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spirit_n	grace_n	holy_a	receive_v	8,204	5	5.3607	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59953	A few vvords concerning conscience what it is; and what estate it was in before transgression. And how it became darkened, defiled and corrupted; and how again it may be enlightened, cleansed, purified and set at liberty, as it was before sin entred. Intermixt with a few words concerning persecution among the diverse sects in Christendom (and upon the face of all the earth); shewing, that they all arise for want of true liberty of conscience; and what that liberty is. William Shewen.	Shewen, William, 1631?-1695.	1675 (1675)	Wing S3421; ESTC R221163	20,764	49

Fruit of Mankind hating the Light and running and walking and working in Darkness leads Men to hate * envy and persecute one another about them And all these Things come to pass amongst Mankind for want of believing in the Light Grace Spirit and Power of God that shines appears and operates in the Mind Heart and Conscience of Mankind according to the State it finds him in either to reprove or commend justifie or condemn which Light Grace and Spirit is one and leads all that obey it and follow it into Oneness of Mind Oneness of Heart and into the One standing and everlasting Worship which is in the Spirit and in the Truth where Acceptance is felt and the Light of God's Countenance enjoyed the Partition-Wall broken down and the Enmity slain and the Serpent's Head bruised within by the springing up of the promised Seed and powerful Appearance of Christ within who leadeth into that blessed Love and Charity which never faileth which thinketh no Evil where the rejoycing is not in Iniquity but in the Truth And whoever thou art that readest these Things and art not come to witness within thy self the virtuous Efficacy of the Power Life and Blood of Jesus to cleanse purge and purifie thy Mind Heart and Conscience from all that doth defile and set them at perfect Liberty to serve the Lord and to lead thee into the heavenly City where the Book of Life is kept and to see thy Name written therein and also his Name imprinted in thy Forehead bearing his heavenly Image as thou hast born the earthly I say except thou knowest these Things wrought by the Spirit and Power of God in thee and for thee thy Mind Heart and Conscience remains defil'd and under Bondage to thine own Inventions private Opinions and Notions and he that is called the Prince of the Air rules in thy heart and thou art captivated and carried away with the windy Doctrines Rudimens and carnal Ordinances and Traditions of men and art tasting touching and handling those Things which perish with the using and art prone liable to bite tear murder and devour thy Brother and Neighbour about them so art as a whited Wall and painted Sepulchre and professing Hypocrite and Titular Christian a direct Phanatick and Sectarian and art like Cain a Fugitive in the Earth which God hath cursed that brings forth Bryars and Thorns which tear the Sheep and hurt the Lilly this is thy State and Condition let thy Talk Profession Notion Opinion Form and Fashion of Religion be what it will and whether thou art a Jew Mahometan Papist or Protestant while thy Mind Heart and Conscience is defiled darkened captivated and bound under with the Chains of Opinion Tradition and Precepts of men thou canst not enjoy Liberty of Conscience thy self nor suffer others and if thou compassest Sea and Land to make Proselytes to thy Opinion and Tradition and hast Power to force and compel an Outward Conformity to the same thou makest them two fold more the Children of Hell then before Force Cruelty and Violence may make Hypocrites and Formalists but No True Worshippers of God in the Spirit nor Christians indeed Finally to Force and Compel by Corporal Punishments in Matters of Conscience and Religion is infallibly contrary to and inconsistent with the very Nature of true Religion and Being of Christianity And among whomsoever it s found and practised 't is an evident Demonstration that the Pure Religion they are ignorant of and Strangers to and such are only Christians in Name and Opinion and of a dark narrow private self-conceited spirit priding it self with it own Notions and lofty Imaginations grounded upon the Education and Tradition received from his Fore-Fathers and the carnal Comprehensions and Conceivings of his own corrupt Heart from the ancient Writings of Holy Men hence it is that every Sect and Opinionist like so many Beasts with Horns push one against another hate bite tear and devour one another each endeavouring to sit down as a Queen in the Seat of the Scornful exercising themselves in things that are too high Imperiously measuring trying and judging his Brother and Neighbour who differs from him by his selfish carnal dark exalted spirit who passeth under and assumes the Name of a Sheep though in Nature and Work he be a Wolf and if this Beast of Prey hath Horns and Claws strong enough to make Spoil according to its Nature it would hardly leave the Bones till the morrow This is the Generation whose Teeth are as Swords Proverbs 30 14. and their Jaw-Teeth as Knives to devour the Poor from off the Earth and the Needy from among men this is the Generation also who are pure in their own Eyes yet are not washed from their Filthiness but is as a polluted Leper full of Sores from the Crown of the Head to the Sole of the Foot From this Generation ariseth the Cry and Violence against the Innocent as Hereticks and Blasphemers haling them before Magistrates and hurrying them to Goals Inquisitions Gallowses and Fire tearing the Flesh from the Bones and the Lise from the Body about Matters of Religion Church Faith Worship and Conscience all which is infallibly the Fruit and Effect of that Spirit of Cain that Envious Sacrifices that can Worship with one Hand and Murder with the other call God Father and with the same Tongue call Christ Jesus a Blasphemer Deceiver and Child of the Devil and lay their Wicked Hands upon him as an Evil-doer not fit to live this is and hath been the Work of all the Private Carnal Dark Self-conceited