A BRIEF DISCOVERY OF THAT Which is called the Popish RELIGION WITH A word to the Inquisition discovering their seat of Injustice and Cruelty And also a word to them who are in Bondage under this deceit that upholdeth the Beasts Worship And a word to the Pope who calls himself a Bishop and is not his throne of deceit is discovered by the Spirit of the Eternall God Given forth by me who am called of the World A. GARGILL LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the black spread Eagle neer the West end of Pauls 1656. A brief discovery of that which is called the Popish Religion with a word to the Inquisition discovering their seat of Injustice and Cruelty and also a word to them who are in Bondage under this deceipt that upholdeth the Beasts worship FRIENDS MInde the light of Christ Jesus him by whom the world was made who will lead you to righteousness and holiness in him there is no strife nor no debate you are guided by the Prince of the Air who leadeth to iniquity and all manner of abhomination against the Lord and his anointed your imitation and false worship lyes in the fall of Adam your guide is the Serpent full of subtilty and invention and pride covetousness and all manner of evill is exalted in you your fruits are the deeds or darkness out of the right of Jesus bring your deeds to the light let that judge your ways and practises whether they are wrought in God yea or nay God is the guide of all them that fear him he leads unto righteousness but your wayes are deceit and abhomination they are wrought by Magick art the Magicians of Egypt imitated Moses who had the power of God by the Devill were theâ— guided to work by subtilty for their glory but that glory had an end and so will yours in time the Lords hand is against your deceit your abhominable pride and wickedness which standeth in your deceit you are deceivers of souls for your own advantage you seek the fleece and starve the flock by this your magick authority and conjuration which you have gathered in by the Prince of the air the Devill is your God whom you serve he was a deceiver from the beginning by him you are led to deceive the people of their eternall happiness to be led by your conjuration and your Necromancy The Prince of the air leadeth you to airy imaginations without substance Christ is the substance and him you know not to be your guide you are guided by another the Harlot is your guide the well favoured Harlot decking her self making of Images and painting of likenesses of things without substance the substance of all you know not the light of Jesus is a stranger to your wicked minds who are bent against God and his wayes you despise and cast them behind your backs you are the painted whore in this your practise The Devil is your Head and Christ the Head you know not the Lamb of Innocency you never knew to be the light of the world who leads to plainness and honesty your comfort is in this life you know no other but that which leads to pride and all manner of abhomination covetousness is your root it is the root of evill by which the Canker enters it hath corrupted your hearts and minds and made you subject to the Devil who is a Master and Lord over you you are his servants whom ye obey your Idoll Gods in them you live and have your being your being is in this life you know no other nor no better Pride is exalted in you you know not him that leads out of the world nor out of the things of the world for your being is in them your being is in the dust among the Serpents and beasts and ravenous Wolves and with them you do feed in the wilderness of destruction destruction is your end if you do not repent and serve the living God who leadeth out of all babels and trifels pleasing the mind with the fruitless works of darkness your pictures and Images and your praying to Saints and worshipping your dumb Gods which cannot answer the true God you do not know that leadeth out of the world he is unchangeable your God changeth but our God lives for ever whom we serve he dyeth not the God of Heaven is our Lord and Lawgiver and our Head and no other do vve ovvn but Christ Jesus the Son of God he leadeth out of all things that are visible he is invisible to the carnall eye no man can see his face and live it is death to the carnall to knovv God is life eternall all carnall things must dye and have an end your Pope is carnall and vvicked and abhominable before the Lord and an exalted bubble is he vvhom you call your Head of that vvhich you call your Church it is but bables and an invention of the Devill and by him are you guided to exalt one another and to make you a God like your selves Christs-Vicar you do call him where have you learnt that word or from whence did it come can ye tell it is deceit that is your guide you plead antiquity but the antient of daies shall judge you all and all your gathering without God subtilty and deceit hath upheld your vain titles of Monks Fryers and other Orders gathered in by your imaginations who led you to these things did the Spirit of God yea or no or by tradition of them whom you call your antient Fathers Fathers they were of iniquity Authors of evill like your selves by the Devill are you guided to follow tradition knowing not the Spirit which leads to life all your practise is in death it doth not renew your minds nor change the heart to become holy for you are desperately wicked and murderers and thieves and Idolaters you have stoln your Religion as you call it out of the pit it came and into the pit it shall return any one that comes in any other way but by Christ Jesus are thieves and Robbers Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge your Harlotting is known to the Lord who is the Judge of all Judges your deceit gathered in by the Counsell of the wicked one who is your foundation by him you are guided to practise that which neither Apostles nor Prophets did and yet you say your Pope is Peters successor where do you read in the Scripture that Peter sate in a Chair with a triple Crown upon his Head did not the Apostles freely Preach the word of the Lord without money or any advantage to themselves the glory of the world by them was denyed they feared not their lives to the death they gave all their substance to the poor now learn to know the power the poor in Spirit shall see God and live for ever but you are exalted above the light that which discovers sin the light of Jesus who enlightens all men into the world it shews your evill deeds of darkness acted out
