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A84832	A visitation to the Iewes, from them whom the Lord hath visited from on high, among whom he hath performed his promise made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to his seed, which Moses saw, and the prophets gave testimonie of, to which seed the Apostles witnessed, which seed we are, which seed of Abraham Christ came according to the flesh, which we now witness, glory to the Lord for evermore. Also, a visitation to all you that have long had the Scriptures; but found out of the life of them that gave them forth, that are stumbling about the words, fighting and contending about them, imprisoning and persecuting them that witness the life that gave them fotth [sic]. / Given forth by G.F.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1656 (1656)	Wing F1978; Thomason E883_7; ESTC R202191	39,450	39

say Who is a God like unto thee who takest away iniquity and passes by the transgression of the Remnant of his Heritage and saith the Lord I will bring again their captivity and the captivity of Sodom and her Daughters and the captivity of Samaria and her Daughters Ezek. 10.53 then will I bring again the captivity of thy Captives in the midst of them Now they that be in the life of the Prophets sees this That they that were in the captivity had spoyled the Oath in breaking the Covenant Yet notwithstanding saith the Lord I will remember my covenant with thee in the day of thy youth and will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant and thou shalt know that I am the Lord The Lord will raise up the Tabernacle of David that is falne down and close up the breaches thereof and I will raise up his ruins saith the Lord and build it as in the dayes of old that they may possess the Remnant of the Heathen which are called by my name saith the Lord. And the dragon was wrath with the woman and went to war with the Remnant of her Seed which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Iesus Christ the dragon is wrath with them that keep the commandments and them cannot endure but is wrath and makes war against them And the Remnant of the Seed of the woman appears now that have the testimony of Iesus and keeps the commands of God over all the world stands and the dragon and his wrath fears not but by the testimony of Iesus they overcome which is the Spirit of Prophesie who are his Remnant which keeps his commandments with whom the dragon now is wrath and makes war against And now is the Lord made manifest to them that asked not after him and found of them that sought him not this Prophesie of Isaiah is fu●filled in this our dayes The Father is made manifest God hath made manifest his Covenant to them that did not ask after him Mark Them that asked not after him to them is he made manifest And you which be strangers from the Light the Covenant having the first Covenant this saw not your eyes was blinded who was from the life of the Law and Prophets and this should provoke you to jealousie The life must be brought from the dead before the riches of the world be known the covenant of light the unchangeable the conversion to the life of Moses the prophets the Son of God who of them is the end this you must know before you be converted come to the father of spirits know Moses the Prophets that gave forth the scriptures for the life is that which doth convert le ts see to what condition it was given gives a spirit of understanding by w ch the Prophet spoke by by w ch spirit they saw the eye of your fa●hers that God blinded whose ears were dul of hearing hearts gross are in blindness not receiving the covenant of light within so over your hearts the vail i● remaining who yet have that eye which is blinded cannot hear the holy Ghost nor him who was born of it to be converted healed who ever tesisted are for Iudgement with the spirit the Scripture was given forth from for Moses in the light saw the covenant Abraham saw the promise in that light we in that light do inioy that promise which they saw to be fulfilled y● covenant of light witness y● holy spirit y● scrriptures were given forth from do see them which hath the words o● the scriptures ●ut not in the spirit that gave them forth them God the Father of spirits scatters though they gather together and such be Heathens that know not the Spirit the Scriptures were given forth from these know not God the Father of Spirits but are all a heaps about words killing and destroying one another From them who are Israels common-wealth who are the remnant that keeps the command of God and are of the seed of Abraham who witness the mighty power of the Lord in raising his own seed by his own power in this day and the trumpet is blown in Zion and the alarum is sounded in his holy mountain which makes the earth to tremble and do tremble at the word of the Lord and are by the dark world called quakers at whose voice Moses exceedingly did quake which power and voice now is known among us which doth no● onely shake the earth but the heavens which power removes that which is shaken that that which cannot be shaken may remain and appear and before this covenant you come to know your hearts must be rent so to come to witness the abolishing of death before life and immortality be brought to light through the Gospel which is the power of God which removes shakes and throwes down all and so the promise comes to be fulfilled And saith the Lord by the prophet Make the heart of this people fat make their eares heavy saith the Lord to him that was in the spirit lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts Pro. 6.22 Isa 6 chap. and be converted and be healed these that was from the light of the Law the life for his law is light saith Solomon But I said How long Lord mark and he answered untill the Cities be wasted without inhabitant and the houses without man and the land be utterly desolate take notice They that be in the Holy Ghost see this fulfilled upon you who have nor understood with your hearts nor seen with your eyes nor been converted whole cities comes to be laid waste and houses without man and the land come to be desolate without the spirit that gave forth Scriptures and the Lord have removed men far away and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the Land of this take notice But yet in it shall be a tenth mark and it shall return and be eaten as a teil tree and as an oak whose substance is in it when they cast their leaves of that take notice so the holy seed shall bee the substance thereof Mark Rom. 12.15 Isa 6.13 The holy seed life from the dead he that hath an ear let him hear ond this must be known before the riches of the world be Now that which gathers you to the promise is the light and power of God and the light will let you see all the evill deeds you have done all the ungodly actions you have committed and all your transgressions that is the light which shews you them and if you love the light you will come to see your selves and whether your deeds bee wrought in God and if you believe in the light which manifesteth all that ever you have done ye will become the children of light and receive power from Christ from whence the light comes him by whom the world was made

but the oppression and were from the light such Christ came to make blinde against whom went the woe that drew iniquity with cords of vanity and sin as it were with a cart-rope that called good evill and evill good such as were from the life of the Law and such as these hearing hear not and seeing see not whose hearts are made fat Make them sat whose eyes are shut lest they should see whose ears are heavy lest they should hear Then said I Lord how long and he answered untill the Cities be wasted without inhabitant and the houses without man and the land be utterly desolate mark and take notice of this untill the cities be without inhabitant and the houses without men and the land be utterly desolate Now such as were here out of the life of the Law and the Prophets being in the transgression the life went against them that were from the life and blinded it and stopt that ear and that heart cannot understand that against the life is turned untill the city be wasted without inhabitant and God hide his counsel and secrets from this eye and from this ear so he comes to make them blinde that they cannot see which be in the transgression who doth not blinde the light the eye that the Prophet saw withall And again Isa 29.9 10 11 12. c. the Prophet said to them that were out of the life of the Law in the transgression Stay your selves and wonder for the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep and hath closed your eyes the Prophets and your Rulers and the Seers hath hee covered the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed which men deliver to one that is learned saying Read this I pray thee and he saith I cannot for it is sealed and the book is delivered to him that is not learned saying Read this I pray thee and he saith I cannot for I am not learned Wherefore thus saith the Lord Forasmuch as this people draw neer me with their mouth and with their lips do honor me but have removed their heart far from me and their fear towards me is taught by the precept of men therefore will I proceed c. These people were from the life of the Law whose hearts were farr removed from God to these the books was sealed and the Vision of all was become unto them as a sealed book and they could not read it neither the learned nor the unlearned for to both it was sealed to this people that could not see nor hear was the book sealed whose eye was blinded though they were learned or unlearned such as was from the life of the Law which was the light the life of the Law the light they had not and such the prophet saw who was in the light of the Holy Ghost and their fear towards the Lord was taught by the Precepts of men as it is now with them that are blind these their eyes were closed upon whom was poured a spirit of deep sleep who stagg●red like a drunken man but not with wine who sought deep to hide their counsel from the Lord and worked in the dark among whom the Lord will do a marvellous work and a wonder the wisdom of their wise men shall perish and the understanding of the prudent shal be hid These were-them that turned the things upside down who should be esteemed as the potters clay for shall the work say to him that made it He made me not Or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it He had no understanding Yea he sees take notice that hath made and framed Mind this you who call upon God with your lips but your hearts afar off who be strangers from the life of his Law who turn things upside down who must be turned upside down before the life of the Law which is the light be known and their eyes opened Who are in the spirit of slumber and the spirit of deep sleep yet have wisdome and a prudent understanding These were them that the Prophet saw from the life of the Law and such God made blinde for the promise was when God gave forth the Law Blessing and them that were in the life saw the end of it a Curse was not to them that did abide