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A45698	The woolf under sheeps-clothing discovered, or, The spirit of Cain, appearing in the Bishop of Liechfield, reproved as hereafter is sufficiently manifested by the fruits of his sermon at Polesworth in Warwickshire ... / Charles Harris.	Harriss, Charles.; Harris, William, 1634 or 5-1705.	1669 (1669)	Wing H920; ESTC R4146	17,879	26

repentance beyond the Grave such as man sows he shall reap If ye live after the Flesh then shall ye die but if ye through the Spirit do mortifie the deeds of the Flesh then shall ye live for Christ came not to call the Righteous but Sinners to repentance and he is come in the Spirit we are Witnesses of his Glory who is not come to send peace on the Earth but a Sword to cut down all that which is contrary unto him whose Word is as a Fire and as a Hammer who is stronger that is in us then he that is in the World who taketh the strong man armed and dispossesseth him of all and overturns the Earth and the Foundation thereof and destroys the old Earth and the old Heavens where Antichrist the God of this World hath taken up the heart with other Lovers but blessed be the Name of the Lord our God who hath given the Son of his Love into our hearts and hath changed our hearts and minds and hath set our affections on things above and hath taken away the stony unbelieving heart and ●ath given us a new heart and hath renewed a right spirit in us by which we witness his Promise fulfilled who said he would create a new earth and new Heavens wherein dwells Righteousness Christ the Righteousness of God who came not to destroy mens lives but to save them Antichrist he persecutes in pretence of the true Christ and puts to death O subtil Serpent Christ's Kingdom is not of this World therefore his Servants will not fight Antichrist self-exal●ed man whose Kingdom is of this World he fights and kills about Religion lest his Kingdom should go down for if the true Christ whose free Grace Truth and Righteousness which cannot be bought with money or purchased with any carnal earthly object I say if the Grace of God Christ Jesus the Son of his Love who is the true Oyl if this take place in the heart and therewith the Lamp be trimed ye will be wise Virgins and need not go buy of Babylons Merchants or that any man should teach you but as that same Anointing abideth in you it will teach you all things which is Truth and no Lye then will Antichrist's Kingdom go down which he was afraid of before he had crucified Christ when exalted in the Scribes and Pharisees being got up into the heart of man yea in the Temple of God and would be exalted above all that is called God when many believed Christ and followed after him then Antichrist s●ood up in his Members and said If we let him thus alone all men will believe on him and the Romans will come and take away both our place and Nation John 11.48 therefore they arose and crucified him but he is risen again and is come in the Spirit and hath made many Witnesses of his Resurrection through Faith in his Name whose Name be blessed and praised and magnified for evermore Now every one prize the day of your visitation not knowing how soon your Soul● may be required of you O have not the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ in respect of persons in an outward Profession and in formality of any carnal Ordinance as in remembrance of Christ to shew forth his death until he come● for he is come in the Spirit and is worshipped in the Spirit and in the Truth and this is the Ordinance of God Christ Jesus who is the Righteousness of God in whom is the spiritual Baptism for there is but one Faith one Lord one Baptism So every one keep unto that Faith which works by Love in the heart through the Spirit by which you will come to know the deeds of the Flesh to be mortified and your hearts to be cleansed purified and sanctified and so come to know the redemption of your immortal Souls and this is the true Faith and the true Baptism which washeth and purifieth the heart in the water of Regeneration through the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus by which we are come to know the new birth born again of that which is immortal which cannot feed upon any thing that dies of it self but of that which is living pure clean and uncorruptible even of the Bread of Life which comes down from Heaven from the Father of all our mercies who hath broken of his own body and hath given us to eat of his Flesh and to drink of his Blood in which is Life indeed Life Eternal but this is a great Mystery to the carnal mind in which is death Therefore return in the eye of your understandings unto that which is pure and holy of God for as the Apostle said What is to be known of God is made manifest in us and God hath shewed it unto us who is a Spirit and to be spiritually minded is Life and Peace The Superscription and Copy of the Letter to the Bishop This for the hands of John Hackitt who is called Bishop of Liechfield and Coventry for him to read over that he may try all things and hold fast that which is good Friend I Being c●st into Prison by thy servants at thy command for obeying the Word of God