Father is in him for people read and consider as you prize the salvation of your precious souls For the soul that sinneth shall dye as saith the Prophet Likewise your Priests tell you you must honour and invoke the Saints that are dead and get pieces of their bones to carry about you such vanity as this do they feed you with for saith Christ The flesh profiteth nothing but the Spirit quickneth This he spake to them who were looking at his flesh outwardly but did you once come to the Spirit which only profiteth you would come to know the will of God fulfilled in you which is your sanctification and then you will be ashamed to make reliques of one anothers cloaths flesh or bones but will come to know the true Sanctification to be in and by the Word which is Christ for so Christ prayed Sanctifie them by thy word thy word is truth and they who come to know the truth come to know the word in them which sanctifies them through soul and body and this word David knew right well and the vertue thereof who said Thy word have I hid in my mouth that I might not sin against thee And if you once come to the knowledge and power of his word it will keep you also from sinning against God which is the true sanctified state and this is no new Doctrine for Moses the true Servant of the Lord preached the same to the children of Israel saying The word is nigh you even in your mouths and in your hearts Mark the word was nigh them even in them and this was the word of faith the Apostle Paul preached he that comes to the word of faith comes to that which purifies and makes clean and here the sanctification comes to be witnessed in the particular by which means the perfect unity comes to be known and enjoyed with the Saints with Christ in God so here will be no need to invoke one another but all will be asked in the name of Christ the power of God which power will infallibly be heard and answered of God For whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name it shall be given you saith Christ Jesus who is the true Teacher and Shepherd of the soul even of all that come unto him who will teach them how to pray and to whom even God the Judge of all And by this you may sufficiently prove your Pope and Priests Doctrine to be none of Christs but contrary to him which is Antichrist You are also forbidden by them meats and marriage which the Apostle said was a Doctrine of Devils speaking lyes in hypocrisie unto you having their Consciences seared with an hot Iron for they forbid you that which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth for every Creature of God is good if it be received with thanksgiving for it is sanctified by the Word of God and Prayer 1 Tim. 3.4 5. For unto the pure all things are pure For they that come to the purifying come to know all things pure unto them but to the impure nothing is pure their minds and consciences being defiled therefore men knowing this but who comes to the true hope which purifies even as Christ is pure which is a purifying throughout in soul and body in this life yea and gives Dominion over Sin Hell Death and the Devil and he that witnesseth this hope in him needs not a Purgatory to purge him after he is dead for he comes to be purified as Christ is pure as also saith the Scripture This is the true Christian hope whereby he comes to be-purified and made clean as also knowing that God hath created all things for them that fear him but to the impure as I have said nothing is pure unto them though they may lye and say they fast when they only forbear one sort of meat and eat another which will but adde to their condemnation and their Priests which doth teach them to lye will not be able to deliver them but the Teachers and the Teached shall perish together except they repent for the Lake is prepared for the lyar for is it not damnable lying and hypocrisie for men to say they fast when they only forbear one sort of meat and eat another Is not fish flesh Doth not the Apostle call it so And in this your pretended fast you drink Wine and feast your selves without fear whilest some have hardly bread to eat These things are an abomination unto the Lord God of Heaven and Earth for his wrath you shall surely feel for this hypocrisie except you repent though you say you hope to be saved that shall stand you in no stead in the dreadful day of vengeance which is very nigh you For the hypocrites hope shall perish as saith the Scripture and though some of you who are more zealously given than others may fast and hang down your heads like a Bulrush for a day Pharisee-like and give almes to be seen of men which is as though you offered up Swines blood or as the cutting off of a Dogs neck it being in that nature which crucifies the Just in your selves even that which would lead you out of observation of dayes and times up to God which was before time was and untill you come to take diligent heed to this just principle of God in your selves which condemns for all hypocrisie sin and deceit profess what you will it will stand you in no stead ye though you should give all your goods to the poor and your bodies to be burnt it will avail you nothing for it leads all who diligently follow it to do to all men as they would others should do unto them which is the true Christian life in which only all works are accepted with God for it is the fulfilling the Law and the Prophets for the Law was added because of transgression and untill there be a fulfilling of it in you ye are under the curse profess what you will Some may say this is an hard saying who can bear it Did not Christ Redeem us from under the curse of the Law and was not he made manifest for that end I answer to this end was the Son of God made manifest in the flesh to condemn sin in the flesh that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us and all who come to know the teachings of God in the Spirit know him to fulfill the Law not to abolish or destroy it in as much as it is righteous and layeth hold on nothing but the transgressor to condemnation therefore saith Paul The Ministration of condemnation was glorious in its time and this all the Saints and holy men of God did witness Christ the righteousness of God manifest in them who did all their works in them and for them and by which all boasting was excluded because It is not of him that willeth nor him that runneth but in God that sheweth mercy
