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truth_n	heart_n	spirit_n	word_n	8,255	5	4.2520	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91099	A call out of Egypt, (where death and darkness is) into the glorious light and liberty of the sons of God, (where life and peace is.) The Lord fulfilling his promises declared by his holy prophets and Apostles, in these later dayes.	Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.	1656 (1656)	Wing P378; Thomason E893_3; ESTC R204837	32,992	47

world and the lusts of it and so purifies the heart And this is the true and the living Faith which the Saints of God were in who were of one heart and one soul and it is the same now as it was then and all who are in this Faith by it their hearts are purified and so are led into purity and one-ness of minde and heart to serve and worship one living and true God in one living and pure way which is in spirit and in truth where there is no rent nor division but pure love and union written in one anothers hearts with the Spirit of the living God So in the light which from the Lord Jesus Christ doth come who is the true Light which lighteth every one that cometh into the world which Light is but one in all though thousand times ten thousands this Light is pure and but one and all who love it and believe in it are led into onenesse and Unity of Spirit In it every one wait and walk that you may he led out of death and darknesse and all the untoward wayes of the world into the pure way of Righteousnesse and Peace to follow Christ in the narrow Path which whosoever follows shall not walk in darknesse but shall have the Light of Life And dwell in love and union watching over one another with a pure 〈…〉 and be tender over one another as Members all of one 〈◊〉 and if any be overtaken with a fault you that are spiritual restore such a one in the Spirit of meeknesse that shame and condemnation may come upon the transgressor and the innocent may be set free and let not the cursed thing lodge among you but be ye holy in all manner of conversation because the Lord our God is holy and no unclean thing can dwell with him nor enter into his righteous Kingdom Therefore be ye separate from the ungodly world and touch no unclean thing and the Lord will receive you and will be to you as a Father and you shall be his Sons and Daughters Cast away all filthinesse from amongst you and let no prejudice lodge nor rest within any of you but forgive one another as God in Christ hath forgiven you for if you do not forgive men their trespasses no more will your heavenly Father forgive your trespasses therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you do you likewise unto them for this is the Doctrine of Christ and it is not the sayer but he that both his Will shall know his Doctrine So the Lord in pure Wisdom keep you and preserve you out of all strife and contention that a daylie growth there may be amongst you that you all may be established in the living truth no more to be tossed to and fro with mens Doctrines which be changeable but all wait upon God in the Light which never changes that you may be all taught of God and every particular may feed upon your own food and have sufficient bread in your own houses to feed upon that there be not a beggar in Israel nor no Vagabond but that all of you may have a habitation in God and grow up in him that the Springs of life may be opened and your souls may be fullie refreshed with the bread of life in my Fathers house And all my beloved Friends keep your habitations and stand upon your Watch that you may hear the voice of your beloved when he calls and be obedient to his voice and do his will and after you have done his will take heed of exaltation but wait in patience that you may receive the Promise for the same that is unwilling to obey the will of God when the will of God is obeyed will get up into presumption and that which doth presume in the time of trial will despair Therefore every one be watchful and keep the door of the house of the Lord that the Enemie enter not to defile and pollute his holie Temple Turn not to the right hand nor to the left but keep in the even and plain way When joy and refreshment comes take heed of exaltation And again when trouble and crosses and afflictions comes do not fall into desparation but wait at Wisdoms Gate that you may be seasoned with Grace having salt in your selves to savor withal that you be not drawn away with the errors of the wicked but that all of you may be daylie refreshed and grow up in strength until you come to a perfect man in Christ Jesus the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you and establish you in the Truth Written in love to your souls by way of remembrance to stir up your pure mindes by your dear Brother who is a laborer in the Lords vineyard ALEX. PAREER For Friends in the Truth to be read at their meettings when they are met together in the fear of the Lord. Corrnwa●l 31. day of the 5th Month 1656. The Night is far spent and the Day is at hand awake arise from the dead that Christ may give you Light Cease from all the blinde Guides they deceive you try them and by their fruits ye shall know them BEware of false Prophets which come to you in Sheeps clothing but inwardlie they are ravening Wolves ye shall know them by their fruits Mat. 7.15 to the 21. c. Do men gather Grapes of Thorns or Figs of Thistles even so everie good Tree bringeth forth good fruit but a corrupt Tree bringeth forth evil Fruit A good Tree cannot bring forth evil Fruit neither can a corrupt Tree bring forth good Fruit Everie Tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them Now all people everie where who have long been led by blind guides and have been deceived by the false Prophets who have got the Sheeps clothing and decked and painted themselves with the Saints words but where is the fruit that is brought forth it is their fruits that makes them manifest the Lord looks for fruit but here is nothing but leafs here is fine Trees with flourishing leafs but no fruit appears much talk and profession of God and of Christ there hath been in this Nation of England fair outsides glorious words but the life is wanting there is no fruits but all manner of unrighteousnesse doth abound in the Nation Doth not pride abound and covetousnesse drunkennesse swearing lying and all manner of unrighteousnesse the Land is full of fruitlesse Trees the boughs even sway and are readie to break down they are so full of the evil fruit pride is come to such a height that thepeople do scarce know how to walk nor what to put on it would even grieve a sober Spirit to see the vanitie of the times both men and women painting themselves in their gorgeous attire fashioning themselves according to the custom and course of this wicked vain world the inventing mind which is estranged from God

