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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40325	A word from the Lord unto all the faithlesse generation of the vvorld, who know not the truth, but live in their own imaginations; with a true declaration of the true faith, and in what it doth differ from the worlds imagination: written in obedience to the Lord, that al may see what faith is owned by the saints, and what faith is denied. And also a few words unto all professors of the world, who worship not the true God, but their own imaginations and conceivings instead of the true God: also a call from God unto all the the world to repentance, that all may turn unto him, lest the Lord destroy both root and branch of them that repent not. Also a few words unto you that scorne Quaking and trembling, which all the holy men of God witnessed that spake forth the Scripture, and also the holy men of God justified, and all you denied that scorneth such as witness such things now, as ever was in all the generations of the saints. With a word to those that are called Anabaptists, Independants, Presbyterians, Leve	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Naylor, James, 1617?-1660. aut	1654 (1654)	Wing F1992; ESTC R213323	12,879	17

and all whose Law is without we see to be in the old Covenant of works which made nothing perfect and the selfe righteousness which is filthy raggs and by the light of Christ are we convinced of that righteousness not to be of faith therfore whose faith and works stand here them we deny and see them all worshipping without the new covenant in the oldness of the letter whose law is without 1. Cor. 12.13 1. Cor. 14.13 their light without their Church without their Baptisme prayers and Singings without their Christ without their righteousness without and so their faith without all which we witness to be within and within we worship in newness of spirit and by this spirit we do see all that are without God and his righteousness to be in the world and strangers to the covenant of grace Ioh. 4.23.24 and that faith and worship we deny and God denies who seeks such worshippers as worship in spirit and truth and this faith and worship we owne not knowne to the world and therefore hated J. N. To all the Worlds Professors and People that you may see where you are and Repent THe word of God is not known to the world nor worldly wisedome hee that hath the word hath life hee that knowes the word knowes God and heere 's life manifest and the word hath quickned him and raysed him out of death and dead workes he that hath but the letter heareth the sound but knowes not where or what it is and as he received it in the aire hee declares it and death speakes light words without power and dead workes and lightness is brought forth and the power of death raines and the life of that is but an imitation and not the life it selfe the chaffe but not the graines tossed in the wind and the Prince of the aire is fed and ruleth and here vanity is exalted the light mind is fed with airie notions would be wise but the colt is at liberty not subject to the yoke but kicks against the pure and the obedience is not and the cross is despised but the nature who feeds heere whose end is for destruction and for the fire for the nature knowes not the living word but the letter and is without God in the world but hee who hath the word hath God and is come into the Covenant by which all things stand for he is come into the beginning out of the fall to the first fruites and witnesseth the word spirituall invisible powerfull pure and sharpe a divider and discerner by it he is sanctified and made clean by it he is established and unmooveable and is fed daily it is his life his joy and delight and the word is not to fetch from above nor from below neither is it to seeke it in a chapter or a steeplehouse without but it is nigh in the heart and in the mouth by which word he is kept at all seasons it is his counseller he inquires at it as at an Oracle and thereby he is brought to live the life of Godliness and from which is spoken words of life and power to others and hee speakes not his owne words nor brings forth his owne workes but hath ceased from his owne workes as God did from his and is entred into his rest and is come into the eternall Sabboth and is comprehended into the word which is Christ and is no more his owne for now Christ speakes in him acts in him and workes in him the will and the deed now Christ and hee is one married to him and Christ is his head and husband and now the head speakes prayeth and prayseth and prophesies and is uncovered and heere is the Church of the first borne the pillar and ground of truth where the woman must bee covered and kept silent and is not to speake in the Church is not to usurpe authority but is to be in subjection and if shee would know any thing let her ask of her husband at home and he is to her a covering of the eyes forever Now all you Priests and People that talke of these things without you from the letter this is a parable to you and you reade the outside in the letter and from that you imagine and so set up a forme or