ever for the witnesse of God in me answered thereto and that their message was true and faithfull for I had that in me which had never consented to the evil of my wayes from my youth up untill that day but was a witnesse against me when I did sin against God and after had brought sorrow upon me for my vaine and wicked conversation and after I had believed their report concerning the holy pure light of Christ as they told me it came from him and would lead to him I witnessed their words to be true and at this time am ready to seale to the truth thereof with my blood if called thereunto of the Lord for through it I came to have accesse to God and no other way yet so as through judgement which laid hold of the transgressor in me and all that ever I had done came to be judged by him who sitteth upon the throne and liveth for evermore So I came to witnesse the promise of God in me that judgement should rest for a light to the people for it was so in me and I heard a voice saying This is the way walk in it turn neither to the right hand nor to the left so my teacher came to be near me even in me and will never be removed into a corner any more if diligently heeded and followed which teacher is the light of Christ in the conscience which shined in the darknesse in me though the darknesse could not comprehend it but as I came to heed it diligently it did comprehend all the darkness in me and for me and hath given me a clear discovery of all things pertaining to the Mysterie of the Kingdom of God which are needful unto salvation and I came to see Pharaoh and his host overturned which kept the seed of God in bondage in me and I passed the Red Sea into the wilderness where I came to know a sacrifice offered up which he did accept and not before and then I came to mount Sinai to the giving forth of the Law which was terrible to the flesh but it was and is glorious unto me and will be for ever for it laid hold on nothing but on that part which is estranged from God wherein I had seen many wonders and overturning of enemies yet many temptations and provocations I had to returne into Egypt again and that I should never be able to enter the promised Land the enemies were so great which I know all will come to be tempted in like manner who come truly to travail towards the Land of rest but to such an one I say be of good cheer and courage for if thy heart be given to God he will of a truth be with thee in all thy travails even to the end thereof and thy work will be only to keep in the Faith and so thou wilt find thy strength will be to stand still and see the Salvation of God For this testimony I faithfully give and bear for the Lord that it is he only who doth and will subdue all their enemies in and for them be they never so many or mighty who truly put their whole trust and confidence in his name alone who is a strong tower in time of need I say such shall possess the gates of their enemies and shall come to witness with me as I do at this day the elder to serve the younger which is the true work and promise of God and the true travail of the seed into the Lord of rest and there is no other salvation to be looked for even the subduing casting out of the seed of the bond woman that the Seed of the free woman which is Christ the Son of the most high God over all blessed for evermore may have the preheminency in the creature and thus coming out of Egypts darknesse I came to see that all the teachers in the world made by the will of man were but soul-deceivers for they had not the word from the Lord neither were they sent by him therefore did not they profit the people at all and were but Babels builders one building and another destroying and all in the confusion and the most refined of them were but Ministers of the letter and not of the Spirit boasting of other mens lines made ready unto their hands serving and worshipping the works of their own hands according to the oldnesse of the letter and not according to the newness of the Spirit and teaching them for Doctrine the traditions of men And thus are poor people in an expectation of deliverance and salvation through their teachings but all in vain for when they have heard them all their life time they tell them they can never be freed from sin and yet tell them they are good Christians though they be Drunkards Swearers Liars and wicked persons and this is the fruits of their Ministry which all shall witness with me who come to the one teacher and Shepherd of the soul who saveth all to the uttermost that come unto him who is the light of the world and enlightneth every one which cometh into the world who saith Learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart who is the way the truth and the life and he is the door even the light for the way is but one the truth is but one which is the light the onely way to God and there is not another And no man cometh to the Father but by me saith Christ the light the door the way the life so none can ever come to God nor the way to God nor the truth but who comes to the light wherewith they are inlightned which comes from Christ and condemneth all the evil that is in the creature and sheweth a man all that ever he hath done for saith the woman of Samaria Is not this the Christ who hath told me all that ever I have done So all likewise who come unto the light they witnesse with her and with me the same thing and all who come into subjection unto it shall come to witnesse the wild Colt tamed upon which never man sat and then and not till then is Hosannah sung nor blessed can he ever be who comes in the name of the Lord by any untill this be fulfilled and witnessed by them and in them and this onely is the state of a true convert and true Christian and is my testimony for the Lord which shall stand for ever whether ye will hear or forbear And thus far have I cleared my conscience towards you in obedience towards God and love to your immortal souls therefore prize it while ye have time least the things which belong to your peace be hid from your eyes and a lamentation be taken up by the just for you as was over Jerusalem saying O Jerusalem Jerusalem how often would I have gathered thee as a Hen gathereth her chickins under her wings and thou wouldest not Therefore I say again and again lay it to heart and prize Gods everlasting love unto you all which is freely tendred unto you notwithstanding that your sins have surpassed the measure of many Nations and remember Nineveh who repented at Jonahs preaching in Sackcloath and ashes whose sins and abominations never surpassed yours which is a word of truth unto you all therefore take her for an example and repent in time least Gods judgements overtake you for Gods anger is kindled against the workers of iniquity he will destroy them from off the face of the earth that nothing but holiness may reign for evermore And the meek alone shall inherit the earth for ever and ever And this is the infallible Decree and purpose of my God which can never be recalled but will stand for ever and it hastneth to be fulfilled and he will overthrow Powers Princes Kings and Dominions even all such as shall oppose or withstand him in this his glorious work whom he will destroy in his fury will break them in pieces Therefore O ye powers of the earth down with your Crowns at the feet of the Lamb and ye shall find mercy but if ye resist him he will grind you to powder And this is the word of the Lord God unto you all and I shall be innocent before the Lord God of my life for ever therefore be awakned and beware what you do now ye are warned for you will be left without excuse if you perish and you shall know that you have been warned in time by one whom the Lord hath truly required so to do which if I should not wo wo would be unto me for ever so I shall lay down my life here in Peace and Rest and shall rejoyce if ye take warning more then in the treasures of Egypt who am called by the name of Charles Baily THE END
