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A60557 The true light discovered to all who desire to walk in the day in several little treatises / written by that faithful member of the true church of Christ Jesus (deceased) Stephen Smith. Smith, Stephen, 1623-1678. 1679 (1679) Wing S4211; ESTC R27491 132,412 385

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and let that which is wrong be rejected and that which is right received and in that which is Right will be ●●●n what Fast is Pleasing and Acceptable in God's sight and that Prayer which will be Effectual and Prevalent for the good of the Soul in a Right Understanding will be seen So now begin a Fast come pitty the Oppressed let the Prisoner go free have Compassion on the Poor break off Imquities by a True Repentance in turning from Evil the Cause of Anguish and Trouble upon the Soul that the Soul may be set at Liberty to praise the Lord and so let hard hearts be melted and broken down and the seat of Unbelief by reason of which the Love of God in the Light of his Son 〈◊〉 rejected and by that means p●●● souls are kept in Bondage con●●●●●●o the Will of God let that seat 〈◊〉 Unbelief be thrown down for God 〈◊〉 greatly displeased at the Presumption of Mankind who have exalted themselves in their own wills where Self exerciseth Will-worship in a feigned Humility whereby the Cross is counted Foolishness So Christ's Exhortation To take up the Cross daily and deny Self God's Love therein that is slighted the Cross that being without Fasting that being without Prayers that being without all being done without a Right Understanding for want of which Ptetended Fasting is vain Prayer is vain and the Conversation of Mankind is vain and unprofitable where the will of man is set in Opposition against the Will of God in his Heavenly Guift even the Light of his Unerring Spirit by which the World is reproved of Evil and this is and will be the World's Condemnation their sleighting the many Visitations of God's Love in that he doth manifest unto them what is reprovable in his sight but they being unmindful of God's Love therein by which means their Souls are in great Bondage under Sin and Corruption subjected there under a vain Hope by the Subtilty of the Serpent That though they live unseparated from Sin yet they shall obtain Justification through Christ and see a good End or good brought forth through Sin be never finished this kind of Perswasion is through strong Delusions of Satan whose workings are in a deep Mystery of Iniquity in pretended Godliness but his End therein is to make void that Blessed coming of Lord and Saviour to finish Sin and to put an End to Unrighteousness and thereby to make way for the bringing in Everlasting Righteousness that souls in that Blessed Principle of God may rest in Peace Now where this is not known be Awakened I beseech you unto Righteousness which is God's and no otherwayes man's but as he becomes stript of his own Eyes and so comes before the Lord with a Broken and Contrite Spirit and Heart humbled at his sight who seacheth it by his Light and shews to man in the Cool of the Day what beastly Imaginations are lodging therein to the end that man might lye down at the Feet of his Appearance in a True Fast in abstaining from Evil and Praying in the Spirit that by the Exercise of God's Love in his striving therewith Evil may be overcome and so the soul set at liberty from Evil the cause of Trouble and Anguish which is upon every soul that 's in Evil. So let every one that names the Name of the Lord depart from Evil. Come Curser and Swearer be perswaded to be awakened and see what a sad Condition thy soul is in but if thou wilt not but hardenest thy heart what will the taking the Name of the Lord into thy Mouth avail thee Or Unclean Person who art defiled and endeavouring to defile others remember That none in Vnclaanness can enter into Heaven so except thou leavest thy Evil therein thy Expectations of God's Kingdom will fail thee Come Idolaters who are making Gods of Gold and Silver and Wood and Stone and so are bowing down to the works of your own hands that is a great Abomination and Evil greatly to be lamented who are so far blinded from the Appearance of the Light of God's Spirit in your own Hearts which being taken heed unto and obeyed brings to the Knowledge of God but that Love of God being rejected what strangers are you to God and the Saints of Life and so are become Beastly and Bruitish in your Understandings your Bands of Corruption through sin and iniquity being made strong and so under strong delusions are bowing to Pictures to put you in mind of God and the Saints though they cannot hear nor see nor smell what savour think you to get out of them Stocks and Stones Be Awakened I beseech you to Consideration and know that it 's some measure of that Grace and Truth which Jesus of Nazareth was filled with by Vertue of that all the Saints savour to God and one unto another which Grace hath appeared unto all but the Saints or Believers were and are taught by it so that which convinces of Evil is to them that believe in it