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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52034	The way of life revealed and the way of death discovered wherein is declared man's happy estate before the fall, his miserable estate in the fall, and the way of restauration out of the fall into the image of God again ... : also the by-pathes, crooked wayes, wiles, snares, and temptations of the enemy of man's soul discover'd ... the utter end and final destruction of all false professions prophesied ... : also a call in the tender bowels of the love of God shed abroad in this day, age, and generation to all the scatterrd sheep upon the barren mountains of profession to return to the true shepherd Christ Jesus ... / Charles Marshall.	Marshall, Charles, 1637-1698.	1674 (1674)	Wing M746; ESTC R26188	27,827	35

the Enemy works to cause such-like things to seem small and indifferent things thereby to cause the Offence of the Cross in those things to cease and then the Heart and Mind runs forth to make Provision for the Flesh to fulfil the Lust thereof either in Meats Drinks Apparel or such like which the Truth in times past hath discover'd and made manifest and the Power of God the Cross of Christ hath crost and in measure lead out of into VVatchfulness in pure Fear and holy Awe not making Provision for the Flesh in any respect to fulfil the Lufts thereof but drawing the Creature in Practice as well as in Principle into Plainness and out of all Superfluities admitting of the Creature to refresh Nature and not feed the Lusts But yet the Enemy works by degrees subtilly and covertly to lead out of the Liberty of the Cross of Christ Jesus the Power of God unto Salvation into the Liberty of the Flesh again and hereby gets a little farther Entrance and though the Enemy be working to draw forth the mind into a wrong Liberty as into many Words in Dealings in Commerce or Converse and into the Love of the World and the Things thereof again c. yet the Profession may remain and the Enemy may be contented therewith yea and many times the Power of God may be felt in some measure which indeed works not in the Approvement but to draw out of the Snare but the God of the World having by this time much blinded the Eye and darkened the Heart and deceiv'd the Understanding there is not a Sence nor Knowledge of the Mind of the Power of the Lord in its Workings nor a real Sence of the Decay gradual subtil Workings of the Enemy for the outward Profession Conformity may be in a great measure kept to which is a Cover under which the Enemy may work undiscovered by the Unwatchful And so the Enemy many times leads cunningly step by step until he hath lead out of the Power of Godliness and slain the tender Birth which in the first dayes of tender Visitations was begotten and so here now there will be a growing high fat and thick and such will call the Operation of God's dividing Power Extreams Imaginations and Jesurun like will kick and turn against the dividing Power of the mighty God for all such are best contented with a Likeness Image for it loves the smooth things in the Wisdom of the gifted Man that has lost his Way through erring from the Power not waiting continually on all Occasions to be guided thereby So here is the itching Ear and heaping up Teachers to please Self to please that uphold that and here Jezebel is suffer'd and upheld which Error crept into the Church of Thyatira in all Ages they that went from the broken tender Estate into the Conditions before discover'd did do both suffer and nurture this Jezebel who must be cast on the Bed of Torments and all her Children must be kill'd with Death And all the Workings of the Enemy under every Disguise is to slay that which was quickned to bring in a Contentedness with an Outside Profession of the Way of Truth Light and Life of Christ Jesus the Power of God unto Salvation whilst the Heart is adulterated and gone from the Lord has imbraced other Lovers so in process of time where the Enemy thus prevails he leads again into the World from whence the Arm of the Lord gather'd and the Latter-end of such is indeed worse then the Beginning For the Enemy having lead to make Shipwrack of Faith and of a good Conscience the second Death comes over and such become twice dead and become as Salt which has lost its Savour are good for nothing but to be cast forth and troden under foot of men The Preservation out of these By-paths Crooked Ways Wiles Snares Temptations of the Enemy is only in the True Waiting Sincere Abiding in the Light Gift Grace of God in which the daily Revelations and Manifestations of God's Eternal Power and Right Arm of Salvation and Preservation is known in the daily Acquaintance Experience thereof which keeps all Minds truly low and Hearts sincerely tender wherein ariseth an inward Travail Longing Breathing and Panting after the daily and continual Injoyment of the Life Power blessed refreshing heavenly Virtue which alone renews and increases the Strength of the inward Man in which God Almighty preserve all the Travellers Zion-wards to the End The Utter End and Final Destruction