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<HEAD>A true Separation between the power of of the Spirit, and the imitation of Antichri&s;t.</HEAD>
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<P>The difference between the pretious and the vile, between Saints and Pro|fe&s;&s;ors, between the power and the form, between the wi&s;e virgins who are &s;o indeed, and them who have gotten the name, but want the power.</P>
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<P>TO all you &s;eparated ones who profe&s;s a &s;eparation from the world, and to be come out of the worlds wor&s;hip, &amp; are gotten into the highe&s;t form and profe&s;&s;ion, but the earthly nature is yet &s;tanding in you, and therefore all your forms and religions which is &s;et up in that nature, is ignorant of the living God, and of the pure religion which the &s;ervants of the Lord live in, who are un&s;potted with the world, who walk in the pure light of Chri&s;t which &s;hines into the con&s;cience, in which light you are all &s;een, and your profe&s;sion is di&s;covered to be but a form of words gathered up into your earthly wi&s;dom and comprehen&s;i|on from the letter which they &s;poke forth who lived in the life&punc; and all you who are wandred from one mountain to another, and have forgotten your re&s;ting place, and are turned out from the light of Chri&s;t in the con&s;cience, which &s;hould guide your minds and &s;tay them upon God: And all you who are &s;etled upon your lees, and have builded your ne&s;ts on high, you are &s;een and made manife&s;t in the light of Chri&s;t, to be out of the life of what you do profe&s;s: you who are building Tabernacles of the Saints words to &s;helter your &s;elves in having their words in the form and in the letter which they &s;pake from the life and power of the Spirit which was in them who &s;poke forth the Scriptures, and &s;o you cover over your deceit with the words, and &s;o live at ea&s;e and carele&s;s, being got up into a carnall &s;ecurity, and carnall peace &s;etled in your carnall minds; but now the day of God is dawning, and the light of Chri&s;t is ri&s;en, and hath &s;hined into our harts, and in it we do &s;ee that your bed is too &s;hort and your covering is too narrow, and you mu&s;t now all be turned to your own &amp; out of the Scriptures which are theirs who live the life, and the life of the Scriptures we do witne&s;s to be fulfilled in us according to our mea&s;ure, and &s;o by the life you are made manife&s;t, and to us clearly &s;een who walk in the light to be out of the gate of truth, and your prefe&s;&s;ion is &s;een to be but a form of words, and is du&s;t, and du&s;t is the Serpents meat, and by it the Serpents nature is fed in you, and the Serpents wi&s;dome and the Serpents head mu&s;t be brui&s;ed, which is yet whole in you who are righteous in your
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own eys; but all your righteouine&s;s is filthy and is abomination to the Lord, who&s;e mind is turned from the light of Chri&s;t with|in you, into the polutions and into the liberty of the fle&s;h, a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">nd &s;o take liberty to walk after your own ungodly lu&s;ts, and the fle&s;h is defiled, and your minds and con&s;ciences are defiled through the lu&s;ts of uncleanne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Now as Concerning Virgins,</HI></P>
<P>I am moved and commanded of the Lord from the word of the Lord, which yet lieth upon me to you-wards who have taken upon you that name, but know not the Virgin &s;tate, to you I &s;peak from the Lord, and to you I clear my con&s;cience in the pre&s;ence of the Lord, to you who have had a light &s;hining within you, and have had the prophe&s;ies opened in your minds by the light, the light I own which did open the things of God, and gave you a &s;ight of them, and in this light you have &s;een &s;omething of a fire which &s;hould &s;hould burn up the man of Sin, and all the lu&s;ts of the fle&s;h, and all lu&s;ts of uncleanne&s;&s;e, but you did not abide in this light to have the&s;e things fulfilled in you; but your minds turned from the light, and &s;o the filthy lu&s;tfull nature got up a|gain, and the earthly will got up again, and now the light is vei|led in you, and now from the darke mind and earthly wi&s;dome you talk of being pa&s;&s;ed through the fire, and through the death, but the fire of the Lord is yet to be revealed from heaven upon you, to burn up and con&s;ume your wi&s;dom and knowledge in which you are exalted, and from which you &s;peak high &s;welling words of vanity, beguiling un&s;table &s;ouls, drawing them into lightne&s;&s;e and liberty, and a carnall joy, and &s;o keeps them from the Cro&s;&s;e, and from obedience to the light of Chri&s;t in the con|&s;cience; and by this light which you are di&s;obedient unto, by it you are judged and condemned, and all your actions from that nature which is turned from the light in the con&s;cience which did once let you &s;ee a &s;ight of tho&s;e things, and by the unquench|able fire mu&s;t that nature that now ruleth in you &s;uffer and be burned up, which is got up to boa&s;t of great things, promi&s;ing to your &s;elves and others liberty when as your &s;elves are &s;ervants unto Sin, and bond&s;laves to Corruption.</P>
