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A85143	Light risen out of darkness now in these latter days. Shewing the dark ways and worships of the ministry of Antichrist now in these apostated times, which is perilous, as is foretold of often by the Holy Ghost that spoke through Paul, and now is fulfilled in these latter days, 2 Tim 3. Thus saith the Lord, Arise Sion, and thresh with a sharp threshing instrument, and shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen, and is arising, and Jerusalem shall be a burdensome stone to all nations, now that Christ is unto his people both the light and glory thereof. Wherein something is written in reply to a book that was set forth by the dry and night vines in and about Beverley, who scornfully nicknameth the people of God, in reviling and falsly accusing them, and calleth them Quakers, in and about York-shire. Iuly, 1653.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing F490; Thomason E729_5; ESTC R206840	47,191	59

the Scripture speak to Saints not every man when he saith Christ in you the hope of glory c. Col. 1.27 Herein you would have all to take notice of your ignorance Reply for the next verse will contradict you and so in all you have said yet the very letter of the Scripture will let you see your blindness Well may you be ignorant of the life when you are ignorant of the letter for they that spoke forth the Scriptures they passed from death to life and the in fellowship 〈◊〉 with the Father and the Son and he that hath the Son hath life 1 John but he that hath not the Son manifested in him hath not life but is in death You plainly make it appear here that you are in the letter without life and the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life and you never passed from death to life but are yet in death and sin for to be carnally minded is death and the wages of sin is death and he that commits sin is the servant of sin and lying is of the divel and an abomination to the Lord And here you lye ye proud Priests that say the Apostle did not say to every man That Christ or the light was in them for saith he in ver 28. Christ in you whom we preach he did not only preach Christ in them the hope of glory but he saith we preach that is all the Ministers of the Spirit and we preach Christ in you the mystery that is to be unfolded in you to every man warning every man and teaching every man Col. 1.28 Herein you erre not knowing the Scriptures and the Apostle saith to the Romans That as well as to them God hath given to every man a measure of grace Rom. 12.31 And none shall be condemned for that which they know not but for that which they know and do not obey who saith Obey my voyce for obedience is better then sacrifice And Christ saith That he is the light of the world and enlightens every man that cometh into the world Iohn 1.9 And they that follow him shall have the light of life Iohn 8.12 Herein you shew that you are ignorant of this l ght and so are in darkness and without God in the world living by conceivings and imaginations and you that are ignorant of the light are ignorant of Christ and preaches death the letter without the spirit and your Min stry is for for condemnation 2 Cor. 3. and you are ignorant both of the light life and power but as you would comprehend it by your carnal reason but this cannot be comprehended the light shines in darkness but darkness comprehends it not Iohn 1.5 And whereas you say That Paul spoke to none but Saints Priest in that 2 Cor. 5.26 27. c. I looked ply and could not find so many verses in that Chapter for it hath but 21 verses but notwithstanding I knew that Scripture the life of it if I had never seen letter but as you say he spoke to Saints when he saith we know no man after the flesh and though we have known Christ after the flesh yet henceforth know we him so no more but your knowledge stands in the flesh the lust and the fall and here you steal the Apostles words to apply to your selves and that is the Serpent in you go and make restitution as Zacheus did and let him that stole steal no more Ephes 4 28. And you are discovered you that lives by theft and steals the words of your neighbours to trade withal but the Lord is against you and all such as you are Jer. 23.30 You are of those theeves that Christ speaks of in John 10. That climbs up another way and c mes not in by the door And that makes you to speak you know not what See who the Apostle spoke to in that 2 Cor. 5.10 he saith there That all shall appear and every man give account that he may receive according to the deeds done in the flesh Did he but speak but only to Saints when he saith all and every man See whom he spoke to in ver 14.15 and see if you be not exceeding blind Well may you be ignorant of the life and power that are ignoront of the lett●r which is death and so you living in darkness are ignorant of the l●ght and now you are discovered to be ignoront of the same spirit that spoke forth the Scriptures and so shews forth the spirit of errour and you are in the flesh and know not God who is a consuming fire Heb. 12.29 and like a refiners fire Mal 3.2 3. Your God it imagination and the Lord God Almighty who made Heaven and Earth and is the Father of light him you know not that would limit him by your carnal minds but the carnal mind is death and an enemy to the Cross of Christ Rom. 8.6 Phil. 3.18 19. So are you enemies both to God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ and know you not ye blind that the Grace of God which bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men Tit. 2.11 12. But is turned by you and such as you are into wantonness who profess God in words as you do but in works deny him Tit. 1.16 who lives in form without either life or power having a form of Godliness denying the power thereof but your folly will appear daily more and more 2 Tim. 3. And that light is your Condemnation But though the Apostle did speak his experience● in the things of God he spoke what he knew made manifest unto him by experience through the divine operation of the holy Spirit But you live in th● fl●sh and are ignorant of the light of God that he did exhort others to be mindful of which light did lead t●em out of darkness and they were all Children of the light and of the day who were obedient to it for their souls were purified in yeilding obedience to the Commands of the Spirit as in 1 Pet. 1.22 And by the word of life they were sanctified washed and cleansed and justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of the Lord and they that are now guided by the Spirit of God are the Sons of God 1 Cor. 6.11 Rom. 8.14 Which you shew your selves to be none of But you are ignorant of the first Principle of Religion that makes a scorn of the light and shew your selves to be children of darkness having your understanding darkened and live in pride scorn and subtilty and turns the grace of God into wantonness children of disobedience which the wrath of God is to The wrath of God is to be revealed in flames of fire upon all the children of disobedience as you are who disobey the truth and know not the light but are in darkness and walk in darkness For darkness hath blinded your eyes who stand in opposition to the Spirit of truth and disobeyeth the Gospel of our Lord Jesus

