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A62901	A word of information to them that need it briefly opening some most weighty passages of God dispensations among the sons of men, from the beginning, and insisting a little upon the state and condition of the nations, wherein they now stand, and particularly of England : for this end, that men may remember themselves, and turn unto the Lord, and seek to be delivered from the mysteries of iniquity, to walk with God in fellowship and communion : to which (as pertinent hereunto) is annexed, An addition concerning Lord-Bishops, and Common-prayer-book : with a tender admonition to those called priests, or ministers : and also, a loving exhortation to those that have separated from their superstitions / by W.T.	Tomlinson, William.	1660 (1660)	Wing T1854; ESTC R16928	33,341	46

against it and can they do any lesse now For they find it not suitable to that Spirit which they are born again of Judge in your selves by the Light of Christ Jesus and according to the Witnesse of God Is it suitable to the New Covenant a Covenant inwardly written in the heart by the Spirit of the living God in which a Creature is to be led of the Spirit and guided by the Spirit and in which he stands in Communion with God having accesse to God in that Spirit that gives him the feeling of his presence and teaches him what to pray forming in his heart strong desires and earnings after God and his Righteousnesse and forming in him a filial frame of Spirit in which he cryes Abba Father and in which he can draw near unto God as a Father Is it suitable to such a Covenant as this wherein God doth thus set at liberty inwardly his Sons and Daughters and enlarge their priviledges in the Spirit and give them such access to him to worship him in Spirit Judge in your selves is it suitable to this Covenant to annex to it a dead literal formal Common-Prayer-Book the Ministry of which may be performed without any measure of the Spirit of the New Covenant yea by such as are so far off from that Spirit in which the New Covenant and its Ministry stands that they make a mock thereat But the Common-Prayer-Book standing in Opposition to that Spirit which they mock at and despise and stand in opposition to themselves hence both standing in one ground They love it and hug it for being in the same ground that unites Hence it is that the Common-Prayer-Book gets so much affection and approbation from all sorts of debauched and wicked livers they can generally flock to that as to their own for it sprung from that root in which they stand both out of the New Covenant both strangers to the Spirit of God They being dead to the Life of the Spirit and not knowing what it is to be led thereby and it also being dead as to the ministring of the Spirit a dead thing which any dead man may perform and be accepted of by them that impose it though he be a Hater of the wayes of the Spirit of God A Drunkard Swearer Lyar any Prophane Person that hath not tasted of the Gifts of the Spirit of God given for Edification of the Body Yea Scoffers Scorners Deriders at the Spirit such as are so far off from the New Covenant of the Spirit that they taunt and kick at the very owning of the Spirit and blaspheme them that own it as may be proved by several Testimonies Yet such can perform that Ministry of the Common-Prayer-Book because it 's a dead thing suitable to their dead hearts and which they can do in their dead condition and well admit of without disturbing of themselves in their dead condition and can please their dead consciences therewith because it lets them be at rest in the death of sin where they delight to be unwakened under death And so Death is ministred unto by Death and Death delights in Death and the Dead are kept in their Graves by that which is dead As common experience hath daily given testimony For where are they that are awakened out of the death of Sin into the life of the Spirit by that dead thing But it 's even as a long over one asleep to keep them in that sleep It pitties my heart to see what deep Aegyptian Darknesse is upon the Hearts of many who thrust themselves into the Ministry as pretending for CHRIST And yet are so ignorant of the things that pertain to the Kingdome of God as that they understand not by what ability that Ministry is to be upheld But set upon it as in pursuit of an earthly Kingdome to themselves as indeed theirs is and that with such carnal supplies and furniture wherewith they have furnished themselves as any meer carnal Man may have who hath no savour of things spiritual Thou blind man that darest uphold such a dead Service and Worship Dost thou not know that CHRIST JESUS ascended up on high and gave Gifts to men for the work of his Ministry under the New COVENANT And were not all they that did Minister to minister as of that ability which God gave in and by the Spirit as a fruit of CHRISTS Ascention And so were not now to be Ministers of a dead Letter but of the Spirit by ministring to others in the Spirit as the Spirit ministred to them And so as the Covenant is spirituall so is the Ministry spirituall As the Covenant is not a Covenant written in Tables of Stone or Brass or Paper or Wood but in the heart by the spirit so the Ministry must answer it It must be also a Ministry not standing in Books and Writings outwardly read but in Gifts of the same Spirit And this the Apostles held out clearly in their Practice and Doctrine And let the Wisdome of Men reason what it will to the contrary and plead according to its carnal Understanding Yet seeing Christ our Lord and the Mediatour of the New Covenant and Establisher of the Ministry thereof hath appointed that it should be so namely that his Ministry should be performed by the Abilities of the Spirit which he ascended to give We ought therein to rest