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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85143	Light risen out of darkness now in these latter days. Shewing the dark ways and worships of the ministry of Antichrist now in these apostated times, which is perilous, as is foretold of often by the Holy Ghost that spoke through Paul, and now is fulfilled in these latter days, 2 Tim 3. Thus saith the Lord, Arise Sion, and thresh with a sharp threshing instrument, and shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen, and is arising, and Jerusalem shall be a burdensome stone to all nations, now that Christ is unto his people both the light and glory thereof. Wherein something is written in reply to a book that was set forth by the dry and night vines in and about Beverley, who scornfully nicknameth the people of God, in reviling and falsly accusing them, and calleth them Quakers, in and about York-shire. Iuly, 1653.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing F490; Thomason E729_5; ESTC R206840	47,191	59

acquainted neither with Christ nor his sufferings who causeth the truth to suffer by them as their actions do make manifest who lives in the old corrupt nature and has stoln the words of the Prophets and Apostles to trade withal and hath glossed them over by their humane and serpentive wisdome which the vengeance and the wrath of God is to 4. These dissembling hypocritical Priests whited walls and painted Sepulchres are exalted above the Cross of Christ and sits in the seat of the scornful acting as in a Stage-play for mony and are climb'd up high into their notions and notionary expressions by their fleshly wisdom which is earthly carnal sensual and divelish but never came in at the door as saith Jesus Christ in Iohn 10. And are ignorant of the first principle of Religion that knows not the power of God to break down the power of darkness in them and so that is the cause of their falsifying the truth and speaking evil of that which they know not being puft up in pride scorn and derision judging the truth by their evil thoughts and fleshly imaginations Now as Iannes and Iambres withstood Moses so do these resist the truth standing in opposition against it by their carnal wisdom and fleshly imaginations and vain glory boasting and vaunting themselves in their own conceits and stands upon their own righteousness by their gathered up knowledg in opposition to the Spirit of truth and in despight to the Spirit of grace and wrests the Scriptures to their own destruction speaking their own Inventions and Imaginations which arise out of the bottomless pit of deceit but the Lord is coming for to bring down Babylon's buildings all mans inventions and imaginations and to cast them into the lake that burneth and all the Babylonish Merchants will cry out Alas alas for that great City of Babylon where they sold their wares and gilded stuff and fine dainty dishes of novelties dressed made fit by the Cooks in their shops of brain study and humane inventions which is Cainish to feed curious and lusty minds withal lusting after knowledge and feeding upon the forbidden fruit which is under the curse and must be burnt with fire now in the day of the Lords power where nothing shall stand but his own pure being for he alone will rule and raign in power amongst his chosen ones in Sion the perfection of beauty and he alone will govern his people in righteousness and teach them all the knowledge of his truth to know him in the habitation of his holiness that they may rejoyce and triumph in his love By this we know that we love God because we keep his Commandements and it is his love which constraineth us who first loved us and gave himself for us And saith he If you love me keep my Commandements and I command you to love one another with the same love that I loved you withal but he that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love and he that saith he loveth him and keepeth not his Commandements is a lyar and the truth is not in him And here you are that lives in lying who say that we attempt to lay waste Scriptures Churches Faith Hope c. The Scriptures we own to be true in themselves as they were given forth from the Spirit of truth which ruled in them that spoke them forth which Spirit I witness and their declaration I own the life of it herein you are found false witnesses lyars and false accusers and are Antichrists and Seducers shewing forth the spirit of errour and Antichrist is head and exalted in you who opposeth himself against the truth But your dark m●nds I do deny and against you I do testifie That you are the men whom you write of and that condition is your own for you make no other use of the Scriptures but to trade withal and to give your Antichristian Applications and Constructions of them which the plagues of God is due to For saith Jesus Christ I testifie that he that adds to the Book of this Prophecy I will add to him all the plagues that are written in the Book Rev. 22. And whereas you lye and say That we a people whom the Divel in you scornfully reproacheth and calleth Quakers which is your envy which name I suffer under by such as you are who are apostated from the truth and the living word which was in the beginning which word is quick and powerful and sharper then any two edged sword and is like a fire and a hammer Heb. 4.12 Jer. 23.29 30. And though the Divel in you be suffered to cast upon us names of reproach It is but that the Scriptures may be fulfilled in calling us Quakers or what you can invent to make us odious in the sight of the world which name I do disown for I know none but two in all the Scriptures flesh and spirit the seed of the Serpent and the seed of God which shall bruise the Serpent's head with his internal rod by the living power of the Eternal Jehovah Jah But the seed of the Serpent is head in you who lives in lyes and Christ you do by your proud lustful natures kill and crucifie and his Doctrine daily by your earthly wisdom more and more despise and so you keep the seed of God in bondage by your divelish subtil serpentive policies and would not that it should come forth to live and to arise and faith you do not know who are so swift such lyes to report and the living truth for to relieve you are unwilling and both slack and slow and bears the mark of the Beast in your right hand and in your foreheads and it is you that do attempt to lay waste Scriptures in all things but to traffick withal and knows no word but bare letter and diabolical subtilty humane invention which you do live in and observes the Divels work for to commit sin which is the fruits of death and so the Word and Gospel of God is his from all such vulterous eyes And venemous beasts as you are who knows not the strait path that leads to life nor the wisdom which is hid which Job speaks of in Chap. 28. which wisdom is not from beneath neither is it earthly and carnal as yours is for the wisdom of God is not to be bought and sold neither for rubies pealrs silver nor gold but yours which is earthly and is but dross and dung causing you to lye so with your dirty Greek and Latine tongue Saying That we seek to attempt to lay waste all Scriptures Priest Christ Faith Hope c. Wherein you are exceeding hoodwink'd Reply and your eyes i● stopt with dirty miery stuff your inventions and imaginations and your mouths is filled with lyes and your hearts with evil thoughts being possest with Satan and that 's the cause you do the truth so much despise For we own the Scriptures as they are in themselves to be a declaration

