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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31658	A seasonable word and call to all those called ranters or libertines through-out the three nations, to come into the true faith and pure fear of the Lord ... written ... by John Chandler ...	Chandler, John, 17th cent.	1659 (1659)	Wing C1928; ESTC R19405	15,876	20

A SEASONABLE WORD AND CALL To all those called Ranters or Libertines THROUGH-OUT The three Nations to come into the true Faith and pure Fear of the Lord in this his Day of grace and visitation by turning into the Light of Christ or witnesse of God in their consciences from which they have swerved and against which they have transgressed Written in tender Love to their Souls By John Chandler Who hath been taken in the same snare but by great Judgment redeemed out of it LONDON Printed for the Author 1659. TO all you who are or may be called Ranters or Libertines either for your loose practises or principles which ye esteem to be good pure and without deceit This is a word of knowledge or experience from one who hath obtained mercy from the Lord in turning to him that smote him and whether you hear or forbear know and remember that in a day of Grace and an acceptable time wherein the Lord is gathering all sorts of wanderers and stragglers into his fold Ye have been put in mind and warned to return Even you I mean in the first place who formerly have had convictions of trouble sorrow for sin against the Lord and after that some inlets and openings of peace and reconciliation and tasts of the good Word of God within you and of the pure powers of the world to come even of an endlesse life with and in God the Father of Spirits whom ye then believed to be an exceeding great reward to all that walked before him in uprightnesse and with a perfect heart as he declared to Abraham the Father of the Faithfull who saw Christ's day and rejoyced therein Which melted your hearts and made them tender and you conscious of thinking speaking or doing vainly idly or unjustly Now know this all such that in the pure and unfeigned love of the Spirit which dwelt in the Apostle James do I write unto you who truly and sweetly said to the Brethren If any among you shall wander from the truth and any one shall convert or turn him let him know that he which hath turned a Sinner from the Errour of his life doth save a Soul from death and cover a multitude of sins So it appears there were those in his daies who wandred from the truth and so fell into errour of their life as ye have done which brought their souls into death and danger of eternall death which they could not see at the present or at least were unsensible thereof by reason of their wandring minds and hearts which brought a Vail over the Understanding or stupified the Conscience whereby it is no wonder if such then and you now did and do call Evill Good and Good Evill put Darknesse for Light and Light for Darknesse bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter Bondage for Liberty and true Liberty for Bondage promising others Liberty when they and you were and are both the Servants of Corruption the cause of all which hath been I testify the going from or forgetting that which first convinced and troubled for the Sin and Evil whereby that conviction and trouble was thought to be raised up in the mind and conscience by misapprehension or imagination onely and not from a true thing or principle which was the true Light that enlightneth every man that comes into the World which could not lye dissemble or flatter but shewed Sin Evill to be so because they were so really therefore troubled vexed terrified the sinful Soul So by you called Ranters or Libertines when ye grew into a carnall freedom the Master of the House was called Beelzebub to wit the pure holy just and righteous Principle of God taken by you but for a Fancy whereby all that was truly good in you soon went to wrack for hereby shipwrack was made of Faith and a good Conscience of Faith because there is nothing that doth or can discover to a Man or Woman's Soul the true Object of Faith but the true Light within which first reproveth and then giveth the knowledge to the penitent and obedient which Object of Faith or Belief is Christ either as the living Hope Gain and eternall Reward to those that love him keep his Commandments and waite for him as the Saints formerly witnessed him for saith the Apostle He that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a Rewarder of those that diligently seek him or as an eternal Judge and Minister of the Father's justice wrath and vengeance to all that follow and obey him not but their own Wills and Lusts according as it is written Tribulation and anguish upon every Soul that doth evil both to the Jew and Greek So that ye miscalling the Reprover in you for sin as aforesaid soon fell from this belief of the eternall Reward and Punishment looking upon man as to his own particular self to dye and be but as the Beast that perisheth although in the course of one Generation succeeding another ye framed up a Unity and Salvation in your erring minds whereby even as a Ship that hath lost his Anchor runs at randome in the Sea so ye having lost the Anchor of your Souls were let loose to think Sin and Evil to be no such thing and some of you to commit all iniquity with greedinesse For the strong consolation in the light by the Spirit and hope which the Saints have which hope entreth within the Vail even into the Glory that was with the Father before the World or succeeding Generations began is the Soul's Anchor as it was of Christ's the Elder Brother Who for the joy that was set before him endured the Crosse and despised the shame and is set down at the right hand of God And the same that led you not to believe this particular and eternal Reward led you also to deny the eternal Punishment when as Christ who was the true Light and meant as he spake without dissimulation or equivocation saith If thy right hand or eye offend thee cut it off or pluck it out and cast it from thee for it is better to enter into life maimed than having two hands or eyes to be cast into Hell where their Worm dieth not nor their fire never goeth out To which truth the Holy men of God in the Scriptures plentifully witnesse as knowing the terrour of the Lord they perswading men for the Lord God is known by the Judgment which he executeth on the wicked as well as by the Reward which is himself that he bestoweth on the righteous but ye being erred from the right Spirit which David after a fall desired might be renewed within him in your own phansies and imaginations Satan having transformed himself into an Angel of light within you have put secret meanings and interpretations upon the Scriptures as though Christ and the holy men of God did not really mean as they spake of these and divers other things which I shall not now name particularly but

