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trader the taut , che hwr writ on stone , under the gospel , the law vttrit in the heart . And . that this was the general evaDgelic&l rule . When I am better informed I shall believe and write better ; . iill then I must do as I can ; and
I see nothing in that paper to . mduce me to any alteration of ^ ny cr ^ ed . For what I understand by light I need only say , that * not one of my arguments is so much ? ts attempted , at least as laid down by me : and , in a manner , all is granted me , beside what thou naistakestme in . I ana chid
if or not distinguishing upon the term Jight * Truly I deserved it , had not jny adversary taken the term for granted , as I understood it $ and what need there was I should turn critic upon the term agreed upon , thy reprehension hath not afforded me light enough to see . I all along shew I meant not the sun in the outward
firmament , the mere knowledge of man , or capacity to receive knowledge as constitutive of a rational creature , but the internal sun of righteousness , by which the soul receives divioe understanding . And my man I had do with ives his to this
to g si ^ ffrage thing s for he was a Socinian , * one that believes in the outward sun , and but tao largely of man ' s mere natural faculties , and but too meanly of a divine and supernatural light , as necessary to man ' s eternal felicity , which I conceive to transcend the light of fairds * fishes , &c , by thee , in uay
apprehension , frivolously objected . Thy fling * at my attempt to prove man enlightened from John i . 4 , 9 , hits mq not in the least ; for I affirm from those worjs , that it is not any light , aa thou wouldst make me only to intend and extend my argument to , that is constitutive of beasts or i&en as such *
in an abstractive sense , but something transcending and supernatural , ^ s ^ omq speak , for man is man before thai illumination , as Drusius well obeerveth . Again , thou art by much too severe in straining these words , —The light must give true sight 3 as if I
To whom W . Perm here refers , does not appear . It conld scarcely be Faldo , for his book , Quakerism no 'Chrhtiamty , ttasoits strongly the proper deity of Christ . Ed . * * ¦ *«
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meant that every man to whom Gofl offered this light had true knowledge , whether he would br no . For to that stretch thou bringest it . The like about its sufficiency- / as \ f it were sufficient to that end without man ' s
regard of it , No such matter , it is so in itself , but not in men without their assent , and so thou confessest . I see nothing offered in this paper that I could not with as much reason produce against the Holy Scripture itself . It lies most upon the question , if you mean so , I deny it ; if so , I grant it .
When , alas , I mostly intend what thou gTantest , and can see no cause given by that discourse for any such objection , unless that a noted Presbyterian , as men call him , had got my book and I was to be lessened by any artiiice where I had any interest , especially if it was thought to prevail . * ' I shall conclude with this
assurance , that if -the civility and kindness of our late meeting had not been with some more than ordinary satisfaction remembered by me , I had made more use of thy name than I have done , both in my late Answer to the Epistle before mentioned and in this paper : but , me thinks , it is so desirable for men to
confer with reason and modesty , that I rather choose to beseech people into that commendable disposition , than to raise their passions by an earlv aggravatioa of their miscarriages . 1 am , in y « ry much love , " Thy assured Friend * " Wm . PENN .
€ t The answer was writ about three weeks since , but other occasions prevented its being sent . * For Richard Baxter , at his House in Southhump ton Building's , London . "
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John Goldie , of Kilmarnock . IN a former volume of the Mon . Itep 6 s , VIII . p . 24 , there is an extract from Maty s Review for thfc year 1785 , ( Vol . VIII . p : 282 , ) relating to John' Goldte , a peasant ' s son
bf Kilmarnock , in Scotland , of an extraordinary genius , and the author of & volume bf E ^ ays , 8 vo ., and of a work entitled " The Gospel Recovered , " in 5 vols . 8 vo ., designed to overthrow the r € ^ ut « a (» rt ! iDd () x doelrines . Attached to the extract is aa inquiry
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14 $ ) ujohn 6 rdidie , of Kilmarnock .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1823, page 140, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1782/page/12/
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