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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91118	A testimony of God, and his way, and worship against all the false wayes and worships of the vvorld. Also an answer to some of the false doctrines held forth, by a professed minister, in VVales; shewing the unsoundness of his former actions, and is found to be one, in the nature of the vvorld; which sometime he hath spoken against. With an answer to some queries; propounded by one, who is called an Anabaptist. / Given forth for no other end, but in love to the truth, as it is in Iesus: by Alex: Parker.	Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.	1656 (1656)	Wing P383; Thomason E883_6; ESTC R207301	24,030	31

is pure and that which reproves and makes manifest sin is light as the Apostle declares Eph. 5.13 and this light shews sin before the action of it it shews it in its rise and conception before it come to action if there be but an evil thought or an evill motion or an evil desire or any evill intent the light discovers it and waiting in the light and believing in Christ who hath given the light the victory is obtained for the true faith purifies the heart and gives victory over the world and without faith it is not possible to please God and Paul who was a true Minister of God he was sent to open the blind eyes not to bring them eyes but to open that eye which the God of the world had blinded and so to turn them from darknesse unto light and from the power of Satan unto God that they might receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance a mongst them that are sanctified by faith in Jesus Christ and he preached Jesus Christ which was within the Saints their hope of glory teaching and exhorting every man in all wisedom that they might present every man perfect in Christ Jesus Col. 1.27 28. And when Christ ascended he gave some Apostles and some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ Eph. 4.11 12. this is the pure doctrine of Christ Jesus and that which he himself taught Mat. 5.48 Be ye perfect as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect But this doctrine Powell and all the Parish Teachers do oppose and so manifest themselves to bee Anti-Christ a gainst Christ and his true Ministers and serve another Master which is the Devil whose work they are doing pleading strongly for his Kingdom which stands in sin and imperfection and sayes none can be perfect while they live upon the earth this with them is an impossible thing but with God all things are possible and the true Ministers of God believe it and do earnestly contend for this faith and for their Master Christ and his Kingdom which stands in righteousnesse purity and perfection and no unrighteous one nor imperfect one can enter into it then woe to them that live in sin while they are upon earth their end will be in the lake of endlesse misery and this shall Powell and all the Antixtian Bablers one day witnesse And Powell in words this did preach that no unrighteous one could enter into the Kingdom of God and as long as any one sin was alive in any though never so little the devil could keep them by one as well as by many bringing this comparison that if a fisher-man had catched hold of a fish and the fish had broken two of his haires yet by one he might catch him so saith he all sin must be destroyed and the house clean swept and afterward he pleaded for sin and said none could be without sin nor perfect while he lived see his confusion by this doctrine a man must never be without the devill in him for all sin is of the devill and while sin is within the devill is with in But the true Ministers of God who came to witnesse Christ Iesus and his life and power made manifest in them did witnesse the devills work destroyed and consumed by his word which was as a fire in them and the Ministers of Christ do witnesse the same now by the same living power by which the devils works comes to be destroyed and the Son of God witnessed who makes free from sin and if the Son make you free then are you free indeed and in this Mr. Powell so called is out of the doctrine of Christ and contrary to his true Ministers Further the said Powell in the presence of many people did affirm that the Scriptures were the foundation and ground of Faith which thing I did deny and did testify a gainst him for blasphemy and do still affirm the same that whosoever doth say and teach that the Scripture is the foundation of Faith is a liar and a blasphemer and doth lay another foundation contrary to the Apostles as is testifyed of in 1 Cor. 3.11 For no other foundation can any man lay then that is laid which is Iesus Christ and the same do I witnesse and no other and here Powell must either confesse the Scriptures to be Christ or else he layeth another foundation contrary to that which all the holy men of God were built upon which had faith before the Scriptures were written Abel had faith before the Scripture was written and Abraham Isaac and Jacob and many others mentioned and spoken of in the Scripture they had faith and were built upon the rock even Iesus Christ who was before Abraham was and before the letter or writing was who was before the world was who is the same yesterday to day and for ever who is the ground and foundation of faith And Powell and all the Parish Teachers in England and else where that says the Scriptures are the foundation are in the blasphemy and error and his and their fouudation will not stand in the day of the Lord which shall burn up their works as hay and stuble and this shall Powell one day witnesse to be truth to him and all others who lay another foundation which is but sandy and cannot stand but great shall be the fall of it when the storm and tempest doth arise and in this the said called Mr. Powel is contrary to the true Ministers of Christ and the Scriptures shall be a testimony against him and his blasphemy who sets the Scriptures in the place of Christ which onely testify of Christ but are not Christ and the Scriptures declare of the foundation of faith Iesus Christ but the Scriptures are not the foundation Christ Jesus neither did any of the Ministers of Christ ever call the Scriptures the foundation and ground of faith but witnessed and declared Christ to be the Author and the finisher of their faith and the rock and foundation which they were built upon and the same do I testify of even Jesus Christ who was from the beginning and the same to day and for ever who was the rock in former ages and the ground of their faith and the rock of this age and so the rock of ages and the ground and foundation and the Author and finisher of our faith to whom be all honour and glory of and from all that know him for evermore And further as I was speaking of the word of the Lord and its power and effect and that the Holy men of God who came to witnesse the word of the Lord then knew it not by hearsay from others but by its

