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spirit_n	bear_v	enter_v	kingdom_n	5,396	5	6.1932	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86651	A lamentation for the scattered tribes, who are exiled into captivity, and are now mingled among the heathen, and are joyned to the oppressor, and refuses to return. Presented unto all the separated congregations, under what name or form soever, in love to the lost. Shewing, the difference betwixt them that were separated by the word of faith, and them who have separated themselves, in imitation from the letter: ... / By a servant of truth, and a friend to righteousness, who suffers with the seed, which is held in oppression, waiting and labouring for its return; called Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing H3170; Thomason E885_1; ESTC R204835	28,211	39

nor never did and so not the same nor hath not the same operation and so is not the same faith nor word which they preached And now to you who are called Members in all separated societies and yet in Babylon and Egypt spiritually so called where the seed is held in captivity I say Come forth of her and returne to your Maker from whence you are erred and cast off your garments of selfe-righteousness and those coverings you hid your selves under must all be rent they will wax old yea your heaven shall wax old as a garment and your stars will fall and your towers will be demolished and all your buildings will fall and your strength will fayle and Egypt cannot save you Why gad you abroad why trim you your selves with the Saints words when you are ignorant of the life return return to him that is the first love and the first-borne of every creature who is the light of the world which light will show you backe againe is the way from off the mountains of leanness and poverty where you feed upon wind and huskes and now returne home to within sweep your houses all the groat is there the little leaven is there the graine of mustard-seed you will see which the kingdom of God is like and you will see from whence you have erred from the true Shepherd Christ the light of the world who hath enlightened you with his light which light will show you sin and let you see what rules in the mind and heart which light will let you see the way out of the world and will judge sin in you and bind it and give you power over it this is the true shepherd and if you say you love him manifest your love unto him by following his light revealed in you which leads into the true separation from sin unto the Lord to see his presence neer you who will guide you with his eye the light is the eye of the body and here you will see your Teacher not removed into a corner but present when you are upon your beds and about your labor convincing instructing leading correcting judging giving peace to all that love and follow him Therefore haste I say come away while the Lord is near and at hand while his grace shines with you and he waits and hath waited long to be gratious and you have kept him out so long his lockes is bedewed with the drops of the night his Spirit shall not always strive that that checks and strives against sin is it in love follow it let it lye in your bosome day and night make it your companion I pitie you I pitie you my bowells is troubled for you I am payned for the seeds sake therefore all sleight not this love quench not the Spirit put not that which reproves sin away owne it that sin may be seene and the man of sin may be revealed by the brightness of Christ whose coming is as the light shines from east into the west discovers all darke pathes and the twining of the serpent and the crooked wayes of the old Dragon by this light and thus if you wait you will see the day revealed in you which the Scripture speaks of which shall declare all things and make manifest the hidden things of Esau who hunts abroad and is a man of the field whose minde is a broad And you whose mindes are a broad hunting after savory meat to please the flesh withall you are of his birth you will be laid wast and the mount in which you dwelt Therefore all prize your time and your visitation if you will returne come that he may heale your backsliding and receive you if you resist the light misery will be your end and you will lie down in sorrow This have I written in love to all your soules who am one who did drinke of the Cup of fornication and have drunke of the Cup of indignation but now drinkes the Cup of salvation where sorrow and tears is fled away and yet am a man of sorrows and well acquainted with griefe and suffers with the seed and travels that it may be brought forth of captivity called by the world F. H. The difference shewn betwixt them that learne of Christ and are taught of him and them that follows the principal of darkness that leads into Error HE that stumbles at the light stumbles at the door and his minde is erred from the truth and he followes his owe will and walks after the imaginations of his own heart without a Law or a guide to his feet and so falls into snares and temptations and into the noison lusts which doth hurt and annoy the Spirit of grace which should lead and guide man up to God out of the fall and transgression He that sees not with the light he is blind for the light is the eye of the body and makes manifest the light of the body which cleanseth from sin and leads to the body where Christ is the head where the unitie stands in one by which all comes