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<HEAD>An <HI>Exhortation</HI> to all People. Moderate Reader, be &s;erious, and mind the&s;e following things, and then I believe thou wilt Judge charitably of them.</HEAD>
<P><HI>THe true Church is in God, the Father of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, the pillar &amp; ground of Truth,</HI> 1 The&s;. 1.1. 2 The&s;. 1.1. 1 Tim. 3.15. <HI>Howbeit the mo&s;t high dwelleth not in Temples made with hands,</HI> Act. 7.48. <HI>The Saints Bodies, they are the temple of God, and God dwells and walks in his own Temple,</HI> 1 Cor. 3.16. and 6.19. 2 Cor. 6.16. <HI>And what hou&s;e will ye build unto me &s;aith the Lord? is not Heaven my Throne, and Earth my Foot&s;tool?</HI> Act. 7.4<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, 50, 51. <HI>And the true everla&s;ting High Prie&s;t rules in us, Chri&s;t Je&s;us, (the Saints Teacher) who was not made after the Law, of a Carnal Commandment, but after the power of an endle&s;s Life, and &s;o remains a Prie&s;t forever,</HI> Heb. 7.24. &amp;c. <HI>And Chri&s;t &s;aid, Come unto me, and learn of me,</HI> Mat. 11.28, 29, 30. <HI>The true Bapti&s;m is inward by the Spirit, for as many of you as have been Baptized into Chri&s;t, have put on Chri&s;t,</HI> Gall. 3.27, 28, 29. <HI>And there is one Body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling, one Lord, one Faith, one Bapti&s;m, one God and Father of all; who is a|live all, through all, and in you all,</HI> Ephe&s;. 4.4, 5, 6. <HI>And by one Spirit are we all Baptized into one Body,</HI> 1 Cor. 12.13. <HI>And the true Communion is inward in the Spirit, and Je&s;us &s;aid unto them, I am the Bread of Life, and except ye eat my Fle&s;h, and drink my Blood, ye have no Life in you,</HI> Joh. 6. from 48. to 59. <HI>And the true wor|&s;hip of Chri&s;t is in the Spirit within his People, for he &s;aid, they that will wor&s;hip God, mu&s;t wor&s;hip him in Spirit and Truth,</HI> read his Conference with the Woman of <HI>Samaria,</HI> Joh. Chap. 4. and Rom. Chap. 8.</P>
<P>Now upon the whole matter, I do &s;ay and affirm, that Chri&s;t is within his People, and that he was and is the Saints Teacher, and as he is the true Teacher, &s;o he will continue to be the la&s;t&punc; and who&s;oever &s;et up Hireling Teachers, and follow them, and neglect Chri&s;ts teachings in their own Bo&s;oms; &s;uch Teach|ers
<PB N="2" REF="2"> are the Fal&s;e Teachers, which <HI>Jude</HI> the Servant of the Lord in his general Epi&s;tle te&s;tified again&s;t. And &s;uch are they now, &amp; of the &s;ame Nature and Generation with the Scribes and Pha|ri&s;ees, which Chri&s;t Je&s;us pronounced &s;o many Woes again&s;t, as in <HI>Mat.</HI> 23. let that be minded, for they are &s;een with the Light of Je&s;us, which manife&s;ts all things, of what &s;ort it is.</P>
<P>And let the Hireling Prie&s;ts of the&s;e times, Profe&s;&s;ors or Prophane, &s;uch as have charged us (who in &s;corn are called <HI>Quakers</HI>) to be <HI>Denyers of the Scriptures;</HI> let &s;ober People judge whether they or we be the denyers of the Scriptures, in Life, Practice and Conver&s;ation, let them be denied &amp; turned from, provided the Scriptures without wre&s;ting may be judge therein; for to the Spirit of God and them, we &s;hall appeal, that what we hold, profe&s;s and practice, they &s;hall ju&s;tify us therein, rightly under&s;tood &s;piritually, and lay a&s;ide your outward Laws, and carnal Weapons; and let Gods Divine Royal Law, and Spiritual Weapons, decide this great Controver&s;ie in the&s;e things that concern Eternal Salvation and Damnation. <HI>For all the Children of the Lord are taught of the Lord, and in Righteou&s;ne&s;s are they e&s;tabli&s;hed,</HI> as in I&s;a. 54.13, 14. Jer. 31.33, 34. thus it is written in the Prophets; <HI>And they &s;hall be all taught of God; every Man therefore that hath heard and learned of the Father, cometh unto me,</HI> &s;aith Chri&s;t, Joh. 6.45. <HI>And the Grace of God which brings Salvation, hath appeared to all Men, and this Grace of God teacheth the Saints to deny Ungodline&s;s and Worldly Lu&s;t, and to live &s;oberly and righteou&s;ly in this pre&s;ent Evil World.</HI> And all who turn from this Grace, they turn into Wantonne&s;s, and &s;o deny the Lord that bought them.</P>
