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A85152	Truth cleared of scandals, or truth lifting up its head above scandals, &c. Occasioned by the meeting of those people called Baptists, and those whom the world scornfully calleth Quakers, at Harlington in stafforthshire, upon the 27. day of the 7 month, in the year 1654. Shewing the difference betwixt the ordinances of Christ and of Antichrist, and the true worship and the false, with a discovery of the two seeds, and the New Covenant, the doctrine of baptismes, laying on of hands, the ressurectio, and eternal judgement, Heb. 6. 1, 2, 3, and Heb. 12.22, and 23. Also, the unprofitable servant and the talents, and of being caught up into paradise, the thorn in the flesh, and what it is to take pleasure in infirmities, and what those infirmities are, that is to be gloried in; also, something of perfection, and imperfection, and the glorying in the crosse largely proved, according to scripture, &c. / By one known to the world by the name of Rich. Fanrworth.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing F512; Thomason E820_3; ESTC R207345	39,723	39

the seed of Abraham according to the Spirit Gen. 17. Gal. 3 29. Gal. 4.28 29. But as it was then so it is now they that are after the flesh persecute them that are after the Spirit who are of that seed yet we preach Christ crucified unto you self-conceated ones and outward Jews a stumbling block and unto the Greeks foolishnesse but unto them that are of the seed according to the promise and are for salvation Christ the wisdome of God and power of God for Christ hath not sent us to baptize with water but to preach to the Spirits in prison as he did 1 Pet. 3.18 19. to the end and not to preach the Gospel with the enticing words of mans wisdome lest the crosse of Christ should be of none effect which is of great effect unto us and to all that are subject unto it for therein is our glorying in the Crosse by which we are crucified unto the world and the world is by it crucified unto us and we are crucified with Christ yet we live but our life is in him and by the Crosse we live in him and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the Crosse having thereby slain the enmity he came and preached peace to them that were a farre off and to them that were nigh for by the Crosse through him we have an accesse by one Spirit unto the Father and God forbid that we should glory in any thing save in the Crosse of Christ by which we are dead and crucified to the world and the world unto us for in Christ Jesus there is not any thing that availeth but a new Creature and as many as walk according to this Rule peace be on them and mercy and upon the seed and Israel of God for in him shall all the seed of Israel be justified and shall glory through the Crosse Gal. 6.14 15 16. Gal. 2.20 Isa 45.24 25. Eph. 2.16 17 18. And the preaching of the Crosse is to them that perish foolishnesse for it is written I will destroy the wisedome of the wise and bring to naught the councel of the prudent Isa 29.11 to the 18. and in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the Book which neither the learned nor unlearned outwardly could open and in that day of the opening of the Book or mistery of godlinesse the eyes of the blinde shall see out of obscurity and out of darknesse and the meek who are of the righteous seed shall increase their joy in the Lord and the poor among men shall rejoice in the holy one of Israel for by the Crosse which crucifies the world and slayes the enmity therein will the terrible one be cut off and by the Crosse will the scorner be consumed and by the Crosse will all that watch for iniquity be slain and cut down therefore thus saith the Lord who redeemed Abraham concerning the house of Iacob Iacob shall not now be ashamed neither shall his face now wax pale but when he sees his children the work of mine hands in the midst of him they shall sanctifie my Name and sanctifie the holy One of Iacob who are of that seed and shall fear the Lord God of Israel and they also that erred in Spirit shall come to understanding and they that murmured shall learn Doctrine Isa 29.18 19. to the end Where then is the wise where is the Scribe where is the disputer of this world Therefore thus saith the Lord I will proceed to do a marvelous work amongst this people such as are of the wisdome of the flesh and the seed of the serpent whose hearts are removed from the Lord into the things of the world and the earthly learning and knowledge and the earthly part is above the good seed and they draw near the Lord with their mouthes and their lips but hearts are farre off and their fear towards me saith the Lord is taught by the Precepts of men therefore the marvelous work that the Lord works amongst them is this the wisdom of the worldly wise men shall perish and the understanding of the prudent in that nature shall be hid which is a work of wonder for it is written hath not not God made foolish the