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A47271
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The fall of man declared and the way declared in plainnesse and according unto truth ... : and a warning from the Lord God of life ...
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Kent, Tho. (Thomas)
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Wing K318; ESTC R34491
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tender love unto all your souls Oh! turn in turn in your minds into the light of the Son of God which is made manifest in you which light gives life unto the soul for he that hath the Son hath life but he that hath not the Son not life And so I have in plainnesse and according to truth and not contrary but according also unto the Scriptures of truth which are as a cloud of witnesses for me and for the truth which I have written declared the way how fallen men and women may be restored into that pure innocent state and being which Adam was in before the fall and the cause of his fall was through disobedience unto the Lord God So the God of Heaven raise up his own witnesse in you and open your understandings open that Eie in you which the God of this World hath blinded that so you may see the things which belongs unto your souls peace which is the desire of my soul the Lord God knoweth my heart and that you may partake of that living vertue which nourisheth our souls and to have fellowship with us for truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Christ Jesus the light who is the Author and Finisher of our Faith and he is the Anchor and Bishop of our souls who is God blessed for evermore Amen A Warning from the Lord God of life and power in bowels of dear and tender love unto all the Rulers Priests and People that they hasten to Repentance who are spending their time without the fear of the Lord and nourishing their hearts as in a day of slaughter REpent repent repent and return unto the Lord God of Heaven and Earth whose voice is terrible unto the Nations and all Nations are in his sight but as the drop of a bucket and as the small dust of the Earth Oh dread and fear ye the living God who rules in the Kingdomes of men who hath the hearts of all men in his hand and he can turn them whensoever he pleaseth Oh all ye tall Cedars and stout Oakes thus saith the Lord God that except ye speedily repent and return unto the Lord the Lord God will top you and he will lay you low and the Lord God will make you bend and bow before him and he will stain the pride and the glory of all flesh and will make all to know that all flesh is as grasse and the glory of man as the flower of the field for the grasse withereth and the flower fadeth away but the word of the Lord endureth for ever By which word except you speedily repent and return unto the Lord the Lord God will cut you off and then woe and misery will be your portion for ever Therefore I say unto you all who am a lover of all Souls as you tender the good wel-fare and happinesse of your immortal souls Return return unto the Lord and unto his light in your consciences which checks and reproves you for sin and evil and makes manifest the evil of your doings unto you when there is no outward eye sees you or can accuse you of them yet the al-seeing eye of the Lord God sees you and beholds you and he is present with his light which is his true and faithfull witnesse in you to condemn you for the evil of your doings which light in you never consented to sin or evil but stands a witnesse for God in you against sin and evill Therefore I say unto the light of Christ take heed as you prize the good of your own souls and put not the day of the Lord afar off any longer for to day saith the Lord if you will hear my voyce harden not your hearts Oh ye Stif-necked and Rebellious and Uncircumcised in hearts and ears ye do alwayes resist the holy Ghost as your fathers did so do ye Oh prize the light prize the day of the Lords Visitation of you for now he is visiting of you with his pure everlasting love and he waits to be gracious unto you and for your return Oh return return ye unto the Lord God and hearken to his reproof and go on no longer in rebellion nor stif-neckednesse against the Lord for if you do you will provoke the Lord against you to destroy you which is not the desire of the Lord if you will return unto him for saith the Lord I desire not the death of one sinner but rather that all should turn and live for saith he Oh house of Israel why wilt thou dye why wilt thou dye turn unto me and thy Soul shall live Oh people why will ye dye why will ye dye Oh return return unto the Lord and your souls shall live for he hath long waited and is yet waiting for your return for said the Lord Oh Jerusalem Jerusalem how oft would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickings under her wings but ye would not And all the day long saith the Lord have I stretched out mine hand unto a disobedient and a gain-saying people who would have none of my Councel neither regarded they my reproof but choose the things wherein I delighted not Therefore people as you tender the good of your own Souls return unto the Lord God while he waits for your return and while his hand is stretcht forth unto you For this I testifie unto you from the Lord God that the day of your visitation is near passed over your heads and the time is very near approaching that the spirit of the Lord God will leave striving with you for my spirit saith the Lord shall not alwaies strive with man Then woe and misery will be your portion for ever and a day of blackness a day of darknesse and a day of gloominesse you shall assuredly come to witnesse where you shall weep and howl for sorrow and vexation of spirit and then there shall be none to pitty you and this shall assuredly come upon you except you speedily repent and return unto the Lord for what I speak I speak infallibly and it shall stand for ever Therefore all ye Rulers Priests and people I warn you from the Lord God of life and power that you hasten to repentance and amendment of life knowing assuredly from the Lord that there is a woeful day approaching and is near at hand upon all the heads of the wicked and the ungodly and the Lord will make many open examples unto others except they speedily repent and return unto him for the month of the Lord hath spoken it Therefore I say as you price the good of your own souls provoke the Lord no longer against you but while ye have time prize it for the time present is all peoples time to make their peace with the Lord for the time past cannot be recalled again and the time to come is in the hands of the Lord and he can stop the breath in your nostrils and take it out of your bodies and then time
