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A85143	Light risen out of darkness now in these latter days. Shewing the dark ways and worships of the ministry of Antichrist now in these apostated times, which is perilous, as is foretold of often by the Holy Ghost that spoke through Paul, and now is fulfilled in these latter days, 2 Tim 3. Thus saith the Lord, Arise Sion, and thresh with a sharp threshing instrument, and shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen, and is arising, and Jerusalem shall be a burdensome stone to all nations, now that Christ is unto his people both the light and glory thereof. Wherein something is written in reply to a book that was set forth by the dry and night vines in and about Beverley, who scornfully nicknameth the people of God, in reviling and falsly accusing them, and calleth them Quakers, in and about York-shire. Iuly, 1653.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing F490; Thomason E729_5; ESTC R206840	47,191	59

LIGHT Risen out of DARKNESS Now in these latter Days Shewing the dark ways and Worships of the Ministry of Antichrist now in these Apostated Times which is perilous as is foretold of often by the Holy Ghost that spoke through Paul and now is fulfilled in these latter days 2 Tim 3. Thus saith the Lord Arise Sion and thresh with a sharp threshing Instrument and shine for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen and is arising and Jerusalem shall be a burdensom stone to all Nations now that Christ is unto his People both the Light and the Glory thereof WHEREIN Something is written in Reply to a Book that was set forth by the dry and night Vines in and about Beverley who scornfully nicknameth the People of God in ●eviling and falsly accusing them and calleth them Quakers in and about York-shire Iuly 1653. LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the black spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1654. To you who suffer for Righteousness and walks in the light about Beverley and elsewhere who love the Lord Jesus Christ Christian Friends AS you have received the Lord Jesus Christ so walk in him and let the love of God be an Ingagement upon your spirits to love the Lord Jesus with all your hearts and walk as children of the light and of the day not in darkness but in light and let the pure light of God in you which is the free gift of God that sheweth darkness and Infidelity lead you and guide you which the Priests about your Beverley faith it doth not shewing that they are ignorant of Christ and doth mightily dishonor the Lord Jesus that say they witness that he or the Light of God which sheweth sin and darkness sheweth not unbelief But all you that know the Lord Jesus made manifest unto your souls and in the Divine discovery of his love by the Divine unfoldings of the Divine light of his holy and blessed spirit which is as the key of David and doth unlock or unsold the Divine misteries of the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus in the souls of his Saints which these dry Vines are ignorant of you may witness against them therefore my beloved in the Lord Iesus Christ who are my Epistles written in my heart not with paper and inck which is but carnal and mortal and perishing which wears and fades away but you are written not with pen and ink but by the Spirit of the living God in the fleshly tables of the heart so that you may manifestly declare your selves to be the Epistles of Christ to be seen and read of all men you that are in union and fellowship with him who are dispersed and scattered abroad from the rudiments of the world but in the Vine of the Lords free love therefore live in love one with another edifying one another in love that so you may build up one another in the most holy Faith laboring in the Power and Strength of the Lord and by the spirit of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ that you my hearts that are as Cedars of Lebanon may labor by the Power of God in you to lead up others as you have been led by the Light of God in you which leadeth into Christ the perfection and beauty of holiness that you may be to the praise of the glory of his Grace who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light to testifie against the dark Ministry of the world as well any where else where it shall be made manifest unto you as it is now in and about Beverley and let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorifie your Father which is in Heaven even the Father of lights and the Father of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ that whereas these your enemies that speak evil of you and say a little time will bring it forth that so by your Godly conversations and upright walkings you may glorifie the Lord and put to silence the foolishness of ignorant men and testifie against blind guides false Prophets Seducers and Antichrists and that you may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the height depth and length of the Love of God and to be comprehended into that which is Incomprehensible dwelling in the light where there is Immortality that so you may be able to give a reason of the hope that is in you which is Christ the hope of glory Col. 1.27 and he that hath this hope in him purifyeth himself even as he is pure 1 Iohn 3.1.2 It is in the behalf of all the Godly dispersed ones that suffer under the name of Quakers that I have written this as well as my self So commending you to the Lord God of power even the Father of lights I remain a friend and lover of all that love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity and truth Rich. Farneworth Iuly 1653. An Epistle to the Reader Reader I would not have set pen to paper had I not seen the truth much defamed by those that stand in opposition against it and seek to defame it and strangle it by their faln wisdom and pride and fleshly boastings where envy is hatched so that the Dragon casts out floods of waters of revilings after the woman that brings forth the man-child but the Eaath is made to help the woman and the child is caught up to Heaven with God where it is preserved and kept safe as in a City of refuge and wait but upon God in patience a while and thou wilt see great things for the Lord is bringing to pass his act his strange act that is Prophecyed and foretold of and the destruction and downfal of Antichrists Kingdom that the Kingdom of Jesus Christ may be established in power and shine forth in brightness and the Lord leading forth his People in Power and Majesty and going before his ancients gloriously and he will be their rereward and the Kingdoms of the World shall be the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ the Beast makes war with the Lamb but the Lamb shall overcome prevail and get the victory Read this little ensuing Treatise and give thy Christian attention in the reading and take heed how thou dost pass thy Judgment If thou have not a spirit of discerning least thou Judg false and Judgment return into thine own besom it may be that thou mayst find something in it hard to be digested by thy carnal wisdom take heed of calling truth railing for all deceit must be cursed burned and cut down by the Sword of the Spirit that so the pure seed may be raised up the blessing to inherit Leave not till thou hast read it over and if thy mind stand free and thy Judgment cleare It will some deceits and deceivableness of the man of sin more cleerly and fully unto thee discover So farewel in the Lord and the Lord give

