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A91474	The watcher: or, The stone cut out of the mountains without hands, striking at the feet of the image, whose head is gold, and brest of silver, and thighs of brass, and legs of iron, and feet part iron and part clay, Dan. 2. 31, 32, 33, 34, 35. Or, A discovery of the ground and end of all forms, professions, sects and opinions, and also how they now are made as friends, and joyn hand in hand against the substance, the life and power of God, which is now made manifest in his sons and daughters (according to his promise) as hath been plainly manifest in several meetings betwixt the people called Quakers, and the people called Baptists, which is here describ'd. And also a description of the true Church, ... / VVritten by a friend to all tender hearted ones, who hunger and thirst after God, who are hoping and seeking in forms for life, to the directing of their mindes, where and how to finde the true light which leads into the true life and power of Godliness, the end of all forms, where I rest with all who in spirit read me, who am known to them who are without, by the name, Iames Parnell.	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing P541; Thomason E845_18; ESTC R621	62,535	56

Mat. 5.34 but out of the Doctrine of Chirst and so hath not God so I told him of his swearing and he would have shufled it off but he could not 2 Iobn 9. and I told him He that seems to be Religious and brideleth not his tongue his Religion is vain and therefore he might own his Religoin to be vain who could not bridle his tongue and then in his wil he shufled off and said he would not confess his sin to me Iam. 1.26 for I could not forgive sin in scorn he spoke then I said wo unto him that hides his sin and covers his iniquity but he shufled away in much confusion of face as they wil all appear as by the Light they come to be searched and tryed their coverings wil be found too narrow and their nakedness will appear to their great shame and confusion of face and they will be made to bow to the truth and lay down their Crowns at the feet of Iesus for he is risen and reigns in his Saints to whom the Nations must bow and every tongue confess to their condemnation who do oppose him but here now by the single eye you may see the emptiness of these forms and what a blind hypocrisie this is of them to wash the outside but leaves the inside full of uncleanness and so the inside defiles the outside A Copy of the Queries which was sent to the Baptised people in Fenstanton with some more added for them or any whom they do concern to answer Severall queries to you which be called Baptists by your Teachers to be answered Querie 1. VVHat is the first Principle of Religion and whether to it you be come yea or nay 2. VVhat is the bridle of the tongue and whether to it you be come yea or nay 3. VVhat is the Church in God and whether to it you be come yea or nay 4. VVhat is the order in the Church and whether to it you be come yea or nay 5. VVhat is the Baptisme into the Church and whether to it you be come yea or nay 6. VVhether you will own the Baptisme of the Spirit or the Baptisme of water and which you will deny seeing the Scripture saith The Baptisme is but one Eph. 4 5. 7. And where Christ ever commanded water Baptisme 8. VVhy did the Apostles Baptise with water and why do you baptise with water and where and when and by what were you commanded and where was any of the twelve Apostles baptised with water 9. And whether you do it because the Apostles did it yea or nay 10. VVhat is the Faith of our Lord Iesus Christ and whether to it you be come yea or nay 11. VVhether your Faith purifie your Hearts yea or nay 12. And whether you commit sin yea or nay 13. How would you know there is a Christ but by the Scripture and how do you witness the Scripture is truth 14. And what is the ground of your faith 15. VVhat is the redemption and whether to it you be come yea or nay 16. VVat is the Communion of the Saints and wherein it stands and whether to it you be come yea or nay 17. And whether you that breaks bread do discern the Lords body yea or nay 18. VVhat was their rule and guide that spoke forth the Scripture 19. VVhether you have the same infallible Spirit that gave forth the Scripture 20. VVhether is the Scripture your rule and guide or the spirit that gave it forth 21. VVhether they that are guided by the Spirit that gave it forth live not in the life thereof yea or nay 22. VVhether the life of the Scripture be perfect yea or nay 23. And whether you are or think to be made perfect while you are upon the earth yea or nay Or where do you think to be made perfect if not upon the earth 24. And what is the life and power of godliness and whether in it you dwell who have a form yea or nay 25. VVhether you be washed and cleansed by the blood of the Lord Iesus and the spirit of our God as the true Church was yea or nay 26. VVhether you have put off the old man and put on the new as the true Church did yea or nay and what is the new man 27. And whether you have put off the image of the earthly and put on the image of the heavenly and how are they known the one from the other 28. VVhether you be not conformed like unto the world so long as you follow their customes and fashions 29. VVhether you be come that you need no man to teach you as the true Church was yea or nay 30. VVhat is the cross whereby Paul was crucified and whether to it you be come yea or nay 31. What is the watcher that strikes at the feet of the Image and whether to it you be come yea or nay 32. What is the word and what is the death that hath passed over all men even over those that had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression and whether this