no and whether he have the evidence of the Spirit or no that he is born of it and knows a birth that sins not because the seed remaineth in him who is kept by the power that the evil one touches him not and kept in salvation and in saving health alive unto him who hath brought him forth to life to drink of the cup of blessing and of the cup of salvation which nourisheth and refresheth up unto eternal life them that continue in the Faith What the free grace of God is and unto whom it hath appeared and where all are to wait to receive it declared as it hath been revealed by the Spirit THe grace of God is pure is the free gift of God and it is perfect it is the appearance of Christ it is a beam of righteousness shining forth it is a measure of Gods strength and power issued out from himself and a proportion of his treasure vertue and sufficiency which comes to be shed abroad in all them that believe in it it s that through which God maketh known his will and teacheth his by it and reveals his saving health through it to them that are taught by it and through it them that believe in it are builded up in the truth and becomes a habitation for God no man doth any thing to purchase it none need say where may I get it or how may I know its teaching it s near thee it is in thee it hath appeared to all men it shews ungodliness in the heart of man by its pure brightness yea to all men it shews the motions unto sin and that which is not like God in motions words or actions it draweth the heart of man from them as with a cord it shews the lusts of the heart and mind the lust of the eye and the pride of life it never joyned to sin nothing can alter its purity or property as in it self it is always one and the same it is perfect and will be alwayes so it stands off and at a distance from that which is corruptable and imperfect and yet beholdeth it and although some that have turned to it be again turned from it and may turn it as in themselves into wantonness yet it keeps its purity and still reproves thy wantonness and will lay it before thee and will shew thee how thou hast abused the appearance of Christ and hath marred his countenance and his face reprove thee for it many have been the talkers of it in this professing age but knew not of what they spoke neither ever informed the mind of man where it was to be waited for neither how it might be known or how or what the operation of it was but have cryed up their own Imaginations we are justified by his free grace for all sins past present to come in this conceit thousands have been led into the pit of darknesse while out of thick darknesse they have cryed up we are justified by free grace in Christ while the free grace of Christ Gods gift which should have taught them they never heeded at all but got up into conceitednesse and carelesnesse and presumption out of the feare of God and pretending justification while they themselves were servants of sin and bond-slaves to corruption and this is the state of thousands at this day and they that have been publishers and preachers of free grace Now when the thing it self comes to be witnessed and declared what it is and as it is and where it is now they say it is not sufficient to teach any the knowledge of God but from all such foolish doaters and blind guides and ignorant shepherds is God bringing many sheep home which they have driven away they would kill them now that are fed and taught by the gift of God and says it s not sufficient and to make them to dislike their food and dislike their shepherd so would make them deaf and blind and then they may lead them into any desart and feed them among the swine who wallow in the mire in filthinesse and lust and pleasure and ungodlinesse and so beguil the sheep and scatter them from the fold and lead them from the true shepherd and from his appearance which is his grace and from the shepherds voice which is the word of his grace which is able to save the soul. Oh all you blind guides and you that call your selves Orthodox men and Ministers and all you that have been preaching free grace in words and now when God hath given them that have waited upon him an understanding to declare the thing it selfe that you have spoken of now you cry it is not a sufficient Teacher Now let me aske you a question if that which teacheth to deny ungodlinesse and shewes it be the grace of God and the gift of God then how say you it s not a sufficient teacher If it be not a sufficient teacher then why did the Apostles commit them and commend them to the word of his grace which was able to save their souls And whether is not that which is able to save the soul a sufficient teacher Answer ye wise men and ye literal Rabbies If that which shewes sin and temptation be not sufficient then declare you and let us see your skill in the mysteries of God but to return to them in whose minds there is a desire to be informed seeing then that Gods free grace which is his pure appearance hath so far manyfested it selfe or God through it shewes sin and teacheth from sin that which teacheth from sin is holy and that which leadeth from worldly lusts is pure and that which saves from sin is grace which is saving in it selfe and God hath so loved the world as that he hath sent his Son into the World he was and is the light of the world and hath shed abroad his grace and hath made it appear to all and all that waites upon it and comes to be taught by it feels its assurance so all is left without excuse therefore wait in that which hath appeared in thee that which shewes the lusts and thoughts and motions unto sin this is Gods gift Gods grace this is sufficient Though all men in the World say it is not sufficient yet this makes not my faith voyd neither thine who hath received it but thou hast the witness of thy faith in thy self which giveth pure and perfect feeling of the operation of the Spirit of the Lord and all is to wait within to hear him who condemns sin in the flesh within which by his grace shews man his transgression and insufficiency in himselfe and by the word of his grace saves all them that believe in it out of sin giveth dominion over sin and this comes to be revealed in the heart of man and there must it be waited for in that which is pure that it may be received and there the operation it comes to be known and its
