for to destroy the works of the Devil Now if the Creature must live in sin and wickednesse all the dayes of his life as you conclude and say he must then is the Devils work not destroyed in him which is sin and evil and so as I said before you make void and of none effect the coming of Christ which was to destroy the works of the Devil No place for Repentance after Death Here is a Querie unto all the hireling Priests of the Nation who preach up this doctrine that people must live in sin all the dayes of their life and cannot be cleansed while they are on this side the grave and yet when they die they shall be saved and enter into Gods Kingdom WHere or when or which is the place that men and women must be cleansed from sin if not in this life of this side the grave seeing that no unclean thing shall enter into the Kingdom of God and as the Tree falls so it lies and as Death leaves Judgement finds and said Christ Jesus the Light except you believe that I am he ye shall die in your sins and said he I go my way ye shall seek me and shall not find me and whether I go there ye cannot come Now I do believe that most people will confesse that Christ ascended up into Heaven and he saith as it is recorded in the Scriptures except ye believe that I am he ye shall die in your sins and whether I go there you cannot come This is one of the damnable Doctrines that the hireling Priests of this Nation teacheth and it is no lesse then the Doctrine of Devils for they conclude that the Devil is of more power and strength to keep men and women in sin then the Lord God is to redeem them out of sin But this I testifie from the Lord God against the hireling Priests of the Nation and against all opposers and gain sayers whatsoever that Christ Jesus the light of the World who is the true light that enlightneth every man that cometh into the World who is the Power of God and the Wisdom of God whose Name is called the Word of God I say and testifie from the Lord that he is of more power strength and sufficiency to redeem fallen man and woman out of sin and out of evil if they yield obedience to be led and guided by him then the Devil who is the prince of the power of the Aire who rules in the hearts of the Children of disobedience hath to keep them in sin and evil Therefore I say turn in your mindes into the light of the Son of God with which you are inlightned which light is perfect and as you receive the light in the love of it which is perfect and become one with it you will come to feel the Power of the Lord God to work out imperfection which is of the Devil So now I say when the Creature comes to witnesse the Devils work destroyed in him which is sin and evil which caused a separation betwixt God and the Creature I say when he comes to witnesse that destroyed in him which must he destroyed by the Power of the Lord God Christ Jesus the light who is the Power of God and the Wisdom of God then he will come to have accesse unto God again for it is the light which reconciles and unites unto God and so by the light the Creature comes to have accesse unto God again and as he keeps in the light continually having his mind staid therein he will come to have union and communion and fellowship with the Lord as Adam had before he disobeyed and he will come to feel the living presence of the Lord God to nourish his soul and to refresh his soul and to strengthen his soul which hath been Lean Dry and Barren and Weak and Feeble for want of Bread and so as he hath through disobedience unto the Lord born the image of the Earthly I say by yeilding obedience unto the light of Christ made manifest in him waiting there to feel the power of the Lord God to put off the old man with his deeds that is the old degenerated Nature he will come to bear the image of the Heavenly and as he gives up freely unto the Lord to be led and guided by him he will come to have power and dominion over the Creatures which God created for the use and service of man as man had the power over them at the beginning for as by the disobedience of one many were made sinners so by the obedience of one many shall be made righteous and as in Adam all die so in Christ all are made alive So all people who are yet in the Fall in the Transgression without God in the World and are yet dead in sins and trespasses this is the Counsel of the Lord God unto you Turn in turn in your minds which are yet abroad in the Earth into the light of the Son of God as you prize the good of your own souls and wait ye in patience in it that you may feel the power of the Lord God to raise you up from Death to Life and to quicken you and â—o make you alive that so you may live for evermore unto the Praise and Glory of his most Holy Name And this is the desire of my soul that you may all come to have Union and Fellowship with the Lord God as man had before he disobeyed And that you may enjoy his pure living refreshing presence to nourish your souls and to refresh your souls and may come to eat of the food Immortal of the bread Immortal to nourish your souls and to refresh your souls and to strengthen your souls which are Immortal For there is nothing that can satisfie the soul which is immortal but the bread immortal For saith Christ Jesus the righteous