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A85152	Truth cleared of scandals, or truth lifting up its head above scandals, &c. Occasioned by the meeting of those people called Baptists, and those whom the world scornfully calleth Quakers, at Harlington in stafforthshire, upon the 27. day of the 7 month, in the year 1654. Shewing the difference betwixt the ordinances of Christ and of Antichrist, and the true worship and the false, with a discovery of the two seeds, and the New Covenant, the doctrine of baptismes, laying on of hands, the ressurectio, and eternal judgement, Heb. 6. 1, 2, 3, and Heb. 12.22, and 23. Also, the unprofitable servant and the talents, and of being caught up into paradise, the thorn in the flesh, and what it is to take pleasure in infirmities, and what those infirmities are, that is to be gloried in; also, something of perfection, and imperfection, and the glorying in the crosse largely proved, according to scripture, &c. / By one known to the world by the name of Rich. Fanrworth.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing F512; Thomason E820_3; ESTC R207345	39,723	39

for the Law made nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope did which hope is Christ as it is said the Mystery and the hope of Glory as it is written Col. 1.27 1 Iohn 3.3 verse and he that hath this hope purifieth himself even as he is pure as Iohn hath said whose words thou would have had by thy craft to have made void and null the Covenant of God in Christ Jesus our Lord which thou could not for Christ Jesus is the end of the one and the beginning and fulfilling of the other who took away the first and did establish the second and by one offering he hath for ever perfected them that are sanctified and their sins and iniquiries will he remember no more as he hath said and where remission of sins is there is no more offering for sin but there is boldnesse to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus by the new and living way which he hath consecrated through the vail that is to say his flesh Heb. 10.9 10 to the 21. Then Pallard I asked thee if Iohn when he spoke those words did write those words for a continuance in sin because afterwards he saith My little children these things write I unto you that ye sin not 1 Iohn 2.1 And Iohn said afterwards My little children I have written unto you because your sins are forgiven you for his Names sake and he that abideth in him sinneth not he that sinneth hath neither seen him nor known him as it is written 1 Iohn 2.13 14. 1 Iohn 3.6 7. And as Iohn is speaking of the two seeds and the new birth and the manifestations of the love of Christ and the difference between the godly and the wicked or the children of God and the children of the devill and as he cometh up to speak of higher degrees in the grouth he saith He that is born of God sinneth not neither can he sin because he is born of God and his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because his seed remaineth in him and he that is begotten of God keepeth himself and the wicked one toucheth him not as it is written 1 Iohn 3 9. 1 Iohn 5.18 And Iohn said that he that commits sin is of the devill and he that sinned not was of God and thereby the children of God and the children of the divell was to be known asunder for the divels children sinneth and Gods children sinneth not as it is there said and Christ Jesus was made manifest to take away their sins and in him was no sin at all and as he was so was they then in that present world as it is written and left upon record 1 Iohn 3.5 6 7 8 9 10. 1 Iohn 3.14 1 Iohn 2.27 28. 1 Iohn 5.20 1 Iohn 4.16 17. Pallard then thou told of a visible Church and visible Officers and visible Ordinances c. Answ I said unto thee again that the Church was in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ made all of living Stones elect and precious a spiritual house for God to dwell in by the Spirit and Officers and overseers were made by the holy Ghost and he is not visible for the world seeth him not neither knoweth him as it is written Acts 20.28 1 Pet. 2.5 6. Iohn 14.17 And God is a Spirit and his Church is spirituall and they endured as seeing him who is invisible and they were not come to the Mount which could be touched but they was come to Mount Zion and to the City of the living God and to the heavenly Jerusalem which is invisible and to an innumerable company of Angels and to the Generall Assembly and Church of the first born written in heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the Spirits of just men made perfect and that was not visible but invisible and incomprehensible in the power and life of God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Heb. 12.22 23. And Christ is the head of this spirituall body his Church which he hath purchased with his blood and he rules in it and orders it by his Spirit and he hath put all things under his feet and given him to be head over all things to the Church which is his body the fulnesse of him that filleth all in