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spirit_n	flesh_n	life_n	sow_v	6,723	5	10.5328	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88620	The true gospel-faith witnessed by the prophets and apostles, and collected into thirty articles, presented to the world as the present faith and practice of the Church of Christ. By Tho: Lover. With A voice from the word of the Lord to those grand imposters called Quakers. By John Griffith a servant of Christ, and one that bears witness against those wandring stars.	Lover, Thomas.; Griffith, John, 1622?-1700. Voice from the word of the Lord to those grand imposters called Quakers.	1654 (1654)	Wing L3248; Wing G2009; Thomason E1492_1; Thomason E1492_2; ESTC R208516	8,221	21

thing no but a precious thing the bloud of Christ is that which will cleanse thee from all sin if thou walk and continue in the true light Again Christ is Gods treasurie Col. 1.20 In him are hid the treasures of wisdom and knowledg It hath pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell Where then shall we go for wisdom and knowledg but to Christ Say then to him Wnether shall we go Thou hast the words of eternal life Yea 1 Iohn 5.11 Life is in the Son he is the life of Saints if thou forsake Christ thou dost forsake thy life Col. 3.4 2. Labour to see an excellency in the Word of Christ I mean the Scriptures make them the rule of thy faith and conversation and not the vain notions of men for the Scriptures are so they are able to make thee wise to salvation then they must be thy rule in point of faith yea and they will furnish thee throughly unto every good work then a rule in point of conversation also undervalue not the Scriptures for what is written is written for learning that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures we might have hope Christ made use of the Scriptures so did his Apostles saying Thus it is written yea Christ commanded the Iews to seach the Scriptures Iohn 5.39 they were they that testified of him Yea and the Bereans searched the Scriptures daily Acts 17.11 to see whether those things Paul spake were so or no and for that cause were counted more noble than they of Thessalonica Yea the mysterie that was kept secret since the world began was made manifest by the Scriptures of the Prophets by the commandment of the everlasting God made known to all Nations for the obedience of faith There is a blessedness to them that reade and hear the words of the Prophecie of the Scriptures Rev. 1.3 Blessed is he that teadeth and they that hear the words of this Prophecy and keep those things that are written therein for the time is at hand Col. 3.16 Let the word of God dwell in you richly teaching one another c. 1 Iohn 4.6 They that are of God hear us saith the Apostle Iohn If you are of God you will hear Iohn Peter Paul and the rest that were the servants of Christ not the fleshly conceits of these or any other men My Sheep saith Christ hear my voice and a strangers they will not hear O prize the Word of Christ Ephes 6.17 it s the Sword of the Spirit and if you deliver your Sword to your Enemie he may easily overcome you Consider the sweet frame of that gracious soul the Lords servant David See Psalm 119. What a high estimation he set upon the Word of the Lord saith he O how I love thy Law its my meditation all the day mine eyes prevent the night-watches because I meditate on thy Word Reade that 119. Psalm and make it thy meditation there are many heavenly and soul-establishing sentences therein 3. Labour to see an excellencie in the Church and Ordinances of Christ. Consider Psalm 87.2 that God loves the gates of Sion more than all the dwellings of Iacob the Church of Christ is the habitation of God through the Spirit Ephes 2.19 20 21 22. God dwels there Christ walks there Psalm 26.8 It 's the place where Gods honour dwelleth yea Psalm 87.7 All Gods pleasant springs are in thee O Sion The Church of God is the pillar and ground of truth 1 Tim. 3.15 therefore Psalm 84.4 7. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house O God they will be still praising thee yea they go from strength to strength every one in Sion appeareth before God O therefore with David Psalm 27.4 desire this one thing of the Lord and that seek after that thou maist dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of thy life to behold the beautie of the Lord and to inquire in his Temple Psalm 84.10 for a day in his courts is better han a thousand I had rather saith he be a door-keeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness Lastly as thou seest an excellencie in Christ his Word and Church so labour to see Christ in his Ordinances as Baptism breaking Bread and Prayer 2 Iohn 9. Continue in this Doctrine for they that do so have both the Father and the Son and the more perverse speakers do arise saying In vain have we kept his Ordinances the more do you love them and contend for them meeting often together the Lord-will take notice of it there shall be a Book of Remembrance written yea and you be his in the day the Lord shall make up his Jewels and although they pretend never so much to holiness and the like yet let not your hearts be drawn away after their delusions but Ephes 6.7 as you have received Jesus Christ the Lord so walk in him rooted and built up in