises be given by him in the Churches to the onely wise God or how should any glorifie or praise the onely wise God by Jesus Christ unlesse he be in them Also after this J. W. hath thus told people of Jesus Christ being out of every man on earth he hath set himself to oppose the light of Christ in all men who is the true light that enlightens every man that cometh into the World For in his Epistle he tells of giving you a discription of one viz. errour and delusion that is most dangerous and that which he hath chiefly written against is Preaching the Law Light within and also accounts it a sad Principle of the Spirit of Antichrist which now he saith runns about preaching up the Law or Light within as also he accounts this Doctrine Gross Darkness and so warns you against it As also he saith There hath risen up a most pernitious stratagem of Satan whereby to delude the Children of God and men it is a Teaching up the Light within all men and he calls them that are in unity with that Principle the Messengers of Antichrist and that a Doctrine of Antichrist and a device of Satan and chargeth us with detestable blasphemies about it c. So that this Jospeh VVright hath not onely shewed himself against Christs being in his People but also he hath sought to keep men from his Light in them as one that would shut up the Kingdom of God against men that they might not enter into it and so he hath uttered forth his Rage and Blasphemy against the Light of Christ and his Law in men who is come a Light into the world that whosoever believeth in him may not perish but have eternal life whose Law and Light it is that we Preach and Christ told the Pharisees That the Kingdom of God was within them Luke 17. Though they were wicked men and sought to shut up the Kingdome of God against others as this J. VV. hath done in his foaming out his own shame and uttering his rage and folly against the Light within so that he might as well have reviled Christ and said that he Preached up a delusion and a most pernitious stratagem of Satan and a device of Satan as so charge us for Preaching those things that are agreeable to the Doctrine of Christ And yet note that notwithstanding all this mans raging against this Doctrine of the light within all men and his reviling it as delusion and a most pernitious stratagem of Satan and gross darknesse he hath in page 165 distinguished the Light which is in us and all men from the spirit of darkness as accusing our speaking to be not from the Light within all men nor from the light within our selves but from the spirit of Darkness c. Which though he hath falsly accused our speaking yet he hath hereby truly Implyed that there is a light in us and all men that is opposite or contra-to the spirit of Darkness and thus he bewrayes his own confusion and folly about the Light of Christ in all men one while to rail so bitterly against it and the Doctrine of it as the most pernicious delusion stratagem of Satan and gross darkness another while so intimately to grant to a light within all men which leads to speak truth as opposite to the spirit of Darkness As also in page 16 20.28 29.41 This Joseph Wright saith

not pleasant to thee for thou art of the Spirit of which Christ speaks who said John came neither eating nor drinking and yet that Spirit said he had a Devil and Christ came eating and drinking and it said he was a wine-bibber and the same Spirit is J. W. and his fellows of who say it s by an evil and familiar Spirit that we speak and its by an evil and familiar Spirit that we are silent 3. Our meetings are according to the mind of God and example of Gods people in fornier ages and they are for the end to wait upon God and worship him and we have the evident Testimony of the Spirit of God in our own Consciences many thousands of us that the Lord God hath been present with us in his heavenly vertue and power and comfort and Soul-refreshments in such our Meetings and that many a time have we found the Lord when we have been met together to wait upon him even to the satisfaction of our immortal souls who hath revealed his goodnesse and his saving health unto us even in our meetings and this the Spirit of God witnesses to us blessed be his name notwithstanding whatsoever J. W. or any such slanderous tongues can oppose in this case and we have large example in the Scriptures that the people of God met together in the same way and manner as we do now in private houses and sometimes in the fields and sat sometimes long in silence as Ezek. 3. The Children of the captivity they sat together and Ezekiel was astonished amongst them seven dayes and at the end of seven dayes and not before the word of the Lord came to him and would not J. W. have lookt upon this silence to have been from an unclean spirit and Job that servant of God sat with his friends seven dayes and seven nights and spake not a word one to another so that from hence it is proved that some of Gods servants did sit in silence for a long time neither do we read that the Churches of Christ had alwayes speaking and preaching amongst them when they met together though often they had and thus we cannot but vindicate such a practice in it self and the scripture is plain for it as in sitting together in silence and in that silence the Lords presence sweetly enjoyed though yet there are very few of our meetings in such silence as that some one or other or more hath not something given of God by way of Exhortation to the People or Prayer to God few meetings I believe wherein the Lord doth not stir up the hearts of some or other to mention his Name so that we would be understood in this we plead not for silence in opposition to all speaking nor can we plead that of necessity some must speak or else God cannot be worshipped though there is no such thing amongst us as brain-study or knowledge before-hand that we shall speak or what we shall say like the Diviners of this age who makes up their matter before-hand and shapes it what and how to say it before they come among the People to whom they must say it like Artists and Tradesmen this kind of way we reject as unprofitable to God-wards yet if any have a particular message ascribed to them of God to a particular People or Person which if any have let them retain what God puts into their hearts and be faithful to speak it but the general way in which God leads us is this 1. We do know it is our duty by the perswasions of the spirit of God in our own Consciences and partly by the examples of Saints declared in scriptures to meet together at a convenient time and place and so oft as the wisdom of God shall order for us which dwells with us 2. Being come together we are turned to the Lord in our minds to feel our peace and joy and comfort and how our conditions are to God-wards in our own particulars And 3. if any amongst us receive any thing from the Lord to speak of what his work is in them and what he has done for them or by way of exhortation to administer comfort to others or by way of reproof to convince or convert others or by way of praises unto God for his mercies received or in Prayer for what is wanted I say if any amongst us find ought of this from the Lord upon them they speak it to others and its well-pleasing to God and comforting one to another but notwithstanding if nothing of this be received from the Lord by any in a meeting to declare to others yet our peace and joy and comfort and Teacher is with us even the grace and Spirit anointing of God that dwells with us by which every one is fed and refreshed in his own heart in the presence of the Lord and this is the manner and end and practice of and in our meetings and that its the practice of familiar Spirits to sit in silence and for the communicating of an unclean Spirit and that none of the people of God ever did thus and that such a practice is not in the example of Scriptures and that we are gone aside after Satan and publishes his Doctrine and communicates his unclean Spirit these are six abominable ungodly lyes uttered by J.W. in about 2 pages of paper and therefore I cannot but exhort thee to Repentance if thou hast not sinned the sin unto damnation that thou may find mercy if it be not too late and thus much about our meetings which are for the worship of God which I could not but vindicate in opposition to thy false assertions about the same and whether J. W. and his fellows be not themselves guided by an unclean Spirit in slandering the Innocent let the God of Heaven and Earth judge and Saints and Angels testifie Concerning Back-sliders and J. W. his stories 4. As for the stories which he tells of of one that did confesse that a Spirit made him roar and of another whom he saith is as a brand pluckt out of the fire that a Spirit made him quake and tremble and another who said that the Spirit spoke with a vocal voice in her and of another who thought himself perfect and the Devil wrought such strange things upon him as in page 170 171. These I look upon to be meerly vain stories seeing he hath neither named the Persons nor the places nor the time in which these things should have been and therefore I conclude them onely vain stories and not worth answering nor spending much time about for what manner of evil hath not been said of us within these ten years the words of Christ have been plainly fulfilled upon us who said they shall say all manner of evil falsly of you for my Names sake and among all manner of evil falsly spoken we reckon these stories of J. W's but as for such as he sayes are as brands pluckt out of the fire I perceive