wholly to the power of darkness who will then keep you seeking Salvation without whilest he is heaping up evil within For that which seeks to devour your Souls is within you whilst he is leading you out to seek Salvation and nought can damn you but what is in you sin is within before it be acted so must Salvation be within before you be cleansed though the old deceiver hath taught people to think they are saved by believing God at a distance who neither know nor worship him in the Spirit and Truth nor are their bodies his Temples nor can the Holy One dwell or walk in them because of uncleanness but their Vessels being filled with all the powers of darkness and the heavenly Place with Spiritual wickedness hath caused God to depart from the children of men for this uncleanness and yet a Lyar speaks Peace and preaches Salvation and the Creature believes so being filled with darkness But the Children of Light receive not this Doctrine who see and feel and cannot be content with words but with power A talk of God satisfies not the Soul of a good man till he feel his Presence and Power God without and the Devil within is not the Saints Faith nor Salvation but God in them and the Devil cast out is their glory and strength and they are bold through the might of his Spirit in them to war daily against the Prince of this world because they know him who is greater in them and more holy than he that is in the world And this is the Faith-that overcomes the world and he that 's born of the Spirit hath the Father and the Son and he that hath the Devil is his Enemy and knows him not whence he is but judgeth him after the flesh and outward appearance but the Child of Light wars not after the flesh but after God that he alone may have the glory who is all in them that they have to glory in who gives their souls the holy victory And now were not you wholly blind in your minds and past feeling you could never sit down so besotted as to believe you are saved while you are daily captivated in sin and forced many times to do that which you know you should not and this by the power of lust in you entising and leading you into every temptation and causing to fall into many hurtful evils which gathers strength and rooting daily in you heaping wrath and vengeance by adding sin unto sin which must all be accounted for in the end thereof when you have filled your vessels to a full measure And can you say you are redeemed from the Devil while he hath this power in you that you are not able to resist him but are led captive at his will contrary to all fear of God or power of Righteousness Are your Bodies redeemed to God and are you Members of Christ whilest you yeeld your members unto unrighteousness or are you saved who are servants of sin In what stands the life and power of your Redemption of your Faith and of your Salvation seeing nought can stand in God but that which brings forth to him Is not he in the bonds of iniquity who is bound to bring forth iniquity Is not he a servant of sin in whom it reigns Is not he the child of bondage who is bound to bring forth what the evil-one begets in him and to serve him in what he moves him unto Mind this you who are born after the fleshly spirit who act according to his will who worketh in your flesh to bring forth unto death Doth your profession save you who are not turned from dead works The foundation of Repentance is not yet laid in you and therefore death reigns above the Life that should bring forth to God and this is the servant of sin's state and spirit of bondage and not the Heirs state who inherits God's Righteousness and brings forth thereof unto that Spirit which pleaseth God as you bring forth to the flesh and please the world And these two seeds are within and are at enmity and disagreement and there can be no concord betwixt them no more than light and darkness and their several fruits are made manifest with the Light which condemns the one and confesseth the other to be of God and wrought in God And as many as are quickned with the Spirit of Life have the feeling of this before they bring forth the fruits thereof into the world and are come to the discerning of things that differ in nature and effect by the tasting and handling of the Word of Life and knowledge of that Election which is before the World was by which they are made able to judge the ground and end of every motion in them or to them which abiding in they need not man to teach them neither can they be deceived which makes them with boldness bring forth openly such words and works as are begotten in them by the Word of Life which shews the whole World to lie in wickedness and makes it manifest in the Light of Life by whom the Prince of this World is judged and condemned and the secrets of hearts made manifest according to the nature of every several spirit which comes up to the day of the Lord's appearance And to this Spirit of Truth must an account be given by all flesh living for this is he that lives to all generations and is unchangable in his witness against the evil seed into whatever form he transforms himself in words and profession yet is there no agreement betwixt their several natures be they in one person or be they in a family or be it in a Nation there is not agreement nor can any one person Family or Nation serve them both but whoever serves the one hates the other and condemns him so he that serves Deceit condemns the Just and so condemns that which should save him and must judge him