is a Condemner in some a Leader and Teacher towards God in some a perfect Justifier in the sight of God presenting them who also gives several gifts and power to such as receive this Testimony of Jesus Christ yet is he but one in all unchangeably Just Equal and Holy who by the Power of his Word changeth all things that are changeable and bringeth all things to the beginning before People Nations and Tongues were divided where man lives by the Spirit of a pure life Now all that desire to be set free from this Bondage fore-mentioned and from that Law of Sin and Death that hath its strength in the fleshly part diligently mind to feel in your selves as followeth THE Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus by whom the World was made in the beginning hath a Law that is Spiritual proceeding from himself which Law gives light in spirit to good and bad testifying against the power of sin and death which Light as many as receive by faith and obedience are brought thereby under the Law of Life which whoever is faithful in are led in such wayes whereby that part in man in which the Law of sin hath its power is crucified and slain and the Seed of the Covenant thereby comes to its right freedom which by the man of sin is kept in bondage while the strong man keeps the house whose strength is in such things as the carnal mind takes pleasure in which things the Law of the Spirit calls them from who mind it in the Light thereof and leads to exercise the mind in spiritual things and to feed on the Word of Life whereby the inward man is strengthened and made to grow up into the stature of a spiritual man filled thereby with spiritual power life and vertue to bring forth unto God and to live to him as the other lived to the flesh and brought forth unto death Thus the Spirit of Life draws with the Light and saith Come to all that mind its Voice and to as many as obey he changeth and feedeth with the New whereby they become New Creatures born of Freedom And the fleshly spirit it draws and saith Come holding forth visible Idols to take the carnal affections and to captivate the mind from the Spirit of Life into carnal objects who promise much to the eye of earthly wisdom and have a likeness of a substance in them but the end is death and the whole life is captivity to vanity and eternal separation from God And here are the Children of Freedom which are in Christ Jesus made manifest to the world by their coming out of it and the children of bondage manifest who cannot deny to serve it and betwixt these two is no agreement for he that is a servant of sin is free from Righteousness the Servant of Righteousness is free from sin and as he that is in the flesh cannot please God neither can he that is in the Spirit please the world these are children of several Kingdoms and several Natures And he that 's born after the flesh hath that spirit which lusteth enviously and seeks to devour the Creation and he that 's born again after the Spirit of Life is brought into the restoration as in the beginning and bringeth forth to God the Fruits of eternal Life and Salvation in the Creation And as by the Creatures yeelding and consenting to the subtile one the life is lost and the evil seed gets strength in man to rule and bring forth after the power of darkness So by the Creatures believing in the Light and by yeelding to the motions of the Life of Holiness and the Law thereof comes the evil seed to lose its strength and feeding which is upon carnal things and that Life which is by Faith hearing comes again to be renewed in the Vessel and arises through the Spirit and reigns above death and the Righteousness and Virtue of that Life is not of the nature of flesh and blood but of God and is made manifest in the earthen Vessel by the Life and Power of the Spirit against the will of the flesh and the lusts thereof And thus comes man again into the Restoration and Redemption of the body into the free service of that Spirit and Life of whom it is the off-spring and for which and by which it came into the world and here is true reconciliation and peace with God and no condemnation but unity in Spirit and Life as the Father and Son are one the lust being slain the enticer denyed and the accuser cast out and all things become new and all things of God here is no more the house of bondage to sin but the glorious liberty of the Sons of God that Nature being quickned that is Spiritual it doth not feed on carnal pleasures but upon God so the inward man becomes a natural Branch of the holy Root and a Plant of the living God bringing out freely what the Root sends forth in which God is glorified and the Vessel made Honourable and the Soul filled with Peace and fatness and hath no more sorrow and death to oppress it And the Light and Life which is in Christ Jesus manifest in the Spirit of Truth is the first and last in this work and here is seen how unnatural man driven from God is become to that pure Life which gives him breath and being and would preserve him from destruction who is so wholly fallen from it and become contrary to it in nature and judgment that of all things in the world it s the greatest cross to be guided by that Light which arises in him from that holy Life and daily calls him in Spirit thereinto being degenerated into a contrary nature more subtile and selfish is willing to joyn with the enemy thereof in any way against the pure Light that 's in himself it to revile reproach murther and turn into darkness by covering it with deceit though man in this state hath nothing in him but it that is of the Nature of God Holy and Just or that will call him from the paths of the destroyer into the way of Life or bring forth through him any Fruits of obedience or spiritual Worship that God will own nor hath he any other thing in this world that is alwayes present with him to give him to see when he is inticed with his lusts and tempted to sin nor the way how to escape the temptation yet is man so exalted in the contrary nature that he hath forgotten his Creator and lifts up the heel against the reproof of his Spirit trampling upon the lowly motions of the Holy One and the Law which out of his mouth proceeds counting the Light and virtue of his Life to be a low and contemptible thing not able to save Thus doth lost man daily despise the Spirit of Grace and Truth in the inward parts and rejects the Holy Ghost against their own souls and denies his pure and single eye and
forced to fly in the end for refuge when all else is weighed and found too light to abide the tryal though now it be lightly esteemed and you say it s not able to save it s that within that must give you the knowledge of God in the face of Jesus nought without you will make your peace but that which works in you that must cleanse the house of your adversary and ordain peace for you And this is that which makes the holy men of God who have gone before you in this Regeneration to preserve a clean House and a pure Conscience above all that the World can afford or promise knowing that in the day of tryal all will prove a lye but what is truth in the inward parts and that none are true worshippers but who worship the Father in the Spirit and in Truth and the whole mystery of Faith and of Godliness is learned within and holden in that which is pure and the pure in heart onely sees God and have heard and learned of him and such are Sons indeed who are born of the Spirit and led by the Spirit and filled with the Spirit and these have power light and understanding to do well who have God in them who is holy and that Spirit which the Devil is not able to resist