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A91474	The watcher: or, The stone cut out of the mountains without hands, striking at the feet of the image, whose head is gold, and brest of silver, and thighs of brass, and legs of iron, and feet part iron and part clay, Dan. 2. 31, 32, 33, 34, 35. Or, A discovery of the ground and end of all forms, professions, sects and opinions, and also how they now are made as friends, and joyn hand in hand against the substance, the life and power of God, which is now made manifest in his sons and daughters (according to his promise) as hath been plainly manifest in several meetings betwixt the people called Quakers, and the people called Baptists, which is here describ'd. And also a description of the true Church, ... / VVritten by a friend to all tender hearted ones, who hunger and thirst after God, who are hoping and seeking in forms for life, to the directing of their mindes, where and how to finde the true light which leads into the true life and power of Godliness, the end of all forms, where I rest with all who in spirit read me, who am known to them who are without, by the name, Iames Parnell.	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing P541; Thomason E845_18; ESTC R621	62,535	56

and this is the mighty King and Redeemer of Israel out of captivity into a Land of peace and love and unity where the ransomed ones do dwell with their Captain and their King who doth deliver his owne Lambs out of the mouths of raging wolfs and dogs Praises Praises everlasting eternal Mat. 01.16 to the everlasting God of Life for ever and thus we are sent as sheep amongst wolves but in the power of the Almighty we are sent forth and the arm of the Almighty is with us and doth deliver us from being a prey to the Lyons whelps which would us devoure and blessed are all they that receive our testimony it is Peace and salvation to their souls Now where is the VVise 1 Cor. 1. where is the Scribe where is the Disputer of this world Hath not God made foolish the wisdome of this world and hath chosen the foolish things to confound the wise and the weak to confound those that are mighty that no Flesh should glory in his presence Unto this Doughty I sent several of these queries which are before mentioned but I received no answer Another Meeting betwixt the people called Baptists and the people called QVAKERS UPpon the fourth day of the third month called May wee was several of the Lords people met together in a friends Orchard at Litleport in the Isle of Elie and there came in three of the Tachers of the baptised people the chief of them was one Iohn Ray of Wickombruck in Suffolk and he came as he said with a message and that was to excommunicate two persons that was there namely Samuel Cater and Ezekiel Cater who had formerly been Elders amongst them out of their society whenas they was come out of their society before and owned the substance and denied their form and shadow without their casting out but thou Ray to uphold thy form did there disorderly run into words in thy own wil and then went away and would not stay to prove what thou had done but said thou was to be at the Steeplehouse shortly so as I was moved I spoke unto the people there present and after a while when I had spoken what was given me of the Lord to speak I passed into the town and there I hearing how the Baptist was railing on the truth in the Steeple-house I passed to the Steeplehouse with some friends that had formerly society been of their society and when I came there I found thee Iohn Ray set up in the seat of the Pharisee the chiefest place in the ASSEMBLY speaking a Divination of thy owne braine and not from the mouth of the Lord as thou confessed openly amongst the people that none in these dayes had any open vision or heard God speak immediately and here thou wast an open lyar amongst the people but here thou barred thy self from the same Spirit that spoke in the Prophets and Apostles and therefore art a deceiver for he that hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of his and so thou measured others by thy self but I and hundreds more of the Children of light Rom. 8.9 do witness thee to be a lyar and deceiver in these dayes who comes not in the name of the Lord but in thy own name therefore the world receives thee but here out of thy own mouth thou art judged and condemned out of the new Covenant for there God himself is teacher and thou that never heard him speak immediatly Iohn 6.45 and yet comes to preach his word thou art a stranger unto God and a blind guide a deceiver and a false Prophet who runs and the Lord never sent thee therefore thou profits not the people at all but art a thiefe and steals the words of the Prophets Christ and his Apostles and adds a divination of thy own Braine and so feeds the people with notions and ayry knowledg Mat. 23.14 and casting the Childrens bread unto dogs but the greater is thy condemnation who for a pretence makes longs prayers and wrests and perverts the Scripture to thy own destruction but think not that thou shalt be heard for thy much babling for the hand of the Lord is against thee And there in the seat of the Pharisee thou Ray had taken a text of the Apostles words and added thy own meanings uses applications and divinations thou merchant of Babylon and diviner where hast thou any such example from the Prophets or Apostles 2 Pet. 1.21 Acts 2.4 Acts 4.8 they spoke from the mouth of the Lord and as they was moved by the Holy Ghost and as the Spirit gave them utterance and they spoke with power and authority and not as the Scribes but thou dost speak in the wisdome of the World like as the Scribes and Pharises and Priests amongst whom I number thee and here thou art shut from the Apostles and their practise with thy carnall meanings uses applications and divinations and this was thy text which thou had stoln out of the Apostles writings which was writ unto the church and thou applyed them unto the world and said Text. 2 Pet. 2.0 21 22. For if after they have escaped the polutions of the world through the knowledg of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ they are again intangled therein and overcome the latter end is worse than the beginning c. and from this thou raised thy Uses Applications and dark Meanings whenas neither thou nor any there which belonged to thee or owned thee that had ever escaped the polutions of the world or ever had come to the knowledg of Christ but are stil in darkness and blindness in their sins and corruptions in covetousness in pride and wantonness in lightness in wrath and in anger and maliciousness in back-biting in slandering and false accusing in railing and cursed speaking in lying and blaspheming only it may be have passed through the water 1 Pet. 3.21 but it is not the washing away the filth of the flesh but here both thou and they are stil and these are the polutions of the world but they that know and witness Iesus Christ come in the flesh witness the washing away those sins and polutions and thus thou wrests and perverts the Scripture to thy own destruction and then thou went on dreaming and flattering and daubing up the people with untempred morter saying the Lord saith when he never spoke to thee and then thou run on rayling behind the back of people that was not there as thou often said thou spoke it of none there and thus thou uttered forth thy folly and it is like thou might be-lie those whom thou spoke of for I heard the utter forth many open lies and then thou run on to thy water baptisme to maintain it an Ordinance of Christ and thou brought this Scripture in the six of Romans which the Apostle spoke to the Church Rom. 6.3 2 Cor. 5.17 Know you not that so many of you as were baptised into Iesus Christ was

