did eat to eat them The strangeness of this alteration being so great divers Friends came to see me intending by discourse to work me to a consideration of my condition by a better informing of my understanding but Reason being destroyed nothing took place in me but I judged them to be in the dark and that what was spoken from them was flesh their mindes and understandings being alienated from the Commonwealth of Israel my Master also with his Partner and others of the Family when discoursing with me all what was spoken by them was judged to be from the evil one in them whose I believed they were Now said they coming to live the life of the Scriptures you will finde the meaning of them they being fulfilled by you to be opened to your understanding by the life in you and so they will be found another thing than what formerly they were but at this time not having received that knowledge that I was to wait for the birth such a time out of my own wisdom my own knowledge and imagination going to read the Scriptures I found such a strange alteration in many things contrary to what formerly I did believe that I was taken affected with it upon which I was perswaded to read over the whole Scriptures and in reading that which desired knowledge in me prevailed upon me to search out the meaning of divers things which seeking destroyed my former understanding and gave me to believe another meaning then did I really conclude That I was taught by the word in me the same word which the holy men of God that spake forth the Scriptures had living in them by which they were inabled to speak them forth upon which I was injoyned by a stronger phansie supposed to be the Spirit of Christ to spend all my time that possible I could gain night and day to learn knowledge by the teachings of the Holy Ghost in me by which in a short time I did really believe that there was not any thing expressed but I had the perfect knowledge of in the end words and letter did signifie to my apprehension divers meanings Thus fancy and imagination acting together I was besotted and made perfect drunk in my understanding by the airy Spirit gotten in from without by which I became like unto a distracted man Having this perswasion in my self that all knowledge contained in the Scriptures was revealed unto me I was really possessed with a confident belief that Christ Jesus that died at Ierusalem was a figure of me and that I was the true Christ that Angel spoken of in the Revelation which was to flie through the midst of Heaven declaring the everlasting Gospel to all Kindreds Nations Tongues and People There was also revealed unto me by the teachings of that Spirit in me which gave me the knowledge of the Scriptures that the dissolution of all things would be at the end of sixty three yeers in which time by my Ministery and the rest of our Teachers the Jews were to be called with the Gentiles who had lost the knowledge of the Gospel immediately after the Apostles dayes from which time until now that God raised his Spirit to Life in those of us both Jews and Gentiles have lain in blindness serving the God of the World the Prince of darkness and without the knowledge of the true God in the world Wherefore all both Ministers and people that were since a short time after the Apostles dayes they having bowed down to the Gods of the Earth and so worshipped the Gods of the Heathen the God of Gods who is the Lord of all had condemned them and their gods eternally Wherefore now the Candle of the wicked was to be put out by the everlasting Gospel spoken from the eternal Life in us by which those that were elected to Salvation should have the Life raised in them whose brightness as it was revealed should swallow up all that was for Condemnation so the eternal Life living in them there was Salvation It was also believed That I should live to the End and then Christ which died at Jerusalem was to meet me in the Mount of God which was in a multitude of bright Clouds where I was immediately to be transformed into a Celestial Body all Spirit where that Christ and I should sit Judges of all that ever had a Being in the World Wherefore now it being so that I was to be the Minister in the hand of God for the converting of those who were Elected to Salvation to the true knowledge by which eternal life was to be found my minde was informed that though I had the perfect knowledge of the Scripture it was not sufficient for this work And also I was perswaded There was a greater Revelation to be made manifest in me than there was in Christ or the Apostles Whereupon I was enjoyned that I should spend all the time that possibly I could in waiting for Revelations from Heaven which I did according to the teachings of this Spirit in me hearkening diligently with my minde fixed upwards towards Heaven in expectation to hear some voyce from thence Whereupon the first time I really supposed I heard many excellent voyces which made an exceeding sweet and pleasant Melody Upon which I believed they were Spirits sent from God to make known unto me the greatness of that joy there was in Heaven because of me by which appearance being over-ravished I was firmly resolved to be pliable to that Spirit which moved me in this way of waiting So a short time following there appeared to me two Spirits in the likeness of a Man's shade which apparitions were believed to be Angels sent from God to minister unto me from whom did proceed to my acceptation at that time excellent things concerning God and Christ that died at Ierusalem also concerning the Angels and the excellency of that place called Heaven Following this there came many such-like Spirits that were all taken to be Angels at which sight there was a voice spake in me which gave greetings to those apparitions upon which there was answered by them That within twenty five dayes perfection should be stablished in me and so I should be made perfect entire wanting nothing the whole work of God having been made manifest then should I suffer the likeness of that Death and Resurrection which was real by him that died at Ierusalem after which I should be sent forth to preach the Gospel and then Michael the Archangel should be living in me by whom I should be carried to and fro throughout the World and enabled to preach the Gospel After this time for these twenty five dayes when the Spirit in me willed me to go private which was sometimes in the day and almost all these twenty five nights I durst not deny the movings as I respected my Salvation yea I do verily believe I did not rest one night with another above one hour in a night all the time of these