death you ever passed 33. Whether you have passed from death to life yea or nay 34. Where and when and how received you the command and power to deliver any soul up to Satan and where is that Satan you deliver it up to 35. What is the tree of life and what is the tree of Knowledge and whether upon it you do not feed and what is the flaming sword that is set to keepe from the tree of life and whether it you ever passed yea or nay 36. What is the beast which all the world wonders after and worships and what is the worship of the beast and whether any worships the only true God but the true church and what is the worship in this church 37. What are you Ministers of and what do you minister unto and what is the end of your ministry 38. And by what do you try the Spirits and by what did the Prophets and Apostles try the spirits and whether yours is the same tryer of Spirits as theirs was yea or nay 39. What is the faith of the Saint and what is the faith of the hypocrite and how are they known the one from the other 40. How and by what was you called to the ministry which you profess 41. What is the Gospel which you profess and what is the light of the Gospell which the infidel cannot see and what is an infidel and what is the eye which the God of the world blindes in the infidel 42. VVhat is the state and condition of the Iew inwardly whose praise is not of man but of God and wherein doth he differ from the Iew outwardly 43. VVhat is the new Csvenant and where any in the New Covenant paid Tythes and why do you cry against the Priests and their Tythes and their worship and yet upholds them by paying them Tythes and helping to maintain their places of worship and whether this be

many wondrous works and yet they must depart for works of iniquity he knows them not now read your selves you wicked ones you murderers you rude multitude you Priests you Pharises and professors you formalists selfe-actors and im●tators for now all joyne hand in hand and Gog and Magog joyns in Battel against the Lamb and Pilate and Herod is made friends and you chiefe Priests and Pharises who are the professors of these times and you Rulers and you rude and bruitish ones and you formalists and sectaries now at the comming of Christ in the Spirit even the substance of what you have long talked of all joyned together in one who formerly have been at great division and wars among your selves but now you are made friends and muster up all your strength against the substance even Jesus Christ whom you as your fore-fathers did call a blasphemer a seducer a deceiver and a devil and now the rude multitude they stand up for their Priests and they fall upon the messengers of Christ when they come into their Synagogues and they hale them out of their Synagogues and strike them and buffet them and despitefully use them and stone them as their fore-father ever did and the Priests they seek to Rulers Magistrates and hales them before them and they persecute them and imprison them as their fore-fathers ever did and the pharises and ancient hypocriticall rotten professors they side with the Priests and goes about railing and evill speaking of the truth learning and insensing peoples mindes against it with their lyes and slanders and reproaches to present it odious to all people and also fauning and crouching and seeking to Magistrates to act in their wills and persecute as their forefathers alwayes did against the same seed and likewise the formalists and sectaries do the same and thus they that were after the flesh alwayes persecuted them that were after the spirit Gal. 4.29 and yet these are ready to cry out what hard hearted Jews was those that crucified Christ and persecuted his Apostles and if they had been in those dayes they would not have been partakers with them in the blood of Christ and his Apostles whenas they are now found the same generation of persecutors persecuting the righteous seed and so they fil up the measure of their fathers wrath that upon them might come all the righteous blood-shed from righteous Abel until now And now the Priests and the Baptists can agree and they joyne together and the Priests calls them honest men and the Baptists calls them Gentlemen of Divinity and the Baptists and Independents they joyne together and the Independants and the Presbiterians they joyne togegether all against the life and power which the Lord hath now manifested in his Sons and Daughters and hath sent them to declare and lay open their hypocrisie and deceit which they have long covered with a Gospell-like profession but now all their coverings are found too narrow before the Light which is come now into the world to convince and reprove them of their sin of their righteousness and of their judgment and therefore now they have enough to do to joyne together with all their strength and wisdome to put out this light and so they endeavour to sew their tares in peoples hearts and all the wayes they can invent to destroy the work which now is begun and as Iannes and Iambres withstood Moses so do they withstand the truth according to the prophesie of the Apostle being men of corrupt mindes and reprobates concerning the saith which I have much experience in severall meetings which I have had with the teachers of the baptized people which shall follow in order afterward But the more they strive in their wills and wisdomes the more doth the work of the Lord prosper and go on and flourish by his mighty power and outstretched arm and their shame and folly and down-fall the more appear and when they have done all they can they shall be glad to lay down their grounds and bow unto this truth which they now so oppose and every tongue shall confess it though to their condemnation who do now oppose