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UPon ſight whereof I was curious to peruſe a Book
that carried ſo rare and extraordinary a Title: And
to be brief in my Obſervation thereupon, ſhall
only conſider their firſt Paragraph, and therein ſhew how
Egregiouſly theſe Scholars and Divines ſtumbles at the
Threſhould: And that I may be juſt to them, take the
Paragraph at large; a Juſtice they have not obſerved toQuakers; They ſay,
And again,
to aggravate the ſuppoſed Blaſphemy upon them, they make
this Marginal Note, George Fox, the firſt FounGreat Myſtery, Pag. 209.
ſaith againſt his Opponent thus, This Light, that doth
enlighten every one that cometh into the World, which
he (viz. G. F's Opponent) calls Conſcience, is not ConG. F. further faith.). The
Light which every one that cometh into the World is
enlightned withal, is Not Conſcience; for the Light was
before any thing was made, or Conſcience named.
viz. The Quakers teach, that the Light
within, by which they are guided is not Conſcience.
Now this being in the Front of their Book, to be ſure
it was not intended for one of the leaſt of the Quakers Blaſphemies;
though they might as well have called it Sedition
(the other Crime they lay to their Charge) as to make
it Blaſphemy, to ſay, That the Light within is not ConBut if this be Blaſphemy, pray let us hear how
the Scripture will Read after their new way of Tranſlating
Conſcience for Light, which the Quakers, according to the
Holy Evangeliſt, &c. call Chriſt, and they call Conſcience.
John 1. 4, 9. In him (meaning the Divine Word) was Life,
and the Life was the Conſcience of Men: And the Conſcience
ſhineth in Darkneſs, and the Darkneſs comprehendeth it not.
There was a Man ſent from God, whoſe Name was John, the
ſame came for a Witneſs, to bear witneſs of the Conſcience,
that all Men through him might believe. He was not that Conſcience,
but was ſent to bear witneſs of that Conſcience: That
was the true Conſcience, that lighteth every Man that cometh
into the World. John 8. 12. I am the Conſcience of the
World, he that followeth me, ſhall not walk in Darkneſs,
but ſhall have the Conſcience of Life. And alſo, 1 John 1.
2. 5, 6, 7, 8. This then is the Meſſage which we have heard of
Him, and declare unto you, That God is Conſcience, and in
him is no Darkneſs at all: If we ſay we have fellowſhip with him,
Conſcience, as he is in the Conſcience, we have
fellowſhip one with another, and the Blood of Jeſus Chriſt his
Son cleanſeth us from all Sin. Again, Rom. 13. 12. Put on
the Armour of Conſcience. Leſt the Conſcience of the Glorious
Goſpel, &c. 2 Cor. 4. 4. God, who commanded the Conſcience
to ſhine out of Darkneſs, hath ſhined in our Hearts, to give us
the Conſcience of the Knowledge, &c 2 Cor. 4. 6. Laſtly, The
Nations of them that are ſaved ſhall walk in the Conſcience of
the Lamb.
But to read thoſe Scripture Quotations truly, leave out
the word Conſcience, and read the word Light inſtead
thereof.
It is to be lamented, that Men that wear ſo Religious
a Character, and would paſs for the Key and Keepers of
the Holy Scripture to the People, ſhould be ſo much too
hard for themſelves, by letting their Miſtake of the Quakers
Principles carry them into ſo great an abuſe of the
Scriptures, as to be guilty of the Crime they would faſten
upon them; as certainly they all are, who degrade the Divine
Light of Chriſt, in alledging it to be Conſcience, which
may as well be Blind and Defiled, as Knowing and Pure.
Beſides, it is to be admired, that theſe Three Clergy-Men,
who by vertue of their Function, are obliged frequently to
read the Common-Prayer, ſhould be ignorant of a Principle
ſo Emphatically Expreſt therein, as may be read in that
Book, viz. The Goſpel on Chriſtmas Day. The Collect. on John
the Evangeliſt, and the Epiſtle on the ſame Day, with the Collects
on Whitſunday and Munday; and many other places,
too tedious to mention, conſidering my intended Brevity.
And why they ſhould Brand the Quakers, that agree with
the Church of England in ſo great a Principle, I know not,
unleſs in Reallity they are not what their Character be