<P>And all you who in the light have had openings and prophe|&s;ies opened in your minds of the virgin-&s;tate and of purity, but not waiting in the light which let you &s;ee the&s;e things, which light is within, and &s;hined in you for a &s;ea&s;on, &amp; this e&s;tate you &s;hould have waited for to have been fulfilled within you; but your minds going forth from the light, are turned into the imaginations and imitations, and now the adulterous mind is got up again, and ru|luth
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over the pure, and you have not kept your virgin, and you are the fooli&s;h virgins, who have onely the name, but your light is put out, and you want oyl in your lampi, and the adulter|ous natur which is full of fornication now reigneth in you, and the Prophet is &s;lain within you which prophe&s;ied of the&s;e things, and the light darkned which let you &s;ee &s;uch a condition there was to be enjoyed, and now the imitation is got up in the place where the light &s;hined, and the Inchanter, and now by your inventions and imaginations form to your &s;elves a virgin e&s;tate, contrary to the light of Chri&s;t, and contrary to the Spirit of God, onely from imitation in your wills, and &s;o being &s;en&s;uall &s;eparate your &s;elves, and do act in your own wills, and now divide and &s;eparate between the husband and the wife, and he that is bound to a wife among&s;t you, &s;eek, to be loo&s;e, and then you &s;ay you are &s;eparated from the bea&s;tly lu&s;t, and &s;o form a &s;eparation which is but outward and carnal, but are full of lu&s;ts, uncleanne&s;&s;e in the heart, &amp; there is no &s;eparation in you, for you are turned from the light of Chri&s;t, which &s;hould &s;eparate you from the lu&s;ts of the heart, for he that lu&s;teth in the heart, hath committed adultery though he be not joyned to a woman: and here you are out of the Doctrine of Chri&s;t, and on of the light of Chri&s;t, which pu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ifieth the heart from all lu&s;ts, and concei|vings of lu&s;t &amp; begetting in the lu&s;t, and &s;o you act in your will and inventions, making a &s;epartion outwardly in the fle&s;h, but the heart full of lu&s;ts and uncleanne&s;&s;e within. Now a Virgin is pure, and kept from all pollutions, and from all lu&s;ts of the fle&s;h, and lu&s;ts of uncleanne&s;s, is not defiled nor polluted, but is kept pure in the light of Chri&s;t, and they are not defiled with women, and they are virgins who are redeemed from the earth, who follow the Lamb, who&s;e garments are undefiled; and the virgin &s;tate we witne&s;s who love the light of Chri&s;t which is pure, &amp; doth keep our minds pure, &amp; the pure water we do witne&s;s which the Scrip|ture &s;peaks of, by which we are wa&s;hed from all filthine&s;s of fle&s;h and &s;pirit, and the light of Chri&s;t we walk in, which is our guide and teacher, which will not &s;uffer lu&s;ts to reign in the heart, nor any adultery to be committed, for in the light it is all judged and condemned, and all who love the light and walk in it, they are led out of all adultery and fornication, and they come to witne&s;&s;e the virgin &s;tate. Now if a virgin marry &s;he hath not &s;inned, but to you this is a my&s;tery who&s;e minds are without, turned from the light into a &s;en&s;uall &s;eparation onely in the will, forbidding to marry, which is honorable in its place, and the bed undefiled, but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. <HI>Heb.</HI> 7. 4.</P>
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Now in the pre&s;ence of the Lord I &s;peak, and from the light of Chri&s;t, to you all who are marryed, and who are unmarryed, and to the light of Chri&s;t in you I &s;peak; and your minds being turned to it to be your teacher, loving it, and walking in it, it will teach you that have Wives, to be as though you had none, and to u&s;e the World as though you u&s;ed it not, and them that buy, as though they po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed not, and will lead you into &s;inglene&s;s of heart and mind, and out of carefulne&s;s: Now there is a difference between a Wife and a Virgin, but I &s;peak not to feed any mans comprehen&s;ion, but that every one may wait upon the Lord in the light of Chri&s;t for a