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A85492	A cal [sic] and a vvarning, to all priests, professors and people, vvho have and do profess the Scriptures, that they may try their doctrines and practises by it, and may own condemnation in their doctrines and practises, wherein they are contrary to the Scriptures. And a tender visitation to the whole vvorld, that they may own this their visitation, and may be healed and restored to the Lord; and this may serve for a looking glass, wherein people may see what visage they are of, and how they stand related as unto God. / By a sufferer in Hartford goale, for faithful witness-bearing, against this sinful generation; known by the name of John Gould.	Gould, John, prisoner at Hertford.	1657 (1657)	Wing G1416; Thomason E932_1; ESTC R202329	27,259	37

thou wilt not return thou must be destroyed both thou and thy King wherefore consider your wayes and doings O ye priests professors and people do ye think a profession of his words who is the life will save you from wrath to come who are enemies to his light and life and will not have him to rule and raign in you and over you who is the way to the Father and to his knowledge whom to know is life eternal and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent And do ye think ever to come to the knowledge of him O ye priests professors and people who are talking and professing of serving God in his own way and that such as will have Christ must have him in his own way and on his own terms and it will not own him the way even the way of his own appointment the light Doth not the Scriptures ye professors declare it or doth it say it self is it or is there another way then what it declareth of or another name given whereby the sons of men can be saved what mean ye that ye thus oppose the Lord and his way are ye stronger then he hath he not said he 'l no longer be served and worshipped in Temples made with mens hands and will ye still be serving him contrary to his mind hands and will and yet profess to serve and worship him in his own way hath he not said that he dwelleth not in temples made with hands and will ye be still seeking of him there notwithstanding all this Hath he not invited and called upon all to come unto him that they might have life and will ye be seekign life in the Scriptures for all this hath he not said the Kingdome of heaven cometh not with outward observances and will ye remain still seeking of it in those things and yet be telling the people and professing that God must be served and worshipped in his own way and yet seek to keep people in your own wayes are ye not deceitful and deceivers of the people who do thus ye are observing daies and moneths and times and years are ye not still carnal ye eat and drink but are ye not still empty and a thirst ye pray-and fast but receive not for ye ask amisse to spend it on your lusts ye observe daies and divers watchings and carnal Ordinances but are the comers thereunto made perfect as pertaining to the conscience ye cry out The Temples of the Lord the Ordinances of the Lord the Church of Christ the Ordinances of Christ but which of you is come to witnesse your bodies to be the Temple of the Holy Ghost or that you are made fit Temples for the Spirit of the Lord to dwell in or him come to wash you and cleanse you in his own blood and so to present you without spot to ●od even his Father or which of you is come to witnesse the Church of the First born which is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Pillar and ground of truth but on the contrarie ye profess teach and say none can or must or shall be set free from sin here and so endeavour to preserve your bodies temples for the devil and not Christ whilest here for Christs Temple is holie and ye say none must or can be set free from sin and so seek to keep people unholie and their bodies Temples of sin this Doctrine pleases the devil well and he loves you for it and will let you professe to serve God in Gods way and profess Christs Church say you are Christs Ministers so he may but keep you to be his Temples and Church and Ministers still and thrust Christ out of rule and dominion for he that commits sin is of the devil and his servants ye are to whom ye yield your members servants to obey whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto life O foolish and exceedinglie blinded and besotted men that will not see this and yet profess the Scriptures and where he is thus come and witnessed who changeth Ordinances and Laws and watchings and observations of daies and times and moneths and years and Sabbaths and dippings and sprinklings do ye not all rise up against him with one accord away with him he is not worthie to live to prison with him we have a Law Consider seriouslie is it not so with you as with them of the same generation of old to the light in all your consciences I speak Do ye think a profession of these things and a boasting of these things will serve your turns any more then it did your Forefathers of old from whom God was departed and removed who became persecutors of the life of his Son in his Saints are ye not found in the steps of those evil husbandmen who say behold the heir let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours and are ye so blind and bewitched by the god of this vvorld to think that ye shall escape their punishment will ye still preach and profess their words vvho vvitnessed Christ vvithin the end of the Lavv the carnal Ordinances the observations the Sabbaths and beggarly rudiments