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A51123	Antichrist unvailed by the finger of Gods power and his visage discovered by the light of Christ Jesus, and his ministers, members, works, and lying wonders, manifested by the spirit of God, a manifestation whereof is given to every man (and woman) to profit withal : with friendly and serious invitations, exhortations, and warnings to all professors of Christianity, to beware of that antichristian spirit that leadeth to destruction, and of those teachers, who are influenced by it / written in the love of God by a prisoner (at Lancaster castle) for the testimony of truth, and one of the people called (in scorn) Quakers, Henry Mollineux.	Mollineux, Henry, d. 1719.	1695 (1695)	Wing M2393; ESTC R13417	147,325	285

Abomination unto him and therefore as Cain was with his Brother Abel so they are wroth with those whose Offerings and Worships finds respect with God being in the Spirit of God which they are erred from as also was Cain And so these also run greedily after the Errour of Balaam for a Reward and tho' they Preach Peace to them that buy of them yet they prepare War against such as put not into their Mouths these are such as Judge for Reward Teach for Hire and Divine for Money and yet seem to lean upon the Lord Mi●●h 3. and say Is not the Lord amongst us no evil shall come upon us But when such as these cry unto the Lord he will not hear them but he the Light whom they have rejected will hide his Face from them and then surely Night will be unto them that they shall not have a Vision for so it was Prophesied of such deceitful Prophets no marvel then if they say Vision is ceased and Revelation ceased for it was said The sun shall go down over them and the day shall be dark over them that they shall not Divine the seers shall be ashamed and the diviners confounded yea they shall all cover their lips for there is no answer of God So here is the Work and Wages of false Prophets described And now is at hand the great and notable Day of the Lord wherein he will try and weigh all People in the just Ballance of his Sanctuary and it will come as a Thief in the Night in an unexpected and terrible time and manner upon all the Children of Disobedience in whose Hearts the Prince of the Power of the Air worketh and ruleth and they being Airy and Light and Wanton which are compared to Chaff will be found too light in the tryal and upon them will the unquenchable Fire take hold Mat. 3.12 and in that day their Leaders and Teachers of whom it is said Mic. 7.4 The best of them is as a Briar and the most upright is sharper than a Thorn-hedge Eccles 7.6 who are thus compared to Briars and Thorns whose end is to be burned their end must be like the end of the laughter of a Fool which is compared to the crackling of Thorns under a Pot and all their Wit and Learning Arts and Parts can then yield them small satisfaction So there is a great difference between these false Teachers and their Rewards and the Ministers of Christ and their Rewards for the Apostle Peter said 1 Pet. 4.10 As every man hath received the gift so minister the same one to another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God 1 Pet. 5.2 3 4. Feed the flock of God which is among you taking the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly not for filthy lucre but of a reçady mind neither as being Lords over God's Heritage but being ensamples to the flock and when the chief shepherd shall appear ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away So the Reward of the Ministers of Christ who are faithful Stewards of his manifold Grace and diligently improve the Talent which he hath given them shall be a Crown of never-fading Glory And they that are faithful to God tho' it be but as in a little may be made Stewards or Rulers over more but they who are unfaithful whether in much or little that is committed to them and sin against the Light and Grace of Christ in their Hearts and continue in so doing how can such expect any other from the Hand of the Lord Mat. 25.14 to 31. but the unprofitable Servant's Reward which is to be cast into outer Darkness where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth And certainly the Lord God of Heaven and Earth will render to every Man and Woman according to their Works and will bring all People upon the Face of the whole Earth to an account not how strictly they have obeyed the Orders Laws and Injunctions about Religion made by Popes Cardinals Bishops or Priests of any sort who say Lo here or lo there in this Way or in that Form is the true Religion but he will have an account how every one hath improved and profi ed with the Talent which he hath given them to profit withal which is the Manifestation