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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66866	The unlimited God, not limited by any of the children of light, but by them who are in the darkness and straitness, such would be limiting the unlimited God from the Spirit of the Lord is this given forth, that all such may read with the eye which is not busie, nor looks into things above its reach : from one who becomes all to all, to gain some to Christ ... : also, a warning, and a charge from the Lord God, to all the Baptists teachers every where ... : also, a true discovery of the way to the kingdome within ... / given forth from the Spirit of the Lord, in Humphry Wollrich ...	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1659 (1659)	Wing W3303; ESTC R39138	18,663	24

THE UNLIMITED GOD Not limited by any of the CHILDREN of LIGHT BUT BY Them who are in the Darkness and Straitness such would be limiting the Unlimited God From the Spirit of the Lord is this given forth that all such may Read with the Eye which is not busie nor looks into things above its Reach From one who becomes All to All to gain some to Christ and hath true Freedom in the Lord to go into the Water that I may bring to the Rock and save one out of the Sea which is ready to be Drowned and Lost Also A warning and a Charge from the Lord God to all the Baptists Teachers every where who are Ministers of the Letter and not of the Spirit to cease Teaching or Deceiving any longer Also A true discovery of the way to the Kingdome Within from all the Priests and False Teachers who are crying Loe here and loe there without In the way of Balaam for Filthy lucre sake Mathew 24. which Christ said should come and John said was come and the World went out after them who went out from the Light sixteen Hundred years agoe Given forth from the SPIRIT of the LORD in HVMPHRY WOLLRICH who was not sent to Baptise But to preach the Gospel yet hath Baptised one with Water for the Gospels sake and am not without a Law to God yet am made All things to All to gain some to Christ PSAL. 78.41 They turned back and tempted God and limited the Holy One of Israel Such have the Form but not the Power but yet would Limit THe Brother-hood is in Christ which is not Divided out of all Division Judging c censuring one another are all that are in him to whom all Judgement is committed To you all this is the word of the Lord God and a Charge from my Father to you all Judge nothing before the Time as all do which Judge with that which is for Judgement who have got the Forme but are out of the Spirit and Spirituall Man which Judgeth all things and though I am but as yesterday in comparison of many who were in Christ before me yet I care not for mans Judgement neither do I judge my own self for that thing for which I am Judged but all you my Friends be sober and cool in your mindes and wait in that which is the Everlasting Day and makes all things manifest and will not be limited by any who are in the Darknesse nor Judged but will Judge and Condemne all who would Judge him and limit him as he in all Ages hath done and he is now the same and all that have a forme but would limit the power shall know it in Gods time and this is laid upon me from the Lord God Almighty to warne all such that they be silent and stop their mouthes before him whose ways is unsearchable and will not be limited now but is unlimited as in all Ages he was and because I have true freedome in the Lord and am not without a law to God herein which is to Baptise one with water though I was not sent to Baptise but to Preach the Gospel as Paul was not sent to Baptise but did Baptise 1 Cor. 1.17 by Permission and not by Commission that he might gain some unto Christ who is the End of all Types Shaddowes and Figures and the Everlasting day into which Paul was come where shaddowes flee away who became all things to all read 1 Cor. 9.19 for though I be free from all men saith Paul I have made my self servant unto all that I might gain the more And unto the Jewes I became as a Jew Mark as a Jew that I might gain the Jewes to them that are under the Law as under the Law Consider where Paul was whether he were not in Christ the end of the law to them that were without law as without law being not without a law to God but to the weak he became as weak Mark Paul the Aged and chiefest of the Apostles I am made all things to all men that I might by all means save some and this I do for the Gospels sake as he did that I might be partaker thereof with Joy And though I have born an open Testimony for the Lord God against all them who have been Baptised with Water knew no better a leader guider thereinto than the Letter The sons of God and servants of God who were led into it or shall be led into it by the Spirit of the Lord which spirit will not be limited I never did nor never shall condemne any such as this Woman having given her testimony in publick both before and since I Baptised her with Water that she was led by this Unlimited Spirit and not from the Baptists rule and leader which is the Letter and kills but by the Spirit the Sons leader and gives life and the Children of the light witnesse this her testimony to be true And likewise she hath declared that she was moved of the Lord to desire me only to Baptise her with Water and said The spirit by which the Baptists are led did not convince her nor bring