wisdome of this world For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God then after by the foolishnesse of preaching it pleased God to save some and the preaching of the Crosse to the cutting down of the carnall part and the raising up of the seed and letting it out of Prison by the power of the Lord is now the same in the Ministery by the Spirit that it was then for it doth now please God by the preaching of the cross which is counted foolishnes with worldly wise men to save some as he did then For now the Jews require a sign and the greeks seek after worldly wisdome but we preach Christ crucified unto the Jews a stumbling block now and unto the greeks foolishnesse as it was then amongst the great outward Scholers and worldly wise men And we see and know our Calling that are sent to Preach and minister in the Crosse that thereby the enmity may be slain and the seed be brought forth of prison and bondage by the Crosse again for not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty nor noble in the world not many of them are called Oh how hard a thing it is for them that have riches to enter because of the Crosse but God hath chosen the foolish poor base weak things in the worlds account as he did then to preach the Crosse and to confound things that are mighty in the worlds eyes and account as Pallard the great water Baptizer was and things which are despised hath God chosen and things which are not accounted of by the world to bring to nought things that are of great account by them that all flesh may be silent and not glory in his presence But in the Lord are the seed of Israel justified and in him they glory and he is made unto us wisedome righteousnesse sanctification and redemption that according as it is written he that glorieth let him glory in the Lord but we have nothing to glory in save the Crosse of our Lord Jesus who hath said all mine are thine and thine are mine and I am glorified in them and this is witnessed through the Crosse 1 Cor. 2.17 18. to the end Isaiah 9 13 14. Isa 45.25 John 17.10 Rom. 8.16 17 18 c. 2 Thess 1.10 11 12. Then Pallard I asked thee where ever Paul which thou said gave forth orders to the Churches c. had any Commission to baptize or where ever he saith in any place that he was sent for that work But on the contrary he said he was not sent for that work as it is left upon record under his hand-writing 1 Cor. 1.17 For saith he there positively Christ sent me not to aptize but to preach the Gospel

and not with wisdome of words neither lest the Crosse of Christ should be of none effect And I asked thee what the Crosse was but thou could not tell and why he was sent to preach and was necessirated to it as he saith in the 1 Cor. 9. For saith he though I preach the Gospel I have nothing to glory of but as he said before in the Crosse where his Ministery stood and saith he There is a necessity laid upon me to preach the Gospel and wo is to me if I preach it not c 1 Cor. 9.16 17 18. But he did not say there was a necessity laid upon him to baptize but he thankt God that he had baptized no more by permission he did that and not by commission for he said plainly that Christ sent him not to baptize but to Preach and he was sent by the Spirit to Preach and not by the Letter as he did certifie to the brethren and his certificate is to be seen for it Gal. 1. but not to baptize And he gave forth the Orders to the Church by the Spirit that sent him to Preach and where did he by that Spirit ever send forth any to baptize with water but to Preach he did and he was sent by the Spirit and not by the Letter and thou sayes the Spirit and the Letter are inseparable but when the Son was revealed in him he did not stand to consult neither did he ask leave of the Letter but obeyed the Command of the Spirit as it is left upon record and the Letter did not give forth the Spirit but the Spirit was before the Letter was neither did the Letter send them to preach but the Spirit did and gave them power to speak as the Oracles of God but where did he say he was sent to baptize but onely to preach in the Crosse and that by the Spirit and not by the Letter for Christ was revealed within him and sent him to preach by his Spirit and that which he preached he had not received of the Letter but out of the Covenant of life and from the flowings in of the Spirit and he had known much of the Letter whilst he persecuted the Spirit and when he received he Spirit he denyed himself and took up the Crosse and followed Christ in the Crosse and there continued in that Ministery by the Spirit and were an able Minister of the New Covenant not of the Letter but of the Spirit and he said that the Gospel which he preached unto them he had not received it of man neither was he taught it of man but by the revelation of Jesus Christ within him and they did not crosse him with the Letter and say how could they know that Christ was revealed in him but received his Testiwony as from the Spirit their