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A92204	The fiery change: or, Almighty God, his melting and refining of his people, purging out their drosse and drossy metals, making them like unto himself and to his Son who is the pure Word. Wherein is discovered, by the comparison of metals, how the visible church is corrupted, consisting of men of all degrees and conditions and how God hath begun to refine them: which have past in the world a long time for good metal: but now is discovering by fire. / By Robert Read.	Read, Robert, fl. 1653-1656.	1656 (1656)	Wing R440; Thomason E899_3; ESTC R206741	92,260	122

life Many will say What shall we we not pray when they neither know what God is nor what themselves are such as presume to pray without knowledge do break the command of God in taking his Name in vaine when the heart is not according to the tongue and sound yea when their Company or their Congregation agreeth not for there is the hater and the hated the oppressour and the oppressed the rich that cares not for the poor and the poor that curseth the rich What congregall prayer can there be in this mixture when mens hearts are one aginst the other The rich and the poor goes together but the Lord is the maker of them both he knows their hearts their ends in comming to publike places every sound noise is not a prayer then the Pharisee had been commended for his long one but it is the inward and deep sighings of the heart in the singlenesse thereof and being fervent We are commanded to pray continually and they that make long prayers are condemned being in ostentation as in publike congregations once or twice in a week and have little converse with God all the rest of the week be not deceived God is not mocked Whatsoever ye sow that shall ye reap Decipies alios verbis vultuque benigno Sed mihi jam notus dissimulator eris Be ashamed and stand amazed all ye that are under the great Light that God hath caused to shine forth in this Nation You will say that you are the people of God and that you know him but it appears by your actions that you know him not for a man to know a thing is to know the condition of it as to know a peece of coine To know God is another manner of businesse than the world makes it to know God is to have experience of him and of all his Attributes his Mercy his Love his Goodnesse his long suffering c. To know God in Christ is the true knowledge of him to be in Union and Communion with him to obey him love him and fear him to honour him and glorifie him this the world knoweth not for the world seeks its own Therefore many that do professe that they know God and in their works do deny him are not onely Heathens but they are worse then the heathens Cato for they say If there be a God he ought to be worshipped with a pure minde miserable is the condition of many that think it sufficient to have the bare name of a Christian and say Christ died for me and rose again for me and never felt the power of Christs death killing sin in them nor the vertue of his Resurrrection quickening and raising them to a new life that cannot witnesse a new birth a separation But live in the old nature and the old man of sin remaining still Deale plainely with your selves ye sons of men for the case doth require it do not lose your precious time here and say I hope to go to Heaven whereas you know not what heaven is neither are you fit for it for heaven is a Condition rather then a Local place and the heavenly condition stands not in outward things as to satisfie the flesh neither is it found any otherwise then in the Crosse here in this World but it doth appear in us by Peace of conscience and joying in the Holy Spirit of God being perfectly assured and having a firme testimony of our Resurrection being Adopted and made the Sons of God 1 John 1.3 and having fellowship with the Father and the Son Deceive not your selves but strive to enter in at the strait gate Go not the broad way of the Worlds profession but the strait and narrow way of the Crosse Deny your selves your own works your own righteousnesse and whatsoever pleaseth and agreeth with your own wills and wait at Wisdoms gate examining your selves whether you be not that that cleaves to the pure Metall and makes it the worse whether you are not the corrupt matter of Silver and not Silver it self if you be the corrupt matter if you be the drosse you must be purged out you must be spewed out if you come to the porch onely and go no further if you come not to the Holy of Holies you were better not come neer at all Psal 119.119 for the Lord will take away the wicked like drosse The Lord will not have to do with such corrupt impure and unclean matter Prov. 25.4 Take the drosse from the silver and there will proceed a vessell fit for the refiner when the Almighty God hath purged and purified the silver and ejected and cast out the drosse then there is a vessell for himself a temple for himself to dwell in for the Lords delight is in his Saints and among them and silver is as his Word is when it is refined Meddle not nor have to do with the most Holy and pure God upon any account living in your own wisdome wills and lust for it had been better for Cain that he had offered no Sacrifice then to account the best too good for God and to offer the worst better not to come to any Table then to the Table of the Devils the end of all Religion is to bring soules to God not to make a greater separation by it from God You were once a far off but now ye are