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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Saints will not do the business as thou scornfully sayest to us but thou Communicate an unclean spirit and thou writest Epistles and spreads thy Doctrine by Letters or Books and the Apostles run up and down from one Nation Country and City to another and what need you do this if the annointing within be sufficient to teach them and if it be sufficient why does not every particular Saint do that which some do Why doth not every one of the Christians go up and down Preaching as well as some few of you Apostles Thus and after this manner might thou J. W. have reasoned against the Apostles and Saints as well as against us and doubtless hadest thou lived in their dayes thou wouldest have said no less by them then thou dost by us but this is to manifest thy own folly and weaknesse who cannot understand how the annointing dwells in the Saints and teacheth them into all Truth and how notwithstanding they edifie one another and instructs one another by words and writings this same thing was true amongst the Apostles and Primitive Christians and is true also at this day among us though thou objects against it nay reviles and slanders the witness of the same at this day and this is thy ignorance and weakness who art not worthy to be named a defender of the Gospel of Christ as thy works makes to appear And as for J. W. his saying as if we should say They should receive virtue and life from us and that we intend to give a spirit and of taking hold of the wrists of some c. And that we lay aside Gods Word and reject Scriptures and exalts our own unholy writings c. These are slanderous accusations and malitious suggestions as if we were Witches and such like And this is spoken by him with a tendency as doth appear to enrage the spirits of ungodly men against us We do not say they shall receive Life from us but if they wait upon God in the Ministration of his Life and Spirit they shall receive Life from him and sufficient instruction by his Grace and Gift within them if they never see us more and they shall receive the Spirit of Truth from God though we are made Ministers of the Spirit which the Father giveth to all his Children and as for our taking one another by the hands by way of kind Salutation one of another Why doth he wickedly surmize against us for this practice but that out of the abundance of his malitious heart his tongue speakes fraudilently as if we did bewitch people thereby thus much he seems to intimate by his reproachful expressions that we intend by taking one another by the hands to communicate a spirit which is onely his ignorant and malitious suggestion and as for our denying the Word of God and rejecting Scriptures we shall pass it here onely tell thee J. W. thou hast slandred us and speak fuller to it by and by 1. But concerning immediate teaching of God by the light and anointing within I would yet more fully explain that I might be understood of all First We do not affirm that every man in the world to wit unbelievers as well as believers have received the anointing and spirit within them so as they need no man to teach them for this is onely proper to the Saints of God who have believed in and received Christ Jesus and his Spirit that anointing which teacheth them all things and leadeth into all Truth and they abiding in this anointing they need no man to teach them but as it teacheth and this is the new Covenant of God and according to his promise I will put my spirit within them and write my Law in their hearts and they shall need no man to say know the Lord but from the least to the greatest they shall all know me saith the Lord But as we have said this is only proper to the Believers and Sanctified in Christ Jesus and this state is not proper to the unbelievers in the world in their state of unbelief who rejects the Counsel of God and refuses to be taught by him and led of him and quenches the Spirit of the Lord. 2. But though this state was promised by the Lord that his people should be thus taught and the Saints did in the Apostles dayes witness it as in Johns Epistle before cited and the Saints of God now in this age do witness the same Yet notwithstanding the Saints did and may edifie one another and build up one another in the most holy Faith and Comfort one another by advice and Counsel and instruction through declaring the Word of the Lord one to another and Ministring the Gospel of Christ and of his free gift one to another as the anointing within moveth and teacheth this was the Saints practice in the dayes of old and is their practice at this day for let none mistake us as if any were so taught of God by the anointing and Light within that they were thereby uncapable of and freed from all good instruction edification and counsel visitations and salutations of Love amongst them and one towards another like as if they were so taught of God as their state admited of carelesness and rejecting of love and exhortations one from another we tell thee nay but we are so taught of God at this day as the Saints before us were by the light and annointing within which we have received from God that alwayes we are capable of and willing to receive edification and counsel and advice through the Word of the Lord and by his Spirit that dwells in us and extends one to another by good advice and counsel consolation and comfort so that these two do agree to wit immediate Teaching by the anointing and light within us and exhortation and edification one of another by the same spirit and anointing among us and these two are not contrary one to the other 3. Yet we do say though the unbelievers have not so received the anointing and spirit within them as that they need no man to teach them as the believers have received it yet the Gift of the Spirit of God and the light of it is given to them and manifested in their Consciences and hath its operation of conviction and reproof because of their unbelief and Iniquities and these needs to be taught without them even turned and directed to this same light within them that they may believe in Christ Jesus and wait upon the Lord in it thereby to receive the anointing and pouring forth of the Spirit through Faith in Christ Jesus that they may be also-taught of God as believers and regenerate persons and may need none to teach them but as the Gift and Grace of God within them and such in the state of their unbelief have need to be Preached unto that they may believe and be renewed and receive more of the Spirit and of the Grace of God in a greater measure and may