in the end And here is the cause of that fleshly liberty which some have got for the present where the Witness is slain and also of the horrour of Conscience where the Just appears towards Judgment the unstable estate of such who are faithful to neither the everlasting Peace and Power in such where the Just hath dominion and the present sorrows of such who are diligent in waiting and wrestling to the end of the World and the beginning of Christ Jesus through Faith and Patience And all these are comprehended with him who hath learned Christ by being faithful to that Spirit of Truth sent in his Name to testifie what is of him in every vessel and what is of the spirit that lusteth against him and keeps the Creation in bondage And this is that one way to Life and Salvation holden forth freely by the Spirit of Truth sent forth by the Father in the Name of Christ Jesus who hath its several operations in several vessels according as he finds them towards God in some he
this appearance in Spirit and tell people that this is not to preach Christ and yet profess Christ in you tell me what Christ is in people if not Light and holie Life and a faithful Witness against the contrary in all in whom he liveth and by what other thing he may be known in spirit life and power if this be denyed else let the mouth of Antichrist be stopt that the simple may pass on the right and living way free from such who will neither enter the Kingdom themselves nor would suffer others who have always resisted the holy Ghost Also the fruit of the free-born cleared from legal performances and the children of bondage shewed the nature of their own works Children of this world who have the form but not the power of Godliness and have got notions of life but not the nature and spirit thereof in your dark thoughts from an unfruitful spirit you judge the Children of Light and when you see us acting in the life of Christ Jesus then you say we are under legal performances and that we think to be saved by our works and that we do it to merit and the like but you are greatly mistaken in your selves and are not in that Spirit which doth see us or can judge the nature of our works nor our end therein wherefore be silent and hear what is said to you if you have an ear to hear withal for though your selves be dead withered branches cut off from the tree which is good by nature and there abide yet it is not so with such as are born again and ingrafted into the good Olive for he that is really born of God knows two several seeds and natures which spring and bring forth from several roots and after their several kinds Now the first of these is in bondage with its branches and brings forth unto self from some outward observation or litteral command or something that is carnal or visible sets on work and being thus set on work to do things contrary to your life and nature you go hardly through it and if you attain the outward performance the boaster gets up to glory in what you can do who doth all for self-ends and so looks for reward above such as you think cannot do as you have done Now you who have gone no further but wearied your selves herein and found nought but bondage are turned back into liberty again and you judge as you have found in your selves so you say all good works are from the spirit of bondage boasting and merit and the like But you should not judge the Children of Light after the flesh your measure will not reach that birth for he that 's born of God is a branch of another root and seed then you know which hath another nature inclining to God from whence it is as the first inclines to the world whence it is And as the natural man doth evil naturally with delight his root and life being so So the spiritual man in his measure doth good naturally after his root and life which is his pleasure and joy to bring forth from the good root that which is good by nature as it is the delight of the other to bring forth that which is evil by nature for as is the heavenly such are they that are heavenly and it s no bondage for the heavenly to bear heavenly fruits but to the earthly man it is being against his nature wherefore saith Christ either make the tree good and his fruits good or the tree evil and his fruits evil so good trees evil trees and fruitless trees are known to be of several natures and for several ends So this is but your own darkness that thus thinks and with evil thoughts you judge amiss Will you say of such as are really planted into the living Vine that their fruits which freely spring from thence are legal and bondage and that we think to be saved by our works and by our own righteousness c. Nay these are the fruits of such who are saved already and the Righteousness of God is given to us who are ceased from our own works whose works are no more legal but spiritual free and not bondage and he that 's in Christ is fruitful in good works and free therein by birth and he that abides in Christ sins not nor is his seed of the evil doer Could you understand this you would not condemn the fruits of the living with such as are dead while they live whose fruit is withered being broken off from that which is good by nature and planted into that which is wild by nature but the spiritual man you cannot judge his fruits nor freedom his off-spring nor his end whose fruits judge all fruitless trees yet is he judged of no man and it 's as hard for you to do good who are accustomed to do evil as the Leopard to change his spots but