is that art afraid it should weary peoples patience to hear it if it was of God it would not be wearisome to any thing of God to hear it but it was not of God therefore I am sure it was wearisome and burdensome to the Spirit of God and here thou art shut out with thy frothy Stuff and vain Complements to be a deceiver and then thou said If you please I will speak more and thus thou markes out thy selfe for a Man-pleaser and the Apostle said If I yet pleased men I should not be a servant of Christ Now read thy self where thou art Gal. 1.10 who art yet a man-pleaser who comes with such inticing words of mens wisdome so that the Preaching of the CROSS to thee is foolishness and the Prophets who had the Spirit of the LORD and the Word of the LORD they spoke whether they would heare or forbeare and here thou art shut out both from the Spirit of GOD and the Word of GOD which is one who art a Man-pleaser and if not a Servant of CHRIST then a Servant of the DEVILL and so I marke thee out that all may know thee and no longer bee deceived by thee with the shadow instead of the substance with thy inticing words of Mens wisdome and thou told the people thou spoke to the Reason of Man when as all men in the fall their Reason is corrupted and the naturall Man receives not the things of GOD 1. Cor. 2.14 Ier. 10.14 for Man by nature is worse then a Beast and there art thou who art preaching to the corrupt Reason of MAN in the FALL to judge of thy corrupt stuffe for I know there was none there that owned thee but such like but the Message of PAVL was to turne Peoples mindes from Darkness to Light but thou strive to draw Peoples mindes from the Light within Act. 26.18 to the Dead LETTER without them telling them that was the LIGHT and that was the WORD and so thou bewitched them with thy Lying Divinations and bid them search that and read often that and cleave unto that but I say they that read that and not by the light within them read a parable and it is unto them as a book sealed though they may by their carnall wisdome add their own meanings but that must be shut out of the Scripture 2 Pet. 3.16 for such are unlearned and unfruitfull in the word and so wrests the Scripture to their own destruction but by this know that I go not about to draw men from reading the Scripture so that they read with this single eye the Light which gave it forth so shal they that read understand but to thee this is a mystery and therefore thou went about to deny Christ in man and God in man by way of derision to those that witnessed forth Christ within God within thou saith that he meant he was in them by his words and thou brought this Scripture if you abide in me and my words abide in you ye shall ask what you will and it shall be done unto you in this place thou Serpent he meant as he spoke but Paul witnessed Christ within and said They that could not witness Christ within was Reprobates and so art thou who denies Christ come in the flesh and Paul preached Christ within the hope of glory Gal. 2.20 2 Cor. 13 5. Col. 1.26 27. the ministry which had been hid and so it seems is stil from thee therefore to thee this preaching is foolishness and as fancies and whimsies but unto us that are saved Christ the power of God and the wisdome of God by which thy folly and thy ignorance of Christ is here made manifest and that thou never escaped the polutions of the world by the knowledg of Christ who denies him as he is known to all who have escaped the polutions of the world by the knowledg of him and they that thus know him not 2 Coo. 13.5 are in the reprobation here art thou a Minister of Antichrist who denies Christ come in the flesh and then thou went on with thy deluding spirit pressing the wicked to pray yea there was many there present of the people of the world besides thy own company whom both thou and thy company counts as heathen yet thou pressed them much to pray and to take unto them words and pray whenas the Scripture saith The prayers of the wicked are abominable and thus thou did that which was abominable in the sight of God Pro. 15.8 in praying thy self and teaching the wicked to pray and to steal other mens words and pray for neither you nor they have any words but what you steal out of the Scripture for thou hast shut thy self from that by which the Apostles preached therefore thou thus runs into confusion and thou told the people of deceivers and nominated them to be such as denyed Baptisme and Ordinances of Christ and the Scripture and the Resurrection of the Dead and eternall judgment so when thou had done thy divination and thy formal prayer I stood up and claimed the order of the true Church that all might speak one by one and if any thing was revealed to him that stands by let the first hold his peace and then like Cain thy countenance fel thou being struck with guilt in thy conscience 2 Cor. 14.30 31 and fear surprised the heart of the hypocrite and thou was shufling away but I bid the stand for said I thou art a deceiver as I shall prove the one before all the people therefore stand to maintain what thou hast said but said I unto the people the Prophets and Apostles and the holy men of God who spoke forth the Scriptures they spoke from the infallible spirit of God as they was acted guided and moved thereby but all who comes with their words and pretending to preach and not from the same infallible Spirit such are deceivers of which this man is one who stands here in the seat of the Pharisee and he being smitten with guilt fetled to be gone and several would have stopped him but he said he would be gone unlese they kept him in by violence and I said unto the people know this that these things wherewith he marks out deceivers I own so that I am none of those for the Scripture I own and the true Baptism of Christ I own the Resurrection from the Dead I own and eternal judgment upon the wicked I own so that I am none of those which he marked out but this man is a deceiver and so I shall prove him if he will stay but thou Ray was ashamed of thy Ministry and durst not stand to what thou had said but plainly like a hireling fled from thy stage and left thy Flock like a cowardly Serpent I never knew Baptist so routed out of a Pulpet but the Independants joyned with him and the Priests rude multitude stood up for him and several

talking foolish jesting and evil communication and to be short stil alive in the worlds nature strangers to the holy God and so under deaths dominion and here I comprehend all forms sects judgements and opinions by the light which slayes Death and takes away its Dominion unto its selfe to whom it belongs and doth see them and judge them to be out of the light in Darkness and so in confusion one clashing against another with their judgements and opinions and here is the disputes of this world and the one cries Lo here is Christ in this form and another cries so here is Christ in this form and none else when as Christ is within his Saints and theirs is a false Christ which they have set up in their imaginations and here is the false Prophets and false Christs that are gone out into the world who have deceived many And hereis the ground of forms a setting up a likeness of a thing a figure or image of a thing Reve. 13. but not the thing it selfe and here is the beast and the image of the beast which all the world worships and wonders after even Satan as an Angel of light in his several shapes forms and likenesses to deceive the simple and here is the form without the life and power and here is the building upon a sandy foundation which all must come down Luk 6.49 Mat. 19.20 who here the words and talk of the words and are sayers of the words and hear is him that saith he hath kept the commandments and Ordinances and yet his heart from God after other lovers who is searched and found out by Christ the Light and here is the Spirituall Babel with its foundation and Babels building and Babels builders and here is the Image whose head is gold whose breast is silver and thighes of brass Dan. 2. and legs of iron and feet part iron and part clay but now is he come and made manifest who strikes at feet of Image who is called the stone cut out of mountaine without hands even Jesus Christ the son of God now after all this profession of his name and of faith in him but now he findes none in the earth who hath revealed himself in the poor despised ones of the world and those which have been counted the blind and ignorant and as