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A94802	For those that meet to worship at the steeplehouse, called John Evangelist, in London, or, any other in that nature upon whom the Scriptures are fulfilled, in evil intreating the servants of the Lord Iesus, whom he sends to deliver his message amongst you. Or for any other that are condemned for sin, and have thirstings after righteousness ...	R. T. (Rebecca Travers), 1609-1688.	1659 (1659)	Wing T2059; ESTC R185428	25,680	64

to you all whatever your teachers tell you who cry vehemently against the light for they know if you harken to the light their trade will soon dovvn and therefore many lyes in their pulpits and else where do they publish to hold up the kingdom of darkness saying we deny the Scriptures and Christ which dyed at Jorusalem and the ministers with many more false accusations to which I answer for the truths sake no other Christ do we profess then he that made a good confession before Pilate who when crucified had over his head a writing set of Hebrew Greek and Lattin by his crucifiers as now he hath receive it if you can of whom Enoch Moses and all the rest of the Prophets prophesied and the Apostles bare witness to him do we believe in and call all to who is in us the hope of glory and the Scriptures of truth we believe and Deut. ●4 ●5 are come to the fulfilling of them and being witnesses that the Angel of the everlasting Gospel hath flown through heaven after this long night of Apos●asie Rev 14. 6. we know that the hour of righ●eous judgement is come in which Babylon and all her merchants must down and we cannot but warn them and you of their sure destruction for these are the ministers of Antichrist and not of Jesus Christ who set up any thing in his stead who is the eternal Son of God and this was they seen to be by some of them called puritans forty years ago to my own knowledge and some that had been breed at Schools and universities with them and had taken their orders though they were dark times have all along according to the light received witnessed against the evil of these times servers so much as that they were hated of the world suffered persecution some to death others banishment for his names sake who is Iohn 1. 6. the light and the ministery sent of God did and do bear witness to him that is the light and these we honour in the Lord who by his power have turned many thousands from darkness Act 16 14 to light and from the power of Satan to God and we try them by their works and their fruits are fruits Mat. 7. 16 ler. 23. 28. of unrighteousness but you cannot gather Figs of Thistles nor Grapes of Thorns what is the Chaff to the Wheat saith the Lord God who is gathering his Wheat into the Garner and the day of Harvest is at hand and the tares must be burned with unquenchable fire so be awakned for to that of God in every mans conscience I am manifested that you are warmed and called to repentance and from your dead worships and works Iohn 4 23. to the living God who is a quickning spirit and in spirit will he be worshiped and his first appearance is to destroy sin in the flesh and if this you despise which convinces of sin you offer despite unto the spirit of grace Heb. 10. 29 by which all the saved of God are sealed and have the witness in our selvs that he is true this is the mediator of the new Covenant written in the heart put in the inner parts which who are come to need not any Heb. 8 6 ler. 31. 33. to teach but are all taught of God from the least to the greatest knowing ●he pouring forth of the spirit upon ●ons and daughters whereby we pro●hesy and this is a lanthorn to our ●●et and a light unto our steps and ●●eeping to it he manifests himself un●o 1 Cor 13. 11 Iohn 4. 4. us whom we know and feel mani●ested in flesh to destroy the works of the Devil and as that which is perfect comes that which is unper●ect is put away for he that dwells in us is greater then he that rules in the world though it be denyed by ●ll those your teachers which preach against perfection to the weakning of the faith by which all the holy men of God were pefected and by which the world and death and he that hath the power of death the Devil are overcome and this is our victory O that you felt it it is under the blessing of eternal life and without you know this to arise which can remove the mountains what have you to do with promises for the promises are to the seed for ever and ever not unto Rom 4 16 seeds as unto many but unto on Christ Jesus this seed bruises the Serpents head and keeps him under who rules in all you that live in Sion and plead for it but we that believe know the casting out of Devils and the treading of the Serpent under foot and we speake with new tongues Mark 6. ●7 and the world cannot bear it and the ear is bored that hears the she pheards voyce and they can no more heare ● stranger and so the Scripture which you say is your Rule doth testifie against you secrets are made known to us that fear him more and more shall they be covered with darkness that striye against the light which now pricks many of you and it is hard for you to kick against it and though you have or may for a time get above it yet if not afore at your death-beds some of you shall confess that that speaking trouble none can speak peace and that condemning none can justifie for he that is a God pardoning sin iniquity and transgression will in no wise acquit the guilty are not you guilty whose hearts condemn you and there is no remission but by blood blood is lise and the life of 1 Iohn 3. 