Spirits witnessing with his Spirit and they were one in the seed and their Gospel was hid to them that were lost but the Letter is not hid neither is it lost but the Gospel is hid to thee Pallard and to them that are lost who have the Letter but not the Spirit for if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his but many have the Letter but not the Spirit as thou hast the Letter but wants the Spirit and all in thy nature and are in the self separation from the Spirit which the Letter speaks of having not the Spirit that saith the Bible is a History and the Letter and the Spirit are inseparable such are in a form without the power and so are as a body without the Spirit and dead trees twice pluckt up by the roots as it is written but Paul was not without the Spirit and the Power but preached in the power of the Spirit that the bodies faith should not stand in the wisdome of mens words but in the power of God as it is written 1 Cor. 2.4 5. Gal. 1.11 12. and 15 16. 2 Cor. 3.6 1 Cor. 9 16 17 18. Rom. 8. But where was he sent by Commission to baptize and why was there a necessity laid upon him for the one and not for the other to baptize as well as to preach seeing that the care of the Church was committed to him and he knew the whole Councel of God 1 Cor. 9.16 17 18. 1 Cor. 1.17 Acts 20 28 29. Then thou answered and said he baptized as well as he preached for he baptized Crispus and Gaius and he baptized also the house of Stephanos and thou began thereupon to make an oration to the people and devise mischief and to tell lies and said to the people he denies the Scripture and said Paul did not baptize c. Thereupon the people some of them made answer and said do not accuse falsely wherein did he deny the Scriptures he did not say that Paul did not baptize but asked where he was sent to baptize c. Then taking thee with false accusations and lyes in thy mouth in reproof I spoke something unto thee and said how durst thou lye so impudently without any ground but that it was suffered thee Pallard to lay open thy folly that day to thy shame and for the good of others that were lorded over by thee till thy nakednesse and falshood openly appeared so that some of them did speak to thee of it and I then charged thee in the presence of the Lord either to make good what thou had said in falsely accusing without any ground or else for ever stop thy mouth and be ashamed of thy lies and false accusations in that thing and also in others and I said when did Paul receive any Commission for to baptize or when was he sent for that work because himself said he was not sent to baptize but to preach and there was a necessity laid upon him for the one and not for the other and he had a Commission to preach and not to baptize lest by doing it by permission without a command and so abuse his power he gave God thanks that he had baptized no more lest they should say he did it in his own Name and without warrant or authority from God because he had no commission from God for to do it for he confessed and said that Christ sent him not to baptize but to preach and for that he had a Command and wo was unto him if he did neglect and he was not to preach with the enticing words of mans wisdome neither but in demonstration of the Spirit and power lest the Crosse should be of none effect in which his Ministery stood 1 Cor. 1.14 15 16 17. 1 Cor. 2.4 5 6 7 8 9 10. 1 Cor. 9.18 And what he did by permission was one thing and what he did by commission was another and sometimes he did things by permission and not by Commission and what he did by permission was as from the urgency but what he did by Commission was from the eternall power of eternity and was the Lords therefore he

the Letter and the Spirit is inseparable and that Christ had not judgment committed to him whilest he was in the world and that Christ had not Judgement committed to him for he had a body and were sensible of hunger and such stuffe thou had and were in the lyes blasphemies and false accusations as thy fruits made thee manifest yet thou takes upon thee to teach and baptize and art of great account amongst poor seduced water baptized people but thou art discovered to thy shame and it may be for the good of many poor souls to see your deceits come to light Oh thou deceitfull one be ashamed and confounded let shame cover thy face repent and give over deceiving the people and all in thy nature now thou art warned as thou was then and to the Light of God in thy conscience am I made manifest and that will witnesse for me and the Truth against thee and thy deceit before the Judgement Seat of Christ in the great day of the Lord when I shall also stand before the Judgement Seat and be a witnesse against thee there except thou repent of thy lyes and blasphemies and false accusations and deny them all openly as thou witnessed to them openly and now to the Light in thy conscience shall this be witnessed which light will be thy eternall condemnation if thou hate