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A84841	A word from the Lord, to all the world, and all professors in the vvorld; spoken in parables: wherein all may come to read themselves through the parables, and see where they are; also a word to all professors, who cast the pure law of God behind their backs, and turn the grace of God into wantonness, and despite the day of their visitation; with a dreadful voice to all the children of darkness, who hate and deny the light; that all may come to see themselves, and repent, before the fierce wrath of the Lord, which is kindled in England, sweep you all away: by them who are redeemed out of the curse, to serve the living, called Quakers.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1654 (1654)	Wing F1991A; Thomason E809_6; ESTC R207560	15,809	15

A Word From the Lord TO ALL THE WORLD AND ALL PROFESSORS IN THE WORLD Spoken in PARABLES Wherein all may come to read themselves through the PARABLES and see where they are Also a word to all Professors who cast the pure Law of God behind their backs and turn the grace of God into wantonness and despise the day of their visitation with a dreadful voice to all the children of darkness who hate and deny the light that all may come to see themselves and repent before the fierce wrath of the Lord which is kindled in England sweep you all away by them who are redeemed out of the curse to serve the living called QVAKERS London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1654. A WORD FROM THE LORD TO ALL THE VVORLD MAN being drove into the earth out of paradise and death having passed over all men the flaming sword turns every way to keep the tree of life death having passed over all men death raigned from Adam till Moses and as there is death within so death speaks and as Christ hath given to every one of you a measure according to your ability and this measure is the light yet one he loves the light and the other he hates the light and this is the condemnation he that loves the light and brings his deeds to the light there is no occasion at all of stumbling this is the light that gave forth the Scripture according as thou art grown up in it thou wilt read them again and this light thou that hatest it thou stumblest because thy deeds are evil thou wilt not bring thy deeds to the light least it should reprove them thou knowest thy deeds are evil this light shews thee there thou hast learned thy condemnation thou knowest thou shouldst not lye be drunk and that thou shouldst not steal nor commit adultery this light will tell thee all this and it will condemn thee and reprove thee if thou love it and bring thy works to it but thy deeds being evil and knowst it will reprove thee therefore thou hatest it and will not bring thy deeds to it therefore this is thȳ condemnation here thou hast learned it when the righteousness of God is revealed through flames of fire upon thee then thou shalt see it is true thou knowest thou shouldst not be proud delight in fashions and customs and follow the world this light will shew thee and let thee see all that is vanity and bring thee sometime to confess it and yet thy heart being hardned and the deceit strong thou rejects and hates that which calls thee to repentance which lyes low in thee and continually calling thee to forsake thy lovers it tells thee thou shouldst not lust nor covet nor thieve it tells thee there is danger to all you thieves and lustful ones and covetous ones it speaks to you and I tell you there will be your condemnation when the book of conscience is opened in your own mouths ye shall be judged therefore take warning when the vengeance of God falls upon you then you will say you had time once when it is past and the plagues of God are poured upon you who hate to be reformed with that in your conscience when God calls you continually to repentance ye hear not his voice but trust in your own fancies and dreams and lying divinations and so hate the light for if you love it it would bring you to repentance and the fear of the Lord and the fear of the Lord is to depart from all sin and wickedness and all evil and all respecting of persons for thou that dost respects not Gods Law which forbids it for he that doth respect persons transgresses the Law and is convinced as a transgressor and commits sin thou that dost not own this light which is according to the Law of God which respects no mans person that in thy conscience if you love it and hearken to it it will exalt God alone ye proud ones at this may stumble but to that in your consciences which should exercise it I speak and this light will bring you to walk in the commands of Christ Christ Jesus saith In all your communications let your yea be yea and your nay be nay for whatsoever is more is evil and swear not at all for that was in the old time the swearing now thou that dost not abide in the doctrine of Christ art of the devil swear not by the head nor by Jerusalem nor by the earth nor by heaven These are great noted things I say swear not by the Bible which is a great noted thing which you