carnal and that you are not to Judg of spiritual things by carnal reason and fleshly fancy But that you may lay open your folly that it may appear to all that are of a spiritual discerning that you are enemies to God and in your wicked imaginations which are for the fire and you we do deny and all vain janglings and fleshly carnal corrupt ways of worship and your set times who live in limitation but God will lim●t those carnal minds in you and bind up the wilde wills which would be intruding into those things that you have nothing to do withal and cast the Beast and false Prophet into the Lake that burneth with fire and brimstone and such deceivers as you are Rev. 17. It is said indeed that you may all Prophecy one by one Reply but it is said also are all Prophets we wish that the Lords people were Prophets You shew your selves to be contrary minded to the Apostles Reply though you steal their words to talk of you neither have the same mind light life order nor power amongst you as they had and he did exhort them to covet the best gifts 1 Cor 12. Rom 16.1 Phil. 4.3 which you grudg at and he commended to them Ph●b● a servant of the Church and there were women labourers with him in the Gospel and the Spirit of the Lord is the same now that it was then It is but the Beast in you that would and doth make war with the Lamb but the Lamb shall overcome and give you all your doom even reward you all according to your doings Rejoyce ye Saints and righteous ones the Lord will Judg and avenge himself upon the whore that Iezebel that is amongst all the fair sayers and painted Sepulchers such as these gainsayers and opposers are who stand in enmity and opposition against the truth by their evil thoughts and vain imaginations shewing the spirit of error The Assemblies of the Saints of old ware constant Priests and they had men who attended on the word and prayer who gave themselves to it prepared themselves waited on God that they might act to the edifying of the Saints in love Act. 20.7 6.2 3 4. 1 Tim. 4.13.14 15 16. The practice of the Saints in former ages Reply and in those places that you have cited may be sufficient evidence against you that you are none of them but enemies to those who come to walk after their example now whose life and practice we do own but you and your practice we do deny and altogether disown though you have stoln their words to speak of yet they will be witness enough against you and their manner of meetings speaking by the spirit and waiting will condemn you that deny the same waitings and attendings in others and know nothing of them in your selves who do not attend upon the word to speak immediately from the Mouth of the Lord as they did whereas you speak by the spirit of error that speaks by imagination and not by the same spirit that administred by them and doth by those that now speak by Divine inspiration herein you walk contrary to the Scriptures and the practice of the Saints in former ages shewing forth the spirit of error See Act. 20.7 When they were met together on the first day of the Week which you call a Sabbath where that place of Scripture doth not call so but it is your imaginations and inventions and contrary to the Scriptures and to that Sabbath of whom Jesus is Lord. 2. Pauls Preaching by the spirit and continuing his speech till midnight doth condemn you that study for what to say and many speaking an hour by a glass shews that you do want the same power and instead of preaching by the same spirit or speaking the Word of God as Paul did you speak and make a trade of Pauls letters which he sent to Brethren and his friends and glosseth them over by your Serpentine wisdom and have not the same spirit to preach by that Paul had so shewing to all that you are acted and guided by a spirit of error 3. And whereas you speak but your own Imaginations and inventions Paul he went about preaching the Kingdom of God and he did not count his life dear unto himself so that he might finish his course with joy in the Ministry which he had received of the Lord Jesus who did not shun to declare unto them all the Counsel of God Act. 20.21 to 28. and he did exhort them to take heed to themselves and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost had made them overseers to feed the Church of God which he had purchased with his own Blood Verse 28. which Ministry by the Holy Ghost we own and that Ministration which stands out of all mans inventions and such Officers as are made overseers by the Holy Ghost we do own but such as you that are made by imitation and self-conceitedness we do disown for that is Antichristian and not to be owned with beleevers but to be testified against and such Ministers as are of the spirit who speak not their own words but the Words of the Lord who doth it freely as Paul this Gospel Minister did Act. 20.31.32.33 to the end but such as you are who have neither any spiritual gift nor spiritual administration but speak brain study contrary to the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles and making a trade of the Scriptures and giveth them your Antichristian application we do deny for you are under the curse and are to be consumed for the Lord will consume Antichrist and all Antichristian Doctrine by the breath of his mouth and the brightuess of his coming 2 Thes 2. and you that make your Gospel or false Ministry burdensom and are covetous contrary to that of Paul in this 20 of Acts ver 33 34. We do deny and disown and see you to be led by a spirit of errour But you are discovered and made manifest what Master you serve even him whose coming is after the working of Satan 2 Thess 2.3 4 5. to ver 13. And the Apostle having a discerning spirit foretold of such as you are that should come which we through the mercy of the Lord are made to see as in Acts 20.29 30. And to have no fellowship with you but to testifie against you Ephes 5.11 Paul he laboured both for himself and others who doth condemn you that are as drone B●es and live upon the sweat of other mens brows to maintain you in pride and pomp idleness and fulness of bread which were the sins of Sodom and it is the fruits of your dark Ministry spiritual Sodom and Egypt where the Lord is crucified and you are of them that would shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men and neither go in your selves nor suffer them that would to enter but the wo is to you and all the plagues that are written in the Book are due to you and

