or do so have been hated of men as he Ioh. 7. 15 18. declard at Jerusalem and is fulfilled at London as well as in other places They shall bare you for my Name sake speak all manner of evil of you and they shall think they do God service So blind are all men who from the light are erred in which God dwells the Creator of all things who commanded light to â— Cor. 4. 6. shine out of darkness and hath shined into our hearts who by the light are subject to give us the knowledge of himself in the face of Jesus Christ and Tit. 2 11 being made a partaker of this Grace which is free and hath appeared to all â—ear my testimony as the truth is in Jeâ—â—s that if you obey it not you are out of the Covenant so out of the blessing and under the curse and know not the Word of God though it be near unto you all and many hath been thereby quickened to God and it is that which made all things and by it are all things upheld for in it is life Ioh. 1. 4 â— and the life is the true light of men and this is the true light which enlightens every man which comes into the world as it is written John bare testimony of it without your meanings declaring what he had seen felt and handled of Iohn 1 12 13 the Word of life that to as many as believed in him he gave power to become the sons of God not of blood nor of the will of man but of the will of God of which birth which onely must inherit the eternal Kingdom are all you ignorant who preach and pray and hear and act in your own wills though your profession be high as mine once was you are not yet come to the first principle of repentance from dead works which all that are in that have not been quickned by the eternal word which Word abides for ever and is Heb. 4. 12 quick and powerful as a two-edged sword dividing asunder and making manifest the secret thoughts and intentions of the heart and this is not ink and paper or words which the worst of men or the Devil may read or talk of but it is spirit life and power killing and making alive as a fire in the besome did and do the Prophets witness it as a Sword and a Hammer to â—er 23 29 cut off and break down all the uncircumcised of ears and heart This is it that Moses who was faithful called unto this was the Word of faith which Paul preached who was called of God and not of men and all so called bear the testimony to it as he did that none need to say Who shall ascend fetch Rom. 1â— 6 7 8 Christ down Or descend and fetch him up for he is near thee in the heart and in the mouth and this is the Word which we preach saith Paul who was sent of God Now they that tell you the Letter without is the Word and the Gospel they preach another Gospel then the Apostles did O that you had ears to hear and hearts to understand the things that belong unto your Peace who have been and are professing godliness for many years and yet stand where you did in the customs in the fashions in the love of the present World and call the Scriptures your rule mind you Scripture-readers is it not written in the World God is not known and who loveth the World the love of God Iames 4 4 is not in him the love of the Worldis enmity to God and is it not the words of him that cannot lye The world loves its own and that his are are not of this world as he was not of Ioh. 15. 19 this vvorld therefore the vvorld hates them So professors of Scriptures see vvhat is vvritten in Scriptures What 's the true Religion Is it not thus vvritten To visit the fatherless and keep Iames 1. 27 unspotted from the vvorld are you this people vvho are in the vvays vvorships and fashions of the vvorld and excess of vanity and pride and fulness and vvhole families of your ovvn flesh and in your own ways ready to perish for want of food and rayment sure you are not they which visits the fatherless sure you are not the Israel in which there was no beggar nor you have not the Storehouse in which all the tythes were put to feed the Widows and the Fatherless and sure you are not in the narrow way in which few walk for the way that you walk many there is in and they walk at ease I feel what I speak who walked there many years and as concerning the Law written in stone blameless as any and had a zeal though not according to knowledge Rom. 7. 9 and when the Commandment came the new Covenant sin revived and I dyed 1 Cor. â— 1â— and only by the power of the Cross which in the Wisdom of the World Gal 6 14â— was and is esteemed foolishness do I live in the life that never shal have end and in this only do I rejoyce whereby I am crucified to the World and the World to me and this to the World is a mysterie who by Wisdom cannot know the things of God which are spiritually discerned and therefore are in vain imaginations of which God did and doth complain bringing out likennesses Con. 6. 5 â— of it as the Papists in Wood Stone or Gold others calling the Cross that which you cannot flye from not knowing the Cross which is daylie to be taken up but we who of him have learned who saith Take up your cross and follow Luke 9. 23 me know it to be the power of God unto salvation and by it hath the Devil been overcome and before it must all the powers of darkness flye and this is and hath been the defence of the righteous Seed in all generations and the Scriptures declare of it and shall bear a testimony for me and all the children of light against all you that have the words of the Scriptures and yet are found haters of the light which gave forth Scriptures and if ever that eye be opened in any of you that the god of this World hath blinded you shall confess that that wherein you have trusted shall witness against you and however your Teachers which are blind may lead the blind till both fall into the ditch yet is there a seed among you that the Lord will gather unto us and therefore doth his long suffering lead unto repentance but many shall be cut off in their iniquities Isa 65. 12 to whom he hath called and they would not hear and they shall cry and he will not hear but laugh at your calamitie when destruction shall come as a swift Whirlwind and with the Prov. 1 28 beasom of the Lord shall all the Workers of iniquity be swept away and his fierce Wrath
