of the life of Jesus your life is death and death is your end and that end leadeth to self to be selfly minded it is death for self is carnall and devillish did ever you read in the Scriptures your practise which you have amongst you did ever Apostles and Prophets do the same which you do did they ever seek themselves or self advantage for the glory of the world which lyes in death let the righteous in you judge your conscience I mean where Christ hath placed his witness Christ Jesus hath a witness in you all and that shall be your Judge at the latter day where God is known to be that is perfect and that delayeth not time he calleth for repentance by it which discovers sin and lets you know when you have done amiss it is Gods witness in every one which shews them their evill deeds and when they commit sin this judges now turn to this that it may lead you to life and peace but no peace to the wicked they shal dye without mercy now consider whether your deeds are done in the Spirit or in the flesh If by the Spirit of God you are guided then would you not appear in these practises you sit like Kings and Princes Lording over the just by your own invention and not by Gods direction or by any example of those that fear the Lord those that fear the Lord are innocent and harmless like God there are but two Spirits of God and of the devill now mind by which you are guided and by which Spirit you receive this authoritie which you practice doth the Spirit of God lead to murder let the light judge or did ever Christ Jesus shevv any such example or did he give you any authoritie to murther men that be not of your minds the Inquisition you call your selves enquiring of that vvhich you need not busying your selves and Lording it over other mens consciences your own practice you never consider from whence it came nor whether it shall go for to the pit must all that is exalted be turned your Idols cannot save you the day of your visitation is come turn unto the Lord all you exalted bubbles and let the light judge your wayes vvhether they be vvrought in God yea or nay did ever Christ Jesus the son of the living God command these things vvhich you do did ever the Lord of life shevv an example to murder his Spirit leads to suffering through him that maketh vvilling and not to persecution that is your seat to destroy the innocent the Lord is prest under your abhominations you trample up on the just one that discovers sin sin is the enemie of your souls and the Lord is a friend to all that fear and keep his commandements this commandement do I leave among you saith Christ Jesus that ye love one another and love is the fulfilling of the Law of God but where is your love to kill your Brother Cains nature dvvells in you and you are by that Spirit guided vvhich slaies the Just you offer up sacrifice to the Devill your sacrifice and you are one and he is one with you that leads you to it vvhat think you that a dead bable can save your souls it you call your Saviour that you make vvith your hands you make you a God and vvhen you have made it you eat it this corrupts with you corruptible things are not known to those that live in the Spirit but in the place vvhere they are to be used and vvhen and how by the wisdome of God as food for the body as God in his wisdome hath ordered them to be used as wine and strong drink as Paul writ to Timothie as usefull for the body and not for the soul The Spirit feedeth on things not seen with a Carnal eye by the Spirit were they guided to use every thing in its place by this Spirit is Nations redeemed and Kingdomes brought to nought Hell is their Portion that knows not that which redeemeth God redeemeth from sin but you dwell in sin and are dead And yet you say you eat God He that feedeth on me saith Christ Jesus shall live for ever My flesh is meat indeed and my Blood is drink indeed but not Carnal as you â—ay for God is a Spirit and no flesh enters that Kingdome neither can Man by his Spirit know what it is Man by his wisdome knows not God neither can they comprehend his being for his being is not Carnal but you are Carnal Sensuail and Devillish and the Diveil hath beguiled you for the destruction of your souls to enlarge his Kingdome his Kingdome is enlarged by the children of disobedience disobedience entred by Adams fall when he eat the forbidden fruit contrary to the mind of God God is righteous and he leads to righteousness peace and pure holyness and holyness becomes his House for ever Now where is this House can ye tell when you make your Idoll Temples a shelter for murderers and thieves Thieves you are to deceive the people and lead the blind to their destruction Destitute you are of God when you say you will sacrifice for sin and your hands are full of blood it is not your washing with water can save you from sin it is the blood of Jesus that cleanseth this blood is not Wine to drink in Bouls as do the Drunkards so do you You cannot worship him whom you know not in all your outward imitation And all your Ceremonies your Copes and Surplâ—sses and Miters and Crowns and Crosses that are made of wood and your painted flaggs deceiving the people and making them follow you up and down Towns and Cities and call this a procession it is a procession indeed for the Devill hath possessed you to make Images like unto himself Images and Likenesses is your Religion as you call it but he that seems to be Religious let him bridle his tongue but your tongues are at liberty to sing and pray and imitate how can he pray or preach that is not sent