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A94802	For those that meet to worship at the steeplehouse, called John Evangelist, in London, or, any other in that nature upon whom the Scriptures are fulfilled, in evil intreating the servants of the Lord Iesus, whom he sends to deliver his message amongst you. Or for any other that are condemned for sin, and have thirstings after righteousness ...	R. T. (Rebecca Travers), 1609-1688.	1659 (1659)	Wing T2059; ESTC R185428	25,680	64

the true God you must know him in you who is over all in you all and through you all without respect Heb 7 25. Eph● 4. 6. Acts 17. 28 of persons in him we live and move and have our being who made all men of one blood and this is Gospel-news glad tydings to the poor and hungry the s●ck and lost who may come freely high and low rich and poor to him without money or without ●sa 55. 1 Esa 1. 27. price who condemns all unrighteousness judges all iniquity and redeems sin by Judgement and destroys the transgressor and saves the righteous soul which can only inherit the Kingdom which is unfaiding and undefiled feel him in you into whose hands all judgement is committed for knovv you not that if Christ be no in you ye are reprobate the Apostl travelled again in birth of those tha● Iohn 5. 22 2 Cor. ●3 5 Gal. 4 19 Iohn 4. 29 had been converted till Christ wer● formed in them and so cease from th● meanings of men and come to know the Prophet vvhich can tell you all th● evil that ever you have done is no● this the Christ truly the day is fa● spent and the night comes in vvhich none shall vvork therefore prize your Hab. 1.13 Hos 13. 9 time and repent for in sin vvill not God save any who is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity and the Lord is clear and if thou perish O man thy evil is of thy self vvho art vvarned to forsake the evil and to obey that vvhich condems the evil vvhich is good and perfect and giveth peace to the upright in vvhich I have and shall rejoyce though the Seas roar and the mountains be removed out of their place for truth is stronger then all and shall overcome and in it have I an abiding place vvhen the storm hath been great but where will you hide that sit in the seat Psal 1 1 of the scorners and stand in the vvay of sinners vvhen the black and gloomy day shal come upon you and the elements shal melt and the vvorld shall pass avvay vvith a great noise your ●ocl 2 2 2Pet 3 10 Esa 2 02 riches your honour will stand you in no stead vvhen you shal fling your Idols of Gold and of silver to the Batts and to the Moles for he shal judge in Acts 13 ●4 righteousness vvho is no respecter of persons by whom all actions are weighed who throwes Princes from their 〈◊〉 42. 6. Thrones and raiseth beggars and this is he who is given for a light to the Gentiles and a covenant to the people O that you knew him and would trust in him who all the day long stretcheth ●sa 65. 2 forth his hand to a stiff-necked and rebellious people but the night cometh in which none can work then all that resist the light shall be cast into outer darkness where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth for evermore Therefore that all that thirst after everlasting righteousness might be gathered into the light do I call and write unto you these things in plainness M●● 8. 12 And now you who denie the light of Christ the living Word have set the dead Letter in his stead how doth death prevail in you And how hath darkness beset you that even while you are preaching and professing the Scripture you are fulfilling them against your seives Did not the light of the World foretel his servants what they must receive from the Worlds professors for doing his Work saying I send you forth as sheepe in the midst of Matth. 10 Mark 13 Iohn 16. wolves and they shall stone you in their Synagogues they shall put you nut of their Synagogues and in the Synagogues yo shall be beaten and they shall deliuer you upto Counsels and ye shall be brought before Rulers for my sake for a testimony against them yea the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think he doth God service and these things will they do unto you because they know not the Father nor me And this they did unto such as he sent into their places of Worship to cry against their Worship who preached the Scripture and thought therein to have eternal life as you do whilest they thus entreated them in whom the Word of eternal life was who gave forth the Scriptures And thus death works in them who set the Letter for the Life and denies the Light of Life in themselves and such would devour it in others And that his words may be fulfilled he sends forth his sheep in his spirit and power to suffer these things and the Wolves that have the outward words the sheeps clothing they tear hale beat the sheep as he hath said they should for a witness against them So search the Scriptures and compare your works and their works they denied the light so do you They thought to have eternal life in the Scriptures so do you They fulfilled them upon the sheep in their Synagogues even while they were preaching in them And how many of your synagogues is there in this Nation where some of his sheep have not suffered the self-same things from this generation They haled before Rulers and how many Rulers is there in this Nation before whom some or other have not born this testimony for a witness And when they had done all this to them then their time came to kill them and think that whosoever did it did God service And your time is at the door and you are hasting apace towards it and some have already finished their testimony herein and are at rest where you cannot come And thus with the light which youdeny are you comprehended weighed measured marked to be no sheep but Wolves in sheeps clothing and by your fruits you are known and the true Shepherd who is not an hireling hath sent forth his sheep amongst you who meets with no fruits amongst you but briars and thorns and who returns from you beaten push't and haled kick't and cast down in your Synagogues and dirted in your streets and thus we return to him that receives the oppressed in whose Name we are sent and the best we can say for the best of you is Father forgive them they know not what they do not knowing the Father nor the Son And herein you are found as he sends to prove you and to receive your fruits all professions forms notions gatherings and herewith are you numbred the best as a briar and the most upright as a thorn-hedge Teachers and People in the tearing devouring nature all from the Vine and as clearly to be seen by your works in which you are found to be out of the nature of them whose words you profess as a dog may be known from a lamb or a thorn from a vine So read the Scriptures the Lambs sufferings and the Wolves actings and read your selves by your fruits amongst whom you

