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spirit_n	father_n	scripture_n	son_n	10,113	5	5.8747	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66862	This is written in plainnesse of heart, and bowels of everlasting love to my persecutors who have shot sore at me, and hated me without a cause. Both magistrates, priests and people in Stafford sheir, of elsewhere, that ye all may be turned from the darknesse to the light, and from anti-christ without, unto Chrust within, who is the light of the world, and hath lighted wvery man therein with his saving light. Some queres also, for such who call themselves ministers of Christ, but are altogether unlike him, or his ministers to answer. Together with a warning from the Lord God of life and power to repent, andleave persecuting, and striving against, or kicking against the Lord. Written from one who have been in the pit, death, grave, and Hell; but am come from far, and am sit down with Abraham, Isaack, and Jacob, in the heavenly places with them that are in Christ, but unknown to you, I am: but by the name I have received amongst you, Humphry Wollrich.	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3299; ESTC R219472	14,792	23

onely one to speak at a set-time and count it disorder for any for any to speak besides him which stands in the high place or whether if any thing were revealed to another that stood by the first ought not to hold his peace whether this was ever counted confusion and disorder by such who were the true Church and had the Spirit of God or by the false Church onely who were gone from the Spirit of the Lord and to whom Revealations is ceased VII Whether all who walk not contrary to the Scripture as ye doe in these things and abide not in the Doctrine of Christ have either the Father or the Son and whether such can Minister Christ who have him not revealed in themselves VIII Whether your Praying Singing and Preaching and all your Ordinances and Sacrifices be not sinne and all your Incense as if you blest an Idol or slew a man and offered swines flesh which is abomination to the Lord and whether swines flesh and harlots flesh be not the fame as ever it was Come all you people of what sort or opinion soever you be Come all you Independants Baptists and Separatists of what Body or Church soever who are not acted guided and led by the Pure Eternall Unchangeable light of Christ in your Consciences the Church of the First-born which is in God you know not nor the generall Assembly whose Names are written in Heaven ye are not yet come too but ye are all of the Synagogue of Satan and the God of the world hath blinded the eye which is the Light which should lead you to descern the Body which is the Church and my bowels are yerning and my love is issuing out towards you all and by the power of the Lord and in the Maiesty of the Lord I am constrained to deal plainly with you all and to wound you all and to heal the hurt of none slightly as your false Teachers have long done who have daubed with untempered morter and spoken peace to the wicked who have not wounded the head of the wicked nor the hairy scalpe of such as hath been found in rebellion against the Lord and have laid a foundation but have not taken away the rubbish in which the book of the Law hath been hid and is hid in you whom the God of the world hath blinded the eye which should see him who is invisible and the true foundation and everlasting arme which is underneath upon which all the generation of the Righteous did build but you are building the New house on your Old foundation and you are garnishing the Sepulchre of the dead and you are clothing your selves with the white raiment and setting a goodly Miter upon your heads but the filthy ragges and rotten ragges and filthy garment is yet over Joshua the High Priest and he is slain and the world and the foundations thereof and the Pillars thereof are set upon him and the great Mystery hid from you all which is Christ within the hope of Glory And you are all in the Darknesse and out of the Light which makes manifest Darknesse and the Light shines in the darknesse And you who are in the darknesse by the children of Light are comprehended and by him which is Judged of no man nor careth not for mans Judgement are you all Judged and Condemned but the Light your selves cannot comprehend who are in the darknesse Therefore all come down into the deep that you may see the wonderous workes of the Lord in the great waters and that ye may be drawn out of the waters upon which the Whore sitteth which waters have gone over and are over your heads read within Christ the Head of every man stand still awhile that you may see the Salvation of the Lord and his his power rise in you and his arme bring forth Salvation for you and the Sea shall be dried up and the tongue of the Egyptian shall be smitten in the seven streams and the foundations of the World shall be discovered and the Channells of the Sea shall be seene and he shall be known and what manner of man he is that rebukes the Windes and the Sea obey him and the swadling Band you shall know which binds and shuts up the Sea as with doores and saith to the proud and raging Waves thereof hitherto shalt thou goe and no further This is our God whom we have been looking for this is the Living which we have been seeking amongst the dead he it is which was in this place and we knew it not we will be gald and reioyce in his day This is day of the Lords might power this is the Day of the Lambs Marriage and the Supper of the great King and the day of the Lords Controversie with all his Enemies which are gathered together with Gog and Magog as the sands of the Sea and are persecuting imprisoning the Saints and compassing about the beloved City and the fire of the Lord is coming out of Heaven to destroy you all And the Lyon is come out of the Thicket and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way and the sword of the Lord is drawne and Made reddy for the slaughter and the slain of the Lord shall be many and made drunk with the blood of Bulls Rams and Goats Oh that you would be wise Oh that you would understand this that you would consider your latter end but you are a people voide of Councell neither is there any understanding in you for ye have reiected the pure eternall and immortall Word of the Lord and behinde your backs ye have cast it and you have lightly esteemed and counted the Light which is the rock of Ages as a low thing and ye have stumbled at the stumbling stone and the rock that begets hath been lightly esteemed by you who are wise in your own eyes and prudent in your own conceits and ye have reiected the Law of the Lord and the word of love and what wisdome is there in you and the light by you wherewith Christ hath enlightned every man to you who are high in professions and above the door it is become foolishnesse though it be the tryed Stone the Corner Stone and the Foundation Stone and to us that have tryed him and beleeve in him he is precious but to you who are wise as I said before this is too low a thing for you to tell you of that which smiteth you in your Consciences and checketh you reproveth you in secret this say you who are in your sinnes and pleading for sinne and saying none can be without sinne while they live this say you we knew long since To thee I say whoever thou art thou knewest thy Condemnation then for had not he come a light into the World thou hadst had no sinne wherefore now thou hast no cloak for thy sinne But I say hadst thou come down when thou first knew this thing and turned at the reproof of the Lord when he first

