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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41026	An alarum of truth sounded forth to the nations, or, The way of truth from the way of errour, plainly manifested and declared and the true worship of God (which is in the spirit) from the false worships of the world, distinguished, whereby people may come to know which way they are in, and what worship they are in, and what spirit they are of, and led by ... : also an invitation (of love) to all people, and professors of all sorts and sects, to turn in their minds to the light of Christ Jesus in them ... / written by a friend to truth, called Henry Fell.	H. F. (Henry Fell)	1660 (1660)	Wing F603; ESTC R38863	48,671	52

been talking of Faith and Hope and Sanctification and Redemption and Adoption and Justification by Christ and by his Righteousnesse while you are in the Unrighteousness and in the Sin and Transgression who would have Christs righteousnesse to be a Cloake and Cover for your sins and would be justified by Christ in your sins who came to save his peopie from sin and to destroy sin and to destroy the Devill who is the Author of it and he came to take away all Cloaks and covers for sin who saith himselfe If I had not come and spokon to you ye had not had sin but now have ye no Cloake for your sin so he it is that hath spoken to you once and againe but ye have not regarded and he doth speak to you and reproves you for sin all of you secretly in your consciences and for your evill deeds by the Light of his Spirit with which he hath enlightened you all who saith Except ye beleeve that I am he ye shall dye in your sins and then there will be no covering for you for your shame and nakedness will be seene though ye may call to the Rocks and Mountaines to fall upon you and cover you But the woe is unto all who are covered with a covering and not of my Spirit saith the Lord and woe will be for ever to all such who want the covering of Gods Spirit at the last day Therefore all people turne in your minds to the Light of Christ Jesuswithin you which doth reprove you for sin and never consents to the doing of any unrighteous thing and beleeve in the Light and be obedient to it for obedience to it is life Then will ye come to put off that and be uncovered of that which ye have been covered with which the woe is too brings the trouble and sorrow and anguish upon your soules and which will bring shame and confusion and woe and torment for ever except it be cast off and separated from And who come to the Light of Christ and beleeve in it and love it which is the Law of the Spirit of life with it they come to be quickened and made alive unto God and made dead unto sin and so come to be covered with the covering which the woe is not too for the Spirit is Life because of Righteousnesse but the body is dead unto sin As the Apostle said How can we who are dead unto sin live any longer therein Mark They who were quickned which Paul writ to who were once dead in sins and trespasses children of wrath as well as others these were made alive unto God but they were first dead unto sin and so could not live any longer therein except they would goe about to build again that which before they had destroyed and so make themselves transgres7s ors 2 Gal. 18. Now this the Saints said and witnessed who were made alive unto God and quickned by his Spirit dwelling in them and made free from the Law of Sin and Death but now this is contrary to all the Apostate Christians the Priests and Professors in this Age who say That they must live in Sin and have the Body of Sin as long as they be here and none can be perfect here nor be made free from sin but they sin in thought word and deed dayly and say they had need to pray for the forgivenesse of the sins of their Prayers and the best of their holy Duties is full of sin and the most righteous doth sin c. and so teach people These I say never yet did know sin destroyed nor never yet come out of the transgression nor our of the fallen Adams state nor we yet re-quickned but are still dead in their sins and trespasses and therefore they are not like to shew people the way out of sin or how to be freed from sin for they themselves are still in the Death the dead not raised yet and therefore hath all their preaching and praying been in vaine both to themselves and others and their faith vain also and they are yet in their sins even as the Apostle said If the dead arise not then is our Preaching vaine and your faith is vain also and ye are still in your sins Now you I say who long have been called Christians and you who have professed your selves to be Ministers of Christ and yet are walking according to the Course of this World not redeemed out of the World nor separated from the World but dead in sins and trespasses unquickned yet unmade alive unto God in the Death yet where all the World lyes who are in the wickednesse your conditions are far unlike to the Saints conditions who spoke sorth the Scriptures ye who are not yet come from among the dark world who sit in the darknesse and in the shadow of Death and love darkness rather than Light because their deeds are evill And will not