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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35833	The discovery of mans return to his first estate by the operation of the power of God in the great work of regeneration with a word to all saints who set their faces towards Sion to seek the Lord their God ... : a word to the back-slider who hath tasted of the good word of God ... : with a discovery of mystery-Babylon and her merchants .... / written by one whom the people of this world calls a Quaker, whose name in the flesh is William Deusbury, but hath a new name the world knows not written in the book of life.	Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688.	1655 (1655)	Wing D1260; ESTC R27296	24,653	32

to be natural affectionated one towards another and they walk contrary causing poor people to pay to maintain them in pride and high ranks in the earth who can scarce get bread for their bellies and cloaths for their backs yet they force them to pay to them beeing void of all natural affections and they are truce-breakers breaking all Bonds and Covenants if they can get more mony in another place Thus they shew forth to all the world that they are lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God have a form of godliness in words but deny the power thereof from such turn away for of this sort are they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sin and divers lusts these Scriptures are fulfilled in your teachers every one hath his particular house to creep into where none must come but themselves or whom they please which is contrary to the practice of Christ or any that he sent forth they went through the Countries Towns Cities Villages according as they were guided by the spirit of God to declare what he gave them to speak and your Teachers lead silly women captives laden with sin and led away with divers lusts ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth do they not tel you to look for Christs coming in such observations as they set up which is nothing but the invention of their brains for Christ tels you The Kingdom of God comes not with observations but is within you But many of them that deny that the light in your conscience which makes manifest the evil of your hearts is the Kingdom of God calling it the light of a corrupt conscience so shuts the Kingdom of heaven against men and wil neither enter in themselves to be guided by the pure light of the Kingdom of Christ within them nor suffer them that are entring in to enter as the Scribes and Pharisees did now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so do these men resist the truth men of corrupt minds reprobates concerning the faith but they shall proceed no further for their folly shal be made manifest to all men as their also was and no man shal buy their merchandize any more All you inslaved Captives in the Kingdom of Babylon why will you lay out your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfies not hearken diligently unto Jesus Chrst the light that lets you see the evil of your hearts to be guided by it and you shal eat that which is good Incline your ears saith Christ and come unto me hear and your souls shal live and I wil make an everlasting covenant with you even the sure mercies of David mind the call of a powerful and tender Father in the Lord Jesus who calls Come forth of Babylon my people and touch no unclean thing and I wil receive you wil be a Father unto you and ye shal be my sons and daughters saith the Lord God Almighty Friends prize your time sleight not the day of the Lords mercy for he waits to be gracious and saith I stretch forth my arm all the day long to a back-sliding and gain-saying people Every one mind your conditions deal justly with your own hearts see what your hearts hath fellowship with and what guides your minds for the Kingdom of Christ is within you it is not in observations as your Teachers tels you for they deceive you therefore Christ forewarned us for looking forth at those which would come in the latter daies that would say Loe here is Christ lo there is Christ as it is in these our daies some say Lo here is Christ in the Presbyterian practice the Independents say He is there and the Anabaptists say Loe he is here But friends mind what Christ saith unto you Beleeve them not look not forth the Kingdom of Christ is not in any of those nor in any other outward observations but be awarned the Kingdom of Christ is in you and that is the light which lets you see the evil of your hearts and Christ compares it to a grain of Mustard seed the least of all seeds it grows up above all other herbs and becomes a tree that the Fowls of the ayr lodges therein and he compares it to a little leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of meal and it leavened the whole lump These are earthly parables and figures which Christ laies down speaking to the earthly and carnal heart of man that he may read his condition within Therefore despise not the day of smal things but mind the counsel of the Lord Jesus the little light that shines in thy dark heart look upon the figures the parables the little leaven which is hid in three measures of meal it changes the whole lump into the nature of it self so the little light that shines in thy dark heart is the powerful word of faith which was in the beginning by which all things were created and without him was nothing made this word is life and the life is the light of men and light shines in darkness and the darkness comprehends it not this light is the word of faith the Apostle exhorted to take heed unto Say not in thy heart who shall ascend up to Heaven to fetch Christ down or down into the deep to fetch him up the word is nigh thee in thy heart and in thy mouth and this is the word of faith which we preach the unction of the holy one given of the Father whereby we need not to teach one another but as the anointing teacheth us which is truth and no lie which is the sure word of Prophesie whereunto ye do wel to take heed as unto a light shining in a dark place until the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts All people return within give up your selves freely to bee guided by that light that discovers to you the evil of your hearts and none be discouraged because you see an evil heart but prize the love of God that discovers it to you and whatever the light makes manifest to you to be evil wait on the Lord for power and he wil give thee power to obey and in being faithful in a little more wil be communicated from the Lord so wil the righteous law be set up into your hearts that wil cry through your earthly and carnal hearts for righteousness and judgment and so will bring you to an account for every idle word and all deeds done in the body Look up unto the Lord against whom you have sinned and he wil arm you with power to what he laies upon you with patience to undergo his wil until all the powers of the earth in you be famished and slain under his righteous judgments then wil judgment be brought forth unto victory that you can no longer live

