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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

in shaking its Foundations and burning it up with the Increase thereof thou wilt find something in thee strongly Gainsaying yea even Fighting and Opposing to Death which yet thou art not acquainted with and secretly wishing that the way were not so narrow but that thy Ishmael might live before him how much more in the swelling of Jordan will it be hard when Isaac is called for also but thou must witness a forsaking of the World and the Religion thereof before thou see thy Isaac Born as did Abraham the forsaking of his own old Country and the rejection of his fleshly Begetting his Bond-Child Ishmael before the promised Seed appeared now if thy Ear be opened thou wilt this also hear And for so many being besotted with the lofty Notions and Expressions of some refined Monks thou speaks of thou had dealt Ingeniously if thou hadst told wherein either I or others with whom I have Fellowship in the Gospel of the dear Son of God are found Guilty for if the Scripture Expressions be such we cannot deny them though a Monk should say the same but I know thou canst not from any sound Ground in thy self believe that we have Intimacy with such as are called Monks but thou art cousened into this Conceit by the false Reports of the envious and blind World who do what they can to hinder the pure Truths progress as they ever did by all means possible together with what thy own misapprehension of us hath suggested to thee But herein is our Joy that Men speak all manner of Evil of us falsly for the Names sake of Jesus Christ whom alone through Grace we own for our Saviour and Guide and not another and therefore it is that the World hates us because we cannot follow them in their Obedience to the Spirit of this World as they do And therefore as I said before so in love I advise thee again not to trust in that vain Religion that thou art yet unseperated from which stands in outward Observations which hath not so much as a promise of Perfection in it where there is yet lo here and lo there is Christ where there is a Temple made with Hands and a mention of Sins untaken away continually as in the time of Moses's Law which was a shadow for a time and could make nothing perfect seeing perfection was to be brought to Light in Jesus Christ the substance of all Shadows Types and Figures And they that were Preachers of the Gospel preached Perfection in him And where Christ the Substance the Lamb of God was manifested in any it was for the taking away of Sin and perfecting in Holiness and so they could direct others And ●rith the Scripture Eph. 4 10 c. He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all Heavens that he might fill all things and he gave some Apostles some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers he himself gave them and not Men for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministry for the edifying the Body of Christ till we all come to the Vnity of the Faith and the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect Man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ And this being so it is something strange thou shouldst so far forget as to say thou knew not of any Text in the whole Book of God which doth promise to the People of God Perfection in this Life For though as in Heb. 7.19 The Law which stood in outward Observations made nothing perfect yet the bringing in of a better hope which hope is Christ in the Saints a hope of Glory did by which they draw nigh unto God Having their Hearts sprinkled from an evil Conscience and their Bodies washed with pure Water Heb. 10.22 And therefore there was a necessity of disanulling of the Letter Commandment going before because of the weakness and unprofitableness of it as in the 18. ver of that 7. cap. And so Friend the reason of thine and all the World's Imperfection is unbelief and disobedience to the Spirits teaching within whereby the Soul is kept in the outward Court and Temple and so not coming through the Vail the Flesh which only is rent in the Death of Christ the Holiest of all is not come into where there is Perfection which Perfection indeed is not known in the Life and Glory which is of the first Man which stands in the Law of a carnal Commandment but in the Power of an endless Life without begining or end of Days which also if thou hast an Ear thou may'st hear and the Lord give thee understanding that thy Soul may live and not remain in Death for the Letter Killeth but the Spirit gives Life And for my own Attainments which thou calls Imaginary Transcendent thou knows I said nothing of my self in particular and therefore be advised to beware of that Spirit that pats off wholsome Advice by evil Judgings and Surmisings concerning the Advisers For for my own part I