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<P>A CALL OUT OF EGYPT, (Where Death and darkne&s;s is) INTO THE <HI>Glorious Light and Liberty of the Sons OF</HI> GOD, (Where Life and Peace is.) The Lord fulfilling his PROMISES Declared by his Holy PROPHETS and APOSTLES, In the&s;e later Days.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Giles Calvert</HI> at the Black Spread Eagle neer the We&s;t end of <HI>Pauls.</HI> 1656.</P>
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<HEAD>A CALL OUT OF EGYPT, Where Death and darkne&s;s is, into the glorious Light and Liberty of the Sons of God where life and peace is, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
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<P>GIve eare O ye heavens and I will &s;peak: and hear O earth the words of my mouth: I will declare unto you the wonders of God: I will publi&s;h the name of the Lord, and the mighty operation of his power: he is the Rock and the &s;ure Foundation: his work is perfect: all his ways are judg|ment and righteou&s;ne&s;s; he is a God of Truth, and without in|iquity; ju&s;t and righteous is he, and all his wayes are ju&s;t and equal: he is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity; his way is pure, and his Wor&s;hip is likewi&s;e pure and &s;piritual, and he &s;its in his Throne of Righteou&s;ne&s;s, Ju&s;tice, and Judgment, and the wicked cannot &s;tand before him; they are and &s;hall be like the chaffe which the winde driveth away, and cannot &s;tand in the Judgement, nor the Sinners in the Congregation of the Righteous: Holy and Righteous is the Lord God of Ho&s;ts, and delights in purity; Holine&s;&s;e becomes his hou&s;e for
<PB N="2" REF="3">ever: The Temple of God is holy, where he dwells and inha|bits, and where he is wor&s;hipped; and he dwells not in Tem|ples made with hands, as it is written in the Prophets, <HI>The hea|ven is my Throne, and the earth is my Foot&s;tool; where is the hou&s;e that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my re&s;t? for all tho&s;e things hath mine hand made, and all tho&s;e things have been &s;aith the Lord: But to this man will I look, even to him that is of a meek and a contrite Spirit, and trembleth at my word.</HI> This is God, the living God, which the Prophets and Apo&s;tles, and all the Holy Men did bear witne&s;s unto, and declared of, even what they had &s;een and heard, and ta&s;ted of the Word of Life, which was in the beginning with God, and the Word was God, and &s;hall endure for ever: The &s;ame God who at &s;undry times and in divers manners, &s;pake in times pa&s;t unto the Fathers by the Prophets, hath in the&s;e la&s;t dayes &s;poken unto us by his Son, whom he hath given for a Covenant of Light, to lead his peo|ple out of death and darkne&s;s into righteou&s;ne&s;s and peace, to have fellow&s;hip with the Son, and to be Heirs, Joint-Heirs with the Son, whom he hath appointed Heir of all things, by whom al&s;o he made the world, &amp; all that is therein, the Sun, the Moon the Stars and the Fowls of the air, the Earth and all the Bea&s;ts of the Field, and the creeping things upon the Earth, the Sea and all that is therein; who being the brightne&s;s of his Glory, and the expre&s;&s;e Image of his &s;ub&s;tance, upholding all things by the Word of his Power; which power is now manife&s;ted, which makes the earth to &s;hake, and the Inhabitants thereof to trem|ble at the wonderful work of our God which is began in this Nation of England. The dreadful God of Ho&s;t is ri&s;en in his maje&s;ty &amp; great power, &amp; is bringing to pa&s;&s;e his &s;trange work, which makes the heathen rage, &amp; bite and gnaw their tongues, and &s;tand a&s;toni&s;hed at the &s;trange work of the Lord: Behold ye de&s;pi&s;ers, and wonder and peri&s;h; for I work a work in your daies, which you &s;hall in no wi&s;e believe though a man declare it unto you; and this is fulfilled upon this Generation, who will not believe the work of the Lord though it be declared unto them; but do &s;et them&s;elves in oppo&s;ition again&s;t the work of God both Rulers and Magi&s;trates, Prie&s;ts and People, all join them&s;elves together in battel again&s;t the Lamb, but they &s;hall not prevail, all is vain, the Lamb &s;hall get the Victory, and
<PB N="3" REF="3">hath gotten the victory; our eyes have &s;een and beheld it; prai&s;es to his Name for evermore, who hath fulfilled, and is dai|ly fulfilling his promi&s;e more and more; gathering his &s;catte|red &s;heep together, where they have been &s;cattered abroad in this cloudy dark day, many yeers the Lords people have been made a prey upon, but the true &s;hepherd Chri&s;t Je&s;us is ri&s;en, &amp; is bringing deliverance to his people; gathering them from the mouths of the fal&s;e Shepherds, and bringing them into the fold of re&s;t and peace, where they &s;hall eat and be &s;atisfied with li|ving Refre&s;hments in the bo&s;ome of the Fathers love, and there &s;hall be one &s;heepfold and one Shepherd: Prai&s;es to the Lord the day is come, the happy day, the day of glad tydings which we long looked and waited for; the day of our God which is a day of glad tydings to weary and impri&s;oned Souls, and a day of vengeance and recompence of the Adver&s;aries of God, as it is declared in the Prophets, <HI>The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, becau&s;e the Lord hath annoynted me to preach good tydings unto the meek, he hath &s;ent me to bind up the broken hearted; to proclaim liberty to the CAPTIVES, and the opening of the PRISON to them that are bound; to pro|claim the acceptable YEER of the LORD, and the DAY of VENGEANCE of our God; to comfort all that mourn, to appoint unto them that mourn in ZION, to give unto them Beauty for A&s;hes; the oyl of joy for mourning; the Garment of Prai&s;e for the Spirit of Heavine&s;&s;e; that they might bee called Trees of Righteou&s;ne&s;s, the Planting of the LORD.</HI></P>
<P>And this is the Lord fulfilling in our days, he is planting a garden of plea&s;ant Plants, and watering and dre&s;&s;ing them, that they may be fruitful, and is plucking up all the wild and fruitle&s;&s;e plants, and ca&s;ting them into the fire of his wrath there to be burned, that &s;o his people may bee a holy and a peculiar people, that he may bee glorified; for hee is come (who is pure) to look for FRUITS, and all fruitle&s;&s;e TREES mu&s;t bee cut downe, and ca&s;t into the fire; For the LORD hath looked downe from Heaven, and behold the Land is corrupted; The Garden of the Lord is over&s;pread with weeds; briars &amp; thorns doth the earth
<PB N="4" REF="4">bring forth: and the faithfull City is become an harlot, as faith the Prophet, It was full of judgment: righteou&s;ne&s;s lodg|ed in it, but now murderers: thy &s;ilver is become dro&s;s, thy wine mixt with water: thy Princes are rebellious, and com|panions of thieves, every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards.</P>
<P>See if it be not &s;o now: They judge not the fatherle&s;s, neither doth the Cau&s;e of the Widdow come before them: therefore &s;aith the Lord the God of ho&s;ts, the mighty One of I&s;rael, Ah! I will ea&s;e me of mine adver&s;aries, and avenge me of mine e|himies, and I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dro&s;s, and take away all thy tinne, and I will re&s;tore thy Judges as at the fir&s;t, and thy Coun&s;ellors as at the be|ginning: afterwards thou &s;halt be called The City of righte|ou&s;ne&s;s, the faithfull City, Sion &s;hall be redeemed with judg|ment, and her Converts with righteou&s;ne&s;s: And now is this day come that the righteous God is pleading his Cau&s;e with his Enemies, and purging them with the &s;pirit of judgment and of burning.</P>
<P>And Judgment is begun, according as the Apo&s;tle foretold: for the time is that Judgment mu&s;t begin at the hou&s;e of God: and if it fir&s;t begin at us, what &s;hall be the end of them that obey not the Go&s;pel of God? Woe and mi&s;ery will be their portion, and the de&s;truction of the Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors and of the Sinners &s;hall be together: and they that for&s;ake the Lord, &s;hall be con&s;umed: for he will be glorified in this his day of Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e and ju&s;t Judgement, which is now &s;et up in the earth, which makes the Inhabitants thereof to learn righteou&s;|ne&s;&s;e, according to the &s;aying of the Prophet I&s;aiah, The way of the ju&s;t is uprightne&s;&s;e, thou mo&s;t upright do&s;t weigh the path of the ju&s;t; yea in the way of thy judgements, O Lord, have we waited for thee: the de&s;ire of our &s;oul is to to thy Name, and to the remembrance of thee: <HI>With my Soul have I I de&s;ired thee; in he might; yea, with my &s;pirit within me will I &s;eek thee early; for when thy judgements are in the earth, the Inhabitants of the world will learn righteou&s;ne&s;s: Let favour be &s;hewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteou&s;ne&s;s, in the Land of Uprightne&s;s will he deal unju&s;tly, and will not behold
<PB N="5" REF="4">the Maje&s;ty of the Lord, though he &s;tretcheth forth his Hand and calls to come forth of the Land of Darkne&s;s, and waiteth to be gracious; yet all this will not move him, nor break his heart, but goes on carele&s;ly to de&s;truction; and becau&s;e &s;entence again&s;t an evill work is not executed &s;peedily, therefore the heart of the Sons of Men is fully &s;et in them to do evill.</HI></P>
<P>But now the day of ju&s;t Judgement is come, and woe unto the wicked, it &s;hall go ill with them, they &s;hall not prolong their <HI>Days,</HI> becau&s;e they fear not before the Lord, the righte|ous God of Heaven and Earth who loves Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and no unrighteous one can have union and fellow&s;hip with him.</P>
<P>And this is he, the living, pure, holy, righteous God, which the holy men of God did bear Te&s;timony of, and the &s;ame pure holy God do I bear Te&s;timony of, which is Light, and in him is no darkne&s;&s;e at all; who created man, and made him in his own Image, and gave him Dominion over all other creatures: But all have gone a&s;tray, and turned a&s;ide from the holy Com|mand of God, and &s;o have falne from the pure living God, and lo&s;t his Image, and are become aliens and &s;trangers to Him, their Maker; the God of the world having blinded their minds, and &s;tolne away their hearts from the love of the Creator, in|to the Creature, and &s;o their love is in the Creature, and wor&s;hips and &s;erves that more then the Creator, and their Bodies, which was the Temples of God, and in which was his image and likene&s;s, the &s;ame is become a habitation for the Devil and all unclean lu&s;ts; and &s;o the image and likene&s;s of the Devil, who hath gotten po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, and &s;its as ruler and king in the heart, and leads the Creature captive at his will, to do his work which is unrighteou&s;ne&s;s: And here is the fir&s;t mans &s;tate, which is from below of the Earth earthly, and mindes Earthly things, careing for the things of this life, what to eat, what to drink, and what to put on, labouring and &s;tri|ving by all ways and means to get great po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, and to become great in the Earth, and to have the honour of the World which is below and lies in wickedne&s;s: and in this &s;tate men and women are &s;triving to come again unto the Tree of life, and by their Earthly wi&s;dom which is &s;en&s;ual and di|veli&s;h, goes about to comprehend the things of God, but ne|ver
<PB N="1" REF="5">can: it is a my&s;terie hid and &s;ealed from this wi&s;dom, and never can be known there: for the World by wi&s;dom knows not God.</P>
