power of his Spirit taking us out of the power of Sin and Conforming us to himself and to bring forth the Fruits of his Spirit in Truth and Righteousness this doth not Blaspheme but in such he is Honoured who shew forth his vertues and walk in his Spirit such exalt his Name This was Pauls work when he had left off to Blaspheme Now come to your Rule and be tryed it tells you who are Christs and who are Antichrists Deceivers and Blasphemers and they are known by their Works and not by their Words It saith They that are Christs have Crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts And if Christ be in you the body is dead because of sin And as many as have been Baptized into Christ have put on Christ And as you have received Christ Jesus so walk in him And he that saith he abideth in him ought himself so to walk even as he walked and ye are all one in Christ Jesus And if any man be in Christ he is a new Creature and all things are of God And he that saith he knows Christ and keeps not his Commandements is a Liar And this is the Blasphemer who covers himself with the words of Truth but is an enemy to the Life Now here is the testimony of Truth lay it to the testimony of your lives and measure your selves therewith and we will measure our selves therewith also And let Truth judge the Deceiver and Liar and Blasphemer by his fruits and where he hath his Seat What will Truth say where Covetousness is found Have such Crucified the Affections Have Proud men Crucified their Lusts Have Wantons Crucified the Flesh Have Swearers Liars and cursed Speakers put off the body of Sin Or is it dead where these works are alive Where there is Envie Strife Suites and Contentions Is this to put on Christ or to be all one in him Where Flattering Scorning Back-biting and Slandering is and the Vessels filled with such Wickedness are all things of God And are such Baptized into his Death or planted into his Resurrection And are not they Blasphemers who Persecute others for Conscience towards God But to Preach Christ to be the Light of the World and the Hope of Glory in the Saints our Life our Righteousness and Perfection and to Suffer for it is not Blasphemy Now here is your Measure and with Truth are you measured weighed and tryed Your Baptismes your Communion your Redemption your Death and Resurrection and your life Eternal And in the light you and we are seen and with the life thereof you are found who bring forth these fruits to be under the power of sin unredeemed and out of Christ the life deceiving your own Souls and others of the righteous Inheritance amongst them that are Sanctified and blaspheming the holy Name of Christ and grieving his holy Spirit by professing that in his Name which you have not and by your evil deeds acted under his Name whereby it is polluted which was not given for a Cover to such Works In this Holy Name of Christ hath God placed his Covenant and Life and in these Holy things did Holy men and women meet with God worship him and dwell with him in Spirit as his house in which he was seen and walked And are these now become a cover for a Den of thieves a habitation and hiding for all the abominations now acted in the world Is not this the height of Blasphemy and Deceit thus to prophane his Holy Name and turn it into a lye as though all these abominable things were therein or that he owned such as live in them Now lay your words and your works in the true Ballance and weigh them with the Words of Life and Power of his Name and measure of Truth and Honesty and lye not against the Truth But you that are under the power of these wickednesses and in bondage thereto who see and are not ashamed to say you cannot but commit these abominations while you live do not lye against the work of Christ in saying he hath Redeemed you when you are yet in this bondage neither count his blood an unholy thing in saying you are washed nor his Work imperfect nor mix it with the work of the Devil but give to each his own that thereby they may be known and in what Name every thing is wrought For now is Truth come to try you and he is appearing who will have his own and nothing but his own under what pretence soever Now is the Heir of Righteousness come to seek the fruit of his own stand still you that use those high words against others and see how the Lord is dealt with amongst you at this day Did not he plant a Holy Vine to bring forth to himself of his own Nature and Image And have you let this be over-run with weeds while you have been asleep in your sloth and idleness cares pleasures of the world till all be filled with bryars and thorns and corrupt plants that now are spread and bring forth And now the Lord is come who is the light of the world to seek fruits of his own and will you hold him forth these cursed fruits and cover them with his Name as though they were his and seek to force them upon him whether he will or no and fall violently upon him if he deny them Now if this be not so what means this That when any one in his Name is sent to reprove sin in the Streets or Markets where it abounds and in the Name of Christ to Declare against false worships never set up by him which hath been his manner in all his appearances and to call for what is his own and to deny the works of the Devil that presently all is in an uproar and a tumult raised pulling and beating and haling to Prison beaten in Markets beaten in your Synagogues shamefully intreated in your Streets and all for no other