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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

have long been professing Christ and justification by him c. To turn in to the Light which is Gods witnesse and with it try your selves and examine your selves truly and honestly and it will let you all see that ye are not come to Christ yet nor yet known him who is the end of the Law for righteousnesse who fulfillls it but ye are under it still alive without the Law unslaine by it as Paul was in the sin and transgression and so not justisied by Christ neither know him All ye who do deny the Light which he hath enlightned ye withall For none comes to know him but who beleeves in the Light which Christ hath enlightned them withall nor none come into the righteousnesse which is the end of the Law and fulals it but who beleeve in the Light and are obedient to the Light and walk in it Here is the righteousnesse known which exceeds the righteoulnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees who should in no wise enter into the Kingdome of Heaven who had the Law without and read it every Sabbath day but they were sayers and not doers and hypocrites of whom Christ said Go not after them for they had the Form but not the Power They had a shew of righteousnesse and made clean the out-side but the inside was unclean and unrighteous and were but as whited Walls and painted Sepulchers which did appear beautiful and righteous before men but within were no●●ing but rottennesse and deads mens bones and so were as Graves which men go over unawares and what they did it was to be seen of men and thereby did beguile and deceive the hearts of the simple and so shut the Kingdome of Heaven against men as Christ said and neither entred in themselves nor suffered others that were entering Now are not all ye Teachers Priests and professors found here in the Pharisees spirit and in the same generation with them in outward shewes of holinesse and righteousnesse and formes of godlinesse and making cleane the outsides as they did and saying and are Sayers as they were but not doers and so are hypocrites as they were And yee keep people alwayes saying but never bring them to doe what they say but teach them that Christ hath done all for them and if they can but beleeve that then they are well enough and so blindes people by that means that they doe not minde what they doe themselves nor what they say to performe and so are out of the truth and never come to the knowledge of it and so the kingdome of heaven is shut against you and them and so you are ever teaching them and they are ever learning and saying after you and so make a faire shew in the flesh and appeare to be something outwardly and perswade them that they are Justified by the righteousnesse of Christ which he hath wrought for them without and so there they rest as the Pharisees did in the outward observations whilest in the meane time they are inwardly uncleane their hearts uncleane their minds defiled their eyes full of adultery who cannot cease from sin and so are shut out of the kingdome into which no unrighteous thing or uncleane thing must ever enter and are but as Tombes garnished and Sepulchers painted wherein is rottennesse and dead mens bones marke like the Scribes and Pharisees and so your righteousnesse doth not exceed theirs In the same generation with them are yee and their Children are yee who slew Christ Jesus the true Prophet which Moses spake of when he said Like unto me will the Lord raise up a Prophet which all were to heare c. as the Pharisees were the Children of them that slew the Prophets that went before them and are like unto them And are still slaying and have been slaying and killing and persecuting and hailing before Magistrates and out of the Synagogues as they did those who are the true Chriftians in whom the Spirit of Christ is manifest who beare witnesse against your hypocrisie and deceipt now as Christ did and the true Christians did in the primitive times And it is your srultes makes yee manifest now as theirs did then and your faire sayings and not doing now cannot cover you no more then that could cover the Pharisees then who said and did not and therefore Christ calls them hypocrites Moreover as they would not heare him of whom the Father sayd This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased heare yee him and of whom John bore witnesse and sayd He was the true Light that Lighteth every man that cometh into the world And so because they did not beleeve in the true Light therefore they were blinde leaders of the blinde and so it is and hath been with you who doe not beleeve in the Light which Christ Jesus hath enlightened you withall but speak against it and say it is Insufficient and natural c. Therefore yee abide in darkness and are Children of darkness who know not whither yee goe nor know not that yee are walking in the stepps of your forefathers the Scribes and Pharisees who were hypocrites and blinde guides who persecuted Christ and put him to death and persecuted the Saints the true Church and halled them before Magistrates and shut them up in prisous and thought they did God good service in so doing even so it is now with many of you at this day yee thinke so who walke in darkness and know not whither yee goe But the Children of the Light who beleeve in the Light they see the true Way which is Christ and with the Light they see you all where you are in the false wayes in the way of the Pharisees and not in the way Christ and beare witnesse against you now as the Saints did then against them And yee can no longer be hid but your folly will come to be layd open and manifest more and more so that yee cannot proceed much further For now is the Day dawning and the Day-starr arising in the hearts of many people who take head unto the more sure mord of prophecy as unto a Light that shineth in a darke place and such as doe so doe well and when the Day-starr doth arise the Sun is neare approaching which expells all the darkness that men comes to see round about them And then they can see what the holy men of God did and what Christ and the Saints did and what the Scribes and Pharisees did and so see over the Apostacy to the Apostles dayes And what the Apostate Christians have been doing since the Apostles dayes and what they are still doing and what the Saints the true Christians are now doing and who are they and can know them who have done well and who now doe well from them that have done evill and now doe evill for the day is that which tryes every mans worke of what sort it is And all who are come to the day now can

