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<HEAD>To you that are called by the name of <HI>Bapti&s;ts,</HI> or the <HI>Baptized</HI> people that do what you do by Imitation from JOHN BAPTIST CHRIST and the APOSTLES, who had not the to run without the power to refo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">m; but you have only the form, but wants the power that doth reform.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Al&s;o &s;everal other things given forth from the Spirit of the Lord, nece&s;&s;ary for all people to take into con&s;ideration as they love their &s;ouls.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><ADD>Aug: 18 1654</ADD></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
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<P N="1">I. YOu that imitate <HI>John</HI> in <HI>Luke</HI> 3. where is your fruits brought forth, where is the axe laid to the root of the tree? you bapti&s;ts that were oppre&s;&s;ors before, where is your op|pre&s;&s;ion cea&s;ed, you that have two Coats, where do you give to them that have none; where do you feed the hungry, and cloath the naked, and let the oppre&s;&s;ed goe free, and u&s;e no violence? Where do you act according to <HI>Johns</HI> council in that of <HI>Luke,</HI> chap. 3. ver. 8. to 15.</P>
<P N="2">II. You that imitate a Bapti&s;m from Chri&s;t, becau&s;e he went down into the water, <HI>Mat.</HI> 3. 16. 7.</P>
<P>When did ever the heavens open to any of you? and when did you after you came out of the water, at any time &s;ee the Spi|rit of God to de&s;cend like a Dove, and light upon you, as it did upon him? And when did you hear a voice from heaven, &s;ay|ing to you, Ye are my well-beloved &s;ons, in whom I am well plea&s;ed, to confirm your way of baptizing, as it did then?</P>
<P>For they that are guided by the &s;pirit of God, are the &s;ons of God; and if &s;ons, then heirs, and joynt-heirs with Chri&s;t, as they were who were baptized into the death of Chri&s;t, and bu|ried with him in bapti&s;m, that like as Chri&s;t was rai&s;ed up from the dead, by the glory of the Father, &s;o they to newne&s;s of life, who were owned with the love of God, and were &s;ons, 1 <HI>John 3. 1. Rom</HI> 8. 14. to 18, and <HI>Rom 6. 3, 4. 5. ver&s;es</HI></P>
<P>They who baptized then had manife&s;t tokens of the love and power of God, to confirm that vi&s;ible and outward bapti&s;m of water.</P>
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But what power or manife&s;t token have you Baptizers, that do but imitate them who had the holy Gho&s;t and the power, is not that wanting, and doth not accompany your bapti&s;m, and &s;o it is but as a bell without a clapper, and dead as a body with|out a &s;pirit; and &s;o a form without power.</P>
<P N="3">III. You baptized people that imitate <HI>Philip,</HI> that Preached to the Church: When did the &s;pirit bid you goe, as it did him? and when were you caught away out of &s;ight by the &s;pirit, after you had done, as <HI>Philip</HI> was? Where is your confirmation, or fignes, or miracles, to accompany your bapti&s;m, as it did theirs? Are you all Chaffe, and no Wheat? What is the form to the power, &s;aith the Lord? Is not my word as a fire and a hammer, to beat down, and to burn up?</P>
<P N="4">IV. You that imitate <HI>Peter</HI> when he went to the Gentiles to preach the word in <HI>Cornelius</HI>'s hou&s;e, and the holy Gho&s;t &s;ell on them, at the preaching of the word, to &s;hew that God would make choice of the Gentiles, as well as the Jews, and &s;eeing that they received the holy Gho&s;t as well as they of the circum|ci&s;ion, none ought to forbid them of being partakers of the pri|viledge of Chri&s;t, as well as the Jews; and they were baptized as well as they: But where is your vi&s;ion that <HI>Peter</HI> had before he went to the Gentiles? Where is your power to give the holy Gho&s;t? are you not &s;ayers, but no doers, having a form, but want the power? <HI>Acts</HI> 10. chapt.</P>
<P N="5">V. You that imitate the Apo&s;tles way of baptizing with wa|ter, but cannot give the holy Gho&s;t? Where have any of you &s;old your po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, and laid the price down at the Apo&s;tles feet, as the baptized people did in <HI>Acts</HI> 4. and &s;uffer none to want, but have all things common, as they had? <HI>Act.</HI> 4. 31, 32, to the end.</P>
<P N="6">VI. You that are baptized with water, but want the gift of the holy Gho&s;t, How can you ca&s;t out and deliver up to Satan, by what power do you that? Can Satan ca&s;t out Satan? Or a Kingdom divided again&s;t it &s;elf, how can it &s;tand?</P>
