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A85143	Light risen out of darkness now in these latter days. Shewing the dark ways and worships of the ministry of Antichrist now in these apostated times, which is perilous, as is foretold of often by the Holy Ghost that spoke through Paul, and now is fulfilled in these latter days, 2 Tim 3. Thus saith the Lord, Arise Sion, and thresh with a sharp threshing instrument, and shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen, and is arising, and Jerusalem shall be a burdensome stone to all nations, now that Christ is unto his people both the light and glory thereof. Wherein something is written in reply to a book that was set forth by the dry and night vines in and about Beverley, who scornfully nicknameth the people of God, in reviling and falsly accusing them, and calleth them Quakers, in and about York-shire. Iuly, 1653.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing F490; Thomason E729_5; ESTC R206840	47,191	59

the Scripture speak to Saints not every man when he saith Christ in you the hope of glory c. Col. 1.27 Herein you would have all to take notice of your ignorance Reply for the next verse will contradict you and so in all you have said yet the very letter of the Scripture will let you see your blindness Well may you be ignorant of the life when you are ignorant of the letter for they that spoke forth the Scriptures they passed from death to life and the in fellowship 〈◊〉 with the Father and the Son and he that hath the Son hath life 1 John but he that hath not the Son manifested in him hath not life but is in death You plainly make it appear here that you are in the letter without life and the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life and you never passed from death to life but are yet in death and sin for to be carnally minded is death and the wages of sin is death and he that commits sin is the servant of sin and lying is of the divel and an abomination to the Lord And here you lye ye proud Priests that say the Apostle did not say to every man That Christ or the light was in them for saith he in ver 28. Christ in you whom we preach he did not only preach Christ in them the hope of glory but he saith we preach that is all the Ministers of the Spirit and we preach Christ in you the mystery that is to be unfolded in you to every man warning every man and teaching every man Col. 1.28 Herein you erre not knowing the Scriptures and the Apostle saith to the Romans That as well as to them God hath given to every man a measure of grace Rom. 12.31 And none shall be condemned for that which they know not but for that which they know and do not obey who saith Obey my voyce for obedience is better then sacrifice And Christ saith That he is the light of the world and enlightens every man that cometh into the world Iohn 1.9 And they that follow him shall have the light of life Iohn 8.12 Herein you shew that you are ignorant of this l ght and so are in darkness and without God in the world living by conceivings and imaginations and you that are ignorant of the light are ignorant of Christ and preaches death the letter without the spirit and your Min stry is for for condemnation 2 Cor. 3. and you are ignorant both of the light life and power but as you would comprehend it by your carnal reason but this cannot be comprehended the light shines in darkness but darkness comprehends it not Iohn 1.5 And whereas you say That Paul spoke to none but Saints Priest in that 2 Cor. 5.26 27. c. I looked ply and could not find so many verses in that Chapter for it hath but 21 verses but notwithstanding I knew that Scripture the life of it if I had never seen letter but as you say he spoke to Saints when he saith we know no man after the flesh and though we have known Christ after the flesh yet henceforth know we him so no more but your knowledge stands in the flesh the lust and the fall and here you steal the Apostles words to apply to your selves and that is the Serpent in you go and make restitution as Zacheus did and let him that stole steal no more Ephes 4 28. And you are discovered you that lives by theft and steals the words of your neighbours to trade withal but the Lord is against you and all such as you are Jer. 23.30 You are of those theeves that Christ speaks of in John 10. That climbs up another way and c mes not in by the door And that makes you to speak you know not what See who the Apostle spoke to in that 2 Cor. 5.10 he saith there That all shall appear and every man give account that he may receive according to the deeds done in the flesh Did he but speak but only to Saints when he saith all and every man See whom he spoke to in ver 14.15 and see if you be not exceeding blind Well may you be ignorant of the life and power that are ignoront of the lett●r which is death and so you living in darkness are ignorant of the l●ght and now you are discovered to be ignoront of the same spirit that spoke forth the Scriptures and so shews forth the spirit of errour and you are in the flesh and know not God who is a consuming fire Heb. 12.29 and like a refiners fire Mal 3.2 3. Your God it imagination and the Lord God Almighty who made Heaven and Earth and is the Father of light him you know not that would limit him by your carnal minds but the carnal mind is death and an enemy to the Cross of Christ Rom. 8.6 Phil. 3.18 19. So are you enemies both to God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ and know you not ye blind that the Grace of God which bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men