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To all the ignorant people, the word of the Lord, who are under the blind guides the priests.
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Fox, George, 1624-1691.
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thing and the Priest-hood was another thing the Apostle spoke of and now if you speak of Tythes after the Law Christ Jesus is the summe of things Hebrewes 8. and you that keep people in those things keepeth them from the summe The Word of the Lord God to all poor deceived people who follow such Priests as bear rule by their means and you people love to have it so as you may read Jeremy 5.30.31 and so are the foolish people that are foolish and the sottish children that are wise to do evill but to do good have no understanding as your may reade Ierem. 4.21 and you follow such shepheards as are greedy secking their gain from their quarter and never have enough as you may reade Isaiah 56.10.11 and you follow such shepheards as seeks for the fleece and clothe themselves with the wool which makes a prey upon you and devours which the Lord sent Ezekiel to cry woe against Ezek. 54. So as a troop of robbers wait for a man so the company of Priests murder in the way by consent Hos 6 9. And you follow such Priests as teach for hire and divine for money and yet will they lean upon the Lord and say is not the Lord amongst us no evil can come upon us and cry peace peace and he that wil not put into their mouths they prepare war against him and thus they build up Sion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity Micah 3. And now all ye Priests this commandment is for you if you will not hear and if you will not lay it to heart I will send a curse upon you I will curse your blessing yea I have cursed them already Behold I will corrupt your seed and will spread dung upon you Mal. 2.1 2.3 and you follow such hypocrites as stand praying in the Synagogues Matthew 26.5 and such as are called of men Masters and have the chief seats in the Synagogues which our Lord Jesus Christ cried wo against Matthew 23. And you follow such deceivers as tells you the Steeple-house is the Temple when Christ prophesied of the destruction of the Temple Matthew 24. And Stephen denied it Acts the 7. and the Apostle denied it Acts 17. and he was haled out of the Temple Acts 21.30 and you follow such as tells you the Steeple-house is the Church when the Apostle saith the Church is in God 1 Thessalonians 1.1 And you follow such which through fained words and covetousness doth make merchandize of you by whom the way of Truth is evill spoken of 2 Peter 2. and you follow such as go in the way of Cain in envie and after the errour of Balaam for gifts and rewards 2 Peter 2. Jude 11. and you follow such as are mockers and scoffers and sierce despisers and raylers whose bands are made strong Esay 28.22 2 Timothy 3. which hath the forme of Godlyness but denies the power from such you are to turn away if you hear that Spirit that spoke in the Apostles and from all such before mentioned and you follow such as serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies and by good words an fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple Romans 16.18 and hear with the Scripture you may judge and trie your teachers and you follow such as are given to filthy lucre whose mouths must be stopped Titus 1.11 12. and such you follow as the Apostle called evil beasts and slow bellies and you follow such as stands not in Gods counsell but speaks a vain divination of their own hearts who by their lies and by their lightness have caused the people to erre and hath not profited the people at all saith the Lord Therefore I am against the Prophets saith the Lord that steals my word from his neighbour and saith the Lord saith and use their tongues when the Lord never spoke to them but Priest and Prophet are both profane Ieremy 23. and they are such as gave you Davids quakings prayers and prophesies in meeter and when you reade the Psalmes you keep on your hats and when you sing them you put off your hats and here you worship the workes of your own hands and they are such as tell you the sprinkiing of Infants is the Baptisme and of a Sacrament and their is no such Scriptyres and so the plagues of God are added to rhem that addeth Revelation 22. But the one Baptisme with the Spirit into the one body and the singing with the Spirit and with the understanding according to Scripture that we own and witness 1 Corinthians 12.13 1 Cor. 14. To the light of Christ in all your Consciences I do speak which comes from the Lord Jesus Christ who enlightens every one that cometh into the world which if you all do love it will lead you all from those teachers aforementioned up to Christ from whence the light doth come and hear is your way to salvation and this is the light which shews you sin and evill if you love it it will lead you to Christ from whence the light doth come and if you hate it it is your condemnation so remember you are warned in your life time this is the day of your visitation ALL you that reproach revile scoff and scorn at the children and servants and messengers of the most high God whom you nickname Quakers and under the same name persecute them as a people not worthy to live and have no ground for it neither knowes any evill by them but all along their lives and conversations condemns yours and therefore you hate them revile them and reproach them in whom the power of the living God is made manifest the same which ever was wch shakes the earth makes the strong man to bow himself and the keepers of the house to tremble Eccl. 12.3 the same power which all the children of God witnessed and passed through in all ages which then by the same generation suffered both by Magistrates Professours Priests and People who were and are strangers to the life of God and his power and therefore reproached it scoffed and scorned at it as you now doe But t is that the Scripture might be fulfilled upon you who are despisers of those that are good 2 Timothy 3.3 Isaack the seed of the promise trembled Gen. 27.33 who was mocked by Ishmael the son of the bond woman who was cast out Gen. 21.9.10 Gallat 4.30 As the same seed is mocked now by you Ishmaelites who are the children of the bond-woman who are cast out and are found without mocking and scoffing at the righteous seed and Moses the servant of God quaked and trembled Heb. 12.21 who counted it greater riches to suffer affliction with the people of God then to injoy the pleasures of sin for a season Heb. 11.26 and this you now call madness and folly who know not that godliness is great gain 1 Tim. 6.6 and David who was a King quaked and trembled Psalm 119.120 and drunkards made a song of him Psalm