and keeping of his Commandments in obeying the Truth as it is in Jesus Christ our Lord whose Name be praised and honoured over all for evermore whose Love and Mercy through the riches of his Grace which hath appeared unto all men hath appeared unto us as the Apostle said Teaching us to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live Soberly Godly and Righteously and Holy in this present evil ●orld and the arm of the Lord is not shortened who is the same yesterday to day and for ever who is the Salvation of his people unto as many as believe in him Now it is not such that sayes with their lips and opens their mouths and cryes Lord Lord that shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven and also talk of God and Christ Faith and Righteo●sness and of being Believers and yet live in their sins that can enter into God's Kingdom for his Kingdom stands not or consists in Meats or in Drinks or in divers Washings but in Righteousness and true Holiness without which there is none can see God but sin is an unrighteous work by which the Enemy got into man through temp●ation and a lye and all unrighteousness is sin and that must never enter into God's Kingdom nor any while they are servants thereunto for no man can be a servant unto two ma●ters God and Mamon Christ and Belial but his servant thou art unto whom thou yieldest thy members servant unto mark whe●her of sin unto Death or unto Righteous in which is Life eternal Now in the beginning when God made man and set him and placed him in Paradice he created man in his own Image in the Image of God created he him male and female and God blessed them and said unto them Be fruitful and multiply and gave him Dominion over all

hope of eternal Life which God hath promised that cannot lie before the world began whom he hath given a Light into the World that whosoever believes in him should not abide in darkness but have everlasting Life and this is the Record to wit that God hath given unto us eternal Life and this Life is in that his Son He that hath the Son hath that Life and he that hath not that Son of God hath not that Life these things have I written unto you that believe in that Name of the Son of God that ye may try your ways and examine your own hearts and see what it is that is head in you for if Christ be not risen all Preaching is in vain who is the Resurrection and the Life Iohn 11.25 I am the Resurrection and the Life said Christ he that believeth in me though he wore dead yet shall he live Now let not your Faith stand in the wisdom of me● but in the Power of God for the foolishness of God is w 〈…〉 en men and the weakness of God is stronger then men 〈◊〉 not many wise men after the flesh nor many mighty not many noble are called but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weak things of the World to confound the mighty things and poor things of the World and things which are despised hath God chosen and things which were not to bring to nought things that are that no flesh should rejoyce in his presence but we are of him in Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us Wisdom and Righteousness and Sanctification and Redemption that according as it is written He that rejoyceth let him rejoyce in the Lord and let your love be without dissimulation abhor that which is evil and cleave unto that which is good for God is Love and every good and perfect gift comes from above from the Father of Spirits who so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son Christ Iesus a free Gift to all who is the true Light which lighteth every one that cometh into the World that all through him might believe Now every one that makes any profession of God and of his Son Jesus Christ see that your Faith stand in the power of God according to the measure of Faith or Grace ye have received which hath appeared unto all by which through Faith and Obedience Salvation is witnessed unto all them that witness the Scriptures fulfilled in them according to the Spirit of Truth which was left for our example unto whom the ends of the world is come for the world is placed in mans heart from whence proceeds all wickedness 1 Iohn 5.19 as said the Apostle We know that we are of God and this whole World lieth in wickedness in which is the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye and the pride of life which is not of the Father but of this World which is the earthly part that is got up into the heart of man by which the true Seed is held in captivity and is oppressed as a Cart with Sheaves And out of this earthly heart and corrupt ground proceeds Strife Murther Theft Adultery Drunkenness Swearing Lying Cozening and Cheating Pride Ambition Self-exalting Proud coveting after their own hearts lusts in which the Serpent is head who got into man through temptation who also tempted our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ when he took him and set him on a Pinacle and shewed him the glory of the World All these will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me Then said Jesus unto him Get thee behind me Satan So as every one comes unto Christ and are truely obedient unto him in the power of God they