entred into the Rest out of the Toil of old Adam for they are grafted into him who was before old Adam was For Unbelievers in the Light are grafted into old Adam in Transgression And the Believers in the Light which is the Life in Christ are grafted into Christ the Word by which all things were made and Created So here is perfect true Freedom and Liberty And likewise the true Liberty and Freedom is in the Grace which brings Salvation and not Destruction and teaches to live Godly not Ungodly and Soberly not Unsoberly and Righteously not Unrighteously and teaches to deny the World and not to cleave to it and to follow it This Grace stablishes the Heart and seasons the Words the Fruits of its Liberty and Freedom will manifest it self And also the True Liberty in the pure holy Spirit of God and Christ doth baptize and plunge down that which is gotten up by Transgression in Man and Woman and Circumcises and cuts off the Body of Death and Sin in the Flesh that is gotten up in Man and Woman by Transgression and mortifies and kills that which would grieve vex or quench the Motions of the pure Spirit of God so that in this holy pure Spirit of this pure God and Christ is the holy pure Freedom and Liberty over all Bondage and false Liberties and Freedoms And the Fruits of this pure Spirit is pure Love Righteousness and Godliness Patience Temperance and Humility by which Spirit all are made to drink into one Spirit so that all are the living Wells that have their living Water from God and Christ their true and living Fountain and in which Spirit they have a holy and spiritual Fellowship in this Baptizing Mortifying Circumcising Spirit yea one with another and with the Son and the Father also through which the Love of God warms every one Heart But when the Love of many waxes cold as Christ saith then they go from this Grace Light Truth Power and Spirit and the Anointing and the Word of God in their own Hearts then such turn to be Betrayers and not Saviours upon Mount Sion And against such God's swift Judgment turns and suddainly falls though they may cry for a time Liberty Freedom and Peace Peace but a Day of Trouble will overtake them ere they are aware And therefore all ye Friends of Christ Jesus stand fast in that Liberty wherewith Christ Jesus hath made you free by his Light Grace Truth Spirit Faith and Everlasting Gospel the Everlasting Power of God which is an Everlasting Freedom and Liberty above all Bondage and false fallen Liberties and Freedoms in this glorious Gospel and glorious joyful Liberty where all may exercise God and Christ's holy Gifts in his holy supernatural Light Grace Truth Spirit and divine Faith Word of Life and the Gospel which Word cannot be bound with all the World's Cords or Chains for it is a Fire to burn and a Hammer to break and a Sword to cut in pieces and therefore Love the Word and keep the Word of Patience and the Lord will keep you for it is a tryed Word and it will keep you in all Tryals which shall come upon all the World to try them for the Word was before the World was and will be when the World is gone which all the new born Babes of the incorruptible Seed of the Milk of the Word grow by it up into an immortal Life and Kingdom that is without End Glory and Praises to the Lord God forever And now ye Babes of Christ If the World do hate you it hated Christ your Lord and Master also if they do meek and reproach and defame and buffet you they did so to your Lord and Master also who was and is the Green Tree that gives Nourishment to all his Branches his Followers Now if the World do persecute you and take away your Goods or Clothes was not your Lord and Master so served did not they cast Lots for his Garments was not he haled from the Priests to Herod and before Pontius Pilate and spit upon and if they hate thee and spit upon thee he was hated and spit upon for thee did he not go to Prison for thee and was he not mocked and scourged for thee did not he bow to the Cross and Grave for thee he who had no Sin neither was Guile found in his Mouth and did he not bear thy Sins in his own Body upon the Tree and was he not scourged for thee by whose Stripes we are healed did not he suffer the Contradiction of Sinners who dyed for Sinners and went into the Grave for Sinners and dyed for the Ungodly yea tasted Death for every man who through Death destroyed Death and the Devil the power of Death and is risen for Death and the Grave could not hold him nor the Powers and Principalities with all their Guards and Watches could not hold him within the Grave but he is risen and is ascended far above all Principalities Powers Thrones and Dominions and is set down at the Right Hand of God and remaineth in the Heavens till all things be restored And he is restoring with his Light Grace Truth Power Spirit Faith Gospel and Word of Life so that you read of some that came to sit together in Heavenly Places in Christ Jesus And therefore all must bow at the Name of Jesus their Saviour in his Light Grace Truth Power Spirit and Gospel for he hath bowed for you if you rise with him And you must suffer with him if you will reign with him and dye with him if you will live with him And all that are dead and â—â—â—yed with Christ and are risen with him they will seek those things that come down from above where Christ sits at the Right Hand of God and there you will seek those things which come down from above