is done in that state it is no more but a Garment of Fig-Leafs or patching a piece of new cloth in an old Garment it is a false cover which wil not stand in the Fiery day and this was the state of the Scribes and Pharisees who had the Scriptures Moses and the Prophets words and were painted over with good words but had not the Word of God abiding in them so they were strangers to the Life and Power of God and they did not believe in the Light Jesus Christ who was the sum of all that which they upheld which were but types and shadows and figures of him who was the Substance and therefore Christ the Light cryed wo unto them calling them Hypocrites whited Walls painted Sepulchres Serpents Generation of Vipers who shut up the kingdom of heaven against men neither going in themselvs nor suffers others And these were of the great men of the world and learned men Doctors and chief Priests and the learned Rabbies yet for all this their learning they knew not Christ but called him a blasphemer and those that did believe on him were called a cursed people that knew not the Law Thus in all Ages profession was blind who were not guided by the Light of Christ as it was then it is now all the world Professors Priests and People who deny the Light of Christ and are not guided by it all their Prayers and Sacrifices is abomination and stincks in the Nostrils of the pure God iniquity being found within and regarded in their hearts this will be the Sentence from the Righteous God Go ye Cursed Workers of Iniquity depart from me into everlasting Fore preâ—aâ—ed for the Devil and his Angels And here lies the world in wickednesse and though many have long been seeking after God yet have not found him because they have been seeking the living among the dead and though many have long been talking of the name of God and of Christ yet few there be that walk in the living way and live the pure life of Christ but Iniquity doth daily abound in the Nation amongst those that professe God and that Pride and Envie and Wrath Strife and Debate Covetousnesse Cruelty Tyranny and Oppression Drunkennesse Lying foolish Jesting vain Sporting and Pleasures that the Lands mourns and the whole Creation groans with the Bondage of Corruption and the Name of the Lord is daily dishonored by this wicked and untoward Generation of Professors both Priests and People all are out of the pure Path in the hypocrisie making a shew of Godlinesse and drawing neer to God with their lips and with their mouths but their hearts are far from him and their Sacrifices and Prayers are as Cains Sacrifice who murdered his Brother So these who live in Envy and Wrath and false Accusing Back-biting Slandering and Persecuting and Reproaching the Innocent harmlesse Lambs of Christ and so are found in the same nature with Cain for saith the Apostle He that hateth his Brother is a Murderer and no Murderer hath Eternal Life abiding in him And here all who are not wilfully blind may see the National and Parish-Teachers in the nature of Cain in envy and so not accepted of God and all that uphold them they are seen in the Light of the Lord Jesus to be blind and are led by the blind and both are going into the Ditch who have turned from the measure of God the Light that did and doth convince and reprove for sin and evil and are soared up in the air climbing up another way But if ever you know God or true peace to your souls back you must come to that which doth reprove and trouble for sin that must speak peace if ever you know peace and that will not speak peace to any who lives in sin but he that fears God and departs from Iniquity and waiteth upon God shall finde Peace and Rest to his Soul Therefore all people whatsoever who read these Lines seriously consider your wayes and no longer follow the Parish-Priests who preach for hire and seek gain from their quarter and through feigned words and covetousnesse make merchandise of your souls they were never sent of God and therefore they shall not profit you Cease from them all and wait on the Lord in the Light of his Son Jesus and learn of him who is meek and low in Spirit and you shall finde rest to your souls But while you live in your sins there is no rest as saith the Prophet There is no peace to the wicked but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength for the Lord is come in power and great glory and is fulfilling his promise made of old pouring forth his spirit upon his Sons and Daughters and they shall be all taught of God aâ—d in righteousness shall they be established and shall be far from Opprrssion and no worker of Iniquity nor any unclean thing can enter into the Covenant of God for this is the Covenant of the Lord I will write my Law in their hearts and put my spirit in their inward parts and they shall no more teach every man his Neighbor nor every man his Brother saying Know the Lord for all shall know me from the least to the greatest and I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more saith the Lord And this is our God fulfilling in these our dayes his own Glory to whom be everlasting Honor and Dominion for evermore Witnessed by a Servant of the Lord who is come out of Egypt and through the Red-Sea and the Wildernesse and arrived at the Land of Rest whose Name is after the flesh called ALEX. PARKER The Minister of Christ his plea for PURITY against the Ministers of Antichrist and all their Train who plead for sin ALL you that plead for sin whether Priests or People of what sort soever who make a profession of the name of God and of Christ and yet live in sin and plead for sin and sayes none can be free from sin or perfect from sin while they live upon the earth all your talking and outside customary worship is in vain and is no more but your own self-righteousnesse which is filthy and abominable and it will never bring peace to your souls nor you can never be reconciled to God as long as you live in sin that 's the cause of seperation from God your sins your sins have separated between you and me saith the Lord and as long as sin stands the Partition wall stands for it stands betwixt you and the Lord and there is no Union nor Fellowship with God nor with his Son as long as you live in sin but aliens you are and strangers from the pure God and the life of his Son Jâ—sus And you that plead so strongly for sin you plead for the Devil whose servants you are as long you live in sin and you are the Antichrists that are against Christ
