that knows to do good and doth it not to him it is sin And Christ said The Jews Scribes and Pharisees they say and do not that is they said Moses and the Prophets words but they did not Moses and the Prophets words and now the Christians they have Christs and the Apostles words and say them often over but the same Wo will be to them that was against the Pharisees that do them not And Christ saith But all their works they do for to be seen of men but such Works and Doers are not accepted with God and Christ for he cryes Wo against such Workers and Christ commanded them that improved their Talents and said unto them Well done good and faithful Servants that he had been faithful in a few things he would make them Ruler over many things and said Enter into the Joy of the Lord So the Wicked go into Everlasting Punishment and the Righteous into Life Eternal And therefore the Saints are to take unto them the whole Armour of God that they may be able to stand in the evil Day and having done all to stand in his Armour for every sin that a man doth is without his Body and every one shall receive according to the things done in his Body So here you may see he must have Truth 's judgment and sentence upon the sins done out of the body upon the sins done in the Body by Thoughts and Imaginations before they be acted outwardly So every one shall receive a Reward and Judgment according to his Works whethey be good or evil and therefore all the Saints have need of Patience to exercise that Gift that after they have done the will of God they might inherit his Promise of eternal Life for so is the Will of God that with well-doing ye may put to silence the Ignorance of foolish men So it is not only well talking but well doing for it is said That God hears not Sinners for they that go into sin and do evil go out of Gods spirit of Grace and savour but if any man be a Worshipper of God in his spirit and truth and doth his Will him he heareth in his Spirit and therefore are all Gods Children exhorted to walk in the Faith and by the Faith which Christ is the Author of to walk in the Light of Christ in which they have fellowship one with another and to walk in the Spirit of God by which they are circumcised and baptized in which they have fellowship and to put on the Lord Jesus Christ and to walk in him So it is not only Talkers of the Light and Spirit and Faith and of the Will of God and Christ and his Will and his Doctrine but them that walk in his Will and do his Will c. that are accepted and enter into his Kingdom that he hath prepared for them G. F. Uniformity Conformity Proclaimed to the whole World in the Name of the Eternal GOD and his Son Christ Jesus GOD so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have Everlasting Life for as in Adam all dyed so in Christ shall all be made alive And Christ by the Grace of God hath tasted Death for every man and is a Propitiation for the sins of the whole World the one Mediator betwixt God and Man through Death destroys Death and the Devil the power of Death for sin brought Death and the Devil who abode not in the Truth in whom there is no Truth he is the Power of Death and Christ who is the Truth and the Life makes an end of sin that brought Death and destroys Death and the Devil the Power of Death for the Son of God was manifest that he might destroy the Works of the Devil and finish Transgression and to make an end of sin and to make a Reconciliation for Iniquity and to bring in everlasting Righteousness into Man and Woman Here is the work of the Son of God who bruises the Serpents Head breaks his Power and destroys the Destroyer he is the Saviour called the seed of the VVoman in which Seed Christ all Nations are blessed which bruises the Serpents head which hath brought man into the Curse and Sin Darkness and Corruption c. but in this seed Christ that bruises the serpents head destroys his works are all Nations blest all in aniformity unity and fellowship one with another and with the Son and the Father And therefore all must come into this eed Christ Jesus if they come into the beavenly unity and uniformity and that ye may know him and the power of his Resurrection and the fellowship of the suffering of Christ being made conformable unto his death who by the Grace of God tasted Death for every man for in Adam all dyed Now Christ by the grace of God having tasted death for every man that every man may be conformable unto his death Here is a conformity unto the Death of Christ for ye must all dye with him before ye live with him and ye must all suffer with him if ye reign with him and therefore all Men and Women in the whole world of what Religion or Opinion soever ye be of in old Adam ye all dyed and are dead and Christ by the grace of God hath tasted Death for you