of the world and cause the Cross of Christ to cease through your traditions vvill ye still be found thus fighters against God in his Saints vvho novv vvitness forth the same and cannot submit unto those things vvhich he hath redeemed and purchased them out of even vvith his ovvn precious blood and are made to vvitness against them and your idol Worshipps and crie you have a Lavv will your Lavv think you excuse you in his sight vvho seeth you your vvaies and actions against him and his nay nay deceive not your selves God will not be mocked for such as you sow such shall you reap if ye sow to the flesh think ye shall ye not of the flesh reap corruption but if ye sow to the spirit of the spirit reap life everlasting Seriouslie sit down and weigh and consider is pride vanitie lust of the flesh idleness fulness of bread lying swearing drunkenness covetousness deceipt back-biting emulation strife quarrelling fighting reviling slandering evil speaking whispering halling out of Synagogues or Steeple-houses mocking stocking imprisoning cruel and evil entreating fruits of the Spirit or did ever such as witnessed the Spirit of God bring forth such fruits nay nay who witnessed the Spirit of Christ never were found in such practises search and see in the Scriptures in which ye think to find eternal life where ever any of the Saints of Christ who were possessors and not professors brought forth such fruits and can ye think or are ye so far blinded by the devil to believe ye shall be saved by professing their words and enemies to their life and led and guided by another spirit then that which they witnessed to be guided and led by or dare ye say that the Spirit of Christ is changed now from what it was then as some of ye do if not all that Revelation is

A CAL AND A VVARNING TO ALL Priests Professors and People VVho have and do profess the Scriptures that they may try their Doctrines and Practises by it and may own condemnation in their Doctrines and Practises wherein they are contrary to the Scriptures AND A TENDER VISITATION TO The whole VVORLD That they may own this their Visitation and may be healed and restored to the Lord And this may serve for a LOOKING GLASS wherein People may see what visage they are of and how they stand related as unto GOD By a Sufferer in Hartford Goale for faithful witness-bearing against this sinful generation known by the name of JOHN GOULD London Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate 1657. THis following testimony was given forth chiefly as out of tender love to the Priests and Professors and inhabitants of Hartford and Ware and the countrey thereabout who lyes in darkness and ignorance under blinde guides and so are ever learning and cannot come to the knowledge of the truth and this is written onely for their information but may be serviceable in any part of the world among such who doth profess the Scriptures So let all the sober people of that countrey about Hartford consider and not wilfully contemn and despise the day of their visitation which now is upon them from the Lord that they may come to the knowledge of his wayes and let all other people weigh what herein is written for the very clear day of Gods tender visitation is upon the whole world Remember you are warned now in your life-time A CALL AND A VVARNING TO ALL Priests Professors and People c. O All ye people Professors and Priests of the world and to all others every where who have an eye to see and an ear to hear high and low rich or poor of what sort of profession soever whether Presbyterians Independents Baptists or by what other by-name known or distinguished who are seeking the Kingdome of heaven in outward observations Loe here and loe there in this duty and this daies observation or in the other performances as you call them Be it known unto you all from the Lord that you are out of the way it is not to be found there for the Kingdome of God comes not with outward observations neither shall they say any longer loe here or loe there for the Kingdome of heaven is within So said Christ Jesus to the Pharisees who were seeking the Kingdom without in outward observations so say I to you their children by the spirit of the same Christ Jesus whom your fathers slew and hung upon a tree for your new Moons and Sabbaths your calling of your Solemne and your appointed Fasts and Feasts my soul loaths they are even an abomination unto me saith the Lord for your hands are full of blood and cruelty even the blood of the innocent cryeth in mine ears whom ye like your fathers have shamefully entreated and crucified and hung upon a tree and yet are professing his words whom they slew and their words who witnessed him and preach'd him and your selves found in the same practise with them who crucified the just one and requir'd to let loose the murtherer yet ready many of you to say as they of old did if we had lived in those daies we would not have done so wickedly Oh what think ye will be in the end hereof when the just God shall come to call you to an accompt for all this do you think getting his words and their words to profess and talk of will save you from the wrath to come who are despisers and haters of their life both in your selves and others where he is made manifest and are scoffers and scorners at them who do witness it calling them in derision Quakers and yet make a profession of Moses writings and Davids words and Habakkuks Prophesie and Pauls Epistles who all witnessed Quaking ye Hypocrites search the Scriptures and see whether ye are not in their