to you all whatever your teachers tell you who cry vehemently against the light for they know if you harken to the light their trade will soon dovvn and therefore many lyes in their pulpits and else where do they publish to hold up the kingdom of darkness saying we deny the Scriptures and Christ which dyed at Jorusalem and the ministers with many more false accusations to which I answer for the truths sake no other Christ do we profess then he that made a good confession before Pilate who when crucified had over his head a writing set of Hebrew Greek and Lattin by his crucifiers as now he hath receive it if you can of whom Enoch Moses and all the rest of the Prophets prophesied and the Apostles bare witness to him do we believe in and call all to who is in us the hope of glory and the Scriptures of truth we believe and Deut. â—4 â—5 are come to the fulfilling of them and being witnesses that the Angel of the everlasting Gospel hath flown through heaven after this long night of Aposâ—asie Rev 14. 6. we know that the hour of righâ—eous judgement is come in which Babylon and all her merchants must down and we cannot but warn them and you of their sure destruction for these are the ministers of Antichrist and not of Jesus Christ who set up any thing in his stead who is the eternal Son of God and this was they seen to be by some of them called puritans forty years ago to my own knowledge and some that had been breed at Schools and universities with them and had taken their orders though they were dark times have all along according to the light received witnessed against the evil of these times servers so much as that they were hated of the world suffered persecution some to death others banishment for his names sake who is Iohn 1. 6. the light and the ministery sent of God did and do bear witness to him that is the light and these we honour in the Lord who by his power have turned many thousands from darkness Act 16 14 to light and from the power of Satan to God and we try them by their works and their fruits are fruits Mat. 7. 16 ler. 23. 28. of unrighteousness but you cannot gather Figs of Thistles nor Grapes of Thorns what is the Chaff to the Wheat saith the Lord God who is gathering his Wheat into the Garner and the day of Harvest is at hand and the tares must be burned with unquenchable fire so be awakned for to that of God in every mans conscience I am manifested that you are warmed and called to repentance and from your dead worships and works Iohn 4 23. to the living God who is a quickning spirit and in spirit will he be worshiped and his first appearance is to destroy sin in the flesh and if this you despise which convinces of sin you offer despite unto the spirit of grace Heb. 10. 29 by which all the saved of God are sealed and have the witness in our selvs that he is true this is the mediator of the new Covenant written in the heart put in the inner parts which who are come to need not any Heb. 8 6 ler. 31. 33. to teach but are all taught of God from the least to the greatest knowing â—he pouring forth of the spirit upon â—ons and daughters whereby we proâ—hesy and this is a lanthorn to our â—â—et and a light unto our steps and â—â—eeping to it he manifests himself unâ—o 1 Cor 13. 11 Iohn 4. 4. us whom we know and feel maniâ—ested in flesh to destroy the works of the Devil and as that which is perfect comes that which is unperâ—ect is put away for he that dwells in us is greater then he that rules in the world though it be denyed by â—ll those your teachers which preach against perfection to the weakning of the faith by which all the holy men of God were pefected and by which the world and death and he that hath the power of death the Devil are overcome and this is our victory O that you felt it it is under the blessing of eternal life and without you know this to arise which can remove the mountains what have you to do with promises for the promises are to the seed for ever and ever not unto Rom 4 16 seeds as unto many but unto on Christ Jesus this seed bruises the Serpents head and keeps him under who rules in all you that live in Sion and plead for it but we that believe know the casting out of Devils and the treading of the Serpent under foot and we speake with new tongues Mark 6. â—7 and the world cannot bear it and the ear is bored that hears the she pheards voyce and they can no more heare â— stranger and so the Scripture which you say is your Rule doth testifie against you secrets are made known to us that fear him more and more shall they be covered with darkness that striye against the light which now pricks many of you and it is hard for you to kick against it and though you have or may for a time get above it yet if not afore at your death-beds some of you shall confess that that speaking trouble none can speak peace and that condemning none can justifie for he that is a God pardoning sin iniquity and transgression will in no wise acquit the guilty are not you guilty whose hearts condemn you and there is no remission but by blood blood is lise and the life of 1 Iohn 3. 