of his Holy Spirit the true Light inwardly enlightening every Man and the Word of his Kingdom in their Hearts the Word of Faith nigh in the Heart and in the Mouth which is the Grace of God that brings Salvation and hath appeared to all Men and this Word Grace and Light inwardly reproveth for Sin in the Hearts and Consciences of People and woe to them that turn not at its Reproof But all that in the love of it receive it and believe in it and give up their Hearts and Minds freely to learn of it will become sensible of the powerful Work of it more and more in their Hearts for it teacheth all that believe in it and carefully take heed to it to deny all ungodliness and worldly Lusts and to deny all other teachings of Men who are not taught by it but turn from it into wantonness or worldly-mindedness and it teacheth to deny paying any thing to any Man for his Teachings whereby he may deceive People for the Teachings of Christ are free and all Christ's Ministers have freely received and they freely give and Covet no Man's Silver Acts 20.32 33 34. nor Gold nor Apparel nor other of his worldly things but are content with such things as they have and Godliness with Contentment is to them great Gain And so the Grace of God which bringeth Salvation is the Teacher of all true Christians and teacheth them to live soberly Tit. 2.11 to 15. righteously and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and Saviour Jesus Christ who gave himself for them that he might redeem them from all iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works who have profited with the Talents that God hath bestowed upon them and must enter into the Joy of their Lord having hearkened diligently to the Reproof of Instruction in their own Hearts which is the Way of Life and love to walk therein even in the Just Man's Path Prov. 4.18 which is as a shining Light that shineth more and more unto the perfect Day of Redemption and Salvation from all Iniquity 1 Cor. 6.2 Eph. 4.30 and these glorifie God in their Bodies and in their Spirits which are his to whom belongs the Honour and the Glory and the Praise for ever and for evermore Amen The END

said the Apostle Paul but how doth any obey unto Righteousness or how is any right in the sight of God that doth continue in Sin during Life for the same Apostle plainly intimateth the contrary concerning true Christians in his repeated Question and Answer saying Rom. 6.1 2 15. Shall we continue in sin God forbid And so it is plain that those who continue in Sin Acts 6.7 Rom. 1.5 Rom. 16.26 Eph. 6.11 16. Joh. 2.13 and believe that they must do so while they live they are out of the Obedience of the Faith of Christ in which true Christians are and they want the Shield thereof wherewith true Christians are able to quench all the fiery Darts of the wicked One And so though such may strive or talk of striving against Sin yet they are never like to get the Victory while they take not the only right Weapon Eph. 6.17 Rom. 10.8 or Shield which is Faith in his Word the Word of Faith nigh in the Mouth Rom. 13.12 and in the Heart which is the Sword of the Spirit which is the Light that truly manifesteth the Deeds of Darkness which while they are out of the Faith they know not how to put off nor how to put on the Armour of Light aright And such are unlearned in the Mystery of that Faith which is held in a pure Conscience 1 Tim. 3.9 Luke 17.21 and in the Mystery of Godliness and of the Kingdom o● God which is within and they are also unstable and double-minded who would have their Sins and continue in them while they live and have Heaven at their latter end notwithstanding and that is double mindedness James 1.8 and a double minded Man is unstabe in all his Ways And so being unlearned and unstable they wrest the Scriptures to their own Destruction in pleading for Sin all the while they live which is the very upholding of the Kingdom of the Prince of Darkness for they can be his subjects in this World no longer and none are his subjects but the disobedient to the Light of Christ in themselves and they are subjects to him and his Power and consequently in his Dominion Rev. 16.10 Evh. 5.11 to 15. John 3.18 to 21. Empire and Kingdom which is full of Darkness working the Works of Darkness which Works are reproved and manifested by the true Light in themselves which they hate and rebel against which is their Condemnation let them profess what they will But they that believe in the Light of Christ in their own Hearts and Consciences and are faithful in obedience thereunto come to know deliverance from the Power of Darkness Col. 1.12 13. and Translation while in this World into the Kingdom of the dear Son of God and are made meet to be partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light