temple nor lies in the bosom of harlots who are out of his power and perfect way of a holy Life Therefore Your work would profit you most to take the Candle of Truth and sweep the house at home and cast out the old leaven and whatever is of the world and wait in that which works in spirit against the old till therewith all be made new and the new vessel which will not receive the old nor mix with it that is it which will hold with the new which God will fill with himself there the Seed may spring and not be devoured and the Lilly grow without being choaked There the Lamb may be safe from the Fox and the pure from pollution which can never be while your covetous proud lustful earthly minds are alive in you or ought that therewith you have treasured in or grows up in that ground the Plant of God is more pure and tender then to grow amidst such pollution so to judgment you must first come and own your condemnation upon all the old before you can receive of the new or it grow in you What agreement hath the Spirit of meekness with the spirit of pride Contentedness with covetousness Holiness with lust Christ with Belial Light with darkness Read and understand here is the cause why you have sought and laboured many years and many of you further off then at first but none hath found freedom indeed nor that rest where the Thief and unclear comes not to devour Consider these things while they are near you lest your hearts harden in you through unbelief and the deceit of lusts And if you will come then refuse not him that calls and gives you light in the dark but faithfully manage the watch and the war on his behalf with all your power till all be brought under 〈…〉 which he testifies against in you and do not answer the Truth 〈…〉 calls with deceit and excuses lest he turn away from you and 〈…〉 more worthy If you say the world holds you back then its time you should not delay to break those bonds that are grown so strong already they will be stronger every day and what will the end be Consider understand like men and say not you have not strength but turn with that strength with which you have long served the world and you will find God that gave it you the better Master and the Redeemer is served with less vigor than the spirit of bondage and do but faithfully give the strength you have of God unto the service of God in the Light and he requires no more then he gives its deceit that makes these excuses and not a willing mind and were you in the fear of God these words you would not utter against your selves a witness for these are not the words of children of love nor obedient servants but of such as are without Therefore in truth of heart consider what state you are in and who is your father and hath power in you who thus speak Can you do evil with both hands live to your lusts serve the world compass the earth for your profits and pleasures with power wisdom and delight and have you not power to do well Now should you see your strong captivity and how you are degenerated from God and the end of your creation with your whole strength and become altogether reprobate to Gods service and for this should your hearts be smitten with sorrow did you love God or his true Worship and that evil tongue you would bridle and your eyes you would limit from vanity your ears from pleasure and your hearts from deceit that so you might only hearken to the Light if by any means you might come to hear the voice of him that 's sent into the world to call you from under the power of Satan unto the living God by preaching Light to you who sit in Darkness and are dead while you live neither can you be quickned till you hear the Voice of the Son of God which the deceiver keeps you from in your worldly pleasures long prayers and a lying profession taking the Saints words to cover you from true judgment but have not their Spirit nor Power to live their lives nor are you Plants of that Root and Nature which brings forth to God as he is in whom there is no change And this is not the Sacrifice that God accepts which is brought in the unclean Vessel without his power and renewed strength Wherefore that nature which is become so wholly unprofitable should be denyed its will and its way stopt and to that seed you should dye which rules in that strength you have and runs to and fro to seek for its self but seeks not God first and to that which is pure must you turn and therein wait for the Anointing and the rising of the holy Seed for it 's the most holy that must be anointed in you ere you can know Christ in you and without Christ you can do nothing and that seed which is neither willing nor able is not he but is the seed of the evil-doer as is manifest by his fruits which must be denyed his thoughts his words his profession his prayers his lusts his sin and his righteousness for it 's all of one nature and stands up in you to withstand the coming of the Seed of the Covenant Christ Jesus the Life of God and Light of Men which hath Gods Power which was in the beginning Gods Righteousness and is to all generations whom the Heavens must retain until the end of all these things and the restitution of the Creation to God till which you cannot know his appearance in you without sin who died for sin Whose Light as is before declared shews you his Law and the Spirit of Prophesie testifies of him to come whose way before his face must be prepared if you have ears to hear and understand and all your crooked untoward wanton wayes must be made streight and your hidden subtile wayes made plain and the Refiners fire must pass through your house and take hold on all that will burn till it be consumed for till the filth be purged out and an end made of sin God comes not to his Temple nor is everlasting Righteousnesse brought in for an Inheritance to eternal Life And here will you come to learn the first Principle of pure Religion and Doctrine of the beginning of Christ and the foundation of Repentance from dead works will be laid in you then will you see what kind of treasure your wanton careless minds have treasured up in your vessels your deceitful unprofitable words and works you will then see by that which will not lie then will you find that all will fail but Truth and what you have gathered by craft and deceit will stand in no stead but to deceive you Truth in the inward parts must be your stay if any you find for to that Rock you will be
market-place at the best not yet come into the Vineyard of God till you be set on work against sin to pluck up and cut down every evil thing that offends in the Kingdom of God with his spiritual Light and Power which Kingdom is within you and that which offends is within you and that which is offended is within and that which is lost and fallen is within and there to be sought and the Pearl and the Seed and the Word and the Law of the Spirit of Life and the Covenant is within and this is not seen nor believed nor can it shine till the House of God be swept and the fruit of darkness denyed and the Light of Christ turned to and the Just obeyed which gives to see the unjust and power against him when the ground of darkness is removed by the working of Faith And as many as be called to this work and entred into it in truth and faith must not be idle but obey the Spirit of Life till the house be cleansed and the unclean wrought out and the pure exalted and then is the rest holy and then you will find your rest within you and your God near you and your souls to dwell at ease with God in your own habitation whose Temples you are if this you obtain by faith in him that calleth and quickeneth you to Holiness and the fruit is the Lords and so is the Seed and the safety for ever to all and in all that abide therein And this is not self-works nor self-will but pure faith and obedience to the Seed of God which in you wars against the world and every selfish fleshly lust and delight which is the Seed of the holy Covenant which Seed is Christ the holy and just One if you can receive it This is he that makes clean and keeps you so as many as obey and walk in him and from his Spirit receives your Law which Spirit giveth you his life to inherit here on earth if you walk in the Spirit you shall not live to the flesh And in this life and knowledge truly learned is answered that common objection which the spirit of the world makes against the holy Life and Kingdom saying If it were possible that we could live without sin then we need no Saviour yea the same that cleanses the house must keep it so and he that 's the death of sin is the life of righteousness and the same light and fear of God which leads to the putting off the old man with his affections and evil works leads to put on the new man which is Christ and so to walk in him which is renewed after the image of him that created him where Christ is all in life and guiding and the good man keeps the house not the strong man and how can that man say he needs no Saviour who can do nought without him whose righteous life is both food and rayment and his light their armor daily against the evil in this world in every thought word and work and in whom this is not so Christ is not all and in whom it is so they are compleat in him and do not say