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A85143	Light risen out of darkness now in these latter days. Shewing the dark ways and worships of the ministry of Antichrist now in these apostated times, which is perilous, as is foretold of often by the Holy Ghost that spoke through Paul, and now is fulfilled in these latter days, 2 Tim 3. Thus saith the Lord, Arise Sion, and thresh with a sharp threshing instrument, and shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen, and is arising, and Jerusalem shall be a burdensome stone to all nations, now that Christ is unto his people both the light and glory thereof. Wherein something is written in reply to a book that was set forth by the dry and night vines in and about Beverley, who scornfully nicknameth the people of God, in reviling and falsly accusing them, and calleth them Quakers, in and about York-shire. Iuly, 1653.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing F490; Thomason E729_5; ESTC R206840	47,191	59

things and as unknown and yet well known of the Lord and of all those that are the Lords but of our selves we can do nothing It is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his own good pleasure and is thy eye evil because his is good It is God that doth us justifie and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God to them who are the called according to his purpose Rom. 8.28 29. to the end of the Chapter What would you then have us to continue in sin that grace may abound God forbid for how shall we that are d●ad to sin live any longer therein knowing that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the Glory of the Father even we also shall be raised up to walk in newness of life Rom. 6. Isai 66.12 Truth we own and righteousness we own and all Christian Authority such as is of God we own knowing that the Law is holy 1 Tim. 1.8 9 10. and just and good for the lawless and for the disobedient and that the righteous Magistrate beareth not the Sword in vain neither will he suffer sin to go unpunished Justice such as is pure according to the Command of Jesus Christ that which is for the punishing of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well and all that fear the Lord and make conscience of their ways and doings who hold the mystery of faith in a pure conscience such we do own And think not that we do come to destroy or declare against righteousness but unrighteousness that purity may be set up and righteousness established that deceits and deceivableness and all unrighteousness may be thrown down and Christ the Son of righteousness exalted in the purity of the Gospel this we do own and this we do honour But all deceivers blind guides hirelings Seducers and Antichrists who do not act in righteousness nor abide in the Doctrine of Christ we do disown And all Ranters and Libertines who are without order and spiritual Government who delight in vanities and follow the course and fashions of the world and live in voluptuousness and filthiness of the flesh and those that say and do not and seem to be what they are not speaking fair words and walk contrary in their actions which preach to others liberty and they themselves are the servants of corruption be they what they will be such we disown and utterly do deny and we loath and abhor all manner of evil knowing this That he that doth not righteousness is not of God 1 Iohn 3.10 For God is pure and of purer eyes then to behold iniquity and all Ranters Sects and opin●ons whatsoever we do deny for it is purity that we do honour knowing That he that doth righteousness is of God 1 Iohn 3.7 But such as hold that there is neither God nor Devil good nor evil but what a man doth imag●ne and that good and evil is alike Let me tell them by the Spirit of the living God that they are lyars and guided by a spirit of delusion Now all that love the Lord Jesus Christ have a care and take heed of all such for they are not of Christ but of Antichrist and we do them disown and utterly deny in obedience to the command of the Spirit of truth and according to the Command of our Lord Jesus Christ who saith Have no fellowship with them Ephes 5.11 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret but all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light for whatsoever doth make manifest is light Ephes 5.12 13. Let all the workers of iniquity know That the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6.9 10. Gal. 5.19 20 21. And let them know That the wicked and all that forget God shall be turned into hell Psal 9.17 For the Secrets of the Lord are with them that fear him and the grace of God which bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live righteously soberly and godly in this present evil world Tit. 12.11 12. s o God is thereby dishonoured but he is zealous of his honour with a godly jealousie and he will not give it unto graven Images but will judge the Heathen in righteousness and all are Heathen that know not God by his power ruling in them and he will scatter the proud in all their imaginations and therefore be not deceived for God will not be mocked And saith he If I be a Father where is my honour A son honoureth his father in loving him and walking humbly before him and yeilding obedience to him from love received and a servant he serveth his Master and is in obedience to him in all things Therefore his servants ye are to whom ye do obey Rom. 6.16 And he that commits sin is the servant of sin John 8.33 But know you not that the wages of sin is death but the gift of God to them that love him and serve him in holiness and righteousness is Eternal life a Therefore saith he Be ye holy as I am holy for without holiness no man shall see the Lord profess what they will And It is not every one that saith Lord Lord that shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven saith Jesus Christ but he that doth the will of my Father which is in Heaven And saith he Herein is my Father glorified that ye bring forth much fruit But why call ye me Lord and Master saith he and do not the works that I say Therefore every one that doth profess love to God and Christ be what you speak in all things or else profess nothing at all and be not sayers but doers for to say and not to perform is hypocrisie and dissimulation But hypocrites and dissemblers God will judge and pour forth fury upon the head of the wicked Therefore all that do walk in disorder to the Spirit of truth God doth disown and we do disown but those that walk according to the Spirit of truth and bring forth the fruits of the Spirit as love out of a pure heart