life freely he is a â—iving fountain yea he is a living fountain and all that will come shall be tefresht in that Christall fountain where the water of life springs continually to wash the Garments of those that are filthie By his Blood are we all cleansed O ear the living God of life and power for powerfull is he to all them who trust upon him for life and power against sin by faith are we saved If we trust in God as a redeemer Faith is belief and belief makes perfect all those that trust in him for redemption he that hath faith purifies himself even as God is pure by the fountain of righteousness that comes from God he is righteousness for ever and his Kingdom cannot change no changeable thing can therein enter The Heavenly fountain is set open for men therein to wash and to be cleansed to serve the living God of life and power yea unto him is power given who is the Son of God that enlightneth the dark world and leadeth up to the Father of life and light Friends consider of all these things that is herein written they shall stand eternally either for your condemnation or justification If you believe and repent God will shew mercy if not your judgement shall hasten to your Condemnation The innocent Lamb hath long suffered under the abhomination of all flesh now will God get himself a name above all names and his power shall be known above all powers his glory shall stain all flesh and that glory shall be layd in the dust who have been exalted above the innocent and made desolate widows houses and wronged the fatherless and the poor this hath been the cry many hundred years the righteous Law of the living God hath been forgotten and mans will hath been performed by the children of disobedience who have studyed revenge against the innocent Lamb of light and life and power but unto him shall power be given to avenge his enemies a double reward shall the wicked receive their reward shall be doubled the same Bread which they have broken unto others the same shall be broken to them this is the word of the Lord unto you Inquisitioners repent and turn from your evill ways and come down to the light of Jesus and by it be guided and it will turn you from dead works to serve the living God that an end may be put to all that have been gathered and not by the Lord from the eternall Spirit by the power of the living God this was I ordered to write for the good of your souls A friend to your souls and an enemy to your deceit A. GARGILL FRIENDS TO all you who calls your selves Roman Catholicks Romans you are indeed and no Israelites he that is an Israelite knoweth the Lord but your ways are abhomination to the Lord acted in the deceit of your Hearts deceitfull is your practice unstable is your minds you are lead by tradition to the destruction of your souls your cringing and bowing it is all in the fall you bow unto dâ—ad Images like your selves death seeds on death and that is the end of your practice by tradition of your old Fathers which you call Saints they are Authors say you and you believe as thâ— Church believes and the Church as you call it have their Author from the Devill the Father of lyes he was a lyer from the beginning and by a lye is his Kingdom upheld in the children of disobedience through mischievous men are the innocent beguiled beguiled are all they whose life is death whose end is destruction learn to live in God that your lives may be holy and unblameable befâ—re the Lord of life that a living Sacrifice may be offered and not a dead stone you say your Images and likenesses that are not is your redeemer he that redeems is the Lord you set them in the stead of God when you do say likenesses puts you in mind of Christ Jesus did you ever Preach any suâ—â— Doctrine that a dead thing renews the mind what think you of this are you not ashamed to be called Christians when the very â—urk walks more unblameable do you not whore and swear and murther and steal and cheat and couzen and yet you say you are Christians If you were Christians then you would be like Christ Jesus but him you never knew you have a name to live and are dead the living praise the Lord yea the living pâ—aise the Lord your moulten Images cannot save you nor all your prayers to Mary and to the Saints Mary her self when she lived upon the earth claimed no such authority but was subject to the Lord of life even as was others who is my Mother Sisters or Brother even they which do the will of my Father saith the Lord Christ Jesus when the Scribes and Pharisees came and told him that there was his Mother and Brethren looking for him he stretched forth his hand toward his Disciples and said these are my Mother and Brethren who do the will of my Father shewing that he was no respecter of persons but loved all who feared the Lord his love is unchangeable his love is undefiled and an undefiled life doth he require no other thing doth the Lord require but separation from sin from the beginning hath it separated man from from God no other thing maketh a stranger but disobedience God require than holy life and that you are strangers to you call your Priests Holy men you have a light from Jesus tâ—aâ— shews you they are as bad as you and that you are as bad as them and where is then your Church The Church of Christ is pure and an hidden thing from the carnall the Church is hid in God and none can see his glory but they that are like unto him his glory is an undefiled life amongst his people he taketh delight in those that keeps his Commandements his Commandement is pure and holy and no unclean thing can enter into his kingdom his kingdom is pure indeed even of Christail even as the Sun at noon day so is his glory to them known that keeps his Statutes and his Law and this Law is to be guided by that eternall Spirit which leadeth up out of the world to the Father of life and light This is the condemnation of the world that light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evill be ashamed of your evill deeds and turn to the light of Jesus which discovers sin the light of God placed in all your consciences that tells you you should not swear nor lye nor deal falsly by it God will be known to be a righteous judge God is a judge of evill and a lover of righteousness and he loveth all them that put their trust in him Come all ye ends of the earth and be saved saith the Lord yea come all and drink of the water of life freely the water of life is the wisdom