who is the Lamb of God which takes away the sins of the World your Fathers eat Manna in the Wilderness and they are dead but I will give you to eat of the hidden Manna of the heart and he that eateth thereof shall never die for saith he He that eateth of the Bread that I shall give him he shall never hunger and he that drinketh of the Water that I shall give him he shall never thirst for it shall be in him a Well of living Water springng up unto everlasting life And saith Christ Jesus the Light I am the living Bread which cometh down form above and I tell ye from the Lord except ye eat the Flesh and drink the Blood of the Son of Man ye have no life in you for his body is Meat indeed and his blood is Drink indeed so he that can receive it let him receive it for they are the words of Truth unto you and shall stand for ever So all people this is my counsel and advice unto you once more in the dread and fear of the Lord God and it is in dear and
call your selves Christians truly it would rejoyce my soul if I could see the fruits of Christianity brought forth by you Now consider and lay it to heart and let the witness of God in you all answer unto which I speak and unto which I am commended and unto which I do appeal is not Swearing Drunkenness Lying Covetousness Cozening and Cheating Defrauding and double-dealing alive and remaining in you and is not Malice Strife Wrath Envy Hatred and Persecution alive and remaining in you unto the Witness of God in all your Consciences do I speak which I know from the Lord God will answer for me and against your selves and that you are guilty of these evils which are here mentioned then say I that the old man with his deeds is yet alive in you un-put off that is the old degenerated nature and so you do make your selves manifest to be of them which say they are Jewes and are not but are of the Synagogue of Sathan for he that is in Christ is a new Creature Mark that I say he that is in Christ is a new Creature old things are done away and all things become new so the old man with his deeds being yet alive in you you have got the name Christian but not the nature so as the Body without the Spirit is dead so the Name without the Nature is dead also for to say Christians is as much as to say Christ-like but you are seen in the Eternal light of God not to bear his Image but the Image of another the Image of the Earthly the Image of Antichrist that is the man of sin and his works you do and his Servants you are and his Kingdom you strive to uphold So now there hath been for many years a great talk of Reformation the Nation of England to be a Reformed Nation and the People of England to be a Reformed People Why now consider and turn in your minds into the light of the Son of God which is made manifest in you and commune with your own hearts and be still and enter into your Closets and let the door be shut enter into your own hearts and take heed unto the light of the Son of God in you and come and let us reason together a little there what is that you are reformed from or what is that you are reformed unto doth not sin and iniquity run down as a flood in Englands streets and ungodlinesse as a stream and peoples mouths filled with bitterness and cursing and are not they that depart iniquity made a prey to those who live in iniquity and they whom the Lord God hath redeemed out of the World and stand in his dread and fear they are the Song of the Drunkard and a by-word unto a wicked and perverse generation of scorners who say who is the Lord that we should fear him and to the Almighty depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy waies and say you we will not have this man to reign over us that is you will not have Christ Jesus the light to rule over you you will not have the light of Christ in you to reign for say you if we should own the light of Christ in us and that to rule in us then we must lay down our Crowns saies you tall Cedars and great Ones of the Earth and our Honour and Glory we must loose and saies all you Priests and People if we should receive the light and that rule in us then we must deny all our gain of ungodliness and all our Pleasures Sports and Pastimes we must deny But thus saith the Lord that except you speedily repent and return unto me saith the Lord I will arise and wound the hairy scalp of the wicked and your eares shall tingle and fear and terrour shall take hold and surprize the Hypocrite and your hearts shall wax faint and your strength shall be taken away and ye shall have your portion in the lake which burns for ever and there ye shall be tormented from the presence of the Lord. Oh poor hearts my soul pities you the Lord God knoweth my heart and oft times is my heart taken up with a great lamentation and a great pity runs forth from me towards you when I consider what a sad state and condition you are in as to your Eternal being and also what a sad and a woful day is coming upon you for many of you shall be made open examples unto others except you speedily repent and return unto the Lord Therefore as you tender the good of your own souls turn at the reproof of the Lord and cease from your outward Teachers who keeps you ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth who