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A66862	This is written in plainnesse of heart, and bowels of everlasting love to my persecutors who have shot sore at me, and hated me without a cause. Both magistrates, priests and people in Stafford sheir, of elsewhere, that ye all may be turned from the darknesse to the light, and from anti-christ without, unto Chrust within, who is the light of the world, and hath lighted wvery man therein with his saving light. Some queres also, for such who call themselves ministers of Christ, but are altogether unlike him, or his ministers to answer. Together with a warning from the Lord God of life and power to repent, andleave persecuting, and striving against, or kicking against the Lord. Written from one who have been in the pit, death, grave, and Hell; but am come from far, and am sit down with Abraham, Isaack, and Jacob, in the heavenly places with them that are in Christ, but unknown to you, I am: but by the name I have received amongst you, Humphry Wollrich.	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3299; ESTC R219472	14,792	23

stronger to keep man in Sinne than Christ who came to destroy Sinne and to Redeem man out of all Sinne X. Whether you do not make God a hard Task-master and charge him wickedly and make his commands grievous to your Hearers seeing God commands men to be Holy as he is Holy and Pure as he is Pure and John saith his commands are not grievous XI Whether you are not the false teachers that Peter speaks of 2 Pet. 2. which have forsaken Christ the right way and run greedily in the way of Balaam after great Benefices and Rewards and your selves being gone out of the way cannot cease from sinne and tell people they cannot cease from sinne also and so all being gone out of the Councell of God can never profit the people but are in the spirit of Errour and are clothed with the Saints words and Sheeps clothing but are inwardly ravened and erred in your hearts from the Spirit of the Lord And whether such who hear you and learn of you are not they which are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth which is Christ which he that 's in sinneth not XII Whether the knowledge of sin comes by the Bible to any man or what that Law was which Paul came to the knowledge of sinne by seeing he had the Letter while he was alive without this Law XIII Whether Revelation be now ceased with any but such as ye are which are in the way of Balaam and gone from the spirit by which the things of God are reveal'd Answer this ye false teachers that say Revelation is ceased and that the voice of Christ is not heard but in the Letter of the Scripture seeing the Letter saith John 10. My sheep hear my voice And they that had the Scriptures had neither heard his Voice nor seen his shape at any time XIV Whether any can come to the knowledge of sinne but by the light within and whether this Light be not able of it self alone to bring man to the knowledge of God and whether by any other thing but by the light which shines in the heart man doth come to the knowledge of God and whether this be sufficient alone to Save man and redeem him out of all sinne in this life and keep him pure as Christ is pure XV. Whether the Bible doth open the blind eye seeing the Bible saith Christ was sent to open the blind eyes whether the Bible doth command the Conscience of man as Noah Bryan did affirme in your Idoll Temple at Stafford or whether the Light of Christ in the Conscience doth not exercise and command the Consience XVI What is the Law spoken of Isaiah 8. and the Testimony whether it be the Bible Come answer what it is and where it is whether it be a thing without or within man XVII Where is that Righteousnesse by which man is Justifed Is it within man and in his heart or was it Christs Righteosnnesse at Jerusalem onely which sulfilled the Law or whether the Righteousnesse of the Law must not be fulfilled in man in this generation XVIII Whether Christ were not the same before the World or Virgin Mary was as he was in the dayes of the Jewes and his body the same which descended with that which ascended and whether any other body did ascend into Heaven but the body which is Spiritual and the only begotten of the Spirit and was never seen with any carnall Eye Comme all ye Priests and you which call your selves Ministers of Christ do not think to hide your selves any longer or save your selves in this day of the Lords mighty power by persecuting and imprisoning us whom the Lord God hath raised up to bear a testimony against you all and this is not your way to save your selves from the overflowing scourge that is coming upon you all Butt come down to the Light of Christ in you and honestly consider and ye shall see and confesse that ye are not Ministers of Christ neither do ye speak as the Spirit gives you utterance neither are you Ministers of the Spirit as they were but of the Letter which Kills If this be confessed and owned amongst you then you need not answer these Queres But if you will not confesse to the Lord and owne your shame and all your Worships which is taught you but by the