swear by now if the Lords oath be performed which he swear by himself then all oaths are put an end to if the high Priest Iesus Christ be owned then all the Priests are put an end to which were true types and figures of him for he that holds up Priests which receive tythes according to the Law and now doth deny Jesus Christ come in the flesh and who loves the light that he hath given them witnesses Jesus Christ come in the flesh but those are they which deny all the Priests that receive tythes for the receiving tythes was in old time though Abraham paid tythes to Melchizedeck who was a figure when Jesus Christ the everlasting Priest was come he put an end to all figures and they and thou that holdst up the figures denyest Christ come in the flesh There was a Temple which God commanded when Christ was come and risen all outward Temples were denyed and we witness one Priest which is over the houshold of God ten thousand witness one Priest which is entred into the holiest and all the Priests and his hirelings are denyed and all such as go after covetousness to make gain of the people are denyed and all such as bear rule by their means and seek for their gain from their quarters are denyed and all such as are called of men Masters and have the chiefest places in the Assemblies are denyed such then who have one Master Jesus Christ to whom all power is given in heaven and earth who masters over all and hath conquered all subdued all raigns over all heaven and earth Judge over all heaven and earth and the mighty day of the Lord is coming God that made the world dwels not in Temples made with hands neither is he worshipped with the works of mens hands Seeing he is Lord of all hath given to all birth and life made of all Nations man of one mould to dwell upon the face of the earth and is coming to fill his with the knowledge of himself to all you that are unlearned outwardly of the letter that cannot read the Scripture outwardly to you I have a word from the Lord to speak which is Christ saith I have given to every one a measure according to their abilicy this is the measure the light which is pure which doth convince

who hath not Jesus Christ who follow such Priests as are called of men Masters As a Garden without thee and dressing it without so is Christ and his Spouse the Saints As there is a weeding without thee so the weeding of the weeds are in the heart Thistles without thee the nature of Thistles within thee Sower Grapes without thee thou that art turned from the Truth hast the nature of sower Grapes in thee As thou seest the wild Grapes without thee which set the childrens teeth an edge without thee so they set their teeth an edge who are growing in the truth and take of that which Acts contrary to the light and the light will let ye see as the night without thee and darkness so there is night within and as Stars without thee so there are Stars within thee as Moon without thee so there is Moon within thee and as Clouds without thee so there are Clouds within thee These are all Earthly Figures And as the Sun without thee so the Sun of Righteousness arising with healing in his wings within thee All who mind the measure which God hath given you it will open unto you these earthly Figures unto that nature in you which God spake and will teach you as you go up and down you shall read your Figures as covering without you so there is covering within Woe to him that is covered and not with the Spirit of the Lord and as a Fire and an Oven without thee and as Stubble without thee All you Proud and all you Wicked are as stubble to be consumed in the fire as fire doth the stubble Now this light will shew you these Figures Here you may read Scriptures thou that lovest the light thou that hatest this light canst not see these Figures But it is the invisible that opens these that gave them forth And here thou that art unlearned in the Letter maist read the Scripture and as the secret Chambers without thee hearken to the light within thee and it will let thee see the secret places where the retired place the secret Chambers are and as a Prison without thee so there is a Prison within where the seed of God lyes And as there is Threshing without thee it will let thee see Threshing within thee Chaffe without thee the Chaffe within Wheat without thee so there is Wheat within This light of God which gave forth the Scripture this light of God according to its measure will open the Scripture to thee For man being drove into the earth and the earth being above the seed So as the earth without thee so the earth within thee The Lord speaking low things Comparisons like to that nature in man that man may look upon the Creation with that which is Invisible and there read himself there thou maist see where-ever thou goest And to all you the word of the Lord that hath learned the Letter of the Scripture your Hebrew Greek and Latine Who hate the light within you and say every one hath not the light To you shall I open my mouth in some Parables Ye are the painted walls as ye see the painted walls without you so your painted walls