likenesse or image of those things and here you worship and for this you contend and would compell all to worship your image you have set up and you goe about to persecute and destroy all that will not worship and bow downe to it with you but it is the forme you have but not the substance and you put the dead letter for the living word and your meanings of it arising from the braines and first wisedom and naturall learning thus you declare and call it prophecying and put off your hats which is carnall but the head you know not and it is the woman that speakes and the head is covered and so you dishonour your head and honour your selves neither are you subject to your head but your owne will rules in you and you live in the pleasures of the world and are become wanton and have set your eyes upon many lovers and you are adulterated from your husband nor live not with him nor is he a covering to you neither can you witness him in you nor you in him nor the pure seed of God is not brought forth in you but the seed that is accursed neither is the pure language brought forth in you but as to God you are smitten with barrenness and brings forth nothing but words windes shewes and shadowes imitations inventions imaginations and conceptions and you never looke to bring forth better fruit never come to holyness and perfection and your first fruits and that estate wherein you were created and you will not know you are departed from your first fruitfullness and have lost him in whom your life stands and in whom your fruits is found and are become widdowes and desolate as to your first husband and have been running after other lovers and worshipping under every greene tree and the holy flesh is departed from you and you are doting upon the Egyptian and the Assyrian for wisedom and strength whose flesh is as the flesh of horses and have been as fed hoses living in the lust of the flesh as it is at this day Now all people stand still a while and see from whence you are fallen and the cause of all your unfruitfulness and returne to your first husband from whence you are fallen that you may bring forth your first fruits for till then all you doe is abomination to the Lord and he cannot accept it for what you bring forth is the seed of the adulterer and of the whore a generation of evill doers and yet you make a profession in out side as to righteousness and holiness but the power is to act righteousness you have not but in your actions brought forth but the image of the Devill

make a profession of his words nor a trade of his words nor of Joels who witnessed trembling that which ye scoffe and scorne Ye proud scoffers and scorners ah misery misery is your end except you speedily repent And Daniel a servant of the most high God he trembled his strength and his breath was gone hee was imprisoned hee was hated he was persecuted they layd baites and snares for him in whom the Holy Spirit of God was now for shame all you that make a profession of Daniels wordes give over your profession Priests and people who scoffes and scornes at trembling with the light you are seene to bee out of Daniels life and by the same power you are threshed for it you scorne and scoffe and so heere againe bee witnesse that you are scorners and scoffers against the truth and with the Scripture you are judged to be contrary to the life of the holy men of God and Paul a minister of God made by the will of God a messenger of the Lord Jesus a vessell of the Lord to cause his name to spread abroad in severall Nations when the darke blind world have got some of his words and epistles and you filthy teachers make a trade of them and gets great summes of money for it and so destroyes soules for dishonest gaine and making a trade of his wordes and the rest of the Apostles and Prophets and Christ but denying that Spirit and life that they were guided by and that power that shooke the flesh and the earth which the Apostles witnessed who said when hee came among the Corinthians hee was then with them in weaknesse and feare and in much trembling that their faith might not stand in the wisedome of the world but in the power of God in that power which made him to tremble at this power the world and all the scoffing teachers scoffe at in the townes in your villages in your assemblies in your alehouses for shame lay away all your profession of the Apostles wordes and conditions and some scoffes at the power and call it of the Divell and some persecute them stocke stone imprison and whip in whom that power is made manifest and loades them with reproaches as not to walke on the earth the off-scowring of the world hated persecuted here you may see you are in the steps of your forefathers who persecuted the Apostles and acted so against them stocked them mocked them imprisoned them stoned them whipped them hayled them out of the Synagogues reproached them shamefully intreated them doe not you heere fulfill the Scripture and Christs sayings who sayth if they kill you they thinke they doe good service and yet you make a profession of Christs words the Prophets and Apostles words and calls your selves Churches and ministers of the Gospell