precepts of men then answer these which follow I. Where did the Ministers of Christ hire themselves for so much a year or make a bargain with the people either for lesse or more or whether their Ministry was not freely given them of the Lord and whether they were not freely to give it others or whether that be Gods gift which ye buy at Oxford for so much Money and learn in so long a time and sell it again in the Country for so much by the hour glasse II. Whether the Ministers of Christ who were led by the Spirit of Christ which was never limited by an hour glasse whether they did study in the week day or invent or speak a divination of their own brain to the the people when they were met together or whether they did not speak as the Spirit gave them utterance Again where did the Ministers of Christ teach people to sing Davids Psalmes with another heart than David had or give Davids Psalmes to a company of mockers scorners and persecutors and whether David be not made the Song of the Drunkards by you now as ever he was III. Where did the Ministers of Christ ever sprinkle Infants and tell poor ignorant people it was an Ordinance of God You which say the Scripture is your Rule Answer and shew some Scipture for these things IV. Where do you ever read That the Ministers of Christ did ever imprison persecute or sue any man for filthy lucre as ye do IV. Where do you ever read That the Ministers of Christ did ever imprison persecute or sue any man for filthy lucre as ye do V. Whether you are not those false Teachers and antichrists and false Christs which Christ Mat. 24. said should come in the last times and John who as one of his Apostles in his Epistle said were come already and whether John was not in the Light and they went out from him in the way of Balaam and for filthy lucre sake and whether it be not one thousand six hundred years agoe since John in the Revelations said all the world went out after them and wondered and said who was able to make Warre with the Beast which made warre with the Lamb and slew the Saints which kept the testimony of Jesus Come answer whether you are not of this Church and whether your weapons be such as proceed out of the mouth of the Lamb or such as they used who made warre with the Lamb and slew and cast some of the Saints into Prison VI. If your Church be true then Answer Where did the Church of Christ appoint one and

warne you all Take heed what you doe or how you resist and withstand the work of the Lord which is a marvellous work and a wonder and is begun among you though you have not an Ear to hear nor an Eye to see who are gone from the Light of the Lord in you nor an Heart to understand unto this day But why do the Heathens rage and the People imagine a vain thing and have said in their hearts this man shall not reign over them whose right it is to reigne But in vain do you strive against your Maker or against his Servant whom he sends who hath sought nothing but your Souls welfare and that you might come to know your Souls Shepherd and be gathered into the one sheep-fold from all false Shepherds which have lived in ease and pleasure which have eaten the fat and clothed themselves with the wool but have not watched for the soul as they that must give an account for them nor cared for the sheep but they have been blind leaders of the blind and they have not turned you to the Light which is the Eye which the god of the world hath blinded left you should see them to be deceivers as they are Read Ezek. 34.3 4 to the 13 verse John 10.1 verse to the 15. And to you and your Teachers who are opposing the work of the Lord to you all This is the word of the Lord God ye are as nothing before him and all your strength is but weaknesse and as a tottering wall and our Shield is departed from you and he is risen like a Valiant man and his appearance is terrible as an Army with Banners and he will Overturn Overturn Overturn you all untill he reign whose right it is And the Lord God Almighty is risen against all Persecutors to destroy them and confound them unlesse they repent and be warned and agree with their Adversary while he is in the way be ye wise and instructed in love to your soules I warn you all and kisse the Sonne lest he be angry and brake you with his Iron Rod like a potters vessell and tear you in pieces live a Lyon and there be none to deliver you And I warn you all Follow not these Teachers nor own them to be your Guides which are ashamed to give an Answer of what they Preach in publick but run away as the hireling in Christs time did when they see him come whom they call a Wolfe Let your Teacher if he be a Minister of Christ I charge him in the Powre of the Lord never to preach that to the people which he is ashamed of before them And before the Lord God I warn him or any of them who preach for Hire and say the Scripture is their Rule and accuse us for denying of it to Answer these Queres I. Whether the Ministers of Christ who wrestled not with Flesh and Blood did ever use Carnall weapons to defend the Truth withall Or whether they did ever imprison or tortour the bodies of those which are