the Scripture speak to Saints not every man when he saith Christ in you the hope of glory c. Col. 1.27 Herein you would have all to take notice of your ignorance Reply for the next verse will contradict you and so in all you have said yet the very letter of the Scripture will let you see your blindness Well may you be ignorant of the life when you are ignorant of the letter for they that spoke forth the Scriptures they passed from death to life and the in fellowship 〈◊〉 with the Father and the Son and he that hath the Son hath life 1 John but he that hath not the Son manifested in him hath not life but is in death You plainly make it appear here that you are in the letter without life and the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life and you never passed from death to life but are yet in death and sin for to be carnally minded is death and the wages of sin is death and he that commits sin is the servant of sin and lying is of the divel and an abomination to the Lord And here you lye ye proud Priests that say the Apostle did not say to every man That Christ or the light was in them for saith he in ver 28. Christ in you whom we preach he did not only preach Christ in them the hope of glory but he saith we preach that is all the Ministers of the Spirit and we preach Christ in you the mystery that is to be unfolded in you to every man warning every man and teaching every man Col. 1.28 Herein you erre not knowing the Scriptures and the Apostle saith to the Romans That as well as to them God hath given to every man a measure of grace Rom. 12.31 And none shall be condemned for that which they know not but for that which they know and do not obey who saith Obey my voyce for obedience is better then sacrifice And Christ saith That he is the light of the world and enlightens every man that cometh into the world Iohn 1.9 And they that follow him shall have the light of life Iohn 8.12 Herein you shew that you are ignorant of this l ght and so are in darkness and without God in the world living by conceivings and imaginations and you that are ignorant of the light are ignorant of Christ and preaches death the letter without the spirit and your Min stry is for for condemnation 2 Cor. 3. and you are ignorant both of the light life and power but as you would comprehend it by your carnal reason but this cannot be comprehended the light shines in darkness but darkness comprehends it not Iohn 1.5 And whereas you say That Paul spoke to none but Saints Priest in that 2 Cor. 5.26 27. c. I looked ply and could not find so many verses in that Chapter for it hath but 21 verses but notwithstanding I knew that Scripture the life of it if I had never seen letter but as you say he spoke to Saints when he saith we know no man after the flesh and though we have known Christ after the flesh yet henceforth know we him so no more but your knowledge stands in the flesh the lust and the fall and here you steal the Apostles words to apply to your selves and that is the Serpent in you go and make restitution as Zacheus did and let him that stole steal no more Ephes 4 28. And you are discovered you that lives by theft and steals the words of your neighbours to trade withal but the Lord is against you and all such as you are Jer. 23.30 You are of those theeves that Christ speaks of in John 10. That climbs up another way and c mes not in by the door And that makes you to speak you know not what See who the Apostle spoke to in that 2 Cor. 5.10 he saith there That all shall appear and every man give account that he may receive according to the deeds done in the flesh Did he but speak but only to Saints when he saith all and every man See whom he spoke to in ver 14.15 and see if you be not exceeding blind Well may you be ignorant of the life and power that are ignoront of the lett●r which is death and so you living in darkness are ignorant of the l●ght and now you are discovered to be ignoront of the same spirit that spoke forth the Scriptures and so shews forth the spirit of errour and you are in the flesh and know not God who is a consuming fire Heb. 12.29 and like a refiners fire Mal 3.2 3. Your God it imagination and the Lord God Almighty who made Heaven and Earth and is the Father of light him you know not that would limit him by your carnal minds but the carnal mind is death and an enemy to the Cross of Christ Rom. 8.6 Phil. 3.18 19. So are you enemies both to God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ and know you not ye blind that the Grace of God which bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men Tit. 2.11 12. But is turned by you and such as you are into wantonness who profess God in words as you do but in works deny him Tit. 1.16 who lives in form without either life or power having a form of Godliness denying the power thereof but your folly will appear daily more and more 2 Tim. 3. And that light is your Condemnation But though the Apostle did speak his experience● in the things of God he spoke what he knew made manifest unto him by experience through the divine operation of the holy Spirit But you live in th● fl●sh and are ignorant of the light of God that he did exhort others to be mindful of which light did lead t●em out of darkness and they were all Children of the light and of the day who were obedient to it for their souls were purified in yeilding obedience to the Commands of the Spirit as in 1 Pet. 1.22 And by the word of life they were sanctified washed and cleansed and justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of the Lord and they that are now guided by the Spirit of God are the Sons of God 1 Cor. 6.11 Rom. 8.14 Which you shew your selves to be none of But you are ignorant of the first Principle of Religion that makes a scorn of the light and shew your selves to be children of darkness having your understanding darkened and live in pride scorn and subtilty and turns the grace of God into wantonness children of disobedience which the wrath of God is to The wrath of God is to be revealed in flames of fire upon all the children of disobedience as you are who disobey the truth and know not the light but are in darkness and walk in darkness For darkness hath blinded your eyes who stand in opposition to the Spirit of truth and disobeyeth the Gospel of our Lord Jesus