Tit. 2.11 12. But is turned by you and such as you are into wantonness who profess God in words as you do but in works deny him Tit. 1.16 who lives in form without either life or power having a form of Godliness denying the power thereof but your folly will appear daily more and more 2 Tim. 3. And that light is your Condemnation But though the Apostle did speak his experience● in the things of God he spoke what he knew made manifest unto him by experience through the divine operation of the holy Spirit But you live in th● fl●sh and are ignorant of the light of God that he did exhort others to be mindful of which light did lead t●em out of darkness and they were all Children of the light and of the day who were obedient to it for their souls were purified in yeilding obedience to the Commands of the Spirit as in 1 Pet. 1.22 And by the word of life they were sanctified washed and cleansed and justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of the Lord and they that are now guided by the Spirit of God are the Sons of God 1 Cor. 6.11 Rom. 8.14 Which you shew your selves to be none of But you are ignorant of the first Principle of Religion that makes a scorn of the light and shew your selves to be children of darkness having your understanding darkened and live in pride scorn and subtilty and turns the grace of God into wantonness children of disobedience which the wrath of God is to The wrath of God is to be revealed in flames of fire upon all the children of disobedience as you are who disobey the truth and know not the light but are in darkness and walk in darkness For darkness hath blinded your eyes who stand in opposition to the Spirit of truth and disobeyeth the Gospel of our Lord Jesus

of iniquity and out of vain and evil thoughts which you live in and so you are ignorant of the Apostles experience that would be finding it out by thought which is vain and so your life that you live by thought is vain for the just he lives by faith which is the evidence of things unseen which you shew your selves to be ignorant of The Apostle he spoke forth his experiences as he passed through them from death to life and as he was made free by the Body of Christ and said I thank God who hath given me victory through Jesus for the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made him free from the Law of sin and death and he was made more then a Conquerour and was crucified to the world and the world to him and he had Christ living in him and so knew both the life and power of Christ manifested in him which he did w●●ness and he hath left upon record which life and power you are ignorant of and would be aspiring to know his conditions with your vain imaginations but the life and experience of them is hid from all such vulterous eyes and venomous beasts as you are though you can steal his words to trade withal yet you are strangers to that life which was made manifest in Paul and you cannot know it whilest you I ve in the lust and filth of the flesh and in the broad way and in the fall and like theeves you have stoln the declarations of Pauls experiences and the rest to make a trade withal such Sir Simons as you which buy and sell the letter which is carnal for carnal money but the gift of God which is the Holy Ghost that you know not and so you are children of disobedience and are hasting to fill up your measure that destruction might come upon you and fire fall down from Heaven to burn up all your chaff and stoln expressions for the Lord he will and is now gathering his wheat into his garner but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire all your forms and chaff and corrupt dealings is for the fire and wrath of the Almighty and the coming of Christ you know not but are carnal and corruptible and if the last enemy be death that is to be destroyed what is the first you run on but turn you back again and hasten not into your self wills which are for destruction and your fl shly wisdom which is for condemnation and look into that 2 Pet. 3.12 which you have made such haste to and in the latter end of the verse you may read that the face of the Lord is against you and all such evil doers as you are pag. 16. And see how you are hasting to an ungodly corrupt conversation and are neither of the mind nor the same spirit that they were of that spoke forth that 3d Chapter of the Philippians though you have made great haste to steal their Letters or Epistles to trade withal but see what the Holy Ghost spoke through Paul to such as you are who are to be marked that do not follow their example in life and conversation but are enemies to the Cross of Christ as you are and instead of Phil. 3.21 Let it lye where it is and run not over but take your own reward that which is ●ue to you and such as you are whose end is destruction whose God is their belly whose glory in their shame who mind earth things as you do Phil. 3.18 19. And now you Foxes and subul Serpents you are found out of your holes of earthly conceiving inventions and imaginations and are to be whipt with the smal scourge of the righteous judgmen●s of the Lord for the accuser of the brethren is head in you which you speak of in your 17 page Thus saith the Lord Wo to the Idol Shepherds such as you are that ran but the Lord n●ver sent you and you are unprofitable and do not profit the people at all Jer. 23. read that over and s●e where you are and you may see that a whirlwind is to fall grievously upon all such as you are that speak a vision of your own heart and not from the mouth of the Lord and that preach for hire as you do as in Jer. 5.30 31. holding up that which is an abomination in the eyes the Lord but wo is your portion that feeds you with the fat and clothes you with the wool God will feed you with judgement read Ezek. 34. And wo to them that take counsel but not of me and that cover with a covering but not of my Spirit saith the Lord that they may add sin unto sin as you do that are covered with your own inventions the wo s to you read Isai 30. And you blind leaders of the people cause them to erre Isai 31. and Isai 9.16 So that there is like Priest like people Hos 4.9 Therefore wo to you and all blind guides Matth. 