wants of others by wasting that which should releive them spending as much one of you upon your lust and vanity as would feed two plentifully if not ten And this is all the care of proud men and women and gluttonous men and women and drunken men and women to serve your selves and feed the devourer in you with the mercies of God which he gives freely that all might be feed and praise him therein And then you say you spend but your own and it 's for you that are rich to live thereafter c. But then what do you to profess the knowledge of God or name of Christ or redemption that is in him If you live as the heathen Gentiles do then bear their name and pollute not the name of Christ and live as do the Gentiles not knowing Christ in you to restore all things in you to God that you may see them to be his and not your own know him in you to order them who made them which all the redeemed of Christ Jesus doth in whom the restauration is wrought by Jesus Christ and all things of God as in the beginning before the prince of pride the glutton the whoremonger the drunkard or the false Prophet that teacheth lyes entred into man or was exalted in the seat of truth to deceive and bewitch people by calling evil good and good evil as in you he doth who they preach practise and profess to devour which Christ comes to restore and your life to condem and to deliver the creation from the waster and destruction and to redeem it to the guiding of God the service of God in his will and not the will of men nor the blind boaster who saith I spend but my own And who is exalted in Pride and excess because of abundance who knows not redemption to him that giveth all things but are out of the fear far from restauration for were you redeemed to God your selves you would also know that all you have was restored to God in your redemption out of the power of the destroyer and into the disposing of that spirit which works the repemption for the redeemed indeed are no more their own much more is not that they have received Wherefore men be sober minded and take heed what you plead for and boast not in your wickedness then double your iniquity by professing the pure name of God the nature of redemption lye not against the truth of Christ Jesues â—n saying our redeemer our redeemer further then yoâ— konwhis spirit power living in you tâ—nlighten and quicken you against â—â—se evils by which his holy spirit 〈◊〉 the creation suffers and power in 〈◊〉 over them and the Prince thereâ—â— that you may serve his spirit in you 〈◊〉 a new life not serving divers lusts 〈◊〉 serving your bellyes but in fear 〈◊〉 sober meekness of spirit serving 〈◊〉 Lord in your souls and bodyes â—â—d estates and this only is redemptiâ—â— without a lye or without hypocriâ—â— And this is the confession of Christ â—ome in the flesh in life and power to â—â—ucifie the flesh the affections and 〈◊〉 thereof which wars against your â—ouls and against Christ so long as â—ou live therein and in works you deâ—y Christ to be come in the flesh â—hough in vvords you confess him â—herefore let that mouth be silent that â—eaches lyes and let truth speak in â—ou all and cease to say pride is not â—n your hearts when it hath taken â—oot there and is grown as a covering and hath over-spred you in the â—ight of all men and say not you do it to releive the poor for shame blush at such deceit and let not the drunkard say the same with you for you are seen to be the devourer and destroyer of the creation nor let the glutton say the creatures are made for him for the day is at hand that he must vomit them up and then he will know that they were not made for him when truth comes to judge in you all and to devide aright between the oppressed and the oppressor this will be confessed nor let the covetous person say his Idolatry is but providing for them of his houshould nor the swearer say it 's but to confirm the truth which is found out of the truth which saith swear not at all nor the wanton person say there is a time to be merry whose times are not in the Lord Jesus nor ever knew the man of sorrows nor him that in secret mourns for that abomination which wantons lives in whose time of mourning is to come which you that now laugh â—â—ould remember for truth must come to sit as Judge upon all your pretences then these things will not cover you nor lyes be a safe refuge for you Wherefore wait to know the truth of Christ Jesus the light of the world in your own hearts to give you the good understanding which wil let you see that this is from the root of wickedness in your hearts that these things â—rise and that piety and pitty mercy is but a pretence to cover the destroyer in you while he gets his work wrought of his servants lest he should be seen in your selves or by others and that you are but wise to do evil and plead for it whereby you do but shut your selves out from the power of truth and feed upon lyes and put on false covers which God vvill rend in judgement and your wisdom of words cannot cover your works from the light which sees the covetous proud envious gluttons drunkards and all lyars and vain persons and cursed speakers to be without God not knowing in you the povver of an holy life nor him that is made redemption and sanctification though in vvords you profess Father Son and Holy Ghost do you knovv God in you of vvhose off-spring all these good creatures