20 Heb 9 22 Jesus is the light of men but all that â—elieve not in the light are condemâ—ed already as saith the scripture Mâ—â—k â—6 â—6 â—nd know not the blood that clenses â—o more then they that peirced Jesus 〈◊〉 at Jurusalem and saw the blood â—nd water run out yet had neither â—ensing nor salvation by it then but â—ohn 1. 7. â—ll who are in the light as we are in â—he light have fellowship one with aâ—other and the blood of Jesus clenses â—s from all sins whereby we have boldâ—ess in the day of Judgement knowâ—â—g as he was we are in this present 1 Iohn 4. 17 â—orld hated mocked and despiteâ—â—lly used of you for whose soules â—â—ke we have and can deny all that is dear unto us not loving our lives unâ—o the death that while it is day you â—ight hear his voice vvho svvears in â—is vvrath the unbeleiver shall never â—nter into his rest and vvithout you â—novv and feel that vvhich is pure â—nd perfect and eternal to beleive in Heb. 3. 1â—â—â— â—our faith is in an Idol and your offerings will not he offer who lives for ever to make intercession for all that come to God by him vvho is a psal 16. 4 priest for ever made by the Law of an endless life and if ever you come to know
FOR â—â—ose that meet to worship at the Steeplehouse called John Evangelist IN LONDON OR â—ny other in that nature upon whom â—â—e Scriptures are fulfilled in evil intreatâ—â—â— by the servants of the Lord Iesus whom he lends to deliver his Message amongst you 〈◊〉 for any other that are condemned for sin and have thirstings after righteousness that from sin transgression they may be turned to the righteousness that is perfect and eternal without vvhich there is no sure salvation 〈◊〉 a Word of truth to rebuke the deâ—â—â—rer and him that pleads for him against the restoration of the Creation to â—he liberty of God 〈◊〉 your hearts condemn you God is greater and knoweth all things 1 Iohn 3. 20. Rebecca Travers LONDON Printed and are to be sold at the black spread Eagle near the west end of Pauls 1659. A Word of Reproof for those that meet at the Steeplehouse called John Evangelist in London O You foolish people and unwise How long will you love your folly How long will you resist our Maker Are you stronger then he â—â—o is as truly striving with you as ever Gen. 6. 12. 〈◊〉 was with that generation in Noahs â—â—yes who not receiving the warning the one Preacher of Righteousness 〈◊〉 overwhelmed in their wickedness 〈◊〉 having safety but they who were the Ark. And I and thousands yea 〈◊〉 thousands praises to the Lord who â—â—come to the ends of the world do â—ow the world in which you live is 〈◊〉 unto destruction and are moved him that made the world to come into your meeting-places to declare unto you what must shortly come to pass and to shew you the blindness of your Teachers with their blasphemous 2 Tim 3. 6 7. 8. â—ph 2. 2. and idolatrous Doctrines whereby they deceive the simple lead captive silly women which are always learning but never come to the knowledge of the truth which makes free from the bonds of Death and Satan who hath captivated your minds and hath blinded the eye that gives the knowledge of God which rules in all you the children of disobedience being the god of the world a lyar and a murderer from the beginning and so as acted by him his fruits ye bring forth even in your most holy Assemblies Teacher and people as in your Steeplehouse called John Evangelists there the Teacher exhorted the people to read and study the Scripture for they were light and life speaking of the written Letter bringing a carnal comparison to maintain his idolatrous Doctrine saying A written piece of Paper to a sore would do no good but a little written Scripture to a wounded soul was of great force and thaâ— that was which quickened David and was a light 〈◊〉 a lanthorn unto his feet And I who â—as brought thither of the living God whom I serve in obedience to him and â—or the Seed's sake was moved to ask him a question when he had ended in moderarion and fear telling him it was not to disturb but for edification and not speaking any other words to my knowledge then these Doth the Scripture more plentifully declare of any one Isa 45. 16 thing then that for Idolatry God brings wrath and vengeance upon Nations Peoples Zech. 13 2 and Persons But he hasting away â—s hirelings use to do his people fell on me as so many devouring Wolfes railing tearing thrusting haling and pushing me down several times yet a hair of Ezâ—k 16. 38. my head they could not hurt but the murderer was strong and no hand to help the innocent nor tongue to plead for the harmless seen or heard in your Congregation though some were neaâ— related to me in the outward stood by said they thought I was a made woman in which I can rejoice being no other Acts 26. 24. Ioh. 15. 20 then what was done and said unto my Lord The servant is not greater then his Master and him I serve and he is my reward by whom David was quickned by whom Abraham Isaac and Jacob were saved before any of that was written vvhich you call the Scriptures the same quickning Word I witness who was once dead as well as you in Epb. 2. â— sins and trespasses but by the obedience of the spirit hath the soul been sanctified and I made a witness of the resurrection of Jesus and do as called of God thereto bear my testimony that he who was dead is alive and his Name Rev. 10. 