I command you and charge you in the presence of the living God to bee silent who acts such things scoffers and scorners mind the light in your consciences which Christ hath enlightened you withall that by it you may see your selves what you act and what you have acted for who act such things shall never inherit the Kingdoms of God for all such things with the light are condemned and who come to witnesse trembling and quaking the powers of the earth to bee shaken the lustfull to come to be destroyed the scorning and scoffing come to be iudged with the light in it waite to receive power who shakes the earth this power wee owne and faith stands in it which all the world scoffes at the lusty ones the proud ones the presumptuous ones who live in presumption and yet make a profession of the Scr●pture as your Fathers the Pha●ses did who were painted Serpents and the Scribes who had the chiefest places in the assemblies stood praying in the Synagogues called of men Masters which Christ cryed woe against who are not come so farr as the trembling of D●vels which believed and trembled let that Judge you the light and life of the Scripture is seene and made manifest that with it all you scoffers and all you scorners all persecutors raylers are seen take warning all yee powers of the earth how you persecute them whom the world nicknames and calls Quakers who dwells in the eternall power of God left the hand of the Lord be turned against you and yee be all cut off and to you this is the word of God to feare and to tremble and to take warning for this is the man that the Lord doth regard who trembles at his word which you who are of the world scoffes and scornes stockes persecutes imprisons here you may see you are contrary to God contrary to the Prophets and are such who hate what the Lord regards whom wee owne whom the world scornes and cals Quakers and set up that power honour that power that makes the Devils to tremble and shakes the earth and throwes downe the haughtinesse of man and which makes the beasts of the field to tremble and makes the Earth reele too and fro and cleaves the Earth asunder and overturnes the wo●ld this power wee owne and honour and set up which the world scornfully calls Quakers but all scoffers persecutors and raylers scorners stockers and whippers we deny with that power which throwes down all that nature as seeing all who act such things are for destruction and shall never inherit the kingdom of God so reioyce all yee righteous ones which are persecuted for righteousness sake for great is your reward in Heaven reioyce yee that suffer for well doing for yee shall not lose your reward and waite you in the light that you may grow up in the life that gave forth all the Scriptures that with it you may see all the Saints conditions and with it you may see all that which they testified against therwith it you wil see them that did reproach scoffe them mock them persecute them whip them stocke them haile them out of the Synagogues before magistrates so to you who are in the same light life the same things do they unto you now that they may fil up the measure of their fathers so with the light now they are seen to act where the light life power of God is made manifest for as they did unto them so shall they do unto you heere is our joy and the Scripture fulfilled fulfilling with the light which was before the world which is now made manifest in the children of light with it they see the world comprehends it all things in it the actions of it with the light we see it to be for the fire and all the works of it for hee that loves it and turnes himselfe from the light is an enemy to God he turnes into wickedness for the whole world lies in wickedness he turnes into the works of evill who turns from the light he is vvith the light vvhich is

for all sin beares his image and hee is the father of it let no man deceive you thorough faire words hee that sins is of the Devill and is doing his worke and upon this image where it is the wrath of God is revealed from heaven in flames of fire here is your portion you workers of iniquity THe word of the Lord God to all you that scorne trembling and quaking and scoffe at them and scorn at them and throw stones at them who own trembling and quaking and ●●●ere that you might be seen to bee strangers from all the Apostles and Prophets in the generation that stoned them mocked them then in that age and those ages and those times but now yee are the scoffers that are come in the last times whom they spoke of bee yee witnesses against your selves to the light in all your consciences I speake that with it you may see your selves to bee from the life of the holy men of God Moses who was a judge over all Israell hee feared trembled and quiked when the Lord sayd unto him I am the God of Abraham the God of Isaac the God of Jacob then hee trembled and durst not behold at this which makes to tremble now yee teachers and people scoffe at and scorne them now in your streets who witnesse the power of the Lord. And Moses forsooke the pleasures of the world which hee might have enioyed for a season hee might have beeene called the son of Pharahoes