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A64266	Truth's innocency and simplicity shining through the conversion, Gospel-ministry, labours, epistles of love, testimonies and warnings to professors and profane (with the long and patient sufferings) of that ancient and faithful minister and servant of Jesus Christ, Thomas Taylor, who finish'd his course in the year MDCLXXXI.	Taylor, Thomas, 1618-1682.	1697 (1697)	Wing T591; ESTC R3441	376,373	430

brought the Children to Christ to have them so Baptized but as the words are That he would put his Hands on them and Pray But it seems you lay all the stress of the Service that can be done to Children on Washing or Sprinkling them with Water for without this all your laying your defiled Hands upon them and your sinful praying over them would do them little service it seems for indeed how should it seeing you never came to witness sinless Duty For it 's the Doctrine of the Highest amongst you that you sin in your best Duties and the words of your daily Service is That there is ●o Health in you And so Christ's Purifying Baptism we own for our selves and our Children but yours we deny for you have run and God never sent you and therefore so little worth are all your doings The other Argument from Mat. 19.14 is Those to whom the Kingdom of Heaven doth belong and the Covenant of Grace to those also the Seal of that Covenant doth belong which is Baptism saist thou but to Infants doth belong this Covenant Gen. 17.7 and Acts 2.39 I Answer To this Argument much might be said to shew the fallacy and gross deceit of it but in a few words it is manifest thus First I deny that part of the first or greater Proposition where thou Expoundest the S●al of the Covenant to be Baptism that is Outward Water-baptism For though Outward Circumcision was a Seal to the Jews of that Covenant yet it doth not at all follow that Outward Baptism or Washing is the Seal of the Covenant of God in Christ to Believers under the Gospel neither doth Outward Baptism succeed in the room or place of Outward Circumcision as you falsly all along suppose but Inward Circumcision of the Heart is that which succeeds that in the Flesh and the Seal of God's Covenant with Man in Christ now is his Holy Spirit of Promise as the Apostle expresly saith Eph. 1.13 In whom to wit in Christ after ye believed ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of Promise So that now the Covenant being wholly Spiritual and the Ministration of it Spiritual the Seal of it must needs be so to wit the Seal of the Spirit as it is said in that place which thou saist we omitted John 3.5 Except a Man be Born of Water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven which not at all speaks of Outward Washing or Water but of the Spirit only of God from above as Christ's own words afterwards plainly signifie where he saith Ver. 6. That which is Born of the Flesh is Flesh and that which is Born of the Spirit is Spirit And Ver. 8. The Wind bloweth where it listeth c. so is every one that is Born of the Spirit where Christ leaves out the mention of Water as if on purpose to stop such Carnal Conceits of his Work as thine is for the Seed of the New Birth or Power or Means whereby Regeneration is wrought is only of God by the Operation of his Heavenly Spirit and not by Outward Water or any perishing Thing whatsoever as it is said in another place The Children of God are Born of the Incorruptible Seed of the Word of God which lives for Ever And so when Peter had mentioned our being saved by Baptism to stop such Carnal Conceivers as thee he saith Not the doing away or washing of the filth of the Flesh is it but the Answer of a good Conscience in the Resurrection of Jesus saves which if thou hadst an Ear to hear thou might hear And for the Assumption or other Proposition of thy Argument where thou s●ist But to Infants doth belong this Covenant and for that brings Gen. 17.7 Acts 2.39 I say there is a gross fallacy or deceit in the Word Infants or Children for it is an ambiguous Tearm and may be either understood of natural or fleshly Infants Children or Seed or of the spiritual But that that Covenant of God with Abraham's Seed was not to the fleshly as such is most manifest by the Apostles Doctrine where he on purpose speaks of it in two Eminent places to wit Gal. 3.8 when he had said In thee to wit Abraham shall all Nations be blessed he subjoins Ver. 7. So then they that be of Faith are Blessed with Faithful