acknowledge my self to have nothing of my own to boast of but to be by the Grace of God what I truly am and that Grace is my Sufficiency and rejoyce in this to see the strength of Christ perfected in my Weakness but Wickedness he Destroys and will not allow of any work of Iniquity in any and so in my Condition am I pressing forward to the Resurrection from the Dead through the daily Death and though I have not fully attained yet I see every Gift of God to be perfect and those that rest in Christ rest from Sin and there are perfect and so whom the Son sets free are free indeed from Sin and that where Christ is received there is Power received to become a Child of God and there the work of the Devil is destroyed which is Sin seeing he that commits Sin is not born of God but is a Servant of Sin and so a Child of the Devil And therefore it is time for all to hast out of the Spiritual Sodom and Egypt of Sin and separation from God lest the Wrath that hangs over fall on and there being no Remedy nor Escape And for that thou entreats me to beware of the confused Notions and great words of Jacob Bewman and such like frothy Scriblers as thou in disdain art pleas'd to term them who thou say'st may hereafter prove broken Reeds to those who now admire them thou may'st know that those who follow the Light of Jesus Christ wherewith he hath enlightned them in Spirit which leads them orderly up out of the fall'n Estate of Sin and Separation from God into the Kingdom of perfect Righteousness and Fellowship with himself and lean not to any Man that can Deceive but have all one Master and Teacher which is Christ in them all the Head and they need not that any Man teach them but as the Anointing leads them they are safe and this the Scripture witnesseth And by the

me by the Act of Premunire yet for a little space he was seemingly willing again to proceed with me as with the rest upon the new Act and so they caused it to be read which being done I was made to say something to this purpose to wit It seems then that your Intentions are to get us from amongst you and if it should be so that the Righteous were taken from you would not God's Judgments fall upon the Land And then the Judge threw up all as it were and spoke in anger to the Grand Jury to draw a Bill of Indictment against me and so I was as it were separate from my Brethren and set a-part for the greatest Sufferings and that as is said for nothing but declaring Truth and keeping my Conscience pure to God and so I was put by for that time Again I was called certain hours after up to the Bar again and then was that wicked thing called an Indictment framed and brought in against me O what unchristian and unsavoury things was it fraught with as though I had wickedly and contemptuously denied to take that Oath called Allegiance which was made against Papists and Gunpowder Plotters When as the Lord knows I denied only to Swear in Obedience to Christ who saith Swear not at all and so to keep my Conscience pure to God in the thing I denied to Swear and neither in favour of Popery nor in opposition to the King as I had declared before from the Truth of my Heart and the Judge himself was once made to acknowledge it as is said before yet because I could not lay my Hand on a Book and kiss it and so commit Idolatry and because I could not say I Swear I Swear or so they proceeded to bring in Sentence against me as if I had been the greatest Offender in this case that might be even to Confiscation of all in the outward World called Mine whether Lands Leases Goods Chattels and Liberty though in the fight of God and that just and righteous reasonable Principle of God in every Man I stand clear which is my Joy Yet before they proceeded to give Sentence they would make a shew of Legal Proceeding but it was only to deceive themselves withall for all others saw them And so after they had read that wicked Instrument called an Indictment some words passed from me in the dread of the Lord as first I declared my Innocency there as to the thing charged upon me in the sight of the Lord God and all Men and so warned the Judge to take heed what he did against an Innocent Man for with the same measure was measured to others God would measure to all Men again And so speaking again something concerning Swearing the Judge said Judge But what if a Thief should rob you and deny it would you take his word Ans I would take his Word as soon as his Oath for a Thief 's Word and Oath are both alike Judge But you go up and down Seducing the People Ans No I Seduce none but desires that all may be Saved and do endeavour wherein I may to help all People out of Darkness into Light and so from under Satan's Power to God And the Apostles did not Evil in going up and down upon so good an Account Judge But how should we know that you are an Apostle Ans What I am by