many large words and Shews and likenesses yet not being in the substance in the Righteousnesse of God which is Christ the Light By the substance which is the Light the Lord God who is Light will overturne them all and by the breath of his mouth will blow over all confessions and professions and those which make them and like as untimely leaves they shall fall Jer. 48.11 and perish and rot on the Earth For behold the Lord God hath looked and hath seen and seeth all the World asleep and like unto Moab setled upon their lees which have not been emptyed from vessel to vessel and the old scent of their traditions in whom iniquity is increased by their traditions remaines in them and the tast is not changed at all And now is the Lord of Hosts which brought Israel out of Egypt stretching out his Arme for the sake of the Captivate to break the bonds and loose the captivity for he hath said in his righteousnesse they which have lead into captivity shall goe into captivity Rev. 13.10 and the captivate shall goe free Oh all ye Sons of men who are endued with sobriety and moderation ponder your waies and consider your doings for behold the Lord lifteth up his hand against all the ungodly and now the voice behind you saith Isa 30.31 this is the way walk in it who therefore sent his Son into the world a Light who hath lightned you with his true Light that you should walke in the Light which convinceth you in your consciences of all sin when you are in secret and none eye seeth your hearts and the Light tels you in your minds your wicked evil intents and when the thoughts of sin arises in your mindes the Light shewes it to you which if you love and join your mindes to the Light it wil save you from your sins then you wil know the end of Christ's coming in the flesh which was to save his people from their sins Math. 1.21 1 Jo. 3.8 and that he might destroy the works of the Devil the works of him which doth evil that is the wicked one in man which was a lyar from the beginning Wherefore all people prove your waies and prove your hearts for the Mighty God is coming to search the Earth and to make a narrow search through it And this is the Inquisition which the Lord of Hosts will make through the whole Earth for the Soules which have been slautered and starved and all the wrongs which the Innocent have suffered by the Inquisitions of the Sons of men who have as it were hunted after mischief and blood in all their waies Woe to the Shepherds to the Prophets and Pastors of the Flocks which feed their flocks upon the mountaines and nourish their increase with winde the wind of the Lord God will disperce them and make their heritage a howling Look to this thou populous Noe Nahu 3.8 that art scituate among the Rivers that hast the waters round about thee whose ramparte is the Sea and thy Wall is from Sea to Sea when the Lord God dries up Euphrates then shall his army have a passage unto thee And then his Priests shall sound about thy Walls with Rams-hornes Rev. 16 12. and in a day thou shalt fall as Jerico except thou repentest and this unto thee is the word of the Lord God whether thou wilt hear or forbear Therefore to the way which will lead thee from the woe which will redeem thee and lead thee from the cause which is the multitude of thy sins The Light will lead thee unto Fear and Dread and trembling and palenesse and feeblenesse before the Lord of Truth and Righteousness whose vials are filled and prepared and behold God's long patience is exercised to try thee and to prove thee and now a warning is come and cometh to thee and the whole World Enter therefore into the straitnesse of the way the Light which God setteth as a marke either for thy rise and salvation or miserable downfall into Judgement and Destruction which if thou repentest not as sure as the Lord lives he will make thee to know that thou shalt become as Babylon which he shall be called blessed that dasheâ—h the Brats of thy uncleannesse and Whordoms against the Stones and this upon thee shall stand as the Word of the Lord to be fulfilled in Judgement except thou repentest And now I tell thee there is no salvation under Heaven for thee but the way which is set for the simple the Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World in which the wayfaring men though fools cannot slide nor erre therein and this is the Declaration of the Lords Truth to be witnessed by the seed in all even by that of God in every man's conscience Now if any man or Woman upon the face of the Earth King or Queen Prince or Princess Priest or People from the highest to the lowest in all Nations of the Earth do say That the Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World is not the true way to God's Kingdome or if they say that there is another way under Heaven which leads to Life