A TESTIMONY To the TRUE and Spiritual VVorship AND A WORD of Consolation to the Children of LIGHT Also a MESSAGE of TRUTH to PROFESSORS By Tho. Tayler Printed in the Year 1670. A Testimony to the True and Spiritual VVorship And a VVord of Consolation to the Children of Light GOD is a Spirit all Pure Holy Just and True and therefore in Spirit Purely Holy and Truly will he be worshipped of all that come to him and therefore all that Worship which stands in the Impure and Unholy nature of the Flesh is of no acceptance with him Cain may Sacrifice and Israel may be Circumcised and Iudas do something like an Apostle but so long as the Murderous Scoffing Covetous Trayterous Nature of the flesh stands all is nothing The Lord God blessed for ever hath in this day of his powerful Love made manifest himself amongst the Children of men on Earth and now Sons and Daughters do Prophesie and Old and Young do Sing of his Praise and Sound forth with joyful Hearts of the worthy noble Acts of his Right-hand because his Kingdom is come and his Glory in Sion is appeared and the Tabernacle of God is indeed with men and he himself not a Shadow or a Figure or outward Representation of him but he himself who is over all God blessed for ever dwells in and with his People his dearly beloved Seed who have believed in his Light that true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the World and have not despised the day of Small Things but have waited in the Light in the Faith of his holy Power for the fulfilling of his Promises and so through FAITH and Patience have received the Promises of Everlasting Life and Salvation fulfilled in them whereby the Mountains are thrown down and the Vallies lifted up and all made plain pure and perfect for the Holy God and Father of all Mercy and Goodness to dwell in and walk in Glory glory to his great Name who hath not left himself without a Witness of his Faithfulness this day nor left the Throne of Davids Kingdom without an Heir to sit upon it to Order and Establish it in Righteousness And now even now in this our day the Day which the Lord hath made is the blessed Fountain of the great Deepth of the Love of God in Christ Jesus truly opened and the Waters of the Heavenly Temple are so deep that a man may swim in them and it is not now as sometimes in times past here a line and there a line here a little and there a little but now hath the Lord our God according to his excellent Loving-kindness fully opened to Judah and the Children of the Heavenly Mother Jerusalem the Mystery of his Will and Fountain of his Eternal Goodness in Christ Jesus the Light whereby our Souls are satisfied and Sin and Transgression done away and the Everlasting Righteousness which makes Pure and Perfect the very Heart Soul and Conscience to God brought in ever Blessed be his glorious Name for his unspeakable Gift Amen and amen And now are all false Religions seen and by the Light which makes them manifest judged for the false Births which are of the great Whore Mystery Babilon whose Religions are carried on by the will of the Flesh as by the fleshly wisdom they were invented stand all in the Curse where nothing is perfect but their own misery and wretchedness and therefore it is that both Priest and People in this wretched state do all with one consent cry out against the perfect Work of Jesus Christ in his People saying None can be Perfect here And so do in a word deny the very end for which Christ came and the end for which the Ministry of Christ was given for Christ give himself for his People That he might wash them in the Word of Life and so present them to himself a glorious Congregation without Spot or Wrinkle or any such thing Ephes. 5.25 c. And thou art all Fair my Love saith Christ to his Spouse and no Spot in thee And there is no spot in thee And the Law made nothing perfect but the bringing in of the better H O P E Christ in us the Hope of Glory Col. 1.27 did Heb. 7.19 And the very end of the Ministry was for the Edifying and Perfecting the Saints who are Christs Body Eph. 4.12 And we labour to present every man perfect to God in Christ Col. 1.28 And John 17.23 I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one But now the false Ministry which stands in the Flesh in which no good thing dwelâ—s keeps People alwayes learning and never brings any to the Knowledge of the perfecting Truth of the Lord Jesus for how should it For they have Run and I have not sent them saith God therefore they shall not profit the People at all Jer. 23. And under this woful Condition lieth all the World of unbelieving people who believe not in the Truth Christ Jesus but follow their own dark