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A call to Christendom in an earnest expostulation with her to prepare for the great and notable day of the Lord, that is at the door / by William Penn.
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Penn, William, 1644-1718.
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lest you partake 〈◊〉 of the Plagues that God hath prepared for Babylon she that calleth her self the Lamb's Bride and is an Harlot committing Fornication throughout all Nations and Sects that is those that by a lying Spirit have had their Hearts seduced from God and his holy Fear yet in Words profess'd to be his People who call themselves Jews but are not Christians and are not but of the Synagogue of Satan being Strangers to the Circumcision in Spirit and the Baptism that is with Fire and with the Holy Ghost With Fire to consume the fleshly Nature and with the Holy Ghost to beget the heavenly Nature in Man O the Downfal of this great City and the Desolation of this false Church through all the Sects in Christendom is come and coming yea in one day shall it be accomplisht even in the day of the Appearance of Christ who is the Second Adam the Lord from Heaven who by the Brightness of his Coming and by the Breath of his Mouth in the Hearts of Nations shall reveal and destroy this great Antichrist this Man of Sin in Man that sitteth in the Place of God yea exalted above all that is called God requiring Conformity to all his Inventions and Injunctions upon pain of Life Liberty and Estate Nor are any suffered to Buy or Sell in this great City but such as will receive his Mark. Wo to you all in the Name of the Lord that call God your Father and are not Born of him that name his Name and hate to be Reformed That call Jesus Lord and not by the Holy Ghost who take his pure Name into your Mouths and depart not from Iniquity I say to you on God's behalf as God said to the Jews of old your Prayers your Sacrifices and your solemn Assemblies c. in an unconverted state are Abomination to the Lord. No matter for your Names your Pretences your Creeds if you live without God in the World that is without his holy Awe in your Hearts without a Divine Sense of his Presence in your Souls and know not that Godly Sorrow that worketh unfeigned Repentance the only way to Eternal Life Your Worship God loatheth A Dog's neck Swines-blood yea to Bless an Idol or kill a Man is altogether as acceptable with the Lord. O! God is wroth with the feigned Worships as well as common Ungodliness of the World Come to Christ's Spirit be led of it and do not your own Wills but the Will of Christ Jesus and then you shall know the true Worship For the true Ministry and Worship of God stand not in the Will Wisdom or Appointment of Men nor can they be performed by unregenerated Men but in the leadings of his Eternal Spirit by whom all the faithful offer up themselves an acceptable Sacrifice to God not to live unto themselves but to him that hath purchased them 'T is true Christ Jesus died for the ungodly but not that they should continue ungodly but take up his daily Cross and follow him Christ saith Peter hath offered up himself once for all leaving us an Example that we should follow his steps as he was in this World so we should be saith John not conformable to the Rudiments Fashions and Customs of this World that pass away but transformed and renew'd in our minds by the Grace that he hath given us which Grace bringeth Salvation to all that obey it teaching such to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godlikely in this present evil World Because without Holiness none shall ever see the Lord That is God's Decree Wherefore be you not deceived O you Formal and Titular Christians God will not be mocked Such as you sow such shall you reap at the Hand of the Lord Yea for every idle word shall you give an Accompt in the Day of Judgment Think not with your selves you have Christ to your Saviour and you are reconciled to God through Christ and that God looketh not upon you as you are in your selves but as in Christ whilst you walk not after the Spirit but after the Flesh for the Wages of Sin is Death but the Gift of God is Eternal Life through Jesus Christ our Lord To whom Not to them that despise his Light in their Hearts that grieve his Spirit and by a worldly Conversation go on to Crucifie him and who follow not Jesus in the way of Tribulation and Regeneration God is of purer Eyes than to behold Iniquity and he looketh upon Men and Women to be what they really are and not what they imagine themselves to be Behold he cometh and his Reward is with him and he will reward all according to their Works Sinners while such can no more come into Christ than into God for God is in Christ and Christ is in God Christ is holy harmless pure and undefiled and separate from Sinners And if ever you would have God look upon you to be in Christ you must come into Christ And you can never come into Christ the new and heavenly Man that is undefiled and separated from Sinners till you come out of Sin and the Author of it the Devil the old Man of Sin and leave your wicked Deeds of darkness Therefore be ye separate from every evil Way Christ the Immaculate Lamb of God came not only to save Men from Wrath but from Sin which is the cause of Wrath. Behold the Lamb of God saith John which taketh away the sin of the World Not their Sin that will not believe in him but the Sins of those that are weary and heavy laden that wait hunger thirst and cry for his Salvation whom God hath given for a light to lighten the Gentiles and for his Salvation to the ends of the Earth O you that are called by his Sacred Name Repent Repent Prepare Prepare to meet the Lord who is coming in the way of his Judgments to visit the Inhabitants of the Earth and put away the evil of your doings and turn to him that he may receive you But Wo in the Name of the Lord to all that Rebel against the Light of Christ Jesus who serve another Master and follow another Captain and obey the Prince of the Power of the Air who reigneth in the Hearts of the Children of Disobedience Yea Wo unto all who are covered with a Covering and not of my Spirit that take counsel and not of me saith the Lord Who gather sticks and kindle a Fire of their own and compass themselves about in the Sparks which they have kindled for this shall they have at my Hand They shall lye down in Sorrow Wo from God to all the Will-worshippers who Worship but not in the Spirit and in the Truth their Worship is not available He that Worships God aright is turned to the Spirit and is taught and led by the Spirit And such as have received the Spirit of Christ are not led by their own Spirits nor by the Spirit of this