9 13. is called the Word of God who hath been caught up to God and she that brought him forth hath been hid in Rev. 12 5 6. the Wilderness from the Dragon that hath made war with the remnant of her Rev. 17.1 15. Seed and the Beast hath prevailed and none hath been made able for ages to make war with him nor the Whore who sits in the Waters Mark the Waters are people nations and tougues on which the Beast that carries the Whore doth sit who hath made drunk with her fornications the Kings of the Earth and is drunk with the cup of abominations and the hour of her righteous judgement is come with her Rev 20. â— shall be tormented the beast the salfe prophet and all that love make a lye for evermore and blessed are they and they only that know these things which shall shortly come to pass but they that read Scriptures and have not heard the Word which gave forth the Iohn 5. 7. Scriptures to them the Scripture is as it was to them at Jerusalem that there crucified the Lord of life a parable and as it was said to them it may to you Search the Scriptures for in them you think to have eternal life and they tectifie of me but you will not come to me that you may have life saith Christ Jesus And so they who read the Scriptures killed him who gave them forth and came to fulfil the Scriptures even the holy One and the Just whom you now slay in the street of the great City spiritually called Rev. 11. â— Aegypt but the Witness shall arise whom you are yet making merry over and as a thief in the night shall he come upon you and then shall you know that this Visitation of mine though now despised shall be upon your heads the Lord shall be clear and a good savour am I unto him as well in them that perish as in them that are saved who am honoured of him whom I honour and know that in the doing of his Will there is great reward and though of you hated and scorned and despitefully used yet bear I the reproach and despise the shame following the Captain and Author of my salvation who was perfected Heb. 2. 10 11. 2 Tim. 2. 12. Matth. 10. 32. thtough the suffering and none shall reign with him but they that suffer with him nor will he confess any before his Father but they which confels him before men and all that have
or do so have been hated of men as he Ioh. 7. 15 18. declard at Jerusalem and is fulfilled at London as well as in other places They shall bare you for my Name sake speak all manner of evil of you and they shall think they do God service So blind are all men who from the light are erred in which God dwells the Creator of all things who commanded light to â— Cor. 4. 6. shine out of darkness and hath shined into our hearts who by the light are subject to give us the knowledge of himself in the face of Jesus Christ and Tit. 2 11 being made a partaker of this Grace which is free and hath appeared to all â—ear my testimony as the truth is in Jeâ—â—s that if you obey it not you are out of the Covenant so out of the blessing and under the curse and know not the Word of God though it be near unto you all and many hath been thereby quickened to God and it is that which made all things and by it are all things upheld for in it is life Ioh. 1. 4 â— and the life is the true light of men and this is the true light which enlightens every man which comes into the world as it is written John bare testimony of it without your meanings declaring what he had seen felt and handled of Iohn 1 12 13 the Word of life that to as many as believed in him he gave power to become the sons of God not of blood nor of the will of man but of the will of God of which birth which onely must inherit the eternal Kingdom are all you ignorant who preach and pray and hear and act in your own wills though your profession be high as mine once was you are not yet come to the first principle of repentance from dead works which all that are in that have not been quickned by the eternal word which Word abides for ever and is Heb. 4. 12 quick and powerful as a two-edged sword dividing asunder and making manifest the secret thoughts and intentions of the heart and this is not ink and paper or words which the worst of men or the Devil may read or talk of but it is spirit life and power killing and making alive as a fire in the besome did and do the Prophets witness it as a Sword and a Hammer to â—er 23 29 cut off and break down all the uncircumcised of ears and heart This is it that Moses who was faithful called unto this was the Word of faith which Paul preached who was called of God and not of men and all so called bear the testimony to it as he did that none need to say Who shall ascend fetch Rom. 1â— 6 7 8 Christ down Or descend and fetch him up for he is near thee in the heart and in the mouth and this is the Word which we preach saith Paul who was sent of God Now they that tell you the Letter without is the Word and the Gospel they preach another Gospel then the Apostles did O that you had ears to hear and hearts to understand the things that belong unto your Peace who have been and are professing godliness for many years and yet stand where you did in the customs in the fashions in the love of the present World and call the Scriptures your rule mind you Scripture-readers is it not written in the World God is not known and who loveth the World the love of God Iames 4 4 is not in him the love of the Worldis enmity to God and is it not the words of him that cannot lye The world loves its own and that his are are not of this world as he was not of Ioh. 15. 