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A91474	The watcher: or, The stone cut out of the mountains without hands, striking at the feet of the image, whose head is gold, and brest of silver, and thighs of brass, and legs of iron, and feet part iron and part clay, Dan. 2. 31, 32, 33, 34, 35. Or, A discovery of the ground and end of all forms, professions, sects and opinions, and also how they now are made as friends, and joyn hand in hand against the substance, the life and power of God, which is now made manifest in his sons and daughters (according to his promise) as hath been plainly manifest in several meetings betwixt the people called Quakers, and the people called Baptists, which is here describ'd. And also a description of the true Church, ... / VVritten by a friend to all tender hearted ones, who hunger and thirst after God, who are hoping and seeking in forms for life, to the directing of their mindes, where and how to finde the true light which leads into the true life and power of Godliness, the end of all forms, where I rest with all who in spirit read me, who am known to them who are without, by the name, Iames Parnell.	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing P541; Thomason E845_18; ESTC R621	62,535	56

of this World Here all you are shut out who live at ease in your pleasures and live want only upon the earth in the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye Iames 5.5.6 and the pride of life you are the Children of Babylon you kill the just and he lies slain in the streets but here you all are shut out of the new Covenant of Life in the dark world under deaths dominion of what profession and judgment soever Alians and Strangers to the Covenant of Promise for they that are not with us are against us and our union and society is in the light of life Mat. 12.30 but you must all suffer the death of the Cross to the life which you now live in before you can witness this Redemption for those that live with Christ are crucified with him therefore so it is they that wil take up life must first lay down life for the way to life is through death therefore you must be stripped of all your old covers naked and bare that your deceit and shame may appear which you have so long covered with your own righteousness but now you must suffer the shame of the Cross if you would have part in Christ and all your old wisdome knowledg and notions which you have gotten into your comprehensions by your conceivings of the Scripture Letter wherin hath bin your life and pride and exaltation must all come to the death of the Cross that no flesh should glory in his presence but I say unto all you Professors Formalists Notionists and Disputers and Wise ones of this World if you will not take up and imbrace this Cross Publicans and Harlots shall enter the Kingdome before you therefore not many mighty nor many noble nor many wise after the flesh are called but he hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise 1 Cor. 25.26 to the end and the weak to confound those that are mighty that no FLESH should glory in his PRESENCE but CHRIST is made over unto us Wisdome Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption that they which glory might glory in the Lord and this I witness in my measure the things which I have seen and heard and felt and tasted of the good Word of Life which was in the beginning the same do I declare and am known and read by the children of Light And now I shall proceed to severall passages that I have had with the people called Baptists in seveverall meetings that their deceit and delusion may be laid open to the simple hearted Upon the thirtieth day of the first Month called March in the yeare 1655. I was atone Ashens house in Fenstanten in Huntingtonshire where I was freely declaring the Truth of God to the people that came there together that day as I was taught and moved by the Spirit of Truth by which the holy men of God spoke forth the Scripture as they was moved and there came severall of the people called Baptists into the Roome amongst us amongst whom was one of their Teachers called Richard Elligood who after a while stood up in his wil and wisdome to accuse me and said that I said that God did not respect any forms and yet saith he you use the form and so use that which God hath no respect to but his first words was Sir if you please I wil speak something to what you have said to which I made answer here needs no complements and then he runs on as aforesaid to which accusation I replyed was false and bid him prove what form I used and he said the Letter and I replyed he that takes the Letter to talk of without the life and power such sets up a Form and makes a Form but this would not satisfie his filthy wisdome which darkned his understanding but because I spoke words which are mentioned in the Scripture by the same spirit that spoke forth the Scripture by which I challenge the Scripture from him and all such who have gotten it to talk of but denies the life and are strangers to the life and power therefore with his contrary spirit tasked me with a Form which by his logick and deceitfull art would have proved but could not but his deceit was laid open to the people and many declared against him for a form is this as I said before the likeness of a thing but not the thing it self as they have the likeness of a Church which they have imagined from the Letter with their Elders Pastors and Teachers but not the Church it selfe and so they imitate the Scriptures but live not in the life of them that spoke forth the Scriptures neither are acted or guided by the same spirit that gave forth the Scriptures and so wants the life and power and those are the formalists that makes forms and likenesses to deceive the simple as the devil hath the form of an Angell of Light but not the life and power who appears to rule in those formalists and selfe-actors but the day doth make him manifest and therefore he rages and then this Elligood denyed that I had the same spirit that gave forth the Scripture and he said the Spirit might be tryed by the Letter for he said many false Spirits are entred into the world and I asked him by what did the Apostle know that false spirits were gon out into the world and he replyed and said by the Spirit of God then I replyed and said if by the Spirit of God the Apostle knew that there was many false spirits gone out into the world then by the Spirit of God he tryed false Spirits and knew false spirits from the true and here his deceit was laid open to the people and he judged out of his own mouth to be a lyar and to be guided by a false spirit who would try the living by the dead and again he said that one Spirit could not try another for by that judgments the evil Spirits might try the good Spirits to which I replyed by the Spirit of God all other spirits are tryed and also that by the Light darkness is discovered but Darkness cannot comprehend the Light neither discover the Light and here again his blindness and ignorance and deceit was much discovered to the people although he fed himself and would have shufled it off by his consequences and filthy logick but it the more laid open his deceit and presently the said Elligood was found with another lye in his mouth for he said that I said the thing should be proved by every mans spirit which was a very lye for I said that the baptisme of the spirit was the substance of the outward baptisme the which he denyed and bid me prove it and I said I spoke to the witness in every mans conscience which his dark mind could not comprehend but with his dark mind wrested my words and therefore said that I said it was witnessed by every mans spirit but his

