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A89853	Several petitions answered, that were put up by the priests of Westmorland, against James Nayler and Geo. Fox, servants of the most high God, persecuted by the priests of the world, as Jesus Christ and the apostles were persecuted by the Jewish high priests for the witnessing of the truth, and testifying against the deceits of the world. With the answer to an order given forth by the justices at Appleby sessions, contrary to the law of God, and the laws of the land. Also, an exhortation to the people, to mind the light of God in them, the teachings and leadings of the spirit of truth; the which if it be obeyed, will lead and guide them into all truth.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1653 (1653)	Wing N316A; Thomason E703_4; ESTC R3636	42,778	72

SEVERAL PETITIONS ANSWERED That were put up by the Priests of WESTMORLAND Against James Nayler and Geo. Fox Servants of the most High God persecuted by the Priests of the world as Jesus Christ and the Apostles were persecuted by the Jewish high Priests for the witnessing of the truth and testifying against the deceits of the world With the answer to an Order given forth by the justices at Appleby Sessions contrary to the Law of God and the Laws of the Land Also an exhortation to the people to mind the light of God in them the teachings and leadings of the Spirit of Truth the which if it be obeyed will lead and guide them into all truth This is the condemnation That light is come into the world and men love darkness rather then light because their deeds are evill He that loves the light brings his deeds to the light that the light may prove them but he that doth evill hateth the light neither cometh he to the light lest his deeds should be reproved But he that loveth the truth and doth that which is righteous cometh to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God John 3. 19 20 21 verses Little Children let no man deceive you he that doth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous he that committeth sin is of the Divell In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the Divel whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God neither he that loveth not his brother 1 Iohn 7 8 9 10. Marvell not if the world hate you it hated me before it hated you Iohn 1● 18. Blessed are you when men shall hate you and when they shall separate you from their company and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evill for the Son of Mans sake rejoyce ye in that day and leap for joy for behold great is your reward in heaven for in the like manner did their fathers unto the Prophets Luke 6. 22 23. London printed for Giles Calvert at the Black spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1653. An Epistle to the Reader Christian Friends REmember the words of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who said the servant was not greater then his Lord and saith he if they have persecuted me they will persecute you also and saith he marvell not if the world hate you it hated me before it hated you if ye were of the world the world would love you but because I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you but these are the fruits of darkness that ariseth from Cains generation they that are after the flesh t ey persecute them that are after the Spirit it is the world that persecutes and as they are in their naturall state and condition they know not God but are enemies both to him and His where he is made manifest in Spirit they that are in the corrupt nature are ignorant of him according as it is written in the Epistle to the Corinthians the naturall man knowes not the things of God because they are spiritually discerned and no man knowes the Father but the Son neither knoweth any man the Son but the Father and he to whom the Son reveals him there is no knowing of God but by the Revelation of his Spirit but naturall men such as the Priests of the world who are ignorant of God and are onemies to him being guided by the spirit of error standing up in actuall Rebellion against God now that he is Revealing his Son in the hearts of his people and leading them by the Divine light of his holy Spirit out of Egypt out of bondage and darkness wherein they have been held in the time of the fall while the mystery of iniquitie hath been working and Antichrist sitting in the Temple of God as God shewing himself to be God and the Priests of the world have been casting a mist before the eyes of the understandings of the people by their Greek Latin and Hebrew which is but dung and drosse earthie and ayrie hath driven the people into earthly conceivings imagination having no other knowledge of God but by conceiving and imagining of him are of those whom the Lord complains of by his servant the Prophet saying This people draweth near me with their mouth and with their lips do they honor me but their hearts is far from me and their fear towards me is taught by the precepts of men therefore thus saith the Lord I will gather those that have been scattered in the Cloudie and dark day and I will teach them my self and write my Law in their hearts and put my Spirit in their inward parts then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it and I will take you from among the hearthen and gather you out of all Countries and sprinkle clear water upon you and cleanse you from all your uncleanness a new heart also will I give you and a new Spirit will I put within you and I will cause