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<P>WORDS Of the everla&s;ting and True Light, VVho is the Eternal living God, and the King of Saints, which he gave unto me his &s;ervant, to de|clare unto the inhabitants of the earth, and unto all &s;uch as have any true tender de&s;ires in them after Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and truth.</P>
<P>And this is the me&s;&s;age which I have heard and received o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> God, and now in his power do I declare it unto you, tha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> the True God is Light, and in him is no darkne&s;&s;e at all and he onely hath immortality, and dwelleth in th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> light, and all the Nations of them that are &s;aved &s;hal<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> walkin his light; but unto the wilful and di&s;obedient who are offended at the light, the light &s;hall be a Rock o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> offence, and a &s;tone of &s;tumbling, and a &s;nare, a trap, and a ginn, and they &s;hall be &s;nared, and &s;hall &s;tumble and fall and be broken by it.</P>
<P>By <HI>George Fox</HI> the younger in the Truth.</P>
<Q>O Lord God of light and life, how excellent is thy Name to the Saints? we wil<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> rejoyce in thee the light, for with thee is the fountain of life, and in thy light &s;hall we &s;ee light.</Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Thomas Simmons,</HI> at the Bull and Mouth near Alder&s;gate, 1659.</P>
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<HEAD>THE EPISTLE TO THE READER.</HEAD>
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<P>WHO ever thou art, be moderate, and take heed of di&s;obeying, and de&s;pi&s;ing the true light; for if thou do&s;t, thou di&s;obey|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t and di&s;pi&s;e&s;t the True and Eternal God, who is light, and that <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">s his Name, whereby he is and will be known in this age and ge|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">eration.</P>
<P>Therefore &s;tumble not at the Light which lighteneth every <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ne which cometh into the World, for if thou doe&s;t, thou &s;tum|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">le&s;t at God, his Name, at Chri&s;t the Word, by which all things was made, and are upheld, at the door, the way, the truth, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nd the life, at the Rock, at the elect Stone, and the&s;e all are <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ut one, and if thou &s;tumble at the&s;e, what ever thou art, thou &s;halt be broken.</P>
<P>But they that obey and believe the true light, they &s;hall be made children of the light, and &s;hall be taught of God and &s;hall walk in his Light.</P>
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<P>HEarken, oh ye Nations! and give ear ye Inhabitants of the earth Thus &s;aith the Lord God of Heaven and Earth, who&s;e Nam<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> is the Light, I am the Lord, and there is no other that can &s;ave, I th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> light created all things, and formed and made you all of the du&s;t, and I breathed into you my Light, my Life, that ye with it &s;hould hav<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> been guided, and led in my wi&s;dome, to have ordered all things which I have created, and to have ruled over them all, that I in you migh<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> have been honoured and exalted over all the works of my hands, which I the light created; but from me the Light ye have departed&punc; and ye have hearkened unto the &s;ubtil Serpent, which is the Devil who abode not in me the Light, the Life, the Truth, which created all things, whom I have cur&s;ed above all the bea&s;ts of the Earth, who is the Seed of Enmity, and ye hearkening unto him, he hath begot|ten you into Enmity again&s;t me the Light, and &s;o hath begotten and led you into the Cur&s;e, and &s;o he is become your Father and Leader, whom I have cur&s;ed, and all that ye bring forth and act in him. I have cur&s;ed, becau&s;e it &s;tands in the Enmity again&s;t me the Light yet I the Light have looked upon you, and pittied you, becau&s;e of the lo&s;s that ye are come into, and the darkne&s;s that is come upon you all, through your departing from me the Light. And I the Eternal God hath &s;ent him who was glorified with me before the World was, by whom I made the World, who is not without me, nor I without him, but he is in me, and I in him, and he, and I, and the Spirit that proceeds from us, are one being and &s;ub&s;tance. (Mark) I the eter|nal God hath &s;ent him into the World, who was glorified with me before the World began, and he is called my Son, becau&s;e he is the Expre&s;s Image of my Glory, and bears my Name, the Light, the Life, the Truth, which is but one, and he is my Love unto you the World; and that is he that lets