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A51123	Antichrist unvailed by the finger of Gods power and his visage discovered by the light of Christ Jesus, and his ministers, members, works, and lying wonders, manifested by the spirit of God, a manifestation whereof is given to every man (and woman) to profit withal : with friendly and serious invitations, exhortations, and warnings to all professors of Christianity, to beware of that antichristian spirit that leadeth to destruction, and of those teachers, who are influenced by it / written in the love of God by a prisoner (at Lancaster castle) for the testimony of truth, and one of the people called (in scorn) Quakers, Henry Mollineux.	Mollineux, Henry, d. 1719.	1695 (1695)	Wing M2393; ESTC R13417	147,325	285

Church the Whore that is adulterated from God And if any that readeth this by the Light of Christ in their Consciences see their sinful Condition and that they are in any part of Babylon or its Suburbs let them hearken to the Voice of his Light and Grace in their Hearts and Consciences which saith Come out of Babylon my People that ye be not Partakers of her Sins and that ye receive not of their Plagues and as they truly and inwardly are retired to the Light they will see the Wounds and Bruises and Sores which Sin hath made in their Souls and they dare not let them be slightly healed by the Fair Speeches and Perswasions of Men neither can all that Babylon's Merchants say satisfie that any such Salve as they have to sell can make their Souls sound But as they freely give up with all their Hearts to seek him who is the desire of all Nations and the Beloved of the Souls of the Righteous who Cureth all manner of Diseases he will give Eye-salve that they may more and more see and he will wash and bind up their Wounds and pour in Oyl as he seeth meet in his own time And as the Lord led the Israelites out of Egypt by his Servant Moses so will he lead them out of Spiritual Babylon by the Hand and Power of his Son Ghrist Jesus the Spiritual Prophet whom Moses Prophesied of Acts 3.22 that God would raise up in the midst of his People like unto me said he him shall ye hear in all things and every Soul that will not hear that Prophet shall be destroyed and so as the Israelites were led through the Red Sea which the Lord divided for them to pass thorow Exod. 14. so the Lord will make way through Difficulties and Exercises for all them to pass thorow who are freely willing to be led by the Light and hearken to the Voice of Christ in their Hearts and as the Enemies of the Israelites pursued them even into the divided Sea and made them afraid even so their spiritual Enemies may pursue them in their Exercises but as they abide still and quiet in their Minds and trust in the Lord they shall see the salvation of God and their Enemies that they then see they shall never see them again for as the Egyptians were overthrown in their pursuit of Israel in the Red Sea so the Lord will overwhelm and destroy the spiritual Enemies of such as truly Follow and Believe in him And so as the Israelites were Baptized unto Moses in the Cloud 1 Cor. 10.2 and in the Sea so they must be Baptized into Christ Jesus in bitter Tryals and Exercises and as Moses and the Children of Israel Exod. 15. ● sung of the salvation of God when they had passed thorow the Sea and saw their Enemies destroyed even so they will have great cause to rejoice whose spiritual Enemies God hath destroyed and they may sing of God's salvation And as Israel was led through the Wilderness Hos 2.14 so will the Lord allure his People as into the Wilderness spiritually and there he will speak to their Hearts and as they are faithful and obedient to follow him in the Wilderness without murmuring they will come to know a passing thorow the spiritual Jordan Jesh 3.17 or River of Judgment as on dry Ground into the Promised Land And so they may know an entring into the Rest of God Heb. 4.9 or the true spiritual keeping of the Christian Sabbath which remaineth to the People of God Isa 58.13 Joh. 6.28 29. Phil. 2.13 in which they ●●e not to do their own Ways nor find the●●●●wn pleasure nor speak their own words and so they may know a working of the Works of God and know God to work in them both to will and to do of his own good pleasure and know a ceasing from their own Works as God did from his And such as these it is who know aright the true inward and spiritual Baptism of Christ with his Holy Spirit and Fire who know him to be unto them inwardly like a Refiners Fire and as Fullers Soap Mal. 3.2 Zech. 13.9 Mal. 3.17 18. who refineth them as Silver is refined and tryeth them as Gold is tryed and the Lord maketh them his Jewels and these can discern between the Righteous and the Wicked between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not And these are such as were sometimes Darkness whilst the Power of Darkness prevailed in them over them but now they are light in the Lord Eph. 5.8 9 10.11 John 12.36 1 Thes 5.5 and they walk as Children of the light and have no fellowship with the unfruitful