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A40325	A word from the Lord unto all the faithlesse generation of the vvorld, who know not the truth, but live in their own imaginations; with a true declaration of the true faith, and in what it doth differ from the worlds imagination: written in obedience to the Lord, that al may see what faith is owned by the saints, and what faith is denied. And also a few words unto all professors of the world, who worship not the true God, but their own imaginations and conceivings instead of the true God: also a call from God unto all the the world to repentance, that all may turn unto him, lest the Lord destroy both root and branch of them that repent not. Also a few words unto you that scorne Quaking and trembling, which all the holy men of God witnessed that spake forth the Scripture, and also the holy men of God justified, and all you denied that scorneth such as witness such things now, as ever was in all the generations of the saints. With a word to those that are called Anabaptists, Independants, Presbyterians, Leve	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Naylor, James, 1617?-1660. aut	1654 (1654)	Wing F1992; ESTC R213323	12,879	17

A Word from the Lord Vnto all the faithlesse Generation of the VVorld who know not the Truth but live in their own imaginations with a true Declaration of the true faith and in what it doth differ from the Worlds imagination written in obedience to the Lord that al may see what faith is owned by the Saints and what faith is denied And also a few words unto all Professors of the World who worship not the true God but their own imaginations and conceivings instead of the true God Also a Call from God unto all the World to Repentance that all may turn unto him lest the Lord destroy both Root and Branch of them that repent not Also a few words unto you that scorne Quaking and Trembling which all the holy men of God witnessed that spake forth the Scripture and also the holy men of God justified and all you denied that scorneth such as witness such things now as ever was in all the Generations of the Saints With a word to those that are called Anabaptists Independants Presbyterians Levellers and Ranters that they may turne to the Lord by yielding obedience to the light in their Consciences By those whom the World knowes by the names of George Fox James Nailor Printed in the Yeare 1654. To all the faithlesse generation of the world and to all who desire to know what faith and hope we live in and what faith and hope we deny THat Faith wee owne and witness is that which stands in Jesus Christ in the everlasting Covenant of light John 1.9 who is the light of the world and hath enlightened every one that cometh into the world and this light we believe and follow and by this are we led out of all the waies works and worships Iohn 8.12 of this darke world and the effect of this light we witness by faith And by this faith we deny all who say this light is not sufficient without the teaching of man to guide in all the waies of God and all such we deny Iohn 10.4.5 Tim. 4.5 for those are they who knowe not the voice of Christ and therefore here a stranger and hireling who heap up teachers having itching eares who cannot indure sound doctrine and in this Christ we believe who is our life and Salvation and all them and their faith we deny who say they have faith and their lives is not the life of Christ but live in sin and worldly pleasures and say they cannot be saved from their sins in this world but in part and this faith we deny and them 1. Iohn 3.8 Heb. 7.25 1. Timo. 1.9 for these deny the end of Christs coming in the flesh who cannot believe he is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto him and this faith is reprobate and these deny the Lord that bought them and have made shiprack of faith and a good conscience and makes the blood of Christ of no effect to them who are not cleansed by it and all them and their faith we deny who say they believe and know the will of God but they have not power Rom. 1.4.16 for that Christ in which we believe is the great power of God unto Salvation in all that believe and who hath this Christ hath power and in him we have power to do the will of God but these are they that know not Christ nor his power 2. Tim. 3.5 but run into notions and forms but deny the power and from such we turn away for such know not him in them who is greater then he that is in the world but are wi ling to serve sin and be led Captive at the divells will not minding the light and power of Christ to be guided by it and then would seeme to cast the fault on God as though he had given a Christ that was not able to set free til after death these put him to open shāe whose faith profession we deny Rom. 5.17 Rom. 1.22 Rom. 10 3.4 we deny all who say they have faith in Christ and yet their righteousness is not perfect but this faith we witness which receives the righteousness of God even the free gift of righteousness by Jesus Christ and this is perfect which is the righteousness of faith and all who have not this righteousness are in the false righteousness which is not perfect and these are short of the righteousness of God and would establish their owne righteousness and these are the Boasters who would justify themselves and dispise others Rom. 1.27 but by the righteousness of faith is boasting excluded and heer is no justifying of selfe but denying selfe and selfe righteousness exalting the righteousness of God which is perfect which is in Christ Jesus Phil. 1.9 Phil. 1.11 who is made unto us righteousness