to be holy just in all their conversation for of a truth all the true Christians came to witness this even all old things to passe away and all things to become new without which the new creature cannot be witnessed Which is renewed after the Image of him who hath created him Therefore as an Ambassador from God I beseech you in Christ lay these things to heart and count it not as a vaine thing or as an idle tale but remember that because of sin and iniquity God did ever send Plagues and Judgements unto the sons of men and when they would not be warned thereby he swept them away in his wrath for so hath he appointed in his determined counsell That the wicked shall not go unpunished but they shall be cast into Hell and all who forget God for he is no respecter of persons for of all Nations he who feareth him and worketh righteousnesse is accepted of him but Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man which doth evil for his wrath is revealed from Heaven against all ungodlynesse and unrighteousnesse of men and he is not partiall in judgement as some would make him that he will punish one man for sin and not another nay it is not so with him for Such as every man soweth such shall he reap and every one shall receive a just and due reward for the deeds done in the body whether they be good or whether they be evil The unfaithfull servant had a Talent given him to improve as well as the rest but his unfaithfulnesse was the cause that it was taken from him and he cast into utter darknesse for ever but the faithful entered into the joy of his Lord and this will assuredly be the portion and sentence of all the sons of men the workers of iniquity shall be tormented with the Devil and his Angels for ever And it will not suffice to say Lord Lord in thy name we have done many things yea they came so far as to cast out Devils and prophesied in the name of Christ and so far as this none of you at this day hardly ever came yet and notwithstanding Christ said he know them not depart from me ye cursed workers of iniquity Read and consider and lay it to heart that ye may be an holy people and come to answer Gods Everlasting love which is tendered unto you least the grace of God bestowed upon you be in vain and loose the entering into the Land of promise through unbelief which was the cause why so many fell in the Wildernesse and dyed though they were come forth out of the Land of darknesse and had seen the wonders of the Lord which are set forth as examples for those who should come after for the Gospel was preached unto them as well as unto you And truely from a good understanding doe I declare it unto you that if ye be willing and obedient a larger possession never had any people then the Lord will possesse you with and ye shalt eat the good thereof in peace for if ye accept and embrace his love and reject not his counsell which is freely tendered unto you he will rebuke Princes and Kings for your sakes but if ye harden your necks ye shall be of many people most miserable And these are words of truth and of a good understanding unto you all which will stand a witnesse for God either with you or against you for ever against you if ye reject it and for you if ye receive it for of a truth Gods Eternall and Everlasting love is tendered unto you in and through which if ye receive it and be faithfull to what the Lord will yet further manifest unto you ye shall be blessed with faithful Abraham for ever who forsaked his Fathers house to follow the Lord he knew not whether and stumbled not at the promise of the Lord but was faithful therefore was he called the friend of God and the Father of the faithful I say take him for an example and God Almighty will give you Dominion and honour you before many if you honour him but if you despise him he will despise you and if ye refuse to hear him now when he calls unto you the day is nigh when ye shall call and he will not hear which is a word of eternall truth unto you Therefore arise in the Spirit of meekness and stand a witnesse against all superstitions and Idolatry not onely in word but in life and practise and turn to the light of Christ Jesus which condemns sin and evill in you so will ye become children of the light and become a living testimony against all sin so will ye be a sweet savour unto the Lord in your generation and happy will the man be who joynes to the Lord in deed and in truth in this work his name shall be had in everlasting remembrance for evermore so let the fear and dread of God Allmighty possesse your hearts and the wicked shall be dreaded by you and brought into subjection within you and without you for ever And this is the word of the Lord unto you and blessed will ye be if ye hear and obey it for the youth shall faint and the young Lyon shall suffer hunger but they which feare the Lord shall never want any good thing for the fear of the Lord is clean and the beginning of a true Christian therefore blessed is the man which feareth always he shall be blessed in his deed and shall prosper and flourish like a green Bay tree which is planted by the rivers of water bringing forth fruit in due season to the praise and glory of his Creator and the Lord will spread his table in the sight of his enemies while they suffer hunger And this will the Lord doe for the upright in heart whose hands are not polluted with blood nor deceit harboured between his lips even he shall see the travail of his soul and be satisfied and his dayes shall be prosperous in the land of promise and the sons of the aliens shall be his servants this shall surely be the heritage of those who confesse and forsake their sins but he which hideth it shall not prosper even his prayers shall be loathsome unto the Lord and all his sacrifices an abominable abomination but he which purifieth his way by taking heed unto the Law of the Lord though he be simple yet shall he be made wise and his soul shall be converted for the Lord will perfect his glorious praise in the mouths of babes and sucklings and this thing shall be marvelous in the eyes of many These are prophesies of things which shall shortly come to passe therefore blessed is he which watcheth that he may not be found naked for the day of the Lord is coming on like a theif in the night upon all the inhabitants of the Earth wherein the hearts of all shall be made manifest and made bare and naked of what Nation or
neither have you any part of it by command or example in the Scripture of truth therefore it lyeth upon you to shew who were your first authors and examples for all the customes and traditions you have amongst you singing one part of Davids Psalms with your hats off and reading another part with your hats on and putting them in Meeter like Ballads by which meanes people come to sing that which they never came to witnesse as hath been before spoken of and your Sacraments and such like which ye have not one word in the Scripture for Therefore come forth and shew openly who were the first inventers of these things reading over a company of Chapters when you come together and the like all these things when they and you come to be weighed in the Ballance of the Sanctuary will be found too light and far short of the true worship of God who is not to be worshipped any other way then in Spirit and in Truth and in that one Spirit if any had a Psalm or Hymn or Prayer or Praises he did it and sung it to the praise and true glory of God and this was the true order of the Saints and not to take another mans words for Psalm or Praise or Prayer and say it over nay these things are an abominable abomination unto the Lord for it is the Spirit onely which maketh intercession for the true children and servants of God for it alone knoweth our wants and is many times poured forth unto the Lord with sighes and groanes which cannot be uttered and this only and such like Sacrifices doth God accept not for Drunkards Swearers Lyars and all manner of unclean persons to take the Saints words in their mouths and come before him with them Gods soul abhorreth it So all that ever is practised amongst you will be found to be but in sin your Apostatizing and falling away from the true faith which was prophesied both by Christ and his Apostles should come for saith Christ The night cometh wherein no man can work in which time because of iniquity the love of many shall wax cold And this is the fruits and marks of that day and Paul saw them coming in his time even those who should teach things they ought not for filthy lucres sake yea and before his decease so grievous was the falling away that he said all Asia was turned from him and also to Timothy he prophesied of these things plainly that men should heap up to themselves teachers having itching eares and should not endure sound Doctrine and the like which ye may see in the many teachers come up and made by and in the will of men according to their own lust which answereth unto Christs word who said many should come and say Lo here is Christ or Lo he is there believe them not saith Christ for the Kingdome of Heaven is within you Mark and such shall deceive the very Elect if it were possible but it is impossible to deceive them for such are Christs sheep who know his voice and a stranger they will not follow But saith Christ Ye shall know them by their fruits so by their fruits must we try them now for such teachers as men doe heap up to themselves are seen in the light which tryeth your Priests who preach up sin and lust as long as men live so here you are tryed and found to be such who are chose in mens will but Christs sheep hear his voyce and obey it and follow him who leadeth into all purity and holinesse And thus are all distinguished and known by their fruits as Christ hath said we should therefore consider these things and lay them to heart and repent before it be too late This word doth the Lord often put in my heart towards you for dreadful and terrible is the day which is already dawned over your heads The voyce of the true Shepherd saith Come Come freely without money and without price and let him that heareth come and let him that is a thirst come and whosoever will let him take of the water of life freely and let him that will buy Wine and Milk without money and without price Why will ye spend your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not Incline your eares and your Souls shall live and your Souls shall delight themselves in fatnesse This is the voyce of the true Shepherd to all the inhabitants of the Earth therefore whilst it is said to day harden not your hearts as in the provocation but away all to the fountain which is freely set open to wash away sin and transgression for you have all forsaken the fountain of living waters and have hewen out Cisterns broken Cisterns that hold no water saith the Lord every one is gone astray after the imagination of his own heart and the Lord hath looked down from his holy habitation and beheld there is none that seeketh after him amongst the sons of men who are thus degenerated from him for though he hath created man upright yet he hath found out many inventions one thing being neglected by which meanes he is become more strang to his Creator than the Ox to his owner or the Asse to his masters crib Sad and deplorable estate miserable man is fallen into running on greedily in the way of destruction and drinking in iniquity as the Ox drinketh water and yet will seeme to lean upon the Lord and say is not the Lord amongst us though they forsake him and refuse his tender reproofs and cast his holy Law behind their backs and will none of his reproof and make unto themselves Laws Statutes and ordinances which will sute most unto their lusts and heap up to themselves teachers having itching eares even such as they make in their own will who preach for hire and divine for money which was alwaies an abominable thing unto the Lord who sent his holy servants and Prophets to cry against such things yet do the sons of men delight to have it so And such teachers as these cry peace peace to the wicked and say no evil shall come upon them so long as they put into their mouths but otherwise suddenly prepare warre against you as the tryal will manifest the same and they with great swelling words of vanity promise to others liberty while they themselves are servants unto corruption and such like do people choose unto themselves because they prophesie smooth things unto them and under their teachings they can live as they list in pride covetousnesse wantonnesse and all manner of evil all the dayes of their lives as their fruits manifest telling people they cannot but sin as long as they live by which means instead of turning people from their wickedness they strengthen their hands in it which sheweth plainly they are such who ran when the Lord never sent them therefore they do not profit the people at all who are ever learning of them but
for he hath prepared a way and a means for the Salvation of all that they might be saved For he so loved the world that he hath given his onely begotten Son into the world that all through him might believe for he is the Covenant of God even a Covenant of Light unto all Nations that he might be his Salvation unto the ends of the earth This testimony John did bear of him that he was the true Light which enlightens every man which cometh into the world and as many as receive him and believe in his name even in the Light to them he giveth power to become the Sons of God which is another birth then yours Which is of the flesh and will of man Read and consider you that desire Salvation unto your souls for it is the visitation of Gods eternal love unto you for I am truly constrained by his pure Spirit hereunto therefore whether you will hear or forbeare I shall be a sweet savour unto God Even in them which believe and in them which perish But my hearts desire is that ye may come into the Covenant of God and be saved even to be taught led and guided by him for the way is plaine and it is but one in all even the Light which reproves for sin maketh manifest all the deeds of darkness though never so secret for saith the Apostle whatsoever makes manifest is Light he that comes to that which makes manifest cometh to Christ for saith he I am the Light of the world I am the way No man cometh to the Father but by me So come to the Light and then you will come to the Way the Truth and the Life this will be more then a bear name unto you life truth even truth in the inward part which God onely accepteth out of which all profession is vain therefore he which comes to the Light comes to the truth and comes to know the teachings of God as it is written All thy children shall be taught of me and great shall be their peace so in the Light you will witness the teachings of God which is his holy Covenant with his people I will write my law in their hearts saith God and put it in their inward parts the law is Light saith Solomon and if you come to turn to the Light you will witness the same I will live in them and walk in them saith God Marke this is the holy true and everlasting Covenant of God to his people and this the true Christians came to witness even their bodies to be the Temples of God through the Spirit and God dwelleth with no unclean thing neither dareth such a one plead for sin as long as he liveth for they are sanctified and made fit for their Masters use not having only the forme of Godliness but the life and power and they who had the form without the power were to be turned from it which power is the Light which cometh from Christ and leadeth up to God and the Saints were Saints in Light for they were sanctified by it which was the will of God And as saith the Apostle this is the will of God even your Sanctification this is no new Doctrin but the good Old Way which God hath prepared even for his Ransomed ones to walk in in which path the way faring men though fools shall not erre therein for the way is Light as saith the Apostle if ye live in the Light and walk in the Light as he is in the Light then have we Fellowship with God and one with another Mark fellowship with God this Light leadeth unto in which the Saints fellowship onely stood which brought them to the knowledge of God and he which said he knew God and walked in darkness was a liar for the darkness comprehendeth not the Light which is the only habitation and Covenant of God so as you come truely to confess your sins you will witness the Blood of Christ to cleanse you from all unrighteousness but if you say you have not sin before you come to this and say it is done away in Christ then you are lyars and the truth is not you no more then it is in them who say they have not sinned as you come to witness the Blood of Christ and its vertue you will witness these sayings to be true and faithfull not onely to be talked of but to be witnessed in you and untill you come here you are perfect strangers unto the several states and growths the true Christians came through in their Warfare there was little children young men and old men for saith John I write unto you little children that ye sin not and if any man sin we have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours onely but also for the sins of the whole world Marke He freely offered up himself for all And by this we know that we know him if we keep his Commandements He that saith I know him and keepeth not his Commandements is a liar and the truth is not in him Marke the true Christians state is life And consider what state and nature you are in and whether ye keep Christs Commandement yea or nay for these things are of great weight and concernment unto you even you that have taken up the name but are out of the nature And againe saith the Apostle Whose keepeth his Word in him verily in the love of God perfected hereby know we that we are in him Marke by this they the true Christians knew that they were in Christ because they kept his word and he which dwelleth in him ought to walke even as he walked are you here nay your consciences witnesseth to your faces the contrary therefore forbeare the name untill you witness the life else the greater will be your condemnation which is the Word of the Lord unto you all therefore be ye warned in time And againe saith he A new Commandement I write unto you which thing is true in him and in you because the darkness is past and the true light now shineth Marke againe they did witness the darkness past and the true Light to shine which Light giveth the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ which treasure saith Paul we have in Earthen vessels this treasure even the Light they the true Christians witnessed in them and walking in it had fellowship with it and one with another For God is Light and he which liveth and walketh in the Light liveth and walketh with God and witnesseth a true translation as Enoch did and is not seen Because his life is hid with Christ in God and this is a true translation from death to life which is the true Christians life and he which saith he is in the Light and hateth his brother is a liar and is in darkness even untill now he which loveth his brother dwelleth
