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A40250	Several papers some of them given forth by George Fox; others by Jame [sic] Nayler, minister of the eternal word of God, raised up after the long night of apostacy to direct the world, to wait for the revelation of Jesus Christ, and to turn their minds to the true light, that they may be reconciled to God; of the world is not worthy, and therefore doth hate, persecute, and whom inprison them, under the name of Quaker[s]. Gathered together and published by A. P. that the truth may be spread abroad, and deceit be discovered. Wherein the plain, honest, and sober conversation of the saints in fear and trembling, is justified, against the idle bablings of formal professors ... and of all sorts of persons, under pretence of civility. Also the priests of England, with their imaginary doctrines and worships discovered to be the grand enemies of Jesus Christ; and the true worship of God in spirit and truth made manifest. ... With a word to the people of England ...	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Naylor, James, 1617?-1660. aut; Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.; Killam, John. aut; Parnell, James, 1637?-1656. aut	1654 (1654)	Wing F1904; ESTC R218791	32,715	40

a covenant with hell and death you are resolved to serve the Devil and please your selves while you live and you will repent at your death you have forgot that your times are in the hand of the Lord and that this is the day of grace and repentance which you turn into lasciviousness and wantonness you make it plainly appear that you love your lustfull pleasures and filthiness more then God you that are friends of the world are the enemies of God you that love the world and the things of the world the love of the Father is not in you How can you say you love God and follow the lusts of your flesh for whom you love him you follow Christ saith if you love me follow me keep my Commandements and those who follow him he leads them out of all the waies of sin into the waies of purity and holyness and so he is the way to the Father For without holiness none can see God for he is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity and no unclean thing can stand in his sight Where will you where will you appear you blind creatures whom the Devil hath deceived you that follow the Prince of the aire who rules in the children of disobedience bringing forth fruits of sin and unrighteousness having your conversation in the earth and earthly things following your corrupt wills and pleasures and yet you will profess you love God draw near him with your lips own him in words but the Devil in practice O horrible hypocrisie Canst thou deceive God shall not the righteous Judge find thee out and reward thee according to thy works Thou are deceived who thinkst to be heir of two Kingdoms thou wilt have pleasure of sin here and thou sayest thou hopest to be heir of the Kingdom of Heaven too but the hope of the hypocrite shall perish Remember thy father Dives in whose steps thou walkest and the same way leads the same end The Lord saith the wicked shall be turned into hell and all than forget God But the Devil in thee saith Thou mayest live in sin and have thy thoughts in the world and mayest enter into the Kingdome of Heaven too Now who must be lyer whether God or thee O vain man was it not sin that separated God and man at the first and thinkest thou to be restored again as long as sin stands in thee Man was not created in sin but pure and holy in the Image of God and while he stood here he had communion with God and had the pure wisdom of God communicated to him by which he was able to see into the wonders of God and to give names unto all living creatures but as soon as he had sinned he was stript of all that he became naked and was thrust out of Paradise and was cursed from the Lord yea the ground was cursed for his sake and all this because of sin which thou thinkest so light of and art so loath to part with so odious is sin in the pure eyes of God who is holy and didst thou but know thy condition as thou lyest in sin in the first birth a childe of wrath and one to whom all the curses in the Book of God are due thou shouldest tremble at sin and not plead for it wherein thou shewest thy self plainly a servant of the Devil and plead'st for his Image and Kingdom and were it not that he had blinded thine eyes thou mightst see where thou art when thou abusest the goodness of God that because he hath left the sins and fallings of others upon Record to the end they should be warnings to all that come after not to do the like and these thou mayst muse on to incourage thee on in thy sin and filthiness and because God is mercifull to pardon sins at what time soever they repent therefore thou art incouraged to live in thy sins the longer unrepented of Now all who are not plainly blind may see whose child thou art for the Apostle saith Know ye not that the long suffering of God leadeth to repentance it doth so to the children of God But whose child art thou that Scripture is fulfilled in thee which saith because judgment is not specily executed upon evil doers therefore their heart is set in them to work wickedness and thus thou makest the mercies of God a cloak for thy unrighteous actions and yet thou wilt talke of a Redeemer and of Faith in Christ But O