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A89837	A few words occasioned by a paper lately printed, stiled, A discourse concerning the Quakers. Together with a call to magistrates, ministers, lawyers, and people to repentance. Wherein all men may see, that the doctrine and life of those people whom the world scornefully calls Quakers, is the very doctnrie [sic] and life of Christ. Written for the sake of the simple minded ones, who are willing to follow Christ under the crosse, and to deny all things to be his disciples. By a servant of the Lord, reproached by the world, and carnall worshippers, under the name of a Quaker; whose name in the flesh is Iames Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; A. P.	1654 (1654)	Wing N279; Thomason E731_23; ESTC R202987	25,300	28

1 Pet. 3. 21. without but not that of the spirit the answer of a good Conscience and observing of Holy dayes First cleare thy selfe and then finde fault with them that deserves Thou talkest of pittying and praying for these but the spirit of scorning slandering and deceit and the spirit of pitty and Prayer cannot stand in one and where the first is I cannot owne the latter Thou sayest Prayse the Lord that hath delivered out of the snares of Sathan And it Iam. 3. 11. is true they who are so can delight in nothing else but Prayses but whilest thou commit sinne thou art in his snares and a servant to him Thou sayest Worke out your salvation with feare Iohn 3. 9. and trembling but scornes quaking and sayes It is from the power of the Devill but it is in this as in all thy Paper thou wilt owne the Scripture in notion and letter but scornes and persecutes the power and practice of it And now friend a word to thy present condition as thou art revealed thou art in the world in thy fleshly will pride of heart and rash anger exalted above thy brethren and the spirit of persecution acts in thee thou denyest to walke answerable to a light in thy Conscience which would leade thee out of these things up into obedience love and meeknesse and thy love to the deeds of darkenesse makes thee hate the light I speake to that in thy Conscience which shall eternally witnesse me at the great day of the Lord when all secrets shall be layd open where thou shalt account for all thy hard speeches against the spirit of God in his people Wherefore repent and take heed how thou speakest evill of the things thou knowest not or opposeth the spirituall Kingdome of Christ in the Consciences of his owne poore despised little Flocke but turne in thy high minde and see what thou hast been doing and who thou strivest against If he fall upon thee he will grinde thee to powder let not thy high mind scorne that which may be for thy eternall good Search the Scritures and see if any of the holy men of God ever acted such things Now thou hast time prise it least thou harden thy selfe against God and so be for destruction eternally thou knowest not what spirit thou art of Thy Name I know not but where thou livest I know and what spirit acts in thee Oh that thou knewest in this thy day the things that belong to thy Eternall Peace My Name in the Flesh James Nayler A Call to Magistrates Ministers Lawyers and People to Repentance O Man and Woman how art thou fallen from thy Maker Gen. 1. 26. 27. and from the estate wherein thou was created And how dost thou lye in the losse and in the fall How long will it be ere thou enquire after the Lord who is holy and pure And you people of England How long will it be ere you leave off your out-side formall customary worships and seeke the Lord in truth of heart bringing forth fruits of righteousnesse and Rom. 1. 2. 3. holinesse according to what you professe that the Lord who hates dissembling may be honoured not in words but in life power and practice Doth not your actions declare against you before men and Angels that you are out of the way and in the Jer. 28. curse Children of the night and brings forth the fruits of darkenesse and death and not unto God And you who say Isay 56. 10 11. you are the Teachers of the Nation How long will it be ere Jer. 6. 13. 14. you looke at your owne wayes Is not all manner of filthinesse Exod. 3. 4. amongst you which you should leade the people out of Is there not among you Drunkennesse Gluttony Whoredome and Sporting sitting downe to Eate and to Drinke and rising up to play Swearing Lying Backbiting false accusing Rayling Slandering Contention Strife and Envy Yea Are not the best of you given to Pride and Covetousnesse which is Idolatry fulnesse of Bread and abundance of Idlenesse Are not you Hirelings and Teach for the Fleece Doe not you contend for Money with your owne Hearers and sue them at Law for it yea although they cannot satisfie your demands but sinne against the light in their owne Conscience and so sinne Isay 9. 