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A94802	For those that meet to worship at the steeplehouse, called John Evangelist, in London, or, any other in that nature upon whom the Scriptures are fulfilled, in evil intreating the servants of the Lord Iesus, whom he sends to deliver his message amongst you. Or for any other that are condemned for sin, and have thirstings after righteousness ...	R. T. (Rebecca Travers), 1609-1688.	1659 (1659)	Wing T2059; ESTC R185428	25,680	64

the true God you must know him in you who is over all in you all and through you all without respect Heb 7 25. Eph● 4. 6. Acts 17. 28 of persons in him we live and move and have our being who made all men of one blood and this is Gospel-news glad tydings to the poor and hungry the s●ck and lost who may come freely high and low rich and poor to him without money or without ●sa 55. 1 Esa 1. 27. price who condemns all unrighteousness judges all iniquity and redeems sin by Judgement and destroys the transgressor and saves the righteous soul which can only inherit the Kingdom which is unfaiding and undefiled feel him in you into whose hands all judgement is committed for knovv you not that if Christ be no in you ye are reprobate the Apostl travelled again in birth of those tha● Iohn 5. 22 2 Cor. ●3 5 Gal. 4 19 Iohn 4. 29 had been converted till Christ wer● formed in them and so cease from th● meanings of men and come to know the Prophet vvhich can tell you all th● evil that ever you have done is no● this the Christ truly the day is fa● spent and the night comes in vvhich none shall vvork therefore prize your Hab. 1.13 Hos 13. 9 time and repent for in sin vvill not God save any who is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity and the Lord is clear and if thou perish O man thy evil is of thy self vvho art vvarned to forsake the evil and to obey that vvhich condems the evil vvhich is good and perfect and giveth peace to the upright in vvhich I have and shall rejoyce though the Seas roar and the mountains be removed out of their place for truth is stronger then all and shall overcome and in it have I an abiding place vvhen the storm hath been great but where will you hide that sit in the seat Psal 1 1 of the scorners and stand in the vvay of sinners vvhen the black and gloomy day shal come upon you and the elements shal melt and the vvorld shall pass avvay vvith a great noise your ●ocl 2 2 2Pet 3 10 Esa 2 02 riches your honour will stand you in no stead vvhen you shal fling your Idols of Gold and of silver to the Batts and to the Moles for he shal judge in Acts 13 ●4 righteousness vvho is no respecter of persons by whom all actions are weighed who throwes Princes from their 〈◊〉 42. 6. Thrones and raiseth beggars and this is he who is given for a light to the Gentiles and a covenant to the people O that you knew him and would trust in him who all the day long stretcheth ●sa 65. 2 forth his hand to a stiff-necked and rebellious people but the night cometh in which none can work then all that resist the light shall be cast into outer darkness where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth for evermore Therefore that all that thirst after everlasting righteousness might be gathered into the light do I call and write unto you these things in plainness M●● 8. 12 And now you who denie the light of Christ the living Word have set the dead Letter in his stead how doth death prevail in you And how hath darkness beset you that even while you are preaching and professing the Scripture you are fulfilling them against your seives Did not the light of the World foretel his servants what they must receive from the Worlds professors for doing his Work saying I send you forth as sheepe in the midst of Matth. 10 Mark 13 Iohn 16. wolves and they shall stone you in their Synagogues they shall put you nut of their Synagogues and in the Synagogues yo shall be beaten and they shall deliuer you upto Counsels and ye shall be brought before Rulers for my sake for a testimony against them yea the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think he doth God service and these things will they do unto you because they know not the Father nor me And this they did unto such as he sent into their places of Worship to cry against their Worship who preached the Scripture and thought therein to have eternal life as you do whilest they thus entreated them in whom the Word of eternal life was who gave forth the Scriptures And thus death works in them who set the Letter for the Life and denies the Light of Life in themselves and such would devour it in others And that his words may be fulfilled he sends forth his sheep in his spirit and power to suffer these things and the Wolves that have the outward words the sheeps clothing they tear hale beat the sheep as he hath said they should for a witness against them So search the Scriptures and compare your works and their works they denied the light so do you They thought to have eternal life in the Scriptures so do you They fulfilled them upon the sheep in their Synagogues even while they were preaching in them And how many of your synagogues is there in this Nation where some of his sheep have not suffered the self-same things from this generation They haled before Rulers and how many Rulers