God ye are no self-lovers but self-denyers no followers of the worlds fashions Customs or traditions but of Iesus Christ whose kingdome is not of the world who alone is your Head King Priest and Propher ye who goe under the name of members of the Church of Christ and call one another Brother and Sister who pretend to have Communion and fellowship with one another search your hearts with the light of Christ and it will not deceive you but let you truly see in what your fellowship hath stood and stands and will clearly manifest unto you whether ye be in the spirit of truth and righteousness yea or no if ye be then the fruits before mentioned ye will bring forth abundantly which are the fruits of the spirit and your Communion and fellowship will stand and as ye abide in the life of truth and righteousness your love and unity will grow and increase and your pure lives and holy conversations will make you manifest to be members of the body of Christ but if you see with the light of Christ self-love pride covetousness rashness self-wildness envy and uncharitableness then know that if these things remaine in you and things of the like nature that your Communion and fellowship is in the flesh and not in the spirit formal and not eternall and ye are none of the living stones which the temple of God is built on none of the members of the body of Christ but of Anti-Christ the body of Christ is washed in his blood which cleanseth from all unrighteousness unrighteousness uncleanness and all sin and iniquity is out of the body of Christ the Church in God in the body of Anti-Christ the enemy of the Church of God All ye formalists who are puft up in pride and arrogancy who have gotten the Saints words to talk on in your airy minds and live at ease in vain pleasures and wantonness your words and policy shall stand you in no stead in this the day of the Lord you shall appear in your own likeness your close hypocrisy and your fained humility shall not cover you nor save you from the judgements of the dreadfull God your hearts shall be made naked and bare and your reward you shall have with the wicked and ungodly your shame and confusion ye shall no longer hide ye shall be known whose servants and Children ye are and of what body ye are members and that Anti-christ is your head and not Christ the body of Christ is purged from all secret deceit treachery and close hypocrisy and is filled with righteousness purity and innocency every particular member of the Church in God this pillar and ground of truth knows the work of sanctification by the powerfull operation of the word of truth are thorowly cleansed and sanctified and by the divine power joyned and united unto Christ the head of his Church which is his body he is no member of the Church of Christ what ever he profess that lives after the flesh and knows not the work of the Eternall Spirit of judgement and burning which mortifies the fleshly desires and lusts and purges and cleanses the heart thorowly from sin and iniquity for it is the work of the spirit to purifie and the body purified without spot is the body of Christ the Church of God no unclean person can be united to the body of Christ though thousands of unclean people may come amongst the members of his body yet no defiled thing can be joyned to it for it is pure without spot and members of the Church in God feels enjoys one another in the life of pure love and their unity and fellowship stands not in outward formallity but in the pure life of truth and innocency where they meet and imbrace one another and are refreshed one in another in the love and life which changeth not which all men and women upon the face of the whole earth are out of which be from the light with which Christ hath enlightned them for the light leads into the life of innocency where the eternall unity stands The Church made of living stones THe living stones of which the Church of God is made are the people who have passed from death to life who are dead to sin and alive unto righteousness such as have passed thorow much sorrow and many tribulations and hath seen the travail of their souls and are satisfied with the birth of the immortall seed which is borne and brought forth in them they in whom the righteous seed is raised and the unrighteous nature destroyed which was dead in sin and transgression and made alive unto God and now lives in the light the life of righteousness are the Church of God the House of God the tabernacle of the most high and in them the Lord of Hosts is sanctified who will be sanctified in all that draw nigh unto him and in ye who are raised up in the life and power of truth and righteousness is the living praises for the living praises God the dead cannot praise him the life which through the operation of the Eternal spirit is raised which purgeth from sin and iniquity glorifies God and praises God and these are the living stones on which the Church of God is builded who are borne of the immortall seed whose delight is to walk in the Counsell of the Lord and to serve and obey him which cannot delight in themselves nor in their own works and truly it is not grievous to the living stones the Babes born of God to follow the Counsell of their Father for it is the nature of the seed of God to doe the will of him who hath through the power of his free love and tender mercy begotten it unto himself ye in whom the babe immortal is born and brought forth can seal to the truth of this though to many it may seem to be a strange doctrine who be ignorant of the work of God and knows not the birth of the seed immortall but truly I know that as Iohn saith that the Commandements of the Lord out God are not grievous unto us his Children Ioh. 5.3 who are begotten and borne of him but rather joy us yea it is our joy to serve the Lord our God and to keep his pure Commandements as it was the delight of his faithfull servant David to walk in his Commandements which he loved Ps 119.47 but who be in the transgression in the disobedience loves not God Ver. 143 neither delighteth in his commands but loves themselves their own ways and rejoyceth in their iniquities and delighteth in the things which are perishing which profiteth not but such are dead in sin though alive in the fleshly body and are none of the living stones which the Church of God is made on Iesus Christ head of his Church and the onely Pastour MAny people there are that in words make a profession of Christ and the Scriptures and will say they beleeve in Christ yet will