vertue partaken of by all that do believe in it and receive it and are subjected to it they see feel Gods salvation revealed through it to their souls and knowes where their strength lyes not in selfe-acting but in the free gift of God the gift of righteousnesse the righteous gift by which justification cometh upon all that believe Whether all have received the grace of God or no declared and whether it be a sufficient teacher in it selfe to wit that grace that hath appeared to all if it be received demonstrated THis wise generation is below the wisdome of God whose wisdome have confounded peoples minds with distinctions as that there is a Two-fold grace First that which they call common which they say hath appeared to all men Scondly that which they call special and saving which hath onely appeared to the saints and by giving heed to these distinctions in times past many yeares ago I lost my selfe and my guid and went from the appearance of it in my selfe to hearken to a thing at a distance from me and heeded not that at home which was near because it was called common and insufficient so suffered great losse and therefore I am moved by him in whose sight I have found favour and mercy and grace to declare the truth as the Lord hath made it manifest unto me and in me that all who seek after the Lord may be informed and know where to wait upon the Lord for unto that grace that shewed me evil and temptations unto evil I was made to goe back unto after many yeares profession which they called common and insufficient before ever I found the Lord or felt his living power again For the first they ground upon the letter as they judge where it is said He causeth the Sun to shine and the raine to fall upon the just and the unjust And where it is said in him we live and move and have our being health and strength and an understanding in things natural and by which men comes to see grosse sins and evils but that which they call special is that which the Saints are saved by and are established in in righteousnesse and receive the remission of sins Now he who hath caused the Sun to shine the raine to fall and giveth health and strength nourishment to all things living that are visible in the outward visible creation and that discovereth grosse sins and open evils to man the same is he who is the life of the soul the same is he that sanctifies and purifies and saveth them that believe and its the same vertue and power that upholds the naturall man in his pure nature that upholds the spiritual man and by which he liveth unto God It 's the same grace I do not say the same measure for the same vertue and power by which all things that are visible and living were made alive and subsists in their station and covenant and bound where they are set and placed the same grace strength power and sufficiency upholdeth the heavenly bodies and moveth and acteth in a higher sphear or degree and preserveth all that believe and are quickned by him who is the power of God in heavenly places and the same power and vertue that discovereth the dark places and the hellish places and the horrible pit it 's the same power life strength and vertue that leadeth all that believe into the Land of the living into the holy place into the peaceable habitation into the holy mountain into the heavenly Tabernacle made without hands And in few words he that discovers open sins the same grace and the same purity discovereth hidden and secret sins though the measure of its purity shine in one more then another because them that are in the unbeliefe the darknesse over-shadowes and the mountains are high and the vail is thick and the clouds are many and the ayre dark so that it's resplendency and brightnesse is not seen because of the vail which shadowes it that it hath not much enterance but in them that believe and have received that grace and is joyned to it in which they believe it renteth the vail and maketh the shaddow to flie away and scatters the clouds and breatheth forth it self in purity and makes the air clearer so that its brightness shineth more purely forth to them and in them because the heart is more open to receive its vertues in yet the same purity and vertue remains still and the same grace keeps its purity and property in it self and its power and sufficiency is alwayes the same though it do not appear so to the creature So this I say and is my testimony of the grace of God which is the gift of God which hath appeared in some measure more or less unto all men and convinceth and shewes gross and open evils even the same grace by its vertue and power leadeth from the least or impurest thought and shews the secretest evils that lodgeth in the heart unbelief and also every temptation unto sin and this shall be witnessed to be the truth by the whole earth in the day of the Lords appearing and is now witnessed by all the children of Light who believe with whom I have fellowship in the pure living sufficient perfect grace of God which is Gods free gift which in some measure hath appeared to all whereby all are left without excuse And herein is the wonderful love of God made