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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41061	A testimonie of the touch-stone, for all professions, and all forms, and gathered churches (as they call them), of what sort soever to try their ground and foundation by and a tryal by the Scriptures, who the false prophets are, which are in the world, which John said should be in the last times / by Margret Fell ; also, some of the ranters principles answered.	Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702.	1656 (1656)	Wing F636; ESTC R13179	30,378	40

the light And yet ye take these words and profess them and persecute the light and life that spoke these words Now to that of God in your Consciences which cannot bear false witnesse nor lye do I speak let all that try you and examine you whether you do not exceed the Scribes and Pharisees who crucified Christ Jesus who had writings of him that he should come yet when he came they did not know that it was he and so they crucified him under the name of a Blasphemer and Prince of Devils But ye say and professe that he is come and professe that that was he which they crucified and ye professe that he is risen again and yet ye persecute and deny his light and testimony where it is risen and made manifest Now see whether ye be not blinde indeed when as ye go about to oppose deny and persecute that which ye your selves professe Now see what a God this is ye serve who keeps ye so blinde in your profession that ye persecute those who possesseth that which ye your selves professe Ye exceed all that ever went before you that ever was read of and yet ye are so blind as ye do not see your selves For those whom ye persecute and oppose ye have nothing against them but that they witnesse and professe that which ye blinde hypocrites possesse but knows nothing of So ye make clean the outside with an outward profession and a form and an Image and a likenesse but your inside is sin uncleannesse filthinesse envy wrath malice strife and persecution this is of the Devils Kingdome of sin and this is the inheritance and possession which ye possesse Though ye professe a God and a Christ from Records without you yet your possession and inheritance is the Devils Kingdome of sin Let that of God in your consciences which is pure now examine and try you and search you and see if ye be not found in sin and uncleannesse and denies being free from sin and perfection and purity and plead for sin and the Devils Kingdome and yet professe God and Christ Oh that ever ye should be so abominably blinde and fottish Do ye look upon the pure and holy God who cannot behold iniquity with whom dwells no unclean thing to be like your selves And so likewise ye take the Epistles and writings of the Apostles to the Church of Christ which is in God and which is the house of God the ground and pillar of all truth which is built upon the rock Christ Jesus And ye take the words which were written to these who were born of the immortal seed to which the promise of God is and ye who live in your sin and filthinesse and uncleannesse takes these words and professeth them and makes them your own as though they were spoken to you when as ye never knew their condition nor the Apostles which was their Minister and begot them into the everlasting truth by the immortal ingratted word of God And this ye who denies the light which the Apostles preached who was a Minister of the Spirit and not of the Letter And this ye profess to be yours and here you build your nest in your forms and here ye sit decked with the words of the Saints with your unclean 〈…〉 and persecuting the righteous seed which these were spoken to opposing and denying the light which they were gathered into But your day of lamentation and howling is coming upon you ye cannot escape the righteous God hath found you out the acceptable year of the Lord is proclaimed and the day of vengence of our God is come and the Prince of the world is come to be judged and the day of the Son of man is come in which he is lifted up and where he is lifted up he draws all men after him Praises be to the living God for ever And your Covenant with hell and death is disanulled and your refuge of lyes and dissimulation will be swept away the overflowing scourge is coming upon you Therefore as ye love your souls give over your dissembling and vain imaginations and hypocrisie and vain deceit and see what ye have and what ye know ye do enjoy in the light and in the life and in the power of the living God for our Gospel stands not in word but in life and power And he is manifest who is the power of God unto salvation unto all that believe And this Gospel is not hid but to those that are lost Now if ye turn your minds to the light of Jesus Christ which is the light of the glorious Gospel ye will see that this Gospel hath been hid from you and from your profession But if ye wait in the light then will