spirits which see nothing of the Kingdom of God nor the holy Worshippers therein A long and dark Night of Apostacy hath passed over the World since the Apostles time wherein the spirit of Antichrist and Devils hath wrought effectually in the Children of Disobedience as was foretold to the blinding of their minds and hardning their hearts against the everlasting Gospel of Truth the Heavenly Light and Power of God unto Salvation and hath so deluded them that they have thought they were doing God service when they were persecuting his Truth and Members of his Body as many in the same dark deluded state do at this day but now the Lord is lifting up his Standard against that great Whore Dragon false Prophet and their Armies who Gog and Magog like would devour the Lambs of Christ. And now no Weapon formed against Christ his Truth and People shall ever prosper any more at all but the Lamb shall have the Victory and the Kingdom Dominion and Greatness of it shall be given to the Saints of the Most High God whose Kingdom is everlasting and that Nation Kingdom and People that will not bow to Truth will moulder away and come to nothing as the Lord hath said for now is the effect of every Vision fully to come and no more at all to be prolonged And therefore Wo wo to the Inhabitants of the Earth and the Sea who are putting the Day of the Lord afar off crying Peace Peace when there is no Peace for there is no Peace to any who will not have Jesus Christ the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the World to rule in them and over them for his is the Kingdom Glory and Power and he will reign for evermrre in the midst of his Enemies Glory to his Name without ceasing Amen and amen saith my Soul whom thou hast redeemed O Holy One of Israel to set forth thy Praise amongst the Living in Jerusalem thy
his Name in vain Your Garment is not of the Pure White Linnen which is the Saints Righteousness but Linnen and Woolen is your Covering a thing forbidden by Gods Law Your Field is not sowen with the one Heavenly kind of Grain the good Wheat but another Seed have you mingled with it and the mixture is so great that the bad hath almost choked and covered the good in you If you will work you must into Gods Vineyard and be exceeding Dilligent and Laborious in Spirit in plucking up the Weeds by the Roots in you The Light of Christ in the Conscience waiting in it will give thee Understanding But Wo will be to them who call the Light Darkness and put Darkness for Light and so suffer the Good in them to wither and nourish the Bad Part in them which is like the Grane that never hath enough but is alwayes learning at man without and not at Christ within and ministring from the outward dead spirit of the World and not from the measure of the living Spirit of Christ so not taking heed to the Word of Faith which is nigh in the heart the Word of Christ which is Spirit and Life they never get victory over their sin as is manifest but go laden Teacher and Hearer all their life long with divers sins and lusts as was said before So Wo to the selfish Workers who speak their own words and think their own thoughts on this the holy Sabbath day of the Lord God wherein he hath given his People rest from all their weary labour and burdens The outward day the first day of the Week shall not cover you nor be a Sabbath to you but in the breach of Gods holy everlasting spiritual Sabbath of Rest you being found you must bear his Judgment Behold all ye that kindle a Fire this day and that compass about your selves with Sparks walk in the light of your Fire and in the Sparks that ye have kindled yet know that your reward from the Lords hand is to lie down in sorrow I say all you who feed upon and whose Faith stands in the wisdom of vain mans words raised up in the subtilty to please the iching Ear and not in the Power of God which washeth the inside a day of scattering cometh upon you it cometh and a grievous Whirle-wind from the Lord and the pleasant Brests of Mystery Babylon which you so much delight in shall be dried up for the Lord hath rejected your confidence because you have rejected his good Word and Counsel and chosen your own Delusion and evil entreated his Servants whom he sent rising up early and sending them time after time to warn you to come out of all your dead Forms and dead Faith into the living vertue and power of his eternal Spirit of Truth to worship him there and to know it in you but you would not therefore the Lord will yet do that great Wâ—rk and Wonder amongst you he will confound the wisdom of your Wise and bring to nought the understanding of your Prudent Men and they shall be as Women weak and