he that is sent is born of God can this birth you witness Christ came into the World by the will of his Father and whatsoever he see the Father do that did he also When did you see God to receive this authority your authority is from your Father the Devill and his Servants ye are whom ye do obey Obey the Lord turn to the Light of Jesus that leads to a holy Life and an innocent habitation out of all subtlety You do feed your Colledges with Philosophy which is not the Doctrine of Christ but the Doctrine of Devills Paul speaks Teach not vain Philosophy no Traditions of man for man in his wisdome knows not God neither is he known of God for God is a Judge of deceit and his judgements true and just And the just God will be avenged of his enemies yea the eternal God will call you to accompt for your Stewardship He hath given to every man a Talent to
life freely he is a â—iving fountain yea he is a living fountain and all that will come shall be tefresht in that Christall fountain where the water of life springs continually to wash the Garments of those that are filthie By his Blood are we all cleansed O ear the living God of life and power for powerfull is he to all them who trust upon him for life and power against sin by faith are we saved If we trust in God as a redeemer Faith is belief and belief makes perfect all those that trust in him for redemption he that hath faith purifies himself even as God is pure by the fountain of righteousness that comes from God he is righteousness for ever and his Kingdom cannot change no changeable thing can therein enter The Heavenly fountain is set open for men therein to wash and to be cleansed to serve the living God of life and power yea unto him is power given who is the Son of God that enlightneth the dark world and leadeth up to the Father of life and light Friends consider of all these things that is herein written they shall stand eternally either for your condemnation or justification If you believe and repent God will shew mercy if not your judgement shall hasten to your Condemnation The innocent Lamb hath long suffered under the abhomination of all flesh now will God get himself a name above all names and his power shall be known above all powers his glory shall stain all flesh and that glory shall be layd in the dust who have been exalted above the innocent and made desolate widows houses and wronged the fatherless and the poor this hath been the cry many hundred years the righteous Law of the living God hath been forgotten and mans will hath been performed by the children of disobedience who have studyed revenge against the innocent Lamb of light and life and power but unto him shall power be given to avenge his enemies a double reward shall the wicked receive their reward shall be doubled the same Bread which they have broken unto others the same shall be broken to them this is the word of the Lord unto you Inquisitioners repent and turn from your evill ways and come down to the light of Jesus and by it be guided and it will turn you from dead works to serve the living God that an end may be put to all that have been gathered and not by the Lord from the eternall Spirit by the power of the living God this was I ordered to write for the good of your souls A friend to your souls and an enemy to your deceit A. GARGILL FRIENDS TO all you who calls your selves Roman Catholicks Romans you are indeed and no Israelites he that is an Israelite knoweth the Lord but your ways are abhomination to the Lord acted in the deceit of your Hearts deceitfull is your practice unstable is your minds you are lead by tradition to the destruction of your souls your cringing and bowing it is all in the fall you bow unto dâ—ad Images like your selves death seeds on death and that is the end of your practice by tradition of your old Fathers which you call Saints they are Authors say you and you believe as thâ— Church believes and the Church as you call it have their Author from the Devill the Father of lyes he was a lyer from the beginning and by a lye is his Kingdom upheld in the children of disobedience through mischievous men are the innocent beguiled beguiled are all they whose life is death whose end is destruction learn to live in God that your lives may be holy and unblameable befâ—re the Lord of life that a living Sacrifice may be offered and not a dead stone you say your Images and likenesses that are not is your redeemer he that redeems is the Lord you set them in the stead of God when you do say likenesses puts you in mind of Christ Jesus did you ever Preach any suâ—â— Doctrine that a dead thing renews the mind what think you of this are you not ashamed to be called Christians when the very â—urk walks more unblameable do you not whore and swear and murther and steal and cheat and couzen and yet you say you are Christians If you were Christians then you would be like Christ Jesus but him you never knew you have a name to live and are dead the living praise the Lord yea the living pâ—aise the Lord your moulten Images cannot save you nor all your prayers to Mary and to the Saints Mary her self when she lived upon the earth claimed no such authority but was subject to the Lord of life even as was others who is my Mother Sisters or Brother even they which do the will of my Father saith the Lord Christ Jesus when the Scribes and Pharisees came and told him that there was his Mother and Brethren looking for him he stretched forth his hand toward his Disciples and said these are my Mother and Brethren who do the will of