ye come to know the power and the power will raise the life And he that walketh in the light shall not abide in darkness but shall have the light of life And so give over professing words which was spoken from the light and life and power and ye your selves without light without life without power in a 〈◊〉 Nay this will not serve this is an abomination unto the living pure God and all this wil he burn and consume with the spirit of his 〈◊〉 and with the brightnesse of his coming Now see what ye have that will answer to the fire for nothing will stand in his presence who is a consuming fire but that which will abide the fire And this ye shall eternally witnesse to be truth And so in this I have cleared my conscience and laid before you your house and building which is without foundation And if ye turn your minds to the light it will let you see you have no bottom nor foundation that can stand Oh that ever ye should be so ignorant sottish and blinde in this the day 〈…〉 grace of the everlasting God which hath appeared unto all men which is so sounded forth in your ears and yet ye will not come to search and examine where your foundation and root and bottom is If ye will but turn your minds to the light ye will see that you have nothing at all but that which is none of your own which will stand ye in no stead which was written and spoke to others Oh that ever ye should be so blinde as to look upon this to be yours in this glorious day of light when it is so clearly manifested and the Gospel freely preached to every Creature and that ye should be so carelesse of your own souls as not to come to a search Oh what will ye do in the end when the just and righteous God calls ye to an account who hath sent forth his Ministers and messengers to preach the glad tydings of the Gospel to the poor liberty to the captives and yet ye as deaf adders will not hear yea the Lord God seeth you and knoweth your Rebellious stiff-necked and uncircumcised heart and ears and he will reward you according to your works And then your

the Lord of Hoasts neither will I accept an offering at your hands Mal. 1.10 And thou brings a Scripture in the 139. Psal. 12. which Scripture thou shalt witnesse upon thee fulfilled for thy darkness shall not hide thee nor cover thee for the Almighty shall finde thee out and the wrath of the Lamb Thou who doth live in pleasures on the earth and art wanton and nourisheth thy heart as in a day of slaughter and hast condemned and killed the Just Jam. 5.5 And thou shalt receive the reward of unrighteousness as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time 2 Pet. 2.13 who art a lover of pleasures more then a lover of God and art serving divers lusts and pleasures 2 Tim. 3.4 Tit. 3.3 R. And whereas thou sayest one power doth all things evill and good being so to the low apprehension of man but all alike in God Answ That is false and blasphemy that power that acts thee doth evil and cannot be good Mark 1.18 And thou art the evil and not the good who calls the evil good and the good evil and thou art he that hateth the good and loves the evil Rom. 3.12 Micha 3.2 And thy resurrection shall be for damnation John 5. 29. And thou brings a Scripture Amos 3.6 which is fulfilling the Lion is roaring and the prey is taking and the bird is fallen into the snare and the trumpet is blowing in the City and thou art afraid and the evil that shall be done unto thee the Lord doth it R. And whereas thou sayest Darknesse may be made light as the one power makes himself known who is light and all whose deeds are light though darkness to the Creatures present apprehension Answ Thou who art darkness it self and so an enemy to the light and a hater of the light thou shalt never see light And to thee the eternall power of the living God is made known for thy destruction For where Christ is made manifest he is made manifest to destroy the works of the devil and thou art vain in thy imaginations and thy foolish heart is darkened R. And thou brings a Scripture Isaiah 42.16 where it is said I will bring the blinde by a way they know not I will lead them by pathes that they have not known I will make darkness light before them and crooked wayes straight Ans. Here let the Scripture confound thee who art yet blind and unled into the way and the pathes that thou art in leads to destruction and the way of peace thou knows not But art in the crooked wayes of filthinesse and uncleanness and art not yet come to be ashamed of thy graven Images and molten Images which thou calls thy Gods R. And whereas thou sayes What doth holiness save or ungodliness destroy as you apprehend them to be Answ Holiness saveth that which thou the ungodly destroyes and the Lord God who is a jealous God his anger is kindled against thee and will destroy thee from the face of the Earth For he that defiles the Temple of God him will God destroy and miserably will he destroy the wicked men Mat. 