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A40250	Several papers some of them given forth by George Fox; others by Jame [sic] Nayler, minister of the eternal word of God, raised up after the long night of apostacy to direct the world, to wait for the revelation of Jesus Christ, and to turn their minds to the true light, that they may be reconciled to God; of the world is not worthy, and therefore doth hate, persecute, and whom inprison them, under the name of Quaker[s]. Gathered together and published by A. P. that the truth may be spread abroad, and deceit be discovered. Wherein the plain, honest, and sober conversation of the saints in fear and trembling, is justified, against the idle bablings of formal professors ... and of all sorts of persons, under pretence of civility. Also the priests of England, with their imaginary doctrines and worships discovered to be the grand enemies of Jesus Christ; and the true worship of God in spirit and truth made manifest. ... With a word to the people of England ...	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Naylor, James, 1617?-1660. aut; Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.; Killam, John. aut; Parnell, James, 1637?-1656. aut	1654 (1654)	Wing F1904; ESTC R218791	32,715	40

and hath ceased from his own work even as God did from his And all those now who have received Jesus Christ the substance who is the Head of the Church deny all Types and Figures of him and do witness the Scriptures fulfilled And Jesus Christ who is the chiefe Shepheard the Bishop of their soules And Jesus Christ who is the Mediator between God and Man being made manifest in them makes them all of one mind and one heart and to deny the priests of the world who profess him in words and act those things he forbids First for sprinkling of infants and telling people they baptize them into the Faith into the Church which there is no Scripture for but the baptism by one spirit into one body this we own and the Church is in God as Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus write to the Church of the Thessalonians which was in God And they tell people of a Sacrament for which there is no Scripture that we do deny and them but the Supper of the Lord we own The Bread that we break is the body of Christ the Cup we drink is the Blood of Christ all made to drink into one spirit And the singing of Psalmes after their manner we deny for they sing Davids tremblings quakings and roarings this they have turned into meeter as if we should see one of you lying roaring crying till your eyes should grow dim and watering your bed with your teares and we should turn it into meeter and make a Rime of it and take it and go among a company of ignorant people and say let us sing to the praise and glory of God O Lord I am not puft in mind I have no scornfull eye when they are puft in minds and have scornfull eyes and when they read the Psames they keep on their hats and when they sing them they keep off their hats here they worship the work of their own hands all such practises we deny but we will sing with the spirit we will sing with grace we will sing with understanding Praises praises unto the Lord God on high And they speak a divination of their own braine and not from the mouth of the Lord and such the Lord sent his Prophets to cry out against all these now who study a divination of their own brain and speak not from the mouth of the Lord we do deny and all who are made Ministers by Oxford and Cambrige bred up with Learning and so made Mininsters by the will of men and speak natural Languages as Hebrew and Greek and say that is the Original which a natural man may learn and the natural man knowes not the things of God and all such we do deny for Paul was brought up at the feet of Gamaliel in the Jewish Religion but that did not make him a Minister of Jesus Christ for he declares that he was not made a Minister by the will of man nor of man neither by man but by the will of God and all such I own who stand out of the will of man denying all carnal ends for this ministry draws up to God out of the world and doth not respect any mans person but ministers to that which is in prison But those Teachers which are made by man say The Letter is the Light the Letter is the Word the four Books Matthew Mark Luk and John is the Gospel when the Letter saith Christ is the light and God is the World and Jesus Christ is the glad tidings which was promised the Lambe of God which taketh away the sins of the world and this we witness to be fulfilled all they that are in the light are in unity for the light is but one and who know the light are in unity all who know the word which is a mystery are come to the beginning are sanctified by the word and clean through the word for this word is a Fire burning up all corruption as an Hammer beats down all high minds high nature that the pure seed may be raised up as a sword cuts to pieces and divides asunder the precious from the evil and makes a separation inwardly and outwardly from uncleanness and this is the word of reconciliation that reconcileth together to God and gathers the hearts of his together to live in love and unity one with another and lets them see how they have been strangers and aliens from the life of God the light doth and the word draws from under the occasion of all Laws outwardly working out that silthy nature which the outward Law takes hold on so walking in the spirit there is not a fulfilling the lusts of the flesh and the spirit is but one which baptizeth into one body which we do witness praise be to the Lord to be fulfilled And whereas we are a people accused to raise up a new War it is false for dwelling in the word it takes away the occasion of Wars and gathers our hearts together to God and unto one another and brings to the beginning before War ● was for the Ministers of God which had the word of reconciliation to draw them from the occasion of all wars working out that nature that occasions warre said whence do wars arise even from the lusts Therefore all dear people who love the Lord Jesus Christ and the appearance of Jesus Christ in your souls be not talkers of the truth nor followers of the blinde guides but mind the pure light of God in you which shews your sin and evil and how you have spent your time and shews you how your mindes goe forth and every carnal thought and if you love that light you love Christ and walking in the light in measure there will be no occasion of stumbling for all stumbling is being disobedient and wait to finde the word in you as the Scripture saith Not to fetch it from above nor from beneath but what saith it It is nigh thee in thy heart for with the heart man believeth and with the tongue confession is made unto salvation and abiding inwardly in the light it will let you see one another and have unity one with another and the Teachers of the world to be the Ministers of the letter And whereas we are accused for going into Steeple-houses It was the practice of the Apostles to go into the Synagogues reasoning and disputing about the Scriptures shewing them the substance and told them that God did not dwell in Temples made with hands neither was he worshipped with mens hands Stephen saith the most high dwels not in Temples made with hands and for witnessing forth the substance was stoned to death but these were types of Jesus Christ and the Saints and who were made the Temples of God denied all outward Temples But the Ministery now which doth profess Jesus Christ holds up these

