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mercy_n	let_v	lord_n	redeem_v	2,282	5	9.7794	5	false

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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

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

even so hath it pleased the Lord to reveal his Son in me blessing and glorious praises to the Lord God everlasting and to the Lamb whose right it is now I plainly see that in vain is the help of man their counsels is nought but deceit and hypocrisie and shall be confounded their Wisdom is foolishness with God who will destroy the Wisdom of the Wise So I do deny all the teachings of the Priests any longer for it is only the Lord that teaches me to profit for through his Word of Truth which I have hid in my heart am I become wiser then all my Teachers the Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want who is now appearing and risen in this the day of his glorious power to teach his people himself of his Ways by his Eternal Infallible Spirit of Light Life and Power which shines into their hearts and gives them the Knowledge of God in the Face of Jesus Christ who enlightneth every man that cometh into the World that all men believing in the light may come to know both the Father and the Sonne whom to know is life eternal all coming to the light this is he that reveals the Father So Friends the light is your Way if ye love it I am the way saith Christ the Light who lightneth every man No man comes to the Father but by me no man knows the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him But Friends wil a profession of Words a talk of knowing the Father and the Son and a boasting of Free-Grace in words be sufficient to any of you who are turned from the light within into darkness to follow the Priests and blind guides which cannot profit you so ye are not taught by Grace who heap up Teachers unto your selves having itching ears ye have turned your ears from the light from the truth so ye are turned from the Grace of God which brings salvation and hath appeared unto all men and what is the Free-Grace of God unto any of you who turn the Free-Grace of God into wantonness who are not taught by it to forsake your sins and to deny all ungodliness and Worldly lusts and to live a godly and a gracious life so are not come into obedience to God but are stiff-necked and rebellious and are alive unto sin and all ungodliness and Worldly lusts so ye are free from Grace And so what such a vain foolish rotten stinking profession is this of yours people who cryes Free-Grace Free-Grace nothing but by Free-Grace are we saved O blush for shame and be ye all horribly afraid for your impudency and lying against God as to say ye are saved by Grace when as ye are yet in your sins and will not receive the Gift of Gods Free-Grace which hath been so largely and so freely tendered unto every one of you from the God of all Grace and hath even appeared in you all and to you all and yet ye have refused to incline your ear and hear For this is the Grace of God and the great love of God towards you all That he hath given you a light which light in you all tells you that ye should not lye nor swear nor be covetous nor be drunk nor that ye should not envy nor hate nor dissemble but lets you see that you should love the Lord God with all your heart and your Neighbor as your selves so see if ye be come to this These things ye know and happy are ye if ye do them otherwise ye are not saved by grace but doth come short of the grace of God to be taught of God if ye be overtaken with lying or swearing or with covetousness or drunkenness with envying or hatred or dissembling and the like which are the Fruits of the flesh So ye do despite to the Spirit of grace whatsoever your profession in Words to the contrary be who are found here But unto us who have believed in the light the grace of God which hath appeared unto all men teaches us to deny all ungodliness and Worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present World And so by grace are we saved not of our selves it is the gift of God for by grace we stand and by grace we have obtained salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ And this in my measure I witness But Friends Will ye sin because grace hath abounded and hath appeared in you all Consider Is that the measure of the gift of the grace of God which teaches ye to sin against God and to be proud and covetous to lye and to swear to envy and to hate and to be drunk and to sight to be light vain and wanton to lust murder and to destroy and to live in all the customs and fashions of the Heathen God forbid Nay but that Spirit which brings forth these things is the Spirit of Devils and not from the Spirit of grace So you who are not subject to the Spirit of grace but brings forth the like Fruits as abovesaid are not come to grace so cannot grow in grace from grace to grace who are not taught by grace to deny all unrighteousness whatsoever So what have ye to do as to take my Words in your mouths saith the Lord who talk and make a profession of free grace What have ye to do to take my Name in your mouths for the Way of grace and truth ye have despised yea verily ye have done despite to the Spirit of grace and hath cast my Law behind your backs saith the Lord. Truly Friends I cannot sow pillows under your arm-holes or under your elbows as your greedy hireling-Priests do who cry peace peace but I shall deal plainly with you whether you will hear or forbear For this is the free grace of God and the love by grace that God hath given us of his Son Hath sent his own Son a light into the World that all men through him might believe and know the truth who enlightneth every man that cometh into the World And he that is not faithful and obedient to the pure light in his conscience which comes from the Son of God and lets him see his evil deeds and that he should not sin at all he hears not God so whosoever sins against the light wrongs his own soul To the light in all your consciences people of all professions I speak And Friends and Neighbors While I was one with you in profession with a profession of God and of Christ in my mouth without the life and possession ye loved me and did speak well of me I being then one with you in the World for the World loves its own and many of you rejoiced to see me and Friends What am I now become your Enemy because God hath put it into my heart to choose the better part who hath had mercy on me and hath chosen me out of the World to be a Vessel unto honour who hath redeemed me

