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A52677	An account from the children of light (to them that askes) in several particulars why we have been kept from joyning to, or worshipping in those formes at law, and formes of worships, that have been imposed upon us against our consciences, in these late years, for denying whereof, we have so deeply suffered, with our lives, liberties, and estates. : Also what we owne as to those things, and can be obedient to for conscience sake, according to truth, and the practise of the church of Christ, and the Scriptures.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing N256; ESTC R27517	31,099	57

AN ACCOUNT From the Children of light to them that askes in several particulars why we have been kept from joyning to or worshipping in those formes at Law and formes of worships that have been imposed upon us against our consciences in these late years for denying whereof we have so deeply suffered with our lives Liberties and Estates Also what we owne as to those things and can be obedient to for Conscience sake according to truth and the practise of the Church of Christ and the Scriptures For our rejoycing is this the testimony of our Conscience That in simplicity and godly sincerity not with fleshly wisdome but by the grace of God we have had our conversation in the world 2 Cor. 1.12 LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth neare Aldersgate 1660. For as much as many have desired to know the ground in particulars of our differences in faith and worship towards God And in some things as to the outward formes at Law which men have sought to impose upon us in these late yeares and also what we would desire therein therefore is this written following towards the satisfying of every honest desire who loves the kingdome of Christ THere is no kingdome nor people can truely be said to be the Lords and his Christs but as they come to be guided and governed by the Law of his Spirit in their Consciences which Spirit and anoynting all must wait for even from the King that sits on high to the least place of government in any people That with it all may know Judgement and to doe Justice which is of God and not of men That he may be known to be the anoynting of Kings and to Judge among the Judges whose right it is of old and God hath given it to him by an everlasting generation even after the power and order of an endlesse life That in him and in his seed may nations and kingdoms be blessed with peace even through and in his Righteous government for God the Father accepts neither persons lawes nor governments how prudently soever they be made if they be not in him and from him and for him because for him was made all soules that move not onely in earth but in heaven also All signes and seasons types and shadows worship and sabbath was made for him the son of man And no flesh breathing nor Spirits neither men or Angels hath any true power or right but as they receive it in him and so use it to him and for him over any of these things visible or invisible to rule force or order no not over his own body but by usurpation and for the time that he or they shall hold that power and not in him as aforesaid they shall be under the curse of God not established in peace and righteousnesse but in tyranny and oppression with force or with flattery must such rule in their day untill their measure of time and sin be fulfilled In which the vengeance of the Almighty shall remove them far away onely their names shall remain as a curse to those that come after Thus God will plead the Cause of his own seed and overturne and shake nations and kingdoms untill the earth know that the heavens must Reigne and the stout of heart confess that the head of every man is Christ And that God hath made this same Jesus which men hath rejected both Lord Christ which in his time he shall shew to be the onely Potentate King of Kings and Lord of Lords who onely hath immortality dwelling in the light where he sits at the right hand of power till God shall make all his foes his footstoole Now this is that we wait for in every appearance and face of authoritie that comes up to wit the face of Jesus our righteous King and Saviour in whom is no violence nor oppression who when he comes to rule we know will be tender of the tender in Conscience and meeke towards the poore in Spirit and with righteousnesse will he judge and rule on the earth to deliver the helplesse from him that is too hard for him who will drive wickednesse from his throne and the workers thereof into a Corner but will gently deale towards all that travails with righteousnesse and put the Lambs of truth in his bosome for he loves righteousnesse and hates iniquity therefore hath God called him his anoynted and will give him the heathen for his possession and a Priest to God he is to all generations in his dayes shall the upright rejoyce for he shall walke safely in his uprightnesse no nett shall then be spread on the mountaines neither shall he that turnes from iniquitie be made a prey for under him shall every one serve his God without feare in holinesse of life and godlinesse of conversation Now this is he we wait for even the beloved of our soules and we know his birth is come to the nations and his morning towards