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A85140	The heart opened by Christ; or, The conditions of a troubled soul that could find no true rest, peace, comfort, nor satisfaction in any thing below the divine power and glory of God, breaking forth and appearing in several operations and manifestations, by the blessed spirit of the Lord Jesus, the Saviour of the soul, God manifesting himself in flesh, that he may glorified in spirit. With, a word to those that are for the approbation of ministers; and something to those that scruple about the receiving or not receiving that which they call a sacrament and communion of saints, at Easter, Penticost, Christmas, so called, and other festival and set daies, or any other time when it is to be administered by those priests that profess themselves to be ministers of Christ. Written in the year 1654. in the third moneth, commonly called May, by R.F.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing F485; Thomason E745_7; ESTC R207062	17,335	24

you be saved if you neglect so great salvation as you conceive that holds forth to your souls Let me tell you Col. 2 20 21 22 23 that is carnal and perishing and the perishing mind feeds on it and you neglect the body of Christ therefore touch it not Colos 2.21 22 23. Now if you look for that to be necessary to salvation and without it you cannot be saved then do you make an Idol of it and set it up in the room of Christ and so would make it a Co-Saviour and there contradict the greater with the lesse for he himself saith he is able to save all that come unto God by him Heb. 2.0.10 14 15 and he is not to be found now that he is glorified and ascended in that carnal right and weak and beggarly thing and there you err through weakness not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God unto salvation Heb. 10.9 10 to verse 19. For thirdly in that very thing which you call the Lords Supper and Communion of Saints you are unfit to be a communicant to partake of the body of Christ which is not carnal but spiritual whilst you are carnally minded you are enemies to Jesus Christ and he hath no communion nor fellowship with those that are proud nor with those that are covetous nor with those that are drunkards nor with those that live in pleasures nor with backbiters nor haters nor with any that live and take pleasure in unrighteousnesse Rev. 20.15 for such shall not inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6.9 10. Gal. 5.19 20 21. verse Rev 22.15 16 verses Fourthly Then those which are not fit for the Kingdom of God are no fit communicants neither have they any right to the body of Christ and so eat and drink damnation in not discerning the Lords body now that he is ascended and glorified from a little bread and wine which is earthly and natural and to be received with wicked men that live and take pleasure in unrighteousnesse and such are in the flesh and their communion is not in the spirit and they are sacrificing to devils and theirs is no communion of Saints 1 Cor. 10 20 21. but a fellowship with wicked men and devils Fifthly But there is an imitation by the carnal minded ones who live in death and darknesse from the letter which is death to set up the form of a thing and lives in shadows without a substance and this you say is a thing that ought to be done because that Christ himself did break the Passeover with his Disciples True it is he did so to shew them what death he was to die his body was to be broken Mark 14 chapt Mat. 26.20.21 22 to v. 33. Mat. 28.5 to 11. v. and his bloud to be shed and that was the figure and they were to observe it till he came to rise from the dead and they did so for saith he As often as ye do this do it in remembrance of me for therein they shewed the Lords death till he came to be sacrificed upon the Crosse and his body there to be broken and his bloud to be shed for before that Christ broke the the Passeover with his Disciples they knew not what death he was to die and they did observe it till he came to them again after his death and then the shadow was put away and the life was manifested in power and the substance was come unto them for he shewed himself to those very disciples which he broke the Passeover with before his death several times and by many infallible testimonies to confirm them that it was him that was risen from the dead and came unto them to strengthen and confirm them in the faith life and power of truth as the Scripture witnesseth Sixthly But do you read that Christ gave any command to his Disciples to observe that thing after his resurrection when he was come to them again read the first of Acts and before that he ascended into heaven you may see when he had called them together what command he gave them at his parting with them Act. 1. c. and there is no mention of any such carnal thing by him after his glorification therefore do you erre not knowing the Lords body and Communion of Saint which is in the spirit or life of Christ Seventhly None are fit Communicants to have fellowship with Christ that lives in their sins 2 Cor. 6.14 10 18 1 Cor. 10.20 21. 1 Joh. 3.8 9.10 v. for what fellowship hath righteousnesse with unrighteousnesse and what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols he that hath communion with Christ doth not commit sin and that is a right communicant for he that commits sin is of the society and fellowship of devils and hath communion in wickedness for he that committeth sin is of the devil and is one of his communicants but he that is born of God sinneth not and hath fellowship with the Father and the Son and he that abideth in him and is in union with Christ sinneth not he that sinneth hath not seen him neither known him 1 John 3.5 6. verses Eightly Eph. 5.5.6.7 to 12 1 Joh. 3.7.10 Therefore little children let no man deceive you with vain words for because of those things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience and he that doth righteousness is of God and may have right and hath right to the body of Christ and his soul feedeth on Christ daily as in John the sixth Chapter where he saith he is the bread of life that is from heaven and whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud hath eternal life but that is not a little bread and wine which is carnal and not eternal John 6.54 for saith Christ Jesus My flesh is meat indeed and my bloud is drink indeed he that eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud dwelleth in me and I in him John 6.55 56. Ninthly He is not there talking of bread and wine but flesh and bloud Is bread flesh or is wine bloud or are they joyned together the life of Christ if they were then he that had most of this world might have most of that food but the Kingdom of Christ is not of the world and the pure in spirit theirs is the Kingdom of God and bread and wine is so far out of the mind of Christ now where he is troubling the Jews for the carnal people can get into carnal observations and imitations but not into the spirit and life that Christ did exceedingly trouble the Jews in that saying John 6. when he saith I am the living bread which came down from heaven if any man eat of his bread he shall live for ever c. then were the Jews troubled at those sayings verse 51 52. and so are the Jews in knowledge now that hath a form without either life or power and knoweth not that bread which is the life of the Saints which they

