to be holy just in all their conversation for of a truth all the true Christians came to witness this even all old things to passe away and all things to become new without which the new creature cannot be witnessed Which is renewed after the Image of him who hath created him Therefore as an Ambassador from God I beseech you in Christ lay these things to heart and count it not as a vaine thing or as an idle tale but remember that because of sin and iniquity God did ever send Plagues and Judgements unto the sons of men and when they would not be warned thereby he swept them away in his wrath for so hath he appointed in his determined counsell That the wicked shall not go unpunished but they shall be cast into Hell and all who forget God for he is no respecter of persons for of all Nations he who feareth him and worketh righteousnesse is accepted of him but Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man which doth evil for his wrath is revealed from Heaven against all ungodlynesse and unrighteousnesse of men and he is not partiall in judgement as some would make him that he will punish one man for sin and not another nay it is not so with him for Such as every man soweth such shall he reap and every one shall receive a just and due reward for the deeds done in the body whether they be good or whether they be evil The unfaithfull servant had a Talent given him to improve as well as the rest but his unfaithfulnesse was the cause that it was taken from him and he cast into utter darknesse for ever but the faithful entered into the joy of his Lord and this will assuredly be the portion and sentence of all the sons of men the workers of iniquity shall be tormented with the Devil and his Angels for ever And it will not suffice to say Lord Lord in thy name we have done many things yea they came so far as to cast out Devils and prophesied in the name of Christ and so far as this none of you at this day hardly ever came yet and notwithstanding Christ said he know them not depart from me ye cursed workers of iniquity Read and consider and lay it to heart that ye may be an holy people and come to answer Gods Everlasting love which is tendered unto you least the grace of God bestowed upon you be in vain and loose the entering into the Land of promise through unbelief which was the cause why so many fell in the Wildernesse and dyed though they were come forth out of the Land of darknesse and had seen the wonders of the Lord which are set forth as examples for those who should come after for the Gospel was preached unto them as well as unto you And truely from a good understanding doe I declare it unto you that if ye be willing and obedient a larger possession never had any people then the Lord will possesse you with and ye shalt eat the good thereof in peace for if ye accept and embrace his love and reject not his counsell which is freely tendered unto you he will rebuke Princes and Kings for your sakes but if ye harden your necks ye shall be of many people most miserable And these are words of truth and of a good understanding unto you all which will stand a witnesse for God either with you or against you for ever against you if ye reject it and for you if ye receive it for of a truth Gods Eternall and Everlasting love is tendered unto you in and through which if ye receive it and be faithfull to what the Lord will yet further manifest unto you ye shall be blessed with faithful Abraham for ever who forsaked his Fathers house to follow the Lord he knew not whether and stumbled not at the promise of the Lord but was faithful therefore was he called the friend of God and the Father of the faithful I say take him for an example and God Almighty will give you Dominion and honour you before many if you honour him but if you despise him he will despise you and if ye refuse to hear him now when he calls unto you the day is nigh when ye shall call and he will not hear which is a word of eternall truth unto you Therefore arise in the Spirit of meekness and stand a witnesse against all superstitions and Idolatry not onely in word but in life and practise and turn to the light of Christ Jesus which condemns sin and evill in you so will ye become children of the light and become a living testimony against all sin so will ye be a sweet savour unto the Lord in your generation and happy will the man be who joynes to the Lord in deed and in truth in this work his name shall be had in everlasting remembrance for evermore so let the fear and dread of God Allmighty possesse your hearts and the wicked shall be dreaded by you and brought into subjection within you and without you for ever And this is the word of the Lord unto you and blessed will ye be if ye hear and obey it for the youth shall faint and the young Lyon shall suffer hunger but they which feare the Lord shall never want any good thing for the fear of the Lord is clean and the beginning of a true Christian therefore blessed is the man which feareth always he shall be blessed in his deed and shall prosper and flourish like a green Bay tree which is planted by the rivers of water bringing forth fruit in due season to the praise and glory of his Creator and the Lord will spread his table in the sight of his enemies while they suffer hunger And this will the Lord doe for the upright