and every Child of God hath this in their measure by which they resist the World and overcome it even that which is born of God that onely overcomes which is faithful and will not forget himself blessed onely are they who have of this in them in the evil times which God cannot forget nor suffer to be tempted above measure such only have that Election for whose sake the flesh is saved and in this only doth the creature find favour in the sight of God in the day of vengeance when God ariseth to plead with all the earth for their wickedness a Seed shall be saved but that is not it which saith and doth not And therefore think of this all you who mock at a pure Conscience and reject that of God within and speak lightly and reproachfully of it did you know whom you reproach and against what it is you sport your selves you would rather gnaw your tongues then utter a word against it you would change your minds and seek it with those that sell all that they may find it though it be little in you so that you dare not trust to it yet all that have proved it prize it as the great Power of God to Salvation and whether you can receive it or no you have no Election but what is in it In this did Noah find grace in the sight of God when the earth was corrupted and Noah walked with God and was just and perfect in his generation and in that which was just and perfect he was saved and in the Righteous Seed which was grieved with the uncleanness of Sodom was Lot saved Now if you can read your Election you may its onely that which was before sin was that is grieved at sin and testifies in man against uncleanness and this Seed stands elect before the world was if you can receive it and make it sure you may but you which say you have not power to do well and denies his Call can never do it He that calls out of sin and the soul that is vexed because of sin is little and lowly in you but the god of this world is lofty strong and powerful in you and hath lifted up your hearts on high to seek great things far above that pure principle of true light and understanding which God hath chosen and elected to himself and wherein he will commune with man and teach him his fear and knowledge and give him renewed strength and of his spiritual power and salvation from sin And now your lofty looks are too high for this door and the day of this small and simple one you despise these waters are too still for you to drink on and to stay and wait for great things where so little is seen you have not faith so you out-run your rest and the poor in Spirit take the Kingdom before you to whom the Election and Blessing belongs Now consider you that are lofty rich and high-minded mind the Calling of God and his Election Hath he elected the rich in notion and high in profession the proud and the wanton Hath not he chosen the weak and poor foolish and contemptible to confound all this But he doth not confound the Election the poor lowly and meek the pure and holy in heart and soul he doth not confound nor shut out but he that is pure meek and holy calls and the soul that is meek lowly and loves holiness it answers in all conversation obtaining grace to be holy as he that calls is holy Here is the Calling made sure and the Election by answering thereto who keeps in the Call and in the Election which was in God before transgression was But you that deny him that calls you out of darkness into light by the power of his holiness lowliness meekness and truth manifest in Spirit in you according to the gift of God in his tender mercy by which this springs from above as was in the beginning I say you that reject this to lay hold on something that is set up without you since the beginning you deny your Calling and Election and betake your selves to a changeable thing which the Election is not nor he that calleth thereunto For the Election hath been preserved in God when all the world else professions and people have been deceived defiled destroyed and changed And that is it which is alwayes pure as God is pure and changeth not and he that goes out from this doth not make it sure to himself by well-doing For the Election is in the light and power of Holiness and Truth which they that say and do not are out of Therefore return from off the Mountains you that have lift up your selves on high without God who have a form without the power of God And feel after that which is pure lowly and just in you for God is a Spirit and in the Spirit and Truth is he known and served and there is his counsel received in that which is truth in your inward parts feel that which never sinned near you then you draw near to God in Spirit and keep there and wait and hearken what the Spirit saith which never sinned with that principle in you which would not sin with that wait upon the holy Spirit and mind his motion continually and be obedient thereto that you may once come to serve the living and not the dead that you may be able to say your Redeemer liveth and that you know him and have heard his Voice that is holy as God is holy that is lowly and meek and that you have learned and do alwayes learn of him and are joyned to him that you may become conformable
wholly to the power of darkness who will then keep you seeking Salvation without whilest he is heaping up evil within For that which seeks to devour your Souls is within you whilst he is leading you out to seek Salvation and nought can damn you but what is in you sin is within before it be acted so must Salvation be within before you be cleansed though the old deceiver hath taught people to think they are saved by believing God at a distance who neither know nor worship him in the Spirit and Truth nor are their bodies his Temples nor can the Holy One dwell or walk in them because of uncleanness but their Vessels being filled with all the powers of darkness and the heavenly Place with Spiritual wickedness hath caused God to depart from the children of men for this uncleanness and yet a Lyar speaks Peace and preaches Salvation and the Creature believes so being filled with darkness But the Children of Light receive not this Doctrine who see and feel and cannot be content with words but with power A talk of God satisfies not the Soul of a good man till he feel his Presence and Power God without and the Devil within is not the Saints Faith nor Salvation but God in them and the Devil cast out is their glory and strength and they are bold through the might of his Spirit in them to war daily against the Prince of this world because they know him who is greater in them and more holy than he that is in the world And this is the Faith-that overcomes the world and he that 's born of the Spirit hath the Father and the Son and he that hath the Devil is his Enemy and knows him not whence he is but judgeth him after the flesh and outward appearance but the Child of Light wars not after the flesh but after God that he alone may have the glory who is all in them that they have to glory in who gives their souls the holy victory And now were not you wholly blind in your minds and past feeling you could never sit down so besotted as to believe you are saved while you are daily captivated in sin and forced many times to do that which you know you should not and this by the power of lust in you entising and leading you into every temptation and causing to fall into many hurtful evils which gathers strength and rooting daily in you heaping wrath and vengeance by adding sin unto sin which must all be accounted for in the end thereof when you have filled your vessels to a full measure And can you say you are redeemed from the Devil while