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A38772 A brief discovery of God's eternal truth and a way opened to the simple hearted whereby they may come to know Christ and his ministers, from Antichrist and his ministers : with a warning from the Lord to all people that do name the name of Christ, to depart from iniquity / written in the inquisition of Malta by ... Katherine Evans. Evans, Katharine, d. 1692. 1663 (1663) Wing E3453; ESTC R15841 22,883 58

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is taken away then there is no Condemnation but man is at unity with his Maker all Fear of Death and Torment is taken away for the Sting of Death is Sin and the Strength of Sin is the Law but thanks be to God who hath given us the victory through our Lord Iesus Christ over Sin Death Hell and the Grave together with all the dark Powers of the Earth That as we who are called Quakers do continue in the Light none can overcome us for Truth is stronger than all and the Lord our God will exalt his Truth over all Falshood and deceivable Shews Everlasting Praises eternal Glory and heavenly Renown to his pure holy and perfect Name for ever world without end Amen Amen There is none can forgive Sins but God only neither will he give his Honour to another though Christ said to his Apostles Whose Sins ye remit on Earth shall be remitted in Heaven he spake to them that were filled with his own eternal Spirit and were able to discern an innocent penitent Heart from a Hypocrite in the Light and Life of Righteousness and they did not say they could forgive any their Sins but they were sent to direct their Minds to God who was and is ready to forgive every one that cometh to him by Faith and throughly purged and cleansed from all Iniquity But as for those that have taken upon them to pardon Creatures for their Money or if they will receive their Correction and so deceive the poor People and so he or they that doth pardon and they that are pardoned of them do and will perish together eternally unless they repent of their Blasphemies and Sorceries Divinations Inchantments whereby the poor People are blinded and kept in ignorance and in all manner of Uncleanness and are corrupted for want of Knowledge My People perish for want of Knowledge saith God and the Kingdom is shut up from the Simple-hearted and the Key of Knowledge is hid away by them that will not enter in themselves nor suffer any to enter that would neither will they permit that any of the Lord 's Anointed that have received the Key of Knowledge should speak among the People but they say None ought to speak in the Name of Jesus but the divine Doctors that have received their Ordinations from them The People are blind indeed that do think the Spirit of the Lord can be limitted tyed confined or dispenced by any mortal Man No they that do make the people believe any such thing are absolutely the Messengers of Satan and not the Ministers of Christ they are out of his Doctrine such are Doctors of Divinity that dwell in the Divine Light of God and grow into his Divine Nature and do receive their Ministry by the Inspiration of his divine Spirit of Life and Power and do speak as they are moved and as the Spirit giveth them utterance in the Will of God they are no Men-pleasers nor Time-servers nor Will-worshippers for such cannot please God that seek to please man and they are Hypocrites that walk in the Imitations and Likenesses without the Life and Power observing this thing and observing the other Christ saith The Kingdom of Heaven cometh not with Observations but the Kingdom of God is within you speaking to the unbelieving Jews the Scribes and Pharisees Wise and Learned that were gone out from the Kingdom the Measure of God in them in which is Power to destroy the Works of the Devil in the Observations and Christ reproved them and said to them The Kingdom of Heaven consists in Righteousness Peace and Ioy in the holy Ghost Now that is the kingdom of Antichrist in which kingdom is the City that Cain built that is in the Observations and Babel that Nimrod the Heretick begun to build which is full of confused Noises and Bloodshed and all manner of Cruelty It is Babel that is built with blood but Sion is redeemed through judgment and her converts with righteousness O! blessed be the pure holy and powerful Lord God the Day of his Power according to his determinate Counsel is come that Antichrists Kingdom shall be destroyed and Babels Building must fall for the Mystery of Babylon the Great the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth is made manifest by the bright Appearing of the Lord Jesus and the Children of Light are able to fathom and comprehend her and all her Lovers and to see the Foundation they stand on and the Ground they act from which is but as Water as John saith in his Revelations he saw Nations Waters Peoples Waters and Tongues Waters yea Men Waters Peoples and Nations all unstabled like the Waves of the Sea tossed to and fro with every Wind of Doctrine in the changable gone out from that which changeth not into the many Ways and have heaped to themselves Teachers having itching eares and cannot endure sound Doctrine but saith Preach unto us smooth things so they do preach Peace where the Lord proclaimeth War and bless themselves in that nature that is everlastingly shut out of the Kingdom of God and excluded from his living Presence But the Lord God of Life and Power will hath discovered the Spirit of the Barren woman that hath made all Nations drunken with the Wine of her Fornication and the Inhabitants of the Earth were surfeited and overcome with her Abomination She shall soon be cast into a Bed of Torment with all her Lovers where she shall have Torment without Ease Judgment without Mercy a full Cup without Mixture and the Dregs wrung out unto her and she shall be rewarded double for all her Iniqiuties the Lord will mar her beauty and stain her glory and strip off her costly robes and lay her honour in the dust and turn her songs into howling and her mirth into mourning and her musick into lamentation and she shall receive a Cup of trembling at the Lord's hand and all her glory pomp and pride shall perish as the untimely figs and fade as the flower of the field and wither as the grass upon the house top and the Smoak of her torment shall ascend in the sight of all people and it shall go forth in the audience of all Nations and she shall be a by-word and a scorn a taunt hissing and derision and off-scouring to as many as have heard of her Name and a day of lamentation shall be heard in the midst of her great Tribulation Wrath and Anguish upon every Soul that doth Evil because she repented not of her Uncleanness Fornication Cruelty Hardheartedness and Mercilesness and all her Uncharitableness and Blasphemy and Sorceries and the like Wickedness And this I give in my Testimony for the Lord in the living Word of Truth against Her and all her Lovers and every one that uphold Her as I have received it by the Revelation of the Son of God and not from or of any Flesh or Blood but have seen handled and tasted deeply of the Cup