it is otherwise with such as are changed already born of the Light and heirs by birth and right nature to everlasting Righteousness and Truth it 's hard for such to do evil being against Nature Seed and Sonship which is in God and though this you cannot believe yet he that 's born of Faith can and the least Child of God can read it in his measure who knows the old Adam and the new and as in the first all are in sin and bondage so in the second are all made righteous and free to Gods work and in the second is known the new Creation wherein dwells Righteousness as God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them And will you call this self-righteousness where all things are of God and all things new is this legal and bondage And if any man be in Christ all things are of God and its God that worketh in us of his good and pleasure to will and to do and this is not the spirit of bondage but good will and pleasure which God worketh freely in us So you reproach what God worketh by the hearing of faith and not by the letter which righteousness wrought in Abraham which was in God before Abraham was which is wrought for everlasting and elect of God in Christ Jesus before the world was and is a free gift to all that by Abrahams faith come out of the world to him who is not of the world which you that abide in the world inherit not who are in self and seeking your selves in what you do to God or men how can you believe saith Christ And you that look for rewards are not in that Spirit which worketh freely So you look for rewards and honour teachers and people are all for rewards honour and respect of persons and in that nature is all the bondage merits and rewards in this nature out of the faith of Christ Jesus who went from place to place doing good freely and preaching freely and so will all do who are born of freedom as he is free
whose life you speak evil of but know it not by birth and virtue which is naturally good as the first man is naturally evil And the bondage is in that which is against the pure nature and not in that which is free-born and the law is upon the transgressor and him that is degenerated into that nature which is carnal and sensual and if this man do any thing as to God it is from something that is laid upon him not in spirit but from without and this is legal and in bondage which is not in the free Spirit which doth by nature the things contained in the Law And little it is that such would either do or know were there not a Law or a Letter a Heaven or a Hell to put them upon works and here is the bondage and fear that hath torment but with the Spiritual Seed it is not so who are begotten and born of God in Christ Jesus in whom they receive freely as the branch of the root and what he sends forth through them is fruits of the Spirit against which there is no Law and this is not legal but spiritual and free who are a Law unto themselves and there is no Law against the Seed but is added upon the transgressor because of sin till the Seed be come and where the Seed is born and rules that creature is not under the law letter nor tradition nor bondage but led by the Spirit and born of that Nature which was before transgression was by which the fruits of Righteousness are brought to light by the working of the Holy Ghost who worketh the will and deed of his good pleasure and with the same good will and pleasure it is brought forth without bondage or constraint And in whom the bonds of iniquity are broken the world ended and all things become new and all things of God there dwells not self-righteousness nor spirit of bondage but that is the new creature which is in Christ Jesus created unto good works and not in self and the Heavens new and the Earth new wherein dwells Righteousness as it is in Christ Jesus revealed from God in Spirit and Power without the Law manifest to which the Law and the Prophets bear witness having foretold what glory and freedom should be revealed in the latter dayes at the Seeds appearing and the Letter testifies of this life and power but is not this life but the Spirit gives this life and freedom that it may be of grace freely and the glory of the Lord who is that Spirit and here is the boaster and self excluded and all fruitless trees condemned and seen to come short of the glory of God of whose works he is not either root or off-spring And before you can judge of this Freedom or the nature of the works that spring thereof or inherit the power that brings forth this Righteousness you must own the Judgment of Him that condemns the man of sin in you and receive him for your Law-giver which will break you off from the world and would have you to deny the forms and images and bring you from under its power that 's he that breaks the house of bondage and sets the righteous Seed at liberty to bear the fruits which are of God And thus hath Christ sent his servants to seek the lost and to gather them from among bryers and thorns and bring them to Zion one by one and as they were gained out of sin so the Devils kingdom fell and grew weaker by every servant he lost and Christs Kingdom increased until the Kingdoms of this world become the Kingdom of Righteousnesse wherein the righteous King reigns And out of cruel mockings scorning and bloody persecutions they gathered the lost and gained them to God yea sometimes pulled them out of the fire such hath been their faith and zeal for Christ and his holy Kingdom and their stedfastness to that work to which they