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A85492	A cal [sic] and a vvarning, to all priests, professors and people, vvho have and do profess the Scriptures, that they may try their doctrines and practises by it, and may own condemnation in their doctrines and practises, wherein they are contrary to the Scriptures. And a tender visitation to the whole vvorld, that they may own this their visitation, and may be healed and restored to the Lord; and this may serve for a looking glass, wherein people may see what visage they are of, and how they stand related as unto God. / By a sufferer in Hartford goale, for faithful witness-bearing, against this sinful generation; known by the name of John Gould.	Gould, John, prisoner at Hertford.	1657 (1657)	Wing G1416; Thomason E932_1; ESTC R202329	27,259	37

A CAL AND A VVARNING TO ALL Priests Professors and People VVho have and do profess the Scriptures that they may try their Doctrines and Practises by it and may own condemnation in their Doctrines and Practises wherein they are contrary to the Scriptures AND A TENDER VISITATION TO The whole VVORLD That they may own this their Visitation and may be healed and restored to the Lord And this may serve for a LOOKING GLASS wherein People may see what visage they are of and how they stand related as unto GOD By a Sufferer in Hartford Goale for faithful witness-bearing against this sinful generation known by the name of JOHN GOULD London Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate 1657. THis following testimony was given forth chiefly as out of tender love to the Priests and Professors and inhabitants of Hartford and Ware and the countrey thereabout who lyes in darkness and ignorance under blinde guides and so are ever learning and cannot come to the knowledge of the truth and this is written onely for their information but may be serviceable in any part of the world among such who doth profess the Scriptures So let all the sober people of that countrey about Hartford consider and not wilfully contemn and despise the day of their visitation which now is upon them from the Lord that they may come to the knowledge of his wayes and let all other people weigh what herein is written for the very clear day of Gods tender visitation is upon the whole world Remember you are warned now in your life-time A CALL AND A VVARNING TO ALL Priests Professors and People c. O All ye people Professors and Priests of the world and to all others every where who have an eye to see and an ear to hear high and low rich or poor of what sort of profession soever whether Presbyterians Independents Baptists or by what other by-name known or distinguished who are seeking the Kingdome of heaven in outward observations Loe here and loe there in this duty and this daies observation or in the other performances as you call them Be it known unto you all from the Lord that you are out of the way it is not to be found there for the Kingdome of God comes not with outward observations neither shall they say any longer loe here or loe there for the Kingdome of heaven is within So said Christ Jesus to the Pharisees who were seeking the Kingdom without in outward observations so say I to you their children by the spirit of the same Christ Jesus whom your fathers slew and hung upon a tree for your new Moons and Sabbaths your calling of your Solemne and your appointed Fasts and Feasts my soul loaths they are even an abomination unto me saith the Lord for your hands are full of blood and cruelty even the blood of the innocent cryeth in mine ears whom ye like your fathers have shamefully entreated and crucified and hung upon a tree and yet are professing his words whom they slew and their words who witnessed him and preach'd him and your selves found in the same practise with them who crucified the just one and requir'd to let loose the murtherer yet ready many of you to say as they of old did if we had lived in those daies we would not have done so wickedly Oh what think ye will be in the end hereof when the just God shall come to call you to an accompt for all this do you think getting his words and their words to profess and talk of will save you from the wrath to come who are despisers and haters of their life both in your selves and others where he is made manifest and are scoffers and scorners at them who do witness it calling them in derision Quakers and yet make a profession of Moses writings and Davids words and Habakkuks Prophesie and Pauls Epistles who all witnessed Quaking ye Hypocrites search the Scriptures and see whether ye are not in their steps who despised Moses Law and made Songs of David and mock'd and slew the Prophets and persecuted Paul and ston'd Stephen which bare witness to and for the Lord and against your Idol Temples and yet make profession of their words to the light in all your consciences I speak which will let you see that you are out of their life who wrote and spake forth those words and are ye so foolish to think a profession of those words will save you who do not know nor witness the same life from which those words were spoken but are enemies to it and murtherers of it in your selves and persecutors of it in others witness some of my righteous servants in Hartford Goal whom ye have cast into prison some of you without the breach of any known Law of your own Nation and contrary to my righteous Law which I have plac'd in all your consciences unto which you must all be accountable in that day wherein God shall co●e to judg the secrets of all hearts by my Gospel which hath been declared even in your streets and Sinagogues if you had ears to hear O foolish and slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have written and all that Christ and the Apostles were witnesses of ought not Jesus thus to have suffered and to have entered into his glory is there another way for the salvation of your souls but him who is the way the truth and the life and can any come to the father but by him who is the light of the world and lighteth every one that cometh into the world Is there another Saviour save me saith the Lord or another Redeemer save the Holy One of Israel our King whom ye professors priests people with bloody hands have crucified and slain even him whom God hath raised up to be a Prince and a Saviour to give repentance unto Israel and remission of sins Have ye not evilly entreated his messengers and servants whom he hath called and chosen to be witnesses hereof in these your daies as your Forefathers of old did so do ye search the Scriptures which ye profess and see if they be not fulfilled by you and shall be fulfilled upon you as ever by them of old they shall hall you out of their Synagogues and before Rulers and Magistrates and some of you shall they cast into prison and shall do and speak all manner of evil falsly and despightfully against you for my name sake saith Christ yea they that killeth you shall think they do God service and this will they do unto you for my name sake because they have neither known me nor my father see if ye be not they and if this be not so O ye priests professors and people who deny the Revelation of Christ and say all Revelation is ceas'd and that none must expect Revelation now are ye not such as the Scriptures which in words ye profess but in life and power deny witnesseth against to know neither

profession of the Saints words fair fig-leaves but underneath a Serpent your coverings rent it will no longer hide you the bed is too short to stretch your selves upon and your covering is grown too narrow to any longer hide you your shame and nakedness appears And how think ye can ye ever come to know the covering of his Spirit who will not own nor believe in that which convinceth of sin but say it 's not sufficient to lead and guide unto salvation Do ye think a profession of their words will do it who did own it and were led and guided by it who witnessed salvation by it will this save you who are not led and guided by it but make slight of it even of that which was their leader and conducter into the New Jerusalem the City of the living God which is come down from God out of Heaven and yet professes their words who did believe and were witnesses of it O ye foolish and slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have written and that the Apostles witnessed unto and yet think to profess their words will save you who are not in their life Think you my servants of old were saved after this manner by professing my Saints and Servants words who went before them into the land of Rest Think ye Moses who was a faithful servant in my house was saved without Abrahams Faith which justified him by Works who was many hundred years before him Whom think ye was the Patriark Abraham saved by who was many hundreds of years before Moses Writings who saw my day saith Christ and rejoyced was he think ye sav'd by ritings Who shew'd Adam his transgression when he would have hid himself and run away to hide his nakedness knowing that he had sinned was it not he of whom Moses declares saying A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your Brethern like unto me him shall ye hear who though he were dead yet speaketh By whom think ye were the Patriarks told there was Corn in AEgypt who had sold Joseph thither to preserve them alive in Famine Was it not by him of whom Moses declares By whom did Joseph make mention of the Removing of his bones when as he was yet in AEgypt long before their departure By whom did Jacob bless both the sons of Joseph leaning on the top of his staff All these obtained a good report through Faith having not received the Promise who being dead yet speaketh Whom think ye that my servant Joshua called Jesus was sav'd by was it by Moses Writings Or by Faith in him whom Moses declared should come by which he entred the good land What should I speak of Jeptha and David and Sampson and Gideon and many others who through Faith remov'd Mountains stopt the mouths of Lions quench'd the violence of fire fought many battels over-come great Nations slew mighty Giants Ogg King of Bashan and Doeg King of the Amorites and Tidal King of Nations and Tartan Pull and Lud who bent the bow By whom think ye was Abraham strengthned when he rescued the spoils of the men of the East out of the hands of their enemies when Melchisedeck met him who was without beginning of dayes or end of life whose Father and Mother none knew neither had they a name in the earth unto whom the Patriarch Abraham gave the Tenth of the spoyls that he had taken who blessed him who had the Promise and without doubt the lesser was blessed of the greater who was the figure of him who was to come And do ye think O ye Priests People Professors and Inhabitants of the World that a making of Profession of these words will save you who know not him who was to come nor will not believe in the light from whence the words were declared forth who was the Oath and Promise unto Abraham when as he was yet uncircumcised who is the Father of all who believe in the Oath who said Of the fruit of thy Loyns shall he come in whom all the Nations of the Earth shall be blessed even by turning away the Curse for sin and saving his People from their sin in whose Seed all the Nations of the Earth shall be blessed and again in blessing I will bless thee and in multiplying I will multiply thee and thou shalt be the Father of many Nations and as the stars of heaven so shall thy Seed be you who