you have read the poor receive the Gospel the world was made by him but the world knew him not he came unto his own and his own received him not Iohn 1. Acts 2.16 17 18 19. but as many as receives him to them he gives power to become the Sons of God to whom that promise is fulfilled which was promised in the dayes of old by the father that in the last dayes he would poure forth his Spirit upon all flesh and his sons and daughters should prophesie and the young men see visions and if you wil receive it this is the Elias which was for to come in the Spirit as he came in the flesh even the life and power of what hath been so long professed which the Lord hath now manifested in his servants and handmaidens whom he hath now sent forth abroad Mat. 22.2 3. freely to call into the Supper of the Lord even the marriage of the Lamb and to preach his name no more after the flesh but after the Spirit and to preach him within the hope of glory the Ministry which hath been hid from ages and generations and they that will be his disciples must deny themselves and take up his Cross and follow him through evil report and good report through persecution and through death and who are faithful until death must receive a Crown of life and reigne with him for evermore in his Kingdome of which there is no end neither beginning over which he is made heire and King blessed be Jehovah sing Haelalujah to his name all ye that know him And now that his name is spreading abroad and his message declaring by the mouth of his faithful messengers those who have long talked of his name and so long professed his name knows him not neither believes on him but are found hypocrites and dissemblers and blind leaders of the blind whited walls and painted Sepulchers but within full of uncleanness hypocrisie and deceit even the generation of vipers and Serpents and those will not receive the message but makes light of it and saith they believe on a Christ at Jerusalem and now in the heavens far off they know not where and they cry he hath done all for us and hath satisfied for our sins and they shal not be imputed to us say they and they cry out this is a new Light and a strange Light and we know not whence it is but they say they wil keep to the old Rule the Scriptures which they call the word of God and the old way though they be meer strangers to the life of the Scriptures but it is that the Scripture might be fulfilled upon them as Christ saith for judgemet am I come into the world that they which see not might see Iohn 9.39 and that they which see might be made blind as their forefathers professed Abraham and Moses and said we know that God spake unto Moses but as for this fellow we know not whence he is Iohn 9.29 and they said God was their Father but Jesus Christ answered them and said Iohn 8. If ye were Abrahams children ye would do the works of Abraham and he also said If God were your Father then would you love me for I proceeded forth and came from him but saith he ye are of your Father the Devill and his works you do and will do and thus are the Pharisaicall professors of these times marked out to be in the steps of their fore-fathers for this is the same Christ that suffered at Ierusalem but they are blind and cannot see neither indeed do believe the Scripture nor walk according to it but are in the old and broad way of the world wherein their fore-fathers walked and led many to destruction but if these did believe the Scripture they would believe on this light which is come into the world which the Scripture bares testimony of even the Spirit of truth which the world cannot receive and some of them scoff and scorn and revile reproach and slander and rayle at the messengers of Truth and some strike them and stone them and buffer them and stock them and whip them and imprison them and despitefully use them yet they are made able through the power of him that hath sent them for to go on in boldness Mat. 22.4 5 6. but those persecutors are not found worthy Therefore the Lord wil send forth his Armies and destroy these murderers and burn up their City and these are they that have professed to be his near kindred friends and acquaintance but now are found strangers who prophesied in his name and in his name done

Disciples of Christ and there have stumbled and cryed out it is hard and straight and goes away sorrowfull I know this is witnessed and answered in many consciences for here every mans faith and works comes to the tryall and so to some the preaching of the Cross is foolishness and to some a stumbling-block but unto them that believe and take it up it is witnessed the power of God unto salvation and such rejoyces in it with Paul who are crucified to the world and the world to them upon whom the ends of the world are come but it would be an easie thing to the flesh if that was all 1 Cor. 10.11 to turn out of one profession into another and out of one form and judgement into another but the way to life is through death And the Legs of the Image which is of Iron is the Beast or the power of the Beast upon which these stand where lies their strength and the feet of the Image which is part of Iron and part of Clay are the Priests and Pharises joyned to the powers of the earth which upholds them for but for that as I said before they are the weakest of all forms and so they are the part of clay and the power that upholds them is that part of Iron which is the strongest of the mettalls and the watcher or the stone cut out of the mountain without hands which strikes at the feet of the Image is the King of righteousness Rev. 19.11 12 13 c. Rev. 17.12 13 14. even he that rides upon the white horse out of whose mouth goes a sharp sword whose name is called the word of God who comes to strike at the powers of the earth even the Kings of the earth who have given their power unto the Beast and joyne in war against the Lamb but the Lamb shall overcome and he will overturn all untill it come into his hand whose own it is Rev. 19.20 Rev. 21.1 and the Beast and the false Prophet that hath thus deceived the nations and all that receive the mark of the Beast and worship his Image shall be taken and cast into the lake that burneth for ever which was of old prepared for them and he wil create new heavens and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness where there shal not be war any more but he shall reigne in peace with his Saints for evermore Oh blessed are all they that fight in this Banner and here lay down their lives they shall take them up again with an everlasting Crown and reigne for evermore singing Halelujah to their king to whom be all praise honour power dominion and thanks for evermore Amen And thus shall this great Image be broken to pieces by the Stone cut out of the mountain without hands which wil become a heavy mountain even a burdensome stone to all nations but upon this Mountain shall the true Church stand as a City set on a Hill Mat. 5.14 that cannot be hid and thus I have laid down the ground and end of all sects forms and professions with a blow to this great Image with a weapon which is not carnall but spirituall he that can receive it let him And now concerning the CHURCH which is now gathering and redeeming not by the wil of man nor by the wisdome of many but by the wil and power and spirit of God which according unto his promise he hath poured down upon his Sons and Daughters now in these latter dayes by which we are carried abroad in the power of the Almighty now to declare abroad his powerfull Truth which the Lord hath decreed shall prevail upon the hearts of the people which is glad tydings of great joy unto them that receive it but unto the stubborn and stiff-necked and rebellious tydings of wo and misery and though the messengers of the Gospell are by some rejected reviled reproached scoffed and scorned stocked stoned and imprisoned and despitefully used slandered and abused yet nevertheless blessed be the name of the Lord there are some found worthy and do receive with much joy the messengers of the Gospel Rom. 10.15 so that they know how beautifull are the feet of those