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heart_n	conscience_n	faith_n	unfeigned_a	2,594	5	11.1136	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41061	A testimonie of the touch-stone, for all professions, and all forms, and gathered churches (as they call them), of what sort soever to try their ground and foundation by and a tryal by the Scriptures, who the false prophets are, which are in the world, which John said should be in the last times / by Margret Fell ; also, some of the ranters principles answered.	Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702.	1656 (1656)	Wing F636; ESTC R13179	30,378	40

have your minds that ye may come to witness cleansing and purging within that ye may come to see the uncleannesse which proceeds out of the heart which defiles the man Mat. 15.18 19. For out of the heart cometh evil thoughts murthers adulteries fornications thefts false testimony slanders these are the things which defiles a man How will you teachers and you professors who looks without you and turns from this which should cleanse you within How do you look that that which is without you should cleanse from this uncleannesse within Let that of God in your consciences now see how you can be cleansed by this when ye turn from it But now if ye turn to the light which makes these things manifest and dwell and abide in it then will ye abstain from them and so come to witnesse cleansing For he that walketh in the light as he is in the light the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin And Christ Jesus saith Luke 6.45 A good man out of the treasury of his heart bringeth forth that which is good and an evil man out of the treasury of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil for out of the abundance of his heart his mouth speaketh And why call ye me Lord Lord and do not the things which I say Whosoever cometh to me and heareth my sayings and doth them I will shew you to whom he is like He is like a man which built an house and digged deep and laid the foundation on a Rock and when the floods arose the streams beat violently upon the house and could not shake it for it was built upon a Rock But he that heareth and doth is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth against which the streams did beat violently and immediately it fell and the fall of that house was great Now professors here 's your building eternally you shall witnesse this Parable fulfilled upon you the tempests and storms is coming upon you your house will be beaten down it cannot stand for ye have been sayers a long time and not doers of the word your house which ye have built is without foundation it is not founded upon the rock Christ Jesus Ye who denies the light he saith into you why call ye me Lord do not the things which I say upon him shall ye be beaten to pieces and all your prefession It is known and seen ye are made manifest ye cannot hide your selves Therefore let the time past of your lives suffice and repent while ye have time least the whirl-winde of the Lord come upon you and destroy you ere ye are aware and remember that ye are warned in your life time Ye who talkes of faith where is your foundation who denies the light Christ Jesus the corner-stone whose blood washeth and cleanseth and purgeth away the filth of the daughter of Sion What will your faith advantage you who are yet in your sin Is not that faith vain which doth not purifie the heart The Apostle Paul saith Now the end of the Commandment 〈◊〉 Charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfeigned 1 Tim. 1.5 And again he saith Holding the mysterie of faith in a pure conscience 1 Tim. 3.9 And the Apostle John saith For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world and this is the victory that overcometh the world even our faith 1 John 6.4 Now see your faith hath overcome the world and given you victory over sin else never talk of faith for ye are yet in your sins all who is of the faith by which the just lives denies your faith for ye who are alive to sin crucifies and slayes the Just ●et who is in the faith of God the just lives by his faith And so now here ye may read your faith by your works For the Apostle James saith What doth it profit though a man say he hath faith and hath not works that faith cannot save See what comparison James makes James 2.16 Even so faith if it hath not works is dead being alone Yea a man may say thou hast faith and I have works shew me thy faith without thy works and I will shew thee my faith by my works Now see how blinde ye are who reads these Scriptures and professes them and yet talks of faith and lives in your sins Oh the righteous God will plead with you for all your deceit and hypocrisie Thou believes there is a God thou dost well the devils believe also and tremble Therefore know Oh vain man that thy faith without works is dead And what is thy works who art yet in thy sins Is not sin the work of the devil Oh that ever ye should be so blinde and befotted Will the fig-leaves of your profession cover your nakednesse Nay the Lord hath found you out and all your coverings is too narrow And your faith which is holden with respect of persons which the Apostle exhorts from the Lord God abhors But if ye had true living faith as a grain of musterd-seed ye might say to this mountain be thou removed into the Sea and it would be so But to you whose faith is dead who are yet in your sins this is a mysterie Therefore repent and turn to the Lord God and believe in the light which is rising and shining in your consciences he it is who is the resurrection and the life whosoever believeth in him though he were dead yet shall he live Therefore hearken diligently to the Prophet which the Lord is raising in this his day and believe in the light For whosoever doth not hearken to this Prophet is to be cut off Turn to the light and believe and hearken diligently that your souls may live Why will ye give your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which profiteth not The pure everlasting fountain of life is set open and the voice is calling to every one to come All that thirsteth to come and buy wine and milk without money they that have been sold for nought shall be redeemed without money The blood of the everlasting Covenant which brings again the Lord Jesus from the dead is poured forth and shedding for the redemption of Israels seed Therefore all turn to the voice that calls ye this is the way walk in it And that which turns and draws your minds towards God the light which cometh from the father of light turn to and there will ye witnesse a living hope which was that hope which Paul the Apostle was called in question for the resurrection of the dead who was a Minister of God who watched for the soul which your Ministers of death knoweth not nor hath no hope of but their labor is to keep you in the death But if ye wait in the light of Jesus Christ who is the resurrection and the life which is the mysterie which is Christ in you the hope of glory For this is

