false Teachers amongst you saith the Apostle who privily shall bring in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and many shall follow their pernitious wayes by reason of whom the way of truth should be evil spoken of And that perillous times should come that men should be lovers of themselves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful unholy without natural affection truce-breakers false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of those that are good traytors heady high-minded lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God 2 Timothy 3. Now all those before mentioned were and are erred from the Spirit of truth which was in the Saints the holy-men of God who spake forth the Scriptures which declares of these things that there was such then and that there should be such Therefore now behold all People and see whether the things which the Apostles prophecyed of concerning the false Teachers which should come be not come to passe abundantly in the Generations since their dayes and also in this our age insomuch as the whole world hath been deceived by them and led after them and they have drawn them into many Religions Sects and Opinions and set them to kill and murther one another about Religion and about the Scriptures and about their worships and Laws to compel men to them being all erred from the Spirit and from the Truth and now know not the Truth nor the Spirit which was in the Apostles and Saints in which Spirit they worshipped God in their dayes and those then that got Christs words and the Prophets words and had not his Spirit but were arred from it and were out of the Life and out of the Truth which they did professe in words These I say the Saints and true Christians who were followers of Christ and had his Spirit with it they tryed the spirits of the other who had it not and found them not to be of God nor to be beleeved nor received but turned from for they were false Spirits and false Prophets which were gone out into the world from Christ and from the Saints that had the Spirit of God in them by which they tryed the other and found them to be of the world and Antichrists in the spirit of this world and by it led which cometh from him who is called The god of this world who had blinded their minds And so they were not true Prophets or Seers or true Ministers of Christ nor true Teachers but false Teachers false Ministers false Prophets and Antichrists and blind guids gone out into the world in the worlds Spirit and so with that spirit they could not confesse Christ come in the flesh though in words they might say he was come in the flesh as all the Priests and Professors who are called Christians do now at this day in words confesse him but not with the Spirit confesse him as their fruits make it manifest Now saith the Apostle hereby know ye the Spirit of God Every Spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God And every Spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ as come in the flesh is not of God and this is the spirit of Antichrist whereof ye have heard that it should come and even now already is in the world Ye are of God little children and have over come them because greater is he that is in you then he that is in the world They are of the world therefore speak they of the world and the world heareth them We are of God he that knoweth God heareth us Hereby know me the Spirit of Truth and the spirit of Error John 1.4 1 2 3 4 5 6. verses Now if those had not had Christs words and confessed him in words to be come in the flesh while they were out of his life and of another spirit then the Apostle would not have called them Antichrists and Prophets and Teachers but he would have called them Jews or Gentiles or Heathers but this was it which did differ them from the Jews and unbelieving Gentiles and Heathers then Namely They had the words of Christ and the Saints and the Prophets and did professe them as the Priests and Teachers and Professors do now the Scriptures but are erred from the life of Christ and from the Spirit that was in the Saints who gave forth the Scriptures as they were then whom John speakes of erred from the life and Spirit of Christ and the Saints and so were Antichrists and false Prophets and false Teachers and Deceivers which were gone out into the World from the Saints life and Spirit and so the World heard them as they doe now the Priests and false Teachers and they drew people after them then from the Saints the true Church and so set up false Churches and Religions in the World and false worships in imitation of the true Church and true Religion and true worship of God which is in the Spirit and so by this means deceived people then at the first and scattered them from God and led them into confusion and darknesse and disorder and errour and so they broke out into many Sects and Opinions and Religions and wayes of Worship being once gone from the true Worship which is in the Spirit of God alone in which the unity is where this is wanting there cannot be unity nor gathering unto God nor true worship of God And so