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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27126	A faithful testimony and warning concerning the certainty of the great and notable day of the Lord, broken forth in this age after the long night of apostacy, wherein he will accomplish his great and glorious work, determined, of redemption and restauration : with something concerning the sufficency of the grace of God ... : and a few words in reply to such as query, or ask, Whether did you ever hear or read of a people, in all the Scriptures, that were Quakers ... / by William Bayly.	Bayly, William, d. 1675.	1672 (1672)	Wing B1525; ESTC R13956	19,649	31

the Gazers and Despisers and VVonderers that perish and the blind Sodomites that cannot find Lot's Door for our Door is Christ Jesus and he is the Truth and the Way to the Father and Kingdom of God which none can see except a man be born again and whoever climbs another Way is a Thief and Robber and will be condemned by him to whom all Judgment is committed which stands at the Door read within for its the foolish Woman that is without And a Witness hath God placed in every mans Conscience according to whose Righteous Judgment he will judge the secrets of all people And this is not another then the Universal Light of the Son of Righteousness Christ Jesus who is come with his Fan in his hand and will throughly purge his Floor and is now setting up his true VVorship again after the Night of Apostacy as he spoke The Hour is coming c. this Hour is now come and the Father is seeking true VVorshippers to worship him in the Spirit and in the Truth which was begun Sixteen Hundred Years ago and these onely are the True VVorshippers John 4.23 24. Though in the Times of Ignorance God is said to VVink the Light closed in or not so manifested but now he calls all men every where who are in Darkness Ignorance and VVickedness to Repent and turn at his Reproofs lest they dye in their sins and so never come to enjoy the Soul's Rest which is prepared for the Obedient of which the outward Sabboth was a Figure as all the other of the Temple-VVorship and Sacrifices and Ceremonies were but Types Figures and Shadows and not the heavenly things themselves no more then the Shadow of a man or an Image drawn of him is the very man himself The Substance or Body is Christ as it is written by whom the VVorld was made though the VVorld knew him not he was in the VVorld before Abraham was or Adam either the VVord of God the Truth the true Bread the true High-Priest Temple and Tabernacle the true Prophet the true VVay and true Rest to the Immortal Soul of which living immortal Substance the Lord God expected and waited to see if the people would perceive something beyond all these Shadows and Figures which made nothing perfect as pertaining to the Conscience but they remaining hardened and in the Blindness of their minds understood not Moses and the Prophets though they had their Writings read every Sabboth day and so not-answering the Mind and Will of God but persevering in Sin and Wickedness and depending on those out-side things commanded and settled on their Lets and Name of Profession the Lord raised up and sent his Servants the Prophets to try against them both Priests Rulers and People as being weary of the multitude of their Sacrifices and Services and their Holy Things became Abominable to him the sacrificing a Lamb as if they cut off a Dog's Neck and Oblations and Incense as if they blessed an Idol and offered Swine's Bleed the Life of a Swine this was their state by reason of their gross Hearts and deaf Ears which were hardened and stopped through the Deceitfulness of sin in which they continued so that none truly seek'd after God but were all out of the Way of Peace and true Attonement gross Darkness covered the People the Ox and Ass-knew their Owner and Master's Crib better then they knew their Maker whose Love and render Care was towards them in visiting them that their souls might live for that was the Cry of his Servants beyond all their Profession and Worship Turn ye turn ye why will ye dye and Perish in your Iniquities for iniquity and sin was their Ruin as God fore-warned them of it For that was the cause of his Anger that was kindled against them and of hiding his Face and with-holding Good Things from them Isa 59.1 And this is the same Partition-Wall at this day among all blind hard-hearted poluted Christendom who are rending and tearing about Shadows and devouring one another about fading perishing Things not minding the Mighty Day of God that is now come and coming wherein your Heavens shall be on Fire and Elements melt with fervent heat for it burns like an Oven and the old Earth and its Works must be burnt up Root and Branch This Work is begun amongst ye though the Blind cannot see who have Eyes and see not and Ears and hear not like the old Jews And now thousands of Rams and Ten Thousand of Rivers of Oyl will do no good as pertaining to the