<P N="7">VII. You dippers and &s;prinklers, why do you differ, one dip, another &s;prinkle? And what have you to do to bu&s;ie your &s;elves to pre&s;s people to that thing, as nece&s;&s;ary to &s;alvation, and you have not power to e&s;tabli&s;h them? When did any receive the holy Gho&s;t and power from on high, by laying on of your
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hands; give over your dipping, and your &s;prinkling, you Immi|tators, that have the forme, but wanteth the power: And re|turne me your An&s;wer to the&s;e few Que&s;tions propounded to you.</P>
<P>For Chri&s;t hath not &s;ent me to Baptize but to lay open decetps and deceivers: and to preach the Go&s;pel, not with wi&s;|dome of words lea&s;t the Cro&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t &s;hould be of none effect, for the preaching of the Cro&s;&s;e is to them that peri&s;h fooli&s;hne&s;&s;e, but unto us which are &s;aved, it is the power of God 1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 1. 17. 18. <HI>ver&s;e.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Richard Farnworth.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>The bapti&s;m of Chri&s;t we own, which all the Saints were baptized into, which was, <HI>By one Spirit into one Body,</HI> as in 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12. 13. &amp; by this bapti&s;m we do witne&s;s the wa&s;hing away of &s;in, not only the wa&s;hing away the filth of the fle&s;h, but the an&s;wer of a good con&s;cience towards God; but &s;prinkling of Infants we deny, which there is no Scripture for, And all you, who from your imaginations do imitate <HI>Johns</HI> bapti&s;m, and &s;o go into the water, and &s;ay, You are believers, and have right to the Ordi|nances of Chri&s;t, but you to be believers we deny, who are not yet come to repentance, and your water bapti&s;m, which is but an imitation from the letter: for the Lord never &s;ent you forth; nor commanded you neither to preach, nor baptize, as they did whom you go about to imitate, who are not yet come to repen|tance, nor to the fir&s;t Principle of the doctrine of Chri&s;t; nor to own the light of Chri&s;t in your con&s;ciences; who &s;hould exerci&s;e them, and lead you to wait upon God, and lead you to repen|tance, and the faith of believers you know not, for <HI>the mi&s;tery of faith is held in a pure con&s;cience,</HI> 1. Tim. 3. 9, which you cannot witne&s;s, which hates the light of Chri&s;t, which &s;hould exerci&s;e your con&s;ciences, and &s;o your minds and con&s;ciences is defiled, and with that minde you talk of faith, and of the Ordinances of Chri&s;t, and of water-bapti&s;m, which &s;erveth unto us for a figure, as the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3. 21, And Je&s;us Chri&s;t was baptized by <HI>John</HI> by water, that <HI>he might fulfill all righteou&s;ne&s;s,</HI> Mat. 3. 15, And <HI>John</HI> was a Prophet, and Chri&s;t is the end of the Pro|phets; and <HI>Johns</HI> bapti&s;m was but a figure; for he &s;aid, <HI>he did but baptize with water</HI> but Chri&s;t is the end of all figures, types and
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&s;haddows, and did fulfil them; for he fulfilled all righteou&s;ne&s;s and <HI>Johns</HI> mini&s;try and <HI>Johns</HI> bapti&s;m, and he that fulfilled all righteou&s;ne&s;s, the &s;ame baptizeth, which <HI>Iohn</HI> did bear witne&s;s unto, and all men came unto him, <HI>John.</HI> 3. 16. but he baptized none with water: but this is a my&s;tery to the dark minde, which knows not the bapti&s;m of Chri&s;t, nor <HI>Iohns</HI> doctrine, nor Je&s;us Chri&s;t <HI>the true light which enlighteneth every one that cometh into the world,</HI> which <HI>John</HI> bare witne&s;s unto, <HI>Job.</HI> 1, 9 but goes to hold up the types and figures which Chri&s;t came to fulfil, and &s;o denie&s;t Chri&s;t to be come in the Fle&s;h to fulfill all righteou&s;ne&s;s; and &s;o thou art an Antichri&s;t, who holds up the figures which Chri&s;t came to fulfil, and &s;o thou denies the Scriptures and Chri&s;t, who &s;aid he was to fulfil all righteou&s;ne&s;s; and the Saints bapti&s;m thou art ignorant of, which is, <HI>By one Spirit into one Body,</HI> 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12. 13, And <HI>Paul</HI> who was a Mini&s;ter of Chri&s;t and Preached the Go&s;pel, did bring many into this bapti&s;m, and he was not &s;ent to baptize with water, but to preach the Go&s;pel, and all the Churches which he preached unto, came to witne&s;s Chri&s;ts bapti&s;m with the holy Gho&s;t and with fire, by one Spirit into one Body, and was baptized into Chri&s;t; who was the Head of the Body, <HI>Rom.</HI> 6, 3. and by this bapti&s;m we are thus wa&s;hed from all filthine&s;s of Fle&s;h and Spirit; but your imitated bapti&s;m of water we deny, who live in your filthine&s;s of Fle&s;h and Spirit, who&s;e minds and con&s;ciences are defiled; but the bapti&s;m of Chri&s;t we own, which purifies our con&s;ciences from dead works, and keeps our minds undefiled <HI>by the wa&s;hing of generation; and renewing of the Holy Gho&s;t,</HI> Tit. 3. 5.</P>