after the Prophesie of Christ was fulfilled the Temple destroyed the Scripture of truth doth not mention that ever the Lord commanded one other to be builded but the Iews Scribes Pharisees and Infidels who murdered the just who were in darknesse upheld the ourward Temple and Synagogues as the truths enemies do now and have builded many Temples and Synagogues following their own imaginations and inventions and the Superstitious traditions and Ceremonies of the enemies of Christ and the harmlesse Christians not regarding Christ nor the Doctrine of the Apostles who declared against them and told people in plain words God dwelt not in them as is in the Scripture of truth recorded Act. 17. Act. 7. Which shall stand a witnesse for ever against all their upholders And as the Temple-worshippers in former ages were ready to cry up their Temple and worship after God had removed his Candlestick from it even so it is at this day they in the Primitive times upheld and cried up the temple-worship and services therein when the Lord was departed out of them and there was no life to be found in them and they persecuted imprisoned and shamefully intreated the Christians in whom was the Life whose bodies were the Temple of the living God and the cryers up 1 Cor. 3. and upholders of the idolized houses the externall Temples and Synagogues which they call commonly Churches and the daily services follows the same example though they call themselves by the name of Christians but your fruits and practises makes you clearly manifest ye are as the Jews and unbelievers were in former ages without the Life and Power of truth and righteousnesse and enemies to it Likewise the heathenish Idolaters set up Temples for to worship their idol-gods in and they cryed up their outward Temple Act. 19. the Temples of Diana Great is the Temple of Diana and the upholders of the Temple of Diana was in a great uprore against the Apostle Paul for declaring against their abominable superstition and idolatry and with all their force and power in a tumultuous manner resisted the power and life of truth and cryed up their own idol as all the Sects and opinions do now every particular Sect cryes up their own way but all enemies to the life and power of truth and can all agree in one to persecute the Temple of God in whom the life of God is made manifest ye who are gathered into various forms though in judgment and opinion ye from one another differ and be at enmity one against another neverthelesse in this Nation of England as well as in other Nations and Islands ye can joyn together and make warre against the children of light speak and write against the life of truth and beat imprison and persecute the bodies of the Saints in whom the life and power of truth is manifested in the former ages as may be read in the Scriptures of truth the chief Priests Scribes and Pharisees the Libertines Sadduces and Alexandrians all were enemies to Christ and the primitive Christians and even so are the various formalists in this age all enemies to the chosen of the Lord the elect seed but it is our joy that our God hath called us unto such an high calling and counted us worthy to suffer in innocency for his pure names sake glory honour praise and eternall dominion be given unto our God all ye dear innocent Lambs who suffer for Righteousnesse sake rejoyce and sing praises unto the Lord our God for ever the day of your eternall Redemption draweth nigh your enemies the enemies of truth and innocency the Lord our God will confound and destroy and through patient suffering we shall all be crowned with victory and triumph and rejoyce over all Gods enemies for ever Blessed are ye for ever who abide the fiery tryall for yours is the dominion for ever but who ever shrinks in the time of suffering when the great day of tryall shall come shall never reign with Christ the Captain of our salvation who was made perfect through suffering but ye who continue to the end are blessed for ever and shall reign as Kings over all the earth And ye Temple-worshippers in this age manifest your selves to be as blind and ignorant concerning the mystery of life and salvation as your forefathers were the enemies of truth and righteousnesse in the former ages who did not believe in Christ the substance who put an end to all types and figures though ye pretend ye believe in Christ and go under the name of Christians but all are not Christians that go under that name for all ye that be from the light with which Christ Jesus hath enlightened you and deny the light and call it a naturall light or a fancy as many of ye have done be out of the way of Truth Life Peace and salvation for there is no Life Peace nor salvation in any other but 〈◊〉 the true light which hath enlightened every man that is come into the world and I say unto you untill you come to own the light of Christ in you and it receive to be your guide and leader you cannot receive the light of life the way of life peace and eternall salvation the light will lead you if you believe in it and receive it to be acted by it which will for ever be sealed from you if ye continue in