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A65987 Vnto those people who are called Baptists. Wight, Thomas, of Market St., Herts. 1659 (1659) Wing W2109; ESTC R214793 4,236 7

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utter desolation must be known witnessed of whatsoever hath been done out of the grace out of the light out of the life and power of God And therefore I say to you again Be not deceived whilst you are saying others are deceived deluded ye who are joined in that you call Church-fellowship by the outward form of washing try your selves by the witness of God in your consciences whether you are yet truly come to the fellowship of the Church that is in God which is the pillar and ground of truth and whether you have known the baptism which is by fire and have you felt the flaming sword of the Lord killing the first nature in you that which hath eaten the forbidden fruit and hath had its life in the pride pleasures lust and vanities of the world And have you known and felt the quickening power of the Lord God raising up a seed and bringing forth a birth in you which is not of the world but contrary thereunto And are ye by it led forth of the vvorld out of the evil and vanities thereof bearing the daily cross Are you yet become as strange signs vvonders and gazing-stocks in the Earth Or are you not still in the vvorld and joined vvith them in their vvayes of pride pleasure and vanity coveting to be rich in the things of this World which can give no satisfaction to the soul And are you yet come out of the customs and fashions of this world such as are vain and idle without any shew of purity or godliness but manifest the heart unsavoury and the tongue unbridled yet are they covered with the name of civil things And are you not in the customs of the world in respecting of persons and in bowing and bending to them or rather to a spirit of pride in them which seek the honor of man and thereby is that nourished and strengthened which must be brought down and laid low even the lofty looks of man for there is nothing honourable in man but the image of God and such as bears his image are humble meek and lowly and seeks not the honor of man neither can such bow to that spirit of pride in any that seeks to be honored and this custom is covered with the Name of civil respect or civil curtesie or carriage and the like but the eye that is pure sees the root to be corrupt and it no better then a custom of the Heathen and their fashions and customs are vain and where the pure life of God is witnessed there the heathenish nature is slain and the vanity is trodden under foot Therefore I say Come all to the Witness of God the light in every one of your consciences where all may know and read their own conditions and that none may take up a rest and sit down at ease in a profession without the life but that such as profess the Name of the Lord might know his power who makes the sinners in Zion afraid and brings terror upon the hypocrites and might know God to be a devouring fire and everlasting burnings in whose pure presence the workers of iniquity cannot stand nor abide to dwell but such as have innocent hands and a pure heart Therefore let every one that nameth the name of the Lord depart from iniquity Thomas Wight Some Queries as followeth WHat command or commission have ye or any man to baptize with water from Christ declared of in any Scripture which command did not as wel extend unto Paul who was an Apostle as to any of you VVhether the outward washing with water which is but the shadow and Iohn's baptism or the inward washing and cleansing by the spirit which is the baptism of Christ which of these I say is that one baptism which Paul wrote of Or why writes he but of one there If both must be continued Whether such do truly discern the Lords body eat his flesh and drink his blood who do imagine of the flesh blood and bones of Christ as the Jews did And whether that flesh which is meat indeed and that blood whlch is drink indeed be not spirittual and that which quickeneth and nourisheth up to eternal life all those that feed thereon And what then is the flesh that profiteth nothing And what is that flesh after which Christ was once known yet henceforth know we him so no more Now those whose mindes are not carnal nor their eyes outward which look not at things that are seen without such onely see and know the things that are spiritual the mysterie that hath been hid from ages even the great mysterie of godliness which is God manifested in flesh justified in spirit seen of Angels preached unto the Gentiles believed on in the world and received into glory Market-street the 4th of the 5th Month 1659. T. W. The End LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmon● at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659.