are professing these words do ye know the Seed here spoken of which shall be as the stars of heaven for multitude unto which the Promise is not unto seeds as many but unto thy seed which is Christ in the Male and in the Female of which Moses in the Spirit testifieth Or how can ye ever come to this knowledg vvho deny the light vvhich lighteth every man that cometh into the World and so the seed of God ye are strangers and enemies to vvho deny the light to be sufficient to lead unto salvation all vvho believe in it and vvalk up to it and yet professe their vvords vvho vvitnessed salvation by it and take their sayings the holy men of Gods Words vvhich they spake vvrote from the Word that dvvelt in them and vvas vvith them and call them the Word of the Lord saying Hearken to the Word of the Lord vvho never knevv his Word nor had seen his shape at any time but are enemies to his Word and to those vvho professes his Word abiding in them and they in it and so are such found to be vvho have not his Word abiding in you who call that his Word which were Writings from his Word which they who knew the Word no where did And so his Word you are ignorant of and his life haters of and despisers of who have his words to make a profession of I wonder how ye should be still thus ignorantly blindfold as not to see this when as his so plainly declared of to you Do ye not wilfully stop your ears and blind your eies O ye priests professors and people that ye will not see this or do ye think or imagine to be saved by a Profession without the life and power or are ye resolv'd on 't that ye will not be saved and say still He 's not sufficient Will ye professe to be lovers of God and Christ and the spirit and yet say He 's not sufficient and be haters of them who are so who are followers of that which is good and do witnesse he 's sufficient Is this to love God and Christ and the Spirit as ye profess who are haters of the Brethren Can such a profession save you Doth the Scriptures ye profess witness forth such a salvation as this Or do ye think there 's another salvation then what they witness to which is the light of the World Christ Jesus And can you think to be saved by him who will not be led and guided by him Or doth he lead any into sin You who

a common and a special light a natural and a spiritual light in man distinguish them asunder that we may know them one from another seeing the Scriptures ye professe speaks but of one true light which lighteth every one that cometh into the World which is uncreated if by your natural light you mean the Sun Moon and Stars and other borrowed Lights and created we agree in that but are they in man but if there be two Lights in man separate them one from another that we may know them or else we may freely conclude according to the Scripture That the light which is in you is darkness and how great is that darkness which hath overspread the whole World since the Apostles dayes which is got so high even into the Seat of God exalting himself above God and boasts himself as if he were God by making two Lights in man when God made but one and the Scriptures witnesse to but one true light and yet he 'le have two but knows not how to separate them one from another but he who dwells in the light doth and knows his to be darknesse and to ascend out of the pit of darknesse and confusion unto which he must be sent again even by him who is the Father of Light even of our Lord Jesus Christ God blessed for ever the God of truth in whom there is no lye but bears witnesse against the Lye and the Frogs and the Locusts and the Caterpillars which are ascended out of the bottomlesse pit and have overspread the Nations of the whole earth even all Egypt but they must be all whipt away with the Rod of Moses and sent into the pit out of which they ascended never to infect the Nations any longer for he is come and coming whose Fan is in his hand who will throughlie purge his Flour and gather his Wheat into his Garner but the Chaff will he consume and burn up with fire unquenchable for his fire is kindled in the earth which shall consume and none shall be able to hinder it till he hath consumed the wicked from off the face of the whole Earth King and Peasant who will not that he should reign Tophet is prepared for them of old and the glory of all earthly Diadems shall enter into it for thus hath the Lord decreed and who shall be able to hinder him or say Why dost thou so Wherefore O all ye Kindreds of the Earth high and low rich or poor Kings Nobles Priests Professors and Peasants tremble at the Word of the Lord for it 's gone forth and shall not return empty but shall accomplish the end unto which he hath sent it a fire is gone before him and it shal be very tempestuous round about him which shall consume all his Enemies till they have left unto them neither root nor branch in the earth til the wicked be no more nor the place therof know them no more O ye Priests Professors of the Scriptures and People are you not glorying and boasting after the flesh in Names and things without in saying ye are Christians and to you is committed the Scriptures and the Ordinances the Baptism dipping and sprinkling and Sacraments which the Scriptures no where calls so and yet are naming your dayes and Months after the customs of the Heathens that knows not me saith the Lord Search the Scriptures and see Did ever any true Christians my Saints and Servants so do Did Paul or Peter or James or John or Matthew or Mark or Luke whose Words ye professe do so VVhat do ye excel the Pope of Rome in these things Doth not he think ye glory in the same and in many more Names and Saints daies and carnal things then ye profess And were not the Iews your forefathers glorying