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A85143	Light risen out of darkness now in these latter days. Shewing the dark ways and worships of the ministry of Antichrist now in these apostated times, which is perilous, as is foretold of often by the Holy Ghost that spoke through Paul, and now is fulfilled in these latter days, 2 Tim 3. Thus saith the Lord, Arise Sion, and thresh with a sharp threshing instrument, and shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen, and is arising, and Jerusalem shall be a burdensome stone to all nations, now that Christ is unto his people both the light and glory thereof. Wherein something is written in reply to a book that was set forth by the dry and night vines in and about Beverley, who scornfully nicknameth the people of God, in reviling and falsly accusing them, and calleth them Quakers, in and about York-shire. Iuly, 1653.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing F490; Thomason E729_5; ESTC R206840	47,191	59

thee understanding and lead thee into his marvelous light that thou mayst know the truth as it is in Jesus R F. Light risen out of Darkness now in these latter days Which is the cause of such Persecution Therefore Thus saith Iesus Christ blessed are they that suffer for righ teousness sake for ' theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Mat. 5.10.11.12 and again saith he blossed are you when men revile you and perfecute you and say all wanner of evil against you all manner of evil not some but all but saith he rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward for so perseruted they the Prophets which were before you and saith he the time will come that they shall put you out of their Synagogues and they that kill you will think that they do God good service Ioh. 16.1 AS it hath been largely manifested in and about Beverley by them of the Priests party when any was moved of the Lord to go speak in their Synagogue against the deceits that were upheld by them they haled them forth and gave them into the hands of the rude people who did use them most barbarously and had not the Lord been gracious unto them they would even have swallowed them up quick but such was the rage of the Priests party in and about Beverley that the Servants of the Lord suffered much persecution by them as it is well known but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled as David said The wrath of man shall praise thee and the remainder of wrath thou wilt restrain such is the goodness of the Lord to his poor despised people now in these days of persecution for the persecutors are the Priests and their associates they act in the same state and condition as the Iewish high Priest and Scribes and Pharisees did to Jesus Christ when he came in the flesh to fulfil the Law and to put an end to the first Covenant that he might establish a second the new Covenant upon better premisses but as it was then so is it now the Iewish high Priests and the fair-sayers did then persecute Christ and his Apostles and haled them out of their Synagogues and bear them and stoned them for witnessing forth the truth as it is left upon record in these places of Scripture See Acts. 4 1 2 3 4 5 6. See vers 15.16.17.18.19 Act. 6.9.10 to the end Act. 7 57. to the end read Acts. 17. with certain other places And that Christ is coming in spirit to manifest his power and love and to gather his dispersed ones together that hath been scattered by the proud Priests in the cloudy and dark day as in Ezek. 34. The Lord is now fulfilling his promises in gathering them together out of all Kindreds Tongues and Nations that they may come to worship the Lord in his holy Mount where the Mountain of the Lords House is to be established on the top of the Mountains above all humane wisdom and carnal reason to worship the Lord in spirit and in truth in his Holy Temple at new Ierusalem where the Tabernacle of God is and shall be with men of pure hearts and the Na●ions that are saved shall walk in the glorious light and liberty of the Sons of God to serve him in a new and living way consecrated for us by his Son redeeming us by his own blood purchasing to himself a peculiar people to praise and glorify his great and glorious Name that he may rule in us by his own power and set up the Kingdom of his Son in our hearts who is our peace-maker breaking down the middle wall of pertition bringing us nigh unto him by his blood reconcileing us in one body by the Cross slaying the enmity thereby preaching peace to us by his spirit so that we through him have a free access by one spirit unto the Father and are made fellow Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God being built upon the foundations of the Prophets and Apostles Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner Stone and the chief builder in us and through us throwing down the first building of humane wisdom and carnal reason building us up into union with himself in the makings forth of his love to us through the unfoldings of the divine mystery of his love which is Christ in us the hope of glory in whom all the building spiritually groweth unto an holy Temple in the Lord Ephes 2.14 to the end being builded together by the divine power of God working in us who maketh our bodies temples of the Holy Ghost to sound forth his holy praise he