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Show 5H The Chriftian-Quaker, and his YoL. I. caufe the Lord is: become my Light, I have known him to be my Salvation1 or him by whom my Salvation hath been wrough~. . In !hart thus, That God is Af)' SaivatiM1 a1 be It ~1y Lrgbt ;, o~, bectt!ife 1 have obtyed Him, 1znd made llun_ml Lit:hr, I have Wltn~fied h1s Sah•at~on. 0 ! that fuch Profeffors cf Rcltgton, m who.m th~re ts any Moderauo~, would but be pleas'd to weigh, what was Dn:uul's L1ght, and what was ~IS Salvation; who made it his Rule at that Ttme of the \Vorld, of whtch lie farther fpeaks : . h ~' w: d L ?&\.ItS. 27, God 11 zbe Lord, w!Jo both fbewed us Ltg t. ~ny or rjis a amp unt(} u 9 1~ 102. m Fu r and a Light JIJZto my Patlu. I have not departed rom r_hy ]udg- ' ' ,!ents for tboM IHJjt taught 11te. This made him far Wtfer than.bts Teach~ ers in' the hidden Life and Myftery of Thmgs, whereby Davzd had. long feen beyond all Types and Shadows of the good ~htngs to come, e1 e~ to the \'ery SubJ\ance it felf, from wh~nce came hts excellent Prophectes . Prov. 4, 1t, ,fa reeing with that famous PafFJge, The Path of rhe Jufl ts.tU the /lnmng Lg bt tbat j/JJI!eJ more and more unto the pcrfdJ Day Tbts ftrongly tm· {fes,' that DaVtd, and not he alone, bur the Ju~ of _all Ages, .were anend· PQ wi1h the Difcovtrres ::tnd Ltadmgr of a DtVme L1ght; Which, through \ Qbediedce of Faith made Juft Men, and always led them the Way of Saivation. unlefs the juft' Way was not ~he Saving Way: But tf It was, tainly i~ is fo frill· for it is the Lord htmfelf that Dav1d calls a Lamp, ~~r he here doth the Word, which Jt!.ofe.r faid was Nrgb zn the Heart, tb~r Men jhou!d obey 11 and do it. ThiS was the W~rd of ~econctbatton .m every Generation, whofe Holy Water wa!hed thetr Confctences from Stn, that heard and obeyed it. . . Agaln, that this Light was not confin'd to Davul, or fuch Good Men, take tbe(e two Paffages. . , . . Pfo~l. ~o. 1,, Tbou giveft thy .Mouth to Ev1l, and thy Tongue fram7tb Decttt; Tho,fl 2o, 21. /itttfl and fpeak.ejl aJtlinfl thy_ Brother, thou jlanderefl tbme own .Motber.r Son: Thefe Tbing.r haft thou done, and I kept Si/en.u, tPou tbo"ghtej11btt I wtU afro ether jtiCh an one tU tby_felf. hur- I Ultfl rep~ovc T{Jee, . a~rJ fe; P!'al. 99• 4· iheni in ~rder before thine Eyer, (faith the Lord.) Agatn, .Hu Lig11tlllngr inlighten'd the Wor!J, the Earth faw, and t.rembled. In which tw~ PlJc;s r(- -·u appear upon impanial Confideranon, that God hath enhghtend ib:World, and that by his Lig~t which difcovers rhe Works and ~ork:rs of Darkn~fs, he doth reprove tlie Inhabit~nts of the World, fer t~eu Sms in Order before them, and caufe fuck ~mlty Ones to Tremble at his fo ~p- arin which is exprefiy confirmed m that n~table Paffagc of [be ~ro· :Phet ;g'For Lo ! He tbdt formeth the Mo11ntaim, and trt~terb the Wuul, Alnps 4> 111' p~}(/lttM~t.r r!Jt Morning Darknef.r, ttnd treadetb upon the btgb Placer tt{ 1be &rrb, ond Julates uHto ft1an, wbat ir hir Thought; the Lord, the Cod rf lfp{lr is his Name. .~ h · f h ed This the Pfalmift was well acqua!ntea '_"i,t hrmfel, when e uner Pfat. 139, 7• thefe Words, :W~itber foalll go from tby Sp1rtt, dr wht~l~er jhaU I flee fro'd thy Prefenct? Which plainly !bows to us, that the.Spmt of the ~ord 311 his Prefence were every where ; and that the L1ghr [he.reof d1fcovere~ Da.rkncfs to Mankind : For the Qpeftion was not, whether God by h1s Spirit was not every where~ for that all ~uft gr;:ant, or h~ could. not be God) But whether it tns poffible for Davzd to w.lthdraw ~~m~elf t~to any Plac~ where [he Ererna/ Spirit and Prefence of God (wh.o IS Light_l.t felf) were 'not Prefcnt with him, in fome Sort or other to Jus InftruEhon 1 :!S the fore-going Words intimate? Again, 0 Lord thou bafl feaf(httl me, Vet'· 1 ' 2 ' 3' and known me, --ThouunderPandejlmy Tbou![ht- afar off-:-- Thou art acquainted with (Ill my Ways. Which, tho' God knew them, It ftandk firm, that David could not h:tvc kno~n. God or t.hem, or th.at God l1ad ~,own them but by the Light of [he Sptm, ofwh1ch he fays 10 the fevcnt~ ~ c;fc following (which I have a heady cited) Wbithcr fbii/11 go}romrby.Spmr .. d In {bon it muft needs be eviden[ to all unprejudic'd Re~ers,. Dav1 meant th;t he had the Light of God's Holy Spirir Pr,eJ~nr wt~h htm, a~ a _Reprover, Informer, or Comforter ; fince he makes lt 1mpofhblc for hi~ VoL. I. .)