fervently peace meekness gentleness goodness temperance and patience godliness and brotherly kindness and such as these which are according to the Spirit of truth Gal. 5.22 23 24 25 26. such we do own and wish grace mercy and peace to all that walk according to this rule and to all the Israel of God And I say as the Apostle did who was a true Minister of Jesus Christ and a man of God who was acted and given by the Spirit of the living God and was hated of the world and both by the Jews Pharisees Sadduces Grecians Libertines and all Sects and opinions which were many as there are now and all in confusion and out of the way but truth it is but one which stands out of all sects and opinions and is in that which is but one where purity is out of all apprehensions and comprehensions in the Eternal Divine Being And it is for the truths sake that we are reproached and so we are made willing to submit to the righteousness of the Spirit And as many as walk according to this rule Peace be on them on the Israel of God From henceforth let no man trouble me For I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ And to all that are Brethren Gal. 6.16 17 18. The Grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with your Spirits Amen This Epistle was written for the Vindication of the Truth By a Friend and Lover of the Truth and a Servant of the Lord Rich. Farnworth FINIS

the Scripture speak to Saints not every man when he saith Christ in you the hope of glory c. Col. 1.27 Herein you would have all to take notice of your ignorance Reply for the next verse will contradict you and so in all you have said yet the very letter of the Scripture will let you see your blindness Well may you be ignorant of the life when you are ignorant of the letter for they that spoke forth the Scriptures they passed from death to life and the in fellowship 〈◊〉 with the Father and the Son and he that hath the Son hath life 1 John but he that hath not the Son manifested in him hath not life but is in death You plainly make it appear here that you are in the letter without life and the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life and you never passed from death to life but are yet in death and sin for to be carnally minded is death and the wages of sin is death and he that commits sin is the servant of sin and lying is of the divel and an abomination to the Lord And here you lye ye proud Priests that say the Apostle did not say to every man That Christ or the light was in them for saith he in ver 28. Christ in you whom we preach he did not only preach Christ in them the hope of glory but he saith we preach that is all the Ministers of the Spirit and we preach Christ in you the mystery that is to be unfolded in you to every man warning every man and teaching every man Col. 1.28 Herein you erre not knowing the Scriptures and the Apostle saith to the Romans That as well as to them God hath given to every man a measure of grace Rom. 12.31 And none shall be condemned for that which they know not but for that which they know and do not obey who saith Obey my voyce for obedience is better then sacrifice And Christ saith That he is the light of the world and enlightens every man that cometh into the world Iohn 1.9 And they that follow him shall have the light of life Iohn 8.12 Herein you shew that you are ignorant of this l ght and so are in darkness and without God in the world living by conceivings and imaginations and you that are ignorant of the light are ignorant of Christ and preaches death the letter without the spirit and your Min stry is for for condemnation 2 Cor. 3. and you are ignorant both of the light life and power but as you would comprehend it by your carnal reason but this cannot be comprehended the light shines in darkness but darkness comprehends it not Iohn 1.5 And whereas you say That Paul spoke to none but Saints Priest in that 2 Cor. 5.26 27. c. I looked ply and could not find so many verses in that Chapter for it hath but 21 verses but notwithstanding I knew that Scripture the life of it if I had never seen letter but as you say he spoke to Saints when he saith we know no man after the flesh and though we have known Christ after the flesh yet henceforth know we him so no more but your knowledge stands in the flesh the lust and the fall and here you steal the Apostles words to apply to your selves and that is the Serpent in you go and make restitution as Zacheus did and let him that stole steal no more Ephes 4 28. And you are discovered you that lives by theft and steals the words of your neighbours to trade withal but the Lord is against you and all such as you are Jer. 23.30 You are of those theeves that Christ speaks of in John 10. That climbs up another way and c mes not in by the door And that makes you to speak you know not what See who the Apostle spoke to in that 2 Cor. 5.10 he saith there That all shall appear and every man give account that he may receive according to the deeds done in the flesh Did he but speak but only to Saints when he saith all and every man See whom he spoke to in ver 14.15 and see if you be not exceeding blind Well may you be ignorant of the life and power that are ignoront of the lett●r which is death and so you living in darkness are ignorant of the l●ght and now you are discovered to be ignoront of the same spirit that spoke forth the Scriptures and so shews forth the spirit of errour and you are in the flesh and know not God who is a consuming fire Heb. 12.29 and like a refiners fire Mal 3.2 3. Your God it imagination and the Lord God Almighty who made Heaven and Earth and is the Father of light him you know not that would limit him by your carnal minds but the carnal mind is death and an enemy to the Cross of Christ Rom. 8.6 Phil. 3.18 19. So are you enemies both to God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ and know you not ye blind that the Grace of God which bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men Tit. 2.11 12. But is turned by you and such as you are into wantonness who profess God in words as you do but in works deny him Tit. 1.16 who lives in form without either life or power having a form of Godliness denying the power thereof but your folly will appear daily more and more 2 Tim. 3. And that light is your Condemnation But though the Apostle did speak his experience● in the things of God he spoke what he knew made manifest unto him by experience through the divine operation of the holy Spirit But you live in th● fl●sh and are ignorant of the light of God that he did exhort others to be mindful of which light did lead t●em