shall consume them which have worshipped Images and have bowed down to the inventions of men and instead of the truth delivered to the Saints for which we earnestly contend have set up the traditions of Matt 15 3 men And here stands your Worship with the whole World who are enemies to the cross which in the light only is seen and so in the darkness hath all error and false doctrine been broached and invented and brought forth and the imagination hath and doth bring forth the image and both shall be consumed and therefore I who know assuredly that he will come and will not sal 11 6 tarry and his reward is with vvith him who reigns snares fire and brimstone upon the Wicked every day the idolaters and adulterous generation who have forgot God dayes without number and 〈◊〉 committing Whoredom with the Images of men yea thou England yea thou London that hath talked so much against idolatry and fought that Images might be pulled down art found in the great abominations and filthiness of spiritual Whoredoms even in the sight of the Son the day being dawned hath shewn the filthiness of thy night-works which thou ceasest not from though the ligh hath discovered them but thinkest the Lord is like unto thee who in the times of darkness winked but now will render a due recompence for all your psal 50 3 Fornications a horrible tempest goes before him and in the Clouds he comes and the darkness hides him from you vvho hate the light O a vvo a vvo unto all that discerns Heb. 10. 37 not the signs of his coming for upon whom he falls he grinds to povvder and the adulterous eye cannot see him vvhich hath run a lusting after many lovers yet pays her vows offers her Prov. 7. 14 27 offerings and wipes her mouth and saith she hath done no evil but her steps lead to hell O how abominable are the prayers of the wicked in the ears of the Almighsy and the sacrifices of the wicked have an ill savour in the nostrills of the holy One unclean priest and unclean people whose offerings are flesh and not spirit dead and not living who have robbed the Lord and have given his glory to that which you have framed in your imaginations here is the heathen for whom the devouring plague is prepared who hath turned the invisible God into the similitude or likeness Rom. 1. 23 of visible things and for this doth the fierce wrath of the Lord burn as an Oven and the wicked shall be as stubble therein and with the Candle of the Lord shall all you be searched who have set up any thing in my stead saith the Lord who am the Life whom am the Light and there is no other God Iohn 1. 4. Iohn 8. â—â— Iohn 14 6 though you are among the many gods who set Ink and Paper in his place calling it by his Name which is eternal saying the Letter is the word and the light and the life And this all you vvho remain in the idolatrous and adulterous nature alienated from God strangers to the Covenant of light and life led by the Prince of the aiâ— turn the most excellent of all that you possess into Wickedness for it is impossible that an evil tree should Matt. 7. 18 bring forth good fruit as it is written for all who have not had the eye opened which the god of this World hath blinded by the power of him that is the light and the life as slaves are sub ected to the power of Satan serve him with the Scriptures or whatsoever they have though being in the dark they know it not no more then the Priests and people at Jerusalem which if they had known would not have put to death the Lord of Life And so mind all you Scripture-readers and professors who are ready to murder for your Religion Was not they at Jerusalem your type who when he came in the fulness of time of whom the Scriptures prophesied to fulfil the Scriptures and put an end to all their Worships which though they were given by the command of God yet having lost the spirit and life by which they were sanctified are become corrupt and abominable and ripe for destruction yet he that was sent of God to put an end to the old and to make all things new not coming according to their expectation who had framed an imagination from their own understanding of the Scripture as now you do to come with their observations and so though they read the Scriptures dailie they could not receive him nor his Doctrine for saith he The vail which Moses wore is on your faces to this day When you read Scriptures is the Vail yet rent off your faces Friends and Neighbours and Relations if it were you would see him whom you have pierced who are yet eating and drinking your own damnation not discerning the bodie of my Lord who while I was a sinner died for me And so friends in faithfulness in the love that is unseigned with the Authoritie which is from above by which I am armed not to fear what any can do unto me and have and do overcome the evil with the good-wil unto man in which I can do beseech you to be reconciled unto God for Christs sake which yet you are strangers to Wil you set any thing in his place who Ioh. 6. 