is an Abomination amongst many even to Turk and Jew even in cheating and cozening swearing and lying and open Abominations which causeth them to blaspheme the name of Christ therefore will the unresistable vengeance of God come irresistably upon you suddenly except you repent and plead no longer antiquity for your Religion seeing it is but of sin and uncleanness in which you openly live as all the heathen and profane ever did yea grosser Idolatry is not to be found amongst the sons of men than is in the Territories and Dominions of Rome this day though ye seek to paint your selves over with the name of God ye do but shew the more to every one that is not wilfully blind that ye are of Mistery Babylon the Mother of Harlots Mark that whose children are such as hold the truth in unrighteousness and have changed the glory of the incorruptible God as much as in you lyeth though his glory cannot be changed into flesh but you have perverted his true worship into a lye and make Images and prostrate your selves before them and yet say it is not Idolatry this is mistery Babylon which is now made manifest Glory Honour and Praise be to the Lord God for ever and let all the faithful say Amen for the secrets of the Whore is laid open with her Abominations and the place of her torment is prepared for her who hath thus made the Nations drunk with the Cup of her fornication out of which the Kings of the earth have been made drunk and not only have compelled the people of their Nations but others which thing will be heavy in the end if they repent not before it be too late for God is a righteous Judge who will render to every one according to their works without respect of persons time or places Therefore be wise O ye Kings be instructed O ye Judges of the Earth and serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling in your Generation and beware of persecuting of any people for that will unthrone you if ye meddle with the Throne of God which is the Consciences of men and women Therefore let it suffice you that your sword be turned against the evil-doer in the Land so will you be a praise to them that do well and blessed will you be of the Lord if ye put this in effect to wit to suppresse and expel Idolatry lying swearing drunkennesse and whoredome in the Land where ye are Rulers but if ye suffer those things to abound as they do this day in this Nation then know assuredly as the Lord God lives who hath created the Heavens and the Earth ye shall be expelled and those who shall be found more worthy than you shall be exalted in your stead though the Lord may take them from the Sheepfold as he did David and think not to stand because of your greatness and strength or by the multitude of an host Remember Nebuchadnezzar whom the Lord humbled unto the dust and made him to know that the Most High ruleth and reigneth in the Kingdomes of men Therefore ye Rulers of this Nation to you do I speak in particular I say hear and give ear and the words of my mouth shall be the words of truth and life unto you if ye receive them but if ye slight and reject them and will have none of the counsel of the Allmighty which through me is proffer'd freely unto you that ye may be warned from the evil which is to come then know assuredly that blacknesse and darknesse shall be your portion and habitation for ever and Gods dreadful face you shall never see but in judgement therefore I say give over for the Lord is raising to himself a Seed and People in this Nation which shall serve him with fear and trembling and hath purposed to establish them in peace and righteousnesse in this Land that living examples they may be unto all the Inhabitants about them and this hath the Lord determined to do in thee O France Therefore as I said ye Judges Rulers Officers Counsellors and King be ye warned as from the Lord that ye touch them not though you may have many false accusations against them and reports as people not fitting to live upon the earth as the innocent was in all Ages so reported to be as people being destructive to Law Rulers and Government and the like and enemies to the King Oh let this word be turned against these false Accusers and beware of touching the Innocent for for their sakes the Lord will rebuke Kings and he is the same as ever he was And this is a true and faithful warning and prophecy which shall shortly come to passe that when it come you may not be ignorant thereof and be left without excuse Remember Nineveh who at the preaching of Jonas repented and do ye take warning in time Consider and lay it to heart and look through the Nations ye Rulers thereof and weigh the thing seriously in your secret parts whether Nineveh or any other Nation could abound more in abomination than this Nation or that the city of Sodome or the inhabitants of Gomorrah was more in lust pride and fulnesse of bread then Paris surely is nay the like was hardly to be found or paraleld in all generations for pride hypocrisie lust deceit and murder and whatsoever is evill Therefore I say againe Be ye warned and take diligent heed that ye persecute not any whom the Lord is raising up amongst you bringing and sending amongst you to bear witnesse unto or against any thing even against the grievous Idolatry and whoredome which aboundeth amongst you and in all the Land and if ye instead of receiving their testimonies persecute and imprison them or doe them any harm better it were that a milstone were put about your necks and that ye were cast into the midst of the Sea for the Lord will avenge their innocent causes and utterly overturn their oppressors and will rebuke Kings for their sakes yea Potentates Armies Judges and Rulers as he hath done already in the Land of England and he who is mightier then the mightiest is on their parts and will rebuke and tear in pieces their adversaries for the Lord hath long born the iniquities of this Nation and his righteous Spirit hath long been grieved and he hath looked down out of his holy habitation amongst you and beholdeth your state and seeth that none of you so much as consider the cause of the needy and oppressed so as to ease their burthens but every one of you striving to maintain his own lust by cruelty fraud and oppression the like is not to be found in any Nation but the Lord will break the bonds of oppression and the oppressed shall goe free and be set at liberty to Gods endlesse praise for ever The mighty and terrible day of the Lord God is come and is at hand wherein the hearts of all shall be made manifest and accordingly shall every one
