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A85143	Light risen out of darkness now in these latter days. Shewing the dark ways and worships of the ministry of Antichrist now in these apostated times, which is perilous, as is foretold of often by the Holy Ghost that spoke through Paul, and now is fulfilled in these latter days, 2 Tim 3. Thus saith the Lord, Arise Sion, and thresh with a sharp threshing instrument, and shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen, and is arising, and Jerusalem shall be a burdensome stone to all nations, now that Christ is unto his people both the light and glory thereof. Wherein something is written in reply to a book that was set forth by the dry and night vines in and about Beverley, who scornfully nicknameth the people of God, in reviling and falsly accusing them, and calleth them Quakers, in and about York-shire. Iuly, 1653.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing F490; Thomason E729_5; ESTC R206840	47,191	59

of the truth as John speaks in his first Epistle and the first Chapter at the third verse c. where he saith to them which were enlightened by the light of God in them which you shew your selves to be ignorant of and fill'd with subtilty craftiness and deceit and knows not that which John speaks of in that place which I own and witness fulfilled in my soul Saith he That which we have heard and seen declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and the Son This then is the message that we have heard of him which I witness according to that Scripture where Christ saith My sheep hear my voyce and they know me and follow me and I give unto them Eternal life Iohn 10. Which Christ is in me operating by his Spirit and enlightening my understanding opening blind eyes and unstoping deaf ears so that I hear and see and know by experience what I say I do not know God by hear-say from others but mine eyes hath seen his salvation the new man the new heart and new eye he that is in Christ is a new creature old things are passed away and all things are become new which you shew your selves to be ignorant of and are in the old nature and in the fall under the curse and wrath of the Almighty who lives in lyes which is of the Divel who is the Father of lyes and him you serve and are in the same state and condition that Christ spake of in Iohn 8.44 And that Message that Iohn speaks of in that first Epistle and the first Chapter shew your selves to be ignorant of that lives in darkness For God is light and in him is no darkness at all but they that say they have fellowship with him and walk in darkness do lye and do not the truth 1 Iohn 1.5 6. And lying ing is the fruit of darkness Eph. 4.15 And you are lyars and of the divel And whereas Christopher Feak Iohn Simpson George Cokain Lawrance Wise Iohn Pomroy Paul Glissen and Ioseph Kellat do not let to publish lyes it is that all may take notice that they are of their father the Devil who was a lyar and the father of it For The Church of Christ we own which Church is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Ioh. 8.44 1 These 1.1 which is made all of living stones elect and precions and nourished by the milk of the word 1 Pet. 2.2 3 4 5. which word endureth for ever 1 Pet. 1.25 which word is neer at hand even in thy heart which is the word of faith wh●ch we preach Rom. 10.8 which faith we own even that faith which purifies the heart and overcometh the carnal part for whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world and this is the victory that overcometh the world even your faith which is Christ in us and we in him 1 Iohn 5.4 2 Cor. 13 5. and who is he that overcometh the world but he that beleeveth that Jesus is the Son of God which Jesus we own even he that saves his people from their sins and purifi●s their souls in yeilding obedience to the commands of the spirit 1 Pet. 1.21.22 which Christ we witness even he that came by water and blood and it is the spirit that beareth record because the spirit is truth and he that beleeveth hath the witness in himself and hath eternal life abiding in him 1 Ioh. 5.5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. herein we come to try the sprits because many false Prophets are gon out into the world by reason of whom the way of truth shall be and is evil spoken of and here you are and that 's your condition who through covetousness and with ●ained words makes Marchandise of poor souls but you are found out and your Judgment lingereth not and your damnation slumbereth not 2 Pet. 2.1.2 3 4 c. hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God which we witness and confess that Jesus Christ is come in our flesh as the Corinthians did witness in 2 Cor. 4.6 7 8 9 10 11. and so we establish the Scriptures and witness the fulfilling of them in our souls for he that beleeveth hath set to his seal that God is true and he that beleeveth is born of God and he that beleeveth shall never dye and he that beleeveth doth not commit sin and he that beleeveth is justified from all ungodliness and he that beleeveth doth not respect persons for he that respecteth persons commits sin and he that beleeveth hath eternal life abiding in him this the Scriptures witness and I witness these Scriptures fulfilled Acts. 13.39 Ioh. 7.37 6.2 11.26 1 Pet. 1.6 Ioh. 3.18 1 Ioh. 5.1 1 Ioh. 5.10 1 Ioh. 5 4 5 But your dark minds I do deny and your gilded notions and painted expressions and all your formal faith which outward and your persecuting Antichristians which envies and hates as you do your deeds testifie against you witness what persecutions and suffering William Deusberry and Thomas Stubs had amongst you at Beverley in sore stripas and buff●tings and others that were stoned and shamefully entreated these are the fruits of