checks him for his evil deeds and that lets him see what sin he is guilty of you must believe in this Light and follow it and depart from that and forsake that Iniquity which it convinces you of and do that Good which it moves your hearts unto or else you can never be saved for if your continue in evil-doing contrary to the Light of Christ in your own Consciences you are in a condemned condition and you cannot be justified of the Lord while you are accused by the Light within you of such and such sins and that you are guilty of them and forsakes them not for the God of Heaven condemneth and justifieth men according to the Witness of the Light in their own Consciences for it is Gods Evidence to bear witness for God and to accuse or excuse every man in his sight and according to its evidence God justifieth or condemneth all the children of men III. Again Whosoever will be saved must be born again of the Seed of God and must be changed and renewed in mind and heart and spirit and old things must pass away and all things must be made new and a new nature must live in you and the Image of God must be brought forth which is in Righteousness and true Holiness which is like unto God and this is the new Creation which every one must witness to be wrought in them that ever enters into Gods Kingdom For saith Christ Except a man be born again he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God for it is not a profession of Religion made with the lips nor the practises of Duties and Ordinances taken on the performed in the old nature and a holding of truth in unrighteousness this is not the way of Salvation but it is the regenerating and making like unto God being his Image of Justice Truth and Righteousness it is this in which men may be saved everlastingly IV. Again Whosoever will be saved must receive the Spirit of God and it must dwell in them even the Spirit of the Father and they must be taught by it and led into all Truth to do the Truth and speak the Truth in all things even the Spirit of Truth must be received to teach and to lead in all the wayes of God it alone must teach and all the Hireling-Teachers of the world must be turned away from by whom peoples souls have been deceived all such as have run and God never sent them that have cryed up Teaching and Ministry and through whom people have not received the Spirit of the Father all such Teachers must he denyed their Church and Ministry and the Spirit of the Father must only teach and lead and you must walk in the Spirit and not after the Flesh for if you walk after the Flesh in the wayes and works of it you are in the state of Condemnation and not of Salvation and the Spirit of God doth not teach you but you are out of the New Covenant of God in which Covenant all are taught of the Lord and in Righteousness are they established the Spirit of God is put within them and the Law of God is written in their hearts and they need no man to teach them but as the Spirit teacheth and this is the New Covenant of Peace with God into which all must come to witness this or else they cannot be saved V. Again All that will be saved must be sanctified cleansed and purified from all unrighteousness by the Spirit and Word of God whereby every heart must be made clean and every conscience sprinkled with the Blood of the Lamb and the body of Sin and Death must be put off and the bondage of Corruption must be broken and Iniquity must be forsaken and turned from and Sin must be judged in the flesh and Purity Holiness and Righteousness must live and reign in all that will be saved and Sin and Transgression and the guilt of it must be removed and you must shew forth the Image of God in Holiness and Righteousness and must be pure as he is pure in kind and quality and you must walk in Holiness and Righteousness being freed from Corruption and from the wayes of Sin and Death being sanctified in Body Mind and Spirit by the Word of the Lord and Sin must be blotted out and Transgression must be covered and Iniquity must be remembred no more and in all things you must cease to do evil and learn to do well if ever you will be saved VI Again Whosoever will be saved must witness Christ revealed in you and He must live in you and you must be followers of him whithersoever he goes and your Bodies must be the Temples of the living God and God must walk in you and dwell in you according to his promise and he must be your King your Judge and Law-giver and Teacher Father and Master and he must be all in all unto you even God the Father who is blessed for ever you must know him near you and feel his presence in you to be your joy life and peace and you must have fellowship with him in Spirit and must worship him in Spirit and by the Spirit without respect of Dayes Times or Places Every one that will be saved must come into this and witness it for this is the way of the Salvation of God VII Again Whosoever will be saved must live in the power of Godliness and must deny all Forms of Religion without the Power all Profession of Scriptures Ordinances Church-member-ship Praying and Preaching which is not in the Power of God and by his Spirit must be denyed and that part that holds it that holds the Form of Godliness without the Power must be crucified and every one must come into the Power of the Spirit of God and must witness that to work in them to will and to do and no more professing of the things of God but as they are witnessed by the work of his Spirit in