his own right hand hath planted and none shall be able to pluck you up for he will keep you in the hollow of his hand and they which shall touch you to harm you shall be as though they touched the apple of his eye and though for a time some of you may be suffered to be tryed for the tryal of others yet assuredly it shall be but for a short season a book of remembrance thereof will be written before the Lord and you will delight to meet often together to speak of his goodness and he will assuredly be in the mid'st of you and ye shall be his Temple Sanctified and made meet for his Use and he will delight to take up his habitation with you for ever and remember Satan may have power given to kill some of you and put some of you in prison ten days Read and understand and be not dismayed at these things when they shall come upon you For so did they persecute of old the holy Prophets of God before you and if any of you shall go in this cause to save your lives ye shall assuredly lose it but they which shall lay it downe for this testimony shall surely save it And whosoever shall forsake Father or Mother for my sake saith Christ shall receive in this life an hundred fold and in the world to come life everlasting And as I have said a day and a time of tryal may come over you But a short worke will the Lord make in the earth for his Seeds sake And the Rod of the wicked shall not alwayes rest upon the back of the righteous saith the Lord God Allmighty But I have said in and through the good Spirit of the Lord and by the strength of his own Arm which is made bare he will burst the bonds of your oppressors asunder that his oppressed seed may go free even to the ends of the uttermost habitations of the earth Therefore I say again to the holy Seed in you even the Seed of the Kingdome Which is as a grain of mustard seed yea the least of all things in you which if ye diligently need prize and follow it will become a great plant and cover the whole earth in you which if ye do the good which I have shewed you in faithfulnesse to God and which is to all your immortal souls will come upon you but if ye refuse and reject the good councel of the Lord unto you and joyne to the power of the oppressor to keep the Seed in bondage then know as sure as the Lord liveth the just shall be taken from you and all the evil I have been made to Prophecy of shall come upon your heads in a day when ye looked not for it even when ye may be eating and drinking and Marrying and giving in marriage Remember the old world and take ye warning before it be too late For the Spirit of the Lord will not alwayes strive with man which is the Word of the Lord God unto you all and wo be unto that man or Nation as the Spirit of the Lord shall cease striving with better were it that they had never been born for a manifestation of his holy Spirit hath been given to every one to profit withall which is the Lords money and your talent and misery will be the portion of those that hide their Masters money in the earth for such have grieved his righteous Spirit which will be too heavy for them to bear in the end Read the parable and againe I say be ye warned and while ye have time prize it before it be too late Remember Esau who after he had despised his Birthright sought it carefully with teares but there was no place found for his repentance And do not think it will be sufficient for you to deny bowing unto the Images and Idols of the Nation while ye live openly in the same abominations of those which went before for the voice saith Be ye separated and touch no unclean thing and I will accept you saith the Lord which the Light of Christ Jesus in you search whether it be not so as I say and have said in every particular and let Judgement pass upon the head of the transgressor in you that the oppressed Seed of God may go free to Reigne and Rule over you and in you for ever for Sion is to be redeemed by Judgement and her Converts with righteousnesse and the Prophet said He would bear the indignation of the Lord because he had sinned against him Therefore give up freely to the judgement that ye may reape righteousnesse for God hath said that judgement shall be given for a Light to the people and truly the judgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether for by them is thy servant forewarned I call Heaven and earth to record this day That you are truly and faithfully warned to fly and escape the evil to come and life and death is set before you and if ye chuse the Light ye shall live for the Light is the life of men but if ye refuse to be guided by it then darkness shall be your habitation for ever for a true Jubilee and release is tendred unto you of the Lord freedome from bondage and corruption within and and without and if ye reject this glorious freedome even freedome from your old master which is sin and Satan then hear ye the word of the Lord ye shall be boared through the eare and be made to serve your old Master for ever not one jot or tittle of this which is here written shall pass away unfulfilled be it with you or against you I shall be cleare of your bloud before the Lord for ever God will be Justified and glorified in all Even in them which believe and in them which perish Think not that going unto the Temple once or twice a week and there to hear what a man hath studied in his own will and time will serve turn nay nor yet the taking of Davids words and singing of them who was a man of a true penitent heart before the Lord who fasted cryed and mourned because of his transgressions and watered his Couch with his teares yea and so abhorred all workers of iniquity that he said He would not keep a lyar in his house which is far wide from your state who take his words and say you are not puft in mind you have no scornfull eye and you have fasted untill one may number your bones and you have roared for the disquietnesse of your hearts and are you not a company of liars and offer a sacrifice of lies unto the Lord And do you not think the Lord will Judge you for these things Yea verily do you not read That all liars shall be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone and no liars can enter into the holy habitation and rest of God Consider these things and lay them to heart and put away lying out of your
A Seasonable Warning To such who profess themselves MEMBERS OF Reformed Churches INTO What Forme soever gathered or where-ever scattered over the face of the whole earth but most especially to France and the parts adjacent With a few remarkable QUERIES c. Given forth in love to all souls a tender visitation of breathing desires of good to the whole Creation by a friend thereof CHARLES BAILY LONDON Printed in the Year 1663. try your spirits and there is no difference between you and those you seem to deny for in nature ye are one in pride and hypocrisie envy malice and cruelty drunkenness swearing lying whoredom deceit and whatsoever is evill and were the power in your hands ye would be more cruel then those ye seem to complain of and in the ground there is no difference between you for ye have lost your suffering spirit which was once amongst you at the first and are grown as vaine in your Imaginations as any of the heathen of the Nations Therefore repent repent ye also and think not in your hearts that it will serve your turns to say you are reformed while iniquity and abomination is in your inward parts and are not at all reformed from that to wit iniquity though ye say ye are saved by faith in Christ ye are found wholly out of that spirit and doctrine which leadeth To do unto all men as ye would others should do unto you as your fruits hath proved some of you casting out of the Synagogues or Temples as the Jews did and as is foretold should be done unto my servants Therefore be ye warned in time and remember how the Jews came under the reproofe of the Just when they said they were Abrahams children whilest they were Of their father the Devil whose works they did and do you not think but your evill deeds are as abommable as theirs they boasted as well as you they were the children of my Covenant while you and them trample the Blood thereof under your feet for which cause a curse came upon them and shall also come upon you if ye repent not and take not warning in time while my hand is stretched out towards you for good that ye may live and not die in your sins for if you die in your sins Where I go ye cannot come saith Christ Jesus the Light of the world who is the Covenant of God given for Salvation unto the ends of the earth and untill ye come to this Light ye are far from being children of the Covenant as ye pretend but in Covenant with Hell Death and the Devill pleading for sin as long as you live which is the Devils Kingdom and for so doing ye give men great sums of money yearly which is an abominable thing to the Lord God Almighty And then you say you are Christians by Baptisme and the like sprinkling a little water upon the face or head of a child and thereby have an entrance into the Church and yet will not admit the same to the Roman-Catholicke though their Water hath as much vertue as yours and the child of the one believeth as much as the other and both when they grow up are in one nature which sheweth plainly you are ignorant of the one onely true Baptisme which washeth away sin and corruption and gives a true entrance into the Church which is in God the ground and Pillar of truth into which no unclean thing can have an entrance for it is a spiritual House built with living Stones elect and precious Christ Jesus being the chief corner stone who gave himself for it That he might present it to God without spot or wrinkle or any such thing And this is the true Church and Baptism which gives an entrance into it and the true saith which once came and takes the possession So read and try and prove your selves If Christ be not in you ye are reprobates professe what you will and if Christ were in you The body would be dead because of sin but the spirit is life because of righteousness