23. The Lord is against you Moreover Quest they admonish that we wait in silence until God open our mouths We answer If that were the end or intent of this admonition Priests to shew to man his dependancy on God c. Herein you shew your selves to be ignorant of the same Spirit that they had that spoke forth the Scriptures Reply whose dependancy was of God and waited upon him for to move in them by his holy Spirit and to put words into their mouths to speak as the Prophets and Apostles did witness as you may read at large in their Declaration For holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1.19 20 21. And those that speak now and speak not by the same movings of the Holy Ghost speaking in them and through them as they did are false Prophets such as you are as in 2 Pet. 2. Who know not the gift of God which is as fire but speak their own words and imaginations from others writings as you do that say none speaks immediately from God now as the Apostles did Herein you shew that you never knew God nor any gift of his but have all this time spoken your own inventions and vain repetitions and not from the mouth of the Lord and now in due time you have laid it open to the view of all that are learned and grounded in the truth who are not unlearned nor untaught of God as you are that wrest the Scriptures to your own destruction being led away with the errour of the wicked as you are and know nothing of the growth in grace as they did which spoke fo●th the Scriptures which I witness the life of and see you where you are in your inventions and imaginations wresting the Scripture being untaught of God following your own thoughts and imaginations 2 Pet. 3.16 1. But we know God by divine inspiration and know him speaking immediately in us by his Son and who are his sheep hear his

things and as unknown and yet well known of the Lord and of all those that are the Lords but of our selves we can do nothing It is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his own good pleasure and is thy eye evil because his is good It is God that doth us justifie and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God to them who are the called according to his purpose Rom. 8.28 29. to the end of the Chapter What would you then have us to continue in sin that grace may abound God forbid for how shall we that are d●ad to sin live any longer therein knowing that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the Glory of the Father even we also shall be raised up to walk in newness of life Rom. 6. Isai 66.12 Truth we own and righteousness we own and all Christian Authority such as is of God we own knowing that the Law is holy 1 Tim. 1.8 9 10. and just and good for the lawless and for the disobedient and that the righteous Magistrate beareth not the Sword in vain neither will he suffer sin to go unpunished Justice such as is pure according to the Command of Jesus Christ that which is for the punishing of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well and all that fear the Lord and make conscience of their ways and doings who hold the mystery of faith in a pure conscience such we do own And think not that we do come to destroy or declare against righteousness but unrighteousness that purity may be set up and righteousness established that deceits and deceivableness and all unrighteousness may be thrown down and Christ the Son of righteousness exalted in the purity of the Gospel this we do own and this we do honour But all deceivers blind guides hirelings Seducers and Antichrists who do not act in righteousness nor abide in the Doctrine of Christ we do disown And all Ranters and Libertines who are without order and spiritual Government who delight in vanities and follow the course and fashions of the world and live in voluptuousness and filthiness of the flesh and those that say and do not and seem to be what they are not speaking fair words and walk contrary in their actions which preach to others liberty and they themselves are the servants of corruption be they what they will be such we disown and utterly do deny and we loath and abhor all manner of evil knowing this That he that doth not righteousness is not of God 1 Iohn 3.10 For God is pure and of purer eyes then to behold iniquity and all Ranters Sects and opin●ons whatsoever we do deny for it is purity that we do honour knowing That he that doth righteousness is of God 1 Iohn 3.7 But such as hold that there is neither God nor Devil good nor evil but what a man doth imag●ne and that good and evil is alike Let me tell them by the Spirit of the living God that they are lyars and guided by a spirit of delusion Now all that love the Lord Jesus Christ have a care and take heed of all such for they are not of Christ but of Antichrist and we do them disown and utterly deny in obedience to the command of the Spirit of truth and according to the Command of our Lord Jesus Christ who saith Have no fellowship with them Ephes 