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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65250	The marks of the true church the virgin & spouse of Christ that brings forth by a holy seed the birth that pleaseth God, and the marks of the false church, or whore, that brings forth by an evil seed the cursed birth that never could please God / by Morgan Watkins.	Watkins, Morgan, fl. 1653-1670.	1675 (1675)	Wing W1067; ESTC R26308	20,590	28

that is come and coming in the Ten Thousands of his Saints to judge the World and all the fallen ●ngels X. Such who are gathered by the Spirit of the Lord out of all Gatherings in the Fall that stand in the Will and Wisdom of Man and these follow Christ the Shepherd and Bishop of their Souls and abide in his Doctrine and Spiritual Worship and cannot hearken to a Stranger who is made a Minister or a Bishop in the Will of Man and not made by the Holy Ghost an Overseer of the Soul but are climbed up another Way and not come in through Christ the Door by the Gift of his Spirit but in the Wisdom of Man and of the Birth of the Flesh that persecutes the Sheep for the Fleece therefore the Sheep cannot hear them for he that gives the Soul Eternal Life the Soul ought to hear and be subject to and to all that come in his Name that is his Power who feeds the Sheep Lambs with the Bread of Life that is Meat indeed and Drink indeed where the Word of Life ministers through the Vessel the Sheep that are gathered by the Spirit do know the Voice of the Spirit which is the Voice of Christ that the Stranger knows not but the Sheep and their Souls are greatly refreshed by that Ministry of Life and so is the Body of Christ edified but where the Gift of Life is not received nothing but Death can preach and that burdens and hurts and defiles the Soul if it be touched or fed upon therefore in a Figure he that touched the Dead was to be unclean by the Jews Law so by the Law of the Spirit of Life dead Works that are Works of Darkness the Living are to have no Fellowship with but rather reprove them So this is the Infallible Truth that the Children of Truth and Sheep of Christ will hear and obey none but the Voice of the Spirit of Christ the Truth the Light and the Life which every Member of his Body hath a Measure of in himself which is the Anointing that leads guides and teacheth all his to profit in the Movings and Requirings of which all may prophesie one by one that all may be edified and the whole Body built up together in Love a Habitation for the Lord to dwell in to walk in work in and speak in and these have received Eternal Life dwelling in it shall never perish XI Such who have put off the Old Man with his vain Conversation and have in their Measure Crucified the Flesh with its Affections and Lusts who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit which is become their Leader as ever it was their Fathers Children in which they find Power to do the Will of God in Earth as in Heaven Being created again after the New Man in Righteousness and True Holiness and being become New Creatures are in Covenant with God Old Things are past and passing away and becoming and become New a clean Heart and a right Spirit possesseth the Body which loves the Lord wholy and his Neighbour and Brother as himself true Judgment and Justice sits in his Gate and Goodness Mercy and Love within his House his Law is come forth of Sion and the Word of his God from Jerusalem in the Doctrine of which he abides and Statutes and Ordinances keeps who swears not at all nor lyes for that is against the Truth and under Condemnation who is come to the End of Wars and Fightings and doth to all as he would be done unto that ends Swearing Lying Fighting and Lusting after Evil Things loves Enemies serves Friends respects not Persons but gives to all their Due To Caesar the Things that are his and to God the things that are his labours in Love for the Good of all and doth Good to all denyes to hold up the Types and Shadows under the changeable Priesthood which are fulfilled in the unchangeable that pointed at Christ and his good Things who ends the Old Things the Old Priesthood and the Law that upheld it and Christ the Everlasting Priest being come the Substance of them all cannot deny him before Men by holding up the Old Things that he hath abolished by his Coming which if now upheld were to deny Christ come in the Flesh the High-Priest of our Profession Heb. 3.1 Now if we profess him to be our High Priest and hold up another Priesthood by paying of Tythes and other Things abrogated and denyed by the Holy Brethren of the Heavenly Calling in the Apostles Dayes I say then though we do profess him in Words to be come yet we should deny him in Works and so do all that hold up the Ceremonies now the Substance is come who is a merciful and faithful High Priest in Things appertaining to God to make Reconciliation for the Sins of the People Heb. 2.17 And those that hold up or establish another Righteousness fall short of the Righteousness of Christ Seeing then that we have a great High Priest that is passed into the Heavens Jesus the Son of God let us hold fast our Profession Heb. 4.14 Which Profession stands in Christ the better Hope by the which we draw nigh to God whose Kingdom is not of this VVorld therefore saith the King Put up the Sword and know that Nature that could kill with the Sword Outward to be slain with the Sword Inward for saith Christ My Kingdom is not of this World if my Kingdom were of this World then would my Servants fight John 18.36 Then all you that fight consider whose Servants you are seeing Christ's Servants cannot so all these Things forbidden are not to be used by the Children of God's Kingdom and Inheritors of the New Covenant in which the New Man enjoyes all the Promises of God that are Yea and Amen to him forever XII As to the Ministry they are such that the Lord of the Harvest fitteth by his Spirit and sends into the Harvest being called and chosen to be faithful Labourers in God's Harvest and are content with his Wages and refuse Anti christ's having freely received do freely give according to their Master's Command who warch for the Souls Good and not for the Fleece having Food and Raiment are contented and are to be ready to do the Masters Will in all Things and go whither the Spirit requires them and to preach the Word of Truth he gives them not consulting with Flesh and Blood but with Christ revealed in them who teacheth them to profit the People and to divide the Word aright with Boldness not fearing Man nor the Power of Darkness but to shew the People their Sin that they that are yet in it may come to repent and amend their Lives by turning from Darkness to the Light and from the Power of Satan unto God by receiving the Troth in which is found Power to do it and then they do the Things they ought ought to do and leave undone the Things they ought not to do

