which who do so conform are in the heavenly unity and conformity and Christ who tasted Death for every man for all dyed in Adam he enlightens every man that comes into the world with his heavenly Light which is the Life in him the Word by whom all things were made Now every man and woman being turned to the Light which is the Life in Christ and believing in it and walking in it is the means by which they may be made conformable to the Image of the Son of God and so come into Unity and Conformity and Fellowship one with another and with the Father and the Son And the Grace of God which brings salvation hath appeared unto all men which Grace taught the Church of Christ which Grace and Truth came by Jesus now I say this Grace taught the Church of Christ to live Godly Righteously and to deny Ungodliness and Unrighteousness and to live soberly in this World Now if all People will be conformed to the Image of the Son of God it must be through this grace that comes from the Son of God and this grace is in their hearts to settle them and stablish them which teaches them to deny that which is ungodly and unrighteous and to receive and cleave to that which is godly and righteous And so here is Gods Love and favour to all men who dyed in Adam that his grace and favour should appear unto all men to teach them and bring their Salvation that they may be made conformable to Christs death who hath tasted death for them all and dye and live with him and suffer and reign with him and so be conformable to the Image of the son of God and here is a heavenly divine and spiritual Conformity and Uniformity And Joel saith by Prophecy It shall come to pass in the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh Now these last days are the days of the New Covenant and New Testament and the days of the Gospel of Salvation preacht to every Creature man and woman that all might be obedient and conformable to the Power of God the Gospel of Salvation and so as all are conformable to this glorious Gospel of Christ they will be conformed to the Image of the Son of God and so into a glorious peaceable uniformity and conformity fellowship and unity in the Gospel the Power of God which brings Life and Immortality to light and in this Power of God they will see over the Power of the Devil and before he was that hath darkned them And likewise God who poureth out of his Spirit upon all flesh both men and women that all with the spirit of God might mortifie the deeds of the flesh and in the spirit of God live and that all with the spirit of God might be circumcised and put off the body of Death and fins of the flesh that 's come into them by transgression and disobeying of God so that all in the spirit may be conformable to the Image of the Son of God and be in unity and a spiritual fellowship and uniformity through the spiritual conformity for all the Sons and Daughters of God are led by the spirit of God and here is a spiritual conformity and a heavenly uniformity amongst the Sons and Daughters of God and God having poured out of his spirit upon all flesh that is all men and women that all men and women might be conformable to this holy pure spirit of God which spirit of God will baptize them if they do not quench vex grieve and rebel against it or err from it I say it will baptize them all into one body which Christ the Lord from Heaven is the head of and so with this holy spirit that baptizes into one body are all made to drink into one spirit Here is a spiritual conformity and a heavenly uniformity and concord where there is no discord for the Apostle saith There is is one Lord one Baptism one Faith c. and the work of the Ministry was to bring People into the unity of this Faith and the knowledge of the Son of God who was the Author and Finisher of this precious holy and divine Faith in which Faith they had victory over that which is unholy and access to God in which Faith they pleased him having victory over that which displeased him and this is called the Faith of Gods Elect in which they had all unity and they were called The Houshold of Faith and through this Faith did receive the Righteousness of Christ through which Faith they were made conformable to Christs death and conformable to the Image of the son of God through the Righteousness of Faith which was before and beyond and above the Righteousness of Man and the Righteousness of the Law and in the Righteousness of Christ and the Image of the son of God here is the Saints holy and righteous Uniformity and spiritual and heavenly Unity and Fellowship And David saith Behold how good and how pleasant it is for Brethren to dwell together in unity Now the unity and fellowship is in the Light Grace and Truth and Spirit and the Gospel the Power of God and the Faith which Jesus Christ is the Author and Finisher of and therefore all must be conformable to the Light Grace and Truth that comes by Jesus Christ and to the Spirit of God that God pours upon them and to the Gospel of salvation and to the Faith that Jesus Christ is the Author and Finisher of