Is that one of our Brethren Or is that like unto Moses The Lord Jesus was made like unto us in all things sin only excepted Man had sinned and therefore Jesus Christ in Man's Nature came forth to at one and make peace and to satisfie the Justice of his Father The Chastisement of our Peace was upon him and through his Scripes we are healed Isa 53. You ask me What I am the better with others for approaching into the Water who hath required these things at our hands for the things that are seen are carnal c. And then you say That those who have the Spirit of Christ do not bend to carnal Washing but come to the answer of a good Conscience and to the heavenly Manna Answ Could you not ask What the Primitive Saints were the better None of Christ's Ordinances are in vain and much spiritual benefit many can experience thereby And we know and are assured that the Lord hath required it at our hands And may you not call outward Preaching and outward Hearing carnal things as well as so to call Baptism and the Supper of our Lord And why my Sister should say That they that have the Spirit of Christ do not bend to such Ordinances I know not sith the Saints who had the Spirit in former times did bend to them And that you should call them by such reproachful Names is a grief to me Your slighting and despising the Precepts and Gospel-Institutions of Jesus Christ may one day prove your Soul-wound and burden What I mentioned concerning Cornelius his bending and submitting unto Water-Baptism notwithstanding his high attainment of the Spirit you have not in the least weak nor laid down any thing that is like aâ— Answer And now as concerning the remaining part of your Letter Some things are but Tautologies repeating the same thing You tell me That Christ is come and positively say and testifie That you look not for another which hath already been refuted and your ignorance with the rest of those of your perswasion made manifest But to draw towards a Conclusion I do in the bowels of Jesus Christ intreat you to examine and prove these Lines by the writings of the holy Men of God Who spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit and ponder so the paths of your feet that all your wayes may be established and see if you have not refused and forsaken the good way of the Lord opposing that Doctrine which is according to Godliness take heed lest you are irrecoverably carried away with a new and strange Doctrine by the slight of men and crastiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive I as touching my self do know on whom I have believed And do not think I shall lay down my head in sorrow as you are pleased to signifie if I procced in the way I am in for though I am outwardly decaying and the time of my departure is at hand yet am I through the Grace of God in some good measure assured That when the earthly house of this Tabernacle is dissolved I have a building of God a house not made with hands eternal in the Heavens 2 Cor. 5. 1 2. I may say with holy Job Behold my witness is in Heaven and my record is on high Job 16. 19. I do know that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth and though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for my self and mine eyes behold and not for another though my reins be consumed in me Job 19. 25 26 27. And that God who fed me all my life long unto this day and hath refreshed my Soul with the dews from above and given me a place in his house will take continual care of me and cause my Soul to bring forth fruit in old Age and be my God and my guide eveu until death And whatsoever you may suppose of the Way and Doctrine in which my Soul is through the Grace of God established and remains unmoveable Yet unto all my faithful Brethren I have this to say and testifie with the Apostle That this is the true Grace of God in which you stand and there is no other Gospel nor Doctrine of Christ to be received nor no other burden laid upon you by Christ but what you have already hold fast until he comes Be you faithful unto death and you shall receive the crown of life And all I have further to say to you my dear Sister is only in tender love to exhort you to Repent and turn to the Lord Jesus Christ and give glory to him before your feet stumble upon the dark Mountains and while you look for Light he turn it into the shadow of Death and make it gross darkness God waits long before he utterly gives up a People or a particular Soul to believe lies to be snared and fall so as never to rise any more If you refuse to hear me I can but mourn and weep in secret for you and however I may be judged and censured by any I shall in what I have done have peace This being all at present I shall leave it to the blessing of God and remain Your Affectionate Brother H. G. POSTSCRIPT Christian Reader THE perilousness of these last dayes are very great and the danger of them appears every day more and more those evil times which our Lord Jesus did foretel should come in which false Christ's and false Prophets should arise and deceive many we are brought forth in The Devil knows his time is short and therefore is in great rage Rev. 12. laying about him as I may say with both hands those Souls which he can't destroy by fleshly and carnal filthiness and cursed debauchery which never abounded more in the World than it doth now he labours to ruine and spoyl eternally by erroneous Opinions blasphemous and damnable Heresies And this let me add further That the sins against the first Table are as heinous and as abominable in the sight of God if not more than those against the Second which may appear by that speedy swist and severe execution of wrath and divine vengeance upon those under the former dispensation who were upon that account disobedient and transgressors Levit. 