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A58143	Light sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart This is to go abroad among all people who are honest-hearted, especially amongst the inhabitants in Fourns Fells, in Lancashire, and among all who have known me after the flesh, that all honest people may see what I was in profession, and also what I now am by the grace of God. From him which hath come through great tribulations, who hath even left all for Christ, and hath not whereon to lay his head, but is forsaken of father and of mother, and of kinred also, even for the testimony of Jesus, and for the Word of God, whom the world calls, Thomas Rawlinson.	Rawlinson, Thomas.	1657 (1657)	Wing R369; ESTC R220567	29,951	42

God that We might be found in Christ There is but as it were two Righteousnesses the Righteousness of God and mans Righteousness so until man return unto God and comes to know how Christ is in him who is Gods Righteousness all his Righteousness is of himself and these are contrary the one to the other So the Way to know the one from the other is To believe in the light and in the light to know each from other and walking in the light comes to put on the Righteousnesse of God and put off their own and to deny themselves and then comes to see their own Righteousnesse filthy and abominable So here is the Way of Righteousness in the Light of the Lord Jesus Christ who lightneth every man that cometh into the World and he that follows the Light Christ puts on Righteousness as a Garment and he that doth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous and he that doth not righteousness is not of God So We who are come unto Christ our Righteousness our Light and Life We come to be made the Righteousness of God in him and so in the Light wherein We have believed comes to fulfil all righteousness and for this end That we might be found in himn ot having our own righteousness which is of the Law but that which is through the faith of Christ even the righteousnesse which is of God by faith many of us who are called Quakers have denyed our selves our lives and whatsoever was dear unto us our Father and Mother Husband Wife and Children Brethren and Sisters and Kinred all Houses Lands and Livings and the World too and all the Glory and the Pleasures of this life who have taken up the Cross of Christ that We might be counted worthy to follow him in the Regeneration as obedient children not fashioning our selves unto this World any longer putting off the former conversation which is corrupt the old man with his deeds that We might be renewed in the spirit of our mind putting on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness without which no man shall see God keeping the holy Commandment of our Lord Jesus who said If ye love me keep my Commandments and if a man love me he will keepe my sayings So Neighbors and Friends it is not only a profession and talking of Free-Grace and of Justification by Christ this will not serve you except ye come into the obedience of the Grace of God which brings salvation and hath appeared unto all men For the Grace of God is the Saints Teacher which teaches them to deny all ungodliness and Worldly lusts and to deny the Priests to be taught of them any longer For all the children of the Lord is taught of the Lord and in righteousness they are established and great is their peace So ye who are not turned from your Priests are not taught of the Lord who said Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of So Friends while ye remain under them ye are not come into the leadings and teachings of the Spirit of Grace and Truth which hath appeared unto all men and teaches us to live soberly righteously and godly in this present World So take heed unto your selves and hearken not unto your Priests nor to your Diviners who divine for money for they deceive you but all turn to the Light wherewith Christ hath enlightned you which is truth and no lye for there is no lye of the Truth He that doth Truth cometh to the Light and he that doth evil hateth the light neither cometh to the light least his deeds should be reproved and this is the condemnation the Light said Christ So see if all your Priests be not in the evil under the condemnation of the Devil who hate the Light evil beasts slow-bellies hating the light reproaching and railing against it because their deeds are evil and because that they know if the people turn to the light they will then come to see their deceit and covetousness and will be ashamed of them So Friends take not counsel of your Priests for mischief is in their hearts lest vvhile ye follow after them ye come to be hardned in your sins and your sences and feeling after God be taken from you and so ye become past feeling having your consciences seared and your hearts hardened against God and then ye be given up unto a reprobate minde to work all unrighteousness with greediness even with the Priests Consider Friends Can the Priests satisfie you and please you with vain Words onley to talk of Free-Grace and of the Righteousness of Christ imputed who are in the unrighteousness themselves so holds the Truth in unrighteousness and will not come to the light verily Friends ye are then far short of what I was when I was where ye now are with a profession of God and godliness but without the power and the life for nothing then would satisfie me but Christ only None but Christ None but Christ was my continual cry to have Christ how I might come to know Christ in me Give me Christ or I dye to feel him near which justifies and saves his people from their sins this was the dayly desires and the longings of my weary soul had I but hold on Christ let them take the world that will said I in my heart so that I might but come to know Christ and to enjoy him that I might come to live unto Christ was the daily desires of my heart and soul yet though I sought diligently after him with Tears and VVeeping and asked the Way to Christ from one Priest unto another to see if they could shevv me vvhere Christ is to be found yet none of them could shevv me the Way nor could tell me hovv to come to Christ So I found no comfort for my soul from them therefore I had no rest day nor night from God in my spirit vvhile I sought unto the Priests lips for counsel for Wicked Counsellors are they all vvho turn not people to the light from the darkness for Christ the light vvas condemnation to me vvhilst I remained in the old nature vvith the Priests rebellious and no Justification then and Sanctification and Peace sitting in the darkness and vvalking in the darkness and blindness with the Priests being then ignorant of the light vvhich Christ had enlightned me vvithall so shall all who comes to knovv vvhat God is more or less shall first feel the Wrath of God revealed from Heaven against them for their unrighteousness and shall see Wrath and Horror and the Vengeance of God to come upon the Head of the Wicked even the Judgements of God coming upon that nature in them vvhich hath acted iniquity and transgression and the povver of God shall make the Inhabitants of the Earth to tremble the Prison-Houses shall shake when the Prisoner comes forth to be set free and then