and not to strive against his Will and Wisdome nor to impose Inventions of men into any part of his Ministry So setting our will against his and our Wisdome against his For so to do is Whoredome of Spirit from Christ its Will-worship Idolatry Stubbornnesse Rebellion and the Prop of Antichrist a Cup of Fornication such as the Nations are made drunk with and upon which the wrath of God will come because of Rebellion therein against his Son Even as his wrath came upon Israel after the flesh for their wilfulnesse in following their own Wisdome and Traditions of other Nations and would not be guided by his Directions then under the First Covenant And their Examples are written for our Admonition If any say to me That Good men and some Martyrs have suffered for the Common-Prayer-Book I Answer I deny not but Good Men and Martyrs have suffered thus far on the behalf of it that is They have testifyed against Service in another tongue which they understood not and so born testimony for the Common-Prayer-Book against the Masse-Book which was in Latine that is as much as to say They have testified for the having it in a known Tongue against the having it in an unknown Tongue And so here was one step forward from the dismall darknesse of Egypt spirituall And their faithfulnesse in that was accepted of God and the rest winked at But now that the true Light makes more still manifest we are to testifie against that which is further opened to be evil in it and to be faithfull to that as they were to what they saw A Tender ADMONITION to

of the Faith of Abraham and brake down this partition-wall standing in outward Ordinances which he had put between the Jews and Centiles because they were all alike And so out of both he gathered a People to himself and made his Son the Captain of them and gave to them another Ministry Not a Ministration written in Tables of Stone as the first was which was outwardly presented before their eyes to look upon But a Ministration which was inward written in the Heart by the Spirit of the living God Of this Ministration the Son was made Mediator and so this Ministery was confirmed also by great Signs and Miracles which he did in healing all manner of sicknesse and infirmity among the people and raising of the dead and such like This Ministry was of a New Covenant the Ministry of the Spirit into the Heart and therefore it was needfull that the Mediator thereof should be such a one as could enter the spirit of the Creature even the Lord that Spirit who could stand at the door of the heart to minister Revel 3.20 And so here came forth this great Mystery hid from Ages and Generations namely CHRIST in you the Hope of Glory And under this Ministry the Apostle affirmed That if any man have not the Spirit of CHRIST he is none of his Rom. 8.9 for that is his Ministry to minister the Spirit and therefore his Servants and Ministers said plainly that they were not Ministers of the Letter but of the Spirit 2 Cor. 3. Therefore see where all they are that partake not of the Spirit of Christ Jesus nor have any Testimony thereof in themselves witnessing with their spirits that they are the Sons of God nor feel the operation thereof in their own hearts drawing them after Righteousness and Holiness but deny it and scoff at it in others that acknowledge the same being guided and taught thereby as usually Persecuters of Christians have done in the Reign of Antichrist Now after this Ministry came forth here arises the Great Mysterie also of Iniquity against it namely an Antichrist against Christ in his Ministry a carnal worldly spirit clothing it self under a Form of outward Observations and yet setting it self to keep down this Ministry of Christ Jesus even to quench and keep down this Spirit of Christ with the Outward Form void of the Power This Mystery began to work in the Apostles dayes Therefore they called the Saints out from a Form without the Power 2 Tim. 3.5 But it could not grow to the height till that which letted was taken out of the way That which letted then was something that letted the Outward Form which it grew up under and that the Persecuting Roman Emperors did a long while for they persecuted and killed such as did but profess themselves Christians so that under them the Mysterie could not come to its height till they were taken out of the way But then after they were taken out of the way and the form of Christianity had scope then it grew apace till at last it was headed with an Universal Bishop which name the Pope took to himself and so still it grew adding one Superstition to another and one Abomination to another and prevailed greatly against the Saints of the Most High Revel 6.9 10 11. and 7.14 and 13.7 So here the holy City was troden under foot by this Outward Court that was the Gentiles gotten into an Outward Form but came no nearer Revel 11.2 And so the Mysterie prevailed until it spread over many Waters that is Peoples Multitudes Nations and Tongues and reigned over the Kings of the Earth Revel 17.1 15 18. And so here that which the Papists make one great mark of their Church namely the Universality and Consent of Nations is plainly a great mark of the Mysterie of Iniquity which overspread multitudes of Nations for a long time Revel 17.2 and 18.3 And under this Great Mysterie the Portion of the Saints hath been that they have been persecuted and slain Revel 17.6 and 16.5 6. and in great Tribulation The VVHORE making the Nations believe that they were HERETICKS and so killing them because they Dissented from their Universal or Catholick Church as they called it Now here is one chief end of this Writing to put men upon this Consideration Whether you be yet under this Mystery or come from under it Whether or no you have got victory over the Beast over his Image over his Mark over the number of his Name