an exalted Bubble your Pope I mean that sells you pardons for your sins and say that they are forgiven when he himself sinneth worse than you in so doing even as Judas betrayed the innocent for money turn unto the Lord he is a cleanser and a redeemer his redemption standeth for ever and ever he that is redeemed by the Lord is free from sin sin is death and death leadeth to the destructions of mans soul man is made desolate by sin and death and death is the end of all them who love their iniquities love the Lord he is a friend to all them who come unto him come all ye ends of the earth and be saved saith the Lord come all ye people of the earth and turn to the righteous God he will cleanse you of all manner of pollution and your bloody garments shall be washt in the blood of the Lamb if you repent repent and be baptized that your sins may be be forgiven This Baptism is not sprinkling of childrens faces with water and putting Salt in their mouth and spitting upon their noses and under their ears and crossing of them with their fingers Are you not ashamed of these practises did ever the Apostles do these things you say you have a Scripture to put Salt in the childrens mouths it is said in the Scriptures let your words be seasoned with Salt how comes it then that your children and you swear and curse and take Gods name in vain this is not seasond nor commendable before the sight of God or man it is unsavory before the Lord to what effect is this Salt Johns Baptism it is not so he preached to amendment of life and to be washed and cleansed by the blood of Jesus who cleanseth from sin and redeemeth from dead works to serve the living God your service is vain your practice vain without wisdom are you guided the true wisdom of God you do not know the Covenant of Grace you are strangers to you are without where are Dogs and Wolves and ravenous Beasts in the beastly nature in that which God cannot own in the filth and lust of your flesh you offer up that which cannot be accepted Cains sacrifice it is enmity against God you murther the just your service that you do pretend to the Lord it is abhomination the just God will not be so served any longer for he will be avenged of his enemies he will call to an account the iniquity of the Heathen By vain Philosophy have the innocent been betrayed that which the Apostle speaks against your Schools of learning which hath upheld the Den of Divills Vain Philosophy have ye studied to deceive the people of their eternall happiness to advance your selves the Spirit of Christ is plainness it cometh not by study Innocencie leadeth into Christs kingdom even as a little Child must you there enter no policie of man can therein come it is hidden from that nature which dwelleth in the Serpents kingdom A light from Jesus is come into the world which discovereth all your deceit and all that abhomination The mighty day of the Lord is coming yea it is coming upon you all to consume and dash in pieces and rend your kingdom in sunder the vail shall be rent the dark world shall be enlightned by the light of Jesus who enlightneth all men now shall he appear in glory a glorious possession shall he gather unto himself out of the dust long hath the heritage of the Lord lain waste yea long hath the glory of man been exalted and the Lamb of innocencie forgotten howl ye inhabitants of the earth yea howl for bitter lamentation shall come upon you in a day when you know not know this God is righteous and his judgements are true you shall give an account for all your abhominations to the living God of life and power powerfull is the Lord he will execute judgement upon all his enemies yea he will be avenged of all his enemies and bring them under his feet now is the Lord going to reckon with all flesh and the glory of it shall be stained his own kingdom shall be advanced the glory of man shall be laid in the dust and God alone shall reign and the kingdoms of the earth shall become the kingdoms of God for many hundred years hath the righteous Law of God been forgotten he hath been a patient God and hath spared the Heathen but now will the Lord call to account your unrighteous dealing and all your worldly mindedness earth hath been lodged in your hearts covetousness and pride and all manner of abhomination hath been exalted in your minds turn to the light of Jesus that discovers sin God is a true witness placed in your consciences be guided by that it leadeth to the kingdom of Jesus Christ the son of the eternall God this kingdom is righteousness purity peace to them which love God and keep his Commandements but no peace to the wicked they shall dye without mercy The wicked shall have their portion in the lake where there shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth The Well-spring of life shall be set open to all those that fear the Lord and obey his voyce the voyce of God is known to all but they burden their hearts and will not hear they will not bring their deeds to judgement because they have hardned their hearts against the Lord and his annointed the holy one of Israel is he called he who leadeth from death to life to serve the living God of life and power to him be all power and glory for ever and ever A Declaration of truth be it unto you receive it in the honesty of your minds receive the truth as it is in Jesus in honesty of your Spirits examine your selves whether or no these things be not so come down to the light of Jesus and let that judge your fruits from whence they come and what they are and what he is that leads you to these practises If by the Spirit of God you are led then would your works make you manifest whose children you are there is that in your consciences tells you your deeds are evill and not accepted of the Lord. Turn unto it which lets you see the sight of sin wait in it in true obedience to the Lord and power shall be given against your enemies and you shall receive peace through him which is a redeemer of his people his they are that fear the Lord and dread his presence and fear to sin This was I moved of the eternall God to write unto you for the good of your souls who call your selves Roman Catholicks Written per me from the Spirit of truth who is called of the world A. GARGIL UNto thee that calls thy self Bishop of Rome thy Bishoprick is of the Devill the Devill is the Author and finisher of thy authority where is thy authority gathered from out of the pit it came and thither shall it return Thy Genealogy and thy
