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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42712	The everlasting rule born witness unto, vvhich is to try all people that do profess God and Christ in words, or, I. A tender salutation to all people in what nation soever, and under what form soever, who do profess God and Christ in words ... II. Also an exhortation unto all people to come to that which will give them victory over sin and the devil ... III. A distinction between the ministers of Christ and the ministers of Antichrist ... / by a lover of truth and righteousness, who seeks the well-being of all mankind, William Gibson.	Gibson, William, 1629-1684.	1667 (1667)	Wing G682; ESTC R38756	64,130	72

Evil will be daily weaker and weaker but that which will lead you into Good will grow daily stronger and stronger until it hath wholy overcome that nature which hath led you into Evil but mark as I said before it is no sin to be tempted to do Evil but the sin is to do the Evil that one is tempted unto so when Christ the Light shall give any one Dominion over the Tempter so that he cannot make them do any thing that is Evil yet he will tempt them to do Evil at sometimes so all who cometh to be preserved out of sin they must keep their minds unto the Light within them daily Luk 9.23 24 25. yea hourly For said Christ he that will be my Disciple must deny himself and take up his Cross daily and follow me mark he must deny himself and take up that which crosseth his own selfish will and selfish wisdom for it is Self in man and woman which leads unto the Tempter and so commits sin and this made Christ say unto his Disciples Without me ye can do nothing he said unto them Joh. 15. from verse 1 to 11. I am the Vine ye are the Branches as the Branches cannot bring forth Fruit except they abide in the Vine no more can ye except ye abide in me so read the thing in the Spirit inwardly If a man believe in the Light of Christ within him and loveth and obeyeth it then he cometh to be ingrafted into Christ the true Vine then the Light in which he hath believed is a daily cross unto self in him which if it had its way in him and were not crossed and kept down by the Light then it would obey the Tempter and so commit sin but when the Light is believed in loved and obeyed self is judged and denied and kept under the yoke and cross and then it is no more Self that Reigneth in Man which while it Reigneth will answer the Tempter and so commit sin but then it is the Seed of the Woman which Reigneth and Remaineth in Male and Female which hath in them bruised the wise and cunning and crooked Gen. 3.15 and wilful Serpents head and so the Seed Christ the Light comes to Reign over Man and Woman in their own hearts and such are come to be born of God and so hath overcome the Wicked one and such doth not commit sin because the Seed Christ Reigneth and Remaineth in them and then though the Prince of the World come and tempt such to do evil they do not obey him because they have denied Self which did commit sin and now Christ the true Seed and in whom the Tempter the Prince of the World hath no part Reigneth and he is the Lamb of God who hath taken away the sins of as many as have believed in and in faithfulness followed the Light within them wherewith he hath enlightened them and in such he hath fulfilled in the Substance that which he did in the Figure in the outward Temple at Jerusalem For it is written That he made a Whip of small Cords Joh. 2.15 and whipped out of the outward Temple the Buyers and Sellers And he said My Fathers House hath been Called a House of Prayer but ye have made it a Den of Theeves this I say was but a Type or Figure of his coming inwardly in Spirit to cleanse the Temple of mans Heart and Body which was defiled with Idolatry Covetousness Pride Envy Lying Swearing Cheating Dissembling vain Talking foolish Jesting Whoredoms Murthers Roberies and divers other Abominations which men and women have been defiled withal And so Glory to the Lord God for evermore he hath sent his Son a Light into our hearts and since we have believed in the Light of Christ in our hearts he hath clensed our hearts from such of the beforementioned evils as we were in the practice of and so we have felt and known a sharp Spiritual Scourge inwardly in our own hearts scourging and afflicting our Souls inwardly for our sins and iniquities which we did commit in Rebellion against the Light in our own hearts and so we have born the indignation of God inwardly Micah 7.7 8 9. in our own hearts and consciences and he ha h sitten as Refiners Fire and as Fullers Sope in our inward parts purifying our hearts which was sull of uncleanness and we have known great pain inwardly and we have wept and mourned over the Right Heir the Seed Zech. 12.10 11. the Light which we had Rebelled against and done dispite unto but