or Are your Customs the Arm of GOD yea I say if that Conscience in whom GOD liveth and reigneth should ask of them all Are your Words or Customs or Forms of Worship the immediate Commandment of the LORD GOD from Heaven which shall endure for ever not one of a thousand either could or would give a ready Answer thereunto which if they would honestly answer negatively concluding their words not to be GOD nor their Customs the Arm of GOD why then do they set their Words above GOD as a limit and bound to the Spirit of GOD And why set they their Customs and Forms of Worship in the Seat of GOD to judge in more Power than the Arm of GOD To the sons of men it may be fully said To whom is the Living GOD known and the Arm of the LORD revealed For if GOD be a Spirit and is only known in Spirit to live in Spirit and to dwell with men in the Spirit How remaineth the knowledge of this true GOD among the sons of men who by the limitations of their Customs and Forms of Worship and Words in the Will out of the unlimited Spirit do thrust him the unlimited Spirit out of his true habitation To all the sons of men upon the face of the Earth who have reached as far as the Tradition but want the Life even unto all Sects and among you all I might largely and plentifully declare your Judgments of others and not with that of GOD in the Conscience answers not that of GOD in the Conscience of any man and GOD hath no Unity with your Judgment but his hand he turneth against it even as in all Generations past The Customs of your Worships and not in the Spirit the Spirit turneth against you and the Spirit will have glory over you for be you not ignorant how that the Spirit created the Times and in time Tradition and Custom came forth And the Spirit which changeth the Times will change the Customs and Forms and when GOD hath put all these things under foot he will be known to be All in All in the Conscience his own proper Seat and Dominion What art thou O corruptible man in whom God created a Conscience that sits above GOD in thy Will making a Law against GOD in the Conscience of another Knowst thou not that GOD hath the whole Dominion there Knowest thou not that GOD hath granted a Law against all Sin and written it in the Conscience his own seat where he cometh to Judgment of the whole World of Mankind as well in it the Heathen who have not the Letter of the Law by the same which he will judge both Jew and Gentile who have the Law and in the Life are found transgressors of the Law And makest thou a Law against the Light of the Throne of GOD against that which thou makest and settest a bound-mark limitation and Law which is in another in and by the self same thing in thy self shalt thou be judged of GOD because of thy Law and the LORD GOD will be known to be the Lord of Spirits and Father of Lights whose Spirit and Light by all the Customs Traditions Laws and Forms of Worship in the World is not in any measure comprehended to be equally judged or made in Righteousness subordinate unto in the Conscience of another and that of GOD in you all shall witness this for ever and bear its everlasting Testimony against your comprehensible corrupt wills which make Laws and constrain Customs and Traditions by Laws against the incomprehensible measure of GOD in another Wherefore a Warning from the LORD GOD the Father of Spirits and Lights to you all is come to give you to take heed in due season lest you be found fighters against GOD your Creator in the day that he calleth to Account and draweth near unto Judgment in the Land And lay it to heart with understanding that for this cause only that he was fought against in the Conscience by Customs by Laws by Judgment by Life by Traditions by Forms of Worship by Sinners by Rebellion against the Power in the Conscience by Jews and by Gentiles all the Overtures Desolations Confusions Destructions Captivities and Revelation of the Wrath Indignation and Vengeance of GOD from Age to Age reaching unto this present Age came to passe in the Earth Witness the Flood witness Sodom and Gomorrah witness the Red Sea witness the Walls of Iericho witness the Mulberry-trees witness the Battels of Israel and the Captivity of his Children witness the Worms that ate Herod witness the Destruction of Ierusalem and the scattering of the Iews in the Earth witness Greece Germany Scotland England and Ireland and yet the LORD will call the whole Earth to witness and bring heap upon heap and destruction upon destruction and desolation upon desolation by Fire and Sword in every Land that standeth against the Word of the LORD GOD. But blessed is he that cometh to know the ground and root of a matter in him to know the end of the Desolations determined to