but how far you are from this let the Light of Christ Judge in you therefore repent that ye may find mercy and think not that God will have respect unto your persons no more then he had respect to those who said They were Jewes and were not for because of that he said he would spue them out of his mouth and seeing he spared not the natural branches but cut them off the root because of transgression do you think he will spare you Nay verily The soul that sinneth shall die saith God for he spared not the Angels who kept not their first estate but hath reserved them under the chaines of darkness untill the Judgement of the great day And let these things be a seasonable warning unto you for it was so and is so that he which is a Jew outwardly is not the true Jew neither is he a Christian who beareth the name outwardly and hath not the nature of Christ all such are an abomination to the Lord. You are so far from being leavened into his nature which only maketh a Christian that if any one come amongst you and say he hath the Spirit of God he is had in great derision amongst you and is laughed at to scorne though the Apostle saith He that hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of his and all who were Baptized with the true Baptisme they received the Holy Ghost So read consider and try your selves what state you are in and do not think that the nature of Christ is changed since the Apostles time nay it is all one though many have the name and are out of the nature You fall a quarelling and killing one another about their words this was not the nature of Christians for they were the sons of God led by his pure Holy Spirit which was Gentle meeke and easie to be intreated full of long-suffering and mercy even to enemies and ready to do good unto all in which spirit walking they did not fulfil the lusts of the flesh but in it conquered and had dominion over sin Hell and the Devil though a time of warfare they came to witness before they came unto this state as all the Saints and holy men of God ever did witness the travel of the children of Israel through the wilderness into the land of rest which is the true Type of all the travel of the faithfull for they came to witness the true Baptisme as it is written They were all Baptized into Moses under the Cloud who was a true Type of Christ and because of unbelief many did not enter because they received the false report and believed they should never overcome their enemies which things relate all unto the true spiritual warfare of every true Christian which did believe and entered and possessed the land of rest which is the true Sabbath and it is written He that believes hath entered into rest ceased from sin which is
the enemy adversary of all mankind and to this did the true Christians attain in this life even a perfect Redemption from sin and did witness the Blood of Christ sufficient to purge them from all unrighteousness and saith the Apostle he which hath Suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin Marke such ceased from sin and witnessed the body of sin put off and again the Apostle Paul saith unto the Romans when they were Servants unto sin they were free from righteousness being then made free from sin they Became the servants of righteousness So these things did the true Christians come to witness though you are not ashamed to take their words to plead for the Devils Kingdome as long as you live though the Apostle saith His servants ye are to whom ye obey So he which obeys sin is a servant of sin and the Apostle James saith let no man say When he is tempted that he is tempted of God for God tempteth not to evil but when a man is tempted unto lust he is tempted of the Devil and lust when it is conceived brings forth sin and sin when it is finished brings forth death so be not deceived with vain words For such as you sow such shall you reape if you sow to the Spirit ye shall of the Spirit reape life everlasting but if to the flesh ye shall of the flesh reape corruption for the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life So come all to the gift of God which is the Light of Christ Jesus which he hath enlightened you withall and you will come to know the free grace of God unto Salvation which will teach you to deny all ungodly lusts and not to plead for them and to live Soberly and righteously in this present evil world Marke this is the fruit and effect of the Grace of God and is not onely given to talke of and say you are saved by grace while you turn from it in wantonness which the Saints and Christians did not but came through the Cross to be saved even from sin and being redeemed from their vain conversation which they lived in in times past so witnessed a new birth which was of God which sinned not being washed with water by the word which word is Christ the Saviour of the soul and all who comes to know the word abiding in them they do know and witness this state even a perfect state from sin and that was their boldness in the day of Judgement that as Christ was so were they in this present world perfect even as their Father which is in Heaven is perfect So here is a true measuring line for you to measure your selves by what stock and lineage ye are of and who is your Father and whom ye obey for the true Christians Christ was their Example in all things and left them a perfect Example that they should follow his steps who said Learn of me for I am meeke and lowly in heart and the true Christians followed him and were like minded in all things Friends my hearts desire is to the Lord for you that you may be saved and come to the knowledge of truth which truth will make you free from sin and pollution though this thing stumbled the Jews when Christ spake it unto them for they looked out at some worldly thing not considering they were servants to sin which was the cause of all their misery Therefore be ye warned and fear pleading for that which will be your utter destruction if ye live and die in it read through the whole Book of Scripture and see if ever any Covenant of God stood with any Nation or people but as they did forsake their sins or were there ever any people to whom God did so largely manifest himself as unto the Jews and yet when they forsooke the holy Commandement which was delivered unto them did not the Lord forsake them yea verily and will all who do the like But if any of you shall say they were under a Covenant of workes and we under grace were they not under the Covenant of grace as well as any yea verily in all their travels did not the spiritual Rocke follow them which was Christ And after the Law was administred unto them by Moses did not he preach the true and living faith unto them saying they were not to say Who shall ascend or go beyond the Seas that they may hear and do it but what said he The word is nigh you even in your mouth and in your heart that ye may do it and was not this the same word of faith the Apostle Preached yea even the living faith which gives dominion over sin Hell Death and the Grave by which all the Saints of old had their glorious dominion and by which the Just liveth and they who come to witness this true and living faith they know a Shield against all the fiery darts of the Devil which faith Worketh by love and love fulfilleth the whole law of God which is to love God with all thy heart and thy neighbour as thy self So here is the true faith and the man which is in it does unto all men as he would all should do unto him which is the true Christians life and there is not another Oh! how doth my soul pitty you to see the blindness and ignorance you are fallen into though ye pretend the Scripture to be your rule which condemns you in all your practises as will plainly appear when you come to be tried by them doth any thing availe but a new Creature doth not the Scripture say and also doth not Christ say Except ye be converted and become as a little child ye cannot inherit the Kingdome of Heaven And againe Except ye be born againe ye cannot see the Kingdome of God Is there any true Christians but who witness this state and birth nay verily there is not any but those who followeth Christ through the Regeneration who cometh to sit with him in his Fathers Kingdome Is there any who do not suffer with him that shall Reigne with him Consider these things in the coole of the day and do not any longer take up a rest and a security in a beare name but come to the nature and then you will witness a true redemption out of all earthly affections and not plead for them but loath them for the Saints conversation was in Heaven which are above you which plead for beggarly lust which shuts out of the Kingdome For no uncleane thing can enter there These things I speake unto you in great plainness and singleness of heart as I am moved of the Lord that ye may come to the true Salvation from sin for who knoweth Christ and his power knoweth him to be in vertue as he is in name even A Saviour of his people from their sins therefore is his name called Jesus God hath sworne that he delighteth not in the death of a sinner