15. 16. against God Are you not Bitter and Persecuters of any that comes to discover your lewdnesse crying out to the Magistrate Exod. 18. 21. 22. to uphold you in your beastly wayes and to stop the mouthes of all those whom God hath sent to witnesse against you And Rom. 13. 3. 4. much more works of this nature is amongst you which the pure Micha 3. 11. All-seeing God hath shewed unto his people to be amongst you and therefore it is that they come out from you least they Prov. 21. 3. partake with you of your sinnes and plagues But are not you blinde leaders of the blinde when you neither see these to be the workes of darkenesse nor those that follow you Woe unto Isay 1. 23. 24. you that devoure soules for Money and Gaine The day of your Account is at hand O repent the blood of soules is upon you Jer. 5. 28. 29. Die ever God send forth such a Generation of Teachers amongst his People who are not taught themselves by him to forsake Isay 3. 14. Iames 1. 2. 8. 9. such wayes as these which you walke in How are you ensamples to the People to follow The Leader of this People hath caused them to erre and they that are led by them are destroyed and hereby Priest and People are at a distance from the Lord. Job 13. 10. O you Rulers of the People who are set up to judge betwixt a Man and his Neighbour ought not you to judge for God and Luke 20. 21. not for Man Ought you not to be Men fearing God and hating Covetousnesse not judging for gifts and rewards Prov. 28. 21. Ought not you to countenance and encourage them that doe Exod. 18. 22. well and be a terror to them which doe evill Justice is so And Rom. 13. 3. 4. 5. he that is of God and beares his Sword turnes the edge of it against all sinne and wickednesse injustice and oppression and so sets up justice and judgement in the gates that the poore Prov. 29. 2. 14. may be delivered from him that is to mighty for him and that the cause of the Fatherlesse Widdow and Stranger may not fall but hath an eare open to the cryes of the poore and helplesse Prov. 10. 6. who hath but little Money and few friends that a poore man may not be afrayd to appeare in a good cause against the greatest Isay 5. 4. 7. oppressor in the Nation And ought not you to judge without respect to persons or without seeking respect to your own Persons Worship or Honour from men but onely

A Few Words occasioned by a Paper lately Printed Stiled A Discourse concerning the QUAKERS Together with a Call to Magistrates Ministers Lawyers and People to Repentance Wherein all men may see that the Doctrine and Life of those People whom the world scornefully calls Quakers is the very Doctnrie and Life of Christ Written for the sake of simple minded ones who are willing to follow Christ under the Crosse and to deny all things to be his Disciples By a Servant of the Lord reproached by the world and carnall worshippers under the Name of a Quaker whose Name in the Flesh is Iames Nayler To the READER Friend MEeting lately with a Printed Paper stiled A Discourse concerning the Quakers and finding many things in it deeply reflecting on the spirit of the Lord sent into the hearts of men to reprove and convince them of sinne and reproaching his holy people whom he hath called out of the world and that it was scattered abroad into many hands and so might prove a stumbling blocke to weake minds I was moved to send it to a friend in the West who for the simple ones sake hath given forth a few things that truth might appeare And if there be any that by Reading this shall be brought to discover truth from error or to lay to heart their conditions and how they have hitherto trifled away their pretious time There is another Paper now in the Presse from the same hand which will shew forth the true light that guides to God and opens the Scriptures removes the doubts about the great power of the Lord manifested in shaking the earthly part of those he brings to himselfe plainly declare the deceipts of the false prophets of the world and let the Magistrate see the bounds of his Authority There is another Paper come forth by the Author of the former Discourse occasioned by something Writ in Answer to it by one who saith he is none of those called Quakers and yet the Discourser chargeth all things he saith on them But the Paper sufficiently bewrayes