sins ye remit they are remitted they received also a Commission from God to preach the Gospel which none can do without the gift of the Holy Ghost which is only able to forgive save and destroy for though it was said to Peter Thou art Peter and upon this Rock will I build my Church this was not spoken unto him as he was a fleshly man but as he had the revelation of the Holy pure Spirit of God upon which the Church is built for the Church is in God who is the only ground and pillar of truth against which the Gates of Hell can never prevail though they prevailed against Peter after them words were spoken unto him so far as that he denyed his Master so here you that are not stark drunk and poysoned with this conception that the Incorruptible Church of God which is only built with living stones elect and precious Christ Jesus being the chief corner stone is built upon a man which is corrupt for it is evident Peter is dead and some of you say you have his bones amongst you which shews their foundation to be decayed had it been upon his person which never could be but upon his spirit by which he made that good confession That Christ was the Son of God which none can truly do without nor call him Lord. Therefore Pope Cardinals Monks Jesuites and Fryers of all sorts come forth and vindicate your selves and shew your Commission for what you do and from whom you had it for from Peter nor from Christ you are never able to shew you had it neither are you able to vindicate your Doctrine and Practice no further then your Inquisition Law and Prison will reach all which weapons will fail you in the terrible day of vengeance which is coming upon your heads for as you have made the Inhabitants of the earth drink deep of the Cup of Mistery Babylons Harlots you likewise shall be made to drink deep of the Cup of Gods vengeance even the dregs thereof shall be wrung out to you and your nakednesse shall be laid open for every eye to behold it And this is the word of the Lord God to you all which can never be recalled nor passe away unfulfilled upon your heads Therefore Oh ye Inhabitants of the Earth hast hast and repent least ye partake of her plagues for if ye endeavour and strive to uphold her ye shall of a truth partake of her Judgements Again I say be ye warned before it be too late and turn to the Lord by true repentance by forsaking and fasting from sin which if you do there is rich mercy in store for you and plenteous redemption in Christ Jesus who is the Light of the world who hath enlightned every one that cometh into the world with his true Light which reproves for sin and evill in the inward parts and if you believe in it and follow it and give up wholly to be guided by it you will become children of the Light and have an Inheritance with the Saints in the Light for the same which condemns you for sin would also purifie and cleanse you from all sin for it is the blood of the Covenant which is plentifully shed for lost and undone man and untill this be witnessed even a purifying washing and cleansing from sin there is no forgiveness for because of transgression the Law was added this is the truth of God unto you all sent amongst you to no other end but that you might be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth which would make you free and lead you out of the deceit of the deceiver as to be no longer deceived by him For seriously consider what have you from them whom you spend your time and substance about but the sight of a company of Images which they make you make Idols of by prostrating your selves before them which is absolutely against the righteous Law of God the Creator of Heaven and Earth see the Scripture Exodus 20. And thus you are fed as long as you feed them and put in their mouths but if you ever come to cease from feeding their inordinate desires they will soon prepare war against you though they have given you the name of Christians by sprinkling a little water upon you when you were children and knew not what they did and this for filthy lucres sake they fed you with the name of Christians but are wholly out of the nature themselves for the true nature and life of a Christian is pure peaceable and easie to be intreated not rendring evill for evill but alwayes overcoming evil with good doing unto all men as they would all men should do unto them which nature they manifestly shew they are out of By their fruits which is the Mark Christ said ye shall know them For it is very evident that none of them will be put into Prison for any thing pertaining to Religion but they will cause others to be imprisoned which thing Christians never did for their weapons were not carnal but spiritual and mighty through God to the pulling down of the strong holds of the kingdome of the man of sin neither did they wrestle with flesh and blood but with Principalities and Powers and spiritual wickednesse in High places which captivate the creature This was the Christians warfare which the Pope and all his Adherents are out of who swear men to destroy Creatures as long as they live contrary to Christ who came not to destroy mens lives but to save them who saith Swear not at all but the Pope as I said contrary to this swears men to destroy creatures as long as they live and to make away with flesh and blood with carnal weapons But they who smite with the sword shall be smitten with the sword and as they have loved blood blood shall they have to drink and so much the more because they have done it under the pretence of Religion and of the defending of the true Church and Faith which needeth not a carnal weapon to defend it for the true Church is in God therefore the gates of Hell cannot prevail against it let them be open never so wide and likewise the true Faith of Gods Elect gives victory over Sin Hell Death and the Grave and needeth not a Defendor but is able to defend it self and conquer all the powers of darknesse which ariseth up against it so it plainly appeareth they have not the true Faith and Church which must have a carnal weapon to defend it and it being so is the cause they cannot defend themselves without an outward power to uphold them and if once that fail them their kingdome would soon have an end and the true Christians kingdome shall flourish and prosper for their kingdome and dominion is invisible and without end being redeemed out of Kingdomes Tongues and Nations to follow the Lamb through many tribulations to enter into the everlasting Kingdome of their Father which is without end