after the Apostles decease they being erred from the true Spirit who did professe themselves to be gatherers could not gather unto God but did draw people more and more from God and so the whole world went after the false Prophets and false Teachers And these were the grievous Wolves which entered and scattered the Flock which the Apostle spoke of before which should come and Christs words were fulfilled who said He that is not with me is against me and he that gathereth not with me scattereth So he that is not with Christ but is against him the same is Antichrist he that gathereth not with him but scattereth there is the grievous Wolfe that scattereth the Flock and spoyles the Sheep of the Lords pasture and makes havock of them And such are all they now at this day who are called Ministers and have been accounted gatherers and Divines and are called Orthodox men but are found to be Wolves in Sheeps cloathing who doe scatter the Flock and make havock of the Sheep of Christ and spoyle their goods and cast into Prison and whip and stock and cut off eares and wound and hang and banish c. and cause people to hayle them before Magistrates and stone and beat them knock them downe in streets for dead and haile out of the Synagogues and Steeple-houses and reproach and scoffe and scome and speake all manner of evill falsely against them who are true Christians that not only confesse Christ come in flesh in words but also in works and walke in that
the right hand and the left the Sheep and the Goats him that serveth God and him that serveth him not between the righteous and the wicked between him that sweareth and him that feareth an oath So then ye will not put darknesse for Light and Light for darknesse nor call evil good nor good evil nor put bitter for sweet not sweet for bitter nor call that which is corrupt holy nor the proud happy as they did in former times who wereblind and as they do now who deny the Light of Christ and teach people that it is but a natural light c. These are they now who are blind and without discerning and tasting and savouring of the things of God and their hearts are hardned through the deceitfulnesle of sin and they are without feeling Now the Light of Christ wil let you see what is in your hearts and in your minds and in your thoughts and what ye think and what ye speake For a good man saith Christ out of the treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things and an evill man out of the treasure of his heart bringeth forth evill things Now whose minds are turned to the Light of Christ within it will let you see what treasure you have in your hearts and what ye do bring forth or whether ye be the good men which brings forth good things good words and good deeds good desires good motions good thoughts and good affections or whether ye be the evil men who out of the evil treasure of your hearts brings forth the evil things as evil thoughts evil words and evil deeds c. This will let ye see whether the good things be there or the evil things be there at all times if ye do minde it and shew ye what ye bring forth and what ye keep in secret which ye would not have seen for that is the evil doer who doth not doe truth that would not have his work seen and so doth not love the Light because the Light will reproove him but the good man who doth truth he loves it and brings his deeds to the Light to be proved And the Light will let ye see if there be any deceit or hypocrisie in your hearts or desperate wickednesse there and it will reprove for that and will search your hearts and try your Rains and let you see what rules there and what Reigns there in your hearts and in your minds and desires and affections and whether ye have any Rains to hold in your desires and affections that they should not run into the lusts and vanityes of the world and of the flesh yea or nay And it will let ye see whether ye have the girdle of truth to girt up the loins of your minds to God or whether they are at liberty and loose and tossed to and fro as the raging Sea yea or nay And it will let ye see whether ye have a Bit and Bridle for your tongue which otherwise will be unruly and thereby you will offend if ye use it as your own I say the Light will discover this unto every one whose minds are turned to it and wait in it and who hearken diligently to it and beleeve in it and obey it they shall come to know their souls to live For obedience to it is life and disobedience to it is death And now whilest men who have been in power to govern the Nations have been making laws without to bind mens consciences and to limit them and compell them to this or that worship and have been talking long of Reformation and Church-Government and have gathered-Churches as they have called them and made Leagues and Covenants and Assemblies of Divines so called to make confessions of Faith Catechismes and set-Forms of worships as Directoryes c. to worship God by and to settle Church-Government and have Laws that all that would not worship God in such a way and such a Form as they had set up to fine them imprison them and whip them