in the way the Instruments by whom this Redemption was to be wrought how it was to be done and where which was in the man c. Also that the Scripture was not the Word of God but it was what was spoken from the Word by the Word was meant Life and the Scriptures were a Declaration from this Word of Life the Word was the substance from whence it was spoken and this substance the Word of Life was the measure of God manifested in man the gift of the Holy Spirit manifested in flesh made known in all that thereby they might be guided to profit in that obedience required of God also by which all the disorder in the Creation of man made by the flouds poured forth in man in that time of God's displeasure occasioned by his fall from God into the Lust was to be put into the same order they were at the first which was good by which Word the mountains were to be leveled all hills were to be cast down and the valleys were to be exalted crooked places were to be made strait and rough wayes to be made smooth every thing was to stand in awe before him the lofty minde was to be pulled down and all high thoughts and imaginations were to be burned up and these things being not done by the Word in you the pure Witnesses of God lie slain in your streets the house of darkness the house of bondage those Cities which spiritually have a relation to Sodom and Egypt and I was sent by God to declare against that in you by which you are blinded and so the Witnesses kept slain expressing with a firm confidence that searching of the Scripture was not the way to finde out the knowledge of Christ but the turning the minde to within there to be taught by the measure of God the Law written in the heart and so standing in obedience to it in time death being passed over all that sinned Christ would be brought forth which sin reigned from Adam till Moses even over all that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression Adam the earthly nature in man which prevailed with him to be earthly minded to love the Mammon of unrighteousness which death reigned over the whole man till Moses the servant of God which gave the Law to the children of Israel the seed of the Faithful by which they were to be guided to the Angel of the Covenant Christ and so witness the perfection which to know saith God is life vvhich life was manifested in him and he savv it the onely Begotten of God and from vvhat he had seen felt heard and understood in himself that vve also might have fellovvship did he declare these things concluding with a strict Charge in the Name of the living God that we turn to him the Rock whence we were hewn as we respected our eternal peace bearing record that he the God of life stood waiting ready to receive all that turn to him and having your faces Sion-ward go on bearing your Crosses joyfully for his reward is with him and his work before him So after about an hours discourse in things of this nature all spoken with a firm confidence mighty powerfully declared with so much scriousness that possible could be supposed to be far beyond whatever I saw by any man and using those words Thee and Thou barren of any Complement or whatever might be taken in them to please man they departed Now upon the consideration of divers things also the strong Ingagement laid upon us as we tendered our eternal happiness together with that bold undaunted confidence he had in the Truth of what was spoken all my former Knowledge my former Belief my former Hope being struck with a great Fear was immediately dashed in pieces they being taken to be earthen Vessels made by the Wisdom which was begotten of the * Self for the justifying of Self earthly Man and then coming to understand that they were of those People called by the name of Quakers together with what formerly I knew of them I became strongly affected with them divers also of the same Meeting at the same time being possess'd with the like perswasions Whereupon much love acted me to follow them very zealously but in order to a more perfect clearing of my understanding I remained a time before I complied with them or made my self known to any one of them in which time meeting with one whom I formerly knew to be a very serious true-hearted Man who was converted to their Belief and also subjected to their Obedience who gave me to understand that they were sent forth to preach the Gospel by the same Christ that the Apostles were and that the Person that Son of God which died at Ierusalem was not the Redeemer of Man from Sin but the Redeemer was in every particular Man that Light by which he was given to see Sin and enabled by it if obeyed to be redeemed from Sin which Christ had redeemed them perfect and now lived in them Lord of all things by which they were made the Sons of God and so what was manifested unto them by that substance from that substance were they moved to speak which was the same Holy Ghost by which the Apostles were endued sent forth enabled to preach the