the people yea to the wise in heart who are yet afar off hath his starre appeared And we know his breaking forth to these Ilands as the bright Sun after the stormy raine even so shall he be after the shakeings he shall be a Covert from the tempest as rivers of waters in a dry place and as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land even so shall he be who shall raigne in righteousnesse and by whom Princes shall rule in Judgement This is the Royall seed and he that is of him is the son of Nobles his Princes eate in due season for strength and not for drunkennesse thus shall the Land be blessed who is found worthy to receive the anoynted of God to rule in its borders And this is he whom we have preached to all the severall governments that hath risen ever since God revealed him in us and the glory and peace of his kingdome and we have patiently waited and in great sufferings hath our soules travelled to see if by any meanes we might see any worthy to receive his anoynting and to be borne of his Spirit to governe by his power and with his Counsell to order and be ordered that through him they might be established of God and we have looked through the vail of flesh in all sorts of people and could not bow thereto and by many contrary Spirits have we been evill entreated because we could not owne ●hem for him whose kingdome we seeke in rulers teachers and people And thus have we gone seeking the righteous one through Parliaments and Protectors so called Priests and Rulers of all sorts but his government we have not found nor with his righteous Judgements have we been judged among them but we have been shamefully entreated for his sake and have borne his reproach because of his Spirit in us and his kingdome in our Consciences And many times have been tryed to the losse of

Conscience from dead works And will you not suffer him to reigne and governe therein hath not he quickned every living soule and created anew every free Spirit and would you take and keepe the kingdome therein out of his hand and rule there for another or your selves with force and cruelty Is not this he for whom the Sabbath was made and all the ordinances under heaven speakes his dominion And will you now read this and professe and withstand him in the Consciences of his tender people and deny him to rule in his Church alone have you not read what God hath said of him and his enemies in the second Psalme nay are not all the Scriptures his and testifie to him alone as head over all and ruler in all his Saints And as you have heard read and professed his dominion more then heathens and yet goe on to keepe it from him so to you is his first appear●nce to seeke his owne of you And if you persist to deny him it s you must drinke the Cup first that the heathens may heare and feare his name fr●m farre and his rising appeare to all the ends of the world that its he alone who is from everlasting at whose name every knee must bow and tongue confesse to the right of his inheritance And this further I lay before you people of this Nation who have long been crying for peace and settlement in the Nations and in your Religion and you cry out of so many divisions and so many religions I say to you all how should you be otherwise when you will not come to the one religion that is of God and was in the beginning with God and brought forth in time by Iesus Christ for the bringing all into God againe and reconciling all sorts of scattered people who are scattered in the imaginations and customes of carnall spirited men from God the one good thing into many things rudiments and traditions wherein you can neither be reconciled to God nor one to another for how is it like that ever that religion can reconcile to God which sets you a killing one another to uphold it are you like to obtaine peace in that Spirit which in your hearts is the cause of enmity and warre or obtaine unitie from that roote which hath thus scattered you in its fruits and off spring This is like the false Prophets of old who would bite with their teeth and cry peace Nay this is not the way of settlement or lasting peace THAT you must have in returning and making peace with the Spirit of Jesus you must kisse the Son and so make peace for this hath been seene concerning you of these Nations that if you owne not the light of Christ in spirit and truth that he may lead you out of these many things which are not of ●od and reconcile you to God in spirit and truth there to worship him alone who is a Spirit you will ere long be in bloud eyther amongst your selves one against another or else i● the bloud of the innocent Lambs of Chri●t which will not be for your peace with God for he that hath letted your peace and settlement is not yet taken away nor his power who is that old bloud-sucker and divider of Nations people and tongues abou● faith and religions and with which a fire hath often been kindled nor can his power be stopped but by the Spirit of the Lambe of God which takes away sin and breakes downe the wall of separation which is made about ordinances litterall ceremoniall and traditionall which can never cease but as men turne to the Spirit of the Lord Iesus That with the light of peace and truth you may be led into peace truth and unity that wrath may be done away and the