Conscience Nay If I should give the First-born of my Body for the Sin of my Soul it would not be accepted 〈◊〉 it s only the Blood of the Son of God the Life as of 〈◊〉 Lamb without Spot and Blemish that can redeem it out of Transgression and reconcile it unto God who had a Body prepared in the fulness of time to end all the outward Sacrifices under the Law through which the New and Living Way was consecrated through the Vail that is to say his Flesh which Vail all blind Professors and Prophane in Christendom cannot yet see through to this day no more then the blind Jews and blind Guides could see the end of Moses and the Prophets words to the Everlasting Priesthood and Worship in the Spirit and in the Truth within the Vail though they had the Scriptures who cannot see to the Beginning beyond the Visibles to the only wise invisible God before Bread and Water and Wine and Books and Priests Lips that Preach for Money and Hire and Gain from their Quarter which the Prophets saw beyond and cryed against and them that bore rule by their Means which was a filthy and horrible thing And Abraham saw Christ's Day before Moses was born And John the Baptist saw beyond the Water to the Fire and Holy Ghost's plunging to the Christ that was before him and to the Fan in his Hand and preferred before him saying He must Increase but I must Decrease Yet John was born outwardly before him and his Ministry a Fore-runner and Signifier of the Day at hand of through Purging and fanning the Chaff from the Wheat by the unquenchable Fire Hear this ye Professors of Christ Jesus who feed upon Husks Can ye believe this Work is now again begun and that Fire can swallow up Water as in dayes of old and that the Elements shall melt with fervent Heat as was Prophesied of and John Baptist decreasing by degrees till there is no Water left to comfort the Soul but of that sort the man in Hell Torment wanted which the true Believer and Abraham and Lazarus had enough of as Christ said He that believeth in me as the Scripture hath said out of his Belly or inmost parts shall flow a River of Living Water which shall be in him a Well of Water springing up unto Eternal Life And he that eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Blood dwelleth in me and I in him and except

their hands And the words of the Orator that called him A Pestilent Fellow And of them that said Christ had a Devil and cast out Devils by Belzebub Are these all the Words of God Much less the VVORD that was in the Beginning that Liveth and Abideth forever And in the Scriptures may be read the Words of the Persecutors who strictly Charged the Apostles To leave Preaching in the Name of Jesus the True Light and Power of God But Paul and Silas Sung in the Prison and they could not but speak that which they had Seen and Heard of Christ Jesus and could not Flee like the Hirelings that leave the Sheep when the Wolf comes among them For a Work of Necessity was required of them to turn the People from Darkness to the Light from Satans Power to the Power of God And they had the Word of Reconciliation And this Word was in the Beginning by whom all things were made before the Scriptures were of which the Scriptures testifie John 1. and they are a True Declaration Luke 1.1 And this is our Belief concerning them And so we make a true Distinction between the Report and the Thing or Things reported of as Isaiah did who said Who hath believed our Report and to whom is the Arm of the Lord Revealed And the Record which God gave of his Son is not the Son himself but to be Believed concerning Him And so the Scriptures are not the Word for that is Christ's Name Rev. 18.13 John 1.1 Nor can they all truly and properly be called The Words ef God as I have here demonstrated in short to the View of all who are not wilfully Blind So come to the Light of Christ Jesus which shines in your Dark Hearts in which you may see your selves and your Ignorance and Vain Thoughts and Hard Speeches and learn to put a Difference between the Precious and the Vile in your own Particulars and then you will divide aright between Good Men and Wicked Men and their Words and Actions as between Light and Darkness And as for our holding that Dangerous Tenet as you call it of Perfection in this Life I Answer We hold no other Perfection or Tenet then what the Holy Men of God of old did who did hold the Head Christ Jesus and laid hold of Eternal Life in which is no Danger or Imperfection but safety and Peace who is come to Destroy the Devil and his Works which hath made people Imperfect and brought them into Dangers and the Pit of Darkness and Ignorance by Transgression in which lieth the Danger of Everlasting Destruction in this Broad Way but in Christ the Truth the Life the Way to the Father is no Imperfection or Danger as I have said but Eternal Life and Salvation in which Life we have Perfect Peace as our Minds are staid on him and not in any other And he bids his People Be Perfect as their Heavenly Father is Perfect And