offence but because he calls for his own and denies what is not of him Doth not this Blaspheme that Holy Name by which they are called and which your selves profess Teacher cryes away with him and tumult cryes away with him it s not fit he should live And what usage he receives from you in his members is openly seen and God is daily bringing your works to light Now let the wise in heart who can discern the signs of the times read if the Parable be not fulfilled upon you Husbandmen And will you guild this Cup over with fine words forms and professions and call them Deceivers and Blasphemers who in love to your Souls and obedience to Christ tells you of it and testifies against it in all long-suffering and patience Who will be found the deceivers and the deceived when your guilded covers comes to be pulled off and you must drink of the Cup your selves as you have filled and this is certainly near at hand to come upon you and you are hasting towards it
Jerusalem and that therein that vessel he bare the sins of the World and satisfied the wrath of God for sins past and overcame death hell and the grave and made way for the Seed to arise in all through the whole World who would believe in his light which then shined through him to all men wherein he might be seen to be the Way the Truth and the Life apparent openly triumphing over all that had passed above the Seed And much more might be said of him there finished all which I did believe according to Scripture which was as an opening of me to receive him from Heaven in the same spirit and power without which I could not have received the gift of that holy Spirit God having so purposed from the beginning that the Covenant of Eternal Life and power should be received no other way but by faith in him who in the fulness of time was there manifest in flesh for the taking away sins past and making a way for the Resurrection of life over all to save from sins for time to come The effect of which Faith when in the Light I first received it did turn my mind out of all my sins past and took my mind out of them and turned me towards God and holiness of life I then believed to attain in that faith and receive power therein to grow up in him to his fulness and stature which then I see no less Faith could save me then the perfect Faith of the Son God which before I had not received but then received with such gladnesse of heart that it set my face and delights out of all sin towards the perfection of Christ in which I then believed which was the Joy then set before me yet was not the work done and finished in me already though I having received the Faith and Hope of the Son of God and was turned from all my former sin and my own righteousness so that if I had departed this Body I had died in no less Faith then the Holy Faith of Christ Jesus and so being turned to his Spirit out of the works of the Flesh I was turned from my sin and so from condemnation yet was there a great work to do in me before I could witness freedom from the body of death and the root and ground of evil removed and the seed raised to reign and the soul brought into the holy City the resurrection of the dead and fellowship in the Father and the Son c. And that glorious liberty of the new Creature and all things to be of God in me as the scriptures do witness so this faith didnot work me into a conceit of my self glorying in knowledge and so to become a Teacher of others what I had conceived below the life but it led me down into the obedience of the Spirit of Light to wait therein for the Resurrection of Life and I came to see in that Light that the motions of sin did still work from the old ground and root and that must be removed by the power of Christ working in spirit and my obedience and watchfulness therein was required and that without obedience to this faith I could not come to perfect victory over the enmity nor the glorious liberty of the Sons of God for though this faith had turned my heart towards Christ and given me hope to attain him yet I had not then learned him nor was he yet formed in me so was I led in the Light of Christ to see what I had of this treasure in the earthen vessel which I found to be in me very little and that Seed the least of all Seeds so I became little in that eye which told me the Truth though I had been high in my own thoughts formerly And so to the Word of the beginning of Christ I was led or the first Principle of the Doctrine of Christ that with that which teacheth Christ I might learn Christ in every measure of him as I grew therein so was I brought to know him that was made under the Law and to the foundation of repentance from dead works and to Doctrines of Baptisms and to Eternal Judgement Then came I in Truth and Life to see what they were doing whom the Apostles exhorted to work out their own Salvation with fear and trembling after they had fully believed what Christ had done for them at Jerusalem in that vessel and many other Scriptures did he open to me as I learned him which before to me was a Mistery while I learned them in meanings without the Life of Christ which then was opened by the Revelation of Christ Jesus as they came to be fulfilled in me being led by the same Spirit in that work of Faith then came I to see that I through the Law must be redeemed from the Law and that my redemption from it must not be by making it void but by fulfilling of it and till then it had power over me and sin took occasion by it to