all and by Christ ye are all made alive and therefore ye must all be made conformable to Christs death and that is the Conformity ye are all to press after and to exhort one another to be conformable to the death of Christ and to dye with him if ye do intend to live with him and to suffer with him and to come into the fellowship of his Sufferings if ye reign with Christ or do intend to reign with him yea all that do profess Christ the Son of God they ought to be conformed to the Image of the Son of God and if that ye be not conformed to the Image of God who destroys the Devil and his Works your outward profession will stand ye in no more stead than the Jews Profession without Life but all that are conformable to the Image of the Son of God in his Image they are in uniformity and in unity Hallelujah praising the Lord. And the Apostle saith to the Saints Be not conformed to this World but be ye transformed by the renewing of the Mind c. to the Image of the Son of God and being made conformable unto his Death Phil. 3.10 Rom. 8.29 12. 2. And now all People if ye be not conformable to the death of Christ that hath tasted Death for you all then you are yet alive in your sin and if ye be not conformed to the Image of the Son of God who bruises the serpents head and destroys the Devil and his Works what Image then are ye conformable to all your Profession without ye be conformed to the Image of the Son of God is nothing
which who do so conform are in the heavenly unity and conformity and Christ who tasted Death for every man for all dyed in Adam he enlightens every man that comes into the world with his heavenly Light which is the Life in him the Word by whom all things were made Now every man and woman being turned to the Light which is the Life in Christ and believing in it and walking in it is the means by which they may be made conformable to the Image of the Son of God and so come into Unity and Conformity and Fellowship one with another and with the Father and the Son And the Grace of God which brings salvation hath appeared unto all men which Grace taught the Church of Christ which Grace and Truth came by Jesus now I say this Grace taught the Church of Christ to live Godly Righteously and to deny Ungodliness and Unrighteousness and to live soberly in this World Now if all People will be conformed to the Image of the Son of God it must be through this grace that comes from the Son of God and this grace is in their hearts to settle them and stablish them which teaches them to deny that which is ungodly and unrighteous and to receive and cleave to that which is godly and righteous And so here is Gods Love and favour to all men who dyed in Adam that his grace and favour should appear unto all men to teach them and bring their Salvation that they may be made conformable to Christs death who hath tasted death for them all and dye and live with him and suffer and reign with him and so be conformable to the Image of the son of God and here is a heavenly divine and spiritual Conformity and Uniformity And Joel saith by Prophecy It shall come to pass in the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh Now these last days are the days of the New Covenant and New Testament and the days of the Gospel of Salvation preacht to every Creature man and woman that all might be obedient and conformable to the Power of God the Gospel of Salvation and so as all are conformable to this glorious Gospel of Christ they will be conformed to the Image of the Son of God and so into a glorious peaceable uniformity and conformity fellowship and unity in the Gospel the Power of God which brings Life and Immortality to light and in this Power of God they will see over the Power of the Devil and before he was that hath darkned them And likewise God who poureth out of his Spirit upon all flesh both men and women that all with the spirit of God might mortifie the deeds of the flesh and in the spirit of God live and that all with the spirit of God might be circumcised and put off the body of Death and fins of the flesh that 's come into them by transgression and disobeying of God so that all in the spirit may be conformable to the Image of the Son of God and be in unity and a spiritual fellowship and uniformity through the spiritual conformity for all the Sons and Daughters of God are led by the spirit of God and here is a spiritual conformity and a heavenly uniformity amongst the Sons and Daughters of God and God having poured out of his spirit upon all flesh that is all men and women that all men and women might be conformable to this holy pure spirit of God which spirit of God will baptize them if they do not quench vex grieve and rebel against it or err from it I say it will baptize them all into one body which Christ the Lord