<P>But good and full of love is the Lord the righteous God, and by his wi&s;dom hath found out a way contrary to the wit, will and wi&s;dom of man, and that is of him&s;elf: for he hath given his &s;on, his only begotten &s;on, who is the &s;on of his love: him hath he freely given for a Covenant of light to bring back a|gain fallen man, which is driven from God into the Earth: and to reconcile him to his Maker, and renew that Image of God again, which by his di&s;obedience he hath lo&s;t: and there is no way but by the Son: none knoweth the Father but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him: And this is he which the Prophets prophe&s;ied of, and which the Apo&s;tles wit|ne&s;&s;ed to be the Light of the world, as <HI>John</HI> te&s;tifies, who came for a Witne&s;s to bear witne&s;s of the Light, and &s;aith he, that was the true Light which lightneth every man that cometh into the world: and the &s;ame do I bear te&s;timony unto, he who is the life and light of men, which lightneth every one that com|eth into the world: and this light is true and pure, and &s;tands a witne&s;s for the true and pure God, again&s;t all &s;in and un|righteou&s;ne&s;s, and all the deeds done in the body, though ne|ver &s;o clo&s;ely acted or intended: this true light doth not con|&s;ent, but reproves in &s;ecret for the &s;ecret evils that are con|ceived in the evil heart again&s;t God: And when this witne&s;s doth ari&s;e in the con&s;cience, and trouble man for his &s;in, and brings him to &s;ome &s;en&s;e and feeling of his mi&s;erable condition, that he lies under the Cur&s;e and wrath of Almighty God, and gives him &s;ome wound for his &s;in, and: and &s;o man comes to &s;ee his nakedne&s;s with the light of the Sun: then fearing the wrath of God, doth fly from his pre&s;ence, to act&s;omething to pacify the wrath of God: and &s;o <HI>Adam</HI>-like, makes garments of fig-leavs to cover his nakedne&s;s: And here is the ground of all the forms and profe&s;&s;ions of godline&s;s, that &s;tands not in the Light, but are turned from the Light and fled the judgment, and run to the Scriptures without them, and &s;o reads and gets a no|tion of words, decking and painting them&s;elves with the &s;heeps cloathing, and &s;o read, and pray, and &s;ing, and goe to hear
<PB N="7" REF="5">Sermons, and cover them&s;elves with a Covering like the Spirit; but is not the Spirit, and &s;o Wo is their Portion who are cover|ed and not with the Spirit of the Lord: All this will not hide them nor cover their nakedne&s;s in the day of the Lord; all this doth not clean&s;e the heart, nor reform the in&s;ide; all this which the world calls Wor&s;hip and Service of God, as Reading, Pray|ing, Singing and Preaching (as it is called) or whatever is done in that &s;tate, it is no more but a Garment of Fig-Leafs, or patching a piece of new cloth in an old Garment; it is a fal&s;e cover which wil not &s;tand in the Fiery day; and this was the &s;tate of the Scribes and Phari&s;ees, who had the Scriptures, <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and the Prophets words, and were painted over with good words, but had not the Word of God abiding in them; &s;o they were &s;trangers to the Life and Power of God, and they did not be|lieve in the Light Je&s;us Chri&s;t, who was the &s;um of all that which they upheld, which were but types and &s;hadows and figures of him who was the Sub&s;tance; and therefore Chri&s;t the Light cry|ed wo unto them, calling them Hypocrites, whited Walls, pain|ted Sepulchres, Serpents, Generation of Vipers who &s;hut up the kingdom of heaven again&s;t men neither going in them&s;elvs nor &s;uffers others: And the&s;e were of the great men of the world, and learned men, Doctors and chief Prie&s;ts, and the learned Rabbies; yet for all this their learning they knew not Chri&s;t, but called him a bla&s;phemer, and tho&s;e that did believe on him were called a cur&s;ed people that knew not the Law.</P>
<P>Thus in all Ages profe&s;&s;ion was blind, who were not guided by the Light of Chri&s;t; &amp; as it was then, it is now; all the world, Profe&s;&s;ors, Prie&s;ts and People who deny the Light of Chri&s;t, and are not guided by it, all their Prayers and Sacrifices is abo|mination, and &s;tincks in the No&s;trils of the pure God, iniquity being found within and regarded in their hearts; this will be the Sentence from the Righteous God, <HI>Go ye Cur&s;ed Workers of Iniquity, depart from me into everla&s;ting Fore pre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ed for the Devil and his Angels.</HI> And here lies the world in wickedne&s;&s;e; and though many have long been &s;eeking after God, yet have not found him, becau&s;e they have been &s;eeking the living among the dead; and though many have long been talking of the name of God and of Chri&s;t, yet few there be that walk in
<PB N="8" REF="6">the living way, and live the pure life of Chri&s;t; but Iniquity doth daily abound in the Nation among&s;t tho&s;e that profe&s;&s;e God: and that Pride, and Envie, and Wrath, Strife and Debate, Co|vetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, Cruelty, Tyranny and Oppre&s;&s;ion Drunkenne&s;&s;e, Lying, fooli&s;h Je&s;ting, vain Sporting and Plea&s;ures, that the Lands mourns, and the whole Creation groans with the Bon|dage of Corruption; and the Name of the Lord is daily di&s;ho|nored by this wicked and untoward Generation of Profe&s;&s;ors, both Prie&s;ts and People, all are out of the pure Path in the hy|pocri&s;ie making a &s;hew of Godline&s;&s;e, and drawing neer to God with their lips and with their mouths, but their hearts are far from him; and their Sacrifices and Prayers are as <HI>Cains</HI> Sacri|fice who murdered his Brother.</P>
<P>So the&s;e who live in Envy and Wrath, and fal&s;e Accu&s;ing, Back-biting, Slandering, and Per&s;ecuting and Reproaching the Innocent harmle&s;&s;e Lambs of Chri&s;t, and &s;o are found in the &s;ame nature with <HI>Cain,</HI> for &s;aith the Apo&s;tle, <HI>He that hateth his Brother is a Murderer, and no Murderer hath Eternal Life abi|ding in him.</HI></P>
<P>And here all who are not wilfully blind may &s;ee the National and Pari&s;h-Teachers in the nature of <HI>Cain,</HI> in envy, and &s;o not accepted of God: and all that uphold them they are &s;een in the Light of the Lord Je&s;us to be blind and are led by the blind, and both are going into the Ditch, who have turned from the mea&s;ure of God, the Light that did and doth convince and re|prove for &s;in and evil; and are &s;oared up in the air climbing up another way: But if ever you know God or true peace to your &s;ouls, back you mu&s;t come to that which doth reprove and trou|ble for &s;in, that mu&s;t &s;peak peace if ever you know peace; and that will not &s;peak peace to any who lives in &s;in; but he that fears God and departs from Iniquity, and waiteth upon God &s;hall finde Peace and Re&s;t to his Soul.</P>
<P>Therefore all people what&s;oever who read the&s;e Lines, &s;eri|ou&s;ly con&s;ider your wayes, and no longer follow the Pari&s;h-Prie&s;ts who preach for hire and &s;eek gain from their quarter, and through feigned words and covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e make merchan|di&s;e of your &s;ouls; they were never &s;ent of God, and therefore they &s;hall not profit you: Cea&s;e from them all, and wait on
<PB N="9" REF="6">the Lord in the Light of his Son Je&s;us, and learn of him who is meek and low in Spirit, and you &s;hall finde re&s;t to your &s;ouls: But while you live in your &s;ins there is no re&s;t, as &s;aith the Pro|phet, <HI>There is no peace to the wicked; but they that wait upon the Lord &s;hall renew their &s;trength, for the Lord is come in power and great glory; and is fulfilling his promi&s;e made of old, pouring forth his &s;pirit upon his Sons and Daughters, and they &s;hall be all taught of God, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">d in righteou&s;ne&s;s &s;hall they be establi&s;hed, and &s;hall be far from Opprr&s;&s;ion, and no worker of Iniquity, nor any unclean thing can enter into the Covenant of God</HI> for this is the Covenant of the Lord, <HI>I will write my Law in their hearts, and put my &s;pi|rit in their inward parts, and they &s;hall no more teach every man his Neighbor, nor every man his Brother, &s;aying, Know the Lord; for all &s;hall know me from the lea&s;t to the greate&s;t, and I will be merciful to their unrighteou&s;ne&s;s, and their &s;ins and their iniquities will I remember no more &s;aith the Lord: And this is our God ful|filling in the&s;e our dayes his own Glory; to whom be everla&s;ting Honor and Dominion for evermore.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Witne&s;&s;ed by a Servant of the Lord who is come out of Egypt and through the Red-Sea and the Wilderne&s;&s;e, and arri|ved at the Land of Re&s;t, who&s;e Name is after the fle&s;h called, <HI>ALEX. PARKER.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Mini&s;ter of Chri&s;t, his plea for PURITY again&s;t the Mini&s;ters of Antichri&s;t, and all their Train who plead for &s;in.</HEAD>
<P>ALL you that plead for &s;in, whether Prie&s;ts or People, of what &s;ort &s;oever, who make a profe&s;&s;ion of the name of God and of Chri&s;t, and yet live in &s;in and plead for &s;in, and &s;ayes none can be free from &s;in, or perfect from &s;in while they live upon the earth; all your talking and out&s;ide cu&s;tomary wor|&s;hip is in vain, and is no more but your own &s;elf-righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e which is filthy and abominable, and it will never bring peace to your &s;ouls, nor you can never be reconciled to God as long as you live in &s;in; that's the cau&s;e of &s;eperation from God, your &s;ins; your &s;ins have &s;eparated between you and me &s;aith the Lord; and as long as &s;in &s;tands, the Partition wall &s;tands, for it &s;tands betwixt you and the Lord; and there is no Union nor Fellow&s;hip with God nor with his Son as long as you live in &s;in, but aliens you are, and &s;trangers from the pure God and the life of his Son <HI>J<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;us:</HI> And you that plead &s;o &s;trongly for &s;in, you plead for the Devil who&s;e &s;ervants you are as long you live in &s;in; and you are the Antichri&s;ts that are again&s;t Chri&s;t &amp; oppo&s;e him and you are again&s;t the end of his coming and be|ing manife&s;ted in fle&s;h; for he came to take away&s;in, and &s;o he is called the Lamb of God which taketh away the &s;ins of the world; for, for this purpo&s;e was the Son of God made manife&s;t, that he might de&s;troy the works of the Devil, and to di&s;po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;e and ca&s;t out the &s;trong man, and &s;o to purifie the heart, and purge the con&s;cience from dead works, and make it a fit Temple for him&s;elf to dwell in and he hath promi&s;ed to dwell in his people and where he dwells purity dwells, and &s;in can|not dwell with him, for it defiles and pollutes his Temple and if any man defile the Temple of God him &s;hall God de&s;troy, for the Temple of God is holy, which Temple ye are (&s;peaking to the Saints:) Now this I &s;ay, That all &s;in defiles, as Envy, Wrath, Malice, Pride, Lu&s;t, Covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and the like; if the&s;e evils lodge in your hearts, it is evident and plainly mani|fe&s;t
<PB N="11" REF="7">that the Devil the &s;trong man lodgeth and is axalted above all that is called God in your hearts, and keeps po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion there; for all the&s;e evils and abominations that are acted and done in the world, the Devil is the Author and Father of them, who hath begotten them into his Image and likene&s;&s;e to do his will and works, which are works of darkne&s;&s;e; and &s;o all you that live in &s;in, as pride, hatred, variance, debate, drunkenne&s;&s;e, &s;wearing, lying, fal&s;e accu&s;ing, cozening and cheating in your buyings and &s;ellings, u&s;ing fal&s;e weights and mea&s;ures, and &s;ay|ing and un&s;aying, boa&s;ting of your Wares to be &s;o, and &s;o, when many times you know to the contrary; and &s;o lie one to another to get di&s;hone&s;t gain, and make a prey of the &s;imple, who have not &s;o much of the &s;ubtle Serpents wi&s;dom as your &s;elves. All the&s;e are the works of the Devil, and as long as you live in the&s;e practi&s;es the Devil leads you, and &s;o you become his Servants, for his Servants you are, to whom you yeild your &s;elves &s;ervants to obey, whether of &s;in unto death, or of obe|dience unto righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, for the wages of &s;in is death: and all who go in their &s;in, &s;atisfying and fulfilling the lu&s;ts and de|&s;ires of the fle&s;h, and going from God in the broad way that leads to de&s;truction. But the Serpent is grown very &s;ubtle, and the better to hide and cover him&s;elf, he brings Scripture to up|hold his Kingdom all that he can gather up as he conceives makes for his purpo&s;e, that he brings, and his Servants make u&s;e of to oppo&s;e the pure Doctrine of the Son of God, and his faithful and true Mini&s;ters, <HI>who are &s;ent of God to open the blind eyes, to turn them from darkne&s;s unto Light, and from Satant pow|er unto God, and to pre&s;ent them perfect in Chri&s;t Je&s;us:</HI> But &s;aith the Serpent and the Mini&s;ters of Antichri&s;t, <HI>It is not po&s;&s;ible that ever any one &s;hould be free from &s;in while they live; did not</HI> David <HI>&s;in, and</HI> Peter <HI>&s;in? and did not</HI> Paul <HI>cry out of a body of &s;in? and are you better then the Apo&s;tles?</HI> Thus the carnal profe&s;&s;ors of our time plead for their Kingdom, being blinded by the God of the World, that the Light of the Glorious Go&s;pel of JESUS CHRIST which makes free from &s;in, this they know not.</P>
