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
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
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