is taken away then there is no Condemnation but man is at unity with his Maker all Fear of Death and Torment is taken away for the Sting of Death is Sin and the Strength of Sin is the Law but thanks be to God who hath given us the victory through our Lord Iesus Christ over Sin Death Hell and the Grave together with all the dark Powers of the Earth That as we who are called Quakers do continue in the Light none can overcome us for Truth is stronger than all and the Lord our God will exalt his Truth over all Falshood and deceivable Shews Everlasting Praises eternal Glory and heavenly Renown to his pure holy and perfect Name for ever world without end Amen Amen There is none can forgive Sins but God only neither will he give his Honour to another though Christ said to his Apostles Whose Sins ye remit on Earth shall be remitted in Heaven he spake to them that were filled with his own eternal Spirit and were able to discern an innocent penitent Heart from a Hypocrite in the Light and Life of Righteousness and they did not say they could forgive any their Sins but they were sent to direct their Minds to God who was and is ready to forgive every one that cometh to him by Faith and throughly purged and cleansed from all Iniquity But as for those that have taken upon them to pardon Creatures for their Money or if they will receive their Correction and so deceive the poor People and so he or they that doth pardon and they that are pardoned of them do and will perish together eternally unless they repent of their Blasphemies and Sorceries Divinations Inchantments whereby the poor People are blinded and kept in ignorance and in all manner of Uncleanness and are corrupted for want of Knowledge My People perish for want of Knowledge saith God and the Kingdom is shut up from the Simple-hearted and the Key of Knowledge is hid away by them that will not enter in themselves nor suffer any to enter that would neither will they permit that any of the Lord 's Anointed that have received the Key of Knowledge should speak among the People but they say None ought to speak in the Name of Jesus but the divine Doctors that have received their Ordinations from them The People are blind indeed that do think the Spirit of the Lord can be limitted tyed confined or dispenced by any mortal Man No they that do make the people believe any such thing are absolutely the Messengers of Satan and not the Ministers of Christ they are out of his Doctrine such are Doctors of Divinity that dwell in the Divine Light of God and grow into his Divine Nature and do receive their Ministry by the Inspiration of his divine Spirit of Life and Power and do speak as they are moved and as the Spirit giveth them utterance in the Will of God they are no Men-pleasers nor Time-servers nor Will-worshippers for such cannot please God that seek to please man and they are Hypocrites that walk in the Imitations and Likenesses without the Life and Power observing this thing and observing the other Christ saith The Kingdom of Heaven cometh not with Observations but the Kingdom of God is within you speaking to the unbelieving Jews the Scribes and Pharisees Wise and Learned that were gone out from the Kingdom the Measure of God in them in which is Power to destroy the Works of the Devil in the Observations and Christ reproved them and said to them The Kingdom of Heaven consists in Righteousness Peace and Ioy in the holy Ghost Now that is the kingdom of Antichrist in which kingdom is the City that Cain built that is in the Observations and Babel that Nimrod the Heretick begun to build which is full of confused Noises and Bloodshed and all manner of Cruelty It is Babel that is built with blood but Sion is redeemed through judgment and her converts with righteousness O! blessed be the pure holy and powerful Lord God the Day of his Power according to his determinate Counsel is come that Antichrists Kingdom shall be destroyed and Babels Building must fall for the Mystery of Babylon the Great the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth is made manifest by the bright Appearing of the Lord Jesus and the Children of Light are able to fathom and comprehend her and all her Lovers and to see the Foundation they stand on and the Ground they act from which is but as Water as John saith in his Revelations he saw Nations Waters Peoples Waters and Tongues Waters yea Men Waters Peoples and Nations all unstabled like the Waves of the Sea tossed to and fro with every Wind of Doctrine in the changable gone out from that which changeth not into the many Ways and have heaped to themselves Teachers having itching eares and cannot endure sound Doctrine but saith Preach unto us smooth things so they do preach Peace where the Lord proclaimeth War and bless themselves in that nature that is everlastingly shut out of the Kingdom of God and excluded from his living Presence But the Lord God of Life and Power will hath discovered the Spirit of the Barren woman that hath made all Nations drunken with the Wine of her Fornication and the Inhabitants of the Earth were surfeited and overcome with her Abomination She shall soon be cast into a Bed of Torment with all her Lovers where she shall have Torment without Ease Judgment without Mercy a full Cup without Mixture and the Dregs wrung out unto her and she shall be rewarded double for all her Iniqiuties the Lord will mar her beauty