AN EPISTLE To all PROFESSORS IN New-England Germany and other Parts of the called Christian VVorld Also To the JEWS and TURKS throughout the WORLD That they may see who are the true Worshippers of God that he seeks and in what he is worshipped An Exhortation to them to read it over that they may see what they have all grieved vext and quenched and what they have walked despightfully and rebelled and kickt and stopt their Ears and closed their Eyes to so that they may all return again and turn within and see what they have profest and not possest so that they may come to be the trâ—â— Possessors of the Truth and true Worshippers in the Spirit of the True and Living God who is a Spirit which is the perfect Worship which Christ the Truth and perfect One set up above 1600 Years since George Fox Printed in the Year 1673. AN EPISTLE To all Professors in New-England Germany and other Parts of the called CHRISTIAN WORLD Concerning the Worship of God which Christ set up above 1600 Years since as in John 4. WHen the Woman of Samaria said unto Christ Our Fathers worshipped God in this Mountain which was the Mountain where Jacob's Well was and said she again you say that at Jerusalem is the Place where Men ought to worship but Jesus said unto her Woman believe me the Hour cometh when ye shall neither at this Mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father Ye worship ye know not what we know what we worship for Salvation is of the Jews but the Hour cometh and now is when the true Worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and Truth for the Father seeks such to worship him God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in the Spirit and the Truth Now mark this all Men and Women that are called Christians or Jews or Turks or others and see if you know what you worship for there are many Worships in the World made and set up by Men and so Men and Women worship they don't know what that do not worship God in Spirit and Truth as Christ saith Now you may see there was a Worship at the Mountain where Jacob's Well was and also there was a Worship at Jerusalem at the Temple set up many Years after Jacob dyed in Aegypt by the Jews his Children by the Command of God and the Plague and the Punishment that was to come upon them that would not go up to Jerusalem and keep the Feast of Tabernacles and to worship there from Year to Year you may read Zechariah the 14th And in the Acts it is said there was in Jerusalem out of every Nation under Heaven Acts 2. which worshipped at Jerusalem in the time of Penticost many of many strange Languages and Tongues and were amazed at the Apostles that preacht Christ Now in John the 4th there you may see how that Jesus Christ put down the Worship at the Mountain where Jacob's Well was where the Fore-Fathers worshipt and also put down the VVorship at Jerusalem where the Jews the latter Fathers worshipt and where they came out of other Parts to worship and if they did not the Lord poured his Plagues and Judgments upon them as in Zechariah the 14th now when Christ put down these two Worships at the Mountain where Jacob's Well was and at Jerusalem he set up another Worship in the Spirit and in the Truth and said such the Father seeks to worship him and that Hour that he put down these two Worships at the Mountain and Jerusalem the same Hour he set up a Worship for his Words are not at Jerusalem nor at this Mountain shall ye worship the Father believe me saith Christ So they that hold up a Worship at that Mountain or at Jerusalem or a Worship of their own making worship they don't know what and do not believe in Christ for Christ's VVords are Woman believe me mark the Hour cometh when ye shall neither in this Mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father for ye worship ye know not what So here it is clear neither at the Mountain nor at Jerusalem is the Father worshipped for Christ Jesus has put down those Worships yea at Jerusalem which was once commanded of God and therefore those that God never commanded cannot stand and Christs VVords are But the Hour cometh and now is mark now is then it began that Hour when he put down the VVorship at Jerusalem and the Mountain and such VVorshippers that did not know what they worshipt But the Hour cometh and now is saith he when the true Worshippers shall worship the Father in the Spirit and in the Truth for the Father seeks such to worship him for God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and in Truth now mark all People upon the Earth VVorshippers of all Sorts who worship you don't know what that be out of this true VVorship here you may see that Christ set up a VVorship and it s above 1600 Years since it began and here you may see who the true VVorshippers are that worship the Father in the Spirit and in the Truth and here you may see who they are the Father seeks to worship him such as be in the Spirit and such as be in the Truth So its clear that none are the true VVorshippers of the Father but who be in the Truth that the Devil is out of for the Devil abode not in it 2ly None are the true Worshippers of the Father but such as are in the Spirit yea in that Spirit that mortifies Sin and that Spirit by which the Body of Death and the Sins of the Flesh are put of so it s clear all that be out of the Spirit and out of the Truth are the false Worshippers and not the true and such the Father seeks not to worship him for God is a Spirit and they that worship him must mark worship him in the Spirit and in the Truth for God is a Spirit and he is