44 is onelie come to by the drawings of the father and that is the drawings of the father which draws out of iniquitie and from transgression and this being attended to you may learn to know what called Abraham which Heb. 11. 8 obeying and following brought him Ioh. 8. 56 to see Christs daie though there was then no Letter written of that you call the Scripture and none ever did or shall give forth or come to a right understanding of the Scriptures but as they obey and follow that in them which condemns sin and leads out of it to him that hath and can onelie open the eies of all born blind and this I declare as I have learned of the Father in the light That though I had been a reader of the Scriptures as without from a child of six years old as constantlie as most yet when by the power of the eternal Gospel was turned from darkness to light I saw things unutterable and the Scriptures that in my dark mind I had so often turned was now another thing in my eye and plain without a meaning as I came to learn of that spirit 2 Pet. 1 20 21 which gave them forth for as it is written No Scripture is of a private interpretation but as holie men moved of the Holy Ghost writ them forth so onelie those holie ones who have been or are moved of the same spirit which are the children of the Kingdom see the parable and interpret the Scripture which all that are unlearned of the Spirit interpret to their
own destruction And so you that know not the moving of the spirit in which the Scriptures are writ have given meanings and so in this long night of Apostacy have brought forch errors and false Doctrines and filled the World with Sects Opinions the simplicitie of the Gospel being betrayed by the crafty subtiltie of men but we who are come Ephes 4 4 〈◊〉 29 14 15 in the light to see the fulfilling of the Scriptures know that the wisdom of the wise is turned into foolishness and the counsel of the prudent is brought to nought the Prophet is become a fool and the diviners shall run mad Hos 9. 7. and he that hides from the wise reveals to babes and sucklings and it seems good unto him though the heathen Luke 10. 2â—â— then rage and the people imagine vain thugs the Lord is risen to recover his own inheritance that hath Psalms 2. â— Ezek. 34. 2. 3. long been laid waist by the destroyer and the devouring shepherds have not fed the sheep but eat the sheep who have run and were never sent therefore have not the people been profited and the mistery of iniquity that began in the Apostles dayes hath spread Ier. 23. 21. 2 Thes 2. 7. again to the filling of the world with thick darkness as it was foretold by Christ and the Apostles that devouring Wolves should come and make Maâ— 7. 15. havock of the flock and that in sheeps cloathing and these were to prevail all the time and times that the world wondred after the beast though your teachers would mak you believe Rev. 13. 3. the false Prophets are come but now that they might hide themselves but O that you did see and believe the Scriptures then would you know who were the ravening Wolves we or they whom you call your ministers see which is the Wolfe that devours and destroyes he that sends for his gain Isa 56. 11. from his quarters and if he has it not raises war and sues and casts in prison and if any speak in his meeting place or asks him a question he causes or suffers his people to beat them or hale them or stone them or whip them and will not speak himself but for gifts and rewards Now are these the Wolves or they that bear all these things in patience going up and down freely giving as freely as they have received try whether of these be the ministers of Christ by that you call your rule and truly people God will not be mocked and his eye beholds the deceitful worker every where and the Scriptures are ours upon whom the ends of the world are come and for us were they written and shall bear witness for us against all the Idolatrous generation that sets them in the place of God to me are they precious who am come to the comfort of them and let the wisest of your teachers if he can without a meaning bring a written Scripture to prove that they any where are called the Iohn 1. 4 6â— word the foundation the light or the life I shall give some of the many written in the Scriptures to shew that he who is the light is the life and Iohn 8. 12. the way and the ordinance and the name ohn 14. â— by which only salvation is and are not those then false Prophets and deceivers Iohn 1. 1 which would make you from the Scriptures believe that which is not Iohn 1 14 Phil. 29 and hide from you that which is are not these the Antichrist which instead 1 Cor 3. 11 of Christ are setting up that which is not he in his stead O shall not the Acts 10. 42 Col 2 14 plagues threatned in that book come upon them who are known to add and diminish and surely as the Sorcerers of Egypt are they that harden the Dut. 2 4 Rev. 22 18 19 heart in making likenesses and truly friends these things are not written to you as to have your help or aid to defend or assist us as your parsons use to pray and cry for for we are the people that have no helper on the earth yet beleiving know we shall be Micah 4 1 the mountain set upon the top of every mountain and while you are striving against the little stone cut out of the mountains without hands it Dan 2. 