to be united by one who is the light and life of men and comes to the one baptism and all who waits in the light that is pure comes to know the name of the Father and the Son which is one and here is the one baptisme seen and received and all that comes to be baptized into his Name comes to be baptized into his nature and comes to see the word which was in the begininng and there is no other name but the word which sanctifies and washes so all that knows not this Baptism nor this Word nor this Name knows not salvation from sin but lives in the reasonings and Imaginations and knows not that water which is the gift of Christ nor the Spirit which is given to every one to profit withall of which a man must be born of else he cannot enter into the kingdom of God and all who denies the light wherewith Christ hath enlightened every one withal denies the gift of God which leads to repentance and so lives in sin Repentance is the gift of God and this is the gift of the Father which was promised the light of the world and all that receives not and believe not in the light they are in the old nature and he that is not born of the light is not born of God for God is light he that is not born of the light knowes not the Virgins womb where the Man-childe is borne and conceived nor the day of Christ nor cannot discerne his coming but lookes for signes and outward observations Lo here and there in the outward and are in the unbeliefe nor discernes not the Kingdom where Christ reignes which is not of this world all things that are outward are of this world and who live in them and have their hearts exercised in them knows not that which leads to before the world and to the end of the world and knows not the true

and the briers and thornes in bundles and cast them into everlasting fire where where is perpetuall exilement from the presence of God and from the Lamb for ever and ever and from the light of his countenance and this as the Lord lives will come upon all who are not cleansed from sin and purged from your iniquity and destruction is of your selves it is not because there it no balm enough in Gilead nor no Physitian nor because you have no grace nor power but because you despise it and will not come to Christ who is the light least your deeds should be repoved nor mind that which is given into you to lead you out of sin and so the one thing needful you heed not and you that doe not will lie down in everlasting misery and sorrow world without end And now to you that are tossed and finde no rest for the sole of your foot but are still led aside into pollutions and sin and knows not how to come forth nor where the Power is CEase gadding abroad and seeking in that principle which leads you further from God and from your own wisdom and reason which is in the fall and in the disobedient nature for there can you never finde peace nor the way that leads unto it all that you have heard you see still there is one thing lacking and you are unsatisfied and while your eyes are without his power you know not that gave the Saints dominion and the further you inquire in the natural fallen wit and reason the further you are off the first principle that leads to know God Now I say unto you all Christ Jesus who is anointed of God to preach glad tidings to the poor and to the captive who in the days of his flesh declared and preached the Kingdom of God was neer yea in them I say unto you now he preaches by his Spirit in the world and he is now in the world and this is he that convinceth the world of sin and shews thee thy evil deeds by his light in thy conscience and as thou waits upon that light that is given from God it will open thy understanding and let thee see all that ever thou hast done and will bring trouble upon thee and a true sensibleness of thy condition and will bring wrath upon that nature in thee which is corrupt and contrary to the light for the light is of the nature of Christ Jesus and so thou wilt come to see as thou waitest in the true light wherewith Christ hath enlightned thee withal two seeds and each of these seeds hath a nature and they are one contrary to the other in their natures the nature of the one is to work unrighteousness and of the other to bear witness against sin and also works righteousness and these two are contrary the one leads into bondage the Just and the other leads into bondage the Injust the one is the Image of God the other the Image of the devil and if thou wait in the light thou wilt see two striving in the wombe and here is nation against nation and Kingdom against Kingdom and these are at variance and the life of the one is the death of the other Now that which lets thee see that Cain and Ismael are goodly children who are of the first birth yet they must not enter nor have any share with the seed of the free-woman but must be cast out and therefore another seed must be witnessed which the promise is to who are born again are born of that which is pure of the living water and that washes from sin and uncleanness and also of the Spirit which is life they that are borne of this enters into the City where no unclean thing enters for God takes nothing into Communion with himself but that which is made holy and cleansed and purged and purified by the operation and working of his Spirit which Spirit is life to them that receive it and it reproves them that receives it not and this is in the world and reproves the world yet the world receives it not