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A40939	Moses message to Pharoah, or God sending to the heads of England go undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, to serve Him in the wilderness, that he may do them good in their latter dayes. For Israel shall be many dayes without a king, without a priest, without an ephod, and without a teraphim, afterward they shall look [...]he Lord their God, and David their king, and shall [...]ar the Lord, and his goodness in his latter dayes, ...	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1653 (1653)	Wing F491B; ESTC R218272	26,840	33

light and were guided by the Spi●●● God and their consciences was purged from ●●ncleanness by the blood of the covenat and were all gathered together by the Spirit of tr●●● out of all the wayes and works of darkness 〈◊〉 light did lead them out of all the worlds wayes of all the worlds worships which was outward carnal saith the Apostle to them Touch not 〈◊〉 not handle not which all are to perish with using Col. 2.21 22. This light of God in them 〈◊〉 lead them out of all the worlds customes and ●●●ons which the Apostle did exhort them to 〈◊〉 he Be not conformed like unto this world but be t●●● formed by the renewing of your minds that ye● know what is that good that acceptable and pe●●● will of God this light of God in them did them and guide them out of all the worlds 〈◊〉 and did lead them into the way of peace and 〈◊〉 and they were gathered by this light out of al●● crookedness and perversenss out of all lying 〈◊〉 maliciousness for they was to put off anger a●● speak the truth one to another for the Lord● delight in them who walk in righteousness be●● him saith Jesus Christ Let your yea be yea your nay Mat. 5.37 nay in all things being faithful in wa● one towards another faithfulness grows ana●●nesty grows and uprightness grows and so the●● come faithful to bring forth fruit To the 〈◊〉 and glory of God by this light was they ga●●●● together up to unity of spirit they were a●●tized into one body Joh. 15.8 1 Cor. 12.12 13 14. Eph. 4.4 5 6. by one Spirit and they we●● made to drinke into one Spirit they were come u●●● to mount Sion and unto the City of the living Ge●● heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable c●●● of Angels and to the Spirits of just men made p●● the Church of the first born Heb. 12.21 22. The S●●● did enjoy the substance of the second cove● made manifest in them which was Christ rea●●●● in them 1 Cor. 2 7. Gal. 1.16 the life of Christ was made manife●● their mortal flesh and the glory of the Lord ●●realed in them 2 Cor. 4.10 11. Rom. 8.1 1 Joh. 2. 15 16. Mat. 6.2 they had the substance of what ●●e first covenant did contain which was outward 〈◊〉 the Jew outwardly made manifest in them and ●y the light of God revealing and manifesting it to ●●eir souls after they came to the enjoyment of it 〈◊〉 caused them to deny the world and they exhor●ed others to take heed of it saying Love not the ●orld not the things of the world for say they If ●●y man love the world the love of the Fther is not in ●im no man can serve two masters they cannot ●erve God and the world for the love of the world 〈◊〉 enmity with God and by experience from the enjoyment of this mystery of godliness made manifest in them they said Eye hath not seen 1 Cor. 2.10 ear hath not heard neither hath it entred into the heart of man 〈◊〉 conceive those things that God hath laid up for those that love him The Saints did possess that which the world doth but now profess they had the full enjoyment of those things which the Scripture doth declare and they did live the life of the righteous and they were gathered out of the world and did walk up in obedience to the commands of God therein was they known to differ from the world for saith Jesus Christ If you love me 1 Joh. 2.6 1 Joh. 5.2 3. keep my Commandments now they did so wherein say they by this we know that we love God because we keep his Commandments and his Commandments are not grievious but joyous 1 Joh. 2.3 It is the delight of those that are borne againe to do the will of God none can but those that are born anew for every man by nature is a childre of wrath and the naturall man he knows not the things of God because they are spiritually discerned and again no man knows the Son but the Father neither knoweth any man the Faher but the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him all the wisdom of the world cannot enter into the knowledge of this mystery to unfold it it was revealed to the Saints that had the enjoyment of it wh●● the world hated at every appearance of God in t●● discovering himself to his people the world is in e●●mity against it marvel not if the world hate you sai●● Jesus Christ it is not to be marvelled at for saith he hated me before it hated you saith he if ye were of i●● world Joh. 3.13 ●oh 15.17 ●3 19 20 ●● ●●ak 6.22 ●● Pet. 4.13 ●● ●at 5.11 ●● ●●h 17.18 ●● 20 21. the world would love you but because I have chosen you out of the world therefore doth the world ha●● you and again saith he Ye shall be hated of all men fa●●● my names sake but saith he Blessed are you when 〈◊〉 revile you and persecute you and say all manner 〈◊〉 evill against you falsly for my names sake rejoyce a●● be exceeding glad for great is your reward in He●ven for so persecuted they the Prophets that were before you And where the Lord is appearing in his people now great is the rage and madness of the world for whom God loves the world hates nay the highe●● profession persecutes the Lord in his Saints whe●● he is made manifest in power all profession without possession is hypocrisy and dissimulation Al●● the holy men of God were possessers but the world now lives in words deceiving themselves and di●sembling both with God and man and practising nothing but deceit and the Priests are the grand enemies to Jesus Christ and the great deceivers of the people they tell the people they are the Ministers of Jesus Christ and indeed they are Antichrist acting altogether against Christ and they are the greatest upholders of oppression of any which Jesus Christ came to throw down the whole creation is burdened by this stinking professed Ministery they act the same things that the Scribes and Pharisees did they hold up those things that Jesus Christ came to throw down and laid down his life for and yet these deceivers that deceive the nations say they are sent of Christ but they are found lyars Jesus Christ foretold of such that should ●ome for saith he there shall come false prophets in ●●eeps clothing Mat. 7 1●.16 17 1● 19 20 21. but inwardly are ravening woolves but saith he By their fruits ye shall know them Mat. 7. ●hey say and do not Is it not so with the false ●eachers in England they say they are sent of Christ but he that saith he is in Christ 1 Joh. 2.6 ought to ●alk as he walked Jesus Christ was an example ●or all his to follow and the Apostle who was a ●rue Minister of Christ did exhort the people to ●ollow him Heb.

