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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91474	The watcher: or, The stone cut out of the mountains without hands, striking at the feet of the image, whose head is gold, and brest of silver, and thighs of brass, and legs of iron, and feet part iron and part clay, Dan. 2. 31, 32, 33, 34, 35. Or, A discovery of the ground and end of all forms, professions, sects and opinions, and also how they now are made as friends, and joyn hand in hand against the substance, the life and power of God, which is now made manifest in his sons and daughters (according to his promise) as hath been plainly manifest in several meetings betwixt the people called Quakers, and the people called Baptists, which is here describ'd. And also a description of the true Church, ... / VVritten by a friend to all tender hearted ones, who hunger and thirst after God, who are hoping and seeking in forms for life, to the directing of their mindes, where and how to finde the true light which leads into the true life and power of Godliness, the end of all forms, where I rest with all who in spirit read me, who am known to them who are without, by the name, Iames Parnell.	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing P541; Thomason E845_18; ESTC R621	62,535	56

to be one that prophaned the temple a ring-leader of the sect of the Nazareans Acts 24. Acts 22.22 Ephes 5.8 a pestilent fellow a raiser of sedition many cry'd out away with such a fellovv he 's not worthy to live thus they suffer'd by the zealous professors in those daies but they whose mindes was turned to the light they was translated out of darkness into the light 1 Cor. 12 13 1 Iohn 3.14 Col. 3.9 10. Rom. 6.6 1 Cor. 6.9 10 11 and became the children of light and was baptized by one Spirit into one body and had passed from death unto life and had put off the old man and put on the new the old man being crucified with Christ though some of them was drunkards some swearers some proud some covetous Idolaters Adulterers yet then they were cleansed and washed and sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God and here was the Church which witnessed the Spirituall Baptisme into the Spirituall Body of which Christ is Head and they being thereby set free from Sin their Union and Communion was here and the Bread which the Saints brake was the Communion of the Body of Christ 1 Cor. 10.16 2 Cor. 5.17 1 Cor. 12.27 Iohn 2.27 1 Cor. 1.18 and the Cup which they drank was the Communion of the Blood of Christ and they was in Christ new Creatures all members of one Body and needed not that any man should teach them because the anointing was in them and to them the Cross was the power of God unto salvation though to the Greeks foolishness and to the Jews a stumbling block and in this Cross Paul rejoyced Gal. 6.14 by which he was Crucified to the world and the world to him and they was not conformed unto the world but transformed by the renewing of their mindes and had one Lord one Faith Eph. 4.4 5.6 one Baptisme one way one Teacher one Life and one Shepheard and one Priest over the houshould of God and one God and Father of all Phil. 3.20 being united by one Spirit into the bond of peace and their conversation was in Heaven and there was the Christians and though there was a time that when Christ was preached after the flesh Phil. 1.16 17 18. some preached Christ through envy and strife and contention to add affliction to Pauls bonds yet in all this he rejoyced that the name of Christ was spread abroad for there was many that believed not that that was the Christ that suffered at Ierusalem and was crucified as Paul himself had not and as there is many such to this day and so it rejoyced him that the name of Christ was spread abroad but after his name was spread abroad and many believed that that was the Christ 2 Tim. 3.5 then the Apostle declared against such who had the form but denyed the life and power and said from such turn away for as Iannes and Iambres withstood Moses so do they withstand the truth being men of corrupt mindes and reprobates concerning the faith and said the Apostle we preach Christ crucified unto the Jews a stumbling-block 1 Cor. 1.23.24 2 Cor. 5.16 and the Greeks foolishness but unto them which are called both Jews and Greeks Christ the power of God and the wisdome of God and said the Apostle hence know we no man after the flesh and though we have known Christ after the flesh hence know we him no more but he that is in Christ is a new creature old things are passed away and all things become new and they that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and Lusts Gal. 4.24 Col. 26 27. 2 Cor. 13.5 1 Iohn 5.10 Iohn 5 25. 