ruling in his Temple and dwelling in his habitation even in our souls where his delight is causing us to delight in him to do his will in declaring and testifying against all deceits and deceivableness whatsoever And now the Priests are found the greatest deceivers and upholders of the deceits as their fruits makes them manifest and they labour every wayes to destroy the work of God that he is working in his Saints and they are the greatest persecuters of him in his Saints as it hath been largely manifested by the Priests party in and about Beberley in reviling beating and stoning the children of the Lord. But the Lord will plead the cause of his own people himself alone and then wo to the wicked and all that acts in unrighteousness For thus saith the Lord Ah I will ease me of mine enemies and avenge me of mine adversaries And saith he Wo to them that offends one of these little ones that believe in me it were better that a milstone were hanged about their necks and that they were cast into the sea The occasion of this my writing was upon the reading of a Book that was written by the Priests in and about Beverley by name Ioseph Kellat Iohn Pomroy Paul Glisson c. 1. Wherein is discovered the subtilty of the Serpent that lodgeth in them and a theevish spirit in them stealing the words of the Saints to trade withal for money which is their Dianah but are ignorant of the Saints life and practise as their fruits doth make them manifest for it is not unknown to many the debths of their deceits and how great sufferings there hath been to the people of God by them Of the Priests Confederates Antichrist and his upholders in and about Beberley which the wo is to as it was pronounced to them in that nature in Matth. 23. 2. Antichrist the man of sin is exalted in those dissembling Priests who are as the painted Harlot and scarlet coloured Whore that is spoken of by John in the Revelations that deceive the Nations by their glorious notions and gielded pretences which is for the fire the whorish nature in them being full of flatteries having a golden Cup full of abominations and filthiness of her fornications which the Wrath and the Plagues is to 3. These dissembling Priests painted Sepulchres are full of deadly poyson and are not

and comfort which is eternal which the Scriptures do declare of that we own But yours that is carnal and stands without in old Authours and Books a studied out faith and an hypocritical hope which is to perish and your love which is dissimulation c. and is forbidden by the Spirit of truth that we disown He that is a B●shop Pastour or Teacher Spiritual B●shops 1 Tim. 3.1 2.3 4 5. ●●t 1.7 8. 1 Per. 5.1 2 3. Acts 20. and is taught by the Spirit who is not of man but of God and is blameless and doth contend for the faith that was delivered to the Saints who are not carnal but spiritual who are not proud nor covetous nor given to filthy lucre who are lovers of good men who are sober just holy and temperate in all things who are without partiality or hypocrifie and who watch for the souls as those that are to give an account to God and are governed by the Spirit of God free-hearted such we do own For all who do prof●ss themselves to be Ministers of Christ and to be sent of God and do not walk in obedinece to the Lord Christ but go out of his Doctrine all such are Seducers and Antichrists cover over themselves with never such fair shews and covers by their vain imaginations and fleshly wisdom as you do But wo to them that cover with a covering but not of my Spirit saith the Lord that they may add sin unto sin as you do Isai 30. You are constrained by tythes gifts and rewards and large augmentations and preaches for hire as the false prophets did but the Lord is against you as he was against them and you are under the Curse and the Wrath of the Almighty The Apostle who was a man of God taught of God and had his Ministry and Authority of God and not of man and his learning was of God and not of man as it is left upon record Gal. 1.11 12. and were after the Example and Doctrine of Christ That we do witness and that we don own But you that run to Studies and Arts to raise death out of death speaking the letter which is death for money which is carnal and are led by your own wills which are corrupt and not by the will of God as the Apostle was and you are of man and your authority of man and not of God and so your Ministry is Antichristian wh●ch differeth both from the practise of Christ and his Apostles The Apostle who taught the people as he was taught by divine Revelation had all his wisdom and learning cast out which became of none account and was loss dross and dung Phil. 3.7 8. The Apostle who was taught of God and had his Ministry not of man nor by the will of man but by the will of God taught freely Acts 20.33 34. And necessity was laid upon him and he laboured to make the Gospel free and himself servant to all 1 Cor. 9.15 16 17. c. And the Apostle who had spiritual gifts was a Minister of the Spirit made an able Minister 2 Cor. 3.5 And not of the letter but of the spirit 2 Cor. 3.6 And the Apostle was made a Minister by the dispensation of the gift of God that was given to him and he was a Minster of the mystery that was revealed to him which you are ignorant and know nothing of who deny the light know neither the gift nor the