these Teachers and Professors abide with them in the darknesse And doth it not appear that they are resolved upon it who say they must have sin and cannot be freed from it here but as long as they live here they must carny a body of sin about with them and a body of Death and so they walk in the shadow of it and sit in the shadow of Death and are not yet come to the Light nor will they come to the Light that they might see a way out of it but love their evill deeds rather than the Light so there they are sate down in the darknesse and remaine in the Death untill this day and will not arise and hearken to the Voyce of Christ Jesus whom God hath given for a Covenant for a Light unto the Gentiles to open the blind eyes and to unstop the deafe eares and to bring the Prisoners oat of Prison and them that sit in darknesse out of the Prison house and out of the House of bondage where they are all in Egypt still in the Land of darknesse and it hath been and is still the worke of the hireling Priests to cry peace to the people there and when any of the Servants of the Lord have been sent by him to call people our of the darknesse to come to the Light of Christ which he hath enlightned them withall that by it they might be led out of spirituall Sodome and Egypt where our Lord Jesus Christ hath been and is crucified afresh and put to open shame I say the Priests and Teachers they have stood up to oppose and have been like Jannes and Jambres who withstood Moses and would have hindred the people from going our of Egypt even to keep people in the darknesse and by the flesh-pors of Egypt where they may eat and drink with the drunken and satissie their lusts and yet notwithstanding tell the people that they are the Children of God and Christians and that none can be free from sin and the best have their sailings and

agreement with hell and to keep people in the death and in the darknesse and errour which they called Light and Truth and none must remove from the place where he sate in darknesse and in the shadow of death this hath been the Priests work for many years past to keep people there in spiritual Aegypt and darkness So the Leaders of the people have caused them to erre and they have told people that these Laws were the Discipline of the Church to keep out errour and to preserve the Gospel and to keep Heresie from spreading Now this hath been their cry and their pretence whilest they have been keeping out Truth thereby and limitting the Spirit of God to this or that form so that Truth hath not had its liberty which is only able to keep people from Errour and Heresie And what Errour and Heresie and wickednesse is there that can be named that is not amongst them And you Oh ye Preists and Teachers notwithstanding all your outward Laws who have had all these fair pretences to keep up your Forms of worships withour the power even by your outward Laws and carnal weapons as Stocks and Whips and Prisons and Courts and Leagues and Covenants and Oaths and Protestations and Assemblies of Divines so called and Confessions of Faith and Directories to worship by c. All this hath been but to hold up your Trade to preach for hire and filthy lucre and for your bellyes and to bear rule by your means over the people and to keep them still in the house of bondage and darknesse in AEgypt to labour in the Brick and so have been as the Taskmasters over them who would have their tale of brick and would allow them no straw but they must go abroad to get it and so have oppressed the people and have been cruel so that ye have made them to groan under their burthens and there was none to help them And now the Lord hath heard their cry and is risen and come to deliver his people from under you even from under the mouths of such devouring Wolves who have made a prey upon them And have cryed peace to people in their sins and wickednesse and have had mens persons in admiration because of advantage and have kept and do keep many there Now ye that have done so have not been the Ministers of Christ but of Antichrist not of righteousnesse but of unrighteousnesse and Messengers of Satan though ye have transformed your selves into several forms and shapes but your end is seen and your reward will be according to your work For though the strong man armed have kept the Palace and so the things therein hath been in peace yet now a stronger then he is come who is in us even stronger then he who is in the world And this is he whom we preach Christ Jesus the true Light who hath enlightned every one that cometh into the world which convinceth them of sin and reproves for sin and speaks not peace to them there but sends a sword to take it away and leads them out of sin who beleeves and obeys him and this is he who saves his people from their sins and destroys the work of the Devil And he is come and appeared in his Servants and Ministers as of old To call sinners to repentance and to turn from sin unto God and from the darknesse to the Light and from the power of Satan unto God that so they might receive remission of sins and an inheritance amongst them that are sanctified Which many who have been turned and are turned by them can witnesse the inheritance and