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spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	light_n	5,338	5	6.1257	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76754	Jesus Christ, the same to day, as yesterday, in life and power, in afflictions and sufferings: and the seed of the serpent the same now, as ever, in darkness and emnity; in rage and persecution. Being for removal of the stumbling block out of the way of the simple, concerning the testimony now given against the priests, and their worships, (viz.) Cannot you let them alone, why do ye disturb them, and their assemblies? go unto their houses, or to some private place, and speak to them there; cannot you give the same liberty to others, which you would have yourselves? Wherein is manifested, that what estimation, and enterrainment [sic] the witness of Jesus receiveth at this day from the men of the world, is the same, as it hath alwayes been from the beginning. / Given forth for the sake of the honest-hearted, and in witness of the truth, as it is in Jesus, every where spoken against, scorned, and persecuted, under the reproachful name of quaking. George Bishop.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1655 (1655)	Wing B2995; Thomason E861_7; ESTC R206652	22,155	33

because thou knewest not the houre of thy visitation Friends It concerns your pretious souls eternally to know this houre of your visitation least you continuing to fall upon the Corner-stone the Rock of Ages and thus to persecute it and evilly to requite the dear love of God to you in raising up his witness against you warning you of all deceipt and directing you where Redemption is to be found and eternall life it fall upon you and grinde you to powder For verily the Kingdom of God is come amongst you the Son is come to the Vineyard to look for fruit and upon such dayes of the Son of man are you fallen that you are not aware of whom if you shall still consult against cast out and murther and call the spirit of judgement and of burning of the Devill whereby the filth of the Daughter of Sion is purged away and which makes the earth to shake and the Pillars of the house to tremble and the strong man to bow and the mighty man to cry bitterly he will n Luk. 20. 13. 14 15 16. Mat. 21. 41. miserably destroy you and let out the Vineyard unto others and sad will be your portion for all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme but he that o Mark 3. 28. 29 30. shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness but is in danger of eternall damnation This said Christ because they said He had an unclean spirit Sink down therefore to that of God in every one of your Consciences the light of Iesus Christ wherewith he lightens every one that commeth into the world the faithfull and true witness to which we speak And let us reason a little together what is that about which you so much contend and for which you have drawn and are drawing and ready to draw the blood of those who longing for the Redemption of the seed in every one of you which lies and is sought to be held in Captivity by the Priests and their worships and knowing whom you resist and the terrors of the Lord are made to testifie against the wayes you walk in as leading to hell and as tending to the Chambers of death and to shew you would you hear the way that leads to eternall life whose Bowels even when under sufferings by you for so witnessing and against the spirit that rules in you earn after you and the salvation of your souls which are pretious God is their witness Are they Churches of Christ search and see in the Scriptures which you say is your Rule there all might p 1 Cor. 13. 31 prophesie one by one and when any thing was q 30. revealed to another that sate by the first held his peace and the r 29. Prophets two or three might speak and the rest judge there was the s 1 Cor. 2. 15. spirituall man who judgeth all things and yet he himselfe is judged of no man Therein t 2 Tim. 2. 25. meekness were instructed those that opposed themselves There u 1 Cor. 15. 24. 25. the unbeliever and unlearned by found Doctrine was convinced of all and judged of all and secrets of his heart made manifest so that falling down on his face he worshipped God and reported God is in you of a truth There were no strikings nor quarrellings nor Tumults nor drawings of blood nor calling to or haling before Magistrates or carrying to prisons whippings stockings throwing into Dungeons and keeping close prisoners from friends and maintenance for speaking or opposing nor sending such to their homes from Tithing to Tithing who came to visit them never were they found persecuting but were alwayes after this manner intreated and persecuted who ever persecuted was out of the Doctrine of Christ The w 1 Thes 1. 