Friend where is this Redeemer witnessed whilst thou art yet in thy sin what art thou Redeemed from who art in bondage to thy lusts and what is thy liberty thou art Redeemed into while thou art a slave to Satan and at his command those who are Redeemed are see free from sin and the servitude of sin but thou servest sin while tho u obeyest the motions of sin Then where is thy freedome canst thou witness Christ died for thee and thy sin still alive How wilt thou witness his death in thee or thy self dead with him How hast thou put on Christ who art clad with sin the Saints who was dead with Christ and saith Paul How can you that are dead to sin live any longer therein and saith Those that are dead with Christ are free from sin and become servants of righteousness and saith he Now being made free from sin and become servants of God ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life but while thou livest in sin thy fruit is unholy and the end is death who are Redeemed by Christ are Redeemed from the earth and earthly things up to God again from whence they are fallen out of every kindred tongue and people and Nation are made unto God Kings and Priests to reign above sin on earth and are made conformable unto his Image again which they had lost by sin but what conformity is there in thee while thou livest in sin thou art not like him but like the Devil for every sin is the Image of the Devil who sinned from the beginning and while thou committest sin thou holdest out his Image in thee who is thy Father and thou his son begotten in his own likeness And Christ told the Scribes and Pharisees who professed themselves the children of God but lived in sin That they were of their father the Devil for his work they will do for every sin is the worke of the Devil And saith John He that commits sin as of the Devil and saith for this purpose was the Son of God manifested to destroy the works of the Devil whosoever can witness the Son of God manifested in them can witness sin Destroyed but if thou say thou canst witness Christ manifested in thee and yet commit sin thou art a lyar For saith John whosoever abideth in him sinneth not whosoever sinneth hath not seen him neither known him For he that saith I know him and keepeth not his Commandements is a lyar and the truth is not in him And

given you them you are set up above them who are made poore by you now is the Lord come to search you out and you shall restore for your theft four-fold Woe unto you that have had power in your hands to 〈◊〉 these things but instead of using the sword to scatter the works of iniquity have turned the edge of it against such as the Lord hath called out of these things and sent them to call others out left they partake of the Plagues that are to come upon those who are found in them Woe woe unto the blind guides who have called your selves Christ's Seedsmen and now that the Lord of the Harvest is come to look for fruits here is no better fruit to reap but such as these and that among such as you call Saints and the Churches of Christ And now that the Heir is appearing you are stirring up the powers of the earth how to destroy him left you be called to account for your great care to feed your own bodies and heap up carnall things and the little care for the soules of Christs Flock Now shall you not escape your day is near at hand Who could have believed that England would have brought forth no better fruits then these now after such deliverance as no Notion else can witness Oh tell it not among the Heathen left you strengthen the hands of the enemy and occ●sion the wicked to Blaspheme the name of the God of Hosts who is reported to be among us and hath subdued all our enemies and hath delivered us thus farre Awake awake all sorts of people can you say you have not had power in your hands against these abominations but now that you have not proved faithfull in the promises to the Lord in the day of your feares therefore is the Lord coming to call to account all sorts of dissemblers and oppressers and by his own right hand to get himself the Victory And now woe unto you that have known to do well and had it in your power but have not done it Woe unto you that have taken counsel at your owne wisdome and multitudes and not at the spirit of the Lord and have strengthened your selves by your Riches Woe unto your fruitless Trees you have long been digged and pruned but no fruits you have long cumbred the ground Woe unto you that are at ease in Sion houl woe and m●sery tremble ye women that are at ease strip you make you bare pu● off your pride and pu● on ashes turn your Musick into wayling your Feasts into Fasting and bitter lamentation and 〈◊〉 the Lord if there may be hope for your souls in the day of his fierce wrath that is coming upon the earth while you have time improve it J. N. Several Queries to be answered by Tho. Ledgard or any of those he ranks with himself under the name of Anti-Quakers 1. DId not God create man and woman perfect in his own Image without sin 2. Did not the first sin make a separation betwixt God and man 3. Whether is there any other way to unite God and man into spirituall Communion again but by being separated from the works of the flesh sin and uncleanness and being Redeemed into his first Estate 4. Was not that the end for which Christ was manifest in the flesh that by taking away sin