it and act knowingly and wilfully contrary to it now thou hast time prize it for one wo is past but behold two woes more followeth after as it is written And the sixth Angel sounded and I heard a voice from the four hornes of the golden Alter which is before God saying to the sixth Angel which had the Trumpet loose the four Angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates and the four Angels were loosed which were prepared for an hour and a day and a month and a year for to slay the third part of men he that both an car to hear let him hear and he that can receive it let him receive it Rev. 9.12 13 14 15 Zech 13. Therefore now Pallard great water Baptizer and all that are as thou art teachers of others before they be taught themselves and all imitations that worships ye know not what who are dipt In the water but are ignorant of the Divine nature that sayes the Bible is a History and yet the Letter and the Spirit Pallard thou sayes are one and inseparable how blinde and ignorant art thou and are you Baptizers of the Mistery silence all flesh and stop your mouths and take heed of deluding poor people any longer I warn you and charge you in the presence of the Lord as you will answer it before the Judgement seat of the great God and Pallard that in thy conscience shall be a witnesse for me when thou sees me not the Light of Christ Jesus there for to that am I made manifest yet shut up from thy dark minde for Light shines in darknesse but darknesse comprehendeth it not Iohn 1.9 Yet Light comprehendeth darknesse though darknesse cannot comprehend the Light and with the Light that comprehends the world art thou comprehended and with the Light which changeth not art thou seen and all in thy nature and known to be our of the Light and out of the Truth and out of the new Covenant and out of the Church that is in God the first-born which is written in heaven and no officer there nor no Minister of the new Covenant and the Spirit nor yet baptized into Christ nor no friend of Christ nor none in thy nature no more than the envious Jews and the Pharisees was and the Priests the Priests of the world and thou art in one nature and guided by one spirit the same that guides all the children of disobedience as it doth you and there is no difference between them and you but that you have the sheeps cloathing and they have the wolves but both one inside and nature thou hast the outside form according to the Letter more than they have but thou art without the power and ignorant of the Mistery in the Spiritas they are and as abovesaid that sayes the Bible is the History in the Letter and yet thou sayes the roughnesse is felt and thy darknesse is seen thou dark Sott would thou bring God and Christ Faith hope Election and the New Covenant the holy Ghost and the eternall Spirit and bloud of the Covenant within the compasse of death and have them historicall that sayes the Scriptures or Letter of the Bible is a History and the Spirit and the Letter are inseparable when as I told thee a History was a fable or a story but the Scriptures I own to be a true Declaration of the Truth that they lived in that spoke them forth and the Declaration of the Truth is most certainly believed amongst us that the world scornfully cals Quakers and the life of them enjoyed Christ Jesus the chief shepherd and Bishop of our souls and though the Scriptures outwardly be not the Spirit nor the eternall Word nor the life of God and Christ and the Saints yet the Scriptures are a true Declaration of those things declared of Luk. 1.1 but not the Word of God for it is eternall life and liveth and endureth for ever 1 John 2 3.4 5. 1 Pet 1.22.23 I would have had thee Pallard to have proved by the Scripture that it was any where called a History and that the Spirit of God was kept or confined in a history or a fable but thou could not for godlinesse is a mistery and the Devine Writings by the Spirit are in the new heart tables as it is written Col. 1.27 2 Cor. 3.2 3. and the Saints knowes Christ in them and the opening of the Mistery and his Ministers preaches him amongst the Gentiles now for you self-conceated ones like the outward Jews will none of his counsel but great is the mistery of godlinesse 1 Tim. 3.16 and the Comforter that abideth for ever even the Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive and you Pharisees and self-conceited ones cannot receive it neither do you know him that sayes the Spirit is in the Letter and the Letter is a History but we know him in the mistery and the Spirit of Truth to be out of a History for he dwelleth in us as saith the Scripture John 14.15 16 17. Rom. 8.10 11. Praised be the Lord for the riches of his love to our souls in taking of the Seals and opening the mistery in the Lord Jesus Christ Rev. 5. Isa 29.11 to the end Col 1.25 26 27 28. Which mistery is yet hid to thee Pallard water-Baptizer and all in thy nature that sayes the Spirit and the Letter is inseparable and is a History stop thy mouth for shame and cover thy lips for the promise is not to that seed of the serpent which you wise ones of the world are one with as the Pharisees and the envious Jews was but the promise is to

