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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92015	The sins of a gainsaying and rebellious people laid before them ... Also a word to foolish merchants ... / Written at the command of the Lord, by one of his servants called, John Rous.	Rous, John, d. 1695.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1659 (1659)	Wing R2044; ESTC R182860	10,953	8

was heard and not my prayers then the Son of Righteousness appeared to me with healing under his wings then he rent the vail and uncovered all that I had done and shewed me the book wherein all my actions were set down that I had acted against him ever since I was a childe and indeed I could read in it and knew what was written there then was the acceptable yeer of the Lord God and the day of vengeance to the ungodly in me then was the vials of the wrath of God powred forth upon me without mixture and indeed it was given me to drink deeply but I desired that I might be spared but it was to let me see that I had Sinned against God and I should bear his indignation untill he did plead my cause for I was condemned but the Blood of the Son of God ransomed me and brought me into freedom which by no other meanes could be done then he shewed me his doctrine and writ his Law in me and placed his word in my heart which is an everlasting witness for himself and against all the world that their deeds are evil who by his power hath shaken and caused all my bones to tremble and to stagger like a drunken man but the remainder of himself could not be Shaken for he was stricken and by his stripes were we healed and by his light we see all hirelings and persecutors to be out of his doctrine therefore we deny them So all people who fear God come out from among them least yo● be partakers of their plagues as I have done M. F. The difference between the worlds relation which stands in strife malice and wickednesse and the Saints relation which stands in love life peace and joy 〈◊〉 the Holy ghost The Relation which stands in destroying is by the children of the light denie all such who live out of light and out of it walke who wear the old garmet whose minde is corrupt and hath a wisdome and with it know not God ad hath a knovvledge with it corrupt themselves hath a humility but feiged and hath a worship but in the will and hath a righteousnesse but in the self nd speaks the high words but it is in hipocrisie and hath a liberty but in the 〈◊〉 where the spirit is in prison who in Caines way is gone and hath not a habitaion in God whose affections are below in the earth and serve the lusts and the pleasures whose conversation is among the wicked and there is the worlds relation where lodgeth the strife and the debate and deceit and disdain and setting up that which God will throw down now vvhile this is standing which is contrary to the light they that in the light do vvalke and be in it these hey deny and Sees that vvhich leads nature out of its course and vvhat sets the vvhole course of nature on fire and there the vvhole vvorld are in confusion and all the tongues are unbridled vvhere povver over them is not vvhile that reignes vvhich leads nature out of course his religion is vain and that relation stands out of truth but all such as to the light are turned See vvith the light and that doth manifest vvhat leadeth nature out of course the mariage that is honourable and vvhat sets the vvhole course of nature on fire and vvhat leads nature into course vvhere the pure relation and the entrance of it is received vvhere the self and its righteousness is denied and the righteousness of Christ received vvhere the vvorship of the vvill is denied and the vvorship of God in Spirit and Truth received vvhere self righteousnes is denied and Christ the righteousness of God received the former conversation put of the conversation in Heaven vvitnessed the affections belovv changed the affections vvhich are above come to here is the pure Religion knovvn vvithout guile vvhich are out of Cains vvay vvhere the habitation in God is vvitnessed and seen vvhere the just lives by his faith and honouring in the Lord knovvn and the true humility Learned of Christ vvho is not of the vvorld though it by him vvas made vvho lighteth every man that cometh into the vvorld vvho is mans vvay out of it vvhich light is mans condemnation if he do not beleeve in it and the relation vvhich is in the vvorld vvho hate the light is in the lust where the perversenes is in the love of the world vvhere the envy is vvhere the invention is selfeishness crossenesse perve●s●ness back-biting maliciousnes filling with unrighteousness yet they have a love yet they have a relation now the light which comes from the beloved