he hath this power in you that you are not able to resist him but are led captive at his will contrary to all fear of God or power of Righteousness Are your Bodies redeemed to God and are you Members of Christ whilest you yeeld your members unto unrighteousness or are you saved who are servants of sin In what stands the life and power of your Redemption of your Faith and of your Salvation seeing nought can stand in God but that which brings forth to him Is not he in the bonds of iniquity who is bound to bring forth iniquity Is not he a servant of sin in whom it reigns Is not he the child of bondage who is bound to bring forth what the evil-one begets in him and to serve him in what he moves him unto Mind this you who are born after the fleshly spirit who act according to his will who worketh in your flesh to bring forth unto death Doth your profession save you who are not turned from dead works The foundation of Repentance is not yet laid in you and therefore death reigns above the Life that should bring forth to God and this is the servant of sin's state and spirit of bondage and not the Heirs state who inherits God's Righteousness and brings forth thereof unto that Spirit which pleaseth God as you bring forth to the flesh and please the world And these two seeds are within and are at enmity and disagreement and there can be no concord betwixt them no more than light and darkness and their several fruits are made manifest with the Light which condemns the one and confesseth the other to be of God and wrought in God And as many as are quickned with the Spirit of Life have the feeling of this before they bring forth the fruits thereof into the world and are come to the discerning of things that differ in nature and effect by the tasting and handling of the Word of Life and knowledge of that Election which is before the World was by which they are made able to judge the ground and end of every motion in them or to them which abiding in they need not man to teach them neither can they be deceived which makes them with boldness bring forth openly such words and works as are begotten in them by the Word of Life which shews the whole World to lie in wickedness and makes it manifest in the Light of Life by whom the Prince of this World is judged and condemned and the secrets of hearts made manifest according to the nature of every several spirit which comes up to the day of the Lord's appearance And to this Spirit of Truth must an account be given by all flesh living for this is he that lives to all generations and is unchangable in his witness against the evil seed into whatever form he transforms himself in words and profession yet is there no agreement betwixt their several natures be they in one person or be they in a family or be it in a Nation there is not agreement nor can any one person Family or Nation serve them both but whoever serves the one hates the other and condemns him so he that serves Deceit condemns the Just and so condemns that which should save him and must judge him in the end And here is the cause of that fleshly liberty which some have got for the present where the Witness is slain and also of the horrour of Conscience where the Just appears towards Judgment the unstable estate of such who are faithful to neither the everlasting Peace and Power in such where the Just hath dominion and the present sorrows of such who are diligent in waiting and wrestling to the end of the World and the beginning of Christ Jesus through Faith and Patience And all these are comprehended with him who hath learned Christ by being faithful to that Spirit of Truth sent in his Name to testifie what is of him in every vessel and what is of the spirit that lusteth against him and keeps the Creation in bondage And this is that one way to Life and Salvation holden forth freely by the Spirit of Truth sent forth by the Father in the Name of Christ Jesus who hath its several operations in several vessels according as he finds them towards God in some he
holy movings in them by which the holy men of God spoke saw and discerned in all Ages as the Scriptures do testifie all which is lost in that man who is exalted above the pure Light and lowly Spirit in which God meets man to teach him the knowledge of the Truth And therefore you Teachers and People of all sorts and Sects who so violently have set your selves against the Light of the Spirit within you and within others when it calls to you for a return to it How long will you kick against that which pricks you at the heart for your contrary walkings and dissembling professions why will you not be still and commune with it in your own hearts that you might come to a true feeling and discern what nature it is of and from whence it is and what way it works and against what And also what nature that is in you which it chiefly condemns and works against and from whence that is that so with the Light of Truth you might come to judge things that differ in the ground and in the end that you might so come to walk in the Light in Judgment and in Truth of Heart towards God and man And let the single Truth of God without mixture answer these things following feelingly in you What is the cause that while you are professing to seek God and serve him you should be so unwilling to serve him in that which is of his own Nature and to worship him in Spirit and Truth in your own Vessels whose bodies should be the Temples of God who is not worship'd in Temples made with hands nor in a nature contrary to himself Or will the talking of what he is or was in others in whom he was known to walk and speak deliver your Souls from the power of the Prince of darkness and deceit that is in your selves unless you can by Faith receive him in you also as they received him and feel his Power overcoming and casting out him that hath you captive at his will against your Faith and Conscience Or will God be found in you or accept your worship whilst his Temple is possessed with his enemy and a contrary nature acts you therein Can you meet with God in any thing but that which is Holy who hears not the prayer of him that regards iniquity Wherefore your first work should be to know him in you whom God accepts for he alone must present you to the Father who appears without sin understand what I say he that appears without sin else you are reprobate in Gods sight there is no hope without Christ in you and you in him the everlasting Priest to offer up upon the Altar of atonement Holiness must make one in Spirit and though by the height of your minds he that is without sin be low and little in you yet without me you can do nothing saith Christ Jesus mind what he saith you can do nothing Then what are you doing who are not in the holy Spirit Can you worship by Tradition or be saved by the Letter will you make Christ a lyar who saith Without me you can do nothing I am the Light of the world every branch saith Christ that abideth not in me is cast out and withereth and is for the fire Mind this you that reject holiness in Spirit and light from the holy Spirit in you Are you not cut off who are not in that which is holy are you not withered and for the fire Are you not cast out who have no abiding-place in that which is holy and a light in that which is holy Mind what is withered in you and what is fruitful Have you power light and knowledge in you to do evil but not to do well Are you not withered then unto God are you not cut off from the natural Son and planted in a wild Vine of a contrary nature Your light is withered and your seed corrupted and your tree is known by its fruits which now is