you to walk in my statutes to do them Ezek. 36. Chapter Now the Lord is fulfilling his Promises made of old to the seed of Abraham after the spirit the Immortall seed that is begotten not by the will of man but by the will of God and born again of water and the spirit being separated from all uncleanness and they that live in the filth of the flesh fulfilling the lusts thereof know them not that are born again washed and cleansed sanctified and justified and are taught of God and made pertakers of the Divine nature but are enemies to them it is the same generation now that persecuts that persecuted from the beginning but it is but that the Scriptures may be fulfilled the Beast shall make War with the Saints God and Magog joyns together in Battle against the Lamb the Priests of the world are the greatest persecutors of the truth of God Now as the High Priest was when Jesus Christ came in the flesh the chief Priests were the greatest persecutors of him then stirring up the Rulers and Elders and the rude multitude against him calling him A deceiver and A blasphemer and they spued forth their envie against him in raising false witnesses against him and every way incensing the People against him to cry out to have him put to death Saying Crucifie him Crucifie him and let us have Barabbas let loose which was a murderer and if thou do but Read this little ensuing treatise thou shalt finde something worthy of thy labour being single eyed thou wilt be brought to see Antichrist or the man of sin in A high measure the mystery of iniquitie acting in the Priests of the world that do professe themselves to be the Ministers of Christ but are of the Synagogue of Satan and are enemies to Jesus Christ where he is made manifest and raised up in the spirits of any to testifie against their deceits wherein they do deceive

in the flesh and your Ministry is carnall Cain is alive in you and the soul ye know not for it is in the death therefore dissemble not thou deceiver telling people of a soul for thou art him that keepes in the death and shuts the Kingdom of Heaven Mat. 23. 13. Jam. 5 6. Acts 7. 52. from against men and knowes not the soul for that is shut up from thy understanding that minde shall never know it thou art a murderer of the just and watchest for thy means and if meu will not give it thee thou fues them at the law therefore dost thou use carnall weapons to maintain thee in thy carnall Ministry it shewes thy weapons to be carnall and not spirituall shewing thy Kingdom to be of this world And here doth not thou shew forth damnable doctrines for shame blush Impious principles and practises we deny they are your own which keepes poor souls in death your preaching the carnall Letter to the carnall minde and your carnall weapons will not maintain you but you seek to a Magistrate here you shame your profession for where the truth is springing the pure seed arising you cannot suppress it with your carnall weapon the Letter then you run to a Magistrate without to suppress it while we all lived under your Ministry and what you spoke we took it for truth as being naturally blind hearing you blind then you owned us but God now Mat. 15. 14. of his infinite love and mercy according to his promise hath gathered us who have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day following such shepherds as you which fed your selves and cloathed your selves with the wooll made a prey upon us and sought for the Fleece Ezek. 24 12. 13. 14. 8. 10. but God as he hath said he hath fulfilled I will gather my sheep from their mouthes and my sheep shall be a prey no longer unto them and will feed them in a good pasture and we witness the Scripture fulfilled therefore do you hate us and seek to persecute them in whom Jesus Christ is made manifest but it is that the Gal. 4. 29. 2 Tim. 3. 12. Scripture might be fulfilled he that is born after the flesh persecutes him that is born after the spirit and if any man live godly in Christ Jesus he must suffer persecution here the Scripture is fulfilled you shew your selves to be carnall indeed you must have an outward Authoritie to rule your Religion for shame give over your profession for pure Religion he that lives in it and walkes in it hath power over his own tongue and is kept unspotted from the world and doth visit the fatherless Jam. 1. 26. 27. widowes and strangers and this hath not an outward power to order it but is guided and ordered by the spirit of the Lord to the Lord himself to whom be praises for ever and such we own in our souls and such ye seek to persecute and instead of relieving and Rev. 8. 14. receiving strangers you give them a report or scandall as wanderers that the Scripture might be fulfilled who preached the everlasting Gospel the world knew not and who forsook their own country and sought for another whom the world was not worthy of and you Heb. 11. 38. Heb. 13. 1. 1 Tim. 5. 10. shew your selves to be of that generation he that was a minister of God did exhort to receive strangers by that means some received Angels and the same eternal word hath God made manifest and sent his servants to witness it forth and to warn you all of wo and misery that will come upon all uncleanness and ungodliness and some of them you prison some of them you beat Mat. 10. 17. Mat. 27. 1. 20. Mat. 26. 3. 4. and mock and scourge in your Synagogues and some of them you hale before Magistrates And the chief Priests were ever the ringleaders to slay the righteous seed where it was born wherein the Scriptures come to be fulfilled and you shew the fulfilling of them upon the children of the Lord and the words of Jesus Christ true but he is coming who bears the government upon Isa 9. 