improve and the unprofitable Servant shall be cast into the Lake where shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth out of Hell there is no Redemption Purgatory say you is a place of purging and cleansing by fire the fire of God is a cleanser he burneth up the wicked and bringeth sinners to repentance how can you be cleansed from sin without the blood of Jesus he is not divided from the Father I and my Father are one saith Christ and he that dwells in God dwells in Love where is your Love to one another you sell the innocent for money ye make the righteousness of Christ of no effect in your account when you say you can redeeme Souls for money Money is your portion and your reward Your plagues shall be doubled yea verily your plagues shall be doubled for your Life is deceit and abomination before the Lord For ever are you condemned if you do not repent and turn unto the Lord and his light minde that you may see where you are and what you do that all things may be known to be the fruits of darkness which is not wrought in God God is a worker of wonders in the hearts of them who dread his presence and tremble at his word his word you know not neither do you regard it and yet you say you work wonders where are your wonders do you know that that leads to righteousness and holyness and cleanseth the heart from corruption your hearts are corrupted in wickedness and yet you say you work wonders and miracles It is a miracle to change from death to life but where have you changed any Are not you desperately wicked when you tolerate and allow of murder and make your Steeple-houses a refuge for murder and you call it the Sanctuary of God and say that it is a holy place where is the place that is holy saith the Lord You have builded Temples and worshiped Idols you are Lyers you worship a Den of thieves You have stoln your Prerogative from the Devill the father of lyes and you are subject to him who is a Prince of darkness Darkness hath possessed your hearts you have stoln a practice from the Devill and you set it up in the stead of innocency for subtlety is your order you have no other thing to preserve you but subtlety and deceit to deceive the people in telling them you are their Fathers and that you can forgive sins There is but one Father and one God and he is from everlasting to everlasting World without end The God of Heaven is a Father indeed he saves his people from sin but sin is your Author and your finisher of your end In sin you live and in sin you dye Where is your Father whom you serve do you not serve your lusts and your filthy desires in all things which your minds run after and flattering your selves that you are holy and calling your selves holy men the holy men of old did so as you do ruling as Kings by your Authority which you have received from the Devill whose Dominion is strife and debate and the Spirit of God leads to peace and to an oneness The Father and the Son are but one and he that knowes the Father knowes the Son alsoe with you it is not so you know not one another but as bruit beasts in fighting quarreling one with another one Nation with another and one Kingdome with another this is your fruits of your Religion as you call it You have a name to live but are dead while you live for your deeds make you manifest from whence you came and what you are and whether you go and what you do your practices are abomination to the Lord and yet you say you have unity and an oneness amongst you in that which you call your Church and yet you cannot reconcile your members one to another For the Church as you call it hath seven Heads which you compare to seven Hills and these Hills you say give light to the Nations How comes it then that Nations are drunk with wickedness he that is drunke is drunke in the night day makes your deeds mannifest Yea that innocent Lamb discovereth your subtlery and your deceit deceiving the Nations and Kingdomes and exalting your selves above all that is called God Your names are an abomination to those that fear the Lord Turn to the light of Jesus that a new name you may witness by renewing of your minds that light leadeth to a new Life out of the old world which hath poysoned and hath deceived many Nations the World of sin which hath been exalted in your hearts Behold a new Heaven and a new Earth is spoken of but what is this to you for you know it not you live in the old World and yet you say you are Church-men Christs Church is pure even like himself as clear as Christall is his body and his members is not devided you are divided you fight and kill one another and destroy your souls through wickedness and injustice Is this Justice think you to be a man-slayer and kill them that will not yeild and become subject to your abhominations abhominable is your practice and your deceit you are grand deceivers this many hundred years but now is the Lord appearing to lay open your deceit your nakedness shall appear even as it is you can no longer be hidden for the lightness of your Sun discovereth deeds of darkness what think you of this can you forgive sin yea or no from vvhence did you receive this authoritie and are sinners your seâ—ves and yet you say you have received this authority from the Pope and the Pope from Peter say you but you are lyars and the truth is not in you Peter usurpt no such authoritie he was subject to the Lord and to his Commandements and his faith vvas grounded upon Jâ—sus the Rock of ages and that faith saves from sin he that hath faith becomes pure as God is pure and he is pure indeed and yet you say you have the Keys of Heaven and of Hell and do say that this authoritie is left by Peter but you are lyars and the truth is not in you A chief Bishop is your Pope as you call him Christ head on the earth say you hath Christ two deads yea or nay Is Christ divided what think you How can this be Christ is the Son of God he hath no carnall Members nor no earthly Crown although your Pope hath three you account him your chief Bishop he is a covetous man like your selves in pride you exalt one another covetouâ—ness is your Root it is the Root of all evill it upholds pride and pride upholdeth the Devils kingdom you are proud and covetous men seâ—fly minded and seek nothing but self in all your practices you care not hovv vvicked the people be so they put into your mouths and feed your corrupt desires with filthie lucre gain to the flesh is your end you have no other