submit to the Teachings of it will bring you to the knowledge of the eternall Truth and out of your conceated formes to take up the Crosse to your wills and earthly wisedomes to die to the world and all your pride and vain-glory that Light which lets you see the deeds of darknesse and the evill of your hearts that Light is your Teacher which stands out of all evill that Light is your Teacher your that love it and bring your deeds to it to be tryed that your works may be wrought in God that light is your condemnation all you that hate it and act contrary to it who love the deeds of darknesse rather than the Light John 1.9 Iohn 8.12 Iohn 3.19 20. Now you have time prize it and take heed of sinning against the Light and Pallard and all in that nature give over deceiving the people and keeping them in a dead form without either life or power lest their souls perish and be lost thou that sayes the Letter and the Spirit are inseparable and a History art ignorant of the soul and the mistery give over I warn thee and charge thee in the presence of the Lord and all in thy nature as you will answer it before the judgment seat of Christ I shall there be a witnesse against you if you will not take warning now you have time prize it For hereby know we that we dwell in him and he in us by his Spirit which he hath given us and not by the Letter but by the eternall Spirit hereby is our love made perfect that we may have boldnesse in the day of judgement as they said who were in Christ before us who said as he is so are we in this present world witnessed in the eternall power by the Spirit perfect in love and compleat in him who is the head of all Principally and power as it is written 1 Iohn 3.24 1 Iohn 4.16 17. Col. 2.9 10. And Pallard where thou said Paul had attained to such high Revelations and discoveries and were taken up into the third heaven as is there spoken of yet afterwards though said he cryed out of his infirmities and said he had nothing to glory in but his infirmities and had a prick in the flesh c. I answered thee again by way of Querie to that and asked thee if it was Paul that was taken into the third heaven or some other that he there spoke of and gloried in at that time and in that thy mouth was stopt for I of thee received not answer to it again there was the deceit in thee silenced at that time as well as before and thou had nothing for to glory in but thy shame and folly as it did openly appear in so much that a member of the body cryed out against thee or the head to see thy folly as the Asse cryed out against Balaam and spoke to shew him his folly and the poor creature said Had not he been his Asse and carried him so long when did he ever know him do so before And when the Lord opened Balaams eyes he saw his folly and if the Lord open thine eyes thou may plainly see thine who thy self hast ridden and lorded over poor creatures so long and had them at thy command yet at that very time one was made to speak to thee that had been ridden on or lorded over by thee and did reprove thee to see thee so shew forth thy folly When was it ever known that he did so before to thee at such a time But it is but that the Scriptures may be fulfilled as it is written they shall proceed no further that resist the Truth for their folly shall thereby he made manifest to men as thine was 〈…〉 the Truth at that time 2 Tim. 3.8 9 And 〈…〉 stond up for the Truth to resist thy deceit though thy 〈…〉 appeared thou art ready to put them out of thy service of 〈…〉 it if it be so they may rejoice to see thy madnesse and folly made manifest thou was at that time without the Sword as Balaam was and the poor creatures who had been hard bound down under thee at that time rejoicee and it they continue their joy will increase and blessed are all they that suffer for righteousnesse sake and saith the Lord all those that are cast out for my Names sake I will appear to their joy and to the shame of all their false pretended Brethren that saith let the Lord be glorified by them in scorn contempt or disdain in nature like unto the Jews Isa 66.5 Mat. 5.10 11 12. Luk. 6.22 23. But as touching the place of Scripture where thou said Paul was in such Raptures and high discoveries caught up into the third heaven and taken up into Paradise and after cryed out of his infirmities c. 2 Cor. 12. As I said then so say I still let all the wise hearted read it and judge whether Paul spoke that of himself or some other for to it thou would not return me an answer when I demanded it of thee But Paul himself plainly there saith that he knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago whether in the body or out of the body he could not tell but had Paul there spoken of himself he could have told if it had been him and he did