10. 1 2. Numb 15. 36. Numb 16. 32 35 40. 1 Sam. 6. 19. 2 Sam. 6. 6 7. And of all Heresies none are more dangerous and pernicious than those which tend to the razing and destroying the foundation of Religion and Godliness and therefore it is said by the Prophet If the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do Psal 11. 3. Now the foundation upon which the true Christian doth alone and wholly build is the Lord Jesus Christ JEHOVAH hath laid in Zion for a foundation a stone a tryed stone a precious corner-stone Isa 28. 16. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid which is Jesus Christ 1 Cor.
LIGHT From the SUN of Righteousness Discovering and Expelling Darkness OR The Doctrine and some of the corrupt Principles of the People called Quakers briefly and plainly laid open and refuted Containing a Reply to an Answer of a Letter written formerly by the Author to his own Natural Sister dwelling in the Island of Barbadoes Published for common benefit but more especially for the good of poor weak wavering Christians to help and recover them out of the snare of Satan By H. G. Luke 22. 32. When thou art converted strengthen thy Brethren 2 Pet. 1. 19. We have a more sure word of Prophesie whereunto ye do well that ye take heed c. Isa 8. 20. To the Law to the Testimony if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no sight in them Printed in the Year 1672. Light from the SUN of Righteousness discovering and expelling Darkness My Dear Sister YOurs I have received dated the 22 of the 9th Month 1671 which contains an Answer to a Letter of mine bearing date the 21 of the 8th Month 1670 which was written in tender love and affection to your precious Soul in which I was moved to forwarn and caution you concerning the evil and Soul-undoing Principles of the People called Quakers to whose pernicious Doctrine I had some doubts and jealousies you were ready too much to hearken and incline unto And by this Answer of yours I perceive you are now exceedingly drove away by the stream of their Delusions and have sucked in the Venom of their poysonous Doctrine which is no small grief and trouble to my Spirit to think that you a near Relation of mine and one which sometime since I had such good hopes of should by the subtile Wiles of Satan be in your Old Age so grievously beguiled it wounds my Soul to think you should be so rooted and grounded in their Principles none being more repugnant to the Fundamentals of Religion and the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ I am afraid that these Lines may come too late yet not knowing whether the Lord hath yea or no utterly given you up to blindness of mind to believe lyes that so you should be damned for not receiving the truth in the love of it that you might be saved 2 Thess 2. 10 11 12. I have sent you these Lines as a further discharge of my Conscience and that I may be pure from your Blood in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ and that it might not only be of profit through the blessing of God to you but also to others whom God in mercy may please to recover out of the snare of the Devil in the Island of Barbadoes or elsewhere to whom they may come I have been at the Charge of Printing them And these may certifie you in the first place that I have diligently examined and seriously weighed the chief Heads or most material things contained in your Letter and by comparing them with the holy and blessed Scriptures of Truth and weighing them in that most Sacred Ballance of the Sanctuary I find them as light as vanity being nothing else save the aiery Notions of a poor deceived People by whom your Soul is deluded and most sadly and grievously captivated which by the assistance of God I shall indeavour to make appear before I have done And that I might distinctly Answer your Lines and refute you and others also that are of your judgment I shall begin with the beginning of your Letter which is as followeth Brother G. I Did receive a Letter from thee dated the 21 of the 8th Month 1670. with kind expressions of Love to me both to my Soul and Body as thou hast there express'd which in love to thy Soul I now am willing to Answer for a little strength is administred to me into the Everlasting Kingdom since first I have received the Truth First As to thy Love I do receive as from my Natural Brother and I hope I have not forgot natural affection But as for thy Counsel to my Soul I do faithfully believe that I have chosen the good part which shall never be taken from me I bless and praise the Lord I know a Teacher near me that shall never be hid in a Corner Thou sayest though distance of place and Age drawing on upon us both yet that we may meet together in the Resurrection of the Just As for the Resurrection of the Just I am risen again with Christ yea the Just one is risen in me Glory to his Name for ever Oh! what manner of love is this c Thou sayest There was a time that thou hadst hopes that I should become a Convert of Christ Truly Brother to be a Convert of Christ the way thou approvest of would do me no good at all for there is nothing of the Cross of Christ in it and I see it vanity for there are just men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked Eccles 8. 