since we learned obedience unto the Light the Lord our God hath forgiven us our trespasses which we had trespassed against him and now he guides us by his Spirit and Light which dwelleth in us yea now are we become the workmanship of our God Created by him in Christ Jesus the Light within us unto good works Ephes 2.1 2 c. to the end I hil 2.13 which he before ordained that we should walk in them and so it is our God who worketh all our works for us and in us and so it is by the Grace Light and Spirit of our God in our own hearts which did convince us of our sins and did trouble and condemn us for our sins Isa 26.12 that we are saved from our sins I mean Tit. 2.11 12 13 14. we are led out of the Action and Practice of that which formerly we lived in the practice of for which the Light Spirit and Grace Isa 1.16 17 18 19. which is but one in its Nature though its Names be divers did condemn us And so as the Apostle Paul said unto the Saints in his time By Grace are ye saved through Faith and not of our selves for it is the Gift of God Mark by the Grace of God which bringeth Salvation which hath appeared unto all men were they taught to deny and forsake the practice of Evil doing and Evil speaking and to judge and deny the Tempter when he brought an evil thought into their hearts to do speak or give their consents unto any evil and thus did they resist the Devil in the Grace that let them see the Temptation and then when he could not get them to yeeld unto him then he fled from them as it is written Draw near unto the Lord and he will draw near unto you Jam. 4.7 8 9 10. Resist the Devil and he will flee from you So when they did believe in the Grace and Light wherewith Christ Jesus the Son of God had enlightened them and did joyn their minds unto it and loved it then it began to lead them out of Ungodliness Worldly Lusts and all wicked Words and Works which before they bad lived in and did commit with greediness as many do now in this our Age and Generation and then when they followed the Teachings of the Grace of God in their own hearts and was by it led out of their sins which made them unlike

hath opened our understandings and we do clearly see that they have not the Living Bread to seed upon themselves and so hath it not to deal unto others for we do see and know them to be proud covetous envious men and we do see know that the Lord God never made use of such to feed his Sheep for the greedy earthly and envious man is of the Wolvish nature and he is is not a fit man to be made a keeper of Gods Lambs for he is more like to devour them then feed them with the Bread of Life but now Glory to the Lord God for ever he hath opened an Eye within us by which we are come to see them and to know them and they cannot do any good to our Souls with their Preaching and Praying that we do certainly know and so we have no need of them for we have no need of that which will do us no good but hurt for we are able to prove that they do not stand in the Counsel of God Jer. 23. from verse 21 to 32. and therefore the people that follow them are not turned from the evil of their wayes and they have not been sent of the Lord therefore he hath not blessed them and their Labours for they have been Preaching and Praying for many years and it hath been a frequent practice of theirs to sell their Sermons Hosea 6.5 and their Prayers to those that would give the most Money for them and when they had been preaching unto and praying for a People several years and hath had from those people it may be One hundred pounds by the year yet when they have heard of it may be an hundred and fifty pounds to be had by the year at another place then they have left their Flocks which had paid them an hundred pounds by the year for their hire and hath gone unto those that would pay them an hundred and fifty pounds by the year for their hire Micah 3.9 10 11. and so they have shifted from one place to another to sell their preaching and their prayers at a dear rate and those covetous Hirelings have striven one with another Isa 9.13 14 15 16. who should have that place where there was most Money to be had for their preaching and praying Isa 56.10 11. and they have gone to Law one with another to get great places where there is much hire one from another they have been bad Examples to their Flocks they have lived in Pride and in Covetousness Jer. 5.30 31. and in these things they do greatly abound at this time and they are haters and persecuters of those that fears God Jer. 6.13 14. and verse 10. and are taught of God who cannot buy their Merchandise any more and although such who are taught of God do deny them and their preaching and their praying Jer. 14.14 15. and doth not come to hear them preach and pray yet they do demand wages of them for whom they do not work and because such who are taught of God cannot not dare not give them