were called and hired and the furie of the adversary and his opposite power against him in his servants hath often reached unto blood rendering evil for love to their souls Wherefore take heed to your selves you that name the Lord and call him Master depart from iniquity and obey the good This is his work if you be his servants he hath called you to holinesse as he is holy And that you turn from the world and repent of his works who is the prince of it and deny him and them openly and in secret if you will serve the holy One you must bear his mark and open your heart to him and your mouth for him as confidently as the servants of sin do for it that your Light might shine against the darknesse of this world in the face of the perverse and crooked generation that it may appear to all men that the wayes of the Lord and the world are not one nor their servants one nor their words one nor their garments one nor their table one in all things bearing his Image and Glory above his Adversary that it may appear whose Family you belong to and what is his Glory who hath hired you and what is the Work of your Lord in the World And herein may all people as in a glass see your selves and what you are to God in this his day and what against him these are the two masters which Christ tells of which none can serve but the one he hates who serves the other so now who hath hired you whom do you serve and whom do you hate Is it the World you serve then you hate Christ Is it Christ then you deny the World And these are plain things and you may read as you go if you will whose business you go about and whose hand you strengthen If you commit sin and plead for it then you war against him that is manifest to destroy sin And if you say sin must live in you while you live then while you live the Devil must have a place and power in you and a kingdom as long as you live and if you believe to overcome sin then you wait for the Kingdom of God which consists in Righteousness and believe to see it and seek it daily with your whole heart for it is not words which take the Kingdom but power of Faith against the evil one Neither is it forms and professions or any outward thing that can vanquish the Devil for he is a spirit and by a spiritual power must he be resisted and the weapons must be spiritual and mighty through God which casts down his seat in man though many are led out from form to form and deny that power of God in them and obey the power of sin in them not knowing that power which layes the Ax to the root of the evil tree out of which all the evil springs and these are manifest to be such as are not hired what ever your forms may be which you chuse and change you are but in the
being blinded by the god of this world which should give the sight thereof and that seed in bondage under the prince of darkness which should give to inherit that immortal Treasure and this must be till there be a denying and coming out of the World to receive that inheritance of divine Light and understanding which none can receive nor be one withal but as they come out of the world from under that seed of enmity which seeks to pervert all the right wayes of God and wrest all his gifts to mans destruction as far as he can prevail Now this destroyer or seed of enmity against the Life of man and his Salvation is kept from that sudden effecting his purpose upon the creature in whom he is head by no other thing but the patience and long-sufferings of God who willing that none of his Creatures should perish but that if by any means all might hearken to the Truth and so recover themselves out of the snares of this subtile deceiver and be saved wherefore he doth many times long bear and forbear with much patience and diligence striving by the Spirit of Truth upon all occasions when ever the Creature doth but mind it checking and reproving and warning even many times at that very instant when the act of sin is committing and if the evil one have got such power in the creature that he will not suffer him to mind reproof before nor in the act of sin then afterwards when the heat of temptation is cooled then he shews the evil and danger of such wickedness that so he might preserve fear in him against the next temptation And thus in many he keeps back destruction a long time so that some are long ere the wicked one get them to fill up their measure and some in that time of Gods patient forbearing and suffering come to repentance and turn to that which reproves and are saved and others go on to destruction which swiftly they draw upon themselves after once the Spirit hath ceased striving and reproving for then the fear is lost and the evil one hath his liberty at his own will the Creature being given up of the Lord and the Spirit of Truth being wholly departed nought but deceit is left to guide him who hath dealt deceitfully with the Spirit of Truth which at the best hath but a form of godliness without the Power for the Power of God is in that Spirit and in that Life which is known by withstanding the evil one which is fallen and covered in such in whom death reigns only such who are born of the Spirit have the Life and Power and know its strength and virtue unto eternal Salvation the rest are left to their thoughts and notions And here is the cause of that strong contention that hath ever been betwixt the Children of Light who are born of that Spirit of Truth and have their light and strength in the inward man and the worlds professors whose