if ever ye do come into Vniformity Vnity and Fellowship in the Light in the Truth in the Gospel in the Faith in the Image of the Son of God one with another and with the Father and the Son that the Saints are and were in in the Apostles days glory and honour to the Lord over all sorever who is teaching his People by his Son who bruises the Serpents head that false Teacher and now God is the Teacher of his People by his Son and I say was the Teacher of Adam and Eve in Paradise before they fell who is God all-sufficient and a sufficient Teacher G. F. The Authority of the Church of Christ THe Apostle saith to the Corinthians I told you before and fore-tell you as if I were present now I write to them which heretofore have sinned and to all others if I come I will not spare 2 Cor. 13.2 Here the Apostle used his Authority in the Power and Spirit of Christ who would not spare Sin and Sinners And John said That I wrote unto the Church but Diotrâ—phes who loveth to have the preheminence amongst them received us not wherefore if I come I will remember his Deeds which he doth prate against us with malicious Words And so John thought of this Diotrephes in the Power of God and had Authority in his Power to judge such Prating puft-up Diotrephes's and their malicious Words and so hath the Church of Christ in his Power to judge such now
as in 2 John v. 10. And therefore my Beloved follow not that which is Evil but that which is Good for he that doth good is of God and he that doth evil hath not seen God Here is the true Judgment of a true Watch-man in the Power and Spirit of Christ as many as receive Christ to them he gives Power to become the Sons of God which were born not of Blood nor of the will of the Flesh nor of the will of Man but of God these had Power from Christ to admonish reprove and rebuke such as went out from the Will of God into Sin and Evil and the Apostle said Though I should boast some what more of our Authority which the Lord hath given us for Edification and not for your Destruction So here the Apostles had Authority which the Lord had given them for the Edification of the Church to keep them out of Destruction 2 Cor. 10. And the Apostle said to the Church of Corinth I fear lest when I come I shall not find you as I would and yet I shall be found unto you such as ye woâ—lâ— not lest there be Debates Envying Wrath Strifes c. and lest when I come again my God will humble me amongst you and I should bewail many which have sinned already and have not repented of your Uncleanness Fornication and Lasciviousness which you have committed I write these things being absent lest being present I should use sharpness according to the Power which the Lord hath given me to Edification and not to Destruction Here you see the Authority and Power from the Lord the Apostles had to judge such as these for the Edification of them that profess Christianity not for their Destruction 2 Cor. 11.12 And the Apostle faith For to this end also did I write that I might know the truth of you whether ye be obedient in all things to whom ye forgave any thing I forgave it for your sakes in the Person of Christ So here you may see where there was an Obedience to the Truth there was a Forgiveness in Christ 2 Cor. 2. And the Apostle saith For verily as absent in Body but present in the Spirit I have judged already as though I was present concerning him that has done this Deed in the Name of the Lord Jesus when you are gathered together and my Spirit with the Power of our Lord Jesus Christ to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the Flesh c. Know ye not a little Leaven leavens the whole lump purge out therefore the old Leaven that ye may be a new lump 1 Cor. 5. Here you see the Apostle and the Church of Christ had Power and Authority from Christ to cast out and to purge out that which is Evil or the old Leaven out of the Church of Christ that they may be a new lump for the Apostle said He would shortly come to the Church of the Corinthians if the Lord will and I will not know the Speech of them which are puft up but the Power to wit of the Speech for the Kingdom of God is not in Word but in Power So here the Apostle in his Authority in the Power of Christ would know the Power of Christ in others and would have the Church of Christ to do the same for the Apostle saith Do ye not know that the Saints shall judge the World So the sanctified which are made holy judge the unholy World And again Know ye not that ye shall judge Angels Angels are Spirits they that keep their habitation in the Truth and are in the Spirit of Christ do judge the Angels and Spirits that are â—aâ—â—â— from the Truth and their Habitation in the Truth yea I say the Devil and his Angels in whom is no Truth they that walk in the Truth and live in the Power and Spirit of Jesus do judge such and therefore it was a shame to the Church of Christ who had this Power to judge small things to go to Law one with another before the uâ—bâ—lieving World whom they had Power to judge and not to set up the least in the Church to judge