speaks a divination of their own brain and not from the mouth of the Lord for they run and I never sent them therefore they shall not profit the people at all saith the Lord but if they had stood in my counsel then they should have turned people from the evil of their waies therefore I say turn in your minds into the light of the Son of God and hearken diligently unto the voice of the true Prophet Christ Jesus the Light of the World who is the true Light that enlightneth every man that cometh into the World and he that will not hear this Prophet shall be destroyed from amongst the people Therefore I say as you tender the good of your own souls cease from your outward Teachers from your greedy hirelings from your deceitful Merchants who steal the true Prophets words Christs words and the Apostles words and makes a Trade of them and sells them to poor ignorant people for money Oh People uphold their gain of Unrighteousnesse no longer for you have sold your selves for nought and ye shall be redeemed without money for they make Merchandize of souls for dishonest gain who are in the way of Cain and run greedily after the errour of Balaam who loved the wages of Unrighteousnesse and they stand in the gain-saying of Corah and receive the wages of Unrighteousnesse who teach the things they ought not for filthy lucres sake whose mouths must be stopped who subvert whole houses whose God is their belly whose glory is their shame whose end is destruction who mind earthly things but such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies their throat is an open Sepulchre and with their Tongues they utter deceit the poyson of Asps is under their lips and their feet are swift to shed bloud and they run on in their own way but the way of peace they know not Therefore all People consider and lay to heart what they have profited you and let the witnesse of God in you all answer and spend your money no longer for that which is not bread nor your labour for that which satisfies not Now this is the call of the Lord God unto you all come forth from amongst them and touch not
THE Fall of Man DECLARED AND The way declared in plainnesse and according unto Truth how faln Man and Woman may be restored into that pure innocent state and being that Adam was in before the fall AND A Warning from the Lord God of life and power in bowels of dear and tender love unto all the Rulers Priests and People that they hasten to Repentance who are spending their time without the fear of the Lord and nourishing their hearts as in a day of slaughter For the triumphing of the wicked is but short and the hope of the hypocrite but for a moment and though his excellency mount up to the heavens and his head reach the clouds yet shall he perish like his own dung and he shall vanish away like a night vision and they which saw him shall see him no more LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the sign of the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1661. The Fall of Man Declared GOD who made the World and all things therein who formed the mountains and created the Winds who is a God at hand and not a God afar off who is near unto all that call upon him in Truth and Righteousnesse Oh all people Seek ye the Lord while he may be found and call upon him while he is near you he created Male and Female after his own Image and to do his will and to delight alone in him and to worship serve and obey him who gave man whom he created after his own image power and authority and set him over and above all the creatures which he by the word of his power created for the use and service of man I say the Lord God gave man so long as man continued in obedience unto him power and authority over all the fowls of the ayr and the fishes of the sea and the beasts of the field And the Lord God he planted a garden in Eden and he took man whom he had formed and put him into the Garden to dresse it and to keep it and commanded him saying Of every tree in the Garden thou mayst freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die And the Lord God he said It is not good that the man should be alone I will make him a meet help for him and the Lord God made of the rib which he took from man a woman and brought her unto man and said Adam this is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh and she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man Now the Serpent being more subtile then any beast of the field which God had made saith he Yea hath God said of every tree in the Garden you may not eat of The Woman said unto the serpent We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the Garden but of the tree that is in the midst of the Garden God hath said ye shall not eat of it neither shall ye touch it least ye die Now the serpent being more subtile then any beast of the field although God had said in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die said the serpent unto the woman Ye shal not surely die for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods knowing good and evil and when the woman saw that it was good for food and pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be desired to make one wise she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave unto her husband with her and he did eat and immediately their eyes were opened and they saw that they were naked and they gathered fig-leaves and sewed them together to make themselves aprons for to make a covering to hide them from the presence of the Lord mark that all ye people who are yet in the fall in the transgression driven out from the presence of the Lord into the earth that when man woman had disobeyed transgressed the command of the Lord God in eating of the the forbidden fruit that was of the tree of knowledge of good and evil which God commanded man whom he had created after his own image saying Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou mayest not eat for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die I say that when man and woman had disobeyed the Command of the Lord in eating of the forbidden fruit immediately their eyes were opened and they saw that they were naked and they sewed figg-leaves together for to hide themselves from the presence of the Lord And they heard the voyce of the Lord God walking in the Garden in the coole of the day they seeing their nakedness they hid themselves amongst the trees of the Garden from the presence of the Lord mark that all ye who are in the fall in the transgression and spending your dayes without the fear of the Lord and your precious time which the Lord God spares you for to see if you will return unto him in sports pleasures rioting and wickednesse turn in your minds into the light of the Son of God with which you are enlightned which checks and reproves you for sin and evil and makes manifest the evil of your doings and the thoughts and intents of your hearts unto you when there is no man present with you or can accuse of them yet is the Lord God present with you by his light which is his true and faithful witnesse which he hath placed in you which never consented unto sin and evil but is a witnesse for God against sin and evil I say then is the Lord present to reprove you and to condemn you for the evil of your doings I say turn in your minds into the Light of the Son of God with which you are inlightned and come and let us reason together a little Is there not in you after the height of your wickednesse is over and you come into a little calmnesse in the cool of the day a still low voice following of you and crying in you man or Woman Where art thou what is this which thou hast done Then by the light of Christ in thee with which thou art enlightned comes to see thou hast disobeyed the Command of the Lord God And that thou hast acted contrary unto his pure mind and will and unto his true and faithful witnesse in thee which is the light of the Son of God with which thou art enlightned So I say by that thou comes to see that thou art naked and then terrour and fear takes hold upon thee and then thou strives to get a covering to hide thy self from the presence of the Lord then in that state and condition as thou art striving to get some Fig-leaved Garment or some words as the enemy of thy souls peace that old serpent who was a lyar from the
the Lord God unto you and my exhortation unto you all in his pure dread and fear and in bowels of tender love unto your souls Oh dread and fear ye God and let the time past be too much which you have spent without the fear of the Lord God and cease to do evil and learn to do well and go on no longer in rebellion and disobedience unto the Lord God least you provoke his wrath against you to destroy you Therefore I say kisse the Son least he be angry and ye perish in the way for when his wrath is kindled but a little blessed and happy are all they who put their trust in him Now as touching the state and condition that man was in before the fall and before he disobeyed so long as he continued in obedience unto the command of the Lord and in that pure innocent holy and harmlesse being wherein God created him he did enjoy the presence of the Lord God and had Union and Communion and Fellowship with the Lord and then he had power and authority over the Creatures which God created for the use and service of man but through disobedience and transgression unto the holy and righteous command of the Lord God who created him he the Creature man lost the image in which he was created and lost also his Union and Communion and Fellowship with the Lord which he had with the Lord before he disobeyed his command so through disobedience he was drove into the earth from the presence of the Lord and then the Lord placed Cherubims and a flaming sword at the garden of Eden which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life so through mans disobedience he lost the image and was driven out from the presence of the Lord into the earth and lost his Power Authority and Dominion which he had with the Lord before he disobeyed he lost that Power and that Authority and that Dominion which he had over the Creatures which God created for the use and service of man So now since the fall of Man his fall being so great the Creatures have had Power and Dominion over the Creature Man and Man hath been in bondage unto the Creatures through disobedience unto God the Creator Mark that all ye unbelievers who will not believe in Christ Jesus the Light who are