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A27126	A faithful testimony and warning concerning the certainty of the great and notable day of the Lord, broken forth in this age after the long night of apostacy, wherein he will accomplish his great and glorious work, determined, of redemption and restauration : with something concerning the sufficency of the grace of God ... : and a few words in reply to such as query, or ask, Whether did you ever hear or read of a people, in all the Scriptures, that were Quakers ... / by William Bayly.	Bayly, William, d. 1675.	1672 (1672)	Wing B1525; ESTC R13956	19,649	31

their hands And the words of the Orator that called him A Pestilent Fellow And of them that said Christ had a Devil and cast out Devils by Belzebub Are these all the Words of God Much less the VVORD that was in the Beginning that Liveth and Abideth forever And in the Scriptures may be read the Words of the Persecutors who strictly Charged the Apostles To leave Preaching in the Name of Jesus the True Light and Power of God But Paul and Silas Sung in the Prison and they could not but speak that which they had Seen and Heard of Christ Jesus and could not Flee like the Hirelings that leave the Sheep when the Wolf comes among them For a Work of Necessity was required of them to turn the People from Darkness to the Light from Satans Power to the Power of God And they had the Word of Reconciliation And this Word was in the Beginning by whom all things were made before the Scriptures were of which the Scriptures testifie John 1. and they are a True Declaration Luke 1.1 And this is our Belief concerning them And so we make a true Distinction between the Report and the Thing or Things reported of as Isaiah did who said Who hath believed our Report and to whom is the Arm of the Lord Revealed And the Record which God gave of his Son is not the Son himself but to be Believed concerning Him And so the Scriptures are not the Word for that is Christ's Name Rev. 18.13 John 1.1 Nor can they all truly and properly be called The Words ef God as I have here demonstrated in short to the View of all who are not wilfully Blind So come to the Light of Christ Jesus which shines in your Dark Hearts in which you may see your selves and your Ignorance and Vain Thoughts and Hard Speeches and learn to put a Difference between the Precious and the Vile in your own Particulars and then you will divide aright between Good Men and Wicked Men and their Words and Actions as between Light and Darkness And as for our holding that Dangerous Tenet as you call it of Perfection in this Life I Answer We hold no other Perfection or Tenet then what the Holy Men of God of old did who did hold the Head Christ Jesus and laid hold of Eternal Life in which is no Danger or Imperfection but safety and Peace who is come to Destroy the Devil and his Works which hath made people Imperfect and brought them into Dangers and the Pit of Darkness and Ignorance by Transgression in which lieth the Danger of Everlasting Destruction in this Broad Way but in Christ the Truth the Life the Way to the Father is no Imperfection or Danger as I have said but Eternal Life and Salvation in which Life we have Perfect Peace as our Minds are staid on him and not in any other And he bids his People Be Perfect as their Heavenly Father is Perfect And this is no Dangerous Tenet To obey God and Christ Jesus which you your selves have promised and do not perform but are Disobedient and here lies your Danger In professing God and Christ in Words but in Works deny him and are Ignorant of him For No other Perfection or Dangerous Tenet do we hold at this day then what we were bound to believe and walk in when we were Children and to witness performed by the Spirit and Grace of God within us And in the same Covenant are you ingaged and have promised to fulfil it on your part who profess your selves Christians Therefore look you to the Danger of breaking your Promise made to God as ye may Read in the Publick Baptism in the Common-Prayer-Book and consider it well in which we were taught by our then Teachers as people are now First To renounce the Devil and all his Works the Pomps and Vanities of this Wicked World and all the Sinful Lusts of the Flesh Secondly And to believe all the Articles of the Christian-Faith Thirdly To keep God's Holy Will and Commandments and to Walk in the same all the Dayes of our Lives Thus did we and you Ingage and Promise unto God which is a state of as great Perfection as can be witnessed and is to be performed and fulfilled in all true Christians Therefore weigh the Matter well and see where lieth the Danger on them that wait upon God to receive his holy Spirit and Grace to perform what hath been promised or on them that promise and do not regard to perform their Vows to God as you and your Teachers have done who have Reproached us for the same things which you your selves profess to God in words like the Pharisees and Hypocrites of old who said God was their Father and yet put Christ Jesus to Death because he acknowledged himself to be the Son of God So the Lord judge between us and you and open your Eyes that you may see a Difference between him that Sweareth and him that feareth an Oath between him that doth in Deed and Truth serve God and him that serveth him not but onely with the Lips and the Heart far off which the Lord requireth who is onely Worshipped in the Spirit and in the Truth which is Perfect And then you will perceive That our Religion and Worship and what we hold is neither New Strange or Dangerous as ye have imagined but the Good Old Way of Holiness the Pure Religion and true Spiritual Worship which God alone who is Perfect hath set up and is Well-pleased with who is the Author of it And this was before the Devil's Works were which hath made People Blind and Miserable and Imperfect by Transgression The Holy Pure and Perfect Life and its Works was the First and will be the Last upon the Earth the Alpha and Omega It was the Enemy of Mankind that sowed the Tares the Lord sowed Good Seed in the Field the Wicked One sowed the Bad whose Work the Son of God is manifested to destroy and he will Overturn again and again till he comes to Reign whose Right it is And against this his Work now begun the Gates of Hell and Death shall not prevail the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Much more might be declared as to this Matter but thus much in short I have given in Answer to these things that your Eyes might be opened who Err in Vision and Stumble in Judgment that the things belonging to your Everlasting Peace might not be hid from you in this your Day So Fear God and prize your Precious Time this is in true Love to all your Souls by a Friend to all People William Bayly THE END