in heart whose hands are not polluted with blood nor deceit harboured between his lips even he shall see the travail of his soul and be satisfied and his dayes shall be prosperous in the land of promise and the sons of the aliens shall be his servants this shall surely be the heritage of those who confesse and forsake their sins but he which hideth it shall not prosper even his prayers shall be loathsome unto the Lord and all his sacrifices an abominable abomination but he which purifieth his way by taking heed unto the Law of the Lord though he be simple yet shall he be made wise and his soul shall be converted for the Lord will perfect his glorious praise in the mouths of babes and sucklings and this thing shall be marvelous in the eyes of many These are prophesies of things which shall shortly come to passe therefore blessed is he which watcheth that he may not be found naked for the day of the Lord is coming on like a theif in the night upon all the inhabitants of the Earth wherein the hearts of all shall be made manifest and made bare and naked of what Nation or
the enemy adversary of all mankind and to this did the true Christians attain in this life even a perfect Redemption from sin and did witness the Blood of Christ sufficient to purge them from all unrighteousness and saith the Apostle he which hath Suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin Marke such ceased from sin and witnessed the body of sin put off and again the Apostle Paul saith unto the Romans when they were Servants unto sin they were free from righteousness being then made free from sin they Became the servants of righteousness So these things did the true Christians come to witness though you are not ashamed to take their words to plead for the Devils Kingdome as long as you live though the Apostle saith His servants ye are to whom ye obey So he which obeys sin is a servant of sin and the Apostle James saith let no man say When he is tempted that he is tempted of God for God tempteth not to evil but when a man is tempted unto lust he is tempted of the Devil and lust when it is conceived brings forth sin and sin when it is finished brings forth death so be not deceived with vain words For such as you sow such shall you reape if you sow to the Spirit ye shall of the Spirit reape life everlasting but if to the flesh ye shall of the flesh reape corruption for the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life So come all to the gift of God which is the Light of Christ Jesus which he hath enlightened you withall and you will come to know the free grace of God unto Salvation which will teach you to deny all ungodly lusts and not to plead for them and to live Soberly and righteously in this present evil world Marke this is the fruit and effect of the Grace of God and is not onely given to talke of and say you are saved by grace while you turn from it in wantonness which the Saints and Christians did not but came through the Cross to be saved even from sin and being redeemed from their vain conversation which they lived in in times past so witnessed a new birth which was of God which sinned not being washed with water by the word which word is Christ the Saviour of the soul and all who comes to know the word abiding in them they do know and witness this state even a perfect state from sin and that was their boldness in the day of Judgement that as Christ was so were they in this present world perfect even as their Father which is in Heaven is perfect So here is a true measuring line for you to measure your selves by what stock and lineage ye are of and who is your Father and whom ye obey for the true Christians Christ was their Example in all things and left them a perfect Example that they should follow his steps who said Learn of me for I am meeke and lowly in heart and the true Christians followed him and were like minded in all things Friends my hearts desire is to the Lord for you that you may be saved and come to the knowledge of truth which truth will make you free from sin and pollution though this thing stumbled the Jews when Christ spake it unto them for they looked out at some worldly thing not considering they were servants to sin which was the cause of all their misery Therefore be ye warned and fear pleading for that which will be your utter destruction if ye live and die in it read through the whole Book of Scripture and see if ever any Covenant of God stood with any Nation or people but as they did forsake their sins or were there ever any people to whom God did so largely manifest himself as unto the Jews and yet when they forsooke the holy Commandement which was delivered unto them did not the Lord forsake them yea verily and will all who do the like But if any of you shall say they were under a Covenant of workes and we under grace were they not under the Covenant of grace as well as any yea verily in all their travels did not the spiritual Rocke follow them which was Christ And after the Law was administred unto them by Moses did not he preach the true and living faith unto them saying they were not to say Who shall ascend or go beyond the Seas that they may hear and do it but what said he The word is nigh you even in your mouth and in your heart that ye may do it and was not this the same word of faith