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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58143	Light sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart This is to go abroad among all people who are honest-hearted, especially amongst the inhabitants in Fourns Fells, in Lancashire, and among all who have known me after the flesh, that all honest people may see what I was in profession, and also what I now am by the grace of God. From him which hath come through great tribulations, who hath even left all for Christ, and hath not whereon to lay his head, but is forsaken of father and of mother, and of kinred also, even for the testimony of Jesus, and for the Word of God, whom the world calls, Thomas Rawlinson.	Rawlinson, Thomas.	1657 (1657)	Wing R369; ESTC R220567	29,951	42

stead to be reconciled to God and even now while ye have yet a little time in the body hast to meet the Lord in the manifestation of the Spirit of Light from God For that which may be known of God is manifest in you and God hath even shewed it unto you So here is your vvay to know God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent if ever ye come to know him vvhom to know is life eternal For there is no other vvay but by that of God in you So if ye will indeed own the right vvay the good vvay vvherein dvvelleth righteousness then come in to the light Christ vvho lightneth every man and even novv while ye have the light believe in the light that ye may be the children of the light and vvalk in the light as he is in the light that the blood of Christ may clense you from all sin and then if ye abide in the light ye shall continue in the Father and in the Son so shall ye have Fellowship vvith the Saints in light vvhom the VVorld knovvs not of vvhom the VVorld is not vvorthy that henceforth ye may no more knovv me after the flesh onely but in the spirit as ye come to be faithful unto the Lord in your measures of the light of Christ where ye may feel me and read me and knovv me vvho am unknovvn unto the VVorld yet vvell knovvn to the children of light vvho in the light of the Lord Jesus Christ doth continue and abides vvith God and vvalks in the light as he is in the light For the children of light hath Fellovvship one vvith another in the light which unites their hearts together in one But vvith the unfruitful VVorks of darkness vve have no Fellovvship and here in the light in the truth though ten thousand times ten thousand yet all one in the light even in Christ Jesus who walks not after the flesh but after the Spirit So Friends by this I shall know that ye love me and that ye love the Truth as many as can receive my Testimony and keeps my Fathers Commandments For the Testimony is not mine but his who hath chosen me to bear vvitness of him unto many but if I bear vvitness of my self my vvitness is not true there is one that beareth witness and I know that the witness that he witnesses is true for I can of my own self do nothing yet through Christ that strengthens me I can do all things For I seek not my own but the things of Jesus Christ that I may do the will of God who hath chosen me out of the VVorld to follow him in the regeneration where the VVorld seeth me not nor knows me not therefore the World hates me and scorns me VVhy because I am not of the VVorld so the VVorld cannot receive my sayings they hear me not because they are not of God for I receive not Testimony from man but these things I speak that ye might believe the truth not by way of boasting to exalt self or to puff up for all boasting is excluded and self-ends condemned with the Light of Truth so a VVitness in my measure I stand eternally against all selfishness for self is of the Devil and all proud boastings which Christ comes to destroy But These things Neighbours and Friends I write unto you that ye may come to know where rest and true peace is and not to exalt self that ye might praise me but these things I declare to the end That ye may all be awakened towards God that ye might be saved and believe what good things God hath in store for them that fear him love● his appearance and believing in the light ye may have life and that every weary soul may be comforted and ●ome to find rest as he comes into the obedience of the light that the righteous God o●er all might have his glory who is the Author and Finisher of every good Work the first and the last God blessed for evermore So all friends in the love of the truth receive this into your hearts with meekness and fear which was given me from the Lord in the spirit to write as a Testimony from the Lord to my Nation Countrey and People for the Seed of Gods sake throughout all the VVorld where this may come was I moved of the Lord God from the love of the Spirit which are the very breathings of my soul for my Nation Countrey and People that they might be saved and hid in the day of the Lords wrath but my desire is That the wicked one in you may be destroyed and what soever worketh unrighteousness and deceit unto which I say Wo that ye may be separated from all unrighteousness therefore keep your selves to that of God in you that the wicked one touch you not and from all idolatry and so will the old man with his deeds come to be put off when the Just comes to liberty when Christ comes to have the preheminence and rules whose right it is So Friends take unto you the whole Armor of God even the Armor of Light as it comes to be put on ye will be able to resist all the fiery darts of the Devil I say As there is a watching and a waiting in the light of Christ Jesus for the teachings of God in the Spirit the lusts of the flesh and fleshly confidences withers and vanishes away and the hidden man of the heart comes to be felt and witnessed as there is an abiding in the Crosse of Christ so ye come to dye unto sinne and to be crucified to the VVorld and to live unto God Therefore all waite that yee may have Bread to feed upon which gives life to the Soule which is nourishment and health to every weary Soul who comes to feed upon the living Immortal Bread which comes downe from GOD out of Heaven shall live for ever And blessed for evermore they are who hunger after this for they shall be satisfied As many as comes to eat of this Bread and receives it into them they shall grow up as Trees of Righteousness the planting of the Lord. So let every one that nameth the Name of CHRIST depart from Iniquity and follow the Light and believe in the Light while ye have the Light that ye may be established in Righteousnesse and Truth Thomas Rawlinson FINIS

