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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60558	The blessed works of the light of God's holy and blessed spirit exalted above the works of darkness with some informations how to escape out of sin and iniquity, and a clear way discovered into the truth : with a short testimony of the cry of Babylon's merchants by reason of the day that is coming upon them / [by] Stephen Smith.	Smith, Stephen, 1623-1678.	1673 (1673)	Wing S4212; ESTC R37568	21,102	40

And is not this Christ of God the Way out of Transgression who was obedient and subject to the Will of his Father in all things And must not they all that are saved be brought into this blessed Covenant of Life the End of God's great Love in his Son manifested to the World that through him they might not abide and perish in Darkness but through believing and obeying that Second Coming and Appearance of the Light of him they might have the Light and Understanding of the Life of him the one blessed Offering that perfects forever them that are sanctified And now all you blind Leaders of the Blind under all your Imaginary Lifeless Confessions and Professions of God and Christ what strength of Arguments do you use in your perverse Wills and Affections to strengthen the Old World of Transgression in Sin and Iniquity whereby you go about with all your Might to make void the Second Covenant which is without Fault and so you shut up the Way to God's Kingdom and the Knowledge of his Righteousness by labouring and moiling in your vain Service and Works to establish your own Righteousness and dark Works therein And by this Fruitless Labour and Travel what Darkness and Blindness have you brought over the Nations through your ignorant Conceivings of those gratious Words which were spoken by the effectual working and moving of God's Holy Spirit in and through Holy Men the which was for a blessed End spoken even to turn people from the Darkness which was over them by reason of Transgression unto the true Witness in them the Light that makes manifest all that is reprovable and wicked in Mankind the which being turned from and the Light obeyed that they may be led to the Knowledge of God that they may not be without God in the World whom to know is Life Eternal And so Light is sown for the Righteous that through this blessed Seed the Serpent's Head may be bruised and kept under in all and so is way made to put on the Heavenly Image again by being led and guided out of Darkness by the Light of the Emanuel in and through every blessed and glorious Degree of his Works to the Mark of that Price the Measure and Stature of the Fulness of Christ Jesus the Heavenly Man the Heavenly Image as many as are baptized into Christ put on Christ Now I say unto you blind Leaders of the Blind who have got some few of the Gratious Words and Works of the Righteous Men of God therefore I say but few of them because there is but little upon record of those mighty Works which did then shew forth the Wonderful Power of God in and by the effectual Workings of his holy blessed Spirit the which if all had been written the World could not have contained the Books and of that which was written you have but a part with which you blind Leaders of the Blind have made a long Trade in Wresting Perverting and Corrupting to your own Destruction making them look every way but the right in your Imaginary Conceivings thereof So wrong you are in your Judgments who have denyed the effectual Workings of God's Holy Spirit that what in you lies by your Works of Darkness you are making void God's Holy Law and Covenant as to any true Understanding or Knowledge of it in the Mind and Heart And so building your selves up in Imaginations and Conceivings what Strangers are you to God's Holy Works in and by the effectual Working of his holy Spirit within Man How brutish are you in your Understandings to stand and wonder and some to despise till they perish at the News of these Works though God hath raised many faithful Witnesses who have declared and given Testimony to them even to the laying down their Lives and many their Liberties and in great measure their Estates whereby it hath plainly shewed That this is the Time and Season wherein God is making known his Mighty Power for the subduing and bringing under the Power of Darkness that the Kingdoms of this World may become the Kingdoms of God and that the Kingdom of his Son which is in Righteousness Peace and Joy of his blessed holy Spirit may be set over all And is not this according to that Prayer Thy Kingdom come thy Will be done on Earth c Now consider Are not all those Wayes destructive to Mankind that are made up in the dark Conceivings of Man without the Light of understanding the Will of God herein And by your Works of Darkness in opposing the Blessed and Effectual Works of God's holy Spirit what Misery and Confusion have you brought your selves and the Nations into where you lie in Heaps in Controversies about the Works and Words without till the Enemy's works of Darkness be over-grown in you by which you are so droven from the Presence of God and the Light of his Countenance that you are greatly confounded kicking and stumbling at the pretious Stone the which in your Fleshly Worldly Wisdom you think too mean to be in your Buildings by reason of which how many Fashions are your Buildings of reeling and staggering from one Fashion to another soaring aloft in your airy Imaginations of the things of God in using your Wits and Arts to bend the Holy Men's Testimonies to your corrupt Wills and Affections And so much more as you strive in these Works so much more you are and must be confounded What a sad Work have you herein taken in hand and what vast Sums of Money have you exacted out of Nations to maintain the Pride and Arrogancy of your hearts herein Oh! that there were such a Heart in people to sit down before the Lord that they may partake so much of his blessed Works as to open the Eye of their Understandings that they may see over these Works of Darkness where nothing is good nor pleasant to the truly Hungering and Thirsting Souls after God's Righteousness How miserably have these Nations been cheated by these blind Guides who have exacted abundance of Wages under Pretence of being Healers and Curers of the Nations but are now found by the Effectual Workings of the Light of God's holy Spirit to be the chief Instruments of the letting in of Darkness Corruption and Abominations that raign on the Earth Through that Adulterated Spirit the Mother of all Harlots who are departed from the true Spouse and so running and hunting after others Blessed Works and Experiences have set up Trades in their Arts of telling and boasting of others Lines and Works where that Adulterated Spirit hath covered them who are corrupted with her Sorceries and VVitchcraft under various Fashions of Confessions and Professions of God and his Christ But underneath these Coverings are the same wicked hands by which the Just hath suffered and been rejected and set at nought in all Ages And through the blessed VVorks of the Light of God's holy Spirit these Corrupt Workers and Works of Darkness being discovered and a