this is no Dangerous Tenet To obey God and Christ Jesus which you your selves have promised and do not perform but are Disobedient and here lies your Danger In professing God and Christ in Words but in Works deny him and are Ignorant of him For No other Perfection or Dangerous Tenet do we hold at this day then what we were bound to believe and walk in when we were Children and to witness performed by the Spirit and Grace of God within us And in the same Covenant are you ingaged and have promised to fulfil it on your part who profess your selves Christians Therefore look you to the Danger of breaking your Promise made to God as ye may Read in the Publick Baptism in the Common-Prayer-Book and consider it well in which we were taught by our then Teachers as people are now First To renounce the Devil and all his Works the Pomps and Vanities of this Wicked World and all the Sinful Lusts of the Flesh Secondly And to believe all the Articles of the Christian-Faith Thirdly To keep God's Holy Will and Commandments and to Walk in the same all the Dayes of our Lives Thus did we and you Ingage and Promise unto God which is a state of as great Perfection as can be witnessed and is to be performed and fulfilled in all true Christians Therefore weigh the Matter well and see where lieth the Danger on them that wait upon God to receive his holy Spirit and Grace to perform what hath been promised or on them that promise and do not regard to perform their Vows to God as you and your Teachers have done who have Reproached us for the same things which you your selves profess to God in words like the Pharisees and Hypocrites of old who said God was their Father and yet put Christ Jesus to Death because he acknowledged himself to be the Son of God So the Lord judge between us and you and open your Eyes that you may see a Difference between him that Sweareth and him that feareth an Oath between him that doth in Deed and Truth serve God and him that serveth him not but onely with the Lips and the Heart far off which the Lord requireth who is onely Worshipped in the Spirit and in the Truth which is Perfect And then you will perceive That our Religion and Worship and what we hold is neither New Strange or Dangerous as ye have imagined but the Good Old Way of Holiness the Pure Religion and true Spiritual Worship which God alone who is Perfect hath set up and is Well-pleased with who is the Author of it And this was before the Devil's Works were which hath made People Blind and Miserable and Imperfect by Transgression The Holy Pure and Perfect Life and its Works was the First and will be the Last upon the Earth the Alpha and Omega It was the Enemy of Mankind that sowed the Tares the Lord sowed Good Seed in the Field the Wicked One sowed the Bad whose Work the Son of God is manifested to destroy and he will Overturn again and again till he comes to Reign whose Right it is And against this his Work now begun the Gates of Hell and Death shall not prevail the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Much more might be declared as to this Matter but thus much in short I have given in Answer to these things that your Eyes might be opened who Err in Vision and Stumble in Judgment that the things belonging to your Everlasting Peace might not be hid from you in this your Day So Fear God and prize your Precious Time this is in true Love to all your Souls by a Friend to all People William Bayly THE END

before you and lead you in whom there is no occasion of stumbling this was the Saints Walking-place and this Grace of God was their Teacher wherein they witnessed the Blood of Cleansing as ye may read And this Grace of God hath appeared to all men and its the Gift and Talent which he hath given according to measure to every one to profit withal of which he will require an Account how it hath been improved to his Glory your Neighbours Benefit and your own Souls Comfort For this is the Condemnation of the World that Light is come into the World and men loved Darkness rather then Light because their deeds were Evil The Condemnation is not because ye had not a Talent but because it is not improved but hid or buried in the Earth For the Free Gift is come upon all Jew and Gentile through one Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ who lighteth every man that cometh into the World this is Glad-tidings the Gospel preached to every Creature Therefore deceive not your selves with Lying Vanities neither feed on Husks and that which dyes of it self but remember the Strait Gate and Narrow Way that leads in the Regeneration in the Daily Cross to Life Eternal For your great Notions and Talk of Religion Church and Worship will not save you nor give you an Inheritance with the Saints in Light while you love Darkness and live in it if ye had all the words of holy Men from the beginning to this day and of what Christ did and suffered this is all but crying Lord Lord while the Heart is far off and the True God and his Worship in Spirit