they have no need of him but consess him in them their head and glory and this is the Kingdom of God upon earth and the King in his Kingdom which you that resist in your faith and practice deny the Lord and his Power and his Faith and his Prayer which is Thy Kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven where no sin is And this further to all you that in words professe Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Master let it be in Truth and Righteousnesse that you may have his witnesse thereto who is pure and clean and cannot join to evil but is an open witnesse against every appearance of it and so are all his Servants whom he hath hired and sent into the world in what place or imployment so ever you are in if you be his servants you are chiefly about his work and not your own Now his work is manifest in every appearance of his in this world it is against sin and to destroy the works of the Devil out of this world mind this To destroy the works of the Devil out of this world that so the Kingdoms of this world may become the Kingdoms of Christ Jesus and the most Holy One may rule and bring forth fruits therein Now his Servants are known by this that they stand for the Kingdom of Christ in this world and his works and against all the works of the Devil in this world to destroy and bring down and make an end of sin in this world and the servants of the Devil are known in the contrary by being in his work which is to keep sin in this world while people live and this is the strength of his kingdom take away sin and take away his kingdom here and his power here and his place here for where he is resisted he flies but where he is received he sets up his throne and takes pleasure in his servants and they in his works which is to encrease deceit and vanity in them and to fill their hearts with every lust and so strongly carrying out their hearts thereunto that they have no delight in that which is contrary nor can believe that ever any can receive power in the Spirit of Christ against him or such redemption as to overcome him and be freed from him in all his works in this world And here is an agreement with death in your faith and a covenant confessed with unrighteousness And you that are in this mind and belief you are not hired of Christ Jesus the Righteous nor have you received his Faith which is pure as he is pure and believes unto Righteousness and unto Victory and not unto sin and that 's his faith which overcomes the world and the prince of it and resists him stedfast in the faith in hope of victory in the end and this faith his servants confess openly which faith the world cannot receive but confess the contrary openly and so you are kept captive at his will and you believe you must be his servants while you live here in this world And this faith you confess openly against the victory of Christ and herein you are faithful to your own Master whose works you do and plead for and confess his faith which none of the Servants of Christ ever confessed such a faith that they must needs serve sin as long as they live for the youngest and the weakest servant of Jesus Christ that know themselves hired of him they know his work is to destroy sin out of the world and to subdue the Devil and to this work they are set in themselves by faith and power which is in Christ Jesus the Lord and they labour in hope having their hearts turned in them and their faces set towards holiness and from the world and are set
on their way out of the world which is Christ the life that 's holy and light that 's pure and to this the mind is kept in all their travels and tribulations and temptions which worketh in them by faith in Christ more hope and more strength daily and every thing that happens them in the way gives experience and renewed strength against their adversarie the Devil while they keep close to Christ in faith and love and though they feel the Devil in the sensual part to be strong and powerful and past their strength at present yet they yeeld him not the Kingdom for that but into the faith and hope and patience of Christ Jesus they sink down waiting for the resurrection of that Life which never sinned but died when sin took his kingdome and there wait for the appearance of Christ without sin to save them from that power of death which wars in their own members to bring forth sin in this world and this is to be true in their service and faithful who wait for the Kingdom of God within them and Righteousnesse thereof and the comming of their Lord with their minds girt up with holinesse and hearts stedfast not to consent to the least work of the Devil if it would gain the whole world in the aperition of the sensual reason and wisdom And if these be overtaken with a fault it is not willingly but as Servants of Christ they stand against it to the utmost they then see and sin being a work of the wrong master they abhor it and themselves for it and deny it and will not plead for it or seek to hide it in them but confesse it and cannot have peace till it be cleansed out and these are the little children who have an Advocate with the Father to whom sin is as death and dare not speak a word for it but against it in themselves and in others and these appear against sin openly and confess to him that is holy with all their hearts and words But what a difference is there betwixt one of these who when they either see it or are told of their offence against the Lord are broken before the least reproof into tears or sorrow condemning themselves for it and it in themselves openly and you who when you are reproved for sin which is both open and known you set your selves with all your strength and wisdom to plead for it and like the Devil bring the letter to strengthen your selves against just reproof and with hearts full of envie and mouths full of reproach you stand up seeking to ensuare them that reprove you in love to Christs Kingdom and your souls and to recover you out of the works of Satan that his kingdom might fall in you and so he have fewer subjects left in his power and you be added unto the Kingdom of Christ by being brought under his Commands through denying your old matter and confessing and condemning his evil works for a denying of the Devil and his works there must be ere Christ will receive you And thus it is that Christ hath ever taken his Kingdom out of the hand of his adversary in the world by sending his Servants into the high-wayes and hedges to gather his creatures out of the Devils works by true reproof and testifying against them where ever he led them for which they were torn and scratched and evil entreated by that evil spirit in whom it had power as you now do who rise up against reproof Christ Jesus known to be King in his Temples through the power of the Holy Ghost and sword of the Spirit lifted up against the man of sin in true Judgement You who look for the Kingdom of Christ Jesus it stands not in observations words and forms but in the power of the holy Ghost in judgment in truth and righteousness If you would know his appearance to salvation wait for it without sin in that Spirit and Power which is holy to judge and condemn sin this is his Kingdom with men if you can receive it that he be known in his spiritual power in the bodies of holy men and women to dwell and walk in a holy life a witness against all sin by the breath of his mouth and Sword of his Spirit and therein that he hath power and consent to judge all contrary spirits within and without and all contrary actions And what ever opposes him in this his Kingdom is Antichrist which denies Christ in his Temples and House whose House and Temple is the new Creation of holy men and women and in whom he speaks dwells and walks as saith the Scriptures in whom he judges the Prince of this world and all his out-goings in the children of darkness and in his own Temples shews forth his nature and virtue a witness against him and all his works and he that would let this is Antichrist who sits in the Temple of Christ to resist the Holy One and cannot receive the Judgements of Christ against sin in his Temples nor his witness against sin to Salvation but cries do not judge when Truth speaks and the Spirit of Christ testifies against sin in true Judgement and this is he that lets and withstands the coming of Christ without sin who withstands him in his Temple and denies his righteous Judgement against sin and blasphemes and sayes it is not he nor is he now on earth nor speaks in any body now against sin but saith Thou must not judge lest thou be judged and so through deceit would turn Christs words against his work who saith I will redeem Zion with Judgement and Christ did not speak those words to save sin from Judgement when he saith Judge not that ye be not judged not to stop the mouth of Truth and Righteousness for then had he contradicted himself who in another place commands them to judge righteous Judgement And he is manifest to destroy sin and not to save sin in whomsoever he is manifest and for this end he liveth in his people which Antichrist would make as though he lived not nor heard or spoke but as a dumb Idol would he make the living God for people to talk on or set up a form of him to make void his present life and spiritual power in his people that he should not shew forth his vertue and give forth his Laws and Judgements by the mouth of his Servants against the works of his adversary where ever they appear in his eye Therefore you professors of Christ in words and forms seek his Kingdom in you and take heed that your forms withstand not his powerful appearance in spirit His Kingly Authority stands in his heavenly holy Nature and Vertue in Spirit and not in perishing rudiments and shadows without Read in Scriptures how often Antichrist hath deceived people by turning these outward forms to let the spiritual power and so have kept people in words without life opposing Christ in his Kingdom So in the first
