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spirit_n	know_v	true_a	truth_n	7,323	5	5.7216	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43753	To all the inhabitants of the earth this is sent as a warning from the Lord, vvho hath been long grieved with a sinful and an adulterous generation; but against the fulness of transgression hath prepared vialls full of wrath to cast upon the head of wicked and ungodly men. Here is also the vain traditional worship of both priest and people (in short) plainly made menifest to all those that art not willing to remain in ignorance, which for many years hath overspread the whole world; but now is the son of righteousness arising, which discovereth all deceivers and deceivableness, and causeth the lowly, meek and innocent to understand wisdom. Written by a servant of the Lord, who is known to you by the name of John Higgins.	Higgins, John, 1633-1667.	1658 (1658)	Wing H1952C; ESTC R215938	6,721	10

who have been the teachers of this people who for filthy lucre have deceived their souls teaching for doctrine the traditions of men daubing the people with fair words because they put into your mouthes but he that doth not you even prepare war against him and peace you say to the rich and judgement to the poor in spirit and so the word is not divided aright but truth is turned backward for the waies of unrighteousness and you through your learning and arts have been idolized manie dayes but now your flatterie is seen and your learning is come to naught and your unrighteousness will be made manifest to the eyes of al people that have been deceived therevvith and all your righteousness and unrighteousness is sin in the sight of God and your revvard shall be accordinglie Therefore all both priest and people consider of your waies and amend your lives for verily the Lord will not be mocked although for a time he may be silent for all your assemblies and pretended worship is abominable in the sight of God whilest you continue in the abominations of the heathen and all your performances is but the tradition of men perfomed in a customary way in ignorance of the knowledge of the living God whom you say you serve but the wild scornfull nature knoweth not the Lord of glory and how can you serve him whom you know not yet are you nourishing your hearts in that which the blind guides teaches you to observe thinking thereby to find acceptance with the Lord but it is all polluted And novv as concerning that vvhich you call the ordinances of God and the order in your Church novv see from vvhom you have your exampel for it is altogether contrarie to the practise of the Servants of the Lord in all generations the Scripture of truth bearing testimonie to vvhat I say and thereby let your doctrines be tried and first vvhat command or example do you think you have for sprinkling little childern calling that baptisme or an entrance into the christian Church c. And if you vvould go to the vvritings of the Apostles for proof for this practise it is not there to be found neither vvas it ever their practise but it is that which by the Pope and the Popish affected Priests was ordained and by such it is upheld to this day through the ignorance that is yet remaining in the earth but this is known and confessed that water baptisme was once the administration of Iohn who bare witness to the true Christ and said that is the true Christ which enlightneth every man that cometh into the world who by his death and resurrection put an end to all that stood in the outward Covenant he being the substance of all types and shadows who said henceforth is the Father worshiped in spirit and in truth but you are so far from the power and life of that administration that you are not in the true form and manner of it though you falsly say the Scripture is your rule and the Apostles practise your example but sprinking of children was never the practise of the Apostles but the inventions of the erronious spirit And as concerning your practise singing in of Davids Psalms prayers and Prophesies in rime and meeter saying let us sing to the praise and glory of God such a Psalme then doth all the multitude sing after the Priest when paradventure there is many drunkards and swearers and adulterers and fighters and proud persons singing all with a voice they are not puft in mind but as harmless as a weaned child and such like words is uttered in the blasphemous spirit without an understanding in the Anti-christian ignorance so that this is abomination to the Lord and not to his praise but David being as a weaned child even harmless and innocent he could sing to the praise of the Lord with an understanding according as the spirit gave him utterance and that is owned by the children of the Lord and approved of in the light of our Lord Jesus Christ And now what example is there for Priests to require or people to give them so much a yeare even the tenth part or near of the encrease of the fields and of the labour of themselves and the labour of their cattel for preaching the traditions of men upon the first day of the week through which unrighteous gain they are at ease in the lust and liberty of the flesh being thereby mantained with their wives and children in all superfluity and gorgeous apparell without labouring in the creation bearing rule by their m●●ns as it was in the dayes of Jeremah Chap. 5. and the two last verses so that this practise is also contrary to the Apostles it being that which the Prophets of the Lord alwaies cryed against as you may read Isa. the 56.11 Micah 3.11 so that for this example there is the practise of the false Prophets and not the practice of the true Prophets and Apostle but by them such was ever cryed out against· And now I exhort all in the fear of the Lord God to mind the light of Christ Jesus in your consciences making manifect all unrighteousnesse condemning you in your own hearts for all the evil that you are exercis'd in turn aside from following of blind guides even such as go in the error of Balam for gifts and rewards and in the steps of the false Prophets of Israel who studyed