made nigh by the Blood of Christ that onely brings us neer to God draw neer through his Blood and he will draw neer to us look to your hearts and to the issues of all exercises not what the exercise is but to what it tendeth for it is either life or death If you serve God in the flesh you shall have corruption and death for your reward if you live to the flesh you shall die but if through the Spirit you mortifie the deeds of the flesh you shall live God accepteth no sacrifice done in the flesh but as he is a Spirit most holy so he must be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth which was the Legacy Christ Jesus left with his Disciples when he left them We cannot come to the Lord with anything of our own to be acceped of him but what we come to him with must be his he heareth nothing but his own Spirit and that he wil not deny What saith Christ In vain do they worship me c. The Lord Esay 1. saith What have I to do with your Sacrifices and in the same first of Esaiah I hate your new Moons and your appointed feasts they are a burden unto me I am weary to bear them All the devices of men all their art all their invention proceeding onely from them in drawing neer to to God is nothing worth for it cannot but differ from the will of God in Gods worship the more of mans wisdom the lesse of Gods respect the more plainer and simplier we worship him the more hope of acceptance The ordinances of man or of any Churches

of the truth of what they do speak for Saint John saith The testimony of Jesus Rev. 19.10 is the spirit of prophecie They are not to teach by letter or by another mans lines nor by transmission of other authors for that is as theft which the Lord by his prophets complains of and also they are not to teach the visions the divinations the falsities vanities Jer. 14.14.15 and deceitfulnesse of their own hearts but cleerly and exactly what is within themselves of the truth of God and of the power and life of the Spirit of God Wherefore let all the Teachers that are at this day who have took upon them to teach examine and try themselves whether they are of the same Spirit that their Lord Christ was of when he taught upon the mount Matth. 5. after he had foiled the Tempter he pronounceth happinesse and blessednesse to divers As to the poore to the mourner to the meek to the hungry to the mercifull to the pure to the peace-makers and to them that are persecuted proove your selves yee teachers of men whether the same minde be in you as was in Christ Jesus he was according to all these severall sorts of people he giveth them comfort whom comfort belongeth unto and blessednesse to them that are pure c. Is it so with you do you do the like then are you the Light of the world and the Salt of the earth It is to be feared that the worlds preachers are not so to be found but rather in stead of being poor in spirit they are rich like the Laodiceans Revel 3. in stead of mourning for the abominations that are in the land as spirituall whoredoms they are blinde to it and think themselves to be the very Spouse of Christ and rejoyce in the fleshly service of God which is not accepted in stead of being meek they are filled full of envie breaking out into revilings persecutings in stead of being hungry they are full they have need of nothing Luke 2● when they are poor blinde and naked in stead of being mercifull they are cruell Incendiaries to authority against the innocent in stead of being pure in heart they are pure in tongue they prophesie in the name of God but God may say unto them I know you not I have had no inward acquaintance with you in stead of being peace-makers I would it could not be said that they are the greatest peace-breakers dividing rending railing fomenting and dissenting with those that they suppose are risen up to justle them out of their livings Are the teachers of the world contrary to Christ Surely then they are not to be heard Take heed how you hear saith our Saviour Come learn of me saith he also Those that have the holy Spirit of God in them have the gift of discerning 1 Joh. 3. and they are guided to hear nothing but what the Spirit speaks he that hath ears to hear hear what the Spirit saith to the Churches They were all faulty and would our Churches now were not so It is the scattered people in Babylon the despised remnant that deserteth the worlds fashions that are persecuted by the Churches that are now gathering together by the hands of the Almighty which will be the people that will grow up to an invincible mountain which shall for e●er stand Can the Teachers of the world say that they are the light of the world Job 18.6.21.17 and live in blindnesse and darknesse and have not the true light shining in them can they give light to others that have no light They may have a certain kinde of light in dark and obscure places like that rotten wood that is called Dadock which shineth untill the true light comes and when It comes no light at all appears in it Can they say they are the salt of the earth Salt is of that quality that it doth as it were give life to that which is dead it preserveth from putrefaction it is medicinall and of a healing quality Sal sapit omnia It is an embleme of love would this were so that the teachers of the world were as salt that they could introduce into their dead hearers the living and eternall Gospel of God that it might be to them as life and that their exhortations instructions rebukes and comforts were medicinall and healing to the diseases