1. Church is in God the x 1 Tim. 1. 15. Pillar and Ground of Truth y 1 Pet. 2. 4 5. liveing stones built a spirituall house upon the living Stone Are yours such are these things found amongst you Be coole and consider for these things are plain he that runs may read them be not alwayes deceived by their fruits you may know them to be the a Rev 2. 9. 3. 9. Synagogues of Satan the b Rev. 18. 2. Cages of every unclean and hateful Bird the Haitation of Devills and the hold of every foul spirit plain dealling you will finde at length to be best Are the Members of Harlots Drunkards Enviers Swearers Lyars Hypocrites Cheaters Strikers c. the Members of Christ are such the Piller and Ground of Truth are those who are dead in Trespasses and sins living stones built upon the living foundation Is striking tumulting and such like in meekness instructing those who oppose or convincing the unbeliever and unlearned and manifesting the secrets of his heart what Churches are they when such things as these are found where neither the Testimony of the Lord will be endured nor an unbeliever and unlearned so accounted either convinced or permitted to stay there so to be Are your Priests Ministers of Jesus Christ search and see they were c Tit. 1. 7. blameless as the Stewards of God not self-willed nor soon angry nor given to wine nor to filthy lucre no strikers nor † 1 Tim. 3. 3. strivers nor brawlers nor envious nor raylers nor covetous d Isa 56. 11. nor seeking their gain from their Quarters e Mic. 3. 5. 6 7. 1 Tim. 12. 24. nor Biters with their teeth nor preparers of warre where it is not put into their mouths nor receivers of Tithes Oblations Obventions c. or suers for treble dammages or casters into prison of those who refuse for whom they neither plant nor plow nor sowe nor makers of f 2 Pet. 2. 3. Merchandize of the people through covetousness with feigned words or having g 2 Pet. 2. 14. hearts exercised with covetous practices they were not called of men h Mat. 23 10. Masters nor i Luke 11. 43 Mat. 23. 6. 7 8 stood praying in the Synagogues or for a pretence made long Prayers nor loved the uppermost seats in the Assemblies and at Feasts nor greeting in the Market place k Mich. 3. 11 nor preached for hire nor divined for mony nor had or sought for approbation of men or a State-maintenance or a state consistory nor spake l Jer 14 4 9. 14 a lying Divination and imagination of their own heart for the word of the Lord nor came with m 1 Cor. 2. 4. the entising words of mans wisdom nor by n Gal. 1. 1. 11. or in the will and time of man nor o Jer. 13. 21. ran when they were not sent nor made the p 2 Cor. 11. 9. 12. 13 14. Gospel burdensome nor had they any q 1 Cor. 4. 11. certain dwelling place nor did they persecute nor called they to Magistrates nor haled to prison those

of the world for signes and wonders in the sight of every generation of their enemies And thus is the seed of the Serpent the same now as ever in darkness and enmity in opposition persecution and every Generation of them more blinde and envious then their Fathers who now are come to persecute us for the same things practised which themselves professin the letter And thus is the eternall spirit from which the Prophets spake and the Apostles and by which Jesus Christ offered up himselfe a Mystery which from the beginning hath been hid in God whom those who believed not in the light never knew nor can know from that eye it hath been is and ever shall be shut up even from the wise and prudent who by wisdom know not God who hath created all things by Jesus Christ who is the light of the world who enlightens every one that commeth into the world He q 1 Pet. 3. 9. preached in the dayes of Noah to the spirits in prison but that old world neither repented nor believed He was with the r Acts 7. 38 39 Church of the Jews in the Wildernesse and with the Angel who spake to Moses in Mount Sinai and with the Fathers who received the lively Oracles but they would not obey but thrust him from them and in their hearts returned to Egypt He spake and testified in the Prophets but they would not hear they who handled the Law knew him not and s Jer. 2. 8. the great things of his Law which he sent to Ephraim were t Hos 8. 12. were accounted as a strange thing He came in flesh yet he was not v 1 Cor. 2. 8. known to the Princes of this world nor his voice nor w Acts 13. 27. the voyces of the Prophets which spake of him though they were read every Sabbath-day He came in spirit and power in the Apostles and Disciples and there he is x Acts 13. 