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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

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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 burdensom stone to all Nations now that Christ is unto his People both the Light and the 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 ●eviling and falsly accusing them and calleth them Quakers in and about York-shire Iuly 1653. LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the black spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1654. To you who suffer for Righteousness and walks in the light about Beverley and elsewhere who love the Lord Jesus Christ Christian Friends AS you have received the Lord Jesus Christ so walk in him and let the love of God be an Ingagement upon your spirits to love the Lord Jesus with all your hearts and walk as children of the light and of the day not in darkness but in light and let the pure light of God in you which is the free gift of God that sheweth darkness and Infidelity lead you and guide you which the Priests about your Beverley faith it doth not shewing that they are ignorant of Christ and doth mightily dishonor the Lord Jesus that say they witness that he or the Light of God which sheweth sin and darkness sheweth not unbelief But all you that know the Lord Jesus made manifest unto your souls and in the Divine discovery of his love by the Divine unfoldings of the Divine light of his holy and blessed spirit which is as the key of David and doth unlock or unsold the Divine misteries of the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus in the souls of his Saints which these dry Vines are ignorant of you may witness against them therefore my beloved in the Lord Iesus Christ who are my Epistles written in my heart not with paper and inck which is but carnal and mortal and perishing which wears and fades away but you are written not with pen and ink but by the Spirit of the living God in the fleshly tables of the heart so that you may manifestly declare your selves to be the Epistles of Christ to be seen and read of all men you that are in union and fellowship with him who are dispersed and scattered abroad from the rudiments of the world but in the Vine of the Lords free love therefore live in love one with another edifying one another in love that so you may build up one another in the most holy Faith laboring in the Power and Strength of the Lord and by the spirit of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ that you my hearts that are as Cedars of Lebanon may labor by the Power of God in you to lead up others as you have been led by the Light of God in you which leadeth into Christ the perfection and beauty of holiness that you may be to the praise of the glory of his Grace who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light to testifie against the dark Ministry of the world as well any where else where it shall be made manifest unto you as it is now in and about Beverley and let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorifie your Father which is in Heaven even the Father of lights and the Father of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ that whereas these your enemies that speak evil of you and say a little time will bring it forth that so by your Godly conversations and upright walkings you may glorifie the Lord and put to silence the foolishness of ignorant men and testifie against blind guides false Prophets Seducers and Antichrists and that you may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the height depth and length of the Love of God and to be comprehended into that which is Incomprehensible dwelling in the light where there is Immortality that so you may be able to give a reason of the hope that is in you which is Christ the hope of glory Col. 1.27 and he that hath this hope in him purifyeth himself even as he is pure 1 Iohn 3.1.2 It is in the behalf of all the Godly dispersed ones that suffer under the name of Quakers that I have written this as well as my self So commending you to the Lord God of power even the Father of lights I remain a friend and lover of all that love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity and truth Rich. Farneworth Iuly 1653. An Epistle to the Reader Reader I would not have set pen to paper had I not seen the truth much defamed by those that stand in opposition against it and seek to defame it and strangle it by their faln wisdom and pride and fleshly boastings where envy is hatched so that the Dragon casts out floods of waters of revilings after the woman that brings forth the man-child but the Eaath is made to help the woman and the child is caught up to Heaven with God where it is preserved and kept safe as in a City of refuge and wait but upon God in patience a while and thou wilt see great things for the Lord is bringing to pass his act his strange act that is Prophecyed and foretold of and the destruction and downfal of Antichrists Kingdom that the Kingdom of Jesus Christ may be established in power and shine forth in brightness and the Lord leading forth his People in Power and Majesty and going before his ancients gloriously and he will be their rereward and the Kingdoms of the World shall be the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ the Beast makes war with the Lamb but the Lamb shall overcome prevail and get the victory Read this little ensuing Treatise and give thy Christian attention in the reading and take heed how thou dost pass thy Judgment If thou have not a spirit of discerning least thou Judg false and Judgment return into thine own besom it may be that thou mayst find something in it hard to be digested by thy carnal wisdom take heed of calling truth railing for all deceit must be cursed burned and cut down by the Sword of the Spirit that so the pure seed may be raised up the blessing to inherit Leave not till thou hast read it over and if thy mind stand free and thy Judgment cleare It will some deceits and deceivableness of the man of sin more cleerly and fully unto thee discover So farewel in the Lord and the Lord give