And let all that believe not this great Work of God to be possible beware lest that come upon them which was spoken of by the Prophet and the Apostle saying Behold ye Despisers and wonder and perish Hab. 1.5 Acts 13.40 41. for I work a Work in your days which you shall in no wise believe though a Man declare it unto you And although the Apostle James writes saying In many things we offend all James 3.2 yet he saith in the very next Words If any Man offend not in Word the same is a perfect man and able also to bridle the whole Body which is nothing against Perfection being attainable or a being made free from Sin and able to bridle and govern the whole Body And again he saith speaking of the Tongue Therewith bless we God even the the Father James 3.9.10 and therewith curse we Men which are made after the similitude of God out of the same Mouth proceedeth Blessing and Cursing my Brethren these things ought not so to be So they that will say that the Apostle here speaketh of himself in many things offending may as truly say that he proclaimeth himself to be a Curser which he here reproveth for the manner of speaking is in both alike being in one continued kind of Speech And the same Apostle writes saying lay a side all filthiness and all Sin is filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness and receive with meekness the engraffed Word James 1.21 22 23 24. which is able to save your Souls but be ye doers of the Word and not hearers only deceiving your own selves for if any be a hearer of the Word and not a doer he is a like a Man beholding his natural Face in a Glass for he beholdeth himself and goeth his way and straightway forgetteth what manner of Man he was This engraffed Word which is able to save the Soul is the Word of God's Salvation which he hath prepared before the Face of all People Luk 2.30 ●1 32. Tit. 2.11 12. Rom. 10.8 a Light to lighten the Gentiles and the Glory of his People who are Israclites indeed And it is the Word of God's Grace which bringeth Salvation and hath appeared to all Men teaching true Christians And it is the Word of Faith which is near in the Mouth and in the Heart which the Apostles preached Psal 119.9 10 11. and this is the Word which David hid in his Heart that he might not sin against God and he accounted the only means whereby a Young Man may cleause his Way is by taking heed thereto according to this Word which he said was Lamp unto his Feet Psal 119 105. and a Light unto his Path. And so the Apostle James biddeth to be Doers and not hearers only of this Word comparing them that hear and do not to him that beholdeth his natural Face in a Glass c. for they thereby see and know their condition to be sinful and miserable because of Disobedience but not truly taking heed to this Word that according to the teaching thereof their Ways might be cleansed so they go from it and more and more forget their sinful condition and what manner of Persons they are how filthy by reason of sin Rev. 21.27 and how unfit they are for the Kingdom of Heaven which no Unclean thing can enter And it is the Man of Sin that is the Devil that tempteth People into disobedience to the Word or Light of Christ in their Hearts James 4 7. but the said Apostle James saith Submit your selves unto God resist the Devil and he will flee from you And certainly none truly submit themselves unto God but they that submit to and obey his Light the Word of his Grace in their own Hearts So then if the Devil who is the author and original of all Sin will flee when he is resisted stedfastly in the Faith he being fled those that he is fled from are not surely continually sinning but Christ who puts an end to Sin Jer. 23.6 Jer. 33.16 Dan 9.24 and finisheth Transgression in them bringeth in Everlasting Righteousness and such

pretend to be Spiritual Physicians though they confess themselves to be all overspread with the Contagion and Leprosie of Sin and believe that they and all People must be so whilst their Bodies live for their Preaching and Confessing is to that effect and so they are not like to Cure others of it though they hold their Trade of advising People against Sin that brings this Contagion and Leprosie upon them and others might as needfully advise the Pretended Physicians for they themselves know not how to be rid of their Leprosie yet these Pretenders claim and rob and make havock of Peoples Goods and cast them into Prison for Tythes and Wages for their Advice and pay for their unprofitable Physick though People have not had it nor would have neither Buy any of their deadly Physick And so they are worse than Gehazi who when his Master Elisha would receive nothing though freely offered for the Cure of the Leprosie of Naaman the