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A85147	The ranters principles & deceits discovered and declared against, denied and disowned by us whom the world cals Quakers. With a discovery of the mistery of the crosse of Christ. And a discovery of the true light and the false, with their wayes, worships, natures, properties and effects. &c. A vindication for the truth against the deceit. to clear the truth, of scandalls written for simple ones sake, that desire to know the truth as it is in Jesus.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1655 (1655)	Wing F501; Thomason E830_14; ESTC R207442	21,296	22

shineth in darknesse but darknesse comprehends it not Joh. 1.5 This then is the message that God is light Ioh. 1.5 and in him is no darknesse at all if we say we have fellowship with him and walk in darknesse we lye and do not the truth but if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another Ioh. 1.5 6 7 and the bloud of Iesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin 1 Joh. 1.5 6 7 he that dwelleth in God dwelleth in light but he that is out of God is in darknesse and walketh in crooked paths that leads to destruction Therefore I say unto you who desire to fear the Lord as John said to the brethren Little children let no man deceive you he that doth righteousnesse is righteous even as he is righteous but he that doth not righteousnesse is not of God neither he that loveth not his brother in this the children of God are made manifest 1 Ioh. 3.9 10. and the children of the Divell 1. Joh. 3.9 18. Here is two seeds acted by two powers and receiveth strength from two roots the seed of God acted by the power of God and all who are in unity with that seed are crucified to the world and dead to unrighteousnesse Christ being made manifest to destroy the works of the Divell who is the bright morning star I am the root and off-spring of David Rev. 22.16 saith Jesus Christ and he that is unjust let him be uniust still and he that is saithy let him be filthy still there is the evil seed but he that is righteous let him be righteous still and he that is holy let him be holy still there is the good seed and righteousnesse springeth from one root and is of God and all who act in righteousnesse who are acted and guided by the divine power of God are one and are in covenant with God but all unrighteousnesse doth spring from another root Rev. 22.10 11 12 13 14 15. Isa 5.22 23 24 Rev. 22.16 17. Isa 28.13 14 15 16 17 18 19. and those who are of unrighteousnesse are of the seed of the serpent and are acted and guided by the power of the Divell Rev. 21.10 11 12 13 14 15. and I witnesse the same with the Scriptures by experience that good and evil it from two roots distinct and two powers therefore be not deceived for God will not be mocked Heb. 1.14 15. Act. 26.28 Rev. 13.4 Rev. 16.10 11 12 13 14. Rev. 19.11 12. to the end of the chapter You who are of the unrighteousnesse and of the seed of the serpent are one and all in covenant with the Divell and have made a covenant with death and Hell that the Scriptures maybe fulfilled Isa 28.15.28 chap. 1. 2. Isa 5.18 19 20 21 22 13 24. But you can deceive none but such as are of the same seed of evil doers with you who are of the serpent and lives in the fall and the lust of the flesh forsaking the fountain of living mercies to delight in lying vanities but the seed of God is springing up and begin to grow and righteousnesse will be a terrour to unrighteousnesse and the seed of God will be a torment to the seed at the serpent and the Lord ruling in his Saints will be a terrour to the heathen Howl ye serpents and all ye dragons for you will be found out and have the vialle of wrath and indignation poured forth upon you howl ye lustfull ones who delight in unrighteousnesse the Lord will be avenged of you Isa 1.24 Isa 3.11 all vengeance is mine all I will repay saith the Lord sury to mine adversaries you would have two kingdoms but Esaus dominion is yours and the hatred of God it to you all who delight in unrighteousnesse and and ye shall desire to see one of the daies of the son of man out shall not or the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it and this declare I unto you from the word of the Lord. The mistery of the crosse of Christ and the law in the heart taking hold upon sin and all unrighteousnesse to cut it down and cast it out through the working of the divine power of God in Mankinde The crosse is inward Ioh. 16.7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 v. Luk. 9.23 24 25 26. 1 Cor. 1.17 18. 