of outward things pertaining to this Life seeing they had the Power to judge of greater matters So here you may see the Church of Christ hath Power from Christ to judge the Angels to judge the World and to judge in outward matters of things that pertain to this Life 1 Cor. 6. Concerning Exhortation and Admonition COncerning Exhortation Judas and Silas c. exhorted the Brethren with many Words and comforted them Acts 15. And the Apostle confirmed the Souls of the Disciples and exhorted them to continue in the Faith and that we must through many Tribulations enter into the Kingdom of God when he had ordained them Elders in every Church c. they commended them to the Lord whom they believed Acts 14. So you may see here was Elders ordained in every Church and the aged Women are commended as well as the Men as in Titus 2. And Barnabas exhorted the Church of Antioch yea he exhorted them all that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord Acts 11. And the Brethren wrote exhorting to receive Apollos who when he was come into Achia helped them much who had believed through Grace Here you may see it was the practice of the Church of Christ of exhorting and did help them which believed through Grace Acts 18. And you may see in Acts 20. how the Apostle had given the Church of Macedonia much Exhortation and this Exhortation was in the Spirit and Power of Christ for Christ gave to his Disciples Power and Authority over all Devils c. Luk. 9. And the Apostles exhorted the Thessalonians to exhort 2 Thes 3. and in Thes 4.1 and said We beseech you Brethren and exhort you by the Name of the Lord Jesus that as you have received of us how ye ought to walk and please God And said Moreover ye know how that we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you c. that ye walk worthy of God who hath called you unto his Kingdom and Glory 1 Thes 2. wherefore comfort your selves together and exhort and edifie one another even as ye also do and we exhort you Brethren warn them that are Unruly and comfort the Feeble-minded and support the Weak and be patient towards all Men. Here you may see the Church hath Authority both to support and comfort and exhort and warn the Unruly 1 Thes 5. And you may see how the Apostles did command and exhort such as walk disorderly in 2 Thes 3. And the Apostle did exhort saying Save your selves from this untoward Generation Acts 20.40 And the Apostle exhorted the Marriners that were in the Ship To be of good cheer for there shall be no loss of any mans Life I believe in God and that it shall be even as it was told me to wit by the Lord Acts 27. And the Apostle saith
and then makes you Persecutors and Murderers like Cain and so not doing well ye do not rule over sin but sin gets into you and rules over you and the Lord God hath no respect to such nor their Offerings nor Sacrifices nor fair Speeches nor good Words that do not well But if ye do well then the Lord God will accept you as you may see in Gen. 4. And Christ saith Blessed is that faithful Servant whom the Lord when he comes shall find so doing to wit doing the will of God Christ said to his Disciples when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you say we are unprofitable Servants we have done that which was but our duty to do Luke 17 So here you may see that which would beast of his doings is to be kept down and keptout for it is every Servant of Gods duty to do his will And the Jews said unto Pilate Crucifie him Crucifie him to wit Christ and Pilate said three times over What Evil hath he done Luke 23. But the Jews that did evil could not accuse him of any evil that he had done for Châ—â—â—â— to bruise the Serpents head and destroy the Devil and hiâ— Works and to finish Transgression and to make an end of Sin and to bring ever lasting Righteousness into the Hearts of his People And Peter said Of a Truth I perceive that God is no Respecter of Persons but in every Nation he that fears God and worketh Righteousness is accepted with him So here you may see it is not he that talketh of Righteousness out of the fear of God and worketh not Righteousness is accepted with the Righteous God as in Acts 10.35 For Christ saith Every one that doth evil hates the Light neither comes to the Light lest his Deeds should be reproved Now here you may see who are them that hate the Light of Christ who is the Life in him who enlightens every man that comes into the World every one that doth evil hates the saving heavenly Light of Christ which they should believe in and become Children of the Light and they that do evil and hate the Light neither come to the Light lest their Deeds should be reproved all these Doers of Evil and Haters of the Light of Christ and will not come to it lest their evil deeds should be reproved all such God nor Christ doth not accept their Offerings nor Sacrifices and such that hate the Light of Christ hate Christ though they may preach him and profess him in words yet they persecute and hate the Believers in the Light of Christ which are the Children of the Light and walk