in the life of the Law the woe was not to them that did abide in the life of the Law but the blessing the curse was to them that did not abide in the life of the Law and such came not to s●e the end of what they profest and these went from the life of the Law to mens precepts and they were such as called upon God with their lips but their hearts were afar off and such owning not the life of the Law they owned not Christ when he came who was the end of it but was blinde and so the fulfilling of Isaiah's words came to be which were spoken forth from the life which when Christ came who was the life they that had the words of the Law and being out of the life knew him not but were them that were blinded by hearing should not hear nor understand and seeing 〈◊〉 should see not perceive these which was gon from the life of the law the light which Christ was one with the life which they were gon forth from These could not perceive nor see though they saw and though they heard they could not understand which were in the transgression from the life of the Law and such Christ came to make blinde and these eyes must be blinded that they cannot see nor heary for that which must hear comes to the life of the Law and to the conversion and saith Christ to them that were gone from the life of the Law which hearing heard not neither understood These peoples hearts were waxed gross their ears were dull of hearing their eyes was closed lest at any time mark they were so shut up from the light the life of the Law lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and be converted and I should heal them Now you may all come to see what peoples hearts they were that was waxed gross and ears dull of hearing and could not see with their eyes nor hear with their ears lest they should be converted and Christ should heal them such as were out of the life of the Law and out from that of God in them in the uncoverted estate against whom Christ cried wo For how can they hear with their ears or see with their eyes that are from the life of the Law and how otherwise can it be but that their hearts will wax fat and gross and be hardned with the deceit who go from the Light the life of the Law which is the eye which God blindes not who is light and teach mens commandments for doctrines such as hear not the life of the law

will utterly destroy the tongue of the Aegyptian sea Isa 11. and there shall be a high way for the remnant of his people which shall be left from Assyria take notice like as it was to Israel in the day that hee came up out of Aegypt And where this Covenant that is everlasting of Light is received with it the first is seen that doth decay And thus saith the Lord I will hold thy hand I will keep thee and give thee for a Covenant to the people and a Light to the Gentiles to open the blinde eyes to bring out the prisoners out of the prison and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house I am the Lord that is my name and my glory I will not give to another Behold the former things are come to pass and new things I tell you of before they spring forth I tell you of them Now when these things were sprung up among you and come to pass that had the first Covenant given to you when you came out of Aegypt These new things this new Covenant you received not though to you it was declared by the Prophet before they did spring forth and this Covenant of the people the light to the Gentiles opens the blind eyes brings out the prisoners out of the prison-house and this is he that preaches unto the spirits in prison Now you and your fathers that have rested in the former things not beholding nor seeing the new things that are come to pass and declared to your fathers before they came to pass shewes how you have refused the corner-stone which have been builders of the words without life the Covenant of Light the Prince of Peace the Lord of glory he that sits on Davids Throne that comes in the volume of the book to do the will of God So the new things which were declared by the Prophet before they sprang forth you that remain in the old have rejected it and have you not been rejected mark and provoked by a people that were not a people Have not the Gentiles which followed not after righteousness obtained the righteousness even the righteousness of Faith in Christ Jesus Rom. 10. the Covenant of Light the Light of the Gentiles among whom his name is great and their eyes are opened and the prisoners come out of the prison-house and in him do the Gentiles trust And thus saith the Lord in an acceptable time have I heard thee in a day of salvation have I helped thee I will preserve thee and give thee for a Covenant to the people to establish the earth I will give thee saith the Lord a light of the Gentiles that thou mayst be my salvaion to the end of the earth Now he that establisheth the earth the covenant is witnessed by whom all things were made What is he salvation to the end of the earth the covenant of light yea who in lighteneth every man that cometh into the world which I saiah spoke of which your fathers had their will on And thus saith the Lord I will preserve thee and give thee for a covenant to the people to establish the earth to obtain the inheritance of the desolate heritage mark this covenant of the people to establish the earth which obtains the inheritance of the desolate heritages and say to the prisoners Go forth and to them that are in darkness Shew your selves which is now fulfilled and fulfilling they shall feed in the way and their pasture shall be on the tops of the hills and these