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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40739	A testimony to the true light which is the vvay of life and righteousness, to all that obey it, and are subject to its requirings : being a serious admonition to all people to turn to the Lord, but more especially intended for the inhabitants of the town of Colchester and parts adjacent / by John Furly ; also, a true relation how the Lord made manifest strength in weakness, and raised up a living testimony to his eternal truth, in a child of his, (named, Elizabeth, who deceased the 16th of the twelf moneth, called February 1669) to the admiration of all that were about her.	Furly, John, 1618-1686.	1670 (1670)	Wing F2541A; ESTC R40428	18,251	31

rational man that a good man that hath experienced its operation and that walks in the Light can speak against the Light its as easie and as possible for a man to fathom the Are or make a Girdle for the Sun he cannot he dares not for the Light is his Life his Armour his Preserver his strong Tower which as he flees unto he is safe it s his delight to dwell in it and walk in it it s that which he is made a child of should he speak against the Light he should speak against the Lord he should vilifie his Maker he should speak against his own Interest and against that Kigndom of which he is an Heir for the Inheritance which is prepared for him and others of the Cloud of Witnesses gone before him is an Inheritance of Light for the Apostle Col. 1. 12. called it An Inheritance with the Saints in the Light Nay he is so far from speaking against it that he continually exalts it and commends it and commends it best by walking in the Light and is ready to lay down his Life in defence of the truth of it He that doth well it s written loves the Light and Joh. 3. 21 brings his deeds to it that it might be manifest his works are wrought in God So all Friends and People it s an everlasting Truth to you neither your Guides nor your selves can ever be competent Judges of the Light or of its sufficiency nor ever truly report of its Authority or Power nor know what it will lead you from nor bring you unto until you come to be led by it and give up to its requirings as did this dear Child and when you have done so you will bring in your Testimonies for the Lord with me and others that its a marvellous Light and worthy to be followed loved and obeyed for Wisdom was and ever will be justified of her Children as it was ever hated of its Enemies but on the contrary the children of Darkness will exalt their fathers Kingdom the Prince of Darkness and their inheritance which is a kingdom of Darkness 2 Pet. 2. 17. Jude 6. where they are reserved in Chains of Darkness to the Judgment of the great Day So Friends and Towns-men whose lives the Lord hath miraculously spared in the last great Contagion in this Town which swept away thousands and also hath hitherto preserved in or from this last Visitation of the Small-Pox and made you living monuments of his Mercy at this day Let the time past suffice wherein you have walked contrary to this Light of Christ in your Consciences and said often to it in your Hearts in this kind Cease from before me I desire not the knowledge of thy Law nor would you hear the voyce of the Charmer charm he never so wisely nor never so seasonably even just when your feet were oft-times going down to the chambers of Death and which sometimes hath looked you in the face and smit you in your Hearts when you have entertained thoughts of acting wickedly yet have ye made good the Prophets words In a Land of ●●righteousness you would do unjustly and would not behold the Majesty of the Lord I say let the time past suffice and now turn at his reproof and obey his call lest his Wrath be kindled against you and he may not hear when you call but may laugh at your calamity and mock when your fear cometh for though you have escaped one woe and a second yet the Lord hath many more Arrows in his Quiver which he can bring out of his Armory of his Justice wherewith he will wound the hairy Scalp of every one that goeth on in his iniquities that so a time of refreshing you may know from the presence of the Lord before you go hence and see man no more which is my hearts desire to the Lord for you all Your Friend J. F. Colchester the 18th of of the 12th Moneth called February 69. Friends THis choyce Child this goodly Plant this Tree of Righteousness lovely in her life to all that knew her but most lovely at her Death was of age thirteen Years five Weekes She loved the Lord of a Child and also those that feared him Her delight was to hear Truth declared and to be with the excellent of the Earth even with such as excelled in Vertue She dyed at her Father's House in Colchester after five dayes sickness two dayes before her departure she was filled with the Love of God and the Springs of Life were so opened in her that made her Cup to over-flow so that she brake forth into many precious Expressions concerning HOw Good the Lord was and how Gracious he had been to her all her dayes and never did her hurt in all her life and then she lay still a while musing and meditating upon the Lord and making melody with Grace in her heart which was clearly perceived by all that were about her after which she again broke forth into praises How good the Lord was and often brethed up to the Lord that she might be faithful for if she were not her Tallent would be taken from her and often with great fervency of Spirit begged of the Lord That he would speak what he had to say to her and by her for said she I am ready to serve thee and also to obey thee she was not willing to speak more or less then what the Lord should speak by her and in her by his Spirit very often with great eagerness did she put up that Petition to the Lord at which time she lay with most pleasant and sweet Countenance saying She was well and that she felt no pain Soon after in the presence of seaven or eight Persons she spake as followeth which was taken in Short-hand from her mouth as she uttered the words WHatever is not of thy self Lord purge out of me yea purge me throughly Lord leave not a wicked word in me thrust away the power of Darkness Lord make me able to praise thee let me not come into the way which is evil for if I do I shall dishonour Thee and thy Truth I hope I shall never rebel against thee more but have full satisfaction in Thee and in thy Wayes and not in the evil One and his wayes Wash me O Lord throughly let not an unadvised word come out of my mouth If it be thy will O Lord speak for I am willing to hear thee and obey thee though I be accounted unshamefaced by the People of the World for the same I hope I shall never forget thy Loving-kindness while I am in this World Oh! thy everlasting Kindness is never to be forgotten purge me clense me throughly let not any evil be left in me make me clean O Lord that I may be able to serve thee in the Land of the Living Shew them O Lord the evil of their wayes that have done evilly and lay a burden upon their spirits that they may