power as he did Ephes 3.2 3. Ephes 3.7 8 9 10. And you are darkness and your Ministry is darkness and not of the light not of the spirit which is the gift and you are not of Christ but of Antichrist and saith the Holy Ghost Little children let no man deceive you he that doth righteousness is of God and knows the mind and will of God and acts in the light and is righteous and is guided by the Spirit of God and is as he is 1 Iohn 3.6 7. in the truth and in the righteousness of Lord Iesus Christ 1 Cor. 1.30 31. And the Apostles who were of righteousness and of the Spirit were able Ministers of the manifold graces of God and fellow-labourers with him and had both the gift and the spirit and were able to give gifts unto others and such was the Seal of their Apostleship as were Epistles written in their hearts by the Spirit of the ever living God and not by the letter as in 2 Cor. 3.1 2 3. And they needed not the recommendation of others But you that are carnal and corrupt in your old nature and being evil how can ye give gifts unto others out of that which you have nothing to do withal For the natural man knows not the things of God you have nothing to give being evil your selves but that which is evil and go and make restitution to whom you have robbed For the thief comes not but for to kill and to steal and to destroy Ioh. 10.10 And let him that stole steal no more Ephes 4.28 The Lord is against them Ier. 23.30 And he that doth not righteousness is not of God 1 Joh. 3.10 And what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols 2. Cor. 6.17 18. And the true worshippers did worship the Father in spirit and in truth Iohn 4.23 24. And not by imagination and invention tradition and rudiments of the world Those that were true worshippers and did worship the Father in spirit and in truth did meet together often and see what Temple they worshipped in such as were made without hands 1 Cor. 6.19 20. 1 Cor. 3.16 Rev. 21. But to these that are Brethren salute me to the Church that is in their house as Paul to Aquila and to the Brethren of Laodicea and Nimphas 1 Cor. 16.19 Col. 4.15 And those did abide in the Doctrine of Christ and I witness with them but you do not abide in the Doctrine of Christ that profess to be sent of him nor regard what the Holy Ghost said by Paul and by Stephen Acts 17.47 48 49. But you who are contrary to these and instead of being Stewards of the manifold graces of God and of the houshold of faith are of corruption corrupt minds and corrupt hearts and are of the Synagogue of Satan and are proud and covetous and snuffeth up the ayr and watches for great benefits and large augmentations and are Ministers of man and sprinkle Infants couzening them with your inventions and you your selves are out of covenant with Christ and shall never enter with your high notions and fleshly imaginations which are of Antichrist and not of Christ who contend for earth and earthly things shewing that your treasure and your heart also is in the earth and you your seves earthly and are in the same seats that those were who were enemies to Jesus Christ as you are whom he exhorteth in his Doctrin to beware of Mark 12.38 39 40. And you Christopher Feak John Simson George Cocking Laurence Wise John Pomroy Paul

Glisson Joseph Kellat and all such as you are and your carnality and sensuality we do deny and against your dark Egyptian studied out M●nistry and your painted expressions and gathered up notions we do testifie that you are not acquainted with the teachings of God nor the Doctrine of Christ and ran but the Lord never sent you Therefore do you fulfil that Prophecy declared of by Ieremy Chapter 23.32 And you are as the false Prophets were all teaching for hire as they did to whom the Lord sent his Servants the true Prophets to testifie against them and you are found in the same condition now See Ier. 5.30 31. Isai 56.10 11. Ier. 23.16 17 18 19. Isai 29. and the 9th to the 16th Ezek. 34. to the 11th Isai 72.7 8. Hos 6.9 Hos 5.1 2. Isai 9.16 Zeph. 1.4 Zeph. 3. Zach. 13.4.5 Mal. 2. to 10. but the Lord will make you and all that are as you are of your own inventions and imaginations and run but never was sent and have cast the Law of God behind your backs but your blessing is to be accursed as theirs was and the Lord will make you contemptible in the eyes of the people and you are to be declared against And as Ezra had a standing place for the reading of the Law Nehem 8.4 5. Mat. 23. to the 8. Vers it is not denyed so had the Scribes and Pharisees which took Moses Seat and place pretending to do Justice and take off oppressions but did not But did burden the people as you do that sits in their seats now and acts in the same things which Christ came to throw down and you are Lords and Masters contrary to the Doctrine of Christ but you are discovered But Christ did forbid his to be so be ye not so saith he Mat. 23.8 and said he Be not ye called of men masters but he that is greatest among you let him be your servant Verse 11. and whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased Vers 12. But you do not abide in his Doctrine as they did who were his Disciples and were in obedience to Christ commands See 1 Cor. 9.16 to 19. 