Disciples of Christ and there have stumbled and cryed out it is hard and straight and goes away sorrowfull I know this is witnessed and answered in many consciences for here every mans faith and works comes to the tryall and so to some the preaching of the Cross is foolishness and to some a stumbling-block but unto them that believe and take it up it is witnessed the power of God unto salvation and such rejoyces in it with Paul who are crucified to the world and the world to them upon whom the ends of the world are come but it would be an easie thing to the flesh if that was all 1 Cor. 10.11 to turn out of one profession into another and out of one form and judgement into another but the way to life is through death And the Legs of the Image which is of Iron is the Beast or the power of the Beast upon which these stand where lies their strength and the feet of the Image which is part of Iron and part of Clay are the Priests and Pharises joyned to the powers of the earth which upholds them for but for that as I said before they are the weakest of all forms and so they are the part of clay and the power that upholds them is that part of Iron which is the strongest of the mettalls and the watcher or the stone cut out of the mountain without hands which strikes at the feet of the Image is the King of righteousness Rev. 19.11 12 13 c. Rev. 17.12 13 14. even he that rides upon the white horse out of whose mouth goes a sharp sword whose name is called the word of God who comes to strike at the powers of the earth even the Kings of the earth who have given their power unto the Beast and joyne in war against the Lamb but the Lamb shall overcome and he will overturn all untill it come into his hand whose own it is Rev. 19.20 Rev. 21.1 and the Beast and the false Prophet that hath thus deceived the nations and all that receive the mark of the Beast and worship his Image shall be taken and cast into the lake that burneth for ever which was of old prepared for them and he wil create new heavens and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness where there shal not be war any more but he shall reigne in peace with his Saints for evermore Oh blessed are all they that fight in this Banner and here lay down their lives they shall take them up again with an everlasting Crown and reigne for evermore singing Halelujah to their king to whom be all praise honour power dominion and thanks for evermore Amen And thus shall this great Image be broken to pieces by the Stone cut out of the mountain without hands which wil become a heavy mountain even a burdensome stone to all nations but upon this Mountain shall the true Church stand as a City set on a Hill Mat. 5.14 that cannot be hid and thus I have laid down the ground and end of all sects forms and professions with a blow to this great Image with a weapon which is not carnall but spirituall he that can receive it let him And now concerning the CHURCH which is now gathering and redeeming not by the wil of man nor by the wisdome of many but by the wil and power and spirit of God which according unto his promise he hath poured down upon his Sons and Daughters now in these latter dayes by which we are carried abroad in the power of the Almighty now to declare abroad his powerfull Truth which the Lord hath decreed shall prevail upon the hearts of the people which is glad tydings of great joy unto them that receive it but unto the stubborn and stiff-necked and rebellious tydings of wo and misery and though the messengers of the Gospell are by some rejected reviled reproached scoffed and scorned stocked stoned and imprisoned and despitefully used slandered and abused yet nevertheless blessed be the name of the Lord there are some found worthy and do receive with much joy the messengers of the Gospel Rom. 10.15 so that they know how beautifull are the feet of those that bring glad tydings to the reviving the just witness for God and raising up to life the dead and so the living comes to know and praise the Lord and so the just comes to reign and the wicked comes to be judged and the minde comes to be turned from the darkness to the light to which we do preach in every creature and to the same are made manifest and known to them who do like to retain it in their mindes and from whence we come and the testimony which we do declare but they that do not receive it to them we are not known and therefore are by them esteemed as deceivers and deluders vagabonds and wanderers and the like yet at all this we do not wonder for we read the servant is not greater than his lord for if they have called the Master of the House Belzebub how much more those of his houshould and if they had known him Mat. 10.24 25 they would not have crucified the Lord of glory yet nevertheless we have a witness in every Conscience both in them that believe and in them that perish unto which we do clear our consciences and leave all without excuse by the same which wil answer for us in the mighty day though to the condemnation of those that hate it wherein we have our great joy above all our sufferings but as many as receives this to them he gives Power to bccome the Sons of God and those are they who are led and guided by the one spirit of Truth which the world cannot receive even the Comforter of whom you have heard should come by which they are seperated out of the world redeemed out of the rudiments polutions therof their fashions their customes their words their ways their manners their breeding their fellowip love and friendship their honor and glory and their worship and so are become strangers to the world and so are hated of the world because they are not of the world and the enmity stands betwixt the two seeds but while they was of the world the world loved them but now they are gathered out of the world and seperated from the world and testifies against the world both in words and actions therefore the enmity is raised in the world against the righteous seed and those are they upon whom the ends of the world are come to whom it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdome though to the world in Parables and those are they that are come with a mighty arm and power to turn the world upside down whom the Lord hath gathered and is a gathering out of the world by his owne Spirit of Truth and Love to walk in the way of Truth even the way of Holiness where the Ransomed of the Lord

THE WATCHER OR The Stone cut out of the mountains without hands striking at the Feet of the JMAGE Whose head is gold and brest of silver and thighs of brass and Legs of iron and feet part iron and part clay Dan. 2.31 32 33 34 35. OR A Discovery of the ground and end of all Forms Professions Sects and opinions and also how they now are made as friends and joyn hand in hand against the substance the Life and Power of God which is now made manifest in his Sons and daughters according to his promise as hath been plainly manifest in several meetings betwixt the people called Quakers and the people called Baptists which is here describ'd And also a Description of the true Church and the gathering thereof by the Power and Spirit of our God which is now made manefest in these later days which so gloriously doth shine forth in the earth so that all who have desires to find the way of truth need no longer walk in darkness and seeking the living amongst the dead where it is not to bee found for now light is come into the world and they that love and follow the light shal not walk in darkness bat shal have the light of Life but such as do evill hate the light and will not come unto the light that the light may reprove them and this is the condemnation of the world who love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil Joh. 8.12 Joh 3.19.20,21 VVritten by a friend to all tender hearted ones who hunger and thirst after God who are groping and seeking in Forms for life to the directing of their mindes where and how to finde the true Light which leads into the true life and power of Godliness the end of all Forms where I rest with all who in Spirit read me who am known to them who are without by the name IAMES PARNELL LONDON Printed for Giles Caluert and are to be sold at his shop at the Black-spread-Eagle neer the West end of Pauls TO THE READER THou that happens to be the Reader of this Book know this that my mind and intent in the publishing thereof was in relation to the simple hearted who hunger and thirst after Grace and Godliness to the directing and turning their mindes from the darkness to the true Light of the Lord Iesus which is not of the world but comprehends