in the Light and stumbleth not Marke he who loveth and walketh in the Light stumbleth not because he walkes in that which maketh manifest all things even the hidden workes of darkness which by the Light is reproved and judged But he which hates his brother walkes in darkness and knoweth not whether he goeth because the darkness hath blinded his eyes so he which walketh in darkness knoweth not whether he goeth even because he is from the Covenant of God which is Light wherein he should walke as all the ransomed and redeemed of the Lord doth And this David did witness who said God is my Light and my Salvation and all which comes to the Light and lives in it witness the same thing and are not ashamed to bring their deeds unto the Light because they are wrought in God but he which doth evil Hateth the Light neither cometh he to the Light because his deeds are evil Therefore come and try if your deeds are wrought in God by bringing them to the Light and if by the Light they are Justified then none can condemne you but if the Light condemn you none can justifie you For all Judgement is committed unto the Son who is the Light and inlightneth every one whith cometh into the world which Light is a sure word of Prophecy whereunto if ye take heed ye do well as the true Christians did as unto a light that shineth in a darke place untill the day dawne and the day Star arise in your hearts for it is the light of the righteous which lightneth more and more untill the perfect day and gives a discovery of all things but the wicked being from that which makes manifest walketh in darkness and knoweth not at what they stumble which is a wofull state for they are from the light of the glorious Gospel and you to cover your selves say the letter is calling Matthew Mark Luke and John the Gospel when you are ignorant of the Gospel of Peace which is Christ the true light and Saviour of the Soul Therefore give care and harden not your hearts ye Protestants in this Nation least God smite you with a curse and leave you to perish in your sins for ever therefore come all to the light that a true regenerate state ye may witness as the true Christians did who witnessed the state of a child a young man and old man and the Apostle writing unto such said I write unto you little children because ye have known the Father I write unto you fathers because ye have known him which if from the beginning I have written unto you young men because ye are strong and the word of God abideth in you and ye have overcome the wicked one Read and consider the least in this state knew God and as they did grow up in the knowledge of God they came to overcome the Devil who is the father of all sin which is a true Christians warfare therefore come away And put on the whole Armour of Light and take unto you the Shield of Faith and the fiery darts of the Devil will come to be quenched by you and as good Souldiers you will overcome and witness the evil one overcome in you which is the strong man which keeps the house but coming to Christ and witnessing him you will know the stronger come which will take the possession in you and spoyle the strong mans goods who had first the Dominion and whole possession in you And this is counsel of life and truth unto you all that ye may come to be true children of Gods everlasting Covenant and witness the anointing in you which is the light which will teach you all things and is truth and is no lie and as the same teacheth you if ye obey and follow it ye shall abide in it which will be your portion for ever and is the true portion of all the redeemed of God who come to witness the birth which is of God Which sinneth not neither can they because the seed of God abideth in them which seed is Christ the hope of their glory And this is the mystery which the Apostle speaketh of which was hid from Ages and Generations which was then made manifest unto the true Christians and except ye come to witness this ye are reprobates for Christ Jesus is that seed which was promised should Bruise the Serpents head which became head in man after transgression and his head being bruised by the seed of the woman came to be perfectly restored into the Image and glory he was first created in even into the Image of his Creator who is God blessed for ever more of all his redeemed ones who witnesseth this fulfilled in them as many do at this day Immortal endless praise be rendred to his holy name for ever for they come to know that the power of the tempter is not of more force then the Redeemer but the redeemed even by Christ the Light comes to know his head bruised in them who seperated them from God and this is the true and faithful Christians state and life even to live and walke in the power of his Creator and Redeemer all the dayes of his sojourning in the mid'st of a crooked and perverse generation in which pure righteous and holy life they cannot plead for sin but stands as living witnesses against all unrighteousness whatsoever and for this cause are they hated and reviled because they are as a City which is set on a hill that cannot be hid and that torments the wicked and they are the Salt of the earth and have Salt in themselves to savour and try all things withall and are not afraid of being deceived but Tryeth all things and holdeth fast that which is good for they onely are the elect of God and cannot for it is impossible for them to be deceived but on the contrary stands witnesses against the deceiver and all his works therefore are hated by his children even as they hated Christ for saith Christ The world cannot hate you but me it hateth because I testifie of it that the works are evill but the world loves its own And the whole world lyeth in wickedness as saith the Scripture And who comes to be redeemed out of the world comes to be hated by the children of the world even as they did their Lord and Master the servant is not greater then his Lord who suffered the contradiction of sinners and laid down his life for his enemies and prayed for them which is the true Christians life So as you would prize your eternal happiness slight not this day your day of visitation but prize it and you will find mercy for God of a truth hath much mercy in store for you if ye reject it not but if you do then tribulation and anguish shall possess your souls for evermore Therefore while you have a day and time prize it before it be too late and remember Esau who had a birthright and despised
mouths as you desire to be accepted of God and no longer say you Sing to the praise and glory of God and the comfort of your own souls when your Singing is to the dishonour of God such sacrifices are an abomination unto the Lord But whoso cometh before him though never so simple Yet if he have clean hands and a pure heart even he who speaks the truth from his heart shall and will be accepted of him for it is truth in the inward part God onely delights in without which there is no acceptance Were not they condemned of the Lord by the Prophet Who came before him as his people did and heard his word and it was unto them as a very lovely song yet their hearts being after their covetousness availed them nothing and you never yet came so far as this to wit to delight to hear the word of the Lord which is like a fire and a Hammer as hath been said but instead of it ye call the letter the Word whereas the letter saith Christ is the Word yet if you were come to hear the word of God and do it not all would availe you nothing And you to take Bread and give it one to another and call it a Sacrament which word you have no where in the Scripture neither was such a thing ever commanded to Drunkards Swearers Liars and the like but to those who in faithfulness of heart had forsaken all to follow Christ he brake bread amongst them and gave it them as a signe