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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91118	A testimony of God, and his way, and worship against all the false wayes and worships of the vvorld. Also an answer to some of the false doctrines held forth, by a professed minister, in VVales; shewing the unsoundness of his former actions, and is found to be one, in the nature of the vvorld; which sometime he hath spoken against. With an answer to some queries; propounded by one, who is called an Anabaptist. / Given forth for no other end, but in love to the truth, as it is in Iesus: by Alex: Parker.	Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.	1656 (1656)	Wing P383; Thomason E883_6; ESTC R207301	24,030	31

feeling of his sad and miserable condition is arising in him and the witnesse of God reproving him and calling him from his abominations and whoredoms and many times brings him into some trouble yet he sleights his love and hates the reproof and goes on in his rebellious wayes and so treasures up to himself wrath against the day of wrath and revellation of the righteous judgement of God who will render a just reward unto him according to his deeds and here lies all the ungodly world driven from God out of his Covenant out of his peace out of his presence out of his pure love and spiritual worship and are loving and delighting in and worshiping the creature more then the Creator But the Saints and holy men of God who came to witnesse redemption and were in Covenant with God and faith of his Son had passed from death to life and they had put of the body of sin and the old man and his deeds and were created anew being born again of the eternall word which liveth and abideth for ever and their hearts was purified and their consciences purged from dead works and ther bodies made fit Temples holy and pure for the Lord God to dwell in and there was his worship in the spirit in his holy Temple where there is no need of Sun Moon or of Candle but the glory of the Lord fils the Temple and this they witnessed who were redeemed from the earth and were in Christ Jesus where there union joy and fellowship was where there is neither Greek nor Jew circumsition nor uncircumsition Barbarian Scythian bond nor free but Christ is all and in all and the same is the Lord our God now working and bringing to passe even by his own power and outstretched arm is he getting himself the victory what we are we are of and by him he alone it is that worketh in us both to will and to do by his own power made manifest in us and worketh mightily in us whereby wee are made willing to do his will and work and this is all by his Son who of God is made wisdom justification sanctification and redemption he is made unto us all things and through him we can do all things even through the Son of God whom we know is come and hath given us an understanding to know him that is true and wee are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ who is our life our joy our stay and strength by whom we are freed from sin and from our vain conversations which formerly we lived in who hath broken the bond of iniquity and set the oppressed free to praise and glorify his name who alone do praise him the dead cannot praise him it is the living the living that praises him to whom be everlasting praises and glory world without end Amen So I say and declare that if any man say he hath no sin before he come to confesse his sin and to witnesse the power of God cleansing him from his sin he doth dec●ive himself and the witnesse of God in his own conscience will testify against him and be his condemnation But where the living power of God is made manifest to purify and cleanse and to destroy the works of the devil to burn up and consume the old heavens and the old earth which is cursed and brings forth cursed fruits I say where the old is destroyed and the new heaven and the new earth witnessed wherein dwells righteousness Shall we deny the work of God Not far be it from us but to declare his marvailous works which he hath wrought in our dayes to ages and generations to come that they may dread and fear the name of our God and to others who sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death who are wandring astray as sheep without a Shepherd and are feeding upon the husk and spending their money for that which is not bread and their labour for that which doth not satisfy freely from the bowels of tender love to their soules do we declare what the Lord hath done for our soules that they might return home into the Fathers house where there is bread enough to satisfy the hungry thirsting soul that every one may eat their own bread and sit under their own vine and have union and feilowship with us in our fathers love for evermore So in the name of the Lord I do warn all people who read these lines to repent and cease from all their sins and abominations which formerly they have lived in and from all the false and Idolatrous worships of the world which a long time ye have followed and thereby have been deceived and led captive laden with sin but have not come to the true knowledg of God but are still in their old crooked and perverse nature and knows not the Crosse of Christ nor the yoke nor the bridle to the tongue but are at ease in the flesh and can speake their own words and think their own thoughts and do their own works I say return return and hearken diligently to the voyce of the Son of God which cryes for purity and holinesse without which none can see God that thereby your soules may live and may feed upon the dayly bread in the Fathers bosome which whosoever eats of this bread shal never hunger and he that drinks of this cup shall never thirst but it shall be a well of living water springing up unto eternal life so every one wayt in the measure of light which from Christ you have received for the appearance of Christ in you that his life may be made manifest in your mortal bodies for this is the command of God This is my beloved Son hear him and Christ the Son calls and says Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden take my yoke upon you and learn of me I am meek and lowly in spirit and you shall find rest to your soules So all people come freely his love is freely tendred to you sleight not the tender profers of his love but come forth and separate your selves and touch no unclean thing and the Lord will receive you and will be a Father unto you and you shall be his Sons and Daughters mind the pure and still voyce that thereby you may be led into the pure life and pure union and love of the children of light for if you neglect such great salvation woe will be your portion for ever There ore whi●e you have the light believe in the light and work while it is day before the dreadfull night of darkness come when none can work By one who hath seen the deadness and emptiness of all the formal worships and formal profession that stands in the will of man act d in mans will who is returned back into his fathers house and there dwels in rest and peace and hath ceased from his own work written forth in the bowels of love to captive and weary

