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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86651	A lamentation for the scattered tribes, who are exiled into captivity, and are now mingled among the heathen, and are joyned to the oppressor, and refuses to return. Presented unto all the separated congregations, under what name or form soever, in love to the lost. Shewing, the difference betwixt them that were separated by the word of faith, and them who have separated themselves, in imitation from the letter: ... / By a servant of truth, and a friend to righteousness, who suffers with the seed, which is held in oppression, waiting and labouring for its return; called Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing H3170; Thomason E885_1; ESTC R204835	28,211	39

brought forth in purity uprighteousness meekness temperance patience and the fruits of righteousness for it is not dead but the Just man lives by it and his works appeares in the world and is as a light but your faith which is dead talks of it and when you are viewed in the light no fruits of righteousness grow in you your hope and faith is vain and it will not save you from condemnation in the day of the Lord and because you finde written in the Scriptures that by the deedes of the law no flesh can be Justified therefore you would exclude the worke of grace and the righteousness of faith and the life of Christ which brings forth fruits and all faith is dead without works for as the body lives not but it moves and acts no more is faith living except it move and so you whose faith stands in words and in things taken on in the fallen wisdom which you read without you that faith is reprobate unto every good work and is vain for the living is not witnessed nor the dead raised in you to life nor the lost sheep found nor that which hath been driven away brought back but the earth yet closeth the blood and the earth in you covers the slain and the grave you see not opened nor the dead raised incorruptible and so you are unchanged but the corruptible lives and the mortal and draws you after it and is exalted and the head not known who is the life of men nor exalted and so he draws you not nor leads you not but you are led by your own wills and Another girds you not nor the gird of strength is not at all known but in words and so the old man is alive uncrucified with his deeds but his deeds are brought forth and so by your fruits you are known Concerning Hope and the difference betwixt true and false hope ANd to all sorts of professors I shall clear my conscience to you all and finish my testimony that I may dwell in peace with the Lord who hath commanded me to bear witness to his Name and his love also constrains me and in love to the seed of Israel who are bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh who are of the true Circumcision that they may come out of Captivitie from among the lying Inchanters and Sorcerers and Diviners where they have been long held Captive and the heritage of the Lord laid waste and therefore you whose hope is without you it 's vain whose hope stands without in these things which are weak as the Apostle said of the Law which made nothing persect because of the weakness and unprofitableness of it which stood in washings and signes of the true tabernacle they were yet they did not make perfect so I say unto you your bread and wine and water which were figures of a more heavenly thing they do make nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope Heb. 7. 18 19. and so while you have hope in any thing without you you stand in that which is Imperfect and Contends about that but looks not for the hope to be brought in by which you might draw near unto God Christ the hope the light and while this you own not to lead you the light you cannot draw near unto God but he will slay you and kill you notwithstanding all your words and all that walks in the light comes to see the hope brought in and this hope purifies the heart as Christ is pure and then by it and through it there is a drawing near unto God and an access to him with boldness for where the lively hope is there is no guilt then there is boldness and so you whose hope is in words without and not in you you forget God all that forgets the light forgets God your hope is the hope of the hypocrite which shall perish whose hope shall be cut off as a spiders web Job 8. 14 and all your hope which doth not purifie the heart and give you victory over sin dayly is the hope of the wicked Job 11 20 but the eyes of the wicked shall faile and they shall not escape and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost True faith how it is wrought and what it is in it 's effects and operations NOw concerning faith it is begotten in the heart of man by preaching of the eternal Word which word is nigh in the mouth and in the heart and all that comes to hearken to the word which is pure and receive it and believe in it comes to see faith revealed by which they draw near unto God and this is begotten by the word of faith which is the word of Christ which word is spirit and life to all that receive it and by it is the mountains removed and sin overcome and victory witnessed over sin Mat. 17. 20. and this faith is pure and leads into purity it is the gift of God and leads all towards God that hath it and it is perfect and all that stands in it comes to have the will of God perfected in them and that which is imperfect comes to be done away and the Just lives by it Heb. 2. 4. and in it and by it and through it is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith Rom. 1. 