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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64266	Truth's innocency and simplicity shining through the conversion, Gospel-ministry, labours, epistles of love, testimonies and warnings to professors and profane (with the long and patient sufferings) of that ancient and faithful minister and servant of Jesus Christ, Thomas Taylor, who finish'd his course in the year MDCLXXXI.	Taylor, Thomas, 1618-1682.	1697 (1697)	Wing T591; ESTC R3441	376,373	430

and Bears led about your Streets with a Drum and a multitude of People in order to more Vanity and Wickedness and that at such a time as this wherein you pretend to be more Servants of God than ordinary by your Communicating together in your Eating and Drinking the Signs of Christ's Body and Blood But alas for you What will all this avail you so long as Bull and Bear-baitings are tolerated amongst you with such full Allowance as this to the Grief of God's Spirit which abhors all such Cruel Sports and Heathenish Customs Do you not publickly profess in your Church-Service Repentance and Amendment of Life for all that 's contrary to Christ And do you not yet see that to delight in seeing Bulls and Bears and Dogs tearing and tormenting one another without cause is a grievous Sin in the sight of God and therefore not to be tolerated by you Besides the great hurt it doth in the Minds of your young ones who are led away from remembring their Creator in the days of their Youth by these things Surely the Lord is grieved with you will you not see the Evil of such Doings for I know if you would come to the Light of Christ in your Consciences you could not but see them and stand against them with all your might and so discharge a good Conscience towards God and his Creation And how do you know but the general Liberty for these Evils to act upon the Stage of these Nations is one cause of the present Judgment of the Sword amongst them Rests God's Servant who hath been a Mourner in Spirit for ye almost this Ten Years because of the Evil of your Doings but as yet you have not laid things rightly to Heart which shows your Misery to be great Thomas Taylor A Testimony against Sporting and Playing NOne can rightly rejoice in the Birth of Christ but the Spiritual New-born in Christ Those that think to please Christ with Eating and Drinking and Sporting and Playing are Carnally-minded and the Carnal Mind is Enmity to God and those that live in the Fleshly Mind cannot please God Rom. 8.6 7 8. So its manifest that the Service and Kingdom of God stands not in Meats and Drinks and Worldly Delights but in Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost Rom. 14.17 For Meats for the Belly and the Bâ—lly for Meats but God will destroy bâ—th it and them saith the Apostle But God will never destroy such as Serve and Worship him in Spirit and Truth all the days of their new and redeemed Life And so it is manifest the more Spiritual that any one is the more are they dead and separated from that foolish Mind and vain Customs that the Evil World loves and lives in And on the contrary those that make most Provision for the Flesh to satisfie it in the Lusts thereof let the Time be what it may are the greatest Enemies to Christ and their own Souls so let things be well weighed and considered and it will appear to the open Eye that God is not more dishonoured many Twelve Days of the Year than in these that People pretend most to Honour him in which to a Godly Heart cannot but be matter of great Sorrow as saith the Apostle Phil. 3.18 19. Many walk of whom I have told you often and now tell you even Weeping that they are Enemies to the Cross of Christ whose end is Destruction whose God is their Belly and whose Glory is in their Shame who mind Earthly things And this is the miserable and woful Condition of the most part of People that in these Days bear the name of Christians over whom the Spirit mourns Thomas Taylor A Loving Exhortation TO All Kings Princes Potentates Bishops and People in the whole Christendom Wherein is a Distinction betwixt the True and False Teachers To be Read over in Meekness and the Fear of the Lord. OYE Kings Princes Potentates and Rulers of the Earth we desire not your Thrones Honours Places or Dignities neither do we envy you for them for we have enough in God our Father who hath made us Kings and Priests to himself by Jesus Christ Spiritually to reign over the Evil in the World and to offer up our selves in Righteousness to his Glory and this is our Crown and that which we strive after in a pure Conscience for we are not of those that fight with Flesh and Blood and with Carnal Weapons for an Earthly Crown but such as in the Strength of Almighty God are taught with Spiritual Weapons to War only against that Mystery of Iniquity and Power of Darkness that captivates the precious Soul of Man and keeps it short of the Glory of God desiring from the Truth of our Hearts that neither the Soul nor Body of any may