for these observations they call the Ordinances of God as they are practised by them There is no Scripture that Christ or any that he sent forth did take a child and sprinkled water on its face and said in so doing they baptized it into the Church of Christ Suffer little children to come unto me saith Christ a●…d forbid them not for of such is the Kingdome of God for whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child shall not enter therein he sets the child as a type and a figure to shew forth to every one that they must become as a little child depending upon the will of God before they enter into the Kingdome of God he took them up in his arms and put his hands on them and blessed them but that he sprinkled water on their faces and said Hee baptized them into his Church there is no such Scripture An other observation your Teachers tel you you mu observe is hearing these stndied Sermons in taking a part of Scripture and adding to it their wisdom calls it the word of God which is contrary to the Scripture but they say they have Christ for an example There was delivered unto him the book of the Prophet Isaiah and when he had opened the book he found where it was written The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel unto the poor he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted to preach deliverance to the Captives recovering the sight of the blind and to set at liberty them that are bruised to preach the acceptable year of the Lord and he closed the book and sate down and he began to say unto them This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears and all bare him witness and wondered at the gracious words that proceeded out of his mouth he was the substance of the prophecy which was then fulfilled in him This is no ground for any to take the Saints words and add to it their wisdom and call that the word of God The Prophet that hath a dream let him tell a dream he that hath my Word let him speak my Word faithfully What is the chaff to the Wheat saith the Lord Is not my word like a fire and like a hammer saith the Lord that breaks the rocks in pieces All to whom the word of the Lord is committed can witness it to be as a fire within them and as a hammer that breaks rocks in pieces in subjecting all in the heart under the power of it self so it alone rules and guides him that he is what he speaks that if he had never seen any thing that the Saints hath declared without him he had known what is manifest in him and he to whom the word is thus made manifest is a true Minister of Christ who is called to speak the Word faithfully But these that call themselves your Teachers and makes bargaains with you for so much in the year they never witnessed the word of the Lord in them as a fire like a hammer that breaks the rocks in pieces so they never had any thing to have spoken of the Lord but as they have stoln it from the testimony of the Saints so they speak a divination of their own brain a riddle to their own-hearts and whilest they speak to others themselves are cast away And the Lord testifies against them Behold I am against the Prophets saith the Lord that steals my word every one from his neighbour Behold I am a ainst the Prophets saith the Lord that use their tongue and say H●… sai●…h Behold I am against them that prophesie false dreams saith the Lord and do tell them and cause my people to erre by their lies and by their lightness yet I sent them not nor commanded them therefore they shal not profit the people at all saith the Lord and this fruit is made manifest of the ministry that hath been in England Another observation your Teachers tell you to observe which is contrary to the Sci●…ture at it is practised by them in singing of David's Psal. in Metre taking David's word●… who was a man after Gods own heart and putting words into the mouths of poor ignorant people to sing that which they never knew and so causes them to blaspheme the name of God saying Let us sing to the praise and glory of God as O Lord I am not puft in mind I have no scornful eye I do not exercise my self in things that be too high for me when they never knew any change wrought in their minds and so causeth the people to lie And causing them to sing David's prayers as O Lord rebuke me not in thy wrath neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure for thine arrows stick ●…ast in me thy hand presseth me sore for my iniquities are gone over my head as a heavy burthen they are too heavy for me to bear my wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness I am troubled I am bowed down greatly I go mourning all th●… day long and may be none of you in al that place can witness the condition and so blasphemes the name of God who wil be worshipped in spirit in truth and this is the rule given out from him If any be afflicted let him pray if any be merry let him sing Psalms and there is none merry but the ransomed of the Lord who returns to Sion with joy and singing and ●…verlasting j●…y shal be upon their heads and they shal obtain gladness and joy and sorrow and sighing flies away All people may search the Scriptures and see how you have been deceived by your Teachers who have caused you to seek your lost God in carnal dead observations which they have not any Scripture for all cease from them for the Lord complains of them The leaders of my people causeth them to erre saith the Lord of Hosts and now are these Scriptures fulfilled in these men which the Apostle prophesied ●…f This know also that in the last daies perillous times shal come for men shal be lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemous disobedient to Parent●… unthankful unholy all people see are not your Teachers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before they come at you they must know what they must have covetous griping for much and if you wil not give them so much as they can have in another place they wil not come at you here is self-love and covetousness manifested without natural affection truce-breakers false accusers traytors heady high-minded lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God having ●… form of godliness but denying the power thereof from such the Apostle exhorts to turn away All people behold and see all these Scriptures are fulfilled in your Teachers they speak against pride and live in it against covetousness and live in it they teach by their wor●…s