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conscience_n	faith_n	pure_a	purify_v	1,417	5	11.8558	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41061	A testimonie of the touch-stone, for all professions, and all forms, and gathered churches (as they call them), of what sort soever to try their ground and foundation by and a tryal by the Scriptures, who the false prophets are, which are in the world, which John said should be in the last times / by Margret Fell ; also, some of the ranters principles answered.	Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702.	1656 (1656)	Wing F636; ESTC R13179	30,378	40

have your minds that ye may come to witness cleansing and purging within that ye may come to see the uncleannesse which proceeds out of the heart which defiles the man Mat. 15.18 19. For out of the heart cometh evil thoughts murthers adulteries fornications thefts false testimony slanders these are the things which defiles a man How will you teachers and you professors who looks without you and turns from this which should cleanse you within How do you look that that which is without you should cleanse from this uncleannesse within Let that of God in your consciences now see how you can be cleansed by this when ye turn from it But now if ye turn to the light which makes these things manifest and dwell and abide in it then will ye abstain from them and so come to witnesse cleansing For he that walketh in the light as he is in the light the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin And Christ Jesus saith Luke 6.45 A good man out of the treasury of his heart bringeth forth that which is good and an evil man out of the treasury of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil for out of the abundance of his heart his mouth speaketh And why call ye me Lord Lord and do not the things which I say Whosoever cometh to me and heareth my sayings and doth them I will shew you to whom he is like He is like a man which built an house and digged deep and laid the foundation on a Rock and when the floods arose the streams beat violently upon the house and could not shake it for it was built upon a Rock But he that heareth and doth is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth against which the streams did beat violently and immediately it fell and the fall of that house was great Now professors here 's your building eternally you shall witnesse this Parable fulfilled upon you the tempests and storms is coming upon you your house will be beaten down it cannot stand for ye have been sayers a long time and not doers of the word your house which ye have built is without foundation it is not founded upon the rock Christ Jesus Ye who denies the light he saith into you why call ye me Lord do not the things which I say upon him shall ye be beaten to pieces and all your prefession It is known and seen ye are made manifest ye cannot hide your selves Therefore let the time past of your lives suffice and repent while ye have time least the whirl-winde of the Lord come upon you and destroy you ere ye are aware and remember that ye are warned in your life time Ye who talkes of faith where is your foundation who denies the light Christ Jesus the corner-stone whose blood washeth and cleanseth and purgeth away the filth of the daughter of Sion What will your faith advantage you who are yet in your sin Is not that faith vain which doth not purifie the heart The Apostle Paul saith Now the end of the Commandment 〈◊〉 Charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfeigned 1 Tim. 1.5 And again he saith Holding the mysterie of faith in a pure conscience 1 Tim. 3.9 And the Apostle John saith For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world and this is the victory that overcometh the world even our faith 1 John 6.4 Now see your faith hath overcome the world and given you victory over sin else never talk of faith for ye are yet in your sins all who is of the faith by which the just lives denies your faith for ye who are alive to sin crucifies and slayes the Just ●et who is in the faith of God the just lives by his faith And so now here ye may read your faith by your works For the Apostle James saith What doth it profit though a man say he hath faith and hath not works that faith cannot save See what comparison James makes James 2.16 Even so faith if it hath not works is dead being alone Yea a man may say thou hast faith and I have works shew me thy faith without thy works and I will shew thee my faith by my works Now see how blinde ye are who reads these Scriptures and professes them and yet talks of faith and lives in your sins Oh the righteous God will plead with you for all your deceit and hypocrisie Thou believes there is a God thou dost well the devils believe also and tremble Therefore know Oh vain man that thy faith without works is dead And what is thy works who art yet in