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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91118	A testimony of God, and his way, and worship against all the false wayes and worships of the vvorld. Also an answer to some of the false doctrines held forth, by a professed minister, in VVales; shewing the unsoundness of his former actions, and is found to be one, in the nature of the vvorld; which sometime he hath spoken against. With an answer to some queries; propounded by one, who is called an Anabaptist. / Given forth for no other end, but in love to the truth, as it is in Iesus: by Alex: Parker.	Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.	1656 (1656)	Wing P383; Thomason E883_6; ESTC R207301	24,030	31

feeling of his sad and miserable condition is arising in him and the witnesse of God reproving him and calling him from his abominations and whoredoms and many times brings him into some trouble yet he sleights his love and hates the reproof and goes on in his rebellious wayes and so treasures up to himself wrath against the day of wrath and revellation of the righteous judgement of God who will render a just reward unto him according to his deeds and here lies all the ungodly world driven from God out of his Covenant out of his peace out of his presence out of his pure love and spiritual worship and are loving and delighting in and worshiping the creature more then the Creator But the Saints and holy men of God who came to witnesse redemption and were in Covenant with God and faith of his Son had passed from death to life and they had put of the body of sin and the old man and his deeds and were created anew being born again of the eternall word which liveth and abideth for ever and their hearts was purified and their consciences purged from dead works and ther bodies made fit Temples holy and pure for the Lord God to dwell in and there was his worship in the spirit in his holy Temple where there is no need of Sun Moon or of Candle but the glory of the Lord fils the Temple and this they witnessed who were redeemed from the earth and were in Christ Jesus where there union joy and fellowship was where there is neither Greek nor Jew circumsition nor uncircumsition Barbarian Scythian bond nor free but Christ is all and in all and the same is the Lord our God now working and bringing to passe even by his own power and outstretched arm is he getting himself the victory what we are we are of and by him he alone it is that worketh in us both to will and to do by his own power made manifest in us and worketh mightily in us whereby wee are made willing to do his will and work and this is all by his Son who of God is made wisdom justification sanctification and redemption he is made unto us all things and through him we can do all things even through the Son of God whom we know is come and hath given us an understanding to know him that is true and wee are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ who is our life our joy our stay and strength by whom we are freed from sin and from our vain conversations which formerly we lived in who hath broken the bond of iniquity and set the oppressed free to praise and glorify his name who alone do praise him the dead cannot praise him it is the living the living that praises him to whom be everlasting praises and glory world without end Amen So I say and declare that if any man say he hath no sin before he come to confesse his sin and to witnesse the power of God cleansing him from his sin he doth dec●ive himself and the witnesse of God in his own conscience will testify against him and be his condemnation But where the living power of God is made manifest to purify and cleanse and to destroy the works of the devil to burn up and consume the old heavens and the old earth which is cursed and brings forth cursed fruits I say where the old is destroyed and the new heaven and the new earth witnessed wherein dwells righteousness Shall we deny the work of God Not far be it from us but to declare his marvailous works which he hath wrought in our dayes to ages and generations to come that they may dread and fear the name of our God and to others who sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death who are wandring astray as sheep without a Shepherd and are feeding upon the husk and spending their money for that which is not bread and their labour for that which doth not satisfy freely from the bowels of tender love to their soules do we declare what the Lord hath done for our soules that they might return home into the Fathers house where there is bread enough to satisfy the hungry thirsting soul that every one may eat their own bread and sit under their own vine and have union and feilowship with us in our fathers love for evermore So in the name of the Lord I do warn all people who read these lines to repent and cease from all their sins and abominations which formerly they have lived in and from all the false and Idolatrous worships of the world which a long time ye have followed and thereby have been deceived and led captive laden with sin but have not come to the true knowledg of God but are still in their old crooked and perverse nature and knows not the Crosse of Christ nor the yoke nor the bridle to the tongue but are at ease in the flesh and can speake their own words and think their own thoughts and do their own works I say return return and hearken diligently to the voyce of the Son of God which cryes for purity and holinesse without which none can see God that thereby your soules may live and may feed upon the dayly bread in the Fathers bosome which whosoever eats of this bread shal never hunger and he that drinks of this cup shall never thirst but it shall be a well of living water springing up unto eternal life so every one wayt in the measure of light which from Christ you have received for the appearance of Christ in you that his life may