Prophesied of all False Professions who have had their Rise in the Night of Apostacy AFter the Glorious Breakin gs forth of the Day of God amongst the Apostles c. the Enemy wrought mightily against that Appearance both in his Instruments by and through which he raised up Persecution and also in those Apostates in whom he got an Entrance amongst the Churches and has so prevailed that great has been that horrible Night of Darkness and Apostacy that hath been some hundreds of years in over the Nations of the Earth in which times the old subtil Serpent in his many Transformings Appearances has mightily wrought to alienate man from his God Oh the Ways Inventions that have been by him set up through his workings in the Wisdom which is from below which is earthly sensual and devilish under Pretence of Religion Obedience Worship of God! What Rending Tearing Devouring Murdering and Destroying hath there bin for these many hundreds of years about Religion First the great Red Dragon of Persecution appear'd to devour the Man-child and destroy the Woman but both were preserved then he made War with the Remnant of her Seed and after came in another Appearance which John saw rise as a Beast out of the Sea who had seven Heads and ten Horns and on his Horns Crowns and upon his Heads the Name of Blasphemy and one of his Heads had a deadly Wound by the Sword but this deadly Wound was again healed all the World wondred after the Beast saying Who is like the Beast and Who is able to make War with him And all on the Earth have and do worship the Beast whose Names are not written in the Book of the Life of the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World And after this a second Beast appear'd that came out of the Earth and this Beast had two Horns like a Lamb but spake as a Bragon and John saw he exercised all the Power of the first Beast who receiv'd his Power and Authority from the Dragon like unto which this second Beast spake and this Beast that had Horns like a Lamb caused the Earth them that dwelt therein to worship the first Beast whose deadly Wound was healed and he caused all both Small and Great Rich and Poor Free and Bond to receive a Mark in their Right Hand or in their Fore-heads And here has been the universal working

of the power and spirit of Darkness that hath exalted himself sitting in the Temple of God as God and Ruler but blessed forever be the Name of the Almighty God the great Red Dragon and the Beast that arose out of the Sea the Beast that arose out of the Earth and Mystery Babylon are and shall be manifest The Wisdom that is pure peaceable numbers these Appearances and the Judgment of the great Whore is come coming who rides upon the first Beast for now the Angel of God's Presence is come down from Heaven having great Power who lightens the Earth with his Glory the mighty Cry is now going over the Earth utter'd with a strong Voice saying Babylon the great is fallen is fallen become the Habitation of Devils c. All Nations have drunk of the Wine of the Wrath of her Fornications the Kings of the Earth have committed Fornication with her the Merchants of the Earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her Delicacies and the Voice is now uttering from Heaven Come out of her my People that ye be not Partakers of her Sins and that ye partake not of her Plagues for her Sins have reached unto Heaven and God hath remembred her Iniquities and now is the one day dawning over the Earth wherein her Plagues Mourning and Famine come and she shall be utterly burn'd with the Fire of God's Jealousie for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her And now in the Name of the eternal everliving blessed God the Creator of all things I prophesie of the perpetual Destruction utter Desolation of the Religions Inventions Ways Worships Prescriptions Orders Decrees and Imitations that have been setting up this many hundreds of years and not by the eternal living Power of the living God nor Directions Leadings Guidings of his quickning Spirit of Life that led guided the Apostles in their Day Age and Generation Root and Branch Head Tail and the whole Fabrick of the Babylonish Building shall be utterly consumed razed down and confounded forever and all the Worshippers of the Beast and the Image shall drink of the VVine of the VVrath of God which is pour'd forth with out Mixture into the Cup of his Indignation and these VVorshippers shall be tormented and have no Rest Night nor Day who worship the Beast and his I age and whosoever receive the Mark of his Name c. A Call in the Tender Bowels of the Love of God shed abroad in this Day Age and eneration unto all the Scattered Sheep c. HEarken give ear all ye scattered Ones upon the barren Mountains of Profession who having lost the living Sence that was on many of your Spirits years ago are now se●king the living amongst the dead Professions your Bread in desolate Places Remember the days moneths and years past call to mind the days of your Tenderness when the Light of God so shined on your Tabernacle that by it you saw your selves in Darkness and in Separation from the Injoyment