cleer di&s;tinction and to come out of the de&s;traction of your mindes and out of your Imitations to mind the light of Chri&s;t within you which will draw your minds within to be tanght of the Lord, and out of all the Lu&s;ts of the fle&s;h, which all they live in who are turned from the light into the Imaginations and Imitations, and &s;o are ignorant of the Scriptures and of the &s;pirit which &s;poke them forth. Therefore I &s;ay unto you who through your vain Imaginations, &s;eparate be|tween man and woman, and &s;ay that there &s;hould be no begetting nor bringing forth after the fle&s;h, and &s;o looks without being turned from the light into the Imaginations, and evill thoughts Jud|geth, to you, I &s;ay, have you not read that he which made both Man and Woman at the beginning, made them male and female, and they were no more twain but one fle&s;h, what therefore God hath joyned together let no man put a &s;under: now to the light of Chri&s;t in all your Con&s;ciences, I &s;peak, which light&s;hines in darknes but the darknes comprehends it not, but all who do love the light to be taught and guided by it will lead you out of your Com|prehen&s;ions and out of your own wills from which your Imitations are formed, and will let you &s;ee that you are out of the Virgin e&s;tate for your Lamps are not trimed, neither are you obedient to the light in your Con&s;cience which leads unto Chri&s;t and gives enterance to the bridegroom, but you who&s;e light is gone out and have not been obedient to it, which hath &s;hined within you and you are they who are &s;lumbering and dreaming in your Notions, thoughts and Imagi|nations, you filthy dreamers who hath defiled the fle&s;h, and the night is upon you and now is the Cry in the night, he that hath an Ear to hear let him hear, for now is the bridegroom coming, and they who wait in the light do hear the voice of Chri&s;t, and they come to witne&s;s his pre&s;ence and do enter into the bride chamber, but you, who&s;e minds is turned from the light you are &s;hut out as the fooli&s;h Virgins though you would be owned by them who walk in the light, but can have no fellow&s;hip with you who hate the light and walk in darkne&s;s, for light hath no fellow&s;hip with darkne&s;s, and here you are &s;hut out from the children of light and from Virgins, for Virgins are cha&s;t and &s;ober minded, but you who have the name but not the power you are rude and wild and live in lightnes, and wantones, and folly which the &s;aints was redeemed from, and &s;o you are without in the world among the dogs and &s;wine
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wallowing in the mire minding earthly things, and are enemies to the Cro&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t and live without the fear of God.</P>
<P>And you who &s;ay you are redeemed from the Cro&s;s, and are come out of the fear into the love, &s;ilence fle&s;h before the Lord for that &s;peaks in you, which never knew the Cro&s;s of Chri&s;t, but is for de|&s;truction, and is to be condemned by Chri&s;t and the cro&s;s of Chri&s;t, when it coms to be known, is to the crucifying of that nature which &s;peaks and acts in you, who lives without the fear of God, and out of the love of God you are; for they who love God keep his Com|mandments: what love of God is there in you, that doe not the things which he commands you, nor doth not walk in obedience to the light of Chri&s;t in your con&s;ciences, which he hath enlightned you withall, which &s;aith, Thou &s;halt not be proud; now thou that live&s;t in pride, what love ha&s;t thou to Chri&s;t: Chri&s;t &s;aith &s;wear not at all, now thou that &s;weare&s;t, breake&s;t the commands of Chri&s;t, and hates the light of Chri&s;t in thee, which &s;aith, Swear not at all, and &s;o thou art out of the love of God, and out of the love of Chri&s;t: the light of Chri&s;t tels thee thou &s;hould&s;t not lye; now thou that do&s;t lye loves not Chri&s;t, but art in the cur&s;e and in the fle&s;h, for he who loveth and tels a lye, hath not part in the kingdom of God: Now if you love the light, it will not &s;uffer thee to lu&s;t after earthly things, nor mind earthly things, nor love the world, for he who lu&s;teth, and he who loves the world the love of the Father is not in him; and lo|ving the light, it will not &s;uffer thee to fa&s;hion thy &s;elf according to this world, nor to re&s;pect per&s;ons, for he that re&s;pecteth per&s;ons, tran&s;gre&s;&s;eth the law of God, &amp; di&s;obeys the light in the con&s;cience; and he that takes the name of God in vain, tran&s;gre&s;&s;eth the law of God, and di&s;obeys the light in the con&s;cience, &amp; doth not love God, for he that hates the light hates Chri&s;t, and this light is the con|demnation of him who hates Chri&s;t; and by this light you are made manife&s;t