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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41057	False prophets, antichrists, deceivers which are in the world, which John prophesied of, which hath long been hid and covered, but now is unmasked in these last dayes with the eternal light which is risen ... ; also a word to the heads and governors of this nation, who have put forth a declaration for the keeping of a day of humiliation for the persecution (as they say) of the poor inhabitants in the valley of Lucerna, Angrona, and others professing the reformed religion which hath been transmitted unto them from their ancestors / by M. Fell ; and also James Milners condemnation upon that which erred from the light.	Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702.; Millner, James.; Millner, Elizabeth.	1655 (1655)	Wing F631; ESTC R36427	18,386	25

and we own it and see it good to administer to the necessities of others and to do good to all and we who are sufferers by a Law derived from the Pope are willing to joyn and contribute with you to their outward necessities for the Earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof who is good to all and gracious to all and willing that all should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth but in the mean time while you are doing this and taking notice of others cruelty tyrany and persecution turn your eye into your own bosoms and see what is doing at home To the light of Christ Jesus in all your Consciences which never changes do I speak which cannot lie nor cannot erre nor cannot bear false witness which doth witness for God and cry for equity and justice and righteousness to be executed See what is a doing among them who professeth the Scriptures as they were given forth by the Saints in light who dwell in the light and in the life of them and them who do now witness the same light in the same life and the same power which gave forth the Scriptures which ye profess them are persecuted hailed out of the Synagogues and Markets beat stockt and imprisoned Now let that of God in your Consciences which is just and righteous and equall examine and try whether there be any example or president to exercise this persecution which now many in this Nation suffer under A people harmless and innocent walking in obedience towards God and towards man though it be accounted heresie but therein do they exercise themselves to have alwayes a Conscience void of offence towards God and man as you may read Acts 24.14.15 16. not wronging any man neither giving any just cause of offence only being obedient to the Commands of the Lord to declare as they are moved by the Holy Ghost for the testimony of a good conscience and say the truth of Christ and lie not their consciences also bearing them witness Rom. 9.1 And for this do they suffer under them who profess the same things for which they suffer Now see if any age or Generation did ever persecute as this doth who professeth Christ Jesus who reveals the Father and persecutes them that witness it so Who professeth Christ Jesus the light of the world which enlighteneth every one that cometh into the world and persecutes them who bear this witness and testimony They who professe that the Word is become flesh and persecutes them who witnesse it so They which profess that whosoever confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is an Antichrist and yet persecute them who doth confess him come in the flesh and calleth them Antichrists and Deceivers They profess that the Kingdom of Christ is come and they persecute them that witness it come They profess Christ Jesus who is the Resurrection and the life and they persecute them who witness him to be so But you will say How shall we know that these people who say they witness these things do so or no Answ. Turn your minds to the light wherewith Christ Jesus hath enlightened you withall which is one in all and if you walk in the light you shall know the light of life and then you will know and then you will see what you have done who have persecuted the Lord of glory in whom is life and that life is the light of men and to no other touchstone shall we turn you but into your own Consciences and there shall ye find the truth of what we have declared unto you and of what we bear testimony to and when the books of Conscience shall be opened and all judged out of them then shall you witness us to be of God and our testimony to be true though now you may stop your eares and harden your hearts while it is called to day but then you shall know what you have done and whom you have transgressed against and then you will see that no persecutors in any age or generation that ever went before you did ever transgress against that light as some of this age doth and measure of God made manifest who persecute the same which themselves profess But you will say That Christ and the Apostles were persecuted in their times Answ. The Iews did not know that he was the Christ when he came though they had the Scriptures which prophesied of him neither did they believe that he was risen again when the Apostles preached his resurrection But you say you believe he is come and you say you believe his