all Eph. 1 22 23. And he came and preached peace to them that were a far off and to them that were nigh and he also preached to the Spirits in prison 1 Pet. 3 19. And he is the same yesterday to day and for ever Heb. 13.8 and the word of Faith is preached by the Righteousnesse of Faith in the heart by Christ Jesus there in his Church and Temple which is holy and pure 1 Cor. 3.16 17. Rom 10.6 7 8. For through him we have an accesse to the Father by one Spirit and are baptized by one Spirit into one Body which is Spirituall and we are made to drink into one Spirit where the fruit of the Vine is and the bread of life and the water of life the thirsty souls for to refresh and there is one Lord one Faith one Baptisme one God and Father of us all who are heirs according to the promise and being baptized into Christ we have put on Christ and are fellow-Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God and are built upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles Christ Jesus being the chief corner Stone in whom all the building fitly framed groweth unto an holy Temple in the Lord in whom also we are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit and God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and in Truth and the Church is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Eph. 2.17 1 Cor. 12.12 13. Gal. 3.27 28 29. Eph. 2.18 to the end Iohn 6. Phil. 3.3 Iohn 4.23 24. 1 Thess 1.1 verse Then I asked thee Thomas Pallard water Baptizer if God who was a Spirit was visible for the Church is in him the Pillar and Ground of all Truth and the Word and the Law and the Ordinances and Oracles of God stands in the incomprehensiblenesse of his infinitenesse and his Worship is in the Spirit and power of the holy Ghost in the eternity and the essence of the Scripture or the Divine Epistles written by the Spirit is in the heart tables as it is written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God in the mystery and the Baptisme is in the Spirit and praying and singing and preaching is in the power and pure and eternall wisdome by the Spirit and the watch is in the Spirit and all the officers and overseers in the Church of Christ is in the Spirit made by the power and authority of the holy Ghost in the blood of Christ sealed by the Spirit and annointed and Christ is the chief Shepherd and Bishop of the soul and maketh his Angels Spirits and his Ministers flames of fire and they

TRUTH Cleared of Scandals or TRUTH lifting up its head above Scandals c. Occasioned by the Meeting of those people called Baptists and those whom the world scornfully calleth Quakers at Harliston in Stafforthshire upon the 27. day of the 7. month in the year 1654. Shewing the difference betwixt the Ordinances of Christ and of Antichrist and the true worship and the false with a Discovery of the two seeds and the New Covenant the Doctrine of Baptismes laying on of hands the Resurrection and eternall judgement Heb. 6.1 2 3 and Heb. 12.22 and 23. Also The unprofitable servant and the talents and of being caught up into Paradise the Thorn in the flesh and what it is to take pleasure in infirmities and what those infirmities are that is to be gloried in Also something of Perfection and Imperfection and the glorying in the Crosse largely proved according to Scripture c. By one known to the world by the name of RICH. FARNWORTH For Christ sent me not to Baptize but to preach the Gospel not with the enticing words of mans wisdome neither lest the Crosse of Christ should be of none effect 1 Cor. 1.17 and 18. LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 1654. To the READER READER IN the Reading of this ensuing Treatise as thy understanding is kept open thou may see the difference betwixt Truth and errour that thereby thou mayest chuse the good and refuse the evill try all things and hold fast that which is good and take heed of censuring or judging the truth with evill thoughts and out of an evill heart lest judgement return upon thee again but judge Righteous judgement so shalt thou be preserved in Peace in thy Conscience The cause of my writing of this little Treatise was occasioned upon a Meeting at Harliston in Stafforth Shire upon the 27. day of the 7. month between the baptized people and those whom the world scornfully calleth Quakers to clear the Truth of many aspersions and false accusations as in the Reading thou wilt clearly see the differences betwixt Truth and errour as thou Readest with an understanding And whereas we are accused for denying the Scriptures and the Ordinances of Christ in short thou mayest see what we own according to Scripture and what we do deny that is contrary to Scripture also the tryall of the Spirits and the Doctrine of Baptismes and the laying on of hands and the Resurrection and eternall Judgement true Faith the Church of the first-born written in heaven Something of them spoken of in this Treatise which may be for the bringing down of the kingdome of Antichrist and the setting up of the Kingdome of Jesus Christ that