in such like things Are not we Abrahams Seed And to us is committed the Oracles of God and yet were Enemies to me and persecutors and despisers of my life in my Saints for all this And do not ye excel and outstrip them in this also Did they make Laws that I should not speak publikelie amongst them Or did they not fasten their eyes on the Saints and say Brethren if any one have a Word of Exhortation for the people let them speak on Do ye do so O ye Professors of these words Or do ye not exceed many of them in crueltie in this particular For if I send any unto you in my Name do ye not laie violent hands on them and thrust them forth and hale them before Magistrates and to Stocks and to Prison with them we have a Law though ye have and professe my Words which say He that receiveth you and heareth your words receiveth me and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me And can ye think ever to receive me or my Father who wil not hear their testimonie who come in my Name but if any come to you or are sent to you by others in his own Name him ye are readie to hear and receive though he tell you Revelation is ceas'd and so neither knows me nor my Father which sent me as my Words in the Scripture testifie O ye professors and people And do ye not crie out An Orthodox man a learned man a great Schollar a man of excellent parts and gifts preaches sound Doctrine a gallant Gentleman Mr. such a one a man of great gifts certainly he prayes and preaches by the spirit yet says revelation is ceast What spirit is it think ye he preaches and prays by who knows not the Son For none knows the Father save the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him Do ye think its the spirit of my Father that prayes and preacheth in him that knows not the Son nor the Father but sayes Revelation is ceast it 's ceast to him indeed because he 's a hater of the light and loves the darknesse rather then the light because his deeds are evil And do ye think his works are not in the darknesse whom it 's even a torment to to hear of the light and he had rather see or speak with the Devil then to see or speak with one who owns the light and walks in the light and so hath fellowship with God but whom think ye his fellowship 's with who loves not the light but is a hater of the light Must not his fellowship needs be with the devil who is the Prince and Ruler of the Darknesse of this World even the spiritual VVickednesse got into high places sitting as God in the Temple of God exalting himself even above all that is called God and would be worshipped as God And think ye this spirit is no where to be found but at Rome O ye Priests Professors and People Is it not to be found amongst your selves To the Light in all your consciences I speak VVhat means the Fines and close imprisonments of such who dare not swear and so break my commands for conscience sake and who dare not bow

the Father nor the Son and no marvel ye are found in such practises which he whom we have receiv'd and do bear witness of foretold and in those daies declar'd of and so the Scriptures are owned witnessed unto by us who are in the life or them and in the possession and enjoyment of him of whom they declare as also do bear witnesse against you who have the words declared but are found enemies to the life and in the same practises with them who had Moses and the Prophets which declar'd and prophesied of him to come but when he came and was made manifest would not own him nor receive him but rejected him and murthered him who was the life of Moses and the Prophets words and yet said that had they been in the daies of their Fathers they would not have slain the Prophets that prophesied of his coming and ye now in these daies be ye witnesses against your selves even of the same generation who have not only their words who prophesied of his coming but say he is come and have his words and their words who wrought and witnessed him come to profess and ready to say had we been in their daies we would not have done so wickedly nor cruelly and yet ye your selves doing the same thing even persecuting and evilly entreating them who now witness him come who is the end of the Law and the Prophets Christ Jesus the righteous whom ye crucifie and thinkest thou this O man who condemnest another and doest the same that thou shalt escape the judgements of God or despisest thou the riches of his grace long-suffering and patience not knowing that the goodness of God should lead thee to repentance Oh what vvill ye do in the end hereof oh ye people professors and priests who are groaping in the dark even at noon day vvhen repentance shall be hid from your eyes vvho vvill not ovvn him nor receive him to lead you unto it vvho is the light of the vvorld and lighteth every one that cometh into the vvorld vvhom the vvorld cannot receive but reject him as ye do even as the Master-builders and professors of old did vvho are calling his light vvhich lighteth every one that cometh into the vvorld natural and say it 's not sufficient to lead unto salvation all that are guided by it and live and vvalk up to it and herein are you manifest to be blind leaders of the blind and hovv can you be othervvise that deny the light vvhich lighteth every one that cometh into the vvorld Do you think he I alvvayes vvait and call upon you O ye foolish and slovv of heart to believe do ye think he 'l check and reprove prove you ever for your evil deeds and that his spirit shall alwayes strive with you O ye priests professors and people will ye thus reject and contemn the Lord your Maker and still go on to slander the footsteps of his Annointed and think to escape and prosper notwithstanding all this are ye not they who say in your hearts We will