14. therefore the Wise mans Counsel is be not over righteous 7. 16. I do not say the keeping the Commands of Christ is vanity but to strain the Commandments of Christ to a form of Worship which is not according to the Spirit to Bread Wine and Water which was to be held in practice but till Christ came and Christ is come the second time of which coming no mention is made of Bread Wine nor Water Answ Before I shall repeat more of thy Letter I shall make some Reply to this first part I shall pass by several expressions which serve for little else than to demonstrate the corruption of your judgment And in the first place I shall call into question your confidence about your choosing the better part Sister How dare you conclude you have chosen the good part with Mary whilst you refuse to hear the teaching of the true Saviour Mary gave ear to what her Lord and Master declared and taught she sate at his feet and heard his word it was not only the Teacher or Light within she gave ear to but also to the Doctrine and Counsel of the Man Christ Jesus without whose Disciple and Scholar you must come to be and follow his Counsel and Doctrine as it is contained in the holy Scripture and till which time never flatter your self so as to conclude you have chose the good part Secondly as touching your knowledge of the Teacher that is near you or the Light within which the Quakers say is in every Man and Woman that comes into the World You are mistaken and have not a right knowledge of that Teacher and this I shall evidently make appear for this alas is your grand mistake you speak of this Light more than is true or doth agree with that Doctrine that is according to Godliness You exalt it above the holy Scriptures nay you and others of your judgment make a God and a Christ of it You bid me in one place of your Letter own this
I have it is from above and I dare not be wise above what is written But why dost thou deny the flesh or body of Christ Oh! that ever my Sister should yield so far to Satan and Delusion as to affirm That that Body of flesh and bone that was born of the Virgin and nailed to the Cross is no where said to be the Christ but that the Christ was in him in that body of flesh that was crucified It is evident that you deny the Man Christ Jesus or he to be the Christ that was hanged on the tree or put to death between two Thieves For if the Light or Power in that Person be the only Christ of God distinct and apart from the body that was crucified on the Cross then it followeth plainly and may appear to any that your chief Doctrine leads you to deny that ever the Christ of God and true Saviour died for the Light Power or Godhead whereof you speak could not be so crucified and nailed to the Cross And if that Man to wit Jesus of Nazareth was upon no other account called the Christ but meerly and alone because the true Christ was in him Why may not any other man in whose flesh or body Christ is manifested and doth dwell be called the Christ as well as he who was born of the blessed Virgin Alas poor Soul thou didst never learn this Doctrine of Christ nor from the holy Scriptures Thou seemest to be one of G. Whitehead's Scholars and H. W. The latter doth affirm That Christ was never seen with any outward or bodily eye Bear with me if I am large in my Answer to you concerning this thing for my Soul is wounded in the thoughts of what you here write to see you plainly deny the true Saviour it would rejoyce my heart if God should have so much mercy for you as to recover your feet out of this evil snare I bless God for the Grace which hath been given unto me in Christ through the Gospel which hath not only enlightned my Soul into the saving knowledge of a crucified Jesus and glorious Light of the New Covenant but hath also discovered with much clearness unto me the great darkness of these men who cry up Light and Power within And I shall endeavour to make appear the Nature of this Wile of Satan and Cheat of Antichrist by God's assistance You do imagine that I am over-wise or wise in my own conceit because I affirm That Jesus Christ is a Man consisting of flesh and bone and that he ascended with the same body he had after he rose again from the dead Whether this be according to the Scriptures or the Doctrine of yours let it now be proved That inward Principle of Light and Power that was in that Person which was crucified or the Light which is in every man that cometh into the World is the true Christ Saviour and Mediatour you and other Quakers do affirm which I utterly deny yet nevertheless I would have none to suppose in the least that I do deny the glorious Deity or Godhead of our Lord Jesus Christ For though the inward Power or Godhead I assert is not the Christ considered distinct and apart from the Manhood or Humane Nature yet do I according to the holy Scripture from my heart believe that Jesus Christ is truly God Eternal God being from everlasting with the Father and the express image of his Person Heb. 1. Of the Son he saith Thy Throne O God is for ever and ever Heb. 1. 