but according to the multitude of his mercies so the long-suffering and patience of God led me to repentance and then J came clearly to see that it was the Lord indeed that appeared unto me and had set these things before me and not man that had so long called unto me though then J knew him not but when J knew indeed that it was the Lord that spoke unto me J then gave up all willingly and left off frequenting all sorts of people their Assemblies too sate alone in silence waiting in the silence of my spirit for the Lord and was as a travelling VVoman pained to be delivered yea J was almost quite gone and had even despaired of hope had not the Lord had compassion and been very merciful unto me who drew near and sustained me when the night of darkness was over me for it pleased the Lord while J was yet in patience waiting for him to reveal his Son in me who hath even appeared and is risen with healing in his Wings So now in him my weary soul after long travel is come to find rest and peace for evermore which no man can take from me if J be faithful to the end Blessing and praises and honor and glory and dominion and thanksgiving to the Lord God of Sabbaths and to the Lamb for ever and ever who hath given me the peace and the victory in measure over death hell and the grave praises to the Lord for his mercies fails not but are renewed every moment towards his servant and such as fear him who hath not left my soul in hell neither hath he suffered his holy one to see corruption but hath ransomed my soul from death and the grave into perfect liberty even to joy and gladness and all sorrovv and sighing doth flye avvay for the years of rejoicing is come praises endless praises and honor and glory to him that sitteth upon the Throne of Judgement and Mercy vvho takes avvay the sins of the vvorld and saves his people from their sins that they may praise him together vvith one accord in the land of the living vvho hath done vvonderfully for me that J even admire the goodness of God tovvards me in all his vvorks everlasting glorious praises and blessing to him for evermore vvhose right it is and vvhose vvorks praises him not unto me Lord not unto me but unto thee holy vvise God over all be all the glory and the honor Let all that know the Lord praise him above all for his mercies endureth for ever who now hath brought me into fellowship with the Saints in light Neighbors and Friends These things I write not unto you to have praise of you for I receive not honor from man but that ye may know and understand what God hath wrought and what he hath done for my soul that all might come to praise the Lord and to admire him who hath done great things in the Earth So this is a Warning unto every one of you That ye rest not satisfied in any thing short of Christ but that ye may all even turn to the light and believe in the light and walk in the light while ye have the light lest any be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin and so come short of the Grace of God So all be warned that ye put not trust in a false confidence in a false faith and in a vain hope and so ye get up into a false joy below Christ for the end of this is weeping mourning sorrow and lamentation so take heed how ye choose to follow your Priests lest ye also perish with them together being partakers with them in their sins so choose not to follow your own Ways neither lean not to your own understandings nor put no trust to your own Righteousness glory not in your own Wisdom and strength but now even all of you come to the Light Christ the Righteousness of God to put him on and so to put off your own righteousness that ye coming to the light and follow the light to have the righousness of the Law fulfilled in you that every one of you may prove your selves so search and try your own Ways and turn to the true light Christ Jesus who enlightneth every man that cometh into the World and see if ye can witness Christ in you Know ye not how Christ is in you except ye be reprobates I say if ye know not Christ formed in you if ye feel not the life of the Son of God moving and breathing in you towards God I say if Christ be not raised ye are yet in your sins if the dead rise not and so your Faith is vain and your Profession also For as many as receives Christ receives the Righteousness of God in him receives Gods Righteousness for Christ is Gods Righteousness and who hath not Christ their Righteousness is of themselves and so are ignorant of Gods righteousness who knows not the Light Christ in them who will not come to the light so will not submit to the righteousness of God but would establish their own righteousness yet will not such people speak against self-righteousness and against self-actings when as all their Righteousness and Works is of themselves How blind are these people who out of their own mouth hath condemned themselves wherein all they do is of themselves in their Will-Worship to be seen of men and would lay these things to our charge whom they call Quakers and saith that we altogether set up Works before Christ always perswades people to Works and to the keeping the Commandments and the like Answ This is false Though We perswade people to be followers of good Works and to the keeping of the Commandments according to Christs exhortation yet We do not turn people to Works before We turn them to Christ but We first exhort them to believe in the light so they are lyars for this is our Message To turn people from the darkness to the Light Christ who lightneth every man that they may have their works wrought in the Light Christ who works all our works in us and for us and he that loves the light brings his deeds to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God but what is this to them who are not come unto the light neither hath believed in the light have they not manifested their ignorance and that all their works of righteousness are of themselves and that they have no other righteousness who are not come to the light mark and take notice of this That all their deeds and works are onely of themselves wrought in darkness until such time as they come to be turned from the darknesse to the light for that which is not wrought in the light is wrought in darknesse So hovv can such escape the judgements of God vvho have so falsly accused us that have renounced our own Righteousness and hath vvillingly submitted to the Righteousness of