there is your Figure and as you see men stumble without you which are blind So do you which say that every one hath not the light and that every one is not enlightned For ye stumble at the eye which should let you see and your mouth is the mouth of the false Prophet which the Scripture speaks of The true Prophet saith he enlightned every one that comes into the world and there was but two and there is but two and them that saith he doth not enlighten every one that cometh into the world and he saith he doth enlighten every one that cometh into the world thou art the false Prophet and goest about to make Christ a lyar who is the true Prophet Ye are the hypocrites who are hipt above the truth and your fair faces and ye are the thieves which steal your neighbours words and ye are filthy dreamers Which saith Christ hath not enlightned every one that cominto the world they speak a lye the definition of their own brain and sell the Prophets words and Christs words for money which was spoken forth freely Ye tell people ye Preach the Gospel who Minister the Letter and know not the Gospel and ye tell them that the Letter is the Word And the Letter saith God is the Word and ye tell them the Letter is the Light The Letter saith Christ is the Light The Lord is coming in flames of fire flames of fire without you as you see with a natural eye see flames of fire who have the light come upon you You ungodly ones as a sword without which hews down So shall ye that are wicked find the sword of the Lord which is the word of the Lord hew you down and as you see fire burning without you so ye that hate the Light wels without water say every one hath not the Light and as a Cloud without you so are the Clouds without water and all your knowledge Hebrew Greek and Latine is natural and the natural man knoweth not the things of God Therefore to all people everywhere to that light in you I speak which shews you Sin and Evil to be Works of Darkness and Deeds of the flesh O the Old man there is your Teacher and there is your Condemnation hating that light And ye are they that get the Saints Words in the old Bottles and ye give meanings to them ye who are of the Generation that murthered ever the Righteous seed as Bottles without you so are you Bottles New Wine put into New Bottles the Old Wine put into Old Bottles and that is a Figure And as Trees with leaves without that bears no Fruit so are they that have oppression and no life nor no fruit As Suns and Daughters without born by the will of man so there are Sons and Daughters of God born by the will of God Heirs of another World as these are born in this World and as there is the world without you so there is the World in the heart as there is the field without so there is the field in the heart As there is the Merchant-man without that seeks for Pearls without so there is the Merchant-man that seeks for Pearls within and as there is the Kingdom without sothere is the Kingdom of heaven within and the Axe is laid to the Tree Root without to hew down the Tree without so the Axe is laid to the Tree within that brings not forth good Fruit And as Trees cumber the ground without upon the earth so do men cumber the ground fruitless Trees And as there are Rocks without there are Rocks within as there is cleaving of Rocks without so is there cleaving of Rocks within As there are heavy burdens without so there are heavy burdens within the pure are burthened And as the rain falls upon

the Plants without so doth the mercy of God fall upon the tender Plants within As there is a Vineyard Planted without so are the People of God a Vineyard who love the Light and have the Invisible eye will read these Figures and Parables and ye heed not go to your natural Priests without you But this within will open them as you love it and walk in it as the Saints did who gave forth the Scripture and they Exhorted others to take heed to that light and said ye have a more sure word of Prophesie unto which ye do well to take heed and as unto a light shining in a dark place till the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts and this light is your Teacher which teacheth you wholesomeness and Holiness and Teacheth you the fear of the Lord and this light hating of it will be your condemnation and then you stumble and then you neither understand Parables nor Figures but are them that stumble at noon day all you who are earthly minding it which is Invisible ye will read the earthly Parables and Figures and see the time of Winter as there is Winter without so there is Winter within the time of Winter and the time of Summer if you wait to get through the earthly part The earth must be removed and the earth must be shaken when the Glory of the Lord ariseth This is witnessed so God almighty open your understandings all people everywhere that you may see your selves Which if you take heed to that light which will exercise your consciences it will let you see your selves which eye is the light and this light will let you see God But if your minds go forth the God of this world cometh in and takes the Dominion