of his true Body and bad them do it in remembrance of him untill he came and when the substance came againe amongst them there was no more need of any outward shadow or figure which thing they did really witnesse shortly after but you are breaking bread all the dayes of your lives and never witness him come as they did Even the second time without sin unto Salvation who are pleading for sin as long as you live and Paul in his first Epistle to the Corinthians speaketh unto them of it who did also abuse it and therefore in his next Epistle he tels them and bids them Try and prove themselves if Christ were not in them they were reprobates So read with moderation and consider If all were reprobates who did not witness Christ in them little will it availe you to take bread and wine and eat it in imitation of what Christ did to his Disciples which thing was neither commanded them nor any who live in sin but the true followers of the lamb did and do shew forth the Lords death in eating and drinking and in all their actions and their moderation appeareth unto all men which sheweth forth both his death and life in them So they brake their bread from house to house with singlenesse of heart which is the thing the Lord delighteth in above all sacrifice whatsoever and such came to witness Christ in them to be their life and all in all and this witnessing in deed and in truth is a true regenerate state and Christians life which is more then to talke or taking a little water and sprinkling it upon the face of a child say it is a seal of the Covenant and an entrance into the Church which is but a Popish trick and invention to deceive the hearts of the simple feeding them with a name but not of the nature which thing hath been sufficiently spoken of already Neither is there any one example in the Scripture for such practise Search and so read and consider what you are a doing for it is high time for of a truth the mighty and terrible day of the Lord is at hand Wherein all shall be judged according to the deeds done in the body whether good or evil Therefore be ye awakened and repent and think not that a man or Minister made in the will of men that can preach unto you about an hours space by the houre glasse once or twice a week will serve your turn which thing is a stink and a shame to all who are true Christians and sheweth plainly that such have not the unlimited Spirit of God which cannot be limitted to a glasse time or place but speaketh in whom he will where he will and as long as he will And this was the true order amongst the Saints in their assemblies not to quench the Spirit of God but the Spirit of the Prophets were subject unto the Prophets so that if any thing was revealed to one that sat by the first was to hold his peace and they might all Prophecy one by one and were not forbidden that all might be edified and did not maintaine an hireling to speak unto them about an hour and if any were moved to speak in that time to call it a disturbance and insolence nay nay in these your fruits and practices you have not so much as a forme of godlinesse much lesse the power as you your selves confesse you have not the Spirit of God which is the power in all the true Christians and was the fruits and effects of the true living Faith without which they could not please God even the Faith which layeth hold on the promise of the Father which is that the holy Spirit even the comforter should come unto them which should lead them into all truth and shew them things to come And this doth all come to witnesse who come to know the onely one and true Baptisme which is by one Spirit baptized into one body which doth not only serve to the washing away of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience towards God even purified from dead works whereby they come to serve and worship the living God in Spirit and in truth and such onely doth he seek to worship him So come away out of all the beggarly Elements which are to perish in the using to serve the Lord in newness of mind without which all your profession and Religion is but in vaine for then and not till then will ye come to witness a bridle to your tongue which bridle ye must come to witness in you even the light which condemneth you for every idle word and action and all the works of the flesh which are these envy pride malice covetousnesse whoredom railing back-biting evil speaking drunkenness gluttony uncleannesse and all uncharitableness and they who do such things shall not inherit the Kingdome of God Gal. 5.19 Therefore go ye not forth for the Kingdome of Heaven is in you saith Christ and as you come to give up to his pure Light you will be levened into its own nature and so be made partakers of it which consisteth not in word but in power holinesse peace and joy in the Holy Ghost which is the desire of my soul that you even my Countreymen may be made partakers of that ye may witness your conversation to be in Heaven and be no longer sayers but doers of the pure holy will of God that ye
may partake of the everlasting blessing which the Lord hath prepared for all who fear him even such everlasting happiness as ear hath not heard neither hath it entred into the heart of man to conceive the unspeakable glory which he hath in store for such who give and offer their bodies as living sacrifices daily to do his will in For truly the sufferings of this present world are not worthy to be compared to the glory which is and shall be revealed in all such And this I do not speak because another hath spoken it but by true and daily experience through sufferings I have found and felt And I say that ye may partake of the same with me in this the day of Gods eternal power is the simple desire of my heart to God for you and I know if ye reject not his loving mercy and counsel which is freely tendred unto you in and through me ye shall not come short of the good things of God for the Lord hath shewed it unto me Therefore come away and give up to God and crowned shall ye be by him for ever which is a word of eternal truth unto you all In his house there are many mansions and if it were not so I would not say it my soul hath richly fed thereon Therefore I through the Spirit of my Father invite you that we may all come to feed at one table together and that ye may no longer feed at the table of the Devill Therefore embrace and accept Gods love that ye may eat of the banquet which is prepared and that God hath sent me forth to invite you to O make not any excuse least ye be rejected and not found worthy there is yet entertainment and room to spare and if ye refuse others shall be constrained to come in even those who stand in the high ways and hedges and ye be shut out for evermore with the foolish Virgins but be ye wise and watch that ye may have your Lamps trimmed that when the cry is made at mid-night ye may enter in with the Bride so will ye be found worthy to eat and drink at his table of his own spiritual food even of his own body and drink of his own blood and will witnesse life in you life I say immortall and will be leavened into his own nature even into a new lump and so you being many will come to be one bread and will be built up together a spiritual house holy and accepted where the Lord will take delight to dwell and make his abode for evermore and this onely is the true blessed state which my Soul desireth ye may come to witnesse in deed and in truth who am a true lover of all Souls A Word unto you who call your selves the Ministers of Christ. IS it not a shame unto you who call your selves by the name of the Ministers of Christ to preach by an hour-glasse and pray by a book doth not this clearly and plainly manifest you are not Ministers of Christ nor of the Spirit who doe thus where have you any example in Scripture for these things done by the Saints who were Ministers of the Spirit and not of the Letter who said they were not Ministers of the Letter but you would so have it and limit the holy Spirit of God as your practises are seen to doe that limit it to an hours time and place and so long it should speak and no longer O take shame upon your selvs for these things and Repent and cease from deceiving the people with your vain customes and traditions and taking money of the people for so doing which they or any who can but read may doe as well as you to take a weeks time or thereabout to study or compact a company of words together even as many as you can well speak in an hours time part you steal out of the Scriptures and another part out of other mens writings and adde your own meanings unto them and so boast of other mens lines made ready unto your hands and have not the word from the Lord but steal it from your Neighbour Therefore the hand and arm of the Almighty is against you and will lay your shame nakednesse and deceit open unto all people that they may no longer be deceived by you Did not the Apostles who were true teachers of God speak as the Spirit of God gave them utterance and