<P><PB N="12" REF="8">Now all people con&s;ider, and &s;ee what you do uphold and what you do plead for; will this Plea &s;tand at the great and dreadful Day when the Lord calls you to an Account, to &s;ay that others were &s;inners, &amp; bring that as a cloak to cover you? No, this will not cover you in that dreadful Day of Account; for though <HI>David</HI> did &s;in yet he repented, and had no peace till the Lord had pardoned his &s;in: He wept until his eyes grew dim and his fle&s;h did fail of fatne&s;s; he watered his Couch with his tears. Is it &s;o with you? Are you brought down as <HI>David</HI> was? and though <HI>David</HI> left the&s;e things upon Record, it was not to encourage others to go on in &s;in, but that all might take example not to do the like, le&s;t the terror and wrath of God come upon them for their rebellion again&s;t &s;o good a God: but you &s;ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">l go on in your vile cour&s;es, and in&s;tead of being hum|bled by the example of others that have &s;inned, you bring it to uphold you in your &s;ins; and &s;o goes on daily, trea&s;uring up to your &s;elves wrath again&s;t the day of Wrath, which none of them did that you bring the failings of; where did <HI>David</HI> &s;in again? or <HI>Pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">er?</HI> or <HI>Paul?</HI> but were made in&s;trumental to turn many from their &s;ins: So you being ignorant of the conditi|ons of the Saints mentioned in Scripture, brings one condition to oppo&s;e another; for there was a time when they were dead in &s;ins and tre&s;pa&s;&s;es, and were aliens and &s;trangers from the Covenant of Promi&s;e; and there was a time when they were dead unto &s;in, and alive unto God; being reconciled unto God, havnig put off the body of the &s;in of the fle&s;h, and had put on Chri&s;t, and were alive in him, and created in him unto good Works; and by the Son of God, the Covenant of the Father, they were made free from &s;in, and had pa&s;&s;ed from death unto life, and Chri&s;t lived in them, who had given them the Victory over their &s;in, and defaced and blotted out the image of the de|vil, and renewed his own Image in them: and though <HI>Paul</HI> do &s;peak of a warfare that was in his growth, and through patient waiting in the Cro&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t, he witne&s;&s;ed a victory and prai|&s;ed God who had given him the Victory; &s;o he &s;peaks of &s;eve|ral times and conditions, as a time without the Law, <HI>I was alive without the Law once,</HI> and he &s;peaks of a time under the Law, and a time of being made free from the Law, which things you
<PB N="13" REF="8">mu&s;t all know and witne&s;&s;e manife&s;ted and fulfilled in you if e|ver you know the truth in its purity; for through the &s;ame door that all the holy men of God did pa&s;&s;e, mu&s;t you pa&s;&s;e, or el&s;e you cannot come to the &s;ame re&s;t: And this door and this way is &s;traight; you cannot enter in with your old Garments, you mu&s;t be &s;tripped of all, end become as a little child, or el&s;e you cannot enter; you mu&s;t know the work of God within you, and the operation of his Power, and his Righteous Law &s;et up with|in you to kill &s;in in its ri&s;e and conception in your hearts, then will you know the war between the Bea&s;t and the Lamb, and the fle&s;h lu&s;ting again&s;t the Spirit, and the Spirit again&s;t the fle&s;h, that ye cannot do the things that ye would; and this was <HI>Pau<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> time of crying out; for &s;aith he <HI>When we were in the fle&s;h the motions of &s;in that were by the Law, did work in our <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">|bers to bring forth fruit unto death; but now we are delivered from the Law, that being dead unto which, we were hold that we &s;hould &s;erve in newne&s;s of the Spirit, and not in the oldne&s;s of the Letter; for I was alive without the Law once, but when the Command|ment came, &s;in revived and I died:</HI> When <HI>Paul</HI> came to know the Law of the new Covenant written in his heart, he then &s;aw the body of &s;in, and the Law in his Members warring again&s;t the Law of his minde, which led him into captivity into the Law of &s;in and death, and made him wretched; but the Law was good, as the Apo&s;tle confe&s;&s;es, <HI>It is holy, just and good; the Law is &s;piritual, but I am carnal, &s;old under &s;in; for the good I would do, I do not; and the evil I would not do, that do I:</HI> Now all the carnal Profe&s;&s;ors would own <HI>Paul</HI> here, and bring the&s;e words to hide and cover them in their &s;ins, and &s;o are at ea&s;e in their &s;ins, alive without the Law; but <HI>Paul</HI> had not peace in this condition, but groaned and travelled under the burden of &s;in; but through Chri&s;t he thanked God who had given him the Victory; and even at that time when he writ that Epi&s;tle to the <HI>Roman</HI> he was made free from &s;in, though he declares of &s;uch a condition, &s;peaking to them that know the Law, for to them; that were under the Law he became as under the Law; <HI>For when we were in the fl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h, the motions of &s;in that were by the Law did work in our member,</HI> &amp;c <HI>but now we are delivered, now there is no condemnation to them that are in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, who walk not
<PB N="14" REF="9">after the fle&s;h but after the spirit; for the Law of the Spirit of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> in Chri&s;t Je&s;us hath made me free from the Law of &s;in and death;</HI> (mark it well, <HI>hath mad me free;</HI> not will or &s;hall, but he was then <HI>made free</HI>) <HI>for what the Law could not do in that it was weak through the fle&s;h, God &s;ending his own Son in the likene&s;s of &s;inful fle&s;h, and by a Sacrifice for &s;in condemned &s;in in the fle&s;h, that the righteou&s;ne&s;t of the Law might be fulfilled in us</HI> (mind you here, <HI>The righteou&s;ne&s;s of the Law fulfilled in us</HI>) <HI>who walk not after the fle&s;h but after the &s;pirit:</HI> So here you may &s;ee he &s;peaks of a time without the Law, and a time under the Law, where the Law was fulfilled in him; and &s;o pa&s;&s;ing through the Law, he became dead unto the Law, as he declares in another place, <HI>For I through the Law am dead unto the Law, that I might live unto God: I am crucified with Chri&s;t; yet neverthele&s;s I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me:</HI> Come now and try your &s;elves all you formal and carnal Profe&s;&s;ors, can you own <HI>Paul</HI> in this conditi|on? are you crucified with Chri&s;t? or are you alive in your &s;ins? are you crucified to the world and the world unto you? An&s;wer, <HI>Paul</HI> was &s;o: But are not you wallowing in your &s;ins, living in the plea&s;ures of the world, and no &s;eparation made from the world, but even with all your &s;trength griping after the world, loving it, and &s;eeking the honor and glory of the world, which <HI>Paul</HI> was crucified unto, though once he cried out of the body of &s;in; and &s;o patiently waiting in the cro&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t, he wit|ne&s;&s;ed a Victory.</P>
<P>And &s;o as the eyes of your under&s;tandings comes to be ope|ned, the&s;e things will be clear, and you will &s;ee the times, that <HI>Paul</HI> declareth and is left upon Record in the Scriptures of Truth; a time without the Law, and a time under the Law, and a time when he witne&s;&s;ed Chri&s;t Je&s;us the end of the Law: and whereas he &s;aith in one place, <HI>I am carnal;</HI> he &s;aith in another place, <HI>I am crucified;</HI> and this is plain to tho&s;e who have expe|rience of the workings of God; for that <HI>I</HI> which was carnal by the Law which was Spiritual, was crucified, and then <HI>no more I, but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span">.</HI> And this was the my&s;terie that <HI>Paul</HI> preached, which was hid from Ages and generations but now is made ma|nife&s;t in his Saints, which My&s;tery is <HI>Chri&s;t in you the hope of glo|ry, whom we preach, teaching and exhorting every man in all wi&s;|dom,
<PB N="15" REF="9">that we may pre&s;ent every man perfect in Chri&s;t Je&s;us.</HI> Now this I &s;ay, where Chri&s;t is manife&s;ted &s;in and iniquity is done a|way, and the body of &s;in de&s;troyed and dead; for if Chri&s;t be in you, the body is dead becau&s;e of &s;in; and if any be in Chri&s;t he is a new Creature, <HI>Old things are pa&s;&s;ed away, and behold all things are become new:</HI> and if all things are become new, then where is there room for &s;in, for that is of the old things which pa&s;&s;eth away, and doth defile and enters not into the Kingdom of God which &s;tands in righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e; and this is your cry, <HI>VVhere were there any that was without &s;in?</HI> I An&s;wer, They that were in Chri&s;t and did abide in him were without &s;in, and werenew creatures; and if you &s;ay that none were or are in Chri&s;t, then I &s;hall bring the Scripture-Te&s;timony again&s;t you, where they bear Te&s;timony of the Son, <HI>For we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an under&s;tanding to him that is true, and we are in him;</HI> [mark well, <HI>they were in him</HI>] <HI>that is true, even in his Son Chri&s;t Je&s;us:</HI> and here the Scripture de|clares that &s;ome were in Chri&s;t, and if any be in Chri&s;t he is a new creature; and they that are Chri&s;ts have crucified the fle&s;h with the affections and lu&s;ts; and if the affections and lu&s;ts be crucified, then where is the &s;in or the cau&s;e of &s;in, for lu&s;t is the ground of all &s;in; for as the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>There is no man temp|ted of God, but every man when he is tempted, he is drawn away of his lu&s;t, for the lu&s;t goes forth, and &s;in is conceived in the heart, and after it is cenceived it brings forth &s;in, and &s;in being fini&s;hed brings forth death:</HI> So the ri&s;e of &s;in is from the lu&s;t, which is conceived in the deceitful and deceived heart; but where the life and power of Chri&s;t is manife&s;ted, and the devils works de|&s;troyed, and the creature redeemed from the bondage of cor|ruption into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God, and is be|come Chri&s;ts, bought and redeemed by him, and hath crucified the fle&s;h with the affections and lu&s;ts, then where is &s;in you &s;o much plead for, which is a plant of your Father the Devil who&s;e children and &s;ervants ye are as long as you are doing his work, and pleading to uphold that which Chri&s;t comes to de&s;troy? but &s;urely you are deceived by him, for none &s;uch Plants &s;hall grow in my Fathers Garden; but they mu&s;t all be plucked up and ca&s;t into the fire.</P>