their hearts you must not hold Truth any longer in unrighteousness nor make a profession of it in your unrighteous minds no more talking of Justification and Redemption nor of any of the matters of Gods Kingdom but according as they are witnessed by the working of the Spirit of God in the heart and every one must feel in himself the evidence and testimony of the Spirit of God to witness the Truth in his heart or conscience of what he professeth with his mouth VIII Again Whosoever will be saved must witness the Scriptures of Truth fulfilled in themselves the things that they have read of without them must be wrought within them wrought in their hearts by the same Spirit as gave forth the Scriptures they must passe through the same conditions as the holy men of God did and the same truth that the Scriptures declare of must be revealed in the heart by the same Spirit that gave forth the Scriptures and none must profess more than they do enjoy from God
after Covetousness and the love of this World they have gone though there hath been a great profession of Worship and Religion in thee much Preaching and Praying Sabbath-keeping and professed Church-fellowship Ministry and Ordinances and a Sect here of one sort and there another that have cryed Lord Lord and have made a shew of Worships and Duties towards him yet notwithstanding Hypocrisie False-heartedness Covetousness Double-mindedness and the spirit of Pride and Ambition and vain Glory have possessed the hearts of both Teachers and People in all the false Sects and divers kinds of Religion though they have had a shew as if they were the Lords People and a pretence of Worship and conformity of Church-fellowship c. yet their hearts have not been right before the Lord but of these it may be said even they have professed God with their mouths and with their lips honoured him and in the very time their hearts have gone after Covetousness and been far departed from the Lord and though they have cryed The Temple of the Lord and we are the Church of Christ and Members of him and have Gospel and Ministry and Ordinances yet these people have walked in Pride and Arrogancy and Covetousness and their hearts have been Corrupted in the sight of the Most High and all their Religion hath been but as the fig-leaves by which they have sought to cover themselves but it cannot be For behold ye Professors and People of Ireland God hath beheld your Hypocrisies and the Deceitfulness of your hearts and your nakedness doth appear for though you have professed much of the Spirit and Spiritual Things yet you have walked in the Flesh and brought forth the fruits thereof and your garments of feigned Prayers and Practices and your profession of Church and Ordinances will not cover nor hide you from the Wrath of the Lamb Oh People of Ireland many of you have been corrupted in your hearts and polluted in your minds and from the highest of you to the lowest you are sound Transgressors against God even from the Professor to the Porphane the Lord hath found no good fruit amongst you well-pleasing to him but four grapes and bitter fruit have you brought forth even fruit of a bad tast and loathsom smel unto the Lord and now the Lord hath found you out in your wickedness and the cry of your Iniquities call for Vengeance for of you it may be said Ah Nation laden with Iniquity ah sinful People a seed of Evil-doers corrupted from the crown of the heal to the soal of the foot these things are so and they cannot be hid But now the Lords purpose is to deal with thee because of thy sins seeing he is provoked against this People by their Iniquities who have been disobedient to the living God Therefore will he renew his Judgments of old and withdraw his Mercies and he will plead with the People in his Justice his Judgments are at the door and he will punish the stout-hearted and proud and arrogant till they learn meekness and humility he will correct the Transgressors with his Rod of heavy Wrath till they turn to him by Repentance and all that will not bow and kiss the Son and cease from evil and learn to do well they shall be broken and cut off and perish in his anger and he will never heal them even the Feller will come upon thy People O Nation who will hew down thy Cedars and cut up thy strong Oaks the Fanner is coming upon thee to sift thee to preserve the good Grain and to separate the Chaff into the fire thy Strength will be made weak and thy Crown will be toden down and thy Beauty shall be marred and all thy Glory and Might shall fade like a flower in that day when the Lord of Hosts pleadeth with thee and when he rewards thee for thy Wickedness Then Wo unto thee and unto all the Wicked and workers of Iniquity and he will cause them to remember what they have done thy Sins O Nation shall be set in order before thee and thy Persecution of the Lords Servants shall be charged to thy account and the Rod of Affliction shall reach close unto thee because thereof and as thy Rulers have done to others so shall it be done to them into Captivity shall they go and the Spoyler shall come upon the Land for Iust is the Lord and his Iudgments altogether equal and though he be long-suffering and of great forbearance yet he forgets not to plead with his Enemies and to plague the Ungodly nor to shew mercy to them that trust in him And doubtles there is a Cup of Wrath prepared for the Wicked to drink and it seemeth to be near even a day of great Wrath Tribulation upon Sinners and