<P>And as the Apo&s;tle writ in his Epi&s;tle to the <HI>Romans, Becau&s;e that which may be known of God is manife&s;t in them, for God hath &s;hew|ed it to them,</HI> Rom. 1.19. &s;o that it is clear and evident by the S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">riptures of Truth, that the true Teacher Chri&s;t is within Peo|ple, and cannot be removed into a Corner, nor does no more. And this is the Judgment and Doctrine of all Chri&s;ts Faithful
<PB N="3" REF="2"> Mini&s;ters, who are called, cho&s;en, and &s;ent of him, as the A|po&s;tles and Di&s;ciples were.</P>
<P>And therefore the Lords cho&s;en People can &s;ay, away with all covetous Hireling Teachers, for they are u&s;ele&s;s, and let them learn to labour with their hands, as the Apo&s;tles did, and as the true Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t now do, and &s;o let the Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t Je&s;us be free, and not chargeable to any people.</P>
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<HEAD>Some things offered to the Con&s;ideration of all you who are call'd Magi&s;trates and Rulers over the People, and to all your under Officers, and your Hireling Teachers of all &s;orts, who pretend the Scripture to be your Rule, who with your outward Laws, do Force and Compel many &s;uch as ab&s;ent from you in your Wor&s;hip, to joyn with you therein; which thing never was the practice of the Lord's People in any Age, recorded in the Scriptures of Truth, and &s;o out of the Order and Rule of the Scriptures.</HEAD>
<P>ANd your Church (as you call it) was it not the <HI>Papi&s;ts <HI>Old Ma&s;&s;e-hou&s;e?</HI></HI> and by them builded when they were in Power? Is it not &s;o filled, and the A&s;&s;embly therein with People that live in Pride, Plea&s;ures, Per&s;ecution, Drunkenne&s;s, Ly|ing and Swearing, and &s;uch like Sins? and that you &s;till &s;ay you are Mi&s;erable Sinners, erring and going a&s;tray like lo&s;t Sheep, and doing that you &s;hould not do, and leaving that un|done which you &s;hould do, is not this your weekly Confe&s;&s;ion, and daily Practice? let God's true Witne&s;s in all &s;ober People an&s;wer; and if &s;o (then for my part) I dare not joyn with you therein, nor be a Member of that Church, whatever I &s;uffer be it,</P>
<P>And I am apt to believe, that you may make Hypocrites to come &amp; joyn with you, by your forceing Laws, but take heed they be not &s;uch, as if they had opportunity and power, would turn again&s;t you and de&s;troy: has there not been &s;ome appearances thereof both in former and latter Years? But tho&s;e whom the Lord hath redeemed and brought into his Spiritual Wor&s;hip, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">not bow to any Likene&s;s, Image, or outward Form of Wor|&s;hip,
