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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66866	The unlimited God, not limited by any of the children of light, but by them who are in the darkness and straitness, such would be limiting the unlimited God from the Spirit of the Lord is this given forth, that all such may read with the eye which is not busie, nor looks into things above its reach : from one who becomes all to all, to gain some to Christ ... : also, a warning, and a charge from the Lord God, to all the Baptists teachers every where ... : also, a true discovery of the way to the kingdome within ... / given forth from the Spirit of the Lord, in Humphry Wollrich ...	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1659 (1659)	Wing W3303; ESTC R39138	18,663	24

should see the Body the life and substance and in darknesse ye are and in your sinnes and in sorrow shall you lie down and your end shall be destruction who are led by any other thing than the light within in whom are found treasures of Wisdome and treasures of Knowledge yea durable Riches and exceeding Righteousnesse which exceedeth all yours which speaketh of Justification by Christ but your selves in your sinnes for there is none comes unto Christ but they come to perfection neither doth any sin at all who abide in him which is perfect and cannot sin Sin is not of Christ but of the Devil Therefore see what your way is that you are in and what your Ordinances are to you who are found doing your Fathers work making it your daily work to strive against the Truth which sets free from sin as the Jewes did against Christ and said they were Abrahams seed and were never in bondage to any but could not see his shape nor hear his Voice who should have set them free from sin nor themselves could they not see to be servants of sin and of their Father the Devil though they were doing his work as ye are for which the Lord God of life and power will reward you with Judgement unlesse you speedily repent and do no more so wickedly And all you professors of what sort soever that I may be clear of your bloud I warn you all in the power of the Lord do not persecute those despised people which by the Scornes are called Quakers Do not magnifie your selves against them nor give not your power to the Beast and false Prophet nor gather your selves with Gog and Magog and look not upon them because the Sun hath looked upon them and the heat thereof hath scorched them and made them black for the Lord hath given his Word unto them and many are they which publish it Kings of Armies shall flee apace before the beautiful Sons and Daughters of Sion and though they have lain among the pots yet shall they be as the wings of a Dove covered with silver and her feathers with yellow gold Psal 68.13 Ye are they which have been as of the off-scouring of all things whom my soul is joyned unto and in the bundle of Life is my soul bound up with yours and in the Book of Life can you see my name written with yours if I forget you let my right hand forget her cunning and my Tongue fail that it speak no more ye precious sons and daughters of Sion Arise and thresh the Mountains for the Lamb hath opened his mouth and the threshing Instrument is given you and the two-edged Sword is known Arise arise and lay your swords upon your enemies necks Let not your hands spare nor your eye pity but wound the wicked and the hairy scalp of them that go on in Rebellion and my soul shall be glad when it sees the vengeance Oh my Brethren and oh my Sisters which hath long been rejected and despised be ye all faithful to the Lord God Almighty let Righteousnesse and Innocency be the girdle of your loynes and by you shall Kings be ungirded Judges and Counsellors shall be led away spoiled yea all the Princes Nobles and honourable of the earth by you is the Lord overturning Kingdomes and establishing Kingdomes in Righteousnesse even by you whose weapons are not carnal but mighty is the Lord God Almighty overturning and laying the world as a wilderness and destroying him that opened not the door of his prisoner this spark is kindled yea his holy One will prove a flame and shall burn up the Briers and Thorns and the trees of the wilderness and of the forrest the Oakes of Bashan and the Cedars of Lebanon shall be few that a childe may write them The Lyon is come out of the Thicket and the destroyer of the Gentiles hath uttered his voice out of Sion therefore tremble tremble and be amazed ye beasts of the Field flee to your strong holds you whose minds be without from the Light see if the Rocks or your earthly holds can hide you from the presence of our God and of the Lamb see what ye will do in this day wherein the Lord will bear no longer Ye Priests and Magistrates which have long persecuted this poor and afflicted people Repent repent and oppresse them no longer for the Lord hath looked upon their low estate yea he hath remembred his covenant to a thousand generations the Covenant which he made with Isaack and Jacob Abraham his friend and his seed for evermore even the seed of Jacob which served for a wife shall become thousands and millions and possesse the gates of all that hate them Gen. 24.60 Oh England England which hath called your selves Christians and have been long fasting praying and fighting for a Reformation and have called your selves of Christ herein and have covered your selves with the Saints words and Prophets words but have been inwardly ravened from the Life and