sanctification by this faith we deny all who say they have Christ and have not this righteousness but whose righteousness is unperfect and that Christ and that righteousness we deny which is not perfect and witness that Christ in which we are made the righteousness of God and this Christ is our righteousness and perfection and this faith we owne and witness which is not a talke of faith as the worlds professors who say they have faith but are dead in sin and cannot witness the work of God in them Jam. 2.26 Eph. 2.10 1. Iohn 5.4 Gal. 1.4 .. but that faith we owne which is lively by which the work of God is witnessed in us working out sin and by which we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works and this is our faith by which we overcome the world and the Divell and all you we deny who have a profession in the world and in whom the works of the Divell are brought forth and their faith and hope we deny who say they hope to be saved but live in sin making a profession and this is the hope of the hypocrite which shall perrish and not the hope of Christ for he that hath this hope of Christ purifies himselfe even as he is pure 1. Iohn 3.3 Heb. 6.19 and this faith and hope we owne which purifies the heart and enters into the place of holiness within the vaile but that which is without holiness we deny which is not in Christ but in a vaine mind Ro. 10.8 and we deny all who say they have faith and Christ and yet their word and light is without them and that word we witness which is nigh in the heart and this is the word of faith which the Apostles preached and he that hath Christ or faith hath this word which is Christ the light not in letter but in spirit and all them we deny whose law is without and morrall and that law we witness which is spirituall written in the heart and this law is perfect and endures for ever Heb. 8.10.11 Heb. 7.19 and all the Changeable laws wee deny

of Christ testified against to this light being made manifest all the vvorkes of the vvorld are seen and made manifest heere is joy and unity light rejoyce in Trembling and rejoyce above all the vvorld This is to goe amongst the scattered ones and amongst all the vvorld G. F. A word to those that are called Anabaptists Independants Presbyterians Levellers and Ranters THe word of the Lord God to you which are called Ranters you had a pure convincement I witness which did convince you but having fled the Crosse and now to it are become enemies which turnes the grace of God into wantonness and followes drunckenness and cursed speaking sporting your selves in the daytime following oathes swearing you never come into the Sons doctrine had a convincement under the law then start up to be as Gods and never came thorough the Prophets nor Moses house nor Christ who is the end of all oathes for you that are in the oathes and your drunckenness the law of God is cast behinde your back and you that are in your wantonness kill the just and you that live in pleasures are dead while you live and you that sweare are out of Christs doctrine with the light which was before the world was with it I do you comprehend which is your eternall condemnation who be in the liberty of the flesh in your hot burning lusts but all such are beggerly acted in that nature contrary to the light and with the light to be condemned and to you this is the word of the Lord. And the word of the Lord to you who are called Levellers you had a flash in your minde a simplicitie and your minds run into the earth and smothered it and so got up into presumption and you would had unity and fellowship there before life was raised up in you so that withers and much of it is withered as it is manifest and with the light that is condemned in which light is the unity of both those conditions The word of the Lord to you who are called Anabaptists you take up a command from the letter and say Christ commands it which Christ did not you command but the letter commands it you are not led with the light which gave forth those commands to observe them but saith Christ hath commanded them in Scripture here you are them which use their tongues which the Scripture speaks of but I have not spoken to them saith the Lord heer with the light you are comprehended to be the witches which takes up commands as they did in the Galathians which the Apostle speaks of which did bewitch them who drawes from the spirit within them to harken to your outward commands them that did observe the commands was led by the spirit and Christ bid them goe preach he sent them and bid them goe preach the Gospel to every Creature they did not goe at the command of the letter but at the command of Christ and they was led by the light which did comprehend the world and the Prophets they did not goe because other Prophets had gone and take their words and make a trade of them nor used their tongues and say he said when the Lord had not spoken unto them but with the light they did them comprehend and cry against and the Lord bid them cry aloud and spare not lift up their voyce like a trumpet and shew them their sins and transgressions which walkt contrary to the light with the light they are comprehended all you who are turned from the light and saith Christ saith so and so and the Prophets and Apostles said so in such a Chapter and such a verse and God said so and the command is in such a Chapter and such a verse here with the light you are comprehended and seene to be them who use their tongues and say he saith it when the Lord never spoke to you heer you are comprehended with the light and seene to be lyars and