the God of Truth that changeth not and therefore every Man and every Woman must come to Truth in their Inward Parts and come to the Spirit of God in their own particulars and not grieve it nor quench it nor vex it for in the Spirit and in the Truth they must worship the God of Truth and God who is a Spirit and mark all Men and Women must be in the Spirit and in the Truth if they worship the God of Truth in the Spirit and in the Truth and this Worship that Christ Jesus set up above 1600 Years since breaks down all the Worships in the whole VVorld that Men have set up and the Jew's and the Beast's and the Dragon 's that are out of Truth and the Spirit of God so every Man and VVoman in the whole VVorld must come to Truth in their Inward Parts by which Truth they received from Christ the Truth in which Truth they must worship
the God of Truth and every Man and VVoman in the VVorld must come to the Spirit of God in their Hearts by which Spirit they must have an Understanding to know God who is a Spirit and so to worship him in the Spirit now there is the worshipping of Angels the will-worship the VVorship that was at Jerusalem and the VVorship in the Mountain the VVorship of the Beast and the Dragon the VVorships that Men and all Nations have invented but the VVorship in the Spirit and the Truth which Christ set up above 1600 Years since is the true VVorship which the Father seeks So I say this VVorship that Christ set up in the Spirit and in the Truth and the true VVorshippers that worship in it that the Father seeks are set above all the VVill-worshippers the VVorshippers of Angels and the Worshippers of the Beast and of the Dragon and above the Worship at the Mountain and Jacob's Well and Jerusalem Worship and all the Worships that Men or Nations have invented so every Man or Woman in the whole World must come to the Spirit of God and to the Truth which comes from Christ in their Inward Parts if they be the true Worshippers that worship God in the Spirit and Truth or to be such as he seeks to worship him for God is a Spirit and he is the God of Truth and therefore they must be all in the Spirit and in the Truth if they be the true Worshippers and do worship God the God of Truth who is a Spirit for such he seeks and all that be out of the Spirit they worship they don't know what and he seeks not such and they are not the true Worshippers and there are all the Sects and such as grieves and quenches the Spirit and comes not to the Truth in their Inward Parts and such as stop their Ears and close their Eyes to that of God in them like the Jews and Pharisees and kicks against that which pricks them like Saul and such as hates the true Light that enlightens every one that comes into the World and walks despightfully against the Spirit of Grace and such as rebels against God's Spirit that is given unto them to instruct them and to profit withall Neh. 9. all such worship not God in the Spirit and Truth but they worship they know not what as Christ saith therefore must every Man and Woman in the whole World come to the True Light of Christ and the Spirit and the Grace in themselves if they be the true Worshippers of God in Spirit and Truth And the Worship that Christ Jesus the Heavenly Man the second Adam the Lord from Heaven the Spiritual Man set up above 1600 Years since in the Spirit and in the Truth for the true Worshippers to worship in in whom God seeks this Worship I say it is an Infallible Worship or an Eternal Worship for the Truth is Infallible and the Spirit of God is Infallible and Eternal in which they worship the Eternal God and Truth and the Spirit of God changes not though Men may change from it for the Truth makes no Sects nor Schisms for all Sests and Schismes be out of it and the Spirit of God makes no Sects nor Schismes for all Sects are out of the Spirit of God and out of Truth for the Dragon and the Devil and the Destroyer and the Beast are out of Truth and his VVorshippers and the VVill-worshippers for the Devil abode not in the Truth and all they that worship they don't know what be out of the Truth and the Spirit of God So had all Christendom kept to the Spirit and the Truth that the Apostles and primitive Church was in they would have kept up Christ's Worship and in it as the Apostles did that he set up above 1600 Years since and there would have been no Sect among them but they would have kept in the substantial Worship for Truth is substantial and Truth doth not change and the Spirit of God doth not change but brings People to be Substantial in the Substantial Worship and in the Spirit they would have had a Fellowship and a Unity Therefore for all People to come out of the Sectary Worships and Will-Worships and worshipping of Angells worshipping they don't know what and to be the and true Worshippers whom God seeks they must all every Man and Woman come to Truth and the Spirit of God in their own Hearts by which they may worship God in the Spirit Truth which the Devil is out of and to be the substantial Worshippers that Christ set up above 1600 Years since for all that do not worship God in the Spirit and Truth be in the false Spirit and all that do not worship God in the Truth they be out of the Truth and of him that is out of the Truth for Christ Jesus that signifies a Saviour and anointed of God who came to redeem man from Iniquity and save Man from Sin and finishes Transgression and to be Man and Woman's Mediator and to purchase man from Transgression and shed his Blood and dyed for Man who bruises the serpents Head that has