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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60558	The blessed works of the light of God's holy and blessed spirit exalted above the works of darkness with some informations how to escape out of sin and iniquity, and a clear way discovered into the truth : with a short testimony of the cry of Babylon's merchants by reason of the day that is coming upon them / [by] Stephen Smith.	Smith, Stephen, 1623-1678.	1673 (1673)	Wing S4212; ESTC R37568	21,102	40

Righteous Testimony in Thousands that stand against them what a sad work do these blind Leaders make to hide themselves from the VVrath of the Lamb that is coming upon them looking back to the several Traditions Customs and Commands of Men from whence they derive several Establishments upon many Fleshly rotten Foundations as Covenant and Directory of Man's none of God's Foundation Christ God's Foundation is a Pure Holy Unspotted Foundation where God's Wisdom and Counsel directs in and through the Works of his Holy Spirit the which are perfect and good in every degree thereof by which people are built up a Spiritual House to the Honour and Praise in and through God's blessed Works forever So to God's Covenant and Works must all Mankind be brought under that are redeemed and made alive to God therefore we deny the Presbyterian's Covenant and Directory as being but a meer Parcel of Conceivings and Imaginations which tends to hide the Holy Covenant and Foundation of the Righteous People in Generations past and now present in being who were and are built upon the sure Foundation which God hath laid and thereon in Covenant with his Righteous Holy Works And concerning your Foundation who are built upon a Church-Faith made up by an Assembly of Diviners out of their own Brain in their fleshly Comprehensions its man's Works full of Blemishes and Spots and not God's God's Foundation and Works thereon are Pure and Holy without Spot Wrinkles or Blemish And forasmuch as your made up Faith and Works tend to the making void the pretious Faith of God's Elect which is the Gift of God the which purifies the Heart and works by Love and giveth Victory over the Old World of Transgression and Sin without which Faith there is no pleasing God And so to this One Faith One Baptism and One Lord Testimony is given and against all feigned Faiths the Works of Men's Hands the which are in Wickedness by which the Just was slain And concerning that Head of the Beast which is branched out into several Horns in Feigned Humility and Will-Worship intruding into things which they are not led into by the Light of God's holy Spirit and therefore their Foundation being not from a certain Knowledge of the immediate Works of God's holy blessed Spirit in them But are in their own Willings and Runnings into Imaginations and Conceivings about the Practices of the holy Men of God but being out of their Spirit and Works therein what dark Works of Plungings and Dippings in outward Water and imaginary Fellowships in outward Elements but being out of a true Sense of the Works of God's Spirit and its Inspiration to enlighten them and give them an Understanding of the Times and Seasons of the Dispensations and Works of the Mighty God what Strangers are they to the New Birth and the One Baptism of Christ with Fire and the Holy Spirit to burn and consume Lusts and so to bring down every high Thought and vain Imaginations under his Feet who is the Lamb of God that takes away the Sins of the World And so by that One Pure Holy Spirit of God are many baptized into one Body where God's Will is done on Earth by him that abides forever So not by the Works of Man's Righteousness is any saved but by the Merciful Works of God in his Son by the VVashing of Regeneration and Renewing of the holy Spirit So into this pure holy Name must all be Baptized Dipped Plunged the which tends to the bringing out of all False Fellowships into that One and Only Pure Fellowship to walk in the Light of the Lord where the Blood of Christ cleanses from all Sin A pure Baptism indeed a pure Washing in a pure Fountain where Filthiness that is within man comes to be washed away and thereby way is made for the Comfortable Fresh Springs that rise from the Fountain of Love and Mercies the Substance of which many outward things are Shadows but the Good Thing it self is come Glory to God on high Hebr. 9.9 10. So to his blessed Works who must increase is Testimony given and against all the Works of Men's Hands the which tend to the making void thereof So the Fountain of God stands sure and must do forever and all False Foundations whereon People have built must be swept away for evermore THE blessed and unspotted Foundation the Mighty God of Heaven and Earth hath laid which is Christ or Vnction from the holy God by the Light and Teaching of which Mankind comes to be inspired with a right Understanding concerning things that differ even that which is pretious and wholsome so good for Food for every Soul and that which is vile and filthy which tends to the defiling and bringing Souls into Bondage And so John in his 1 Epist 2.20 saith unto the then Believers who had received this heavenly Gift But ye have an Vnction from the Holy One and ye know all things Herein was and is God's Love in his Son manifested to the World to destroy his Works who hath led Mankind into Darkness and so through Man's Obedience in following and believing in these blessed and unspotted Works of God in his Son the Enmity comes to be slain that separates Mankind from God and so the blessed Works of God in his Son reconciling and bringing back them who have been lost by wandering and roving in their own Willings and Runnings in this cloudy and dark Night they come to be seen felt and enjoyed by them who were and are Partakers thereof even of God's Works in his Son by which the Eye of the Understanding comes to be opened and so the Offensive Eye that is offended at God's Works comes to be put out And thus the Light and Understanding of that pure Life comes to be known the which hath been as a Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World of Wickedness by the Subtilty of the Serpent in Man's Heart And now to the Praise and Honour of God Almighty who hath drawn Thousands by the Strivings of the Grace of his Holy Spirit to the Knowledge of his Way Christ the Truth Way and Life the which is without Spot and Blemish the same Pure Holy and Unchangeable Way and Foundation on which the holy Men of God were built in Ages and Generations past Ephes 2.20 and are built upon the Foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief Corner-Stone So here was the Primitive Christians Foundation from whence proceeded and proceeds Heavenly Blessed and Gratious Words from the true Sense and Feeling of the Operation and powerful Works of God's holy and blessed Spirit And from this Holy Uncorruptible Pure Foundation and Way of God were all True Ministers and Teachers of others raised from the Blessed Operation of the Spirit of Truth in themselves whereby they had and have the Will and Mind of God unto People though not all in the same Measure or Degree But every one being faithful to his own Measure