feeble the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it and the Songs of your Temple shall be Howlings in that day because of the Vine of Sodom that will bear no more Grapes but so many as have drunk of the Wine of her Fornication must drink of the Cup of Gods Wrath. And all you who talk of your Faith and suffering Condition and yer live in your sin you know not what spirit you are of for the same mind that you think to suffer in is it which by Transgression grieves the Spirit of God and stands against the setting up of his Kingdom in your selves and the Testimony thereof in his redeemed Ones this day And so if you could give your bodies to be burnt in this your Unsaved and Unsanctified Condition it would profit you nothing at all Wherefore come out from amongst them all you that would be happy touch no unclean thing but give your hearts to the Lord to know his Light in you to teach you and he will receive you and hide you from the Wrath that is to come upon all that are not in him as saith his Spirit in his Servant This is a Message of Truth to all you in and about Stafford and those of like Spirit with you elsewhere who go under the name of Presbyterians Teachers and Hearers to read and ponder in the cool mind that you may know what the Lords Mind is concerning you in this his day wherein he is manifest with his Fan in his Hand to purge the Floor that he may gather to himself the good Wheat and burn up the Chaff For we knowing the Terrors of the Lord perswade you and all People in love to your Soules to take heed of dallying with God who is a consuming Fire for his Judgments are manifest and who can stand before his Wrath O be not Proud lest your hands be made strong but be meek and lowly and gentle in heart to learn of him that is so that you may find rest for your soules for there is no Peace to the Wicked saith my God the true God that made Heaven and Earth whose Wrath from Heaven is perfect revealed against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men without respect of Persons or Professions who hold the Truth in any manner of Vnrighteousness So be it In the 2d Moneth 1670. T. T. WEEP thou England Houl Houl ye People for the Dreadful Day of the Lord God is at hand it is at the Door as an Armed Man coming swiftly upon you to break down and tread under feet thy Pomp Glory and Strength Thou hast exceeded in thy Sins and art grown monstrous in thine Iniquities so the Lord will be exceeding Terrible unto thee Thou hast suffered the Wicked in thee to have Liberty and to take their fill of sin when the Voice of the Righteous cannot be endured in thee but he that departs from Iniquity and would perswade others so to do is even made a Prey of by Ungodly and Unreasonable Men their Bodies Imprisoned and Banished and Estates spoiled and all sorts of Injuries done them for God's Name Truths sake And therefore will the Lord God arise to take Vengeance for these things Yea his Soul will certainly be avenged on such a Nation as this saith this Spirit in his Servant AND moreover because you have said in your hearts We have compassed them about with an Act and none shall Worship God but as we please Therefore will the Lord the mighty God compass you about with his Terrors and you shall find no place to hide your selves in from his Wrath because of the Pride of your Hearts and Evil of your Doings O all ye People of the Land saith the Lord God who are guilty of these things T. T. THE Lord even the Lord God of infinite endless glorious Power and Truth plead our Cause our innocent Cause against you the Rulers of this Nation and of all the World who hate us and persecute us without all cause The Lord hath raised us up in Righteousness ever praised be his Name to bear our Testimony for God and his Christ against all the Wayes and false Worships of faln man and therefore it is that such as are in the fall through the ignorance and evil that is in them number us with the Transgressors and account all manner of Punishments and Grievances too little for us yea Banishment Imprisonment Spoiling of our Goods and Death it self is judged not less then we deserve So the Scripture is fulfilled see John 16.2 3. And all this for no manner of evil at all but meerly because we cannot cease to Worship and Serve the living and true God our Father as he hath taught us and doth teach all that come to him For our Worship to God is pure in Spirit and Truth And this is the true standing and established Worship for evermore and God is now mightily seeking such to worship him And so the Lord the Ever-blessed and True God plead our holy Cause against you who hate us without a Cause We have laid before