that bring glad tydings to the reviving the just witness for God and raising up to life the dead and so the living comes to know and praise the Lord and so the just comes to reign and the wicked comes to be judged and the minde comes to be turned from the darkness to the light to which we do preach in every creature and to the same are made manifest and known to them who do like to retain it in their mindes and from whence we come and the testimony which we do declare but they that do not receive it to them we are not known and therefore are by them esteemed as deceivers and deluders vagabonds and wanderers and the like yet at all this we do not wonder for we read the servant is not greater than his lord for if they have called the Master of the House Belzebub how much more those of his houshould and if they had known him Mat. 10.24 25 they would not have crucified the Lord of glory yet nevertheless we have a witness in every Conscience both in them that believe and in them that perish unto which we do clear our consciences and leave all without excuse by the same which wil answer for us in the mighty day though to the condemnation of those that hate it wherein we have our great joy above all our sufferings but as many as receives this to them he gives Power to bccome the Sons of God and those are they who are led and guided by the one spirit of Truth which the world cannot receive even the Comforter of whom you have heard should come by which they are seperated out of the world redeemed out of the rudiments polutions therof their fashions their customes their words their ways their manners their breeding their fellowip love and friendship their honor and glory and their worship and so are become strangers to the world and so are hated of the world because they are not of the world and the enmity stands betwixt the two seeds but while they was of the world the world loved them but now they are gathered out of the world and seperated from the world and testifies against the world both in words and actions therefore the enmity is raised in the world against the righteous seed and those are they upon whom the ends of the world are come to whom it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdome though to the world in Parables and those are they that are come with a mighty arm and power to turn the world upside down whom the Lord hath gathered and is a gathering out of the world by his owne Spirit of Truth and Love to walk in the way of Truth even the way of Holiness where the Ransomed of the Lord

doe walk and serve and worship him in spirit and in truth and such is the Father seeking to worship him Iohn 4.23 24 in whom he is in doing his own ork even to destroy the old Creation and create new Heavens and new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness and those are they that are the new creatures in whom this new work is witnessed in whom the Father hath manifested his Son that in the likeness of sinful flesh he might condemn sin in the flesh and to bind the strong man and cast him out of his house and spoyl his goods and so to destroy the works of the Devil and to cut down the Man of Sin even that son of perdition who is exalted above all that is called GOD sitting in the Temple of God as God and saith he is God this is he by whom the world is deceived who is the God of the world even the Prince of Darkness who rules in all the Children of Disobedience and so said Iohn in the light the whole world lies in wickedness and unto this doth Christ come with a sword for to make war with him and to take and bind him and cast him into utter darkness and so to take his Kingdom from him and to rule himself in righteousness And this is the King of the SAINTS who is now come to redeem unto himself a pure people and to wash them and clense them from their sinnes by his BLOOD and so to wash away all filthiness both of Flesh and Spirit and this is the Baptism by which they are received into his Church and Faith and here is the effect of his BLOOD wrought in MAN and thus he doth and will manifest his mighty power to purifie and clense and make Man a fit Temple for himself to dwell in and thus is GOD with us manifested in Flesh and thus are the Saints Bodies made the TEMPLES of the HOLY GHOST and thus is the word of Life and Reconciliation witnessed to the raising up the Soul to Life and reconciling the Soul to GOD and those are they that are begotten and born again of the Immortal Word which dwelleth and abideth for ever and here is the Houshold of God the Houshold of Faith and the Houshold of Love 1 Iohn 1.1 who speak the things which they have heard and seen and tasted of the good Word of Life which was in the beginning and those are the children of Light who are gathered out of the darke Forms Judgments and Opinions into the life and power of godliness to walk in the Light of Life wherein they are gathered and united by the one Spirit of Love and Life into one body of which Christ is head and here is the true Church which the Lord is a gathering and washing and cleansing and purifying by his Spirit that he may redeem unto himself a pure Church not having spot or wrinckle or any such thing whose insides are washed and made clean through the Word Iohn 15. by which they are reconciled into the love and union which springs from the Life of God and here is the Vine and the Branches and here is the communion of the Church all feeding upon one Bread all drinking upon one cup this is Christ the Life of the Saints and as many as are baptized into this Church partake of this communion and those are they which have denied themselves and have borne the Cross of Christ by which they are crucified to the world and the world to them who are gathered into one Covenant of Life where all are Fellow-Servants under one MASTER who serve one another in love and meeknesse and here is the true Humility in the HEART wrought and here is the true washing of feet without Hypocrisie which some are imitating without for LIFE but falls short for the heart the Lord requires And thus is the Church of Christ gathered by one spirit and by the same circumcised and baptised into one Light and Life and Power where all dwell as MEMBERS of one BODY of which CHRIST is the HEAD And here is the blessed Union and Communion in one and here God is worshipped in Spirit and in Truth and as CHRIST is spiritual so is his Body and so is his Ordinances and here are the true Christians not those that onely have the Notion of those things but they that witness and possess this in Life and they that believe hath the witness within themselves and they that believe have passed from death unto life and the life which they now live in is by faith in the Son of God which faith is without respect of persons who are the new creatures who are in Christ Jesus to whom there is no condemnation who walk not after the FLESH but after the SPIRIT Gal. 5.23 for against such there is no LAW for they are translated out of that NATURE for which the LAW was added and are set free by the Law of the Spirit of Life and are made partakers of the Divine nature of Christ Rom. 8.2 1 Iohn 4.17 by which they are made Christians and therefore saith Iohn as he is so are we in this prasent world and such now witnesses the effect of the blood of Christ wrought within them and the end of his coming and the benefit of his Death who are dead with him and risen through the death of the Cross and these are they that have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Son of God within them Christ within the hope of Glory or else no hope of Glory for they that cannot witness him so 2 Cor. 13.5 Iohn 17.23 are in the Reprobation so saith the Apostle and here is the Son in the Saints and the Father in the Son and thus are all made perfect in one and here is the true Church where there is but one Teacher one Lord one Faith one Baptisme one Light one Life and one way one Shepherd and one Sheepfold and one Priest over the houshold of God and one hope and one language one family and one God and father of all and they that cannot witness this are Strangers to Christ and Strangers to his Cross and Strangers to the Commonwealth of Israel And this is the work which the Lord now hath begun and is carrying on by a strong arm and mighty power to redeem unto himselfe a pure Church and blessed are they that hearken unto his voyce Here all you Formalists Imitators and selfe-acters are shut out here all you proud ones are shut out here all you lustful ones fleshly ones and carnal ones are shut out and all you that are conformed like unto the world in their fashions in their customes in their words in their ways in their worships and traditions in their love and in their fellowship who are seeking the glory and honor and riches of this world you are the children of this World under the Dominion of the GOD of the WORLD whose Kingdom is