Gospel and declaring of them much to admiration how that sometimes in the night they were immediately commanded by the eternal Spirit to go forth and preach the Gospel also by the like command some of them were limited to fast from Food as I remember about twenty or more dayes together * And afterwards I knew some who fasted 30 or 40 days which was intended to make them willing and pliable to the will of God in the travel of their Spirit before they came to the Land of Canaan the rest of the new created Being or Work of God in them So he gave me to understand the next day of their meeting and the place where with earnest invitation to be there Now that I might have the Counsel of God in what I did as touching my uniting with them when I came home I went to Prayers and being mightily carried forth in that Duty very often before the time of their meeting I looked upon it as a sign which did make manifest the good pleasure of God in my closing with them so at that meeting three of the chiefest of them being Speakers whose matter and manner of preaching was more taking unto me than all the former but especially the powerful operation of their Prayer all which effectually wrought upon me whereupon my minde being established I was moved to make a confession of my self concluding with the owning of them in the presence of all the people upon which I became subject to the teachings of a Spirit in my self the which being believed to be the Christ of God the Redeemer from sin I was fully perswaded that if denying any thing in the least
very knowing and understanding of what the truth or substance and life was To which end I laboured were it possible in that way to apprehend what was pure out of divers Opinions that so one knowledg one minde witnessed by one Truth my Understanding being well informed might act me to live in unity with God by a holy and innocent life But after a time in regard of much unstableness I saw in divers Teachers by the diversity of their Opinions and also much Confusion in many Societies who made a profession to be gathered together by one Spirit pure of God into one pure minde and so at unity with one pure God it occasioned much trouble and disquietness in me Whereupon considering seriously with my self I sought diligently what the cause should be of all this division by which men professing the Truth were thus distracted in their own mindes Upon which there was cleared to my understanding Truth being but one the ministration of righteousness which proceedeth from this Truth must necessarily be the same therefore that which occasioned this Division was the wisdom of the flesh which continually was and still is at enmity with Truth God being not the author of confusion but of peace After this I found a little pleasure in hearing of Ministers because of the pleasantness of their discourse by the excellencie of their beautified language but nothing sufficient to edifie or learn me with knowledge for in hearing I could not understand in seeing I could not perceive that any thing I ever saw or heard did proceed from a right understanding of the minde of God there being so many mixtures by what I apprehended in every thing spoken forth by all Whereupon was I perswaded to see what might be learned from others who were out of the way of these professions by whose Doctrine together with what I apprehended of my self by the operation of a spirit infused into me after a short time there was made clear to my understanding what follows But first I shall declare the manner of my entrance into this belief Being thus perswaded I began to be very inquisitive after some other people that might accord with and be instruments of good to me whose life conversation might be one with their doctrine both which being of God might certainly confirm their unity with God So in a short time I became affected with those people called by the name of Seekers but afterwards hearing at a private house two of those called by the name of Quakers and much observing their discourse little was spoken but all tending to the destruction of every the least sin So by the sincerity of their discourse with the sobriety of their appearance I was taken somewhat affected with them upon which I was perswaded to make a further enquiry after that Sect though to my wisdom notwithstanding what was spoke was against all sin yet there was nothing declared of the mystery of the Gospel of Christ But upon a further enquiry in the observation of them I saw their order their maner of teaching and duties and found as was declar'd by them as far as I perceiv'd that all spake the same things their Ministery was one all in one Order united compleat in one Minde whereby they were acted as one in their duties whereupon I concluded that surely these people were of God sent forth as witnesses for himself against all others who took the name of God in their mouthes and declared themselves to be the Ministers of Christ though they were made Ministers of man and sent forth by man whose Doctrine stood in the will of Man and not understanding what the Word of life was therefore uncapable of edifying the people being Ministers of the Letter and not of the Spirit Now since it was written that the people of God should be of one soul and one minde God also being one and his Name one and these people declaring to be the same who did live much witnessed by their humility one pure life also moved to speak and act onely from a true and faithful being of God manifested in them by which they appeared to be as Lights in the world and all others who were in a subjection unto divers Forms in many things taking liberty to themselves their lives appeared to be judges of them as well as their outward declaration yet in regard of much strangeness that I apprehended