8. The Word was in the beginning with God and was God And though he is verily God yet also is he truly Man The Word was made Flesh and dwelt amongst us and this Emanuel or God with us God in the Nature of Man is the Christ he was in the form of a Servant a man approved of God Acts 2. 22. A man of sorrows Isa 53. 3. and yet thought it no robbery to be equal with God Phil. 2. 6. being Davids Root and Davids Off-spring And this is that Glorious Mystery of God manifest in Flesh not God manifest in the flesh of every man and woman but God manifest in the flesh of our Mediatour in that particular body of Christ prepared for him by the Father or God-man in a wonderful mysterious union God and Man in an admirable manner united together in one Person that so he might thereby reconcile God and Man the offended Creator and the offending Creature and remove the Enmity upon the account of transgression And since I perceive your darkness so great upon this account that you conclude the Godhead Divine Nature of the glorious Light and Power that was in him viz. Jesus of Nazareth that was born of the Virgin distinct from his body or Humane Nature is the Christ To refute you pray observe what the Angel speaks unto the Virgin Thou shalt Conceive and bear a Son and shalt call his Name JESUS He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Highest Mary conceived the true Christ in her Womb and laid him in Swadling Clothes Luke 2. 6 7. Moreover the Angel testified unto the Shepherds That that very Child which Mary brought forth was the Christ Unto you is born this day observe it in the City of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. Also our Saviours words to the Woman of Samaria one would think might convince you concerning this matter She was ignorant of the true Christ I know the Messiah shall come saith she and when he comes he will tell us all things Joh. 4. 25. Jesus saith unto her I that speak unto thee am He. He did not say the Light which is within me is he viz. the Christ and true Messiah but I that speak unto thee The Apostle Peter's Testimony agrees with this Thou art Christ the Son of the living God He that was the very Son of God was also the Son of Man He took not on him saith the Author to the Hebrews the nature of Angels but he took on him the Seed of Abraham Heb. 2. 16. Moreover after our Lord Jesus rose from the dead and appeared to his Disciples they being in a maze supposing they had seen a Spirit he said unto them Behold my hands and my feet it is I my self handle me and see a Spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see me have and when he had so said he shewed them his hands and his feet If this Person who shewed his Disciples his hands and feet was not the true Christ or if he really were not a man consisting of a Body of flesh and bone what will you make of his Expressions But again Doth not the words of John Baptist very clearly refute you The people asked whether he was the Christ or no He Answered them He was not But he told them That he which sent him to baptize with Water the same said unto me Vpon whomsoever thou shalt see the Spirit descend and
when all Jabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul vers 12. they arose all the valiant men and took away the body of Saul and the bodies of his Sons and brought them to Jabesh and buried their bones under the Oak c. What they speak of Christ they may as well affirm concerning Saul and his Sons the case is the same Saul was not flesh they may as well conclude but something which did dwell in that body that the men of Jabesh Gilead buried under an Oak after his overthrow because that body is not called Saul but the body of Saul The same we also reade concerning Moses as may be seen Jude vers 9. Michael the Archangel when contending with the Devil he disputed about the body of Moses durst not bring a railing accusation against him c. That Moses was a man consisting of flesh and bone they may deny by the same Argument or say assuredly that that body was not him because it is called his body as so to affirm and speak concerning our Lord Jesus 'T is not said saith one of your Teachers that Joseph of Arimathea begged the Jesus of Jesus but the body of * See G. Whitehead's Book called The Light of Christ within p. 62. Jesus As if it must needs have been so said if that Man called Jesus had been the Christ What Nonsense would this man have writ if he had penned the story concerning the body of Saul he must have writ the men of Jabesh took up the Saul of Saul And what a strange Epitaph would this man write upon a Grave or Tombstone he can't write by this Argument Here lies the body of Thomas or William c. but rather thus Here lies the Thomas of Thomas And by this all persons may see how ridiculous these men render themselves while they scrape up such silly Arguments to deny and oppose the Truth But to proceed You tell me That flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God and so from those words of the Apostle conclude That our Saviour is not ascended with the same body into Heaven above which he took in the Womb of the Virgin Answ I understand to my trouble that many poor Souls in these last and evil days are carried away so far by the Spirit of Dâ—â—sion that they do deny the Resurrection the dead and this place of Scripture 〈◊〉 you mention