Abraham And Ver. 16. Now to Abraham and his Seed were the Promises made He saith not and to Seeds as of many but of as one and to thy Seed which is Christ And Verse the last If ye be Christ's then are ye Abraham 's Seed and Heirs according to the Promise Now may it not on the contrary be truly said If ye be not Christ's then are ye not Abraham's Seed nor Heirs according to the Promise The next Scripture is that which I mentioned upon this occasion in my writing to you which thou takest no notice of for indeed it judges your Carnal Conceits of Things and it is in Rom. 9.7 8. Neither because they are the Seed of Abraham are they all Children but in Isaac shall thy Seed be called That is saith the Apostle They which are the Children of the Flesh these are not the Children of God but the Children of the Promise are counted for the Seed Was it not for such Doctrine as this that the Carnal Jews like you Carnal Christians cried against the Apostle saying Away with such a Fellow from the Earth he is not worthy to live as you use to cry against us to the People for witnessing to the Truth of Things against your Gross and Carnal Conceits and Unscriptural Practices These People would Damn your Children Nay nay we Damn none but could wish that all might be Saved and come to the Knowledge of the Truth But say you How can our Infants be Saved if they be not Regenerate And how can they be Regenerate except they be Baptized with Outward Water Poor Souls I pity you in your great Apostasie Doth not the Scripture say in the fore-mentioned place The Wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof but knows not whence it comes and whether it goes So is every one that is born of God's Spirit And so Regeneration is not limited to any outward thing whatsoever And for the little unteachable Children thou busie-body let them alone till they be capable of Doctrine and then as any is able let them bring them up in the Nurture and fear of the Lord and so bring them to Christ that he may lay his Hands upon them and Bless them But secret things belong to God not to thee When things concerning the Children are known to thee make good use of it and answer the Lord's Mind in it the Lord knows best what to do with the little Children Souls which are hidden from thee and let God alone with them who made them he will have Mercy on whem he will have Mercy And so let thy Sprinkling of them alone for it neither

Destroying one another So I rest in the Blessed Peace of my God a Sufferer for his Blessed Truth Blessed for ever be his Name who hath called me and counted me worthy thereunto But it will not be well with such as hate the righteous Man as saith Scripture But my Heart can say Father forgive them for they know not what they do And concerning Kings and all that are in Authority my Heart hath said according to the Holy Doctrine of the Apostle Lord Grant that they may Rule well that it may be well with them in the latter End and that we thy People whom thou hast redeemed to thy self may lead a quiet and peaceable Life in all Honesty and Godliness under them to thy Praise And for this Cause pay we Tribute c. This his own Sincere Account appears truly agreeable to what the Holy Apostle saith in the like case 2 Cor. 1.12 For our Rejoycing is this the Testimony of our Conscience that in Simplicity and Godly Sincerity not with fleshly Wisdom but by the Grace of God we have had our Conversation in the World and more abundantly to you-wards These things are recommended to all Serious and Well-inclined Readers who desire to seek the Lord his Kingdom and the Righteousness thereof to weigh and consider knowing that 't is all our Concerns tenderly to mark and behold the perfect and upright Man for the End of that Man is Peace as was the End of this Innocent and Upright-hearted Man whose Memorial is Blessed Divers Friends have been for some time concerned that the following Collections were not publish'd some Years ago but many Occasions and Exercises intervening have thus long prevented the Persons concerned in Collecting Inspecting and Placing his Writings in Order as they could find them and as might most tend to future Service Admonition or Warning that they might be preserved for Ages to come We have great Cause to Praise the Worthy Name of the Lord our God that he hath raised and sent so many Faithful Witnesses in our Days who have not been as Clouds without Rain but Divinely Replenished and Qualified with Life