that you may be put to shame 2 Thes 3.14 Gal. 6.16 And as for magnifying your writings that is the stoln expressions that are conjured up out of the bottomless pit of deceit and that is all that we write against to magnifie the truth in laying open your deceits and deceivableness where you do deceive the people by your flatteries deceits and glorious notions and gilded expressions which is for the fire and all such as you are who are acted and guided by the spirit of the Devil who is a lyar and the Father of it And the Beast and the 24 Elders Antichrist and his upholders shall be cast into the lake together and they that worship the Beast and his Image and their own imaginations and inventions as such as you do Rev. 14.9 10 11. Rev. 17. Rev. 20. there to be tormented And as for putting our papers into one anothers hands and not the Scriptures as you say Here you speak but by imaginations but the spreading abroad of our papers is for the laying open of deceits and deceivers such as you are that do not abide in the Doctrine of Christ 2 John 9. but run a whoring after your own inventions but Whoremongers and Adulterers that do not abide in the truth such as you are God will judge but the Scriptures we do own and magnifie the life and power of them and all who are guided by the same Spirit that gave them forth Rom. 8.14 1 John 3.1 But such as you are that live in lies flatteries sub ilty and deceit we do deny and disown and restifie against all such who take the Scriptures for no other end but to trade withal for money and deny the life of them and who walk not in obedience to the Commands of our Lord Jesus such we deny and those that have but the form of Godliness but deny the power thereof as you do such we deny and that you have nothing to do to sell the Scriptures nor to trade with the Saints experiences for mony which is your Dianah for your foundation is but Silver and Gold which must be shaken and cast into the fire that nothing may stand in the day of the Lords power but that which is of his own bringing forth where those that speak may speak as the Oracle of God with power and boldness from the spirit of truth as they receive their words from the Lord and not from other mens writings and gathered up knowledg and imagination for carnal mony and carnal ends as you and such as you do who make no other use of the Scriptures but to colour over your deceits and deceivableness withal that you may live in Hypocrisie but wo is the Hypocrites portion and wo is yours Wo to you ye blind guides and demi-lights wel-favored Harlots and painted Sepulchers for the Lord will avenge himself on all his enemies and adversaris such as you are And your wisdom is earthly your wills are corrupt and you are in the old nature and are in the fall and lust of the flesh Pag. 37. and you are ignorant of the things of God and know nothing of Chriff and his Cross but shew your selves enemies to it as in Phil. 3. and are in the broad way that leads to destruction and you are covered over with earthly conceivings and earthly inventions and imaginations and your learning is earthly and no man can serve two masters but you are ignorant of the teachings and Doctrine of Christ but run into the holes of your earthly imaginations and you are carnal and corrupt and you are of the first birth which is Cainish there is a natural man and there is a spiritual man and the natural man is in his first wisdom which is earthly carnal sensual and divilish James 3.11.12.13 14.15.16 and so is yours but the spiritual man hath his affections set on things above being risen with Christ Col. 3. having his wisdom from above being born again and of the seed of Abraham and his wisdom is not that which is bought and sold Iob 28. as yours is but the new man hath his new name new learning and new wisdom which is pure peaceable and is of another being made partakers of the Divine nature and the Divine wisdom which the spiritual man is taught and hath received of the Lord Iam. 3.17.18 2 Pet. 1. to 9. which you shew your selves to be ignorant of and enemies to and knoweth not the teachings of God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ but are cloathed with your own righteousness and in your 38. Page you would make your selves to appear fair and beautiful in the eyes of men as the Pharisees did Pag. 38. who was of the same nature that you are and boasted of their own righteousness which you are established in and not in the righteousness of God which crosseth all natures desires that are corrupt and changeth that nature which is carnal and wor eth out all unrighteousness where it is embraced and the motions of it not quenched 1 Thes 5.19.20 21.22.23 but you are in divisions and dissimulations and knows not that righteousness of Christ that stands inward in the covenant of promise as you have declared in Page 38. which is in all and is the power and the life and righteousness it self to establish and season their hearts with Grace which you are not acquainted with whose learoing is that of the first nature which is earthly and your righteousness the same every tree being known by its fruits Luk. 6.44.45.46 and the root being corrupt the branches is corrupt also so your Religion is carnal and earthly and stands in externals and rudiments of the world and not after Christ but is Ceremonial Pharisaical and Diabolical and that nature and seed that lives in that center knows not that religion which is pure and keeps unspotted of the world Iam. 1.26.27 nor that righteousnes which stands out of all mens apprehensions and comprehensions in him who is and who was before the world was and is incomprehensible which you shew your selves ignorant of But what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness and what union hath light with darkness and what concord hath Christ with Belial whom you serve that live in uncleanness enmity is put betwixt the two seeds and they cannot bereconciled 2 Cor. 6.15.16 17 18. And as Apparrel was made to cover nakedness withal Pag. 39. which we do not deny but sees through the large Love of God to us in all his own work who maketh us the workmanship of God the Father creating us in Christ Jesus the Son of his Love and our Souls Saviour adorning us with the ornament of a meek and a quiet spirit and cloathing us with the Garments of praise and and as the Saints was that is spoken of in the Revelation that we may praise and glorifie his great glorious Name in using all his creatures in the use and service as they were created for the health