be in the Earth I might say unto you how that in the dayes of Luther GOD moved in the Darkness upon the face of the deeps thereof but they which made him their Rest are confounded and their head is broken as Clay He appeared brighter by Behman and Brown but they which built their Travels as Towers the LORD confounded with many Languages and even running up to the height Baptists Seekers and Ranters some made bounds for the pure and others in their lusts revolted wherefore GOD hath laid them one upon the other as a heap of confusion together And thus he hath begun the work of his hand decreed to perfect his purpose And the LORD GOD will make the Nations to know That he hath not sent down his Word in the Earth to be likened unto a breath of Vanity in the Air and that he caused not his Prophets to run in vain as him which comes short of the mark but that his Law which he wrote upon the Tables of Stone he writeth upon the Table of he Heart and both the Law and the Prohets no more as in the dayes of continual ransgression shall be told as a tale of tatlers and as a history of vain bablers pointed upon the tongue of a deceitful mouth but that they shal be fulfilled and witnessed yea and perfected in the Spirit in Life and in Power as by the Spirit in Life and in Power they were revealed and given forth to this only end of GOD in his Creature For which cause lastly JESUS the Saviour was revealed to perfect that which was lacking and to compleat the Redemption in fulness Therefore all you dwellers in the Monuments of the Earth Awake from the deadness of your Forms and Worships and draw near unto the quickning Power of the Righteousness of GOD which leads to Life in the Truth and Salvation from all Sin To which end GOD sent the Immanuel a LIGHT unto
and the Athenians in hearing Paul though first they called him babler either to let your Colledges give me a Publick Dispute or to give me a Meeting by way of audience of the Utterance which GOD may give me or at least to provoke them to answer the 31 and the 12 other last Queries which I gave forth of this Prison else you may be assured as truly as I know although all the former were granted that this is the prick which was too hard for Paul to kick against and so is now unto all Nations you as well as others But of a truth I tell you though you may say that you will not hear the next Generation shall preach my Testimony in the Streets and not withhold their Cry in the Gates of the High places And this is the Word of the Lord God to you all From the Inquisition-Prison in Rome J. P. To Fabius Guisius Pope of Rome Fabius Guisius THe Outstretched Arm and exercise of the Hand of Cruelty unto Death is not able to make me to daub a dirty Wall with untempered Mortar The impudent wicked carriages of the Priests Instruments under thee which are set to watch over me do not in the least move me save only to tell thee therein they are not an honour unto thee but on them I may not altogether lay the weight of the matter as knowing that they are but as saudred Pipes of Lead prepared for the Vent and running forth of the stinking corrupted waters of the Priests malice wrath and envy forasmuch as the Truth hath reproved their Iniquity And as for the others they are not worth the naming But as touching thy Priests some I have found in swearing others in lying and dissembling flatteries and hypocrisie which all are sheltred under the shadow of thy skirt Now consider what thy Power doth uphold a Lyar and a Priest a Priest and a Lyar a Dissembler a Flatterer a Hypocrite and a Priest Doth thy Law preserve such in liberty and out of Prison who are in Death's Prison to watch over the Just which cannot lye unto thee nor dissemble nor flatter with thee though in Prison If thou be Peter's Successor shew me Christ's Command unto him for such a practice else be thou ashamed of it and deny thy Priests in their wicked practices For Truth is ashamed of all rottenness and wickedness deceit lyes and corruption but it is not ashamed to stand before thy face neither doth it fear the frowns of all the wicked Powers and Princes of the whole Earth but in Prisons Persecutions Tortures Banishments or Death it stands over them all and rejoyceth over them all and treads upon the head of the Serpent which seeks to bring to passe his vain imagination in or by them all Wherefore I would not that thou shouldst be a Fool to sit in the Council of the number of the Crafty and VVise but rather be wise and bow to the innocency of Fools and then thou wilt discover the ground of the works of the others matter Now let me reason with thee concerning my Imprisonment which if thou answerest Nay saying VVe have it under thy Hand and it is enough