sung with the Spirit and with understanding and prayed with the Spirit and with understanding and can any be said to be true Ministers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ but such Oh! how hath the day of the Lord over taken you as a thief in the night wherein your deeds of darknesse are made manifest and discovered and ye found not to be savers but deceivers of Souls being such who teach for Doctrine your own inventions and traditions and so the peoples fear towards God is taught by the traditions of men as Christ said and if any one be moved of the Lord to speak to you or the people while you are in your high places you are the first which will cry to the people to take him away was this the Apostles example who bid if any thing was revealed unto him which sate by the first was to hold his peace or is it not the example and practise of the persecuting spirit whose works and deeds are wrought in the dark and are affraid that the light should reprove them How can ye say unto your hearers and followers as the Apostles and Ministers of Christ did Be ye followers of us as we are of Christ whose examples condemneth yours every way for he said unto his Disciples that they should be hated of all men for his name sake and persecuted and cast out of the Synagogues and the like see and try if your fruit be not like unto those who cast out and not like unto those who were cast out And the Apostle said the man of God should not strike but be humble and should in meeknesse instruct those which did oppose him this was the fruit and practise of the true ministers of Jesus Christ who in all things walked for to be good examples to others bearing their faithful witnesse against all sin and said that no unclean thing could enter into the kingdome of Heaven and bid people walk as they had them for an example but you instead of bearing witness against all sin tell people that they cannot but commit sin as long as they live you your selves being examples of pride to them and immoderation maintaining your wives and children in pride and wantonnesse settling your selves in such and such places as may make best for your maintainance and the like which sheweth plainly you are not like Christ nor his Ministers who went about seeking those that were lost being such that were cast in prisons in persecution in hunger in cold in want and in distresse and all for the good of others
make Instruments in his glorious worke in this the day of his power if ye reject not his loving counsel and visitation of love which to you is tendred in particular O ye Priests of this Nation to whom this is sent But if ye reject his counsel and will have none of his reproof then hear what the Spirit of the Lord saith the Lord will make you examples of his wrath above many and that is a word of truth unto you all that ye may truly be warned and repent before it be too late And I warne you as from the Lord God of Heaven and earth that ye be not Instruments of stopping this from passing amongst the people by rejecting it or casting an odium upon it thereby to incense the peoples minds against the truth of God and things that do belong to your peace which if you do better were it that a milstone were hanged about your necks and you cast into the midst of the Sea then you should hinder the least from receiving this testimony for Gods dreadfull and terrible day is at hand in which he will render to every one according to the fruits of his own doings both Priests and people for every one shall give an account of himself to God and every one shall die for his own iniquity Therefore againe and againe I say be ye warned and if ye Priests or any of you shall hearden your hearts against this visitation of love from the Lord which is sent amongst you by esteeming that you are the true Ministers of Christ and the spiritual weaponed men then come forth openly into the field and make it appear by answering the Queries which are propounded unto you in this book that ye may through it come to understand and the truth may yet be made further manifest in the eyes of all And this proffer do not slight least the people grow jealous of you but this I say in love to your immortal souls happy will ye be if ye receive the love of God in it and submit unto his holy will and receive his counsel and be advised betimes for the fruits of your Ministry doth testifie to your faces that it is not of God for if it were it would turn the people from the evil of their wayes and from Satan to God My little children saith Paul of whom I travail in birth againe untill Christ be formed in you Mark the words and consider them Christ was to be formed in them and this was the true Saints and Christians life to witnesse him to rule and Reigne in them for saith Paul I live yet not I but Christ in me so in the Saints was the only hope of their glory and without this all are without the true hope and God in this world which is the unregenerate state where the new birth and creature is not witnessed nor known but are captives unto sin and Satan lust and uncleannesse but where Christ is witnessed the body is dead because of sin and the spirit is life because of righteousness And blessed are they who witnesse this in deed and in truth such are the true Israelites in whom there is no guile which the Lord of glory delights in but abhorreth all faire sayers and not doers such shall have their portion with the hypocrites and unbeleevers for ever but whosoever heareth the sayings of the Lord and doth them he is like unto a wise man which built and founded his house upon a Rock which the stormes could not move and they are Heirs of happinesse for evermore world without end Crowned with the faithfull for ever Many are called but few are chosen even only those who are faithfull therefore I say againe through the Spirit blessed and happy are they world without end And that many of you might come to enjoy this eternal blessed and happy end I could lay down my life were it required of me Consider will a call save you nay Therefore consider what will it availe you to gaine the whole world and lose your own souls for the transitory pleasures of this fading world O let it never be but embrace mercy while it is freely tendred unto you and ye will enjoy an incorruptible Crown which the Lord hath in store for all who forsake all corruptible things for his sake And these are words and counsel of life unto you all which springeth from the true fountain of life and love which you will come to witness And truly friends there is no life but through death nor no Crown but through the Crosse nor no victory but through War and tribulation of the Lamb And consider the Lamb was slaine from the foundation of the world and the world is set in mans heart And the whole world lyeth in wickedness saith the Apostle for it is in you the Lamb is slaine even in spirituall Sodom and Aegypt Behold a Mistery read and consider spiritually called Sodom and Aegypt even idleness and fullnesse of bread and adultery and the like and this crucifieth the just in you daily and if ever you turn to the Light of Christ in you you will witnesse my words to be true and will come to mourn over him whom we have pierced even as a man mourneth over his only begotten son for truly untill you come here ye remain guilty of the blood of the Son of God and all mankind upon the face of the whole earth And these few words was I moved of the Lord to write unto you that ye may consider well your state and read within your selves with the Light whether it be so or no So God Almighty open and pierce through your understandings that ye may perfectly come to see and comprehend with all Saints what is the mistery and love of God in Christ Jesus concerning you and all mankind which is the true desire of him who is ready to lay down his life for his vilest enemies And seriously consider whether the world stands not yet whole in you which is truly to be destroyed even by fire as truly as the old was by water and untill this be witnessed the just in you suffereth for it is the just that suffereth by the unjust in the particular as well as in the general Ponder these things well and truly weigh them and the just in you will answer to my words from whence they come and to what end they are spoken and so will ye find mercy and not till then professe what ye will for except ye witness Christ risen in you all Preaching and Profession is in vaine whatsoever These are perfect and true sayings and will stand a witnesse against you for ever if ye reject them for if you will or dare come to your tryall it will be manifestly proved that you are not the true and faithfull Ministers of Jesus Christ neither by Call Maintainance nor manner of worship as Preaching Praying or Singing Baptisme or any other thing which is used or taught by you or amongst you
