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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93420	A Christian life manifested wherein is shewed who they are which follow the lamb in meekness and patience.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1661 (1661)	Wing S4294; ESTC R184391	7,932	10

their life doth manifest their nature and though they be hated and wronged they do not seek revenge and though they be reviled they do not revile again but endures patiently and waits to see the conversion of their enemies for christians never persecuted any but hath alwayes been persecuted by the Apostates who have cloathed themselves with the name of Christians and it hath ever been a mark of a true Disciple of Christ to be hated and persecuted for his names sake and whosoever will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution but whosoever doth live godly in Christ Jesus doth not persecute any for it is contrary to their life for they that are born of God they have the mind of Christ and in his life they hold forth their testimony in all long-suffering meekness and patience not striving nor resisting nor revenging but loving and praying and blessing and in this a christian life is manifested and the heathens life is judged and condemned for who are guided by the spirit of God they do not persecute any though they be contrary minded but in all meekness and gentleness they labour in love and seeks to win them unto the truth which they are partakers of and by soundness of doctrine and holiness of life they hold forth their testimony and this manifests a christian life where love and good will is held forth unto all people and this life is far from persecuting any for it can love an enemy and as there can be no perfect unity nor fellowship but in the spirit of God so they that are guided by the spirit and lives in it they labour in love to gather others into fellowship with them for what can persecution do to the changing and renewing the mind of a man it can never work reformation in the heart though it may force the outward man to conform in practise for it is only the love which overcometh and perswadeth the mind into the way of truth and though persecution may prevail over some as to make them conform in practise yet it doth not make them Christians neither doth it cast out heresie where any is found in such a state and what advantage hath the persecutors by forcing contrary minds into their practise and worship whilest such is not in their own hearts reformed thereunto and to force a conformity when in heart people is nor reformed it is but to make a hypocrite for if a man be not perswaded in his own heart that the practise which he observeth is according to truth he can never joyn in unity with such as are so perswaded though he may conform his body to their observation Then forasmuch as persecution cannot make a christian neither cast out heresie where it is then it would be more commendable to let persecution cease seeing that it doth not manifest a christian life in practise neither can make a christian by such a practise therfore let every one waite to be gathered in the spirit of life and love in which there is no persecution but peace and unity and prosperity every way for it ever hath been and is the ruine of people and nations where any Religion hath been endeavoured to be promoted by persecution and such as have endeavoured it have ever fallen in it but could never establish themselves by it and so the fall of one hath been the rise of another and these things brings desolation and not peace Objection But if any shall say that people and nations ought to be kept in order in matter of worship according to the present constitutions of the laws of that nation wherein they live Answ It is the spirit of God that ordereth all in the worship of God and they that are not ordered by the spirit of God they are in disorder however they may conforme to that worship which by the laws of any nation is set up and if the worship be not performed in the spirit of God it is not the worship of God neither is that order in the order of God for God is worshiped in the spirit only and not by the constraint of the constitution of any nation law and when people are guided by the spirit of God then they are guided in good order and edifies and comforts one another and dwells together in the love and peace and unity of the spirit and so they are under the law of the spirit which only hath power to order the conscience and not the law of any nation in things pertaining to the worship of God so as the spirit comes to be received and the testimony of it obeyed then by the spirit the mind of man is disposed in love and peace and meekness and godliness and that is good order and against such there is no law for the birth born of God hath love to all people and it is this day manifested amongst a poor and an afflicted remnant whom the Lord hath raised in his power and chosen to himself who are by such as are strangers to their life reproachfully called Quakers though they have a name given them which no stranger can read for the Lord hath raised them in his own name and the name of Jesus is their life and it is a name which is above every name and a name unto which every knee must bow and they beare his name in all long suffering and patience and follows his leadings in all gentleness and meekness and with his name they are cloathed as with a garment for they are of him and they live unto him and the fruit of his own life declares his prayses he hath appeared for them in the day or their distress and he hath helped them when there was none to pitty them and by the arm of his power he hath raised them and they are his people and they dare not deny him but are in love with him and keeps his Commandements and he prepares their way for them and leads them in it with joy of heart and though tribulation do attend them yet with his power he preserves them and they are not weary though there race be long So doth the Lord our God give unto us his peace in all that he calls us to and we desire that all might be pertakers with us which we know none can that set themselves against us and as the Lord hath wrought his own work in us and hath changed us from that nature in which we sometimes lived so we are constrained to serve him and worship him in the spirit in which he hath gathered us and as the cause is his own so we commit it to him who is able to defend it and to preserve us in it and we must confess it before men and we know that we shall never be ashamed of our testimony for that of God in every conscience is our witness how unblamably we have behaved our selves and how through all our sufferings and hardships we have borne and endured with patience