your Pharisaical Saints for shame blush see what you are doing ye painted outsides ye self-conceited Hypocrites and dissembleers that persecute the just and Innocent ones and fill up the measure of your fathers Iniquity Ma● 23. you are of the same ge●eration that stew the righteous blood did ever the Saints of God do any such thing for shame blush ye Serpents ye generation of Vipers ye seed of evil doers repent and forsake the evil of your doings and live not in lyes and flatteries for your Churches are the Synagogue of Satan where persecution is upheld I do deny and against your deceits I testifie that you are enemies to Jesus Christ where he is made manifest as the Iewish high Priests Scribes and Pharisees were and you are children of wrath and his Servants ye are to whom ye do obey as in Rom. 6.16 and saith Jesus Christ Why call ye me Lord Lord and do not the things that I say Luk. 6.46 but know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven 1 Cor. 6.9 10. And whereas you say that If in any age the Devil hath transformed himself into an Angel of Light Priests or his Apostles or Ministers have transformed themselves into the Apostles and Ministers of Christ they have don so in this Apostatizing age in which we live c. It seems that your light that is in you is darkness Answ that questions the truth of what you speak and say If in any age c. Were your eyes open you might see your selves to be in the same state and condition that you write of and of the number of those

Glisson Joseph Kellat and all such as you are and your carnality and sensuality we do deny and against your dark Egyptian studied out M●nistry and your painted expressions and gathered up notions we do testifie that you are not acquainted with the teachings of God nor the Doctrine of Christ and ran but the Lord never sent you Therefore do you fulfil that Prophecy declared of by Ieremy Chapter 23.32 And you are as the false Prophets were all teaching for hire as they did to whom the Lord sent his Servants the true Prophets to testifie against them and you are found in the same condition now See Ier. 5.30 31. Isai 56.10 11. Ier. 23.16 17 18 19. Isai 29. and the 9th to the 16th Ezek. 34. to the 11th Isai 72.7 8. Hos 6.9 Hos 5.1 2. Isai 9.16 Zeph. 1.4 Zeph. 3. Zach. 13.4.5 Mal. 2. to 10. but the Lord will make you and all that are as you are of your own inventions and imaginations and run but never was sent and have cast the Law of God behind your backs but your blessing is to be accursed as theirs was and the Lord will make you contemptible in the eyes of the people and you are to be declared against And as Ezra had a standing place for the reading of the Law Nehem 8.4 5. Mat. 23. to the 8. Vers it is not denyed so had the Scribes and Pharisees which took Moses Seat and place pretending to do Justice and take off oppressions but did not But did burden the people as you do that sits in their seats now and acts in the same things which Christ came to throw down and you are Lords and Masters contrary to the Doctrine of Christ but you are discovered But Christ did forbid his to be so be ye not so saith he Mat. 23.8 and said he Be not ye called of men masters but he that is greatest among you let him be your servant Verse 11. and whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased Vers 12. But you do not abide in his Doctrine as they did who were his Disciples and were in obedience to Christ commands See 1 Cor. 9.16 to 19. 2 Cor. 4. to 6. but you shew your selves to be both contrary to Christ and to his true Ministers and makes your selves manifest to be amongst the false Prophets and Scribes and Pharisees which were enemies to Jesus Christ then as you are found now who do not regard his own sayings as in Mat. 23.8.9.10 c. but are exalted and puft up in your fleshly wisdom high notions and high places and are as those was that were enemies to Christ but see what is your due vers 13.14.15 Likewise see what Christ saith in Mark when he called his Discipl●s he said unto them Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentils exercise Lordship over them and their great ones exercise Authority upon them Mar. 10.42 and here are you placed Notwithstanding Christs command in vers 43. who said to his But so shall it not be amongst you but whosoever will be greatest among you shall be your Minister and whosoever will be chiefest among you shall be servant of all but you do not abide in his Doctrine but are in the earth the lust of the flesh and in the fall and are in Gentilizm and Pharisaicallizm in pride and vain glory proud boasters and self-conceited Hypocrites and dessemblers and are of those that Christ doth forwarn his Discipled ones to beware of you and such as you are that do not abide in the Doctrine of Christ and so are of Antichrist blush for shame For saith Jesus our Saviour beware of such as these whom I declare and describe unto you See Mark 12.38.39.40 and such sorts of men as these were enemies to the Saints and the Brethren then as you are now who had nothing to do with the Saints priviledges that did not walk in their practice and you witness your selves to be of the same generation notwithstanding you have stoln the Saints words to trade withal but do not abide in the Doctrine of Christ but are Antichrists And the woes Judgments Plagues and Curses that was pronounced to the false Prophets Scribes Pharisees Hypocrites Seducers and Antichrists then the same is now due to you and the Lord will be avenged on you and all such as you are So in doing my duty to the Lord in declaring against you and your deceits I rest in the Lords own free love and remain a friend and lover of all that love the Lord in sincerity and truth Written by a labouring man It were most part of my three days labour R. F. The