manifest to all man-kinde and all that turneth to his grace will see he hath long waited to be gracious in his grace which is near that all mankind might be partakers of his bounty love mercy favour and free gift by which justification cometh upon all that believe Therefore my bowels and heart is more open in this unto all because many have erred for lack of knowledge and have wandred aside because they have not found a true guide Therefore in dear love unto all upon the face of the Earth where this may come I write and let out my bosome into this thing that they may also be partakers with me of the free love of God and the free grace of God by which I am saved and know the wall which is salvation and the gates which are praise which the Saints are compassed about with and entered in at and for the sake of such who thirst after God and the knowledge him I write for their information and not to satisfie critical men nor them who are in the Philosophy and vain deceit who are swollen big in their fleshly understandings puffeth up in their earthly minds for by such I desire not any testimony neither acceptance But now to come to speak of that which many are doubting about that is to say the grace of God which bringeth salvation which hath appeared to all men whether this be a sufficient Leader and Teacher of it self if it be received but in order to the thing in hand let all take notice of this that when I speak of the sufficiency of grace and that it is a sufficient Teacher I do not speak of it distinct from Christ or of a thing separated from the power of God but one with it and him from whence it comes for as he is salvation it self
so the grace of God is of the same nature by which he manifests himself and his salvation to them that believe and also reveals his witness in them for where the appearance and presence of Christ is manifest there is his power and strength manifest either to condemnation or salvation and though his pure appearance and presence is one in it self yet them that have marred his countenance and pierced him his presence alwayes hath been and will be very dreadful and terrible but unto them that believe and have continued with him in his temptation and have suffered with him and have longed for him his appearance and presence will be amiable beautiful and lovely sweet pleasant delightful desirable glorious and admirable so that they who have seen it have been melted into tears and dissolved as into water because of his love and beauty who is the chief of ten thousand Oh! that all that long after him may wait for him in patience in that wherein he will appear they shall see him whose sight will be a recompence for all longing and thirsting and desiring and waiting the sense of longing and thirsting will be taken away when he that makes glad the heart appeareth who lifteth up the light of his countenance and maketh whole them whose hearts have been broken for him whom their souls loved therefore all wait and think not the time long Keep in your minds to his grace which is his appearance and him you will feel and see and be satisfied and say This is he we have waited for let us rejoyce and be exceeding glad for now he is come and his reward is with him to give every one that wait upon him in purity full contentment and satisfaction where peace comes to be felt and joy unspeable which is full of glory And though God out of his everlasting love unto the sons of men hath followed man and hath called him to return yet that nature which is above in man which hath transgressed the life doth alwayes resist the drawing of the Lord and is not subject to the Law of God neither to the grace of God which teacheth to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts that hath beset and compassed the creature about as a thick cloud always maketh War against the soul that till there be a listning unto that which sheweth ungodliness wch hath power in it self none hath power neither dominion over that in themselves which leads into the transgression Therefore though God who is salvation it self hath let out himself so far and hath appeared in his pure and perfect grace unto all men yet all have not received grace For though the Lord proffer his gift intentionally that the creature might receive it and so have benefit and partake of its living vertue and operation yet while that hath preheminence in man which is contrary to grace that will never receive it because it is contrary to the life of the corruptible and takes its life away and mortifies and slayes the enmity therefore all must be still and quiet and wait in that which is pure of the Lord that they may feel that raised up which receiveth grace above the corruptible thoughts and desires of the carnal mind but many who talk of free grace have put no difference betwixt the precious and the vile but hath put them upon doing and working who are in the enmity and curse and in death and so hath brought forth dead works notwithstanding all performances they being dead to the life of God another acteth in them even he which hath the power of Death which is the Devil and so have not known that which was precious in themselves could not Minister unto that which was precious in others but have been Ministers of Death and have ministred to death and so Death nourisheth it self in all them who are not yet come to the separation to see betwixt the precious and the vile Now though all have not received grace so as to save them from the committing of sin the fault is not in God Israel would have none of my counsel they stopped their ears Neither is the fault in the grace which hath appeared unto all men Neither is it because of it's imbiscility weaknes but because it is not hearkned