thy sins Is not sin the work of the devil Oh that ever ye should be so blinde and befotted Will the fig-leaves of your profession cover your nakednesse Nay the Lord hath found you out and all your coverings is too narrow And your faith which is holden with respect of persons which the Apostle exhorts from the Lord God abhors But if ye had true living faith as a grain of musterd-seed ye might say to this mountain be thou removed into the Sea and it would be so But to you whose faith is dead who are yet in your sins this is a mysterie Therefore repent and turn to the Lord God and believe in the light which is rising and shining in your consciences he it is who is the resurrection and the life whosoever believeth in him though he were dead yet shall he live Therefore hearken diligently to the Prophet which the Lord is raising in this his day and believe in the light For whosoever doth not hearken to this Prophet is to be cut off Turn to the light and believe and hearken diligently that your souls may live Why will ye give your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which profiteth not The pure everlasting fountain of life is set open and the voice is calling to every one to come All that thirsteth to come and buy wine and milk without money they that have been sold for nought shall be redeemed without money The blood of the everlasting Covenant which brings again the Lord Jesus from the dead is poured forth and shedding for the redemption of Israels seed Therefore all turn to the voice that calls ye this is the way walk in it And that which turns and draws your minds towards God the light which cometh from the father of light turn to and there will ye witnesse a living hope which was that hope which Paul the Apostle was called in question for the resurrection of the dead who was a Minister of God who watched for the soul which your Ministers of death knoweth not nor hath no hope of but their labor is to keep you in the death But if ye wait in the light of Jesus Christ who is the resurrection and the life which is the mysterie which is Christ in you the hope of glory For this is

know the liberty of the Sons of God which Law cuts down all thy carnall apprehensions of God Oh thou blasphemer dost thou say that there is no such thing as lawfull and unlawfull godlinesse and ungodlinesse would thou lay wast the Scriptures and make void the righteous Law of God which takes hold of the transgressor and would thou trample upon the blood of the New-Covenant and count it an unholy thing Oh the day of vengence is coming upon thee and the Lord God is cloathed with vengence against thee and all such as thou art And thou who sits at the Table of devils art shut out from the liberty of the Sons of God and knows not the condition that Paul had passed through For when thou knows that it will be death and destruction to thee And this thou shalt eternally witnesse before ever thou come to know the living God R. And whereas thy sayest This is the liberty that the Sons of God are to stand fast in and to thrust out that which would shew any evil in any thing whatsoever seeing in God all things are lawfull and for every thing under the Sun there is a time and a season Answ Thou blasphemous beast that thrusts out all that would shew any evil in any thing who art in thy fleshly liberty and lust of uncleanness and all manner of filthiness thou art shut out from the presence of God and all that are of him with that which shews sin and evil and that shews and knows thee to be for destruction and condemnation in the lake that burns And this limits thy liberty and cuts it short And the liberty of the Sons of God thou nor none of thy spirit shall ever know which is purchased by Jesus Christ which thou art a crucifier of and an enemy to and this was the liberty the Apostle exhorts to stand fast in which bindes and chains thee and condemns thee and who is in this liberty sees thee the devils bond-slave And what is in God thou knows not neither knows thou what God is And thou art under the Sun the Moon and the Stars lying wallowing in thy earthly lust and unncleanness and the earth is cursed for thy sake and the living God hath curst thee above all the beasts in the field R. And whereas thou sayes One councell orders all and one wisdome effects and determines all and of one all learn knowledge and wisdome and this councell nothing resists This councel were they ordered by who crucified the Son of God Answ Thou art the Rebellious stiff-necked and uncircumcised who art not ordered by the Councel of the Lord And in that thou saith one Councel orders all thou art a Lyar and the Lord witnesses against thee wherefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Amaziah and he sent unto him a Prophet and it came to pass as he talked with him the King said unto him art thou of the Kings Counsel forbear Then the Prophet forbore and said I know that God hath determined to destroy thee because thou hast done this and hast not hearkened to my Counsel 2 Chron. 