my Father shewing that he was no respecter of persons but loved all who feared the Lord his love is unchangeable his love is undefiled and an undefiled life doth he require no other thing doth the Lord require but separation from sin from the beginning hath it separated man from from God no other thing maketh a stranger but disobedience God require than holy life and that you are strangers to you call your Priests Holy men you have a light from Jesus tâ—aâ— shews you they are as bad as you and that you are as bad as them and where is then your Church The Church of Christ is pure and an hidden thing from the carnall the Church is hid in God and none can see his glory but they that are like unto him his glory is an undefiled life amongst his people he taketh delight in those that keeps his Commandements his Commandement is pure and holy and no unclean thing can enter into his kingdom his kingdom is pure indeed even of Christail even as the Sun at noon day so is his glory to them known that keeps his Statutes and his Law and this Law is to be guided by that eternall Spirit which leadeth up out of the world to the Father of life and light This is the condemnation of the world that light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evill be ashamed of your evill deeds and turn to the light of Jesus which discovers sin the light of God placed in all your consciences that tells you you should not swear nor lye nor deal falsly by it God will be known to be a righteous judge God is a judge of evill and a lover of righteousness and he loveth all them that put their trust in him Come all ye ends of the earth and be saved saith the Lord yea come all and drink of the water of life freely the water of life is the wisdom
an exalted Bubble your Pope I mean that sells you pardons for your sins and say that they are forgiven when he himself sinneth worse than you in so doing even as Judas betrayed the innocent for money turn unto the Lord he is a cleanser and a redeemer his redemption standeth for ever and ever he that is redeemed by the Lord is free from sin sin is death and death leadeth to the destructions of mans soul man is made desolate by sin and death and death is the end of all them who love their iniquities love the Lord he is a friend to all them who come unto him come all ye ends of the earth and be saved saith the Lord come all ye people of the earth and turn to the righteous God he will cleanse you of all manner of pollution and your bloody garments shall be washt in the blood of the Lamb if you repent repent and be baptized that your sins may be be forgiven This Baptism is not sprinkling of childrens faces with water and putting Salt in their mouth and spitting upon their noses and under their ears and crossing of them with their fingers Are you not ashamed of these practises did ever the Apostles do these things you say you have a Scripture to put Salt in the childrens mouths it is said in the Scriptures let your words be seasoned with Salt how comes it then that your children and you swear and curse and take Gods name in vain this is not seasond nor commendable before the sight of God or man it is unsavory before the Lord to what effect is this Salt Johns Baptism it is not so he preached to amendment of life and to be washed and cleansed by the blood of Jesus who cleanseth from sin and redeemeth from dead works to serve the living God your service is vain your practice vain without wisdom are you guided the true wisdom of God you do not know the Covenant of Grace you are strangers to you are without where are Dogs and Wolves and ravenous Beasts in the beastly nature in that which God cannot own in the filth and lust of your flesh you offer up that which cannot be accepted Cains sacrifice it is enmity against God you murther the just your service that you do pretend to the Lord it is abhomination the just God will not be so served any longer for he will be avenged of his enemies he will call to an account the iniquity of the Heathen By vain Philosophy have the innocent been betrayed that which the Apostle speaks against your Schools of learning which hath upheld the Den of Divills Vain Philosophy have ye studied to deceive the people of their eternall happiness to advance your selves the Spirit of Christ is plainness it cometh not by study Innocencie leadeth into Christs kingdom even as a little Child must you there enter no policie of man can therein come it is hidden from that nature which dwelleth in the Serpents kingdom A light from Jesus is come into the world which discovereth all your deceit and all that abhomination The mighty day of the Lord is coming yea it is coming upon you all to consume and dash in pieces and rend your kingdom in sunder the vail shall be rent the dark world shall be enlightned by the light of Jesus who enlightneth all men now shall he appear in glory a glorious possession shall he gather unto himself out of the dust long hath the heritage of the Lord lain waste yea long hath the glory of man been exalted and the Lamb of innocencie forgotten howl ye inhabitants of the earth yea howl for bitter lamentation shall come upon you in a day when you know not know this God is righteous and his judgements are true you shall give an account for all your abhominations to the living God of life and power powerfull is the Lord he will execute judgement upon all his enemies yea he will be avenged of all his enemies and bring them under his feet now is the Lord going to reckon with all flesh and the glory of it shall be stained