Worship did they ever make a Law to whip strangers who asks them nought or to force people to swear against the conscience and many such things are now done which in the time of the Apostles the heathen came far short of which now is filling up all against him whose coming is ever as a stranger in the earth and what hedgings here is at this day to keep him out from his own is plainly to be seen and that he should not have liberty to seek up his lost ones in high-ways and hedges Markets and Steeple-houses how have you heightned your walls higher then your fore-fathers and what daubing is at this day against the way of God from which your own wayes cannot save you for the way of God is perfect and will endure to all Generations wherein the upright walks and sinners falls in opposition thereto But how should you know his way who denies his light within seeing they that rebell against the light never knew the pathes thereof you are they who have erred in your hearts and therefore have not known his wayes and how should you have peace or enter into his rest for you that denyes his light and resists his Spirit in your hearts must needs be offended at his coming in your streets so you have set your selves against him and he hath set himself against you as at this day and therefore it is not with you now as it is was when you were in the work of making him way to walk in tender consciences and you will find him arise more to cross your wayes as you seek to stop his way you have begun to walk contrary to him and he is beginning to walk contrary to you and unto you is he become an enemy so take heed what you do for till you return will he watch over you for evil and not for good and the more you trime your own ways to withstand his way the more will he discover the blood of the innocent in your skirts before the Son till all may see you are no Christians nor what you Professe but open enemies to God and his people your hands full of blood Wherefore be not rash you headie people you that are but looking for his coming in outward observations are witnesses against your selves that his way you have not yet learned though you have read of it yet you know it not and will you appoint him a way and call it his way and will he own it who comes a way you have not known nor can believe if you be told it it would be your wisdom to stand still every one and cease from your own wayes and wait in the light which onely gives the knowledge of him and his way which light shines in the heart as faith the Scriptures and the Kingdom of God is within you and he whom you oppose is a Spirit and comes a spiritual way to cut down spiritual wickedness so to the Spirit of light turn that you may see to prepare to meet him in his own way and not to set your way to oppose him that he should break you to pieces The living God glorified in his Temples the true worshippers that worship him in Spirit and in Truth NOw glory to God in Heaven and the thousands of his Saints doth confess him upon earth who bear his Name and testimony against the world who have still put his coming afar off who have not that which they professe in them but tell of great things which they have not who are without God in spirit and his worship in spirit such as Christ said worshipped they knew not what and such now worship they know not what who worship that they have not and professe him they possesse not without God in the world in whose heart there is not God who are not the Temples of the living God but to this day worship in Temples made with hands as those who resisted the Holy Ghost ever did and how should such be holy vessels holy men and women what should sanctifie where God is not and what should lead where the spirit is not but the blind eye that leads into the ditch and what is like to govern where God is not in his throne in the heart how can such but be filled with unrighteousness who retain not God in their knowledge so it is not strange to the children of light who with the eye of God are guided to see the whole world lie in wickedness and to see such things acted against God in his Temples now by such as are without God as ever was so the Scriptures are fulfilled as you may read And ye holy in heart rejoyce and lift up your heads towards the day of Redemption and own your generation here on earth that you may be gathered to the Fathers with that which comes from above and that spirit which perfects the just and casts out the unjust where are the dogs and Adulterers and such as know not God and where the hearts are gathered to the Fathers in God there the earth is blessed whose God is the Lord who have received the spirit from on high and are filled with the Holy Ghost As Stephen was who saw heaven open who was full of God whom the great Professors stoned who was full of wroth and yet said they looked for his coming from Scriptures yet like mad men run upon him and destroyed his Temple so he destroyed their Temple which they thought to uphold who resisted God the Holy Ghost because he had no place in them who could not receive the light of the world nor his word could find place in them but in such as they cast out it found place whose bodies were the Temple of the living God as he hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and Enoch walked within with God in spirit and was not And Isaiah God had wrought all his works in him And Jeremy was full of the fury of the Lord And Ezekiel was the son of man And Daniel had the