Works of Darkness but rather reprove them these according to Christ's Command having believed in the light are become Children of the light and they walking in the light 1 John 1. as God is in the light have Unity and Fellowship one with another and the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth them from all Sin And so in the light Knowledge is given to them of the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God Col. 2.2 Mat. 13.28 they being also Children of it and though they know nothing of divers Languages yet in and by the Light and Spirit of Christ they can try the Spirits whether they are of God and hereby know they the Spirit of God 1 John 4.1 2 3. and every Spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the Flesh is not of God and this is the Spirit of Antichrist Mat. 4.25 1 John 4.1 2 3. Now mark All Antichrists as Men say that Christ is Christ as Christ foretold that they should but their Spirits deny him to be come in the Flesh to wit denying the end of his coming in the Flesh And so they who being under the Dominion of the Man of Sin teach that there is no freedom from sin at tainable on this side the Grave they say that Christ is Christ and in words own that he came in the Flesh as the Holy Scriptures declare But doth not their Spirit deny the very end of his coming in the Flesh Dan. 9.24 which is to finish Transgression and to make an end of sins and to bring in Everlasting Righteousness and to sanctifie and cleanse true Believers who are his Church Eph. 5.26 27. that he may present it to himself a glorious Church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing And likewise many of them that Fight and Kill one another and the Servants of Christ also about Religion such say that Christ is Christ and in words own his coming in the Flesh but doth not their Spirit deny the very end of his coming which was not to destroy Mens Lives but to save them Luke 9.56 And he said My Kingdom is not of this World else would my Servants Fight and said All that take the Sword shall perish with the Sword

them who are in judgment contrary to themselves yet they must never have their desire but as they destroy their Fellow-Creatures their Friends so Eternal Destruction will be to themselves and the Light and Spirit of God will be their Condemnation for ever But blessed and happy are all they and shall be for evermore who suffer for the Testimony of a good Conscience and are faithful unto Death for God will give them a Crown of Eternal Life and such in the midst of Persecution or at the laying down of their Lives for their Testimony in obedience to the Light and according to the Example of Christ the Captain of their Salvation can pray for their Persecutors who being blinded by their deceitful Leader the Devil know not what they do but think they do God service but Eternal Torment shall seize upon the Murtherers fear shall surprize them and truth will rise up in Judgment against them over all Deceit over all Error and over the Devil and all his deceived Followers and God will be magnified over all who is worthy for evermore Amen And after the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ when his Apostles who according to his command waited at Jerusalem till they were endued with power from on high were commissionated to Preach in his Name and Power his Everlasting Gospel then the great Deceiver and Enemy of Man's Felicity was very busie in his deceived Servants and Instruments to hinder the propagation and publication of it stirring them up by his Murthering Persecuting Spirit to Murder and Persecute the Ministers and Apostles of Christ as may at large be read in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles But Christ the power of God by the living operation of his Light which he sent his Ministers to turn People unto from Darkness and by the word of his Grace which is one with the Light working effectually in the Hearts of many to the convincement of them of their evil deeds thereby-bringing them to true Repentance and to the acknowledgment of the truth and not only so but also teaching them to live godlily and righteously and soberly thereby as well in Life and Conversation as in Words to Preach and Propagate the Doctrine of the Gospel of Christ in the demonstration of the Spirit and Power of God So that the number of Christians encreased much and that in several Nations to the glory of God and the great comfort and cause of rejoicing of many Souls who had received the Light of Christ and believed in it and walked in it wherein they had true Unity and Fellowship one with another and knew by the Blood of Christ Jesus 1 John 1.7 a cleansing from all sin which their Soul's Enemy had wrought in them and in the Name and Power of Christ knew and witnessed a triumphing in his Eternal Life over the power of Death which is the Devil 2 Cor. 2.14 Col. 2.13 to 17. Heb. 2.14 who had formerly captivated them and held them as in Chains of Darkness which they knew and witnessed to be broken and dissolved by the Light and Power of Christ and so