is a Condemner in some a Leader and Teacher towards God in some a perfect Justifier in the sight of God presenting them who also gives several gifts and power to such as receive this Testimony of Jesus Christ yet is he but one in all unchangeably Just Equal and Holy who by the Power of his Word changeth all things that are changeable and bringeth all things to the beginning before People Nations and Tongues were divided where man lives by the Spirit of a pure life Now all that desire to be set free from this Bondage fore-mentioned and from that Law of Sin and Death that hath its strength in the fleshly part diligently mind to feel in your selves as followeth THE Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus by whom the World was made in the beginning hath a Law that is Spiritual proceeding from himself which Law gives light in spirit to good and bad testifying against the power of sin and death which Light as many as receive by faith and obedience are brought thereby under the Law of Life which whoever is faithful in are led in such wayes whereby that part in man in which the Law of sin hath its power is crucified and slain and the Seed of the Covenant thereby comes to its right freedom which by the man of sin is kept in bondage while the strong man keeps the house whose strength is in such things as the carnal mind takes pleasure in which things the Law of the Spirit calls them from who mind it in the Light thereof and leads to exercise the mind in spiritual things and to feed on the Word of Life whereby the inward man is strengthened and made to grow up into the stature of a spiritual man filled thereby with spiritual power life and vertue to bring forth unto God and to live to him as the other lived to the flesh and brought forth unto death Thus the Spirit of Life draws with the Light and saith Come to all that mind its Voice and to as many as obey he changeth and feedeth with the New whereby they become New Creatures born of Freedom And the fleshly spirit it draws and saith Come holding forth visible Idols to take the carnal affections and to captivate the mind from the Spirit of Life into carnal objects who promise much to the eye of earthly wisdom and have a likeness of a substance in them but the end is death and the whole life is captivity to vanity and eternal separation from God And here are the Children of Freedom which are in Christ Jesus made manifest to the world by their coming out of it and the children of bondage manifest who cannot deny to serve it and betwixt these two is no agreement for he that is a servant of sin is free from Righteousness the Servant of Righteousness is free from sin and as he that is in the flesh cannot please God neither can he that is in the Spirit please the world these are children of several Kingdoms and several Natures And he that 's born after the flesh hath that spirit which lusteth enviously and seeks to devour the Creation and he that 's born again after the Spirit of Life is brought into the restoration as in the beginning and bringeth forth to God the Fruits of eternal Life and Salvation in the Creation And as by the Creatures yeelding and consenting to the subtile one the life is lost and the evil seed gets strength in man to rule and bring forth after the power of darkness So by the Creatures believing in the Light and by yeelding to the motions of the Life of Holiness and the Law thereof comes the evil seed to lose its strength and feeding which is upon carnal things and that Life which is by Faith hearing comes again to be renewed in the Vessel and arises through the Spirit and reigns above death and the Righteousness and Virtue of that Life is not of the nature of flesh and blood but of God and is made manifest in the earthen Vessel by the Life and Power of the Spirit against the will of the flesh and the lusts thereof And thus comes man again into the Restoration and Redemption of the body into the free service of that Spirit and Life of whom it is the off-spring and for which and by which it came into the world and here is true reconciliation and peace with God and no condemnation but unity in Spirit and Life as the Father and Son are one the lust being slain the enticer denyed and the accuser cast out and all things become new and all things of God here is no more the house of bondage to sin but the glorious liberty of the Sons of God that Nature being quickned that is Spiritual it doth not feed on carnal pleasures but upon God so the inward man becomes a natural Branch of the holy Root and a Plant of the living God bringing out freely what the Root sends forth in which God is glorified and the Vessel made Honourable and the Soul filled with Peace and fatness and hath no more sorrow and death to oppress it And the Light and Life which is in Christ Jesus manifest in the Spirit of Truth is the first and last in this work and here is seen how unnatural man driven from God is become to that pure Life which gives him breath and being and would preserve him from destruction who is so wholly fallen from it and become contrary to it in nature and judgment that of all things in the world it s the greatest cross to be guided by that Light which arises in him from that holy Life and daily calls him in Spirit thereinto being degenerated into a contrary nature more subtile and selfish is willing to joyn with the enemy thereof in any way against the pure Light that 's in himself it to revile reproach murther and turn into darkness by covering it with deceit though man in this state hath nothing in him but it that is of the Nature of God Holy and Just or that will call him from the paths of the destroyer into the way of Life or bring forth through him any Fruits of obedience or spiritual Worship that God will own nor hath he any other thing in this world that is alwayes present with him to give him to see when he is inticed with his lusts and tempted to sin nor the way how to escape the temptation yet is man so exalted in the contrary nature that he hath forgotten his Creator and lifts up the heel against the reproof of his Spirit trampling upon the lowly motions of the Holy One and the Law which out of his mouth proceeds counting the Light and virtue of his Life to be a low and contemptible thing not able to save Thus doth lost man daily despise the Spirit of Grace and Truth in the inward parts and rejects the Holy Ghost against their own souls and denies his pure and single eye and
whose life you speak evil of but know it not by birth and virtue which is naturally good as the first man is naturally evil And the bondage is in that which is against the pure nature and not in that which is free-born and the law is upon the transgressor and him that is degenerated into that nature which is carnal and sensual and if this man do any thing as to God it is from something that is laid upon him not in spirit but from without and this is legal and in bondage which is not in the free Spirit which doth by nature the things contained in the Law And little it is that such would either do or know were there not a Law or a Letter a Heaven or a Hell to put them upon works and here is the bondage and fear that hath torment but with the Spiritual Seed it is not so who are begotten and born of God in Christ Jesus in whom they receive freely as the branch of the root and what he sends forth through them is fruits of the Spirit against which there is no Law and this is not legal but spiritual and free who are a Law unto themselves and there is no Law against the Seed but is added upon the transgressor because of sin till the Seed be come and where the Seed is born and rules that creature is not under the law letter nor tradition nor bondage but led by the Spirit and born of that Nature which was before transgression was by which the fruits of Righteousness are brought to light by the working of the Holy Ghost who worketh the will and deed of his good pleasure and with the same good will and pleasure it is brought forth without bondage or constraint And in whom the bonds of iniquity are broken the world ended and all things become new and all things of God there dwells not self-righteousness nor spirit of bondage but that is the new creature which is in Christ Jesus created unto good works and not in self and the Heavens new and the Earth new wherein dwells Righteousness as it is in Christ Jesus revealed from God in Spirit and Power without the Law manifest to which the Law and the Prophets bear witness