from Heaven is the head of and so with this holy spirit that baptizes into one body are all made to drink into one spirit Here is a spiritual conformity and a heavenly uniformity and concord where there is no discord for the Apostle saith There is is one Lord one Baptism one Faith c. and the work of the Ministry was to bring People into the unity of this Faith and the knowledge of the Son of God who was the Author and Finisher of this precious holy and divine Faith in which Faith they had victory over that which is unholy and access to God in which Faith they pleased him having victory over that which displeased him and this is called the Faith of Gods Elect in which they had all unity and they were called The Houshold of Faith and through this Faith did receive the Righteousness of Christ through which Faith they were made conformable to Christs death and conformable to the Image of the son of God through the Righteousness of Faith which was before and beyond and above the Righteousness of Man and the Righteousness of the Law and in the Righteousness of Christ and the Image of the son of God here is the Saints holy and righteous Uniformity and spiritual and heavenly Unity and Fellowship And David saith Behold how good and how pleasant it is for Brethren to dwell together in unity Now the unity and fellowship is in the Light Grace and Truth and Spirit and the Gospel the Power of God and the Faith which Jesus Christ is the Author and Finisher of and therefore all must be conformable to the Light Grace and Truth that comes by Jesus Christ and to the Spirit of God that God pours upon them and to the Gospel of salvation and to the Faith that Jesus Christ is the Author and Finisher of if ever ye do come into Vniformity Vnity and Fellowship in the Light in the Truth in the Gospel in the Faith in the Image of the Son of God one with another and with the Father and the Son that the Saints are and were in in the Apostles days glory and honour to the Lord over all sorever who is teaching his People by his Son who bruises the Serpents head that false Teacher and now God is the Teacher of his People by his Son and I say was the Teacher of Adam and Eve in Paradise before they fell who is God all-sufficient and a sufficient Teacher G. F. The Authority of the Church of Christ THe Apostle saith to the Corinthians I told you before and fore-tell you as if I were present now I write to them which heretofore have sinned and to all others if I come I will not spare 2 Cor. 13.2 Here the Apostle used his Authority in the Power and Spirit of Christ who would not spare Sin and Sinners And John said That I wrote unto the Church but Diotrâ—phes who loveth to have the preheminence amongst them received us not wherefore if I come I will remember his Deeds which he doth prate against us with malicious Words And so John thought of this Diotrephes in the Power of God and had Authority in his Power to judge such Prating puft-up Diotrephes's and their malicious Words and so hath the Church of Christ in his Power to judge such now
from him all his Armour wherein he trusted and spoils his Goods c. Is not Christ stronger than the Devil that hath kept the House of the hearts of People And doth not he disarm him and spoil his Goods And is not Christs Weapon Spiritual And the Lord saith to Zachariah Not by might nor by power to wit of men but by my Spirit saith the Lord of Hosts Zach. 4. The Lord saith Comfort ye my People spake ye comfortably to Jerusalem and Cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished that her Iniquity is pardoned c. Is not this Jerusalem Gods People whose Iniquity Christ pardons and warfare is accomplished Isa 40. And again Isaiah saith Isa 2. and Micah 4. spaking of Christ He shall judge amongst the Nations and shall rebuke many People and they shall beat their Swords into Plow-shares and their Spears into Pruning-hooks Nation shall not lift up Sword against Nation neither shall they learn War any more but they shall sit every man under his Vine and under his Fig-Tree and none shall make them affraid for the Mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spaken it Is not this Vine Christ And are not these the days of his Gospel of Peace And David saith Come behold the Works of the Lord what desolation he makes in the Earth he makes Wars to cease unto the ends of the Earth he breaks the Bow and cuts the Spear in sunder he burns the Chariots in fire Psal 46. The Lord rebukes the company of Spear-men the Multitude of the Bulls with the Calves of the People till every one submit himself to wit to the Lord who scatters the People that delight in War And are not these the days of Christ in the New Testament who ascended on high and led Captivity captive and gave Gifts unto men that the Lord God might