resurrection and yet you persecute those that witness him come in the flesh and those that are buried with him in Baptisme and those that are conformable to his Death and knoweth the power of his Resurrection according to the Scriptures those you persecute hayl before Magistrates suffer to be beaten in your Synagogues whipt and stockt and shamefully intreated and into prison cast and kept great summes of money fined and laid upon many of them as many Goales in this Nation at this day doth testifie to your faces by a Popish Law Therefore honestly consider what is done whilest you are taking notice of others Cruelties abroad lest you overlook what is done at home for there is much difference in many things between the Popish Religion and the Protestant as they call it but in this persecution there is no difference for you will confesse that the foundation of your Religion is grounded upon the Scriptures and now some men are persecuting the same life as spoke forth the Scriptures under a profession of the words thus spoke and this you shall eternally witness So you have the profession and the form and persecute the possession and life and power of that form Therefore know assuredly that you must come to Judgment for he is made manifest which is without form to whom all Judgement is committed Therefore to the light of Christ Jesus in your Consciences which changeth not which searcheth and tryeth you turn your minds and stand still and wait there to receive the righteous Law which acts according to that of God in the Conscience which is now rising and bearing witness against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men And those whom you persecute is made manifest to that of God in all Consciences and that of God in all Consciences shall witness for us to be of God and this you shall eternally witness whether you will hear or forbear And our rejoycing is this the testimony of our Consciences that in simplicity and godly sincerity not with fleshly wisdome but by the grace of God we have had our conversation in the world and more abundantly to you-wards And therefore do we bear witness and testifie against the form and profession of it who persecute the life and power Therefore to the Eternal light of Christ Jesus which is the searcher and tryer of all hearts turn your minds and see what ye are doing lest you overturn your foundation and bottom whereon you stand while you are professing the Scriptures and persecuting the life light and power that gave them forth for the stone cut out of the Mountain without hands is now striking at the feet of the Image which the profession that stands in the will of man hath set up Now is that made manifest that all must appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in the body according to that which they have done whether it be good or bad Knowing therefore the terrour of the Lord we perswade men but we are made manifest unto God and shall be made manifest in all your Consciences which you shall eternally witnesse The Afflictions and the Sufferings of such that suffereth by the Popish Laws and waies beyond the Seas by which Law of Queen Maries that guarded the Jesuite Priests and the Popish waies doth now the Babes and Children of God which are in the unlimited power and spirit suffer imprisonment yea and great fines of money and have had both bread and drink kept from them within your own Nation therefore consider that within the Nation they be set free from those Popish laws which the Priests have yet to guard their Church which guarded the Jesuits and their Catholick Church by which Law the Children of God now suffer therefore consider and break down all the Supremacy of the Popish Church and that which guarded their Priests in your own Nation that now suffer by that but let the sword be upon that laid which would limit the Spirit of the Lord God That with one Consent all dwelling in the light which comes from Christ who is the way to the Father where the Church is may relieve their brethren without any pretence go relieve others in another Nation and leave that Popish law to make others suffer in your own Nation Therefore that Condemn the Lord God dread and fear that him you may know who doth good to the Just and the unjust for them we are not against So be ye mercifull even as your heavenly Father is mercifull therefore we and many others which have suffered by Queen Maries Law in this Nation doth send some relief to them who doth suffer by the Papists Wills Laws and Inventions in other Nations that the sufferes bowells may be refreshed and they anointed though many do suffer by the same Law given forth by the same nature which causeth them to suffer beyond Sea and many which gathers them relief causeth them to suffer which all with the light condemned and answered shall be with the light in all Consciences which light being comed to and obeyed keeps from Idols and leads to the Church in God and which brings to do good unto all especially to the houshold of faith Margaret Fell Written from the Spirit of the Lord the 16. Day of the 4. Month. THE END Matth. 23. Mark 12. Isa. 55. Isa. 54.13 Rom. 10.6 7 8. Ier. 31.33 34. Heb. 12.1 2. 1 Cor. 1.17 18 19 20 21. 2 King 22.2 Ier. 29.8 9.