having foretold what glory and freedom should be revealed in the latter dayes at the Seeds appearing and the Letter testifies of this life and power but is not this life but the Spirit gives this life and freedom that it may be of grace freely and the glory of the Lord who is that Spirit and here is the boaster and self excluded and all fruitless trees condemned and seen to come short of the glory of God of whose works he is not either root or off-spring And before you can judge of this Freedom or the nature of the works that spring thereof or inherit the power that brings forth this Righteousness you must own the Judgment of Him that condemns the man of sin in you and receive him for your Law-giver which will break you off from the world and would have you to deny the forms and images and bring you from under its power that 's he that breaks the house of bondage and sets the righteous Seed at liberty to bear the fruits which are of God And thus hath Christ sent his servants to seek the lost and to gather them from among bryers and thorns and bring them to Zion one by one and as they were gained out of sin so the Devils kingdom fell and grew weaker by every servant he lost and Christs Kingdom increased until the Kingdoms of this world become the Kingdom of Righteousnesse wherein the righteous King reigns And out of cruel mockings scorning and bloody persecutions they gathered the lost and gained them to God yea sometimes pulled them out of the fire such hath been their faith and zeal for Christ and his holy Kingdom and their stedfastness to that work to which they were called and hired and the furie of the adversary and his opposite power against him in his servants hath often reached unto blood rendering evil for love to their souls Wherefore take heed to your selves you that name the Lord and call him Master depart from iniquity and obey the good This is his work if you be his servants he hath called you to holinesse as he is holy And that you turn from the world and repent of his works who is the prince of it and deny him and them openly and in secret if you will serve the holy One you must bear his mark and open your heart to him and your mouth for him as confidently as the servants of sin do for it that your Light might shine against the darknesse of this world in the face of the perverse and crooked generation that it may appear to all men that the wayes of the Lord and the world are not one nor their servants one nor their words one nor their garments one nor their table one in all things bearing his Image and Glory above his Adversary that it may appear whose Family you belong to and what is his Glory who hath hired you and what is the Work of your Lord in the World And herein may all people as in a glass see your selves and what you are to God in this his day and what against him these are the two masters which Christ tells of which none can serve but the one he hates who serves the other so now who hath hired you whom do you serve and whom do you hate Is it the World you serve then you hate Christ Is it Christ then you deny the World And these are plain things and you may read as you go if you will whose business you go about and whose hand you strengthen If you commit sin and plead for it then you war against him that is manifest to destroy sin And if you say sin must live in you while you live then while you live the Devil must have a place and power in you and a kingdom as long as you live and if you believe to overcome sin then you wait for the Kingdom of God which consists in Righteousness and believe to see it and seek it daily with your whole heart for it is not words which take the Kingdom but power of Faith against the evil one Neither is it forms and professions or any outward thing that can vanquish the Devil for he is a spirit and by a spiritual power must he be resisted and the weapons must be spiritual and mighty through God which casts down his seat in man though many are led out from form to form and deny that power of God in them and obey the power of sin in them not knowing that power which layes the Ax to the root of the evil tree out of which all the evil springs and these are manifest to be such as are not hired what ever your forms may be which you chuse and change you are but in the
eternal and to the strengthening the holy Seed in man quickening the Soul which by sin hath suffered and this it doth by condemning sin in every motion that it may never arise against the holy Seed and also by ministring comforts and promises and power in spirit to the soul in the way of its arising above the power of the son of wickedness still ministring light and understanding in the hidden part to the holy Seed that hates sin opening that eye daily through the obedience of Truth which the god of this world hath blinded and purifying the Soul by putting off the body of corruption and blinding him that saith he sees but knows not the way out of sin ministring the Law upon him And this is the ministration of free Grace to every Soul that receives it and this it worketh powerfully in all that abide in it through the Spirit of Christ Jesus and this Grace as saith the Scripture hath appeared to all men yea and doth daily appear in all who truly wait in Spirit for its appearance and gives to all such a sight of Truth in themselves testifying with or against every motion in their hearts according as it stands in the sight of God whether it be good or evil whereby the Conscience doth accuse or excuse even as God shall judge them by Christ Jesus So that there is no cause in this Grace why any are not saved thereby from sin and condemnation but being rejected of some it becomes their condemnation and the same thing which saves him that receives it in faith and obedience condemns him that rejects it in his disobedience And this is the Grace of God that changeth not which appears to all men but only reigns to Salvation through righteousness wherein it is believed to be sufficient and obeyed in the Truth therewith made manifest So that is the Grace of God which is of God in man ministring in Spirit light to the Soul in the midst of darkness ministring life to that which is dead in sin leading that through the vail of death up to God from whom the Grace hath appeared and of whom it is and the Light thereof is Judgement and discerning in every one that receives it to be led with it in Judgment and Condemnation to such as turn it into lasciviousness denying the life thereof and the truth that leads thereto and so cannot be saved through it but he that receives it and joyns to it in Spirit becomes one with it and by his daily sinking into it in counsel it grows in him and he in it until it becomes a habitation and cover for him against all evil and so he becomes gracious in words and works daily receiving Grace for Grace of his fulness And he that hath received of this Grace and is faithful therein must not minister of it to strengthen the transgressor who loves his sin and so is under the Law for that is to cast the pearls to swine but to such as are heavy laden and weary of sin to encourage against sin and temptations which all that turn from the Devil must be sure to meet with and Judgement it ministers to the wicked that therewith he may know his condemnation with the light of Truth in whom Grace is denied to reign it is their condemnation that he is come into the world who is full of Grace and Truth but the Kingdom of Grace is Salvation in whom it reigns through righteousness unto eternal Life by Jesus Christ the Lord. So he that receives the teaching of Grace comes therein to the leading of the Spirit and so becomes free from sin is no more under the Law but under Grace but the Law hath power over him that walks after the flesh and every appearance of Grace is witness against him by declaring him to be under the law of sin and death and not in Covenant with him that appears against sin in the power of Grace and Truth which is Christ Jesus the Lord. THE END