are for the lake where all lyars must goe and to you this is the word of the Lord. The word of the Lord God to you that are called Independants your zeale it without the knowledge of God with the life of God I beare you record that you depend upon your imaginations you depend upon the letter your minds are turned from the light of Christ within you and that zeale and knowledge with the light which never changes which comprehends the world with it it shall be condemned your knowledge wisedom and zeale for the zeale wisedom and knowledge which stands is in the light which condemnes that knowledg wisedom and zeale in that nature that acts contrary to the light which changeth not and to you this is the word of the Lord God all your fruits will wither and all your knowledg will perish and all your expectations and hopes will perrish to you this is the word of the Lord God no pillowes under your armeholes I sow but to the light in your consciences I speake which will let you see your prayers and your praises and all your imaginations of the Saints words will wither and is to be condem'd to be froth in the nature of the Sea forming forth shame I see come forth from you with the eternall light which comprehends the world which light shall never change with which light all your waies and actions is to be condemned which light will teach you how to walke if you love it remember you are warned in the time of your life and to you this is the word of the Lord. The word of the Lord God to you who are called Presbyterians and to you who reade the common prayer you are wholly in darkness given up to it and so your dark minds have the common prayer and such would have a King to reigne for there is that nature that would have an earthly King to reigne in which nature lodgeth the murtherer deare deare is the love of God to all the world in sending his only begotten into the world that whosoever do believe on him should not perrish but have everlasting life Who doth enlighten every one that cometh into the world and if you did owne the Son of God you would owne the light which he hath enlightened you withall then you would owne him to be Lord and King and this light would lead you our of darkness and from all your common prayers and would teach you how to pray and condemne all your set forme of prayers and set times and this light will teach you how to pray if you love it there is your teacher and if you hate it there is your condemnation when you are in the pit and in the lake to the light in your consciences I speake which Christ Jesus hath enlightened you withall which is your condemnation that hates it and when you are in the Lake Pit and ditch remember you were warned in your life time then all your common prayers and all your set waies and all your customary teachings and all your private interpretations and all your meanings of Scripture your Presbyterian forme Independent and Annabaptist Ranter and Leveller who are in any forms whatsoever following your beggerly lusts of the world with the light that never changeth you are seene with the light who lives in your notions turned from the light and erred from the spirit and commands of God all your profession which hath not the life will stand you in no stead no more then the cheife Priests Scribes and Pharises who was a seperated people and no more then the Sadduces or any other which had not the life when Christ came woe was the end of their profession who hath a profession but hath not the life with the light that comprehendeth the world you are all seene which comes from Christ who is the same to day yesterday and forever and changeth not and to you all this is the word of the Lord God G. F. ERRATA Pag. 2. line 5. read Christ the Pag. 6. line 13. read graine Pag. 7. line 27. read braine Pag 8. line 17. read horses FINIS

for all sin beares his image and hee is the father of it let no man deceive you thorough faire words hee that sins is of the Devill and is doing his worke and upon this image where it is the wrath of God is revealed from heaven in flames of fire here is your portion you workers of iniquity THe word of the Lord God to all you that scorne trembling and quaking and scoffe at them and scorn at them and throw stones at them who own trembling and quaking and ●●●ere that you might be seen to bee strangers from all the Apostles and Prophets in the generation that stoned them mocked them then in that age and those ages and those times but now yee are the scoffers that are come in the last times whom they spoke of bee yee witnesses against your selves to the light in all your consciences I speake that with it you may see your selves to bee from the life of the holy men of God Moses who was a judge over all Israell hee feared trembled and quiked when the Lord sayd unto him I am the God of Abraham the God of Isaac the God of Jacob then hee trembled and durst not behold at this which makes to tremble now yee teachers and people scoffe at and scorne them now in your streets who witnesse the power of the Lord. And Moses forsooke the pleasures of the world which hee might have enioyed for a season hee might have beeene called the son of Pharahoes daughter he refused it and forsooke Pharaoes house who was no vagabond And David hee trembled hee was mocked they made songs on him they wagged their heads at him will you professe Davids wordes Moses wordes who are in the generation of your fathers mockers scoffers wonderers and despisers who are to perish Oh! blush and bee ashamed of all your profession Job trembled and their flesh trembled and they mocked him so doe