is there in this Nation before whom some or other have not born this testimony for a witness And when they had done all this to them then their time came to kill them and think that whosoever did it did God service And your time is at the door and you are hasting apace towards it and some have already finished their testimony herein and are at rest where you cannot come And thus with the light which youdeny are you comprehended weighed measured marked to be no sheep but Wolves in sheeps clothing and by your fruits you are known and the true Shepherd who is not an hireling hath sent forth his sheep amongst you who meets with no fruits amongst you but briars and thorns and who returns from you beaten push't and haled kick't and cast down in your Synagogues and dirted in your streets and thus we return to him that receives the oppressed in whose Name we are sent and the best we can say for the best of you is Father forgive them they know not what they do not knowing the Father nor the Son And herein you are found as he sends to prove you and to receive your fruits all professions forms notions gatherings and herewith are you numbred the best as a briar and the most upright as a thorn-hedge Teachers and People in the tearing devouring nature all from the Vine and as clearly to be seen by your works in which you are found to be out of the nature of them whose words you profess as a dog may be known from a lamb or a thorn from a vine So read the Scriptures the Lambs sufferings and the Wolves actings and read your selves by your fruits amongst whom you

wants of others by wasting that which should releive them spending as much one of you upon your lust and vanity as would feed two plentifully if not ten And this is all the care of proud men and women and gluttonous men and women and drunken men and women to serve your selves and feed the devourer in you with the mercies of God which he gives freely that all might be feed and praise him therein And then you say you spend but your own and it 's for you that are rich to live thereafter c. But then what do you to profess the knowledge of God or name of Christ or redemption that is in him If you live as the heathen Gentiles do then bear their name and pollute not the name of Christ and live as do the Gentiles not knowing Christ in you to restore all things in you to God that you may see them to be his and not your own know him in you to order them who made them which all the redeemed of Christ Jesus doth in whom the restauration is wrought by Jesus Christ and all things of God as in the beginning before the prince of pride the glutton the whoremonger the drunkard or the false Prophet that teacheth lyes entred into man or was exalted in the seat of truth to deceive and bewitch people by calling evil good and good evil as in you he doth who they preach practise and profess to devour which Christ comes to restore and your life to condem and to deliver the creation from the waster and destruction and to redeem it to the guiding of God the service of God in his will and not the will of men nor the blind boaster who saith I spend but my own And who is exalted in Pride and excess because of abundance who knows not redemption to him that giveth all things but are out of the fear far from restauration for were you redeemed to God your selves you would also know that all you have was restored to God in your redemption out of the power of the destroyer and into the disposing of that spirit which works the repemption for the redeemed indeed are no more their own much more is not that they have received Wherefore men be sober minded and take heed what you plead for and boast not in your wickedness then double your iniquity by professing the pure name of God the nature of redemption lye not against the truth of Christ Jesues ●n saying our redeemer our redeemer further then yo● konwhis spirit power living in you t●nlighten and quicken you against ●●se evils by which his holy spirit 〈◊〉 the creation suffers and power in 〈◊〉 over them and the Prince there●● that you may serve his spirit in you 〈◊〉 a new life not serving divers lusts 〈◊〉 serving your bellyes but in fear 〈◊〉 sober meekness of spirit serving 〈◊〉 Lord in your souls and bodyes ●●d estates and this only is redempti●● without a lye or without hypocri●● And this is the confession of Christ ●ome in the flesh in life and power to ●●ucifie the flesh the affections and 〈◊〉 thereof which wars against your ●ouls and against Christ so long as ●ou live therein and in works you de●y Christ to be come in the flesh ●hough in vvords you confess him ●herefore let that mouth be silent that ●eaches lyes and let truth speak in ●ou all and cease to say pride is not ●n your hearts when it hath taken ●oot there and is grown as a covering and hath over-spred you in the ●ight of all men and say not you do it to releive the poor for shame blush at such deceit and let not the drunkard say the same with you for you are seen to be the devourer and destroyer of the creation nor let the glutton say the creatures are made for him for the day is at hand that he must vomit them up and then he will know that they were not made for him when truth comes to judge in you all and to devide aright between the oppressed and the oppressor this will be confessed