Spirit of the most High God the Spirit of light and understanding And Paul had the Son of god revealed in him the same that he Preached and said they that knew not Christ in them were reprobates he that is joyned to the Lord is one Spirit And to David the Lord said thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee and David declared it and the Saints were begotten of God and partakers of the Divine nature and confessed the Father and the Son in them and that the Son of God was come and had given them an understanding which they that looked for him to come without understood not who beat him in their Synagogues and shamefully intreated him because they knew not the Father nor the Son but said he was to come And they that had the Son had Life and the rest was children of wrath filled with wrath and so the Father and the Son supt with such as
that Knowledge which devours the life then be no longer as the wild Asses Colt but take up the yoak of the Son in whom thou sayest thou believest that the life of Faith thou may feel and know for only in the obedience is the life made sure to thee of what thou believest and thereby is Faith and Knowledge made perfect But until thou attain power for obedience of Faith thou art dead and knows but words in which thy Faith stands without life which accomplishes nothing but will arise to condemn thee when thy time is out Therefore in all thy seeking mind that which worketh in a lowly mind calling thee into the Obedience of what is there made manifest in the begettings of the Father and not in the conceivings of the Brain but in the Son For in the Brain-knowledge the Boaster Rules who glories in the wisdom of words but not in the words of life but in the Obedience of the Son is the Father known and glorified in such as walk in the Spirit and not in the wind whose praise is of God and their lives hid with him from all knowledge but what is Revealed in the Obedience of the Son So from man you may learn the knowledge of words but the knowledge of life is only begotten of God so he that hath the Son hath life not of the disobedient Nature for the only begotten of God is Conformable to him that begetteth him in all things through Obedience So feeling thy measure of the begettings of God in it be obedient and seek not to be above it in any thing lest the enemy thereby get power in thee to puffe up thy mind in thy Knowledge above thy life which devoures the life Therefore as thou feels Faith Love Meeknesse Gentlenesse Patience or any Godlinesse move in the Spirit therein become obedient with all diligence and thereby shalt thou know the power thereof against all the contrary motions in thy flesh so shalt thou learn the salvation of Grace unto life eternal which thou canst never attain by talking or any other way but in the Obedience thereof so shalt thou not receive the grace of God in vain nor words without the working power of life whereby the living knowledge of the Mystery of godlinesse will daily encrease For by Obedience of the Spirit is the soul purified from its darknesse and pollution and made fit for the further manifestation of the hidden Mystery and the receiving the fulnesse thereof and walking therein And so by the holy Ghost thou shalt be able to confess Jesus Lord over all powers in heaven and in earth the opener of all secrets and only revealer of the Father who begetteth by whom thou becomes wise in thy knowledge unto salvation not unto vain babling whose words shall rise and Condemne them who glory therein But thou if in Spirit thou hearken diligently and obey shalt know that he who sometimes spoke by the Prophets doth now speak by his Son the everlasting power of godlinesse only begotten of the Father and in all things like unto him in whom he is made manifest And the Prophets have Prophefied of Glory to come but the Son declares the Father in the present life according to the measure of him formed and as he arises in fulness he opens the heavens and gives the inheritance thereinto An opening of Light to all sorts of Rulers and People that wait for the Kingdom of God that you may not oppose him in his appearance nor set up another to reign upon earth in his stead DO you say you seek God you Rulers and People will you seek his face upon earth or would you see his appearance to reign in righteousnesse or can you rejoyce to see him manifest in Flesh or do you love his Image who is the Father of Lights from whom you look for the Son from Heaven then be not carnally minded in your expectation least you know him not in his appearance who is a Spirit and so oppose him as your Fathers in the flesh ever did except you be born of the Spirit you cannot see the Kingdom of God The Father dwells in the light and changes not and the Son is the light of the World in his own Image by whom he changes all things that are out of him and overturns shadows and customs and makes the world new and in Spirit and power is his Kingdom upon Earth and the flesh is the Vail with which he was ever hid from flesh and blood but revealed in spirit to such as desired to know no man after the flesh to set up or to worship And no man could ever say that this Jesus was Lord but by the Holy Ghost So with the light of the Spirit alone which sees through the vail is Jesus known to be Lord and King for ever with which you may all see what you set up to be Lord and Ruler in your selves or over others You that chuse Rulers Judges and Justices Mayors and Constables c. Do you see