21.41 And thou that makes the members of Christ the members of an harlot and saith meat is for the belly and the belly for meat but God shall destroy both it and thee and the body is not for fornication but for the Lord 1 Cor. 6.13 15. And now we know what hath with-holden that he might be revealed in his time and the mystery of iniquity doth already work in thee onely he who letteth will let untill he be taken out of the way and then shall that wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming that they might all be damned who believe not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness 2 Thess. from the 3. to the 13. And here is thy portion and this thou shalt finde fulfilled and witnessed to thy destruction For thou Son of perdition and man of sin is revealed R. And thou brings a Scripture in the 12. Eccl. 7. where it is said dust goeth to the earth and the Spirit to God that gave it Answ But he that spoke this lived not in filthiness and undeanness for he saith that which thou lives in is vanity which thou filthy beast would set up which was pulled down in him Neither doth thou know those conditions he spoke before he said these words But to thee they are a mysterie and thy spirit doth not return to God for to the place of torment amongst the devils and damned in hell doth thy spirit return where is weeping wailing and gnashing of teeth R. And whereas thou sayest That which befals the sons of men befals beasts they have all one breath all go to one place is the one dyeth so dyeth the other all are of the dust and turn is the dust and what preheminence hath a man above a beast Answ Thou art as the beast that perisheth who art in the place of Judgement where wickedness is and the place of thy righteousness where iniquity is which is all in the wickedness and transgression And now is the time that God is judging thee and thou art made manifest to be the beast and the false Prophet which is to be turned into the Lake And this befals all the sons of men who are in the beastly nature thou lives in and all who are in that nature that worships the beast and goes all into one place of torment as thou shalt finde But that which is prepared for the lake shall not return to the dust though thou would have it so and thou beast and thy spirit which is of the beast that goes downward to the earth Thou knows not the spirit of a man that goes upward For thou art he whom the decree of the most high is gone forth against and thy portion is with the beasts of the field and thou art driven from the Sons of men And thy heart is made fat like the beasts and thy dwelling is with the wilde Asses the 5. Dan. 21. R. And whereas thou sayest Man in his carnall apprehensions of God accounts one thing lawful and another thing unlawful calls one way godly and another way ungodly When as there is no such thing for he that is in the liberty of the Sons of God to him all things are lawful as they were to Paul Answ Thou who art in thy carnall apprehensions of God is in the world without God and thou art alive without the Law not come to know the Law yet but art dead in sins and trespasses And thou that lives in pleasure art dead while thou lives and thou lives unto sin and so art free from righteousness the Law which is holy just and good shall cut thee to pieces and thou art not yet come to know the Law nor what is lawfull which every one passeth through before they come to

all the false Prophets and deceivers and Antichrists which are in the world And who is faithful and obedient to the light witnesseth Christ made manifest and come in the flesh and these are no Antichrists And these are they that goes forth to bear witnesse against the false Prophets and Antichrists which are in the world And these are they that are stockt and beat and imprisoned and persecuted by those which is of the first nature which is Cains who slew his brother and this is of the world And by this generation all that will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution and it is our joy and rejoycing not only to believe on him but also to suffer for his sake All poor people who are in the dark world blinde led with the blinde guides beware and look where you are lest both you and they fall into the ditch And try your leaders by the Scripture who are pleading for sin and transgression and telling you that you shall not be free from sin nor perfect while ye are upon earth Now is that fulfilling which the Apostle Paul spoke of 2 Tim. 3. And the perillous times are come and woe unto you if ye do not hearken unto the warning of the Lord God who calls unto you for repentance And to return to the light of Christ Jesus in your consciences And to turn from that sort which the Apostle speaks of having a form of godlinesse but denying the power of this sort is your teachers which are to be turned away from which creeps into houses and leads silly women captive and so keeps you ever