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knowledge_n	heart_n	light_n	shine_v	8,936	5	9.6862	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94802	For those that meet to worship at the steeplehouse, called John Evangelist, in London, or, any other in that nature upon whom the Scriptures are fulfilled, in evil intreating the servants of the Lord Iesus, whom he sends to deliver his message amongst you. Or for any other that are condemned for sin, and have thirstings after righteousness ...	R. T. (Rebecca Travers), 1609-1688.	1659 (1659)	Wing T2059; ESTC R185428	25,680	64

or do so have been hated of men as he Ioh. 7. 15 18. declard at Jerusalem and is fulfilled at London as well as in other places They shall bare you for my Name sake speak all manner of evil of you and they shall think they do God service So blind are all men who from the light are erred in which God dwells the Creator of all things who commanded light to ● Cor. 4. 6. shine out of darkness and hath shined into our hearts who by the light are subject to give us the knowledge of himself in the face of Jesus Christ and Tit. 2 11 being made a partaker of this Grace which is free and hath appeared to all ●ear my testimony as the truth is in Je●●s that if you obey it not you are out of the Covenant so out of the blessing and under the curse and know not the Word of God though it be near unto you all and many hath been thereby quickened to God and it is that which made all things and by it are all things upheld for in it is life Ioh. 1. 4 ● and the life is the true light of men and this is the true light which enlightens every man which comes into the world as it is written John bare testimony of it without your meanings declaring what he had seen felt and handled of Iohn 1 12 13 the Word of life that to as many as believed in him he gave power to become the sons of God not of blood nor of the will of man but of the will of God of which birth which onely must inherit the eternal Kingdom are all you ignorant who preach and pray and hear and act in your own wills though your profession be high as mine once was you are not yet come to the first principle of repentance from dead works which all that are in that have not been quickned by the eternal word which Word abides for ever and is Heb. 4. 12 quick and powerful as a two-edged sword dividing asunder and making manifest the secret thoughts and intentions of the heart and this is not ink and paper or words which the worst of men or the Devil may read or talk of but it is spirit life and power killing and making alive as a fire in the besome did and do the Prophets witness it as a Sword and a Hammer to ●er 23 29 cut off and break down all the uncircumcised of ears and heart This is it that Moses who was faithful called unto this was the Word of faith which Paul preached who was called of God and not of men and all so called bear the testimony to it as he did that none need to say Who shall ascend fetch Rom. 1● 6 7 8 Christ down Or descend and fetch him up for he is near thee in the heart and in the mouth and this is the Word which we preach saith Paul who was sent of God Now they that tell you the Letter without is the Word and the Gospel they preach another Gospel then the Apostles did O that you had ears to hear and hearts to understand the things that belong unto your Peace who have been and are professing godliness for many years and yet stand where you did in the customs in the fashions in the love of the present World and call the Scriptures your rule mind you Scripture-readers is it not written in the World God is not known and who loveth the World the love of God Iames 4 4 is not in him the love of the Worldis enmity to God and is it not the words of him that cannot lye The world loves its own and that his are are not of this world as he was not of Ioh. 15. 19 this vvorld therefore the vvorld hates them So professors of Scriptures see vvhat is vvritten in Scriptures What 's the true Religion Is it not thus vvritten To visit the fatherless and keep Iames 1. 27 unspotted from the vvorld are you this people vvho are in the vvays vvorships and fashions of the vvorld and excess of vanity and pride and fulness and vvhole families of your ovvn flesh and in your own ways ready to perish for want of food and rayment sure you are not they which visits the fatherless sure you are not the Israel in which there was no beggar nor you have not the Storehouse in which all the tythes were put to feed the Widows and the Fatherless and sure you are not in the narrow way in which few walk for the way that you walk many there is in and they walk at ease I feel what I speak who walked there many years and as concerning the Law written in stone blameless as any and had a zeal though not according to knowledge Rom. 7. 9 and when the Commandment came the new Covenant sin revived and I dyed 1 Cor. ● 1● and only by the power of the Cross which in the Wisdom of the World Gal 6 14● was and is esteemed foolishness do I live in the life that never shal have end and in this only do I rejoyce whereby I am crucified to the World and the World to me and this to the World is a mysterie who by Wisdom cannot know the things of God which are spiritually discerned and therefore are in vain imaginations of which God did and doth complain bringing out likennesses Con. 6. 5 ● of it as the Papists in Wood Stone or Gold others calling the Cross that which you cannot flye from not knowing the Cross which is daylie to be taken up but we who of him have learned who saith Take up your cross and follow Luke 9. 23 me know it to be the power of God unto salvation and by it hath the Devil been overcome and before it must all the powers of darkness flye and this is and hath been the defence of the righteous Seed in all generations and the Scriptures declare of it and shall bear a testimony for me and all the children of light against all you that have the words of the Scriptures and yet are found haters of the light which gave forth Scriptures and if ever that eye be opened in any of you that the god of this World hath blinded you shall confess that that wherein you have trusted shall witness against you and however your Teachers which are blind may lead the blind till both fall into the ditch yet is there a seed among you that the Lord will gather unto us and therefore doth his long suffering lead unto repentance but many shall be cut off in their iniquities Isa 65. 12 to whom he hath called and they would not hear and they shall cry and he will not hear but laugh at your calamitie when destruction shall come as a swift Whirlwind and with the Prov. 1 28 beasom of the Lord shall all the Workers of iniquity be swept away and his fierce Wrath