Christ 2 Thes 1.8 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power when he shall be glorified in his Saints which glorification you are ignorant of 2 Thes 1.9 10. And you are so far from being new creatures that you are alive in unrighteousness and live in the old corrupt nature not knowing them that are born again but have your witness without you A Chapter or a verse of the Saints Declaration not knowing the power of Christ within who is our sanctification who of God is made unto us wisdom sanctification and redemption and so our glorying is in the Lord as theirs was who were made new creatures 1 Cor. 1.30 31. But you say If any man contend to destroy your faith Priest and slight the Person of your glorified Saviour for some of them you say Say Christ without will do you no good and you heap the Scriptures together to talk of but know neither Jesus nor his glorification c. Your faith is corrupt Reply that is outward and carnal and is for destruction Let me tell you That Christ you are ignorant of and his glorification and know nothing of the offering that is spoken of in that Heb. 10. For they that spoke it forth were sanctified souls that had followed the leadings of the Lamb which you persecute And are as those were that is spoken of in Heb. 10.11 Priests that stand daily offering that which will never take away sin even your own inventions and you are of the number of those Priests in Heb. 7.27 offering up daily your own inventions and all your prayers and sacrifices that you offer up in your corrupt nature is an abomination to the Lord and you do not abide in the Doctrine of Christ John 2.9 but are Seducers and Antichrists And believers are forbiden to receive your brain study and diabolical subtilty into their hearts but to beware of you and such as you are that teach for doctrine traditions of men and steals the words of others to trade withal whited walls and painted sepulchres saith the Apostle to the Ephesians Let no man deceive you with vain words such as you are that live by vain imaginations lest they be partakers of the evil For because of these things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of disobedience Ephes 5.6 And believers are forbidden to receive such as you into their houses who deny sanctification by Christ in them which was the Apotles Prayer and Doctrine who said And I pray God sanctifie you throughout and he that abideth in the doctrine of Christ hath fellowship with the Father and the Son but he that abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God but his own imaginations and inventions gilded notions and glorious expressions which are but aiery and to feed aiery minds withal which doctrine is under the curse and is not to be received but to be holden a coursed and the curse is upon both you and your doctrine and the vengeance of God hang● over you for your deceivableness that run but the Lord never sent you and you do not profit the people at all and both you and your blessings are accursed and your seed is corrupt the seed of the Serpent in you as theirs was that Malichi was sent to Mal. 2.1.2 to the 10 your mind is carnal and your Ministry is carnal and corrupt and you are ignorant of Christ the power of God unto salvation and you trample the blood of Christ underfoot the blood of the covenant that speaketh better things then that of Abel and knows nothing of eating that flesh and drinking that blood that is spoken of in Ioh. 6.53.54.55 c. no more then the Jews did and your faith that is outward is corrupt and doth not purifie but is corrupt and is unprofitable and not l●ke the precious faith of those that are made to pertake of the Divine nature Christ in us which faith is tryed and maketh us that we are neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledg of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 1.3 to 9. And as our faith stands in the Divine Power of God so yours stands in the letter which is carnal and the bread which you break is carnal and you are ignorant of the glorification that is spoken of in Joh. 17.10 and of that bread which is the Body of Christ for the bread which we break is the Body of Christ and the Cup which we drink is the Blood of Christ and our union is with him in the Vine Ioh. 15.1 Cor. 10.15.16.17 and by one spirit are we baptized into one body and are made to drink into one sp rit as the Saints were 1 Cor. 12.13 where there is but one faith one Lord one Baptisme one God and Father of us all Ephes 4.4.5 those spiritual Ordinances and that spiritual Body Supper and Administrations and that spiritual Sabath of which Christ is Lord and that spiritual Worship that is in that one spirit Ioh. 4.23.24 and all the Offices in every Church member and spiritual Order in that