can resist the Devil and he will flee But the first man is of the earth earthly earthlike and so the Serpent got into man through an earthly object tempting with the forbidden fruit which God did and doth forbid though things pleasant to the eye and to the ●arthly heart in which the carnal mind doth not see God but lies in death but to be spiritually minded is Life and Peace And the Strong man keeps the house until a stronger then he comes which is Christ Jesus the second Adam who is Lord from Heaven who takes the Strong man and binds him and casts him out with all his goods who was and yet is exalted in the Temple of God above all that is called God where Christ is not yet witnessed to be their alone strength and their all and in all such are of Antichrist and are under his command though they may profess God and Christ Faith Love and Righteousness for that spirit which confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the Spirit is of Antichrist and denies Revelations and also the knowledg of God And the Serpent which was the subtil'st Beast of the field he came unto Adam and Eve and he would be interpreting the Scriptures though God had said they should not eat of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil which is a Mystery for great is the Mystery of Godliness which is held in a pure Conscience the Serpent called the old Devil● the Lyar he contradicted the comm●nds of God and said they should not dye and so through disobedience of Eve the Serpent entred her and so to the man and so the strong Man being got in hath armed himself and so keeps the house until a Stronger comes and he hath taken the name of a Christian upon him even he who was head in the professing Jews Scribes and Pharisees who looked for Christ's coming yet when he was come to wit Christ the Serpent who was got up and is the god of the World had so blinded their eyes Antichrist the man of sin he in his members gainsaid Christ Therefore Christ told them Ye are of your father the Devil and the works of him ye will do and so they persecuted Christ to the death and persecution was alwayes blind for it proceeded from the God of the World and doth to this very day for God is Love and hath given Christ Jesus the Son of his Love who is full of Grace and Truth and true Righteousness in whom is our peace and Souls eternal Salvation who said Do good against evil Bless and curse not Now in true love to your immortal Souls I beseech all and forwarn all in the Name and fear of the Almighty God unto whom this may come that you lay truly to heart and consider your latter end before it be too late and turn in to the Witness of God in your Consciences Christ Jesus the true Prophet the Spirit of Truth that will tell you all that ever you have done all your life and will set your sins in order before you O repent repent and forsake that your sins may go before you to judgment for if they come after they will fall heavy for there is no

Salvation with fear and trembling and hath known the Living Faith that works by love to have purified his heart from dead works to serve the Living God in newness of Life and therein hath stood a living Witness for God and hath abode faithfull to the end to such it will be said Come ye blessed of ●y Heavenly Father enter into the j●y of ●he Lord but unto such as have been unfaithfull and have not known the bridle to the Tongue nor have not through the Spirit mortified the deeds of the Flesh and so never come to witness Redemption by Christ Jesus but hath hid their Talent in their earthly hearts such may cry Lord Lord and bring their Talent or Gi●t and give it to the Lord as the unprofitable Servant did as is mentioned in the Parable but mark the answer though they cried Lord Lord and brought him his own righteousness which they had hid in their earthly hearts but never joyned their hearts which the Lord required the heart above all things but it is a manifest token that such served themselves and not the Lord who never improved his Talent mark what was the Sentence of such Depart from me ye Workers of Iniquity into everlasting punishment prepared for the Devil and his Angels Thus in true love unto thy Soul in the fear of the Lord I warn thee before Night comes when no man can work and also I would have thee consider of thy late proceedings against me who am an innocent man first I not knowing of thy being at Polesworth until I saw thee in the Synagogue unto which place I was sent by the Spirit of the Living God to warn all people to repent of their sins and to return unto the Lord and saying God accepted not the Sacrifices of Sinners neither is he worshipped in Temples made with hands but according to the Scriptures of Truth declared how that he is a Spirit and is worshipped in the Spirit and in the Truth and therefore I warned all to repent and to forsake their sins and to return to the Lord for there is mercy with him and this was but according to the Spirit of Truth and the Apostles Doctrine That if any thing was revealed unto him which stands by let the first hold his peace but herein thou manifested thy self not to be in the Apostles Doctrine who called for Officers to hale me out