to be holy just in all their conversation for of a truth all the true Christians came to witness this even all old things to passe away and all things to become new without which the new creature cannot be witnessed Which is renewed after the Image of him who hath created him Therefore as an Ambassador from God I beseech you in Christ lay these things to heart and count it not as a vaine thing or as an idle tale but remember that because of sin and iniquity God did ever send Plagues and Judgements unto the sons of men and when they would not be warned thereby he swept them away in his wrath for so hath he appointed in his determined counsell That the wicked shall not go unpunished but they shall be cast into Hell and all who forget God for he is no respecter of persons for of all Nations he who feareth him and worketh righteousnesse is accepted of him but Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man which doth evil for his wrath is revealed from Heaven against all ungodlynesse and unrighteousnesse of men and he is not partiall in judgement as some would make him that he will punish one man for sin and not another nay it is not so with him for Such as every man soweth such shall he reap and every one shall receive a just and due reward for the deeds done in the body whether they be good or whether they be evil The unfaithfull servant had a Talent given him to improve as well as the rest but his unfaithfulnesse was the cause that it was taken from him and he cast into utter darknesse for ever but the faithful entered into the joy of his Lord and this will assuredly be the portion and sentence of all the sons of men the workers of iniquity shall be tormented with the Devil and his Angels for ever And it will not suffice to say Lord Lord in thy name we have done many things yea they came so far as to cast out Devils and prophesied in the name of Christ and so far as this none of you at this day hardly ever came yet and notwithstanding Christ said he know them not depart from me ye cursed workers of iniquity Read and consider and lay it to heart that ye may be an holy people and come to answer Gods Everlasting love which is tendered unto you least the grace of God bestowed upon you be in vain and loose the entering into the Land of promise through unbelief which was the cause why so many fell in the Wildernesse and dyed though they were come forth out of the Land of darknesse and had seen the wonders of the Lord which are set forth as examples for those who should come after for the Gospel was preached unto them as well as unto you And truely from a good understanding doe I declare it unto you that if ye be willing and obedient a larger possession never had any people then the Lord will possesse you with and ye shalt eat the good thereof in peace for if ye accept and embrace his love and reject not his counsell which is freely tendered unto you he will rebuke Princes and Kings for your sakes but if ye harden your necks ye shall be of many people most miserable And these are words of truth and of a good understanding unto you all which will stand a witnesse for God either with you or against you for ever against you if ye reject it and for you if ye receive it for of a truth Gods Eternall and Everlasting love is tendered unto you in and through which if ye receive it and be faithfull to what the Lord will yet further manifest unto you ye shall be blessed with faithful Abraham for ever who forsaked his Fathers house to follow the Lord he knew not whether and stumbled not at the promise of the Lord but was faithful therefore was he called the friend of God and the Father of the faithful I say take him for an example and God Almighty will give you Dominion and honour you before many if you honour him but if you despise him he will despise you and if ye refuse to hear him now when he calls unto you the day is nigh when ye shall call and he will not hear which is a word of eternall truth unto you Therefore arise in the Spirit of meekness and stand a witnesse against all superstitions and Idolatry not onely in word but in life and practise and turn to the light of Christ Jesus which condemns sin and evill in you so will ye become children of the light and become a living testimony against all sin so will ye be a sweet savour unto the Lord in your generation and happy will the man be who joynes to the Lord in deed and in truth in this work his name shall be had in everlasting remembrance for evermore so let the fear and dread of God Allmighty possesse your hearts and the wicked shall be dreaded by you and brought into subjection within you and without you for ever And this is the word of the Lord unto you and blessed will ye be if ye hear and obey it for the youth shall faint and the young Lyon shall suffer hunger but they which feare the Lord shall never want any good thing for the fear of the Lord is clean and the beginning of a true Christian therefore blessed is the man which feareth always he shall be blessed in his deed and shall prosper and flourish like a green Bay tree which is planted by the rivers of water bringing forth fruit in due season to the praise and glory of his Creator and the Lord will spread his table in the sight of his enemies while they suffer hunger And this will the Lord doe for the upright in heart whose hands are not polluted with blood nor deceit harboured between his lips even he shall see the travail of his soul and be satisfied and his dayes shall be prosperous in the land of promise and the sons of the aliens shall be his servants this shall surely be the heritage of those who confesse and forsake their sins but he which hideth it shall not prosper even his prayers shall be loathsome unto the Lord and all his sacrifices an abominable abomination but he which purifieth his way by taking heed unto the Law of the Lord though he be simple yet shall he be made wise and his soul shall be converted for the Lord will perfect his glorious praise in the mouths of babes and sucklings and this thing shall be marvelous in the eyes of many These are prophesies of things which shall shortly come to passe therefore blessed is he which watcheth that he may not be found naked for the day of the Lord is coming on like a theif in the night upon all the inhabitants of the Earth wherein the hearts of all shall be made manifest and made bare and naked of what Nation or
mouths as you desire to be accepted of God and no longer say you Sing to the praise and glory of God and the comfort of your own souls when your Singing is to the dishonour of God such sacrifices are an abomination unto the Lord But whoso cometh before him though never so simple Yet if he have clean hands and a pure heart even he who speaks the truth from his heart shall and will be accepted of him for it is truth in the inward part God onely delights in without which there is no acceptance Were not they condemned of the Lord by the Prophet Who came before him as his people did and heard his word and it was unto them as a very lovely song yet their hearts being after their covetousness availed them nothing and you never yet came so far as this to wit to delight to hear the word of the Lord which is like a fire and a Hammer as hath been said but instead of it ye call the letter the Word whereas the letter saith Christ is the Word yet if you were come to hear the word of God and do it not all would availe you nothing And you to take Bread and give it one to another and call it a Sacrament which word you have no where in the Scripture neither was such a thing ever commanded to Drunkards Swearers Liars and the like but to those who in faithfulness of heart had forsaken all to follow Christ he brake bread amongst them and gave it them as a signe of his true Body and bad them do it in remembrance of him untill he came and when the substance came againe amongst them there was no more need of any outward shadow or figure which thing they did really witnesse shortly after but you are breaking bread all the dayes of your lives and never witness him come as they did Even the second time without sin unto Salvation who are pleading for sin as long as you live and Paul in his first Epistle to the Corinthians speaketh unto them of it who did also abuse it and therefore in his next Epistle he tels them and bids them Try and prove themselves if Christ were not in them they were reprobates So read with moderation and consider If all were reprobates who did not witness Christ in them little will it availe you to take bread and wine and eat it in imitation of what Christ did to his Disciples which thing was neither commanded them nor any who live in sin but the true followers of the lamb did and do shew forth the Lords death in eating and drinking and in all their actions and their moderation appeareth unto all men which sheweth forth both his death and life in them So they brake their