A CALL OUT OF EGYPT Where Death and darkness is INTO THE Glorious Light and Liberty of the Sons OF GOD Where Life and Peace is The Lord fulfilling his PROMISES Declared by his Holy PROPHETS and APOSTLES In these later Days LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black Spread Eagle neer the West end of Pauls 1656. A CALL OUT OF EGYPT Where Death and darkness is into the glorious Light and Liberty of the Sons of God where life and peace is c. GIve eare O ye heavens and I will speak and hear O earth the words of my mouth I will declare unto you the wonders of God I will publish the name of the Lord and the mighty operation of his power he is the Rock and the sure Foundation his work is perfect all his ways are judgment and righteousness he is a God of Truth and without iniquity just and righteous is he and all his wayes are just and equal he is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity his way is pure and his Worship is likewise pure and spiritual and he sits in his Throne of Righteousness Justice and Judgment and the wicked cannot stand before him they are and shall be like the chaffe which the winde driveth away and cannot stand in the Judgement nor the Sinners in the Congregation of the Righteous Holy and Righteous is the Lord God of Hosts and delights in purity Holinesse becomes his house for ever The Temple of God is holy where he dwells and inhabits and where he is worshipped and he dwells not in Temples made with hands as it is written in the Prophets The heaven is my Throne and the earth is my Footstool where is the house that ye build unto me and where is the place of my rest for all those things hath mine hand made and all those things have been saith the Lord But to this man will I look even to him that is of a meek and a contrite Spirit and trembleth at my word This is God the living God which the Prophets and Apostles and all the Holy Men did bear witness unto and declared of even what they had seen and heard and tasted of the Word of Life which was in the beginning with God and the Word was God and shall endure for ever The same God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in times past unto the Fathers by the Prophets hath in these last dayes spoken unto us by his Son whom he hath given for a Covenant of Light to lead his people out of death and darkness into righteousness and peace to have fellowship with the Son and to be Heirs Joint-Heirs with the Son whom he hath appointed Heir of all things by whom also he made the world all that is therein the Sun the Moon the Stars and the Fowls of the air the Earth and all the Beasts of the Field and the creeping things upon the Earth the Sea and all that is therein who being the brightness of his Glory and the expresse Image of his substance upholding all things by the Word of his Power which power is now manifested which makes the earth to shake and the Inhabitants thereof to tremble at the wonderful work of our God which is began in this Nation of England The dreadful God of Host is risen in his majesty great power is bringing to passe his strange work which makes the heathen rage bite and gnaw their tongues and stand astonished at the strange work of the Lord Behold ye despisers and wonder and perish for I work a work in your daies which you shall in no wise believe though a man declare it unto you and this is fulfilled upon this Generation who will not believe the work of the Lord though it be declared unto them but do set themselves in opposition against the work of God both Rulers and Magistrates Priests and People all join themselves together in battel against the Lamb but they shall not prevail all is vain the Lamb shall get the Victory and hath gotten the victory our eyes have seen and beheld it praises to his Name for evermore who hath fulfilled and is daily fulfilling his promise more and more gathering his scattered sheep together where they have been scattered abroad in this cloudy dark day many yeers the Lords people have been made a prey upon but the true shepherd Christ Jesus is risen is bringing deliverance to his people gathering them from the mouths of the false Shepherds and bringing them into the fold of rest and peace where they shall eat and be satisfied with living Refreshments in the bosome of the Fathers love and there shall be one sheepfold and one Shepherd Praises to the Lord the day is come the happy day the day of glad tydings which we long looked and waited for the day of our God which is a day of glad tydings to weary and imprisoned Souls and a day of vengeance and recompence of the Adversaries of God as it is declared in the Prophets The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath annoynted me to preach good tydings unto the meek he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted to proclaim liberty to the CAPTIVES and the opening of the PRISON to them that are bound to proclaim the acceptable YEER of the LORD and the DAY of VENGEANCE of our God to comfort all that mourn to appoint unto them that mourn in ZION to give unto them Beauty for Ashes the oyl of