witness the fresh springs of water and this is witnessed among them that witness his covenant and are converted to God to serve the living God in righteousness who are come to the life of the Prophets and possesseth that which they spoke of therefore did David give thanks to the Lord among the Heathen and sing praises to his Name great deliverance gives he to his King to David and his seed Psa 18. whose seed we are for evermore and Moses that received the Covenant from the Lord when your fathers came out of Egypt said Like unto mee will the Lord thy God raise thee up a prophet from the midst of thy Brethren Deut. 18. him shall ye harken unto Now this Prophet did Stephen witness and hold forth when he was brought before the Council whom they cast out and stoned Acts 7. Your Fathers had the Tabernacle of VVitness in the VVilderness as he had appointed speaking unto Moses that he should make it according to the fashion which he had seen which also the Fathers that came after brought in with Iesus into the possession of the Gentiles whom God drave out before the face of our Fathers unto the dayes of David who found savor before God and desired to find a Tabernacle for the God of Jacob but Solomon built him a house howbeit the most high dwelleth not in temples made with hands as saith the Prophet Heaven is my Throne and the earth is my footstool what house will yee build me saith the Lord or what is the place of my rest Now your fathers that held up these o●tward things being not in the life that saw beyond them the end of them the things which Steven here witnessed whom your fathers that had the Law not the lise put to death which had persecuted the Prophets that shewed the coming of the Iust One of whom they had been the betrayers murderers of that stoned Steven these know not that new thing that must come to pass before declared which the Lord by his Prophets spoke of but were disobedient rebellious against the Lord cast his law behind their backs slew his prophets which testified against them to turn them to the Lord they wrought great provocations therfore the Lord delivered them to their enemies vexed them in the time of their troubles when they cried to him he heard them according to his manifold Mercies he gave them a Savior who saved them from the hand of their Enemies Now you may see the cause why his hand was against them being rebellious and disobedient casting the Law behind their backs being out of the life of it here is the cause of slaying the Prophets who witnessed the life of his Law and yet many yeers did the Lord forbear them and testifie against them that had the words by the Spirit in his Prophets Therefore now you having the Prophets words have built their Sepulchres were you in the Prophets life you would see that which the Prophets gave Testimony of and Moses him by whom the world was made the Glory of Israel the light of the Gentiles the leader of the people take notice the light is to lead yea the light is the leader of the people Now you being out of the life of the Prophets and Moses having their words thinking to have life in the Scriptures searching them which do testifie of Christ but not coming to the Prophets

in prison Now you who have had the words declared forth from the Prophets and Moses but not being guided with that spirit that gave them forth you see not the captive but are captives sees not him that brings deliverance and heals the broken hearted and recovers to the blinde their sight and sets at liberty them that are bruised that leads captivity captive and gives deliverance to the captive and this is not known till you come to the covenant of Light And when Ezekiel was among the Captives at the River of Keba the Heavens were opened and he saw the Vision of God Mark when he was among the captives and he was to go to them of the captivity and speak to them and after he was commanded to speak to the captives the Spirit of the Lord took him up and brought him to them So consider now you that have had the Prophets words but not knowing him that is on High that leads captivity captive being found out of the life are scattered abroad but hearken to the Light that will discover your iniquity whereby your captivity may be turned away whereby you may come to the life of the Prophets and Moses with which you may see Christ Lam. 2.14 For Ieremiah did lament the falsness of the Prophets which had not discovered their iniquity which might have turned away their captivity that you might come to know the voice of the Bridegroom the voice of joy the voice of gladness and the voice of them that say Praise the Lord of Hosts for his mercie endures for ever And of them that bring the Sacrifice of Praise into the House of the Lord. I will cause to return the captivity of the Land as at first saith the Lord now know this captivity led captive and this captivity returned And was it not often that Ierusal●m and the children of Israel were car●i●d into captivity for transgressing of the righteous Law of God and did no● the Enemie come upon you which trod down the Wall of Ierusalem which was before Christ was manifest in the flesh which after came and was manifest in the flesh according to the saying of the Prophet which shewed the coming of the Just one who when he was come among you that had the words of Moses and the Prophets but being out of the life saw not that which Moses and the Prophets saw and the Prophet said Jerusalem should be laid waste and compassed with Armies the Wall thrown down and you scattered Is not the word of this Prophet fulfilled among you