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A74895	A discovery of faith; wherein is laid down the ground of true faith, which sanctifieth and purifieth the heart, and worketh out the carnal part. Shewing the way that leadeth to salvation: with the difference betwixt the two seeds, the one of Mount Sinai, which tendeth to bondage; and the other, which is the immortal seed of God, begotten by the immortal word, which liveth and abideth for ever. Being as Isaac was, the childe of the promise, and of Jerusalem which is from above ... The difference betwixt the living word and the letter.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.; Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1653 (1653)	Thomason E703_6**	16,669	16

A Discovery of Faith Wherein is laid down The Ground of True Faith Which Sanctifieth and Purifieth the heart and worketh out the Carnal part SHEWING The Way that leadeth to Salvation WITH The Difference betwixt the two Seeds the one of Mount Sinai which tendeth to Bondage and the other which is the immortal Seed of God begotten by the immortal word which liveth and abideth for ever Being as Isaac was the childe of the Promise and of Jerusalem which is from above which is the mother of us all that are of the immortal Birth begotten not by the will of man but by the will of God and born again of Water and the Spirit baptized into one body and made to drink into one Spirit having Fellowship with the Father and the Son all springing from one root and growing into one Body a habitation for God through the Spirit The difference betwixt The Living WORD and the LETTER 1 John 4. 6. We are of God he that knoweth God heareth us he that is not of God heareth not us hereby know we the Spirit of truth and the Spirit of Error London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black Spread Eagle at the west end of Pauls 1653. An Epistle to the READER Christian Friend THis ensuing Treatise was not written for swine to snuffle upon and so cast dirt upon it with their dirty noses but from the flowings of love to tender desires that they may minde what begets the desire to Righteousness and so comeout of all mens Words and Writings that doth arise out of the corrupt nature for they are filthy and unclean the heart of man being deceitful and that above measure and all words and writings that arise out of the first nature are corrupt and earthly and there is no life in them but for the dead minde that is carnal which knoweth not the things of God therefore do they not know those that are begotten to a lively faith in God which purifieth their hearts and worketh out the carnal part that did delight in the unclean conversation of the world in conforming to the customs and fashions of the world in Capping and Cringing Bending and Bowing to men of corrupt hearts and unpure mindes all being earthly and brutish following the imaginations of their hearts idolizing the creatures falling down to worship men more then God fearing to displease men of Corrupt hearts and unclean conversation for some self end or other not regarding the command of Jesus Christ who saith Fashion not your selves like unto the world for the fashion of the world paseth away again saith he be not conformed like unto the world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your minds neither be ye men pleasers for he that is a man pleaser he is no longer the servant of Jesus Christ who did not seek to please men but did the wil of his father in reproving sin evil and testifying against the deceits of the world and that was the reason why he was hated of the world not for any evil but because saith he I testifie against the world that the deeds thereof are evil therefore do the world hate me and the fair sayers then came to him and tempting him saying Master we know that thou teachest the way of God truly and that thou carest for no mans person and the subtil serpent in the Pharisees lay at catch and laid snares for the innocent to betray him into the hand of sinners that they might have to accuse him to put him to death and the Pharisees with the chief Priests they sought out false witness to put him to death because he did testifie against their deceitfulness hypocrisies and dissimulations and the blessed Spirit in him seeing the envy subtilty and venom that lodged in their hearts and covered over with fine words and fair pretences being wise to do evil he said to all that are of the seed of Abraham after the Spirit born again of the same Spirit beware of the leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisie for saith he the children of the world are wiser in their generation then the children of the light therefore be ye wise as serpents and harmless as doves but beware of the leaven of the Pharisees now they are alive the same seed of evil doers to persecute and lies in wait to destroy the simple ones who are guided by the pure Wisdom of God and are Redeemed from their vain conversation and walks in obedience to the Commands of Iesus Christ being guided by the same Spirit God sending the Spirit of his Son into their hearts crying Abba Father and saith the blessed Spirit of truth Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them Ephes 5. 11. but he that departs from iniquity makes himself a prey and because that there is not a Running with them into the same excess of Riot therefore speak they evil of them as of evil doers calling them Quakers or what they can invent to make them odious in the eyes of the world but t is nothing but the seed of the serpent that doth so and it is known by the Spirit of the living God where Iesus Christ is made manifest in Spirit having destroyed the works of the devil the Spirit of truth and righteousness living in them it lets them see how the seed of the serpent lies upon the earth and grows in the earthly delights and is covered over with an earthly Profession and brings forth nothing but weeds and tares which is for the fire and must be burnt up by the Lord God Almighty who is the heart searcher and tryer Now friend if thou do but with a single eye read this little ensuing Treatise thou wilt not finde any gilded expressions in it that doth arise from the wisdom of the flesh for they do but feed the fleshly minde which must be destroyed with a sore destruction let me intreat thee that when thou readest thou may first return into thy own spirit and see how thou standest in the fear of the Lord which is to lay aside all evil and see that thy understanding be kept open as thou readest and thy minde free from all hard thoughts and opinions of men which ariseth out of the dark nature stand free out of all mens words that doth arise out of the corrupt nature and give thy deligence attention to what thou readest as well within as without and it will shew thee the way that leadeth to salvatien and the true guide which it is written from that thou mayest have union with him in the life and substance of it without all question or doubt to live in the life and power of the truth it self for as the lightning cometh out of the east and shineth into the west so shall the coming of the Son of man be wait wholly within and sink down into the eternal love and thou wilt see me and the rest that we are in the unity of that