your souls for getting money to themselves Oh go not after them for they lead you into the dark and so under the power of the Prince of darkness and from the light which all the Saints of God walks in and so are cleansed from all sin Another Scripture they bring to plead for sin in Rom. 4.5 where the Apostle is speaking of the two Covenants of faith and of works where the Apostle saith To him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted to him for righteousness and this Scripture they bring to justifie the wicked and ungodly and to uphold the Devils Kingdom of sin to crosse the Scriptures and overthrowe all which Christ and this Apostle and all the Apostles laboured and suffered for David saith the ungodly shall not stand in judgement but the way of the ungodly shall perish And the Apostle saith in 1 Tim. 1.9 the Law is for the ungodly and for sinners and the Apostle saith in Rom. 1.18 For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men Now all people let that of God in your consciences examine and try you how you dare stand in the presence of the living God when that in the time of that which you call your worship your teachers Doctrine is to uphold the Kingdom of sin which whosoever commits is of the Devil And another Scripture they bring in Rev. 8.3 where the Angel that took the golden Scepter offered up the prayers of the Saints And this Scripture they bring to uphold sin and say if they had no sin what need they pray Now let all the children of light who have but the least measure of God behold the abomination of these blasphemers who saith that the Saints were sinners because they prayed and would bring all the Saints of God too under the sin and the transgression and so to be the servants of the Devils as they are Iesus Christ saith he that commits sin is the servant of sin as in Iohn 8.34 and in Rom. 6.16 he saith his Servants ye are to whom ye obey whether of sin unto death or obedience unto righteousness and read the 20. verse and the prayers of the wicked is abomination to the Lord And David saith if I regard iniquity in my heart God will not hear my prayer and yet these deceivers pleads for sin and brings the prayers of the Saints to prove it And here they would make Christ Iesus the only begotten of the Father a sinner who fell on his face and prayed Mat. 26. as you may read 3 several times in that Chapter And again in Mark 14.35 he fell on the ground and prayed and again he went away and prayed and so ye may read that he prayed in severall places of Scripture Iesus Christ who is the everlasting offering and substance of all prayers he offered up prayers to his Father And now ye people of Cartmel come hither and try your teachers Bermelt and Camelford and all ye people of England try your teachers who hath preached to you these scriptures to uphold the Devils Kingdom of sin And let them come and try their God and let the scripture try them what God they serve seeing that they have brought these Scriptures that are before mentioned to uphold the Kingdom of darkness iniquity and sin And do you who are their hearers that goes after them see what ye uphold and what ye can learn of them that are under the power of the Prince of the Aire which rules in the Children of disobedience as their fruits makes them manifest and labours with all their strength to keep you there with them who are blind ignorant people who are led with them blind guides and so both falles into the ditch Therefore a warning to you all as you will answer it before the Lord God of Heaven and Earth from whose presence you can never fly that you turn away from these blasphemers against the truth of God as you your selves may see if ye be not wilfully blind Let the Scripture judge them and try them their fruits makes them manifest to be deceivers and Antichrists and no Ministers of Iesus Christ neither shall you ever learn any thing of them that ever shall be owned of the living God for their portion is curst in the earth as Mal. 2.1.2 And now Oh ye Priests this Commandement is for you if ye will not hear and if ye will not lay it to heart to give glory unto my name saith the Lord of Hosts I will even send a curse upon you and will curse your blessings yea I have cursed them already And the Lord saith cursed be the deceiver as in Mal. 1.14 So all dear people as ye love your souls turn from these cursed deceivers which are of the Generation of Cain where sin lies at their doors and they lie wallowing in it as you may see by their filthiness drunkenness and quarrellings and minde the light of God in your consciences which Christ Iesus hath enlightened you withall which light bears witness and testifies against all such filthy unclean practices as they live in that which checks you for sin and showes your sin and thoughts of your hearts and lets you see how you have spent your time and lets you see that God is pure and cannot behold iniquity to this turn your mindes and to this hearken and be obedient to it and turn away from these Murtherers of your souls as you will answer it before the Lord and remember that ye are warned in your life-time and called to repentance while it is to day which shall be an eternall witness and testimony for God and your eternal condemnation if you disobey it From a friend of your souls and your eternall good Margaret Fell ANd to all you that beat the Servants of God you fulfill Christs words who said They shall beat you in the Synagogues which ye do now in this Generation Mark 13. And Paul was haled out of the Temple and beaten Acts 21. and you now hale out of your Synagogues and that you call your Temples and Christ speaketh in Mark 12. of beating the servants of God and the Apostle was beaten after they were brought before the Chief Priests and Rulers of the people Acts 14.5 And the people and Governors rose up against the Apostles and beat them very sore and cast them into prison these are the Marks by which ye may know what Generation these are of that beats and persecutes the Saints of God and casts into prison and the Apostle saith in 2 Cor. 11. thrice was he beaten with rods and they beat him openly So now the wicked and sloathfull servant appears which beats his fellow-servants who is to be cut asunder whose portion is with the hypocrites and unbelievers Luke 12. such as are drunk and eat and drink with drunkards And Christ said Ye shall be hated of all men for my Names sake