you now where the same power of God is made manifest and doe not you mocke and yet you professe Jobs wordes Oh! deceitfull Hypocrites will yee not owne the Scripture Solomon who was a King sayd when the keepers of the house shall tremble and the strong men of the house should bow themselves at this Priests Magistrates and people scoffe at where this power makes the keepers of the house to tremble the strong man to bow himselfe Oh! for shame never professe Solomons words deny the power for with it you are judged with the power and life Jeremiah hee shooke his bones quaked hee reeled too and fro like a drunken man when hee saw the deceits of the Priests and Prophets who were turned from the way of God and they were not ashamed neither could they blush such were gone from the light and such were the women that ruled over the people and hee was brought to cry oh foolish people who had eyes and could not see they had eares and did not heare that did not feare the Lord and tremble at his presence who placed the sands for the bounds of the Sea for a perpetuall decree that the waves thereof cannot passe and sayd a horrible and filthy thing was committed in the Land the Priests bate rule by their meanes and the Prophets prophecie falsly shall not I visite for these things saith the Lord shall not my soule bee avenged upon such a Nation as this such did not tremble at the word of the Lord therefore he called them a foolish people heare all yee the word of the Lord yee foolish People who scorne trembing and quaking and quaking and shaking give over Jeremiahs wordes and making a trade of them for with his wordes yee are judged to bee among the scoffers and scorners and stockers for he was stocked by your generation and so you stocke who are the children of your fathers them that tremble now at the word of the Lord at the power of the mighty God which rayses up the seed of God out of the fall and throwes downe the earth which hath kept it in the fall so you that are in the fall where death raignes enemies of the truth despising the power of God as ever your generation did woe and misery is your portion except you speedily repent And Isaiah sayd heare yee the word of the Lord all yee that tremble at his word and said this is the man that God regards that was of a broken and contrite heart tremble at his word when their bretheren hated them and persecuted them and cast them out saying let the Lord be glorified hee shall appeare to your glory but they shall be ashamed Now to all scoffers scorners that despise trembling you regard not the word of the Lord they are not regarded with you that trembles at the word who are regarded of the Lord therfore ye are contrary to Isaiah his words therfore never for shame professe him nor his wordes nor make a trade of his wordes yee who seeke for your gaine from your quarter yee greedy dumb doggs that never have enough yee are they that despise trembling you are they Isaiah cryed against who witnessed trembling and heere be you witnesses against your selves that with the light in your consciences you may see you are out of the Prophet Isaiahs words and are such as hate them that tremble that the Lord regards but such you do not regard but hate and persecute mocke and rayle against but it is manifest that you walke in the steps of your fathers who persecuted the Prophets Habacuck the Prophet of the Lord and Joel the Prophet of the Lord blew the trumphet in Zion and let the inhabitants of the earth tremble the people shall tremble and all faces shall gather blacknesse and the people shall be much pained and now this trembling is witnessed by the power of the Lord this power of the Lord is come the trumpet is sounding the Devils are trembling the earth is shaking the dead is raysing and the living is praysing God and the world is rageing and the scoffers are scorning and them who witnesse trembling and quaking can scarce pass up and down the streets but with stones and blowes and sticks and fists or mocks or dogs or reproches and thus you vent forth your malice against them who witnesse the power of the Lord as the Prophets did to come to the broken heart and contrice spirit and tremble at the word of the Lord whom the Lord regards them you stone them you stocke them you set your dogs at and scoffe and scorne revile and reproach but the reproaches are our riches and praysed bee the Lord who hath given us power above all and if you see one as Habac●uck whose lips quivered whose belly shooke who said rottennesse entred into his bones who trembled in himselfe if you see such an one in this age now you say he is bewitched here again you show your selves strangers to that power to that life that was in the Prophet and so for shame never

make a profession of his words nor a trade of his words nor of Joels who witnessed trembling that which ye scoffe and scorne Ye proud scoffers and scorners ah misery misery is your end except you speedily repent And Daniel a servant of the most high God he trembled his strength and his breath was gone hee was imprisoned hee was hated he was persecuted they layd baites and snares for him in whom the Holy Spirit of God was now for shame all you that make a profession of Daniels wordes give over your profession Priests and people who scoffes and scornes at trembling with the light you are seene to bee out of Daniels life and by the same power you are threshed for it you scorne and scoffe and so heere againe bee witnesse that you are scorners and scoffers against the truth and with the Scripture you are judged to be contrary to the life of the holy men of God