and upon you had you been in the life as Moses was in and the Prophets and Abraham you would have seen the glory of Israel him whom God raised up to sit on Davids Throne the Hope that all the Fathers hoped for Now your Fathers being out of the life though they had the words knew not the Substance when he was come but on the contrary delivered him up to the Gentiles to be crucified which Gentiles trod your city under foot and they cried crucifie him crucifie him and desired his blood might be upon their Heads Now Jacob comes to be saved from his captivity and Israel shall return to his rest and I will be found of you saith the Lord and will turn away your captivity and will gather you from all the Nations and from all the places where I have driven you and will bring you again to this place saith the Lord whence I caused you to be carried away Captive when you come to the life of the Law this you shall witness Now wait in the light that you may come to witness this Promise fulfilled for the Lords flock hath been carried away captive but now is the Lord redeeming and gathering with his power them out of captivity and leading captivity captive And saith the Lord I will gather the Remnant of my Sheep out of all the countreys where I have driven them and bring them again to their Fold and they shall grow and encrease and I will set one Shepherd over them which shall feed them they shall dread no more nor be afraid neither shall they lack any thing saith the Lord for the day is come saith the Lord that I will raise unto David a righteous branch and a King shall reign and prosper and shall execute justice and judgement in the earth Now this Branch this King this Shepherd this Fold do we witness that are his lambs his sheep and are come to witness the life that Moses was in and the Prophets were in and David was in from which life the Scriptures was given forth to be believed and fulfilled which we see with the same that gave them forth Isa 14. and the Son we see to reigne and the Lord is cutting off according to his promise Babel his Name and his Remnant Son and Nephew and there shall be a High-way for the Remant of his people which shall be left from Assyria like as it was unto Israel in the day when he came up out of the land of Aegypt Of this take notice In that day shall the Remnant of Israel and such as have escaped of the House of Iaccb stay no more on him that smote them mark on him that smote them but shall stay upon the Lord the Holy One of Israel in truth The Remnant shall return even the Remnant of Jacob to the Mighty God for though thy people O Israel be as the Sand of the Sea yet a Remnant of them shall return and there is a Remnant that keeps the commands of God And did not the Lord speak to Ezekiel That your Fathers should be carried away captive and the time is come that whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord shall be saved for in Mount Zion and Jerusalem shal be deliverance as the Lord hath said and the Remnant whom the Lord shall call And the Remnant of the Philistines shall perish Seek good and not evil Amos 5. hate the evil and love the good and establish Judgement in the Gate It may be the Lord of Hosts will be merciful to the Remnant of Joseph though the number of Israel be as the sand of the Sea yet a Remnant shall be saved Even so at this present time there is a remnant through the election of Grace and now is the Remnant known that doth give glory to God And thus saith the Lord to your Fathers who changed his Judgements into wickedness and his Statutes more then the wicked I will execute Judgement in thee I will do unto thee that I never did before neither will I do any more the like I wil execute Judgement in thee the whole Remnant of thee will I scatter in all the winds And these things and many more this Prophet doth relate which was done to your Fathers and what they should act and do they who are out of the life of the law But now such as be in the life of the law Prophets and Christ can

covenant of light which is unchangeable And the Apostle Iames speaking of the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of glory which is without respect of persons Jam. 2. ch and shewing the Law which is Royal which is without respect of persons saith If ye fulfil the Royal Law according to the Scripture Thou shalt love thy Neighbor as thy self ye do well but if ye have respect to persons ye commit sin and are convinced of the Law as transgressors So that you that respect persons do commit sin and would have others to respect persons and to commit sin who cannot else you cast them into prison and go into the transgression of the Law of God and is against them whose souls are subject to the Higher Power and doth not respect the Ordinances of God as they do that respect persons and doth commit sin and are Transgressors and so brings to themselves destruction whose souls are not subject to the Higher Power but the Ordinance of God is resisted by such and the Royal Law and it convinceth them as Transgressors So speak and so do as they that would be judged by the Law of Liberty for whosoever shall keep the whole Law and yet offend in one Point he is guilty of all mark This one Point of respecting person which if it be broken it is guilty of all As for instance He that saith Do not commit adultery said also Do not kill if thou commit not Adultery yet if thou kill thou art become a Transgressor of the whole Law adulterated from the life and resists the Higher Power to which the soul should be subject Qu. But deceit will say If I must not respect