the Authors weakenesse and its owne folly Reade without prejudice that thou may receive Instruction and not increase thy owne misery A. P. A Paper being come to my hand which is full of deceit under pretence of Religion and a Forme of Profession striking at the life of all Religion which is obedience to all the commands of God in the spirit and under pretence of the Letter which he calls the Word he goes about to reproach and scorne and sleight the teachings of Christ in the spi●it whereby he rules in the consciences of his Saints and by which light he reveales the Father in them and thereby declares himselfe to be the Eternall Word and Witnesse within his which Word first was known within them a free gift of the Father without any Letter or humane Learning and then declared out in the Letter But they who as the Jews thinke they have salvation in the Letter are enemies and persecutors of John 5. 3● them who have the Eternall Witnesse of salvation in the Spirit Gal. 3. 2● And from that spirit hath this Paper its foundation for God having put the enmity between the carnall and the sp●rituall Seeds there can be no agreement Now though I abhorre striving for Master-hood in words or writing yet for the sake of the simple ones who not yet having the true judgement and salt in themselves to discerne of spirits are subject to take great swelling words of mans wisedome for the power of God unto 1 Cor. 2. 5. 6. salvation I am therefore moved to lay open some of the deceits in this Paper that where truth and simplicity is in the heart it may more cleerly judge of truth from dece●t The Paper is Titled A Discourse concerning the Quakers It is no new thing for the dearest servants and children of God Psal 69 12. Psal 31. ●1 to be a discourse a reproach a taunt and by-word a wonder and Psal 22 6. a scorne to fooles and wicked men and to have the belly-god and drunkard to make songs of their sad and afflicted conditions Psal 60 12. and to be called by nick-names such as it pleaseth Ishmaels Iohn 10. 20. brood to cast upon them to be called Devills Deceivers Heretickes Franticke Madd men Quakers and such like but it is that the same Scriptures may be fulfilled in the Saints that were in Christ their example As they have done unto me so will Luke 23. 31. they doe unto you If they keep my sayings they will also keep yours If they have called the good man of the house Beelzebub how much more them of his houshold Thou sayest It s plainely fore-told that in the last dayes shall be the greatest Deceivers and worst of Hypocrites men extraordinarily inspired with a spirit of lyes and delusion It is above sixteen hundred yeares since those were foretold and they have had so long a time since to broach their deceits and strengthen themselves in the earth that the deceit is now growne a monster and hath got many heads and hornes religions Revel 13. 1. and formes one at warre with another striving with words and weapons who should be greatest But now that Christ is arisen in his Saints to reveale this man of sinne by his 2 Thes 2. 7. 8. light and to destroy him with the sword of his mouth All Ezek. 38. 18. 19. formes of Religions the Beast and the false Prophet Gog and Acts 4. 26. 27. Magog are joyned together to strike at this light and no wonder for that deceitfull spirit knowes that that light which discovers him in one forme will discover him in all And now the Devill would passe Judgement upon that light which is come to judge him where he is and so set any whom he can prevaile in to cast reproach upon it under many odious names that so he may keep people at a distance from so much as owning Luke 6. 22. it for he knowes if any owne it there he is discovered and dis-owned and this is his way in all in whom he speaks to cry out against those that walke in the light in generall calling them Deceivers Heretickes Hypocrites denyers of Scriptures Acts 24. 14. Acts 6. 13. 14. and Ordinances and many such words as he thinks may make the truth most odious to others but not once shew in what particular such walke contrary to the Scripture for the deceit knowes that if it come to tryall it selfe will be found that which walkes contrary to the Scripture for the same light that gave out the Scriptures leades not contrary to it And now who will be the greatest deceivers whether a poore despised persecuted reproached people whom God hath called out of the worlds wayes words workes worship riches and pleasures and so are become strangers and wanderers to and fro seeking a City whose builder and maker is God Heb 11. 26.