and gain-say it wo unto such they shall perish in the gain-saying of Core And the time shal come Luke 13.25 that when the master of the house shall have shut the dore they shall knock and shall strive to enter and shall not be able all who now oppose and reject the Counsell of the Lord and will not hearken now they are called And thus the LORD will exhalt his SONNE in his SAINTS when his ENEMIES shall bee his Foot stole and be made to bow before him And thus doth all Sects Judgements and Opinions joyne in one against the Life and Substance they being all sprung from one Root so make up all one Image whose head is Gold Breast of silver whose Thighes is Brass and Legs of Iron and feet part of Iron and part of Clay and the Stone cut out of the Mountain without hands which strikes at the feet of the Image Now the head of the Image which is of gold those that have had a light shining into them and have had a sight of many things have seen the emptiness of many forms and have gotten the thing in their comprehension have a notion above others of much of that which is now witnessed possest in life by the faithful there have been exalted gotten up a life therein and a false rest but have lost the light which once shined into them by catching the thing in their Comprehension and so got it in the notion but did not obey nor suffer the death of the Cross and the breast of the Image which is of Silver and the thighes of brass are the rest of the sects and opinions and forms and likenesses which are more glorious one than another for as I said before Satan can imitate every appearance of the true Light in his forms shapes and likenesses and the more glorious the light appears in any creature so doth he refine himself and appear more glorious to deceive the simple so that many by the light of God stirring in them have come to see the deceit and emptiness in one form and how they have been deceived therein then presently the deceit appears in another more glorious shape or form and calls that the truth and the creature stil looking without from the Light within it is insnared there again stil painted with the Scripture words and then the creature thinks its a Saint in that form whenas it s but a painted Sepulcher stil in the old nature and under the power of the same deceit but the Cross tryes all for there all forms and professions misses and comes short so that many a creature hath passed through many forms and hath thought it self a Saint in every form but coming yea but to see the Cross which they are to take up before they can be the

Disciples of Christ and there have stumbled and cryed out it is hard and straight and goes away sorrowfull I know this is witnessed and answered in many consciences for here every mans faith and works comes to the tryall and so to some the preaching of the Cross is foolishness and to some a stumbling-block but unto them that believe and take it up it is witnessed the power of God unto salvation and such rejoyces in it with Paul who are crucified to the world and the world to them upon whom the ends of the world are come but it would be an easie thing to the flesh if that was all 1 Cor. 10.11 to turn out of one profession into another and out of one form and judgement into another but the way to life is through death And the Legs of the Image which is of Iron is the Beast or the power of the Beast upon which these stand where lies their strength and the feet of the Image which is part of Iron and part of Clay are the Priests and Pharises joyned to the powers of the earth which upholds them for but for that as I said before they are the weakest of all forms and so they are the part of clay and the power that upholds them is that part of Iron which is the strongest of the mettalls and the watcher or the stone cut out of the mountain without hands which strikes at the feet of the Image is the King of righteousness Rev. 19.11 12 13 c. Rev. 17.12 13 14. even he that rides upon the white horse out of whose mouth goes a sharp sword whose name is called the word of God who comes to strike at the powers of the earth even the Kings of the earth who have given their power unto the Beast and joyne in war against the Lamb but the Lamb shall overcome and he will overturn all untill it come into his hand whose own it is Rev. 19.20 Rev. 21.1 and the Beast and the false Prophet that hath thus deceived the nations and all that receive the mark of the Beast and worship his Image shall be taken and cast into the lake that burneth for ever which was of old prepared for them and he wil create new heavens and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness where there shal not be war any more but he shall reigne in peace with his Saints for evermore Oh blessed are all they that fight in this Banner and here lay down their lives they shall take them up again with an everlasting Crown and reigne for evermore singing Halelujah to their king to whom be all praise honour power dominion and thanks for evermore Amen And thus shall this great Image be broken to pieces by the Stone cut out of the mountain without hands which wil become a heavy mountain even a burdensome stone to all nations but upon this Mountain shall the true Church stand as a City set on a Hill Mat. 5.14 that cannot be hid and thus I have laid down the ground and end of all sects forms and professions with a blow to this great Image with a weapon which is not carnall but spirituall he that can receive it let him And now concerning the CHURCH which is now gathering and redeeming not by the wil of man nor by the wisdome of many but by the wil and power and spirit of God which according unto his promise he hath poured down upon his Sons and Daughters now in these latter dayes by which we