Truth may be cleared of Scandals But I am not sent to Baptize but to Preach the Gospel as in thy Reading thou wilt more plainly see RICH. FARNWORTH THE ORDINANCES AND VVORSHIP Of GOD in the Spirit GOD is a Spirit and all his Ordinances are Spirituall now in the Gospel-Ministration and his Worship is in the Spirit as it is written John 4.23 24. And the Worship and Ordinances of God in the Spirit we own who are of the Circumcision in the heart with the Spirit who rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh Phil. 3.3 Col. 2.10 11. Now the Lord is that Spirit which we all beholding with open face as in a Glasse are changed from glory to glory into the same image and glory as by the Spirit of the Lord as it is written 2 Cor. 3.17 18. And secondly the Church of God and of Christ we own who are the houshold of Faith made all of living stones elect and precious a Spirituall house for God to dwell in whose house are we who are builded upon the Foundation of the Prophets and Apostles Christ Jesus being the Chief Corner Stone in whom all the building groweth into an holy Temple in the Lord the Church of the first-born written in heaven of which Christ Jesus is head and we are compleat in him who is the fulnesse and filleth all in all as it is written and witnessed 1 Thess 1.1 1 Pet 2.5 6 c. Heb. 3.6 Eph. 1.22 23. and Heb. 12.22 23. Eph. 2.18 19 20 21 22. Col. 2.9 And thirdly the Ministery of Christ in the Spirit we own and the new Covenant and the Law of God written in the heart and we witnesse the teachings of the Lord as he hath promised and said which promises of the Father we witnesse fulfilling and fulfilled and we witnesse Christ Jesus who is the Saints high Priest and the everlasting Sacrifice we witnesse and own the Fathers teachings according to his Promise and we witness Christ Jesus to be our Passover and that he is able to save to the utermost all those that come unto God by him Heb. 8.10 11. Jer. 31.31 to the 35. Isa 54.13 14. John 6.45 John 14.15 16 17. and 26. Heb. 7.25 Fourthly The Baptism of Christ which is in the Spirit we own and all who are Baptized into the Name of the Father Son and holy Ghost and are made partakers of the Name nature and properties of God for he that hath the Son hath life and he that hath the Son hath the Father also as Christ hath said All mine are thine and thine are mine and I am glorified in them and by one Spirit are we baptized into one body and made to drink in one Spirit where there is one Faith one Lord one Baptisme one God and Father of us all who are of the righteous seed who are Baptized into Christ and have put on Christ as it is written and witnessed 2 Pet. 1.3 4 5 6 7 8. 1 Pet. 3.18 19 20 21. 1 John 5.10 11 12 13. John 17.10 2 John 9. 1 Cor. 12.12 13. Eph. 4.4 5. Gal. 3.26 27 28 29. Fifthly Prayer we own Praying by the Spirit of Christ and if any man be in Christ Jesus he is a new creature 2 Cor. 5.16 17. and walks not after the flesh but after the Spirit and the same Spirit which raised up Jesus Christ from the dead we witnesse dwelling in us by which Spirit we are quickened even by the Spirit of Christ that dwelleth in us Rom. 8.10 11. And we know that all that are born again of water and the Spirit and are led by the Spirit of God they are the Sons of God and we have received the Spirit of Adoption whereby we cry Abba Father the Spirit it self bearing witnes with our spirits that we are the children of God Rom 8.14 15 16. Likewise the Spirit helpeth us and teacheth us to pray for it maketh intercession for us and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the minde of the Spirit because he maketh intercession for us according to the minde and will of God Rom. 8.26 27. Mat. 6.5 6 7 8. Eph. 1.18 Sixthly the holy Communion in the Spirit of love that we witnesse for God is love and they that dwell in God dwell in love and they that dwell in love

in confusion and lyes saying and unsaying Babylonish building up and throwing down and daubing with untempered morter as all in thy nature do neither couldest thou witnesse the gift of the holy Ghost that it were or could be given by any of you water baptizers when it were demanded of thee upon thy examination in that thing at that time as many can witnesse and that in thy conscience shall witnesse the same the Light of Christ Jesus which will condemn thee and all that hate it and are contrary to it for this is the condemnation of the world that light is come into the world and men love darknesse rather than light and the reason is because their deeds are evill as thine is John 3.19 20. And as thou could not witnesse to the washing away of sin by your water Baptisme nor the gift of the holy Ghost to be given by it when it was demanded of thee neither couldest thou witnesse to the eternall judgment and also denyed perfection to be attainable and here thou and all you water baptizers are razed out of the Apostles doctrine and life who said that they would leave the first Principles of the Doctrine of Christ and go on to perfection which you Baptists and