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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41026	An alarum of truth sounded forth to the nations, or, The way of truth from the way of errour, plainly manifested and declared and the true worship of God (which is in the spirit) from the false worships of the world, distinguished, whereby people may come to know which way they are in, and what worship they are in, and what spirit they are of, and led by ... : also an invitation (of love) to all people, and professors of all sorts and sects, to turn in their minds to the light of Christ Jesus in them ... / written by a friend to truth, called Henry Fell.	H. F. (Henry Fell)	1660 (1660)	Wing F603; ESTC R38863	48,671	52

agreement with hell and to keep people in the death and in the darknesse and errour which they called Light and Truth and none must remove from the place where he sate in darknesse and in the shadow of death this hath been the Priests work for many years past to keep people there in spiritual Aegypt and darkness So the Leaders of the people have caused them to erre and they have told people that these Laws were the Discipline of the Church to keep out errour and to preserve the Gospel and to keep Heresie from spreading Now this hath been their cry and their pretence whilest they have been keeping out Truth thereby and limitting the Spirit of God to this or that form so that Truth hath not had its liberty which is only able to keep people from Errour and Heresie And what Errour and Heresie and wickednesse is there that can be named that is not amongst them And you Oh ye Preists and Teachers notwithstanding all your outward Laws who have had all these fair pretences to keep up your Forms of worships withour the power even by your outward Laws and carnal weapons as Stocks and Whips and Prisons and Courts and Leagues and Covenants and Oaths and Protestations and Assemblies of Divines so called and Confessions of Faith and Directories to worship by c. All this hath been but to hold up your Trade to preach for hire and filthy lucre and for your bellyes and to bear rule by your means over the people and to keep them still in the house of bondage and darknesse in AEgypt to labour in the Brick and so have been as the Taskmasters over them who would have their tale of brick and would allow them no straw but they must go abroad to get it and so have oppressed the people and have been cruel so that ye have made them to groan under their burthens and there was none to help them And now the Lord hath heard their cry and is risen and come to deliver his people from under you even from under the mouths of such devouring Wolves who have made a prey upon them And have cryed peace to people in their sins and wickednesse and have had mens persons in admiration because of advantage and have kept and do keep many there Now ye that have done so have not been the Ministers of Christ but of Antichrist not of righteousnesse but of unrighteousnesse and Messengers of Satan though ye have transformed your selves into several forms and shapes but your end is seen and your reward will be according to your work For though the strong man armed have kept the Palace and so the things therein hath been in peace yet now a stronger then he is come who is in us even stronger then he who is in the world And this is he whom we preach Christ Jesus the true Light who hath enlightned every one that cometh into the world which convinceth them of sin and reproves for sin and speaks not peace to them there but sends a sword to take it away and leads them out of sin who beleeves and obeys him and this is he who saves his people from their sins and destroys the work of the Devil And he is come and appeared in his Servants and Ministers as of old To call sinners to repentance and to turn from sin unto God and from the darknesse to the Light and from the power of Satan unto God that so they might receive remission of sins and an inheritance amongst them that are sanctified Which many who have been turned and are turned by them can witnesse the inheritance and an entrance into it Glory be unto the Lord God of Heaven and Earth for ever Therefore do I exhort and warn every one of you in the fear of the Lord to turn in your minds to the Light of Christ Jesus within you Who is given for a Light to the Gentiles and for a new Covenant to the house of Israel where the Law is written in the heart that so ye may come to read there what is in your hearts to know Good from evil and the just from the unjust and Truth from error the right way from the wrong For the Light will shew you if your minds be turned to it For the Law is Light saith Solomon and it is a Light unto my feet and a Lamp unto my paths saith David And again he saith The Law of the Lord is perfect converting the soule The Testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple The Statutes of the Lord are right rejoycing the heart The Commandements of the Lord is pure enlightning the eyes The fear of the Lord is clean and endureth for ever The Judgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether By them thy servant is forwarned and in keeping of them there is great reward And again saith he Oh how doe I love thy Law it is my delight it is my meditation day and night Whereby he became witer then all his Enemies and more understanding then all his Teachers And this is it which gives the knowledge of sin and convinceth of sin and reproves the world for sin and condemneth for sin them that beleeve not And this Law is Spiritual Holy Just and Good and this will let you see that ye are carnal sold under sin and found in the sin and transgression of it and in the corruption whilest ye have been promising of your selves liberty and saying ye are justified by Christ and so would have made him the Minister of sin Gal. 2.17 while yet ye are under the Law and the Law hath dominion over you and condemns you for your sins and evil deeds As the Apostle saith Know ye not for I speak to them that know the Law how that the Law hath dominion ever a man so long at he ●●●eth For Paul saith Rom. 7. I was alive without the Law once but when the Commandement came sin revived and I dyed That slew him and so that which was ordained unto life became death unto him he being in the transgression of it and so dying unto sin he was dead to the Law not under it for then he faith I through the Law am dead to the Law but alive unto God So that which slew him and made him dead unto sin brought him unto Christ Jesus who is the Life the end of the Law for righteousnesse to every one that beleeves So the Law was our School-master to bring us to Christ saith he Gal. 3.24 So who are come to Christ they are come out of the transgression they are come to live unto God they are come to Christ who sulalls it Who is the Way the Truth and the Life and they are not under the Law but under Grace For the law was given by Moses but Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ And now to the witnesse of God in you all doe I speak who

