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A faithful warning to out-side professors, and loose pretenders to Christianity of all sorts
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Taylor, Thomas, 1618-1682.
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1661
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A Faithful WARNING TO Out-side Professors And Loose Pretenders to CHRISTIANITY of all Sorts COme all ye Professors of Scripture upon the Face of the whole Earth under what form soever what have ye learned hitherto of all that ye profess have ye learned to Fear God and keep his Commandments have ye learned thus to Love God and do you love your Neighbour as your selves do ye not profess to love God above all things and your Neighbour as your selves is this done what will a profession of words commend you to God where the obedience is awanting O thou that art called Christendom how art thou fallen how art thou become the Plant of a degenerate Vine how are thy Grapes become as those of Sodom who shall bring healing to thee who hast rejected the balm of Gilead that the Father brought to thee O Thou foolish Child how hast thou triffled out thy precious Time about Toyes and Triffles and hast not regarded the Voyce of thy Maker who hath waited all day long to gather thee and to do thee good but thou wouldst not Thou hast Chosen the worse part in that thou hast forsaken the Lord the Fountain of Living Waters and hast hewed and chosen to thy self a Cistern that will hold no Water Thou art gone into the wayes of the Old World upon whom the Flood came And which of those sins for which Sodom burned are a wanting in thee O! The pure River of Life that would quench thy thirst how is it slighted and neglected by thee And therefore art thou utterly unsatisfied in whatsoever thou dost or attempts to do Thou art never able to satiâ—te thy soul with husks Thou must come into the Fathers house before thou hast Bread enough But thou sayst in thy heart Thou art a Queen yea That thou art Rich and indued with goods and hast need of nothing When as alas in the true Light that loves thy soul thou art seen to be miserable poore wretched blind and naked A long Course hast thou run but the promised end thou hast not reached thou hast been like a bewildred sheep running from Mountain to hill to find a resting place where no rest is Thou camest indeed a little out of Aegypt but O! how soon didst thou turn back again thither from whence thou came and loved the Flesh-Pots of Aegypt yea the Onyons and Garlick better then God's Manna in the Wilderness Thou shouldest have followed the Lord perfectly unto the Land of Rest in patience and silence of Spirit under his voice and teachings But thou grew weary of waiting upon thy God and saw Images of things on Earth and Images of things in Heaven and bowed thy heart to them and didst not keep thy heart to the power that broke through the Darkness for thee Nor didst thou keep thy eye to the Light of Life that freely shined out of Darkness for thee to have guided thee through the dark-howling Wilderness to Sion But thou being careless and selfish thou lend thy ear to the voyce of the stranger that cryed Lo here and Lo there and so wast thou led out of the Way into By-Pathes of sin and death where thou hast been lost from the true Life and true Light and Spirit that wrought in thee in the beginning And thou hast not to this day throwly considered thy loss nay very little is thy nakedness and wretchedness laid to heart in thee And now therefore thou that art called Christendom What is the Wood of thy Vine seeing thou hast lest off to bear Fruit to the Lord better then the Wood of another Tree nay it is not so good as any For if the Salt that should season other things have lost its Savour wherewith shall it be salted and of what use is it but even to be trodden under feet of men O! that thou wert wise to consider at least in this thy day the things of thy peace in this great day wherein the Bridegroom which hath been as one travelled into a far Country is come again and is appeared in his antient love power and perfection to visit thee and to seek thee up out of every place where thou hast been scattered from sin in the long Night of Apostacy to see if any of the pure love that was in thee in the day of thy Espousals may be recovered to himself out of thee that he may know how to do thee good and how to make manifest his antient love unto thee which burned the hearts of his simple Israel into such love of his goodness as to follow the Lamb wheresoever he went in the beginning But O thou polluted Woman how art thou wandred away from the true Sheep-fold how art thou gone a whoring from under thy God! how art thou covered with the shades of Night and how art thou lost amongst the Countries and mingled with the Heathen yea thou hast chosen thy own wayes and worshipped the works of thy own hands and hast cast the pure law of God behind thy back Yea the Light of the Glorious Gospel of Christ which hath shined to thee and would have gathered thee up to God thou hast rejected and hast not liked to retain God nor his light in thy knowledge And so thou art become vain in thy mind and thy foolish heart is become so dark that thou worships thou knows not what like those that know not God and art become a prey to every Beast of the Field and art bowed in thy heart to the creatures more then to the living God the Creator And therefore will he arise in thee in great Majesty and dreadful Power and will yet again bring to pass his Act his strange Act in thee And he will not meet thee as a man but as a consuming Fire because thou hast rejected his goodness patience and forbearance And hast heaped to thy self teachers after thy own heart who have rocked thee asleep with their false voices crying peace peace when tâ—eir was no peace for Their is no peace to any wicked on saith the True God forever profess what they may For the Lord is come to look for Fruits And now Wo Wo to the Fruitless Trees to the Briers and Thorns for the fire of the Lord God will consume them And now will the Lord God bring to nothing all thy Might Wisdom Glory and Greatness whereby thou hast exalted thy self and dishonoured him and the meek shall inherit heaven and earth And blessed is he that overcometh that evil and wicked spirit that so much reignes and rages in thee for he shall be called God's Son and shall inherit all things as saith Scripture For the end cometh and who shall stop the course of the everlasting Sun of Righteousness whose day is dawned blessed for evermore O thou Corrupted Earth who wallowes in the blood of thine Iniquity who art become Deaf to the heavenly voice and art become an Enemy to nothing so much as to that good thing that would unburden thee of thy