Son of God where the Love of God is received the worlds relation is denied for the relation of the world destroyes and devoures but the children of the light which be in the relation out of the World live in peace unity and fellowship and comfort enjoyed in the holy Ghost so all you that professe relation in words and envy lodgeth in your hearts against one another and yet flatter one another to your faces and backbite one another behinde the back such relations we deny and have a witness in your consciences against it And all that profess a relation one to another and love and friendship with the tongue and in heart deceive one another and cozen and cheat one another and lie and dissemble one with another all such relations we deny and have a witness in your conscience against it And such as professe religion or worship or humility righteousness and the Scripture Christ and the Prophets words live out of their life and live in envy and malice and yet professe you have a relation to Christ and God whom ye have not seen and you love him and do not love them whom you have seen such relations we do denie all such as cry up your experiences high notions manifestations as you call them dispensations as you call them and live in pride strife and envy debates derision scornes loftiness highmindedness you be out of the light and out of the way in corners and out of the pure relation we have a witness in your conscience against those things which lets you see what you possess and will let you professe no more if to it you hearken which turns from the world and the relations therein for all who beleeve not the light and are not to it come have a love but it is in the world and a relation but it is in the world which is enmity to God so that relation which is enmity is denied with the light that love which is enmity is denied with the light which leads to the pure relation which envres not where the destroyer and devourer is rebuked G. F. THe faith of such no better then the faith of the Pharisees who onely believe of a Christ because the Scriptures declare of him but the faith of them who dwel in the life and power of God and follow the Lamb who thersoever he goes is that faith wch overcomes the world to believe of a Ch●ist because the Scriptures declare of him is to believe as the Pharisees did believe who were the persecutors and murderers of the just but to believe in th● light the life that gave forth the Scriptures is seen and Christ is believed in and here he hath the witness in himself and comes to be a child of light and born of God which birth overcomes the world and now saith Christ they hate the light because their deeds are evil and will not bring their deeds to it because the light will reprove them and this is the condemnation the light saith Christ and now it doth appear them that hate the light priests teachers people young and old hate the light and will not bring their deeds to the light because the light vvill reprove them neither vvill they suffer other that vvalke in the light and love the light and bring their deeds to the Light and shew their dees with the light and reprove them with the light because they hate the light and them that walk in it and cast them into Prison and so are stumbling at the light all sorts of people mark it is the light that they hate saith Christ they hate the light which reproves their evil deeds and this light is that which the world and the teachers thereof cannot endure to be talked off but hate it and them that walk in it it is the light that is so much stumbled at so because their deeds are evil and they walk in darkness there is a proof for they that walk in the light stumble not but come to receive the light of life here Christs words ●s fulfilled amongst them that hate the light and will not bring their deeds to the light because the light will reprove them for that which doth make manifest is light so that which makes manifest they cannot endure but would be in the da●k and keep their deeds in the dark as it is manifest and saith Christ the Divel shall cast some of you into prison he is out of the light out of the truth and a lyar and a murtherer from the beginning which now is seen with the light and trampled upon and all that owne not the light which cometh from the word are the wicked feeds men sowing abroad their tares their lies the evil reports and them that are gone from the light that comes from the word of truth are given up to believe lies and reports and may cry up darkness if you hate the light what have you to cry up else if you turn from the light pittyful preaching which hates the light which manifesteth all the vvorks of darkness G. F. London Printed in the 4th month 8th day for M. W. 1659.