and not those things which are below For those which seek those things that are below are the Tallers of God and Christ and the Prophets and the Apostles words but they are not dead with Christ nor risen with him and therefore they cannot seek those things that come down from Heaven where Christ sits at the Right Hand of God But they are them that seek the things that are Above that are dead with Christ and risen with him they I say do seek those things which come down from Heaven where Christ sits at the Right Hand of God and they have not only sought them but have found them and received them and come to sit together in Heavenly Places in Christ Jesus a safe established and heavenly sitting in a heavenly Rest and Habitation in Christ Jesus who is the First and Last and over all from Everlasting to Everlasting Blessings and Praises over all be to the Lord God through him forever Amen The Eternal living God of Truth he is a God of Order and is not the Author of Confusion but of Peace in all the Churches of the Saints Now the Author of
Confusion and not of Peace is the God of the World who abode not in the Truth because there is no Truth in him and when he speaks a Lye he speaks of his own for he is a Lyar and the Father of it Now the Jews which did the God of the World's Lusts and them called Christians that do were in Strife Confusion and Disorder For the Jews they went out of the Order of Aaron and Moses going from the Spirit of God poured out upon the House of Israel and so went from the Lord and his Law went into Confusion and Disorder which the living God of Truth was not the Author of Also the Christians which go from the Light Grace Truth Power Spirit Gospel and Faith which Christ Jesus is the Author of they go from Christ and his Order who was not made a Priest after the Order of Aaron but after the Order of Melchizedech who was without beginning of Dayes or end of Life an Everlasting Order And such go into Strife and Confusion that go from Christ which Christ and God is not the Author of but the World's God who got into Man and Woman by Transgression and Disobedience of the Command of God who is the God of Confusion Strife and Disorder in whom there is no Truth For what Order can there be in the World's God and amongst his Subjects in whom there is no Truth and in whom there is no Truth there is no true Order and they that abide not in the Truth Grace Light Spirit Gospel Faith and Word of Life they abide not in the Order of God and Christ And such will cry against the Order of the Truth Light Grace Spirit Gospel Faith and Word of Life which brings into the Order of Christ and the Order of the living eternal God of Truth who is a God of Order and delights in Order having Pleasure in them that live in his Spirit and Law of Life and the Gospel and its Order For blessed is the Man that delights in the Law or Order of God it was so under the old Covenant much more blessed is the Man or Woman that delights in the Law and Order of Love and the Law and Order of Faith and the Law and Order of Life and of the Gospel the Power of God And none keep the Law of Faith but who keep in the Faith which Christ is the Author of which works by Love And none keep the Law of Life but who keep in the Law of the Spirit and walk in it which is in Christ Jesus the heavenly and spiritual Second Adam who was before old Adam was who was under the World's God out of Truth iâ— whom there is no Truth nor true Order but Confusion and Unruliness And therefore all who come to God who is a God of Order must come by the Grace Truth Light Power Gospel Faith and Anâ—inting the Word of Life within and such come to love the Lord Jesus Christ and to delight in God and Christ's Order So you may see that God is a God of Order who called Aaron and Moses and they had an Order from God And Melchizedeck had an Order and Christ is after his everlasting Order And Christ the Truth hath an everlasting Kingdom that stands in everlasting Righteousness and Power Joy in the holy Ghost yea an established Kingdom that will never have an end and cannot be broken and no imperfect defiled nor corruptible thing enters into it And all Christ Jesus his Subjects of his everlasting Kingdom that see it and enter into it are born again not by the Will of Man but of an incorruptible Seed by the Word of God and have the incorruptible Milk of the Word of God by which they grow from Babes to Men of God and have the Fine Linnen the Incorruptible Clothing the Righteousness of Christ which is the Fine Linnen which they do wear in Christ's Kingdom So all Christ's Subjects of his Kingdom are known by their Birth and Clothes and live in his Order of his Gospel of Love Life Light Grace and Truth which no man comes into his Kingdom and Order but by the Light Grace and Truth Faith Power and Spirit and Anointing and Word of Life within through which they know Christ and his Everlasting Kingdom that stands in Power and Righteousness and Joy in the Holy Ghost and by it keep in his Order of the Law of Life which they have in Christ Jesus And they that follow the World's God that are out of Truth disobey their Creator the God of Truth and the Lord Jesus Christ I say all such obey and follow him in whom there is no Truth and such cannot endure to hear talk of the Order of Truth and of the Gospel or the Law or Order of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus which all