nor let the covetous person say his Idolatry is but providing for them of his houshould nor the swearer say it 's but to confirm the truth which is found out of the truth which saith swear not at all nor the wanton person say there is a time to be merry whose times are not in the Lord Jesus nor ever knew the man of sorrows nor him that in secret mourns for that abomination which wantons lives in whose time of mourning is to come which you that now laugh ●●ould remember for truth must come to sit as Judge upon all your pretences then these things will not cover you nor lyes be a safe refuge for you Wherefore wait to know the truth of Christ Jesus the light of the world in your own hearts to give you the good understanding which wil let you see that this is from the root of wickedness in your hearts that these things ●rise and that piety and pitty mercy is but a pretence to cover the destroyer in you while he gets his work wrought of his servants lest he should be seen in your selves or by others and that you are but wise to do evil and plead for it whereby you do but shut your selves out from the power of truth and feed upon lyes and put on false covers which God vvill rend in judgement and your wisdom of words cannot cover your works from the light which sees the covetous proud envious gluttons drunkards and all lyars and vain persons and cursed speakers to be without God not knowing in you the povver of an holy life nor him that is made redemption and sanctification though in vvords you profess Father Son and Holy Ghost do you knovv God in you of vvhose off-spring all these good creatures are vvhich you wast and by vvhose vertue they are made to spring in their kind and vvhose life suffers vvhere they are spent on the lust Do you know the Redeemer in you vvhose vvork is to restore all things to God in you who say you spend but your own when you are reproved Or do you know him in you to live to who sayes you must live after your riches Are you richer then he that had all fullness in himself and yet said let nothing be lost this would you say also did you know that life in you that gives it forth which your lust devours who is pressed therewith as a Cart with sheaves who is broken with your whorish hearts and made to serve with your sins whom you know not though he be not far from every one of you yet his knowledge you have loft and your hearts are too hard to hear his voice and your wisdom is too high to bow to his government in you but being got above the meek you have lost the way which gives light to the blind and grace to the lowly and that which should measure and search your hearts is out of your sight who are seeking without for that you have buried within under your pride and fullness lyes the pearl shut up in the earth and the key of knowledge you have lost in your wisdom by your wanton living on the earth the holy one and the just you have slain the man of God is fallen into your streets the man of mercy and pitie is perished by the proud and there is no Judgement nor deliverance in you for the ear is stopt that should hear the cry And where this is so within what knowledge of God is there but man is become like the beast that perisheth The End

FOR ●●ose that meet to worship at the Steeplehouse called John Evangelist IN LONDON OR ●ny other in that nature upon whom ●●e Scriptures are fulfilled in evil intreat●●● by the servants of the Lord Iesus whom he lends to deliver his Message amongst you 〈◊〉 for any other that are condemned for sin and have thirstings after righteousness that from sin transgression they may be turned to the righteousness that is perfect and eternal without vvhich there is no sure salvation 〈◊〉 a Word of truth to rebuke the de●●●rer and him that pleads for him against the restoration of the Creation to ●he liberty of God 〈◊〉 your hearts condemn you God is greater and knoweth all things 1 Iohn 3. 20. Rebecca Travers LONDON Printed and are to be sold at the black spread Eagle near the west end of Pauls 1659. A Word of Reproof for those that meet at the Steeplehouse called John Evangelist in London O You foolish people and unwise How long will you love your folly How long will you resist our Maker Are you stronger then he ●●o is as truly striving with you as ever Gen. 6. 12. 〈◊〉 was with that generation in Noahs ●●yes who not receiving the warning the one Preacher of Righteousness 〈◊〉 overwhelmed in their wickedness 〈◊〉 having safety but they who were the Ark. And I and thousands yea 〈◊〉 thousands praises to the Lord who ●●come to the ends of the world do ●ow the world in which you live is 〈◊〉 unto destruction and are moved him that made the world to come into your meeting-places to declare unto you what must shortly come to pass and to shew you the blindness of your Teachers with their blasphemous 2 Tim 3. 6 7. 8. ●ph 2. 