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A85143	Light risen out of darkness now in these latter days. Shewing the dark ways and worships of the ministry of Antichrist now in these apostated times, which is perilous, as is foretold of often by the Holy Ghost that spoke through Paul, and now is fulfilled in these latter days, 2 Tim 3. Thus saith the Lord, Arise Sion, and thresh with a sharp threshing instrument, and shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen, and is arising, and Jerusalem shall be a burdensome stone to all nations, now that Christ is unto his people both the light and glory thereof. Wherein something is written in reply to a book that was set forth by the dry and night vines in and about Beverley, who scornfully nicknameth the people of God, in reviling and falsly accusing them, and calleth them Quakers, in and about York-shire. Iuly, 1653.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing F490; Thomason E729_5; ESTC R206840	47,191	59

carnal and that you are not to Judg of spiritual things by carnal reason and fleshly fancy But that you may lay open your folly that it may appear to all that are of a spiritual discerning that you are enemies to God and in your wicked imaginations which are for the fire and you we do deny and all vain janglings and fleshly carnal corrupt ways of worship and your set times who live in limitation but God will lim●t those carnal minds in you and bind up the wilde wills which would be intruding into those things that you have nothing to do withal and cast the Beast and false Prophet into the Lake that burneth with fire and brimstone and such deceivers as you are Rev. 17. It is said indeed that you may all Prophecy one by one Reply but it is said also are all Prophets we wish that the Lords people were Prophets You shew your selves to be contrary minded to the Apostles Reply though you steal their words to talk of you neither have the same mind light life order nor power amongst you as they had and he did exhort them to covet the best gifts 1 Cor 12. Rom 16.1 Phil. 4.3 which you grudg at and he commended to them Ph●b● a servant of the Church and there were women labourers with him in the Gospel and the Spirit of the Lord is the same now that it was then It is but the Beast in you that would and doth make war with the Lamb but the Lamb shall overcome and give you all your doom even reward you all according to your doings Rejoyce ye Saints and righteous ones the Lord will Judg and avenge himself upon the whore that Iezebel that is amongst all the fair sayers and painted Sepulchers such as these gainsayers and opposers are who stand in enmity and opposition against the truth by their evil thoughts and vain imaginations shewing the spirit of error The Assemblies of the Saints of old ware constant Priests and they had men who attended on the word and prayer who gave themselves to it prepared themselves waited on God that they might act to the edifying of the Saints in love Act. 20.7 6.2 3 4. 1 Tim. 4.13.14 15 16. The practice of the Saints in former ages Reply and in those places that you have cited may be sufficient evidence against you that you are none of them but enemies to those who come to walk after their example now whose life and practice we do own but you and your practice we do deny and altogether disown though you have stoln their words to speak of yet they will be witness enough against you and their manner of meetings speaking by the spirit and waiting will condemn you that deny the same waitings and attendings in others and know nothing of them in your selves who do not attend upon the word to speak immediately from the Mouth of the Lord as they did whereas you speak by the spirit of error that speaks by imagination and not by the same spirit that administred by them and doth by those that now speak by Divine inspiration herein you walk contrary to the Scriptures and the practice of the Saints in former ages shewing forth the spirit of error See Act. 20.7 When they were met together on the first day of the Week which you call a Sabbath where that place of Scripture doth not call so but it is your imaginations and inventions and contrary to the Scriptures and to that Sabbath of whom Jesus is Lord. 2. Pauls Preaching by the spirit and continuing his speech till midnight doth condemn you that study for what to say and many speaking an hour by a glass shews that you do want the same power and instead of preaching by the same spirit or speaking the Word of God as Paul did you speak and make a trade of Pauls letters which he sent to Brethren and his friends and glosseth them over by your Serpentine wisdom and have not the same spirit to preach by that Paul had so shewing to all that you are acted and guided by a spirit of error 3. And whereas you speak but your own Imaginations and inventions Paul he went about preaching the Kingdom of God and he did not count his life dear unto himself so that he might finish his course with joy in the Ministry which he had received of the Lord Jesus who did not shun to declare unto them all the Counsel of God Act. 20.21 to 28. and he did exhort them to take heed to themselves and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost had made them overseers to feed the Church of God which he had purchased with his own Blood Verse 28. which Ministry by the Holy Ghost we own and that Ministration which stands out of all mans inventions and such Officers as are made overseers by the Holy Ghost we do own but such as you that are made by imitation and self-conceitedness we do disown for that is Antichristian and not to be owned with beleevers but to be testified against and such Ministers as are of the spirit who speak not their own words but the Words of the Lord who doth it freely as Paul this Gospel Minister did Act. 20.31.32.33 to the end but such as you are who have neither any spiritual gift nor spiritual administration but speak brain study contrary to the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles and making a trade of the Scriptures and giveth them your Antichristian application we do deny for you are under the curse and are to be consumed for the Lord will consume Antichrist and all Antichristian Doctrine by the breath of his mouth and the brightuess of his coming 2 Thes 2. and you that make your Gospel or false Ministry burdensom and are covetous contrary to that of Paul in this 20 of Acts ver 33 34. We do deny and disown and see you to be led by a spirit of errour But you are discovered and made manifest what Master you serve even him whose coming is after the working of Satan 2 Thess 2.3 4 5. to ver 13. And the Apostle having a discerning spirit foretold of such as you are that should come which we through the mercy of the Lord are made to see as in Acts 20.29 30. And to have no fellowship with you but to testifie against you Ephes 5.11 Paul he laboured both for himself and others who doth condemn you that are as drone B●es and live upon the sweat of other mens brows to maintain you in pride and pomp idleness and fulness of bread which were the sins of Sodom and it is the fruits of your dark Ministry spiritual Sodom and Egypt where the Lord is crucified and you are of them that would shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men and neither go in your selves nor suffer them that would to enter but the wo is to you and all the plagues that are written in the Book are due to you and