none of this man to raign over but we will walk on after the imaginations of our own hearts adding drunkennesse unto thirst and covetousnesse unto pride and yet professe to know him and to observe a day to him and come and pretend to bow and worship before me saith the Lord when your hearts are a whoring from me after your pride and vanity and lusts and covetousnesse and all manner of iniquities Will I be enquired after by such a people as this Shall not my soul be avenged on such a people as this who provoke me daily to my face notwithstanding all my reproofs but hate my reproofs and cast my Laws behind their backs and say in their hearts We will not have this man to rule even my Son whom I have sent a light into the world whom they as their Forefathers of old crucifie and slay and shed the innocent blood in their land even the streets of their great City which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt where our Lord is crucified as well as at Jerusalem to the light in all your consciences I speak which will let you see is it not so deceive not your selves Can any do thus and be saved Can any kick and spurn against him and not be confounded and destroyed Can any reject him and he not grind them to powder The stone cut out of the mountains without hands smites at the feet of your great image even your mighty image whose head is of gold back and breasts of silver bellie and thighs of brass legs of iron feet part of iron and part of clay and it shall tumble and crumble down to the dust and none shall be able to deliver it out of my hands saith the Lord for Babylon the great is come up into remembrance before me saith the Lord even all her Inchantments and Sorceries whereby she hath bewitched my people Israel to sin against me with her lying divinations and false doctrines saying the Lord hath said it when of a truth I never spake to them nor never sent them at all therefore have they not profited my people at all but have taken of my wooll and of my flax and of my wine and my oyl and of my kine and of my sheep and have spent it on her lusts and her lovers but now am I coming to require these things at her hands and I will strip her naked and bare even she who hath said in her heart I sit as a Queen and shall see no sorrow sorrow and misery Widdowhood and losse of children shall come upon her in one day and all her lovers with whom she hath played the harlot shall not save nor deliver her out of my hands saith the Lord your righteous Judge who judgeth not for gifts nor rewards but will plead the cause of the innocent and him that hath no helper in the earth and will recompence double into her bosome even for all the blood of the innocent that have been shed in the midst of her even blood double even till it come up to the horse bridles and happy shall he be that taketh Babilons brats and dash out their brains against the stones for she is come up into remembrance before me saith the Lord even she who hath made all the kindreds of the earth drunk with the cup of her fornication and all the Kings and Princes Governours and Rulers of the earth hath committed incest and fornication with her and the blood of my Saints have been shed by them in the midst of her therefore shall she receive blood to drink for she is worthy even the dregs of the cup of my fury that will I wring out unto her saith the Lord shall she drink of and shall spue and fal and never rise more and they that have committed fornication with her and her lovers and her Merchants and such as have had traffique with her by Sea and all occupiers of ships beholding

thou wilt not return thou must be destroyed both thou and thy King wherefore consider your wayes and doings O ye priests professors and people do ye think a profession of his words who is the life will save you from wrath to come who are enemies to his light and life and will not have him to rule and raign in you and over you who is the way to the Father and to his knowledge whom to know is life eternal and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent And do ye think ever to come to the knowledge of him O ye priests professors and people who are talking and professing of serving God in his own way and that such as will have Christ must have him in his own way and on his own terms and it will not own him the way even the way of his own appointment the light Doth not the Scriptures ye professors declare it or doth it say it self is it or is there another way then what it declareth of or another name given whereby the sons of men can be saved what mean ye that ye thus oppose the Lord and his way are ye stronger then he hath he not said he 'l no longer be served and worshipped in Temples made with mens hands and will ye still be serving him contrary to his mind hands and will and yet profess to serve and worship him in his own way hath he not said that he dwelleth not in temples made with hands and will ye be still seeking of him there notwithstanding all this Hath he not invited and called upon all to come unto him that they might have life and will ye be seekign life in the Scriptures for all this hath he not said the Kingdome of heaven cometh not with outward observances and will ye remain still seeking of it in those things and yet be telling the people and professing that God must be served and worshipped in his own way and yet seek to keep people in your own wayes are ye not deceitful and deceivers of the people who do thus ye are observing daies and moneths and times and years are ye not still carnal ye eat and drink but are ye not still empty and a thirst ye pray-and fast but receive not for ye ask amisse to spend it on your lusts ye observe daies and divers watchings and carnal Ordinances but