not say that he was caught into the third heavens and taken up into Paradise and afterwards fell out of it again to cry out of a thorn in his side or a prick in the flesh and say he had nothing to glory in but his infirmities as thou Pallard and darknesse conceives Read and see 2 Cor. 12. Paul there speaks of another as it is plain for saith he first I knew a man such a one as he is there speaking of he speaks of the time also and it was above 14. years ago or bypast from that time that he was there speaking of him and he saith that though he spoke of him and his being in Christ so long since from that time yet he knew not whether he were in the body or no but in that place he said that God knew whether he was in the body or out of it but he there saith that such a one was caught into the third heaven 2 Cor. 12.2 And further he there saith he knew such a man whether in the body or out of the body he could not tell God knew as he saith in the 2 Cor. 12.3 But had Paul spoken of himself he could have told how it had been with him yet in the sixth place he saith that such a one was caught up into Paradise and in the seventh place it doth appear that he was a dear friend to Paul and told him what he heard in the third heaven and in the Paradise but it is not expressed there for he sayes they was such words as was not lawfull to utter 2 Cor. 12.4 Then in the eighth place he saith that of such a one he would

3.14 15. Eph. 4.8 9 10 11 12 13. Job was a perfect man as God himself said and Noah was a perfect man in his generation and David said Mark the perfect man then there was perfect men and the end of such are peace Gen. 6.9 Deut. 18.13 2 Kings 20.3 1 Chron. 28.9 Job 1.8 Psal 37.37 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together the end of the wicked shall be cut off and turned into hell and be burned with fire and brimstone Read Psal 37.38 Psal 9.17 Rev. 21.8 Read those Scriptures and see your portion that plead for sin and continue in unrighteousnesse 1 Cor. 6.9 10. Gal. 5.19 20 21. Rev. 22.15 Rev. 21.27 Rev. 20.15 2 Thess 1.8 9. Rom. 1.28 to the end Rom. 2.5 8 9. Mal. 4.1 Psal 9.17 Rev. 21.8 See your portion you that desire to continue in wickedednesse and take your reward Mat. 25.41 to the end Read and understand all that desires to love God and take warning whilst you have time now you have time prize it and plead not for sin which is the devils kingdom And thou Pallard thou and all that denieth perfection are ignorant of the Life of Truth and the Ministry of the Saints and crosseth the Doctrine of God and of Christ and crosseth the Covenant of grace and the Ministry of the Saints for they preached wisdom amongst them that was perfect as it is written 1 Cor. 2 6 7. And Christ in his Sermon upon the Mount bade them be perfect Mat. 5.48 And the Apostle said Finally my Brethren farewell be perfect 2 Cor. 13.11 And they said Let us go on to perfection Heb. 6.1 And they did go on to it for they came to the innumerable company of Angels to the Church of the first born written in heaven to God the Judge of all and to the Spirits of just men made perfect Heb. 12.22.23 And they said therein was their love made perfect that they might have boldnesse in the day of judgement for as he was so was they in that present world 1 Iohn 4.16 17. And they were without fault before the throne of God and no gull was found in their mouths that were redeemed from amongst men Rev. 14. being the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb verse 4 5. And they said to others that were in their grouth as he that hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of conversation and this is witnessed See Rev. 14.3 4 5. 1 Pet. 1.13 14 15 16. And thou Pallard and all that saith the Bible is a History and saith the Letter and the Spirit are inseparable and all that preaches the Letter and not the Spirit and denyeth perfection by Christ in the new Covenant Heb. 10.9 11 18. All such as you are do bring a contrary doctrine to Christ and his Apostles and all you that are against perfection you are against the new Covenant and you deny the Scriptures therein that deny perfection and you deny the Doctrine of Christ and the Apostles and the end of Christs death resurrection ascension and the Church of the first born written in heaven as is proved by the Scriptures Heb. 10 11 12 13 14. Eph. 4.8 9 10 11 12 13. Heb. 12 2● 23 24 28. Heb. 10.16 17 18 19 29 21 22. And we deny you and all that deny fellowship with the Father and the Son and we are not to receive such into our houses nor to bid them God speed but to hold them and you all such accursed as it is written and as you may read 2 Iohn 9.10 11. Gal. 1.8 9. 1 Cor. 16.22 Therefore silence all flesh and deceit and stop your mouths say not but that you are warned lest I be a witnesse against you before the judgement seat of Christ in the terrible day of the Lords feirce wrath and indignation and as I told thee Pallard at thy going forth of the door that shal stand for thee Zeph. 1.14 to the end Isa 66.15.16 Mat. 25.41 c. 1 Iohn 4.17 1 cor 6.23 Iude 14 15. R. F. Written in Warwick shire the beginning of the eigth month Octob. 