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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54931	Truth vindicated and the lyars refuge swept away being an answer to a book set forth by Thomas Collier called A looking-glasse for Quakers, and also to some particulars in a book of his called A dialogue &c. : wherein the truth is cleared from those slanders ... : also an answer to his queries in the end of the book ... : together with an epistle to the people called Baptists ... / published by ... John Pitman, Jasper Batt.	Pitman, John, d. 1658?; Batt, Jasper, d. 1702.	1658 (1658)	Wing P2299; ESTC R28442	57,250	71

Scripture be fulfilled in you even to reject Jesus the Light of the World and choose a Murtherer joyne with any rather then children of Light How can it be otherwise seeing many of you are just fencing your selves against the Truth and not therewith content but are likewise what in you lyeth making bars and fences for those that you judge are weaker lest they should own it and not onely refusing to enter the Kingdome your selves but shutting it up against others Your zeale for God being turned against Truth in a great measure and nothing you account so dangerous and so much cry out against Even for this have teares been shed for you in secret your piety is now turned into policy complying with the world lest you should suffer by them Consider in the cool of the day what 's the difference between you and the vvorld Doe you not speak when you will and pray when you vvill go vvhen you vvill and come vvhen you vvill as the vvorlds Teachers do Dare any of you say you speak as the Oracles of God or as you are moved of the Holy Ghost and as the Spirit gives you utterance Even that which your eyes have seen your eares have heard and your hands have handled of the word of life Doe you not rather steale the words of the true Prophets Christ and the Apostles being strangers to their Life and enemies to that Spirit they were guided by and so run in your owne wills not knowing another to gird you and carrie you whether you would not crying peace to the wicked as the worlds Teachers do But woe is to the wicked and to them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity even now pronounced from the same Spirit as formerly it was and this shall stand in heaven against you all that live in it pleads for it and cry peace to it let your profession be what it will And therefore we perswade and beseech you to be reconciled to God Wash you make you clean put away from you the evill of your doings Cease to do evill learn to do well c. And this know by your owne power nor in your own wills you can never do it but you must believe in obey follow be guided and led by him who is the Light of the world and leads contrary to the will of man in which all sin is committed and so leads to do the will of another and they onely are happy that knowes him borne in them the first taken away and the second established So this we say to you There is no other name given under heaven by which men can be saved but the name of Jesus he that saves his people from their sins and preached himselfe the Light of the World He that reproves in secret for that which none can lay to your charge not onely for wicked actions but for idle and unprofitable words and vaine thoughts and blessed are all they vvho knovv him their guide and leader King and Lavv-giver and are vvholly subject to him they shall reigne vvith him upon Mount Sion and shall sing that nevv song vvhich none can sing but the Redeemed from the Earth He that hath an ear to heare let him heare So the vvay to true peace is through the svvord the vvay to life through death the vvay to obtaine mercie is through judgement the vvay to reign is to suffer vvith him and this must all vvitnesse in the particular all must know the living slain and the dead raised by the mighty power of God and such as have part in the first Resurrection on such the second death hath no power And therefore we warn you all in love to your souls that ye wander not abroad salvation must be witnessed at home or all is vain We further say as living witnesses for the Lord we now stand who have obtained mercy after long travail and cruell bondage under the oppressor wandring from Mountain to Hill and groaning under the burthen of corruption as we are perswaded some of you do Yea we could even have laid down our earthly tabernacle to have been rid of it but in all professions that we were the enemie carried us captive for vvhich vve vvept in secret and oft bevvailed our conditions and breathed for deliverance but knevv not hovv to obtain it sinking under the burthen vvithout hope of relief in this vvofull sad and lamentable estate vvhere vve long continued and had untill this day had not the Lord in his eternall love revealed his Son in us vvhom vve vvitnesse is mighty to save and on whom only salvation is laid even the light of the world he that shevved us sin and made manifest our conditions and oft times had called upon us to turn from the evill of our ways but vve knevv him not and as soon as vve believed that this was he not looking for another but gave up to be guided by him that discovered our lost estates the vvar vve soon vvitnessed betvveen Light and Darknesse the Lamb and the Dragon in the particular even such dayes as vve had not knovvn since the foundation of the world And this vve found the same that made manifest sin gave victory over it vve standing single in it adding nothing to it nor joyning any thing of our ovvn vvith it but let the Lord vvork his ovvn vvork and so dominion vve vvitness over those sins that we so long had groaned under and now we know Jesus a Saviour from sin and a Redeemer from iniquity glory to his name for ever and ever in whose saving health we now-rejoyce even with joy unspeakable which none can take from us And verily the desire of our souls is that ye may come to partake of this joy with us and the way how we came to it have we truly laid down before you and no other end have we in declaring this but our earnest desire of your eternal happinesse being pressed in spirit to it by the Lord who bears record to the truth of our hearts herein Oh that you could receive our testimonie yea the testimonie of the Lord by us Oh! that that eye might be opened in you which the God of this world hath blinded That you might know in this your day the things that belong to your peace before they be hid from your eyes and the day of your visitation passe over your heads For verily your leaders cause you to erre by their lyes and lightnesse and have cryed peace unto you when the sword of the Lord pierces to the very soule Oh! return return to him who is the Light of the world who is made manifest within who is the living bread which came down from heaven whose flesh is meat indeed and whose blood is drinke indeed and no longer seek your food in desolate places and hew unto your selves broken Cisterns that will hold no water For the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true and we are in him And if you walke in darknesse and say you have fellowship with him ye lye and do not the truth but if you walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sinne And therefore no longer wander abroad for the Kingdome of God is within you And say not in your selves who shall ascend up into heaven to bring Christ down to us For the word is nigh unto you even in the heart and in the mouth he that can receive it let him And now are vve clear in the sight of God concerning you whether you heare or forbear and though Israel be not gathered yet a good savour shall we be unto the Lord both in them that are saved and in them that perish Oh! slight not the counsel of the Lord unto you by those who sometime drunk of the Cup of fornication with you and since have drunk of the Cup of tribulation yea of the Lords indignation but now drinke of the cup of consolation and salvation and are well knovvn unto many of you by the names of Streat the 21 day of the fourth moneth 1658. John Pitman Jesper Batt THE END