and so your minds are blinded and your understandings darkned Therefore every one what you possess profess for the Saints were what they spoke and every one as Christ hath given you a measure according to your ability mind your measure and improve your measure and let the Saints conditions alone but as you find them fulfilled in you and lay aside all contention and striving about words which is no profit but mind the pure light of God within which will teach every one to know God and so every one must improve his Talent and improve his measure according to his Ability so every one will be rewarded according to his works whether they be good or evil and thou that sayest every one hath not the light who art the blind Pharisee I shall stop thy mouth with a few words which the servants of God hath spoken forth Christ himself saith which is the true light he doth enlighten every one that cometh into the world and the one he loveth it and the other he hateth it And this is the Condemnation of the World that light is come into the world and men love darkness rather then light because their deeds are evil And thou sai●… he doth not enlighten every one that cometh into the world and there thou art a false Prophet and a witness against Christ and thou that saist the Grace of God hath not appeared to all men to teach them thou art he that tuins the Grace of God into wantonness and to thee the Grace hath appeared for that is Grace that shews thee ungodliness and worldly lusts and there thou goest to make the Apostles lyars when the Grace of God they say which we witness hath appeared to all men which teacheth us the Saints to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live Godlily and Soberly and Righteously in this present evil world and this Grace hath appeared to thee who livest wickedly and ungodlily and are of this present evil world to that in thy conscience I speak which thou shalt eternally witness me for to it the Grace cometh and appears and when the Book of Conscience is opened all men shall be Judged out of it and here thou that sayest every one hath not the light in their Consciences to exercise it thou goest about to make God unjust for the light which lets man see sin and evil is a perfect light of God and thou that saith every one hath not a measure of light within them to shew them all their Works and Actions which they do thou goest about to make God unjust and unrighteous and to keep the Creature in darkness for God saith he will give to every one a reward according to their works and if he had not a light how should he see his Works and how should the world be Judged in Righteousness but blind Hypocrites must shew themselves that they may openly appear blind to all them that are in the light and love the light and you that hate the light there is your condemnation G. F. TO all the Worlds Professors and People that you may see where you are and repent The word of God is not known to the world nor worldly wisdom He that hath the word hath life he that knows the word knows God and here is life manifest and the word hath quickned him and raised him out of death and dead works He who hath but the Letter heareth a sound but knoweth not what nor whence it is and as he receives it in the Ayr so he declares it and death speaks light words without power and dead-works and lightness is brought forth and the power of death Reigns and the life of this is but an imitation and not the life it self the Chaffe but not the Grain tossed in the wind And the Prince of the Ayr is Head and Ruleth And here Vanity is Exalted the light mind is fed with Ayery Notions would be wise but the Colt is at liberty not subject to the Yoke but kicks against the pure and the obedience is not And the Cross is despised by this nature who feeds here whose end is destruction and for the fire For this nature knows not the living Word but the Letter and is without God in the world but he who hath the Word hath God and is come into the Covenant by which all things stand For he is come into the beginning out of the Fall to the first Fruits and witnesseth the Word Spiritual Invisible Powerfull and Pure and Sharp a Divider and a Discerner By it he is Sanctified and made clean by it he is established unmoveable by it he grows and is fed daily it is his Life his Light his Joy and Delight And this Word is not to fetch from above nor from below Neither is it to seek in a Chapter or a Steeple-house without But it is nigh in the heart and in the mouth by which Word he is taught guided and kept at all Seasons it is his Counsellor and he enquires at it as at the Oracle and thereby he himself is brought to live the life of Godliness and from which is spoken forth words of life and power to others and he speaks not his own words not