the world 2 Cor. 4.4 and makes manfest the many wayes of the world and the Snares Bates Traps and Nets that therein are laid by him who is the God of the world even the Prince of Darkness Eph. 2.2 who rules in all the Children of disobedience now whatsoever makes manifest is Light the which Light will discover unto them whose mindes are turned to it the wiles and subtile ties of Satan and so the simple wil come to learn wisdome and thereby be preserved from the subtile devouring serpent and therein the creature wil come to see wherein consists its safety and preservation and so Israels Tent comes to be found for I in the Light standing above the world comprehending the many wayes that are in the world and the destructions therein with the many forms judgements and opinions one clashing against another with their janglings and disputes with their earthly wisdome which is at enmity with God and about those things which they are strangers to the life and power thereof contending for that which fades and vanishes away pulling down one judgment and setting up another pulling down one forme and setting up another and thus are building Babell 1 Cor. 1. ●● and so are confounded with this confusion by him who confounds the wisdome of the wise and brings to nought the counsell of the prudent and so I seeing many poor creatures in this distraction tossed about with every wind of doctrine and sucking at the husk for life and so gets into the comprehension a deale of light ayry notionall knowledg which is all but as chaffe which the wind will scatter in the day of the Lord so it will stand in no stead when the Lord comes to plead with all flesh for nothing will stand in the day of tryall but what comes through death thus I see many a poor creature lost and tossed in this wide wilderness even this dark world being carried captive by the prince of the Ayre not knowing the true light to be its guide into the way of truth which is the way of life and peace now in the light which was before the world was I do comprehend the world and the ground and end of all Forms Sects and Opinions and so for some simple ones sakes and the tender hearted have I here laid them open and withall directing the mind how and where to finde the true light by which these things are seen and read and understood and as it is loved and followed the mind will be brought into the life and power out of these fading empty shadows unto the possession of the substance even the stone cut out of the mountain without hands Mat. 29.39 the end of all forms shadows and imaginations and thus doth the stone which the builders rejected become the head of the Corner and thus the Creature is turned from the power of Satan unto God I. P. THE WATCHER striking at the Feet of the Jmage OR A Discovery of the ground and end of FORMS SECTS and OPINIONS IN the dayes of old the Holy Men of God who was indued with the Spirit of God did as they was acted and guided moved and commanded by the Power and Spirit of God which dwelt in them and here was their Rule and also the Serpent as an Angell of Light he acted and worked in his Instruments by the power of Darkness in opposition to the Spirit of God the enmity being placed beiwixt the two seeds and the more gloriously the true Light appeared in any age Satan also reformed himself and appeared accordingly in the shape and form and likeness thereof as it is now to this day but his was alwayes but the form and likeness of the thing but not the thing it self his is the false Light the other the true Light and so the true Light all along discovered him and made him manifest to those in whom it ruled but thus by his subtilty and deceit he hath ever deceived the world and blinded the world so that he might keep his kingdome who is the God of the world as for example Moses a servant and messenger of the most high God to whom God had revealed and made known himself when he and Aaron was sent unto Pharoah to require him to let Israel go free for a sign unto him they cast down their Rod and it became a Serpent Exo. 10 11 12. and the Magicians of Aegypt they was brought and by their sorceries and inchantments they cast down their Rods and they became Serpents and thereby Pharoahs heart was hardned and thy would

which blinded their eyes and covered their sins so that they could not see their sins nor him that was the way the truth and the life therefore did he pronounce so many woes against them and called them whited Walls and painted Sepulchers who washed the outside but was the generation of vipers and serpents within and thus Christ who was the Light searched them and judged them who appeared faire on the outside but within full of uncleanness but they could not hide themselves from the Light therefore they joyned against it and the Saduces and the Pharises and the chiefe Priests and Scribes and the Herodians and Pilate and Herod and the rude multitude all joyned together against the life and they consulted against him and took counsell against him how they might destroy him Mat. 16.1 and the Pharises came to tempt him and insnare him with questions that they might get somewhat against him to bring him under their Law but he fore-saw their deceitfull hearts their plots and confounded their intentions and brought to nought their counsell then they said if we let this man alone all men will go after him and so they sought false witnesses and took Counsel against him Iohn 11.47.48 Mat. 26.59 and Crucified him and let Barrabus go free and thus the devill blinded their eyes in that age with a strickt profession and their own righteousness and wisdom so that they could not see the Light and the Life but persecuted it and seeked the living in the dead Letter but if they had known him they would not have Crucified the Lord of Glory yet they was wise in their own eyes and despised those that followed him and said none of the rulers believed on him Ioh. 7.48.49 but an ignorant people that knew not the Law that were accursed because they was the Publicans and sinners and they themselves was the greatest sinners but they healed themselves up with their own wisdome and righteousness and therefore said Christ they that are whole need no Physician but they that are sick therefore he said publicans and harlots should enter the kingdome before them Mat. 9.11 12. Mat. 21.31 Mat. 11.5 but the blinde the deafe the lame the dumb and the Leopardies came unto him and believed on him and were healed and the poor received the Gospel but the Priests and professors or the Pharises and Scribes and Elders and Rulers could not believe on him that he was the Messias but looked for another and these was the most zealous in their profession and builded the Tombs of the prophets and garnished the Sepulchers of the righteous and said Mat. 23.29.30 if they had been in the day of their fathers they would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the Prophets and yet those was the chiefe persecutors of Christ the substance of those things which they upheld in the Law and the Prophets therefore they was witnesses against themselves and filled up the measure of their fathers wrath and those professed Abraham Iohn 8.39 Ver. 44. Mat. 23.33 Mark 15.15 and said Abraham was their father and yet denyed Christ whom Abraham foretold of but Christ told them they were of their father the Devil and his works they did and would do and thus he judged them for all their zeale and profession and said how could they escape the damnation of hell Then after he was sacrificed up he appeared unto his Apostles and sent them to preach the Gospell to every creature and here they did not run because the Prophets run nor take up a command without them in the Prophets writings to do a thing because the Prophets was commanded to do it but they was also acted and guided by the same spirit and word of truth which dwelt in them Iohn 14.16 17. Iohn 16.7.8 which Christ before he was offered up had promised that he would send the comforter even the Spirit of Truth which the world could not receive which should lead them into all truth and should reprove the world of sin of righteousness and of Iudgment then