construed for the Purpose that is to spoil the Goods of those that cannot forsake the assembling of themselves together in the true Worship of God And some of you have procured Warrants to spoil the Goods of your Neighbours and some have spoiled them over and over and prosecuted those that would not spoil them Is this the Way to teach the People to Love their Neighbours as themselves and to do to all People as they would be done unto this is the Way indeed to manifest what Spirit you are of and so People may read your Father's Name in your Forehead 's whose Works do you do what Spirit leads you whether the Spirit of Cain that wicked One or the Spirit of Abel the Righteous One by your Fruits you are known Doth the Work of this Spirit confess that Christ is come in your Flesh that Righteous One or Anti-christ that Wicked One whom Christ is Consuming with Breath of his Mouth and the Brightness of his ●oming Was it ever known that a Minister of Christ was an Informer against Christian Meetings no it never was nor ever will be for such are not in the Doctrine of Christ but in the Practice of those the Scripture calls Wolves in Sheeps Cloathing but in this Work of Informing the Wolf only appears that comes to devour so that Spirit that preacheth for Hire is the same that spoils Men's Goods for Hire and he that takes Wages of Unrighteousness doth the Work of Unrighteousness Did not those that devoured Wi●dows Houses do the Work of Unrighteousness though for a Pretence made long Prayers and those were Enemies to Christ then and can they be Friends now no such are an ill Savour to God and a Stink in his Nostrils what have such to do to take his Name into their Mouthes who hate to be reformed by his Spirit and persecute those that are How many Souls are you guilty of the Blood of And how many Bodies have you cast into Prison till Death How many Widdows and Fatherless Children have you made in this Nation because they could not put into your Mouthes knowing what Spirit you were of and that the Lord never sent you as by your Fruits you have manifested to the View of the Nation and Thousands see you and will buy your Merchandize no more and if you cannot compel them by your Law then you make Merchandize and Spoil of their Goods But Wo is unto you that ever you were born because of the terrible Day that is coming upon you which you can no wayes escape but by coming out of her in whom is found all the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs and all that have been slain for the Testimony of Jesus upon the Earth For now the Everlasting Gospel is preaching that shall be preached to all Nations Tongues and Languages for the gathering of the Gentiles to their Light and Israel to the Hope of their Glory For to him shall the Gathering of the People be and the Gentiles shall walk in thy Light and Kings in the Brightness of thy Rising then thou shall see and shine thy Heart shall be astonished and enlarged because the Multitude of the Sea shall be converted unto thee and the Riches of the Gentiles shall come unto thee Isa 60.3.5 For the Lord shall be thy Everlasting Light and thy God thy Glory Ver. 19. Thy People also shall be all Righteous they shall possess the Land forever the Graft of my planting shall be the Work of mine Hands that I may be glorified a little One shall become a Thousand and a small One as a strong Nation I the Lord will hasten it in due Time And this is that Jerusalem prophesied of that should be a Burthensom Stone unto all Nations which is become a burthensome Stone in this Nation but all that burthen themselves with it shall be broken in Pieces by it and how many have been broken in Pieces by it that opposed it in this Nation and all that yet shall oppose it in this or any other Nation shall be broken in Pieces and confounded by it except they repent and be gathered into it for God is making his little One to become a Thousand and his small One a strong Nation and these are his holy Nation and peculiar People and spiritual Priesthood that are gathered out of the Flesh where none can please God into the Spirit of his Son where all walking do please him and these cannot please Men for the Gift that God hath given that Man is to receive if he please God the VVisdom of the Flesh did alwayes reject in all Ages and so it doth in this and it was a stumbling Stone and a Rock of Offence to the VVise and Prudent of this World among the Jews in that Age disallowed of Men but chosen of God elect and precious to those that believe both Jews and Gentiles in all Ages a tryed Corner-Stone the Power of God to all those that receive it who through Obedience of it become the Sons and Daughters of God And now I warn all in this Nation that profess Christianity to consider your Wayes whether you are entered in at the straight Gate and whether you walk in the narrow VVay that only leads to Life for out of it there is no Salvation And God is risen to overturn every false VVay in this the Day of his Power in which the VVay of the VVicked shall be turned upside down but the VVay of the Lord shall be exalted which as the Apostle saith Is the New and Living Way the New Covenant of Light to the Gentiles that is Israel's Hope of Glory which is Christ the Spirit of Truth and VVord of Life in Man that whosoever receives and walks in is of God and come out of the VVorld but he that receives it not is not past from Darkness but is under the Power of it in the VVorld that lyeth in VVickedness where God is not pleased but as many as have received the VVord in their Hearts and in it believe are grafted by Faith into Christ the Root the Vine and Power of Life the incorruptible Seed the Word of God that liveth and abideth for ever and because he liveth all in him are made alive to God again and these walk in him that is his Spirit that God the Father hath given to lead them into all Truth and out of him none can please God nor walk in his Truth and these be his Disciples in this Age that have received him the VVord and for the Obedience of him the World hates them as it doth him and now persecutes him in his Members as he said they would and we witness his Word fulfilled in us but in his Spirit we have Victory over the World and their Spirit because he that we have received the Word the Spirit of Truth in us is greater then he that is in in the World and that Spirit that is in the World is now making ●ar against the Spirit which