<PB N="4" REF="3"> where the Power and Pre&s;ence of God is wanting; for it was the Apo&s;tles Exhortation to turn away from &s;uch as had a Form of Godline&s;s, but denied the Power thereof: Neither can the Redeemed of the Lord conform to your way of Wor|&s;hip; for the &s;ame Apo&s;tle &s;aith to tho&s;e he writ to, <HI>But be not ye conformed to the World, but transformed, by the renewing of your Mind,</HI> &amp;c. as in Rom. 12.2. <HI>Neither can we fa&s;hion our &s;elves according to the cour&s;e of this World, which pa&s;&s;eth away,</HI> 1 Cor. 7.31. <HI>And our Kingdom is not of this World, even as our Lord and Ma&s;ters was not of this World; for we &s;eek another Kingdome, Eter|nal in the Heavens; who&s;e Maker, Builder and Upholder is God,</HI> 1 The&s;&s;. 1.1. And all that we de&s;ire from you who are in Au|thority, that you would let the Spirit of God and the Scriptures be your rule in all your actings, &amp; if we digre&s;s from the &s;ame upon an equal tryal, then let the Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors &s;uffer according to Law; <HI>For the Law was added becau&s;e of Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion, &amp; is not to be laid upon a righteous Man; but unto the Lawle&s;s and Di&s;obedient, to the Ungod|ly and Sinners,</HI> &amp;c. as in the 1 Tim. 1.9, 10. <HI>And the Law of God is Ju&s;t, Holy and Good, as was in the beginning, which is to fear and &s;erve God above all things, and to walk humbly before him, to deal Ju&s;tly and to love Mercy, to do to others as we would be done unto.</HI> And here is the Law, the Prophets, and the Go&s;pel of Je&s;us an&s;wer|ed, which was in the beginning, and which will never come to an end: And who&s;oever goes from this Law of the Spirit, goes out of the order and rule of the Scriptures.</P>
<P>Neither is our warfare and Weapons Carnal, or de&s;tructive to the Bodies of any; but Spiritual and Mighty, to the pulling down the Man of Sin, the grand Enemy of the Soul, for we de&s;ire not to contend with Fle&s;h and Blood; but for the Faith which once was and now is delivered to the Saints. This is our Warfare, and therefore ye ought in right rea&s;on, and by the rule of the Scriptures, to let us live peaceably by you, and not to turn your Swords again&s;t us; for the Magi&s;trates Sword was and ought to be for the Puni&s;hment of Evil-doers, and for the prai&s;e or them that do well, and in &s;o doing then you are in the
<PB N="5" REF="3"> place of true Ju&s;tice, and &s;o in the order and rule of the Spirit of God and the Scriptures, which all People upon the face of the whole Earth is out of, which does that to others, which they would not have others do unto them; for what&s;oever ye would that Men &s;hould do unto you, do you &s;o unto them; this is the order and rule of the Spirit of God and the Scriptures; and when the&s;e things come to be minded and practi&s;ed, and then will Per&s;ecution about Religion cea&s;e and come to an end, and all Per&s;ecuting Laws will be laid a&s;ide, and Righteou&s;ne&s;s will run down the Streets, like a mighty &s;tream, and the knowledge of God will cover the Earth, as the Waters cover the Seas; this is that the Righteous pray for, wait for, and live in hopes (in Gods time) to &s;ee the &s;ame fulfilled.</P>
<P>And now a little to examin (comparativly) of the dwellings of Gods Enemies in former Ages, and in this our Age, again&s;t the Lords People and Servants; whereby the moderate Reader, may come to have an in&s;ight and under&s;tanding by this pre&s;ent Relation.</P>
<P>Was it not the High Prie&s;t, the Chief Prie&s;t, and the Cap|tain of the Temple with his Officers, that ro&s;e up again&s;t the A|po&s;tles, and Impri&s;oned them; &s;aying, <HI>Did not we straitly com|mand you, that you &s;hould not teach in this Name?</HI> (viz. Chri&s;t) read Act. 5.17. and take coun&s;el at the good Man <HI>Gamaliel</HI> therein mentioned, then it may tend to your good.</P>
<P>And may it not truly be &s;aid, that the Chief Prie&s;t and Ru|lers, and the ba&s;er &s;ort of Men, were the greate&s;t Per&s;ecutors in the days of Chri&s;t and his Apo&s;tles? let the Scriptures and Gods faithful Witne&s;s in all &s;ober Men an&s;wer.</P>
