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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85140	The heart opened by Christ; or, The conditions of a troubled soul that could find no true rest, peace, comfort, nor satisfaction in any thing below the divine power and glory of God, breaking forth and appearing in several operations and manifestations, by the blessed spirit of the Lord Jesus, the Saviour of the soul, God manifesting himself in flesh, that he may glorified in spirit. With, a word to those that are for the approbation of ministers; and something to those that scruple about the receiving or not receiving that which they call a sacrament and communion of saints, at Easter, Penticost, Christmas, so called, and other festival and set daies, or any other time when it is to be administered by those priests that profess themselves to be ministers of Christ. Written in the year 1654. in the third moneth, commonly called May, by R.F.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing F485; Thomason E745_7; ESTC R207062	17,335	24

I lived a High-Priest who had been a Captain in the Army and examined me about it near unto an house and I did consent to receive it at his hands which was a thing that I very much did scruple whether I ought to do if or not to do it because in my examination in my own spirit I could not tell well what the body of Christ was though I could talk talk to him much and in many words about those things for I had got much to speak of though I did then little experience what I said but thought it was sufficient to talk and discourse of things and rest in the outward knowledge of the same There was great expectation of the Priest to come to that Town where I lived to examine and see who were sit to receive and who was not for he would not admit of any And great fear was upon many and that not of the smallest before the day of Examination came lest they should not have wherewithall to answer and so come to shame but it was so that he came to that Halls Place where I then was a servant and I was sent for in to the Priest and going into the Hall the Owners thereof went their waies forth and I would have followed but the Priest called me to him and asked me many questions and we continued our discourse near unto an hour so that the last question he asked me was the first he began with and I told him the same and upon that we parted and he stroaked me on the head and gave me his blessing the blessing of the Priest and the laying on of his hand but I did not receive any holy Ghost by him nor at that time knew not what the holy Ghost was Yet when the Priest and they came together soon after that day he told them he was never so answered by any except they had been at Cambridge as if God could not teach his truth without Cambridge and Oxford helps and moreover he said he would go forty miles on his bare feet if all his Parish were such upon that condition so reasoning carnally though then I knew not the same but sadled a horse and road to accompany him towards his house that night and he shewed much outward love but as the day did appear the shadows fled away And before the time came that we were to go to eat bread and Wine which they call a Sacrament and Communion of Saints but is not I say before the time came that it was to be given and I to receive it there was great reasoning in me and great preparation I made by reasoning and praying and powring forth my complaint to the Lord to fit me and prepare me and make me worthy to partake of that Ordinance and make me a fit Communicant and the like but after three or four weeks preparation still I was not right in my self and knew not what to do whether to receive it or not yet lest I should offend I went and when I was going all the way I prayed and pondered in my heart and desired of the Lord to seal up assurance to my foul that day by the same and when I was to receive the Cup into my hand I trembled in my heart for fear lest I should be unworthy and after I had received the bit and the sup I sat pondering of it in my heart and waited in expectation in my self to receive some divine operation and spiritual change and to receive assurance of the pardon of sin but none came in But the thoughts of my heart did exceedingly trouble me and Judas was brought into my remembrance how that Satan entred after that he had received the sop and then great questioning and reasoning did arise in me whether I were of the number of Gods Elect yea or no and great fear came upon me and I went home and prayed to the Lord and cryed and prayed a week or two before I was cleared and so it wrought for good for I saw then by the light of God in my conscience that it was not the body and bloud of Christ but a carnal invention and so did the Lord clear my understanding in that thing and let me see why Christ broke the Passeover with his Disciples and how the bread which the Saints broke was the Communion of the body of Christ and the cup which they drank was the Communion of the blood of Christ 1. Cor. 10 15 16 17 and so was I made to see the error of the Priests in that thing and that theirs was but a sacrificing to Devils and not to God as the Gentiles did so doe they 1 Cor. 10. 