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death_n	body_n	lord_n	soul_n	13,508	5	5.1021	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77218	This is for all you the inhabitants of Whitewell to consider, who deny the perfect life of Christ to be brought forth in his people here upon earth, and manifested in their mortal flesh by a ceasing from sin. And to all others whom it may concern.	Bradly, Richard, d. 1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing B4125A; ESTC R170754	8,208	9

3.16 17. I exhort you all to exercise your selves in the law of the Lord which the Scriptures of truth say is Light Prov. 6. 23. For if yee reject the Light then ye reject the Law of God and cast it behind your backs and with such God is not well pleased And hearken not to the deceivers who keep you from the Light of Christ Jesus wherewith he hath enlightned every one of you and tells you it is natural whereas you know that sin is natural the light in your conscience is contrary to sin and reproveth you for sin therefore believe them not that turn you from the light for they are not Ministers of Christ his Ministers turned people from the darkness to the light and from the power of satan to God Acts 26.18 And such also are deceivers who tell you the onely way to come to the knowledge of all truth is by the Scriptures for the knowledge of all truth is by the Spirit of truth which is the Light that convinceth you first of a truth and then being obeyed doth bring to the knowledge of Christ Jesus who said I am the truth and his spirit leadeth into all truth John 14.17 16.13 and those Priests are deceivers who preach for hire and those false Prophets who divine for money or tythes such cannot lead you out of the transgression for they are in rhe transgression themselvs for Christ said to his Freely yee have received freoly give and Paul made not the Gospel chargeable but these Priests that preach for filthy lucre deceivs the people and keeps them from believing in the Light lest by it they should come to see their abominations and deceits and with the spirit of the living God this is seen and in much plainness and tender love to your pretious souls declared that the simple honest hearted amongst you may be delivered out of the mouths of the lying Prophets and false Shepherds who make merchandise of poor souls for dishonest gain and filthy lucre and if you put not into their mouths they prepare war against you but the time is near they shall gape wide but little shall come into their mouths when none shall buy their merchandise any more it being known to be deceit and the refuge of lies and all that come to witness the teaching of the Lord know it to be truth therefore we bear our testimony against them and all other in their nature though got into a higher profession but at one in possession whose deceit is the greater and to such I say What do you profess do you profess the life of Christ and cannot cease from sin but plead for it term of life as some of you do and positively maintain Is this your profession then wo is your portion ye hypocrites professing one life and living another or else will you say there is sin in the life of Christ or separate him and his life which you cannot for his life is to do the will of his Father and the Son of God cannot be separated from the will of his Father but from sinners he is and sin separates from God and so it doth you who plead for it and live in it from the life of Christ But if thou sayest I am a believer what dost thou thou believe dost thou believe as many of you who are called believers do that is that they shall not be freed from sin so long as they are in the body If this be thy faith it is like to be so unto thee then if thou be freed at all it must be by thy account when thou art out of the body that is a freedom but not from hell from the act of sin because thou canst sin no longer but not from the guilt and condemnation Rev. 22.12 2 Cor. 5. 10. because there is no place for repentance this is not the freedom of the children of God for their freedom is by the Son Joh. 6.36 which is a perfect freedom indeed from the committing of sin but thou that committest sin term of life art in bondage and a servant of sin and being a servant of sin art not redeemed from the power of Satan ver 34. nor out of the vain conversation but the true believers come to the purifying of the soul in obeying the truth which makes free Joh. 8.32 through the spirit 1 Pet. 1.22 and obedience is required in a mans life time and not to be put off till the soul departs from the body for he that sleights the day of his visitation cannot if he would then it is hid from his eyes though he may seek it carefully with tears as Esau did before his death but could not find it Hebr. 12.17 therefore take heed you sleight not your day in hearkning to such who plead for sin term of life for in the name and fear of the Lord I warn you to depart from such in tender love and pity to your souls which have been fed a long time with words but never came to taste of the bread of life that satisfieth the soul but as many as come to taste of that bread and feel the Word near in the heart their souls loaths the Priests husks and can feed no more on their chaff nor sit one hour to hear them tell their dreams but when we walked in darkness and knew not the light but followed those blind guides and were one with them in their deceit we loved them as well as you pleaded for them and their deceit not knowing what we did for we in that estate knew no other way no other truth no other life and thought as you do now there was no other but when the Lord visited us and sent his messengers who came in the power of the spirit of life and declared the word of the Lord it reached the witnesse of God in our consciences to which witness giving heed it inlightned our understandings and the body of sin was seen and felt then O wretched man What shall I do to be saved from this body of sin and death Then was the everlasting Gospel which is the power of God known and preached saying Fear God and give glory to him for the hour of his judgment is come then was the voice of the just uttered heard with judgment upon the head of the unjust then the flesh trembled the earth quaked the rocks rent the mountains removed the graves opened the dead raised to life the captive prisoners came forth salvation known and the true worship of God set up which is in the spirit and in the truth This is the strait gate that leads to life and few there be that find it Now the new and living way is known and witnessed and they that walk therein though fools upon the worlds account do not err for it is the way of holiness wherein the ransomed redeemed ones of the Lord walk who are returned and come to Sion the city of the living God into which no unclean or imperfect thing can enter the heavenly Jerusalem which cometh down from heaven wherin dwelleth this new birth the regenerate and new-born babes which sin not with songs of everlasting joy upon their heads Isa 35.8 9 10. Heb. 12.22 23. Rev. 21.27 Now the living praises the living God and true honour and glory everlasting praises and thanks is given to him who lives for evermore Halelujah He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith to him that overcometh mark overcometh will I give to eat but not to him that is overcome for of whom a man is overcome of the same is he brought into bondage and here is your state who live in sin and plead for it term of life and believe you cannot overcome it in this life and so are servants to it and all in this state have no right to eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the paradice of God Rev. 2.7 But blessed and for ever blessed are they that do his commands that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the city Rev 2● If here all that live in sin and plead for it term of life are shut out with the dogs ver 15. All that enter this city must witness this work of Regeneration every man in his own order and according to his measure and for the everlasting good of all that cannot witness this work do the ministers of Christ Jesus labour night and day warning every one every where to repent and turn to the light of Christ which shews them all that ever they did and also what they shall do and here the true Messiah is found Chalfout in the County of Buckingham the 5th of the 12. mon. 1660. This was I moved from the Spirit of the Lord to write as a testimony warning to you all who deny the just perfect one to reign in you and are pleading for sin term of life from one who is a true lover of peace truth righteousness where or in whomsoever it appeareth Rich. Bradly THE END