to be out of the love of God which you talk of, and are Enemies to the cro&s;s of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>And you which have had experiences, and now talk of them, and your minds being turned from the light of Chri&s;t, which wrought experience, into the experience; your experience is dead, and is become an Idol, that which wrought the experience, I own to be of God, but you not abiding in that which did wound, and torment, &amp; plague the bea&s;tly nature in you, &s;o that nature got up again, and the deadly wound of the Bea&s;t was not healed, and now the earthly wil and wi&s;dom now &s;tands in you, and &s;o you are got from under the Judgments of God, and from under the Cro&s;s. And now you tell of what experiencies you have had, &amp; what ye have pa&s;&s;ed through, but are old and dead, and cannot witne&s;s any pre&s;ent workings, and pre&s;ent power; for that which now &s;peaks in you of the experience is not that which wrought the experience, but that which now &s;peaks, is that which was judged and tormented when the experi|ence was wrought, and now the witne&s;s being &s;lain which did once
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ari&s;e in you, now you make merry and rejoice over the witne&s;s, and now you are at ea&s;e, and take liberty in the fle&s;h, and &s;o feeds that which is for Judgment, and mu&s;t now be judged by the Ju&s;t, who have turned out of the way from the light of Chri&s;t in you, and &s;o all that you have known or pa&s;&s;ed through is not accepted, for you mu&s;t be brought back to the entrance to the light in your con&s;cien|ces, that in it you might &s;ee where you turned out of the way, and &s;o lo&s;t your guide, and &s;o are back&s;liders being turned back again in|to the earthly nature, and now by the light of Chri&s;t which your minds are gone out from, which light &s;hines into our hearts, by it we &s;ee you walking in darkne&s;s, and from your earthly wi&s;dom tel|ling of old experiences which once in the light you &s;aw; but this light will now condemn you for turning from it, and being di&s;obe|dient to it, for now is the true light ari&s;ing and ri&s;en, by which the world &s;hall be judged in righteou&s;ne&s;s, which will bring you under Judgment; and a day of trouble &s;hall come upon you, &s;uch as never was from the beginning of the world, wherein all you mu&s;t be jud|ged who live without the fear of God, and are got into a carnal re&s;t and &s;ecurity, and into a fle&s;hly liberty, and &s;ay what&s;oever you do, it is not &s;in, and that you cannot &s;ee &s;in, and &s;o your eye is blinded, and you hate the light of Chri&s;t in you, which &s;hould let you &s;ee your &s;ins, and &s;o you are yet in your &s;ins, and cannot witne&s;s any redemp|tion by Chri&s;t, nor through obedience in the Cro&s;s, and &s;o what&s;oe|ver you do profe&s;s in words, or what experience &s;oever you have known or pa&s;&s;ed through, all your profe&s;&s;ion I deny, and all your experiences who do not now experience the daily cro&s;s of Chri&s;t, nor do not walk an&s;werable to the light in your con&s;ciences, for by it you mu&s;t all be judged, and all your joy and carnall rejoycing in your fle&s;hly liberty, &s;hall be turned into &s;orrow and bitter lamenta|tion, the Lord of Ho&s;t hath &s;poken it, who will perform his word.</P>
<P>The word of the Lord to all you who do wait for, and expect to &s;ee a Chri&s;t come without you, with a carnal eye; and to &s;ee an out|ward power and outward &s;ignes and miracles to be wrought without you whereby the world &s;hall be convinced, and gain&s;ayers con|vinced, and tho&s;e things you look for carnally to be fulfilled with|out you, and &s;o are the adulterous generation, which &s;eeks after a &s;igne, and there &s;hall be no &s;igne given you but the &s;igne of the Prophet Ionah; and as Ionah was 3 days and 3 nights in the whales belly, &s;o &s;hall the &s;on of man be 3 days and 3 nights in the heart of the earth. Now you who&s;e winds are without, looking for outward things, your waiting is in vain, for you never came to &s;ee the things fulfilled, nor brought to pa&s;s which you wait for: Therefore to you I &s;ay, turn your minds within, to the light of Chri&s;t, to wait in it, that you may know the things fulfilled within you: for the comming of Chri&s;t is within, and that which convinceth of &s;in is within, the light of Chri&s;t, in the con&s;cience, and this being hearkned unto and obeyed, it gives power again&s;t &s;in, and this power we witne&s;s made