ground thereof and you and your religion may be setled on the foundation of truth Christ Jesus the chiefe corner stone and not upon dayes times meats drinks and apparell and other things which will perish with the using and so will they that worship and not in the leadings of Christ alone and God will shake the Idolls of peoples minds and all the glory of flesh that he alone may be exalted in the earth as he is in heaven So if you will have peace you must come to the Son of peace and if you will have establishment you must come to the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles of God for I say many have been about to build a house for God to dwell in with carnall things and rudiments and this they would bind him to his people who is a Spirit and his house must be built of spirituall men and women who like living stones must grow up in his owne light and vertue into a holy temple in the Lord In which you must be builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit Eph. 2.20 21 22. And this is Gods house built by Christ alone with that which is elect and precious not with gold and garments or observations of perishing things but with redeemed soules by the bloud of Iesus out of their vaine conversation and gathered into the Spirit of truth and life and power to worship God who is a Spirit in spirit truth and this is Gods house at this day which was his house in the Apostles dayes who dwells not in Temples made with hands as saith the Apostles nor with mens hands is worshipped but with him that 's poore in spirit and of a broken and contrite heart to him will I looke saith the Lord and there will I dwell And the bodyes of his holy people are the Temples of the living God as he hath said I will dwell in them and walke in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people 2 Cor. 6.16 And untill you come to this building of God in your selves God will not dwell with you in peace but all your buildings will he cōfound and not accept your sacrifice and then the Devill will enrage you against Gods house and spirituall building even his poore despised people them to destroy like Cain when his sacrifice was not accepted in his owne will But if you turne to the Lord who is that Spirit then will he cause his light to shine in your hearts to give you an heavenly understanding and he will put his Spirit in your inward parts and fill you with heavenly power and will let you see the lively Image of truth and peace and he will take away the vaile of the Covering that is spead over all Nations from which arises all their carnall comprehensions and carnall worships of the invisible spirituall God and he will also swallow up death in victory which now worketh in the Nations to kill one another about religion and worship without spirit and life so will you come to be taught his true worship who is a Spirit and become true worshippers in Spirit and so grow up in his knowledge and he will owne your worship whom as yet you have neither heard hi● voyce at any time nor seene his shape And Christ saith of such worshippers You worship you know not what but the true worshippers worship in faith and know what they worship and such the Father ● now seeking to worship him saith Christ Iesus John 4.22 23 24. And this is the thing oh England tha● concernes thy peace with thy God in thi● thy day who art Combred with many things about Christ and worship but neglects the one thing needfull for thy everlasting peace and establishment and to bring thee into that worship of Spirit withou● which God cannot accept thee and that religion which is pure and undefiled in the sight of God which will keepe thee unspotted in the world which till thou turn● to thou wilt be working against the Spirit of God through the darknesse of enmity that is in thee and he will certainly worke against thee except thou repent THE END J. N. R. H. 1 John 3.27 Isa. 5.6 2 Chro. 19.6 Isa. 6.9 Mat. 12.8 Heb. 2.10 Dan. 4.25 Acts 2.36 1 Tim. 6.15 Isa. 11.4 Isa. 40.11 Psal. 45.7 Jer. 23.5 6. Luk. 1.24 Isa. 6.3 2 Sam. 23.4 Isa. 32.1 2. Eccles. 10.16 17. Psal. 69.9 Lam. 3.14 Rev. 21.24 Isa. 5.21 Jer. 17.5 John 5.44 Isa. 30.1 Rom. 8.14 Gal. 5.18 Mat. 17.5 2 Cor. 10.6 Isa. 28.7 Jere. 23. Amos 2.4 Amos 7.14 Jerem. 23. Isa. 1.9 Hester 3. Dan. 6. Dan. 3. Acts 5.28 29. John 16.2.3 2 Tim. 1.13 Job 32.21 22. James 2. Dan. 3.21 Lev. 18.30 Ier. 23.10 Mat. 5.34 Iames 5.12 Lev. 19.12 Mat. 5.34 Mat. 5. Isa. 59.4 Isa. 28.15 Jer. 9.3 4 5 Pro. 12.19.22 Pro. 29.12 Psal. 40.4 Deut. 19.16 17 18 19 20 1 Cor. 7.39 M●la 2.15 Ma●h. 19.6 M●th. 19.8 Mah. 19.4 5. Rom. 8.2 Nom. 13. Acts 4.19 2 C●r 1.12 1 Tim. 3.9 James 1.27 John 4.23 24. Dan. 4.17 Heb. 1.8 9. Isa. 11.1 2. 2 Cor. 4.5 2 Cor. 1.24 1 Pet. 5.3 2 Cor. 10.4 Eph. 6.12 1 Cor. 4.5 Mic. 3.10 Col. 1.18 Phil. 2.10 Rev. 17.14 John 6.27 Col. 1.18 Mat. 1.21 Phil. 2.13 1 Cor. 6.10 Rom. 14.23 Rom. 14.4 Mat. 7.12 1 Cor. 2.10 11. John 3.20 21. Rom. 7.6 1 Thes. 1.1 Gala. 1.16 Gal. 1.11.12 1 Cor. 9.14 1 Cor. ● 17 18. 2 Cor. 4.5 1 Cor. 14 29 30 31. 1 Cor. 2.12 1 John 4.1 1 Thes. 5.21 1 Cor. 8.5 6. 〈◊〉 4 5 6. Heb. 7. John 4.21 24. Acts 7.48 Acts 17.24 Jer. 10.2 3. Isa. 55.4 Luke 1.79 Heb. 1.6 Mica 3. Col. 2.14 15 16 17 20 21 22. Heb. 10.11 Isa. 66.2 Isa. 25.7 8. 2 Cor. 3.16 17 18. John 5 37. Luke 19 42· Luke 10.41 42. James 1.27