in the disobedient nature out from God and his Truth in the earthly mind and carnal will comprehending this thing and that in the fallen wisdom inventing devising and imagining things that never were nor is nor never will be So your Prophets they prophesie lies and the Priests bear rule by their means and the People love to have it so but what will they do in the end thereof in the day when the Lord shall require the Talent that he gave to every one to profit withal Now where is the Talent with the Improvement is it not lost is it not hid in the barren wilderness and in the desolate places of the earth Oh try and examine search and consider where is that good and faithful Servant and just Steward that hath improved his Talent for his Masters use and is ready to give up his Accounts with joy before the Tribunal of the Majesty of the Most High having his Garment washed in the Blood of the Lamb and his heart sprinkled from an evil Conscience and the Body washed with pure water I do not say nor mean external water to wash the out-side of the body but I do mean the spiritual Water that streams from the Fountain or Rock Christ Jesus to wash the inside and to cleanse the Soul and Spirit from all Pollution and Defilement Ye wash the outside while the inside is not cleansed the inside will defile the outside again but if the inside be cleansed and purged from all dross and tin and reprobate silver and gold then it would cleanse the outside also and keep it clean it is the corrupted Beast that is full of Lust and all manner of Deceivableness that defileth the whole body within and without So the man or woman whose heart is without Deceit whose mouth is without guile and whose tongue doth not utter falshood nor hath no flattering lips nor polluted hands nor feet swift to shed blood such are known to be cleansed every whit and they see God The pure in heart do see God but they whose hearts are daubed and slimy through deceit and hypocrisie hard-heartedness and cruelty and the like such cannot see God nor they that take honour and seek honour of one another do not believe How can you believe saith the Apostle while you take Honour one of another And all that Honour or take Honour of earthly men do rob God to whom all Honour Worship Praise and Glory doth belong and all that do honour God and obey his Voice in the Truth the Lord will make them honourable in the sight of all men but all that live in Pride and Covetousness Lust and Drunkenness are out of the Truth and all who live in Swearing Lying Deceit or Hypocrisie or Envy Hatred Malice Bloodshed Hardheartedness or Cruelty are out of the Truth or they which live in Thieving or Cozening Cheating Dissembling Flattering Whispering Backbiting Bragging or Boasting speaking great swelling Words having mens Persons in admiration because of advantage these are all out of the Truth and are Hereticks and are carried out of the Way of God with Nimrod and Judas King Herod and Pharoah and the rest of that untoward Generation not knowing the Scriptures neither the Power of God and because they do not believe them nor understand them therefore they hide them from others and do corrupt them and add to them and diminish from them not fearing the Lord God that gave them forth by his own free Spirit and for the edification of every one But I am bold to declare in the Name of the true and living God that all the Plagues which are written in them will soon come upon the back of such a People or Souls that have wrought this Wickedness in the sight of the Lord God of Power who is risen and will render Vengeance in Flames of Fire upon them that know him not and do not obey his Gospel but live in the earthly Mind and carnal Will fallen from God and compelling the People to follow their devised Wayes building of them up in Sin and Wickedness yet making them believe they may go to Heaven at the last though they live in Sin till they die Oh! that ever any People or Souls should ever be so blind and ignorant to think that though they spend all their appointed Time in Sin and Iniquity and run out the whole course of natures race in pleasure negligence and carelesness and when they cannot retain it any longer then do they offer up their sinful Souls as a Sacrifice acceptable to God who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity though it be in his beloved Jacob it shall not go unpunished Oh! methinks that no rational or sober-minded Man or Woman should once credit or believe that do know the Scriptures that there is any place appointed of God for any Creatures to be purged or cleansed after they are dead seeing the Holy Men of God as they were moved of the holy Ghost have so evidently and clearly set forth in the Scriptures of Truth That those which are Heirs of Eternal Salvation must come to be converted and to live the Life of Christ while they are here in the body Though God delighted in Mercy and that the Thief was saved upon the Cross because it was given him of the Lord to believe at last because that none should despaire yet Woe Woe from the Lord God to every one that puts off the Day of Repentance saying in their hearts The evil day is afar off In the day of ignorance the Lord winked but now he calleth every one to repent And as for such as do talk of a Purgatory it doth manifest their Ignorance of the Knowledge of God for I witness in the Life of God's Spirit such know not Heaven nor Hell God nor Devil and so they call Light Darkness and Darkness Light Good Evil and Evil Good and teach the People so to do but God is not well pleased with any of those nor with them that do boast themselves saying How great the Kingdom is and how many Countries and innumerable sight of People belongeth to their Church in all places but them that trust in the Arm of Flesh yea in the strength of Pharoah and in the Shadow of Egypt but the strength of Pharoah will be her shame and their trusting in the shadow of Egypt their confusion God's Kingdom is the least as to the visible strength but the greatest in the invisible power Fear not little Flock saith Christ it is your Fathers good pleasure to give you the Kingdom The Kingdom of God consists not in the arm of Flesh but it stands in his own Power and Almightiness That is Antichrists Kingdom whose power stands in outward weapons which is carnal as Locks and Bolts and Iron-bars Chains and Whips and Racks and the like Our Weapons are not carnal but spiritual saith the Apostle ●o the pulling down Strong-holds Principalities and Powers and high and lofty Looks with