through the Vail to chuse Jesus in Spirit to Rule over you or over others Is that eye open which knows the Holy Ghost and what Vessell is filled therewith that you may chuse him to Rule in his Kingdom do you seek for that Spirit to chuse withal by which alone Jesus is known to be Lord Then it is plain you seek Gods Kingdom in the face of Jesus Christ who is that spirit which turning to causes the vail to be taken away from all hearts and will change you also into his Image by that Spirit as saith the Scriptures So there was none to be chosen for Judges Kings or Rulers in Israels Common-wealth but who had of this Spirit and Unction put upon them and then the Lord Reigned over them in his Anointed whether King Priest or Prophet man or woman but when they chused Rulers like other Nations then they rejected not Samuel but the Lord that he should not reign over them Now you that say you seek the Lord to Rule over you and say thy Kingdom come minde what you chuse to rule in you or over you with what spirit least your practise oppose your prayers and make void your daily expectation do you chuse after the flesh as other Nations do or do you chuse after the holy Ghost If you chuse after the flesh then you set the vail betwixt you and the Lord and Gods Kingdom and his Image you cannot see and so you reject the Lord as other Nations do but if you look through the Vail unto that which is within the Vail then shall the vail be taken away from all your hearts and you shall see him amongst you whom you wait for and him alone set up and worship and chuse him alone to reign over you who is near you at hand to all that put not his day afar off So if you make Rulers like all the Nations then after the flesh they that are rich they that are proud they
the Lord of his glory deny Christ in his Kingly office and set up another in his place And herein true wisdom may see that in so doing we resist not that power which is ordained of God nor the person but that spirit we testifie against by sufferings under which God never annointed for a Saviour holding forth the annointing as we have received for a witness against him in the spirit of meekness confessing our King in whom we receive power to suffer so to us he is come and by the gift of the Holy Ghost we can say he is Lord therefore to us there is but one Lord though there be many so called whether in heaven or in earth yet have we but one in all both in heaven and earth and him we know where ever he is by the gift of the Holy Ghost and to him in spirit we confesse and bow and the fruits of his spirit are manifest with the light of the world testifying against all the works of darkness in all the children of his Kingdom And to us he is born who is from above the holy Child wonderful in Councel and strength whose heavenly power and vertue takes our affections from all earthly objects and worship whose name is Immanuel and it is written in our hearts and shed abroad into the world in our lives and Christ Jesus is the end of our conversation him alone to put on above all to Preach by walking in him as we have received of that lively image of holiness and Truth the annointed of God and so we confesse him before men who is the right Heir in what vessel soever he appears and the prayers we give to God where this treasure is found in the earthen vessel and the hope of all our glory is Christ within and the increase of his Government is Christ within of which there is no end and with that spirit is all righteousness established the Kingdom of God upon earth and Eternal life And where this is not seen chosen and followed there men rule in their own wills and where mens persons and riches is respected in chusing such there the same is respected in judgement by such and the Law of God is perverted and the sword of Justice which should defend the cause of the innocent is laid by and the fist of wickeduess lift up against that which is tender of God in every conscience and when this rules the righteous Seed mourns in secret but wickedness reigns openly And this is and ever was the state of the Kingdom of God and the Kingdoms of the Gentiles the one rules in the Spirit of Holiness and the other exercise Lordship in their own wills chosen and set up not by the Holy Ghost as you may read in the Scriptures concerning Israels common wealth who when they wanted the ruling of this spirit they sold themselves under their enemies but when this was their Judge they had a Saviour chosen after the spirit not after the flesh what ever was the vessel the Spirit was their Saviour Moses was a poor wandring Shepheard yet in this Spirit a God to Pharaoh and Saviour of Israel Samuel a poor man who received no reward for judgement and when they went about to chuse another after the manner of other Nations they rejected God who then gave them a King in his wrath David a poor man not chosen by the outward appearance as man looks but by the heart by the direction of the Spirit he was the Shepherd of Israel and his seed of the same Election hath the everlasting Kingdom of promise to all generations Elisha a plowman yet by that Spirit was he the Chariots of Israel and horsmen thereof Deborah a woman yet a Judge deliverer to Israel And too long would it be to instance in all ages how he hath set up his throne and saved his people in this Election not of wisdom riches or worldly glory but the poor of this world rich in Faith heirs of the Kingdom of promise which you say you look for but cannot