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christian_n	church_n	jew_n	synagogue_n	1,486	5	11.0980	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56126	A tryall of a Christian shewing that it is not the outward name of Christian that differs from a heathen, but the inward life and nature ... / by Alexander Parker.	Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.; Watkins, Morgan, fl. 1653-1670.	1658 (1658)	Wing P389; ESTC R35393	33,144	44

to the truth and witness the glory of his power revealed in me praises praises to his name for ever therefore do deny all the worlds glory and honour pleasure and profit and esteem it great riches to be worthy to suffer persecution and reproach with his dear people who are reviled of the world and scornfully called Quakers but known to me by another name and I to them by the same but to the world by Morgan Watkins A TRYAL OF A CHRISTIAN It is not the outward name of Christian that differs from a heathen but the inward life and nature TRy your selves with the touch-stone of Truth all you who bear the name and are professed Christians see and read within with a single eye whether you be in Truth what you profess in words and have the nature and life of Christ manifest in you or you have the bare name and are one in nature and life with the heathens the day is dawned which doth discover each name and nature and it is not the outward name of a Christian that will avail where the life and nature of Christ is wanting Many there be who are called Christians because they have been sprinkled with outward water which hath been called baptizing into the faith and into the Church but all are not Christians who are so called it is not the outward name nor the outward sprinkling or dipping that doth make a true Christian no more then the outward name and the outward Circumcision did make a true Jew as it is written by the Christians He is not a Jew which is one outwardly neither is that circumcission which is outward in the flesh but he is a Jew which is one inwardly and circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit and not in the letter So it is of a Christian not the outward washing or sprinkling but the inward washing with the blood or life of Jesus whereby the heart is sprinkled from an evil conscience and the body washed with pure water so as many as are baptized into Christ by the holy Ghost have put on Christ and are one in Christ one heart one mind one soul and are like unto Christ in name and nature they bear his Image and his name is written in their foreheads and they are marked and known to be his and followers of him by their meekness and lamb-like harmlesness by their gentleness patience and long suffering by their soberness and temperance moderation and vertuous chaste conversations by their humility and true love one toward another these are tokens and marks of a true Christian but all those who have the name of Christians and profess God and Christ and scriptures and do not live according to what they do profess but are in nature like unto the heathens and so they are marked out and known by their fruits All those that live in rage envy wrath and malice these are marks of a heathen and not of a Christian and they are of their Father the Devil and bears his mark in their foreheads so every one doth bear the image of him that begat him There are two births the one from above the other from below that from above is pure and that from below is impure and these are contrary one to the other even as light and darkness all the Children that are begotten of God who is pure and born of the spirit are hated and persecuted by them who are begotten by the Devil and born of the flesh and so as it was in former ages they that were born after the flesh did persecute them that were born of the spirit even so it is now in this age but they that were born of the spirit did never persecute any but did bear and suffer even as Christ the forerunner hath lest an example and all that follow him and will live godly in him they must suffer persecution for it can be no otherwise for enmity is put between the two seeds and there is no agreement nor fellowship betwixt them so every child is of the nature of him that begat him All the Children of God who are born from above they bear Gods Image and are like unto their father as the Lord is righteous and just and loves truth and righteousness and cannot behold but hates iniquity even so all his children they are pure and loves truth and righteousness and cannot have fellowship with the unfruitful workers of darkness but it is a burden and a grief to be in company with the wicked and presses and grievs their righteous spirits as it did just Lot who was grieved with the sins of Sodom hearing and seeing their wickedness and profaneness it grieved his righteous spirit day by day so it is with the Children of God what their father loves they love and what he hates they hate also But the Children of the wicked one who are born from below are contrary in nature to the Children of the holy one and bears a contrary Image and so contrary fruits and are of the same nature with their father the wicked one which is the devil who is unclean and hates the truth and loves iniquity so all his children are naturally inclined to evil and hates the truth and lives in iniquity and loves darkness rather then the light because their deeds be evil and so are under the wo and condemnation aliens and strangers from the living God and from the covenant of promise for the wicked have no right unto the promises of life but their portion is wo and misery in the lake of fire Now thou that reads this read within thy self with that of God in thee which is light and it will let thee see whose child thou art and whose Image thou bears whether the Image of the holy one or the Image of the wicked one and what thy nature is inclined unto whether to good or to evil and whether thou takest delight in the Law of God and his commandments or whether thy delight be in the things of the world which fades away whosoever thou art whether Professor or prophane one thou canst not serve two masters thou canst not be heir of two kingdoms thou canst not have enjoy the love of God and the love of the world at one time for the love and friendship of the world is enmity against God therefore saith the Apostle love not the world neither the things that be in the world for if any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him for the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eye and the pride of life this is not of God but of the world and if thy heart and affections be hankring after the things of the world whether gold or silver lands or livings wife or children goods or cattel pleasures or earthly honour or seeking earthly preferment if thy love be drawn away to any of these earthly things and there takes pleasure and delight thou art not a childe