design but to exalt your selves and to be exalted and live like Kings it is but usurpt authoritie by the Devill are you led a deceiver from the beginning was he a subtill Serpent and his seed are you who seek the fleece and starve the flock and call your serves sheapheards Christ Jesuâ— is the true Shepheard he giveth his life for his sheep he is a redeemer and saveth his people from their sin How do you think to be saved By a carnall bit of Bread that you call the Bodie of Christ Impudent blasphemers who make an Idoll to your selves and eat it and say that it is Christs flesh and the wine that you drink in Bowls is his Bloud he that eateth my flesh saith Christ shall live for ever and you dye and your God with you and this is an end of your dumb Idoll vvhich cannot save you God is a Saviour of his people from sin they that feed on that Spirit which leadeth out of carnall things to be carnall minded is death to be spirituall minded is life and peace no peace to the wicked they shall dye vvithout mercy and judgement shall fall upon them that forget God God is judge of all he is judged of none nor none can know his judgements but by that Spirit which is pure you make your selves Judges and Rulers by an usurpt authoritie you have received from the Devill the Father of lyes and by a lye are you upheld in your inchantments and Conjuration airy minded men by that Climate are you guided airy substance Clouds without water broken Cisterns that cannot hold water exalted Jezabel painting your faces with colours Dives like you be sitting at your table feeding on dainty dishes fitting your selves to the slaughter through your abhomination which is exalted above all that is called God God is pressed under your abhomination the righteous groaneth for redemption but you hear not the Cry of the poor the poor in Spirit shall see God and live for ever and the rich shall be sent emptie away avvay with all your vain bables your imâ—ges and likenesses of wood and stone and crosses Learn to knovv the Cross of Christ it will teach you to know God desire to know Christ crucified in the flesh your sins subdued by him that suffereth in you The Lamb of life leads to Innocency out of all inventions of man out of all carnall things it will you lead if it you mind which discovers sin it will dissolve your enemies by the brightness of his coming if you desire to know God mind his witness it will lead you out of visible things and your carnall desires shall be dissolved If you mind this witness which leads to truth the lyars mouth shall be stopt the issue of iniquity shall be dryed up by the brightness oâ— the Sun shall the fountains of the earth be dryed up and the Spring shall be stopped wherein iniquity doth abâ—und Abundance of iniquities hath the world gathered into her self yea the men of the world calleth her mother through the abundance of her delicates she hath deceived the Nations and Kingdoms throughout the Earth the mysterie of iniquitie hath been exalted exalted bubbles have borne the sway upon the earth and the innocent hath been forgotten God hath not been known to them they have forgot his ways followed the fruits of darkness and darkness hath possest the heart of man man hath been led from the light of Jesus by the grand enemy of his soul the Devil who from the beginning hath misled man through lust and desire of the flesh which cannot ever be satisfied from one invention to another an invention of the Devill is this which you call your Religion a humane invention mixed with lust filth and deceit is not this deceit to weary the people with your bables and your inventions of Beads Crucifixes and other inchantments which your airy minds have gathered in even plain Sodomites do you shew your selves studying iniquity against the Lord and his anointed the holy one of Israel is he called a name that is unknown by you he is a good Israelite indeed in him there is no guile and they that are guided by that Spirit are like unto him kept in innocency and in that house there is no guile where innocency dwels righteousness doth flourish and plenteous redemption to those that fear the Lord redeemed are they from the earth that mind the light of Jesus by it to be guided it leadeth from all manner of evill to serve the living God of life light and power powerfull is he that redeemeth from death to life This redemption is not of corruptible things that corrupt and die of themselves he cleanseth the body and washeth from dead works to everlasting life world without end An end shall be put to all your bables and inventions made by the works of your hands your Crucifixes say you puts you in mind of Christs death remember he is slain in you in spirituall Sodom and Egypt are the two witnesses flain their Blood shall be required of the children of disobedience disobedient are you that forget God as a blossom shall you wither and all your glory which you have received from the Author the Devill The ground of iniquity is highly exalted among you who know not God neither regard ye his wayes nor bring your deeds to the light your acting is in the dark where light is not seen the fruits of darkness doth appear in all your practises is not the living God known to be your guide he leadeth out of all unrighteousness up to know God in that Heavenly City where God dwels there is no unrighteousness nor no unclean thing can there enter as clear as the Sun at Noon Day is the Lord in his glory his glory exceedeth all flesh it shall wither before the Lord and be cut down even as grass like stubble shall the fire of the Lord consume his enemies and all that is exalted above the innocent own the Lamb of life the life of the righteous is death to the man of sin therefore turn to the Lord that your wickedness may be forgiven and fear him that cleanseth the heart and maketh glad the mind and reneweth the life and turneth from darkness to light to serve the living God the living praise the Lord yea the living praise his name for ever never can you praise God in that nature you stand in Turn to the light of Christ it will lead you to another Kingdom which you know not to know God is life eternall and this life is the light of the world Every man hath a talent given him it is the light of Jesus that discovers good from evill it shews you when you do amiss it is the check of your conscience that tells you you should not lye nor swear nor deal faâ—sly bring all your deeds to this it doth not flatter it is your friend it leads to eternall happiness and that is durable riches which the world