out of darkness and they were all Children of the light and of the day who were obedient to it for their souls were purified in yeilding obedience to the Commands of the Spirit as in 1 Pet. 1.22 And by the word of life they were sanctified washed and cleansed and justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of the Lord and they that are now guided by the Spirit of God are the Sons of God 1 Cor. 6.11 Rom. 8.14 Which you shew your selves to be none of But you are ignorant of the first Principle of Religion that makes a scorn of the light and shew your selves to be children of darkness having your understanding darkened and live in pride scorn and subtilty and turns the grace of God into wantonness children of disobedience which the wrath of God is to The wrath of God is to be revealed in flames of fire upon all the children of disobedience as you are who disobey the truth and know not the light but are in darkness and walk in darkness For darkness hath blinded your eyes who stand in opposition to the Spirit of truth and disobeyeth the Gospel of our Lord Jesus

and comfort which is eternal which the Scriptures do declare of that we own But yours that is carnal and stands without in old Authours and Books a studied out faith and an hypocritical hope which is to perish and your love which is dissimulation c. and is forbidden by the Spirit of truth that we disown He that is a B●shop Pastour or Teacher Spiritual B●shops 1 Tim. 3.1 2.3 4 5. ●●t 1.7 8. 1 Per. 5.1 2 3. Acts 20. and is taught by the Spirit who is not of man but of God and is blameless and doth contend for the faith that was delivered to the Saints who are not carnal but spiritual who are not proud nor covetous nor given to filthy lucre who are lovers of good men who are sober just holy and temperate in all things who are without partiality or hypocrifie and who watch for the souls as those that are to give an account to God and are governed by the Spirit of God free-hearted such we do own For all who do prof●ss themselves to be Ministers of Christ and to be sent of God and do not walk in obedinece to the Lord Christ but go out of his Doctrine all such are Seducers and Antichrists cover over themselves with never such fair shews and covers by their vain imaginations and fleshly wisdom as you do But wo to them that cover with a covering but not of my Spirit saith the Lord that they may add sin unto sin as you do Isai 30. You are constrained by tythes gifts and rewards and large augmentations and preaches for hire as the false prophets did but the Lord is against you as he was against them and you are under the Curse and the Wrath of the Almighty The Apostle who was a man of God taught of God and had his Ministry and Authority of God and not of man and his learning was of God and not of man as it is left upon record Gal. 1.11 12. and were after the Example and Doctrine of Christ That we do witness and that we don own But you that run to Studies and Arts to raise death out of death speaking the letter which is death for money which is carnal and are led by your own wills which are corrupt and not by the will of God as the Apostle was and you are of man and your authority of man and not of God and so your Ministry is Antichristian wh●ch differeth both from the practise of Christ and his Apostles The Apostle who taught the people as he was taught by divine Revelation had all his wisdom and learning cast out which became of none account and was loss dross and dung Phil. 3.7 8. The Apostle who was taught of God and had his Ministry not of man nor by the will of man but by the will of God taught freely Acts 20.33 34. And necessity was laid upon him and he laboured to make the Gospel free and himself servant to all 1 Cor. 9.15 16 17. c. And the Apostle who had spiritual gifts was a Minister of the Spirit made an able Minister 2 Cor. 3.5 And not of the letter but of the spirit 2 Cor. 3.6 And the Apostle was made a Minister by the dispensation of the gift of God that was given to him and he was a Minster of the mystery that was revealed to him which you are ignorant and know nothing of who deny the light know neither the gift nor the power as he did Ephes 3.2 3. Ephes 3.7 8 9 10. And you are darkness and your Ministry is darkness and not of the light not of the spirit which is the gift and you are not of Christ but of Antichrist and saith the Holy Ghost Little children let no man deceive you he that doth righteousness is of God and knows the mind and will of God and acts in the light and is righteous and is guided by the Spirit of God and is as he is 1 Iohn 3.6 7. in the truth and in the righteousness of Lord Iesus Christ 1 Cor. 1.30 31. And the Apostles who were of righteousness and of the Spirit were able Ministers of the manifold graces of God and fellow-labourers with him and had both the gift and the spirit and were able to give gifts unto others and such was the Seal of their Apostleship as were Epistles written in their hearts by the Spirit of the ever living God and not by the letter as in 2 Cor. 3.1 2 3. And they needed not the recommendation of others But you that are carnal and corrupt in your old nature and being evil how can ye give gifts unto others out of that which you have nothing to do withal For the natural man knows not the things of God you have nothing to give being evil your selves but that which is evil and go and make restitution to whom you have robbed For the thief comes not but for to kill and to steal and to destroy Ioh. 10.10 And let him that stole steal no more Ephes 4.28 The Lord is against them Ier. 23.30 And he that doth not righteousness is not of God 1 Joh. 3.10 And what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols 2. Cor. 6.17 18. And the true worshippers did worship the Father in spirit and in truth Iohn 4.23 24. And not by imagination and invention tradition and rudiments of the world Those that were true worshippers and did worship the Father in spirit and in truth did meet together often and see what Temple they worshipped in such as were made without hands 1 Cor. 6.19 20. 1 Cor. 3.16 Rev. 21. But to these that are Brethren salute me to the Church that is in their house as Paul to Aquila and to the Brethren of Laodicea and Nimphas 1 Cor. 16.19 Col. 4.15 And those did abide in the Doctrine of Christ and I witness with them but you do not abide in the Doctrine of Christ that profess to be sent of him nor regard what the Holy Ghost said by Paul and by Stephen Acts 17.47 48 49. But you who are contrary to these and instead of being Stewards of the manifold graces of God and of the houshold of faith are of corruption corrupt minds and corrupt hearts and are of the Synagogue of Satan and are proud and covetous and snuffeth up the ayr and watches for great benefits and large augmentations and are Ministers of man and sprinkle Infants couzening them with your inventions and you your selves are out of covenant with Christ and shall never enter with your high notions and fleshly imaginations which are of Antichrist and not of Christ who contend for earth and earthly things shewing that your treasure and your heart also is in the earth and you your seves earthly and are in the same seats that those were who were enemies to Jesus Christ as you are whom he exhorteth in his Doctrin to beware of Mark 12.38 39 40. And you Christopher Feak John Simson George Cocking Laurence Wise John Pomroy Paul