thee understanding and lead thee into his marvelous light that thou mayst know the truth as it is in Jesus R F. Light risen out of Darkness now in these latter days Which is the cause of such Persecution Therefore Thus saith Iesus Christ blessed are they that suffer for righ teousness sake for ' theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Mat. 5.10.11.12 and again saith he blossed are you when men revile you and perfecute you and say all wanner of evil against you all manner of evil not some but all but saith he rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward for so perseruted they the Prophets which were before you and saith he the time will come that they shall put you out of their Synagogues and they that kill you will think that they do God good service Ioh. 16.1 AS it hath been largely manifested in and about Beverley by them of the Priests party when any was moved of the Lord to go speak in their Synagogue against the deceits that were upheld by them they haled them forth and gave them into the hands of the rude people who did use them most barbarously and had not the Lord been gracious unto them they would even have swallowed them up quick but such was the rage of the Priests party in and about Beverley that the Servants of the Lord suffered much persecution by them as it is well known but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled as David said The wrath of man shall praise thee and the remainder of wrath thou wilt restrain such is the goodness of the Lord to his poor despised people now in these days of persecution for the persecutors are the Priests and their associates they act in the same state and condition as the Iewish high Priest and Scribes and Pharisees did to Jesus Christ when he came in the flesh to fulfil the Law and to put an end to the first Covenant that he might establish a second the new Covenant upon better premisses but as it was then so is it now the Iewish high Priests and the fair-sayers did then persecute Christ and his Apostles and haled them out of their Synagogues and bear them and stoned them for witnessing forth the truth as it is left upon record in these places of Scripture See Acts. 4 1 2 3 4 5 6. See vers 15.16.17.18.19 Act. 6.9.10 to the end Act. 7 57. to the end read Acts. 17. with certain other places And that Christ is coming in spirit to manifest his power and love and to gather his dispersed ones together that hath been scattered by the proud Priests in the cloudy and dark day as in Ezek. 34. The Lord is now fulfilling his promises in gathering them together out of all Kindreds Tongues and Nations that they may come to worship the Lord in his holy Mount where the Mountain of the Lords House is to be established on the top of the Mountains above all humane wisdom and carnal reason to worship the Lord in spirit and in truth in his Holy Temple at new Ierusalem where the Tabernacle of God is and shall be with men of pure hearts and the Na●ions that are saved shall walk in the glorious light and liberty of the Sons of God to serve him in a new and living way consecrated for us by his Son redeeming us by his own blood purchasing to himself a peculiar people to praise and glorify his great and glorious Name that he may rule in us by his own power and set up the Kingdom of his Son in our hearts who is our peace-maker breaking down the middle wall of pertition bringing us nigh unto him by his blood reconcileing us in one body by the Cross slaying the enmity thereby preaching peace to us by his spirit so that we through him have a free access by one spirit unto the Father and are made fellow Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God being built upon the foundations of the Prophets and Apostles Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner Stone and the chief builder in us and through us throwing down the first building of humane wisdom and carnal reason building us up into union with himself in the makings forth of his love to us through the unfoldings of the divine mystery of his love which is Christ in us the hope of glory in whom all the building spiritually groweth unto an holy Temple in the Lord Ephes 2.14 to the end being builded together by the divine power of God working in us who maketh our bodies temples of the Holy Ghost to sound forth his holy praise he ruling in his Temple and dwelling in his habitation even in our souls where his delight is causing us to delight in him to do his will in declaring and testifying against all deceits and deceivableness whatsoever And now the Priests are found the greatest deceivers and upholders of the deceits as their fruits makes them manifest and they labour every wayes to destroy the work of God that he is working in his Saints and they are the greatest persecuters of him in his Saints as it hath been largely manifested by the Priests party in and about Beberley in reviling beating and stoning the children of the Lord. But the Lord will plead the cause of his own people himself alone and then wo to the wicked and all that acts in unrighteousness For thus saith the Lord Ah I will ease me of mine enemies and avenge me of mine adversaries And saith he Wo to them that offends one of these little ones that believe in me it were better that a milstone were hanged about their necks and that they were cast into the sea The occasion of this my writing was upon the reading of a Book that was written by the Priests in and about Beverley by name Ioseph Kellat Iohn Pomroy Paul Glisson c. 1. Wherein is discovered the subtilty of the Serpent that lodgeth in them and a theevish spirit in them stealing the words of the Saints to trade withal for money which is their Dianah but are ignorant of the Saints life and practise as their fruits doth make them manifest for it is not unknown to many the debths of their deceits and how great sufferings there hath been to the people of God by them Of the Priests Confederates Antichrist and his upholders in and about Beberley which the wo is to as it was pronounced to them in that nature in Matth. 23. 2. Antichrist the man of sin is exalted in those dissembling Priests who are as the painted Harlot and scarlet coloured Whore that is spoken of by John in the Revelations that deceive the Nations by their glorious notions and gielded pretences which is for the fire the whorish nature in them being full of flatteries having a golden Cup full of abominations and filthiness of her fornications which the Wrath and the Plagues is to 3. These dissembling Priests painted Sepulchres are full of deadly poyson and are not

