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heart_n	faith_n	pure_a	purify_v	2,905	5	11.3265	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65249	Lamentation over England from a true sight, and suffering sense, of the lamentable wickedness of such rulers, priests, and people, that are erred, and strayed from the way of God, and follow too much the devices and desires of their own hearts, offending against his holy laws ... : whereby all persecutors may (in pity to their souls) truly consider what way they are in, and whether it leads, and whose work they are doing, and what the Scripture saith will be the reward of oppression and cruelty / by M.W.	Watkins, Morgan, fl. 1653-1670.	1664 (1664)	Wing W1066; ESTC R38958	45,267	54

sin and the work still undone that he came to do but such are strangers to the true Faith that a grain of which removes the mountain of sin and wickednesse that all the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of an heifer could not remove under the first covenant though that took away the guilt after the sin committed yet made nothing perfect therefore he found fault with it and took it away but the bringing in of a better hope did make perfect for ever them that are sanctified so if the second Covenant had not made perfect as appertaining to the Conscience it had been as unprofitable in that thing as the first but the bringing in of the better hope did and doth that which all the children of darknesse cannot believe but he that doth believe hath this hope that purifies as he is pure and this is the faith that purifies the heart and overcomes the world in it and crucifies the flesh with the affections and lusts and this is the work of him that God hath sent into the world and raised him up to blesse all those that believe in his name in turning away every one of them from his iniquities that they may come to abide in him that sinneth not that he whosoever he be that lives in sin hath neither seen nor known Woe woe from the Lord God of power is the portion of all those that say or have said in their hearts we will try the Quakers God whether he be able to deliver or save them out of our hands that we should not execute upon them the intents and inventions of our hearts in breaking their meetings and scattering them that they should not be a people unto all you be it known from the spirit of the Quakers God your counsel shall not stand neither shall your decrees prosper for you have taken it against the holy seed that God hath blessed even against the seed of Abraham in which all the families of the earth shall be blessed which is the seed that could not bow to the pride of Homan against whom his sealed decrees could not prosper but what he prepared against them became his own portion as it is written the wicked are snared in the works of their own hands And you shall know that the God of the people scornfully called Quakers is the God of the whole earth and a God of the mountains and above the loftinesse of the hills as well as the low valleys and also a God of the seas and above the loftinesse of the proud waves thereof as well as of the land a God infinite in mercy to all that bow to his great and glorious name and submit to the government of his spirit of truth that is come and hath revealed it self in our hearts to the saving of our souls unto which every soul ought to be subject and serve him with reverence and godly fear but unto those that despise his name and cast his commands behind their backs and do despight unto his spirit of grace in labouring to destroy the work it hath brought forth in the little remnant it hath gathered under its government who have and are subjecting themselves unto its pure leadings unto such he is a God dreadful in Judgement terrible in vengeance to whom it belongs to repay and as it is written Hebrews 10.31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God And woe be to all those that are striving against their Maker and decreeing against his decrees and labouring to scatter that which his spirit hath gathered and to destroy that which he hath quickened to life because it cannot submit to a contrary spirit that is of the world and leads into bondage which is the voice of the stranger that the sheep of Christ cannot follow but the sheep must hear and will hear the voice of him that gives eternal life who is cowe to seek and to save that which was lost and that which was lost being found and saved will for ever honour its salvation in preferring the honour and glory of its Saviour before all the glory of the world and for the obedience of his commands that his will may be done in earth as in heaven will give up even life liberty estate and all that the world may know the kingdome of God is come in great power and glory into our souls when his will is preserred before our mortal lives and his commands before liberty and estate that it may preach to the ends of the earth that we have found something that is better than all things that wicked men can take from us and because we love and honour that which is from above that which is from beneath hates us and because we cannot worship and honour it therefore would destroy us but we see him that is invisible with us who is high to save and deliver us and will not leave us that have left our selves that he may be received and who will not deny us that have denyed our selves and our own wills that his may be done and where his will is done his power is come and his servants we are whom we obey and we know our master will stand by us while we do his will and all you that do not know whose servants we are because our manners and behaviour is not after the fashion of this world you laugh us to scorn like as the old world did at Noahs salvation that the Scripture might be fulfilled as it was in the dayes of Noah so shall it be in the coming of the son of man you that hate the light cannot see the salvation of God no more than they did in the dayes of Noah for the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man but holy men of God spake as they were moved of the holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1.21 and those who have received the spirit of Christ which is the spirit of prophecy cannot but speak good of his name that hath brought salvation for blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord whom the Lords people will receive and hear but he that cometh in his own name cometh by the will of man and the men that stand in their own wills do receive him and hear him but he that comes in the name of the Lord such cannot receive him but he that denies himself and takes up the Crosse of Christ doth receive and hear the Preacher of the Crosse which to him is the power of God but to them that perish it is foolishnesse 1. Cor. 1.18 so by that which the wise of the world ●ounts foolishnesse it pleaseth the Lord to save us that believe so was it in the dayes of Noah he and his houshold was saved by that which the old world counted foolishnesse but when the Judgement came the high mountains of mans wisdome and imaginations could not save them then they knew and saw that his foolishnesse was better