20 Heb 9 22 Jesus is the light of men but all that ●elieve not in the light are condem●ed already as saith the scripture M●●k ●6 ●6 ●nd know not the blood that clenses ●o more then they that peirced Jesus 〈◊〉 at Jurusalem and saw the blood ●nd water run out yet had neither ●ensing nor salvation by it then but ●ohn 1. 7. ●ll who are in the light as we are in ●he light have fellowship one with a●other and the blood of Jesus clenses ●s from all sins whereby we have bold●ess in the day of Judgement know●●g as he was we are in this present 1 Iohn 4. 17 ●orld hated mocked and despite●●lly used of you for whose soules ●●ke we have and can deny all that is dear unto us not loving our lives un●o the death that while it is day you ●ight hear his voice vvho svvears in ●is vvrath the unbeleiver shall never ●nter into his rest and vvithout you ●novv and feel that vvhich is pure ●nd perfect and eternal to beleive in Heb. 3. 1●●● ●our faith is in an Idol and your offerings will not he offer who lives for ever to make intercession for all that come to God by him vvho is a psal 16. 4 priest for ever made by the Law of an endless life and if ever you come to know

own destruction And so you that know not the moving of the spirit in which the Scriptures are writ have given meanings and so in this long night of Apostacy have brought forch errors and false Doctrines and filled the World with Sects Opinions the simplicitie of the Gospel being betrayed by the crafty subtiltie of men but we who are come Ephes 4 4 〈◊〉 29 14 15 in the light to see the fulfilling of the Scriptures know that the wisdom of the wise is turned into foolishness and the counsel of the prudent is brought to nought the Prophet is become a fool and the diviners shall run mad Hos 9. 7. and he that hides from the wise reveals to babes and sucklings and it seems good unto him though the heathen Luke 10. 2●● then rage and the people imagine vain thugs the Lord is risen to recover his own inheritance that hath Psalms 2. ● Ezek. 34. 2. 3. long been laid waist by the destroyer and the devouring shepherds have not fed the sheep but eat the sheep who have run and were never sent therefore have not the people been profited and the mistery of iniquity that began in the Apostles dayes hath spread Ier. 23. 21. 2 Thes 2. 7. again to the filling of the world with thick darkness as it was foretold by Christ and the Apostles that devouring Wolves should come and make Ma● 7. 15. havock of the flock and that in sheeps cloathing and these were to prevail all the time and times that the world wondred after the beast though your teachers would mak you believe Rev. 13. 3. the false Prophets are come but now that they might hide themselves but O that you did see and believe the Scriptures then would you know who were the ravening Wolves we or they whom you call your ministers see which is the Wolfe that devours and destroyes he that sends for his gain Isa 56. 11. from his quarters and if he has it not raises war and sues and casts in prison and if any speak in his meeting place or asks him a question he causes or suffers his people to beat them or hale them or stone them or whip them and will not speak himself but for gifts and rewards Now are these the Wolves or they that bear all these things in patience going up and down freely giving as freely as they have received try whether of these be the ministers of Christ by that you call your rule and truly people God will not be mocked and his eye beholds the deceitful worker every where and the Scriptures are ours upon whom the ends of the world are come and for us were they written and shall bear witness for us against all the Idolatrous generation that sets them in the place of God to me are they precious who am come to the comfort of them and let the wisest of your teachers if he can without a meaning bring a written Scripture to prove that they any where are called the Iohn 1. 4 6● word the foundation the light or the life I shall give some of the many written in the Scriptures to shew that he who is the light is the life and Iohn 8. 12. the way and the ordinance and the name ohn 14. ● by which only salvation is and are not those then false Prophets and deceivers Iohn 1. 