acquainted neither with Christ nor his sufferings who causeth the truth to suffer by them as their actions do make manifest who lives in the old corrupt nature and has stoln the words of the Prophets and Apostles to trade withal and hath glossed them over by their humane and serpentive wisdome which the vengeance and the wrath of God is to 4. These dissembling hypocritical Priests whited walls and painted Sepulchres are exalted above the Cross of Christ and sits in the seat of the scornful acting as in a Stage-play for mony and are climb'd up high into their notions and notionary expressions by their fleshly wisdom which is earthly carnal sensual and divelish but never came in at the door as saith Jesus Christ in Iohn 10. And are ignorant of the first principle of Religion that knows not the power of God to break down the power of darkness in them and so that is the cause of their falsifying the truth and speaking evil of that which they know not being puft up in pride scorn and derision judging the truth by their evil thoughts and fleshly imaginations Now as Iannes and Iambres withstood Moses so do these resist the truth standing in opposition against it by their carnal wisdom and fleshly imaginations and vain glory boasting and vaunting themselves in their own conceits and stands upon their own righteousness by their gathered up knowledg in opposition to the Spirit of truth and in despight to the Spirit of grace and wrests the Scriptures to their own destruction speaking their own Inventions and Imaginations which arise out of the bottomless pit of deceit but the Lord is coming for to bring down Babylon's buildings all mans inventions and imaginations and to cast them into the lake that burneth and all the Babylonish Merchants will cry out Alas alas for that great City of Babylon where they sold their wares and gilded stuff and fine dainty dishes of novelties dressed made fit by the Cooks in their shops of brain study and humane inventions which is Cainish to feed curious and lusty minds withal lusting after knowledge and feeding upon the forbidden fruit which is under the curse and must be burnt with fire now in the day of the Lords power where nothing shall stand but his own pure being for he alone will rule and raign in power amongst his chosen ones in Sion the perfection of beauty and he alone will govern his people in righteousness and teach them all the knowledge of his truth to know him in the habitation of his holiness that they may rejoyce and triumph in his love By this we know that we love God because we keep his Commandements and it is his love which constraineth us who first loved us and gave himself for us And saith he If you love me keep my Commandements and I command you to love one another with the same love that I loved you withal but he that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love and he that saith he loveth him and keepeth not his Commandements is a lyar and the truth is not in him And here you are that lives in lying who say that we attempt to lay waste Scriptures Churches Faith Hope c. The Scriptures we own to be true in themselves as they were given forth from the Spirit of truth which ruled in them that spoke them forth which Spirit I witness and their declaration I own the life of it herein you are found false witnesses lyars and false accusers and are Antichrists and Seducers shewing forth the spirit of errour and Antichrist is head and exalted in you who opposeth himself against the truth But your dark m●nds I do deny and against you I do testifie That you are the men whom you write of and that condition is your own for you make no other use of the Scriptures but to trade withal and to give your Antichristian Applications and Constructions of them which the plagues of God is due to For saith Jesus Christ I testifie that he that adds to the Book of this Prophecy I will add to him all the plagues that are written in the Book Rev. 22. And whereas you lye and say That we a people whom the Divel in you scornfully reproacheth and calleth Quakers which is your envy which name I suffer under by such as you are who are apostated from the truth and the living word which was in the beginning which word is quick and powerful and sharper then any two edged sword and is like a fire and a hammer Heb. 4.12 Jer. 23.29 30. And though the Divel in you be suffered to cast upon us names of reproach It is but that the Scriptures may be fulfilled in calling us Quakers or what you can invent to make us odious in the sight of the world which name I do disown for I know none but two in all the Scriptures flesh and spirit the seed of the Serpent and the seed of God which shall bruise the Serpent's head with his internal rod by the living power of the Eternal Jehovah Jah But the seed of the Serpent is head in you who lives in lyes and Christ you do by your proud lustful natures kill and crucifie and his Doctrine daily by your earthly wisdom more and more despise and so you keep the seed of God in bondage by your divelish subtil serpentive policies and would not that it should come forth to live and to arise and faith you do not know who are so swift such lyes to report and the living truth for to relieve you are unwilling and both slack and slow and bears the mark of the Beast in your right hand and in your foreheads and it is you that do attempt to lay waste Scriptures in all things but to traffick withal and knows no word but bare letter and diabolical subtilty humane invention which you do live in and observes the Divels work for to commit sin which is the fruits of death and so the Word and Gospel of God is his from all such vulterous eyes And venemous beasts as you are who knows not the strait path that leads to life nor the wisdom which is hid which Job speaks of in Chap. 28. which wisdom is not from beneath neither is it earthly and carnal as yours is for the wisdom of God is not to be bought and sold neither for rubies pealrs silver nor gold but yours which is earthly and is but dross and dung causing you to lye so with your dirty Greek and Latine tongue Saying That we seek to attempt to lay waste all Scriptures Priest Christ Faith Hope c. Wherein you are exceeding hoodwink'd Reply and your eyes i● stopt with dirty miery stuff your inventions and imaginations and your mouths is filled with lyes and your hearts with evil thoughts being possest with Satan and that 's the cause you do the truth so much despise For we own the Scriptures as they are in themselves to be a declaration