THE Heart Opened by Christ OR The Conditions of a troubled Soul that could find no true Rest Peace Comfort nor satisfaction in any thing below the Divine Power and Glory of God breaking forth and appearing in several operations and manifestations by the blessed Spirit of the Lord Jesus the Saviour of the soul God manifesting himself in flesh that he may glorified in Spirit With A word to those that are for the Approbation of Ministers and something to those that scruple about the Receiving or not Receiving that which they call a Sacrament and Communion of Saints at Easter Penticost Christmas so called and other Festival and set daies or any other time when it is to be administred by those Priests that profess themselves to be Ministers of Christ Written in the year 1654. in the third Moneth commonly called May by R. F. The Heart Opened by Christ OR The Conditions of a troubled Soul that could find no rest peace comfort nor satisfaction in any thing below the Divine Power and glory of God breaking forth and appearing through several operations and manifestations by the blessed Spirit of the Lord Jesus the Saviour of the Soul ABout the 16 year of the age of my natural life the Lord did begin to work under a cloud and let me see the vanity that I lived in and wrought me into some inward trouble of mind and I seeing that the wrath of God was revealed against sin in me knew not what to do to satisfie his Justice that was offended but by consulting with mine own heart and carnal reason together set on some self-acting to seek for life peace comfort and satisfaction to my soul and so concluded in my self that reading hearing of Sermons and prayer was the way and means to appease the wrath of God and to attain to salvation believing in the Declaration of the Scriptures Psal 32.5 6. v. Psal 55 16 17. Deut. 6.10 1 Thes 5 17. and Christ dying at Jerusalem to satisfie the infinite Justice which was offended by me a sinfull creature and so betook my self to read often and pray often at set times and to hear Sermons often that it became customary and I left off my sports and pleasures looking upon them all to be vain and heathenish and became very strict in observing what the Priests did press me unto and read three times a day and prayed as often and several times in the night and rose out of bed to pray upon my bare knees because David prayed several times in the night and what I did it was from imitation of others knowing no better way then at that present but as the Priests taught me who themselves were never taught of God and I got many Chapters by heart to meditate on as I went about my labour and applyed the Promises and Saints conditions to my self and went to Church as I called it and they taught me and I writ Sermons and repeated duty at the nights and observed both publique duty and private as they called it and I then followed their waies and worships resting in those outward performances and so went on in a fleshly joy that spring up from those fleshly performances acted in the will and by the reason and did increase in outward knowledg walking a little strictly to the outward appearance making some conscience of my way that I walked in and became zealous so that I could have persecuted even unto death those that were licentious and did not walk as exactly as I did And all this while I was but carnal and earthly knowing nothing of the new birth and the resurrection of the just but walked on in an outward profession believing all to be true that the Priests told me and was very zealous for them at that time and was Catechized by them observed to do as they gave me directions and would gladly do what was and might make most for the glory of God and as they told me that the Steeplehouse was the Church and House of God I did then believe them and as they told me that Sprinkling Infants was one of the Sealing Ordinances and that which they called a Sacrament was another I gave credit to what they said and was mighty zealous for those traditions three or four years and I did then loath all open prophaneness and sports and pleasures and Idle and vain company and grew solid and serious in my way desiring of the Lord to instruct me and teach me his mind and will that I might do what he made known unto me out of the integrity of mine heart and being strict in hearing reading and praying I was reproached by the rude people and called a Puritan Roundhead and the like and so rejoyced in that calling it the Cross of Christ but the Cross of Christ is a mystery And about the 20 year or 21 of my age I began to question many things that I had been so zealous for and something rose up in my spirit to work me into an examination of my way and worship that I then lived in and made me restless in my spirit and set me on searching the Scriptures very diligently and by the light of God in my conscience and the Scriptures together testifying Act. 20.28 1 Pet. 2.5 Act. 4 32 Eph. 1.22.23 Eph. 2.19 20 21 22. Eph. 5.26 27. 1 Thes 1. 1 Thes 2.9 to 14. I came to see that the Steeplehouse was not a Church nor the house of God as they had told me and I believed that prayer was more acceptable in that house then in any other place till the Lord convinced me of that error received by tradition from the Priests for I was made to see by the breakings forth of the light of God in my spirit that the Steeplehouse was no Church for the Scripture saith that Christ came to redeem his Church with his blood and not that Stonehouse and that the Church of Christ was made all of living stones elect and pretious and there is not one living stone in that and although there were a Temple commanded to be built by Solomon and that was but a figure for the time present till Christ came to put an end to the Covenant outwardly Temple and Sacrifices that were then offered up and Christ said that there should not be one stone left upon another in that Temple that was at Jerusalem and there were never any other commanded to be builded and now there are many Idols Temples which are no Churches for the Church is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ as Paul and Silvanus writ to the Thessalonians and the Church of Christ were of one heart and one mind but now in the English Churches or people that assemble together in the Idols Temple they are of confusion one saying one thing and another saying another both Priests and people divided But in the Church of Christ there is true unity and no jarring nor jangling and the Saints their bodies are