voyce John 10.4 5. And so know you to be ravening wolves ranging into you own inventions and ravening into old Authours and stealing the Saints Declarations to speak of and so get your lesson before-hand what to say but the Apostles did not so And such vain ravenous minds as yours are I do deny and now you have made your selves manifest that you were never taught of God but he will bruise you all with his iron rod. 2. We know that we are taught of God by his Holy Spirit as he hath promised and now is fulfilling and qualifying his Son in his Saints John 14. and hath prayed for us ver 16 17.26 And we do now find the efficacy of his prayer to and in our souls and our union is with him in that which he hath prayed for John 16.23 24 25 26 27. And he is now the same that he was Heb. 13.8 John 17.20 to the end But our life is not in the letter as yours is but in the spirit and in the power 3. And we know that no man can come to the Father but by Jesus Christ the light of the world who is a mystery to the carnally minded ones such as you are who would find out the mystery by your fallen wisdom and studied our knowledg which is for the fire for no man can come unto God but by this Jesus whom we preach which is Christ in us the life and substance of all the Scriptures Col. 1.27 c. And no man knoweth the Son but the Father neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him who calls for obedience in whom he is man festing his love and faith Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden But you are not burdened with your sins that do delight in them and so your rest is in the fl●sh and carnal wisdom which must be shaken but mine is in the Lord Jesus Christ in obedience to the Cross who hath set me at liberty from the servitude of sin to serve him having been taught of him as the truth is in Jesus and have rest unto my soul through the divine unfoldings of his love Matth. 11.27 28 29. 4. And we know That God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in times past unto the Fathers by his Prephets hath in these last dayes spoken to us by his Son whom he hath appointed heir of all things by whom also he made the world who being the brightness of his glory and the express Image of his person we are reconciled to him by his blood and are upholden by his power Heb. 1.1 2 3. To him alone be praise honour and glory both now and for evermore Vnless we think Priests as the Doctrine implyes That the Motions of the Spirit are the only rule of duty c. Herein you shew your judgement is carnal and not spiritual that would try the motions of the Spirit by your corrupt thoughts Reply which are of the earth earthly and you have neither salt nor tryer born up in your understandings to try withal as the Saints had that spoke forth the Scriptures but your tryer is a Chapter or a verse of their Declaration which you experience nothing of that live by thoughts and doubtings and so you know nothing real and he that doubts is damned you and your doctrine is for condemnation For the spiritual man judgeth all things yet he himself is judged of no man And there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk in the spirit 1 Cor. 2.15 16. Rom. 8.1 But you are carnal and are guided by your own corrupt wills and your doctrine is accursed and you walk in crooked paths wh●ch lead to destruction All people that have any care of your souls take heed to your souls and follow not these blind guides Iohn Pomroy Paul Clisson Ioseph Kellat c. lest they lead you to destruction take warning betime for they are blind leaders of the blind and see what Jesus Christ saith in Matth. 15.14 And hold them not up nor receive them into your houses neither bid them God speed lest you be partakers of their evil deeds Mat. 15.14 2 Iohn 9.10 11. Whereas you say That to the best of your understandings Priests you judge the Asserters to be against any constant Preacher or Course of prayer so allowing every man and woman liberty in Assemblies to teach or pray c. Here the best of your understanding is carnal Reply and your judgement is the same and so you have nothing to do to judge or to search out the Sa●nts liberty by your subtilties for the natural man knows not the things of God and your understanding is earthly and your judgement is for condemnation which is not infallible And the salt having lost its favour is good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under foot Matth. 5. And so your judgement is cast out and shall never enter into the inward Court but must be trodden under foot and your corrupt wills are for destruction and you are for condemnation because you love not the light the Lord Jesus Christ Therefore be accursed 1 Cor. 16.22 2. Preaching we own and the Ministry of Christ we own and the Course of prayer by the same spirit we own and we do not allow any to speak but the man in us Christ Jesus who is the Ministry of the Sanctuary and preacheth glad tydings and we own his voyce and his Ministry in any and know his voyce from the voyce of strangers such as you are that are enemies to him we disown and do deny 3. You are carnal and corrupt and would be Lords over Gods Heritage but you must be cast out and all such Foxes that spoil the Vines You say that we allow any liberty in the Assemblies c. 4. Are you so sottish know you not that the head of every man is Christ and where he is exalted must his mouth be muzzled in any In the true Church all might speak one by one in the spirits administration who were acted and guided by the spirit to a spiritual order in all things but yours is carnal Let them that pray pray with the spirit the understanding also and every one may speak as they have received 1 Cor. 14. And as every man hath received the Gift so minister the same one to another as good Stewards of the manifold Graces of God that God in all thingt may be Glorified through Jesus Christ to whom he Praise and Dominion for ever and ever 1 Pet. 4.10 11. herein you shew your selves to be carnal and know not that the manifestation of the spirit is given to every one to profit withal 1 Cor. 12. and that no man can call Jesus Lord but by the Holy Ghost and for that 1 Tim. 2.12 Rom. 16.1 and Phil. 4.3 Act. 21.9 and it will let you see that your Judgment is

thee understanding and lead thee into his marvelous light that thou mayst know the truth as it is in Jesus R F. Light risen out of Darkness now in these latter days Which is the cause of such Persecution Therefore Thus saith Iesus Christ blessed are they that suffer for righ teousness sake for ' theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Mat. 5.10.11.12 and again saith he blossed are you when men revile you and perfecute you and say all wanner of evil against you all manner of evil not some but all but saith he rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward for so perseruted they the Prophets which were before you and saith he the time will come that they shall put you out of their Synagogues and they that kill you will think that they do God good service Ioh. 16.1 AS it hath been largely manifested in and about Beverley by them of the Priests party when any was moved of the Lord to go speak in their Synagogue against the deceits that were upheld by them they haled them forth and gave them into the hands of the rude people who did use them most barbarously and had not the Lord been gracious unto them they would even have swallowed them up quick but such was the rage of the Priests party in and about Beverley that the Servants of the Lord suffered much persecution by them as it is well known but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled as David said The wrath of man shall praise thee and the remainder of wrath thou wilt restrain such is the goodness of the Lord to his poor despised people now in these days of persecution for the persecutors are the Priests and their associates they act in the same state and condition as the Iewish high Priest and Scribes and Pharisees did to Jesus Christ when he came in the flesh to fulfil the Law and to put an end to the first Covenant that he might establish a second