unto and waited in and obeyed believed in received for this eternal truth which shal for ever stand the least measure of the grace of God hath power in it self to save man from committing of that evil or sin which it shews man And as it is received the power comes more and more to be made manifest where all that believes comes to be preserved out of evil Object But some have said and now say there is common grace and preventing grace and restraining grace and saving grace and the former that hath appeared to all but the latter hath appeared to the Saints and to the elect onely Ans. Grace is Gods pure and perfect gift and is but one thing I speak not of quantity but of quality not of so much as that the fulness of grace hath appeared to all but of a measure of that fulness which is in Christ the head although I do not divide the least measure from the fulness in quality or nature for it 's one and the same for that which shews a man he should not lie nor swear that is as pure according to it's latitude and proportion as that which shews a man all that ever he hath done and that same grace which leads a man from drunkenness and excess is as pure and of the same kind and nature as that greater proportion which leadeth a man from all sin I speak what I have seen from the Father though the dark world cannot receive it But people have been blinded and darkned with sounds and distinctions which men coyn and frame in their natural reason and by their natural parts which is out of the life although I do not condemn natural parts which are purely natural if they keep their bounds and compass that is to say to the management of natural things of the visible creation but the things of Gods kingdom are of another quality and nature and cannot be reached unto by the natural but as I said men through distinctions and names hath wracked peoples minds confounded their understandings and have led them into a thick wood or a wilderness so they know not where to get forth neither what the thing is of which one speaks because not being spoken through the enticing words of mans wisdom which darkens the counsell of God Now that which shews a man evil after it be committed is the pure appearance of God And
that which shews a man the temptations when they arise that is the same now this they call common and that which preventeth a man and keeps him back that he lend not his heart nor puts forth his hand to commit evil but restrains a man from it is not that saving out of evil which stops the adversary in his way that he enter not but preserveth the creature out of defilement and saves him from it is not this saving is not this the same thing that the Apostle who was well acquainted with the grace of God and of it's operation wrote of to Titus That grace of God which brought salvation which had appeared and doth now appear to all men which taught self-denyal them to deny wordly lusts and also to live godlily or like unto God in this present world and now doth the same is not this sufficient to believe in and sufficient to save Now I doe not say but there is a greater measure let out unto them that are converted unto God then is to them that are convinced of their evil by the same grace yet still it is one and the self-same thing one gift yet a greater measure of one and the same pure vertue and power which is given to them that obeys the life which is already made manifest by its appearance unto all Ob. But some will be ready to say that this is error and that which is contrary to scripture and to Orthodox teachers that the grace which is saving is near all men and hath appeared to all men To that I answer Though grace be saving in it selfe even the grace that hath appeared to all men and may truly be called saving grace yet to them that believe not in it neither are taught by it it convinceth and shews evil and checks and judges for it yet there is no variation nor change in the gift of God but as it worketh upon different objects for faith and unbelief are two different things as light and darkness are different and so the word of his grace is the savour of life unto life that is to say unto them that believe and is the savour of death unto death unto them who are in the unbelief who indeed are dead while they live yet there is the same grace and the same word of grace yet here is different operations so the Lord killeth and maketh alive yet the same Lord The spirit convinceth of sin and reproveth for sin and also consolates and comforts Here is diversity of operations yet the same spirit which never alters Object But further some may say If that it be saving grace or at the least a degree and a measure of saving grace that hath appeared to all men then how is it that all are not saved by it Answ. Because I would all stumbling blocks were removed away that the path might be made plain that all might come to believe in that which is Gods gift in which there is power and sufficiency Therefore I am constrained by the grace of God to declare of it and to bear witness to it thus largely which I know will be to the edification of all that hunger after righteousness All are not saved by it because they believe not in it neither are taught by it yet its validity power and vertue is nevertheless in it self and though them that are careless and heedless say we feel no power nor sufficiency in it to save us from sin yet this makes not void their confidence who have received it knows its power which hath given them power and also sufficiency to do the will of God what though unbelievers who are in the alienation say there is no beauty in Christ neither form nor comliness this makes not his glory void who is the express Image of the Father full of grace and