2. and idolatrous Doctrines whereby they deceive the simple lead captive silly women which are always learning but never come to the knowledge of the truth which makes free from the bonds of Death and Satan who hath captivated your minds and hath blinded the eye that gives the knowledge of God which rules in all you the children of disobedience being the god of the world a lyar and a murderer from the beginning and so as acted by him his fruits ye bring forth even in your most holy Assemblies Teacher and people as in your Steeplehouse called John Evangelists there the Teacher exhorted the people to read and study the Scripture for they were light and life speaking of the written Letter bringing a carnal comparison to maintain his idolatrous Doctrine saying A written piece of Paper to a sore would do no good but a little written Scripture to a wounded soul was of great force and tha● that was which quickened David and was a light 〈◊〉 a lanthorn unto his feet And I who ●as brought thither of the living God whom I serve in obedience to him and ●or the Seed's sake was moved to ask him a question when he had ended in moderarion and fear telling him it was not to disturb but for edification and not speaking any other words to my knowledge then these Doth the Scripture more plentifully declare of any one Isa 45. 16 thing then that for Idolatry God brings wrath and vengeance upon Nations Peoples Zech. 13 2 and Persons But he hasting away ●s hirelings use to do his people fell on me as so many devouring Wolfes railing tearing thrusting haling and pushing me down several times yet a hair of Ez●k 16. 38. my head they could not hurt but the murderer was strong and no hand to help the innocent nor tongue to plead for the harmless seen or heard in your Congregation though some were nea● related to me in the outward stood by said they thought I was a made woman in which I can rejoice being no other Acts 26. 24. Ioh. 15. 20 then what was done and said unto my Lord The servant is not greater then his Master and him I serve and he is my reward by whom David was quickned by whom Abraham Isaac and Jacob were saved before any of that was written vvhich you call the Scriptures the same quickning Word I witness who was once dead as well as you in Epb. 2. ● sins and trespasses but by the obedience of the spirit hath the soul been sanctified and I made a witness of the resurrection of Jesus and do as called of God thereto bear my testimony that he who was dead is alive and his Name Rev. 10. 9 13. is called the Word of God who hath been caught up to God and she that brought him forth hath been hid in Rev. 12 5 6. the Wilderness from the Dragon that hath made war with the remnant of her Rev. 17.1 15. Seed and the Beast hath prevailed and none hath been made able for ages to make war with him nor the Whore who sits in the Waters Mark the Waters are people nations and tougues on which the Beast that carries the Whore doth sit who hath made drunk with her fornications the Kings of the Earth and is drunk with the cup of abominations and the hour of her righteous judgement is come with her Rev 20. ● shall be tormented the beast the salfe prophet and all that love make a lye for evermore and blessed are they and they only that know these things which shall shortly come to pass but they that read Scriptures and have not heard the Word which gave forth the Iohn 5. 7. Scriptures to them the Scripture is as it was to them at Jerusalem that there crucified the Lord of life a parable and as it was said to them it may to you Search the Scriptures for in them you think to have eternal life and they tectifie of me but you will not come to me that you may have life saith Christ Jesus And so they who read the Scriptures killed him who gave them forth and came to fulfil the Scriptures even the holy One and the Just whom you now slay in the street of the great City spiritually called Rev. 11. ● Aegypt but the Witness shall arise whom you are yet making merry over and as a thief in the night shall he come upon you and then shall you know that this Visitation of mine though now despised shall be upon your heads the Lord shall be clear and a good savour am I unto him as well in them that perish as in them that are saved who am honoured of him whom I honour and know that in the doing of his Will there is great reward and though of you hated and scorned and despitefully used yet bear I the reproach and despise the shame following the Captain and Author of my salvation who was perfected Heb. 2. 10 11. 2 Tim. 2. 12. Matth. 10. 32. thtough the suffering and none shall reign with him but they that suffer with him nor will he confess any before his Father but they which confels him before men and all that have

of Christ Jesus you have proved your selves though you say you are the children of the kingdom and no church of Christ but in the world you are which lyes in wickedness and enmity against the life of Christ Jesus and in the very same works which he said you would do teacher and people are found and are not built on that foundation that bears and tries all things which cannot be shaken but as the troubled Sea roring and swellings casting mire and dirt as the Scriptures saith of the wicked world which some out their own shame and shews what you have Esa 57 20 ●ude 13 been long treasuring in your evil hearts and so out of the abundance that is Ma●● 12 34 therein you have powered out upon the servant of the Lord just as your fore-goers have done and as he foretold who is this day a swift witness against you who have set your selves against him and the day hath declared it that you have no part in the sufferings of Christ Jesus but your part is proved to be with them who hath shed his blood since Abel to this day