Iames James 1.5 6. how then are they who pray most the greatest fools both Papists and Protestants then is not the wisest man as a wave of the Sea when the Sea is over the whole earth Isa 4.11 and the best are in the waters Truly we are all sick let us send then to the Elders of the Church and see if they have the prayer of faith to heal us or heal themselves from the stroke of their wound Isa 30.26 Jer. 30.17 Who among all the gathered Churches can hold forth a Gospel-faith to the scattered Saints who of all their Gospel-Ministers can go forth freely to the world Col. 24.15 1 Pet. 1.12 where is the Power from on high or holy Spirit sent downe from heaven for that work Yea where 's the Spirit of Faith in any of their Believers Gospel-believers were all of one heart and one soul because but one body Act. 2.44 Act. 4.32 c. ours are all divided believers then had all things common c. our Churches and Christians are all for self-interests and to seek their own This is not love as I shall shew anon nor faith indeed which works by love All have not faith saith the Apostle in those Gospel-times no man has a Gospel-faith in these times of the Apostacy and being of the Saints in Babylons captivity Yet this is the confusion that hath ever followed the Churches to this day to take up the Apostles words and writings and to apply that to our selves which was possible to those times and proper only to primitive Saints and Churches where that power was which is now wanting to all the world Thus the Baptists now take up the Apostles call and commission which was never given them by Christ much less by the Spirit afterward Again like the Angel of darkness or Devil cutting off part of Gods word they still tell their Proselytes Mat. 3.6 Mat. 28.19 Go teach and Baptize c. whereas 't is written Go Teach all Nations and Baptize c. Thirdly 't was not directed to the Disciples but to the Apostles upon this ground and the Eleven are mentioned by Matthew and Mark Mat. 28.16 Mark 16.14 for every Disciple had not that power from on high to Teach all Nations Fourthly Who can shew unto us that he is sent of God to Baptize seeing none baptized but either the Apostles or such who had a manifestation of the Spirit to confirm their call Act. 8.6 Act. 9.17 as Philip and Ananias Lastly 'T were well if they would not onely chuse their members by a confession of faith but catechise them and themselves first in the doctrine of Faith For the mystery of Faith was more then men imagine and it may be more then Paul wrote to the Romans and Churches of Galatia Rom 4.2 for both it seems had gone so far back to the Law to begin in the Spirit and end in the flesh that the Apostle goes no farther then a Legal Faith Gal. 3.3 for Faith as justifying was no more and Faith on the promise was no higher then their Faith under the Law as is proved in the dispute hereafter Gospel-Faith was wholly exercised in our union with God in Christ and Christ in us which Paul rather points at in himself then teacheth the Church unless what he hints to some spiritual Saints therein Gal. 2.20 who had the anointing in them teaching them all things that they needed not any man should teach them 1 John 2.27 Therefore as Christ never heard any man preach so neither did the Apostles hear one anothers preachings or sit at a Sermon as our Gospel-preachers do This I onely speak by the way at present and another thing that the Apostles never preach'd a common place of the nature of Faith or repentance to bring people to repeat and believe but so preached Christ to all that they might believe and repent Gospel-Faith properly was this in knowing our followship with the Father and the Son in the Spirit to know our union with God in Christ and Christ so in us that we are in one with the Father as He in the same love and life in God with him John 14.19 Iohn 17.1 20 21 22 23. now the mystery of God even the Father and of Christ was not manifest to any under the Law nor to Abraham himself who though he saw the day of Christ yet 't was a far off Joh. 8.56 Heb. 11.13 for so the Fathers saluted the promises whose Faith was on the promise or power of God in performing the same and so it s justified Rom. 4.14 to 21. but the justifying faith of Christians was on Christ dying and raised up verse 24.25 though Abraham in a typical mystery believed on Christ dead and raised in his son sacrificed and slain in purpose verse 17. and raised in a figure Heb. 11.19 But as Christ was a mystery so his death and resurrection was a mystery also that none but the Apostles could manifest it by the Spirit which being not given to any one living the Faith which comes by hearing is no higher then theirs under the Law to justify and to save yea we know by experience the best Preachers when they would raise men to believe pitch them on the promise not on that power from on high or promise of the Father which they that believed on Christ did receive and by which the first Preachers of the Gospel brought men to believe But take faith in the lowest acceptance for justifying Faith was but of a legal temper which the Church of Rome beginning to fall from the Apostle is faine to set before them the faith of Abraham and David c to whom the mystery of Christ and of the Gospel being not yet