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spirit_n	father_n	heart_n	son_n	17,006	5	5.6134	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85140	The heart opened by Christ; or, The conditions of a troubled soul that could find no true rest, peace, comfort, nor satisfaction in any thing below the divine power and glory of God, breaking forth and appearing in several operations and manifestations, by the blessed spirit of the Lord Jesus, the Saviour of the soul, God manifesting himself in flesh, that he may glorified in spirit. With, a word to those that are for the approbation of ministers; and something to those that scruple about the receiving or not receiving that which they call a sacrament and communion of saints, at Easter, Penticost, Christmas, so called, and other festival and set daies, or any other time when it is to be administered by those priests that profess themselves to be ministers of Christ. Written in the year 1654. in the third moneth, commonly called May, by R.F.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing F485; Thomason E745_7; ESTC R207062	17,335	24

word and power of God were preached in me by Christ Jesus my Lord which power did shake the earth sea and dry land and did overturn the mountains by the roots and put darkness to an end in me so that the true light of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ doth now shine in my soul and the heavenly treasure doth dwell in an earthen vessel as the Apostle did witnesse 2 Cor. 4.6 7. And my joy is in doing the will of my heavenly Father and the Lord Jesus my Saviour who hath called me by his grace and set me to declare against deceits and deceivers and all false waies false worships which stand in the will of man and being dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world as in Colos 2. I can never touch taste nor handle that which is to perish ver 20 21 22 23. God is a spirit and all his waies and worships are now in the spirit and his Ministry is in the spirit and his Ministers are made by the will of God and the son is revealed in them and they are able Ministers of the spirit and the baptism of Christ in the new Covenant is by one spirit into one body and we are made all to drink into one spirit where there is one faith one Lord one Baptism one God and Father of us all who are born again of water and the spirit and our souls are nourished with the milk of the word and Christ is our bread of life and water of life and feedeth our souls with the refreshing mercies of his eternal love so that we having received the promise of the Father which is the spirit of his Son crying Abba Father in our hearts guiding and leading us into all trut that we are made to exalt and set forth Jesus Christ to be the everlasting Minister of the new Covenant and his Gospel is free and he Preacheth glad tidings to our souls and giveth good gifts to our souls and we are made to cry Hosanna to the highest praises praises be to our God and Saviour the Lord God and his Son and the holy Ghost the Comforter whom the world knoweth not nor the Priests and Clergy-men with all their high notions and guilded pretences cannot find out Job 28.12 to 17 who open their bags to receive of our earthly Treasure but never made us to partake of any spiritual gifts I deny them all that are hirelings and teach for Tythes gifts or rewards they are Idol shepherds and Ministers of man and sent of man and obey man and received Orders Commission Power and Authority means and maintenance of man who are they that do not abid in the councel of God and do not profit the people of God Jer. 23 21 to 33. and now it is considered as in the Prophesie of Jeremiah 23.16.17 to 21. So I have cleared my conscience in declaring part of my experience of them and not by report nor opinion of others And being the desire of you the Commissioners that are for the approving of them your National Ministers as you call them The Book of affairs in the Nation pag. 3. Friday the 7. of April to 1654. who say you do humbly and earnestly beseech all the people of God throughout the Land who shall send any Certificate to you that they would not take things upon the opinion and reports of others but to certifie their own personal knowledg and experience of them your Ministers c. as in the book you set forth on the third leaf Friday the 7 of April 1654. as you say that you would not have any of the people of God recommend unto you them whom God disalloweth lest guilt be contracted by the Recommenders to whose Testimonials you say so much is referred that unfaithfull men whom God doth not approve of may not be commended to you lest they be admitted of by you to the dishonour of God the prejudice of the Church and the utter frustrating of the pious intents of your Honours besides the blot which will deservedly stick to them not only for the present but with posterity and succeeding times For as much as the Certificates now exhibited will appear upon Record So to this my Certificate and Testimonial of them the Priests of these times whith I do not know by the opinion or report of others but by real experience whether you do approve of it or no I have done my duty in clearing my conscience to let you know part of my experience of them and according to your desire and humble request and rest A servant of the Lord Jesus Christ Rich. Farnworth A Word to you that are appointed to be Commssioners for the Approbation of Ministers TAke heed that you do not approve of those whom God Almighty disalloweth and so your Judgement prove carnal and you want salt to savour withall and be cast out of favour with God for so doing Take heed to your selves and the work you are about that you do not stand as Judges of the simple by your carnal wisdom and so seek to establish proud covetous self-seeking men men that follow pleasures and are oppressers that Preach for hire 100 l. or 200 l. per annum or Tythes Bribes and large augmentations to please you and the great men of the world and so dishonour the Lord and if you go about to approve and allow and establish those whom God intends to root out you must come to an account before the great Judg of Heaven and Earth and be punished for it take heed of sinning against the light of Christ in your conscience and against the holy Ghost then see what is said in Hebrews 10.26 27. Read and understand and act not according to the will of man lest thou disobey the will of God The everlasting Gospel of Jesus Christ is to be preached freely and the Proclamation is Come freely Isa 55. and the Ministers of the Gospel are not by the will of man nor approved by carnal men but by God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ John 4.22 23 24. God is a Spirit and all his Ordinances are spiritual Therefore a word to those that scruple about the receiving or not receiving that which they call a Sacrament and Communion of Saints at Easter Pentecost Christmas so called and other Festival and set daies or any other time when it is to be administred by those that professe themselves to be the Ministers of Jesus Christ First to the simple hearted whose desires are to walk in the wayes of Godlinesse and to do those things that are most pleasing and acceptable to God in the light of Jesus Christ our Lord And you conceive that which you call the Ordinance of Christ in the holy Sacrament so called in eating bread and wine at set times to be a Sacrifice well pleasing and acceptable to God by Jesus Christ and that it is as you conceive necessary to salvation and how shall