and impudence and take unto you modesty and talk not of the condition of the saints no further then you can vvitness them fulfilled in you call not God Father till you can vvitness that vvhich is begotten of God doth rule you consider hovv ye have blasphemed the name of God vvhile you have called him Father and Lord but have done the vvorks of the Divel consider hovv the vvay of truth hath been evill spoken of through your loosness vvho have called your selves by the name of God and Christ yet novv are found talking of and pleading for the liberty of the flesh O be ashamed and confounded is this the end of your profession is this the end of your talk is the liberty of the flesh that wch ye have been contending for all this while will God be thus served will not he be avenged on such a generation as this who hath thus deceitfully dealt with him take heed ye are not stronger then God what will become of this chaffe when he who is a consuming fire shall plead with it will this abide the fire will this stand before the Lord pure is his name pure is his power let all that defiles and works abominations depart from him for it cannot dwell vvith him neither doth he delight in it therefore O ye professors vvho are lifted up in a dead unsavoury and putrified profession come dovvn and depart from your filthiness which ye have long lived in or for ever you must depart from the presence of God ye are like tall Cedars but your boughs vvill be lopped and your beautiful branches wherewith you have deceived many who have admited your beauty shall be taken from you then shall the old stump from whence these branches have grown be seen to be as wood fit for the fire your profession is discovered and your nakedness is seen therefore repent while you have time and it is a day of visitation to you And now O ye parents who have many children consider vvhat it is children are given you for is it to bring them up in pride and idleness vvantonness and luxury do ye herein discharge the duty of parents should ye not have sought the Lord your selves and have instructed your children in his fear this ye should have done but contrarily you have forsaken the Lord your selves wrought wickednesse and have brought up your children in your own abominations in pride in wantonesse in disdain in deceit and whatsoever is abominable in the sight of God must ye not give an account for these things must ye not answer for your children whom ye have caused to go astray how hath goodness been hated by you even so that many of you yea for the most part if there hath ben any tender in any of your children and if any of them have turned abside in any measure from following your wicked steps then hath it been your work to smother those desires and have cryed out of melancholy and say that children should be merry and laugh and such like and thus vvalk in the broad way your selves and bring up your children to follow your own steps how will ye give an account before the Lord how will you answer for these things before him who will punish you for these things How many is there among you who have been forward in teaching their children to curse and swear and in hearing them to be ready at it have been delighted have not many of you taught your children to lye and dissemble and have called them good children wh●n they have been expert at it O horrible wickedness vvas ever any like this is it not a shame that such a thing should be named much lesse practized by those who call themselves christians will not the Heathen who have not heard of God rise up in iudgement vvith this generation and condemn them for their filthiness Now to the light of Christ in all your consciences do I appeal which doth condemne these wicked practises before mentiond whether these things be not so the testimonie of that seek for that will not lye though yee will and is a teacher to all who follow it and are guided by it but is for ever the condemnation of all who despise and disobey it and remember that your sins have been laid before you ye stubborn ones who hate to be reformed and now the time is past and ye are in the pit out of which there is no redemption remember that a day was profered to you and that there was a time wherein it was said to you to day if you will hear his voice harden not yur hearts So I rest This written to the uncircumcised in hearts and ears who go on in the Stiff-neckedness of their own hearts despising the Love of the Lord and doing despite unto his Spirit A sufferer for the sake of the seed of God and a friend of Sions peace for which I am hated by the inhabitants of Babylon both priests and people prophesors and prophane known by the name John Rouse A Prayer concerning such as are made Ministers by the II of man and a n● exhortation to all sober minded people to come out from among them Vhat ministery is that which is upheld by a Law given forth in mans will contray to the Law of God if it be not Antichristian and whether or no their Ministery was from God that haled out of the Synogoues or those that were haled And whether Paul's Ministery was not according to what you now persecute who went into the Synagogues to reason with them after the same manner as wee doe novv vvho received not his Ministery from man neither had it by man though he was brought up at the feet of Gamaliell he counted that which he learned there as dung and drosse in comparison of the excellency of Jesus Christ and now with the Same light your form of prayer and form off preaching without the power it is as drosse and dung to me and to all that live in the life who know Christ to be the high Priest over the houshold of God whose Government is on his shoulders who will not acquit the wicked neither shall the evill doer escape his hand for the hand of the Lord is streched out and by the bareing of his arme are we Saved from all our trang●essions which by no other means could be done for when I wallowing in my blood and no eye pittied me nor none could cure my disease when I went through the vale of misery in the cloudy and dark day when no light appeared then was I following men but darkness was over the whole earth in me which was my great sorrow but sometimes hope was an anchor that it should not be alwaies so but when the flood came I was as one overwhelmed with sorrow for all my actings and my prayers returned in vain while I was acting for life the living suffered in me which groaned for deliverance and the groans of that