Wisdom and Sanctity for the Work which the Lord hath called them unto And therefore Wo will be to those Enemies Apostates and Back-sliders who Contemn Reproach or Harm any such who are the Lord 's Anointed ones Prophets or Faithful Servants either while Living or Dead And it highly concerns all the Lord's People who profess his Light and Truth sincerely to approve their Hearts unto him with unblameable Lives and Conversations walking before him in true Love and Christian Charity and truly to prize the Mercy of the present Day and Dispensation of Grace and fervently to pray the Lord of the Harvest to raise up and send forth more Faithful Labourers thereinto that his Gospel-harvest-Day and Work may go on and prosper both in this Age and the Ages to come to his Eternal Praise and Renown and his Church's great Joy and Comfort in him for ever Amen WE being satisfied and having Vnity with the foregoing Preface with Relation to and in behalf of our deceased Friend and Brother Thomas Taylor his Service Labours and Travels in the Gospel of Christ do hereunto Subscribe our Names Theodore Eccleston William Ellis Samuel Waldenfield George Bowles Charles Marshall Thomas Lower John Bowater Joshua Middleton Richard Needham John Field I Am Concerned to give this further Account The said Thomas Taylor after other Imprisonments being Twice Imprisoned at Stafford for his Tender Conscience to Christ In the first Imprisonment there he was near Eleven Years a Prisoner as I Remember and the Second Imprisonment there was for a short time being Threatned Reviled and Falsly Aspersed and called a Jesuite-Rogue by the Deputy's Steward of the Court I was made Instrumental in God's Hand for his Release both times the First in 1672. by Solicitation for him and many others whom thereupon K. Charles the Second Released And the Second by Endeavouring for himself about 1679. Manifesting him to be no Jesuite nor Papist but a Peaceable Harmless Man in his Conversation and a Dissenting Protestant Distinguished under the Name Quaker to clear him from the False Aspersions cast upon him in which my Solicitation and Endeavours for his Liberty I had great Peace and Comfort and the more in obtaining the same for him and others for I truly Loved him for his Innocency Integrity and Love to the Lord and his People G. Whitehead London the 20th of the 3d Month 1697. AN INDEX OF THE CHIEF HEADS Contained in this BOOK I. A Testimony concerning our Dear Friend and Brother Thomas Taylor who was Convinced of the Lord's Everlasting Truth and Received it in the Year 1652. II. Christopher Taylor 's Testimony concerning Thomas Taylor III. Thomas Taylor 's Testimony concerning his Father IV. A short Testimony of Hannah Taylor concerning her Dear Father Thomas Taylor V. Robert Barrow 's Testimony concerning Thomas Taylor VI. William Fallowfield 's Testimony concerning Thomas Taylor VII A short Testi●o●y concerning that Faithful Servant of the Lord Thomas Taylor whose Memory is Blessed THomas Taylor 's Epistles To Friends Page 2 To Friends at Strickland head Page 4 To Friends in Warwick-shire and Stafford-shire c. Page 7 To Friends Page 10 A Loving and Seasonable Advice to the Children of Light from a Brother Thomas Taylor Page 11 To Friends that abide in the Truth as also to such as are gone from it Page 15 To Friends Page 17 To Israel 's Babes Page 20 Of Prayers Page 22 Concerning Zion Page 23 The Life more than Cloaths and Meat ibid. To the Vnsatiable Devourers of Strong Drink Page 24 To my Dear Friends every where Page 26 To Friends Page 28 To Friends in London Page 30 To Friends of Sadbury side Page 32 To Friends Richard Boothman and Robert Clough Page 34 The Day of the Lord is Dawned Page 35 Some Prison-Meditations in the 7th Month 1657. being a Free-gift Sermon mainly touching the Religious Robbers or Spiritual Murtherers the Sermon and Prayer-sellers of the former latter and present Times even to the whole Company of Mystery Babylon 's Merchants and Members a Warning Page 37 To the Judges Justices Juries Teachers and People of the Nation who Profess themselves to be Christians and the Scriptures to be their Rule and yet account themselves disturbed if any speak unto them and cry against them in their Assemblies or Streets in the Name and Word of the Lord without any Authority from Man a few Queries Page 50 To those of Manchester that are Zealous for their Sabbath Page 53 To a Wandering Apostate Page 55 To George Ward and those that had Fellowship with him Page 56 To a Plundering Priest Page 58 To those that Rejoice in Bells and Bonefires Page 59 To them that plays the Fool upon the Stage Page 60 Against Mass Times Page 61 To the Bear ward Page 62 To the Dancers on the Ropes Page 63 A Warning to all People ibid. For the