The world by wisdom knowes not God saith the Scriptures which is now fulfilled in this generation where are high notions swelling words great professions and zealous formes all in the world without God in them boasting themselves in a lye who profess redemption in words but in works are in the world and in the darkness thereof blindness of mind hardness of heart and earthly captivity without life and power in you to give you victory over the prince of lust the God of this world over your own spirits which lusts to pride lusts to envie lusts to strise and covetousness and oppression and all that unreasouable nature which devours the creation and keeps it in bondage under the power of Satan and under wrath and the curse which daily groans to be delivered into its former glory into it's first being in God and his sons which is right redemption without a lye where all things are of God and in the truth set free from the devourer which rules in worldy men and women where all things are not become new and where all things are not of God yet professing redemption with pride lust and covetousness and all vanity in your Vessells not knowing him who is the greater to be in you to condem these evils then he that is in you to entice you to all these things and blind you in them and here you are seen with the pure truth that is in God to be out of God in the world and in the lye not doing in the truth nor redeemed thereto but the witness of truth lyes slain denyed and buried in you and where he raigns not in the light there you are in the darkness of this world blind in your hearts and there the false Prophet is up in the seat of Judgement teaching lyes and false-hood to make you more blind still and to harden you therein to seek to blind others also and to turn truth backward that he may grind the poor and needy to satisfie his lust in you and to that end you are fitted for the destroyer and so comes the truth to reprove your pride and devouring vanities which wasts the creation and turns it quite to another end then God gave it you for and when you say what might so many poor people live on if we did not wear these things as though your pride which is the ground of all oppression did releive the oppressed and thus you turn truth backwards with shameless and unreasonable words not having a shew of a truth and then if truth arise stop your mouth in the open falshood then you have more hidden deceit to cover your lust And you say pride is not in the out-side it 's in the heart when all men may see it in the out side and as many as have that eye open in the heart which you hav blinded with lust sees and knowes that your pride had its first rise and rooting in your heart ere it came to spring forth it's cursed branches which now shines in the open streets without shame that this which speaks outward is but part of that fullness that is within in the heart though your blindness be so great you see it not neither within nor without and your hearts too hard to feel it but have set up there the Idol and stumbling block to blind withall and then you say what was these things made for if we may not wear them where the truth of God in you would answer were it not denyed and betrayed by your evil eye that they was not made for the devoured nor to be spent on your Justs to the lust of the eye and pride of life but for the service of the needy and co cover the naked that there might be plenty in the creation and none might want which would be so were the devoured judged in you cast out and did you know him in you to order the creation which made it who would lead you that are rich another way to releive the poor then with being proud and vain and wastfull of his freeness and fullness and that spirit would let you see that were it not for that devourer which in you speaks and acts there would be no poor for he gives plenty for all that he sends into the world and the lust arising in the heart of men and women is it that makes poor and accursed and keeps poor by oppression in you those that are under the power thereof and cease but your oppression of them to satisfie your pride and judge the destroyer in you that wasts it and the poor would arise through the fullness of him that filleth all things which is kept back by the devourer and the curse that is upon him in the creation through you in pride gluttony and drunkenness who have all one head against truth and so the glutton saith What are the creatures made or but for man to eat c. and the Drunkard being reproved hath the same pretence of mercy to the pore as the proud saith he How many poor people lives of Brewing and might begg did not such as rich drink it as they brew it c. And thus deceit utters it's voice in all the world where it is head who are without the true God in them as though is was the work of the devourer that did uphold the creation in plenty and keep the poor from want and how great is the darkness of this generation in whom this passeth for truth Is not this the world which by wisdom knowes not God but are given up to vile affections and to believe lyes Oh men how deep is truth fallen in you that nothing of it doth arise to condemn this doctrine him that lives by it in you what deceit is this that hath filled your hearts to make you believe you take care for the