any thing because they know they are not sent of God and therefore doth no good unto peoples Souls with their praying and preaching but hurt yet when such who are taught of God will not give them hire Ezek. 13. read it through then they Sue them at the Law and take from them it may be three or four or five times as much as they demanded to be their due and thus they are more unreasonably wicked and unlike God then any other Tradesmen so these covetous Tradesmen of Great Mystery Babylon the Mother of all Harlots they are altogether unlike the true Ministers of Christ which he sent forth who said unto them Freely you have received freely give Mat. 10.8 9. c. to the end of the Chapter and they did as Christ commanded them and they went into the Towns and Cities and Countries and Nations to enquire who had a desire after the Knowledg of God and who was willing to receive the Kingdom of God and they preached the Gospel freely without Money and without Price yea without the price of One hundred pounds by the year yea the Ministers of Christ in former Ages and the Ministers of Christ in this Age fulfilled and doth fulfil that which the Spirit of God in Isaiah the Prophet called for when he said O come ye to the Waters Isa 55. from verse 1 to 10. come buy Milk and Wine without Money and without Price why will ye spend your Money for that which is not Bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not I say the Apostles Ministers of Christ in their dayes preached freely without money and without price and they brought people to the Free Gift of God in themselves to the anointing which was in them which was sufficient to teach them Rev. 22.17 1 Joh. 22.27 28 29. vers 26. and they needed no man to teach them but as the same anointing did teach them and this Testimony which John the Minister of Christ did bear was truth and no lye and Paul who was a Minister of Christ he brought people to the Free Gift of God in them he turned their minds from the darkness which was in them unto the Light of Christ in them which was the free gift of God unto them given unto them to teach them and Paul the Minister of Christ he said The Grace of God that bringeth Salvation hath appeared unto all men Tit. 2.11 12. and it taught him and the rest of the Saints who had believed in it to deny and forsake that which was unlike God and when they lived in it made them unlike God worldly Lusts and this free Grace of God taught them to live in the likeness of God in which likeness man was created and Paul when he writ unto the Saints he did commit them to God Act. 26 18. and the Word of his Grace which was in their hearts which he said was able to build them up and give them an inheritance and Paul said Ephes 2. read it through By Grace ye are saved and not of your selves for it is the Gift of God and we say the same if people believe in the Grace and obey it then it saves them from their Sins and so they are saved not by their own works but by the free Grace of God which bringeth Salvation which hath appeared unto all men but if they do not believe in the Grace then they are not saved by it but it is their condemnation and Jude in his Epistle saith the Wicked turn the Grace of God into Laciviousness and so denied the only true God Jude 4. and our Lord Jesus Christ Now Professors of all sorts consider they could not have turned the Grace of God into Laciviousness if it had not been manifest in them and unto them but it was manifest in them and they

rebelled against it and therefore it was their condemnation though they talked of God and Christ with their mouthes and profess God and Christ in words yet in works they did deny both God and Christ and so doth all in this Age who rebel against the Grace of God in them Peter the Minister of Christ he told the Saints 2 Pet. 1.19 that they had a moro sure Word of Prophesie then that which was heard in the Mount whereunto they did well if they took heed us unto a Light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn and the Day-star arise in your hearts Now People take notice that the dark place where the Light did shine which people was to take heed unto was within people for said he you do well that you take heed unto the Light which shineth in the dark place until the day dawn and the Day-star arise in your hearts so when they did believe in the Light and take heed unto the Light then the day did dawn in their hearts but when they did not believe in the Light nor take heed unto it then the thick night of darkness was in and over their hearts For God called the Light Day 1 Thess 5.7 vers 3 4 5 6 8. and the Darkness he called Night so all who do evil they do it in the Night in the Darkness when they are ravined from the Light the free Gift of God within them but Peter the Minister of Christ he brought people to the Light of the free Gift of God in them and so we