green and brings forth but not to God nor from God who are cut off and withered without light in you without Christ in you without God in you to keep you not so much Truth in your inward parts as is able to teach you to make you free here is your loss and nakedness manifest and the short bed and the narrow garment who have not so much of the holy Spirit as will cover you nor bear you harmless Now will you say you hope you are born again of the Spirit and are baptized into the Spirit and walk in the Spirit and worship in the Spirit and then are gone out for Salvation and Light and speak evil of that within as not able to bear you against him that is of the world Now your Hope is not an Anchor nor your Faith in that which overcomes by birth as the Saints do Whosoever is born of God overcomes the World And he that is begotten of God keepeth himself that the evil-one toucheth him not Now mind Where is he that keepeth himself and where is the evil-one Let Truth answer in you if there be any knowledge of God in the house Is not that he who gives you light that would keep you from the evil-one and should you not be one in Him that would keep you from evil Who is your Keeper Watchmen that are blind Do not you watch in vain who know not the Lord to keep your City else how should the evil-one have his liberty in and out without a powerful resisting consider in your selves Where is he that gives you to see when the evil-one toucheth you and when he tempteth but toucheth not What nature is he of that doth this for you and where is he Is he not light and understanding and is he not in you and is he not of a contrary nature to the evil-one that tempteth And doth he not shew you the temptation before you consent thereto if you mind him Then what is the cause that the evil is committed seeing a Light and Nature appears against him Is it not because you joyn to the evil-one and like his motion better than his that testifies it to be evil And so you deny the Holy-One and the Just and become one with the evil-one And then you say The Light is not able when you have denyed it and have not been faithful to joyn to it in counsel and strength but have given your strength to the contrary but they that are born of it do not so but when they are shewed the evil-one and his temptation be it what ever it be to or under what pretence soever if the Light testifies against it Then is their diligence watchfulness and sobriety used against it in the fear of God lest they should be drawn from the Light and enticed and with all their power they joyn in obedience to the way of the Light so that there is a war and wrestling ere the thing be over and being resisted
stedfast in the Faith he flees and the Glory returns to God who dwells in the Light And if at any time the evil-one prevail the creature comes to see the cause to be in himself and not in God and for it is humbled and warned and this he comes to see when the temptation is over and the enemy fled and he is come again into coolness with God in the Light which while the darkness was up and the enemy in the house he saw not And thus is experience gained through tribulations and tryals which they who endure not the temptations never come to learn of God but fall under the temptation through unfaithfulness to the Light and so are ever captives at his will who tempts to evil and the enemy of all Righteousness ever reigns over all the Members leading out the Eyes Ears Hands and Heart to iniquity and vanity and the Tongue to plead for it against every reproof having denyed the reproof of the Spirit of Truth within your selves it cannot be received from others for in that house the contrary spirit wholly reigns which turns away the ear from hearing of Knowledge and the heart from good understanding in Spirit And this is the cause why you are kept alwayes without the feeling of God and his Power and knowledge of his Word and the mysteries of his powerful Counsel are hidden from you which he reveals to the faithful who have overcome through Faith and Patience in whom Satan is subdued and trodden under foot for in whom this devourer is above what ever God gives or reveals to the Creature the Deceiver is ready to pervert it quite to a contrary end that God never intended in the giving thereof and to lift up a wrong nature and exalt a contrary spirit which God hates and this is evident in the Light of Truth throughout the World What is the Gift of God which the spirit of the World abuses not If God give Wealth where that spirit is above how is the creature puft up therewith above the rest of his brethren as though he were no more of the same mould and blood but as God would he be worshipped If he give beauty it s turned into lust pride and wantonness begetting and deceiving adulterous eyes Wisdom is turned into folly and wickedness scorning the simple and over-reaching the plain-hearted and such as have most of it are but most able to compass their corrupt ends If God give Grace it s turned into lasciviousness and Gods long for bearance into hardness of heart Religion and Profession into a cloak for sin and hypocrisie Fasting and Praying to accomplish mens self-ends against such as they would swallow up c. And not one thing that God can give which this evil one will not subvert and turn against the giver so that though God be free in himself and good and plentiful by Nature yet he cannot so shew himself to such in whom the strong man keeps the house who makes the creature thereby but more wanton to kick against his Creator and puffs him up to forget his Maker and Feeder and so a fruitful Land maketh he barren for the wickedness of him that dwells therein which from the beginning was not so Neither is it so with the Children of Light and Counsel who have the Giver in their hearts above the gift where the pure Counsel sits to order the pure Gifts where every good and perfect gift is brought forth in its own nature form and manner undefiled or disfigured with the spirit of the World but the springs run forth from the clean Fountain and the Plant and Fruit is Holy like the Root where the spirit is clean and the flesh undefiled and every thing as it comes from God as in the beginning where the world is ended and the old man put off and all things of God there every gift of God is known by its fruits and nature and ends in such Vessels The Gifts of God return to God by glorifying him here on earth where Riches bring forth good and merciful Works and not pride and vain glory Wisdom stands up against Oppression and not to deceive and through Grace doth Righteousness reign unto Life eternal their Religion is pure and unmixt with the World but separated from it whereby the Sons and Daughters of God are known in the streets by his virtue and comeliness put upon them by him with which they are covered over as a Garment even with all the Fruits of the Holy Spirit of Faith and Truth which is in Christ Jesus who is Lord over all in such Vessels and these are the Vessels of Honour sit for the Lord to shine through against his adversary the worlds spirit in Fruits that cannot be condemned being not defiled in the Vessel but manifest as they come from above answering to that of God in every heart in which the evil one hath neither part nor power these are Sons of God without rebuke in the midst of an unclean generation shining as lights and this alone honours God which is of God and this answers the end of mans Creation and Gods bounty who is rich in such till they come to be filled with all the fulness of God which he withholds not from such but from the unclean and slothful such who defile