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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76237	A seasonable warning and word of advice to all papists, but most especially to those of the kingdome of France; for them to turn from their idolatry, and gross superstition, and speedily to repent, and hast to meet the Lord by amendment of life, least he come on them, and smite them unawares ... / Charles Baily.	Bayley, Charles, 17th century.	1663 (1663)	Wing B1473A; ESTC R170471	59,588	68

Father is in him for people read and consider as you prize the salvation of your precious souls For the soul that sinneth shall dye as saith the Prophet Likewise your Priests tell you you must honour and invoke the Saints that are dead and get pieces of their bones to carry about you such vanity as this do they feed you with for saith Christ The flesh profiteth nothing but the Spirit quickneth This he spake to them who were looking at his flesh outwardly but did you once come to the Spirit which only profiteth you would come to know the will of God fulfilled in you which is your sanctification and then you will be ashamed to make reliques of one anothers cloaths flesh or bones but will come to know the true Sanctification to be in and by the Word which is Christ for so Christ prayed Sanctifie them by thy word thy word is truth and they who come to know the truth come to know the word in them which sanctifies them through soul and body and this word David knew right well and the vertue thereof who said Thy word have I hid in my mouth that I might not sin against thee And if you once come to the knowledge and power of his word it will keep you also from sinning against God which is the true sanctified state and this is no new Doctrine for Moses the true Servant of the Lord preached the same to the children of Israel saying The word is nigh you even in your mouths and in your hearts Mark the word was nigh them even in them and this was the word of faith the Apostle Paul preached he that comes to the word of faith comes to that which purifies and makes clean and here the sanctification comes to be witnessed in the particular by which means the perfect unity comes to be known and enjoyed with the Saints with Christ in God so here will be no need to invoke one another but all will be asked in the name of Christ the power of God which power will infallibly be heard and answered of God For whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name it shall be given you saith Christ Jesus who is the true Teacher and Shepherd of the soul even of all that come unto him who will teach them how to pray and to whom even God the Judge of all And by this you may sufficiently prove your Pope and Priests Doctrine to be none of Christs but contrary to him which is Antichrist You are also forbidden by them meats and marriage which the Apostle said was a Doctrine of Devils speaking lyes in hypocrisie unto you having their Consciences seared with an hot Iron for they forbid you that which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth for every Creature of God is good if it be received with thanksgiving for it is sanctified by the Word of God and Prayer 1 Tim. 3.4 5. For unto the pure all things are pure For they that come to the purifying come to know all things pure unto them but to the impure nothing is pure their minds and consciences being defiled therefore men knowing this but who comes to the true hope which purifies even as Christ is pure which is a purifying throughout in soul and body in this life yea and gives Dominion over Sin Hell Death and the Devil and he that witnesseth this hope in him needs not a Purgatory to purge him after he is dead for he comes to be purified as Christ is pure as also saith the Scripture This is the true Christian hope whereby he comes to be-purified and made clean as also knowing that God hath created all things for them that fear him but to the impure as I have said nothing is pure unto them though they may lye and say they fast when they only forbear one sort of meat and eat another which will but adde to their condemnation and their Priests which doth teach them to lye will not be able to deliver them but the Teachers and the Teached shall perish together except they repent for the Lake is prepared for the lyar for is it not damnable lying and hypocrisie for men to say they fast when they only forbear one sort of meat and eat another Is not fish flesh Doth not the Apostle call it so And in this your pretended fast you drink Wine and feast your selves without fear whilest some have hardly bread to eat These things are an abomination unto the Lord God of Heaven and Earth for his wrath you shall surely feel for this hypocrisie except you repent though you say you hope to be saved that shall stand you in no stead in the dreadful day of vengeance which is very nigh you For the hypocrites hope shall perish as saith the Scripture and though some of you who are more zealously given than others may fast and hang down your heads like a Bulrush for a day Pharisee-like and give almes to be seen of men which is as though you offered up Swines blood or as the cutting off of a Dogs neck it being in that nature which crucifies the Just in your