the Apostle Preached yea even the living faith which gives dominion over sin Hell Death and the Grave by which all the Saints of old had their glorious dominion and by which the Just liveth and they who come to witness this true and living faith they know a Shield against all the fiery darts of the Devil which faith Worketh by love and love fulfilleth the whole law of God which is to love God with all thy heart and thy neighbour as thy self So here is the true faith and the man which is in it does unto all men as he would all should do unto him which is the true Christians life and there is not another Oh! how doth my soul pitty you to see the blindness and ignorance you are fallen into though ye pretend the Scripture to be your rule which condemns you in all your practises as will plainly appear when you come to be tried by them doth any thing availe but a new Creature doth not the Scripture say and also doth not Christ say Except ye be converted and become as a little child ye cannot inherit the Kingdome of Heaven And againe Except ye be born againe ye cannot see the Kingdome of God Is there any true Christians but who witness this state and birth nay verily there is not any but those who followeth Christ through the Regeneration who cometh to sit with him in his Fathers Kingdome Is there any who do not suffer with him that shall Reigne with him Consider these things in the coole of the day and do not any longer take up a rest and a security in a beare name but come to the nature and then you will witness a true redemption out of all earthly affections and not plead for them but loath them for the Saints conversation was in Heaven which are above you which plead for beggarly lust which shuts out of the Kingdome For no uncleane thing can enter there These things I speake unto you in great plainness and singleness of heart as I am moved of the Lord that ye may come to the true Salvation from sin for who knoweth Christ and his power knoweth him to be in vertue as he is in name even A Saviour of his people from their sins therefore is his name called Jesus God hath sworne that he delighteth not in the death of a sinner
in the Light and stumbleth not Marke he who loveth and walketh in the Light stumbleth not because he walkes in that which maketh manifest all things even the hidden workes of darkness which by the Light is reproved and judged But he which hates his brother walkes in darkness and knoweth not whether he goeth because the darkness hath blinded his eyes so he which walketh in darkness knoweth not whether he goeth even because he is from the Covenant of God which is Light wherein he should walke as all the ransomed and redeemed of the Lord doth And this David did witness who said God is my Light and my Salvation and all which comes to the Light and lives in it witness the same thing and are not ashamed to bring their deeds unto the Light because they are wrought in God but he which doth evil Hateth the Light neither cometh he to the Light because his deeds are evil Therefore come and try if your deeds are wrought in God by bringing them to the Light and if by the Light they are Justified then none can condemne you but if the Light condemn you none can justifie you For all Judgement is committed unto the Son who is the Light and inlightneth every one whith cometh into the world which Light is a sure word of Prophecy whereunto if ye take heed ye do well as the true Christians did as unto a light that shineth in a darke place untill the day dawne and the day Star arise in your hearts for it is the light of the righteous which lightneth more and more untill the perfect day and gives a discovery of all things but the wicked being from that which makes manifest walketh in darkness and knoweth not at what they stumble which is a wofull state for they are from the light of the glorious Gospel and you to cover your selves say the letter is calling Matthew Mark Luke and John the Gospel when you are ignorant of the Gospel of Peace which is Christ the true light and Saviour of the Soul Therefore give care and harden not your hearts ye Protestants in this Nation least God smite you with a curse and leave you to perish in your sins for ever therefore come all to the light that a true regenerate state ye may witness as the true Christians did who witnessed the state of a child a young man and old man and the Apostle writing unto such said I write unto you little children because ye have known the Father I write unto you fathers because ye have known him which if from the beginning I have written unto you young men because ye are strong and the word of God abideth in you and ye have overcome the wicked one Read and consider the least in this state knew God and as they did grow up in the knowledge of God they came to overcome the Devil who is the father of all sin which is a true Christians warfare therefore come away And put on the whole Armour of Light and take unto you the Shield of Faith and the fiery darts of the Devil will come to be quenched by you and as good Souldiers you will overcome and witness the evil one overcome in you which is the strong man which keeps the house but coming to Christ and witnessing him you will know the stronger come which will take the possession in you and spoyle the strong mans goods who had