cannot give the worlds treasure is but vanity and a lye by a lye are the Kingdoms of the earth upheld in their vain concupiscence long yea long hath the heritage of the Lord laid waste I pitty your souls that lye in darkness you see not the light which doth not change all is changeable under the Sun the Son of righteousness never changes your light changes and burns out your Lamps and Candles in your Synagogues of Satan and you â—ight them again to beautifie and adorn the place of your lust where your life stands what glory is this to the Lord and what doth it advantage you to do these things God never required when did God require any of these things at your hands as for going into Cloysters or Monasteries do you hear any such names in Scripture for Saints to lodge in their habitation was in the Lord and not in earthly Houses their habitaiton is a House without hands a building of God and God is the Author of that practise which the Saints follow no other Author have we but the Lord he is our Lord and Law giver you have Lords many and Laws many and as you make them you break them your selves you say you should not murder nor steal nor commit adultery and you your selves are adulterated from God you have committed fornication with the Scarlet coloured Whore and drunken the Cup of her Abhomination is not this murthering of the just one which is a friend to all and would not the death of any You have no pitty to your own souls you lye in your Blood and do not see the God of the world hath blinded the eye the Eternall eye of God disâ—overs all your abhominations which are gathered in by your subtill minds and inventions imitating and practizing by tradition thus hath one generation deceived another Many Authors have you for your traditions all from one Root and the Root is evill As for Augustins Jesuits and Caputians when did the Lord by his Spirit guide you to these names there is but one name to be saved by and that name leadeth out of all names the Lord giveth a new name and a white stone to his people and none knows it but they that have it you change your names from one name to another but where is the life that leadeth to salvation that you know not you cannot witness a change by the power of God from your evill wayes and what doth it advantage for you to change your names How vain is this how naked is your conditions before the Lord you cannot be hidden any longer Light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evill now will the Lord appear in the children of light to discover all your abhominations and your deeds to be evill Evill minded men you are who deny the Lord to be the Author and finisher of your faith he that hath faith as a grain of mustard seed removeth mountains mountains of sin I mean which hath been exalted above the Lord and his anointed you annoint your Priests with Oyl to imitate Aaron where is the fruits of this anointing the anointed of the Lord is pure purity and peace becometh his House for ever where is this House witnessed by you Are not your minds corrupted with dumb Idols And self-inventions and your Gods is like unto your dead and dumb Idols is your hearts addicted too you mind not the living God that quickneth and raiseth from death to life from the power of Satan to serve the living God your prayers and inventions is all in the fall it is Cains sacrifice all your worship is abhomination unto the Lord you act it in the old nature which is enmity against God out of the light of Jesus do you busie your minds praying to Mary and making of Images and likenesses you are not you worship the works of your hands by vain tradition have you been led from one generation to another have you lived in Idleness and sloath not knowing the Cross of Christ that Crucifies sin your Crosses of wood and stone cannot save you nor redeem you from your vain conversation you bow to your Cross and rise again as wicked and carnall as ever the Cross of Jesus is not so it teaches to deny self selfly minded men cannot please God neither can they in all their imitation performe the minde of God in that which standeth in the old nature all must be destroyed all your inventions come down to the light of Jesus which shines in a dark place dark is the heart of man a light hath God placed therein bring your deeds to it there your fruits may be made manifest whether they are wrought in God yea or nay did God ever require or when did you hear his voice that you say you are guided by his Spirit and you say the true Church cannot erre This is true the Church of Christ cannot erre who are guided by his eternall Spirit his Spirit you never knew to guide your minds and to lead you to these practices as worshipping Images you deny the resurrection of Jesus you serve your lusts and your Popes Invention by his Articles you are guided to deprive Kings of their authority and sit in the seat of Justice as you call it If you were spirituall there things need not concern you you are usurpers in all your practices you say that which you call your Church is above the Law it is above the Law indeed you neither fear God nor man you are Lawless livers to make your Churches as you call them a preservation for murdâ—rers he that sheds mans Blood by man shall his Blood be shed All manner of evill do you uphold for money murderers and adulterers and say you can for give them did you ever read in the Scriptures that ever pardons were sold for money where is your example for these things why do you hide the Scripture from the people or by what authoritie were they not given forth by the Spirit of God for generations to come God excludes none all that will come may and drink of the water of life freely free is that Spirit that leads to righteousness it straitens none that will believe and turn to the Lord. Come all ye that are heavy laden saith the Lord and I will give you ease he burdneth none his yoke is easie and his burden light unto all them that desire to live with him he is a cherisher of the innocent and a destroyer of deceit deceit hath gathered into your hearts swift destruction to your souls if you repent not repent and turn to the Lord that your evill deeds may be forgiven come near unto the Lord by the light of Jesus which shines in darkness the heart of man is dark it comprehendeth not the light but the light of Jesus comprehends you all and discovers your deeds to be evill and all your practices abhomination to the Lord repent and turn in
