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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40325	A word from the Lord unto all the faithlesse generation of the vvorld, who know not the truth, but live in their own imaginations; with a true declaration of the true faith, and in what it doth differ from the worlds imagination: written in obedience to the Lord, that al may see what faith is owned by the saints, and what faith is denied. And also a few words unto all professors of the world, who worship not the true God, but their own imaginations and conceivings instead of the true God: also a call from God unto all the the world to repentance, that all may turn unto him, lest the Lord destroy both root and branch of them that repent not. Also a few words unto you that scorne Quaking and trembling, which all the holy men of God witnessed that spake forth the Scripture, and also the holy men of God justified, and all you denied that scorneth such as witness such things now, as ever was in all the generations of the saints. With a word to those that are called Anabaptists, Independants, Presbyterians, Leve	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Naylor, James, 1617?-1660. aut	1654 (1654)	Wing F1992; ESTC R213323	12,879	17

and all whose Law is without we see to be in the old Covenant of works which made nothing perfect and the selfe righteousness which is filthy raggs and by the light of Christ are we convinced of that righteousness not to be of faith therfore whose faith and works stand here them we deny and see them all worshipping without the new covenant in the oldness of the letter whose law is without 1. Cor. 12.13 1. Cor. 14.13 their light without their Church without their Baptisme prayers and Singings without their Christ without their righteousness without and so their faith without all which we witness to be within and within we worship in newness of spirit and by this spirit we do see all that are without God and his righteousness to be in the world and strangers to the covenant of grace Ioh. 4.23.24 and that faith and worship we deny and God denies who seeks such worshippers as worship in spirit and truth and this faith and worship we owne not knowne to the world and therefore hated J. N. To all the Worlds Professors and People that you may see where you are and Repent THe word of God is not known to the world nor worldly wisedome hee that hath the word hath life hee that knowes the word knowes God and heere 's life manifest and the word hath quickned him and raysed him out of death and dead workes he that hath but the letter heareth the sound but knowes not where or what it is and as he received it in the aire hee declares it and death speakes light words without power and dead workes and lightness is brought forth and the power of death raines and the life of that is but an imitation and not the life it selfe the chaffe but not the graines tossed in the wind and the Prince of the aire is fed and ruleth and here vanity is exalted the light mind is fed with airie notions would be wise but the colt is at liberty not subject to the yoke but kicks against the pure and the obedience is not and the cross is despised but the nature who feeds heere whose end is for destruction and for the fire for the nature knowes not the living word but the letter and is without God in the world but hee who hath the word hath God and is come into the Covenant by which all things stand for he is come into the beginning out of the fall to the first fruites and witnesseth the word spirituall invisible powerfull pure and sharpe a divider and discerner by it he is sanctified and made clean by it he is established and unmooveable and is fed daily it is his life his joy and delight and the word is not to fetch from above nor from below neither is it to seeke it in a chapter or a steeplehouse without but it is nigh in the heart and in the mouth by which word he is kept at all seasons it is his counseller he inquires at it as at an Oracle and thereby he is brought to live the life of Godliness and from which is spoken words of life and power to others and hee speakes not his owne words nor brings forth his owne workes but hath ceased from his owne workes as God did from his and is entred into his rest and is come into the eternall Sabboth and is comprehended into the word which is Christ and is no more his owne for now Christ speakes in him acts in him and workes in him the will and the deed now Christ and hee is one married to him and Christ is his head and husband and now the head speakes prayeth and prayseth and prophesies and is uncovered and heere is the Church of the first borne the pillar and ground of truth where the woman must bee covered and kept silent and is not to speake in the Church is not to usurpe authority but is to be in subjection and if shee would know any thing let her ask of her husband at home and he is to her a covering of the eyes forever Now all you Priests and People that talke of these things without you from the letter this is a parable to you and you reade the outside in the letter