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death_n	bring_v	sin_n	sin_v	5,307	5	9.1204	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91118	A testimony of God, and his way, and worship against all the false wayes and worships of the vvorld. Also an answer to some of the false doctrines held forth, by a professed minister, in VVales; shewing the unsoundness of his former actions, and is found to be one, in the nature of the vvorld; which sometime he hath spoken against. With an answer to some queries; propounded by one, who is called an Anabaptist. / Given forth for no other end, but in love to the truth, as it is in Iesus: by Alex: Parker.	Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.	1656 (1656)	Wing P383; Thomason E883_6; ESTC R207301	24,030	31

A Testimony of God And his way and worship against all the false wayes and worships of the VVorld Also an answer to some of the false Doctrines held forth by a professed Minister in VVales shewing the unsoundness of his former actions and is found to be one in the nature of the VVorld which sometime he hath spoken against WITH An answer to some Queries propounded by one who is called an Anabaptist Given forth for no other end but in love to the truth as it is in Iesus BY ALEX PARKER LONDEN Printed for Giles Calvert at the West end of Pauls 1656. A Testimony of God and his way and worship against all the false wayes and worship of the world GOD is pure and holy and loves righteousness and his worship is a pure and a spiritual worship not known to the world that lives in wickedness the world by all their wisdom and study cannot find out the mind of God neither do they worship him in spirit but are wondering and worshipping the Beast who have not found their names written in the book of life and though they make a profession of the name of God yet are aliens and strangers from the pure life and power of God and so are climbing up another way and building up Babel a Tower to reach up to Heaven in their Heathenish and Babilonish wisdom where there is nothing but confusion and strife one crying lo here is Christ another crying lo there one crying up his way to be the onely way and counts all accursed that are not in his way and so the second cries up his way and so all the world lies in confusion and wickednesse strife and debate and though many have long been seeking after God yet have not found him because they sought him not in his own way Which is pure for ever but by their own wit and wisdom have gone about to know and find out the mistery of the Kingdom of God so have walked gone on in the crooked wayes and by paths of the world and have despised that little thing within which is the light of Jesus that shines in the midst of all this darkness and reproves them in secret for their evil deeds and shews them their confusion and oftentimes bring them to a stand and some sense or feeling of the deadness and emptiness of all their profession and of their tottering building which is builded upon the sand and cannot stand in the fiery day of the fierce wrath and indignation of God and when they daub up themselves with smooth words crying the ordinances of Christ and the Church of Christ and the righteousness of Christ and faith in Christ and though they be wicked and sinfull and must be so while they live yet Christ doth not impute their sin unto them they are justified in Christ though they sometime run into sin and thus would make Christ a cloak for their sin yet still the light of Christ testifies against them and all their coloured and painted outside and talking of justification without holiness of life will not bring them peace but still there is a cry after God for purity and reproves them for their sin and iniquity and no peace there is to the wicked as long as they act contrary to the measure of God all their profession and high notions and glorious comprehensions and guilded outsides is but like unto Adams fig-leafe garment and will not cover their nakednesse in the dreadfull and powerfull day of the Lord the wicked shall be as the stuble and shall be consumed root and branch all their crying Lord Lord will not avail them in that day all their sermons reading praying and the like being found workers of iniquity will do them no good but this dreadfull sentence from the Lord will be pronounced against them Go cursed workers of iniquity I know you not depart from me into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Consider of this all you carnall and formall Professors Priests and People who talke so much of the name of God drawing neer unto him with your lips and with your mouths but your hearts goes after your covetousnesse and things of this world which comes to an end and withers and fades away and pleads against the power and purity of Godlyness saying none can ever be made free from sin nor perfect in this world but must continue in sin or sin in him while he lives and so have made a Covenant with hell and with death and no longer time will serve the devill your master whole servants you are as long as you live in sin but terme of life What will ye answer the Lord in that day will then a distinction serve you that you have not sinned unto death or that your sin shall not be imputed to you Shall not then the witnesse of God in your own conscience which all along hath testified against you for your ungodly practises and reproved you for your secret evils Shall it not stop your mouths and you shall stand speechlesse and shall be made to confesse that God is just and your condemnation just who in your life time have rejected his counsell and cast his Law behind your backs and have turned his grace into lasciviousness know this assuredly this will be your portion at the latter day for God is just and will render a just reward unto every one according to their deeds done in the body whether they be good or whether they be evill They that have improved their talents and done well shall enter into the Lords joy But those who have sleighted the Lords free love which is freely tendred and have been carelesse and negligent and have not improved their tallents shall be cast out from his presence and shall have their portion in the lake of utter darknesse where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth and this shall be the condemnation of all the world who hate the light that Jesus Christ hath enlightened them withall and love their evill deeds better then the light For this is the condemnation of the world not because light is not come but that light is come into the world and men love darknesse rather then light because their deeds are evil and so all the world lies under condemnation who are in the sin and evill and deny the light which gives the entrance into the Kingdoms of Christ which stands in righteousness and no unrighteous one can enter for no entrance is made but through the death of sin and there is no death nor freedom from sin but only by the Son of God there is no way but by him no salvation but in him no separation from sin nor reconciliation to God but only by the Son o● God who is given of the Father a Covenant of light into the World who doth enlighten every one that cometh into the world and by this light is the Devils work seen and by faith in him who