after they had received the holy-ghost they went abroad preaching Christ and shewing thereby the fulfilling the Law and the Prophets which figured forth and prophesied of Christ Acts 2. Acts 4. and this they declared in their Temples and in their Synagogues and they haled them out of the Temple and out of their synagogues and brought them before Governors Rulers and Magistrates and the chiefe Priests and their kinred and the chiefest professors which was the Pharisees was the head acters therein but nevertheless they went on boldly being filled with the power of the Holy-Ghost without the fear of man obeying God rather than man so they was not subject to the authority of man in that respect but they was subject unto the Law of man so far as it was subject to the Law of God and so they went on preaching C●rist and many believed and were baptized and received the Holy-Ghost and were converted and it was so that the multitude that believed was of one heart and one minde and they was so far of one being exalted over another or seeking themselves that not any of them said Acts. 4.32 that ought of the things which he possessed was his own and the works of God went on in much power the ministers being acted and guided by the Holy Ghost And also Stephen a man full of faith and the Holy-Ghost he declared against the Temple which God had once commanded to be built and said Solomon built him an House yet nevertheless Acts 7. God that made the world and all things therein dwells not in Temples made with hands as faith the Prophet Heaven is my Throne and Earth is my Foot-stoole and where is the House that ye will build me and where is the place of my rest hath not mine hand made all things and he judged them and said ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in hearts and eares ye do alwayes resist the Holy-Ghost as did your Fathers so do ye and they gnashed upon him with their teeth and fell upon him and stoned him and when Saul was converted and became Paul Acts 26.17 18. his message was for to turn peoples mindes from the Darkness to the Light and then saith Paul when it pleased God to reveal his Son in me that I might preach him amongst the hearhen imediately I conferred not with flesh blood Gal. 1.15 16. 2 Cor. 4.2 2 Cor. 2.15 Acts. 1● 22 c Acts. 17. chap. here was Pauls call to the ministry they was made manifest to every mans conscience was a sweet savour unto God both in them that believed them that perished and Paul declared against the temple and told them that worshipped there they was too superstitious he went into their synagogues on sabboth days and reasoned with them they persecuted him and haled him before rulers and there complained of him

talking foolish jesting and evil communication and to be short stil alive in the worlds nature strangers to the holy God and so under deaths dominion and here I comprehend all forms sects judgements and opinions by the light which slayes Death and takes away its Dominion unto its selfe to whom it belongs and doth see them and judge them to be out of the light in Darkness and so in confusion one clashing against another with their judgements and opinions and here is the disputes of this world and the one cries Lo here is Christ in this form and another cries so here is Christ in this form and none else when as Christ is within his Saints and theirs is a false Christ which they have set up in their imaginations and here is the false Prophets and false Christs that are gone out into the world who have deceived many And hereis the ground of forms a setting up a likeness of a thing a figure or image of a thing Reve. 13. but not the thing it selfe and here is the beast and the image of the beast which all the world worships and wonders after even Satan as an Angel of light in his several shapes forms and likenesses to deceive the simple and here is the form without the life and power and here is the building upon a sandy foundation which all must come down Luk 6.49 Mat. 19.20 who here the words and talk of the words and are sayers of the words and hear is him that saith he hath kept the commandments and Ordinances and yet his heart from God after other lovers who is searched and found out by Christ the Light and here is the Spirituall Babel with its foundation and Babels building and Babels builders and here is the Image whose head is gold whose breast is silver and thighes of brass Dan. 2. and legs of iron and feet part iron and part clay but now is he come and made manifest who strikes at feet of Image who is called the stone cut out of mountaine without hands even Jesus Christ the son of God now after all this profession of his name and of faith in him but now he findes none in the earth who hath revealed himself in the poor despised ones of the world and those which have been counted the blind and ignorant and as you have read the poor receive the Gospel the world was made by him but the world knew him not he came unto his own and his own received him not Iohn 1. Acts 2.16 17 18 19. but as many as receives him to them he gives power to become the Sons of God to whom that promise is fulfilled which was promised in the dayes of old by the father that in the last dayes he would poure forth his Spirit upon all flesh and his sons and daughters should prophesie and the young men see visions and if you wil receive it this is the Elias which was for to come in the Spirit as he came in the flesh even the life and power of what hath been so long professed which the Lord hath now manifested in his servants and handmaidens whom he hath now sent forth abroad Mat. 22.2 3. freely to call into the Supper of the Lord even the marriage of the Lamb and to preach his name no more after the flesh but after the Spirit and to preach him within the hope of glory the Ministry which hath been hid from ages and generations and they that will be his disciples must deny themselves and take up his Cross and follow him through evil report and good report through persecution and through death and who are faithful until death must receive a Crown of life and reigne with him for evermore in his Kingdome of which there is no end neither beginning over which he is made heire and King blessed be Jehovah sing Haelalujah to his name all ye that know him And now that his name is spreading abroad and his message declaring by the mouth of his faithful messengers those who have long talked of his name and so long professed his name knows him not neither believes on him but are found hypocrites and dissemblers and blind leaders of the blind whited walls and painted Sepulchers but within full of uncleanness hypocrisie and deceit even the generation of vipers and Serpents and those will not receive the message but makes light of it and saith they believe on a Christ at Jerusalem and now in the heavens far off they know not where and they cry he hath done all for us and hath satisfied for our sins and they shal not be imputed to us say they and they cry out this is a new Light and a strange Light and we know not whence it is but they say they wil keep to the old Rule the Scriptures which they call the word of God and the old way though they be meer strangers to the life of the Scriptures but it is that the Scripture might be fulfilled upon them as Christ saith for judgemet am I come into the world that they which see not might see Iohn 9.39 and that they which see might be made blind as their forefathers professed Abraham and Moses and said we know that God spake unto Moses but as for this fellow we know not whence he is Iohn 9.29 and they said God was their Father but Jesus Christ answered them and said Iohn 8. If ye were Abrahams children ye would do the works of Abraham and he also said If God were your Father then would you love me for I proceeded forth and came from him but saith he ye are of your Father the Devill and his works you do and will do and thus are the Pharisaicall professors of these times marked out to be in the steps of their fore-fathers for this is the same Christ that suffered at Ierusalem but they are blind and cannot see neither indeed do believe the Scripture nor walk according to it but are in the old and broad way of the world wherein their fore-fathers walked and led many to destruction but if these did believe the Scripture they would believe on this light which is come into the world which the Scripture bares testimony of even the Spirit of truth which the world cannot receive and some of them scoff and scorn and revile reproach and slander and rayle at the messengers of Truth and some strike them and stone them and buffer them and stock them and whip them and imprison them and despitefully use them yet they are made able through the power of him that hath sent them for to go on in boldness Mat. 22.4 5 6. but those persecutors are not found worthy Therefore the Lord wil send forth his Armies and destroy these murderers and burn up their City and these are they that have professed to be his near kindred friends and acquaintance but now are found strangers who prophesied in his name and in his name done