be pride envy covetousnesse selfe love exaltation slandering false-accusing deceit dissimulation and hypocrisie and such like which are the workes of the Devill all thy outward pretences shall not keep thee from the condemnation of the Devill for it is that which leades out of the works of the Devill that brings from under the condemnation of the Devill Thou puts much upon Church-Ordinances but fee if thou be distinguished from the world otherwise then in notion and thy owne conceit which will deceive thee and all the covetous oppressors in the world in the day of tryall Therefore prove thy selfe if thou be a Saint sanctified Iude 1. Iohn 17. 9 14. come out of the worlds pleasures riches wayes and worships and fashions as they were whose conditions thou talkest on or else thy crying the Temple of the Lord will but stand thee in little stead which if thou deale plainely in and let truth speak in thee thou wilt see a great distance between a Saints life and thine as between a Saints spirit and thine which is plainely discovered Thou sayest It is observable that where Churches are these Owles dare not appeare These reproachfull names beseems that spirit from whence they come but which of them have refused to come where they have been sent for feare of your Churches or what corners are they in except it be such as you have shut up in prisons or dungeons doe not these that are at liberty meet in the middest of common Streets and Fields where God calls them and many of the most conscientious of your Churches owne them and frequents their meetings others who have the feare of God before them dare not persecute them in word or deed but the day is come that all spirits must shew themselves Thou advisest to doe all according to Scripture it is good advice but dost thou that teachest another Mat. 7. 12. teach thy selfe dost thou as thou would be done by in all things dost thou forsake pride and covetousnesse which is Idolatry and not to be so much as named among Saints dost not thou seek great things for thy selfe having food and rayment Jere. 45. 5. Iam 4 4. art thou therewith content art thou out of love with the world which is enmity with God dost thou not take thought for to morrow for food and rayment hast thou crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts and put off the body of sin art thou not a scorner reviler and false accuser dost thou feed the hungry cloathe the naked and let the oppressed goe free Iam. 1 27 hast thou forsaken all to follow Christ art thou hated of all Mat. 15. 10. 11. men for the name of Christ hast thou denied to be called Master art thou come to yea and nay in thy common occasions Mat. 23 8. 10. dost thou love the Brethren with the same love Christ hath loved his withall art thou set free from thy sinne and rash passions Mat. 5 37 Rom. 6 18. dost thou hold thy Faith in a pure Conscience voyd of offence 1 Tim. 1 5 19. towards God and Man dost thou walke as Christ walked And many other the commands of God set down in Scripture in Acts 24 16. which the Saints walked as is plaine in Scripture which if thou ● Iohn 2 6. walke iu there thou dost all according to the Scripture but if thou take but some part of Scripture to performe as it is given out by the holy Ghost to wit that which will most fit thy forme and please thy owne will and not crosse thy lusts profits and greatnesse in the world and for the rest either let them stand by or wrest them by subtill meaning and exposition to bring 2 Pet. 3. 16. them to bend to thy disobedient minde shall not God find thee out and plague thee for thy adding and diminishing altering Rev. 22. 18. and changing that which was perfectly given forth to be read and fulfilled as it is And whereas thou would charge the light of Christ shining into the Conscience which teacheth into onenesse to be the cause of all the errors in the world It is false for the light of Christ is but one and all that are led by Rom. 8. 14 it walke after Christ as he walked but the cause of all errors comes from the Serpents subtill twining and wresting the Scriptures every one for their owne Formes ends and carnall traditions but none of them will owne it to live the life of it as it is and so have it fulfilled in them as is was in those that spoke it forth Thou sayest Be sure the Christ the Faith the Hope the Baptisme the Worship be that which is in Scripture Now that Christ which the saints witnessed in Scripture is the light of the Iohn 8. 12. world given to enlighten the Gentiles and lighteneth every Iohn 1. 9. one that commeth into the world which light is in the saints Iohn 1. 7. and whosoever walkes in it hath fellowship with God and one with another and thereby are cleansed from all sin in which light all Sriptures were spoken forth which light thou denyes to be equall with the Scripture but scornes and reproaches with nick-names as Ignis fatuus a naturall light making it plainely appeare that thou art one of those the Scriptures speaks on who hates the light And the Scripture Faith is that by which Iohn 3 20. 