are vvhich you wast and by vvhose vertue they are made to spring in their kind and vvhose life suffers vvhere they are spent on the lust Do you know the Redeemer in you vvhose vvork is to restore all things to God in you who say you spend but your own when you are reproved Or do you know him in you to live to who sayes you must live after your riches Are you richer then he that had all fullness in himself and yet said let nothing be lost this would you say also did you know that life in you that gives it forth which your lust devours who is pressed therewith as a Cart with sheaves who is broken with your whorish hearts and made to serve with your sins whom you know not though he be not far from every one of you yet his knowledge you have loft and your hearts are too hard to hear his voice and your wisdom is too high to bow to his government in you but being got above the meek you have lost the way which gives light to the blind and grace to the lowly and that which should measure and search your hearts is out of your sight who are seeking without for that you have buried within under your pride and fullness lyes the pearl shut up in the earth and the key of knowledge you have lost in your wisdom by your wanton living on the earth the holy one and the just you have slain the man of God is fallen into your streets the man of mercy and pitie is perished by the proud and there is no Judgement nor deliverance in you for the ear is stopt that should hear the cry And where this is so within what knowledge of God is there but man is become like the beast that perisheth The End
or do so have been hated of men as he Ioh. 7. 15 18. declard at Jerusalem and is fulfilled at London as well as in other places They shall bare you for my Name sake speak all manner of evil of you and they shall think they do God service So blind are all men who from the light are erred in which God dwells the Creator of all things who commanded light to â— Cor. 4. 6. shine out of darkness and hath shined into our hearts who by the light are subject to give us the knowledge of himself in the face of Jesus Christ and Tit. 2 11 being made a partaker of this Grace which is free and hath appeared to all â—ear my testimony as the truth is in Jeâ—â—s that if you obey it not you are out of the Covenant so out of the blessing and under the curse and know not the Word of God though it be near unto you all and many hath been thereby quickened to God and it is that which made all things and by it are all things upheld for in it is life Ioh. 1. 4 â— and the life is the true light of men and this is the true light which enlightens every man which comes into the world as it is written John bare testimony of it without your meanings declaring what he had seen felt and handled of Iohn 1 12 13 the Word of life that to as many as believed in him he gave power to become the sons of God not of blood nor of the will of man but of the will of God of which birth which onely must inherit the eternal Kingdom are all you ignorant who preach and pray and hear and act in your own wills though your profession be high as mine once was you are not yet come to the first principle of repentance from dead works which all that are in that have not been quickned by the eternal word which Word abides for ever and is Heb. 4. 12 quick and powerful as a two-edged sword dividing asunder and making manifest the secret thoughts and intentions of the heart and this is not ink and paper or words which the worst of men or the Devil may read or talk of but it is spirit life and power killing and making alive as a fire in the besome did and do the Prophets witness it as a Sword and a Hammer to â—er 23 29 cut off and break down all the uncircumcised of ears and heart This is it that Moses who was faithful called unto this was the Word of faith which Paul preached who was called of God and not of men and all so called bear the testimony to it as he did that none need to say Who shall ascend fetch Rom. 1â— 6 7 8 Christ down Or descend and fetch him up for he is near thee in the heart and in the mouth and this is the Word which we preach saith Paul who was sent of God Now they that tell you the Letter without is the Word and the Gospel they preach another Gospel then the Apostles did O that you had ears to hear and hearts to understand the things that belong unto your Peace who have been and are professing godliness for many years and yet stand where you did in the customs in the fashions in the love of the present World and call the Scriptures your rule mind you Scripture-readers is it not written in the World God is not known and who loveth the World the love of God Iames 4 4 is not in him the love of the Worldis enmity to God and is it not the words of him that cannot lye The world loves its own and that his are are not of this world as he was not of Ioh. 15. 19 this vvorld therefore the vvorld hates them So professors of Scriptures see vvhat is vvritten in Scriptures What 's the true Religion Is it not thus vvritten To visit the fatherless and keep Iames 1. 