spiritual Church which is made all of living Stones elect and precious where Christ is exalted in his Kingly Office do we own set up and honour and herein you shew forth your lyes and flatteries subtilties and deceits and you live in deceit and disorder to the spirit of truth having the form but wants the powet all your fine notionary expressions and gilded pretences is for the fire and so we commend our selves to the Lord Jehovah who is both the heart searcher and tryar even the Lord our righteousness But your traditions customes and rudiments and inventions which is after the will of man and not after God we do deny and against them all testifie that you are but as sounding brass and t●nkling Cymbals without either life or power and that 's the reason why you do so bite and devour and are ye not carnal and knows not the things of the spirit of God which is spiritually to be discerned 1 Cor. 13. 2.12.13 14. herein you are carnal and shews the spirit of error Further Quest say they This light before mentioned is pure Your question there i● Priest How doth vain man justifie that which God doth condemn And you say That some would perswade you that nature is not corrupt c. H●re you shew that your minds are vain Reply and your hearts are corrupt and that light is your condemnation which stands out of all your comprehensions for light shineth in darkness but darkness comprèhendeth it not Ioh. 1. and that will shew your corrup●ions and your evil deceitful hearts and let you see the vanity of your minds and your evil perswasions that arise hour of your evil hearts from whence your faln wisdom which is earthly carnal and devilish ariseth which is out of covenant with God and stands in enmity and opposition to the
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
thee understanding and lead thee into his marvelous light that thou mayst know the truth as it is in Jesus R F. Light risen out of Darkness now in these latter days Which is the cause of such Persecution Therefore Thus saith Iesus Christ blessed are they that suffer for righ teousness sake for ' theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Mat. 5.10.11.12 and again saith he blossed are you when men revile you and perfecute you and say all wanner of evil against you all manner of evil not some but all but saith he rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward for so perseruted they the Prophets which were before you and saith he the time will come that they shall put you out of their Synagogues and they that kill you will think that they do God good service Ioh. 16.1 AS it hath been largely manifested in and about Beverley by them of the Priests party when any was moved of the Lord to go speak in their Synagogue against the deceits that were upheld by them they haled them forth and gave them into the hands of the rude people who did use them most barbarously and had not the Lord been gracious unto them they would even have swallowed them up quick but such was the rage of the Priests party in and about Beverley that the Servants of the Lord suffered much persecution by them as it is well known but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled as David said The wrath of man shall praise thee and the remainder of wrath thou wilt restrain such is the goodness of the Lord to his poor despised people now in these days of persecution for the persecutors are the Priests and their associates they act in the same state and condition as the Iewish high Priest and Scribes and Pharisees did to Jesus Christ when he came in the flesh to fulfil the Law and to put an end to the first Covenant that he might establish a second the new Covenant upon better premisses but as it was then so is it now the Iewish high Priests and the fair-sayers did then persecute Christ and his Apostles and haled them out of their Synagogues and bear them and stoned them for witnessing forth the truth as it is left upon record in these places of Scripture See Acts. 4 1 2 3 4 5 6. See vers 15.16.17.18.19 Act. 6.9.10 to the end Act. 7 57. to the end read Acts. 17. with certain other places And that Christ is coming in spirit to manifest his power and love and to gather his dispersed ones together that hath been scattered by the proud Priests in the cloudy and dark day as in Ezek. 34. The Lord is now fulfilling his promises in gathering them together out of all Kindreds Tongues and Nations that they may come to worship the Lord in his holy Mount where the Mountain of the Lords House is to be established on the top of the Mountains above all humane wisdom and carnal reason to worship the Lord in spirit and in truth in his Holy Temple at new Ierusalem where the Tabernacle of God is and shall be with men of pure hearts and the Na●ions that are saved shall walk in the glorious light and liberty of the Sons of God to serve him in a new and living way consecrated for us by his Son redeeming us by his own blood purchasing to himself a peculiar people to praise and glorify his great and glorious Name that he may rule in us by his own power and set up the Kingdom of his Son in our hearts who is our peace-maker breaking down the middle wall of pertition bringing us nigh unto him by his blood reconcileing us in one body by the Cross slaying the enmity thereby preaching peace to us by his spirit so that we through him have a free access by one spirit unto the Father and are made fellow Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God