the new Covenant upon better premisses but as it was then so is it now the Iewish high Priests and the fair-sayers did then persecute Christ and his Apostles and haled them out of their Synagogues and bear them and stoned them for witnessing forth the truth as it is left upon record in these places of Scripture See Acts. 4 1 2 3 4 5 6. See vers 15.16.17.18.19 Act. 6.9.10 to the end Act. 7 57. to the end read Acts. 17. with certain other places And that Christ is coming in spirit to manifest his power and love and to gather his dispersed ones together that hath been scattered by the proud Priests in the cloudy and dark day as in Ezek. 34. The Lord is now fulfilling his promises in gathering them together out of all Kindreds Tongues and Nations that they may come to worship the Lord in his holy Mount where the Mountain of the Lords House is to be established on the top of the Mountains above all humane wisdom and carnal reason to worship the Lord in spirit and in truth in his Holy Temple at new Ierusalem where the Tabernacle of God is and shall be with men of pure hearts and the Na●ions that are saved shall walk in the glorious light and liberty of the Sons of God to serve him in a new and living way consecrated for us by his Son redeeming us by his own blood purchasing to himself a peculiar people to praise and glorify his great and glorious Name that he may rule in us by his own power and set up the Kingdom of his Son in our hearts who is our peace-maker breaking down the middle wall of pertition bringing us nigh unto him by his blood reconcileing us in one body by the Cross slaying the enmity thereby preaching peace to us by his spirit so that we through him have a free access by one spirit unto the Father and are made fellow Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God being built upon the foundations of the Prophets and Apostles Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner Stone and the chief builder in us and through us throwing down the first building of humane wisdom and carnal reason building us up into union with himself in the makings forth of his love to us through the unfoldings of the divine mystery of his love which is Christ in us the hope of glory in whom all the building spiritually groweth unto an holy Temple in the Lord Ephes 2.14 to the end being builded together by the divine power of God working in us who maketh our bodies temples of the Holy Ghost to sound forth his holy praise he ruling in his Temple and dwelling in his habitation even in our souls where his delight is causing us to delight in him to do his will in declaring and testifying against all deceits and deceivableness whatsoever And now the Priests are found the greatest deceivers and upholders of the deceits as their fruits makes them manifest and they labour every wayes to destroy the work of God that he is working in his Saints and they are the greatest persecuters of him in his Saints as it hath been largely manifested by the Priests party in and about Beberley in reviling beating and stoning the children of the Lord. But the Lord will plead the cause of his own people himself alone and then wo to the wicked and all that acts in unrighteousness For thus saith the Lord Ah I will ease me of mine enemies and avenge me of mine adversaries And saith he Wo to them that offends one of these little ones that believe in me it were better that a milstone were hanged about their necks and that they were cast into the sea The occasion of this my writing was upon the reading of a Book that was written by the Priests in and about Beverley by name Ioseph Kellat Iohn Pomroy Paul Glisson c. 1. Wherein is discovered the subtilty of the Serpent that lodgeth in them and a theevish spirit in them stealing the words of the Saints to trade withal for money which is their Dianah but are ignorant of the Saints life and practise as their fruits doth make them manifest for it is not unknown to many the debths of their deceits and how great sufferings there hath been to the people of God by them Of the Priests Confederates Antichrist and his upholders in and about Beberley which the wo is to as it was pronounced to them in that nature in Matth. 23. 2. Antichrist the man of sin is exalted in those dissembling Priests who are as the painted Harlot and scarlet coloured Whore that is spoken of by John in the Revelations that deceive the Nations by their glorious notions and gielded pretences which is for the fire the whorish nature in them being full of flatteries having a golden Cup full of abominations and filthiness of her fornications which the Wrath and the Plagues is to 3. These dissembling Priests painted Sepulchres are full of deadly poyson and are not

of the truth as John speaks in his first Epistle and the first Chapter at the third verse c. where he saith to them which were enlightened by the light of God in them which you shew your selves to be ignorant of and fill'd with subtilty craftiness and deceit and knows not that which John speaks of in that place which I own and witness fulfilled in my soul Saith he That which we have heard and seen declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and the Son This then is the message that we have heard of him which I witness according to that Scripture where Christ saith My sheep hear my voyce and they know me and follow me and I give unto them Eternal life Iohn 10. Which Christ is in me operating by his Spirit and enlightening my understanding opening blind eyes and unstoping deaf ears so that I hear and see and know by experience what I say I do not know God by hear-say from others but mine eyes hath seen his salvation the new man the new heart and new eye he that is in Christ is a new creature old things are passed away and all things are become new which you shew your selves to be ignorant of and are in the old nature and in the fall under the curse and wrath of the Almighty who lives in lyes which is of the Divel who is the Father of lyes and him you serve and are in the same state and condition that Christ spake of in Iohn 8.44 And that Message that Iohn speaks of in that first Epistle and the first Chapter shew your selves to be ignorant of that lives in darkness For God is light and in him is no darkness at all but they that say they have fellowship with him and walk in darkness do lye and do not the truth 1 Iohn 1.5 6. And lying ing is the fruit of darkness Eph. 4.15 And you are lyars and of the divel And whereas Christopher Feak Iohn Simpson George Cokain Lawrance Wise Iohn Pomroy Paul Glissen and Ioseph Kellat do not let to publish lyes it is that all may take notice that they are of their father the Devil who was a lyar and the father of it For The Church of Christ we own which Church is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Ioh. 8.44 1 These 1.1 which is made all of living stones elect and precions and nourished by the milk of the word 1 Pet. 2.2 3 4 5. which word endureth for ever 1 Pet. 1.25 which word is neer at hand even in thy heart which is the word of faith wh●ch we preach Rom. 10.8 which faith we own even that faith which purifies the heart and overcometh the carnal part for whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world and this is the victory that overcometh the world even your faith which is Christ in us and we in him 1 Iohn 5.4 2 Cor. 13 5. and who is he that overcometh the world but he that beleeveth that Jesus is the Son of God which Jesus we own even he that saves his people from their sins and purifi●s their souls in yeilding obedience to the commands of the spirit 1 Pet. 1.21.22 which Christ we witness even he that came by water and blood and it is the spirit that beareth record because the spirit is truth and he that beleeveth hath the witness in himself and hath eternal life abiding in him 1 Ioh. 5.5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. herein we come to try the sprits because many false Prophets are gon out into the world by reason of whom the way of truth shall be and is evil spoken of and here you are and that 's your condition who through covetousness and with ●ained words makes Marchandise of poor souls but you are found out and your Judgment lingereth not and your damnation slumbereth not 2 Pet. 2.1.2 3 4 c. hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God which we witness and confess that Jesus Christ is come in our flesh as the Corinthians did witness in 2 Cor. 4.6 7 8 9 10 11. and so we establish the Scriptures and witness the fulfilling of them in our souls for he that beleeveth hath set to his seal that God is true and he that beleeveth is born of God and he that beleeveth shall never dye and he that beleeveth doth not commit sin and he that beleeveth is justified from all ungodliness and he that beleeveth doth not respect persons for he that respecteth persons commits sin and he that beleeveth hath eternal life abiding in him this the Scriptures witness and I witness these Scriptures fulfilled Acts. 13.39 Ioh. 7.37 6.2 11.26 1 Pet. 1.6 Ioh. 3.18 1 Ioh. 5.1 1 Ioh. 5.10 1 Ioh. 5 4 5 But your dark minds I do deny and your gilded notions and painted expressions and all your formal faith which outward and your persecuting Antichristians which envies and hates as you do your deeds testifie against you witness what persecutions and suffering William Deusberry and Thomas Stubs had amongst you at Beverley in sore stripas and buff●tings and others that were stoned and shamefully entreated these are the fruits of your Pharisaical Saints for shame blush see what you are doing ye painted outsides ye self-conceited Hypocrites and dissembleers that persecute the just and Innocent ones and fill up the measure of your fathers Iniquity Ma● 23. you are of the same ge●eration that stew the righteous blood did ever the Saints of God do any such thing for shame blush ye Serpents ye generation of Vipers ye seed of evil doers repent and forsake the evil of your doings and live not in lyes and flatteries for your Churches are the Synagogue of Satan where persecution is upheld I do deny and against your deceits I testifie that you are enemies to Jesus Christ where he is made manifest as the Iewish high Priests Scribes and Pharisees were and you are children of wrath and his Servants ye are to whom ye do obey as in Rom. 6.16 and saith Jesus Christ Why call ye me Lord Lord and do not the things that I say Luk. 6.46 but know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven 1 Cor. 6.9 10. And whereas you say that If in any age the Devil hath transformed himself into an Angel of Light Priests or his Apostles or Ministers have transformed themselves into the Apostles and Ministers of Christ they have don so in this Apostatizing age in which we live c. It seems that your light that is in you is darkness Answ that questions the truth of what you speak and say If in any age c. Were your eyes open you might see your selves to be in the same state and condition that you write of and of the number of those

of iniquity and out of vain and evil thoughts which you live in and so you are ignorant of the Apostles experience that would be finding it out by thought which is vain and so your life that you live by thought is vain for the just he lives by faith which is the evidence of things unseen which you shew your selves to be ignorant of The Apostle he spoke forth his experiences as he passed through them from death to life and as he was made free by the Body of Christ and said I thank God who hath given me victory through Jesus for the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made him free from the Law of sin and death and he was made more then a Conquerour and was crucified to the world and the world to him and he had Christ living in him and so knew both the life and power of Christ manifested in him which he did w●●ness and he hath left upon record which life and power you are ignorant of and would be aspiring to know his conditions with your vain imaginations but the life and experience of them is hid from all such vulterous eyes and venomous beasts as you are though you can steal his words to trade withal yet you are strangers to that life which was made manifest in Paul and you cannot know it whilest you I ve in the lust and filth of the flesh and in the broad way and in the fall and like theeves you have stoln the declarations of Pauls experiences and the rest to make a trade withal such Sir Simons as you which buy and sell the letter which is carnal for carnal money but the gift of God which is the Holy Ghost that you know not and so you are children of disobedience and are hasting to fill up your measure that destruction might come upon you and fire fall down from Heaven to burn up all your chaff and stoln expressions for the Lord he will and is now gathering his wheat into his garner but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire all your forms and chaff and corrupt dealings is for the fire and wrath of the Almighty and the coming of Christ you know not but are carnal and corruptible and if the last enemy be death that is to be destroyed what is the first you run on but turn you back again and hasten not into your self wills which are for destruction and your fl shly wisdom which is for condemnation and look into that 2 Pet. 3.12 which you have made such haste to and in the latter end of the verse you may read that the face of the Lord is against you and all such evil doers as you are pag. 16. And see how you are hasting to an ungodly corrupt conversation and are neither of the mind nor the same spirit that they were of that spoke forth that 3d Chapter of the Philippians though you have made great haste to steal their Letters or Epistles to trade withal but see what the Holy Ghost spoke through Paul to such as you are who are to be marked that do not follow their example in life and conversation but are enemies to the Cross of Christ as you are and instead of Phil. 3.21 Let it lye where it is and run not over but take your own reward that which is ●ue to you and such as you are whose end is destruction whose God is their belly whose glory in their shame who mind earth things as you do Phil. 3.18 19. And now you Foxes and subul Serpents you are found out of your holes of earthly conceiving inventions and imaginations and are to be whipt with the smal scourge of the righteous judgmen●s of the Lord for the accuser of the brethren is head in you which you speak of in your 17 page Thus saith the Lord Wo to the Idol Shepherds such as you are that ran but the Lord n●ver sent you and you are unprofitable and do not profit the people at all Jer. 23. read that over and s●e where you are and you may see that a whirlwind is to fall grievously upon all such as you are that speak a vision of your own heart and not from the mouth of the Lord and that preach for hire as you do as in Jer. 5.30 31. holding up that which is an abomination in the eyes the Lord but wo is your portion that feeds you with the fat and clothes you with the wool God will feed you with judgement read Ezek. 34. And wo to them that take counsel but not of me and that cover with a covering but not of my Spirit saith the Lord that they may add sin unto sin as you do that are covered with your own inventions the wo s to you read Isai 30. And you blind leaders of the people cause them to erre Isai 31. and Isai 9.16 So that there is like Priest like people Hos 4.9 Therefore wo to you and all blind guides Matth. 