joy for mourning the Garment of Praise for the Spirit of Heavinesse that they might bee called Trees of Righteousness the Planting of the LORD And this is the Lord fulfilling in our days he is planting a garden of pleasant Plants and watering and dressing them that they may be fruitful and is plucking up all the wild and fruitlesse plants and casting them into the fire of his wrath there to be burned that so his people may bee a holy and a peculiar people that he may bee glorified for hee is come who is pure to look for FRUITS and all fruitlesse TREES must bee cut downe and cast into the fire For the LORD hath looked downe from Heaven and behold the Land is corrupted The Garden of the Lord is overspread with weeds briars thorns doth the earth bring forth and the faithfull City is become an harlot as faith the Prophet It was full of judgment righteousness lodged in it but now murderers thy silver is become dross thy wine mixt with water thy Princes are rebellious and companions of thieves every one loveth gifts and followeth after rewards See if it be not so now They judge not the fatherless neither doth the Cause of the Widdow come before them therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts the mighty One of Israel Ah! I will ease me of mine adversaries and avenge me of mine ehimies and I will turn my hand upon thee and purely purge away thy dross and take away
all thy tinne and I will restore thy Judges as at the first and thy Counsellors as at the beginning afterwards thou shalt be called The City of righteousness the faithfull City Sion shall be redeemed with judgment and her Converts with righteousness And now is this day come that the righteous God is pleading his Cause with his Enemies and purging them with the spirit of judgment and of burning And Judgment is begun according as the Apostle foretold for the time is that Judgment must begin at the house of God and if it first begin at us what shall be the end of them that obey not the Gospel of God Woe and misery will be their portion and the destruction of the Transgressors and of the Sinners shall be together and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed for he will be glorified in this his day of Righteousnesse and just Judgement which is now set up in the earth which makes the Inhabitants thereof to learn righteousnesse according to the saying of the Prophet Isaiah The way of the just is uprightnesse thou most upright dost weigh the path of the just yea in the way of thy judgements O Lord have we waited for thee the desire of our soul is to to thy Name and to the remembrance of thee With my Soul have I I desired thee in he might yea with my spirit within me will I seek thee early for when thy judgements are in the earth the Inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness Let favour be shewed to the wicked yet will he not learn righteousness in the Land of Uprightness will he deal unjustly and will not behold the Majesty of the Lord though he stretcheth forth his Hand and calls to come forth of the Land of Darkness and waiteth to be gracious yet all this will not move him nor break his heart but goes on carelesly to destruction and because sentence against an evill work is not executed speedily therefore the heart of the Sons of Men is fully set in them to do evill But now the day of just Judgement is come and woe unto the wicked it shall go ill with them they shall not prolong their Days because they fear not before the Lord the righteous God of Heaven and Earth who loves Righteousnesse and no unrighteous one can have union and fellowship with him And this is he the living pure holy righteous God which the holy men of God did bear Testimony of and the same pure holy God do I bear Testimony of which is Light and in him is no darknesse at all who created man and made him in his own Image and gave him Dominion over all other creatures But all have gone astray and turned aside from the holy Command of God and so have falne from the pure living God and lost his Image and are become aliens and strangers to Him their Maker the God of the world having blinded their minds and stolne away their hearts from the love of the Creator into the Creature and so their love is in the Creature and worships and serves that more then the Creator and their Bodies which was the Temples of God and in which was his image and likeness the same is become a habitation for the Devil and all unclean lusts and so the image and likeness of the Devil who hath gotten possession and sits as ruler and king in the heart and leads the Creature captive at his will to do his work which is unrighteousness And here is the first mans state which is from below of the Earth earthly and mindes Earthly things careing for the things of this life what to eat what to drink and what to put on labouring and striving by all ways and means to get great possessions and to become great in the Earth and to have the honour of the World which is below and lies in wickedness and in this state men and women are striving to come again unto the Tree of life and by their Earthly wisdom which is sensual and divelish goes about to comprehend the things of God but never can it is a mysterie hid and sealed from this wisdom and never can be known there for the World by wisdom knows not God But good and full of love is the Lord the righteous God and by his wisdom hath found out a way contrary to the wit will and wisdom of man and that is of himself for he hath given his son his only begotten son who is the son of his love him hath he freely given for a Covenant of light to bring back again fallen man which is driven from God into the Earth and to reconcile him to his Maker and renew that Image of God again which by his disobedience he hath lost