world for the clearing of the truth and wiping away the reproaches which lyes upon it and taking away the stumbling blocks And we do likewise testifie to all the world and do see it in the eternal light which comes from Jesus Christ the true Prophet which Moses writ of who said A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up like unto me him shall you hear which we witness to be come and made manifest in us Therefore do we know and see and to all the world declare that all the false Prophets that ever prophesied falsly who prophesies for Baal whose minds have turned and erred from the light as ours was when we looked out from the light which never changes Therefore do we declare and witness to all the world That all the false Prophets that ever was and ever shall be is of that Generation and of that nature and one with the Priests of England and all the Priesthood which is in the world which is changeable and erred from the light which is eternall and unchangeable which comes from Jesus Christ the unchangeable Priest and end of the Prophets and this we know and witness in our measure whereby we see the deceit they all live in glory and praises be to the Living God for evermore Iames Millner Elizabeth Millner To all you who yet know not the true Ministers of Jesus Christ from the false Teachers of the world 1. WHether he be the true Minister of Iesus Christ that preaches the Word in season and out of season at all times and in all places where he comes or he that observes a set day time and place judge ye 2. Whether he be the true Minister of Iesus Christ that is content with the Gospel wayes food and rayment or he that will have the tenth of mens estates or a great summe of money yearly for his pains judge ye 3. Whether he be the true Minister of Iesus Christ that is humble lowly and meek willing to be servant to all that live in the truth or he who is proud covetous and idle Iudge yee 4. Whether he be the true Minister of Iesus Christ that is despised hated and persecuted of the world or he who is set up by the world called Master loved of the world given to pleasures and who lives in idlenesse devouring the Creation upon his lust judge ye 5. Whether he be the true Minister of Iesus Christ that speaks the Word of God in power from the mouth of the Lord and no more but what he can and dare witnesse to have received from the Lord or he who onely trades with the letter and sells it for Money speaking of the Saints Conditions and knowing nothing of it in himself who onely lives in the form without the power of God judge ye Friends HEre you have a clear distinction betwixtt he Ministers of Christ and the Ministers of the world who are set up by man which Jesus Christ cryes Woe against therefore hold not them up any longer Lay not out your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not but Hearken diligently unto me that your soules may live For he hath promised to teach all his himself And he is nigh you even in your mouth and in your heart If you hearken to the true Light of God in your Consciences it will teach you to deny all ungodlinesse and to live soberly justly and righteously in this present evil world Looking up unto Iesus who is the author and finisher of your faith Dear Friends I know both these sorts of men by experience and therefore I do utterly deny the one as false Teachers their fruits every way shews it and the other I do witness to be the Ministers of Jesus Christ and to preach the Gospel and the Crosse of Christ which is foolishnesse to them that perish but unto us that are saved it is the power of God Consider of all the false prophets in the time of the true Prophets and you shall find them to be of the same Generation now as was then Read and consider of these places I have given you in the Margent for it is the love to your Soules I have freely given you this as I freely received it from the Lord Herein I have discharged my self and you will be left without excuse when the Lord comes to plead with you I am your servant in the Lord in a weak measure T. A. To the Heads and Governours of this Nation who have put forth a Declaration for the keeping of a day of solemn fasting and Humiliation for the persecution as they say on the poor Inhabitants in the Valley of Lucerna Angrona and others professing the reformed Religion which hath been transmitted unto them from their Ancestors Answ. PRofessing their reformed Religion may be transmitted to Generatiōs so holden by the tradition in that where the profession and tradition is holden in that is the dayes of humiliation kept which stands in the will of man which is not the fast which the Lord requires to hold down the head like a Bul-rush for a day and the day following be in the same condition as you were the day before To the light of Christ Jesus in your Consciences do I speak which testifies for God every day and witnesseth against all sin and persecution which measure of God if you beguided by it doth not limit God to a day but leads to the fast which the Lord requires which is to loose the bonds of wickedness to undoe the heavy burthens and to let the oppressed go free and to break every yoak Isa. 58.6 this is the Fast the Lord requires and this stands not in the transmission of times nor in the tradition of men but this was before time was Mark 7.7 8 9 13. Col. 2.8.15 Mat. 3.9 and this leads out of time and this shall be when time shall be no more And those that teach for Doctrine the Commandements of men are they which ever persecuted the life and power when it came And a Decree or Edict as you call it proceeds from the ground of the Popes Religion and Supremacy and there stands his tyranny and cruelty acted in that will which is in that nature which exerciseth Lordship over another as you may read Mark 10.42 Luke 22.25 as all the Heathen do and ever did and in the heathenish nature is all the tyrany and persecution exercised who are out of the obedience of the light of Christ Jesus in the Conscience which is the guider and leader of all who are tender of that of God in the Consciences and who is not led by this knoweth not what it is to suffer for Conscience sake And whereas you take it into your consideration the sad persecution tyrany and cruelty exercised upon them whom you call your Brethren Protestants and therein do contribute and administer to their wants outwardly this is good in its place