I find is commonly made use of as a proof and confirmation of this their evil opinion but how exceedingly you and others do wrest the words of the Apostle in 1 Cor. 15. I might abundantly make appear It seems strange to me that you should father such a Principle upon the Apostle Paul who doth so clearly in the Spirit and Power of Christ Jesus in that very Chapter oppose and utterly detect it and sharply reproves those that did deny the Resurrection of the dead in his dayes If there be no resurrection of the dead saith he vers 13. then is not Christ risen and if Christ be not risen then is our Preaching vain yea and we are found false witnesses of God because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ whom he raised not up if the dead rise not For if the dead rise not then is not Christ risen vers 16. And if Christ be not raised your Faith is vain and ye are yet in your sins viz. Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ are perished vers 18. Observe these expressions well and let all such tremble who are found this day opposing and denying this glorious Truth and great Fundamental of the Gospel Remember the words of our blessed Saviour himself Joh. 5. 28 29. Marvel not at this for the hour is coming in which all that are in the Graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth they that have done good to the Resurrection of life and they that have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation This cannot intend a rising out of the grave of sin because rising in that sense spiritually from the dead our Lord spake of that before in the same Chapter ver 25. and he plainly holds forth this rising vers 28. to be quite another thing to that he speaks of v. 25. And there are none that hear Christ's voice and are raised spiritually from the dead in that respect that do rise to condemnation The Lord Jesus alludes to the same Resurrection which Daniel speaks of Dan. 12. 2. Many of them that sleep in the dust of the Earth shall awake some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt Thy dead men shall live saith the Prophet Isa 26. 19. with my dead body shall they arise Abundance of clear proofs I might further urge for the clearing up of this Truth but I shall proceed and indeed should not have mentioned these Scriptures but that I find you questioning if not utterly denying the Resurrection of the body You mention Paul's expression 1 Cor. 15. flesh blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God To Answer you in this much I need not speak for it is evident to any unless such who are wofully blinded that by flesh and blood the Apostle doth intend corruption or corruptible flesh and blood and therefore he testifies that those who are alive at the coming of Jesus Christ shall be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye For saith he this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortallity he will change our vile bodies and fashion them like unto his glorious body Phil. 3. 21. But let not any conclude because the Apostle doth affirm our bodies shall be changed that therefore the same body respecting the matter substance or essence of it shall not be raised for Paul asserts that the same it which is sown in corruption that very same it riseth in incorruption and every seed shall have its own body If the same body which is buried in the Grave respecting the matter rise not then the dead rise not All the change is touching the state qualities or condition of the body the corruption and imperfection and all manner of deformity shall be done away and it shall rise more glorious than it was before To help your understanding a little further consider that true convertion is called a change the Soul of every regenerate godly Man and Woman is changed yet it t is not a change of the essence of the Soul but only of its evil qualities c. Observe a saying of Job Job 19. 25 c. I know that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the Earth And though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for my self and my eyes shall behold and not another although my reins be consumed in me That same body that hath sinned with the Soul shall be punished with the Soul and the same body
reconciled to God by the operation of this Light or Christ within Not only that it is a cause but the alone only chief and procuring cause without having respect to the Sacrifice of Christ's crucified Body which was nailed to the Cross and that Christ in the outward in his death and sufferings was but only a Patern or Example of that which must be wrought over again in us though some of them I do confess have been pleased to say That Christ's death and suffering without upon the Cross was more than a Patern or Exemplar for they say he did put an end thereby to the Types and Shadows of the Ceremonial Law c. but not that he reconciled us thereby and satisfied the Justice of God and that through his Righteousness and Merits imputed unto us in believing we stand acquitted and shall be saved but contrariwise it is affirmed That every one that comes to be justified must come to witness the same inherent holiness and perfection that was in our Lord Jesus Christ and in that perfect Obedience of theirs by following the teachings of the Light of their own Consciences or Christ within they place their hope faith and