2 Cor. 4. to 6. but you shew your selves to be both contrary to Christ and to his true Ministers and makes your selves manifest to be amongst the false Prophets and Scribes and Pharisees which were enemies to Jesus Christ then as you are found now who do not regard his own sayings as in Mat. 23.8.9.10 c. but are exalted and puft up in your fleshly wisdom high notions and high places and are as those was that were enemies to Christ but see what is your due vers 13.14.15 Likewise see what Christ saith in Mark when he called his Discipl●s he said unto them Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentils exercise Lordship over them and their great ones exercise Authority upon them Mar. 10.42 and here are you placed Notwithstanding Christs command in vers 43. who said to his But so shall it not be amongst you but whosoever will be greatest among you shall be your Minister and whosoever will be chiefest among you shall be servant of all but you do not abide in his Doctrine but are in the earth the lust of the flesh and in the fall and are in Gentilizm and Pharisaicallizm in pride and vain glory proud boasters and self-conceited Hypocrites and dessemblers and are of those that Christ doth forwarn his Discipled ones to beware of you and such as you are that do not abide in the Doctrine of Christ and so are of Antichrist blush for shame For saith Jesus our Saviour beware of such as these whom I declare and describe unto you See Mark 12.38.39.40 and such sorts of men as these were enemies to the Saints and the Brethren then as you are now who had nothing to do with the Saints priviledges that did not walk in their practice and you witness your selves to be of the same generation notwithstanding you have stoln the Saints words to trade withal but do not abide in the Doctrine of Christ but are Antichrists And the woes Judgments Plagues and Curses that was pronounced to the false Prophets Scribes Pharisees Hypocrites Seducers and Antichrists then the same is now due to you and the Lord will be avenged on you and all such as you are So in doing my duty to the Lord in declaring against you and your deceits I rest in the Lords own free love and remain a friend and lover of all that love the Lord in sincerity and truth Written by a labouring man It were most part of my three days labour R. F. The only true God HIm we worship who placed Adam in the Paradice who dwelleth in eternity and where no uncleanness can approach or come nigh who dwelleth in the highest Heavens and with him also that is of a poor and contrite spirit who causeth such his blessing to inherit whose joy is in him and in the Kingdom of his love Luke 17.21 1 Cor. 4.20 Rom. 14.17.18 Adam in the Paradise and after with Eve in the fall as you and such as you are that are not redeemed by his power not knowing the seed of the woman that bruiseth the Serpents head the enemy the tempter But Abraham Isaac and Iacob who were holy men of God Joseph in the Prison bound under by Phaaroh who was a proud hearted oppressor such as you are Egypt the Isralites red Sea Pillar of fire Egyptians overthrough and the Israelites deliverance by the Divine Power and Moses guiding them in the Wilderness Law Sabbath Ark Church in the Wilderness warfare Iordan Canaan Caleb Ioshua Judges Prophets Kings Victories large love and mercies of the Lord in sending his Son that was born of a Virgin suffered contradiction of sinners Jews high Priests Scribes and Pharisees such as you are and glorification and ascention into the Kingdom of Heaven and in our souls the Kingdom of his Grace where he conquers and rules in love and comforts us by his holy spirit these and all things as the Scripture doth declare of in their times places administrations and dispensations we do all own But your lyes flatteries deceits and hypocrisies whereby you would strangle the truth to make it appear odious to the world we do disown And as for self-justification that we deny and who art thou that dost condemn or lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect seeing he doth us by his own power both save sanctifie and justifie by saith in Jesus 1 Iohn 3.5 6 7. who was manifested to take away our sins and who shall separate us from the love of God shall tribulation or persecution peril or nakedness famine or sword though we be accounted all the day long as sheep for the slaughter yet we are more then Conquerours through him that loveth us and we know him in whom we do believe and though we be accounted as the filth of the world and off-scouring of all

and preservation and doing all thing to the Praise and Glory of God which tendeth to his Honour who is the Father of the faithful that we own and that we set up 1 Pet 1.14 which tends to purity and righteousness not fashoning our selves like unto the world in obedience to the commands of Jesus Christ knowing that the world and the fashion thereof passeth away and that we may be to the praise of the glory of his Grace who hath redeemed us out of all uncleanness that are of the new-birth 1 Cor. 7.31 and knowing our redemption that was not purchased neither by Silver nor Gold which is corruptable as your minds are but wee are redeemed by the precious Blood of Jesus Christ to serve him in newness of life and newness of conversation and our freedom is in the perfect Law of liberty which you are ignorant of and so are contending for the Devil to cover over deceit and to uphold the abominations and filth of the