of this World Here all you are shut out who live at ease in your pleasures and live want only upon the earth in the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye Iames 5.5.6 and the pride of life you are the Children of Babylon you kill the just and he lies slain in the streets but here you all are shut out of the new Covenant of Life in the dark world under deaths dominion of what profession and judgment soever Alians and Strangers to the Covenant of Promise for they that are not with us are against us and our union and society is in the light of life Mat. 12.30 but you must all suffer the death of the Cross to the life which you now live in before you can witness this Redemption for those that live with Christ are crucified with him therefore so it is they that wil take up life must first lay down life for the way to life is through death therefore you must be stripped of all your old covers naked and bare that your deceit and shame may appear which you have so long covered with your own righteousness but now you must suffer the shame of the Cross if you would have part in Christ and all your old wisdome knowledg and notions which you have gotten into your comprehensions by your conceivings of the Scripture Letter wherin hath bin your life and pride and exaltation must all come to the death of the Cross that no flesh should glory in his presence but I say unto all you Professors Formalists Notionists and Disputers and Wise ones of this World if you will not take up and imbrace this Cross Publicans and Harlots shall enter the Kingdome before you therefore not many mighty nor many noble nor many wise after the flesh are called but he hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise 1 Cor. 25.26 to the end and the weak to confound those that are mighty that no FLESH should glory in his PRESENCE but CHRIST is made over unto us Wisdome Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption that they which glory might glory in the Lord and this I witness in my measure the things which I have seen and heard and felt and tasted of the good Word of Life which was in the beginning the same do I declare and am known and read by the children of Light And now I shall proceed to severall passages that I have had with the people called Baptists in seveverall meetings that their deceit and delusion may be laid open to the simple hearted Upon the thirtieth day of the first Month called March in the yeare 1655. I was atone Ashens house in Fenstanten in Huntingtonshire where I was freely declaring the Truth of God to the people that came there together that day as I was taught and moved by the Spirit of Truth by which the holy men of God spoke forth the Scripture as they was moved and there came severall of the people called Baptists into the Roome amongst us amongst whom was one of their Teachers called Richard Elligood who after a while stood up in his wil and wisdome to accuse me and said that I said that God did not respect any forms and yet saith he you use the form and so use that which God hath no respect to but his first words was Sir if you please I wil speak something to what you have said to which I made answer here needs no complements and then he runs on as aforesaid to which accusation I replyed was false and bid him prove what form I used and he said the Letter and I replyed he that takes the Letter to talk of without the life and power such sets up a Form and makes a Form but this would not satisfie his filthy wisdome which darkned his understanding but because I spoke words which are mentioned in the Scripture by the same spirit that spoke forth the Scripture by which I challenge the Scripture from him and all such who have gotten it to talk of but denies the life and are strangers to the life and power therefore with his contrary spirit tasked me with a Form which by his logick and deceitfull art would have proved but could not but his deceit was laid open to the people and many declared against him for a form is this as I said before the likeness of a thing but not the thing it self as they have the likeness of a Church which they have imagined from the Letter with their Elders Pastors and Teachers but not the Church it selfe and so they imitate the Scriptures but live not in the life of them that spoke forth the Scriptures neither are acted or guided by the same spirit that gave forth the Scriptures and so wants the life and power and those are the formalists that makes forms and likenesses to deceive the simple as the devil hath the form of an Angell of Light but not the life and power who appears to rule in those formalists and selfe-actors but the day doth make him manifest and therefore he rages and then this Elligood denyed that I had the same spirit that gave forth the Scripture and he said the Spirit might be tryed by the Letter for he said many false Spirits are entred into the world and I asked him by what did the Apostle know that false spirits were gon out into the world and he replyed and said by the Spirit of God then I replyed and said if by the Spirit of God the Apostle knew that there was many false spirits gone out into the world then by the Spirit of God he tryed false Spirits and knew false spirits from the true and here his deceit was laid open to the people and he judged out of his own mouth to be a lyar and to be guided by a false spirit who would try the living by the dead and again he said that one Spirit could not try another for by that judgments the evil Spirits might try the good Spirits to which I replyed by the Spirit of God all other spirits are tryed and also that by the Light darkness is discovered but Darkness cannot comprehend the Light neither discover the Light and here again his blindness and ignorance and deceit was much discovered to the people although he fed himself and would have shufled it off by his consequences and filthy logick but it the more laid open his deceit and presently the said Elligood was found with another lye in his mouth for he said that I said the thing should be proved by every mans spirit which was a very lye for I said that the baptisme of the spirit was the substance of the outward baptisme the which he denyed and bid me prove it and I said I spoke to the witness in every mans conscience which his dark mind could not comprehend but with his dark mind wrested my words and therefore said that I said it was witnessed by every mans spirit but his