only true God HIm we worship who placed Adam in the Paradice who dwelleth in eternity and where no uncleanness can approach or come nigh who dwelleth in the highest Heavens and with him also that is of a poor and contrite spirit who causeth such his blessing to inherit whose joy is in him and in the Kingdom of his love Luke 17.21 1 Cor. 4.20 Rom. 14.17.18 Adam in the Paradise and after with Eve in the fall as you and such as you are that are not redeemed by his power not knowing the seed of the woman that bruiseth the Serpents head the enemy the tempter But Abraham Isaac and Iacob who were holy men of God Joseph in the Prison bound under by Phaaroh who was a proud hearted oppressor such as you are Egypt the Isralites red Sea Pillar of fire Egyptians overthrough and the Israelites deliverance by the Divine Power and Moses guiding them in the Wilderness Law Sabbath Ark Church in the Wilderness warfare Iordan Canaan Caleb Ioshua Judges Prophets Kings Victories large love and mercies of the Lord in sending his Son that was born of a Virgin suffered contradiction of sinners Jews high Priests Scribes and Pharisees such as you are and glorification and ascention into the Kingdom of Heaven and in our souls the Kingdom of his Grace where he conquers and rules in love and comforts us by his holy spirit these and all things as the Scripture doth declare of in their times places administrations and dispensations we do all own But your lyes flatteries deceits and hypocrisies whereby you would strangle the truth to make it appear odious to the world we do disown And as for self-justification that we deny and who art thou that dost condemn or lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect seeing he doth us by his own power both save sanctifie and justifie by saith in Jesus 1 Iohn 3.5 6 7. who was manifested to take away our sins and who shall separate us from the love of God shall tribulation or persecution peril or nakedness famine or sword though we be accounted all the day long as sheep for the slaughter yet we are more then Conquerours through him that loveth us and we know him in whom we do believe and though we be accounted as the filth of the world and off-scouring of all

acquainted neither with Christ nor his sufferings who causeth the truth to suffer by them as their actions do make manifest who lives in the old corrupt nature and has stoln the words of the Prophets and Apostles to trade withal and hath glossed them over by their humane and serpentive wisdome which the vengeance and the wrath of God is to 4. These dissembling hypocritical Priests whited walls and painted Sepulchres are exalted above the Cross of Christ and sits in the seat of the scornful acting as in a Stage-play for mony and are climb'd up high into their notions and notionary expressions by their fleshly wisdom which is earthly carnal sensual and divelish but never came in at the door as saith Jesus Christ in Iohn 10. And are ignorant of the first principle of Religion that knows not the power of God to break down the power of darkness in them and so that is the cause of their falsifying the truth and speaking evil of that which they know not being puft up in pride scorn and derision judging the truth by their evil thoughts and fleshly imaginations Now as Iannes and Iambres withstood Moses so do these resist the truth standing in opposition against it by their carnal wisdom and fleshly imaginations and vain glory boasting and vaunting themselves in their own conceits and stands upon their own righteousness by their gathered up knowledg in opposition to the Spirit of truth and in despight to the Spirit of grace and wrests the Scriptures to their own destruction speaking their own Inventions and Imaginations which arise out of the bottomless pit of deceit but the Lord is coming for to bring down Babylon's buildings all mans inventions and imaginations and to cast them into the lake that burneth and all the Babylonish Merchants will cry out Alas alas for that great City of Babylon where they sold their wares and gilded stuff and fine dainty dishes of novelties dressed made fit by the Cooks in their shops of brain study and humane inventions which is Cainish to feed curious and lusty minds withal lusting after knowledge and feeding upon the forbidden fruit which is under the curse and must be burnt with fire now in the day of the Lords power where nothing shall stand but his own pure being for he alone will rule and raign in power amongst his chosen ones in Sion the perfection of beauty and he alone will govern his people in righteousness and teach them all the knowledge of his truth to know him in the habitation of his holiness that they may rejoyce and triumph in his love By this we know that we love God because we keep his Commandements and it is his love which constraineth us who first loved us and gave himself for us And saith he If you love me keep my Commandements and I command you to love one another with the same love that I loved you withal but he that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love and he that saith he loveth him and keepeth not his Commandements is a lyar and the truth is not in him And here you are that lives in lying who say that we attempt to lay waste Scriptures Churches Faith Hope c. The Scriptures we own to be true in themselves as they were given forth from the Spirit of truth which ruled in them that spoke them forth which Spirit I witness and their declaration I own the life of it herein you are found false witnesses lyars and false accusers and are Antichrists and Seducers shewing forth the spirit of errour and Antichrist is head and exalted in you who opposeth himself against the truth But your dark m●nds I do deny and against you I do testifie That you are the