corruptions O! O how hath Hell inlarged it self for the multitude of those wilful transgressors in thee that are posting on in their sins this day to the Chambers oâ— death who are making provision for the fleshly lusts which war against the soul who will not believe what their miserable state shall be though one come from the dead to declear it in true experience to them But O thou Little Remnant of Wheat amongst such a heap of Chaff O thou lovely Seed of God which brings forth Fruit of Righteousness to his glory and so shines forth as Lights in the sore said dark world Do thou rejoice and be thou glad forever in the Lord thy Saviour who hath loved thee with an everlasting love and by his Arm of Power hath raised thee up to be his servant and hath gathered thee into his Bosom of Safety to lie down and rest in peace with himself for evermore So be it even so be it saith the Spirit and the Bride So do thou O Lovely Holy Seed begotten to God in Righteousness do thou trust and rejoice in the Lord thy God for ever And be not troubled nor dismay'd at the roarings of the Waters of Babilon but be still be still be at rest and Peace in the Arms of the Lord God Almighty blessed blessed for evermore From a Lover of God's Everlasting Truth Thomas Tayler PEOPLE THis know That the Entrance into Righteousness is the Only and Alone Entrance into the Kingdom of God and there is not another Christ is Gods Righteousness and so the Door He that entreth not in by me saith Christ is a thief and a robber So see all people where you are I am the Way the Truth and the Life also saith Christ and no man cometh to the Father but by me So consider all people Is Christ your Way and is nothing Truth to you but Christ and have you a Life in nothing at all but in Christ Deal honestly with your own souls and deceive not your selves for God will not be mocked Bring your deeds to the Light and seek not to hide your sins from the Lord for Their is nothing secret which shall not be made manifest Drunkard bring thy deeds to the light Thou knowest by the Light thou shouldst not be Drunk nor spend God's Creatures upon thy Lust. Here thou hast learned thy Condemnation and the Wrath of God abides upon thee in this Condition profess what thou mayst And all thy Prayers and Performances are Abomination to the Pure God whilst thou abidest in the Lust of Drunkenness for it defiles And all ye Unclean-Hearted Ones who burn in your Lusts one towards another and are as the Bruit Beasts who know neither Guide nor Rule over your Minds but are in the Evil Liberty to follow your own Evil Hearts Bring your Deeds to the Light and it will let you see you should not be so It will tell you That the Unclean shall not enter God's Kingdom and Without Holiness none can see God Here ye may see your Way to be to the Chambers of Hell and Death and not to Christ. And all ye Swearers Vain and Obscene Talkers and Foolish Jesters whose Tongues run through the World and as you know no Limit to your Lusts so you know no Bridle to your Tongue Your Religion is Vain Jam. 1.26 Bring your Deeds to the Light there you may read your Condemnation For there is that in your Conscience tells you according to Scripture that For every Idle Vain Unclean or Prophane Word that Men shall speak they must give Account thereof to the Pure and Just God in the Day of Judgment Howl then ye Guilty and be Humbled for your Sins lest that Day come suddenly upon you as a Thief in the Night and sweep you all away as it did the Old World who regarded not the Day of their Visitation but went on in their Sins until there was no Remedy Awake awake ye Dead and Careless-Hearted who put the Day of the Lord afar off and cry Peace when there is no Peace For what Peace to the Wicked There is no Peace to the Wicked saith the true God but Peace only upon Zion and to such as turn from Iniquity in Jacob. So let not one take the Name of Christ in their Mouth any more until they depart from Iniquity For such as go on in the Custom and daily Practice of Sin and yet think to cover themselves with an Outward Profession of Christ do but deceive themselves and increase their Condemnation adding Sin to Sin This is God's Truth which he that hath an Ear let him hear and he that hath any Desire in him to return to God let him consider of and give Glory to God by Repenting of that which doth any way dishonour God Also this know for truth That your Invented Licentious Gaming for Vain Delights and Pleasures is not of God but an Invention of that Wicked One who is called the Devil and Satan invented to please the Vain and Empty Minds of his Children and Servants which are out of the Law and Truth of God But the Children and Servants of God are full of Goodness and are exercised in the Law and Truth of God Day and Night and so deny the Devil and his Works So let no Man deceive any of you neither be deceived in your selves for the Judge is at the Door And the True light is arisen which makes manifest every Work and the Reward of it forever And all ye Stage-Players Puppit-Players and the Authors and Inventors of such things with all that love such Heathenish things yea and give your Money for them that thereby ye may feed the Covetous Lusts in the Players that thirst after Money and the Vain Lust of your own defiled Eyes and Ears which are after Pleasures more then the Lord God that made you Know this That your Works are all weighed in an Equal Ballance and by the Light of Christ you are all seen to be out of the Doctrine of Christ in the Heathenish Nature upholding and practising those things which Christ came to destroy Yea and by the Light of Christ in your own Consciences when you are a little sober and still in your Minds you know you should not do such things Here you also have learn'd your Condemnation and cannot in this State stand before the Lord because of your Sins And all ye that can please your selves with beholding one Creature hurt and torment another yea sometimes even to Death as at Bull-Baitings Bear-Baitings Cock-Fightings and the like O! what Minds have ye and how contrary are ye herein to the Tender Nature of Christ and all Christians truly so call'd who could never Rejoyce in any such things by reason of their tender pittiful and merciful Nature O ye Children of Cruelty when will your Hearts break your Stony Hearts melt into Tears before the Lord for all your mighty Sins and when will you bring your Deeds to the Light that ye may see