AN ALARUM OF TRUTH Sounded forth to the Nations OR The Way of Truth from the Way of Errour plainly Manifested and Declared And the true Worship of God which is in the Spirit from the false worships of the World distinguished Whereby people may come to know which Way they are in and what Worship they are in and what Spirit they are of and led by Whether they are in the Spirit of God which the Saints were in and now are in at this day or the spirit of this World which is the spirit of Antichrist gone out into the World which hath the words of Christ and the Saints and a forme of godliness but denyes the power where it is manifest and is turned against it and persecute it But that spirit is denyed and the true Spirit witnessed Also an invitation of love to all people and Professors of all sorts and sects to turn in their minds to the Light of Christ Jesus in them which doth reprove them for sin which is the manifestation of the Spirit of truth which is freely given that with it they may all see and try themselves and all their Teachers whom they have long followed what spirit they are of seeing they cannot say they have the same Spirit they Apostles had Written by a Friend to Truth called HENRY FELL London Prinred for Robert Wilson and are to be sold at the Sign of the Black-spread-Haâ—â—e and Windmill in Martins Le Grand 1660. To all the People and Teachers and Professors of all sorts in these Nations or elsewhere FRIENDS and People the Truth hath been declared among you and the sound of it hath been heard by you and the everlasting Gospel hath been preached and must be preached to all Nations Kindreds and Tongues that thereby the large love of God may be known and made manifest unto all mankind that he would not have any to perish but that they might all come to the knowledg of his truth that they might be saved And therefore he hath uttered forth his voyce from on high and is causing the sound of it to be heard in the Nations that all people should fear God and give glory to him for the hour of his Judgement is come and coming and his day is appearing after so long a time of darkness and night of apostacy which hath been over the face of the earth even over all Nations Kindreds and People for many ages and Generations past So that darknesse hath covered the earth and grosse darknesse the people and the way of the Lord hath been hid from them which is a straight way and a way of holinesse wherein the unclean cannot walk but they have been walking in untroden paths in crooked ways have been erred from the Lord and from his way dayes without number nor have not known it For their hearts have been filled with filthinesse and all manner of uncleannesse in so much that they have committed sin with greedinesse and followed after the vanityes of their own minds and walking after their own hearts lusts to the satisfying thereof and have been stubborn and rebellious children against the Lord in so much that the Lord hath been against them and his jealousie hath been provoked and his indignation hath been kindled against them and his wrath hath been revealed from Heaven against all ungodlinesse and unrighteousnesse of men who have holden his truth in the unrighteousnesse and there hath not been peace to him that came in nor to him that went out for that which was manifested of God in them hath not been regarded therefore hath the anger of the Lord been kindled and his hand hath been stretched out still because of all the abominations that have been committed in the Nations and among the people who have professed the knowledge of his name whereby his Name hath been prophaned and blasphemed among the Heathen round about and his Truth dishonoured which they have professed in words but in works denyed and held it in the unrighteousnesse Who have not received the truth in the love of it which God hath shewed unto them nor have not obeyed it but have taken pleasure in unrighteousness therefore have they been given up to strong delusions to beleeve lyes and to commit iniquity with a high hand and rejected the truth and erred from it in their hearts and striven against it and have loved their evil deeds and their unrighteous wayes and have not chosen the way of the Lord nor served the Law of the Lord with their hearts nor with their minds but whilest they have drawn nigh unto God with their mouths and with their lips have honoured him their hearts have been removed far off from him And their fear towards him hath been taught by the precepts of men for the Precepts of God and his Commands and Law in the heart hath been disregarded and cast behind their backs And they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble and as the flame consumeth the chaffe so their root shall be rottennesse and their blossom shall ascend as the dust for behold the Lord will come with fire and with his Chariots like a whirl-wind to render his anger with fury and his rebukes with flames of fire for by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh who have corrupted their wayes before him and delighted in the thing that was not good whereby he hath been provoked to anger And now this is come to passe among all the Professions in the world who have had the Scriptures of truth which was declared and spoken forth by the Holy men of God from the Spitit of Truth which was in them and dwelt in them whereby they were made able Ministers not of the letter but of the Spirit by which they were able to try and judge of all Spirits whether they were of God and saw many in their dayes who had gotten the true words and had a form of godlinesse but denyed the power and so they turned away from such and did bear their testimony then against such whom they saw separating themselves being sensual having not the Spirit and saw such as were erred from the Spirit going in the way of Cain to envy and running greedily after the errour of Balaam for gifts and rewards and for the wages of unrighteousnesse And such as served not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellyes and preached for filthy lucre and through covetousnesse with fained words made merchandize of the people and were enemies to the Crosse of Christ whose God was their belly who gloryed in their shame whose and was destruction who minded earthly things And such as had great swelling words of vanity whilest they themselves were servants of corruption and what they knew They knew naturally as bruit beasts and in those things they corrupted themselves And false Prophets there was as there shall be
seath him not neither knoweth him but ye know him for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you Joh. 14.16 17. and now is in all his Saints and so he did come to them according to his Promise Acts 1.4 And he doth come again to all that waite for him in the manifestation of his Spirit which is given to every one to profit withall which is the true Light which Christ Jesus hath inlightned every man that cometh into the World withall that all through the Ligh might beleeve and follow the Light and not walk in darknesse but might come to have the Light of Life and might come to Christ from whence the Light comes But now all ye who have set your selves against the Light and denyed it to be sufficient to lead to Christ and say it 's naturall and so have kept people from it are the seducers which John speakes of 1 Joh. 2.26 Ye are still in darknesse and walking in darknesse and following your own spirits and have seen nothing who have prophesied lyes in the name of the Lord and have been walking in the light of the fire and of the sparkes of your own kindling but you shall lye down in sorrow for that will not bring you to Christ neither hath nor to his Life whose Life is the Light of men with which he hath inlightned them that they might beleeve in it and follow him and so with this they know him and hear him and deny you who are strangers and hear him not nor know him nor receive him and so have not power but are crying out ye want power and the reason is because ye receive him nor nor beleeve in his Name who gives power to become the Sons of God and yet are professing his Name and asking and preaching and praying and baptizing in his Name but none of you are baptized yet into his Name