dwell amongst them Psal 68. and Ephes 4.8 where the Apostles shews the fulfilling of it and the Apostle James saith in his general Epistle to the Church of Christ From whence comes Wars and Fightings amongst you Come they not even of your Lusts that war in your Members Mark in your Members James 4. So here is a War in your Members the ground of it is from your Lusts before the Wars and Fightings were outwardly amongst People which Wars and Fightings without comes from the Lusts of the Members within And the Apostle saith to the Hebrews in the 11th chapter who by Faith subdued Kingdoms stopt the Mouthes of Lyons quencht the Violence of Fire escaped the edge of the Sword this was the Sheild of Faith a stronger weapon than outward Swords and is a stronger Weapon than Fire and can quench the Violence of it that stopt the Mouthes of Lyons this is beyond Carnal Weapons which Fire and Lyons may overcome And the Apostle exhorts Timothy 2 Tim. 2. Thou therefore my Son be strong in the Grace that is in Christ Jesus and endure hardship as a good souldier of Jesus Christ But Timothy did not War with Flesh and Blood with Carnal Weapons as he was as a souldier of Christ but with Christs heavenly Arms and Armour for as the Apostle Peter saith in his general Epistle to the Church For as much then as Christ hath suffered for us in the Flesh arm your selves likewise with the same mind to wit of Christ for he that hath suffered in the Flesh hath ceased from sin that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the Flesh to the Lusts of men but to the Will of God for the time past of our Life may suffice to have wrought the will of the Gentiles or Nations And the Apostle saith to the Romans chap. 6. Yeild not your Members as Instruments of Vnrighteousness unto Sin but yield your Members unto God as those that are alive from the dead and your Members as Instruments of Righteousness unto God So its clear they that yeild their Members as Instruments of Unrighteousness unto sin are not alive unto God and the two Witnesses that had power to smite the Earth as often as they would do you think that they did it with carnal Weapons And there was War in Heaven Michael and his Angels fought against the Dragon and the Dragon fought against his Angels and the Dragon prevailed not neither was there any more place found in Heaven for him but he and his Angels were cast out into the Earth Rev. 12. Now the holy Angels of God are Spirits so then they had Spiritual Weapons and not carral Swords Muskets Pikes and Pistols c. to sight with the Dragon And John said I saw Heaven open and behold a white Horse and he that sate upon him was called Faithful and true and in Righteousness he doth Judge and make War c. and he was clothed with a Vesture dipt in Blood and his Name was called the Word of God and the Armies which were in Heaven followed him upon White Horses cloathed in fine Linnen white and clean and out of his Mouth goes a sharp Sword that with it he should smite the Nations and he shall Rule them with a Rod of Iron c. And the Beast and the Kings of the Earth and their Armies gathered together to make War against him that sate on the Horse and his Army who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords but the Beast was taken and the false Prophet c. and them that had received the Mark of the Beast and had worshipped his Image these both were cast alive into the Lake of fire burning with brimstone and the Remnant were slain with the Sword of him that sate upon the White Horse which Sword proceeded out of his Mouth Rev. 19. And were these think you carnal Weapons that Christ and his Followers made War with against the Beast and the false Prophet and they that worshipped the Beast and his Image and received his Mark and took them and overcame them and cast the Beast and the false Prophet in the Lake that burns with Brimstone And was that an outward carnal Sword that went out of his Mouth by which he slew the Beasts worshippers that had his Marks and Image Do you think that Christ or his Army that sate on White Horses and followed him which were in Heaven that they had outward Swords and Pistels and Pikes and Muskets and Guns and Cannons by which they overcome the Beast and the false Prophet No it is said that Christs Army was cloathed with fine Linnen and Christs Vesture was dipt in Blood which Army followed him in Heaven Nebuchadnezar lift up his Eyes to Heaven and blest the most High and said all the Inhabitants of the Earth are reputed as nothing and the Lord doth according to his will in the Armies of Heaven and amongst the Inhabitants of Earth and none can stay his hand nor say unto him What dost thou Here you may see Nebuchadnezar was made to confess the great God who saw his Armies in Heaven who abased his Pride