and stain her glory and strip off her costly robes and lay her honour in the dust and turn her songs into howling and her mirth into mourning and her musick into lamentation and she shall receive a Cup of trembling at the Lord's hand and all her glory pomp and pride shall perish as the untimely figs and fade as the flower of the field and wither as the grass upon the house top and the Smoak of her torment shall ascend in the sight of all people and it shall go forth in the audience of all Nations and she shall be a by-word and a scorn a taunt hissing and derision and off-scouring to as many as have heard of her Name and a day of lamentation shall be heard in the midst of her great Tribulation Wrath and Anguish upon every Soul that doth Evil because she repented not of her Uncleanness Fornication Cruelty Hardheartedness and Mercilesness and all her Uncharitableness and Blasphemy and Sorceries and the like Wickedness And this I give in my Testimony for the Lord in the living Word of Truth against Her and all her Lovers and every one that uphold Her as I have received it by the Revelation of the Son of God and not from or of any Flesh or Blood but have seen handled and tasted deeply of the Cup
Disciples indeed and did hearken to his Teaching did hear his Voice and follow him and a stranger they would not hear but Christ alone was their Head Guide Teacher Leader and they did believe in his Name and obeyed his Will For it is not every one that saith Lord Lord shall be saved but he that doth the Will of the Father is accepted And this is the Will of God that ye should believe in Him whom he hath sent and be sanctified for Christ is the same that ever he was to all that believe in his Name He is their King to rule and Prophet to teach and Priest to offer up the spiritual Sacrifices that are accepted with the Father who saith Let every one that nameth the Name of Christ depart from iniquity for I have given him a Name above every name that at the Name of IESUS every knee shall bow He that doth depart from iniquity doth bow at the Name of Jesus but those that do bow their knees when they hear Jesus named and do not depart from iniquity do not bow at the Name of Jesus but are Hypocrites and do bow to the Beast and do not believe in Christ Jesus neither doth their faith stand in the power of God but their faith is vain Paul the Apostle of Jesus Christ saith He that believes in the Lord Iesus in his heart and confesseth with his mouth that God hath raised him from the dead shall be saved for with the heart man believeth unto Righteousness and with the mouth Confession is made unto Salvation but Paul did not say that every one that confesseth that Christ was crucified at Jerusalem and God raised him up again should be saved No that would contradict the Scriptures for as I live saith the Lord if Israel were as the sands upon the Sea-shoar for multitude but a remnant shall be saved For they are not all Israel that are of Israel but he is an Israelite indeed in whose mouth there is no guile but every one that confesseth the same Christ near them which was crucified at Jerusalem For know ye not that Christ is in you unless you are Rebrobates And let them know that do not witness the Life of Christ raised within them that sin and wickedness is alive in them and where sin and wickedness liveth there Christ lieth crucified in the streets that are spiritually called Sodom and Egypt and it is the faith of the Drunkard Swearer Lyar Murderer Adulterer and covetous persons and them that work all manner of Abominations which shall never enter into the Kingdom of God as saith the Scriptures yet those will confess that Christ dyed at Jerusalem to their own condemnation because they do not walk in obedience to him John saith Try the spirits whether they be of God yea or nay Every one that confesseth that Christ is come in the flesh is born of God but he that denieth Christ to be come in the flesh is not born of God but is of Antichrist and denieth the Lord that bought him He that professeth Christ and doth not possess Christ neither is possest of Christ it is he that is Antichrist and is not of Christ but where Christ is manifested in the flesh he destroyes the work of the Devil and giveth power over Sin Death Hell and the Grave and over Antichrist and all the dark powers that do corrupt the Earth Where sin is destroyed death hath no power The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal Life And he that hath the Son hath Life and he that hath not the Son hath not Life but is in Death and the Wrath of God abideth upon him He is the best Christian that is most like Christ. In him was no nature of cruelty at all but full of love mercy and tender compassion ready to forgive and willing to receive all that come unto him having nothing of their own he will in no wise cast out and he doth exhort all men to do to others as they would have others do unto them and commanded his Disciples to love one another and to love enemies and to do good to them that hate them and despitefully use them God is Love and he that is born of God doth love every one and cannot use cruelty to any but he that is not born of God committeth sin and he that committeth is of the Devil and dwelleth in the dark where all sin is committed but he that dwelleth in the Light dwelleth in the habitation of God where no sin is committed nor transgression