kept man in Captivity and leads him Captive and sets man free from his Prison Death Darkness and Bondage who is out of Truth and so Christ the Truth sets up a Worship for Man and Woman in the Truth and in the Spirit that the Devil is out of and this I say is the substantial Worship where the Devil cannot come with his false lying murdering Spirit of Error he cannot come into the Truth nor into the Spirit of God In which Truth and Spirit the true Worshipers worship the God of all Truth in who is a Spirit and this I say is the true and safe and substantial and infallible Worship that Christ set up who is the Truth and a Quickening Spirit above 1600 Years since and in which Worship there is neither Sect nor Schism nor Discord for all that is out of Truth for Concord is in the Spirit in the Truth for the Unity the Fellowship is in the Spirit and it s called the Bond of Peace and in this Spirit and Truth they must worship the God of Truth who is a Spirit so the blind Jews with the Scribes Priests and Pharisees that think to go to worship at Jerusalem Christ tells your Fore-Fathers above 1600 Years since that God was not worshipt there nor at the Mountain and therefore you are to believe in him your Saviour and own his Worship in the Spirit and Truth Now if all Christendom have the Scriptures of the New-Testament as the Jews had the Old and do not worship God in the Spirit and in the Truth which the Devil is out of but make Worships of their own and force men to them they worship they do not know what for it was the Dragon and the Beast that persecuted about VVorship both in the Jews in the Dayes of Christ in the Flesh and since in
of his true Worshippers that worship God in the Spirit and in the Truth as the Apostles did but you are like unto all other national worships and the Jews that opposed Christ the Truth and Spirit and the spiritual Man and so his spiritual worship in Truth and his true Worshippers as sufficiently hath been seen and so all the Worshippers that be out of the Spirit of God his Truth are as I said before like unto those Worshippers before Christ came in the Flesh that persecuted the Prophets and persecuted Christ in the Flesh above 1600 years since and his Apostles and now he persecutes in the Spirit and such may pretend to worship God like the Jews but grieve and quench and vex the Spirit of God and walk contrary to the Truth in themselves and such will never come to be the true Worshippers that Christ the Truth set up in the Spirit and in the Truth that the Devil is out of that God who is a Spirit seeks to worship him until they come to the Spirit and Truth and walk in it in their own particulars and so all the true Worshippers that come out of the false Worships that worship they don't know what they must be in the Power and the Spirit and the holy Ghost that the Apostles were in who worship God in the Spirit and in the Truth that doth not change for Truth doth not change though men have changed from it and the Worship that Christ hath set up in it and the Spirit of God doth not Change though men and women have changed and erred from it and gone into so many Sects and Worships and persecute one another about them and God doth not change nor his Worship in the Spirit and Truth which the Devil is out of God's worship which Christ set up doth not change nor Christ doth not change nor God doth not change who is to be worshipped in Spirit and Truth that doth not change and this is the Safe Perfect and Infallible Catholick or Universal Worship for Truth and the Spirit of God is perfect so men and women must worship in that which is perfect God who is perfect and Christ who is perfect set up this his perfect Worship above 1600 years since and men are gone out of his Worship and gone into imperfect Worships so every man and woman must come to the Measure of the perfect Spirit and Truth in their own hearts if they be the true Worshippers of God in the Spirit and Truth and with the Spirit and with the Truth within they must feel the God of Truth who is a Spirit at hand with them and Christ the Truth that set up this Worship as I said before above sixteen hundred years since in the Spirit and in the Truth and they that be in the Spirit and in the Truth are the true Worshippers and can say the Lord has sought them and the Lord has found them to worship him in his Spirit and in the Truth that the Devil is out of and can praise God through Jesus Christ whom God sent above 1600 Years since to set them up this Worship for Christ that is the Saviour and Redeemer from Sin and Iniquity set up an established Worship in the Spirit and in the Truth which the Devil is out of by which Truth Men and Women are made free they are God's Free-men and Free-women that are made free by the Truth and serves and worships God in the Spirit and in the Truth that makes them free which is our established Worship which is set over the Head of the Serpent and the Heads of the Beast and the Whore that abides not in her house and the Head of the Serpent which is out of Truth and over his Power is the Truth in which Spirit and Truth all the true Worshippers worship God so as Christ saith If the Truth hath made you free then are you free indeed for all Captivity Thraldom Bondage and Slavery is out of Truth and under the Head of the Serpent whose Head Christ the Truth bruises so the true Worshippers worship God in the Spirit and in the Truth which makes them free and can praise God through Jesus Christ for his Worship and for their Freedom through him Amen G. F. THE END