A Door Opened TO THE Imprisoned Seed IN THE VVORLD And the way of Freedom by the Spirit of Truth sent out into the World in love to the Sheep that have long been lost Which may serve any who simply seek the life of what they profess and may shew the feigned false in heart the cause why they are shut out of Truths Power Wherein the Elect way is opened to the blind with encouragements to enter and walk therein Also the Fruits of the Free-born cleared from legal performances and the Children of Bondage shewed the nature of their own works Christ Jesus known to be King in his Temples through the Power of the Holy Ghost and Sword of the Spirit lifted up against the Man of Sin in true Judgement By J. N. The Second Edition corrected If you know the Truth it shall make you free London Printed in the Year 1667. A Door opened to the Imprisoned Seed in the World and the way of freedom by the Spirit of Truth sent into the World in love to the Sheep that have long been lost EVery Creature being born of corrupted nature hath that spirit in him that lusts enviously against God and that seed in him and growing up with him which daily seeks to ensnare his Soul further into wickedness and vanity and to increase his separation from God by drawing in iniquity and filling the Temple where God should dwell and be known with the accursed things which God hates and cannot behold for this evil seed being subtile and forward prevails above the pure Life and leads out the mind from it into many several temptations presenting them with delight unto the carnal part and outward sences whereby the Seed of God becomes continually vailed and hid from the creature so that man knows not that Word of Life by which he was created nor can he come to be guided by it in himself till the head of this evil seed be bruised through believing in that Light which comes from the Life by which the World was made and this is that Rock which follows man with its unchangeable testimony bearing witness onely to that which is of himself and against all the wayes of that evil seed calling and reproving the World because thereof which call as many as receives and hearkens to by Faith comes to hear the Word of Life wherein Power is received to become the Sons of God which Power of Life as it arises in the Promised Seed the head of the evil seed is bruised and he comes to be brought under who had taken the Soul captive at his will to every vain and evil work and so as the Creature comes to be redeemed from under the power of darkness so he comes to be guided in the Light of that Life by which he came into the World and that Light which before reproved him for his deeds of darkness following him from one to another condemning him in all being turned to by Faith and Obedience now becomes his Leader out of the World to the Son of God in whom Gods Righteousness is revealed from above to justification which Righteousness being received into and abiding in sin is remembred no more and thus man being changed into that Nature which changeth not in the inward man comes to love that Light which before he could not for no man can love that which is of God until he hath received Gods love Now the Light of the World is Gods love to the World for God so loved the World when it was in the power of darkness that he gave his Son into the World a Covenant of Light that whosoever followeth him should not abide in darkness but should have the Light of Life Now Gods Love 〈…〉 in the light of the World That 's his Covenant with the â—â—â—â—d which whosoever rejects and receives not is out of Gods love and in the enmity out of Gods Covenant neither can he in that state believe that Gods love is in it And this is the cause why all men speak evil of the Light who love their evil deeds and cannot receive it as Gods Love and the way to life to such it is condemnation not that it was intended thereto but men loving darkness rather then light it becomes condemnation but to him that believes and is obedient to him it is precious for who follows it out of the World there receives the Nature of Sons and the Love of the Father which the World cannot receive and the Power of Godliness and Treasure of eternal Life and this is not given to any till they come out of the World as he is not of the World for therein stands Gods Covenant with Abrahams Seed for ever So Gods Love to the World while men are in that corrupt nature and the Witness of the Spirit of Truth is to reprove the World of sin and testifie condemnation against the deeds thereof but to such as have received it it 's a Leader Comforter and Saviour and this is the cause why the one loves and the other hates each Nature speaking that state in which it stands towards God and as it hath obtained from him in Christ Jesus love or condemnation and he that will not receive Gods love that calls him out must abide under the power of the seed which God hates and this is he that seeks to murther him that is in Gods love the evil one having power to blind that mind who denies the Light so far till he cannot see that the Murtherer is of the Divel but thinks he is doing God service and this in the end hath ever befallen such Professors as reject the Light of the World for he that walks in darkness knows not whither he goes but God is Light and in him is no darkness at all nor hath darkness any fellowship with him here is known the Children of God and the children of darkness he that loves the Light brings his deeds to the Light and hath fellowship with God in his deeds and this works the Work of God and he that denies the Light works in darkness and cannot believe the Power that is in the Light being under the power of darkness And therefore he that is born after the flesh knows not him that is born after the Spirit of Light nor can judge of his wayes which are strange and wonders in his carnal sight neither knows he by what power and love that is by which he overcomes the World and takes pleasure in denying the pleasures thereof and vanquisheth all its vanities out of the heart and mind and can no more rejoyce in the World nor make merry with its mirth but rejoyceth in the Truth and is made glad with that which saves him from such folly the wicked knows not the life of the Righteous nor the spring whence his Virtues arise nor the power of his Change nor the end of all his patient sufferings and tryals but stands wondering at it as folly and madness that eye
being blinded by the god of this world which should give the sight thereof and that seed in bondage under the prince of darkness which should give to inherit that immortal Treasure and this must be till there be a denying and coming out of the World to receive that inheritance of divine Light and understanding which none can receive nor be one withal but as they come out of the world from under that seed of enmity which seeks to pervert all the right wayes of God and wrest all his gifts to mans destruction as far as he can prevail Now this destroyer or seed of enmity against the Life of man and his Salvation is kept from that sudden effecting his purpose upon the creature in whom he is head by no other thing but the patience and long-sufferings of God who willing that none of his Creatures should perish but that if by any means all might hearken to the Truth and so recover themselves out of the snares of this subtile deceiver and be saved wherefore he doth many times long bear and forbear with much patience and diligence striving by the Spirit of Truth upon all occasions when ever the Creature doth but mind it checking and reproving and warning even many times at that very instant when the act of sin is committing and if the evil one have got such power in the creature that he will not suffer him to mind reproof before nor in the act of sin then afterwards when the heat of temptation is cooled then he shews the evil and danger of such wickedness that so he might preserve fear in him against the next temptation And thus in many he keeps back destruction a long time so that some are long ere the wicked one get them to fill up their measure and some in that time of Gods patient forbearing and suffering come to repentance and turn to that which reproves and are saved and others go on to destruction which swiftly they draw upon themselves after once the Spirit hath ceased striving and reproving for then the fear is lost and the evil one hath his liberty at his own will the Creature being given up of the Lord and the Spirit of Truth being wholly departed nought but deceit is left to guide him who hath dealt deceitfully with the Spirit of Truth which at the best hath but a form of godliness without the Power for the Power of God is in that Spirit and in that Life which is known by withstanding the evil one which is fallen and covered in such in whom death reigns only such who are born of the Spirit have the Life and Power and know its strength and virtue unto eternal Salvation the rest are left to their thoughts and notions And here is the cause of that strong contention that hath ever been betwixt the Children of Light who are born of that Spirit of Truth and have their light and strength in the inward man and the worlds professors whose expectation stands in something without them which others have spoken of who had it in them and so not knowing the Power and Mystery of the living Faith which is holden in a pure Conscience which only hath the Call and Power to bring out of the worlds darkness they are kept captive therein contending against the Spiritual Light and so while they are in the world go about to comprehend and measure that Spirit of Truth which the world cannot receive neither knoweth thinking that Spirit of Light and Life to have no other opâ—â—â—â—ion in such who are led out of the world and born thereof and in whom Christ lives than they find it to have in themselves who stumble at it and are disobedient and unbelieving in heart when as indeed to us that believe it is Elect and Precious who come to it for all supplies but to the wisdom and profession of the world it is a Rock of offence and stumbling-stone yet is it the Head of the Corner and in them who revile it and reject it it is become all they have in them that is good true and faithful towards God or their Souls as their hearts in secret do witness to them and leaves them without excuse many times For even they that reject this Light and Spirit have nothing else that can shew