and wounds of their peoples souls and spirits as salt is to the body and that there were pure love and a godly jealousie in them as was in Saint Paul 2 Cor. 11.2 that had prepared the Corinthians for one husband to present them as pure virgins to Christ but feared they were beguiled as Eve was by the Serpent and their mindes might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ None should be teachers of others but those that are Beleevers for the simple and plain Beleever is the best speaker David said I did beleeve therefore I spake Psal 116.10 intimating had he not truly beleeved he had not been capable of speaking a true Beleever may be a right Expositour and a right Interpreter But pity it is that where the Teacher is defective there is joyned the traditions of men with the pure Word with Christs commands carnall paganish Philosophy with the anointing of the Spirit the orders and degrees of Schools rudiments of the world with the ministery of Christ which is from Heaven These things cannot stand together and therefore there is a great rent made and will still divide and rend untill all be made new for new wine must be put into new bottles the old bottles of the flesh cannot hold the wine of the spirit of God the new Covenant requires another manner of obedience then the old did Prov. 4.18 and the Gospel ministration is for the perfecting of the Saints the way of the righteous is light that shineth more and more to the perfect day to build them up into the unity of faith and to lead them from faith to faith into the perfect knowledge of the Son of God to be a perfect man into the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ When will the time come that there shall be no more complaint against unsavoury salt blinde guides divine Merchants Surely the time is now coming it is begun that the Lord will expell and drive out from his Church all those that are pernicious unnecessary unprofitable teachers and guides who by the will of man are educated and brought to learning and humane art fitted as to the eyes of men for to teach and instruct and no way as by the election of God inwardly posited and habituated by the Lord but rather suffered and continued for the sins and transgressions of the people who do collect matter together out of Authours keeping it in memory to deliver it not fixed by the Spirit in themselves but are as a channell or pipe that conveyeth to the outward certain

I will pardon all The same that Israel was in her time the same is the Church now scattered upon the face of the whole earth the Gentiles being succedaneous to Israel whereof England is a particular How hath God dealt with this Nation from time to time delivered it out of the hands of the Romish power Antichristian heresies and worship and from all the tyrannicall government and lords over our consciences Heavie things were upon us and some of us not sensible of it the innovations bowings and cringings at the name of Jesus and to the Altar Jure divino like to be long lived reformation feared as much as vassallage yet Almighty God with his own arm saved us and snatched us as brands out of the fire from the violence that was lately and delivered us from our enemies and hath wrought some reformation for us he lookt upon us as a people that were drosse and hath begun to refine But we like the Egyptians love the garlick and onions of our Countrey that that hath been vomited out would we willingly take up again And these few yeers wherein God hath shewed us much mercy and love both to our spirituall and temporall beings in much tranquillity and peace we have abused to our own lusts and have not followed that light which God hath sent amongst us but the dark and foggie mists of our own carnall hearts despising and persecuting the same so that we have given the Lord just occasion to complain of us that we we the church of England is drosse as the house of Israel was yet neverthelesse take comfort thy God wilt melt thee and thou shalt be as the word pure silver Secondly The house of Israel is drosse to me saith God as drosse and the drosse of silver Almighty God is a pure a holy and a good God there is nothing can remain or dwell with God but holinesse and purity holinesse becomes his habitation Hag. 2.9 the gold and the silver are his the drosse and drossie metals are ours By gold is understood the gifts and graces of Gods holy Spirit and by silver the word of truth the word of God yea the word God There can be no union between gold and silver and drosse for drosse is that imperfect matter which doth accompany metals and is to be severed from them at the first rise of them out of the earth and taken from the metall as the scum and film of the metall by a refining and a purging fire Drosse likewise is found among metals subject to rust and apt to receive into it self corruption being in vessels and this likewise by melting and refining is cleansed and made clear Drosse of it self is worth nothing yet it fixeth and abideth in metals and may be by the skilfull refiner brought to something being washed and purified Is England drosse see are they not like the house of Israel that were Idolaters and other kindes of sinners what sin is there that is not committed in England Hath not God lately and now at present made triall of us Mark 12.1 ● as the Husbandman did of those that kept his Vineyard he hath sent his servants to see what fruit we have for him and we yeeld him none at all but beat revile reproach and persecute