men whom you write of and that condition is your own for you make no other use of the Scriptures but to trade withal and to give your Antichristian Applications and Constructions of them which the plagues of God is due to For saith Jesus Christ I testifie that he that adds to the Book of this Prophecy I will add to him all the plagues that are written in the Book Rev. 22. And whereas you lye and say That we a people whom the Divel in you scornfully reproacheth and calleth Quakers which is your envy which name I suffer under by such as you are who are apostated from the truth and the living word which was in the beginning which word is quick and powerful and sharper then any two edged sword and is like a fire and a hammer Heb. 4.12 Jer. 23.29 30. And though the Divel in you be suffered to cast upon us names of reproach It is but that the Scriptures may be fulfilled in calling us Quakers or what you can invent to make us odious in the sight of the world which name I do disown for I know none but two in all the Scriptures flesh and spirit the seed of the Serpent and the seed of God which shall bruise the Serpent's head with his internal rod by the living power of the Eternal Jehovah Jah But the seed of the Serpent is head in you who lives in lyes and Christ you do by your proud lustful natures kill and crucifie and his Doctrine daily by your earthly wisdom more and more despise and so you keep the seed of God in bondage by your divelish subtil serpentive policies and would not that it should come forth to live and to arise and faith you do not know who are so swift such lyes to report and the living truth for to relieve you are unwilling and both slack and slow and bears the mark of the Beast in your right hand and in your foreheads and it is you that do attempt to lay waste Scriptures in all things but to traffick withal and knows no word but bare letter and diabolical subtilty humane invention which you do live in and observes the Divels work for to commit sin which is the fruits of death and so the Word and Gospel of God is his from all such vulterous eyes And venemous beasts as you are who knows not the strait path that leads to life nor the wisdom which is hid which Job speaks of in Chap. 28. which wisdom is not from beneath neither is it earthly and carnal as yours is for the wisdom of God is not to be bought and sold neither for rubies pealrs silver nor gold but yours which is earthly and is but dross and dung causing you to lye so with your dirty Greek and Latine tongue Saying That we seek to attempt to lay waste all Scriptures Priest Christ Faith Hope c. Wherein you are exceeding hoodwink'd Reply and your eyes i● stopt with dirty miery stuff your inventions and imaginations and your mouths is filled with lyes and your hearts with evil thoughts being possest with Satan and that 's the cause you do the truth so much despise For we own the Scriptures as they are in themselves to be a declaration

not such as made great shews and fair pretences of him as you do as the Jews Scribes and Pharisees did he came that is Jesus Christ unto them and they received him not that had made so much profession of him as you have done but were enemies to him then as you are now but as many then as received him to them he gave power to become the Sons of God which were born not of flesh nor of the will of man but of God Ioh. 1.10.11.12.13 but you are of the will of man and of the flesh and not after God and are ignorant both of the light life and power and you are of that which is corruptible and both your names and memory shall perish and rot in the dust for the name and memorial of the wicked shall rot and utterly perish and come to nought the old man the old name and that must dye and you are in the old nature which is corrupt which shall rot and per●sh but the new man the new name and of the Divine nature which is the Gift of God shall live and endure for ever and every living-stone that is elected and enlightened may cry out against you that you are no Ministers of Christ but of Antichrist and are in the old birth and of the wicked one and must come to destruction who are led by Antichrist and your own corrupt wills and know nothing neither of watching nor yeilding up to the light as those do who are enlightened by it and guided by it who are the Sons of God Rom. 8.14 and are acquainted both with watchings and fastings as the Saints were who do abide in the Doctrine of Christ and are guided by the spirit of truth knows that there is need of watching and yeilding up to Christ which you shew your selves to be ignorant of that live in pride and vain glory and fleshly boasting and know not Christ calls to his saying Watch and pray lest ye enter into Temptation here must be either yeilding to Christ or a standing in opposition on against him and walking in carelesness as you do but we have not so learned Christ Ephes 4.20 but are taught to watch and pray and not to enter into the temptation or the evil Mat. 26.41 and saith he what I say unto you I say unto all men Watch but you are proud boasters as in 2 Tim. 3. and know not the Doctrine of Christ nor the practise of the Saints David he watched and his Soul waited on the Lord and in his Word did he hope and so do all the Seed of David now that which is the immortal Word which liveth and endureth for ever and David said My Soul waiteth for the Lord here was a true waiter and the same seed doth so now he waited more then they that watch for the morning Psal 130.5.6 this was Davids condition who was the Servant of the Lord which you shew your selves to be none of and you would have all to take not ce of it and of your ignorance of the practise of the Saints and Servants of the Lord See Heb. 2.1 he stood upon his watch which ye neglect who live in scorn