expectation stands in something without them which others have spoken of who had it in them and so not knowing the Power and Mystery of the living Faith which is holden in a pure Conscience which only hath the Call and Power to bring out of the worlds darkness they are kept captive therein contending against the Spiritual Light and so while they are in the world go about to comprehend and measure that Spirit of Truth which the world cannot receive neither knoweth thinking that Spirit of Light and Life to have no other opâ—â—â—â—ion in such who are led out of the world and born thereof and in whom Christ lives than they find it to have in themselves who stumble at it and are disobedient and unbelieving in heart when as indeed to us that believe it is Elect and Precious who come to it for all supplies but to the wisdom and profession of the world it is a Rock of offence and stumbling-stone yet is it the Head of the Corner and in them who revile it and reject it it is become all they have in them that is good true and faithful towards God or their Souls as their hearts in secret do witness to them and leaves them without excuse many times For even they that reject this Light and Spirit have nothing else that can shew them so much as one of their thoughts or divide to their understanding the evil from the good either in Thought Word or Action or that can really shew them what is of God really and what is of him who doth but shew himself to be God to deceive withal and is not nor without it can they perceive the several motions of every several spirit that is in them to receive the good and deny the bad nor can they know the several roots of Life and Death which plant to pluck up and which to feed on and how can such labour in Gods Vineyard And indeed without this Light the Body is a house of darkness and a habitation of every deceitful spirit and the heart desperately wicked and no man knows it but he in whom the Light of Truth shineth and he that declares to man his thoughts his Name is the Lord of Hosts Thus is he the Head of the Corner which the stumbler cannot comprehend in his wit and so rejects him without whom there is no building nor working the Work of God And therefore you sons of the darkness of this World mind in your selves what it is you set your selves against is it not that Light which would limit and chain the evil one in you that which condemns you for every evil work secret and open which will not let you be proud and wanton and lustful that which in your own hearts testifies against you for deceit and falshood towards God and towards men deceit in Religion hypocrisie and falshood making a form of what you are not deceit in your dealing with men in your tradings and speakings and severall actings both as Rulers Priests and People without respect of persons nor any other thing but hath respect onely to that of God in you which is of his Nature given to you to guide man in the Light of God out of all the wayes of this deceiving spirit And now he that comes to you with this Doctrine comes near you being manifest in Spirit to that of God in your own hearts you are pricked therewith and then the evil one is stirred up in you to fight against that which is Truth in your selves and answers to the Truth which is spoken to you by another without you from the same Spirit of Truth which by you is rejected And thus you joyning with him that rises up in wrath against the Truth in your selves and denying that which should chain and bind the evil one you deny the Lord of Life and give strength to the evil one to murther the Just in you and quench the Spirit of Truth and weary the Lord with striving till you be given up
stedfast in the Faith he flees and the Glory returns to God who dwells in the Light And if at any time the evil-one prevail the creature comes to see the cause to be in himself and not in God and for it is humbled and warned and this he comes to see when the temptation is over and the enemy fled and he is come again into coolness with God in the Light which while the darkness was up and the enemy in the house he saw not And thus is experience gained through tribulations and tryals which they who endure not the temptations never come to learn of God but fall under the temptation through unfaithfulness to the Light and so are ever captives at his will who tempts to evil and the enemy of all Righteousness ever reigns over all the Members leading out the Eyes Ears Hands and Heart to iniquity and vanity and the Tongue to plead for it against every reproof having denyed the reproof of the Spirit of Truth within your selves it cannot be received from others for in that house the contrary spirit wholly reigns which turns away the ear from hearing of Knowledge and the heart from good understanding in Spirit And this is the cause why you are kept alwayes without the feeling of God and his Power and knowledge of his Word and the mysteries of his powerful Counsel are hidden from you which he reveals to the faithful who have overcome through Faith and Patience in whom Satan is subdued and trodden under foot for in whom this devourer is above what ever God gives or reveals to the Creature the Deceiver is ready to pervert it quite to a contrary end that God never intended in the giving thereof and to lift up a wrong nature and exalt a contrary spirit which God hates and this is evident in the Light of Truth throughout the World What is the Gift of God which the spirit of the World abuses not