Syrian being thro' Elisha's Advice 2 Kings 5. by dipping himself Seven times in Jordan fully performed yet this Gehazi being Covetous ran after Naaman and took somewhat of that he offered to Elisha which was given to Gehazi very freely and yet Elisha by the Manifestation of the Spirit of God knowing what he had done said to his Servant Gehazi The Leprosie therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee and unto thy Seed for ever and he went out from his presence a Leper as white as Snow And now these Pretenders to be Spiritual Physicians though the Cure never be performed nor can be by their Directions and though People have nothing of Advice or Physick from them they are like Gehazi and so of his Seed spiritually for Gifts and Rewards yea and more for Tythes and Wages for their Advice or Physick and take it by force and so worse than their Father Gehazi and so the Leprosie of Naaman which clave unto Gehazi and unto his Seed cleaveth unto these Pretenders being spiritually of Gehazi his Seed and so they are all spiritually Lepers as indeed they know it and confess themselves to be spiritually Leprous being sensible of it by the Light in their own Hearts which they hate because it reproveth for their unrighteous Doings and the Children of the Light see their Leprosie which cleaveth to them spiritually to be even as white as Snow so plain to be seen But the Light of Christ Jesus which reproveth for Sin in the Hearts and in the Consciences of People though it may be despised and rejected 2 Kings 5.11 12. as Naaman despised Jordan before he tryed it as in the Love of it any receiveth it and with a true Heart obeyeth it it will direct such a one to the spiritual Jordan which is by Interpretation the River of Judgment which is inwardly to be known where Christ Baptizeth with his Holy Spirit and washeth away the Contagious Leprosie of Sin and healeth the Bruises and Wounds and loathsom put●ifying Sores which Sin had made in the Soul as the dipping and washing in it is time after time abode in and that in true faithfulness and therefore they who have tryed the Vertue of it do freely recommend the tryal of its Vertue to all who are ignorant of it and are willing to be recovered from the spiritual Leprosie of Sin And now I heartily acknowledge my great Errour who being in a wretched sinful state my self did undertake and promise for Infants that which I then believed impossible for me ever to perform my self to wit That they should forsake the Devil and all his Works and keep God's holy Will and Commandments and walk in the same all the Days of their lives Oh what an abominable thing is it thus to Promise and Vow unto God who knoweth the Secrets of all Hearts that Children shall do that which a Man who promiseth it believeth that he shall never be able to do himself God accepteth of no such Sureties For it is a Ridiculous thing amongst Man for a Man to become Surety for the Debt of others that is never like to be able to pay the one half of his own Debt And then certainly God will not so be mocked and therefore let this serve for a warning to all that hear or read this that they undertake no such thing for the Lord will plead with all who are found in such things by his Light in their Consciences and he will fight against them with the Sword of his Mouth Rev. 2.16 Acts 3.22 23. Joh. 13.7 8 9. and every Soul that will not hear his Voice the Word of his Grace and Light in their Hearts and Consciences and suffer him thereby to wash them in his spiritual Baptism they have no part in him but shall be cut off And though some pretend that the Children sprinkled may receive Benefit by the Faith of their Sureties 1 King 17.17 to 24. 2 King 4.18 to 37. Luke 8.49 Luke 7.10 called Godfathers and Godmothers and alledge Examples to prove it as the Widows Son being raised to Life and Jairus Daughter also by the Faith of their Parents and the Centurions Servant restored to Health by the Faith of his Master and such others but this proveth nothing at all to their purpose for there is no mention made of Godfathers nor Godmothers nor of them promising any thing for the Parties restored nor yet of Water Baptism nor of paying the Priest for it and the Lord is often pleased and hath been formerly to answer the Desires and Cries that he hath begotten in the Hearts of his Faithful Ones upon the behalf of others in making them Instrumental in his Hand for the Benefit of whom it pleaseth him but it doth not follow that God requireth one Man to be Surety for another and especially to perform that which he believeth he cannot not perform himself Rom. 14.12 Mat. 12.36 but every one must give account of himself to God and that of every idle word And what a Ridiculous Prophane and Foolish thing doth