who depart not from iniquity though ye have been crying Lord Lord We have eaten and drunken in thy Presence c. Who have had a Forme of godliness but denyed the Power which was before the Forme and is without Forme and is the substance which shall stand when all your Formes shall end And so ye know not the Life the Power the Substance the Holy Seed which is come who stands and remains and abides and lives for ever ye are all out of that and strangers to it But ye are in that which ends out of the truth who denies the Power and Life but retains the Forme and have a shew of Wisdome in your will-Worships and voluntary Humility intruding into those things ye have not seen being vainly rufft up by your fleshly minds having a Forme and Shadowes of things to come but the Body which is Christ who is the Life and Substance hath been wanting amongst you who have been making a large Profession of Christ and of the Gospell and had a Forme but the Substance being wanting which is the Life and Power which ye are all our of and therefore ye do not know Christ nor the Gospel for it is the Fower of God unto Salvation to every one that beleeves But many have had that which ye have called the Gospell namely the four Books of Matthew Mark Luke and John and yet want this Power and know nothing of it but say they want Power to doe what they should doe and ought to doe and this is the farthest that any of them can come and there they are still in the weaknesse in the flesh ferred from the Spirit and cry out they want power which is the Gospell and so want peace and want Salvation to their soules for the Gospell is still hid from them which is the Power of God which saves the soul So the Gospell had need to be preached to you all againe ye Priests and Teachers and Profestors for it is hid from you and ye are all in the lost State seeing ye are all erred from the Spirit by which it was Preached and is Preached which proceeeds from the Father and came down from Heaven and so it is hid from you you want it ye have lost it lost the Power but retained a Forme in the long night of Apostacy since the dayes of the Apostles and have been erred from the Faith which was once delivered to the Saints which stood not in the wisdome of Words but in the Power of God but the Power you want and so the Faith ye have lost and erred from it and it hath been so long wanting among you that ye doe not know it what it is for it is a Mistery held in a pure Conscience And ye have been in the night all this while and are still and have been eating and drinking with the drunken and beating your fellow-servants and have said in your hearts The Lord deferreth his Coming who hath been in a farre Country from you and ye have not knowne where he hath been for the Man-child hath been caught up unto God but he is come and coming upon you as a thief in the Night and ye doe not see him because ye have not watched for his coming but have been asleep in sin and have been carelesse and thought your selves secure as if all had been well with you and said none can be free from sin here c. And now behold the Son of man is come He doth not find faith in the earth as Christ said When the Son of man cometh shall be find faith in the earth And now the day of the Lord is come and coming wherein every mans work shall be tryed of what sort it is and Truth shall now be known from error and deceit I say the Day-spring from on high hath now again visited us after the long time of darknesse which hath been over the earth Yea such a time hath been that the darknesse hath been so great that it might be felt that none could rise from the place where they sate and is yet upon many Peoples and Nations and Kindreds and Tongues as it was in AEgypt of old see Exed 10.21 22. so it is now and hath been in spiritual Aegypt where also our Lord Jesus Christ hath been crucified And so his Gospel is again to be preached unto all Nations Kindreds and Tongues and People whom God hath given for a Covenant for a Light unto the Gentiles to open the blind eyes and to bring the prisoner out of prison and them that have sate in darknesse out of the prison-house For People have sate in darknesse and have taken up their seat there and the Priests have laboured to keep them there and have been crying out against New-Lights and calling it Heresie and getting Laws made to keep out all New-Light as they called it to keep out Truth from being known any more then it was and so have made a Covenant with death and an
see beyond the night of the Apostacy and over it and what was before it and what hath been since in it among the Apostate Christians since the Apostles dayes that people have been in the darkness and night who have not seene the true way nor knowne whither they have been going But now unto all that feare my Name shall the Sun of righteoususse arise with healing in his wings saith the Lord For who comes to take heed unto the Light which shines in the darke place they doe well and who comes to doe well they come to be healed and to know the Sun of righteousnesse to arise from whence the Light comes and they are those who doe righteously and truly and honestly and walke as in the day time and to put off unrighteousness and the workes of darkness and fleshly lusts which warre against the souls For that is it which hath wounded the soule even the fleshly lusts that warres against it now the Light which shines in the heart leads from the fleshly lusts and out of them to Christ Jesus the Sun of righteousnesse who ariseth with healing For as the unrighteousness and workes of darkness is put off and the fieshly lusts abstained from which warres against the soule and wounds it so Christ Jesus the Sun of righteousness ariseth and is put on who heales and bindes up the wounds and powers in wine and oyle thereinto who is the good Samaritan who is better than the Priest and the Levite who passed by like strangers and left the man halfe dead who had fallen among theeves and robbers among his Enemies and was wounded as the hyrelings Priests doe now who are strangers that passe by and leave many wounded and as it were halfe dead and instead of helping of them are rather the theeves that rob and wound and murther and kill For saith Christ the hyroling cometh not but for to kill and to steale and to destroy neither careth he for the sheepe but for the fleece and for his Tythes as the Priests and Levits did who passed by And again saith the Prophet As atrope of Robbers waite for a man so do a Company of Priests further in the way by consent And these things have been seene and are as plainly fulfilled and manifested amongst this generation of Priests and Teachers and professors as in any age of the world Nay it will be more tolerable for those that went before then for these even the Scribes and Pharisees who perfecuted the Saints and put Christ to death whom they did not know that it was he that should come as the Scripture saith If they had knowne they would not have crucified the Lord of life But these say they beleeve that he is come and professe they know him and yet persecute him where ever he is made manifest in sons or daughters and cast him into prison c. Now the Fewes and Pharisees were under another Priest-hood which God had commanded and so had a righteousness there according to the Law of Moses outwardly which mey sought to establish and so could not own Christ Jesus the second Priest-hood who is Gods righteousness nor submit unto it and so were rejected But now the Priests and professors and Apostare Christians they doe confesse Christ Jesus comain the flesh in words who is the second Priest-hood who is Gods righteousness and doe deny the Jewes Rharisees And yet they set up another Priest-hood which is contrary to Christ and contrary to the Jewes which God never commanded and they take Tythes and stipends and Augmentations and gleabe-lands c. and seeke to set up a righteousnesse without them to be justried by which they call the righteousnesse of Christ while they are in the unrighteousnesse themselves and in the sin and transgression of the Law of God and so have not submitted to the righteousnesse which is of God by faith in Christ Jesus no more then the Jewes did Therefore this is but their own righteousnesse