an entrance into it Glory be unto the Lord God of Heaven and Earth for ever Therefore do I exhort and warn every one of you in the fear of the Lord to turn in your minds to the Light of Christ Jesus within you Who is given for a Light to the Gentiles and for a new Covenant to the house of Israel where the Law is written in the heart that so ye may come to read there what is in your hearts to know Good from evil and the just from the unjust and Truth from error the right way from the wrong For the Light will shew you if your minds be turned to it For the Law is Light saith Solomon and it is a Light unto my feet and a Lamp unto my paths saith David And again he saith The Law of the Lord is perfect converting the soule The Testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple The Statutes of the Lord are right rejoycing the heart The Commandements of the Lord is pure enlightning the eyes The fear of the Lord is clean and endureth for ever The Judgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether By them thy servant is forwarned and in keeping of them there is great reward And again saith he Oh how doe I love thy Law it is my delight it is my meditation day and night Whereby he became witer then all his Enemies and more understanding then all his Teachers And this is it which gives the knowledge of sin and convinceth of sin and reproves the world for sin and condemneth for sin them that beleeve not And this Law is Spiritual Holy Just and Good and this will let you see that ye are carnal sold under sin and found in the sin and transgression of it and in the corruption whilest ye have been promising of your selves liberty and saying ye are justified by Christ and so would have made him the Minister of sin Gal. 2.17 while yet ye are under the Law and the Law hath dominion over you and condemns you for your sins and evil deeds As the Apostle saith Know ye not for I speak to them that know the Law how that the Law hath dominion ever a man so long at he ●●●eth For Paul saith Rom. 7. I was alive without the Law once but when the Commandement came sin revived and I dyed That slew him and so that which was ordained unto life became death unto him he being in the transgression of it and so dying unto sin he was dead to the Law not under it for then he faith I through the Law am dead to the Law but alive unto God So that which slew him and made him dead unto sin brought him unto Christ Jesus who is the Life the end of the Law for righteousnesse to every one that beleeves So the Law was our School-master to bring us to Christ saith he Gal. 3.24 So who are come to Christ they are come out of the transgression they are come to live unto God they are come to Christ who sulalls it Who is the Way the Truth and the Life and they are not under the Law but under Grace For the law was given by Moses but Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ And now to the witnesse of God in you all doe I speak who

sect or opinion or judgement or Religion soever they be of who deny the Light which Christ Jesus bath Lighted every one withall to be ●ufficient to lead to salvation 〈◊〉 I say they know not that which makes free from sin and death and brings to life no can they beleeve that when it is declared to them but say none can be free from sin on this fide of the grave and account it errour to say that any can be free from sin here or be righteous here without sin and say the most righteous man sins and he that is borne of God sin which is Blasphemy so to say and this is and hath been their doctrine in the world amongst the Priests and profelsors the Antichrists and Anrichristians who are out of the life of Christ and the true Christians that now their nakednesse appeares to thein shame because they have not submitted to the righteousnesse by faith in Christ Jesus that they might be covered with it who is the true Light to beleeve in the Light that by it they might be led unto Christ Jesus from whence it comes who is Gods righteousness and thereby know the righteousness of the Law fulfilled in them and know the kingdome of god within which cometh not with observation as Christ saith and the righreousness in which it stands and the power in which it stands is within and the Law of the Spirit which makes free from the Law of sin and death and the life which is eternall which is the gist of God through Jesus Christ in whom the Law of the Spirit of life is But now all who are pleading for sin and say None be free from sin here they are still under the Law of sin and death which Paul sayd he was made free from Sin is still a Law to them and they are servants to it and so they are free from righteousness as the Apostle said While ye were servants of sin ye were free from righteousness but being made free from sin ye became the servants of righteousness That at sin had reigned unto death so righteousness might reigne unto life through Jesus Christ our Lord And againe His servants ye are whom ye obey whether sin unto death or obedience unto righteousness Therefore come all ye Teachers and Professors of the World what say you Can none be made free from Sin and Death here while he is upon Earth what is there not a living man