Pulpit in that Profession before either he or they was clearly Convinced of or Come to the Eternal Truth and awakened by the Power of God And in as much as that while he was a Publick Priest he would not Baptize his Children at the Font nor Sign them with the Sign of the Cross so that the other Priests were offended at him and upon some Discourse about it they agreed upon a Dispute to be held at Kendall Parish Steeple-house where was a very great Auditory and Three Priests appeared against him to prove Baptizing of Infants by Scripture which they could not do and he came over them all and some of the Hearers run up Kendall-street crying Mr. Taylor hath got the Day Mr. Taylor hath got the Day which Outcry grieved the Priests This was in the Year 1650. And about Two Years after George Fox came into Westmoreland and Preached the Everlasting Gospel and Power of God in the Demonstration of the Spirit of Eternal Life and many of those called Puritans was Convinced and Broken by the Power of God And the said Thomas Taylor was almost left alone it being a very great Cross to become a Fool to the World and lose his Benefit his Wife being a pretty high Woman having Six young Children and nothing else to live on yet he gave up all laying aside all superfluity of Naughtiness and received with Meekness the Ingrafted Word which is able to save the Soul and sanctifie throughout in Body Soul and Spirit And shortly after Margaret his Wife was Convinced and laid aside all her finery of Apparel and trusted Providence for a Livelihood for her self and small Children and became a very good Friend and kept the Faith and laid down her Head in Peace in the Town of Stafford a Year or more after her Dear Husband Died who Died and was Buried in the same Town of Stafford So Thomas Taylor having received the Truth of God in the Love of it and denied himself in all things for the sake of it in a short time he had his Mouth opened by the Opening and Inspiration of the Word of Life by which his Soul was then quickened and he concerned in the Motion of God and Authority of his Name to describe the Darkness of the Parish Hirelings so that they rose up against him and by the Aid of the then Unbelieving Magistrates got him to Prison in Appleby Goal where he grew in the Knowledge of God and Government of Christ Jesus and after he was released out of Prison Travelled abroad and was a Living Instrument in the Hand of the Lord to the Convincing of many And he being a Man full of Zeal and Integrity and being filled with the Spirit was always in Truth 's Service that when he had been going on the Road he commonly had a Word of Caution to Professor and Prophane and some of his Old Hearers who did not receive Truth I have seen him speak to them on the Market-day in Kendall street and sometime go to their Houses to exhort admonish and reprove as the Lord directed or if he had been Travelling on the High-way and seeing Boys playing on the First Day in the Summer-time and their Barents or Old People sitting besides them he would Preach to them so that he was always concerned for God's Glory and Truth 's Praise and Propagating of his Glorious Gospel of Peace He was a Man I loved when he was a Priest and more abundantly when he was a Gospel Preacher He was a Comely Man of Person Fair and Ruddy his Hair Gray before he Died being of a Good Old Age. I was at his Funeral in the Town of Stafford where was divers Hundreds of People and I was concerned in Testimony in the Lord's Power among them And though it had been a dark Persecuting Town ●et divers of the Priest's Hearers being his Neighbours whose Children he had Taught in the Prison they did there give their Testimonies and said He was a good Man and his Words and Counsel they believed should never be forgot and further said They had not such another to Bury in the Town of Stafford And as he Lived Honestly he Died Honourably yea even in the Lord and his good Works follows him the Reward whereof he is in the Possession of a Life that 's Everlasting out of the reach of his Adversaries Robert Barrow London the 9th of the 11th Month 1690 ● William Fallowfield's TESTIMONY Concerning Thomas Taylor THis short