selves even that which would lead you out of observation of dayes and times up to God which was before time was and untill you come to take diligent heed to this just principle of God in your selves which condemns for all hypocrisie sin and deceit profess what you will it will stand you in no stead ye though you should give all your goods to the poor and your bodies to be burnt it will avail you nothing for it leads all who diligently follow it to do to all men as they would others should do unto them which is the true Christian life in which only all works are accepted with God for it is the fulfilling the Law and the Prophets for the Law was added because of transgression and untill there be a fulfilling of it in you ye are under the curse profess what you will Some may say this is an hard saying who can bear it Did not Christ Redeem us from under the curse of the Law and was not he made manifest for that end I answer to this end was the Son of God made manifest in the flesh to condemn sin in the flesh that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us and all who come to know the teachings of God in the Spirit know him to fulfill the Law not to abolish or destroy it in as much as it is righteous and layeth hold on nothing but the transgressor to condemnation therefore saith Paul The Ministration of condemnation was glorious in its time and this all the Saints and holy men of God did witness Christ the righteousness of God manifest in them who did all their works in them and for them and by which all boasting was excluded because It is not of him that willeth nor him that runneth but in God that sheweth mercy

several houses for himself to dwell in but inricheth all his posterity purchasing to one of his kindred a Prince-ship and by this it appeareth he hath not forsaken all but covets all or as much as in him lyeth to have Christ when he rode was contented with an Asse but the Pope when he goeth forth though but a mile or two is carried by men and notwithstanding hath several Horses to attend upon him and a Coach with six pompered Horses to tend upon him empty which is a horrid shame for any single eye to behold in such a one who taketh upon him the name of Christs Vicar upon Earth did he do it only in the name of an Earthly Prince his abomination would not be altogether so great but this sheweth him to be in the way of the vain Heathen and not a man of God nor God-like in these actions for Paul when he was called of God into his holy Ministry he immediately obeyed the Heavenly voyce and went and preached the Gospel and not go and shut himself up in great possessions and there give forth Indulgences for pardons for sins but on the contrary declared the terrors of the Lord against all sin and said Such as men sowed such should they reap if they sowed to the flesh they should of the flesh reap corruption but if they sowed to the Spirit they should reap life everlasting And also said That the wages of sin is death So that this was far from giving pardons for sins as the Pope doth Christ saith The Heathen exercise Lordship one over another but with you it shall not be so speaking to those who had truly forsaken all to follow him He that will be greatest among you let him be servant to all for he that exalteth himself shall be abased and he that abaseth himself shall be exalted saith Christ who said Learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart But with the Pope and in his Dominion there is Lording and exercising Lordship one over another striving who shall be greatest amongst them as may be seen in the Ecclesiastical Courts in Rome and elsewhere where they are suing and striving for honour and by this they shew they are wholly degenerated from the holy life of Christ and his righteous Commands who was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief who sought not his own glory but the glory of him that sent him who was in travels and tumults in revilings and reproaches giving his back to the smiter and his cheeks to him which plucked off the hair when he was reviled reviled not again when he was persecuted he entreated and rendred not evil for evil but sought the good of all and bore the contradiction of sinners This was his holy life and example in the dayes of his flesh even in that body which was prepared him to do the will of his Father in leaving all his holy examples to follow And now let the Pope and all his Adherents be measured by these fruits they will be found wholly contrary and against him for instead of being acquainted with grief they cause others to be grieved and shut themselves up in the fattest possessions and they are fatned themselves as for the day of slaughter sporting themselves with Wine and Musick destroying and devouring the fat of the Creation this is apparent to every single eye And the Pope instead of bearing the contradiction of sinners is one with them and tollerates them in it and suffereth none to come to speak with him without using a deal of flattering and deceit and when they do obtain the liberty must fall down and worship before him and commonly kisse his toe which is a horrible and detestable thing in the sight of God and instead of being persecuted causeth all to be persecuted within his