and Paul a minister of God made by the will of God a messenger of the Lord Jesus a vessell of the Lord to cause his name to spread abroad in severall Nations when the darke blind world have got some of his words and epistles and you filthy teachers make a trade of them and gets great summes of money for it and so destroyes soules for dishonest gaine and making a trade of his wordes and the rest of the Apostles and Prophets and Christ but denying that Spirit and life that they were guided by and that power that shooke the flesh and the earth which the Apostles witnessed who said when hee came among the Corinthians hee was then with them in weaknesse and feare and in much trembling that their faith might not stand in the wisedome of the world but in the power of God in that power which made him to tremble at this power the world and all the scoffing teachers scoffe at in the townes in your villages in your assemblies in your alehouses for shame lay away all your profession of the Apostles wordes and conditions and some scoffes at the power and call it of the Divell and some persecute them stocke stone imprison and whip in whom that power is made manifest and loades them with reproaches as not to walke on the earth the off-scowring of the world hated persecuted here you may see you are in the steps of your forefathers who persecuted the Apostles and acted so against them stocked them mocked them imprisoned them stoned them whipped them hayled them out of the Synagogues reproached them shamefully intreated them doe not you heere fulfill the Scripture and Christs sayings who sayth if they kill you they thinke they doe good service and yet you make a profession of Christs words the Prophets and Apostles words and calls your selves Churches and ministers of the Gospell I command you and charge you in the presence of the living God to bee silent who acts such things scoffers and scorners mind the light in your consciences which Christ hath enlightened you withall that by it you may see your selves what you act and what you have acted for who act such things shall never inherit the Kingdoms of God for all such things with the light are condemned and who come to witnesse trembling and quaking the powers of the earth to bee shaken the lustfull to come to be destroyed the scorning and scoffing come to be iudged with the light in it waite to receive power who shakes the earth this power wee owne and faith stands in it which all the world scoffes at the lusty ones the proud ones the presumptuous ones who live in presumption and yet make a profession of the Scr●pture as your Fathers the Pha●ses did who were painted Serpents and the Scribes who had the chiefest places in the assemblies stood praying in the Synagogues called of men Masters which Christ cryed woe against who are not come so farr as the trembling of D●vels which believed and trembled let that Judge you the light and life of the Scripture is seene and made manifest that with it all you scoffers and all you scorners all persecutors raylers are seen take warning all yee powers of the earth how you persecute them whom the world nicknames and calls Quakers who dwells in the eternall power of God left the hand of the Lord be turned against you and yee be all cut off and to you this is the word of God to feare and to tremble and to take warning for this is the man that the Lord doth regard who trembles at his word which you who are of the world scoffes and scornes stockes persecutes imprisons here you may see you are contrary to God contrary to the Prophets and are such who hate what the Lord regards whom wee owne whom the world scornes and cals Quakers and set up that power honour that power that makes the Devils to tremble and shakes the earth and throwes downe the haughtinesse of man and which makes the beasts of the field to tremble and makes the Earth reele too and fro and cleaves the Earth asunder and overturnes the wo●ld this power wee owne and honour and set up which the world scornfully calls Quakers but all scoffers persecutors and raylers scorners stockers and whippers we deny with that power which throwes down all that nature as seeing all who act such things are for destruction and shall never inherit the kingdom of God so reioyce all yee righteous ones which are persecuted for righteousness sake for great is your reward in Heaven reioyce yee that suffer for well doing for yee shall not lose your reward and waite you in the light that you may grow up in the life that gave forth all the Scriptures that with it you may see all the Saints conditions and with it you may see all that which they testified against therwith it you wil see them that did reproach scoffe them mock them persecute them whip them stocke them haile them out of the Synagogues before magistrates so to you who are in the same light life the same things do they unto you now that they may fil up the measure of their fathers so with the light now they are seen to act where the light life power of God is made manifest for as they did unto them so shall they do unto you heere is our joy and the Scripture fulfilled fulfilling with the light which was before the world which is now made manifest in the children of light with it they see the world comprehends it all things in it the actions of it with the light we see it to be for the fire and all the works of it for hee that loves it and turnes himselfe from the light is an enemy to God he turnes into wickedness for the whole world lies in wickedness he turnes into the works of evill who turns from the light he is vvith the light vvhich is