steps who despised Moses Law and made Songs of David and mock'd and slew the Prophets and persecuted Paul and ston'd Stephen which bare witness to and for the Lord and against your Idol Temples and yet make profession of their words to the light in all your consciences I speak which will let you see that you are out of their life who wrote and spake forth those words and are ye so foolish to think a profession of those words will save you who do not know nor witness the same life from which those words were spoken but are enemies to it and murtherers of it in your selves and persecutors of it in others witness some of my righteous servants in Hartford Goal whom ye have cast into prison some of you without the breach of any known Law of your own Nation and contrary to my righteous Law which I have plac'd in all your consciences unto which you must all be accountable in that day wherein God shall co●e to judg the secrets of all hearts by my Gospel which hath been declared even in your streets and Sinagogues if you had ears to hear O foolish and slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have written and all that Christ and the Apostles were witnesses of ought not Jesus thus to have suffered and to have entered into his glory is there another way for the salvation of your souls but him who is the way the truth and the life and can any come to the father but by him who is the light of the world and lighteth every one that cometh into the world Is there another Saviour save me saith the Lord or another Redeemer save the Holy One of Israel our King whom ye professors priests people with bloody hands have crucified and slain even him whom God hath raised up to be a Prince and a Saviour to give repentance unto Israel and remission of sins Have ye not evilly entreated his messengers and servants whom he hath called and chosen to be witnesses hereof in these your daies as your Forefathers of old did so do ye search the Scriptures which ye profess and see if they be not fulfilled by you and shall be fulfilled upon you as ever by them of old they shall hall you out of their Synagogues and before Rulers and Magistrates and some of you shall they cast into prison and shall do and speak all manner of evil falsly and despightfully against you for my name sake saith Christ yea they that killeth you shall think they do God service and this will they do unto you for my name sake because they have neither known me nor my father see if ye be not they and if this be not so O ye priests professors and people who deny the Revelation of Christ and say all Revelation is ceas'd and that none must expect Revelation now are ye not such as the Scriptures which in words ye profess but in life and power deny witnesseth against to know neither

the Father nor the Son and no marvel ye are found in such practises which he whom we have receiv'd and do bear witness of foretold and in those daies declar'd of and so the Scriptures are owned witnessed unto by us who are in the life or them and in the possession and enjoyment of him of whom they declare as also do bear witnesse against you who have the words declared but are found enemies to the life and in the same practises with them who had Moses and the Prophets which declar'd and prophesied of him to come but when he came and was made manifest would not own him nor receive him but rejected him and murthered him who was the life of Moses and the Prophets words and yet said that had they been in the daies of their Fathers they would not have slain the Prophets that prophesied of his coming and ye now in these daies be ye witnesses against your selves even of the same generation who have not only their words who prophesied of his coming but say he is come and have his words and their words who wrought and witnessed him come to profess and ready to say had we been in their daies we would not have done so wickedly nor cruelly and yet ye your selves doing the same thing even persecuting and evilly entreating them who now witness him come who is the end of the Law and the Prophets Christ Jesus the righteous whom ye crucifie and thinkest thou this O man who condemnest another and doest the same that thou shalt escape the judgements of God or despisest thou the riches of his grace long-suffering and patience not knowing that the goodness of God should lead thee to repentance Oh what vvill ye do in the end hereof oh ye people professors and priests who are groaping in the dark even at noon day vvhen repentance shall be hid from your eyes vvho vvill not ovvn him nor receive him to lead you unto it vvho is the light of the vvorld and lighteth every one that cometh into the vvorld vvhom the vvorld cannot receive but reject him as ye do even as the Master-builders and professors of old did vvho are calling his light vvhich lighteth every one that cometh into the vvorld natural and say it 's not sufficient to lead unto salvation all that are guided by it and live and vvalk up to it and herein are you manifest to be blind leaders of the blind and hovv can you be othervvise that deny the light vvhich lighteth every one that cometh into the vvorld Do you think he I alvvayes vvait and call upon you O ye foolish and slovv of heart to believe do ye think he 'l check and reprove prove you ever for your evil deeds and that his spirit shall alwayes strive with you O ye priests professors and people will ye thus reject and contemn the Lord your Maker and still go on to slander the footsteps of his Annointed and think to escape and prosper notwithstanding