he might restore man into his first Estate in which he was created in the Image of God without sin 5. Whether any can witness the work of Redemption perfected in them while they commit sin 6. Whether any unperfect unclean and sinfull one shall enter into the Kingdom yea or no 7. Was not that the end for which the Scriptures were written to warn all to turn from sin to holiness 8. Shall not God justly judge every one as he finds them at the day of judgement they that have done good into life eternal and they that have lived in sin into everlasting fire And whether do you look for a Purgatory to cleanse you from your sins between the day of death and the day of judgement 9. Whether a Christian have ground to believe and ought to wait for it that he shall be redeemed by the second Adam into that estate which he lost by sin in the first Adam 10. Are not all that are servants of sin out of the Covenant and under the power of darkness and in the Kingdom of the Devil 11. Is there any promise in Scripture due to any who have not confessed and forsaken their sins but all the Plagues written in the Book are to fall upon that generation of evil doers 12. Was it not the onely end why all the true Ministers of Christ both now and ever were begifted and sent into the world to wit to call people out of sin and to perfect the Saints in holiness and to present them perfect to God 13. Whether all those who both by Life and Doctrine encourage people to abide in that condition of sin imperfection and separation from God which Christ came to take away and so to unite God and man again do not oppose the work of mans redemption and withstand the onely end of Christ coming and so are Ministers of Anti-christ and labour to uphold the Kingdom of the Devil Now all you who plead for sin in your selves or others consider these things and see if you do not withstand the love of God in giving Jesus Christ into the world to clense from all sin all that believe in him and so to present you to the Father without spot or blemish and so you are the greatest enemies to your eternall salvation How will you stand before the Lord at that great day who would have gathered you out of your sin but you would not but have joyned with the Devil to uphold the wall of separation between God and you Woe unto you ye whited walls J. N. ALL People and Professors consider where you are and from whence you are fallen you that plead for sin and say None can be set free from sin while they are in this world you plead for a house for Satan in you while you are here and where will you have him cast out or what fellowship can you have with God while the Serpents head is in you you are separated from God and know not for what communion hath light with darkness God is light and he that dwels in God dwelleth in light and in him is no darkness at all but while you live in sin you are in darkness and the God of this world hath blinded your eyes that you cannot see and having blinded your eyes that you cannot see he leads you captive at his will and you are willing to be so and you do not believe that ever you shall be otherwise you are servants to sin and you take pleasure in it you are in the flesh and sin and have made

to teach others or did the Lord ever send out any to teach who hath not this spirit yea or no Certain Queries to all you Prophets that Prophesie for hire and all you Priests that teach for money and bear rule by your means and all you Shepherds that seek for your gain from your quarter answer these for they are given forth for the generall good of all people 1. Q. VVHether you will own Jeremiah to be a true Prophet which cryed against the Priests that bare Rule by their means and whether you will justifie these that bear rule by their means which Jeremiah cryed against 2. Whether you will own the Prophet I say to be a true Prophet of the Lord which the Lord sent to cry against them that sought for their gain from their quarter and whether you will hold up these shepherds which seek for their gain from their quarter now as he cryed against them 3. Whether you will own Ezekiel to be a true Prophet of the Lord which the Lord sent to cry against the shepherds which fed themselves with the fat and cloathed with the wooll and made a prey upon the people and whether you will justifie these shepherds that seek for the fleece now and for the Woll and the Fat and make Prey upon the people which Ezekiel cryed woe against 4. Whether you will owne Micha to be a true Prophet of the Lord which the Lord sent to cry against the hireling Priests and Prophets that Preached and Prophesied for money and whether you will justifie these things now which the Lord sent him to cry woe against then 5. Whether you will justifie such as Jesus Christ cryed woe against which was called of men Master and had the chiefest places in the assemblies and stood praying in the Synagogues and laid heavy burdens upon the people and loved salutations in the Markets and whether you will justifie these things which he cryed woe against 6. Whether you will justifie sprinkling infants seeing there is not a word of Scripture to prove it 7. Whether you will justifie singing Davids Psalms his quakings prayers and tears and his condition turned in Rime and Meeter and sung in the world yea or no 8. Whether ever any of the Apostles or Ministers of God did receive Tythes