To all the Ignorant people the word of the Lord who are under the blind guides the Priests WHo have told you the steple-house hath been the temple and the holy place and saith did not Christ go into the temple My answer is yea to whip out the buyers and sellers and if you count this the temple now in England which is called a steeple-house it is almost full of buyers and sellers again for there is the Priests market day for to sell his ware which he labours for in the week ten shillings a day or a noble a day or more or lesse as they can get and is not here buyers and sellers in the temple as you call it and mony changers and is not it a den of thieves a den of dragons such as steals the words of the Prophets Christ and his Apostles the Priests which confesseth they have not the spirit which gave forth the scriptures as you may read Je. 23.30 but we deny this steeple-house to be the temple which God commanded neither is it holyer then any other ground for though Christ went into the temple to whip out such before mentioned as you may read Mat. 21.12 and again you may read Mat. 24. he prophesied to his disciples of the destruction of the temple and you that have built another are in your own name and are the deceivers spoken of in that chapter and so is against prophecy and so he that is against Christs prophecy is Antechrist and if it were possible should deceive the elect but it is not possible for Christ hath given them a light and he saith to them go not forth and soo with the light Christ is seen and you idolatrous generation when Israel forgot his maker they builded temples Judâ—h multiplyed fenced cities but I will send a fire and consume the pallaces thereof as you may read Hos 8.14 so as a troup of robbers lye in wait for a man so doth a company of Priests murder in the way by consent Hos 6.9 who the covenant of God are against and after Christs resurrection Stephen which was a man first of the Holy Ghost when the Priests examined him in the 7 of Acts he said in his examination that the most high dwelleth not in temples made with hands as saith the Prophet Heaven is Gods throne and the earth is his footstool and saith God hath not my hands made my hands made all these things and called them stifnecked and uncircumcised in hearts and eares that held up the temple and they said he had spoken blasphemous words against the holy place as Acts. 6.13 such as were stuborn men and false witnesses and after that Stephen had spoken along in his examination and came to themselves in particular and said he saw Christ who had prophesied of the destruction of the temple and when he was examined before the Priests and people then they run upon him and stoned him to death so are Priests and people ready to do the same now he denied the temple which God had commanded and witnessed Christ Jesus the substance and for that they stoned him to death for denying the figure and we deny that which they call a temple which God never commanded and witnesse Christ Jesus the substance and for the substance sake are they ready to murder us a company of Priests by consent as a troup of robbers wait for their prey but our deliverance is by the Lord Jesus from the seed of evil doers and after the Apostles which went into the temple and witnessed Christ Jesus the second priesthood and denied the first priesthood and then the second priesthood and the chief priests was in a rage against the Apostles who witnessed Christ Jesus the second priesthood and they were brought out of the temple and brought them before their counsell and the high Priest examined them and then the Priests commanded them to preach no more in the name of Jesus the second priesthood and the Apostles which denyed the first priesthood and the temple said whether was it better to obey God or man judge ye and the Apostles which denyed the first priestood they went daily into the temple and into the houses and feared not to preach in the name of Jesus as you may read Act. 4. and in Act. 17. and the 7. The Apostles Paul said that God that made the world and all things therein who is Lord of all dwelt not in temples made with hands neither was he worshipped with mens hands as though he needed any thing seeing he gives to all life and breath and all things and hath made of one mould and one bloud all the nations of men to dwell upon the face of the earth and hath determined the time before appointed and the bound of habitation that they should seek the Lord if happily they might feel him and find him though he be not far off from every one of us here the Apostle he saw the times and declared unto the people which held up the temple they did not know God and he denied the temple which God had commanded and some of them mocked when they heard him preach Christ Jesus and his resurrection as they mock now which holds up the temple which God never commanded which Iude speakes of Iude 18. and the people said unto the Apostle in Acts 17. when he preached Christ that the Apostle seemed to be a setter forth of strange Gods and called him a babler and said let us hear what the babler will say for he denyed the temple which God had commanded and preached Christ Jesus and said God did not dwell in temples made with hands as you may read Acts 17. and Acts 17. and Acts the 19. what uproar there was amongst the trades-men against Paul and they said he set at nought their craft and not only this but the temple of the great Diana might be despised and set at naught and their magnificency should be destroyed whom all the world worships and when they heard that they were full of wrath they that held up the temple of their great Goddesse Diana and the people made a shout for their great Goddesse Diana for the space of two hours as you may read Acts 19. 21. and the Apostle Paul goes into the temple when the Jewes saw him in the temple stirred up all the people and laid hands on him crying out men of Israel help this is the man which teacheth all men every where and hath brought also the Greeks into this temple and poluted this holy place and all the city was moved and the people ran together and laid hold on him and drew him out of the temple and the doors were shut and they went about to kill Paul and they beat him and when some souldiers and the chief captain came and they saw them then they left beating Paul and here the men of Israel were cryed unto which held up the temple to help out with him here all the