and so lies wholly in wickedness in darkness and blindness Now unto you that hath but any stirring or desires begotten in your hearts after God or his truth that so you may know the power of God which gives dominion over sin hearken a little and I shall declare unto thee if thou have an eare to hear Christ Jesus who is the light of the world and hath lightened every one that comes into the world by his true light and this is it that shews thee thy evill deeds and the vanities of the world and shews thee what is evil and discovers unto thee all things that ever thou hast done and will check thee when thou doth any thing contrary it and Judge thee for that which is past and this is the gift of God and as thou turns thy mind to it It will turn from sin and evil unto Jesus Christ from whence it comes and this is present with thee and as thou hearkenest to this thou seest God is pure who is present and by the light takes notice of all thy actions and performances with what heart thou dost them and offers them up in and this will let the see if thou regard iniquity in thy heart all is abomination to the Lord therefore keep into this and it will shew thee sin and evil before thou commit it and as thou stands in the Counsell of the light thou stands in the Counsell of Christ and his power preserves thee for the light is power all that hearken not unto another is preserved out of sin and temptation and pollution and sees an overcoming by the power of Christ which is present and here is a guide to all your minds who have wandred here and there and have found nothing here you come to know the Doctrine and teaching of Christ which leads into all truth all that believe in it and receive it and so it will change you out of pride and wantonness out of covetousness and earthly mindedness and from sin it will lead you and from the pathes of unrighteousness into righteousness which is the pure path of the Lord which all comes to injoy peace in who walk in it but the cross of Christ must be taken up daily or else you cannot walk in the way of the Lord and so to the Cross all come and to the Yoak that you may see the wild nature bound under and limited and your vain thoughts Judged out and you may come to see the straight way where no lyer can enter nor no ravenous beast nor no unclean but they come all to be kept out and so as you love your soules and the way of the Lord mind the witness of Christ in you and if you go from it and despise it it will follow and pursue you and you shall never know peace while you stand in disobedience to the Grace of God and the free Gift of God you can never see redemption nor know Gods power which he gives unto all that receive him and you cannot receive his gift but self and self-will must be denied and so the will of Christ which is the will which wills in the light and works in the light and reveales sin by the light and declares righteousness through the light and here the coming of Christ comes to be seen and his day comes to be known which Abraham saw but through death this comes to be read and known and so turne all to this here the word you will hear which is pure and powerful it separates as you hearken unto it and divides between the pretious and the vile in you all who love it and it 's nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart and discerns thy thoughts and here thou wilt learn as thou waitest in patience of the Son in whom the Father is well pleased and if thou hearken to any other it 's the false Prophet which leads thee to Error and so the displeasure of God will come against thee for ever until thou return Blessed is he that hears and receives and considers and prizes the offers of grace and the day of Gods everlasting love and ownes the gift of God in him revealed which leads to repentance and works a change in the heart and mind of all that believe in it and gathers up into its nature all that waits in diligence and believes in it and so the day of redemption comes to be seen and known out of death out of the grave and immortality comes to be brought forth and incorruption comes to be put on and they that witness this can truely say we have found him whom our soul loves and doth not look for any other Blessed is he that hears and considers and waits to be made partakers of Gods righteousness revealed Justifies all that receives it and believe in it and they by it comes to be Pillars in the house of God for ever and follows the Lamb whither soever he goes where Pure Peace is injoyed for ever and ever FINIS

the outward part of the Law or Scripture and if that will not do then you looke to be Justified by the righteousness of one you have heard of without you and even then when you your selves are found sinners and so would make Christ a Minister of sin How long will you speake these things and how long shall the words of your mouth be as a strong wind doth God pervert Judgment or doth the Almightie pervert Justice Job 8. 