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truth_n	believe_v	faith_n	word_n	14,132	5	4.8692	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91798	A true catechisme concerning the word of God and the power of it, which is quick and lively in the heart the manner of its working by dividing and setting before the creature good and evil ... : also several questions answered by the experimental working of the spirit ... / written by one who is brought into the true Christian faith, and for the testimony of the same faith hath been cast into prison ... and scornfully called Quaker, whose name is Thomas Richardson.	Richardson, Thomas.	1664 (1664)	Wing R1415; ESTC R42602	17,030	43

cometh and how it works in its power and efficacy that I may know the difference of a Believer and an Unbeliever and also whether I be in the Faith or no Answer Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God the Word and the Spirit is one but the Spirit and the Letter is two for the Letter killeth but the Spirit maketh alive the Spirit is a free gift the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal the nature of the Spirit is light and with this light are all men enlightned that all men through him might believe the manner of the Spirit working in the heart First a discovery of the sin and the want of life in the soul Secondly it begets a true desire after the Lord and a secret hunger and thirst after righteousness and draws the heart to be affected into the love of the Spirit as it is written He that loves the light brings his deeds to the light and through love the Spirit begets a belief in the heart to its self and as it is written He that believes in the light shall not abide in darkness all sin is darkness Mark the manifestation of the Spirit that searcheth the heart and maketh the sin known the same sorts the sins and evil deeds the light makes them manifest of what sort they are and as the sin is made known to be sin the manifestation of the Spirit that sheweth the sins and sorts them the same Spirit convinceth the Conscience of every sin and every evil deed and the same manifestation of the Spirit abides in the heart which is the onely means to work out mans salvation and the manner of its working in the heart as its nature is light and love even so it begets the heart into union with it self As it is written Of his own will begot he us by the word of truth and as the heart is drawn through love into union with the Spirit it is drawn from the sin and from the evil for the love of Christ constraineth and the same manifestation of the Spirit which is Gods free gift to work out mans salvation that begets the heart into unity with it self the same begets a belief in the heart to believe in Christ the Light who is the light of the world who hath enlightned every man that all men through him might believe and the honest heart receiveth the truth in the love of it the Spirit begets a belief in the heart and this is the Faith that comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God and this faith is that which works by love and this is the faith that purifieth the heart the strength of this faith removes the sin removes mountains and gives victory as it is written He that believes in the light shall not abide in darkness but shall have the light of life and this is the promise and the portion which the believer receives he shall have the light of life and the life gives assurance for every believer hath a seal in his soul of life eternal through the working of the Spirit by its power and efficacy in mortifying and destroying the works of the Devil that sinne and death may have no more dominion in the heart and so death comes to be swallowed up by victory and the promise of God accomplished in Christ who saith I am come that you might have life who is the life and brings life who cometh and his reward is with him Question Thou speakest that Christ hath enlightned every man that all men through him might believe what is the reason that all should be enlightned and yet some come short of Faith in Christ Answer The defect it not in the light but their rejecting it is the cause The mercy and justice of God through Christ by enlightning all that in the day of account all may be left without excuse mans misery will be found to be of himself here lieth the matter all are enlightned but all men have not faith many will not believe that the light is truth or that it is sufficient to save the soul and such hates the light every one that doth evil hateth the light and calleth the good evil and evil good and putteth light for darkness and darkness for light and such becomes reprobates concerning the Faith so that it is plain one sort loving the light believing and obeying it and another sort hating rejecting resisting and denying so that such as hates to be reformed and rejects the motions of the Spirit and resisteth the Holy Ghost and denyeth the Lord that bought them their destruction is of themselves and the Lord and his faithful people will be clear of their blood in the day of Judgement Question But is the light of Christ sufficient to save the Believer Answer Yea the light is the author of the faith and the faith standeth in the light and so it is saving faith and the light is the grace and it is written My grace is sufficient for thee This grace was and is the Saints teacher which taught and teacheth the believer to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts Question If the light be the authour of the true saith in the believer and so the authour of mans salvation what is the portion of the unbeliever seeing thou sayest that all are enlightned Answer The unbelievers that hate the light the light is their condemnation as it is written This is the condemnation that light is come and men love darkness because their deeds are evil as also the grace that was the Saints teacher the unbelievers denied the grace and turned to wantonness and heaped up teachers to themselves having itching ears as many do at this day so the grace that taught and justified and justifieth the believers living in it the same grace condemneth the unbelievers denying to be taught and guided by it who have it in their hearts but hateth to be reformed by it Question I am much satisfied that the word of God in the heart is the Spirit of God and that it is Gods free gift and the onely means to work out mans salvation and also that by this free gift which is the manifestation of the Spirit every unbeliever in the day of Judgement shall be left without excuse Answer Thus the questioner is answered in the truth concerning the word of God in the heart and the power and efficacy of its working by deviding betwixt the joynt and marrow and by giving a discerning of the thoughts and intents of the heart the discerning is the eye by which eye the power of the word in the heart is discerned A separation being made in the heart by the word whereby good and evil is divided and the word in the heart giveth a discerning of the evil in the heart and so the light of the body is the eye this is that eye that the god of this world had blinded which the power of the word hath opened and

