of War those were only Tythes of the Spoil and not by a Command And Christ was according to the Order of Melchisedeck who puts an end to War and destroyes the Devil its Author and redeems out of the Earth And although we are many thousands yet there is not a Beggar among us neither do we read there were any Beggars in the Primitive-Times which Church denyed Tythes and said The Priesthood was changed that took them together with the Law by which they were set up and also the Commandment which gave them So they who take Tythes and they who pay them are both Anti-christs and deny Christ to be come in the Flesh XII Of the HIGHER POWER Moses who had the Law saw over all Transgression and before it was he saw the state which Adam had in the Garden before he Fell he saw his state in the Fall and how Death reigned from Adam to Moses who received the Law which Law passed over all Transgression which Law did answer to the Witness of God in all which was a Command to people that they might not sin and that they might be kept from sin and so from Death which raigns from Adam to Moses which Law passeth over both sin and Death And this was the Higher Power higher than the Transgression which answereth to the Witness of God against the Rebellions which Witness is true holy righteous and equal which Law is just holy and good a true Measure and just Weight this is called the Higher Power this was added untill the Seed came which is Christ and this Law they were to hear even Moses To whom Wisdom was given to make the Pattern and to set forth Figures and Shaddows under the Law till Christ should come Of which Moses said The Lord will raise up a Prophet like unto me him shall ye hear in all things And when Christ himself came he put an end to all those Types Figures and Shaddows and changable things for in him there is no Shaddow who is called Gods Righteousness So the Law was in use untill the Seed came and Moses who had it said God shall raise up a Prophet like unto him and now he is come which we hear to wit the Seed who is the end of all the Prophets who Prophesied of him and so He is the end of the Law for Righteousness to every one that believe So Believers are Members of the true Church of which Christ is the Head So Christ is the end of the Law for Righteousness to every one that believeth Which Christ purgeth his Floor and burneth up the Chaffe commeth with his Fan Baptizeth with his holy Spirit and Fire and bringeth his Wheat into his Garner And Christ is the end of all Oaths which were under the Law and which was before the Law viz. of Oaths which put an end to strife among Men. XIII Of the KINGDOM of CHRIST how it is held up and how not The Kingdom of Christ is not held up by Carnal Weapons for saith Christ My Kingdom is not of this World therefore his Servants fight not Now all you that profess your selves to be Christians and bringers of glad Tydings yet ye are Fighthers with Clubs and Swords about Religion you are not the Servants of Christ who are fighting for an Earthly Kingdom for in Christs Kingdom we must fight with Spiritual Weapons in Patience and Long-suffering And Christ said to his Disciples who would have had fire to come down from Heaven to consume those that were contrary to them as it was in the dayes of the Prophet Elias That they knew not what spirit they were of So they who destroy Mens Lives and doth not save them they are not according to the mind of Christ nor the way of Christ but are under the Condemnation of it neither do they know what Spirit they are of And so they who are Spiritually wise cannot commit their Souls Bodies nor Spirits into the hands of such XIV Concerning Teachers Prophets Pastors Bishops Presbyters c. Teachers Prophets Pastors Presbyters and Bishops ought not to be such as are given to filthy lucre nor covetous nor given to wine nor strikers nor brawlers nor covetous of earthly things nor to teach for filthy lucre nor to contend about words and fables and vain Phylosophy and beggarly Rudiments and Traditions and Doctrines of men nor their Commandements neither ought they to compel People to observe Dayes Meats and Drinks nor such like things nor to bear Rule by their Means nor they ought not to be such who seek their gain from their quarter such were forbidden and such as teach for money and handfulls of Barly and pieces of Bread and such as teach for lucre were forbidden and opposed by the true Prophets Teachers and Apostles and such as wore long Robes and were called of Men Master and followed and loved Salutations in Markâ—ts and the uppermost Roomes at Feasts and such like all such are out of Christ and against such Christ himself cryed Woe woe who said Ye have one Master even Christ and ye are all Brethren And that it should not be so among them as it was among the Gentiles And so all they who have the Scriptures of Christ of the Apostles and Prophets and not in the Power and Spirit that gave them forth and do not obey it which reproves them that they may come into it but stop their Ears and shut their Eyes against it such are like the Pharisees these cannot worship God in the Spirit neither can they pray in the Spirit nor sing in the Spirit but quench it and burthen it and vex it These are out of the Fellowship of the Spirit and out of the Fellowship of God the Father of Spirits Those erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the