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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85492	A cal [sic] and a vvarning, to all priests, professors and people, vvho have and do profess the Scriptures, that they may try their doctrines and practises by it, and may own condemnation in their doctrines and practises, wherein they are contrary to the Scriptures. And a tender visitation to the whole vvorld, that they may own this their visitation, and may be healed and restored to the Lord; and this may serve for a looking glass, wherein people may see what visage they are of, and how they stand related as unto God. / By a sufferer in Hartford goale, for faithful witness-bearing, against this sinful generation; known by the name of John Gould.	Gould, John, prisoner at Hertford.	1657 (1657)	Wing G1416; Thomason E932_1; ESTC R202329	27,259	37

Bushel or under an ignorant blind zeal being brought up at the feet of some great Gamaliel or Doctor or Expounder or Meaning or Conceiving-giver of the Scriptures as Paul then vvas vvho are found in his steps and yet querying Where was the light I pray ye blind Zealots Think ye it 's onely to be found or had from Oxford and Cambridge and from St. Johns Colledge and not in St. John Or was he learn'd it at any such place and not by the revelation of Jesus Christ search the Scriptures and see And what was the end I pray of your Ministers being it sent to your Universities and the design of their Parents in it Was it the same that Christ taught and instructed and designed and set apart this for Or was it not that they might get a livelyhood and good maintenance and preferment as you call it in the World Was this Christ and his Ministers end And after they have been trained up or educated as you call it for some years at the Craft and become proficients in it are they not from thence sent forth having commenc't Mr. of the Science and able to handle their Weapons well in the defence of their Mother Mystery Babylon and afterwards being tryed by some able aged and more experienced Arts-man who had long worn his Philactery and found expert is ordained and sent forth to some certain place or Parish with an Order from man to enter and creep into a Stone-House there to lead silly Women captive laden with their sins and led about with divers lusts ever learning under them but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth and how should they when with a strong Law that none must come there to declare it under penalty of a House of Correction or a Parison as a disturber it 's not their Teachers guide nor end but two three or four or five hundred pounds a year which was in their eye And was it so in the Ministers of Christ search the Scriptures and see Was it so Or doth their Rule as they call it teach them to sprinkle Water on a childs face call it baptism or an Ordinance of Christ or to call Bread Wine a Sacrament do not such make void the Ordinance of Christ through their traditions What pattern have they from Christ or any of his Ministers for these things or for their Pulpit as 't is called their long Robes their walking before the dead their words over the dead their Knells their Bells their money for Buryings and Christenings their selling Funeral Sermons their Chancel-money their Pulpitmoney with many other knacks and toyes and pedlary Wares which they take money for and call their dues besides sweet-Meats and Wines for their Bellies are these Ordinances of Christ too No But these are say they for decency and uniformity Did not your fore-fathers say so who sought under those Names to usher in popery and idolatry And who gave ye orders for these and such like practises Received ye them from Christ or from your Rule search and see Or not from your fore-fathers the Bishops who taught you to pray and preach by the hour and to call upon those for money who will buy none of your Merchandize Are not these covetous practises And must you not have your Clark and Sexstone and Dog-Whipper too to attend for decencie and uniformitie Who taught you it VVere there ever such helpers in the Ministrie of the Gospel Yet these must have their pay too from such as require none of their labour for uniformitie sake Doth your Rule you pretend to teach you such practises search and see or doth it not rather condemn your burthensomness Do you think calling your great Stone-houses by the Saints Names is any honor to them or that ye shall have their benediction for it who are Enemies to their Doctrine practise manner of life and conversation who were called and chosen to the VVork of their Ministrie not by the will of man nor sent forth into the VVorld in mans will and time but by the revelation of Jesus Christ contrarie to mans VVill whose revelation ye denie and cannot own nor receive but say that 's ceas'd and so are deniers of Scriptures and yet would be accounted Christs Ministers Gospel-Ministers Gospel-professors VVhat Gospel is 't you Minister and professe who denie Revelation and the Letter also which witnesseth to it and professes