1 which would make you from the Scriptures believe that which is not Iohn 1 14 Phil. 29 and hide from you that which is are not these the Antichrist which instead 1 Cor 3. 11 of Christ are setting up that which is not he in his stead O shall not the Acts 10. 42 Col 2 14 plagues threatned in that book come upon them who are known to add and diminish and surely as the Sorcerers of Egypt are they that harden the Dut. 2 4 Rev. 22 18 19 heart in making likenesses and truly friends these things are not written to you as to have your help or aid to defend or assist us as your parsons use to pray and cry for for we are the people that have no helper on the earth yet beleiving know we shall be Micah 4 1 the mountain set upon the top of every mountain and while you are striving against the little stone cut out of the mountains without hands it Dan 2. 34 growes and you see it not and shall be the praise of the whole earth and the devourers and the destroyer and all the ungodly shal be crusht under it then shall the earth be filled with righteousness and of the increase of this kingdom there shall be no end which is come and coming and not by power might but by my spirit shall all the opposers of this kingdom be brought down saith the Lord and the glory of it is the son and all the subjects are cloathed with holiness all being Priests and Kings to God and the glory of it is now seen coming down from heaven by them that the world hates who are following the Lamb through many tribulations into it and the Dogs and the Whoremungers and Rev. 14. 4 the makers and lovers of lyes Mark this false teachers hearers that speak the things you know not with the Rev. 22. 15 fearfull and unbeleiving must you be shut out Mark you this that cannot beleive what herein is declared ●●t to you it seems strange that God should appear to his people as of old and give us the same spirit as they had that gave forth Scriptures saying to the hardning of your own hearts Mi●●cles are ceased why to us it is not marvelous to receive what we have waited for the spirit of truth to lead into all truth and the Scriptures declare of him and he is the same and changeth not infallible and almighty who is given to convince the world of ●in and till you come to believe in Iohn 16. ●● 92 that which convinces of sin you can neither understand nor beleive the ●criptures nor me nay though one rise from the dead and I who know how precious your souls are with thousands more have been made willing in this the day of the Lords power to go forth with our lives in our hands denying ●ll that has been dear to us that you might be brought from under the power of the Prince of darkness to the obedience of the light in which only is fire salvation no other name given under heaven whereby any can be saved I am the light saith Christ Jesus Iohn 8 12 and if any come to me be shall not abiae in darkness and so all people who hate the light and are speaking against it and giving it names as naturall and such like are you not speaking against the Saviour who is the light and the way and the truth as the Scriptures declare O that for your souls sake you would cease from hearing and speaking lyes and come

are found and call not your selves Christians for Christ owns no such workers for that of Christ suffers in you and by you and though you say God is your Father as they did yet you do the works of the Murtherer and though you say Christ is your Saviour yet the destroyer is head in you and though you say the Scriptures is your rule yet they condemn your lives and cast you out amongst such who persecuted them who gave forth the Scriptures and while you stand in that nature you have no part in the Scriptures to inherit but the plagues and woes therein foretold for such workers And the Scriptures needs no meanings to prove you there but are fulfilled in you in the behalf of him whose work you are doing but when you would take them to prove your Teachers or your selves to be of God then you must do it with meanings twinings and wrestlings for in plainness and truth as the Scriptures were given forth they shut you out And when your Teachers and your selves with all their learning and crast have taken the Saints words and put them upon your selves that you might be taken for sheep a sheep indeed is sent forth amongst you and all your covers are too narrow to hide the Wolf that is within and how little a thing of Gods choosing quickly confounds so great a building and profession and lays naked that which many years you have been hiding and thus when the weakness and foolishness which is of God comes amongst you it lays waste your great wisdom great professions great notions long prayers separations and gathering and Names of Ministers of Christ and people of God Church of God and