perish but that this Wicked one which is the Enemy of both may be destroyed out of the Earth in this day of Christ by the Spirit of his Mouth and Brightness of his appearing that so the whole Creation of God may be delivered from Bondage to stand in its Holy Order to the Glory of the Creator as in the Beginning that so he may take delight in the Children of Men and make his Abode with them as at that time when the Morning Stars sung for Joy and all was full of Beauty and Sweetness and no Death in them And O ye Bishops and high Teachers of the World we desire not your Seats neither do we envy you for your great Promotions but do desire that you may know with us the true Shepherd and Bishop of the Soul Christ Jesus the good and true Shepherd and Bishop who gave himself for the Sheep that he might Redeem them from all Iniquity and deliver their Souls from the hands of all Oppression to serve him in his own free Spirit where none can come to make afraid And as this Saviour you come to know and receive your knowledge of Men and Things according to the Flesh will cease and the Love of the World and the Worlds things will die in you and a Love to the Seed that breaths after Righteousness will arise in you and you will know what God requires of you and how you may do that which will commend you to God in the great Day of his Judgment which is nigh at hand and apply your Hearts thereto Therefore awake awake arise arise for the great Day of the Lord is indeed nigh at hand yea the Sun is already arisen and his bright Glory shineth upon the Sons of the Morning and the true fearching Light from which nothing can be hid is felt and known in the Earth and before it the Workers of Iniquity are as Chaff and before it can no mortal Man stand in Judgment though he glister never so much in outward Glory in the Worlds eye for in the presence of this Light the Judgment proceedeth not according to Person or Worldly Appearance but according to Truth Equity and Righteousness and

that they lived but were dead from that true Life that was in Christ Jesus whom in words they Professed And though the passage we feel now to be as hard of coming from amongst the false Christians and Turks as it was for the first true Christians to come from amongst the Jews and Gentiles yet the Almighty Power of our God is able over all and through all to carry us to the End whom he hath called and saved with a mighty Salvation ever praised be his Name and who will yet save his beloved Seed Israel and gather them from the East and West and from the North and South to sit down with Christ in his Kingdom And this is no ill News to any but who are glewed to Deceit and married to Iniquity But it is good News and glad Tidings indeed to all that love their Souls and the Honour and Glory of Truth more than the things of this perishing World And I could desire that all who are apt to reason as the Jews did when they heard the Declaration of the Gospel of Peace and Kingdom of God which stands in Righteousness and Peace saying If we let this go on then the Romans and others will come and take our Place and Nation I say that they would consider that the very course which they to wit the old Jews in the denial of the Truth took for saving of themselves brought utter destruction upon them and their Nation But what shall vain Man in his foolish fall'n Wisdom and Earthly Reasonings think to be wiser than God and to have a greater Care and Love to the Creation than God himself who made it hath What shall Angels at the Birth of Christ sing Glory to God on high and Good-will to Men and yet when the way of God in Christ is published for bringing this great Work of Salvation to pass vain Man must come in with his false Mind and say This is the way to confound all Order and destroy all Good and that this Doctrine turns the World upside down and that the Messengers of Christ are Pestilent Fellows and movers of Sedition O Earth Earth tremble before the Lord for thou shalt never have Peace in ' thy own ways thou shalt never be saved by thy own Strength thou shalt never be established by thy own Counsels thou shalt never have true Peace nor Plenty within thy Borders until thou believe the Gospel which saith Learn of Christ whose Kingdom is not of this World and whose Weapons are not Carnal but Spiritual mighty through God not for the pulling down of outward Walls and Bodies but for razing and pulling down and destroying the strong Holds of Sin and Satan in the Hearts and Lives of the Children of Men. For after that saith the Apostle the World by Wisdom knew not God it pleased God by the Foolishness of Preaching such Doctrine as this which is a Cross and stumbling Block to all Flesh to save them that believe So lay things to Heart ye People of the World and Inhabitants of all the Earth for God's purpose is not to exalt any Man or Men of this World nor to glorifie any Flesh but to exalt his own Son Christ Jesus the Heavenly Man the Lord from Heaven the Truth over all of whose