A second letter to the author of a book, entituled, An answer to W.P. his key about the light within from Edmund Elys ... Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707. 1697 Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2006-06 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A39373 Wing E694 ESTC R41125 19637617 ocm 19637617 109241 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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SIR , I Grant that if I should expose to Publick View any Assertion of yours in your Private Letter to me , that you your self in the same , or in equivalent Terms have not declar'd to the World , you might have some Pretence to charge me with Incivility : But certainly there cannot be the least Appearance of any Grounds for such a Charge in this , that I endeavour before all the World to convince you and your Adherents of the Falshood of this Conceit , That there is not a tittle in all the Scripture that points at Christ , as a Light within every Man's Conscience . This you could not say ( I speak as in HIS Presence , who is Ready to judge the Quick and the Dead ) but by the Instigation of the Prince of DAR●●●●● . If it be Evident in the Holy Scripture that CHRIST is the True and Eternal GOD , it is Evident that He is a Light within every Man's Conscience : For GOD IS LIGHT , LIGHT INFINITE : So that there can be no Spiritual , or Intellectual ILLUMINATION , but what comes directly , and immediately from GOD. By CONSCIENCE we are to understand the Knowledge of the Law of GOD , of that which GOD Commands us to do , or to refrain from Doing , joyn'd with the Knowledge of our own Conformity , or Difformity thereunto . By Light within the Conscience we are to understand That , by which we see , or perceive clearly , and Effectually what it is that GOD Commands us to do , or refrain from Doing : And by which we perceive our own Obedience , or Disobedience , our Conformity , or Difformity to the Will of GOD. The Effect of this Sight , or Perceivance is the EXCUSING , or ACCUSING of our selves in the Sight of GOD , from which arises our Delight in GOD through an effectual Apprehension of his Goodness , or Veneration of Spirit for being Repugnant to his Holy Will , the Fountain of All Intellectual Complacency , and Satisfaction . I desire you would Read all the Papers which have been Publisht for me ; which are Sold by Thomas Northcott , in George yard , in Lombard-street . I also desire you wou'd peruse a Treatise , Entituled , The Spirit of Truth Vindicated , Written by my Honour'd Friend W. P. in which you will see the most Horrid and Detestable Falshood of one of those Absurd , and Contradictory Calumnies , viz. That he is a PAPIST , yea , that he is a JESUITE , And that he is a SOCINIAN . Whether he be a SOCINIAN let any Man judge after he shall have read these Words , in the beginning of that Treatise : I cannot but esteem it a peculiar Providence of Mercy from the Most High GOD , to us his poor despised People , tho' an Instance of great Unkindness in our Adversary , that after our several Years pressure , under the heavy Calumnies of being involv'd with a Socinian Confederacy , he should so suffer it to come to pass , that without the least Provocation given on our Parts , one of that sort of Men should become our Compurgator , indeed our best Advocate in pleading against us ; for whilst he goes about to detect the Quakers of an Erronious Spirit , it is to be supposed that he denies them any share in his ; and therefore no Socinians . I desire that in all your Disputes with me , or Mr. PENN , About the Light within , you would most Seriously Consider that within a very short Time You , and He , and I must give an Account of All our Thoughts , Words , Actions , and Omissions to the LORD Our GOD , who has been pleas'd to reveal Himself unto us in the Holy Scripture under the Appellation of LIGHT , and LOVE . I am Your Servant , And the Servant of All Men , In the Love of the Truth , Edmund Elys . POSTSCRIPT . SInce the Writing of this I have seen Mr. PENN's Reply , in which I find you have no Just Cause to make any such Reflection on him , as if he had Contradicted himself , and me , in that we both have said that CHRIST is The Light within Man. You say W. P. Blames you for fasly and unfairly representing the Quakers Faith in this point , because you say the Quakers say that the Light within is God , and Christ . Mr. PENN's Words are these , Reply , P. 53 , 54. Now tho' with a fair Adversary , one might say without Offence , that God , or Christ is The Light within Man , yet it is not the common way of our Expressing our selves . To be sure we have no such meaning in that way of speaking , as some Adversaries strain , our Words to , as if God , and Christ were Comprehensible in , and by Man , to render us Absurd , and Blasphemous . I entreat you to consider how great a Multitude in this Kingdom have provok'd the Wrath of GOD by Calumniating this Gentleman , Clamouring against him as if he was a PAPIST , yea a JESUITE . Is it Popery to assert that the Principal RULE of Faith to a Sincere Christian is That , which Almighty GOD has WRITTEN in the Hearts of All Men ? This the People call'd Quakers do affirm ; and in this I fully Concur with them : And , I say , for want of a due Belief of this The whole World lyeth in Wickedness . LONDON : Printed for Tho. Northcott in George-yard in Lombard-street . 1697.