thee understanding and lead thee into his marvelous light that thou mayst know the truth as it is in Jesus R F. Light risen out of Darkness now in these latter days Which is the cause of such Persecution Therefore Thus saith Iesus Christ blessed are they that suffer for righ teousness sake for ' theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Mat. 5.10.11.12 and again saith he blossed are you when men revile you and perfecute you and say all wanner of evil against you all manner of evil not some but all but saith he rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward for so perseruted they the Prophets which were before you and saith he the time will come that they shall put you out of their Synagogues and they that kill you will think that they do God good service Ioh. 16.1 AS it hath been largely manifested in and about Beverley by them of the Priests party when any was moved of the Lord to go speak in their Synagogue against the deceits that were upheld by them they haled them forth and gave them into the hands of the rude people who did use them most barbarously and had not the Lord been gracious unto them they would even have swallowed them up quick but such was the rage of the Priests party in and about Beverley that the Servants of the Lord suffered much persecution by them as it is well known but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled as David said The wrath of man shall praise thee and the remainder of wrath thou wilt restrain such is the goodness of the Lord to his poor despised people now in these days of persecution for the persecutors are the Priests and their associates they act in the same state and condition as the Iewish high Priest and Scribes and Pharisees did to Jesus Christ when he came in the flesh to fulfil the Law and to put an end to the first Covenant that he might establish a second the new Covenant upon better premisses but as it was then so is it now the Iewish high Priests and the fair-sayers did then persecute Christ and his Apostles and haled them out of their Synagogues and bear them and stoned them for witnessing forth the truth as it is left upon record in these places of Scripture See Acts. 4 1 2 3 4 5 6. See vers 15.16.17.18.19 Act. 6.9.10 to the end Act. 7 57. to the end read Acts. 17. with certain other places And that Christ is coming in spirit to manifest his power and love and to gather his dispersed ones together that hath been scattered by the proud Priests in the cloudy and dark day as in Ezek. 34. The Lord is now fulfilling his promises in gathering them together out of all Kindreds Tongues and Nations that they may come to worship the Lord in his holy Mount where the Mountain of the Lords House is to be established on the top of the Mountains above all humane wisdom and carnal reason to worship the Lord in spirit and in truth in his Holy Temple at new Ierusalem where the Tabernacle of God is and shall be with men of pure hearts and the Na●ions that are saved shall walk in the glorious light and liberty of the Sons of God to serve him in a new and living way consecrated for us by his Son redeeming us by his own blood purchasing to himself a peculiar people to praise and glorify his great and glorious Name that he may rule in us by his own power and set up the Kingdom of his Son in our hearts who is our peace-maker breaking down the middle wall of pertition bringing us nigh unto him by his blood reconcileing us in one body by the Cross slaying the enmity thereby preaching peace to us by his spirit so that we through him have a free access by one spirit unto the Father and are made fellow Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God being built upon the foundations of the Prophets and Apostles Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner Stone and the chief builder in us and through us throwing down the first building of humane wisdom and carnal reason building us up into union with himself in the makings forth of his love to us through the unfoldings of the divine mystery of his love which is Christ in us the hope of glory in whom all the building spiritually groweth unto an holy Temple in the Lord Ephes 2.14 to the end being builded together by the divine power of God working in us who maketh our bodies temples of the Holy Ghost to sound forth his holy praise he ruling in his Temple and dwelling in his habitation even in our souls where his delight is causing us to delight in him to do his will in declaring and testifying against all deceits and deceivableness whatsoever And now the Priests are found the greatest deceivers and upholders of the deceits as their fruits makes them manifest and they labour every wayes to destroy the work of God that he is working in his Saints and they are the greatest persecuters of him in his Saints as it hath been largely manifested by the Priests party in and about Beberley in reviling beating and stoning the children of the Lord. But the Lord will plead the cause of his own people himself alone and then wo to the wicked and all that acts in unrighteousness For thus saith the Lord Ah I will ease me of mine enemies and avenge me of mine adversaries And saith he Wo to them that offends one of these little ones that believe in me it were better that a milstone were hanged about their necks and that they were cast into the sea The occasion of this my writing was upon the reading of a Book that was written by the Priests in and about Beverley by name Ioseph Kellat Iohn Pomroy Paul Glisson c. 1. Wherein is discovered the subtilty of the Serpent that lodgeth in them and a theevish spirit in them stealing the words of the Saints to trade withal for money which is their Dianah but are ignorant of the Saints life and practise as their fruits doth make them manifest for it is not unknown to many the debths of their deceits and how great sufferings there hath been to the people of God by them Of the Priests Confederates Antichrist and his upholders in and about Beberley which the wo is to as it was pronounced to them in that nature in Matth. 23. 2. Antichrist the man of sin is exalted in those dissembling Priests who are as the painted Harlot and scarlet coloured Whore that is spoken of by John in the Revelations that deceive the Nations by their glorious notions and gielded pretences which is for the fire the whorish nature in them being full of flatteries having a golden Cup full of abominations and filthiness of her fornications which the Wrath and the Plagues is to 3. These dissembling Priests painted Sepulchres are full of deadly poyson and are not