are carried abroad in the power of the Almighty now to declare abroad his powerfull Truth which the Lord hath decreed shall prevail upon the hearts of the people which is glad tydings of great joy unto them that receive it but unto the stubborn and stiff-necked and rebellious tydings of wo and misery and though the messengers of the Gospell are by some rejected reviled reproached scoffed and scorned stocked stoned and imprisoned and despitefully used slandered and abused yet nevertheless blessed be the name of the Lord there are some found worthy and do receive with much joy the messengers of the Gospel Rom. 10.15 so that they know how beautifull are the feet of those that bring glad tydings to the reviving the just witness for God and raising up to life the dead and so the living comes to know and praise the Lord and so the just comes to reign and the wicked comes to be judged and the minde comes to be turned from the darkness to the light to which we do preach in every creature and to the same are made manifest and known to them who do like to retain it in their mindes and from whence we come and the testimony which we do declare but they that do not receive it to them we are not known and therefore are by them esteemed as deceivers and deluders vagabonds and wanderers and the like yet at all this we do not wonder for we read the servant is not greater than his lord for if they have called the Master of the House Belzebub how much more those of his houshould and if they had known him Mat. 10.24 25 they would not have crucified the Lord of glory yet nevertheless we have a witness in every Conscience both in them that believe and in them that perish unto which we do clear our consciences and leave all without excuse by the same which wil answer for us in the mighty day though to the condemnation of those that hate it wherein we have our great joy above all our sufferings but as many as receives this to them he gives Power to bccome the Sons of God and those are they who are led and guided by the one spirit of Truth which the world cannot receive even the Comforter of whom you have heard should come by which they are seperated out of the world redeemed out of the rudiments polutions therof their fashions their customes their words their ways their manners their breeding their fellowip love and friendship their honor and glory and their worship and so are become strangers to the world and so are hated of the world because they are not of the world and the enmity stands betwixt the two seeds but while they was of the world the world loved them but now they are gathered out of the world and seperated from the world and testifies against the world both in words and actions therefore the enmity is raised in the world against the righteous seed and those are they upon whom the ends of the world are come to whom it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdome though to the world in Parables and those are they that are come with a mighty arm and power to turn the world upside down whom the Lord hath gathered and is a gathering out of the world by his owne Spirit of Truth and Love to walk in the way of Truth even the way of Holiness where the Ransomed of the Lord

doe walk and serve and worship him in spirit and in truth and such is the Father seeking to worship him Iohn 4.23 24 in whom he is in doing his own ork even to destroy the old Creation and create new Heavens and new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness and those are they that are the new creatures in whom this new work is witnessed in whom the Father hath manifested his Son that in the likeness of sinful flesh he might condemn sin in the flesh and to bind the strong man and cast him out of his house and spoyl his goods and so to destroy the works of the Devil and to cut down the Man of Sin even that son of perdition who is exalted above all that is called GOD sitting in the Temple of God as God and saith he is God this is he by whom the world is deceived who is the God of the world even the Prince of Darkness who rules in all the Children of Disobedience and so said Iohn in the light the whole world lies in wickedness and unto this doth Christ come with a sword for to make war with him and to take and bind him and cast him into utter darkness and so to take his Kingdom from him and to rule himself in righteousness And this is the King of the SAINTS who is now come to redeem unto himself a pure people and to wash them and clense them from their sinnes by his BLOOD and so to wash away all filthiness both of Flesh and Spirit and this is the Baptism by which they are received into his Church and Faith and here is the effect of his BLOOD wrought in MAN and thus he doth and will manifest his mighty power to purifie and clense and make Man a fit Temple for himself to dwell in and thus is GOD with us manifested in Flesh and thus are the Saints Bodies made the TEMPLES of the HOLY GHOST and thus is the word of Life and Reconciliation witnessed to the raising up the Soul to Life and reconciling the Soul to GOD and those are they that are begotten and born again of the Immortal Word which dwelleth and abideth for ever and here is the Houshold of God the Houshold of Faith and the Houshold of Love 1 Iohn 1.1 who speak the things which they have heard and seen and tasted of the good Word of Life which was in the beginning and those are the children of Light who are gathered out of the darke Forms Judgments and Opinions into the life and power of godliness to walk in the Light of Life wherein they are gathered and united by the one Spirit of Love and Life into one body of which Christ is head and here is the true Church which the Lord is a gathering and washing and cleansing and