brings forth his own works but hath ceased from his own works as God did from his and is entred into his Rest and is come into the Eternal Sabbath and is comprehended into the word which is Christ and is no more his own For now Christ speaks in him acts in him and works in him both the Will and the Deed Now Christ and he is one is married to him and Christ is his Head and Husband And now the head speaks Prays and Praises and Prophesies and is uncovered and here is the Church of the First born the Pillar and ground of Truth where the woman must be covered and kepe silent and is not to speak in the Church is not to Usurp Authority but is to be in subjection and if she would know any thing she is to ask her husband at home and he is to her a covering of the eyes for ever Now all you Priests and People that talk of these things without you from the Letter this is a Parable to you and you read the outside in the Letter and from that you Imagine and so set up a Form or Likeness or Image of these things and here you Worship and for this you contend and would compell all to Worship your Image you have set up and you go about to persecute and destroy all that will not bow to it with you But it is but the Form you have and not the Substance And you put the Dead Letter for the Living Word and your own meanings of it arising from the brain and first Wisdom and natural Learning This you declare and call it professing and put off your hats which is Carnal but the head you know not and it is the woman that speaks and the head is covered and you dishonor your head and honor your selves Neither are you subject to your head but your own wills rule in you and you live in the pleasures of the world and are become wanton and have set your eyes upon many lovers and you are adulterated from your husband and live not with him nor is he a covering to you neither can you witness him in you and you in him and the pure seed is not brought forth in you but your seed is accursed Neither is the pure language brought forth in you but as to God you are smitten with barrenness and bring forth nothing but Words Wind Shews and Shadows Imitations Inventions Imaginations and false Conceptions and you never look to bring forth better fruits Never to come to Holiness and Perfection and to come to your first Fruits and that Estate in which you were Created and you will not know that you are departed from your first fruitfulness and have lost him in whom your life stands and in whom your Fruit is found and are become widdows and desolate as to your first husband and have been running after other lovers and have committed Adultery under every green Tree and the holy flesh is departed from you and you have been doting upon the Egyptian and Assyrian for wisdom and strength whose flesh is as the flesh of Horses and have been as fed Horses living in the lusts of the flesh as it is at this day Now all People stand still a while and see where you are and the cause of your unfruitfulness Look back from whence you are fallen and return to your first husband that you may bring forth your first fruits For till then all you do is abomination to the Lord and he cannot accept it For what you bring forth is the seed of the Adulterer and the Whore a Generation of evil doers And yet you make a Profession and outside appearance as to Righteousness and Holiness But the Power to Act Righteousness you have not but in your Actions bring forth the Image of the Devil for all sin bears his Image and he is the father of it Let no man deceive you through fair words He that sins is of the Devil and is doing his work and upon this Image where it is Is the wrath of God revealed from heaven in flames of fire here is your Portion you workers of Iniquity D. N. O All you who have cast the Law of God behind you and walk despitefully against the Spirit of Grace give over your Profession for shame and never profess you love God and have cast his Law behind you and walk in uncleanness fighting wrangling quarrelling in Drunkenness and maliciousness and brawling ralling and backbiting cursed speakers inventers of evil and doers of mischief Plotting together to devour the Truth living in Wantonness and Pleasures Feasting and Ryoting and Gluttony In misnaming and miscalling the People of God who live in the Truth and Covetous Cheaters incontinent without natural affection unholy unjust and unrighteous brutish given over unto all unrighteousness People and Priests are gone out of the way fierce despisers of them that are good Now all people and friends where is your Profession and love towards God Awake ye Drunkards awake ye Scorners and give over your Drunkenness and Scorning God scorns the scornfull and Drunkards shall rot Isa 5.24 Therefore as the flame of fire devours the Stubble and as the Chaffe is consumed of the flame so their Root shall be rotteness and their Blossom shall go up as dust because ye have cast off the Law of God and contemned the word of the holy one of Israel Awake ye proud ones for ye are as the Stubble as the fire burneth the Stubble so shall ye be barned Awake ye wicked ones for ye are as the Chaffe that the wind drives to and fro Wo unto you lyers for you are without God Awake and blush for shame and turn to the Lord Awake ye doggs which bite and devour one anothe● For ye are without God and cross your lusts and learn meekness and tenderness for that is of