one Spirit where love is head the daily bread where the souls refreshment is for to be had which makes the heart exceeding glad Thine in the Vine Rich Farnworh A Discovery of FAITH WHEREIN Is laid down the ground of true Faith which sanctifieth and purifieth the heart and worketh out the carnal part FAith purifieth the heart 1 John 3. 3. Gal. 3. 7. Gen. 12. 21. 1 John 3. 3. Gal. 3. 27 28. Mat. 15. 19. Ephe. 4. 20. Iam. 3. 14 15. All who are of faith are of Abraham they are of one seed come out of their native Countrey Kingdom and Fathers house they are of one Faith all of one Faith if ten thousand all Faith in God which purifies the heart is one Seed if ten thousand the Letter is not the Faith nor the Letter is not the Seed many profess the Letter but are not all of one Faith and this is because they have not the true Faith which purifies the heart but it is a formed Faith so your hearts are full of deceits passion envy crookedness corrupt vain Conversation and strife and thou that art there hast not learned Christ To profess all the Scriptures and have them in thy notion wit and memory yet have not Faith but the wisdom of the world which is carnal sensual and earthly and the earthly minde applying the earthly letter to the earthly minde and the devillish nature lodgeth within killing and devouring the just where it is risen within and men and women are bruitish and heathenish and heathens know not God and all you that know not God at this present are heathens So examine whether you have Faith or no 1 Iohn 5. 4. Eccles 3. 11. 1 Cor. 1. 21. Faith gives the victory over the world and then he comes to the end of the world now you must see the world to be set in your hearts and the world by their wisdom which is earthly and carnal knows not God for God is pure and cannot behold iniquity Now thou that Gen. 32. 30. Exod. 33. 11. Gal. 3. 7. saith thou hast wisdom see if thou know God or have seen him face to face Jacob saw him face to face Moses saw him face to face and thou that sayest thou hast Faith art thou of Abraham for they that have Faith are of Abraham see if thou canst witness the Scripture for thee to apply the Prophets inheritance the Apostles inheritance or Abrahams inheritance to thy self and to thy condition thou thief the Lord is against thee that steals the word from thy neighbour Behold Ier. 23 30 31. saith the Lord I am against them that saith He saith and useth their tongues and I have never spoke to them saith the Lord. And do not all the worlds Teachers and people all apply the Scriptures and say he saith and calls the Letter the Word Iohn 1. 1. and so live in hear-say and deceive your selves and others When as the Letter saith God is the Word and the Letter saith The Word is sharper then a two edged sword and it divideth asunder but it doth not say that the Heb. 4. 12. Letter is sharper then a two edged sword and you are clean through the Word but not through the Letter and the Letter saith The Word is a hammer but it doth not say the Letter is a hammer and Iohn 15. 3. the Letter saith The Wood is a fire but doth not say the Letter is as a fire O hear you outside faiths and you outside mindes whose Ier. 23. 29. faith is without God formed and imagined in thy minde you have the nature of the Devil to murther and the nature of the heathen to rage the nature of the man-slayer to envy and you take the Letter for a cloak and say you believe in Christ in the Lord Jesus O Hypocrite and Dissembler awake awake O you blinde guides Psal 2. 1. which have lain long covered but now the Lord is uncovering you Isa 3. 18. 19 20 21 22 23. now he will strip you of your mantles of your vails of your broidered atire now your bracelets and your bonets and of your nose-gaises and now thou scarlet coloured harlot that is covered mincing with thy eyes and tinckling with thy feet and thy broidered Isa 3. 16. hair now thou hast time to repent repent turn to the Lord but thy own ways thou hast chosen and the vain imaginations of thy own heart thou followest so thy own delusions and fear the Lord will bring upon thee and all you that say you have faith you gather a great company together and you profess Christ and you have been a long time taught some thirty years some forty some fifty some sixty some fourscore but how many of you have one Faith and one Seed and Witness examine your selves and deceive not your own souls and you that do profess you have faith you say the Letter is the light and the Scripture Letter is the Word and the Steple-house is the Church and the sprinkling of Infants is the baptism which you baptize them into and you have a Teacher and he teaches you these things and he is called of Men Master which Christ cryed wo against and hath the chiefest place in the Assemblies but all this while see how many of you are of one faith and how many of you would lay down your life one for another and to let your yea be Mat 23. 27 26 yea and your nay nay in all things that which purifies the heart comes from one and draws to one if they be ten thousand they are one But these are them who are purified now you shall see a difference between your saith as you call it and the Saints faith for the Saints said their light was Christ and it was within them and the Saints 1 Iohn 2. 20. 27 1 Thess 1. 1. 1 Cor. 12. 13. Iohn 1 9 Iohn 1. 1. Mat. 23. 6 7 8. Gal. 6 7. 2 Thess 1. 8. Light and the Saints Word was God and their Teacher was the Anointing and their Church was in God and that was their Baptism with one Spirit into one body and Jesus Christ the substance of the Prophets the end of them and of Moses them that were called of men Masters and was got up into the chiefest place in the Assemblies he cryed against such and such you hold up And are not all your Teachers called of men Masters do you think God will be mocked with your words though you may take him for your cloak a while Mat. 2. 1 2 3 4 he will come with flames of fire and will recompence upon all you he that follows him obeys him and he that doth obey him doth not hold up that which he cryed out against Herods hard heart exalted he gathered all the chief Priests to know of them where Christ should be born and they said in Bethlehem of Judea it is written so saith the Prophet here they could