they that do obey the Voice of the Lord and Christ Jesus in his Light Grace and Truth and Gospel the Power of God and his Holy Spirit and Faith and Word of Life within come into Unity and Fellowship one with another and with the Son and with the Father and in this they know the Order of Christ and God to be a God of Order and delights in his Heavenly and Eternal Order of Light Life Power and Spirit of God that is over Death and Darkness and the World's God who is a God of Disorder in whom there is no true Order but Confusion and into this holy Order of the Everlasting Light Life he cannot come Glory to the Lord God and his Son Christ Jesus who is over all from Everlasting to Everlasting and is the Rock and Foundation and Habitation of his People blessed forever and evermore Amen G. F. Postscript HERE you may see by these following Scriptures how the Apostles loved the good and holy Order of Christ in his Gospel and Light and Life and Truth but as Job said The Land of Darkness is without any Order And Babylon signifies Confusion which is the False Church and is called a Woman and a City of Confusion who is against the Order of the true Church and gets the Titles of the true Church that is called a City and a Woman which brings forth the Man Child Christ Jesus and of the inerease of his Government and Peace there shall be no end who sits upon the Throne of David and upon his Kingdom to Order it to stablish it with Judgment and with Justice from hencefoâ—th and forever So here you may see Christ doth order in his Kingdom and them that have him have his Order Isa 9. And David saith Although mine House be not so with God yet he hath made with me an Everlasting Covenant Ordered in all things and sure for all my Salvation and all my Desire c. 2 Sam. 23. Again David saith Order my Steps by thy Word and let not Iniquity have Dominion over me Psalm 119.133 Which is the Duty of every true Christian to have their Steps ordered
AN EPISTLE TO FRIENDS For Them to Read My Dear Friends THE Peaceable Truth live in which you have received from Jesus your Saviour and that by the Grace and Truth that is come by him into your Hearts you may all abide in Christ and grow up in him from whence it comes For as Christ saith Except you abide in me you cannot bring forth Fruit. And there is none that abide in Christ but who abide in his Light Grace and Truth And Christ saith Without me ye can do nothing who is the Heavenly and spiritual Man the Second Adam the Lord from Heaven who hath all Power in Heaven and Earth given to him So without this Truth and Grace and the Light and Power and Spirit of Christ Jesus which you receive from him you cannot abide in him this brings you to abide in him and to have his Presence to strengthen you so that through him you may do all things which he commands and requires of you And now Dear Friends to the Light and Grace and Truth in your Hearts you were turned at the first and now as you do all walk in the Light and are established in the Grace and Truth your Hearts Minds and Souls it brings you to Christ the heavenly spiritual Rock and Foundation and to build upon him with the Light Grace and Truth that comes from him and then you will see such as Christ speaks of that did profess him and preach him but did not abide in his Light Grace and Truth so not in Christ Jesus and such Christ will not know that do not abide in him with his Light Grace Truth from whence it comes For the Grace Truth and Light that cometh by Jesus this makes Inward Christians and Jews Inward who have the Praise of God though not of Men. For the Apostles in their dayes they had to do with several sorts of People some that preached Christ of Envy and some of Contention and some of Good Will notwithstanding the Apostles rejoyced that Christ was preached But then after a time when many had gotten the Form of Christianity and Godliness and denyed the Power thereof he exhorted the Faithful that kept their Habitation in Christ Jesus to turn away from such And yet such went under the Name of Christians else they could not have the Form of Godliness And likewise such as got the good Words and fair Speeches with which they deceived the Hearts of the Simple these were got to be Preachers among the Christians And the Heady High-minded and Fierce Despisers these had the Form of Godliness though they denyed the Power of it which they were turned from So they that lived in the Light Grace and Truth and the Power and Spirit of Christ were to turn away from such that had the Form of Godliness and denyed the Power And such as these that had the Form of Godliness and denyed the Power were come farther than such as taught for Doctrine the Rudiments and Precepts of the World and Doctrines of Men or the professing Jews and Gentiles that stood against the Name of Christ which were altogether Unbelievers of the very Form of Godliness of the New Covenant And likewise such that were doting about Questions and Strifes about Words Vain Janglers and Disputers Men of Corrupt Minds and those that were Unruly and Vain Talkers many of these were Teachers which were Troublers of the Churches in the Apostles dayes And those that Peter and Jude cryed against that were come so far as Balaam to prophesie and Cain to hear the Voice of God and a Corah which came out of Aegypt many of these got up to be Teachers having high swelling Words which the Apostle judged them