strengthen it self in me but as I came to grow in the Spirit and Power of Christ I was in him brought through it it in him fulfilled and I dead to it as it came to be fulfilled and the words of Christ I found true I came not to break the Law but to fulfil it and it is easier for Heaven Earth to pass away then one jot of the Law to pass away tell it be fulfilled and I needed not a meaning to that Scripture but a fulfilling thereof in Christ Jesus And the School-master that brings to Christ I learned Christ formed the heir under Tutors before I knew the liberty of the Son of God or perfect freedom and then I saw the Scriptures could not be broken nor wrested but it must be learned in the life of it to Salvation which the unlearned wrest to their own destruction by meanings without life and that it was of no private interpretation but this one Spirit must open it all in the fulfilling thereof and this Faith in Christ Jesus onely was able to make wise unto Salvation of Eternal Life And then came I clearly to see Christ Jesus set before me in all things that I was to go through in that faith which I had first received and that the attaining of him was the hope of glory and no hope without him and this hope was as an Anchor in all hardships and temptations which was not a few I was led through but all was counted little while I stood in this Faith for the hope that was in me to win Christ And I clearly saw that now with standing my first faith in what he had done at Jerusalem yet if I did not continue therein to follow the same spirit in obedience thereto believing therein in all its leadings hoping to attain to Christ Jesus the end of that Faith in daily growing towards his Stature and fulnesse but had turned aside or set down short of the leadings
any share or possession in him that faith which is not holy came not from God and so cannot build up to God that is not saving Faith that doth not save from sins but is deceiving faith which deceives the Soul and suffers lust to defile it and destroy it and so brings it under Condemnation by believing lyes and so letting in sin upon the Soul by consent perswading that it cannot be otherwise and so gives the Devil victory and the world victory and the flesh victory and sin victory over the Soul which should give the Soul victory over all And what greater deceit can there be to the Soul then this is And therefore for ever that which I have seen and learned do I declare openly that this is the deceiving faith indeed rather unbelief then the Faith of Christ which makes way for the god of this world to reign and act in things contrary to the life of Christ in the Creature and the life of the Soul and that faith which gives way to the least sin is not the Faith of Christ whose work and comings is to destroy the works of the Devil and redeem the Soul from sin and the least measure of that Faith that stands in his life overcomes the world and sin in that measure and he that commits sin goes out of that Faith and acts against it And a lying faith I have found that to be which perswades the Soul of freedom from Condemnation but gives it not freedom from sin which is the cause of Condemnation and all shall witness this with me now or hereafter that where sin hath power there death hath power and the grave and hell and condemnation hath power also for these are the wages of sin then shall you say you were deceived who believed the contrary And may not such truly be said to be past feeling indeed who can commit sin and feel no Condemnation for it already And this is the effect of their false faith to harden themselves against the faithful witness of God in their own Conscience and the seared Conscience hath made ship wrack of the Faith Christ and the doctrine of Devils preaches the faith of Devils to give way to the works of the Devil which all sin is from the least to the greatest and he that pleads for it is a father to it and he that commits it a servant and may look for the wages thereof if he repent not notwithstanding he believe the contrary And many may feel this Truth at this day who have a long time believed with this faith deceiving their own souls day after day believing they shall not be condemned when they are condemned already in their own hearts and feel the weight of sin daily pressing their Souls and burthening the pure Conscience and the fear of death and sin keeps their Souls still in bondage and lyes upon them all their lives and yet they will force themselves to believe contrary to Holy Faith and a good Conscience that they are saved and redeemed and thus make ship wrack of saving Faith and a good Conscience by believing a lye contrary to their own daily feeling no other thing to encourage them therein but this perswasion which sutes well with such as take pleasure in unrighteousness which perswasion comes not of God but condemned by that of God in themselves and this is the state of many at this day though some there be whose Conscience are seared and feel not this witness living in them though their damnation slumbereth not though they have lost their Calling and Election also And this have I learned in Christ that there is a great difference both in effect and nature betwixt that Faith which is the gift of God and that faith which men make to themselves for that which is the gift of God is of his own nature clean pure and perfect as are all his gifts and so it works naturally the Work and Will of God in all who receive it freely