27 unspotted from the vvorld are you this people vvho are in the vvays vvorships and fashions of the vvorld and excess of vanity and pride and fulness and vvhole families of your ovvn flesh and in your own ways ready to perish for want of food and rayment sure you are not they which visits the fatherless sure you are not the Israel in which there was no beggar nor you have not the Storehouse in which all the tythes were put to feed the Widows and the Fatherless and sure you are not in the narrow way in which few walk for the way that you walk many there is in and they walk at ease I feel what I speak who walked there many years and as concerning the Law written in stone blameless as any and had a zeal though not according to knowledge Rom. 7. 9 and when the Commandment came the new Covenant sin revived and I dyed 1 Cor. â— 1â— and only by the power of the Cross which in the Wisdom of the World Gal 6 14â— was and is esteemed foolishness do I live in the life that never shal have end and in this only do I rejoyce whereby I am crucified to the World and the World to me and this to the World is a mysterie who by Wisdom cannot know the things of God which are spiritually discerned and therefore are in vain imaginations of which God did and doth complain bringing out likennesses Con. 6. 5 â— of it as the Papists in Wood Stone or Gold others calling the Cross that which you cannot flye from not knowing the Cross which is daylie to be taken up but we who of him have learned who saith Take up your cross and follow Luke 9. 23 me know it to be the power of God unto salvation and by it hath the Devil been overcome and before it must all the powers of darkness flye and this is and hath been the defence of the righteous Seed in all generations and the Scriptures declare of it and shall bear a testimony for me and all the children of light against all you that have the words of the Scriptures and yet are found haters of the light which gave forth Scriptures and if ever that eye be opened in any of you that the god of this World hath blinded you shall confess that that wherein you have trusted shall witness against you and however your Teachers which are blind may lead the blind till both fall into the ditch yet is there a seed among you that the Lord will gather unto us and therefore doth his long suffering lead unto repentance but many shall be cut off in their iniquities Isa 65. 12 to whom he hath called and they would not hear and they shall cry and he will not hear but laugh at your calamitie when destruction shall come as a swift Whirlwind and with the Prov. 1 28 beasom of the Lord shall all the Workers of iniquity be swept away and his fierce Wrath
shall consume them which have worshipped Images and have bowed down to the inventions of men and instead of the truth delivered to the Saints for which we earnestly contend have set up the traditions of Matt 15 3 men And here stands your Worship with the whole World who are enemies to the cross which in the light only is seen and so in the darkness hath all error and false doctrine been broached and invented and brought forth and the imagination hath and doth bring forth the image and both shall be consumed and therefore I who know assuredly that he will come and will not sal 11 6 tarry and his reward is with vvith him who reigns snares fire and brimstone upon the Wicked every day the idolaters and adulterous generation who have forgot God dayes without number and 〈◊〉 committing Whoredom with the Images of men yea thou England yea thou London that hath talked so much against idolatry and fought that Images might be pulled down art found in the great abominations and filthiness of spiritual Whoredoms even in the sight of the Son the day being dawned hath shewn the filthiness of thy night-works which thou ceasest not from though the ligh hath discovered them but thinkest the Lord is like unto thee who in the times of darkness winked but now will render a due recompence for all your psal 50 3 Fornications a horrible tempest goes before him and in the Clouds he comes and the darkness hides him from you vvho hate the light O a vvo a vvo unto all that discerns Heb. 10. 37 not the signs of his coming for upon whom he falls he grinds to povvder and the adulterous eye cannot see him vvhich hath run a lusting after many lovers yet pays her vows offers her Prov. 7. 14 27 offerings and wipes her mouth and saith she hath done no evil but her steps lead to hell O how abominable are the prayers of the wicked in the ears of the Almighsy and the sacrifices of the wicked have an ill savour in the nostrills of the holy One unclean priest and unclean people whose offerings are flesh and not spirit dead and not living who have robbed the Lord and have given his glory to that which you have framed in your imaginations here is the heathen for whom the devouring plague is prepared who hath turned the invisible God into the similitude or likeness Rom. 1. 23 of visible things and for this doth the fierce wrath of the Lord burn as an Oven and the wicked shall be as stubble therein and with the Candle of the Lord shall all you be searched who have set up any thing in my stead saith the Lord who am the Life whom am the Light and there is no other God Iohn 1. 4. Iohn 8. â—â— Iohn 14 6 though you are among the many gods who set Ink and Paper in his place calling it by his Name which is eternal saying the Letter is the word and the light and the life And this all you vvho remain in the idolatrous and adulterous nature alienated from God strangers to the Covenant of light and life led by the Prince of the aiâ— turn the most excellent of all that you possess into Wickedness for it is impossible that an evil tree should Matt. 7. 