first the Dominion and whole possession in you And this is counsel of life and truth unto you all that ye may come to be true children of Gods everlasting Covenant and witness the anointing in you which is the light which will teach you all things and is truth and is no lie and as the same teacheth you if ye obey and follow it ye shall abide in it which will be your portion for ever and is the true portion of all the redeemed of God who come to witness the birth which is of God Which sinneth not neither can they because the seed of God abideth in them which seed is Christ the hope of their glory And this is the mystery which the Apostle speaketh of which was hid from Ages and Generations which was then made manifest unto the true Christians and except ye come to witness this ye are reprobates for Christ Jesus is that seed which was promised should Bruise the Serpents head which became head in man after transgression and his head being bruised by the seed of the woman came to be perfectly restored into the Image and glory he was first created in even into the Image of his Creator who is God blessed for ever more of all his redeemed ones who witnesseth this fulfilled in them as many do at this day Immortal endless praise be rendred to his holy name for ever for they come to know that the power of the tempter is not of more force then the Redeemer but the redeemed even by Christ the Light comes to know his head bruised in them who seperated them from God and this is the true and faithful Christians state and life even to live and walke in the power of his Creator and Redeemer all the dayes of his sojourning in the mid'st of a crooked and perverse generation in which pure righteous and holy life they cannot plead for sin but stands as living witnesses against all unrighteousness whatsoever and for this cause are they hated and reviled because they are as a City which is set on a hill that cannot be hid and that torments the wicked and they are the Salt of the earth and have Salt in themselves to savour and try all things withall and are not afraid of being deceived but Tryeth all things and holdeth fast that which is good for they onely are the elect of God and cannot for it is impossible for them to be deceived but on the contrary stands witnesses against the deceiver and all his works therefore are hated by his children even as they hated Christ for saith Christ The world cannot hate you but me it hateth because I testifie of it that the works are evill but the world loves its own And the whole world lyeth in wickedness as saith the Scripture And who comes to be redeemed out of the world comes to be hated by the children of the world even as they did their Lord and Master the servant is not greater then his Lord who suffered the contradiction of sinners and laid down his life for his enemies and prayed for them which is the true Christians life So as you would prize your eternal happiness slight not this day your day of visitation but prize it and you will find mercy for God of a truth hath much mercy in store for you if ye reject it not but if you do then tribulation and anguish shall possess your souls for evermore Therefore while you have a day and time prize it before it be too late and remember Esau who had a birthright and despised
his own right hand hath planted and none shall be able to pluck you up for he will keep you in the hollow of his hand and they which shall touch you to harm you shall be as though they touched the apple of his eye and though for a time some of you may be suffered to be tryed for the tryal of others yet assuredly it shall be but for a short season a book of remembrance thereof will be written before the Lord and you will delight to meet often together to speak of his goodness and he will assuredly be in the mid'st of you and ye shall be his Temple Sanctified and made meet for his Use and he will delight to take up his habitation with you for ever and remember Satan may have power given to kill some of you and put some of you in prison ten days Read and understand and be not dismayed at these things when they shall come upon you For so did they persecute of old the holy Prophets of God before you and if any of you shall go in this cause to save your lives ye shall assuredly lose it but they which shall lay it downe for this testimony shall surely save it And whosoever shall forsake Father or Mother for my sake saith Christ shall receive in this life an hundred fold and in the world to come life everlasting And as I have said a day and a time of tryal may come over you But a short worke will the Lord make in the earth for his Seeds sake And the Rod of the wicked shall not alwayes rest upon the back of the righteous saith the Lord God Allmighty But I have said in and through the good Spirit of the Lord and by the strength of his own Arm which is made bare he will burst the bonds of your oppressors asunder that his oppressed seed may go free even to the ends of the uttermost habitations of the earth Therefore I say again to the holy Seed in you even the Seed of the Kingdome Which is as a grain of mustard seed yea the least of all things in you which if ye diligently need prize and follow it will become a great plant and cover the whole earth in you which if ye do the good which I have