fountain of light and see what ye have there in possession There you will finde your house unswept and unclean and the woman that had lost the groat sought without but she found it not till she came to sweep her own house and there she found it This Parable ye must read within Jesus Christ likened the Kingdome of heaven unto a Merchant man who was seeking for goodly pearls who digged deeply in the earth and found it but when he had found it he was to sell all and buy it And again be likeneth the Kingdome of heaven to a little leaven which a woman hid in three measures of meal till it was leavened though ye have the letter without you yet these parables ye have to learn Now turn to the light and there you will come to see learning there in the light ye will come to see and know the mysteries of God which to the world is parables and to all you who denies the light shall be shut for evermore Though ye may get all the words of the whole Scripture in your brains and comprehension so long as ye deny the light and turn your minds from the light and seek to know these things without you ye shall never know them but they shall be as a book sealed unto you the depth and the mysteries of them ye shall never know eternally ye shall witness me Therefore as ever ye desire to know the mysteries of God which is hid from all the world and the worlds profession though never so high turn to the light wait in the light keep your minds within to the light and walk in the light which checks you and convinceth you of sin and evil and discernes the thoughts of your hearts and lets you see the out-goings of your minds and discerns every sinful lust even in the very appearance and rising of it this is that which the Lord God teacheth in this his day which Teacher never is removed into a corner who hearkens diligently and turns their minds to it This is the eye which is blind in all the world though they have eyes they see not and eares they hear not and hearts they do not understand the God of this world hath blinded this eye and his Ministers would keep it blinde and shut up and denies it to be a teacher sufficient And so your leaders causeth you to erre who are blinde and leads you that are blinde and so ye may follow them till ye both go into the pit But eternally if ever ye come to know the living God ye must turn your minds to the light which is in you which Christ Jesus saith take heed that the light that is in you be not darkness for then how great is that darkness And so all your blinde guides which keeps your minds from this light which is in you So your minds being from it it is to you darkness and so then how great is that darkness But turning your minds to this light and joining your mindes to it and hearkening to it then will ye come to see this blinde eye opened And the blinde man which hath been born blinde from his birth will come to see and his eyes will be anointed with eye-salve which those blinde guides which leads you from the light never knew And this ye shall eternally witness to be truth If ye turn your minds to the light then will ye come to see what I speak and witness me to be true and all your blinde guides Lyars who denies the light and would not have you to minde the light but hearken to them who hates the light and loves darkness rather then light because their deeds are evil But the light is risen glory for evermore which is their condemnation and hath found them out who are the theeves and Robbers who have gone before and climbe up another way But Christ Jesus saith I am the door of the sheep all that ever come before me are theeves and Robbers I am the door by me if any man enter he shall be saved saith Christ Jesus who is the light And these theeves and Robbers who denies the light draws from the door Christ Jesus by which all that ever are saved enters who is the good shepherd and who hath given his life for the sheep But he that is an hire●ing and not the shepherd whose own the sheep are not seeth not themselves to be the wolves for they are blinde the God of this world hath blinded their eyes who denies the light and so they leave the sheep and flie And the lost sheep of the house of Israel which Christ Jesus is sent to seek and to save they know not but lets the wolf destroy the sheep in every bosom of their flock But now is the shepherd of the sheep come whose own the sheep are who is the good shepherd and knows his sheep and is known of them who hears his voice and knows his voice and he puts forth his own sheep he goes before them and the sheep follow him for they know his voice and a stranger will they not follow Glory and praises be to the living God for ever who is redeeming his sheep from under the mouths of the wolves and devourers who hath scattered them upon every mountain and hill in the cloudy and dark day But now is the light of the glorious Gospel risen and beautiful upon the mountains is his feet that brings glad tydings of this Gospel that publisheth peace that saith unto Sion thy King reigneth To all who desires to know the way to Sion doth this voice cry to turne your faces thitherward To the light of Jesus Christ who comes riding upon an Asses colt to the joy and rejoycing of all Sions children Therefore turn again all you who are wandring from mountain to hill seeking rest but finding none Turn to the light in every one of your consciences this is the word of faith which we preach which Moses taught Israel and the Apostle Paul the Romans which is nigh in the mouth and in the heart here is your teacher if you hearken to the pure light which shews you the deceit of your hearts and your unclean thoughts from which proceeds uncleanness which the light makes manifest which will reap you up and reprove you in secret The Lord God of life and power is fulfilling his everlasting Covenant in this his day he is writing his law in the heart and putting it in the inward parts that none need say know the Lord but all who turn to the measure of God shall know him from the least to the greatest of them And by no other way or name under heaven shall ye know the living God but by this pure light and law written in the heart Here will ye come to witnesse the Lord to be your God and your King and your Law-giver which all the professions of the world is ignorant of therefore to this pure measure of God in your inward parts