purifying by his Spirit that he may redeem unto himself a pure Church not having spot or wrinckle or any such thing whose insides are washed and made clean through the Word Iohn 15. by which they are reconciled into the love and union which springs from the Life of God and here is the Vine and the Branches and here is the communion of the Church all feeding upon one Bread all drinking upon one cup this is Christ the Life of the Saints and as many as are baptized into this Church partake of this communion and those are they which have denied themselves and have borne the Cross of Christ by which they are crucified to the world and the world to them who are gathered into one Covenant of Life where all are Fellow-Servants under one MASTER who serve one another in love and meeknesse and here is the true Humility in the HEART wrought and here is the true washing of feet without Hypocrisie which some are imitating without for LIFE but falls short for the heart the Lord requires And thus is the Church of Christ gathered by one spirit and by the same circumcised and baptised into one Light and Life and Power where all dwell as MEMBERS of one BODY of which CHRIST is the HEAD And here is the blessed Union and Communion in one and here God is worshipped in Spirit and in Truth and as CHRIST is spiritual so is his Body and so is his Ordinances and here are the true Christians not those that onely have the Notion of those things but they that witness and possess this in Life and they that believe hath the witness within themselves and they that believe have passed from death unto life and the life which they now live in is by faith in the Son of God which faith is without respect of persons who are the new creatures who are in Christ Jesus to whom there is no condemnation who walk not after the FLESH but after the SPIRIT Gal. 5.23 for against such there is no LAW for they are translated out of that NATURE for which the LAW was added and are set free by the Law of the Spirit of Life and are made partakers of the Divine nature of Christ Rom. 8.2 1 Iohn 4.17 by which they are made Christians and therefore saith Iohn as he is so are we in this prasent world and such now witnesses the effect of the blood of Christ wrought within them and the end of his coming and the benefit of his Death who are dead with him and risen through the death of the Cross and these are they that have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Son of God within them Christ within the hope of Glory or else no hope of Glory for they that cannot witness him so 2 Cor. 13.5 Iohn 17.23 are in the Reprobation so saith the Apostle and here is the Son in the Saints and the Father in the Son and thus are all made perfect in one and here is the true Church where there is but one Teacher one Lord one Faith one Baptisme one Light one Life and one way one Shepherd and one Sheepfold and one Priest over the houshold of God and one hope and one language one family and one God and father of all and they that cannot witness this are Strangers to Christ and Strangers to his Cross and Strangers to the Commonwealth of Israel And this is the work which the Lord now hath begun and is carrying on by a strong arm and mighty power to redeem unto himselfe a pure Church and blessed are they that hearken unto his voyce Here all you Formalists Imitators and selfe-acters are shut out here all you proud ones are shut out here all you lustful ones fleshly ones and carnal ones are shut out and all you that are conformed like unto the world in their fashions in their customes in their words in their ways in their worships and traditions in their love and in their fellowship who are seeking the glory and honor and riches of this world you are the children of this World under the Dominion of the GOD of the WORLD whose Kingdom is

of this World Here all you are shut out who live at ease in your pleasures and live want only upon the earth in the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye Iames 5.5.6 and the pride of life you are the Children of Babylon you kill the just and he lies slain in the streets but here you all are shut out of the new Covenant of Life in the dark world under deaths dominion of what profession and judgment soever Alians and Strangers to the Covenant of Promise for they that are not with us are against us and our union and society is in the light of life Mat. 12.30 but you must all suffer the death of the Cross to the life which you now live in before you can witness this Redemption for those that live with Christ are crucified with him therefore so it is they that wil take up life must first lay down life for the way to life is through death therefore you must be stripped of all your old covers naked and bare that your deceit and shame may appear which you have so long covered with your own righteousness but now you must suffer the shame of the Cross if you would have part in Christ and all your old wisdome knowledg and notions which you have gotten into your comprehensions by your conceivings of the Scripture Letter wherin hath bin your life and pride and exaltation must all come to the death of the Cross that no flesh should glory in his presence but I say unto all you Professors Formalists Notionists and Disputers and Wise ones of this World if you will not take up and imbrace this Cross Publicans and Harlots shall enter the Kingdome before you therefore not many mighty nor many noble nor many wise after the flesh are called but he hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise 1 Cor. 25.26 to the end and the weak to confound those that are mighty that no FLESH should glory in his PRESENCE but CHRIST is made over unto us Wisdome Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption that they which glory might glory in the Lord and this I witness in my measure the things which I have seen and heard and felt and tasted of the good Word of Life which was in the beginning the same do I declare and am known and read by the children of Light And now I shall proceed to severall passages that I have had with the people called Baptists in seveverall meetings that their deceit and delusion may be laid open to the simple hearted Upon the thirtieth day of the first Month called March in the yeare 1655. I was atone Ashens house in Fenstanten in Huntingtonshire where I was freely declaring the Truth of God to the people that came there together that day as I was taught and moved by the Spirit of Truth by which the holy men of God spoke forth the Scripture as they was moved and there came severall of the people called Baptists into the Roome amongst us amongst whom was one of their Teachers called Richard Elligood who after a while stood up in his wil and wisdome to accuse me and said that I said that God did not respect any forms and yet saith he you use the form and so use that which God hath no respect to but his first words was Sir if you please I wil speak something to what you have said to which I made answer here needs no complements and then he runs on as aforesaid to which accusation I replyed was false and bid him prove what form I used and he said the Letter and I replyed he that takes the Letter to talk of without the life and power such sets up a Form and makes a Form but this would not satisfie his filthy wisdome which darkned his understanding but because I spoke words which are mentioned in the Scripture by the same spirit that spoke forth the Scripture by which I challenge the Scripture from him and all such who have gotten it to talk of but denies the life and are strangers to the life and power therefore with his contrary spirit tasked me with a Form which by his logick and deceitfull art would have proved but could not but his deceit was laid open to the people and many declared against him for a form is this as I said before the likeness of a thing but not the thing it self as they have the likeness of a Church which they have imagined from the Letter with their Elders Pastors and Teachers but not the Church it selfe and so they imitate the Scriptures but live not in the life of them that spoke forth the Scriptures neither are acted or guided by the same spirit that gave forth the Scriptures and so wants the life and power and those are the formalists that makes forms and likenesses to deceive the simple as the devil hath the form of an Angell of Light but not the life and power who appears to rule in those formalists and selfe-actors but the day doth make him manifest and therefore he rages and then this Elligood denyed that I had the same spirit that gave forth the Scripture and he said the Spirit might be tryed by the Letter for he said many false Spirits are entred into the world and I asked him by what did the Apostle know that false spirits were gon out into the world and he replyed and said by the Spirit of God then I replyed and said if by the Spirit of God the Apostle knew that there was many false spirits gone out into the world then by the Spirit of God he tryed false Spirits and knew false spirits from the true and here his deceit was laid open to the people and he judged out of his own mouth to be a lyar and to be guided by a false spirit who would try the living by the dead and again he said that one Spirit could not try another for by that judgments the evil Spirits might try the good Spirits to which I replyed by the Spirit of God all other spirits are tryed and also that by the Light darkness is discovered but Darkness cannot comprehend the Light neither discover the Light and here again his blindness and ignorance and deceit was much discovered to the people although he fed himself and would have shufled it off by his consequences and filthy logick but it the more laid open his deceit and presently the said Elligood was found with another lye in his mouth for he said that I said the thing should be proved by every mans spirit which was a very lye for I said that the baptisme of the spirit was the substance of the outward baptisme the which he denyed and bid me prove it and I said I spoke to the witness in every mans conscience which his dark mind could not comprehend but with his dark mind wrested my words and therefore said that I said it was witnessed by every mans spirit but his

according to their form with their stoln words Reply Now for the truths sake for which thou John Ray hast cast us out of your society we shall hereby cleare our selves from what is or may be cast upon us in this matter by thee John Ray and the rest of thy society whom we know to be most bitter slanderers of the truth This we deny that ever we was Elders in the church of Christ you made us Elders in your church who call your selves jews and are not but the Synagogue of Satan out of which you have cast us but not before we forsaked you we by the light of Iesus Christ through the love of God seeing both you and we setting our selves of acting and imitating the Apostles in our wils with a blind zeal for life but strangers to the life and power neither could witness the same infallible spirit as they had as you know we all confessed and therefore we had nothing but what we got into our brains of their words and so got a notion with adding to our own imaginations of them and wresting the same with our fallible spirits for we durst not say it was infallible as you also confessed your selves then it must needs be fallible for there are but two kindes of SPIRITS and if not the INFALLIBLE then the fallible and though we