are the comers thereunto made perfect as pertaining to the conscience ye cry out The Temples of the Lord the Ordinances of the Lord the Church of Christ the Ordinances of Christ but which of you is come to witnesse your bodies to be the Temple of the Holy Ghost or that you are made fit Temples for the Spirit of the Lord to dwell in or him come to wash you and cleanse you in his own blood and so to present you without spot to ●od even his Father or which of you is come to witnesse the Church of the First born which is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Pillar and ground of truth but on the contrarie ye profess teach and say none can or must or shall be set free from sin here and so endeavour to preserve your bodies temples for the devil and not Christ whilest here for Christs Temple is holie and ye say none must or can be set free from sin and so seek to keep people unholie and their bodies Temples of sin this Doctrine pleases the devil well and he loves you for it and will let you professe to serve God in Gods way and profess Christs Church say you are Christs Ministers so he may but keep you to be his Temples and Church and Ministers still and thrust Christ out of rule and dominion for he that commits sin is of the devil and his servants ye are to whom ye yield your members servants to obey whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto life O foolish and exceedinglie blinded and besotted men that will not see this and yet profess the Scriptures and where he is thus come and witnessed who changeth Ordinances and Laws and watchings and observations of daies and times and moneths and years and Sabbaths and dippings and sprinklings do ye not all rise up against him with one accord away with him he is not worthie to live to prison with him we have a Law Consider seriouslie is it not so with you as with them of the same generation of old to the light in all your consciences I speak Do ye think a profession of these things and a boasting of these things will serve your turns any more then it did your Forefathers of old from whom God was departed and removed who became persecutors of the life of his Son in his Saints are ye not found in the steps of those evil husbandmen who say behold the heir let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours and are ye so blind and bewitched by the god of this vvorld to think that ye shall escape their punishment will ye still preach and profess their words vvho vvitnessed Christ vvithin the end of the Lavv the carnal Ordinances the observations the Sabbaths and beggarly rudiments of the world and cause the Cross of Christ to cease through your traditions vvill ye still be found thus fighters against God in his Saints vvho novv vvitness forth the same and cannot submit unto those things vvhich he hath redeemed and purchased them out of even vvith his ovvn precious blood and are made to vvitness against them and your idol Worshipps and crie you have a Lavv will your Lavv think you excuse you in his sight vvho seeth you your vvaies and actions against him and his nay nay deceive not your selves God will not be mocked for such as you sow such shall you reap if ye sow to the flesh think ye shall ye not of the flesh reap corruption but if ye sow to the spirit of the spirit reap life everlasting Seriouslie sit down and weigh and consider is pride vanitie lust of the flesh idleness fulness of bread lying swearing drunkenness covetousness deceipt back-biting emulation strife quarrelling fighting reviling slandering evil speaking whispering halling out of Synagogues or Steeple-houses mocking stocking imprisoning cruel and evil entreating fruits of the Spirit or did ever such as witnessed the Spirit of God bring forth such fruits nay nay who witnessed the Spirit of Christ never were found in such practises search and see in the Scriptures in which ye think to find eternal life where ever any of the Saints of Christ who were possessors and not professors brought forth such fruits and can ye think or are ye so far blinded by the devil to believe ye shall be saved by professing their words and enemies to their life and led and guided by another spirit then that which they witnessed to be guided and led by or dare ye say that the Spirit of Christ is changed now from what it was then as some of ye do if not all that Revelation is

profess him yet say ye shall never be set free from sin here Are ye guided by Christ To the light in all your consciences I speak which will let you see who 's your Leader and Guide into sin and imperfection even the man of sin and son of perdition whom Christ is come and made manifest to destroy And do ye profess he 's come and it say sin shall not be destroyed nor none can or shall be set free from it here What a profession is this and what a belief is this it even pitties me to see that men should be thus miserably deceived by Christs Enemy and the Enemy of your souls to be thus deluded and yet if any one be moved of the Lord to declare it unto you in love to your souls cry out one to another Take heed of delusion it 's a spirit of delusion which is gone forth into the world which the Apostles said should come in the last days which privily should bring in damnable errors even denying the Lord that bought them Are ye not there who are led into sin and say you shall not be free And is it not the Devil that tells you this who is afraid his Kingdom should be destroyed which is sin in you What think you is it not so and are we not accounted your Enemies for thus telling you the truth O ye priests professors and people and O all ye Inhabitants of the Earth And do ye not now plainly perceive how he have been thus long deluded by the Devil and his Instruments