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heart_n	action_n	evil_a	sin_n	2,104	5	4.9172	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

in which there is 〈◊〉 life as I said before the Saints had a guide before the Scripture or Lette● outward was Abraham had a guide Lot and Enock had a rule by whic● they walked with God and Moses had a rule the inspiration of the Almighty gave him understanding by which he saw things that were in the beginning and wrote of them so that was his rule by which he wrote and b● that he was guided to chuse the affliction with the people of God rathe● then the pleasures of sin for a 〈◊〉 and this rule all the holy men of God bare witness to David said It was a lite unto his feet and a Lamp unto hi● paths by which he was lead in the way of peace and the Apostle Paul said we have a more suer word of prophesy whereunto you will do well that 〈◊〉 take heed as unto a light that shines in a dark place until the day dawn an● the day star arise in your hearts mark that in the heart the day star mu●● be waited for to be seen to arise even the bright and morning sta● knowing this first that no p●ophesie of the Scripture is of any private interpretation for the prophesies came not in old time by the will of man but holy me● of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost so that from hence 〈◊〉 affirme the light of Christ which shines in the heart and conscience 〈◊〉 mankind is the rule to steer their actions by to keep them out of evil for it ●●●vinseth of sin and it leads to well doing and this is the candle of the 〈◊〉 which is of the Lord lighted in man by which he searcheth their 〈◊〉 and tryeth their reigns and this is oft put out in the wicked by 〈◊〉 of sin which quencheth and puts out or vails the candle which is the ●easure of Gods spirit Iob 21. 17. The reason why men that have gotten a large profession of a rule without them and yet are not ruled and have gotten a great deal of the Saints 〈◊〉 to talk of and yet are not guided according thereunto but are out of the life of righteousness in the unrighteousness unequity and ungodliness 〈◊〉 because they have lost the knowledge and feeling of the measure of the spirit in themselves which was that by which the Saints were moved and 〈◊〉 by which they walked acted spake and writ And so people having lost the true guide and path-way to rest and peace resubject and ready to be tossed with every wind of doctrine following them which cry loe here and loe there and the way of rest they know not to be stayed on The Lord hath according to his promise of old written his law in the hearts of his people and Solomon saith the Law is light Prov. 6. and the 〈◊〉 which is written in the heart is even that of the spirit of life and is the 〈◊〉 of a saints life and a true Christians guide and this is the measure of the spirit which the Apostle Paul said was given to every man to profit withal 1 Corin. 12. 7. So friends if you knew this believed and wai●ed in it to 〈◊〉 the opperation thereof you would then be guided by it to do in all things to others as you would be done unto your selves and this is the ●ace of God that hath appeared unto all men and teacheth us that believe 〈◊〉 it and obey it that denying ungodliness and worldly lust we should live 〈◊〉 righteously and godly in this present evil world looking for the ●lessed hope and the glorious appearance of the great God and our 〈◊〉 Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from 〈◊〉 iniquity and purifie unto himself a pecular people zealous of good works ●nd by the grace alone we are kept to do unto others as we would be done unto and this is the way of peace to all that walk therein and are obedient thereto as aforesaid and this is that which we ascribe unto even the grace of God that hath appeared unto all it is by that we are what 〈◊〉 are And this grace is sufficient for all that beleive in it but they that 〈◊〉 this good Law of God behind their backs and do despite to this spirit 〈◊〉 grace Isa 59. 7 8. Their feet run to evil and they make hast to shed 〈◊〉 blood their thoughts are thoughts of sin and iniquity wasting and 〈◊〉 are in there paths the way of peace they know not and there is no ●●dgments in their goings they have made themselves crooked paths and 〈◊〉 goe therein shall not know peace the way thereof will b● hid from their eyes and this way is hid from the wise and prudent men of this world and is revealed unto the babes of the Lord as in days past And this good way of rest peace and Salvation your false guide keeps you from in crying up and directing you to looke unto another thing and therein he is a deceiver and his voice is the voice of a strainger and such a one the Sheep of Christ will not follow he stands not in the Counsel of the Lord if he did he would have been able to have shown you the true rule mark what the Lord saith concerning the false Prophets by Ieremiah Jer. 23. 21 to the 32. I have not sent them yet they have run I have not spoken to them yet they prophesy but if they had stood in my counsel had caused my people to hear my word then they should have turned them from their evil ways and from the evil of their doings am not I a God at hand saith the Lord can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him saith the Lord how long shall that be in the hearts of the Prophets that prophecy lies ye they are Prophets of the deceit of their own hearts which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour the Prophet that hath a dream let him tell a dream and he that hath my word ma●k tha● let him speak my word faithfully what is the Chas to the Wheat saith the Lord behold I am against them that prophecy false dreams and that tell them and that cause my people to err by their li●s and by their lightness yet I sent them not nor commanded them therefore they shall not profit the people at all saith the Lord. Marke that So you may see what is the cause why you are not prosited it is your Preist cause you to Err by their lyes and their false devised dreams and storys which they gather and throw before you and so keep you from the word which is neerer to you then the Book or letter without even in your mouths and hearts and because he keps you from that is the cause you are not tu●ned from the evil of your ways and doings I say he is a deceiver unto you therein

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