it appear to be and without the least Ground of Scripture to Teach Children to say Such a one is my Godfather 2 Cor. 1.11 12. or Godmother Is it not far more absurd than that which Paul reproved the Corinthians for because they said I am of Paul and I of Apollo and I of Cophas and I of Christ Nevertheless it is of absolute Necessity to Salvation that every one be truly careful to perform that which they say was promised in their Baptism to wit That they should forsake the Devil and all his Works the Pomps and Vanities of this wicked World and all the sinful Lusts of the Flish but do not their Teachers teach them when they have their Money and this Promise of them to believe that they cannot perform this Promise whilst they live in this World And is not that confused Baptizing and Teaching And how should it be otherwise being composed in Babylon that is in Confusion in the False

used and for meeting together to Worship God in his Fear Spirit and Truth and they were Imprisoned and extream hardly used in so much that in their Petition to the Parliament they reckoned the Cruelty of their Persecutors to exceed the Cruelty of the Heathenish and Popish professed Tyrants and Persecutors and said The Records of the Heathen Persecutions under Nero Trajan Decius Galienus Maximinian c. could scarcely afford any Examples of the like Cruelty that was used to them they craved but the liberty either to die openly or live openly in the Land of their Nativity and many of them ended their Days in loathsom Prisons And Six of them were put to Death Sealing their Testimonies with their Blood whose Names follow viz. Henry Barrow and John Greenwood who were Executed at Tyburn John Penry at Thomas a Waterings near London William Denis at Thetford in Norfolk and one Coppin and one Elias at Edmundsbury in Suffolk And it appeareth by Records that the Chief Instruments of their Death was the Clergy and not the Queen for one Doctor Rainolds being by Queen Elizabeth much pressed to tell her what he thought concerning the said Barrow and Greenwood at last told her That he was perswaded if they had lived they would have been Two as worthy Instruments for the Church of God as hath said he been raised up in this Age then the Queen sighed and said no more But afterwards being near the place of their Suffering and calling it to mind she demanded of the Earl of Cumberland who was present at their Execution what an End they made he answered A very godly end and prayed for your Majesty and the State And there was a Famous Preacher one Phillips having seen and heard Barrow's Speeches and Preparation for Death who said Barrow Barrow my Soul be with thine And after Queen Elizabeth's Decease in the Reigns of King James and King Charles the First many called Puritans c. suffered greatly and some for no other Cause but for refusing to join with the publick Worship Established by the Bishops and for separating themselves from the Church of England were Banished the Land of England And this is observable that the Long Parliament in the Year 1644. denying the Common prayer Book and by an Assembly of Priests setting out a Directory for Publick Worship the generality of the Priests then Conformed to that calling the Common-prayer Book Popish Rags of Rome Dregs of the Whores Cup and the English Mass c. And when Oliver Cromwell was made Protector he took Course in the Year 1653. for the Glergies Recovering their Tythes and other Dues as they pretended and many of the People of God who were led by his Light and Spirit to testifie against Tythes and to deny to pay them because they could not uphold what Christ came to pull down and were also made willing with the hazarding of their Lives and Estates to preach the Everlasting Gospel of Christ freely in Sincerity and Truth denying to join with their Man-made Hypocritical Worship and telling them plainly that if they repented not God would overturn them as it came to pass many such then suffered deeply by and under their Cruelty who through Killing and taking Possession were come from a suffering state themselves into high Places of Earthly Authority where being setled they soon forgot their own Sufferings and their Covenants and Vows made to the Lord therein and trod in the Antichristian and Popish steps of Persecution themselves of whose Cruelty both Old England and New England are Witnesses but the Lord preserved his People in Constancy and Faithfulness to him in their great and many Sufferings But notwithstanding all the aforesaid Reflections against Popery and the Common-prayer Book when King Charles the Second was Restored in the Year 1660. and the Common-prayer Book enjoined again how generally it was received and entertained of the Clergy is yet fresh in the