of the truth as John speaks in his first Epistle and the first Chapter at the third verse c. where he saith to them which were enlightened by the light of God in them which you shew your selves to be ignorant of and fill'd with subtilty craftiness and deceit and knows not that which John speaks of in that place which I own and witness fulfilled in my soul Saith he That which we have heard and seen declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and the Son This then is the message that we have heard of him which I witness according to that Scripture where Christ saith My sheep hear my voyce and they know me and follow me and I give unto them Eternal life Iohn 10. Which Christ is in me operating by his Spirit and enlightening my understanding opening blind eyes and unstoping deaf ears so that I hear and see and know by experience what I say I do not know God by hear-say from others but mine eyes hath seen his salvation the new man the new heart and new eye he that is in Christ is a new creature old things are passed away and all things are become new which you shew your selves to be ignorant of and are in the old nature and in the fall under the curse and wrath of the Almighty who lives in lyes which is of the Divel who is the Father of lyes and him you serve and are in the same state and condition that Christ spake of in Iohn 8.44 And that Message that Iohn speaks of in that first Epistle and the first Chapter shew your selves to be ignorant of that lives in darkness For God is light and in him is no darkness at all but they that say they have fellowship with him and walk in darkness do lye and do not the truth 1 Iohn 1.5 6. And lying ing is the fruit of darkness Eph. 4.15 And you are lyars and of the divel And whereas Christopher Feak Iohn Simpson George Cokain Lawrance Wise Iohn Pomroy Paul Glissen and Ioseph Kellat do not let to publish lyes it is that all may take notice that they are of their father the Devil who was a lyar and the father of it For The Church of Christ we own which Church is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Ioh. 8.44 1 These 1.1 which is made all of living stones elect and precions and nourished by the milk of the word 1 Pet. 2.2 3 4 5. which word endureth for ever 1 Pet. 1.25 which word is neer at hand even in thy heart which is the word of faith wh●ch we preach Rom. 10.8 which faith we own even that faith which purifies the heart and overcometh the carnal part for whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world and this is the victory that overcometh the world even your faith which is Christ in us and we in him 1 Iohn 5.4 2 Cor. 13 5. and who is he that overcometh the world but he that beleeveth that Jesus is the Son of God which Jesus we own even he that saves his people from their sins and purifi●s their souls in yeilding obedience to the commands of the spirit 1 Pet. 1.21.22 which Christ we witness even he that came by water and blood and it is the spirit that beareth record because the spirit is truth and he that beleeveth hath the witness in himself and hath eternal life abiding in him 1 Ioh. 5.5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. herein we come to try the sprits because many false Prophets are gon out into the world by reason of whom the way of truth shall be and is evil spoken of and here you are and that 's your condition who through covetousness and with ●ained words makes Marchandise of poor souls but you are found out and your Judgment lingereth not and your damnation slumbereth not 2 Pet. 2.1.2 3 4 c. hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God which we witness and confess that Jesus Christ is come in our flesh as the Corinthians did witness in 2 Cor. 4.6 7 8 9 10 11. and so we establish the Scriptures and witness the fulfilling of them in our souls for he that beleeveth hath set to his seal that God is true and he that beleeveth is born of God and he that beleeveth shall never dye and he that beleeveth doth not commit sin and he that beleeveth is justified from all ungodliness and he that beleeveth doth not respect persons for he that respecteth persons commits sin and he that beleeveth hath eternal life abiding in him this the Scriptures witness and I witness these Scriptures fulfilled Acts. 13.39 Ioh. 7.37 6.2 11.26 1 Pet. 1.6 Ioh. 3.18 1 Ioh. 5.1 1 Ioh. 5.10 1 Ioh. 5 4 5 But your dark minds I do deny and your gilded notions and painted expressions and all your formal faith which outward and your persecuting Antichristians which envies and hates as you do your deeds testifie against you witness what persecutions and suffering William Deusberry and Thomas Stubs had amongst you at Beverley in sore stripas and buff●tings and others that were stoned and shamefully entreated these are the fruits of your Pharisaical Saints for shame blush see what you are doing ye painted outsides ye self-conceited Hypocrites and dissembleers that persecute the just and Innocent ones and fill up the measure of your fathers Iniquity Ma● 23. you are of the same ge●eration that stew the righteous blood did ever the Saints of God do any such thing for shame blush ye Serpents ye generation of Vipers ye seed of evil doers repent and forsake the evil of your doings and live not in lyes and flatteries for your Churches are the Synagogue of Satan where persecution is upheld I do deny and against your deceits I testifie that you are enemies to Jesus Christ where he is made manifest as the Iewish high Priests Scribes and Pharisees were and you are children of wrath and his Servants ye are to whom ye do obey as in Rom. 6.16 and saith Jesus Christ Why call ye me Lord Lord and do not the things that I say Luk. 6.46 but know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven 1 Cor. 6.9 10. And whereas you say that If in any age the Devil hath transformed himself into an Angel of Light Priests or his Apostles or Ministers have transformed themselves into the Apostles and Ministers of Christ they have don so in this Apostatizing age in which we live c. It seems that your light that is in you is darkness Answ that questions the truth of what you speak and say If in any age c. Were your eyes open you might see your selves to be in the same state and condition that you write of and of the number of those