me and then I called unto my Brother William and bad him let me into the House and he told me that he durst not let me into the House I asked him Why He said That his Father had sent all his children and servants to bed that he went throughout all the House himself to see that all the doors was locked and bolted against me and did charge them all that if I did come not any of them to let me into the House if they did any of them he said that he would turn them also out of the doors with me So William told me these things and that he durst not let me into the House so unto this day I remain a sufferer for righteousness sake and truly I believe that I should not have put pen to paper in reference as to all my sufferings from my natural Father had I not heard how he hath reported it that I ran from him and the like So for the right informing all peoples understandings as to the truth of this matter I have briefly in few Words declared something of what hath been done by him towards me and of what Words passed between us but I might have intimated much more of his rage and cruelty sore usuage of me but that I am against laying open nakedness and have onely cleared my own innocency as touching false reports of running from my Fathers House and the like as also his own Family and others can witness against him to the contrary for me if they wil but testifie So let him consider and look back and see what he hath done against the innocent that seeks not his own who seeketh no revenge but suffereth all things endureth all things and envieth not but in the peace which the World cannot give nor take away rests satisfied in his Fathers love from above and so refers his cause unto him that seeth in secret who rewardeth openly and taketh vengeance For vengeance is mine saith the Lord So I have boldness towards God in all my sufferings and tribulations yea verily I have the answer of a good conscience towards God and man herein Gods Witness in me even the Spirit of truth which bears witness to my spirit that I suffer for well doing and who shall then condemn me And because I cannot for conscience-sake worship the beast nor follow the blind guides any longer I am persecuted and forsaken of Father and Mother and of Brethren and Sisters and of Kinred too and these things have they done unto me that the Scriptures might be fulfilled according to Christs Words who said Ye shall be hated of all men for my sake and marvel not if the World hate you for it hated me before it hated you if ye were of the World the World would love you for the World loves its own but because I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hates you because ye are not of the world even as I am not of the world said Christ to them that followed him in the regeneration who turned people from the darkness to the Light Christ And he that forsaketh not Father and Mother Brethren and Sisters Husband Wife or children and his own life too for my sake and the Gospel said Christ he cannot be my disciple and he that taketh not up his Cross and followeth not after me he is not worthy of me but every one that hath left Father or Mother Brethren or Sisters Husband Wife or Children or House or Lands for my Names sake and the ●ospel let him rejoice that he is counted worthy to suffer it said the Lord Jesus Christ for he shall not lose his reward but shall receive an hundred-fold in this life and in the world to come everlasting life So it is evident That whosoever will ●ive godly in Christ Jesus must suffer For he that departs from iniquity makes himself a prey to the wicked and to the unrighteous and sinners So Friends think it not strange I run not with you to the same excess of riot into all uncleanness and filthiness and sorrow not for me for the sorrow of the World works death so speak not evil of the things ye know not least ye speak evil against God and though I am counted as the off-scouring of all things unto this day and hath not whereon to lay my head being forsaken of Father and of Mother and counted as one not worthy to live nor to inhabit under them who could not have so much as a servants place under them for I told my Father before he put me from him That I was willing to abide with him and to serve him faithfully and to labour with my hands in the thing that is good yet would he not suffer me to inhabit under him but in all this what evil have I done So I have comfort towards God notwithstanding all his cruel usuage of me and though Father and Mother hath forsaken me yet the Lord hath not forsaken me neither left me comfortless but hath been with me in all my afflictions to support me and though they through the hardness of their hearts hath had no pitty on me but I was even cast out for righteousness sake as though I had been some great transgressor Where are my Accusers If I have done evil let them bear witness of the evil but if well for cleaving unto the Lord why are they so offended in me I could even desire that the Lord would not reward them as they have rewarded me who are even without natural affections and without any pitty towards me yet the Lord hath had pitty because his mercies fails not who in his favour hath redeemed me and hath had compassion when no eye pittyed for he hath said it Thou hadst a little strength and hast trusted in me therefore I will never leave thee nor forsake thee Thou hast hated iniquity and loved righteousness therefore walk before me and be thou perfect and I will help thee I will be with thee and go before thee all the Way that thou shalt go So in the Arms of his everlasting Love doth the Lord carry me and in his hand doth he hide me that so in the pure love of God I might remain under the shadow of his Wings for evermore and in his Name to trust which is a strong Tower for the righteous to flye unto for God hath given me an entrance into the eternal inheritance with the Saints in light Surely I have made a good choice blessed be the Name of the Lord for evermore who hath put it into my heart as to choose the good Way and the fear of the Lord wherein dwelleth righteousness So I am perswaded in my heart to cleave unto the Lord my God with my whole heart that the Lamb of God I may follow wheresoever he goes though I dye with him bearing his reproach for through Christ that strengthens me I am more then a Conqueror and have in measure conquered Death