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manife&s;t within us, and this power we have received from Chri&s;t which doth convince the world of &s;in, and by this power the gain&s;ayers are convinced, and this is the &s;ame power as ever was, and the &s;ame Chri&s;t as ever was; and the &s;ame eternal words of God we do witne&s;s which was in the beginning, which word is Chri&s;t; and we do &s;peak it forth in his own power, as we have received it; and this word of power we have, which makes the Devils to tremble, and makes the Heathens to rage, and by it marveilous works are wrought; for now do the blind &s;ee, the deaf hear, and the lame walk; and they who many years have walked in darkne&s;s and trouble of mind, and terrour of con&s;cience, and under many in|firmities, who have &s;pent their time and money upon Phy&s;itians and Pari&s;h Prie&s;ts, and have not been healed or cured, are now re&s;tored and healed freely, without money and without price; and the Lepers are cured, and the Lepro&s;ie is taken away, and the poor receive the Go&s;pel&punc; and this we witne&s;s to be fulfilled in us, and in the world where this Go&s;pel is, and where it hath been preached; and this is the everla&s;ting Go&s;pel which is now preached, which we are witne&s;&s;es of, and Mini&s;ters of according to our mea&s;ure; and this Go&s;pel is not the Letter, for many poor &s;ouls who have been many years in trouble, and found no peace nor &s;atisfaction, have had the Letter and it hath admini&s;tred no comfort unto them though they have applyed the promi&s;es to that which was wounded yet they have not been ea&s;ed, but are &s;till in trouble til Je&s;us Chri&s;ts glad tidings did appear, who is the Go&s;pel, and the glad tidings; and they who witne&s;s him come and made manife&s;t, they do witne&s;s a freedome and deliverance out of this condition, which they could not doe while their minds was without, looking for a Chri&s;t with|out, and for a power without; and to find life from the Letter with|out, and this we witne&s;s to be but a dead Letter, and did give us no life at all, but we were kept in darkne&s;s and blindne&s;s while we called the Letter the light, and the Letter the word, and the letter the rule, but now the true light hath appeared, which lets us &s;ee that Chri&s;t is the light which lighteth every one that cometh into the world; and in this light we &s;ee that God is the word and not the Letter, for the word was in the beginning, but the letter was not in the beginning, and in this light we &s;ee that the Letter without us is not the rule, but the &s;pirit which gave it forth, and this &s;pirit is within which is our rule, and brings us to walk according to the Letter which was &s;poken forth from the Spirit, which was their guide &amp; rule which &s;pake it forth, for the prophe&s;ie came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God &s;pake as they were moved by the holy Gho&s;t; and the &s;ame &s;peaks now in Sons and Daughters as they are moved, and do witne&s;&s;e the Scriptures to be fulfilled in us, and Chri&s;t to be in us which you look for without you, and this power which doth convince of &s;in within, and the word is within in the heart; by which word we are &s;anctified and
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made clean, and we do witne&s;s the Virgin &s;tate, and are Virgins, and do follow the Lamb, and are redeemed from the earth; but you we deny to be Virgins, and who&s;e minds are without, turned from the light of Chri&s;t which is within, and &s;hines in the con&s;cience, which &s;hould exerci&s;e your con&s;cience, but your minds being without in the earth is defiled with the earth, and your experiences are defiled being adulterate from the Lord, and are no &s;aints nor Virgins.</P>
<P><HI>This from the &s;pirit of the Lord I was moved to declare and publi&s;h abroad in the world, that tho&s;e who are wi&s;e in their own eyes in the earthly wi&s;dome, profe&s;&s;ing high things as to be Virgins and Saints, may by the light of Chri&s;t in them, &s;ee them&s;elves to be yet living in their own conceits, taking liberty in the fle&s;h to walk in the lu&s;ts of it.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And that all &s;imple hearted ones may be turned to the light of Chri&s;t in them, to be taught by it, and may not be deceived by &s;uch who profe&s;&s;e much in words, but hath brought forth no fruit to God, but &s;eeks to draw out the mind of the &s;imple ones, who &s;eek after the truth into a liberty in the fle&s;h; and for your &s;ake who are &s;imple do I &s;peak, to the light of Chri&s;t in you, which &s;hall bear me witne&s;s before the Lord, and will convince all who have it.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>A &s;ervant of the Lord for your &s;akes, and in love to all your &s;ouls, de&s;ires that all your minds may be turned within to the true Teacher, which will lead into the feat of God giving heed unto it. RICHARD H&V;BBERTHORNE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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