never able to come unto the knowledg of the truth which makes free all who come unto it as saith Christ Jesus if you know the truth the truth shall make you free And the Apostles were sent to turn people from darknesse to light and from Satans power to God which was the effect of the true and free Ministry of Christ even to open the blind eyes and make blind those which could see So they who come to be turned from Satans power unto God come to be turned from darknesse to light which is a turning from sinne to righteousnesse and here the people come to be profited but such hirelings who run and are not sent they neither bring the people to the light nor from sin to righteousness being Ministers of darkness themselves and Preach for filthy lucre sake and do in no wise profit the people as I have said if one come amongst them and their hearers and do but declare and speak of those things unto them wherewith Christ Jesus hath enlightned him then presently they fall upon him commonly by the command of their Priests and cry out he is a deceiver away with him though they have nothing to be deceived of but sin and uncleanness which sheweth plainly they are not of the number of the Elect of God for they need not to fear being deceived for it is impossible to deceive them For Christs sheep hear his voice and knoweth it and a stranger will they not follow But these like blind men instead of trying all things and holding fast that which is good stop their ears and furiously run themselves upon a poore simple innocent man who seeks not theirs but them And this their fruits manifests they are not in the nature of the true Christians but of the Jews who persecuted the Prophets and stoned them who were sent unto them and in this nature do they sing pray and the like which is no more accepted of the Lord Then if they cut off a Dogs neck or offer a sacrifice of blood for such was Cains sacrifice who was of the envious one who slew his brother And this is the fruits and effects of the hirelings Ministry which is a griefe unto the upright in heart to see And behold how poor people are kept in bondage and from the knowledge of God by them hearing and learning from their youth up untill they go to the grave and still in sin and pleading for it as long as they live O people it is high time to awake and consider these things and lay them to heart for the Ax of the Lord is a laying to the roote of every tree And every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be cut down and cast into the fire for the Lord hath long born with you and men have conceived nought but vanity and brought forth lies and every one is striving either by deceit or policy to uphold his own way by the arm of flesh and he that can get the power into his hand oppresseth all who will not bow unto his manner or forme of worship as though God were served in mans will or could or would be limitted by the sons of men while every one is crying up his own way to be best while they are all in the way of sin pleading for it as long as they live The Lords soul abhorreth these things for it is only the sacrifice of clean hands and a pure heart which he accepteth even of such who are of an humble and contrite spirit and trembleth at his Word and such he will in no wise despise But how far men are from this spirit which is onely accepted of by the Lord let the pure Light of Christ Jesus judge in all your consciences doth not envy reign still in their hearts and where that reigneth there is strife and every evil work which seperateth man from God and in this state should they sacrifice thousands of Rams and ten thousand rivers of Oyle the fruit of their bodies for the sins of their souls it would availe them nothing But wash you make you clean saith the Lord and put away the evil of your doings relieve the fatherless and the widdow and I will accept you and though your sins are as red as scarlet yet will I make them as white as snow Saith Solomon he which confesseth and forsaketh his sin shall find mercy and it is certain that none else doth or ever shall for the sacrifices of the wicked are an abomination unto the pure God For when the Jews were in the observation of sacrifices Sabbaths New-moons and the like the Lord said they were an abomination and loathsomness unto him and his soul did abhor them and the reason was because of the evil of their doings for in such things the Lord delighteth not but a body which is prepared to do his will in is only accepted for there he only takes delight to dwell which is more then all sacrifices offerings and oblations which David knew right well But this thing Satan and his Ministers Preach not to the people that he may keep his seat whole within them profess what they will in words he matters it not for he knows if once the creature cometh to the Covenant of God that then he will come to witnesse his body to be his Temple as he hath promised I will dwell in them and walk in them therefore Satan strives every way to keep people from the light which is the Covenant whereby men would come to know the teachings of God and would not need that man should teach them But this makes not for the hireling nor his profit therefore would he be Master as much as in him lieth telling people they must not look for God to speak unto men in these days and that revelations are ceased and such like stuff he filleth up his hours time with which sheweth he and his hearers know not the Son of God as the true Christians did And saith Christ unto those that come unto me I give eternal life and none hath eternal life but those who know the Father and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent So all Priests and people this is to you and sheweth that you are from the true Faith and to every good work reprobate for he that doth not witness all his works done and wrought in him by the vertue and power of God all his works are but as filthy rags which is self righteousnesse for if the just do not work in the creature it is self which can never be accepted of the Father for the true children of God came to witnesse that God did all their works for them and in them and so did witnesse in deed and in truth the Lord to be their righteousness and were called by that name So come and try your works and by whom they are wrought in you if not by Christ then it is self and so it will availe you nothing For without me saith Christ ye
took and gave another to read and said I pray thee read it and he said I cannot for it is sealed and he gave it to another and said I pray thee read it and he said I cannot for I am unlearned so to learned and unlearned it is a mistery And truely I freely declare unto all the sons of men that there is none that can open the seals thereof neither is there any found worthy in Heaven or in Earth but Christ Jesus the Lamb of God the Light of the World who hath enlightned every one which cometh into the World and till men come to give up to be led guided and directed by this pure Light in all their words and actions the mysteries of the Kingdome of God nor godlinesse they will never come to know nor understand for the vail is over their hearts and until it be rent and taken away by the power and vertue of the Light they run on as the Jews doe in darknesse and know not at what they stumble for though the mistery of godlinesse be great yet it is but one to all and in all either Jew or Gentile even God manifest in the flesh the Emanuel God with us even with men and in men and this is the Mistery of Mysteries which the Apostle said hath been hid from ages and generations which was Christ in them the hope of their glory and without this be witnessed there is neither true hope nor true glory though men talk of hope yet it is but the Hypocrites hope which perisheth and will never bring them to glory no farther then the earthly which is but grief and vexation of spirit but he that hath and is truly possessed with the true and living hope abiding in him purifieth himself even as Christ is pure even from all earthly affections either of glory honour or riches wisdom or any other earthly thing being given up in all things to seek the true honour and glory which cometh from God onely though for so doing he may and is accounted a fool poor and simple and rejected by those who possesse onely the false hope who seek the riches honour and praise of the Kings and Princes of this world which are the manifest fruits and effects of their hope And thus is Christ become the true riches of the soul and the creatures glory whereby he comes to tread all other things under his feet and counts them but as drosse and dung in comparison to it So here all may prove and try their hope by its manifest and apparent opperations in brief the one hoping this and that power will be the chiefest that they may have accesse unto it to maintain their Church and Religion and the other desiring that God onely may have and take the dominion and that he alone may rule and reign because he knoweth it is in God and the gates of Hell can never prevail against it therefore matters not nor fears any outward strength because his strength and hope is in