4. 1654. The sealed are the LORDS c. THerefore thus saith the Lord Behold I have laid in Sion and do lay there a chief corner stone Elect and precious he that believeth on him shall not be confounded and the Foundation of God standeth ever and hath this Seal set upon it the Lord knoweth who are his and they that are Sealed they know him by his indwellings in them and we know that the Son of God is come and hath given us the gift and the Seal and the understanding by which we know that we are in him and he in us even in his Son Jesus Christ and this is true God and life eternall as it is written and witnessed See 1 Pet. 2.4 5 6 7. to the 11. 2 Cor. 2.19 Rev. 9.4 Eph. 1.13 Rev. 7.2 3. John 6.27 1 Iohn 3.24 1 Iohn 5.20 God hath also out of his free love given to every man a talent or a measure of grace to improve and Christ is the true light that enlighteneth every man that cometh into the world and he that obeyeth the Light is led out of darknesse into the eternall life and entereth into Covenant with God and is Sealed and enters into the joy of his Lord as it is written and witnessed Mat. 25.14 15. Rom. 12.3 Titus 2.11 12. Iohn 1.5 9. Iohn 8.12 Heb. 5 8 9 Mat. 25.19 20 21. to the end Eph. 1. But he that hateth the Light he is the unprofitable Servant that accounts God a hard Master but though he do so he hath the Light manifested in his conscience which lets him see the deeds of darknesse and not obeying it that will be his condemnation Iohn 3.19 ●0 It doth not teach him because he doth not love it nor obey it therefore because he hath it and doth not obey it when God takes away his own he will be found just in the condemnation of the ●●oothfull and ●n the damnation of the wicked for it will stand with his Justice so to do let God be just and every man that hates the Light be found a lyar he that hateth the Light hath it as the unprofitable servant had the Talent given him to improve and did not improve it and so it was taken from him that had not and given to him that had the Talent was taken from the unprofitable servant that had not improved it and was given to him that had improved his Talents and he entered into the joy of his Lord but the unprofitable servant was cast and is to be cast into utter darknesse where shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth as it is written Mat. 25. But he was not cast into utter darknesse because he had not the Gift given him but because he had it and did not make use of it to serve him with it that gave it unto him and the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to prosit withall if he use it aright in the service but all doth not profit because all doth not obey it and Christ is the true Light that enligteneth every one that cometh into the world and lets him see his sins and the deeds of darknesse but every man doth not love the Light so as in all things to obey it and there is his condemnation not because he hath not the Light made manifest to the view of his understanding but because it is made manifest to the view of his understanding and he loves darknesse rather than Light he that obeyeth the Light is led out of darknesse and hath salvation Iohn 8.12 Heb. 5.8.9 But he that disobeyeth the Light and receives not the Truth in the love of it but serves unrighteousnesse he and all such are for damnation Iohn 3.19 20. 2 Thess 1.9 2 Thess 2.12 FINIS

puts a difference between the man and the woman and forbids the woman to speak in the Church he that can receive it let him I told thee Pallard that Paul also circumcised after he were a Minister of the Gospel as well as baptized and he had as much ground for the one as the other but no command for neither and Christ was circumcised outwardly as well as baptized outwardly and he ministred the circumcision also and were a Minister of the same as in Rom. 15.8 And I asked thee how thou followed Christ in that to fulfill that Ministration and what account thou couldest give of it in the inward man as it is written Col. 2.11 12. c. Because Christ ministred that and they did witnesse that Ministration through the Spirit in him and so they were made compleat in the substance and life of all truth through the Crosse And because it is written that death reigned from Adam untill Moses even over all that had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression and the Law and the Prophets were till John John succeeded them and he came burning and shining amongst those that were born of woman was not a greater than John yet he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he Then Pallard water baptizer I asked thee how thou couldst witnesse to those ministrations in the inward man for the seed is but one and how thou couldest witnesse a passing from death unto life as they did that spoke forth the Scriptures