them so much as one of their thoughts or divide to their understanding the evil from the good either in Thought Word or Action or that can really shew them what is of God really and what is of him who doth but shew himself to be God to deceive withal and is not nor without it can they perceive the several motions of every several spirit that is in them to receive the good and deny the bad nor can they know the several roots of Life and Death which plant to pluck up and which to feed on and how can such labour in Gods Vineyard And indeed without this Light the Body is a house of darkness and a habitation of every deceitful spirit and the heart desperately wicked and no man knows it but he in whom the Light of Truth shineth and he that declares to man his thoughts his Name is the Lord of Hosts Thus is he the Head of the Corner which the stumbler cannot comprehend in his wit and so rejects him without whom there is no building nor working the Work of God And therefore you sons of the darkness of this World mind in your selves what it is you set your selves against is it not that Light which would limit and chain the evil one in you that which condemns you for every evil work secret and open which will not let you be proud and wanton and lustful that which in your own hearts testifies against you for deceit and falshood towards God and towards men deceit in Religion hypocrisie and falshood making a form of what you are not deceit in your dealing with men in your tradings and speakings and severall actings both as Rulers Priests and People without respect of persons nor any other thing but hath respect onely to that of God in you which is of his Nature given to you to guide man in the Light of God out of all the wayes of this deceiving spirit And now he that comes to you with this Doctrine comes near you being manifest in Spirit to that of God in your own hearts you are pricked therewith and then the evil one is stirred up in you to fight against that which is Truth in your selves and answers to the Truth which is spoken to you by another without you from the same Spirit of Truth which by you is rejected And thus you joyning with him that rises up in wrath against the Truth in your selves and denying that which should chain and bind the evil one you deny the Lord of Life and give strength to the evil one to murther the Just in you and quench the Spirit of Truth and weary the Lord with striving till you be given up
holy movings in them by which the holy men of God spoke saw and discerned in all Ages as the Scriptures do testifie all which is lost in that man who is exalted above the pure Light and lowly Spirit in which God meets man to teach him the knowledge of the Truth And therefore you Teachers and People of all sorts and Sects who so violently have set your selves against the Light of the Spirit within you and within others when it calls to you for a return to it How long will you kick against that which pricks you at the heart for your contrary walkings and dissembling professions why will you not be still and commune with it in your own hearts that you might come to a true feeling and discern what nature it is of and from whence it is and what way it works and against what And also what nature that is in you which it chiefly condemns and works against and from whence that is that so with the Light of Truth you might come to judge things that differ in the ground and in the end that you might so come to walk in the Light in Judgment and in Truth of Heart towards God and man And let the single Truth of God without mixture answer these things following feelingly in you What is the cause that while you are professing to seek God and serve him you should be so unwilling to serve him in that which is of his own Nature and to worship him in Spirit and Truth in your own Vessels whose bodies should be the Temples of God who is not worship'd in Temples made with hands nor in a nature contrary to himself Or will the talking of what he is or was in others in whom he was known to walk and speak deliver your Souls from the power of the Prince of darkness and deceit that is in your selves unless you can by Faith receive him in you also as they received him and feel his Power overcoming and casting out him that hath you captive at his will against your Faith and Conscience Or will God be found in you or accept your worship whilst his Temple is possessed with his enemy and a contrary nature acts you therein Can you meet with God in any thing but that which is Holy who hears not the prayer of him that regards iniquity Wherefore your first work should be to know him in you whom God accepts for he alone must present you to the Father who appears without sin understand what I say he that appears without sin else you are reprobate in Gods sight there is no hope without Christ in you and you in him the everlasting Priest to offer up upon the Altar of atonement Holiness must make one in Spirit and though by the height of your minds he that is without sin be low and little in you yet without me you can do nothing saith Christ Jesus mind what he saith you can do nothing Then what are you doing who are not in the holy Spirit Can you worship by Tradition or be saved by the Letter will you make Christ a lyar who saith Without me you can do nothing I am the Light of the world every branch saith Christ that abideth not in me is cast out and withereth and is for the fire Mind this you that reject holiness in Spirit and light from the holy Spirit in you Are you not cut off who are not in that which is holy are you not withered and for the fire Are you not cast out who have no abiding-place in that which is holy and a light in that which is holy Mind what is withered in you and what is fruitful Have you power light and knowledge in you to do evil but not to do well Are you not withered then unto God are you not cut off from the natural Son and planted in a wild Vine of a contrary nature Your light is withered and your seed corrupted and your tree is known by its fruits which now is green and brings forth but not to God nor from God who are cut off and withered without light in you without Christ in you without God in you to keep you not so much Truth in your inward parts as is able to teach you to make you free here is your loss and nakedness manifest and the short bed and the narrow garment who have not so much of the holy Spirit as will cover you nor bear you harmless Now will you say you hope you are born again of the Spirit and are baptized into the Spirit and walk in the Spirit and worship in the Spirit and then are gone out for Salvation and Light and speak evil of that within as not able to bear you against him that is of the world Now your Hope is not an Anchor nor your Faith in that which overcomes by birth as the Saints do Whosoever is born of God overcomes the World And he that is begotten of God keepeth himself that the evil-one toucheth him not Now mind Where is he that keepeth himself and where is the evil-one Let Truth answer in you if there be any knowledge of God in the house Is not that he who gives you light that would keep you from the evil-one and should you not be one in Him that would keep you from evil Who is your Keeper Watchmen that are blind Do not you watch in vain who know not the Lord to keep your City else how should the evil-one have his liberty in and out without a powerful resisting consider in your selves Where is he that gives you to see when the evil-one toucheth you and when he tempteth but toucheth not What nature is he of that doth this for you and where is he Is he not light and understanding and is he not in you and is he not of a contrary nature to the evil-one that tempteth And doth he not shew you the temptation before you consent thereto if you mind him Then what is the cause that the evil is committed seeing a Light and Nature appears against him Is it not because you joyn to the evil-one and like his motion better than his that testifies it to be evil And so you deny the Holy-One and the Just and become one with the evil-one And then you say The Light is not able when you have denyed it and have not been faithful to joyn to it in counsel and strength but have given your strength to the contrary but they that are born of it do not so but when they are shewed the evil-one and his temptation be it what ever it be to or under what pretence soever if the Light testifies against it Then is their diligence watchfulness and sobriety used against it in the fear of God lest they should be drawn from the Light and enticed and with all their power they joyn in obedience to the way of the Light so that there is a war and wrestling ere the thing be over and being resisted
