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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91118	A testimony of God, and his way, and worship against all the false wayes and worships of the vvorld. Also an answer to some of the false doctrines held forth, by a professed minister, in VVales; shewing the unsoundness of his former actions, and is found to be one, in the nature of the vvorld; which sometime he hath spoken against. With an answer to some queries; propounded by one, who is called an Anabaptist. / Given forth for no other end, but in love to the truth, as it is in Iesus: by Alex: Parker.	Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.	1656 (1656)	Wing P383; Thomason E883_6; ESTC R207301	24,030	31

feeling of his sad and miserable condition is arising in him and the witnesse of God reproving him and calling him from his abominations and whoredoms and many times brings him into some trouble yet he sleights his love and hates the reproof and goes on in his rebellious wayes and so treasures up to himself wrath against the day of wrath and revellation of the righteous judgement of God who will render a just reward unto him according to his deeds and here lies all the ungodly world driven from God out of his Covenant out of his peace out of his presence out of his pure love and spiritual worship and are loving and delighting in and worshiping the creature more then the Creator But the Saints and holy men of God who came to witnesse redemption and were in Covenant with God and faith of his Son had passed from death to life and they had put of the body of sin and the old man and his deeds and were created anew being born again of the eternall word which liveth and abideth for ever and their hearts was purified and their consciences purged from dead works and ther bodies made fit Temples holy and pure for the Lord God to dwell in and there was his worship in the spirit in his holy Temple where there is no need of Sun Moon or of Candle but the glory of the Lord fils the Temple and this they witnessed who were redeemed from the earth and were in Christ Jesus where there union joy and fellowship was where there is neither Greek nor Jew circumsition nor uncircumsition Barbarian Scythian bond nor free but Christ is all and in all and the same is the Lord our God now working and bringing to passe even by his own power and outstretched arm is he getting himself the victory what we are we are of and by him he alone it is that worketh in us both to will and to do by his own power made manifest in us and worketh mightily in us whereby wee are made willing to do his will and work and this is all by his Son who of God is made wisdom justification sanctification and redemption he is made unto us all things and through him we can do all things even through the Son of God whom we know is come and hath given us an understanding to know him that is true and wee are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ who is our life our joy our stay and strength by whom we are freed from sin and from our vain conversations which formerly we lived in who hath broken the bond of iniquity and set the oppressed free to praise and glorify his name who alone do praise him the dead cannot praise him it is the living the living that praises him to whom be everlasting praises and glory world without end Amen So I say and declare that if any man say he hath no sin before he come to confesse his sin and to witnesse the power of God cleansing him from his sin he doth dec●ive himself and the witnesse of God in his own conscience will testify against him and be his condemnation But where the living power of God is made manifest to purify and cleanse and to destroy the works of the devil to burn up and consume the old heavens and the old earth which is cursed and brings forth cursed fruits I say where the old is destroyed and the new heaven and the new earth witnessed wherein dwells righteousness Shall we deny the work of God Not far be it from us but to declare his marvailous works which he hath wrought in our dayes to ages and generations to come that they may dread and fear the name of our God and to others who sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death who are wandring astray as sheep without a Shepherd and are feeding upon the husk and spending their money for that which is not bread and their labour for that which doth not satisfy freely from the bowels of tender love to their soules do we declare what the Lord hath done for our soules that they might return home into the Fathers house where there is bread enough to satisfy the hungry thirsting soul that every one may eat their own bread and sit under their own vine and have union and feilowship with us in our fathers love for evermore So in the name of the Lord I do warn all people who read these lines to repent and cease from all their sins and abominations which formerly they have lived in and from all the false and Idolatrous worships of the world which a long time ye have followed and thereby have been deceived and led captive laden with sin but have not come to the true knowledg of God but are still in their old crooked and perverse nature and knows not the Crosse of Christ nor the yoke nor the bridle to the tongue but are at ease in the flesh and can speake their own words and think their own thoughts and do their own works I say return return and hearken diligently to the voyce of the Son of God which cryes for purity and holinesse without which none can see God that thereby your soules may live and may feed upon the dayly bread in the Fathers bosome which whosoever eats of this bread shal never hunger and he that drinks of this cup shall never thirst but it shall be a well of living water springing up unto eternal life so every one wayt in the measure of light which from Christ you have received for the appearance of Christ in you that his life may be made manifest in your mortal bodies for this is the command of God This is my beloved Son hear him and Christ the Son calls and says Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden take my yoke upon you and learn of me I am meek and lowly in spirit and you shall find rest to your soules So all people come freely his love is freely tendred to you sleight not the tender profers of his love but come forth and separate your selves and touch no unclean thing and the Lord will receive you and will be a Father unto you and you shall be his Sons and Daughters mind the pure and still voyce that thereby you may be led into the pure life and pure union and love of the children of light for if you neglect such great salvation woe will be your portion for ever There ore whi●e you have the light believe in the light and work while it is day before the dreadfull night of darkness come when none can work By one who hath seen the deadness and emptiness of all the formal worships and formal profession that stands in the will of man act d in mans will who is returned back into his fathers house and there dwels in rest and peace and hath ceased from his own work written forth in the bowels of love to captive and weary