and there is no way but by the Son none knoweth the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son will reveal him And this is he which the Prophets prophesied of and which the Apostles witnessed to be the Light of the world as John testifies who came for a Witness to bear witness of the Light and saith he that was the true Light which lightneth every man that cometh into the world and the same do I bear testimony unto he who is the life and light of men which lightneth every one that cometh into the world and this light is true and pure and stands a witness for the true and pure God against all sin and unrighteousness and all the deeds done in the body though never so closely acted or intended this true light doth not consent but reproves in secret for the secret evils that are conceived in the evil heart against God And when this witness doth arise in the conscience and trouble man for his sin and brings him to some sense and feeling of his miserable condition that he lies under the Curse and wrath of Almighty God and gives him some wound for his sin and and so man comes to see his nakedness with the light of the Sun then fearing the wrath of God doth fly from his presence to actsomething to pacify the wrath of God and so Adam-like makes garments of fig-leavs to cover his nakedness And here is the ground of all the forms and professions of godliness that stands not in the Light but are turned from the Light and fled the judgment and run to the Scriptures without them and so reads and gets a notion of words decking and painting themselves with the sheeps cloathing and so read and pray and sing and goe to hear Sermons and cover themselves with a Covering like the Spirit but is not the Spirit and so Wo is their Portion who are covered and not with the Spirit of the Lord All this will not hide them nor cover their nakedness in the day of the Lord all this doth not cleanse the heart nor reform the inside all this which the world calls Worship and Service of God as Reading Praying Singing and Preaching as it is called or whatever
evermore be the righteous God who hath hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to Babes Now for the simple ones sake I shall speak and declare that their minds may be informed and that they may not be kept in blindnesse by the God of the world The Apostle John was come to high attainments and saw through the vail he saw the first mans state where all are dead in sin and he saw the second mans state which was born of God and could not sin Now the natural man by all his wit wisdom cannot comprehend these things for as it is written The natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them for they are spiritually discerned So it is the Spirit that reveales the deep and hidden things of God and by the Spirit of God it is seen that the Apostle speaks to a condition before confession of sin and whereas he saith we many times they say we when they are passed from such conâ—itions as sames saith speaking of the tongue herewith bless we God and therewith curse we men but was fames a curser But read the following Verse where John saith But if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to foroive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness and if you say that John had not confessed his sin I bear testimony and the Scripture likewise testifie the same that he had both confessed and forsaken his sins for his fellowship was with the Father and the Son and you may see in the beginning of the Chapter Truâ—y saith he our followship is with the Father and the Son Now if John had been in the unregenerate state and had not confessed his sin then could he not have had Union and Fellowship with the Father for God is Light and in him is no darkness a all if we say â—e have fellowship with God and walk in darkness we lie and do not the truth but if we walk in the Light as he is in the Light we have union and fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin mark well he doth not say from part of your sins but from all sin and this is that testimony that we bear of Christ That his blood cleanseth from all sin and he saveth to the utmost all that come unto God by him so if the Son make you free then are you free indeed But we do not speak of any freedom but by the light life and power of Jesus for if any one say he hath no sin before he come to witnesse Repentance and the power of Christ not being manifested in him to destroy take away his Sin he doth deceive himself the witnesse of God in his own conscience will testifie against him for if we say we have not sinned we make him a liar but where the life and power of Christ is manifested and the Devils works destroyed and the heart purified and the body made a temple of God shall we deny the work of God No far be it from us but to declare his Name abroad in the earth that others may dread and fear before him and â—â—pent of the evil of their ways that so they might rejoice with us in the love of our God and eat with us on the bread of life in our Fathers house that they may be changed and renewed and witness the birth which is from above which except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God Now this birth and this change hath long been talked of but who are they that are changed and born again Surely some there are God hath some of his own begetting and the Apostle saith He that is born of God sins not for his Seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God but this the world and the children of darknesse cannot believe nor endure to hear tell of but ready to tear and rend if any one come to know and witnesse a change And so all you that plead for sin you may see whom you serve even the devil the Prince of Darknesse who leads you guides you