against the truth but for the truth But you that call your selves Ministers of Christ that have not received the perfect gift of God that cometh from above which is for the perfecting of the Saints you are not sent of God and cannot profit the people at all and are but intruders into that you understand nor and cannot do the Lords work but are making a trade of felling the Apostles words and Christs words and the Prophets words being ignorant of the word of faith in the heart and in the mouth which they preached which is the Gospel that is hid to those that are lost and gone astray by erring from the way of life which the Minister of Christ is to turn the people to that is from the darknesse to the light which you that God never sent hate and say it is natural and from the power of Sathan unto God which you that have not received the gift of God cannot believe is able to destroy the works of the Devil while you live upon the earth so you are wholly ignorant of the power of the kingdome of God that is come and will consume the Antichristian wherein the will of God is done in earth mark that as in heaven and this you pray for yet believe against or else you must believe it is the will of God that men should live in sin as long as they are on the earth but the Apostle saith the contrary in these words this is the will of God even your sanctification 1 Thess 4.3 and they who are come to the gift of the spirit that sanctifies cannot but bear testimony to the salvation of God through sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth 2.13 but you that have received your gift from your fountains of Oxford and Cambridge which are beneath and cometh from the corrupt nature that stands in the fall and degeneration estranged from the Covenant of life erred and strayed from the right way which is the gift of the spirit and are in the way of fallen nature and its gifts and these gifts can never lead out of the fall up to God because they are but from beneath and cannot bring to the knowledge of God nor his truth for Pilate had the natural gift of Tongues as Latin Greek and Hebrew and by it he could not know the truth but said to Christ what is truth John 18.38 so you that have received your gift from beneath knows not the mind of the spirit which is the mind of Christ which the Apostles by the spirit had but you study to make a message of your own according to your own mind and imagination and when it is made you must have money for it because you came not by this art of Sermon-making without money and although you should be but bunglets at this trade and not masters of this art yet if you can get a shop and set up the people must be compelled to pay you though they abhor your work and this makes your trade so much in request and truth so much persecuted but must we buy your imaginations because you bought your art this is not equal nor just nor ever ordained of God as his Ordinance yet we submit our selves in suffering patiently till the Lord take off this oppression and break this yoke Was it ever heard of in any age that people were compelled to buy chaff to eat when they might have wheat for nothing had not the Prodigal more liberty among the swine than we have among such as accout themselves sheep of Christ for he might eat the husks freely though it satisfied not his soul till he returned to the fathers house where he had bread enough freely and we who are come to the Fathers house and have bread sufficient cannot spend our money for that which is not bread and our labour for that which perisheth but on the contrary to exhort all to seed upon the bread that is living that comes down from heaven and giveth life unto the world Joh. 6.33 and this is the gift the Father of life hath given and blessed are all they that do receive it But from your fountains of Oxford and Cambridge doth flow forth a spirit of persecution and strife against the truth as we by sad experience have felt and witnessed for these several years whereby many of us have lost our lives by long imprisonment and cruel usage which that spirit hath occasioned by stirring up the people and Magistrates to fulfill their wills and if we should say this spirit were of God we should lye against the truth but this is the wisdome that descendeth not from above but is earthly sensual and devillish this cometh not down from above and therefore it opposeth that which doth For the Doctrine of the Apostles of truth is this 1 Pet. 4.10 Let every man as he hath received the gift minister the same one to another not for money but as good disposers or stuards of the manifold grace of God Now if any who have received the good and perfect gift of God that cometh down from the Father of Lights in obedience to the spirit of truth goes to communicate of his gift to others then he is counted an offender by that spirit which came from Oxford and Cambridge and the Lords of that spirit and Priesthood have made a Law against it even against that which the Lord Jesus doth command by his eternal spirit in his Apostles which they and his Disciples did practice and must practice notwithstanding all opposition Can you be so ignorant as to think your law shall bind his spirit from ministring in whom and where he pleaseth Can you stop the Sun that it may not go its course If not consider what will become of them that strive against their maker and the work of his eternal spirit Do you think that he that hath received the gift of ministration from above will be stopped by your Law which is from beneath If you measure that spirit with the wisdome from beneath you may think so but we have received another spirit than that of Oxford and Cambridge for that spirit hath been stopped by the commands of men because its commission is but from man so man commands them to be silent and they are so because they be the Ministry of the powers of the Nation who gives them their Wages so the National Ministry are but the servants of the National power as it doth appear for vvhen the powers changed the Ministry changed except they turn vvith the time as for the most part they do and lick up their own vomit again as it is clear to most people they have done of late How did they cry out against the Common-prayer some years ago to be such an abominable thing as not fit to come into their mouths but now rather then lose a fat Benefice they can swallow it down Surplice and all Doth it not appear now who preach for money We told you