18 bring forth good fruit as it is written for all who have not had the eye opened which the god of this World hath blinded by the power of him that is the light and the life as slaves are sub ected to the power of Satan serve him with the Scriptures or whatsoever they have though being in the dark they know it not no more then the Priests and people at Jerusalem which if they had known would not have put to death the Lord of Life And so mind all you Scripture-readers and professors who are ready to murder for your Religion Was not they at Jerusalem your type who when he came in the fulness of time of whom the Scriptures prophesied to fulfil the Scriptures and put an end to all their Worships which though they were given by the command of God yet having lost the spirit and life by which they were sanctified are become corrupt and abominable and ripe for destruction yet he that was sent of God to put an end to the old and to make all things new not coming according to their expectation who had framed an imagination from their own understanding of the Scripture as now you do to come with their observations and so though they read the Scriptures dailie they could not receive him nor his Doctrine for saith he The vail which Moses wore is on your faces to this day When you read Scriptures is the Vail yet rent off your faces Friends and Neighbours and Relations if it were you would see him whom you have pierced who are yet eating and drinking your own damnation not discerning the bodie of my Lord who while I was a sinner died for me And so friends in faithfulness in the love that is unseigned with the Authoritie which is from above by which I am armed not to fear what any can do unto me and have and do overcome the evil with the good-wil unto man in which I can do beseech you to be reconciled unto God for Christs sake which yet you are strangers to Wil you set any thing in his place who Ioh. 6. 44 is onelie come to by the drawings of the father and that is the drawings of the father which draws out of iniquitie and from transgression and this being attended to you may learn to know what called Abraham which Heb. 11. 8 obeying and following brought him Ioh. 8. 56 to see Christs daie though there was then no Letter written of that you call the Scripture and none ever did or shall give forth or come to a right understanding of the Scriptures but as they obey and follow that in them which condemns sin and leads out of it to him that hath and can onelie open the eies of all born blind and this I declare as I have learned of the Father in the light That though I had been a reader of the Scriptures as without from a child of six years old as constantlie as most yet when by the power of the eternal Gospel was turned from darkness to light I saw things unutterable and the Scriptures that in my dark mind I had so often turned was now another thing in my eye and plain without a meaning as I came to learn of that spirit 2 Pet. 1 20 21 which gave them forth for as it is written No Scripture is of a private interpretation but as holie men moved of the Holy Ghost writ them forth so onelie those holie ones who have been or are moved of the same spirit which are the children of the Kingdom see the parable and interpret the Scripture which all that are unlearned of the Spirit interpret to their
the true God you must know him in you who is over all in you all and through you all without respect Heb 7 25. Ephâ— 4. 6. Acts 17. 28 of persons in him we live and move and have our being who made all men of one blood and this is Gospel-news glad tydings to the poor and hungry the sâ—ck and lost who may come freely high and low rich and poor to him without money or without â—sa 55. 1 Esa 1. 27. price who condemns all unrighteousness judges all iniquity and redeems sin by Judgement and destroys the transgressor and saves the righteous soul which can only inherit the Kingdom which is unfaiding and undefiled feel him in you into whose hands all judgement is committed for knovv you not that if Christ be no in you ye are reprobate the Apostl travelled again in birth of those thaâ— Iohn 5. 22 2 Cor. â—3 5 Gal. 4 19 Iohn 4. 29 had been converted till Christ werâ— formed in them and so cease from thâ— meanings of men and come to know the Prophet vvhich can tell you all thâ— evil that ever you have done is noâ— this the Christ truly the day is faâ— spent and the night comes in vvhich none shall vvork therefore prize your Hab. 1.13 Hos 13. 9 time and repent for in sin vvill not God save any who is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity and the Lord is clear and if thou perish O man thy evil is of thy self vvho art vvarned to forsake the evil and to obey that vvhich condems the evil vvhich is good and perfect and giveth peace to the upright in vvhich I have and shall rejoyce though the Seas roar and the mountains be removed out of their place for truth is stronger then all and shall overcome and in it have I an abiding place vvhen the storm hath been great but where will you hide that sit in the seat Psal 1 1 of the scorners and stand in the vvay of sinners vvhen the black and gloomy day shal come upon you and the elements shal melt and the vvorld shall pass avvay vvith a great noise your â—ocl 2 2 2Pet 3 10 Esa 2 02 riches your honour will stand you in no stead vvhen you shal fling your Idols of Gold and of silver to the Batts and to the Moles for he shal judge in Acts 13 â—4 righteousness vvho is no respecter of persons by whom all actions are weighed who throwes Princes from their 〈◊〉 42. 