Spirit and truth which they were in And I am troubled for you all and your iniquity lyeth heavy upon me and what will ye do and how will you Answer before the Lord that when his Son which he hath sent into England to gather his sheep as a shepherd from all the greedy shepherds that hath fed themselves and have clothed themselves and scattered the sheep of Gods pasture which are men against him have ye all risen as one man and ye have resisted and withstood the Lords Work here in England which is a marvellous work and a wonder to all who have the profession but their minds is estranged from the light of Christ within And I am troubled at my very heart for you all for I know your end will be bitter as wormwood yea destruction from the Almighty and a strange punishment for all you workers of Iniquity let your profession be what it will This is your portion saith the Lord God unlesse you repent and obey the light of Christ in you which is the Lords Candle and searcheth and trieth all your reines and sheweth you your hypocrisie and how you have but dissembled and drawn near to the Lord and with your tongues have cried Lord Lord but your hearts have been far both from him and his righteousnesse I say Come down out of all your thoughts reasonings and imaginations to the light which is the eye and ye shall see the body of sin is yet standing and the body of Christ have not yet been discerned and ye shall see the bed whereon ye have stretched your selves too short and the covering which ye have had hath not been of the Spirit and so too narrow to wrap your selves in therefore I counsel you all Come to Christ buy of me gold tried in the fire that ye may be rich and white rayment that ye may be clothed and that your shame and blindness may appear no longer for Christ is come unto you not to bring peace but

read 2 Peter 3.15 Ezek. 33.10 to 20. That God desireth not the destruction or the death of him which is destroyed but had rather they would own his light which is Christ his power and strength and would and doth give power over all sin yea even power to become the Sons of God which sin not And this I declare to you all is not of man nor mans righteousness which is as filthy rags yet it is in man and there fulfils the righteousness of the Law now in the Saints as ever he did Rom. 8.4 that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit v. 14. for as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the Sons of God mark the wise Professors Prayers and such as say ye observe the Ordinances and use the means and say you cannot be perfect in this life but say ye are justified by Christs righteousness which suffered at Jerusalem beyond the Sea vers 4. that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us Consider this you that would make Christ a cover for your sins as all doe who know not Christ in them the hope of glory Therefore call not us deceivers any longer but see how Satan is exalted in you and ye your selves are deceived which are in your sins and beguiled and cast the simplicity that is in Christ Jesus which all that are in sin not and this is true Justification for any to be in Christ where old things and sin is done away for which man is condemned and unto which the Law was and is added and abides in force while men are in their sins though in that state which is woful and for condemnation You will say you are not under the Law but under Grace therefore count not this deceit any longer as you have formerly done but consider what have ye to be deceived of seeing ye are in your sins and have lost the elect which cannot be deceived and the Apostles did not write to such as you are but to the Saints that were in Christ Jesus and had something more then you have who are in your sins to be deceived of Therefore all come down unto Christ the light of the world which lighteth every man that cometh into the world which is the eye and ye shall see all your prayers righteousnesses Means and Ordinances which you use to get Christ is all one in the sight of God with your swearing lying and drunkenness read Isai 66. v. 2. to 5. Hearken unto this ye proud Professors but trembles not at the Word of the Lord He that killeth an Oxe as if he slew a man he that sacrificeth a lamb as if he cut off a dogs neck he that offereth an oblation as if he offered swines blood he that burneth Incense as if he blessed an Idol Consider the ground and reason of this ye that say ye cannot be perfect and holy in this life whether ye are not in your own wayes and whether ye have not chosen your own wayes and your souls delighted in that which is abomination unto Christ who is the way the truth the life and he that is in it sinneth not what ever you may say who are in your own inventions and righteousnesse but are far off from the righteousnesse which is near to be revealed in the heart as all are who say Revelations are ceased for I declare to you all from my own experience not from the Letter but from the Spirit and Power of the Lord that I never heard the Voice nor knew the things of God from the Letter but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ for it hath pleased the Father to reveal his Son in me who is the light in which light I see light and the Father revealed who is the fountain thereof and broken Cisterns and corrupt Fountains are all drinking out of and feeding upon the wind and windy doctrine and vain hopes and eating that which dieth of it self and doth not satisfie and are all blind and dead in