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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76271	A short relation or testimony of the working of the light of Christ in me, from my childhood, by one who is now a witness of the spirit of truth (whom the world cannot receive) which doth convince of sin, of righteousnesse and of judgment: and brings all things to rememberance, and shews me things to come, glory to the Lord for ever: / W:B:.	Bayly, William, d. 1675.	1659 (1659)	Wing B1537; ESTC R170480	14,195	12

the Jews have Hebrew as well as the Priests and Pilate which knew not the son of God the originall but set Lattin Greek and Hebrew atop of him when they had crucified him John 19.19 20. So for a season these Merchants of Babilon I traded with receiving and bying their wares hoping it had been good durable stuffe I had got of them being it was prised so high and people cryed they had the originall and could give the meanings of the Scriptures and none else and the Beast upheld or carried the Whore and all the World wondered after them as I did then at length something in me began to be more and more awakened and hungered after true bread yet thought I should be still fed at their Table and did untill I was neer starved with the huskes that the swine did eat for a stirring word in me was give me food or else I perish and went to hear them even with teares for hunger many times untill I perceived they spake not out of the mouth of the Lord the word of life the true bread that came down from heaven but had studyed and patcht up something from the Scriptures without them mixing their meanings and Babilonish whoreish wisedome and Serpents subtilty with it and bid us hear the word of God and so we lookt for light but behold darknesse and dust we were fed with and that was made sad in me by them which the Lord God proclaimed joy and liberty to as the Deceivers and false Prophets in ages past did whom God was against And upon these Crafts men and Merchants of the great Whore will the perpetuall plagues and vengeance of the Lord God be poured down without mixture and as they have done so shall it be done to them and God will fill double to her and she shall know that he is the Lord that search the heart and shews unto man his thought and that God is light and in him is no darknesse or mixture at all and the day is hastening in which they shall howl and lament for no man byeth her ware any more that is taught of the Lord and the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of his power as the waters cover the Sea and in that day the thiefe shall be ashamed that have stole the word from his neighbour and the false Prophet which deceived the Nations shall be ashamed of his vision and Diviners will be mad and the Beast will hate the Whore and burn her flesh with fire and there will be dissolation widdowhood and losse of children come upon her in one day he that readeth let him understand And this I can truly say and doe testifie in the Lord That when a true hunger and thirst in me did arise after the living God it was often hurt darkened and spoyled by the earthly wisedome Philosophy and vain deceit which came out of the Priests mouth which beguiled me of my reward drawing out my mind from the pure measure of God within insomuch that the simple honest and meek principle which stirred in me was weary to hear them any longer and from no other ground did I at first deny them but as that of God in me discovered and witnest against them as such as should never profit the people at all being out of his councell not able to turn any from their evill wayes but strengthening the hands of the wicked and making the righteous sad this is their work as by their fruits is made manifest whose reward shall be accordingly So in those dayes my soule was awakened by the witnesse of God feeling the burthen of sin and was of●en afraid of death and misery without end but knew not how to get out from under the power of sin and death nor to escape the wrath to come being ignorant of him that saveth from it which is Christ the power of God that lighteth every man which cometh into the World which condemnes sin in the flesh but now I see that people perish for lack of knowledge and that the leaders of the people cause them to err and they that are led of them are destroyed Isa 9.16 for nothing will help or satisfie the longing soule immortall but the eternall true bread of life the power of God which he giveth to as many as ●●●ives him that condems for sin and destroys the works of the Divell who hath the power of death for the sting of death is sin so he delivers them from that which is the ground of bondage and feare of death who beleeves in him that is the resurrection and the life over whom the second death hath no power glory to the Lord for ever and ever So now having in measure began to leave the Priests I kept at home not desiring for a season to hear any but to be private and quiet alone which was a great crosse to my Parents Wife and Relations and also to something in me and to my Companions and acquaintance which loved me with that love which quickly turned to hatered so I found it hard to break the customes that I had lived in and to become contrary to all my neighbours and acquaintance and to loose the love of them all as that I saw I should if I followed that which let me see the Priests and the vanity of the World and the Scripture speakes not in vaine Jer. 13.23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin no more can they do good that are accustomed to do evill hear this ye carelesse ones that live in the vanity of your mindes pleading for your customes vanities traditions and fashions of the World that lye in wickednesse and for the fleshly lusts which wars against your own soules the Lord God will plague you with it and that will become the greatest torment to you in which you have most delighted in the day of your visitation then you shall know you were warned in your life time but in the middest of these my tryals and temptations within and without a word was very nigh me even in my heart though I then know not what it was saying seek first the Kingdome of God and mind eternall life yet not knowing where to seek or find it but the deep consideration of it did much strengthen me towards God and some times even breathings and cryes would ascend up from the prisoner of hope in me and my heart was even broken and melted by the power of the word of life which I felt therein hammering down the hardnesse thereof and renting the vaile that seperated me from peace with God but not knowing Christ within the hope of glory which lighteth every man that cometh into the World whose name is called the word of God the Male in the flock which opened the Womb holy to the Lord the Lamb slain from the foundation of the World which lies in wickednesse the first and the last the holy one in the midst whom my soule loveth which had been peirced wounded and as

