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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60206	To all the inhabitiants of the town of Youghal who are under the teaching of James Wood ...	Sicklemore, James.	1657 (1657)	Wing S3750; ESTC R24541	13,617	9

are sorry to see this mans zeal now for God and they call i● blind and say he is deceived and deluded Then in the latter end of his Letter he calls himself A servant of the Lords and his people in the Gospel How far God hath owned his service let the fruits of his ministery these many years last past in this Town of Youghall testifie and in this long service let him produce and manifest what fruits hath been brought forth to God and how many hath been brought into the Vineyard of God where no unfruitful tree must be without being out down whatservice he hath done for his people and who J. W. calls the Lords people would be enquired after sure there 's not many in the town of Youghall among whom he hath bin so long preaching wil own him to be their Servant seeing he refuses to do what service they desire from him yet no doubt but they help pay him his wages if we should make a strict enquiry among his own people and Church we shall find that though he calls himself their servant yet most of them call him Master so that upon a true search this wil prove but words and little less then a bare complement Friends and people At the times of ignorance God wincked but now he commandeth all men every where to repent Be not deceived God will not be mocked Not every one that cries Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but he that doth the will of my Father saith Christ In the fear God examine your selves whose will you are doing daily if you will do the will of God you must deny your own wills in all things and they that are doing evil and committing sin are not doing the will of God 't is not a talk of Repentance and forsaking sin will stand you in stead or give you true peace but a forsaking of it indeed and in truth and a putting off the old man with his deeds and a orucifying of the flesh with the affections and Lusts must be witnessed before you can say you are Christs and witness him in you righteousness and sanctification and redemption t is not a giving up your names to be written in J. W. his book or any other paper that will administer true comfort to you but you must come to know your names written in the Lambs book of life where nothing that desiles can come pure Religion stands not in a separation that is sensual and in a shew only but in being unspotted with the world I judge none of you Search your selves with the Light that comes from Jesus which is nigh you and it will truly show you your own states and conditions and when you see your selves beleeve none that will daub you and tell you a story contrary to what you see with your eye which is the Light of the body Friends This Light will shew you all that ever you did and makes manifest all things that have been and are done in secret and judges all that is evil and justifies none but such who to it are obedient this is Gods faithful witness in your Consciences which doth either accuse or excuse if it accuse beleeve not any that would excuse if it excuse none can condemn if any one sin it accuses and brings trouble upon the evil doer unto whom there is no peace Therefore do not live securely but try your selves and what the light of Christ in you shews you to be evil abstain from it even in its appearance Love the light and bring all your deeds to it that they may be made manifest where they are wrought follow the light of the world wherewith you are enlightened that you may come to have the light of life which gives victory over death and brings out of its snare and from under its dominion sin is deaths kingdom and all who are in sin and by it carryed captive are in its snare and out of the kingdom of God into which nothing that defiles can enter Friends look out no longer for a teacher for the teachers that are without cause you to erre but the word is nigh you in your hearts and mouths turn in to hear it speak and it will shew you the way you should walk in there is a measure of the gift of God committed to you all in particular and the grace of God hath largely appeared to some of you it teaches all that loves it to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live righteously ana soberly in this present evil world this will bring you to the Repentance not to be repented of this is that which washeth and sprinkleth and purgeth the conscience from dead works to serve the living God Every sin is a dead work he that serves sin is free from Righteousness he that doth sin is of the devil Friends Beware I write nothing but what that of God in your consciences bears witness to that 's the light if you love your own souls love the light that is in you that checks you for sin and follow it it leads from sin unto Christ the Saviour who saves from sin Who is in you except ye be Reprobates it leads out of the world al that follow it into the kingdom of heaven which is within you if you beleeve in the light who lighteth every one that cometh into the World you will com to the faith which purifies and to the hope which purifies Christ in you the hope of glory this hope will not fail you when al other hopes shall perish So prise your time and neglect not this day of Gods visiting you but come to the light and try all your thoughts words and wayes by it and all spirits this will discover all seducers and deceivers and the false prophets shew you and it will bring you if you it follow to the true prophet which whosoever will not hear shall be cut off And all you who are burthened with sin and feels the weight of it and are weary and would be eased and are hungring and thirsting after satisfaction and rest and true peace of which you were never yet made partakers neither could you meet with or obtain in all your profession I say unto you from the Lord cease from looking out for help and running from one hill to another to find out the way of the Lord for your help is nigh unto you and he is not afar off and till you come to turn in your minds and to take heed unto that which works the desire in you you shall never come to be satisfied for the desire is not in your selves or in any thing you can do but is wrought by God and nothing but something from God must satisfie and what may be known of him is manifest in you and the desire is within and the content also is to be found there for this is the cause that you y … ly down in sorrow because you seek to that which is without for help and art going to Egypt for aid and forget him who is near at hand and so the true desires many times are lost and you rest satisfied for a season till the witnesse in you arises again and shews you your state then you are more unsatisfied than before and your Teachers to whom you seek endeavours to heal this wound also and will bid you believe in Christ and lay hold upon him good words but yet you are ignorant of him to be in you and of his life and power you are not partakers who washes and sanctifies and purifies and makes clean Therefore friends mind the light which is of God which shews your sinful state and sad condition and follow is that by it you may be led out of that state and come to witnesse a new state and a new birth which is of God which sins not and to find and enjoy and possesse the true peace which passeth understanding which they who are in the world knows not nor doth not enjoy 〈◊〉 all you who are running into sin with delight and are drinking iniquity like water and have forgotten God who is not in all your thoughts and have set your faces against instruction reproof and shuts your eyes and stops your ears least you should see with your eyes and hear with