season Ye Libertines know nor nor cannot know while ye are as ye are in what a high and sweet state they lived But ye speak proud and swelling words of vanity of things ye know not nor live in and would be at the top of the Ladder before ye are come to the foot even to know Judgment upon the transgressour in you Ye are not ignorant that the Apostles and Saints believed perfection pressed after it and might obtain it But that it was such a perfection which ye dream of I utterly deny for it was a destroying of all the Devir's works and a plucking up of all the evill Plants which the heavenly Father had not planted by Christ the pure power of God who was manifested in the flesh to that end And know ye Oh ye haughty and conceited ones there is never any other new dispensation different from this to be brought forth in the World but that the Glory of the Church in these last times is to be wrought out by the pure and powerfull appearance of the Lord God in this very way of purifying and refining his People for through Judgment is Zion to be redeemed and her Converts with Righteousnesse for Sin Unrighteousness staines marrs the beauty of any People or Person making them to become drosse an ill savour and a smoak in the nostrils of God and a fire that burneth all the day Wherefore that every thing which offendeth the pure eyes of his Glory may be gathered out of his Kingdom will he purge his people by the Spirit of Judgment and burning and by fire and by Sword plead with all flesh and the slain of the Lord shall be many and those be they who they will or have what high conceits they can of their own security that will not fall upon his Corner stone Christ the true Light that leads to the Life that he may be broken and humbled and melted by him into godly sorrow for sin and a sorsaking thereof in thought word and work this stone shall fall on him with a heavy hand at last and grinde him to powder So when such a one is by the Judge delivered to the Officer and then by him cast into prison he shall never come forth out of those chaines of darknesse and that Dungeon of torment that the Almighty hath prepared for all the wicked till he hath payed the last mite Now Let me ask you Libertines that sore so high in your talk of this last dispensation of God to his People one Question What do you think of the new Jerusalom which is from above the holy City of our God Is she not the Mother of all the Saints Is she not the Bride the Lamb's wife and must she not then be like the Spotlesse Lamb her Husband and doth not John in the Spirit testifie that there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a lye but onely they which are written in the Lamb's Book of Life which must needs be none but those that are free from all defilements for saith he The fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and Murtherers and Whoremongers and Sorcerers and Idolaters and all Lyars shall their part in the lake which burneth with fire and Brimstone which is the second death Now what think you Doth the Spirit in John mean as it speaketh or not Or did John mean as he spake Do you think the mind of God in these words were to this purpose that a man might do that which is counted Whoredome or Adultery or Lying or Drunkennesse or Swearing and Cursing or bowing to any Idol or bewitch Peoples Souls or Bodies by Sorceries or murther ones Neighbour Brother or Enemy or do any other such thing which is declared evil in the Scriptures of Truth and yet if he count it pure to him and he see no evil therein he may do it and yet enter the holy City Search with the light if ye are not quite past all honesty tendernesse and feeling and see whether that doth or can give such an interpretation thereof or whether any thing but man's fleshly and corrupted Will and blinded Judgment can do so But Lord how have some so darkned the pure eye that should see things as they are in truth and simplicity by often transgressing against the Light that now they even as desperate do not desire to have the blind eye opened But Father of glory I beseech thee for thy Seed's sake whom thou hast promised to gather from the remotest parts of the Earth to shew thy Almighty Arm in the ransoming of them out of the hands of the spiritual Enemy who hath beguiled these People as he beguiled Eve by drawing them to eat the forbidden Fruit whereby they must needs know evil as well as good whatever they may affirme yet far from being as gods but cast out of Paradise that so thy ransomed ones may come after Judgment known wich songs to Sion praising and magnifying thy holy name as I have done and do for thy infinite goodness and mercy never to be forgotten But ye make other Objections as Where there is no Law there is no Transgression and To the pure all things are pure and It 's Prophesied in Isaiah that the Lord will lead his People by a way that they knew not and He will make Darknesse Light before them and crooked things straight c. Also Solomon hath some expressions tending to confirme our Judgment yea and Christ himself saith If the eye be single the whole body is full of Light but if the eye be dark the whole body is full of darknesse so that all things are but as they are looked upon and so is sin and evil Where there is no Law there is no Transgression that 's certain but where is the man as he is in the Fall throughout the World that hath no Law placed within him since the Law is light and Christ the true light hath enlightned every man So then there is real Transgression in every man whiles in the Fall for there is a Law left in him to shew it now when as a man comes into the Law of the new Creature or of the spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus so as naturally to refrain from all sin and to do the will of God the Law is no longer his reprover and so where there is no Law there is no Transgression and on the contrary yet such a one is not without Law to God but under the Law to Christ Let him that heareth understand Likewise all things are pure to the pure But that which is impurity it self in the Root as Pride Envy c. and those words and actions which can flow from nothing else but that impurity cannot be pure to the pure in heart because He cannot but hate all such things Now Paul's words are exceedingly abused by unclean spirits for he speaketh of the things of this life as Food