false Apostles stealing the words of the true Apostles to trade withal and are vainly puft up by your fleshly minds intruding into those things you have not seen Col. 2.18 but live by conceivings and Imaginations if's and may be 's and so feed on husks and outsides not holding the head from which all the body by joynts and bands where nourishment comes in from the Divine appearance and glorious administration of the spirit of truth being administred by the spirit which causeth an Increase with the Increase of God Col. 2.19 which you are ignorant of that are alive and lives in the rudiments of the world which are perishing Col. 2.20 21 22. which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship c. Verse 23. and here you are and out of the head where the life is and you are Apostated and are out of the life of the truth guided by your own wills and following the Imaginations of your own hearts and are of the number of those that the Apostle speaks of in 2 Cor. 11.13.14 for he had a free spirit and was chargeable to no man 2 Cor. 11.9 but in all things kept himself for being burdensome but you are out of that condition that are chargeable and burdensome and have not the same spir t that the Apostle had who had the Lord Jesus Christ revealed in him and spoke by Divine Revelation Gal. 1. but you speak by humane invention and brain study and so lives and acts in deceit intruding by your inventions into those things you have not seen and so are contrary to the Apostle both in that 2 Cor. 11.10.11 and that of Gal. 1.11.12 15.16 but you are in your own Inventions and are Apostated out of the truth that do not speak immediately from the Mouth of the Lord as the Apostles did and so you preach your own flatteries and deceits but what is the chaff to the wheat saith the Lord or what is the form to the power you sifted chaff or fine painted expressions is for the fire and all your formings and imaginations must be burnt you speak your own words and not the Words of the Lord and he is against you Ier. 23.29 30 31 32. and you that bring another Doctrine then to know the power and light and life within as the Apostle did you are to be held accursed and you are under the curse Gal. 1.8 9 10. And whereas you say Quest you will proceed to enquire into that doctrine which saith The light in you held forth by those you in scorn and derision call Quakers and which light doth enlighten every man that cometh into the world is Christ You make enquiry and say What then is become of the Person of the Mediatour in 1 Tim. Chap. 2. ver 5. and Heb. 7.24 c. Were you but acquainted with the life of the Scriptures Reply which is Christ in us the hope of glory Col. 1.27 whom the Apostle which was a Gospel-Minister did preach warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom to know the Mediatour within him Chr st the power of God unto salvation and he did labour mightily by the power of God the Mediatourship Christ revealed in him that he might present every man perfect in Christ Jesus Col. 1.28 29. That their hearts might be comforted being knit together in love which love is Christ the divine power of righteousness who is the Mediatour of the New Covenant to bring the soul into the riches of the full assurance of understanding to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ Col. 2.2 3. Which had you tead on in that 1 Tim. 2.5 in the verse following it would have answered you in that thing Herein you shew your ignorance in the things of God and are blind and cannot see and you shew that you are ignorant of the same Ministery that the Apostle held forth teaching them-to know Christ in them Col. 1.27 2 Cor. 13.5 and the life in them And he was the Minister of the Gospel and had the power in him and laboured by that power in him his Ministery was not of man but of God as he did certifie to the Brethren Gal. 1.11 12. And his Exhortation was not of man but of God and he was bold in God to speak unto them the Gospel or power of God Christ in him which you here shew your selves to be ignorant of that asketh what is become of Christ have you lost him or is not the lust head in you and the Prince of the power of the air head in you and so your doctrine is of deceit and the Gospel is hid from you 2 Cor 4.1.2.3 4 5. And so you are full of uncleanness and of guil and contrary to the Apostle in that 1 Thes 2.3 who was allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel not as to please men as you do but he did please God who tryeth the heart and he neither used flattering words nor covetousness as you do that are ignorant of this spiritual Gospel he took God to witness it 1 Thes 2.4 5 6 7 8 9 10. See how ignorant you are of these things ye blind guides that knows not that the first Adam was made a living Soul and the second a quickening Spirit and is Lord from Heaven and that Christ is the same yesterday to day and for ever Heb. 13.8 And had you read on in Heb. 7.24 25. would have told you that he is able to save to the utmost all that come unto God by him who ever liveth to make intercession for them and he is the way the truth and the life and no man can come to the Father but by him Herein you shew your ignorance in the life of the Scriptures that are ignorant of the letter which is without life as said Jesus to the Jews and self conceited hypocrites Such as you are search the Scriptures for in them ye think ye have Eternal life saith he and so do you but saith he they do but testifie of me saith Christ I am the life and ye will not come to me that ye may have life John 5.39 40. And so you l ve in the shadow of things wanting the substance are blind and cannot see therefore wo to you ye blind guids who follow the imaginations and deceits of your own hearts for Christ is yet a mystery unto you and the Med atour you know not For we are come to Mount Sion and unto the City of the living God the Heavenly Ierusalem and to an innumerable Company of Angels and to the spirits of just men mads perfect the general Assembly of the Church of the first-born writen in Heaven and to Iesus the Mediatour of the New Covenant Heb. 12.22 23 24. Herein you are exceeding carnal and the natural man knows not the things of God because they are spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2.14 And whereas you say Priest Doth not