hath given the light is the heart purified and the conscience purged from dead works and so the devils works comes to be destroyed for for this purpose was the Son of God made manifest that he might destroy the works of the devill and the works of the devil are in the heart for in the time of the night the devil the enemy of man he hath wrought his works in the heart of man and so hath wrought and begotten him into his image to do his work and so man becomes a servant to the devil bringing forth fruits of unrighteousnesse and this is all done in the heart the devil having gotten possession and sits and rules as King in the heart of man and there is the ground of all sin it a riseth out of the heart which is deceitful and desperately wicked from thence ariseth pride envy wrath malice murders drunkennesse lying swearing adultery fornication covetousness persecution tiranny and oppression and all other evills whatsoever they have their ground and rise from with in out of the heart for there is no man tempted of God but every man when he is tempted he is drawn a way of his own lust for lust is conceived in the heart and after it is conceived it brings forth sin and sin being finished brings forth death and the wayes of sin is death and while sin lodgeth and is regarded in the heart it defiles the heart and separates from God and all the prayers and sacrifices that are offered up unto God from an impure heart are abomination to him all outward shewes and outward cleansing will not avail nor bring peace as long as the ground and root of sin remains within for it is the heart which the Lord requires as it is written my Son give me thy heart so it is an inward work that every one must know and witnesse if ever you know true peace and rest for as the devils work is within in the heart and defiles the heart so must the work of Christ be within likewise for the destroying of the devils works and for the purifying of the heart for this is the mistery which hath been hid and is hid from all wisedom of the flesh and from all vultrous eyes and venomous beasts and reveiled to the Babes and Lambs of God who have laid down their Crowns at the feet of the Lamb and have denied themselves and the pomp and glory of this world and do bear the dayly Cross and despised the shame and do love and walk in the light which the world hates and thereby are led out of darknesse and the ungodly practises which the world lives in into righteousness and peace to exercise a good conscience towards God and towards man and this must every one own if ever they own the living God or a pure conscience where the Mistery of faith is held they must own this light to guide them in the exercise of their consciences for this light is the eye whereby a man comes to see himself and the root and ground of sin and untill man comes to own this light he never comes truly so see himself and so is far from denying self for first a man must see himself before he can deny himself and the light it is that let a man see his sin and that he is driven from God and out of union with God because of his sin and it is sin that separate from God and breaks the peace with God for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God all have gone astray we our selves even as others and have been wandring as Sheep without a Shepherd but the Lord of Hosts is risen and hath sent forth his Son even Jesus Christ the true Shepherd who is gathering his Sheep into the fold where they shall lye down in peace and none shall make them afraid and if the Son make you free then are you free indeed but no freedom there is but only by him whose bloud washeth and cleanseth from all sin and whereas it is sai● If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us This was spoken to a condition before confession as is plain to the Children of Light for saith he if we confesse our sins he is faithfull and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness he doth not say from part but from all and this they witnessed who were in the light and hath fellowship with the Father and the Son as is written God is light and in him is no darkness at all he that saith he hath fellowship with God and walks in darkness is a liar and doth not the truth But if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another and the bloud of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin and him wee witnesse even Jesus Christ the everlasting Covenant of God who makes free to the utmost all that come unto God by him and wee testify against all those that oppose the pure doctrine of Christ Jesus and sayes none can be fully cleansed from sin while they live upon the earth and so would make the bloud of Christ of none effect which whosoever walketh and abideth in the light of Christ his bloud cleanseth from all sin for whosoever abides in him sins not he that sinneth hath not seen him neither known him and this the Scripture declareth and I bear testimony and set to my seal that it is true for he that doth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous and hee that commits sin is of the devill for the devil sinneth from the beginning but whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaines in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God and in this are the Children of God made manifest and the children of the d●vil 1 Joh. 3. c. He that is born of God is the Son of God and the Son of God doth not commit sin and except a man be born again he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God for the first man is of the earth earthly and minds earthly things his joy and treasure is there in things that are below delighting in the visible things his heart is there his care and labour is for the things of this life what to eat what to drink what to put on how to become great in the earth and by his earthly wisedom which is from below which is sensual and devilish he is plotting contriving to get great possessions and to compaste the earth to get himself a name in the earth but cannot be satisfied when he hath compassed one piece of ground which he coveted after presently the lust runs out again and covets more but is never satisfied and in this state man is an enemy to God and the thoughts of his heart are evill and that continually and notwithstanding many times a true sense and