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B03609 A description of the true temple and worship of God. And Jesus Christ manifested to be the head of the Church, which is his body, and the onely pastour and also the members of the body of Christ, known by their fruits, from the synagogue of Antichrist, with a few words to the Romane Catholicks. Likewise the order of the church in God the body of Christ made manifest, and the disorder of the synagogue of Antichrist. Harwood, John. 1658 (1658) Wing H1103; Interim Tract Supplement Guide 4152.f.21[12]; ESTC R28064 21,102 30

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know not what as Jesus Christ told the woman of Samaria and said that neither at Jerusalem nor at the Mountain of Samaria God the Father would be worshipped John 4. But the hour is coming and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth Take notice Jerusalem was the City where Solomon built a Temple for the Service and worship of God according to his Command and the Mountain of Samaria was also a place where people worshipped Neverthelesse the Son of God said his Father would not be worshipped there but the true worshippers must worship the Father in Spirit and in truth Wherefore I say all such Teachers as lead people to the externall Temples which they call Churches and to the observation of carnall ordinances and to follow after the Ordinances vain traditions and doctrines of men from the spirituall Worship are deceivers and Antichrists for this same reason because they teach people to uphold follow and observe that which Jesus Christ and his Apostles declared against and was never observed nor practised by the antient Christians recorded in the Scripture of truth for the Primitive Christians that believed in and followed Christ denied and bare testimony against the outward Temple and Synagogues and the customary places upheld by the Jews and Infidels and their traditions and superstitious ceremonies Co. 2. Act. 1.13 Act. 20.8 Gal. 5.5 Mat. 18.20 and met together at one anothers houses in an upper chamber or in an inner room and waited upon the Lord in his light and counsell for the manifestation of his Divine power and according to his promise they enjoyed the powerfull presence of the Lord who saith where two or three meet together in my name there am I in the midst of them and when the Saints in light were assembled together waiting in the pure fear of the Lord as any of them were moved of the Lord they preached and prayed and exhorted one another in the fear and power of the Lord and none were restrained from speaking but all had liberty to speak that had a motion from the Lord as the Scripture of truth makes manifest if any thing were revealed to any one in the Saints Assembly that sate by 1 Cor. 11. the first was to hold his peace that all might speak one by one that all might be edified this was the order and practice of the Saints in light the Church in God the body of Christ in former ages and the same order and practice is in the true Church now at this day in the Assemblies of the children of light who are hated and despised of this unrighteous generation and in contempt and scorn called Quakers but reproaches and unrighteous slanders cast up-upon us by Ishmaels line we esteen as great riches and are not ashamed to suffer for righteousnesse sake but all ye various Forms who push one at another and all against the life of truth ye shall wither as grasse in the heat of of Summer and fade as a flower for the vertue and power of the Almighty ye want amongst you for to support and uphold you and the earth is your Centre and a habitation in God the life or righteousnesse ye have not but in the earth and the woe is coming upon the inhabitants of the earth therefore cease cease from your inventions and airy imaginations and fear and dread the pure name of the living God and worship him serve him and give glory to him that ye perish not in your iniquities with the ungodly for truly the houre of his judgement is come ye shall all be tryed and winnowed and the wheat the good seed that is amongst you shall be gathered into the Lords Garner and the chaste shall be burned with unquenchable fire judgement is alreaready begun at the house of God where will the ungodly and sinners appear now will the terrible Judge of heaven and earth give Sentence against you hypocrites and dissemblers Depart from me ye workers of iniquity I know ye not except ye repent truly and cease from your sins and iniquities and with all your hearts turn unto the Lord God and dread and fear his holy name and walk in his light and counsell and serve and worship him as he will be worshipped in the spirit and in the truth your time prize whilst the doore of mercy is open lest it be shut against you and ye in your gainsayings and Rebellion eternally perish To the Romane Catholicks ANd ye who are called Romane Catholicks are the most dark and ignorant people upon the face of the whole earth that go under the names of Christians your whole worship is made up in the imagination and invention