your ears and be converted but are living in your sins and in them are secure and cannot endure to hear of a 〈◊〉 of holynesse and righteousnesse and purity but are opposers of it and persecuters of 〈◊〉 who witnesse it I say from the Lord Gods hand is over you and his arm is stretched out against you and an utter desolation he will make of you except you repent speedily and turn from the evil of your ways and seek the Lord by unfeigned repentance for the time of his striving with you is well nigh past and the day is coming upon you that sorrow shall take hold uyon you and trouble shall come upon you as an armed man and you shall seek for help and shall not find it because you have been 〈◊〉 and rebellious and stiff-necked against the Lord and would not hearken when by his light which is in you he called but from day to day resisted his spirit and quenched it in you when it did arise in your consciences to condemn you for sin and have slain his witnesse in you and are making merry over it behold it shall arise as an evidence against you in the day of Gods pleading with you and you shall not be able to stand Therefore take warning in time before the evil day comes upon you lest your dayes be shortned and you dye in your sins and you become a cursed example to all the workers of iniquity All people let the love and long-sufferings of the Lord God move you and lead you to repentance James Sicklemore The End

seemingly endeavoured to take off people from and his now declaring it his judgement that by the right of Magna Charta Ministers may receive tythes which once he did believe was not according to the practice of the Ministers of the Gospel he might be traced in much more of which some of you cannot be ignorant as his once pleading against persecution of any for conscience sake of which he himself would not be counted guilty yet if you will examine strickly what made him so earnest against Edward Erbery who was a prisoner for the witness of a good conscience when he was called before the Rulers did he there plead against that persecution or was he not very zealous in agrivating the crime so accused to be which did not so much concern him in particular as it did Edward Eyres And again that day wherein J. W. thinks he hath sufficiently proved his call to the Ministry you may remember that after he had taken up much time in declaring his inward and outward qualifications and inward and outward call which is not according to the Scriptures there was some questions asked concerning his practice which was compared with the practices of the Ministers of Christ in the Scriptures whether he proved his present practice so to be I 'le leave to all the honest hearted there to judge as concerning his maintenance which he could not deny but was above 100 l. and salary which he confessed he went once a quarter to demand and receive at Cork though he was confident to affirm that he took not thought what he should eat or drink did he not then contradict himself and could he find such an example among all the Ministers of Christ Friends there is none for all his Ministers obeyed his commands for their maintenance freely ye have received freely give and into whatsoever house ye enter and they receive you there abide till you depart but it is in no place said go to ask for meat for they were not to take thought concerning it but to trust their Master Christ which thing when it was asked of J. W. if he could not do it he most impudently breaks out and asked John Perrot If he would have him to hold up his mouth and look for God to drop bread from heaven into it one of the vainest expressions that ever I heard come out of a mans mouth professing a separation from the world as he doth and being charged with his feasting which he was particularly exercised in that day he affirmed that half of the Creation needed not have been if men might not eat more then would satisfie nature would not this man be wiser then God or would he not make God the Author of gluttony and excess and make this a cloak for it or doth he not measure the wisdom of God by his own lust which because he hath allowed him out of the common treasury neer 200 l. per annum cannot be satisfied without the spending of it all of which he might be ashamed to boast is he not an evil example to you in this beastly practice and yet he would cloak it with the Saints love-feasts which were never made for the rich I know you that are simple and honest in any measure cannot own his practice in that thing nor his vanity in his pictures which is all odious in the sight of God and stinks in his nostrils and what think you of his bowling and kettle-pin playing which he that day pleaced for was that according to the Scriptures Friends seriously consider of all these things and then see whether J. W. his first sending or his last were according to that of … s and judge what cause this man had to boast of that dayes work wherein he thinks he did sufficiently prove his call to the Ministry More of his Letter I sorrow to see your zeal if so it be so blind This expression is plainly in hypocrisie for his joy and sorrow stands in one nature he calls it my zeal in writing the Letter and Queries and he sayes it is blind and yet he questions whether it be my zeal or no is not this confusion but why should this be cause of sorrow to him or any Minister of the Gospel to meet with such a Letter and Queries verily I am not ashamed that any honest heart should see them yet this man is sorry when my zeal was hot and furious in acting sin and running into vanity then he was not at all sorry or he never expressed it to me but rather was joyful as I could perceive because he was one with me therein witness the time we spent together in bowling and kettle-pin playing and in needless discourse wherein our fellowship then stood and my zeal was great yet he never then told me it was blind or that he sorrowed for it But now I being by the power of God redeemed from those vain practices and brought to stand as a witness against them and am now entring into another state and condition and seeking a better Kingdom and its righteousness now he is sorry and herein he is not unlike all the rest of his brethren that are of that profession for take a man that will run with them all the week long to feasting and sporting and playing which he calls recreation of the body for its health and let him be never so zealous herein and be never so much exercised in vain and idle discourse so it be witty and pleasant as all sin is and yet go to hear them preach one or two dayes in the week and confess all is true that they say and own them to be sent of God and so honour them and cry them up for good men these men may live securely without any reproof from them inparticular so long as their mouths be fild they crypeace and such a one shall be daubed with untempered morter his state is counted good enough tho he die to morrow he shal be sav'd by Christ so the poor soul is deceived dies in his sins But if this person comes ever to be sensible of its sad state that it is in by reason of sin which daily oppresses the soul and carries it captive and by the light of Christ comes to have his eyes opened whereby he sees that he hath been deceived by such who have cryed peace to him when he was daily overcome with sin and now comes to see that there is no peace to the wicked and so begins to make enquiry after a way to get out of that State and to be redeemed from it and to take heed to the Light which all along checked him in his former vanity and to love it and follow it which leads from sin unto righteousness and works a change and brings him to be a witness against his sins and against all his former life which he lived in under the teachings of such blind guides this man is called by them an Apostate they