captivity comes to be led captive and the strong Man shall then be cast out of the House and his Goods too when Christ who is stronger then he comes to be revealed in them all these things shall be before Gods salvation and peace which passeth all understanding be witnessed I say They shall know a day of trouble and of howling and of bitter lamentation such as never was for their Wickedness and Transgressions against God before they come to know the Lord God as he is vvho vvill render Vengeance in flames of fire upon his Enemies and upon the Head of all that do Wickedly for Christ comes to destroy the Works of the Devil So blessed and happy they are that abide faithful even unto the end who are willing to bear the indignation of the Lord because that they have sinned against him until he arise and plead their cause But wo unto the Priests who daub with untempered Morter crying peace peace to the people that stop into their mouths but prepares VVar against us who cannot stop into their mouths so upon them and upon their people shall the day of the Lord come as a thief in the night and no peace shall then be to them though they now cry peace peace even then when they shall say peace and safety shall sudden destruction come upon them as Travel upon a VVoman with child and they shall not escape then shall they know that their Faith was never imputed to them for righteousness from God so what is this to them or to the r people to talk of an imputed righteousness who doth not believe in the light but hates the light and will not come to the light so what is this to them for Abraham unto whom righteousness was imputed believed God and left his own countrey and went out not knowing whither he went and was obedient in following the Lord so his Faith was imputed to him for Righteousness But what is this to the Priests and to their Followers who knows not Abrahams Faith which was made perfect by VVorks For Faith without VVorks is dead if a man say he hath Faith and hath not VVorks can Faith save him VVas not Abraham justified by VVorks vvhen be offered Isaac his son upon the Altar Here all may see how Faith vvrought vvith his VVorks vvho have an eye to see vvithall so by VVorks was Faith made perfect for every Tree is known by his Fruit a good Tree cannot bring forth evil Fruit neither can an evil Tree bring forth good Fruit so we know the Priests by their Fruits who are of that vvicked one vvhich cannot bring forth good Fruit vvho are the evil Trees which cumbers the ground fruitless Trees rendred of all people useless who out of the evil Treasure of their heart brings forth that which is evil so they being evil knows not to give good things unto their Followers not that I in any vvise out of ill wil or malice goes about to accuse the priests or any people else God knows that I speak not in contempt unto any but would take people off putting trust in man and that they might come to know the Lord and in him to trust that all might come to be taught of the Lord that he might teach them himself of his VVayes who teaches his people to profit And this is my end To turn all unto Christ the light who lightneth every man and that people might try their Priests by their fruits for if they were of the good Tree they could not bring forth evil fruit And doth this offend either Priest or people To exhort all to try them by their fruits and to turn from them that brings forth evil fruit unto the light of Christ in them who lightneth every man that cometh into the world that they may come to be engrafted into Christ that in him they may come to bring forth good fruit if they abide in the light and walk in the light as he is in the light they cannot bring forth evil fruit for he that abideth in Christ the light sinneth not but out of the good Treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good So I say my end is That all both Priests and people might come to repentance and every man come to be ashamed of his own way●s that they have chosen and so every one both Priests and people might return unto Christ the light who lightneth every man and wills not the death of a sinner but would have all men both priests and people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth who is set for salvation to the ends of the earth that all people might come to the light and to the brightnesse of his rising both priests and people that so all might come to be taught of the Lord who teaches his people to profit that so none might follow after a people which cannot profit The Priests if they were of the good Tree which cannot bring forth evil fruit would not be ashamed to be tryed by their fruits but they being of the evil Tree which cannot bring forth good Fruit are ashamed to have their deeds brought to the light neither will they come to the light to prove their calling and Minister-ship before the people least they should have shame of their doctrine and practice before all the people their practice being contrary to all the holy Prophets and Apostles of Christ So it is plain They being of the evil Tree which brings forth evil Fruit cannot profit the people at all so the people who follow them are ever learning yet never able to come to the knowledge of the truth by them So whilest I followed the Priests though I diligently enquired unto them after the Lord yet I found him not because I sought unto a people which could not profit therefore I did not attain to the thing which I sought for unto them so turned from them finding no profit by them and then within a little while after this the light of the Lord began to rise in obscurity and my eyes was opened and then through the mercy and love of the Lord I was turned from the darkness to the light of Christ in me and then my mind was turned from following the priests from doating on them and my heart was changed for now in the light of the Lord I see light and how I have wandered walking in darkness without light but now my light is come the light springs and the day dawns for the day-star is risen in my heart and the clouds of darkness flies away for the glory of the Lord is revealed and the clear light now shineth out of darkness and Christ is risen so I have found him of whom Moses in the Law and the Porphets did write For God who commands the light to shine out of darkness hath shined into my heart to give me the light of the Knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