Christ 2 Thes 1.8 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power when he shall be glorified in his Saints which glorification you are ignorant of 2 Thes 1.9 10. And you are so far from being new creatures that you are alive in unrighteousness and live in the old corrupt nature not knowing them that are born again but have your witness without you A Chapter or a verse of the Saints Declaration not knowing the power of Christ within who is our sanctification who of God is made unto us wisdom sanctification and redemption and so our glorying is in the Lord as theirs was who were made new creatures 1 Cor. 1.30 31. But you say If any man contend to destroy your faith Priest and slight the Person of your glorified Saviour for some of them you say Say Christ without will do you no good and you heap the Scriptures together to talk of but know neither Jesus nor his glorification c. Your faith is corrupt Reply that is outward and carnal and is for destruction Let me tell you That Christ you are ignorant of and his glorification and know nothing of the offering that is spoken of in that Heb. 10. For they that spoke it forth were sanctified souls that had followed the leadings of the Lamb which you persecute And are as those were that is spoken of in Heb. 10.11 Priests that stand daily offering that which will never take away sin even your own inventions and you are of the number of those Priests in Heb. 7.27 offering up daily your own inventions and all your prayers and sacrifices that you offer up in your corrupt nature is an abomination to the Lord and you do not abide in the Doctrine of Christ John 2.9 but are Seducers and Antichrists And believers are forbiden to receive your brain study and diabolical subtilty into their hearts but to beware of you and such as you are that teach for doctrine traditions of men and steals the words of others to trade withal whited walls and painted sepulchres saith the Apostle to the Ephesians Let no man deceive you with vain words such as you are that live by vain imaginations lest they be partakers of the evil For because of these things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of disobedience Ephes 5.6 And believers are forbidden to receive such as you into their houses who deny sanctification by Christ in them which was the Apotles Prayer and Doctrine who said And I pray God sanctifie you throughout and he that abideth in the doctrine of Christ hath fellowship with the Father and the Son but he that abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God but his own imaginations and inventions gilded notions and glorious expressions which are but aiery and to feed aiery minds withal which doctrine is under the curse and is not to be received but to be holden a coursed and the curse is upon both you and your doctrine and the vengeance of God hang● over you for your deceivableness that run but the Lord never sent you and you do not profit the people at all and both you and your blessings are accursed and your seed is corrupt the seed of the Serpent in you as theirs was that Malichi was sent to Mal. 2.1.2 to the 10 your mind is carnal and your Ministry is carnal and corrupt and you are ignorant of Christ the power of God unto salvation and you trample the blood of Christ underfoot the blood of the covenant that speaketh better things then that of Abel and knows nothing of eating that flesh and drinking that blood that is spoken of in Ioh. 6.53.54.55 c. no more then the Jews did and your faith that is outward is corrupt and doth not purifie but is corrupt and is unprofitable and not l●ke the precious faith of those that are made to pertake of the Divine nature Christ in us which faith is tryed and maketh us that we are neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledg of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 1.3 to 9. And as our faith stands in the Divine Power of God so yours stands in the letter which is carnal and the bread which you break is carnal and you are ignorant of the glorification that is spoken of in Joh. 17.10 and of that bread which is the Body of Christ for the bread which we break is the Body of Christ and the Cup which we drink is the Blood of Christ and our union is with him in the Vine Ioh. 15.1 Cor. 10.15.16.17 and by one spirit are we baptized into one body and are made to drink into one sp rit as the Saints were 1 Cor. 12.13 where there is but one faith one Lord one Baptisme one God and Father of us all Ephes 4.4.5 those spiritual Ordinances and that spiritual Body Supper and Administrations and that spiritual Sabath of which Christ is Lord and that spiritual Worship that is in that one spirit Ioh. 4.23.24 and all the Offices in every Church member and spiritual Order in that spiritual Church which is made all of living Stones elect and precious where Christ is exalted in his Kingly Office do we own set up and honour and herein you shew forth your lyes and flatteries subtilties and deceits and you live in deceit and disorder to the spirit of truth having the form but wants the powet all your fine notionary expressions and gilded pretences is for the fire and so we commend our selves to the Lord Jehovah who is both the heart searcher and tryar even the Lord our righteousness But your traditions customes and rudiments and inventions which is after the will of man and not after God we do deny and against them all testifie that you are but as sounding brass and t●nkling Cymbals without either life or power and that 's the reason why you do so bite and devour and are ye not carnal and knows not the things of the spirit of God which is spiritually to be discerned 1 Cor. 13. 2.12.13 14. herein you are carnal and shews the spirit of error Further Quest say they This light before mentioned is pure Your question there i● Priest How doth vain man justifie that which God doth condemn And you say That some would perswade you that nature is not corrupt c. H●re you shew that your minds are vain Reply and your hearts are corrupt and that light is your condemnation which stands out of all your comprehensions for light shineth in darkness but darkness comprèhendeth it not Ioh. 1. and that will shew your corrup●ions and your evil deceitful hearts and let you see the vanity of your minds and your evil perswasions that arise hour of your evil hearts from whence your faln wisdom which is earthly carnal and devilish ariseth which is out of covenant with God and stands in enmity and opposition to the

