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A42020 A call out of gross darkness and idolatry into the light to wak [sic], which is the way of life ... with a word of advice and information ... / by Richard Greenway. Greenway, R. (Richard) 1662 (1662) Wing G1863; ESTC R25470 20,414 17

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labour for that which will not satisfie the Lord complained of too evils which his people had committed in days past and the same evils you are guilty of mark J●● 2. 13. They have forsaken me the fountain of living waters and have hewed to themselves broken Cesterns that can hold no water Moses prophesied of the true Prophets and said Deut. 18. 15. The Lord will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee of thy brethren like unto me unto him shal you harken mark and farther from the Lord he said And it shall come to pass that whosoever will not heark●n unto my words which he shall speak in my name I will require it of him It is not he shall be cut off that doth not hear man that may come in his own name bu● him ●hat came in the name of him that sent him for as Christ said in his day so it may be said unto you in this day if one came to you in the name dread and power of the Lord him you will not hea● but if one come in his own name or as sent by man him you will hear c●y up and fight for but him that was sent of the Lord you cry down with him away with him he is not fit to live and so fall to halling and rending in your madness and blind zeal smite and beat with the fist of wickedn●ss by which ●t appears you are not spiritual 〈◊〉 neither Priest nor people had not the weapons whicht he Ministers and people of the Church of Christ had who said our weapons are not ca●nal but spiritual and mighty through God for the bringing down of strong holds of sin and Satan and if you or your Priest had been armed with that which the Christians were of old and used to war with resist gainsayers with then you would not have smote me with the fist of wickedness as some of you did lay upon me and though I was beaten thrust and punched by some of you yet from my very heart I do desire it may never be layd to your charge but that you may come to see the evil of it and repent and m●y find mercy and truly I can say concerning them that were most inraged against me Father forgive them for they knew not what spirit they were of and I know it was blind zeal in some of them and it may be they might think I deserved no less looking upon me as their enemy and one that did disturbe them but freinds you that were so disturbed what was that which was disturbed in you was it not an evil nature that was in your selves that was so soon dist●rbed if it had not been a mad hasty rash spirit which rose in you against me and carried you violently to run upon me if you had been but sober reasonable men you would have heard me in what I had to speak and then left me to the Law if in any thing I h●d been a transgressor you ought to have left me to that to have suffered according to Law but amongst the true Christians it was not accounted a disturbance to do as I did for in the Church of true Christians if any thing were revealed to one that stood by the first was to hold his peace the Apostle true Minister of Christ said you may all prophecy one by one that all may be edified and sometimes the Apostle went into the Synagogs and into the Tempels as their manner was to dispute with them and to bare their testimony against Idolatry and som●times they were haled out by the professing Jews Sometimes had before Magistrats and into Prisons and Somtimes beaten and stoned by the vagabond Jews and baser sort of the people and its like they might be called disturbers then too as we are now by you but mark this you may read that the Christians were always persecuted but never were persecutors Paul before he was a Christian he was a persecutor when he was a Zealous professing Pharesee he was exceeding mad in his blind zeal against the Christians but the Lord pricked him in his Conscience and called unto him by his powerful word saying in him Saul Saul why persecute thou me and when he took heed to that which pricked in him and by which the Lord called unto him then with the light he saw what he had done and was going to do and so he repented and found mercy and that is the desire of my soul that those which offered the most violence against me may feel the checking of the witness in their own conscience may repent thereof and may finde mercy as he did and so may come to be witnesses of the grace of God which hath appeared unto all as he was who said it taught to deny all ungodliness c. And that you all may do to others as you would be done unto at all times and then you will not hurt nor wrong any one nor in your hast rage nor madness offer violence unto any because you would not so be done unto and my freinds this is the way for you to fulfil the Royal Law of God the light which if you keep to you will do well And now here is a word to the simple hearted Come you Children in whome there is any hunger and thirst after the righteousness of God both young and old read and consider and I will teach you the fear of the Lord which David and Solomon said was the beginning of the true heavenly wisdome and knowledge and a good understanding have all they that do thereafter in keeping the commandments and observing the statuts of the Lord the fear of the Lord is to hate pride arogancy the evil way which is broad leads to destruction and from a froward mouth and lying tongue which are both abhorred by the Lord. Man woman is fallen from that state in which they were Created in the beginning is now by reason of disobedience erred from that which leads into th● fear and brings back again into that state which was before the fall and that is the light of Jesus Christ the Son of Gods love be is the way back again out of the fall he redeems the heart and minde out of the earth into which it is driven by reason of sin and transgrssieon up again unto the Lord and mankind having 〈◊〉 this way are in their minds alienated from the Lord his true fear which is as a fountaine 〈◊〉 cleanse the heart of the creature from evil and as a defence to keep it cleane it being lost and mankind being strayed from the good way of the Lord therefore before you can come again to finde it and to feel his puere fear you must take heed to the Light in you as aforesaid by which Christ Jesus hath lighted every one of you and as you waite therein you will come to see your ●●il deeds your thoughts words and works which your have wrought