6. Psal 23. 1. Col. 1. ●8 1 Thes 1. 1. his shoulders he alone will rule them who rules all nations with a rod of iron he alone will be their teacher and their Shepherd he alone rules his Church who is the head but this Church is not of this world nor maintained by any weapon of this world the true Church is in God yours vvithout vvho maintain it with a carnall vveapon you vvould have a speedy suppressing of the truth vvhere it is risen here you shevv your selves to be of that number vvho call evil good Isa 5. 20. Acts 13. 50. Acts 22. 22. and good evil and even the generation of them that vvould ever have had truth suppressed when it was risen Amos 7. 12. as they said to Christ depart out of our coasts as they said to Paul 't is not fit such a fellow should live upon the earth as to Amos go thy way into Judah prophecie there thatvvas the Kings chappell and he told them the songs of the Temple should be turned into Amos 8. 3. pla 119. 120. howling so shall that nature which hath turned Davids quakings and trembling into meeter when ye read them hats ye keep on and vvhen ye sing them hats ye put off and worship the vvorks of your own hands shewing the spirit of error Pr. Obj. By the checking the vvicked endeavours and proceediugs of these men Answ That is the blasphemer indeed vvhich vvould have the truth chect and be limitted It is vvritten the beast shall blaspheme God and his Temple And Rev. 13. 6. God hath raised up a light in many that are Justices to reprove that nature in you vvhich is fawning and flattering and you will fawn upon them vvhile they vvill Mica 3. 5. give you means but if they give you no means then you prepare vvar against them Pr. Obj. Which vve humbly conceive may be at least by ordering James Nayler and Geo. Fox being strangers to depart out of this County and to return unto their own homes Ans You pretended Ministers of Christ which do but conceive with an earthly power to hinder the proceedings of that which you conceive to be error which is the eternall truth and which conceivings arise out of pride Here it shews that you have not an infallible judgement and as it is written God will scatter the Luke 1. 15. proud in their imaginations and there is your portion All people though you now despise us and cast reproches slanders upon us ye shal eternally witness us but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled There shall be false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of them that are good having a form of godliness and 2 Tim. 3. 3 4 5 and so on denying the power thereof vvhich the

the people and are in the same state and condition that the Jewish High Priests were in that put Christ to death as thou readest keep thy eye single and be not Partiall and thou shalt see that the battell is begun betwixt Michael and the Dragon the Dragon he casteth forth floods of revilings and reproaches and persecutions after the man childe Christ Jesus as he is arising in the spirits of his people to stifle him in the birth that he may not come forth to raign and where he is Born up into the understandings of any ruling by the Divine Power of his Spirit in any the Dragon with his seven golden heads or the Priests under sever all Colours being the painted Beast that is gilded with their glorious notions having painted themselves over with the words of the Prophets and Apostles that suffered by such as they are of the same generation whose heart is deceitfull and that above measure being full of subtiltie the Serpents head being unbruised in them they labour every way as the Jewish High Priests did to destroy those who are brought to walk in the same state and condition that the holy men of God did In former ages men that were blameless and harmless in their lives and conversations were guided by the holy spirit of God that ruleth in them I know it by experience being acquainted with them in their godly conversation which those Cainish and Jewish spirited Priests goes about to cast dirt upon making them odious to the world stirring up the people in envie and malicionsness against them if it were possible to take away their lives and the Jewish high Priests stirred up the rulers and Elders of the people against both Jesus Christ and the Apostles who were his true Ministers to persecute Imprison and put them to death so do these stir up not onely the rude people in envie and malice but they stir up the Parliament and Rulers of the people by their false petitions to incense them against a harmless and an innocent people to take away if not their lives yet their liberties but where the Lord doth appear in any of the Rulers of the people they will see into the wickedness of the Priests that they are those that persecute the Lord of life in his Saints and servants and they do openly manifest themselves that they are none of the Ministers of Jesus Christ for they did never persecute nor imprison but on the contrary were both persecuted and imprisoned and so are those to whom Jesus Christ is made manifest in spirit now the Lord is setting up the Kingdom of his Son in the spirits of his people and the Kingdom of Antichrist Babylon the mystery of iniquity must be thrown down take heed of holding up that which God will not have to stand he is setting up the ministery of his Son in the spirits of his People and throwing down the ministery of