his servants That light that he hath sent amongst us our fathers scarce heard of it but never saw it that discovers Antichrist the Beast and the Whore Antichrist to be man exalted in the flesh man the righteousnesse of man in us the Beast to be the man of sin that is man deceiving himself Gal. 6.3 thinking to be something when he is nothing for man of himself is nothing without God but as a beast and the Whore to be man that seems to live with God in the outward appearance or Church and lives on the traditions and inventions of men cleaving onely to the wisdom and fashions of men and not desiring God to be all in all Do we not hate the messengers of truth and sin with an high hand against the bounty and love of God falling to spirituall whoredoms and fornications like the Concubines and Harlots having a seeming heart for God but wholly yeelding of it up to the service of the Devil the world and the flesh hating those that tremble at the word of God casting them out for his names sake and say Esa 66.5 Let the Lord be glorified but mark the end the one shall have the appearance of God to their joy and they the others shall be ashamed What is the demeanour of the people of England in their profession Is it not meerly outside The more mercy and love God doth bestow on us the more we lift up our heels against him when we should live and praise him in the admiration of his bounty beholding our great dignity in and through Christ he hath called us to be his sons heirs of a Kingdom that cannot be shaken and fellow-heirs with Christ in that Kingdom he calleth us unto a union with himself my Tabernacle shall be among men Ephes 1. ult Col. 2.19 as he hath said We are his portion and he is our portion we are his fulnes having the increases of God yet notwithstanding all this we are wedded to fleshly services and forms and content our selves with the bare names of Christians denying the life and power of Christianity and do hate those that live in that power Our services and worship of God are as dead things not being done by our selves but by an Attourney we do not call on God by a dead Saint but by a living man who may be as dead having not the life of God in him neither hath attained to the first resurrection a poor service that is not in our own persons with our own hearts Many there are that neither call on God themselves neither do assent to the prayer of another but custom and fashion causes them to bring their bodies to a publike place where the poor blinde heart cannot tell what he comes for neither is he carefull being benummed what the issues of his sencelesse comming will be Is this the coming to Christ for life Is this the way to get acquaintance with God No this is that drosse and more there is like to it that doth accompany the good metall but it shall in time be cast out and then we shall learn of Christ for he is meek and not learn of those that are proud boasters haters of God inventers of evil things and despisers of the pure light and truth O that the Lord would shew men the deceitfulnesse of their own hearts that can be content with the husk and shell of Religion be ful of glorying in that Righteousnesse which they have gotten by outward meanes in their own wisdoms and imaginations and utterly neglect refuse and abhor the inward binding of their souls up in union by Christ with the Father in the free Covenant of Grace and

thing in and according to your own wills neither to and for your own ends you are not to look to the glory and fame of your callings and places but to have respect unto the glory of God above all as the Prophet Micha speaketh you should do justly Mica 6.8 love mercy and walk humbly with God Justice mercy should be exercised after the most perfect patern of God himself for God saith Be holy as I am holy perfect as your Hevenly Father is perfect the justice dispensed by men on earth Matth. 5.48 should be suteable to the justice and judgement of God answering to his holinesse and to his righteousnesse and that not in some things as do the Heathens but in all things whatsoever and that exactly and compleatly that the will of God may be done on Earth as it is done in Heaven In this deportment the wise and faithfull that are in authority do manifest themselves to be the children of God their Father when that among all the prunings Matth. 5.9 and loppings of injustice the equitable and cleer reducement stands consistent with the most free single and perfect righteousnesse of the most Holy God And as God requireth justice so doth he require also mercy mercy to the poor that are oppressed wronged and trampled on Justice and Mercy must go together it is justice to punish the offender and oppressour Psalm 101.1 and it is mercy to relieve the poor and the innocent It is the counsell of Christ Be mercifull as your Heavenly Father is mercifull and there is a blessing pronounced to them that are mercifull full of mercy Matth. 