<P><PB N="16" REF="10">And again, the Enemies of pure Truth who are bent and &s;et to oppo&s;e Chri&s;t, they bring another place of Scripture, and thinks they are &s;trongly fenced here, where it is &s;aid, <HI>If we &s;ay we have no &s;in, we deceive our &s;elves, and the truth is not in us:</HI> This place is &s;trongly pleaded by all &s;orts of people and Profe&s;|&s;ors, who are not in the pure life of Chri&s;t; but prai&s;ed for ever|more be the righteous God, who hath hid the&s;e things from the wi&s;e and prudent and revealed them to Babes: Now for the &s;imple ones &s;ake I &s;hall &s;peak and declare, that their minds may be informed, and that they may not be kept in blindne&s;&s;e by the God of the world: The Apo&s;tle <HI>John</HI> was come to high attainments, and &s;aw through the vail; he &s;aw the fir&s;t mans &s;tate where all are dead in &s;in; and he &s;aw the &s;econd mans &s;tate which was born of God and could not &s;in: Now the natural man by all his wit &amp; wi&s;dom cannot comprehend the&s;e things; for as it is written, <HI>The natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are fooli&s;hne&s;s unto him, neither can he know them, for they are &s;piritually di&s;cerned:</HI> So it is the Spirit that reveales the deep and hidden things of God; and by the Spirit of God it is &s;een that the Apo&s;tle &s;peaks to a condition before confe&s;&s;ion of &s;in; and whereas he &s;aith <HI>we,</HI> many times they &s;ay <HI>we</HI> when they are pa&s;&s;ed from &s;uch con<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">itions; as <HI>&s;ames</HI> &s;aith, &s;peaking of the tongue, <HI>herewith ble&s;s we God, and there|with cur&s;e we men:</HI> but was <HI>fames</HI> a cur&s;er? But read the fol|lowing Ver&s;e, where <HI>John</HI> &s;aith, <HI>But if we confe&s;s our &s;ins, he is faithful and ju&s;t to foroive us our &s;ins, and to clean&s;e us from all unrighteou&s;ne&s;s;</HI> and if you &s;ay that <HI>John</HI> had not confe&s;&s;ed his &s;in, I bear te&s;timony, and the Scripture likewi&s;e te&s;tifie the &s;ame, that he had both confe&s;&s;ed and for&s;aken his &s;ins, for his fellow|&s;hip was with the Father and the Son; and you may &s;ee in the beginning of the Chapter, <HI>Tru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">y</HI> &s;aith he] <HI>our follow&s;hip is with the Father and the Son:</HI> Now if <HI>John</HI> had been in the un|regenerate &s;tate, and had not confe&s;&s;ed his &s;in, then could he not have had Union and Fellow&s;hip with the Father; <HI>for God is Light, and in him is no darkne&s;s a all, if we &s;ay <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e have fellow|&s;hip with God and walk in darkne&s;s we lie, and do not the truth; but if we walk in the Light as he is in the Light, we have union and fellow&s;hip one with another; and the blood of Je&s;us Chri&s;t his Son
<PB N="17" REF="10">clean&s;eth us from all &s;in,</HI> (mark well, he doth not &s;ay from part of your &s;ins, but from all &s;in) <HI>and this is that testimony that we bear of Chri&s;t, That his blood clean&s;eth from all &s;in, and he &s;a|veth to the utmo&s;t all that come unto God by him; &s;o if the Son make you free, then are you free indeed:</HI> But we do not &s;peak of any freedom but by the light, life and power of Je&s;us; for if any one &s;ay he hath no &s;in before he come to witne&s;&s;e Repent|ance, and the power of Chri&s;t not being manife&s;ted in him to de&s;troy &amp; take away his Sin, he doth deceive him&s;elf, &amp; the wit|ne&s;&s;e of God in his own con&s;cience will te&s;tifie again&s;t him; for if we &s;ay we have not &s;inned, we make him a liar; but where the life and power of Chri&s;t is manife&s;ted, and the Devils works de&s;troyed, and the heart purified, and the body made a temple of God, &s;hall we deny the work of God? No; far be it from us, but to declare his Name abroad in the earth, that others may dread and fear before him, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">pent of the evil of their ways; that &s;o they might rejoice with us in the love of our God, and eat with us on the bread of life in our Fathers hou&s;e, that they may be changed and renewed, and witne&s;s the birth which is from above, which except a man be born again he cannot &s;ee the Kingdom of God.</P>
<P>Now this birth and this change hath long been talked of, but who are they that are changed and born again? Surely &s;ome there are, God hath &s;ome of his own begetting; and the Apo|&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>He that is born of God &s;ins not, for his Seed remaineth in him, and he cannot &s;in becau&s;e he is born of God;</HI> but this the world and the children of darkne&s;&s;e cannot believe, nor endure to hear tell of; but ready to tear and rend if any one come to know and witne&s;&s;e a change.</P>
<P>And &s;o all you that plead for &s;in, you may &s;ee whom you &s;erve; even the devil the Prince of Darkne&s;&s;e, who leads you &amp; guides you as long as you live in &s;in: But ble&s;&s;ed be God the happy day is come, and the Lord hath many children who are begot|ten by the eternal Spirit, and are kept by his power &amp; &s;trength that the wicked one cannot touch them according as the Apo|&s;tle te&s;tifieth, <HI>VVe know that who&s;oever is born of God &s;inneth not, but he that is begotten of God keepeth him&s;elf that the wicked one toucheth him not; let no man therefore deceive you with words, for
<PB N="18" REF="11">he that doth righteou&s;ne&s;s is righteous, even as he is righteous; and he that commits &s;in is of the Devil; hereby are the children of God manife&s;t and the children of the Devil:</HI> So all you that live in Envy and Wrath, &s;peaking evil of the things you know not, you manife&s;t your &s;elves to be of the devil who hath begotten you into his image and likene&s;s to do his lu&s;ts: and &s;o being af|ter the fle&s;h are found per&s;ecutors of them that are born after the Spirit, as it was in former ages and generations, the chil|dren of God were ever hated and reproached by the world; but it is our joy, accounting it great riches that we are counted worthy to &s;uffer for his Names &s;ake; knowing this, that all that will live godly in Chri&s;t Je&s;us &s;hall &s;uffer per&s;ecution.</P>
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<HEAD>A Paper, &s;hewing who they are that are ble&s;sed, and who they are that are cur&s;ed.</HEAD>
<P>BLe&s;&s;ed is the man that feareth the Lord, and walketh in his way: he &s;hall be kept in peace when all the world is in trouble. And Mi&s;ery and no peace unto them who be out of the fear of God, and out of the way of life, in the broad way that leads to de&s;truction; following lu&s;ts, and plea&s;ures, &s;port|ing them&s;elves in the day-time; you that live after the Cour&s;e of this wicked world, not regenerated and born again of the Word of God, but live in your old, vain, wicked, ungodly and vile cour&s;es in the fallen &s;tate, bringing forth cur&s;ed fruits from the cur&s;ed ground, &s;owing to the fle&s;h, and &s;atisfying the lu&s;ts of it; living in lying, and &s;wearing; and drunkenne&s;&s;e, &s;pend|ing the creatures of God upon your lu&s;ts; drinking one to ano|ther, and tempting one another wit Ale and Beere until you
<PB N="19" REF="11">be overcome, and &s;o like Swine wallowing in the Lu&s;ts of Un|cleanne&s;&s;e; you bear the Image of your Father the Devil, who&s;e children and &s;ervants you are while you continue in your &s;ins and filthine&s;&s;e, you are of the cur&s;ed Generation, and wo and mi&s;ery is your portion. Wo, wo to all the Inhabitants of the earth, the Devil is come down among&s;t you, and he rageth and &s;wells becau&s;e he hath but a &s;hort time: The day draweth nigh, it ha&s;teth greatly, wherein every one of your works mu&s;t be tried by fire; and the Devil together with the fal&s;e Prophets, and all you who bear his Mark mu&s;t be ca&s;t into the Lake of Fire, there to be tormented for ever and ever, from the pre&s;ence of the Lord and all his holy Angels and Saints; this will be your Sentence from the righteous God, <HI>Depart from me all ye workers of Iniquity.</HI> Con&s;ider of this in your life time you that are &s;o full of rage and malice, &s;coffing and &s;corning, and reproaching the Servants and Me&s;&s;engers of the Lord, who are &s;ent of God to give you warning, and to open your blind eyes, and to turn you from your &s;ins and from darkne&s;&s;e unto Light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that you might receive forgivene&s;&s;e of &s;ins, and an Inheritance among&s;t the Saints in Light; and this freely as they are moved of the Lord from the bowels of tender love to your lo&s;t &s;ouls, without any &s;elf-end, not &s;eeking for a gift or any reward from any of you; not &s;eek|ing yours, but you; yet notwith&s;tanding all their care, labour and travel, &s;ee how you do reward them mocking and &s;coffing, and envying of them, haling them out of your Synagogues, and beating them, &s;ending many to the Stocks, and haling o|thers before Magi&s;trates and &s;o to Pri&s;on, and there the inno|cent &s;uffers under the hands of cruel men, many being beaten and cruelly u&s;ed in the PRISONS by the cruel GOAL|ERS, Witne&s;&s;e the GOALER at <HI>LANCESTON,</HI> where many of the deare Servants of the LORD have been ca&s;t into PRISONS among THIEVES and MUR|DERERS, and have been numbred among&s;t TRANS|GRESSORS (as our LORD and MASTER was) and many of them have been cruelly beaten and mo&s;t ba&s;ely abu&s;ed by the GOALER and his COMPA|NIONS. And all this and much more is done
<PB N="20" REF="12">again&s;t the innocent, whom you cannot ju&s;tly accu&s;e of any evil nor wrong done to any man, but freely declaring again&s;t &s;in in Markets, Cities and Villages, and in your Idols-temple, where the Wor&s;hip of the Bea&s;t is upheld, to call you from your fal&s;e wayes and fal&s;e Wor&s;hips, into the true and living way, and pure and Spiritual Wor&s;hip, to wor&s;hip God in Spirit and in Truth, and to call you from off all your hireling-Prie&s;ts and Pari&s;h-Teachers, who have long time led you in blindne&s;&s;e and ignorance, and have not profited you, but made a prey up|on your &s;ouls for di&s;hone&s;t gain, that &s;o you may all be taught of God in Spirit according to the Fathers Promi&s;e; and all this is done unto you freely, without &s;eeking any gain or reward from you; and yet notwith&s;tanding all this love and tender care for your &s;ouls, you envy and hate them, and &s;o manife&s;t your &s;elves to be of <HI>Cains</HI> Generation, and your Sacrifices are abo|mination to God, and not accepted of him; for our God is pure, and there is nothing accepted of him but that which is offered up from a pure heart, for the pure in heart are ble&s;&s;ed and &s;hall &s;ee God, as it is written in the Scripture: but woe is the porti|on of the wicked, they are of the cur&s;ed Generation, and all your Sacrifices, reading, &s;inging, praying, preaching and ex|pounding, and whatever you call a Wor&s;hip, and all your pro|fe&s;&s;ion and talking of God &amp; Chri&s;t, it is all abomination while &s;in and iniquity lodgeth and is regarded in your hearts, it is no more but your own &s;elf-righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, acted in your own wills which is as filthy rags, and as men&s;truous clothes, and it will not abide the fire; nor &s;tand in the day of trial: you are but pat|ching a piece of new cloth in the old Garment, and the Rent will be wor&s;e: your gilded out&s;ide and fair pretences, your talk|ing of the Scriptures and painting your &s;elves over with the Saints words, it is but &s;owing of fig-leafs together to cover your nakedne&s;&s;e, and it will not hide you from the wrath of the Lamb, neither will it &s;tand you in any &s;tead where the life and power of Chri&s;t is wanting: you are &s;til out of the way of God, for though you profe&s;&s;e much in words, and draw neer unto God with your lips and mouths, yet it is not &s;aying Lord, Lord that will avail, but he that doth the will of my Father &s;hall en|ter into the Kingdom, for it is the heart which he requires,