anointed with eye salve that it can see and discern the thoughts and intents of the heart And also to discern words and actions oathes and lyes and the intent of the heart in all carriages towards God and man now to discern the intent of all words and to discern the intents of the thoughts and the intent of a lye and the like as in this manner how the devil worketh who abode not in the truth who was a lyar and murtherer from the beginning who is the authour of all evil that is to say to draw the minde and heart of man from God to believe lyes Aud thus the Serpent did to Eve by alluring her to eat of the forbidden fruit saying it is good and Adam in like manner by eating therof lost his blessed estate Thus the authour of sin the authour of evil deceived and deceiveth mankinde by drawing the mind from the good to the evil and in presenting the evil delightsome to the eye of the minde and alluring the heart thereafter to be affected therewith as into one lust after another and also divers lying vanities divers lyes to get ungodly gain and so into pride of heart and oathes and the like as covetousness oppression envy and malice and persecution Thus the author of sin hath allured the heart of man from God and inticed it to sin and sinners that such and the like above mentioned lusts which war against the soul Man in the fall is overcome with evil and where the Devil sits as king in the heart who is called the prince of the aire that ruleth in the children of disobedience It is his work to blinde the eye that such should not see the light of the gorious Gospel shining in their hearts and such are carried captive by Satan at his will into such strong holds and hurtful lusts as is before mentioned And being blinde they cannot see nor discern the thoughts and intents of their hearts their eyes being shut up in unbelief in departing from the living God and lending an ear an eye and an heart unto the author of sin and so into the fleshly lusts that war against the soul And such whose eyes are blinded whose ears are stopped and hearts hardned by the deceitfulness of sin in that state such cannot believe that the truth is the truth but as the unbelieving Jews that rose up against the Lord of life even so now do such unreasonable men who have not faith persecute those who bear testimony to the truth as it is made manifest in them so that as it was it is they that are born after the flesh persecute them that are born after the spirit in such a manner that many have thought they have done God service as Saul did Thus man in the fall being drove from God in the state of degeneration his eye is blinded and heart hardened through the deceitfulness of sin committing wickedness with greediness until the Lord opens his eyes by the manifestation of his Spirit whereby the understanding comes to be enlightned and a discerning given into his heart to discern his own estate that he is fallen into by the temptations of Satan and his instruments And also that which gives a discerning of the heart sheweth how the heart is run with delight into several fleshly lusts strong holds and wicked practices and lying vanities which the Devil is the authour of and by so doing is overcome with evil and as the Serpent told Eve that the forbidden fruit was good she might eat so hath the Devil taught many to call evil good and to eat thereof and so by eating thereof the sin is committed and so death entered as it was to Adam and Eve and so it is with all the sons and daughters of Adam in the fall as it is written As in Adam all dye so in Christ shall all be made alive But to know how all in Christ are made alive is a mystery for the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life which gift of God is the Son of God and he that hath the Sonne hath Life but he that hath not the Son hath no life for the Son is the way the truth and life to the believer which way is described how it may be obtained by the answers of several questions in this Book which may be useful to the honest hearted for their recovery out of the state of Adam in the fall unto Christ the second Adam that never fell HEre followeth a declaration of an opening in my heart as by vision in me as I lay in bed in the night season in the twelfth Moneth 1663. in which Vision there appeared unto my view a sumptuous building in form like to a spacious Lords Pallace standing on a hill and I beholding of it delighted in it and as I looked upon it it appeared to me that there were several pipes of lead laid round about the walls of that building ordered in mine eye to serve the whole house with water And I stood considering from whence this water should come to serve such a spacious place being it stood upon a hill And it further appeared to me that the water that served the whole house came from a Fountain and the Lord of that building had ordered conveyance from the Fountain to serve the whole house And it being such an excellent work I greatly desired to see the Fountain and how the water was conveyed from the Fountain And then I was shewed an excellent place called a Porters Lodge where the Porter abode continually and it was shewed me that that Porter was highly esteemed of the Lord of the building and commission were given to him to serve the whole house with water and that both the Fountain and the conveyance of the water were to be ordered at his pleasure Then I greatly desired to see into the house how the house was supplied with water and withal way was made for me to enter into the house and as I walked into several rooms there were several servants and every servant had his office and I looked for the water and in some of the rooms the water came in abundantly and those servants of those rooms kept all things under their charge in good order very pleasant to behold to the great honour of the Lord of that house and then I walked further in the house into other rooms and I looked for the water and the water came into those rooms very slowly and the servants of those rooms were not industerous in their places for their Lord but were part for their Lord and part for themselves and their rooms were not clean and it was shewed me that there were many of those unfaithful servants and unclean rooms Then I desired to see further into the house and going further along into other rooms I looked for water seeing the rooms exceeding foul and the servants of those rooms wholly at ease and it was shewed me that there was