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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

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

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

and faithfull witness the beginning of the Creation of God and all that waits in the light waits not in the grace of God but waits in that which turnes the grace into wantonness there Christ suffers and is denied and another is owned and learned of and another teacher and where the grace of God is not taught and learned of ungodlyness is not denied but ungodlyness is denied where the grace teacheth and where another thing is hearkened unto and learned of that which is not like God is learned and deceipt is brought forth and the Childe of fornication which must not inherit and all who learne of this nature they are blind and Ignorant of the will of God and so knows not the Doctrine of Christ but their eyes is without in the world where the false prophets are gone out into the world and there is the Errors and the Sects and the judgments which are many and the opinions which are out of the unitie and their vaine Imaginations and vaine thoughts lodges in the heart and there the light of Christ is not known but the woman speakes which ought to learn in silence who was first in the transgression And all you that put the letter for the light are blind and calls it the Word and the Gospel you are not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God for the word of God is the power of God which is immortal and eternal and all that which is visible stands in time and cannot lead to know him which was before time in the beginning and so all you who are in your earthly carnal minds Imagining a Rule without you and a word without you you have not learned of him who is entered with the veil you are hunting upon the wild mountains and forests and knows not the voyce of the true Shepherd who saith learn of me whose word is nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart and thou that hath not hearkned unto this a separation thou never didst see but darkness is upon the face of the deep and the Word of God is not known by which the heavens and the earth was made and all things therein are upholden by the word of his power which word of power is seen by them whose mindes are turned within and there the thoughts and intents of the heart is by it discerned and seen which word is quick and powerful and discernes the secrets of mans heart and is as a hammer to break the rocks and the hard hearts and this is immediate and eternal and all who knows not this your carnal minde stands wholly in your and your hard hearts is unbroken and the mountaines is unlevelled and you walke in the crooked ways of the old serpent in subtiltie and deceipt and stands covered before the Lord and the straight paths of righteousness you have not known Therefore awake out of deceipt and security all sorts of people where you have been making your rest in the lap of the adulterer and have drunken of the wine of fornication and of the old drags of unrighteousness whereby the whole man is in flamed and the whole course of Nature is set on the fire of hell and filth and abomination lodges in the heart and you talke of the word of God and of the law of God and of the new covenant and yet never see any thing in you which you can own to guide you which is contrary to your wills which is the will of God All sorts of professors whether Presbyters Independents Bapists or of what name soever you are called by who sayes you are separated let me ask this What are you separated from and what separated you If you deny the sufficiency of the Spirits teaching alone and it to be the rule and alone guide unto God who is separated from sinners and behold them a far off I say you who cannot own that which shews you your vain minds and vain thoughts and that discerns the thoughts if you cannot own this the word of God you never knew nor the Law written in your hearts nor the word of separation and all are in your imaginations and vain conceivings in your fleshly minds here and there setting up an Image raised from a dead letter and founded on your earthly Imaginations and they stands in the vallies of vain hopes and there is no life in nothing you worship and set up neither sight nor hearing and every one of you worship a dead thing and that which makes not the comers thereunto perfect but you are all pleading for imperfection and sin in the body and all joyne together to oppose the life and power of God which the Saints ought to press after and they that stand in the counsel doth obtain victory and witness of his righteousness which is perfect Are you not many of you turning into the old Bishops road who would tie all unto their Idols temple or parish-Church so called and are not you many of you going about to stop all from hearing any but you under payn of Excommunication Oh the gross darkness you are led in and the wilful blindness who have taken up your rest in that which is carnal and without where all the hypocrites may come verily I say unto you your rest will be but as the leaning upon a bowed wall or as a reed of Egypt for the ground of iniquitie stands whole and the whole body of darkness is not removed the earth is whole the fallow ground is not plowed up thornes and briers and fruitless trees which cumbers the ground of the Lord is not cut down and so the works of condemnation you are none of you brought from under but selfe stands and your wills is alive which is at enmitie against God only talking of a Christ at a distance and his righteousness as far from you as betwixt earth and heaven and here is your Justification applying this unto your selves while you are disobedient to the grace of God in you this is your fayth and your rest and this fayth all the world hath and this hope but this fayth cannot justifie nor not one of you hath assurance who hath but this who doth not witness Gods righteousness brought forth in you which is wrought by the word of fayth which is incorruptible which justifies and gives assurance and is witnessed through the death of the Cross And therefore I cannot forbear but to declare your Ignorance and shew you your deceipt you ly in and your ragged veiles you hide your selves under for I know your peace you have is that which will not last and therefore be not secure and careless nor obstinate but lay down your Crowns at his feet and come out of your ease and rest and fleshly exaltation puffed up by the wisdom of the flesh and that which you have gathered in and not witnesses of the same wrought in you all for the fire yet a little while and time shall be no longer for the end of time