1 Iohn 5. 4 5. the saints overcame the world sinn and the Devill and gets victory which Faith thou in this Paper canst not owne but denyes and would reproach in them in whom it hath overcome sinne and brought up to perfection and he that hath the Scripture hope purifies himselfe even as he is pure and the Baptisme 1 Iohn 3. 3. of Christ is with the holy Ghost and with Fire which thou Mat. 3 11 in thy Paper speaks scornefully of in others that owne it And the Scriptures-worship is not in Idolls Temples Formes and Letters but in spirit and in truth and God seeks such to worship Iohn 4 24. him And thou ranks up a number of Raunters Notionists Papists and such like that are most odious to people and with these thou puts in those called Quakers and tells of their opinions but those thou so callest denies all opinions and lives in the light and practice of Scriptures but thou when thou art proved will be found more in opinion then practice And thou that denies the infallible spirit to be in thee art but in opinions at the best And for the Purgatory thou speakes on thou that sayes None can ever be perfected and set free from sinne while they are here had need to own a Purgatory but they who are Redeemed and set free from sinne by the Lambe of God need it not but have received the earnest of their eternall inheritance And for the word Baptisme which is but Water

to advance James 2. 9. Justice Equity and Righteousnesse which is of God that so you may be honoured by the Lord for true Humility is Honour Prov. 15. 33. and he that Honours the Lord him will he Honour and such have been honoured in all Ages though they never sought it from men And when justice beares rule the Righteous rejoyce Prov. 22. ●● and the Land is in peace and wickednesse is made to blush and be ashamed and the wicked is scattered from about such Rulers O you that Rule in the Nation Is it so Nay Is it not quite contrary O what a height is iniquity growne unto Doth not all manner of sinne abound even in open streets as Isay 2. 11. swearing drunkennesse covetousnesse and oppression Can you passe on the streets and not heare the cryes of it and although there have been Lawes for restraining of some of those abominations yet how are they sleighted so that poore People get not the benefit by them Nay is it not too plain that they who should restraine others are many of them guilty of the same themselves Shall not the Lord visit for these things The cryes Isay 5. ● 28. 29. of the poore oppressed ones is come before the Lord and he is risen to avenge him of him that is too strong for him O when will you see Hath not want of Justice cast Kings from 1 Chron. 1● 21. 22. their Thrones and overturned Nations And is not the Lord Overturning overturning overturning O returne to the Lord and have a care to use your power so as to make a way for purity and holinesse that the Kingdome of Christ may be set up and Reigne and that the Seed of God may have free liberty to come out of Sodom and Egypt to serve the Lord without feare of Man out of all Formes and Customes and Magician Imaginations into the power of purity and of the spirit Cease from Persecuting and Imprisoning the Innocent for crying out against the abhominations of the Times and letting the guilty goe free least the decree goe forth against you and the wrath Jer. 4. 4● of God burne like Fire and there be none to quench it Hath God put Power into your Hands to oppose his owne worke And you lofty ones of the Earth who have gotten much of the creation into your hands and have thereby set your Nests on high and are become Lords over your Brethren Was the creatures Psal 62. ● 10. made for that end to set your hearts upon them to heape together out of the reach of the poore and needy and he who can get the greatest share should become the greatest man and all that have little shall bow downe and worship him and so breake the command of God which saith Thou shalt not bow Exad 20. ●● downe nor worship any Creature in Heaven or in Earth Are you not fallen from the estate wherein you was Created for it was not so from the beginning for he who made all things good Gen. 1. 31. made all men of one mold and one blood to dwell on the face of the Earth and gave them power over the worke of his hands not to heape them together to set your hearts upon them but to Gen. 1 26. use them to his service who made all things for himselfe and the Prov. 16. 4. wicked for the day of evill You that live in your pride painting your selves in your costly Apparrell in venting new wayes Isay 28. 1. and fashions to make you seem glorious in the carnall eyes of others that they may worship you for this is that which the Gal. 4. 