bread from house to house with singlenesse of heart which is the thing the Lord delighteth in above all sacrifice whatsoever and such came to witness Christ in them to be their life and all in all and this witnessing in deed and in truth is a true regenerate state and Christians life which is more then to talke or taking a little water and sprinkling it upon the face of a child say it is a seal of the Covenant and an entrance into the Church which is but a Popish trick and invention to deceive the hearts of the simple feeding them with a name but not of the nature which thing hath been sufficiently spoken of already Neither is there any one example in the Scripture for such practise Search and so read and consider what you are a doing for it is high time for of a truth the mighty and terrible day of the Lord is at hand Wherein all shall be judged according to the deeds done in the body whether good or evil Therefore be ye awakened and repent and think not that a man or Minister made in the will of men that can preach unto you about an hours space by the houre glasse once or twice a week will serve your turn which thing is a stink and a shame to all who are true Christians and sheweth plainly that such have not the unlimited Spirit of God which cannot be limitted to a glasse time or place but speaketh in whom he will where he will and as long as he will And this was the true order amongst the Saints in their assemblies not to quench the Spirit of God but the Spirit of the Prophets were subject unto the Prophets so that if any thing was revealed to one that sat by the first was to hold his peace and they might all Prophecy one by one and were not forbidden that all might be edified and did not maintaine an hireling to speak unto them about an hour and if any were moved to speak in that time to call it a disturbance and insolence nay nay in these your fruits and practices you have not so much as a forme of godlinesse much lesse the power as you your selves confesse you have not the Spirit of God which is the power in all the true Christians and was the fruits and effects of the true living Faith without which they could not please God even the Faith which layeth hold on the promise of the Father which is that the holy Spirit even the comforter should come unto them which should lead them into all truth and shew them things to come And this doth all come to witnesse who come to know the onely one and true Baptisme which is by one Spirit baptized into one body which doth not only serve to the washing away of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience towards God even purified from dead works whereby they come to serve and worship the living God in Spirit and in truth and such onely doth he seek to worship him So come away out of all the beggarly Elements which are to perish in the using to serve the Lord in newness of mind without which all your profession and Religion is but in vaine for then and not till then will ye come to witness a bridle to your tongue which bridle ye must come to witness in you even the light which condemneth you for every idle word and action and all the works of the flesh which are these envy pride malice covetousnesse whoredom railing back-biting evil speaking drunkenness gluttony uncleannesse and all uncharitableness and they who do such things shall not inherit the Kingdome of God Gal. 5.19 Therefore go ye not forth for the Kingdome of Heaven is in you saith Christ and as you come to give up to his pure Light you will be levened into its own nature and so be made partakers of it which consisteth not in word but in power holinesse peace and joy in the Holy Ghost which is the desire of my soul that you even my Countreymen may be made partakers of that ye may witness your conversation to be in Heaven and be no longer sayers but doers of the pure holy will of God that ye
may partake of the everlasting blessing which the Lord hath prepared for all who fear him even such everlasting happiness as ear hath not heard neither hath it entred into the heart of man to conceive the unspeakable glory which he hath in store for such who give and offer their bodies as living sacrifices daily to do his will in For truly the sufferings of this present world are not worthy to be compared to the glory which is and shall be revealed in all such And this I do not speak because another hath spoken it but by true and daily experience through sufferings I have found and felt And I say that ye may partake of the same with me in this the day of Gods eternal power is the simple desire of my heart to God for you and I know if ye reject not his loving mercy and counsel which is freely tendred unto you in and through me ye shall not come short of the good things of God for the Lord hath shewed it unto me Therefore come away and give up to God and crowned shall ye be by him for ever which is a word of eternal truth unto you all In his house there are many mansions and if it were not so I would not say it my soul hath richly fed thereon Therefore I through the Spirit of my Father invite you that we may all come to feed at one table together and that ye may no longer feed at the table of the Devill Therefore embrace and accept Gods love that ye may eat of the banquet which is prepared and that God hath sent me forth to invite you to O make not any excuse least ye be rejected and not found worthy there is yet entertainment and room to spare and if ye refuse others shall be constrained to come in even those who stand in the high ways and hedges and ye be shut out for evermore with the foolish Virgins but be ye wise and watch that ye may have your Lamps trimmed that when the cry is made at mid-night ye may enter in with the Bride so will ye be found worthy to eat and drink at his table of his own spiritual food even of his own body and drink of his own blood and will witnesse life in you life I say immortall and will be leavened into his own nature even into a new lump and so you being many will come to be one bread and will be built up together a spiritual house holy and accepted where the Lord will take delight to dwell and make his abode for evermore and this onely is the true blessed state which my Soul desireth ye may come to witnesse in deed and in truth who am a true lover of all Souls A Word unto you who call your selves the Ministers of Christ. IS it not a shame unto you who call your selves by the name of the Ministers of Christ to preach by an hour-glasse and pray by a book doth not this clearly and plainly manifest you are not Ministers of Christ nor of the Spirit who doe thus where have you any example in Scripture for these things done by the Saints who were Ministers of the Spirit and not of the Letter who said they were not Ministers of the Letter but you would so have it and limit the holy Spirit of God as your practises are seen to doe that limit it to an hours time and place and so long it should speak and no longer O take shame upon your selvs for these things and Repent and cease from deceiving the people with your vain customes and traditions and taking money of the people for so doing which they or any who can but read may doe as well as you to take a weeks time or thereabout to study or compact a company of words together even as many as you can well speak in an hours time part you steal out of the Scriptures and another part out of other mens writings and adde your own meanings unto them and so boast of other mens lines made ready unto your hands and have not the word from the Lord but steal it from your Neighbour Therefore the hand and arm of the Almighty is against you and will lay your shame nakednesse and deceit open unto all people that they may no longer be deceived by you Did not the Apostles who were true teachers of God speak as the Spirit of God gave them utterance and sung with the Spirit and with understanding and prayed with the Spirit and with understanding and can any be said to be true Ministers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ but such Oh! how hath the day of the Lord over taken you as a thief in the night wherein your deeds of darknesse are made manifest and discovered and ye found not to be savers but deceivers of Souls being such who teach for Doctrine your own inventions and traditions and so the peoples fear towards God is taught by the traditions of men as Christ said and if any one be moved of the Lord to speak to you or the people while you are in your high places you are the first which will cry to the people to take him away was this the Apostles example who bid if any thing was revealed unto him which sate by the first was to hold his peace or is it not the example and practise of the persecuting spirit whose works and deeds are wrought in the dark and are affraid that the light should reprove them How can ye say unto your hearers and followers as the Apostles and Ministers of Christ did Be ye followers of us as we are of Christ whose examples condemneth yours every way for he said unto his Disciples that they should be hated of all men for his name sake and persecuted and cast out of the Synagogues and the like see and try if your fruit be not like unto those who cast out and not like unto those who were cast out And the Apostle said the man of God should not strike but be humble and should in meeknesse instruct those which did oppose him this was the fruit and practise of the true ministers of Jesus Christ who in all things walked for to be good examples to others bearing their faithful witnesse against all sin and said that no unclean thing could enter into the kingdome of Heaven and bid people walk as they had them for an example but you instead of bearing witness against all sin tell people that they cannot but commit sin as long as they live you your selves being examples of pride to them and immoderation maintaining your wives and children in pride and wantonnesse settling your selves in such and such places as may make best for your maintainance and the like which sheweth plainly you are not like Christ nor his Ministers who went about seeking those that were lost being such that were cast in prisons in persecution in hunger in cold in want and in distresse and all for the good of others