thing and the Priest-hood was another thing the Apostle spoke of and now if you speak of Tythes after the Law Christ Jesus is the summe of things Hebrewes 8. and you that keep people in those things keepeth them from the summe The Word of the Lord God to all poor deceived people who follow such Priests as bear rule by their means and you people love to have it so as you may read Jeremy 5.30.31 and so are the foolish people that are foolish and the sottish children that are wise to do evill but to do good have no understanding as your may reade Ierem. 4.21 and you follow such shepheards as are greedy secking their gain from their quarter and never have enough as you may reade Isaiah 56.10.11 and you follow such shepheards as seeks for the fleece and clothe themselves with the wool which makes a prey upon you and devours which the Lord sent Ezekiel to cry woe against Ezek. 54. So as a troop of robbers wait for a man so the company of Priests murder in the way by consent Hos 6 9. And you follow such Priests as teach for hire and divine for money and yet will they lean upon the Lord and say is not the Lord amongst us no evil can come upon us and cry peace peace and he that wil not put into their mouths they prepare war against him and thus they build up Sion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity Micah 3. And now all ye Priests this commandment is for you if you will not hear and if you will not lay it to heart I will send a curse upon you I will curse your blessing yea I have cursed them already Behold I will corrupt your seed and will spread dung upon you Mal. 2.1 2.3 and you follow such hypocrites as stand praying in the Synagogues Matthew 26.5 and such as are called of men Masters and have the chief seats in the Synagogues which our Lord Jesus Christ cried wo against Matthew 23. And you follow such deceivers as tells you the Steeple-house is the Temple when Christ prophesied of the destruction of the Temple Matthew 24. And Stephen denied it Acts the 7. and the Apostle denied it Acts 17. and he was haled out of the Temple Acts 21.30 and you follow such as tells you the Steeple-house is the Church when the Apostle saith the Church is in God 1 Thessalonians 1.1 And you follow such which through fained words and covetousness doth make merchandize of you by whom the way of Truth is evill spoken of 2 Peter 2. and you follow such as go in the way of Cain in envie and after the errour of Balaam for gifts and rewards 2 Peter 2. Jude 11. and you follow such as are mockers and scoffers and sierce despisers and raylers whose bands are made strong Esay 28.22 2 Timothy 3. which hath the forme of Godlyness but denies the power from such you are to turn away if you hear that Spirit that spoke in the Apostles and from all such before mentioned and you follow such as serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies and by good words an fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple Romans 16.18 and hear with the Scripture you may judge and trie your teachers and you follow such as are given to filthy lucre whose mouths must be stopped Titus 1.11 12. and such you follow as the Apostle called evil beasts and slow bellies and you follow such as stands not in Gods counsell but speaks a vain divination of their own hearts who by their lies and by their lightness have caused the people to erre and hath not profited the people at all saith the Lord Therefore I am against the Prophets saith the Lord that steals my word from his neighbour and saith the Lord saith and use their tongues when the Lord never spoke to them but Priest and Prophet are both profane Ieremy 23. and they are such as gave you Davids quakings prayers and prophesies in meeter and when you reade the Psalmes you keep on your hats and when you sing them you put off your hats and here you worship the workes of your own hands and they are such as tell you the sprinkiing of Infants is the Baptisme and of a Sacrament and their is no such Scriptyres and so the plagues of God are added to rhem that addeth Revelation 22. But the one Baptisme with the Spirit into the one body and the singing with the Spirit and with the understanding according to Scripture that we own and witness 1 Corinthians 12.13 1 Cor. 14. To the light of Christ in all your Consciences I do speak which comes from the Lord Jesus Christ who enlightens every one that cometh into the world which if you all do love it will lead you all from those teachers aforementioned up to Christ from whence the light doth come and hear is your way to salvation and this is the light which shews you sin and evill if you love it it will lead you to Christ from whence the light doth come and if you hate it it is your condemnation so remember you are warned in your life time this is the day of your visitation ALL you that reproach revile scoff and scorn at the children and servants and messengers of the most high God whom you nickname Quakers and under the same name persecute them as a people not worthy to live and have no ground for it neither knowes any evill by them but all along their lives and conversations condemns yours and therefore you hate them revile them and reproach them in whom the power of the living God is made manifest the same which ever was wch shakes the earth makes the strong man to bow himself and the keepers of the house to tremble Eccl. 12.3 the same power which all the children of God witnessed and passed through in all ages which then by the same generation suffered both by Magistrates Professours Priests and People who were and are strangers to the life of God and his power and therefore reproached it scoffed and scorned at it as you now doe But t is that the Scripture might be fulfilled upon you who are despisers of those that are good 2 Timothy 3.3 Isaack the seed of the promise trembled Gen. 27.33 who was mocked by Ishmael the son of the bond woman who was cast out Gen. 21.9.10 Gallat 4.30 As the same seed is mocked now by you Ishmaelites who are the children of the bond-woman who are cast out and are found without mocking and scoffing at the righteous seed and Moses the servant of God quaked and trembled Heb. 12.21 who counted it greater riches to suffer affliction with the people of God then to injoy the pleasures of sin for a season Heb. 11.26 and this you now call madness and folly who know not that godliness is great gain 1 Tim. 6.6 and David who was a King quaked and trembled Psalm 119.120 and drunkards made a song of him Psalm