daughter he refused it and forsooke Pharaoes house who was no vagabond And David hee trembled hee was mocked they made songs on him they wagged their heads at him will you professe Davids wordes Moses wordes who are in the generation of your fathers mockers scoffers wonderers and despisers who are to perish Oh! blush and bee ashamed of all your profession Job trembled and their flesh trembled and they mocked him so doe you now where the same power of God is made manifest and doe not you mocke and yet you professe Jobs wordes Oh! deceitfull Hypocrites will yee not owne the Scripture Solomon who was a King sayd when the keepers of the house shall tremble and the strong men of the house should bow themselves at this Priests Magistrates and people scoffe at where this power makes the keepers of the house to tremble the strong man to bow himselfe Oh! for shame never professe Solomons words deny the power for with it you are judged with the power and life Jeremiah hee shooke his bones quaked hee reeled too and fro like a drunken man when hee saw the deceits of the Priests and Prophets who were turned from the way of God and they were not ashamed neither could they blush such were gone from the light and such were the women that ruled over the people and hee was brought to cry oh foolish people who had eyes and could not see they had eares and did not heare that did not feare the Lord and tremble at his presence who placed the sands for the bounds of the Sea for a perpetuall decree that the waves thereof cannot passe and sayd a horrible and filthy thing was committed in the Land the Priests bate rule by their meanes and the Prophets prophecie falsly shall not I visite for these things saith the Lord shall not my soule bee avenged upon such a Nation as this such did not tremble at the word of the Lord therefore he called them a foolish people heare all yee the word of the Lord yee foolish People who scorne trembing and quaking and quaking and shaking give over Jeremiahs wordes and making a trade of them for with his wordes yee are judged to bee among the scoffers and scorners and stockers for he was stocked by your generation and so you stocke who are the children of your fathers them that tremble now at the word of the Lord at the power of the mighty God which rayses up the seed of God out of the fall and throwes downe the earth which hath kept it in the fall so you that are in the fall where death raignes enemies of the truth despising the power of God as ever your generation did woe and misery is your portion except you speedily repent And Isaiah sayd heare yee the word of the Lord all yee that tremble at his word and said this is the man that God regards that was of a broken and contrite heart tremble at his word when their bretheren hated them and persecuted them and cast them out saying let the Lord be glorified hee shall appeare to your glory but they shall be ashamed Now to all scoffers scorners that despise trembling you regard not the word of the Lord they are not regarded with you that trembles at the word who are regarded of the Lord therfore ye are contrary to Isaiah his words therfore never for shame professe him nor his wordes nor make a trade of his wordes yee who seeke for your gaine from your quarter yee greedy dumb doggs that never have enough yee are they that despise trembling you are they Isaiah cryed against who witnessed trembling and heere be you witnesses against your selves that with the light in your consciences you may see you are out of the Prophet Isaiahs words and are such as hate them that tremble that the Lord regards but such you do not regard but hate and persecute mocke and rayle against but it is manifest that you walke in the steps of your fathers who persecuted the Prophets Habacuck the Prophet of the Lord and Joel the Prophet of the Lord blew the trumphet in Zion and let the inhabitants of the earth tremble the people shall tremble and all faces shall gather blacknesse and the people shall be much pained and now this trembling is witnessed by the power of the Lord this power of the Lord is come the trumpet is sounding the Devils are trembling the earth is shaking the dead is raysing and the living is praysing God and the world is rageing and the scoffers are scorning and them who witnesse trembling and quaking can scarce pass up and down the streets but with stones and blowes and sticks and fists or mocks or dogs or reproches and thus you vent forth your malice against them who witnesse the power of the Lord as the Prophets did to come to the broken heart and contrice spirit and tremble at the word of the Lord whom the Lord regards them you stone them you stocke them you set your dogs at and scoffe and scorne revile and reproach but the reproaches are our riches and praysed bee the Lord who hath given us power above all and if you see one as Habac●uck whose lips quivered whose belly shooke who said rottennesse entred into his bones who trembled in himselfe if you see such an one in this age now you say he is bewitched here again you show your selves strangers to that power to that life that was in the Prophet and so for shame never