as the Saints do Rev. 15.2 Or you be yet drunk with the Wine of her Fornication Rev. 17.2 Are you on the Persecutors part who are many or on the Persecuted part who are few in comparison Are you drunk or are you sober are you drunk with mens Inventions and with blind Zeal and Ignorance and wrath to defend them or are you come to sobriety to hear the voice of the Spirit and of the Scriptures Do not think that because there was a breach from grosse Popery in England formerly that therefore you are out of the Mystery For you did but break off from her in some things but the Life of that Mystery is not yet slain among you so long as you Persecute and tread under foot the Servants of the Lord if you retain the Spirit of the Mystery that marks you for her Servants reform as much as you will in your outward Observations One thing I would have you consider of Whether do you think that England did step at one step out of the depth of the Mystery of Iniquity back again into the pure Truth as it was once delivered by Christ and his Holy Apostles Consider it well Nay verily there have been many stepping forward and you who in outward appearance had removed one degree yet you persecuted all that saw more of the Mystery than your selves and seperated therefore from you Whereby it is apparent that the Spirit of the Mystery was still in you And you prosecuted them with the names of Blasphemy as the great Whore doth that Mother of Harlots and your Mother therein teaching you to call them Hereticks that is such as separate from the Truth because they separated from you making them odious by your Names of Blasphemy which you fix upon them that they might be hated of all men and persecuted by you without pitty Such measure have all they met withal who have seen your Errour in Worship or Doctrine or Life and have therefore witnessed against it so far as they saw Thus it hath been with your Mother your Church of England and this hath been her manner of dealing with all that have stept out from her Errours She hath retain'd the Spirit of her Mother the Mother of Harlots in this her Fornication and she cannot clear her self of it The Imprisonments Whippings and Persecutions of all those She calls Hereticks will jointly witnesse against her That the Spirit of the great Whore is yet retained in her whose Mark is Blood This

all those called PRIESTS or MINISTERS O Ye that are called Priests or Ministers who preach to the people for hire and keep them in a Forme without the Power Is it possible that a Word of experience shewed me in the spirit being kept low with the Lord and in his fear may reach any of you I could willingly tell it you for my heart pitties you as you are men and I should rejoyce in your Salvation as well as of others But I see you stand in greatest danger of all men both by reason you have strengthened your selves in your holds by seeming Arguments and Interpretations of Scripture and Opinions of Men And also because Truth strikes directly at your Diana by which you subsist and have your livelihood as you call it Therefore it s hard for you to lend an ear to hear the Voice that calls out or to open your eye to let in a glimpse of that light that discovers it For if such a thought or motion do but offer it self I know Satan followes it immediately with this at the heels What then will become of us Oh that there were faith in you to trust God for your outward being and supply and a contented heart to live at Gods allowance Then would the Teachings of Truth more easily enter and finde place And verily trust him and let your eye be open to see the light which would shine into your own Consciences if your unbelief did not stop it and if your loving this present evil world and the deeds of darknesse did not keep you back from coming to it For he that loves truth comes to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God Trust God I say for your outward subsistence and he will not forsake you utterly and let the light arise in your consciences concerning your wayes and seek first the Kingdom of God and the Righteousnesse thereof and you have the words of Christ for it which is above the word of any King who is Truth it self and cannot lye that all these things shall be added unto you I have found his word true by experience everlasting praises to his name And Oh how could I rejoyce to see your hearts brought down out of your formall wayes into the Obedience and power of Truth That you might not stand as a stop in the strait way hindring your own and others return unto God in the way of his Covenant My heart envies you not I speak in the presence of the Lord but in a tender Compassion to you I speak thus plainly and familiarly to you longing even for your Salvation also that if it be possible you might be delivered out of that deep pit in which you are faln For I have seen your horrid darknesse in which you stand God in mercy shewed it unto me and kept me out of it And I saw plainly that if I had entred into your livings as they are called I had entred into it But blessed be his name that kept me and allured me into the wildernesse there to feel his love and made me to sit down weeping in remembrance of ZION which I saw to be farr off and troden under foot by the Gentiles which had got into the outward Court and were there glorying in their Ordinances and crying out upon others as Seducers and Deluders and Hereticks while the HOLY CITY was troden under foot among themselves But the Lord hath shewed me upon whom the strong delusions are sent and for what Cause It is upon the disobedient who have pleasure in unrighteousnesse and for that cause because they love that and chuse unrighteousnesse to live in rather than the fear of God Therefore doth the Lord send them strong delusions even to believe a lye Come down to become as little