34 growes and you see it not and shall be the praise of the whole earth and the devourers and the destroyer and all the ungodly shal be crusht under it then shall the earth be filled with righteousness and of the increase of this kingdom there shall be no end which is come and coming and not by power might but by my spirit shall all the opposers of this kingdom be brought down saith the Lord and the glory of it is the son and all the subjects are cloathed with holiness all being Priests and Kings to God and the glory of it is now seen coming down from heaven by them that the world hates who are following the Lamb through many tribulations into it and the Dogs and the Whoremungers and Rev. 14. 4 the makers and lovers of lyes Mark this false teachers hearers that speak the things you know not with the Rev. 22. 15 fearfull and unbeleiving must you be shut out Mark you this that cannot beleive what herein is declared â—â—t to you it seems strange that God should appear to his people as of old and give us the same spirit as they had that gave forth Scriptures saying to the hardning of your own hearts Miâ—â—cles are ceased why to us it is not marvelous to receive what we have waited for the spirit of truth to lead into all truth and the Scriptures declare of him and he is the same and changeth not infallible and almighty who is given to convince the world of â—in and till you come to believe in Iohn 16. â—â— 92 that which convinces of sin you can neither understand nor beleive the â—criptures nor me nay though one rise from the dead and I who know how precious your souls are with thousands more have been made willing in this the day of the Lords power to go forth with our lives in our hands denying â—ll that has been dear to us that you might be brought from under the power of the Prince of darkness to the obedience of the light in which only is fire salvation no other name given under heaven whereby any can be saved I am the light saith Christ Jesus Iohn 8 12 and if any come to me be shall not abiae in darkness and so all people who hate the light and are speaking against it and giving it names as naturall and such like are you not speaking against the Saviour who is the light and the way and the truth as the Scriptures declare O that for your souls sake you would cease from hearing and speaking lyes and come
to the light which is the true light and then you might see what God requiers Truth in the inward parts which Psal 51. 6. though it may be you have red oft yet are not come to it while you despise the light and have not as I know none has out of the light found that God requiers and what stead will all that stand you in which he requireth not and so all men and women come to the light It is the words of Christ Jesus He that walketh in the light stumbleth Iohn i. 9 10 not and all from it have and do stumble and fall and therefore as you love your souls and prize your everlasting welfare give heed to the most sure word of Prophesy then that voice which come from heaven your teachers tell you that 's the Scripture but thus it is written You do well to take â—eed to the more sure word of Prophesy as 2 Pet. â— 19 to a light that shines in a dark place till the day dawn and the day star ar se in your bearts as to this you come the subtlety of the deceiver which hath beguiled man and led into the transgression may be manifested and you shall come to see what thou wert and what thou art and what thou must be before thou come to inherit the purchased inheritance for thou wert made in glory O man and woman in the Image of God but by transgression art become as a brute beast that perishes and knowest nothing but what thou knowest naturally as from that wisdom which is sensual and devlilish for here sits the Devil in the sensual fulfilling the lusts slaying the soul and yet seeming religious here 's Cain's offering Esaus tears but not the blessing for that 's to the seed for ever and ever and in the Gel. 3. 16 light only must thou come to know the promised seed which is to break the Serpents Gen. 3. 1â— head So to that of God in every man I speak who has not left himself without a witness in the worst of you that you harken diligently to that which hath at somtimes shewed your iniquities and called you out of it for it is better to harken then to offer the sacrifices of fools and till you hear him that called Abraham how far are you Sam. 15. 22 Hâ—b 11. â— from the election that cannot be deceived in the deceit in the error and yet talking of others to be Hereticks and deceivers but we know who holds the truth in unrighteousness who neither hear nor obey the call of God Mind Titus 2. 11. 12. people who are talkers so much of free grace what have you learned of it are you sober that hail and pluck and fight and laugh and scoff even in your most holy assemblies Have you learned to deny all ungodliness and wordly lusts who are in the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye and the pride of life Do you walksoberly and righteously in this present world Are your women the Daughters of Sarah that wear not gold nor silver nor pearl not brodered hair Are you the men whose moderation and temperance is seen unto Isa 56. 