17. and all that do witness the birth which is from above which is borne of God which sins not faith is the life of this birth which is Just and the Son of God lives by it who doth the will of God as it is written The life that I now live is by the faith of the Son of God and all who hath it and believes in this shall never die for by it is translation witnessed from sin and death and condemnation into the Immortal life and by it is Gods righteousness revealed and well pleased is he with all who walk in it and where this is not his wrath and displeasure arises and all who stands in the least measure of it is perfect and comes to be free from sin for it brings and reveales the righteousness of God which Justifies Sanctifies and Mortifies even the righteousness of God which takes away sin and purges the heart from all filthyness both of flesh and Spirit and thus remission of sins comes to be witnessed and man Justified by the righteousness of Christ which is the righteousness of faith wrought in the Creature by the eternal Spirit and word which is one and thus assurance comes to be made manifest for it bears witness and is the true evidence of the everlasting substance which is brought in and sin and self and all Iniquity comes to be seen and revealed judged and Condemned and cast out and Gods righteousness comes to be the life of a believer even the life of Christ which is immortal by which man comes to be redeemed and purchased unto God and not his own but becomes servant to him and

of the living God and they separated from the temple and left Circumcision and all those things of the first Priesthood which were commanded by God and out of the worlds ways fashion custom worships and came to see the worshipping in spirit and truth was that worship God required and the ground of their separation was not from any literal command or precept for all that was written there was flat against it but they which were Ministers of Christ which had believed in him preached him the substance and the measure of him and of his grace which was in them unto whom they preached and this was the Apostles witness in their hearts unto which they did commend themselves in the sight of God which is a great mystery and they are not Ministers of the letter but of the spirit Now in these few words before written with much more I could write compare your Ministry and your members gathered and you will see you differ in the ground in the first for your command you take from the letter and so are ministers of the letter and not of the spirit 2. Ye preach the letter for the word of faith which they did not as is playne in their own writings without adding 3. Them whom you gather it s but into conformity to the letter and to that which is visible which all this may be done in the will of man which is fallen from God and see if it be not so with you both Pastors and Members not witnesses of that word which they preached which did beget faith in them that received it and believed in it which faith was in them wrought by the power of God which gave them assurance and their assurance was in them and their hope in them brought in and wrought by the operation of the Spirit which the preaching of the letter sound or declaration only of that which was in them never workes assurance nor true faith nor hope And now consider where had your ground of the knowledge of God been and your Gospel and your faith and hope if you had not had the letter I speak not to upbraid you but to the light of Christ Jesus I speake which will let you see how far short you are and that you must come backe againe to the first principle and now you may see if it had been the same word or command it would have the same effects as it had and Change into it's own nature all that received it now see what Change is in you or not some of you yea many running back after the foot-steps of the priests preaching for hire and upholding the Idols Temple if you can get into them and in the costomes of the world nay most of you not come to yea and nay in your communication but one with the world in all or most of things differ only in words and names and your Gospel you have preached hath nor begotten such a faith as was in them that had the Gospel not to respect persons nor none dare own cleansing from sin in the body but calls that a delusion but the word and faith which they preached and received gave them victory over the world sin and death and by it's power made them more then conquerors and their hope purified their hearts but you cannot believe that ever you shall be made free from sin nor hath not hope in that and therefore are ignorant of the body of Christ you so much talk on which made them clean and free from sin Secondly your Doctrine is the same with the world your hope your faith your justification is all at a distance grounded upon the report of Christ dying at Ierusalem and of their report that knew him and believing this you call it faith and so are one with the faith and hope which the world hath for the report of Christs righteousness what he did suffer and wrought in the Saints if this be the ground of salvation then why have you separated from the world If you say Because the world hath not right to the Ordinances I say Doth not faith in Christ give Interest to all his ordinances And if this be onely your faith the world hath as good an Interest as you so why do you separate from them And so you shall see the matter is the same with the world of which your fellowships consists and the name of Christ is a great mystery which they were sent to baptize in who knew his name his name is not letters and syllables and using these this with the lips speaking over is not to baptize into his name And so friends in love I speak unto you There was such as separated themselves and were sensual and had not the spirit and so there was no difference betwixt them and the world for they are clouds without rayn appeared wells but had no water in them seemed something but were but a show Freinds your foot-steps I know your ground I know and your compass and your measure yet I shall not glory over you nor boast my selfe against you but rather to informe your minde that you may not build upon a foundation which will moulder away and now boast not your selves in your Ordinances as water bread and wine which is but elementarie and was never but a signe and in the day of appearance of Christ the elements shall melt with fervent heat and while you stand here and have confidence in these things your sun will set in obscuritie and you shall know the old heavens and earth will pass away with a noyse which when you come to know and heare your hearts will fayle for fear for this I say to the highest of you If you build upon any thing or have confidence in any thing which stands in time and is on this side Eternity and the Being of beings your foundation will be swept away and night will come upon you and all your gathered in things and taken on and imitated will all fayle you Many more things I might write time would fayle me to utter but these few among many I have written that you may compare your selves with the Ministers of Christ then and the Gospel which they preached which were separate from the world in the ground and nature and if you see your selves in the light of Christ in your consciences not to be the same neither in matter nor maner let not a deceived heart lead you aside any longer Further I say they were sent out for the gathering in of the Saints some Apostles some Prophets some Pastors teachers yet all was by the spirit Now if you denie the command of the Spirit or cannot witness it but from the letter takes it up and talks of because the Scripture speakes of it then you are not that Ministry Again this end was the Ministry sent forth for for the perfecting of the Saints which it did which not one of you dare own not dare say your Ministry shall

the outward part of the Law or Scripture and if that will not do then you looke to be Justified by the righteousness of one you have heard of without you and even then when you your selves are found sinners and so would make Christ a Minister of sin How long will you speake these things and how long shall the words of your mouth be as a strong wind doth God pervert Judgment or doth the Almightie pervert Justice Job 8. 2 3. shall not he that sins dye and is not he that commits sin of the Devil doth God justifie him that 's of the devil nay he shall condemn him the Gospel is not preached to that seed but the day of vengeance and tribulation and wrath upon every one that doth evill and whom he Condemns he Justifies not and whom he redeems he redeems out of sin and creates them that they may walk to the praise and glory of his grace them that praises grace and glorifies grace walks in it and are under it and it hath Dominion over and their ungodlyness and worldly lusts is denyed and holyness and righteousness is brought forth and the Image of God is restored Oh how long shall death talke of the fame of wisdom how long shall a deceived heart lead you aside how long will ye be blind how long will ye hearken to your Imaginations is any redeemed out of sin where sin rules and where it is acted grace reigns not is not this the grace of God which Condemns mans will and selfe and the lusts of the flesh and you that are in your wills and selfe in every thing standing doth not the grace Condemn you how then or by what are ye Justified but this hath been a piece of your Divinity when that in your Consciences Condemned you looking up to Christ Justified at a distance Oh you vayn minds is not the light of Christ one with Christ is Christ divided from his Spirit or against himself or in himself when that his light Condemns and his spirit reproves thee for sin doth he Justifie doth not his spirit bear witness in the spirits of them that are sanctified and is not this the spirit which Convinceth for sin and as thou actest sin it reproves thee and bears witness against thee then How should it bear witness to thee and so you may see all of you who tells of Justification by faith that you are in a dreame and not in the faith that Justifies for he that is Justified by faith which is true he hath the witness in himselfe now if thou be reproved in thy selfe for sin by the light of Christ where is thy witness in thy selfe shew it For them that are saved by grace and Justified by faith selfe and self-will and the lusts of the flesh and disobedience to the Grace of God is Judged and Condemned and selfe-righteousness Titus 3. 5. 6 Not by works of righteousness that we have done but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy ghost Ephes. 2. 