and stock them and banish them and hang them or cut oft their ears c. These have been the Reformations in the world in the Apostacy among the Apostate Christians since the dayes of the Apostles ' Among the Protestants and Papists with their Laws and Statutes and Customes and Ordinances without and carnal Weapons and Goales and Whips and Houses of correction and Inquisitions and Fires and Faggots and Courts and Pennance and Stools of Repentance so called now all these things have been and are in order to their Reformation and worshipping of God and to bring people to the Kingdom of God But now mind People what hath all this produced For they have all this while begun at the wrong end of the work and their labour hath been in vain hitherto and will be and little Reformation hath been wrought among people all this while for many himdreds of years past but one Generation hath exceeded another in wickednesse pride and covetousnesse drunkennesse uncleannesse deceit and hypocrisie c. I say what hath it brought sorth but to make people hypocrites not Saints false Christians not true Christians and Wolves in Sheeps cloathing to professe God and Christ in words but in works to deny God And professe the Scriptures to be their Rule and yet they are walking as contrary to that which they call their Rule as if they had no Rule at all nor no Scripture at all nor no Law at all to bind them to this or that form of worship These are but Babels builders whose work the Lord is comingto confound throw down their languages is already confounded and they are all on heaps still After all their bustle and stir which the many builders have made for many hundreds of years about Religion and worship and Reformation and they are as far from the true worship as they were And people do not yet know the Truth nor the true worship of God which is in the Spirit And the Lord is seeking such to worship him as worship him in the Spirit and in the Truth for God is a Spirit But all the world Teachers and the Priests and Professors therein do not know the Spirit of God nor know not the truth yet and so were not like to worship God in it or to find him in their outward worships and carnal Ordinances and Doctrines and Commandements or in the outward Observations and Forms which men have prescribed Nay God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and in Truth Now all this while people have been erred from the Spirit of God and the Wolf hath been covered with the Sheeps cloathing and the Wolves nature still retain'd and lived in and not the Sheeps nature They have been all inwardly ravening Wolves and not in the true Christians nature which is the Divine Nature Innocent and harmlesse and separated from sinners Now it hath been contrary
the things of God for they are foolishnesse to him neither can he receive them because they are spiritually discerned And so with this Spirit which we have receiv'd of God the Father the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ doe-we speaks of the things of God which we have seen with him by which Spirit the Saints are now led to declare forth the Truth to the world as it is revealed in them from the Father of spirits as the Children of God did formerly by the same Spirit who said As many as are the Sons of God the same are led by the Spirit of God And so now it is as every one hath received the Gift of the Father so to minister to others and according to the abillity which God hath given from whence every good and perfect Gift doth come from the Father of lights with whom is no variablenesse nor shadow of turning And this we know and declare that if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his which is the gift of the Fathers love and he that hath it hath received it freely from the Father from whence every good and perfect gift doth come Mark Who receives a gift from God they receive that which is perfect that which is heavenly that which is free and that which comes from the Father of Lights and so with that they see and know and can freely declare of the things of God of the heavenly things of that which is perfect of that which is holy of that which is true of that which sins not of that which is born of God which overcomes the World as the Saints did of old who said hereby know we that we dwell in him and he in us because he hath given us of his Spirit 1 John 4.13 No otherwise can any one know him now truly but by his Spirit which quickens and makes alive unto God For it is life eternall to know thes the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent saith the Saints and herein is our love made perfect that we may have boldnesse in the day of the Lord for as he is so are we in this present World And we know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding and we know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ This is the true God and eternall life and this we have not of our selves but this we have freely received from God as the Saints had and this we freely declare and testifie to the world as they did that so others might come to receive of the same from him