see nor receive while you chuse after the flesh as the world hath ever done who still have bent all their wisdom and Religion to keep the Heir out of his Kingdom whom they have been looking for after the flesh but not believing in the light to give them a fight through the vail to him that is born of the Spirit have resisted the Holy One and chosen the murtherer as did your fathers so do you alwayes resist the Holy Ghost and as it was so it is that which is born of the flesh is flesh and chuses after the flesh and worships after the flesh for it can see no further it cannot see the Kingdom of God and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit and chuses after the spirit and worships in spirit and these are contrary Kingdoms and he that 's born after the flesh persecutes him that 's born after the spirit ever did and ever will do for the Scripture cannot be broken which hath so said and is now fulfilled And now you that are called Christians you read and Preach of this King Christ Jesus and his Kingdom what a One he ever hath been in his appearance upon Earth by whom he hath been received and by whom rejected and after what manner he hath ever suffered and by what power he hath reigned in all ages and this you will confesse in words but will you now receive him to reign in you Or can you own his appearance where it is set up in others and not be offended therewith is that eye open that knows him or can you delight in him who was never like the world in his walkings was not he ever poor as to this world and therefore rejected of the rich and learned lowly and rejected of Princes and them that was high was not his work ever to change shadows and forms and Religious traditions set up in mens minds above the life of Truth and leadings of the spirit and to set up spiritual worship and obedience in its place And therefore by the builders ever rejected and condemned and his new work was ever foolishness to the wise wherefore he bare the reproach thereof with patience was he not ever meek and innocent and harmless in his conversation towards all men as a Lamb indeed seperate from sinners in life yet seeking them to save out of sin with the dayly giving up his life c So he was and so he hath ever appeared on earth now can you receive you King as he was you that wait for him Or do you think he is changed Is he now become proud and lofty in flesh after the world cruel and covetous and hard-hearted subtle and crafty to deceive the simpie strong and violent to trample on the helpless doth the glory of his Scepter now stand in meats and drinks and fine apparel or great earthly possessions doth he now come to take up his abode and
opened to the Gentiles and was the Hope of Glory to them even Christ within them whom the Apostles preached warning every man and teaching every man that they might present every one perfect in Christ Jesus the Hope of Glory within them which Faith the Jews not receiving lost their King and Kingdom And is your hopes without you as the Jews was Is that the Hope the Apostles preached to the Gentiles or that which enters within the vail Is there not a vail drawn over your hearts again whilst you read this in Scriptures And have not you lost the Key of knowledge who are gone out from the annointing in your hopes Have you not lost the Key of David which should let you see Davids Lord in which the Kingdom of God is established for ever Did God swear this to David after the flesh or to Abraham after the flesh or to any after the flesh Then how is his Kingdom everlasting Or why did he say the flesh profits nothing And why did the Apostle say they desired henceforth to know no man after the flesh no not Christ himself Flesh and blood passeth away but this Kingdom is everlasting so him whom the Apostles preached in Spirit by the receiving of the Holy Ghost wherein they were to grow up to his age and stature and appearance him you reject in spirit to be the hope of your glory and kingdom and wait for a Government after the flesh and so shut up the great Mystery of godliness which was opened and the Kingdom against your selves which Mystery is not after the flesh but God manifest in flesh Christ within the Hope of Glory and this Mystery was ever shut with carnal expectations but opened in the Spirit as it was so it is who denies the Spirit to be Lord shuts up the Kingdom Wherefore arise out of the flesh you Rulers and People and receive your King long hath he been rejected and thrust out of the Throne of Judgement for which you have no Peace nor Establishment Why will you not turn to him who calls you in Spirit what a shame is this that you are called Christians and know not your annointing Christ in you What Christians and without Christ Christ not come What do you Rule withal and discern with and Judge with Is not all that reprobate who knows not Christ in you But if you know a Just a Holy a Righteous Principle of Spirit in you that is of Christ set it up and you set up Christ bow to the Holy Ghost and you worship in Spirit and thereby you shall say that Jesus is Lord set up his light in your hearts and his day will arise to you all for there must the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts which will give the knowledge of God near you and true Judgement near you and that which Rules over spiritual wickedness near you which all must bow to who receives the Kingdom of God honour God in your hearts set him up in your hearts let him be Judge in your hearts