hold that some are ordained to salvation and some to condemnation before they have done good or evill and these deny one another and hold one another accursed yet all are dipped in the water some are divided about that which they call the Lords supper and about breaking of the bread some will break it themselves and some will eat it as a supper some will sup before they eat it some will have it in an upper chamber some are for laying on of hands and some will not and many other things there are which breakes their union and thus they are divided in Babylons Kingdom tearing and rending one another like dogs and swine falling out about the husks But the Saints who are led by the light of the Son of God out of Babylon into the fold do feed upon the bread of life in the Fathers house where there is no want but fulnesse where the presence of the Lord is enjoyed and the holy and innocent ones who are washed and cleansed in the bloud of the Lamb rejoyce in his presence who are Baptized into Christ and have put on Christ whose hearts are purified and conscience purged from dead works these are Christians But to sprinkle water on the face of a child doth not make it a Christian or to be dipped over head and eares in water doth not wash and cleanse from sin for hee is not a Christian which is one outward which hath the name only neither is that the Baptizme which is outward with the water But he is a Christian which is in Christ a new Creature and Baptizme is that of the spirit having the heart sprinkled from an evill conscience and the body washed with pure water and this Baptizme I own and witnesse unto and deny all imitatour who have not a command from God as they had that gave forth the Scriptures Yet this I say if any one now have a command from Christ to go and Baptize with water or if any out of tendernesse of Conscience do such a thing I do not deny it nor judge them for it But I was not sent to Baptize but to preach the Gospel and it is no breach of Christs command nor denying his ordinances in not Baptizing not being commissioned by him to Baptize for it is neither dipping nor sprinkling or not dipping that availes any thing but a new Creature so to deny that which was a command of Christ to some being but outward it not being a command by Christ unto us is no breach of Christs command no more then it was in the Apostles in denying the outward commands as Temple Sabbath Circumsition and the like which were commands in their time and place and wee own them and all the commands of God mentioned in the Scriptures by the same spirit which gave them forth which spirit was the Saints Rule before the Scriptures were written and their Rule who gave forth the Scripture and the Saints Rule now according to the Scripture owning all things in their time and place as the Scripture declares of and though we be counted as deceivers yet true it is no more but what the Ministers of Christ undergone from that generation who were high in knowledge as doctours chief Priests and learned Rabbies yet by all their learning and Scripture knowledge they knew not the mistery but counted the Crosse of Christ foolishnesse as it is now by this generation of Scripture learned ones and university men by all their learning and study the mistery of Godlinesse they know not but counts them an ignorant people to whom the Lord hath made known himself in measure and reveiled his secrets unto and counts them as a people not worthy to live I say amongst that generation that cryes up the commands of Christ in words I find this man querying without But for the simple ones sake who desire to be satisfied I have written this in answer to his queries that their minds may be informed and from the darknesse they may be turned to the true light of lesus which opens the dark understanding and leads out of darknesse to follow Christ in the pure path of life which whosoever follows shall not abide in darknesse but shall have the light of life Query the I. Whether you do own the New Testament with the Epistles of the Apostles unto the Churches to be a true testimony of the spirit of the Lord yea or nay And if they be whether were they not given forth as a Rule unto the Churches to walk by and if they were not given forth as a Rule then wherefore were they given forth and what use were they of unto the Churches Answ The New Testament we do own and witnesse which is the Law of God written in our hearts and the spirit put in the inward parts whereby we are gathered together into the fold and are fed with living refreshments in the bosome of our Fathers love which spirit was and is a Rule and guide unto the Saints and thereby are taught of God in spirit and do worship him in spirit according to his promise which promise is now fulfilled and fulfilling to his praise and glory to whom all glory belongs for evermore And the Epistles of the Apostles to the Churches we own to be a true testimony given forth from the spirit of the Lord and was the word of the Lord in them and to them to whom they were written for the edifying and building them up in their most holy faith which faith was within them a mistery held in a pure conscience and their Rule and guid was within them and all that was written or declared by the holy men of God it was to bring them to the pure worship of God within in the spirit Qu. II. Whether the Scriptures be of any use unto any people now in this generation and if they are then whether the Ordinances therein conteyned be to be practised by such a people as beleeve in the Lord Iesus with all their hearts yea or nay And if they are not to be practised then when and where were they abolished Ans The Scriptures are not of any private interpretation neither came by mans will but holy men of God spoke them forth as they were moved by the Holy Ghost and they are of use for they were given forth to be read to be believed on to bee practised and fulfilled but not to make a trade on nor for ungodly men with their vain and proud minds to talk on but let every one that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity and as iniquity is departed from and the fear of God placed in the heart it keepes the heart cleare and so the pure wisdom from above is received into the pure heart and the pure in heart are blessed and shall see God who is light and the Ordinances of God are seen in the light and led into by the light but the darknesse cannot comprehend the light nor all the wisedom