doe walk and serve and worship him in spirit and in truth and such is the Father seeking to worship him Iohn 4.23 24 in whom he is in doing his own ork even to destroy the old Creation and create new Heavens and new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness and those are they that are the new creatures in whom this new work is witnessed in whom the Father hath manifested his Son that in the likeness of sinful flesh he might condemn sin in the flesh and to bind the strong man and cast him out of his house and spoyl his goods and so to destroy the works of the Devil and to cut down the Man of Sin even that son of perdition who is exalted above all that is called GOD sitting in the Temple of God as God and saith he is God this is he by whom the world is deceived who is the God of the world even the Prince of Darkness who rules in all the Children of Disobedience and so said Iohn in the light the whole world lies in wickedness and unto this doth Christ come with a sword for to make war with him and to take and bind him and cast him into utter darkness and so to take his Kingdom from him and to rule himself in righteousness And this is the King of the SAINTS who is now come to redeem unto himself a pure people and to wash them and clense them from their sinnes by his BLOOD and so to wash away all filthiness both of Flesh and Spirit and this is the Baptism by which they are received into his Church and Faith and here is the effect of his BLOOD wrought in MAN and thus he doth and will manifest his mighty power to purifie and clense and make Man a fit Temple for himself to dwell in and thus is GOD with us manifested in Flesh and thus are the Saints Bodies made the TEMPLES of the HOLY GHOST and thus is the word of Life and Reconciliation witnessed to the raising up the Soul to Life and reconciling the Soul to GOD and those are they that are begotten and born again of the Immortal Word which dwelleth and abideth for ever and here is the Houshold of God the Houshold of Faith and the Houshold of Love 1 Iohn 1.1 who speak the things which they have heard and seen and tasted of the good Word of Life which was in the beginning and those are the children of Light who are gathered out of the darke Forms Judgments and Opinions into the life and power of godliness to walk in the Light of Life wherein they are gathered and united by the one Spirit of Love and Life into one body of which Christ is head and here is the true Church which the Lord is a gathering and washing and cleansing and purifying by his Spirit that he may redeem unto himself a pure Church not having spot or wrinckle or any such thing whose insides are washed and made clean through the Word Iohn 15. by which they are reconciled into the love and union which springs from the Life of God and here is the Vine and the Branches and here is the communion of the Church all feeding upon one Bread all drinking upon one cup this is Christ the Life of the Saints and as many as are baptized into this Church partake of this communion and those are they which have denied themselves and have borne the Cross of Christ by which they are crucified to the world and the world to them who are gathered into one Covenant of Life where all are Fellow-Servants under one MASTER who serve one another in love and meeknesse and here is the true Humility in the HEART wrought and here is the true washing of feet without Hypocrisie which some are imitating without for LIFE but falls short for the heart the Lord requires And thus is the Church of Christ gathered by one spirit and by the same circumcised and baptised into one Light and Life and Power where all dwell as MEMBERS of one BODY of which CHRIST is the HEAD And here is the blessed Union and Communion in one and here God is worshipped in Spirit and in Truth and as CHRIST is spiritual so is his Body and so is his Ordinances and here are the true Christians not those that onely have the Notion of those things but they that witness and possess this in Life and they that believe hath the witness within themselves and they that believe have passed from death unto life and the life which they now live in is by faith in the Son of God which faith is without respect of persons who are the new creatures who are in Christ Jesus to whom there is no condemnation who walk not after the FLESH but after the SPIRIT Gal. 5.23 for against such there is no LAW for they are translated out of that NATURE for which the LAW was added and are set free by the Law of the Spirit of Life and are made partakers of the Divine nature of Christ Rom. 8.2 1 Iohn 4.17 by which they are made Christians and therefore saith Iohn as he is so are we in this prasent world and such now witnesses the effect of the blood of Christ wrought within them and the end of his coming and the benefit of his Death who are dead with him and risen through the death of the Cross and these are they that have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Son of God within them Christ within the hope of Glory or else no hope of Glory for they that cannot witness him so 2 Cor. 13.5 Iohn 17.23 are in the Reprobation so saith the Apostle and here is the Son in the Saints and the Father in the Son and thus are all made perfect in one and here is the true Church where there is but one Teacher one Lord one Faith one Baptisme one Light one Life and one way one Shepherd and one Sheepfold and one Priest over the houshold of God and one hope and one language one family and one God and father of all and they that cannot witness this are Strangers to Christ and Strangers to his Cross and Strangers to the Commonwealth of Israel And this is the work which the Lord now hath begun and is carrying on by a strong arm and mighty power to redeem unto himselfe a pure Church and blessed are they that hearken unto his voyce Here all you Formalists Imitators and selfe-acters are shut out here all you proud ones are shut out here all you lustful ones fleshly ones and carnal ones are shut out and all you that are conformed like unto the world in their fashions in their customes in their words in their ways in their worships and traditions in their love and in their fellowship who are seeking the glory and honor and riches of this world you are the children of this World under the Dominion of the GOD of the WORLD whose Kingdom is