~ to be any where without i<. Which 111'Y prove to us that 1\owe~cr l(e l67l [ived aboye a thoufand Years befo1e th~ Apol,lle Paul, ~every well kll£1V ~ the Meamng of that DoElnnc he pre:tch d co [he Atbemanr, God i~ not jar C''J'P· V. 4w,ry, or at a J?iftan~ef!"om every one of 11s. Which tru)y' known and ex· Alb 17.'27;. perimenrally Wttnefled 10 the ~oul, and that not only as a Rcprwer but by an humb~e and 1\oly Re!=egtion o( him inr.o the Hea~r, :ts a Comf~ner, Shephe1d, Brlhop, King, and Lord, rs the Glory of the Evangelical Dif. ~nfation, where God drpt;Uf iJI bi.r holy r~tl(p/e, nnd Ta{ernades with t/JCtll. c r 6 9 This is the blefl'ed Em{IJanllt/,-jfntc, God wub, ~nd God m .A1en. ~o. 0 • 1 ' I might here fub joyn the Account we have of [.he great llluminat,ion of Daniel, and the Gmtzle.r cle;1,r Acknow!edgmem of the faq~e, as it is given us in the Scripture; which [hn could ne'!er have' done with that Serioufne! S and ConviEHon, but _frq,m fomc Glirupfe of the fame DiviDe Light, for it muft be the fame Lt,ght, that thew~ t~e fame Truths; but [hat I fhall p:tfs over with fcveral other Paft'~g~s of the leiter ~rophers ; an~ conclude my Scri~t~rc·Proo~ of. the Gift ,of the. Light of God's Spirit, antecedent to Chr~~ s Commg m t~e Fle01, With Stepbct~'s TeJlil11011Y. Howbeit the Mojlli1gh Ju;ellerb not m Templer made with Hands, m failb tbe Prophet : Heaven is my Throne, and .Ettrtb i.r my FootJio~/; rvbar l:i,ou/e Atts1 .• .J8, wiD.you hJJi!d me, faith tb, Lor~? or what _ij the Piau of my Re.ft l Hatb 49, so, Sl· 7101 wy Hand made all tbcfe tbrngs? ) 'e {l11f·1feclled 1111d uncircu111cifed in Hearts and . Ear.r, )'e 1~ Alw~yr l<rfifl tbe H()ly G_hofl ; tU JOUr Fatbe~·.r did, fo do y_e. By w~rch us pl:un, that the Re~elhous J.ews had the Sptrir Qf God; 1t ftro1e With them, bur they refil\ed 11: And 1f the Rebelljqtrs /tad it the Obedient were not wi[hout it. 'And left it lhould be objeded, that ir was only the ~plrit in Srepben then, and [he holy Prophets of old, [bat both they and t-heir Fore-Fa rheas refifted, a~d not in themfelves; Remembe!',. Re ... d~r, th~t weighty Pl!fage in }{ehemru1J, Thou gave fl. a!J~ thy Good Spt(Jt ro mfiruO them, and wirb~ Neh. 9• 2o; beldtft not tby Manna from tbtir .A1ou;b; by whtch it is moft evident, that they that had [he Mann• to Feed ~hem, had the Spirit to inftruCl: them ; but all had their Ponion of the Manna [0 feed [hem, therefore All had alfo the~r. Portion of t.h~ Spirit to Inflrlf{i them. So [bar the Light of God's Spmt, or the Spmt of God, WiJ.S gtven as wen to [he RehrUioTtr as Obedient, that it might condemn {or Sin, or weU tU !tad into alJ Rigbre· 111[nejs: And fince we are to fuppofe God's Spirit, and the Light the_reof, to befufficienr to Sa!v:nion, (for God's Gifts are Per/eO in [berpfelvet, :1nd are gi\'en to accomplifh their Ends perfealy) we may, without any Offence, I ~ op;, conclude, [hlt d_uri.ng th.ofe many A~es before the C~m· ing of Chnft tn the Flelh, He drd Illummate Mankind With a fa..f}inent },1eaJure of his Divine Light and Spirit, ' {, CHAP. VI. Chap. Vf• >../V"'-J BUT here I expea this Objedion, having run our .4.dv"f~riu una-voidably to it: r Obje£C. Very well, Tailing for granuJ, what JM bavefaid in Refeunce .ID a Saving Light or Spin'r, univerjaU1 bejlow'd 11£011 rbe Jews, THA't' W E R E A DIS T 1 N C T p E 0 P L .E from the rejt of the Wt~rfd, under .vtry many pcc14liar Rigbr.r ; yrr ,annot w: tbini ir lood .drguing ro i11{tr rhe |