unto us I reply It 's true I have given under my hand the Declaration of a VVitness and Testimony for GOD against Iniquity for which cause if God hath foreseen it that the perishing of this Tabernacle under thy Bonds of Cruelty shall be my Crown when the day comes that Inquisition shal be made after my innocent blood let this with the rest be produced that the Action may be openly remonstrated Truth Honesty and Wisdom would implead act judge and execute the Judgment of the Law of God in Form Manner and Order and to the proper end that it was given forth and not in blind holes and corners and dark Cells as are wrought the works and deeds of the Devil but openly and manifestly unto and before all as in the Righteousness of Him which rippeth open the secrets of alâ—… hearts and bringeth every man's actions to be discovered by the Light in which the Magistrate Judge and Ruler which judgeth and ruleth for GOD standeth in the honour of the true Dominion a Praise unto the living GOD and openly to the Glory of GOD reigneth in the Righteousness of GOD in dealing and executing his Sentence of just Judgment through the convincement of the Transgressor openly by the Law and so he stands a terror to evil-doers and a praise to them that do well If I have written or spoken any thing which I cannot sufficiently prove openly in the Court of Justice where Truth reigns to that of GOD in every man's Conscience then as I have said as the Law of GOD was given forth for due and publick impleading and execution through open Convincement let me bear the everlasting open shame and spare not by due punishment to make me a publick Example in the face of this Nation as a slanderer For again I say I delight in the execution of the Righteousness of true Judgement but if thou wilt not in Equity hear this Then hear thou moreover the VVord of the LORD GOD GOD by the execution of his Justice upon thee will shorten thy dayes upon the face of the Earth and give thee for an example of his Wrath before men Therefore whilst thou hast time Repent This is the day of thy Visitation And forasmuch as at several times I have given forth Fourty two Queries or more to be answered by the Members of the Colledges in Rome or others And having sufficiently expected forasmuch as considerable time since that hath passed away which in lesse time yea much less Truth would have answered so plain a matter but having not received answer from any of them I now query to thee who art reputed as the Angel over them as him which hath the Keys of the Kingdom which I would first try because of the diversity of Voices in the Earth crying Lo here and lo there and in spirit be convinced of the same before I would as a foolish rash hypocrite confeâ—…s without knowledge or understanding as knowing that when Truth hath convinced the mouth of the Gain-sayer is stopped and that of God in the Conscience is answered and the measure of the Manifestation of the Spirit of Truâ—… beareth witness within unto the Truth bâ—… which all are left without excuse anâ—… therefore in thy thoughts by thy Answers leave me without excuse or else know That hereby thou art left even as all thâ—… rest that will not answer Truth for Trutâ—… and the Lord's sake are without excuse Query 1. What is the Gospel of thâ—… Lord Iesus Christ and the Light of thâ—… glorious Gospel which giveth the Lighâ—… of the Knowledge of the Glory of GOD in the face of Jesus Christ And what iâ—… the everlasting Gospel of God which shall be preached to all Nations of the Earth And whether hast thou immediate Authority from God to send forth any to
may say that my Writings were against then as aforesaid could not I have written the things which I have written in your Inquisition-Prison Fifthly Because that all Righteous Laws of GOD in Nations touching Facts Criminal and Crimes Capital are no more to one person particular than unto all men in general And therefore my adhibition at last to write things of the same nature and purpose in Prison which at first I did in the fruition of Liberty demonstrates that your said self-nulled Law Under which contrary to the tenure of GOD's righteous Law I am yet irrationally and compulsively held in your house of Captivity was not at first so much a stable Law as an aiery variable nicity for that which in such cases adhibits to one and prohibits the same to another is rather like a wind of vanity than a body or pillar of solidity seeing that it will admit of the respect of persons in Judgement and consequently what equality there is in restraining of persons more than two years upon the account of a changeable curiosity and aiery nicity judge thee O thou righteous Iudge in the high seat of superiority Sixthly