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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41026	An alarum of truth sounded forth to the nations, or, The way of truth from the way of errour, plainly manifested and declared and the true worship of God (which is in the spirit) from the false worships of the world, distinguished, whereby people may come to know which way they are in, and what worship they are in, and what spirit they are of, and led by ... : also an invitation (of love) to all people, and professors of all sorts and sects, to turn in their minds to the light of Christ Jesus in them ... / written by a friend to truth, called Henry Fell.	H. F. (Henry Fell)	1660 (1660)	Wing F603; ESTC R38863	48,671	52

the right hand and the left the Sheep and the Goats him that serveth God and him that serveth him not between the righteous and the wicked between him that sweareth and him that feareth an oath So then ye will not put darknesse for Light and Light for darknesse nor call evil good nor good evil nor put bitter for sweet not sweet for bitter nor call that which is corrupt holy nor the proud happy as they did in former times who wereblind and as they do now who deny the Light of Christ and teach people that it is but a natural light c. These are they now who are blind and without discerning and tasting and savouring of the things of God and their hearts are hardned through the deceitfulnesle of sin and they are without feeling Now the Light of Christ wil let you see what is in your hearts and in your minds and in your thoughts and what ye think and what ye speake For a good man saith Christ out of the treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things and an evill man out of the treasure of his heart bringeth forth evill things Now whose minds are turned to the Light of Christ within it will let you see what treasure you have in your hearts and what ye do bring forth or whether ye be the good men which brings forth good things good words and good deeds good desires good motions good thoughts and good affections or whether ye be the evil men who out of the evil treasure of your hearts brings forth the evil things as evil thoughts evil words and evil deeds c. This will let ye see whether the good things be there or the evil things be there at all times if ye do minde it and shew ye what ye bring forth and what ye keep in secret which ye would not have seen for that is the evil doer who doth not doe truth that would not have his work seen and so doth not love the Light because the Light will reproove him but the good man who doth truth he loves it and brings his deeds to the Light to be proved And the Light will let ye see if there be any deceit or hypocrisie in your hearts or desperate wickednesse there and it will reprove for that and will search your hearts and try your Rains and let you see what rules there and what Reigns there in your hearts and in your minds and desires and affections and whether ye have any Rains to hold in your desires and affections that they should not run into the lusts and vanityes of the world and of the flesh yea or nay And it will let ye see whether ye have the girdle of truth to girt up the loins of your minds to God or whether they are at liberty and loose and tossed to and fro as the raging Sea yea or nay And it will let ye see whether ye have a Bit and Bridle for your tongue which otherwise will be unruly and thereby you will offend if ye use it as your own I say the Light will discover this unto every one whose minds are turned to it and wait in it and who hearken diligently to it and beleeve in it and obey it they shall come to know their souls to live For obedience to it is life and disobedience to it is death And now whilest men who have been in power to govern the Nations have been making laws without to bind mens consciences and to limit them and compell them to this or that worship and have been talking long of Reformation and Church-Government and have gathered-Churches as they have called them and made Leagues and Covenants and Assemblies of Divines so called to make confessions of Faith Catechismes and set-Forms of worships as Directoryes c. to worship God by and to settle Church-Government and have Laws that all that would not worship God in such a way and such a Form as they had set up to fine them imprison them and whip them and stock them and banish them and hang them or cut oft their ears c. These have been the Reformations in the world in the Apostacy among the Apostate Christians since the dayes of the Apostles ' Among the Protestants and Papists with their Laws and Statutes and Customes and Ordinances without and carnal Weapons and Goales and Whips and Houses of correction and Inquisitions and Fires and Faggots and Courts and Pennance and Stools of Repentance so called now all these things have been and are in order to their Reformation and worshipping of God and to bring people to the Kingdom of God But now mind People what hath all this produced For they have all this while begun at the wrong end of the work and their labour hath been in vain hitherto and will be and little Reformation hath been wrought among people all this while for many himdreds of years past but one Generation hath exceeded another in wickednesse pride and covetousnesse drunkennesse uncleannesse deceit and hypocrisie c. I say what hath it brought sorth but to make people hypocrites not Saints false Christians not true Christians and Wolves in Sheeps cloathing to professe God and Christ in words but in works to deny God And professe the Scriptures to be their Rule and yet they are walking as contrary to that which they call their Rule as if they had no Rule at all nor no Scripture at all nor no Law at all to bind them to this or that form of worship These are but Babels builders whose work the Lord is comingto confound throw down their languages is already confounded and they are all on heaps still After all their bustle and stir which the many builders have made for many hundreds of years about Religion and worship and Reformation and they are as far from the true worship as they were And people do not yet know the Truth nor the true worship of God which is in the Spirit And the Lord is seeking such to worship him as worship him in the Spirit and in the Truth for God is a Spirit But all the world Teachers and the Priests and Professors therein do not know the Spirit of God nor know not the truth yet and so were not like to worship God in it or to find him in their outward worships and carnal Ordinances and Doctrines and Commandements or in the outward Observations and Forms which men have prescribed Nay God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and in Truth Now all this while people have been erred from the Spirit of God and the Wolf hath been covered with the Sheeps cloathing and the Wolves nature still retain'd and lived in and not the Sheeps nature They have been all inwardly ravening Wolves and not in the true Christians nature which is the Divine Nature Innocent and harmlesse and separated from sinners Now it hath been contrary

