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To all the ignorant people, the word of the Lord, who are under the blind guides the priests.
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Fox, George, 1624-1691.
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wise in heart may see what was Pauls end in going into the temple to witnesse forth the second priesthood Christ Jesus Salomon build a temple and the Lord spake unto David thy son shall build an house whom I will set upon thy throne in my name then Salomon began to set to work the hewers of cedars and timber and the Lord gave Salomon wisdom which he did promise him Salomon had 70000 that bore burdens and 80000 hewers in the mountains besides the chief of Salomons officers which were men over the work 3000 and 300 that were over them that wrought in the work and many there was at the building of the temple and Salomon had a command which the Lord said Salomon should do as you may read 1 Kings 5. said he should build him an house and when it was built and when Christ was come a greater then Salomon who was the substance though he went into the temple to whip out but it was in their time to be a house of prayer after Christ shewed unto his disciples and prophesied unto them in the 24. Mat. the destruction of it and Christ who was greater then Salomon there prophesied the destruction of Salomons building so Stephen denyed it who witnessed Christ and the prophet denyed it who saw Christ Acts 7. and the Apostle denyed it who was a witnesse of Christ Acts 17. and the people hawled him out of it and said he polluted the holy place Acts 21. and the Apostle called it an Idols temple and the Apostle went into it and was hawled out of it Acts the 5. and they that preached Christ witnesses of Christ witnessed a greater then Salomon who built the temple such denyed Salomons temple and said what know you not that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost which is in you and you are not your own for you are bought with a price therefore glorify God with your spirits which is Gods such as can witnesse this Christ and this price and are bought doth deny the outward temple and witnesse their bodies the temples of the Holy Ghost 1 Cor. 16.19 such do witnesse a greater then Salomon who built the temple Christ Jesus who prophesied the destruction of the temple so the temple which God had commanded was denyed with them that witnessed a greater then Salomon and whereas you call your superstitious place which was built for popery a church it is all false and a lye they are no true temples nor true churches so they are teachers of lyes and causeth people to erre by their lyes and lightnesse as you may read Jer. 23.32 and the Scripture saith 1 Thes 1.1 the true church is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and here let all the honest in heart see how these false prophets have deceived you and Christ prophesied and said unto his disciples he sent them forth in the midst of wolves he bid them be harmlesse and wise and he told them that they would scourge them and this he prophesied to them which we find true as you may read Mat. 10.16.17 and how they would hawl them before rulers and as it is said they that kill you will think he doth God good service and Paul while he was under the first priesthood he being in the synogogues and imprisoned them that believed on Christ Jesus the second priesthood and here Paul fulfilled Christs words as you may read Acts 22. Paul was called Saul at the 19 ver and while Paul was in the first priesthood he held up the temple and the synogogues but after he was hawled out of the temple he denyed them as you may read in the Scripture before-mentioned and Christ being the true light which enlighteneth every one that cometh into the world as you may read John 1.9 who prophesied the destruction of the temple the Apostle was sent to turn them from darknesse to this light to believe in Christ Jesus the second priest as you may read Acts 26. how he was sent to turn them from darknesse to light and from the power of Satan to God that they might receive the forgivenesse of their sins and an inheritance amongst them that are sanctified by faith in me and the Apostle which went into ihe synogogues the Jews stirred up the gentiles and there was a great assault made by the Jews and the gentiles and rulers to use them dispightfully and stone them as you may read Acts 14. and the Apostle which preached Christ in the Jews synogogues and the people said is not this he which once destroyed them that called upon this name and after many dayes they took counsell how they might kill the Apostle as you may read Acts the 9. and all they in the synogogues when they heard Jesus was filled with wrath and thrust him cut of the city to the hill that they might cast him downe headlong as you may read Luke 4.28 29. Here you may see the cruelty of them in the synogogues against Christ and so likewise against his Apostles and so likewise against his servants now as their fruits manifest so now wo unto them that are whited and painted with Christ and the Apostles words and out of their life found as you may read Matth. 23. And all you that takes the peoples Tythes and brings the first Priest-hood and say they took Tythes and say Levi took Tythes which came out of the loyns of Abraham and say that the scribes and Pharisees paid Tythes and Christ Iesus said these things you ought to have done But he cried woe unto them blind which strayned at a gnat Who did not discover the second Priest-hood Christ Jesus He said those things you ought to have done and the Prophet said they robbed God of the Tythes if they brought them not into the Store-house and that was in the first Priest-hood so you that say Abraham paid Tythes to Melchizedecke yea I say he did so out of the spoyle but not out of his substance the Apostle in the seaventh of the Hebrewes speaks of Abraham paying-Tythes to Melchizedecke like unto the Sonne of God and Levi receiving Tythes in the Leviticall Priest-hood and he had a command to take Tythes according to the Law Yea of their bretheren and said the Law made men high Priests the 28. verse and then said the Priest-hood was changed and that there was a necessity of the change of the Law and there was a disannulling of the command that went before by which the Priest-hood took Tythes Hebrewes 7.18 vers And when the Apostle had spoken of Tythes in the dayes of Abraham and Tythes in the Leviticall Priest-hood he said the Priest-hood was changed Also the Law as you may read Hebrewes 7.12.18 verses and when the Apostle had spoken of these things before mentioned Melchizedecke like unto the Sonne of God who is the end of all likenesses Now of these things which we have spoken this is the summe the high Priest Christ Jesus and Tythes was one
