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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40941	The publique worship, or, The worship of God baptisme and sacrament (so called) according to Gods appointment, or as hereafter appeareth : and concerning coming to the church according to Scripture ... / written in year 1664, by R.F.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1664 (1664)	Wing F493; ESTC R35559	13,135	20

that are in the flesh cannot please God Rom. 8.8 But persecutors are in the flesh therefore persecutors cannot pelase God neither have they that are in the flesh any right given from God to persecute them that are in the spirit in whom the righteousnesse of the Law is fulfilled even in them who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit as it is written Rom. 8.1 2 3 4. 1. The true spiritual Christians who are regenerate and born after the spirit they are the true believers in Christ and worshippers of God the Father in spirit who are sought and taught of the Lord according to his word Therefore there is no reason why they should be hated and persecuted neither hath the spirit of the world any right or authority given unto it from God to hate and persecute them that are regenerate and born of God For they that are regenerate and born of God are the houshold and family of God and have access unto him by the spirit through his son as it is written Ephes 2.18.19 2. There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus because they have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts and do live in the spirit and walk in the spirit and bring forth the fruits of the spirit against which there is no law Gal. 5.22 23 24 25. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made them free from the Law of Sin and Death and the righteousnesse of the law is fulfilled in them Rom 8.1 2. c. And if there be no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who have forsaken the flesh and are entred into the Spirit and life of truth to walk after the spirit and worship the Father therein being dead unto sin and alive unto God through Christ Jesus our Lord Rom. 6.7 8 9 10 11. What right reason can any one give for the haring reviling persecuting or banishing of them Who shall lay any thing to the change of Gods Elect seeing it is God that justifieth them Who is he that condemneth seeing it is Christ that dyed who is risen again who is even at the right hand of God an Intercessour who also maketh intercession for us Rom. 8.32 33.34 3. They are the true spiritual Christians and Worshippers of God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who being born again of water and the spirit are ingrafted or begotten into Christ the seed and power of God and are therefore declated new Creatures and Children of God Why then should such be hated persecuted excommunicated or banished What right reason can be shewed for the fame for we know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself and that wicked one toucheth him not and we know that we are of God and the whole world lyeth in wickedness and we know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ this is the true God and life eternal 1 John 5.18 19 20. Lye not one to another seeing you have put of the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the Image of him that created him where there is neither Greek nor Jew Barbarian Scythian bond or free but Christ is All and in All Colos 3.9 10 11. As ye therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk yee in him rooted and built up in him and established in the Faith as yee have been taught abounding therein with thanksgiving Colos 2.6 7. Therefore if any man be in Christ Jesus he is a new creature 2 Cor. 5.17 18. Behold what manner of love is this that the Father hath bestowed on us that we should be called the Sons of God therefore the world knoweth us not because it knew him not 1 John 3.1 Be yee therefore followers of God as dear children and walk in love as Christ also hath loved us and hath given himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour Ephes 5.1 2. And because yee are sons God hath sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts crying Abba Father wherfore thou art no more a servant but a son and if a son then an heire of God through Christ Gal. 4.6 7 4. They are the true spiritual Christians believers in Christ and the true worshippers of God the Father in spirit and in truth who being regenerate are sanctified through the word and are in Christ Jesus as branches in the Vine And such ought not to be hated and persecuted by them that profess themselves Christians for the kindness and love of God our Saviour towards man appeared not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy Ghost which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour that being justified by his grace we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life Tit. 3.4 5 6. John 15. 5. They that are in Christ Jesus as branches in the Vine bearing fruit they are purged that they may bring forth more fruit John 15.1 2. And they that are so in Union with Christ as branches in him and purged or made clean through the word that they may abide in him and he in them they bring forth much fruit unto God by vertue of that union for as the branch cannot bear fruit of it self except it abide in the vine no more can true Christians and worshippers of God the Father in spirit except they abide in Christ Jesus and grow up in him John 15.3 4 5. And they that are such and do so ought not to be persecuted or banished by them that profess love to the Lord Jesus no just cause by them can be shewed for it and the Heathen who know not God they have no right to do it And by the Law of the Land no man can be banished our of his native Country but either by Authority of Parliament Cook 2. part inst fol. 47. or in case of Abjuration for Felony by the common-Law saith Cook upon Magna Chartafol 47. But it is not Felony to worship the Lord nor it is not enacted and declared by Authority of Parliament that people shall be banished for the service and worship of God therefore Christians ought not to be banished for their love and faithfulness unto Christ Jesus as aforesaid An Epistle to Friends DEar Friends and Bretheren and Sisters begotten and brought forth by the Immortal word who are of the family of the heavenly love which is the houshold of Faith and so of the eternal God and all who are in any measure acquainted with him dwell in the power by which you are brought forth as a people for his praise in these perilous times