such are now that the Scripture may be fulfilled for such are not of the world but of God for said they the whole world lyeth in wickednesse and they were with sound Doctrine and a holy Conversation to beget unto God out of the world and if you who are called Lords spiritual did exercise your authority over none but they that you had begotten to God out of the world you would have but a very small flock if any at all but instead of gathering a flock out of the world you take the world for your flock and so exercise Lordship over them as Christ said Luke 22.25 The kings of the Gentiles exercise Lordship over them the example of those you follow and not Christ for there is many thousands by the year to be gotten by them and so rule by your outward power and Lordlinesse like the false Prophets of old and many of the world love to have it so and so let them have it But the flock of Christ the Church in God cannot own these things nor love to have it so but must stand witnesses against these things even to the death if the Lord require them And therein you come to be tried and made manifest what nature you are of and also their faith and patience is made manifest and the nature of the Lamb shewed forth that overcomes but the contrary nature as I have said is to be overcome that which persecutes and imprisons and would force the conscience and so slay the soul or else kill the body this was ever of the Devil and so it is now and a mark of Antichrist the false Church the Whore that is adulterated from the Spirit and alienated from the Lambs nature that overcomes in patience and obtains the victory and is made perfect through suffering but on the contrary the Whore the false Church is said to drink the blood of the Saints and the Scripture bears testimony that all the bloud is sound in Babylon then Sion is clear of bloud Mark that and the name Babylon comes thus to be written in the forehead of every persecutor who is of Cains stock that slew his brother because his worship was in truth but his in the murthering nature Mark he that was slain was in the truth from the beginning and he that slew was in the deceit and so we see it hath been all along unto this very day And that nature which slew our Lord Christ when he was upon the earth is the same that now persecutes and slayes his Disciples and followers because they are redeemed from the earth and cannot submit to their vain traditions customes and fashions and commands that are contrary to God therefore are sufferers by the world but the sons of Sion are such who are redeemed with judgment and that nature which is at enmity to God being condemned is crucified and cast out and the Lambs nature being raised up converts to righteousnesse and righteousnesse being brought forth glorifies God And we being called and gathered cut of the vain conversation and also from the vain worship which teacheth for Doctrine the commands and traditions of men by the mighty power and out-stretched arm of God are kept in faithfulnesse to him that we cannot bow or submit to that which the Lord hath shewed us to be evil for fear of men or their threats who are but dust being accompanied in our sufferings and persecutions with the power and presence of the eternal God that made heaven and earth And be it known unto you persecutors of the holy seed you shall never prevail to overcome us as we are kept in the power of Life which hath gathered us out of your dead forms to serve the God of Life in the newness of his spirit in which he is worshipped by the true worshippers out of the way sight and understanding of all that are not come to receive the true light who are all in a false worship erred from the spirit blind in the dark and stumble at the truth and fight against the life that is hid with Christ in God out of the sight of the vulterous eye and out of the way of the venomous beast where the lions whelp treads not and where the devourer cannot come and that which God hath hid in the spirit all the natural learning in the world could never find out nor ever shall for being hid from the wise and prudent of this world is revealed to such as are babes who hunger and thirst after righteousness and not after preferment in the world who cannot be satisfied with the bread that perisheth but with the sincere milk of the word of life they grow which word is nigh them and is the word of faith in their hearts that begets life in them and this life pints and breaths after nourishment from that which hath begotten it and cannot be satisfied with words but with the immortal word of life that was in the beginning that quickeneth that again that in Adam we were dead to and this is the quickning spirit that ministers life which we having obeyed do live and the life we now live is by the mighty power of God which our souls are made subject to and we cannot but obey that which quickned us and is the immortal life in us the second Adam that the children of the first persecute because they are born of that which cannot reveal the second and so being in the darknesse of death see him not nor know him But alas for you it is in vain for you to think that you can prevail over us by your carnal weapon for the sword of the spirit is with us which hath slain and cut down that nature in us that your strength stands in to make War against us for the strong man the enemy of our souls being overcome by the power of life that is stronger comes to be cast out who is the Captain that leads all persecutors and all destroyers of mens lives for Conscience sake that is he that would destroy us being cast out from within and cannot destroy our souls would revenge himself upon our bodies but we know that he that hath given life to our souls can preserve our bodies if he please if not his will be done but this I say to all persecuters We have overcome your Captain-general and he that is in us is greater then he that is in the world as we have said and you shall know who is the Captain of our salvation that suffered by the world and overcome the world and therefore know this that as our Captain hath overcome the world in us so with us and in us will he overcome the world by us but this the world seeth not therefore cannot receive it so if all the world rise up against us as one man for the obedience of the spirit of truth we know it is that they may be overcome And how can you expect that we should submit to that in others