and first receive his Light and Judgement there before you pass Judgement upon others least you in judging others before men condemn your selves before God David had little thought he had done that when he said he that had taken his neighbours lamb should surely dye and you may soon do the like if you go out from the Spirit and Judge before you receive Judgement in your own hearts and see all be clean there first then is your Scepter established in Righteousness and your Judgement in Truth which is the Scepter of the Throne of David in Spirit which condemned David in flesh and will condemn you in the flesh if you sin against it and that is his Kingdom and he is King for ever who in Spirit condemns sin in the flesh and for this end is he manifest that the Righteousness of the Law may be fulfilled in all who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit which comes in his Name who went away after the flesh that the kingdom might come And if you receive your Authority and Judgement in this right Principle of God it will Judge for God in all your selves and others and it will fit you to be Mediators betwixt the Offender and Sufferer in all and you will see what it is which transgresseth and what is transgressed and the nature of every offence to pass an equal Judgement accordingly and this is of God and he loves it and where that of God is pressed not to clear the oppressor but to Judge the oppressor and set that of God which is innocent free and here with that of God in your selves you Judge for that of God in all and set that of God above the oppressor in all which oppressor is not of God in you nor in others but is to be Judged and for the Law and for the Sword but against that of God the Law is not And here is Gods Kingdom already near and not afar off where God is all in all and the Righteous reigns and the power that is ordained of God the Soul is subject to for Conscience sake towards God in Heaven and Earth and that of God in every Conscience shall answer to your Judgement and Authority and God shall set you up therewith as a terrour in every heart above the evil-doer the murtherer and traytor and the arrows of the Almighty shall stick in the hearts of all that seek to undermine this Government for the Kingdom of God it is in which he Rules who cannot forget himself nor hath this Kingdome been taken from any who once received it thus till they go out of it themselves by suffering or setting up another to rule above that measure of this Just and Innocent Principle of God And if you receive this Kingdom from Heaven in love of it then shall you receive your Judgement from Heaven also and your Law to Judge by and God shall make you rich towards him in Righteous Judgement and towards his People and a discerning Spirit will he give you in this Annointing to know hard matters that are hid from flesh and blood which you shall receive in secret and bring forth openly and all shall hear and fear and praise the Lord for you and you shall no more go to the Heathen to learn Judgement whom the Lord hath removed far from him nor shall you uphold those Laws by which the servants of God hath suffered formerly in the times of Popery nor shall the Statutes of Omri be kept and observed nor follow the wayes of the house of Jeroboam for you have seen what God hath done concerning them that you may fear to follow them But you shall have your Laws from the Law-giver Christ Jesus and your Judgement from the Father of Lights whose Ministers then you are to whose sword that of God in every Conscience shall answer which is written in every heart and which every heart shall fear to offend when they
Conscience Or in what Court can he appear without offence Are not Snares laid in lower places and on the Mountains a Net spread And do not these daily catch men Search if there be a man left that is valiant for Truth upon Earth who for fear or favour will not winke at Oppression or that dare faithfully stand bâ— him that comes in the Name of the Lord to reprove sin openly who is he that hath not laid Riches or Honour or some piece of Earth in his own way to stop his feet from the path of uprightness and so is every mans Arm become too short to relieve the Oppressed or to open the way wherein the Innocent may serve his Maker without fear Or the Just to proclaim the Holiness of God without danger in the way that God shall chuse and not man Or for Judgement to come forth into the open places where wickedness is most acted Or for the lively witness of the Lamb to arise against his Enemy in the good old Way that he hath chosen to all Generations Ah! How is the Antient paths forsaken of men How have you left the good old Way of God and chosen wayes of your own against your own souls How long will it be ere you try your wayes with the truth that you may return to him who is come to require the paths of Judgement and Righteousness and Truth that the meek may possesse his Inheritance of old and that God may walk in his own seed as he hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them who comes as the lightning Behold you who are crying against new Wayes you say it was never well since there is so many new wayes you are the men and your wayes are the thing you complain of and why there is so many of your wayes is because Babel is confounded and many Heads and Horns are lifted up to fulfill that number as is written of them to withstand the way of the Lamb and to fight against Gods appearance in his