of the Synagogue but of those which cannot abide sound Doctrine also thou art one of those which Christ foretold of saying They shall hale you out of their Synagogues and they shall excommunicate you examine thy self whether thou hast not been acting in this work of late contrary to the Doctrine of Christ who when he taught his Disciples to pray said Pray on th●s wise Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name thy Kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven and forgive us our debts or trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us but herein thou hast manifested thy self not to keep Christs Comman●s now if the Lord shou'd forgive thee according to thy works who hath cast a man in Prison for speaking the Truth and hath done thee no wrong or oweth thee any thing or any man but love And again when Peter said unto Christ How oft shall my Brother sin against me and I forgive him unto seven times Iesus said ●nto him I say not to thee unto seven times but unto seventy seven times Matth. 18.22 and so read on to the end of the Chapter of the Parable of the Debtor of that hard-hearted man that would not forgive his Brother that had trespassed against him mark the severity of the Lord● So likewise shall my Heavenly Father do unto you except ye from● your hearts forgive each one to his Brother their trespasses Verse the last But I have not sinned or trespassed against thee yet thou hast cast me into Prison only for keeping Christ's Commands therefore greater will be thy condemnation except thou repent and return to the Lord before it be too late when there is no place of repentance to be found And whereas it is reported we deny the Scriptures and are unlearned and unmannerly because we speak the Truth as thee or thou thy or thine to a single person read from Genesis to the Rev●lation and see where it is you or your to a single person but they are unlearned that have not learned Christ and follows not his Doctrine but Teacheth for Doctrine the commandments of men Mark 7.7 and such are unmannerly that speak not Truth but ●uns on according to their own hearts lust not knowing a bridle to their tongue and are from the pure fear of the Lord in their hearts which keeps clean but runs on in the broad way into evil communication that is it which corrupts good manners And much more might be spoken according to the Scrip●ures of Truth which we own and practice according to the Spirit of Truth from whence they wer● given ●orth and therefore I desire that all people may read them profess them and possess them that they may live the life of them for which end they were given forth f●●ely and not to be made a trade of Again read the Scriptures and see who it was all along that per●ecuted about Religion Pharaoh the hard-hearted one Ishma●l a Mocker Cain a Man-slayer the envious one Herod the Adulterer that cut off Iohn Baptists head and slew the innocent Children aiming at Christ whom the Scribes and Pharisees Elders ●nd the high and chief Priest fulfilled with many that followed after him to wit Christ Again read the Scriptures and see where the Prophets Christ or his Apostles or a●y of the holy men of God persecuted about Religion but Christ said When ye are persecuted in one City flee to another or when they were ●ocked reproached reviled and sha●efully intreated or buffetted and smitten on the ●ne Cheek turn the ●ther also read Iames 2.20 27. So Christ's Commands are contrary to thine which is to do good against evil and not to render evil for evil but bless and curse not and pray for them that dispitefully use you for God is Love Therefore examine thy self and see whether of these footstep● thou treadest in who sent thy Servants with a Writ of Excommunication who came unto me to the Plough and violently haled me away and one of them came with a Lye in his Mo●th saying He was come to cite me again to the Court but it was to take me to Prison unto which I never resisted but went freely to suf●er for the Name of Christ for he hath not only called a people to believe in his Name but also to suffer read the Epistle of Iude. And so Christ's Prophesie is fulfilled in this day who said They shall Excommunicate you and cast you out of their Synagogues yea if they kill you they shall think th●y do God Service And the other as I was going with them about ● Lands-length from the Teem pulled out ● Pistol threatning if I offered to resist them to slay me Read T●●●● 1.7 to th● last Verse And so the Teem was con●trained as I heard since to return with the Seed home again Are these the Fruits of Christ who said his Kingdom was not of this World therefore his Servants would not fight And art thou a Bishop like unto Timothy that was blameless O consider of these things before it be too late and lay them truly to heart for the good of thy Soul and do not dispise me because of my Youth but forsake that persecuting spirit of Saul that thou may'st become a preaching Paul But if thou perish I am clear of thy Blood W. H. Warwick the 3 d Moneth 1669. THE END 1 Tim. 5.20 Them that sin to rebuke openly that the rest may also fear Rom. 12.14 Bless them that p●rsecute you bless I say and curse n●t