Dominion that will not bow to these his wicked practices And instead of submitting his body to do the will of God he pompers it dayly Dives-like whilest the poor fatherless and widdow is oppressed one need not go far to prove this for it may be seen all over his Dominion in the open streets Christ saith Freely ye have received freely give For his Ministry is a free Ministry but the Popes is altogether contrary for there is nought to be had of his Ministers but what the people must give money for yea when they have given money all the dayes of their life they must give money to be prayed for after they are dead Ages and Generations cannot paralel this horrible cheat which they through deceit and hypocrisie deceive the hearts of the simple with not an Age I say since the Apostacy can shew the like And thus it is the people are spending their money for that which is not bread and their labour for that which profiteth not ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth as plainly appeareth for if they had come to the knowledge of the truth the truth would have made them free as saith Christ who preached no such thing as Purgatory neither did he tell people they must give money for Masses to be said for them after they were dead to be had out from thence as the Popes doctrine teacheth So this is not with but against Christ and so Antichrist for saith Christ Whosoever is not with me is against me and the tree is known by its fruit and this is a mark for evermore for by their fruits we know them though they may put on Sheeps cloathing yet inwardly they are ravening Wolvs alienated from the Spirit of truth which would lead into all truth and being from it erred are given over to believe lies that they might be damned and so run greedily on in the way of destruction and having lost the key of true knowledge have run on in the fleshly knowledge and wisdome which is earthly sensual and devilish and in it are at enmity against God for that wisdome never knew him but on the contrary ever persecuted them which did it being the Seed of the Bond-woman which persecuted the Seed of the free-woman from righteous Abel unto this day enmity being put between the two Seeds for ever and each Seed is manifestly known by its fruits the one gendereth to sin bondage and corruption and the other keeps the Commandments of God the one a Persecutor and Murderer and the other a Sufferer So here one may see the Pope and all his Adherents as in a glass what seed and lineage they are of even by these their fruits which to their faces testifies what Generation they are of witness their Inquisition and places of tortures which they have so that if any seem to arise or stir among them and declare any thing which is not altogether suitable to their lusts then presently to the Inquisition with them away with them they are Hereticks and deserve not to live and so imprison and shut them up it is much if ever they come out except

talent and gift of God let him that readeth understand that his soul may live for untill this be read felt and understood professe what you will the soul lieth in death and misery therefore ye must diligently search and seek this seed in the field which is in the World in you where this precious Pearl lyeth hid that ye may be as the wise Merchant-man who sold all to purchase it so must ye if it ever comes to be yours yea you must dig deep to find it for it lyeth under all the mountaines of sin oppressed like a Cart which is laden with sheaves in you for the field is in you though wide for the field is in the World which is in your hearts and when the precious seed is grown watch and wait least the birds of the aire bereave you of it or else the enemy sow his evill seed in your ground and so choak the good seed and plant of God so that it cannot grow nor prosper for Friends it is truly so that straight is the way which leadeth to life and few there be that find it but broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which goe in thereat for it is the way of sin but the other holinesse and purity without which no man shall see the Lord as the Scripture saith for it is the onely thing which shall stand in stead in the day of account but woe will be unto them which then are or shall be found covered and not with the Holy Spirit of God all other coverings will be to short to cover or save them from the dreadful woe and vengeance which is ready to come upon the inhabitants of the earth for the Lord hath determined to bring Judgement upon the earth that the inhabitants thereof may learn righteousnesse for it is not to be found amongst men but every one is seeking his own way seeking and striving to exalt his own horn by oppression and deceit but the Lord will rebuke many because of these things for oppression shall cease amongst men and the oppressor shall surely be trodden under foot and the meek of the earth shall have the dominion for evermore which is the mind and purpose of the Lord of heaven and earth therefore it shall surely come to passe and woe will be to them who do arise to oppose the Lord in this most glorious work for they shall be beaten to powder for the potsherds may strive with potsherds yet in vain will it be to strive against the Lord and his