being built upon the foundations of the Prophets and Apostles Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner Stone and the chief builder in us and through us throwing down the first building of humane wisdom and carnal reason building us up into union with himself in the makings forth of his love to us through the unfoldings of the divine mystery of his love which is Christ in us the hope of glory in whom all the building spiritually groweth unto an holy Temple in the Lord Ephes 2.14 to the end being builded together by the divine power of God working in us who maketh our bodies temples of the Holy Ghost to sound forth his holy praise he ruling in his Temple and dwelling in his habitation even in our souls where his delight is causing us to delight in him to do his will in declaring and testifying against all deceits and deceivableness whatsoever And now the Priests are found the greatest deceivers and upholders of the deceits as their fruits makes them manifest and they labour every wayes to destroy the work of God that he is working in his Saints and they are the greatest persecuters of him in his Saints as it hath been largely manifested by the Priests party in and about Beberley in reviling beating and stoning the children of the Lord. But the Lord will plead the cause of his own people himself alone and then wo to the wicked and all that acts in unrighteousness For thus saith the Lord Ah I will ease me of mine enemies and avenge me of mine adversaries And saith he Wo to them that offends one of these little ones that believe in me it were better that a milstone were hanged about their necks and that they were cast into the sea The occasion of this my writing was upon the reading of a Book that was written by the Priests in and about Beverley by name Ioseph Kellat Iohn Pomroy Paul Glisson c. 1. Wherein is discovered the subtilty of the Serpent that lodgeth in them and a theevish spirit in them stealing the words of the Saints to trade withal for money which is their Dianah but are ignorant of the Saints life and practise as their fruits doth make them manifest for it is not unknown to many the debths of their deceits and how great sufferings there hath been to the people of God by them Of the Priests Confederates Antichrist and his upholders in and about Beberley which the wo is to as it was pronounced to them in that nature in Matth. 23. 2. Antichrist the man of sin is exalted in those dissembling Priests who are as the painted Harlot and scarlet coloured Whore that is spoken of by John in the Revelations that deceive the Nations by their glorious notions and gielded pretences which is for the fire the whorish nature in them being full of flatteries having a golden Cup full of abominations and filthiness of her fornications which the Wrath and the Plagues is to 3. These dissembling Priests painted Sepulchres are full of deadly poyson and are not
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
false Apostles stealing the words of the true Apostles to trade withal and are vainly puft up by your fleshly minds intruding into those things you have not seen Col. 2.18 but live by conceivings and Imaginations if's and may be 's and so feed on husks and outsides not holding the head from which all the body by joynts and bands where nourishment comes in from the Divine appearance and glorious administration of the spirit of truth being administred by the spirit which causeth an Increase with the Increase of God Col. 2.19 which you are ignorant of that are alive and lives in the rudiments of the world which are perishing Col. 2.20 21 22. which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship c. Verse 23. and here you are and out of the head where the life is and you are Apostated and are out of the life of the truth guided by your own wills and following the Imaginations of your own hearts and are of the number of those that the Apostle speaks of in 2 Cor. 11.13.14 for he had a free spirit and was chargeable to no man 2 Cor. 11.9 but in all things kept himself for being burdensome but you are out of that condition that are chargeable and burdensome and have not the same spir t that the Apostle had who had the Lord Jesus Christ revealed in him and spoke by Divine Revelation Gal. 1. but you speak by humane invention and brain study and so lives and acts in deceit intruding by your inventions into those things you have not seen and so are contrary to the Apostle both in that 2 Cor. 11.10.11 and that of Gal. 1.11.12 15.16 but you are in your own Inventions and are Apostated out of the truth that do not speak immediately from the Mouth of the Lord as the Apostles did and so you preach your own flatteries and deceits but what is the chaff to the wheat saith the Lord or what is the form to the power you sifted chaff or fine painted expressions is for the fire and all your formings and imaginations must be burnt you speak your own words and not the Words of the Lord and he is against you Ier. 23.29 30 31 32. and you that bring another Doctrine then to know the power and light and life within as the Apostle did you are to be held accursed and you are under the curse Gal. 1.8 9 10. And whereas you say Quest you will proceed to enquire into that doctrine which saith The light in you held forth by those you in scorn and derision call Quakers and which light doth enlighten every man that cometh into the world is Christ You make enquiry