12 all who live in the excess eating and drinking and in pride and covetousness Rom. 2. 11 and wantonness respecting persons that are rich and oppressing the poor despising the needy and in the middest of all these your iniquities call your selves Christians and say you are justified by Christ Jesus and saved by his blood Will not the Lord be avenged for these things Will not the righteous God do righteously Doth he justifie the wicked or wil he save the ungodly Psal 7. 11 Exo. 34. 6 7 or acquit the guilty nay a due recompence wil be rendered unto all the workers of unrighteousness who are puting the evil day afar off and are crying where are the dayes of his coming things are as they were let ns eat and drink for to morrow we must dye but Mark 9 44 the Worm which must never dye wil be your torment for as the tree stands it shall fall and after death comes judgement and in righteousness wil he rain who shall give to every man according to his works done in the body whether they be good or evil and in vain wil a talk of salvation be in that day for all you that are out of the covenant and I knowing assuredly that God is revealed from heaven in flames of fire to take vengeance on all that knowes him not 2 Thes 1. â— 18. cannot but warn you while you have time to cease from all your imaginations of God which are vain and to come to that which is only able to redeem from the powers of darkness and bonds of Satan whereby you have been and are captivated and all having a gift to profit with all come to know it in your selves for by this must all be presented before God who is just in all his judgements and requiers of no man according Rom. 6. 2. 2 Tim. 1. 6 to that he hath not but according to that he hath his own is he come â— Pet. 4. â—0 for and though the unprofitable hide it yet it is good and perfect O that you knewit and the power thereof for this only can redeem your souls out of the pit and break all the bonds of iniquity and clense from sin which hath seperated Luke 2. 48 you from God and this was it which the Prophets witnessed to set Psalm 4. 1 their souls at liberty before they could say the Lord is my righteousness and you that know not this gift which is from the father of spirits to be your leader and guide and teacher your best works are but self-righteousness Heb. 6. 1 dead works and to be repented of but we who have gained to that which shewed us the evil of our wayes and the vanity of the world with the glory thereof have been brought to cease psalm 4. 2 from our own works and words and come to stillness in which the still voyce hath been heard of God who complains of all you that are walking in vanity turning your makers glory into shame by speaking deceit and following after lyes and in this stilness standing are we come to possesse sure salvation by his redemption that saves his people from their sins and so it is God that works all our works in us and for us and self and the boaster are shut our by the powers of the eternal word of seperation and so our joy and boasting is in God all the day long but you out Mat 1. 21 Esa 26. 13 from the light disobedient to that which shews your misdoing have nothing to warn you or to rejoyce you or give you peace but wat is from the fire of your own kindling and this you shall have at my hands saith the Lord Esa 50. 11 to lye down in sorrow and this is the truth
to you all whatever your teachers tell you who cry vehemently against the light for they know if you harken to the light their trade will soon dovvn and therefore many lyes in their pulpits and else where do they publish to hold up the kingdom of darkness saying we deny the Scriptures and Christ which dyed at Jorusalem and the ministers with many more false accusations to which I answer for the truths sake no other Christ do we profess then he that made a good confession before Pilate who when crucified had over his head a writing set of Hebrew Greek and Lattin by his crucifiers as now he hath receive it if you can of whom Enoch Moses and all the rest of the Prophets prophesied and the Apostles bare witness to him do we believe in and call all to who is in us the hope of glory and the Scriptures of truth we believe and Deut. â—4 â—5 are come to the fulfilling of them and being witnesses that the Angel of the everlasting Gospel hath flown through heaven after this long night of Aposâ—asie Rev 14. 6. we know that the hour of righâ—eous judgement is come in which Babylon and all her merchants must down and we cannot but warn them and you of their sure destruction for these are the ministers of Antichrist and not of Jesus Christ who set up any thing in his stead who is the eternal Son of God and this was they seen to be by some of them called puritans forty years ago to my own knowledge and some that had been breed at Schools and universities with them and had taken their orders though they were dark times have all along according to the light received witnessed against the evil of these times servers so much as that they were hated of the world suffered persecution some to death others banishment for his names sake who is Iohn 1. 