Children and you will see the same also And I tell you plainly untill you do come down to become as little Children you cannot see God you cannot see the Kingdome of God you cannot judge righteously of the things of the Kingdome of God For how should you judge right of things that you cannot see Therefore humble your selves under the mighty hand of God and fear him who will make all bow before him and stoop to his will one way or other And stand not upon your Learning or Parts or any such thing For such things are of light account in the sight of God but come down to the place where God feeds his Babes even a low place it is a place of poverty of Spirit a place of mourning a place of hungring and thirsting And I tell you till you come thither you shall never feel any thing of the presence of God to your everlasting comfort And if you misse this what good will your Learning with all your vaunting do you Will it not all vanish away with vexation when an evill conscience arises and torment there enters and abides tormenting you in the presence of God and his holy Angels because you have neglected the one thing needfull even to walk with him in his fear in his pure light and so in a good conscience kept clear in the sight of God For without this the blood of Christ cleanseth you not from your sins Mind that lest you daub up your selves with untempered mortar I say the Blood of Christ cleanseth you not in the way of an evil Conscience in walking contrary to the Light of Christ But saith John If we walk in the Light as God is in the Light then have we fellowship and the blood cleanses But walking contrary to the Light there is made shipwrack of a good Conscience and the Conscience condemns and God is greater than the Conscience to condemn Consider it deeply for it is writ in Love and Faithfulnesse to your souls by one that yearns after your good and not after your destruction AN EXHORTATION to Those that have seperated Themselves from the SUPERSTITIONS of the PRIESTS YOU that have turned your backs of AEGYPT spiritually so called and have suffered hard Speeches and Reproaches and Injuries of Wicked Men in coming out of their grosser Abominations and Superstitions There is a tender respect in my heart towards you who have done this in obedience to a Principle of God in your hearts And my Desire for you is That You may not lose your Reward by looking back again to AEGYPT or by turning aside to this present evill World or to any of the hurtfull Lusts therein or by taking up your Habitation short of the Land of Rest But that you may be preserved in that tender Principle that led you forth that therein you may go forward and not backward But now do not think that you are come to the end of your journey because You have stepped out of Egypt Remember the many Journeys and Removes the Israelites had after they came out of Egypt before they arrived at the good Land of Promise and faint not but gird up the loyns of your

mindes Only take heed of those things that caused many to fall in the way and be not discouraged though Pharaoh seem to pursue you with an Hoste For the Egyptians may be hardened to pursue to their own destruction and to prosecute the Seed as if they would swallow them up Look to him that led you out and hold on your way follow the Pillar of smoke and of fire the Power and presence of God that his wing may be over you and take heed of murmuring at the difficulty of the way as some murmured and perished for Strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto Life Take heed of unbelief for that enters not into the Promise It 's Faith that overcomes In that go on and make war with the enemies of your souls that are in the way spare none suffer no secret lust to remain alive in your hearts but let the sword of the Spirit come over them to mortifie and slay them and do not satisfie your selves because you have got into this or that Forme for What will that avail you if you go no further It 's the life and power that the Kingdom of God consists in See that you sit not down short of that Are you come to Truth and Faithfulnesse in your hearts so that the world finding your honest plain faithfull Conversation dare trust you and commit any thing they have to you in assurance that they shall not be defrauded or deceived by you If you be not but live in Covetousnesse and Deceit it s neither your departing from Egypt nor sitting down under any Form whatsoever that will do you any good For you are not yet come to the Kingdome of God which is in Righteousnesse and Truth Are you come to an unblamable conversation before men so that they have nothing justly to charge you with and to a good conscience before God which answers to the Light of the Lord in you and so accuses not Are you come to Mercy and to a tender compassionate heart that delights in it and seeks to save your fellow-creature and not to destroy the life of any but only to deliver it from that which would destroy If not the nature of the Saviour is not yet formed in you Are you come to the Light which lets you see your hearts and all the secret thoughts and intents and purposes of them and to love it and turn to it and follow it Are you come to the New-Covenant to receive the Law of God in the Spirit from Christ the Mediator thereof who is the Lord that Spirit that ministers it and so to hear the word that 's nigh you in the mouth and in the heart Are you come to feel the Anointing abiding in you which keeps you abiding in Christ as you are taught thereby and which discovers to you Seducings and Delusions of that spirit of Antichrist that works to lead you from it Are you come to that inward fellowship and communion with God which the Apostles of the Lamb enjoyed and sought to bring the babes of Christ unto Are you come to feel the vvorking of that Spirit of truth in you