of the wisdome of the flesh none so foolish but the naturall heathen to bow to the works of mens hands in which there is no life as ye do and for many of your Ceremonies and Traditions ye have no other foundation but the naturall Heathen as one of your own professors doth confesse as ye may read in the 587. Page of the Book called the Treasury of the Romane Antiquities where the Authour expresses many of your Customes and practises in your Religion and is not ashamed to say ye borrowed them of the heathen as that they hung their streets with Tapestry and had resting places in divers parts of the Towns when they went in Procession as ye have at this day c. And that they carryed their images and reliques of their gods about as ye do and that they marched two and two together carrying wax candles or Torches in their hands and the same is observed in your Religion and hath been ever since the Procession was instituted And that they went afoot as ye do and when they were encompassed with misery they went bare-foot crying mourning striving to appease the wrath of their gods and ye in the time of your great calamities do practise the same Ceremonies they ordained supplications and Lectures that is publick prayers and service for more or less of dayes and their Temples were full of calves and their altars filled with offerings and all the holy places as the Author terms them were filled with people kneeling and praying to their Idols to their gods and ye have your Orizons of forty hours your pardons and Jubilees and observe the same Ceremonies several other of the Customs and practises of the Heathen this Authour declares of and confesses they follow the same example and practises the same in their Religion which truly are such foolish things that they are not worth the mentioning but of this I would have ye Roman Catholicks to take notice the sure foundation Christ Iesus is none of your example in any of these things nor your foundation nor the Apostles the Primitive Christians for Iesus Christ never
world in him the fulnesse of the Godhead dwells bodily and all that dwell in the truth in the light in Christ dwell in peace for in me saith Christ Ye have peace dwell in the light in Christ free from the condemning power of the Law but out of the light in draknesse under the condemning power of the Law under the curse and wrath of God this is the way of true knowledge the light loving it and the way of life and peace to all that receive it to be their leader and for ever blessed are they that submit to the Scepter of Jesus Christ and continue under his Government unto the end for they shall have an inheritance with the righteous generation in the world which hath no end A Discovery of the true worship of God the order of the true Church and the Disorder of the Synagogue of Antichrist MAny various Forms there are in these our latter dayes who all pretend to be believers in Christ and call themselves by the names of Christians yet in judgement and opinion one differ from another Yea in severall points principles and doctrines and in the ministration of their ordinances which they call the ordinances of Christ as Baptisme their Sacraments preaching praying singing of Davids conditions and private duties as they call them which all are performed in their own wills and in their own times which will worship is contrary to the worship of God and is to perish as the Scripture of truth doth affirm as may be read in Colossians the 2. chap. 20 21 22 23 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world why as though living in the World are ye subject to Ordinances touch not tast not handle not which all are to perish with the using after the commandments and doctrines of men which things have indeed a shew of wisdome in will-worship humility and neglecting of the body Take notice the will-worshippers neglect the body which is the substance and continues in the perishing shadows which profiteth not all the doctrines of men and carnal ordinances which have their rise and foundation from the imagination of the fleshly wisdome are to perish for they are all without life and all ye various formalists who feed upuon such things feed upon husks and something there is in you which cannot be satisfied with such food but often shews the emptinesse of all your duties and self-performances and will worship though you little regard it ye are so highly puft up in the knowledge of what your imaginations hath led you into and though your Souls famish for want of living bread yet many of you are content to take up your rest in these perishing things which can never give true satisfaction to the hungry soul but onely nourishes and feeds the carnall mind which is enmity to God and there are all the Forms of Religion upon the face of the whole earth who deny the light of Jesus Christ the chief corner-stone who is true and sure foundation in enmity against the truth and enemies to the true worshippers who are builded upon the sure foundation who worship God in the Spirit and in the truth Now verily verily I say unto you the