made themselves wings and thereby to be beguiled of an eternall Crown of rest to my immortall soule my former condition came fresh into my remembrance and I began to feele something stirr in me for life which lay in death and bondage under Pharaoh in spiritually Egypt and as it were a cry ascended from the Prisoner groaning afar off for deliverance and then I began to be troubled and condemned in my selfe and my peace in the earth was broken and the flaming sword turned every way upon it then being afraid of shame I strived with Gods spirit in me not knowing what it was all this while nor some time after and would passe away the trouble as much as I could sometime and even wisht I could be meek like others for I often witnessed Solomons words in the midst of laughter the heart is made sad and was neerer weeping then mirth many times in such Company so I had no rest to my soule in those dayes being ignorant of my Teacher the true Shpeherd of Israell which gives his sheep that follow him eternall life meek and low in the heart But now my soule being like one awakened from sleep and hungery after that which satisfieth I began again to seek for food and rest and to injoy life and peace which changeth not then I thought in my mind what shall I doe remembering the Priests which were discovered by the same witnesse of G●d again to be miserable Comforters and such as daub with untempered morter as all the World shall witnesse in the day at hand when the wall is no more nor they that daubed it and Phisitians of no value but rather robbers and murthers of the innocent and just principle in poor ignorant people that cryes for deliverance Then not knowing what to do for life being gone fo●th hunting abroad like Esau and all his stock of Priests and Professors in the World for food I went among the people called Baptists to see if I could obtain rest and peace there among them thinking if they be the people of God I had right to have fellowship with them and to partake of their promises and priviledges for I often felt something in me which was beloved of God so concluded that I was one of the elect not then knowing and discerning things that differ that it was a seed in man which may be by him oppressed and trod under foot to which the promises and the blessing is and the elect is before the foundation of the World and the whole World lies in wickednesse Read this if thou can that cry the election of a perticular people and the rest left to themselves and beware of the Doctrine of Divels and remember that God is no respecter of persons and Christ the true light lighteth every man that cometh into the World in whom is the election and redemption and he that knows not Christ in him is a reprobate as saith the Scripture 2 Cor. 13.5 So then I became a constant follower of them and at length was in that fellowship with them and Brother-hood which the naturall carnall visible water was the ground off for before I was dipt in water they call'd me not Brother but suddenly after they did yet I was the same every way as before no more bettered nor satisfied by the water after I came to Gods witnesse in me in the coole of the day which let me see my soul lay in death though the comprehending mind had got a l●fe and food in a profession in which I had no true peace when all was performed and done by which I thought to obtain But it still fled from me as I tu●ned to that in my heart which let me see my state and condition even the light of Christ though I knew not then what it was so now I know there is no peace to the wicked and that the woe is to them that are covered with a covering and not with the pure spirit of God which reproves the World of sin neither should I ever attained it in that way if I had walked therein 100 yeares for we came not to Christ but denyed him whose flesh is meat indeed and is the true bread which gives life to the World neither were we joyned together in the unity of the faith of the Lord of glory which is without respect of Persons and is a mistery held in a pure conscience giving victory over the World being all from the light which we were lighted withall that is to give people the knowledge of God in which the Saints inheritance and fellowship is But we were building a Tower hoping the top would have reacht to Heaven in our imaginations like the confounded Builders of old like Nimrods stock the beginning of whose Kingdome was Babell that hunted before the Lord who is that spirit which will confound all your wisedome who build without his light the Corner-stone the sure foundation though you may say Lord Lord this availes not while yee are workers of iniquity you are shut out so we were professing and talking of the truth which makes free Christ the light the way to the Father but we were in bondage darknesse and falshood in the broad way wherein many hipocrites deceitfull workers envious proud and covetous may walk keeping their covering of their profession and talking of him that leads to life out of death darknesse and all unrighteousnesse in which you hold the truth of God his witnesse the light that you be lighted withall which lets you see you have not the true bread of life that gives peace rest and satisfaction to the soule but feeds on the husk notwithstanding your great noise of him that is the substance of all which ends the shaddowes but expects his Kingdome and glory and reign without you ô yee fooles and blinde is not the Kingdome of God within you and is not the Kings daughter all glorious within and did not the King say goe not forth when they shall say loe here and loe there believe them not But in this state I was once with you untill the Son of God opened his eyes that was born blinde whom the Pharisees cast out as they have many in this age that tremble at the word of the Lord but the Lord God of power hath appeared to their joy and you shall be ashamed though you may say the Lord be glorified in whose eternall light I then saw in this profession without life I was never like to have peace to that which was awakened in me breathing for the pure righteous power of the living God which all men had been erred and estranged from by transgression the middle wall that seperates which by the higher power is broken downe where the salvation is wrought out with feare and trembling which the professor denyes casting out such as tremble at the word which is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart and the time is come that they cannot endure sound Doctrine