sect or opinion or judgement or Religion soever they be of who deny the Light which Christ Jesus bath Lighted every one withall to be ●ufficient to lead to salvation 〈◊〉 I say they know not that which makes free from sin and death and brings to life no can they beleeve that when it is declared to them but say none can be free from sin on this fide of the grave and account it errour to say that any can be free from sin here or be righteous here without sin and say the most righteous man sins and he that is borne of God sin which is Blasphemy so to say and this is and hath been their doctrine in the world amongst the Priests and profelsors the Antichrists and Anrichristians who are out of the life of Christ and the true Christians that now their nakednesse appeares to thein shame because they have not submitted to the righteousnesse by faith in Christ Jesus that they might be covered with it who is the true Light to beleeve in the Light that by it they might be led unto Christ Jesus from whence it comes who is Gods righteousness and thereby know the righteousness of the Law fulfilled in them and know the kingdome of god within which cometh not with observation as Christ saith and the righreousness in which it stands and the power in which it stands is within and the Law of the Spirit which makes free from the Law of sin and death and the life which is eternall which is the gist of God through Jesus Christ in whom the Law of the Spirit of life is But now all who are pleading for sin and say None be free from sin here they are still under the Law of sin and death which Paul sayd he was made free from Sin is still a Law to them and they are servants to it and so they are free from righteousness as the Apostle said While ye were servants of sin ye were free from righteousness but being made free from sin ye became the servants of righteousness That at sin had reigned unto death so righteousness might reigne unto life through Jesus Christ our Lord And againe His servants ye are whom ye obey whether sin unto death or obedience unto righteousness Therefore come all ye Teachers and Professors of the World what say you Can none be made free from Sin and Death here while he is upon Earth what is there not a living man amongst you all who is quickned Is there none of you come up out of the Grave that can truly say Oh Death where is thy Sting Oh Grave where is thy Victory Thanks be to God who hath given me Victory over Death What are you all as Graves which men go over unawares Have none of you heard the Voyce of the Son of God yet which they that hear shall live Are you all dead in your sins and trespasses unquickned yet in the Fall in the first Adams state in the Disobedience by which Sin entare dinto the World and Death by Sin Are you all there still where Death reigns Is there none come to Life which is through the Obedience to Christ Jesus the second Adam the quickening Spirit the Lord from Heaven Have none of you the Word of God abiding in you which Word is Quick and Powerfull and the enterance of it gives Life Come forth and answer for your selves What are you all shur up in the unbelief untill this day and have not beleeved in him whom God hath sent who is the Resurrection and the Life who saith he that beleeveth in me shall live for ever he shall never dye for he hath Life in himself and he gives Life to every one that beleeveth What are you all searching the Scriptures which testifies of Christ and thinke to have eternall Life in them and you not yet come to Christ that you may have Life him whom the Scriptures testifies of and saith He is the trus Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the World that all might beleeve in the Light and become Children of Light and he who followeth him should not walke in darknesse but he shall have the Light of Life and know Christ Jesus who is the way so the Father the Truth and the Life who saith No man cometh unto the Father but by me I am come a Light into the World c. What doe you not beleeve Christ Or doe you thinke to find another Way to the Father an easier Way then Christ or a broader Way a Way which is not a Crosse to your Wills or a Way where you may walke your selves without a Guids that ye may goe whither you list but that 's not the Way to God as Christ told Peter when he was young he girt himself and went whither he would c. Answer me plainly to these Queries Oh ye Priests and Professors who have been so long talking of the Scriptures but have been out of the Truth and out of the Life of Righteousnesse and out of the Light and out of the Way who have been wandering in the Darknesse not knowing whether you goe and seeking the Living amongst the Dead and are erred from the Truth in your hearts and hold it in the unrighteousnesse professing the true Words but are and have been out of the Truth and so could never be established there for none can ever be established but in the Truth and in the Righteousnesse But ye have been out of the Life and so are dead men still and are yet in the Graves and have not heard his Voyce that should raise you up yet because you have not hearkened diligently that your souls might live though you have been long talking of him and searching for him without in the Observations and have been saying Lot here is Christ and Lot he is there in this Form or in that Forme of Worship and in this or that Ordinande so Death hith heard of the fame of Wisdome and hath been talking of the fame of Wisdome which is justisied of her Children but ye who only have been talking of Wisdome and speaking of it while you were in the Death and did not learne the Way to Life ye are but soolish Children and are not justified for you have all been but as the foolish Virgins the best of you who have had Lamps but wanted Oyle and so ye are in the darke still your Lamps are not burning nor your Lights shining neither hath your Light so shined before men that they may see your good workes and glorifie the Father But you have all professed that which ye did not possesse and so are found in the hypocrisie and your righteousnesse hath been like the Righreousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees whom Christ told should in is wise enter into the Kingdome of Heaven Now all that are but there will be shut out though you have