5.7 Again men of power should walke humbly with God men that do walk humbly as they ought to do do walk with God as Noah did the Lord he will dwell with the humble man he giveth grace to the humble and resisteth the proud Pride hath been much among men of power some have smarted 1 Pet. 5.5 for their pride as our late times can testifie and through that and by that means the powers are some way refined the taking away of the Ecclesiasticall power is a great signe that God intendeth good unto us and it should cause the opposites derived from them to be humbled Let men of power consider how the Lord for the pride of Nebuchadnezzar dealt by him taking from him his reason making him to feed as the beasts They may also look back to the times that we have known of late how were the powers of this Nation shaken and shivered yea broken to peeces that when they thought to make a greater addition to tyranny and oppression they became powerlesse What were tho●e that were in authority or how were they set up was is not more because of their wealth then of their grace or because of their sinister relations then their qualifications more that they might act and do the will of man then to do according to Gods will Hath God begun to refine the powers have we seen some amendment Doubtlesse God will proceed For he will have those to rule that are God-like that are as Himself is he wil be the Shepherd of his sheep he wil correct them with his rod and bear them up with his staffe he will have no cruelty exercised on his nor partiality on the evill doers but the Judges and the Arbiters shall deal justly and impartially in dubious matters Most strange effects of Gods providence in this Nation is to be taken notice of how hath God begun among us as it were were with a besome to sweep away all adverse power in the great mutation of Governours and of Government laying aside some persons and powers Psalm 23. and deposing of them who thought themselves on a sure foundation and setting up others that never thought of being capable of it being of mean discent Luke 1.43 Surely this cannot but shew unto us that the Decree of God is gone forth to overturn all Nations Kingdoms Kings Governours and Rulers of the earth untill they be wise and learned in the the fear of their God and are willing to kisse the Son Psal 2. to embrace the Lord Christ the chief Head of all kingdoms and do yeeld up themselves their greatnesse lawes interest and affaires into perfect subjection and conformity to the most absolute and perfect power of Christ and to rule men no further nor no otherwise then as they are the servants of Christ their Lord Thus God will have his people that rule over others under himself when they are melted to be such as shall curb the evill doers and to defend preserve sustain maintain and uphold them that do well Truth and right government according to the perfect Law of God is most serviceable in its place and it cannot be performed rightly but by such as fear God and hate covetousnesse that are impartiall God that hath by the spirit of burning burnt and consumed the fleshly minde and will of Governours causeth them to act ac-according to his own will and for his glory being led by his Holy Spirit into all wisdom endeavouring to please him not winking at any deceit for carnall ends but administring and distributing true justice for Gods sake saving the innocent and punishing the nocent giving forth according to Gods will and not according to their own without respect of persons but for conscience sake to do the thing that is right and as becomes men given wholly up to serve and obey the living God 1 Cor. 6.1 Matth. 19.28 Let the Arbiters they that were of old called so now the Lawyers of our times learn to dread the Lord and not to scrue and wrest the proposalls made to them of peace into a long contrived debate to enrich themselves by others ruine and clothe themselves by the nakednesse of others It is an office for Saints and not for the covetous and cruell there will be a time in the new Jerusalem that the Saints shall judge the earth they shall give the Law forth from the Spirit of the Lord for the Evangelicall Righteousnesse shall comprehend more then the the Morall the love of the Father shall be in the Arbitrer and he shall administer judiciously equally and impartially which shall cast out the oppressour and restore again the prey taken from the spoiled and be in that love and meeknesse as becommeth a Saint doing no wrong Secondly Those that are called by the will of man to teach and to instruct men let them consider what they are and how they are to be qualified it is not for them to be as Tin to have the likenesse of the better metals and to adulterate with all mean metals it is not sufficient for them to have an artificiall humane pregnant and Scholastique manner of delivering speeches and sermons and with it set forms of prayer but they must have the theory within them that is such a testimony that their spirits can bear witnesse within them

positions framed and compiled out of the letter chosen by themselves to serve their own turns for the advance of their functions Most certain it is that there is a generation of teachers that are not sent by the Lord who are desperate enemies to the pure truth Jer. 23.21 Ezek. 13.2 3 4 and cannot endure those that do discover their weaknesse defections or wickednesse and upon this ground will be raised a far greater contest than is yet not consonant to the minde of God for disputing should be laid aside and be no longer among us but advice given to turn amend repent or else for ever perish Let not Teachers be slight in the examination of themselves in that large charge which is laid against them lest that come upon them which Saint Paul endevoured to avoid that after he had preached to others himself might not be a castaway 1 Cor. 9.27 therefore did he beat down his body and kept it in subjection But how far are many from this duty How do they feed and pamper their bodies in every manner of way as much as any It is a strange recoil