besides the Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World I say their way is darkenesse or if any manner of persons do hate the Light and mock the Light they are witnesses to themselves that they are yet in darknesse And they who have another Rule or Guid to lead them than the Word of God which is nigh you saith Paul in your mouth Rom. 10 8. and in your heart or if they say they have another guid than the Light which shineth in their consciences it is a false Guide and leads into Darknesse Again if any Priest or People from the highest to the lowest do Scoffe and Mock the Messengers of the Light let that stand before all grave sober-minded men as a signe of the last times and of the Spirit of Antichrist in those which are the Mockers and the Scoffers whether Priest or People from the highest to the lowest 2 Pet. 3 3. and so here Peters words are fulfilled In the last daies shall come scoffers walking after their own lusts But God will make them all to know concerning all Mockers and Scoffers of his Light and the Messengers of his Light that he sits in Heaven and sees them and laughes them to scorne for they are the despisers wonder and perish Act. 13 41. for whom this was written Behold I work a work in your daies saith the Lord a work which you shall in no wise believe though a man declare it unto you and so those who despise the Light they are in Darkness and so great is their Darknesse that they cannot see their darkness but I feel their Darkness to be thick and like a cloud which the Light hath covered them with because they despise the Light and Mock the Light wherewith they are lightned
the heart is not upright before the LORD but their bones are full of Rottenness And would not this very Generation make a mock of Christ if Christ should come to ask of them What was your Father Adam Did my Father say that he was a Gentleman when he was made in his uprightness â—or your Mother Eve a Gentlewoman as the proud deceitful flesh among you are titled Gentlemen and Gentlewomen What was Abel Seth and Enoch Noah Abraham Isaac Jacob Moses Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel Daniel Job Micha Zechary and the rest of the Prophets were they such Gentlemen as you Or if Christ should say was I reckoned such a Gentleman as you who was by such transgressors as you are numbred among transgressors Was Peter Paul Matthew Mark Luke or John Gentlemen such as you are If Christ should ask you these things would not you laugh at him and mock at him as the Jews laughed and mocked him upon the Crosse And now I ask you which of you is better than they were And further Where did any of the Apostles or Disciples or Brethren say one to another You are my Lord Sir I am your slave Sir with pulling off of Hats one to another and making great bowings one to another Where do you find that that was the manner of their salutation and greeting one another which you hold in deceit one towards another Yet these Gentlemen of your nature besides that Name in their cursed nature will say We are Christians and Christ is our Lord and Saviour Mat. 7.21 22. But I will tell you what Christ will say to such yea unto many such as will say Lord Lord In thy Name we have done many miracles in thy Name we have cast out Devils your Gentlemen are far from that of casting out Devils and if the Lord Christ will say to them Depart you cursed workers of Iniquity I know you not think you will he say lesse to your Gentlemen Again you that call Christ Lord hear you what the Lord Christ said unto such as you are Luke 6.46 Why call ye me LORD and do not the things which I say Now this Christ said Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy mind and with all thy soul and thy neighbour as thy self Paul witnessed to it Rom. 8.4 John 14.15 John 2.4 That the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit And again saith Christ He that loveth me keepeth my Commandments Unto which John bears Testimony saying Whosoever saith he knows God and keeps not his Commandments is a lyar So you are here brought to proof and tryal whether GOD is your LORD or the Prince of the power of darknesse he that was a Lyar from the beginning your principal Head and Ruler let that of GOD the Light in all your Consciences Answer Psa 50.16 17. How dare you take my Name in your mouthes saith GOD whilst you hate to be reformed This is to you also that take God's Name in vain when your hearts are vain and exercised in vanity and telling vain stories and speaking about vain things GOD will not hold you guiltless that take his Name in vain and the Name of Jesus in vain Exod. 20.7 yet you would have the Name of Christians because you confesse Christ to have been slain at Jerusalem but that will not serve you though also you call him Lord whilst you keep not the