yet in the fall in the transgression and in the Earth driven out from the presence of the Lord and without God in the world who are in bondage and in slavery unto the Creatures and they have Power and Dominion over you some of you running into the abuse of one Creature and some of you running into the abuse of another your hearts being fixed and setled in the Earth and in some Creature-enjoyment your treasure being in the Earth and Earthly things there is your hearts also So now as you are in the fall in the transgression driven out from the presence of the Lord into the Earth and you standing in this state and condition the Creatures which Man had power over at the beginning so long as he stood in the counsel of God they Rule and have Power and Dominion over you you being run into the abuse of the Creatures so hereby you are in slavery and in bondage unto them No way out of the Fall but by following the Light NOw all people who are yet in the fall and in the transgression driven out from the presence of the Lord into the Earth and without God in the World as the Lord God giveth me utterance I shall declare the way in plainnesse and according unto the Truth how fallen Men and Women may be restored into that pure innocent state and being that Adam was in before the fall Oh all people dread dread dread and fear and tremble before the living God of Heaven and Earth at whose voice the wind and the Sea obeyeth who by the breath of his Nostrils and the brightnesse of his coming he will slay the wicked Oh return return return unto the Lord God and repent while ye have time and turn in your minds into the light of the Son of God in your own Consciences with which he hath enlightned you who is the true Light that enlightneth every man that cometh into the world who came not into the world to save man in sin but from sin and in him is no sin and whosoever abideth in him sinneth not neither can he sin because his seed remaineth in him therefore I say unto ye all unto the light of Christ take heed and keep in your minds and wait ye in patience in it in that which checks and reproves you for sin and evil and makes manifest the evil of your doings unto you when no man sees you or can accuse you of it yet is the Lord God present with his Light which is his true and faithful witnesse which he hath placed in man which never consented unto sin or evil but stands a witnesse for God in man against sin and evil I say the Lord God is present with his Light to condemn you for sin and evil Therefore I say submit ye unto the Lord God and unto the Light of his Son which is manifested in you and humble your selves and lye down under the hand of his mighty power that he may pour out his judgements and vials of wrath and plagues and woes upon the head of the wicked in you which rules and reigns in you as King and hath led and doth still lead and act you into sin and into transgression that so the Lord God may shew mercy unto your souls for the Lord he shews not mercy unto that which hath led and acted the Creature into transgression but it is his own seed in man which lieth yet in you oppressed and burthened as a Cart pressed with sheaves by reason of sin and wickednesse which is yet remaining alive in you and uncrucified and unsubdued by the power of God Therefore this is the counsel of the Lord God unto you all turn in turn in your minds into the light of the Son of God and wait ye in patience in it that you may feel the power of the Lord God to crucifie and to subdue and to expell and to work out all that in you which entred into man through disobedience and transgression that so the seed of God the seed immortal which is yet oppressed in you may be eased and delivered that so it may grow and increase unto the praise and glory of the Lord who is God blessed for evermore Amen Therefore I say in love unto all your souls submit ye unto the Lord God and lye down under the hand of his mighty power that so he may pour out his judgements and his vials of wrath upon that which hath led and acted you into transgression that so he may shew mercy unto your souls for the Lord he shews not mercy as I said before unto that which leads the Creature into
will be no more to you Oh! prize the light prize the day of the Lords visitation of you for as I said before so I say again from the Lord that the day of your visitation is near passed over your heads and when it is passed over your heads then you may seek the Lord and shall not find him and call upon him and he will not hear you Why because saith the Lord when I called ye would not answer and when I spoke ye would not hear then will the Lord mock at your calamity and laugh when your fear cometh Therefore I say seek ye the Lord while he may be found and call upon him while he is near you for he is a God athand and not a God a far off and he is near unto all that call upon him in truth and in righteousnesse Oh! Earth Earth Earth Oh! People People People dread and fear the living God and tremble and bow before him whose day is at hand that will burn as an Oven Yea and all the proud and all that do wickednesse shall be as stubble and except you speedily repent and return unto him he will burn you up and he will leave you neither root nor branch