and from that you imagine and so set up a forme or likenesse or image of those things and here you worship and for this you contend and would compell all to worship your image you have set up and you goe about to persecute and destroy all that will not worship and bow downe to it with you but it is the forme you have but not the substance and you put the dead letter for the living word and your meanings of it arising from the braines and first wisedom and naturall learning thus you declare and call it prophecying and put off your hats which is carnall but the head you know not and it is the woman that speakes and the head is covered and so you dishonour your head and honour your selves neither are you subject to your head but your owne will rules in you and you live in the pleasures of the world and are become wanton and have set your eyes upon many lovers and you are adulterated from your husband nor live not with him nor is he a covering to you neither can you witness him in you nor you in him nor the pure seed of God is not brought forth in you but the seed that is accursed neither is the pure language brought forth in you but as to God you are smitten with barrenness and brings forth nothing but words windes shewes and shadowes imitations inventions imaginations and conceptions and you never looke to bring forth better fruit never come to holyness and perfection and your first fruits and that estate wherein you were created and you will not know you are departed from your first fruitfullness and have lost him in whom your life stands and in whom your fruits is found and are become widdowes and desolate as to your first husband and have been running after other lovers and worshipping under every greene tree and the holy flesh is departed from you and you are doting upon the Egyptian and the Assyrian for wisedom and strength whose flesh is as the flesh of horses and have been as fed hoses living in the lust of the flesh as it is at this day Now all people stand still a while and see from whence you are fallen and the cause of all your unfruitfulness and returne to your first husband from whence you are fallen that you may bring forth your first fruits for till then all you doe is abomination to the Lord and he cannot accept it for what you bring forth is the seed of the adulterer and of the whore a generation of evill doers and yet you make a profession in out side as to righteousness and holiness but the power is to act righteousness you have not but in your actions brought forth but the image of the Devill

make a profession of his words nor a trade of his words nor of Joels who witnessed trembling that which ye scoffe and scorne Ye proud scoffers and scorners ah misery misery is your end except you speedily repent And Daniel a servant of the most high God he trembled his strength and his breath was gone hee was imprisoned hee was hated he was persecuted they layd baites and snares for him in whom the Holy Spirit of God was now for shame all you that make a profession of Daniels wordes give over your profession Priests and people who scoffes and scornes at trembling with the light you are seene to bee out of Daniels life and by the same power you are threshed for it you scorne and scoffe and so heere againe bee witnesse that you are scorners and scoffers against the truth and with the Scripture you are judged to be contrary to the life of the holy men of God and Paul a minister of God made by the will of God a messenger of the Lord Jesus a vessell of the Lord to cause his name to spread abroad in severall Nations when the darke blind world have got some of his words and epistles and you filthy teachers make a trade of them and gets great summes of money for it and so destroyes soules for dishonest gaine and making a trade of his wordes and the rest of the Apostles and Prophets and Christ but denying that Spirit and life that they were guided by and that power that shooke the flesh and the earth which the Apostles witnessed who said when hee came among the Corinthians hee was then with them in weaknesse and feare and in much trembling that their faith might not stand in the wisedome of the world but in the power of God in that power which made him to tremble at this power the world and all the scoffing teachers scoffe at in the townes in your villages in your assemblies in your alehouses for shame lay away all your profession of the Apostles wordes and conditions and some scoffes at the power and call it of the Divell and some persecute them stocke stone imprison and whip in whom that power is made manifest and loades them with reproaches as not to walke on the earth the off-scowring of the world hated persecuted here you may see you are in the steps of your forefathers who persecuted the Apostles and acted so against them stocked them mocked them imprisoned them stoned them whipped them hayled them out of the Synagogues reproached them shamefully intreated them doe not you heere fulfill the Scripture and Christs sayings who sayth if they kill you they thinke they doe good service and yet you make a profession of