Commandments of the Lord. For I enquire among you all concerning the Lord of Life whether you know him to be daily crucified in your streets which spiritually are called Sodom and Egypt Revel 11.8 Here Christ is but called Lord with that Iniquity which for the love of the unrighteous Mammon call men Masters and Lords and saith I am your Servant Sir I am your Slave Sir whilst that is but a flattering Lye And here they flatter others with Lyes and flatter themselves with Lyes and in Lyes and are so vain in their Imaginations that they would flatter GOD with Lyes But GOD will make you all to know that he will not be mocked Gal. 6.7 Wherefore I say unto you that in vain hopes you expect Salvation whose pleasure is to persevere in Iniquity who are bound in the Womb of Witch-crafts in the loathsomness of all manner of unrighteousness If Noah Daniel and Job were among you Ezek. 14.14 their righteousness should but save themselves and but onely Jesus the Righteousness of GOD intercede for them or if Paul Peter and Mary were among this Generation of loathsome sinners their righteousness should but only save themselves and Jesus the only Intercessor and Mediator but only Intercede for them So wherein you hope to die the death of the Just and so to receive the Inheritance of the Just and live not the life of the Just I tell you nay The Inheritance of the Just will not be yours who live not the Life of the Just Your hope in the end Remember in vengeance when you are under wrath that I told you before mark the end their hope is the hope of the Hypocrite and their trust is as a Spider's-web Job 8.13 14. Luke 16.20 21 22 23 24 25. Isa 3.18 to 24. you that are called Gentlemen and Gentlewomen who live in your lusts and pleasures Read you your Figure as in a Glass the Scripture concerning the Rich man and Lazarus Read the Torment of Dives and mark his portion and consider your latter end Judah and Jerusalem had a day of warning whose Inhabitants were adorned with all manner of bravery and tinkling Ornaments with chains and bracelets and ornaments of the leggs and ear-rings and rings and changable suits of apparrel wimples and crisping-pins and glasses and fine linen and hoods and vails but the LORD GOD changed the glory of their Liberty and brought them down into Captivity Let their Sufferings be your Example and remember when Suffering comes upon you that you were warned to Repent And now you that would know the true adorning let me tell you what Peter witnesseth to be the true adorning he saith Let it not be the outward adorning of plaiting the hair and of wearing of gold or of putting on of apparrel but let it be the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of great price Now what will you all say for your selves who in your life are enemies to the Life walking contrary to the Doctrine of the Apostle Peter Deceive not your Souls if you would chuse to dye the death of the Just to have the Inheritance of the Just You must all choose first to come to the Light in all your Consciences which reproves you for all your sins and wickedness and following the Light which comes from Christ and none other Guide it will lead you to the Life
which hath shined in all their consciences and this to that of God is Truth and shall stand to be witnessed by that of God in all consciences which the World hate who make a Mock of the Light for the Truth is but one and the Way is but one and that one is Christ the Light which lightneth every man that cometh into the World which Baal's Priests and Prophets did alwaies despise and mock and this standeth over all decitfull hearts and Tongues Concerning Righteous Judgement GIve eare give eare ye Iudges and hear ye Rulers and Iustices of the whole Earth The Lord God is come coming to look for the fruit of Righteousnesse and Truth from you all Livit. 19.15 God looks for true Judgement from all without respect of Persons in judgment that justice and true judgement may give the Widdow her right and let the oppressed of the Land goe free and God looketh that you should incline your eare to the Cry of the poor and answer the lamentation of the needy and the fatherless in his time of need God heareth their cry even the cry of the poor and needy the fatherless Widdow and oppressed who cry for judgement which cries for mercy Behold the Lord cometh to look for the fruits of Righteousnesse among you mercy and true judgement to be found in you Oh all you high exalted in the strength of the conceits of your Wisdome you must come downe from the top of Mount Carmel come down to the true measure of equity come down to the just weight and ballance of true judgement in which all the Kings Princes Judges and Justices of the whole Earth shall be weighed and measured by the true measuring line of Judgement such