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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65250	The marks of the true church the virgin & spouse of Christ that brings forth by a holy seed the birth that pleaseth God, and the marks of the false church, or whore, that brings forth by an evil seed the cursed birth that never could please God / by Morgan Watkins.	Watkins, Morgan, fl. 1653-1670.	1675 (1675)	Wing W1067; ESTC R26308	20,590	28

again the false Church that persecutes is gone from the sound Doctrine of the Apostles and cannot endure it Now the Spirit of Truth that ministred in the Apostles hath opened the Mouthes of many to minister as they have freely received the Gift and sound Doctrine of Truth and the Teachers that were heaped up by them that were gone from the Word after their own Lusts cannot endure the Doctrine of the Light that manifests their Deeds of Darkness and that which the Apostles turned the People to the Teachers heaped up in Mens Wills turn the People from and so turn Peoples Ears from the Truth to give Ear unto Fables the Imaginations of the Heart that are gone after the Lusts and this Paul did prophesie should come to pass as hath been and is fulfilled saying For the Time will come when they will not endure sound Doctrine but after their own Lusts shall they heap to themselves Teachers having Itching Ears and they shall turn away their Ears from the Truth and shall be turned to Fables 2 Tim. 4.3 4. Here was an Apostacy prophesied of that in the Light is seen to be fulfilled in its Time And now by the Brightness of the Rising of the Son of Righteousness that is the Day-spring from on high that hath visited us and hath given Light to us that sate in Darkness and in the Shadow of Death and hath guided our Feet into the Way of Peace and the Light sown for the Righteous Thou ands witness Glory be to God on high for evermore And the Unrighteous Works of Darkness are denyed and reproved which the Children of Light can have no Fellowship with but are come out from them in Obedience to the Heavenly Vision the Voice from Heaven that is the Trumpet that hath awakened Thousands which saith Come out of her my People come out of her and partake not of her Sin lest ye partake of her Plagues And now the Lord hath according to his Promise in the latter Dayes brought us a Way we did not know out of her and led us in Pathes we had not walked in and this we can say that walk in the Light if it were the last Words that we should speak upon the Earth that the Way we are brought to walk in and in which the Faithful do walk is the Way that the God of Heaven hath brought us into let all the Earth speak what they will against it God that lives forever will make it prosper to the Ends of the Earth and the saved in this Nation shall and do walk in it and so shall the saved in all Nations that is in Christ the Light of the New Jerusalem as it is written And the Lord God and the Lamb is the Light thereof And all the rotten-Principle'd Men in all Nations shall not be able to stand before nor abide the sound Doctrine of the Word of Life that is Juick and powerful and a Discerner of the Thoughts and Intentions of the Heart except they come to the Hour of his Judgment and be judged as Men in the Flesh that they may be quickned by the second Adam and live to God in the Spirit And now being led out from among them that are in the Filthiness of the Flesh by the Spirit of the Lord and touching no unclean Thing the Lord hath received us and is a blessed Father unto his Sons and Daughters that he hath begotten unto himself by an Immortal Seed the Word of Life that liveth and abideth sorever And now those pretended Fathers in God who are called Lords Spiritual which Title the Bishops made by the Holy Ghost Overseers of the Flock of God never received not owned nor ever will and had you been our Fathers indeed who had begotten us in God we should have been your most dear and dutiful Children in all the Commands of Christ through you but you know by whom you were made but not by whom we are begotten for if you did we believe you would not labour to destroy us as some of you have done and still do but for such we desire that the Lord would forgive you and shew you what you do but not to convince us by sound Doctrine but by the Instruments of foolish Shepherds do you war against us s●●h as they use whom you your selves account Anti christian as well as we for such that think the Way to save Souls is to afflict punish and kill the Body have not received the Truth as it is in Jesus nor the sound Wisdom from above Which is first pure then peaceable gentle and easie to be entreated full of Mercy and good Fruits for the Fruit of Righteousness is sown in Peace mark that but the Fruit of Unrighteousness is sown in Fightings Beatings Stockings Stonings Banishings Imprisonings Finings Robbing and Spoiling of Goods destroying of Families by making many Widdows and Fatherless-Children Is this the Way to bring People to the Kingdom of God then the Apostles were much mistaken for they never made Use of this Way but the contrary for these Things were u●ed against them by those that knew not God but those that have received the Spirit of Christ are Christ's and know the Apostles were not mistaken but it is you that are mistaken in suffering the Spirit of the World to bear Rule in you and that take to it the Honours and Preferments of the World that are but Temporal and so in the World are Lords many but in the Church of Christ one God and one Lord the great Shepherd and Bishop of his Soul who gives many Bishops or Overseers but no Lords as the Apostle saith But to us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all Things and we by him 1 Cor. 8.6 And those who are by him now gathered out of the World that lyeth in VVickedness and have received the Spirit of Truth cannot but stand Witnesses against those that are of the World who receive and give Honour one to another and would be accounted sent of God to rule in his House which is the Church of the Living God 1 Tim. 3.15 But such manifest themselves by taking the World that lyeth in Wickedness to be the Church the House of God and so make all the Nation to be of their Church except such they have cast out which for the most Part are such that are gathered of Christ out of the World So that all the Thieves Murderers VVhoremongers Adulterers Whores Drunkards Swearers Cursers Lyars and all People of all Sorts that will hea● and pay you both Papists and all Sects and Sorts you account are of your Church except such you cast out as I have said so that Babylon and Egypt and Sodom and all is here by you taken to be the Church of Christ the House of God what a House have you provided for the living God to dwel in the midst of What a Church is here Is