of your Creator which Sence brought a Day of Mourning bitter Lamentation on you which was the Cause of your Fasting Praying and earnest Seeking after the Lord with multitude of Sighs Groans and Tears which caused you to put many Days and Times apart to meet together to pour forth your Souls in seeking the living God for his Appearance Breaking forth by his eternal Power and for the Revealings of his ancient Arm and Horn of Salvation And in that Day how did many of you retire your selves into your Closets secret Places to mourn before the Lord And how did your Cries Breathings and Pantings after the Lord prevent the Morning Watches And in that Day was it not Substance it self that you sought after even the Revealings of the Son of God's Love in your Souls Let me now come near and expostulate with you in the Name of the Mighty God even with you amongst all Professions that have any Tenderness or Breathings after the Lord remaining in you What was it that stirr'd up your Hearts many years since thus to seek after the Lord What was it that gave you the sence of your own inward Conditions What was it that made Sin appear exceeding sinful What was it that you felt in your Minds that war'd against the Law of Sin Death in your Members What was it that in some mea●ure open'd the Eye of your Understanding to see Idolatry and Superstition VVhat was it that was drawing your Hearts out of the VVorld that even made those things of light esteem in comparison of that which your awakned Souls sought after VVhat was it that inwardly upheld you in Sufferings VVhat was it that you retired your Minds unto when the Wicked raged as the Waves of the Sea when you were mocked for the Plainness of your Apparel and for your Severity in your Families Remember your many signal Deliverances How did the Lord answer you in the Day of your Tenderness VVhat was it that exercis'd you inwardly moving on every one of your particular Souls and Spirits for a Reformation was it not the free Grace of God was it not that Light which shined on your Tabernacle Did not this shine in your Hearts and move on your Spirits God wards and began the inward VVork of the Lord in you VVhy did you start aside from following on toward the Lord in the Way of his Judgments when a little Prosperity attended you VVhy did you seek to get from under the Judgment before it was brought forth into Victory Be awaken'd and come back you Professors of all sorts that have thus turn'd aside for a thing of nought which has caus'd you to wander from one Mountain of Profession to another and from one exalted Hill of Imaginations and Conceivings to another until you have spent all your Portion and are in nature return'd to Babylon the City of Confusion out of which the Lord God Almighty thus calls you Hasten hasten to come forth and partake no longer with her in her Sins lest ye partake with her of her Plagues which are now hastening to come upon her and upon all that shall be found within her Borders Open now your Eyes and behold where you miss'd turn'd aside through which your foolish Hearts have been and are darkned for the Enemy that goes about as a Roaring Lyon seeking whom he may devour wrought in you to turn you from this pure immortal Principle of the Divine Being that in the dayes moneths and years by past awakned you and began to work the Work of God in you into a Profession of the Words States Conditions whereof the Saints wrote left on record behind them who attain'd thereunto through passing from Death to Life in Obedience to the Grace of God that is given to every man to profit withal who knew the holy War and fought the good Fight and so obtain'd the Victory through the effectual Workings of

out of all its own Willings and Runnings Comprehendings Searchings into the Principle of Light therein to see a Death to his own Will and be comprehended into this Light and so man comes to have an Understanding to know him that is true and to be in him that is true Now as any are convinced of and converted by this Heavenly Principle which is placed in the Conscience there given to be a Guide and Leader unto Mankind they are led thereby out of Darkness wherein they have been while yet the Light shone in Darkness in which Darkness no man ever comprehended this Light or Heavenly Grace which sometimes moves through the Darkness on the Depth of man's Understanding reproving and discovering Darkness causing man to hear its small still Voice moving in man God-wards so daily continues without Change reproving man whilst he remains in Rebellion and Disobedience all the time of his Visitation and approving and giving Peace unto man when he is Obedient This Principle of Light remains intire in its own Purity and although man may change and alter and go from it and rebel against it and thereby become one of them of whom Job speaks that rebel against the Light and thereby knows not the Way of it but gives way to the Working of the God of the World to be drawn out into the fading perishing things yet this Principle remains immutable in it self being of and from the Immutable Unchangeable Being and remains with