his own kingdom shall be advanced the glory of man shall be laid in the dust and God alone shall reign and the kingdoms of the earth shall become the kingdoms of God for many hundred years hath the righteous Law of God been forgotten he hath been a patient God and hath spared the Heathen but now will the Lord call to account your unrighteous dealing and all your worldly mindedness earth hath been lodged in your hearts covetousness and pride and all manner of abhomination hath been exalted in your minds turn to the light of Jesus that discovers sin God is a true witness placed in your consciences be guided by that it leadeth to the kingdom of Jesus Christ the son of the eternall God this kingdom is righteousness purity peace to them which love God and keep his Commandements but no peace to the wicked they shall dye without mercy The wicked shall have their portion in the lake where there shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth The Well-spring of life shall be set open to all those that fear the Lord and obey his voyce the voyce of God is known to all but they burden their hearts and will not hear they will not bring their deeds to judgement because they have hardned their hearts against the Lord and his annointed the holy one of Israel is he called he who leadeth from death to life to serve the living God of life and power to him be all power and glory for ever and ever A Declaration of truth be it unto you receive it in the honesty of your minds receive the truth as it is in Jesus in honesty of your Spirits examine your selves whether or no these things be not so come down to the light of Jesus and let that judge your fruits from whence they come and what they are and what he is that leads you to these practises If by the Spirit of God you are led then would your works make you manifest whose children you are there is that in your consciences tells you your deeds are evill and not accepted of the Lord. Turn unto it which lets you see the sight of sin wait in it in true obedience to the Lord and power shall be given against your enemies and you shall receive peace through him which is a redeemer of his people his they are that fear the Lord and dread his presence and fear to sin This was I moved of the eternall God to write unto you for the good of your souls who call your selves Roman Catholicks Written per me from the Spirit of truth who is called of the world A. GARGIL UNto thee that calls thy self Bishop of Rome thy Bishoprick is of the Devill the Devill is the Author and finisher of thy authority where is thy authority gathered from out of the pit it came and thither shall it return Thy Genealogy and thy
A BRIEF DISCOVERY OF THAT Which is called the Popish RELIGION WITH A word to the Inquisition discovering their seat of Injustice and Cruelty And also a word to them who are in Bondage under this deceit that upholdeth the Beasts Worship And a word to the Pope who calls himself a Bishop and is not his throne of deceit is discovered by the Spirit of the Eternall God Given forth by me who am called of the World A. GARGILL LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the black spread Eagle neer the West end of Pauls 1656. A brief discovery of that which is called the Popish Religion with a word to the Inquisition discovering their seat of Injustice and Cruelty and also a word to them who are in Bondage under this deceipt that upholdeth the Beasts worship FRIENDS MInde the light of Christ Jesus him by whom the world was made who will lead you to righteousness and holiness in him there is no strife nor no debate you are guided by the Prince of the Air who leadeth to iniquity and all manner of abhomination against the Lord and his anointed your imitation and false worship lyes in the fall of Adam your guide is the Serpent full of subtilty and invention and pride covetousness and all manner of evill is exalted in you your fruits are the deeds or darkness out of the right of Jesus bring your deeds to the light let that judge your ways and practises whether they are wrought in God yea or nay God is the guide of all them that fear him he leads unto righteousness but your wayes are deceit and abhomination they are wrought by Magick art the Magicians of Egypt imitated Moses who had the power of God by the Devill were theâ— guided to work by subtilty for their glory but that glory had an end and so will yours in time the Lords hand is against your deceit your abhominable pride and wickedness which standeth in your deceit you are deceivers of souls for your own advantage you seek the fleece and starve the flock by this your magick authority and conjuration which you have gathered in by the Prince of the air the Devill is your God whom you serve he was a deceiver from the beginning by him you are led to deceive the people of their eternall happiness to be led by your conjuration and your Necromancy The Prince of the air leadeth you to airy imaginations without substance Christ is the substance and him you know not to be your guide you are guided by another the Harlot is your guide the well favoured Harlot decking her self making of Images and painting of likenesses of things without substance the substance of all you know not the light of Jesus is a stranger to your wicked minds who are bent against God and his wayes you despise and cast them behind your backs you are the painted whore in this your practise The Devil is your Head and Christ the Head you know not the Lamb of Innocency you never knew to be the light of the world