me and then I called unto my Brother William and bad him let me into the House and he told me that he durst not let me into the House I asked him Why He said That his Father had sent all his children and servants to bed that he went throughout all the House himself to see that all the doors was locked and bolted against me and did charge them all that if I did come not any of them to let me into the House if they did any of them he said that he would turn them also out of the doors with me So William told me these things and that he durst not let me into the House so unto this day I remain a sufferer for righteousness sake and truly I believe that I should not have put pen to paper in reference as to all my sufferings from my natural Father had I not heard how he hath reported it that I ran from him and the like So for the right informing all peoples understandings as to the truth of this matter I have briefly in few Words declared something of what hath been done by him towards me and of what Words passed between us but I might have intimated much more of his rage and cruelty sore usuage of me but that I am against laying open nakedness and have onely cleared my own innocency as touching false reports of running from my Fathers House and the like as also his own Family and others can witness against him to the contrary for me if they wil but testifie So let him consider and look back and see what he hath done against the innocent that seeks not his own who seeketh no revenge but suffereth all things endureth all things and envieth not but in the peace which the World cannot give nor take away rests satisfied in his Fathers love from above and so refers his cause unto him that seeth in secret who rewardeth openly and taketh vengeance For vengeance is mine saith the Lord So I have boldness towards God in all my sufferings and tribulations yea verily I have the answer of a good conscience towards God and man herein Gods Witness in me even the Spirit of truth which bears witness to my spirit that I suffer for well doing and who shall then condemn me And because I cannot for conscience-sake worship the beast nor follow the blind guides any longer I am persecuted and forsaken of Father and Mother and of Brethren and Sisters and of Kinred too and these things have they done unto me that the Scriptures might be fulfilled according to Christs Words who said Ye shall be hated of all men for my sake and marvel not if the World hate you for it hated me before it hated you if ye were of the World the World would love you for the World loves its own but because I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hates you because ye are not of the world even as I am not of the world said Christ to them that followed him in the regeneration who turned people from the darkness to the Light Christ And he that forsaketh not Father and Mother Brethren and Sisters Husband Wife or children and his own life too for my sake and the Gospel said Christ he cannot be my disciple and he that taketh not up his Cross and followeth not after me he is not worthy of me but every one that hath left Father or Mother Brethren or Sisters Husband Wife or Children or House or Lands for my Names sake and the ●ospel let him rejoice that he is counted worthy to suffer it said the Lord Jesus Christ for he shall not lose his reward but shall receive an hundred-fold in this life and in the world to come everlasting life So it is evident That whosoever will ●ive godly in Christ Jesus must suffer For he that departs from iniquity makes himself a prey to the wicked and to the unrighteous and sinners So Friends think it not strange I run not with you to the same excess of riot into all uncleanness and filthiness and sorrow not for me for the sorrow of the World works death so speak not evil of the things ye know not least ye speak evil against God and though I am counted as the off-scouring of all things unto this day and hath not whereon to lay my head being forsaken of Father and of Mother and counted as one not worthy to live nor to inhabit under them who could not have so much as a servants place under them for I told my Father before he put me from him That I was willing to abide with him and to serve him faithfully and to labour with my hands in the thing that is good yet would he not suffer me to inhabit under him but in all this what evil have I done So I have comfort towards God notwithstanding all his cruel usuage of me and though Father and Mother hath forsaken me yet the Lord hath not forsaken me neither left me comfortless but hath been with me in all my afflictions to support me and though they through the hardness of their hearts hath had no pitty on me but I was even cast out for righteousness sake as though I had been some great transgressor Where are my Accusers If I have done evil let them bear witness of the evil but if well for cleaving unto the Lord why are they so offended in me I could even desire that the Lord would not reward them as they have rewarded me who are even without natural affections and without any pitty towards me yet the Lord hath had pitty because his mercies fails not who in his favour hath redeemed me and hath had compassion when no eye pittyed for he hath said it Thou hadst a little strength and hast trusted in me therefore I will never leave thee nor forsake thee Thou hast hated iniquity and loved righteousness therefore walk before me and be thou perfect and I will help thee I will be with thee and go before thee all the Way that thou shalt go So in the Arms of his everlasting Love doth the Lord carry me and in his hand doth he hide me that so in the pure love of God I might remain under the shadow of his Wings for evermore and in his Name to trust which is a strong Tower for the righteous to flye unto for God hath given me an entrance into the eternal inheritance with the Saints in light Surely I have made a good choice blessed be the Name of the Lord for evermore who hath put it into my heart as to choose the good Way and the fear of the Lord wherein dwelleth righteousness So I am perswaded in my heart to cleave unto the Lord my God with my whole heart that the Lamb of God I may follow wheresoever he goes though I dye with him bearing his reproach for through Christ that strengthens me I am more then a Conqueror and have in measure conquered Death