Power of God And such go hither and thither to change their Way and go from the Spirit of God in their hearts which would lead them to Christ the Way the Truth and the Life So all such who have the Form of Godliness and are not in the Power and Spirit in which they were in who gave forth the words such are to be denyed And the true Praying is in the Spirit and the true Worship true Praysing and true Singing must be in the Spirit So they who grieve and vex the Spirit and quench it they cannot Worship God in the Spirit XV. An Exhortation to all Christendom to mind the Grace of God to wit the Light All ye People in that part of the World which is called Christendom come to the Light wherewith Christ hath enlightned you that with it you may see your Salvation and may know Christ you Teacher the Captain of your Salvation and the Grace which comes by him which brings your Salvation which Grace teacheth us which Grace is sufficient in weakness and temptations which brings the Salvation and by it we are saved And this Grace teacheth us to deny ungodliness and worldly Lusts and to live soberly and
for those that are of a contrite heart who were for Signes and Wonders to both the Houses of Israel when they shall be confounded ashamed and astonished And before you know sin rooted out and wasted out of your flesh and the Earth shaken and removed out of its place and ye brought into that state which Man was in before he Fell you must know the trembling and shaking of that which is to be shaken and the removing of that which is to be removed before Christ the Seed will appear who is the foundation of many Generations and the Rock of Ages who is the First and the Last Who cannot be shaken neither can be changed So that the whole unjust wicked World hath much to suffer before they come to this they must know the Devils to tremble the Heavens to be shaken and the Earth also before he who cannot be shaken will appear by whom the World was made XX. Concerning the BODY of DEATH It s evident that they who plead for a body of Death and Sin about which the world so earnestly jangle and which they plead for as long as they live upon the earth that they also plead for its Author viz the Divel and this is not to plead for Christ who destroyes him who is the Author of sin and the Body of it Object Now if you Object that John hath said If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us Answ John saith If we say we have not sinned we make him a lyar mark but if we confess and forsake our sins the blood of Jesus Christ the son of God cleanseth us from all sin Further he saith He that is born of God sinneth not neither can he because the Seed of God remains in him Because of which Seed he cannot sin for that Seed keeps the Holy so that the Evill one cannot touch him In this the children of God and the children of the Divel are manifest Whose children of both kinds contends and pleads for his own so there is a time in which men may say that they have sinned and have sin and a time to confess and to forsake sin and then a time to know the blood which cleanseth from all sin and then the Birth born which doth not commit sin and the Seed which remaines in him so that he cannot sin for as I said before it keeps the Holy that the Evil cannot touch him And though Paul cryed out of a Body of Death and of a Warfare yet afterwards he gave thanks to God that he had gotten Victory through Jesus Christ over the Body of Death and that the Law of the Spirit of Life had freed him from the Law of Sin and Death And afterwards the Apostle never complained of a Body of Death but he thanked God that he had obtained Victory through Christ who destroyes the Devil the Author of it who destroys Death and its Body and said that he was freed and that there was no condemnation to them who were in Christ Jesus and that the Life that he now lived was by the Faith of the Son of God which Faith gives Victory over Sin Death and the Devil which sin separates from God by which man hath displeased him by which Faith man is purified and hath victory and pleaseth God and hath access to him and is justified and saved Amen XXI Concerning the word THOU to a Single Person It is the manner among us to use the word Thou to a single person and You to more than one as in the Primitive times among the Saints according to Scripture and the Principle of God placed in every man which distinguisheth many from one and hath the proper word both to singular and plural to wit the singular word to a single person and the plural word to more than one according to the true understanding and Spirit of God in every man and the Testimony of all the Prophets But they are degenerated from the Spirit of God they are degenerated from the Scriptures and from their own Translations calling this manner of speaking Thou to one and You to many nonsence and improper when they themselves are gone from the true understanding which whosoever are in it comprehends them who are degenerated from it XXII Concerning putting of the HAT and Bowing the KNEE and Cringings and Complements To put off Hatts bowing Knees Cringing and Complements are from below and Customes and Manners of the World which shall pass away and never came from God neither is that honour wherewith men ought to honour one another for if all men had honoured and esteemed one another they had been of an higher