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A54235	Truth exalted, in a short, but sure testimony against all those religions, faiths, and vvorships that have been formed and followed in the darkness of apostacy ... by William Penn the Younger ...	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1668 (1668)	Wing P1389; ESTC R23056	10,092	20

and worldly lusts and to live Godlikely and soberly in this present World He stands at the Door of every Heart and knocks if by any means he may be heard and have admittance whereby God's Promise may be fulfill'd That God will dwell with Men and my Testimony is That a Remnant have obey'd this Heavenly Voice and now walk in this pure Light in which God Almighty is known to tabernacle with them Therefore in the fear of God Eternal do I cry aloud unto you all who are wandering in the by-paths of mens Inventions Traditions and Precepts to empty your hearts and minds of those unprofitable Guests that better entertainment than a Manger may be had to receive this Lord of Glory The mighty Prophet all must hear or die who searcheth the Heart tryeth the Reins and is able to tell you all that ever you did This is the Quakers Christ and Son of the Living God whom we are not ashamed to confess before Men as that Glorious Light which since we have believed and walked in according to our distinct measures we have not onely received a perfect discovery of all the will-Worships Pollutions and vain Fashions or Customs that have been brought forth by and stands in the dark lustful and apostatiz'd nature but as we have continued in a holy watchfulness to observe and obey its Righteous Dictates Gods mighty Power we have and do experience to subdue and redeem therefrom yea that Spiritual Blood is sensibly felt to sprinkle and cleanse the Conscience from dead works And to you all must I declare That by no other way did I ever receive the knowledge of the least evil or ability to conquer it than in this universal Light who is given for a Captain and a Leader out of all the by-paths and petty perswasions of men through judgment that purifies and the Red Sea of Troubles Tryals and Afflictions unto the Rest which is pure and undefiled This is Gods beloved Son hear ye him For I proclaim another way there is not to eternal Life and Peace than this everlasting Gospel which now is preached for the time is come that the Angel of his Presence is flying through the midst of Heaven having this antient Gospel to preach to them that dwell upon the Earth and are in their Earthly Nature Wisdom and Worships Crying with a loud Voice Fear God and give glory to him for the hour of his Judgment is come Therefore away away with all your own wayes works and Worships that are grounded upon mens Command and fallible apprehensions whose breath is in their nostrils and no more do homage according to such prescriptions but fear and dread the living Lord God of Heaven and Earth For if the Righteous scarcely be saved where shall the ungodly and sinner appear But woe anguish tribulation and sorrow shall come upon every Soul that remains in sin Therefore be warned ye dark and Idolatrous Papists ye superstitious and loose Protestants yea zealous yet carnal Professors to come out of all your own Wayes Works Worships Nature Spirit and Practice In silence and fear to wait in this glorious Light which God Almighty has displayed and raised us contemned Quakers to walk in and testifie of in these last Ages that by believing therein and circumspectly adhering thereto you may come to experience the rising of that eternal Power which overcomes and removes transgression that hath so long separated between you and your God hereby shall you receive sound Judgment and Heavenly Wisdom This will not destroy but fulfil the Spriptures of Truth and so shall you know the Baptism that 's from above and eat the Heavenly Bread and drink the Spiritual Wine at Christs Table in his Kingdom which the Saints of old saw the coming of before they tasted of death For the Kingdom of God is within Here all old things Covevenant Signs Ordinances and whatever perisheth with the using shall be done away and the everlasting unchangeable Substance witnessed and no more shall you profess Religion or perform Worship from the imagining and transgressing nature but from a certain sence of Gods own Operation so shall your Faith stand in that Power the Gates of Hell can never prevail against For this I once more am necessitated to declare by vi●●ue of the sound knowledge given me of God that whilst you are fulfilling the lusts of the flesh and walking after your own will and imaginations you are altogether strangers to the yoak to the daily Cross and self-denying life but are yet the corrupt Ground and evil Tree which bring forth evil Fruits Thorns Briars and sowr Grapes Be ye undeceived