69.12 and some shot out their tongues and wagged their heads at him Psalm 22.7 and gaped upon him with their mouths verse 13. and this you sing in your Steeple-house like hypocrites without knowledge Psalm 35.16 and yet scoff and scorn and reproach those in whom the same power is made manifest and yet you will say as he said you are not puft in mind nor have no scornfull eye Psalm 131.1 And thus you deceive your souls and love to have it so and Job the servant of the Lord trembled Job 4.14 and Jeremy a Prophet of the Lord his heart was broken and all his bones did shake and he was as a drunken man Jer. 23.19 who was then persecuted by the same generation and Daniel trembled and they that were with him quaked Daniel 10.7 8 11. who was cast into the lyons den because he would not deny his God Daniel 6.16 but by his power he was preserved as we are now from these lyons whelps which would us devour and Habbakuk a prophet of the Lord his belly trembled and his lips quivered Habbakuk 3.16 and Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ fell down and trembled Acts the 9.4 5 6. who was reviled reproached and persecuted even to death who was one that hazzarded his life for the name of Jesus Acts 16.26 and said all the day long was they killed and accounted as sheep for the slaughter Romans 8.36 now read what generation you are in for they that were after the flesh alwayes persecuted them that were after the spirit Gal. 4.29 there was alwayes a generation by which the righteous ever suffered since Cain the first-born upon earth in whose way you are found who envy who are in wrath Jude 11. you kill the just and he lyes slain in the streets Iam. 5.5 6. at whose hands his bloud shall be required Mat. 23.35 and the son of man was to eat his bread with quaking and to drink his water with trembling Ezek. 12.10 out of which life you are found who are at ease in the flesh feeding without the fear of God spending the creatures upon your lusts Rom. 13.14 scorning them who are not one with you in the same liberty and excesse of riot 1 Corinth 10.7 1 Pet. 4.4 1 Cor. 10.13 but fears before the throne of God and thus you erre not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God therefore behold ye despisers and wonder and perish I will work a work in your dayes which though you see it you shall not believe it Acts 13.41 is it not apparant before your eyes the wicked man returnes from his wickednesse and the ungodly from his ungodlinesse and the drunkard from his drunkenesse and a profane one from his profanesse and seeks after God and fears his name and yet you cannot believe but despiseth scoffs and scorns the power by which this work is done for it is no new thing but the same which was and you are in the same adulterous generation which cannot see the signs which follow the Truth Matth. 16.4 from whom the Gospel is hid whose eyes is darkned by the god of the world 2 Cor. 4.3.4 and so speaks evil of the things you know not Iud. 10. putting darknesse for light and light for darknesse evil for good and good for evil Isa 5.10 you are the scoffers fore-told of by the Apostles to be in the last times Iude 18. who are despisers of those that are good incontinent fierce traytors heady high-minded lovers of pleasures more then lovers of God having a form of godlinesse but denying the life and power 2 Tim. 3.3 4 5. And here you are both Priest People and Professors who are scoffing and scorning slandering reproaching and reviling and persecuting the righteous innocent servants and messengers of the most high God who is uttering forth his voice through them in power against all ungodlyness and unrighteousness of men who will you call to judgement and convince you of all your ungodly deeds and all your hard speeches which you have wrongfully spoken against him and his power and will reward you accordingly Iude 14.15 Revel 22.12 Therefore to that which is of God in all your consciences I speake which is my witness against your ungodly lives which turning to it will let you see you speak evill of the things you know not loving darkness rather then light because your deeds are evill Iohn 3.19 Therefore fear the Lord God and repent and take heed of mocking lest your bands be made strong Isa 18.22 for God will not be mocked such as you sow such shall you reap Gal. 6.7 Therefore fear before the Lord and try all things and hold fast that which is good 1 Thess 5.21 and despise nothing before you know it lest you speak evill of Gods elect for it is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 10.31 Therefore take this for a warning as from the mouth of the Lord for now no ignorance is to be pleaded before the Throne of God this was given forth in vindication of the power of God which he is now manifesting in his sons and daughters lest the simple who are not yet acquainted with it should stumble at the name by a friend of the Truth and a lover of those people which you who are out of the Truth scornfully calls quakers but the scorners God will judge Prov. 19.29 and the righteous God will bless who work out their salvation with fear and trembling Phil. 2.12 For saith the Lord to such an one will I look who is of a meek and contrite spirit and trembleth at my words Isa 66.1.2 FINIS