Temples for the holy Ghost to dwell in as God hath said 2 Cor. 6.17 18. Then was I convinced by the light of Christ in my conscience that the Priests were very formal in that which they called prayer and that they kept in a form of words and knew before hand what to speak Mat. 6.7 Mar. 6.5 1 Cor. 14 15. Rom. 8.26.27 Zac. 8.21 Mar. 26.41 Act. 12.5 Rom. 12.12 Jude 20. Jam. 5.15 16. when to begin and when to end any natural man might do so that had but a quick wit and memory and I could have done that my self till I was convinced that either to get prayers out of a book or to pray by a book was carnal and formal and not by the spirit and this was a second error that I lived in till the Lord did convince me of it by his spirit and I had received that by tradition from the Priests and as the light of God did arise in me I could not be satisfied with such carnality and so likewise their Preaching became but as the telling of a Tale or a boy that saith over his weeks work at the School what he hath learned all the week he saith over at once or one time and so did the Priests they studied out of books and writ down in papers and knew where to begin and where to end and any natural man might do so but the natural man knoweth not the things of God for they are spiritually discerned And this is another error that I did live in till I was convinced of it by the pure light of God in my conscience Isa 9.16 Isa 3 12. Hos 4 9. for the Priests neither Preached nor prayed by the Spirit and so there was little or no reformation at all wrought by it for people that had been proud did continue so and the Priests led them on in it and made them covers for it and so on in covetousness sports or pleasures and the like for looking at the Priest for an example Eph. 5.4.4 5 6 1 Cor. 12 12 13 Rom. 6.3.4 5. Gal. 3.27 and seeing him given to pride covetousness and the like the people say in their hearts that if it were not right he would not do it and if he do it they may do it for he knoweth more then they do and so they follow him for their example and become light and vain and that Scripture is fulfilled by them The Leaders of the people cause them to err And a fourth error that was discovered to me that the Priests led into was sprinkling infants calling it Baptism and entring them into ovenant with Christ and Christ never sprinkling any infant nor the Apostles never sprinkled any for that is carnal and they have no Scripture-rule for it for by one spirit did and were they baptized into one body in the Church of Christ and made to drink into one spirit But the Priests of England walk clear contrary to the Saints rule and order in the true Church and they observed foolish heathenish customs in the Steeplehouses in Yorkshire at the sprinkling of infants they were to have Godfathers and Godmothers for the child and God hath neither father nor mother and all that are born of water and the spirit and baptized with the holy Ghost do deny those Popish Ceremonies and a foolish thing was there upheld at the sprinkling of infants If a young man did not kiss the young woman there openly he was to forfeit a pair of gloves and the Priest did suffer such things as these unreproved and I was convinced of the error of them and made to testifie against them and could not sing Davids conditions in Rime and Meeter with them because I could not experience those conditions in my self to be fulfilled Ro. 12.2 Eph. 5.6 to the 19 verse and what I could not witness was not mine then was I hated and reproached and called Independent Brownist Seperate and the like and was content to bear their reproaches for the testimony of the truth in what I knew 1 Pet. 4.14 For in reading the Scriptures I did see that there never was any such things practized amongst Christians 1 Pet. 3.18 19 20 21. Acts 1.5.6 Mat. 3. and that all that were baptized with water which was the figure were such as did bring forth fruits of amendment of life as in Luke 3. and were believers and not infants and though Christ did say Suffer little children to come and forbid them not for of such is the Kingdom of God Mark 9.33 to the end Mark 10. chap. 13 14 15 16. Yet he did not baptize them for he baptized none himself but his Disciples John 4.2 they did not baptize any but believers yes say they the Goaler and his houshold and others and their houshold and then consequently say they there must be infants in an houshold Now that was their carnal reason and consequence that led them out into the imaginations of their own hearts for no infant is mentioned and they might be such places as their children were grown up to believe in Christ for the word was preached to them before they were baptized and when the Goaler asked what should be done that salvation might follow it was answered Believe and be baptized but had there been infants they had not been capable of faith and the preaching of the word by the holy Ghost which gave power with the thing done to make it effectual Acts 16.32 33 34. Acts 18.7 8 9 10 11. And secondly as for infants being in those Families there is not any mention of them and there might as well be no child at all for in several Families in Yorkshire and for instance that where I then lived they never had child and if all the Family had been in the faith there and baptized there would not have been one infant And Christs suffering little children to come unto him was to bless them and heal them of their diseases which was the work he was about at that time and not baptizing with water for he baptized none but with the holy Ghost Mat. 3.11 And herein the error of the Priests was discovered that they did not act by the spirit of the Lord but followed the imagination of their own hearts and lead people into error and delusion and do things without warrant from the Spirit of the living God and so are ignorant of the Gospel for the Ministers of the Gospel are the Ministers of the spirit Eph. 3.2 3 to the 13. 2 Cor. 3.1 2 3 4 5 6. 2 Cor. 4. to the 14 verse Gal. 1.11 12. Col. 1 25. to the end Another thing the Priests led me to observe and that they called a Sacrament and Communion of Saints and told me it was a sacrifice acceptable and well pleasing to God for the purging out of sin and assuring the soul of Gods love and favour and a sealing soul-saving Ordinance and the like And one came to the house where