23. The Lord is against you Moreover Quest they admonish that we wait in silence until God open our mouths We answer If that were the end or intent of this admonition Priests to shew to man his dependancy on God c. Herein you shew your selves to be ignorant of the same Spirit that they had that spoke forth the Scriptures Reply whose dependancy was of God and waited upon him for to move in them by his holy Spirit and to put words into their mouths to speak as the Prophets and Apostles did witness as you may read at large in their Declaration For holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1.19 20 21. And those that speak now and speak not by the same movings of the Holy Ghost speaking in them and through them as they did are false Prophets such as you are as in 2 Pet. 2. Who know not the gift of God which is as fire but speak their own words and imaginations from others writings as you do that say none speaks immediately from God now as the Apostles did Herein you shew that you never knew God nor any gift of his but have all this time spoken your own inventions and vain repetitions and not from the mouth of the Lord and now in due time you have laid it open to the view of all that are learned and grounded in the truth who are not unlearned nor untaught of God as you are that wrest the Scriptures to your own destruction being led away with the errour of the wicked as you are and know nothing of the growth in grace as they did which spoke fo●th the Scriptures which I witness the life of and see you where you are in your inventions and imaginations wresting the Scripture being untaught of God following your own thoughts and imaginations 2 Pet. 3.16 1. But we know God by divine inspiration and know him speaking immediately in us by his Son and who are his sheep hear his

carnal and that you are not to Judg of spiritual things by carnal reason and fleshly fancy But that you may lay open your folly that it may appear to all that are of a spiritual discerning that you are enemies to God and in your wicked imaginations which are for the fire and you we do deny and all vain janglings and fleshly carnal corrupt ways of worship and your set times who live in limitation but God will lim●t those carnal minds in you and bind up the wilde wills which would be intruding into those things that you have nothing to do withal and cast the Beast and false Prophet into the Lake that burneth with fire and brimstone and such deceivers as you are Rev. 17. It is said indeed that you may all Prophecy one by one Reply but it is said also are all Prophets we wish that the Lords people were Prophets You shew your selves to be contrary minded to the Apostles Reply though you steal their words to talk of you neither have the same mind light life order nor power amongst you as they had and he did exhort them to covet the best gifts 1 Cor 12. Rom 16.1 Phil. 4.3 which you grudg at and he commended to them Ph●b● a servant of the Church and there were women labourers with him in the Gospel and the Spirit of the Lord is the same now that it was then It is but the Beast in you that would and doth make war with the Lamb but the Lamb shall overcome and give you all your doom even reward you all according to your doings Rejoyce ye Saints and righteous ones the Lord will Judg and avenge himself upon the whore that Iezebel that is amongst all the fair sayers and painted Sepulchers such as these gainsayers and opposers are who stand in enmity and opposition against the truth by their evil thoughts and vain imaginations shewing the spirit of error The Assemblies of the Saints of old ware constant Priests and they had men who attended on the word and prayer who gave themselves to it prepared themselves waited on God that they might act to the edifying of the Saints in love Act. 20.7 6.2 3 4. 1 Tim. 4.13.14 15 16. The practice of the Saints in former ages Reply and in those places that you have cited may be sufficient evidence against you that you are none of them but enemies to those who come to walk after their example now whose life and practice we do own but you and your practice we do deny and altogether disown though you have stoln their words to speak of yet they will be witness enough against you and their manner of meetings speaking by the spirit and waiting will condemn you that deny the same waitings and attendings in others and know nothing of them in your selves who do not attend upon the word to speak immediately from the Mouth of the Lord as they did whereas you speak by the spirit of error that speaks by imagination and not by the same spirit that administred by them and doth by those that now speak by Divine inspiration herein you walk contrary to the Scriptures and the practice of the Saints in former ages shewing forth the spirit of error See Act. 20.7 When they were met together on the first day of the Week which you call a Sabbath where that place of Scripture doth not call so but it is your imaginations and inventions and contrary to the Scriptures and to that Sabbath of whom Jesus is Lord. 2. Pauls Preaching by the spirit and continuing his speech till midnight doth condemn you that study for what to say and many speaking an hour by a glass shews that you do want the same power and instead of preaching by the same spirit or speaking the Word of God as Paul did you speak and make a trade of Pauls letters which he sent to Brethren and his friends and glosseth them over by your Serpentine wisdom and have not the same spirit to preach by that Paul had so shewing to all that you are acted and guided by a spirit of error 3. And whereas you speak but your own Imaginations and inventions Paul he went about preaching the Kingdom of God and he did not count his life dear unto himself so that he might finish his course with joy in the Ministry which he had received of the Lord Jesus who did not shun to declare unto them all the Counsel of God Act. 20.21 to 28. and he did exhort them to take heed to themselves and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost had made them overseers to feed the Church of God which he had purchased with his own Blood Verse 28. which Ministry by the Holy Ghost we own and that Ministration which stands out of all mans inventions and such Officers as are made overseers by the Holy Ghost we do own but such as you that are made by imitation and self-conceitedness we do disown for that is Antichristian and not to be owned with beleevers but to