in whom the fullriesse of the God-head dwells of whose fullnesse have we all recelved and grace for grace And so we have nothing to boast of or glory in of our selves for it is by grace which is the free Gift of God that we are what we are that no flesh might glory in his sight but that all the Honour and the Praise and the Glory might be given unto God alone from whence every good and perfect gift cometh And now Oh all ye Priests and Teachers and Professors unto whom these things seemes strange which we declare of so that ye cannot beleeve them but get up into rage and envy against us to persecute and reproach us and speak all manner of evill falsely against us as your forefathers did the Scribes and Pharisees who were Hypocrites against Christ and the Saints in former times who did declare of those things then which the blind guides did not know nor could beleeve and therefore did they persecute them and haile them before Magistrates and cast them into Prisons and put them to death though the things which the Saints did declare were true and the same which Moses and the Prophets the holy men of God had declared of which should come to passe and so did come to passe according to their words yet now the Scribes and Pharisees and Jewes who had the words of Moses and the Prophets and were the greatest Professors of Religion then that were in the World they having the words but being out of the power out of the Life of Abraham and Moses and the Prophets that declared those things by the Spirit of God these I say being erred from the Spirit did not know the things which the holy men of God did foretell of to come The holy thing which was to be borne which is called the Son of the living God and when he was come they did unto him as they listed crucified the Lord of Life because they knew him not Though they said they were Abraham's children and knew God and were Moses Disciples and were called Jewes and rested in the Law and made their boasts of God and that they knew his Will and did approve of the things that are more excellent and were confident that they themselves were guides to the blind and a light to them that are in darknesse and Instructers of the foolish and Teachers of babes which had the forme of knowledge and of the truth in the Law Thou therefore saith the Apostle that teachest another teachest thou not thy selfe c. All these were untaught themselves though they were teachers of the Law they were Transgressors of the Law and when Christ Jesus came who was the substance the holy Seed the end of the Law who fullfilled it and brought in everlasting righteousness who was the Way to God the Truth and the Life they knew him not but slew him And so it is at this day the Professors of the World who only have the name of Christians persecute them that are in the true Christians life and nature for they were blind Leaders of the blind as Christ told them and that they were of their father the Devill who was a lyar and a Murderer from the beginning for whom God hath sent him ye beleeve not but seeke to kill him And so though they had the true mens words and the righteous mens words and the just mens words yet they were erred from their Spirit and therefore they knew not the just and righteous One and Holy one of Israel but were in the murtherous spirit and in the lying spirit which is of the Devill who did not abide in the truth and in the envious spirit and in the persecuting spirit which is not of God as all ye Priests and Professors are found in at this day which spirit I say is not of God nor received of God For the fruits of Gods Spirit is Love Meeknesse Gentlenesse Patience Long-suffering Charity c. But the fruits of your spirit is the contrary as the fruits of theirs was coutrary who persecuted the Saints in former times as the Scriptures declares and plainly makes manifest And so now ye come to be tryed and seen and manifest and declared against by the same Spirit as was in
worth which hath only stood in words and out-side worships and formes without the power and life of that which ye have professed Therefore honestly consider in time and turne in your minds to the Light of Christ Jesus in all your Consciences which is Gods witnesse in you all which will either accuse or excuse you and acquit or condemne you in every thing that ye doe or word ye speake or thought that ye thinke If ye doe turne your minds into it and waite in it by it you will come to see and examine and truly to search and try what is in your hearts and minds at all times and so come to be acquainted therewith and see what lodgeth there Otherwise ye will not know nor be acquainted with your own hearts which will then deceive you for they are desperately wicked and ye will not know that wickednesse that is there which is ready to joyne to any thing that is evill and to be led into any errour but as ye doe minde that of God within you which will searh your hearts and try your reynes And in this Condition have people been and are still in the World and in all their professions there and worships which stands in ourward observations and carnall