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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65250	The marks of the true church the virgin & spouse of Christ that brings forth by a holy seed the birth that pleaseth God, and the marks of the false church, or whore, that brings forth by an evil seed the cursed birth that never could please God / by Morgan Watkins.	Watkins, Morgan, fl. 1653-1670.	1675 (1675)	Wing W1067; ESTC R26308	20,590	28

construed for the Purpose that is to spoil the Goods of those that cannot forsake the assembling of themselves together in the true Worship of God And some of you have procured Warrants to spoil the Goods of your Neighbours and some have spoiled them over and over and prosecuted those that would not spoil them Is this the Way to teach the People to Love their Neighbours as themselves and to do to all People as they would be done unto this is the Way indeed to manifest what Spirit you are of and so People may read your Father's Name in your Forehead 's whose Works do you do what Spirit leads you whether the Spirit of Cain that wicked One or the Spirit of Abel the Righteous One by your Fruits you are known Doth the Work of this Spirit confess that Christ is come in your Flesh that Righteous One or Anti-christ that Wicked One whom Christ is Consuming with Breath of his Mouth and the Brightness of his ●oming Was it ever known that a Minister of Christ was an Informer against Christian Meetings no it never was nor ever will be for such are not in the Doctrine of Christ but in the Practice of those the Scripture calls Wolves in Sheeps Cloathing but in this Work of Informing the Wolf only appears that comes to devour so that Spirit that preacheth for Hire is the same that spoils Men's Goods for Hire and he that takes Wages of Unrighteousness doth the Work of Unrighteousness Did not those that devoured Wi●dows Houses do the Work of Unrighteousness though for a Pretence made long Prayers and those were Enemies to Christ then and can they be Friends now no such are an ill Savour to God and a Stink in his Nostrils what have such to do to take his Name into their Mouthes who hate to be reformed by his Spirit and persecute those that are How many Souls are you guilty of the Blood of And how many Bodies have you cast into Prison till Death How many Widdows and Fatherless Children have you made in this Nation because they could not put into your Mouthes knowing what Spirit you were of and that the Lord never sent you as by your Fruits you have manifested to the View of the Nation and Thousands see you and will buy your Merchandize no more and if you cannot compel them by your Law then you make Merchandize and Spoil of their Goods But Wo is unto you that ever you were born because of the terrible Day that is coming upon you which you can no wayes escape but by coming out of her in whom is found all the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs and all that have been slain for the Testimony of Jesus upon the Earth For now the Everlasting Gospel is preaching that shall be preached to all Nations Tongues and Languages for the gathering of the Gentiles to their Light and Israel to the Hope of their Glory For to him shall the Gathering of the People be and the Gentiles shall walk in thy Light and Kings in the Brightness of thy Rising then thou shall see and shine thy Heart shall be astonished and enlarged because the Multitude of the Sea shall be converted unto thee and the Riches of the Gentiles shall come unto thee Isa 60.3.5 For the Lord shall be thy Everlasting Light and thy God thy Glory Ver. 19. Thy People also shall be all Righteous they shall possess the Land forever the Graft of my planting shall be the Work of mine Hands that I may be glorified a little One shall become a Thousand and a small One as a strong Nation I the Lord will hasten it in due Time And this is that Jerusalem prophesied of that should be a Burthensom Stone unto all Nations which is become a burthensome Stone in this Nation but all that burthen themselves with it shall be broken in Pieces by it and how many have been broken in Pieces by it that opposed it in this Nation and all that yet shall oppose it in this or any other Nation shall be broken in Pieces and confounded by it except they repent and be gathered into it for God is making his little One to become a Thousand and his small One a strong Nation and these are his holy Nation and peculiar People and spiritual Priesthood that are gathered out of the Flesh where none can please God into the Spirit of his Son where all walking do please him and these cannot please Men for the Gift that God hath given that Man is to receive if he please God the VVisdom of the Flesh did alwayes reject in all Ages and so it doth in this and it was a stumbling Stone and a Rock of Offence to the VVise and Prudent of this World among the Jews in that Age disallowed of Men but chosen of God elect and precious to those that believe both Jews and Gentiles in all Ages a tryed Corner-Stone the Power of God to all those that receive it who through Obedience of it become the Sons and Daughters of God And now I warn all in this Nation that profess Christianity to consider your Wayes whether you are entered in at the straight Gate and whether you walk in the narrow VVay that only leads to Life for out of it there is no Salvation And God is risen to overturn every false VVay in this the Day of his Power in which the VVay of the VVicked shall be turned upside down but the VVay of the Lord shall be exalted which as the Apostle saith Is the New and Living Way the New Covenant of Light to the Gentiles that is Israel's Hope of Glory which is Christ the Spirit of Truth and VVord of Life in Man that whosoever receives and walks in is of God and come out of the VVorld but he that receives it not is not past from Darkness but is under the Power of it in the VVorld that lyeth in VVickedness where God is not pleased but as many as have received the VVord in their Hearts and in it believe are grafted by Faith into Christ the Root the Vine and Power of Life the incorruptible Seed the Word of God that liveth and abideth for ever and because he liveth all in him are made alive to God again and these walk in him that is his Spirit that God the Father hath given to lead them into all Truth and out of him none can please God nor walk in his Truth and these be his Disciples in this Age that have received him the VVord and for the Obedience of him the World hates them as it doth him and now persecutes him in his Members as he said they would and we witness his Word fulfilled in us but in his Spirit we have Victory over the World and their Spirit because he that we have received the Word the Spirit of Truth in us is greater then he that is in in the World and that Spirit that is in the World is now making ●ar against the Spirit which