Opinionsts in Christendom who are all Members of the False Church and of the Great City Mystery Babylon whose Citizens are all of defiled Minds corrupt Heares and darkened misguided if not seared Consciences And none of this Work hath been nor never will be found in the true Church nor among the Citizens of the heavenly Ferusalem whose Defence and Weapons never was nor will be Carnal but Spiritual and Mighty through God to the breaking and casting down every thing that exalteth it self against the Prosperity thereof whose Warfare was never against mens Bodies Lives nor Estates to destroy the One and possess the Other neither do the Thoughts thereof enter into the Heart of a True Christian to Hurt his Brother or Neighbour because of Difference in Religion and Understanding of things relating thereto Yet the True Church hath its Way and Means of Defence and every living Member thereof is in its Place and Capacity engaged and bound by the Law of the Spirit of Life and in the Universal Love of God ☞ to be watchful and diligent against the creeping in of Selfish Private Opinions and the broaching of Damnable Doctrines or the growing up of any hurtful Weeds in the Garden of God but as I have said this Defence is spiritual viz. the Light Power and Spirit of God revealed in the Inward Parts this Church puts on the whole Armour of Light the

Sword of the Spirit the Helmet of Salvation the Breast-plate of Righteousness and the very Feet shod with the Preparation of the Gospel or with that which prepares the Way of the Gospel I say these are Weapons of the True Church and of every Member thereof whereby those that say they are Apostles and are not are tryed and found Lyars and the Errors and Doctrines of Balaam detected Read Rev. 1 2 3. and the Lord open thy Understanding and the Teachings of the Woman Jezabel who calleth her self a Prophetess resisted yea all the Faults and Errors of the Seven Churches are reproved and judged by the Son of God who holdeth the Seven Stars in his Right Hand Note and walks in the midst of the ‖ The Son of God is in the midst of his People who are like Gold tryed in the Fire and made Vessels of Honour to hold the Heavenly Treafure and Temples of the Living God this is the true Church that what she bindeth and looseth on Earth is confirmed in Heaven against which the Gates of Hell cannot prevail out of the Pale of this Church there 's no Salvation This is the Holy Church that cannot err where the infallible Judgment is even in whom the Son of God lives and walks in the midst and hath by his bright and powerful Appearance broken down and removed all that is contrary to him and set the Mind Heart and Conscience at perfect Liberty from all Private Opinions Selfish Conceivings Dark Thoughts and Lofty Imaginations which once did defile them In this Church is the one Mind one Heart and one Judgment and she hath the one Faith one Baptism and one Lord is as a Coat woven from top to bottom without Seam And all the Members of this Church are livin Stones fitted and squared for the House and Habitation of God in the fitting and preparing of which the Sound or Noise of the Workman's Tool is not heard nor Self had in any Reputation but the Praise and Glory of all is to God the Worker of all in his People to whom all Honour is due forever and evermore Seven Golden Candlesticks and those that turn not at his Reproof Repent and are Reformed by his Judgments will assuredly in the End hear this fatal Sentence I gave her space to repent and she repented not behold I will cast her into a Bed and them that commit Adultery with her into great Tribulation I will kill her Children with Death and all the Churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the Reins and Hearts giveth to every one according to his Works He that hath an Ear let him hear what the Spirit saith to the Churches Something after which should have been placed before REader I would have thee seriously weigh consider what thou readest in this small Treatise and with the Measure of Divine Light which shines in thy Mind Heart and Conscience whether thou be Darkness or Light a Believer or an Infidel take a perfect View of thy self and thou mayest by the Light thereof infallibly perceive and know Whether thou art a Member of the * None can be of the holy Catholick Church further then they walk in the Light learn of the Grace and profit by the Manifestation of the Spirit of God given to them and is present with them convincing reproving judging all and every Appearance of Evil and ready to teach lead into all Good and it is those only that are led and guided by the spirit of God that are his Sons Daughters and Members of the holy church which is in God he that can receive it let him Holy Catholick Church or whether thou art of some private Opinion or Sect which only calls it self so and whether thy Mind Heart and Conscience-are clensed and set at Liberty from all that did defile and imbondage them or whether thou art corrupted defiled captivated and bound under with the Chains of Darkness Superstitious Education Corrupt Tradition and Selfish Opinions kindling thy Sacrifices with Coals from thy own Altar and walking in the Light of thy own Sparks by the Eye or Light of God which runs to and fro through the Earth and searcheth thy Heart tryeth thy Reins and sheweth unto thee thy Thoughts thou mayest see thy own state and condition how thou standest in the Sight of the Lord if thy Mind be spiritual thou hast Life Peace if thy Heart be pure thou seest the Lord if thy Conscience be purged from dead Works thou art a Servant of the living God and findest Acceptance with him being alive to Righteousness and dead to Sin but if thou dost Evil Sin lies at thy Door and he that saves his People from their Sins thou art ignorant of and Death the Wages thereof attends thee profess what thou wilt and let thy notion opinion be what it will let thy form and fashion of Worship and Religion be what it will whether thou art a Jew Mahumetan Papist or Protestant this is the Word of Truth to thee whether thou wilt hear or forbear thou shalt find it sealed upon thee in the Day of the Lord. W. S. THE END