wants of others by wasting that which should releive them spending as much one of you upon your lust and vanity as would feed two plentifully if not ten And this is all the care of proud men and women and gluttonous men and women and drunken men and women to serve your selves and feed the devourer in you with the mercies of God which he gives freely that all might be feed and praise him therein And then you say you spend but your own and it 's for you that are rich to live thereafter c. But then what do you to profess the knowledge of God or name of Christ or redemption that is in him If you live as the heathen Gentiles do then bear their name and pollute not the name of Christ and live as do the Gentiles not knowing Christ in you to restore all things in you to God that you may see them to be his and not your own know him in you to order them who made them which all the redeemed of Christ Jesus doth in whom the restauration is wrought by Jesus Christ and all things of God as in the beginning before the prince of pride the glutton the whoremonger the drunkard or the false Prophet that teacheth lyes entred into man or was exalted in the seat of truth to deceive and bewitch people by calling evil good and good evil as in you he doth who they preach practise and profess to devour which Christ comes to restore and your life to condem and to deliver the creation from the waster and destruction and to redeem it to the guiding of God the service of God in his will and not the will of men nor the blind boaster who saith I spend but my own And who is exalted in Pride and excess because of abundance who knows not redemption to him that giveth all things but are out of the fear far from restauration for were you redeemed to God your selves you would also know that all you have was restored to God in your redemption out of the power of the destroyer and into the disposing of that spirit which works the repemption for the redeemed indeed are no more their own much more is not that they have received Wherefore men be sober minded and take heed what you plead for and boast not in your wickedness then double your iniquity by professing the pure name of God the nature of redemption lye not against the truth of Christ Jesues ●n saying our redeemer our redeemer further then yo● konwhis spirit power living in you t●nlighten and quicken you against ●●se evils by which his holy spirit 〈◊〉 the creation suffers and power in 〈◊〉 over them and the Prince there●● that you may serve his spirit in you 〈◊〉 a new life not serving divers lusts 〈◊〉 serving your bellyes but in fear 〈◊〉 sober meekness of spirit serving 〈◊〉 Lord in your souls and bodyes ●●d estates and this only is redempti●● without a lye or without hypocri●● And this is the confession of Christ ●ome in the flesh in life and power to ●●ucifie the flesh the affections and 〈◊〉 thereof which wars against your ●ouls and against Christ so long as ●ou live therein and in works you de●y Christ to be come in the flesh ●hough in vvords you confess him ●herefore let that mouth be silent that ●eaches lyes and let truth speak in ●ou all and cease to say pride is not ●n your hearts when it hath taken ●oot there and is grown as a covering and hath over-spred you in the ●ight of all men and say not you do it to releive the poor for shame blush at such deceit and let not the drunkard say the same with you for you are seen to be the devourer and destroyer of the creation nor let the glutton say the creatures are made for him for the day is at hand that he must vomit them up and then he will know that they were not made for him when truth comes to judge in you all and to devide aright between the oppressed and the oppressor this will be confessed nor let the covetous person say his Idolatry is but providing for them of his houshould nor the swearer say it 's but to confirm the truth which is found out of the truth which saith swear not at all nor the wanton person say there is a time to be merry whose times are not in the Lord Jesus nor ever knew the man of sorrows nor him that in secret mourns for that abomination which wantons lives in whose time of mourning is to come which you that now laugh ●●ould remember for truth must come to sit as Judge upon all your pretences then these things will not cover you nor lyes be a safe refuge for you Wherefore wait to know the truth of Christ Jesus the light of the world in your own hearts to give you the good understanding which wil let you see that this is from the root of wickedness in your hearts that these things ●rise and that piety and pitty mercy is but a pretence to cover the destroyer in you while he gets his work wrought of his servants lest he should be seen in your selves or by others and that you are but wise to do evil and plead for it whereby you do but shut your selves out from the power of truth and feed upon lyes and put on false covers which God vvill rend in judgement and your wisdom of words cannot cover your works from the light which sees the covetous proud envious gluttons drunkards and all lyars and vain persons and cursed speakers to be without God not knowing in you the povver of an holy life nor him that is made redemption and sanctification though in vvords you profess Father Son and Holy Ghost do you knovv God in you of vvhose off-spring all these good creatures are vvhich you wast and by vvhose vertue they are made to spring in their kind and vvhose life suffers vvhere they are spent on the lust Do you know the Redeemer in you vvhose vvork is to restore all things to God in you who say you spend but your own when you are reproved Or do you know him in you to live to who sayes you must live after your riches Are you richer then he that had all fullness in himself and yet said let nothing be lost this would you say also did you know that life in you that gives it forth which your lust devours who is pressed therewith as a Cart with sheaves who is broken with your whorish hearts and made to serve with your sins whom you know not though he be not far from every one of you yet his knowledge you have loft and your hearts are too hard to hear his voice and your wisdom is too high to bow to his government in you but being got above the meek you have lost the way which gives light to the blind and grace to the lowly and that which should measure and search your hearts is out of your sight who are seeking without for that you have buried within under your pride and fullness lyes the pearl shut up in the earth and the key of knowledge you have lost in your wisdom by your wanton living on the earth the holy one and the just you have slain the man of God is fallen into your streets the man of mercy and pitie is perished by the proud and there is no Judgement nor deliverance in you for the ear is stopt that should hear the cry And where this is so within what knowledge of God is there but man is become like the beast that perisheth The End