who leads to plainness and honesty your comfort is in this life you know no other but that which leads to pride and all manner of abhomination covetousness is your root it is the root of evill by which the Canker enters it hath corrupted your hearts and minds and made you subject to the Devil who is a Master and Lord over you you are his servants whom ye obey your Idoll Gods in them you live and have your being your being is in this life you know no other nor no better Pride is exalted in you you know not him that leads out of the world nor out of the things of the world for your being is in them your being is in the dust among the Serpents and beasts and ravenous Wolves and with them you do feed in the wilderness of destruction destruction is your end if you do not repent and serve the living God who leadeth out of all babels and trifels pleasing the mind with the fruitless works of darkness your pictures and Images and your praying to Saints and worshipping your dumb Gods which cannot answer the true God you do not know that leadeth out of the world he is unchangeable your God changeth but our God lives for ever whom we serve he dyeth not the God of Heaven is our Lord and Lawgiver and our Head and no other do vve ovvn but Christ Jesus the Son of God he leadeth out of all things that are visible he is invisible to the carnall eye no man can see his face and live it is death to the carnall to knovv God is life eternall all carnall things must dye and have an end your Pope is carnall and vvicked and abhominable before the Lord and an exalted bubble is he vvhom you call your Head of that vvhich you call your Church it is but bables and an invention of the Devill and by him are you guided to exalt one another and to make you a God like your selves Christs-Vicar you do call him where have you learnt that word or from whence did it come can ye tell it is deceit that is your guide you plead antiquity but the antient of daies shall judge you all and all your gathering without God subtilty and deceit hath upheld your vain titles of Monks Fryers and other Orders gathered in by your imaginations who led you to these things did the Spirit of God yea or no or by tradition of them whom you call your antient Fathers Fathers they were of iniquity Authors of evill like your selves by the Devill are you guided to follow tradition knowing not the Spirit which leads to life all your practise is in death it doth not renew your minds nor change the heart to become holy for you are desperately wicked and murderers and thieves and Idolaters you have stoln your Religion as you call it out of the pit it came and into the pit it shall return any one that comes in any other way but by Christ Jesus are thieves and Robbers Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge your Harlotting is known to the Lord who is the Judge of all Judges your deceit gathered in by the Counsell of the wicked one who is your foundation by him you are guided to practise that which neither Apostles nor Prophets did and yet you say your Pope is Peters successor where do you read in the Scripture that Peter sate in a Chair with a triple Crown upon his Head did not the Apostles freely Preach the word of the Lord without money or any advantage to themselves the glory of the world by them was denyed they feared not their lives to the death they gave all their substance to the poor now learn to know the power the poor in Spirit shall see God and live for ever but you are exalted above the light that which discovers sin the light of Jesus who enlightens all men into the world it shews your evill deeds of darkness acted out
design but to exalt your selves and to be exalted and live like Kings it is but usurpt authoritie by the Devill are you led a deceiver from the beginning was he a subtill Serpent and his seed are you who seek the fleece and starve the flock and call your serves sheapheards Christ Jesuâ— is the true Shepheard he giveth his life for his sheep he is a redeemer and saveth his people from their sin How do you think to be saved By a carnall bit of Bread that you call the Bodie of Christ Impudent blasphemers who make an Idoll to your selves and eat it and say that it is Christs flesh and the wine that you drink in Bowls is his Bloud he that eateth my flesh saith Christ shall live for ever and you dye and your God with you and this is an end of your dumb Idoll vvhich cannot save you God is a Saviour of his people from sin they that feed on that Spirit which leadeth out of carnall things to be carnall minded is death to be spirituall minded is life and peace no peace to the wicked they shall dye vvithout mercy and judgement shall fall upon them that forget God God is judge of all he is judged of none nor none can know his judgements but by that Spirit which is pure you make your selves Judges and Rulers by an usurpt authoritie you have received from the Devill the Father of lyes and by a lye are you upheld in your inchantments and Conjuration airy minded men by that Climate are you guided airy substance Clouds without water broken Cisterns that cannot hold water exalted Jezabel painting your faces with colours Dives like you be sitting at your table feeding on dainty dishes fitting your selves to the slaughter through your abhomination which is exalted above all that is called God God is pressed under your abhomination the righteous groaneth for redemption but you hear not the Cry of the poor the poor in Spirit shall see God and live for ever and the rich shall be sent emptie away avvay