you minde not the light of Jesus to guide your minds and stay you in all your actions and to bring your deeds to this light and examine your selves whether they be wrought in God yea or nay God is the Author of all that is righteous he is a righteous God and judges with equity and his judgements are true mind the light in your consciences whether or no it doth not judge your evill deeds and check you in secret this is the witness for God this is the light of Jesus which lets you see your sin wait in it it will lead you to the Father of life and light out of all visible things it will judge your enemies it is your friend turn unto it God hath not left himself without a witness this is his witness that discovers the fruits of darkness all deeds of the flesh are dark that is not by the light guided The light is the beginning to know God for God is light in him there is no darkness at all even as clear as Crystall is his kingdom the transplendent glory of the living God is as a Diadem of Gold as a Scepter of righteousness to this shall all Nations bow and bend Kings shall bring their glory to the Holy City of the living God what is your glory to this you usurpers and grand transgressors the antient of dayes shall levell your glory and your shame shall appear naked as it is you are naked you are naked indeed you want the Lambs ornament with bloody Garments you have long been covered that covering shall stand you instead no longer your abhomination will appear unto all and then is your covering which by it you have been exalted rent in sunder by the brightness of his coming is your deeds made manifest who act in the flesh without God in the the world Are not you ashamed of your practice to sit like Princes in a Palace with your silver Inkhorns and your Gold Rings on your fingers and your silken Carpet and with your Rooms hung and decked with ornaments even as a Kings Palace and antient men wayting upon you cringing and bowing and you but men your selves ye seek glory one of another and set the glory of God behind your back unto you Inquisitioners I do speak Consider with your selves the author of this practise whether it be not of the Devill yea or nay Christ Jesus when he was upon the earth had not a place to lay his head on neither did his Disciples uâ—urp any seen authority their habitation was not in this world but in another and that world is an encless habitation to those that fear the Lord and keep his Commandements his Commandements iâ— pure an undefiled an undefiâ—ed life doth the Lord require consider with your selves all things under the Sun is but vain turn unto the Lord and repent of this your abhomination be all of one minde and set your selves to love innocencie that you may become haters of evill I mean not self righteous for no man can see God and live wait on that which is eternall the light of the Lamb and strength shall be given against all your enemies which is sin and death The light of the Lamb is not so it leads to purity peace and true holiness and love God is love and love is the fulfilling of the Law this Commandement I leave with you saith Christ Jesus that ye love one another he gave his life for the love which he bore to sinners and he left his light in the world that men might know good from evill Every man hath a talent given him the sluggard hath a talent the unprofitable servant had a talent and he hid it in the earth Earthly minded men hides this talent and keeps it under the abhomination Christ Jesus was a Lamb slain from the bâ—ginniâ—g in the beginning was the word and the word was God and dwelt among men but men loved darkness rather thâ—n light because their deeds were evill evill minded men have possessed tâ—e kingdoms of the earth and by the fall lyes in disobedience and have exalâ—ed themselves above all that is called God they are exalted by concupiscence and disobedience which they have gathered in by the Prince of the Air. Airy minded men have gathered in by that Clymate swift destructions to their souls from the beginning it was not so when innocencie dwelt in Adam be obeyed God the Serpent being subtle deprived man of his eternall happiness and begot a nature like unto himself and selfly minded men are like unto him their seed is dâ—ceit full like unto him that sowed it the enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and the good seed was choaked and took not roâ—t now consâ—der of these things consider there is but two good and evill The good proceedeth from the Lord that seed is innocent and harmless and would the death of no man it is the fruit of righteousness peace it leads unto an holy life and to do righteousness in the fight of God and to do unto every man as you would be done unto it leadeth not into Cains nature that slew his Brother Abell it doth not teach to murder men to be a man-slayer consider with your selves whether your practice be of God yea or nay will you deal so with any that you would not have them so to deal with you would you be slain for conscience sake your selves turn to the Lord that you may see your evill wayes that by the brightness of his coming your enemies may be dissolved and that an end may be put to all these things which have been gathered by subtlety and held up by tradition to advance the Devils Kingdom away with all your vain imaginations away with all your deceit away with all your double dealing all is layd open before the Lord and he is a judge of it and his judgement is true and men are lyers The Devill was a lyer from the beginning he hath deprived man of his eternall happiness by a lye by a lye was Eve beguiled and misled with that which leads to desolation all mankinde desplation hath possest the souls of men by the fruit of iniquity which hath been gathered in by his subtlety that is a deceiver A deceiver is he who judgeth the wayes of God to be a lye false judgement is set up and instead of righteousness that should take place in mans heart disobedience have took place upon the earth and the righteous Law have been neglected because man hath obeyed the Devill in the stead of God that is a pure Author this Author was from the beginning from everlasting to everlasting world without end without end is his glory but you know it not it is hid from you by the grand-enemy of man who is exalted above all that is called God God is a beginner of innocencie and a fountain of life to all those that trust in him come all ye ends of the earth and drink of the water of