sitting in the seat of the scornful but the Lord sits in Heaven and laugheth you to scorn ye scorners how long will you live in scorning and are so blind that you are not acquainted with waiting nor watching which were and is the practice of the Saints which the Scriptures do witness and I bear Testimony to the life of the Scriptures for watching and waiting upon the Lord see these Scriptures and you that do deny the life of the Scriptures I do deny and herein you shew forth the spirit of error The Apostle who had the spirit of truth did teach the people as he was taught of God and did exhort them to stand stedfast upon their Watch 1 Cor. 16.13 the true minister of Christ did exhort the Corinthia●s to watch and to quit themselves like men that they might be strong in the Lord and do all their works in love that they might addict themselves to the ministry of the Saints 1 Cor. 16.14.15 which you shew your selves enemies to and the Thessalonians who were children of the day and taught of God he did exhort to watchings and to put on the Bre●t plate of faith and love and for an helmet the hope of Salvation for God hath not appointed us to wrath but to obtain Salvation by Jesus Christ which we do own and witness their practice which spoke forth the Scriptures 1 Thes 5.5.6.7.8.9.10 and the blessing is to them that watch Revel 16.15 Herein you shew your selves to be no watchmen but blind guides for the Ministers of Jesus Christ were to watch for souls as they that were to give an account to God Heb. 13.17 And so you make good that saying of the Prophet and fulfil that Scripture His watchmen are all blind such as you are that act in the same condition that the false Prophets did looking for your gain from your quarter Isai 56.10 11. Wo to you ye blind guides for it is Christ that worketh in us both to will and to do of his own good pleasure Philip. 2.12 13. And our sufficiency is of him 2 Cor. 3.5 And for your saying that we hold free will that is your imagination but God will scatter all the proud in their imaginations It is the will of God which is our sanctification which you shew your selves to be ignorant of and so follow your corrupt wills freely without watching over that which corrupts and so give up your selves to the power of darkness to commit sin with greediness and here you have shewed your folly and that you neither know the light nor the power of truth but are in darkness We to you ye blind guides who are for wrath and condemnation and the wicked and all that forget God shall be turned into hell Psal 9.17 And saith Christ Depart ye that be workers of iniquity I know you not And Go ye cursed into hell prepared for the Devil and his Angels Matth. 25. And take the unprofitable servant and bind him hand and foot and cast him into outer darkness where shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth And now you are found unprofitable which ran but the Lord never sent you howl and weep for wo and misery is your portion and the portion of all such as you are But if your power accompany the light Priests what shall we think of Paul who found the Law of his members warring and leading him captive against his will c. You shew that you neither know any thing of Paul's condition nor of the law of the inward man for the Law hath power over thoughts and all the thoughts of the wise are vain and so are you vain that would find out the Secrets of the Lord by your vain thoughts but none knows them but those that fear the Lord which is a departing out

to all in that nature Revel 22. This doth to our discernings tend to the establishing of the sayings of them who speak after their trembling fits with an extended voyce Priests as the Oracles of God and leaves us not the liberty of the commended practise of the Bereans to try the sayings of an Apostle by the Scripture Acts 17.11 Your discernings are exceeding carnal Reply that have professed your selves so long to be Ministers of the Gospel and have no tryer but by the Scriptures which are without and are carnal not knowing the same Spirit that spoke forth the Scriptures which was before any Book or writings were and searcheth and tryeth all things even the deep things of God 1 Cor. 2.10 But natural men such as you are receive not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness to them and so are they to you and your discerning is earthly the salt having lost his savour and so you have lost your discerning that hath it without you and not within as the Saints had and have 1 Cor. 2.13.14 But you cannot know the things of God or workings of the Spirit by your carnal reason because they are spiritually discerned And herein you are carnal sottish and brutish and know nothing of the same power that was manifested in those that spoke sorth the Scripture who had the Spirit and the discerning And you that are not acquainted with those trembling fits that you do despise in others are not acquainted neither with the Voyce Power nor Oracles of God therein you do shew forth your ignorance in the work of the Lord and that you are ignorant of the same spirit and power that was in them who had the Oracles of God and spoke them forth as they did that witnessed forth those Scriptures in whom the power of the Lord was manifested As Isaac Gen. 27.37 Moses Heb. 12.21 David Psal 38.8 c. Psal 119.120 and Job 4.14 Chap. 21. ver 5 6. Chap. 37. ver 1. Jer. 23.9 Hab. 3.16 Dan. 10.7 8 11. Ezek. 12.18.26 Chap. 16. ver 32. Chap. 10. ver And Paul Acts 9.3 4 5 6. and Philipians 2.12 13. and the Corinthians 2 Cor. 7.15 c. These and the rest did witness who had the Spirit of God Rom. 8. and the Oracles of God and spoke them 1 Pet. 4. But you do shew that you neither know thepower of God which is the salvation nor the gift of God which is the discerning as they