25.15 16. Here is the Kings Councel and Gods Counsel And Solomon saith But ye have set at nought all my Councel and would have none of my reproof I will also laugh at your calamity and mock when your fear cometh Prov. 1.25 to 30. And thou art one of the wicked Councellors that doth imagine evil against the Lord and he will make an utter end of thee and all of thy spirit For though ye be folded together as thorns are drunken as drunkards ye shal be devoured as stubble fully dry there is one that come out of thee that imagines evil against the Lord a wicked Councellor Nahum 1.11 And thou hast made it manifest that thou art one of them that took Councel together to put him to death And thou who crucifies him rejects his Councel Luke 7.30 And thy wisdom is carnal sensual and divellish James 3.15 1 Cor. 1.19 and by the wisdome of God thou and thy wisdom shall be destroyed R. And thou sayest He that hath faith and liberty to do all things to him nothing is unclean nor unlawfull to him every thing is pure Answ Thou who hast liberty to do all things art unclean filthy and polluted and art without faith and thy liberty is bondage and from the living God thou art driven to under the curse and bondage of Corruption and thou that art servant to sin art free from Righteousness Ro. 6.20 And to thee who art in the lust of uncleanness acted by the dark power and to thee who art unclean and impure nothing is pure whose conscience is defiled and thou brings a Scripture in 1 Tit. 15. where it is said To the pure all things are pure Oh thou Blasphemer what is this to thee who art defiled and filthy Doth not the Apostles words follow But unto the unbelieving is nothing pure but even their minds and conciences are defiled They profess that they know God but in works they deny him being abominable and disobedient and unto every good work being reprobate and there thou art R. And whereas thou saith The seed of the serpent is cursed and no blessing belongs to it and the seed of God God will save God will save his own what doth mans doing advantage him or not doing disadvantage him Answ Here thou serpent hast made thy self manifest to be the cursed seed indeed who hath twined and twisted about tempting into sin and transgression all thy paper through and pleaded for lust filthinesse and uncleanness and liberty of the flesh which lusteth against the spirit and now at last thou hast uttered forth thy blasphemy and confusion and laid thy self open to all If thou wilt have two seeds the seed of the serpent and the seed of God In this thou hast overturned and confounded all that ever thou hast spoken in thy paper before So thou art judged out of thy own mouth and all that thou hast pleaded for before thou hast overturned by this Before thou said God was darkness as well as light and both being alike to him and all acted by one power and good and evil one and sin and holinesse one and all things that be are wrought by one wisdome And said invention is found out by that wisdome And whatsoever hath been done in darkness may be done in the light and that God loves and takes pleasure in all things And now thou sayest the seed of the serpent is curst these are thy own words And here thou art found with lyes and confusion in thy mouth and so thou serpent art curst And all lying is of the devil he is the father of all these Blasphemies that thou hast uttered And thy actings doth not advantage for thou treasurest up wrath against the day of wrath and the wrath of the Lord God will finde thee out and the plagues of God thou shalt witnesse for they are thy portion R. And whereas thou or some of thy spirit hath said that there was nothing betwixt you Ranters and the quakers only they did not see all things to be theirs so were in bondage but they would grow up to you Answ Them whom thou calls quakers doth utterly deny thee and all of thy Principles and all the Ranters is by us denyed and your Practises we abhor And in the eternall light which never changes do we see you and know you And with that which was before the world was do we try your spirits and comprehend your bottom and foundation and Race you out from the presence of the Lord and all who are of him And in the dread and power of the living God do we Judge and try you and your God which is the God of the world and the Prince of the Air which now is come to be judged and do judge and condemn both him and you into the Lake which burns And this is from the quakers which you say is not yet come to you but is from you separated eternally M.F. Errata Page the 2. l. the 22. for shew r. slew l. the 32. for learn r. turn p. 3. l the 10. for it is time to come r. his time is come p. 11. l. 30. for let al that try you r. let that try you p. 12. l. 8. for profess r. possess l. 9. r. profess FINIS