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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03609	A description of the true temple and worship of God. And Jesus Christ manifested to be the head of the Church, which is his body, and the onely pastour and also the members of the body of Christ, known by their fruits, from the synagogue of Antichrist, with a few words to the Romane Catholicks. Likewise the order of the church in God the body of Christ made manifest, and the disorder of the synagogue of Antichrist.	Harwood, John.	1658 (1658)	Wing H1103; Interim Tract Supplement Guide 4152.f.21[12]; ESTC R28064	21,102	30

know not what as Jesus Christ told the woman of Samaria and said that neither at Jerusalem nor at the Mountain of Samaria God the Father would be worshipped John 4. But the hour is coming and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth Take notice Jerusalem was the City where Solomon built a Temple for the Service and worship of God according to his Command and the Mountain of Samaria was also a place where people worshipped Neverthelesse the Son of God said his Father would not be worshipped there but the true worshippers must worship the Father in Spirit and in truth Wherefore I say all such Teachers as lead people to the externall Temples which they call Churches and to the observation of carnall ordinances and to follow after the Ordinances vain traditions and doctrines of men from the spirituall Worship are deceivers and Antichrists for this same reason because they teach people to uphold follow and observe that which Jesus Christ and his Apostles declared against and was never observed nor practised by the antient Christians recorded in the Scripture of truth for the Primitive Christians that believed in and followed Christ denied and bare testimony against the outward Temple and Synagogues and the customary places upheld by the Jews and Infidels and their traditions and superstitious ceremonies Co. 2. Act. 1.13 Act. 20.8 Gal. 5.5 Mat. 18.20 and met together at one anothers houses in an upper chamber or in an inner room and waited upon the Lord in his light and counsell for the manifestation of his Divine power and according to his promise they enjoyed the powerfull presence of the Lord who saith where two or three meet together in my name there am I in the midst of them and when the Saints in light were assembled together waiting in the pure fear of the Lord as any of them were moved of the Lord they preached and prayed and exhorted one another in the fear and power of the Lord and none were restrained from speaking but all had liberty to speak that had a motion from the Lord as the Scripture of truth makes manifest if any thing were revealed to any one in the Saints Assembly that sate by 1 Cor. 11. the first was to hold his peace that all might speak one by one that all might be edified this was the order and practice of the Saints in light the Church in God the body of Christ in former ages and the same order and practice is in the true Church now at this day in the Assemblies of the children of light who are hated and despised of this unrighteous generation and in contempt and scorn called Quakers but reproaches and unrighteous slanders cast up-upon us by Ishmaels line we esteen as great riches and are not ashamed to suffer for righteousnesse sake but all ye various Forms who push one at another and all against the life of truth ye shall wither as grasse in the heat of of Summer and fade as a flower for the vertue and power of the Almighty ye want amongst you for to support and uphold you and the earth is your Centre and a habitation in God the life or righteousnesse ye have not but in the earth and the woe is coming upon the inhabitants of the earth therefore cease cease from your inventions and airy imaginations and fear and dread the pure name of the living God and worship him serve him and give glory to him that ye perish not in your iniquities with the ungodly for truly the houre of his judgement is come ye shall all be tryed and winnowed and the wheat the good seed that is amongst you shall be gathered into the Lords Garner and the chaste shall be burned with unquenchable fire judgement is alreaready begun at the house of God where will the ungodly and sinners appear now will the terrible Judge of heaven and earth give Sentence against you hypocrites and dissemblers Depart from me ye workers of iniquity I know ye not except ye repent truly and cease from your sins and iniquities and with all your hearts turn unto the Lord God and dread and fear his holy name and walk in his light and counsell and serve and worship him as he will be worshipped in the spirit and in the truth your time prize whilst the doore of mercy is open lest it be shut against you and ye in your gainsayings and Rebellion eternally perish To the Romane Catholicks ANd ye who are called Romane Catholicks are the most dark and ignorant people upon the face of the whole earth that go under the names of Christians your whole worship is made up in the imagination and invention of the wisdome of the flesh none so foolish but the naturall heathen to bow to the works of mens hands in which there is no life as ye do and for many of your Ceremonies and Traditions ye have no other foundation but the naturall Heathen as one of your own professors doth confesse as ye may read in the 587. Page of the Book called the Treasury of the Romane Antiquities where the Authour expresses many of your Customes and practises in your Religion and is not ashamed to say ye borrowed them of the heathen as that they hung their streets with Tapestry and had resting places in divers parts of the Towns when they went in Procession as ye have at this day c. And that they carryed their images and reliques of their gods about as ye do and that they marched two and two together carrying wax candles or Torches in their hands and the same is observed in your Religion and hath been ever since the Procession was instituted And that they went afoot as ye do and when they were encompassed with misery they went bare-foot crying mourning striving to appease the wrath of their gods and ye in the time of your great calamities do practise the same Ceremonies they ordained supplications and Lectures that is publick prayers and service for more or less of dayes and their Temples were full of calves and their altars filled with offerings and all the holy places as the Author terms them were filled with people kneeling and praying to their Idols to their gods and ye have your Orizons of forty hours your pardons and Jubilees and observe the same Ceremonies several other of the Customs and practises of the Heathen this Authour declares of and confesses they follow the same example and practises the same in their Religion which truly are such foolish things that they are not worth the mentioning but of this I would have ye Roman Catholicks to take notice the sure foundation Christ Iesus is none of your example in any of these things nor your foundation nor the Apostles the Primitive Christians for Iesus Christ never