Kingdom and Government there shall be no End And all that Obey his Voice and for Obedience thereto are made willing to Suffer with him shall Reign with him for evermore But all others whether they be called Christians or Turks or whatever else shall be as the Dust or Chaff before the Wind to be scattered as the Lord by his Spirit from the beginning hath said and at this Time speaketh in his Servant Thomas Taylor To Loose and Wicked Professors HOW long O ye People will ye sleep and slumber in a dead Form of Religion without the Life and Power of Godliness How long will ye dote upon the shews and appearances of Things where the Substance is wanting Can the Soul of Man live upon that which perishes and passes away with the using as the things of this present time do How long shall the Trumpet of the Lord be sounded in the Land before the People prepare themselves to serve the Lord and worship him in Spirit and Truth as he requires How long shall the Judgments of the Lord be in the Earth before the Inhabitants thereof learn Righteousness O the hardness of the Hearts of the Children of Men this day upon the Earth how past feeling are the Men of this Generation grown and without Understanding Never was Sodom more secure The Day is dawned and the Sun is up and yet they lye fast locked up in the deepest Sleep of fleshly Ease and carnal Security And because the Lord suffers not his whole Displeasure to arise at once upon them therefore they go on to harden themselves in their Sins as the People of old did whom the Lord overthrew in his Wrath And so because Judgment is not speedily executed upon their Evil Deeds therefore they set their Hearts to go on in their old ways of Sin Vanity and Uncleanness and so cover themselves but not with the Spirit of the Lord nor any of the pure and Holy ways thereof but take Counsel one at another and strengthen themselves in the Arm of Flesh Wo wo unto you O wicked and evil People who harden your Hearts against the Lord who shall sufficiently bewail you or what Lamentation shall be taken up for you With the Mourning of them that mourn for the Dead slain by the Sword cast out into the High-ways to be trodden under Foot shall you be lamented Thomas Taylor To Protestants OYe poor People called Protestants in the sence of the Love of God to my Soul and pity to yours do I write these Lines It is many Years now since it pleased the Lord to deliver you from the bloody Conspiracy of them called Papists in that Powder Plot and you have kept a Yearly Remembrance of it in an outward Day in an outward manner Acclamations Organs and other bodily Exercises but alass your Souls lies still in the Death Ignorant of that Heavenly Deliverance and Resurrection from Sin which the Saints in Light witness to the everlasting Praise and Glory of his Grace daily and hourly to be remembred and at no time to be forgotten And for want of this your Offerings cannot be accepted of the pure God who looks for Spiritual Obedience from the very Heart of all that receive any Blessing Mercy or Deliverance from him either for their Souls or Bodies But truly the Lord God is not pleased with your Organs Ringing of Bells and Singing and shouting on the top of a Steeple or any vain words of Thankfulness for an Offering to him and you still remaining in that nature which grieveth his Holy Spirit And so you dishonour the Holy Lord God the Creator of all things by your base and low thoughts of him judging his Thoughts to be like your

Thoughts and that such a sorry Service as you offer to him will please so great a Majesty Truly the Lord might justly give you into the hands of those he hath thus delivered you from because of your Sins and because you lay not his Goodness to Heart as a truly thankful People do So whilst you have time prize it and awake out of Sleep and come to the Light of God in you the Soul's Searcher and it will let you see the Truth and Seasonableness of my Words that you may repent of all your Sins and sinful Sacrifices and learn to offer unto God your whole Heart to be disposed of to his Will and Service that by his Power he may purge you and through his Righteous Judgments he may make you clean in Heart for his use who is over all blessed for ever And who is seeking such Holy Worshippers in this day of his Power wherein he is arisen to purge the Earth with his fiery flaming Word and to slay the wicked with the Sword of his Mouth Thomas Taylor To the Sons of Vanity YE Sons of Vanity whose Exercise and Delight is not all in God and Goodness but in Sin and Vanity to the darkning and separating of your Souls from that blessed Peace which the Saints in Light enjoy with the Lord God O the miserable Desolations that Sin in this Night of Apostacy hath made in the Earth yet Glory to God though the Egyptians sit in the grossest Darkness yet the Children of Israel who fear the Lord and work Righteousness have Light in all their Dwellings And in that Light they stand Witnesses for God continually against all vain