<P>For the word Sacrament, there is no &s;uch Scripture which &s;peaks of a Sacrament; therefore we do deny you and your Sacrament, and your bread and wine, which is carnal, and &s;eeds the carnel which mu&s;t die, and your Communion is in that which is carnal in the creatures, and drunkards, and &s;wearers have fellow&s;hip together with you in tho&s;e things, and all lyars, covetous ones, prophain and idolatrous ones eats of the bread, and drinks of the cup, and &s;its at the Table, which is the Table of divels, and this is your Sacrament, which &s;tands without in carnal bread &amp; wine, and feeds the carnal, which oppre&s;&s;eth and murders the &s;eed of God within you, and you &s;ay, <HI>Chri&s;t hath left that as an Ordinance for you to practice:</HI> which is fal&s;e, which
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we deny; but the &s;upper of the Lord we own, <HI>The Cup of ble&s;&s;ing which we ble&s;s, is it not the Communion of the blood of Chri&s;t? and the broad which we break is it not the Communion of Chri&s;t? for we being many are one bread, for we are all, partakers of that one bread</HI> 1. Cor. 10. 16. 17. 21. 22. <HI>And this is the bread which came down from heaven, he that eateth thereof &s;hall never die;</HI> and this bread we all eat of, and this cup we all drink of, and this is that which is practi&s;ed and commanded in the Church of Chri&s;t, and &s;o we &s;it at the table of Chri&s;t, and cannot &s;it nor have fellow&s;hip with the table of divels: and they who &s;it at your table and your Sacrament, and eats of your bread, and drink of your wine, they die, for it is not the bread of life, and you who eats and drinks it, doth not di&s;cern the Lords body, for it is &s;piritual, and your Sacrament is carnal, <HI>And &s;o you eate and drink damnation to your &s;elves not di&s;cerning the Lords body,</HI> feeding the carnal with the carnal; and &s;o we deny your Sacrament to be an Ordinance of Chri&s;t, or the Supper of Chri&s;t, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11. 29.</P>
<P>All who &s;tumbles at the light are without and are not come to repentance, and &s;o all who &s;tumbles at the light, &s;tumbles at repentance. All who &s;tumbles at the light, &s;tumbles at the door, the door is known by the light which is come from <HI>Chri&s;t:</HI> And all who &s;tumbles at the light, &s;tumbles at the way, for <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> hath enlightened every one, that with the light he might &s;ee the way (which is <HI>Chri&s;t)</HI> to the Father: So all who &s;tumbles at the light, &s;tumbles at the Scriptures, and doth no know the meaning of them; for that eye that is turned from the light is the blind and leads into the ditch; and is to be condemned with the light from <HI>Chri&s;t:</HI> All who &s;tumbles at the light never knew Hope which purifies, nor Faith which purifies, nor the belief which overcomes the world; but he walks in darkne&s;s, and doth not know whether he goes, and the Children of light which dwels in the light, to him their condition is unknown for he hates that which they walk in: So with that he is condemned, and to you all this is the word of God: And all who &s;tumbles at the light, &s;tumbles at the Prophets words, and cannot under&s;t and the words of them, &s;poken from the light which in them was; And all who &s;tumbles at the light &s;tumbles at the Apo&s;tles words, which were declared from the light which was made manife&s;t in
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all Con&s;ciences which mini&s;tred to the Spirit in Pri&s;on: So all who &s;tumbles at the light, they are to be condemned with the light from the life of the Prophets and Apo&s;tles, which dwelt in the light with the rude wicked world, And here every one &s;nall witne&s;s his condemnation ju&s;t, and &s;ee it ju&s;t, with the light which &s;hews him his evil deeds, and <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> words true, and to his own condemnation.</P>