as long as you live in sin But blessed be God the happy day is come and the Lord hath many children who are begotten by the eternal Spirit and are kept by his power strength that the wicked one cannot touch them according as the Apostle testifieth VVe know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself that the wicked one toucheth him not let no man therefore deceive you with words for he that doth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous and he that commits sin is of the Devil hereby are the children of God manifest and the children of the Devil So all you that live in Envy and Wrath speaking evil of the things you know not you manifest your selves to be of the devil who hath begotten you into his image and likeness to do his lusts and so being after the flesh are found persecutors of them that are born after the Spirit as it was in former ages and generations the children of God were ever hated and reproached by the world but it is our joy accounting it great riches that we are counted worthy to suffer for his Names sake knowing this that all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution A Paper shewing who they are that are blessed and who they are that are cursed BLessed is the man that feareth the Lord and walketh in his way he shall be kept in peace when all the world is in trouble And Misery and no peace unto them who be out of the fear of God and out of the way of life in the broad way that leads to destruction following lusts and pleasures sporting themselves in the day-time you that live after the Course of this wicked world not regenerated and born again of the Word of God but live in your old vain wicked ungodly and vile courses in the fallen state bringing forth cursed fruits from the cursed ground sowing to the flesh and satisfying the lusts of it living in lying and swearing and drunkennesse spending the creatures of God upon your lusts drinking one to another and tempting one another wit Ale and Beere until you be overcome and so like Swine wallowing in the Lusts of Uncleannesse you bear the Image of your Father the Devil whose children and servants you are while you continue in your sins and filthinesse you are of the cursed Generation and wo and misery is your portion Wo wo to all the Inhabitants of the earth the Devil is come down amongst you and he rageth and swells because he hath but a short time The day draweth nigh it hasteth greatly wherein every one of your works must be tried by fire and the Devil together with the false
Prophets and all you who bear his Mark must be cast into the Lake of Fire there to be tormented for ever and ever from the presence of the Lord and all his holy Angels and Saints this will be your Sentence from the righteous God Depart from me all ye workers of Iniquity Consider of this in your life time you that are so full of rage and malice scoffing and scorning and reproaching the Servants and Messengers of the Lord who are sent of God to give you warning and to open your blind eyes and to turn you from your sins and from darknesse unto Light and from the power of Satan unto God that you might receive forgivenesse of sins and an Inheritance amongst the Saints in Light and this freely as they are moved of the Lord from the bowels of tender love to your lost souls without any self-end not seeking for a gift or any reward from any of you not seeking yours but you yet notwithstanding all their care labour and travel see how you do reward them mocking and scoffing and envying of them haling them out of your Synagogues and beating them sending many to the Stocks and haling others before Magistrates and so to Prison and there the innocent suffers under the hands of cruel men many being beaten and cruelly used in the PRISONS by the cruel GOALERS Witnesse the GOALER at LANCESTON where many of the deare Servants of the LORD have been cast into PRISONS among THIEVES and MURDERERS and have been numbred amongst TRANSGRESSORS as our LORD and MASTER was and many of them have been cruelly beaten and most basely abused by the GOALER and his COMPANIONS And all this and much more is done against the innocent whom you cannot justly accuse of any evil nor wrong done to any man but freely declaring against sin in Markets Cities and Villages and in your Idols-temple where the Worship of the Beast is upheld to call you from your false wayes and false Worships into the true and living way and pure and Spiritual Worship to worship God in Spirit and in Truth and to call you from off all your hireling-Priests and Parish-Teachers who have long time led you in blindnesse and ignorance and have not profited you but made a prey upon your souls for dishonest gain that so you may all be taught of God in Spirit according to the Fathers Promise and all this is done unto you freely without seeking any gain or reward from you and yet notwithstanding all this love and tender care for your souls you envy and hate them and so manifest your selves to be of Cains Generation and your Sacrifices are abomination to God and not accepted of him for our God is pure and there is nothing accepted of him but that which is offered up from a pure heart for the pure in heart are blessed and shall see God as it is written in the Scripture but woe is the portion of the wicked they are of the cursed Generation and all your Sacrifices reading singing praying preaching and expounding and whatever you call a Worship and all your profession and talking of God Christ it is all abomination while sin and iniquity lodgeth and is regarded in your hearts it is no more but your own self-righteousnesse acted in your own wills which is as filthy rags and as menstruous clothes and it will not abide the fire nor stand in the day of trial you are but patching