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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65275	The word of the Lord to the inhabitants of Leeds	Watson, Samuel, ca. 1618-1708.	1660 (1660)	Wing W1100; ESTC R220888	6,879	8

sent them into the world and he prayed that they all might be one as the Father was one in him and he in him that they all may be one in us that the world might believe that thou hast sent me mark here is one cause of the unity that the World might be convinced and believe the Father sent him and in the same message is his Ministers But who can be convinced and believe by such dark Pastours as thou art and you Teachers of the World generally are who do not witnesse the unity with Christ and to be sent by him onely to witnesse the work in the eternal and not in the external which is temporal And so you are manifest here by this Doctrine that you are of the earth and first man in old Adams Transgression and so keeps people in the earth in the letter and the corrupt and this brings not people out of the darknesse into the light to sit together with Christ Jesus in the heavenly places into the unity of the faith to be refreshed together in Gods Spiritual Worship nor your Ministry brings not out of prison but keeps in prison contrary to Christs to which end the gifts was given by him who ascended up on high Eph. 4. and gave some Apostles some Prophets some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ till all come to the unity of the Faith which gives the victory over the World so over sin contrary to your dark Ministry and to this end was the gifts given to be Pastors and Teachers to perfect the Saints which now all your carnal Sacraments and Rudiments cannot bring this to passe viz. perfection in the Saints degree Then come and let us reason with you To what purpose is all your Ringing of Bells dead prayers dead Sermons Bread and Wine singing of Davids experiences Baptizing with a little cold water being all external things which cannot bring to perfect the Saints I say in the fear of the Lord consider what is all these to purpose and wherein doth God require these things at your hands seeing you have excluded or separated your selves from Christs unity and so your gifts are bought and sold with mony and may you not well be called the Merchants of Babylon Therefore O Royal Seed where ever thou art turn away from these who through covetousnesse make merchandize of souls and are evidently separate by their life and Doctrine from the unity of Christ and so from his Ministry for I shew thee that first the power of the light of Christ working mightily in them delivers them from a people that sits in darknesse and evil And then in the time of his love gives the command to them as Ministers as he did to Paul in the spirit when he delivered him from the persecuting state and dark condition he sent him to this end to open their eyes and turn them from darknesse to light and from the power of Satan unto God c. which now you Pastors and Ministers so called of Leeds I charge you to give an account of this Testimony viz. your deliverance from the evil the pride the covetousnesse the envy the drunkennesse the lasciviousnesse the feasting of the Rich and neglecting the poor the envy and the wrath that is in the hearts of people with all the works of the flesh and that you are Redeemed from these and sent by God in the spirit to them to speak the mind of Christ without coveting any mans gold or silver or else be silent for shame and come under the judgement and first pluck the beam out of your own eye and then you may see the evil that is in others which bondages their souls and so be profitable to them and not hurtful till which be witnessed you cannot fly from the judgement but are the blind guides and none but the blind are led by you So I beseech you in the spirit of love be warned and let the light in your own particulars search you Rent your hearts and strip you of every false covering This is a false covering for you to be named Ministers of Christ and your work onely external This is a false covering for you to be called Presbyterians to lay on hands for the work of the Ministery and call Elders when you never came yet to the babes estate to desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow thereby to become Elders in the Truth whilst you have been taking the letter for the Word the Baptizing with outward water for the Baptism of Christ to give the name Christian the Bread and Wine carnal for the Supper of Christ and the Light of Christ which is able to save to the utmost all that come to God by him the light to be that of a natural conscience for the Scripture Records these to be in the power of the Spirit Therefore search the Scriptures and see whether these things be so and you finding them thus be ashamed of your forms and come to Christ the Light who is the life of men kisse him that judgeth who is the Son of Righteousnesse least his wrath kindle speedily against you and you be consumed from not being a people because of disobedience And thou Martin Hyles who made this Prison much-what to put the witnesses of God in which testifie against deceit Remember Hamans policy wrath and envy against the upright-hearted Jew and what did that avail him in the end or was not he worse for that and not better Take heed in the dread of God I warn thee to Repentance of thy past actions against the upright-hearted who worship God in Spirit and Truth the Righteous Seed and let thy rashnesse be turned into moderation and thy spirit of fury into love and meeknesse And if thou be a Magistrate be glad to defend the Innocent and let true Justice passe upon the workers of iniquity for that 's the Magistrates place and this Greeting is to thee Martin Hyles from thy prison-house And to you all Rulers and Priests in and about this Leeds who live in the flesh and worship not God in Spirit and Truth lay aside all superfluity of naughtinesse and let the time past be sufficient for you to have persecuted the Innocent and cause the People of God by Creation to erre who as yet sit in darknesse by your lyes and lightnesse pride and vanity many are yet under your and kept in the Land of darknesse as sheep scattered in the darke and cloudy day And your selves with the lust of your own hearts keep the witnesse under Deaths Dominion in the particular And so may not the dispersed of Israel say what good can be expected from such Teachers and Leaders who themselves are in bondage to Satan the Prince of darknesse may not a Lamentation be taken up in the true Prophesie concerning this people They build up Zion with blood and