spirit was a lying-spirit there tryed and made manifest to the people and his blasphemy against the Spirit of God Isa 5.20 in calling truth error and error truth and putting Darkness for Light and Light for Darkness because the God of the world hath blinded his eye and many witnessed against him for his filthy Spirit was odious to many of the hearers then afterward he again said that I was a deceiver and his proofe was that I was not obedient to the command of Christ to be baptised and I told him I was baptized but he said with water and he said that were a command of Christ to be baptised with water and I bid him show me that Scripture but he could not Acts 10.47 48 but brought a Scripture in the Acts where the Apostle commanded some to be baptised and this by his filthy logick and consequences he would have made a command of Christ but he could not decevie the Light which did him try and make him manifest to the shame of his profession but he could not bring one Scripture to prove it to be a command of Christ to baptize with water and then he shuffled to that Scripture where the Apostle said Be ye followers of us even as we are followers of Christ and then he said Christ was baptised but he confessed it was to fulfil all righteousness and I said he was also circumcised and he said that was not for example then not the Baptism for both was to fulfil all righteousness to which end he the substance came but Christ himself baptised not with water neither do they read that the Apostles was baptized with water then who is their example and how do they follow the Apostles in that seeing they are baptised and the Apostles was not then he fled from that being there routed and said they might be Disciples before they could take up the cross of Christ and I replyed with Christs words that they might take up his cross before they could be his Disciples which he denied and said that wicked men upon that account might take up the cross of Christ and that Christ required wicked men to take up his Cross and I said it was so he did them require so to do for by taking up his cross they come to deny their wickedness for they that bear his cross live not in wickedness but this Elligood said that wicked men could not take up his cross for he said reproaches and outward sufferings was the cross of Christ for his names sake but this was not the cross by which PAVL was crucified to the world and the world to him and saith PAVL where hee was speaking concerning wickedness and unrighteous ones to the Corinthians Such were some of you but you are now cleansed c. 1 Cor. 6.9.10 11. And here wicked ones and unrighteous ones tooke up his CROSS which to them was the Power of GOD unto Salvation though to the GREEKS foolishnesse and to the JEWES a stumbling Blocke amongst whom this ELLIGOOD is found who is a Stranger to the CROSS of CHRIST who saith Reproaches and outward sufferings is the CROSS of CHRIST when as the CROSS of CHRIST makes Disciples and they must bee Disciples before they can suffer Reproaches or Persecution for the Name of CHRIST and must depart from iniquity before they bee a Prey to the World for CHRISTS sake for the World loves its owne and they that take up the CROSS doe depart from iniquity which is before Reproaches or Persecution is suffered for the Name of CHRIST And here ELLIGOOD is found the Lyar who said Wicked men was not called to take up the Cross of CHRIST when as all are wicked before they take up this Cross and here ELLIGOOD is found to bee no Disciple of CHRIST who is such a Stranger to the Cross of CHRIST who is a Lyar and so are not the Disciples of CHRIST for the Lyar is of the DEVILL and therefore is ELLIGOOD Then I knowing him to be one of the Baptists Teacher I took out some queries which not long before I had sent them but no answer to them had I received and I would have read them openly that the people might have heard and also he that was one of their Teachers but as I was reading he not having power over his own wil could not bridle his tongue but disorderly run into many words so that the people could not understand and I spoke to him for it and he said he had not time to stay and further said that he was not of the society of these Baptists at Fenstanton and yet he came with them and from them and then I replyed that he owned them to be the Church of God and this he did and then if he was not of their society he was shut out of the Church and then he would have shufled off with his consequences and said he dwelt far off and then I replyed with the Apostles words though absent in body yet present in spirit and the multitude that believed was of one heart and mind and here was the Society of the Saints Acts 4.32 and he being out of this society is shut out of the Church and then he would have made it have stood by his logick which only is to make a false thing seem true but it the more laid open his deceitful heart and shame to the hearers who severally witnessed against him to speak nothing but deceit and then saith he you call the Apostles words deceit because he had often stolne the Apostles words to make his deceit seem truth by covering it with the Apostles words and this is a more subtile deceit and then in his wil he called me deceiver the which he was to prove and all the people was silent and there he uttered severall lies and laid open himself to be the deceiver as I had told h●m in going about to prove me a deceiver he would the more lay open his own deceit and prove himself to be the deceiver and the people did plainly see it so and witnessed with me against him for he did so utter forth his folly and deceit that he made himself odious to many that was there and at last he shufled away under pretence he had far to go but the judgments of God he cannot escape for his damnation slumbreth not who is an opposer of the truth of God Then there was one Phillips an old man of the Baptised Party in another Roome who in scorn and wrath stood up and said they knew the first Principle of Religion before I was born because one of my Quaeries to them was what is the first Principle of Religion so I replyed to the old man if they knew it they should have answered and then presently as he was running on in many words he swore as he lived and breathed and Christ saith Sweare not at all and here he was found not come to the first Principle of Religion

Mat. 5.34 but out of the Doctrine of Chirst and so hath not God so I told him of his swearing and he would have shufled it off but he could not 2 Iobn 9. and I told him He that seems to be Religious and brideleth not his tongue his Religion is vain and therefore he might own his Religoin to be vain who could not bridle his tongue and then in his wil he shufled off and said he would not confess his sin to me Iam. 1.26 for I could not forgive sin in scorn he spoke then I said wo unto him that hides his sin and covers his iniquity but he shufled away in much confusion of face as they wil all appear as by the Light they come to be searched and tryed their coverings wil be found too narrow and their nakedness will appear to their great shame and confusion of face and they will be made to bow to the truth and lay down their Crowns at the feet of Iesus for he is risen and reigns in his Saints to whom the Nations must bow and every tongue confess to their condemnation who do oppose him but here now by the single eye you may see the emptiness of these forms and what a blind hypocrisie this is of them to wash the outside but leaves the inside full of uncleanness and so the inside defiles the outside A Copy of the Queries which was sent to the Baptised people in Fenstanton with some more added for them or any whom they do concern to answer Severall queries to you which be called Baptists by your Teachers to be answered Querie 1. VVHat is the first Principle of Religion and whether to it you be come yea or nay 2. VVhat is the bridle of the tongue and whether to it you be come yea or nay 3. VVhat is the Church in God and whether to it you be come yea or nay 4. VVhat is the order in the Church and whether to it you be come yea or nay 5. VVhat is the Baptisme into the Church and whether to it you be come yea or nay 6. VVhether you will own the Baptisme of the Spirit or the Baptisme of water and which you will deny seeing the Scripture saith The Baptisme is but one Eph. 4 5. 