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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40325	A word from the Lord unto all the faithlesse generation of the vvorld, who know not the truth, but live in their own imaginations; with a true declaration of the true faith, and in what it doth differ from the worlds imagination: written in obedience to the Lord, that al may see what faith is owned by the saints, and what faith is denied. And also a few words unto all professors of the world, who worship not the true God, but their own imaginations and conceivings instead of the true God: also a call from God unto all the the world to repentance, that all may turn unto him, lest the Lord destroy both root and branch of them that repent not. Also a few words unto you that scorne Quaking and trembling, which all the holy men of God witnessed that spake forth the Scripture, and also the holy men of God justified, and all you denied that scorneth such as witness such things now, as ever was in all the generations of the saints. With a word to those that are called Anabaptists, Independants, Presbyterians, Leve	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Naylor, James, 1617?-1660. aut	1654 (1654)	Wing F1992; ESTC R213323	12,879	17

and all whose Law is without we see to be in the old Covenant of works which made nothing perfect and the selfe righteousness which is filthy raggs and by the light of Christ are we convinced of that righteousness not to be of faith therfore whose faith and works stand here them we deny and see them all worshipping without the new covenant in the oldness of the letter whose law is without 1. Cor. 12.13 1. Cor. 14.13 their light without their Church without their Baptisme prayers and Singings without their Christ without their righteousness without and so their faith without all which we witness to be within and within we worship in newness of spirit and by this spirit we do see all that are without God and his righteousness to be in the world and strangers to the covenant of grace Ioh. 4.23.24 and that faith and worship we deny and God denies who seeks such worshippers as worship in spirit and truth and this faith and worship we owne not knowne to the world and therefore hated J. N. To all the Worlds Professors and People that you may see where you are and Repent THe word of God is not known to the world nor worldly wisedome hee that hath the word hath life hee that knowes the word knowes God and heere 's life manifest and the word hath quickned him and raysed him out of death and dead workes he that hath but the letter heareth the sound but knowes not where or what it is and as he received it in the aire hee declares it and death speakes light words without power and dead workes and lightness is brought forth and the power of death raines and the life of that is but an imitation and not the life it selfe the chaffe but not the graines tossed in the wind and the Prince of the aire is fed and ruleth and here vanity is exalted the light mind is fed with airie notions would be wise but the colt is at liberty not subject to the yoke but kicks against the pure and the obedience is not and the cross is despised but the nature who feeds heere whose end is for destruction and for the fire for the nature knowes not the living word but the letter and is without God in the world but hee who hath the word hath God and is come into the Covenant by which all things stand for he is come into the beginning out of the fall to the first fruites and witnesseth the word spirituall invisible powerfull pure and sharpe a divider and discerner by it he is sanctified and made clean by it he is established and unmooveable and is fed daily it is his life his joy and delight and the word is not to fetch from above nor from below neither is it to seeke it in a chapter or a steeplehouse without but it is nigh in the heart and in the mouth by which word he is kept at all seasons it is his counseller he inquires at it as at an Oracle and thereby he is brought to live the life of Godliness and from which is spoken words of life and power to others and hee speakes not his owne words nor brings forth his owne workes but hath ceased from his owne workes as God did from his and is entred into his rest and is come into the eternall Sabboth and is comprehended into the word which is Christ and is no more his owne for now Christ speakes in him acts in him and workes in him the will and the deed now Christ and hee is one married to him and Christ is his head and husband and now the head speakes prayeth and prayseth and prophesies and is uncovered and heere is the Church of the first borne the pillar and ground of truth where the woman must bee covered and kept silent and is not to speake in the Church is not to usurpe authority but is to be in subjection and if shee would know any thing let her ask of her husband at home and he is to her a covering of the eyes forever Now all you Priests and People that talke of these things without you from the letter this is a parable to you and you reade the outside in the letter and from