manifested by the Spirit Rom. 3.13 Rom. 4.3 6. as to the Apostles and primitive Saints that Faith of theirs was but suitable to a legal estate I say take Faith in the lowest acceptance as justifying before God and men as working by love where is it when there is no love among you neither to other Churches or Saints differing from you nor to your own Churces who differ in doctrine as I said before much less love to all Saints The Sword doubled Col. 1.4 Tit. 9.3 2.4 to those scattered ones who cannot come to any of your Church-wayes as for love to all men 't is a thing you look not after though this be a higher degree of love then brotherly kindness or love to the brethren 1 Thes 3.12 2 Pet. 1.7 compared But alas the brotherhood is broken Zach. 11.6 9 14. vers there is not love to the brethren among you not onely love unfeigned but love out of a pure heart fervently is not to be found for the love of the best is but cold God knows not that fervent unfeigned that is without Hypocrisie 1 Pet. 1. 22. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oh how far are believers from that love the Apostle
To the Churches OR A Packet of Letters to the Pastours of WALES For Mr. William Erbery THe Milk and Honey ever remembred freind which formerly I sucked in your Ministration makes me apt to conclude that your pit is not dryed up nor your root withered but that the intern Spirit of the inward heaven doth raign in you in the night It 's many years since I looked on you as an Image I never heard nor had a line from you as some hereabout had It may be you thought me less teachable and more uncapable of understanding then some others indeed I am so I knew not where to direct a line to finde you by reason of your private life which to some is safe and serene and to others tempestuous and dangerous The Hermite is not very usefull to man or beast nor the Christ to him because Talents will rust and rot the living creature unless they be thrown out of your private chest and ship The Prophets Apostles c. spake to God the Eternity listened to him and spake from him they writ they preached they charged their Ambassage as the heavenly true Spirit spake to them and that creature was ever the basest that did trade least between the mother the heavenly nature and angelical world and the sinfull children of men now out of Paradise wandring in the heart of this shadowy world The more you be in the heavenly action which is publique also to millions every day in the year the more like the God of all beings and inhabitant of eternity I do both long and profess to become a little child againe willing to learne my A.B.C. anew if my once-dear School-master Erbery can teach it me for I must not take printed Pictures instead of reall Letters I am dayly longing to withdraw into the inner world the more spiritual Chamber to converse with the inhabitants that know how God is the Father of spirits lights loves and mercies in his begotten Word and generated Spirit I desire you according to your attainment to help me I mean to scribble a few lines to me in answering these things How is God above all through all and in all his people How all things are of him through and to him How do we live move and have our being in him what is that heresie of perdition the holy One in Peter mentions and chiefly what where when and how God is I am not ashamed to enquire or wait of a meer post neer the gate of the wisdome of God about these matters neither do I disown you as some strange notionist or sceptick gnostick in what you in the light of the Father can or will hold forth for satisfaction by the Spirit for since I knew you or tasted the wine in you I ever lodged respectful thoughts of you I fear neither truth nor its enemies I would try all things all spirits bodies and beings in the light liberty rest and power of the Spirit of Jesus and because a son of man is but a vanity a very glance a branch a shadow and off-spring of the eternal root therefore one branch may cosap with the other and the little little twig neer the root doth communicate in juce with the highest-flown branch of the same tree I doubt not but the whispering of the melodious love from any though from poor me might refresh you under the sun in this vain vaporary life This is but a word in haste and heart to invite if it seem good a line from you and then the few lines that concern you in my inward book I may better transcribe My true love with my wifes to your self and your rib begging we may rightly take in and not mistake the first and second man and the third form that is at hand I onely beg of you a sound about your grounds in Scripture-nature and in the internal eternal Spirit concerning Men Saints Officers Ordinances Churches and Societies of men No more then but that I am Wrexham 1652. 