1 Iohn chap. 3.5 2 Pet. 1.4 1 Iohn 4.11 chap. 5.19 and the Apostle preached Christ within the hope of glory the Ministry which had been hid from ages and generations and they that could not witness Christ in them was reprobates and here it was not sufficient for them to say they believed Christ dyed for them but he that believeth hath the witness within himself and he that believeth is passed from death unto life and he that believeth is born of God and he that is born of God doth not commit sin and those was they who was made partakers of Christs divine nature therefore saith Iohn as he is so are we in this present world and we are of God and the whole world lyeth in wickedness and they that are of God heareth us and they that are not with us are against us then the Apostle Paul he spoke of false Apostles that was gotten transforming themselvs as the Apostles of Christ 2 Cor. 11.13 4.15 no marvel saith he for Satan himself is transformed as an Angel of light therefore it is no great thing also if his Ministers be transformed as the Ministers of Christ whose end shall be according to their works and the Apostle Peter he fore-told of such who through covetousness with feigned words should make merchandise of the people and Iude he spoke of such who go on in the way of Cain 2 Pet. 2 8. Iude 11. 1 Iohn 2.10 1● and after the error of Balaam for gifts and rewards and saith Iohn it is the last time and as ye have heard that Antichrists shall come even now are there many Antichrists whereby we know that it is the last time they went from us but they were not of us Now the false Apostles was such as under a pretence or profession of true Apostles deceived the ignorant and brought in heresies and so Antichrist is one that under the profession of Christ opposes Christ and drawes from him in the life though under a profession of his name and of faith in him and thus Antichrist got up even that man of sin 2 Thes 3 4. that is exalted in man above all that is called God sitting in the Temple of God as God and saith he is God and thus he decived them in that age as an Angel of Light in a form and likeness of Christ but a false Christ who bewitched them from the truth with a form and profession and thus Antichrist hath raigned by the power of Darkness ever since the Apostles dayes over the world under a Gospel profession yet I say not but that the Lord hath had a remnant in all ages to himself who was zealous and faithfull in what they knew but here hath been a long time of cruel darkness and ignorance and the Lord hath been a long time as a stranger in the earth and they that were accounted to believe on God or Christ looked at him as a God a far off in the heavens without far off they know not where yet they that said they believed that that was the Christ that dyed at Ierusalem and that he dyed for their sins and rose again and was sitting at the right hand

doe walk and serve and worship him in spirit and in truth and such is the Father seeking to worship him Iohn 4.23 24 in whom he is in doing his own ork even to destroy the old Creation and create new Heavens and new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness and those are they that are the new creatures in whom this new work is witnessed in whom the Father hath manifested his Son that in the likeness of sinful flesh he might condemn sin in the flesh and to bind the strong man and cast him out of his house and spoyl his goods and so to destroy the works of the Devil and to cut down the Man of Sin even that son of perdition who is exalted above all that is called GOD sitting in the Temple of God as God and saith he is God this is he by whom the world is deceived who is the God of the world even the Prince of Darkness who rules in all the Children of Disobedience and so said Iohn in the light the whole world lies in wickedness and unto this doth Christ come with a sword for to make war with him and to take and bind him and cast him into utter darkness and so to take his Kingdom from him and to rule himself in righteousness And this is the King of the SAINTS who is now come to redeem unto himself a pure people and to wash them and clense them from their sinnes by his BLOOD and so to wash away all filthiness both of Flesh and Spirit and this is the Baptism by which they are received into his Church and Faith and here is the effect of his BLOOD wrought in MAN and thus he doth and will manifest his mighty power to purifie and clense and make Man a fit Temple for himself to dwell in and thus is GOD with us manifested in Flesh and thus are the Saints Bodies made the TEMPLES of the HOLY GHOST and thus is the word of Life and Reconciliation witnessed to the raising up the Soul to Life and reconciling the Soul to GOD and those are they that are begotten and born again of the Immortal Word which dwelleth and abideth for ever and here is the Houshold of God the Houshold of Faith and the Houshold of Love 1 Iohn 1.1 who speak the things which they have heard and seen and tasted of the good Word of Life which was in the beginning and those are the children of Light who are gathered out of the darke Forms Judgments and Opinions into the life and power of godliness to walk in the Light of Life wherein they are gathered and united by the one Spirit of Love and Life into one body of which Christ is head and here is the true Church which the Lord is a gathering