shewed you in faithfulnesse to God and which is to all your immortal souls will come upon you but if ye refuse and reject the good councel of the Lord unto you and joyne to the power of the oppressor to keep the Seed in bondage then know as sure as the Lord liveth the just shall be taken from you and all the evil I have been made to Prophecy of shall come upon your heads in a day when ye looked not for it even when ye may be eating and drinking and Marrying and giving in marriage Remember the old world and take ye warning before it be too late For the Spirit of the Lord will not alwayes strive with man which is the Word of the Lord God unto you all and wo be unto that man or Nation as the Spirit of the Lord shall cease striving with better were it that they had never been born for a manifestation of his holy Spirit hath been given to every one to profit withall which is the Lords money and your talent and misery will be the portion of those that hide their Masters money in the earth for such have grieved his righteous Spirit which will be too heavy for them to bear in the end Read the parable and againe I say be ye warned and while ye have time prize it before it be too late Remember Esau who after he had despised his Birthright sought it carefully with teares but there was no place found for his repentance And do not think it will be sufficient for you to deny bowing unto the Images and Idols of the Nation while ye live openly in the same abominations of those which went before for the voice saith Be ye separated and touch no unclean thing and I will accept you saith the Lord which the Light of Christ Jesus in you search whether it be not so as I say and have said in every particular and let Judgement pass upon the head of the transgressor in you that the oppressed Seed of God may go free to Reigne and Rule over you and in you for ever for Sion is to be redeemed by Judgement and her Converts with righteousnesse and the Prophet said He would bear the indignation of the Lord because he had sinned against him Therefore give up freely to the judgement that ye may reape righteousnesse for God hath said that judgement shall be given for a Light to the people and truly the judgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether for by them is thy servant forewarned I call Heaven and earth to record this day That you are truly and faithfully warned to fly and escape the evil to come and life and death is set before you and if ye chuse the Light ye shall live for the Light is the life of men but if ye refuse to be guided by it then darkness shall be your habitation for ever for a true Jubilee and release is tendred unto you of the Lord freedome from bondage and corruption within and and without and if ye reject this glorious freedome even freedome from your old master which is sin and Satan then hear ye the word of the Lord ye shall be boared through the eare and be made to serve your old Master for ever not one jot or tittle of this which is here written shall pass away unfulfilled be it with you or against you I shall be cleare of your bloud before the Lord for ever God will be Justified and glorified in all Even in them which believe and in them which perish Think not that going unto the Temple once or twice a week and there to hear what a man hath studied in his own will and time will serve turn nay nor yet the taking of Davids words and singing of them who was a man of a true penitent heart before the Lord who fasted cryed and mourned because of his transgressions and watered his Couch with his teares yea and so abhorred all workers of iniquity that he said He would not keep a lyar in his house which is far wide from your state who take his words and say you are not puft in mind you have no scornfull eye and you have fasted untill one may number your bones and you have roared for the disquietnesse of your hearts and are you not a company of liars and offer a sacrifice of lies unto the Lord And do you not think the Lord will Judge you for these things Yea verily do you not read That all liars shall be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone and no liars can enter into the holy habitation and rest of God Consider these things and lay them to heart and put away lying out of your
without respect of persons judgeth according to every mans work passe the time of your sojourning here in feare and redeem the time for the days are evil and work out your salvation with fear and trembling which if ye doe ye shall be everlastingly blessed in the end which is the word of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth unto you all Therefore while you have time prize it this word doth the Lord often put into my heart unto you for the dreadful day of his fierce unresistable wrath is nigh at hand in which he wil destroy all workers of iniquity from off the earth root and branch for ever and to that man will he look who is of a humble and contrite heart trembleth at his word and only such shall obtain favour of him in that his dreadful day and controversie with all Nations therefore is he sending and hath sent his dear and precious Lambs and Servants forth to warn them that they may repent and find mercy least his vengeance overtake them and that they may be lest without excuse and for this cause is this warning