heritage who all are set against the way of God as at this day which is but one to all Generations was not this his way of Old which is now rejected and which is become so odious in your eyes Was not this of Old the pure path which you now say breaks your Peace Search the Scriptures which testifie of God and his way in his Servants of Old and how he then passed in his redeemed ones chosen vessels for himself to make his power known against opposers as you may read in Scriptures trace the steps of his Servants in whom he walked and see how far you have erred at this day Was not this his way in Jeremiah who led him into the Gates of Jerusalem and through the streets thereof through him declaring against sin there abounding and to pronounce Judgement to follow did not he lead him into their Temple and therein told them who went ehither to worship that they trusted in a Lye who cryed the Temple of the Lord but had made it a Den of Thieves by their wicked wayes Did not he lead him down to the House of the King and there told him That if he would not amend his wayes his House should become a desolation And which of the false Prophets did he not Reprove openly by him Was not this his Way then And what became of them that would have stopt him Did not he speak words in Amos against the Wickedness of their King Priests and Worships that the Land was not able to bear Did not he lead Jonah through the streets of Nineveh And in which of the Prophets did not he thus walk in and some received him in his way and turned from their own wayes and found Mercy and the rest that rejected him was destroyed in their own wayes in which they blessed themselves as at this day Now read these and read what you now oppose in your Streets and Steeple-houses and Markets and let that of God in you be judge if you be not of such as now say Depart from us we will have none of thy wayes Also search your Gospel if you can receive his way therein which changes not Did not he come in Christ and in his Apostles as a wanderer to and fro without a certain dwelling place to Preach Repentance and amendment of life and the light of the world from City to Village from place to place which way you now call Vagabonds And did not he enter their Temples and Synagogues Schools and Markets and all their Places of Worship and Concourse where Sin or false Worship was acted and there Disputed and testified against their whole way and called them to the way of God and this was his manner of walking in them even in times of their Worships and in the greatest Assembly of Meetings Markets which to you is become as Gall and Wormwood and you call it Disturbance and Peace-breaking Was not this his way in such as knew their bodies to be his Temples and in whom he walked and spoke the words of life and judgement and Truth his way by which he overturned the World leaving all without excuse against the day of wrath which was to follow where he was rejected his way by which he called many thousands out of false Worships in which they were settled as you are and their Souls deceived but this was his way to Salvation which was not their way as he hath said my wayes are not your wayes yet was there no other way for them to be saved wch is the same at this day to all that receive his coming and to all that resist the Holy Spirit in his Temples as did your fathers so do you saith Steven to such as worshipped God in outward observations but denied his way and worship in Temples made without hands these resisted the Spirit that spoke in his Saints these resisted the Holy Ghost resisted the Way of God as do you read and consider Steven was full of God the Spirit spoke in him they resisted him they called him a Blasphemer they stoned him by a Law here was Gods Way and their way now try your wayes whose work is to resist the Spirit and Light within which hath filled the hearts and mouths of his servants to cry against sin mind what you resist Had not God come in this his own Way to seek and to save by his appearance in such vessels as he had prepared of old for that end whom in time he filled with himself as they stood in need in all conditions to pass with him through all hardships and crooked wayes of the wicked world from place to place seeking a Seed to himself what had become of the Saints of old which was covered with darkness till he came thus to appear to them holding forth his light and his life and glory in vessels prepared to shew forth his vertues and the riches of his grace not onely in declaring in words but
power of his Spirit taking us out of the power of Sin and Conforming us to himself and to bring forth the Fruits of his Spirit in Truth and Righteousness this doth not Blaspheme but in such he is Honoured who shew forth his vertues and walk in his Spirit such exalt his Name This was Pauls work when he had left off to Blaspheme Now come to your Rule and be tryed it tells you who are Christs and who are Antichrists Deceivers and Blasphemers and they are known by their Works and not by their Words It saith They that are Christs have Crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts And if Christ be in you the body is dead because of sin And as many as have been Baptized into Christ have put on Christ And as you have received Christ Jesus so walk in him And he that saith he abideth in him ought himself so to walk even as he walked and ye are all one in Christ Jesus And if any man be in Christ he is a new Creature and all things are of God