given you them you are set up above them who are made poore by you now is the Lord come to search you out and you shall restore for your theft four-fold Woe unto you that have had power in your hands to 〈◊〉 these things but instead of using the sword to scatter the works of iniquity have turned the edge of it against such as the Lord hath called out of these things and sent them to call others out left they partake of the Plagues that are to come upon those who are found in them Woe woe unto the blind guides who have called your selves Christ's Seedsmen and now that the Lord of the Harvest is come to look for fruits here is no better fruit to reap but such as these and that among such as you call Saints and the Churches of Christ And now that the Heir is appearing you are stirring up the powers of the earth how to destroy him left you be called to account for your great care to feed your own bodies and heap up carnall things and the little care for the soules of Christs Flock Now shall you not escape your day is near at hand Who could have believed that England would have brought forth no better fruits then these now after such deliverance as no Notion else can witness Oh tell it not among the Heathen left you strengthen the hands of the enemy and occ●sion the wicked to Blaspheme the name of the God of Hosts who is reported to be among us and hath subdued all our enemies and hath delivered us thus farre Awake awake all sorts of people can you say you have not had power in your hands against these abominations but now that you have not proved faithfull in the promises to the Lord in the day of your feares therefore is the Lord coming to call to account all sorts of dissemblers and oppressers and by his own right hand to get himself the Victory And now woe unto you that have known to do well and had it in your power but have not done it Woe unto you that have taken counsel at your owne wisdome and multitudes and not at the spirit of the Lord and have strengthened your selves by your Riches Woe unto your fruitless Trees you have long been digged and pruned but no fruits you have long cumbred the ground Woe unto you that are at ease in Sion houl woe and m●sery tremble ye women that are at ease strip you make you bare pu● off your pride and pu● on ashes turn your Musick into wayling your Feasts into Fasting and bitter lamentation and 〈◊〉 the Lord if there may be hope for your souls in the day of his fierce wrath that is coming upon the earth while you have time improve it J. N. Several Queries to be answered by Tho. Ledgard or any of those he ranks with himself under the name of Anti-Quakers 1. DId not God create man and woman perfect in his own Image without sin 2. Did not the first sin make a separation betwixt God and man 3. Whether is there any other way to unite God and man into spirituall Communion again but by being separated from the works of the flesh sin and uncleanness and being Redeemed into his first Estate 4. Was not that the end for which Christ was manifest in the flesh that by taking away sin he might restore man into his first Estate in which he was created in the Image of God without sin 5. Whether any can witness the work of Redemption perfected in them while they commit sin 6. Whether any unperfect unclean and sinfull one shall enter into the Kingdom yea or no 7. Was not that the end for which the Scriptures were written to warn all to turn from sin to holiness 8. Shall not God justly judge every one as he finds them at the day of judgement they that have done good into life eternal and they that have lived in sin into everlasting fire And whether do you look for a Purgatory to cleanse you from your sins between the day of death and the day of judgement 9. Whether a Christian have ground to believe and ought to wait for it that he shall be redeemed by the second Adam into that estate which he lost by sin in the first Adam 10. Are not all that are servants of sin out of the Covenant and under the power of darkness and in the Kingdom of the Devil 11. Is there any promise in Scripture due to any who have not confessed and forsaken their sins but all the Plagues written in the Book are to fall upon that generation of evil doers 12. Was it not the onely end why all the true Ministers of Christ both now and ever were begifted and sent into the world to wit to call people out of sin and to perfect the Saints in holiness and to present them perfect to God 13. Whether all those who both by Life and Doctrine encourage people to abide in that condition of sin imperfection and separation from God which Christ came to take away and so to unite God and man again do not oppose the work of mans redemption and withstand the onely end of Christ coming and so are Ministers of Anti-christ and labour to uphold the Kingdom of the Devil Now all you who plead for sin in your selves or others consider these things and see if you do not withstand the love of God in giving Jesus Christ into the world to clense from all sin all that believe in him and so to present you to the Father without spot or blemish and so you are the greatest enemies to your eternall salvation How will you stand before the Lord at that great day who would have gathered you out of your sin but you would not but have joyned with the Devil to uphold the wall of separation between God and you Woe unto you ye whited walls J. N. ALL People and Professors consider where you are and from whence you are fallen you that plead for sin and say None can be set free from sin while they are in this world you plead for a house for Satan in you while you are here and where will you have him cast out or what fellowship can you have with God while the Serpents head is in you you are separated from God and know not for what communion hath light with darkness God is light and he that dwels in God dwelleth in light and in him is no darkness at all but while you live in sin you are in darkness and the God of this world hath blinded your eyes that you cannot see and having blinded your eyes that you cannot see he leads you captive at his will and you are willing to be so and you do not believe that ever you shall be otherwise you are servants to sin and you take pleasure in it you are in the flesh and sin and have made