Holy Anoynted who is come and coming to take the Kingdome whose right it is for ever and ever for all the Kingdomes of the World shall become the Kingdomes of the glorious Son of God Therefore oh ye inhabitants of the earth prepare to meet the Lord and be ye warned that ye joyn not with the power of the oppressor whom God is purposing to overturn and chain down for ever least you perish with him This from the Lord God of heaven and earth is a warning to you all that ye may be warned and left without excuse when the day shall come upon you which is already dawned and hastens apace to shine in its glory whereby all the works of darknesse shall be discovered and made manifest though never so secretly hid as hath been already said It is high time for you to awake out of the deep sleep of ignorance which you have been cast into by the Magicians of Egypt who have long kept your poor souls in spiritual bondage and slavery through their deceit and lyes for their own profit and lucre of which they strive to cast a mist before your eyes telling you of the body of Christ and instead of which they make you worship the works of your own hands which will and doe perish with the using which the body of Christ can never doe inasmuch as it is incorruptible neither did or could see corruption yet notwithstanding your Priests have so far bewitched you as that you your selves commonly confesse that though they be never so wicked yet in the speaking of so many words they make the corruptible bread the very body of Christ and ye are so far inchanted with this lye insomuch that if all within your Dominions do not fall down before this piece of bread and worship you are ready to murder them by which means your fruits shew you are in the spirit of murther and envy envying those which will not own your lye and blasphemy calling earthly bread the Lords body which is held in and by the hands of corruptible men as you your selves are ready to say the Lords soul abhors these things for they are an abominable abomination before him Consider and lay it to heart can the words that proceed out of the mouth of a sinful man make any thing incorruptible nay they cannot seeing it is evident that out of one fountain salt water and sweet cannot be had neither can a bad tree bring forth good fruit as saith Christ neither can your deceivable Priests who thus deceive you doe any such thing as they tell you of neither have they any place in the holy Scripture which speaks of any such practices as those which they deceive you with that is that men should take a piece of bread and say such and such words over it that then it should become the body of Christ and that men should fall down and prostrate themselves before it nay they cannot cause bread to be converted into the body of Christ neither can they convert the body of Christ into bread let them speak what or as many words as they can over it And thus they keep you in bondage as much as in them lyes least you should search and find out their deceit and also from the reading of the Scriptures least their wickednesse should be manifestly discovered though Christ saith Search the Scriptures for they testifie of me but the Pope and his Priests forbid you to read them which sheweth that they are not of his mind who would that all should come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved and not to keep people in darknesse for in the Scriptures it is recorded that the Bereans were more noble than others because that after they had heard the truth declared they went home and searched the Scriptures to see whether those things were so or no yea or nay you may see they were commended for so doing and not forbidden as your Priests doe and the Apostles did bid try all things and hold fast that which is good which is far from forbidding any tryal in and for truth many of your own regular Priests will say themselves that they are forbidden to dispute You may easily be kept in blindnesse and darknesse when many of your own teachers themselves are not permitted to vindicate their own practises and works which they make you thus adore Surely it is high time for you to ponder your wayes

for if you will wilfully continue to follow your blind guides who dare not appear openly to vindicate their own way as manifestly appeareth ye will utterly fall into the pit of utter darknesse both you and them together out of which there is no recovery I my self have been a Prisoner in Bourg de Ault for speaking to a couple of Priests desiring them that I might have the liberty either in publick Market place or some other convenient place where the people might hear and I should prove what I said to them to be the truth of God but seeing they denyed me that Christian liberty this I publish amongst you the truth of what here is written I proffer'd to seal with my life for I did proffer them my body to do with it what they had power the same I desired of the Judg which had me in examination yet it would not be granted me yea the two said Priests did take two oaths against me yet would not stay for to hear me speak but hasted away though desired and some of the people did expect it and this proves their works to be the works of darknesse and not of the light for he which