so dawb with untempered Morter and speak peace where the Lord speakes no peace and so lead people about like silly women laden with sins and diverse lusts ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth For who knowes the truth the truth makes them free and brings them from under the load and from under that which burthens and vexeth the righteous soul as the righteous soul of Lot was vexed from day to day with the uncleane conversation of the wicked Sodomites Now these would keep people in Sodome and Egypt under the heavy burthens and loads in the fleshly lusts and filthinesse by the flesh-pots of Egypt that even peoples hearts and minds have been boyling up with wickednesse and uncleannesse and their eyes full of Adultery who cannot cease from sin and here they have been ever learning but could not know truth while they are there and so by this means they have made people to pay them for reaching of them and to uphold them and give them fire and these are the blind leaders of the blind into the Ditch But who comes to the Light which Christ Jesus hath enlighmed them withall to waite in it and hearken diligently to it they hear the Voyce of Christ and live and arise up from their seats and so come out of Egypt and out of the shadow of Death and the house of bondage and from under Pharaoh and his Taskmasters and they come through the Sea as Israel did and was Baptized unto Moses in the Cloud and in the Sea and through the fire to be Baptized into the name of Christ with the Spirit and with Fire and to be baptised all into one Spirit and to be made like unto Christ in his Death to be made dead unto sin that they may not live any longer therein and to drink of the spirituall drink and to eate of the spirituall meate and to drink of the spirituall Rock which Rock is Christ that is gone before us which Rock is the same which Israel drank of which followed them who were under the Law untill the Seed came which Seed is Christ who redeems from under the Law who was made under the Law that he might redeem them which were under the Law who fulfilled the Law and blotted out the hand writing of Ordinances and nayled them to his Crosse which whosoever are followers of him they must take up this Crosse which crucifies the flesh with the affections and lusts and makes dead unto sin and slayes the Transgressor and so makes peace through the blood of his Crosse I say this Crosse must be taken up dayly by all who will be true Disciples indeed and true Christians the Preaching of which Crosse now to the World and Professors therein is foolishnesse and is despised and cannot be endured as it was formerly to the Jewes a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishnesse but unto them that beleeved therein both Jewes and Greeks it was the Power of God and the Wisdome of God and to them that believe now it is the same but unto the unbeleeving it is foolishness even to all who are not yet turred to the Light of Christ Jesus within which he hath enlightned them withall they are still in the unbeliefe and so never yet knew the Power of God nor the Wisdome of God and so it is foolishnesse to them for they are all spiritually blind and so cannot discern the things of God which are spiritually discerned but are all as foolish and sottish Children without understanding and untaught and unlearned neither are they come to receive the Law from him who is the Law-giver that they might be taught of him who sarth Learne of me I am meeke and lowly im heart and ye shall finde rest for your soules and be made wise unto salvation for in him is hid the treasure of wisdome cand knowledge Now all those who only lookes out at the Scriptures and comes not to the Light of Christ within which the Scriptures declares of the treasure of wisdome and knowledge is still hid from them for it is in Christ Jesus from whence the Light comes which Light leadeth to Christ where the treasure is hid and where the Life is hid from all the world yet who are searching the Scriptures and thinking in them to have eternall life But ye will not come unto me that ye may have life saith Christ I am the Life the Way and the Truth and our Life is hid with Christ in God sayd the Saints Therefore now all people this is an Invitation of love to all your soules to turne in your minds to the Light of Christ within you which is spirituall holy true just and good which will let you all see what your words are your actings are though done in secret and what the thoughts and intents of your hearts are it will try them all and let you all see your minds being truly turned to it what is in your hearts and minds and what your wayes are now and have been and what your lives are and how you have lived Now this I say which lets you see these things and reproves what is contrary to it will let ye see whether ye are come to Christ yea or nay who is the Way unto God the Truth and the Life and the righteousnesse of God from whence the Light cometh and so here every one of you will know Judgement layd to the Lyne and righteousnesse to the Plummet and that which is lyes and deceit and hypocrisie will be Judged and condemned in every particular with the Light which is and will be the condemnation of the world who love their evill deeds evill wayes evill lives evill thoughts and intents of their hearts and evill words rather than the Light which doth reprove them and therefore the way the truth and the life which is Christ is hid from them and they know not him in whom the treasure of wisdome and knowledge is hid Now the Light is that which doth Reveale and make manifest that which is hid and hath been hid from the wise and prudent men of this world and hath been hid from ages and generations past But now is the Truth plainly seen and known and declared as it was in former ages by them whom it was then manifested to by the Spirit of God Even by us whom the world in soorns call Quakers who have beleeved in the Light of Christ and received the manifestation of his Spirit which is Light which is freely given and tendered unto all and hath appeared unto all but is not neither hach been received by all But as many as receiveth him to thom doth he give power to become the Sons of God even to as many as beleeve i● his Name who is the true Light and who is true and faithfull and everlasting The same to day yesterday and the same for evermore