6. Thrones and raiseth beggars and this is he who is given for a light to the Gentiles and a covenant to the people O that you knew him and would trust in him who all the day long stretcheth â—sa 65. 2 forth his hand to a stiff-necked and rebellious people but the night cometh in which none can work then all that resist the light shall be cast into outer darkness where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth for evermore Therefore that all that thirst after everlasting righteousness might be gathered into the light do I call and write unto you these things in plainness Mâ—â— 8. 12 And now you who denie the light of Christ the living Word have set the dead Letter in his stead how doth death prevail in you And how hath darkness beset you that even while you are preaching and professing the Scripture you are fulfilling them against your seives Did not the light of the World foretel his servants what they must receive from the Worlds professors for doing his Work saying I send you forth as sheepe in the midst of Matth. 10 Mark 13 Iohn 16. wolves and they shall stone you in their Synagogues they shall put you nut of their Synagogues and in the Synagogues yo shall be beaten and they shall deliuer you upto Counsels and ye shall be brought before Rulers for my sake for a testimony against them yea the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think he doth God service and these things will they do unto you because they know not the Father nor me And this they did unto such as he sent into their places of Worship to cry against their Worship who preached the Scripture and thought therein to have eternal life as you do whilest they thus entreated them in whom the Word of eternal life was who gave forth the Scriptures And thus death works in them who set the Letter for the Life and denies the Light of Life in themselves and such would devour it in others And that his words may be fulfilled he sends forth his sheep in his spirit and power to suffer these things and the Wolves that have the outward words the sheeps clothing they tear hale beat the sheep as he hath said they should for a witness against them So search the Scriptures and compare your works and their works they denied the light so do you They thought to have eternal life in the Scriptures so do you They fulfilled them upon the sheep in their Synagogues even while they were preaching in them And how many of your synagogues is there in this Nation where some of his sheep have not suffered the self-same things from this generation They haled before Rulers and how many Rulers is there in this Nation before whom some or other have not born this testimony for a witness And when they had done all this to them then their time came to kill them and think that whosoever did it did God service And your time is at the door and you are hasting apace towards it and some have already finished their testimony herein and are at rest where you cannot come And thus with the light which youdeny are you comprehended weighed measured marked to be no sheep but Wolves in sheeps clothing and by your fruits you are known and the true Shepherd who is not an hireling hath sent forth his sheep amongst you who meets with no fruits amongst you but briars and thorns and who returns from you beaten push't and haled kick't and cast down in your Synagogues and dirted in your streets and thus we return to him that receives the oppressed in whose Name we are sent and the best we can say for the best of you is Father forgive them they know not what they do not knowing the Father nor the Son And herein you are found as he sends to prove you and to receive your fruits all professions forms notions gatherings and herewith are you numbred the best as a briar and the most upright as a thorn-hedge Teachers and People in the tearing devouring nature all from the Vine and as clearly to be seen by your works in which you are found to be out of the nature of them whose words you profess as a dog may be known from a lamb or a thorn from a vine So read the Scriptures the Lambs sufferings and the Wolves actings and read your selves by your fruits amongst whom you
of Christ Jesus you have proved your selves though you say you are the children of the kingdom and no church of Christ but in the world you are which lyes in wickedness and enmity against the life of Christ Jesus and in the very same works which he said you would do teacher and people are found and are not built on that foundation that bears and tries all things which cannot be shaken but as the troubled Sea roring and swellings casting mire and dirt as the Scriptures saith of the wicked world which some out their own shame and shews what you have Esa 57 20 â—ude 13 been long treasuring in your evil hearts and so out of the abundance that is Maâ—â— 12 34 therein you have powered out upon the servant of the Lord just as your fore-goers have done and as he foretold who is this day a swift witness against you who have set your selves against him and the day hath declared it that you have no part in the sufferings of Christ Jesus but your part is