and washing and cleansing and purifying by his Spirit that he may redeem unto himself a pure Church not having spot or wrinckle or any such thing whose insides are washed and made clean through the Word Iohn 15. by which they are reconciled into the love and union which springs from the Life of God and here is the Vine and the Branches and here is the communion of the Church all feeding upon one Bread all drinking upon one cup this is Christ the Life of the Saints and as many as are baptized into this Church partake of this communion and those are they which have denied themselves and have borne the Cross of Christ by which they are crucified to the world and the world to them who are gathered into one Covenant of Life where all are Fellow-Servants under one MASTER who serve one another in love and meeknesse and here is the true Humility in the HEART wrought and here is the true washing of feet without Hypocrisie which some are imitating without for LIFE but falls short for the heart the Lord requires And thus is the Church of Christ gathered by one spirit and by the same circumcised and baptised into one Light and Life and Power where all dwell as MEMBERS of one BODY of which CHRIST is the HEAD And here is the blessed Union and Communion in one and here God is worshipped in Spirit and in Truth and as CHRIST is spiritual so is his Body and so is his Ordinances and here are the true Christians not those that onely have the Notion of those things but they that witness and possess this in Life and they that believe hath the witness within themselves and they that believe have passed from death unto life and the life which they now live in is by faith in the Son of God which faith is without respect of persons who are the new creatures who are in Christ Jesus to whom there is no condemnation who walk not after the FLESH but after the SPIRIT Gal. 5.23 for against such there is no LAW for they are translated out of that NATURE for which the LAW was added and are set free by the Law of the Spirit of Life and are made partakers of the Divine nature of Christ Rom. 8.2 1 Iohn 4.17 by which they are made Christians and therefore saith Iohn as he is so are we in this prasent world and such now witnesses the effect of the blood of Christ wrought within them and the end of his coming and the benefit of his Death who are dead with him and risen through the death of the Cross and these are they that have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Son of God within them Christ within the hope of Glory or else no hope of Glory for they that cannot witness him so 2 Cor. 13.5 Iohn 17.23 are in the Reprobation so saith the Apostle and here is the Son in the Saints and the Father in the Son and thus are all made perfect in one and here is the true Church where there is but one Teacher one Lord one Faith one Baptisme one Light one Life and one way one Shepherd and one Sheepfold and one Priest over the houshold of God and one hope and one language one family and one God and father of all and they that cannot witness this are Strangers to Christ and Strangers to his Cross and Strangers to the Commonwealth of Israel And this is the work which the Lord now hath begun and is carrying on by a strong arm and mighty power to redeem unto himselfe a pure Church and blessed are they that hearken unto his voyce Here all you Formalists Imitators and selfe-acters are shut out here all you proud ones are shut out here all you lustful ones fleshly ones and carnal ones are shut out and all you that are conformed like unto the world in their fashions in their customes in their words in their ways in their worships and traditions in their love and in their fellowship who are seeking the glory and honor and riches of this world you are the children of this World under the Dominion of the GOD of the WORLD whose Kingdom is

baptised into his death thou blind hypocrite was this water baptisme they that are in Christ are new Creatures and so are not those who are baptised with water but they are in the same nature as they was before and thou mayest read in Corinthians the twelf what baptisme that was he spoke of there for saith he by one Spirit are we all baptised into one body c. and they that are thus baptised are baptised into Christ but as I said before it is not the washing away the filth of the flesh and here is thy folly and ignorance laid open who art so blind as to bring this Scripture to prove water baptisme to be an ordinance of Christ and again it saith they was baptised into his death and in the same Chapter it saith they that are dead are freed from sin and this thou denyed that any could be set free from sin so long as they are upon the earth thus thou denies Jesus Christ his ordinances who came to take away sin to clense his people from thier sin but praised be the Lord we do witness a freedom from sin by Jesus Christ who is the Lamb of God who came to take away the sin of the world to redem his peope from their sin and to redeme unto himself a pure Church not having spot or wrinckle