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A94802	For those that meet to worship at the steeplehouse, called John Evangelist, in London, or, any other in that nature upon whom the Scriptures are fulfilled, in evil intreating the servants of the Lord Iesus, whom he sends to deliver his message amongst you. Or for any other that are condemned for sin, and have thirstings after righteousness ...	R. T. (Rebecca Travers), 1609-1688.	1659 (1659)	Wing T2059; ESTC R185428	25,680	64

shall consume them which have worshipped Images and have bowed down to the inventions of men and instead of the truth delivered to the Saints for which we earnestly contend have set up the traditions of Matt 15 3 men And here stands your Worship with the whole World who are enemies to the cross which in the light only is seen and so in the darkness hath all error and false doctrine been broached and invented and brought forth and the imagination hath and doth bring forth the image and both shall be consumed and therefore I who know assuredly that he will come and will not sal 11 6 tarry and his reward is with vvith him who reigns snares fire and brimstone upon the Wicked every day the idolaters and adulterous generation who have forgot God dayes without number and 〈◊〉 committing Whoredom with the Images of men yea thou England yea thou London that hath talked so much against idolatry and fought that Images might be pulled down art found in the great abominations and filthiness of spiritual Whoredoms even in the sight of the Son the day being dawned hath shewn the filthiness of thy night-works which thou ceasest not from though the ligh hath discovered them but thinkest the Lord is like unto thee who in the times of darkness winked but now will render a due recompence for all your psal 50 3 Fornications a horrible tempest goes before him and in the Clouds he comes and the darkness hides him from you vvho hate the light O a vvo a vvo unto all that discerns Heb. 10. 37 not the signs of his coming for upon whom he falls he grinds to povvder and the adulterous eye cannot see him vvhich hath run a lusting after many lovers yet pays her vows offers her Prov. 7. 14 27 offerings and wipes her mouth and saith she hath done no evil but her steps lead to hell O how abominable are the prayers of the wicked in the ears of the Almighsy and the sacrifices of the wicked have an ill savour in the nostrills of the holy One unclean priest and unclean people whose offerings are flesh and not spirit dead and not living who have robbed the Lord and have given his glory to that which you have framed in your imaginations here is the heathen for whom the devouring plague is prepared who hath turned the invisible God into the similitude or likeness Rom. 1. 23 of visible things and for this doth the fierce wrath of the Lord burn as an Oven and the wicked shall be as stubble therein and with the Candle of the Lord shall all you be searched who have set up any thing in my stead saith the Lord who am the Life whom am the Light and there is no other God Iohn 1. 4. Iohn 8. ●● Iohn 14 6 though you are among the many gods who set Ink and Paper in his place calling it by his Name which is eternal saying the Letter is the word and the light and the life And this all you vvho remain in the idolatrous and adulterous nature alienated from God strangers to the Covenant of light and life led by the Prince of the ai● turn the most excellent of all that you possess into Wickedness for it is impossible that an evil tree should Matt. 7. 18 bring forth good fruit as it is written for all who have not had the eye opened which the god of this World hath blinded by the power of him that is the light and the life as slaves are sub ected to the power of Satan serve him with the Scriptures or whatsoever they have though being in the dark they know it not no more then the Priests and people at Jerusalem which if they had known would not have put to death the Lord of Life And so mind all you Scripture-readers and professors who are ready to murder for your Religion Was not they at Jerusalem your type who when he came in the fulness of time of whom the Scriptures prophesied to fulfil the Scriptures and put an end to all their Worships which though they were given by the command of God yet having lost the spirit and life by which they were sanctified are become corrupt and abominable and ripe for destruction yet he that was sent of God to put an end to the old and to make all things new not coming according to their expectation who had framed an imagination from their own understanding of the Scripture as now you do to come with their observations and so though they read the Scriptures dailie they could not receive him nor his Doctrine for saith he The vail which Moses wore is on your faces to this day When you read Scriptures is the Vail yet rent off your faces Friends and Neighbours and Relations if it were you would see him whom you have pierced who are yet eating and drinking your own damnation not discerning the bodie of my Lord who while I was a sinner died for me And so friends in faithfulness in the love that is unseigned with the Authoritie which is from above by which I am armed not to fear what any can do unto me and have and do overcome the evil with the good-wil unto man in which I can do beseech you to be reconciled unto God for Christs sake which yet you are strangers to Wil you set any thing in his place who Ioh. 6. 44 is onelie come to by the drawings of the father and that is the drawings of the father which draws out of iniquitie and from transgression and this being attended to you may learn to know what called Abraham which Heb. 11. 8 obeying and following brought him Ioh. 8. 56 to see Christs daie though there was then no Letter written of that you call the Scripture and none ever did or shall give forth or come to a right understanding of the Scriptures but as they obey and follow that in them which condemns sin and leads out of it to him that hath and can onelie open the eies of all born blind and this I declare as I have learned of the Father in the light That though I had been a reader of the Scriptures as without from a child of six years old as constantlie as most yet when by the power of the eternal Gospel was turned from darkness to light I saw things unutterable and the Scriptures that in my dark mind I had so often turned was now another thing in my eye and plain without a meaning as I came to learn of that spirit 2 Pet. 1 20 21 which gave them forth for as it is written No Scripture is of a private interpretation but as holie men moved of the Holy Ghost writ them forth so onelie those holie ones who have been or are moved of the same spirit which are the children of the Kingdom see the parable and interpret the Scripture which all that are unlearned of the Spirit interpret to their