and in Truth is not known by you For such the Father is now seeking to worship him who worship him in the Spirit and have no Confidence in the Flesh As a Shepherd seeketh out his Sheep in the day when they are scattered abroad and gathering from the Mouthes of the Idol-Shepherds and from off all the Barren Mountains into the fresh Pastures of Life and Peace unto the Fold of Everlasting Rest where no Ravenous Beast can come Glory to the Lord God for evermore And against this his Work now begun Gog and Magogg shall never prevail The Great Day of the Feast is come wherein he is inviting the Poor in Spirit the Hungry and Thirsty Souls the Year of his Redeemed is come and the Day of Vengeance is in his Heart which Day the Apostle saw and wrote of that should come after the Apostacy or falling away where the Man of Sin should be consumed and destroyed and the Great and Glorious Work of Restauration determined should be accomplished And this is from the Lord God Almighty to all the Inhabitants of the Earth whether they will hear or forbear I have a few words more to all you that Sleight and make a Mock at the Light Within as a Foolish Erronious and Contemptable Thing O Ye brutish among men and Fools that hate Knowledge and ignorant of the Scriptures of Truth of the Prophets Christ and the Apostles which testifie of the True Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the World of which Moses wrote and John bore witness John 1.9 though you profess their words And Abraham saw Christ's Day the True Light did he see it Within or Without Answer me And Enoch walked with God before the Scriptures were given forth And John's Message was That God is Light And God said of his People I will dwell in them and walk in them is not this the Light VVithin or is God changed Did not Isaiah say Isa 26. The Lord was an Everlasting Light and in the Lord Jehovah was Everlasting Strength and bid people trust in him and that he had wrought all their Works in them And did not the Apostle say It is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of his own good Pleasure And do you not make a Mock at God and Christ that dwelleth in his People and at the Scriptures you that mock at the Light VVithin Did not the Light that shined in the Saints give them the true Knowledge of the only true God and his Glory in the Face of Jesus Christ or did ever any know the true God and Jesus Christ which is Life Eternal by a Light VVithout seeing the Scripture saith The things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God by which they are revealed 2 Cor. 2.9 10 11. And no man knows the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son will reveal him Mat. 11.27 And the Inspiration of the Almighty giveth man Vnderstanding Job 32.8 Whether this Spirit Inspiration and Revelation be Within or Without And by what did Abel Enoch and Noah and many others know God before the Scriptures were given forth or whether the Invisible God which is a Spirit was ever seen by any carnal or visible Eye seeing Israel saw no Similitude but only heard a Voice Deut. 4.12 15 16. May I not say to such Go to the Beasts and they shall teach thee and to the Fowls and they shall instruct thee Hath not God in his Universal Love and Tender Care ordained a Universal Light and Sun to shine without for the Well-being Comfort and Refreshment of all Creatures Man and Beast even of the Mortal Bodies throughout the Habitable Parts of the Earth who causeth his Sun to shine and Rain to fall on the Just and Unjust And hath he not afforded or ordained a Universal Light and Son of Righteousness for the Immortal Soul the Inner Man for its Help Comfort and Refreshment which is of far greater value in his sight then the Mortal Creatures If he be thus straightened and his Arm and Hand of Love thus shortened when came this to pass seeing his People and Children have found him in all Ages Unchangable the same yesterday to day and forever who taught his Followers To be Merciful as their Heavenly Father is Merciful who would have all men come to the Knowledge of the Truth and be saved 1 Tim. 2.4 O the Blindness that is happened to people professing Christianity to despise and deride so Glorious a Comforter It is no less then the Manifestation of the Spirit of Truth which guides and leads its Children into all Truth and shews them things to come My soul pitties you and I could even mourn in secret for you knowing how miserable your Feet will stumble at the dark Mountains who hate the Light and the Mockers Bands be made strong Jer. 13.16 Isa 28.22 I will ask you this Question and let the whole World answer me if they can What will become of the Immortal Part or Inner Man which must have a Beeing forever when the Body or Outward Man is perished what will be its state when deprived of all visible or outward Light to all eternity and the Light Within wholy rejected and whether that state be not the utter Darkness spoken of Mat. 25. where neither any Glory nor Benefit can be