several houses for himself to dwell in but inricheth all his posterity purchasing to one of his kindred a Prince-ship and by this it appeareth he hath not forsaken all but covets all or as much as in him lyeth to have Christ when he rode was contented with an Asse but the Pope when he goeth forth though but a mile or two is carried by men and notwithstanding hath several Horses to attend upon him and a Coach with six pompered Horses to tend upon him empty which is a horrid shame for any single eye to behold in such a one who taketh upon him the name of Christs Vicar upon Earth did he do it only in the name of an Earthly Prince his abomination would not be altogether so great but this sheweth him to be in the way of the vain Heathen and not a man of God nor God-like in these actions for Paul when he was called of God into his holy Ministry he immediately obeyed the Heavenly voyce and went and preached the Gospel and not go and shut himself up in great possessions and there give forth Indulgences for pardons for sins but on the contrary declared the terrors of the Lord against all sin and said Such as men sowed such should they reap if they sowed to the flesh they should of the flesh reap corruption but if they sowed to the Spirit they should reap life everlasting And also said That the wages of sin is death So that this was far from giving pardons for sins as the Pope doth Christ saith The Heathen exercise Lordship one over another but with you it shall not be so speaking to those who had truly forsaken all to follow him He that will be greatest among you let him be servant to all for he that exalteth himself shall be abased and he that abaseth himself shall be exalted saith Christ who said Learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart But with the Pope and in his Dominion there is Lording and exercising Lordship one over another striving who shall be greatest amongst them as may be seen in the Ecclesiastical Courts in Rome and elsewhere where they are suing and striving for honour and by this they shew they are wholly degenerated from the holy life of Christ and his righteous Commands who was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief who sought not his own glory but the glory of him that sent him who was in travels and tumults in revilings and reproaches giving his back to the smiter and his cheeks to him which plucked off the hair when he was reviled reviled not again when he was persecuted he entreated and rendred not evil for evil but sought the good of all and bore the contradiction of sinners This was his holy life and example in the dayes of his flesh even in that body which was prepared him to do the will of his Father in leaving all his holy examples to follow And now let the Pope and all his Adherents be measured by these fruits they will be found wholly contrary and against him for instead of being acquainted with grief they cause others to be grieved and shut themselves up in the fattest possessions and they are fatned themselves as for the day of slaughter sporting themselves with Wine and Musick destroying and devouring the fat of the Creation this is apparent to every single eye And the Pope instead of bearing the contradiction of sinners is one with them and tollerates them in it and suffereth none to come to speak with him without using a deal of flattering and deceit and when they do obtain the liberty must fall down and worship before him and commonly kisse his toe which is a horrible and detestable thing in the sight of God and instead of being persecuted causeth all to be persecuted within his Dominion that will not bow to these his wicked practices And instead of submitting his body to do the will of God he pompers it dayly Dives-like whilest the poor fatherless and widdow is oppressed one need not go far to prove this for it may be seen all over his Dominion in the open streets Christ saith Freely ye have received freely give For his Ministry is a free Ministry but the Popes is altogether contrary for there is nought to be had of his Ministers but what the people must give money for yea when they have given money all the dayes of their life they must give money to be prayed for after they are dead Ages and Generations cannot paralel this horrible cheat which they through deceit and hypocrisie deceive the hearts of the simple with not an Age I say since the Apostacy can shew the like And thus it is the people are spending their money for that which is not bread and their labour for that which profiteth not ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth as plainly appeareth for if they had come to the knowledge of the truth the truth would have made them free as saith Christ who preached no such thing as Purgatory neither did he tell people they must give money for Masses to be said for them after they were dead to be had out from thence as the Popes doctrine teacheth So this is not with but against Christ and so Antichrist for saith Christ Whosoever is not with me is against me and the tree is known by its fruit and this is a mark for evermore for by their fruits we know them though they may put on Sheeps cloathing yet inwardly they are ravening Wolvs alienated from the Spirit of truth which would lead into all truth and being from it erred are given over to believe lies that they might be damned and so run greedily on in the way of destruction and having lost the key of true knowledge have run on in the fleshly knowledge and wisdome which is earthly sensual and devilish and in it are at enmity against God for that wisdome never knew him but on the contrary ever persecuted them which did it being the Seed of the Bond-woman which persecuted the Seed of the free-woman from righteous Abel unto this day enmity being put between the two Seeds for ever and each Seed is manifestly known by its fruits the one gendereth to sin bondage and corruption and the other keeps the Commandments of God the one a Persecutor and Murderer and the other a Sufferer So here one may see the Pope and all his Adherents as in a glass what seed and lineage they are of even by these their fruits which to their faces testifies what Generation they are of witness their Inquisition and places of tortures which they have so that if any seem to arise or stir among them and declare any thing which is not altogether suitable to their lusts then presently to the Inquisition with them away with them they are Hereticks and deserve not to live and so imprison and shut them up it is much if ever they come out except