powerfull operation in them by which word their hearts was purifyed and cleansed which word was within them as a fire to burn up and consume the works of the devill and as a hammar to break the hard heart and this word was not far of as the Apostle testifieth say not in thy heart who shall ascend up into Heaven to fetch Christ from above or go down into the deep to fetch him from below but the word is nigh thee in thy heart and in thy mouth and this is the word of faith that we preach Rom. 10.8 and this word was within them and wrought powerfully in them which they witnessed to be quick and powerfull sharper then a two edged sword and those who know not this living and powerfull word within them puts the letter for the word and calls that the word and when I spoke these words the said Powell said unto me Is not the Scriptures called the word of God And then I said unto him is it the word of God for it hath long been called so by ignorants that knows not God and his word and he affirmed and said it was and was put to prove it and he brought two places of Scriptures but neither place did say that the Scriptures was the word of God but declared of the word and then Powell said to his hearers we will leave them heare they deny the Scriptures to be the word of God and some of his hearers were very ready to receive it and cryed out they deny the Scripture whereupon I spoke to them and wished to be moderate and hear with patience and do not accuse falsly That because we cannot call the Scriptures by the name of Christ do we therefore deny the Scripture No far be it from us to deny it for if I should deny its testimony I should deny my own life and I said I own it to be a true declaration of that word that was in them that spoke it forth and it was the word of the Lord to them and in them that spoke it forth but for ungodly and unholy men to talk of their words and not live in their life are theeves that steales the word from their neighbour and some of the people said was it the word of the Lord to them and not to us And this they would not hear and then I instanced some Scriptures to them how that the word of the Lord came to the true Prophets and they spoke the word of the Lord as they had received it from the mouth of the Lord and after it was spoken forth the false Prophets stole the true Prophets words and they said thus saith the Lord when the Lord never spoke to them and so run when the Lord never sent them and therefore they did not profit the people at all And this further I say that as it was then even so it is now in these our dayes prond men and covetous men heady and high minded men and men that followes pleasures and are lovers thereof more then lovers of God and envyous men and men of strife and railers back-biters slanderers and false accusers and such like ungodly and unholy men have gotten the Scriptures the good words which the holy men of God spoke forth from the holy and pure word of God which was within them which was and is spiritual and invisible and endures for ever such ungodly men aforementioned have gotten the declaration and are talking of the fame of God but are strangers to the living life and power of God and they fay this saith the Lord or hearken to the word of the Lord as you shall find it written in such a chapter and such a verse and so use their tongues and say the Lord saith as the false Prophets did when the Lord never spake to them and so have gotten a form of godliness but want the life and power and leads silly men and women captive laden with sin and led away with divers lusts ever learning but never able to come to the true knowledge of God so I say that many may have the Scriptures which were given forth from them who knew the voyce and word of God and know not neither have heard the voyce of God nor his word but onely the sound or frame of it for the Iews who had the Scriptures Moses writings and the Prophets and could speake much of them and often heard them read and yet Christ tells them plainly they had neither heard his voyce at any time nor seen his shape for they had not the word of God abiding in them for whom the Father had sent they did not believe and there Christ himself calls them Scriptures which testify of him but he doth not call them the Word of God for if they had been the Word of God then the Iews had heard the word of God but Christ tells them they had not at any time heard the voyce of God neither was the word of God abiding in them as it is written Ioh. 5.37 38 39. c. And now a few words concerning the word of God from Scripture testimony which the Holy men of God spoke forth and so witnesses to the same eternall word which I bear testimony of which was in the beginning before all time by which the Heavens and the earth were made and are upheld by the word of his power as it is written Ioh. 1.1 2 3. Psal 33.6 Heb. 1.3 And the word of the Lord is spiritual and endures for ever it is as a fire and as a hammer that breaks the rocks in pieces The word of God is quick and powerful sharper then any two edged sword and pearces even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joynts and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart 1 Pet. 1.23.25 Ier. 23.29 Hebr. 4.12 But the Scriptures or writings were nor in the beginning before all time but were since the beginning in time neither were the Heavens made by the Scriptures not are all things upheld by the Scripture neither do they endure for ever but they are visible and in times passed away but the word of the Lord which the Scriptures declare of is spirituall and shall endure for ever The Scriptures or writings are not as a fire but with fire may be burnt as Ieremiah his roll was burnt but the word of the Lord cannot be burnt for by the living word another Roll was written The Scriptures or writings are not as a hammar but with a hammar may be beaten to pieces neither is the Scriptures quick nor sharper then a two edged sword but they are dead and with a two edged sword may be cut to pieces behold your ignorance you carnall Professors whose understandings are so dark and your eyes so blind that you stumble at noon day and so cannot put a difference between the precious and the vile nor between the living word and the dead letter but sets the letter