amongst the fallen Angels and the old World and Sodom who were turned to be Mockers And such like as these were they that separated themselves being sensual having not the Spirit And so it seems these did set up Separations from the Apostles and Saints in their dayes And the Apostle declareth how the Lord saved his People out of the Land of Egypt and afterward destroyed them that believed not and the Angels that kept not their first State but left their own Habitation he hath reserved in everlasting Chains under Darkness unto the Judgment of the great Day And so these which went under the Name of Christians that had been convinced and had got a Form of Godliness and Christianity that kept not their first state in the Light and Grace and Truth and by it their Habitation in Christ Jesus they came under the Chain of Darkness And therefore Friends you see how the Apostle was troubled with the False Apostles and Satan's Messengers that got among the Corinthians and how they despised the Apostle And likewise what was got up among the Romans and Galathians and in the dayes of John as he manifests in his Epistles And therefore how Careful were the true Apostles of the Saints in their watching over them For John said If ye walk in the Light as he is in the Light then have we Fellowship one with another And that ye also may have Fellowship with us for truly our Fellowship is with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ And these things write we unto you that your Joy may be full For many may talk of the Light and preach the Light but to walk in the Light that is it which grafts into Christ Jesus and brings to live in him which talking of him doth not And as the Apostle said As every one hath received Christ Jesus so walk in him And the Sayers of the Word and not the Doers deceived their own Souls So there may be many Sayers of the Word Deceivers of their own Souls and others and Preachers of Christ Jesus But the Doers of the Word and the Walkers in Christ Jesus are they that are Accepted of the Lord. And again as the Apostle saith The Word of Faith was nigh them in their Hearts and Mouthes to obey it and do it and that was the Word of Faith which they preached And the Light shined in their Hearts to give them the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Christ Jesus And the Anointing which you have received of him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you but as the same Anointing teacheth you of all things that is true and is no Lye and even as it hath taught you ye shall abide in him And these things I have written unto you saith the Apostle concerning them that seduce you So here may all the inward Christians in the Grace Light Truth Power and Spirit of Christ Jesus see what the Apostles exhorted the Saints unto that they might be preserved in their day and so by the same now from them that deceived their own Souls and others And so by this Light this Word the Anointing Grace Truth Power and Spirit of Jesus Christ in the Heart Mind and Soul must all the Saints be guided
now by which they may â—â—me to be inward Christians and have a Habitation in Christ Jesus and so built upon him the living Rock and Foundation as the Saints were in the Apostles dayes and so to have Salt in your selves and the Leaven in your own Meal and the Pearl in your own Field and your Lamps lighted in your own Tabernacles and nourished with the Heavenly Oyl So that you may put a Difference betwixt the Clean and the Unclean and what you are to touch and what you are not And that no Man or Woman may look below Heaven for their Bread to nourish their Souls and inward Man and below God and Christ for their Springs which by continuing in the Light which is the Life in Christ the Word by which all things were made and created they shall have a Spring from him the Fountain springing up in them to Eternal Life so they shall have both the upper nether Springs to nourish the Plant that God hath planted And such as came out of Aegypt with Moses and after rebelled against the Lord and Moses and the Law and the Prophets which were a greater Grief to Moses and the Prophets than the Heathen And likewise those that came to be Christians called and had got the Form of Godliness came to be a greater Grief to the Apostles than the World for their Work was to seek to destroy that which the Apostles had begotten and them that they had turned to Christ And therefore well might the Apostle exhort the Saints to turn away from such that had the Form of Godliness and denyed the Power and therefore he told the Saints The Kingdom of Heaven stands not in Words but in Power and therefore they were to know one another in the Spirit and Power and that is the eternal Knowledge And their Fellowship was to be in the Holy Ghost and their Unity in the Spirit which was the Bond of Peace And their Fellowship was to be in the Gospel which was the Power of God So an Everlasting Fellowship in the Everlasting Power of God that will out-last the power of Darkness for it was before it was And also their Unity was to be in the precious Divine Faith which Christ was the Author and Finisher of the Mystery of which was held in the pure Conscience and their Worship was in the Spirit of God and in the Truth So you may see what a Heavenly Unity and Fellowship and a Worship Christ and the Apostles set up And the Saints in the Light Grace Truth Spirit and