be made manifest in your mortal bodies for this is the command of God This is my beloved Son hear him and Christ the Son calls and says Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden take my yoke upon you and learn of me I am meek and lowly in spirit and you shall find rest to your soules So all people come freely his love is freely tendred to you sleight not the tender profers of his love but come forth and separate your selves and touch no unclean thing and the Lord will receive you and will be a Father unto you and you shall be his Sons and Daughters mind the pure and still voyce that thereby you may be led into the pure life and pure union and love of the children of light for if you neglect such great salvation woe will be your portion for ever There ore whi●e you have the light believe in the light and work while it is day before the dreadfull night of darkness come when none can work By one who hath seen the deadness and emptiness of all the formal worships and formal profession that stands in the will of man act d in mans will who is returned back into his fathers house and there dwels in rest and peace and hath ceased from his own work written forth in the bowels of love to captive and weary

in the place of Christ as Vavasar Powel doth who calls the Scriptures the Foundation of Faith and the Word of God when plain Scripture doth testify against him and witnesseth Christ to be the Foundation and the Authour and finisher of Faith whose name is called the Word of God Heb. 12.2 Rev. 19 13. Many other Scriptures I might bring that witnesses of the Word of God for all the whole Scriptures being given forth from the word declare of the word and so they are called by the Ministers of the word Luke the first But it hath been a common thing amongst the Professours of our time because wee do not nay dare not set the Scriptures in the place of Christ nor call them by his name to accuse us for denying of the Scriptures but their accusation wee do deny and let our lives and conversations which wee live in Christ Jesus be witnesses for the Lord and for us herein and I appeal to the conscience of all the honest hearted in the nation to judge whether those who talk so much of Scripture and calls it the Word of God and their Rule to walk by and they themselves live in pride and covetousnesse strife and envy wrath malice stubbornesse and crosnesse backbiting and speaking evill one of another behind their backs foolish jesting idle communication vain sports and pleasures and in the customes and fashions of the world little or nor at all differing from them in any thing but in words which things the Scripture testifies against or those who live in the fear of God in meeknesse and humility and cannot fashion themselves according to the world nor use the vain customes and traditions of men who cannot bow to the rich nor respect the persons of those who were the gay cloathing and the gold Ring no more then the poor man in the vile Rayment which of these doth deny the Scriptures those who talke of them and live not in the life of them or those whose lives and conversations are according to them let the wise in heart Judge A. P. An answer to some Queries given to my hands which were propounded by one who goes under the name of an Anabaptist living in Shrewsbury SOme Queries I have received from one who subscribes his name Richard Stephens wherein he saith the intent of his writing is to be better informed in things wherein he is not satisfied But in the Light of Jesus he is comprehended and seen to be of that Generation who cryed up the Commands and the Ordinances of God as Temple Sabbath Circumcision Priests Sacrifices Scriptures and the like and said they were of Abraham and God was their Father and they builded the Tombs of the Prophets and garnished the sepulchre of the righteous and condemned their fore-fathers saving if we had lived in their dayes we would not have killed the Prophets and yet these crucified the Son of God and they did not believe in him who was the light the Covenant of the Father the sum and substance of those things which they upheld which were but figures tipes and shadows yet in their time Commands of God and were to bee observed and kept yet those who had these outward Commands did not believe in the Light but were by Christ the Light cryed woe against and those who believed in the Light and followed Christ denyed those outward Commands and had no Scripture for it but the testimony of the light within them which was a hard thing in those times to deny the Commands in the letters for the Jews and Chief Priests had Scripture to uphold them and counted the Apostles deceivers and a cursed people that knew not the Law But by the mighty power of God they were carried on and witnessed against the outward Commands and cryed against them that upheld them and witnessed the Commands of God and the worship of God in the spirit and their bodies wa● Temples of the Holy Ghost and God dwelt in them so the new Covenant they witnessed the Law of God written in their hearts and the spirit put in the inward parts which was their guide in the spiritual worship and these denyed those things which once were Commands of God which were outward and typical and it was no breach of the Commands of God to them but obedience to the commands of the Spirit of God in them by which they witnessed against the shadows and witnessed the substance And a generation there is now of which this man that gave forth these Queries is one who hath gotten the good words the Scriptures and painted themselves over with a covering like the spirit but is not the spirit and these cry up the Church of Christ and the ordinances of Christ and condemnes the Jewes their fore-fathers for crucifying of Christ and yet they are found in the same nature who deny the light and counts them deceivers and a cursed generation who are in the light who with the light