their sins are all they which saith that Revelation are ceased And this is a general cry with Priests and Professors who are gone in the way of Balaam and abides not in the Doctrine of Christ which should reveal the Father and of all Sects and Opinions whatsoever they are crying none can hear the Voice of Christ now but in the Letter To you I say who are setting up the Bible to be your Rule instead of the Spirit as the Jewes did who thought to have eternal life in the Scriptures and were painted as ye are with the Saints words being inwardly ravened from the light and spirit of the Lord which doth reveal as ever it did the things of God I say you are not like to hear his voice who are gone from the hearing ear nor to see his shape who are gone from the Light the seeing eye but the Saints and sheep did then hear his Voice and followed him and I witnesse his Voice to be heard now as ever it was and thousands in England besides me though I do confesse you which have the sheeps clothing but are not sheep do not nor cannot hear his Voice no more than the Jewes did who had the same clothing but were inwardly ravened from the Spirit of the Lord. Therefore all that would know God or the things of God must come to the measure of the Spirit in them a measure of which is given to every man to profit withall and this is nigh you in your hearts and as ye finke downe ye shall feele it working rising and operating in you and as ye are still ye shall feele ye spirit of the holy and pure God which hath been imprisoned and held in captivity under Pharaoh and the man of sin which hath been exalted in you above the spirit of God in you so all in this wait which is underneath the power of darkness and shineth in the darkness and out of the darkness shall it arise for he hath long dwelt in thick darkness and round about him hath been Clouds deep Waters I say wait in patience all you that sit in the region and shadow of death and the light shall rise until darknesse be under his feet even those dark mountains where you have been scattered and are scattered and how beautiful shall you witnesse his feet to be upon the Mountains Tongue nor Pen cannot utter even he that publisheth Salvation and saith unto Sion thy King raignes and this is the raigne of Christ and the only raign which the Scripture declares of That all his enemies should be under his feet for he must raign till he have subjected all things to himself even all that which hath captivated the Seed in Egyptian darknesse And then shall come to passe that saying which is written and nor till then Here is the patience of the Saints and here shall you feel the sufferings of Christ that are behinde and here is the time of Tryal and the very day of Jacobs trouble when he that hath led into captivity must go into captivity even as he ascends out of the grave and the pit he receiveth gifts for men but man is not meet to partake of the gift until that nature which would devour be destroyed And I say in bowels of everlasting love whose hearts are but breathing though never so little after the Lord speak not evil of that you know not nor judge nothing before the time until the spirit rise out of prison in you unto whom all judgement is committed and he will judge even he who is the judge of all the earth aright he will not condemn the righteous with the wicked nor slay the righteous with the wicked though man may who is gone from the spirit of truth in himself and knows not that there is a lie in his right hand and so calls good evil and evil good and puts light for darknesse himself being in that darkness and darknesse for light I am grieved for the sons of men at my very heart and greatly am I oppressed therewith and the iniquity of many lieth upon my life and I am pressed therewith as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves And oh how am I greived to see people that call themselves Christians and profess the scripturers to be their rule how contrary thereunto they walke and yet are condemning us for denying the scriptures who are in the life of them And as for your being Christians there is no such thing for you do not at all resemble God whom you say is your Father nor Christ his Son who loveth righteousness and hates iniquity and whose loins are girt with righteousnesse and whose throne is established in holiness and the Scepter of his Kingdom is a right Scepter and his Kingdom is everlasting and in his people and consist in righteousness Power and Glory And not in talke and words which you are in without the power or Joy in the Holy Ghost and yet you are saying you are his brethren but to you all I say who are in vaine words vain thoughts and actions in pleasure frendships and customes of the world which fades away as a flower and withereth as grass all repent and turn to the Light that you may see your sad conditions and from whence and from what are you fallen for he owns you not ye workers of iniquity all your Sacrifices while you commit sin or regard iniquity in your hearts are abomination to the Lord Isai 66.3 And so to you all and in love to your souls I say Come down for your strength is to stand still and to feel a seed in your selves though it be but as a grain of mustard and as you in patience wait low out of every thought reasoning and imagination which vails and clouds this pure seed which I speak of you shall see or feel it arise in you grow and multiply as the stars in the Firmament and as the sands in the Sea shore without number THE END