THE Blessed Works OF THE Light of God's Holy and BLESSED SPIRIT Exalted above the Works of Darkness With some Informations how to escape out of Sin and Iniquity and a clear Way discovered into the Truth With a short Testimony of the Cry of Babylons's Merchants by reason of the Day that is coming upon them Stephen Smith 2 Peter 3.12 13. Looking for and hasting unto the Coming of the Day of God wherein the Heavens being on Fire shall be dissolved and the Elements shall melt with fervent Heat nevertheless according to his Promise we look for new Heavens and new Earth wherein dwells Righteousness Printed in the Year 1673. THE Blessed Works OF THE Light of God's Holy and BLESSED SPIRIT Exalted above the Works of Darkness COme sit down together in a deep Silence out of all Fleshly Wisdom forgiving all Trespasses that he that sits upon his Throne who said behold I make all things new that he may forgive all your Trespasses and then wait for Acception into God's Pure Holy Covenant his Holy Law in the Mind that it may be writ in the Heart and they shall not teach every man his Neighbour and every Man his Brother saying know the Lord for all shall know me from the least to the greatest for I will be merciful to their Unrighteousness and their Sins and Iniquities will I remember no more a blessed day magnified be the Lord whose Works praise him forever and not good Words out of wicked Workers Mouthes so these mighty Works of the mighty God the which he is working and bringing to pass through his mighty Power are appointed that Mankind should live in the Enjoyment of them to the Praise and Honour of his Maker forever And that it may be distinguished between Evil Workers who have got the good Words and the good Works from whence all true and good and gratious Words came observe In one of the Collects appointed in the Book of Common Prayer it is thus written Almighty and Everlasting God which of thy tender Love towards Man hath sent our Saviour Jesus Christ to take upon him our Flesh and to suffer Death upon the Cross that all Man-kind should follow the Example of his great Humility mercifully grant that we both follow the Example of his Patience and be made Partakers of his Resurrection c. Now mind To pray for this that is common and used in the old World of Transgression where Iniquity and Sin is which separates from God and are out of his Blessed Works But to be in the Humility and Patience this is God's Work where his Will is done on Earth as it is in Heaven So that if People would but so far condiscend to the Will of God as to sit down in Coolness in a true Silence of all the Works of the fleshly Wisdom would they not agree with us who are in Scorn called Quakers in Judgment at least though it may be not in Practice viz. That Words without Effects are as Dreams and Chaff to the Wheat the Substance So he that hath a Dream let him tell his Dream but he that hath God's Word let him speak it What is the Chaff to the Wheat Is not my Word like a Fire saith the Lord and like a Hammer that breaketh the Rock in pieces Jer. 23. I am against the Prophet saith the Lord that steals my Word from his Neighbour who use their Tongues say he saith and prophesie false Dreams and tell them and cause people to Err by their Lyes and Lightness And so now in Coolness when the Works of the Enemy are down viz. Prejudice and Passion c. then by a little Work of God in its least Appearance by which Mankind is made sensible they may see by this small Distinction what it is that we who are in Scorn called Quakers stand for and against And when the Eye of your Understanding is opened to behold his Glorious Works whom you have pierced then will you love us whom so many have hated because of our Testimony of God's Works Do but see how you first hated the Light of God in your selves before that great Darkness came over you to hate us who are called Quakers because we are bowed unto Christ's Spirit the true Christians Spirit and therein have in some measure partaken of his Cup out of which some indeed have drunk very deep even to the following of his great Humility and Patience even to Death as in New-England Sufferings may be seen by those cruel imaginary Christians whose wicked Hands have been deep in the shedding of Innocent Blood And though through Ignorance the Sufferings of God's People hath been much in Old England yet they have not been in that desperate kind as there where out of doubt they are more drunk with the Whore's Cup of Sorceries Witchcraft then those of that kind are here in old England whose spirit is felt but that their Wings are cut so cannot fly at that rate which otherwise they would be at for now their Hands are tied how wonderfully do their Tongues go by which its plain they have no Bridle but are set on Fire of Hell Wondering Despising and Fretting against the Work of the Lord in this the Day of his Power though Thousands are raised by it to declare and publish the same in Words in Life and Conversation c. And now you Vain and Empty Professors and Notionists who are saying in your Dark and Imaginary Conceivings of things That if you had been in the Scribes and Pharisees dayes those learned Rabbies you would not have done so wickedly as to Crucifie the Just and call for his Blood to be upon your Heads But come hearken in the Cool Did not those Scribes and Pharisees say the like of their Fathers who Stoned and Killed the Prophets whom God sent in Love to them And were not they in a worse Practice though they spoak otherwayes And was not the Cause of their Blindness from resisting God's Works in his Spirit by which means they had no Revelation there of the things of God notwithstanding they had the Scriptures without which testified of him yet they being so Wicked to put out the Candle that should have lighted them in it they saw not the Substance spoken of in the Scriptures were more darkned judging by that Law that Christ was a Devil and a Deceiver and so ought to dye without any regard to his Innocent Holy Life and his great Humility and Patience But though they crucified him yet they could not so bury him but that he rise again and appeared in divers manners and after he was risen opened the Scriptures to his Followers who loved Him Therefore Professors of Works without who are not Possessors of God's Blessed Holy Works within What though you do say If you had been in your Fathers the Scribes and Pharisees dayes you would not have done as they did But come be patient a little the Works of Truth have a good Tendency though