did the very same things and spoke the same words and not from the same Spirit it was all false and as nothing as they that swore God lived swore falsely for they that have not the Spirit of Christ are none of his and his spirit is infallible in the least measure and thus you are shut out in all that you can do of your selves with your formed Ordinances and this we know we was also strangers to the Cross of Christ and the Light and Life and Power of Christ which the Apostles lived in and also the one Baptisme of Christ without which none can be his Disciples so we was only jews outwardly washing the outside but within as foul as ever as you also are yet we say not but we had a zeale in the same though not according to knowledge but now the true Light is sprung in through the mighty love of God towards us so that we see the weakness of our own actings and formings in our own wils for life and now are made willing through the power of God to lay down our crowns at the feet of Iesus and to wait in what he hath given us of his Light and we have tasted of his powerful VVord through his gracious love towards us and now we have a witness vvithin our selves whenas before we knew it not but murdered it as you also do and for this you have cast us out of your society but not for fornication as he was in that place of Scripture which you imitate 1 Cor. 5. nor for making shipwrack of faith and a good conscience for we witness an increase of both but the discerning and power is wanting in you and so you do you know not what but know this we are not fallen to a looser life but to a more stricter severe life for to serve the Lord Iesus Christ but remember this that if they that believed your form to be the truth could but patter over a few words of faith and call it theirs and then according to your form they was put into the VVater and taken out again and then received into your Church and communion though no change of life or nature and this must needs be the Synagogue of Satan and this I Samuel Cater can vvitness for so have I baptised and at you I learned and you allovved of it but novv my eye is opened I do see it and do testifie against it that all I did so by I deceived them though then I confess it vvas ignorance and so vvas yours but novv you might see if you vvould therefore it shall no more be called ignorance but vvilful blindness but I knovv you vvill alledge you teach Godliness and holyness but I ansvver you run and the Lord never sent you as vve also did therefore you profit not the people at all and if you had not the VVords of Godliness and the form 2 Cor. 11.14 15 then the Ministers of Antichrist vvould not be like the Ministers of Christ but you are but I say your lives comes short of vvhat you profess for in them there is no change but they that are Earthly Minded and Covetous are so stil and your lives are in pride ambition and arrogancy puffed up vvith your vain knovvledg and vvith respect of persons and so are out of the faith of Christ and in vvrath and anger and envy and bitterness and in lying and slandering and backbiting and lust fleshliness we formerly being in the same Society do witness it now our eys are open out of which society you have cast us and praised be the Lord that vve have escaped the snares of darkness by the bright shining of his light into our dark hearts to the vvhich light do vve speak in you all by it to read your selves and judge your selves for by it are you seen and judged to be in darkness and in confusion out of the faith and society of the Saints but these things do vve not speak out of envy or Revenge but for the clearing of the Truth and our consciences from your slanderous tongues and to lay oped your deceit and vvay of delusion to the simple that they may escape the delusion vvhich vve vvas ensnared in and that so you may proceed no further vvith it that your folly might be manifested to all men as theirs vvas vvho vvithstood Moses E.C. S.C. A Copy of the most of the Queries aforesaid was given to this Ray but no Answer did he return NOw a word to all you who are stil in your own formings selfe-actings Rom. 8.7 and imitatings you are acting in that nature which is at enmity with God which is not subject to the Law of God neither can so all your formings and actings is in vain for it is not from life but from death for life but life comes from death for in the destruction of death is life obtained therefore to the light of the Lord Jesus in all your consciences take heed which is the witness for God to which I speak in you all which witnesseth for God against the secrets of your hearts which reproves you in secret for your secret actions and deeds of darkness and it will search you through and let you see what you can witness of the work of God in you hearts for all this your long and great profession and esteeming your selves of the Church and faith of Christ and Saints in Christ so if you can witness yet the earth quakes and that the earth is yet removed out of its place and mountains removed by the eye of faith and if the vail of darkness be yet rent Is not