6. the light and the ministery sent of God did and do bear witness to him that is the light and these we honour in the Lord who by his power have turned many thousands from darkness Act 16 14 to light and from the power of Satan to God and we try them by their works and their fruits are fruits Mat. 7. 16 ler. 23. 28. of unrighteousness but you cannot gather Figs of Thistles nor Grapes of Thorns what is the Chaff to the Wheat saith the Lord God who is gathering his Wheat into the Garner and the day of Harvest is at hand and the tares must be burned with unquenchable fire so be awakned for to that of God in every mans conscience I am manifested that you are warmed and called to repentance and from your dead worships and works Iohn 4 23. to the living God who is a quickning spirit and in spirit will he be worshiped and his first appearance is to destroy sin in the flesh and if this you despise which convinces of sin you offer despite unto the spirit of grace Heb. 10. 29 by which all the saved of God are sealed and have the witness in our selvs that he is true this is the mediator of the new Covenant written in the heart put in the inner parts which who are come to need not any Heb. 8 6 ler. 31. 33. to teach but are all taught of God from the least to the greatest knowing â—he pouring forth of the spirit upon â—ons and daughters whereby we proâ—hesy and this is a lanthorn to our â—â—et and a light unto our steps and â—â—eeping to it he manifests himself unâ—o 1 Cor 13. 11 Iohn 4. 4. us whom we know and feel maniâ—ested in flesh to destroy the works of the Devil and as that which is perfect comes that which is unperâ—ect is put away for he that dwells in us is greater then he that rules in the world though it be denyed by â—ll those your teachers which preach against perfection to the weakning of the faith by which all the holy men of God were pefected and by which the world and death and he that hath the power of death the Devil are overcome and this is our victory O that you felt it it is under the blessing of eternal life and without you know this to arise which can remove the mountains what have you to do with promises for the promises are to the seed for ever and ever not unto Rom 4 16 seeds as unto many but unto on Christ Jesus this seed bruises the Serpents head and keeps him under who rules in all you that live in Sion and plead for it but we that believe know the casting out of Devils and the treading of the Serpent under foot and we speake with new tongues Mark 6. â—7 and the world cannot bear it and the ear is bored that hears the she pheards voyce and they can no more heare â— stranger and so the Scripture which you say is your Rule doth testifie against you secrets are made known to us that fear him more and more shall they be covered with darkness that striye against the light which now pricks many of you and it is hard for you to kick against it and though you have or may for a time get above it yet if not afore at your death-beds some of you shall confess that that speaking trouble none can speak peace and that condemning none can justifie for he that is a God pardoning sin iniquity and transgression will in no wise acquit the guilty are not you guilty whose hearts condemn you and there is no remission but by blood blood is lise and the life of 1 Iohn 3. 20 Heb 9 22 Jesus is the light of men but all that â—elieve not in the light are condemâ—ed already as saith the scripture Mâ—â—k â—6 â—6 â—nd know not the blood that clenses â—o more then they that peirced Jesus 〈◊〉 at Jurusalem and saw the blood â—nd water run out yet had neither â—ensing nor salvation by it then but â—ohn 1. 7. â—ll who are in the light as we are in â—he light have fellowship one with aâ—other and the blood of Jesus clenses â—s from all sins whereby we have boldâ—ess in the day of Judgement knowâ—â—g as he was we are in this present 1 Iohn 4. 17 â—orld hated mocked and despiteâ—â—lly used of you for whose soules â—â—ke we have and can deny all that is dear unto us not loving our lives unâ—o the death that while it is day you â—ight hear his voice vvho svvears in â—is vvrath the unbeleiver shall never â—nter into his rest and vvithout you â—novv and feel that vvhich is pure â—nd perfect and eternal to beleive in Heb. 3. 1â—â—â— â—our faith is in an Idol and your offerings will not he offer who lives for ever to make intercession for all that come to God by him vvho is a psal 16. 4 priest for ever made by the Law of an endless life and if ever you come to know
the true God you must know him in you who is over all in you all and through you all without respect Heb 7 25. Ephâ— 4. 6. Acts 17. 28 of persons in him we live and move and have our being who made all men of one blood and this is Gospel-news glad tydings to the poor and hungry the sâ—ck and lost who may come freely high and low rich and poor to him without money or without â—sa 55. 1 Esa 1. 27. price who condemns all unrighteousness judges all iniquity and redeems sin by Judgement and destroys the transgressor and saves the righteous soul which can only inherit the Kingdom which is unfaiding and undefiled feel him in you into whose hands all judgement is committed for knovv you not that if Christ be no in you ye are reprobate the Apostl travelled again in birth of those thaâ— Iohn 5. 22 2 Cor. â—3 5 Gal. 4 19 Iohn 4. 29 had been converted till Christ werâ— formed in them and so cease from thâ— meanings of men and come to know the Prophet vvhich can tell you all thâ— evil that ever you have done is noâ— this the Christ truly the day is faâ— spent and the night comes in vvhich none shall vvork therefore prize your Hab. 1.13 Hos 13. 