that you imagine and so set up a forme or likenesse or image of those things and here you worship and for this you contend and would compell all to worship your image you have set up and you goe about to persecute and destroy all that will not worship and bow downe to it with you but it is the forme you have but not the substance and you put the dead letter for the living word and your meanings of it arising from the braines and first wisedom and naturall learning thus you declare and call it prophecying and put off your hats which is carnall but the head you know not and it is the woman that speakes and the head is covered and so you dishonour your head and honour your selves neither are you subject to your head but your owne will rules in you and you live in the pleasures of the world and are become wanton and have set your eyes upon many lovers and you are adulterated from your husband nor live not with him nor is he a covering to you neither can you witness him in you nor you in him nor the pure seed of God is not brought forth in you but the seed that is accursed neither is the pure language brought forth in you but as to God you are smitten with barrenness and brings forth nothing but words windes shewes and shadowes imitations inventions imaginations and conceptions and you never looke to bring forth better fruit never come to holyness and perfection and your first fruits and that estate wherein you were created and you will not know you are departed from your first fruitfullness and have lost him in whom your life stands and in whom your fruits is found and are become widdowes and desolate as to your first husband and have been running after other lovers and worshipping under every greene tree and the holy flesh is departed from you and you are doting upon the Egyptian and the Assyrian for wisedom and strength whose flesh is as the flesh of horses and have been as fed hoses living in the lust of the flesh as it is at this day Now all people stand still a while and see from whence you are fallen and the cause of all your unfruitfulness and returne to your first husband from whence you are fallen that you may bring forth your first fruits for till then all you doe is abomination to the Lord and he cannot accept it for what you bring forth is the seed of the adulterer and of the whore a generation of evill doers and yet you make a profession in out side as to righteousness and holiness but the power is to act righteousness you have not but in your actions brought forth but the image of the Devill

A Word from the Lord Vnto all the faithlesse Generation of the VVorld who know not the Truth but live in their own imaginations with a true Declaration of the true faith and in what it doth differ from the Worlds imagination written in obedience to the Lord that al may see what faith is owned by the Saints and what faith is denied And also a few words unto all Professors of the World who worship not the true God but their own imaginations and conceivings instead of the true God Also a Call from God unto all the World to Repentance that all may turn unto him lest the Lord destroy both Root and Branch of them that repent not Also a few words unto you that scorne Quaking and Trembling which all the holy men of God witnessed that spake forth the Scripture and also the holy men of God justified and all you denied that scorneth such as witness such things now as ever was in all the Generations of the Saints With a word to those that are called Anabaptists Independants Presbyterians Levellers and Ranters that they may turne to the Lord by yielding obedience to the light in their Consciences By those whom the World knowes by the names of George Fox James Nailor Printed in the Yeare 1654. To all the faithlesse generation of the world and to all who desire to know what faith and hope we live in and what faith and hope we deny THat Faith wee owne and witness is that which stands in Jesus Christ in the everlasting Covenant of light John 1.9 who is the light of the world and hath enlightened every one that cometh into the world and this light we believe and follow and by this are we led out of all the waies works and worships Iohn 8.12 of this darke world and the effect of this light we witness by faith And by this faith we deny all who say this light is not sufficient without the teaching of man to guide in all the waies of God and all such we deny Iohn 10.4.5 Tim. 4.5 for those are they who knowe not the voice of Christ and therefore here a stranger and hireling who heap up teachers having itching eares who cannot indure sound doctrine and in this Christ we believe who is our life and Salvation and all them and their faith we deny who say they have faith and their lives is not the life of Christ but live in sin and worldly pleasures and say they cannot be saved from their sins in this world but in part and this faith we deny and them 1. Iohn 3.8 Heb. 7.25 1. Timo. 1.9 for these deny the end of Christs coming in the flesh who cannot believe he is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto him and this faith is reprobate and these