Inventions and cruel Sports of Men of corrupt Minds whom God will Judge and severely Punish in his Judgment-Day O consider this ye Cock-Fighters Bull-Baiters and all that forget God for the Judgment hastens and who shall stand in the Gap for wilful Transgressors What did ye seem to humble your selves lately in a Publick Fast for your Sins and are you so quickly turned again to the Vomit of your old Vanities How should the Lord but smite the Land for these things From a Servant of God these Thomas Taylor Who they are that only Rejoyce in the Birth of Christ NOne can rightly Rejoyce in the Birth of Christ but the Spiritual New-Born in Christ Those that think to please Christ with Eating and Drinking and Sporting and Playing are Garnally-minded and the Carnal Mind cannot please God Rom. 8.6 7 8. so it s manifest that the Service and Kingdom of God stands not in Meats and Drinks and foolish and worldly Delights but in Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost Rom. 14.17 For Meats for the Belly and the Belly for Meats but God will destroy both it and them saith the Apostle But God will never destroy such as Serve and Worship him in Spirit and Truth all the days of their new and redeemed Life and so it is manifest the more Spiritual that any one is the more are they dead and separated from that foolish Mind and vain Customs that the evil World loves and lives in And on the contrary those that make most Provision for Flesh to satisfie it in the Lusts thereof let the time be what it may are the greâ—test Enemies to Christ and their own Souls So let things be well weighed and considered and it will appear to the open Eve that God is not more dishonoured in any Twelve Days of the Year than in these that People pretend most to Honour him in which to a Godly Heart cannot but be matter of great Sorrow as saith the Apostle Phil. 3.18.18 Many walk of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping that they are Enemies to the Cross of Christ Whose end is Destruction whose God is their Belly and whose Glory is in their Shame who mind earthly things And this is the miserable and woful Condition of too great a part of the People that in these days bear the Name of Christians over whom the Spirit Mourns Thomas Taylor A Testimony against Persecution to King Charles the Second and his Magistrates THough our Sufferings be little accounted of in the Eyes of those that Afflict us yet be assured they are seen to be great and many in the Eyes of God our Heavenly Father for whose Name and Truths sake we suffer and for this are his Judgments begun to be poured out upon the Land for though the People of the Land of all sorts be guilty of many other Crying Sins yet this one Sin of Persecuting the Righteous for their pure Conscience sake is and always hath been the most Grievous in the Eyes of Jesus Christ whose Glory is mainly concerned in it as one may see by that in Acts 9. where it is said by Jesus from Heaven Saul Saul why persecutest thou me The Jews and Saul thought they had done well so to persecute those Poor Members of Christ in those days because they would not conform to the Ceremonies of their Law and Service but Jesus saw it was done against him in them what was done against them So though many may think they do well in doing thus against us in these days because we cannot conform to your Customs contrary to that of God in our Conscience Yet know assuredly we are justified in the sight of God for what we do and he will assuredly plead our Innocent Cause as he did the Sufferers for Truth in those former Days and it will not be well with the Land so long as these Yokes of Oppression are upon us who desire nothing more than the Peace Welfare and everlasting Good of the King and all People but alas it will not be so long as the Law which should be laid upon the Wicked Drunkards Swearers Unclean Persons and Wasters of God's Creatures upon their Lusts is thus laid upon the Righteous who live Peaceably Righteously and Godly in this present evil World And so you Judges be awakened to true Judgment and Justice and know aright for what both Land and Sea mourneth at this day and let the King also and all People know the same and know that it is for all your Sins and especially for the hard Usage of us the Peaceable and Innocent People of God in Scorn called Quakers for our Pure Conscience-sake and Holy worshipping of our God in Spirit and Truth as the Lord Jesus Christ hath taught us And so till this with the rest be repented of How can the Lord accept you or be for you Yea though Noah Daniel and Job stood before God to intercede for you yet his Heart cannot be for you so long as your many Sins and this grievous Sin before mentioned do remain Yea though you should meet together every day in the Week and call it a Fast and seem in the outward to humble your Souls yet till these Burdens of Sin be removed from off your Souls and the Yokes of Oppression from off

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