truth the Disciples saw it and bore record of him who were in the faith and the Pharisees said he had a Devil who were in the unbelief but in brief this is my testimony that the grace of God the perfect gift of God which shewes ungodlinesse and leads from ungodlynesse all that are taught by it is a sufficient teacher of it selfe I mean as the power of Christ through it is made manifest unto all them that hearken to it Paul â— Minister of the word of reconciliation who was wrapt up into the third heaven where he saw things unutterable came to be temptâ—â—d and buffeâ—ted with the messenger of Sâ—tan and feare and doubting rose up in him he prayed unto God thrice and this answer was given unto him my grace is sufficient for thee so this is evident to all understandings who are opened by the Lord that which shewed him the temptations and Satans messengers and Satans buffetings was sufficient to preserve him and so is it for all who singly are kept to it and in it sufficient to shew ungodlinesse because of its purity and to lead from worldly lusts by its power and to teach the will of God and to live like unto God in this present world and this testimony I beare of it and to it even what I have felt and tasted and handled of its sufficiency and vertue and power of its operation for the confirmation of the same truth which is believed by many brethren and also for the information of them that thirst after the Lord for the opposition of all the gainsayers and opposers of it which testimony I commend to that of God in every man which will witnesse me herein in the day of God when all hearts are opened and all falshoods truth is made manifest in the mean time shall rest in that which I have declared of in which there is pure and perfect peace A word to you wise men of this world who are glorying in the sound of words and worshipping outward appearances to all wise and litter all professors who think you are worshipping God aright who think to search in to the deep things of God by your natural wisdom learning and parts and study GOd hath broken open the seals of the great deep where the wonderful unutterable things of God is revealed from whence eternal wisdom is flowing forth to his little ones whom he hath sanctified from the womb and his power and glory is he shedding abroad and making it to flow forth as though it issued out of a womb by which power and wisdom you are all weighed even by one who is swaddled about with righteousness and girded up with the girdle of truth you are all measured as with a span and are all weighed as with a scale all your parts tongues languaguages interpretations significations wisdom that is come to be enjoyed by them who have believed in the true Light that lighteth every man which rounds you all as a heap and measures you all as with a line your breadth length height and depth your parts Tongues Languages interpretations is but all natural words are but empty
in the holy Ghost And the Colossions who had waited for it and believed in that through which it was revealed the Apostle was in the same Faith Coloss. 1. 12. 13. Who hath made us meet partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light who hath delivered us from the power of darknesse and hath transformed us into the kingdome of his dear Son And those things were seen in the body and witnessed in the body And the Apostle to Hebrews saith He that believes is entred into the rest And this and all these things were feeled within by the seed immortal the birth immortal and they that witness the birth immortal to live in them One said He hath made us joynt-heirs with Christ who is the King of eternal glory and they were Joint-heires with him of the kingdome that fades not away and all that ever comes to see the kingdome of God in the spirit which is spiritual must wait in the spirit and in its manifestation that so God and his Kingdome and the things of Gods Kingdome may be felt and seen and enjoyed in the spirit which is glorious Object All this which thou hast spoken may some say is the kingdome of grace and that we hold there is a two-fold kingdome the one of grace here the other of glory hereafter which none comes to enjoy glory or any part of it in this life or in the body Answ. People hath long been blinded with confused distinctions about names and being full of imaginary thoughts and conceptions have brought forth foolish and unlearned distinctions and that which God hath joyned together they would separate grace is glorious and glory is gratious he that can receive it let him the kingdome of God which was like a grain of mustard-seed afterwards it became a great tree the tree in its strength and glory and height is more glorious then when it s in the seed yet the seed and the tree is in nature and quality and kind one if the kingdome be in dominion in purity and power and glory is not here unity yet a greater measure yet still the dominion is one the power one the glory one and the thing one wherein grace standeth and glory standeth wherein the kingdome standeth grace is glorious Eph. 1. 6 7. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children and to the praife and glory of his grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved In the Fathers house there are many mansions places in the kingdome of God there are many heavenly places and they that walked to the praise of his grace came to sit also in heavenly places Eph. 2 6. through grace salvation through grace glory comes to be revealed in the earth Isa. 6. 