truth is but one the true worship but one the true Church which is the body of Christ but one the Members of the body of Christ differ not in any thing but are of one heart one mind and one soul their doctrine principles and way of worship but one not rent nor schisme in the body of Christ all divisions differences and contrary judgements and opinions are in the corrupt erroneous body of Anti-christ which is the body of confusion of whose body all are members who deny the true light which Jesus Christ hath enlightened them with which light is the way out of confusion into true and perfect union The Worship of God God is a Spirit John 4. and seeketh such to worship him who will worship him in the Spirit and in the truth saith Christ the Son of God and the eternall Father commands people to hear him This is my beloved Son saith the Father of Spirits hear ye him but all ye that be from the Spirit and out of the light in your imaginations following after carnal Ordinances the doctrine and traditions of man hearkens not to the voice of the Son of God who saith God is a Spirit and will be worshipped in Spirit and in the truth but rejects the Councell of the Son and disobeyes the pure command of God the Father who saith This is my beloved Son hear ye him And all ye Professours upon the face of the whole earth be without God 2 John 9. who erre from and abide not in the Doctrine of Christ the onely Son of the Fathers love How do ye love the Son of God that keeps not his saying but erres from his councels and Commands who saith God is a Spirit and will be worshipped in Spririt and in the truth is not this the true way of worship which Jesus Christ hath prescribed is there any other way agreeable to the will of the Father than the way which his onely Son hath manifested who came not to do his own will but the will of his Father that sent him and this is the will of the Father to have his people to worship him in the Spirit and in the truth for so will God be served and worshipped Therefore all people take notice the true service and worship of God is in the Spirit and in the truth and stands not in carnall ordinances nor extenall shews neither consists in outward bowing Ceremonies and traditions of men which is but the exercise of the body and the exercise of the body profiteth nothing the living eternall God who is pure just and holy seeketh such worshippers to worship him who will worship him in the Spirit and in the truth and all people who be turned to the light of Christ in them with it are guided and in it walk be in the truth the light in truth and in the Spirit and in the truth worshipped the antient Christians in former ages received the light and were called the children of light and as they were moved of the Lord they exhorted one another to walk in the light as children of the light and of the day and as they walked in the light they had fellowship one with another and with the Father and the Son who is light and in whom is no darknesse take notice the fellowship of the Saints is in the light which is but one and all in the light are but one united by the Father of light and spirits and all people that receive and abide in the light walk in the Spirit and in the truth and in the spirit and truth worship God the Father of spirits but all that be from the light be out of the truth out of the spirit in which God is worshipped and worship they
practised nor commanded any such things to be observed therefore if it had not been confessed by one of your own professors I had known the rice and foundation of these things wherefore I say unto you view your foundation and be ashamed to take the name of Christians and build upon the Heathen and have no other example for your Ceremonies and traditions but the Heathenish Idolaters own your name according to your nature and disposition for the true and Innocent Christian followeth the example of Christ and hath no other foundation but the chief corner stone the true light Christ which hath enlightned every man that is come into the world and who are built on this sure foundation the rock of ages denyes and witnesses against all the Customs Ceremonies and foolish traditions of the Heathenish Idolaters and cannot follow their example in any thing but follow the true light Iesus Christ who gives his followers the light of life so that in love to your souls I desire you to cease from the customs of the Heathen from your vain traditions and foolish Ceremonies in which there is no life and follow Iesus Christ the everlasting unchangeable high Priest for in him is the life he is the substance the way truth and life and in him is the salvation but no salvation in your ceremonies and vain traditions truly my soul pitties you to see how you are blinded and kept in ignorance from the knowledge of the truth by the spirit of error which hath long deceived the Nations and yet are highly conceited of your selves and of your Religion which is made up of foolish and vain imaginations and inventions of the old crooked Serpent who through his subtilty hath deteined and