in their way also the extraordinary bold confidence they had in their judging which gave no liberty for the justification of any besides themselves I could not finde a sufficient satisfaction to comply with them A short time following being at a private * Of those called Seekers Meeting where after some time spent by two or three who were making enquiry what should be the meaning of the Spirit of God in two Scriptures which seemingly did appear to contradict each other there comes into the Meeting divers strange men and in the midst of their discourse upon those Scriptures there stood up a man of these strangers and silencing of them he began with an exceeding bold courage to speak crying aloud in these words or to this effect Praises praises be to the Lord God for ever who hath hid these things from the wise prudent and hath revealed them unto babes giving them to know that the dark clouds were veiled over the Sun and with this darkness did they go about to comprehend the light but the light did see the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not So repeating over those Scriptures he affirmed with confidence that they meant that they spake and made those plain to the understanding of many affirming that those who never came to live obedient to the Life which was of God in them should never come to see what was meant by the holy Spirit which moved those who lived the life of God to speak them forth the words of the Wise were dark to such who by their disobedience had lost their light So Man having now lost his guide being blind he seeks after Knowledge by the teachings of that minde which is darkned and so feeds upon that tree forbidden of the knowledge of Good and Evil not discerning and beginning in Genesis he passed thorow the whole scope of the Scriptures declaring what was meant by them and all things being turned by him into Allegories typifying or figuring forth what was to be fulfilled in man before he came to be born of the Spirit the second birth without which there was no entrance into the Kingdom of God heaven which was in man according to that Scripture I will dwell in them and walk in them they shall be my people and I will be their God And so declaring what was meant by the first Adam what by the second Adam what the Fall was what the cause of the Fall what reigned after the Fall what by Redemption out of this fallen estate the way of this Redemption the effects produced
understand That he did not witness a Command for the using of those Ceremonies though formerly in his own Will out of imitation they were practised by him but when he witnessed a Command then he should Obey Now being disquieted in regard of his perfect Separation from the Unity of Spirit which formerly he owned with us we parted at variance but after his departure being dissetled as touching them by what was spoken from him I went privately and examined with my self how I came to take them up and what it was that upheld their reign in me so finding that my will was the first cause I went to divers that were of us and contrary to my mind I held an Argument as though I owned those things which formerly with them I denied that I might learn from them what Reason or Ground they could declare to the destroying of my pretended Judgement so after examining the Scriptures much discourse I found not only some inclination of their Belief in respect of them but a real convincement in my self And so after a short time through the Mercy of God I came to see not onely a death of that extraordinary imaginary and devilish Spirit by which I was so extreamly deluded but also the weakness of that in me which through a Cloak of Righteousness debarred me of my living and conversing with men as I had done formerly in the way of my livelihood and now I affirm from the Truth of God manifested in me that through a slavish Fear that I was in bondage unto I was as others are kept in those Delusions and that there is no more sin in the not using of these Ceremonies than in the using of them provided that wisdom guides MUch time hath bin spent seriously in the Examination of every particular herein declared but the strangeness thereof might occasion many serious Minds to question the Truth of it but I solemnly affirm in the presence of the Eternal God before whom all things are manifest that with a clear Understanding in the sence of my Distress while under those Temptations and powers of Deceit I have endeavoured to make known the Truth in sincerity of Minde And the God of Truth beareth me witness That to my knowledge I lye not in any thing spoken also much of this might be justified by many Eye-Witnesses True it is matter of Admiration and also greatly might it be admired that the goodness of God should so far exceed the depths of Satan and the powers of Darkness as that the deceitful workings of this evil One should be made manifest and that by the discovery of his Grace through his abundant Love which alwayes rejoyceth in Mercy after so great an Apostacie from himself he should restore his own Heritage to the place of their abode and settle the Understanding the Minde and Affections of his lost Creature upon the Foundation-Rock which will abide when all things else must perish Praises to his Name for ever and all whose Mindes are united to the upright and faithful Obedience and staid therein let them say with me Amen Now since the Lord hath appeared so mightily towards me in restoring from the Death and in raising out from the Grave the Light of himself by which my Understanding is better established than before it may be judged acceptable and desirous to know what the Foundation of my Faith is now I say The Scriptures they do discover the Minde and Will of God and they are profitable to the edifying of all under what