If God give Wealth where that spirit is above how is the creature puft up therewith above the rest of his brethren as though he were no more of the same mould and blood but as God would he be worshipped If he give beauty it s turned into lust pride and wantonness begetting and deceiving adulterous eyes Wisdom is turned into folly and wickedness scorning the simple and over-reaching the plain-hearted and such as have most of it are but most able to compass their corrupt ends If God give Grace it s turned into lasciviousness and Gods long for bearance into hardness of heart Religion and Profession into a cloak for sin and hypocrisie Fasting and Praying to accomplish mens self-ends against such as they would swallow up c. And not one thing that God can give which this evil one will not subvert and turn against the giver so that though God be free in himself and good and plentiful by Nature yet he cannot so shew himself to such in whom the strong man keeps the house who makes the creature thereby but more wanton to kick against his Creator and puffs him up to forget his Maker and Feeder and so a fruitful Land maketh he barren for the wickedness of him that dwells therein which from the beginning was not so Neither is it so with the Children of Light and Counsel who have the Giver in their hearts above the gift where the pure Counsel sits to order the pure Gifts where every good and perfect gift is brought forth in its own nature form and manner undefiled or disfigured with the spirit of the World but the springs run forth from the clean Fountain and the Plant and Fruit is Holy like the Root where the spirit is clean and the flesh undefiled and every thing as it comes from God as in the beginning where the world is ended and the old man put off and all things of God there every gift of God is known by its fruits and nature and ends in such Vessels The Gifts of God return to God by glorifying him here on earth where Riches bring forth good and merciful Works and not pride and vain glory Wisdom stands up against Oppression and not to deceive and through Grace doth Righteousness reign unto Life eternal their Religion is pure and unmixt with the World but separated from it whereby the Sons and Daughters of God are known in the streets by his virtue and comeliness put upon them by him with which they are covered over as a Garment even with all the Fruits of the Holy Spirit of Faith and Truth which is in Christ Jesus who is Lord over all in such Vessels and these are the Vessels of Honour sit for the Lord to shine through against his adversary the worlds spirit in Fruits that cannot be condemned being not defiled in the Vessel but manifest as they come from above answering to that of God in every heart in which the evil one hath neither part nor power these are Sons of God without rebuke in the midst of an unclean generation shining as lights and this alone honours God which is of God and this answers the end of mans Creation and Gods bounty who is rich in such till they come to be filled with all the fulness of God which he withholds not from such but from the unclean and slothful such who defile the flesh with lusts from such he withholds his riches and fulness therefore the World knows not the Sons of God nor whence they are nor whither they return who follows Christ out of the World never returning thither again but to testifie against it whose Vessels are no more filled with lust and the spirit of this World to bring forth thereto but are filled with the holy Ghost who hath made them new Creatures for himself to walk in and shine forth in Fruits of the Spirit And now you wild Colts and barren earthly minded Professors who have filled your Vessels with wantonness and deceit and all sorts of fleshly minds in vain do you hunt about with your old Bottles and think to retain the Heavenly Treasure you gad about but to no purpose in the sight and esteem of God for you are in the wrong work while you are in the worlds nature and in the old creation your words and ordinances are empty of the Life of God and his Fruits you cannot bring forth nor receive till you be renewed nothing you can do will avail you but a new creature your old vessels are full of the old wine from the wild grape and that 's above in you which defiles the pure so God withholds his Gifts from you which abound in his new Creation and you know nought of it but what condemns you so you fight against it and say there is nothing now perfect and so would condemn the new with the old and judge them alike and thus you err not knowing the Gift of God nor the Works of his Hands which are all perfect as he is perfect who walks not in the defiled