called Hereticks and so destroy the Handy-work of God Or whether they which fought the Good Fight did not use the Sword of the Spirit onely which is the Word of God and proceeds out of the mouth of the Lamb Or whether these be not your Mothers weapons the Church of Rome which ye are crying Whore against Come answer ye Priests and ye Orthodox men and Originall men who have lost the true Original and gone from the Spirit of truth which gave forth the Scriptures these Queres which are plain honest things Whether you have any better weapons than the High Priests had which Crucified Christ or the Beast Antichrist and the false Prophet which ye read of in the Revelations had which made war with the Lamb and the Saints and slew them which kept the testimony of Jesus and the Word of God whether you do not fight the bad fight as the false Teachers whose weapons were Carnall in all Ages did by which weapons your Church and your Mother Church of Rome have strengthned themselves and do strengthen themselves to this very day Is this to fight the Good Fight and to wrastle with that wicked Spirit which hath captivated the Seed and the handy-work of God II. Whether Hebrew Greek and Latine be the Originall by which people must know the Scriptures seeing they that had your Original did Crucifie Christ the true Original and did erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the Power of God Come answer these Queres or else stop your mouthes for ever III. Whether the Scriptures or the Bible be the Word of God or whether Christ be not the Word of God which was before the Bible was or whether this be not the Living Word which was as a Light and a Lanthern to his feet and which David hid in heart and walked in the Light thereof that kept him from sinning against the Lord and whether they which had the Scripture have not still proved the greatest Enemies to Christ and whether he who was the immortall eternall and unchangeable Word did abide in them IV. Whether the Bible be the Rule and Guide for Saints to walk by as ye preach it in your Pulpits to be or whether all that are the Sonnes of God have not in all Ages been ruled guided by the Spirit of God V. Come Answer ye Priests What is the Judge of the Spirits whether the Bible be the Judge of the Spirits or the Anointing which we have received from the Holy One by which we must Judge and try all things and whether people must come to the Scripture which is the Bible or to Christ within to whom all Judgement is committed VI. Whether Christ be the True Light that enlightneth every man and whether this Light being obeyed and followed and taken heed too be not suflicient of it self to Salve man and Redeeme man out of all sinne and iniquity and purifie his heart and create in man a clean heart as God is clean and to preserve and keep clean in this present evill world Come Answer all ye deceivers which say none can be perfect in this Life tell the people plainly by answering these Queres whether ye are not the Children of your Mother the Church of Rome which do believe in a Purgatory between Heaven and this Life seeing you tell them they cannot be free from sinne while they live here and no unclean thing can enter into the Kingdome of God VII Whether you be Ministers of Christ or Enemies to Christ who are of this Belief that none can be perfect and free from sinne seeing Paul saith Ephes 4. 11 12. The work of the Ministry was for the perfecting of the Saints VIII Whether your Preaching and Praying against all Sinne be not sinne seeing ye Preach and Pray for that which you beleeve can never be and whether all that 's not of Faith be not Sinne IX Whether you do not make and in effect say Satan is

This is Written in PLAINNESSE OF HEART and Bowels of Everlasting love to my PERSECUTORS WHO HAVE Shot Sore at me and hated me without a cause Both Magistrates Priests and People in Stafford Sheir or elsewhere that ye all may be turned from the Darknesse to the Light and from Antichrist without unto Christ within who is the Light of the World and hath lighted every man therein with his saving Light Some Queres also for such who call themselves Ministers of Christ but are altogether unlike him or his Ministers to Answer Together with a Warning from the Lord God of Life and Power to Repent and leave Persecuting and striving against or kicking against the Lord. Written from one who have been in the Pit Death Grave and Hell But am come from Far and am sit down with Abraham Isaack and Jacob in the Heavenly places with them that are in Christ but unknown to you I am But by the Name I received amongst you HVMPHRY WOLLRICH 2 Cor. 3.6 God hath made us able Ministers or the New Testament not of the Letter which kills but of the Spirit which gives Life Printed for Robert Wilson at the signe of the Black-spread-Eagle and wind-Mill in Martins-lane near Aldersgate COme all ye Magistrates Rulers and Officers in Stafford which are sworn to do Justice and ex●e●●e Judgement and lay the sword upon the neck of the Wicked and to be a terrour to Evil doers and a strength and a praise to them that do Well Come all to the Light wherewith