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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58143	Light sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart This is to go abroad among all people who are honest-hearted, especially amongst the inhabitants in Fourns Fells, in Lancashire, and among all who have known me after the flesh, that all honest people may see what I was in profession, and also what I now am by the grace of God. From him which hath come through great tribulations, who hath even left all for Christ, and hath not whereon to lay his head, but is forsaken of father and of mother, and of kinred also, even for the testimony of Jesus, and for the Word of God, whom the world calls, Thomas Rawlinson.	Rawlinson, Thomas.	1657 (1657)	Wing R369; ESTC R220567	29,951	42

captivity comes to be led captive and the strong Man shall then be cast out of the House and his Goods too when Christ who is stronger then he comes to be revealed in them all these things shall be before Gods salvation and peace which passeth all understanding be witnessed I say They shall know a day of trouble and of howling and of bitter lamentation such as never was for their Wickedness and Transgressions against God before they come to know the Lord God as he is vvho vvill render Vengeance in flames of fire upon his Enemies and upon the Head of all that do Wickedly for Christ comes to destroy the Works of the Devil So blessed and happy they are that abide faithful even unto the end who are willing to bear the indignation of the Lord because that they have sinned against him until he arise and plead their cause But wo unto the Priests who daub with untempered Morter crying peace peace to the people that stop into their mouths but prepares VVar against us who cannot stop into their mouths so upon them and upon their people shall the day of the Lord come as a thief in the night and no peace shall then be to them though they now cry peace peace even then when they shall say peace and safety shall sudden destruction come upon them as Travel upon a VVoman with child and they shall not escape then shall they know that their Faith was never imputed to them for righteousness from God so what is this to them or to the r people to talk of an imputed righteousness who doth not believe in the light but hates the light and will not come to the light so what is this to them for Abraham unto whom righteousness was imputed believed God and left his own countrey and went out not knowing whither he went and was obedient in following the Lord so his Faith was imputed to him for Righteousness But what is this to the Priests and to their Followers who knows not Abrahams Faith which was made perfect by VVorks For Faith without VVorks is dead if a man say he hath Faith and hath not VVorks can Faith save him VVas not Abraham justified by VVorks vvhen be offered Isaac his son upon the Altar Here all may see how Faith vvrought vvith his VVorks vvho have an eye to see vvithall so by VVorks was Faith made perfect for every Tree is known by his Fruit a good Tree cannot bring forth evil Fruit neither can an evil Tree bring forth good Fruit so we know the Priests by their Fruits who are of that vvicked one vvhich cannot bring forth good Fruit vvho are the evil Trees which cumbers the ground fruitless Trees rendred of all people useless who out of the evil Treasure of their heart brings forth that which is evil so they being evil knows not to give good things unto their Followers not that I in any vvise out of ill wil or malice goes about to accuse the priests or any people else God knows that I speak not in contempt unto any but would take people off putting trust in man and that they might come to know the Lord and in him to trust that all might come to be taught of the Lord that he might teach them himself of his VVayes who teaches his people to profit And this is my end To turn all unto Christ the light who lightneth every man and that people might try their Priests by their fruits for if they were of the good Tree they could not bring forth evil fruit And doth this offend either Priest or people To exhort all to try them by their fruits and to turn from them that brings forth evil fruit unto the light of Christ in them who lightneth every man that cometh into the world that they may come to be engrafted into Christ that in him they may come to bring forth good fruit if they abide in the light and walk in the light as he is in the light they cannot bring forth evil fruit for he that abideth in Christ the light sinneth not but out of the good Treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good So I say my end is That all both Priests and people might come to repentance and every man come to be ashamed of his own way●s that they have chosen and so every one both Priests and people might return unto Christ the light who lightneth every man and wills not the death of a sinner but would have all men both priests and people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth who is set for salvation to the ends of the earth that all people might come to the light and to the brightnesse of his rising both priests and people that so all might come to be taught of the Lord who teaches his people to profit that so none might follow after a people which cannot profit The Priests if they were of the good Tree which cannot bring forth evil fruit would not be ashamed to be tryed by their fruits but they being of the evil Tree which cannot bring forth good Fruit are ashamed to have their deeds brought to the light neither will they come to the light to prove their calling and Minister-ship before the people least they should have shame of their doctrine and practice before all the people their practice being contrary to all the holy Prophets and Apostles of Christ So it is plain They being of the evil Tree which brings forth evil Fruit cannot profit the people at all so the people who follow them are ever learning yet never able to come to the knowledge of the truth by them So whilest I followed the Priests though I diligently enquired unto them after the Lord yet I found him not because I sought unto a people which could not profit therefore I did not attain to the thing which I sought for unto them so turned from them finding no profit by them and then within a little while after this the light of the Lord began to rise in obscurity and my eyes was opened and then through the mercy and love of the Lord I was turned from the darkness to the light of Christ in me and then my mind was turned from following the priests from doating on them and my heart was changed for now in the light of the Lord I see light and how I have wandered walking in darkness without light but now my light is come the light springs and the day dawns for the day-star is risen in my heart and the clouds of darkness flies away for the glory of the Lord is revealed and the clear light now shineth out of darkness and Christ is risen so I have found him of whom Moses in the Law and the Porphets did write For God who commands the light to shine out of darkness hath shined into my heart to give me the light of the Knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ

LIGHT SOWN FOR THE RIGHTEOUS AND GLADNESS For the Upright in HEART This is to go abroad among all people who are honest-hearted especially amongst the Inhabitants in Fourns Fells in Lancashire and among all who have known me after the flesh that all honest people may see what I was in Profession and also what I now am by the Grace of God From him which hath come through great tribulations who hath even left all for Christ and hath not whereon to lay his head but is forsaken of Father and of Mother and of Kinred also even for the Testimony of Jesus and for the Word of God whom the world calls Thomas Rawlinson Luk. 14.26 27. If any man come to me and hate not his Father and Mother and Wife and Children and Brethren and Sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be my Disciple London Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate 1657. This is to go abroad into my Countrey amongst the Inhabitants in Fornes Fells and among all honest people that have known me after the flesh that all people may see what I was in profession and what I now am by the Grace of God FRiends and Neighbors ye know if ye will but testifie how that I walked from my youth upwards after the straitest Sect of Religion harmless and blameless insomuch that many did admire me and was as touching the rghteousness of the Law acording to the Letter blameless as ye know if ye will testifie without boasting I speak it for I exceeded many of my equals in profession with a shew of righteousness and was exceedingly zealous for the chiefest Priests in this Nation of England some of you have said Ye thought that ye needed never desire to have been in a better condition then I was in when I was where ye are without God and without Christ in the World with a profession of his Name in my mouth but did not know Christ in me the true Light who lightneth every man that cometh into the World so was ignorant of the Foundation of God which standeth sure the Light Christ who lightneth every man the sure Foundation-stone which is already laid for a Foundation that whosoever buildeth thereon shall never be ashamed and being ignorant of the Righteousness of God I went about to establish my own righteousness so did not submit to the Righteousness of God but got up into a profession of knowing the Lord and so became a fair sayer but not a doer of the will of God like unto the chief Priests for they say and doth not the things that they say Wo unto them blind guides who turn the innocent and the poor out of the way and causes the people to erre by their lyes and by their lightness and will not that any should turn from the darkness to the light Wo unto them who gather people into a profession of the knowledge of God but not into the light life and power ye all professing Christ to come and knows not that Christ is in you so ye know not where he is nor how he is in you I speak this to your shame people of all professions And though I had reformed in many things and had left off practicing many Idolatrous and Heathenish Customs which I saw to be evil in the sight of the Lord as my mind came to be turned to that of God in my conscience while I yet followed the Priests but being ignorant of that which did let me see my own unprofitableness and that all that is in the World is but vanity I came short did not follow on to know the Lord but chose rather to follow the Priests gave no heed to the Word of the Lord vvhich call d behind Return return thou art but a dead man in the Earth behold lo this is the way walk in it turn in hither to the Word which is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thy heart this is the Way but while I followed the Priests they never directed me to this To the Word which is nigh in the mouth and in the heart nor never exhorted people to the light which Christ hath enlightned every man withal While I followed the Priests I say I never heard them bring this Doctrine to the people which the true Ministers of Christ bring and brought who turn people from the darkness to the light and from the power of Satan unto God For in the light of the Lord which did shine into my conscience I came to see the deceit of the Priests the Messengers of Satan who labour to keep people in the darkness in blindness from the light who would perswade the people that the light which Christ hath enlightned every man withall is but a natural light and not sufficient to give the knowledge of God or to convince of all sin and so they wrest the Scriptures and adds thereto and sets up their own Traditions and makes the Commandments of God of no effect and void by their own Traditions and cryes against the Light vvith reproachful and sensual vvords lest the people should believe in the Light and come to the Light vvhich gives the Knovvledge of God and so long as I remained ignorant of that vvhich did convince me of sin and of unbelief which did let me see that I was also out of the vvay of God with the Priests in error and in the darkness so long I was ignorant of the living and true God and knevv not hovv he vvas in me so knew him not at all but by the hearing of the ear though I had got the Bible and Books and a large profession read the Scriptures often and Books many and followed the chiefest Priests dayly and vvould fain have gained the Knovvledge of God by them but could not find it while I follovved the Priests had thought that they should teach the people knovvledge but I novv see that it is not so and that the Lord hath cursed the Priests and their blessings and that no people upon the Face of the Earth shall ever profit by them the Lord hath said it mark it vvho cannot lye nor repent So let God be true and all men lyars for that vvhich may be knovvn of God is manifest in them and God hath shevved it to them so it is evident That no man knovvs the Father nor the Son but as he comes into obedience to that of God in him the Light for the Letter vvithout nor the Priests vvithout nor any thing vvithout can never make the comers thereunto perfect nor give any man the knovvledg of God though he may get the Scriptures into his Head and shall read them often for no man knovvs the Father but he to whom the Son reveals him Yea so desirous I vvas to find out the true knovvledge of the pure God that I ceased not to seek it night and day with Tears and cryed out How shall I come to the living knowledg