as have judged for gifts and rewards and have not turned their hands from Bribes but have loved the liberal hand of I will give you Sir This is a present for my Lord which hath blinded the eye of Righteousnesse and so Equity and true Judgement hath been turned backward and here corruption Reigns and the fruits of Righteousness not brought forth for the true judgement is wanting and the ballance is not used to weigh a trive and a present the Life of the needy is not set in the Scale against it which in the ballance of true Judgement is the greatest weight here the Innocent is undone the Widdow poures out her Teares and the groanes and cries of the poor the fatherlesse and oppressed goe up to God and God weighs that in the ballance of his Sanctuary Amos 2.6 Mich. 3 against the lightness and wickedness and corruption of the unjust Judges vanity who turn the poor and stranger from his right and sell the needy for a pair of shoes and here Zion is built up with blood and Jerusalem with Iniquity when the heads thereof judge for rewards Wherefore all ye Rulers Justices Judges come and learn to rule and judge aright in your own house that you way become Ministers in the house of the Lord for he which judges in Truth and executeth Judgement in Righteousnesse he is a Minister in the Lord's house he bears not the sword in vain but with the Sword he is a terror to all evil doers and a praise to them that do well here the wicked come to be cut off and the murderers slain with the edge of the Sword and this cleanseth the Land of Evil doers and from shedding all Innocent blood here the Just rejoiceth and the Vpright and Innocent is made glad when the Harlot is cut off and the Whoremonger destroyed and the sword in Judgement held over the head of the wicked then there is no more filthinesse in the Land there is no more uncleanness in the City for Truth runs downe like a stream and Righteousnesse covers the Earth and the Knowledg of God the Land as waters cover the Seas A man's enemy saith Christ is that of his own house Come learn Judgment true Iudgement ye Nations of the Earth that the fruit of Righteousness may be brought forth amongst you and in you Draw the Sword and set up the Sword first in your own house and learn to know the Murderer there and the Harlot there and the Wicked there and the Lyar in your own house which David said he would not keep in his house he loved Judgement and therefore from a Shepheard God exalted him upon the Throne Ps 101 7 8. and with him the Sword of Judgement was set up in his house and in the Land to root the wicked out of his house and out of the Land and to cut off the seed of the evil-doer Now the false lover in you which loves Rewards Gifts and Presents or any Love which is not the Love of the Light the Love of Christ in you that 's the Harlot which betraies you and the murderer which murders the Innocency of the Just and perverts his cause and strangles the Innocency of his cause which the Sword ought to right and that which swears and tells a Lye in you that is the wicked one who was a lyar from the beginning who was a murderer and that which lusteth unto Envy in you because you have not your wills in the flesh that is Cain's seed his own nature and life which slew Innocent Abel which is for Judgement and for the Sword for God hath set a mark upon it to that end Now Abel's blood mark Abel's blood which is the Life that little grain of Innocency which is oppressed in your hearts and minds that little poor seed which never did consent unto evil in you but was pressed down with heavinesse to heart and laden and burdened in you even to the Soul which the Soul felt in time of sinning and when you had committed sin the Light in you which cries for Justice the Blood which cries from the Earth for Judgement Amos 2.13 which God hears that is the oppression of God's Soul which the wicked in you have laden and pressed down as a Cart is laden and pressed down with sheaves over which wicked one in you the Sword is to be set in your own house the two edged Sword of the Lord his Word the Light which will slay the enmity in righteous Judgement and the life of the wicked-cut off And so measuring and ruling your own house with the Judgement of Truth here you become equal Rulers for God of all the world without you for the Just hath his right within the ballance of equity is set up within and here the true eye is open which looks into the Justness of a cause and sees the Justness thereof and loves it and for the sake of truth deals Justice to the Innocent and Judgement to the Oppressor then the eye discerns aright and gives unto every one his right and cannot look upon any with prejudice because he is thus or thus or because he was thus or thus here no man is respected because of his place or because of his