amongst you all who is quickned Is there none of you come up out of the Grave that can truly say Oh Death where is thy Sting Oh Grave where is thy Victory Thanks be to God who hath given me Victory over Death What are you all as Graves which men go over unawares Have none of you heard the Voyce of the Son of God yet which they that hear shall live Are you all dead in your sins and trespasses unquickned yet in the Fall in the first Adams state in the Disobedience by which Sin entare dinto the World and Death by Sin Are you all there still where Death reigns Is there none come to Life which is through the Obedience to Christ Jesus the second Adam the quickening Spirit the Lord from Heaven Have none of you the Word of God abiding in you which Word is Quick and Powerfull and the enterance of it gives Life Come forth and answer for your selves What are you all shur up in the unbelief untill this day and have not beleeved in him whom God hath sent who is the Resurrection and the Life who saith he that beleeveth in me shall live for ever he shall never dye for he hath Life in himself and he gives Life to every one that beleeveth What are you all searching the Scriptures which testifies of Christ and thinke to have eternall Life in them and you not yet come to Christ that you may have Life him whom the Scriptures testifies of and saith He is the trus Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the World that all might beleeve in the Light and become Children of Light and he who followeth him should not walke in darknesse but he shall have the Light of Life and know Christ Jesus who is the way so the Father the Truth and the Life who saith No man cometh unto the Father but by me I am come a Light into the World c. What doe you not beleeve Christ Or doe you thinke to find another Way to the Father an easier Way then Christ or a broader Way a Way which is not a Crosse to your Wills or a Way where you may walke your selves without a Guids that ye may goe whither you list but that 's not the Way to God as Christ told Peter when he was young he girt himself and went whither he would c. Answer me plainly to these Queries Oh ye Priests and Professors who have been so long talking of the Scriptures but have been out of the Truth and out of the Life of Righteousnesse and out of the Light and out of the Way who have been wandering in the Darknesse not knowing whether you goe and seeking the Living amongst the Dead and are erred from the Truth in your hearts and hold it in the unrighteousnesse professing the true Words but are and have been out of the Truth and so could never be established there for none can ever be established but in the Truth and in the Righteousnesse But ye have been out of the Life and so are dead men still and are yet in the Graves and have not heard his Voyce that should raise you up yet because you have not hearkened diligently that your souls might live though you have been long talking of him and searching for him without in the Observations and have been saying Lot here is Christ and Lot he is there in this Form or in that Forme of Worship and in this or that Ordinande so Death hith heard of the fame of Wisdome and hath been talking of the fame of Wisdome which is justisied of her Children but ye who only have been talking of Wisdome and speaking of it while you were in the Death and did not learne the Way to Life ye are but soolish Children and are not justified for you have all been but as the foolish Virgins the best of you who have had Lamps but wanted Oyle and so ye are in the darke still your Lamps are not burning nor your Lights shining neither hath your Light so shined before men that they may see your good workes and glorifie the Father But you have all professed that which ye did not possesse and so are found in the hypocrisie and your righteousnesse hath been like the Righreousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees whom Christ told should in is wise enter into the Kingdome of Heaven Now all that are but there will be shut out though you have

in the world and is still they that depart from iniquity are made a prey of and have been even the innocent and harmelesse Sheep and Lambs of Christ have been rent and torn by the Wolves who did appear like Sheep in the Sheeps cloathing and had the Saints words in their mouths and have made havock and spoyl of their goods and imprisoned their bodies where the life of Christ hath been made manifest in any measure which is the Divine nature which the Saints and true Christians were made partakers of as ye may read in the Scriptures These I say have been made a prey upon and persecuted in all ages since the days of the Apostles by the Priests and Professors which doth appear that though they have had the Sheeps cloathing on yet they were inwardly ravening Wolves and by their fruits they are seen and now do appear plainly in this our age and day wherein never more profession hath been made since the days of the Apostles then now hath been of late years and yet their fruits have been as bad as the worst Even persecuting the innocent to death without cause devouring of them and making a prey of them and accounting of them as sheep