7. And where Christ ever commanded water Baptisme 8. VVhy did the Apostles Baptise with water and why do you baptise with water and where and when and by what were you commanded and where was any of the twelve Apostles baptised with water 9. And whether you do it because the Apostles did it yea or nay 10. VVhat is the Faith of our Lord Iesus Christ and whether to it you be come yea or nay 11. VVhether your Faith purifie your Hearts yea or nay 12. And whether you commit sin yea or nay 13. How would you know there is a Christ but by the Scripture and how do you witness the Scripture is truth 14. And what is the ground of your faith 15. VVhat is the redemption and whether to it you be come yea or nay 16. VVat is the Communion of the Saints and wherein it stands and whether to it you be come yea or nay 17. And whether you that breaks bread do discern the Lords body yea or nay 18. VVhat was their rule and guide that spoke forth the Scripture 19. VVhether you have the same infallible Spirit that gave forth the Scripture 20. VVhether is the Scripture your rule and guide or the spirit that gave it forth 21. VVhether they that are guided by the Spirit that gave it forth live not in the life thereof yea or nay 22. VVhether the life of the Scripture be perfect yea or nay 23. And whether you are or think to be made perfect while you are upon the earth yea or nay Or where do you think to be made perfect if not upon the earth 24. And what is the life and power of godliness and whether in it you dwell who have a form yea or nay 25. VVhether you be washed and cleansed by the blood of the Lord Iesus and the spirit of our God as the true Church was yea or nay 26. VVhether you have put off the old man and put on the new as the true Church did yea or nay and what is the new man 27. And whether you have put off the image of the earthly and put on the image of the heavenly and how are they known the one from the other 28. VVhether you be not conformed like unto the world so long as you follow their customes and fashions 29. VVhether you be come that you need no man to teach you as the true Church was yea or nay 30. VVhat is the cross whereby Paul was crucified and whether to it you be come yea or nay 31. What is the watcher that strikes at the feet of the Image and whether to it you be come yea or nay 32. What is the word and what is the death that hath passed over all men even over those that had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression and whether this death you ever passed 33. Whether you have passed from death to life yea or nay 34. Where and when and how received you the command and power to deliver any soul up to Satan and where is that Satan you deliver it up to 35. What is the tree of life and what is the tree of Knowledge and whether upon it you do not feed and what is the flaming sword that is set to keepe from the tree of life and whether it you ever passed yea or nay 36. What is the beast which all the world wonders after and worships and what is the worship of the beast and whether any worships the only true God but the true church and what is the worship in this church 37. What are you Ministers of and what do you minister unto and what is the end of your ministry 38. And by what do you try the Spirits and by what did the Prophets and Apostles try the spirits and whether yours is the same tryer of Spirits as theirs was yea or nay 39. What is the faith of the Saint and what is the faith of the hypocrite and how are they known the one from the other 40. How and by what was you called to the ministry which you profess 41. What is the Gospel which you profess and what is the light of the Gospell which the infidel cannot see and what is an infidel and what is the eye which the God of the world blindes in the infidel 42. VVhat is the state and condition of the Iew inwardly whose praise is not of man but of God and wherein doth he differ from the Iew outwardly 43. VVhat is the new Csvenant and where any in the New Covenant paid Tythes and why do you cry against the Priests and their Tythes and their worship and yet upholds them by paying them Tythes and helping to maintain their places of worship and whether this be

according to their form with their stoln words Reply Now for the truths sake for which thou John Ray hast cast us out of your society we shall hereby cleare our selves from what is or may be cast upon us in this matter by thee John Ray and the rest of thy society whom we know to be most bitter slanderers of the truth This we deny that ever we was Elders in the church of Christ you made us Elders in your church who call your selves jews and are not but the Synagogue of Satan out of which you have cast us but not before we forsaked you we by the light of Iesus Christ through the love of God seeing both you and we setting our selves of acting and imitating the Apostles in our wils with a blind zeal for life but strangers to the life and power neither could witness the same infallible spirit as they had as you know we all confessed and therefore we had nothing but what we got into our brains of their words and so got a notion with adding to our own imaginations of them and wresting the same with our fallible spirits for we durst not say it was infallible as you also confessed your selves then it must needs be fallible for there are but two kindes of SPIRITS and if not the INFALLIBLE then the fallible and though we did the very same things and spoke the same words and not from the same Spirit it was all false and as nothing as they that swore God lived swore falsely for they that have not the Spirit of Christ are none of his and his spirit is infallible in the least measure and thus you are shut out in all that you can do of your selves with your formed Ordinances and this we know we was also strangers to the Cross of Christ and the Light and Life and Power of Christ which the Apostles lived in and also the one Baptisme of Christ without which none can be his Disciples so we was only jews outwardly washing the outside but within as foul as ever as you also are yet we say not but we had a zeale in the same though not according to knowledge but now the true Light is sprung in through the mighty love of God towards us so that we see the weakness of our own actings and formings in our own wils for life and now are made willing through the power of God to lay down our crowns at the feet of Iesus and to wait in what he hath given us of his Light and we have tasted of his powerful VVord through his gracious love towards us and now we have a witness vvithin our selves whenas before we knew it not but murdered it as you also do and for this you have cast us out of your society but not for fornication as he was in that place of Scripture which you imitate 1 Cor. 5. nor for making shipwrack of faith and a good conscience for we witness an increase of both but the discerning and power is wanting in you and so you do you know not what but know this we are not fallen to a looser life but to a more stricter severe life for to serve the Lord Iesus Christ but remember this that if they that believed your form to be the truth could but patter over a few words of faith and call it theirs and then according to your form they was put into the VVater and taken out again and then received into your Church and communion though no change of life or nature and this must needs be the Synagogue of Satan and this I Samuel Cater can vvitness for so have I baptised and at you I learned and you allovved of it but novv my eye is opened I do see it and do testifie against it that all I did so by I deceived them though then I confess it vvas ignorance and so vvas yours but novv you might see if you vvould therefore it shall no more be called ignorance but vvilful blindness but I knovv you vvill alledge you teach Godliness and holyness but I ansvver you run and the Lord never sent you as vve also did therefore you profit not the people at all and if you had not the VVords of Godliness and the form 2 Cor. 11.14 15 then the Ministers of Antichrist vvould not be like the Ministers of Christ but you are but I say your lives comes short of vvhat you profess for in them there is no change but they that are Earthly Minded and Covetous are so stil and your lives are in pride ambition and arrogancy puffed up vvith your vain knovvledg and vvith respect of persons and so are out of the faith of Christ and in vvrath and anger and envy and bitterness and in lying and slandering and backbiting and lust fleshliness we formerly being in the same Society do witness it now our eys are open out of which society you have cast us and praised be the Lord that vve have escaped the snares of darkness by the bright shining of his light into our dark