you &s;ee the Enmity and the dark|ne&s;&s;e that ye are in, and how ye are departed and gone from me the life; and for this end I have &s;ent him a Light, that ye all through him the Light might believe, that &s;o he who &s;hews you (your) Sins, your enmity, your darkne&s;s, ye believing in him might receive power to come out of it, and that he might &s;ave you from the cur&s;e which ye went into, when ye hearkened to the Serpent, whom I have cur&s;ed who is become your leader; But I have &s;ent you the Light to be your Leader, to lead you from the Serpen<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, and out of all that which he hath led you into. (Mark) out of Enmi|ty again&s;t me, out of darkne&s;s, and &s;o out of all unrighteous words and deeds, and thoughts: And I the Eternal God hath given my
<PB REF="3"> Son, the Light, power to plague, and to judge, to eondemn, and to de&s;troy all tho&s;e that will not hear him, the Light, who makes manife&s;t unto you your unrighteous words, deeds, &amp; thoughts, which the Serpent hath led you into; and becau&s;e ye live in the&s;e, I cannot have fellow&s;hip with you, nor reveal my &s;ecrets unto you, but my anger is kindled again&s;t you; but if ye would hearken unto my love, the Light, which lets you &s;ee all that ever you have done, and own him to be your leader, and receive him, and give up your&s;elves to be guided by him, then you &s;hould feel his power in you, (which I have given him) to lead you out of enmity, and darkne&s;s, and the cur&s;e, and out of all &s;in, which was the cau&s;e of the cur&s;e, and &s;o to de&s;troy that nature in you, which the Serpent hath begotten ye into, and to beget you again into the nature of him&s;elf, the light, in whom I am well plea&s;ed, and then my anger would be turned away from you, and I &s;hould have fellow&s;hip with you again, as I had in the be|ginning, and the Serpents head ye &s;hould come to witne&s;s brui&s;ed (who drew and led you out of me the Life) and the tree of Life, which I &s;hut you from (becau&s;e of your di&s;obedience, ye &s;hould come to know it and to feel it, and to feed upon it again, and I would de|light to do you good.</P>
<P>But oh ye di&s;obedient! ye are far from this, becau&s;e ye de&s;pi&s;e Me, my Son, my Spirit, who are one, who is light and life, which is not far from you; for the life giveth unto every one of you life and breath, and you and all things are upheld by me, the light, who&s;e pre&s;ence filleth heaven and earth; and I have long &s;pared you, and my patience and long-&s;uffering towards you have been exceeding large; but you in your imaginations hath put me a far off, and ye will not own me, the light, the life in you, becau&s;e my appearance in you hath been, and yet is to make manife&s;t &s;in and evil in you, and to check and reprove you for it, and to call you out of it; and there|fore you are offended at me; and you whom the Serpent, the Prince of the power of the Ayr hath led out of me, into airy imaginations; you &s;corn me, the light in you, and counts me a low, poor, weak thing, not worth the taking notice of, becau&s;e I have been patient towards you, and have tenderly, meekly, and lovingly made mani|fe&s;t unto you &s;in, and evil, in its appearance, and hath reproved you for evil gently; therefore you have di&s;obeyed me, and di&s;ho|noured me, and called me a natural light; and ye have &s;aid, the light am not able to &s;ave tho&s;e that believe in me; and many of you hath got my words, which I the light &s;poke in my &s;ervants of old,
<PB REF="3"> and ye in the enmity give other meanings to my words, and &s;o with my words mixed with your own meanings and imaginations, ye fight again&s;t me the light and life within you, and &s;o again&s;t my children, which bears te&s;timony of me the light, who lighteth every one that cometh into the World; and the&s;e your iniquities I have long born, and you have grieved my &s;pirit, which hath long &s;trove with you, and I the life hath been oppre&s;&s;ed in you, and by you: But verily my Spirit &s;hal not alwayes &s;trive with you, neither will I the light alwayes bear your iniquities; for verily I the Lord God Almighty, who a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> the light, which hath made manife&s;t your iniquities unto you, which &s;ome of you cals Natural, and &s;ay that tho&s;e who are led and guid|ed by me the light within, which makes manife&s;t &s;in, that they are guided by a &s;pirit of error and delu&s;ion. (Mark) I wil make you know your bla&s;phemy, and you &s;hal know &amp; feel to your everla&s;ting de&s;tru|ction, (if you &s;peedily repent not) that I the light [which lets you &s;ee &s;in, and reproves you for it] am &s;piritual, and am the &s;pirit of truth, who leads all tho&s;e that receive me out of all error and delu&s;ion, into all truth: and i'le make you know, that I the light am a con&s;uming fire, which none can quench; for now will I the light and life ari&s;e, who hath &s;o gently reproved you for &s;in, and called you out of it, and hath &s;o long &s;uffered in you, and by you, as a Lamb, yea, I will ari&s;e, and ea&s;e me of my adver&s;aries, I will not &s;pare any that will not own me, the