man until it be taken from him and he be cast into utter Darkness The first Operation of this heavenly Light amongst those who are convinced by and turned to it the Gift of the Father which Christ Jesus in his Parable to the Jews compared to a Grain of Mustard-seed and to a little Leaven which a Woman took hid in three Measures of Meal until the whole came to be leavened is to shew man his in ward State and Condition and the first Step in the Way of Life is to be turned to this holy Principle that teacheth the Obedient to know God savingly and when by this Principle man comes to have a true Sight and Sence of his fallen Estate and sees how he hath transgressed against that Eternal Being that gave him Life and Breath who notwithstanding in his Long-Suffering waiteth long to be Gracious and knocketh at the Door of the Heart and hath striven by his Divine Light the true Sight and Sence hereof will break the Heart and tender the Spirit before the Lord and under the weighty Sence of the great Burden of Sin and Iniquity there will be a crying out My Sins they are too heavy for me to bean and mine Iniquities are gone over my Head as Paul did saying Oh Wretched Man that I am who shall deliver me from the Body of this Death And here comes the Eye to be opened that seeth him whom man in his Disobedience hath pierced afresh and put to open Shame and then there will be Dayes of Mourning and Wailing because of him and this is truly the Day of Jacob's Trouble And in the Sence of this Deplorable Fallen Estate and the Long-suffering of the Lord and the Long-striving of his Spirit thou wilt see that in the Justice of God Eternal Death might be thy Portion but that which brings into this Sence begets a secret Cry in the Immortal Soul after a Deliverer and Saviour and will also give a true Sence and Sight that there is no way for thy Soul to be ransomed but in and through the tender Mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ which thou wilt see can no other way be effectually begun in thee but in the Way of the Judgments of the Lord For 't is through Judgment that Zion is redeemed and her Converts with Righteousness And here also thou wilt see that the Measure of the Sufferings of Christ yet behind must be filled up in thee for no other Way can any man pass unto Life Peace and Joy with the Father of Spirits but the Way the Captain of Salvation passed which was through Death and here thou wilt begin to arm thy self with the same Mind For none ceaseth any farther from Sin but as they suffer in the Flesh the crucisying of the Affections and Lusts thereof and here the End of the Gospel's Preaching comes to be known and witnessed which was and is that all man might be judged as men in the Flesh that so they might live according to God in the Spirit and in this spiritual inward Sence Exercise the Lord God Almighty will bow down his Ear Answer the Cryes of thy Awakened Soul and manifest his Word of Power which all in this State and Passage will know to be sharper then any Two-edged Sword piercing to the dividing asunder of thy Immortal Soul from the Spirit and Nature of Transgression and its Working daily as Subjection and Obedience is yielded unto it dividing and making a Separation between Joynts and Marrow giving thee daily a Discerning of the Thoughts and Intents of thy Heart And as the Soul Mind and Heart gives up in Love to God freely to follow him in the Way of his Judgments and gives up to the Sword of the Lord that which is for the Sword and that which is for Destruction to be destroyed thus will the pretious Work of the Lord prosper And although this be a Time of Sorrow and a Time of Trouble Travail and Anguish yet notwithstanding it is a Good Day therefore strive not to get from under it neither to make haste for the true godly Sorrow worketh the true Repentance which is never to be repented of and after the true Repentance follows the true Knowledge of Remission Forgiveness and so thy Inquities by the Judgments of the Lord God Almighty come to be blotted out and then the Times of Refreshment come from the Presence of the Lord and from the Glory of his Power c. And as there is a faithful abiding in inward Watchfulness and continual Obedience to this Heavenly Light in which the Beginning of the Work of God was known there will be a going on from Step to Step in the Foot steps of the Flock of Christ Jesus and a growing from Strength to Strength over Sin and the Nature thereof and from one Degree of Grace to another and as there is a faithful Perseverance in this Divine Principle the Eye of the Understanding will be single and here every thing which hath or doth let will be seen and the Soul never start aside from an inward Travil until that which hindereth be taken out of the Way and until thou seest all the Rule and Authority of the Enemy to be subdued under the Feet of the Lord 's Anointed and the Government in the Soul upon his Shoulders whose Right it is to Raign over all And here Salvation Redemption and Restoration is effectually injoyed through the Effectual Working and Operating of the Almighty Power and Arm of God Almighty