him and stablished in the faith abounding therein with thanksgiving 2 Cor. 11.13 14 15. For such are false Apostles deceitfull workers transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ and no marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of Light therefore it is no great thing if his Ministers be transformed as the Ministers of righteousnes whose end shall be according to their works Therefore beware of them such as bring not the Dectrine of Christ bid them not to house neither bid them God speed for he that biddeth them God speed is partaker of their evil deeds The Apostle Paul saith Gal. 1.8 But though we or an Angel from Heaven preach any other Gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you let him be accursed 1 John 4.1 Believe not then every spirit 2 Tim. 3.14 but continue in the things you have heard and 1 Cor. 15.58 be ye stedfast unmoveable always abounding in the work of the Lord for as much as you know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord 2 Iohn 8. Look to your selves that you lose not the things that you have wrought but that you receive a full reward Blessed are you if you endure temptation Satan will be stirring up instruments against you but if you resist him he will flie from you though he go about as a roaring Lion seeking whom he may devour yet resist him stedfast in the faith the Lord will stand by you if you so do for he will keep you in the hour of temptation if you keep the word of his patience And again many are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord will deliver them out of them all O let us watch then against Satan and his instruments and remember that God will render to every man according to his works to them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glorie and honour eternal life but to them that are contentious indignation and wrath And again we must all appear before the Judgment-seat of Christ that every one of us may receive the things done in his bodie whether they be good or bad be not deceived God is not mocked for what a man soweth that shall he reap he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting but he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but in due time you shall reap if you faint not this is the Saints sowing-time the time of Harvest will come nay it is not far off for he that shall come will come and will not tarry be patient therefore unto the coming of the Lord for it draweth nigh You have need of patience that when you have done the will of God you may receive the Promise the Crown the Kingdom even that Kingdom that it 's the good pleasure of your heavenly Father to give to you his little flock O therefore if you will have right to the Tree of Life that stands in the midst of the Paradise of God and a part in the holy Citie you must keep the Commandments of God and the faith of Iesus for blessed are they that keep his Commandments that they may have right to the Tree of Life and may enter in through the gates into the Citie Sad would it be if the gates should be shut against you as they shall be against some at that day even some that shall say in that day Lord Lord open to us Nay though they shall say We have prophesied in thy Name yea and done many wondrous works in thy Name yet shall he say unto them Depart from me ye that work iniquitie I know ye not be not like the foolish Virgins but have Oyl in your Lamps let your loins be girt and your Lights burning keep your selves in the love of God let Christ be precious to you Behold the beautie of the Lord in his house Say the Word of the Lord is precious in these days Have respect with David to all the Commandments of God and walk in them lest you fall into the errour of the wicked and so fall from your stedfastness 2 Thess 2.15 16 17. Therefore brethren stand fast and hold the traditions which ye have been taught whether by word or our Epistle Now our Lord Iesus Christ himself and God even our Father which hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace comfort your hearts and stablish you in every good word and work Your Remembrancer at the Throne of Grace JOHN GRIFFITH FINIS

A VOICE From the Word of the Lord to those grand Impostors called QUAKERS Wherein is discovered their fleshly and filthy mindedness together with the judgments of the Lord attending them Also a word of caution to all that are called to be Saints in this Nation which may be of concernment to all people By JOHN GRIFFITH a Servant of Christ and one that bears witness against those wandring stars For this cause God shall send them strong delusions to believe Lyes that they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness 2 Thess 2. 