<P>And was it not the Chief Prie&s;t and Rulers that &s;et <HI>Saul</HI> for|ward in his Per&s;ecution, till the Lord &s;truck him down, that he fell to the Earth; and after his Conver&s;ion, when he came to preach Chri&s;t Je&s;us, then the learned Jews took coun&s;el to kill him, but the Lord &s;o ordered it, that they were di&s;appointed thereof, and he delivered <HI>Paul, Act.</HI> 9.</P>
<P>And how did the Per&s;ecuting Jews when they &s;aw <HI>Paul</HI> in the
<PB N="6" REF="4"> Temple, &s;tir up all the People and laid hands on him, crying out, <HI>Men of I&s;rael Help, &amp;c.</HI> Act. 21.27. &amp;c.</P>
<P>And is not this Per&s;ecuting Spirit at work in this our Age? Yes, for it is one and the &s;ame through all Generations, <HI>For as it was then, &s;o it is now, he that is born after the Fle&s;h, per&s;ecutes him that is born after the Spirit,</HI> the&s;e are the two Births as in the fir&s;t of Joh. 12, 13, 14. ver&s;es.</P>
<P>And in <HI>Acts</HI> 23. when <HI>Paul</HI> began to plead his own cau&s;e, you may read how the High Prie&s;t <HI>Annanias</HI> commanded them that &s;tood by him, to &s;mite him on the Face; and have not many Faithful Friends had the like u&s;age from the Prie&s;ts in this Age. In which Chap. you may read how the Jews had banded together and bound them&s;elves under a Cur&s;e, &s;aying, <HI>They would neither Eat nor Drink till they had killed</HI> Paul. But you may read how the Lord prevented the&s;e Bloody Per&s;ecutors, and delivered him.</P>
<P>And in <HI>Act.</HI> 24. you may read how that <HI>Ananias</HI> the High Prie&s;t, de&s;cend|ed with the Elders and others, who informed the Governour again&s;t <HI>Paul, How they had found him a pe&s;tilent Fellow, a mover of Sedition among all the Jews, throughout the World.</HI> Read the Chap. throughout, there you have his Examination before the Chief Captain <HI>Ly&s;ias,</HI> &amp; how he was &s;ent to <HI>Foelix</HI> the Governour, who for doing the Jews a plea&s;ure left <HI>Paul</HI> Bound.</P>
<P>And in Chap. 25. you may read how the High Prie&s;t, and the Chief of the Jews, informed <HI>Fe&s;tus</HI> again&s;t <HI>Paul,</HI> and how they laid in wait to kill him; but there was &s;o much Nobility and Charity in <HI>Fe&s;tus,</HI> up|on Pauls Examination, that he would not grant what they de&s;ired, read the Chapter throughout. And in <HI>Act.</HI> Chap. 26. you may read his Con|fe&s;&s;ion, and the relation or manner of his Conver&s;ion before King <HI>A|grippa;</HI> and as he &s;poke for him&s;elf, <HI>Festus</HI> &s;aid with a loud Voice, Paul <HI>thou art be&s;ide thy &s;elf, much Learning doth make thee Mad.</HI> But he &s;aid, <HI>I am not Mad, mo&s;t Noble</HI> Fe&s;tus, <HI>but speak for the word of Truth and Soberne&s;s, &amp;c.</HI> And King <HI>Agrippa</HI> &s;aid, <HI>Thou ha&s;t almo&s;t per&s;waded me to be a</HI> Chri&s;tian, read the Chapter throughout.</P>
<P>Now ob&s;erve, did not &s;ome of tho&s;e whom you Chri&s;tians call Heathens &s;hew more Chri&s;tian-like u&s;age in that Age, then many of the Rulers in England has done in this Age, yet would have the name of Chri&s;tian Ma|gi&s;trates. But the true real Chri&s;tians are followers of Chri&s;t in the Regene|ration; not in the oldne&s;s of the Letter, but in the newne&s;s of the Spirit, <HI>For the Letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life,</HI> 2 Cor. 3.6. And it is not the Name that maketh a Chri&s;tian, but the Nature, not the 1&s;t Nature, for that is
<PB N="7" REF="4"> Earthly, Sen&s;ual &amp; Devili&s;h; but the 2d Nature, the new Nature regenerated &amp; born again, for Chri&s;t Je&s;us &s;aid, <HI>Except a Man be born again, he cannot &s;ee the Kingdom if God; that which is born of the Fle&s;h, is Fle&s;h; and that which is born of the Sprit <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Spirit, marvel not that I &s;aid unto you, ye mu&s;t be born again, &amp;c.</HI> Joh. 3.3. to 8.</P>