vvhich mortifies the deeds of the flesh which would hinder your communion with God Are you come to that spirit that renewes and sanctifies and changes your hearts and casts out the old man with his deeds and brings forth love instead of hatred patience instead of frowardnesse and hastinesse lovvlinesse of minde instead of loftinesse harmlesnesse instead of hurting pitty instead of hard-heartednesse gentlenesse instead of roughnesse faith instead of fear and distrust faithfulnesse instead of guile and deceitfulnesse temperance and sobriety instead of excesse and such like wholsom fruits as these instead of the contrary Are you come to that which thus strikes at Iniquity when it would appear in you and cuts it down and brings forth the contrary Are you come I say to that spirit vvhich is the Root from whence all good fruits do spring which is that good Land which flowes with milk and hony that Promised Land that true Resting-place If you be not come to these things How can you think your selves at a period How can you think that you are come to Canaan spirituall where such fruits as these grow How can you sit down as if you were already got into the good Land Come gird up the loyns of your minde and go forvvard vvith us Let us presse on to perfection having our faces still forward in that Kingdome the Treasures of which have no end And clogg not your selves with the love of this present evill world for that will presse you down and keep you back and be a weight to you Minde the one thing needfull and presse toward the mark of the high-Calling of God in Christ Jesus Will it satisfie you to break off from Egypt if you perish in the Wildernesse and fall short of the promised Land the Land of Peace and Rest even the Promise of the Father The Spirit of Truth the Comforter which leads into all truth and into that righteousness the work of which is peace and the effect of which is quietnesse and assurance for ever Isa 32.17 Will you make that a Possession for ever where you had but a Lodging place as it were for a night or two while the Pillar of smoke and fire stood over it Will you stay behinde the cloudy pillar when it is lifted up and gone forward Will you not go along with the power in which the Kingdom of God stands Doth not the Apostle call out of the Form when the Power is gone Come Let us go forward together not looking back again to Sodom as Lots Wife did who was therefore turned into a Pillar of Salt nor as they did who said Come let us make a Captain and turn back to Egypt whose carcasses therefore fell in the Wildernesse Remember Caleb and Joshua who followed the Lord fully with all their heart whom the Lord therefore set into the Land of Promise who pressed still forward when others began to hang back through fear of the lofty Giants whose Faith follow And take heed of lusting after evill things as they lusted who fell by the way Come down out of all Exaltation from any Form that you are got into be it what it will and come into meeknesse lowlinesse of heart humblenesse of mind gentlenesse in the fear of the Lord and become as Little Chidren for in plainnesse of Speech this is the way that our Captain is gone before us and hath left word for us to follow him in Take my Yoke upon you and learn of me saith he for I am meek and lowly in heart and you shall finde rest for your soules for my yoak is easie and my burthen is light Bear with me in my pleading thus with you For we would not have you lost who have borne the abuses of the world and the fury of a wicked and untoward Generation for Conscience sake Be not weary nor faint in your mindes nor say in your hearts Where is the Promise of his coming for one day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day In his time he will come and not fail Happy is he that endures to the end waiting for him He shall reap that faints not My Affections are towards you who have seen the great Whores Cup of Fornication and have through sufferings broke off from her with us If you be low enough for our Company we would not lose you Is it not the same God that we presse after Is it not the same fellowship with him inwardly in the soul Is it not the same bread that comes down from Heaven which you would feed upon to the inward satisfaction and content of your souls which is the strength of our hearts and which we feed upon every one in his measure And do you finde it in your Form where you stick If not minde the footsteps of the Flock and which way God hath led them and where he feeds his Lambs and minde that which leads them and must lead you into the fresh Pastures where they finde food which satisfies Let go your partition Walls so as not to bear up your selves in your thoughts above others thereby as the Pharisees did and come into the unity of the Spirit where the everlasting Unity stands and which knits all the members of the body together and even from the highest to the lowest though scattered in many appearances So that our bounds lye not in form but in the spirit and where we feel the life If the Kingdome which you seek be not of this world but of another that 's invisible if it be within not without then you must come to that inward guide to lead you into that inward and invisible Kingdom which leads out of the things that unite you to the world namely the lusts of the flesh the lusts of the eyes and the pride of life and him must you follow out of these things into the Kingdom Call that Guide by what name you will Wisdom as Solomon did or the Light which enlightens every man that comes into the world or the Spirit or what other name soever it is named by in the Scriptures That you must obey and follow out of that which defiles and corrupts into that which is pure and holy and eternal For without holinesse no man shall see God nor come to have fellowship with him THE END