of iniquity and out of vain and evil thoughts which you live in and so you are ignorant of the Apostles experience that would be finding it out by thought which is vain and so your life that you live by thought is vain for the just he lives by faith which is the evidence of things unseen which you shew your selves to be ignorant of The Apostle he spoke forth his experiences as he passed through them from death to life and as he was made free by the Body of Christ and said I thank God who hath given me victory through Jesus for the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made him free from the Law of sin and death and he was made more then a Conquerour and was crucified to the world and the world to him and he had Christ living in him and so knew both the life and power of Christ manifested in him which he did w●●ness and he hath left upon record which life and power you are ignorant of and would be aspiring to know his conditions with your vain imaginations but the life and experience of them is hid from all such vulterous eyes and venomous beasts as you are though you can steal his words to trade withal yet you are strangers to that life which was made manifest in Paul and you cannot know it whilest you I ve in the lust and filth of the flesh and in the broad way and in the fall and like theeves you have stoln the declarations of Pauls experiences and the rest to make a trade withal such Sir Simons as you which buy and sell the letter which is carnal for carnal money but the gift of God which is the Holy Ghost that you know not and so you are children of disobedience and are hasting to fill up your measure that destruction might come upon you and fire fall down from Heaven to burn up all your chaff and stoln expressions for the Lord he will and is now gathering his wheat into his garner but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire all your forms and chaff and corrupt dealings is for the fire and wrath of the Almighty and the coming of Christ you know not but are carnal and corruptible and if the last enemy be death that is to be destroyed what is the first you run on but turn you back again and hasten not into your self wills which are for destruction and your fl shly wisdom which is for condemnation and look into that 2 Pet. 3.12 which you have made such haste to and in the latter end of the verse you may read that the face of the Lord is against you and all such evil doers as you are pag. 16. And see how you are hasting to an ungodly corrupt conversation and are neither of the mind nor the same spirit that they were of that spoke forth that 3d Chapter of the Philippians though you have made great haste to steal their Letters or Epistles to trade withal but see what the Holy Ghost spoke through Paul to such as you are who are to be marked that do not follow their example in life and conversation but are enemies to the Cross of Christ as you are and instead of Phil. 3.21 Let it lye where it is and run not over but take your own reward that which is ●ue to you and such as you are whose end is destruction whose God is their belly whose glory in their shame who mind earth things as you do Phil. 3.18 19. And now you Foxes and subul Serpents you are found out of your holes of earthly conceiving inventions and imaginations and are to be whipt with the smal scourge of the righteous judgmen●s of the Lord for the accuser of the brethren is head in you which you speak of in your 17 page Thus saith the Lord Wo to the Idol Shepherds such as you are that ran but the Lord n●ver sent you and you are unprofitable and do not profit the people at all Jer. 23. read that over and s●e where you are and you may see that a whirlwind is to fall grievously upon all such as you are that speak a vision of your own heart and not from the mouth of the Lord and that preach for hire as you do as in Jer. 5.30 31. holding up that which is an abomination in the eyes the Lord but wo is your portion that feeds you with the fat and clothes you with the wool God will feed you with judgement read Ezek. 34. And wo to them that take counsel but not of me and that cover with a covering but not of my Spirit saith the Lord that they may add sin unto sin as you do that are covered with your own inventions the wo s to you read Isai 30. And you blind leaders of the people cause them to erre Isai 31. and Isai 9.16 So that there is like Priest like people Hos 4.9 Therefore wo to you and all blind guides Matth. 23. The Lord is against you Moreover Quest they admonish that we wait in silence until God open our mouths We answer If that were the end or intent of this admonition Priests to shew to man his dependancy on God c. Herein you shew your selves to be ignorant of the same Spirit that they had that spoke forth the Scriptures Reply whose dependancy was of God and waited upon him for to move in them by his holy Spirit and to put words into their mouths to speak as the Prophets and Apostles did witness as you may read at large in their Declaration For holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1.19 20 21. And those that speak now and speak not by the same movings of the Holy Ghost speaking in them and through them as they did are false Prophets such as you are as in 2 Pet. 2. Who know not the gift of God which is as fire but speak their own words and imaginations from others writings as you do that say none speaks immediately from God now as the Apostles did Herein you shew that you never knew God nor any gift of his but have all this time spoken your own inventions and vain repetitions and not from the mouth of the Lord and now in due time you have laid it open to the view of all that are learned and grounded in the truth who are not unlearned nor untaught of God as you are that wrest the Scriptures to your own destruction being led away with the errour of the wicked as you are and know nothing of the growth in grace as they did which spoke fo●th the Scriptures which I witness the life of and see you where you are in your inventions and imaginations wresting the Scripture being untaught of God following your own thoughts and imaginations 2 Pet. 3.16 1. But we know God by divine inspiration and know him speaking immediately in us by his Son and who are his sheep hear his