which is but as filthy rags and Antichrist in the likenesse of Christ and Antichristians and Apostates in the likeneste of true Christians For this is but their own Inventions and their own righteousnesse which inderd is not worthy to be called righteousnesses where they are puft up in their fleshly minds which they goe about to establish whilest they are disobedient to him who is the righteousnesse of God and was made manifest in the likenesse of sinfull flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh that the righteousnesse of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walke not after the flesh but after the Spirit Now there is none ever cometh to the righteousnesse of God and to have the righteousnesse of the Law fulfilled in them and to walke after the Spirit but who come to beleeve in the Light of Christ in their own particulars and obey it which convinceth of sin and reproves for sin and condemnes sin in the flesh who doe so they walke not after the flesh they come our of the weaknesse for the Law was weake through the flesh or they come to feel the power and the opperation of the Spirit which makes free from the Law of sin and death which the Law could not doe because it was weake through the flesh But now God hath sent his Son in the likenesse of sinfull flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh that the righteousnesse of the Law might be fulfilled in us say the Saints who walke not after the flesh but after the Spirit And this Law of the Spirit of life which condemnes sin in thee and makes free from the Law of sin and death and is in Christ Jesus and this is the Light which Christ Jesus hath enlightened every one with that cometh into the world and is a manifestation of the Spirit which is given to every one to profit withal his which is sent into the world to convince the world of sin and to reprove for sin and will be the condemnation of all the world who beleeve not in it but dirobey it and hate it and love their evill deeds and their sins which it doth reprove them for So that it is not their comforter but their reprover and condemner that doe not receive ir and love it not but reject it But it is the comforter of all those who doe receive and love is and beleeve and obey it and are led by it for it leads into all truth and sets free from sin and death and heares witnesse with their spirits that they are the sons of God for as many as are led by the Spirit of God the same are the Sons of God This the Saints did beare witnesse of in former times and this the Saints doe witnesse now glory and honour and living praises be unto the Lord God of heaven and earth for evermore But this is a mystery to the world and hid from all the Apostate Christians in it of what
worth which hath only stood in words and out-side worships and formes without the power and life of that which ye have professed Therefore honestly consider in time and turne in your minds to the Light of Christ Jesus in all your Consciences which is Gods witnesse in you all which will either accuse or excuse you and acquit or condemne you in every thing that ye doe or word ye speake or thought that ye thinke If ye doe turne your minds into it and waite in it by it you will come to see and examine and truly to search and try what is in your hearts and minds at all times and so come to be acquainted therewith and see what lodgeth there Otherwise ye will not know nor be acquainted with your own hearts which will then deceive you for they are desperately wicked and ye will not know that wickednesse that is there which is ready to joyne to any thing that is evill and to be led into any errour but as ye doe minde that of God within you which will searh your hearts and try your reynes And in this Condition have people been and are still in the World and in all their professions there and worships which stands in ourward observations and carnall ordinances and worships set up in mens wills and practised in the worlds spirit which knowes not God nor the things of God and are in their own wills and led by that spirit So their hearts minds are drawn out into those things to looke at the things that are seene which are temporall which are of the World from that which may be known of God which is manifest in them from the things which are not seene which are eternall and with which they should know the true and living God whom they have for a long time been thus ignorantly worshipping not knowing of him though he was not far from every one of them neither have they known the true worship of him which is in the Spirit in the truth in wch the true Church stands and is gathered our of the world and out of itsworships wayes and customes which are corrupt and are upholden by mens lawes made in their corrupt wills whereby they have compelled people to their worships which is not true but are all erred from the truth and true worship and true Church which is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the pillar and ground of truth wherein they worship God in the Spirit and in the truth and so have found the Father who is seeking such to worship him in this his day which now is dawned after the long night of Apostacy darkness which hath been over all people so that the whole earth hath been covered with darknesse and the vayle hath been over all faces and the whole Earth been corrupted by the abominable worships that hath been therein in this time of darknesse in the false Church which is the whore of Babylon the mother of harlots and the abomination of the Earth gotten up in the roome of the true Church with her false worships in Imitation of the true worship whereby all nations have been drunken with the Cup of her fornications And all the Emperours Kings Princes and Judges and Rulers of the Earth and they have all been making of Lawes to uphold her and she hath ridden upon them for they have been the beast which have carried her and the beast and the false Prophet which receives their power from the Dragon have made warr with the Saints and overcome them and their blood hath been shed by her which hath cryed and doth cry unto the Lord for vengeance and the Lord hath heard the cry of it And he is now risen to take vengeance upon all them that dwell upon the earth where the Devill hath been their King who is the Dragon that old Serpent who was cast out into the earth And now the time is come that he shall be bound and chained and cast into the pit and the beast the false Prophet with him shall be taken alive and cast into the Lake And the Lord God is come to Judge the great whore the false Church who hath set upon the Kings of the Earth made them drunke with her cup and to render vengeance with fury upon her and burne her with fire And all her Merchants shall cry woe and alacke who have been made rich with her merchandize and the great City shall fall in which they have been trading which is Babylon the mother of them all in what forme or profession of shew or colour or dresse soever they have appeared For the houre of her Judgement is come and strong is the Lord that Judgeth her Therefore woe woe from the Lord will be unto all that seek to uphold her and come 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of her For all that drinke of her cup and partake with her in her sâ—â—â— must be sure to partake of her plagues And the decree of the Lord is sealed and gone forth against her and the warre is openly proclaimed against her and the Beast and the false Prophets who have gove forth to deceive And the Lambe is come forth and his sword is drawne and ho is riding on conguering and to conquer and with him are his Saints who are called and faithfull and chosen who are made willing to follow him whither soever he goes And the victory is determined the Lambe and the Saints shall have the victory and their weapons are not carnall but spirituall For with the sword of the Spirit which proceeds out of the mouth of the Lambe shall all his enemies be slaine and great shall be the day of slaughter of Gods enemies who have the Beasts marke or his name or are of the number of his name they shall all be slaine both small and great even all whose names are not written in the Lambs book of life who was staine from the foundation of the world And this the Lord is now bringing to passe in this his day not by might nor by power but by my Spirit will I doe this saith the Lord And therefore blessed are all they who have an care to heare and an eye open to see what the Lord is doing and a heart to understand and receive his counsell and to doe his Commandments and his will and to answer his requirings Written by a Friend to all your soules a lover of truth and righteousnesse and a sufferer for the testimony of a good Conscience towards God Who am called by the name of Henry Fell Written at Thersord in Norfolke the place of my Imprisonment the 5th month in the yeare 1660. THE END 2 Thess 2.9 10 11. Isa. 5.24 Isa. 66.15 2 Tim. 3.5 Iude 10. 