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A85140	The heart opened by Christ; or, The conditions of a troubled soul that could find no true rest, peace, comfort, nor satisfaction in any thing below the divine power and glory of God, breaking forth and appearing in several operations and manifestations, by the blessed spirit of the Lord Jesus, the Saviour of the soul, God manifesting himself in flesh, that he may glorified in spirit. With, a word to those that are for the approbation of ministers; and something to those that scruple about the receiving or not receiving that which they call a sacrament and communion of saints, at Easter, Penticost, Christmas, so called, and other festival and set daies, or any other time when it is to be administered by those priests that profess themselves to be ministers of Christ. Written in the year 1654. in the third moneth, commonly called May, by R.F.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing F485; Thomason E745_7; ESTC R207062	17,335	24

my earth was disquieted and did mourn and I lamented but no eye pittied for they were to me as Jobs miserable comforters and instead of healing they wounded and set me to act and do in my will as I had done and bad me repent and believe and the like but never told me neither how to repent nor believe by experience and so I was still as far from peace and rest as I was before and the righteous Law was set up in me which did condemn me for all my self-actings and wearied me out of all and the curses rung in my ears cursed cursed cursed art thou for thou dost not continue in all things that are written in the book of the Law to do them and the pure was stirred up in me and wounded the Serpent time after time yet not meeting with any true shepherd that could direct to walk by the footsteps of the flock to come where the fold was I wandred to and fro from mountain to mountain in cloudes and thick darkness and the hireling shepherds instead of seeking a poor lost sheep that wandred and wanted life and refreshment they drove me off and set their dogs on me and chaced me away from them and so fulfilled the Prophesie of Ezekiel the 34 Chapter For when I could not find any rest peace comfort or satisfaction in any thing that I could do and durst not but go to hear some of them when I came there none spake to my condition but all was confused what they builded up in the forepart of their Sermons Isa 56.10 11 Phil. 3.1 2 3. Rev. 22.14 15. they threw it down again in the hinder part and began to rail and bark like doggs and cryed out of Hereticks and Schismaticks and the like I could not bear it because that when I asked them the ground of error Schism and Heresie and would have had them not to cry out of those things but lay them open and make them known to the people to be avoided but they still kept barking and snarling at my heels or behind my back but not to my face and they set the curs to bark and javver in the streets and they would rayl upon me and others that walked in any tenderness of conscience Souldiers and others that then feared God and if we had been speaking two or three together they would have called us Tub-Preachers and Sectaries and Independants and the like and railed on us wagging their heads as the wicked did at David and so they fulfilled the saying of the Lord by the Prophet My sheep wandred upon all the mountains and upon every high hill yea my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth and none did search or seek after them Ezek. 34. 6. and saith the Lord to the hireling Shepherds that eat the fat and cloath themselves with the wool who feed themselves and feed not the flock the diseased have ye not strengthened neither have ye healed that which was sick neither have ye bound up that which was broken neither have ye brought again that which was driven away neither have ye sought that which was lost but with force and cruelty have ye ruled them and so have they fulfilled the saying of the Lord by his Prophet Ezek. 34 3 4. but still my soul longed to see the salvation of the Lord and many a day did I weep and cry and looked upon my self to be the miserablest creature that was upon the face of the earth and I could not rest till I left off for going to the Steeplehouse which was by them called a Church and this promise of the Lord came in I will teach thee freely my self and all the children of the Lord shall be taught of the Lord and in righteousness shall they be established Isa 54.13 14. Ezek. 34.11 12 c. But when I left off and did not go to Church as they called it and had been so diligent to hear repeat and write Sermons and pray and perform duty and the like then came some professing people that I had been very intimate with and they perswaded me to go to the Church again and said I should give great occasion of offence to many if I left off that had been so as I had been and the like so that they prevailed with me to go sometimes but great trouble was upon me when I was there hearing them lie as they did and there was much pressings in my spirit to speak to them openly but I was hindred and rose up and went out and left them with resolutions never to hear them more come on me what will come and then stayed away till some came to me and wept over me to entreat me to go again and could not prevail and some that had command of me in the outward would have come and threatned me what they would do if that I would not go to the Church as they called it and it was their duty they s●id to cause me to observe them in their commands To the which I answered and said that in any outward affairs that I could do they should command me and I would be subject to them but as touching the worship of God they were not to command me contrary to my conscience for they were but earthly minded people though they were great in the world and of a great profession and the natural man knew not the things of God because they were spiritually to be discerned so I desired them to pardon me in that thing 1 Cor. 2.14 for I could not go with them to the house of Rimmon to worship I should be willing to die rather then to offend my conscience in what I was convinced of and offend my God to serve mens wils whether is it better to obey God or man judge ye for I cannot be subject in that thing So I was made to deny the Priests and their way of worship Luke 9.23 Mat. 10.38 16 24 and deny all that which I had gathered together under them and wait upon God for teaching counsel and direction in all things according to his promise which he hath fulfilled and in waiting upon the Lord in the light of the spirit of truth I found much inward peace Rom. 7.9 10 11 12 Rom. 8.2 3 4. Hagga 2.6 7. 1 Pet. 1.25 Jam. 1.21 Rom. 10. 6 7 8. Heb. 4.12 Col. 3.16 Job 28.7 8 9 10 11. 1 Cor. 1. 26 to 29 1 Cor. 2.12 13. Phil. 3. 2 Cor. 4.8 9 10 11 Gal. 1.11 12 15 16 verse Eph. 4.4.5 1 Pet 1.22 23. Joh. 6.51 1 Pet. 2.2 3 4 5. Joh. 14.16 17. Rom. 8.14 15 16 17. Joh. 14.26 Col. 1 25 26 27. joy comfort and satisfaction to my soul and the righteous law of the spirit of life set up within convincing of sin and the righteous judgement of God condemning all unrighteousnesse as the light and law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus did discover it in me and the eternal

