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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30068	A testimony to the power of God being greater than the power of Satan contrary to all those who hold no perfection here, no freedom from sin on this side of the grave / which doleful doctrine is here testified against by Richard Baker.	Baker, Richard, d. 1697.; Baker, Mary.	1699 (1699)	Wing B541D; ESTC R28337	19,678	50

Relations would be contented but that is the most contemptible Religion in the World and laden with Reproaches O see the Deceit of the wicked Enemy and avoid it as I did by keeping to the Measure of the Grace of God in my self And as my mind was turned inward to consider and see what the Lord had done for me this sprang up in me as a Defence against the Enemy If I have not done those mighty works for thee which no other could do believe me not else believe me for my works sake Then did the Enemy vanish at the Brightness of the coming of the Lord who hath preserved me out of the Mouth of the Lion and out of the Paw of the Bear and out of the hand of that uncircumcised Philistine that once had encompassed me about Praises be given unto the Lord for ever O Friend Let me beseech thee let not the Enemy of thy Soul deceive thee under what pretence soever though he should guild his Bait and cover his Temptations over with never so many Scripture-words But keep thou to that true Light in thee which makes all things manifest And by taking heed to that pure Witness of God in thee thou wilt come to see Satan's Devices which they of Old who were led by the Spirit of God were not ignorant of as such now are not And now I have this Testimony to bear for the Lord with many Thousands more That Perfection or Freedom from Sin is to be obtained on this side the Grave through Faith in Christ Jesus And I do Testifie and Declare That in this Life is the time of working out our Salvation For where the Tree falls there it shall lie and in what State Death leaves a Man in that State Judgment will find him For in the Grave there is no Repentance Now true Repentance through a godly Sorrow is a Change from Sin and Iniquity to serve the Living God in the New Life or in the Newness of Life Not in the Oldness of the Letter which too many are found in at this day but in the Newness of the Spirit For it is the Spirit that giveth Life the Flesh profiteth nothing John 6.63 Reader If thou are a stranger to Truth and to the right Way of the Lord and hast been led Captive by the Enemy at his Will as I was while ignorant of the Light of the Lord in me and art now come to a sense of the Burden and Weight of thy Sins and hast a desire to be Redeemed from them To thee and for thy sake chiefly are these Lines written that thou mayst here see the Mysterious Working of the Prince of Darkness and take Warning in time whilst the Spirit of the Lord strives with thee For the Spirit of the Lord will not always strive with Man But be not discouraged at the Greatness or Number of thy Sins For all Power in Heaven and in Earth is given to Christ Jesus Only Faith in him and Faithfulness and Obedience to what he makes manifest is thee is re-required of thee And if thou hast Mountains of Sin thou shalt see them in the Faith to vanish away For it is The Willing and the Obedient shall eat the good of the Land And if thou are one that has known in any measure the Work of the Lord carried on in thy Heart I have this further to say for thy Incouragement from my own Experience That thou hast to do with a Tender-hearted Father who gently leads those that are but young in the Truth and his Lambs he will carry in his Arms and will lead thee no faster than thou art able to follow But be sure whatever he maketh manifest to thee to be Evil Give up to the Lord in Faithfulness and Obedience and the Lord will give thee Power over it For the End wherefore the Lord doth manifest Sin to be Sin is that he may Redeem out of it And as thou are faithful in the small thing thou wilt be made Ruler over more And as thou standest in that Faith which is the Gift of God thou wilt find nothing too hard or difficult for thee but thou wilt be able to say as the Servants of God did in Days past and do now in this Age All things are possible with him with whom we have to do And thou wilt feel the same Power to work and beget the same Faith in thee as it did in them For without Faith it is impossible to please God whatever Men may pretend to in words There are many Pretenders in our day to the Worship and Service of God as there were in Ages past But what avail their Pretences or Performances while they are fain to confess their Worship ends in Imperfection and that their best Duties are Sin or they Sin in performing their best Duties Sin in Praying Sin in Preaching Sin mixt with their most holy Duties That it is so with them I do not deny But my Heart is grieved at their Captivity Bondage and Misery because they believe it never can be otherwise And indeed it never will be otherwise with them so long as they content themselves with large Confessions of their Sins and come not to forsake them Would they content themselves that the time past is sufficient that they have wrought the Will of the Gentiles there would be some ground to hope that they were as willing to forsake their Sins as to confess them and so might come to have Faith in the Gift of God with whom all things are possible which thing many have formally in words acknowledged who in works have denied it But I testifie If they who make such large Confessions of their Sins do not come to that Gift of God in them which can enable them to forsake their Sins their Condition is no better than his who knew his Master's Will and did it not who was to be beaten with many Stripes For the Lord hath made manifest his Unerring Way and he is daily calling and inviting the Sons and Daughters of Men to walk therein and to be reconciled unto him that they may know their Sin blotted out For the Lord hath no delight in the Death of a Sinner of which I am an Instance and a Witness but is willing that all should Repent Return and come to the Knowledge of his Truth and be saved For he hath not Ordained Men to Reprobation so that they cannot be saved Neither hath he so absolutely Elected a certain Number of Persons to Salvation that what Evil soever they do they cannot miss of Salvation as many do falsly believe Which dangerous Doctrines have on the one hand thrown many down to the Bottomless Pit of Despair And on the other hand raised too many up into a Presumptuous Security Reader my desire is that thou wouldst come to the Witness of God in thy self that thou mayst see and learn the Mystery of these things For the Grace of God which hath so manifestly appeared in this