could say The Darkness is past 1 John 2.8 and the true Light now shineth So the great Deceiver the Devil was frustrated of his Will for the Gospel was Preached and the Name of Christ gloriously magnified in his People over the Earth all the Endeavours of the Devil and his deceived ones not being able to suppress it But although many received the Gospel of Christ in uprightness of Heart and believed in his Light unto which his Ministers were sent to turn their Minds from darkness and in faithful obedience from their very Hearts gave up their All to the service of God in his Light the manifestation of his Spirit in their Hearts and Souls and Consciences out of which Light and Spirit no service was ever acceptable to the Lord and so became Children of the Light of God who is Light and in him is no Darkness at all and in his Light and Spirit enjoyed precious Unity and Fellowship one with another and knew Satan the Devil the Old Serpent who by his subtilty had formerly deceived them to be by the power of God as bruised under their Feet no more able to prevail upon them by his subtil deceit but in the Light Spirit and Power of God they could keep their standing over him and all his deceivable Device of Unrighteousness and in Christ the Lord their Righteousness had Peace and Joy in his Holy Spirit and so rejoiced together in their Heavenly Places in Christ and glorified God over all in their day and time and though many came to these and the like Attainments as the Scriptures of Truth at large declare Yet the subtil Deceiver the Devil who was a Lyar and a Murtherer from the beginning by his deceitful Devices and dark Power prevailed upon many that were convinced of the true Light that enlightens every Man that cometh into the World and that believed concerning Christ that he laid down his Life for Mankind and rose again from the Dead and ascended up on high and so they could make a Profession of Christianity having a Notional Knowledge of Christ and of things relating to Eternity and it was by drawing their Minds from the Light of Christ in themselves that the deceitful Enemy prevailed to keep them only in a Profession of Christianity and in a Form of Godliness but out of the obedience of the Light and Spirit of Christ and so out of the Truth though professing it And so being out of the Truth and out of the Obedience of the Light which is the manifestation of the Spirit of God they were not though they might profess to be Children of the Light nor Children of God for it is they that are led by the Spirit of God that are Children of God and all the Children of God are taught of God by his Spirit and consequently they were out of the glorious Liberty of the Children of God Rom. 8.14 Isa 54.13 John 6.45 Heb. 8.11 1 John 2.27 and of the Gospel of Christ the beguiling Serpent keeping their Minds fast in the love of outward things and so they would still keep up the Ordinances Col. 2.14 Gal. 4.9 10. Ceremonies and Customs of their Forefathers though contrary to the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles and were in Bondage to weak and beggarly Elements and observed Days and Months and Times and Years And so they were held in Bondage to Corruption and Corruptible Things and tho' they then professed Christianity and desired no doubt to be called Christians yet their Enemy beguiling them and keeping them by his deceit in disobedience to the Light of Christ in themselves they acted and lived contrary to true Christianity And though they appeared as for Christ they were really against him and his Truth and being themselves deceived they endeavoured to deceive others being Enemies to the Cross of Christ to which he

their Hearts sprinckled from an evil Conscience and may know a drawing near unto God with a true Heart in full assurance of Faith and so they may witness in themselves a Cleansing and Salvation from Sin by the Blood of Christ Jesus and his inward Spiritual Baptism or washing And this advice was given by the Prophet in days ago who said O Jerusalem wash thy Heart from Wickedness that thou mayst be saved how long shall vain Thoughts lodge within thee Jer. 4.14 read Isaiah 1.16 to 21. And let none despise the day of small things the small appearance of the Light in themselves Luk. 13 1● though it be unto them but as little as a grain of Mustardseed but rather like the man that was born Blind who could not see the Light which shone round about him whose Eyes Christ opened which John ● 1 and 2 to 9. when he had anointed with the Clay made with his own Spittle he bad him to go and wash in the Pool of Siloam which by interpretation signifieth sent and he went and ●a●hed and came seeing and so let all receive the anointing of Christ Spiritually and wash in that which is sent of God into their Hearts that so the Eyes of their Minds and Understandings may be opened and God will open their Hearts like Lidia's formerly to attend to and understand the things of God which concern their pretious and perpetual Peace And such may truly say who have the Eyes of their Minds so opened as the