her to the knowledge of the Truth And the Baptist Teacher who would have had her to receive it of some of them said he did believe she was led to it by the Spirit of the Lord yet neither he nor his spirit did she own and this I leave upon all who fear the Lord both small and great to Judge whether it is better to save life or to destroy And I have the Testimony of the Lord in me that this is not against the Truth neither shall it be a just occasion of stumbling to any who are really therein but to such as are in the Dark and are looking and judging with the Evil Eye and have been Disobedient to the Word in their own particulars to such this may be a stumbling stone but all whose mindes are without seeking a proof of Christ in me to you I say Judge your selves turn in and examine your selves know you not that Christ is in ye except ye be Reprobates Receive the word as the Bereans did and then search the Scriptures Acts 16.3 Paul who denied Circumcision which was outward in the Flesh circumcised Timothy that he might gain the Jewes whose mindes were without and bring them to the one Circumcision and one Baptisme in spirit whose praise is not of men but of God Read Acts 21.21 to the 25. where you may read that Holy Paul shaved his Head that he might take away the vail which was over the Jewes and thereby bring them to their true Head Christ the end of the Law and the end of all Vowes and Oathes Acts 18.18 and so that none that feares the Lord may stumble hereat be ye of what Sect or Forme soever be ye faithfull to what ye know I am you Brother and Warne you all and exhort you all Come down into the cool and low

read 2 Peter 3.15 Ezek. 33.10 to 20. That God desireth not the destruction or the death of him which is destroyed but had rather they would own his light which is Christ his power and strength and would and doth give power over all sin yea even power to become the Sons of God which sin not And this I declare to you all is not of man nor mans righteousness which is as filthy rags yet it is in man and there fulfils the righteousness of the Law now in the Saints as ever he did Rom. 8.4 that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit v. 14. for as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the Sons of God mark the wise Professors Prayers and such as say ye observe the Ordinances and use the means and say you cannot be perfect in this life but say ye are justified by Christs righteousness which suffered at Jerusalem beyond the Sea vers 4. that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us Consider this you that would make Christ a cover for your sins as all doe who know not Christ in them the hope of glory Therefore call not us deceivers any longer but see how Satan is exalted in you and ye your selves are deceived which are in your sins and beguiled and cast the simplicity that is in Christ Jesus which all that are in sin not and this is true Justification for any to be in Christ where old things and sin is done away for which man is condemned and unto which the Law was and is added and abides in force while men are in their sins though in that state which is woful and for condemnation You will say you are not under the Law but under Grace therefore count not this deceit any longer as you have formerly done but consider what have ye to be deceived of seeing ye are in your sins and have lost the elect which cannot be deceived and the Apostles did not write to such as you are but to the Saints that were in Christ Jesus and had something more then you have who are in your sins to be deceived of Therefore all come down unto Christ the light of the world which lighteth every man that cometh into the world which is the eye and ye shall see all your prayers righteousnesses Means and Ordinances which you use to get Christ is all one in the sight of God with your swearing lying and drunkenness read Isai 66. v. 2. to 5. Hearken unto this ye proud Professors but trembles not at the Word of the Lord He that killeth an Oxe as if he slew a man he that sacrificeth a lamb as if he cut off a dogs neck he that offereth an oblation as if he offered swines blood he that burneth Incense as if he blessed an Idol Consider the ground and reason of this ye that say ye cannot be perfect and holy in this life whether ye are not in your own wayes and whether ye have not chosen your own wayes and your souls delighted in that which is abomination unto Christ who is the way the truth the life and he that is in it sinneth not what ever you may say who are in your own inventions and righteousnesse but are far off from the righteousnesse which is near to be revealed in the heart as all are who say Revelations are ceased for I declare to you all from my own experience not from the Letter but from the Spirit and Power of the Lord that I never heard the Voice nor knew the things of God from the Letter but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ for it hath pleased the Father to reveal his Son in me who is the light in which light I see light and the Father revealed who is the fountain thereof and broken Cisterns and corrupt Fountains are all drinking out of and feeding upon the wind and windy doctrine and vain hopes and eating that which dieth of it self and doth not satisfie and are all blind and dead in their sins are all they which saith that Revelation are ceased And this is a general cry with