that and preach that which the Scriptures no where speaks namely That Revelation is ceas'd Who revealed that to you you that denie Christs revelation Must it not needs be his enemie Antichrist vvhose Ministers then are ye who say that none must expect or wait for revelation now and that such who do are a sort of giddie-brain'd fellows and Apostates and such as these upstart Quakers who professe this new-found light who are contrarie to all mens opinions and judgements of the Scriptures but their own and was not truth ever so ye blind leaders of the blind Is truth to be accounted of according to mens judgements or opinions of it or as it is in it self infallible which word I know you cannot indure to hear who are in that which is fallible and so measuring truth by a lie and calling Jesus Beelzebub and God the Devil and Christ a Seducer and his Ministers Deluders and Deceivers and giddie-brain'd fellows and upstarts bringers in of damnable errors such like rak't up out of the pit of your fathers habitations the Prince of darknesse who is ever was a hater of the light in his children in all ages search the Scripture else and see do ye not see your selves in their steps yet let the light in you be judge and will the words think ye cover you nay nay the words are the words of truth and shall joine with the light a witnesse against you even to your eternal condemnation who are found in life conversation doctrine and practise contrary to them and this shall you witnesse eternallie who disowns the light to be guided by it which leads into the life of the Scriptures from which they were spoken forth which was before the Scriptures were spoken even before Babel and her Builders into the one Language and this according to my measure am I a VVitnesse of as ever he was who am hated persecuted and despitefullie used by your generation who came to fulfil the Scriptures for he came not to destroy them but to fulfil them and what do ye witnesse of them fulfilled in you who professe and say he is come yet are deniers of his light which waie is he come unto you seeing you denie that he enlighteneth every one that cometh into the VVorld and he saith he doth enlighten every one and ye say he doth not VVho taught ye to say so doth he or the god of the World and what is it lets you see this and your other confusion who say ye are enlightned but not all and that there 's

to nor worship man for conscience sake Are these things onely to be found at Rome and Italy and Spain and France who are called Christians as well as ye I and boast in it too and not in England also where liberty of conscience is profest even amongst you O ye great and tall Professors of the Scritures Do you think the Scriptures will cover you any more then they or that your Faith and Gospel and Christ is better then theirs who are respecting one anothers persons Will that Faith save ye any more then theirs Search the Scriptures and see Doth the change of the Air or of the Climate or of the Names or of the Languages or of the places or of the profession of God and Christ the Scriptures after another form or likenesse then theirs for they have the Names Christian and God and Christ and the Scriptures as well as ye and a form of godlinesse in some things as near the Letter as ye change the nature or beget a saving-faith which is that which purifies the heart and sets free from sin Or are ye not in your sin as well as they and say ye shall not be free here Onely herein they out-strip ye in profession for they professe a Purgatorie after this life through which they must passe and be cleansed and purified for they know that no unclean thing must enter into Heaven and ye think to enter in with your sins for here ye say you shall never be set free and so are deniers of the Scriptures in that particular more then they for you will not come to me saith Christ the light that you may have life Do ye think that the profession of the Scriptures will save you any more then them Or is the Scriptures me Were the Scriptures crucified at Jerusalem or slain since the foundation of the VVorld Or do ye think that Letters and Syllables joined together in words as God and Jesus will save from sin Or is that the blood which was shed without the City which only cleanseth from sin and purgeth from all unrighteousnesse Or is that to be found in things without VVill the blood of Bulls or Goats or the ashes of a Heifer think ye cleanse from sin If they would what needed he have come and been offered up and shed his blood at Jerusalem who came to fulfil the Law and the Prophets and the Passeover and the Circumcision and the divers washings and carnal Ordinances which could not make the comers thereto perfect as pertaining to the conscience And do ye think that Bread and VVine and VVater which are carnal things which you call Sacraments who taught you that VVord had you it by Revelation for the Scripture no where hath it will do it now why then the Pope of Rome and they of Italy Spain and France have more of them then ye yet they you say are Antichrist