mind this Spirit in you and then whither will you run and forsake the Lord of Life will you leave Christ the Fountain which should spring in you and hunt for your selves should you not abide within and drink of that which springs freely and feed on that which is pure meek and lowly in spirit that so you might grow spiritual men into the same Spirit to be as he is the sheep of his pasture for as is your pasture so are you filled High carnal minds seek high things and so they grow lofty and proud and such God resists and keeps them afar off but the poor in spirit seek truth and meekness and are fed thereof at the table of the Lord meek and lowly and just and faithful are all his houshold who feed and sup with him Now mind and consider your wayes who are gone out unto the mountains to worship and feed your selves you may read of Israels sin in going out from the Temple in which the Lord had said he would dwell and be enquired of and they builded Altars without him and there called upon him but found him not for which he rejected their Worships and their Temple also And where hath Christ said he will now be worshipped is it not within for saith Christ the true worshippers worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth mind it Professors not at Jerusalem will he be enquired of but in spirit and truth and the body is the Temple as he hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will put my Law in their inward parts and all shall know me from the least to the greatest Not in Temples made with hands doth the Godhead dwell whose off-spring we are not in your high places and Steeple-house Churches but in that which springs of him Can you read this and understand it aright in that which springs of him is the Godhead and Power known but the high-minded are too far off it to feel it it 's the poor and lowly in spirit that are near it and he that 's become as a little child can only understand it who is not too great in his thoughts to hearken to that which is little and pure in him by birth and nature that springs of God and not the height of that mind which hath Notions Divine but not Nature Life and Sonship begotton and born of God A sanctified life and vessel is God's off-spring but he that saith and doth not is not born of Truth but of Fornication and Falshood so read your birth and nature and kindred with the Truth It 's not the uncircumcised in heart nor the bastard that 's God's Off-spring and Child of his Love but the pure and clean in heart mind and spirit hath his Image And if you look to be godly you must know this in you else you are without God in the world having neither seen him nor known him whom you seem to worship but are alienated from him in your minds and in your members and in your whole strength so that you have neither power nor understanding to do well being taken captive of a contrary spirit in all your abilities of spirit soul and body your wisdom perverted and understandings darkned and parted from the root whose off-spring man is And now this should be your return to sink down to that which is holy and pure in the Light and to that give up your whole man and all you are and have and no more consult with your wisdom nor follow your own understanding but let the little thing in you that 's pure and simple lead you and thereto bow and bend and confess And this will be your restoration to God to give all you have to the Holy who when he hath befooled your cursed wisdom and brought down your high conceits and bound the strong man and tyed the colt to the vine then will he arise in power who is meek and holy and rule in your strength parts and wisdom having purged the enmity out and renewed your abilities and you will have all restored again manifold all new and clear and able by the power of the Holy One who will reign and govern therein and you shall know the Lord whose off-spring you are to be both root and head and all in you and you shall say no more I am weak and can do nothing but all things through him that gives you strength for the devourer shall no more pervert it but great shall be the Holy one in the midst of you if this you can believe and receive And you shall no more as you have done sow for the devourer nor bring forth unto blasting but your fruits shall arise to God who will receive them with good will and your prayers shall not return empty when he hath bent you for himself and taken away the accursed from amongst you And then will you know the Lords Redeemed and that Seed which is elected and blessed which brings not forth as other men and you will see that all who despise the day of small things neglect their own mercy to follow the teacher of lies who turns not at his reproof who is holy and therefore worship without power Then will you know the life and power of Redemption and Sanctification and Justification and renewing of the Holy Ghost in you when your strength is redeemed to God your wisdom redeemed your hearts tongues eyes and ears and all you have redeemed into God into that which is holy to be guided and exercised in all your conversation possessing your vessels in Sanctification Here is that renewing of the holy Ghost known which sanctifies and justifies through the redemption of the bodie and mind and reconciliation which is in Christ Jesus who is not known to be Lord but by the holy Ghost that Spirit of Truth which leads into all Truth which Truth is a witness in you against you who say you are redeemed to God by Christ Jesus when another Lord rules in you and leads you captive into sin by which Christ Jesus is denied and suffers in you and by which you are separated from God and in a nature contrary to him wherefore to that must you come which changeth your nature and not your words and forms and teachers but which begets another seed and kills that which is begotten of whoredom and lust which is after the Prince of this World that God may be served in his own Spirit in his own Truth of his own nature of his own begetting Holy as he is Holy in every measure and growth thereof that so the least of his Children may be known to be of him and separate from the world in soul and in body coming out of the world bearing his image and reproach And as many as honestly desire to be heirs of this holy Power and Kingdom patiently wait till you feel that move in you which is of this pure Nature and having felt it alive in you rejoyce in it
with hope and faith and keep therein and be not discouraged because of the littleness of it in your present sight neither do you judge and measure it thereby for you know not what power it hath with God and how precious it is in his sight and what it will obtain for you at his hands in the time of need you have not yet proved nor can you while you have things greater in your thoughts than it to run to the power of Holiness and Truth in the inward parts is not known but in the depth when the fire of wrath comes upon all vain hopes and hypocritical confidence when all that is without a man is removed far away when all relations friends and acquaintance are become farther off than strangers and what-ever thing the creature seeks to for comfort turns against him and adds to his grief then is known the power of Holiness and Truth in heart with God and a clean Conscience will speak peace and none can take it away from you if you abide but in it He that hath proved it commends it to you who have been stript of all that ye might learn and know the treasure of life and holiness with God wherefore judge not that which is holier and lower then your selves but let that which is just and holy judge that which is above it in you which is not of that nature The cause why it is so little esteemed in you is because you are so great in the contrary nature and the proud despises the poor and the rich undervalues him that is better then himself And this you will find in you if you measure with that which God esteems and weighs all flesh by to wit by that which is his own and as he is in every creature so do not you judge the most Holy but believe and obey for the time for you to judge is not yet come till the most Holy and Just be King in you and you in him so keep in that which is holy and just and grow in him that he may grow in you and arise through death of his enemies to be greater then the greatest greater then the World and the Prince of it which is the Devil wherein is all unbelief false fears and doubting and exaltation against the Holy One and as these Towers fall which are lifted up against the Lord so his way will become a plain and Truth will take his place in you as King and Lord which God loves which the unbelief is out of and against and as the Pure arises you will find a change in your mind in your nature in your judgment and in your government and you will come to know that your kingdom and power with the highest stands in the anointing of the most Holy and the Kingdom of God is within you and the poor takes it So you must not fix your faith upon that which is great and strong in you because it is so nor because it is likely nor because it promiseth great things but believe in that which is most holy true and just in you that to the Anointing of the most Holy you may come in your particular and he will bring you into the Assembly of the Sanctified where the Holy One reigneth over all for it 's he that 's sent out into the world that lies in wickedness to gather them one by one into Sanctification therein to present unto God as many as receive him who is without spot or blemish And all the world take notice of this where ever it comes this is He whom the Father of Lights hath now sent into you that are in the world the Holy One of God sent to call you and