and obey it an Instructer in the way of Life So leave your Folly in Bowing and Cringing to the East and to you know not what and answer the Love of God in his Principle of Light in you which makes manifest that which is Evil and then will the Eye of your Understaning be opened to the beholding of him who fills Heaven and Earth with his Presence so that no Darkness can cover man from him who is God of the North South East and West who will spoil your glorying who are boasting your selves of the Antiquity of your Religion who first went from the Cross which is the Power of God and so got up in a form of words and then set the Cross upon the House of Stone c. Alas your Religion is seen through and all who hang upon your Skirts they must have a share of the shame which is coming upon that Adulterated whorish Spirit which hath led the minds of the people out from a sense of the Royal Law of God within man so that the stream of God's Love therein to Mankind that hath been stopt and in the Night of Apostacy the stream of Malice and Envy and Hatred that hath run in your Streets where the Innocent Bloodshed lyes at your doors So it 's time you were awakened to a true Repentance that you may come to the knowledge of Salvation through the Remission of your sins for it 's the saving of your souls I seek and not the destruction of your bodies so Truth is my weapon which I desire may reach to that of God which is Truth in you that so the pure Language which is Truth may be restored in all and the Royal Law of Love therein may shew it self which gives an Understanding To love God above all and our Neighbours as our selves and to do to all men as we would they should do unto us Come all you who conceive mischief on your Beds in your hearts and cannot rest
make it manifest by the light of his Spirit within so man being convinced of and reproved for evil if he heeds not reproofs but perishes in his evil then his destruction is of himself but if through this love of God shed abroad in the hearts of people they be awaken'd thereby and so cleave to the good and follow and obey it then will that which was a Reprover for Evil be an Instructer in a Blessed Life where sin nor evil can't enter nor be neither is there any agreement with darkness in that life in which there 's no evil but the soul being in this liberty then Come I will tell you what the Lord hath done for my soul and my soul and all that 's in me praises the Lord. So here 's the Blessed Fountain opened where the streams of God's love are felt to run which drive back the streams of malice uncleanness and abominations which have corrupt mankind So Blessed are they whose Eyes are to the Living Fountain and wait for the rising of the springs thereof in their hearts from whence the truly thirsting soul comes to be satisfied refreshed and strengthened through a true sense of the springing up of this Well of Water which he gives who hath all power in Heaven and Earth the which Well of Water springing unto everlasting life all being dipped or plunged under this the soul comes to be washed from corruption and so made white as Snow the which is an everlasting ordinance ordain'd of God for a perpetual Covenant the which all that would know Salvation through the remission of sins they must wait to be confirmed in this Blessed Covenant where the Blessed Unity stands out of sin for there 's no evil in this Covenant So all that come to be concerned here must first agree in their hearts to cease from sin and evil and then to wait for the rising of the Pure and so to watch in the Pure against all appearances of that which is corrupt and so to grow up in the Pure to a Blessed Dominion over the corruptible and so in the pure measure of God's Spirit to receive and use the Creatures of God with Thanksgiving where every Creature is good when they are so received so to the Pure all things are Pure but to the Defiled and Unbelieving there is nothing Pure So the way of God that is Pure and Undefiled and Blessed are they who are Undefiled and keep and are kept in that Blessed way to finish their dayes where the Soul rests in Peace with God the which is the will of God according to which is this writ So to him be glory and honour from the rising of the Pure of himself forever and for ever Amen By a Servant of the Lord Stephen Smith 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 acceptance into Gods 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 inibuities will I remember no more A blessed day magnified be the Lord whose Works praise him for ever and not good works out of wicked workers mouths to 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 for ever 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 gracious 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 Christ Jesus to take upon him our Flesh and to suffer Death upon the Cross that all mankind should follow the example of his great Eumility 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 Work 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 condescend 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 Chass to the Wheat the Substance So he that hath a Dream let him tell his Dream but he that hath Gods 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 and 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 the 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 doubtless they are more drunk with the Whores Cup of Sorceries and Witchcraft then those of that kind are here in