Antichrist which is the ministry of the world as it is made manifest hey do openly appear to those that have their eyes in their head Now friend if thou do but read this with thy understanding thou shalt see that these persecuting Priests knowes nothing of God but are enemies to him and are guided by the Spirit of error walking contrary to Christ and his Apostles who were his true ministers and were guided by his holy Spirit and suffered by the ministry of the word as those dear hearts do that are guided I am sure by the Spirit of the Lord and are as dear to him as the Apple of his eye and if thou do but give thy diligence in reading to Read by the same guide that those are led by that write the ensuing treatise it will bring thee to see the innocency and uprightnes of their blomeles lives and conversation that they are made to suffer willingly for Righteousnes sake according to the command of Jesus Christ and walkers in his obedience knowing that their reward is in Heaven having their conversation in Heaven according to that of the Apostle in the third to the Philip. 20. And their affections being set on things above and not on the earth seeking a Kingdom but not of this world for were they of this world the world would love its own but because they are chosen out of the worlds ways and worships customes and fashions being dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world are brought to worship God in spirit being born again of water and the Spirit as John 3. and having their souls purified in yielaing abedience to the commands of the Spirit as the Saints had which more obedient to the same spirit which purified their souls as in 1 Pet. 1. 22 23. Who were born again as these are Children of the most High God whom the world and the persecuting envious Friests know not for the spirit that is in them is not of God because it Iusteth to envy bontrary to the Spirit of Jesus Christ which is pure and holy and is loving as it is raised up in any to rule and guide them it beareth all the worlds Judgements Reproaches Revilings and Persecutions and suffereth with Joy having the promise of this life and that which is to come thus saith the Lord woe to the wicked it shall be ill with them and they shall be rewarded according to their doings as in Isaiah the 3. 10. But say unto the righteous it shall be well with them v. 11. and saith Jesus Christ blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evil against you falfly as the Priests do by those innocent and harmless ones who are dear and precious in the sight of God and may rejoyce for their reward is great in Heaven according to that of our Saviour in Mat. 5. 10. 11. 12. And that of Peter who saith if ye be reproached for the name of Christ happy are you for the spirit of grace and of glory Resteth on you Rejoyce and be exceeding glad all ye that love the Lord Blesse ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever for the Lord is glorifying himself and making his power known and all the Crowns of pride and vain glory and fleshly exaltation must be thrown down and the Son of his Love Raised up and exalted in the hearts of his people to sit upon his Throne Rejoyce for evermore A Friend to the Truth of God where it is made manifest Richard Farnworth To the Right Worshipfull the Justices of the Peace for the County of WESTMORLAND The Humble Petition of divers Ministers and other Inhabitants in the said County who earnestly desire the Glory of God and the Peace of his Church and this Common-Wealth Humbly Sheweth THat James Nayler and George Fox men whose Country habitation profession and condition is to us generally unknown meerly of their own accord without any Pasport Licence or Authority whatsoever that they can shew or we ever heard of have entered in to

Ministers which go in that path which all the holy men of God cried out against Isa 56. 10. 11. we speak the same language against them that they did and by the same spirit we see them take all people to record to judge who have a light in their understandings and the fear of the Lord to judge do not your Priests bear rule by your means and was it not a horrible filthy thing Ier. 5. 30 31. Ier. 10. 21. in the time of Jeremy and is not the same held up in this age now and do they not seek for their gain from their Quarters greedy dumb dogs Do not they take money for that which is not bread And do they not now seek for the fleece cloath with the wooll and make a prey of the people which Ezekiel cryed wo against And are you not Hirelings which Micah cried Micah 3. 11. against and them that put not into your mouthes you prepare warrre against them sue them at the Law and are you not called of men Masters Mat. 23. 6 7 8. Have not ye the chiefest places in the Assemblies Stand praying in the Synagogues And do you not lay heavy burdens upon the people which Jesus Christ cried wo against such Are not you in the same steps here Let the Scripture it self judg you and do not you draw people to those things which there is no Scripture for telling them of a Sacrament for which there is no Scripture telling them of sprinkling infants which there is no Scripture for telling people they are Ordinances all such Ordinances we deny but the Ordinances of God we own And doth not the Scripture say He that addes or diminishes the plagues are added Rev. 22. 18. Gal. 3. 