God will not be mocked such as you sow such shall you reap Wherefore I intreat advise and warn you all before the day of your visitation be shut up in the eternal withdrawings of God's Love and revelation of his dreadful endless Vengeance O ye Idolatrous Superstitious Carnal Proud Wanton Unclean Mocking and Persecuting Princes Priests and People to repent Return return believe and obey this Light which manifests and reproves all your evil deeds that in it you may know your Redemption from the captivity of sin effectually wrought O tremble and quake with the Prophet Habakkuk you who scoff at Quakers that you may all rest in the day of trouble But if you shall still go on to rebel against the reproofs and instructions of this Holy Light and despise and persecute the Children of it be it known to you all that before the brightness of its Glory shall your shadows vanish your imitations fly away your beggerly Elements melt and you die in your sins Nor shall we be sollicitous what your intentions are concerning us well knowing him in whom we have believed to be much greater in us than he that is in the World who in love hath call'd us out of it and we doubt not will by his everlasting Arm of strength defend and preserve us over all opposition and by us exalt his Name Truth and Salvation unto the ends of the Earth Therefore let the Winds of Imagination blow the storms of Persecution beat and the Sea of raging malice foam Yea though the Fig-tree shall not blossom neither Fruit be in the Vine though the labour of the Olive fail and the Fields yeeld not their meat though the Flock be cut off from the Fold and there be no Herd in the Stalls though Nations should combine against us and multitudes assemble themselves to our overthrow Yet be it reported to the Nations and let it be told unto the people that we shall still confide and rejoyce in that everlasting Holy God Almighty Lord of Hosts and King of Saints who hath gathered us and therefore is by us over all Things in Heaven and things on Earth blest and renown'd for ever THE END Isa 1. 13 14 15 16 Mat. 15. 9 Rev. 17. 3 4 5. Chap. 18. 6 8. Acts 7. 52 59. Isa 29. 21 Amos 3. 10. Jer. 23. 17. Ezek. 13. 19 20. Isa 56. 10 11. Mic. 3. 5 6 11. Joh. 17. 3. 1 John 3. 5 6 7 8. Heb. 12. 14. Jer. 23. 32. Act. 19 2 3 4 5. Col. 3. 2. Isa 15. 11 22. Amos 6. 3 4 5 6. Mat. 7. 21. Isa 50. 11. Gen. 12. 3. Gal. 3. 8 Rom. 14 19. Mat. 11 23 24. Joh. 1. 9. Rev. 3. 9. Isa 9. 6 7. c. 49. 6. John 1. 7 8 9. c. 8. 12. 1 John 1. 7. 1 Cor. 15. 47. John 6. 51 52 53 Isa 42. 6. Jer. 31. 32 33 34. John 14. 6 1 Cor. 1. 20. Ezek. 34. 29. Gen. 3. 15 Tit. 2. 11 12. Rev. 21 3. Deut. 18 18 19 20. Jer. 17. 10. John 4. 29. Heb. 9. 14. ch 10. 22. Rev. 14 6 7. 1 Pet. 4 18. Luk 17 20 21. Job 4. 8 Gal. 6. 7 8. Hab. 3. 16. 2 Tim. 1 12. 1 John 4. 4. Hab. 3. 17 18.

the darkness and gross Idolatry of the Popish Antichrist were directed thereto and supported therein by the mighty Power of God is not denyed and that the Seals of blood they set to recommend their Testimonies to posterity are with us in high esteem I openly affirm and declare But that you of the Church of England have any more to do with them who now persecute us than had the Jews and Pharisees with Abraham Moses and the Prophets who crucified the Lord of Life is as positively disowned for as they were out of the Life and Spirit of those Holy Men though building and garnishing their Sepulchres and making great profession with their words insomuch as that they slew those whom God sent in the same Spirit to preach a farther Glory and to discover a more excellent way so are you out of the Power and Spirit your fore-Fathers lived and died in professing their words but persecuting the same Spirit in others and crucifying it in your selves No wonder therefore you have made so little progress since the first dawning of Reformation being not yet got out of the Borders of Babylons form and altogether in her lustful proud persecuting and wicked Nature For have not you Protestant Princes condemned that in others which you have and do allow in your selves contrary to your fore-Fathers Protestations Did you not return severe Persecutions not onely upon the heads of the Roman Catholicks in Queen Elizabeth's time who esteemed it Antichristian in them but even your fellow Protestants who through zeal for God declared against your back-slidings witness her severity and what followed in the Reigns of James and the deceased Charles but more particularly the many thousands now of late that have been club'd bruised imprisoned exiled poisened to death by stinking Dungeons and ruined in their outward Estates contrary to Laws Christian or Humane Therefore well may I take up the lamentation and reproof that was of old Ye make men offenders for a word and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the