8. Heathen worship who know not God and this is that you Acts 17. 23. looke for which Angels dare not take to themselves But Hammon-like Esther 3. 5 you rage if you have it not and beare an evill eye to them who cannot give that to you which belongs to God Isay 2. 18 alone But the hand of the Lord shall be upon all the Idolls of the world you have forgot that you were but dust and Psal 7. 5. must to dust and God will honour himselfe in laying all Honours Iohn 5. 44. in the dust which men seek to themselves and is not of God alone You lustfull ones which lives of the fat of the Ezek. 34. 3 Earth whose care is onely to satisfie the Flesh and the Lusts thereof your curious devised dishes Dives-like Is this the end Nehe. 8. 10. for which you was made you are fitted for destruction your day is comming the cry of your iniquity is gone up before the Lord the cryes of the poore which you have oppressed Iames 5. 4. 5. whose labours you have spent upon your lusts the Rust of your Gold and Silver doth witnesse against you Repent repent cast off your gorgious Apparrell and guird you with mourning Let your Songs of Musicke be turned into howling your Banqueting Amos 8. 3. 10. and Feasting into Fasting for the Lord is wrath with you and the Fire is begun allready Breake off your sinnes by Repentance and your iniquities by shewing mercy unto the poore and turne to the Lord with all your heart from all your evill doings if so be that you may finde mercy that you may be hid in the day of his fierce wrath which is to come upon Zeph. 2 3. all the workers of iniquity For he will bring downe the Mighty from their Seates that he may exalt them of low degree O take heed how you contend with him Did ever any doe it and prosper Shall the Clay strive with the Potter If Ier. 1 8 6. he fall upon you he will breake you to powder And you Lawyers ought not you to pleade the cause of equity between man and man for equity sake without respect to your selves or others but onely to truth it selfe that a just Cause may be owned in whom ever it concernes But is not the justest Cause sure to fall if the Party have not Money to satisfie your 1 Tim. 6 10 demands which are many times very unreasonable and you who should instruct people in the wayes of truth and peace Doe not you by your wisedome teach them lyes and strife Doe not you advise your Plantives as you call them to declare in Bills things that are not true and make small offences seem very great by false glosses For say you We may Declare what we will and Prove what we can so that you and they who you act for knowes before-hand that scarce one thing of ten can Luke 11. 4● 52. be proved neither is true Is this the way to make up the breach and preserve peace and truth amongst people O miserable fall from God when that Law which should before preserve in peace is used to aggravate offences beyond truth and so make differences greater And doe not you delight to fish in

you turne your eyes within and Psalme 115. 5. look into your owne standing or rather into your fall and how you sighe under the curses and wrath of the Almighty and how farre you are from purity and holinesse and that estate wherein Gen. 1. 27. that you was made in the Image of God and waite to see that renewed in you and you brought up out of the fall and a seperation to be one with God and Christ that you may know what you worship and finde acceptance But are you not so farre from that that if the Image of God seem to be renewed in any and they begin to turne from these and the like abominations to serve the living God in purity and holinesse and they refuse to partake with you in your Pride Covetousnesse Drunkennesse and excesse 1 Pet. 4. 3. 4. of Ryot and deny your vaine Heathenish Customes Fashions and Worships and are not such objects of your envy and hatred and are they not abused by you buffeted scorned mocked stoped and called most reproachfull names even in Wayes and Markets and in your Streets when you meet with them though they never speake word to you but beare your reproaches with patience So that he that departs from Iniquity makes himselfe a Isay 59. 15. Pray to this Generation Doe not you plainely shew forth the Serpents Seed in you which is at enmity with the Seed of God where ever it is brought forth and so you shew your selves to be acted by the Devill who was a Murderer from the beginning Iohn 8. ●4 And when the judgements and wrath of God appeares in the Land Is it not because of your Iniquiries Doe not you like wicked Ahab charge an innocent People who cannot partake with you in your wickednesse declaring that those who are harmelesse to be cause of troubles in the Nation and say They are about to rayse a new Warre but never looke at your owne abominations for which the Land mournes and the wrath of God Hos 4. 