grieved and made sad among you And what will ye do in the day of the Lords Controversie which is near at hand and coming upon you all as a sweeping raine that leaveth no food and as a mighty tempest against the World is the Lord God rising and ye shall feel his Spirit which ye have grieved long shall not alwayes strive with you And though the Lord hath long waited to be mercifull and gracious unto you I say though he hath been long still and refrained himselfe and ye have thought he had been altogether such an one as your selves and because sentence hath not been speedily executed upon you and because he hath restrained his Anger and hath not stirred up all his Wrath against you who are an Hypocritcall Nation and Children in whom there is no truth which have dealt deceitfully and treacherously with the Lord for all his loving kindnesse as treacherous Judah did Yet the Lord will reprove you for all your iniquities and set them in order before you even he that hath long time been still and refrained himself will now arise like a Travelling Woman he will destroy and devour at once and I am trouble for you all my Country-men for there 's cause of a Lamentation when I weigh and consider your sad and wofull estate my heart is trouble for you all how you have covered your selves with the Saints words Prophets words Christs and the Apostles words but are out of that life purity and holinesse which they lived in which becomes the house of God for evermore And how ye are clothed and how your Teachers are clothed and are like the sheep and onely like them but are inwardly ravened from the light and Spirit of the Lord and substance which they were in which was Christ in them the hope of Glory and I am trouble for you all and my heart is grieved for the place of my Nativity and I can but seek the welfare of all the Israel of God that are among you For which I am but looked upon as to be your enemy and a disquieter and trouble of your Israel And how many false Teachers and bastards and false Professors and false Christians that have Christ only in words as the Jewes had which slew him and said had they lived in the dayes of their Fathers they would not have slaine the Prophets How many of these have risen up against me in this Nation and in my own Country like Sanba●let and Tobiah have risen up against me with prisons and stones and the Jewes weapons which Crucified Christ to villifie me as they did Nehemiah that they might cause the work of the Lord to cease And how do they rage and do plainly declare by their persecution and are grieved at their very hearts that there is one left to seek the welfare of his Country-men And I lay it upon you all and in the power of the Lord God I charge you all consider and lay it to heart before it be too late and hid from your eyes what kind of Ministers you have and whether they are Ministers of the Letter which kils or of the Spirit that gives life 2 Cor. 3.6 Whether Ministers of Christ whose Weapons were never carnall as clubs or prisons or Ministers of Antichrist whose weapons were not spiritual but carnal as the Popes and Presbyterians and their Ministers weapons are which are imprisoning and in all Ages did imprison and slay the Saints and such as could not ioyn with the Idolaters nor worship in their Masse-houses nor Idol Temples but kept the testimony of Jesus and the Word of God And all ye Magistrates in the Nation I charge you all in the Power of the Lord consider what you do and how you do persecute or lay the sword upon them as evill doers who are moved of the Lord to come to bear a testimony against all your Idol Temples Teachers and their Worship or to speak a few words unto you in the name and Power of the Lord to turn you from darkness unto light from the power of Satan unto God And if you do but read the Scripture which ye say is your Rule you shall find that this was the practice of Christ to go into their Synagouges and Temple and to preach in the Villages Streets and Markets as we do for which they were counted disturbers by many yea by almost all the chief Priests that said they were wise and such as were as learned and had the Hebrew Greek and Latine and had the Scriptures the Prophets words as your false Teachers who are inwardly ravened from the two Original of the Scriptures which is the Spirit from whence the Scripture did proceed these have Christs words and the Apostles words but are persecuting us who are led by the Spirit which the Sons of God in all Ages and Christ and his Apostles were led by and we are in the same life and found in the same practice for which we are persecuted as deceivers and seducers as they were and we read when the Apostles came into their Synagouges the Ruler thereof was not like many of you who give a charge to your Officers to pull us out but they said unto them If ye have any word of Exhortation for the people say on And what is our transgression and what is our sin is it not the same which the Apostles and Christ was found in which was to reprove sinne in the gate to lay the Axe to the Root and the sword of the Spirit did they draw against all Hypocrites painted graves and sepulchers who were inwardly full of all manner of wickednesse as ye are in Stafford-shire For which my life doth suffer and bears a testimony against you all who have a Name to live but are dead and who call your selves Jewes and Christians but are fill'd with all manner of wickednesse and are out of the Lambs nature and childes nature and so are of the synagouge of Satan and your Goals and your Officers houses which call themselves Christians and us deceivers wherein you have imprisoned me ten times not for the breach of any Law of the Nation but for crying out against Drunkenesse and all manner of wickednesse which in these Evil doers houses do abound which should only both them and their houses be for the punishment not of the Righteous unto whom the Law was not added but unto the Unrighteous unto which it was The End