THE Blessed Works OF THE Light of God's Holy and BLESSED SPIRIT Exalted above the Works of Darkness With some Informations how to escape out of Sin and Iniquity and a clear Way discovered into the Truth With a short Testimony of the Cry of Babylons's Merchants by reason of the Day that is coming upon them Stephen Smith 2 Peter 3.12 13. Looking for and hasting unto the Coming of the Day of God wherein the Heavens being on Fire shall be dissolved and the Elements shall melt with fervent Heat nevertheless according to his Promise we look for new Heavens and new Earth wherein dwells Righteousness Printed in the Year 1673. THE Blessed Works OF THE Light of God's Holy and BLESSED SPIRIT Exalted above the Works of Darkness COme sit down together in a deep Silence out of all Fleshly Wisdom forgiving all Trespasses that he that sits upon his Throne who said behold I make all things new that he may forgive all your Trespasses and then wait for Acception into God's Pure Holy Covenant his Holy Law in the Mind that it may be writ in the Heart and they shall not teach every man his Neighbour and every Man his Brother saying know the Lord for all shall know me from the least to the greatest for I will be merciful to their Unrighteousness and their Sins and Iniquities will I remember no more a blessed day magnified be the Lord whose Works praise him forever and not good Words out of wicked Workers Mouthes so these mighty Works of the mighty God the which he is working and bringing to pass through his mighty Power are appointed that Mankind should live in the Enjoyment of them to the Praise and Honour of his Maker forever And that it may be distinguished between Evil Workers who have got the good Words and the good Works from whence all true and good and gratious Words came observe In one of the Collects appointed in the Book of Common Prayer it is thus written Almighty and Everlasting God which of thy tender Love towards Man hath sent our Saviour Jesus Christ to take upon him our Flesh and to suffer Death upon the Cross that all Man-kind should follow the Example of his great Humility mercifully grant that we both follow the Example of his Patience and be made Partakers of his Resurrection c. Now mind To pray for this that is common and used in the old World of Transgression where Iniquity and Sin is which separates from God and are out of his Blessed Works But to be in the Humility and Patience this is God's Work where his Will is done on Earth as it is in Heaven So that if People would but so far condiscend to the Will of God as to sit down in Coolness in a true Silence of all the Works of the fleshly Wisdom would they not agree with us who are in Scorn called Quakers in Judgment at least though it may be not in Practice viz. That Words without Effects are as Dreams and Chaff to the Wheat the Substance So he that hath a Dream let him tell his Dream but he that hath God's Word let him speak it What is the Chaff to the Wheat Is not my Word like a Fire saith the Lord and like a Hammer that breaketh the Rock in pieces Jer. 23. I am against the Prophet saith the Lord that steals my Word from his Neighbour who use their Tongues say he saith and prophesie false Dreams and tell them and cause people to Err by their Lyes and Lightness And so now in Coolness when the Works of the Enemy are down viz. Prejudice and Passion c. then by a little Work of God in its least Appearance by which Mankind is made sensible they may see by this small Distinction what it is that we who are in Scorn called Quakers stand for and against And when the Eye of your Understanding is opened to behold his Glorious Works whom you have pierced then will you love us whom so many have hated because of our Testimony of God's Works Do but see how you first hated the Light of God in your selves before that great Darkness came over you to hate us who are called Quakers because we are bowed unto Christ's Spirit the true Christians Spirit and therein have in some measure partaken of his Cup out of which some indeed have drunk very deep even to the following of his great Humility and Patience even to Death as in New-England Sufferings may be seen by those cruel imaginary Christians whose wicked Hands have been deep in the shedding of Innocent Blood And though through Ignorance the Sufferings of God's People hath been much in Old England yet they have not been in that desperate kind as there where out of doubt they are more drunk with the Whore's Cup of Sorceries Witchcraft then those of that kind are here in old England whose spirit is felt but that their Wings are cut so cannot fly at that rate which otherwise they would be at for now their Hands are tied how wonderfully do their Tongues go by which its plain they have no Bridle but are set on Fire of Hell Wondering Despising and Fretting against the Work of the Lord in this the Day of his Power though Thousands are raised by it to declare and publish the same in Words in Life and Conversation c. And now you Vain and Empty Professors and Notionists who are saying in your Dark and Imaginary Conceivings of things That if you had been in the Scribes and Pharisees dayes those learned Rabbies you would not have done so wickedly as to Crucifie the Just and call for his Blood to be upon your Heads But come hearken in the Cool Did not those Scribes and Pharisees say the like of their Fathers who Stoned and Killed the Prophets whom God sent in Love to them And were not they in a worse Practice though they spoak otherwayes And was not the Cause of their Blindness from resisting God's Works in his Spirit by which means they had no Revelation there of the things of God notwithstanding they had the Scriptures without which testified of him yet they being so Wicked to put out the Candle that should have lighted them in it they saw not the Substance spoken of in the Scriptures were more darkned judging by that Law that Christ was a Devil and a Deceiver and so ought to dye without any regard to his Innocent Holy Life and his great Humility and Patience But though they crucified him yet they could not so bury him but that he rise again and appeared in divers manners and after he was risen opened the Scriptures to his Followers who loved Him Therefore Professors of Works without who are not Possessors of God's Blessed Holy Works within What though you do say If you had been in your Fathers the Scribes and Pharisees dayes you would not have done as they did But come be patient a little the Works of Truth have a good Tendency though