the Servants and Ministers of Christ we do direct people to the Light and Grace of God in them which is Gods Gift unto them to profit withal and we the Servants of Christ do speak that freely unto people which we have freely and immediately received from the Lord God to speak unto them and it doth not cost us any Money for the Gift of God cannot be bought nor sold for Money for Simon Magus the Sorcerer when he perceived the Gift and Power of God which was with Peter and the rest of the Ministers of Christ he would have given them Money that he might have had the some Power but Peter said unto him Thy Money perish with thee thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter because thou hast thought that the Gift of God might be bought for Money so the Ministers of Christ in former Ages did not sell the Gift which God had given them for Money but judged and reproved Simon who would have given them Money for the Gift of God And the Servants or Ministers now at this day who have received a Gift from God and a Command from God to speak unto people they do not sell the Gift which God hath given unto them for Money nor any other Earthly thing nor their Words which they do speak from the Gift or Spirit of God within them they do not sell for Money nor for any Earthly thing and so in this they are like unto the Ministers of Christ in the Ages past and as the Ministers of Christ in the Ages past did direct people to the Light within the Grace within Joh. 1.1 2 c. to verse 13. the Spirit within the Word within and the Anointing within which was to guide them and lead them into all Truth so the Ministers of Christ in this Age doth direct people to the Light within Grace within Spirit within Anointing within and the Word within Deut. 30.14 which was in the Beginning that they may hear it in their own hearts and be obedient unto it And as the Ministers of Christ in former Ages lived a Godlike Sober and Holy life and lived in the good they exhorted others to come into and also lived out of the evil that they reproved others for so the Ministers of Christ at this day by the same Spirit of God within them are kept in a holy Godlike life and they are in the good they exhort others to come into and they live out of the evil that they reprove others for and in this they are like unto the Ministers of Christ in the former Age and the Ministers of Christ now in this Age are good examples unto those people unto whom they preach the Gospel and unto all people who sees them Glory yea glory to the Lord God for ever for it is his Work and it glorifies him and he is worthy for ever even so Amen for ever But the Hirelings whom God never sent nor commanded to preach who run and intrude themselves to be Teachers for Hire for their Belleys they say unto their Followers be not proud and they themselves are proud and they say unto their Followers be not covetous and they themselves are the most coveteous men that be upon the Earth their Fruits doth make them manifest for they do make it their frequent practice to force Wages from those they do no work for and I do not know any Tradesman in this Nation of any other Trade that will demand or force Wages from those they do no work for but only the Hireling Priests and the Officers of that bad Trade And the Hirelings saith be not Envious and they themselves are Envious and so they are out of the good they exhort others to come into and they are in the evil that they reprove others for and so their Doctrine is of no Authority and it is not worth heeding for it hath no power in it to kill Sin nor to cast him out of people who is the Power and Author and Root of Sin which is the Devil and so they are Hypocrites who judgeth their Followers for doing evil and they themselves are doing the same evil for Christ said that he was a Hypocrite who said unto his Brother Let me pull the Moat one of thine Eye and he had not first pulled the Beam out of his own Eye Mat. 7.3 4 5. and Christ said he was a Hypocrite who judged another Rom. 2.1 2 3. and acted the same things himself And this I say in the Name and Power of the Lord God that there is many thousands of those people who follows the Hireling Priests who are more naturally honest and are of a better understanding to receive the things of the the Spirit of God then the Hireling Priests who are their Teachers but God will gather them out from them and will teach them himself freely by his own Spirit in their own hearts Some of the Hireling Priests have been heard to say to their Followers do not as we do but do as we say now this is clearly contrary to the Doctrine of the Apostle who said unto them that followed him Walk as you have us for an Example and follow us 1 Cor. 11.1 Phil. 5.17 18 19. 1 Thess 1.6 7. 1 Pet. 5.1 2 3 4. as we follow Christ speaking of himsef and the rest of the Ministers of Christ he did not bid them