come first to the way and means that God hath ordained And is not the second coming of Christ in the Light of his Holy Spirit the way by which all must come unto God the which is without spot without guile And must not all that come unto God come unto him in this one blessed savoury offering And is not this Christ of God the same yesterday to day and for ever as he was before Abraham was and so the same in the beginning of all things And must not all that come to God come out of Transgression the cause why mankind was drove from the presence of God 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 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 for ever 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 Conc●●vings of those gracious 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 their transgression unto the true witness in them the Light 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 Serpen●'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 gracious words and works of the righteous m●n 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 lyes 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 work in and by the effectual working of his holy Spirit within man How bruitish 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 effectual works of God's holy Spirit what misery and consusion have you brought your selves and the Nations into where you lye in heaps in Controversies about the works and words without till the enemy's works of darkness be overgrown 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 precious 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 Building of reeling and staggering from one fashion to another soaring alost 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 works as to open the Eye of their understandings that they 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
compel or force them to be of our Religion fear might overcome some of them for fear of the Punishment some may yield and in case we should perswade them by promises of Cutward Preferment for the Advantage sake some might yield but saith the Turk when we have done all we cannot alter or change their Belief the which they retaining though they may yield unto us it would be but in Hypocrifie and in case we should accept of them on those terms they then would have an opportunity to do us hurt And herein they shew more Moderation then the Apostate Christians in many places of Christendom And concerning the Turks Deportment and Civil respect one unto another in meeting and greeting one another they seem to exceed the Christians in Morality it being a cause of Laughter unto them to see the Christians Beggarly Airy Behaviours one unto another in Scraping with the Leg and Doffing the Hat and foolish Gestures too too much used amongst many who are called Christians who want the more solid and more comely and truly courteous Behaviour which the Truth guides unto But lest any should mistake who do not know the difference which is amongst them called Turks wherein I speak of the Behaviour of the Turks as before I do not speak of those Nests and Dens of Theeves and Robbers who are made up of Christian Runnagadows Moors and Turks neither do I speak of the aspiring high-minded ones amongst them but I speak of a plain people called Turk-men whom I have trusted much and having found them faithful I perceived they had an Awe and Fear of God upon them they often expressing these words The Lord is just and therefore we must do justly And by occasion having proved a Turk I shall in brief give an Instance of his Faithfulness where in he declared the Fear and Awe of God that was upon him Being ordered by a Merchant that then lived in Aleppo to send him up 1500 Dollers privatelely from Scanderown where I lived according to order the Money being delivered and laid upon a Horse in a Satchel as their manner is the Horse by Chance ran away with the Money before him it being in a dark Night he could not find him and in the Morning betimes the Horse with the Money was feeding at a Turk-man's Crib the Turk taking hold of him and feeling the Money and seeing the Christians Mark there being none to accuse him but the witness in him he might clearly have kept the Money and turned the Horse going but the faithful and true Witness was so prevalent in him that he took the Money carried it unto an Agaw which in that place is somewhat like unto a Lord of a Manner and after diligent search what he had done was shewed unto me and the Money recovered But mind the Awe and Fear of God that was upon the Turk after Inquiry concerning his Doings this was his Answer said the Turk The Lord hath blessed me with Cattle of several sorts accounting his