found and he that doth not know the Light in the Conscience that convinceth of all sin doth not know God for God is Light and Jesus Christ is the express Image of his Fathers Brightness and eternal Glory in the Light Life and Power who is immortal invisible incomprehensible altogether pure and perfectly holy and wise and is throughly glorious beyond all that ever can be thought or spoken of him by all mankind and he is risen with healing in his wings and is not vailed as in times past but is clearly seen heard and understood of all them that have received him and lovingly imbraced him in the Truth they in whom the eye of Innocency is opened by the mighty Power of God they do see him and enjoy him and can and do bear witness of him as Paul did Christ the same yesterday and to day and no otherwise for ever Paul did not know him till he was risen from the dead and ascended to the Father as the Scriptures bear witness Paul was a Persecutor after Christ was crucified and he held the clothes of the witnesses that stoned Stephen a man full of the holy Ghost because he said The Most High dwelleth not in Temples made with hands neither was he worshipped with mens hands No Stephen did know that his body was the Temple of the living God and God is a Spirit he is worshipped no otherwise acceptably 〈◊〉 Spirit and in Truth and Paul was consenting to his death and after he was journeying from Jerusalem to Damascus with Letters from the high Priests and Scribes to hale men and women out of the Synagogues that did speak in the Name of Jesus and to bring them bound to Jerusalem But in the mid way there was a Light met Paul and smote him so that he fell to the ground and Paul saw a Light shine round about him but he saw no man and he heard a Voice saying Saul Saul why persecutest thou me Who art thou Lord said Saul I am Iesus whom thou persecutest said Christ the Light it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks and then Paul cryed out saying Lord what wilt thou have me to do And as soon as the Lord revealed his Son Christ Jesus in him by his own immediate Spirit he did not confer with flesh and blood but went and preach'd him Paul did profess Christ before and did profit more in the Jewish Religion than
of the Indignation of the Lords Judgment If Iudgment first begin at the house of God what will become of them that obey not the Gospel of God for if the Righteous scarcely be saved where shall the Wicked and Ungodly appear Now for some help and light for the understanding of them that do not know the Mystery of Iniquity and that spirit that doth generate it here as aforesaid the spirit of Antichrist is that spirit in every one that doth profess Christ Jesus in words but doth not possess him in life and power and such are they that are making Images and forms and likenesses without and call it by Christ's Name and say it doth represent Christ when none can make his Likeness nor bear his Image but those that are created anew in Christ Jesus and born of the same Spirit The righteous Image or Form of Christ is the perfect Life of Innocency and the pure Spirit of Meekness and an upright heart of true Humility as it is written Upon whomsoever you shall see the Spirit of the Lord descend like a Dove and abide upon him this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased You all know a Dove is an innocent harmless creature and so are all God's Children which are sanctified in the undefiled womb of God's second creation where the first Heaven and the first Earth is passed away and new Heavens and a new Earth are witnessed wherein dwelleth Righteousness for evermore and he that is called the Son of Perdition is the Man of Sin in every particular that steals away the heart and draws out the mind from the true invisible God and sets it upon earthly objects and visible appearances The glory of the world that doth fade and vanish away as the smoak in the eye and the painted harlot is the fallen wisdom that is comprehended in the earthly mind carnal understanding and airy spirit inventing and devising how to deck and beautifie her self with the glory of this world and outside shews to get her self a name over all the Earth and calls her self holy pure and spiritual that all people may fall down and worship her painted image and so the wind of her spirit goeth forth and overchargeth the hearts of the people and corrupts them and when the heart is corrupted it conceiveth lust and when lust is conceived it bringeth forth sin and when sin is finished it bringeth forth death The wages of sin is death and the Scarlet-coloured Beast that doth uphold the adulterous woman with all her allurements upon whom she sits is that beast-like will of or in man that is not subject to the Will of God but hath received power to exalt his horn even to the Host of Heaven for the cleansing of the Sanctuary and purifying of the Temple and for the tryal of the Faith of God's Elect that the power of God may rest upon them and so they come to be approved in the sight of all and herein our God is glorified honoured and renowned over all in purchasing to himself a holy Kingdom through the blood of the everlasting Covenant in the faithful-hearted that do follow the Lamb through great tribulations according to the Scriptures Every man out of the Covenant of God is bruitish and that spirit which doth exalt it self over the consciences of any