the hidden things of dishonesty comes to be laid open to the view of all men For the day is come and coming which reveals all things and which will prove every mans work of what sort it is And every man shall receive a reward according to his deeds done in the body whether they be good or evil Therefore all people in whom there is any fear of the Lord or any desire after the knowledge of his way or any love to his truth or to your souls peace and welfare It is high time for you to look about you and to consider your wayes what ye have beendoing and what ye are doing for the times of ignorance God hath winked at but now he calls all men every where to repent For it is not a Profession of the words now will serve you without the possession of the life for that will not be accepted of God But all to repent and turn from the evil of your wayes which ye have long been reproved for by the light of Christ Jesus in you which is Gods witnesse in all your consciences which otherwise will be your eternal condemnation for your profession of Christ will not serve you nor hide you nor your mountains nor your hills where ye have been gotten up high and looking for salvation from them but it hath been all in vaine Come down from them to Gods witnesse in you and hearken to that what that doth testifie to you for that is true and will not lye nor deceive you for that is of God and leads to God And with the Lord Jehovan alone is Salvation and with him is everlasting strength For those mountains will all fly away from you which ye now do trust in and they shall not hide you from the face of the Lamb though ye may call to them to cover you and to the Rocks to fall upon you nay though ye seek death it shall fly from you Therefore I say in time all be warned and hearken diligently that your souls may live And away with all your false and deceitful coverings which are but as so many Fig-leaves sowed together to cover your nakednesse which will not endure long and your profession will wither suddenly and your nakednesse will then appear more to your shame then if ye had made no profession at all to have that pluckt off wherewith ye have been covered all this while which made ye seem to be some body when that is gone then ye will be naked and as it were like no body and have nothing to cover your shame from the eyes of all for Christ Jesus disowns ye who are workers of iniquity and ye must depart from him and not name his Name For it s not every one that saith Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but he that doth the will of my Father which is in Heaven saith Christ But while ye have been seeking to be justified by Christ and yet lived in sin and are found sinners ye have not been doing the will of God for thereby ye would make Christ the Minister of sin who came to destroy sin and the Devil who is the Author of it and therein he did the will of the Father and plased him And so as many as receive him and beleeve in his name to them he gives power to become the sons of God and to doe his will in earth as it is done in Heaven which ye have been praying so long and saying these words but do not beleeve in your hearts that any shall ever attain to that here which you pray for therefore it s not of faith for with the heart man beleeveth unto righteousness c. and ye are not like to recelve that which ye cannot beleeve so ye are not come to the measure of faith even as a grain of Mustard-seed for he that hath it shall say unto this Mountain be thou removed into the Sea and it shall be so saith Christ But these are all parables to all you Professors in the world unknown as it was to them to whom they were spoken then But who comes to the Light of Christ Jesus to beleeve in it they read the parables and they know the faith that removes the Mountains and brings them down and exalts the valleys and makes the crooked ways straight and the rough wayes plain and prepares the way of the Lord in the Wildernesse and make straight paths for his feet and such knows the kingdome of God to come where his will is done on sarth as in Heaven and where the daily bread is received and sins forgiven and enemies loved And Christ said to those that did not know nor beleeve If I toll ye of earthly things and ye cannot beleeve how should you beleeve if I tell you of Heavenly things John 3.12 And again I speak that which I have seen with my Father and ye speak that which ye have seen with your father John 8.39 Therefore all ye Professors of the Scriptures and Teachers of the Prophets and Christs words and the words which ye have received by tradition from your fathers It s no wonder if the things declared of by the Prophets Christ and the Saints be strange to you that ye neither know them nor can believe them seeing ye me all erred from the Spirit of the Father even that Spirit which was in the Prophets Christ and the Apostles and Saints which shews plainly of the Father and shewed them things to come which was and now is the Saints Comforter which Christ said he would send Even the Spirit of Truth which should lead them into all Truth and should bring all things to their remembrance This the Saints did receive in former times by which they did plainly declare what they had heard and what they had seen and tasted and handled of the word of life And this the Saints do now receive even the same Spirit of the Father which was in the Saints and is now in the Saints and shall be in the Saints to the end of the World as Christ said by which the Saints do now know the Scriptures which were spoken forth by the Spirit of God in the holy men of God and understand them and witnesse the thing they speake of So that they are not a Book sealed to us nor parrables to us who come to enjoy the things they speake of which is freely given to us of God as they were to them who spake forth the Scriptures as the Apostle said 1 Cor. 2.11 12 13. We have not received the spirit of this World but we have received the Spirit which is of God by which we know the things which are freely given to us of God which things we declare in the plain demonstration of the Spirit and not with words which mans wisdome teacheth comparing spirituall things with spirituall But the naturall man perceiveth not