the flesh with lusts from such he withholds his riches and fulness therefore the World knows not the Sons of God nor whence they are nor whither they return who follows Christ out of the World never returning thither again but to testifie against it whose Vessels are no more filled with lust and the spirit of this World to bring forth thereto but are filled with the holy Ghost who hath made them new Creatures for himself to walk in and shine forth in Fruits of the Spirit And now you wild Colts and barren earthly minded Professors who have filled your Vessels with wantonness and deceit and all sorts of fleshly minds in vain do you hunt about with your old Bottles and think to retain the Heavenly Treasure you gad about but to no purpose in the sight and esteem of God for you are in the wrong work while you are in the worlds nature and in the old creation your words and ordinances are empty of the Life of God and his Fruits you cannot bring forth nor receive till you be renewed nothing you can do will avail you but a new creature your old vessels are full of the old wine from the wild grape and that 's above in you which defiles the pure so God withholds his Gifts from you which abound in his new Creation and you know nought of it but what condemns you so you fight against it and say there is nothing now perfect and so would condemn the new with the old and judge them alike and thus you err not knowing the Gift of God nor the Works of his Hands which are all perfect as he is perfect who walks not in the defiled
to him that liveth and sinneth not And this appearance will be your daily Salvation and Peace and daily growth and encrease in God and make this sure to you in that principle which would not sin for gaining the whole world so shall you not lose your Election nor your Calling but an entrance thereby will be daily ministred into the Kingdom everlasting which is in Christ Jesus the Light and Truth and Power of God But if you go out to any other thing for help or counsel then that Spirit which is pure which is just which is meek and lowly by nature as God is which is righteous by nature and springs in you to bring forth fruit of it self to God alone in that principle which is pure and clean then you go from the fountain of living waters to dig for your selves and into your own works and what you bring forth is your own righteousness and not that which is revealed from above to all generations of God elected And you will go through your work hard bestead and when you have brought it forth it will not satisfie that in you which hungers towards God and is of him onely it will puff up that nature which is selfish and exalt that which is too high already to receive life from God and this righteousness God accepts not nor is it everlasting to all generations which is brought in by works and not by vertue of the Divine nature springing freely in you from an eternal Spirit which those who are entred into rest and keep the Sabbath holy are freely fed with and covered over who are ceased from their own works whose works are wrought in God and in him are brought to light where the holy Child is born and the Son of God manifest through that Spirit which the World neither seeth nor knoweth which gives to see and inherit God and godliness in a clean nature and vessel Which Birth if you desire to be born of then cease from flesh and blood and what ever that can do for you within and without that is defiled and in that which calls and convinceth you of sin wait and be faithful till you find a life and desire quickned in you which can savour or delight in nothing but that which is as God is pure just and holy and loaths whatever is contrary and cannot joyn to it in thought word nor action for this is the life of the holy Child if ever you feel it move and breath in you and that spiritual birth which as it grows in the vessel is to be heir of the heavenly treasure which though at first it be weak as a child without understanding or full strength and you not knowing what way it is ever like to come to have all the power and dominion in you by reason of the abundance of corruption that is above in you and the strong bonds of iniquity that rules in your flesh which all war against the resurrection of this Innocent life and by which the strong man keeps the house with much subtilty and spiritual wickedness against the pure and simple life yet if you do but abide in that which first gave you light to the quickening of it and be obedient thereto it will bring you a way you know not and though you may come through great travels and temptations and many fiery tryals and tribulations where you may come to be sifted and winnowed yet shall not one grain of that pure Seed perish and fail in the way for that Spirit of light and truth will lead you in his light and in his truth which hath been tryed in that way for many generations for this is he that comes in the Name of Christ Jesus the Light and Salvation of Ages who hath overcome the Devil and the world and all the power of darkness for all that are sanctified and now is come to do it in you that you may inherit your purchased possession and sit with him in heavenly places also so that your work is faith and obedience and patience towards him who is that Spirit and Light in you and to him must you give up life and all who will confound your corrupted wisdom and blind his adversary that he may give light to that Seed that 's yet under the shadow of death and build up in you the way of peace and you shall no more live by your works and gifts natural but because he liveth in you shall you live also and your life will be that which is begotten of God which never dieth and this will he do for as many as give up themselves wholly to him whose light leads out of sin this is the King of Saints and holy Life if you will receive him he hath the Power of God But you that pray and profess and seek abroad and cry for help but know not him who hath help in his hands for you in him alone to wait that in all things you might observe him you worship you know not what nor where and while in words you talk of God that liveth in works you deny him and give your strength to the dead and not to the living Should not every man know his God liveth in him and go to his own God for life according to the manifestation of the Spirit of Truth given to profit withal in every creature to Godward And this God that liveth who is just holy and true should you hear and know and learn of not of dead forms but the power of the Spirit of life whose Word giveth life to as many as have that ear open to hear the living spirit and can savour the living from the dead Now what ever you look to for life and salvation which is not in this spirit and power it 's that which kills and devours your strength to no purpose for nothing gives life but the Spirit it 's the pure Spirit that feeds the hungry soul with bread of life and to that you should give up all you have and are in hearkening and obeying spend your time and all your strength to encrease in the life that 's bread indeed but when you give your strength to customs and forms and carnal rudiments vain pleasures and delights and set your minds on these visible things then you spend your strength for that which is not bread and labour for that which profits not to life eternal nor can carnal things give you an entrance into the most Holy but in that which is pure should you wait that he may open to you the door of life I am the Door the Truth and the Life saith Christ Jesus who is not carnal who is pure clean and lowly and meek in spirit who is in you except you be reprobates and if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Minde and consider well the Spirit of Christ in you that 's he lowly in you that 's meek in you that 's just and holy in you