Because the Eternal Spirit of Righteousness my Maker which searcheth all hearts and tryeth all reins which is the greatest Witness of all Witnesses beareth testimony in my spirit that in all which I have written have stood and do stand in my Conscience clear naked and void of all and every part of a prejudicial mind or conception of Envy Wrath Malice Scorn or despightful Contempt of any man's person neither have I thereby wronged any man whatsoever for all that is therein inserted is none other but wholsom Admonitions exciting to a more peculiar holy and blessed life towards GOD and a man's Neighbour with certain solid sober Interrogations which tend not to the custom of heathenish strifes and contests in the envious and malicious spirit of bitterness but purely sincerely and reverently in the humble spirit of fear of the LORD GOD to the proper and sole end of the Glory of GOD through the Salvation of Souls by his heavenly enlightning of Understandings with the Glory of his holy Spirit And savoury reprehensions of that spirit which sinneth and testimony against the Evils of the Land and the insertion of sundry spiritual Mysteries of the heavenly Kingdom with the spiritual Witness of the Father Son and holy Ghost and nothing therein contrary to the New Testament of GOD the Blood of the Covenant and immaculate Life of the Lamb nor any thing in opposition to that chast Spirit of Sanctity which was in Mary or any which was or is as that blessed Virgin was which upon further and due tryal I am able in the grace and power of GOD and the Life of our Lord Jesus to make appear unto that of God in you and all men whatsoever which my Language can understand upon the face of the Earth In which thing being justified First by GOD which sent me Secondly By example of the holy Prophets of old Thirdly By the practice of CHRIST and his Apostles which at large through the Mercy of the Lord God Almighty I am also able to hold forth unto you in the day of due tryal according to the undeniable Record and Witness of the holy Scriptures of Truth And therfore Righteousness saith Because that the nature of the matter was of a pure purpose should rationally have been recompenced by you with none other than a pure and Christian-like practice Seventhly Because the sweet savour and good report of our Innocency came to your City before us which God made divers of your Ecclesiastical Members to confess in plainness of speech to my face Eighthly Because the Witness of GOD which is greater than the Witness of Man testified in my spirit That all my honest Queries sweet and holy Admonitions pure Advertisments godly Reprehensions proceeded from no other but as Crystal streams from the fountain of the Father's Love which he hath made as a Well of Waters in my bowels And principally because that Reprehension is an infallible token of the Father's Love to his Seed in all Nations and Lands testified by the Spirit to John the Apostle saying Whom I love I rebuke and chasten be zealous therefore and repent Ninthly Because it is the undeniable Duty of all men upon the face of the Earth to love the Rebukes of the LORD as it is purely the LORD's Mercy and of his infinite Love to send them as Visitations of his Love unto all Nations Tenthly Because the resisting of the Rebuke is the resisting of the token of the Favour and Love of GOD which renders men unworthy of the Love and Mercies of GOD their Maker And because it vails the heart from the life of the true Zeal in spirit and hardens the heart in the Wrath of Cain towards Abel of Esau to Jacob and of the Jews to Jesus 11. Because the Righteous Law of God is of the same nature full of Judgment and Reprehension of every Evil not respecting the Person of any man and is at unity with every such spirit of its own nature in so good a work for the which cause it was righteously added of GOD for if there were no bridle how should the Beast be tamed if no Helm how should the Ship be sailed And without Correction there is no perfect Instruction 12. Because the Rebuke of Life is as a Steel which smiteth at the Flint of man's heart and kindleth in his Internals the fire of the fear of his Creator which is the beginning of Wisdom which reveals the knowledge of the countenance of the Father whom to know is Life eternal and because of Solomon's proverbial commendation of the work of Reprehension saying The Reproof of the Righteous is like Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver 13. Because as the matter of my said Writings is manifestly composed of Righteousness and covered with the Countenance of the Word of GOD so the manner thereof stands in unity with the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles which were in the nature of Divinity which covereth not Iniquity with daubing Iniquity 14. Because Moses the Messenger of GOD justified him which prophesied in the Camp whom the People complained against thus answering and saying Would God all the Lords People were Prophets And because GOD Almighty is unchangeably the same as yesterday so this day and for ever of these stones able to raise a Seed unto Abraham 15. Because of the amiable Example of the gesture of David the King under the sharp Reprehension of Nathan the Prophet who persecuted not the Prophet but with a contrite spirit repented of his own sin And the like of the King and People of Niniveh who persecuted not Jonah though he cryed their Destruction in the Streets 16. Because the Prophet Isaiah prophesied it as the great Evil of such a People which would make a man an Offender for a Word 17. Because that for the same things like
unto them my said Writings in life and nature the Prophets CHRIST and the Apostles by ungodly and unrighteous Rulers were persecuted and made sufferers in the world And because from the day of Cain's Cruelty even unto this moment there was never any other spirit in the world which did or doth persecute any soul for his pure Conscience of GOD besides the thick spirit of darkness which is of the old Serpent the Devil to which the Apostle in his day held his Testimony saying As it was then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit even so it is now 18. Because the Doctrine and Life of CHRIST teacheth his Church to recompence all men good for evil and not any man evil for evil seeing the recompence of evil for evil rendreth men manifestly as children of the Devil and much more the rendring evil actual for the work of good sincerely intentional And because that Christ reprehended that spirit of Revenge in the youth of his Disciples which would have had Fire come down from Heaven to destroy his Persecutors saying You know not of what spirit you are Who though the glorious Power of the Father was with Him which could do all things yet persecuted no man but suffered all things And because we do not persecute you nor any other Sect beside you 19. Because that when CHRIST so sharply reprehended Peter saying Get thee behind me Satan And when he said also to the Jews You are of your father the Devil and the lust of your father you will do and he was a lyar from the beginning Neither his friend nor his foes persecuted Him with that bitterness wherewith you have persecuted me I might moreover instance Jeremiah's crying against the Temple which once GOD commanded Paul's Reprehension of the High Priest Peter's of Simon Magus Paul's Declaration of Reproof to the Athenians in the open Court of the Arreopageans with many other Acts of CHRIST and his Apostles yea and a Cloud of Witnesses reserved to the day of Judgement and to testifie the Innocency of the Just at the open Bar of Tribunal 20. Because the Kingdom Weapons and Warfare of the LORD JESUS and his Apostles and Church were not nor are not carnal but spiritual and also because my Writings Sayings and Speeches are not carnal nor tending to a carnal end but spiritual tending to a spiritual life without end The which spiritual Holiness if you call spiritual Wickedness yet professing your selves to be the Church which is the Body should consequently in the Channel and clear Course of the running River of Righteous REASON be subject unto CHRIST whom you confess to be the Head of the Body and so the Body to be subject to the Law of the Head and not to make the Head subject to the lust of your body and then you would do as CHRIST did and as the Apostles practised cut down the spiritual Wickedness with spiritual Weapons For when the Jews said unto Jesus Thou hast a Devil and in the name of Beelzebub dost cast out Devils the LORD then whom you are not greater in whose hand all Power was persecuted not their persons but fought with them with the spiritual Weapons and said If I in the name of the Prince of Devils do cast out Devils then is his Kingdom divided and so with the spiritual Weapons cut down the spiritual Wickedness These are the things which I call Righteous Reason to every righteous rational man living Forasmuch also as for more than two years space as precited and in like manner in the interval of the said time as opportunities sundry and divers were presented I having in the spirit of sobriety moved and modestly urged for an open fair and legal Tryal according to the holy Law of GOD and of his Son JESUS CHRIST which righteously regulateth among his Church the which was many times promised but being hitherto never performed may give just occasion unto every person of prudent understanding