ordinances and worships set up in mens wills and practised in the worlds spirit which knowes not God nor the things of God and are in their own wills and led by that spirit So their hearts minds are drawn out into those things to looke at the things that are seene which are temporall which are of the World from that which may be known of God which is manifest in them from the things which are not seene which are eternall and with which they should know the true and living God whom they have for a long time been thus ignorantly worshipping not knowing of him though he was not far from every one of them neither have they known the true worship of him which is in the Spirit in the truth in wch the true Church stands and is gathered our of the world and out of itsworships wayes and customes which are corrupt and are upholden by mens lawes made in their corrupt wills whereby they have compelled people to their worships which is not true but are all erred from the truth and true worship and true Church which is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the pillar and ground of truth wherein they worship God in the Spirit and in the truth and so have found the Father who is seeking such to worship him in this his day which now is dawned after the long night of Apostacy darkness which hath been over all people so that the whole earth hath been covered with darknesse and the vayle hath been over all faces and the whole Earth been corrupted by the abominable worships that hath been therein in this time of darknesse in the false Church which is the whore of Babylon the mother of harlots and the abomination of the Earth gotten up in the roome of the true Church with her false worships in Imitation of the true worship whereby all nations have been drunken with the Cup of her fornications And all the Emperours Kings Princes and Judges and Rulers of the Earth and they have all been making of Lawes to uphold her and she hath ridden upon them for they have been the beast which have carried her and the beast and the false Prophet which receives their power from the Dragon have made warr with the Saints and overcome them and their blood hath been shed by her which hath cryed and doth cry unto the Lord for vengeance and the Lord hath heard the cry of it And he is now risen to take vengeance upon all them that dwell upon the earth where the Devill hath been their King who is the Dragon that old Serpent who was cast out into the earth And now the time is come that he shall be bound and chained and cast into the pit and the beast the false Prophet with him shall be taken alive and cast into the Lake And the Lord God is come to Judge the great whore the false Church who hath set upon the Kings of the Earth made them drunke with her cup and to render vengeance with fury upon her and burne her with fire And all her Merchants shall cry woe and alacke who have been made rich with her merchandize and the great City shall fall in which they have been trading which is Babylon the mother of them all in what forme or profession of shew or colour or dresse soever they have appeared For the houre of her Judgement is come and strong is the Lord that Judgeth her Therefore woe woe from the Lord will be unto all that seek to uphold her and come 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of her For all that drinke of her cup and partake with her in her sâ—â—â— must be sure to partake of her plagues And the decree of the Lord is sealed and gone forth against her and the warre is openly proclaimed against her and the Beast and the false Prophets who have gove forth to deceive And the Lambe is come forth and his sword is drawne and ho is riding on conguering and to conquer and with him are his Saints who are called and faithfull and chosen who are made willing to follow him whither soever he goes And the victory is determined the Lambe and the Saints shall have the victory and their weapons are not carnall but spirituall For with the sword of the Spirit which proceeds out of the mouth of the Lambe shall all his enemies be slaine and great shall be the day of slaughter of Gods enemies who have the Beasts marke or his name or are of the number of his name they shall all be slaine both small and great even all whose names are not written in the Lambs book of life who was staine from the foundation of the world And this the Lord is now bringing to passe in this his day not by might nor by power but by my Spirit will I doe this saith the Lord And therefore blessed are all they who have an care to heare and an eye open to see what the Lord is doing and a heart to understand and receive his counsell and to doe his Commandments and his will and to answer his requirings Written by a Friend to all your soules a lover of truth and righteousnesse and a sufferer for the testimony of a good Conscience towards God Who am called by the name of Henry Fell Written at Thersord in Norfolke the place of my Imprisonment the 5th month in the yeare 1660. THE END 2 Thess 2.9 10 11. Isa. 5.24 Isa. 66.15 2 Tim. 3.5 Iude 10. 2 Pet. 2.1 2. 12 Cor. 4. Acts 20.29 Math 12.30 Rom. 8. 