thou Pallard great water Baptizer denies and so denyes that which is the whole life of truth and the Apostles and Ministers of Christ and they that had passed thorough the Doctrine of Baptismes and the laying on of hands they passed on to the Resurrection and to eternall judgement which thou Pallard denyes for they came to the Generall Assembly and church of the first born written in heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the Spirits of just men made perfect and to Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant and they knew the shakings not of the earth onely but of the heavens also that things which could not be shaken might remain which shakings thou knows nothing of nor none in thy nature that denyes perfection and the eternall judgement but we having received a Kingdom which cannot be moved have received grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear for our God is a consuming fire the same that theirs was that left the first Principles of the Doctrines of Baptismes and the laying on of hands and the Resurrection of the dead and came to the eternall judgement and to God the judge of all and to the Spirits of just men made perfect and were in the Church of the first born written in heaven and had received the Kingdom and know the consuming fire and dwelt with everlasting burnings and this I witnesse he that can receive it let him Heb. 6.1 2 3. Heb. 12.22 to the end Isaiah 40.28 29 Isaiah 33.14 15 16 c. But to thee Pallard great water Baptizer this is a mistery and to all in thy nature that denyes the eternall judgement and the first Resurrection and the perfection which the Saints witnessed and they were risen with Christ and were made to sit together with him in heavenly places and said to others in their grouh If ye he risen with Christ set your affections on things which are above and not on things which are on the earth and some said that their conversation were in heaven and others knew that so many of them as were Baptized into Christ were baptized into his death that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father even so they also should walk in newnesse of life c. Rom. 6.3 4 5 6. Eph. 2.4 5 6. Col. 3.1 2. Phil. 3.20 21. Rev. 20.6 Rev. 21.1 2 3. to the 9. But thou and you water baptizers are yet in the oldnesse of the Letter and not in the baptisme of sufferings nor in the new life nor knowes nothing of the eternall Judgement nor of the Resurrection nor perfection nor the New Covenant nor the Seal thereof that sayes the Bible is a History and the Spirit and the Letter are inseparable as thou Pallard great waterman did and thou and the other that were with thee at that time impudently did lye before the people and said Christ had not judgement committed to him whilost he were in the world and Christ himself said for that cause was he come into the world as I then told thee and as thou mayest see in John 9.39 And where he said to the Jews that they judged him after the flesh but he judged no man after the flesh but he judged righteously and with righteous judgement and his judgement was true for he and his Father was one as he there said and he was one that bore witnesse of himself and the Father that sent him bare witness with him and Christ there had judgment with the Father and all judgment he said were committed to him and he told them the envious Jews that they were of their father the devill and his works they would do and he told them there was no truth in them for their father the devill had not abode in the Truth and they was of him and he told them he knew that they had not the love of God in them and his judgement was true and he called them serpents and vipers and said How-should they escape the damnation of hell and he pronounced woes to Pharisees and Hypocrites then such as had a form from the Letter but was separated from the Spirit and life of what they did professe and from Christ and the new Covenant and were in the Letter without the Spirit as you Baptizers are and as thou Pallard art and all that are in their nature and such as say the Bible is a History and the Spirit and the Letter is inseparable and that sayes Christ had not judgement committed to him whilest he were in the world as you Baptists and thou Pallard did here I charge thee in the presence of the Lord and all in thy nature to be false accusers of Christ and lyers and enemies of his truth as the envious Jews was as thou Pallard art and all you who are in their nature and as you may read John 8.44 John 5.39 40 41 c. Mat. 23.33 Thou may well take upon thee Pallard to lye of me and the truth that would so impudently lye of Christ that said he had not judgement committed to him nor given him whilst he was in the world when he said that for judgment he was come into the world as I then told thee And secondly he said that he had life in himself as the Father had and he had authority given him to execute judgement as it is written and as he was come for Judgement into the world and had authority given him to execute it So thirdly he had power to quicken whom he would as well as the Father and he said that the Father had committed all judgement unto him John 9.39 John 5.21 to the 28. And thou that said the Bible was a History and yet

