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B05871 The voyce of the just uttered: his passing out of Ægypt through the Red Sea, through the wildernesse to the promised land, where rest and peace is enjoyed. / By him who is known to the world by the name of Thomas Symonds. Simonds, Thomas, d. 1666. 1656 (1656) Wing S3804; ESTC R184170 9,406 8

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be rewarded according to your workes and deedes done in the body and this is according to Scriptures which are as a cloud of witnesses against you and witnesseth for the innocent people scornfully reproachfully by you called Quakers who are brought to witnesse the truth of them in their lives and conversations and therefore are hated of the world who love their own if we were of the world the world would love us but because we are not of the world therefore the world hates us as it was from the begining so it is now known and seen in the light according as the Scriptures declares they that are borne after the flesh persecute those that are borne after the spirit even so it is unto this day poore hearts you are warned and the witnesse of God in you will witnesse for me and against your ungodly deedes So though I be counted a soole to the world and of them hated it is for Christs sake and my wisedome I counted not too dear to give up unto him and though a mad man as Paul was counted yet stayed in the light and speaking the words of sobernesse unto all men with whom I have to doe and as one that is dead but alive unto God and I counted not my life dear unto him who hath called me and hath made known his mighty power in me whereby I know that he is in me and I in him and so redeemed out of the world and from the Teachers of it not any longer to be deceived by them but in the eternall light of God I doe them see and comprehend and know them to be of that sort spoken of in the Scriptures who shall and doe lead silly women Captive laden with sin and pleading for no live in it led away with divers lusts ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth But it they are taught to oppose the light of Christ by the blind guides of the world who are sensuall having not the Spirit as is made manifest by their works and fruits they living in pride and covetousnesse in envy and malice haling and cause to be haled those that are moved of the Lord to witnesse against their ungodly practices and now all people who have any sobernesse and stayednesse remaining and any desire to know the Lord God who have created you and with his light enlightned you to the light of Christ take heed which reproveth you of sinne and evill allthough you act it never so secretly and leave the blinde guides of the world and their silthy saigned words deny for by them they seek to make merchandise of your souls feed them no longer with dishonest gain lest they destroy the simplicity in you you perish with them who deny the light of Christ to be sufficient to guide the creature unto God and cal it natural and so would have a naturall Christ sutable to their naturall fleshly mindes but he is a spirit and cometh from the father of spirits and all who come to know him must know him in his l ght worship God in spirit and in truth all who are brought into Christs right to waite know him to be a qu ckning spirit and that he is made manifest in flesh to discover and destroy sin in the flesh this is known to the Children of light but hid from the darke world who perish in their iniquities from the wise and prudent and is revealed to babes sucklings even so holy father for so it seemed good in thy sight And now a few lines to you all deare friends who have had a taste of the good word of God and of the powers of the world to come keepe in the taste and knowledge your mindes stayed in the light and in the eternall stilnesse to dwell not striving in your owne wisdomes to Comprehend the truth this is not your worke neither will you come to a growth by it but your worke is to stand still in the light the life to know and there feed that yee may see Pharaoh the oppressor his Chariots and mighty ones overturned and drowned in the red Sea and the soul saved and the creature redeemed out of Egypt and bondage the promised Land you to enjoy which brings forth all pleasant riches which is durable and fadeth not away Dear hearts fight not in your wills neither strive in your wisedomes but stand still in the light and know the battell is the Lords you that are entered into the wane you being quiet and patient and still in your spirits the limbe shall get the victory over the uncircumcised Philistians and hard hearted Pharachs you being stayed in the light there is your power and it will give you victory over the uncleane spirits and uncircumcised in hearts and eares and in the power and authority of the Lord God knowne in the light trample upon them all that they shall be ashes under your feet this I know who am your brother in the eternall truth and therein stand as a witnesse against all those that know not God who am knowne and by their scornfully called Quaker From my outward being in Norwich the 30 day of the 4 Month 1656. London Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Signe of the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate 1656.