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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42020	A call out of gross darkness and idolatry into the light to wak [sic], which is the way of life ... with a word of advice and information ... / by Richard Greenway.	Greenway, R. (Richard)	1662 (1662)	Wing G1863; ESTC R25470	20,414	17

Lord worshipped him in spirit and not in the oldness of the Letter in which you are pretending to worship And friends though you have gotten good words to cover your selves with the St. words which is the sheeps cloathing the Prophets words Christs words and his Appostles words yet you are ravened from that Spirit which was their life by which they were moved and by which those words were brought forth by them and though you make never so goodly a shew outwardly yet you are but ravening Woolves within you have that nature standing which will rend and teare the Lambs when they are sent amongst you but now the Lord hath appeared and is farther appearing to strip you of your Covering and your nakedness will more and more appear and many shall see your shame and loath it for the woe doth belong to all that have gotten a Covering which is not with his Spirit And people that you may not think better of your selves then you ought through Ignorance of the falsness of your way and worship and the Idolatry in which you are wallowing I shall in tender love shew you plainly wherein your sacrifice was Lame and your devotion Blind and such as is nor of the Spirit● leading nor like the Saints practice and therefore the Lord will not except it from you nor you therein First of the place you meet in to Worship it is Idollatry in you or your Teacher to call it a Church and though he call it so and teacheth you so to call it that you may have the higher esteem of his Shop or Market house in which he ●rads for dishonest gain and in which he sels unto you that on his market day which he hath stollen on other dayes of the week yet it is in truth no more nor less than an old Mass-house which was by the Popes power and order built and consecrated as they call it and set a part for that use and some of your Grandfathers could remember I believe the Popes Mass sung and said therein in the Lattine tongue I have heard my Grandfather tell of it as now you have the same in whole or in part in English But friends search the Scriptures which your teacher tels you is your law and rule and see therein if you can finde any such thing called a Church which I am sure you cannot but therein ● find the Apostle Paul said the Church is in God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ Thes 1. 1. And the Church is not made of dead but living stones no nor dead men neither such as are dead in sins and trespasses and so he that knowes not aright what is the guide or rule of a Saints life it is no wonder that he knows not the true Church of Christ and if ignorance and gross darkness indeed were not over people they would see these things and if they did know the true Church of Christ and themselves but coming to be Members of it then they would not indure any longer to follow such blind guides as shall call a house of Lime and Stones a Church to give it that name which only is proper and belongs to the body of which Christ Jesus is the head If you were all of you believers and did know follow Christ Jesus the light and did meet in the name and power of the Lord and so did worship him in the Spirit and in the truth yet the best name you could properly give the house or place you meet in was but a meeting house and therefore now while you are in the unbelief in wickedness Idollatrous and ungodly practices how can any one call it any other then a Sinagogue of Satan and not a meeing house of believers or Saints much less a Church though you are met therein for God who is light hath no fellowship with darkness nor the workers thereof those that walk in the light as he is in the light they are in and of the Church which is in God the Piller and ground of truth and such have fellowship with the Father and the Son in the Spirit and one with another and therein the blood of Christ is witnessed which cleanseth from all unrighteousness and such are the peculiar people of God that are zealous of Good works and such connot but bare testimony against the contrary Steven the Apostle of Christ he bore witness against the Tempel which once commanded of the Lord to be builded and worshiped in but when it was Idolised by the people as you do now your stone Church then the Lord sent the Apostle to bare witness against that Tempel as you may read Asts 17. 24. God that made the World and all things therein seeing b● is Lord of Heaven and Earth dwelleth not in Temples made with hands ●●ither is he worshiped with the works of mens hands marke that and friends God never commanded that to be built and set apart for his worship which you call your Church Secondly that which you offer in your high place built by the Popes order is but the works of mens hands and that is abomination unto the Lord as you may read Acts 7. 4. And they made a Calfe in those days and offered sacrifice unto their Idol and rejoyced in the works of their own hands then God gave them up to Worship the Host of Heaven So that when a people gives themselves up to Idolatry then they may be left of the Lord to be more and more overcome therin now your prayers as you call them are they not a devi●●d thing or a forme that is composed or made ready by mens hands and so is as a Calse which is made and set up which you are worshiping with your bodys and lips but in it there is no Spirit nor life but is a dead blind Lame Image and the Apostle said bodily excercise profiteth little but Godliness is profitable unto all Freinds if bodily excercise profiteth little or nothing at all in the worship of God consider your practice and your several sorts of jestures which you know nothing of the leading of the Spirit of God thereunto 〈◊〉 its abominable unto the Lord and he may justly say as he will do one day who required such things at your hands and what ever you may think of it through Ignorance the Vale being over your hearts yet this I ●estifie unto you in the fear of the Lord that it is not the true Worship of the true God and it is not in the Spirit and he will not accept of it nor you therein as afore said when you read the Prophets words you keep on your hats and when you sing and say them in your common praying then you put them off waht example or command from God have you for so doing Thirdly As for your singing it is not according to the practice of the Saints and primative Christians as you may read the Apostle said I will pray with the Spirit and I will pray