and then the Rocks and the Mountains nor all your outward strength shall not be able to save you from the wrath of the Lamb nor from the indignation of the Just One who is risen and arising as a Mighty man of War to take the Kingdom and the greatnesse of the Kingdoms Yea he is risen and arising to plead with all flesh by Fire and by Sword and the slain of the Lord shall be many for the Sword of the Lord is drawn and furbished and he is preparing of it for the slaughter and except you speedily return unto the Lord he will kindle a fire in your bowels which shall never be quenched until it hath consumed you Therefore all ye tall Cedars Sturdy and stout ones if you go on in rebellion and stif-neckednesse against the Lord and continue your persecuting and imprisoning of the servants of the most high God which are by you reproachfully called Quakers thus saith the Lord God I will dash you to pieces as a potters Vessel and will make you bend and bow before me saith the Lord and will exalt the horn of mine Anointed Therefore all ye Rulers Priests and People whose trust is in the Arm of flesh and whose strength consisteth in the Host of men and in Horses and Chariots and in Tumults Noises and Voices and although you have made a Covenant with Death and an agreement with Hell yet your Covenant with Death and agreement with Hell shall be broken by the Power of the Lord God and although at the present you have power to cast the servants of the most High God some into one Prison and some into another and some into Dungeons and Holes and under many locks and boults and make havock and spoil of their goods yet thus saith the Lord God that he will not leave us nor forsake us for our enemies to destroy us but he will with his own out-stretched Arm bring deliverance for us as we wait in patience on him which deliverance shall be beyond the expectation of man whose breath is in his Nostrils And it shall be an astonishment unto all the Heathen round about and the Lord God will give us the necks of our Enemies to tread upon and they shall be as ashes under the soles of our feet And this I can truly and boldly say through the love of God towards me whose love I hope will never be forgotten by me although at the present I am in outward bonds yet neverthelesse in the pure Eternal truth of God I do reign and triump and do Trample upon all the heads and necks of the wicked and this I do declare in boldnesse from the Lord God who hath said and doth still say unto me fear not what man can do unto thee for I will never leave thee nor forsake thee That the Lord God will make you all bend and bow unto his pure everlasting truth which he hath by his own power gathered us into who are scornfully and reproachfully by you called Quakers Mark I do not say that you shall bend and bow unto us as Creatures but unto his pure everlasting Truth and unto his pure Divine power by which we are upheld and by which we reign over all the heads of the wicked Yea verily the Lord God will make you bow unto his Son Christ Jesus the light of the World who is the true light that enlightneth every man that cometh into the World who is the Way the Truth and the Life who is risen to rule the Nations with a Rod of Iron and he will make all bend and bow before him for there is no other Name by-which any man can be saved but by the Name of Jesus at which every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confesse unto him and although Gog and Magog Beast and false Prophet and all the powers of darknesse joyn hand in hand and gather to gather and make a head against the Lamb and his Followers yet the Lamb shall gain the Victory For there is no Weapon formed against you shall prosper saith the Lord. And know this assuredly that the work which the Lord God hath begun in the Earth he will accomplish it and you can no more stop or hinder the work of the Lord which he hath begun then you can stop or hinder the Sun from rising or the Wind from blowing or the Rain from descending no more can you stop or hinder the Work of the Lord Therefore in vain do you strive against the Lord and his Anointed for if I do work saith the Lord who can hinder Therefore all ye fruitlesse Trees which cumbers the ground ye are good for nought but for the fire who have long made a profession of a God and a Christ in words but in life and in power you do deny him For now is the Lord come to seek for Fruit and behold what is to be found amongst you but corruption and wickednesse for the best of you is as a Bryar and the uprightest of you sharper then a Thorn hedge so you are found to be fruitlesse Trees which cumbers the Ground ye are good for nothing but for the fire and now is the Ax laid to the Root of the Tree and every Tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewed down and cast into the fire Therefore cease professing of a God and a Christ in words and make no more profession of a God and a Christ in words then you can witnesse of them in life and in power for profession without possession is no more before the Lord then the Chaffe is before the Wind neither is it any more in the fight of the Lord then the cutting off a Dogsneck or offering Swines blood Therefore all ye Rulers Priests and People who professe and