〈◊〉 6.14 to the cutting down of sin and uncleanesse within the pure light of God which convinceth of sin and evil and witnesseth against all the branching forth of the unrighteous power of darknesse in man when his mind will and affections would run forth into the world to conceive some comfort to himself out of die visible objects his heart is soon taken through the outgoing of his eye with the things of the world and he transformes the very image of what part of the creation soever his eye was out after and sets it up in his heart if it be a house field horse oxe or any other creature he is taken with beauty or riches and so his heart is stoln away into the earth and he sets his affections on the things below God and his will falls down to worship silver and gold and such like things making them his Gods to delight himself in and when his heart is running out after the love and honour of the world there is a principle of purity within tells him all is but vanity and this calls for equity equity to take of oppression and cruelty but the lustfull proud nature crosseth that principle of purity and draweth the heart after vanity when the Divell bears rule in the heart working into the mistery of the iniqnity but that of purity which calls for equity still cryeth out and tells man all is but vanity and calls and cryes in his heart for purity and to set up truth and righteousnesse and to do to all men as he would be done by for that is the Law and the Prophets and to love God with all his heart and his neighbour as himself and to give over folly and vanity this is the crosse to iniquity which calleth and cryeth for justice and equity and love and pity let that be heard and obeyed in you and it will shut out jollity and cut off vanity and work into unity with that which calleth for purity and crosse the lustfull proud nature that hardness of heart may not rule over justice and equity Consider oh man that thou art mortall and must return to dust and be cast into torment and burning if thou wilt not give ear to the cry of the poor that which is pure in thee that it may work thee into charity and shew thee the way that leads to eternity and cut of oppression and tyranny that diligence may rule in thee that thy lusts may be slain that would break the bonds of amity the pure light will witness against the dark nature in thee and strike at the

have came to the hidden name but not abiding under the wrath the light vain mind is got up in you and the flesh is at ease but wo to all careless ones that are at ease in Sion Rev. 3.12 Rev. 22.9 Rev. 21.27 so soon as the pure law did break out in force and give in some refreshment to the seed in prison and the love and joy did spring into the imprisoned seed from him who lives out of time to refresh that which is captivated by that which lives in times and time and so the will turned into the conceiving of something from what was made out to the seed and the faln wisdom joined with the corrupt will and got liberty from under the cross and the Divell he wrought strongly upon the imaginations and so sought to comprehend the light and drew a vail over the heart and there he acted in the mistery of the iniquity after the pure were vailed and he brought all into question and pleaded for liberty to the flesh through his workings upon the imaginations and the comprehensions by carnall reason and the faln wisdom joining to conceive and comprehend to have all at command and be as God knowing good and evil and now saith the Divell all is good and there is nothing evil but as thou conceivest it to be so and thou art brought into the knowledge of this that is all good and it was but thy weaknesse to think that there was any thing evil now thou art the son of God and thou knowest it all is thine take thy liberty and rejoyce let thy heart be merry use all things in righteousnesse and there is no sin in them thou hast been so crittick that thou couldst scarce look chearfully or partake of any thing that was for thy comfort but now thou art a son and thou seest how thou hast been kept from thy l●berty meerly through thy conceits and apprehensions of ev●l and an angry God against sin and fear least thou shouldest go into a place thou callest hell but saith he now thou maist see it was but the weak and low apprehensions in those things there is neither hell nor Divell nor any such thing but what as was in thee and thou hast got through those conceits now rejoyce and be merry and take thy pleasure use thy freedom thou art a son and if a son then an heir and thou maist laugh the heathen to scorn poor fooles that they should so deprive themselves of their liberty and freedom as they do and be bound so to false conceits as they are because that their judgements are not rightly informed to know all things to be good and this which they call sin to be but a conceit and that i● they knew their freedom they might rejoyce and he glad c. and thus the Devill he works strongly upon the imaginations when the light breakes forth and the love comes to be made manifest to the seed in prison not abiding in the crosse the will is seeking to comprehend and get out from under the judgement and here Satan