my Fruits may be known Judge But prove your self to us to be an Apostle Ans If the Truth which I declare and my innocent Life will not satisfie concerning what I am I must rest satisfied in God's Will and what you know not or cannot believe now God may reveal it to you So be not hasty in doing any thing against me But the Apostle Paul himself could not so prove himself as to satisfie all of his Apostleship for saith he to some Though I be not an Apostle to others yet I am to you Judge But is Christ in none but you Ans Yea in thee also except thou be a Reprobate Judge But you see here is a Law Ans But it 's not safe for any to act by a Law unless it be according to God For those in Queen Mary's time that burn'd People about things called Religion did it by Pretence of a Law or under colour of a Law or so yet it is now held as it was indeed by all Protestants to be an unjust thing they did Judge But you have been in Prison before now Ans Yea for Truths sake Here it may be observed how this Judge being a meer Stranger to me could know this for immediate Revelation of God he pretends not to Then how came he by this knowledge but even by the Whisperings of the Enemies of Truth and of my Soul who were not far off nor wanting to whisper anything into his Ear that might help on the Matter against the Innocent Judge But how many Prisons have you been in This observe he ask'd temptingly Ans In several for the Truths sake Judge But why will you not tell me Do you not say your Yea is Yea and your Nay Nay or so Ans Yea my Yea is Yea and my Nay is Nay when I speak but I am not bound by the Lord to speak at every Man's Will Then hereabouts the Judge proceeded towards the end and though I had declared my Innocency in the thing before yet he asked according to their Custom Guilty or Not Guilty Ans Here I being kept silent for a time waiting in the Will of God at length these words came to me and passed through me He was led as a Sheep before the Shearer and as a Lamb dumb before the Slaughterer and he opened not his mouth At which words though they in the Darkness were something troubled yet the Judge proceeded and said Judge If you will not answer we will take it pro confesso you know what that is c. Here the Simple may take notice that to take a thing pro confesso is as much as to say They take it for granted Ans Then I perceiving in the Light of the Lord what their purpose was I said something to this purpose in the Peace of my Spirit It 's manifest enough how things are and so you may proceed if it seem good to you the Lord will reward every Man according to his Deeds Judge But what say you to the Jury c. Ans It 's not like that a Jury or a Company of Swearing Men will do any thing for me who am for Christ's Command against Swearing For I could wish that they and all Men would speak Truth without Swearing Here I was put away from the Bar for that time also The next day being called up to the Bar amongst Felons Thieves and Murtherers that the Scripture might be fulfilled the Judge prepared to give Sentence against the Servants of God called by the World Quakers we being four in number now brought together though separate for a time And he

a Vision and it shall be dark unto you that you shall not Divine and the Sun shall go down over the Prophets and the Day shall be dark over them then shall the Seers be ashamed and the Diviners be confounded yea they shall all cover their Lips for there is no Answers of God So be not proud for the Lord hath spoken but see in the Dread and Fear of God how you can acquit your selves from the Charge against False Prophets and Teachers mentioned in this Paper and more abundantly in the Scriptures For if you be found in their Sins how can ye escape their Plagues Rev. 18.4 For Wo will be to them that seek deep to hide their Counsel from the Lord and their Works are in the dark and they say who seeth us and who knoweth us see Isa 29. from ver 10. to ver 16. Read and consider and be wise for your Souls From one who Travails for the Prosperity of Sion Thomas Taylor A Strong and Terrible Alarm Sounded out of the Holy Mountain against all the Wicked Inhabitants of the Earth WO Wo unto you Rulers Priests and People who live without the Fear of God and do hide your Abominations in Hypocrisie and Dissimulations you are got into several Sects and Opinions and there some of you have long made a Profession of God with your Tongues and Lips but your Hearts are removed far from him so that your Profession stinks in the Nostrils of the Almighty and he Ioaths and abhors your Preaching and Praying for you are weighed and are found too light your Covering are too narrow they will no longer hide you for now you are searching with the true Light wich makes you manifest and rips off your Coverings so that your Nakedness appears the Day hath made you