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A41059 A paper concerning such as are made ministers by the will of man Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702.; Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1659 (1659) Wing F634A; ESTC R27978 4,189 4

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and yet flatter one another to your faces and backbite one another behinde the back such relations we deny and have a witness in your consciences against it And all that profess a relation one to another and love and friendship with the tongue and in heart deceive one another and cozen and cheat one another and lie and dissemble one with another all such relations we deny and have a witness in your conscience against it And such as professe religion or worship or humility righteousness and the Scripture Christ and the Prophets words live out of their life and live in envy and malice and yet professe you have a relation to Christ and God whom ye have not seen and you love him and do not love them whom you have seen such relations we do denie all such as cry up your experiences high notions manifestations as you call them dispensations as you call them and live in pride strife and envy debates derision scornes loftiness highmindedness you be out of the light and out of the way in 〈◊〉 and out of the pure relation we have a witness in your conscience against those things which lets you see what you possess and will let you professe no more if to it you hearken which turns from the world and the relations therein for all who beleeve not the light and are not to it come have a love but it is in the world and a relation but it is in the world which is enmity to God so that relation which is enmity is denied with the light that love which is enmity is denied with the light which leads to the pure relation which envies not where the destroyer and devourer is rebuked G. F. THe faith of such no better then the faith of the Pharisees who onely believe of a Christ because the Scriptures declare of him but the faith of them who dwel in the life and power of God and follow the Lamb whethersoever he goes is that faith which overcomes the world To believe of a Christ because the Scriptures declare of him is to believe as the Pharisees did believe who were the persecutors and murderers of the just but to believe in the light the life that gave forth the Scriptures is seen and Christ is believed in and here he hath the witness in himself and comes to be a child of light and born of God which birth overcomes the world and now saith Christ they hate the light because their deeds are evil and will not bring their deeds to it because the light will reprove them and this is the condemnation the light saith Christ and now it doth appear them that hate the light priests teachers people young and old hate the light and will not bring their deeds to the light because the light vvill reprove them neither vvill they suffer others that vvalke in the light and love the light and bring their deeds to the Light and shew their deeds with the light and reprove them with the light because they hate the light and them that walk in it and cast them into Prison and so are stumbling at the light All sorts of people mark it is the light that they hate saith Christ they hate the light which reproves their evil deeds and this light is that which the world and the teachers thereof cannot endure to be talked off but hate it and them that walk in it it is the light that is so much stumbled at so because their deeds are evil and they walk in darkness there is a proof for they that walk in the light stumble not but come to receive the light of life here Christs words ●s fulfilled amongst them that hate the light and will not bring their deeds to the light because the light will reprove them for that which doth make manifest is light so that which makes manifest they cannot endure but would be in the dark and keep their deeds in the dark as it is manifest and saith Christ the Divel shall cast some of you into prison he is out of the light out of the truth and a lyar and a murtherer from the beginning which now is seen with the light and trampled upon and all that owne not the light which cometh from the word are the wicked seeds men sowing abroad their tares their lies the evil reports and them that are gone from the light that comes from the word of truth are given up to believe lies and reports and may cry up darkness if you hate the light what have you to cry up else if you turn from the light pittyful preaching which hates the light which manifesteth all the vvorks of darkness G. F. London Printed in the 4th month 8th day for M. W. 1659.