persons I must not honor my Father and Mother Ans He honors not father and mother that disobeys Gods command and is out of his Law and lives not in the life of his Law who saith Thou shalt not respect persons and the same saith Obey your Parents in the Lord for the law is the light and the light is the life and the life preserves which light gives to know God and his will in the law and Gods judgements on them that transgresses it and this light keeps from adultery and where the Royal Seed is now risen up made under the law brings to know That marriage is hono able He that hath an ear to hear let him hear Obj. Saith he that is out of the light may not I respect another woman as well as my wife seeing I may not respect persons Ans The light which is the Law teacheth thee not to commit adultery and To love thy neighbor as thy self and thy Wife as thy own flesh and to know that marriage is honorable and the bed undefiled And this Light brings Parents to train up their Children in the fear of the Lord with which they come to honor them in the Lord. And this the Law which is the Light that tells thee Thou must not lust ●or covet which if thou doest thou hast an Idol So that which covets goes from the Law which is the Light and from the Light which is the Law to the Idol-maker where is the founder of the Image that hardens blindes stops the ear and makes the heart gross and there comes in the eye which God blindes and there is the heart far from God though there be calling upon him with the lips To the Light in you all I speak that you may come to the law written in your hearts with which you may come all to know the Lord and Christ his Son his Righteousness the end of Gods Law which is righteous the end of the righteous Gods righteous Law Let every man be subject to the Higher Power mark for there is no power but of God the powers that be are ordained of God mark Put on the whole Armor of God for we wrestle that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against Principalities and powers against the Rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high Places wherefore take unto you the whole Armor of God that you may be able to stand in the evil day having done all to stand having your loins girt about with truth having the Brest-plate of Righteousness So the Armor and Breast-plate of Righteousness brings to stand against the Principalities and Powers against the Rulers of Darkness against the Spiritual wickedness in High-Places whose feet are here shod with the Preparation of the Gospel of Peace and have the Shield of Faith whereby they are able to quench all the Fiery-Darts of the Wicked and have the Helmet of Salvation the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God and their Souls are subject to the Higher Powers and wrestles against the Principalities Powers against the Rulers of the Darkness of this World against Spiritual W ckedness in High Places For there is no Power but is of God the Powers that be ordained of God brings to stand against the Principalities and Powers against the Rulers of Darkness of the World the Spiritual wickedness in High-places mark Here is the Higher power that which God hath ordained to which the soul must be subject and here is that which is out of the Truth the which whole Loins are girded with it against it stands And whosoever therefore resisteth the powers which be ordained of God resisteth the Ordinance of God which God hath ordained and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation Such as go from the Light the Truth and the Power of God their souls are not subject to the Higher Power but that comes in which wars against it the Lusts which war against the soul where the Spiritual Wickedness and the Ruler of the Darkness against which who be in the Truth Wars for Rulers are not a terror to good works but to the evil Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power Do that which is good and thou shalt have praise of the same mark then thou art kept in the truth and the Loins about girded with it for he is the Minister of God to thee for good who hath this Higher power which is of God which is above the Principalities and powers and Rulers of Darkness in the World and Spiritual Wickedness in High places which is out of the light out of the truth such are not the Help Governors but he is the help government that stands against them which is the Higher power to which the soul must be subject but if thou do that which is evil be afraid then thou goest from the light and thy soul is not subject to the higher power and art where the spiritual wickedness is and the ruler of darkness and the spiritual wickedness in the High places which is to be wrastled against and so thou goest into the evill and this Higher power goes against thee for he is the Minister of God a revenger to execute