and none of the Saints and Church and people of God and we say so too Or is the manner or form of eating and drinking or dipping or sprinkling that alters the nature and makes it more saving to one then to another for 't is only in that ye differ for they have the same and more then ye circumstances by your own Doctrine alters not where the ground and foundation is one for circumstances doth not save according to your own Opinions nor change the ground VVhy then do you exclude them from being a Church of Christ more then your selves who professe more of the carnal Ordinances then ye and professe the same Scriptures the same Faith the same God the same Christ and the same Sacraments and where 's the difference but in the circumstances And it you say they are not a Church of Christ and professe that you your selves are and it say circumstances doth not save if the ground and foundation be one VVhat confusion is here Are you not all in Babylon Are not Mother and Daughter both Harlots Is your Bread and VVine and VVine and VVater better and holier the theirs Are they not all carnal Or is yours more pure and more saving Yet neither of them make the Comers thereunto perfect by your own confession is not their Saviour then as good as yours and their Church as yours both imperfect And is the Church of Christ so Search the Scriptures and see Doth they say it is Or doth it not say that he washeth and clenseth it in his own blood and presents it to God his Father without spot or wrinkle or anie such thing And do not the Apostles write to the Church which is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and dare ye say that 's imperfect as by your own confession yours is and it would be accounted a Church of Christ and your Teachers Ministers of Christ Is Christ imperfect Are ye not ministring the carnal Is Christ carnal Are ye not ministring the Letter Is the Letter the Spirit Are ye not ministring the Bread and VVine Is this Christ But it may be you 'l say You receive it by faith but is it faith in Christ search the Scriptures and trie Hath this faith purified your hearts If not it 's not Christs Hath it given you victorie over the world Hath it subdued and crucified the world unto you and you unto it Hath it sav'd clensed you from sin as by your own confession it hath not nor you say you believe never will here and so is not the faith in Christ which the Saints witnessed and if not in Christ not true nor saving nor wel-grounded faith which you oft talk of but know it not for the daie is come and approaching that your Foundations shall be shaken the Light comprehends you your Faith and Foundation which is tottering and sandie Therefore look about you ye that professe believers and beware for your image of Faith will not save ye anie more then the Popes Images VVhat 's that ye worship and pretend to serve Do ye know Is the Scriptures or mens meanings of them He Is Bread and VVine He Is the Ordinances He 'T is like you 'l say No but they lead to him VVhich of you have they lead to him Are ye found out Is your Ordinances Christ Doth anie lead to God but Christ Knows anie the Father save the Son and he to whom the Son will reveal him Are ye not making a Christ of your Ordinance and yet condemn the Pope and his Church to the devil for believing the bread vvine is transubstantiated into the Bodie Blood of Christ that when they eat it they eat his flesh drink his blood What difference betwixt their eating their God and yours leading to God and yet saying it 's Bread and Wine still which is carnal Doth that which is carnal lead to God whom to know and be led unto is life eternal And hath your dead Christ brought you thither yea or nay The Light sees your Christ and in it are you comprehended

a common and a special light a natural and a spiritual light in man distinguish them asunder that we may know them one from another seeing the Scriptures ye professe speaks but of one true light which lighteth every one that cometh into the World which is uncreated if by your natural light you mean the Sun Moon and Stars and other borrowed Lights and created we agree in that but are they in man but if there be two Lights in man separate them one from another that we may know them or else we may freely conclude according to the Scripture That the light which is in you is darkness and how great is that darkness which hath overspread the whole World since the Apostles dayes which is got so high even into the Seat of God exalting himself above God and boasts himself as if he were God by making two Lights in man when God made but one and the Scriptures witnesse to but one true light and yet he 'le have two but knows not how to separate them one from another but he who dwells in the light doth and knows his to be darknesse and to ascend out of the pit of darknesse and confusion unto which he must be sent again even by him who is the Father of Light even of our Lord Jesus Christ God blessed for ever the God of truth in whom there is no lye but bears witnesse against the Lye and the Frogs and the