and divined for money seeking their gain from their quarter c. And although they may tel you there is salvation in Christ that dyed at Jerusalem with many other fair words spoken from an ayry spirit but this I say that their words and your belief so long as sin regius will be little worth in the day of judgement for he that is not led by the same spirit as he was is none of his and all drunkards and swearers and proud and lustful ones are excluded and for ever condemned by him and the manifestation of his spirit in the heart and conscience will accuse eternally therefore silence all vain talkers and hirelings and deceivers who feed your selves and not the flock against whom the Lord hath a great controversie and he will plead with you in Judgement Then shall all the earth know that the Lord sends not his message by the learned wise and prudent men of this generation who would ●●clude all others from the ministery and these be they that follow the error of Balaam who erred in going after gifts and rewards and this is the error of the Priests and false Prophets in these dayes who for love of the reward speaks peace where the judgement of the Lord is to rest so that this is not the Gospel of Christ which they declare for that is the same now as ever it was not of man nor by the will of man but by the will of God even so are the ministers thereof called and chosen according to his will and not

the will of man and we do know that the Lord hath chosen the weake and dispised of this world to confound the strong and mighty in their own wisdom and herein is the power of the Lord manifested praises be to his name for ever And in all their learning they are corrupted and the knowledge of the languages of Hebrevv Gerek and Latine which they call the originall is nothing worth as par●●●ing to the knowledge of God but the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ is now made manifest which is the originall of all truth and righteousnesse and by it the misteries of the kingdome of heaven is revealed and all unrighteous prctises of men are by it discovered and it searcheth and knoweth all things and without it none knowes the Lord as he is Therefore all people come down to the manifestation of that spirit in your own hearts and consciences which will give you the knowledge of sin and every evil way and it will discover the very thoughts and intents of the heart yea all the evil lustful desires in the heart of man are by it made manifest and condemned and as faithful obedience unto it is yeilded and that denyed which by it is manifest to be evil sin comes to be destroyed and the knowledge of God comes to be revealed in and by Christ Jesus who hath enlightned every man that cometh into the world giving unto all men a manifestation of his spirit that in the day of judgement all might be left without excuse so that all they that believe in the light and follow it shall not abide in darkness nor come under condemnation but all that turn from that light of Christ in the conscience abides in darknesse and in sin and under condemnation whatever their profession is and none shall ever be justified before God who are condemned in their own hearts and consciences by the light of Christ Jesus who is one with the Father and answers to him in judgement and in mercy as he is followed and whosoever will fellow the light of Christ in the conscience must deny themselves and bear a cross to their own wills and all mens will in whatsoever is thereby made manifest to be contrary to God for man being in the transgression this hath the Lord appointed and ordained to guide and direct man out of sin and transgression if ever he be restored into the Image of God again so that man in denying the light of Christ remains in sin and by the light is eternally condemned in sin being under the chaine of darknesse with the damned spirits that rules the children of disobedience he that reads let him understand Now in the fear of the Lord I warn you all that keep Beer or Ale or VVine to sell that you let no man have drink till he be drunk as hitherto you have done for in so doing the Lord will not hold you guiltlesse and all your gain and profit thereby is even curst of the Lord and beside this I know and you are also sensible of it that when the creature is overcome with drink then he is fit and ready with a little temptation to act uncleannesse with women and to sweare and lye and quarrel and fight to the abuse of himselfe and the bodies of others and more such like evil practises is thereby committed amongst you therefore fear fear the dreadful God who takes an accont of all these abominations And all you that are called Ranters assuredly the Lord will enter into judgement with you for all your whoredom pride and drunkennesse and all uncleannesse though in the presumption of your spirits you say you know no evil that you do in these or the like practises yet the living God will make you know by his judgements that you are the most filthyest that lives amongst men and the manifestation of Gods spirit in your own consciences will for ever condemn you and will be unto you as an everlasting burning except you repent And all you young men amonst whom I had my conversation in the dayes past consider for what end the Lord created you and how you live in wantonnesse and in pleasure and lust and drunkennesse and all the fruits of the flesh for which you were not created but he that created you and gave you life it was to serve him the Lord of glory and not your own lusts and pleasures and all know assuredly that you are under the power of the Lord who will cast forth his fury as a flood which will make all ungodly ones to languish and be afraid when he thunders forth his judgements upon all the world of ungodly And herein have I cleared my conscience toward you in plainness truth makeing known unto you that which the Lord by his spirit hath made known unto me concerning you VVritten at Dover in Kent in the first Month of the yeare of the worlds account 1658. I. H. THE END London Printed for Giles alvert at the black-spread-Eagle neer the VVest end of Pauls