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A54114 A call to Christendom in an earnest expostulation with her to prepare for the great and notable day of the Lord, that is at the door / by William Penn. Penn, William, 1644-1718. 1694 (1694) Wing P1261; ESTC R31759 17,069 48

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Jesus they go before Christ before Christ cometh before he prepareth their Hearts and toucheth their Lips with a Coal from his Heavenly Altar and perform Worship in their own Will Time and Power and stay not for his Leadings And therefore all such rob Christ of his Office who is the Leader of the true Christians their Heavenly High-Priest to anoint them and offer up their Sacrifice to God for them and Prophet to let them see and know by his Light in their Hearts what they ought to do according to the New and Everlasting Covenant I will write my Law in their hearts and put my Spirit in their inward parts and they shall be all taught of me saith the Lord. Now this is the Question to the whole World called Christian Do you see with this Divine Light Have you searcht your Hearts with it And are you anointed by this High-Priest with his holy Vnction that leadeth into all Truth Doth this Heavenly Prophet give you Vision and reveal the Father to you Is he your Eye your Head your Wisdom Do you live move and have your life and being in him in Praying Preaching and Singing yea in your whole Conversation Are you renewed into this Life and Image And have you heard his Voice and seen his Shape Are you Witnesses of his holy Rebukes his pure Judgments the Shame and Death of his Cross Is he the Fountain of your Knowledge The Author of your Faith O consider Are you of those that have spoke with Jesus That have been taught in the School of his holy Cross Students in his Heavenly Academy O have you drunk of his Cup and been baptized with his Baptism Tell me in the Fear of the Lord God you that call your selves Christians doth he go before you and lead you as a Master teacheth his Disciples and a Captain leadeth his Souldiers And do you follow him in all the weighty things of this Life And doth he order your Minds and rule your Affections If not you are Thieves and Robbers for you rob Christ of his Office For God hath appointed him to be the Leader and Ruler of all People yea 't is God's Decree and those that he leadeth not in their Thoughts Words and Works shall never come to God for all must come to God by him that is by his Light and Spirit ruling in their Hearts which sanctifieth regenerateth and converteth the Soul to God And the Cause of the Confusion and Contention that is about Religion in Europe at this day is That Men have deserted this true Light and holy Spirit and so are degenerated from the life and power of pure and unspotted Religion and have attempted to comprehend Christ's Doctrines without Christ's Light and to know the Things of God without the Spirit of God And being thus miserably erred by wicked Works from the one Spirit of Truth they have wandred into the fallible Conceits and Opinions of Men. And in this State one Party hath contended against another From Words they have fallen to Blows and the strongest hath opprest the weakest And not knowing what Spirit they were of have called light darkness and darkness light putting the Sheep's-skin upon the Wolf and the Wolf's-skin upon the poor Sheep of Christ endeavouring by carnal Weapons to enforce their Opinions and to extort Conformity by worldly Laws and Punishments to their Perswasions All this is out of the Light Life and Doctrine of Christ Jesus and in the Spirit of Darkness Confusion Strife and Blood-shed which is the Devil All which Babel must and shall come down by the Light Power and Spirit of Jesus now rising in the World and Hell Death and the Grave shall not be able to hinder it For the set time the appointed time of the Father is come and the Judgment is begun O ye that are called Roman-Catholicks tell me are you truly Catholick that is of an Vniversal Spirit Then you will not persecute but love all and be tender to all Are you truly Roman and Successors of that Antient Apostolical Church Then you walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit yea the Spirit of Christ dwelleth in you and you are led by the Spirit of God and can call him Father in Truth and Righteousness and the Word of God in the Heart is your Teacher and not the Traditions of Men for so the Romans of old time were instructed O consider if you are true Successors you must follow them in the same Nature Spirit and Life for in that only standeth the Christian Succession to wit in Christ And every Branch Person or Church that abideth not in this great Vine is rejected for the Fire Therefore deceive not your selves as the Jews of old did with crying The Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord and saying We have Abraham to our Father and to us belong the Fathers Covenants Law Priesthood and Chair of Moses For as the Apostle said of old so say I to you His servants you are whom you obey and he that worketh Wickedness is of the Devil So that Christ's Successors are they that take up his Cross follow him and that abide in his holy Doctrine that keep his Commandments and themselves unspotted from the World And those that follow the Lust of the Eye the Lust of the Flesh and Pride of Life are not of Christ nor of the Father but of the World Subjects to the Prince of the Power of the Air and Successors of Sodom Gomorrah Egypt Tyro Sidon and persecuting Jerusalem and not of the harmless self-denying holy Suffering Spouse of Christ Jesus that is ruled in all things by her Husband her Head her Lord. O search and try with the Light of Jesus if you are not degenerated from Primitive Simplicity and Purity For great are the Abominations of all Sects that flow like a Deluge throughout your Countries Repent and Turn to the Ancient Apostolical Spirit and Life that you may enter into the Rest of God O you that call your selves Evangelicks or Gospellers are you Evangelical Are you saved from the Lusts and Pleasures and dead Worships of the World by the mighty Power of God which is the Gospel and led by an Evangelical Spirit If not you are not yet Redeemed you are not yet under Grace which is the Gospel-state For you are not taught by it but rebel against it how then are you true Gospellers Men of Gospel-liberty Men of Deliverance and Redemption to whom Immortality is brought to light as it is to all that truly know and receive the Blessed Gospel that are yet Subjects and Servants to Sin How can you sing the Song of the Lamb that are not delivered by the Lamb but by your vain Conversations Crucifie the Lamb and do despite to the Spirit of Grace and that every day The true Gospellers are those that receive the Angel's Message who is the great Preacher of the Everlasting Gospel viz. Fear God Give glory to his Name for the hour of his