spirit was a lying-lying-spirit there tryed and made manifest to the people and his blasphemy against the Spirit of God Isa 5.20 in calling truth error and error truth and putting Darkness for Light and Light for Darkness because the God of the world hath blinded his eye and many witnessed against him for his filthy Spirit was odious to many of the hearers then afterward he again said that I was a deceiver and his proofe was that I was not obedient to the command of Christ to be baptised and I told him I was baptized but he said with water and he said that were a command of Christ to be baptised with water and I bid him show me that Scripture but he could not Acts 10.47 48 but brought a Scripture in the Acts where the Apostle commanded some to be baptised and this by his filthy logick and consequences he would have made a command of Christ but he could not decevie the Light which did him try and make him manifest to the shame of his profession but he could not bring one Scripture to prove it to be a command of Christ to baptize with water and then he shuffled to that Scripture where the Apostle said Be ye followers of us even as we are followers of Christ and then he said Christ was baptised but he confessed it was to fulfil all righteousness and I said he was also circumcised and he said that was not for example then not the Baptism for both was to fulfil all righteousness to which end he the substance came but Christ himself baptised not with water neither do they read that the Apostles was baptized with water then who is their example and how do they follow the Apostles in that seeing they are baptised and the Apostles was not then he fled from that being there routed and said they might be Disciples before they could take up the cross of Christ and I replyed with Christs words that they might take up his cross before they could be his Disciples which he denied and said that wicked men upon that account might take up the cross of Christ and that Christ required wicked men to take up his Cross and I said it was so he did them require so to do for by taking up his cross they come to deny their wickedness for they that bear his cross live not in wickedness but this Elligood said that wicked men could not take up his cross for he said reproaches and outward sufferings was the cross of Christ for his names sake but this was not the cross by which PAVL was crucified to the world and the world to him and saith PAVL where hee was speaking concerning wickedness and unrighteous ones to the Corinthians Such were some of you but you are now cleansed c. 1 Cor. 6.9.10 11. And here wicked ones and unrighteous ones tooke up his CROSS which to them was the Power of GOD unto Salvation though to the GREEKS foolishnesse and to the JEWES a stumbling Blocke amongst whom this ELLIGOOD is found who is a Stranger to the CROSS of CHRIST who saith Reproaches and outward sufferings is the CROSS of CHRIST when as the CROSS of CHRIST makes Disciples and they must bee Disciples before they can suffer Reproaches or Persecution for the Name of CHRIST and must depart from iniquity before they bee a Prey to the World for CHRISTS sake for the World loves its owne and they that take up the CROSS doe depart from iniquity which is before Reproaches or Persecution is suffered for the Name of CHRIST And here ELLIGOOD is found the Lyar who said Wicked men was not called to take up the Cross of CHRIST when as all are wicked before they take up this Cross and here ELLIGOOD is found to bee no Disciple of CHRIST who is such a Stranger to the Cross of CHRIST who is a Lyar and so are not the Disciples of CHRIST for the Lyar is of the DEVILL and therefore is ELLIGOOD Then I knowing him to be one of the Baptists Teacher I took out some queries which not long before I had sent them but no answer to them had I received and I would have read them openly that the people might have heard and also he that was one of their Teachers but as I was reading he not having power over his own wil could not bridle his tongue but disorderly run into many words so that the people could not understand and I spoke to him for it and he said he had not time to stay and further said that he was not of the society of these Baptists at Fenstanton and yet he came with them and from them and then I replyed that he owned them to be the Church of God and this he did and then if he was not of their society he was shut out of the Church and then he would have shufled off with his consequences and said he dwelt far off and then I replyed with the Apostles words though absent in body yet present in spirit and the multitude that believed was of one heart and mind and here was the Society of the Saints Acts 4.32 and he being out of this society is shut out of the Church and then he would have made it have stood by his logick which only is to make a false thing seem true but it the more laid open his deceitful heart and shame to the hearers who severally witnessed against him to speak nothing but deceit and then saith he you call the Apostles words deceit because he had often stolne the Apostles words to make his deceit seem truth by covering it with the Apostles words and this is a more subtile deceit and then in his wil he called me deceiver the which he was to prove and all the people was silent and there he uttered severall lies and laid open himself to be the deceiver as I had told h●m in going about to prove me a deceiver he would the more lay open his own deceit and prove himself to be the deceiver and the people did plainly see it so and witnessed with me against him for he did so utter forth his folly and deceit that he made himself odious to many that was there and at last he shufled away under pretence he had far to go but the judgments of God he cannot escape for his damnation slumbreth not who is an opposer of the truth of God Then there was one Phillips an old man of the Baptised Party in another Roome who in scorn and wrath stood up and said they knew the first Principle of Religion before I was born because one of my Quaeries to them was what is the first Principle of Religion so I replyed to the old man if they knew it they should have answered and then presently as he was running on in many words he swore as he lived and breathed and Christ saith Sweare not at all and here he was found not come to the first Principle of Religion

the people their intent in dispute Aprill this 17. 1655. Ioseph Doughty My reply to this was as followeth as not being willing to come under their snares Rep. This is not to me but betwixt Brother and Brother so if you two Brothers are agreed concerning this your intent towards me let me know your mind in writing now while I am in the Town for while I was abroad there was a voyce of such a thing as from you but to me you did not declare your mindes neither in word nor writing therefore now I am in the Town let me know your mindes in writing that there may be no boasting nor daring in secret for truth is bold and seeks no covers this from me to you I send and do require your answer who am called I. P. This was writ on the back-side of their note and sent back to Hindes who forthwith flew into a great rage against the messenger in the streete and said that I lyed in saying that the note was not to me which any one who can read may plainly see it so and him to be the Lyar for the Lake and his seeming Religion to be vain who is still in old Cain's nature in wrath and bitterness without a bridle to the tongue Then the next morning I received this from them as followeth Iames Parnel this is to thee my intent towards thee is this If thou art minded to dispute with me appoint time and place publike and if the Lord will I will dispute with thee and so on with his proviso's as aforesaid Then my Reply was as followeth To thee Ioseph Doughty I do reply That thou must understand the occasion of this Dispute to be sprung from thee or thy party as I did declare on the backside of thy other paper so if thou or any of you that made your boasts or darings behind my back or have any thing against me or the truth which I bear testimony unto or the way which I walke in I am ready now at all times through the power of God to stand up for and defend the same against thee or any other who shall object against oppose or gainsay it be it in the Towns-hall or as publike as you will and what I have at any time declared against you people or your profession I shall be ready to maintain and justifie by such weapons as I have which are not carnal but spiritual and here is time and place from me declared but to the end of all Disputes and Arguments I am come for before they was I am and in the Light do them comprehend and judge to be out of the Light in Babylon and the Disputer and Arguer of this World but stil I say against such I stand a Witness for the truth which I have received of God and by his power am carried abroad to declare and preach abroad to the directing and turning people minds to the true Light of the Lord Jesus and