11 12. LONDON Printed for Francis Smith in Flying-Horse Court in Fleet-street 1654. A Voice from the word of the Lord c. THe most high God that made the Heavens and the Earth the Seas and the Fountains of water Rev. 14.7 hath moved me and stirred me up to bear witness to the truth and to witness against the abominable fleshly-mindedness and yet spiritual pride of those grand Impostors of these times called Quakers by whose sorceries many are bewitched and drawn from the simplicity of the Gospel to another Gospel which is not another Gospel but the vanitie of their own mindes and their own fleshly and corrupt thoughts which they cry up as the Oracles of God To them I say I am to direct my speech from the Lord therefore thus saith the Lord to thee O Quaker thou art fleshly minded for thou lookest upon the institutions of Christ with a fleshly carnal eye witness Richard Hubberthorn in his Antipathy between flesh and Spirit where he saith that the bread and wine which Christ commanded his Disciples to eate and to drink in remembrance of him and to shew forth his death till he come is carnal O fleshly minded men whom the god of this world hath blinded because you beleeve not thus saith the Lord Mal. 3.14 ye have said it is in vain to serve God and what profit is it that we have kept his Ordinances and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of Hosts Mal 4.1 Behold the day cometh that shall burn as an Oven and all the proud yea all that do wickedly shall be stubble and the day that cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of Hostes that it shall leave them neither root nor branch Yea All that are spiritually proud as you are that give out your selves to be some great ones Act. 8.9 as Simon Magus did Rev. 2.2 You say you are Apostles and are not but have been found liars you proud Pharises Hyppocrits that say you are Just holy humble c. The Lord saith the poor sinful Publicans are more justified then ye You that boast of your light within Joh. 9.44 Thus saith the Lord because you say you see therefore your sin remaineth For for judgment is he ver 39 Christ come into the world that they which see not might see and that they which see might be made blind If Christ Joh. 15.22 had not spoke to you in his Word you had had no sin but now you have no Cloak for your sin Wo unto you Hypocrites for you do not only neglect the weightier matters of the Law as one of them taught the 27. of September 1654 in my hearing and many others that will witness it but the Law it self teaching men so to do for you say that she Scripture is no rule of faith and conversation Matt. 22.29 You erre not knowing them nor the power of God your carnal mindes discerne not the power and spirituality of them Thus saith the Lord Joh. 6.63 My words are spirit and they are life although they are the savor of death to you that perish 2. Tim. 3.15.16.17 The Scripture is able to make the man of God wise to salvation and to furnish him throughly to every good work Rom. 15.4 And what was before written was written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope Therefore know this thou perverter of the right way of God thou shalt be judged 〈◊〉 the word that Christ hath spoke Hek 〈…〉 How canst thou escape that neglectest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 salvation which at the first began to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Lord and was confirmed to us by them that heard him Thus saith the Lord Joh. 13.48 He that rejecteth me 2nd receiveth not my words hath one that Judgeth him the word that I have spoken shall judg him at the last day Joh. 12.48 Quake and tremble at this that word which you reject and dispise shall judg you at the last day for thus saith the Lord Mar. 8.38 Whosoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous sinfull generation of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with his holy Angels yea 2. Thes 1.7.8 when he shall come in flaming Fire he shall render vengeance to you who know not God nor obey not the Gospel The Lord hath spoken it and it shall surely come to passe Prov. 13.13 whoso despiseth his word shall be destroyed O you blinde leaders of the blinde both of you will fall into the pit Rev. 19.20 There is a lake prepared for you where the beast and the false prophet shall be where you shall gnash your teeth for pain and be tormented day and night for ever for you are those that the Lord hath before spoken of in his word and therefore no marvel you would not have men read it 2. Pet. 2.1 throughout the Chapter which shall bring in damnable herises even denying the Lord that bought you and bring upon your selves swift destruction and many shall follow your pernitious waies by whom the way of truth is evil spoken of and though ye through covetousness make merchandise of some yet know that your judgment lingreth not and that your damnation slumbreth not For the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished but chiefly you who are fleshly and dispise government being presumptuous and are not afraid to speak evil of dignities but you as natural brute beasts speak evil of the things you understand not and shall perish in your own corruption Wells you are without water Clouds that are carried with a tempest Prov. 25.14 To whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever for when ye speak great swelling words of vanity ye allure through the lusts of the flesh through much wantoness those which were clean escaped from them who live in error while you promise them liberty they themselves are the servants of corruption for of whom a man is overcome of the same is he brought in bondage See thy portion thy reward is destruction you filthy dreamers you raging waves of the Sea that foame out your own shame that are wandring Stars to whom the blackness of darkness is reserved for ever Jud. 8.13 So be it quake at this the day of the fierce