the first man yet standing and the first Image and the Serpent head for while you are strangers to the light and your minds are from the light you are wandred and strayed in the pathes of darknes and so are the children of darkness in whom the Prince of darkness rules even the Serpent who is head in man but the promise is Gen. 3.15 the seed of the woman shal bruise the Serpents head but you are acting in your own wills and wisdome the Serpent is your head and you are not yet come to witness the first promise fulfilled but are still in the fall under the power of Darkness in the disobedience and strangers unto the Cross and so have no part in Christ in that nature for none comes to have a right in Christ but through the Cross for as many as are baptised into Christ are baptised into his death and they that are dead with him do live with him and they that are dead are freed from sin and they that are in Christ are new creatures old things are passed away and all things become new but they that are not in Christ are still in old Adam and so in the fall under the curse and under deaths dominion drove out from the presence of God into the earth and death reigns over all from Adam until Moses Rom. 5.14 of what profession soever therefore now read your selves by the light which comes from Iesus Christ and shines into your dark hearts and searcheth the heart and tryeth the reins and maketh manifest the secrets to which light I am made manifest and by it witnessed in you all and unto it I do direct your mindes for the turning of your mindes from the darkness to the light all you that have a desire to find the way of truth in what form soever that thereby you may come to see how you have been wandered and scattered in the many wayes of darkness in the land of darkness in this cloudy dark day as sheep without a shepheard being carryed about after the voyce of strangers from the shepheard of your souls therefore hearken no more without to those that cry lo here or lo there is Christ and so draws your minds without to seek for a Christ without and a redemption and a sanctification without and a righteousness without and a God withou but turn your minds within for it is to be found within if ever you find for there is no way to come unto the true knowledg of the truth or of God or of Christ but by that of God within for what is to be known of God is manifest within and the same which descended the same doth ascend and so the way to God is to be found within by the light which manifests death and slayes death do not you read the parable of the woman that had lost the piece of silver and could not find it until she had turned into the house and lighted the candle swept the house then she found that which she had lost and rejoyced with her neighbors Luke 15.8.9 Pro. 20.27 Iohn 1.4 now the Spirit of man is the candle of the Lord and his life was the light of men so turn in your minds to the light of the Lord Jesus which if you love it to bring your deeds to it wil let you see the deeds of darkness and the pathes of death and it wil also search your hearts and make manifest your inward parts and let you see what you have lost and as you love this light and likes to retain it in your minds and by it to be guided it wil lead you out of all the crooked froward waies of darkness into the light of life and so to come to find and know the voice of the true shepheard who is come to seek out and gather all his scattered sheep out from amongst the mountains and valleys and the many wayes and crooked pathes wherein they have been scattered and strayed in the land of Darkness Ier. 23.3 and to gather them together into one flock into one way into one sheepfold he alone wil be their shepheard and this you shall come to witness as you love this light and follow it it wil lead you out of your many Forms and many wayes into one way out of your own wisdome and imaginations wherein you have been building Babel and this wil strip you of all your own righteousness wherewith you have covered over your deceitful hearts and it wil lay your deceits before you and bring you to judgement and if you love this light and follow it and be willing to wait upon it out of your own wills and wisdome and imaginations and carnall thoughts reasonings and consultations and selfe-acting Iohn 1● and imatating it wil lead you to know the voice of the true shepheard within you from the voice of the stranger and so to know the precious from the precious from the vile he who saith I am the light he saith I am the good shepheard who wil bring you to know the way and the dore into the sheepfold if you do not run out in your own wills and seek to climb up another way for the way is but one and he that saith I am the light saith I am the way and I am the dore into the sheepfold so if you turn from the Light and stumble at the light you stumble at all and so fall but if you love the light and be willing to follow the light it will lead you through all and to deny your selves and to take up his Cross unto thy self and to pass through good report and evil report through persecution through death 2 Cor. ● 8 and the way wil not be grievous but joyous and so you wil come into the way and in at the dore unto the sheepfold and so into the fellowship and into the life and into the power and into the faith of the Saints where all live in union in one united by one into one body the end of all jarring and jangling divisions and disputes therefore said the Apostle where is the wise where is the disputer of this world hath not God made foolish the wisdome of this world 1 Cor. 1. therefore I do you call to come out from amongst them and be ye seperate and touch no unclean thing and I will receive you saith the Lord and I wil be unto you a father and ye shal be my Sons Daughters now you are called and this is the day of your visitation for now light is come into the world and if you like to retain it in your minds happy are you 2 Cor. 6.17 18. but if not by it you are left without excuse and it wil judge you at the last day for he that loves the light shal not walk in darkness but shal have the light of life but he that doth evil hates the light which is his condemnation Iohn 8.12 now the way is plain to all simple ones who have a desire to find it declared by a friend and witness to the eternall Truth who am called I. 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