<PB N="21" REF="12">and as long as the devil and &s;in lodgeth in your hearts, in vain is all your talking and going to hear Sermons: It is not your go|ing one day in &s;even (or more) to hear a man &s;peak a compa|ny of words, and then all the week after to follow your own lu&s;ts and plea&s;ures without yoke and bridle, no cro&s;&s;e nor limit to the carnal minde, but all is at liberty; you can &s;peak your own words, and think your own thoughts, and do your own works, and &s;port your &s;elves in your vanities, your tongues at liberty to &s;peak vain words; this is not the wor&s;hip of God, but a fal&s;e wor&s;hip, and a vain Religion, and wo is the end of it, as it was to the <HI>Scribes</HI> and <HI>Phari&s;ee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> who were high in notion, and profe&s;&s;ed much in words, yet notwith&s;tanding all their out|&s;ide clean&s;ing and Scripture knowledge, they were &s;trangers to the life of truth and crucified the Son of God; and their pro|fe&s;&s;ion was but hypocri&s;ie, and Chri&s;t cried wo unto them, cal|ling them <HI>Whited wall, painted Sepulchres, who m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> the out&s;ide of the Cup and Platter, but the in&s;ide was not made clean.</HI></P>
<P>So all you now that talk of the Scriptures, and do not live in that pure life that they lived in that gave forth the Scrip|tures, you are hypocrites, and your profe&s;&s;ion &amp; out&s;ide clean|&s;ing is but Phari&s;aical, <HI>and except your righteou&s;ne&s;s exceed the righteou&s;ne&s;s of the Scribes and Phar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ees, you cannot enter into t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e Kingdom of God.</HI> Now &s;earch and try your &s;elves, and &s;ee if your righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e go any further then theirs did; (nay, doth it go &s;o far? they made clean the out&s;ide, but are not you unclean both within and without? To that of God in all your <HI>Conferenc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> I &s;peak and appeal, that with it you may try and ex|amine, and &s;ee what you can witne&s;&s;e of your return unto the Lord your God whar is cut down in you, or what change is wrought in your hearts, for there mu&s;t the work of God be known if ever you know the truth in its purity; for with the whole heart will the Lord be &s;erved, for he calls for it, as it is written, My Son give me thy heart, and as long as &s;in lodgeth in the heart, the devil lodgeth, for all &s;in is of the devil, as it is declared, He that commits &s;in is of the devil and as long as the devils works are &s;tanding within you, your profe&s;&s;ion of Chri&s;t without you will not avail, until his life and power be witne&s;|&s;ed
<PB N="22" REF="13">within you to de&s;troy the devils works; for for this end &amp; pur|po&s;e was the Son of God made manife&s;t, that he might de&s;troy the works of the Devil; and all &s;in is a work of the devil: And &s;in is conceived in the heart which is deceitful, and there lodg|eth in the heart, and defiles and pollutes the heart, as Envy, Wrath, Malice, Pride, Lu&s;t and Covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, Murders, Theft, evil &s;urmi&s;ings, the&s;e and &s;uch like are works of the Devil, Plants of his planting, and the&s;e do defile a man, and &s;eparates him from his Maker: And as the Devils work is within in the heart, and pollutes the heart, &s;o mu&s;t the work of Chri&s;t be witne&s;&s;ed in the heart for the purifying and clean&s;ing, and de|&s;troying of the Devils works, and &s;o to make the body a fit Temple for him&s;elf to dwell in.</P>
<P>And this is the work of the Lord, and it is marvellous in our eyes; he is gathering his people into union and fellow&s;hip with him&s;elf, breaking the bond of iniquity, and letting the oppre&s;|&s;ed go free purifying and purging them with the Spirit of Judg|ment and of burning; trying them as gold and &s;ilver is tryed, that &s;o his people may be a holy and a peculiar people; a people in whom he will be glorified by a pure and a godly conver&s;ati|on, who &s;hall bring forth much fruit to his glory, who hath re|deemed them from the earth, and from their vain and ungodly conver&s;ation.</P>
<P>We who were gone a&s;tray, and wandring as Sheep without a Shepherd, and were by nature the children of Wrath even as well as others, hath the Lord wonderfully wrought his own work in us, and called us out of death and darkne&s;&s;e into righ|teou&s;ne&s;&s;e and peace, to bring forth fruits of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, long-&s;uffering, gentlene&s;&s;e, goodne&s;&s;e, meekne&s;&s;e, temperance, &s;oberne&s;&s;e and vertue, and hath &s;hed abroad his love in our hearts, and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation, to Mini&s;ter unto others who &s;it in the &s;hadow of death, that you all may turn and repent, and come into the way of life, that your &s;ouls may live, in which way the ungod|ly cannotwalk though it be a plain way, that fools &s;hal not enter therein, yet the unclean cannot pa&s;&s;e over it; and this is the new and living way that leads to life eternal, even Je&s;us Chri&s;t the onely begotten of the Father, who is given of the Father
<PB N="23" REF="13">freely for a Covenant of Light to enlighten the Gentiles, and to be the glory of his people; who is the alone way unto the Father as it is te&s;tified of him, <HI>I am the Way, the Truth a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">d the Life, and there is no man can come to the Father but by me. I am the door, and he that enters not in by the door is a thief and a Rob|ber.</HI></P>
<P>Now people every where who profe&s;&s;e your &s;elves to be Chri|&s;tians, and Chri&s;t to be your way, &s;ee if your lives be an&s;werable to your profe&s;&s;ion, for this I do declare from the Lord, that no ungodly one can walk in this way: Come and let us rea&s;on to|gether, you will all confe&s;&s;e with me that Chri&s;t is pure, holy and righteous, and he is the way to the Father and no other way; then what way are the ungodly in; who live in pride and covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, envy, wrath and malice? you that live in the lu&s;ts of the fle&s;h, and the plea&s;ures and hope of the world, are you in Chri&s;t the way? &s;urely no; you do but deceive your &s;elves to think that you are in the way to &s;alvation, when you are going on the broad way to condemnation; for Chri&s;t &s;peaks of ano|ther way, which all who live in &s;in are walking in, <HI>They en|ter not in by the door, but are climbing up another way, building up Babel, a Tower to reach up to heaven, but the foundation is &s;andy and will not &s;tand, who are &s;ayers and not doers, and are in their &s;ins alive, in their old cro&s;s and perver&s;e nature, and &s;o are one of Christ the way; for if any man be in Chri&s;t he is a new Creature, old things are pa&s;&s;ed away, and behold all thingt are become new;</HI> (Minde this well, <HI>all things are become new</HI>) it is not refor|ming of &s;ome things and departing with &s;ome of your &s;ins, but all the old lu&s;ts mu&s;t be denied, all your old wayes, and your old vain heatheni&s;h cu&s;toms; the old man mu&s;t be wholly put off, and the new man Chri&s;t Je&s;us put on.</P>
<P>Therefore cea&s;e from the evil of your wayes, and put away lying, and &s;peak truth one to another, and leave off your pro|phane Swearing, and let your yea be yea, and your nay nay; for what&s;oever is more is evil, and out of the Doctrine of Chri&s;t; and lay a&s;ide all Envie and Malice, and all vain and needle&s;&s;e Di&s;cour&s;e which tends not to the Glory of God, nor to edifi|cation of one another; and let your words be few, and in the fear of the Lord, and put off all your Pride, and lay down
<PB N="24" REF="14">your Crowns at the feet of Je&s;us, and learn humility and the fear of the Lord, that your feet may be guided out of the pathes of death, and from all unrighteou&s;ne&s;&s;e and di&s;o|bedience; where the Cur&s;e of God is, that you may walk in the way of the Lord and in his pure fear, to &s;tand in awe of him, that &s;o your hearts may be purified, and your con&s;ciences pur|ged from dead works, to &s;erve the Lord in the new life, with a pure and a perfect heart, that into his Covenant of life and peace where the ble&s;&s;ing is, you may all be led, and eat the Bread of Life at the Table of the Lord, that your &s;ouls may live and prai&s;e the Lord for evermore.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Written in love to all Souls, that out of &s;in they may come, and wor&s;hip God in Spirit. By a Ser|vant of Chrict.</HI> Alex. Parker.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>To all the Beloved Ones, who are of the Royal Seed, who&s;e faces be turned tovvards</HI> Sion. Greeting,</HEAD>
<P>DEarly beloved Friends, you whom the Lord hath Vi&s;ited in his Love, and hath called you out of darkne&s;&s;e and your former vain Conver&s;ation, into his marvelous Light and glori|ous Liberty of the Sons of God, when many thou&s;ands are left in blindne&s;&s;e and hardne&s;&s;e of heart, ful of envie and rage, &amp; &s;hut up in darkne&s;&s;e, being alienated from the life of God, and &s;tran|gers from the Covenant of Promi&s;e. Oh prize his love unto you! a Remnant of de&s;pi&s;ed ones, yet beloved of God, who hath called you with an holy Calling, and &s;eparated you from the world of ungodly men, that you may be a holy and a pecu|liar people without &s;pot or wrinckle, that you may be pre&s;ented pure and perfect unto God.</P>
<P>Now my dear friends be valiant for your Freedom, and &s;tand in that Liberty wherein Chri&s;t hath &s;et you free, and be not a|gain entangled with the yoke of bondage, and the weak and beggarly Elements of the world; give not away your &s;trength unto the Harlot; though Sinners entice you con&s;ent not to them; but &s;tand in the coun&s;el of God, and keep your habitati|ons, dwelling in that which is pure which ye have received from God, waiting in patience for power from the Lord to give you a full deliverance over the world and the pollutions and lu&s;ts of it, that over it you may raign and all its fading Trea&s;ures, lay|ing up to your &s;elves Trea&s;ures which never &s;ades away, dura|ble riches, where the Ru&s;t and Moth cannot come.</P>
<P>Dwell low in the pure fear of the Lord, for there is &s;afety, that keeps the heart clean; and &s;o the pure wi&s;dom from above is received into the pure heart; and bring all your deeds to the Light, that &s;o they may be proved and tried, whether or no they be wrought in God.</P>
<P>Weigh your words and your Actions in the ballance of equi|ty, and be upright and ju&s;t in all your dealings among&s;t men in
<PB N="26" REF="15">your buyings and &s;ellings, and what&s;oever things you take in hand; let the Light of Je&s;us be your guide, that &s;o your con&s;ci|ences may be exerci&s;ed towards God and man, that you may be kept blamele&s;&s;e and harmle&s;&s;e, as children of God among&s;t this wicked and untoward Generation of men, who daily watch with an evil eye for your halting, thereby to take occa&s;ion to bla&s;pheme God and his pure Truth, which ye in a mea&s;ure are growing up in; and in a good mea&s;ure redeemed from the vile and filthie conver&s;ation of the world.</P>
<P>Dear Friends, keep nothing back, but freely give up into the Will of God that which is for the Sword to the Sword, and that which is for the Famine to the Famine; and what is for the Fire to the Fire, that you may be thorowly clean&s;ed and purifi|ed, and tried as Gold and Silver is tried. What&s;oever the Light of Chri&s;t doth di&s;cover unto you to be evil and an enemy to your &s;ouls, ca&s;t it off, hide not the enemies of your peace in your own bo&s;oms; for what&s;oever you keep back will be as thorns in your &s;ides, and as pricks in your eyes: Therefore ca&s;t off every weight and burden, that you may run with cheerful|ne&s;&s;e the Race &s;et before you, that through the trials and tribu|lations you may come, and &s;o enjoy the promi&s;ed Land; for through many tribulations and fiery trials doth the children of God pa&s;&s;e; for the children of I&s;rael after they were come forth of Egypt, had many Enemies to war withall before they came to the promi&s;ed Land, and many fainted in the way, and through unbelief fell in the Wilderne&s;&s;e; which things are written and left upon Record, that tho&s;e that &s;hould come af|ter might take warning, and not give way to the Tempter, lea&s;t they fall as they did, and &s;o come &s;hort of the eternal re&s;t.</P>