20 21. And so I saw the deceits of the Priests in many of their greatest Idols yet I durst not leave them off till I saw the Lord clear in leading me out of that way and went to those that I judged to be the best and left the worst and could not be satisfied in my spirit but my soul wanted longed and thirsted after the living bread And a death came upon all that life which I had received in hearing of them the Priests and so the best of them was as the worst nothing more but a refined subtilty and a higher deceit in the high notionary Priests and the free gratious and none could satisfie or give peace to my soul amongst them all and I was taken off from writing after them my memory failed me and my wisdom was confounded and the pure seed was burdened and groaned for deliverance but they could not help but wounded me and lest me and there I lay until the Lord visited with his loving kindness and took me into the Inn the Doctrine of his Son and healed and cured my diseased and wounded soul For a year or very nigh I was full of trouble and did see into the deceits of Priests but looked that some of them should be right and went from one to another and if I did hear of any that were high in notion I ran after him but he was at the rest and still my soul wanted and I knew not where to betake my self to find rest all outward helps and means failed and I was so wearied in my spirit that I could not write after them as I had done and I saw them to be confused in their sayings one saying one thing and another saying another and they confused themselves many times in their own sayings which did exceedingly trouble me for in hearing of them as the pure seed or God sprung in me and groaned for deliverance never a Priest that ever I heard or met with could deliver nor direct me where to wait till deliverance came but drove me further off for when all duties and performances failed and death passed upon them that I neither found life in hearing reading not prayer but was wearied and cryed out day and night weeping and wailing and was full of the terror of the Lord and

word and power of God were preached in me by Christ Jesus my Lord which power did shake the earth sea and dry land and did overturn the mountains by the roots and put darkness to an end in me so that the true light of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ doth now shine in my soul and the heavenly treasure doth dwell in an earthen vessel as the Apostle did witnesse 2 Cor. 4.6 7. And my joy is in doing the will of my heavenly Father and the Lord Jesus my Saviour who hath called me by his grace and set me to declare against deceits and deceivers and all false waies false worships which stand in the will of man and being dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world as in Colos 2. I can never touch taste nor handle that which is to perish ver 20 21 22 23. God is a spirit and all his waies and worships are now in the spirit and his Ministry is in the spirit and his Ministers are made by the will of God and the son is revealed in them and they are able Ministers of the spirit and the baptism of Christ in the new Covenant is by one spirit into one body and we are made all to drink into one spirit where there is one faith one Lord one Baptism one God and Father of us all who are born again of water and the spirit and our souls are nourished with the milk of the word and Christ is our bread of life and water of life and feedeth our souls with the refreshing mercies of his eternal love so that we having received the promise of the Father which is the spirit of his Son crying Abba Father in our hearts guiding and leading us into all trut that we are made to exalt and set forth Jesus Christ to be the everlasting Minister of the new Covenant and his Gospel is free and he Preacheth glad tidings to our souls and giveth good gifts to our souls and we are made to cry Hosanna to the highest praises praises be to our God and Saviour the Lord God and his Son and the holy Ghost the Comforter whom the world knoweth not nor the Priests and Clergy-men with all their high notions and guilded pretences cannot find out Job 28.12 to 17 who open their bags to receive of our earthly Treasure but never made us to partake of any spiritual gifts I deny them all that are hirelings and teach for Tythes gifts or rewards they are Idol shepherds and Ministers of man and sent of man and obey man and received Orders Commission Power and Authority means and maintenance of man who are they that do not abid in the councel of God and do not profit the people of God Jer. 23 21 to 33. and now it is considered as in the Prophesie of Jeremiah 23.16.17 to 21. So I have cleared my conscience in declaring part of my experience of them and not by report nor opinion of others And being the desire of you the Commissioners that are for