mind this Spirit in you and then whither will you run and forsake the Lord of Life will you leave Christ the Fountain which should spring in you and hunt for your selves should you not abide within and drink of that which springs freely and feed on that which is pure meek and lowly in spirit that so you might grow spiritual men into the same Spirit to be as he is the sheep of his pasture for as is your pasture so are you filled High carnal minds seek high things and so they grow lofty and proud and such God resists and keeps them afar off but the poor in spirit seek truth and meekness and are fed thereof at the table of the Lord meek and lowly and just and faithful are all his houshold who feed and sup with him Now mind and consider your wayes who are gone out unto the mountains to worship and feed your selves you may read of Israels sin in going out from the Temple in which the Lord had said he would dwell and be enquired of and they builded Altars without him and there called upon him but found him not for which he rejected their Worships and their Temple also And where hath Christ said he will now be worshipped is it not within for saith Christ the true worshippers worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth mind it Professors not at Jerusalem will he be enquired of but in spirit and truth and the body is the Temple as he hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will put my Law in their inward parts and all shall know me from the least to the greatest Not in Temples made with hands doth the Godhead dwell whose off-spring we are not in your high places and Steeple-house Churches but in that which springs of him Can you read this and understand it aright in that which springs of him is the Godhead and Power known but the high-minded are too far off it to feel it it 's the poor and lowly in spirit that are near it and he that 's become as a little child can only understand it who is not too great in his thoughts to hearken to that which is little and pure in him by birth and nature that springs of God and not the height of that mind which hath Notions Divine but not Nature Life and Sonship begotton and born of God A sanctified life and vessel is God's off-spring but he that saith and doth not is not born of Truth but of Fornication and Falshood so read your birth and nature and kindred with the Truth It 's not the uncircumcised in heart nor the bastard that 's God's Off-spring and Child of his Love but the pure and clean in heart mind and spirit hath his Image And if you look to be godly you must know this in you else you are without God in the world having neither seen him nor known him whom you seem to worship but are alienated from him in your minds and in your members and in your whole strength so that you have neither power nor understanding to do well being taken captive of a contrary spirit in all your abilities of spirit soul and body your wisdom perverted and understandings darkned and parted from the root whose off-spring man is And now this should be your return to sink down to that which is holy and pure in the Light and to that give up your whole man and all you are and have and no more consult with your wisdom nor follow your own understanding but let the little thing in you that 's pure and simple lead you and thereto bow and bend and confess And this will be your restoration to God to give all you have to the Holy who when he hath befooled your cursed wisdom and brought down your high conceits and bound the strong man and tyed the colt to the vine then will he arise in power who is meek and holy and rule in your strength parts and wisdom having purged the enmity out and renewed your abilities and you will have all restored again manifold all new and clear and able by the power of the Holy One who will reign and govern therein and you shall know the Lord whose off-spring you are to be both root and head and all in you and you shall say no more I am weak and can do nothing but all things through him that gives you strength for the devourer shall no more pervert it but great shall be the Holy one in the midst of you if this you can believe and receive And you shall no more as you have done sow for the devourer nor bring forth unto blasting but your fruits shall arise to God who will receive them with good will and your prayers shall not return empty when he hath bent you for himself and taken away the accursed from amongst you And then will you know the Lords Redeemed and that Seed which is elected and blessed which brings not forth as other men and you will see that all who despise the day of small things neglect their own mercy to follow the teacher of lies who turns not at his reproof who is holy and therefore worship without power Then will you know the life and power of Redemption and Sanctification and Justification and renewing of the Holy Ghost in you when your strength is redeemed to God your wisdom redeemed your hearts tongues eyes and ears and all you have redeemed into God into that which is holy to be guided and exercised in all your conversation possessing your vessels in Sanctification Here is that renewing of the holy Ghost known which sanctifies and justifies through the redemption of the bodie and mind and reconciliation which is in Christ Jesus who is not known to be Lord but by the holy Ghost that Spirit of Truth which leads into all Truth which Truth is a witness in you against you who say you are redeemed to God by Christ Jesus when another Lord rules in you and leads you captive into sin by which Christ Jesus is denied and suffers in you and by which you are separated from God and in a nature contrary to him wherefore to that must you come which changeth your nature and not your words and forms and teachers but which begets another seed and kills that which is begotten of whoredom and lust which is after the Prince of this World that God may be served in his own Spirit in his own Truth of his own nature of his own begetting Holy as he is Holy in every measure and growth thereof that so the least of his Children may be known to be of him and separate from the world in soul and in body coming out of the world bearing his image and reproach And as many as honestly desire to be heirs of this holy Power and Kingdom patiently wait till you feel that move in you which is of this pure Nature and having felt it alive in you rejoyce in it