enmity to it and hate and despise it and will be your condemnation for ever from the inheritance of the Righteous none upon the face of the whole earth can come into the persect knowledge of the secret mystery of life and salvation but by the Light with which Christ hath enlightened them for it is the key of Divine knowledge it being owned and received it will clear and open the understanding and give truly to know the secret mystery of eternal life and salvation which cannot be attained any other way but by the light which is the eye with which the face of God is seen in Christ the eternall Divine substance in whom all fulnesse dwells which Divine secret is hid eternally from all that deny and refuse the light in them with which the expresse image of the Fathers glorious substance Christ hath enlightned them Also I say all people upon the face of the whole earth under what name or Title of Religion soever that make mention of the name of Jesus Christ and are from the light with which the true light Christ hath enlightened them are out of the nature and life of Christ and are no true Christians but are in the flesh and brings forth the fruits of the flesh and such as be in the flesh be enemies in their minds to Christ and the true innocent Christians the fleshly man in all ages hath been an enemie to the Spirituall man as in particular in the general the flesh makes war against the Spirit the fleshly man against the Spirituall man and strives with all his might and force
not own him to be their Pastour and chief Shepheard as the Church in God owned him and confessed him as the Scripture of truth makes manifest yet account themselves to be his Church and people but such as cannot own him to be their teacher and leader clearly manifests themselves to be none of his flock for the Sheep of Christ know his voice and follow him and regards not the voice of the stranger and they who know his voice observe his counsell and follow his leadings and directions for how doth any man follow Christ if he doe not hearken to his pure Counsell and obey what he requires Christ saith himself I am the good Shepheard and know my sheep and am known of mine and such as know Christ and are known of him need no other Pastour or Shepheard he is sufficient to guide his own flock and such as make a profession of him in words and shew outwardly as the various formalists doe and will not own him to be suflicient without other helps to teach them the way of life and salvation shews that they know him not for if they knew him they would know that there is no salvation in any other all power and authority is committed unto the true light Christ Iesus the everlasting unchangeable high Priest who is over the houshold of God their head and Pastour and who are not under his Scepter and Government what ever they profess in words of him they are none of his subjects none of his body none of his Church but the subjects of Antichrist for whose Scepter and Government ye are under his servants and subjects ye are if Christ govern then are ye guided in the way of truth righteousnes which is the strait path which leads to life eternall and ye cannot follow the broad path of wickedness and unrighteousness which leads to perdition and eternall destruction for the Church of Christ who are subject to him are restrained by his saving power from the evill way and kept in the pure way the way of holiness for he goeth before and his flock follow him and they that follow his leadings cannot erre from the way of truth and holiness who goe on in the ways of wickedness follows not Christ he doth not goe before them but Anti-christ the enemy of Christ he is the King of unrighteousness and the wicked his subjects follow him so that ye who be in the sin and unrighteousness and plead for sin remaining in you so long as ye live upon the earth ye are none of the subjects of Christ for he saves his people from their sins Christ is none of your King Priest nor Prophet who are not governed by him and saved from your sins ye are none of the members of his body who be in your sins the members of his body are purified and cleansed without spot or blemish Take dilligent notice the Church in God which is the body of Christ Eph. 5. is without spot or wrinkle or any such thing holy and without blemish and of this sanctified body Christ is the Head and Saviour who saveth to the utmost all them that come unto God by him and such a glorious high Priest becometh the Church of God who is able to save and defend them from the power of sin and Satan and to present it without spot or fault unto God the Father of Spirits who hath set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places and hath put all things under his feet Eph. 1. and hath given him to be the Head of his Church which is his body such people as choose a man or men and set him or them up to be their teacher or teachers Christ is not their pastour nor teacher such as set up man and dishonours Christ ye that choose a man and set him up to be your Head and receives Orders and Commissions from him you goe about to take the authority from Christ and to rob him of his glory who in all things ought to have the preheminence who is the everlasting unchangeable high Priest in whom there is no variablenesse nor shadow of turning he alone is the Supreme of his Church and the members of his body receive orders and directions from him they know his voice and follow his Counsell and need not seek unto man so sets not up man but Christ to be Supream Ruler head and Governour who is most worthy to have the Government of his own body who is over all God blessed for ever he is the same yesterday to day and for ever and his Church is the same the chast pure holy Virgin which he hath chosen to be his espouse for ever he is not espoused nor will not