given you therefore cease from asking in any other name Search and read and be no longer deceived for God is come to look for fruit in the earth and every tree which is not found bearing fruit to God shall be cut down and cast into the fire Read the Parable of the Fig-tree and lay it to heart before it be too late and cease from your Taskmasters which tell you a house of stone is a Church contrary to the Scripture which sayes the Church is in God the ground and pillar of truth you may see in this they also deceive you 1 Thess 1.1 For in the true Church nothing that defileth can enter but in yours drunkards lyars and all manner of unclean persons may enter Thus you are deceived by the lying and lightnesse of your Teachers who through covetous practices make Merchandize of your souls for were you truly instituted you would come to know that the Saints bodies are the Temple of the Holy Ghost and their bodies was not for fornication which is openly tollerated amongst you but for the Lord and the Lord for the body therefore you are ignorant of this Doctrine of Paul who said Know ye not that your bodies are the Members of Christ for if you were not ignorant thereof you would be afraid to make them the members of an Harlot For who is joyned to an Harlot is one body for two saith he shall be one flesh Therefore repent and return to God and then you will come to witness your bodyes the Temples of the Holy Ghost which God will put in you and you shall no more be your own for through repentance you will come to know that ye are bought with a price and so will come to glorifie God in your bodies and spirits which then will be Gods as you come to the blood of cleansing as the Saints of old did and so did witnesse God to live and walk in them which was a true Christians state for they were led by the Spirit of God and so became the Sons of God but if any come amongst you now and say they have the Spirit of God in them ye make a mock at them and say they are mad and so are ready to stone them though the true Christians did witnesse the same else they could not have been Christians For it is the life of Christ in the Creature which makes him a Christian through which he comes to witnesse the promise of God to be fulfilled which the Prophet Joel prophesied of saying Thus shall it come to passe afterwards that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesie your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions And also upon your servants and handmaids in those dayes will I poure out my Spirit Therefore I in the Spirit do declare unto you my Countrey men this acceptable day that you may turn from your sins and find mercy that the powring out of the Spirit ye may come to witnesse amongst you which will lead you into all truth and from your deceitfull Teachers so will you come to know the spirit of prophesie as the Saints of old did who were truly sanctified through the blood of the Lamb for saith Paul unto them You may all prophesie one by one which was the true Churches order And againe Your Priests tels you you must look for teaching from them but the Covenant of God is That all his people shall be taught of him For this shall be the Covenant that I will make with the House of Israel After these dayes saith the Lord I will put my Law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and I will be their God and they shall be my People and they shall no more teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least to the greatest of them saith the Lord For I will forgive their iniquities and I will remember their sins no more And all the children of the Covenant come to witnesse this which is their great peace for they that come to witnesse the Anointing need not mans teaching but if this you should come to witnesse your Priests should soon be discovered which is the cause they every way hold you in bondage and blindnesse being Ministers thereof themselves as manifestly appeareth by their fruits for were they Ministers of light they would bring people to the light and so to the true knowledge of God for God is light saith the Apostle God is light saith he and in him is no darknesse at all and if we walk in the light as he is in the light then have we fellowship one with another Mark the Saints fellowship was in the light therefore he that saith He knoweth God and walketh in darknesse is a lyar for he that cometh to the light cometh to know the teachings of God which the everlasting Ministry brings into So here People you may measure your Priests by the Scriptures of truth And again Your Priests tell you you must give money to pray for those which are dead which is an invention of the Devill the deceiver from whence that deceit sprung to make you believe there is a place called Purgatory to be purged in after you are dead which thing is only taught for filthy lucres sake for the Scriptures no where speak of a Purgatory for men to be purged in after they are dead but on the contrary it saith As the Tree falls so it lyes for such as a man soweth such shall he reap therefore the true Ministry was for to bring people to the Spirit of God that so their sowing might be to the Spirit the fruits of which is life everlasting So here they were brought off from the works of the flesh by the vertue of the blood of Christ Jesus and came to be cleansed from all sin for saith Paul When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness Rom. 6.20 Mark They were made free from sin so here was no need of a Purgatory to be purged from sin after death being made free from sin while in the body as Adam was and as true Christians were who followed Christ through the regeneration even to the witnessing of the new-birth which sinueth not as saith the Scriptures He that is born of God sinneth not neither can he because his seed remaineth in him And as we know that God is righteous so we know that he that doth righteousnesse is born of him and so this is the Christians boldness in the day of Judgement that as he is so are they in this present world so according to Christs words they come to be perfect even as their Father which is in Heaven is perfect And this is a true Christians life to be like Christ to live in him as he doth in the Father such only are Christians who witnesse Christ in them as the