God and the other is of the Devil Awake ye Idolaters who trust in the earth trusting in your Riches and in your Horses and in your beauty delighting in your Corn and Wine Your Woe and misery is coming for all the Gods of the earth must be famished O trust in the Lord and forsake your Idols Come down thou proud one and lay thine honor in the dust cast down thy Crown of Pride who art Exalted that the Lord alone may be exalted Who att thou that art Exalted and lifted up in Pride who art thou that sets thy nest on high and oppressest thy Fellow-Creatures and Taxeth them Remember Remember that there is a God and remember what he did to Pharoah that was a Taxer Oppressor and was proud O consider thou shalt not escape the Judgement of God thou hard-hearted Pharoah thou wild Ishmael whose hands are against every man Thou Prophane Esau which despisest thy Birth-right for the Earth thou art a place for the Dragons to dwell in greedy devourers thou that enviest thy Fellow-Creagures art Old Cain He that envies his brother is a murtherer of the Righteous and

the Just whose Sac ifice God doth not accept and thou that art Cain who livest in envy God doth not accept thy Sacrifice all your Preaching all your Praying all your Singing and all your Praysing is not accepted of God whilest you live in envy for it is the pure that he accepts and the heart that he requires and not the murtherers Sacrifice for that is Cains Wo Wo to the world and woe to all you that turn the Grace of God into wantonness Wo wo unto all disobedient children that will not take Council of the Lord Wo wo to you that paint your selves with other mens words that appear beautifull to men outwardly but within are full of poyson whited Walls painted Sepulchres full of Deceit and Hypocrisie outside-Churches outside-Forms outside-Teachers Formal-Prayers Formal-Teachings Formal-Singing Formal-Praises Carnal-Teachers speaking the Carnal-Letter for Carnal-Money to Carnal and Brutish People Away with all this filthy Profession for the Curse of God is upon it and upon all that filthy Nature And the Cursed Nature holds it up Who are Redeemed from the Curse their Church is in God and their Teacher is God and they are brought to obey the Law of God who Teacheth holiness without which none shall see God who Teacheth Pureness and Meekness Tenderness and Righteousness And to lay aside all Envy Wrath Malice Hatred Drunkenness Rayling Theft Murther Fighting Quarrelling and Idle-Jesting Vain-Songs and all Venomousness all Hypocrisie Cozening and Cheating Worldliness and Earthly-mindedness For these are the Works of the Flesh and who act these things shall never inherit the Kingdom of God O all People confider where you are there is a light in you that tells you that all these things are sinful Herein you have learned your Condemnation for you know that you should do no unrighteousness this light is your Teacher and this light is your Condemner and if you love this light you love Christ and if you hate this light you hate Christ for this light shews these things and your Profession is Carnal Heathenish and Brutisn Hearken to the light and it will draw you out of all the Worships Customs and Fashions in the world up to God and to live in Love and Unity one with another gather in your hearts together in one Now you have time prize it O all People beware of the Woe and Misery that is coming upon you the Earth shall be shaken and all Earthly ways And all your Profession shall come to nothing but to be Fewel for the fire Heathenish-Ways Heathenish-Forms Heathenish-Teachers For God is coming to overturn the Kingdoms of the World and to set up his own Son and in Righteousness will he establish it and throw down all Unrighteous Kingdoms all the Heathenish Kingdoms and Synagogues of Satan You which have Professed the Saints words will be found to be of the Devil and out of the Truth Squeaking-Professors Fained-Professors Away with all your Fained-Humilite for God is Power Away with all your Professors that Profess God and Christ being within full of Blood-thirsty-devouring to slay the Righteous And you which Profess truth and live not in it but in Envy and Sin You are of the Devil and his Works ye do and every Tree shews forth its Fruit and ye are Trees A good Tree bringeth sorth good Fruit and an evil Tree bringeth forth evil Fruit. Now all People consider which of these Trees you are every man and woman is likened to a Bottle New Wine is put into New Bottles and Old Wine into Old Bottles And what is within you Pours forth the Old Bottle pours forth the Old Nature Which is Envy Wrath Malice ra●…ing Gods Name in vain Swearing Lying Pride and Oppression and sp●wing forth your Filthiness Corruptness and all Abominations and all ●…ng●…dly-Deeds and Unrighteous-Ways and your Filthy-Profession which is in 〈◊〉 Wisdom of the World by which Wisdom the World knows not God and he that drinks the Old doth not desire to drink the New and he that drinks the New will not in anywise desire to drink the Old Out of the New Bottle proceeds Righteousness or Rivers of Living-Water all People see