19 this vvorld therefore the vvorld hates them So professors of Scriptures see vvhat is vvritten in Scriptures What 's the true Religion Is it not thus vvritten To visit the fatherless and keep Iames 1. 27 unspotted from the vvorld are you this people vvho are in the vvays vvorships and fashions of the vvorld and excess of vanity and pride and fulness and vvhole families of your ovvn flesh and in your own ways ready to perish for want of food and rayment sure you are not they which visits the fatherless sure you are not the Israel in which there was no beggar nor you have not the Storehouse in which all the tythes were put to feed the Widows and the Fatherless and sure you are not in the narrow way in which few walk for the way that you walk many there is in and they walk at ease I feel what I speak who walked there many years and as concerning the Law written in stone blameless as any and had a zeal though not according to knowledge Rom. 7. 9 and when the Commandment came the new Covenant sin revived and I dyed 1 Cor. â— 1â— and only by the power of the Cross which in the Wisdom of the World Gal 6 14â— was and is esteemed foolishness do I live in the life that never shal have end and in this only do I rejoyce whereby I am crucified to the World and the World to me and this to the World is a mysterie who by Wisdom cannot know the things of God which are spiritually discerned and therefore are in vain imaginations of which God did and doth complain bringing out likennesses Con. 6. 5 â— of it as the Papists in Wood Stone or Gold others calling the Cross that which you cannot flye from not knowing the Cross which is daylie to be taken up but we who of him have learned who saith Take up your cross and follow Luke 9. 23 me know it to be the power of God unto salvation and by it hath the Devil been overcome and before it must all the powers of darkness flye and this is and hath been the defence of the righteous Seed in all generations and the Scriptures declare of it and shall bear a testimony for me and all the children of light against all you that have the words of the Scriptures and yet are found haters of the light which gave forth Scriptures and if ever that eye be opened in any of you that the god of this World hath blinded you shall confess that that wherein you have trusted shall witness against you and however your Teachers which are blind may lead the blind till both fall into the ditch yet is there a seed among you that the Lord will gather unto us and therefore doth his long suffering lead unto repentance but many shall be cut off in their iniquities Isa 65. 12 to whom he hath called and they would not hear and they shall cry and he will not hear but laugh at your calamitie when destruction shall come as a swift Whirlwind and with the Prov. 1 28 beasom of the Lord shall all the Workers of iniquity be swept away and his fierce Wrath
own destruction And so you that know not the moving of the spirit in which the Scriptures are writ have given meanings and so in this long night of Apostacy have brought forch errors and false Doctrines and filled the World with Sects Opinions the simplicitie of the Gospel being betrayed by the crafty subtiltie of men but we who are come Ephes 4 4 〈◊〉 29 14 15 in the light to see the fulfilling of the Scriptures know that the wisdom of the wise is turned into foolishness and the counsel of the prudent is brought to nought the Prophet is become a fool and the diviners shall run mad Hos 9. 7. and he that hides from the wise reveals to babes and sucklings and it seems good unto him though the heathen Luke 10. 2â—â— then rage and the people imagine vain thugs the Lord is risen to recover his own inheritance that hath Psalms 2. â— Ezek. 34. 2. 3. long been laid waist by the destroyer and the devouring shepherds have not fed the sheep but eat the sheep who have run and were never sent therefore have not the people been profited and the mistery of iniquity that began in the Apostles dayes hath spread Ier. 23. 21. 2 Thes 2. 7. again to the filling of the world with thick darkness as it was foretold by Christ and the Apostles that devouring Wolves should come and make Maâ— 7. 15. havock of the flock and that in sheeps cloathing and these were to prevail all the time and times that the world wondred after the beast though your teachers would mak you believe Rev. 13. 3. the false Prophets are come but now that they might hide themselves but O that you did see and believe the Scriptures then would you know who were the ravening Wolves we or they whom you call your ministers see which is the Wolfe that devours and destroyes he that sends for his gain Isa 56. 