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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60558	The blessed works of the light of God's holy and blessed spirit exalted above the works of darkness with some informations how to escape out of sin and iniquity, and a clear way discovered into the truth : with a short testimony of the cry of Babylon's merchants by reason of the day that is coming upon them / [by] Stephen Smith.	Smith, Stephen, 1623-1678.	1673 (1673)	Wing S4212; ESTC R37568	21,102	40

of Knowledge is therein a Minister of the Universal Love of God in his Eternal Spirit unto the VVorld So here lies the Difference between True Teaching and Teachers and False The True Teaching being the Anointing of God's Holy Spirit and Power wherewith Mankind being anointed and taught of God and according to God's Blessed VVill therein in a Cross to his own Carnal VVill and Affections speaking forth and delivering the Truth unto people as it is in Jesus Lord of all in whom the Peace is and from whom Peace is proclaimed under those Conditions and Quallifications as it pleases him to make and tender who is Lord of all The False Teaching is that Spirit of Iniquity the Old Deceiver of the VVorld the Serpent that worked and wrought under a Mystery subjecting Mankind unto his VVill under a Vain Hope through which he beguiled him at first drawing out a Compliance of his VVill unto his Delusions and so to transgress the blessed Commands of his Maker through which yielding of Mankind unto the Serpent's Counsel they became Transgressors of God's Holy Law and Covenant and for that Cause was drove from God's Presence and then Fear entered and Trouble and Sorrow entered by Man's yielding to the Traytor by which means he partook of the Nature of his Cursed VVorks and being thus drove out of the Garden of Eden the Lord placed a Flaming Sword which turned every way to keep the VVay of the Tree of Life And now the same Mystery of VVickedness by which Mankind was drawn into Transgression the same spiritual VVickedness being got in a High Place above the pure holy Seed of God in Man there keeps Mankind in Bondage to his Will under many fair specious Hopes That though Sin and Transgression the Cause of Death be not finished in them yet Deliverance shall be had by the Manifestation and Works of the Seed without them So here Mankind being Imbondaged by these Corruptible VVorks under the Dark Power of the Enemy from whence arises all Corruptible VVays Man being gone from the Uprightness in which he was created goes now abroad hunting about in his Inventions and Conceivings being led about by this Thievish Spirit which first drew his Mind from the VVill of God and so in this is climing up and down every way but the right Door and so being in this Earthly VVisdom from below by Arts and Trades set a teaching of their Imaginations and Conceivings concerning the Holy VVorks without and so here lay down Foundations under Confessions and Professions of Good VVorks and Gratious VVords without and thereby keep the Serpent's works of Transgression and Sin alive within and here the false Teachers under several Covers of Confessions and Professions in the spirit of Antichrist set up And so here being tossed up and down with Floods of Inventions from thence their Shameful VVorks are cast up in the Old VVorld of Transgression and Sin where these False Teachers are so rivited the works of the Enemy being become so natural unto them by reason of the Continuance of Time in Transgression and Sin that thereby they are now become impudent and bold even to dare to plead for the Serpent's works Sin for term of Life taking it for Delusion and high Presumption for any to speak to the contrary And so here False Teachers being raised from the works of the Enemy moving in the Earthly VVisdom for Earthly Things being propt and bolstered up through Vain Glory Praise of Men and weighty Pounds many Nobles and special Marks with abundance of Crowns and frequent Appearances of Angels in and by which they are so oyled that their Tongues run at their own VVills and Lusts by fair Speeches of other Men's Lines and VVorks with which ignorant Simple People being taken have so fed and oyled the VVheeles of these Trades-men the which hath set them up so strong that they make all the Defence they can to strengthen themselves and their Clients in the old VVorld of Sin and Iniquity And so these False Teachers having put Darkness for Light and Light for Darkness what strong Pillars and Props they are grown under the Devil's Kingdom and Power of Darkness under several Heads more that might be mentioned being derived from one Beastly Power from whence is risen several Heads and so branched out into several Horns the which are pushing every way against the Horn of God's Anointing the Power and Strength of the Effectual and Blessed Teachings of his Holy and Blessed Spirit the Door and VVay by which all must enter that come to be truly satisfied with God's Righteousness Christ the same Seed promised in the beginning to bruise the Serpent's Head the effectual VVorks and Power of which according to God's good Pleasure was and is manifest in the VVorld So to the Praise and Honour of God's Holy VVorks many can say Peace from him that is and was and is to come Jesus Lord of all who delivers his People from their Sins the Lamb of God that takes away the Sins of the World through which Powerful and Blessed VVorks Mercy and Peace is extended to all Mankind without Respect of