29 of 4 Month. Your fellow-branch at the feet of the God of all flesh and Father of all Spirits Mor. Lloyd I have a word with you when first you be pleased to let me hear from you For Mr. Morgan Floyd Sir YOurs of the twenty ninth of the fourth month I received at Roth near Cardiff this 12 of August and I return an Answer in silence seeing we are both in the Eternal Spirit with the spirits of just men made perfect where there is no need of speech to communicate our thoughts or attainments each to other being taken up into him who is our All and all in All. There the Mystery of the Resurrection begins and the Apostle goes on in that heighth from 1 Cor. 15.28 to the end that this is the Resurrection not that last and general of the world but the first Resurrection the rising of the Saints or of the dead in Christ who shall rise first I say that this is the Resurrection onely of the just and not of the unjust nor of all any man even without the Spirit of Revelation may judge by reason and reading of that Chapter where the rising of the spiritual body tâ— incorruption immortality power and glory is the glorious appearing of the second Man the quickning Spirit the Lord from Heaven in us to the heavenly Image which is the third estate of the Saints now approaching and the latter part of your Letter points at This I call the third dispensation or last discovery of God unto and in men differing from Law and Gospel-order yet comprehending both and above both yea above all for here all men and things are nothing but God is all and alone yea God is All in all This third dispensation as all the Prophets and Apostles did write and wait for so in this I wait in silence with God though I speak sometimes to men for a full discovery of him in me and to all the Saints with me for when the Lord my God shall come or appear all the Saints shall come with thee Zach. 14.5 The Earth-quake there spoken of is at hand 't is the same mentioned in Babylons final fall Rev. 16.18 19. for a threefold fall of Babylon is written Rev. 14.8 Rev. 18.2 and v. 21. and that the third or last fall of Babylon will be in the fall of this form of Church-fellowship so called you may see in your spirit and in some printed scriblings of mine therefore for Order Ordinances Officers Churches Societies of men all are in Babylon in confusion of Tongues that 's out of order c. though many of the Saints conceive they are come to Sion already Babylon is a Mystery as you shall see with God very shortly Babylon or the Beast is the mystery of man Rev. 13.18 Rev. 1 8 c. that 's the woman also or the Whore the man of sin and Christ is the mystery of God God manifest in the flesh in his flesh and in ours for we
breaking of bread was the communion of his Body so the Church then must needs be but the dead body of the Lord but now in Babylon we are not onely the dead body but dry bones And as death appeared in their worships so in their walking in the world they were dead to it and the world dead crucfied to them Gal. 2.20 2 Cor. 4.10 for they always bare in their body the dying of the Lord Iesus which made them wait for the resurrection of the dead that the life of Iesus might be manifest in their mortal flesh in which when the life of Jesus appears then the body is said to be raised this is the resurrection of the dead Paul had not attained to the redemption of the Body which Paul waited for Rom. 8.23 Phil. 3.11 And not onely for himself but he waited when all the Saints should rise with him in the Body for then the Body of the Lord the dead Body of Christ is raised out of Babylon Now Brethren we all in these dayes are not onely his dead Body as the legal and Gospel-Churches were but we are the dead Body in Babylon yea we are dry bones very dry not onely dead but long dead for many hundred of years the Churches have been so ever since the Apostacie which Apostacie is now manifestly revealed in the Churches I say we are dry bones not onely the dead body as Gospel-Churches were who had the flesh of Christ on them and the Spirit of Christ in them I mean the manifestation of the Spirit in manifold Gifts for that was the Spirit which Jesus gave when he was glorified which we have not and therefore are dry Bones Againe we have no flesh not the flesh of Christ on us I mean his crucified flesh for that the Gospel-Churches had and glorifyed in it but the Cross is a thing now we cannot abide to bear as if we had tasted the delicacies of the Whore Rom. 5.3 Gal. 6.14 we with our Churches must bear rule in Commonwealths and Kingdomes yea though Christs Kingdome was not of this world John 18.3 6. yet the best of us fancy a reigne of Christ on earth for a thousand years and the Saints to reigne with him in an earthly manner and outward observation with rest and peace and power Luk. 17.20 21. and plenty this was not the flesh of Christ Thirdly I shewed we have not the flesh of Christ in us not the Faith of the Son of God nor that love in the Spirit nor so much as Scripture for any of our Gospel-Ordinances as I have and shall prove with God another time Fourthly we are dry Bones very dry indeed if our Faith be dead and no Gospel-Faith nor yet any knowledge so much as of the Ordinances we live in for which of the Churches conceive all this while that Baptism and Breaking of bread did hold forth nothing else even to Gospel-Saints but the dead body of the Lord which they also were indeed But we as I said are dry bones further from life then they because we think we are alive when we are not onely dead but dry bones yea very dry indeed that we know not our life at all 1 Pet. 1.3 Ezek. 37.11 compare Ezek. 37.3 Yea we are so dead and dry we have neither Faith nor Love nor yet any lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead the fruit of whose resurrection we look not for till many hundred years hence at the last day when we are dead and gone and turned to dust or dry bones Esa 26.29 whereas we consider not we are dry bones already and dwell in the dust this day I do not condemn you brethren for this that your hope is not lively that you look not for your resurrection from Babylon for you are but dry bones the whole house of Israel was so and they say our bones are dryed our hope is lost and we are cut off for our parts Ezek. 37.11 that is it may be other generations may see the glory talked to be in the last times but we are cut off for our parts our children may possess it but for our parts we have no hopes to enjoy it or in this life to be raised out of our graves But Oh my people saith God I will open your graves and cause you to come out of your graves and bring you to the land of Israel v. 12. Pray brethren consider God will not onely open your graves that you may know you are dead and dry bones but he will cause you whether you will or no to come out of your graves of forms and flesh and bring you to the land of Israel to live in the Spirit to see your life in the Lord alone that your life may be no more hid with Christ in God but that Christ who is your life shall appear in you and your life may appear to be in God The greatest work that God hath to do with you this day is to make you see you are dead that 's the end why he does dash and divide you disquiet and destroy all your comforts for I know you are shaking already and 't is a mercy to you that God will disquiet the Inhabitants of Babylon Jer. 50.34 that you shall have no rest till you return to his land even to the Lord that lives within you and loves you as his own Son though the Body be dead for then when dead the beloved of your Father was in perfect union with him as well as when he was living in the flesh and doing wonders in the Spirit Oh brethren see your selves at last the dead body of the Lord for then you shall arise and live Thy dead men shall live together with my dead body they shall arise awake and sing ye that dwell in the dust that 's dry bones Isai 26.19 This cannot be meant of the last resurrection when all shall rise for here some shall not rise v. 14. but you brethren shall rise when as soon as you are become the dead body of the Lord for so the words are read Thy dead men shall live my dead body they shall arise that is when we see our selves the dead body of the Lord we rise and live immediately in the midst of death and sing in the dust yea though dry bones and in the lowest estate of flesh we can comfortably wait for the Spirit and for the comming of the Lord in us that by the same Spirit which raised his dead body we the dead body of the Lord may be raised up together with him Truly brethren the living God knows that all I have written or shall is not intended by me to trouble your walkings but to give our rest in the Lord alone at last not meerly to throw down your Churches or for your fall but to raise you up that we all may live together with Christ in God Farewell Yours William Erbery FINIS A Call
and many with me that as the eares of the deaf shall hear the words of the book so the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness Isa 29.18 19. This Scripture I spake of at Brecknock the last first day The Book I shewed was God dwelling in men Immanuel God with us that 's Christ God in us God manifest in our flesh as in his is Christ in us the hope of glory for all the Saints shall be taken up into the same glory with himself and the Nations by this called and joyned to the Lord. This Book is sealed to the learned and unlearned Preachers Isa 29.11 yea to the Prophets and Seers and most seeing men yea sealed with seven seals that 's perfectly sealed and from all Churches for it relates to the seven Churches enclining to the Apostacie which followed Secondly 'T is but a sma book a very little one for Iohn could swallow it at a bit Rev. 10. and 't was bitter in his Belly 't is so to flesh for it suffers by it as Christs did but the little Book is no more then God manifest in flesh in his flesh and in ours Thirdly It shall be open and that surely for the ministery of God shall be finished fully known and the Angel sweares by God that time shall be no more for all shall be taken up into eternity into God himself and God shall be all in all I shall repeat no more onely the remembrance of the Lord and his love to me in your dear deceased Wife who lives with me and in me for there 's the Lord in whom she is and in whom we both are though we know not but we shall when the book shall be opened My dearest salutes to all the Saints with you Farewell Brecknock the 23 of Aug. 1652. Your William Erbery For Mr. Vavasor Powel Dear Sir I Am owing to you in much love and in a Letter you long since sent unto me but now I shall repay you an answer which I had not so fit an opportunity to returne till by the present bearer I do not remember the contents of that onely I conceive 't was something concerning Christ and 't is that alone I shall in this confer with you for your Church-fellowship is at an end with God though some men may see somewhat in it yet 't is but a dead carcase they look