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A54907 The captive (that hath long been in captivity) visited with the day-spring from on high. Or the prisoner (that hath fitten in the prison-house of woful darkness) freed into the everlasting light and covenant of God, in which perfect peace and satisfaction is Written by way of conference, and sent out into the world for the sake of those who have long groped upon the tops of the dark mountains, where the barrennesse and emptinesse is, without the knowledge of the true light to be their guide, that they (as in a glass) may see themselves, and read what hath been the cause why they have so long sought, and not found that they have sought for. Given forth especially for the sake of the scattered people in America, by one who labors for and waits to see the elect gathered from the four quarters of the earth, known by the name of Richard Pinder. Pinder, Richard, d. 1695. 1660 (1660) Wing P2262; ESTC R219448 16,995 45

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lead me out of my sin and vain conversation but being perswaded by the aforesaid Teachers that I must not expect such a thing as to be freed from sin in this life this pleased my carnal mind and strengthned me to go on in Rebellion against the light which did condemn me for it that I would have reasoned had not Paul a body of Sin and what must I expect to be freed from sin more then he But indeed in all that time I thus reasoned I never had true peace neither indeed was like to have for now I see that it was the enemy of my Souls rest and peace that thus reasoned and pleaded for sin which is the Devils Kingdome and that they are his Ministers that perswades people that they must not expect to be freed from sin so long as they live which new I see is a Sold-destroying Doctrine and is not received by any but they that be in the unbelief for asI told thee since my understanding was somewhat opened by the true light I see all things possible with God and that faith as a grain of Mustard-feed is able to remove Mountains that though I see the body of sin yet standing I dare not but believe he who by his appearance hath given me to see it is able to destroy it and as thou knows well this is my condition at present that gladly I would be further informed for I find Paul speaks of such a condition and speaks of an overcoming also that I would know whether he witn ssed an overcoming any other way but through the light which gave him to see that sin was grown up to have a body Inform. Being thou art sensible that this seasoning with flesh and blood and following such Teachers as did please the Carnal mind in pleading for sin hath been it that hath caused thee to err from the way of thy Souls rest and peace which was wholly hidden from thine eyes while thou regarded not but stopped thy ear at the cry of the Light which Christ hath enlightened thee withall and while thou framed a faith according to thy own Imaginations which gave thee no victory over Sin but that with thy mind thou served it in fulfilling thy own hearts lusts which led thee a side and warred against thy Soul which now thou art to wait to be delivered from to know Christ thy Souls Saviour to be revealed in his own light the hope of thy glory to destroy and take away thy sin which long hath seperated alienated thy mind from the life of God that thou hast been a stranger unto his Covenant of Promise by reason of the hardness and impudency that thy heart was hardened in by consulting with thy imaginations and by lending an ear to such as perswaded thee that the appearance of the grace of God which did appear to lead thee out of thy sin and vaine conversation was but a restraining grace and not able to save thy Soul Oh blindness and ignorance that ever thou or any should lend an ear to such Is not the grace which is able to restrain from sin saving For what would thou or any be saved from if not from sin For hath not sin been it that hath kept your Souls in death and is not sin the cause of your condemnation And is not the grace saving which the Apostle saith hath appeared unto all men which taught them that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts they should live godly and soberly in this present world that so as long as thou rejected the appearance of this grace thou was not like to know Redemption from thy Sin and vain conversation For thou confest thy carnal mind which is at enmity with God was at liberty and strengthened which the grace appeared to mortifie but it having been pleased thou wert not like to please God nor to obtain mercy with him to overcome thy sin but was short of the life the Saints was in that spoke forth the Scripture and so could not measure their conditions nor see into the mystery the Scripture speaks of thou being in the unbelief and reprobated in thy mind in that with it thou served sin in fulfilling the lusts of it that so thou may see there hath been a great difference betwen the condition that Paul speaks of about which thou reasoned and thine For he in that time when he saw the Law of sin which was in his members warring against the Law of his mind and the wretched state he with his mind served the Lord but thou sin as thou coufesseth in that time when thou egarded not but dis-esteemed and rejected the light which appeared shewing thee thy sin but now the Day-spring from on High having visited thee thou plainly sees that faith as a grain of mustard seed is able to remove Mountains that I may answer thee in short the overcomming Paul speaks on and witnessed was obtained through the Law of the Spirit of Life which first discovered the body of sin unto him and the wretched estate which made him cry out who should deliver him how the Law of the spirit of life which was in Christ that delivered him and set him free from the Law of sin and Death which for a time was in his Members Captive What thou hast spoken I clearly see is Truth for I finde the light in my own Conscience bearing witnesse to it which Light also I now see is to be my guide and for the want of the knowledge of it I long have gone astray and erred in judgement in the things pertaining to my souls peace and especially about the appearance of the Light which long I desired to see and though it was near me even in my own Conscience yet being drawn aside by an evil heart of unbeliefe and by such teachers as was in the same unbeliefe I have stumbled at the true light which appeared so near me which the Lord through his visitation hath caused to shine forth of darkness that all the dark wayes in which I have long walked and gone astray in I now clearly see and comprehend that I hope for the time to come the Lord will giude my feet in the way of peace in that he hath shewed and made manifest unto me a measure of his own light to prepare me a way through the wilderness that though I walk through the valley of the shaddow of death yet I will not fear seeing the Lords love hath so largely extended to me that after the time of this long darkness he hath caused Light to shine forth and his day to spring from on High which hath lighted upon me that hath long sitten in darkness and long gone astray as a sheep having no shepherd and that hath been as in a pit where there hath been no water and hath lain long as in a Prison-house of wofull darkness under the chains of which I have long been kept even nigh without hopes of deliverance yet now I see the Lord