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Show 5'4 '!be ChrHHan Quaker, anil hiJ · V.oL. I., t6H· ~ Et dure gufrc11r fudabunt rofciJa nt(l/a.f From the hard Oak there (hall Srm:et Ho"'} fweat forth and fall. p ) ....., J r Jrai.. 6o. ,, J, 3, to the End. Chap.6t; r; 2,).-- Matt. J, 21o to the End. Wk.a.lo. lli}, y To Conclude ; 1 \\ \\, Ceder f5 ipfe mari veOor ~ nee nau!i'a pinm Mutabit merces : om nil }tret omma_ uUts. ..a }{on roflro.r P.atietur hif~11.!1 non vznea fa!cem, J..'u variOJ difcet mtnttrl lt~na col~res. ~Or~lJS.tL Spontt futifa!ldyx paftemcs ve.ft.ru ag_nos; ,, 0 mibi tam Ionge maneat pdn yfnma Vtl4, ·~ Spiritm f.!J quantum fat erit, tua diure fall a! The Su !hall then be !J._uier, no Ship !hall range Abroad her Wares with others to exchange: Then e~'ry Land fhall Ev'ry thing prod-nee, And then to Plow the Earth they (hall not Vfe : Vinu by the Hook !hall not be Reflify'd, Nor Wool wirh divers Colours !hall be Dy'd .; Fair Fleeces, voluntary, fhall proceed, And Clothe the Lambs, while they do gently Feed. 0 might my D")'s be lengthtn'd, fo that I Might fin: of tbJ great Dmls bcfort I dJ" Thus, to fay no more, though much more might he faid. of this Kind, have Heathens, by rhe Light we h:1ve been hitherto def~ndmg, ~or only .., Fore-told Chrifi's Appearance, but the v~ry Work, for ';Vhl~h He d1d come,. and for which He received thofe peculiar Names of Cbrijl, J efuJ, Em~ mange/, The Heflorer Of Breac~tJ, Redeemtr, S~v_iour, &c. So tl'jat I hope our Adverfaries will either dtfprove thefe Wnttngs, or co~fefs that the Light God gave to the Gentiles, they obeying it, was fuffinent, and that by it they had fome of them a Sight of Chrift, with refpe<l to the great Performance, for which he was fo named. . I have omitted any mention of rhofe SybiOs, fo much regarded by Jufh,w 'Martyr, TertuOian, Clemens .A!exandriR11s, and Abundance of ,the Ancl· ents, for David Blonde!fs Sake, an Accurate Frmcb·man, ~ho end~ayourS "~~~"- "1 to prove the B9oks that go unde! t~eir Name to be. Sp11~t011J ; wnt ~nee ~ Cbrift, by fom~ affd!ed to Chrifha~1ty, to .promo/~ It wnh Ihe Gtnttlu. and therefore not Genuine Prophec1es of h1s Commg: Though he grants, SibyUr there were of old, and Exc~llettt Things they wrote, but that th~y were B11rnt in the Capitol of Rome, feveral Hundred Years before ChnJl came in the Flefh. and Scattered Remnants only extant; yet among .th~m enough will be afforded, as Virtil from the Cum~t'n a.lready mcnt!O~l ~; by which to prove th"e great FoTe-jigbt fome of t_be.Gentt!er had of Chr1.ft s being conceived by· the Ho!J Gboft1 Born of a V;rgm, and finally, Commg in the Fltjh for the Salvation of the World: And w~i~h is more than a~y • •. r .~ \ before Virgil, ~ad done, tbe Time w!Jen, nam~ly,. f1i1thm t~ar .Age _; wh1ch · · was the Reign of .Augujl111 CtfJJr r 10 the Uegtnmng of whtch Yirgtl wrote, and about the End of which Cbri/1 VJ/ll ""Born. Chap.XIII. ~ CHAP. XIII. • "'I :r ft it granted that the Jew, t~t~d mttc., mo~e tbe.Chrirtian, bath t!Je _Advanta.fl of the Gentile. Ter tbattbe Genule bad enough f or Salvauon. · BUT that I may provide againft both Ignorance and Malice : Let .n_one unworthily infer from hence, that I prrfer the. Stare of ~enohfrrl ...' ore we State of c;hrijlionitJ: No~nor yet that I !o much os mtend 101 ,. cqua Tefrimony Stated. and P;ntlicatelL e.gual it to Tb.1t o~ r.he ] ewr, to whom pertained tbe Adoption, Glory, Ca. ven~nt,_and tlJe grvtn;. of the Larv, u·hofe were the Fat herr, an./ t{ whom Chrijl btmje!f <am< n}ter the Flejh, o;bo is God (the only Gbd) ouer AU /JieUtd [Qr ever, Amen. ·~' For t~i~ let all know, tha~ far