deluded your Fore-fathers in the time of Apostacy and still makes a prey upon you their successours who cryes up the antiquity of your Religion as if the long continuance of it were sufficient to prove it to be the true Religon but then the lews who pretend to be Moses Disciples may plead the antiquity of their Religion who are of a longer standing then ye if antiquity were a sufficient proof and they have Scripture for their Temple-offerings and services in the old Testament but ye who pretend to be the Disciples of Christ have no Scripture in the new Testament for the upholding of your temple daily services ceremonies and traditions but all such things testified against by the holy men which gave the Scripture forth so that the rise and foundation of your Religion is the imagination and invention of the sensuall wisdome from which wisdome the secrets of God and the true Christian Religion is hid the Eternall God of power and infinit wisdome if it be his glorious will open your eyes that ye may see the vanity of externall things which ye feed upon and bring you to serve him in the spirit and to worship him in the truth that you may no longer feed upon carnall imaginations and inventions but upon the bread of life the substance which is the immortall food which refreshes and nourisheth the soul up to life eternall And all ye forms of Religion under what name or title soever who set up teachers amongst you and will not permit any to speak in your Assemblies but such as ye in your own wills set up and appoint ye are the people who heap to your selves teachers having Itching ears ye are out of the order of the Church in God where all the members have liberty to speak one by one in the disorder and cofusion which makes you manifest to be of the body of Anti-christ and not of the body of Christ the true Church the members of the body of Christ abide in his doctrine and follow the example of the true Christians every particular member having a word of exhortation as they are moved of the Lord may have free liberty to speak in the Saints Assembly according to the order of the Primitive Church the Church in God but ye who deny the order of the true Church and follow your own ways and imaginations manifest your disorder and shews that ye are our of the true way of God the true worship of God in the false way and worship ye know not what my wayes saith the Lord is not as the way of man my thoughts as the thoughts of man such as follow their own thoughts and their own imagined wayes goes out of the way of God the true light is the way of God and in it the will and minde of God is revealed and the power manifested which brings the creature into subjection makes subject to the requirings of God and brings to know the true Church the body of Christ and the true and perfect order thereof but this is not a fancy or a naturall light a thought or an imagination but a cross to all such things a living divine holy substantiall principle which manifests thoughts imaginations and inventions and the ground and rise of them which is the earthly sensuall wisdome in which God is not known nor served for God is light and in the light and truth is served and worshipped the children of light served God in the spirit and gloried in Iesus Christ Phil. 3. and put no confidence in the flesh carnall professors the upholders of carnal l Ordinances Rudiments weak and beggerly elements are led by their fleshly imaginations to uphold such shadows without life and be from the spirit the substance in which is the life wherein God is served and worshipped in which the Saints in light served God in the former ages as in this age but the flesh delights in the observation of carnal ordinances because they have their rise and foundation from its imagination and it glories in what it doth invent but all such glorying is vaine he that glorieth let him glory in the truth in the Lord and let no man trust to the arme of flesh nor put confidence in its imagination for all that glory in the flesh their glory will be turned into shame and confusion Take notice the end of fleshly glory is confusion and shame and ye who are highly pust up and exalted in your fleshly knowledge and wisdome God will bring down and abase and confound for no flesh shall glory in the pure presence of God and the poor in spirit the meek and lowly in heart God will raise up and exalt over all the earth in this the day of his power wherein he is bringing great and mervelous things to pass which hath not been seen in many ages his own sheep he will gather into his fold and them preserve by the arme of his eternall power and will scatter and consume the Wolves who have got the Sheeps clothing and all the renting tearing ravening and devouring Beasts which hath rent and torne the Innocent Lambs And ye who be in the flesh in the carnall ordinances fly to the Magistrates sword for refuge which likewise makes you clearly