Spirit than the Spirit of the World and of a more noble and generous Spirit Then neither Man nor Woman throughout all Christendom had received wrong or injury if they had esteemed and honoured one another for he that honours men will in no wise hurt them in this consists Breeding and Civillity And every Knee shall bow to me saith the Lord. For this is the cry Worship God and Fear him and Reverence him And if you Object That some in times past bowed them-themselves to an Angel but in the time of the Gospel which is the Power of God which was before the Fall in the state of Reformation and Restauration John was forbidden to bow to the Angel and the Apostels reproved them that bowed to them And although Jacob bowed for a time to his Brother Esau yet it is not said that he bowed to him all his Life time For it is written The Elder shall serve the Younger So the Elder shall bow among the Cringers and Knee-bowers one to another who will kill and envy one another and to them this is a Mystery XXIII Concerning GOOD MANNERS Evil Words and Evil Communications corrupts Good Manners And if Christendom would learn good Manners they must all come to the Light of Christ Jesus to the Spirit of God in themselves and to the Word of God in their hearts and months which will teach them to leave off Evil Words and will lead them from them and to deny them and this is the way to come to Good Manners But they who live in high Expressions and Complements and full of Evil Words and Flatteries and Dissimulations and call such Good Manners their Words and Works testify and manifest that they are Evil and Corrupt and such whose Manners are evil and corrupt they quench grieve and vex the Spirit of God in themselves and hate the Light and will not come to it because it reproves them of their evil words Such do love envy wrath vanity pride rashness hastiness and yet they are found in flattering Expressions and bowings one to another and they call it Good Manners and Honour when all such things are altogether out of that Honour that comes from above and are those things which the Witness of God in themselves testifieth against and testified in the Name of
of Christ and said Like unto him God would raise up a Prophet him should they hear in all things mark in all things we are to be ordered both inward and outward for hearing Christ by whom all things were made And every one that would not hear this Prophet Christ should be cut off for how should they continue or reign And this was the Word that came to Samuel and made him a Prophet who spake to Ely the Priest and reproved his Sons and the Children of Israel and this was the Word that made Saul to Prophesie and Balaam though they erred from it And this was the Word that made all the Prophets to prophesie and to reprove the kings of Israel and their Priests of their Superstition and Idolatrous ways in seting up Groves and Images in High places and reproved all their Monthly Prognostications who spoke and acted from them and not from the Lord. And this was the Word that came to Isaiah by which he Prophesied of Christ and of his Preaching and of his Sufferings and by which Word he reproved the Shepherds which were as greedy dumb Dogs could never have enough seeking their gain from their Quarter and by this Word he saw that all the Children of God should be taught of God and established in Righteousness and Peace and though many tongues should rise up in Judgment against them yet those that were taught of God should condemn them all this power should be given to his children And many weapons formed against them should not prosper God would restrain them And also he saw them that were cast out that trembled at Gods Word to whom God would appear to their Glory and to the shame and to the confounding of them that cast them out for his Names sake as it is at this day And this was the Word of God that made Jeremiah a Prophet by which he saw the New Covenant by which Word he was said to reprove the People and Princes of the filthy and horrible thing commited in the Land that the Priests Preached for Hire and the Prophets prophesied falsly and for reproving them for their Superstition and Idollatry they struck him and put him in the Stocks and Prison and persecuted him in the Dungeon till his Persecutors were carried into Captivity And by the Word Jeremiah saw the number of Seventy yeares of his Persecutors being in Babylons Captivity Elijah by the Word was made a Prophet and by the Word reproved Ahab and Jezebel for their Idolatry and worshiping of Images For which Words sake they persecuted him and the rest of the Prophets and was not he fed of the Ravens by the River And did not they seek to take away his Life and did not he think all the Lords Prophets had been killed and he left alone yet did not the Lord say to him he had reserved so many Thousands that had not bowed the knee to Baal And Elisha the Plowman by the Word was made a Prophet and forsook his Plough and by the Word reproved the Idollatry in his Age of Priests and People And by the Word was Ezekiel made a Prophet by which Word he reproved the Shepherds of Israel that made a prey upon the people and taught them for the Fleece and by the Word he saw that God would bring the people from them that they should be made a pray upon no longer and would gather them from their Mouths and set one Shepherd over them Christ which is witnessed and by the Word he reproved false Prophets that taught for handfuls of Barly and peices of Bread and daubed with untempered Morter and sewed Pillows under the Armholes and by the Word he saw the Patern of the Temple and the return of the Jews And by the Word Daniel was made a Prophet and saw Christ and his Kingdom and how the Saints should take his Kingdom and by the Word he saw such that should rise up against the People of God and by the Word he numbred the yeares of Christ to his time 499 yeares and of his Death and how he should end the Sacrifices and how that Christ should bring up Everlasting Righteousness and put an end to Sin and end the Prophets and Seal up their Visions And by the Word Micah was made a Prophet by which he cryed against the Priests that preached for Hire and the Prophets that prophesied for Money and the Judges that judged for Rewards and such as preached Peace to the people that put in their mouths like the Priests in these times and when they did not they prepared war against them and chopt their flesh and gnawed their Bones as the Priests in this day and time have done but Micah saw by the Word that the Sun was gon down upon such Prophets and Priests and they should have no Vision nor Answer from God therefore such are against Revelations and Visions on whom the Sun is set and gon down upon and then the Night comes upon them And by the Word was Amos the Herdsman made a Prophet who was a gatherer of Fruits and likewise all the rest of the Prophets who spoke forth Divine things and reproved the Superstition and Idolatry in their time and day And by the Word did all the Prophets speak forth Divine things which Word brought them into the Divine Nature and Mind which Word Hammered and Cut down that which corrupted their natures and this was the Word that made so many Fisher-men Preachers of the Gospel which is the Power of God And this was the Word which made Matthew the Toll-gatherer Luke the Physitian and Paul the Tent-maker Ministers and Preachers of the Gospel and Power of God And this was the Word which made Peter to see Joels Prophesie how that God would power out his Spirit upon all Flesh and Sons and Daughters should Prophesie and Young men should see Visions and Old men Dream Dreams and the powering forth of the Spirit upon Servants and Hand-maids that every one should have somthing to speak to the Glory of God And now the Priests and proud Prelates and Bishops and Popes though you have made a trade of the Saints words and the Apostles and Prophets words and gotten a deal of money by them which were fishermen and shepherds words from the Word Yet nevertheless if a company of Shepherds Herdsmen Fishermen Tent-makers and Toll-gatherers should come amongst you to Preach you would say Away with these Mechanick Fellows they have not served seaven yeares Apprentiship at the Colledges which we have set up to make Ministers therefore they are not to set up because they have not served their Apprentiships What say the Shepherds Tentmakers Physitians and Tolegatheres Do you make a Trade of our Friends words who were of our Occupation that never served Apprentiships in Colledges before they spake forth the words you make a Trade of what will you make a Trade of our Friends words who were of our Occupation Away with you to Work and away with
seed said he was come to preach deliverance to the captive and to heal the broken hearted and to seek that which was lost and to bring again that which was driven away and this was his work to redeem to man that which man had lost Now consider what man hath lost and I shall leave this as Querie with all both Priests and People who deny perfection from sin here whether Christ is but a part of Redeemer or a perfect and full Redeemer and which is the place betwixt Heaven and Earth where man shall be made free or cleansed from sin if not upon the Earth seeing that no unholy nor unclean thing can enter the Kingdom of God But who can witness this hath passed through death and that hath none who plead for sin neither can they witnesse Christ come but for some simple ones sake I shall speak more clearly of this for it is a great delusion of the Devil to keep people in sin to tell them they shall never be made free from sin so long as they are upon the Earth and brings this Scripture to maintaine it He that saith he hath no sin deceiveth himselfe and is a lyar but he tells them Christ dyed for all and if they can but lay hold on him by Faith he will not impute their sins unto them though they sin dayly for the righteous man sins seven times a day and all the holy men of God sinned and so he takes Scripture to maintain his kingdome and this he delivers by the mouth of his Ministers which he sends abroad to deceive the Nations leading people in blindnesse full of sin and corruption ever learning and never comes to the knowledge of the Truth nor never shall doe for them and here he carries them on an easie delight some way to the flesh but the end is death and so heals them up in their sin with a feigned formed faith which perisheth and here they settle upon the Lees and set up a rest in the Devils kingdom which is sin and here many are meerly blinded and hardened and all tendernesse of conscience is done away But you shall finde that he that sooths you up in this Faith is the greatest enemy of your souls and