8 By grace are ye saved through faith and that not of your selves it 's the gift of God and them that receives and believes in the gift of God are Justified and grace is the gift of God which teacheth to deny ungodlyness and them that are taught by this it teacheth and leadeth out of all sin and so redemption from sin is witnessed and Justification is witnessed and the gift of God which is the Spirit of Promise seales the assurance in the heart but where sin is committed grace raignes not through righteousness and thou that art here art under the Law and under wrath and condemnation and art not under grace that Justifies through faith and so your cover being taken off see your shame all and blush and repent The difference betwixt the faith which is feigned which is the worlds and the Saints faith NOw your faith which leads you not to believe that you can ever be freed from sin this faith is reprobate and brings forth no good works but dead works and is not the life of the Just but the Life of the unjust which leads not to overcome the evil and the works of the Devil nor leads not into the Rest which is in God for you speake your own words and thinke your own thoughts and hath not ceased from your own workes but worships in your wills acts in your wills speaks in your wills and are your own and doth not see an overcoming of sia but a growing into it into deceit more and more and looking all is done for you and you believe Christ hath done all and hath fulfilled the Law for you and yet doth witness nothing done in you nor the Law fulfilled in you nor sin destroyed in you and yet you say you lay hold upon the righteousness of Christ by faith O what righteousness is that you lay hold of which is imperfect and leads not out of imperfection that is not true faith that lays hold on a righteousness which is imperfect and all of you say all that is in you there is defects and Imperfections in it yea even the graces and gifts of God you say they are Imperfect then Consider if you see Imperfection in all those things you have laid hold on and have received then you know not faith nor grace nor the gift of God which is perfect but believes in a dream of a thing done and an apprehension of a thing at a distance without you Imagining you are eating but when you awake you are hungry Imagining you are saved but when you enter into your Hearts see nothing witnessed nothing done nor redeemed from nothing your faith and hope stands in works and that is all preaching the letter over and proving that which is proved and was proved in them that witnessed the life of those things in them that are written but nothing is proved in you but applies their righteousness which was the righteousness of faith and of Christ which was in them wrought through death to you that are alive in sin and lust and pride and enmity and malice and deceit yea even to the head of the Serpent and so would be covered in your in quity and saved from Guilt and Condemnation and wrath But to be clensed from sin you regard not for if you own that word and faith and hope which is of God it will slay and kill that life for ever and destroy all your wisdom which stands in the earthly nature and therefore I say unto you repent and cease from your way from your vain conceivings and all be uncovered and you will see the first principle you have to Learn so all your faith which is out of the Light is seen which you gather in from the letter and not wrought in the light it leads not out of the world nor to above the world but all who have faith works in the light and mortification and sanctification and holyness is

and the briers and thornes in bundles and cast them into everlasting fire where where is perpetuall exilement from the presence of God and from the Lamb for ever and ever and from the light of his countenance and this as the Lord lives will come upon all who are not cleansed from sin and purged from your iniquity and destruction is of your selves it is not because there it no balm enough in Gilead nor no Physitian nor because you have no grace nor power but because you despise it and will not come to Christ who is the light least your deeds should be repoved nor mind that which is given into you to lead you out of sin and so the one thing needful you heed not and you that doe not will lie down in everlasting misery and sorrow world without end And now to you that are tossed and finde no rest for the sole of your foot but are still led aside into pollutions and sin and knows not how to come forth nor where the Power is CEase gadding abroad and seeking in that principle which leads you further from God and from your own wisdom and reason which is in the fall and in the disobedient nature for there can you never finde peace nor the way that leads unto it all that you have heard you see still there is one thing lacking and you are unsatisfied and while your eyes are without his power you know not that gave the Saints dominion and the further you inquire in the natural fallen wit and reason the further you are off the first principle that leads to know God Now I say unto you all Christ Jesus who is anointed of God to preach glad tidings to the poor and to the captive who in the days of his flesh declared and preached the Kingdom of God was neer yea in them I say unto you now he preaches by his Spirit in the world and he is now in the world and this is he that convinceth the world of sin and shews thee thy evil deeds by his light in thy conscience and as thou waits upon that light that is given from God it will open thy understanding and let thee see all that ever thou hast done and will bring trouble upon thee and a true sensibleness of thy condition and will bring wrath upon that nature in thee which is corrupt and contrary to the light for the light is of the nature of Christ Jesus and so thou wilt come to see as thou waitest in the true light wherewith Christ hath enlightned thee withal two seeds and each of these seeds hath a nature and they are one contrary to the other in their natures the nature of the one is to work unrighteousness and of the other to bear witness against sin and also works righteousness and these two are contrary the one leads into bondage the Just and the other