are sanctified are all of one and he is not ashamed to call them brethren Heb. 2.11 But such as you are he doth deny and against you and your dark Ministery I do testifie that it is of Antichrist and not of Christ who live in darkness and know not God and that is your ignorance and sottishness we are of the light and of the day Ephes 5.13 And are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones and witness the life of the Scriptures Ephes 5.30 And I witness the washings and cleansings with the water of the word as they did that spoke forth the Scriptures which you shew your selves to be ignorant of Ephes 5.26 27. Therefore I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth that thou hast hid these things from the wise prudent of the world that the wisdom of the world may appear to be foolishness as it 's said 1 Cor. 1.25 26 27 28. and hast revealed them to us by thy Spirit that thou mayest have the praise 1 Cor. 2.9 10. Behold what manner of love is this that the Father hath bestowed on us that we should be c●lled the Sons of God therefore the world knoweth us not because he knew him not 1 John 3.1 4. You shew that you know him not but are in lying and deceit and flatteries walking in deceit and craftiness shewing forth your subtilties that standeth in opposition against the light and so dishonoureth the Lord Christ and saith that he knows not all things in saying that he doth not discover unbelief and for that end came he into the world to judge and condemn all unbelief and unbelievers For he that believeth not is condemned already John 3.18 And saith For judgement am I come into the world that they that see not might see into the knowledge of the divine mystery and that they which see by their own conceits and imaginations as you do might be made blind to see nothing of them For he is the true light and none sees any divine truth but in him for he is the divine light and in him is no darkness at all And hereby know we that we dwell in him and he in us who is both divine light and divine good and we know it because he hath given us of his spirit 1 John 4.13 14 15 16 17. Herein you are found lyars Seducers and Antichrists that say we believe not in him for that is your condition that know him not that is come a light into the world that whosoever believeth in him may not abide in darkness which light life I witness with all that do believe in the Lord Jesus the light of the world but you that know not this true light that enlighteneth every man to guide you there is you condemnation your Ministry is for condemnation for he that loveth the light and is guided by it that shews him salvat ō but he that walks contrary to the light as you do is in darkness abideth in death are for condemnation Ioh. 3.19 20 21. You do mightily dishonour the Lord that say this light doth not shew all darkness and unbelief Herein you erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of truth The Apostle said That God who commanded light to shine out of darkness had shined in their hearts which I bare testimony to through death to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the f●ce of Jesus and that was the doctrine that he preached who had the Heavenly treasure in an Earthen vessel which you are ignorant of 2 Cor. 4.5 6 7. And so you are found to be enemies to Jesus Christ and strangers to the true l ght your ignorance and folly is now made manifest First Christ who is the true light that enlighteneth every man that cometh into the world Ioh. 1.9 doth altogether condemn unbelief and that is your condemnation for we which have the light of life and witness against you that say this light doth not discover unbelief for it hath condemned it and sets us free from it who are redeemed to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ by it which you are ignorant of and so are ignorant of the life of the Scriptures as in Ioh. 19. 8.12 3.19 20 21. Act. 13.47 where Christ is the Covenant of his people as the Lord hath promised by his Servant the Prophet who Prophecying of Christ Sai●h the Lord there I will give thee for a light of the people to enlighten the Gentiles which were unbeleevers that thou mayst be the glory of my People Israel herein you mightily do dishonour the Lord Jesus Christ but they are not Israel that are after the flesh as you are that live in the fall and in darkness and in enmity to God but they are Israel that are after the spirit and walk in the light bringing forth fruits to the Praise and Glory of God and there is your condemnation the light which lighteneth every man that cometh into the world and your ministry is darkness and not light of Antichrist and not of Christ and you are men-pleasers time-servers seducers blind guides Hypocrites and dissemblers and sheweth your envy and subtilty being of the world and in darkness and guided by the spirit of error we are of God he that is of God heareth us and walketh in the light which guideth and leadeth up to the Father of Lights he that is not of God heareth us not hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error by the touchstone and tryer and light of life 1 Ioh. 4. which is Christ revealed in us as the Apostle did witness Gal. 1. which you are ignorant of and live in form without either light life or power and are servants of sin and your wages are death and destruction tribulation and anguish Repent and blush for shame wo and misery is your portion the mouth of the Lord of H sts hath spoken it who is the righteous Judg of Heaven and Earth the Father of Lights even the Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who is God blessed for ever Yet further they conclude that power accompanies that light to destroy every evil Quest as it appears in them that yeild themselves unto it and watch that their vain minds draw them not forth from abiding in the pure light of Christ c. It were a smal thing Oh all ye that pass by Priests If we and our means should sleep in the dust in everlasting silence and contempt but will not the stones cry out if we hold our peace whilst these deceits seem to lay all upon Christ c. Here you shew your selves to be of the number of Reprobates Reply and know not Christ as in that 2 Cor. 13.5 who yet never knew any thing of Christ the Divine Light and the Divine Power and are of those that Christ speaks of he came to his own and his own received him