upon the form of a man but the Spirit life and power form on high appears not at all to me nor to many in it as I have hinted in a Letter to Mr. Moston This is not to direct you in preaching but to desire your second thoughts in the things you spake of the personal reigne of Christ which with confidence you declare to be in that fleshly presence of his with which he ascended and shall so descend to reign a thousand years on earth and the Saints with him This hath some shew in the Letter of Scripture but if the Spirit hid in your flesh and mine shall be suffered to come forth and truely to interpret without the Tradition and Teaching of men God may shew you another sense then what is commonly revealed by Christians and Churches The first ground whereon your foundation or fundamental doctrine stands is Act. 1.11 Ye men of Galilee why stand ye gazing up into Heaven this same Iesus which is taken up from you into Heaven shall come so in like manner as yee have seen him go into Heaven To this know that the Disciples of Christ were too much taken with his fleshly presence while he was living with them in the dayes of his flesh John 16.7 Joh. 20.13 20. and his departure from them or dying of flesh filled their hearts with sorrow as after he was raised those who were weeping at his grave John 20.17 rejoyced to see him in the flesh again and so to touch him but that must not be saith he till I am ascended and this touch could not be but by the Spirit that in them was to take and touch the Spirit in him And what was he even Jesus but God manifest in flesh for 't was God who rose and ascended up on high Joh. 5.19 30. Joh. 8.27 28. Joh. 14.9 10. compare Psal 68.1 18. that 's God in flesh and what was his coming but when that Spirit and power of God in his flesh should appear in theirs the same Jesus came again for as the shedding forth of all the Gifts of the Spirit on the Disciples was the same so Christ tells Paul persecuting the Saints or the Spirit rather in them I am Jesus whom thou persecutest Act. 9.5 Jesus was therefore come again for his coming that he promised 't was nothing but the promise of the Father which they heard of him and in him for as the Father was all in all in his flesh who dwelt and did all his works spake his words so when God even the Father should appear thus with power in their flesh as in his then he came indeed Iohn 14. 18 19 20. He that believeth on me saith he the works that I do shall he do also and greater works then these shall he do because I go to the Father His going to the Father was his disappearance in flesh for when he no longer appeared to them in flesh then he was said to depart therefore his coming again was in the Spirit when he who was with them should be in them then Christ was the Spirit the quickning Spirit because I live ye shall live also Iohn 14.17 19. thus Christ was the Comforter verse 16. called another Comforter because he came in another presence then that of flesh he came and yet was he the same Comforter for I will not leave you comfortless I will come to you verse 18. yet a little while and the world seeth me no more but ye see me c. the world that 's carnal Christians could see no more of Christ when his fleshly presence was gone but ye see me ye who are spiritual or when spiritual ye see me how sure in the Spirit in the Spirit of life v. 19. and in the Spirit of light or knowledge v. 20. At that day ye shall know that I am in the Father and you in me and I in you No more Christ in the flesh but in the Father and Christ no more to be known after the flesh but he in us and we in him This spiritual understanding of Christ the disciples while carnal yea while Christ was in the flesh were ignorant of therefore he calls them in a common name Ye men of Galilee Acts 1.11 and their gaping up to heaven after his fleshly presence is reproved there also The spiritual knowledge of him is then taught This same Iesus which is taken from you in the flesh shall so come unto you in the spirit and ye shall see him as was said before Joh. 14.19 that is after a little while they should see him Joh.
16.17 This little while cannot be at the end of the world after so many hundreds of yeers to be seen in a fleshly appearence but not many days hence that 's a little while Acts 1.5 Yea but how was this in the like manner for they saw him go up in the flesh true but they saw not the fulness of the Spirit dwelling in that flesh after 't was raised but when he should ascend and give gifts unto men then God who received gifts in the man as the Hebrew reads Psal 68.18 appearing in the Saints and in their flesh with that Spirit and power that was in Christ is said to come and thus in the same sense or in the like manner Jesus came as they saw him go up to heaven Indeed he was taken up in the Cloud but the Cloud was to take him out of their sight Act. 1.9 to take his fleshly presence out of their sight this they would fain see still but should not verse 10. and he will come again in a Cloud that is in our flesh when most confused and darke for so the Disciples were before the Spirit came at first The comfort is at his second coming when in our flesh we are most cloudy dark confused Christ will come or appear in us with more majesty power and glory in the