not such as made great shews and fair pretences of him as you do as the Jews Scribes and Pharisees did he came that is Jesus Christ unto them and they received him not that had made so much profession of him as you have done but were enemies to him then as you are now but as many then as received him to them he gave power to become the Sons of God which were born not of flesh nor of the will of man but of God Ioh. 1.10.11.12.13 but you are of the will of man and of the flesh and not after God and are ignorant both of the light life and power and you are of that which is corruptible and both your names and memory shall perish and rot in the dust for the name and memorial of the wicked shall rot and utterly perish and come to nought the old man the old name and that must dye and you are in the old nature which is corrupt which shall rot and per●sh but the new man the new name and of the Divine nature which is the Gift of God shall live and endure for ever and every living-stone that is elected and enlightened may cry out against you that you are no Ministers of Christ but of Antichrist and are in the old birth and of the wicked one and must come to destruction who are led by Antichrist and your own corrupt wills and know nothing neither of watching nor yeilding up to the light as those do who are enlightened by it and guided by it who are the Sons of God Rom. 8.14 and are acquainted both with watchings and fastings as the Saints were who do abide in the Doctrine of Christ and are guided by the spirit of truth knows that there is need of watching and yeilding up to Christ which you shew your selves to be ignorant of that live in pride and vain glory and fleshly boasting and know not Christ calls to his saying Watch and pray lest ye enter into Temptation here must be either yeilding to Christ or a standing in opposition on against him and walking in carelesness as you do but we have not so learned Christ Ephes 4.20 but are taught to watch and pray and not to enter into the temptation or the evil Mat. 26.41 and saith he what I say unto you I say unto all men Watch but you are proud boasters as in 2 Tim. 3. and know not the Doctrine of Christ nor the practise of the Saints David he watched and his Soul waited on the Lord and in his Word did he hope and so do all the Seed of David now that which is the immortal Word which liveth and endureth for ever and David said My Soul waiteth for the Lord here was a true waiter and the same seed doth so now he waited more then they that watch for the morning Psal 130.5.6 this was Davids condition who was the Servant of the Lord which you shew your selves to be none of and you would have all to take not ce of it and of your ignorance of the practise of the Saints and Servants of the Lord See Heb. 2.1 he stood upon his watch which ye neglect who live in scorn sitting in the seat of the scornful but the Lord sits in Heaven and laugheth you to scorn ye scorners how long will you live in scorning and are so blind that you are not acquainted with waiting nor watching which were and is the practice of the Saints which the Scriptures do witness and I bear Testimony to the life of the Scriptures for watching and waiting upon the Lord see these Scriptures and you that do deny the life of the Scriptures I do deny and herein you shew forth the spirit of error The Apostle who had the spirit of truth did teach the people as he was taught of God and did exhort them to stand stedfast upon their Watch 1 Cor. 16.13 the true minister of Christ did exhort the Corinthia●s to watch and to quit themselves like men that they might be strong in the Lord and do all their works in love that they might addict themselves to the ministry of the Saints 1 Cor. 16.14.15 which you shew your selves enemies to and the Thessalonians who were children of the day and taught of God he did exhort to watchings and to put on the Bre●t plate of faith and love and for an helmet the hope of Salvation for God hath not appointed us to wrath but to obtain Salvation by Jesus Christ which we do own and witness their practice which spoke forth the Scriptures 1 Thes 5.5.6.7.8.9.10 and the blessing is to them that watch Revel 16.15 Herein you shew your selves to be no watchmen but blind guides for the Ministers of Jesus Christ were to watch for souls as they that were to give an account to God Heb. 13.17 And so you make good that saying of the Prophet and fulfil that Scripture His watchmen are all blind such as you are that act in the same condition that the false Prophets did looking for your gain from your quarter Isai 56.10 11. Wo to you ye blind guides for it is Christ that worketh in us both to will and to do of his own good pleasure Philip. 2.12 13. And our sufficiency is of him 2 Cor. 3.5 And for your saying that we hold free will that is your imagination but God will scatter all the proud in their imaginations It is the will of God which is our sanctification which you shew your selves to be ignorant of and so follow your corrupt wills freely without watching over that which corrupts and so give up your selves to the power of darkness to commit sin with greediness and here you have shewed your folly and that you neither know the light nor the power of truth but are in darkness We to you ye blind guides who are for wrath and condemnation and the wicked and all that forget God shall be turned into hell Psal 9.17 And saith Christ Depart ye that be workers of iniquity I know you not And Go ye cursed into hell prepared for the Devil and his Angels Matth. 25. And take the unprofitable servant and bind him hand and foot and cast him into outer darkness where shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth And now you are found unprofitable which ran but the Lord never sent you howl and weep for wo and misery is your portion and the portion of all such as you are But if your power accompany the light Priests what shall we think of Paul who found the Law of his members warring and leading him captive against his will c. You shew that you neither know any thing of Paul's condition nor of the law of the inward man for the Law hath power over thoughts and all the thoughts of the wise are vain and so are you vain that would find out the Secrets of the Lord by your vain thoughts but none knows them but those that fear the Lord which is a departing out

