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A43227	A plain account of certain Christian experiences, labours, services and sufferings, of that ancient servant and minister of Christ, Roger Hebden, deceased containing both warning, consolation, and instruction in righteousness.	Hebden, Roger, 1620 or 21-1695.	1700 (1700)	Wing H1346A; ESTC R15158	54,976	136

who witness them true and to have been fulfilled in us and in obedience to the same Power are kept can read with Comfort from the Testimony within our own selves wherein we may and do rejoyce in Persecution and Suffering for Righteousness sake which none knows but as they are guided by the Righteous One wherein is our Happiness that although we be numbred amongst the Transgressors of Men's Laws yet we suffer not as evil Doers for who goes under the name of Quakers and suffers for evil Doing are neither owned by us nor know our Joy who suffers as Christians herein can Rejoyce in as much as we are made Partakers of Christ's Sufferings and can and may read 1 Pet. 4.13 14 15 16. Our Sufferings being for the same that the Prophets Christ and the Apostles practised to wit for speaking against Formal and False Worships and Worshippers and against Sin in Plainness even in their publick Meeting-places as they did as in 1 Kings 13.1 2. By the Word of the Lord the Prophet cryed against the Altar in Bethel Jeroboam standing by And by the Word of the Lord Amos prophesied in the King's Chappel in Bethel and in plainness speaks of the Judgments of God to befall Jeroboam Amos 7. But this was not from the Letter the outward Declaration of Scripture that they spoke but from the Movings of the Spirit of the Lord in them as Prophesies came 2 Pet. 1.21 And the Father and Mother of Jesus found him in the Temple amongst the Doctors both hearing them and asking them Questions Luke 2.46 And the Apostle Paul an his manner was went into the Synagogues and Reasoned with them three Sabbath Days together out of the Scriptures And into the Synagogues he went at three several places to wit at Thessalonica at Berea and at Athens read Acts 17. for which he was then Persecuted And it is the same Generation in Nature now which Persecutes for the same Practices as then He that was Born after the Flesh persecuted him that was Born after the Spirit even so it is now Gal. 4.29 And so all that live in Persecution Hating and Envying and in Pride Covetousness Drunkenness Swearing Lying or any such like Wickedness take the Scriptures and look who they were that did such things and what was to be their Portion And this use you may make of the Scriptures Search them and see every one where you can find your own Condition for this I know and so you shall find That if you do apply the Promises to your selves which do not belong to that Condition which you live in that will do you no good at all in the time of trouble Therefore all consider betimes now whilst you have time and now that you are warned And all People of all Professions cease from looking at your Profession and see whose Work you do and what Fruit it is that you bring forth whether it be the Works of the Flesh or the Fruits of the Spirit of God which are different as the Scripture declares Gal. 5.19 20 21 22 23. Now the works of the Flesh are manifest which are these Adultery Fornication Uncleanness Lasciviousness Idolatry Witcheraft Hatred Variance Emulations Wrath Strife Sedition Heresies Envyings Murders Drunkenness Revellings and such like of the which I tell you before as I have told you in time past that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God But the Fruit of the Spirit is Love Joy Peace Long-suffering Gentleness Goodness Faith Meekness Temperance against such there is no Law And be not deceived God will not be mocked for such as you sow such shall you reap If ye sow to the Flesh then ye shall reap Corruption but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap Life Everlasting which is witnessed as in Scripture declared Gal. 6.7 8. Therefore with Bowels of Love running forth towards your Souls I exhort you all to consider whose Will it is that you are doing and what it leads into For the Will of God is your Sanctification 1 Thess 4.3 Therefore take heed I charge you all in the Presence of the Lord and by his Spirit how you go on in any Wickedness and lay the blame upon God and say When the Lord will it shall be otherwise It is not his Will that any should go on in their Wickedness but that all should turn from their Wickedness and Live but your Destruction I do declare unto you all to be from and of your selves running on your own Wills working the Works and delighting to live after the Flesh which brings Death as the Scripture declares Rom. 8.13 For if ye live after the Flesh ye shall dye but if ye through the Spirit do mortifie the Deeds of the Flesh ye shall live And the Lord is not wanting on his part for to bring to