3. The Earâ—h is full of his glory he that makes heaven and Earth glorious is glory it selfe from whence grace aud every degree of gloly receives its being the least measure of Gods strength and power is glorious and to be gloried in in the Lord by all that have seen it Things might be declared which God hath revealed which is not lawful for me now to utter for as one star differs from another in glory yet all glorious even so is it with the children of the resurrection who are quickned and made alive and raised from the dead and fashioned like unto his glorious body partakers of the glory of God of his kingdome of his power the power is his in which the kingdome stands the kingdome his wherein glory stands the kingdom power and glory stands all in him who is the glorious God and the God of eternal glory who is revealing his power his kingdome and grace and his glory unto all that patiently wait upon him in that which yet is as a grain of mustard-seed they will come to feel his presence his power and glory revealed in their hearts through the spirit and injoy God in his kingdome in his power and in his glory and through faith shall see the weight of his glory which God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ will reveal unto all that patiently wait for his appearance and in his appearance Obj. But some will cry out grievous blasphemy and error what I think you look for no other glory but in this Life nor for no other Kingdome but what you enjoy in this life thus I know dark spirits reasons Answ. The Saints looked not afâ— any other glory but that which stood in eternal life and in the immortal Life and in the incorruptable life and the Country they sought after was that which God was the maker and builder of and they looked and waited to receive of his power in which the Kingdome standeth and did in this life I do not say the full weight of glory and to know and injoy and to be made partakers of his eternal dominion and authority is that which all the Saints in measure witnesse and in due time came to injoy through faith for by faith they saw him who was invisible and the things of his kingdome which is invisible spiritual and eternal but to speak of the carnal corruptable life in the flesh who are dead while they live there that life neither the kingdome nor the power nor the glory of God is revealed to them not till after the death of that life and till after the death of him who hath the power of death which is the Devil which ruleth in the hearts of the children of disobedience where all the mysteries of Gods kingdome is hid from their eyes and ever shall while in that state and so let the Serpent be blind and they that have an eare to hear blessed is that eare for the kingdome of God is come nigh unto many and the salvation of God and the power of Christ is seen by many honour and praise unto him everlastingly who is the onely Potentate that puts down all authority under his feet that God may be all in all but first every one must come to feel the kingdome which is as a little grain in himselfe and in it believe before any can come to know the Kingdome or wherein it consists and after it be known in its measure yet this is far short of glory in the fulness so many may come to be partakers of the power in some measure yet this is far short of the eternal weight of glory He that believes is entred into the rest and made partakers of the heavenly gift and of the heavenly power and of the heavenly grace which is glorious and doth witness a heavenly place in Christ Jesus and yet many enemies to be subdued and much of the heavenly habitation which they see not which comes to be revealed as there is an abiding in the faith which stands in Gods power in which the kingdom stands the mysteries of God and of his kingdom comes in due time to be revealed through death they come to be known that is to say through the death of death for Israel the true type after they passed over Jordan and had taken Jericho and Ai and had made an entrance into the land yet there was many enemies to be subdued and much land and possessions which they were not made partakers of long after even so after there be of the true rest enjoyed and possessed an entrance made into it yet there is many enemies to be subdued and much of the heavenly inheritance to be enjoyed by them that stand in the power which giveth dominion over sin the devil hell and the grave and they come to be made partakers of God and so the enmity being slain man comes to enjoy God who is eternal life and comes to receive the crown immortal which God the eternal power and strength giveth in due time to them that wait in patience and in faith through which the immortal inheritance comes to be revealed to all the children of light And so to conclude in few words this I say unto all who are longing after God and waiting to feel his power keep in your minds to the pure measure of Gods holy spirit and therein wait to see his kingdom and his dominion and to be made partakers of it which brings the world to an end and will let you see to the end of it too before it was and him who is now glorified with the Father in the kindom of God with the same glory he had with the Father before the world began and who so comes to the end of the world and to the beginning again comes to see him and his glory and the kingdom of glory which fades not away which who so comes to enjoy are eternally happy THE END ERRORS PAge 14. l. 9. blot out of p. 25. l. 20. for Angei r. angel p. 32. l. 24. for presumptions r. presumptious p. 33. l. 8. f. he r. the the same p. l. 12. for undeclareble r. undeclarable p. 46. l. 23. f hit r. his p. 71. l. 27. f. soul. r. fold p. 86. l 25. f. ntichrists r. Antichrists p. 99. l. 18. f. power r. popery p. 101. l. 11. f. neral r. funeral p. 124. l. 10. f. our r. your p. 156. l. 3. f. corrupt ble r. corruptible p. 160. l. 24. r. a moment f. moment p. 208. l. 12. f. cnrst r. curst