had that spoke forth the Scriptures but your discerning may carry you to that in Acts 17. And see your selves to be as the unbelieving Jews were which were moved with envy at the publishing of the truth by the Spirit that was in Paul as you are by the Declaration of the truth by the same spirit that layeth open your deceits now as his did then and your hearers that have been kept in blindness by you and such like may search the Scriptures as the noble Bereans did and so see you to act the same things that the Jewish High-Priests Scribes and Pharisees did which were enemies to Jesus Christ then as you are now therefore repent and give over deceiving the people The simple Priestr you say believe every word Prov 14.15 but in this case you say that you have learned that the Spirits of the Prophets are subject to the Prophets c. You are wise in your own conceits Reply and know nothing of the simplicity that is pure Being wise to do evil but to do good you have no understanding And you never yet learned the lesson of self-denial nor know nothing of the true Prophetical Office of Christ by divine inspiration in you but have stollen words to speak of and say you have learned but it is but to steal the words of others to trade withal and so are theeves and robbers John 10. that Christ speaks and you never knew the immortal word which was in the beginning for in its arise it will shake down all the loftiness of man dividing asunder both joynts and marrow crushing down all-deceits and deceivableness which you live in and are acted and guided by deceit and so are learned and taught of the Devil the doctrine of deceit But he that doth not righteousness is not of God nor he that loveth not his brother but is of the devil as you are 1 John 3.10 And are Prophets of the deceits of your own hearts as the false prophets were and are subject to the will of the Devil and to deceive the simple but your condemnation will be the greater for the true Prophets you know not but steal their words as the false Prophets did to trade withal but the Lord hath discovered you and laid open your deceits and deceivableness how you lie in wait to deceive the simple and would keep them back from receiving the simple naked truth as it is in Jesus but it is the simple that he doth teach Psal 19.7 8 9. And they recaive his words which are pure and need not your additions nor inventions to gloss them over withal Prov. 30.5 6. Deut. 4.1 2. But all the plagues that are written in the Book are to be added unto you that are not in subjection to the true Prophet the Spirit of truth but are subject to add your own inventions which the plagnes are to Revel 22.18 But that they intend to magnifie their writings and Epistles above or into an equality unto the holy Scriptures Priests G. E. affirmed to I. K. seems very probably in that they put their papers very diligently into one anothers hands but not see the Scriptures and do soms of them say That it is alike for to take a sentence out of their Letters and preach from it R. F. as to take a sentence out of Paul's Epistles c. Here you have shewed forth that you are guided by a lying spirit Reply which makes it good that you are Prophets of the deceits of your own hearts and that you are taught to lie by the Devil the Father of lies John 8.44 in saying that we magnifie our writings above the Scriptures But that which is written from the same spirit that gave forth the Scriptures do witness with their spirits that spoke them forth Zeph. 3. ser 5.30 31. Isai 56.10 11. Mic. 3.11 Mal. 2 c. and have union together as Heb. 12.11 Ephes 5.30.1 John 4.16 17. And cannot but testifie against your deceits as they did against the false prophets then that stole the true Prophets words to trade withal as you steal the Apostles Letters to sell for money which he gave forth to be read amongst his friends at their meetings together 2 Thes 2.1 2. Gal. 6.11 1 Thes 5.27.2 Cor. 1.13 These with the rest of his letters that he sent to his friends and brethren which you are enemies to and are to be marked Phil. 3.17 18. that walks contrary to them And you are to be noted

and preservation and doing all thing to the Praise and Glory of God which tendeth to his Honour who is the Father of the faithful that we own and that we set up 1 Pet 1.14 which tends to purity and righteousness not fashoning our selves like unto the world in obedience to the commands of Jesus Christ knowing that the world and the fashion thereof passeth away and that we may be to the praise of the glory of his Grace who hath redeemed us out of all uncleanness that are of the new-birth 1 Cor. 7.31 and knowing our redemption that was not purchased neither by Silver nor Gold which is corruptable as your minds are but wee are redeemed by the precious Blood of Jesus Christ to serve him in newness of life and newness of conversation and our freedom is in the perfect Law of liberty which you are ignorant of and so are contending for the Devil to cover over deceit and to uphold the abominations and filth of the flesh Prov. 16.17.18 But it is the Lords love to let us see your deceits and to see how you act in darkness and from aspirit of error and you are cloathed with your own inventions and sets up that which God doth throw down and you may and shall be ashamed of the evil of your doings and your contempt to the spirit of truth for your minds are carnal and your worship is carnal and your contentions is carnal which tends to vain janglings which is forbidden And that which is seen is carnal and that which is not seen is eternal And that which is seen is carnal and that which is not seen is eternal And so are you carnally minded whech is death Rom. 8.6 7. and your worship is carnal and perishing Col. 2.20.21 22. and not after Christ and your ministry will never lead up to perfection but is for condemnation But the Ministry of Christ which is after the spirit The Saints Ministry Ephes 4. ● 9 10 11. 