be testified against and such Ministers as are of the spirit who speak not their own words but the Words of the Lord who doth it freely as Paul this Gospel Minister did Act. 20.31.32.33 to the end but such as you are who have neither any spiritual gift nor spiritual administration but speak brain study contrary to the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles and making a trade of the Scriptures and giveth them your Antichristian application we do deny for you are under the curse and are to be consumed for the Lord will consume Antichrist and all Antichristian Doctrine by the breath of his mouth and the brightuess of his coming 2 Thes 2. and you that make your Gospel or false Ministry burdensom and are covetous contrary to that of Paul in this 20 of Acts ver 33 34. We do deny and disown and see you to be led by a spirit of errour But you are discovered and made manifest what Master you serve even him whose coming is after the working of Satan 2 Thess 2.3 4 5. to ver 13. And the Apostle having a discerning spirit foretold of such as you are that should come which we through the mercy of the Lord are made to see as in Acts 20.29 30. And to have no fellowship with you but to testifie against you Ephes 5.11 Paul he laboured both for himself and others who doth condemn you that are as drone B●es and live upon the sweat of other mens brows to maintain you in pride and pomp idleness and fulness of bread which were the sins of Sodom and it is the fruits of your dark Ministry spiritual Sodom and Egypt where the Lord is crucified and you are of them that would shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men and neither go in your selves nor suffer them that would to enter but the wo is to you and all the plagues that are written in the Book are due to you and

and comfort which is eternal which the Scriptures do declare of that we own But yours that is carnal and stands without in old Authours and Books a studied out faith and an hypocritical hope which is to perish and your love which is dissimulation c. and is forbidden by the Spirit of truth that we disown He that is a B●shop Pastour or Teacher Spiritual B●shops 1 Tim. 3.1 2.3 4 5. ●●t 1.7 8. 1 Per. 5.1 2 3. Acts 20. and is taught by the Spirit who is not of man but of God and is blameless and doth contend for the faith that was delivered to the Saints who are not carnal but spiritual who are not proud nor covetous nor given to filthy lucre who are lovers of good men who are sober just holy and temperate in all things who are without partiality or hypocrifie and who watch for the souls as those that are to give an account to God and are governed by the Spirit of God free-hearted such we do own For all who do prof●ss themselves to be Ministers of Christ and to be sent of God and do not walk in obedinece to the Lord Christ but go out of his Doctrine all such are Seducers and Antichrists cover over themselves with never such fair shews and covers by their vain imaginations and fleshly wisdom as you do But wo to them that cover with a covering but not of my Spirit saith the Lord that they may add sin unto sin as you do Isai 30. You are constrained by tythes gifts and rewards and large augmentations and preaches for hire as the false prophets did but the Lord is against you as he was against them and you are under the Curse and the Wrath of the Almighty The Apostle who was a man of God taught of God and had his Ministry and Authority of God and not of man and his learning was of God and not of man as it is left upon record Gal. 1.11 12. and were after the Example and Doctrine of Christ That we do witness and that we don own But you that run to Studies and Arts to raise death out of death speaking the letter which is death for money which is carnal and are led by your own wills which are corrupt and not by the will of God as the Apostle was and you are of man and your authority of man and not of God and so your Ministry is Antichristian wh●ch differeth both from the practise of Christ and his Apostles The Apostle who taught the people as he was taught by divine Revelation had all his wisdom and learning cast out which became of none account and was loss dross and dung Phil. 3.7 8. The Apostle who was taught of God and had his Ministry not of man nor by the will of man but by the will of God taught freely Acts 20.33 34. And necessity was laid upon him and he laboured to make the Gospel free and himself servant to all 1 Cor. 9.15 16 17. c. And the Apostle who had spiritual gifts was a Minister of the Spirit made an able Minister 2 Cor. 3.5 And not of the letter but of the spirit 2 Cor. 3.6 And the Apostle was made a Minister by the dispensation of the gift of God that was given to him and he was a Minster of the mystery that was revealed to him which you are ignorant and know nothing of who deny the light know neither the gift nor the power as he did Ephes 3.2 3. Ephes 3.7 8 9 10. And you are darkness and your Ministry is darkness and not of the light not of the spirit which is the gift and you are not of Christ but of Antichrist and saith the Holy Ghost Little children let no man deceive you he that doth righteousness is of God and knows the mind and will of God and acts in the light and is righteous and is guided by the Spirit of God and is as he is 1 Iohn 3.6 7. in the truth and in the righteousness of Lord Iesus Christ 1 Cor. 1.30 31. And the Apostles who were of righteousness and of the Spirit were able Ministers of the manifold graces of God and fellow-labourers with him and had both the gift and the spirit and were able to give gifts unto others and such was the Seal of their Apostleship as were Epistles written in their hearts by the Spirit of the ever living God and not by the letter as in 2 Cor. 3.1 2 3. And they needed not the recommendation of others But you that are carnal and corrupt in your old nature and being evil how can ye give gifts unto others out of that which you have nothing to do withal For the natural man knows not the things of God you have nothing to give being evil your selves but that which is evil and go and make restitution to whom you have robbed For the thief comes not but for to kill and to steal and to destroy Ioh. 10.10 And let him that stole steal no more Ephes 4.28 The Lord is against them Ier. 23.30 And he that doth not righteousness is not of God 1 Joh. 3.10 And what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols 2. Cor. 6.17 18. And the true worshippers did worship the Father in spirit and in truth Iohn 4.23 24. And not by imagination and invention tradition and rudiments of the world Those that were true worshippers and did worship the Father in spirit and in truth did meet together often and see what Temple they worshipped in such as were made without hands 1 Cor. 6.19 20. 1 Cor. 3.16 Rev. 21. But to these that are Brethren salute me to the Church that is in their house as Paul to Aquila and to the Brethren of Laodicea and Nimphas 1 Cor. 16.19 Col. 4.15 And those did abide in the Doctrine of Christ and I witness with them but you do not abide in the Doctrine of Christ that profess to be sent of him nor regard what the Holy Ghost said by Paul and by Stephen Acts 17.47 48 49. But you who are contrary to these and instead of being Stewards of the manifold graces of God and of the houshold of faith are of corruption corrupt minds and corrupt hearts and are of the Synagogue of Satan and are proud and covetous and snuffeth up the ayr and watches for great benefits and large augmentations and are Ministers of man and sprinkle Infants couzening them with your inventions and you your selves are out of covenant with Christ and shall never enter with your high notions and fleshly imaginations which are of Antichrist and not of Christ who contend for earth and earthly things shewing that your treasure and your heart also is in the earth and you your seves earthly and are in the same seats that those were who were enemies to Jesus Christ as you are whom he exhorteth in his Doctrin to beware of Mark 12.38 39 40. And you Christopher Feak John Simson George Cocking Laurence Wise John Pomroy Paul