there to come into the love and unity where lives the Children of Light the end of all Disputes and Arguments and this I am ready to defend and seal with my blood but I say my weapons are not carnal but spiritual and as for these provisoes of thine they are rather for me to lay upon thee according to equity for I am the defender but these things of thee I do not require neither three dayes before hand but am ready at any time to stand to what I have here declared and as for confusion in multitude of words which is thy fourth Proviso Reply Look thou to that on thy part and if thou canst tax mee thou mayest And as for order in the discourse for which thou would have some chosen which is thy fifth proviso Reply Look thou to that on thy part for my God is a God of Order and if thou canst tax me thou mayest and let that stand against me but if there be men of power to keep the people of the world in order I am not against it And as for competent Judges which thou would have appointed Reply Is the Scripture thy rule and not thy judg but thou must flee from that to the judgment of man which is changeable or else how comes Disputes and controversies but to that judgment I shall not stand the spiritual man shal be the competent judge and the Scripture shall witness And as for censorious rash terms of judging which is thy sixth Proviso Reply Look thou to that on thy part and if my judgment thou canst finde contrary to Scripture thou mayest by Scrpture disprove it but what is that that would not be judged And as for declaring before the people the intent and purpose in disputing which is thy seventh proviso Reply If thou who art the Disputant amengst the people hast any thing to say unto the People thou mayest declare thy mind according to the freedome of thy minde I shall not bind thee neither shal I by thee be bound but as the Lord puts into my mouth I shal declare unto the people what is my minde and intent as his spirit guides me so that for that I take no thought So here I have declared my mind in Reply unto thy writing where thou may●st understand my minde if thou hast an ear to hear and an understanding open and if this do not satisfie thee and the rest of you yet nevertheless cease your boasting and daring behind the back for the time to come and let this witness for me to any honest heart whether it be not fair and equal and so I rest in the unchangeable I. P. So it seems this pleased them and so it was concluded to be of the twentieth day called Fryday of the second moneth called April so when the hour came which was appointed we was disappointed of the meeting-place which the Baptists had provided for they sent me word they had provided a place but when we came to meet it could not be had and so we was disappointed then we was in this Hind's house and the woman of the house much fumed and raged at us all the while we was in the house which manifested what spirit she was of and that water had availed her nothing for she was nothing departed from the old nature so then they would have had us to have met in the yard but there could bee no order for multitude of rude people and bruitish Schollars which was as untamed bruit beasts 1 Cor. 15.32 like the beasts at Ephesus which Paul fought with after the manner of men so I passed to a friends house hard by and there continued declaring the truth as I was moved to the people and there the idle drones followed even Babylons Children with their turbulent vain contending spirits opposing and gainsaying the truth like Iannes and Iambres their fore-fathers who must perish in the gainsaying of Core so then word came that the Baptists was in the Shire-house in the Castle-yard and had sent

is that art afraid it should weary peoples patience to hear it if it was of God it would not be wearisome to any thing of God to hear it but it was not of God therefore I am sure it was wearisome and burdensome to the Spirit of God and here thou art shut out with thy frothy Stuff and vain Complements to be a deceiver and then thou said If you please I will speak more and thus thou markes out thy selfe for a Man-pleaser and the Apostle said If I yet pleased men I should not be a servant of Christ Now read thy self where thou art Gal. 1.10 who art yet a man-pleaser who comes with such inticing words of mens wisdome so that the Preaching of the CROSS to thee is foolishness and the Prophets who had the Spirit of the LORD and the Word of the LORD they spoke whether they would heare or forbeare and here thou art shut out both from the Spirit of GOD and the Word of GOD which is one who art a Man-pleaser and if not a Servant of CHRIST then a Servant of the DEVILL and so I marke thee out that all may know thee and no longer bee deceived by thee with the shadow instead of the substance with thy inticing words of Mens wisdome and thou told the people thou spoke to the Reason of Man when as all men in the fall their Reason is corrupted and the naturall Man receives not the things of GOD 1. Cor. 2.14 Ier. 10.14 for Man by nature is worse then a Beast and there art thou who art preaching to the corrupt Reason of MAN in the FALL to judge of thy corrupt stuffe for I know there was none there that owned thee but such like but the Message of PAVL was to turne Peoples mindes from Darkness to Light but thou strive to draw Peoples mindes from the Light within Act. 26.18 to the Dead LETTER without them telling them that was the LIGHT and that was the WORD and so thou bewitched them with thy Lying Divinations and bid them search that and read often that and cleave unto that but I say they that read that and not by the light within them read a parable and it is unto them as a book sealed though they may by their carnall wisdome add their own meanings but that must be shut out of the Scripture 2 Pet. 3.16 for such are unlearned and unfruitfull in the word and so wrests the Scripture to their own destruction but by this know that I go not about to draw men from reading the Scripture so that they read with this single eye the Light which gave it forth so shal they that read understand but to thee this is a mystery and therefore thou went about to deny Christ in man and God in man by way of derision to those that witnessed forth Christ within God within thou saith that he meant he was in them by his words and thou brought this Scripture if you abide in me and my words abide in you ye shall ask what you will and it shall be done unto you in this place thou Serpent he meant as he spoke but Paul witnessed Christ within and said They that could not witness Christ within was Reprobates and so art thou who denies Christ come in the flesh and Paul preached Christ within the hope of glory Gal. 2.20 2 Cor. 13 5. Col. 1.26 27. the ministry which had been hid and so it seems is stil from thee therefore to thee this preaching is foolishness and as fancies and whimsies but unto us that are saved Christ the power of God and the wisdome of God by which thy folly and thy ignorance of Christ is here made manifest and that thou never escaped the polutions of the world by the knowledg of Christ who denies him as he is known to all who have escaped the polutions of the world by the knowledg of him and they that thus know him not 2 Coo. 13.5 are in the reprobation here art thou a Minister of Antichrist who denies Christ come in the flesh and then thou went on with thy deluding spirit pressing the wicked to pray yea there was many there present of the people of the world besides thy own company whom both thou and thy company counts as heathen yet thou pressed them much to pray and to take unto them words and pray whenas the Scripture saith The prayers of the wicked are abominable and thus thou did that which was abominable in the sight of God Pro. 15.8 in praying thy self and teaching the wicked to pray and to steal other mens words and pray for neither you nor they have any words but what you steal out of the Scripture for thou hast shut thy self from that by which the Apostles preached therefore thou thus runs into confusion and thou told the people of deceivers and nominated them to be such as denyed Baptisme and Ordinances of Christ and the