and mix nothing with it to darken it or stop his working and by this Faith I am saved from sin and condemnation and begotten to the Father thereof in Christ Jesus which Faith is not of my self but is the gift of God to perfect holiness in the fight of God and what ever is done in this Faith is not sin and whatsoever is against this Faith or not of this Faith is sin and brings Condemnation and this Faith approves not of it And if I act nothing doubtingly nor against this holy Faith in this Faith I am justified in my own heart and my own Conscience kept clean and I approved in Gods sight and I have boldness through the obedience of Faith in the day of Judgement that it is not my own work but the righteousness of Faith which is in Christ Jesus and this effect hath saving working Faith and this is its Nature and Grace But another faith I have found which is not so in nature or effect being not freely received from above but is fained and hath its ground here below and its ends also The earthly man in his wisdom from the letter reason or comprehensions sets up an opinion or Image in his mind touching God or Christ or Religion Worship Doctrine or Manners or any other thing and then looking upon the likeliness of it in the reasoning part gathers strength to believe it must needs be so and so forms a faith in himself And though this faith be not perfect when he hath formed it and made it with all his strength but many things in Scriptures and the practise of the Saints but especially that of God in his own Conscience will not sute with it yet the strong man being above in the strength of his Comprehension forceth a Faith against all these and causes all to bow under it so this faith brings not forth the birth of Christ nor his pure Image and Life neither in matter of Worship nor Manners but what he may imitate Christ and the Saints in worship and keep the world and escape the Cross and save his life and credit and glory there that he will conform to and glory in and for the rest he believes it concerns not him now in all things at this day so to walk as they did And as this Faith is not perfect in Worship so in Practice also for that evil he is not addicted to he condemns in all but that which is in his own heart and eye and brings him profit and pleasure that he will cover and believes it may stand with true belief at this day though formerly it could not And this is the Faith made after man and not after God and so serves in respect of Persons Times and Things but bows not all these for ever to worship in Spirit nor brings them under the foot of Jesus that Spirit but being earthly by nature hath earthly effects and God doth not own that with his Power nor goes forth with that which
into lacivious liberty And thus have I learned in the light of the world that in my turning towards him at his reproof when I knew him not and believing in his light whom I had not seen I found that Faith given which did declare the righteousness of God in him wherein he perfectly walked upon earth both in doing and suffering which being turned towards I found the propitiation that God had sent forth through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remitting of my sins past that God might be just who could not have past by my sins past had he not accepted his sufferings nor I have had liberty from sin past to have followed him nor could I have been accepted therein but in the faith and hope of the same righteousness so God was full in justifying and his forbearance magnified towards me therein and in turning to this righteousness of his declared in the light of faith and hope my face was set towards Gods righteousness in Christ Jesus to be attained for life and salvation for time to come to walk in and so being turned towards God all my sins past was behind me and Gods righteousness before me and so from henceforth was I to be found in Gods righteousness walking in a measure of it and in the faith and hope of the fulness of Christ and attainment of God for mine inheritance And this great Redemption I found in Christ Jesus at that day was in such things as these following As first his calling of me with his light his holding forth to me his life and suffering which was so holy that I could not but confesse to them his turning me towards the same in hope thereof by believing his begetting a mind in me towards that same life and the increase of his light that way to lead me and the setting of me free from the wrath of God for all my sins of ignorance past which else had laid upon me as a weight or chain binding me that I could not have walked the way of his light c. But I do not say that if I turned to commit sin again that that sin was cast behind my back also I learned otherwise I found that sin then before my face greater then the rest and stood in my way to God and stopt me from following his light or growing in his life that I could no way escape it but by repenting of it and receiving the just sentence of condemnation in my self and bearing his indignation till he that wounded me for it healed me again which I never found but as I turned from the evil with my whole heart and accepted the punishment till the Advocate did arise to interced whose blood I had trampled on and whose precious life I had pierced and his holy Spirit grieved by turning away from his leadings Nor do I say that all my sins which formerly I had committed of which I had been convinced by the light of the world when I