the approving of them your National Ministers as you call them The Book of affairs in the Nation pag. 3. Friday the 7. of April to 1654. who say you do humbly and earnestly beseech all the people of God throughout the Land who shall send any Certificate to you that they would not take things upon the opinion and reports of others but to certifie their own personal knowledg and experience of them your Ministers c. as in the book you set forth on the third leaf Friday the 7 of April 1654. as you say that you would not have any of the people of God recommend unto you them whom God disalloweth lest guilt be contracted by the Recommenders to whose Testimonials you say so much is referred that unfaithfull men whom God doth not approve of may not be commended to you lest they be admitted of by you to the dishonour of God the prejudice of the Church and the utter frustrating of the pious intents of your Honours besides the blot which will deservedly stick to them not only for the present but with posterity and succeeding times For as much as the Certificates now exhibited will appear upon Record So to this my Certificate and Testimonial of them the Priests of these times whith I do not know by the opinion or report of others but by real experience whether you do approve of it or no I have done my duty in clearing my conscience to let you know part of my experience of them and according to your desire and humble request and rest A servant of the Lord Jesus Christ Rich. Farnworth A Word to you that are appointed to be Commssioners for the Approbation of Ministers TAke heed that you do not approve of those whom God Almighty disalloweth and so your Judgement prove carnal and you want salt to savour withall and be cast out of favour with God for so doing Take heed to your selves and the work you are about that you do not stand as Judges of the simple by your carnal wisdom and so seek to establish proud covetous self-seeking men men that follow pleasures and are oppressers that Preach for hire 100 l. or 200 l. per annum or Tythes Bribes and large augmentations to please you and the great men of the world and so dishonour the Lord and if you go about to approve and allow and establish those whom God intends to root out you must come to an account before the great Judg of Heaven and Earth and be punished for it take heed of sinning against the light of Christ in your conscience and against the holy Ghost then see what is said in Hebrews 10.26 27. Read and understand and act not according to the will of man lest thou disobey the will of God The everlasting Gospel of Jesus Christ is to be preached freely and the Proclamation is Come freely Isa 55. and the Ministers of the Gospel are not by the will of man nor approved by carnal men but by God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ John 4.22 23 24. God is a Spirit and all his Ordinances are spiritual Therefore a word to those that scruple about the receiving or not receiving that which they call a Sacrament and Communion of Saints at Easter Pentecost Christmas so called and other Festival and set daies or any other time when it is to be administred by those that professe themselves to be the Ministers of Jesus Christ First to the simple hearted whose desires are to walk in the wayes of Godlinesse and to do those things that are most pleasing and acceptable to God in the light of Jesus Christ our Lord And you conceive that which you call the Ordinance of Christ in the holy Sacrament so called in eating bread and wine at set times to be a Sacrifice well pleasing and acceptable to God by Jesus Christ and that it is as you conceive necessary to salvation and how shall

you be saved if you neglect so great salvation as you conceive that holds forth to your souls Let me tell you Col. 2 20 21 22 23 that is carnal and perishing and the perishing mind feeds on it and you neglect the body of Christ therefore touch it not Colos 2.21 22 23. Now if you look for that to be necessary to salvation and without it you cannot be saved then do you make an Idol of it and set it up in the room of Christ and so would make it a Co-Saviour and there contradict the greater with the lesse for he himself saith he is able to save all that come unto God by him Heb. 2.0.10 14 15 and he is not to be found now that he is glorified and ascended in that carnal right and weak and beggarly thing and there you err through weakness not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God unto salvation Heb. 10.9 10 to verse 19. For thirdly in that very thing which you call the Lords Supper and Communion of Saints you are unfit to be a communicant to partake of the body of Christ which is not carnal but spiritual whilst you are carnally minded you are enemies to Jesus Christ and he hath no communion nor fellowship with those that are proud nor with those that are covetous nor with those that are drunkards nor with those that live in pleasures nor with backbiters nor haters nor with any that live and take pleasure in unrighteousnesse Rev. 20.15 