estare or condition soever but the Will of God is in part made manifest in all not only by what hath been learned from that Discovery of Truth in the Scriptures but where the Scriptures is not And by this invisible Law written in the Hearts of all Men are Men convinced of every secret Temptation which lusteth in them to evil if giving heed unto it and as this Law-giver in us is spiritual so that Ministration of Righteousness in us is spiritual and that Obedience which it requireth is in Spirit and in Truth by which those that give heed unto it are and may be guided out of all the Works of the Flesh above the Law into a possession of that Covenant which giveth Life and so witness a new Birth born of the Spirit without which there is no entrance into the Kingdom as saith the Scripture Except a Man be born again of Water and of the Spirit he cannot see the Kingdom of God and then will those Covenants be made manifest and fulfilled which saith Unto such who fear my Name shall the son of righteousness arise with healing in his wings and he shall turn the heart of the children to their fathers and the heart of the fathers to their children And ye shall be all taught of God from the greatest unto the least so that you need not say one to another Know the Lord. And I will write my law in their hearts and place my fear in their inward parts that they shall not depart from me c. Now where the righteousness of the Law is fulfilled there is God made manifest and so far as that Obedience which it requireth rules in man so far have they Unity with God But yet I do not say That the Scriptures are in the least to be disesteemed but great is the advantage of these who have them to assist in the wayes of God which guide to God For much was the profit of the Jews before the Gentiles in that the Oracles of God were committed unto them the Law the Prophets being made known to and amongst them which the Gentiles had not but now far greater is the benefit or if disobeyed the just Condemnation of those who have the Scriptures more plain to the edifying of them in the Way in the Truth in the Life which is of Christ and leads to himself than ever the Jews had before Christ was manifested in the world But surely greater deceit was never made manifest than is now the unclean thing having bewitched and darkned the Understandings of Men so mightily True it hath been his business alwayes to remove the Obedience required by God of Man and so disquiet their peaceable enjoyment that he might ingraft a rebellious Nature in or upon that Tree which God hath made on purpose to bring forth the Fruits of himself to make known his name in but now the subtilty of his workings are far more admired by them in whom he hath taken place than ever before for when before the will of God was so plainly discovered in the Scriptures to the view of the world as it hath been since Christ and the Apostles dayes much of that hold for his deceit which he hath now was not Those who lived by the Faith of the Son of God whose Habitation was with Christ in God who were exalted in heavenly places in Christ Jesus who witnessed Revelations in whom was established the Life of Righteousness that
new Name Immortality which abideth for ever those I say speaking forth mysteries which men by wisdom cannot know though not my steries to the simple who lived or doth live in the wisdom of God but men in their own wisdom even sensual men who have not the Spirit going about to comprehend those things which they enjoy not they drowned their understanding and darkned their sight and so the eyes of their Mindes being blinded they of themselve wrest the Scriptures to their own condemnation But to my understanding and great is my mistake if the Spirit of God doth not bear me witness herein where the minde is staid in that Truth which is manifest plainly in and unto all men and be guided thereby in faithfulness and respecting nothing before that Obedience which is required by it surely therein God will be glorified for his Grace hath appeared to all men and he requireth no more than what he hath given onely Grace for Grace and he that abides herein needs not desire to dive beyond himself thinking thereby to apprehend that knowledge which is acceptable though in the sight of God accursed but in time he will witness a Comforter which will lead him out of the Spirit of this world into the beginning where all Truth is made manifest and when in joying the same Spirit and living in the same Life which the upright and true Servants of the Lord hath done then will those mysteries of God which are hid from the fleshly wisdom be made known Life and Immortality being raised to Light and so being staid in a sound minde the glory of the Lord will be seen to the peace of his and surely if the Lord please to reprove convince and correct the wandrings of such as are gone astray from him and have exalted themselves upon the Mountains being lifted up above all what is called God and guide them to wait thus upon himself there needs no fear but the blessing which he hath reserved for his Chosen even the eternal rest with himself shall be their reward Whereas it hath been spoken That I was not right principled in the way of the Quakers so called and that I had not a clear understanding of what their Ministery held forth I say deceit speaks in those who thus report of me for before I was perswaded to comply with them I had a right Knowledge of their Belief and Practise but the occasion by which I became to be lost in my Understanding and so distracted and confused in Mind may be observed in divers particulars before spoken yet for the Truth sake I shall discover the thing more plainer But first I shall speak a little of what condition I was in before I came amongst them Having been very