which hath or may hear thereof to conceive that my continued Restriction thus debarred from the Judgment of the Law of Equity is of the nature of Apostacy from and consequently in Antipathy unto the sage moral Ty of humanity and all things which are of the Virtuous Substance heavenly And that from the consideration of the subsequent causes which I the rather intimate from the cogitation that they may be rationally as an Inducement and Instigation of you to expediate my hitherto detarded Tryal at open Tribunal of Law where I may justly find ample Audience to illustrate unto all attending Apprehensions the perspicuity of the Defence of mine Innocency In due progress whereunto therefore from this Spirit of meeknesse O ye Rulers of ROME conceive c. First Because the simple proper pure solid and sole end of the Law of GOD and all Righteous Laws of Nations is really righteously and equally for the expedition of Judgment on every Transgressor for the fact of his Transgression without respect of persons for the perfecting Righteousness in the Earth and where the end of the Law is made void there the substance of the whole Law is destroyed Secondly Because punishment inflicted upon any man by any Judge or Magistrate which hath a Law without Judgment and open Conviction by the Law is not according to Righteousness so much an act of Equity as directly contrary to all Law and unreasonable constriction of the cruelty of Tyranny and such an Act stains the glory of his Tribunal of Authority For by a Law he holdeth the Seat of his Superiority and the Righteousness of Judgement by the Law being the Glory of the Chair of his Magistracy Judgment being perverted the Just Tribunal is overturned and thereby the Glory thereof rendred as a stage of Infamy And thus the Law being violated mark what follows The Land by unrighteousness ruined Thirdly Because the constriction and continuation of Bonds through suspence of Judgment and Punishment of a Person without Judgment and open Conviction by the Law stands in contrariety to the pure practice and life of true Christianity which actually leadeth to the doing unto all men as a man would that another should do unto him in which also consists both the Law and the Prophets And because it is but of the same which the Proverb rendreth most infamous saying Hang a man first and Judge him afterwards Fourthly Because it is expresly in opposition to the pure Nature of GOD your Creator who looketh for the work of Judgment in the Land and sent Judgment into that Land in which the Righteousness thereof was scanted and where against the end of the Law the Judgment thereof is found delayed and suspended there the measure is scanted and the ballance falsified upon the Stall and there the presumptuous Lust of irrational and unsatiable Will ruleth in the Seat of wrongful Revenge in the enmity to the Righteousness of the Law it self which was added of Christ for the
the waves of temptations passing over your weary minds you shal not always mourn like doves for a mate nor grieve like Widows for the losse of their Beloveds neither shall your dayes be alwayes Tribulations nor the continuance of your time as surpassing pangs of pains But surely you shall draw into a good time wherein Beauty shall be given into your souls for Ashes the Oyl of Joy for Mourning and the Garments of Praise for the spirit of heaviness in which time the strength of the LORD your Maker shall be the Pavillion of you Peace and you shall rest in his Joys for ever Well therefore O ye tender Friends whom my soul is seeking in the Love of my Father to be united unto Him in his Holiness Come and experience this Doctrine and prove this new and living Way of the LORD though not another than that which from the beginning was but only new unto the old nature of all flesh which corrupteth its way in the sight of the Lord God which is the Way wherein the holy Apostles and suffering Servants of JESUS lived and walked and being but one as the Apostle saith There is one Way one Truth and one Life as ye believe and confess there is but one True GOD and therefore as ye find in your way coruption abounding ye have cause also to confess that the Way of God being but one cannot be the Way in which you walk Forasmuch as GOD hath said by the mouth of his holy Prophet speaking of the Messiah I will give him for a Way and for an high way which the wayfaring-men though fools shall not erre therein Who also spake by the same Prophet saying I will give Him for a Covenant to the People for a Light to the Gentiles that He may be my Salvation unto the ends of the Earth of whom also in the fulness of the dispensation of time John the Baptist bore Witness testifying Him to be the