Prophets and all you who bear his Mark must be cast into the Lake of Fire there to be tormented for ever and ever from the presence of the Lord and all his holy Angels and Saints this will be your Sentence from the righteous God Depart from me all ye workers of Iniquity Consider of this in your life time you that are so full of rage and malice scoffing and scorning and reproaching the Servants and Messengers of the Lord who are sent of God to give you warning and to open your blind eyes and to turn you from your sins and from darknesse unto Light and from the power of Satan unto God that you might receive forgivenesse of sins and an Inheritance amongst the Saints in Light and this freely as they are moved of the Lord from the bowels of tender love to your lost souls without any self-end not seeking for a gift or any reward from any of you not seeking yours but you yet notwithstanding all their care labour and travel see how you do reward them mocking and scoffing and envying of them haling them out of your Synagogues and beating them sending many to the Stocks and haling others before Magistrates and so to Prison and there the innocent suffers under the hands of cruel men many being beaten and cruelly used in the PRISONS by the cruel GOALERS Witnesse the GOALER at LANCESTON where many of the deare Servants of the LORD have been cast into PRISONS among THIEVES and MURDERERS and have been numbred amongst TRANSGRESSORS as our LORD and MASTER was and many of them have been cruelly beaten and most basely abused by the GOALER and his COMPANIONS And all this and much more is done against the innocent whom you cannot justly accuse of any evil nor wrong done to any man but freely declaring against sin in Markets Cities and Villages and in your Idols-temple where the Worship of the Beast is upheld to call you from your false wayes and false Worships into the true and living way and pure and Spiritual Worship to worship God in Spirit and in Truth and to call you from off all your hireling-Priests and Parish-Teachers who have long time led you in blindnesse and ignorance and have not profited you but made a prey upon your souls for dishonest gain that so you may all be taught of God in Spirit according to the Fathers Promise and all this is done unto you freely without seeking any gain or reward from you and yet notwithstanding all this love and tender care for your souls you envy and hate them and so manifest your selves to be of Cains Generation and your Sacrifices are abomination to God and not accepted of him for our God is pure and there is nothing accepted of him but that which is offered up from a pure heart for the pure in heart are blessed and shall see God as it is written in the Scripture but woe is the portion of the wicked they are of the cursed Generation and all your Sacrifices reading singing praying preaching and expounding and whatever you call a Worship and all your profession and talking of God Christ it is all abomination while sin and iniquity lodgeth and is regarded in your hearts it is no more but your own self-righteousnesse acted in your own wills which is as filthy rags and as menstruous clothes and it will not abide the fire nor stand in the day of trial you are but patching a piece of new cloth in the old Garment and the Rent will be worse your gilded outside and fair pretences your talking of the Scriptures and painting your selves over with the Saints words it is but sowing of fig-leafs together to cover your nakednesse and it will not hide you from the wrath of the Lamb neither will it stand you in any stead where the life and power of Christ is wanting you are stil out of the way of God for though you professe much in words and draw neer unto God with your lips and mouths yet it is not saying Lord Lord that will avail but he that doth the will of my Father shall enter into the Kingdom for it is the heart which he requires and as long as the devil and sin lodgeth in your hearts in vain is all your talking and going to hear Sermons It is not your going one day in seven or more to hear a man speak a company of words and then all the week after to follow your own lusts and pleasures without yoke and bridle no crosse nor limit to the carnal minde but all is at liberty you can speak your own words and think your own thoughts and do your own works and sport your selves in your vanities your tongues at liberty to speak vain words this is not the worship of God but a false worship and a vain Religion and wo is the end of it as it was to the Scribes and Pharisee● who were high in notion and professed much in words yet notwithstanding all their outside cleansing and Scripture knowledge they were strangers to the life of truth and crucified the Son of God and their profession was but hypocrisie and Christ cried wo unto them calling them Whited wall painted Sepulchres who m●●e c●ea● the outside of the Cup and Platter but the inside was not made clean So all you now that talk of the Scriptures and do not live in that pure life that they lived in that gave forth the Scriptures you are hypocrites and your profession outside cleansing is but Pharisaical and except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Phar●sees you cannot enter into t●e Kingdom of God Now search and try your selves and see if your righteousnesse go any further then theirs did nay doth it go so far they made clean the outside but are not you unclean both within and without To that of God in all your Conferenc● I speak and appeal that with it you may try and examine and see what you can witnesse of your return unto the Lord your God whar is cut down in you or what change is wrought in your hearts for there must the work of God be known if ever you know the truth in its purity for with the whole heart will the Lord be served for he calls for it as it is written My Son give me thy heart and as long as sin lodgeth in the heart the devil lodgeth for all sin is of the devil as it is declared He that commits sin is of the devil and as long as the devils works are standing within you your profession of Christ without you will not avail until his life and power be witnessed within you to destroy the devils works for for this end purpose was the Son of God made manifest that he might destroy the works of the Devil and all sin is a work of the devil And sin is conceived in the heart which is deceitful and there lodgeth in the heart and defiles and pollutes the heart as Envy