thing and the Priest-hood was another thing the Apostle spoke of and now if you speak of Tythes after the Law Christ Jesus is the summe of things Hebrewes 8. and you that keep people in those things keepeth them from the summe The Word of the Lord God to all poor deceived people who follow such Priests as bear rule by their means and you people love to have it so as you may read Jeremy 5.30.31 and so are the foolish people that are foolish and the sottish children that are wise to do evill but to do good have no understanding as your may reade Ierem. 4.21 and you follow such shepheards as are greedy secking their gain from their quarter and never have enough as you may reade Isaiah 56.10.11 and you follow such shepheards as seeks for the fleece and clothe themselves with the wool which makes a prey upon you and devours which the Lord sent Ezekiel to cry woe against Ezek. 54. So as a troop of robbers wait for a man so the company of Priests murder in the way by consent Hos 6 9. And you follow such Priests as teach for hire and divine for money and yet will they lean upon the Lord and say is not the Lord amongst us no evil can come upon us and cry peace peace and he that wil not put into their mouths they prepare war against him and thus they build up Sion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity Micah 3. And now all ye Priests this commandment is for you if you will not hear and if you will not lay it to heart I will send a curse upon you I will curse your blessing yea I have cursed them already Behold I will corrupt your seed and will spread dung upon you Mal. 2.1 2.3 and you follow such hypocrites as stand praying in the Synagogues Matthew 26.5 and such as are called of men Masters and have the chief seats in the Synagogues which our Lord Jesus Christ cried wo against Matthew 23. And you follow such deceivers as tells you the Steeple-house is the Temple when Christ prophesied of the destruction of the Temple Matthew 24. And Stephen denied it Acts the 7. and the Apostle denied it Acts 17. and he was haled out of the Temple Acts 21.30 and you follow such as tells you the Steeple-house is the Church when the Apostle saith the Church is in God 1 Thessalonians 1.1 And you follow such which through fained words and covetousness doth make merchandize of you by whom the way of Truth is evill spoken of 2 Peter 2. and you follow such as go in the way of Cain in envie and after the errour of Balaam for gifts and rewards 2 Peter 2. Jude 11. and you follow such as are mockers and scoffers and sierce despisers and raylers whose bands are made strong Esay 28.22 2 Timothy 3. which hath the forme of Godlyness but denies the power from such you are to turn away if you hear that Spirit that spoke in the Apostles and from all such before mentioned and you follow such as serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies and by good words an fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple Romans 16.18 and hear with the Scripture you may judge and trie your teachers and you follow such as are given to filthy lucre whose mouths must be stopped Titus 1.11 12. and such you follow as the Apostle called evil beasts and slow bellies and you follow such as stands not in Gods counsell but speaks a vain divination of their own hearts who by their lies and by their lightness have caused the people to erre and hath not profited the people at all saith the Lord Therefore I am against the Prophets saith the Lord that steals my word from his neighbour and saith the Lord saith and use their tongues when the Lord never spoke to them but Priest and Prophet are both profane Ieremy 23. and they are such as gave you Davids quakings prayers and prophesies in meeter and when you reade the Psalmes you keep on your hats and when you sing them you put off your hats and here you worship the workes of your own hands and they are such as tell you the sprinkiing of Infants is the Baptisme and of a Sacrament and their is no such Scriptyres and so the plagues of God are added to rhem that addeth Revelation 22. But the one Baptisme with the Spirit into the one body and the singing with the Spirit and with the understanding according to Scripture that we own and witness 1 Corinthians 12.13 1 Cor. 14. To the light of Christ in all your Consciences I do speak which comes from the Lord Jesus Christ who enlightens every one that cometh into the world which if you all do love it will lead you all from those teachers aforementioned up to Christ from whence the light doth come and hear is your way to salvation and this is the light which shews you sin and evill if you love it it will lead you to Christ from whence the light doth come and if you hate it it is your condemnation so remember you are warned in your life time this is the day of your visitation ALL you that reproach revile scoff and scorn at the children and servants and messengers of the most high God whom you nickname Quakers and under the same name persecute them as a people not worthy to live and have no ground for it neither knowes any evill by them but all along their lives and conversations condemns yours and therefore you hate them revile them and reproach them in whom the power of the living God is made manifest the same which ever was wch shakes the earth makes the strong man to bow himself and the keepers of the house to tremble Eccl. 12.3 the same power which all the children of God witnessed and passed through in all ages which then by the same generation suffered both by Magistrates Professours Priests and People who were and are strangers to the life of God and his power and therefore reproached it scoffed and scorned at it as you now doe But t is that the Scripture might be fulfilled upon you who are despisers of those that are good 2 Timothy 3.3 Isaack the seed of the promise trembled Gen. 27.33 who was mocked by Ishmael the son of the bond woman who was cast out Gen. 21.9.10 Gallat 4.30 As the same seed is mocked now by you Ishmaelites who are the children of the bond-woman who are cast out and are found without mocking and scoffing at the righteous seed and Moses the servant of God quaked and trembled Heb. 12.21 who counted it greater riches to suffer affliction with the people of God then to injoy the pleasures of sin for a season Heb. 11.26 and this you now call madness and folly who know not that godliness is great gain 1 Tim. 6.6 and David who was a King quaked and trembled Psalm 119.120 and drunkards made a song of him Psalm