by which means they are not found worthy Therefore ye which are straglers come away even ye who are as much strangers as any fear not faint not ye shall have your penny as well as those who laboured in the heat of the day I say come away a feast of fat things is prepared for you even a goodly heritage which floweth with Milk and Honey there is large possessions therein my friends for you and if ye be willing and obedient ye shall eat of the good thereof yea In my Fathers house are many Mansions and if it were not so I should not say it but as my soul hath richly fed thereof so I would all should come away and partake with me of the same I am truly filled with love ever as a vessel which is filled with new Wine even to all the whole 〈◊〉 of God and would if it were possible perswade all the Sons of men to come away for the Bride hath made her self ready and the Marriage-Chamber is prepared And the voice of the Spirit saith come yea all that will come freely see therefore that you have your Lamps trimmed all to the Light that ye may not be of the number of the foolish Virgins and so miss your entrance into the Marriage-Chamber for though the door may be freely opened yet it will not be alwayes therefore Blessed are they who are found watching that when the cry of the Bridegroom cometh they may enter for they shall enjoy the joy of their Lord and there will be no more cause of weeping because the Bridegroom will be alwayes with them but they which are foolish shall be shut out among the Dogs and Sorcerers therefore be ye warned that ye may be partakers of peace rest and joy for evermore and think not any thing too dear to part from for the price of the Mark of the High Calling which is in Christ Jesus that is set before you for saith Christ Whosoever shall forsake father and mother wife or children house or land for my sake shall receive an hundred fold in this world and in the world to come life everlasting And truly friends I tell you by true experience that the sufferings of this world is not to be compared to the joy which is and shall be revealed in us and though many may speak evil of you and revile you because ye run not into the same excess of riot as before heed it not if you receive Christ ye shall have power to become the Sons of God which will be greater riches than ye can loose in this world being made witnesses of the birth which is not of man nor by man but of God I say this will bear you over all the reproaches of the wicked one and this state you will come to know by taking up the dayly Cross and following of Christ for he that will be his Disciple must so do in reallity and in truth which Cross is not a piece of Wood or Stone neither will you need any such thing to put you in mind of God or Christ but the Cross ye will witness to be the power of God unto salvation if you believe for Paul said God forbid that he should glory in any thing but the Cross of Christ whereby he was crucified unto the world and the world unto him so as you come to witnesse the true Cross and to bear it dayly you will come to witnesse the same thing without which all your profession will be vain so as you come to dwell abide and walk here you will come to know what the true Baptisme of Christ Jesus is which is the Fire and the Holy Ghost without which you cannot witnesse the body of sin put off and except you do witnesse this ye are far from Christs life which makes a true Christian for it is not only the washing away of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good Conscience towards God And this is the onely Baptisme which must be witnessed by all before they come to a Christians life for the Apostle Paul said There was but one Baptisme which is the Baptisme of the Spirit for John said He was to decrease but Christ was to encrease for his Baptisme was but a figure of the true Baptisme for Christ came through all Figures having the Substance and the Life in himself so they who come to this only true Baptisme which is onely needful to salvation they come to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost for they who knew no other but Johns Baptisme they knew not whether there was a Holy Ghost or no therefore it is said concerning Apollo That he onely knew Johns Baptisme and that Priscilla and Aquilla ministred unto him and instructed him in the way of God more perfectly Therefore be ye instructed in this matter and be ye no longer deceived with a name and shadow but come to the substance that your souls may live for ever so will blessing and mercy follow you all your dayes and happy shall you be in the end thereof though men may persecute and revile you matter it not for so they did to Christ Jesus and the Holy Prophets before you and remember The Servant is not greater than his Lord And the Saints of old who wandred up and down cloathed with skins and wandred up and down in dens and holes of the earth of whom the world was not worthy I say all who desire eternal life take them for an example in sufferings and patience and your names will be written in the Book of Life with them even amongst those who are sanctified who loved not their lives unto the death by which means they came to be crowned with immortal Glory even to live and reign with the Lamb upon Mount Sion for ever which is not to be compared with all the treasures of Egypt the Gold of Ophir or Onix stones And it being so that nothing availeth any but a new creature What do you think will all your Crosses avail you with your Beads and Reliques of dead men and womens bones with your Processioning and counterfeit Fasts Pardons for sins from the Pope and the like stuffe as your vain repetition of other mens words in your prayers and giving your means to build great Monasteries for men to be kept up a fatting like so many Swine living idlely upon the Creation of God and likewise women who are as wanton as Beasts kept and fed there I say what will all these avail you and them but adde to your condemnation seeing the ground and root of the old man stands whole in you in which nature all your works is not accepted with God who is a Spirit and must be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth and such onely he seeketh to worship him So it is no more at Jerusalem or at this or that place or house where God is worshipped neither doth he dwell in Temples made with hands for he hath no need of these things nor