and consider which Tree and which Bottle you are Whether the good Tree which cannot bring forth evil Fruit or the evil Tree which cannot bring forth good Fruit Whether you be the New Bottle that pours forth Righteousness Holiness and Purity Or the Old Bottle which pours forth Wickedness and all manner of Ungodliness All People see consider what Fountain you are Whether the good Fountain that venteth out Righteousness or the evil Fountain that venteth out evil and Unrighteousness Spewing out the Venomous Nature One Fountain doth not send forth Sweet-Water and Bitter Salt and Fresh And you that send forth the Bitter-Water you may Profess to be of the Sweet-Fountain But God knows your Hypocrisie and the Plagues of God are to be poured forth upon all such Beasts For you are Beasts Doggs Swine and Devils Who do not abide in the Truth Fat Bulls of Bashan Hypocrites and Serpents Antichrists Seducers and Deceivers Dragons Murtherers and Devourers of them that abide in the Truth But they that abide in the Truth the Deceits of all the World are discovered to them TO all the children of darkness that stumble at the light wherewith Christ hath enlig●ted every one that cometh into the world saith Christ I am the light of the world he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life And this light you deny to be sufficient to lead to God and here you are unbelievers and cannot believe in the Son of God whom the father hath given for a Covenant of light that whosoever believes in him should not abide in darkness but you that deny this light deny the way to the father the way out of the world the way out of darkness you deny the Prophets and Apostles and all the holy men of God for they all walked in this light and spoke of it and you deny the Scriptures given out from this light and by this light you are condemned and found to be of that sort which all that dwelt in the light bear witness against for of this sort you are who deny the light Such as are blind guides proud and covetous such as are called of men Masters such as bear rule by your means hirelings greedy dumb dogs such as seek for their gain from their quarters seeks for the Fleece lay heavy burdens on the people such as go in the way of Cain and after the error of Balaam for gifts and rewards and such as with feigned words make merchandize of the people which Christ the light and all that vvalked in the light cryed vvoe against and their vvords in the Scripture are left as a vvitness against you all vvho live in such things vvhich vvords you dare not stand to be tryed by they are so plain against your practice but vvrest them by your subtilty giving other meanings and private interpretations on them to make them fit your private ends and filthy practices and thereby they have covered your filthiness and hid your iniquities all these times of dark 〈◊〉 ●nd have gone under the name of the Ministers of Christ by crying out against others for persecuting quarrelling fighting stocking stoning suing covetousness pride and idleness and thus by your fair pretences have ye deceived the simple but novv that the same Christ is manifest vvhich hath alvvays been persecuted by his light are they discovered to be these vvho garnish the Sepulchres of Christ the Prophets and Apostles whom your fathers slew which ye your selves are in the same work are not you now found beating backbiting stocking imprisoning suing false-accusing and perswading the Powers of the earth against the bodies of these where the light of Christ is owned and the brightness of his coming manifest to lay you open so that the Prisons are filled by your means who would have believed within these few years that you had been of them of which Christ spoke by which his messengers should be shamefully intreated beat in the Synagogues halled before Rulers falsly accused and imprisoned who would have thought you had been the men who should have been found beating your fellow servants suing and imprisoning for tythes and hire such who cannot uphold you but sin against the light of Christ in their conscience and these whom a few weeks since you counted the most consciencious of your hearers to whom you cryed peace peace now that they cease putting into your mouths you prepare war against them and here you are found in the steps of the false Prophets who were enemies to the light and were witnessed against by the light as all who walk in the light are now turned away from you and are come out from you and made to declare against you with that light and now by such as are turned from the light are ye upholden and to them ye flye for refuge and now you set up drunkards swearers scorners fighters such as deny the light and bring forth works of darkness to uphold you with clubs stones and stocks fighting and tearing by the hair of the head and shedding of blood of such as are sent to vvitness against you and the most envious and cruel are become your best friends and the Scripture is fulfilled upon you all Like People like Priest and the woe that came upon such is coming upon you all except you repent FINIS