man who had his outward Eyes opened who said One thing I know that whereas I was Blind John 9 2● no● I see and such have great cause to rejoyce whose Eyes the Lord hath opened to see his Light and his Salvation inwardly for as it is a grievous and dangerous thing for a Man that should walk to be outwardly Blind so it is far more dangerous for a man who ought to walk in the Spiritual Way of God to be spiritually and inwardly Blind and so is it so much the more joyful to receive spiritual Sight inwardly And though men be never so wise and know never so much understand all Languages and in their Memories can retain all the Scriptures and can comprehend things wonderfully in their Understandings yet if their Minds be not turned inward to the true Light of Christ in their own Hearts which lighteth every man that cometh into the World so as to believe in the Sufficiency of it they are in Spiritual Blindness for God hath made Foolish the Wisdom of this World and hath chosen the foolish things of the World to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weak things of the World to cons●●●d the things that are mighty and base things of the World and things which are despised hath God chosen yea and things that are not to bring to nought things that are That no Flesh should glory in his Presence 1 Cor. 1.20 27 28 29. For it is very plain that Men of the greatest Wit Learning Arts and Parts often are like the Rebellions that were formerly who refused the Waters of Shiloah or Siloam which signifieth by interpretation sent or sending by washing wherein the Man received his Sight which Waters go softly and they rejoyced in Rezin which signifieth a Post-Messenger and in Pckah the Son of Remalia which signifieth the Openings of one cast away from the Lord therefore the Lord would bring upon them the Waters of the River strong and many even the King of Assyria that should overflow and go over them Isa 8.6 7 8. Even so all those be they never so wise or learned that refuse the Light of Christ and are disobedient and unfaithful to it and will not by it be restrained from their evil ways though it reprove them in their Hearts nor will not be washed from their Filthiness by that which God hath sent for that end and purpose but rejoyce in Postmessengers and in the Openings of such as are as cast away from the Lord by reason of disobedience who for their own Carnal ends will use all their endeavours to retain them in their Ways Ordinances Ceremonies and Preachings certainly the Lord will bring upon such the Waters of Confusion strong and many which shall overflow them more and more until they be overwhelmed And so in the pure Love of God that thinketh no Evil is this written that all who come to hear or read the same may be warned to examine themselves in the Light of Christ Jesus in their Hearts and Consciences whether they be truly the Children of God yea or nay and whether or no the Light or Manifestation of the Spirit of Christ bear witness with their Spirits that they are Children of God and Members of Christ by being truly baptized by his Spirit with his inward Spiritual Baptism into his One Body for he or she that doth not in some measure witness this inwardly is yet short of the state of a true Christian and consequently is no true Child of God nor Member of Christ nor yet in a state of Salvation by Christ and so never the better for being sprinkled dipped or washed with outward Water as in the sight of God For Christ said Not every one that saith unto me Mat. 7.21 Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but he that doth the Will of my Father which is in Heaven And the Will of God is not that any should perish John 3.16 Luk. 2.30 31 32. John 1.9 but that all might come to Repentance and enjoy his Eternal Salvation which he hath prepared before the face of all People a true Light that lighteth every man and he commandeth all to hear his beloved Son who saith Believe in the Light Luke 17.21 Mat. 13.1 to 23. that ye may be the Children of the Light which is the Word of the Kingdom of God which is within and is sown in the Hearts of all yea even those that are compared to the Ground by the Way-side who though they hear it yet understand it not but the wicked One cometh and catcheth away that which was sown in their Hearts And so whoever thou art that readest this beware lest this be thy condition for then Wo and Misery must be thy portion for ever but thy fading and deluding Pleasures will soon be past And therefore if there be any tender Desires in thy Heart after God and after the enjoyment of his Heavenly Kingdom oh then first seek his Kingdom and the Righteousness of it and that thou mayest find it hearken to the Word of his Kingdom which is the Light that reproveth for Sin in thy own Heart and Conscience and obey thou the Reproofs of its Instruction Prov. 6.23 Prov. 10.17 for that is the Way of Life and walk thou therein and so as thou continuest faithful in the obedience of it it will teach thee to deny thy self of Sin more and more which all that teach for Money cannot do and