temple of God and he went and spoke against 〈◊〉 outward temple and said God that made the w●●● did not dwell in temples made with hands Act. 17.24 25. neither 〈◊〉 he worshipped with mens hands as though he 〈◊〉 any thing who giveth to all life and breath a●●● things and hath made all Nations of the earth of 〈◊〉 would and one blood to serve him and the Apo●●● went to draw them off from the outward wors●●● to exhort them to mind the light in them tha●●● shew them sin and evill to mind that and it 〈◊〉 ●●a● them into all light 2 Pet. 1.19 2 Cor. 4.6 1 Co● 4.7.10 11. ver saith he Yee have a 〈◊〉 to the which ye do well to take heed unto as unto 〈◊〉 that s●in●th in a darke place untill the day dawn●●● the ●●y-Siar arise in your hearts that light did 〈◊〉 them ●at of all the wayes and works of darknes● 〈◊〉 wrought out that carnal part in them which 〈◊〉 ●hem at a distance from the Lord who received it ●nd were obedient to it and it did it did lead them 〈◊〉 purity into righteousness up to the everlasting ●ay of the Lords love and mercy and brought all ●●at walked in obedience to it to be united into one ●ody to be of one heart and mind Heb. 12.22 23 24. to be a family of ●●ve a houshould of faith and they met together ●nd waited upon the Lord and spoke their conditi●ns one to another and had no man to speak over ●●em 1 Cor. 14.23.30 31 32. Isa 54.13 14. 1 Cor. 14. chap. God did fulfill his promise ●●ven forth by Jeremiah the Prophet of the Lord in ●●e new covenant Jer. 31.34 where it is said that 〈◊〉 would teach them himself and in Isa the 54. ●●ere it was promised by that Prophet that all the ●●ildren of the Lord should be taught of the Lord ●●d he would establish them in righteousness All ●●o came to enjoy the second covenant they did ●●tness the substance of all that made manifest in ●●em which was spoken in the first covenant that ●●s made to the Jew outwardly Now he is not a ●●w that is one outwardly but he is a Jew that is one ●●wardly The Jew outwardly he had his cove●●nt outwardly the Jew inwardly had his cove●●nt inwardly Christ was this covenant and they ●●und him revealed and manifested in them the ●●w outwardly in the outward covenant he had a ●●w outwardly written in tables of stone the Jew ●●wardly he had his law inwardly in the new co●●nant written in the fleshly tables of the heart ●●t with Inke but with the Spirit of the living ●●od the Jew outwardly he had his law-giver out●ardly but the Jew inwardly he hath his law-gi●●r inwardly in this second covenant Isa 33.22 Exod. 18.13 to the 28. Heb. 12.22 the Jew out●ardly in the first covenant had his Judges out●ardly the Jew inwardly he hath his Judge inward●● in the second covenant in the first covenant ●●oses was to set over the people faithful men fearing God and hating covetousness and they was judge the people at all seasons ●am 5.9 ●xod 18. ●0 21 22. the Jew inward he hath the Lord to be his law-giver Iudge a● King to judge and condemne sin in the flesh that 〈◊〉 right●ousness of the law may be fulfilled Christ is 〈◊〉 end of the law inwardly for righteousness and ●●raigne as king for ever The Jew outwardly in 〈◊〉 first covenant which was outward had his prop●●● outwardly but the Jew inwardly he hath his p●●phet inwardly even Jesus Christ the Jew o●●wardly in the first covenant which was outwa●● had his priests outwardly the Jew inwardly he h●●● his teacher inwardly in the new covenant whic● inward the Lord alone is the teacher of all 〈◊〉 himself alone Isa 55. Ye need not that any man t●● you 1 Joh. 2.27 but as the anointing teacheth you 1 Joh. 2.27 〈◊〉 the Children of the Lord are taught of the Lo●● in righteousness are they established and are 〈◊〉 from oppression The Jew outwardly he hath 〈◊〉 word outwardly the Jew inwardly he hath 〈◊〉 word inwardly Rom. 10. The word is nigh thee i● mouth Rom. 10.8 1 Cor. 6.19 2 Cor. 6.16 17 18. and in thy heart the Jew outwardly he 〈◊〉 his temple outwardly in the first covenant 〈◊〉 Jew inwardly his temple made without hands 〈◊〉 bodies made the temples of the living Gad the 〈◊〉 outwardly he had his circumcision outwardl● the first covenant which was outward but the 〈◊〉 inwardly in the second covenant he hath his 〈◊〉 cumcision inwardly circumcised with the circum●●●●on made without hands the