doth good cometh to the light that his works might be made manifest that they are wrought in God but they whose works are wrought in the dark hate the light neither will they come to the light because their deeds are evill So that by their fruits we know them as Christ said who is the bread of life which is invisible and nourisheth the invisible Soul this is the true bread which came down from Heaven and whosoever feedeth thereon shall never dye and except you come to eat of this his flesh and drink of his blood ye have no life in you for it is incorruptible And though he took bread and brake it to his disciples the night before he was offered up and said Take eat this is my body he did not really give them his body though he bid them break bread in remembrance of him untill he came Mark they were but to doe it untill he came which shewed plainly the natural bread was not him even whilst it was in his own hand but a figure of him for as it was distributed amongst them so was his life and that they were to do in remembrance untill his holy life descended upon them again which they did witnesse not many dayes after at Jerusalem and they had not need of any thing to put them in mind of him for he lived and reigned really in them and the Apostle Paul said it shewed the Lords death until he came which saying was a glorious truth of God for it brought them out of all visibles shewing that the invisible light was to reign in them for he reproved many of them who had gotten so into the breaking of bread that they eat and drank until they were drunk 1 Cor. which the Lords body would not have done yet their bread and wine had as much vertue in it as yours can have But of these things we who are called Quakers we would bring your teachers to open trial to see whether it hath more vertue in it after consecration as ye call it then before the Priest hath spoken some of the words of Christ over the bread for it is not unknown that the Devil did take the words of Scripture to tempt the Son of God with therefore his children may in like manner speak them deceive the sons of men with them So that if they have any vertue in them let them come forth in like manner as hath been proposed unto them to wit if their bread after consecration hath more vertue in it then other bread hath let them shew it by the tryal of it by putting it with other bread and we and they shall see to the keeping of it and if the one doe not corrupt as well as the other then it will appear there is more vertue in it but on the contrary if they both corrupt then may ye see your teachers to be Deceivers and that ye are fed with a lye for the body of Christ cannot corrupt neither did it ever see corruption in that nature for it is incorruptible and spiritual Truly people this concerns you much to look into seeing you are thus taught and deluded for the Soul which sinneth shall dye and it will be a folly for any one of you for to say in the dreadful day of account Our Fathers have eaten sowre grapes and our teeth are set on edge pleading antiquity will not serve your turns though I know God hath forborn you in these abominable abominations and Idolatry even worshipping of pieces of Bread Stocks and Stones the one you say is the very body of Christ and the other his likenesse and all a lye and hath and will be reproved and made manifest and will get further to the utter overthrow of it all for the likenesse of Christ can no more be made by any no more then bread naturall can be converted into his body by any seeing he is the expresse Image of his Father and never bare any other But say you generally it puts us in mind which plainly shews that ye are of those who forget God David said The wicked should be turned into Hell and all who forget God Consider you who say you must have a dead Image to put you in mind of the living Christ and also this sheweth that ye have not the mind of Christ as the Christians had Friends in this the day of tryal you are found bare naked and miserable therefore be warned that you may all come to the Light which is the dore the way the truth and the life and no man can come to the Father but by him even Christ Jesus who is the Light of the world which enlightneth every man that cometh into the world who is the only dore and way to God and whosoever goeth about to enter any other way but by the Light the same is a thief and a robber as saith Christ who is the Covenant of God to all mankind upon the face of the whole earth and to this end came he into the world that through him all might believe and whosoever doth out of his belly shall flow a River of living water which is beyond all Naturals which can alone be seen handled and tasted by the Spiritual and whosoever comes to be sensible of its pure streams will for ever delight to drink thereof there being satisfaction therein only which my soul knoweth right well therefore am I drawn forth in the same wherewith the Lord hath loved me to invite many that they may eat and drink that which my Father hath provided for many even for those who are strangers and straglers in the high-wayes and hedges for a banquet hath my God prepared and hath and is sending out his Servants to invite and bid many but many already have made their excuses