Transgressors who have rejected the Lord and despised his Reproofs and would not receive the Message of the Light of the World that they might be healed Wherefore Repeat Repent all sorts of People all Sinners and Transgressors tremble before the Lord ye stout-hearted and rebellious Children Wo unto ye unjust Rulers and Judges that have exercised unjust Judgment in the Land that have judged for Gifts and Rewards and that have turned aside just Judgement Mercy and Truth and that have persecuted the Innocent without just cause Wo unto you that have been Oppressors of the Poor and Needy ye that have not judged for the Lord as ye ought to have done but have been ambitious and vain-glorious and puffed up in the flesh by high Titles and Places of Honour ye that have exalted your selves above your Brethren and sought Honour of Men and loved the Honour of this World more than the Honour of God Wo unto you for the day of the Lords Judgment is at hand and an account of your Stewardship must you give Ye that should have judged in Mercy and Truth and Equity but have perverted just Judgment and made the Innocent Offenders and have not been a praise to them that do well nor a terror to evil-doers as ye ought to have been Wo unto you and to the Oppressing and Falshearted Lawyers and that Train who have been greedy of Gain and served your own Ends and sought Riches to your selves and the Cause of the Poor hath not been freely pleaded by you Wo unto all ye that have made a Trade of doing Judgment and Justice and have been exercised in the Laws for your own Ends and not singly for the Lord Tremble ye sons of Wickedness ye that have exercised the Power of Antichrist and the Beast for the Judgments of the Lord are at hand to be executed upon you Wo unto you Great and Rich men ye covetous and earthly Worldlings ye that have made your selves rich by Oppression and grinding the faces of the Poor that have got Gain by hard dealing and added Land to Land and Field to Field and that have over-reached the Ignorant and oppressed the Widows and Fatherless and that have exercised Cruelty and
now call them Lay-persons and say they are not fitting to preach for they are not Learned nor Ordained say you and calling them Mechannicks and private Preachers and say they must not now be admitted to preach the Gospel and in this you deny the Scriptures and the Example of the Saints in former Ages and so neither know the Scriptures nor the Spirit that gave them forth though you say you own the Scriptures yet if the same things come to passe which they declare of you deny them in this Age and cry against such as Hereticks who witness the fulfilling of them which shews you are of Antichrist and that you quench the Spirit in Sons and Daughters which God hath promised in the New Covenant that he would give and pour forth upon Sons and Daughters and they shall prophesie And are not we to look for these things now VVhat must not God's Promises be fulfilled must not an Herds-man now preach if the Word of the Lord come unto him and must not Plow-men now speak of the things of God if they have experience of them and must not Fisher-men and Tent-makers bear witness to the Name of Christ if they have received of his Spirit And will you deny the Scriptures which saith As every one hath received the Spirit and the Gift so let him administer the same one to another 1 Pet. 4. or do you say None must have the Gift of the Spirit but such as are brought up at Schools and Colledges or will you limit the Holy One to such and such men and wayes Oh you are blind and ignorant who would quench the Spirit of God that it should not speak in these dayes and thus you are denyers of the Scriptures but God hath given of his Spirit and spoken in our hearts and we must prophesie and speak as the Spirit of God giveth utterance as the Saints of old did Act. 2. 4. Now for your way of making Ministers at Schools and Colledges and so quallifying them with Knowledge in the seven Sciences as it is said and ordaining them in that manner and way as among Papists and Protestants hath been practised for Ages this way of making Ministers and sending of them forth was never known among the Apostles for they were not thus made and ordained and sent to preach nor was this way of making and sending forth Ministers till the Spirit and Power of God was lost and forsaken by the Apostate Christians and the Scriptures make no mention of such wayes nor give no Example for such things and we cannot own any Religion nor any practice thereof but what we have Example for from the Saints of old before us and we believe that it is generally of Antichrist to invent and introduce such and such Practices for Religion towards God and for the worship of him for which there is no Example in all the Christian Churches in the Apostles dayes and we believe that way of making Ministers and sending of them forth which is not approvable by the Scriptures nor according to them is of Antichrist and not of God neither can we own such Ministers nor their Ministry who are not ordained of God and according to the Scriptures nor can we deny private Preachers nor their Ministry as you call them if they have received the Spirit of Christ though they be not so learned outwardly nor ordained according to what some may call the right way but who are Ministers made and sent of God and have the Authority of his Spirit such we own and cannot deny and such the Lord will bless with his Presence to the