a piece of new cloth in the old Garment and the Rent will be worse your gilded outside and fair pretences your talking of the Scriptures and painting your selves over with the Saints words it is but sowing of fig-leafs together to cover your nakednesse and it will not hide you from the wrath of the Lamb neither will it stand you in any stead where the life and power of Christ is wanting you are stil out of the way of God for though you professe much in words and draw neer unto God with your lips and mouths yet it is not saying Lord Lord that will avail but he that doth the will of my Father shall enter into the Kingdom for it is the heart which he requires and as long as the devil and sin lodgeth in your hearts in vain is all your talking and going to hear Sermons It is not your going one day in seven or more to hear a man speak a company of words and then all the week after to follow your own lusts and pleasures without yoke and bridle no crosse nor limit to the carnal minde but all is at liberty you can speak your own words and think your own thoughts and do your own works and sport your selves in your vanities your tongues at liberty to speak vain words this is not the worship of God but a false worship and a vain Religion and wo is the end of it as it was to the Scribes and Phariseeâ— who were high in notion and professed much in words yet notwithstanding all their outside cleansing and Scripture knowledge they were strangers to the life of truth and crucified the Son of God and their profession was but hypocrisie and Christ cried wo unto them calling them Whited wall painted Sepulchres who mâ—â—e câ—eaâ— the outside of the Cup and Platter but the inside was not made clean So all you now that talk of the Scriptures and do not live in that pure life that they lived in that gave forth the Scriptures you are hypocrites and your profession outside cleansing is but Pharisaical and except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharâ—sees you cannot enter into tâ—e Kingdom of God Now search and try your selves and see if your righteousnesse go any further then theirs did nay doth it go so far they made clean the outside but are not you unclean both within and without To that of God in all your Conferencâ— I speak and appeal that with it you may try and examine and see what you can witnesse of your return unto the Lord your God whar is cut down in you or what change is wrought in your hearts for there must the work of God be known if ever you know the truth in its purity for with the whole heart will the Lord be served for he calls for it as it is written My Son give me thy heart and as long as sin lodgeth in the heart the devil lodgeth for all sin is of the devil as it is declared He that commits sin is of the devil and as long as the devils works are standing within you your profession of Christ without you will not avail until his life and power be witnessed within you to destroy the devils works for for this end purpose was the Son of God made manifest that he might destroy the works of the Devil and all sin is a work of the devil And sin is conceived in the heart which is deceitful and there lodgeth in the heart and defiles and pollutes the heart as Envy
Wrath Malice Pride Lust and Covetousnesse Murders Theft evil surmisings these and such like are works of the Devil Plants of his planting and these do defile a man and separates him from his Maker And as the Devils work is within in the heart and pollutes the heart so must the work of Christ be witnessed in the heart for the purifying and cleansing and destroying of the Devils works and so to make the body a fit Temple for himself to dwell in And this is the work of the Lord and it is marvellous in our eyes he is gathering his people into union and fellowship with himself breaking the bond of iniquity and letting the oppressed go free purifying and purging them with the Spirit of Judgment and of burning trying them as gold and silver is tryed that so his people may be a holy and a peculiar people a people in whom he will be glorified by a pure and a godly conversation who shall bring forth much fruit to his glory who hath redeemed them from the earth and from their vain and ungodly conversation We who were gone astray and wandring as Sheep without a Shepherd and were by nature the children of Wrath even as well as others hath the Lord wonderfully wrought his own work in us and called us out of death and darknesse into righteousnesse and peace to bring forth fruits of the Spirit love joy peace long-suffering gentlenesse goodnesse meeknesse temperance sobernesse and vertue and hath shed abroad his love in our hearts and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation to Minister unto others who sit in the shadow of death that you all may turn and repent and come into the way of life that your souls may live in which way the ungodly cannotwalk though it be a plain way that fools shal not enter therein yet the unclean cannot passe over it and this is the new and living way that leads to life eternal even Jesus Christ the onely begotten of the Father who is given of the Father freely for a Covenant of Light to enlighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of his people who is the alone way unto the Father as it is testified of him I am the Way the Truth aâ—d the Life and there is no man can come to the Father but by me I am the door and he that enters not in by the door is a thief and a Robber Now people every where who professe your selves to be Christians and Christ to be your way see if your lives be answerable to your profession for this I do declare from the Lord that no ungodly one can walk in this way Come and let us reason together you will all confesse with me that Christ is pure