<P>Therefore every one of you take warning, and take heed lea&s;t there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in depart|ing from the living God: but abide in the mea&s;ure of God which is pure and perfect, though but as a grain of Mu&s;tard-Seed; yet wait, and you will finde the growth of it. When tri|als come be content; murmure not, but endure with patience the cha&s;tning of the Lord, for every child whom he loves he rebukes and cha&s;tens; for he that is not corrected and cha&s;ti&s;ed of the Lord, is a Ba&s;tard and no Son.</P>
<P><PB N="27" REF="15">And now is the time come, that Judgement is begun at the hou&s;e of God; and if it fir&s;t begin at us, what will become of the wicked and them that obey not the Go&s;pel of God? Surely wo will be their portion, and condemnation and mi&s;ery will be the end of ungodly men; but ble&s;&s;ed are they that &s;uffer tribulati|on and per&s;ecution for righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e &s;ake, they &s;hall inherit the Kingdom of Glory; he that overcomes and endures to the end &s;hall be crowned with Victorie, and &s;hall eat of the hidden Manna, and have right unto the Tree of Life, and &s;hall have Vnion and Fellow&s;hip with the Father and the Son, and reign with the Lord God and the Lamb in the holy City for ever and ever.</P>
<P>Therefore though you now be afflicted, be not ca&s;t down through unbelief, though you now weep and mourn, and be reproach|ed and reyiled, yet your &s;orrow &s;hall be turned into joy; it is but for a little moment of time, until the night and the &s;tormy day be over, and then will come a calm; though &s;orrow and trouble may endure for a night, yet joy will come in the morn|ing, when the Day-&s;tar doth ari&s;e, and the glorious day of the Lord doth dawn in your hearts, then &s;hall darkne&s;&s;e be expel|led, and &s;orrow and &s;ighing flie away, and the pre&s;ence of the Lord in the Light &s;hall be &s;een, in who&s;e pre&s;ence there is glad|ne&s;&s;e and great joy; and you all his faithful ones, who have pa&s;|&s;ed through many tribulations, and have not loved your lives unto death, &s;hall wor&s;hip him in his holy Temple; and there|&s;hall be no need of light, of Sun, Moon or Candle; but the glo|ry of the Lord &s;hall fill the Temple, and &s;hall be a Light conti|nually for all his dear children to walk in.</P>
<P>So all my dearlie beloved ones, who are in the time of trou|ble and trial, with you I do partake, and bear part of your bur|then, as being a Member of the &s;ame body; and if one Member &s;uffer, all the Members &s;uffers with it; and though you come to &s;uch a condition, trouble within and trouble without, on eve|ry &s;ide Enemies, yet do not di&s;tru&s;t God, neither look back in|to the world of darkne&s;&s;e again, there is no help for you there; but as the Children of I&s;rael in former time were incompa&s;&s;ed about, <HI>Pharoah</HI> behinde and the Red Sea before, and on either &s;ide Mountains, they were even ready to faint and murmure;
<PB N="28" REF="16">but <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> the Servant of the Lord, who was cho&s;en to be their Leader out of <HI>Egypt,</HI> he exhorted them to &s;tand &s;till and &s;ee the &s;alvation of God: they were not to &s;tand &s;till in <HI>Egypt;</HI> but being come forth of <HI>Egypt,</HI> the Lord &s;hewed his wonderful hand in pre&s;ervin g of them. So I &s;ay unto you dear friends, who are come forth of the Egyptian darkne&s;&s;e, and are deliver|ed from tho&s;e gro&s;&s;e evils that the world lives in, and have a light born up in your under&s;tandings to lead you, but yet do finde many enemies warring again&s;t you, even they of your own hou&s;e; &s;o that you know not what to do nor which way to go to finde peace. I &s;ay unto you, will nothing, neither do you run before your guide, but &s;tand &s;till in the Light that di&s;|covers your Enemies, and there wait in the will of God, and you will &s;ee &s;alvation from the Lord by his living Power, bind|ing and chaining, and &s;ubduing the &s;trong Enemies which wars again&s;t your &s;ouls; and &s;o a &s;ecret hope will be begotten in you (by the powerful Word of the Lord, which is night in your hearts) which doth purifie your hearts; and that which former|lie you committed, impo&s;lible, by Faith, in the Light which comes from the Son of God, you &s;ee to be po&s;&s;ible; and the Lords perfect work being begun in you, you have a &s;trong hope, and knows a&s;&s;uredlie, that he who hath begun a good work in you, he will perfect it to his own glorie: And he that hath this hope, purifies him&s;elf even as Chri&s;t is pure.</P>
<P>And here is the patience and the Faith of Saints, which though never &s;o little, if it be but as a grain of Mu&s;tard Seed, it removes the &s;trong and high Mountains of Sin, and gives victorie over the the world and the lu&s;ts of it, and &s;o purifies the heart.</P>
<P>And this is the true and the living Faith, which the Saints of God were in, who were of one heart and one &s;oul; and it is the &s;ame now as it was then; and all who are in this Faith, by it their hearts are purified, and &s;o are led into purity and one-ne&s;s of minde and heart, to &s;erve and wor&s;hip one living and true God, in one living and pure way, which is in &s;pirit and in truth, where there is no rent nor divi&s;ion, but pure love and union, written in one anothers hearts with the Spirit of the living God.</P>
<P><PB N="29" REF="16">So in the light which from the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t doth come, who is the true Light which lighteth every one that cometh in|to the world; which Light is but one in all, though thou&s;and times ten thou&s;ands, this Light is pure and but one; and all who love it and believe in it, are led into onene&s;&s;e and Unity of Spirit,</P>
<P>In it every one wait and walk, that you may he led out of death and darkne&s;&s;e, and all the untoward wayes of the world, into the pure way of Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e and Peace to follow Chri&s;t in the narrow Path, which who&s;oever follows &s;hall not walk in darkne&s;&s;e, but &s;hall have the Light of Life. And dwell in love and union, watching over one another with a pure <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> and be tender over one another, as Members all of one <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, and if any be overtaken with a fault, you that are &s;piritual re|&s;tore &s;uch a one in the Spirit of meekne&s;&s;e, that &s;hame and con|demnation may come upon the tran&s;gre&s;&s;or, and the innocent may be &s;et free; and let not the cur&s;ed thing lodge among you, but be ye holy in all manner of conver&s;ation, becau&s;e the Lord our God is holy, and no unclean thing can dwell with him nor enter into his righteous Kingdom: Therefore be ye &s;eparate from the ungodly world, and touch no unclean thing, and the Lord will receive you, and will be to you as a Father, and you &s;hall be his Sons and Daughters. Ca&s;t away all filthine&s;&s;e from among&s;t you, and let no prejudice lodge nor re&s;t within any of you, but forgive one another as God in Chri&s;t hath forgiven you; for if you do not forgive men their tre&s;pa&s;&s;es, no more will your heavenly Father forgive your tre&s;pa&s;&s;es; therefore what&s;oever ye would that men &s;hould do unto you, do you likewi&s;e unto them, for this is the Doctrine of Chri&s;t, and it is not the &s;ayer, but he that both his Will &s;hall know his Doc|trine.</P>
<P>So the Lord in pure Wi&s;dom keep you and pre&s;erve you out of all &s;trife and contention, that a daylie growth there may be among&s;t you, that you all may be e&s;tabli&s;hed in the living truth, no more to be to&s;&s;ed to and fro with mens Doctrines which be changeable, but all wait upon God in the Light which never changes, that you may be all taught of God, and every parti|cular may feed upon your own food, and have &s;ufficient bread
<PB N="30" REF="17">in your own hou&s;es to feed upon that there be not a beggar in I&s;rael, nor no Vagabond, but that all of you may have a habi|tation in God, and grow up in him, that the Springs of life may be opened, and your &s;ouls may be fullie refre&s;hed with the bread of life in my Fathers hou&s;e.</P>
<P>And all my beloved Friends keep your habitations, and &s;tand upon your Watch, that you may hear the voice of your belo|ved when he calls, and be obedient to his voice and do his will; and after you have done his will take heed of exaltation, but wait in patience that you may receive the Promi&s;e; for the &s;ame that is unwilling to obey the will of God when the will of God is obeyed, will get up into pre&s;umption; and that which doth pre&s;ume in the time of trial will de&s;pair.</P>
<P>Therefore every one be watchful, and keep the door of the hou&s;e of the Lord, that the Enemie enter not to defile and pol|lute his holie Temple. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left, but keep in the even and plain way. When joy and refre&s;h|ment comes take heed of exaltation: And again, when trou|ble, and cro&s;&s;es and afflictions comes, do not fall into de&s;para|tion; but wait at Wi&s;doms Gate that you may be &s;ea&s;oned with Grace, having &s;alt in your &s;elves to &s;avor withal, that you be not drawn away with the errors of the wicked; but that all of you may be daylie refre&s;hed and grow up in &s;trength until you come to a perfect man in Chri&s;t Je&s;us; the Grace of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t be with you, and e&s;tabli&s;h you in the Truth.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Written in love to your &s;ouls, by way of remem|brance to &s;tir up your pure mindes; by your dear Brother, who is a laborer in the Lords vineyard, <HI>ALEX. PAREER.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>For Friends in the Truth to be read at their meet|tings when they are met together in the fear of the Lord.</TRAILER>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Corrnwa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">l,</HI> <DATE>31. day of the 5th. Month, 1656.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<PB N="31" REF="17">
<HEAD>The Night is far &s;pent, and the Day is at hand, awake, ari&s;e from the dead, that Chri&s;t may give you Light: Cea&s;e from all the blinde Guides, they deceive you; try them, and by their fruits ye &s;hall know them.</HEAD>
<P>BEware of fal&s;e Prophets which come to you in Sheeps clo|thing, but inwardlie they are ravening Wolves; ye &s;hall know them by their fruits:
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 7.15. to the 21. &amp;c.</NOTE> Do men gather Grapes of Thorns? or Figs of Thi&s;tles? even &s;o everie good Tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt Tree bringeth forth evil Fruit: A good Tree can|not bring forth evil Fruit; neither can a corrupt Tree bring forth good Fruit: Everie Tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewn down and ca&s;t into the fire; wherefore by their fruits ye &s;hall know them.</P>
<P>Now all people everie where who have long been led by blind guides, and have been deceived by the fal&s;e Prophets who have got the Sheeps clothing, and decked and painted them&s;elves with the Saints words; but where is the fruit that is brought forth? it is their fruits that makes them manife&s;t; the Lord looks for fruit; but here is nothing but leafs, here is fine Trees with flouri&s;hing leafs, but no fruit appears, much talk and pro|fe&s;&s;ion of God and of Chri&s;t there hath been in this Nation of <HI>England;</HI> fair out&s;ides, glorious words, but the life is wanting, there is no fruits, but all manner of unrighteou&s;ne&s;&s;e doth a|bound in the Nation: Doth not pride abound? and covetou&s;|ne&s;&s;e, drunkenne&s;&s;e, &s;wearing, lying, and all manner of un|righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e? the Land is full of fruitle&s;&s;e Trees, the boughs even &s;way and are readie to break down, they are &s;o full of the evil fruit: pride is come to &s;uch a height that thepeople do &s;carce know how to walk, nor what to put on; it would even grieve a &s;ober Spirit to &s;ee the vanitie of the times, both men and wo|men painting them&s;elves in their gorgeous attire, fa&s;hioning them&s;elves according to the cu&s;tom and cour&s;e of this wicked vain world, the inventing mind which is e&s;tranged from God, inventing new things and new fa&s;hions to plea&s;e the curious