deny the Lord that bought them and have made shiprack of faith and a good conscience and makes the blood of Christ of no effect to them who are not cleansed by it and all them and their faith we deny who say they believe and know the will of God but they have not power Rom. 1.4.16 for that Christ in which we believe is the great power of God unto Salvation in all that believe and who hath this Christ hath power and in him we have power to do the will of God but these are they that know not Christ nor his power 2. Tim. 3.5 but run into notions and forms but deny the power and from such we turn away for such know not him in them who is greater then he that is in the world but are wi ling to serve sin and be led Captive at the divells will not minding the light and power of Christ to be guided by it and then would seeme to cast the fault on God as though he had given a Christ that was not able to set free til after death these put him to open shāe whose faith profession we deny Rom. 5.17 Rom. 1.22 Rom. 10 3.4 we deny all who say they have faith in Christ and yet their righteousness is not perfect but this faith we witness which receives the righteousness of God even the free gift of righteousness by Jesus Christ and this is perfect which is the righteousness of faith and all who have not this righteousness are in the false righteousness which is not perfect and these are short of the righteousness of God and would establish their owne righteousness and these are the Boasters who would justify themselves and dispise others Rom. 1.27 but by the righteousness of faith is boasting excluded and heer is no justifying of selfe but denying selfe and selfe righteousness exalting the righteousness of God which is perfect which is in Christ Jesus Phil. 1.9 Phil. 1.11 who is made unto us righteousness sanctification by this faith we deny all who say they have Christ and have not this righteousness but whose righteousness is unperfect and that Christ and that righteousness we deny which is not perfect and witness that Christ in which we are made the righteousness of God and this Christ is our righteousness and perfection and this faith we owne and witness which is not a talke of faith as the worlds professors who say they have faith but are dead in sin and cannot witness the work of God in them Jam. 2.26 Eph. 2.10 1. Iohn 5.4 Gal. 1.4 .. but that faith we owne which is lively by which the work of God is witnessed in us working out sin and by which we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works and this is our faith by which we overcome the world and the Divell and all you we deny who have a profession in the world and in whom the works of the Divell are brought forth and their faith and hope we deny who say they hope to be saved but live in sin making a profession and this is the hope of the hypocrite which shall perrish and not the hope of Christ for he that hath this hope of Christ purifies himselfe even as he is pure 1. Iohn 3.3 Heb. 6.19 and this faith and hope we owne which purifies the heart and enters into the place of holiness within the vaile but that which is without holiness we deny which is not in Christ but in a vaine mind Ro. 10.8 and we deny all who say they have faith and Christ and yet their word and light is without them and that word we witness which is nigh in the heart and this is the word of faith which the Apostles preached and he that hath Christ or faith hath this word which is Christ the light not in letter but in spirit and all them we deny whose law is without and morrall and that law we witness which is spirituall written in the heart and this law is perfect and endures for ever Heb. 8.10.11 Heb. 7.19 and all the Changeable laws wee deny

for all sin beares his image and hee is the father of it let no man deceive you thorough faire words hee that sins is of the Devill and is doing his worke and upon this image where it is the wrath of God is revealed from heaven in flames of fire here is your portion you workers of iniquity THe word of the Lord God to all you that scorne trembling and quaking and scoffe at them and scorn at them and throw stones at them who own trembling and quaking and ●●●ere that you might be seen to bee strangers from all the Apostles and Prophets in the generation that stoned them mocked them then in that age and those ages and those times but now yee are the scoffers that are come in the last times whom they spoke of bee yee witnesses against your selves to the light in all your consciences I speake that with it you may see your selves to bee from the life of the holy men of God Moses who was a judge over all Israell hee feared trembled and quiked when the Lord sayd unto him I am the God of Abraham the God of Isaac the God of Jacob then hee trembled and durst not behold at this which makes to tremble now yee teachers and people scoffe at and scorne them now in your streets who witnesse the power of the Lord. And Moses forsooke the pleasures of the world which hee might have enioyed for a season hee might have beeene called the son of Pharahoes daughter he refused it and forsooke