and the Holy Ghost them witnessed Act. 9. to whom the Apostles were sent to whom the Promise belonged and so Israel which had the Law and the Prophets being out of the life saw not the Glory of Israel neither the light of the Gentiles which now is manifested him whom the Apostles and Prophets declared Luk. 2. Now among the Gentiles there is an exercising of Lordship and the great ones exercise authority on them but it shall not be so with you saith Christ the light the covenant whom God spoke of whom Moses said God would raise up For they that are here in the light are from the will of the Gentiles turned their Lordship to Christ the Lord mark and so the Gentiles are no more aliens but Citizens Co-Heirs joynt-Heirs who believe in the light in the Covenant So you that hold up that which doth decay stand against the Prince of life the Covenant that doth not decay which many of the Gentiles received and you that stood in the first that doth decay come to be thrust out now with that which doth not decay And now as you hearken to the light this you will come to see and it is the light that doth now manifest the counsels of your Hearts your thoughts your vain imaginations and Covetousness which is idolatry and the lusting after those things which you should not Now this light doth manifest that which gives to see Christ the covenant of light that it is which brings into the life of the Law and the Prophets to see Christ who is the light which light is the life of men who is the end of the Law I am the light of the world and doth enlighten every man that cometh into the world him by whom it was made If you love the light and bring your deeds to the Light it will let you see whether they be wrought in God but if you hate the light it will be your condemnation And saith Solomon the King which Christ that was a greater said A greater then Solomon was here and Christ the light said Before Abraham was I am which because he so said they took up stones to cast at him to do Justice and Judgement is more acceptable to the Lord then sacrifice Mark Prov. 21. this Justice and Judgement is more acceptable to the Lord then your sacrifice And saith the Lord I will take no Bullock out of thine house nor Goat out of thy Flock for all the Beasts of the Forrest are mine the Beasts of a thousand-Hills Psal 50. I know all the Fowls of the mountains and all the wilde beasts of the Field are mine If I be hungry I will not tell thee for the World is mine mark and all that therein is Will I eat the flesh of Bulls or drink the blood of Goats Offer unto God Thanksgiving and pay thy Vows to the Most High and saith the Lord by the Prophet I desire mercy and not sacrifice and the knowledge of God more then Burnt Offering Now you may see many had the Burnt Offerings and not the knowledge of God whereas the knowledge of God he required more then burnt-offerings and Mercy and not sacrifice Minde Mercy and not sacrifice And when Christ was come the Covenant of Light he bid your Fathers who were in the burnt-offerings and sacrifices but out of the knowledge and mercie Go and learn what the Prophets words meant he would have mercie and not sacrifice such as had the burnt-offering and not the mercie nor knowledge of God which God desired mercie before sacrifice and the knowledge of God before Burnt Offerings So your Fathers that had the Sacrifice and the Burnt Offering were without the Mercie and the Knowledge of God who knew not the Son the Covenant of Light that Moses and the Prophets spoke of and the blind offered the blinde that which was not accepted of the Lord who respects not your persons but suffered you to be trodden under foot of the Gentiles who have been scattered But now is the Lord warning to turn to him and to do works meet for Repentance that you might come to know the Prince of life the end of the Law the end of the Prophets the end of all outward sacrifices and come to know the Spiritual Sacrifice which is acceptable to God by Jesus Christ which goes from the Spiritual Houshold which is built on the Prophets Christ the Corner Stone who is now come to reign on the Th●one of David whose Seed witness him Davids Son which God would shew mercy to David and to his Seed for evermore which mercie his Seed witness and witness the Son who reigns on the Throne of David the Son of God who are the Seed of Abraham to whom the Promise was when he was in the uncircumcision and the Promise which was made to him when he was in the uncircumcision do we witness fulfilled Glory glory to the Lord God for evermore And we are of the Promise which is to all the Seed which was not made to him through the Law therefore it s of Faith that it might be by Grace that the Promise might be sure to all the Seed not to that onely which is of the Law but to that also which is of the Faith of Abraham who is the Father of us also and him who was made of Abraham is now witnessed that took upon him the Seed according to the flesh who is before Abraham was a greater then Solomon him who according to the flesh is the Seed of Abraham but according to the Spirit was declared to be the Son of God the King of Glory And him David saw and called him Lord who said God would not suffer his Holy One to see corruption nor leave his soul in hell and saith David of him Psal 68. Thou hast ascended up on high thou hast led captivity captive thou hast received gifts for men yea for the rebellious that the Lord God might dwell amongst men Mark He that ascended up on high led captivity captive and gives gifts unto men that the Lord God might dwel amongst them And he that ascended mark he that led captivity captive what is it but he that descended first into the lower parts of the earth and he is the same that ascended far above all Heavens that he might fill all things by whom all things was made to reconcile all things to himself And he gave some Prophets some Evangelists some Apostles and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ till all come into the unity of the Faith and the knowledge of the Son of God the Covenant unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ And the Prophet Isaiah speaking of Christ said he He would proclaim liberty to the captives Gen. 61. mark to the captive and he did proclaim liberty to the captives and went ministring to the Spirits