<PB N="32" REF="18">minde, and &s;o one fa&s;hion comes up (which is invented in the fallen wi&s;dom) and the lu&s;t runs into it, and gets into that fa|&s;hion, and after a certain time grows wearie of it and it pa&s;&s;eth away: And the &s;ame venting minde which is out of the truth invents another new Fa&s;hion, and the people of all &s;orts (as far as their money will reach) they get into that fa&s;hion, and after a little time it pa&s;&s;eth away; and &s;o the world pa&s;&s;es away and the lu&s;ts of it, and the people &s;pend their time according to the cour&s;e of the world; yea, tho&s;e who profe&s;&s;e them&s;elves Mini|&s;ters and Teachers in the Nation, who &s;hould be examples unto others, even the&s;e are as bad &amp; as phanta&s;tick as the re&s;t; they and their Wives go in as great height and pride as any people; nay do they not exceed many in pride and vanitie. The poor labouring man working in the &s;weat of his brows to get his li|ving and to maintain his wife and Familie, the Prie&s;t or his A|gent comes and he mu&s;t have a part (yea and a great part too) of what the poor people have laboured hard for: and this the Prie&s;t and his Wife and Children &s;pend upon their lu&s;ts, their Wives and their Children going in their Huds and Veils and changeable Suits of Apparel: even the &s;ins of Sodom and Go|morrah are found among&s;t them, Pride, fulne&s;&s;e and abundance of idlene&s;&s;e; and if any one refu&s;e to give them money, then do they go to Law and compel them by force, which never any of the Lords true Mini&s;ters ever did, neither Prophets nor A|po&s;tles: And let any of the Servants of the Lord come into their A&s;&s;emblies and declare again&s;t their filthie and covetous practices, then their rage and envie ari&s;es again&s;t the Servants of the Lord, and &s;ome are beaten in their Synagogues, and &s;ome are haled forth, &s;ome &s;tocked, &s;ome &s;toned, &s;ome &s;ent to Pri&s;on: and they cry unto the people their Hearers, Beware of Fal&s;e Prophets: the&s;e be the Fal&s;e Prophets in Sheeps clothing, hearken not to them, take heed of going to them lea&s;t you be deceived: when poor people are alreadie deceived, for they are in their &s;ins both Prie&s;ts and people, and they who live in &s;in are deceived.</P>
<P>And this is the cry of the chief Prie&s;ts and in their high pla|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">es, Beware and take heed of Fal&s;e Prophets and &s;uch like: but (Friends) let us try them, no longer take their words, but try
<PB N="33" REF="18">them by their Fruits: if the Tree be evil the Fruit cannot be good: and here by the Scriptures you may try them; proud man or a covetous man are no Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t, I know them by their Fruity: The Devil is the King of Pride, and covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e is Idolatrr: and the&s;e two &s;ins are much reigning among the Clergy-men (the black Coats) though they may get the Scriptures (the good words) which is the Sheeps clothing, for Je&s;us Chri&s;t is compared to a Shepherd, and the Saints and followers of him were compared to Sheep which were innocent and harmle&s;&s;e creatures.) Now I &s;ay that a proud man or an envious man or a covetous man, or &s;uch like, they may get the Scriptures (the Declaration) and be full of them, and painted over with the good words and &s;o with good words, and fair &s;peeches, through covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e makes mer|chandi&s;e of their &s;ouls; this is but &s;till the Sheeps clothing, a fair out&s;ide, but &s;ee what is within; plea&s;e them and they willl &s;peak peace; but cro&s;&s;e them in any thing, they are full of envie and rage &amp; per&s;ecution; &s;o here by their fruits they are known. A proud man, or a Drunkard, or a man that is a &s;triker and gi|ven to Wines, or an envious man, the&s;e and &s;uch like are marks of the fal&s;e Prophets, though they may &s;peak the good words, yet not being &s;poken from the pure life they do not profit the people, but are deceivers, having a form of Godline&s;&s;e, but wants the power, and &s;o leads poor people captive, laden with &s;in, and led away with divers lu&s;ts, ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth: For (do but con&s;ider) can a proud man lead out of pride? Can a proud Prie&s;t with his Rings and his Ribans, and gaudie attire, can he lead out of Pride? he may &s;peak again&s;t Pride, but &s;peaking a|gain&s;t Pride and living in it, he is an hypocrite, and his preach|ing is in vain. Or can a covetous man lead out of covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e? or an envious man out of envie? or a drunken Prie&s;t can he lead from drunkenne&s;&s;e? or any other what ever they be that &s;peak again&s;t any &s;in, and they them&s;elves, be guilty of tho&s;e &s;ins? they do but condemn them&s;elves, and all their Religion is vain, and their Faith is vain, for if they had &s;tood in the cour|&s;el of the Lord, they &s;hould have turned many from the evil of their ways,: but they run, and the Lord never &s;ent them, and
<PB N="34" REF="19">therefore they &s;hall not profit the people at all. But it may be &s;ome may &s;ay, Though they may be proud men, and covetous men (and &s;uch like) yet they are good men in the Pulpit, and &s;peaks many good truths; and we are to do as they &s;ay, and not as they do: And this they &s;peak, becau&s;e Chri&s;t &s;poke &s;uch words concerning the Scribes and Phari&s;ees, where he &s;aith, Do as they &s;ay, but not as they do, for they &s;ay and do not. But here you mu&s;t con&s;ider, that the Scribes and Phari&s;ees had the commands of God, and the Law of God, which were to be ob&s;erved and kept, for Chri&s;t came not to break the Law, but to fulfil the Law; but this was a time before Chri&s;t was &s;acrificed up; but when he was &s;acrificed up, and ri&s;en, tho&s;e who prea|ched Chri&s;t did not go to hear the Scribes and Phari&s;es, neither were they to do as they &s;aid; but they declared again&s;t tho&s;e things which the Phari&s;ees upheld, which were but &s;hadows, &amp; preached Chri&s;t the &s;ub&s;tance, as the Scripture witne&s;&s;eth: And <HI>Paul</HI> an Apo&s;tle of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, in his Epi&s;tle 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3. chap. marks out the fal&s;e Prophets &s;o plain, that even he that runs may read; and he doth not exhort the people to follow or hear &s;uch, but turn from &s;uch as had the form but not the power.</P>
<P>And &s;o all people I do exhort you, as you tender the glory of God and the good of your own &s;ouls, to turn from all the Prie&s;ts and the fal&s;e Prophets of what &s;ort, &s;oever who have not the power of God, who &s;ay and do not, for they can never profit you at all; for it is not every one that faith Lord, Lord, &s;hall enter into the Kingdom of heaven, but he that doth the will of my Father which is in Heaven. Therefore weigh all things well, and try them, and by their fruit ye &s;hall know them.</P>
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<PB N="35" REF="19">
<HEAD><HI>The Day of the Lord is coming upon all the ungodly, which &s;hall burn and con|&s;ume the wicked as Fire con&s;umes the</HI> Stubble.</HEAD>
<P>THe Lord God is ri&s;en in Power, and is making a &s;eparation between the precious and the vile, gathering the Wheat into the Garner, and will burn up the Chaff with unquencha|ble Fire: The day is at hand, it ha&s;teth greatly, a day of black|ne&s;&s;e and darkne&s;&s;e, a day of weeping and bitter lamentation to all the Adver&s;aries of God; a day that &s;hall burn like an O|ven, and all the proud and all that do wickedly &s;hall be as Stub|ble, and &s;hall be con&s;umed root and branch. Look upon the Stubble all you that live in your &s;ins, there is your Figure. Look upon an Oven when it burns, there you may read your figure, the wicked &s;hall be as &s;tuble, and &s;hall be con&s;umed in the day of the Lords fierce indignation, which is kindled alreadie, and none &s;hall be able to quench it. The &s;harp two edged Sword of the Almighty is drawn forth, it is furbu&s;hed ready for the &s;laughter; and wo to the wicked and ungodly who ca&s;t the Law of God behinde their backs and turns his Grace into wanton|ne&s;&s;e, it will go ill with them, and they cannot hide them&s;elves from the Wrath of the Lamb.</P>
<P>Drunkard, thou can&s;t not hide thy &s;elf, the Lord will finde thee out, and give thee thy portion in the Lake. Swearers, Ly|ers Scoffers and Scorners, you cannot hide your &s;elves, you are the Ungodly that turns the Grace of God into wantonne&s;&s;e, and into condemnation you mu&s;t come who hate the Light (that &s;hews you &s;in and your evil deeds) and loves the dark|ne&s;&s;e better then the Light; the Light is your condemnation. And all you that live in pride and vain glory (&s;porting your &s;elves in the day time, nouri&s;hing your hearts as in a day of Slaughter) the Devil is your Father who hath begotten you in|to
<PB N="36" REF="20">his image and likene&s;&s;e; <HI>ye murder and kill the Just, and cru|cifie Chri&s;t afre&s;h; and wo is your portion, wo to the Crown of Pride, for the Devil is the King of Pride: And all you covetous cruel oppre&s;&s;ors, who are heaping together the earthly trea&s;ures, who grinde the faces of the poor, weep and howle for the mi&s;ery that &s;hall come upon you; your riches are corrupted, your Gold and Silver is cankered, &amp; the ru&s;t of them &s;hall be a witne&s;s again&s;t you. Wo to you that live in envy and wrath, you are of</HI> Cains <HI>Generation and na|ture who murdered his Brother, and all your Prayers and Sacrifi|ces are abomination, and &s;tinks in the no&s;trils of God. And all you that revi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e, &s;coff and &s;corn, backbite, &s;lander, and fal&s;ly accu&s;e the innocent and harmle&s;&s;e Lambs of Chri&s;t, tearing and rending, hail|ing them out of your Synagogues, and &s;o to Pri&s;on, you manife&s;t your &s;elves to be the wolves that devour and make a prey of the Lambs; you are the fruitle&s;&s;e Trees that cumber the ground, and mu&s;t be hewn down and ca&s;t into the fire: The glory of the Lord is &s;hining, and the day of the Lord is dawned, and the day|star is ri&s;en in the hearts of the Lords people, and you are di&s;co|vered and made manifest, and &s;een to be the wolves, and the Scrip|ture is fulfilled upon you which Chri&s;t spoke forth, Behold, I &s;end you forth as Lambs in the midst of wolves; is not this &s;o now? See what hailing and impri&s;oning and cruel u&s;age is in this Nati|on of England, of a poor de&s;pi&s;ed harmle&s;s people, hailing them to Courts &amp; Se&s;&s;ions for no other cau&s;e but for declaring of the truth, &amp; witne&s;&s;ing again&s;t the deceit in Profe&s;&s;ors, Magi&s;trates, Prie&s;ts and people, and for this are the innocent hated and reviled, and &s;uffer bonds and impri&s;onment, and &s;ome have been given up to death; and all this endured with patience, not &s;eeking for revenge, but do follow our Lord and Ma&s;ter Chri&s;t, w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">o endured the con|tradiction of &s;inners; and we finde his words to be trne, where he &s;aith, Ye &s;hall be hated of all m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">n for my names &s;ake: but rejoyce and be exceeding glad, for great &s;hall be your reward, for if ye were of the world the world would love you; but becau&s;e I have cho|&s;en you out of the world, therefore doth the world hate you; but wo to the world and all wicked malicious per&s;ecuting &s;pirits, better a Mil&s;tone had been hanged abou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> their necks, and they ca&s;t into the mid&s;t of the Sea, then to offend one of the little ones of Chri&s;t Ha&s;te, repent and amerd, lea&s;t &s;udden de&s;truction come upon you.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The wages of Sin is death, but the gift of God is life and peace.</HEAD>
