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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41684	An Epistle to all the Christian magistrates and powers in the whole Christendom and professors, and teachers, and Christians that witness the end of the law, and the Levitical priesthood, and confess Christ Jesus ...	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Gould, Anne, 17th cent.	1659 (1659)	Wing G1414; ESTC R15794	14,696	17

Sacrifices every year it was remembred again Heb 10. And so while they lived in the Sacrifices the changeable shadows of good things to come living in the words out of the the power they will persecute the good thing when it is come as the Magistrates and the Jews did Christ and the Apostles and Saints If a man bid thee to a feast if thou be disposed to go whatsoever is set before thee thou maist eat asking no Question for Conscience sake But if they say it is offered to an Idol eat not for his sake that shews it thee and for Conscience sake for the earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof Conscience I say not thine own but of the other for why is thy liberty judged of another mans Conscience Now here is the state now where the Conscience is pure where the Mystery of Faith is hold and things pure to it which destroyes Idols And where the Conscience is defiled and not pure whose minds yet be in the Idols such Friends must take heed of coming too nigh them least they imbolden them to eat those things that will harden an evil Conscience And such as be in the evil Conscience will persecute where it is not made pure such as have an evil Conscience to Idols will persecute them that do exercise themseles to have a good Conscience towards God which the Mystery of Faith is held in So where this evil Conscience is that will eat things offered to Idols there they be weak and is defiled and this is for want of knowledge Now that which must give them the knowledge the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus is the light that shines in their hearts to bring them to eat of the Offering Christ Jesus of his flesh and drink of his blood And here in the light which gives the knowledge they see Christ the Authour of their Faith which is held in the pure Conscience are them that are come to the exercise of themselves to have alwayes their Conscience void of offence towards God c And not to go along with him eating things offered to Idols for those are Heathens indeed and weak and defiled indeed and for want of knowledge indeed that eats of the offerings offered unto Idols they eat nor or the offering Christ Jesus And these be from the light which should give them the knowledge See 2 Cor. 4 2 3 4 For our rejoycing is in the testimony of our consciences that in simplicity and godly sincerity and not in the fleshly wisdom Now mark and take notice Here is the Saints rejoycing in the testimony of their consciences in simplicity and godly sincerity and not in the fleshly wisdom and this differs from the world whose rejoycing is in the fleshly wisdom not in simplicity nor in godly sincerity not in the testimony of a good conscience of a pure conscience but their rejoycing stands in the testimony of an evil conscience that while they are upon earth they must have sin in it those are the persecutors so here is the good and the evil Cain and Abel here is Isaac and Ishmael here in Esau and Jacob and here is the bad persecuting Jews against the Prophets and against Christ and the Apostles that had the form of godliness but denyed the power And here is the Beasts and false prophets work great whore Mother of Harlots false Church Antichrists inwardly ravening Wolves in sheeps cloathing who drink the blood of the Martyrs Prophets and Saints and kill them that be in the power of godliness the evil consciences full of dead works serving not the living God their consciences unpurged such cannot own the blood of Christ within them nor the light within them nor the word of God nor the power of God within them nor the Spirit of God within them such their sacrifices God never accepts So all the true Saints who are subject to the power of God the higher power not onely for wrath but for conscience sake mark the good conscience is subject to the higher power which is of God that goes over all transgressors and answers the transgressed principle in every man that exerciseth the conscience of every man towards the higher power to which his soul should be subject to Now all the evil consciences of the Heathen and whatsoever they was not being subject to the higher power which was over all the transgressors Therefore the Jews which were in the higher power was to trample down them heathen that was in their evil consciences so who are subject not onely for wrath but for conscience sake they have unity with the Power the power doth not turn against them But where the higher power turns against them the transgressors and so they are not subject to it for conscience sake but onely for wrath the power forceth them down whether they will or no for wrath the terror of the Lord cometh upon them these are not for conscience sake subject nor they are not one with it the power the Gentiles that did the Law did the things contained in the Law by nature which shewing the work of the Law written in their hearts in their consciences so the doers of the Law were justified by the higher power So he was a Jew that was one inward in the spirit not in the Letter whose praise is not of men but of God So the Gentiles was not the Jews in the Letter but the Jews was the Jews in the Letter that did not the things contained in the Law but the Gentiles did by nature having not the command the things contained in the Law but the Gentiles did by nature having not the command the things contained in the Law And so the uncircumision kept the Law this was accounted for circumcision And shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature if it fulfill the Law judge thee who by the Letter is the circumcision and transgresseth the Law And this may judge all the outward professors upon the earth that lives upon things so without them And ye may see the Apostle who did exercise his conscience to keep it void of offence alwayes towards God c. brought the Jews and Gentiles here and how the Magistrates was in a rage against him and called him a pestilent fellow and one that turned the world upside down and a mover of sedition a ring leader of Sects and a man not fit to live upon the earth and how the Apostle confessed before Magistrates and Rulers and Kings how he exercised himself to have his conscience void of offence c. now was he ever persecuted till he came to that confession And do ye ever persecute any till they come to that confession G. F. THE END