doth delude and deceive under fair colours like an angell of light and leads out into fleshly love fleshly joy fleshly liberty and fleshly pleasures and calls all good and calleth that a freedom by the son but it is but by the son of perdition that doth exalt himself above all that is called God and that liberty which he leads into is a false liberty and thou shalt find it whoever thou art that takes his counsell after that the light do arise in thee then he useth all his devices to deceive withall which before were not known afterwards comes to be made known and wo to them that turn out of the strait way and the daily crosse to seek ease to the flesh there they took counsell of the Devill and he will work them into such a strong combination with the powers of darknesse that they shall find that of the Apostle to be true those that were once enlightened and have tasted of the good word of God and the powers of the world to come if they shall fall away to renew then again to repentance they crucify to themselves the son of God afresh and put him to an open shame and wo is thei● portion Heb. 6.4 5 6 7 8. for the earth that drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed receiveth blessing from God so do they that abide in the teaching and counsell of God who works them into a fruitfulnesse to bring praise to his name to receive his blessing which is as the dew of ●●aven to water nourish and comfort their souls but that nature which is contrary to the light and all that go out of the counsell of God and the daily crosse turneth into the crooked paths of fleshly delights and pleasures and dishonoureth the Lord and is as the ground that beareth nothing but thornes and is rejected and is nigh unto cursing and burning and so are they who turn the grace of God into wantonesse and lasciviousnesse and will not abide the fire and the sword to c●t down the thorny nature and the fleshly corrupt heart and to burn the earth and place of the serpents abode in them therefore must they know the eternall fire and vengeance of God to be revealed from heaven for they who sin wilfully after that they have received the knowledge of the truth there remains no more sacrifice for sin but a fearfull looking for of judgement and fiery indignation of the Lord which shall devour the adversaries Heb. 6.4 to the 8.2 Thes 1.6 7 8 9. Heb. 10.26 27. Look to your selves all Ranters and Libertines who turns the grace of God into wantonesse the Devill he hath deceived you and you seek to deceive others preaching to them liberty when you your selves are the servants of sin but wo and misery is your portion yet the Lord may pluck some as brands out of the fire that they may be witnesses for the truth against the deceits to forewarn all of that dangerous way whereby the Divell lyeth in wait to deceive if it were possible the very elect but for the elects sake doth the Lord discover your deceits and false light Liberties Rests and pleasures which you live and take delight and pleasure in wo is your portion for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it and this I testify unto you from the word of the Lord. But you may object and say Object Gal. 5.1 Rom. 14.14 2. Cor. 5.18 did not the Apostle say stand fast in tnac liberty wherewith Christ hath see you free Gal. 5.1 and he said all things are lawfull for me but all things are not expedient and I know and am perswaded by the Lord Iesus that there is nothing unclean of it self but to him that esteemeth it to be unclean to him it is unclean and to the pure all things are p●re and

all things are of God who hath reconciled us to himself by Iesus Christ c. I answer Ans that the liberty which Christ parchaseth to and for his is a liberty and freedom from sin and he that saith he is in Christ ought to walk as he also walked 1 Joh. 2.4 5 6. who was a pattern and an example for all his to follow 1. Ioh. 2.4 5 6. 2. Pet. 3. chap to the end but who lives in the flesh and have their liberty in the pleasures and delights thereof and are in the lust are out of the light and so out of Christ an I know no freedom by the son but are in the pathes that leads to destruction and are servant● to sin and lives in uncleanesse and filthinesse of the flesh which neither Christ nor the Apostles did use but doth forbid such practise and fleshly liberty as you use who are in uncleanesse and are servants of Corruption 2 Pet. 13. to the end with the light are you seen comprehended and with the light condemned And where he said all things were lawfull to him he was speaking of meats and such like but he did no● 〈◊〉 any liberty to the flesh Rom. 8.16 1 Ioh. 3.6 7 8. v. but said shall we continue in sin that grace may abound God forbid know ye not saith he that they which commit sin are the servants of sin and so serveth the Devill Rom. 6.16 1 Job 3.6 7 8. And thirdly where he saith I know and am perswaded by the Lord Iesus that there is nothing unclean ot it self but to him that esteemeth it to be unclean it is so but he is not speaking of sin nor fleshly liberty but to tender consciences in that place and his care was so tender ever them that were in a scrupling condition about the unlawfulnesse of eating all meats and such like Rom. 14. chap. that he would not have a weak brother grieved for saith he if thy brother be offended with thy meat which he had been speaking of the purenesse and lawfulnesse of it as it came out of the covenant from God yet saith he if he be grieved now walkest thou not charitably destroy ●ot him with thy meat for whom Christ died let not then your good be evil spoken of for the kingdom of God is nor meat nor drink but righteousnesse and peace and joy in the holy Ghost for he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God and approved of men let us therefore follow after those things which make for peace and things wherewith o●● may edify another Rom. 14. from the 14. verse where he is speaking of the ●awfulnesse and purity of all things as they are in God and so on to the end he sheweth how they are and in what manner to be us●d but you that follow after unrighteousnesse to satisfy your fleshly lusts and pleasures are not in the light nor the kingdom of God but out of the l●ght and in that nature which is accursed from God and you who are turned from the light and live in unrighteousnesse you are the very enemies of all purity and lives in uncleanes●e and must be torn ented with the wrath of God and to the light in all your conscience shall this be witnessed and where he saith All things are of God he is speaking to them that were born of God who abode in the light and were new creatures the old things were passed away and the old lusts and old naturall corruptions and they were new creatures and so redeemed into purity with God and in covenant with him and they knew no man in the fleshly union wherefore saith he henceforth we know no man after the flesh yea though we have known Christ after the flesh yet henceforth know we him so no more therefore sa●●h ●e to others that were in the light as well as them 2 Cor. 5.16 17 18. that were in the life and power of truth if any man be in Christ he is a n●w creature but you cannot say so in truth who lives in the unity of the world and in the old nature he that is in the new nature all things that were from the old root of corruption is passed away in him and all things become new and that is the all things which the Apostle there speaks of 2 Cor. 5. 16 17 18. All things that are in the new nature are pure and he that is born of God is pure and one in that nature and he is coined before the world was and before the corruptions or filthinesse of the flesh was and he sees all things in God to be pure and good and from one root and all things to be unpure and unclean that is of the evil root and so that which proceeds from the fountain of corruption to be of the Divell and if any man have an car let him hear what the spirit saith for the secrets of the Lord are with them that fear him here with that light which never changeth are you all seen and comprehended who art turned out of the light Iam. 3.11 to the end and with the light chained and conemned and lastly to the pure all things are pure none is pure but God the father of spirits without Lord Iesus Christ and he that is born of God the father and the son they are all one and he that is sanctified by the Son he is made clean in and by the divine power of righteounesse and ye are clean through the word saith Iesus Christ and I am in you and you are in me and all things that the Father hath are mine and the holy Ghost shall take of mine and shew unto you all that are in covenant with God are made pure with the bloud of the Lamb and are redeemed to purity again and all things that comes out of the covenant from God to them is pure his love is pure without any mixture of the love of the world for that is unpure and full of lust and self-ends but the love of God is pure and his wisdom is pure pure love pure heart pure peace comfort and joy in the holy Ghost all the makings forth of God to the soul is pure and all the works of God in themselves as they are wrought in the soul are pure but the Divell would defile the work and sow in his seed if he be not watched over and all his works are evil such is his namesuch is his nature and his seed is corrupt and he acteth and guideth it and raiseth it up by the power of darknesse to oppose the good seed which is of God and is acted and guided and raised up by the power of God in those that are obedient to the commands of the spirit of truth and quenches not the motions of it it works into purity and also into unity with the divinity and reconciliation with the father and the son and in that unity things are pure but