whosoever witnesseth Christ their Redeemer shall witnesse that he is come to destroy the works of the Devil which is sin and to redeem out of the fall out of sin and out of the Devils kingdome which is sin and all sins in the Devils Kingdome which is in the fall but for this end Christ is manifested to destroy the works of the Devil and to redeem out of the fall out of the Devils Kingdome into his own Kingdome and no unclean thing can enter therein Rev. 21.27 but none can witness this Redemption but through the death and through the Cross which Paul rejoyced in by which he was crucified to the World and the World to him Rom. 6.6 and had put off the body of sin and was madâ— free from the Law of sin which once warred against his mind which once he complained of which Scripture the unlearned which are strangers from his conditions who reads them with the carnal eye now wrest them to their own destruction J. Parnel Concerning Womens Speaking in the Church WHat Woman is it that is not permitted to Speak in in the Church Is it she that is come to have Christ Head in her or is it she that is not come that length but is learning and so is to learn in silence Or may not Christ speak through the Woman when he is Head over all if not then why did Paul that said I suffer not a Woman to speak in the Church allow of Women as his Fellow-Labourers and Helpers in the Gospel it appears that she was on her travel and he commended her to the Church What did they travel about or help him in what was that labour and help Rom. 16.1 2.3 Why did Paul suffer Phillips Daughters to Prophesie were not they Prophetesses and had not they the Spirit of Prophesie And wherefore is the Spirit of Prophesie given but to edefie the Church It is commended by Paul above many other gifts see 1 Cor. 14.1 Follow after Charity and desire after Spiritual gifts but rather that ye may Prophesie And see the 3d. verse But he that Prophesieth speaketh unto men to Edification to Exhortation and Comfort Now seeing he that Prophesieth hath the Spirit of Prophesie and seeing it is through the Spirit of Prophesie that he speaketh to Man to Edification Exhortation and Comfort Why may not the same Spirit of Prophesie being head in the Woman as in Philips Daughters seeing Women are made Prophetesses thereby I say why may not the same Spirit of Prophesie put forth the Female to speak to Men to Edification Exhortation and Comfort Or else were not the gift received in vain if it were not to be used and if it be to be used Then must it not be for the service of the Church for Edification Exhortation and Comfort Is not the Widdow without an Husband was not Israel that went from her Spiritual Husband called an Harlot or a Whorish Woman And were not there many Males and Females to make up this Woman that had forsaken her Husband Is not Christ the Husband Is not his Church the Spouse of Christ Is not he as well the Husband of the Males as of the Females and of the Females as of the Males And are not the Priests and Bishops of that Whorish Woman that is gonâ— from the Husband Christ who are to be silent And also the Woman that is in the Church which may be said to be in the Church and yet but in learning and is not learned she is not fit to teach but is to be silent and learn in silence until she be learned and then Christ the Husband in the Male and Female the Head in the Male and Female is one and it is he the One in all both in the Male and Female that speakes and the Male as well as the Female is that Woman that is not to speak who hath not learned Christ and is not made subject to him but such who have learned him whether Male or Female he may speak in them and then it is not the Woman but CHRIST the Man that speaketh in the Male and in the Female And whoso denies this disprove it if he can And what will ye do with that in Joel 2.28 If you will not suffer Christ to speak in the Females then you will contradict Joel's Prophesie and so will judge him a lying Prophet who spake in the Name of the Lord saying I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh yea it is said that Daughters shall Prophesie as well as Sons no distinction made Vpon the Hand-maids in those dayes will I pour out my Spirit and when was this fulfilled if it was not among the Apostles If Paul had stopt Women and Maids that had
and Demonstration of Gods holy Spirit or is thy own understanding and will at work of it self in searching into the Scriptures If the wrong birth the wrong wisdom the wrong understanding be at work it can gather but that which will feed and strengthen it self and if thou beest not in Christ and dost not read in Christ the vail is not taken away from thee for the vail is only done away in him but thou readest and walkest in the oldness of thy apprehensions upon the Letter and not in the newness of the Spirit and so knowest neither the Scriptures nor the Power of God what ever thou professest to men or dreamest concernning thy self For it is no other indeed Thy knowledge thy apprehensions thy faith thy hope thy peace thy joy being out of the compass of the pure living Truth in which the Substance the vertue the kernel of all is comprised and comprehended for ever are but as so many dreams O that men that are any whit tender and have any sincere desires in them towards the Lord could read that one Scripture Psal 43.3 4. sensible and experimentally O