give you light who saith I am the Light of the World Hear him and believe that you may become Children of Light and Truth this is the glad-tydings and Gospel of Jesus Christ who is preached to you in the world Professions and forms would limit the Holy One to themselves and exclude others but Gods gift is free in Christ Jesus and his tender is to all men who would have all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth none he excludes none but who will not receive his gift his Son the most Holy which calls you who through the preaching of the Gospel is come near you yea he is in you with his Light giving you to see the way out of darkness which no other thing could do for you and without money or price you have him If you receive him and keep his sayings and obey his movings He will dwell in you and take up his aboad and you shall know that the Father hath sent him to call you out of the world into the Light of Life if you deny Him he will deny you If you receive Him the Father will love you and power from above will be given to become the Sons of God Wherefore mind that Spirit which calls you out of sin out of the world and gives you light to see what is sin and deceit in your own hearts hearken to that which is Holy and would not have you do evil that 's of the Holy One and the most Holy in you believe in Him and follow Him believe not them who would make you believe you have him not in you who are past feeling in themselves and have already rejected him but you who feel him abide in him who is holy in you against all unholiness a witness cut not your selves off through disobedience and unbelief and he will in no wise cast you out but will encrease your light through obedience and purifie your souls and cleanse your bodies and work in you mightily in Truth to Salvation and you shall see that his working is pure and good and that which none else can do for you and this is the Lord your Righteousnesse though yet you know him not as he is And if you will receive the most Holy this is your time and the day of your visitation by him whose Light is now rejected of the builders of this world and the wisdom of the wise will not know him nor suffer him to rule above their carnal rudiments nor to be all in their hearts to guide with his Light to Salvation so to the out-casts he is preached who are afar off and have not sought him You is he seeking with his Light if you reject him not he will make you to see Light who have sat in the region of death and gross darkness hath covered you wherefore hearken to him that saith Come and feel that Spirit that draws that you may answer his love freely as it is freely tendred and know him by his holiness that it is he and let his uuchangeable witness in you in the night and in the day perswade your hearts that he is the Lord who changeth not and he that declares unto man his thoughts his name is the Lord of Hosts And you that withstand
place mind to know his spiritual Nature and Vertue and what hath power against sin in word and in deed therein is his Kingdom and there is his Glory and there he reigns So take heed how you let that Spirit which goeth out against sin in judgment and in victory in the least of his people and this know that his Kingdom is spiritual and within and holy and there are his Testimonies Laws and Judgements which he sends out by the mouths of his Servants as he sees fit and it s against the works of the evil one he testifies in judgement and vertue for that is his Nature and to that end he appears on earth to destroy the Devil and his works through the Sword of his Spirit and none will let this but Antichrist and his servants whose works are evil and so would stop the Mouth of Truth and Voice of Christ Jesus So you may come to know his voyce from his Temple when you hear Judgement from the Spirit of Truth passing against pride and lust and all the works of the flesh to destroy out of the world this is his voyce from his Temples in which his Throne is his holy Kingdom and Power and that 's the voyce of Antichrist who would let this and sayes thou must not judge when sin is judged and so with the words of Christ would save the works of the Devil from shame and destruction And now there be many Antichrists in this work to withstand the Word God in his Temples and who set the Letter against the Spirit to keep up sin and to silence the Word of the holy Ghost that comes out of his house against it and here are the Children of the holy God known and the children of this world the one seeks to cut down sin the other to save it and both professe Christ in words but the end of their work makes them manifest And you that are talking of Christs appearance where will you allow him a place to rule in if not in the heart and chief place in man therein to judge and govern and speak and give out his Laws will you allow the evil one to utter his voice openly in man in swearing lying and cursed speaking and every evil work and must Christ be silent and dumb thereat in his vessels when he sees it is not this his priviledge in his redeemed ones as the other hath his power in his captives that in them he may judge sin as openly as in the other it is acted and this is the reasonable service of his chosen vessels to give up their bodies that he may speak and act and shew forth his vertues and life and power therein against the spirit of the world in his vessels and were it not for this none of the holy men of God need to have suffered nor been hated but for the words of God spoken by them as Christ hath said It is not you that speak but the Spirit of your Father that speaks in you and this is the voice which the world knows not and so would stop it and sayes it is not the Lord not knowing that justice and judgement are the habitation of his throne in the hearts and mouths of his people What must not the Spirit of Truth in whom he lives judge deceit and falshood where it lives Must not that which is Holy judge the unclean must not the lowly one judge the proud the chaste one judge the lust must not he that is spiritual judge all things must not Saints judge the world What a nation would you have this to be who would root out judgement and yet profess Christ in you Is Christ in that people where there is no judgement against sin what none to judge pride and excess lying swearing and cursed speaking false wayes and false worships would you have all sin to pass openly without reproof Is the Land wholly become as Sodom mind what was their words to Lot in this case This one fellow came in to sojourn and he will needs be a Judge whose righteous soul was vexed daily with their unclean conversation So would you have sin to go openly in the streets without repoof and shame Where is the Holy One in whom doth he dwell who is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity Is Christ a King is he a Judge is he pure and clean in heart doth he live can he see sin and be silent where he hath a mouth to speak by did he ever take up his abode in people where none would allow him a habitation and a mouth to speak by Mind his walking aforetime in his Servants and what he did and spoke in them and against what and is he not still a God of Judgment at hand against his adversary though such as know not his Voice put him afar off So you who say you are for Christ and his Kingdom mind whose kingdom sin is in and whose work it is to defend it from judgment and take Scripture to plead for it that is he which condemns the just who would clear the guilty and that is abomination to God and withstands his appearance and you that yeeld your members thereto are not for Christ but against him in his members who have yeelded themselves Servants of Truth and such as you were they who slew the Just One his Prophets and Apostles in whom the Word of God spoke against sin and had the Scriptures and served sin Wherefore if you love the appearance of Christ Jesus you must not love sin but in that principle which would not sin feel him that suffers because of sin and yet is without sin and against sin and if to him you come whose appearance is in that which is holy just and true and therein joyn to him you will love that which condemns sin by which he is grieved oppressed and then are you for Christ when you can feel and suffer with him by that which he suffers and you will then see that nought is it that is offended at sin being judged but he that is guilty thereof Grace received and Grace rejected THE Grace of God is that which brings Salvation to man all men being in natural darkness as they are in the world without God so the Grace of God is tendred to all without respect of persons And that 's it in every man which gives him a sight of Truth in himself which Truth God by his Grace accepts in every man who would have all men to come to the knowledge thereof that they might be saved Now this Grace in it self is one in every man and is of God in every man and doth not spare the evil nor deny the good in any out of respect either to person wisdom strength or riches which is of this world but hath respect to the Truth of Spirit in all and their obedience thereto therein to teach and lead to Salvation and the true Worship of God in Spirit which leads to Life