all this are ye not they who say in your hearts We will none of this man to raign over but we will walk on after the imaginations of our own hearts adding drunkennesse unto thirst and covetousnesse unto pride and yet professe to know him and to observe a day to him and come and pretend to bow and worship before me saith the Lord when your hearts are a whoring from me after your pride and vanity and lusts and covetousnesse and all manner of iniquities Will I be enquired after by such a people as this Shall not my soul be avenged on such a people as this who provoke me daily to my face notwithstanding all my reproofs but hate my reproofs and cast my Laws behind their backs and say in their hearts We will not have this man to rule even my Son whom I have sent a light into the world whom they as their Forefathers of old crucifie and slay and shed the innocent blood in their land even the streets of their great City which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt where our Lord is crucified as well as at Jerusalem to the light in all your consciences I speak which will let you see is it not so deceive not your selves Can any do thus and be saved Can any kick and spurn against him and not be confounded and destroyed Can any reject him and he not grind them to powder The stone cut out of the mountains without hands smites at the feet of your great image even your mighty image whose head is of gold back and breasts of silver bellie and thighs of brass legs of iron feet part of iron and part of clay and it shall tumble and crumble down to the dust and none shall be able to deliver it out of my hands saith the Lord for Babylon the great is come up into remembrance before me saith the Lord even all her Inchantments and Sorceries whereby she hath bewitched my people Israel to sin against me with her lying divinations and false doctrines saying the Lord hath said it when of a truth I never spake to them nor never sent them at all therefore have they not profited my people at all but have taken of my wooll and of my flax and of my wine and my oyl and of my kine and of my sheep and have spent it on her lusts and her lovers but now am I coming to require these things at her hands and I will strip her naked and bare even she who hath said in her heart I sit as a Queen and shall see no sorrow sorrow and misery Widdowhood and losse of children shall come upon her in one day and all her lovers with whom she hath played the harlot shall not save nor deliver her out of my hands saith the Lord your righteous Judge who judgeth not for gifts nor rewards but will plead the cause of the innocent and him that hath no helper in the earth and will recompence double into her bosome even for all the blood of the innocent that have been shed in the midst of her even blood double even till it come up to the horse bridles and happy shall he be that taketh Babilons brats and dash out their brains against the stones for she is come up into remembrance before me saith the Lord even she who hath made all the kindreds of the earth drunk with the cup of her fornication and all the Kings and Princes Governours and Rulers of the earth hath committed incest and fornication with her and the blood of my Saints have been shed by them in the midst of her therefore shall she receive blood to drink for she is worthy even the dregs of the cup of my fury that will I wring out unto her saith the Lord shall she drink of and shall spue and fal and never rise more and they that have committed fornication with her and her lovers and her Merchants and such as have had traffique with her by Sea and all occupiers of ships beholding

her shall stand afar off crying Alas alas for that great City which was the glory of the whole earth wherein was so much traffique for gold and silver and needle works and diamonds and pearles and precious stones and silks and velvets and scarlets and fine linnen and all manner of broidered works and whisks and vails and neck-laces and powderings and crispings and platings for in one day is her torment come upon her and the smoak thereof shall ascend up for ever and ever And do ye think the professing of these words will cover ye O ye priests professors and people or that by your meanings conceivings or private interpretations ye can put them off from you or that ye are not meant and concern'd in them who are found in her practises and doing her service and become as a pander unto her to usher in her wickednesse by denying the light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world which convinceth the world of sin and sheweth it plainly that these things are not of God but of the devil envy lying and swearing and drunkennesse and whoredome and pride and vanity and prodigality by which the Merchants of the earth are waxen rich and fat and are become valiant and strong to reproach the living God and slander the footsteps of his Annointed and are ye not found in such practises O ye priests professors and people let the light in all your consciences answer is it not so What mean ye thus to fight against the Lord Will ye set bryars and thorns in battel against me saith the Lord shall I not even passe thorough them and consume ye together or will ye Potsherds of the earth still strive against your Maker Shall I not dash ye to pieces like a potters vessel and rule ye with my iron rod O ye Kings and Rulers of the earth who are joyned together against the Lord and against his Annointed whom ye evilly entreat and despitefully use for my Name sake saith the Lord