dependance and thus they seem not to be beholding to the Man Christ Jesus nor need his intercession who poured forth his blood without the gate of Jerusalem to wash and cleanse our Souls as the vertue thereof is applyed by Faith unto our Consciences for where the Scripture speaks of God being reconciled unto us and of our Salvation and remission of sins it is plainly held forth being done already for us by Christ's death and suffering without and as being done and compleated by that one Offering of his though I confess as I have told thee we receive not the benefit of it till by the help of the Spirit we are made able to apply it to our Souls which application of Christ's blood doth work that change in the Soul which I have mentioned already to you about Conversion That this is according to the Doctrine of the holy Apostles see these Scriptures Rom. 3. 24 25 26 27. Acts 4. 12. Rom. 5. 10. For when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son 2 Cor. 5. 18. Heb. 10. 14. Heb. 9. 14. vers 25 26 28. Now how contrary this Doctrine is to the principles of those People called Quakers may appear to you were you not too much given up to blindness And God forbid that ever I should own their Principle of the Light in all that doth so clearly tend to the razing out the grand Fundamentals of the Gospel You bid me Come out of my beggarly Elements and turn to the Light within and believe in it and 't will certainly take away my sins Answ Dare you call Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and Obedience to him who hath wrought Redemption and Salvation for me and revealed this by his Word and Spirit and work'd it in me beggarly Elements Shall those holy Appointments of Jesus Christ namely Baptism and the Supper of our Lord be denyed by thee and condemned as beggarly Elements Was not our Lord Jesus himself baptized in Waâ—er notwithstanding he had so much of the holy Spirit in him and was not Paul and Cornelius though they had the Spirit in such a wonderful manner baptized in Water And did not all the Primitive Saints walk in that Order and Communion that is owned by me and my Brethren of the baptized Churches And were not the Saints commended for owning and holding the Ordinances as they were once delivered unto them and would you have me leave the footsteps of the Flock to walk in your by-path God forbid Those Ordinances that you call beggarly Elements have been made rich sweet and glorious Appointments and Ordinances to my Soul Indeed 't is no marvel if you deny the Sign who do deny him who is thereby signified you denying the Substance viz. a crucified Christ I see you are naturally led to deny that which doth so clearly shadow him forth but under his shadow I have with the Spouse sate down and his fruit is and hath been sweet unto my taste And therefore do I write unto you that you might have fellowship with us for in some measure we can say through Grace our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ Praises and Halilujah to God for ever who hath given us that witness in our selves of which thou speakest that we can experience the Power of Christ's Spirit risen in us for our Sanctification and Renovation as well as Christ was raised from the dead for our Justification Thou boastest of the kernel as if thou hadst found it without the shell be not mistaken the Power and the Form the Sign and that which is thereby signified God hath joyned together I grant a Person may find the Shell and have no kernel in it have a form of Godliness but deny the Power but rare is it to find the kernel without the shell If they are ashamed of all they have done saith the Lord shew them the form of my house Ezek. 43. 11. The Lord added to the Church daily such as should be saved Acts 2. 47. and they continued stedfastly in the Apostles Doctrine and fellowship and in breaking of Bread and in Prayers vers 42. But lest I should be too large I shall hasten to the rest of your Letter in which you repeat some of my words which were in that former Letter I wrote unto you which are as followeth Thou sayest Sure I am that those Persons who deny the Man Christ Jesus to have wrought Salvation for them have no Salvation at all and if they repent not of their evil shall one day be set amongst the Goats and not amongst the Sheep of Christ That is very true Brother but art not thou one of them that deny the Man Christ Jesus whom John saw clothed with a garment down to the feet and girt about the paps with a golden girdle c. by the same Spirit the pure in heart see God for Christ is the true God and everlasting Life but to know Christ after the Flesh which thou and multitudes aim at The Apostle saith Though I have known Christ after the flesh yet from henceforth I know him so no more Indeed those that cry up carnal things for Ordinances may stand amongst the Goats Answ 'T is true I did say that such who deny the Man Christ Jesus to have wrought Salvation for them have no Salvation at all and is it any more than the Apostle Peter speaketh 2 Pet. 2. 1 2. Those false Prophets who privily bring in damnable Heresies even denying the Lord that bought them he doth affirm do bring upon themselves swift destruction c. I charge none in particular and would to God there were none in England guilty herein but why do you conclude or think that I do deny the Man Christ Jesus that John saw who