12 13. and not of the letter which the letter doth declare of that which tends to perfection that we own to the building up one another in love by the spirit of love which you know not but are ignorant of who lust after envy The Church of Christ we own who are of God in God 1 Cor. 13. The trus Church born again of water and the spirit baptized by one spirit into one body where Christ is the head and the Saints the body 1 Per 2 5. who are of one heart 1 Thes ● 1 Ephes 1 22 23 and one mind which is that we do own Ephes 2.19.20.22 4.4.5.6 But yours that is of confusion and contention strife and debate and are in vain janglings and pride and voluptuonsness which is of Antichrist that we disown The bread which the Saints break dayly and from house to house The spiritual bread which bread is from Heaven and is our life which we have union with 1 Cor. 10.17.18 in whom it is minisested Ioh. 9.33 1 1 Cor. 12. that we do own but you that are carnal and yours that is perishing that we disown The Cup which the Saints drink The cup of blessing which the Scriptures do declare of which is the Blood of Christ and the Cup of Blessing that we do own Iohn 6.53.54.55 56. 1 Cor. 10.15.16.17 and 12.13 But the Cup of Abominations and filthiness of the fornications which you and all the world in their old nature do partake and drink of dayly Reve l. 17 4 5 6. and that which the Gentiles sacrifice they Sacrifice to Devils and not unto God all drinking the cup of Devils 1 Cor. 10.21 which is not of Christ but of Antichrist and that we utterly deny and altogether disown The Baptism which is spiritual Gal. 3.27 28. By one spirit one Body where there is but one faith one Lord one Baptism that we do own Spiritual Baptism and they that are baptized into Christ have put on Christ and are new Creatures cloathed with the Righteousness of Christ and espoused to him and into that union partaking of the fruit of the Vine which is in the new plantation and for the friends of Christ to partake of Joh. 15. Rom. 6. which we have priviledge in and is in order to the spirit of truth which the Scriptures do declare of that union and communion which is spiritual and not carnal that we do own and those whoa re spiritual and not carnal them we own They that are guided by the Spirit of the living God and are made over-seers of the Church by the Holy Ghost and do watch over the weak 1 Cor. 2.8 9 10. Spiritual Overseers and do it freely not by constraint nor for filthy lucre and are grown up into the truth and are able to divide the word of truth aright them we do own and have them in love for their works sake who are in order to the spirit of truth which is the life of the Scriptures But those that are no of the spirit but of the letter and their fleshly imaginations and guided by a spirit of errour and constrained by gifts and rewards as you are them we do disown That Word the word of God which was in the beginning which is the word of life which is the word of power The word of God which is the word of life and is spiritual which is as a two edged sword to the dividing asunder of joynts and marrow and doth discern the thoughts and intents of the heart and is as a fire and a hammar to break the rocks and hard hearts and is to be desired which is the word of comfort that nourisheth up the soul unto Eternal life which word is invisible which is the word of faith which is the engrafted word John 1. Heb. 4 12. Je● 23 29. 1 Pe● 2.2 1 Pe● 1.22 Rom. 10.8 James 1 21 and not the letter which the letter doth declare of which is now the word of power and able to save the soul which worketh out all superfluity of naughtiness which the Scriptures do declare of that word we own but you and your carnal inventions and invitations which are aiery them we disown That faith which is the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ which is a saving and a justifying faith The Saints Fa●th and that faith which purifieth the heart and overcometh the world which leadeth into covenant with God which is the gift of God which is the evidence of things unseen and that hope which is in Christ 1 John 5 4 Heb 11. ●ude 20. 2 Pe● 1. 5 6. c. Phil. 2.3 4 5 6 7 8 and that mind Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus who though he was in the form of a servant thought it no robbery to be equal with God which the Scripture doth declare of and that which is sp●ritual light life peace which passeth understanding joy

things and as unknown and yet well known of the Lord and of all those that are the Lords but of our selves we can do nothing It is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his own good pleasure and is thy eye evil because his is good It is God that doth us justifie and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God to them who are the called according to his purpose Rom. 8.28 29. to the end of the Chapter What would you then have us to continue in sin that grace may abound God forbid for how shall we that are d●ad to sin live any longer therein knowing that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the Glory of the Father even we also shall be raised up to walk in newness of life Rom. 6. Isai 66.12 Truth we own and righteousness we own and all Christian Authority such as is of God we own knowing that the Law is holy 1 Tim. 1.8 9 10. and just and good for the lawless and for the disobedient and that the righteous Magistrate beareth not the Sword in vain neither will he suffer sin to go unpunished Justice such as is pure according to the Command of Jesus Christ that which is for the punishing of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well and all