was in the world before I believed it to be sufficient that they was wholly taken away as my sins of ignorance was for this I found that God in this was just and merciful merciful in that he did not lay them all at once before me least they should have prest me down that I could not have followed the light nor gotten any strength but must needs have perished under them had he not spared And just I have found him also for as they were not committed all at once against the light of his Spirit so he hath at one time or other visited for them and laid them before me yet not all at once nor no way so heavy as those committed after I believed and gave up my self to follow the light and yet to an account he hath brought me for them And coming to feel the terrours of God I have learned to fear and love and have found the ground and rise and deceits of that Faith that believes Christ to have taken away the sins of believers past present and to come with which many at this day make merry over the witness of God and the just slain in them and that Scripture I have learned without a meaning if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the Truth there remains no more sacrifice for sin but a certain fearful looking for of judgement and fiery indignation to devour the adversary though none know how but he that comes to it in the fulfilling and then shall be seen he that 's born of God sins not and he that believes is born of God but he that sins turns his back both on the Faith and birth that 's towards Christ and becomes adverse thereunto in his work what ever he sayes he believes and this I have found an everlasting truth what ever men believe or imagine that no longer then a man keeps his face towards the light of God no longer is his sins cast behind his back whether they be sins past present or to come but if he turn from Gods righteousness his own iniquities will rise and meet him both new and old and in vain doth such believe they are then blotted out of Gods sight whose oye shewes him his way in which he then walks and condemns him for it in his own heart Nor was the ground and root of sin-removed so soon as my mind was turned by the light from sin towards God but the motions thereof I found and the lust seeking to go forth to its objects to bring in to conceive sin again afresh That ground was but removed as I grew in Christ and he in me and as I came to learn him that was in the beginning before sin was who was learned in faithful following and serving of his Spirit in watching in Fastings in Prayers and in all spiritual wrestlings as I came to be led into with the light in which Warfare I came to see the hardship of him that will be a souldier of Christ Jesus and the baptisms into his death the slothful servant and the faithful and their reward and the Parables and figures of the Kingdom opened as that Spirit grew in me which interprets the Scriptures in the life and opens the sealed mysteries thereof in their season as they come to be fulfilled and so I came to the gift of the Scriptures by inspiration which onely profits to the perfecting of the man of God which the man of this world not having learned wrests to his own destruction getting the words of them in the earthly part before they be fulfilled in his heart through the Spirit and such receive them not by inspiration nor the gift of the Holy Ghost And in this journey I have seen the slothful servant overtaken with a fault which he had once cast behind him and never intended to joyn to again of which the diligent servant is kept free and I have seen the wages of each servant according to his diligence in that
which he hath of God betrusted in him and not by his own strivings in the thoughts of himself his worth or wisdom And in diligent hearkening and obeying of the Spirit have I found the right faithfulness towards God though getting knowledge be highly esteemed with men and I have found that as I have the Spirit manifest in me to profit withal so the times of my profiting is onely in his hand and my waitings upon him when he moves not is my reasonable service and a profiting time to me as if he moved though I see it not and this I found a great cross to my hasty will which indeed is the true worship in Spirit which when I knew not this Spirit to hearken and bow to and obey and observe in all things as his will leads I worshipped I knew not what and my fear towards God then was taught by the precepts of men and I was not taught of the Lord not being born of that Spirit and so all the children of the Lord are taught of the Lord and as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the Sons of God these Scriptures I then could read and understand without meanings not by that which my wisdom taught me but which the Holy Ghost taught me and the Scriptures thus learned and received was no more a notion to be lost but a possession and I came to have an inheritance therein amongst them that are sanctified in all ages no subtle man could either steal them or change them or any way beguil me of the Truth of them by wresting them nor take away my comfort I had in them my comfort and fellowship therein being in the same Spirit and life that gave them forth and the Word of God thus grew and endureth for ever and the Spirit of truth that leads into all truth endures for ever and the Seed of God is one therein to all generations and that is one which perfects the Spirits of all Just men and God himself is Judge over all