manifest to be out of the truth and true way of God for the truth defends it self and hath done in all ages it needs not the help of the Magistrates sword neither did ever the antient Christians who gave forth the Scripture of truth seek to the Magistrates to defend them their weapons were not carnall they fought with but spirituall the spirit of truth was their defence the Magistrates sword or the outward Law the arme of flesh hath been refuge of Anti-christ in all ages as it is at this day for if any of the servants of the Lord the true worshippers who worship him in spirit and in truth be moved of God to goe into their meeting places which they call Churches and in obedience to the command of God speak to the Priest or a word of exhortation to the people then cryes out both Priest and people haile him away or words to that purpose and calls it disturbance to performe the will of the Lord and goes to the Magistrates for assistance and cryes away with him send him to prison or punish him this is the practise of the carnall professours who uphold the externall Temple and Synagogues therefore view your disorder and be ashamed of such gross and filthy practises for ye Rulers Priests and people in England in these late years have outstript the Heathen in many ages in your cruell persecution which makes the hearts of the righteous sad to see such fruits brought forth in the Nation where so much liberty in words and writings is proclaimed for Religion and honest hearted people by the supream in authority but woe woe from the Almighty unto you who make the hearts of the innocent sad which God hath not made sad a day of torment and misery is coming upon you wherein the righteous shall be glad which ye have made sad and over the smoke of your torment they shal rejoyce Did ever the Primitive Christians recorded in the holy Scripture persecute any prison whip burn with hot Irons or cast into Dungeons any sort of people that came into their Assemblies is not the Heathen your example for these things who persecuted and shamefully entreated and murdered the Christians who could not submit to their unrighteous decrees and unreasonable wills shew one example of cruelty if you can from the practise of Christ or his Disciples if not number your selves amongst the Heathen your example for your cruell persecution is not cruelty and persecution a true marke to know the Synagogue of Satan by from the body of Christ the Church in God who in all ages hath suffered but never persecuted any but prayed for their enemies which persecuted them c. The order of the Church in God in this age THe body of Christ the Church in God meet together as the Saints in light did in former ages upon the first dayes of the week and upon other dayes as the Lord affords opportunity and wait upon the Lord in his fear and Counsell and serve and worship the Lord in the Spirit and in the truth and doth preach the word of truth the everlasting Gospel and pray and exhort one another as they are moved of the Lord and as the holy spirit gives utterance but not in the wisdome of the world which is sensuall but in the pure wisdome and power of God which by the world is counted foolishness And this is the true and onely way of God the true way of worship and order of the body of Christ the Church of God as the Scripture of truth doth make manifest to the understanding Reader and according to the doctrine of Christ the order doctrine and practise of the antient holy Christians which in the Scriptures of truth are recorded Rom. 6. who worshipped God not in the oldness of the letter but newness of spirit which is the new and living way wherein God is and will be served and worshipped I. H. THE END
after the Prophesie of Christ was fulfilled the Temple destroyed the Scripture of truth doth not mention that ever the Lord commanded one other to be builded but the Iews Scribes Pharisees and Infidels who murdered the just who were in darknesse upheld the ourward Temple and Synagogues as the truths enemies do now and have builded many Temples and Synagogues following their own imaginations and inventions and the Superstitious traditions and Ceremonies of the enemies of Christ and the harmlesse Christians not regarding Christ nor the Doctrine of the Apostles who declared against them and told people in plain words God dwelt not in them as is in the Scripture of truth recorded Act. 17. Act. 7. Which shall stand a witnesse for ever against all their upholders And as the Temple-worshippers in former ages were ready to cry up their Temple and worship after God had removed his Candlestick from it even so it is at this day they in the Primitive times upheld and cried up the temple-worship and services therein when the Lord was departed out of them and there was no life to be found in them and they persecuted imprisoned and shamefully intreated the Christians in whom was the Life whose bodies were the Temple of the living God and the cryers up 1 Cor. 3. and upholders of the idolized houses the externall Temples and Synagogues which they call commonly Churches and the daily services follows the same example though they call themselves by the name of Christians but your fruits and practises makes you clearly manifest ye are