<P>ALl you that live in &s;in and wickedne&s;s, as Envy Wrath, Malice, Pride, Lu&s;t, covetou&s;ne&s;s, Drun|kenne&s;s, Swearing, Lying, Slandering, Backbiting, fal&s;e Accu&s;ing, Scoffing and Scorning, Revilings, Re|proachings, Mocking and Jeering, Oppre&s;&s;ion, Cruel|ty, Tyranny, Murders, Theft, Adultery, Fornication, Uncleanne&s;s, La&s;civiou&s;ne&s;s, Idolatry, Witcheraft, Variance, Emulation, Seditions, Here&s;ies, Anger, Per|ver&s;ene&s;s, Frowardne&s;s, Impatience and Unbelief, Co|zening and Cheating, and defrauding one another in buying and &s;elling, u&s;ing fal&s;e weights and mea&s;ures, inventers of evil things, plotting mi&s;chief upon your beds, Covenant-breakers, without natural affection; implacable, unmerci&s;ul, living in vain &s;ports and Plea|&s;ures, &s;pending the good creatures of God, and devou|ring the Creation upon your lu&s;ts, &s;porting your &s;elves in the day time, fooli&s;h-je&s;ting, idle and filthy communication, and laughter, which is madne&s;s: The&s;e (and &s;uch like) are works of the fle&s;h, and they that act &s;uch things &s;hall not inherit the Kingdom of God; for which things &s;ake comes the wrath of God upon the children of di&s;obedience; and the cur&s;e of God re|mains upon &s;uch who live in the fle&s;h, fulfilling the lu&s;ts and de&s;ires of it, &s;uch cannot &s;tand before the righteous God, neither can they enter into his righte|ous Kingdome, but mu&s;t be ca&s;t into utter darkne&s;&s;e, which is the portion of all the wicked; for to the wick|ed
<PB N="38" REF="21">there is no peace, but wo and terror &s;hall pur&s;ue them; upon the wicked, God will rain &s;nares, fire and brim&s;tone, and an horrible Tempe&s;t, this &s;hall be the portion of their cup from the ju&s;t God, who is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity.</P>
<P>Therefore all you workers of iniquity, fear and trem|ble before the Lord, and deceive not your &s;elves with a vain hope; &s;earch the&s;e Scriptures, and &s;ee your porti|on, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6.9, 10. <HI>Gal.</HI> 5.19, 20, 21. <HI>Col.</HI> 3.5, 6. <HI>P&s;.</HI> 9.17. <HI>P&s;.</HI> 11.6. <HI>Mat.</HI> 7.23. <HI>and</HI> 25.30, 41. <HI>Rom.</HI> 1,29, 30, 31, 32. <HI>Rev.</HI> 21.8. <HI>and</HI> 22.15. read the&s;e Scriptures with &s;eriou&s;ne&s;s, and then (with the light of Chri&s;t in your con&s;ciences) try and examine your &s;elves whether you be acting and living in the&s;e &s;ins above-mentioned, or any of them; and if upon &s;earch you be found guilty, then what will you plead or an&s;wer the Lord? or what promi&s;e is there due unto you as long as you live in &s;in? truly none, but all the cur&s;es, plagues and woes that are mentioned in the Scriptures, is your due and portion for your &s;in and di&s;obedience, and all your applying of the Promi&s;es, and &s;aying <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> dyed for you, and &s;ay you believe in <HI>Chri&s;t;</HI> yet all this will not avail nor &s;peak peace to your &s;ouls (as long as you live in &s;in) but the witne&s;s of <HI>God</HI> in your own con&s;ciences will te&s;tifie again&s;t you, and be your condemnation; and your faith is vain who are yet in your &s;ins. Therefore re|pent and turn from your wickedne&s;s, cea&s;e to do evil and learn to do well, draw near unto <HI>God</HI> and he will draw near unto you; put away lying and &s;wearing and all prophanene&s;s, let no corrupt &s;peeches proceed out of your mouthes; and hearken to the voice of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> that your &s;ouls may live; &s;pend not your money
<PB N="39" REF="21">for that which is not bread, nor your labor for that which doth not &s;atisfie. But hearken with diligence to hear the voice of the beloved Son of God, who &s;aith, Learn of me, I am meek and lowly in Spirit, and you &s;hall finde re&s;t to your &s;ouls; and that is it in you all which reproves for &s;in, and checks you when you do ami&s;s, when no mortal eye &s;ees you; minde this well, and wait to be guided by it, and it will lead you out of &s;in and evil up to God the Father, to have Unity with him and with his Son, and &s;o to bring forth fruits of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, gentlene&s;s, meek|ne&s;s, &s;oberne&s;s, brotherly kindne&s;s, forbearing and forgiving one another: And this will be a pre&s;ent guid unto you (if you love it and bring your deeds to it to be tryed by it) at all times and in all companies to lead you to God; if &s;inners entice you, con&s;ent not to them, but fear the Lord and &s;tand in awe and &s;in not: But if you hate this Light and live in your &s;ins, and your old vain ungodly conver&s;ation, this Light will be your con|demnation. Now while you have time prize it, and work while it is day, le&s;t the dreadful night of darkne&s;s come upon you when none can work: Awake, awake, and ari&s;e from the dead, prepare your &s;elves and make ready, for the Kingdom of God is at hand.</P>
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<HEAD>Come out of Babylon, partake not of her &s;ins, le&s;t ye partake of her plagues, and wait upon the Lord, that you may eat of the Bread of Life, which &s;ati&s;fies the Soul.</HEAD>
<P>ALl you that are breathing after <HI>God,</HI> who are Hungring and Thir&s;ting after righteou&s;ne&s;s, which have long been wandring upon the mountains, as &s;heep without a &s;hepherd; who have long been &s;eeking after <HI>God,</HI> but have not &s;ound him, and have many years been hearers and learners, and have &s;pent much money and labor, and much precious time, but have &s;ound no &s;atisfaction nor refre&s;hment to your hungry thir&s;ting &s;ouls, but &s;till there is a cry within for want of a Savior; &s;omething in your con|&s;ciences cries and is not &s;atisfied; notwith&s;tanding your many years profe&s;&s;ing and talking of <HI>God</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> and your running after this man and that man to hear Sermons (as they are called) yet &s;till you are in your &s;ins; and your own old vain ungodly conver|&s;ation, and crooked and perver&s;e rebellious and di&s;obe|dient nature, upon which the wrath of <HI>God</HI> abides; and &s;o there is no true peace, joy nor re&s;t to your &s;ouls: I &s;ay unto all &s;uch &s;imple hearts (who have been to&s;&s;ed to and fro many years with the windy doctrines of men, but have not found peace) return home to your Fathers hou&s;e, &s;eed no longer among&s;t the &s;wine up|on
<PB N="31" REF="22">the husks; you cannot fill your belly there, but come into my Fathers hou&s;e, for there is bread enough: Seek not the living among the dead, but awake, awake all you that &s;leep, and ari&s;e from the dead, that <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> may give you light; turn your mindes inward, and &s;eek the la&s;t groat in your own hou&s;e, for the Lord is near; yea doubtle&s;s (Friends) the Lord is very nigh, for in him we live, and move, and have our being: For it is he that gives to all life and breath, and all things; and out of his love to fallen man-kinde, hath given his onely begotten Son for a Covenant of Light into the World, who doth enlighten every one that cometh into the World, that all men through him might be|lieve: There is that light in every one of your con|&s;ciences, which if you love it, will teach you continu|ally, and lead you out of &s;in and unrighteou&s;ne&s;s, into purity and holine&s;s, to wor&s;hip the living <HI>God</HI> in &s;pirit and in truth, and &s;o to be taught of him in &s;pirit accord|ing to his promi&s;e; I will pour out my &s;pirit upon all fle&s;h, and my &s;ons and my daughters &s;hall Prophe&s;ie; and I will make a new Covenant with them, I will write my law in their hearts, and put my &s;pirit into their in|to their inward parts; and they &s;hall no more teach every one his Neighbor and Brother, &s;aying, Know the Lord, for all &s;hall know me from the lea&s;t to the great|e&s;t; and I will be merciful to their unrighteou&s;ne&s;s, and their &s;ins and their iniquities will I remember <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">o more; and this is the <HI>Lord</HI> fulfilling in our day, prai&s;es to his Name for evermore; he is gathering his &s;cattered &s;heep together, where they have been &s;cat cred abroad in this cloudy dark day, and is bringing them into the Fold, and there &s;hall be one Sheep&s;old and one Shep|heard?
<PB N="32" REF="23">this is the promi&s;e of the Father which he is now bringing to pa&s;s, e&s;tabli&s;hing his own Kingdom in Righteou&s;ne&s;s, and uniting and joyning his people together, that they may all be of one heart and mind, that they may with one voice and one con&s;ent glo|rifie and prai&s;e him in the Covenant of his Son, which he is now leading his people into, where no &s;in enters, but is all &s;hut out of the Kingdom and Covenant of the righteous God.</P>
<P>Therefore all people every where prize this precious time which the Lord doth give unto you, and trifle it not away in vanity and vain delights, but hearken to that which is pure, which convinces and reproves for &s;in in your con&s;ciences, and makes manife&s;t the evil of your hearts, that is, The pure light of Chri&s;t, which did never con&s;ent unto &s;in, but &s;tood again&s;t you, witne&s;&s;ing for God again&s;t &s;in, though never &s;o &s;ecretly committed.</P>
<P>This is the eye which a long time hath been vailed and blinded by the God of the World, but now is the Lord unvailing, and uncovering, and &s;tripping of all the &s;tollen garments, which the Serpent hath painted and decked him&s;elf withal, and the Devil can no longer hide him&s;elf, but by the light of Je&s;us Chri&s;t &s;hining in the con&s;cience, he is found out in all his Wiles and Temptations, whereby he goes about to en&s;nare and deceive the innocent: For as long as the Devil can keep peo|ple from owning this light, he can lodge in the heart, and work his works in the heart; but when ever they come to own, and walk in the light, he cannot work, but by the light his works is &s;een; and by the
<PB N="33" REF="23">power and life of Chri&s;t within, the Devils works are de&s;troyed, and the heart purifyed, and the con|&s;cience purged from dead works, and &s;o the body is made a Temple of God, which Temple is holy; and if any man defile the Temple of God, him &s;hall God de&s;troy.</P>
<P>Therefore all people who love your &s;ouls, come out of your &s;ins (which doth defile you and &s;epa|rate you from God, and breaks your peace with God (and love and walk in the light of Chri&s;t, and bring your deeds to it: For every one that doth truth he loves the light, and bringeth his deeds to the light, that they may be proved and tryed whether or no they be wrought in God; and in the light you will have union and fellow|&s;hip one with another, and the Blood of Chri&s;t will clean&s;e you from all &s;in (walking in the light) for this light is pure and but one, and leads to purity and onene&s;s, out of all Divi&s;ions, Strife and Contention; and from all the changeable Prie&s;ts and changeable Doctrines, and changeable Wor&s;hips, and changeable Laws, that &s;tands in the will of Man in the fallen Wi&s;dom, and will lead you unto Je&s;us Chri&s;t the unchangeable Prie&s;t, the alone Teacher of his People, who teacheth all his freely by his free &s;pirit, and leads them out of Death and dead Works, into the pure way and path of life, that they may bring forth fruit unto God; and ble&s;&s;ed are all they that fear the <HI>Lord</HI> and walk in his way: But the wicked mu&s;t be turned into Hell, and all the Nations that for|get
<PB N="34" REF="24">God, therefore let every one that nameth the Name of JESUS CHRIST, depart from ini|quity.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>From a lover of your Souls, but a witne&s;s again&s;t all Sin.</HI> A. P.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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