saying Come let us joyn together to root out the name of Israel from under heaven let us break his bands asunder and cast his cords from us for we will not have this man to rule over us come let us sell him into Egypt let us make strong Lawes and binding against him so we may cast him into prison and into dungeons drive him into dens and caves of the earth even to root out the name of Israel from under heaven for Israel shall not go free saith proud Pharaoh Gods enemy but he that sitteth in heaven laugheth your consultations to scorn and hath you in derision O ye Kings and Rulers of the earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling kisse the Son lest he be angry and ye perish in the mid way if his wrath be kindled but a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him for this hath the Lord determined even to exalt and set his King upon his holy hill of Zion who shall rule the Nations in his anger with a rod of iron and shall dash them in pieces like a potters vessel for all those mine enemies saith he that will not that I shall rule over them shall be slain by the edge of the Sword for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it and it shall be accomplished upon your heads for the Lord God is not a man that he should lie or as the Son of man that he should repent but what he hath decreed shall suddenly come to passe and who is he that shall dare to withstand him and say why dost thou so wherefore hear O ye Kings and be instructed O ye Rulers of the earth break off your sins betimes by repentance and your iniquities by shewing compassion on the poor lest I come upon you in my fury as an armed man and cut you asunder and sweep you away with the beesome of Consumption and there be none to deliver you out of my hands saith the Lord for this will be the portion of their cup vvho vvill not be guided and counselled by me in their life-time but running a-vvhoring from me after other gods which have eyes and see not ears and hear not neither have understanding at all they who make them are like unto them and so are all those that put their trust in them therefore consider what you are a doing you who make unrighteous decrees and establish iniquity by a law to oppress the poor and the innocent and to grind the face of the fatherlesse even the fatherlesse the widdow and the stranger and him that hath no helper in the earth for I see you saith the Lord and behold all your thoughts and purposes concerning them in secret and I will declare them openly and reprove them openly and ye shall be ashamed and consounded for all your wickednesse against me saith the Lord and all your private determinations against my holy ones my holy seed the lot of mine inheritance saith the Lord who hath loved them and given my self for them to redeem them unto my self for ever and none shall pluck them out of my hand nor out of my fathers hand for my father is stronger then all I and my father am one wherefore in the dread and power of God I warn you to take heed what ye do and what ye plot and contrive against the innocent for the Lord is their helper lest ye be found fighters against God but let Israel go free that he may do service and worship the Lord his God in the wilderness for to that end hath he caused me to write unto you O ye Rulers of the earth lest ye be made as Pharaoh for the hardness of your hearts against my chosen who is the meek of the earth against whom no weapon formed shall prosper but shall return even as a dart to pierce through the liver of him that formed it for Israel is my battel axe and weapon of war with which I 'le dash the mountains to pieces and scatter them as dust before the whirl-wind of mine indignation which shall blow upon the wicked till they be utterly consumed from off the face of the earth thus shall it be done unto all that will not that I shall raign and that my Son shall rule whom I have sent a light into the world to lighten them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death and to guide their feet into the way of peace wherefore prepare to meet thy God O Israel with fasting and weeping and mourning by putting away thine iniquities from before mine eyes saith the Lord cease from doing evil learn to do well come then and let us reason together saith the Lord though thy sins were as crimson I would make them as white as wool and though they were as scarlet yet would I make them as white as smow and if thou wouldst return my mercy would I not utterly take away from thee nor suffer my truth to fail but if

to nor worship man for conscience sake Are these things onely to be found at Rome and Italy and Spain and France who are called Christians as well as ye I and boast in it too and not in England also where liberty of conscience is profest even amongst you O ye great and tall Professors of the Scritures Do you think the Scriptures will cover you any more then they or that your Faith and Gospel and Christ is better then theirs who are respecting one anothers persons Will that Faith save ye any more then theirs Search the Scriptures and see Doth the change of the Air or of the Climate or of the Names or of the Languages or of the places or of the profession of God and Christ the Scriptures after another form or likenesse then theirs for they have the Names Christian and God and Christ and the Scriptures as well as ye and a form of godlinesse in some things as near the Letter as ye change the nature or beget a saving-faith which is that which purifies the heart and sets free from sin Or are ye not in your