that you may be put to shame 2 Thes 3.14 Gal. 6.16 And as for magnifying your writings that is the stoln expressions that are conjured up out of the bottomless pit of deceit and that is all that we write against to magnifie the truth in laying open your deceits and deceivableness where you do deceive the people by your flatteries deceits and glorious notions and gilded expressions which is for the fire and all such as you are who are acted and guided by the spirit of the Devil who is a lyar and the Father of it And the Beast and the 24 Elders Antichrist and his upholders shall be cast into the lake together and they that worship the Beast and his Image and their own imaginations and inventions as such as you do Rev. 14.9 10 11. Rev. 17. Rev. 20. there to be tormented And as for putting our papers into one anothers hands and not the Scriptures as you say Here you speak but by imaginations but the spreading abroad of our papers is for the laying open of deceits and deceivers such as you are that do not abide in the Doctrine of Christ 2 John 9. but run a whoring after your own inventions but Whoremongers and Adulterers that do not abide in the truth such as you are God will judge but the Scriptures we do own and magnifie the life and power of them and all who are guided by the same Spirit that gave them forth Rom. 8.14 1 John 3.1 But such as you are that live in lies flatteries sub ilty and deceit we do deny and disown and restifie against all such who take the Scriptures for no other end but to trade withal for money and deny the life of them and who walk not in obedience to the Commands of our Lord Jesus such we deny and those that have but the form of Godliness but deny the power thereof as you do such we deny and that you have nothing to do to sell the Scriptures nor to trade with the Saints experiences for mony which is your Dianah for your foundation is but Silver and Gold which must be shaken and cast into the fire that nothing may stand in the day of the Lords power but that which is of his own bringing forth where those that speak may speak as the Oracle of God with power and boldness from the spirit of truth as they receive their words from the Lord and not from other mens writings and gathered up knowledg and imagination for carnal mony and carnal ends as you and such as you do who make no other use of the Scriptures but to colour over your deceits and deceivableness withal that you may live in Hypocrisie but wo is the Hypocrites portion and wo is yours Wo to you ye blind guides and demi-lights wel-favored Harlots and painted Sepulchers for the Lord will avenge himself on all his enemies and adversaris such as you are And your wisdom is earthly your wills are corrupt and you are in the old nature and are in the fall and lust of the flesh Pag. 37. and you are ignorant of the things of God and know nothing of Chriff and his Cross but shew your selves enemies to it as in Phil. 3. and are in the broad way that leads to destruction and you are covered over with earthly conceivings and earthly inventions and imaginations and your learning is earthly and no man can serve two masters but you are ignorant of the teachings and Doctrine of Christ but run into the holes of your earthly imaginations and you are carnal and corrupt and you are of the first birth which is Cainish there is a natural man and there is a spiritual man and the natural man is in his first wisdom which is earthly carnal sensual and divilish James 3.11.12.13 14.15.16 and so is yours but the spiritual man hath his affections set on things above being risen with Christ Col. 3. having his wisdom from above being born again and of the seed of Abraham and his wisdom is not that which is bought and sold Iob 28. as yours is but the new man hath his new name new learning and new wisdom which is pure peaceable and is of another being made partakers of the Divine nature and the Divine wisdom which the spiritual man is taught and hath received of the Lord Iam. 3.17.18 2 Pet. 1. to 9. which you shew your selves to be ignorant of and enemies to and knoweth not the teachings of God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ but are cloathed with your own righteousness and in your 38. Page you would make your selves to appear fair and beautiful in the eyes of men as the Pharisees did Pag. 38. who was of the same nature that you are and boasted of their own righteousness which you are established in and not in the righteousness of God which crosseth all natures desires that are corrupt and changeth that nature which is carnal and wor eth out all unrighteousness where it is embraced and the motions of it not quenched 1 Thes 5.19.20 21.22.23 but you are in divisions and dissimulations and knows not that righteousness of Christ that stands inward in the covenant of promise as you have declared in Page 38. which is in all and is the power and the life and righteousness it self to establish and season their hearts with Grace which you are not acquainted with whose learoing is that of the first nature which is earthly and your righteousness the same every tree being known by its fruits Luk. 6.44.45.46 and the root being corrupt the branches is corrupt also so your Religion is carnal and earthly and stands in externals and rudiments of the world and not after Christ but is Ceremonial Pharisaical and Diabolical and that nature and seed that lives in that center knows not that religion which is pure and keeps unspotted of the world Iam. 1.26.27 nor that righteousnes which stands out of all mens apprehensions and comprehensions in him who is and who was before the world was and is incomprehensible which you shew your selves ignorant of But what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness and what union hath light with darkness and what concord hath Christ with Belial whom you serve that live in uncleanness enmity is put betwixt the two seeds and they cannot bereconciled 2 Cor. 6.15.16 17 18. And as Apparrel was made to cover nakedness withal Pag. 39. which we do not deny but sees through the large Love of God to us in all his own work who maketh us the workmanship of God the Father creating us in Christ Jesus the Son of his Love and our Souls Saviour adorning us with the ornament of a meek and a quiet spirit and cloathing us with the Garments of praise and and as the Saints was that is spoken of in the Revelation that we may praise and glorifie his great glorious Name in using all his creatures in the use and service as they were created for the health