Life but by the Spirit of his dear Son he calls upon every one for to return from the Evil of their Ways and as Obedience thereunto is given the Deeds of the Flesh come to be mortified and so they come to witness Life But if any say Hath every one the Spirit of Christ I answer with the Apostle Rom. 8.9 If any Man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his that is such as do not live up to the Spirit of Christ so as to enjoy its Indwelling For a Manifestation of the Spirit is given to every Man to profit with And so every one as they stoop down in Obedience to that of God in them which is pure which rises up within them and shews them Evil Deeds and calls upon them to depart there-from they owning this to be of God from thence this Fear comes to be placed in the Heart that they dare not act contrary thereto but the same they obey and so him serve and worship who is a Spirit and is worshipped in Spirit and Truth Which that you may all do is my Desire and Prayer to the Lord for you all by whom I have been moved to write this forth unto whom I have cleared my Conscience and unburdened my Spirit in the informing your Understandings in the way of his Worship who is God over all and Blessed and Praised for evermore Hallelujah to the Highest Written by one who desires the Welfare of Souls R. H. Who was committed Prisoner to York-Castle for speaking the Truth To Enoch Sinclare Parish-Teacher of Slingsby this is A Copy hereof being sent to go unto him the first that went forth with what in this foregoing is thereunto added as in the Conclusion of this expressed is Friend I Being moved for to write something forth for to inform the Understandings of such as have been scattering and wandering in the cloudy and dark Day as I was whilst following the Inventions of such as thou art who knows nothing of God but by Hear-say conceivings of the Scriptures and looking upon things without Such pitying and in love unto their Souls I have

your Adversary although he seem Potent but joyning with that which lets you see him there lyes your Strength God Almighty bless preserve and keep you all Faithful and Obedient to the Measure of Grace received from him is the Prayer of your dear Brother in the Truth of God in his Measure your Servant for the Truth 's sake and a Watchman for your Souls good by Name Roger Hebden From York-Castle the 22d of the 12th Month 1654. THE blind Watchman cries Watch but cannot but I as to the outward being Imprisoned for the Truth am at Liberty in the Spirit of the Lord with you all that are therewith guided and rejoyce in that the World cannot comprehend where lyes the Unity and the true Welfare even Fulness for all that are Obedient to the Lord in what is made known to them to be the Will of God and are found doing it Let this Enclosed with this be read at your Meetings amongst Friends in the Fear of God in which Meeting and Waiting whilst you are together and being kept when asunder all other Fear will be kept forth and you brought into the Blessedness For Blessed is the Man that feareth always A Letter to John Hebden my Brother after the Flesh I Am in Health and Well every way being and knowing my self to be in Obedience to the Will of God in this Condition and how long here I do not desire to known for that which would is for Condemnation with the Light that comes from Christ Jesus in obeying whereof the true Peace is But this is a Mystery to the Carnal Mind but to be Carnally Minded is Death and to be Spiritually Minded is Life and Peace is witnessed Praises to the Lord God Almighty for evermore Therefore in Love running forth to thy Soul I exhort thee Consider what it is thy Mind is upon whether upon things Carnal or upon things made known by the Movings of the Spirit of the Lord in thee to be thy Duty to do A Talent God hath given a Measure of his Spirit unto every Man to profit withal and the Movings thereof in every one is cross and contrary to the Will of Man For Prophecies is times of old came not by the Will of Man but holy Men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost Say not That was so then but can any expect it to be so now Who say it cannot make God changeable and not a Fulfiller of his Promise who saith Sons and Daughters shall Prophesie and upon Servants and Handmaids he will pour forth of his Spirit and they shall Prophesie Therefore that in thee which calls with a still low Voice as if it were behind thee when thou turnest either to the right Hand or to the left from That which the Righteous Pure and Holy Law of God makes known unto thee to be thy Duty to do or to leave undone To that give heed and thou shalt do well as the Apostle Peter saith as to a light shining in a dark place until the day dawn and the day-star arise in thy Heart And this Light shines in Darkness although the Darkness comprehend it not and so I know it is whith many as it was with me this Light did shine