deny their imitated Churches and taken on commands which it no more but a will worship and a self righteousnesse which stands in the will of man which is as filthy rags and as menstruous cloathes seen they are and comprehended in the light of Christ to be under the woe out of the Covenant of our God and here is the ground of all the sects and opinions and the many Religions Man living in his will and professing the Scriptures which came not by the will of man but contrary to mans will here man in his will is giving his pr●vate meanings and interpretations and one he gives one meaning to the Scriptures and sets up a Religion and a worship of God according to his meaning and conceiving from the letter of the Scripture in his will Another he gives another meaning and sets up another worship and a Religion according to his meaning and conceiving from the Scriptures and so a third gives his meaning and so are divided into many sects and opinions and these are the Babel builders one building up a wall and another daubing with untempered morter and these are out of the faith and union of the Saints who walk in the light and have union and fellowship in the spirit of love written in one anothers heart and so are all of one heart But the other who stands in their wills and imitates and takes on commands in their own wills as their imaginations thoughts and conceivings leads them are not all of one heart but are divided and some sprinkle water on the face of a child and calls that Baptizme and others deny that and are dipped over head and ears in water and calls that Baptizme and then they call themselves Beleevers and Saints and so run to the letter of the Scripture and reading with a wrong eye are still in confusion and more and more divisions there is a mongst them some are called free-willers or that hold generall redemption that Christ died for all and some are called particulars that

from sin upon their owning of the light within and so cannot sin any more while they live in this flesh Ans The Scriptures are not forsaken by those who own the light but with the light the words are owned and all those denyed who talk of the good words and professe the Scriptures to be their rule but live not in the pure life but walk contrary to the Scriptures and as there is a waiting in the light there is a growth up from strength to strength and from glory to glory untill the perfect day But those who live in the flesh cannot prease God whose faith is not perfect but is reprobate concerning the faith of Christ and such cannot believe that ever they shall be made perfect or free from sin while they live upon the earth and without faith it is impossible to please God Qu. VIII VVhether or no the first Resurrection spoken of Revel 20.6 be in this life yea or nay And if it be whether hath all that walk by the light within them part in the first resurrection so soon as they own that light and if they have then whether or no is it not possible that they may forsake the light and walk in darknesse and so come to cast of the second death which they that come to partake of the first resurrection shall never cast of or is not the testimony of that place of Scripture true Answ Concerning the first resurrection spoken of Rev. 20.6 it is not in that life that thou lives in which gave forth these queries But those who dwelt in the light and were in the faith had passed from death to life and in the new life it is known which is in Christ Jesus who is the resurrection and the life on such the second death hath no power and such hath part in the first resurrection and are blessed But thou hast wronged the Scripture and so it shall be a witnesse against thee which testimony is true witnessed by the same spirit that gave forth the Scripture Qu. IX VVhether or no that body of flesh of Christ that suffered at Ierusalem upon the Cross which Joseph of Arithmathea begged of Pilate and buried in his own sepulchre rose again the 3. day after it was buried whether the same body of flesh be now glorified in Heaven with the Father These few Queries I have written unto you who are called by the name of Quakers I have not written them to any particular person of you but to whomsoever of you shall be free to give me an answer of them in particular in truth according to your understanding in them I have not written them in any intent but onely to be better informed in things wherein I am not informed in things wherein I am not satisfied from him who wisheth good to all and hurt to none Richard Stephens Answ In this query thou art disputing and querying about the body of Jesus as the devil disputed about the body of Moses But it is a mistery hid from all dark understandings who hate the light that comes from Jesus which is the eye that sees him who is invisible which all who love their evill deeds and hate the light never shall know nor see but are shut out and with the light condemned Thou must first own the light that shewes thee the body of sin and so pass through the death of the crosse whereby the body of sin is put of and crucified then shalt thou know with what body Christ is glorified in Heaven with the Father Godliness is a great mistery not known to the world nor to the earthly wisedom but the secrets of God are with them that fear him the spirit searcheth all things yea the deep and hidden things of God So in the fear of God I do exhort thee to return unto God and mind that principle of God in thee that reproves thee in secret for thy evill deeds there is thy Teacher if thou love it to guide thee to God but if thou hate it and live according to the course of this world it will be thy comdemnation Prize thy time while thou hast it VVritten by one who is a lover of all those that love the truth in simplicity and sincerity of heart who is known to the world by the name of Alexander Parker but hath a new name which the world knows not written in the Book of Life FINIS