Christs words the Prophets and Apostles words and calls your selves Churches and ministers of the Gospell I command you and charge you in the presence of the living God to bee silent who acts such things scoffers and scorners mind the light in your consciences which Christ hath enlightened you withall that by it you may see your selves what you act and what you have acted for who act such things shall never inherit the Kingdoms of God for all such things with the light are condemned and who come to witnesse trembling and quaking the powers of the earth to bee shaken the lustfull to come to be destroyed the scorning and scoffing come to be iudged with the light in it waite to receive power who shakes the earth this power wee owne and faith stands in it which all the world scoffes at the lusty ones the proud ones the presumptuous ones who live in presumption and yet make a profession of the Scr●pture as your Fathers the Pha●ses did who were painted Serpents and the Scribes who had the chiefest places in the assemblies stood praying in the Synagogues called of men Masters which Christ cryed woe against who are not come so farr as the trembling of D●vels which believed and trembled let that Judge you the light and life of the Scripture is seene and made manifest that with it all you scoffers and all you scorners all persecutors raylers are seen take warning all yee powers of the earth how you persecute them whom the world nicknames and calls Quakers who dwells in the eternall power of God left the hand of the Lord be turned against you and yee be all cut off and to you this is the word of God to feare and to tremble and to take warning for this is the man that the Lord doth regard who trembles at his word which you who are of the world scoffes and scornes stockes persecutes imprisons here you may see you are contrary to God contrary to the Prophets and are such who hate what the Lord regards whom wee owne whom the world scornes and cals Quakers and set up that power honour that power that makes the Devils to tremble and shakes the earth and throwes downe the haughtinesse of man and which makes the beasts of the field to tremble and makes the Earth reele too and fro and cleaves the Earth asunder and overturnes the wo●ld this power wee owne and honour and set up which the world scornfully calls Quakers but all scoffers persecutors and raylers scorners stockers and whippers we deny with that power which throwes down all that nature as seeing all who act such things are for destruction and shall never inherit the kingdom of God so reioyce all yee righteous ones which are persecuted for righteousness sake for great is your reward in Heaven reioyce yee that suffer for well doing for yee shall not lose your reward and waite you in the light that you may grow up in the life that gave forth all the Scriptures that with it you may see all the Saints conditions and with it you may see all that which they testified against therwith it you wil see them that did reproach scoffe them mock them persecute them whip them stocke them haile them out of the Synagogues before magistrates so to you who are in the same light life the same things do they unto you now that they may fil up the measure of their fathers so with the light now they are seen to act where the light life power of God is made manifest for as they did unto them so shall they do unto you heere is our joy and the Scripture fulfilled fulfilling with the light which was before the world which is now made manifest in the children of light with it they see the world comprehends it all things in it the actions of it with the light we see it to be for the fire and all the works of it for hee that loves it and turnes himselfe from the light is an enemy to God he turnes into wickedness for the whole world lies in wickedness he turnes into the works of evill who turns from the light he is vvith the light vvhich is

A Word from the Lord Vnto all the faithlesse Generation of the VVorld who know not the Truth but live in their own imaginations with a true Declaration of the true faith and in what it doth differ from the Worlds imagination written in obedience to the Lord that al may see what faith is owned by the Saints and what faith is denied And also a few words unto all Professors of the World who worship not the true God but their own imaginations and conceivings instead of the true God Also a Call from God unto all the World to Repentance that all may turn unto him lest the Lord destroy both Root and Branch of them that repent not Also a few words unto you that scorne Quaking and Trembling which all the holy men of God witnessed that spake forth the Scripture and also the holy men of God justified and all you denied that scorneth such as witness such things now as ever was in all the Generations of the Saints With a word to those that are called Anabaptists Independants Presbyterians Levellers and Ranters that they may turne to the Lord by yielding obedience to the light in their Consciences By those whom the World knowes by the names of George Fox James Nailor Printed in the Yeare 