zealously affected in divers wayes before there was begotten in me much fleshly wisdom in which my hope did much rest believing it was the mystery and wisdom of the holy Spirit revealed unto me by which I was perswaded that the true worship of God was a true endeavouring to live up to that Obedience which the outward Law required wherein I failed of what this Law required that Doctrine I was learned in continually laboured to perswade me that Christ which died at Ierusalem had perfected for me and so I was not under the Covenant of Works but under the Covenant of Grace Yet nevertheless all this time I could not enjoy a true peace but was greatly dissatisfied with my Condition sometimes being perswaded that I was out of the Faith a Reprobate a Cast-away being out of the Election and other times when covered over with deceit I should glory in my condition Now when being fully perswaded by what I learned from these People before named that the Truth indeed was to be found in us which Truth was made known by the Light in us which Light as it was spiritual if following it it would guide out of all the works of the flesh to the worshipping of God in Spirit and in Truth I was then to begin a new Religion and to lose all that ever I learned before all that Wisdom that Knowledge Faith Hope Love Zeal c which before I hoped in and so to wait out of my own Thoughts and Imagination as in Obedience to the Ministration of Condemnation which was to pass upon all that which was of flesh by which the Spirit was to be renewed and as Death passed upon the one Life was to be restored unto the other until a new Birth was brought forth from which would proceed the Ministration of Righteousness unto Holiness the end of which as saith the Scriptures is eternal Life My Understanding being now thus opened I was posfessed with much Joy in the sense of that Love I had received and was in hopes to enjoy and on the other side I was incensed with much Fear lest I should be careless and so lose my way in the Wilderness before I came to the Land of Canaan and also lest I should die before I witnessed the first Resurrection Whereupon I was resolved to give all diligence that my Calling and Election might be made sure but being naturally of a very hasty forward Minde and my Resolution in part being a Covenant of my own there was speedily begotten in me an extream fiery Zeal so that in the general I was hastily carried for the before the true Light by which in a short time I became lost in my Understanding and then being to seek in the wilderness the Disputer was raised to Life and so exalted it self mightily pleading the cause of his people upon which there was proclaimed a desperate War in which division the Enemy which was for Condemnation having darkned the Light of the Sun formed it self in the shape of a true Light and so deceit having gotten the power to bear rule in Israel my mind was led forth out of the true Obedience as is before related by which the simple became exceedingly deceived but when after it had finished his course and I was restored to a right Understanding it is known that no weapon formed against the Just did prosper but my Life was as a clear Light in the sight of those amongst whom I was known being guided in that Obedience which was professed by those people amongst whom I was This may reprove the Gain-sayer for my witness therein is true Such who may be dissatisfied with any thing contained herein might judge of me otherwise then they ought because of those hands by whom what I have written is countenanced I therefore declare that before any of them had the least knowledge of my purpose I had writ of my self being perswaded it concerned me as a Duty chiefly for those Reasons before spoken but when after some considerable time that this discourse was wholly perfected I was perswaded in what I have done that so such serious mindes as might question the Truth of any thing contained in it might the better receive a satisfaction Since my separation from these people there hath been dispersed abroad concerning me divers scandalous and false abusive reports by which where it hath taken place I am presented as a lewd person changed from whatever it is known I have been but unto the Truth am I made manifest by which Truth in me and in all those that thus have spoken and do speak against me am I justified which Truth is and will be the Condemnation of what is believed or spoken touching me untruly True since it pleased the Father to make known the excellency of his power in the raising out of nothing this body that the Image of himself amongst other of his works might therein appear compleat both in Body and in Spirit to the glory of himself and to the praise of his Name I say since the beginning of this Creation of God a disobedient Mind hath appeared in me against that Will that Grace which God hath as his Law made known in and to me and I have amongst others many times rejected the offers of Grace by the presumptuous resolvedness of my own peremptory will so that I cannot justifie my self yet am I bold wherein I am made free in the sight of God being witnessed by the Spirit of Truth False reports and good reports must pass but my Witness liveth for ever I know and have heard of many which were of them that were convinced in themselves of much delusion they lay under and so their Understandings being enlightned they were reformed in their Judgements but not one of these have I known or heard that have not received from them the like Judgement and scandalous untrue reports that have been given forth concerning me Wherefore by right according to their Law though false I must come under the same Condemnation with them But herein is my Peace the Word of Truth bearing me witness against all deceitful Lyes The end