or any such thing and saith he if the Son have set you free then are you free indeed and here is the liberty of the Sons of God Iohn 8.36 1 Iohn 3.1 and now are we the Sons of God and now they that witness this and confess it such blind hypocrites as thou calls them blasphemers and so denies Jesus Christ come in the flesh and so are of Antichrist and one while thou affirmed in thy Pulpet that they that pressed and led people into holiness was no deceivers but they that led them into sin and evil was deceivers and then afterward told the people they never could be free from sin so long as they are upon the earth and thus thou would settle them upon the lees and deny Jesus Christ come in the flesh who comes to clense from all sin and thus art thou judged out of thy own mouth for a deceiver And thou also brought this Scripture to maintain water baptism where the Apostle said for as many of you as have been baptised unto Christ Gal. 3.27 have put on Christ now let any whose understandings are enlightned by the Light of Christ read this Scripture and see if this mention water baptisme and if any by water baptisme do now put on Christ and by the Light judge thee to be a Lyar and a deceiver and a perverter of the Scripture to thy own destruction and all who believes thee except you repent and then thou run on to prove the Letter to be the word by way of despising those that say that God is the word and that there is no written word when the Letter saith it self that the word is God and then thou brought this Scripture to prove the Letter to be the Word in 1 Pet. 1.23 Being born again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever for all flesh is grass and the glory of man as the flower of grass the grass withereth and the flower fadeth away but the word of the Lord endureth for ever and this is the word which by the Gospel is preached unto you here thou dark sot thy blindness and ignorance is more laid open is the letter immortal or any written word immortal or liveth or abideth for ever or is any born again but of God and is not he that same immortal word which the Scripture often bears testimony unto and also in this place Iohn 15.3 and Christ the Lamb of God is the everlasting Gospel who preached the word and his Apostles was made clean through the word which he preached unto them but this was not the dead Letter in the which thou would find life Iohn 5.39 and so art seeking the living amongst the dead like the blinde Pharise who thought in the Scripture to find eternall life but would not come unto Christ that they might have life and here thou art in their steps though thou made light of this Scripture and said that some added yee to it and said ye search the Scripture for in them ye think to have eternall life they are they that testifie of me but ye wil not come unto me that ye might have life this was spoken by Christ unto the Pharises who could not believe that he was the Christ but thought in the Scriptures to find eternal life but would not come unto Christ that they might have life and therefore he bid them search the Scripture for there the Prophets had prophesied of him and thereby they might know that he was the Christ if they had searched with the single eye therefore without yee I say unto thee search the Scriptures for they are they that beare testimony of Christ to be the word and all that do search the Scripture with a single eye wil find Christ to be the word and wil believe it Iohn 1.24 and not be so blind as to put the Letter for the Word as thou dost who brought another Scripture with thy dark mind where the Apostle saith ye have a more sure word of Prophesie the which ye do wel to take heed unto as to a light shining in a dark place until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts 2 Pet. 1.19 Isa 5.20 Here thou stil the more manifests thy blindness who puts darkness for light and light for darkness and so art under the wo from the Lord who puts the Letter for the light how doth the Letter shine and what dark place doth it shine in as a Light here the ignorant may see thy folly and thus thou art a Stranger to the Light of Christ which dwelt in the Children of God and the word is nigh in the heart and in the mouth Rom. to which thou shewest thy self a Stranger who drawes peoples mindes from this word in their hearts to the Letter without putting that for the word and so art a blinde guide and a deceiver who cryes Lo here without in the Letter when the Apostle saith Go not forth the Word is nigh in the heart And thus thou opposes the Apostle and draws from his Doctrine and brings another Doctrine and so art not to be received 2 Iohn 10. but held as accursed as thou art by the children of Light and sometimes thou called the Letter the Word and sometimes a Story and here was thy confusion and then thou run on with thy fauning dissembling Speeches making a shew oftentimes to the people of speaking more of a matter but for wearing their patience Oh blush and be ashamed of thy Doctrine now thou makes it appear what filthy stuff it