own destruction And so you that know not the moving of the spirit in which the Scriptures are writ have given meanings and so in this long night of Apostacy have brought forch errors and false Doctrines and filled the World with Sects Opinions the simplicitie of the Gospel being betrayed by the crafty subtiltie of men but we who are come Ephes 4 4 〈◊〉 29 14 15 in the light to see the fulfilling of the Scriptures know that the wisdom of the wise is turned into foolishness and the counsel of the prudent is brought to nought the Prophet is become a fool and the diviners shall run mad Hos 9. 7. and he that hides from the wise reveals to babes and sucklings and it seems good unto him though the heathen Luke 10. 2●● then rage and the people imagine vain thugs the Lord is risen to recover his own inheritance that hath Psalms 2. ● Ezek. 34. 2. 3. long been laid waist by the destroyer and the devouring shepherds have not fed the sheep but eat the sheep who have run and were never sent therefore have not the people been profited and the mistery of iniquity that began in the Apostles dayes hath spread Ier. 23. 21. 2 Thes 2. 7. again to the filling of the world with thick darkness as it was foretold by Christ and the Apostles that devouring Wolves should come and make Ma● 7. 15. havock of the flock and that in sheeps cloathing and these were to prevail all the time and times that the world wondred after the beast though your teachers would mak you believe Rev. 13. 3. the false Prophets are come but now that they might hide themselves but O that you did see and believe the Scriptures then would you know who were the ravening Wolves we or they whom you call your ministers see which is the Wolfe that devours and destroyes he that sends for his gain Isa 56. 11. from his quarters and if he has it not raises war and sues and casts in prison and if any speak in his meeting place or asks him a question he causes or suffers his people to beat them or hale them or stone them or whip them and will not speak himself but for gifts and rewards Now are these the Wolves or they that bear all these things in patience going up and down freely giving as freely as they have received try whether of these be the ministers of Christ by that you call your rule and truly people God will not be mocked and his eye beholds the deceitful worker every where and the Scriptures are ours upon whom the ends of the world are come and for us were they written and shall bear witness for us against all the Idolatrous generation that sets them in the place of God to me are they precious who am come to the comfort of them and let the wisest of your teachers if he can without a meaning bring a written Scripture to prove that they any where are called the Iohn 1. 4 6● word the foundation the light or the life I shall give some of the many written in the Scriptures to shew that he who is the light is the life and Iohn 8. 12. the way and the ordinance and the name ohn 14. ● by which only salvation is and are not those then false Prophets and deceivers Iohn 1. 1 which would make you from the Scriptures believe that which is not Iohn 1 14 Phil. 29 and hide from you that which is are not these the Antichrist which instead 1 Cor 3. 11 of Christ are setting up that which is not he in his stead O shall not the Acts 10. 42 Col 2 14 plagues threatned in that book come upon them who are known to add and diminish and surely as the Sorcerers of Egypt are they that harden the Dut. 2 4 Rev. 22 18 19 heart in making likenesses and truly friends these things are not written to you as to have your help or aid to defend or assist us as your parsons use to pray and cry for for we are the people that have no helper on the earth yet beleiving know we shall be Micah 4 1 the mountain set upon the top of every mountain and while you are striving against the little stone cut out of the mountains without hands it Dan 2. 34 growes and you see it not and shall be the praise of the whole earth and the devourers and the destroyer and all the ungodly shal be crusht under it then shall the earth be filled with righteousness and of the increase of this kingdom there shall be no end which is come and coming and not by power might but by my spirit shall all the opposers of this kingdom be brought down saith the Lord and the glory of it is the son and all the subjects are cloathed with holiness all being Priests and Kings to God and the glory of it is now seen coming down from heaven by them that the world hates who are following the Lamb through many tribulations into it and the Dogs and the Whoremungers and Rev. 14. 4 the makers and lovers of lyes Mark this false teachers hearers that speak the things you know not with the Rev. 22. 15 fearfull and unbeleiving must you be shut out Mark you this that cannot beleive what herein is declared ●●t to you it seems strange that God should appear to his people as of old and give us the same spirit as they had that gave forth Scriptures saying to the hardning of your own hearts Mi●●cles are ceased why to us it is not marvelous to receive what we have waited for the spirit of truth to lead into all truth and the Scriptures declare of him and he is the same and changeth not infallible and almighty who is given to convince the world of ●in and till you come to believe in Iohn 16. ●● 92 that which convinces of sin you can neither understand nor beleive the ●criptures nor me nay though one rise from the dead and I who know how precious your souls are with thousands more have been made willing in this the day of the Lords power to go forth with our lives in our hands denying ●ll that has been dear to us that you might be brought from under the power of the Prince of darkness to the obedience of the light in which only is fire salvation no other name given under heaven whereby any can be saved I am the light saith Christ Jesus Iohn 8 12 and if any come to me be shall not abiae in darkness and so all people who hate the light and are speaking against it and giving it names as naturall and such like are you not speaking against the Saviour who is the light and the way and the truth as the Scriptures declare O that for your souls sake you would cease from hearing and speaking lyes and come