and say What then is become of the Person of the Mediatour in 1 Tim. Chap. 2. ver 5. and Heb. 7.24 c. Were you but acquainted with the life of the Scriptures Reply which is Christ in us the hope of glory Col. 1.27 whom the Apostle which was a Gospel-Minister did preach warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom to know the Mediatour within him Chr st the power of God unto salvation and he did labour mightily by the power of God the Mediatourship Christ revealed in him that he might present every man perfect in Christ Jesus Col. 1.28 29. That their hearts might be comforted being knit together in love which love is Christ the divine power of righteousness who is the Mediatour of the New Covenant to bring the soul into the riches of the full assurance of understanding to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ Col. 2.2 3. Which had you tead on in that 1 Tim. 2.5 in the verse following it would have answered you in that thing Herein you shew your ignorance in the things of God and are blind and cannot see and you shew that you are ignorant of the same Ministery that the Apostle held forth teaching them-to know Christ in them Col. 1.27 2 Cor. 13.5 and the life in them And he was the Minister of the Gospel and had the power in him and laboured by that power in him his Ministery was not of man but of God as he did certifie to the Brethren Gal. 1.11 12. And his Exhortation was not of man but of God and he was bold in God to speak unto them the Gospel or power of God Christ in him which you here shew your selves to be ignorant of that asketh what is become of Christ have you lost him or is not the lust head in you and the Prince of the power of the air head in you and so your doctrine is of deceit and the Gospel is hid from you 2 Cor 4.1.2.3 4 5. And so you are full of uncleanness and of guil and contrary to the Apostle in that 1 Thes 2.3 who was allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel not as to please men as you do but he did please God who tryeth the heart and he neither used flattering words nor covetousness as you do that are ignorant of this spiritual Gospel he took God to witness it 1 Thes 2.4 5 6 7 8 9 10. See how ignorant you are of these things ye blind guides that knows not that the first Adam was made a living Soul and the second a quickening Spirit and is Lord from Heaven and that Christ is the same yesterday to day and for ever Heb. 13.8 And had you read on in Heb. 7.24 25. would have told you that he is able to save to the utmost all that come unto God by him who ever liveth to make intercession for them and he is the way the truth and the life and no man can come to the Father but by him Herein you shew your ignorance in the life of the Scriptures that are ignorant of the letter which is without life as said Jesus to the Jews and self conceited hypocrites Such as you are search the Scriptures for in them ye think ye have Eternal life saith he and so do you but saith he they do but testifie of me saith Christ I am the life and ye will not come to me that ye may have life John 5.39 40. And so you l ve in the shadow of things wanting the substance are blind and cannot see therefore wo to you ye blind guids who follow the imaginations and deceits of your own hearts for Christ is yet a mystery unto you and the Med atour you know not For we are come to Mount Sion and unto the City of the living God the Heavenly Ierusalem and to an innumerable Company of Angels and to the spirits of just men mads perfect the general Assembly of the Church of the first-born writen in Heaven and to Iesus the Mediatour of the New Covenant Heb. 12.22 23 24. Herein you are exceeding carnal and the natural man knows not the things of God because they are spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2.14 And whereas you say Priest Doth not
of iniquity and out of vain and evil thoughts which you live in and so you are ignorant of the Apostles experience that would be finding it out by thought which is vain and so your life that you live by thought is vain for the just he lives by faith which is the evidence of things unseen which you shew your selves to be ignorant of The Apostle he spoke forth his experiences as he passed through them from death to life and as he was made free by the Body of Christ and said I thank God who hath given me victory through Jesus for the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made him free from the Law of sin and death and he was made more then a Conquerour and was crucified to the world and the world to him and he had Christ living in him and so knew both the life and power of Christ manifested in him which he did w●●ness and he hath left upon record which life and power you are ignorant of and would be aspiring to know his conditions with your vain imaginations but the life and experience of them is hid from all such vulterous eyes and venomous beasts as you are though you can steal his words to trade withal yet you are strangers to that life which was made manifest in Paul and you cannot know it whilest you I ve in the lust and filth of the flesh and in the broad way and in the fall and like theeves you have stoln the declarations of Pauls experiences and the rest to make a trade withal such Sir Simons as you which buy and sell the letter which is carnal for carnal money but the gift of God which is the Holy Ghost that you know not and so you are children of disobedience and are