1654. To all the faithlesse generation of the world and to all who desire to know what faith and hope we live in and what faith and hope we deny THat Faith wee owne and witness is that which stands in Jesus Christ in the everlasting Covenant of light John 1.9 who is the light of the world and hath enlightened every one that cometh into the world and this light we believe and follow and by this are we led out of all the waies works and worships Iohn 8.12 of this darke world and the effect of this light we witness by faith And by this faith we deny all who say this light is not sufficient without the teaching of man to guide in all the waies of God and all such we deny Iohn 10.4.5 Tim. 4.5 for those are they who knowe not the voice of Christ and therefore here a stranger and hireling who heap up teachers having itching eares who cannot indure sound doctrine and in this Christ we believe who is our life and Salvation and all them and their faith we deny who say they have faith and their lives is not the life of Christ but live in sin and worldly pleasures and say they cannot be saved from their sins in this world but in part and this faith we deny and them 1. Iohn 3.8 Heb. 7.25 1. Timo. 1.9 for these deny the end of Christs coming in the flesh who cannot believe he is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto him and this faith is reprobate and these deny the Lord that bought them and have made shiprack of faith and a good conscience and makes the blood of Christ of no effect to them who are not cleansed by it and all them and their faith we deny who say they believe and know the will of God but they have not power Rom. 1.4.16 for that Christ in which we believe is the great power of God unto Salvation in all that believe and who hath this Christ hath power and in him we have power to do the will of God but these are they that know not Christ nor his power 2. Tim. 3.5 but run into notions and forms but deny the power and from such we turn away for such know not him in them who is greater then he that is in the world but are wi ling to serve sin and be led Captive at the divells will not minding the light and power of Christ to be guided by it and then would seeme to cast the fault on God as though he had given a Christ that was not able to set free til after death these put him to open shāe whose faith profession we deny Rom. 5.17 Rom. 1.22 Rom. 10 3.4 we deny all who say they have faith in Christ and yet their righteousness is not perfect but this faith we witness which receives the righteousness of God even the free gift of righteousness by Jesus Christ and this is perfect which is the righteousness of faith and all who have not this righteousness are in the false righteousness which is not perfect and these are short of the righteousness of God and would establish their owne righteousness and these are the Boasters who would justify themselves and dispise others Rom. 1.27 but by the righteousness of faith is boasting excluded and heer is no justifying of selfe but denying selfe and selfe righteousness exalting the righteousness of God which is perfect which is in Christ Jesus Phil. 1.9 Phil. 1.11 who is made unto us righteousness sanctification by this faith we deny all who say they have Christ and have not this righteousness but whose righteousness is unperfect and that Christ and that righteousness we deny which is not perfect and witness that Christ in which we are made the righteousness of God and this Christ is our righteousness and perfection and this faith we owne and witness which is not a talke of faith as the worlds professors who say they have faith but are dead in sin and cannot witness the work of God in them Jam. 2.26 Eph. 2.10 1. Iohn 5.4 Gal. 1.4 .. but that faith we owne which is lively by which the work of God is witnessed in us working out sin and by which we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works and this is our faith by which we overcome the world and the Divell and all you we deny who have a profession in the world and in whom the works of the Divell are brought forth and their faith and hope we deny who say they hope to be saved but live in sin making a profession and this is the hope of the hypocrite which shall perrish and not the hope of Christ for he that hath this hope of Christ purifies himselfe even as he is pure 1. Iohn 3.3 Heb. 6.19 and this faith and hope we owne which purifies the heart and enters into the place of holiness within the vaile but that which is without holiness we deny which is not in Christ but in a vaine mind Ro. 10.8 and we deny all who say they have faith and Christ and yet their word and light is without them and that word we witness which is nigh in the heart and this is the word of faith which the Apostles preached and he that hath Christ or faith hath this word which is Christ the light not in letter but in spirit and all them we deny whose law is without and morrall and that law we witness which is spirituall written in the heart and this law is perfect and endures for ever Heb. 8.10.11 Heb. 7.19 and all the Changeable laws wee deny