sent unto you O ye Protestants and inhabitants in France that ye may also be warned to fly the wrath which is even at the door for your measure of iniquity is even full and hastneth apace the finishing Therefore be awakened and warned that ye may find favour with him who will not judge according to your persons but in righteous judgement will he judge you even from the King that sitteth upon the Throne unto the slave that grindeth at the mill and neither money nor favour shall be able to deliver any therefore that ye may repent and find mercy is the true and faithfull desire of my soul to the Lord for you my Countrey-men whom the Lord hath warned to warn you and hath shewed me his silly worm the evil and the good which shall surely come upon you who in love and faithfulnesse to God and your Souls hath not concealed it from you whether you doe embrace or reject his love and counsell which is freely tendred unto you that so in the day of account with my Maker I may be found clear of your blood and the blood of all men which if I had it would be too heavy for me to bear for the Lord would require it at my hands who hath called me from a far countrey where I was an inhabitant about fourteen yeares untill this work was laid on me to visit you Protestants in and about Paris but ye rejected me and despised me and would not permit me to declare my message of love unto you which was from the Lord and not my own in testimony of which I was ready to seal it with my blood but seeing ye would not receive it from the Lord who called me from the Indians in America to minister and serve the Indians elswhere in his truth and gospel I shall be clear of your blood for ever and at my return from Paris the Lord laid it upon me to write this testimony unto you before he would suffer me to go out of your Nation and happy will ye be if ye receive it but if ye wilfully reject it as ye did me and contemned my person then wo will come upon you from the Lord God of Heaven and Earth for evermore Therefore Countrey-men I beseech you in the bowels of endlesse and unfeigned love for ever in and with the same the Lord hath loved me to lay it to heart for my God is a consuming fire who will not in any wise condemn the innocent nor acquit the guilty for with him alone dwelleth equity and justice which is the habitation of his Throne for ever which you shall be made partakers of who turn to him and peace shall never depart out of your habitation Let this thing be considered by all who love their souls for what will it avail you to win the whole world and lose your own souls is there any thing below the Sun but what is vanity and vexation of Spirit and must come to an end nay verily there is not therefore spend not your precious time any longer in taking care what you shall eat or what you shall drink or what you shall put on for all these things such seek after who know not God but cast your care upon God who will care for you if ye come to walk and live in his holy fear and seek not honor one of another but only that honour which comes from him so will ye honour him and he will make you truly honourable in the midst of a rebellious and stiff-necked people and seek not to lay up treasures on earth but first seek ye the Kingdome of Heaven and all things which are needfull for you shall be added unto you for if the Lord taketh care for the birds of the aire how much more will he take care for those who put their trust and confidence in him therefore spend not your time in chambering and wantonnesse neither make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof for the lust warreth against the soul but be ye sober and watch for the day of the Lord will come upon you as a thief in the night and he will call you to an account of your stewardship and how you have spent his money for every one hath a manifestation of the spirit given him to profit withall which he must give an account to his Lord of for that 's the talent and wo be to him that hath not been faithful to improve it but the diligent hand maketh rich and he which hath been faithful to a little shall be made ruler over much so consider seriously how you spend your time and whose money you are improving and to what use you put it to for accordingly shall your reward be Therefore Friends as in the sight of the living God in whom I live and serve with my Spirit I am very plain with you recommending my self to every mans conscience in the sight of God that I have not hid the counsel of God from you so far as he hath made it manifest to me concerning you neither have I gone to heal your hurt deceitfully nor sowed pillars under your arm-holes nor daubed you with untempered morter as the false prophets do crying peace peace to the wicked but as the Lord hath shewed me the sword of his wrath which is ready to be sheathed in the bowels of the wicked I have in faithfulnesse warned you of it that ye might escape it by turning from the evil of your wayes for by no other way or meanes can you possibly escape it therefore let not me be counted your enemy for telling you the truth knowing that the reproof of a friend is better than the kisse of an enemy and an open reproof is better than secret love therefore saith David Let the righteous smite me and it shall be as an ointment upon my head and you will