the Power of God the Gospel lived in it and walked in it So with the Light Grace Truth Power Spirit and Word of Life in the Heart all hold Christ the Head who is the Head of all things by whom all things were made who is the Treasure of the heavenly saving Wisdom and Knowledge who is called the second Adam the Lord from Heaven And therefore all are to have their Knowledge and their Wisdom from him the Treasure by the Light Grace Truth Power and Spirit that comes from him it leads you to him your Treasure of heavenly Wisdom and Knowledge by which Knowledge you know God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent which is Life Eternal to know And now my Dear Friends concerning TRUE LIBERTY THE True Liberty is in the Gospel the Power of God which the Devil and his Instruments with his False Liberty cannot get into And in this Gospel is the Saints Fellowship which the Devil with all his false fellowships cannot get into nor find it for it is a Mystery Likewise true Liberty is in the Faith which Jesus Christ is the Author and Finisher of which gives Victory over that which separated man and Woman from God and by which they have access to God again And in this holy pure divine precious Faith that is held in the pure Conscience which pure Conscience hath its pure holy divine precious Liberty in this holy divine precious Faith which works by Love and not as the dead Faith doth which works by Enmity which is the Fruit of this holy pure divine Faith and in it is the divine pure holy precious Liberty and Freedom So here is the divine holy pure and precious Liberty in this Faith which works by Love that is the Victory over that which brought Man and Woman into Bondage and Slavery and False Liberty So this living Faith is the Victory over all dead Faiths and false Freedoms and Liberties which holy divine pure and precious Faith the Saints were and are to contend for which Christ the Holy One is the Author and Finisher of So in this holy divine pure and precious Faith they have a holy divine pure and precious Unity and Liberty which is the Victory over the Enmity the Adversary the Destroyer and all his Instruments and they cannot come within this holy divine pure and precious Unity and Liberty which is in the Faith for it is a Mystery and gives Victory over him and is the Access to the pure God and to Christ the Author of it which all are to stand fast in that Liberty wherewith Christ hath made them free who is the heavenly and spiritual Man the second Adam For the Bondage Captivity and Thraldom False Freedom and False Liberty was and is in old Adam in Transgression the true Liberty is that which Christ the pure holy One makes free in and this is a pure holy Liberty which Christ makes and sets his People free in in which they are all to stand fast over all the false Liberties and Freedoms which are Bondage Also the true Liberty is in the Truth which if the Truth hath made you free then are you free indeed from him that abode not in the Truth in whom there is no Truth So then there is no true Freedom nor Liberty in him and he in whom there is no Truth cannot come into this Freedom and Liberty which is in the Truth but remains in the False For the Jews in the dayes of Christ boasted of their Liberty and Freedom though they were in Bondage both inwardly and outwardly and that they were of Abraham their Father but Christ told them The Devil was their Father his lusts ye will do And also in the dayes of the Apostles many of the False Christians boasted of their Liberty but who was overcome by them was brought into Bondage And the Apostle was so careful of his Liberty in Christ Jesus that such as came to spye it out were somewhat in Conference but they added nothing to him and unto such he would not give place by Subjection but rather reproved them and directed every one to walk according to the measure of the Rule which God had distributed to them And also True Liberty is in the Light and Grace and the Spirit which comes by Jesus which by believing in the Light they are grafted into Christ and so into true Liberty and Freedom and so are
by the Word of God that lives and abides and endures forever which Word is a Word of Order And David saith The Steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord and he delights in his Way I have been young and now am old yet I have not seen the Righteous forsaken nor his Seed begging Bread He is ever merciful and lendeth and his Seed is blessed Psal 37. Here you may see how the Lord delights in him and them that walk in the Steps the Lord orders them with his Word And him that orders his Conversation aright shall see the Salvation of God Psalm 49. And this Order must be in the Light which is the Life in Christ the Saviour And the Apostle Paul after he had spoken many things to the Corinthians he said The rest will I set in Order when I come 1 Cor. 11. And he saith concerning the Collections for the Saints in 1 Cor. 16. As I have given Order to the Churches of Galatia even so do ye to wit the Corinthians So they were to practise the same Order which were the Believers in Christ which the Apostle in the Power of Christ had given to them For the Apostles had the Wisdom of God which he had ordained before the World unto the Glory of his People then and now also 1 Cor. 2. And the Order that the Apostle did give to the Churches of the Galatians and the Corinthians was That