they are the Sons of God Rom. 8.14 Such cannot plead for Sin because they have Fellowship one with another in the Light and the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth them from all Sin 1 John 1.7 From whence then dost thou think the Impossibilities do arise for some have ignorantly said It is Impostble ever to be Perfect or Free from Sin on this side the Grave If thou canst not tell as some Tender-hearted Ones could not I will tell thee It is from the Man of Sin who rules in the Hearts of the Children of Disobedience From him proceeds these Thoughts of Impossibilities and not from the Lord. And now let the Witness of God in thee judge between the Precious and the Vile between those who serve the Lord and them who serve him not For a Separation there must be the Lord will no longer be mocked with an Hypocritical Pretence of Zeal for him while the Devil hath the Heart They that pretend the Scripture is their only Rule why will they not come to it and walk according to it that we might see their Fruits to be agreeable thereunto They have made use of the Scriptures to plead for Sin term of Life and have raked up the Failings of the holy Men of God recorded in them thereby incouraging others to Sin which never was the End they were written for But they were given that Men might come to be Perfect throughly furnished unto all good Works 2 Tim. 3.17 And it was the Labour of the Apostles to present every Man Perfect in Christ Jesus Col. 1.28 The Holy Scriptures were not written for Men to make a Trade of as in Buying and Selling the Words of the Holy Men of God who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost and as the Spirit gave them Utterance No but that Men might come to the same Word in themselves which they testifie of And if thou Reader comest to that thou wilt come to know the Word of God which lives and abides for ever And then the Scriptures will be indeed precious to thee as thou comest to see the fulfilling of them in thy self and so thou wilt have Unity with that Spirit which gave them forth And the right End for which they were written thou wilt see which they are ignorant of who go from the true Light the Holy Witness in themselves The want of keeping to that makes them run into so many Heads and Heaps of Confusion as they are one calling This the Way another saying That is the Way So that Mankind is out of Order by refusing to be led by the Spirit of Christ Jesus which would bring all things into Order again And was it not so in the Apostles days Did not Demetrius and the Multitude make an Uproar though the most part knew not wherefore they came together But they all agreed to cry up Great is Diana of the Ephesians For by this Craft said Demetrius we have our Wealth And is it not the same in effect now tho' they have got more Plausible Words to cover themselves withal that they might not be discovered Do not both Priests and People cry out now Great is the Devil's Power Great is the Strength of Sin So great that it is Impossible to be set free from Sin on this side the Grave And hath not the World admired the Whore because she hath had a golden Cup in her hand by which she hath deceived and doth deceive the Nations O that Men would be so wise for themselves as to come to that which would open an Eye in them to see the Enemy of their Souls and would help them to work against him before the Night comes wherein none can work For it is the Light that makes things manifest and by that Light thou mayst see the Mystery of Iniquity still working under the pretence of Zeal for the Worship and Ordinances of God as Men call them but they will not come to Christ whom God hath Ordained to be a Light to lighten the Gentiles and the Glory of his People Israel Luke 2.32 But as Backsliding Israel made to themselves a Golden Calf in old time So these will needs have something that may appear glorious to their fleshly Eye which many in their Imaginations have made and set up and so are worshipping the Works of their own Inventions as they of old did the Works of their own Hands For whatsoever Man forms and sets up between Christ and his Soul is an Idol and must be broken down before Redemption can be truly witnessed But are there not many now a-days who persuade themselves they are Redeemed by Christ from their Sins whilst they live in their Sins O! what an unheard of Redemption was this in the Apostles days He said When ye were the Servants of Sin ye were free from Righteousness Rom. 6.20 And What Fruit said he had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed ver 21 That was not the Redemption which Christ Jesus came to purchase for his People But to purifie to himself a peculiar People zealous of good Works and to redeem them from all Iniquity Tit. 2.14 That they might serve him in Holiness and Righteousness all the days of their lives Luke 1.75 This was the End or Effect of the Redeeming Power of the Lord in Ages past And I give my Testimony for God it is the same now in this Age and works the same Effect even to redeem from all Sin Let the Enemy and his Instruments be never so much inraged at us for bearing Testimony to the Truth we matter not for we are Witnesses for God against them all and have boldness in the Strength of the Lord to Publish to the World the Greatness of the Power of our God and of his Christ who hath determined that Sin and Iniquity shall have an end and Everlasting Righteousness shall be brought in Dan. 9.24 Which is believed and waited for by the Upright in Heart who have turned their Faces Zion-ward And we know the Lord hath many more whom he will gather from off the barren Mountains into the same Faith with us to declare of his Noble Acts in this his mighty Day wherein he is shaking not only the Earth but the Heavens also that That only which cannot be shaken may remain Heb. 12.26 27. which will stand in stead when time shall be no more And friendly Reader If thou desirest to die the Death of the Righteous and to have thy latter End to be like his which most Men do thou must live the Life of the Righteous For there is not another way that is certain What though Men have cut out Ways to themselves and have made large and plesant Paths to walk in and say Come walk in our Way or be of our Society for it is the Way of the Lord. Before thou venturest into it ask them this Question Have you found out a Way to overcome Sin If they answer No that cannot be expected on