compared it the least of all the Seeds in the Garden yet it comes in time to be the greatest of all Herbs and becometh a Tree Friends doth it make manifest to you one evil one day be faithful to its manifestation cease from that evil then it will teach you to deny an other and an other evil after that for to that end the Grace of God appeareth until all ungodliness Titus 2. 11. and worldly lusts be denyed and teache● to live Righteously Holy and Soberly in this present World And until you become a new Lump created in Christ Jesus unto good Works for like unto Leaven also did Christ compare it which hid in three measures of Meal leavened the whole Lump I say as ye are subject to its operation and manifestation be it in never so little yet being faithful hereunto ye shall be Rulers over much and so at length come to rule in the Power and Authority of the Lord over Satan and all his temptations So Friends and People to this Principle of God which is near you which brought this Child near unto the Lord and neer and dear unto his People do I recommend you and not to a new thing which you have never before heard of or in no wise experienced but to that which you cannot but be sensible of hath striven with you ever since you were Children and came to know your right hand from your left which I say from that time bore a secret testimony in your hearts for God against your Lyes and Falshoods and Evils committed though in never so much secresie nay although your Lyes had the best gloss and cover put upon them that the Devil and your own wicked hearts could invent yet did this pure Witness of God which never consented to sin and evil nor could be contaminated o● defiled by it bear a true and faithful Witness against you and shew you that you lyed and did wickedly unto this I say do I recommend you if ever you expect to enter that Kingdom into which no unclean thing can enter or ever ye expect to be a Habitation for God or fit Vessels for the Lord's use even to the Word in your hearts for he that is the Light of the World is also called the Word of God Rev. 19. 13. which was from the beginning unto which David in his day recommended Young-men as that by Psal 119. Prov. 6. 23. Joh. 15. 3. which they should clense their way and which Solomon testified of Which was Guide unto his Feet and a Lamp unto his Path And which Christ testified of had clensed his Disciples Ye are clean through the Word Which Peter also testified of To be a marvellous Light and the Apostle Paul 1 Pet. 2. 9. brings in his testimony concerning this ingrafted Word That it s nigh even in the Heart and in the Mouth so that none shall need to say Who shall ascend to bring it down or descend to bring Rom. 10. it up for its nigh in the heart and in the mouth And this was the Doctrine of all the holy Men of God in all Ages of the World David prayed to the Lord That he would lift up his Light and his Truth that they might lead him for as he saith in another place In thy Light we shall see Light Isa 2. 5. And the Prophet Isaiah exhorted those that he loved To walk in the Light of the Lord and walked therein himself Come saith he And let us walk in the Light of the Lord he calls it The good old Way and leads into the new and living Way and this was the very end why Paul had a Ministry committed to him to wit That h● mig●t turn people from Darkness unto Light and fro●●he power of Satan unto God Good old Simion 〈◊〉 saith It s A●t 26. 18. the Way prepared before the face of all People Therefore now Friends you giving up your consent to the truth of these things by an inward conviction in your Consciences for to that I appeal and to that alwayes the Apostles defired to be evident rebel no longer against it the Spirit of God shall not always strive with you and if you continue in rebellion against it you shall never know the Way Job 24. 13 of it and this is one main reason why the Light is so much opposed and spoken against because people through their rebellion to it know not the vertue and efficacy of it and so speak evil of that they know not but are incompetent Judges in the case and an other reason is because commonly they are men of perverse minds evil men concerning the Faith Reprobates And this Light reproves for evil deeds as Christ said He that doth evil hateth the Light and will not bring his deeds to the Light lest the Light should reprove John 3. 20. him so from Christ's own Words it follows they are evil men that hates the Light or speaks contemptibly of it they are such as are Enemies in their minds to it through wicked works Col. 1. 20. But may some say Do not our Priest and Professors with one consent yea as unanimonsly as ever the Jews called to have Christ crucified release not this man to us but Barrabas speak and exclaim against the Light Some say its a check some say a natural light and some a carnal light others an insufficient light and some call it an Ignus Fatuus and some a diabolical light but the truth is saith many an honest heart they are divided among themselves about it as the Elders was in accusing innocent Susanna some said under a Sick more Tree and some under an other Tree and none of all these testimonies in this case are true or to be regarded and we know not what to think of it but I dare not but think say some people that many of them are knowing men and good men and who shall we believe It s none but you Quakers commend the Light as it was said of Christ's Followers of old Do any of the Rulers of the People believe in him but this People that know not the Law are accursed Here what Christ saith He concludes them ignorant men against whom thou art not whosoever thou art to opose thy judgment He said to the learned Mat. 22. 29. Pharisees You err not knowing the Scripture though they had the Scripture nor the Power of God and testifies further against them They were evil men and a Generation of Vipers and herein their wickedness appeared in hating the Light He that doth evil hates the Light such as are reproved by John 3. 20. it and judged by it and condemned by it are the onely Haters of it I say such as would have Christ's Kingdom pulled down and Satans Kingdom set up it s no other that dare lift up a hand or a tongue against the Light whatever they may profess in words can you make me believe or any