the Letter and the Spirit is inseparable and that Christ had not judgment committed to him whilest he was in the world and that Christ had not Judgement committed to him for he had a body and were sensible of hunger and such stuffe thou had and were in the lyes blasphemies and false accusations as thy fruits made thee manifest yet thou takes upon thee to teach and baptize and art of great account amongst poor seduced water baptized people but thou art discovered to thy shame and it may be for the good of many poor souls to see your deceits come to light Oh thou deceitfull one be ashamed and confounded let shame cover thy face repent and give over deceiving the people and all in thy nature now thou art warned as thou was then and to the Light of God in thy conscience am I made manifest and that will witnesse for me and the Truth against thee and thy deceit before the Judgement Seat of Christ in the great day of the Lord when I shall also stand before the Judgement Seat and be a witnesse against thee there except thou repent of thy lyes and blasphemies and false accusations and deny them all openly as thou witnessed to them openly and now to the Light in thy conscience shall this be witnessed which light will be thy eternall condemnation if thou hate it and act knowingly and wilfully contrary to it now thou hast time prize it for one wo is past but behold two woes more followeth after as it is written And the sixth Angel sounded and I heard a voice from the four hornes of the golden Alter which is before God saying to the sixth Angel which had the Trumpet loose the four Angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates and the four Angels were loosed which were prepared for an hour and a day and a month and a year for to slay the third part of men he that both an car to hear let him hear and he that can receive it let him receive it Rev. 9.12 13 14 15 Zech 13. Therefore now Pallard great water Baptizer and all that are as thou art teachers of others before they be taught themselves and all imitations that worships ye know not what who are dipt In the water but are ignorant of the Divine nature that sayes the Bible is a History and yet the Letter and the Spirit Pallard thou sayes are one and inseparable how blinde and ignorant art thou and are you Baptizers of the Mistery silence all flesh and stop your mouths and take heed of deluding poor people any longer I warn you and charge you in the presence of the Lord as you will answer it before the Judgement seat of the great God and Pallard that in thy conscience shall be a witnesse for me when thou sees me not the Light of Christ Jesus there for to that am I made manifest yet shut up from thy dark minde for Light shines in darknesse but darknesse comprehendeth it not Iohn 1.9 Yet Light comprehendeth darknesse though darknesse cannot comprehend the Light and with the Light that comprehends the world art thou comprehended and with the Light which changeth not art thou seen and all in thy nature and known to be our of the Light and out of the Truth and out of the new Covenant and out of the Church that is in God the first-born which is written in heaven and no officer there nor no Minister of the new Covenant and the Spirit nor yet baptized into Christ nor no friend of Christ nor none in thy nature no more than the envious Jews and the Pharisees was and the Priests the Priests of the world and thou art in one nature and guided by one spirit the same that guides all the children of disobedience as it doth you and there is no difference between them and you but that you have the sheeps cloathing and they have the wolves but both one inside and nature thou hast the outside form according to the Letter more than they have but thou art without the power and ignorant of the Mistery in the Spiritas they are and as abovesaid that sayes the Bible is the History in the Letter and yet thou sayes the roughnesse is felt and thy darknesse is seen thou dark Sott would thou bring God and Christ Faith hope Election and the New Covenant the holy Ghost and the eternall Spirit and bloud of the Covenant within the compasse of death and have them historicall that sayes the Scriptures or Letter of the Bible is a History and the Spirit and the Letter are inseparable when as I told thee a History was a fable or a story but the Scriptures I own to be a true Declaration of the Truth that they lived in that spoke them forth and the Declaration of the Truth is most certainly believed amongst us that the world scornfully cals Quakers and the life of them enjoyed Christ Jesus the chief shepherd and Bishop of our souls and though the Scriptures outwardly be not the Spirit nor the eternall Word nor the life of God and Christ and the Saints yet the Scriptures are a true Declaration of those things declared of Luk. 1.1 but not the Word of God for it is eternall life and liveth and endureth for ever 1 John 2 3.4 5. 