hasting to fill up your measure that destruction might come upon you and fire fall down from Heaven to burn up all your chaff and stoln expressions for the Lord he will and is now gathering his wheat into his garner but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire all your forms and chaff and corrupt dealings is for the fire and wrath of the Almighty and the coming of Christ you know not but are carnal and corruptible and if the last enemy be death that is to be destroyed what is the first you run on but turn you back again and hasten not into your self wills which are for destruction and your fl shly wisdom which is for condemnation and look into that 2 Pet. 3.12 which you have made such haste to and in the latter end of the verse you may read that the face of the Lord is against you and all such evil doers as you are pag. 16. And see how you are hasting to an ungodly corrupt conversation and are neither of the mind nor the same spirit that they were of that spoke forth that 3d Chapter of the Philippians though you have made great haste to steal their Letters or Epistles to trade withal but see what the Holy Ghost spoke through Paul to such as you are who are to be marked that do not follow their example in life and conversation but are enemies to the Cross of Christ as you are and instead of Phil. 3.21 Let it lye where it is and run not over but take your own reward that which is ●ue to you and such as you are whose end is destruction whose God is their belly whose glory in their shame who mind earth things as you do Phil. 3.18 19. And now you Foxes and subul Serpents you are found out of your holes of earthly conceiving inventions and imaginations and are to be whipt with the smal scourge of the righteous judgmen●s of the Lord for the accuser of the brethren is head in you which you speak of in your 17 page Thus saith the Lord Wo to the Idol Shepherds such as you are that ran but the Lord n●ver sent you and you are unprofitable and do not profit the people at all Jer. 23. read that over and s●e where you are and you may see that a whirlwind is to fall grievously upon all such as you are that speak a vision of your own heart and not from the mouth of the Lord and that preach for hire as you do as in Jer. 5.30 31. holding up that which is an abomination in the eyes the Lord but wo is your portion that feeds you with the fat and clothes you with the wool God will feed you with judgement read Ezek. 34. And wo to them that take counsel but not of me and that cover with a covering but not of my Spirit saith the Lord that they may add sin unto sin as you do that are covered with your own inventions the wo s to you read Isai 30. And you blind leaders of the people cause them to erre Isai 31. and Isai 9.16 So that there is like Priest like people Hos 4.9 Therefore wo to you and all blind guides Matth. 23. The Lord is against you Moreover Quest they admonish that we wait in silence until God open our mouths We answer If that were the end or intent of this admonition Priests to shew to man his dependancy on God c. Herein you shew your selves to be ignorant of the same Spirit that they had that spoke forth the Scriptures Reply whose dependancy was of God and waited upon him for to move in them by his holy Spirit and to put words into their mouths to speak as the Prophets and Apostles did witness as you may read at large in their Declaration For holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1.19 20 21. And those that speak now and speak not by the same movings of the Holy Ghost speaking in them and through them as they did are false Prophets such as you are as in 2 Pet. 2. Who know not the gift of God which is as fire but speak their own words and imaginations from others writings as you do that say none speaks immediately from God now as the Apostles did Herein you shew that you never knew God nor any gift of his but have all this time spoken your own inventions and vain repetitions and not from the mouth of the Lord and now in due time you have laid it open to the view of all that are learned and grounded in the truth who are not unlearned nor untaught of God as you are that wrest the Scriptures to your own destruction being led away with the errour of the wicked as you are and know nothing of the growth in grace as they did which spoke fo●th the Scriptures which I witness the life of and see you where you are in your inventions and imaginations wresting the Scripture being untaught of God following your own thoughts and imaginations 2 Pet. 3.16 1. But we know God by divine inspiration and know him speaking immediately in us by his Son and who are his sheep hear his