Persons upon Earth So Blessed are they that Fear God and are found out of their own VVillings and Runnings in their perverse and crooked Nature in a true Submission and Obedience to the Righteous VVorks of God's Righteous Holy Spirit the true Christian Spirit that Christianity may flourish again and that Heathenism and Paganism under that Name Christian may be subdued and vanish away and Jesus Lord of all exalted in the Hearts and Minds of people over all his Enemies Then shall the Nations flourish and yield Fruit in Season to the Praise and Honour of God forever ANd now all you Merchants of Babylon Howl and cry Alas alas What! all these pretious Trades whereby we have gotten so much Gain must they all Down Where be all our Mountains and Rocks that have been so long a making up by all our Fellow-Trades-Men by Arts and Inventions in Professions and Confessions of Good Works and Works without through Ages and Generations past Will none of these Mountains and Rocks cover and hide us from the great Wrath of the Lamb What must we now bow to his Righteous Works who takes away the Sins of the World or else will he grant us No Peace Alas Alas What Clothing in Scarlet and Purple and Fine Linnen of Egypt with pretious Stones will these no longer hide our Sins and Iniquities Must all our Works herein wherein we thought to have established our own Righteousness must they now all be put off as Dung and Dross Alas Alas Though we have lived so far from the Knowledge of the Operation and Works of God's Holy Spirit as utterly to deny its Revelations now adayes and so have been Dark and void of the Knowledge of God's Righteous Chastisments and Rebukes therein yet we have presumed that by Custom of Confessions and Professions of God's Good Works done in and through

c. So the Sight of all the Good and Blessed Works of God's Good and Holy Spirit are become as a Sealed Book so that they who have exalted their Parts and Knowledge in Hebrew Greek and Latin above the pure Life of Jesus they can't read in it because it is sealed and these Learned Men Unlearned in the Things of God can't read in it because they draw near to God with their Mouthes and seem to Honour him with their Lips but their Hearts not being Right in his Sight therefore are their VVisdoms confounded and Understanding in the Things of God kept from them So it s such who have nothing to minister from but a Divination of their own Brain in Conceivings and Imaginations concerning the Works of God in others but from no Knowledge of his Works in themselves so they run and Divine for Money and Gifts and Rewards in that adulterated whorish Spirit which hath sate a long time and reigned over People who have been as unstable and unsettled as Waters reeling and staggering to and fro through the Sorceries and Witchcraft of that whorish wicked spirit into which Cup the Kings of the Earth have drunk and been made drunk with Envy Malice and Hatred one against another and from Lusts which have been conceived in that Wicked and untimely Womb have proceeded VVars and Fightings and Hatred one against another and also Hatred against the Appearance of God's good VVorks in others So it s against that bad and wicked spirit which is not to speak in the Church that I am moved to give Testimony in and through the Operation of God's good and holy Spirit the which is mightily at work this Day wherein his Power is made manifest to destroy the Devil's works and so a VVay making for the Pouring forth of God's Holy and Blessed Spirit more and more upon all Flesh from whence I believe there are at present Hundreds of Able and Gifted Ministers in this Nation in some Degree or Measure or other of God's Holy Spirit who can speak experimentally of what they have felt handled tasted and seen of his VVorks therein who is the Beginning and Ending of every Good and Perfect Work and Gift in and for them who wait to know his VVill and do it And through these Blessed Works must the Wounded and Destracted Nations be healed and set to rights and all that hinder these blessed Works of God's Holy and Unlimited Spirit they are Enemies to God and to their own Souls and to the Nation and Country where they live So to that of God in every ones Conscience I appeal in these weighty and high Concerns wherein I having done the Will of God I rest A Lover of the Truth wherein I seek the Good of all Mankind Stephen Smith The 9th Day of the 4th Moneth 1673. NOW unto you who will say I writ out of Enmity Therein you say true for in the true Enmity which God hath put between the two Seeds viz. The Blessed Seed of the VVoman and The Cursed Seed of the Serpent So that in that which is truly good that blessed Seed by which Evil is overcome according to the Good-will of God in that I give Testimony against that which is Corruptible and Bad by which Mankind is led away into Darkness and there captivated under the Enemy's Power But if any shall say I wish herein any Ill to any one's Person I do say in the Truth and Uprightness of my Heart That such do falsly accuse me For I know in the Blessed Seed Intercession is made through me and many Thousands that Light may rise in them who sit in Darkness that the Cause of Enmity against the blessed Seed may be slain and that Mankind who are dead in Trespasses and Sins may be quickened and raised into the Glorious Freedom and Liberty in the Son of God where we may live together in Peace with God and one with another to the Praise and Glory of his Holy Name forever Stephen Smith THE END