45. contradicted and blasphemed and y Acts 3. 13. 14 denyed above the measure of former Generations as the z Acts 13. 45. measure of the spirit in them exceeded and they judged themselves unworthy of eternall life In his Prophets times who a Isa 10. 11 12. were all ignorant who were all dumb Doggs that could not bark who were blinde sleeping lying down loving to slumber who were greedy Doggs who can never have enough who were Shepheards that could not understand who all looked to their own way every one for his gain from his quarter who said come ye I will setch wine we will fill our selves with strong drink and to morrow shall be as to day and much more abundant but the Watchmen of Israel Who b Ezek. 22. 25 conspired against the Lord and were in the midst of Judah as a roaring Lyon ravening the prey devouring souls taking the Treasure and pretious things making many Widdows and speakers of lies in the name of the Lord to whom was the c Isay 29. 9. 10 11 12. Vision of all become as a Book sealed on whom did the Lord powre out the spirit of deep slumber closed their eyes and covered who were drunken but not with wine who did stagger but not with strong drink to whom was night and no vision and darkness that they could not divine upon whom went the Sun down and the day became dark who caused the people to erre and bite with their teeth and cryed peace and he that put not into their d Mic. 3. 5. 6. mouthes they prepare Warre against him who taught for hire and divined for mony and yet leaned upon the Lord and said Is not the Lord amongst us none evill can come upon us for whose sake Sion was plowed as a field and Jerusalem became heaps and the Mountains of the house as the high places of the Forrests who were confounded and had their loins covered for that there was no answer from God but the Priests the Prophets the Seers the Diviners Whose e Zach. 11. 17 right eye was to be utterly darkened and whose Arm clean dryed up but the Idoll Shepheard Whose soul abhorred God and his soul loathed them who in Companies in the way murthered by consent as the Troops of Robbers wait for a man f Hos 6. 9. who violated the Law and prophaned the holy things and hid their eyes from the Sabbaths and put no difference between the clean and the unclean whose blessings Mal. 2. 2. were cursed but the Priests In the dayes of his flesh who kept away the g Luk. 11. 52. key of knowledge and neither entered into the Kingdom nor suffered others but the chief Priests Pharisees Lawyers Scribes and Doctors who read him daily to the people who above all men were outwardly most holy whom he notwithstanding calls h Mat. 23. 16. 17. 19. 26. 15. 14. blinde Guides leading the b inde and both falling into the ditch though they said to the i Ioh. 7. 47. 48 49. Officers Are you also deceived have any of the Rulers or the Pharisees believed on him but these people who know not the Law are accursed how high were all their expectations of the Messiah the Prince of his people and of the powrings forth of his spirit in the Prophecies but when he came and the Prophesies in him fulfilled and the spirit powred forth how basely esteemed despised rejected unbelieved and persecuted and the same was also in the dayes of the Apostles Where the life hath been most manifested there that hath been most in mystery to those who believed not in the light behold he commeth in Clouds and the flesh in which it hath so appeared with the least comliness and beauty whereby it should be desired and most persecuted Who believed in Jesus by seeing him in the flesh to be the son of God And above all men as to this world the Apostles were accounted most miserable For. k 1 Cor. 1. 27 28 29. God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and the weak things to confound the things that are mighty and the base things of the world and the things that are despised hath God chosen yea the things that are not to bring to naught the things that are that no flesh might glory in his presence and l 2 Thes 2. 10. that the truth might not be received but for the love of it When m Luk. 19. 41. 42 43 44. Jesus came near he beheld the City and wept over it Saying if thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things that belong to thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes for the dayes shall come upon thee that thine enemies shall cast a Trench about thee and compass thee round and keep thee in on every side and shall lay thee even with the ground and thy Children within thee and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another