you the Truth and Righteousness of our Cause and our Good-will to all men and how it is not in our hearts and hands in the least to injure you or any but to this day you will not hear but stop your Ears to our innocent Cryes and therefore to the Lord God of Heaven and Earth do we call and before him who is the KING of Kings and LORD of Lords and RULER of Rulers and JUDGE of Judges do we lay our innocent Cause O that you had known at least in this your day the things of your peace but you will not and therefore how can ye expect less then a Forsaking and Casting-off by the Lord as the People of old called Israel found who would not hear the Voice of the Lord and his Servants crying and calling unto them in those dayes Read the Prophesie of Hosea Hos. 1.6 8 9 and see what Lo-ruhaemah and Lo-ammi signifie and humble your selves greatly before the Lord for assuredly great wrath is gone out from the presence of the eternal Majesty of Heaven and Earth against you and nothing can stay it but your ceasing from Persecuting the blessed Truth of God which we the People of God in Scorn called Quakers do love and live in It is so T. T. THE END
Flesh they would charge them upon Gods Elect and make their Works like their own These Fleshly ones are great Enemies to Christ his Righteousness and his Members for they that are in Christ are New Creatures and to Abel and his Offering God hath still Respect though Cain and his Offering was alwayes rejected because polluted with Sin as the Prayers and Performances of all Hypocrites are at this day Therefore for this purpose was the Son of God manifested and is at this Day received of the Faithful even to destroy Sin which is the Devils Work And in him to wit Christ Jesus the Ligh◠is there no Sin nor sinful Nature So they who love Christ and Walk in his Life and Light please God For he is that Way undefiled wherein no Unclean can walk but the Redeemed are here And what if I should set down the words of Jesus to wit Whosoever abideth in Christ Sinneth not whosoever Sinneth hath not seen him nor known him 1 John 3.6 Can you believe it I know you cannot whilst you stand reasoning with Flesh and Blood not believing in the Light that lightneth every man that cometh into the World but call the Light of Christ in man Natural and then put the Letter which only witnesses to the Light instead of it And then the Enemy works in your natural Earthly wisdom causing you to wrest Scriptures to establish your empty Forms which makes nothing perfect and this was the sin of the old Jews who though they talked of the Messiah yet when he appeared they would not come to him that they might be saved and so under the dead Profession of the Letter they lay slain And though they had a Zeal for God as you have now yet it was not according to knowledge and so stumble at the Stumbling-Stone and so in their dark minds would needs keep up the Forms and Shaddows of things in opposition to the Substance the thing it self Christ Jesus when he appeared as you do now O that you could be perswaded of this how well would it be for your poor Souls in time to come Therefore now that the True Heavenly Everlasting Al-sufficient Light is broken forth again from under the Clouds after the long dark Night of Apostacy turn your Minds in to know a measure of it in you and wait therein to be led out of all the dark Paths of Sin and Error by it For I am the Way saith Christ the Light that true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World and I will send my holy Spirit of Truth to lead into all Truth He i◠come and his Promise fulfilled Glory to his Name forever And do you not know how that Christ is in you except you be Reprobates saith the Apostle And if we walk in the Light as he is in the Light then have we fellowship one with another and the Blood of this Innocent Lamb cleanseth from all Sin and washeth from all Unrighteousness all real Commers thereunto saith the same Spirit Therefore go not sorth for without are Doggs and all Lyars but Truth and the Kingdom of it is to be found within nigh in the Heart or never O how Beautiful is the Way of the Just Holiness is the Girdle of their Reins continually their hearts ponder deep things in Holiness they do no Iniquity who walk in this Everlasting Undefiled WAY Christ Jesus the Light for by the Light are they led out of all Defilements and to such there is no occasion of Stumbling O stoop down low with your minds to the Light of Christ in you that convinceth you of sin and evil that through the Light the true Door and Daily-Cross to the Carnal Mind you may come into the Sheep-fold for all who clime up another Way are but as Thieves and