after Christ was risen yea or no 9. Whether ever any of the Disciples of Jesus Christ or believers that believed in him after he was risen did pay Tythes according to the old time after the substance was come yea or no 10. Whether these be not the Teachers spoken of which stand rayling in the Pulpit and are in envy and sue men at the Law and are proud and covetous be not them which goe in the way of Caine and through covetousness make merchandise of the people and are they not to be cryed against now as Paul and Peter did then 11. Whether these be not the Teachers that seek for great augmentations and great Benefits and Tythes be not as they which the Scripture speaks of which run greedily after the error of Balaam who perished in the gain-saying of Cora seeing the Apostle said He covered no mans silver nor gold nor apparel but wrought with his hands that he might be example to all that followed him 12. Whether they do abide in the Doctrine of Christ which compels people to swear or the Doctrine of the Devil when Christ saith Swear not at all but let your yea be yea and nay nay whatsoever is more is evil 13. Whether the outward Temple was to be held up after Christ was risen yea or no seeing Stephen was stoned to death for witnessing against it 14. Whether a man shall be made free from the body of sin while he is upon the earth yea or no 15. Whether you will own that Christ which said be not ye called of men Master or whether you will be called of men Master and so deny that Christ 16. Whether that was the true Christ that forbid these things and whether you will own that Christ as an Example to follow him who is the way the light and the truth An Exhortation to all people that have a desire to know the Truth that the Truth may make them free EVery one that hath a desire to know the truth that the truth may set you free mind the light of God in you that shews you sin and evil that which checks you when you do amiss either when you lie or swear or are proud or covetous or oppress or envy or hate or backbite one another or use any deceit there is something in you that will check you and tell you that you should not do so if you hearken to it that which shews you your vain thoughts and wandring desire and wicked imaginations if you hearken to that and let it guide your minds It will turn them within and shew you how you have spent your time and bring you to consider of your waies and your doings that you may forsake that which is evil and turn to the Lord that he may have mercy upon you this light within if you hearken to it it will not suffer you to do any wrong to any man but to do to all as you would be done by and obeying it it will teach you to deny your selves of pride and covetousness and oppression and drunkenness and lying and swearing and vain talk and foolish jesting and all vain delights and pleasures whatsoever and minding this light within to be obedient to it it will cross your earthly wille and turn you out of the lust and filth of the flesh and lead you out of all the worlds waies and words and customs and fashions and worships and delights and vanities whatsoever and bring you to delight in the Lord to do his will in yielding obedience to his commands in what the light doth require of you to be done that you may cast off the works of darkness as this light within makes them manifest to you this light within you will not suffer you to eat and drink to make your selves wanton if you harken to it and let it guide your minds this light within will not let you wear apparel to make your selves proud and burthen and oppress poor creatures if you hearken to it and here is your teacher this light obeying it and here is your condemnation this light disobeying it this light is not without you a chapter or a verse but the light is within as it was in them that spake forth the chapters Ye have a light to the which you do well to take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place untill the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts Take heed to that light left ye be condemned by it obeying it it will shew you the way to salvation disobeying this light it will condemn you Now you have time prize it and take heed of rejecting the counsel and admonition of the Lord to your souls

as you will answer it before the Lord consider of it and lay it to heart this is the day of your visitation Freind D. W. MY love salutes that which is pure of God in thee mind that light of God in thy conscience which checks and reproves thee for sin and evil and it will turn thy mind within and shew thee the evil of thy doings and tell thee plainly thou ought not to act in that which is evil this is the light which Christ Jesus hath enlightened every one that comes into the world withall and this light will not onely shew thee thy evil deeds but it will shew thee the good way which thou ought to walk in yeilding obedience to this light which discovers unto thee sin and evil it will teach thee to deny that which is evil as the light makes it manifest unto thee in measure and this light which Christ hath given to every one to enlighten thee withall it will not onely teach thee to deny that which is evil but it will teach thee to act in righteousness and to do unto all as thou would be done by Loving this light thou wilt bring thy deeds to the light that the light may prove them and