proved to be with them who hath shed his blood since Abel to this day The world by wisdom knowes not God saith the Scriptures which is now fulfilled in this generation where are high notions swelling words great professions and zealous formes all in the world without God in them boasting themselves in a lye who profess redemption in words but in works are in the world and in the darkness thereof blindness of mind hardness of heart and earthly captivity without life and power in you to give you victory over the prince of lust the God of this world over your own spirits which lusts to pride lusts to envie lusts to strise and covetousness and oppression and all that unreasouable nature which devours the creation and keeps it in bondage under the power of Satan and under wrath and the curse which daily groans to be delivered into its former glory into it's first being in God and his sons which is right redemption without a lye where all things are of God and in the truth set free from the devourer which rules in worldy men and women where all things are not become new and where all things are not of God yet professing redemption with pride lust and covetousness and all vanity in your Vessells not knowing him who is the greater to be in you to condem these evils then he that is in you to entice you to all these things and blind you in them and here you are seen with the pure truth that is in God to be out of God in the world and in the lye not doing in the truth nor redeemed thereto but the witness of truth lyes slain denyed and buried in you and where he raigns not in the light there you are in the darkness of this world blind in your hearts and there the false Prophet is up in the seat of Judgement teaching lyes and false-hood to make you more blind still and to harden you therein to seek to blind others also and to turn truth backward that he may grind the poor and needy to satisfie his lust in you and to that end you are fitted for the destroyer and so comes the truth to reprove your pride and devouring vanities which wasts the creation and turns it quite to another end then God gave it you for and when you say what might so many poor people live on if we did not wear these things as though your pride which is the ground of all oppression did releive the oppressed and thus you turn truth backwards with shameless and unreasonable words not having a shew of a truth and then if truth arise stop your mouth in the open falshood then you have more hidden deceit to cover your lust And you say pride is not in the out-side it 's in the heart when all men may see it in the out side and as many as have that eye open in the heart which you hav blinded with lust sees and knowes that your pride had its first rise and rooting in your heart ere it came to spring forth it's cursed branches which now shines in the open streets without shame that this which speaks outward is but part of that fullness that is within in the heart though your blindness be so great you see it not neither within nor without and your hearts too hard to feel it but have set up there the Idol and stumbling block to blind withall and then you say what was these things made for if we may not wear them where the truth of God in you would answer were it not denyed and betrayed by your evil eye that they was not made for the devoured nor to be spent on your Justs to the lust of the eye and pride of life but for the service of the needy and co cover the naked that there might be plenty in the creation and none might want which would be so were the devoured judged in you cast out and did you know him in you to order the creation which made it who would lead you that are rich another way to releive the poor then with being proud and vain and wastfull of his freeness and fullness and that spirit would let you see that were it not for that devourer which in you speaks and acts there would be no poor for he gives plenty for all that he sends into the world and the lust arising in the heart of men and women is it that makes poor and accursed and keeps poor by oppression in you those that are under the power thereof and cease but your oppression of them to satisfie your pride and judge the destroyer in you that wasts it and the poor would arise through the fullness of him that filleth all things which is kept back by the devourer and the curse that is upon him in the creation through you in pride gluttony and drunkenness who have all one head against truth and so the glutton saith What are the creatures made or but for man to eat c. and the Drunkard being reproved hath the same pretence of mercy to the pore as the proud saith he How many poor people lives of Brewing and might begg did not such as rich drink it as they brew it c. And thus deceit utters it's voice in all the world where it is head who are without the true God in them as though is was the work of the devourer that did uphold the creation in plenty and keep the poor from want and how great is the darkness of this generation in whom this passeth for truth Is not this the world which by wisdom knowes not God but are given up to vile affections and to believe lyes Oh men how deep is truth fallen in you that nothing of it doth arise to condemn this doctrine him that lives by it in you what deceit is this that hath filled your hearts to make you believe you take care for the