A CHRISTIAN LIFE MANIFESTED Wherein is shewed who they are which follows the Lamb in meekness and Patience THe night of Apostacy having overspread the earth and the darkness of it having covered the people the wisdome below hath sought out many Inventions and the name of Christians have been taken up from something observed which the wisdome below hath invented and with this name people are satisfied though from the life they be alienated and such are Gentiles who know not God but are seperated from him through the darkness that is in them and whilst they profess to know God and to worship him they are ignorant of him and in works denies him though they have taken upon themselves the name of Christians yet they are not changed from the Gentiles nature but abides in darkness and walkes in darkness and knows not whither they go because that darkness hath blinded their minds and such errs from the way of truth notwithstanding they profess a Christian state and a Christian worship and the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ is hid from their eyes and they do not know the fellowship of the Gospel but walks in their own way and follows the devices of their own hearts and worships the works of their own hands after the manner of the Gentiles and though that which may be known of God be manifest in them yet they like not to retain God in their knowledge but likes to retain their own inventions better and so they forsake the Fountain of living water and hews to themselves broken Cisterns that can hold no water and this brings a famine upon the land because people feels not the Lord nor the springs of his refreshings and though they may assemble together and sit before him as his people yet their hearts are not towards him and therefore in vain they worship him Now forasmuch as that which may be known of God is manifest in people and that both Jew and Gentile are enlightened with the light of Christ and that there is no respect of persons with God then that which is manifest from God within people is to be chiefly minded in its manifestation for seeing that none can know God but by the Revellation of Jesus Christ and that none can witness salvation but by the power of Christ then is every one to mind that light with which Christ enlightens them that by the manifestation of it they may know God and worship him as he is God for as the light comes from God so doth it give the knowledge of God in the hearts of all that beleive in it and there is not any that are true Christians until they beleive in the light which is manifest from God within them for as the Apostasie is entred and the darkness overspread so with the light that shines in the heart is darkness expelled and then the light doth give the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus and in the light thus shining the Lord is known and truely worshiped for as blindness hath hapned in part unto the Jews until the fulness of the Gentiles be brought in the Lord willing to make known his loveing kindness unto a people that sought him not and that they might be his people which were not his people and that both Jews and Gentiles in fulness of time might be gathered together in one even in Christ so doth his power work both in Jews and Gentiles who in his light beleive by which power they come to be changed from all things which they have outwardly observed and comes to be renewed in the spirits of their minds and to feel the inward man restored into Christ who of twain maketh one new man in himself and so maketh peace for he is not a Jew which is one outward neither is circumcision that of the flesh but he is a Jew which is one inward and circumcision is that of the heart which is wrought by the power of Gods spirit within man and there is the seed of Abraham known both in Jew and Gentile for the love of God doth universally spread abroad unto all Nations Kindreds and People and in every Nation he that feareth God and worketh Righteousness is accepted of him and Christianity doth not lye in any outward observation nor in any particular form which in any Nation or amongst any people is set up but it is in Christ the seed and if any man be in Christ he is a new creature and a a new creature is a Christian for Christ is his life and this is that which hath been witnessed by all the holy men of God in ages past who were pertakers of the Divine nature and had all things therein given them that pertained to life and godliness and there is none can come to a christian state but who comes to the light which from the life is made manifest for the light is given of God to search out all invented wayes and formed works and with the light they are all reproved and that which makes them manifest and reproves them that is the way which leads out of them and as the testimony of it is received so all invented waies and formed works comes to be denied and the mind comes actually to be disposed in the leadings of the light in its own way and then the judgement rises in the power which casts out the Idol and destroyes the inventor and they both fall together by the work of the power and then the nature of the Heathen dies and Christ appears in the glory of his own life and translates the beleiver into the immage of his own likeness and that is a christian state in which man comes into union with Christ and lives the life of Christ and there the Jew and the Gentile is made one and comes into the fellowship of the Gospel and Christ is then felt who is a christians nature and from the nature there is fruit produced in love and peace and meekness and gentleness and that which doth not bear this fruit it is none of Christs for all strife and envy and malice is from the darkness and they that live in such things are not Christians though they may take the name upon them but they are in the Heathens nature where God they know not and such destroyes one another who are not in the love and peace and unity of the spirit for where the spirit is not received the fruit of it cannot be manisested and therefore every mans way seeming right in his own eyes he would have all to walk with him in his path and there rises all contention from mens own opinions for which they persecute and destroies one another about their Religion but the life of a christian is not so for the birth born of God is love and love thinketh no ill but is kind and courteous and gentle towards all men and they that are born of this life they are true christians and