cutting off the bod● sin the Jew outward he had his guide outward●● the Jew inwardly his guide inwardly they that 〈◊〉 guided by the Spirit of God they are the son 〈◊〉 God Rom. 8.14 The Iew outwardly in the first covenant 〈◊〉 had his sacrifice outwardly the life of the crea●● was to be offered up in a sacrifice and it did 〈◊〉 purifie the flesh the outward part It coul● 〈◊〉 ●●ifie as touching the conscience him that offered it up ●e Jew inwardly in the new Covenant the blood Jesus Christ is offered up to purifie the consci●e the Jew outwardly he had his evidence out●rdly the Jew inwardly he hath his inwardly are is three that bear record in earth the water 1 Joh. 5.6 7 8 9. the ●ad and the spirit and these three agree in one In the 〈◊〉 covenant which was outwardly to the Iew out●rdly they had a Sabbath outwardly the chil●●n of Israel after they was come out of Egypt Lord gave them a Sabbath a sabbath is a rest ●●gne of the true rest which the Saints did injoy in ●●ist the second covenant Heb. 4. There is a rest the people of God Heb. 4.9 10. and he that believeth hath en●●● into his rest and hath ceased from his works as 〈◊〉 did from his In the first covenant which was ward their Church was outward gathered to●●er by an outward command of the letter with●●● in the new covenant which was inward the 〈◊〉 inwardly their Church was in God 1 Thes 1.1 〈◊〉 and Silvanus and Timotheus 1 Thes 1.1 1 Pet. 2.5 9. they writ unto the ●uch of the Thessalonians which were in God the ●●●er of our Lord Jesus Christ and they was all ●●ered together by the light of God in them that ●●t which the Apostle did exhort them to be mind●● of in 2 Pet. 1.19 and that light did lead them guide them out of the pollutions of the world guided them up to purity to holiness to righ●●●ness and they were born againe begotten by the will of man but by the will of God 1 Pet. 1.18 19 20 21 22 23. begot●●● by the immortal word born of water and the 〈◊〉 and they did walk after the Spirit in love ●●tenderness of compassion one towards another 〈◊〉 was of one heart and one minde and was all ●●dren of the

7.8 ● 10 11 12. c. Heb. 8.6 7. c. Heb. 9.8 9. Heb. 10.9.10 so far as he followed Christ now Jesus Christ came to take off oppression from the people ●nd to undo the heavy burdens that they groaned ●nder then by the fair-sayers as those hypocrites ●re now that say and do not Jesus Christ came ●o take off that oppression of Tythes that was one ●●ing that he shed his blood for but Antichrist holds ●up which is contrary to Christ Christ came to throw down the idols temple and to throw down ●he outward worship which the Jew outwardly had ●nd to fulfill all that the law did contain outwardly ●hat he might place his law in their hearts to be ful●illed there That he alone might teach them by his Spirit without form Jer. 31.33.34 Heb. 8.10.11 Joh. 4.23.24 to worship the Father in Spirit and in truth Joh. 4. Now the false teachers in Eng●and holds up the idols temple and sits in the seat of the Scribes and Pharisees acting as in a stage●lay for money all for filthy lucre and prosesseth the Scripture to be their rule when there is not a Scripture to warrant them for any thing they do There is not a word in the Scripture for them to go to Cambridge or Oxford to be so long there to ●earn a trade of deceit to give a meaning to the Scripture to gloss them over by their humane and serpentine wisdome to deceive people with their imaginations but to the contrary for the Scripture saith that every word of God is pure and he that addeth thereto or taketh therefrom shall be reproved and found a lyar Prov. 30.5 6. and 〈◊〉 gaine see what the Lord said to Moses in Deut. 4. 