with all your vain bables your imâ—ges and likenesses of wood and stone and crosses Learn to knovv the Cross of Christ it will teach you to know God desire to know Christ crucified in the flesh your sins subdued by him that suffereth in you The Lamb of life leads to Innocency out of all inventions of man out of all carnall things it will you lead if it you mind which discovers sin it will dissolve your enemies by the brightness of his coming if you desire to know God mind his witness it will lead you out of visible things and your carnall desires shall be dissolved If you mind this witness which leads to truth the lyars mouth shall be stopt the issue of iniquity shall be dryed up by the brightness oâ— the Sun shall the fountains of the earth be dryed up and the Spring shall be stopped wherein iniquity doth abâ—und Abundance of iniquities hath the world gathered into her self yea the men of the world calleth her mother through the abundance of her delicates she hath deceived the Nations and Kingdoms throughout the Earth the mysterie of iniquitie hath been exalted exalted bubbles have borne the sway upon the earth and the innocent hath been forgotten God hath not been known to them they have forgot his ways followed the fruits of darkness and darkness hath possest the heart of man man hath been led from the light of Jesus by the grand enemy of his soul the Devil who from the beginning hath misled man through lust and desire of the flesh which cannot ever be satisfied from one invention to another an invention of the Devill is this which you call your Religion a humane invention mixed with lust filth and deceit is not this deceit to weary the people with your bables and your inventions of Beads Crucifixes and other inchantments which your airy minds have gathered in even plain Sodomites do you shew your selves studying iniquity against the Lord and his anointed the holy one of Israel is he called a name that is unknown by you he is a good Israelite indeed in him there is no guile and they that are guided by that Spirit are like unto him kept in innocency and in that house there is no guile where innocency dwels righteousness doth flourish and plenteous redemption to those that fear the Lord redeemed are they from the earth that mind the light of Jesus by it to be guided it leadeth from all manner of evill to serve the living God of life light and power powerfull is he that redeemeth from death to life This redemption is not of corruptible things that corrupt and die of themselves he cleanseth the body and washeth from dead works to everlasting life world without end An end shall be put to all your bables and inventions made by the works of your hands your Crucifixes say you puts you in mind of Christs death remember he is slain in you in spirituall Sodom and Egypt are the two witnesses flain their Blood shall be required of the children of disobedience disobedient are you that forget God as a blossom shall you wither and all your glory which you have received from the Author the Devill The ground of iniquity is highly exalted among you who know not God neither regard ye his wayes nor bring your deeds to the light your acting is in the dark where light is not seen the fruits of darkness doth appear in all your practises is not the living God known to be your guide he leadeth out of all unrighteousness up to know God in that Heavenly City where God dwels there is no unrighteousness nor no unclean thing can there enter as clear as the Sun at Noon Day is the Lord in his glory his glory exceedeth all flesh it shall wither before the Lord and be cut down even as grass like stubble shall the fire of the Lord consume his enemies and all that is exalted above the innocent own the Lamb of life the life of the righteous is death to the man of sin therefore turn to the Lord that your wickedness may be forgiven and fear him that cleanseth the heart and maketh glad the mind and reneweth the life and turneth from darkness to light to serve the living God the living praise the Lord yea the living praise his name for ever never can you praise God in that nature you stand in Turn to the light of Christ it will lead you to another Kingdom which you know not to know God is life eternall and this life is the light of the world Every man hath a talent given him it is the light of Jesus that discovers good from evill it shews you when you do amiss it is the check of your conscience that tells you you should not lye nor swear nor deal faâ—sly bring all your deeds to this it doth not flatter it is your friend it leads to eternall happiness and that is durable riches which the world
cannot give the worlds treasure is but vanity and a lye by a lye are the Kingdoms of the earth upheld in their vain concupiscence long yea long hath the heritage of the Lord laid waste I pitty your souls that lye in darkness you see not the light which doth not change all is changeable under the Sun the Son of righteousness never changes your light changes and burns out your Lamps and Candles in your Synagogues of Satan and you â—ight them again to beautifie and adorn the place of your lust where your life stands what glory is this to the Lord and what doth it advantage you to do these things God never required when did God require any of these things at your hands as for going into Cloysters or Monasteries do you hear any such names in Scripture for Saints to lodge in their habitation was in the Lord and not in earthly Houses their habitaiton is a House without hands a building of God and God