out of the light and fear of the Lord and Judgemen and Condemnation will be against the workes and workers as you keep in the light the measure of the spirit of the Lord which is given you to convince you of your sins to lead you to profit in well doing that was it which Ioseph of old was preserved by when it was tempted and so will you be kept by it if you take heed to it it will cause you to say as he did how shall I do this thing that is evil and sin against the Lord who hath lighted me and let me see the evil of my doings and freinds this is my testimony for the Lord and for his everlasting truth if I should never be sent among you more or if I should never be seen of you again that this is the way of life and Salvation and there is not another way nor name by which any can be saved but by Christ Jesus the light he that is the way hath said no man can come to the Father but by me he hath also said he that follows me shall not abide in darkness nor the works thereof but shall have the light of life drunckweness is a work of darkness Whoredome is a worke of darkness Lying Stealing Cursing Cheating are works of darkness so are fighting mocking s●●ssing and Envying all these works are wrought out of the Light Christ said without are Dogs 〈◊〉 Whore-mongers Murtherers Idollaters And whosoever loveth maketh a lye thay 〈◊〉 without who are gone out from the Light which leads into the fear and so that nature in man which is beastly and brutish bares rule while man is straying from the Covenant of light and life that which brings forth the works of righteousness is the light and spirit of Jesus even that which conv●nceth of si● and evil deeds and as all joyne to tbat love it obey and follow it then you wil● come to see the uglin●ss of sin and evil deeds and you will come to loath them as I have done wh●● once was my self in the broad way walking which leads to d●struction even as you are now with many others and in that time I had a profession and the name of a Christian as y●u ha●e but I wa●● out of and far from the power nature of Christ which is the only thing which mak●s men o● women Christians that is like him and followers of him And when I was f●r off from the Lord in the same way in which you have been visi●ed the Lord in his kindness sought me out when I was in a high place like unto that into which he sent me unto you and then ●e 〈…〉 of his servants to call me and oth●rs from that which did not satisfie my soul unto tha● way in which I have been restored from a lost miserable condition in which I was and am turn●d in my m●asure from th●● which kept me from injoying peace with the Lord and so now having taken ●eed to and prised the visitation and warning of the Lord I am now turned to and do walk in his everlasti●g good way in which I have found rest peace and satisfaction for my soul and my hearts 〈◊〉 is that you may every one in whom there is any simplicity or sincerity find the same and this my f●i●nds is the way to the fear of the Lord and tbe way to the salvation of your souls turning into the light by it to be guided this is the name in which salvation is and it is in no other name or thing und●r heaven and as unto this name Jesus Christ the light the spirit and power of the Father you ●ll ●urn thereby to be lead out of the world and way●s and works thereof that are evil and worships that are Idolatrous so will you come to know and feel his name and nature that saves his people that obey him from there sin unto this name every one that ever will be saved there 〈◊〉 mast how and their tongues confess or else salvation they cannot come to witness therefore whil● you have time 〈◊〉 it every one and take heed to your true guide which is the light in you as I have said and th●n you will come to know your true teacher that will never be removed from you as you ke●p ●o 〈◊〉 either for more gain or greater honour and as your minds are k●pt thereto of it to lea●n you will hear a voic● behind you saying this is the way which leads to holin●ss● and ●ighteous●●ss● walk ye therein when ye are turning to the right hand or to the l●ft to do the things that are no● right O all people therfore now give eare hear regard consider of that which conc●rn● your 〈◊〉 lasting peace now turn in seek ●fter the Lord while he may be found c●ll 〈◊〉 him while he is neer unto you while he is striving with you turne at his reproof be it known un●o you that if you d●sregard his call tend r●visitation he will not alw●y●s striv● with y●u th● when he ceaseth to strive with you by his spirit within to check and reprove or by his servants without to warn you then will you be everlastingly miserable and this know also the Lord by his witness and good spirit hath striven with you long day by day and many times in the night season and you have little regarded it and the most of you do not know that it is the striving of th● Lord and th●rfore your state is miserable and your condition to ●● the more lamented and the bow●ls of the Lords love hath been and is mov●d in m● towards you and his holy power constrained me to come amongst you to warn you and to turn you from darkness to light and from the broad way whi●h leads to the Chambers of death grose darkness ignorance and Idolatry so that in the light you might come to finde the way of truth li●e peace rest and salvation Therefore I say be you warned and take heed that you slight not the tender love of the Lord in sending one amongst you which 〈◊〉 raised from the dead that once was dead in si●s and trespasses buried underneath iniquity even as you are at this day And so now you are warned in your life time by one that is raised from the dead and friends this I testifie unto you in the fear of the Lord I came not amongst you in my own will but contrary thereto in obedience to the requ●ring of the Lord and that y●u may know it more fully I have written this for you and that I may be clear of your blood and the Lord also may be clear of it and that your blood may lye upon your own heads for ever except you believe and repent while you have time and space and herein I am your friend called The End Richard Greenway