even so hath it pleased the Lord to reveal his Son in me blessing and glorious praises to the Lord God everlasting and to the Lamb whose right it is now I plainly see that in vain is the help of man their counsels is nought but deceit and hypocrisie and shall be confounded their Wisdom is foolishness with God who will destroy the Wisdom of the Wise So I do deny all the teachings of the Priests any longer for it is only the Lord that teaches me to profit for through his Word of Truth which I have hid in my heart am I become wiser then all my Teachers the Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want who is now appearing and risen in this the day of his glorious power to teach his people himself of his Ways by his Eternal Infallible Spirit of Light Life and Power which shines into their hearts and gives them the Knowledge of God in the Face of Jesus Christ who enlightneth every man that cometh into the World that all men believing in the light may come to know both the Father and the Sonne whom to know is life eternal all coming to the light this is he that reveals the Father So Friends the light is your Way if ye love it I am the way saith Christ the Light who lightneth every man No man comes to the Father but by me no man knows the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him But Friends wil a profession of Words a talk of knowing the Father and the Son and a boasting of Free-Grace in words be sufficient to any of you who are turned from the light within into darkness to follow the Priests and blind guides which cannot profit you so ye are not taught by Grace who heap up Teachers unto your selves having itching ears ye have turned your ears from the light from the truth so ye are turned from the Grace of God which brings salvation and hath appeared unto all men and what is the Free-Grace of God unto any of you who turn the Free-Grace of God into wantonness who are not taught by it to forsake your sins and to deny all ungodliness and Worldly lusts and to live a godly and a gracious life so are not come into obedience to God but are stiff-necked and rebellious and are alive unto sin and all ungodliness and Worldly lusts so ye are free from Grace And so what such a vain foolish rotten stinking profession is this of yours people who cryes Free-Grace Free-Grace nothing but by Free-Grace are we saved O blush for shame and be ye all horribly afraid for your impudency and lying against God as to say ye are saved by Grace when as ye are yet in your sins and will not receive the Gift of Gods Free-Grace which hath been so largely and so freely tendered unto every one of you from the God of all Grace and hath even appeared in you all and to you all and yet ye have refused to incline your ear and hear For this is the Grace of God and the great love of God towards you all That he hath given you a light which light in you all tells you that ye should not lye nor swear nor be covetous nor be drunk nor that ye should not envy nor hate nor dissemble but lets you see that you should love the Lord God with all your heart and your Neighbor as your selves so see if ye be come to this These things ye know and happy are ye if ye do them otherwise ye are not saved by grace but doth come short of the grace of God to be taught of God if ye be overtaken with lying or swearing or with covetousness or drunkenness with envying or hatred or dissembling and the like which are the Fruits of the flesh So ye do despite to the Spirit of grace whatsoever your profession in Words to the contrary be who are found here But unto us who have believed in the light the grace of God which hath appeared unto all men teaches us to deny all ungodliness and Worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present World And so by grace are we saved not of our selves it is the gift of God for by grace we stand and by grace we have obtained salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ And this in my measure I witness But Friends Will ye sin because grace hath abounded and hath appeared in you all Consider Is that the measure of the gift of the grace of God which teaches ye to sin against God and to be proud and covetous to lye and to swear to envy and to hate and to be drunk and to sight to be light vain and wanton to lust murder and to destroy and to live in all the customs and fashions of the Heathen God forbid Nay but that Spirit which brings forth these things is the Spirit of Devils and not from the Spirit of grace So you who are not subject to the Spirit of grace but brings forth the like Fruits as abovesaid are not come to grace so cannot grow in grace from grace to grace who are not taught by grace to deny all unrighteousness whatsoever So what have ye to do as to take my Words in your mouths saith the Lord who talk and make a profession of free grace What have ye to do to take my Name in your mouths for the Way of grace and truth ye have despised yea verily ye have done despite to the Spirit of grace and hath cast my Law behind your backs saith the Lord. Truly Friends I cannot sow pillows under your arm-holes or under your elbows as your greedy hireling-Priests do who cry peace peace but I shall deal plainly with you whether you will hear or forbear For this is the free grace of God and the love by grace that God hath given us of his Son Hath sent his own Son a light into the World that all men through him might believe and know the truth who enlightneth every man that cometh into the World And he that is not faithful and obedient to the pure light in his conscience which comes from the Son of God and lets him see his evil deeds and that he should not sin at all he hears not God so whosoever sins against the light wrongs his own soul To the light in all your consciences people of all professions I speak And Friends and Neighbors While I was one with you in profession with a profession of God and of Christ in my mouth without the life and possession ye loved me and did speak well of me I being then one with you in the World for the World loves its own and many of you rejoiced to see me and Friends What am I now become your Enemy because God hath put it into my heart to choose the better part who hath had mercy on me and hath chosen me out of the World to be a Vessel unto honour who hath redeemed me