send out thy Light and thy Truth let them lead me let them bring me unto thy holy Hill and to thy Tabernacles what did not David know how to go to the Hiâ—l and Tabernacles of God without a particular sending forth of Light and Truth from God to lead him thither Then may men go unto the Altar of God unto God their exceeding joy and witness his Hill and House their dwelling-place when God by his Light and Truth sent forth from him into them leads them thither The Scriptures are words whose chief end drift and service is to bring men to the Word from which the Scriptures came And when men are there then they are in the Life of the Scriptures and witness the fulfilling of the Scriptures even the executing of the righteous judgments of God upon that spirit mind and nature in them which is contrary to his image and the fulfilling of the Promises and sure Mercies which belong to Christ the Seed and to them who are gathered into and abide in Christ the Seed Here 's the Covenant the new Covenant That which is said or those things which are said concerning the Covenant in the Scriptures are but descriptions of the new Covenant but Christ within the Hope of glory the Spirit within the Fear within the Power of Life within breaking down and reigning over the power of sin and death so that the Lord is served in the dominion and power of his own Life in righteousness and holiness before him out of the fear of sin and death all the dayes of our lives so that captivity can lead captive nor break the Souls peace no more nay not so much as make afraid those that keep their Habitation on Gods holy Mountain here is the Covenant indeed the strength and vertue whereof is witnessed in the Soul as the Soul feels the power of Life revealed in it and is made subject by the power to Christ who reigns in righteousness love mercy and Peace in the hearts of those whom he redeems out of the earthly nature and spirit up to the Mind and Spirit of his Father And here the Psalms Hymns and spiritual Songs the pure Songs the Song of Moses the Song of the Lamb are sung to the Father of Spirits to the Redeemer of Israel which never were sung nor can be sung in any part of Babylon but all those Songs are but Dreames of the night which will be turned into howling and bitter lamentation when the whore that which hath whored from God and is not in the wisdom of his Spirit what ever she may pretend is stripped and the nakedness of her Profession and Religion with all her Duties and Ordinances as she calls them made manifest Concerning the GOSPEL MINISTRATION IF the Gospel be not a Ministration of Words or Letters but of the Spirit Life and Power and if it was the intent of God that men should not stick in Word or Testimonies concerning the things but come to the thing it self and live in the Sons Life and Power and feel the Son living in them Then they are greatly mistaken who think to gather a Rule to themselves out of the Testimonies and Declarations of things in the Scriptures and do not wait upon the Lord to receive the Spirit it self to become their Rule Guide and Way For these are all one The Truth is the Way The Truth which lives and abides in the heart where it is received and entertained is the Way the Rule is the Guide For God is one There are many names but the thing is one The Life the Power the Wisdom in the Father Son and Spirit is all one yea they themselves are one Perfectly one not at all devided or separated but where the Father is the Son is and where the Son is the Spirit is and where the Spirit is there is both the Father and the Son who tabernacle in man in the day of the Gospel And where these are there that is which is to be preferred before all words which was afore them and is in Nature Spirit and Glory above them He that hath the Son hath Life even the Life Eternal which the words testifie of He that hath the Son hath him which is true and he that is in the Son is in him that is true and abiding there cannot be deceived but he that is not there is deceived let him apprehend and gather out of the Scriptures what he can O how is God glorified and how is Redemption and real Salvation of the Soul witnessed in this dispised Dispensation of Truth which God hath held forth in these latter dayes Blessed be the Name of the Lord who hath hid this pure dispensation of Life from the eye of the prudent worldly wise part in every man revealing it only to the babish simplicity which is of his Son and which lives in him and by him Concerning Christs being manifested without and His being also manifested within and how both are owned by them that know the Truth IT is objected against us who are called Quakers That we deny Christ and look not to be saved by him as he was manifested without us but look only to be saved by Christ in us To which this is in my heart to answer to such as singly desire satisfaction therein We do indeed expect to be saved yea and not only so but do already in our several measures witness Salvation by the revelation and operation of the Life of Christ within us yet not without relation to what he did without us For all that he did in that Body of Flesh was of the Father and had its place and service in the Will and according to the Counsel of the Father But the knowledg and beliefe of that since the dayes of the Apostles hath been very much held in the unrighteousness and in the separation