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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65867	The glory of Christ's light within expelling darkness being the sum of the controversie between the people called Quakers, and some of the non-conformist priests, as manifest at two publick disputes in Essex : between George Whitehead (called a Quaker) and Stephen Scandret (Presbyter) being at the latter dispute assisted with five more of his brethren, the priests, to wit, Nathaniel Barnard, Henry Havers, Henry Coleman, Nath. Ball, and Robert Billoes : wherein are several.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1669 (1669)	Wing W1930; ESTC R39125	35,191	47

Flock whereupon the Episcopal Priest is contented to let them drive a trade under his Nose But now you who are the Followers and Hearers and Benefactors these cunning creeping Priests you should do well to try them a little be not too free of your purses to them lest afterward you repent of it for we do not believe that many of them are so consciencious as to scruple conforming to the Common-Prayer if they had but a dead trade among you or were put upon trial for now you have fed them so full and fat that they make such a vapour and blustering against us who have been the Sufferers and whom they know in stormy times have endured the storms and born the heat and the blows very much from them when they have skulkt and crept into holes and corners and very few of them durst shew their heads in any Testimony for God or Christ but have been ready to run away out at back-doors or over the houses rather then be taken prisoners though now they can in their Meetings Houses and Barns most unworthily and unjustly rail against and revile us called Quakers and grosly pervert and misrepresent our Principles vilifying and reproaching the Truth that we profess concerning the Light of Christ that is in every man and the sufficiency of it but it is set over all their heads and the Truth hath confounded and shattered them for they were commonly wont to tell people it was but a natural light the light of a natural Conscience a created light but now this their representative S. S. hath confest that it is a spiritual Light yea a Light of the Spirit of God that is in every man so what he hath asserted to the contrary in his declaring it insufficient and bidding people turn their backs upon it is all against the Spirit of God and the Light of it wherein his folly and confutation is so signally discovered that he and the rest that owned him have neither cause now to boast nor yet to urge for any more meetings with any of us nor we much so regard them except that we should order some of our women Friends to dispute with them for many of them are able to confute these shatter'd Priests whom the Sun is set upon and the day is become dark and the Lord is delivering many out of their mouthes and that is their torment especially when they are like to lose any of their Benefactors then they are ready to call for disputes with us and to make a bussle and stir by which they still lose and are disappointed of their ends for at the last Dispute when they would not suffer us to explain our selves or give an answer some of the people said We shall like the Quakers never the worse if you will not give them leave to speak and indeed many were then convinced so far as to see the folly and madness of this S. S. and his Assistant Priest Bernard who was there proved a manifest Lyar in interrupting G. W. contrary to his plain promise The Questions which we propounded to be disputed on before the first Dispute were three as first Whether every man be enlightned with a spiritual saving Light which we affirmed Secondly Whether Perfection be attainable in this life which we affirmed Thirdly Whether impure persons while such be justified by the imputation of Christ's Righteousness which we denied This last Question S. S. altered and stated it thus Whether Justification be by the works of the Law or by the Righteousness of Christ through Faith which Question could not in these general terms so reach the controversie between us as the Question we proposed these Priests holding That men are imputatively righteous and justified when actually Sinners and we holding the contrary That men are justified when really and actually righteous or partakers of the Righteousness of Faith in Christ wherein they are obedient to the Word or Spirit of God in their hearts to which the righteousness of Faith requires obedience and we further affirm that it is a false imputation to reckon men righteous or just whilst they are really or personally unrighteous and unjust for the Faith that was reckoned to Abraham and by which the Believers are justified is a Living Faith that purifieth the heart and that is accompanied with those works of obedience which answer the Law of Faith in the heart Moreover to these Questions before S. S. added three more as in the first place Whether the Scriptures are not to be our Rule of Life to which we affirmed Not the Writings but the thing written of to wit the same that was the Saints Rule in all Ages or the Spirit and Light of Christ within which gave forth the Scriptures and brings to the right understanding true use and fulfilling of them and without which Light people cannot truly understand them Then S. S. added for the two last Queries viz. Whether Baptism with water be an Ordinance of Christ which he affirmed though he durst not tell us whether Babes or Believers were to be the Subjects of it or whether he were a true administrator of it for when G. W. in a Letter would have put him to prove his call to the Ministry and whether he own'd immediate Revelation in these dayes he must have George to prove his call first thus he shuffled And then his last Question was Whether the Lords Supper be not an Ordinance of Christ binding us this Question we got not to to discuss nor did he explain what he meant by the Lords Supper howbeit he hath told G. W. in a paper That this Light within doth not dictate that Baptism by water is Gods Will nor that we ought to celebrate the Lords Supper c. So that you the Hearers and Followers of this S. S. may take notice that if he does celebrate as he Popishly saith and delivers to you Bread and Wine and tell you it is the Lords Supper he is not led to it by the dictates of the Light within which he hath confest to be the Light of the Spirit of God and therefore we may conclude his pretended Celebration and Ordinance not binding to us because the Light of the Spirit of God does not enjoyn us to it for we must worship in the newness of the Spirit and we know the Spirit of Truth leads into all Truth so that what is of Truth the Light dictates to us and therefore we must not follow Priest S. S. his darkness for our Dictator or Guide Secondly If sprinkling Infants be a part of his Trade in houses and corners you may understand that the Light of the Spirit of God doth not dictate it unto him and therefore you will be exceeding blind and dark if you give your selves to be bound to submit to his darkness or to any of his impositions which are neither Scriptural nor Spiritual therefore we caution you not to follow such dark and blind Guides and not to turn your