of sobriety and patterns of holinesse to others but on the contrary examples of folly and vanity and instead of being husbands to one wife marriage is forbidden amongst them which is a Doctrine of Devils which the Spirit did speak expressely should come and how these men govern their families may be clearly seen by tollerating of whoredome in such an open manner But whoremongers God will judge and all who tollerate and uphold them shall in no wise be cleer thereof for they are not ignorant that the Scripture saith That the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodlinesse and unrighteousnesse of men and notwithstanding are not onely wicked and ungodly themselves but tollerate and take pleasure in them which commit all iniquity with greediness And this is the apparent fruits of that ye call The Holy City where the Whore sitteth at the Chappel dore to be hired of men Oh cursed abomination that such a place should be called A Holy City but this painting wherewith this impudent Harlot is painted shall decay and all Nations shall see her shame and the true Holy City shall be made manifest unto the sons of men let down from Heaven as a Bride adorned for her Husband into which nothing that worketh an abomination or a lye can enter though the Gates thereof are never shut but stand open day and night in which they shall not need the light of the Sun nor the Moon to give them light who walk therein but the Lamb shall be the light thereof and they shall reign for ever and ever But in Rome they must have wax Candles to give them light at noon-day and all manner of abominable works are committed therein even as Sodom and the Inhabitants of Gomorrah whose measure of iniquity never exceeded them This is not written from a spirit of envy or malice but from a simple heart being truly moved of the Lord thereunto that the simple may come to understand and consider what they are a doing and repent and turn to the Lord to worship him in Spirit and in Truth for such onely he hath regard unto and they who refuse such a visitation of love he will surely smite with a Curse which they will in no wise escape Therefore whilest you have time prize it before it be too late for the Lord waiteth to be gracious unto you Oh thou Nation of France though thine iniquities hath surpassed many yet the Lord stands at the door of your hearts and knocks and if any open to him in this the day of his love he will come in and sup with him and make his abode there so will you become a holy habitation and Temple for the Lord to dwell and abide in so ye will not need to go to Rome to fetch pieces of dead mens bones nor Pardons as murderers and all manner of unclean persons do which she receiveth and harboureth as good Christians and will give them Pardons as many as they will and thus is the hands of the wicked strengthned under the name of Peters Successor who was a true witnesse against all sin and uncleannesse whatsoever who did not settle himself in an earthly possession for he was not his own but the Lords who said unto him When thou wast young thou girdedst thy self and went whither thou wouldest but now thou art old another shall gird thee and thou shalt go whither thou wouldest not which is far from the Popes example just as light is from darknesse Oh ye Inhabitants of the Earth my bowels my bowels yearneth towards you and your captivated state my soul pityeth to see how the shadow of death hath overshadowed you by which means you are kept in sore captivity and bondage but the Lord God of my life hath compassion on you and if you do not wilfully count your selves unworthy of his tender compassion by refusing his love he will rend the Vail from off your hearts and will cause the Light of the glorious Gospel to shine therein which will give you the light and knowledge of himself in the face of Jesus Christ that ye may know that glory honour and praise belongeth only unto him not unto man from whom ye are to cease for his breath is in his nostrils and is nothing to be accounted of and make not flesh your arm least instead of a blessing the everlasting curse shame confusion come upon your heads for ever Therefore give up your selves unto the Lord in obeying his Light in all things that you may come to witnesse a sanctified state even in Soul Body and Spirit that holy pure and undefiled Temples your bodies may be for the Lord to take delight to dwell and walk therein which is the end of all Ministrations Types and Shaddows for this ends them all even to witnesse the Immanuel which is by Interpretation God with us or in us and this is the mistery which hath been hid from Ages and Generations even Christ in his people the hope of their glory So read and the Lord give you understanding to know the things which belongs to your peace and everlasting rest which if you turn to the Light of Christ Jesus in you they shall not be hid from your eyes for as it is written The light of the righteous shineth more and more untill it comes to a perfect day So if you turn to the righteous Light which condemneth you for sin then a perfect and true discovery of all things will be made manifest unto you but if you hate the Light and bring not your deeds unto it ye will be as the wicked that walk in darknesse and know not at what they stumble so be wise lest this saying come justly upon your heads as it is written The wonderers shall perish for God is working a work-in these dayes which ye cannot believe though it be told you A warning from the Lord God of Heaven and Earth is this day unto you all whose day is sprung from on high and hath visited the sons of men for he delighteth not in the destruction of any of you but rather desireth that you should turn from your sins and live for our God is a God of mercy and judgement therefore if you turn unto him by true repentance and forsake your sins which is the only true repentance never to be repented of in which you will come to witnesse judgement and mercy to meet together and righteousnesse and peace will embrace each other in you which is the onely happy and blessed state which never can be known or witnessed but by the death of the man of sin for that nature can never come to have peace but horror and judgement for evermore These are words of love and truth unto you all in and through a true lover of all your immortal souls who is ready to sacrifice his life for his vilest enemies even for those who revile persecute and imprison him as he is at this day for the testimony of a