True LIGHT that lighteth all mankind coming into the World as Christ himself said I am the LIGHT of the World he thot believeth in me shall not abide in Darkness but shall have the Light of Life This is the Way even the true Way of the LORD GOD which I desire through proof your souls may experience And to the end that you may have the true Witness within you of the Power of Holiness which leads into perfect Unity with the Perfect GOD in the Innocent Life of the Lamb of GOD that taketh away the sin of the World I tenderly exhort counsel and advise you to turn your minds unto that Light of the Lamb of GOD which shineth into all your Souls convincing you in all your Consciences of all your sins and joyning your minds unto it in perfect Love of it because it is of the pure Nature of your pure Creator you shal come in due time to find and see assuredly that as that same Light which shineth in all your Consciences is of such a powerful and virtuous Nature as that it not onely searcheth your hearts and tryeth your reins and finds out your most secret sins but also convinceth you as well of the least as of the greatest of your sins so it will likewise free deliver and ease you from the burden of your sins which is the cause of your dissatisfaction and many sorrows because that as it is of GOD pure perfect and altogether virtuous in its nature cannot change from its property nature and vertue but as it convinceth of the least sin being loved and lived in must also deliver from the least sin and being still of the same vertue and nature of GOD convincing your souls of your greatest sins being loved and lived in must also free and deliver you from your greatest sins and being found of so pure and powerful a nature and vertue to free and deliver your souls from your least and from your greatest sins must also of necessity in the same love deliver you from all your sins The which all must confess excepting some in Atheism might say That the perfect Grace and Light of the Alsufficient GOD is an Insufficient Medicine to heal the soul perfectly of all its maladies and infirmities But I am better perswaded of all you that desire the true Knowledge of the true and living God having a sensible Understanding in you that there is such a Light shining into your souls that sheweth you all your sins the which ye may remember you have had from your Childhood because you cannot otherwise say but that from your Childhood it accused you of all your sins in the secrets of your Consciences which no one else could accuse you of but yet ye were not then directed unto it as you are now counselled and therefore could not know the power and virtue because you never proved its force strength and virtue through a perfect love yeelding in obedience unto its motions and often checks of your minds Wherefore this is the happy day of your Visitation wherein it is told you that if you love that LIGHT which shews you the nature of all Temptation unto Evil and joyn unto the LIGHT so as to be guided by the LIGHT which is contrary to all Evil it will deliver you from the end of the Tempter which presents the Temptation by saving you from the Evil which Light you will then know in the invisible power of the holy God which is given you for the perfecting of his Praise in your hearts through the forming and new-creating your hearts into the mind of his own Righteous Spirit which thing you cannot know but through the experience and tryal which in the tryal I am sure as God is holy and that measure of Light in your Consciences is of GOD which is holy vertuous and powerful will purifie you from sin and perfectly save and deliver you from all evil And therefore I must needs conclude that he is most extreamly sinful and desperatly evil that saith he desireth to be delivered from all sin and evil which will not try to experience such a power and virtue of the Grace of GOD given into his soul which is able to save and deliver him from all evil Be ye therefore wise O People unto your own Salvation having had experience of the vanity of your own way and wayes try ye now the Righteous Way of GOD in which you cannot transgress and that because in your wayes you have not found rest to your desirous and thirsty souls which of all things would choose rather to be cloathed with the Righteousness of the living GOD and after tryal by pure obedience in pure and undefiled love if ye find not deliverance from your sins which is the cause of your pressures and burdens and afterwards the peace of your poor souls and satisfaction of your simple tender minds even in fulness of Content and Joy in the Pleasures of Immortal Life which is the end of all your Desires Requests and earnest seekings Then