Scripture and the Resurrection of the Dead and eternall judgment so when thou had done thy divination and thy formal prayer I stood up and claimed the order of the true Church that all might speak one by one and if any thing was revealed to him that stands by let the first hold his peace and then like Cain thy countenance fel thou being struck with guilt in thy conscience 2 Cor. 14.30 31 and fear surprised the heart of the hypocrite and thou was shufling away but I bid the stand for said I thou art a deceiver as I shall prove the one before all the people therefore stand to maintain what thou hast said but said I unto the people the Prophets and Apostles and the holy men of God who spoke forth the Scriptures they spoke from the infallible spirit of God as they was acted guided and moved thereby but all who comes with their words and pretending to preach and not from the same infallible Spirit such are deceivers of which this man is one who stands here in the seat of the Pharisee and he being smitten with guilt fetled to be gone and several would have stopped him but he said he would be gone unlese they kept him in by violence and I said unto the people know this that these things wherewith he marks out deceivers I own so that I am none of those for the Scripture I own and the true Baptism of Christ I own the Resurrection from the Dead I own and eternal judgment upon the wicked I own so that I am none of those which he marked out but this man is a deceiver and so I shall prove him if he will stay but thou Ray was ashamed of thy Ministry and durst not stand to what thou had said but plainly like a hireling fled from thy stage and left thy Flock like a cowardly Serpent I never knew Baptist so routed out of a Pulpet but the Independants joyned with him and the Priests rude multitude stood up for him and several

according to their form with their stoln words Reply Now for the truths sake for which thou John Ray hast cast us out of your society we shall hereby cleare our selves from what is or may be cast upon us in this matter by thee John Ray and the rest of thy society whom we know to be most bitter slanderers of the truth This we deny that ever we was Elders in the church of Christ you made us Elders in your church who call your selves jews and are not but the Synagogue of Satan out of which you have cast us but not before we forsaked you we by the light of Iesus Christ through the love of God seeing both you and we setting our selves of acting and imitating the Apostles in our wils with a blind zeal for life but strangers to the life and power neither could witness the same infallible spirit as they had as you know we all confessed and therefore we had nothing but what we got into our brains of their words and so got a notion with adding to our own imaginations of them and wresting the same with our fallible spirits for we durst not say it was infallible as you also confessed your selves then it must needs be fallible for there are but two kindes of SPIRITS and if not the INFALLIBLE then the fallible and though we did the very same things and spoke the same words and not from the same Spirit it was all false and as nothing as they that swore God lived swore falsely for they that have not the Spirit of Christ are none of his and his spirit is infallible in the least measure and thus you are shut out in all that you can do of your selves with your formed Ordinances and this we know we was also strangers to the Cross of Christ and the Light and Life and Power of Christ which the Apostles lived in and also the one Baptisme of Christ without which none can be his Disciples so we was only jews outwardly washing the outside but within as foul as ever as you also are yet we say not but we had a zeale in the same though not according to knowledge but now the true Light is sprung in through the mighty love of God towards us so that we see the weakness of our own actings and formings in our own wils for life and now are made willing through the power of God to lay down our crowns at the feet of Iesus and to wait in what he hath given us of his Light and we have tasted of his powerful VVord through his gracious love towards us and now we have a witness vvithin our selves whenas before we knew it not but murdered it as you also do and for this you have cast us out of your society but not for fornication as he was in that place of Scripture which you imitate 1 Cor. 5. nor for making shipwrack of faith and a good conscience for we witness an increase of both but the discerning and power is wanting in you and so you do you know not what but know this we are not fallen to a looser life but to a more stricter severe life for to serve the Lord Iesus Christ but remember this that if they that believed your form to be the truth could but patter over a few words of faith and call it theirs and then according to your form they was put into the VVater and taken out again and then received into your Church and communion though no change of life or nature and this must needs be the Synagogue of Satan and this I Samuel Cater can vvitness for so have I baptised and at you I learned and you allovved of it but novv my eye is opened I do see it and do testifie against it that all I did so by I deceived them though then I confess it vvas ignorance and so vvas yours but novv you might see if you vvould therefore it shall no more be called ignorance but vvilful blindness but I knovv you vvill alledge you teach Godliness and holyness but I ansvver you run and the Lord never sent you as vve also did therefore you profit not the people at all and if you had not the VVords of Godliness and the form 2 Cor. 11.14 15 then the Ministers of Antichrist vvould not be like the Ministers of Christ but you are but I say your lives comes short of vvhat you profess for in them there is no change but they that are Earthly Minded and Covetous are so stil and your lives are in pride ambition and arrogancy puffed up vvith your vain knovvledg and vvith respect of persons and so are out of the faith of Christ and in vvrath and anger and envy and bitterness and in lying and slandering and backbiting and lust fleshliness we formerly being in the same Society do witness it now our eys are open out of which society you have cast us and praised be the Lord that vve have escaped the snares of darkness by the bright shining of his light into our dark hearts to the vvhich light do vve speak in you all by it to read your selves and judge your selves for by it are you seen and judged to be in darkness and in confusion out of the faith and society of the Saints but these things do vve not speak out of envy or Revenge but for the clearing of the Truth and our consciences from your slanderous tongues and to lay oped your deceit and vvay of delusion to the simple that they may escape the delusion vvhich vve vvas ensnared in and that so you may proceed no further vvith it that your folly might be manifested to all men as theirs vvas vvho vvithstood Moses E.C. S.C. A Copy of the most of the Queries aforesaid was given to this Ray but no Answer did he return NOw a word to all you who are stil in your own formings selfe-actings Rom. 8.7 and imitatings you are acting in that nature which is at enmity with God which is not subject to the Law of God neither can so all your formings and actings is in vain for it is not from life but from death for life but life comes from death for in the destruction of death is life obtained therefore to the light of the Lord Jesus in all your consciences take heed which is the witness for God to which I speak in you all which witnesseth for God against the secrets of your hearts which reproves you in secret for your secret actions and deeds of darkness and it will search you through and let you see what you can witness of the work of God in you hearts for all this your long and great profession and esteeming your selves of the Church and faith of Christ and Saints in Christ so if you can witness yet the earth quakes and that the earth is yet removed out of its place and mountains removed by the eye of faith and if the vail of darkness be yet rent Is not