hath given the light is the heart purified and the conscience purged from dead works and so the devils works comes to be destroyed for for this purpose was the Son of God made manifest that he might destroy the works of the devill and the works of the devil are in the heart for in the time of the night the devil the enemy of man he hath wrought his works in the heart of man and so hath wrought and begotten him into his image to do his work and so man becomes a servant to the devil bringing forth fruits of unrighteousnesse and this is all done in the heart the devil having gotten possession and sits and rules as King in the heart of man and there is the ground of all sin it a riseth out of the heart which is deceitful and desperately wicked from thence ariseth pride envy wrath malice murders drunkennesse lying swearing adultery fornication covetousness persecution tiranny and oppression and all other evills whatsoever they have their ground and rise from with in out of the heart for there is no man tempted of God but every man when he is tempted he is drawn a way of his own lust for lust is conceived in the heart and after it is conceived it brings forth sin and sin being finished brings forth death and the wayes of sin is death and while sin lodgeth and is regarded in the heart it defiles the heart and separates from God and all the prayers and sacrifices that are offered up unto God from an impure heart are abomination to him all outward shewes and outward cleansing will not avail nor bring peace as long as the ground and root of sin remains within for it is the heart which the Lord requires as it is written my Son give me thy heart so it is an inward work that every one must know and witnesse if ever you know true peace and rest for as the devils work is within in the heart and defiles the heart so must the work of Christ be within likewise for the destroying of the devils works and for the purifying of the heart for this is the mistery which hath been hid and is hid from all wisedom of the flesh and from all vultrous eyes and venomous beasts and reveiled to the Babes and Lambs of God who have laid down their Crowns at the feet of the Lamb and have denied themselves and the pomp and glory of this world and do bear the dayly Cross and despised the shame and do love and walk in the light which the world hates and thereby are led out of darknesse and the ungodly practises which the world lives in into righteousness and peace to exercise a good conscience towards God and towards man and this must every one own if ever they own the living God or a pure conscience where the Mistery of faith is held they must own this light to guide them in the exercise of their consciences for this light is the eye whereby a man comes to see himself and the root and ground of sin and untill man comes to own this light he never comes truly so see himself and so is far from denying self for first a man must see himself before he can deny himself and the light it is that let a man see his sin and that he is driven from God and out of union with God because of his sin and it is sin that separate from God and breaks the peace with God for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God all have gone astray we our selves even as others and have been wandring as Sheep without a Shepherd but the Lord of Hosts is risen and hath sent forth his Son even Jesus Christ the true Shepherd who is gathering his Sheep into the fold where they shall lye down in peace and none shall make them afraid and if the Son make you free then are you free indeed but no freedom there is but only by him whose bloud washeth and cleanseth from all sin and whereas it is sai● If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us This was spoken to a condition before confession as is plain to the Children of Light for saith he if we confesse our sins he is faithfull and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness he doth not say from part but from all and this they witnessed who were in the light and hath fellowship with the Father and the Son as is written God is light and in him is no darkness at all he that saith he hath fellowship with God and walks in darkness is a liar and doth not the truth But if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another and the bloud of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin and him wee witnesse even Jesus Christ the everlasting Covenant of God who makes free to the utmost all that come unto God by him and wee testify against all those that oppose the pure doctrine of Christ Jesus and sayes none can be fully cleansed from sin while they live upon the earth and so would make the bloud of Christ of none effect which whosoever walketh and abideth in the light of Christ his bloud cleanseth from all sin for whosoever abides in him sins not he that sinneth hath not seen him neither known him and this the Scripture declareth and I bear testimony and set to my seal that it is true for he that doth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous and hee that commits sin is of the devill for the devil sinneth from the beginning but whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaines in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God and in this are the Children of God made manifest and the children of the d●vil 1 Joh. 3. c. He that is born of God is the Son of God and the Son of God doth not commit sin and except a man be born again he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God for the first man is of the earth earthly and minds earthly things his joy and treasure is there in things that are below delighting in the visible things his heart is there his care and labour is for the things of this life what to eat what to drink what to put on how to become great in the earth and by his earthly wisedom which is from below which is sensual and devilish he is plotting contriving to get great possessions and to compaste the earth to get himself a name in the earth but cannot be satisfied when he hath compassed one piece of ground which he coveted after presently the lust runs out again and covets more but is never satisfied and in this state man is an enemy to God and the thoughts of his heart are evill and that continually and notwithstanding many times a true sense and