God alone who purifies and makes clean all who hope and put their trust in him by the power of his own seed in them to rule and reign which bruiseth the seed and head of the Serpent for ever and conquers the last enemy and such onely come to witnesse the true and living birth which is of God which sinneth not and comes to be restored into the same glorious state and condition as Adam was in before he fell And this is the substance of all words and also it is the end of Christs ministring even to bring people unto this by which they come to know as I have said the promise of God fulfilled to wit the seed of the woman to bruise the Serpents head and their bodyes to be Temples and habitations of God through the Spirit and he to live and walk in them as he hath promised but the ministry of Satan is to preach up sin as long as men live by which means he may keep his Kingdome for he hath no other Kingdome but it Therefore let men professe what they will in word he matters not as long as he hath his Dominion in their hearts and his head unbruised there where he sitteth as God even in the Temple of God and this is the abomination of desolation amongst the sons of men which is to be made desolate in this the day of Gods Almighty power in which the mistery of the Man of sin shall be fully revealed and made manifest and the Kingdome of the most High shall be established with men and in them And this great and glorious work shall not be by might nor by force of men but by the arm and Spirit of the Almighty God whose power shall be evidently made manifest to free and set at liberty the sons of men from the bonds of sin and corruption that they may no longer be Satans bond-slaves I say all such shall come to witnesse this who shall cleave to the Lord with sincerity of heart in this the day of his gracious love unto the sons and daughters of men but those that reject his love and will none of his reproof shall witnesse and also feel his power in wrath and dreadful vengeance who will assuredly render unto them according to their deeds and so much the more as they have slighted the day of their visitation and rather believed Satan and his messengers that his power is greater to keep them in sin and bondage than Gods was to deliver them though the Scripture it self which they seem to professe beareth witnesse against them And the Apostles Ministry was to open the blind eyes and to turn people from darknesse to light and from Satans power unto God and they who believe in this Ministry and receive it in the love thereof they come perfectly to know as they are turned from darkness which is the power of Satan unto light which is the power of God and witnesse in deed and in truth the power of God greater to deliver from sin than Satans power is to keep in sin therefore the unbeliever and Satan and his Ministers shall all be taken and cast into the lake of Brimstone and Fire and be tormented for ever and ever and the little stone which is cut out of the mountain without hands shall become a great mountain and cover the whole earth for ever and shall grind all his enemies to powder for God Almighty hath determined it and his Decree is unalterable Therefore O thou Nation of France in particular I warn thee as one whom God hath warned and constrained so to do that thou stand not in the stubbornnesse of thy heart against the Lord and his Anointed in this the day of his power but submit unto him by repentance and forsaking of thy sins that thou mayst find mercy else he will teare thee in pieces and none shall be able to deliver thee out of his hands which is his eternal word unto you all Therefore lay it to
to shine as his own elect and chosen people as the Stars in the Firmament and many shall desire to be joyned unto you yea the day hastneth apace That ten shall lay hold of h m which is a Jew and say we will eat our own bread and drink our own drink only let us be called by thy name yea this and much more which is hard to be uttered either by tongue or Pen shall be the portion of him who is of the true circumcision which is made without hands who worships God in the Spirit a City and habitation is prepared for them whose builder and maker is God wherein the Lamb shall be their Light and they shall walk in it for ever and ever Therefore come all away to the light which is the true door into the new and Heavenly Jerusalem wherein no unclean thing can or ever shall enter thereby by the light must ye come to be cleansed which is the blood of the Covenant which is freely shed abroad for the cleansing of all the sons of Adam therefore trample it not under your feet as the blood of a dead man and count it not an unholy thing for by it alone were all the Saints of old cleansed and it did not serve them onely to talk of but were truly purged purified and made clean by it and so witnessed Justification and Sanctification in this life without which they never could for except you come to witnesse your souls cleansed from sin and sanctified with the blood of the everlasting Covenant you cannot be justified by God for God justifieth no unclean thing and remember it is written That without holinesse no man shall see the Lord and lay it to heart and there ponder these things in the coole of the day which if you do The grace of God will not be bestowed upon you in vain but through its pure teachings and vertue you will come to witnesse salvation to your souls and death swallowed up in victory and he that hath the power of it which is the Devil then will that saying be brought to pass O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory and will thank God with your souls bodies and spirits and serve him therewith as holy vessels sanctified to his use who hath given you the victory over all and living praise will issue out of your mouths not by constraint but willingly out of a pure heart for evermore to the living praise of him who hath redeemed your souls out of the horrible pit and set your feet upon a Rock even upon Mount Sion to live and Reign for ever And this is the true Salvation of God through Christ Jesus which thousands witnesse at this day in England and praise the Lord with one heart mind and soul continually which is their only joy and delight God only being witnessed to be their Judge King and Law-giver who hath saved them with everlasting Salvation from sin and uncleanness and are translated into the Kingdom of his dear Son and there live and delight only to walk to the praise and glory of the glorious God of all grace who hath thus bestowed his rich grace and mercy upon them which also is freely and richly tendred unto you O ye inhabitants of France therefore slight it not but draw nigh unto God and he will draw unto you for he is a God at hand and not afar off even unto them who call upon him with a simple heart and is a ready help unto such in time of need and you will witnesse him so unto you if ye embrace the riches of his grace mercy and goodnesse which is freely tendred to every individual of you without respect of persons Therefore call upon the Lord while he is neere least when you call he will not answer which is counsell of life unto you all which if you reject then hear what the Spirit saith ye shall have your portions with the wicked stiff-necked unbelievers and rebellious and your children shall enjoy the blessing for God of a truth will be glorified in many of them and you also if ye count not your selves unworthy of Eternal life which is richly and plentifully tendred unto you Therefore cease from all your Idol-shepherds and hireling-Priests which feed themselves and not the flock preach up sin as long as men live which shews they are imperfect Ministers and cannot make the comers thereunto perfect therefore I say cease from them in time least while the blind lead the blind ye both fall into the ditch for they are truly the Ministers of Satan and preach up his power to be greater than the power of God even to have more force to keep people in sin then the power of God hath to redeem from sin as hath already been said and so make the coming of Christ to be of no effect which was to redeem people from the Law which was added because of transgression up to God to live in his power which was before transgression was therefore saith the Apostle in what the Law could not doe in that it was weak God sending his own Son in the likenesse of sinful flesh to condemn sin in the flesh that the righteousnesse of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit Mark this was the true end of Christs coming not to destroy the Law because the Law is righteous and layeth hold on the transgressor but he came to destroy the transgressions and so he redeems all who come unto him from the curse of the Law by destroying the works of the Devil in people that so the righteousnesse thereof might be fulfilled in them by the power of Christ Jesus and so they come to the Spirits of just men made perfect the seed of the Serpent being bruised and wholly destroyed in them by Christ the seed of God in whom all the promises are Yea and Amen and they who witnesse this witnesse the end of Christs coming and the new birth which is incorruptible of God which sinneth not and they who come to witnesse this know that the power of Satan is not greater then the power of God in Christ Jesus who saves his people from their sins and this is the only true living Ministry which is to the salvation of the soul and all who preach any other doctrine then this though we our selvs or an Angell from heaven let them be accursed therefore consider your doctrine who preach against perfection and for keeping men in sin as long as they live and then the Devil knows he hath them sure enough afterwards for the wages of sin is death out of which there is no redemption if the creature dye therein for as the tree falls so it lyeth And this is the truth of God to all the inhabitants of the Earth therefore high and low rich and poor bond and free be ye warned and while ye have time prize it and if ye call upon God who