have long been professing Christ and justification by him c. To turn in to the Light which is Gods witnesse and with it try your selves and examine your selves truly and honestly and it will let you all see that ye are not come to Christ yet nor yet known him who is the end of the Law for righteousnesse who fulfillls it but ye are under it still alive without the Law unslaine by it as Paul was in the sin and transgression and so not justisied by Christ neither know him All ye who do deny the Light which he hath enlightned ye withall For none comes to know him but who beleeves in the Light which Christ hath enlightned them withall nor none come into the righteousnesse which is the end of the Law and fulals it but who beleeve in the Light and are obedient to the Light and walk in it Here is the righteousnesse known which exceeds the righteoulnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees who should in no wise enter into the Kingdome of Heaven who had the Law without and read it every Sabbath day but they were sayers and not doers and hypocrites of whom Christ said Go not after them for they had the Form but not the Power They had a shew of righteousnesse and made clean the out-side but the inside was unclean and unrighteous and were but as whited Walls and painted Sepulchers which did appear beautiful and righteous before men but within were no●●ing but rottennesse and deads mens bones and so were as Graves which men go over unawares and what they did it was to be seen of men and thereby did beguile and deceive the hearts of the simple and so shut the Kingdome of Heaven against men as Christ said and neither entred in themselves nor suffered others that were entering Now are not all ye Teachers Priests and professors found here in the Pharisees spirit and in the same generation with them in outward shewes of holinesse and righteousnesse and formes of godlinesse and making cleane the outsides as they did and saying and are Sayers as they were but not doers and so are hypocrites as they were And yee keep people alwayes saying but never bring them to doe what they say but teach them that Christ hath done all for them and if they can but beleeve that then they are well enough and so blindes people by that means that they doe not minde what they doe themselves nor what they say to performe and so are out of the truth and never come to the knowledge of it and so the kingdome of heaven is shut against you and them and so you are ever teaching them and they are ever learning and saying after you and so make a faire shew in the flesh and appeare to be something outwardly and perswade them that they are Justified by the righteousnesse of Christ which he hath wrought for them without and so there they rest as the Pharisees did in the outward observations whilest in the meane time they are inwardly uncleane their hearts uncleane their minds defiled their eyes full of adultery who cannot cease from sin and so are shut out of the kingdome into which no unrighteous thing or uncleane thing must ever enter and are but as Tombes garnished and Sepulchers painted wherein is rottennesse and dead mens bones marke like the Scribes and Pharisees and so your righteousnesse doth not exceed theirs In the same generation with them are yee and their Children are yee who slew Christ Jesus the true Prophet which Moses spake of when he said Like unto me will the Lord raise up a Prophet which all were to heare c. as the Pharisees were the Children of them that slew the Prophets that went before them and are like unto them And are still slaying and have been slaying and killing and persecuting and hailing before Magistrates and out of the Synagogues as they did those who are the true Chriftians in whom the Spirit of Christ is manifest who beare witnesse against your hypocrisie and deceipt now as Christ did and the true Christians did in the primitive times And it is your srultes makes yee manifest now as theirs did then and your faire sayings and not doing now cannot cover you no more then that could cover the Pharisees then who said and did not and therefore Christ calls them hypocrites Moreover as they would not heare him of whom the Father sayd This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased heare yee him and of whom John bore witnesse and sayd He was the true Light that Lighteth every man that cometh into the world And so because they did not beleeve in the true Light therefore they were blinde leaders of the blinde and so it is and hath been with you who doe not beleeve in the Light which Christ Jesus hath enlightened you withall but speak against it and say it is Insufficient and natural c. Therefore yee abide in darkness and are Children of darkness who know not whither yee goe nor know not that yee are walking in the stepps of your forefathers the Scribes and Pharisees who were hypocrites and blinde guides who persecuted Christ and put him to death and persecuted the Saints the true Church and halled them before Magistrates and shut them up in prisous and thought they did God good service in so doing even so it is now with many of you at this day yee thinke so who walke in darkness and know not whither yee goe But the Children of the Light who beleeve in the Light they see the true Way which is Christ and with the Light they see you all where you are in the false wayes in the way of the Pharisees and not in the way Christ and beare witnesse against you now as the Saints did then against them And yee can no longer be hid but your folly will come to be layd open and manifest more and more so that yee cannot proceed much further For now is the Day dawning and the Day-starr arising in the hearts of many people who take head unto the more sure mord of prophecy as unto a Light that shineth in a darke place and such as doe so doe well and when the Day-starr doth arise the Sun is neare approaching which expells all the darkness that men comes to see round about them And then they can see what the holy men of God did and what Christ and the Saints did and what the Scribes and Pharisees did and so see over the Apostacy to the Apostles dayes And what the Apostate Christians have been doing since the Apostles dayes and what they are still doing and what the Saints the true Christians are now doing and who are they and can know them who have done well and who now doe well from them that have done evill and now doe evill for the day is that which tryes every mans worke of what sort it is And all who are come to the day now can