1 Iohn 4.5 1 Iohn 4 8. 1.3.12 13. Iohn 8.44 1 Iohn 2.22.4.20 2 Cor. 4.4 Isa. 5.20 1 Cor. 2.8 Math. 15.14 2 Pet 1.19 Rev. 3.17 Iohn 1.9 Iohn 12.35.36 Isa. 55. Mark 8.18 Ephef 2.1 Isa. 47. Rev 3.18 1 Cor 2.10 11 12 c. Heb. 3.10 Rom 1.21 Matth 5.13 Mark 9.5 Matth 15.11 Mark 7.20 Matth 15.18.19 Eccles. 9.2 Mal: 3.15.18 Luke 6.45 Ier 17.9 Psal. 32.9.39 Iames 1.26 Iames 3.2 Iohn 4.23 24. Matth 7 2 Pet. 1.3 4. Matth. 7.15 16 17. Ieremy 23. Isa. 56. Rom. 16. Ezek. 34.2 3. 10 c. Iohn 10. Iohn 10. Ephes 2.12 1 Thess. 5.7 Iohn 10.10 2 Tim. 3.6 Isa. 3.12 1 Tim 〈…〉 Iohn 3.19 20 2 Cor. 6.17 Rev. 17.4.9 10 11 12 15 20. 1 Cor. 3.13 Iohn 3.19 Ierem 3.23 Rev. 6.15.16 Matth. 7.23 Luke 13.27 Matth. 7.20 Gal. 7.17 2 Thess. 2.8 Heb. 2.14 1 Iohn 3.8 Iohn 8.29 Iohn 1.11 12. Matth. 6.9 Romans 10. Luke 17.20 Matth. 3.23 Heb. 12.13 Acts 13.41 Iohn 16.25 13 verse Rom. 8. 1 Pet. 4.10 1 Tam. 17. Iohn 17.3 1 Ioh. 5.19 20. Iohn 1.16 Rom. 11.6 1 Cor. 1.29 Luker 35. 1 Cor. 2.8 Rom. 2.19 20 â—â— Gal. 5.22 Math. 23.31 Deut. 12.85.18 Iam. 5.6 Math. 13.14 Mark 9.12 Ioh. 5.37 38. Joh. 3.19 20 21. Joh. 8.12 John 1. 1 Cor. 12.7 1 Iohn 9. Ezek. 13.3 Ier. 14 14. Ier. 23.25 Isa 50.11 1 Ioh. 11.12 2. Tim. 2.19 Isa. 53.2 3. Isa. 6 13. 2 Col. 1. Rom. 1. 2 Tim. 3.8 1 Tim. 6.10 21. Judg. 3. 1. Cor. 2.5 1 Tim. 3.9 Math. 29.48 49. Luke 18.8 Luke 1.78 Math. 24.14 Mark 16.15 Isa 49.8.42.6 Isa. 28.18 Exod. 5. 2 Gor. 11.15 Matth 12.29 Luke 11.12 Matth. 10.34 Acts 26.18 Isa. 42. Iere. 31.31 Pro 6.23 Psal. 19.7 8 9 10 11. Psal. 119.97 98 99. Rome 7. Rom 7.1 Rom 10.4 Mat. 23.27 Mat 23.13 2 Pet. 2.14 Iohn 1.9 Iohn 12.35 2 Pet. 1.17 18 19. Mal. 4. 1 Pet. 2.11 Luk. 10.30 31 32.33 Iohn 10. Hosea 6.9 Math. 25. Rom. 10.3 Rom 8 Iohn 1.34 Rom 4.7 Rom 6.2.6 7. Rom 6.18 Rome 8.10 1 John 1.7 1 John 3.8.9 I Joh 3.6 I Iohn 5.18 Rom 8.3.4 Rom. 8.2 Rom. 6.18 20. Ephef. 1.1 1 Gor. 15.55 56 57. Ioh. 5.25 28. Rom. 5.12 19. 21. 1 Cor. 15.46 48. Heb. 4.12 Iohn 11.26 Ioh. 8.12 Iob 28.22 Luke 10. Math. 5.16 1 Cor. 15.14 Isa. 42. Isa. 49. Rev. 1.8 2 Tim. 3.8 2 Tim. 3 6. Ioh. 8.32 I Cor. 10.2 Rom 6.3 4. Gal. 3.19 Math. 16.24 1 Coll. 20. 2 Coll. 14. Cor. 1.18 c. Mat. 11.30 1 Iohn 4.5 Iohn 26.40 Iohn 11.25 Iohn 14.6 Isa. 28.17 Col. 2.3 Col 1.26 Ephef. 2.3 Rom. 8.11 1 Cor. 2 12 13 19. Isa. 9.24 Math. 2.29 Mark 2. 24. Ezek. 3. 1 Tim. 4.1 2 Pet. 1.20 21. Iames 41.5 Chron. 6.16 Isa. 6.22 Math. 7.16 17 18 19. Joh. 1.9 10. Math. 13.11 Titus 2.11 Rev. 3.7 2 Cor. 4.16 Acts 17.23 Iohn 4. Rev. 17.2.18 18.3.9 19. 19. Rev. 13.4 17. 3. Rev. 12.9 Rev. 20.3 Rev. 8.4 Rev. 17.4 Rev. 14.4 Rev. 21.27 Zach. 4.6
AN ALARUM OF TRUTH Sounded forth to the Nations OR The Way of Truth from the Way of Errour plainly Manifested and Declared And the true Worship of God which is in the Spirit from the false worships of the World distinguished Whereby people may come to know which Way they are in and what Worship they are in and what Spirit they are of and led by Whether they are in the Spirit of God which the Saints were in and now are in at this day or the spirit of this World which is the spirit of Antichrist gone out into the World which hath the words of Christ and the Saints and a forme of godliness but denyes the power where it is manifest and is turned against it and persecute it But that spirit is denyed and the true Spirit witnessed Also an invitation of love to all people and Professors of all sorts and sects to turn in their minds to the Light of Christ Jesus in them which doth reprove them for sin which is the manifestation of the Spirit of truth which is freely given that with it they may all see and try themselves and all their Teachers whom they have long followed what spirit they are of seeing they cannot say they have the same Spirit they Apostles had Written by a Friend to Truth called HENRY FELL London Prinred for Robert Wilson and are to be sold at the Sign of the Black-spread-Haâ—â—e and Windmill in Martins Le Grand 1660. To all the People and Teachers and Professors of all sorts in these Nations or elsewhere FRIENDS and People the Truth hath been declared among you and the sound of it hath been heard by you and the everlasting Gospel hath been preached and must be preached to all Nations Kindreds and Tongues that thereby the large love of God may be known and made manifest unto all mankind that he would not have any to perish but that they might all come to the knowledg of his truth that they might be saved And therefore he hath uttered forth his voyce from on high and is causing the sound of it to be heard in the Nations that all people should fear God and give glory to him for the hour of his Judgement is come and coming and his day is appearing after so long a time of darkness and night of apostacy which hath been over the face of the earth even over all Nations Kindreds and People for many ages and Generations past So that darknesse hath covered the earth and grosse darknesse the people and the way of the Lord hath been hid from them which is a straight way and a way of holinesse wherein the unclean cannot walk but they have been walking in untroden paths in crooked ways have been