3. is against it ready to destroy it but still hearden your hearts in your wickednesse And as though all this were too little have you not added this wickednesse now that God in mercy hath called some out of all these evill wayes and sent them to declare against these abominations which the world lives in both Priests and People not onely in word but in life and practice and hath 2 Pet. 1. 4. 5. 16. given his power to goe along with them and are not these called by you Devills Witches Sorcerers Conjurers Jesuites and the like Are they not some beaten some stoned others shamefully entreated and Imprisoned Are they not brought before Rulers and Governors for the confessing the name of Christ and all this you doe unto them not for any evill you can charge upon them but for the name of Christ and his power that goes along with them in shaking downe the Kingdome of the Serpent and bringing his elect out of all the Heathenish Customes and Iohn 4 23. 24. Worships to Worship God in Spirit and him onely and not men nor the Idolls of the World And now are you not blinde who have professed the Scriptures so long and cannot see them fulfilled now in this Generation Are not those of the same brood who called the good man of the house Beelzebub and how can they Mat. 10 25. doe lesse to them of his houshold Doe not this Generation beate some stone and shamefully entreat others that beare witnesse to the Heire And hath not Christ said Yee shall be hated Mat. 10 22. of all men for my Names sake They shall speake all manner of evill of you falsely They shall seperate out of your company reproach you and cast out your name as evill and you shall be brought before Rulers for a testimony against them and for my names sake And the Devill shall cast some of you into Prison that you Rev. ● 10. may be tryed and you shall have tribulations ten dayes yea the time comes that they that Kill you shall thinke they doe God Mat. 24. 9. service and these things will they doe unto you because they know not the Father nor the Sonne And the Scriptures must be fulfilled and those who have Eyes to see may see them now fulfilled and fulfilling and they who see it have share in it and rejoyce and witnesse God faithfull and his Word but wicked men and persecuters have been blinde in all Ages For 2 Co● 4. 4. the God of this world have blinded their Eyes and hath thereby made them fit for his owne worke and his worke is to oppose the Lord in all things Now all People see where you are and Rom. ● ● what you are doing where you live and whom you serve for if you live to the Flesh you cannot please God for as alwayes he that is borne after the Flesh persecuted him that was borne Gal. 4. 29. after the Spirit even so it is now O be no longer deceived see whether ye be in the first Birth or Borne againe That which Iohn 3. ●● is of the first is of the Earth Earthly and minds Earthly things feeds upon Dust and this is the Serpents Seed and here are all your envious haters persecuters covetous scoffers and such 2. Pet. 3. 3. like and here will you be found your actions witnesse it you cannot deceive God you are under the Curse and they be the 1 Iohn 3. ● cursed fruits you bring forth and they are for the Fire But the second brings forth no such fruit for he that is Borne againe is Borne of the Spirit and brings forth fruits of the Spirit he is 1 Iohn 4. 7. Borne of God and brings forth fruits unto God fruits of love meeknesse gentlenesse patience temperance and such like there was never a Persecuter of this Birth for they are called out of all occasions of strife contention and persecution for that is all about things of this world and Formes and Customes that Ier. 10 3. perish But they who are brought into the substance cannot contend about shaddowes for there all Disputes and vaine janglings Ephes 2. 18. cease For as they are ruled by one Spirit so they are led by one Spirit into one God where God Christ and the Saints are one eternally but this godlinesse is a Mystery to all the World Now try your selves for by your fruits you are knowne and shall be judged wherefore all People looke within and judge your selves reforme the inside looking without to be seen of men keeps you Hypocrites and you have your reward But Col. 2. 11. the true Seed of the Jewes who are of the Circumcision made without hands in the Heart and such seek not prayse of Men ● Iohn ● 3. 6. 7. but of God neither are they knowne of men nor owned of Men nor have fellowship with men but are raysed up out of the fall to God to live with him in joy and peace and righteousnesse which men talkes of who lives in the flesh and in the ● Cor. ●5 ●0 fall who are not reconciled to God and there can be no reconciliation to God while sinne stands which made the first seperation O People be not deceived FINIS