light, but I will overturn you all, without re&s;pect of per&s;ons, and I will give to every one according to the fruits of their doings. I matter not what name ye are called by, whether it be a King, or Protector, or Prince, or Noble, or Lord, or Judge, or Ju&s;tice, or Parliament, or Prie&s;t, or Lawyer, or gathered Churches, or Army, or Gentry, or mean Men, or Beggers. (Mark) I the light made you all of one blood, I formed you all of the du&s;t, I breathed into you the breath of Life, I gave you the light to lead you, and to order you, and that ye in it &s;hould have walked and ordered all things to my glorie; but many of you have &s;leighted me the light in you, and would not take councel of me, nor be ordered by me, but hath cho&s;en to follow your own hearts lu&s;ts, and hath taken coun&s;el of the Serpent, and hath cho&s;en him to be your leader, and in his wi&s;dom ye have walked, and by him ye have been ordered, and by him ye have ordered things to the di&s;honor of me, the light, whom many of ye calls natural. Mark, I the true Light will ari&s;e, and will plague and torment all you that di&s;obey me, and wil not turn at my reproof; I will bring &s;uch heavy judgements upon you, as hath not
<PB REF="4"> been felt; I will be a &s;wift witne&s;s again&s;t all the wicked, I the light will &s;top the mouths of vain talkers, I will confound the wi&s;dome of wi&s;e men, I will make diviners mad, I will bring down the high lofty &s;pirits of men. I will make ye bow unto my Name the light; you &s;hall feel it is not natural nor weak (as &s;ome of you have &s;aid of it) for it &s;hall break you to pieces, and all your profe&s;&s;ion and wi&s;|dome, which is out of the Light, I the light (in you) will confound it all, i'le break all Sects and opinions, and gathered Churches (&s;o called) which are not in me; I the light in you, will take away all peace from the earth, yea, ile bring you to your wits ends, i'le burn your heavens, all your joy, your peace, your righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, which &s;tands in the power of darkne&s;&s;e; I the light in you will con&s;ume it all; i'le burn heaven and earth, ile burn within and without, ile &s;trike with a&s;toni&s;hment, with fear and amazement, with madne&s;s and de&s;truction; ile bring plagues within, and plagues without, until I have con&s;umed all you mine enemies, who will not own me the light within: I the light will overturn Kingdoms, and Nations, and Rulers of all &s;orts, and Armies, and gathered Churches, which will not own me the light in them, to guide and lead them.</P>
<P>Woe unto the murtherers, whoremongers, thieves, drunkards, cheaters, &s;wearers, lyars, hunters, game&s;ters, vain-talkers, and all workers of iniquity, who hates me the light, which hath made manife&s;t your abhominations, and reproved you for them: I have been pre&s;&s;ed with your iniquities, but I the light will ari&s;e upon you, and if ye will not hear and return &s;peedilie, ile fall upon you, and grind you to powder; and all, both high and low, rich and poor, profe&s;&s;ors, or not profe&s;&s;ors, and all time-ob&s;ervers, who will not own me the light in you, and return to me the light, I will make no difference of you, becau&s;e of your names or places, but I will break you to pieces like a potters ve&s;&s;el, ile tread you like mire and clay in the &s;treets, and ile make you know, that I the light (which light|eth every man which cometh into the World, that all through me &s;hould believe) am the true eternal God, which created all things, and that by me the light all things are upheld, and that there is not another be&s;ide me that can &s;ave, for I will fami&s;h all the Gods of the Heathen, and de&s;troy them, and tho&s;e that wor&s;hip them, and will not repent and turn unto me the true light, ile make &s;hort work, I will cut it &s;hort in righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and I the light will be ex|alted over all the earth, and ile prove my &s;elf to be &s;tronger then all in this generation.</P>
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<P>And all you who are &s;coffers and &s;corners, who &s;coffes &amp; &s;corns at my children, who in this the day of my power, hath trembled at my word, Mark, ile make you a&s;&s;uredlie to tremble and quake, yea, you who have de&s;pi&s;ed me the light, and have &s;coffed at my workings in my people, I the Light in you will make you to drink the cup of trembling, and ye &s;hall not be able to re&s;i&s;t it, and then ye &s;hall know that I the light am he that will work, and none &s;hall be able to &s;top me, yea, I the everla&s;ting light will wound, and none &s;hall be able to heal; I will kill, and none &s;hall be able to make alive: There|fore con&s;ider what I &s;ay before the day of your vi&s;itation be whollie pa&s;t, and return unto me the light in you, and repent, le&s;t my long patience come to an end, and &s;o I de&s;troy you utterlie.</P>