neither have you any part of it by command or example in the Scripture of truth therefore it lyeth upon you to shew who were your first authors and examples for all the customes and traditions you have amongst you singing one part of Davids Psalms with your hats off and reading another part with your hats on and putting them in Meeter like Ballads by which meanes people come to sing that which they never came to witnesse as hath been before spoken of and your Sacraments and such like which ye have not one word in the Scripture for Therefore come forth and shew openly who were the first inventers of these things reading over a company of Chapters when you come together and the like all these things when they and you come to be weighed in the Ballance of the Sanctuary will be found too light and far short of the true worship of God who is not to be worshipped any other way then in Spirit and in Truth and in that one Spirit if any had a Psalm or Hymn or Prayer or Praises he did it and sung it to the praise and true glory of God and this was the true order of the Saints and not to take another mans words for Psalm or Praise or Prayer and say it over nay these things are an abominable abomination unto the Lord for it is the Spirit onely which maketh intercession for the true children and servants of God for it alone knoweth our wants and is many times poured forth unto the Lord with sighes and groanes which cannot be uttered and this only and such like Sacrifices doth God accept not for Drunkards Swearers Lyars and all manner of unclean persons to take the Saints words in their mouths and come before him with them Gods soul abhorreth it So all that ever is practised amongst you will be found to be but in sin your Apostatizing and falling away from the true faith which was prophesied both by Christ and his Apostles should come for saith Christ The night cometh wherein no man can work in which time because of iniquity the love of many shall wax cold And this is the fruits and marks of that day and Paul saw them coming in his time even those who should teach things they ought not for filthy lucres sake yea and before his decease so grievous was the falling away that he said all Asia was turned from him and also to Timothy he prophesied of these things plainly that men should heap up to themselves teachers having itching eares and should not endure sound Doctrine and the like which ye may see in the many teachers come up and made by and in the will of men according to their own lust which answereth unto Christs word who said many should come and say Lo here is Christ or Lo he is there believe them not saith Christ for the Kingdome of Heaven is within you Mark and such shall deceive the very Elect if it were possible but it is impossible to deceive them for such are Christs sheep who know his voice and a stranger they will not follow But saith Christ Ye shall know them by their fruits so by their fruits must we try them now for such teachers as men doe heap up to themselves are seen in the light which tryeth your Priests who preach up sin and lust as long as men live so here you are tryed and found to be such who are chose in mens will but Christs sheep hear his voyce and obey it and follow him who leadeth into all purity and holinesse And thus are all distinguished and known by their fruits as Christ hath said we should therefore consider these things and lay them to heart and repent before it be too late This word doth the Lord often put in my heart towards you for dreadful and terrible is the day which is already dawned over your heads The voyce of the true Shepherd saith Come Come freely without money and without price and let him that heareth come and let him that is a thirst come and whosoever will let him take of the water of life freely and let him that will buy Wine and Milk without money and without price Why will ye spend your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not Incline your eares and your Souls shall live and your Souls shall delight themselves in fatnesse This is the voyce of the true Shepherd to all the inhabitants of the Earth therefore whilst it is said to day harden not your hearts as in the provocation but away all to the fountain which is freely set open to wash away sin and transgression for you have all forsaken the fountain of living waters and have hewen out Cisterns broken Cisterns that hold no water saith the Lord every one is gone astray after the imagination of his own heart and the Lord hath looked down from his holy habitation and beheld there is none that seeketh after him amongst the sons of men who are thus degenerated from him for though he hath created man upright yet he hath found out many inventions one thing being neglected by which meanes he is become more strang to his Creator than the Ox to his owner or the Asse to his masters crib Sad and deplorable estate miserable man is fallen into running on greedily in the way of destruction and drinking in iniquity as the Ox drinketh water and yet will seeme to lean upon the Lord and say is not the Lord amongst us though they forsake him and refuse his tender reproofs and cast his holy Law behind their backs and will none of his reproof and make unto themselves Laws Statutes and ordinances which will sute most unto their lusts and heap up to themselves teachers having itching eares even such as they make in their own will who preach for hire and divine for money which was alwaies an abominable thing unto the Lord who sent his holy servants and Prophets to cry against such things yet do the sons of men delight to have it so And such teachers as these cry peace peace to the wicked and say no evil shall come upon them so long as they put into their mouths but otherwise suddenly prepare warre against you as the tryal will manifest the same and they with great swelling words of vanity promise to others liberty while they themselves are servants unto corruption and such like do people choose unto themselves because they prophesie smooth things unto them and under their teachings they can live as they list in pride covetousnesse wantonnesse and all manner of evil all the dayes of their lives as their fruits manifest telling people they cannot but sin as long as they live by which means instead of turning people from their wickedness they strengthen their hands in it which sheweth plainly they are such who ran when the Lord never sent them therefore they do not profit the people at all who are ever learning of them but