in the place of Christ as Vavasar Powel doth who calls the Scriptures the Foundation of Faith and the Word of God when plain Scripture doth testify against him and witnesseth Christ to be the Foundation and the Authour and finisher of Faith whose name is called the Word of God Heb. 12.2 Rev. 19 13. Many other Scriptures I might bring that witnesses of the Word of God for all the whole Scriptures being given forth from the word declare of the word and so they are called by the Ministers of the word Luke the first But it hath been a common thing amongst the Professours of our time because wee do not nay dare not set the Scriptures in the place of Christ nor call them by his name to accuse us for denying of the Scriptures but their accusation wee do deny and let our lives and conversations which wee live in Christ Jesus be witnesses for the Lord and for us herein and I appeal to the conscience of all the honest hearted in the nation to judge whether those who talk so much of Scripture and calls it the Word of God and their Rule to walk by and they themselves live in pride and covetousnesse strife and envy wrath malice stubbornesse and crosnesse backbiting and speaking evill one of another behind their backs foolish jesting idle communication vain sports and pleasures and in the customes and fashions of the world little or nor at all differing from them in any thing but in words which things the Scripture testifies against or those who live in the fear of God in meeknesse and humility and cannot fashion themselves according to the world nor use the vain customes and traditions of men who cannot bow to the rich nor respect the persons of those who were the gay cloathing and the gold Ring no more then the poor man in the vile Rayment which of these doth deny the Scriptures those who talke of them and live not in the life of them or those whose lives and conversations are according to them let the wise in heart Judge A. P. An answer to some Queries given to my hands which were propounded by one who goes under the name of an Anabaptist living in Shrewsbury SOme Queries I have received from one who subscribes his name Richard Stephens wherein he saith the intent of his writing is to be better informed in things wherein he is not satisfied But in the Light of Jesus he is comprehended and seen to be of that Generation who cryed up the Commands and the Ordinances of God as Temple Sabbath Circumcision Priests Sacrifices Scriptures and the like and said they were of Abraham and God was their Father and they builded the Tombs of the Prophets and garnished the sepulchre of the righteous and condemned their fore-fathers saving if we had lived in their dayes we would not have killed the Prophets and yet these crucified the Son of God and they did not believe in him who was the light the Covenant of the Father the sum and substance of those things which they upheld which were but figures tipes and shadows yet in their time Commands of God and were to bee observed and kept yet those who had these outward Commands did not believe in the Light but were by Christ the Light cryed woe against and those who believed in the Light and followed Christ denyed those outward Commands and had no Scripture for it but the testimony of the light within them which was a hard thing in those times to deny the Commands in the letters for the Jews and Chief Priests had Scripture to uphold them and counted the Apostles deceivers and a cursed people that knew not the Law But by the mighty power of God they were carried on and witnessed against the outward Commands and cryed against them that upheld them and witnessed the Commands of God and the worship of God in the spirit and their bodies wa● Temples of the Holy Ghost and God dwelt in them so the new Covenant they witnessed the Law of God written in their hearts and the spirit put in the inward parts which was their guide in the spiritual worship and these denyed those things which once were Commands of God which were outward and typical and it was no breach of the Commands of God to them but obedience to the commands of the Spirit of God in them by which they witnessed against the shadows and witnessed the substance And a generation there is now of which this man that gave forth these Queries is one who hath gotten the good words the Scriptures and painted themselves over with a covering like the spirit but is not the spirit and these cry up the Church of Christ and the ordinances of Christ and condemnes the Jewes their fore-fathers for crucifying of Christ and yet they are found in the same nature who deny the light and counts them deceivers and a cursed generation who are in the light who with the light deny their imitated Churches and taken on commands which it no more but a will worship and a self righteousnesse which stands in the will of man which is as filthy rags and as menstruous cloathes seen they are and comprehended in the light of Christ to be under the woe out of the Covenant of our God and here is the ground of all the sects and opinions and the many Religions Man living in his will and professing the Scriptures which came not by the will of man but contrary to mans will here man in his will is giving his pr●vate meanings and interpretations and one he gives one meaning to the Scriptures and sets up a Religion and a worship of God according to his meaning and conceiving from the letter of the Scripture in his will Another he gives another meaning and sets up another worship and a Religion according to his meaning and conceiving from the Scriptures and so a third gives his meaning and so are divided into many sects and opinions and these are the Babel builders one building up a wall and another daubing with untempered morter and these are out of the faith and union of the Saints who walk in the light and have union and fellowship in the spirit of love written in one anothers heart and so are all of one heart But the other who stands in their wills and imitates and takes on commands in their own wills as their imaginations thoughts and conceivings leads them are not all of one heart but are divided and some sprinkle water on the face of a child and calls that Baptizme and others deny that and are dipped over head and ears in water and calls that Baptizme and then they call themselves Beleevers and Saints and so run to the letter of the Scripture and reading with a wrong eye are still in confusion and more and more divisions there is a mongst them some are called free-willers or that hold generall redemption that Christ died for all and some are called particulars that