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truth_n	deed_n	light_n	reprove_v	2,125	5	10.3012	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58143	Light sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart This is to go abroad among all people who are honest-hearted, especially amongst the inhabitants in Fourns Fells, in Lancashire, and among all who have known me after the flesh, that all honest people may see what I was in profession, and also what I now am by the grace of God. From him which hath come through great tribulations, who hath even left all for Christ, and hath not whereon to lay his head, but is forsaken of father and of mother, and of kinred also, even for the testimony of Jesus, and for the Word of God, whom the world calls, Thomas Rawlinson.	Rawlinson, Thomas.	1657 (1657)	Wing R369; ESTC R220567	29,951	42

God that We might be found in Christ There is but as it were two Righteousnesses the Righteousness of God and mans Righteousness so until man return unto God and comes to know how Christ is in him who is Gods Righteousness all his Righteousness is of himself and these are contrary the one to the other So the Way to know the one from the other is To believe in the light and in the light to know each from other and walking in the light comes to put on the Righteousnesse of God and put off their own and to deny themselves and then comes to see their own Righteousnesse filthy and abominable So here is the Way of Righteousness in the Light of the Lord Jesus Christ who lightneth every man that cometh into the World and he that follows the Light Christ puts on Righteousness as a Garment and he that doth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous and he that doth not righteousness is not of God So We who are come unto Christ our Righteousness our Light and Life We come to be made the Righteousness of God in him and so in the Light wherein We have believed comes to fulfil all righteousness and for this end That we might be found in himn ot having our own righteousness which is of the Law but that which is through the faith of Christ even the righteousnesse which is of God by faith many of us who are called Quakers have denyed our selves our lives and whatsoever was dear unto us our Father and Mother Husband Wife and Children Brethren and Sisters and Kinred all Houses Lands and Livings and the World too and all the Glory and the Pleasures of this life who have taken up the Cross of Christ that We might be counted worthy to follow him in the Regeneration as obedient children not fashioning our selves unto this World any longer putting off the former conversation which is corrupt the old man with his deeds that We might be renewed in the spirit of our mind putting on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness without which no man shall see God keeping the holy Commandment of our Lord Jesus who said If ye love me keep my Commandments and if a man love me he will keepe my sayings So Neighbors and Friends it is not only a profession and talking of Free-Grace and of Justification by Christ this will not serve you except ye come into the obedience of the Grace of God which brings salvation and hath appeared unto all men For the Grace of God is the Saints Teacher which teaches them to deny all ungodliness and Worldly lusts and to deny the Priests to be taught of them any longer For all the children of the Lord is taught of the Lord and in righteousness they are established and great is their peace So ye who are not turned from your Priests are not taught of the Lord who said Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of So Friends while ye remain under them ye are not come into the leadings and teachings of the Spirit of Grace and Truth which hath appeared unto all men and teaches us to live soberly righteously and godly in this present World So take heed unto your selves and hearken not unto your Priests nor to your Diviners who divine for money for they deceive you but all turn to the Light wherewith Christ hath enlightned you which is truth and no lye for there is no lye of the Truth He that doth Truth cometh to the Light and he that doth evil hateth the light neither cometh to the light least his deeds should be reproved and this is the condemnation the Light said Christ So see if all your Priests be not in the evil under the condemnation of the Devil who hate the Light evil beasts slow-bellies hating the light reproaching and railing against it because their deeds are evil and because that they know if the people turn to the light they will then come to see their deceit and covetousness and will be ashamed of them So Friends take not counsel of your Priests for mischief is in their hearts lest vvhile ye follow after them ye come to be hardned in your sins and your sences and feeling after God be taken from you and so ye become past feeling having your consciences seared and your hearts hardened against God and then ye be given up unto a reprobate minde to work all unrighteousness with greediness even with the Priests Consider Friends Can the Priests satisfie you and please you with vain Words onley to talk of Free-Grace and of the Righteousness of Christ imputed who are in the unrighteousness themselves so holds the Truth in unrighteousness and will not come to the light verily Friends ye are then far short of what I was when I was where ye now are with a profession of God and godliness but without the power and the life for nothing then would satisfie me but Christ only None but Christ None but Christ was my continual cry to have Christ how I might come to know Christ in me Give me Christ or I dye to feel him near which justifies and saves his people from their sins this was the dayly desires and the longings of my weary soul had I but hold on Christ let them take the world that will said I in my heart so that I might but come to know Christ and to enjoy him that I might come to live unto Christ was the daily desires of my heart and soul yet though I sought diligently after him with Tears and VVeeping and asked the Way to Christ from one Priest unto another to see if they could shevv me vvhere Christ is to be found yet none of them could shevv me the Way nor could tell me hovv to come to Christ So I found no comfort for my soul from them therefore I had no rest day nor night from God in my spirit vvhile I sought unto the Priests lips for counsel for Wicked Counsellors are they all vvho turn not people to the light from the darkness for Christ the light vvas condemnation to me vvhilst I remained in the old nature vvith the Priests rebellious and no Justification then and Sanctification and Peace sitting in the darkness and vvalking in the darkness and blindness with the Priests being then ignorant of the light vvhich Christ had enlightned me vvithall so shall all who comes to knovv vvhat God is more or less shall first feel the Wrath of God revealed from Heaven against them for their unrighteousness and shall see Wrath and Horror and the Vengeance of God to come upon the Head of the Wicked even the Judgements of God coming upon that nature in them vvhich hath acted iniquity and transgression and the povver of God shall make the Inhabitants of the Earth to tremble the Prison-Houses shall shake when the Prisoner comes forth to be set free and then