2 Pet. 2.1 2. 12 Cor. 4. Acts 20.29 Math 12.30 Rom. 8. 1 Iohn 4.5 1 Iohn 4 8. 1.3.12 13. Iohn 8.44 1 Iohn 2.22.4.20 2 Cor. 4.4 Isa. 5.20 1 Cor. 2.8 Math. 15.14 2 Pet 1.19 Rev. 3.17 Iohn 1.9 Iohn 12.35.36 Isa. 55. Mark 8.18 Ephef 2.1 Isa. 47. Rev 3.18 1 Cor 2.10 11 12 c. Heb. 3.10 Rom 1.21 Matth 5.13 Mark 9.5 Matth 15.11 Mark 7.20 Matth 15.18.19 Eccles. 9.2 Mal: 3.15.18 Luke 6.45 Ier 17.9 Psal. 32.9.39 Iames 1.26 Iames 3.2 Iohn 4.23 24. Matth 7 2 Pet. 1.3 4. Matth. 7.15 16 17. Ieremy 23. Isa. 56. Rom. 16. Ezek. 34.2 3. 10 c. Iohn 10. Iohn 10. Ephes 2.12 1 Thess. 5.7 Iohn 10.10 2 Tim. 3.6 Isa. 3.12 1 Tim 〈…〉 Iohn 3.19 20 2 Cor. 6.17 Rev. 17.4.9 10 11 12 15 20. 1 Cor. 3.13 Iohn 3.19 Ierem 3.23 Rev. 6.15.16 Matth. 7.23 Luke 13.27 Matth. 7.20 Gal. 7.17 2 Thess. 2.8 Heb. 2.14 1 Iohn 3.8 Iohn 8.29 Iohn 1.11 12. Matth. 6.9 Romans 10. Luke 17.20 Matth. 3.23 Heb. 12.13 Acts 13.41 Iohn 16.25 13 verse Rom. 8. 1 Pet. 4.10 1 Tam. 17. Iohn 17.3 1 Ioh. 5.19 20. Iohn 1.16 Rom. 11.6 1 Cor. 1.29 Luker 35. 1 Cor. 2.8 Rom. 2.19 20 â—â— Gal. 5.22 Math. 23.31 Deut. 12.85.18 Iam. 5.6 Math. 13.14 Mark 9.12 Ioh. 5.37 38. Joh. 3.19 20 21. Joh. 8.12 John 1. 1 Cor. 12.7 1 Iohn 9. Ezek. 13.3 Ier. 14 14. Ier. 23.25 Isa 50.11 1 Ioh. 11.12 2. Tim. 2.19 Isa. 53.2 3. Isa. 6 13. 2 Col. 1. Rom. 1. 2 Tim. 3.8 1 Tim. 6.10 21. Judg. 3. 1. Cor. 2.5 1 Tim. 3.9 Math. 29.48 49. Luke 18.8 Luke 1.78 Math. 24.14 Mark 16.15 Isa 49.8.42.6 Isa. 28.18 Exod. 5. 2 Gor. 11.15 Matth 12.29 Luke 11.12 Matth. 10.34 Acts 26.18 Isa. 42. Iere. 31.31 Pro 6.23 Psal. 19.7 8 9 10 11. Psal. 119.97 98 99. Rome 7. Rom 7.1 Rom 10.4 Mat. 23.27 Mat 23.13 2 Pet. 2.14 Iohn 1.9 Iohn 12.35 2 Pet. 1.17 18 19. Mal. 4. 1 Pet. 2.11 Luk. 10.30 31 32.33 Iohn 10. Hosea 6.9 Math. 25. Rom. 10.3 Rom 8 Iohn 1.34 Rom 4.7 Rom 6.2.6 7. Rom 6.18 Rome 8.10 1 John 1.7 1 John 3.8.9 I Joh 3.6 I Iohn 5.18 Rom 8.3.4 Rom. 8.2 Rom. 6.18 20. Ephef. 1.1 1 Gor. 15.55 56 57. Ioh. 5.25 28. Rom. 5.12 19. 21. 1 Cor. 15.46 48. Heb. 4.12 Iohn 11.26 Ioh. 8.12 Iob 28.22 Luke 10. Math. 5.16 1 Cor. 15.14 Isa. 42. Isa. 49. Rev. 1.8 2 Tim. 3.8 2 Tim. 3 6. Ioh. 8.32 I Cor. 10.2 Rom 6.3 4. Gal. 3.19 Math. 16.24 1 Coll. 20. 2 Coll. 14. Cor. 1.18 c. Mat. 11.30 1 Iohn 4.5 Iohn 26.40 Iohn 11.25 Iohn 14.6 Isa. 28.17 Col. 2.3 Col 1.26 Ephef. 2.3 Rom. 8.11 1 Cor. 2 12 13 19. Isa. 9.24 Math. 2.29 Mark 2. 24. Ezek. 3. 1 Tim. 4.1 2 Pet. 1.20 21. Iames 41.5 Chron. 6.16 Isa. 6.22 Math. 7.16 17 18 19. Joh. 1.9 10. Math. 13.11 Titus 2.11 Rev. 3.7 2 Cor. 4.16 Acts 17.23 Iohn 4. Rev. 17.2.18 18.3.9 19. 19. Rev. 13.4 17. 3. Rev. 12.9 Rev. 20.3 Rev. 8.4 Rev. 17.4 Rev. 14.4 Rev. 21.27 Zach. 4.6
false Teachers amongst you saith the Apostle who privily shall bring in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and many shall follow their pernitious wayes by reason of whom the way of truth should be evil spoken of And that perillous times should come that men should be lovers of themselves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful unholy without natural affection truce-breakers false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of those that are good traytors heady high-minded lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God 2 Timothy 3. Now all those before mentioned were and are erred from the Spirit of truth which was in the Saints the holy-men of God who spake forth the Scriptures which declares of these things that there was such then and that there should be such Therefore now behold all People and see whether the things which the Apostles prophecyed of concerning the false Teachers which should come be not come to passe abundantly in the Generations since their dayes and also in this our age insomuch as the whole world hath been deceived by them and led after them and they have drawn them into many Religions Sects and Opinions and set them to kill and murther one another about Religion and about the Scriptures and about their worships and Laws to compel men to them being all erred from the Spirit and from the Truth and now know not the Truth nor the Spirit which was in the Apostles and Saints in which Spirit they worshipped God in their dayes and those then that got Christs words and the Prophets words and had not his Spirit but were arred from it and were out of the Life and out of the Truth which they did professe in words These I say the Saints and true Christians who were followers of Christ and had his Spirit with it they tryed the spirits of the other who had it not and found them not to be of God nor to be beleeved nor received but turned from for they were false Spirits and false Prophets which were gone out into the world from Christ and from the Saints that had the Spirit of God in them by which they tryed the other and found them to be of the world and Antichrists in the spirit of this world and by it led which cometh from him who is called The god of this world who had blinded their minds And so they were not true Prophets or Seers or true Ministers of Christ nor true Teachers but false Teachers false Ministers false Prophets and Antichrists and blind guids gone out into the world in the worlds Spirit and so with that spirit they could not confesse Christ come in the flesh though in words they might say he was come in the flesh as all the Priests and Professors who are called Christians do now at this day in words confesse him but not with the Spirit confesse him as their fruits make it manifest Now saith the Apostle hereby know ye the Spirit of God Every Spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God And every Spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ as come in the flesh is not of God and this is the spirit of Antichrist whereof ye have heard that it should come and even now already is in the world Ye are of God little children and have over come them because greater is he that is in you then he that is in the world They are of the world therefore speak they of the world and the world heareth them We are of God he that knoweth God heareth us Hereby know me the Spirit of Truth and the spirit of Error John 1.4 1 2 3 4 5 6. verses Now if those had not had Christs words and confessed him in words to be come in the flesh while they were out of his life and of another spirit then the Apostle would not have called them Antichrists and Prophets and Teachers but he would have called them Jews or Gentiles or Heathers but this was it which did differ them from the Jews and unbelieving Gentiles and Heathers then Namely They had the words of Christ and the Saints and the Prophets and did professe them as the Priests and Teachers and Professors do now the Scriptures but are erred from the life of Christ and from the Spirit that was in the Saints who gave forth the Scriptures as they were then whom John speakes of erred from the life and Spirit of Christ and the Saints and so were Antichrists and false Prophets and false Teachers and Deceivers which were gone out into the World from the Saints life and Spirit and so the World heard them as they doe now the Priests and false Teachers and they drew people after them then from the Saints the true Church and so set up false Churches and Religions in the World and false worships in imitation of the true Church and true Religion and true worship of God which is in the Spirit and so by this means deceived people then at the first and scattered them from God and led them into confusion and darknesse and disorder and errour and so they broke out into many Sects and Opinions and Religions and wayes of Worship being once gone from the