with hope and faith and keep therein and be not discouraged because of the littleness of it in your present sight neither do you judge and measure it thereby for you know not what power it hath with God and how precious it is in his sight and what it will obtain for you at his hands in the time of need you have not yet proved nor can you while you have things greater in your thoughts than it to run to the power of Holiness and Truth in the inward parts is not known but in the depth when the fire of wrath comes upon all vain hopes and hypocritical confidence when all that is without a man is removed far away when all relations friends and acquaintance are become farther off than strangers and what-ever thing the creature seeks to for comfort turns against him and adds to his grief then is known the power of Holiness and Truth in heart with God and a clean Conscience will speak peace and none can take it away from you if you abide but in it He that hath proved it commends it to you who have been stript of all that ye might learn and know the treasure of life and holiness with God wherefore judge not that which is holier and lower then your selves but let that which is just and holy judge that which is above it in you which is not of that nature The cause why it is so little esteemed in you is because you are so great in the contrary nature and the proud despises the poor and the rich undervalues him that is better then himself And this you will find in you if you measure with that which God esteems and weighs all flesh by to wit by that which is his own and as he is in every creature so do not you judge the most Holy but believe and obey for the time for you to judge is not yet come till the most Holy and Just be King in you and you in him so keep in that which is holy and just and grow in him that he may grow in you and arise through death of his enemies to be greater then the greatest greater then the World and the Prince of it which is the Devil wherein is all unbelief false fears and doubting and exaltation against the Holy One and as these Towers fall which are lifted up against the Lord so his way will become a plain and Truth will take his place in you as King and Lord which God loves which the unbelief is out of and against and as the Pure arises you will find a change in your mind in your nature in your judgment and in your government and you will come to know that your kingdom and power with the highest stands in the anointing of the most Holy and the Kingdom of God is within you and the poor takes it So you must not fix your faith upon that which is great and strong in you because it is so nor because it is likely nor because it promiseth great things but believe in that which is most holy true and just in you that to the Anointing of the most Holy you may come in your particular and he will bring you into the Assembly of the Sanctified where the Holy One reigneth over all for it 's he that 's sent out into the world that lies in wickedness to gather them one by one into Sanctification therein to present unto God as many as receive him who is without spot or blemish And all the world take notice of this where ever it comes this is He whom the Father of Lights hath now sent into you that are in the world the Holy One of God sent to call you and give you light who saith I am the Light of the World Hear him and believe that you may become Children of Light and Truth this is the glad-tydings and Gospel of Jesus Christ who is preached to you in the world Professions and forms would limit the Holy One to themselves and exclude others but Gods gift is free in Christ Jesus and his tender is to all men who would have all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth none he excludes none but who will not receive his gift his Son the most Holy which calls you who through the preaching of the Gospel is come near you yea he is in you with his Light giving you to see the way out of darkness which no other thing could do for you and without money or price you have him If you receive him and keep his sayings and obey his movings He will dwell in you and take up his aboad and you shall know that the Father hath sent him to call you out of the world into the Light of Life if you deny Him he will deny you If you receive Him the Father will love you and power from above will be given to become the Sons of God Wherefore mind that Spirit which calls you out of sin out of the world and gives you light to see what is sin and deceit in your own hearts hearken to that which is Holy and would not have you do evil that 's of the Holy One and the most Holy in you believe in Him and follow Him believe not them who would make you believe you have him not in you who are past feeling in themselves and have already rejected him but you who feel him abide in him who is holy in you against all unholiness a witness cut not your selves off through disobedience and unbelief and he will in no wise cast you out but will encrease your light through obedience and purifie your souls and cleanse your bodies and work in you mightily in Truth to Salvation and you shall see that his working is pure and good and that which none else can do for you and this is the Lord your Righteousnesse though yet you know him not as he is And if you will receive the most Holy this is your time and the day of your visitation by him whose Light is now rejected of the builders of this world and the wisdom of the wise will not know him nor suffer him to rule above their carnal rudiments nor to be all in their hearts to guide with his Light to Salvation so to the out-casts he is preached who are afar off and have not sought him You is he seeking with his Light if you reject him not he will make you to see Light who have sat in the region of death and gross darkness hath covered you wherefore hearken to him that saith Come and feel that Spirit that draws that you may answer his love freely as it is freely tendred and know him by his holiness that it is he and let his uuchangeable witness in you in the night and in the day perswade your hearts that he is the Lord who changeth not and he that declares unto man his thoughts his name is the Lord of Hosts And you that withstand
place mind to know his spiritual Nature and Vertue and what hath power against sin in word and in deed therein is his Kingdom and there is his Glory and there he reigns So take heed how you let that Spirit which goeth out against sin in judgment and in victory in the least of his people and this know that his Kingdom is spiritual and within and holy and there are his Testimonies Laws and Judgements which he sends out by the mouths of his Servants as he sees fit and it s against the works of the evil one he testifies in judgement and vertue for that is his Nature and to that end he appears on earth to destroy the Devil and his works through the Sword of his Spirit and none will let this but Antichrist and his servants whose works are evil and so would stop the Mouth of Truth and Voice of Christ Jesus So you may come to know his voyce from his Temple when you hear Judgement from the Spirit of Truth passing against pride and lust and all the works of the flesh to destroy out of the world this is his voyce from his Temples in which his Throne is his holy Kingdom and Power and that 's the voyce of Antichrist who would let this and sayes thou must not judge when sin is judged and so with the words of Christ would save the works of the Devil from shame and destruction And now there be many Antichrists in this work to withstand the Word God in his Temples and who set the Letter against the Spirit to keep up sin and to silence the Word of the holy Ghost that comes out of his house against it and here are the Children of the holy God known and the children of this world the one seeks to cut down sin the other to save it and both professe Christ in words but the end of their work makes them manifest And you that are talking of Christs appearance where will you allow him a place to rule in if not in the heart and chief place in man therein to judge and govern and speak and give out his Laws will you allow the evil one to utter his voice openly in man in swearing lying and cursed speaking and every evil work and must Christ be silent and dumb thereat in his vessels when he sees it is not this his priviledge in his redeemed ones as the other hath his power in his captives that in them he may judge sin as openly as in the other it is acted and this is the reasonable service of his chosen vessels to give up their bodies that he may speak and act and shew forth his vertues