to denie the light which lets you see this And will you still love to have it so Oh! What will ye do in the end hereof think ye to be saved in your sin seeing ye will not come to him nor own him to be saved by him who sets free Do ye not love your sin better then him and it profess to love him when in words ye denie him and so are unto everie good Work reprobate for such as are come to the good Work are come to him who was before the evil Work was but who are in the evil Work are not and so are not in him who works the good Work but in him who works the evil and yet think to be saved by professing the words of him who worketh all our Works in us and for us for this is he of whom vve are Witnesses even the Righteousness of God by which we are saved and set free from our sin and this not of our selves it is the gift of God not of Works lest any should boast for we are the Workmanship of God created in Christ Jesus unto good Works that we should grow and increase in them And is this your Saviour who profess and say ye shall never be set free from sin here Or are ye not setting up a Saviour of your own making after your own hearts lust which ye love and worship more then Christ which is not of Gods appointment and it talk and profess of worshipping the Lord after his own appointment whilst ye are serving of him by your own confession who is not sufficient to set free from sin here And so the true Christ and God ye are ignorant on who saves his people from sin whom we witness And are ye not fighting among your selves in words almost blood to Knees for your God the manner of his Service and VVorship and yet all join'd together against the true Worshippers who hath not sav'd you from sin nor never will and so not from Wrath to come Who would take part with such a God and fight for such a God or serve such a God and Christ and Gospel if they were not ignorantlie zealous and blind And how can ye be otherwise who denie the true light which lighteth every one that cometh into the world to be sufficient Is it not just with God ye should be blind still who will not own his light wherewith he hath enlightned you but are Enemies to it and haters of it calling it natural and persecutors and opposers of them that witness it and believe in it and are guided by it and account them not worthie to live in the World who are not of the World but such as he hath chosen out of the World And yet will ye not yet see whose steps ye are in Search the Scriptures and see are they not plain enough to the light in you I speak Or will ye still be hireing of a man to give you the meaning Did they who spake and writ that which ye profess speak one thing and mean another Will ye be such blasphemers against the Spirit of Truth the Holie Ghost Know ye not their portion search the Scriptures and see Or will ye still follow their meanings rather then it vvho are saying The Scriptures vvere spoken in other Tongues and none can understand them but such as know and understand the Tongues Hebrew Greek and Latine vvhich the builders of Babel call the original Are not such blasphemers vvho call Letters and Syllables the Original and say none can understand the Scripture but such Are they not ignorant of the Original vvho say so And vvill ye still believe and follovv their meanings and opinions vvho are out of the Original and enemies to the Original Had not the Jews and Pilate their Original And vvere they not persecutors and murtherers of Christ Jesus our Original Search the Scriptures and see And are there none such to be found amongst you O ye Priests Professors and People to the Light in all your consciences I speak If there be Will ye still be follovvers of them Is this to be follovvers of God as dear children or not follovvers of them that do evil from vvhom the Apostle bids turn avvay And can ye be such lovers of the Apostles Words as ye profess vvho vvill not take his advice vvho vvalked in the Grace of God vvhich he had received and it vvas sufficient for him as the other Saints did and vvitnessed they needed not another Teacher to teach them but as the same Anointing vvhich vvas in them taught them vvhich vvas truth and in it vvas no lye Or are ye not rather hypocrites and haters of the Apostles and their vvords too though in shevv ye profess them calling them Blessed S. Paul and Holy St. Peter and the Evangelical Prophet and the Holy and Blessed Evangelists and Blessed St. Stephen that holy Martyr vvhose vvords ye profess but can't abide his Doctrine because he vvitnessed against Temples made vvith hands as by your vvorks ye plainly shevv for the Tree is to be knovvn and judged of by its fruits and that 's according to vvhat ye professe Search and see is it not so VVill their VVords think ye bear ye out any longer to profess vvho hate their VVorks and scoff at their VVorker saying Where was the Light I pray when Paul persecuted the Church of God VVhy even vvhere yours is hid under a Bed or under a