for the slaughter all the day long These are not nor never were the fruits of the true Christians who were called Sheep of Christ for it is contrary to their nature to persecute any to whip or imprison any to kill or destroy any to bite and devour and rend and tear to peeces like Dogs and Wolves as this Generation hath done of Priests and Professors But now this is not contrary to the Wolves nature to devour and rent and tear nor contrary to their nature who come in sheeps cloathing for the fleece and divine for mony and preach for hire and their gain from their quarter and for their filthy lucre and for their bellyes it 's not contrary to these who are inwardly ravening Wolves and these are the fruits by which ye may know them and they are known now by all the Lambs and Sheep of Christ who are his stock which he hath gathered from under their mouths who do deny them therefore they follow after them to devour them and these are children of Light who doe beleeve in the Light of Christ and follow him and know his voyce from the strangers For those who are in the Wolves nature are strangers to Christ and alienated from his life and erred from his Spirit And so whilest we were in the darknesse and in the Alienation from the life of God and strangers to the Covenant of promise as they are now then we did sollow them and their voyce was not strange to us for we were one with them in the same nature but then enemyes in out minds to God and without Christ and without God in the world But after that we came to believe in the Light of Christ and to hear Christs voyce and to follow him then we turned from the strangers and would not hear them the Priests any longer for the children of the Light see them and bear testimony against them but who are not yet come to the Light of Christ in them they are still in the darknesse and in the night and are in Babylon still nor are not yet come to know a separation between the night and the day the Light and the darkness Truth and Error Christs voyce from the Strangers voice between the good Shepheards voyce and the Theeves and Robbers voyce who come not but to kill and teale and carry away see John 10. And these come in the night and so ye being in the nigh cannot see them Now they that steal steal in the night and these doe rob and spoyl ye and dovour the widdows houses and makes merchandize of your soule and ye see them not and so they kill and steale and carry away undiscovered And make ye spend your money for that which is nor bread and your labour for that which doth not satisfie and so keeps you allwayes labouring and never satisfyed and allwayes learning and never come to the knowledge of the truth for who knows the truth the Truth sets them free and gives them ease and rest from their burthens and labours and peace and satisfies their fouls But while people are in the sins and divers lusts and your Teachers tells you that ye must be there as long as ye are here upon earth you know not truth which sets free from sin which loads and burthens the soul and keeps it in death where there is no peace nor rest nor satisfaction to it and so it cannot praise God for its the living that praiseth God the dead praiseth him not nor they that goe down to the pit And so ye are all as a company of weak silly women who are laden with sins and divers lusts all in the transgression and in the death not a living man amongst you to speak and to pray in your Church But its the woman in the transgression and so all is in the disorder and confusion where the woman Rules and Exerciseth Authority over the man He that can receive this let him And thus ye have been and are cheated and deceived by the Deceivers which are come amongst you the blind guids who leads you blind into the Ditch and ye love to have it so and love the darknesse and will not come to the Light because your does be evill least it should reprove them And there you remaine blind and weak under them uncured for they are all Physitians of no value But now the children of the light sees them how they do deceive and cozen and cheat you and they declare against them and they tell you of it and shew you plainly how and wherein ye are deceived by them and yet ye will not beleeve them nor receive their testimony and so if ye will be deceived ye are like to be so and if ye perish your destruction will be of your selves for the Lord will be clear of all your blood and we shall be clear also who have warned you to come out of Babylon the Mother of Harlots the false Church and be separate from her and touch no unclean thing and the Lord will receive you But if ye be partakers of her sins and trade with her Merchants and buy of their Merchandize ye will partake of her plagues that is coming upon her and that speedily and the time is at hand and the Saints shall rejoyce at her fall when her judgement and torment shall come upon her but her Merchants shall howl and mourn for her for by her were they made rich And these things are seen and made manifest to the children of Light glory and honour and living praises be unto the Lord for evermore The hidden things of darknesse is making manifest and coming to be preached upon the house top and all