this the Pillar and Ground of the Truth Do these hold the Mystery of Faith in a pure Conscience Or rather doth not the Mystery of Iniquity hold them in a defiled One But if they will hear the Priest and pay him as I have said let them believe or hold what they will all is received of the Church Oh! what a foul House is here for those you would force to dwell in who are called out to touch no Unclean Thing What a Body have you prepared for that glorious Head to be joyned to that is separate from Sinners and made higher then the Heavens Was not here sufficient Cause for the People spiritually gathered to come out from among you Do you put a Difference between the Precious and the Vile Yes you do for the Precious you curse out and deliver to Satan though some of them were never of you nor owned you And you have heaped up such a Company of your spiritual Children to reform your Church who are so Zealous for God Mammon that for Non-Payment of a Groat or two they cast out a Man and deliver him to Satan so it seems a Groat or two by them is more prized then the Soul of a Man 〈◊〉 yea or his Body Life and Family that they can deliver them to Prisons to the ruining of Families but as to their delivering to Satan it is past their Spiritual Skill in Reality who are erred and strayed from the Power of God which is the Way of God and that Power gives them Victory over Satan that are turned to it and so their Satan is some Goaler a Member of their own Body it is like they may be conscious to themselves that they have not spiritual Power to bind and loose the Souls of Men and therefore they will be sure to bind the Body in some nasty Hole or Prison but if Money come then Soul and Body and all shall be loosed and blest into their Church again though he be of the worser Sort to Men. These Practices savour more of a Synagogue of Satan then a Church of God for the Church of God that abides in the Doctrine of Christ and is a sweet Savour to God and all Just Men that live by Faith but these are a Stink in his Nostrils and an Ill Savour to all sober minded Men and one of the greatest Grievances in the Nation that is to say the Spiritual Courts so called that are yet of the World and cannot overcome the Flesh nor the Devil these pretend to cast People out of that which they were ever in themselves to wit the Church of God And some being cast out of their Church once and delivered to Satan as they pretend which in Truth is but the delivering of the Body to the Envy and Cruelty of that persecuting oppressing Spirit that dwells in their Adversaries and these that could never come to them to be restored yet have cast them out the second Time and some the third for not coming to their Church which was contrary to their own Law Was ever such Non-sensical Work acted by Men pretending to reform the Church Is not Hoseah's Prophecy fulfilled upon them as it was upon Israel when they went a whoring from their God and loved 〈◊〉 Reward The Dayes of Visitation are come the Dayes of Recompence are come Israel shall know it the Prophet is a Fool the Spiritual Man is mad for the Multitude of thine Iniquity and the great Hatred Hosea 9.7 What Prophets were they that were Fools in Hoseah's Dayes those that prophecied and the Lord never sent them who had not received the Word of the Lord but told the People their Dream for a Reward upon every Corn fl●or but the true Prophets that had received the Word spake it or preached it freely as the Lord said He that hath my Word let him speak my Word freely what is the Ch●ff to the Wheat The Word is the Wheat the Chaff is what he preacheth that hath not received the Word that is but the Divination of his own Brain● and these were the Fools that had not received the Word of Wisdom from above that is fi●st pure the peaceable but the foolish Prophets that prophesied for a Reward he that resnsed to put into their Mouthes they prepared War against them Were these foolish and false in the Dayes of the Children of Israel and can those that walk in their Steps be true in this Age Nay for the Testimony of the Spirit of God was against such in all Ages and so it is against them in this Age Were they fasse then that preached or propliesied and had not received the Word so they are now Were they false then that prophesied for a Reward in every Corn-floor and are they not so now that preach for a Reward in every Corn-field Was the false Prophet then as the Snare of a Fowler in all his Wayes and Ha●r●ed against the House of his God and is he not so now All that have escaped the Snare know the Lord hath delivered them out of the Mouthes of the false Shepherds according to his Premise and hath exalted the Mountain of his House above their Mountains and above all Hills and thither he hath gathered and is gathering his People in this Nation and will gather them in all Nations into this House of the Lord where there is Bread enough and the false Prophets and foolish blind Priests in this Age are in Hatred against this House of the Lord of Hosts and against the Gatherings of his People in it and the Flewings together of the Nations unto it according to the Word of the Lord but the Work of the Lord doth prosper and will prosper and all Opposers of it except they repent will perish for the false Shepherds shall howl and their Pastere shall be spoiled For you have despised and rejected the Counsel of the great Shepherd and Bishop of the Soul and are Opposers of the Work of his Spirit in his People who have received the Truth the Spirit of Christ And if any Man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his as the Apostle saith and those that walk in the Obedience of the Measure of his Spirit you have hated and persecuted and some of you being fill'd with Envy against them have turned informers like Judas that informed against Christ for Money after he had betrayed the Truth in himself the Devil entered and fitted him with Envy to come against Christ and his Disciples where they were assembled to betray them into the Hands of their Enemies and hath not Envy filled some of your Hearts and so fitted you to inform against the Assemblies gathered in the Name and Spirit of Christ as some of you have done and have sworn against them and one confest before the Magistrate that he did not know that ever he had seen some of their Faces before and yet some time before had sworn they were at the Meeting but all must be