practised nor commanded any such things to be observed therefore if it had not been confessed by one of your own professors I had known the rice and foundation of these things wherefore I say unto you view your foundation and be ashamed to take the name of Christians and build upon the Heathen and have no other example for your Ceremonies and traditions but the Heathenish Idolaters own your name according to your nature and disposition for the true and Innocent Christian followeth the example of Christ and hath no other foundation but the chief corner stone the true light Christ which hath enlightned every man that is come into the world and who are built on this sure foundation the rock of ages denyes and witnesses against all the Customs Ceremonies and foolish traditions of the Heathenish Idolaters and cannot follow their example in any thing but follow the true light Iesus Christ who gives his followers the light of life so that in love to your souls I desire you to cease from the customs of the Heathen from your vain traditions and foolish Ceremonies in which there is no life and follow Iesus Christ the everlasting unchangeable high Priest for in him is the life he is the substance the way truth and life and in him is the salvation but no salvation in your ceremonies and vain traditions truly my soul pitties you to see how you are blinded and kept in ignorance from the knowledge of the truth by the spirit of error which hath long deceived the Nations and yet are highly conceited of your selves and of your Religion which is made up of foolish and vain imaginations and inventions of the old crooked Serpent who through his subtilty hath deteined and deluded your Fore-fathers in the time of Apostacy and still makes a prey upon you their successours who cryes up the antiquity of your Religion as if the long continuance of it were sufficient to prove it to be the true Religon but then the lews who pretend to be Moses Disciples may plead the antiquity of their Religion who are of a longer standing then ye if antiquity were a sufficient proof and they have Scripture for their Temple-offerings and services in the old Testament but ye who pretend to be the Disciples of Christ have no Scripture in the new Testament for the upholding of your temple daily services ceremonies and traditions but all such things testified against by the holy men which gave the Scripture forth so that the rise and foundation of your Religion is the imagination and invention of the sensuall wisdome from which wisdome the secrets of God and the true Christian Religion is hid the Eternall God of power and infinit wisdome if it be his glorious will open your eyes that ye may see the vanity of externall things which ye feed upon and bring you to serve him in the spirit and to worship him in the truth that you may no longer feed upon carnall imaginations and inventions but upon the bread of life the substance which is the immortall food which refreshes and nourisheth the soul up to life eternall And all ye forms of Religion under what name or title soever who set up teachers amongst you and will not permit any to speak in your Assemblies but such as ye in your own wills set up and appoint ye are the people who heap to your selves teachers having Itching ears ye are out of the order of the Church in God where all the members have liberty to speak one by one in the disorder and cofusion which makes you manifest to be of the body of Anti-christ and not of the body of Christ the true Church the members of the body of Christ abide in his doctrine and follow the example of the true Christians every particular member having a word of exhortation as they are moved of the Lord may have free liberty to speak in the Saints Assembly according to the order of the Primitive Church the Church in God but ye who deny the order of the true Church and follow your own ways and imaginations manifest your disorder and shews that ye are our of the true way of God the true worship of God in the false way and worship ye know not what my wayes saith the Lord is not as the way of man my thoughts as the thoughts of man such as follow their own thoughts and their own imagined wayes goes out of the way of God the true light is the way of God and in it the will and minde of God is revealed and the power manifested which brings the creature into subjection makes subject to the requirings of God and brings to know the true Church the body of Christ and the true and perfect order thereof but this is not a fancy or a naturall light a thought or an imagination but a cross to all such things a living divine holy substantiall principle which manifests thoughts imaginations and inventions and the ground and rise of them which is the earthly sensuall wisdome in which God is not known nor served for God is light and in the light and truth is served and worshipped the children of light served God in the spirit and gloried in Iesus Christ Phil. 3. and put no confidence in the flesh carnall professors the upholders of carnal l Ordinances Rudiments weak and beggerly elements are led by their fleshly imaginations to uphold such shadows without life and be from the spirit the substance in which is the life wherein God is served and worshipped in which the Saints in light served God in the former ages as in this age but the flesh delights in the observation of carnal ordinances because they have their rise and foundation from its imagination and it glories in what it doth invent but all such glorying is vaine he that glorieth let him glory in the truth in the Lord and let no man trust to the arme of flesh nor put confidence in its imagination for all that glory in the flesh their glory will be turned into shame and confusion Take notice the end of fleshly glory is confusion and shame and ye who are highly pust up and exalted in your fleshly knowledge and wisdome God will bring down and abase and confound for no flesh shall glory in the pure presence of God and the poor in spirit the meek and lowly in heart God will raise up and exalt over all the earth in this the day of his power wherein he is bringing great and mervelous things to pass which hath not been seen in many ages his own sheep he will gather into his fold and them preserve by the arme of his eternall power and will scatter and consume the Wolves who have got the Sheeps clothing and all the renting tearing ravening and devouring Beasts which hath rent and torne the Innocent Lambs And ye who be in the flesh in the carnall ordinances fly to the Magistrates sword for refuge which likewise makes you clearly