<P>This per&s;ecuting Spirit was always blind, it was blind in the great profe&s;&s;ing Jews, who pretended a Law, whereby to put Chri&s;t to Death in that time; it was blind in the great profe&s;&s;ing <HI>Presbyterians,</HI> who pretended a Law again&s;t us to per&s;ecute us thereby, (but the Lord had no hand in tho&s;e Laws, further then permi&s;&s;ion) and it is well if the Rulers in this Age proceed not to Blood, again&s;t a Harmle&s;s and Innocent People, for Profe&s;&s;ing Chri&s;t Je&s;us and Wor&s;hipping him, in the way of his Spirit, who was &s;ent from the Bo&s;ome of his Father, <HI>Not to de&s;troy mens lives, but to &s;ave them,</HI> Luk. 9.56.</P>
<P>And doth not Englands Rulers pretend a Law now, (and is it not contrary to Chri&s;ts Law) not only for &s;poyling of Goods, but al&s;o ca&s;ting into Pri&s;on, by which many have &s;uffered to Death, which comes near to Blood, and is not this a mark of Satan the De&s;troyer, <HI>Rev.</HI> 2.10. for Chri&s;t Je&s;us nor his Servants never ca&s;t any into Pri&s;on. Let the Spirit and Scriptures of Truth be judge in tho&s;e things, for to them I &s;hall appeal, and methinks the&s;e times an&s;wer much, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> parallel with the Apo&s;tles times, in matter of Per&s;ecution; and it is the de|&s;ire of my heart (if it were the will of God) that the Under&s;tandings of Englands Rulers might come to be opened with Divine Wi&s;dom, that thereby they might come to &s;ee and di&s;cern betwixt tho&s;e that &s;erve God acceptably, and tho&s;e that &s;erve him not, and &s;o put a difference betwixt the Precious and the Vile; for is not Antichri&s;ts Kingdom of Sin and Unrighteou&s;ne&s;s grown to a great height? and doth not Wickedne&s;s abound? and is not Chri&s;ts Kingdom of Righteou&s;ne&s;s too too little regarded; &s;o that he that departs from Evil is become a Prey? and this the Lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d &s;ees, and in his own time will put an end to Sin, and fini&s;h Tran&s;|gre&s;&s;ion, and bring in Everla&s;ting Righteou&s;ne&s;s, and this will be the joy of the Upright in Heart, who&s;e Confidence is in the Lord alone. And I &s;ay again, the true Wor&s;hip of Chri&s;t is Spiritual; which he &s;et up above 1600 Years &s;ince, (and never changed it) read John 4. from 20, to 25. And where two or three, many or few, meet together, and wor&s;hip together in the Spiritual Wor&s;hip, there is Chri&s;t in the mid&s;t of them; and no other Wor&s;hip will the Righteous God accept of, but that which is performed in Spirit and Truth; all other Wor|&s;hips in his &s;ight will be found Idolatry, <HI>For God that made the World, and all things therein, dwells not in Temples made with Hands,</HI> read Act 7.48, 49, 50. And Chri&s;t &s;aid, <HI>I in you, and you in me, &s;o the Spirit of God is not to be limitted to time or place; and to day, if ye will hear his Voice, harden not your Hearts,</HI> &amp;c. This is not to hear the voice of a Mortal Man, but the voice of the Immortal God within all are to hear; this is the true Everla&s;ting Prophet, which <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> the Man of God &s;poke of, and he that will not hear this Prophet Chri&s;t Je&s;us, and receive his Teaching &s;hall be cut off, &amp;c. the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, becau&s;e they do not receive