and leader of all by his own begettings in all that enter into this rest of the faithful which remains to all his children out of which false Faiths and disobedience shuts themselves And that which declares the righteousness of God for remission of sins past and for an inheritance against sin for time to come have I found to be Faith without falshood which Righteousness though in the Faith and Hope beyond declaring yet inherited but as the vertues that are in Christ Jesus comes to be received in the life of them And that faith which hath not that Righteousness for its ground and end and the vertues and several measures of the growth of Christ for its life and increase That I have found upon tryal to be a fained fancy after mans mind and not after Gods measures And he that saith he hath Faith in God and is without the hope of this Righteousness for his inheritance Or saith he hath Christ further then he hath his Virtues for his life and growth towards this inheritance when he comes to be weighed with Truth will be found too light to stand in Judgement or abide the fire or to dwell with everlasting burnings The tryal of that Faith will leave him without Faith then shall it be read as it is written When the Son of man comes shall he find Faith on the Earth Who they be that are under the Law and who they be that have made void the Law against themselves and who they be that are under Grace GRace reigns through Righteousness and the Law through Transgression and he that sayes he is from under the Law and the transgressor alive he makes void the Law against himself but is under it in the account of God For the Seed or Image of God being fallen the transgressor is above to whom there is no Grace nor Life promised who hath no true obedience but for self-ends upon this is the Law added till the Promised Seed arise And a School-master the Law is till it bring to Christ who of the Woman is made under the Law who takes upon him the Seed after the flesh the Soul to Redeem from under the Transgressor that the natural Plant of God may grow so who can witness the Teachings and Chastizings of the Law to bring him so low till he come under the Seed so as the seed be set above the head of the Transgressor and have bruised it and so taken away the strength of sin there the strength of the law is taken away also And as the Soul is raised up through the law the law being fulfilled by the seed through the Spirit so it arises above the law into the Kingdom of Grace which reigns through Righteousness and not by making void the law for the Grace is to the Seed and the Law to the Transgressor and as these reign in the Creature so is he under the Law or under Grace for the Law hath power over the man of sin as long as he lives then is the Seed of the Promise in bondage but he being dead by which the seed is held Captive the seed rises under Grace which as it rises through the law fulfills it and being fulfilled it loses its strength as sin dies and so hath no more power the Law being the strength of sin till it be fulfilled by the seed through the Spirit so he that is dead to sin is free from sin and under Grace And he that casts off the the Law while he is alive that sins makes void the law against himself So he that 's under Grace is dead to sin and dead to the Law which is the strength of sin and sin hath no more dominion over the soul the power of it being subdued which was the Law unfulfilled but where the law is made void the strength of sin yet remains and the Law will overtake them in the end And he that learns this in the Death and Resurrection and eternal life shall in this work learn what the Transgression is and how the law is added upon him and how it is the strength of sin in him but not in the seed and what it is that makes the entrance through the law and how Grace comes to abound where sin hath abounded and to reign through Righteousnesse unto eternal life So where the Transgressor is slain there the Law is at an end and fulfilled and the natural Plant of God brings forth against which there is no law but the law is against the man of sin and the man of sin against the law as long as he lives and power it will have over him and one jot of it will not passe away till it be fulfilled And he that would cast off the Law and make it void is far from Grace but in him that fulfills the Law doth Grace and Truth abound Of the Way of Life from the Knowledge that devoures the Life Wouldest thou know the Way of Life from
strengthening one another against the faithful witness of Truth when you have been wounded therewith and have belied the Lord and said it is not he and if it be he let him make me better and I cannot make my self and if the Devil be in me let him cast him out and that sin and Righteousnesse is all one to God and many of you openly denying God and much more such blasphemies out of you hath proceeded all which the Innocent Lamb hath born since the day he first invited you and the Just Lord who is in the midest of you hath seen it and of you he will take revenge for the Innocent Ones sake whom he will ease of his enemy Oh the terrible day that I have seen approaching towards you and the mistery that is coming nigh when you shall be dealt withal as you have done against the Meek and the Holy Seed which hath stirred in you unto life which you have betrayed and murthered for your lusts treacherously have dealt and treacherously will you be dealt withal then shall you know that there