good Conscience who cannot bow to an Idol nor an Idol-maker but beareth witnesse against them all as the Lambs followers ever did in all Ages and Generations from righteous Abel unto this day who was a true Sufferer in innocency and therein finished his course as a true and faithful example for all as should follow after it being the seed of the Bond-woman which persecuted the seed of the Free-woman which kept the Commandements of God though it never persecuted any but loveth all even the whole Creation of God without respect of persons for this cause hath it suffered by the hands of unreasonable men even in seeking for to reclaim them from the evil of their wayes that they might not perish therein for it is the love and desire of God towards the Inhabitants of the Earth and in this work many have been imprisoned stocked stoned and put to death all which they have born like Lambs as the Lamb was their Example Who was as a Lamb led to the slaughter and as a Sheep before the Shearers is dumb so he opened not his mouth This is the true Christian and Lambs life Who is able to declare his Generation And such is every one that is born of the Spirit even as the wind that bloweth where it listeth and men hear the sound thereof but knoweth not whence it cometh nor whither it goeth And this is the cause why all those that are born of the Spirit are hated and despised of men and a wonder unto them even because they know not the birth which is of God which is undefiled and incorruptible because this life is hid with Christ in God being translated as Enoch was whose life the sons of men could not see because they looked upon him with that eye which counted Christ Jesus but a natural man even the son of a Carpenter and the like and indeed it is the furthest the natural eye can see though never so much endued with earthly wisdome and knowledge for amongst the wisest in that time and in all Ages whether Scribes Doctors and Learned men Christ was judged to be the son of Joseph and of earthly kindred and parentage therefore beware how you judge of these things ye sons of men for though the spiritual man judgeth all things yet he himself can be judged of no man This is the naked truth of God unto you all that ye may be warned to take heed what you do and what spirit you joyn unto and with what and in what ye judge least you judge with that spirit that is to be judged and so fall the deeper into condemnation and so heap coals of fire upon your own heads against the day of wrath Remember it is Judge not least ye be judged for all judgement is committed unto the Son and only in him in whom he liveth and is made manifest can any judgement be aright concerning the things of God and to the true knowledge of this righteous judgement did the true Christians come unto for the Apostle Paul said unto them Know ye not that we shall judge Angels which could never be without the judgement of the Son of Righteousnesse who lived and reigned in them And this did he speak unto them when he reproved them for going to Law one with another and that before the unjust Why saith he do ye not rather suffer wrong which words standeth a witnesse against the Pope and all his Adherents which in Rome it self these things almost dayly may be seen even amongst themselves suing one another for Curates places and striving for titles of honour these things are well known to the Inhabitants of Rome for it is evidently known and manifest among them and the heads being thus corrupted the whole body cannot but be all infected with the same disease suing and haling one another before Judgement-Seats which the Apostle said was verily a fault amongst them which so did and by this unchristian-like means is there swearing and forswearing amongst them which is out of the Doctrine of Christ Jesus who saith Swear not at all but let your yea be yea and your nay be nay in all your communications for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evill So ye may see how ye have been taught and led in blindness and all under the name of Christianity but wholly out of the life thereof for saith Christ If any man take thy cloak forbid him not to take thy coat also and if any smite thee on the one cheek turn to him the other also But how these things are observed amongst you let the Light of Christ Jesus judge a true Christians life is to bear all things and not to overcome evill with evill but on the contrary overcome evill with good and he which doth thus that man shall be blessed in his deed and may in truth call Christ Lord for he observeth the things which he saith but they who follow the Romish practices shall be numbred among the Unbelievers for the Apostle exhorteth not only to be Hearers of the Word but Doers also For it shall be more tollerable in the day of Judgement for Sodome and Gomorrah than for those who know the will of God and do it not for if one speak unto you in the spirit of meeknesse and love exhorting you to repentance and telling you the end of the wicked we know that say you thou tellest us nothing but what we know already I say the greater is your condemnation yea it will go better with the Indians in America than with you in the day of tryal than for many of you for whom my soul hath and doth mourn who are setting up lyes crying The Catholick the Apostolick Church and Roman You are its true of the Romish Religion but the Apostolick you are far from for ye are not like them any way in any one thing yet in the name ye boast and count none Christians but those who are conformable to the Romish abominations which is hard to be uttered it is so abominable and wicked as hath been shewed in many things yea they are grown so hard in their abominable Imaginations that it is common for them to make the picture of a woman with a child in her lap playing with a Dog and say it is the picture of Christ yea with a child on the ground and its armes about the dogs neck and say the same of it Oh unheard of darknesse and wickednesse is this and these things may be commonly seen as one passeth along the streets and is not a secret thing this is the fruits of your ancient Religion and truly it is so ancient as the man of sin as appeareth by the fruits thereof for if one speak but against an Image though it be expressely forbidden of the Lord yet you are ready to tear him in pieces for it which neither is nor never was the Life or Spirit of a Christian but through such doings as these the very name of a Christian