espouse himself to an harlot an adulterer that followeth after other lovers such as follow their imaginations and inventions and loves themselves the world and its glory such are none of Christs espouse for the Bride the Lambs wife follows the Lamb denies the world its pomp and glory and tramples upon all vain traditions foolish inventions and earthly imaginations and over all the earth reigns and gives glory to him who redeems them from the earth Therefore all people upon the face of the whole earth who make a profession of believing in the name of Christ turn in your minds to his light in you with which he hath enlightened you and in it wait patiently that you may come to know his saving power which is nigh you if ye were but acquainted with it which if you cease from man and your own works and imaginations and take heed to the light of Christ in you which shew you your thoughts desires and evil deeds the saving power of his love you would shortly come to know and feel which would rend the vails which hath darkned your understandings and give ye to see into the secrets of God the Church in God you would come to know and Christ to be the chief Shepherd the everlasting unchangeable priest the light is the eternall eye which sees and searches into the deep secrets of God and ye cannot come to know the true Church nor the order and Government thereof untill you come to the light in you and receive it to be your guide which light leads to Christ from whence in comes who reveals and makes known the deep secret mysteries of life peace and eternall salvation which you can never attain unto by any other means for man by reading studying praying in his own will and observing duties and outward Ordinances can never find out the knowledge of God and his secrets for whatsoever man doth in his own will and time is but his own work and not the work of God and all men and women upon the face of the whole earth must cease from their own works before they enter into the true rest the rest prepared for the children of God which is in Christ the true light which enlighteneth every one that cometh into the
manifest to be out of the truth and true way of God for the truth defends it self and hath done in all ages it needs not the help of the Magistrates sword neither did ever the antient Christians who gave forth the Scripture of truth seek to the Magistrates to defend them their weapons were not carnall they fought with but spirituall the spirit of truth was their defence the Magistrates sword or the outward Law the arme of flesh hath been refuge of Anti-christ in all ages as it is at this day for if any of the servants of the Lord the true worshippers who worship him in spirit and in truth be moved of God to goe into their meeting places which they call Churches and in obedience to the command of God speak to the Priest or a word of exhortation to the people then cryes out both Priest and people haile him away or words to that purpose and calls it disturbance to performe the will of the Lord and goes to the Magistrates for assistance and cryes away with him send him to prison or punish him this is the practise of the carnall professours who uphold the externall Temple and Synagogues therefore view your disorder and be ashamed of such gross and filthy practises for ye Rulers Priests and people in England in these late years have outstript the Heathen in many ages in your cruell persecution which makes the hearts of the righteous sad to see such fruits brought forth in the Nation where so much liberty in words and writings is proclaimed for Religion and honest hearted people by the supream in authority but woe woe from the Almighty unto you who make the hearts of the innocent sad which God hath not made sad a day of torment and misery is coming upon you wherein the righteous shall be glad which ye have made sad and over the smoke of your torment they shal rejoyce Did ever the Primitive Christians recorded in the holy Scripture persecute any prison whip burn with hot Irons or cast into Dungeons any sort of people that came into their Assemblies is not the Heathen your example for these things who persecuted and shamefully entreated and murdered the Christians who could not submit to their unrighteous decrees and unreasonable wills shew one example of cruelty if you can from the practise of Christ or his Disciples if not number your selves amongst the Heathen your example for your cruell persecution is not cruelty and persecution a true marke to know the Synagogue of Satan by from the body of Christ the Church in God who in all ages hath suffered but never persecuted any but prayed for their enemies which persecuted them c. The order of the Church in God in this age THe body of Christ the Church in God meet together as the Saints in light did in former ages upon the first dayes of the week and upon other dayes as the Lord affords opportunity and wait upon the Lord in his fear and Counsell and serve and worship the Lord in the Spirit and in the truth and doth preach the word of truth the everlasting Gospel and pray and exhort one another as they are moved of the Lord and as the holy spirit gives utterance but not in the wisdome of the world which is sensuall but in the pure wisdome and power of God which by the world is counted foolishness And this is the true and onely way of God the true way of worship and order of the body of Christ the Church of God as the Scripture of truth doth make manifest to the understanding Reader and according to the doctrine of Christ the order doctrine and practise of the antient holy Christians which in the Scriptures of truth are recorded Rom. 6. who worshipped God not in the oldness of the letter but newness of spirit which is the new and living way wherein God is and will be served and worshipped I. H. THE END