leads into bondage the Injust the one is the Image of God the other the Image of the devil and if thou wait in the light thou wilt see two striving in the wombe and here is nation against nation and Kingdom against Kingdom and these are at variance and the life of the one is the death of the other Now that which lets thee see that Cain and Ismael are goodly children who are of the first birth yet they must not enter nor have any share with the seed of the free-woman but must be cast out and therefore another seed must be witnessed which the promise is to who are born again are born of that which is pure of the living water and that washes from sin and uncleanness and also of the Spirit which is life they that are borne of this enters into the City where no unclean thing enters for God takes nothing into Communion with himself but that which is made holy and cleansed and purged and purified by the operation and working of his Spirit which Spirit is life to them that receive it and it reproves them that receives it not and this is in the world and reproves the world yet the world receives it not and so lies wholly in wickedness in darkness and blindness Now unto you that hath but any stirring or desires begotten in your hearts after God or his truth that so you may know the power of God which gives dominion over sin hearken a little and I shall declare unto thee if thou have an eare to hear Christ Jesus who is the light of the world and hath lightened every one that comes into the world by his true light and this is it that shews thee thy evill deeds and the vanities of the world and shews thee what is evil and discovers unto thee all things that ever thou hast done and will check thee when thou doth any thing contrary it and Judge thee for that which is past and this is the gift of God and as thou turns thy mind to it It will turn from sin and evil unto Jesus Christ from whence it comes and this is present with thee and as thou hearkenest to this thou seest God is pure who is present and by the light takes notice of all thy actions and performances with what heart thou dost them and offers them up in and this will let the see if thou regard iniquity in thy heart all is abomination to the Lord therefore keep into this and it will shew thee sin and evil before thou commit it and as thou stands in the Counsell of the light thou stands in the Counsell of Christ and his power preserves thee for the light is power all that hearken not unto another is preserved out of sin and temptation and pollution and sees an overcoming by the power of Christ which is present and here is a guide to all your minds who have wandred here and there and have found nothing here you come to know the Doctrine and teaching of Christ which leads into all truth all that believe in it and receive it and so it will change you out of pride and wantonness out of covetousness and earthly mindedness and from sin it will lead you and from the pathes of unrighteousness into righteousness which is the pure path of the Lord which all comes to injoy peace in who walk in it but the cross of Christ must be taken up daily or else you cannot walk in the way of the Lord and so to the Cross all come and to the Yoak that you may see the wild nature bound under and limited and your vain thoughts Judged out and you may come to see the straight way where no lyer can enter nor no ravenous beast nor no unclean but they come all to be kept out and so as you love your soules and the way of the Lord mind the witness of Christ in you and if you go from it and despise it it will follow and pursue you and you shall never know peace while you stand in disobedience to the Grace of God and the free Gift of God you can never see redemption nor know Gods power which he gives unto all that receive him and you cannot receive his gift but self and self-will must be denied and so the will of Christ which is the will which wills in the light and works in the light and reveales sin by the light and declares righteousness through the light and here the coming of Christ comes to be seen and his day comes to be known which Abraham saw but through death this comes to be read and known and so turne all to this here the word you will hear which is pure and powerful it separates as you hearken unto it and divides between the pretious and the vile in you all who love it and it 's nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart and discerns thy thoughts and here thou wilt learn as thou waitest in patience of the Son in whom the Father is well pleased and if thou hearken to any other it 's the false Prophet which leads thee to Error and so the displeasure of God will come against thee for ever until thou return Blessed is he that hears and receives and considers and prizes the offers of grace and the day of Gods everlasting love and ownes the gift of God in him revealed which leads to repentance and works a change in the heart and mind of all that believe in it and gathers up into its nature all that waits in diligence and believes in it and so the day of redemption comes to be seen and known out of death out of the grave and immortality comes to be brought forth and incorruption comes to be put on and they that witness this can truely say we have found him whom our soul loves and doth not look for any other Blessed is he that hears and considers and waits to be made partakers of Gods righteousness revealed Justifies all that receives it and believe in it and they by it comes to be Pillars in the house of God for ever and follows the Lamb whither soever he goes where Pure Peace is injoyed for ever and ever FINIS