Memories of many and how the strictest sort of them in Times of Persecution joined with it again or crept into Corners and ran from their Assemblies upon the sight of Informers or the like it is very well known whereby it appeareth they themselves who contended against the true Light and the Faith that is in it thought their own Faith not worth suffering for as really it is not and so they could not abide Persecution But in Times of Toleration for Liberty of Conscience those would numerously appear in publick again though when a Storm of Persecution arose as in the latter end of the Reign of King Charles the Second then few of them durst appear But when King James the Second began his Reign and proclaimed Liberty of Conscience which is desirable to all People which hitherto continueth and is now by Act of Parliament confirmed then and since then the Corner-creepers have bodly appeared in publick again By what is premised it is plain and evident that they who were prevailed upon by the power of the Man of Sin the power of the Devil and of Darkness to disobey the Light the Word of God's Grace and Power in their own Hearts whatever they might profess of Christianity yet they went in the Way of the Man of Sin and as they persevered therein he came to be exalted in them over all that is called God and so he made them Liars Persecutors and Murderers like himself who was a Liar and a Murderer from the beginning and such could turn as the Times turned from one Religion or Profession to the contrary to and fro any whither to save themselves and their worldly things with which the God of the World hath blinded their Minds lest the Light of the Glorious Gospel of Christ who is the Image of God 2 Cor. 4.3 4 5 6 7. who is Light should shine in them And also it is plain and evident that they that faithfully obeyed the Light and Spirit of Christ in their own Hearts they resisted the power of the Man of Sin in themselves and through Faith in the Word of God's Power in their Hearts were in good measure made Conquerors over the power of the Adversary in their Hearts and to the Honour of God through the same Faith and Obedience of his Light they were enabled patiently to undergo what their Antichristian Persecutors the Members of the Man of Sin were suffered to inflict upon them which was not only Imprisonment and loss of outward Enjoyments and Possessions but also to many Death it self they would rather part with Goods and Life and all than lose their Heavenly Treasure which God had given into their Earthen Vessels the Excellency of which Treasure and Power is of God and out of the sight of all those who disobey the Light of Christ in their Hearts And so they in whose Hearts God who commandeth the Light to shine out of Darkness hath shined to give the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ who not

of People The Number of the Slain in the other Three Provinces not being upon Record with the Burning of Hundreds in England in the Reign of the Popish Queen Mary with the dreadful Cruel Spanish Inquisition and several others of Popish Massacres too large here to be inserted And so though the Popes of Rome have pretended to Christianity and have called themselves Vicars of Christ yet they and their Adherents have been as Cruel and as Bloody Persecutors of Christians as the Roman Emperors who hated Christianity were before them and have equalled if not exceeded the said Emperors in their Cruel and Barbarous Murders acted with all manner of Cruelty that possibly could be Invented which stands upon Record that all may see it read Clark's Martyrology and Fox's Acts and Monuments and a Book called Ireland's Tears and the History of the Churches of Piedmont Collected and Compiled by Samuel Morland in the Year 1658. And not only have the Popes been Persecutors where they could prevail by means of the Kings or Governours of the Nations but also they have Lorded it over Emperors and Kings Deposing and setting Up at their Pleasure whom they thought meet for their Purposes as the Apostle Peter never did And thus Mystery Babylon the Great the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth hath Reigned over the Kings of the Earth who have given their Strength and Power unto the Scarlet-coloured Beast that hath carried her which ascendeth out of the Bottomless Pit and goeth into Perdition and this false Church this Woman this Whore this great City that hath made all Nations to drink of the Wine of the Wrath of her For●ication which she hath handed forth to them in a Golden Cup she hath been and is drunk with the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus and her Sins have reached unto Heaven therefore shall her Plagues come in one day and she shall be utterly Burnt with Fire