bears witness against them that they are of their Father the Devil whose Works they do yet with their mouth and with their lips and tongue will profess that they love God who have the high swelling Words of hypocrisie so have a zeal without knowledge holding a profession of God in hypocrisie until the day of sudden destruction from God fall upon them for their Wickedness to sweep them all into the pit of blackness for ever who are Workers of iniquity both Priests and people All-along while I followed the Priests there was something in me of God I see though I knew it not which did witness against all unrighteousness did reprove me if I did but swear or tell a lye which did not speak peace to me in those things but I was judged by that of God in me when I did any unrighteous thing so stood condemned in my self when I had but an evil thought of doing Wrong which was sufficient to have preserved me from all evil if I had but been obedient but being ignorant of it what it was gave no heed unto it but went on in a Way that is not good so did not believe in the light though I had the light neither was obedient to the light though the light did convince me So I had no peace from God though in the World I had peace and with the VVorld was at peace yet in Christ I had no peace while I was of the VVorld for that of God in me cryed against me Desolation VVo and Misery for God seeth not as man neither canst thou hide thy self in secret and he not see thee So I came to see that notwithstanding all the shew in the flesh I had profest of knowing the Lord I was but a hypocrite when I came in deed and in truth to search try my ways honestly and to prove my self in truth and in plainness then I did see that I was out of the VVay of truth knew not the truth though I had the Words of truth in my mouth so was ignorant of God so the peace which I had did then flye away it was as it were but for a moment the Worlds peace which the greedy Priests speak unto the people that stop into their mouths they cry peace peace when there is no peace from God where the Lord hath not spoken peace so would heal the hurt of the daughter of my people saith the Lord sleightly who daub with untempered morter for from the Prophet even unto the Priest every one dealeth falsly and deceitfully and all are given to covetousness both Priests and people So whilest I followed the Priests I see that I was but a fair sayer made clean the outside of the Cup and the Platter and appeared righteous outwardly unto man as Neighbors and Friends ye know who knew me after the flesh That I was as touching the righteousness of the Law blameless and had a zeal for God though not according to knowledge by fair Words professing the Substance but had not the Evidence the Seal of the Spirit of God to my Spirit so being ignorant of Gods righteousness as I said before which is by the Faith of the Son of God knowing this That without righteousness no man can enter into the Kingdom of God so I went about to establish my own righteousness looking for a righteousness without me that I might appear righteous unto man being ignorant of the righteousness of faith which saith on this wise as it is written Say not in thy heart Who shall ascend into Heaven That is to bring Christ down from above or who shall descend into the deepe That is to bring Christ again from the dead But what saith it The Word is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thy heart that thou mayest do it that is the Word of Faith which we preach said the Apostle who was a Minister of God But unto this Word I was not obedient while I followed the Priests neither knew I it though it was near for none of the Priests from the least even unto the chiefest did ever direct my mind unto the Word of Faith which is nigh in the mouth and in the heart to take heed unto as unto a light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn and the day star arise in my heart So they are the false Prophets and Deceivers who is come in sheeps clothing making merchandise of souls for dishonest gain And these are they vvhich Christ said should come in the last dayes vvhich John saw was come in his dayes vvhich all the World vvondered after and that all the World is gone after them so they run yet never was sent of God to turn people from darkness to the light vvho divine for money and speak a Divination of their ovvn brain and not from the mouth of the Lord. So I sought to find the living among the dead vvhile I sought unto the Priests so followed a people which cannot profit and wandered from Mountain to Hill to find the living even from one sort of Priests and people unto another that had the greatest shew of godliness one sort said Lo here is Christ and another sort of professors said Lo here and glad would I with all my heart to have found him among them that I might come to find a rest for my weary soul but Christ I found not among any of them though I did find that some sort of professors could talk much more of Christ with their lips then others could do and had his Name in their mouth oftener then others having many good Words vvhereby they do beguile souls even with the enticing Words of mens Wisdom pretending much towards Christ but are as vain and wanton as they vvho have not so great a shew in Words towards Christ and though in Words they profess that they know him yet in Works they do deny him so are the greatest Deceivers of all vvho have the greatest shew of godliness when their Works are as bad and their lives too as them who have no shew of godlinesse at all for Christ said Ye shall know them by their fruits so vvhen I came to prove them and to try them by their fruits I did find them to be as bad as others vvho have not so great a shew of righteousness so it is not every one that saith Lord Lord nor proud boasters in another mans line of things made ready to their hand vvho steal their Words from their Neighbor that shall enter into life but he that doth the Will of God for they make themselves manifest that they are without God and without Christ as by their Fruits I knew them then to be deceitful Workers though vvith fair speeches and good Words they deceive the simple and so blinds the minds of them that believe not in the light And though I did like the chief Priests and the chief Professors Words then vvell so far as they was according to