Priests and Professors who are gone in the way of Balaam and abides not in the Doctrine of Christ which should reveal the Father and of all Sects and Opinions whatsoever they are crying none can hear the Voice of Christ now but in the Letter To you I say who are setting up the Bible to be your Rule instead of the Spirit as the Jewes did who thought to have eternal life in the Scriptures and were painted as ye are with the Saints words being inwardly ravened from the light and spirit of the Lord which doth reveal as ever it did the things of God I say you are not like to hear his voice who are gone from the hearing ear nor to see his shape who are gone from the Light the seeing eye but the Saints and sheep did then hear his Voice and followed him and I witnesse his Voice to be heard now as ever it was and thousands in England besides me though I do confesse you which have the sheeps clothing but are not sheep do not nor cannot hear his Voice no more than the Jewes did who had the same clothing but were inwardly ravened from the Spirit of the Lord. Therefore all that would know God or the things of God must come to the measure of the Spirit in them a measure of which is given to every man to profit withall and this is nigh you in your hearts and as ye finke downe ye shall feele it working rising and operating in you and as ye are still ye shall feele ye spirit of the holy and pure God which hath been imprisoned and held in captivity under Pharaoh and the man of sin which hath been exalted in you above the spirit of God in you so all in this wait which is underneath the power of darkness and shineth in the darkness and out of the darkness shall it arise for he hath long dwelt in thick darkness and round about him hath been Clouds deep Waters I say wait in patience all you that sit in the region and shadow of death and the light shall rise until darknesse be under his feet even those dark mountains where you have been scattered and are scattered and how beautiful shall you witnesse his feet to be upon the Mountains Tongue nor Pen cannot utter even he that publisheth Salvation and saith unto Sion thy King raignes and this is the raigne of Christ and the only raign which the Scripture declares of That all his enemies should be under his feet for he must raign till he have subjected all things to himself even all that which hath captivated the Seed in Egyptian darknesse And then shall come to passe that saying which is written and nor till then Here is the patience of the Saints and here shall you feel the sufferings of Christ that are behinde and here is the time of Tryal and the very day of Jacobs trouble when he that hath led into captivity must go into captivity even as he ascends out of the grave and the pit he receiveth gifts for men but man is not meet to partake of the gift until that nature which would devour be destroyed And I say in bowels of everlasting love whose hearts are but breathing though never so little after the Lord speak not evil of that you know not nor judge nothing before the time until the spirit rise out of prison in you unto whom all judgement is committed and he will judge even he who is the judge of all the earth aright he will not condemn the righteous with the wicked nor slay the righteous with the wicked though man may who is gone from the spirit of truth in himself and knows not that there is a lie in his right hand and so calls good evil and evil good and puts light for darknesse himself being in that darkness and darknesse for light I am grieved for the sons of men at my very heart and greatly am I oppressed therewith and the iniquity of many lieth upon my life and I am pressed therewith as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves And oh how am I greived to see people that call themselves Christians and profess the scripturers to be their rule how contrary thereunto they walke and yet are condemning us for denying the scriptures who are in the life of them And as for your being Christians there is no such thing for you do not at all resemble God whom you say is your Father nor Christ his Son who loveth righteousness and hates iniquity and whose loins are girt with righteousnesse and whose throne is established in holiness and the Scepter of his Kingdom is a right Scepter and his Kingdom is everlasting and in his people and consist in righteousness Power and Glory And not in talke and words which you are in without the power or Joy in the Holy Ghost and yet you are saying you are his brethren but to you all I say who are in vaine words vain thoughts and actions in pleasure frendships and customes of the world which fades away as a flower and withereth as grass all repent and turn to the Light that you may see your sad conditions and from whence and from what are you fallen for he owns you not ye workers of iniquity all your Sacrifices while you commit sin or regard iniquity in your hearts are abomination to the Lord Isai 66.3 And so to you all and in love to your souls I say Come down for your strength is to stand still and to feel a seed in your selves though it be but as a grain of mustard and as you in patience wait low out of every thought reasoning and imagination which vails and clouds this pure seed which I speak of you shall see or feel it arise in you grow and multiply as the stars in the Firmament and as the sands in the Sea shore without number THE END