1. unto him And were not the Galatians bewitched who were drawn from the anointing within them which God had commanded And do not you draw people to the things there is no Scripture for telling people they are Ordinances and are not you in the same generation bewitching people drawing them from the Spirit of the Lord within them to follow your imagination and them that do not you persecute them who obey the commands of God and the Ordinances of Jesus Christ to walk in the truth in the inward man which is unknown to you in the world but Mat. 10. 22. it is that the Scripture might be fulfilled They shall be hated of all men for my names sake and they through fained words shall make merchandize of you saith the Apostle who go in the way 2 Pet. 2. 3. 13 14 15. of Cain to murther who love the wages of unrighteousness who have the Spirit of error and causes people to erre for the minde that goes from the pure within is erred and that sets up Baal without before God but all whose mindes are guided by the Spirit of the Lord up to God deny all Baals Priests now do not say this is railing or false accusing in these steps are you which the holy men of God cryed out against read your selves and let all men judge and as for coming into your Synagogues with hats on when ye are singing of Psalms thou Priest hast not thou one or two caps on and when ye read Psalms hats must be on and when ye sing them hats must be off here ye worship the works of your own hands As Davids tremblings quakings wastings weepings roarings till his sight grew dim and watered his bed with his tears and roared all the day long Psal 6. 23 6 7. prophesies praises prayers these you sing having turned them into Rime crying Let ussing to the praise and glory of God which is all to his dishonor if one should see one of you lie in Davids condition weeping and roaring and turn it into Metre and go among a deal of ignorant people and cry let us sing to the praise and glory of God would you not say we made a Ryme of you as you have made of David All such practises and singings we deny but we will sing with the Spirit and with Grace and Understanding The Apostles which you profess in words you do not read that when they went into the world they gave Davids Experiences in Metre to sing but 1 Cor. 14. 15. Mark 7. 13. Col. 2. 8. was against all Traditions of men and so are we now with the same Spirit Priests Petition To the stirring up of woful tumults evident disturbance of the work and the turning of the peaceable Assemblies of the Church of Christ into the grossest confusion Answ For shame never mention your Churches to be the Churches of Christ which will so soon be turned into confusion do not so dishonor the Lord Jesus Christ and so little esteem his Chruch which is the Pillar and Ground of Truth and can the Pillar and Ground of Truth be shaken 1 Tim. 3 15. A Church must be that which is the Ground and Pillar of Truth the Church of Christ needs not have a carnal weapon to maintain it but it is now as it was they who had received the substance came into the Assemblies witnessed forth the substance and were haled forth and bruised and Acts 7. 48. Acts 21. 30. abused stocked and stoned so do you us now almost smothered in your Assemblies how dare you say ye are peaceable when ye are so in rage against a peaceable people who come among you for your souls good that ye may be directed unto the Lord when eternally ye shall witness us though now you would devour us Priests Petition That their deportent is such and with so continual violence against the most godly of our Ministers in all places in their travels in the streets abusing them with railing language scornful behaviours walking in the Markets with such great numbers together Answ As for violence we deny it it is your own you shew it daily and in this Petition you make it appear As for godly Ministers such we set up who are made Ministers by the will of Gal. 1. 1. God and not by the will of man but such as are made Ministers by Oxford and Cambridge such we deny they who are made Ministers by the will of Godwill not persecute any but here you make your selves manifest not to be such for if ye were ye would own us As touching railing language scornful behaviour it is false it is your own and herein you do abuse us such practises we deny which are according to the course of the world Was it not the practise of the Apostles to dispute Ephess 2. 2. Acts 19. 8. Acts 17. 17. Mat. 24. 34 35 dialy in the Markets in the Schools in the Synagogues and their practise here you do deny and shew your selves to be in that generation that persecuted the Apostles who now persecutes us where the same power is made manifest but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled for every jot and tittle must be

fulfilled Priests Petition And scarce passing by any not of their judgement without abusing words that it cannot but shew us as no small Symptomes of bad designs so no small reason to provide for our security Answ As for abusive words it is false it is the abusive minde that speaks which now appears to scandal the truth Several of us who be of one heart meet together sometimes in the Market and sometimes in other places and if we see pride and drunkenness and be moved to reprove and exhort see and hear cursed speakers swearers moved to reprove and exhort them or men fighting and brawling cozening cheating deceitful marehandizing lying and disembling which we say wo is upon do you call this abusive and we bid them repent and turn unto the Lord while they have time and now to prize it for the great day of the Lord is coming wherein every one Rom. 14. 