sin as well as they and say ye shall not be free here Onely herein they out-strip ye in profession for they professe a Purgatorie after this life through which they must passe and be cleansed and purified for they know that no unclean thing must enter into Heaven and ye think to enter in with your sins for here ye say you shall never be set free and so are deniers of the Scriptures in that particular more then they for you will not come to me saith Christ the light that you may have life Do ye think that the profession of the Scriptures will save you any more then them Or is the Scriptures me Were the Scriptures crucified at Jerusalem or slain since the foundation of the VVorld Or do ye think that Letters and Syllables joined together in words as God and Jesus will save from sin Or is that the blood which was shed without the City which only cleanseth from sin and purgeth from all unrighteousnesse Or is that to be found in things without VVill the blood of Bulls or Goats or the ashes of a Heifer think ye cleanse from sin If they would what needed he have come and been offered up and shed his blood at Jerusalem who came to fulfil the Law and the Prophets and the Passeover and the Circumcision and the divers washings and carnal Ordinances which could not make the comers thereto perfect as pertaining to the conscience And do ye think that Bread and VVine and VVater which are carnal things which you call Sacraments who taught you that VVord had you it by Revelation for the Scripture no where hath it will do it now why then the Pope of Rome and they of Italy Spain and France have more of them then ye yet they you say are Antichrist and none of the Saints and Church and people of God and we say so too Or is the manner or form of eating and drinking or dipping or sprinkling that alters the nature and makes it more saving to one then to another for 't is only in that ye differ for they have the same and more then ye circumstances by your own Doctrine alters not where the ground and foundation is one for circumstances doth not save according to your own Opinions nor change the ground VVhy then do you exclude them from being a Church of Christ more then your selves who professe more of the carnal Ordinances then ye and professe the same Scriptures the same Faith the same God the same Christ and the same Sacraments and where 's the difference but in the circumstances And it you say they are not a Church of Christ and professe that you your selves are and it say circumstances doth not save if the ground and foundation be one VVhat confusion is here Are you not all in Babylon Are not Mother and Daughter both Harlots Is your Bread and VVine and VVine and VVater better and holier the theirs Are they not all carnal Or is yours more pure and more saving Yet neither of them make the Comers thereunto perfect by your own confession is not their Saviour then as good as yours and their Church as yours both imperfect And is the Church of Christ so Search the Scriptures and see Doth they say it is Or doth it not say that he washeth and clenseth it in his own blood and presents it to God his Father without spot or wrinkle or anie such thing And do not the Apostles write to the Church which is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and dare ye say that 's imperfect as by your own confession yours is and it would be accounted a Church of Christ and your Teachers Ministers of Christ Is Christ imperfect Are ye not ministring the carnal Is Christ carnal Are ye not ministring the Letter Is the Letter the Spirit Are ye not ministring the Bread and VVine Is this Christ But it may be you 'l say You receive it by faith but is it faith in Christ search the Scriptures and trie Hath this faith purified your hearts If not it 's not Christs Hath it given you victorie over the world Hath it subdued and crucified the world unto you and you unto it Hath it sav'd clensed you from sin as by your own confession it hath not nor you say you believe never will here and so is not the faith in Christ which the Saints witnessed and if not in Christ not true nor saving nor wel-grounded faith which you oft talk of but know it not for the daie is come and approaching that your Foundations shall be shaken the Light comprehends you your Faith and Foundation which is tottering and sandie Therefore look about you ye that professe believers and beware for your image of Faith will not save ye anie more then the Popes Images VVhat 's that ye worship and pretend to serve Do ye know Is the Scriptures or mens meanings of them He Is Bread and VVine He Is the Ordinances He 'T is like you 'l say No but they lead to him VVhich of you have they lead to him Are ye found out Is your Ordinances Christ Doth anie lead to God but Christ Knows anie the Father save the Son and he to whom the Son will reveal him Are ye not making a Christ of your Ordinance and yet condemn the Pope and his Church to the devil for believing the bread vvine is transubstantiated into the Bodie Blood of Christ that when they eat it they eat his flesh drink his blood What difference betwixt their eating their God and yours leading to God and yet saying it 's Bread and Wine still which is carnal Doth that which is carnal lead to God whom to know and be led unto is life eternal And hath your dead Christ brought you thither yea or nay The Light sees your Christ and in it are you comprehended