2 3. shall not he that sins dye and is not he that commits sin of the Devil doth God justifie him that 's of the devil nay he shall condemn him the Gospel is not preached to that seed but the day of vengeance and tribulation and wrath upon every one that doth evill and whom he Condemns he Justifies not and whom he redeems he redeems out of sin and creates them that they may walk to the praise and glory of his grace them that praises grace and glorifies grace walks in it and are under it and it hath Dominion over and their ungodlyness and worldly lusts is denyed and holyness and righteousness is brought forth and the Image of God is restored Oh how long shall death talke of the fame of wisdom how long shall a deceived heart lead you aside how long will ye be blind how long will ye hearken to your Imaginations is any redeemed out of sin where sin rules and where it is acted grace reigns not is not this the grace of God which Condemns mans will and selfe and the lusts of the flesh and you that are in your wills and selfe in every thing standing doth not the grace Condemn you how then or by what are ye Justified but this hath been a piece of your Divinity when that in your Consciences Condemned you looking up to Christ Justified at a distance Oh you vayn minds is not the light of Christ one with Christ is Christ divided from his Spirit or against himself or in himself when that his light Condemns and his spirit reproves thee for sin doth he Justifie doth not his spirit bear witness in the spirits of them that are sanctified and is not this the spirit which Convinceth for sin and as thou actest sin it reproves thee and bears witness against thee then How should it bear witness to thee and so you may see all of you who tells of Justification by faith that you are in a dreame and not in the faith that Justifies for he that is Justified by faith which is true he hath the witness in himselfe now if thou be reproved in thy selfe for sin by the light of Christ where is thy witness in thy selfe shew it For them that are saved by grace and Justified by faith selfe and self-will and the lusts of the flesh and disobedience to the Grace of God is Judged and Condemned and selfe-righteousness Titus 3. 5. 6 Not by works of righteousness that we have done but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy ghost Ephes. 2. 8 By grace are ye saved through faith and that not of your selves it 's the gift of God and them that receives and believes in the gift of God are Justified and grace is the gift of God which teacheth to deny ungodlyness and them that are taught by this it teacheth and leadeth out of all sin and so redemption from sin is witnessed and Justification is witnessed and the gift of God which is the Spirit of Promise seales the assurance in the heart but where sin is committed grace raignes not through righteousness and thou that art here art under the Law and under wrath and condemnation and art not under grace that Justifies through faith and so your cover being taken off see your shame all and blush and repent The difference betwixt the faith which is feigned which is the worlds and the Saints faith NOw your faith which leads you not to believe that you can ever be freed from sin this faith is reprobate and brings forth no good works but dead works and is not the life of the Just but the Life of the unjust which leads not to overcome the evil and the works of the Devil nor leads not into the Rest which is in God for you speake your own words and thinke your own thoughts and hath not ceased from your own workes but worships in your wills acts in your wills speaks in your wills and are your own and doth not see an overcoming of sia but a growing into it into deceit more and more and looking all is done for you and you believe Christ hath done all and hath fulfilled the Law for you and yet doth witness nothing done in you nor the Law fulfilled in you nor sin destroyed in you and yet you say you lay hold upon the righteousness of Christ by faith O what righteousness is that you lay hold of which is imperfect and leads not out of imperfection that is not true faith that lays hold on a righteousness which is imperfect and all of you say all that is in you there is defects and Imperfections in it yea even the graces and gifts of God you say they are Imperfect then Consider if you see Imperfection in all those things you have laid hold on and have received then you know not faith nor grace nor the gift of God which is perfect but believes in a dream of a thing done and an apprehension of a thing at a distance without you Imagining you are eating but when you awake you are hungry Imagining you are saved but when you enter into your Hearts see nothing witnessed nothing done nor redeemed from nothing your faith and hope stands in works and that is all preaching the letter over and proving that which is proved and was proved in them that witnessed the life of those things in them that are written but nothing is proved in you but applies their righteousness which was the righteousness of faith and of Christ which was in them wrought through death to you that are alive in sin and lust and pride and enmity and malice and deceit yea even to the head of the Serpent and so would be covered in your in quity and saved from Guilt and Condemnation and wrath But to be clensed from sin you regard not for if you own that word and faith and hope which is of God it will slay and kill that life for ever and destroy all your wisdom which stands in the earthly nature and therefore I say unto you repent and cease from your way from your vain conceivings and all be uncovered and you will see the first principle you have to Learn so all your faith which is out of the Light is seen which you gather in from the letter and not wrought in the light it leads not out of the world nor to above the world but all who have faith works in the light and mortification and sanctification and holyness is