5.11 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret but all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light for whatsoever doth make manifest is light Ephes 5.12 13. Let all the workers of iniquity know That the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6.9 10. Gal. 5.19 20 21. And let them know That the wicked and all that forget God shall be turned into hell Psal 9.17 For the Secrets of the Lord are with them that fear him and the grace of God which bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live righteously soberly and godly in this present evil world Tit. 12.11 12. s o God is thereby dishonoured but he is zealous of his honour with a godly jealousie and he will not give it unto graven Images but will judge the Heathen in righteousness and all are Heathen that know not God by his power ruling in them and he will scatter the proud in all their imaginations and therefore be not deceived for God will not be mocked And saith he If I be a Father where is my honour A son honoureth his father in loving him and walking humbly before him and yeilding obedience to him from love received and a servant he serveth his Master and is in obedience to him in all things Therefore his servants ye are to whom ye do obey Rom. 6.16 And he that commits sin is the servant of sin John 8.33 But know you not that the wages of sin is death but the gift of God to them that love him and serve him in holiness and righteousness is Eternal life a Therefore saith he Be ye holy as I am holy for without holiness no man shall see the Lord profess what they will And It is not every one that saith Lord Lord that shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven saith Jesus Christ but he that doth the will of my Father which is in Heaven And saith he Herein is my Father glorified that ye bring forth much fruit But why call ye me Lord and Master saith he and do not the works that I say Therefore every one that doth profess love to God and Christ be what you speak in all things or else profess nothing at all and be not sayers but doers for to say and not to perform is hypocrisie and dissimulation But hypocrites and dissemblers God will judge and pour forth fury upon the head of the wicked Therefore all that do walk in disorder to the Spirit of truth God doth disown and we do disown but those that walk according to the Spirit of truth and bring forth the fruits of the Spirit as love out of a pure heart fervently peace meekness gentleness goodness temperance and patience godliness and brotherly kindness and such as these which are according to the Spirit of truth Gal. 5.22 23 24 25 26. such we do own and wish grace mercy and peace to all that walk according to this rule and to all the Israel of God And I say as the Apostle did who was a true Minister of Jesus Christ and a man of God who was acted and given by the Spirit of the living God and was hated of the world and both by the Jews Pharisees Sadduces Grecians Libertines and all Sects and opinions which were many as there are now and all in confusion and out of the way but truth it is but one which stands out of all sects and opinions and is in that which is but one where purity is out of all apprehensions and comprehensions in the Eternal Divine Being And it is for the truths sake that we are reproached and so we are made willing to submit to the righteousness of the Spirit And as many as walk according to this rule Peace be on them on the Israel of God From henceforth let no man trouble me For I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ And to all that are Brethren Gal. 6.16 17 18. The Grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with your Spirits Amen This Epistle was written for the Vindication of the Truth By a Friend and Lover of the Truth and a Servant of the Lord Rich. Farnworth FINIS

Divine Light and you are not guided by it But seeks to comprehend it by carnal reason and that is your Imagination for nature is altogether corrupt and the Light is pure standing out of all corruptions and cannot be comprehended by carnal reason and corrupt Invention of man but doth all unrighteousness condemn and that is your condemnation that light is come and you stand up in your reason against it But Light shineth in darkness and darkness cannot comprehend it and that is your condemnation that you do oppose the Light and so you live in darkness following the Imagination of your corrupt hearts to to the dishonour of the Lord Jesus the Soul Saviour of all those that do beleeve in him but you shew that you are full of unbelief and fleshly reason and knows not that light which purifieth nor that word which cutteth down all the loftiness of men of corrupt hearts where it is made manifest for the pure Light to shine forth in brightness and so that Prophecy is fulfilled in them that findeth the opperation of the word of life arising through to sanctifie and purifie which I bear testimony to through death saith the Holy Ghost Arise and shine for thy light is come and the Glory of the Lord is risen upon thee and so wisdom is justifi d of her children but the Light doth condemn all that is unjust and justifies all those that do beleeve from all ungodliness which you do shew your selves to be ignorant of and live in corruption and in darkness committing spiritual wickedness Wherefore say you Priests As the Disciples were cleansed by the Word of the Gospel which Christ had spoken to them Ioh. 15.3 so we conclude that the unbeleeving are blind and impure in their Conscience Titus 1.15 which concludes directly that