people to compel them by a tymnnous Law to worship according to his will and in his way without any Commandment or Precept from the Lord that is Lucifer which the Lord God will cast down to the bottom of Infamy and will do unto him as he did to proud and lofty Haman as the Spirit of the Lord hath manifested for God and his Word are one and his way to the Kingdom is but one and he never compelled any with camal weapons or any visible thing to worship him And whereas it is said he sent forth his servants to compel them that were in the streets and in the high-wayes to come in by the powerful preaching of his Word of Life and Truth that did limit and bind that in them that did rebel against him and so he drawed them after him in love and so he doth at this day Praises praises to his holy and blessed Name for evermore Amen And the false Prophet is he that cryeth Lo here is Christ and Lo there but Christ foretold of them saying Many false Christs would come saying Lo here and Lo there but believe them not go not forth by their fruits you shall know them And these are they that for advantage will cry Peace peace while ye are unsaved from your sins and so with good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple and smoothly draws them after him in the broad way that leads to the chambers of death and destruction and in their high places they will tell you you must not be drunk nor lust nor envy nor covet nor live in pride nor any such evil things when they themselves are wholly guided and led by that same spirit which is the very rise author yea as I may safely say the father of all manner of uncleanness and evil concupiscence and so though they do speak good words it is but in imitation because it was the practice of the Servants of the living God so to do yet being out of their Life they can never convert any into the Truth but their spirit doth beget the same form in the Hearers as is in the Teachers for such Seed as they sow such Fruits they do reap of all manner of unrighteousness and these be they that will go about to limit the Spirit of God and make the people believe none ought to speak in the Name of Christ but the Wise and the Learned and them that have received Gifts of Men to Preach but Christ doth ordain his Ministers and gives them Gifts both Male and Female yet they say Paul would not permit of a Woman to speak in the Church it is true Paul would not permit of a woman to speak in the Church no more do not the Quakers neither do they permit a Woman to speak in the Church nor a Man that is born of a woman but he that is born of God whether in Male or in Female let him speak freely as his Father giveth him Utterance Let him that doth not understand come into Christ's School and learn Paul said That if a Woman did pray or prophesie with her Head uncovered she did dishonour her Head if a woman might pray or prophesie with her head covered it 's very like she might do it in the Church assoon as in another place But Paul nor John neither would not permit that Jezabel that painted Harlot should speak in the Church who hath painted her self with the Saints Words but out of their life she must keep silence in the Church yea verily the Power is made manifest in this the Lord 's present day that will shortly stop her mouth and all her
Lovers for evermore world without end Amen The Glory is the Lord God's who is risen in his mighty Power to raise up Sion and to build up the walls of Jerusalem and to raze down Babel to the ground and to destroy the Kingdom of Antichrist and to bring down all the Powers of Darkness under his feet This was written in the Inquisition of Malta by the Lord's Servant Katherine Evans who am a Sufferer for God's eternal Truth which is my Ioy my Glory and my Crown Magnified be the Name of the Lord God of Life and Power who hath counted me worthy not only to believe unto Salvation but also to suffer for the Sake of my blessed Saviour and perfect Redeemer the Lord Iesus Christ to whom be Glory for ever world without end Amen Amen Oh Friends and People in all places who are called Christians fear the Lord God that gave you Life and obey his holy Gospel the Light in the Conscience that convinceth of all Sin and judgeth the Secrets of every ones Heart O hearken to the heavenly Voice of the true invisible God he is near to every one to save or to condemn Yea of a truth he is risen in great Power to correct the Wayes of men throughout all Nations whose Wayes have been their own Wayes for many Generations past but this is the Day in which the Lord God will restore Judges as at the first and Counsellors as at the beginning Wherefore let every one that hath received Power and Authority from the Lord to rule and regulate amongst the People take heed that they do not abuse the Power the Lord hath committed into their hands as a Stewardship whereof they must give an account before the High and Mighty Judge of Heaven and Earth that sits upon the Throne to Judge the Nations in Righteousness and the People with Equity and he will smite the Earth with the Rod of his mouth and consume the Wicked with the Breath of his lips and the Lord God will remove and overturn and cut down till he hath exalted men like to faithful Moses and righteous Samuel to do the work of Justice Mercy and Equity to every one without respect to Persons in the Fear and Dread of the Lord not seeking their own