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A26274 Several things given forth by the Spirit of the Lord through a vessel prepared to do the fathers will known by the name of John Ansloe. Aynsloe, John, d. 1693. 1685 (1685) Wing A4296; ESTC R28321 4,560 6

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SEVERAL THINGS Given forth by the Spirit of the Lord Through a Vessel prepared to do the Fathers Will. Known by the Name of Iohn Ansloe I will send you the Comforter the Spirit of Truth He will lead you into all Truth He shall take of mine and shew it unto you the Spirit searcheth all things yea the Deep things of God An EPISTLE to the Reader Friendly Reader THese following things are presented to thee and are recommended to th● Light Spirit of God in thee from whence they came that in the Light thou mayst wait to have an Vnderstanding of all thinge belonging to thy Everlasting Peace for there be many False Prophets gone forth into the World that if it were possible would deceive the very Elect. Wherefore try the Spirits whether they be of God or no the Light will discover of what sort they are if thou sinkest down into it not having thy Mind above it or puffed up with the Profession of it for if thou art then thou wilt be apt to measure with the wrong Measure and it will be thy self not the Angel with his Measuring Reed but something will be in thy Eye pertaining to the Outward Court as thou art for or against that is not the equal Measure but all are to bring their Deeds to the Light that will make them manifest none can be deceived or mistaken there but being busied with their own Conceits as too many are they make their own Ways right and all others wrong this is Errour and Deceivableness for Christ is the Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the World Why should any man think his Way to be better than anothers seeing all are enlightned and are to be turned to the Light to be guided thereby all here are in a Capacity to believe and the Fault is not in the Light but in them that reject it and who is he that can force another to believe in the Light or to believe as he believes or as the Church believes but they must be left Christ could do no mighty things because of their Vnbelief And no Force is to be used towards them nor no Fire to be called for from Heaven to destroy them For the Son of Man came not to dest●●●●m●ns Lives but to save them A Testimony concerning the LIGHT I Am the Light of the World said Christ he that believeth in me shall not abide in Darkness but shall have the Light of Life This is witnessed by some who believe in his Name and have denyed themselves and taken up his Cross and followed him through the Regeneration and through the Great Tribulation have entred the Kingdom and do sit down in Heavenly Places in Christ Jesus he having made them meet to be Partaker with him of that Inheritance with the Saints in Light and this he hath done freely for his Name sake not for any merit of ours or Works of Righteousness that we have done all our Righteousness being but as Filthy Rags and the Night Clothing we have put off and have put on the Lord Jesus Christ making now no more Provision for the Flesh so that we are not our own but he hath Redeemed us up to God and his own Blood hath paid the Ransome and now we serve him in the Newness of the Spirit no more in the Oldness of the Letter now we know That the Letter killeth but the Spirit giveth Life And that it is not I as the Apostle said but Christ that liveth in me and he walketh in us and moveth and worketh in us both to will and to do according to the Pleasure of his own Will and his Will is our Sanctification and we see the King in his Glory and behold his Face continually and in his Presence is Fulness of Joy and at his Right Hand Pleasures for evermore All this is enjoyed in the Light by believing in him and following him whithersoever he goes so that we cannot hut testifie unto all that he is both Lord and King and invites all to come unto him who are weary of their Sins and loaden with their Iniquities and see that their own Covering is too narrow and their Bed of Ease too short and that by all their own Doings they cannot help themselves help being laid upon him only he being given for Salvation to the Ends of the Earth so that we look not for another he being as the Shaddow of a Rock in a weary Land and leads us into green Pastures where our Souls delight to be and the Lambs lye down together where no Destroyer can come neither can any make them afraid though he hath led us through the Vale and Shadow of Death yet did we not fear for his Rod and Staff did comfort us and his Glory is our Defence Concerning the WORD and the Ministers of the WORD IN the Beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God He is the Minister of the true Tabernacle for the Son of Man came not to be ministred unto but to minister he is the Minister as we have received him so he ministers in us and by us and without him we can do nothing acceptable to God if any minister of himself or of his own Ability he ministers to self in another and feeds that which is for Death both in himself and others all that take upon them to be Ministers of the Word must be sure the Minister be in his Temple else his Ministry will not profit but will redound back again upon him as unsavory for that is not the Milk of the Word it being bitter and not sweet so the Children cannot receive it all are to know the Word abiding in them that it may minister at all times none are to take the Words Place upon them to be called a Minister of the Word or Minister of the Truth but as the Word of Truth ministers through us we being but as the Trumpet he gives the sound This Ministry is received in several Dispensations before the Minister come into his Temple with a Fan in his hand and those that receive them there are lyable to miscarry being in the Servants State not being faithful as Servants as Moses was neither Good Stewards over the Lords Money but spend it upon their Lust or selfish Part as it is written They took my Jewels and decked themselves and played the Harlot And such cannot agree among themselveves a Lordly Spirit bearing rule in them they smite one another and would all be Lords contrary to Christs Saying He that would be greatest must be your Servant But some of these are ready to say We are Sons If they be 't is but of Hagar and Leah they must not inherit with Isaac the Son of the Freewoman but must be cast out with Bag and Bottle that they may know themselves and their eyes may be opened to see the Well which is so near them but did not know it the Son abides in the House