in the Light and are the Children of the day of Christ And again Christ saith He that doth Truth comes to the Light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God So it is not he that only talks of Truth but Mark he that doth Truth comes to the heavenly and spiritual Light of Christ that with his spiritual Light he may see his deeds that they are wrought in God this is a blessed work and a blessed sight to see and a happy comfort and a satisfaction to every one and such God doth accept and respect their Offering and all the Children of the Lord are to be tender one to another for Christ saith If I then your Lord and Master have washt your feet ye also ought to wash one anothers feet for I have given you an Example that ye should do as I have done unto you as in John 13. And this is a Practice of Humility in condescending in the tender Light of Christ one to another And John in his general Epistle saith Little Children let no man deceive you he that doth Righteousness is Righteous even as he is Righteous whosoever doth not Righteousness is not of God c. So here you may see it is not the Puft-up Boasters and Talkers of Righteousness but them that do it are of God And was it not the Reason that Cain slew his Brother because his works were Evil and Abel's were Righteous And is it not the cause now of Prisoning and Persecuting both with Tongue and Hand because their Works are Evil and of them that did and doth persecute the Righteous now but let them not be weary in well-doing for in due season they shall reap if they faint not for they that do evil sow to the flesh and shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that is in the Spirit of God sows to the Spirit and shall of the Spirit reap Life Eternal And whatsoever good thing any man doth the same shall he receive of the Lord whether he be bond or free for there is no respect of Persons with God for he doth accept all that are the Servants of Christ and do the Will of God from their Hearts but he that doth wrong receives for the wrong which he hath done for God is no respecter of Persons for he doth render to every man according to his deeds but them who by patience continue in well-doing seek for Glory and Honour and Immortality eternal Life but unto them that are Contentious and do not obey the Truth but obey Unrighteousness Indignation Wrath Tribulation and Anguish upon every Soul of man that doth Evil of the Jew first and also of the Gentile but Glory Honour and Peace to every man that worketh good to the Jew first and also to the Gentile for there is no respect of Persons with God And as Christ saith Every good Tree bringeth forth good Fruit and a corrupt Tree bringeth forth evil Fruit. So by their fruits Trees are known for it is not every one that saith Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but he that doth the Will of my Father which is in Heaven So here you may see that it is not only the Talkers of God and Christ that enter into the Kingdom of God but every one that hears the Sayings of Christ and doth them is likened to a Wise man which built his House upon a Rock that neither the Rain Floods nor Wind shall beat it down because it is founded upon a Rock but every one that hears the sayings of Christ and doth them not is likned to a foolish man which built his House upon the Sand and the Rain and the Floods and the Winds beat upon his House and it falls and great is the fall of it These are them that do not the Will of God these are the Sayers and not Doers these are them that walk not in the Light nor Grace nor Truth nor Spirit nor Gospel of Christ these are the Hearers of the Word but not Doers of the Word which deceive their own selves and are likned to a man that beholds his natural face in a Glass and streight way forgets what manner of man he was but that man which is the doer of the Work and the Word of God is blessed in his deed to him
that knows to do good and doth it not to him it is sin And Christ said The Jews Scribes and Pharisees they say and do not that is they said Moses and the Prophets words but they did not Moses and the Prophets words and now the Christians they have Christs and the Apostles words and say them often over but the same Wo will be to them that was against the Pharisees that do them not And Christ saith But all their works they do for to be seen of men but such Works and Doers are not accepted with God and Christ for he cryes Wo against such Workers and Christ commanded them that improved their Talents and said unto them Well done good and faithful Servants that he had been faithful in a few things he would make them Ruler over many things and said Enter into the Joy of the Lord So the Wicked go into Everlasting Punishment and the Righteous into Life Eternal And therefore the Saints are to take unto them the whole Armour of God that they may be able to stand in the evil Day and having done all to stand in his Armour for every sin that a man doth is without his Body and every one shall receive according to the things done in his Body So here you may