Robbers and must be judged as Goats and set on the left hand because they would not hear Christ Voice the Light in the Conscience to be led by it Great Wo to the Climers over the Door such neither receive Christ nor his Servants whom he sends but chose rather to follow such as love to be called of men Master and live in the respect of Persons and persecuting Nature and daub over an old heart with fair Promises of Life as it is amongst you this day for what though some in the outward-stand against you for your Form and Worlds sake as the Heathen of old did the outward Jews yet both those outward Jews then as you outward Professors do now stood and do stand against Christ and us for his Truth 's sake For we find it true from you all That whosoever walketh in Christ and holdeth forth his Life and so Worship God in Spirit and Truth shall be hated of all men whether Professors or Prophane who are out of that Life and holy Worship even for Christs very Name and Life's sake because it is a Cross and Offence to all the World who are in their own Wills under what Form or Profession soever who are gotten into a Profession of Christ without Christ and the daily Cross which his Followers bear Therefore all who are climed up into the Tree of an outward Profession without the true real feeling and spiritual acquaintance with the daily Cross and fiery Law of the Lord and flaming Sword which Guards the Tree of Life which is in the Hand of the Angel of the Covenant for the cutting down of the Man of Sin that the Birth Immortal which is Holy may enter in and possess the Inheritance must come down again I say they must come to the beginning from which in their faln Wisdom they are wandred to learn of him in Silence who speaks from Heaven whose Word is nigh in the heart before ever they be established for except you become as little Children not in Talk but in Truth ye cannot enter Gods Kingdom O ye People hearken a while whether Teachers or Hearers You who have been feeding upon the Tree of Knowledge and never came through Gods judgments the Flaming Sword to the Tree of Life Your Food 〈◊〉 Death your Works will Burn and your Fig-leaf-Covers will fall off you and you be left Naked and Bare to the shame of your Nakedness as in the day that you were Born For what is any Covering unless it be that of the Spirit of Christ. The Lord God who is of purer Eyes then to behold Iniquity will bring your Deeds to the Light of his Judgments within you from which you cannot flee and before him will nothing stand but that which is Pure Your defiled Preachings Prayings Singings Hearings Readings will be rejected and cast out as Dung from the Presence of the Pure Holy God that is a consuming Fire You have multiplied words without Knowledge Ye have not been neither yet are ye Doers of Gods Will to the Witness of God in your Consciences I speak therefore in vain do you say Lord Lord and he will not hold them guiltless that take
Behold I stand at the door and knock and by his Servant also now saith Behold the Lord God that Spirit stands at the door of your hearts all people and whosoever opens unto him he will come in unto them and the pure in heart shall see the pure and holy God supping with them and they with him and they shall drink abundantly of the heavenly Wine with Jesus Christ in the Fathers Kingdom fresh and living ever for now is the Lord rending away the Vail the Covering that hath been upon the hears of people and making to all people the Feast of fat things full of marrow and of Wine upon the Lees well refined so be it And now is the Lord God blessed for ever fulfilling the Promises of his great Love in Christ Jesus which have been since the world began in this day of the pouring forth of his holy Spirit whereby the holy City New Ierusalem is felt come down from God out of Heaven and God himself dwelling with men even the Tabernacle of God with man as was said before all holy praises to his Name yes he that sits upon the throne hath made and is daily making all things new it is done and now the Lamb is known to be the Light of his People and they need no other for the Anointing which they have of him teacheth all things and now is Jerusalem a rejoycing indeed and her people a joy but now the Uncircumcised in heart and ear who do alwayes resist the Holy Ghost are greatly troubled and offended by reason of the great darkness and enmity of their hearts because they cannot in their unclean mind enter in for into this City no unclean thing nor any that loves or makes a Lye can enter for now the Serpents meat is Dust and his head is bruised glory to God for ever See Isa. 65.17 c. Rev. 21.1 c. Acts 7.51 52. And now