A TRYALL OF A CHRISTIAN SHEWING That it is not the outward name of Christian that differs from a heathen but the inward life and nature Also A Testimony of Truth against the deceit and subtilty of the Serpent wherein truth is cleared from many accusations With a loving Invitation to all who are hungring after the living bread and hath not wherewith to satisfie themselves in their own houses but are seeking without and begging from others and are spending their money for that which is not bread inviting them to come into my Fathers house where they shall find full satisfaction With a word of exhortation to all who are called to be saints by way of remembrance to stir up their pure minds By Alexander Parker LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1658. TO THE READER Friend IF thou art so far come into the moderation as to try all things and hold fast that which is of God stand single in that which is pure and try not the truth in a ballance of deceit for that which is of God must be tryed by something of himself the light of the body is the eye If thou deny the light with what wilt thou see the natural cannot discern the spiritual neither can the darkness comprehend the light but the light the darkness Now if thou wilt try that which is good let the light of Christ in thy conscience judge for that I own to be a measure of the true light which lighteneth every man that cometh into the world if thou deny this true light thou deniest the life of Christ and art in death and darkness and cannot receive the things of God if thou receive them not here thou mayest see what hinders but otherwise if thou confess that Jesus Christ is come a light into the world a light to lighten the Gentiles and if thou believe that in the first nature thou art a Gentile and cannot witness the new nature wilt thou deny the gift of God which is given thee to open the blind eye to lead thee out of the prison of corruption into the new nature If thou denyest this light thou denyest the way the truth and the life and hast left thy self without all help of recovery so thy damnation is of thy self You will not come unto me that you may have life saith he Now if thou canst believe that in the Son is life turn to him that thou mayest have life and if thou believest the Scripture that the life is the light of men receive it and believe in it that thou mayest be a child of light for this I say and stand a witness for the Lord that if ever thou find him who is the desire of all Nations it must be by a measure of himself made manifest in thee therefore delay not as thou prizest thy pretious soul but seek him while the may be found for in the grave there is no remembrance of him to day hear his voice then harden not thy heart but turn at his reproof that which reproves thee in secret and makes manifest all thy evil deeds that is the light which leads out of sin and evil this is the voice which saith behind thee This is the way walk in it therefore see thou refuse not him that speaketh but turn at his reproof that he may pour out his spirit upon thee contrarywise if thou wilt not stand in his counsel but hate his reproof thou mayest call but he will not answer thou mayest seek early but thou shalt not find thou mayest strive but shalt not be able to enter and being without art among the dogs sorcerers whore-mongers murtherers idolaters and lyars which have their portion in the lake for ever and ever It is the Nations of them which are saved that walk in the light of the Lamb these do his commandements that they may have right to the tree of life these that walk in the light are they that enter through the gate into the City Now if thou sayest in thy self that thou hast witnessed an entrance already how camest thou in art thou one of the saved Nations that walks in the light of the new Jerusalem canst thou truly say that Jesus Christ hath perfectly wrought his work in thee which he came into the world to finish that is to put an end to sin and bring in perfect righteousness If this be wrought in thee thou art righteous as he is righteous for he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one and if thou art one with Christ thou art a new creature created unto good works which is the fruit whereby thou art known from the world for thou art not of the world that witnesseth redemption out of the vain conversation for the worlds fruits whereby they are known is the vain conversation thou that hast an eye to see thou mayest see if these marks of a Chrisiian be found in thee I own thee and am one with thee in the life of Christ but if on the contrary the worlds marks do appear in thee I deny thee and all thy profession and service is an abomination in the sight of the Lord for thou professest what thou art not and so art a hypocrite blaspheming the Name of Christ in saying thou art a Christian being found one of the Synagogue of Satan Therefore friend whoever thou art to whom these papers shall come be not prejudiced against the truth before thou hast heard it first read and then judge try the matter before thou passest sentence be sure it be in the cool of the day for this know and I bear testimony to the truth hereof that herein is the pure way of God declard in which the holy men of God did walk which the Prophets prophesied of and the Apostles walked in which way is Christ the light of life who is come and hath given us an understanding to know him that is true and his way which is pure and his life which is perfect the end of our faith and salvation of our souls and knowing the Lord and his way and his indignation against sin and wickedness cannot but deal plainly with all people judging and condemning onely the deceit and deceivable wayes which leads to destruction if thou say most Sects and Judgements will plead for their own I say we are not our own but anothers who hath bought us with his blood and for him we plead and for his pure life contend held by the mystery of faith in a pure conscience once delivered to the Saints for which we are bold to contend and valiant to go forth to battel by his command under his banner to fight against the Beast and all his Army Gog and Magog which battel shall never end till the Lamb hath got the victory and all his enemies brought under his feet for now is he risen in his Saints and glorified in his servants and admired in them that believe yea I bear testimony