is the Author of that practise which the Saints follow no other Author have we but the Lord he is our Lord and Law giver you have Lords many and Laws many and as you make them you break them your selves you say you should not murder nor steal nor commit adultery and you your selves are adulterated from God you have committed fornication with the Scarlet coloured Whore and drunken the Cup of her Abhomination is not this murthering of the just one which is a friend to all and would not the death of any You have no pitty to your own souls you lye in your Blood and do not see the God of the world hath blinded the eye the Eternall eye of God disâ—overs all your abhominations which are gathered in by your subtill minds and inventions imitating and practizing by tradition thus hath one generation deceived another Many Authors have you for your traditions all from one Root and the Root is evill As for Augustins Jesuits and Caputians when did the Lord by his Spirit guide you to these names there is but one name to be saved by and that name leadeth out of all names the Lord giveth a new name and a white stone to his people and none knows it but they that have it you change your names from one name to another but where is the life that leadeth to salvation that you know not you cannot witness a change by the power of God from your evill wayes and what doth it advantage for you to change your names How vain is this how naked is your conditions before the Lord you cannot be hidden any longer Light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evill now will the Lord appear in the children of light to discover all your abhominations and your deeds to be evill Evill minded men you are who deny the Lord to be the Author and finisher of your faith he that hath faith as a grain of mustard seed removeth mountains mountains of sin I mean which hath been exalted above the Lord and his anointed you annoint your Priests with Oyl to imitate Aaron where is the fruits of this anointing the anointed of the Lord is pure purity and peace becometh his House for ever where is this House witnessed by you Are not your minds corrupted with dumb Idols And self-inventions and your Gods is like unto your dead and dumb Idols is your hearts addicted too you mind not the living God that quickneth and raiseth from death to life from the power of Satan to serve the living God your prayers and inventions is all in the fall it is Cains sacrifice all your worship is abhomination unto the Lord you act it in the old nature which is enmity against God out of the light of Jesus do you busie your minds praying to Mary and making of Images and likenesses you are not you worship the works of your hands by vain tradition have you been led from one generation to another have you lived in Idleness and sloath not knowing the Cross of Christ that Crucifies sin your Crosses of wood and stone cannot save you nor redeem you from your vain conversation you bow to your Cross and rise again as wicked and carnall as ever the Cross of Jesus is not so it teaches to deny self selfly minded men cannot please God neither can they in all their imitation performe the minde of God in that which standeth in the old nature all must be destroyed all your inventions come down to the light of Jesus which shines in a dark place dark is the heart of man a light hath God placed therein bring your deeds to it there your fruits may be made manifest whether they are wrought in God yea or nay did God ever require or when did you hear his voice that you say you are guided by his Spirit and you say the true Church cannot erre This is true the Church of Christ cannot erre who are guided by his eternall Spirit his Spirit you never knew to guide your minds and to lead you to these practices as worshipping Images you deny the resurrection of Jesus you serve your lusts and your Popes Invention by his Articles you are guided to deprive Kings of their authority and sit in the seat of Justice as you call it If you were spirituall there things need not concern you you are usurpers in all your practices you say that which you call your Church is above the Law it is above the Law indeed you neither fear God nor man you are Lawless livers to make your Churches as you call them a preservation for murdâ—rers he that sheds mans Blood by man shall his Blood be shed All manner of evill do you uphold for money murderers and adulterers and say you can for give them did you ever read in the Scriptures that ever pardons were sold for money where is your example for these things why do you hide the Scripture from the people or by what authoritie were they not given forth by the Spirit of God for generations to come God excludes none all that will come may and drink of the water of life freely free is that Spirit that leads to righteousness it straitens none that will believe and turn to the Lord. Come all ye that are heavy laden saith the Lord and I will give you ease he burdneth none his yoke is easie and his burden light unto all them that desire to live with him he is a cherisher of the innocent and a destroyer of deceit deceit hath gathered into your hearts swift destruction to your souls if you repent not repent and turn to the Lord that your evill deeds may be forgiven come near unto the Lord by the light of Jesus which shines in darkness the heart of man is dark it comprehendeth not the light but the light of Jesus comprehends you all and discovers your deeds to be evill and all your practices abhomination to the Lord repent and turn in