from the Spirit of Truth who are all false from the rising of the Sun to the going down of the same for being out of the Spirit out of the Truth for the Spirit is Truth X. Such whose Principle and Belief is That the Ministerial Offices in the Church of Christ are intailed to a Succession of Persons chosen in the Will of Man as if Man were to send forth Labourers into the Lord's Vineyard and the Lord engaged to accept their Choice of such saith the Lord I have not sent these Prophets yet they ran Jer. 23.21 It is the Lord of the Harvest as I have said that is to send forth Labourers into his Harvest and Man to accept the Lord's Choice because they come in his Name and the Apostles prayed and said Thou Lord which knowest the Hearts of all Men shew whether of these two thou hast chosen So the Chosen of God will receive none but the Lord's Choice XI Such who have a Form of Godliness but denying the Power thereof ever learning of the Hireling that will ever be paid for Teaching but never able to bring them to the Knowledge of the Truth because he himself is astray from that which gives the Infallible Knowledge of it XII Such who persecute and destroy Mens Lives for their Religion thus did Cain who was of that Wicked One and all that do so are of him still for he that doth not Righteousness but hateth his Brother is manifest to be a Child of the Devil 1 John 3.10 And it was ever from the Beginning the Unrighteous persecuted the Righteous and to be persecuted for Righteousness sake was ever an Infallible Mark of God's Children and to persecute for Righteousness sake was ever an Infallible Mark of the Children of the Wicked One Let none mistake me I do not say that all that are persecuted are the Children of God for Men have suffered and may be persecuted and not for the Righteousness sake of God's Kingdom but for their own Righteousness sake who in their blind Zeal and Self-Will are labouring to set up their Idol or false Way in Opposition to others and others in the same opposing them and here is one in the Beastly Nature and Will pushing at another in the same and they that can get most Power and Strength in the Earth they tear and devour the others And if a Man give his Body to be burnt and all his Goods to the Poor and yet may not be accepted of God for the Life of all true Religion is Love for God is Love and where that is wanting Though a Man may speak with the Tongue of Men and Angels 't is all but as sounding Brass or a tinckling Cymbal for indeed pure Religion springs from the Nature Vertue and Operation of the pure Spirit of God brought forth in that Man that hath received it and denyes his own Will that the Will of the Divine Nature may be done which is come to be done in Earth as it is in Heaven and that is the Kingdom that all Men are required to seek which whosoever receives not as a little Child can by no Means enter into it And blessed are all those that having received it do suffer for its Righteousness sake And it was ever and still is the greatest Blindness and Ignorance among the Sons of Men to believe or think that pure Religion is to be forced into by Persecution for this I declare They that are of that Judgment never knew what pure Religion was but those that will have People to come to pure Religion must let the Light and Glory of their Religion shine forth before Men that God's Works in them may be seen to others that is to do Good before all and to all even as the Son of God did upon Earth in his own Body and now doth the same by his Spirit in the Bodies of those that receive him He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked 1 Joh. 2.6 For all such that think they ought to compel People to their Religion because they think it is true must also judge that their Spirit is Infallible for if it may fail then it ought not to be a Rule to the Souls of ohers nor a Judge of another Man's Faith or Religion nor of the Things of God but the Truth is where any Force or Compulsion is put upon the Consciences of Men that is an Infallible Sign of a Fallible and Anti-christian Spirit for the Infallible Spirit of God in the Holy Men left no such Rule nor Example but commanded the contrary saying Let every Man be fully perswaded or fully assured in his own Mind Rom. 14.5 Again saith So then every one of us shall give an Account of himself to God Ver. 12. For in this Case saith Paul Hast thou Faith have it to thy self Then what hath any Man to do to Lord it over another Man's Faith seeing he that doubteth is damned that is condemned in himself because not done in Faith it is Sin And now you blind Hypocrites that would compel all to fall down to your Idol or Image of Heavenly Things can you give Men Faith to believe your Image hath Life if not do not you compel Men to sin against their Consciences seeing what is not of Faith is Sin Rom. 14.23 And the Devil is the Author of all Sin and all Persecutors for Righteousness sake are his Subjects in whom the Man of Sin is unrevealed who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he as God mark that 's he that would rule over Men's Consciences sitteth in tqe Temple of God shewing himself that he is God that is by taking that Power to himself that God never gave to any Man that is to force or compel People to any Worship that is not of Faith that is Sin and God that made Heaven and Earth is not the Author of Sin but it is the Man of Sin whom the Lord of Life is Consuming with the Spirit of his Mouth and destroying with the Brightness of his Coming 2 Thes 2.3 8. Objection But some may say Did not Christ in the Parable say Compel them to come in Answer Blessed be the Lord many do witness that Compulsion which is not Outward Force that are come into his House and that is by the Power of his Love wherein he invites the Poor who receive the Gospel that hath constrained us to deny our selves and take up his Daily Cross and follow him for the Truth is to be received in the Love of it and then it overcomes the Enmity of the Fleshly Will and covers with the Spirit and Life the Wedding-Garment that the Heavenly Guests at God's Feast have put on that no Persecutor ever knew on himself nor can be put it upon another So they that compel and they that are thus compelled are both without a Wedding-Garment and not meet for the Marriage Feast And