voyce John 10.4 5. And so know you to be ravening wolves ranging into you own inventions and ravening into old Authours and stealing the Saints Declarations to speak of and so get your lesson before-hand what to say but the Apostles did not so And such vain ravenous minds as yours are I do deny and now you have made your selves manifest that you were never taught of God but he will bruise you all with his iron rod. 2. We know that we are taught of God by his Holy Spirit as he hath promised and now is fulfilling and qualifying his Son in his Saints John 14. and hath prayed for us ver 16 17.26 And we do now find the efficacy of his prayer to and in our souls and our union is with him in that which he hath prayed for John 16.23 24 25 26 27. And he is now the same that he was Heb. 13.8 John 17.20 to the end But our life is not in the letter as yours is but in the spirit and in the power 3. And we know that no man can come to the Father but by Jesus Christ the light of the world who is a mystery to the carnally minded ones such as you are who would find out the mystery by your fallen wisdom and studied our knowledg which is for the fire for no man can come unto God but by this Jesus whom we preach which is Christ in us the life and substance of all the Scriptures Col. 1.27 c. And no man knoweth the Son but the Father neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him who calls for obedience in whom he is man festing his love and faith Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden But you are not burdened with your sins that do delight in them and so your rest is in the fl●sh and carnal wisdom which must be shaken but mine is in the Lord Jesus Christ in obedience to the Cross who hath set me at liberty from the servitude of sin to serve him having been taught of him as the truth is in Jesus and have rest unto my soul through the divine unfoldings of his love Matth. 11.27 28 29. 4. And we know That God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in times past unto the Fathers by his Prephets hath in these last dayes spoken to us by his Son whom he hath appointed heir of all things by whom also he made the world who being the brightness of his glory and the express Image of his person we are reconciled to him by his blood and are upholden by his power Heb. 1.1 2 3. To him alone be praise honour and glory both now and for evermore Vnless we think Priests as the Doctrine implyes That the Motions of the Spirit are the only rule of duty c. Herein you shew your judgement is carnal and not spiritual that would try the motions of the Spirit by your corrupt thoughts Reply which are of the earth earthly and you have neither salt nor tryer born up in your understandings to try withal as the Saints had that spoke forth the Scriptures but your tryer is a Chapter or a verse of their Declaration which you experience nothing of that live by thoughts and doubtings and so you know nothing real and he that doubts is damned you and your doctrine is for condemnation For the spiritual man judgeth all things yet he himself is judged of no man And there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk in the spirit 1 Cor. 2.15 16. Rom. 8.1 But you are carnal and are guided by your own corrupt wills and your doctrine is accursed and you walk in crooked paths wh●ch lead to destruction All people that have any care of your souls take heed to your souls and follow not these blind guides Iohn Pomroy Paul Clisson Ioseph Kellat c. lest they lead you to destruction take warning betime for they are blind leaders of the blind and see what Jesus Christ saith in Matth. 15.14 And hold them not up nor receive them into your houses neither bid them God speed lest you be partakers of their evil deeds Mat. 15.14 2 Iohn 9.10 11. Whereas you say That to the best of your understandings Priests you judge the Asserters to be against any constant Preacher or Course of prayer so allowing every man and woman liberty in Assemblies to teach or pray c. Here the best of your understanding is carnal Reply and your judgement is the same and so you have nothing to do to judge or to search out the Sa●nts liberty by your subtilties for the natural man knows not the things of God and your understanding is earthly and your judgement is for condemnation which is not infallible And the salt having lost its favour is good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under foot Matth. 5. And so your judgement is cast out and shall never enter into the inward Court but must be trodden under foot and your corrupt wills are for destruction and you are for condemnation because you love not the light the Lord Jesus Christ Therefore be accursed 1 Cor. 16.22 2. Preaching we own and the Ministry of Christ we own and the Course of prayer by the same spirit we own and we do not allow any to speak but the man in us Christ Jesus who is the Ministry of the Sanctuary and preacheth glad tydings and we own his voyce and his Ministry in any and know his voyce from the voyce of strangers such as you are that are enemies to him we disown and do deny 3. You are carnal and corrupt and would be Lords over Gods Heritage but you must be cast out and all such Foxes that spoil the Vines You say that we allow any liberty in the Assemblies c. 4. Are you so sottish know you not that the head of every man is Christ and where he is exalted must his mouth be muzzled in any In the true Church all might speak one by one in the spirits administration who were acted and guided by the spirit to a spiritual order in all things but yours is carnal Let them that pray pray with the spirit the understanding also and every one may speak as they have received 1 Cor. 14. And as every man hath received the Gift so minister the same one to another as good Stewards of the manifold Graces of God that God in all thingt may be Glorified through Jesus Christ to whom he Praise and Dominion for ever and ever 1 Pet. 4.10 11. herein you shew your selves to be carnal and know not that the manifestation of the spirit is given to every one to profit withal 1 Cor. 12. and that no man can call Jesus Lord but by the Holy Ghost and for that 1 Tim. 2.12 Rom. 16.1 and Phil. 4.3 Act. 21.9 and it will let you see that your Judgment is