Outward Riches in case said he I should have put that Money to that which the Lord hath blessed me withall that being none of mine the Lord would have brought a Curse upon all that I have Hear this O Christians and awake to Righteousness and don 't persist in your Gainsaying the preaching the Gospel to every Creature Col. 1.23 lest you be cut off from the goodness of God through your unbelief and hard-heartedness and those whom you so despise be grafted in all things are possible to the power of the Lord for of a Truth as said Peter in another Case The Lord is no Respecter of Persons but in every Nation he that feareth him and worketh Righteousness is accepted with him So mind it 's not a bare talk of Righteousness that will serve and what have you more who say Visions are ceased and Revelations are ceased and the Inspiration of God's Spirit is not to be known now adayes Oh blind Apostates what Gospel have you to preach No the Gospel is hid to you in whom the God of this World hath blinded the minds of them that believe not 2 Cor. 4.3 4. lest the Light of the Glorious Gospel of Christ who is the Image of God should shine unto them The Confession out of your own Mouthes will rise up against you in the day of account which hastens The midnight of it is much over you and the day of the Visitation of God's love to many of you is far spent Do you think that your having the holy mens Testimonies of the Righteousness of God will add to your Comfort in the day of account if you be found out of the Righteousness there testified of No assuredly they will be a witness against you The learned Scribes and the Pharisees they had the Law and the Prophets which witnessed to the Righteousness of God but they resisting the Spirit of God how blind and ignorant were they of the Law and Prophets so that goodness of God they being strangers unto through their hard-heartedness in resisting the Key of knowledge they were so far from the comfort thereof that they took occasion by them to resist the righteousness of God so those blessed Testimonies which witnessed to the righteousness of God were a witness against them for refusing the same And forasmuch as the Christian-Nations have more of the holy mens Testimonies concerning the righteousness of God in the blessed operation of his holy Spirit and do grieve it and do despight unto it and are found in the day of account out of the life of the righteousness thereof the more and stronger will the Scriptures of Truth be a witness against them So then the Scriptures are profitable and comfortable through the blessed Spirit that opens them and gives power to live the life of the holy men recorded therein But if the righteousness of God's holy Spirit which is witnessed unto throughout the Scriptures of Truth be rejected then will the Scriptures be unprofitable and uncomfortable in the day of account when every one shall receive a reward according to their Deeds done in the Body Oh! that people would consider and not go on striving against the works of the Lord who is exalting the peaceable Kingdom of the Son of his Love which is in righteousness Rom. 14.17 peace and joy in his holy Spirit Oh! it s for want of knowledge that people perish and rather then they will deny themselves that they may have knowledge of the righteousness which is of God they will persist and persist and perish in their own unrighteous Works For the Wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God Jam. 1.20 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and his Ears are open unto their Prayers 1 Pet. 3.12 but the Face of the Lord is against them that do Evil. Oh that people had a true knowledge of the Scriptures but they do erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the
is and may be received through Faith and Comfort of the holy Scriptures by them who do truly take heed to the manifestation of God's holy Spirit in them which convinceth the World of sin and therefore universal and take that for a rule and guide to walk by out of darkness and to guide and lead into all Truth Oh it 's the carnal mind which is enmity against God Rom. 8.7 for it is not subject to the Law of God neither indeed can be It 's that mind that would make void this love of God in the manifestation of his Spirit to every man to profit with as saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 2.14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned Therefore it is of necessity for all to take heed to the Revelation and Manifestation of Gods holy Spirit in them if ever they come to a true knowledge of the love and mercy of God testified unto in old time And therefore it 's good for all to consider what state they are in whether in a natural or spiritual whether in a capacity to receive an understanding in the things of God testified of in the Scriptures or whether in a natural estate wresting them to their own destructions In that state what false conceptions about the things of God are brought forth the which genders to bondage and corruption And in this Worldly wisdom what diversity of Inventions do people get make