Testimony is with me to give concerning Thomas Taylor having good knowledge of him that he was a Man of a harmless Life and Conversation in which he was a good Savour his Conversation confirming his Doctrine God had undoubtedly indued him with Patience and had committed to him a Dispensation of the Gospel which he was both a Preacher of and a great Sufferer for his Patience in his Sufferings manifested his Christianity he never sought his Liberty by any indirect Means but waited patiently till the Lord effected it and when at Liberty he Travelled much abroad and Laboured much for Truth 's Prosperity God that called him did in all things fit him for that Work in which he imployed him and his Labour therein was very Effectual both for the Comforting and Establishing those already Convinced as also for the Convincing of many as many Living Witnesses that he hath left behind can Testifie also the stopping of the Mouths of many Opposers He had a Word of Counsel to the Weak and Feeble and a sharp Reprover of Disobedient Loose-minded ones he was altogether Accomplished for that Work whereunto his Lord called him And what shall I say but that I have Dear Unity with that Spirit that he was acted by and doth see him in that which is Immutable his Bow was always bent and retained its strength his Arrows were sharp and often pierced the Uncircumcised and as one well skilled he mist not his Mark the Churches amongst whom he was Conversant wants him for he was a Faithful Labourer in his Day he sought not his own but others good walking according to the Example of him that called him in which he was fervent and diligent Preaching the Word both in Season and out of Season and though he be taken from us as to Visibility yet his Life and Memory lives with us several sweet Expressions came from him in the time of his Illness and was very sweetly kept in that time of his Weakness he lay ill not long though for a considerable time an Indisposition of Body did attend him yet his Love and Good-will was such to the Truth that as one striving against his Distemper he kept not his Chamber long but went to Meetings and visited Friends but at last it prevailed over him and brought him to his Bed where he Died the 18th of the First Month 1681. in the Sixty-fifth Year of ●is Age I had Dear Unity with him and with those good savoury Expressions that proceeded from him which tended

and no better than Offering Swines Blood or cutting off a Dogs Neck and for the endeavouring to keep up your Custom of Praying and Singing in mixt Congregations from the Example of Jews or them that follow Christ I say your Hypocritical Praying and Singing is good no where but Rejected of God and I see thy P●ide all along that would be computing your Congregations to those that followed Christ Nay nay for though there was One Devil yet there was Eleven Saints but when you are searched scarce One of many Twelves that hath any true Fear of God before their Eye● is to be found amongst you Qu. 20 And whereas in thy last Query thou askest Whether those Persons that have Experienced the Operation of the Spirit of God in the Gospels Preaching and Administrations Convincing their Consciences Melting the Hearts Humbling the Spirits and Turning them from Darkness to Light and have afterwards Tasted much Sweetness and have felt Soul-Ravishing Comforts in the Enjoyment of God in Ordinances have not the Witness in themselves that God doth own these and Bless these Priviledges to them I answer Yea it is thus with all that in Truth have the Witness in themselves that God doth own these and Bless these Priviledges to them But those People that go under the Name Quakers have to the Praise of God's free Love the Witness in themselves of such Fruits as th●se amongst them from the Virtue of the Everlasting Gospel and its Administration And therefore we can Witness that John Reynolds and all such as Condemn this Ministry and Work of God amongst us as Heresie or so are Deceivers and that they are Strangers to Spiritual Communion with God whatever in words they may Boast who cannot meet with and enjoy God where we to his Immortal Praise be it in Truth spoken do experience that loving Kindness and Goodness which is better than Life it self And therefore how long may this John Reynolds or any other Seducer or painted Sepulchre talk before ever they can perswade these whom the Lord hath so loved not to believe their own Spiritual Senses and Experiencies But to conclude