for a diseased man to say Physician heal thy self or for an Auditour to say to the preacher Pull the beam out of thine own eye That light which is sprung up sent among us from the Lord let them obey it though never so crosse to their wils lest that after all their learning teaching preaching praying and exercising Psal 2.1 they be found among the raging Heathen or which is worse to be their Abettours and Ring-leaders Think upon the complaints that the Lord often hath made against the Prophets who caused his people to erre Judge your selves that you be not judged and condemned of the Lord Try and examine your selves ye that call your selves sons of Levi for the Lord is coming to try and to refine you Great is the goodnesse of God to his Church that he hath made such a discovery that they in whom we trusted and have been our introduction we must forsake being called to a better and a more lively hope to the indwellings of God than to attend the ordinances of man that speaks nought but death the Priests lips should preserve knowledge Mal. 2.7 but they have destroyed the true saving knowledge they have known the will of the Lord but they have not done it they have thrust themselves into Christs office meerly to get profit favour and honour It is a great mischief and a deadly injury to be blinde-led Christ saith If the blinde lead the blinde they both fall into the ditch that is they fall into that they cannot easily get out and when they are through mercy helped out they must be cleansed from the filth of the ditch which they have received in the ditch If by leading men fall where their desire is to avoid what are they better by leading what a heavie account have these leaders to give above all others Are not the teachers moved to hear of the fall of Babylon Surely some are but those that are not that endevour to uphold Antichrist in the mystery shall suffer with the Whore and be partaker of her plagues Is there 〈◊〉 in Heaven and cannot those hear of it that are still talking of Heaven Is there a new Jerusalem coming down from God out of Heaven and shall our Supervisours not see it Hath that City but one street in it and no crosse-wayes at all tending to unity and concord and shall our peacefull Preachers not know it Certainly God will dwell himself with his people and they shall know all things 1 Joh. 3.19 through that light and love of his wherewith many Nations shall be joyned to him and whereby he will be all in all that that which was above the reach of the highest Apostle will come down and appear to the lowest and meanest of his people The great discoveries that Almighty God hath made concerning the fall and overthrow of Antichrist which fall is beginning the wise and the learned of the world are so far from waiting to see it that they are blinde yea wilfully blinde concerning it being friends to that worship of God which is according to the oldnesse of the Letter Rom. 7.6 and great enemies to that of the newnesse of the Spirit holding forth for good the outward Circumcision the outward Baptism the outward lip-labour and auricular attendance in divine Ordinances that now is wounded and condemneth the Circumcision and the Baptism of the heart the invisible and spirituall Communion in the Spirit with the Father and the Son which is the marrow of all religion Rom. 2.27 28 29. not holden by men worthy of praise or commendation and therefore maligned and envied as Stephen was Acts 7.54 c. being stoned for speaking the truth which the people could not apprehend All the Apostles spake somewhat of the great change that would be in the world Rom. 8.23 1 Joh. 3.2 2 Pet. 3 13. and do declare evidently that there is a third dispensation which is of the Spirit that of the Law had its period that of the Gospel as the Gospel had its limit bound up to the outward administrations of men gifted hath had its Apostate-being digressing from Gospel graces and faith being as the night of the world to the revelation of the great light that God would after shine into the spirits and hearts of men spoken of by Saint Paul 1 Cor. 2.9 10 11. Now the night of Apostacie is beginning to passe away and the day approacheth wherein the Almighty will manifest himself to be the God and Father of his people by his dwelling in them foretold by the Prophets seen a far off by the Apostles and witnessed by some now the which hath a very great opposition not by scandalous and profane persons onely but by great Professours acute and learned Teachers which will not yeeld to any reproof nor subscribe to any other mans revelation and therefore do charge the unchangeable God that he changeth not nor disturbeth not neither doth he rent and divide the visible Church but that some do they do conclude they are suborned of the evil one and endevour to stop their mouths and punish those persons that say as Malachi did Mal. 2.17 Ye have wearied the Lord with your words Why use you so many words so much pharisaicall prayers and such counterfeit and heedlesse singing and praising Why such variety of humane learning philosophy and pleasing the fleshly mindes of men And wherein have we wearied the Lord are we not his people and are not our exercises the exercises of Faith and Love derived from the primitive time we know nothing of it but what is agreeable to the Word and if we should desist what will become of religion Mark the Text when ye say Every one that doth evil is good in the sight of the Lord and he delighteth in them or where is the God of