〈◊〉 Ye shall not adde unto the word which I command 〈…〉 but these goes contrary to the command of t●● Lord that goes to learn deceit to add their 〈◊〉 mane wisdom to that which is truth in it self a●● the Spirit of God could not understand its own d●claration And again saith Jesus Christ I testi●● that he that addes to the word of the prophecie I w●● adde to him all the plagues that are written in the B●●● Rev. ult And again it is said that no man knows 〈◊〉 Son but the Father neither knows any man the Fath●● but the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him as i● 〈◊〉 in John Then what use is all their brain-study 〈◊〉 It is all deceit dung and dirt Away with it a●●● with it the Lord is coming to burn up all dece●●● and deceivers and to scatter the proud in all their i●●●ginations Howl ye proud Priests for wo and mise●●● is your portion wo was the portion of the Scri●●●● and Pharisees that laid heavie burdens upon 〈◊〉 people as these deceivers do that deceive the p●●ple and bewitcheth them with those things wh●●● God never commanded telling the people that th●● are Ordinances of God There is not a word in t●● Scripture for sprinkling Infants and those fa●●●● Priests say that it is an Ordinance of Christ a●● they can make Christians as they say by sprinkl●●● them with a little water and so entreth them i●● Covenant so making Christians by their imagi●tions These are the false christs and false proph●●● spoken of in Scripture Now the Saints they w●●● baptized by one Sp●●● m o one body and they were 〈◊〉 of one heart and one minde There is not a word 〈◊〉 the Scripture for Tythe-mongers and false teach●●● in England to have the tenth of the yeers Incre●●●● of all things for their brain-study whereby they ●●ceive the people professing themselves to be the ●●●●sters of Christ and act altogether against Christ ●ewing themselves to be Antichrists What Scripture ●ave they to take Tythe of wheat rye and barley What Scripture have they for their rule to take tithe ●f oats pease and beans What Scripture have they ●●r their rule to take tythe of sheep the tenth lamb ●nd the tenth fleece Eze. 34 2● 3.4 v. 16 ● But as it was amongst the false ●eachers in Israel Ezek. 34. so it is with the false tea●hers in England now they teach for the fleece and ●●ed themselves with the fat but the Lord will feed ●uch with judgement 〈◊〉 ●●●se t●●●●●est th●●●●ipture 〈◊〉 Mini●●●● Saints ●●●phold 〈◊〉 not of ●●●nding ●●●●ng in ●●●mies ●●●●gn in 〈◊〉 ●●●eer What Scripture have they for ●heir rule to take tythe of hemp and flax pigs ●nd what Scripture have they for their rule to take ●ythe-apples and plums walnuts and cherries what Scripture have they for their rule to take money for ●ggs and to have tythe-geese What Scripture have ●hey for their rule to take money for the reek passing ●p the chimneys What Scripture have they for their ●ule to take a peny for a garden every yeer What Scripture have they for their rule to take money for every foal that is foaled What Scripture have they ●or their rule to take money for every cow that hath a calf and a peny for them that have none What Scripture have they for their rule to take a farthing of a shilling of servants for their wages What Scripture have they for their rule to Church women as they do and take mony for it when they have done What Scripture have they for their rule to bury as they do and take mony for it when they have done did either Jesus Christ or his Apostles that were the true Minister of the Gospel ever do so See if these be not the task-masters of Egypt there is scarce any thing but these deceivers have an end in it they are altogether for filthy lucre contrary to the Apostle to Timothy and Titus 1 Tim. 1 2 3. Tit. 1.7 ● 1 Pet 5.2 ● who were true Ministers of Christ Tit. 1.8 9 10. See who denies the Scriptures but those that deny to walk according to them in life and conversation For shame down with oppression blush for shame all such deceivers a●● upholders of the deceits and never profess love 〈◊〉 God nor Christ ●sa 33.14 ●5 for your profession is found to 〈◊〉 hypocrisie and wo and misery will be your porti●●● except ye repent give over deceiving the peop●● Down with all deceivers ●ude 11. v. false worships the gre●●● day of the Lord is coming upon them all What Sc●●●pture have these for their rule that have great su●●●● of money so much a yeer gifts and rewards as 〈◊〉 laams priests had What Scripture have they 〈◊〉 their rule that have Augmentations And what Scr●pture have they for their rule to go to law for tith●● or for any thing else that profess themselves to 〈◊〉 Ministers of Christ Neither Christ nor any that 〈◊〉 sent forth to preach the Gospel but all spoke again●● it saith Christ Whosoever shall sue thee at the law a●● take away thy coat let him have thy cloak also Matth 〈◊〉 and the Apostle who was a true Minister spoke