I lived a High-Priest who had been a Captain in the Army and examined me about it near unto an house and I did consent to receive it at his hands which was a thing that I very much did scruple whether I ought to do if or not to do it because in my examination in my own spirit I could not tell well what the body of Christ was though I could talk talk to him much and in many words about those things for I had got much to speak of though I did then little experience what I said but thought it was sufficient to talk and discourse of things and rest in the outward knowledge of the same There was great expectation of the Priest to come to that Town where I lived to examine and see who were sit to receive and who was not for he would not admit of any And great fear was upon many and that not of the smallest before the day of Examination came lest they should not have wherewithall to answer and so come to shame but it was so that he came to that Halls Place where I then was a servant and I was sent for in to the Priest and going into the Hall the Owners thereof went their waies forth and I would have followed but the Priest called me to him and asked me many questions and we continued our discourse near unto an hour so that the last question he asked me was the first he began with and I told him the same and upon that we parted and he stroaked me on the head and gave me his blessing the blessing of the Priest and the laying on of his hand but I did not receive any holy Ghost by him nor at that time knew not what the holy Ghost was Yet when the Priest and they came together soon after that day he told them he was never so answered by any except they had been at Cambridge as if God could not teach his truth without Cambridge and Oxford helps and moreover he said he would go forty miles on his bare feet if all his Parish were such upon that condition so reasoning carnally though then I knew not the same but sadled a horse and road to accompany him towards his house that night and he shewed much outward love but as the day did appear the shadows fled away And before the time came that we were to go to eat bread and Wine which they call a Sacrament and Communion of Saints but is not I say before the time came that it was to be given and I to receive it there was great reasoning in me and great preparation I made by reasoning and praying and powring forth my complaint to the Lord to fit me and prepare me and make me worthy to partake of that Ordinance and make me a fit Communicant and the like but after three or four weeks preparation still I was not right in my self and knew not what to do whether to receive it or not yet lest I should offend I went and when I was going all the way I prayed and pondered in my heart and desired of the Lord to seal up assurance to my foul that day by the same and when I was to receive the Cup into my hand I trembled in my heart for fear lest I should be unworthy and after I had received the bit and the sup I sat pondering of it in my heart and waited in expectation in my self to receive some divine operation and spiritual change and to receive assurance of the pardon of sin but none came in But the thoughts of my heart did exceedingly trouble me and Judas was brought into my remembrance how that Satan entred after that he had received the sop and then great questioning and reasoning did arise in me whether I were of the number of Gods Elect yea or no and great fear came upon me and I went home and prayed to the Lord and cryed and prayed a week or two before I was cleared and so it wrought for good for I saw then by the light of God in my conscience that it was not the body and bloud of Christ but a carnal invention and so did the Lord clear my understanding in that thing and let me see why Christ broke the Passeover with his Disciples and how the bread which the Saints broke was the Communion of the body of Christ and the cup which they drank was the Communion of the blood of Christ 1. Cor. 10 15 16 17 and so was I made to see the error of the Priests in that thing and that theirs was but a sacrificing to Devils and not to God as the Gentiles did so doe they 1 Cor. 10. 20 21. And so I saw the deceits of the Priests in many of their greatest Idols yet I durst not leave them off till I saw the Lord clear in leading me out of that way and went to those that I judged to be the best and left the worst and could not be satisfied in my spirit but my soul wanted longed and thirsted after the living bread And a death came upon all that life which I had received in hearing of them the Priests and so the best of them was as the worst nothing more but a refined subtilty and a higher deceit in the high notionary Priests and the free gratious and none could satisfie or give peace to my soul amongst them all and I was taken off from writing after them my memory failed me and my wisdom was confounded and the pure seed was burdened and groaned for deliverance but they could not help but wounded me and lest me and there I lay until the Lord visited with his loving kindness and took me into the Inn the Doctrine of his Son and healed and cured my diseased and wounded soul For a year or very nigh I was full of trouble and did see into the deceits of Priests but looked that some of them should be right and went from one to another and if I did hear of any that were high in notion I ran after him but he was at the rest and still my soul wanted and I knew not where to betake my self to find rest all outward helps and means failed and I was so wearied in my spirit that I could not write after them as I had done and I saw them to be confused in their sayings one saying one thing and another saying another and they confused themselves many times in their own sayings which did exceedingly trouble me for in hearing of them as the pure seed or God sprung in me and groaned for deliverance never a Priest that ever I heard or met with could deliver nor direct me where to wait till deliverance came but drove me further off for when all duties and performances failed and death passed upon them that I neither found life in hearing reading not prayer but was wearied and cryed out day and night weeping and wailing and was full of the terror of the Lord and