for they that had passed from death unto life said that he that was born of God did not commit sin and they also said that he that committed sin were of the devill and thereby the two seeds was known and the children of God was made manifest and the children of the devill by the operation of each seed ruling in them and working forth through them and they that had passed from death unto life knew who was of God and who was not and so doth the same seed now and they knew who did abide in darknesse and death and so do they now who are in the Light life and power of the Truth and they know that the Son of God is made manifest in them and hath taken away their sins as they knew then that witnessed the same through the Crosse who said that they dwelt in him and he dwelt in them but they did not know it by the dead Letter but by the quickening Spirit which is life and was given them 1 John 3. Chapter And they knew who were passed from death unto life and that the Son of God was come and had given them an understanding that they thereby might know him that was true and they knew it not by the Letter but by the Spirit and they had the true knowledge of it in the eternall Truth who affirmatively said we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ this is the true God and eternall life and not the Letter but the Letter declareth of it 1 John 5.20 Then Pallard I asked thee how it was with thee in deaths Dominion because it is written of deaths reigning from Adam untill Moses over all who have not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression and what that death was and reigned over in thee how thou came from under it to know the Law which is perfect and doth endure for ever according to that in the conscience and is to be fulfilled in all that walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit and how thou came into the prophecies in the inwards because it is written the Law and the Prophets are till John and the seed is but one not seeds but seed and the promises are to the seed fulfilled through death in the Ministery by the Spirit in the crosse which cuts down and raiseth up and how thou came to know Johns Ministry set up within because he came and doth come burning and shining and there is a willingnesse to rejoice in his Light for a season and how it was with thee in that Ministration to know the ax laid to the root of the tree and the tree to be cut down and what that fallow ground in thee was which must be ript up and I also asked thee what self was with the fruits and the ground of it which the Crosse is Lo I told thee the creation was a figure and out of the ground sprung up grosse herbs weeds briers and thornes c. And the ofspring was not the ground the ofspring might be cut off and there might spring up more fruits of the like nature again so the fruits of self might be cut off and the ofspring was not the ground and whilest there was the ground and the roots in it unript up more fruits would grow there of like nature also therefore John said Rip up your fallow ground make the rough places smooth and prepare the way for the Lord to come into his Temple that he may sit as Refiner I asked thee how thou past through that Ministery of John in the inward man and what succeded John because it is written that the least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he and some did witnesse that they were set in heavenly places in Christ Jesus Eph. 2.6 And I said unto thee if thou was an Officer in the Church of the first born written in heaven and were in the kingdom thou couldest witnesse to those things Heb. 12.22 and 28. Luk 17 21. And liberty was granted to thee for to declare thy passages in the inward ministrations if that thou couldest that it might be for the good of the people there present but thou could not speak any thing at all concerning those conditions and inward ministrations when thou was desired and severall times urged to it but all that thou could say was to accuse falsly and said I denyed the Scriptures and made that thy cover which would not hide thee but left thee bare and thy nakednesse did then openly appear then I charged thee to be a lyar and others witnessed against thee for saying that I denyed the Scripture when thou had no ground for it but the devill was a lyer from the beginning and abode not in the Truth and thou lyer who art out of the Truth art of him as thy deeds maketh thee manifest John 8.44 Therefore stop thy mouth and cover thy lips and let shame strike thee in the face for ever thou lyer and false accuser of the just Paul who was a Minister of the new Covenant not of the Letter but of the the Spirit he declared of his passages and his grouth and how he came out of one dispensation into another and they that grew from one degree of grace and glory into another they said that they knew no man after the flesh though they had known Christ after the flesh yet henceforth knew they him so no more and they gave account of their