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<HEAD>To all who denies the teachings of God in &s;pirit, and would keep people in the teach|ings of men from the Letter, ever learning, but never able to come to the know|ledge of the truth.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Whatand where that new Jeru&s;alem is which cam down from heaven, in which there is no night, neither needs it light of &s;un, moon, or candle, but the Lord God is the light thereof: and into which &s;hall in no wi&s;e en|ter any thing that defileth, worketh abomination, or maketh a lie, but who&s;e names are written in the book of life?</P>
<P N="2">2. What and where that <HI>Sion</HI> is, to which all Nations &s;hall <NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 2. Mich. 4.</NOTE> flow, where the Lord &s;hall teach of his waies, and from whence the Law of God and his word &s;hall go forth; after which they &s;hall learn war no more, but &s;hall &s;ay, Come let us walk in the light of the Lord.</P>
<P N="3">3. What and where that Covenant is wherein the Lord will <NOTE PLACE="marg">Jer. 31. Heb. 8.!</NOTE> write his Law in peoples hearts, and put it in their inward parts: and they &s;hall no more teach every one their neighbour and brother, &s;aying, Know the Lord, for all &s;hall know him from the lea&s;t to the greate&s;t; and whether any may expect to come into that Covenant in the&s;e daies?</P>
<P N="4">4. What and where that unction and anointing is, by which the Saints knew all things, and needed not that any &s;hould teach them, but as that anointing taught them of all things which was true, and in it was no lie? and whether it be of the &s;ame ef|fect in the&s;e daies?</P>
<P N="5">5. What and where that comforter is, which doth reprove the <NOTE PLACE="marg">John 16.</NOTE> world of &s;in, of righteou&s;ne&s;s and of judgement, and doth guide into all truths, and &s;hews things to come, and &s;hews the things of Chri&s;t, and glorifies him: and whether that comforter may be expected in the&s;e daies?</P>
<P N="6">6. Whether any of the Saints of God may expect, and wait <NOTE PLACE="marg">Jer. 23.</NOTE> to receive his word from his own mouth immediately, as all the me&s;&s;engers of God did in all ages: or there mu&s;t be no word now but the letter taken out of books and which hath been former|ly &s;poken to others?</P>
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7. Whether any may wait for that promi&s;e fulfilling in the&s;e <NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 54. 13. John 6. 45.</NOTE> daies, that all the children of God &s;hall be taught of God; and whether that teaching be &s;ufficient to &s;alvation, without any hu|mane help or learning from man?</P>
<P N="8">8. What and where that word is that people &s;hall hear behind them, &s;aying, This is the way, walk in it, when they turn to the right hand, or to the left, and what that teacher in the mid&s;t of <NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 30.</NOTE> them is, which &s;hall be no more in corners: and whether any may expect that word and Teacher in the&s;e daies?</P>
<P N="9">9. What that word of &s;aith is, which needs none to &s;ay, Who <NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 30. 14. Rom. 10.</NOTE> &s;hall a&s;cend up into heaven, or into the depth, to fetch Chri&s;t from above, or below; but which was nigh in the heart, which the Apo&s;tles preached to them which had it in their hearts: and whether the &s;ame word be not in the hearts of people now, though they mind it not?</P>
<P N="10">10. What that voice of Chri&s;t is which his &s;heep knows, and <NOTE PLACE="marg">John 10.</NOTE> how they come to know it from all other voices, and which all that hear it, will no more hear the voice of a &s;tranger, hireling, or thief, but by that voice are brought to follow Churi&s;t alone; and whether Chri&s;ts &s;heep hear the &s;ame voice now, and know it from all fal&s;e voices?</P>
<P N="11">11. Whas that way in the wilderne&s;s is; which is called the <NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 35.</NOTE> way of holine&s;s, which the unclean &s;hall not pa&s;s over, but it &s;hall be for the wayfering man, and fools &s;hall not err therein: in which way the redeemed &s;hall walk, and the ran&s;omed of the Lord &s;hall come up to <HI>Sion;</HI> and whether any may expect to find that way who are &s;trangers and fools in the&s;e daies?</P>