is a God of Power and Judgement when you shall be as a mad Bull in a Net and the Fier of God underneath you then shall you chuse death and it shall flie from you who have refused the way of Life and puft at it and you who have scorned the Light shall know Chains of Darknesse Ah how have you mocked at reproof the Lord hath heard your light answers and hath borne your mockings and you have made him to serve under your lusts he is oppressed and grived and broken with your whorish hearts and you have made heavy the burthen of the meek and lowly against whom you have sported and have not considered that all this is against your own Souls and to make strong Bonds for your own Necks which you must know and feel when the just arises to plead against you for all that is written against you Verily dread is upon me when I behold your end and the way you have to goe and how few there are to be saved Alas for you how have you heaped deceit and filled your Vessels with that which the Pure God abhors You have eaten and drunken your own damnation while you have served your lusts you have chosen deceit rather then Truth and therewith shall you be deceived when you look for rest you have got words and sought out cunning waies to stop the way of judgement in you therefore is your cup become full for condemnation from the Lord God of power you are filled with the names of blasphemie against the most High yea it is written He hath marked you out he hath set himself against you and while you are building a Wall of falshood is he preparing destruction and is watching over you for evil and not for good and your wall you have made of cunning deceits will stand betwixt you and Salvation and keep you from finding the place of Repentance And you high-minded Professors also who have gotten the wisdom of words and have preached high things of God and Christ which in you is not wrought nor fulfilled but is a lie this will be required at your hands with Truth and your own words shall arise against you in judgement and when you should come to him that should answer in your behalf your Wisdom and Knowledge which you have got in that Nature which hath oppressed him will stand in your way as thick Darknesse which you cannot remove nor pass then shall you curse your God who hath set you on Preaching Words above Life and lies by which the Spirit of Truth in you and others have suffered and been denied and Gods Witnesse lie waste and been resisted in its gentle Calls Motions and Reproofs All which a just hand and unresistable will bring upon you in that Day when Chains of Darknesse hath compassed you in the Horrible Pit Deceipt Discovered by its Fruits YOu that call the Children of Light Blasphemers and Seducers and many evil Names you give out to People against them because they Preach Christ the light of the world and Christ for Righteousnesse and Perfection c. Hear what Blasphemy and Seducing and Deceiving is and who are the Deceivers They were Blasphemers who said they were Jewes and were not and this was Blasphemy in Gods account To profess in words what they were not in works Rev. 2. 9. And they were Blasphemers who said He that wrought the works of Righteousness was of the Devil Mark 3. 22 28 29 30. And James said They Blasphemed that Holy Name by which the Saints were called who drew them before Judgement Seats and Oppressed them Jam. 2. 6 7. And Saul Blasphemed in persecuting for Conscience towards Christ Now this God calls Blasphemy Falsly to take upon them the Name of a Jew seeing the Jewes were to be a Holy People to the Lord and to bear his Holy Name before all the World in Righteousness and Truth and the fruits of his Spirit which Name they who had not the Life did Blaspheme by taking the Name of a Jew And Christ calls it Blasphemy to condemne the fruits of that Spirit to be of the Devil And the Apostles calls it Blasphemy to hale before the Judgement Seates and persecute the Poor that God had chosen out of the World These were the old Blasphemers in Gods account and their Children be in the same steps till this day and therein the Truth finds them and uncovers them So come to your Rule and be tryed as you are in Deed and not in Words in Gods account and not in your Own This is the Blasphemy to say You are Christians and are not to say You are in Christ and are not to say You are of God and do the Works of the Devil that old Murtherer and Persecuter to say Such as do the Works of God are Blasphemers and to Oppress your Brethren for Conscience sake And this Blasphemy exceeds your Fathers by how much the Name of Christ excels the Name of a Jew Will you bring forth the abominable Fruits that God hates and cover them with the Name of Christ and father them upon the Spirit of Christ and say you are in Christ and Redeemed and Baptized into him and have Communion in him and get up Likenesses and Imitations from the Letter to cover you with in a nature contrary to Christ And is not this the Height of Deceipt and Blasphemy What is the Name of Christ and the Redemption of Christ the Death of Christ the Baptism of Christ the Resurrection of Christ the Communion of Christ and the Words of Christ become a Cloak for the Works of Wickedness And doth not this Blaspheme his Name his Words his Spirit his Ordinances and his People and all his Holy Things and cause them to be Blasphemed amongst the Heathen and throughout the World But to Preach Christ the Light of the World and to Confess him in us so far as we feel the