holy and righteous and he is the way to the Father and no other way then what way are the ungodly in who live in pride and covetousnesse envy wrath and malice you that live in the lusts of the flesh and the pleasures and hope of the world are you in Christ the way surely no you do but deceive your selves to think that you are in the way to salvation when you are going on the broad way to condemnation for Christ speaks of another way which all who live in sin are walking in They enter not in by the door but are climbing up another way building up Babel a Tower to reach up to heaven but the foundation is sandy and will not stand who are sayers and not doers and are in their sins alive in their old cross and perverse nature and so are one of Christ the way for if any man be in Christ he is a new Creature old things are passed away and behold all thingt are become new Minde this well all things are become new it is not reforming of some things and departing with some of your sins but all the old lusts must be denied all your old wayes and your old vain heathenish customs the old man must be wholly put off and the new man Christ Jesus put on Therefore cease from the evil of your wayes and put away lying and speak truth one to another and leave off your prophane Swearing and let your yea be yea and your nay nay for whatsoever is more is evil and out of the Doctrine of Christ and lay aside all Envie and Malice and all vain and needlesse Discourse which tends not to the Glory of God nor to edification of one another and let your words be few and in the fear of the Lord and put off all your Pride and lay down your Crowns at the feet of Jesus and learn humility and the fear of the Lord that your feet may be guided out of the pathes of death and from all unrighteousnesse and disobedience where the Curse of God is that you may walk in the way of the Lord and in his pure fear to stand in awe of him that so your hearts may be purified and your consciences purged from dead works to serve the Lord in the new life with a pure and a perfect heart that into his Covenant of life and peace where the blessing is you may all be led and eat the Bread of Life at the Table of the Lord that your souls may live and praise the Lord for evermore Written in love to all Souls that out of sin they may come and worship God in Spirit By a Servant of Chrict Alex. Parker To all the Beloved Ones who are of the Royal Seed whose faces be turned tovvards Sion Greeting DEarly beloved Friends you whom the Lord hath Visited in his Love and hath called you out of darknesse and your former vain Conversation into his marvelous Light and glorious Liberty of the Sons of God when many thousands are left in blindnesse and hardnesse of heart ful of envie and rage shut up in darknesse being alienated from the life of God and strangers from the Covenant of Promise Oh prize his love unto you a Remnant of despised ones yet beloved of God who hath called you with an holy Calling and separated you from the world of ungodly men that you may be a holy and a peculiar people without spot or wrinckle that you may be presented pure and perfect unto God Now my dear friends be valiant for your Freedom and stand in that Liberty wherein Christ hath set you free and be not again entangled with the yoke of bondage and the weak and beggarly Elements of the world give not away your strength unto the Harlot though Sinners entice you consent not to them but stand in the counsel of God and keep your habitations dwelling in that which is pure which ye have received from God waiting in patience for power from the Lord to give you a full deliverance over the world and the pollutions and lusts of it that over it you may raign and all its fading Treasures laying up to your selves Treasures which never sades away durable riches where the Rust and Moth cannot come
will testifie against you and be your condemnation and your faith is vain who are yet in your sins Therefore repent and turn from your wickedness cease to do evil and learn to do well draw near unto God and he will draw near unto you put away lying and swearing and all prophaneness let no corrupt speeches proceed out of your mouthes and hearken to the voice of Christ that your souls may live spend not your money for that which is not bread nor your labor for that which doth not satisfie But hearken with diligence to hear the voice of the beloved Son of God who saith Learn of me I am meek and lowly in Spirit and you shall finde rest to your souls and that is it in you all which reproves for sin and checks you when you do amiss when no mortal eye sees you minde this well and wait to be guided by it and it will lead you out of sin and evil up to God the Father to have Unity with him and with his Son and so to bring forth fruits of the Spirit love joy peace gentleness meekness soberness brotherly kindness forbearing and forgiving one another And this will be a present guid unto you if you love it and bring your deeds to it to be tryed by it at all times and in all companies to lead you to God if sinners entice you consent not to them but fear the Lord and stand in awe and sin not But if you hate this Light and live in your sins and your old vain ungodly conversation this Light will be your condemnation Now while you have time prize it and work while it is day lest the dreadful night of darkness come upon you when none can work Awake awake and arise from the dead prepare your selves and make ready for the Kingdom of God is at hand Come out of Babylon partake not of her sins lest ye partake of her plagues and wait upon the Lord that you may eat of the Bread of Life which satisfies the Soul ALl you that are breathing after God who are Hungring and Thirsting after righteousness which have long been