in me althogh the Darkness in me did not know what it was but when I came to know it and to be faithful in little things but it made known to be Sin avoiding them and by it little things which was made known to be my Duty doing them I came to find the Increase of God and whoso will not be Faithful in a little can never be made Ruler over much Who shall entrust him with it Nay that little is even taken from him and that unprofitable Servant is cast into utter Darkness where is Weeping and Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth so it was I did witness it But there is no Condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit Time was when Paul found a Law in his Members warring against the Law in his Mind so it was there was something in me that would as with the Apostle have served the Law of God but he found a contrary power giving way to it led him captive to commit Sin and then he cried out of his Wretchedness But he here did not rest himself satisfied as the Professors of the World now do who take this Condition of his when he cries out under the Burden of his Misery and in his Warfare to plead for a Hold for Sin and Satan in them so long as they live but he looks up to Christ and thanks God that he gave him the Victory through him and then he says There is no Condemnation and That the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus had made him free from the Law of Sin and Death Which Condition is now witnessed the Conquest gotten by the same Conqueror and here is nothing of the Will of Man in it That hath neither Part nor Lot in this matter but the Work is the Lord 's only by that of himself in the Creature he joying to the Gift of God the Creature comes to Witness it Praises to our God for ever From a Well-wisher of thy Soul whose desire is that he may write himself thy Brother in that which the World cannot comprehend nor be bound by them wherein is the Unity of Saints and Rejoycing in the Lord in Spirit Roger Hebden York-Castle the 3d of the 1st Month 1665. From York-Castle the 12th of the 1st Month 1655 and sent into Swadale and Bishoprick to be read at their Meetings Frends ALL in the Manifestation of God's Spirit received wait for the increase of God being content with what is made known of him take heed of that desire that would be leading you before the Light for that will lead into Confusion and Trouble and that Zeal that would carry forth to Speak or Act beyond the true Knowledge which ariseth from the Light of the Son will lead into Darkness Sorrow and Lamentation when the Condemnation which comes from the Son ariseth upon it which will consume it up Therefore Friends every motion that calls upon you to Act or Speak do not lend an Ear to it so as to give obedience to it at the first although it seem at the first view to tend to Self-denial and be a Cross to your Wills but when such a motion doth arise then return in again and examine if there were not first in you a desire to do or speak such a thing as then is presented to be done or spoken it your find it so then to wait and be not hasty in the acting thereof it self be seen at the bottom then the Adversary will be ready to threaten with Disobedience if it be not presently done but do not hearken thereto but wait that you may know the Mind of God in it that you may not be deceived such waiting is not disobedience but

will follow when the Lord comes to lay open their Nakedness and clear our Innocency in these things as he hath done for me which Work hasteth greatly Praises Eternal be to him alone who hath let me see by the Light werewith Christ hat enlightned me Who is the true Light which enlightneth every one that cometh into the World John 1.9 As the Lord by the Prophet Jeremiah saith Jer. 7.22 23. I spake not unto your Fashers nor commanded them in the Day that I brought them our of the Land of Egypt concerning Burnt Offerings and Sacrifices but this one thing commanded I them saying Obey my Voice and I will be your God and ye shall be my People c. And when Jesus Chrift was upon Earth and spoke unto his Disciples and told them what they must do to come after him he did not tell them That they must Sing David's Condition either themselves or others or Baptize little Children or Infants with Water or take a Text or place of Scripture of another's Condition and add to it their own Inventions But these things said he unto them Whosoever will come after me must deny himself and take up his Cross daily and follow me Luke 9.23 And in obedience to his Commands we deny our selves and take up the Cross daily that accompanies the same whereby we are by him Baptized into that one Body whereof he is Head and we being many do eat of one Bread and drink of one Cup not Carnal but Spiritual where true Communion and Fellowship lies hid from the World wherein we are altogether of one Spirit and of one Mind even of the same Mind that was in Christ Jesus according to the Apostle's Exhortation Phil. 2.5.1 Pet. 4.1 And rejoycing in the same Spirit Praises to our God for ever And we Sing with the Spirit and with the Understanding also I Cor. 14.15 And with the same we Pray But it is not so with the World's Teachers who have their Form or those who are accounted the best of them that fetch in of the Saints Words but dare not however cannot truly say That they are given them by the Spirit of God and their Singing is the like not from the Spirit of God but taking David's words by which he declared the several Conditions that he was was in and these they put into the Peoples Mounths which they do not understand and these they Sing without understanding and so instead of glorifying of God they dishouour him and this is one of the Practices used in their Church as they call it which is without in the World but the true Church is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ as in 1 Thess 1.1 Now these words that they Sing are true as they were spoken from David who said That he watered his Couch with his Tears but it is not so with many And the will Sing his words who could truly say That he was not puft up in Mind and had no scornsul Eye whenas too many are puft up in Mind and have scornful Eyes and the like Thus the Leaders of the People their Priests in most places put such words into the Peoples Mounths causing them to Err and make them Hypocrites in saying They are as it is not with them and so by and in them is fulfilled that Scripture Isa 9.16 17. But if any shall say Doth not the Apostle Jomes 5.13 Exhort Is any Merry Let him sing Psalms Yea and so it is with the redeemed Ones of the Lord his Ransomed witness that Prophecy fulifilled Isa 35.10 and such come to find in themselves according to the Apostle's Exhortation being filled with the Spirit Eph. 5.18 19 20. speaking unto themselves in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs Singing and making Melody in their Hearts unto the Lord giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ This is to be with the Heart it is not so with the World I know it when they are Offering up their Scarifices both of Prayers and Praises they with their Mouths and Lips may be pretending to Serve God whenas their Hearts may be in another place far from Him according to Scripture Isa 29.13 And after they have been Blessing God and Singing to his Praise as they pretend How often in the same Mouth is Cursing Which thing ought not to be James 3.9 10. Thus the Leaders of the People by putting the Name of God in the Mouths of People who are not in his Fear they speak it without understanding and so take it in Vain whom the Lord will not hold guiltess And as they have no Scripture for this their Practice to Sing David's Condition neither have they and for Sprinkling or Baptizing as they all it little Children Infants with Water nor any Command from Christ in Scripture to do that to any for those who are got up in Imitation of the Letter from John's Baptizing in Jordan those that confessed their Sins Mat. 3.6 or of his Baptism yet he said There was one to come after him which was preferred before him John 1.15 30. which was to Baptize with the Holy Ghost and with Fire Mat. 3.11 And that he must Decrease but Christ must Increase John 3.30 This of Christ's being the true Baptism that was to encrease The Apostle speaks but of One Baptism in Eph. 4.5 and by One Spirit not by any Outward Sprinkling or Dipping into Water that the Saints were Baptized into One Body 1 Cor. 12.13 This Outward with Water is not the Baptism that is to Save us whereof that of Noah's being saved in the Ark was a Figure but the answer of a good Conscience towards God by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ according to 1 Pet. 3.20 21. Many may come to the outward Baptism to have the filth of the Flesh put off but want the answer of a good Conscience towards God by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ This I having a sight of was through the Love of God towards me a means to keep me back from going into those other Forms in the World that differed from the publick Profession that was in this Nation I being let see that I might get into them and no change in my Life wrought And these Cries were often in mine Ears Born again a new Creature which Condition is now witnessed Praises to our God for ever by those who come to witness that Baptism of the Spirit spoken of in Scripture whereby they come to be Buried with him by Baptism into Death Rom 6.3 4. And to be made partakers of his Sufferings wherein is Rejoycing 1 Pet. 4.13 But this is not known by Water-Baptism but by the Obeying of the Spirit of our God And as the World's Baptism is without with Water so is their Communion without in Bread and Wine which they call a Sacrament For which as now used by them they have no Command from Christ nor any such Name given in Scripture