<P N="12">12. What that Mini&s;tration of &s;pirit is which is given to every <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 12. 7.</NOTE> one to profit withall, and whether there can be any profiting without it: and whether it be not of it &s;elf an infallible guide in all the waies of God according to its manife&s;tation?</P>
<P N="13">13. What and where that wor&s;hip of God in &s;pirit and truth <NOTE PLACE="marg">John 4. 23, 24.</NOTE> is, which God alone &s;eeks to be wor&s;hipped in; and whether any can wor&s;hip in &s;pirit, but he who is born of the &s;pirit; and whe|ther he that is born of the &s;pirit, needs any other guide in that &s;piritual wor&s;hip, but that &s;pirit of which he is born, according to its mea&s;ure, and whether &s;uch wor&s;hippers have not been, and are now different from all other wor&s;hips, and therefore hated by them as in all ages?</P>
<P N="14">14. What and where that light is which enlightens every one <NOTE PLACE="marg">John 1. 0. Iohn 3.</NOTE> that comes into the world, and is the condemnation of all that loves darkne&s;s, becau&s;e of their evil deeds; and whether there be
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any other condemnation but this light to all who believe not in it, but hate it?</P>
<P N="15">15. What that Law of the &s;pirit of life is, which after <HI>Pauls</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rom.</HI> 8.</NOTE> warfare did &s;et him free from the law of &s;in and death; which formerly had lead him captive into the law of &s;in and made him wretched; and whether any now in the&s;e daies may look to be &s;et free by the &s;ame Law of the &s;pirit of life from the &s;aid wretch|ed condition who find them&s;elves in it?</P>
<P N="16">16. What that grace of God is which brings &s;alvation, and hath appeared to all men, and teacheth the Saints to deny all un|godline&s;s and worldly lu&s;ts; and whether it would not teach all men the &s;ame, if they did not turn it into la&s;civiou&s;ne&s;s, and they need no other teacher?</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>J. N</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The light in your con&s;cience the true Teacher.</HEAD>
<P>FRiends, You that look out at Teachers, without you con&s;ider what you have bin doing all this while, and what you have learned, you will &s;ee your&s;elves to be &s;trangers from the Covenant of promi&s;e, by which all com to know the Lord, and need not teach one another; this Covenant of peace you are &s;trangers from who own nor the light, which Chri&s;t doth enlighten every one that cometh into the world withall to teach you, if you have the ight which Chri&s;t doth enlighten every one with, which &s;hews you &s;in, and evil, and the deceits of your hearts, and how you have &s;pen your time, and how you &s;pend it, and whom you have &s;erved, and whom you do &s;erve, that light is your teacher to teach righteou&s;ne&s;s, for it is righteou&s;ne&s;s that light will be your condemna|tion hating it, and you &s;et up &s;uch teachers as hate this light, that are call'd of men ma&s;ters, have the chief places in the A&s;&s;emblies, which Chri&s;t cryed woe again&s;t, and &s;o doth not own that Chri&s;t which the Scripture &s;peaks of, but &s;ets up &s;uch as Chri&s;t cry'd woe again&s;t: as you may try your &s;pirits, read Mat. 23. If you will own the Scyiptures, and if ever you will own God you mu&s;t own that light in your con&s;ciences which Chri&s;t has enlightned you with: for it is the eye, and if ever you &s;ee the Church which is in God the Father of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, it mu&s;t be with this light which Chri&s;t hath enlightned you with but hating this light, you run to the teachers of the world, and wor&s;hips of this world and &s;o from God and the Church in God, and this light will be your condemnation that hate it. Now if you love this light it will reach yov when you lie in bed, and &s;hew you where your heart is, and what your thoughts are up|on, and all the deceits of your hearts, and bring you to &s;tand in the coun|cel of God, to receive in&s;truction from God, and direction how to walk before him; and as this light doth &s;hew you &s;in, and the deceits of your hearts, &s;tand &s;till in the light, and Will nothing but wait for the power of God to &s;tand again&s;t that nature which the light of Chri&s;t di&s;covers in you, and here is your fir&s;t &s;tep to peace.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>G. F.</SIGNED>
And eternally you &s;hall witne&s;s what I &s;peak, For to that in your con&s;ciences do I &s;peak.</CLOSER>
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