wandring upon the mountains as sheep without a shepherd who have long been seeking after God but have not sound him and have many years been hearers and learners and have spent much money and labor and much precious time but have sound no satisfaction nor refreshment to your hungry thirsting souls but still there is a cry within for want of a Savior something in your consciences cries and is not satisfied notwithstanding your many years professing and talking of God and Christ and your running after this man and that man to hear Sermons as they are called yet still you are in your sins and your own old vain ungodly conversation and crooked and perverse rebellious and disobedient nature upon which the wrath of God abides and so there is no true peace joy nor rest to your souls I say unto all such simple hearts who have been tossed to and fro many years with the windy doctrines of men but have not found peace return home to your Fathers house seed no longer amongst the swine upon the husks you cannot fill your belly there but come into my Fathers house for there is bread enough Seek not the living among the dead but awake awake all you that sleep and arise from the dead that Christ may give you light turn your mindes inward and seek the last groat in your own house for the Lord is near yea doubtless Friends the Lord is very nigh for in him we live and move and have our being For it is he that gives to all life and breath and all things and out of his love to fallen man-kinde hath given his onely begotten Son for a Covenant of Light into the World who doth enlighten every one that cometh into the World that all men through him might believe There is that light in every one of your consciences which if you love it will teach you continually and lead you out of sin and unrighteousness into purity and holiness to worship the living God in spirit and in truth and so to be taught of him in spirit according to his promise I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and my sons and my daughters shall Prophesie and I will make a new Covenant with them I will write my law in their hearts and put my spirit into their into their inward parts and they shall no more teach every one his Neighbor and Brother saying Know the Lord for all shall know me from the least to the greatest and I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities will I remember â—o more and this is the Lord fulfilling in our day praises to his Name for evermore he is gathering his scattered sheep together where they have been scat cred abroad in this cloudy dark day and is bringing them into the Fold and there shall be one Sheepsold and one Shepheard this is the promise of the Father which he is now bringing to pass establishing his own Kingdom in Righteousness and uniting and joyning his people together that they may all be of one heart and mind that they may with one voice and one consent glorifie and praise him in the Covenant of his Son which he is now leading his people into where no sin enters but is all shut out of the Kingdom and Covenant of the righteous God Therefore all people every where prize this precious time which the Lord doth give unto you and trifle it not away in vanity and vain delights but hearken to that which is pure which convinces and reproves for sin in your consciences and makes manifest the evil of your hearts that is The pure light of Christ which did never consent unto sin but stood against you witnessing for God against sin though never so secretly committed This is the eye which a long time hath been vailed and blinded by the God of the World but now is the Lord unvailing and uncovering and stripping of all the stollen garments which the Serpent hath painted and decked himself withal and the Devil can no longer hide himself but by the light of Jesus Christ shining in the conscience he is found out in all his Wiles and Temptations whereby he goes about to ensnare and deceive the innocent For as long as the Devil can keep people from owning this light he can lodge in the heart and work his works in the heart but when ever they come to own and walk in the light he cannot work but by the light his works is seen and by the power and life of Christ within the Devils works are destroyed and the heart purifyed and the conscience purged from dead works and so the body is made a Temple of God which Temple is holy and if any man defile the Temple of God him shall God destroy Therefore all people who love your souls come out of your sins which doth defile you and separate you from God and breaks your peace with God and love and walk in the light of Christ and bring your deeds to it For every one that doth truth he loves the light and bringeth his deeds to the light that they may be proved and tryed whether or no they be wrought in God and in the light you will have union and fellowship one with another and the Blood of Christ will cleanse you from all sin walking in the light for this light is pure and but one and leads to purity and oneness out of all Divisions Strife and Contention and from all the changeable Priests and changeable Doctrines and changeable Worships and changeable Laws that stands in the will of Man in the fallen Wisdom and will lead you unto Jesus Christ the unchangeable Priest the alone Teacher of his People who teacheth all his freely by his free spirit and leads them out of Death and dead Works into the pure way and path of life that they may bring forth fruit unto God and blessed are all they that fear the Lord and walk in his way But the wicked must be turned into Hell and all the Nations that forget God therefore let every one that nameth the Name of JESUS CHRIST depart from iniquity From a lover of your Souls but a witness against all Sin A. P. THE END