as the Jews and unbelievers were in former ages without the Life and Power of truth and righteousnesse and enemies to it Likewise the heathenish Idolaters set up Temples for to worship their idol-gods in and they cryed up their outward Temple Act. 19. the Temples of Diana Great is the Temple of Diana and the upholders of the Temple of Diana was in a great uprore against the Apostle Paul for declaring against their abominable superstition and idolatry and with all their force and power in a tumultuous manner resisted the power and life of truth and cryed up their own idol as all the Sects and opinions do now every particular Sect cryes up their own way but all enemies to the life and power of truth and can all agree in one to persecute the Temple of God in whom the life of God is made manifest ye who are gathered into various forms though in judgment and opinion ye from one another differ and be at enmity one against another neverthelesse in this Nation of England as well as in other Nations and Islands ye can joyn together and make warre against the children of light speak and write against the life of truth and beat imprison and persecute the bodies of the Saints in whom the life and power of truth is manifested in the former ages as may be read in the Scriptures of truth the chief Priests Scribes and Pharisees the Libertines Sadduces and Alexandrians all were enemies to Christ and the primitive Christians and even so are the various formalists in this age all enemies to the chosen of the Lord the elect seed but it is our joy that our God hath called us unto such an high calling and counted us worthy to suffer in innocency for his pure names sake glory honour praise and eternall dominion be given unto our God all ye dear innocent Lambs who suffer for Righteousnesse sake rejoyce and sing praises unto the Lord our God for ever the day of your eternall Redemption draweth nigh your enemies the enemies of truth and innocency the Lord our God will confound and destroy and through patient suffering we shall all be crowned with victory and triumph and rejoyce over all Gods enemies for ever Blessed are ye for ever who abide the fiery tryall for yours is the dominion for ever but who ever shrinks in the time of suffering when the great day of tryall shall come shall never reign with Christ the Captain of our salvation who was made perfect through suffering but ye who continue to the end are blessed for ever and shall reign as Kings over all the earth And ye Temple-worshippers in this age manifest your selves to be as blind and ignorant concerning the mystery of life and salvation as your forefathers were the enemies of truth and righteousnesse in the former ages who did not believe in Christ the substance who put an end to all types and figures though ye pretend ye believe in Christ and go under the name of Christians but all are not Christians that go under that name for all ye that be from the light with which Christ Jesus hath enlightened you and deny the light and call it a naturall light or a fancy as many of ye have done be out of the way of Truth Life Peace and salvation for there is no Life Peace nor salvation in any other but 〈◊〉 the true light which hath enlightened every man that is come into the world and I say unto you untill you come to own the light of Christ in you and it receive to be your guide and leader you cannot receive the light of life the way of life peace and eternall salvation the light will lead you if you believe in it and receive it to be acted by it which will for ever be sealed from you if ye continue in enmity to it and hate and despise it and will be your condemnation for ever from the inheritance of the Righteous none upon the face of the whole earth can come into the persect knowledge of the secret mystery of life and salvation but by the Light with which Christ hath enlightened them for it is the key of Divine knowledge it being owned and received it will clear and open the understanding and give truly to know the secret mystery of eternal life and salvation which cannot be attained any other way but by the light which is the eye with which the face of God is seen in Christ the eternall Divine substance in whom all fulnesse dwells which Divine secret is hid eternally from all that deny and refuse the light in them with which the expresse image of the Fathers glorious substance Christ hath enlightned them Also I say all people upon the face of the whole earth under what name or Title of Religion soever that make mention of the name of Jesus Christ and are from the light with which the true light Christ hath enlightened them are out of the nature and life of Christ and are no true Christians but are in the flesh and brings forth the fruits of the flesh and such as be in the flesh be enemies in their minds to Christ and the true innocent Christians the fleshly man in all ages hath been an enemie to the Spirituall man as in particular in the general the flesh makes war against the Spirit the fleshly man against the Spirituall man and strives with all his might and force