House of Prayer and all is shaken and gone and nought of all this left but a heap of confusion tearing haling beating pulling stoneing laughing and evil-speaking not the least face of a Church of Christ left nor one jot of all your sheeps clothing to be seen and the poor Instrument by which this is done you count but a fool or mad or one not worth hearing speak or worthy an Answer that the Scripture may be fulfilled which saith God hath chosen foolish things weak things base things of the ● Cor 1 World and things that are despised to confound the wise and mighty and bring all to nought that is not in himself and this day is coming upon you unawares who are professing the Scriptures with your Candle out and so not having the light of Faith in you to guide you it is risen against you in the weak to lay open your nakedness blindness and hardness of heart before your selves and all men So thou that would be counted a shepherd and a guide behold thy Flock and the fruits of thy Ministry When I was to come amongst you in obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ and in the power of his spirit to prove you did you carry your selves as sheep towards me Let moderation judge you and be ashamed What a heap of confusion was you all turned into on a sudden when the foolishness of God appeared amongst you in weakness and contempt And did thou carry thy self as a true Shepherd to flye and leave thy flock in such a tumult upon a poor despised woman and neither to stay and answer one question nor to rebuke the devourer which was head in thy flock So that if the Lord had not strengthened and preserved this weak body it might have been crusht with violence pushing and haling to and fro for as one in the waves of a raging sea so was I amongst thy flock Oh shepherd be ashamed of thy flock and they of thee from that day forward till you repent Vine-dresser be ashamed of thy Work how is thy Vineyard over-run with bryars and thorns that the meek cannot pass unless he be fenced with Iron and Steel Oh husbandman What dost thou sow amongst them where this is reaped And people be ashamed of your shepherd and of his hire and of your defence and let the Words of Christ judge what he is that flyes and leaves his flock and hath not the Weapon of truth in the spirit of meekness to defend himself and his flock with let your fruits judge you in the light of Christ Jesus what he hath sown and in what ground it hath sprung up now it is laid open to your faces and the nature of sheep is not in your fold violence hath filled your House of Prayer the abomination that makes desolate is got up therein and stands where it ought not pride is exalted and the wicked worker is set up and the blind is got into the seat of judgement and leads the blind who calls light darkness and darkness light and the ear that should hear the true shepherd you have stop● and the eye of a spiritual mind is blinded by denying the light within and you have lost the defence of truth and so there is no way to make you understand what you are but by laying you open by your fruits before the sun in whose light your fruits are condemned you seen to be none of his flock nor he your defence but enemies to it and his appearance in the weakest thereof whom he chooseth for such a work Glory to the Lamb And let all that learn his nature praise his Power and Wisdow sor evermore for he hath fitted the meek of the Earth for his defence but the horse and his rider he hath cast into the sea And so people had there been in you reasonableness or moderation or any desire to have known the truth in its power when I did but ask a moderate question of your Teacher you would have been stil and sober moved him to answer and in meekness of spirit you to have heard both parties that so you might have judged with that of God in you which wil arise to the truth where it is who had truth on his side and if your Teacher had had it in him is it not stonger then all to defend him and you therewith which is Christs weapon against all errors whatsoever and then if he had had the Staff of the true Shepherd to have stood over you and defended you then had he shewed himself like a shepherd and you like sheep and not he to betake himself to flye for his defence and you to carnal Weapons and with the fist of wickedness list up run all a heaps in rage and confusion to defend your Teacher and his Doctrine by uncivil demeanor not becoming men and women of government wherein you have but made it appear openly to be Truth that you withstood by what way you took against is as truth hath foretold in Scripture concerning the Worlds Teachers and Professors and what usage Christs sheep should have in the midst of Wolves and upon you this day is this Scripture fulfilled for a witness against Teacher and People and out of it you are cast and out of the Kingdom and patience