the Light of or in conscience before faith is not pure The word that cleanseth you know nothing of Reply that are ignorant of the Light which leadeth to the word which word is a Sword cutting through the ground of Imaginations which you live in and the Word of God is as a fire in the bones which Word doth both sanctifie and purifie who knows the Word knows the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ which you are ignorant of and of the mistery of Faith that is held in a pure conscience 1 Tim. 3.9 for they only have Immortality who dwell in the light and in the saith which is pure and purifieth the heart and worketh out the carnal part but you shew that your life is out of the pure faith and so in your dark Imaginations and you are both carnal sensual and d●vilish that live altogether by your own Imaginations and in Laciviousness lust and excess and in the uncleanness and filth of the flesh and shew that you never knew the word of Life that washeth cleanseth justifieth and sanctifieth which you are ignorant of that live in sin and uncleanness and so your Ministry is for the fire for it is death and seeds but the carnal minds and keeps that alive which must dye for every mans works shall be tryed so as by fire and all your sifted chaff and high notions is for condemnation for our God is a consuming fire and of purer eyes then to behold Iniquity 1 Cor. 3.13.14.15 Heb. 12.27.28 and all that are proud and all that do wickedly shall be as stubble and are for the fire Mal. 4.1 and there will you and your pride be with all your high notions of fleshly wisdome confounded and tryed for the fire Wherefore we having received a Kingdom that cannot be shaken we have grace whereby we may serve God acceptable both with reverence and godly fear and so dwell in the fire to praise and glorifie our God for ever Heb. 12.28 29. Moreover Quest They affirm that this light discovereth every evil in man as it ariseth in the heart We answer Priest That the light which lighteneth every man that cometh into the world discovereth not the greatest evil which is unbelief but only those things which are against the Moral Law as pride covetousness oppression c. which these cry out against but never against unbelief which is the condemning sin and doth bind the guilt of all transgressions on the back of a sinner c. 1. Herein you shew that you were never yet sent of Christ Reply but are in darkness and knoweth him not that are ignorant of the light that enlightens every man that comes into the world John 1.9 John 8.2 Here you are ignorant of Christ and live altogether in unbelief and also in all unrighteousness which is sin 1 John and pride covetousness and oppression For sin is the transgression of the Law and you are in the transgression and know not this light which is Christ the hope of glory for he that abideth in him sinneth not he that sinneth hath not seen him neither known him He that is born of God and dwells in the light sinneth not he that sinneth is in darkness and of the Devil and liveth in unbelief which is the ground of all evil and doth both distrust and also dishonour the Lord and herein the children of God and the children of the Devil as you are is made manifest 1 John 3.6 7 8 9 10. And you are in the fl sh and under condemnation Rom. 8.1 2. And dare not trust God that studie what to eat and what to drink and what to speak contrary to the doctrine of Christ as in these Scriptures Luke 12.22 23. to the 38. vers 11 12. and Matth. 6.24 25. to the end read these Scriptures and you may see that you are Heathens and unbelievers and do distrust and dishonour God and you live in darkness and covetousness the ground and root of all evil 2. And herein you would have all to take notice in whom light is manifested that you never knew any thing of God that say Christ or the true light doth not shew unbelief Herein you shew your selves open enemies to Jesus Christ and are ignorant of the first principle of religion For all that have the light of God born up into their understandings will testifie against you and the Lord will be a swift witness against you Mal. 3.5 6 7. And the Apostles will witness against you in their D●clarations that are left upon record that all may take notice of your blindness and ignorance and despight to the Spirit of grace 3. Herein you shew your selves to be ignorant of the true light which is Christ and enemies to him and that you are strangers and aliens to the covenant of promise and without God in the world Ephes 2.12 And that the Prince of the power of the ayr ruleth in you and the Son of perdition is exalted in you and your doctrine is of deceit and of craftiness and the Gospel is hid from you 2 Cor. 4.3 4. And as saith Jesus Christ so say I For he that sanctifieth and they that