honour and glory but the Honour and Glory of the Lord God And thus he will make you honourable in the sight of all men for of a truth they that exalt themselves shall be brought low but they which the Lord doth exalt none can cast down and likewise see that you do nor judge others for that which your selves stand guilty of or the like sin in the self-same nature if so wherein ye judge others you condemn your selves and your own Condemnation will stand over your own heads for ever Wherefore take heed how you do mount in the Seat of Tribunal and let every Thought Word and Action in your Sentences of Judgment of others be according to the Light of God in your own Consciences which otherwise will be your eternal Condemnation without any excuse in the Presence of the Lord God Almighty whose Voice doth shake terribly the Earth and makes the Hearts of the Heathen to tremble and doth and will remove Mountains and over-turn Hills and take all that lets and stands in opposition against his pure Truth and the little Hill of Sion shall trample over all the Mountains to the Ends of the Earth And who shall be able to resist it no no not one the Lord will rip up every false Covering strip off every deceitful Garment and make manifest every seducing Spirit and blind Guide and false Teacher that doth work by signs and lying wonders with all manner of Deceivableness and doth deceive the hearts of the Simple and stealeth away their hearts and draweth out their minds from the true invisible Lord God that made them and doth set them upon earthly Objects and visible Appearances and the Glory of this life that will perish for ever and vanish away like the smoak in the aire and the invisible God they have no more knowledge of than the beast that perisheth and these be them that run and the Lord never sent them and saith Thus saith the Lord and the Lord hath not spoken unto them neither did they ever see his face nor hear his voice at any time neither do they profit the people at all but build them up in the Mystery of Iniquity and teach them to wonder after the monstrous Beast which hath many Heads and many Horns and Mouths full of Blasphemy and Eyes full of Adultery walking in the broad way that leads to the chambers of death and destruction and to the Pit of everlasting Perdition and shuts up the Kingdom from the Simple-hearted and hides the Key of Knowledge from the innocent Ones and will not enter in themselves nor suffer them to enter that would and these are them that feed of the Fat and go on their Bellies all their life long the Serpents of the earth that suck the sweet up the spirit of the earth and they make the poor people believe it doth belong to them in Christ because they must pray for them to the saving of their Souls O these be Hypocrites and they do not know the Price of the redemption of a Soul out of death neither have they the Knowledge of God nor his Way to Salvation for if they did know the Lord they would fear and dread his holy Name and teach the People the Way to Life eternal which is the Light in the Conscience in every one and he that comes not to the Light comes not into the Way of God which leads to the Kingdom of God The Kingdom of God is one his Way is one his Light is one his Life is one and his Spirit of Truth is one and his Word is one and what he speaks once he speaks still and what he once condemns he never justifies and what he once justifies he never condemns He is God and changeth not but the same yesterday and to day and so likewise for ever Now they that are in the changeable and in the many wayes are out of the Way of God which is Light and are in the dark and do not see the way they walk in neither do they know the Lord nor his Word that is quick and powerful sharper than a two-edged Sword for did they know that Word they would not dare to mock and scorn at them that tremble at the Word and meet together to wait upon the Lord in silence and do hearken diligently to know the Mind of God that they may not sin against him nor act contrary to him but those men or women cannot disscern the Mind of God that are not crucified with Christ Jesus and the Body of sin death destroyed which is a mystery to all the Wisdom Learning in the world that do not own the Light in the Conscience to be their alone Teacher but live
defile and pollute the Mind and Soul and corrupt the Heart of man hence it is that nothing but the clean and pure Spirit of the Lord God that can in any wise cleanse and sanctifie the Soul and Mind or purge or purifie the Heart again and it seems to be a very vain thing for any man or woman to think otherwise Now let every one that is called a Minister of Jesus Christ see that he be so indeed and in truth for they must come a great way before they can administer Christ Wherefore it is safe to consider that Death reigned or reigneth from Adam to Moses and from Moses till the Prophet John and John was a burning a shining Light the greatest that was born among women but the least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he and John cried in the Wilderness saying Prepare ye the Way of the Lord make his Paths streight for he whose shooe he was not worthy to unloose was coming after him whose fan is in his hand and he will throughly purge his Floor and gather the Wheat into the Garner but the Chaff he will burn with Fire unquenchable And John denied not and said He was