<P>Now all people, in whom there are any true tender de&s;ires after truth and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, I the true Light in you did beget them, and if ye will hearken unto me, the Light in you, I will let you &s;ee all that which doth oppre&s;&s;e tho&s;e de&s;ires in you; and I will not one|lie &s;hew you that which doth oppre&s;&s;e tho&s;e de&s;ires in you, but I the Light (if ye will receive me, and learn of me) will teach you to de|nie, and to re&s;i&s;t all that which is contrary unto me, which doth op|pre&s;&s;e that which I have begotten in you; and if ye will believe, and wait in me the light, I will give you power to re&s;i&s;t all that which is contrary unto me, and I will de&s;troy all the works of the Serpent in you, and brui&s;e his head, and I will purge out all your iniquities, and forgive all your tre&s;pa&s;&s;es, and I will change your nature, and I will make you new creatures, if ye will hearken unto me, and obey me the Light in you; and I will make you partakers of my Divine Na|ture; and I will judge, and condemn, and con&s;ume all that in you which is contrary to my Nature, if ye will abide in me the Light; and I will take away all darkne&s;s, &amp; earthly-mindedne&s;s, &amp; I will re|veal my &s;ecrets and my&s;teries unto my &s;eed in you, &amp; I will cau&s;e you to delight alone in me the Light of Life, and I will feed you with the Bread of Life, and ye &s;hall drink of my Life, and ye &s;hall be &s;atisfied; and I will manife&s;t my power more and more in you; and if ye will be faithful unto me, and obey my voice, and wait upon me the Light, then I will make the crooked waies &s;trait before you, and the rough waies &s;mooth, and I will de&s;troy the power of darkne&s;&s;e within and without you, and if ye will follow me, I will lead you out of the World, and Wordlie cares, into patience, into meekne&s;s, and into &s;tilne&s;s and quietne&s;s of &s;pirit; and what&s;oever you &s;uffer for my Names &s;ake, I will be your exceeding great reward, and I will be your dread, and ye &s;hall be the dread of Nations, and I will be your
<PB REF="5"> glorie, and ye &s;hall be the glorie of Nations, and I will reign over you, and ye &s;hall reign over all the World, in my Light, and Life, and Power; and if ye continue in me the Light, I will give you do|minion over all your enemies, within and without you, and I will make them all bow before you; and I the Lord God of Light and Life will be your Redeemer, and Saviour, your Rock, your Shield, and your defence, and if ye will wait in my life, it &s;hall be your life, and I the Life will de&s;troy the de&s;troyer within and without you, and I will bring you out of all trouble, and re&s;tle&s;ne&s;s, and di&s;&s;atisfacti|on, and I will be your peace, and your re&s;t, and your &s;atisfaction, and ye &s;hall lie down in me the Light of Life, and none &s;hall make you a|fraid. The&s;e things &s;hall you come to witne&s;&s;e in the work of your regeneration, and much more then is here expre&s;&s;ed, if ye be faith|ful unto me the true light in you, who have no fellow&s;hip with any thing that is evil; and then I will purge all evil out of you, and e|ven as I am, &s;o &s;hall ye be al&s;o; yea, I will work this work, and per|fect it in you, if ye continue and abide in me the light.</P>
<P>Now if any &s;hould &s;ay, that here is nothing &s;poken of Chri&s;t, in what I have here written; I an&s;wer, what I have here written, is the words which the Father, who is one with Chri&s;t the Son, gave unto me to write, in which words the true Chri&s;t is owned, and a te&s;timo|nie given of him, and no other.</P>
<P>But further, in the fear and wi&s;dom of God, for the &s;atisfaction of the &s;imple, I do declare in plain words, that I do believe in the true Chri&s;t, the Lord of Life, who was glorified with the Father be|fore the World began; and I do believe that he was in due time made manife&s;t in that bodie of fle&s;h, who wa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> called Je&s;us, and that in him the fulne&s;&s;e of the Godhead dwelt bodilie, who was &s;uppo&s;ed to be the Carpenters Son, whom the Jews crucified without the gates of <HI>Jeru&s;alem;</HI> and I have remi&s;&s;ion of &s;ins through his blood, who is the Lord of Life, and he was buried, but he is ri&s;en, and a&s;cended, and &s;its on the right hand of the Maje&s;tie on high: <HI>This is the Chri&s;t I own, who al&s;o was, and is crucified in <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Aegypt</HI> by the rebellious, yea, he is crucified a fre&s;h, and put to open &s;hame now, by tho&s;e that trample the blood of the Covenant, the Light of Life under their feet, and counts it an unholy or a natu|ral thing, and &s;uch acts de&s;pitefully again&s;t the Spirit of Grace; and &s;uch murthers the Seed which keeps the commands of God; and &s;uch will God the light overthrow and burn to a&s;hes, as he did <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Gomorrah;</HI> but all that loves and obeys the true light (which is the fire) &s;hall be &s;aved and pre&s;erved by it, and &s;hall remain unhrut, but all that hates and di&s;obeys the light in them, that is their condemnation, the light.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The&s;e are faithful and true &s;ayings, and things al&s;o that mu&s;t &s;hortly come to pa&s;&s;e, and he witne&s;&s;ed.</HI></P>
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