here is thy teacher present with thee obeying it the light and hating this light which makes manifest sin and evil here is thy condemnation eternally Now thou hast time prize it and put not the day of the Lord afarr off for the time past is unrecoverable the time to come is uncertaine the time present is thine now while time is improve thy talent which the Lord hath given thee that thou mayest receive the Blessing which is Well done thou good and faithfull servant thou shalt be made Ruler over much but on the contrary if thou be negligent and sloathfull and slight the mercies of the Lord to thy soule and hide thy talent in the earth then thou art that sloathfull servant who said Christ was an austere man for the Lord hath given every one a measure to Profit withall then thou must receive thy portion Go ye cursed into hell prepared for the Devil and his Angels Now it is called to day arise and put off the old man with his deeds for the old man must be put off with his deeds in measure before the new man can be put on with his deeds which is after God created in righteousness and true holiness therefore in the feare of God worke while it is day for the night comes when none can worke it is said Rejoyce O young man in thy youth But know for all this thou must come to Judgement Now friend consider what thou art a doing and take heed of spending thy time carelesly without the fear of God and the Lord give thee understanding that thou mayest see what thou art doing that thou mayest chuse the good and refuse the evil From a friend to thy soule and to all that love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity and in truth This was I moved to write to thee who am a prisoner of the Lord in York Castle whose name in the flesh is John Killam ALL friends in your several measures dwell and abide in that which is immortall of God in you which is begotten by the ministry of the word which is not of the world but leads out of the world and crucifies the world who in it dwells this doth witness so all to the witness keep your minds and upon it wait and be attentive that you all in the tenderness may be kept and the witness preserved waking and alive in you that which witnesseth with the Just and righteous pure God in you against all deceits hypocrisie or self-ends in you that herein you may be preserved every one in your measures faithfull to God who hath called you that herein you may grow out of the world self flesh and the knowledge thereof which all defiles and perisheth into purity righteousness and holiness which condemns the world that in the true favour and discerning you may grow to sever between the precious and the vse the clean and the unclean the pure and the unpure that you may know and owne the pure life in one another the pure language and the pure voice that true Judgement may pass upon that which is contrary least for want of favour and true Judgement you joyne with the unclean spirit which spots and defiles staines and darkens the understanding and then slothfulness gets up and earthly mindedness and self-endedness and self takes its liberty which all staines and dishonours the truth of God the father of truth from whence all truth proceeds But woe from the Lord will follow the careless slothful disobedient rebellious one who causes offences so all in the presence of the living God to the witness of God in you I speake to feare the living God of life and Power and in it dwell that in it you may be preserved low and tender your minds to the measure of light which manifests darkness and what out of it ariseth which is contrary to the light drawes from the light and so draws from God that in the light this may be seen Judged and condemned and here you are kept in your measures and daily growth out of the world self flesh or whatsoever is of the same that all things may be given up into his will who is God over all and creator of all whose owne all is and here you are kept single and free Just upright and pure every one in your measures in the continuall exercise in a growing condition the witness being kept waking but I do you all warne to take heed of setting up a false rest out of light in the carnality in the form without the life and power painted with the word of truth catched in the comprehension talked of such feeds death in whom death raign and such with the light which they are turned from are seen Judged and condemned Ignorance not to be pleaded So all tender ones who feare the living God and abide to the light which opens manifests and discovers within that upon it you may wait for teaching and direction looking out at any but every one in particular mind the light of the Lord Jesus which hath convniced you to be your guide and teacher in all things bringing all your thoughts words and actions to the light by it to be tryed and proved at it to ask councel and direction and here God alone is teacher orderer and mighty counceller who is the everlasting Father and Prince of peace and joy and here true Judgement is set up which keeps in the watch and the cross and here true peace is preserved which stands in obedience through the Cross and herein true favour you grow and in the discerning and the pure wisdome you grow in your measures received from the fountaine which orders all and distinguishes between the precious and the vile and the two seeds and what is