and find out to keep them from the Cross which Christ exhorted his followers to take up dayly and follow him Though this may be accounted as foolishness to them that perish yet as said the Apostle But unto us that are saved it 's the power of God It was not the intent in the moving of God's holy Spirit in holy men in giving forth those blessed Testimonies of God's righteousness and love therein unto the world that people in their carnal minds and natural estates should cover their unrighteousness therein and deck and trim themselves therewith for some selfish advantage the which are very presumptuous sins that have gotten dominion in the hearts of those who do account themselves Leaders of the people And indeed if the people did not love to have it so they would bow to the manifestation of God's love and mercy in them But being contrary minded then to yeild to the good will and pleasure of God in the moving of his good Spirit how greatly do they provoke the Lord of Heaven and Earth in grieving and vexing of his holy Spirit as said the Prophet Isaiah in another Case 63.10 But they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit therefore he was turned to be their enemy and he fought against them In that state it 's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living I do therefore beseech all to be considerate in this weighty concern wherein the Souls Immortal are so deeply concerned and let not the day of God's Visitation in and by the striving of his good Spirit pass over your heads least you be left mourning and grieving without God in the World and so without any certain hope of all the Saints and Sanctified in the Truth And through the blessed operation and revelation of the holy Spirit of Truth he is now the hope of all them who are real denyers of that which hath a tendency of grieving and quenching his holy Spirit and in this is Christs Doctrine obeyed in denying that which is contrary to the will of God whose blessed will is the satisfaction of all and for that end hath he given of his good Spirit unto all the which ought to be taken unto by all The gain-saying of the striving thereof was the cause of the Worlds overthrow of old in that they grieved his good Spirit and therein provoked the Lord of Glory till in his hot displeasure he said his Spirit should not alwayes strive with them And the cause of the Scribes and Pharisees Crucifying the Lord of Glory by their wicked hands was by their doing despite unto Gods holy Spirit they being stiff Necked did resist the moving and striving of Gods holy Spirit as their Fathers did before them which brought those sad and miserable Calamities which may be read of upon them And that which was the cause of Ignorance in Dayes Ages and Generations past is now the cause of great ignorance in which the people living in error know not the Scriptures nor the power of God and for want of the knowledge thereof people do perish Thus plain and evident it is to all who have the Eyes of their understandings opened that they who are true owners of the Scriptures their sense and knowledge thereof comes by the moving of the Spirit of Christ who lighteth every man that comes into the world unto which the true Gospel Ministers turned people even from darkness that was in them unto the Light that was in them which Light that shineth in Darkness and the Darkness comprehendeth it not In this principle of the Light of Gods holy Spirit which makes manifest the Deeds of Darkness must all believe and obey that come to find Life and Peace And read John 1.1 what is there said concerning the word of God by which all things were made the which the Devil is out of though he may get the words and talk and preach of the word But being out of the word of God he cannot preach that He that can receive it let him for in him the word by which all things were made is Life and the Life is the Light of men And for the inshining and breathing forth of this Light out of Darkness must all wait in the Self-denyal of all dark works taking up the Cross dayly thereunto that Life and Immortality may be brought to Light through the Gospel And if this be hid It is hid to them that are lost In whom the God of this World hath blinded the minds of them that believe not 2 Cor. 3.3 4. least the light of his glorious Gospel of Christ who is the Image of God should shine upon them And whilst this love of God testified unto through the Scriptures remains hid what true benefit can such be supposed to have of the Scriptures though they may be never such high Talkers and Professors thereof Oh that people would consider what they are doing that they may not labour and travail all their days in vain and lye down in sorrow at last Come be sober be wise you Professors of the Scriptures and remember that it is witten For we must all appear before the Judgment seat of Christ 2 Cor. 5.10 that every one may receive the things done in the body whether they be good or bad What then will a bare Profession of holy mens words and works wrought without you avail you if you be found in uncleanness in unsavoury words and works