never able to come unto the knowledg of the truth which makes free all who come unto it as saith Christ Jesus if you know the truth the truth shall make you free And the Apostles were sent to turn people from darknesse to light and from Satans power to God which was the effect of the true and free Ministry of Christ even to open the blind eyes and make blind those which could see So they who come to be turned from Satans power unto God come to be turned from darknesse to light which is a turning from sinne to righteousnesse and here the people come to be profited but such hirelings who run and are not sent they neither bring the people to the light nor from sin to righteousness being Ministers of darkness themselves and Preach for filthy lucre sake and do in no wise profit the people as I have said if one come amongst them and their hearers and do but declare and speak of those things unto them wherewith Christ Jesus hath enlightned him then presently they fall upon him commonly by the command of their Priests and cry out he is a deceiver away with him though they have nothing to be deceived of but sin and uncleanness which sheweth plainly they are not of the number of the Elect of God for they need not to fear being deceived for it is impossible to deceive them For Christs sheep hear his voice and knoweth it and a stranger will they not follow But these like blind men instead of trying all things and holding fast that which is good stop their ears and furiously run themselves upon a poore simple innocent man who seeks not theirs but them And this their fruits manifests they are not in the nature of the true Christians but of the Jews who persecuted the Prophets and stoned them who were sent unto them and in this nature do they sing pray and the like which is no more accepted of the Lord Then if they cut off a Dogs neck or offer a sacrifice of blood for such was Cains sacrifice who was of the envious one who slew his brother And this is the fruits and effects of the hirelings Ministry which is a griefe unto the upright in heart to see And behold how poor people are kept in bondage and from the knowledge of God by them hearing and learning from their youth up untill they go to the grave and still in sin and pleading for it as long as they live O people it is high time to awake and consider these things and lay them to heart for the Ax of the Lord is a laying to the roote of every tree And every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be cut down and cast into the fire for the Lord hath long born with you and men have conceived nought but vanity and brought forth lies and every one is striving either by deceit or policy to uphold his own way by the arm of flesh and he that can get the power into his hand oppresseth all who will not bow unto his manner or forme of worship as though God were served in mans will or could or would be limitted by the sons of men while every one is crying up his own way to be best while they are all in the way of sin pleading for it as long as they live The Lords soul abhorreth these things for it is only the sacrifice of clean hands and a pure heart which he accepteth even of such who are of an humble and contrite spirit and trembleth at his Word and such he will in no wise despise But how far men are from this spirit which is onely accepted of by the Lord let the pure Light of Christ Jesus judge in all your consciences doth not envy reign still in their hearts and where that reigneth there is strife and every evil work which seperateth man from God and in this state should they sacrifice thousands of Rams and ten thousand rivers of Oyle the fruit of their bodies for the sins of their souls it would availe them nothing But wash you make you clean saith the Lord and put away the evil of your doings relieve the fatherless and the widdow and I will accept you and though your sins are as red as scarlet yet will I make them as white as snow Saith Solomon he which confesseth and forsaketh his sin shall find mercy and it is certain that none else doth or ever shall for the sacrifices of the wicked are an abomination unto the pure God For when the Jews were in the observation of sacrifices Sabbaths New-moons and the like the Lord said they were an abomination and loathsomness unto him and his soul did abhor them and the reason was because of the evil of their doings for in such things the Lord delighteth not but a body which is prepared to do his will in is only accepted for there he only takes delight to dwell which is more then all sacrifices offerings and oblations which David knew right well But this thing Satan and his Ministers Preach not to the people that he may keep his seat whole within them profess what they will in words he matters it not for he knows if once the creature cometh to the Covenant of God that then he will come to witnesse his body to be his Temple as he hath promised I will dwell in them and walk in them therefore Satan strives every way to keep people from the light which is the Covenant whereby men would come to know the teachings of God and would not need that man should teach them But this makes not for the hireling nor his profit therefore would he be Master as much as in him lieth telling people they must not look for God to speak unto men in these days and that revelations are ceased and such like stuff he filleth up his hours time with which sheweth he and his hearers know not the Son of God as the true Christians did And saith Christ unto those that come unto me I give eternal life and none hath eternal life but those who know the Father and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent So all Priests and people this is to you and sheweth that you are from the true Faith and to every good work reprobate for he that doth not witness all his works done and wrought in him by the vertue and power of God all his works are but as filthy rags which is self righteousnesse for if the just do not work in the creature it is self which can never be accepted of the Father for the true children of God came to witnesse that God did all their works for them and in them and so did witnesse in deed and in truth the Lord to be their righteousness and were called by that name So come and try your works and by whom they are wrought in you if not by Christ then it is self and so it will availe you nothing For without me saith Christ ye
can do nothing I am the Vine saith Christ and ye are the branches and my Father is the husbandman and every branch which bringeth not forth fruit my Father cutteth it off and casteth it into the fire but every branch which bringeth forth fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth more abundantly so abide in me saith he the light of the world for in him only is their fruit found to be accepted So read try and consider in whom ye are and whether ye are in the true Vine yea or nay if not your state is miserable and ye are yet in your sins Therefore cease from your hireling teachers and learn of Christ the pure light in you and you will come to witness a teacher continually with you Which will never be removed into a corner any more but your ear shall hear a voice behind you saying this is the way walk in it turn neither to the right hand nor to the left which if once witnessed ye will abhor all hireling teachers for ever and being come to know the voice of the true Shepherd of your souls ye will witnesse the pure holy teachings of the holy God lying down and rising up directing you in the pure holy and undefiled path of peace in which no Lions whelp can tread and this to witnesse is the end of all Ministrations Types and shadows whatsoever the life and substance being witnessed in you even Christ Jesus the Light the Covenant of God which is given a Covenant of Light unto all Nations that he might be his Salvation unto the ends of the earth which is the only true Cistern that is able to hold water for your souls And John did bear witness in like manner of him saying He was the true light which inlightned every one that came into the world and the light is the life of men and as you come to the light you will witness it so and not before ye know his life to abide in you which light being received and followed you will receive power to become the sons of God even a birth which is not of man nor of the will of man but of God which only is loved so the sons of God you will witnesse to be and his holy Spirit you will be lead by For as many as are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God and they who have not the Spirit of Christ are none of his Therefore I say again and again try whose ye are for if you have not the Spirit of Christ you are none of the sons of God but of the Devil These are true and plain words unto you all that ye may not be any longer deceived nor trust to lying vanities any longer and forsake your own mercies which is freely tendred unto you of the Lord in this the day of his love wherein he doth invite you freely to come unto him Without money and without pride that ye may eat and drink and be satisfied at the Rivers of his pleasures and not to spend your labour and precious time for nought for your time is but short and the measure of your iniquitie is even up amongst the sons of men and the Angel of his wrath is even ready to smite Therefore be ye separated and touch no unclean thing and God Almighty will accept you for verily I have seen the wrath of the Lord breaking forth against this Nation and it was very terrible Therefore stand not as you love your immortal souls to contend about words or any outward thing but come to the light that ye may witnesse life that so your covering may only be the pure Spirit of the Lord thereby to have a hiding place in him else the sword of his indignation and wrath you will never be able to escape but it will cut you off for ever with all the unclean and uncircumcised of the earth Therefore be ye not mockers nor despisers least ye perish for the Lord is working a work in these dayes that such cannot believe though it were told them and this is a true warning and testimony of Gods everlasting love in and through one that is a witness thereof and a friend to all souls And now