find the dore and to find the true way and yet they have not found it For the Door is Christ who saith I am the Door of the Sheep all that ever went before me are Theeves and Robbers John 10.7 And againe I am the Light of the World c. So Friends and people all know this assuredly that there is none ever comes to the Door to find the Door but who cometh to the Light which Christ Jesus hath enlightned them withall and every one that cometh into the World to waite in it and beleeve in it and be obedient to it For Christ saith While ye have the Light beleeve in the Light that ye may be children of the Light So who are children of the Light they see and are not blind as the Sodomites were and as the Professors now are who beleeve not in the Light of Christ I say they see the Door which is Christ from whence the Light comes and enter in and are his Sheep who know the true Shepheards voyce But all who deny the Light and turn from it and hate it and speake against it they are the children of darknesse who are unbeleevers that are without the Door is shut against them and the Light is their condemnation So they are all walking in darknesse and wearying themselves and groping and cannot find the Door and so never come to enter in by it nor to find rest for their soules but are still without where the Sodomites are shut out of Lots Door and without where the Dogs and Unbeleevers are and where the Whoremongers and Murtherers and Lyars are and the Unclean and Sorcerers and the Idolaters are 22 Rev. 15. And so people do weary themselves there and spend their money for that which is not bread and their labour for that which satisfies not But never comes to hearken diligently to the Light of Christ Jesus in them which reproves them for sin that by it they might be led out of sin and out of Sodome and Egypt that their souls might live and find rest for the Light leads to Christ who gives rest to the soul And till ye come to hearken diligently to the Light ye cannot know your souls to live but still are the people that are dead while ye live and that have eares and hear not eyes and see not and hearts and understand not and so are all as dead men and blind men and deafe men and lame men that cannot walke and say none can keep Christs commands and dumbe men and foolish men without understanding in the things of God which are spiritually discerned and without tasting and feeling and smelling that cannot savour the things of God And here are all the Professions of the World and their Priests and Teachers even the highest of them all who denyes that Christ Jesus hath inlightened every one with his true Light and tell people its a naturall Light and a delusion of Sathan to draw them from it and seduce them and tells them it s not sufficient to lead to salvation c. I say they are all blind leaders who say so And now People Let me tell you who comes to the true Light which Christ Jesus hath enlightned every one with that are come into the world John 1.9 and beleeve in it and wait in it which is true and spiritual it brings people to spiritual seeing and lets them see and discerne the thoughts and intents of their hearts and who comes to believe in this Light and hearken diligently to it they come to hear the voyce of the Son of God and they that hear shall live So these are they that come out of death and come to be made alive unto God then they are not dead men nor deaf men as the Scripture saith You hath he quickned who were dead in your si●ts and trespasses And who comes to have their minds turned into the light of Christ Jesus in them it will let them see the vanity of their minds this will unblind their minds which the god of this world hath blinded see 2 Cor. 4.3 And bring them to see the Light of the knowledg of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ then will they not be blind men who have eyes and see not and ears and hear not as the Scripture saith I will give him for a Covenant for a Light unto the Gentiles to open the blind eyes c. And again saith Christ Buy of me eye salve that ye may see and gold that ye may be rich and white rayment that ye may be cloathed then ye will not be blind men nor naked And who believes in the Light of Christ which is spiritual which Christ hath enlightned them withall it will bring them to understand the things of God and gives to discern them and to know God And this is it which reprooves and judgeth the deceit and pride and hypocrisie and errour in the heart and the desperate wickednesse in the heart and the foolishnesse in the heart and that which is contrary to God in the heart and discerns the thoughts and intents of the heart and so brings people to be of an understanding heart and to discern the spiritual things of God and not allwayes to be of those that have hearts and understand not who are erred in their hearts and know not the way of God and are become vaine in their imaginations and by their foolish hearts are deceived And again who come to the Light and wait in it they come to taste and savor the things of God and come to taste of the Heavenly gist and to tast of the word of God and the power of the world to come see Heb. 6.3.5 And they come to discerne the things of God from the things of the world and come to discern between the Spirit of God and the spirit of the world and come to have Salt in themselves to savour withall that which will season the heart which is not to be trodden under mens feet for it is good to judge out that which hath corrupted the heart and desiled it The Light which shines in the heart which hath no fellowship with darknesse nor with the works of darknesse And so this will season it and keep it cleah from corrupting as every one minds it and keeps to it to love in and beleeve in it and obey it For there is nothing that is corrupt brought forth but first is in the heart for saith Christ Out of the heart proceeds evil thoughts thefts murthers adulter yes uncleannesse for that which goeth into the man doth not defile the man but that which cometh out So every one whose minds be turned into the Light of Christ this will bring you to taste and savour and discern between the good and the evil the Light and the darknesse the precious and the vile the holy and the prophane the clean and the unclean