inventing new things and new fashions to please the curious minde and so one fashion comes up which is invented in the fallen wisdom and the lust runs into it and gets into that fashion and after a certain time grows wearie of it and it passeth away And the same venting minde which is out of the truth invents another new Fashion and the people of all sorts as far as their money will reach they get into that fashion and after a little time it passeth away and so the world passes away and the lusts of it and the people spend their time according to the course of the world yea those who professe themselves Ministers and Teachers in the Nation who should be examples unto others even these are as bad as phantastick as the rest they and their Wives go in as great height and pride as any people nay do they not exceed many in pride and vanitie The poor labouring man working in the sweat of his brows to get his living and to maintain his wife and Familie the Priest or his Agent comes and he must have a part yea and a great part too of what the poor people have laboured hard for and this the Priest and his Wife and Children spend upon their lusts their Wives and their Children going in their Huds and Veils and changeable Suits of Apparel even the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah are found amongst them Pride fulnesse and abundance of idlenesse and if any one refuse to give them money then do they go to Law and compel them by force which never any of the Lords true Ministers ever did neither Prophets nor Apostles And let any of the Servants of the Lord come into their Assemblies and declare against their filthie and covetous practices then their rage and envie arises against the Servants of the Lord and some are beaten in their Synagogues and some are haled forth some stocked some stoned some sent to Prison and they cry unto the people their Hearers Beware of False Prophets these be the False Prophets in Sheeps clothing hearken not to them take heed of going to them least you be deceived when poor people are alreadie deceived for they are in their sins both Priests and people and they who live in sin are deceived And this is the cry of the chief Priests and in their high pla●es Beware and take heed of False Prophets and such like but Friends let us try them no longer take their words but try them by their Fruits if the Tree be evil the Fruit cannot be good and here by the Scriptures you may try them proud man or a covetous man are no Ministers of Christ I know them by their Fruity The Devil is the King of Pride and covetousnesse is Idolatrr and these two sins are much reigning among the Clergy-men the black Coats though they may get the Scriptures the good words which is the Sheeps clothing for Jesus Christ is compared to a Shepherd and the Saints and followers of him were compared to Sheep which were innocent and harmlesse creatures Now I say that a proud man or an envious man or a covetous man or such like they may get the Scriptures the Declaration and be full of them and painted over with the good words and so with good words and fair speeches through covetousnesse makes merchandise of their souls this is but still the Sheeps clothing a fair outside but see what is within please them and they willl speak peace but crosse them in any thing they are full of envie and rage persecution so here by their fruits they are known A proud man or a Drunkard or a man that is a striker and given to Wines or an envious man these and such like are marks of the false Prophets though they may speak the good words yet not being spoken from the pure life they do not profit the people but are deceivers having a form of Godlinesse but wants the power and so leads poor people captive laden with sin and led away with divers lusts ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth For do but consider can a proud man lead out of pride Can a proud Priest with his Rings and his Ribans and gaudie attire can he lead out of Pride he may speak against Pride but speaking against Pride and living in it he is an hypocrite and his preaching is in vain Or can a covetous man lead out of covetousnesse or an envious man out of envie or a drunken Priest can he lead from drunkennesse or any other what ever they be that speak against any sin and they themselves be guilty of those sins they do but condemn themselves and all their Religion is vain and their Faith is vain for if they had stood in the coursel of the Lord they should have turned many from the evil of their ways but they run and the Lord never sent them and therefore they shall not profit the people at all But it may be some may say Though they may be proud men and covetous men and such like yet they are good men in the Pulpit and speaks many good truths and we are to do as they say and not as they do And this they speak because Christ spoke such words concerning the Scribes and Pharisees where he saith Do as they say but not as they do for they say and do not But here you must consider that the Scribes and Pharisees had the commands of God and the Law of God which were to be observed and kept for Christ came not to break the Law but to fulfil the Law but this was a time before Christ was sacrificed up but when he was sacrificed up and risen those who preached Christ did not go to hear the Scribes and Pharises neither were they to do as they said but they declared against those things which the Pharisees upheld which were but shadows preached Christ the substance as the Scripture witnesseth And Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ in his Epistle 2 Tim. 3. chap. marks out the false Prophets so plain that even he that runs may read and he doth not exhort the people to follow or hear such but turn from such as had the form but not the power And so all people I do exhort you as you tender the glory of God and the good of your own souls to turn from all the Priests and the false Prophets of what sort soever who have not the power of God who say and do not for they can never profit you at all for it is not every one that faith Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of heaven but he that doth the will of my Father which is in Heaven Therefore weigh all things well and try them and by their fruit ye shall know them The Day of the Lord is coming upon all the ungodly which shall burn and consume the wicked as Fire consumes the Stubble THe Lord God is risen in Power and