that you may read and seriously consider into what a sad state you are fallen from the Image of him that created you is the desire of my heart and come for to be restored again into the same dominion for all are degenerated into the plant of a strange Vine bringing forth wild fruit contrary to the expectation of the good husbandman and to the grieving of his righteous soul for read and consider He planted a Vineyard and fenced it about and pruned it and cast the stones out of it and expected it should bring forth fruit as I have said but it brought forth wild fruit what could I have done more for my Vineyard saith the Lord. Here all the sons of men may consider their condition which is truly sad and miserable though they are so setled upon the Lees of iniquity that they do not consider it as it is written There is none that understandeth there is none that seeketh God they are all gone out of the way they have been made altogether unprofitable there is none that doth good no not one their throat is an open sepulchre they have used their tongues to deceit the poison of aspes is under their lips Rom. 3.11 Yea they commit iniquity with greedinesse even as the Ox drinketh in water their table is full of vomit and there is no soundnesse in them they conceive mischief in the night upon their bed and rise early in the morning to put it in practice and say in their hearts the Lord seeth us not our mouthes are our own who shall us controll they lye in waite privily for the innocent and lay a snare in secret for him O! what a sad and dolefull condition are the sons of men fallen into yea there is no fear of God before their eyes Eating and drinking and rising up to play marrying and giving in marriage and all in the lust and uncleanness the seed of the evil one being head in them nought but pride and oppression is brought forth envy and malice yea the best of men is but a lyer every one seeking by fraud and deceit to exalt his own horn and seeking to maintain his own carkase in great honour and dignity and he which is stronger then his neighbour will take all advantages against him to bring him under him and to bow to his will O woful state and hard to be declared is the degeneration of fallen man from his Creator who at first created him in his own Image and likenesse in holinesse and purity to reign over all the works of his hands in the power and wisdome of his Creator and had put all things in subjection under him and knew the right use of every thing he standing in the dominion and wisdome of God and to
also witnesse it so upon yours if ye come and submit unto Davids humble spirit of prayer and repentance which was the cause God did so delight in him above many for the humble and contrite spirit which David was of God will in no wise despise for he even confessed his sin and forsook it and willingly submitted unto the judgements of the Most High for it by which meanes he had acceptance with God And thy word saith he I have hid in my heart that I may not sin against thee for that is the dayly care of the honest heart least God should take his holy spirit from him for he prayeth continually that God would renew his dayly countenance upon him which made Davids heart more glad than those who had all the encrease of the earth so all you who take Davids words to sing and talk of deal faithfully with your own souls and see whether you are come to his spirit yea or nay and until then his word and penitent heart is your condemnation which you shall eternally witnesse to be true in the day that by Davids spirit ye shall be judged who said depart from me all ye that do wickedly and was made the song of the drunkard Truly Friends the Lord hath made my bowels as an open fountain towards you that you may no longer be of that generation which Solomon speaks of who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not purged from their iniquity I shall as being truly moved of the Lord thereunto lay these following things before you to consider seriously of as being things which every one who dare professe the name of Christ and Christianity ought truly to mind to the end they may not be only Christians in name but in nature which will only stand you instead in the dreadful day of judgement wherein God will appear with flames of fire to render vengeance to the wicked which day hastneth apace Therefore read and consider Whether Christ Jesus when he spake unto his Disciples saying Be ye perfect even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect did not speak really as he meant And whether he would bid them be that which was impossible for them to be Secondly Read through the whole Scripture and see if you can read of any other Salvation but that which is from sin And whether or no that was not the promise of God unto Adam after he had sinned to wit that the seed of the woman should bruise the Serpents head which seed was Christ And whether this is not to be witnessed in every regenerate man or woman yea or nay And whether the Serpent be not head in all untill this be witnessed yea or nay For seeing the Scripture saith we are saved by faith in Christ whether is there any true faith which saves but that which gives true and perfect dominion over all sin And whether there be any other true faith which justifieth before God And whether this faith only be not the true faith of Gods Elect seeing the Scripture saith that God justifieth not the ungodly shewing that no unclean thing is justified before God And can any in truth say that they are justified but those who witnesse this faith by which the just liveth and obtaineth victory yea or nay Whether the free grace of God hath not appeared unto all men And whether all those who receive it and are taught by it are not led and taught to deny all ungodly lusts And whether they who are not thus taught by it are not of those who turn it into wantonnesse And whether it will not be their eternall condemnation yea or nay Whether Christ according to Johns true and faithful testimony which he bare of him hath not enlightned every man which cometh into the world And whether this Light doth not judge righteously for God against all sin in the consciences of all men And whether if they reject its reproofs it will not be their condemnation yea or nay And whether God hath not so promised that he would give Christ his only son for a Covenant of Light that he might be his salvation even to the ends of the Earth And whether any ever came to witnesse salvation but those that thus witnessed Christ a Covenant of Light to be their leader and teacher yea or nay Whether God hath not promised that in his new and everlasting Covenant all his people shall be taught of him And whether those who are yet looking at man for teaching be not out of this pure holy Covenant yea or nay Whether God hath not promised that he will live and walk in his people And whether they who do not witnesse it even their bodies to be the Temples of God be not the Temples of the Devil yea or nay Whether any are or can truly be said to be the sons of God but those who are led by the Spirit of God And whether any are true Christians but those who have put on Christ yea or nay Whether any are Christs but those who have the Spirit of Christ And whether any can witnesse the true Baptisme but such who have received the Spirit yea or nay Whether there be any other Baptisme needful unto Salvation but this to wit by one Spirit into one body by the Holy Ghost and by fire And whether all other sprinklings are nothing but traditions of men yea or nay Whether the true Christians did not come to witnesse Christ in this life to be wisdome justification and redemption yea or nay Whether Christ in the Saints was not the onely hope of their glory even to live in them as he did in God and through which they came to have fellowship with the Father And whether they who came to witnesse this were not sanctified throughout in body soul and spirit yea or nay Whether Christ did not give himself for his Church that he might purge and sanctifie it and present it to the Father without spot or wrinkle or any such thing And whether any can come to be true members of this Church but those who come to witnesse a true purging in this life seeing the Scripture saith the Church is in God to whom no unclean thing can be united And whether all who say they are members of the Church of Christ and doe not witnesse this to wit a cleansing be not lyars yea or nay Whether the true Ministers of Christ Jesus do not preach freely as they have received freely And whether they who preach for hire gifts and rewards or yearly maintenance are not Ministers of Satan yea or nay Whether any can be truly said to be the Ministers of Christ Jesus but who are sent by him and called immediately by his voyce unto his work And whether all others are not of man and by the will of man who run and are not sent yea or nay Whether such men who say they can never be freed nor put off the body of sin as long as they live