are sanctified are all of one and he is not ashamed to call them brethren Heb. 2.11 But such as you are he doth deny and against you and your dark Ministery I do testifie that it is of Antichrist and not of Christ who live in darkness and know not God and that is your ignorance and sottishness we are of the light and of the day Ephes 5.13 And are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones and witness the life of the Scriptures Ephes 5.30 And I witness the washings and cleansings with the water of the word as they did that spoke forth the Scriptures which you shew your selves to be ignorant of Ephes 5.26 27. Therefore I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth that thou hast hid these things from the wise prudent of the world that the wisdom of the world may appear to be foolishness as it 's said 1 Cor. 1.25 26 27 28. and hast revealed them to us by thy Spirit that thou mayest have the praise 1 Cor. 2.9 10. Behold what manner of love is this that the Father hath bestowed on us that we should be c●lled the Sons of God therefore the world knoweth us not because he knew him not 1 John 3.1 4. You shew that you know him not but are in lying and deceit and flatteries walking in deceit and craftiness shewing forth your subtilties that standeth in opposition against the light and so dishonoureth the Lord Christ and saith that he knows not all things in saying that he doth not discover unbelief and for that end came he into the world to judge and condemn all unbelief and unbelievers For he that believeth not is condemned already John 3.18 And saith For judgement am I come into the world that they that see not might see into the knowledge of the divine mystery and that they which see by their own conceits and imaginations as you do might be made blind to see nothing of them For he is the true light and none sees any divine truth but in him for he is the divine light and in him is no darkness at all And hereby know we that we dwell in him and he in us who is both divine light and divine good and we know it because he hath given us of his spirit 1 John 4.13 14 15 16 17. Herein you are found lyars Seducers and Antichrists that say we believe not in him for that is your condition that know him not that is come a light into the world that whosoever believeth in him may not abide in darkness which light life I witness with all that do believe in the Lord Jesus the light of the world but you that know not this true light that enlighteneth every man to guide you there is you condemnation your Ministry is for condemnation for he that loveth the light and is guided by it that shews him salvat ō but he that walks contrary to the light as you do is in darkness abideth in death are for condemnation Ioh. 3.19 20 21. You do mightily dishonour the Lord that say this light doth not shew all darkness and unbelief Herein you erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of truth The Apostle said That God who commanded light to shine out of darkness had shined in their hearts which I bare testimony to through death to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the f●ce of Jesus and that was the doctrine that he preached who had the Heavenly treasure in an Earthen vessel which you are ignorant of 2 Cor. 4.5 6 7. And so you are found to be enemies to Jesus Christ and strangers to the true l ght your ignorance and folly is now made manifest First Christ who is the true light that enlighteneth every man that cometh into the world Ioh. 1.9 doth altogether condemn unbelief and that is your condemnation for we which have the light of life and witness against you that say this light doth not discover unbelief for it hath condemned it and sets us free from it who are redeemed to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ by it which you are ignorant of and so are ignorant of the life of the Scriptures as in Ioh. 19. 8.12 3.19 20 21. Act. 13.47 where Christ is the Covenant of his people as the Lord hath promised by his Servant the Prophet who Prophecying of Christ Sai●h the Lord there I will give thee for a light of the people to enlighten the Gentiles which were unbeleevers that thou mayst be the glory of my People Israel herein you mightily do dishonour the Lord Jesus Christ but they are not Israel that are after the flesh as you are that live in the fall and in darkness and in enmity to God but they are Israel that are after the spirit and walk in the light bringing forth fruits to the Praise and Glory of God and there is your condemnation the light which lighteneth every man that cometh into the world and your ministry is darkness and not light of Antichrist and not of Christ and you are men-pleasers time-servers seducers blind guides Hypocrites and dissemblers and sheweth your envy and subtilty being of the world and in darkness and guided by the spirit of error we are of God he that is of God heareth us and walketh in the light which guideth and leadeth up to the Father of Lights he that is not of God heareth us not hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error by the touchstone and tryer and light of life 1 Ioh. 4. which is Christ revealed in us as the Apostle did witness Gal. 1. which you are ignorant of and live in form without either light life or power and are servants of sin and your wages are death and destruction tribulation and anguish Repent and blush for shame wo and misery is your portion the mouth of the Lord of H sts hath spoken it who is the righteous Judg of Heaven and Earth the Father of Lights even the Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who is God blessed for ever Yet further they conclude that power accompanies that light to destroy every evil Quest as it appears in them that yeild themselves unto it and watch that their vain minds draw them not forth from abiding in the pure light of Christ c. It were a smal thing Oh all ye that pass by Priests If we and our means should sleep in the dust in everlasting silence and contempt but will not the stones cry out if we hold our peace whilst these deceits seem to lay all upon Christ c. Here you shew your selves to be of the number of Reprobates Reply and know not Christ as in that 2 Cor. 13.5 who yet never knew any thing of Christ the Divine Light and the Divine Power and are of those that Christ speaks of he came to his own and his own received him