1 Pet 1.22.23 I would have had thee Pallard to have proved by the Scripture that it was any where called a History and that the Spirit of God was kept or confined in a history or a fable but thou could not for godlinesse is a mistery and the Devine Writings by the Spirit are in the new heart tables as it is written Col. 1.27 2 Cor. 3.2 3. and the Saints knowes Christ in them and the opening of the Mistery and his Ministers preaches him amongst the Gentiles now for you self-conceated ones like the outward Jews will none of his counsel but great is the mistery of godlinesse 1 Tim. 3.16 and the Comforter that abideth for ever even the Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive and you Pharisees and self-conceited ones cannot receive it neither do you know him that sayes the Spirit is in the Letter and the Letter is a History but we know him in the mistery and the Spirit of Truth to be out of a History for he dwelleth in us as saith the Scripture John 14.15 16 17. Rom. 8.10 11. Praised be the Lord for the riches of his love to our souls in taking of the Seals and opening the mistery in the Lord Jesus Christ Rev. 5. Isa 29.11 to the end Col 1.25 26 27 28. Which mistery is yet hid to thee Pallard water-Baptizer and all in thy nature that sayes the Spirit and the Letter is inseparable and is a History stop thy mouth for shame and cover thy lips for the promise is not to that seed of the serpent which you wise ones of the world are one with as the Pharisees and the envious Jews was but the promise is to

puts a difference between the man and the woman and forbids the woman to speak in the Church he that can receive it let him I told thee Pallard that Paul also circumcised after he were a Minister of the Gospel as well as baptized and he had as much ground for the one as the other but no command for neither and Christ was circumcised outwardly as well as baptized outwardly and he ministred the circumcision also and were a Minister of the same as in Rom. 15.8 And I asked thee how thou followed Christ in that to fulfill that Ministration and what account thou couldest give of it in the inward man as it is written Col. 2.11 12. c. Because Christ ministred that and they did witnesse that Ministration through the Spirit in him and so they were made compleat in the substance and life of all truth through the Crosse And because it is written that death reigned from Adam untill Moses even over all that had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression and the Law and the Prophets were till John John succeeded them and he came burning and shining amongst those that were born of woman was not a greater than John yet he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he Then Pallard water baptizer I asked thee how thou couldst witnesse to those ministrations in the inward man for the seed is but one and how thou couldest witnesse a passing from death unto life as they did that spoke forth the Scriptures for they that had passed from death unto life said that he that was born of God did not commit sin and they also said that he that committed sin were of the devill and thereby the two seeds was known and the children of God was made manifest and the children of the devill by the operation of each seed ruling in them and working forth through them and they that had passed from death unto life knew who was of God and who was not and so doth the same seed now and they knew who did abide in darknesse and death and so do they now who are in the Light life and power of the Truth and they know that the Son of God is made manifest in them and hath taken away their sins as they knew then that witnessed the same through the Crosse who said that they dwelt in him and he dwelt in them but they did not know it by the dead Letter but by the quickening Spirit which is life and was given them 1 John 3. Chapter And they knew who were passed from death unto life and that the Son of God was come and had given them an understanding that they thereby might know him that was true and they knew it not by the Letter but by the Spirit and they had the true knowledge of it in the eternall Truth who affirmatively said we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ this is the true God and eternall life and not the Letter but the Letter declareth of it 1 John 5.20 Then Pallard I asked thee how it was with thee in deaths Dominion because it is written of deaths reigning from Adam untill Moses over all who have not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression and what that death was and reigned over in thee how thou came from under it to know the Law which is perfect and doth endure for ever according to that in the conscience and is to be fulfilled in all that walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit and how thou came into the prophecies in the inwards because it is written the Law and the Prophets are till John and the seed is but one not