A CALL TO Christendom In an Earnest Expostulation with Her to prepare for the Great and Notable DAY of the LORD That is at the Door By William Penn. LONDON Printed and Sold by T. Sowle near the Meeting-house in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-Street and at the Crooked-Billet in Holywell-lane near Shoreditch 1694. A CALL TO Christendom AWake O Christendom Awake and come to Judgment for the Great and Notable Day of the Lord is drawing apace upon thee prepare to meet him thou and thy Children for the Hour of his Judgement hasteneth upon you as Travail on a Woman with Child in which all your Works shall be tried and that by Fire For the Day of the Lord shall burn as an Oven and all the proud and all that do wickedly shall be as stubble Yea by fire and by sword will the Lord God Almighty plead with all flesh with all fleshly Worshippers and Workers who live after the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof And with the Spirit of Judgment and the Spirit of Burning that is with Spiritual Judgment and Burning will he visit all Ranks and Regions upon the Earth Yea his holy Terrors shall take hold of the Rebellious and Anguish and Distress shall fill the Souls of the Guilty The Faces of Nations shall gather paleness and their Knees smite together because of the Anger of God that is kindling against them and his fierce Wrath that is revealing from Heaven against all the ungodly but more especially against the Children of the Mystery of Iniquity 'T is in this day that the Kindreds of the Earth shall mourn with a great Lamentation O Christendom Thou hast long sate as a Queen that should never know sorrow Great have been thy Pretences and large thy Profession of God Christ Spirit and Scriptures come let me Expostulate with thee and thy Children in the fear and presence of him that shall bring every word and work to Judgment God is pure and the pure in heart only see him Now are you pure Do you see him God is a Spirit and none can worship him aright but such as come to his Spirit and obey it Do you so Christ is the Gift of God have you received him into your Hearts Does he rule there Then have you Eternal Life abiding in you If not you are not true Christians The Spirit of Truth leadeth into all Truth and the Children of God are born of it and led by it But are you led into all the holy ways of Truth born of this Eternal Spirit Then you follow not the Spirit of this World nor do your own wills but the Will of God You profess the holy Scriptures but what do you witness and experience What Interest have you in them Can you set to your Seal they are true by the work of the same Spirit in you that gave them forth in the holy Antients What 's David's Roarings and Praises to thee that livest in the Lust of this World What 's Paul's and Peter's Experiences to thee that walkest after the Flesh O you that are called Christians givâ— ear a little unto me for I am prest in Spâ—rit to write to you Read with patiencâ— and consider my words for behold what I have to say unto you concerneth your Eternal Good GOD hath so loved the World that he hath sent his only Begotten Son into the World that those that believe in him should have Eternal Life And this Son is Christ Jesus the true Light that lighteth every one coming into the World and they that abide not in him the Light dwell in Darkness in Sin and are under the Region and Shadow of Death Yea dead in Sin and see not their own states neither perceive the sad Conditions of their own Souls They are blind to the things of God's Kingdom and unsensible of true and spiritual Life and Motion what it is to live to God And in that state are alienated from God without true Judgment and living Knowledge and under the Curse For in Jesus Christ the Light of the World are hid all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge Redemption and Glory they are hid from the wordly Christian from all that are captivated by the Spirit and Lusts of the World And whoever would see them for therein consist the things that belong to their Eternal Peace must come to Christ Jesus the true Light in their Consciences bring their Deeds to him love him and obey him whom God hath ordained a Light to lighten the Gentiles and for his Salvation to the ends of the Earth Light and Salvation are joined together and none can come to Salvation but as they come first to the Light and submit to the manifestation of it which leadeth to Salvation For the Nations of them that are saved shall walk in the Light of the Lamb Christ Jesus Light and Sanctification are also joined together If we walk in the Light as God is in the Light the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son shall cleanse us from all sin And Light and Life Eternal are joined together For in the Word that was with God in the beginning and was God by whom all things were made that were made was life and that life the light of men And this is the Testimony of Jesus I am the light of the world he that followeth me shall not abide in darkness but have the light of life Yea it is Eternal Life to believe in him in Christ the Light to receive embrace and to follow him And this is that true Light saith the same beloved Disciple that lighteth every man that cometh into the world Now this Light shineth in Darkness in the Children of Darkness in their dark Hearts in their black Souls and defiled Consciences but in this Darkness they comprehend it not Neither can man know the Nature and Benefit of it whilst he rebelleth against it for the Virtue and Excellency of it is shut up and hid from the Children of Disobedience To as many as received him of old gave he power to become the Children of God and they that did his Will knew his Doctrine to be of God and of Power and Efficacy to their Salvation But this is the great Condemnation of the World at this day that though God hath sent his Son a Light into the Hearts of all Men and Women to manifest and reprove their evil deeds and to save them yet they love Darkness they love the Lusts and Imaginations of their vain Hearts better than this holy Light that is given unto them for Salvation They chuse Barrabas rather than Jesus Yea they have set up other Lights than Christ Jesus God's great Light and other Prophets than Christ God's great Prophet and other Priests than Jesus the High-Priest of the New Covenant But they are dark Lights false Prophets and blind Priests All that came before me saith Christ are Thieves and Robbers And all that Pray Preach Sing Worship c. and not by the Light and Spirit of