and your Christ and with it denied and your Faith which doth not purifie for whilst I was under the leading and conduct of it I came not to the knowledge of God by it and so not to eternal life which is witnessed through faith in him and in his blood which purifies my heart and gives me dominion over the world and that Christ I know own and witnesse which saves from sin all that come unto him but your Christ is denied which you say you believe will not set you free from sin here and so is not the Christ of God which is the true Light which lighteth every one that cometh into the world who is manifest to take away sin and to destroy the works of the Devil and in him is no sin And this Christ I own and bear witnesse of who is the true Light the Ordinance of the Father whom ye hate and destroy and make void through your traditions and denie your Mock-Christ which you say will not save you from sin here but leaves you in the Devils work which is sin by your own confession and so your Christ is but transform'd in you like unto an Angel of Light O ye Professors and People and your Ministers like unto Ministers of Righteousnesse and so being not the same Christ but like him cannot save ye from sin and so not from condemnation but keepes you in it whilest ye are here and perswades you that ye cannot be set free and this Christ ye believe in And here 's the mysterie of iniquitie hid and discovered even the spiritual wickednesse got into high places unto all who have an eye to see and an ear to hear and an heart to understand and will not wilfullie blind themselves by hating knowledge and instruction And this mysterie of iniquitie works not onelie at Rome and Italy and Spain and France but in England also and in every particular Member of that Church which is not in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the pillar and ground of Truth whom to know is life eternal which none comes to know but such who comes down to know and own the light within them which is pure of God which convinceth of sin and iniquitie and shews evil deeds that 's the Light which lets ye see when ye tell a lie when ye swear or be drunk or commit anie other sin that ye are serving the devil and not God when ye are fulfilling the lust of the flesh the lust of the eie and the pride of life that this is not of the Father but of the World and the World passeth awaie and the lusts thereof but he that doth the Will of God the same abideth for ever and this being obeyed which convinceth and sin denied it leads unto Christ from whence the light comes who leads to the Father of Light with whom there is no variableness neither shadow of changing who of his own good will hath he begotten us by the Word of his Povver unto a livelie hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead that we should be as the first fruits unto him having slain the enmitie on the Cross and broken down the Partition-wall and hath brought in everlasting Righteousness even by washing and purging of us in his own blood and his flesh we know which is meat indeed and his blood which is drink indeed and his covering we know But the wo from him is unto all such as are found covered and covering themselves with a covering and not of the spirit of the Lord for the Lord our God is come and coming in the Clouds of Heaven with the voice of the Arch Angel and the shout of a great Trump to call all vvho are in the Graves to arise and stand up to judgement they that have done vvell to the resurrection of life but they that have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation and the daie dravvs nigh a pace vvherein the Book of conscience must be opened and every one come to be judged out of the book of his ovvn conscience for all that ever hath been done in the bodie vvhether it be good or evil and he that hath done good shall go into life everlasting but he that hath done evil into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his Angels vvhere shall be vveeping and hovvling and gnashing of teeth vvhere the vvorm never dieth nor the fire is not quenched vvhich is the second death out of vvhich there 's no Redemption but blessed and holie is he that hath his part in the first Resurrection over such the second death shall have no povver but they shall reign Kings and Priests to God even for ever and ever even so Lord Jesus come quickly Amen Written to you from the Lord God vvho is Judge of quick and dead by a lover of all your souls that so vvith the Light of Christ Jesus vvithin you might come to a true sight and discoverie of your estates and conditions that so coming to be sensible of them you might return to the Lord in your life time before you be sealed up in the pit of everlasting darkness for the day of sealing is come and the Bride the Lambs Wife hath made her self readie and is entred into the Bed-Chamber And I John saw the Angel flying through the midst of Heaven having the Key of the bottomless Pit in his hand to seal and shut up all such who are found bearing the mark of the Beast in their fore-heads and in their right hand that they may be shut up and sealed for ever and ever And this in love is vvritten to go abroad as a vvarning from the Lord to all people professors and priests every vvhere but in particular to them in Hartford and Ware that so if possible some of them may come to repentance and to an acknowledgment of the truth in their life time as it is in Jesus before it be hid from their eyes and may serve also for the use of any vvho have an eye to see and an ear to hear From a lover of all souls knovvn to the vvorld by the name of IOHN GOULD But hath a nevv Name and a vvhite Stone vvhich none knovvs but he that hath it THE END