seeds but seed and the promises are to the seed fulfilled through death in the Ministery by the Spirit in the crosse which cuts down and raiseth up and how thou came to know Johns Ministry set up within because he came and doth come burning and shining and there is a willingnesse to rejoice in his Light for a season and how it was with thee in that Ministration to know the ax laid to the root of the tree and the tree to be cut down and what that fallow ground in thee was which must be ript up and I also asked thee what self was with the fruits and the ground of it which the Crosse is Lo I told thee the creation was a figure and out of the ground sprung up grosse herbs weeds briers and thornes c. And the ofspring was not the ground the ofspring might be cut off and there might spring up more fruits of the like nature again so the fruits of self might be cut off and the ofspring was not the ground and whilest there was the ground and the roots in it unript up more fruits would grow there of like nature also therefore John said Rip up your fallow ground make the rough places smooth and prepare the way for the Lord to come into his Temple that he may sit as Refiner I asked thee how thou past through that Ministery of John in the inward man and what succeded John because it is written that the least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he and some did witnesse that they were set in heavenly places in Christ Jesus Eph. 2.6 And I said unto thee if thou was an Officer in the Church of the first born written in heaven and were in the kingdom thou couldest witnesse to those things Heb. 12.22 and 28. Luk 17 21. And liberty was granted to thee for to declare thy passages in the inward ministrations if that thou couldest that it might be for the good of the people there present but thou could not speak any thing at all concerning those conditions and inward ministrations when thou was desired and severall times urged to it but all that thou could say was to accuse falsly and said I denyed the Scriptures and made that thy cover which would not hide thee but left thee bare and thy nakednesse did then openly appear then I charged thee to be a lyar and others witnessed against thee for saying that I denyed the Scripture when thou had no ground for it but the devill was a lyer from the beginning and abode not in the Truth and thou lyer who art out of the Truth art of him as thy deeds maketh thee manifest John 8.44 Therefore stop thy mouth and cover thy lips and let shame strike thee in the face for ever thou lyer and false accuser of the just Paul who was a Minister of the new Covenant not of the Letter but of the the Spirit he declared of his passages and his grouth and how he came out of one dispensation into another and they that grew from one degree of grace and glory into another they said that they knew no man after the flesh though they had known Christ after the flesh yet henceforth knew they him so no more and they gave account of their

3.14 15. Eph. 4.8 9 10 11 12 13. Job was a perfect man as God himself said and Noah was a perfect man in his generation and David said Mark the perfect man then there was perfect men and the end of such are peace Gen. 6.9 Deut. 18.13 2 Kings 20.3 1 Chron. 28.9 Job 1.8 Psal 37.37 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together the end of the wicked shall be cut off and turned into hell and be burned with fire and brimstone Read Psal 37.38 Psal 9.17 Rev. 21.8 Read those Scriptures and see your portion that plead for sin and continue in unrighteousnesse 1 Cor. 6.9 10. Gal. 5.19 20 21. Rev. 22.15 Rev. 21.27 Rev. 20.15 2 Thess 1.8 9. Rom. 1.28 to the end Rom. 2.5 8 9. Mal. 4.1 Psal 9.17 Rev. 21.8 See your portion you that desire to continue in wickedednesse and take your reward Mat. 25.41 to the end Read and understand all that desires to love God and take warning whilst you have time now you have time prize it and plead not for sin which is the devils kingdom And thou Pallard thou and all that denieth perfection are ignorant of the Life of Truth and the Ministry of the Saints and crosseth the Doctrine of God and of Christ and crosseth the Covenant of grace and the Ministry of the Saints for they preached wisdom amongst them that was perfect as it is written 1 Cor. 2 6 7. And Christ in his Sermon upon the Mount bade them be perfect Mat. 5.48 And the Apostle said Finally my Brethren farewell be perfect 2 Cor. 13.11 And they said Let us go on to perfection Heb. 6.1 And they did go on to it for they came to the innumerable company of Angels to the Church of the first born written in heaven to God the Judge of all and to the Spirits of just men made perfect Heb. 12.22.23 And they said therein was their love made perfect that they might have boldnesse in the day of judgement for as he was so was they in that present world 1 Iohn 4.16 17. And they were without fault before the throne of God and no gull was found in their mouths that were redeemed from amongst men Rev. 14. being the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb verse 4 5. And they said to others that were in their grouth as he that hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of conversation and this is witnessed See Rev. 14.3 4 5. 