glory of the Father in us Yea the Apostles themselves dream'd of a personal raigne of Christ or restoring the Kingdome to Israel Act. 1.6 But 't is not for you to know the times and seasons which the Father hath put in his owne power but ye shall receive power after that the holy Spirit is come upon you verse 7. Mark I pray you how the times and seasons of the Kingdom of Christ and of Israel with him was in the Fathers power this they were not to know nor could they while carnal but when the power of the holy Spirit came upon them they should then know the Kingdome restored to Israel when they had received power from on high for the Kingdome of God is within us This my dear Brother shall be made know to you and me that the Kingdome of God comes not by outward observation but seeing the Spirit shall againe be poured forth from on high Isa 32.15 let us wait for this together though our Palaces be forsaken verse 14. though our Church-fellowships and flesh fall for so 't will be before the Spirit come verse 9. to 13. for Christs pure flesh was crucified through weakness before he was raised in power or received the Spirits fulness Then shall we know the reign of Christ and of the Saints with him for a thousand years Rev. 20.4 6. but as yet what fleshly thoughts and interpretations have passed over these words by the Millenaries of old and by many gratious Saints of late what is all the book of the Revelation a Mystery and must these one thousand years onely be literally understood just for ten hundred of years and will not the Saints be more spiritual but still to think of a fleshly reigne a reigne of Christ after the flesh and of Saints after the flesh whereas no man nor Christ is to be known so any more And may not the one thousand years be but one day and that one day the day of God when God shall appear for that day is called one day Zach. 14.7 known to the Lord to the Lord alone in us Dear Sir I shall leave but two things and it may be a third to your serious considerations First you know the appearances of God from the beginning have been more and more spiritual and will be so to the end how fleshly and outward did he appear before and under the Law in visible forms In the Gospel the presence of the Lord and his power was more spiritual in inward and eternal things that is in things not seen 2 Cor. 4.18 Therefore the third dispensation which Mr. Mostons Letter tells you will be more spiritual yet Heb. 5.7 who in the days of his flesh c. that was when be was on earth therefore his being now in the Heaven is all in the Spirit for he is far above all heavens Eph. 4.10 for though Christ was in the days of his flesh yet he was not fully come till the Spirit was sent therefore this second coming will be more in the Spirit yet for the Apostles themselves had but the first fruits of the Spirit there will be a harvest a fuller measure of the Spirit then was in the Apostles times as the Prophets testifie Zach. 14.8.9.10 Secondly doth not the reigne of Christ which you hold forth in a fleshly presence hinder the Saints from looking for the Spirit that fulness of the Spirit promised by all the Prophets to be poured forth in the last dayes when he comes the second time without sin to salvation with fulness of the Spirit in us Lastly doth not that preaching of yours cause many Saints to be more carnal earthly looking for a Kingdome here below for they begin to reigne already as Kings but not with Christ nor in righteousness which is that alone and not in forms of Religion that shall dwell in the new Heaven and new Earth now waited for My dearest salutes and service present to all the Saints with you If I have not tyred your Spirit with these tedious lines and if you shall please to interpret my love and enlarged affections therein with acceptance thereof you will much more oblige Brecknock the 23 of Aug. 26. 1652. Your William Erbery For Mr. Walter Cradock Loving friend WHat was at first intended to all the Pastors in Wales that is now presented to you last who are first but as the first shall be last so He who is the last and the first is now beginning to appear not onely in the scattered Saints and against the gathered Churches but to gather up all into himself This is the hope and joy of Your William Erbery Dear Brethren IErusalem is ruined and Judah is fallen c. not onely Judah the National-Church but the gathered Churches of Saints that 's Jerusalem yet the old Jerusalem was the holy City a City in unity or compact together not onely in Spirit as Saints but in Forms as Churches but the Churches of Saints being this day divided in both and de filed also in their worships and walkings shew that they are fallen from their first love and from that Gospel-faith which wrought by love unfained to all Saints and to all men besides that pure conscience peaceable converse with holiness and heavenly mindedness self-denial and zeal once appearing among the Saints in Wales being so far from their present profession I could not but write and print because not admitted or not invited to confer in your Congregations What I have said and done in publique I am not sorry for though sorrow and sufferings are in my flesh being forced in Spirit to make my self bare first and then my brethrens nakedness