them or cast them out of the synagogues and after endanger their lives It is answered in the 16 Chapter of John 2 and 3 verses by our Lord Jesus Christ who hath said these things will they do unto you and why The reason given by the Lord Jesus is this because saith he they have not known the Father nor me It is evident therefore and that by the Scriptures or prophecie of Christ that ignorant men who know neither God nor Christ but are strangers unto them will deal so hardly and cruelly with the Saints and true believers in Christ as to Excommunicate them or put them out of the synagogues and after endanger their lives by possessing the ignorant and ungodly with a false confidence that to kill the Saints under the notion of Hereticks is good service and done for the glory of God But these things the Saints have been in expectation of and they come not untold of by Christ nor unlooked for by them for these things have I told you said Christ that when the time shall come yee may remember that I told you of them John 16.4 And in the dayes of the Prophet Isaiah the Lord had a broken hearted People who trembled at the word of the Lord for which cause they were hated and excommunicated or cast out of Church fellowship and they that hated them and cast them out pretended the glory of God in that act of excommunication or casting them out as aforesaid but the Lord sent his Prophet with a Message that included two things First Gods owning of that broken hearted people who trembled at his word when they were excommunicated or cast out by their pretended Brethren who covered their act of excommunicatition or casting them out with the pretence of bringing glory to God And secondly Gods dislike unto and displeasure against them that so excommunicated or cast them out from amongst them saying hear the word of the Lord all ye that tremble at his word your Brethren that hated you and cast you out for my names sake said Let the Lord be glorified but he shall appear to your joy and they sall be ashamed Isa 66.5 First It is to be observed that God promised to appear to them that were Excommunicated or cast out and not only appear but he also promised to appear to their joy And if to their joy that were so Excommunicated or cast out then for their encouragement and for the owning of them And Secondly It is to be observed that God promised to appear to them that did Excommunicate or cast them out but it should be to their shame and if to their shame then not to the owning of them in their Act of Excommunication or as aforesaid They that are Excommunicated or cast out because of their love and faithfulnesse to the Lord need not to be ashamed though they that hate them and cast them our account them hereticks and pretend they do it for the Glory of God Their Excommunicating or casting of them out cannot hinder God for owning of them nor for appearing to them for their joy For he hath promised to appear to them for their joy that are so hated and cast out and to the shame of them that so hates them and casts them out as aforesaid Who are they that Christ said the Ignorant who know not God should Excommunicate or put out of the Synagogues and after endanger their live John 16.2.3 I answer First They are such as are beloved of Christ and commanded to continue in his love John 15.9 Secondly they are such as are in Christ Jesus as branches in a Vine who are purged that they may bring forth fruit unto God John 15.1 2 3 4 5. Thirdly they are such as are the friends of Christ who manifest their love to him by abiding in him and keeping his Commandements John 15.4 14. For what cause do they Hate Persecute Excommunicate and endanger the lives of the Friends of Christ who abide in him and keep his Commandements I answer First because they are chosen of Christ Secondly Because they are ordained that they should goe and bring forth fruit unto God John 15.16 Thirdly Because they abide in the Doctrine of Christ and love one another as he hath commanded John 15.17 Fourthly Because they are not of the World but are chosen out of the World as Christ hath declared and said John 15.19 Are these the causes why the people of God reproachfully called Quakers together with the Saints and Believers in Christ are hated persecuted and Excommunicated I answer Yea these are the very causes because they abide in Christ and keep his commands For if they should depart from Christ and go into the spirit of the World and cease being Godly and Righteous and learn to be deboyst and wicked and comply with the spirit of the World in its wayes and Worships then persection against them would be at an end and cease And if they should daily erre and go astray from the waies of God and follow the devices and desires of their own hearts and cease bringing forth fruit unto God disobey the Commands of Christ and daily offend against Gods Holy Laws and be miserable sinners then persecution would cease Who are they that are the haters and persecutors of the Friends of Christs Saints and Believers in him I answer First They are the World Secondly They are such as are haters of Christ for saith he If the World hate you ye know that it hated me before it hated you John 15.18 Thirdly They are such as are of the same nature and spirit which they were of that persecuted Christ who hath said by way of remembrance That the Servant is not greater then the Lord if they have persecuted me they will also persecute you John 15.20 Fourthly They are such as know not God as Christ hath said all these things will they do for my names sake because they know not him that sent me John 15.21 And they hated Christ without a cause John 15.25 So do they hate his friends without a cause for if they could depart from him and disobey his commands and enter into the spirit of the World again and be one with the world in profanenesse and will-worship then persecution would cease as Christ hath said If ye were of the World the World would love his own but because I have chosen you out of the profanenesse will-worship and spirit of the World therefore the World hateth you John 15.19 And inasmuch as the friends of Christ are hated without a cause there is no just cause why the Saints and Believers in Christ should be hated and persecuted But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the spirit even so it is now Gal. 4.29 But as then he that is born after the flesh had no right nor authority from God given to persecute him that was born after the spirit no more hath he now For they