and given up to hardness of heart he would never thus grosly have belyed us and these lies must be his onely proof for he can give no better testimony that we are proud in heart the Lord rebuke his lying tongue it s enough here onely to deny his lies for most of the particulars are before spoken of to wit of the Commandements and Promises of Christ of the Immortality and the Resurrection but he goes on in his accustomed manner of falshoods and sayes we acknowledge not any superiours and that we wholly neglect Faith and Gospel Obedience and that our hearts are too high to submit to anything of the Spirit Faith and Obedience and that we have an eye of scorn and disdain all which are lies and thus J. W. goes on like as if he had devoted himself to tell a lies and studied to frame falshood seeing that every page which I have now under hand carries in it number of lies but he charges it to be the pride of our hearts because we will not put off our Hatts This is false also as much as the rest for though we cannot put off our Hat is in Honour to any mans person nor give them flattering Titles of honour yet this is not from the pride of our Hearts our God knows but from another ground as I could demonstrate were it the present case of controversie But being brought by J. W. as a proof of this matter therefore now I p●sse it so that his onely proofs that we are not more humble but more proud then others which is his present assertion is poorly and weakly mannaged with Proofs and Arguments of absolute deceits and falshoods who hath not one better proof from his Pen then a lie to prove his proposition and thus I passe this particular commiting him to the reward of God according to his work which must come upon him one day and as for the matter of our Humility we commit the cause of that also to God who judgeth more justly then vain man Now I come to the second Particular of Unity and J. W. saith Our Vnity he doth absolutely deny for Vnity in the truth we have not but in Iniquity for we do not hold the Head Christ Jesus and we are not in Vnity but in confusion we are not Vnited unto Jesus Christ by Faith and intimates that we deny Jesus Christ his Person and contemn his Ordinances and trample his word under their feet and this do the Preachers of the Light within in saith he for saith he We are not at Vnity among our selves but one Preaching one thing and another Prints the contrary and he speaks of one that affirmed that the Bread and Wine spoken of in Scriptures appointed to be eaten and drunken in remembrance of Jesus Christ is not Temporal nor External but Spiritual and Eternal Another he saith should Print that that Bread and Wine is common such as may be eaten by unbelievers at their Feasts thus are we divided from the Truth and one from another saith he For some do hold that Bread and Wine were to be received until he came by which we understand until he come in us and thus the Preachers of the Light within are divided in Doctrine because one sayes the Bread and Wine is Eternal another saith it is visible and Temporal and one Teacher calleth another Dog and hath disproved each other c. page 183 184 185. Answer To all this I answer in opposition to his charge we are in Unity and Fellowship with the Lord in Spirit and one with another in him notwithstanding J. W. his seeming detection as if it were otherwise and his charge is high that we have not Vnity in the Truth but in Iniquity and his proof for it is like the proof of the former assertion to wit absolute lies for he saith we do not hold the head Christ Jesus nor are United to him by Faith nor have any accesse by him and that we deny him and his Person and contemn his Person and trample his Word under feet these are falshoods altogether and by this means he proves his point that we have Vnity in Iniquity and not in the Truth t is wickedly affirmed and as wickedly proved by one of Satans Messengers who hath set himself to oppose the Lords Truth and his People and that by his Masters order and in his Masters way who was a Lyar from the beginning Thirdly And now I come to his Charge That we are not in Vnity among our selves which he has proved according to his accustomed manner For what if some did say though he names none that Christ broke Bread and drank Wine with his Disciples Temporal and Visible Bread and he also broke Bread and drank of the Cup with his Disciples which was Spiritual and Eternal and Invisible and these may be both affirmed without any contradiction Christ did eat of the Bread with his Disciples which might be eaten at unbelievers Feasts and Christ did eat of the Bread with his Disciples which unbelievers could not eat of both these are true and hath no such weight of contradiction in them as J. W. ignorantly supposes and what would he say of the Apostle Paul and the Apostle Iohn the one saith God is a consuming fire the other saith God is Love and of the Prophets one of whom said God is angry everyday and another said there is no anger in God would not J. W. had he lived in their dayes have said the Prophets and Apostles were divided among themselves and as for some calling another Dog and disowning one another and yet are all Preachers of the Light within though he mentions neither the time place nor persons and therefore because in other cases he speaks so falsly of which I well know therefore I may have jealousie this is false also But however suppose a deceitful person that never knew the work of Regeneration should speak of ye Preach of the Light within may not he be called a Dog and disowned and yet no division among us for such are not of us but contrary to us and we are onely divided from them and not among our selves and had J. W. lived in the Apostles dayes what would he have said when some of the Apostles withstood others in some controversies would not he have said ye are dissemblers ye have not Unity among your selves but are in confusion and so and so and also when some deceivers got up and Preached Christ and the Gospel pretendedly for filthy lucre and for covetousness and had the form of godliness and were sometimes conversant in the Churches but the Apostles cryed against them and disowned them though they were among the Churches and Preached the Apostles words but were the Apostles therefore divided and deceivers and in confusion because of some such amongst them Thou ignorant man I tell thee nay no more are we though Hypocrites may get the words of Truth from our mouths for such are not of us