Christ who is the True Light hath enlightned you with 〈◊〉 and so you shall see the Evil doer deceiver and seducer which 〈…〉 to sinne iniquity and trangression nearer you than you were aware even he which reignes and rules in Stafford and leads the Inhabitants thereof into Swaring Lying and Drunkenesse so that your being Christians is onely in words ye being dead in your trespasses and sinnes and the God of the World having blinded the eye by which the Lord hath said he will guide and lead his people into all Truth out of all iniquity transgression and sinne which the Inhabitants of Stafford abounds withall and yet have covered themselves with a Profession and have got the Prophets words and Christs words but are inwardly ravened and cast the Law of the Lord behind them which is Light and have reiected the Word of the Lord which is nigh them in their hearts Rom. 10.8 And this is the Word that opens the blinde Eye and is immortal and unchangeable and is like a fire and like a hammer Sinke down and ye shall feel it so and this is it which was before the Bible was which your false Teacher tells you is the Word of the Lord and opens the blinde Eye and this is the Word which was before the World was whom the Jewes which had the Words Slew and Crucified and this is false Doctrine for David prayed the Lord that he would open his eyes Psalm 119.18 and Psal 146.8 The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down and looseth the bonds of the prisoner Isaiah 42.6 7. where you may read That it is onely the work of Christ to open the blinde Eyes and to bring out the Prisoners from the prison and them that sit in Darknesse out of the Prison house And this is he which commands the Consciences of men which love him and the Condemnation of all that hate him and rebell against him and not the Bible as your blinde Guide tells you And why will you be so blinde as to look upon me as an evil Doer who was moved of the Lord to question this Doctrine that poor ignorant people who are in their sinnes might be deceived no longer and the Lord God Almighty is my witnesse and the testimony of the Lord stands sure and shall witnesse for me in you all that I do not this wickedly or maliciously nor in stubbornnesse either against Magistrate or Minister but in obedience to the Lord and that people which lie in darknesse might be turned to the light from the power of Satan unto God and why will you call this delusion or a deluding Spirit that causeth Drunkards to leave off their drunkenesse and become sober and temperate and Swarers to leave their swaring and Lyars to speak the truth and in the power of the Lord God I warne you all to consider what is my transgression or sinne amongst you for which I have been imprisoned eight or nine times in Stafford Which of you have I caused that was sober to become a drunkard or what Countenancers have I been of lyars swearers and mockers there amongst you I say Is it for any of these things for which I have been so often imprisoned or have I not suffered for bearing a testimony against these things which Stafford doth abound with notwithstanding all their Profession And is not your Markets which I have been moved of the Lord to speak in and to cry out against these things yet abounding with Swearers and Drunkards which go reeling up and down the streets unpunished neither are they looked upon is deceivers or deceived neither are they counted a disturbance or troublers of your Israel And how doth your Steeple-houses abound and your Church made up of such as these which professe Christ in words but have lost the Life and are altogether unlike Christ or Christians and to every good word and work are reprobates and by such as these are we persecuted and abused who have lost both form and power of godlinesse and are enemies to the life of Christ which they in words professe therefore the Lord God Almighty hath raised up many witnesse and in his Life and Spirit and by the Power of the Lord are they led to bare a testimony against all your false Teachers which are run and God never sent them and have cryed the Lord saith it unto you when the Lord hath not spoken to them but are theeves and robbers and are climed up another way than by Christ the Door and so are become theeves and robbers and have stolne Christs words and the Apostles words and are condemning the Jewes for Crucifying Christ but themselves are Crucifying him again and imprisoning persecuting and stoning them in whom he is made manifest and so are you like the Jewes and your Priests have no other weapons nor no other sword to cut down Hereticks withall but prisons clubs and staffes which are Carnall as the High Priests weapons were and not Spiritual as Pauls was and the Jewes which had the Prophets words and thought to have Eternal Life therein were Condemning their Fathers for killing the Prophets but they would not come to Christ who the Light of the World that they might have Life who was the end of all the Prophets and the life of all the Prophets him they Crucified as a Deceiver and Blasphemer and prince of Devils Therefore in the fear of the Lord God I