for such shall not inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6.9 10. Gal. 5.19 20 21. verse Rev 22.15 16 verses Fourthly Then those which are not fit for the Kingdom of God are no fit communicants neither have they any right to the body of Christ and so eat and drink damnation in not discerning the Lords body now that he is ascended and glorified from a little bread and wine which is earthly and natural and to be received with wicked men that live and take pleasure in unrighteousnesse and such are in the flesh and their communion is not in the spirit and they are sacrificing to devils and theirs is no communion of Saints 1 Cor. 10 20 21. but a fellowship with wicked men and devils Fifthly But there is an imitation by the carnal minded ones who live in death and darknesse from the letter which is death to set up the form of a thing and lives in shadows without a substance and this you say is a thing that ought to be done because that Christ himself did break the Passeover with his Disciples True it is he did so to shew them what death he was to die his body was to be broken Mark 14 chapt Mat. 26.20.21 22 to v. 33. Mat. 28.5 to 11. v. and his bloud to be shed and that was the figure and they were to observe it till he came to rise from the dead and they did so for saith he As often as ye do this do it in remembrance of me for therein they shewed the Lords death till he came to be sacrificed upon the Crosse and his body there to be broken and his bloud to be shed for before that Christ broke the the Passeover with his Disciples they knew not what death he was to die and they did observe it till he came to them again after his death and then the shadow was put away and the life was manifested in power and the substance was come unto them for he shewed himself to those very disciples which he broke the Passeover with before his death several times and by many infallible testimonies to confirm them that it was him that was risen from the dead and came unto them to strengthen and confirm them in the faith life and power of truth as the Scripture witnesseth Sixthly But do you read that Christ gave any command to his Disciples to observe that thing after his resurrection when he was come to them again read the first of Acts and before that he ascended into heaven you may see when he had called them together what command he gave them at his parting with them Act. 1. c. and there is no mention of any such carnal thing by him after his glorification therefore do you erre not knowing the Lords body and Communion of Saint which is in the spirit or life of Christ Seventhly None are fit Communicants to have fellowship with Christ that lives in their sins 2 Cor. 6.14 10 18 1 Cor. 10.20 21. 1 Joh. 3.8 9.10 v. for what fellowship hath righteousnesse with unrighteousnesse and what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols he that hath communion with Christ doth not commit sin and that is a right communicant for he that commits sin is of the society and fellowship of devils and hath communion in wickedness for he that committeth sin is of the devil and is one of his communicants but he that is born of God sinneth not and hath fellowship with the Father and the Son and he that abideth in him and is in union with Christ sinneth not he that sinneth hath not seen him neither known him 1 John 3.5 6. verses Eightly Eph. 5.5.6.7 to 12 1 Joh. 3.7.10 Therefore little children let no man deceive you with vain words for because of those things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience and he that doth righteousness is of God and may have right and hath right to the body of Christ and his soul feedeth on Christ daily as in John the sixth Chapter where he saith he is the bread of life that is from heaven and whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud hath eternal life but that is not a little bread and wine which is carnal and not eternal John 6.54 for saith Christ Jesus My flesh is meat indeed and my bloud is drink indeed he that eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud dwelleth in me and I in him John 6.55 56. Ninthly He is not there talking of bread and wine but flesh and bloud Is bread flesh or is wine bloud or are they joyned together the life of Christ if they were then he that had most of this world might have most of that food but the Kingdom of Christ is not of the world and the pure in spirit theirs is the Kingdom of God and bread and wine is so far out of the mind of Christ now where he is troubling the Jews for the carnal people can get into carnal observations and imitations but not into the spirit and life that Christ did exceedingly trouble the Jews in that saying John 6. when he saith I am the living bread which came down from heaven if any man eat of his bread he shall live for ever c. then were the Jews troubled at those sayings verse 51 52. and so are the Jews in knowledge now that hath a form without either life or power and knoweth not that bread which is the life of the Saints which they