FOR ●●ose that meet to worship at the Steeplehouse called John Evangelist IN LONDON OR ●ny other in that nature upon whom ●●e Scriptures are fulfilled in evil intreat●●● by the servants of the Lord Iesus whom he lends to deliver his Message amongst you 〈◊〉 for any other that are condemned for sin and have thirstings after righteousness that from sin transgression they may be turned to the righteousness that is perfect and eternal without vvhich there is no sure salvation 〈◊〉 a Word of truth to rebuke the de●●●rer and him that pleads for him against the restoration of the Creation to ●he liberty of God 〈◊〉 your hearts condemn you God is greater and knoweth all things 1 Iohn 3. 20. Rebecca Travers LONDON Printed and are to be sold at the black spread Eagle near the west end of Pauls 1659. A Word of Reproof for those that meet at the Steeplehouse called John Evangelist in London O You foolish people and unwise How long will you love your folly How long will you resist our Maker Are you stronger then he ●●o is as truly striving with you as ever Gen. 6. 12. 〈◊〉 was with that generation in Noahs ●●yes who not receiving the warning the one Preacher of Righteousness 〈◊〉 overwhelmed in their wickedness 〈◊〉 having safety but they who were the Ark. And I and thousands yea 〈◊〉 thousands praises to the Lord who ●●come to the ends of the world do ●ow the world in which you live is 〈◊〉 unto destruction and are moved him that made the world to come into your meeting-places to declare unto you what must shortly come to pass and to shew you the blindness of your Teachers with their blasphemous 2 Tim 3. 6 7. 8. ●ph 2. 2. and idolatrous Doctrines whereby they deceive the simple lead captive silly women which are always learning but never come to the knowledge of the truth which makes free from the bonds of Death and Satan who hath captivated your minds and hath blinded the eye that gives the knowledge of God which rules in all you the children of disobedience being the god of the world a lyar and a murderer from the beginning and so as acted by him his fruits ye bring forth even in your most holy Assemblies Teacher and people as in your Steeplehouse called John Evangelists there the Teacher exhorted the people to read and study the Scripture for they were light and life speaking of the written Letter bringing a carnal comparison to maintain his idolatrous Doctrine saying A written piece of Paper to a sore would do no good but a little written Scripture to a wounded soul was of great force and tha● that was which quickened David and was a light 〈◊〉 a lanthorn unto his feet And I who ●as brought thither of the living God whom I serve in obedience to him and ●or the Seed's sake was moved to ask him a question when he had ended in moderarion and fear telling him it was not to disturb but for edification and not speaking any other words to my knowledge then these Doth the Scripture more plentifully declare of any one Isa 45. 16 thing then that for Idolatry God brings wrath and vengeance upon Nations Peoples Zech. 13 2 and Persons But he hasting away ●s hirelings use to do his people fell on me as so many devouring Wolfes railing tearing thrusting haling and pushing me down several times yet a hair of Ez●k 16. 38. my head they could not hurt but the murderer was strong and no hand to help the innocent nor tongue to plead for the harmless seen or heard in your Congregation though some were nea● related to me in the outward stood by said they thought I was a made woman in which I can rejoice being no other Acts 26. 24. Ioh. 15. 20 then what was done and said unto my Lord The servant is not greater then his Master and him I serve and he is my reward by whom David was quickned by whom Abraham Isaac and Jacob were saved before any of that was written vvhich you call the Scriptures the same quickning Word I witness who was once dead as well as you in Epb. 2. ● sins and trespasses but by the obedience of the spirit hath the soul been sanctified and I made a witness of the resurrection of Jesus and do as called of God thereto bear my testimony that he who was dead is alive and his Name Rev. 10. 9 13. is called the Word of God who hath been caught up to God and she that brought him forth hath been hid in Rev. 12 5 6. the Wilderness from the Dragon that hath made war with the remnant of her Rev. 17.1 15. Seed and the Beast hath prevailed and none hath been made able for ages to make war with him nor the Whore who sits in the Waters Mark the Waters are people nations and tougues on which the Beast that carries the Whore doth sit who hath made drunk with her fornications the Kings of the Earth and is drunk with the cup of abominations and the hour of her righteous judgement is come with her Rev 20. ● shall be tormented the beast the salfe prophet and all that love make a lye for evermore and blessed are they and they only that know these things which shall shortly come to pass but they that read Scriptures and have not heard the Word which gave forth the Iohn 5. 7. Scriptures to them the Scripture is as it was to them at Jerusalem that there crucified the Lord of life a parable and as it was said to them it may to you Search the Scriptures for in them you think to have eternal life and they tectifie of me but you will not come to me that you may have life saith Christ Jesus And so they who read the Scriptures killed him who gave them forth and came to fulfil the Scriptures even the holy One and the Just whom you now slay in the street of the great City spiritually called Rev. 11. ● Aegypt but the Witness shall arise whom you are yet making merry over and as a thief in the night shall he come upon you and then shall you know that this Visitation of mine though now despised shall be upon your heads the Lord shall be clear and a good savour am I unto him as well in them that perish as in them that are saved who am honoured of him whom I honour and know that in the doing of his Will there is great reward and though of you hated and scorned and despitefully used yet bear I the reproach and despise the shame following the Captain and Author of my salvation who was perfected Heb. 2. 10 11. 2 Tim. 2. 12. Matth. 10. 32. thtough the suffering and none shall reign with him but they that suffer with him nor will he confess any before his Father but they which confels him before men and all that have