11. from his quarters and if he has it not raises war and sues and casts in prison and if any speak in his meeting place or asks him a question he causes or suffers his people to beat them or hale them or stone them or whip them and will not speak himself but for gifts and rewards Now are these the Wolves or they that bear all these things in patience going up and down freely giving as freely as they have received try whether of these be the ministers of Christ by that you call your rule and truly people God will not be mocked and his eye beholds the deceitful worker every where and the Scriptures are ours upon whom the ends of the world are come and for us were they written and shall bear witness for us against all the Idolatrous generation that sets them in the place of God to me are they precious who am come to the comfort of them and let the wisest of your teachers if he can without a meaning bring a written Scripture to prove that they any where are called the Iohn 1. 4 6â— word the foundation the light or the life I shall give some of the many written in the Scriptures to shew that he who is the light is the life and Iohn 8. 12. the way and the ordinance and the name ohn 14. â— by which only salvation is and are not those then false Prophets and deceivers Iohn 1. 1 which would make you from the Scriptures believe that which is not Iohn 1 14 Phil. 29 and hide from you that which is are not these the Antichrist which instead 1 Cor 3. 11 of Christ are setting up that which is not he in his stead O shall not the Acts 10. 42 Col 2 14 plagues threatned in that book come upon them who are known to add and diminish and surely as the Sorcerers of Egypt are they that harden the Dut. 2 4 Rev. 22 18 19 heart in making likenesses and truly friends these things are not written to you as to have your help or aid to defend or assist us as your parsons use to pray and cry for for we are the people that have no helper on the earth yet beleiving know we shall be Micah 4 1 the mountain set upon the top of every mountain and while you are striving against the little stone cut out of the mountains without hands it Dan 2. 34 growes and you see it not and shall be the praise of the whole earth and the devourers and the destroyer and all the ungodly shal be crusht under it then shall the earth be filled with righteousness and of the increase of this kingdom there shall be no end which is come and coming and not by power might but by my spirit shall all the opposers of this kingdom be brought down saith the Lord and the glory of it is the son and all the subjects are cloathed with holiness all being Priests and Kings to God and the glory of it is now seen coming down from heaven by them that the world hates who are following the Lamb through many tribulations into it and the Dogs and the Whoremungers and Rev. 14. 4 the makers and lovers of lyes Mark this false teachers hearers that speak the things you know not with the Rev. 22. 15 fearfull and unbeleiving must you be shut out Mark you this that cannot beleive what herein is declared â—â—t to you it seems strange that God should appear to his people as of old and give us the same spirit as they had that gave forth Scriptures saying to the hardning of your own hearts Miâ—â—cles are ceased why to us it is not marvelous to receive what we have waited for the spirit of truth to lead into all truth and the Scriptures declare of him and he is the same and changeth not infallible and almighty who is given to convince the world of â—in and till you come to believe in Iohn 16. â—â— 92 that which convinces of sin you can neither understand nor beleive the â—criptures nor me nay though one rise from the dead and I who know how precious your souls are with thousands more have been made willing in this the day of the Lords power to go forth with our lives in our hands denying â—ll that has been dear to us that you might be brought from under the power of the Prince of darkness to the obedience of the light in which only is fire salvation no other name given under heaven whereby any can be saved I am the light saith Christ Jesus Iohn 8 12 and if any come to me be shall not abiae in darkness and so all people who hate the light and are speaking against it and giving it names as naturall and such like are you not speaking against the Saviour who is the light and the way and the truth as the Scriptures declare O that for your souls sake you would cease from hearing and speaking lyes and come
of Christ Jesus you have proved your selves though you say you are the children of the kingdom and no church of Christ but in the world you are which lyes in wickedness and enmity against the life of Christ Jesus and in the very same works which he said you would do teacher and people are found and are not built on that foundation that bears and tries all things which cannot be shaken but as the troubled Sea roring and swellings casting mire and dirt as the Scriptures saith of the wicked world which some out their own shame and shews what you have Esa 57 20 â—ude 13 been long treasuring in your evil hearts and so out of the abundance that is Maâ—â— 12 34 therein you have powered out upon the servant of the Lord just as your fore-goers have done and as he foretold who is this day a swift witness against you who have set your selves against him and the day hath declared it that you have no part in the sufferings of Christ Jesus but your part is proved to be with them who hath shed his blood since Abel to this day The world by wisdom knowes not God saith the Scriptures which is