authority hath both one root and that root is the Divel the Father of lyes a lyer he was from the beginning upon that root is thy center thou art centred upon deceit thy seat is abhomination to the Lord thy refuge is the Devill no other dost thou know The true God is a stranger unto thee and his Commandement thou never knew the seat of pride is exalted in thee The Devils habitation is thy fenced City a City builded upon deceit is the throne of thy authority Thy Author is like unto thee he who is the Prince of darkness upholdeth thee in thy pride and thy vain practise it is a shame to all thy generation to see thy vanity and thy pride If it they minde that is the light that sheweth darkness then will they see thee and whence thou came and whither thou wilt go If thou repent not be ashamed of these things thou beastly man who taketh upon thee the seat of God was ever man so impudent as these Generations In the days of old it was not so the Apostles and Prophets were diligent men and wandred up and down from one Countrey to another where ever the Lord did call them Contrary to their own wits by the will of him that sent them they were guided to do their Fathers work they preached the Gospel without gain unto themselves or any self advantage thou seeks gain unto thy self and the glory of the world hath blinded the eie Concupiscence lodgeth in thee thou art a hater of all good Good is it for thee if thou repent and turn from thy evill ways Come down from thy abhominable throne of wickedness and deceit and cast thy triple Crown from thy head and thy deceitfull garments thy vestment of Babylon thy vesture of holy Roodes as thou calls them are for the fire the indignation of the Lord will consume thy glory thy throne shall be laid in the dust in dust hath thy habitation been builded no foundation but vain imaginations of man Is not this an imagination to throw thy self in pride and exalt thy self above all other he that exalteth himself shall be abased and thy base practice is disallowed on by the children of light and life life establisheth the kingdom of God amongst the sons of men but thy kingdom lyes in death thou art dead whilst thou livest thou bearest a name to live and is dead thy glory is thy shame Art thou not ashamed to call thy self a Vicar Christs Vicar thou sayest thou art what is a Vicar canst thou tell out of the pit thâ—u hast stoln this title and by no Scripture-rule there is no such name there as Vicar nor no such practice spoken of as thou dost imitate as to sit in a Chair with a triple Crown on thy head and a Shepheards Crook in thy hand and the Keys of Heaven and Hell sayest thou Is not this horrible blasphemy against the Lord and his anointed can any man enter Gods kingdom by a carnall authority thou art known to be Carnall thou cannot be hid any longer thy deceit is manifested to the children of light Thy dark actings are seen by them who dwell in the light of the Lord. Light it is which discovers darkness Thou sayest thy Church as thou call'st it is a figure of Noahs Arke and thou sayest all without thy border shall be damned by what Spirit dost thou judge is it the Spirit of God yea or nay all other Spirits are for judgement but thy Spirit is seen and thy judgement is a lye judgement doth belong onely to God and to no carnall man Thou sayest thy Church as thou callst it hath seaven heads and standeth upon seaven Hills and giveth light unto the Nations but thou tells a lye shall I shew thee the seaven Heads and ten Horns The beastly nature of man standeth in the four Elements and in the five sences compleated by disobedience these are ten Horns builded upon seaven Heads whereon thy Church as thou callest it stands The seaven Heads is the abhomination of man which gathereth in swift destruction to his soul the root of these seven Heads is the Devill which is the foundation of thy practice which Center doth proceed from these seven Heads shall I shew thee these seaven Heads what they are and whence they come The Dragon hath cast forth her poyson and infected the five sences of man the will and the minde compleateth the seaven Heads where the fountain of iniquity springs which gathereth in swift destruction unto man all the sences are poysond through disobedience even the Smoke of Sodom hath infected and strangled man and hindreth man of his well being A well being had man before deceit entred through disobedience was Adams fall and this fall was unto death and death is the end of those that fear not God God is the end of all things under the Sun when the Sun of righteousness doth arise with healing under his wings the first nature he disolveth he dissolves all those that lives in Sodom as smoak before the wind shall the wicked be consumed by the breath of the Lord yea the breath of his Nostrils shall consume his enemies yea the Lord shall consume their glory and bring their building under his feet he will trample on their abhomination A consumption shall come upon the ends of the earth and all that is exalted above the Lord shall be abased and his own kingdom shall be exalted which standeth in righteousness and true holiness with equity will the Lord judge the ends of the earth with equity the innocent Lamb shall be now exalted over his enemies will he reign his reign is endless and blessed are they who are witnesses of Christs reign A witness he hath in thee who calls thy self a Bishop and art none Read in the Scripture and consider the office of a Bishop he is not to be covetous nor selfly minded A selfly minded man art thou thy fruits makes thee manifest consider thy self whether or no thy fruits be of God or of the Devill Righteousness and peace dwelleth in them that fear the Lord the kingdome thou cannot reconcile thou art an author of iniquity from thy root doth all iniquity spring the Well Spring of life thou never knew nor thy auncestors before thee which builded upon this root the root of iniquities thy head and thy Author and this head is compleate in thee thou Son of iniquity iniquity hath abounded long in these Generations now is the Lord a coming to reckon with all flesh the ends of the earth shall be gathered and swift destruction shall come upon all those that are exalted above the Lord and his anointed the holy one of Israel is he called a name which thou knows not neither thy ancestors before thee nor thy successors the Cardinalls I mean where have they stoln this name but out of the pit an exalted title you have no rule for it Is there any such name in the Scriptures as Cardinals Jesuit Carmalin