erred from the Lord and from his way dayes without number nor have not known it For their hearts have been filled with filthinesse and all manner of uncleannesse in so much that they have committed sin with greedinesse and followed after the vanityes of their own minds and walking after their own hearts lusts to the satisfying thereof and have been stubborn and rebellious children against the Lord in so much that the Lord hath been against them and his jealousie hath been provoked and his indignation hath been kindled against them and his wrath hath been revealed from Heaven against all ungodlinesse and unrighteousnesse of men who have holden his truth in the unrighteousnesse and there hath not been peace to him that came in nor to him that went out for that which was manifested of God in them hath not been regarded therefore hath the anger of the Lord been kindled and his hand hath been stretched out still because of all the abominations that have been committed in the Nations and among the people who have professed the knowledge of his name whereby his Name hath been prophaned and blasphemed among the Heathen round about and his Truth dishonoured which they have professed in words but in works denyed and held it in the unrighteousnesse Who have not received the truth in the love of it which God hath shewed unto them nor have not obeyed it but have taken pleasure in unrighteousness therefore have they been given up to strong delusions to beleeve lyes and to commit iniquity with a high hand and rejected the truth and erred from it in their hearts and striven against it and have loved their evil deeds and their unrighteous wayes and have not chosen the way of the Lord nor served the Law of the Lord with their hearts nor with their minds but whilest they have drawn nigh unto God with their mouths and with their lips have honoured him their hearts have been removed far off from him And their fear towards him hath been taught by the precepts of men for the Precepts of God and his Commands and Law in the heart hath been disregarded and cast behind their backs And they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble and as the flame consumeth the chaffe so their root shall be rottennesse and their blossom shall ascend as the dust for behold the Lord will come with fire and with his Chariots like a whirl-wind to render his anger with fury and his rebukes with flames of fire for by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh who have corrupted their wayes before him and delighted in the thing that was not good whereby he hath been provoked to anger And now this is come to passe among all the Professions in the world who have had the Scriptures of truth which was declared and spoken forth by the Holy men of God from the Spitit of Truth which was in them and dwelt in them whereby they were made able Ministers not of the letter but of the Spirit by which they were able to try and judge of all Spirits whether they were of God and saw many in their dayes who had gotten the true words and had a form of godlinesse but denyed the power and so they turned away from such and did bear their testimony then against such whom they saw separating themselves being sensual having not the Spirit and saw such as were erred from the Spirit going in the way of Cain to envy and running greedily after the errour of Balaam for gifts and rewards and for the wages of unrighteousnesse And such as served not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellyes and preached for filthy lucre and through covetousnesse with fained words made merchandize of the people and were enemies to the Crosse of Christ whose God was their belly who gloryed in their shame whose and was destruction who minded earthly things And such as had great swelling words of vanity whilest they themselves were servants of corruption and what they knew They knew naturally as bruit beasts and in those things they corrupted themselves And false Prophets there was as there shall be
seath him not neither knoweth him but ye know him for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you Joh. 14.16 17. and now is in all his Saints and so he did come to them according to his Promise Acts 1.4 And he doth come again to all that waite for him in the manifestation of his Spirit which is given to every one to profit withall which is the true Light which Christ Jesus hath inlightned every man that cometh into the World withall that all through the Ligh might beleeve and follow the Light and not walk in darknesse but might come to have the Light of Life and might come to Christ from whence the Light comes But now all ye who have set your selves against the Light and denyed it to be sufficient to lead to Christ and say it 's naturall and so have kept people from it are the seducers which John speakes of 1 Joh. 2.26 Ye are still in darknesse and walking in darknesse and following your own spirits and have seen nothing who have prophesied lyes in the name of the Lord and have been walking in the light of the fire and of the sparkes of your own kindling but you shall lye