hearts to the vvhich light do vve speak in you all by it to read your selves and judge your selves for by it are you seen and judged to be in darkness and in confusion out of the faith and society of the Saints but these things do vve not speak out of envy or Revenge but for the clearing of the Truth and our consciences from your slanderous tongues and to lay oped your deceit and vvay of delusion to the simple that they may escape the delusion vvhich vve vvas ensnared in and that so you may proceed no further vvith it that your folly might be manifested to all men as theirs vvas vvho vvithstood Moses E.C. S.C. A Copy of the most of the Queries aforesaid was given to this Ray but no Answer did he return NOw a word to all you who are stil in your own formings selfe-actings Rom. 8.7 and imitatings you are acting in that nature which is at enmity with God which is not subject to the Law of God neither can so all your formings and actings is in vain for it is not from life but from death for life but life comes from death for in the destruction of death is life obtained therefore to the light of the Lord Jesus in all your consciences take heed which is the witness for God to which I speak in you all which witnesseth for God against the secrets of your hearts which reproves you in secret for your secret actions and deeds of darkness and it will search you through and let you see what you can witness of the work of God in you hearts for all this your long and great profession and esteeming your selves of the Church and faith of Christ and Saints in Christ so if you can witness yet the earth quakes and that the earth is yet removed out of its place and mountains removed by the eye of faith and if the vail of darkness be yet rent Is not

the first man yet standing and the first Image and the Serpent head for while you are strangers to the light and your minds are from the light you are wandred and strayed in the pathes of darknes and so are the children of darkness in whom the Prince of darkness rules even the Serpent who is head in man but the promise is Gen. 3.15 the seed of the woman shal bruise the Serpents head but you are acting in your own wills and wisdome the Serpent is your head and you are not yet come to witness the first promise fulfilled but are still in the fall under the power of Darkness in the disobedience and strangers unto the Cross and so have no part in Christ in that nature for none comes to have a right in Christ but through the Cross for as many as are baptised into Christ are baptised into his death and they that are dead with him do live with him and they that are dead are freed from sin and they that are in Christ are new creatures old things are passed away and all things become new but they that are not in Christ are still in old Adam and so in the fall under the curse and under deaths dominion drove out from the presence of God into the earth and death reigns over all from Adam until Moses Rom. 5.14 of what profession soever therefore now read your selves by the light which comes from Iesus Christ and shines into your dark hearts and searcheth the heart and tryeth the reins and maketh manifest the secrets to which light I am made manifest and by it witnessed in you all and unto it I do direct your mindes for the turning of your mindes from the darkness to the light all you that have a desire to find the way of truth in what form soever that thereby you may come to see how you have been wandered and scattered in the many wayes of darkness in the land of darkness in this cloudy dark day as sheep without a shepheard being carryed about after the voyce of strangers from the shepheard of your souls therefore hearken no more without to those that cry lo here or lo there is Christ and so draws your minds without to seek for a Christ without and a redemption and a sanctification without and a righteousness without and a God withou but turn your minds within for it is to be found within if ever you find for there is no way to come unto the true knowledg of the truth or of God or of Christ but by that of God within for what is to be known of God is manifest within and the same which descended the same doth ascend and so the way to God is to be found within by the light which manifests death and slayes death do not you read the parable of the woman that had lost the piece of silver and could not find it until she had turned into the house and lighted the candle swept the house then she found that which she had lost and rejoyced with her neighbors Luke 15.8.9 Pro. 20.27 Iohn 1.4 now the Spirit of man is the candle of the Lord and his life was the light of men so turn in your minds to the light of the Lord Jesus which if you love it to bring your deeds to it wil let you see the deeds of darkness and the pathes of death and it wil also search your hearts and make manifest your inward parts and let you see what you have lost and as you love this light and likes to retain it in your minds and by it to be guided it wil lead you out of all the crooked froward waies of darkness into the light of life and so to come to find and know the voice of the true shepheard who is come to seek out and gather all his scattered sheep out from amongst the mountains and valleys and the many wayes and crooked pathes wherein they have been scattered and strayed in the land of Darkness Ier. 23.3 and to gather them together into one flock into one way into one sheepfold he alone wil be their shepheard and this you shall come to witness as you love this light and follow it it wil lead you out of your many Forms and many wayes into one way out of your own wisdome and imaginations wherein you have been building Babel and this wil strip you of all your own righteousness wherewith you have covered over your deceitful hearts and it wil lay your deceits before you and bring you to judgement and if you love this light and follow it and be willing to wait upon it out of your own wills and wisdome and imaginations and carnall thoughts reasonings and consultations and selfe-acting Iohn 1● and imatating it wil lead you to know the voice of the true shepheard within you from the voice of the stranger and so to know the precious from the precious from the vile he who saith I am the light he saith I am the good shepheard who wil bring you to know the way and the dore into the sheepfold if you do not run out in your own wills and seek to climb up another way for the way is but one and he that saith I am the light saith I am the way and I am the dore into the sheepfold so if you turn from the Light and stumble at the light you stumble at all and so fall but if you love the light and be willing to follow the light it will lead you through all and to deny your selves and to take up his Cross unto thy self and to pass through good report and evil report through persecution through death 2 Cor. ● 8 and the way wil not be grievous but joyous and so you wil come into the way and in at the dore unto the sheepfold and so into the fellowship and into the life and into the power and into the faith of the Saints where all live in union in one united by one into one body the end of all jarring and jangling divisions and disputes therefore said the Apostle where is the wise where is the disputer of this world hath not God made foolish the wisdome of this world 1 Cor. 1. therefore I do you call to come out from amongst them and be ye seperate and touch no unclean thing and I will receive you saith the Lord and I wil be unto you a father and ye shal be my Sons Daughters now you are called and this is the day of your visitation for now light is come into the world and if you like to retain it in your minds happy are you 2 Cor. 6.17 18. but if not by it you are left without excuse and it wil judge you at the last day for he that loves the light shal not walk in darkness but shal have the light of life but he that doth evil hates the light which is his condemnation Iohn 8.12 now the way is plain to all simple ones who have a desire to find it declared by a friend and witness to the eternall Truth who am called I. P. FINIS