and preservation and doing all thing to the Praise and Glory of God which tendeth to his Honour who is the Father of the faithful that we own and that we set up 1 Pet 1.14 which tends to purity and righteousness not fashoning our selves like unto the world in obedience to the commands of Jesus Christ knowing that the world and the fashion thereof passeth away and that we may be to the praise of the glory of his Grace who hath redeemed us out of all uncleanness that are of the new-birth 1 Cor. 7.31 and knowing our redemption that was not purchased neither by Silver nor Gold which is corruptable as your minds are but wee are redeemed by the precious Blood of Jesus Christ to serve him in newness of life and newness of conversation and our freedom is in the perfect Law of liberty which you are ignorant of and so are contending for the Devil to cover over deceit and to uphold the abominations and filth of the flesh Prov. 16.17.18 But it is the Lords love to let us see your deceits and to see how you act in darkness and from aspirit of error and you are cloathed with your own inventions and sets up that which God doth throw down and you may and shall be ashamed of the evil of your doings and your contempt to the spirit of truth for your minds are carnal and your worship is carnal and your contentions is carnal which tends to vain janglings which is forbidden And that which is seen is carnal and that which is not seen is eternal And that which is seen is carnal and that which is not seen is eternal And so are you carnally minded whech is death Rom. 8.6 7. and your worship is carnal and perishing Col. 2.20.21 22. and not after Christ and your ministry will never lead up to perfection but is for condemnation But the Ministry of Christ which is after the spirit The Saints Ministry Ephes 4. ● 9 10 11. 12 13. and not of the letter which the letter doth declare of that which tends to perfection that we own to the building up one another in love by the spirit of love which you know not but are ignorant of who lust after envy The Church of Christ we own who are of God in God 1 Cor. 13. The trus Church born again of water and the spirit baptized by one spirit into one body where Christ is the head and the Saints the body 1 Per 2 5. who are of one heart 1 Thes ● 1 Ephes 1 22 23 and one mind which is that we do own Ephes 2.19.20.22 4.4.5.6 But yours that is of confusion and contention strife and debate and are in vain janglings and pride and voluptuonsness which is of Antichrist that we disown The bread which the Saints break dayly and from house to house The spiritual bread which bread is from Heaven and is our life which we have union with 1 Cor. 10.17.18 in whom it is minisested Ioh. 9.33 1 1 Cor. 12. that we do own but you that are carnal and yours that is perishing that we disown The Cup which the Saints drink The cup of blessing which the Scriptures do declare of which is the Blood of Christ and the Cup of Blessing that we do own Iohn 6.53.54.55 56. 1 Cor. 10.15.16.17 and 12.13 But the Cup of Abominations and filthiness of the fornications which you and all the world in their old nature do partake and drink of dayly Reve l. 17 4 5 6. and that which the Gentiles sacrifice they Sacrifice to Devils and not unto God all drinking the cup of Devils 1 Cor. 10.21 which is not of Christ but of Antichrist and that we utterly deny and altogether disown The Baptism which is spiritual Gal. 3.27 28. By one spirit one Body where there is but one faith one Lord one Baptism that we do own Spiritual Baptism and they that are baptized into Christ have put on Christ and are new Creatures cloathed with the Righteousness of Christ and espoused to him and into that union partaking of the fruit of the Vine which is in the new plantation and for the friends of Christ to partake of Joh. 15. Rom. 6. which we have priviledge in and is in order to the spirit of truth which the Scriptures do declare of that union and communion which is spiritual and not carnal that we do own and those whoa re spiritual and not carnal them we own They that are guided by the Spirit of the living God and are made over-seers of the Church by the Holy Ghost and do watch over the weak 1 Cor. 2.8 9 10. Spiritual Overseers and do it freely not by constraint nor for filthy lucre and are grown up into the truth and are able to divide the word of truth aright them we do own and have them in love for their works sake who are in order to the spirit of truth which is the life of the Scriptures But those that are no of the spirit but of the letter and their fleshly imaginations and guided by a spirit of errour and constrained by gifts and rewards as you are them we do disown That Word the word of God which was in the beginning which is the word of life which is the word of power The word of God which is the word of life and is spiritual which is as a two edged sword to the dividing asunder of joynts and marrow and doth discern the thoughts and intents of the heart and is as a fire and a hammar to break the rocks and hard hearts and is to be desired which is the word of comfort that nourisheth up the soul unto Eternal life which word is invisible which is the word of faith which is the engrafted word John 1. Heb. 4 12. Je● 23 29. 1 Pe● 2.2 1 Pe● 1.22 Rom. 10.8 James 1 21 and not the letter which the letter doth declare of which is now the word of power and able to save the soul which worketh out all superfluity of naughtiness which the Scriptures do declare of that word we own but you and your carnal inventions and invitations which are aiery them we disown That faith which is the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ which is a saving and a justifying faith The Saints Fa●th and that faith which purifieth the heart and overcometh the world which leadeth into covenant with God which is the gift of God which is the evidence of things unseen and that hope which is in Christ 1 John 5 4 Heb 11. ●ude 20. 2 Pe● 1. 5 6. c. Phil. 2.3 4 5 6 7 8 and that mind Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus who though he was in the form of a servant thought it no robbery to be equal with God which the Scripture doth declare of and that which is sp●ritual light life peace which passeth understanding joy