true Worship which is in the Spirit of God alone in which the unity is where this is wanting there cannot be unity nor gathering unto God nor true worship of God And so after the Apostles decease they being erred from the true Spirit who did professe themselves to be gatherers could not gather unto God but did draw people more and more from God and so the whole world went after the false Prophets and false Teachers And these were the grievous Wolves which entered and scattered the Flock which the Apostle spoke of before which should come and Christs words were fulfilled who said He that is not with me is against me and he that gathereth not with me scattereth So he that is not with Christ but is against him the same is Antichrist he that gathereth not with him but scattereth there is the grievous Wolfe that scattereth the Flock and spoyles the Sheep of the Lords pasture and makes havock of them And such are all they now at this day who are called Ministers and have been accounted gatherers and Divines and are called Orthodox men but are found to be Wolves in Sheeps cloathing who doe scatter the Flock and make havock of the Sheep of Christ and spoyle their goods and cast into Prison and whip and stock and cut off eares and wound and hang and banish c. and cause people to hayle them before Magistrates and stone and beat them knock them downe in streets for dead and haile out of the Synagogues and Steeple-houses and reproach and scoffe and scome and speake all manner of evill falsely against them who are true Christians that not only confesse Christ come in flesh in words but also in works and walke in that
in the world and is still they that depart from iniquity are made a prey of and have been even the innocent and harmelesse Sheep and Lambs of Christ have been rent and torn by the Wolves who did appear like Sheep in the Sheeps cloathing and had the Saints words in their mouths and have made havock and spoyl of their goods and imprisoned their bodies where the life of Christ hath been made manifest in any measure which is the Divine nature which the Saints and true Christians were made partakers of as ye may read in the Scriptures These I say have been made a prey upon and persecuted in all ages since the days of the Apostles by the Priests and Professors which doth appear that though they have had the Sheeps cloathing on yet they were inwardly ravening Wolves and by their fruits they are seen and now do appear plainly in this our age and day wherein never more profession hath been made since the days of the Apostles then now hath been of late years and yet their fruits have been as bad as the worst Even persecuting the innocent to death without cause devouring of them and making a prey of them and accounting of them as sheep for the slaughter all the day long These are not nor never were the fruits of the true Christians who were called Sheep of Christ for it is contrary to their nature to persecute any to whip or imprison any to kill or destroy any to bite and devour and rend and tear to peeces like Dogs and Wolves as this Generation hath done of Priests and Professors But now this is not contrary to the Wolves nature to devour and rent and tear nor contrary to their nature who come in sheeps cloathing for the fleece and divine for mony and preach for hire and their gain from their quarter and for their filthy lucre and for their bellyes it 's not contrary to these who are inwardly ravening Wolves and these are the fruits by which ye may know them and they are known now by all the Lambs and Sheep of Christ who are his stock which he hath gathered from under their mouths who do deny them therefore they follow after them to devour them and these are children of Light who doe beleeve in the Light of Christ and follow him and know his voyce from the strangers For those who are in the Wolves nature are strangers to Christ and alienated from his life and erred from his Spirit And so whilest we were in the darknesse and in the Alienation from the life of God and strangers to the Covenant of promise as they are now then we did sollow them and their voyce was not strange to us for we were one with them in the same nature but then enemyes in out minds to God and without Christ and without God in the world But after that we came to believe in the Light of Christ and to hear Christs voyce and to follow him then we turned from the strangers and would not hear them the Priests any longer for the children of the Light see them and bear testimony against them but who are not yet come to the Light of Christ in them they are still in the darknesse and in the night and are in Babylon still nor are not yet come to know a separation between the night and the day the Light and the darkness Truth and Error Christs voyce from the Strangers voice between the good Shepheards voyce and the Theeves and Robbers voyce who come not but to kill and teale and carry away see John 10. And these come in the night and so ye being in the nigh cannot see them Now they that steal steal in the night and these doe rob and spoyl ye and dovour the widdows houses and makes merchandize of your soule and ye see them not and so they kill and steale and carry away undiscovered And make ye spend your money for that which is nor bread and your labour for that which doth not satisfie and so keeps you allwayes labouring and never satisfyed and allwayes learning and never come to the knowledge of the truth for who knows the truth the Truth sets them free and gives them ease and rest from their burthens and labours and peace and satisfies their fouls But while people are in the sins and divers lusts and your Teachers tells you that ye must be there as long as ye are here upon earth you know not truth which sets free from sin which loads and burthens the soul and keeps it in death where there is no peace nor rest nor satisfaction to it and so it cannot praise God for its the living that praiseth God the dead praiseth him not nor they that goe down to the pit And so ye are all as a company of weak silly women who are laden with sins and divers lusts all in the transgression and in the death not a living man amongst you to speak and to pray in your Church But its the woman in the transgression and so all is in the disorder and confusion where the woman Rules and Exerciseth Authority over the man He that can receive this let him And thus ye have been and are cheated and deceived by the Deceivers which are come amongst you the blind guids who leads you blind into the Ditch and ye love to have it so and love the darknesse and will not come to the Light because your does be evill least it should reprove them And there you remaine blind and weak under them uncured for they are all Physitians of no value But now the children of the light sees them how they do deceive and cozen and cheat you and they declare against them and they tell you of it and shew you plainly how and wherein ye are deceived by them and yet ye will not beleeve them nor receive their testimony and so if ye will be deceived ye are like to be so and if ye perish your destruction will be of your selves for the Lord will be clear of all your blood and we shall be clear also who have warned you to come out of Babylon the Mother of Harlots the false Church and be separate from her and touch no unclean thing and the Lord will receive you But if ye be partakers of her sins and trade with her Merchants and buy of their Merchandize ye will partake of her plagues that is coming upon her and that speedily and the time is at hand and the Saints shall rejoyce at her fall when her judgement and torment shall come upon her but her Merchants shall howl and mourn for her for by her were they made rich And these things are seen and made manifest to the children of Light glory and honour and living praises be unto the Lord for evermore The hidden things of darknesse is making manifest and coming to be preached upon the house top and all
the hidden things of dishonesty comes to be laid open to the view of all men For the day is come and coming which reveals all things and which will prove every mans work of what sort it is And every man shall receive a reward according to his deeds done in the body whether they be good or evil Therefore all people in whom there is any fear of the Lord or any desire after the knowledge of his way or any love to his truth or to your souls peace and welfare It is high time for you to look about you and to consider your wayes what ye have beendoing and what ye are doing for the times of ignorance God hath winked at but now he calls all men every where to repent For it is not a Profession of the words now will serve you without the possession of the life for that will not be accepted of God But all to repent and turn from the evil of your wayes which ye have long been reproved for by the light of Christ Jesus in you which is Gods witnesse in all your consciences which otherwise will be your eternal condemnation for your profession of Christ will not serve you nor hide you nor your mountains nor your hills where ye have been gotten up high and looking for salvation from them but it hath been all in vaine Come down from them to Gods witnesse in you and hearken to that what that doth testifie to you for that is true and will not lye nor deceive you for that is of God and leads to God And with the Lord Jehovan alone is Salvation and with him is everlasting strength For those mountains will all fly away from you which ye now do trust in and they shall not hide you from the face of the Lamb though ye may call to them to cover you and to the Rocks to fall upon you nay though ye seek death it shall fly from you Therefore I say in time all be warned and hearken diligently that your souls may live And away with all your false and deceitful coverings which are but as so many Fig-leaves sowed together to cover your nakednesse which will not endure long and your profession will wither suddenly and your nakednesse will then appear more to your shame then if ye had made no profession at all to have that pluckt off wherewith ye have been covered all this while which made ye seem to be some body when that is gone then ye will be naked and as it were like no body and have nothing to cover your shame from the eyes of all for Christ Jesus disowns ye who are workers of iniquity and ye must depart from him and not name his Name For it s not every one that saith Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but he that doth the will of my Father which is in Heaven saith Christ But while ye have been seeking to be justified by Christ and yet lived in sin and are found sinners ye have not been doing the will of God for thereby ye would make Christ the Minister of sin who came to destroy sin and the Devil who is the Author of it and therein he did the will of the Father and plased him And so as many as receive him and beleeve in his name to them he gives power to become the sons of God and to doe his will in earth as it is done in Heaven which ye have been praying so long and saying these words but do not beleeve in your hearts that any shall ever attain to that here which you pray for therefore it s not of faith for with the heart man beleeveth unto righteousness c. and ye are not like to recelve that which ye cannot beleeve so ye are not come to the measure of faith even as a grain of Mustard-seed for he that hath it shall say unto this Mountain be thou removed into the Sea and it shall be so saith Christ But these are all parables to all you Professors in the world unknown as it was to them to whom they were spoken then But who comes to the Light of Christ Jesus to beleeve in it they read the parables and they know the faith that removes the Mountains and brings them down and exalts the valleys and makes the crooked ways straight and the rough wayes plain and prepares the way of the Lord in the Wildernesse and make straight paths for his feet and such knows the kingdome of God to come where his will is done on sarth as in Heaven and where the daily bread is received and sins forgiven and enemies loved And Christ said to those that did not know nor beleeve If I toll ye of earthly things and ye cannot beleeve how should you beleeve if I tell you of Heavenly things John 3.12 And again I speak that which I have seen with my Father and ye speak that which ye have seen with your father John 8.39 Therefore all ye Professors of the Scriptures and Teachers of the Prophets and Christs words and the words which ye have received by tradition from your fathers It s no wonder if the things declared of by the Prophets Christ and the Saints be strange to you that ye neither know them nor can believe them seeing ye me all erred from the Spirit of the Father even that Spirit which was in the Prophets Christ and the Apostles and Saints which shews plainly of the Father and shewed them things to come which was and now is the Saints Comforter which Christ said he would send Even the Spirit of Truth which should lead them into all Truth and should bring all things to their remembrance This the Saints did receive in former times by which they did plainly declare what they had heard and what they had seen and tasted and handled of the word of life And this the Saints do now receive even the same Spirit of the Father which was in the Saints and is now in the Saints and shall be in the Saints to the end of the World as Christ said by which the Saints do now know the Scriptures which were spoken forth by the Spirit of God in the holy men of God and understand them and witnesse the thing they speake of So that they are not a Book sealed to us nor parrables to us who come to enjoy the things they speake of which is freely given to us of God as they were to them who spake forth the Scriptures as the Apostle said 1 Cor. 2.11 12 13. We have not received the spirit of this World but we have received the Spirit which is of God by which we know the things which are freely given to us of God which things we declare in the plain demonstration of the Spirit and not with words which mans wisdome teacheth comparing spirituall things with spirituall But the naturall man perceiveth not
the things of God for they are foolishnesse to him neither can he receive them because they are spiritually discerned And so with this Spirit which we have receiv'd of God the Father the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ doe-we speaks of the things of God which we have seen with him by which Spirit the Saints are now led to declare forth the Truth to the world as it is revealed in them from the Father of spirits as the Children of God did formerly by the same Spirit who said As many as are the Sons of God the same are led by the Spirit of God And so now it is as every one hath received the Gift of the Father so to minister to others and according to the abillity which God hath given from whence every good and perfect Gift doth come from the Father of lights with whom is no variablenesse nor shadow of turning And this we know and declare that if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his which is the gift of the Fathers love and he that hath it hath received it freely from the Father from whence every good and perfect gift doth come Mark Who receives a gift from God they receive that which is perfect that which is heavenly that which is free and that which comes from the Father of Lights and so with that they see and know and can freely declare of the things of God of the heavenly things of that which is perfect of that which is holy of that which is true of that which sins not of that which is born of God which overcomes the World as the Saints did of old who said hereby know we that we dwell in him and he in us because he hath given us of his Spirit 1 John 4.13 No otherwise can any one know him now truly but by his Spirit which quickens and makes alive unto God For it is life eternall to know thes the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent saith the Saints and herein is our love made perfect that we may have boldnesse in the day of the Lord for as he is so are we in this present World And we know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding and we know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ This is the true God and eternall life and this we have not of our selves but this we have freely received from God as the Saints had and this we freely declare and testifie to the world as they did that so others