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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38772	A brief discovery of God's eternal truth and a way opened to the simple hearted whereby they may come to know Christ and his ministers, from Antichrist and his ministers : with a warning from the Lord to all people that do name the name of Christ, to depart from iniquity / written in the inquisition of Malta by ... Katherine Evans.	Evans, Katharine, d. 1692.	1663 (1663)	Wing E3453; ESTC R15841	22,883	58

many of his equals but he did not know him and so he persecuted him in his Saints as thousands do at this day and yet they will be called Christians When Paul had received Christ Jesus the Spirit of Truth he denyed himself and became a true Christian through the Sanctification of the Spirit of Christ and belief of the Truth and took up the Cross to his own will daily and followed Christ the Light through great tribulations in newness of life for as he did partake of the fellowship of his Death and Sufferings so likewise he did partake of the fellowship of his powerful Resurrection and his Glory I am the Resurrection and the Life saith Christ. And not only Paul but every one also in whom Christ is risen do partake of the same Sufferings and the same Joy according to the measure and proportion of Faith of God's free Grace dispensed to each one by his own Eternal Spirit And this is the way and the alone way which God hath ordained and appointed to make Christians or as I may safely say to recover lost men out of the fall and to redeem their souls and minds from all inward pollution and defilement and wholly to ransom them out of the inward invisible transgression and corruption and so to raise up the blessed Seed of his own tender bowels and restore his pure Image that hath been so long defaced through the subtilty of the Serpent and regain his Glory Honour and Renown among the sons and daughters of men and will have the preheminency over all people upon the face of the Earth in the measure of himself in the Consciences of all either in their eternal Salvation or their just and everlasting Condemnation for God hath not left himself without a Witness in every ones Conscience and a measure of the free Grace of him who is the Fulness For the natural man cannot receive the gift of the Spirit but as the Apostle said And we saw his Glory as the Glory of the only begotten of the Father full of Grace and Might And of his Fulness have we all received and Grace for Grace Hence it is that the True and Living God who respecteth no mans person hath given to every one a Talent to improve and a measure of Light and also hath commanded that this Everlasting Gospel of Peace and Reconciliation should be preached to every Creature that they may receive grace for grace that do believe in his Name And they that do not beleive nor receive him who doth tender salvation to them the Light of God which God gave them coming into the world will eternally condemn them and leave them without any excuse in the presence of the Lord God because of their disobedience and resisting the gift of the holy Ghost There is something of God in every one that would receive Gods truth if it should but all that is not of God in every one doth strive and fight against it and doth persecute and imprison till death Gods Messengers which he hath endued with power from on high and hath given them gifts and graces and spiritual mercies of divine vertue to preach to the Poor and to the captives to the exiled and banished and to sow the seed of Righteousness that God might receive the fruits of holiness among his People They that sow to the flesh do of the flesh reap corruption but they that sow to the Spirit do of the Spirit reap Life everlasting They that have not received the Spirit they cannot sow to the Spirit but they that have rceived they sow to the Spirit and do profit the people where they come to be received and they do bring forth fruits of God-like lives and righteous conversations and heavenly behaviour and their fruits do manifest what ministry they are under as St. Paul said You are our Epistles written in our hearts seen and read of all men A pure life and a holy conversation is a sure evidence of a true Christian and a perfect witness that they have received the Spirit of Christ which maketh a Christian and generateth into his body Christ the Head and Christians the Members and he will not have any deformed member in his body but they must be all compleat in Christ Pure as he is Pure Holy as he is Holy Undefiled as he is Undefiled even so as he is so must his be in this present world He that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all one as saith the Scriptures But I say in the Name and Power of the pure and perfect Lord God That whosoever or whatsoever he is in this world that taketh upon himself or goeth about to make Christians or convert Souls any other way than by preaching the immediate Word of God as he doth receive it by the Inspiration of the eternal Spirit of Life and Power he is in the highest degree of Presumption and guilty of the great Transgression and shall assuredly receive the greatest Condemnation from the Lord God of Power if they or he do not speedily repent and forsake those great Abominations Me thinks that every rational and sober-minded Man must needs rightly understand that God Almighty who created all them at the beginning in Heaven Earth and Sea without the help or advice of any and doth uphold the Works of his own Creation by the Word of his Power and as he created the Souls and Minds of men in a pure State of Innocency from whence man fell through Disobedience So he it is alone that can and will and doth quicken the Souls of men and women again and create them anew in Christ Jesus the Lord from heaven the second Adam a quickening Spirit the Immanuel of Eternal Life of the Word of his Power and need not the Assistance or Counsel of any besides himself to raise up Souls to life and immortality for our God is an invisible eternal and immortal Spirit perfect holy wise and powerful and every reasonable man must needs know and believe That there is not any thing but only a Spirit that can so much as touch a Soul as to cleanse it or to defile it so it is the unrighteous spirit of Darkness the Prince of the Power of the Air that doth rule in the Children of Disobedience and polluteth the Souls and defileth the whole Minds and causeth them to yield up the fleshly Members to commit sins of all kinds in Thought Word and Action and so the Springs of Life and Salvation are dammed up and the pure Spirit of the Lord is covered and the Eye of Innocency blinded so that man cannot behold his Maker because Sin hath made a separation as saith the Prophet Behold the Lord's hand is not shortned that it cannot save neither is his eare heavy that he cannot hear but it is your iniquities that have separated between you and your God and your sins have caused his face to be hid from you And as it is the unclean Spirit that doth