and life and power therein against the spirit of the world in his vessels and were it not for this none of the holy men of God need to have suffered nor been hated but for the words of God spoken by them as Christ hath said It is not you that speak but the Spirit of your Father that speaks in you and this is the voice which the world knows not and so would stop it and sayes it is not the Lord not knowing that justice and judgement are the habitation of his throne in the hearts and mouths of his people What must not the Spirit of Truth in whom he lives judge deceit and falshood where it lives Must not that which is Holy judge the unclean must not the lowly one judge the proud the chaste one judge the lust must not he that is spiritual judge all things must not Saints judge the world What a nation would you have this to be who would root out judgement and yet profess Christ in you Is Christ in that people where there is no judgement against sin what none to judge pride and excess lying swearing and cursed speaking false wayes and false worships would you have all sin to pass openly without reproof Is the Land wholly become as Sodom mind what was their words to Lot in this case This one fellow came in to sojourn and he will needs be a Judge whose righteous soul was vexed daily with their unclean conversation So would you have sin to go openly in the streets without repoof and shame Where is the Holy One in whom doth he dwell who is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity Is Christ a King is he a Judge is he pure and clean in heart doth he live can he see sin and be silent where he hath a mouth to speak by did he ever take up his abode in people where none would allow him a habitation and a mouth to speak by Mind his walking aforetime in his Servants and what he did and spoke in them and against what and is he not still a God of Judgment at hand against his adversary though such as know not his Voice put him afar off So you who say you are for Christ and his Kingdom mind whose kingdom sin is in and whose work it is to defend it from judgment and take Scripture to plead for it that is he which condemns the just who would clear the guilty and that is abomination to God and withstands his appearance and you that yeeld your members thereto are not for Christ but against him in his members who have yeelded themselves Servants of Truth and such as you were they who slew the Just One his Prophets and Apostles in whom the Word of God spoke against sin and had the Scriptures and served sin Wherefore if you love the appearance of Christ Jesus you must not love sin but in that principle which would not sin feel him that suffers because of sin and yet is without sin and against sin and if to him you come whose appearance is in that which is holy just and true and therein joyn to him you will love that which condemns sin by which he is grieved oppressed and then are you for Christ when you can feel and suffer with him by that which he suffers and you will then see that nought is it that is offended at sin being judged but he that is guilty thereof Grace received and Grace rejected THE Grace of God is that which brings Salvation to man all men being in natural darkness as they are in the world without God so the Grace of God is tendred to all without respect of persons And that 's it in every man which gives him a sight of Truth in himself which Truth God by his Grace accepts in every man who would have all men to come to the knowledge thereof that they might be saved Now this Grace in it self is one in every man and is of God in every man and doth not spare the evil nor deny the good in any out of respect either to person wisdom strength or riches which is of this world but hath respect to the Truth of Spirit in all and their obedience thereto therein to teach and lead to Salvation and the true Worship of God in Spirit which leads to Life
eternal and to the strengthening the holy Seed in man quickening the Soul which by sin hath suffered and this it doth by condemning sin in every motion that it may never arise against the holy Seed and also by ministring comforts and promises and power in spirit to the soul in the way of its arising above the power of the son of wickedness still ministring light and understanding in the hidden part to the holy Seed that hates sin opening that eye daily through the obedience of Truth which the god of this world hath blinded and purifying the Soul by putting off the body of corruption and blinding him that saith he sees but knows not the way out of sin ministring the Law upon him And this is the ministration of free Grace to every Soul that receives it and this it worketh powerfully in all that abide in it through the Spirit of Christ Jesus and this Grace as saith the Scripture hath appeared to all men yea and doth daily appear in all who truly wait in Spirit for its appearance and gives to all such a sight of Truth in themselves testifying with or against every motion in their hearts according as it stands in the sight of God whether it be good or evil whereby the Conscience doth accuse or excuse even as God shall judge them by Christ Jesus So that there is no cause in this Grace why any are not saved thereby from sin and condemnation but being rejected of some it becomes their condemnation and the same thing which saves him that receives it in faith and obedience condemns him that rejects it in his disobedience And this is the Grace of God that changeth not which appears to all men but only reigns to Salvation through righteousness wherein it is believed to be sufficient and obeyed in the Truth therewith made manifest So that is the Grace of God which is of God in man ministring in Spirit light to the Soul in the midst of darkness ministring life to that which is dead in sin leading that through the vail of death up to God from whom the Grace hath appeared and of whom it is and the Light thereof is Judgement and discerning in every one that receives it to be led with it in Judgment and Condemnation to such as turn it into lasciviousness denying the life thereof and the truth that leads thereto and so cannot be saved through it but he that receives it and joyns to it in Spirit becomes one with it and by his daily sinking into it in counsel it grows in him and he in it until it becomes a habitation and cover for him against all evil and so he becomes gracious in words and works daily receiving Grace for Grace of his fulness And he that hath received of this Grace and is faithful therein must not minister of it to strengthen the transgressor who loves his sin and so is under the Law for that is to cast the pearls to swine but to such as are heavy laden and weary of sin to encourage against sin and temptations which all that turn from the Devil must be sure to meet with and Judgement it ministers to the wicked that therewith he may know his condemnation with the light of Truth in whom Grace is denied to reign it is their condemnation that he is come into the world who is full of Grace and Truth but the Kingdom of Grace is Salvation in whom it reigns through righteousness unto eternal Life by Jesus Christ the Lord. So he that receives the teaching of Grace comes therein to the leading of the Spirit and so becomes free from sin is no more under the Law but under Grace but the Law hath power over him that walks after the flesh and every appearance of Grace is witness against him by declaring him to be under the law of sin and death and not in Covenant with him that appears against sin in the power of Grace and Truth which is Christ Jesus the Lord. THE END