that fear the Lord and make conscience of their ways and doings who hold the mystery of faith in a pure conscience such we do own And think not that we do come to destroy or declare against righteousness but unrighteousness that purity may be set up and righteousness established that deceits and deceivableness and all unrighteousness may be thrown down and Christ the Son of righteousness exalted in the purity of the Gospel this we do own and this we do honour But all deceivers blind guides hirelings Seducers and Antichrists who do not act in righteousness nor abide in the Doctrine of Christ we do disown And all Ranters and Libertines who are without order and spiritual Government who delight in vanities and follow the course and fashions of the world and live in voluptuousness and filthiness of the flesh and those that say and do not and seem to be what they are not speaking fair words and walk contrary in their actions which preach to others liberty and they themselves are the servants of corruption be they what they will be such we disown and utterly do deny and we loath and abhor all manner of evil knowing this That he that doth not righteousness is not of God 1 Iohn 3.10 For God is pure and of purer eyes then to behold iniquity and all Ranters Sects and opin●ons whatsoever we do deny for it is purity that we do honour knowing That he that doth righteousness is of God 1 Iohn 3.7 But such as hold that there is neither God nor Devil good nor evil but what a man doth imag●ne and that good and evil is alike Let me tell them by the Spirit of the living God that they are lyars and guided by a spirit of delusion Now all that love the Lord Jesus Christ have a care and take heed of all such for they are not of Christ but of Antichrist and we do them disown and utterly deny in obedience to the command of the Spirit of truth and according to the Command of our Lord Jesus Christ who saith Have no fellowship with them Ephes 5.11 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret but all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light for whatsoever doth make manifest is light Ephes 5.12 13. Let all the workers of iniquity know That the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6.9 10. Gal. 5.19 20 21. And let them know That the wicked and all that forget God shall be turned into hell Psal 9.17 For the Secrets of the Lord are with them that fear him and the grace of God which bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live righteously soberly and godly in this present evil world Tit. 12.11 12. s o God is thereby dishonoured but he is zealous of his honour with a godly jealousie and he will not give it unto graven Images but will judge the Heathen in righteousness and all are Heathen that know not God by his power ruling in them and he will scatter the proud in all their imaginations and therefore be not deceived for God will not be mocked And saith he If I be a Father where is my honour A son honoureth his father in loving him and walking humbly before him and yeilding obedience to him from love received and a servant he serveth his Master and is in obedience to him in all things Therefore his servants ye are to whom ye do obey Rom. 6.16 And he that commits sin is the servant of sin John 8.33 But know you not that the wages of sin is death but the gift of God to them that love him and serve him in holiness and righteousness is Eternal life a Therefore saith he Be ye holy as I am holy for without holiness no man shall see the Lord profess what they will And It is not every one that saith Lord Lord that shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven saith Jesus Christ but he that doth the will of my Father which is in Heaven And saith he Herein is my Father glorified that ye bring forth much fruit But why call ye me Lord and Master saith he and do not the works that I say Therefore every one that doth profess love to God and Christ be what you speak in all things or else profess nothing at all and be not sayers but doers for to say and not to perform is hypocrisie and dissimulation But hypocrites and dissemblers God will judge and pour forth fury upon the head of the wicked Therefore all that do walk in disorder to the Spirit of truth God doth disown and we do disown but those that walk according to the Spirit of truth and bring forth the fruits of the Spirit as love out of a pure heart fervently peace meekness gentleness goodness temperance and patience godliness and brotherly kindness and such as these which are according to the Spirit of truth Gal. 5.22 23 24 25 26. such we do own and wish grace mercy and peace to all that walk according to this rule and to all the Israel of God And I say as the Apostle did who was a true Minister of Jesus Christ and a man of God who was acted and given by the Spirit of the living God and was hated of the world and both by the Jews Pharisees Sadduces Grecians Libertines and all Sects and opinions which were many as there are now and all in confusion and out of the way but truth it is but one which stands out of all sects and opinions and is in that which is but one where purity is out of all apprehensions and comprehensions in the Eternal Divine Being And it is for the truths sake that we are reproached and so we are made willing to submit to the righteousness of the Spirit And as many as walk according to this rule Peace be on them on the Israel of God From henceforth let no man trouble me For I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ And to all that are Brethren Gal. 6.16 17 18. The Grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with your Spirits Amen This Epistle was written for the Vindication of the Truth By a Friend and Lover of the Truth and a Servant of the Lord Rich. Farnworth FINIS