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Show ( 64 ) porate in.to a meer my#ical Difptn[ation ( which !S Jr~tl- deny'd, as before-faid) And at laft ( f~ys .~~) .Ut.tnct. it is nothing but that Excufing and ConJemnmg ~rm,., ciple in Man, which we call the natural Confc!ence. But therein, fay 'I, they call it wrong ; tt .15 0? more Confcience, than rhe Lantborn (to whtch ll is fomerimes compared ) is the Ca~Jle, .or m?re ·properly the Spirit oft be Lord that ltghts ~~. , whtch Frov. 20. · ' . r ·d . b · the Ct~ndle · 27. the. Spirit of a Man 14 ta.t to e, VIZ. Pfal. 18. of the Lord, 'which he lighteth: An? but .a few 28• lines funher he fays, which indeed ts nothmg but fome remqi~t~er of the Divine Image, left by the Com.pajfion of Got/, upon the Confcience of Ma~., after. hzs f~tl. So that herein he has conrradtCled htm-fe! f. and fllown his Inconfifien~y and Confufion; 'for' if it is what the Lord harh left upor: the Confcience, then it is not Conf~ien~e ; n~tt~e~ J I is it Natural but Spiritual, for m h1m WM Life, om 1. 4, ' . d h t ·s S· and the Life 'JJJM the Ltght of Men ,; ~n t a 1 · Spiritual, rho' it fhines in rhe Gonfctcnce; yea, in Darknefs alfo, yet the Darl~ qefs comprehends it nor: Herein rhey ihew their Ig~orance o~~ a~ wdl as Envy ro the Light of Chnfr. ~n~ .u the .Man Chrift ( fars he) a .1fleafure of:)J}bzch u.m (be ~akers. Anfw. T~is ~~never fatd was ~he Man Chrifi, nor deny d hts M~nhood ; ; rho: a ~eafure of _chat divine L!fe. whtch :vas !n htfJJ~ and i,s r~e Ltghr of Men, IS m us and ~n all Men~ yet ihar upon w~ich .(1ccount (~she fays) the QuiZ .. le~.r made tbemfelves t~ be Cbrzfts., m truly as E'rJer 2v~ts J'efm the Son of Mary ? is a mofi ~rofs Fa.Ife• hood arid Cal~mny, whtch defervc no. other Anfwer, rhart what Michael gave rhc Devil, 1b.e 9'ecaftttf of ([~nift. in tly~ f..ord Rebuke thee. · .: ·C. M. Ibid. C. ;. And thi~ Pr·inciple the !?,!akers callul a meajiJre of the A-ian Ckrift, the Ltlht, t~e fVord, the Scul; Is true ( thac ~s, ~s he wa~ . · : . · hoc~ 7- 'f; ( 6) ) both God and Man) and we own it fo ~o be! and is one of rhe Trueft Things in his Book ; But that the ·,vbole Hijlory of the Gofpel they there:. fore beheld, "1 (he f~ys) aB.ed over a$ain everY. d.AJ (14 literally as ever tt ~a.r tn Palefime. Thts IS falfe, and I dare hillJ to pr?y~ w~oever faid fo, or that what befaU.s lthis Pt'mczple tn ttrt, they advanced 116 the Truth tf Chrijl Sacrificed for m, Dy~ ng, Riftng, Sitting at the Right H~~ uf ~od, an4 Coming' in Clouds to Judgment. Thts is alfo falfe, and is but fome of G. Keitl/s Jare Calumnies and Perverfions, which C. M~ther is followjng hin1 in, Jate!y anfwered, as in rhe aook, Intiruled, Judas and the C~ief Priejs, &c. which I dare him to prove, or ·own hunfelf a Lyar : And rhat they {et · themf~lves hereupon t9 Extinguifh our whole ¢hriflian Religicn. Anfiv. ~o fuch macrer, as rq the Chtilliari Religion, wharever they did, as ro theirs that they called Ghd!Han, rho, fo U n~ thrHlian, as appear,d by rheir ACljons, yer no~ the true Chrifiian Religion, fer up by Chrifi anq ~is Apofil~s, viz, To Worfhip Gorl in Spirit and '(ruth, and; to vijit the F.<Itber!efs ~nd Wido,vs (which ~nfiead of vi firing the New- England- Men, per(e..: Cute~) and to keep unjpotted of' the World, which rheir· Religion don ,r do, by his own ConfeHion~ wim~fs Boo~ V. p. 88, 89., 90, &c. of his Hifiory, and Book V IJ. (Jh. t. where he complains ~f rhe Sins and A~,Qrhinarions th,at is among them. , · ; ' · · ; C~ M. Ibid. Thq {coffed at ~t!r imagined God beyond tbe Stars, and [aid, our Carnat Cbrift i4 ut- <5ob \I terly denie!J by the Li;,ht. Anfui. This is alfo falfe, ~!Jtilt. for they· deny Scoffing, nor never ufed any fuch ·: Expreffio~s in Con,em pt of rhe True· God and Chritl, rho'. not fo ~ beyond the Srars, as not co ~e ~n ~i~ People. Neither a fa't off-in lie~ven, ~·"' {\ ; . ,I . t t ! . . " , .:: nor. "' |