not that Light but he came to bear witness of the Light saying This is the true Light that lighteth every one that cometh into the world Now it behoveth all that are called Ministers of Christ to call themselves to mind how they travelled through all these Administrations spiritually from Adam till Moses ye are all in death and when you have received the just and holy Law of Moses upon Mount Sinai then you must journey through all the Prophesies till you come to Mount Sion the heavenly Jerusalem the City of the living God before you can be a noble Minister of Jesus Christ And this I am bold to declare in the Name of the Lord Jesus whose Servant I am through mercy Be ye not deceived the Lord God will not be mocked any longer there is a great Mystery in Godliness insomuch that all the earthly Wisdom and Learning and Languages Studies or Prudency is never able to fathom or comprehend the least Motion of the Life of it but as the Mind is joyned to the Light the Word of Life the Word that was before the World was the Word by which the World was made the Word that is quick and powerful sharper than a two-edged Sword even to the piercing and dividing between soul and spirit joynts and marrow and is a searcher and discerner of the Thoughts and Intents of every ones heart and this is he whose Vesture is dipt in Blood his Name is called the Word of God and he is come according to the determinate Counsel of the Father to make a separation between the Pretious and the Vile and to divide the Sheep from the Goats and to gather in the Flock of his Inheritance the People of his own Pasture the Sheep of his hands to fill up his own Fold out of every Kindred Tongue and Nation Jew and Gentile Bond or Free of his Israelites indeed in whose mouths there is no guile and he will place his Name amongst them again and work his Fear in their hearts and write his Laws in their inward-parts that they may never depart from it and they shall be his People for ever and he will be their God eternally and he will be merciful to their Transgressions their Sins and Iniquities he will remember no more for our God cannot deny himself nor forget his holy Promises who hath said I have given Him for a Covenant of Light to enlighten the Gentiles and a Leader and Commander to the people and the day is come that all the Children of the Lord shall be taught of the Lord and be established in Righteousness And as for those Ministers that say Men and women can never be freed from Sin while they are here nor made perfect while they are in the body I say such Ministers do not know Christ Jesus the Light nor his Ministry which saith When he ascended up on High he led Captivity captive gave gifts unto men some Prophets some Apostles some Ministers for the perfecting of the Saints and for the Work of the Ministry and for the edifying of the whole body of the Church And again it is said All Scripture given by the Inspiration of the Holy Ghost is wholsome for Doctrine for Instruction for Reproof and Correction in Righteousness that the man of God may be made perfect and thorowly furnished to every good Work Now let all sober-minded men consider where men and women should be made perfect if not here while they are in this body If not in this Body where then Solomon saith As the tree falleth so it lieth the Spirit of the Lord doth not once mention any other place to be purged in in all the Scriptures of truth And the Prophet spake to the Church and said The Lord would purely purge away the dross and take away the tin and rebrobate silver and gold And this I know when Souls come to be quickned by the powerful Word of Life and Truth they come to know the Purgings of the Father and the Washing in the Fountain of Eternal Cleansings in the sweet Streams of Light and living Refreshment the everlasting Refining in the Sanctifying-Furnace of the Spirit of the Lord God and so they do come to be cleansed purified and sanctified throughout souls bodies and Spirits and are made Vessels of Honour and fitted for Glory without the help of any Man or any outward Observation whatsoever What is to be known of God is manifested within and He that giveth power over any ones sin is sufficient to give power over all sins and will and doth to all that be obedient The willing and obedient shall eat the Good of the Land but they that refuse and rebel the Sword shall devour them the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it and his zeal will perform it There is none can forgive Sins but God only against whom all sin is committed for whatsoever just offence is given to any he that giveth the offence sinneth against the Commandment of God which saith Do by all men as you would have them do unto you and love thy neighbour as thy self He never commanded any to do contrary to his own nature which is Love Mercy and Long suffering waiting to be gracious not willing the death of any but that all should return and forsake the Evil of their Wayes and deny the Evil of their Doings and then he would have mercy upon them and abundantly pardon all such as come to him in the Name of the Lord Jesus bringing nothing with them but a penitent heart and an humble spirit confessing their sins being weary of the burthen and weight of them and he will forgive and take away the Guilt from the Conscience while there is guilt within the sin is not pardoned when the Sin and the Guilt of Sin