ceas'd now and that none must expect Revelation now and so are deniers your selves of the Scriptures ye profess Nay nay it will not serve your turns ye cannot deceive the Lord though ye have long deceived men with the light ye are seen and comprehended and the Tree judged of by his fruits Is it the Spirit of the Lord that leads you into those things what means your pride and vanitie in apparrel your excess in eating and drinking rioting and sporting in the day time your chambering and wantonness your idle talk and foolish jesting and laughter which is madness and follie your lying one to another and deceipt and over-reaching one another in your dealings and commerce and Merchandize one with another and fighting and quarrelling and going to Law and swearing O ye priests professors and people are these the fruits of Christs Spirit or did ever any who were so guided act thus and except ye come to be guided by his Spirit O ye professors of the Scriptures ye are none of his profess what ye will for whosoever hath not the Spirit of Christ the same is none of his and know ye not that Christ Jesus is in you except ye be reprobates and they that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts Are ye so sottishlie blinded by the God of this world to believe and imagine that ye are Christs who are in the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life fashioning your selves according to the vanities of your minds after the conversation of this world after the deceiveable lusts fulfilling the desires of the wil of the mind being children of wrath and yet imagine your selves children of God Did ever any of the Saints do thus or take the children of Gods words to profess and cover over themselves withal whose adorning was not after the fashions of the world in the outward adorning as of plaiting and powdering the hair of gold and silver and costly Array but their adorning was in the hidden man of the heart even a meek and quiet spirit which in the sight of God is of great price and are you so blind to think these words will cover you who are found contrarie to their life or do you think that the holie womens of old their moderate decent attire mixt with gravitie sobrietie and chastitie and a quiet spirit such as accompanies holiness of life and conversation will be a fit cover to cover over your excess and pride and knots and spots and toyes and baubles and fashions and vails and neck-laces and gorgets and whisks and cuffs up to the elbowes and crispings and powderings and rings and bracelets and points and lace and ribbons and tops about mens legs to make them straddle with other evil behaviour of bowing and cringing the body and idle and vain-lying complements as you call them of your servant Sir or Madam or forsooth when oft there is evil in their hearts one against another and oft laughing and scoffing and cursing and wishing evil one of another behind their backs or it may be as soon as they are past each other plot one another mischief or raising evil reports one of another Is this according to godliness laughter and lightness and idle jesting and sporting and minceing and tinkling with your feet and dancing and curching and bowing the bodie each to other like Stage-players with lightness of behaviour and unchast looks and actions Is this according to holiness of life and conversation which the holie women of old lived in to the light in all your consciences I speak which will let you see that many of you are farther off from God then you were many years ago when it may be ye made not so large a show of profession as now and are ye not then hypocrites hypt above that which then convinced you of the evil of it and of them that walked in such things and so become worse instead of witnessing a growth in grace which the Saints of old did and are not these things to be found amongst you O ye priests professors and people and do ye think still to cover over your selves with the good words who are out of the good life and manners for if any come to you who are guided by the good manners Christs manners which is without respect to persons and speak thee or thou the Scripture language to any single person whatsoever are ye not ready to deride them or thrust them out of doors if not worse or say its filthy language and methinks ye may have better manners or if a man come to speak to some of you with his hat on and not doff it because he dare not act contrarie to Christs manners nor follow the vain customes of the world are ye not ready to deride him or strike him or cast him into prison and say he may lie there till he learn better manners and so ye manifest your selves to be enemies to Christ and his manners and teachings and faith which is without respect to persons and account it too low and mean a breeding and behaviour for your great worships who are big swoln with pride and envy even ready to burst again and in your faces plainlie shew whose image you bear and whose mark Will the Scriptures ye profess think you cover you who are found in these or such like practises vain men and women to be thus miserably deceived and deluded by the devil to say pride is not in the apparrel or in outward things pride is in the heart and so it 's plainly seen the day hath declar'd it even out of thy own mouth found a witness against thy self for if it were not then what means all this and much more vanity in thy life which might be declar'd and spoken of enough almost to defile a chaft mind to write it and yet if any be sent to declare the truth to you as it is in Jesus against your excess and vanitie are ye not ready to cry out one to another take heed of being bewitched or of being deceived can any be greater deceived and bewitched by the devil the old Serpent then you are already who are found in such practises And thus the devil would fain keep you still his subjects unto sin lust and vanities of the world by bidding of you take heed of being deceived and deluded lest he should lose a member and subject of his Kingdome but your follie and his subtilty must be made manifest it can no longer be hid for he is come and witnessed who makes all things manifest even your hidden works of darkness which are acted by you in secret are now brought to light even your chambering and wantonness where no eye of man sees there are your skirts uncovered O Sodom and AEgypt where our Lord lies crucified and that which is done in secret is now come to be preach'd upon the house-tops therefore in vain do ye hide your selves under a