seen but Torment from the Light Within Consider it well in the Fear of God and what will be thy Portion when the Desire Beauty and Comforts of thine outward Eyes are gone and thou gone to thy long Home if thou hast no Benefit of the Light Within to comfort thee Blessed are the Eyes that see and the Heart that understands and believes in the Light for such become the Children of Light as Christ said and they are the Children of God For God is Light and in him is no Darkness at all 1 John 1.5 Objection But some may object and say How can any be in utter Darkness seeing thou affirmest every one in the World is lighted with the true Light of Christ Jesus and that it is the Talent or Gift given to every man to profit withal and that all must give an Account of the Improvement of it And how is it said to be taken from a man and he cast into utter Darkness Answ It is thus taken away Through Disobedience to it the not improving of it the Benefit and Comfort of it is lost and if a man live and dye in the state of Rebellion it only remaineth in him as a Tormenting Worm that never dyes And thus you may read of the Wicked and Slothful Servant who had a Talent and did not improve it as required but hid it in the Earth read within this was his Condemnation and this is the Fire that never goes out And the Rich Man in Hell Torment who had lived in the fulness of Pleasures had enough to see himself in Darkness and Tormented in the Flame and Abraham and Lazarus in Joy and Comfort which added to his Misery and not to his Refreshment for he desired but a little of their Water and could not get it as ye may see Luke 16.23 24 25 26. And it was said of them that separated themselves from the Saints in Light That they were sensual having not the Spirit that is They not being guided lead and taught by it but were disobrdient to it had not the Benefit and Comfort of it nor a right Understanding by it of the Way of God nor true Knowledge of the Work and Mysteries of God which were the things that belong to their Everlasting Peace but it reprov'd and condemn'd them for their Rebellion as it is written The Rebellious dwell in a Dry Land Psal 68.6 But the Apostles and Servants of God who were led by it had the comfort of it and it abode with them so forever and they handled tasted and felt the Word of Life which was in the beginning and they fed upon it and it nourish'd and strengthen'd them with all Might in the Inter-Man and it was a Sword and Armour to them a Defence against Evil and Darkness And others they cast it behind their backs and so must needs go in Darkness For the Word is a Light so their Feet that take heed to it and it is powerful so people cast that which is powerful behind them and then complain they have no Power this is the state of the Disobedient But to as many as received him to them he gave Power even to as many as believe in his Name to become the Sons of God and he is the Author of eternal Salvation to as many as obey him Heb. 5.9 And so Disobedience is the Ground of man's Ruin and Destruction and not the Insufficiency of God's Gifts or any straitness in him towards Mankind So remember you are warned and its the Day of your Visitation from the Lord God in Love to your Immortal Souls and prize your Inch of precious time and fear God and give Glory to him and worship him that made Heaven and Earth and the Fountain of Water for the Hour of his Judgments is come in which Babylon must fall and his invisible Glory be revealed more and more to the Ends of the Earth till the kingdoms of this world become the Lord's and he shall Raign forever and ever world without end Amen I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth that thou hast hid these things from the Wise and Prudent of this World and revealed them to Babes for so it pleaseth thee A few words in true Breathings of Love unto you that are turned in this Day of his Power from Darkness to the Light and do believe in it and have tasted that the Lord is Gracious DEar Friends dwell in it dwell low and cool and still in the true Dread of the Lord Wisdom's Gate and Door and there keep your Watch and be sober for your Enemy seeks to devour you all Opertunities he waits for his Prey to catch and destroy your poor tender Souls who are escaping from him whose desires are after God and things Above Remember it is the Old Serpent and he wants neither Age nor Cunning he is still more subtil then any Beast and is Cursed forever You have no Armour against him like the Armour of Light therefore keep it on and Watch and Pray continually and wrestle against this Principality and Power of Darkness the Enemy of Mankind which lies near to many and then he cannot enter he cannot spoil you nor sow his Tares of Corruption and Wickedness but while men sleep he sows them that was his first Oportunity while men slept and hath alwayes been and is the same now and no other So dear Friends keep your Watch it s the Word of the Lord to you then you keep out the Enemy and over him in true Dominion and Peace and your Soul is Comforted and God Glorified and his Work prospers in the Earth which praiseth him who hath Wonderfully and Graciously Appeared in this his Day for the deliverance of his Chosen and he will appear more and more till Jerusalem is made the Praise of the whose Earth and none shall hinder W. B. An Answer to those Cries among some ignorant People viz. Where did you ever hear or read in all the Scriptures of a people called Quakers and that preached of a Light Within people as you Quakers do And is not your Religion a New Religion of about Twenty Years standing not heard of before And whether you called Quakers do not deny the Scriptures to be the Word of God And whether you do not hold that dangerous Tenet of Perfection in this Life Given forth for the sake of the Simple Inquirer and to silence the Ignorance of Foolish Men and to Reprove the Scorner who Err not knowing the Scriptures nor the Power of God AS for our Religion it is no New Religion neither is it onely of a late standing as you suppose and yet as new to many now as Christ's was unto the Jews who did not believe his Doctrine For the Light is a New and a Strange Thing to such as were born Blind and have alwayes lived in Darkness though it hath been the standing Rule and Path of the Just from the beginning as you may read and see if you are