Glisson Joseph Kellat and all such as you are and your carnality and sensuality we do deny and against your dark Egyptian studied out M●nistry and your painted expressions and gathered up notions we do testifie that you are not acquainted with the teachings of God nor the Doctrine of Christ and ran but the Lord never sent you Therefore do you fulfil that Prophecy declared of by Ieremy Chapter 23.32 And you are as the false Prophets were all teaching for hire as they did to whom the Lord sent his Servants the true Prophets to testifie against them and you are found in the same condition now See Ier. 5.30 31. Isai 56.10 11. Ier. 23.16 17 18 19. Isai 29. and the 9th to the 16th Ezek. 34. to the 11th Isai 72.7 8. Hos 6.9 Hos 5.1 2. Isai 9.16 Zeph. 1.4 Zeph. 3. Zach. 13.4.5 Mal. 2. to 10. but the Lord will make you and all that are as you are of your own inventions and imaginations and run but never was sent and have cast the Law of God behind your backs but your blessing is to be accursed as theirs was and the Lord will make you contemptible in the eyes of the people and you are to be declared against And as Ezra had a standing place for the reading of the Law Nehem 8.4 5. Mat. 23. to the 8. Vers it is not denyed so had the Scribes and Pharisees which took Moses Seat and place pretending to do Justice and take off oppressions but did not But did burden the people as you do that sits in their seats now and acts in the same things which Christ came to throw down and you are Lords and Masters contrary to the Doctrine of Christ but you are discovered But Christ did forbid his to be so be ye not so saith he Mat. 23.8 and said he Be not ye called of men masters but he that is greatest among you let him be your servant Verse 11. and whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased Vers 12. But you do not abide in his Doctrine as they did who were his Disciples and were in obedience to Christ commands See 1 Cor. 9.16 to 19. 2 Cor. 4. to 6. but you shew your selves to be both contrary to Christ and to his true Ministers and makes your selves manifest to be amongst the false Prophets and Scribes and Pharisees which were enemies to Jesus Christ then as you are found now who do not regard his own sayings as in Mat. 23.8.9.10 c. but are exalted and puft up in your fleshly wisdom high notions and high places and are as those was that were enemies to Christ but see what is your due vers 13.14.15 Likewise see what Christ saith in Mark when he called his Discipl●s he said unto them Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentils exercise Lordship over them and their great ones exercise Authority upon them Mar. 10.42 and here are you placed Notwithstanding Christs command in vers 43. who said to his But so shall it not be amongst you but whosoever will be greatest among you shall be your Minister and whosoever will be chiefest among you shall be servant of all but you do not abide in his Doctrine but are in the earth the lust of the flesh and in the fall and are in Gentilizm and Pharisaicallizm in pride and vain glory proud boasters and self-conceited Hypocrites and dessemblers and are of those that Christ doth forwarn his Discipled ones to beware of you and such as you are that do not abide in the Doctrine of Christ and so are of Antichrist blush for shame For saith Jesus our Saviour beware of such as these whom I declare and describe unto you See Mark 12.38.39.40 and such sorts of men as these were enemies to the Saints and the Brethren then as you are now who had nothing to do with the Saints priviledges that did not walk in their practice and you witness your selves to be of the same generation notwithstanding you have stoln the Saints words to trade withal but do not abide in the Doctrine of Christ but are Antichrists And the woes Judgments Plagues and Curses that was pronounced to the false Prophets Scribes Pharisees Hypocrites Seducers and Antichrists then the same is now due to you and the Lord will be avenged on you and all such as you are So in doing my duty to the Lord in declaring against you and your deceits I rest in the Lords own free love and remain a friend and lover of all that love the Lord in sincerity and truth Written by a labouring man It were most part of my three days labour R. F. The only true God HIm we worship who placed Adam in the Paradice who dwelleth in eternity and where no uncleanness can approach or come nigh who dwelleth in the highest Heavens and with him also that is of a poor and contrite spirit who causeth such his blessing to inherit whose joy is in him and in the Kingdom of his love Luke 17.21 1 Cor. 4.20 Rom. 14.17.18 Adam in the Paradise and after with Eve in the fall as you and such as you are that are not redeemed by his power not knowing the seed of the woman that bruiseth the Serpents head the enemy the tempter But Abraham Isaac and Iacob who were holy men of God Joseph in the Prison bound under by Phaaroh who was a proud hearted oppressor such as you are Egypt the Isralites red Sea Pillar of fire Egyptians overthrough and the Israelites deliverance by the Divine Power and Moses guiding them in the Wilderness Law Sabbath Ark Church in the Wilderness warfare Iordan Canaan Caleb Ioshua Judges Prophets Kings Victories large love and mercies of the Lord in sending his Son that was born of a Virgin suffered contradiction of sinners Jews high Priests Scribes and Pharisees such as you are and glorification and ascention into the Kingdom of Heaven and in our souls the Kingdom of his Grace where he conquers and rules in love and comforts us by his holy spirit these and all things as the Scripture doth declare of in their times places administrations and dispensations we do all own But your lyes flatteries deceits and hypocrisies whereby you would strangle the truth to make it appear odious to the world we do disown And as for self-justification that we deny and who art thou that dost condemn or lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect seeing he doth us by his own power both save sanctifie and justifie by saith in Jesus 1 Iohn 3.5 6 7. who was manifested to take away our sins and who shall separate us from the love of God shall tribulation or persecution peril or nakedness famine or sword though we be accounted all the day long as sheep for the slaughter yet we are more then Conquerours through him that loveth us and we know him in whom we do believe and though we be accounted as the filth of the world and off-scouring of all