Gate Ye turn aside the Just for a thing of nought and lay burthens upon the backs of the Righteous whilst evil doers pass unpunished You store up violence in your Pallaces and many are the oppressed that are amongst you Yet do not your Priests prophesie smooth things that sew Pillows under your Arms and cry Peace who provoke you to slay those by executing cruel acts that should not die and preach safety to them that should not live like greedy Dogs Shepherds that cannot understand they all look for gain from their Quarters they teach for hire they divine for money and You all judge for rewards for all which abominations God is departed Vision is ceased the Sun is gone down over you and your day is turned into thick darkness Therefore it is you deny the necessity as well as the present enjoyment of Revelation to any though without it as Christ saith No man can know God whom to know is Life Eternal and place the ground of Divine Knowledge in humane Arts and Sciences that thereby you may ingross a Function to your selves and keep up your Trade of yearly gain upon the poor people preaching sin for tearm of life thereby rendring invalid the glorious Power of the second Adam and indulging people in transgression though be that sins is of the Devil and without Holiness none shall see God Ministers he never sent but were commissionated by men void of the Holy Ghost and therefore ye profit not the people 's a badge inseparable to lying prophets who run in their own name Come and tell me now ye of the Church of England that say the Scriptures are your Rule where do they own such Persecutors false Prophets Tythmongers denyers of Revelation Opposers of Perfection Men-pleasers Time-servers unprofitable Teachers witness the abominations of the Land Extollers of humane Learning as the only way to know God Admirers of Universities signal places for idleness looseness prophaneness prodigality and gross ignorance and where do we find the Prophets Apostles and Servants of the Lord to live in worldly pomp possess hundreds and thousands a year be called Lords of their Brethren and exercise Civil and Spiritual Jurisdiction over the Bodies and Souls of Christians in their dayes Whence came your Forms of Prayers and Church-Government from the Scriptures of Truth and the practice of the Primitive Christians or the Mass-Book and Popish Canons Where is it that Mass-Houses are called Churches and what president do you find for Litanies Responses Singing Queristers Organs Altars Bowings Surplices square Caps Hoods Rockets Fonts Baby-Baptism Holy Dayes as you call them with much more such like dirty trash and foul Superstition Are these your Scripture Doctrines and this the Spiritual Worship of Holy Jesus his Apostles and the Antient Christians Stand up and answer me ye Members of the Church of England but are they not the off-spring of that Idolatrous Popish Generation amounting at best to will-Worship which is abominable to the God of Heaven who is now breaking forth in vengeance to thunder down and consume all the fair Buildings and pleasant Pictures of Babylonish Inventions Therefore from you may I expect an Answer to the Question I ask'd the Romanists In what Nature and Spirit is i● O Princes Priests and People you hold and profess Religion and Worship towards God Is it the Divine and Heavenly One which is pure and perfect Are you Baptized by the Holy Ghost and with Fire Crucified through the daily Cross to the World born again and your affections set on things above But alas poor Souls are you not at Have mercy upon us miserable sinners there is no health in us from seven to seventy And as in truth it is to the shame of Religion and destruction of humane Society How do you abound in evil Equalizing if not outstripping Papists Heathens against whom you protest in words in all kinds of impiety Therefore woe unto you Protestants that are mighty to drink strong drink that give your Neighbours drink and put the bottle to them that they may be drunk that put far away the evil day and cause the seat of Violence to come near that lie upon Beds of Ivory and stretch your selves upon your Couches that eat the fat of the Flock and drink the sweet of the Vine that anoint your selves with the chief Ointments that chant to the sound of the Viol and invent to your selves Instruments of Musick but consider not the afflictions of Joseph How sport you away your precious time as if ye were born not to die at least never to be judged O what Swearing what Uncleanness what Drunkenness what Prophanation what Vanity what Pride what Expence what Patching what Painting what lascivious Intrigues what wanton Appointments what publick unclean Houses what merry Masks what lustful insinuating Treats at your Playes Parks Mulberry and Spring-Gardens with whatsoever else may please the