now fulfilled in this generation where are high notions swelling words great professions and zealous formes all in the world without God in them boasting themselves in a lye who profess redemption in words but in works are in the world and in the darkness thereof blindness of mind hardness of heart and earthly captivity without life and power in you to give you victory over the prince of lust the God of this world over your own spirits which lusts to pride lusts to envie lusts to strise and covetousness and oppression and all that unreasouable nature which devours the creation and keeps it in bondage under the power of Satan and under wrath and the curse which daily groans to be delivered into its former glory into it's first being in God and his sons which is right redemption without a lye where all things are of God and in the truth set free from the devourer which rules in worldy men and women where all things are not become new and where all things are not of God yet professing redemption with pride lust and covetousness and all vanity in your Vessells not knowing him who is the greater to be in you to condem these evils then he that is in you to entice you to all these things and blind you in them and here you are seen with the pure truth that is in God to be out of God in the world and in the lye not doing in the truth nor redeemed thereto but the witness of truth lyes slain denyed and buried in you and where he raigns not in the light there you are in the darkness of this world blind in your hearts and there the false Prophet is up in the seat of Judgement teaching lyes and false-hood to make you more blind still and to harden you therein to seek to blind others also and to turn truth backward that he may grind the poor and needy to satisfie his lust in you and to that end you are fitted for the destroyer and so comes the truth to reprove your pride and devouring vanities which wasts the creation and turns it quite to another end then God gave it you for and when you say what might so many poor people live on if we did not wear these things as though your pride which is the ground of all oppression did releive the oppressed and thus you turn truth backwards with shameless and unreasonable words not having a shew of a truth and then if truth arise stop your mouth in the open falshood then you have more hidden deceit to cover your lust And you say pride is not in the out-side it 's in the heart when all men may see it in the out side and as many as have that eye open in the heart which you hav blinded with lust sees and knowes that your pride had its first rise and rooting in your heart ere it came to spring forth it's cursed branches which now shines in the open streets without shame that this which speaks outward is but part of that fullness that is within in the heart though your blindness be so great you see it not neither within nor without and your hearts too hard to feel it but have set up there the Idol and stumbling block to blind withall and then you say what was these things made for if we may not wear them where the truth of God in you would answer were it not denyed and betrayed by your evil eye that they was not made for the devoured nor to be spent on your Justs to the lust of the eye and pride of life but for the service of the needy and co cover the naked that there might be plenty in the creation and none might want which would be so were the devoured judged in you cast out and did you know him in you to order the creation which made it who would lead you that are rich another way to releive the poor then with being proud and vain and wastfull of his freeness and fullness and that spirit would let you see that were it not for that devourer which in you speaks and acts there would be no poor for he gives plenty for all that he sends into the world and the lust arising in the heart of men and women is it that makes poor and accursed and keeps poor by oppression in you those that are under the power thereof and cease but your oppression of them to satisfie your pride and judge the destroyer in you that wasts it and the poor would arise through the fullness of him that filleth all things which is kept back by the devourer and the curse that is upon him in the creation through you in pride gluttony and drunkenness who have all one head against truth and so the glutton saith What are the creatures made or but for man to eat c. and the Drunkard being reproved hath the same pretence of mercy to the pore as the proud saith he How many poor people lives of Brewing and might begg did not such as rich drink it as they brew it c. And thus deceit utters it's voice in all the world where it is head who are without the true God in them as though is was the work of the devourer that did uphold the creation in plenty and keep the poor from want and how great is the darkness of this generation in whom this passeth for truth Is not this the world which by wisdom knowes not God but are given up to vile affections and to believe lyes Oh men how deep is truth fallen in you that nothing of it doth arise to condemn this doctrine him that lives by it in you what deceit is this that hath filled your hearts to make you believe you take care for the