<PB N="8" REF="5"> him and his Spiritual Teachings, <HI>But to as many as receive him, to them <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> power to become the Sons of God.</HI> born again of the Immortal word of Life, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> lives and abides forever; but this was a my&s;tery to old <HI>Nichodemus.</HI> In his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and it is a my&s;tery to all Natural Carnal Wi&s;dom at this time; <HI>For the N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Man by all his Wi&s;dom, receives not the things of the Spirit of God, neither <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> becau&s;e they are spiritually di&s;cerned,</HI> 1 Cor. 2.11, 14. Here is living word<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> a dying Man; yea, dead as to the World, and the Vanities and Rudiments <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of, yet living unto God, by Je&s;us Chri&s;t, who is my Life and the length o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Dayes; who am a lover of the Souls of all People; one who is, and has <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Traveller towards the Heavenly and Spiritual <HI>Canaan,</HI> who by Chri&s;t Je<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> redeemed and brought out of the Broad way, which leads to De&s;truction, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the narrow way which leads to Life, and out of the Worlds Cu&s;tomes, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> pa&s;&s;e&s;s away, into the Saints practice, which will never decay; and from <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Covetous Hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">elings and Worlds Teachers, to the teachings of Chri&s;t Je<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in Spirit and Truth, and for the&s;e Mercys my Soul &s;hall Ble&s;s and Prai&s;e the Lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, and that for evermore.</P>
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<P><HI>EDward Wil&s;on,</HI> who art a Ju&s;tice of Peace, within <HI>We&s;tmorland;</HI> neither thee, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> formers, (as thou &s;tiles them,) have proved Friends Meetings, (whom thee in &s;co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+kers</HI>) to be Seditious Conventicles, or any way tending to the breach of the Peace of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> But on the contrary they are quiet and peaceable; and tend to Peace, in the God of Peace <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> they meet, to &s;erve and wor&s;hip him in Spirit and Truth, as he requires of them. Read <HI>Jo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 21, 22, 23, 24.</HI> So that all, that thou and thy Informers has done again&s;t a harmle&s;s People, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Envy of your Hearts again&s;t the Lord, his Truth and People, in &s;poyling their goods, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> into Pri&s;on: <HI>Is it not a Work of Satan the Devil,</HI> Rev. <HI>2.</HI> and <HI>10. Who is the</HI> A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>De&s;troyer,</HI> Rev. <HI>4.11.</HI> There read your &s;elves, and con&s;ider if you are not comprehend<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Light of Je&s;us.</P>
<P>And therefore, now a warning to you (from the Lord of Life and Glory; who will re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+cording to your deeds:) Cea&s;e from your unrighteous and unchri&s;tian like Actions, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+pentance before the Door of Mercy be &s;hut again&s;t you; for an Account you mu&s;t give to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ous Judge of Heaven and Earth. The&s;e are true, and living Words, from a dying Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to the World and the vanities thereof: But living unto God by Je&s;us Chri&s;t, who is my <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> length of my Dayes.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Tho. Atkin&s;on.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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