down in sorrow for that will not bring you to Christ neither hath nor to his Life whose Life is the Light of men with which he hath inlightned them that they might beleeve in it and follow him and so with this they know him and hear him and deny you who are strangers and hear him not nor know him nor receive him and so have not power but are crying out ye want power and the reason is because ye receive him nor nor beleeve in his Name who gives power to become the Sons of God and yet are professing his Name and asking and preaching and praying and baptizing in his Name but none of you are baptized yet into his Name who depart not from iniquity though ye have been crying Lord Lord We have eaten and drunken in thy Presence c. Who have had a Forme of godliness but denyed the Power which was before the Forme and is without Forme and is the substance which shall stand when all your Formes shall end And so ye know not the Life the Power the Substance the Holy Seed which is come who stands and remains and abides and lives for ever ye are all out of that and strangers to it But ye are in that which ends out of the truth who denies the Power and Life but retains the Forme and have a shew of Wisdome in your will-Worships and voluntary Humility intruding into those things ye have not seen being vainly rufft up by your fleshly minds having a Forme and Shadowes of things to come but the Body which is Christ who is the Life and Substance hath been wanting amongst you who have been making a large Profession of Christ and of the Gospell and had a Forme but the Substance being wanting which is the Life and Power which ye are all our of and therefore ye do not know Christ nor the Gospel for it is the Fower of God unto Salvation to every one that beleeves But many have had that which ye have called the Gospell namely the four Books of Matthew Mark Luke and John and yet want this Power and know nothing of it but say they want Power to doe what they should doe and ought to doe and this is the farthest that any of them can come and there they are still in the weaknesse in the flesh ferred from the Spirit and cry out they want power which is the Gospell and so want peace and want Salvation to their soules for the Gospell is still hid from them which is the Power of God which saves the soul So the Gospell had need to be preached to you all againe ye Priests and Teachers and Profestors for it is hid from you and ye are all in the lost State seeing ye are all erred from the Spirit by which it was Preached and is Preached which proceeeds from the Father and came down from Heaven and so it is hid from you you want it ye have lost it lost the Power but retained a Forme in the long night of Apostacy since the dayes of the Apostles and have been erred from the Faith which was once delivered to the Saints which stood not in the wisdome of Words but in the Power of God but the Power you want and so the Faith ye have lost and erred from it and it hath been so long wanting among you that ye doe not know it what it is for it is a Mistery held in a pure Conscience And ye have been in the night all this while and are still and have been eating and drinking with the drunken and beating your fellow-servants and have said in your hearts The Lord deferreth his Coming who hath been in a farre Country from you and ye have not knowne where he hath been for the Man-child hath been caught up unto God but he is come and coming upon you as a thief in the Night and ye doe not see him because ye have not watched for his coming but have been asleep in sin and have been carelesse and thought your selves secure as if all had been well with you and said none can be free from sin here c. And now behold the Son of man is come He doth not find faith in the earth as Christ said When the Son of man cometh shall be find faith in the earth And now the day of the Lord is come and coming wherein every mans work shall be tryed of what sort it is and Truth shall now be known from error and deceit I say the Day-spring from on high hath now again visited us after the long time of darknesse which hath been over the earth Yea such a time hath been that the darknesse hath been so great that it might be felt that none could rise from the place where they sate and is yet upon many Peoples and Nations and Kindreds and Tongues as it was in AEgypt of old see Exed 10.21 22. so it is now and hath been in spiritual Aegypt where also our Lord Jesus Christ hath been crucified And so his Gospel is again to be preached unto all Nations Kindreds and Tongues and People whom God hath given for a Covenant for a Light unto the Gentiles to open the blind eyes and to bring the prisoner out of prison and them that have sate in darknesse out of the prison-house For People have sate in darknesse and have taken up their seat there and the Priests have laboured to keep them there and have been crying out against New-Lights and calling it Heresie and getting Laws made to keep out all New-Light as they called it to keep out Truth from being known any more then it was and so have made a Covenant with death and an