Whereas this John Reynolds in his high swelling Words of his last Query and the 12th boasts much of his own and his Fellows Experiencies of Spiritual things I refer the Reader to the rest of his Queries and especially the 3 5 8 10 11 14 15 16 and to the answers to them all and to weigh all in the Ballance of Just Judgment and it will appear to him beyond words what may be Judged of them and us Thomas Taylor A Testimony to the True and Spiritual Worship And a Word of Consolation to the Children of Light GOD is a Spirit all Pure Holy Just and True and therefore in Spirit Purely Holy and Truly will he be Worshiped of all that come to him and therefore all that Worship which stands in the Impure Unholy nature of the flesh is of no acceptance with him Cain may Sacrifice and Israel may be Circumcised and Judas do something like an Apostle but so long as the Murderous Scoffing Covetous Trayterous Nature of the Flesh stands all is nothing The Lord God Blessed for ever hath in this day of his Powerful Love made manifest himself amongst the Children of Men on Earth and now Sons and Daughters do Prophesie and Old and Young do Sing of his Praise and Sound forth with Joyful Hearts of the worthy noble Acts of his Right-Hand because his Kingdom is come and his Glory in Sion is appeared and the Tabernacle of God is indeed with Men and he himself not a Shadow or a Figure or ontward Representation of him but he himself who is over all God Blessed for ever dwells in and with his People his dearly beloved S●ed who have believed in Light that true Light that Lighteth every Man that cometh into the World and have not despised the day of Small Things but have waited in the Light in the Faith of his Holy Power for the fulfilling of his Promises and so through Faith and Patience have received the Promises of Everlasting Life and Salvation fulfilled in them whereby the Mountains are thrown down and Vallies lifted up and all made Plain Pure and Perfect for the Holy God and Father of all Mercy and Goodness to dwell in and walk in Glory Glory to his great Name who hath not left himself without a Witness of his Faithfulness this day nor left the Throne of Davids Kingdom without an Heir to sit upon it to Order and Establish it in Righteousness And now even now in this our Day the Day which the Lord hath made is the Blessed Fountain of the great Depth of the Love of God in Christ Jesus truly opened and the Waters of the Heavenly Temple are so deep that a Man may swim in them and it is not now as sometimes in times past here a line and there a line here a little and there a little but now hath the Lord our God according to his excellent Loving-kindness fully opened to Judah and the Children of the Heavenly Mother Jerusalem the Mystery of his Will and Fountain of his Eternal Goodness in Christ Jesus the Light whereby our Souls are satisfied and Sin and Transgression done away and the Everlasting Righteousness which makes Pure and Perfect the very Heart Soul and Conscience to God brought in ever Blessed be his Glorious Name for his unspeakable Gift Amen and Amen And now are all false Religions seen and by the Light which makes them manifest Judged for the false Births which are of the great Whore Mystery Babilon whose Religions are carried on by the will of the Flesh as by the Fleshly Wisdom they were Invented stand all in the Curse where nothing is perfect but their own Misery and Wretchedness Remains and therefore it is that both Priest and People in this Wretched State do all with one consent cry out against the perfect Work of Jesus Christ in his People saying None can be Perfect here And so do in a Word deny the very End for which Christ came and the End for which the Ministry of Christ was given for Christ gave himself for his People That he might wash them in the Word of Life and so present them to himself a Glorious Congregation without Spot or Wrinkle or any such thing Ephes 5.25 c. And thou art all Fair my Love saith Christ to his Spouse And there is no Spot in thee And the Law made nothing Perfect but the bringing in of a better Hope Christ in us the Hope of Glory Col. 1.27 Heb. 7.19 And the very end of the Ministry was for the Edifying and Perfecting the Saints who are Christs Body Eph. 4.12 And we labour to present every Man Perfect to God in Christ Col. 1.28 And John 17.23 I in them and thou in me that they may be made Perfect in one But now the false Ministry which stands in the Flesh in which no good thing