manifest and now is the Light risen and with it you are seen to be out of the Life of Truth yea you are found to be the greatest Enemies to the Life that be upon the Earth for you seek to Murther it wheresoever it is brought forth yea and in all its appearances you seek to Suppress and Murther it Remember your Fore-fathers Cryed Not this Man but Barrabas and your Cry and Practice is seen-to be the same in Nature now for in you and by you is the Son of God Cryed against who hath long forborn you and because his Judgments were not speedily executed upon you have strengthened your selves in your Wickedness and Imaginations and have provoked the Almighty to Wrath and have not considered that his Long suffering towards you was to have drawn you to Repentance but the Day of your Visitation you have despised and have hated the Light of his Son in your Consciences which hath often shewed you your Evil Deeds and so have trampled the Blood of the Covenant under your Feet and have done despite unto the Spirit of Grace and have chosen to follow the vain Imaginations of your own Hearts and have contemned the Counsel of the Lord and would not that he should Reign over you For which cause his Judgments linger not against you but are ready to be poured forth upon your Heads even upon you who have sold your selves to work Abomination in the sight of the Lord and are Worshipping in the House of your Imagery and are joyned and become one with the great Whore of Babylon who hath made her self Drunk with the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus but now is she come in Remembrance before the Dreadful and Terrible God and now shall both she and her lovers be Plagued and Tormented together Therefore ye Nobles and Rulers Captains and Mighty Men Priests and People High and Low Rich and Poor Bond and Free who have Committed Fornication with her Awake to the Judgment and behold your King the Old Dragon which is the Devil and Sathan for he is come forth and deceives you and he is come to gather you to the Battle of the great Day which is at Hand for the Harvest is ripe and the Winepress is full and your Fat 's overflow and the Measure of your Iniquities is great and now will God be Avenged on you who will bring you all down to the Valley of Descision even there shall the Day of the Lord be upon you which will be a Day of Pain and Anguish a Day of Blackness and Gloominess and of thick Darkness unto you that have slain the Witness of God and have made merry over him Your Mirth is almost at an end and instead thereof shall be Mourning and bitter Lamentation which shall come upon you in one Day and now is the Day of Vengeance Proclaimed now is the Trumpet Sounded forth behold the Lyon Roareth Therefore O all Inhabitants of the Earth Fear and Tremble before the Living Dreadful God and Dread ye his Name For now is he arising in his Majesty and Glory to shake Terribly the Earth the noise of a Trumpet goeth before him which soundeth an Alarm Strong and Mighty is he there goeth a Sword out of his Mouth and a Threshing Instrument is in his Hand wherewith he will cut down the tall Cedars and thresh the Mountains to Dust A Fire proceedeth out of his Mouth also which shall devour and burn before him and none shall be able to quench it and the Breath that cometh forth of his Nostrils shall scatter the Earth as the Whirl-wind scattereth the Dust Yea Terrible and Dreadful will he be unto you wicked who Live in the Earth you shall not be able to behold nor stand in his Presence Therefore Weep and Howl and Lament for the Misery that is coming upon you for Destruction is at hand yea the Lord hath decreed an overthrow of the Wicked of the Earth for now shall his overflowing Scourge pass through the Earth and the Beesom of his Destruction shall sweep you away except you Repent For your Wordomr and Murders and Idolatry and Drunkenness and Swearing and Lying and Wantonness and Prophaness is come in Remembrance before the Dreadful and Terrible God who will be avenged on you at once Rejoice ye Saints who are clad with Zeal and Shout for Joy you Sons of the most High God and Sing ye Heavens and you that dwell therein for the Lord is risen ye are Witnesses thereof Behold he cometh in and with ten thousands of his Saints to judge the Earth in Righteousness and to execute his Judgments upon his and your Enemies The Vials of his Wrath are made ready to be poured out upon them and his Indignation is waxen hot against them which shall burn and slay and consume them unto the end Glory Glory Honour and Dominion and Praise be given unto our King who liveth for ever for he is worthy to reign over all who was dead but now is he alive and liveth for evermore and hath redeemed us from the Earth and hath brought us above the Earth to reign with him upon the Earth eternal Praises to our King for evermore who