transgression but he shews mercy unto his own seed in man which never consented to sin or evil and he that repents and forsakes his sins and turns unto the Lord with a purpose of heart then will the Lord God shew mercy unto his soul And this is the counsel of the Lord God unto you in dear and in tender love unto your souls turn in turn in your minds into the light of the Son of God in your own particulars with which you are enlightned which is the true Light that enlightneth every man that cometh into the world Therefore I say unto the Light of Christ take heed and wait ye in patience in the Crosse in that which is a Crosse unto your carnal minds and wills which are running abroad into the Earth and Earthly things for in the Crosse and through the Crosse is the power of the Lord God felt and witnessed although the preaching of the Crosse was unto the Greeks foolishnesse and unto the Jews a stumbling block yet this I can give in my Testimony for the Lord God that unto us which are saved it is the power of God unto Salvation unto ever one that believeth Therefore I say turn in your minds into the Light of Christ in your own particulars which is made manifest in you and wait ye in patience in the Crosse that you feel and see the power of the Lord to slay the enmity and to take away the cause and to break down the partition-wall and to rent the vail Now I say who am a lover of all souls wait in patience in the Crosse that you may feel and see the power of the Lord God to take away and to remove the cause to take away that and to remove that and to work out and to expell out all that in you which hath caused a separation betwixt God and you that is to feel and to see the power of the Lord God to work out and to expell sin and iniquity for saith the Lord your sins have separated you from me and your iniquities hath with-held good things from you so wait ye in the Crosse that you may all seek and see the power of the Lord God to break down the partition-wall to break down that in you which is yet standing as a wall in you which is the man of sin which separates you from the Lord God who created you And so all wait in patience in the Light and keep in your minds staid in it I say wait in patience in the Light that you may feel and see the power of the Lord God to rent the vail and to take it off the heart for through mans disobedience unto the Lord God who created him there came a vail over the heart by reason of sin and transgression which vailed the Creature from the Lord So now I say in love unto all your souls wait ye in patience in the Crosse that you may feel and see the pure power of the Lord God to take away and to remove and to expell and to work out all that which is yet remaining alive in you which entered into man through disobedience and transgression by the reason of which man lost the image in which he was created and lost also his Union and Communion and Fellowship which he had with the Lord God before he disobeyed so through disobedience man was driven into the Earth from the presence of the Lord. So all people who are yet in the fall in the transgression and without God in the world this is the counsel of the Lord God unto you all turn in turn in your minds into the light of the Son of God which is made manifest in you and receive it in the love of it for the light is in all and the light is one in all but all have not received it in the love of it and so by the light they are condemned Therefore I say as you tender the good of your own souls receive the light in the love of it and prize it above all things and yield obedience to be led and guided by it For this I testifie unto you from the Lord God that as you receive the light in the love of it and give up to be led and guided by it it will lead you out of sin and out of evil unto the Father from whence it came who is light and in him is no darknesse at all for every good and perfect gift comes from above from God the Father of lights in whom is no variablenesse nor shaddow of turning and it will lead you as you yield obedience to be led and guided by it out of all false wayes worships customs and traditions that are in the world and out of the Church that is in the world into the true Church which is in God which is built up of living pure precious and elect stones of which Christ is the Head and there to worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth for such the Father seeks to worship him and the time is already come that the true worshippers do worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth And this I testifie unto you from the Lord and I know what I say having experienced the thing in my own particular that as you give up freely to be led and guided by the light of the Son of God with which he hath enlightned you withall that in it you will feel and see the power of the Lord God to save you out of sin and out of evil and in it is power strength and sufficiency to destroy sin which is the Devils work in you and death and he that hath the power of death that is the Devil for for this end and purpose was the Son of God manifested for to destroy the works of the Devil Mark that all ye unbelievers who will not believe in Christ Jesus the light nor to have him to rule over you who live in sin and in wickednesse and pleading for it term of life and saying you cannot be free from sin on this side the grave here you do make your selves manifest to be of that number in whom Antichrist that is the man of sin hath his seat in you there he sits as if he were God and he rules and reigns in you as King and his Servants you are and his works you do and his Kingdom you strive to uphold and plead for it term of life that is sin and wickednesse for so long as sin and wickednesse rules and reigns in you so long is Antichrists Kingdom standing in you and so you crying up and pleading for sin term of life and saying that the Creature cannot be free from sin while he is here on this side the grave here you make void and of none effect the coming of Christ Jesus the Son of God for as it is recorded in the Scriptures of Truth and also seen in the record of eternal life that for this purpose the Son of God was manifested