confounding of all their Enemies Concerning Settlement in a happy Government Object There hath been great Divisions and Distractions in these Nations for divers years and in the midst of them the great cry hath been by many for Settlement and Peace and for a quiet and happy Government Answ. These things hath the Lord suffered to come to pass in the world even great Contentions Divisions and Distractions and much Changes of Government in these Kingdoms And the appearing cause of these things hath been from the lust that hath warred in the Members for from thence doth Wars and Strife arise and many have been Ambitions Vain-glorious Self-seeking and Covetous of the Honours and Pleasures of this VVorld the lust and desire of these things hath possessed the minds of men and induced them to envy and wrath one against another and hath filled them with heart-burnings and cruelty of mind to the killing and destroying of one another by Wars and Bloodsheds and by Plots and Contrivances have sought how to extinguish one another from the Earth that themselves might be exalted and thus from the desires that have warred in mens minds have Wars arisen against the persons of men and among them and this is the appearing cause of the Wars and Distractions that have been in these Nations though the hidden cause which hath not so appeared hath been in God and because of the wickedness of men both high and low and because of their Oppressions and Abominations which have been many and great in the World Therefore hath the God of Heaven been provoked in just Judgement towards Rulers and People to suffer men to destroy one another and to execute Bloudsheds and Destructions one upon another and he hath brought it to pass in giving up men to the fulfilling of their cruel intents which hath been hatched in their evil minds every man against his Neighbour and even because they have been departed out of his Counsel and followed their own wicked wayes and Justice and Mercy and Truth have been wanting amongst men in these Nations so that this is the principal cause wherefore the Lord God hath brought about and suffered these Wars Distractions Confusions and Discords in these latter dayes and out of the justness of Gods Judgments because of the wickedness of men have these things been And now these Distractions and Confusions and Discords amongst men can never wholly and truly cease to be till Iniquity and Transgression be repented of and turned from which is the very cause wherefore God hath done and suffered these things as I have said and so men must cease from Oppression from Cruelty and from all Unrighteousness and must turn to the Lord and become cleansed from their sins ere ever the Judgements of the Lord be removed and these Distractions Wars and Confusions cease to be in these Lands and till men become meek and humble and till they cease to seek Revenge one of another and till they cease all Oppression and Covetousness Injustice and Unmercifulness and till they forsake their worldly Honour and high Titles which puffs them up in Arrogancy and Ambition and even till every man forsake his particular Iniquity till all these things be Distractions will not cease nor shall Settlement and Peace and happy Government ever be This is certainly so for except the Cause be removed the Effect can never
hard dealing to your Tenants and Servants and have laid heavy Yoaks upon such with whom you have dealt and that have made your selves great and rich in the Earth by such means Wo unto you Misery is coming upon you weep and howl ye earthly greedy covetous Wretches of this World who have sought Riches more than the Lord and gotten Gain by Oppression and Over-reaching your Neighbours your Riches so gotten shall never prosper nor be blessed to you but shall be a Curse to you and your Children and your Covetousness will God plague Ye that have gotten Goods and not by right shall leave them in the midst of your dayes Wo unto you Carnal minds all the treasures of them are corruptible your Lands Gold and Silver are fading treasures the day of the Lords Judgments are at hand upon you and the Rod of his Wrath will smite you and ye shall have Poverty and Want instead of Fulness and Excess and ye shall have Leanness and Barrenness and God will plead with you in the way of have sinned against him The time of your Visitation draws near Wo unto you Merchants Traders Buyers and Sellers that have been double-dealers and double-tongu'd and dealt deceitfully in your Commodities with your Neighbours VVo unto ye that have got Gain by double-dealing and by feigned and flattering speeches have beguiled one another and sought to out-reach in your barganing every man his Brother These things have ye done O ye Covetous men ye have even robbed the Poor by your craft and guileful dealing by your smooth and flattering tongues and if any amongst you could not use fraud and dissemble such have been your prey and scorn and it 's your use to discommend a Commodity when you buy it and to praise it when you sell it and ye make a fair outside to please the eye and ye use multitude of words and fair speeches and deceive the Simple and get Gain by Oppression Craft and Deceit Wo unto you Repent of this your sin Cleanse your hearts ye Sinners and purifie your hearts ye Double-minded I charge you by the Lord give over your double-dealing and deceitfull merchandize cease to lye and defraud cease your flattery and feigned words and speak the truth every one