upon the First Day of the Week every one of them lay by him in store as God had prospered him c. And in Acts 14. When they had Ordained Elders in every Church and had prayed they commended them to the Lord on whom they had believed confirming the Souls of the Disciples c. and exhorting them to continue in the Faith and that they might pass thorow much Tribulation to enter into the Kingdom of God And as Paul and others with him went through the Cities they delivered them the Decrees for to keep that were Ordained of the Apostles and Elders which were at Jerusalem and so were the Churches established in the Faith and increased in Number daily Acts 16. And the Occasion of these Decrees was because some men that went from Judea taught the Brethren saying Except ye be Circumcised after the Manner of Moses ye cannot be saved Acts 15. And these Decrees were to stop such Preachers For the Apostles and Elders said Forasmuch as we have heard that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words subverting your Souls saying Ye must be Circumcised and Keep the Law to whom we gave no such Commandment Now it is clear the Apostles and Elders gave these Teachers no such Commandment to preach such Doctrine to trouble the Churches And the Apostle Paul after he had spent some time at Caesaria and Antioch he went over all the Country of Asia and Phrygia in Order strengthning all the Disciples Acts 18. So you may see how they were a Comfort one to another And the Apostle writes to Titus Chap. 1. For this Cause I have left thee in Creete that thou shouldst set in Order the things that are wanting and Ordain Elders in every City as I have appointed thee So here Titus in the Spirit of God did observe that which Paul in the Power of Christ did exhort him to But such as are against the Order and Practice in the Light and Gospel cannot Order their Speeches by reason of Darkness And the Apostle saith in Col. 2. Though I be absent in the Flesh yet am I with you in the Spirit joying and beholding your Order and steadfastness of your Faith in Christ As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk ye in him Here the Apostle rejoyced in the Order that kept them in the Faith and Stedfastness in Christ Jesus Therefore the Apostle saith Every man in his own Order Christ the First Fruits c. For in Adam all dyed even so in Christ shall all be made alive And they that be alive in Christ Jesus are in his Order of Life and Light and in his Gospel the Power of God And the Apostle saith in 1 Cor. 14.40 Let all things be done Decently and in Order And the Heavens and the Earth and all things therein are Governed and Ordered by the Lord in his Power and Wisdom and all God's holy Angels are Governed and Ordered by God and all God's Children and People are Governed and Ordered by God and Christ in his Light and Spirit and Grace and Truth and Power Gospel and Word of Life And the Lord hath set apart him and them that are Godly for himself Psalm 4. And God hath Ordained his Arrows against the Persecutors Psalm 7. And it ought to be the Practice of all the true Christians now that are in the same Power and Spirit as the Apostles were in to let all things be done Decently and in Order in the New Covenant of Light Life and Grace to the Glory of the Great God who is over all and orders all things to his Glory Amen G. F. AND now Friends you who are called into this glorious Liberty of the Sons of God stand fast in it And as the Apostle saith Brethren ye have been called unto Liberty only use it not for an Occasion to the Flesh but in Love serve one another Gal. 5. As free not using your Liberty for a Cloak of Maliciousness but as the Servants of God 1 Pet. 2. For there were some who while they promised themselves Liberty they themselves were Servants of Corruptions such were like the Dog and the Sow biting and renting and vomiting and wallowing in the Mire and as bad as the Synagogue of the Libertines that turned against Stephen 2 Pet. 2. and Acts 7. And therefore the Apostle was careful of the Churches Liberty in Christ when he said But take heed lest this Liberty of yours become a Stumbling-block to them that are Weak c. 1 Cor. 8. For the Apostle was so careful and tender that he would not have his true Liberty judged of another man's Conscience c. as you may see more at large in 1 Cor. 10. And the Apostle said False Brethren came unawares privily to spy out their Liberty which they had in Christ Jesus that they might bring them into Bondage to whom we gave place by Subjection no not for an Hour that the Truth of the Gospel might continue with you to wit the Galatians Gal. 2. And therefore he exhorts them to stand fast in that Liberty wherewith Christ Jesus hath made them free c. which is the Duty of all true Christians now for to stand fast in that heavenly glorious Liberty which Christ the heavenly and spiritual man the Second Adam makes them free in and in this they will all have Salt and Savour in themselves to discern between the true Liberty and Freedom and the false and know how to use their holy and spiritual Liberty and Freedom in Christ Jesus to the Praise and Glory of God So Friends The Lord God Almighty preserve you all in the Heavenly Order of Christ Jesus in his holy Seed Life Power and Spirit that all may live and walk in it to the Praise and Glory and Honour of God and Christ Amen The 3d of the 9th Moneth 1679. G. F. THE END