of the Indignation of the Lords Judgment If Iudgment first begin at the house of God what will become of them that obey not the Gospel of God for if the Righteous scarcely be saved where shall the Wicked and Ungodly appear Now for some help and light for the understanding of them that do not know the Mystery of Iniquity and that spirit that doth generate it here as aforesaid the spirit of Antichrist is that spirit in every one that doth profess Christ Jesus in words but doth not possess him in life and power and such are they that are making Images and forms and likenesses without and call it by Christ's Name and say it doth represent Christ when none can make his Likeness nor bear his Image but those that are created anew in Christ Jesus and born of the same Spirit The righteous Image or Form of Christ is the perfect Life of Innocency and the pure Spirit of Meekness and an upright heart of true Humility as it is written Upon whomsoever you shall see the Spirit of the Lord descend like a Dove and abide upon him this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased You all know a Dove is an innocent harmless creature and so are all God's Children which are sanctified in the undefiled womb of God's second creation where the first Heaven and the first Earth is passed away and new Heavens and a new Earth are witnessed wherein dwelleth Righteousness for evermore and he that is called the Son of Perdition is the Man of Sin in every particular that steals away the heart and draws out the mind from the true invisible God and sets it upon earthly objects and visible appearances The glory of the world that doth fade and vanish away as the smoak in the eye and the painted harlot is the fallen wisdom that is comprehended in the earthly mind carnal understanding and airy spirit inventing and devising how to deck and beautifie her self with the glory of this world and outside shews to get her self a name over all the Earth and calls her self holy pure and spiritual that all people may fall down and worship her painted image and so the wind of her spirit goeth forth and overchargeth the hearts of the people and corrupts them and when the heart is corrupted it conceiveth lust and when lust is conceived it bringeth forth sin and when sin is finished it bringeth forth death The wages of sin is death and the Scarlet-coloured Beast that doth uphold the adulterous woman with all her allurements upon whom she sits is that beast-like will of or in man that is not subject to the Will of God but hath received power to exalt his horn even to the Host of Heaven for the cleansing of the Sanctuary and purifying of the Temple and for the tryal of the Faith of God's Elect that the power of God may rest upon them and so they come to be approved in the sight of all and herein our God is glorified honoured and renowned over all in purchasing to himself a holy Kingdom through the blood of the everlasting Covenant in the faithful-hearted that do follow the Lamb through great tribulations according to the Scriptures Every man out of the Covenant of God is bruitish and that spirit which doth exalt it self over the consciences of any people to compel them by a tymnnous Law to worship according to his will and in his way without any Commandment or Precept from the Lord that is Lucifer which the Lord God will cast down to the bottom of Infamy and will do unto him as he did to proud and lofty Haman as the Spirit of the Lord hath manifested for God and his Word are one and his way to the Kingdom is but one and he never compelled any with camal weapons or any visible thing to worship him And whereas it is said he sent forth his servants to compel them that were in the streets and in the high-wayes to come in by the powerful preaching of his Word of Life and Truth that did limit and bind that in them that did rebel against him and so he drawed them after him in love and so he doth at this day Praises praises to his holy and blessed Name for evermore Amen And the false Prophet is he that cryeth Lo here is Christ and Lo there but Christ foretold of them saying Many false Christs would come saying Lo here and Lo there but believe them not go not forth by their fruits you shall know them And these are they that for advantage will cry Peace peace while ye are unsaved from your sins and so with good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple and smoothly draws them after him in the broad way that leads to the chambers of death and destruction and in their high places they will tell you you must not be drunk nor lust nor envy nor covet nor live in pride nor any such evil things when they themselves are wholly guided and led by that same spirit which is the very rise author yea as I may safely say the father of all manner of uncleanness and evil concupiscence and so though they do speak good words it is but in imitation because it was the practice of the Servants of the living God so to do yet being out of their Life they can never convert any into the Truth but their spirit doth beget the same form in the Hearers as is in the Teachers for such Seed as they sow such Fruits they do reap of all manner of unrighteousness and these be they that will go about to limit the Spirit of God and make the people believe none ought to speak in the Name of Christ but the Wise and the Learned and them that have received Gifts of Men to Preach but Christ doth ordain his Ministers and gives them Gifts both Male and Female yet they say Paul would not permit of a Woman to speak in the Church it is true Paul would not permit of a woman to speak in the Church no more do not the Quakers neither do they permit a Woman to speak in the Church nor a Man that is born of a woman but he that is born of God whether in Male or in Female let him speak freely as his Father giveth him Utterance Let him that doth not understand come into Christ's School and learn Paul said That if a Woman did pray or prophesie with her Head uncovered she did dishonour her Head if a woman might pray or prophesie with her head covered it 's very like she might do it in the Church assoon as in another place But Paul nor John neither would not permit that Jezabel that painted Harlot should speak in the Church who hath painted her self with the Saints Words but out of their life she must keep silence in the Church yea verily the Power is made manifest in this the Lord 's present day that will shortly stop her mouth and all her