12. shall give an account And the Apostle warned all small and great to turn unto the Lord and repent which we cannot but do the same who have found mercy of the Lord who brought us to repentance and changed our lives and this is it which you call abusive And poor creatures ye need not seek for security for there is none of them who are friends of the truth and in the truth that will hurt you Now do you shew your selves to walk in the Apostles practise or quite against it here you openly shew your selves to be men who would uphold iniquity and vice and would not have it reproved but persecute such who reprove the wicked whose righteous souls are vexed as 2 Pet. 2. 8. Prov. 10. 24. Jer. 17 5. just Lots was with your filthy Conversation who uphold iniquity and live in it T is written The wicked shall fear where there is not fear and did not the true Prophet say Cursed is he that makes flesh his arm and outs his strength in man Priests Petition That it is their great design to stir up the spirits of people against the Ministers of England in general without distinction setting forth and sending abroad daily almost Libels and slanders against the Office as needless Answ The Spirit of God if it be raised up Rom. 8. 10. we do witness it will testifie against you and all your practises and whereas we are moved to write abroad shewing forth the errors and deceits of you which as a scandal you call to be Libels but if ever you own the Prophets Christ and the Apostles ye will own them which are given forth by the same power and Spirit and all your Offices which are made by man and are of man we deny and slanders we deny they are your own and now you vent them forth Priests Petition Terming them as or under the names of Antichrists Antichrists Merchants Tythe Mongers Robbers Deceivers Ministers of the world Priests Murtherers Conjurers Devils and attempting to make Proclamations in the open markets to the said effect Ans Are you not Antichrists do not you act those things Christ forbids and upholds that which Christ doth forbid shewing your selves to be Antichrists do not you mount up into the highest places in Assemblies are called of men-Masters Mat. 23. 2 Pet. 2. 3. which Christ forbids and said to his be ye not called so And do not you buy and sell the Letter make merchandize of it when as the Minister of God said that the gift of God could not be Acts 8. 18. 23. 19 20. bought and sold for money and said he was in the gall of bitterness who thought to buy it and here you shew your selves to be in the gall of bitterness repent repent that the thoughts of your hearts may be changed and Job said that Job 28. 15 16. the wisdom of God cannot be bought and sold for money nor gold nor pearls nothing is to be compared unto it and do not you shew your selves to be merchants of the Letter for the gift of God cannot be bought and sold And do not you openly shew your selves to take Tythe of people and do not walk according to the Law Levi who received Tythes the strangers fatherless Deu. 26. 12 13 Deut. 14. 29. and widows were to come within his gate and be filled which ye do not so shewing the spirit of error and yet would be maintained in your deceit but God in his infinite love hath raised up Luke 1. 79. a light gathering his people from you discovering your deceit Are ye not Robbers do not you steal the words of the Prophets Christ and his Apostles and sell them for money and so are Theives and Robbers which Iesus Christ spoke of which goes not in at Jer. 23. 30. Iohn 10. 1. the door but climb another way and that Generation persecuted Christ and here you shew your selves to be persecuting them in whom he is risen Are ye not deceivers when as you draw people to those things God never commanded and tell people they are Ordinances of God As sprinkling of infants and saying the Steeple-house Col. 2. 22. 20. 21. is the Chruch and the house of God and tells people ye are the Ministers of God when he never sent you but studies a Devination of your own brain and not from the mouth of the Lord here you shew your selves to be Conjurers and hold up outward Temples Traditions and Customs Tythes Formal Singing Praying do you not here shew your selves to be Ministers of the world for what is acted outwardly is worldly your original is worldly your Hebrew Latine and Greek is worldly your Church is worldly but the Saints Church is in God as Paul Silvanus 1 Thess 1. 1. 1 John 3. 15. and Timotheus to the Church of the Thessalonians which was in God Do not you shew your selves to be murtherers in the generation of the Priests Cain like do you not shew it openly do not ye seek to persecute and put in prison some you have imprisoned some you have haled out of your Assemblies some ye have stoned and buffeted do not you shew your selves to be of the generation with the Priests whose Ministry was worldly and so ever the Ministry of the Letter persecuted the Ministers of the Spirit so it is now here the Scripture is fulfilled And are not you of the Devil they that abide not in the truth are of the Devil and do not 2 John 1. 9. you shew your selves to be Devils of the Devil Murtherers he was a murtherer from the beginning and which of you can say you come to the beginning but are seeking now to destroy the innocent a peaceable harmless people to bring them into prison and into bondage do not you shew your selves to be murtherers seeking to devour as the Iews who said God was their Father when they went about to kill Christ and were of their father the Devil doing the lusts of their father which generation you shew your John 8.