Locusts and the Caterpillars which are ascended out of the bottomlesse pit and have overspread the Nations of the whole earth even all Egypt but they must be all whipt away with the Rod of Moses and sent into the pit out of which they ascended never to infect the Nations any longer for he is come and coming whose Fan is in his hand who will throughlie purge his Flour and gather his Wheat into his Garner but the Chaff will he consume and burn up with fire unquenchable for his fire is kindled in the earth which shall consume and none shall be able to hinder it till he hath consumed the wicked from off the face of the whole Earth King and Peasant who will not that he should reign Tophet is prepared for them of old and the glory of all earthly Diadems shall enter into it for thus hath the Lord decreed and who shall be able to hinder him or say Why dost thou so Wherefore O all ye Kindreds of the Earth high and low rich or poor Kings Nobles Priests Professors and Peasants tremble at the Word of the Lord for it 's gone forth and shall not return empty but shall accomplish the end unto which he hath sent it a fire is gone before him and it shal be very tempestuous round about him which shall consume all his Enemies till they have left unto them neither root nor branch in the earth til the wicked be no more nor the place therof know them no more O ye Priests Professors of the Scriptures and People are you not glorying and boasting after the flesh in Names and things without in saying ye are Christians and to you is committed the Scriptures and the Ordinances the Baptism dipping and sprinkling and Sacraments which the Scriptures no where calls so and yet are naming your dayes and Months after the customs of the Heathens that knows not me saith the Lord Search the Scriptures and see Did ever any true Christians my Saints and Servants so do Did Paul or Peter or James or John or Matthew or Mark or Luke whose Words ye professe do so VVhat do ye excel the Pope of Rome in these things Doth not he think ye glory in the same and in many more Names and Saints daies and carnal things then ye profess And were not the Iews your forefathers glorying in such like things Are not we Abrahams Seed And to us is committed the Oracles of God and yet were Enemies to me and persecutors and despisers of my life in my Saints for all this And do not ye excel and outstrip them in this also Did they make Laws that I should not speak publikelie amongst them Or did they not fasten their eyes on the Saints and say Brethren if any one have a Word of Exhortation for the people let them speak on Do ye do so O ye Professors of these words Or do ye not exceed many of them in crueltie in this particular For if I send any unto you in my Name do ye not laie violent hands on them and thrust them forth and hale them before Magistrates and to Stocks and to Prison with them we have a Law though ye have and professe my Words which say He that receiveth you and heareth your words receiveth me and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me And can ye think ever to receive me or my Father who wil not hear their testimonie who come in my Name but if any come to you or are sent to you by others in his own Name him ye are readie to hear and receive though he tell you Revelation is ceas'd and so neither knows me nor my Father which sent me as my Words in the Scripture testifie O ye professors and people And do ye not crie out An Orthodox man a learned man a great Schollar a man of excellent parts and gifts preaches sound Doctrine a gallant Gentleman Mr. such a one a man of great gifts certainly he prayes and preaches by the spirit yet says revelation is ceast What spirit is it think ye he preaches and prays by who knows not the Son For none knows the Father save the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him Do ye think its the spirit of my Father that prayes and preacheth in him that knows not the Son nor the Father but sayes Revelation is ceast it 's ceast to him indeed because he 's a hater of the light and loves the darknesse rather then the light because his deeds are evil And do ye think his works are not in the darknesse whom it 's even a torment to to hear of the light and he had rather see or speak with the Devil then to see or speak with one who owns the light and walks in the light and so hath fellowship with God but whom think ye his fellowship 's with who loves not the light but is a hater of the light Must not his fellowship needs be with the devil who is the Prince and Ruler of the Darknesse of this World even the spiritual VVickednesse got into high places sitting as God in the Temple of God exalting himself even above all that is called God and would be worshipped as God And think ye this spirit is no where to be found but at Rome O ye Priests Professors and People Is it not to be found amongst your selves To the Light in all your consciences I speak VVhat means the Fines and close imprisonments of such who dare not swear and so break my commands for conscience sake and who dare not bow