for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her Rev. 17 and 18 Chapters And all that err from rebel against and believe not in the Light the Manifestation of the Spirit of Christ in their Hearts they will be found in Babylon the City of Confusion and how great or large soever their Professo●● of Christianity may be yet in that great Day of the Lord which hasteth apace such will be found in an Antichristian Estate and Partakers of the Sins of Babylon and consequently must receive of her Plagues Rev. 18.4 And now the Light the Voice of God's mighty Power calleth unto all for Faithfulness and Obedience thereunto and that all that are in Babylon who have not yet quite out lived the Day of their Visitation may come out of her and may be no longer Partakers of her Sins lest they Eternally partake and receive of her Plagues And all that hearken to the Grace of God the Light and Voice of Christ Jesus in their own Hearts and Consciences and believing therein Tit. 2.11 12 13 14. continue in Faithfulness and Obedience thereunto such shall more and more come to know the Effectual Working thereof even to the redeeming of their Souls from all iniquity and the purifying of their Hearts and purging of their Consciences from dead Works to serve the Living God and they shall know the Ancient Prophecy fulfilled in them That the Lord will pour Ezek. 36.25 to 31. Heb. 8 9 10 Chapters or sprinkle clean Water upon them that they may be clean from all their Filthiness and Idolatry which is false Worship that is out of his Spirit and that he will give them a new Heart and put a new Spirit within them And such shall see the Sun Rev. 9.2 and the Air clear again which have been darkned by reason of the Smoak of the Bottomless Pit and shall know the Sun of Righteousness to arise upon them with healing in his Wings Mal. 4.2 Rev. 21.24 Rev. 22.14.17 2 Thes 2.3 to 10. and a walking with them that are saved in the Light of the Lamb and shall know to do his Commandments that they may have Right to the Tree of Life and take of the Water of Life freely and such will witness a growing up into him in all things who is the Head of his Church Christ Jesus from whom the whole Body fitly joined together Eph. 4.15 16. and compacted by that which every Joint supplieth according to the effectual working in the measure of every part maketh Increase of the Body unto the edifying of it self in Love And the Members of that Body are faithful Stewards of the Grace of God Tit. 2.11 12. Mat. 13.10 11 Mar. 4.10 11 Luk. 8.9 10. John 14.17 to 27. Joh. 7.16 17 Joh. 8.31 32 1 Joh. 2.27 which bringeth Salvation and teacheth them that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts they should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world And it is only they who are truly taught of the Grace of God which hath appeared to all Men that are true Ministers of Christ and Stewards of the Mysteries of God for they are the Disciples of Christ unto whom it is given to know the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven but unto others it is not given but they are as Parables to them Now the Grace of God teacheth none to Persecute about Religion nor to make Merchandize of People through Covetousness with feigned words as the Popes and other sorts of Priests have done and so though the Popes have professed to be Peter's Successors and to sit in Peter's Chair and to have the Stewardship of the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven yet they have been and are found not only out of the Faith wherein the Apostle Peter served God but to be such false Prophets as Peter Prophesied of 2 Pet. 2.1 to ●0 and so not faithful Stewards of the Grace of God being not willing to be taught by it in their own Hearts and so for all their Learning and for all their Talk and for all their Splendor of Profession they are ignorant of the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven wherein they pretend to be Stewards For the Apostle Peter said to Simon the Sorcerer who offered Money saying Acts 8.18 19 20. Give me also this power c. Thy Money perish with thee because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with Money thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter so Peter was far from selling the Gift of God and Pardon of Sin is the Gift of God though the Popes and Priests for Money have pretended that they could Sell Pardons c. And so all the Offerers or Pretenders to Sell the Spiritual Gifts of God for Money as well as they who desire for any outward thing to Buy the same of any Man they have neither Part nor Lot in the true Stewardship of the Grace of God nor of the Mysteries thereof but all their Worship their Sacrifices Offerings and Prayers in that state are