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A60661 The true light shining in England, to give unto all her inhabitants the knowledge of their ways wherein they may behold things past, and things that are, and thereby come to repentance, and escape that which is to come : also, something demonstrated concerning the people of God (called Quakers) as to their principle and practice ... / William Smith. Smith, William, d. 1673. 1660 (1660) Wing S4339; ESTC R10265 15,081 24

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Truth Something concerning the Operation of the LIGHT in all that Obey THe LIGHT is given for a Leader and to be Salvation unto the Ends of the Earth in all that believe as the Light is minded and obeyed it leads out of the Evil that it testifies against when it reproves for Lying then being minded and the Reproof turned unto and obeyed it will lead out of Lying and learn every man to speak Truth to his Neighbour or what ever it is that man is driven into through the Fall and hath taken up a life in it the Light bears witness against it which being turned unto and obeyed it leads out of it and leads unto that which is good and it places Gods fear in the heart of man and brings him to depart from the Evil and then he comes to the thing that is good in the Leadings of the Light and so man comes out of Anger and Envy into Meekness and Love and is led from all the Works of the Flesh that be evil unto God who is the chiefest good and this is the work of Christ the Power of God unto Salvation he comes into the World and reproves the World he leaves the World again and saves out of it all that obey and follow him So he makes manifest all things that be evil and he leads out of them and saves from them as obedience is given to him So a Drunkard turning to the Light when it reproves him for Drunkenness and yielding obedience to it it leads him out of Drunkenness into Soberness and delivers him from under the power of Satan who hath him Captive at his will and so the Light makes all things manifest and as it is obeyed it leads out of all Evil both in thought word and deed and places true judgement upon all Evil things and brings them all to the death of the Cross and slayes the Enmity and makes all subject to its power cutting down the Man of Sin and Crucifying the Flesh with all the Affections and Lusts of it and so the old Man dies with all his corruptible deeds and in the Judgment is buried down and the new Man is raised which after God is created in Righteousness and so a holy Birth is born through the Operation of the Power of the Light in which the spirit of the mind is renewed and Soul and Body sanctified and the Conscience purged from all dead works and thus all old things is put off and all things are made new in the work of Regeneration in which a new birth is raised that abides in the Fathers House and feeds upon bread of Life And this is something of the Operation of the Light in all that do obey according to the Scriptures Something concerning our PRACTICE and our walking therein VVE meet together as we are moved of the Lord and wait upon him in his Fear and are subject to the Power of his Spirit that is manifest in us and in the measure of the Spirit which we receive of God we Worship him and in the fervency of the Spirit we serve him and as he moves upon any who in his Fear waits upon him and opens in them the Word of Eternal Life and gives a Word to minister in due season and utterance to declare it in the power of his own Spirit so we minister one to another in the gift of Gods Spirit and are thereby Edified and Comforted one in another and so our Preaching stands not in the inticing words which mans Wisdom teacheth but in the Spirits Demonstration and in Power and this is the Gospel which we freely receive from God and freely Preach in his own Power And this is something of our Practice and our walking therein according to the Scriptures And thus do we own what stands in the Truth and is brought forth in the Spirit of Truth and agrees with the Scriptures of Truth and hath its Root in the Love and Meekness Gentleness and Patience that we own and dearly love in whomsoever it doth appear VVE own MAGISTRACY that stands in the Power of God and executes true Judegment within the Gates cutting down Sin and Evil-doers and setting up Righteousness and those that walk therein We own MINISTERS who are made of God and sent forth in his Living Power and Preaches freely as they receive and labours to gather People unto the Power of God We own WORSHIP in the Spirit and in the Truth which makes all flesh subject We own the CHURCH which is in God of which Jesus Christ is HEAD and KING We own SINGING in the Spirit which gives the Psalm and an understanding to Sing at and the Melody is made in the Heart unto the Lord We own PRAYER that is made in the Spirit which teaches how to Pray and what to Pray for and makes Request unto God according to his Will We own BAPTISM in the Spirit by which all are Baptised into one Body These with many other things which is true according to the Scriptures we own and dearly love with all that walk in the practice of them being guided thereunto by the Spirit of Truth in the power of which we are constrained to testifie unto the Truth as we know it in Jesus and these things which God hath opened unto us and the practice of them and in what they are to be performed unto him we dare not deny in the practice of it neither can we be subject unto any Traditions for Conscience sake Something that we cannot own for Conscience sake being found contrary to the Scriptures VVE cannot own ENGLANDS WORSHIP nor joyn with it because it is set up by Tradition and not after Christ We cannot own ENGLANDS CHVRCH to be the Church of Christ because it hath been set up in the night of Apostacy and is but the Work of Mens hands and found amongst the many Inventions We cannot own ENGLANDS MINISTERS to be the Ministers of Christ because they walk contrary to him in all things and are not endued with his power nor made Ministers in that but are made at Schools and Colledges by natural Arts and Languages and so speak things they know not for filthy Lucres sake making their Belly their God and Sues and Imprisons and Persecutes such as cannot put into their mouths We cannot own such a MINISTRY nor for Conscience sake joyn with them or any way help to maintain them because they walk contrary to Christs Ministers who themselves were persecuted but never persecuted any or sued people at Law for Wages We cannot for Conscience sake pay unto any whether Priest or Impropriator the Tenth part of our Increase which is called Tyths because the Lord freely gives it unto us and he doth not Command us to give it to any other and knowing that Priesthood to be changed who had a Maintenance out of the Tyths We also know that of necessity the Law must be changed and of this we are convinced by the manifestation of his Light