And he that saith he knows Christ and keeps not his Commandements is a Liar And this is the Blasphemer who covers himself with the words of Truth but is an enemy to the Life Now here is the testimony of Truth lay it to the testimony of your lives and measure your selves therewith and we will measure our selves therewith also And let Truth judge the Deceiver and Liar and Blasphemer by his fruits and where he hath his Seat What will Truth say where Covetousness is found Have such Crucified the Affections Have Proud men Crucified their Lusts Have Wantons Crucified the Flesh Have Swearers Liars and cursed Speakers put off the body of Sin Or is it dead where these works are alive Where there is Envie Strife Suites and Contentions Is this to put on Christ or to be all one in him Where Flattering Scorning Back-biting and Slandering is and the Vessels filled with such Wickedness are all things of God And are such Baptized into his Death or planted into his Resurrection And are not they Blasphemers who Persecute others for Conscience towards God But to Preach Christ to be the Light of the World and the Hope of Glory in the Saints our Life our Righteousness and Perfection and to Suffer for it is not Blasphemy Now here is your Measure and with Truth are you measured weighed and tryed Your Baptismes your Communion your Redemption your Death and Resurrection and your life Eternal And in the light you and we are seen and with the life thereof you are found who bring forth these fruits to be under the power of sin unredeemed and out of Christ the life deceiving your own Souls and others of the righteous Inheritance amongst them that are Sanctified and blaspheming the holy Name of Christ and grieving his holy Spirit by professing that in his Name which you have not and by your evil deeds acted under his Name whereby it is polluted which was not given for a Cover to such Works In this Holy Name of Christ hath God placed his Covenant and Life and in these Holy things did Holy men and women meet with God worship him and dwell with him in Spirit as his house in which he was seen and walked And are these now become a cover for a Den of thieves a habitation and hiding for all the abominations now acted in the world Is not this the height of Blasphemy and Deceit thus to prophane his Holy Name and turn it into a lye as though all these abominable things were therein or that he owned such as live in them Now lay your words and your works in the true Ballance and weigh them with the Words of Life and Power of his Name and measure of Truth and Honesty and lye not against the Truth But you that are under the power of these wickednesses and in bondage thereto who see and are not ashamed to say you cannot but commit these abominations while you live do not lye against the work of Christ in saying he hath Redeemed you when you are yet in this bondage neither count his blood an unholy thing in saying you are washed nor his Work imperfect nor mix it with the work of the Devil but give to each his own that thereby they may be known and in what Name every thing is wrought For now is Truth come to try you and he is appearing who will have his own and nothing but his own under what pretence soever Now is the Heir of Righteousness come to seek the fruit of his own stand still you that use those high words against others and see how the Lord is dealt with amongst you at this day Did not he plant a Holy Vine to bring forth to himself of his own Nature and Image And have you let this be over-run with weeds while you have been asleep in your sloth and idleness cares pleasures of the world till all be filled with bryars and thorns and corrupt plants that now are spread and bring forth And now the Lord is come who is the light of the world to seek fruits of his own and will you hold him forth these cursed fruits and cover them with his Name as though they were his and seek to force them upon him whether he will or no and fall violently upon him if he deny them Now if this be not so what means this That when any one in his Name is sent to reprove sin in the Streets or Markets where it abounds and in the Name of Christ to Declare against false worships never set up by him which hath been his manner in all his appearances and to call for what is his own and to deny the works of the Devil that presently all is in an uproar and a tumult raised pulling and beating and haling to Prison beaten in Markets beaten in your Synagogues shamefully intreated in your Streets and all for no other offence but because he calls for his own and denies what is not of him Doth not this Blaspheme that Holy Name by which they are called and which your selves profess Teacher cryes away with him and tumult cryes away with him it s not fit he should live And what usage he receives from you in his members is openly seen and God is daily bringing your works to light Now let the wise in heart who can discern the signs of the times read if the Parable be not fulfilled upon you Husbandmen And will you guild this Cup over with fine words forms and professions and call them Deceivers and Blasphemers who in love to your Souls and obedience to Christ tells you of it and testifies against it in all long-suffering and patience Who will be found the deceivers and the deceived when your guilded covers comes to be pulled off and you must drink of the Cup your selves as you have filled and this is certainly near at hand to come upon you and you are hasting towards it