greater w~re the Privil~ges tltat' h~th J; lu and Chrifhan were ble11'ed With, than thofe of the anc1enc .Gcnrilet. God gave the Jews what the Gentiles had, but he was not pleas'd to endoW the Gentiles with all that he freely be!towed upon the Jewr: Yet tb>r he gave t_hem what was fu.fficient to Godlinefs, is altogether as ceruih: For the.Ddference lay not 10 the Roar of rhe Matter, but only in JOme exua~ ordmary Helps, and feveral vifiblc Services, Figura rive OJ, <ii1d rhar pointed at a furrher Glory. "' Tb_e ~ord Nigh in the Heart, of which 1l1ti}Cs tefiified, was not the on~ ly Pnv1le~ge of the Jcrv, bur of the Gen1i!e altO. The Spir'ir ofOod ftrov'C as ~ell _wah the Gentile as t~e :fewijh J11an; and God hirbfelf deda ted! Tbetr 1\cw .MooRr, Solemn ..Aj}cmblter, Sabb11th1, &c. to be nn .libolhin11tion . and bid them de11nfe Ihemfelvcs, ilnd put nway the l!.."vil of their Do1wgs, anJ l r.l. 1• 12• 13, that they fDOJfld maA.e rhe"! a N~w Heart, _and a New Spirit: Intimacing, that ~~~~.~~ 8• 3,, though he d1~ attend thelt Chtldh.ood wnh many Helps, that were wantin~ 32, tto ?th.er Nanons, yet he _requi~ed Fear, .Pariry and R,gbuotifnifs, and that whuk war the mofl Ejfemral 'fhmg : Which, becaufe it was required of rh·e <;Jenttl~r as well as }e'fr, and th~r many Gentile.; believed (o, anrl :~.ccord~ Jngly hve~; unto wh1c~, ~edanng they were inclined by rhe fJme Good Spr':ll, ~h1ch (Job fays~ IS tn .Man, and that Vnderjlandrirg of the .iilmigbJy wh1ch grver Vnderjland~ng, I cannot in Jufiice bur conclude, they wan red nor the Ground-work any more than the Jews. So that rhc Sum of what 1 have been urging, is but this, and thus much it is, Tb,rr tho' God war more Bt..:. nefice''nt to the jew, efpeciaUy 10 the Chriftian, rb.m the Gentile; and confe~ 9_111Jflly tho! as rh~ Je~ "bad Jbofe ._Affifl~mcu rbe Gentile bad not, Jo 1he Cb~iflt~n·Dij}enfatton u the Perje81on of tbe Divine Lig!Jt, Life and 1111- •.ortahty, ~ore weakly feen ~oth by Jew and Gentile. Tet a(fo, Tbar God Jr~ ~om11111n~~ate to 1he Gennles, fitc~ a 111eoJIIn of hir Divi1rt Light and Sp1nt,. tJJ' dtbgen~ly adhered to, and [arth/111/y foUowcd, w,u fttjjfciet~rto their Salvat;on fro'!' Sm her~, andconferpt~ntly /rom Wra1h to come 1 und that they rbemjelvu drd fa &beve, Teach,_ Live and E})e, in perfefl lfopt, atid full lijfllrance of Eternal Recompence, m o State of lmmorraliry. And though I .will not be fo ftri8: i~ my Opinion of the Btfl Gentile~, as to deny there m1ght be fome Sti}Mtxturer from Temper Education or other~ife~ ·y~t I wil1 al~o boldly ~ffirm, rha~ as t~e l:lgh: they had 1was Sufficient 1n It felf to their Sal vauon, of wluch then L1fe and DoCtrine arc a Notable Demon~rarion, fo the~ had fome. of them a Glimmering Prof:. pefl ,and bold ~ehef of as h1gh a Star~ o_fPunty, Glory and Irnmorrality, as Mans Nature IS well capable of auammg to. Ler tbllr much fttjjfce, rvbe-tber fome he pleafed, or not pleafed. in Defence of the UniverfJlity and Sufficiency of the Light of CHRIST within, at leaft with ref pee\ to the Ge~tiles·Divinity, and a full Anfwer tO the Clamours gf our many Ad\•er .. fanes, againft: the Ligbr't S!I./Jciency to Jifcover Sin, a11.d Convert jrom ir. C H A P. XIV. Chap.xtV. Agrw Objeflion Stared and Anfwered. The Light both Law and Gofpel, ~ '!al m.tbe fimie Dif~overy, b11~ in it f elf. .A Way to ruoncile the feem~ rng J:)i_fference aboMI tt. The Ltgbt jlill defended 111 a.fferred. BUT hecaufc I am yet r<nxpe<l Doubters about thi• Ble!fed Light, who . r~ther ftrive to oppofe it bv their Notions, than believe it ~nd obey it to thct~ Sdvation; I will fuppofe thot f~Qle tllay yet obje<l : Certainly |