are all the Climers who have not come in by the door but are climed up another way in their unclean minds whom Christ calls Thieves and Robbers seen and by the same that discovers them judged and condemned these are they that have taken away the Key of Knowledge and will neither enter into the Kingdom of God themselves nor suffer those that are entring in to enter These are they whom Christ cries wo against who love to be called of men Master heady and high minded men with the great Train of their seduced Followers who plead for them and fight for them because they cry peace to them in their sins and tell them they must never be perfect whilest they are here but must carry about them a body of sin without all hope of ever being freed from it whilst on Earth and so in effect deny the end of Christ's coming who came to set free the Soul by destroying the Body of Sin also they deny the very end the very end of Christ's Ministry for when he assended up on high he gave gifts to men for the work of the Ministry for the edifying of the Body of Christ for the perfecting of the Saints Ephes. 4. Come ye Contenders against Truth Is not the perfecting of the Saints in holiness by bringing them out of unholiness and in Faith out of unbelief and into the Spirit out of the Flesh and all fleshly and perishing observations And doth not the Ministry of Christ which is the true Spiritual Ministry attain its end and do its work to the utmost yea yea though the Ministers of Antichrist free and funie and gainsay and contradict and blaspeme and spend their strength in vain and perfect nothing but their sins yet the work of the Lord goes on and prospers and the Body of Christ is built up and the Songs of Sion sung in the holy Land and none can take part therein but the Redeemed of the Lord who are redeemed from the Earth into the heavenly Society and Church of the First-born whose names are written in Heaven and who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes these are not defiled with the Cup of the great Whore for they are Virgins and have Oyl in their Lamps and so need not go to the Merchants of Babylon to buy And so all people bow to Truth in the inward parts for obedience to that is the Sacrifice which God requireth and better then all other Sacrifices all your Sabboth out of this are but meer druggeries and all your Will-worship Ceremonies and Traditions being out of this are but meer mock Services yea out of this to wit the Light and Truth in the inward parts your very Faith is vain and your hope of none effect and your prayers sin for unto thee who wilt not have it to rule in thee the Lord hath no respect nor to thy Offering So prize your time O all ye Strangers to the Life of God and make supplication to your Judge the Light Christ Jesus that Lights every man that comes into the World for this is the condemnation that Light is come Into the World and men loved and do love their evil deeds and hate the Light for every evil Doer hates the Light saith Christ yea it is so whatsoever the Hypocrite the Evil-Doer with his mouth may say to the contrary And all ye children of the Light walk in the Light and be thankfull for the Lord is arisen in mighty power to crown you with his Glory his glorious Righteous Wisdom Holiness and Salvation he is come indeed to fulfil all his Promises in you and for you to the glorifying of the Arm of his own Power and for your Souls endless comfort and why should any of you be afraid of what man can do against you seeing you fear God and love the children of men and you are not of them who seek to destroy mens lives but to save them as much as in you lieth Arise Arise break forth into singing ye Sons and Daughters of the Heavenly King the Lord our Righteousness for thy Light is come and the Glory of the Lord is risen upon thee And thou shalt no more be termed desolate for thy Maker is thy Husband and thy Land is married indeed And thy Plants grow and thy Gardens cast a sweat smell Oh happy are they who believe in thy Light and walk in the clear Sun-shine of thy Day No Stumbling nor occasion of Stumbling is on thy Mountain nor in thy Valleys but on the dark Mountains whereon the Haters of Christ walk is all the stumbling of this present World Thou who art come in at the true Door Christ Jesus the Light of the World thy Kingdom is not of this World but is a Kingdom without end which cannot be shaken wherein dwells Righteousness indeed and thy Pasture is fresh and green all the Year long being wet with the Dew of Heaven yea in thy happy Lot are both the upper and nether Springs and Bread of Life for evermore where rests with thee in the purest Love thy Brother in