to his Neighbour and come out of your Iniquities use not a bad conscience any longer for it 's a fearfull Abomination against the Lord but minde the Light of Christ in you which will convince you in your Consciences of your naughty and sinful wayes and that Light will exercise your Consciences to do the Truth and speak the Truth to your Neighbour in all things and this is blessed and the Gain that is thereby gotten is not a Curse for ye ought in all your wayes to reverence the Lord and respect him that he should lead you and guide you in your exercise of all earthly things For the Earth is the Lords and the Fulness thereof and it ought to be exercised to his Glory and there is sufficient in this Creation for all People And therefore covet not earthly things one from another neither oppress nor over-reach one another about them neither treasure up earthly things while the Poor want for if ye do ye hide your selves from your own slesh laying field to field till there is no place for the Poor and wo unto such the Day of the Lord will be upon you but learn the Wisdom of God how to be ordered and how to order all things of this Creation and be in unity and good agreement amongst your selves and do not fall out nor strive not contend nor envy one another about earthly things but if ye have much or if ye have little be contented with what you have and do not grind the hearts and consciences one of another to get earthly things for they will fade and perish away and seek not after that which perisheth but after that which is unto eternal life for the Day of the Lord is at hand and his Judgments upon all Oppressors Double-dealers and false hearted Flatterers that are covetous of earthly things Wo unto all ye Drunkards and Swearers Whoremongers and Prophane Persons the Judgments of the Lord are upon you unawares ye that destroy the Creation upon your Lusts that are run into the Excess of Wine and Beer and that cover it excessively and that drink till ye inflame your selves and spend your time in it ye are like the Beasts of the field and like the Swine that wallows in filthiness ye pervert the right use and end of the good Creatures of God and spend them upon your lusts and have not regard unto the living God and one sin even begets another Drunkenness begets Swearing and Prophane words and VVhoredom and beastly Affections and thus you adde sin to sin and heap up one sin upon another contrary to the Light in your own Consciences and thus ye serve the Devil and Satan committing Iniquity with both hands as it were by Drunkenness and Swearing and taking the Name of the Lord in vain and Cursed Speaches and falling out one with another and your minds are erred from the Lord and ye abuse your selves and your own bodies which were made for the Service of God and not for Whoredom and ye slay your own Souls by your own Iniquities and many times provoke the Lord to destroy both soul and body VVo unto you the Plagues of God are your portion and Misery your end here and hereafter Repent of your Iniquities and turn from them lest the Lord find you in your Iniquities when he comes to Judgement for if you continue in them you can never be pardoned but you sin unto death and the Lord will come upon you suddenly for ye that follow Drunkenness and Prophaness you live contrary to the Light in your own Consciences and you sin against your knowledge against that knowledge that God hath given you and this is your greatest sin even because ye do the things which ye know ye should not do and the Light in your Consciences doth shew you that these things are evil before you do them but ye doing the things contrary to the Light in your own Consciences this makes your crime heinous and your sin unpardonable if ye continue in Sin and Prophaness contrary to the reproof of Gods Spirit in your own Consciences VVherefore ye prophane persons cease to do evil lest the Lords Judgments come upon you suddenly to your destruction and the Lord smite you and you never be healed VVo unto all ye hypocritical and deceitful Professors of Religion that hold the Truth in Unrighteousness that have a talk and a shew of Religion and that have the name of Church-members and of Worshippers of God but are dead in sins and trespasses ye that are Christians by name but want the nature who are wolves in sheeps cloathing that have Christs words the the Prophets and Apostles words but want their Spirit and Life VVo unto you the Day of
the Lord is at hand upon you ye Hypocrites ye that serve God with your lips and with your mouths profess much love when as your hearts are full of Envie Covetousness and Earthly-mindedness ye are the Apostate Christians that have taken the Form of Godlinesse upon you but want the Power ye preach and pray and hear Sermons and keep Sabbath-dayes and perform Duties but ye are not changed in your hearts but the old nature is alive and the old birth lives in you and ye are unlike unto God in nature and ye walk in the Flesh and not in the Spirit and ye take Christs words and the Apostles words and use your tongues when God never spoke to you O ye Hypocrites ye have a name to live but are dead and ye think ye are Rich when as ye are poor miserable blind and naked and your souls are lean and want the Bread of Life and ye have not put off the body of Sin nor have you overcome your Souls enemies but the burden of Sin lyes upon your Consciences and Temptations overcome you daily and though you say ye have Faith in Christ yet your hearts are not purified but the Old Man with his deeds is yet alive and the New Creature is not brought forth in you nor is Christ living in you and speaking in you the day of the Lord will come upon you you false-hearted men ye Apostate Christians that hold the Profession of Truth and Church and Gospel and Ministry in your unrighteous minds your Sacrifices are not acceptable to God nor your Offerings well-pleasing to him for your hearts are not aright before him and your Hypocrisie will God judge and his Wrath will go out like fire to consume your glory and God will cloath himself with Zeal as with a Cloak and with a Garment of Vengeance and he will slay you with his Sword and wound your Consciences with the Words of his Mouth and your Religion will not save you nor your Garment cover you from the Wrath of the Almighty Wo unto you the Mighty Day of the Lord is at hand upon you ye Earthly Professors who would be heirs of two Kingdoms who would enjoy God and this World too and love its Vanities and Profits and Pleasures and Honours and live in strife and contention one with another about earthly things and about your Religion too and are not of one heart and mind and soul but are strangers to the New Covenant of God though you hear Sermons and say a Form of Prayer and keep Sabbaths and Lecture-dayes and perform Ordinances and Duties and yet your hearts are hard and the body of Sin and Death lyes upon your Consciences and you are not changed into the Divine Nature this Religion will not save you away with it all it 's of Antichrish and his spirit leads you while you walk in the Form of Godliness without the Power the Lord will come upon you suddenly therefore Repent ye of your Hypocrisies and turn to the Spirit of God within you hear its Reproofs and obey it and walk in the Spirit and be ye Changed or else you can never be Saved VVo Wo unto all ye false Teachers and blind Leaders of the People ye Diviners and false Prophets and Day of the Lord is at hand upon-you ye have deceived souls for dishonest gain ye have run and were never sent of God and ye have not profited the people at all and ye have taken the name upon you of Ministers of Christ when he never sent you forth and you have kept a prating and preaching up and down and run for Gifts and Rewards and Hire ye have deceived the World and the Bloud of Souls rests upon you O ye Generation of Serpents poyson hath lodged under your tongues your hearts have been rotten and your tongues feigned and full of flattery and you have been as Canker-worms in the Earth and have corrupted the whole World Whom have not ye deceived by your Lyes and false Divinations Whom have not you cryed Peace unto if they would but give you Gifts Money and Hire What Form of Religion would not you take up for advantage to your selves how often have you turned from one way to another Oh ye false-hearted men the God of Heaven will shew you no mercy ye are the men that have made the Earth drunk with false faith and false doctrines and with contention and distention sometime preaching up one Government sometimes another and sometime being for one way of Worship and sometimes for another Treachery hath lodged in your hearts above all others ye have eaten up the sin of the People and cryed Peace unto the Ungodly Wo unto ye that have gone in Cain's way that have bread Contention Persecution Strife and Emulation amongst People and that have gone in Balaams way for Gifts and Rewards and would do any great man a pleasure and even curse the people for Money ye have been such as all the holy Prophets cryed against your fruits and works declares it ye have sought for your Gain from your Quarter and could never have enough such as Isaiah cryed against Chap. 56. and such as Micha cryed against Micah 3. That preached for Hire and divined for Money and leaned upon the Lord and cryed Peace to them that would give Money and prepared War against them that would not and these things have you done some of ye Teachers and Priests and ye have been blind Watchmen and ye have been idle and lazy Shepherds such as Ezekiel cryed against Chap. 34. that ruled over people with Force and Cruelty and killed them that were fed and did not heal the diseased nor strengthen the weak but pusht with the horn at such as went astray from you and idle and lazy Shepherds have you been who have not sed the Flock with living food but you have caused them to drink of the foul waters and their souls are lean and barren under your Preaching Oh look into your Flocks and see what fruit is brought forth by them and what may be gathered from them Oh the abundance of Pride and Wickedness of Ambition and Vain-glory and Covetousness and the love of this World lying and double-dealing and all the fruits of the flesh How do they abound amongst the flocks of your fold who are in their fruits and by their works not the Sheep of Christs Pasture but are like Goats and VVolves under your Teaching Can ye behold this and consider of it and not be ashamed of the fruit of your wayes VVhat have ye brought forth these many years or what profit have the People received from you who are yet in their sins unturned from them and not converted to God whereby it appears you have run and never were sent because the People are not profited at all and it grieves the heart of the Righteous to look into your Vineyards and to see such bad fruit growing you have been sloathfull Tillers and have not sown the good Seed in