LIGHT SOWN FOR THE RIGHTEOUS AND GLADNESS For the Upright in HEART This is to go abroad among all people who are honest-hearted especially amongst the Inhabitants in Fourns Fells in Lancashire and among all who have known me after the flesh that all honest people may see what I was in Profession and also what I now am by the Grace of God From him which hath come through great tribulations who hath even left all for Christ and hath not whereon to lay his head but is forsaken of Father and of Mother and of Kinred also even for the Testimony of Jesus and for the Word of God whom the world calls Thomas Rawlinson Luk. 14.26 27. If any man come to me and hate not his Father and Mother and Wife and Children and Brethren and Sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be my Disciple London Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate 1657. This is to go abroad into my Countrey amongst the Inhabitants in Fornes Fells and among all honest people that have known me after the flesh that all people may see what I was in profession and what I now am by the Grace of God FRiends and Neighbors ye know if ye will but testifie how that I walked from my youth upwards after the straitest Sect of Religion harmless and blameless insomuch that many did admire me and was as touching the rghteousness of the Law acording to the Letter blameless as ye know if ye will testifie without boasting I speak it for I exceeded many of my equals in profession with a shew of righteousness and was exceedingly zealous for the chiefest Priests in this Nation of England some of you have said Ye thought that ye needed never desire to have been in a better condition then I was in when I was where ye are without God and without Christ in the World with a profession of his Name in my mouth but did not know Christ in me the true Light who lightneth every man that cometh into the World so was ignorant of the Foundation of God which standeth sure the Light Christ who lightneth every man the sure Foundation-stone which is already laid for a Foundation that whosoever buildeth thereon shall never be ashamed and being ignorant of the Righteousness of God I went about to establish my own righteousness so did not submit to the Righteousness of God but got up into a profession of knowing the Lord and so became a fair sayer but not a doer of the will of God like unto the chief Priests for they say and doth not the things that they say Wo unto them blind guides who turn the innocent and the poor out of the way and causes the people to erre by their lyes and by their lightness and will not that any should turn from the darkness to the light Wo unto them who gather people into a profession of the knowledge of God but not into the light life and power ye all professing Christ to come and knows not that Christ is in you so ye know not where he is nor how he is in you I speak this to your shame people of all professions And though I had reformed in many things and had left off practicing many Idolatrous and Heathenish Customs which I saw to be evil in the sight of the Lord as my mind came to be turned to that of God in my conscience while I yet followed the Priests but being ignorant of that which did let me see my own unprofitableness and that all that is in the World is but vanity I came short did not follow on to know the Lord but chose rather to follow the Priests gave no heed to the Word of the Lord vvhich call d behind Return return thou art but a dead man in the Earth behold lo this is the way walk in it turn in hither to the Word which is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thy heart this is the Way but while I followed the Priests they never directed me to this To the Word which is nigh in the mouth and in the heart nor never exhorted people to the light which Christ hath enlightned every man withal While I followed the Priests I say I never heard them bring this Doctrine to the people which the true Ministers of Christ bring and brought who turn people from the darkness to the light and from the power of Satan unto God For in the light of the Lord which did shine into my conscience I came to see the deceit of the Priests the Messengers of Satan who labour to keep people in the darkness in blindness from the light who would perswade the people that the light which Christ hath enlightned every man withall is but a natural light and not sufficient to give the knowledge of God or to convince of all sin and so they wrest the Scriptures and adds thereto and sets up their own Traditions and makes the Commandments of God of no effect and void by their own Traditions and cryes against the Light vvith reproachful and sensual vvords lest the people should believe in the Light and come to the Light vvhich gives the Knovvledge of God and so long as I remained ignorant of that vvhich did convince me of sin and of unbelief which did let me see that I was also out of the vvay of God with the Priests in error and in the darkness so long I was ignorant of the living and true God and knevv not hovv he vvas in me so knew him not at all but by the hearing of the ear though I had got the Bible and Books and a large profession read the Scriptures often and Books many and followed the chiefest Priests dayly and vvould fain have gained the Knovvledge of God by them but could not find it while I follovved the Priests had thought that they should teach the people knovvledge but I novv see that it is not so and that the Lord hath cursed the Priests and their blessings and that no people upon the Face of the Earth shall ever profit by them the Lord hath said it mark it vvho cannot lye nor repent So let God be true and all men lyars for that vvhich may be knovvn of God is manifest in them and God hath shevved it to them so it is evident That no man knovvs the Father nor the Son but as he comes into obedience to that of God in him the Light for the Letter vvithout nor the Priests vvithout nor any thing vvithout can never make the comers thereunto perfect nor give any man the knovvledg of God though he may get the Scriptures into his Head and shall read them often for no man knovvs the Father but he to whom the Son reveals him Yea so desirous I vvas to find out the true knovvledge of the pure God that I ceased not to seek it night and day with Tears and cryed out How shall I come to the living knowledg