see he must have Truth 's judgment and sentence upon the sins done out of the body upon the sins done in the Body by Thoughts and Imaginations before they be acted outwardly So every one shall receive a Reward and Judgment according to his Works whethey be good or evil and therefore all the Saints have need of Patience to exercise that Gift that after they have done the will of God they might inherit his Promise of eternal Life for so is the Will of God that with well-doing ye may put to silence the Ignorance of foolish men So it is not only well talking but well doing for it is said That God hears not Sinners for they that go into sin and do evil go out of Gods spirit of Grace and savour but if any man be a Worshipper of God in his spirit and truth and doth his Will him he heareth in his Spirit and therefore are all Gods Children exhorted to walk in the Faith and by the Faith which Christ is the Author of to walk in the Light of Christ in which they have fellowship one with another and to walk in the Spirit of God by which they are circumcised and baptized in which they have fellowship and to put on the Lord Jesus Christ and to walk in him So it is not only Talkers of the Light and Spirit and Faith and of the Will of God and Christ and his Will and his Doctrine but them that walk in his Will and do his Will c. that are accepted and enter into his Kingdom that he hath prepared for them G. F. Uniformity Conformity Proclaimed to the whole World in the Name of the Eternal GOD and his Son Christ Jesus GOD so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have Everlasting Life for as in Adam all dyed so in Christ shall all be made alive And Christ by the Grace of God hath tasted Death for every man and is a Propitiation for the sins of the whole World the one Mediator betwixt God and Man through Death destroys Death and the Devil the power of Death for sin brought Death and the Devil who abode not in the Truth in whom there is no Truth he is the Power of Death and Christ who is the Truth and the Life makes an end of sin that brought Death and destroys Death and the Devil the Power of Death for the Son of God was manifest that he might destroy the Works of the Devil and finish Transgression and to make an end of sin and to make a Reconciliation for Iniquity and to bring in everlasting Righteousness into Man and Woman Here is the work of the Son of God who bruises the Serpents Head breaks his Power and destroys the Destroyer he is the Saviour called the seed of the VVoman in which Seed Christ all Nations are blessed which bruises the Serpents head which hath brought man into the Curse and Sin Darkness and Corruption c. but in this seed Christ that bruises the serpents head destroys his works are all Nations blest all in aniformity unity and fellowship one with another and with the Son and the Father And therefore all must come into this eed Christ Jesus if they come into the beavenly unity and uniformity and that ye may know him and the power of his Resurrection and the fellowship of the suffering of Christ being made conformable unto his death who by the Grace of God tasted Death for every man for in Adam all dyed Now Christ by the grace of God having tasted death for every man that every man may be conformable unto his death Here is a conformity unto the Death of Christ for ye must all dye with him before ye live with him and ye must all suffer with him if ye reign with him and therefore all Men and Women in the whole world of what Religion or Opinion soever ye be of in old Adam ye all dyed and are dead and Christ by the grace of God hath tasted Death for you all and by Christ ye are all made alive and therefore ye must all be made conformable to Christs death and that is the Conformity ye are all to press after and to exhort one another to be conformable to the death of Christ and to dye with him if ye do intend to live with him and to suffer with him and to come into the fellowship of his Sufferings if ye reign with Christ or do intend to reign with him yea all that do profess Christ the Son of God they ought to be conformed to the Image of the Son of God and if that ye be not conformed to the Image of God who destroys the Devil and his Works your outward profession will stand ye in no more stead than the Jews Profession without Life but all that are conformable to the Image of the Son of God in his Image they are in uniformity and in unity Hallelujah praising the Lord. And the Apostle saith to the Saints Be not conformed to this World but be ye transformed by the renewing of the Mind c. to the Image of the Son of God and being made conformable unto his Death Phil. 3.10 Rom. 8.29 12. 2. And now all People if ye be not conformable to the death of Christ that hath tasted Death for you all then you are yet alive in your sin and if ye be not conformed to the Image of the Son of God who bruises the serpents head and destroys the Devil and his Works what Image then are ye conformable to all your Profession without ye be conformed to the Image of the Son of God is nothing