9 time and repent for in sin vvill not God save any who is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity and the Lord is clear and if thou perish O man thy evil is of thy self vvho art vvarned to forsake the evil and to obey that vvhich condems the evil vvhich is good and perfect and giveth peace to the upright in vvhich I have and shall rejoyce though the Seas roar and the mountains be removed out of their place for truth is stronger then all and shall overcome and in it have I an abiding place vvhen the storm hath been great but where will you hide that sit in the seat Psal 1 1 of the scorners and stand in the vvay of sinners vvhen the black and gloomy day shal come upon you and the elements shal melt and the vvorld shall pass avvay vvith a great noise your â—ocl 2 2 2Pet 3 10 Esa 2 02 riches your honour will stand you in no stead vvhen you shal fling your Idols of Gold and of silver to the Batts and to the Moles for he shal judge in Acts 13 â—4 righteousness vvho is no respecter of persons by whom all actions are weighed who throwes Princes from their 〈◊〉 42. 6. Thrones and raiseth beggars and this is he who is given for a light to the Gentiles and a covenant to the people O that you knew him and would trust in him who all the day long stretcheth â—sa 65. 2 forth his hand to a stiff-necked and rebellious people but the night cometh in which none can work then all that resist the light shall be cast into outer darkness where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth for evermore Therefore that all that thirst after everlasting righteousness might be gathered into the light do I call and write unto you these things in plainness Mâ—â— 8. 12 And now you who denie the light of Christ the living Word have set the dead Letter in his stead how doth death prevail in you And how hath darkness beset you that even while you are preaching and professing the Scripture you are fulfilling them against your seives Did not the light of the World foretel his servants what they must receive from the Worlds professors for doing his Work saying I send you forth as sheepe in the midst of Matth. 10 Mark 13 Iohn 16. wolves and they shall stone you in their Synagogues they shall put you nut of their Synagogues and in the Synagogues yo shall be beaten and they shall deliuer you upto Counsels and ye shall be brought before Rulers for my sake for a testimony against them yea the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think he doth God service and these things will they do unto you because they know not the Father nor me And this they did unto such as he sent into their places of Worship to cry against their Worship who preached the Scripture and thought therein to have eternal life as you do whilest they thus entreated them in whom the Word of eternal life was who gave forth the Scriptures And thus death works in them who set the Letter for the Life and denies the Light of Life in themselves and such would devour it in others And that his words may be fulfilled he sends forth his sheep in his spirit and power to suffer these things and the Wolves that have the outward words the sheeps clothing they tear hale beat the sheep as he hath said they should for a witness against them So search the Scriptures and compare your works and their works they denied the light so do you They thought to have eternal life in the Scriptures so do you They fulfilled them upon the sheep in their Synagogues even while they were preaching in them And how many of your synagogues is there in this Nation where some of his sheep have not suffered the self-same things from this generation They haled before Rulers and how many Rulers is there in this Nation before whom some or other have not born this testimony for a witness And when they had done all this to them then their time came to kill them and think that whosoever did it did God service And your time is at the door and you are hasting apace towards it and some have already finished their testimony herein and are at rest where you cannot come And thus with the light which youdeny are you comprehended weighed measured marked to be no sheep but Wolves in sheeps clothing and by your fruits you are known and the true Shepherd who is not an hireling hath sent forth his sheep amongst you who meets with no fruits amongst you but briars and thorns and who returns from you beaten push't and haled kick't and cast down in your Synagogues and dirted in your streets and thus we return to him that receives the oppressed in whose Name we are sent and the best we can say for the best of you is Father forgive them they know not what they do not knowing the Father nor the Son And herein you are found as he sends to prove you and to receive your fruits all professions forms notions gatherings and herewith are you numbred the best as a briar and the most upright as a thorn-hedge Teachers and People in the tearing devouring nature all from the Vine and as clearly to be seen by your works in which you are found to be out of the nature of them whose words you profess as a dog may be known from a lamb or a thorn from a vine So read the Scriptures the Lambs sufferings and the Wolves actings and read your selves by your fruits amongst whom you