might come to receive of the same from him in whom the fullriesse of the God-head dwells of whose fullnesse have we all recelved and grace for grace And so we have nothing to boast of or glory in of our selves for it is by grace which is the free Gift of God that we are what we are that no flesh might glory in his sight but that all the Honour and the Praise and the Glory might be given unto God alone from whence every good and perfect gift cometh And now Oh all ye Priests and Teachers and Professors unto whom these things seemes strange which we declare of so that ye cannot beleeve them but get up into rage and envy against us to persecute and reproach us and speak all manner of evill falsely against us as your forefathers did the Scribes and Pharisees who were Hypocrites against Christ and the Saints in former times who did declare of those things then which the blind guides did not know nor could beleeve and therefore did they persecute them and haile them before Magistrates and cast them into Prisons and put them to death though the things which the Saints did declare were true and the same which Moses and the Prophets the holy men of God had declared of which should come to passe and so did come to passe according to their words yet now the Scribes and Pharisees and Jewes who had the words of Moses and the Prophets and were the greatest Professors of Religion then that were in the World they having the words but being out of the power out of the Life of Abraham and Moses and the Prophets that declared those things by the Spirit of God these I say being erred from the Spirit did not know the things which the holy men of God did foretell of to come The holy thing which was to be borne which is called the Son of the living God and when he was come they did unto him as they listed crucified the Lord of Life because they knew him not Though they said they were Abraham's children and knew God and were Moses Disciples and were called Jewes and rested in the Law and made their boasts of God and that they knew his Will and did approve of the things that are more excellent and were confident that they themselves were guides to the blind and a light to them that are in darknesse and Instructers of the foolish and Teachers of babes which had the forme of knowledge and of the truth in the Law Thou therefore saith the Apostle that teachest another teachest thou not thy selfe c. All these were untaught themselves though they were teachers of the Law they were Transgressors of the Law and when Christ Jesus came who was the substance the holy Seed the end of the Law who fullfilled it and brought in everlasting righteousness who was the Way to God the Truth and the Life they knew him not but slew him And so it is at this day the Professors of the World who only have the name of Christians persecute them that are in the true Christians life and nature for they were blind Leaders of the blind as Christ told them and that they were of their father the Devill who was a lyar and a Murderer from the beginning for whom God hath sent him ye beleeve not but seeke to kill him And so though they had the true mens words and the righteous mens words and the just mens words yet they were erred from their Spirit and therefore they knew not the just and righteous One and Holy one of Israel but were in the murtherous spirit and in the lying spirit which is of the Devill who did not abide in the truth and in the envious spirit and in the persecuting spirit which is not of God as all ye Priests and Professors are found in at this day which spirit I say is not of God nor received of God For the fruits of Gods Spirit is Love Meeknesse Gentlenesse Patience Long-suffering Charity c. But the fruits of your spirit is the contrary as the fruits of theirs was coutrary who persecuted the Saints in former times as the Scriptures declares and plainly makes manifest And so now ye come to be tryed and seen and manifest and declared against by the same Spirit as was in
And this we can declare forth freely unto the Nations round about which we have freely received of him even of his Spirit of truth which was the promise of the Father To lead us into all truth whereby we are come to know the Leadings of the Spirit and know that we are the Children of God and taught of God and led by his Spirit and this is it which doth comfort our hearts and assure us that we are his Children And as many as are the Sons of God the same are led by the Spirit of God as the Children of this world are led by the spirin that is of the world which is of him who is called the God of the world whose work it is to blinde the mindes of people as we were also at well as others while we were in the vaine conversation and walked according to the course of this world even the Prince of the power of the ayre that spirit which now worketh in all the Children of disobedience And they may be easily known for they are full of ayre and talke of that which they possesse not of others conditions and not their own and so have been in travell as it were but have brought forth nothing but wind have a form of godlinesse but want the power and are talking of the Spirit of God but are led by the spirit of this world and are disobedient to the manifestation of the Spirit of God which reproveth them for sin and checks them secretly when they doe evill But all who receives it and are obedient to it they know the movings of the Spirit and the teachings and leadings of the Spitit and what it is to be borne of the Spirir and what it is to live in the Spirit and to walke in the Spirit and to mortifie the deeds of the body by the Spirit and so to be quickned by the Spirit and what it is to be raysed up from the Dead with Christ by his Spirit dwelling in them Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ the same is none of his Therefore how can any of the Priests and Teachers and professors in the world confesse Christ come in the flesh and know not the Spirit which is of God c. Who say they have not the same Spirit that was in Christ the Apostles and Saints and say none have the same Spirit now which they had Therefore I say truly they are not like to know that Spirit who are erred from it nor confesse Christ come in the flesh who are of another spirit which not being the same must needs be the spirit of this world which is the spirit of Antichrist by which they cannot know the things of God for none knowes the things of God saving the Spirit of God neither were they like to discerne them or demonstrate them by the Spirit which they have not but are erred from it nor know the Scriptures which were given forth by the Spirit of God in the Prophets Christ and the Apostles but give their private interpretation of them and meaning which they add to them which is of no private Interpretation for the Spirit of the Lord was but one in all them that spoke them forth and them who are in the same Spirit and Life now reads them and knows them again as they were spoken and knows the Interpretation of them which is not private but publique and plaine and manifest But all who are of another spirit they are erred not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God as Christ sayd and so they neither know that which hath been spoken by the Spirit of God formerly not what the same Spirit speaketh expressely now not what the Scripture meanes where it is spoken plainly and expressely And truly it is no wonder now to see it so for people and their teachers are so farr erred from the Spirit by which the Scriptures were spoken forth that it is become a strange thing which cannot be beleeved even amongst all forts of professors who are called Christians For one to say he is moved by the Spirit of the Lord to speake or to pray or to doe any thing else as the servants of the Lord were in former times and this is become a scorne and derision amongst them which is a shame to them and doth plainly manisest what spirit they are of Now if they were Children of God or Sons of God who are led by the Spirit of God as some of th one professe themselves to be mark this diligently then must they needs know the meaning of the Spirit of God and the leadings of it otherwise it could not lead them and they not know it And they would