of Christ Jesus you have proved your selves though you say you are the children of the kingdom and no church of Christ but in the world you are which lyes in wickedness and enmity against the life of Christ Jesus and in the very same works which he said you would do teacher and people are found and are not built on that foundation that bears and tries all things which cannot be shaken but as the troubled Sea roring and swellings casting mire and dirt as the Scriptures saith of the wicked world which some out their own shame and shews what you have Esa 57 20 ●ude 13 been long treasuring in your evil hearts and so out of the abundance that is Ma●● 12 34 therein you have powered out upon the servant of the Lord just as your fore-goers have done and as he foretold who is this day a swift witness against you who have set your selves against him and the day hath declared it that you have no part in the sufferings of Christ Jesus but your part is proved to be with them who hath shed his blood since Abel to this day The world by wisdom knowes not God saith the Scriptures which is now fulfilled in this generation where are high notions swelling words great professions and zealous formes all in the world without God in them boasting themselves in a lye who profess redemption in words but in works are in the world and in the darkness thereof blindness of mind hardness of heart and earthly captivity without life and power in you to give you victory over the prince of lust the God of this world over your own spirits which lusts to pride lusts to envie lusts to strise and covetousness and oppression and all that unreasouable nature which devours the creation and keeps it in bondage under the power of Satan and under wrath and the curse which daily groans to be delivered into its former glory into it's first being in God and his sons which is right redemption without a lye where all things are of God and in the truth set free from the devourer which rules in worldy men and women where all things are not become new and where all things are not of God yet professing redemption with pride lust and covetousness and all vanity in your Vessells not knowing him who is the greater to be in you to condem these evils then he that is in you to entice you to all these things and blind you in them and here you are seen with the pure truth that is in God to be out of God in the world and in the lye not doing in the truth nor redeemed thereto but the witness of truth lyes slain denyed and buried in you and where he raigns not in the light there you are in the darkness of this world blind in your hearts and there the false Prophet is up in the seat of Judgement teaching lyes and false-hood to make you more blind still and to harden you therein to seek to blind others also and to turn truth backward that he may grind the poor and needy to satisfie his lust in you and to that end you are fitted for the destroyer and so comes the truth to reprove your pride and devouring vanities which wasts the creation and turns it quite to another end then God gave it you for and when you say what might so many poor people live on if we did not wear these things as though your pride which is the ground of all oppression did releive the oppressed and thus you turn truth backwards with shameless and unreasonable words not having a shew of a truth and then if truth arise stop your mouth in the open falshood then you have more hidden deceit to cover your lust And you say pride is not in the out-side it 's in the heart when all men may see it in the out side and as many as have that eye open in the heart which you hav blinded with lust sees and knowes that your pride had its first rise and rooting in your heart ere it came to spring forth it's cursed branches which now shines in the open streets without shame that this which speaks outward is but part of that fullness that is within in the heart though your blindness be so great you see it not neither within nor without and your hearts too hard to feel it but have set up there the Idol and stumbling block to blind withall and then you say what was these things made for if we may not wear them where the truth of God in you would answer were it not denyed and betrayed by your evil eye that they was not made for the devoured nor to be spent on your Justs to the lust of the eye and pride of life but for the service of the needy and co cover the naked that there might be plenty in the creation and none might want which would be so were the devoured judged in you cast out and did you know him in you to order the creation which made it who would lead you that are rich another way to releive the poor then with being proud and vain and wastfull of his freeness and fullness and that spirit would let you see that were it not for that devourer which in you speaks and acts there would be no poor for he gives plenty for all that he sends into the world and the lust arising in the heart of men and women is it that makes poor and accursed and keeps poor by oppression in you those that are under the power thereof and cease but your oppression of them to satisfie your pride and judge the destroyer in you that wasts it and the poor would arise through the fullness of him that filleth all things which is kept back by the devourer and the curse that is upon him in the creation through you in pride gluttony and drunkenness who have all one head against truth and so the glutton saith What are the creatures made or but for man to eat c. and the Drunkard being reproved hath the same pretence of mercy to the pore as the proud saith he How many poor people lives of Brewing and might begg did not such as rich drink it as they brew it c. And thus deceit utters it's voice in all the world where it is head who are without the true God in them as though is was the work of the devourer that did uphold the creation in plenty and keep the poor from want and how great is the darkness of this generation in whom this passeth for truth Is not this the world which by wisdom knowes not God but are given up to vile affections and to believe lyes Oh men how deep is truth fallen in you that nothing of it doth arise to condemn this doctrine him that lives by it in you what deceit is this that hath filled your hearts to make you believe you take care for the