1 Pet. 1.13 14 15 16. And thou Pallard and all that saith the Bible is a History and saith the Letter and the Spirit are inseparable and all that preaches the Letter and not the Spirit and denyeth perfection by Christ in the new Covenant Heb. 10.9 11 18. All such as you are do bring a contrary doctrine to Christ and his Apostles and all you that are against perfection you are against the new Covenant and you deny the Scriptures therein that deny perfection and you deny the Doctrine of Christ and the Apostles and the end of Christs death resurrection ascension and the Church of the first born written in heaven as is proved by the Scriptures Heb. 10 11 12 13 14. Eph. 4.8 9 10 11 12 13. Heb. 12 2● 23 24 28. Heb. 10.16 17 18 19 29 21 22. And we deny you and all that deny fellowship with the Father and the Son and we are not to receive such into our houses nor to bid them God speed but to hold them and you all such accursed as it is written and as you may read 2 Iohn 9.10 11. Gal. 1.8 9. 1 Cor. 16.22 Therefore silence all flesh and deceit and stop your mouths say not but that you are warned lest I be a witnesse against you before the judgement seat of Christ in the terrible day of the Lords feirce wrath and indignation and as I told thee Pallard at thy going forth of the door that shal stand for thee Zeph. 1.14 to the end Isa 66.15.16 Mat. 25.41 c. 1 Iohn 4.17 1 cor 6.23 Iude 14 15. R. F. Written in Warwick shire the beginning of the eigth month Octob. 4. 1654. The sealed are the LORDS c. THerefore thus saith the Lord Behold I have laid in Sion and do lay there a chief corner stone Elect and precious he that believeth on him shall not be confounded and the Foundation of God standeth ever and hath this Seal set upon it the Lord knoweth who are his and they that are Sealed they know him by his indwellings in them and we know that the Son of God is come and hath given us the gift and the Seal and the understanding by which we know that we are in him and he in us even in his Son Jesus Christ and this is true God and life eternall as it is written and witnessed See 1 Pet. 2.4 5 6 7. to the 11. 2 Cor. 2.19 Rev. 9.4 Eph. 1.13 Rev. 7.2 3. John 6.27 1 Iohn 3.24 1 Iohn 5.20 God hath also out of his free love given to every man a talent or a measure of grace to improve and Christ is the true light that enlighteneth every man that cometh into the world and he that obeyeth the Light is led out of darknesse into the eternall life and entereth into Covenant with God and is Sealed and enters into the joy of his Lord as it is written and witnessed Mat. 25.14 15. Rom. 12.3 Titus 2.11 12. Iohn 1.5 9. Iohn 8.12 Heb. 5 8 9 Mat. 25.19 20 21. to the end Eph. 1. But he that hateth the Light he is the unprofitable Servant that accounts God a hard Master but though he do so he hath the Light manifested in his conscience which lets him see the deeds of darknesse and not obeying it that will be his condemnation Iohn 3.19 ●0 It doth not teach him because he doth not love it nor obey it therefore because he hath it and doth not obey it when God takes away his own he will be found just in the condemnation of the ●●oothfull and ●n the damnation of the wicked for it will stand with his Justice so to do let God be just and every man that hates the Light be found a lyar he that hateth the Light hath it as the unprofitable servant had the Talent given him to improve and did not improve it and so it was taken from him that had not and given to him that had the Talent was taken from the unprofitable servant that had not improved it and was given to him that had improved his Talents and he entered into the joy of his Lord but the unprofitable servant was cast and is to be cast into utter darknesse where shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth as it is written Mat. 25. But he was not cast into utter darknesse because he had not the Gift given him but because he had it and did not make use of it to serve him with it that gave it unto him and the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to prosit withall if he use it aright in the service but all doth not profit because all doth not obey it and Christ is the true Light that enligteneth every one that cometh into the world and lets him see his sins and the deeds of darknesse but every man doth not love the Light so as in all things to obey it and there is his condemnation not because he hath not the Light made manifest to the view of his understanding but because it is made manifest to the view of his understanding and he loves darknesse rather than Light he that obeyeth the Light is led out of darknesse and hath salvation Iohn 8.12 Heb. 5.8.9 But he that disobeyeth the Light and receives not the Truth in the love of it but serves unrighteousnesse he and all such are for damnation Iohn 3.19 20. 2 Thess 1.9 2 Thess 2.12 FINIS