Glisson Joseph Kellat and all such as you are and your carnality and sensuality we do deny and against your dark Egyptian studied out M●nistry and your painted expressions and gathered up notions we do testifie that you are not acquainted with the teachings of God nor the Doctrine of Christ and ran but the Lord never sent you Therefore do you fulfil that Prophecy declared of by Ieremy Chapter 23.32 And you are as the false Prophets were all teaching for hire as they did to whom the Lord sent his Servants the true Prophets to testifie against them and you are found in the same condition now See Ier. 5.30 31. Isai 56.10 11. Ier. 23.16 17 18 19. Isai 29. and the 9th to the 16th Ezek. 34. to the 11th Isai 72.7 8. Hos 6.9 Hos 5.1 2. Isai 9.16 Zeph. 1.4 Zeph. 3. Zach. 13.4.5 Mal. 2. to 10. but the Lord will make you and all that are as you are of your own inventions and imaginations and run but never was sent and have cast the Law of God behind your backs but your blessing is to be accursed as theirs was and the Lord will make you contemptible in the eyes of the people and you are to be declared against And as Ezra had a standing place for the reading of the Law Nehem 8.4 5. Mat. 23. to the 8. Vers it is not denyed so had the Scribes and Pharisees which took Moses Seat and place pretending to do Justice and take off oppressions but did not But did burden the people as you do that sits in their seats now and acts in the same things which Christ came to throw down and you are Lords and Masters contrary to the Doctrine of Christ but you are discovered But Christ did forbid his to be so be ye not so saith he Mat. 23.8 and said he Be not ye called of men masters but he that is greatest among you let him be your servant Verse 11. and whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased Vers 12. But you do not abide in his Doctrine as they did who were his Disciples and were in obedience to Christ commands See 1 Cor. 9.16 to 19. 2 Cor. 4. to 6. but you shew your selves to be both contrary to Christ and to his true Ministers and makes your selves manifest to be amongst the false Prophets and Scribes and Pharisees which were enemies to Jesus Christ then as you are found now who do not regard his own sayings as in Mat. 23.8.9.10 c. but are exalted and puft up in your fleshly wisdom high notions and high places and are as those was that were enemies to Christ but see what is your due vers 13.14.15 Likewise see what Christ saith in Mark when he called his Discipl●s he said unto them Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentils exercise Lordship over them and their great ones exercise Authority upon them Mar. 10.42 and here are you placed Notwithstanding Christs command in vers 43. who said to his But so shall it not be amongst you but whosoever will be greatest among you shall be your Minister and whosoever will be chiefest among you shall be servant of all but you do not abide in his Doctrine but are in the earth the lust of the flesh and in the fall and are in Gentilizm and Pharisaicallizm in pride and vain glory proud boasters and self-conceited Hypocrites and dessemblers and are of those that Christ doth forwarn his Discipled ones to beware of you and such as you are that do not abide in the Doctrine of Christ and so are of Antichrist blush for shame For saith Jesus our Saviour beware of such as these whom I declare and describe unto you See Mark 12.38.39.40 and such sorts of men as these were enemies to the Saints and the Brethren then as you are now who had nothing to do with the Saints priviledges that did not walk in their practice and you witness your selves to be of the same generation notwithstanding you have stoln the Saints words to trade withal but do not abide in the Doctrine of Christ but are Antichrists And the woes Judgments Plagues and Curses that was pronounced to the false Prophets Scribes Pharisees Hypocrites Seducers and Antichrists then the same is now due to you and the Lord will be avenged on you and all such as you are So in doing my duty to the Lord in declaring against you and your deceits I rest in the Lords own free love and remain a friend and lover of all that love the Lord in sincerity and truth Written by a labouring man It were most part of my three days labour R. F. The only true God HIm we worship who placed Adam in the Paradice who dwelleth in eternity and where no uncleanness can approach or come nigh who dwelleth in the highest Heavens and with him also that is of a poor and contrite spirit who causeth such his blessing to inherit whose joy is in him and in the Kingdom of his love Luke 17.21 1 Cor. 4.20 Rom. 14.17.18 Adam in the Paradise and after with Eve in the fall as you and such as you are that are not redeemed by his power not knowing the seed of the woman that bruiseth the Serpents head the enemy the tempter But Abraham Isaac and Iacob who were holy men of God Joseph in the Prison bound under by Phaaroh who was a proud hearted oppressor such as you are Egypt the Isralites red Sea Pillar of fire Egyptians overthrough and the Israelites deliverance by the Divine Power and Moses guiding them in the Wilderness Law Sabbath Ark Church in the Wilderness warfare Iordan Canaan Caleb Ioshua Judges Prophets Kings Victories large love and mercies of the Lord in sending his Son that was born of a Virgin suffered contradiction of sinners Jews high Priests Scribes and Pharisees such as you are and glorification and ascention into the Kingdom of Heaven and in our souls the Kingdom of his Grace where he conquers and rules in love and comforts us by his holy spirit these and all things as the Scripture doth declare of in their times places administrations and dispensations we do all own But your lyes flatteries deceits and hypocrisies whereby you would strangle the truth to make it appear odious to the world we do disown And as for self-justification that we deny and who art thou that dost condemn or lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect seeing he doth us by his own power both save sanctifie and justifie by saith in Jesus 1 Iohn 3.5 6 7. who was manifested to take away our sins and who shall separate us from the love of God shall tribulation or persecution peril or nakedness famine or sword though we be accounted all the day long as sheep for the slaughter yet we are more then Conquerours through him that loveth us and we know him in whom we do believe and though we be accounted as the filth of the world and off-scouring of all