place mind to know his spiritual Nature and Vertue and what hath power against sin in word and in deed therein is his Kingdom and there is his Glory and there he reigns So take heed how you let that Spirit which goeth out against sin in judgment and in victory in the least of his people and this know that his Kingdom is spiritual and within and holy and there are his Testimonies Laws and Judgements which he sends out by the mouths of his Servants as he sees fit and it s against the works of the evil one he testifies in judgement and vertue for that is his Nature and to that end he appears on earth to destroy the Devil and his works through the Sword of his Spirit and none will let this but Antichrist and his servants whose works are evil and so would stop the Mouth of Truth and Voice of Christ Jesus So you may come to know his voyce from his Temple when you hear Judgement from the Spirit of Truth passing against pride and lust and all the works of the flesh to destroy out of the world this is his voyce from his Temples in which his Throne is his holy Kingdom and Power and that 's the voyce of Antichrist who would let this and sayes thou must not judge when sin is judged and so with the words of Christ would save the works of the Devil from shame and destruction And now there be many Antichrists in this work to withstand the Word God in his Temples and who set the Letter against the Spirit to keep up sin and to silence the Word of the holy Ghost that comes out of his house against it and here are the Children of the holy God known and the children of this world the one seeks to cut down sin the other to save it and both professe Christ in words but the end of their work makes them manifest And you that are talking of Christs appearance where will you allow him a place to rule in if not in the heart and chief place in man therein to judge and govern and speak and give out his Laws will you allow the evil one to utter his voice openly in man in swearing lying and cursed speaking and every evil work and must Christ be silent and dumb thereat in his vessels when he sees it is not this his priviledge in his redeemed ones as the other hath his power in his captives that in them he may judge sin as openly as in the other it is acted and this is the reasonable service of his chosen vessels to give up their bodies that he may speak and act and shew forth his vertues and life and power therein against the spirit of the world in his vessels and were it not for this none of the holy men of God need to have suffered nor been hated but for the words of God spoken by them as Christ hath said It is not you that speak but the Spirit of your Father that speaks in you and this is the voice which the world knows not and so would stop it and sayes it is not the Lord not knowing that justice and judgement are the habitation of his throne in the hearts and mouths of his people What must not the Spirit of Truth in whom he lives judge deceit and falshood where it lives Must not that which is Holy judge the unclean must not the lowly one judge the proud the chaste one judge the lust must not he that is spiritual judge all things must not Saints judge the world What a nation would you have this to be who would root out judgement and yet profess Christ in you Is Christ in that people where there is no judgement against sin what none to judge pride and excess lying swearing and cursed speaking false wayes and false worships would you have all sin to pass openly without reproof Is the Land wholly become as Sodom mind what was their words to Lot in this case This one fellow came in to sojourn and he will needs be a Judge whose righteous soul was vexed daily with their unclean conversation So would you have sin to go openly in the streets without repoof and shame Where is the Holy One in whom doth he dwell who is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity Is Christ a King is he a Judge is he pure and clean in heart doth he live can he see sin and be silent where he hath a mouth to speak by did he ever take up his abode in people where none would allow him a habitation and a mouth to speak by Mind his walking aforetime in his Servants and what he did and spoke in them and against what and is he not still a God of Judgment at hand against his adversary though such as know not his Voice put him afar off So you who say you are for Christ and his Kingdom mind whose kingdom sin is in and whose work it is to defend it from judgment and take Scripture to plead for it that is he which condemns the just who would clear the guilty and that is abomination to God and withstands his appearance and you that yeeld your members thereto are not for Christ but against him in his members who have yeelded themselves Servants of Truth and such as you were they who slew the Just One his Prophets and Apostles in whom the Word of God spoke against sin and had the Scriptures and served sin Wherefore if you love the appearance of Christ Jesus you must not love sin but in that principle which would not sin feel him that suffers because of sin and yet is without sin and against sin and if to him you come whose appearance is in that which is holy just and true and therein joyn to him you will love that which condemns sin by which he is grieved oppressed and then are you for Christ when you can feel and suffer with him by that which he suffers and you will then see that nought is it that is offended at sin being judged but he that is guilty thereof Grace received and Grace rejected THE Grace of God is that which brings Salvation to man all men being in natural darkness as they are in the world without God so the Grace of God is tendred to all without respect of persons And that 's it in every man which gives him a sight of Truth in himself which Truth God by his Grace accepts in every man who would have all men to come to the knowledge thereof that they might be saved Now this Grace in it self is one in every man and is of God in every man and doth not spare the evil nor deny the good in any out of respect either to person wisdom strength or riches which is of this world but hath respect to the Truth of Spirit in all and their obedience thereto therein to teach and lead to Salvation and the true Worship of God in Spirit which leads to Life