ever for the witnesse of God in me answered thereto and that their message was true and faithfull for I had that in me which had never consented to the evil of my wayes from my youth up untill that day but was a witnesse against me when I did sin against God and after had brought sorrow upon me for my vaine and wicked conversation and after I had believed their report concerning the holy pure light of Christ as they told me it came from him and would lead to him I witnessed their words to be true and at this time am ready to seale to the truth thereof with my blood if called thereunto of the Lord for through it I came to have accesse to God and no other way yet so as through judgement which laid hold of the transgressor in me and all that ever I had done came to be judged by him who sitteth upon the throne and liveth for evermore So I came to witnesse the promise of God in me that judgement should rest for a light to the people for it was so in me and I heard a voice saying This is the way walk in it turn neither to the right hand nor to the left so my teacher came to be near me even in me and will never be removed into a corner any more if diligently heeded and followed which teacher is the light of Christ in the conscience which shined in the darknesse in me though the darknesse could not comprehend it but as I came to heed it diligently it did comprehend all the darkness in me and for me and hath given me a clear discovery of all things pertaining to the Mysterie of the Kingdom of God which are needful unto salvation and I came to see Pharaoh and his host overturned which kept the seed of God in bondage in me and I passed the Red Sea into the wilderness where I came to know a sacrifice offered up which he did accept and not before and then I came to mount Sinai to the giving forth of the Law which was terrible to the flesh but it was and is glorious unto me and will be for ever for it laid hold on nothing but on that part which is estranged from God wherein I had seen many wonders and overturning of enemies yet many temptations and provocations I had to returne into Egypt again and that I should never be able to enter the promised Land the enemies were so great which I know all will come to be tempted in like manner who come truly to travail towards the Land of rest but to such an one I say be of good cheer and courage for if thy heart be given to God he will of a truth be with thee in all thy travails even to the end thereof and thy work will be only to keep in the Faith and so thou wilt find thy strength will be to stand still and see the Salvation of God For this testimony I faithfully give and bear for the Lord that it is he only who doth and will subdue all their enemies in and for them be they never so many or mighty who truly put their whole trust and confidence in his name alone who is a strong tower in time of need I say such shall possess the gates of their enemies and shall come to witness with me as I do at this day the elder to serve the younger which is the true work and promise of God and the true travail of the seed into the Lord of rest and there is no other salvation to be looked for even the subduing casting out of the seed of the bond woman that the Seed of the free woman which is Christ the Son of the most high God over all blessed for evermore may have the preheminency in the creature and thus coming out of Egypts darknesse I came to see that all the teachers in the world made by the will of man were but soul-deceivers for they had not the word from the Lord neither were they sent by him therefore did not they profit the people at all and were but Babels builders one building and another destroying and all in the confusion and the most refined of them were but Ministers of the letter and not of the Spirit boasting of other mens lines made ready unto their hands serving and worshipping the works of their own hands according to the oldnesse of the letter and not according to the newness of the Spirit and teaching them for Doctrine the traditions of men And thus are poor people in an expectation of deliverance and salvation through their teachings but all in vain for when they have heard them all their life time they tell them they can never be freed from sin and yet tell them they are good Christians though they be Drunkards Swearers Liars and wicked persons and this is the fruits of their Ministry which all shall witness with me who come to the one teacher and Shepherd of the soul who saveth all to the uttermost that come unto him who is the light of the world and enlightneth every one which cometh into the world who saith Learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart who is the way the truth and the life and he is the door even the light for the way is but one the truth is but one which is the light the onely way to God and there is not another And no man cometh to the Father but by me saith Christ the light the door the way the life so none can ever come to God nor the way to God nor the truth but who comes to the light wherewith they are inlightned which comes from Christ and condemneth all the evil that is in the creature and sheweth a man all that ever he hath done for saith the woman of Samaria Is not this the Christ who hath told me all that ever I have done So all likewise who come unto the light they witnesse with her and with me the same thing and all who come into subjection unto it shall come to witnesse the wild Colt tamed upon which never man sat and then and not till then is Hosannah sung nor blessed can he ever be who comes in the name of the Lord by any untill this be fulfilled and witnessed by them and in them and this onely is the state of a true convert and true Christian and is my testimony for the Lord which shall stand for ever whether ye will hear or forbear And thus far have I cleared my conscience towards you in obedience towards God and love to your immortal souls therefore prize it while ye have time least the things which belong to your peace be hid from your eyes and a lamentation be taken up by the just for you as was over Jerusalem saying O Jerusalem Jerusalem how often would I have gathered thee as a Hen gathereth her chickins under her wings and thou wouldest not Therefore I say again and again lay it to heart and prize Gods everlasting love unto you all which is freely tendred unto you notwithstanding that your sins have surpassed the measure of many Nations and remember Nineveh who repented at Jonahs preaching in Sackcloath and ashes whose sins and abominations never surpassed yours which is a word of truth unto you all therefore take her for an example and repent in time least Gods judgements overtake you for Gods anger is kindled against the workers of iniquity he will destroy them from off the face of the earth that nothing but holiness may reign for evermore And the meek alone shall inherit the earth for ever and ever And this is the infallible Decree and purpose of my God which can never be recalled but will stand for ever and it hastneth to be fulfilled and he will overthrow Powers Princes Kings and Dominions even all such as shall oppose or withstand him in this his glorious work whom he will destroy in his fury will break them in pieces Therefore O ye powers of the earth down with your Crowns at the feet of the Lamb and ye shall find mercy but if ye resist him he will grind you to powder And this is the word of the Lord God unto you all and I shall be innocent before the Lord God of my life for ever therefore be awakned and beware what you do now ye are warned for you will be left without excuse if you perish and you shall know that you have been warned in time by one whom the Lord hath truly required so to do which if I should not wo wo would be unto me for ever so I shall lay down my life here in Peace and Rest and shall rejoyce if ye take warning more then in the treasures of Egypt who am called by the name of Charles Baily THE END