flesh Prov. 16.17.18 But it is the Lords love to let us see your deceits and to see how you act in darkness and from aspirit of error and you are cloathed with your own inventions and sets up that which God doth throw down and you may and shall be ashamed of the evil of your doings and your contempt to the spirit of truth for your minds are carnal and your worship is carnal and your contentions is carnal which tends to vain janglings which is forbidden And that which is seen is carnal and that which is not seen is eternal And that which is seen is carnal and that which is not seen is eternal And so are you carnally minded whech is death Rom. 8.6 7. and your worship is carnal and perishing Col. 2.20.21 22. and not after Christ and your ministry will never lead up to perfection but is for condemnation But the Ministry of Christ which is after the spirit The Saints Ministry Ephes 4. ● 9 10 11. 12 13. and not of the letter which the letter doth declare of that which tends to perfection that we own to the building up one another in love by the spirit of love which you know not but are ignorant of who lust after envy The Church of Christ we own who are of God in God 1 Cor. 13. The trus Church born again of water and the spirit baptized by one spirit into one body where Christ is the head and the Saints the body 1 Per 2 5. who are of one heart 1 Thes ● 1 Ephes 1 22 23 and one mind which is that we do own Ephes 2.19.20.22 4.4.5.6 But yours that is of confusion and contention strife and debate and are in vain janglings and pride and voluptuonsness which is of Antichrist that we disown The bread which the Saints break dayly and from house to house The spiritual bread which bread is from Heaven and is our life which we have union with 1 Cor. 10.17.18 in whom it is minisested Ioh. 9.33 1 1 Cor. 12. that we do own but you that are carnal and yours that is perishing that we disown The Cup which the Saints drink The cup of blessing which the Scriptures do declare of which is the Blood of Christ and the Cup of Blessing that we do own Iohn 6.53.54.55 56. 1 Cor. 10.15.16.17 and 12.13 But the Cup of Abominations and filthiness of the fornications which you and all the world in their old nature do partake and drink of dayly Reve l. 17 4 5 6. and that which the Gentiles sacrifice they Sacrifice to Devils and not unto God all drinking the cup of Devils 1 Cor. 10.21 which is not of Christ but of Antichrist and that we utterly deny and altogether disown The Baptism which is spiritual Gal. 3.27 28. By one spirit one Body where there is but one faith one Lord one Baptism that we do own Spiritual Baptism and they that are baptized into Christ have put on Christ and are new Creatures cloathed with the Righteousness of Christ and espoused to him and into that union partaking of the fruit of the Vine which is in the new plantation and for the friends of Christ to partake of Joh. 15. Rom. 6. which we have priviledge in and is in order to the spirit of truth which the Scriptures do declare of that union and communion which is spiritual and not carnal that we do own and those whoa re spiritual and not carnal them we own They that are guided by the Spirit of the living God and are made over-seers of the Church by the Holy Ghost and do watch over the weak 1 Cor. 2.8 9 10. Spiritual Overseers and do it freely not by constraint nor for filthy lucre and are grown up into the truth and are able to divide the word of truth aright them we do own and have them in love for their works sake who are in order to the spirit of truth which is the life of the Scriptures But those that are no of the spirit but of the letter and their fleshly imaginations and guided by a spirit of errour and constrained by gifts and rewards as you are them we do disown That Word the word of God which was in the beginning which is the word of life which is the word of power The word of God which is the word of life and is spiritual which is as a two edged sword to the dividing asunder of joynts and marrow and doth discern the thoughts and intents of the heart and is as a fire and a hammar to break the rocks and hard hearts and is to be desired which is the word of comfort that nourisheth up the soul unto Eternal life which word is invisible which is the word of faith which is the engrafted word John 1. Heb. 4 12. Je● 23 29. 1 Pe● 2.2 1 Pe● 1.22 Rom. 10.8 James 1 21 and not the letter which the letter doth declare of which is now the word of power and able to save the soul which worketh out all superfluity of naughtiness which the Scriptures do declare of that word we own but you and your carnal inventions and invitations which are aiery them we disown That faith which is the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ which is a saving and a justifying faith The Saints Fa●th and that faith which purifieth the heart and overcometh the world which leadeth into covenant with God which is the gift of God which is the evidence of things unseen and that hope which is in Christ 1 John 5 4 Heb 11. ●ude 20. 2 Pe● 1. 5 6. c. Phil. 2.3 4 5 6 7 8 and that mind Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus who though he was in the form of a servant thought it no robbery to be equal with God which the Scripture doth declare of and that which is sp●ritual light life peace which passeth understanding joy