be in the spirituall feeling and tasting and savouring and discerning of the things of God in themselves and of the fruits of the Spirit in others brought forth and try all Spirits with that and know them and love the good and not mocke and scoffe at them And so I say then it would not be a strange thing unto them if they themselves were come to know a motion or leading by the Spirit of God in themselves which would manifest that they were the Children of God and Sons of God that they were of Christ who have his Spirit and are led by it and so were true Christians and followers of Christ and this would be a true restimony to themselves and to others And then surely they neither any of you would mocke or scoffe or scorne at any who can witnesse the same But now the want of this hath caused your nakednesse appear to your shame and to the shame of all your blinde guides whom ye have so long been following for teaching who have caused you to erre by their lyes otherwise they might have brought you to have known the truth before now and to have raught you better manners then to have scoffed at it and at those who have declared it amongst you and walke in it whom you in scorne call Quakers and utter forth evill words which corrupts the good manners howsoever if it were so that we were not in the truth but in the errour and not moved by the Spirit of the Lord as ye say but erred from it then we were but where ye are Now Friends this I say and testifie in the Lord and know assuredly that my testimony is true and Gods witnesse in all your Consciences shall beare witnesse to it to be true and the Scriptures of truth will beare witnesse to the same That ye cannot say in truth whom any of you doe scoffe or scorne or mocke or reproach any of us or others that ye are moved thereunto by the Spirit of God or led unto it by the Spirit of God or taught by the Spirit of God to doe so or taught by the Scriptures to doe so which the holy men of God spoke forth which ye call your rule Neither can ye say
that scoffing and scorning and repsoaching and persecuting is the fruits of the Spirit of God But on the contrary it is the fruits of that spirit in you which lusteth to envy which is of the Envious one the enemy of all mankinde the Devill who was a lyar a murtherer from the beginning out of the truth And so it is he that moves some to murther now and some to accuse falsly for he is the accuser of the Brethron and he moves some to persecute and to hate and to cast into prisons now those that live in the truth and bear witnessetoit and he moves others to scoffe and scorn and speak all manner of evill of them that are good now in these dayes as he did of old He it was that led Cain to murther his Brother Abell who was a righteous man and it was he who moved Ishmaell to mock at Isaac who was the Son of promise and it was he the Devill that moved the Scribes and Pharisees to say that Christ had a Devill and that he cast out Devills through Belzebub c. and led them to persecute Christ and put him to death and Judas to betray him and the High Priests and the rest to spit upon him and smite him and Crown him with thornes and mock at him and to say haile King of the Jewes and to cry to have him crucified and Barrabas to be released who was a Robber Now here are some of the fruits of that spirit which is not of God nor of Christ Jesus but is against God and against Christ Jesus And the Scripture saith Be not ye mockers lest your bonds be made strong and the Scriptures speaks of some who mocked the Messengers of God and despised those whom he sent to warn them till his wrath broke out upon them to destroy them now they that did so were not mov'd led by the Spirit of God but by the evill spirit which is of the Devil Therefore now all people try and examine your selves and see what Spirit ye are of and what Spirit ye are led by by the fruites which ye bring forth For this I say and know and testifie that there is no people upon the face of the earth but they are either of the good Spirit or of the evill Spirit that is they are either led by the Spirit of God or by the Spirit of the Devill and this is that which doth nearly concern all people to know which of these they are led by which they may know by the fruits which they bring forth for that is it which doth and will make it manifest plainly even as a Tree doth manifest it selfe what it is whether good or evill by the fruit it brings forth for the fruit doth come from the sap and vertue or as I may say the spirit and life that is in the Tree which comes from the Root of it and ground in which it stands Now the Scripture saith A good Tree bringeth forth good fruit and again If the Root be holy so are the Branches then the fruit is good there is the good Tree but now if the root be rotten or corrupt which stands in the cursed ground then the branches will be rotten and corrupt the fruit will be evill or none at all and there is the corrupt Tree which is to be hewen down and cast into the fire and burned for it is good for nothing else And there is the plant which must be plucked up which Christ saith the Father hath not planted for its a degenerate plant Now people these Parables are true therefore learn to read them and understand them with the Light that Christ Jesus hath enlightned you withall who spake them forth unto the World who is the Gift of the Fathers love unto the World whom he hath sent a Light into the World that all men through the Light may beleeve which they that did beleeve in him who is the Light he said unto them it was given to know the Mistery of the Kingdoms of God but unto the World who did not then beleeve in him they were Parables and are so still to this day Now the Light which Christ Jesus hath enlightned you withall is the Gift of God to you and the manifestation of his Spirit which is given to you and his grace which hath appeared unto you all which brings salvation therefore receive it and beleeve in it and be obedient to it and so you will come to know the Misteries of the Kingdome and to understand all the Parables which Christ spake to the World know the Key of David which opens and none shuts and shuts and noman opens otherwise ye will all remame in the dark World still which loves not the Light but doth choose darkness rather and they will remaine Parables to you still and ye will be shut up in the unbelief and in the darkness the Light will be your Condemnation for ever Therefore in true love I exhort you all to consider in time oh all ye People Professors and Prophane that ye may escape that eternall condemnation and Judgment which will come upon all the World of Unbeleevers and ungodly men who doe not beleeve in the Light of Christ Jesus who is come a Light into the World but slight it and hate it and say it is not sufficient to lead to Christ and to lead to salvation which reproves you for sin and for your evill deeds that ye might be turned from sin and from the power of Sathan to God otherwise your sins and your evill deeds which now ye love rather then the Light which reproves them will be sufficient to sinke ye downe into hell and into the pit of perdition I say now is the day of the Lords visitation of his grace and mercy and love to your souls that he would not have any of you to perish but all to come to the knowledge of his truth which would surely save you and set you free Every one therefore seriously to sit downe and consider where ye have been and what ye have been doing and what ye are doing and what ye have gotten and what ye doe possesse of all that which ye have made profession of and what assurance ye have of the health and welfare and salvarion of your soules and what certain Evidence and testimony ye have thereof in your selves and to your selves For that alone will stand you in stead and be your comfort and stay in time of trouble and in the houre of tempration and when ye come to lye upon your death-beds when all things else will fayle you and yeeld ye no comfort nor helpe nay your teachers whom ye have so long been following cannot helpe you nor comfort you if ye have not the witnesse in your selves and testimony of Gods Spirit to beare witnesse with your spirits that ye are the Children of God all your profession will be nothing