learning and tells you none can be perfect while they are here upon earth And so they plead for sin and against Christ Jesus and the Apostles and Prophets and all the holy men of God For Christ saith be ye perfect as your heavenly father is perfect Mat. 5.28 And again Christ saith unto the young man which asked him what he lacked yet if thou wilt be perfect sell all that thou hast and give to the poor And again the Apostle said he preached wisdome among them that are perfect And when he parted with the Brethren he bid them be perfect be of good comfort be of one minde 1 Cor. 2.6 2 Cor. 10.11 And your teachers tells you that you must never be perfect but that you ●ust sin so long as you are upon the earth and so they are Ministers of Antichrist and upholders of sin and the Devils Kingdom Try them by the Scripture and you shall finde them contrary to the doctrine of Christ and of the Apostles and not to have received the gifts which he gave to the Prophets Apostles and Evangelists for the perfecting of the Saints as ye may read Eph. 4.11 12 13. And the same Apostle went about warning every man in all wisdome that he might present every man perfect in Christ Iesus Now see your leaders and teachers if they have not another spirit then Christ and the Apostles had who makes it their trade to plead for sin and against perfection which all that ever were sent of God preached and prayed for as the Apostle did night and day praying exceedingly that he might see their face and might perfect that which was wanting in their faith 1 Thess. 3.10 And the Apostle Peter prayed that they might be perfect when they had suffered a while And the Apostle said who was a minister of Christ that the Scripture was given forth by inspiration of God that the man of God might be perfect and here your teachers are found to be denyers of the Scriptures and not so much as Ministers of the Letter who pleads against it the end it was given forth for and so are found to be Ministers of Antichrist and out of the practice of all that ever taught for God Noah was a Preacher of righteousnesse and he was a perfect man Abraham was a friend of God and God said unto him walk before me and be thou perfect and Lot was a just man and the Lord delivered him And Iob was a perfect and just man And David saith mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace Psal. 37.37 And Solomon saith that the upright shall dwell in the Land and the perfect shall remain in it Prov. 2.21 And again he saith That the righteousnesse of the perfect shall direct his way Prov. 11.5 Now all people search the Scripture and try these deceivers and betrayers of your souls and let them be witnesses against themselves that they teach nor you receive nothing of God from them for whatsoever is of God in the least measure is perfect The first principle that comes from God is perfect every perfect gift is from above Jam. 1.17 And the Apostle said as many as be perfect be thus minded and the Apostle saith again we are glad when we are weak and ye are strong and this also we wish even your perfection Phil. 3.15 And again he saith Let us go on unto perfection Now see your blinde guides whether they be not the Ministers of the mysterie of iniquity and under the dark power who pleads for sin and against perfection which all that were sent of God preached for and prayed for and laboured for the perfecting of the Saints and the perfecting holinesse in the fear of the Lord 2 Cor. 7.1 Eph. 12. An Answer to the Ranters Principles THe Word of the Lord to you Ranters every where where this may come who are of the Generation whose hearts are turned away from the Lord God and serves the gods of the Nations your root beareth gall and wormwood and ye are under the curse and your blessings are curst though you may blesse your selves in your hearts saying I shall have peace though I walk in the imaginations of my heart and adde drunkennesse to thirst But the Lord will not spare you when his anger kindles and his jealousie shall smoak then all the curses that are written in the book shall lye upon you and your name shall be blotted out from under heaven Deut. 29.19 20. RANTERS And whereas you say God is darkness as well as light and that there is but one power c. Answ That is Blasphemy and thy message is for the Prince of darknesse and thou art in the Land of darkness and the shaddow of death where thy light is darknesse where thou art driven from the light into darknesse under the curse separted from God under the power of the Prince of the Air which rules in the children of disobedience and there thou shalt have thy portion And he who is the messenger of the living God who declares that which was from the beginning which he had heard which he had seen and handled the word of life which bears witnesse unto the living God this is the message that he declares that God is light and in him is no darknesse at all 1 John 1. And thou that