Pharaoes house who was no vagabond And David hee trembled hee was mocked they made songs on him they wagged their heads at him will you professe Davids wordes Moses wordes who are in the generation of your fathers mockers scoffers wonderers and despisers who are to perish Oh! blush and bee ashamed of all your profession Job trembled and their flesh trembled and they mocked him so doe you now where the same power of God is made manifest and doe not you mocke and yet you professe Jobs wordes Oh! deceitfull Hypocrites will yee not owne the Scripture Solomon who was a King sayd when the keepers of the house shall tremble and the strong men of the house should bow themselves at this Priests Magistrates and people scoffe at where this power makes the keepers of the house to tremble the strong man to bow himselfe Oh! for shame never professe Solomons words deny the power for with it you are judged with the power and life Jeremiah hee shooke his bones quaked hee reeled too and fro like a drunken man when hee saw the deceits of the Priests and Prophets who were turned from the way of God and they were not ashamed neither could they blush such were gone from the light and such were the women that ruled over the people and hee was brought to cry oh foolish people who had eyes and could not see they had eares and did not heare that did not feare the Lord and tremble at his presence who placed the sands for the bounds of the Sea for a perpetuall decree that the waves thereof cannot passe and sayd a horrible and filthy thing was committed in the Land the Priests bate rule by their meanes and the Prophets prophecie falsly shall not I visite for these things saith the Lord shall not my soule bee avenged upon such a Nation as this such did not tremble at the word of the Lord therefore he called them a foolish people heare all yee the word of the Lord yee foolish People who scorne trembing and quaking and quaking and shaking give over Jeremiahs wordes and making a trade of them for with his wordes yee are judged to bee among the scoffers and scorners and stockers for he was stocked by your generation and so you stocke who are the children of your fathers them that tremble now at the word of the Lord at the power of the mighty God which rayses up the seed of God out of the fall and throwes downe the earth which hath kept it in the fall so you that are in the fall where death raignes enemies of the truth despising the power of God as ever your generation did woe and misery is your portion except you speedily repent And Isaiah sayd heare yee the word of the Lord all yee that tremble at his word and said this is the man that God regards that was of a broken and contrite heart tremble at his word when their bretheren hated them and persecuted them and cast them out saying let the Lord be glorified hee shall appeare to your glory but they shall be ashamed Now to all scoffers scorners that despise trembling you regard not the word of the Lord they are not regarded with you that trembles at the word who are regarded of the Lord therfore ye are contrary to Isaiah his words therfore never for shame professe him nor his wordes nor make a trade of his wordes yee who seeke for your gaine from your quarter yee greedy dumb doggs that never have enough yee are they that despise trembling you are they Isaiah cryed against who witnessed trembling and heere be you witnesses against your selves that with the light in your consciences you may see you are out of the Prophet Isaiahs words and are such as hate them that tremble that the Lord regards but such you do not regard but hate and persecute mocke and rayle against but it is manifest that you walke in the steps of your fathers who persecuted the Prophets Habacuck the Prophet of the Lord and Joel the Prophet of the Lord blew the trumphet in Zion and let the inhabitants of the earth tremble the people shall tremble and all faces shall gather blacknesse and the people shall be much pained and now this trembling is witnessed by the power of the Lord this power of the Lord is come the trumpet is sounding the Devils are trembling the earth is shaking the dead is raysing and the living is praysing God and the world is rageing and the scoffers are scorning and them who witnesse trembling and quaking can scarce pass up and down the streets but with stones and blowes and sticks and fists or mocks or dogs or reproches and thus you vent forth your malice against them who witnesse the power of the Lord as the Prophets did to come to the broken heart and contrice spirit and tremble at the word of the Lord whom the Lord regards them you stone them you stocke them you set your dogs at and scoffe and scorne revile and reproach but the reproaches are our riches and praysed bee the Lord who hath given us power above all and if you see one as Habac●uck whose lips quivered whose belly shooke who said rottennesse entred into his bones who trembled in himselfe if you see such an one in this age now you say he is bewitched here again you show your selves strangers to that power to that life that was in the Prophet and so for shame never