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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

that scoffing and scorning and repsoaching and persecuting is the fruits of the Spirit of God But on the contrary it is the fruits of that spirit in you which lusteth to envy which is of the Envious one the enemy of all mankinde the Devill who was a lyar a murtherer from the beginning out of the truth And so it is he that moves some to murther now and some to accuse falsly for he is the accuser of the Brethron and he moves some to persecute and to hate and to cast into prisons now those that live in the truth and bear witnessetoit and he moves others to scoffe and scorn and speak all manner of evill of them that are good now in these dayes as he did of old He it was that led Cain to murther his Brother Abell who was a righteous man and it was he who moved Ishmaell to mock at Isaac who was the Son of promise and it was he the Devill that moved the Scribes and Pharisees to say that Christ had a Devill and that he cast out Devills through Belzebub c. and led them to persecute Christ and put him to death and Judas to betray him and the High Priests and the rest to spit upon him and smite him and Crown him with thornes and mock at him and to say haile King of the Jewes and to cry to have him crucified and Barrabas to be released who was a Robber Now here are some of the fruits of that spirit which is not of God nor of Christ Jesus but is against God and against Christ Jesus And the Scripture saith Be not ye mockers lest your bonds be made strong and the Scriptures speaks of some who mocked the Messengers of God and despised those whom he sent to warn them till his wrath broke out upon them to destroy them now they that did so were not mov'd led by the Spirit of God but by the evill spirit which is of the Devil Therefore now all people try and examine your selves and see what Spirit ye are of and what Spirit ye are led by by the fruites which ye bring forth For this I say and know and testifie that there is no people upon the face of the earth but they are either of the good Spirit or of the evill Spirit that is they are either led by the Spirit of God or by the Spirit of the Devill and this is that which doth nearly concern all people to know which of these they are led by which they may know by the fruits which they bring forth for that is it which doth and will make it manifest plainly even as a Tree doth manifest it selfe what it is whether good or evill by the fruit it brings forth for the fruit doth come from the sap and vertue or as I may say the spirit and life that is in the Tree which comes from the Root of it and ground in which it stands Now the Scripture saith A good Tree bringeth forth good fruit and again If the Root be holy so are the Branches then the fruit is good there is the good Tree but now if the root be rotten or corrupt which stands in the cursed ground then the branches will be rotten and corrupt the fruit will be evill or none at all and there is the corrupt Tree which is to be hewen down and cast into the fire and burned for it is good for nothing else And there is the plant which must be plucked up which Christ saith the Father hath not planted for its a degenerate plant Now people these Parables are true therefore learn to read them and understand them with the Light that Christ Jesus hath enlightned you withall who spake them forth unto the World who is the Gift of the Fathers love unto the World whom he hath sent a Light into the World that all men through the Light may beleeve which they that did beleeve in him who is the Light he said unto them it was given to know the Mistery of the Kingdoms of God but unto the World who did not then beleeve in him they were Parables and are so still to this day Now the Light which Christ Jesus hath enlightned you withall is the Gift of God to you and the manifestation of his Spirit which is given to you and his grace which hath appeared unto you all which brings salvation therefore receive it and beleeve in it and be obedient to it and so you will come to know the Misteries of the Kingdome and to understand all the Parables which Christ spake to the World know the Key of David which opens and none shuts and shuts and noman opens otherwise ye will all remame in the dark World still which loves not the Light but doth choose darkness rather and they will remaine Parables to you still and ye will be shut up in the unbelief and in the darkness the Light will be your Condemnation for ever Therefore in true love I exhort you all to consider in time oh all ye People Professors and Prophane that ye may escape that eternall condemnation and Judgment which will come upon all the World of Unbeleevers and ungodly men who doe not beleeve in the Light of Christ Jesus who is come a Light into the World but slight it and hate it and say it is not sufficient to lead to Christ and to lead to salvation which reproves you for sin and for your evill deeds that ye might be turned from sin and from the power of Sathan to God otherwise your sins and your evill deeds which now ye love rather then the Light which reproves them will be sufficient to sinke ye downe into hell and into the pit of perdition I say now is the day of the Lords visitation of his grace and mercy and love to your souls that he would not have any of you to perish but all to come to the knowledge of his truth which would surely save you and set you free Every one therefore seriously to sit downe and consider where ye have been and what ye have been doing and what ye are doing and what ye have gotten and what ye doe possesse of all that which ye have made profession of and what assurance ye have of the health and welfare and salvarion of your soules and what certain Evidence and testimony ye have thereof in your selves and to your selves For that alone will stand you in stead and be your comfort and stay in time of trouble and in the houre of tempration and when ye come to lye upon your death-beds when all things else will fayle you and yeeld ye no comfort nor helpe nay your teachers whom ye have so long been following cannot helpe you nor comfort you if ye have not the witnesse in your selves and testimony of Gods Spirit to beare witnesse with your spirits that ye are the Children of God all your profession will be nothing

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