the things of God for they are foolishnesse to him neither can he receive them because they are spiritually discerned And so with this Spirit which we have receiv'd of God the Father the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ doe-we speaks of the things of God which we have seen with him by which Spirit the Saints are now led to declare forth the Truth to the world as it is revealed in them from the Father of spirits as the Children of God did formerly by the same Spirit who said As many as are the Sons of God the same are led by the Spirit of God And so now it is as every one hath received the Gift of the Father so to minister to others and according to the abillity which God hath given from whence every good and perfect Gift doth come from the Father of lights with whom is no variablenesse nor shadow of turning And this we know and declare that if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his which is the gift of the Fathers love and he that hath it hath received it freely from the Father from whence every good and perfect gift doth come Mark Who receives a gift from God they receive that which is perfect that which is heavenly that which is free and that which comes from the Father of Lights and so with that they see and know and can freely declare of the things of God of the heavenly things of that which is perfect of that which is holy of that which is true of that which sins not of that which is born of God which overcomes the World as the Saints did of old who said hereby know we that we dwell in him and he in us because he hath given us of his Spirit 1 John 4.13 No otherwise can any one know him now truly but by his Spirit which quickens and makes alive unto God For it is life eternall to know thes the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent saith the Saints and herein is our love made perfect that we may have boldnesse in the day of the Lord for as he is so are we in this present World And we know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding and we know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ This is the true God and eternall life and this we have not of our selves but this we have freely received from God as the Saints had and this we freely declare and testifie to the world as they did that so others might come to receive of the same from him in whom the fullriesse of the God-head dwells of whose fullnesse have we all recelved and grace for grace And so we have nothing to boast of or glory in of our selves for it is by grace which is the free Gift of God that we are what we are that no flesh might glory in his sight but that all the Honour and the Praise and the Glory might be given unto God alone from whence every good and perfect gift cometh And now Oh all ye Priests and Teachers and Professors unto whom these things seemes strange which we declare of so that ye cannot beleeve them but get up into rage and envy against us to persecute and reproach us and speak all manner of evill falsely against us as your forefathers did the Scribes and Pharisees who were Hypocrites against Christ and the Saints in former times who did declare of those things then which the blind guides did not know nor could beleeve and therefore did they persecute them and haile them before Magistrates and cast them into Prisons and put them to death though the things which the Saints did declare were true and the same which Moses and the Prophets the holy men of God had declared of which should come to passe and so did come to passe according to their words yet now the Scribes and Pharisees and Jewes who had the words of Moses and the Prophets and were the greatest Professors of Religion then that were in the World they having the words but being out of the power out of the Life of Abraham and Moses and the Prophets that declared those things by the Spirit of God these I say being erred from the Spirit did not know the things which the holy men of God did foretell of to come The holy thing which was to be borne which is called the Son of the living God and when he was come they did unto him as they listed crucified the Lord of Life because they knew him not Though they said they were Abraham's children and knew God and were Moses Disciples and were called Jewes and rested in the Law and made their boasts of God and that they knew his Will and did approve of the things that are more excellent and were confident that they themselves were guides to the blind and a light to them that are in darknesse and Instructers of the foolish and Teachers of babes which had the forme of knowledge and of the truth in the Law Thou therefore saith the Apostle that teachest another teachest thou not thy selfe c. All these were untaught themselves though they were teachers of the Law they were Transgressors of the Law and when Christ Jesus came who was the substance the holy Seed the end of the Law who fullfilled it and brought in everlasting righteousness who was the Way to God the Truth and the Life they knew him not but slew him And so it is at this day the Professors of the World who only have the name of Christians persecute them that are in the true Christians life and nature for they were blind Leaders of the blind as Christ told them and that they were of their father the Devill who was a lyar and a Murderer from the beginning for whom God hath sent him ye beleeve not but seeke to kill him And so though they had the true mens words and the righteous mens words and the just mens words yet they were erred from their Spirit and therefore they knew not the just and righteous One and Holy one of Israel but were in the murtherous spirit and in the lying spirit which is of the Devill who did not abide in the truth and in the envious spirit and in the persecuting spirit which is not of God as all ye Priests and Professors are found in at this day which spirit I say is not of God nor received of God For the fruits of Gods Spirit is Love Meeknesse Gentlenesse Patience Long-suffering Charity c. But the fruits of your spirit is the contrary as the fruits of theirs was coutrary who persecuted the Saints in former times as the Scriptures declares and plainly makes manifest And so now ye come to be tryed and seen and manifest and declared against by the same Spirit as was in