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A40938	A message from the Lord to all that despise the ordinance of Christ which is the power of God unto salvation; with an exhortation to faithfulnesse, which is the cause of true order: shewing the difference of election and reprobation, and the ground of true faith and false, from what centre they doe each of them arise, with order and disorder; and how a believer and an infidell may be known; the believer and the elected ones, as their fruits doe make manifest: with something in vindication by the scriptures, the conditions of the prophets and holy apostles, that those whom the world scornfully call Quakers as many as are born again of water and the Spirit that they are the only people of the Lord & do witness the same conditions that the scriptures doe declare of. Read the scriptures, both of the prophets and holy apostles, in whom the power of the Lord was made manifest, and see their conditions, to whom the Lord did manifest his power: they did both quake, tremble, and shake.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1653 (1653)	Wing F491A; ESTC R218271	22,674	51

becau●● they know him not ruling by his holy spi●●● rul ng in themselves therefore doe they 〈◊〉 know them that are borne againe in whom 〈◊〉 hath manifested his love and power as 〈◊〉 I John 3.1 Behold what manner of love the F●ther hath bestowed on us that we should be c●●● the Sonnes of God now we are the Sonnes 〈◊〉 God therefore the world knoweth us not ●●cause it knew not him and that is the reas●● why they speake evill of the truth beca●●● they know it not in themselves therefore th●● know it not in others where it is made m●nifest Jo. 4.5 6 because they are of the world the●●fore speake they of the world and the world hea●eth them we are of God he that knoweth God ●eares us he that is not of God heares us not ●ereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit ●f errour And this is the record that God hath ●iven to us eternall life and this life is in his ●onne 1 John 5.11 Now to know the Sonne 〈◊〉 to know the power of God ruling by the ●ower of his div●ne spirit operating within ●orking out all sinne and evill for he being made manifest is made manifest to destroy ●he works of the Devill Now he that hath ●he Sonne hath life and he that hath not the ●onne hath not life now this life is within ●herefore the end of all writing is to lay open ●hat which is the cause of dissention from the ●rue guide the sp●rit of truth The mystery of ●niquity hath borne rule long in man Anti●hrist that sits in the temple of God as God ●hewing himselfe to be God and sits deckt a●ove the Crosse Christ as a well-favoured Harlot having got Saints words in forme and method to speake of but not made conformable to them in life and conversation having onely the forme but denyes the power of godlinesse even Satan transformed into an Angel of light Leviathan the old crooked Serpent the Devill who is the enemy of all ●ighteousnesse be gets up into the highest ●orme and hath such faire colours that hee cannot be discerned but by the power an● where the power of truth is he rageth at i● both within and without and casts fort● flouds of wickednesse after it but the wit● kednesse of the wicked shall slay them th● Lamb shall overcome and get the victory Now the Lion of the tribe of Judah is takin● off the seales and opening the booke that ha●● beene sealed and doth discover Antichrist th● man of sinne with all his deceivablenesse an● his craftinesse how he lyes in wait to decei●● the simple Now where the simple desire is b●● got towards the truth minde that which do●● beget the desire and wait there upon th● Lord who first b●gets the will and then giv● power to act and perform that which is goo● upon the obedience to him for all the promises of God run upon the obedience Therefor deare heart minde the motions 〈◊〉 thee that doe arise to perswade thee to fo● sake that which is evill and to embrace th● which is good and it will bring thee into true discerning betwixt good and evill th● thou maist chuse the good and refuse the ev●● The Lord is now setting up the ministery● his Son in the spirits of his people and if the bee but still and sit in silence out of all m●● words and writings and outward teaching that arise from the first nature which is alt●gether corrupt and uncleans and if the her● be uncleane which is the ground then the words and writings must needes be the same therefore cease wholly from all that is outward and visible and come to know that which is inward and invisible for as the lightning commeth out of the East and shineth into the West so shall the comming of the Sonne of man be therefore wait wholly within to know thy teacher there doe but returne out of all thy own wisdome which is foolishnesse with God and returne out of all thy owne righteousnesse which is unrighteousnesse and so shalt thou know the wisdome and righteousnesse of God which is pure spirituall and divine which doth farre excell and go beyond all thine which wisdome is hid from all Vulterous eyes and venemous beasts and is not to be purchased with Gold nor Rubies nor Pearles nor the preciousest things that are Job 28. it is not to be found out by wit nor art study nor industry minde but to returne within out of all thy owne words thoughts or musings to have thy minde kept pure and free from all thoughts and objects without and thou wilt be fit to receive the teachings of the Father which will teach thee true knowledge indeed and thou wilt finde the booke of life to be opened to thy soule in waiting within hear glad tidings brought to thy soul and the everlasting Gospel will be preached to thee and the mysterie of godlinesse unfolde to thee which hath been hid from ages an● generations which now the Lord is revealin● by his spirit to those that wait upon him stan● wholly out of all mens words and sink dow● into the ground the eternall word of li●● within Rom. 10.8 and know it preached i● thy heart and it will melt thee and brea●● thee to peeces with the flowings forth of lo●● that runs forth from this pure Vine the Lor● Jesus Christ within open when he knock●● and if thou dost but lay thy finger on th● latch thou shalt feele the smell of myrrhe● Oh wait on the Lord for teaching and tho●● shalt heare words unexpressable which wi●● make thee to rejoice in the Lord with exceedi●● joy for the Kingdome of Heaven consiste● in righteousnesse peace and joy in the Ho●● Ghost where there is love and peace a●● joy and freedome in the Son of righteousnes● who is King of Kings and Lord of Lord● To him be praise honour and glory for eve● more All his works praise him Oh blesse 〈◊〉 Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever Written in the first yeare of Jubilee by o● that had been in Egypt under sore taxations 〈◊〉 Pharaoh and was redeemed by the pow●● of the Lord that sent his Angel the Messe●ger of the covenant of grace who leads 〈◊〉 Israelites the promised seede from place● place which leadeth up to him who 〈…〉 Keeper and their King This Angel of the Lord doth lead the promised seed through the Sea of many great and deep troubles and through the Wildernesse where there are fiery tryalls there to try all to see whether they will stand or fall there are such troubles there as seldome hath been knowne and there the Lord he gets himselfe renowne and so leades through the warsare spiritually where many a strong hold is throwne downe by the Lords owne powerfull hand and a●l his enemies are brought unto a stand and the Lord leades his seede into the promised Land that he may have the praise to whom it doth belong And thus the seede comes to

●●●gh truths but not to live in them and so ●●ou thinking to have both the love of God 〈◊〉 the love of the World Mat. 9.19 20 21 22 23 24. and the glory of 〈◊〉 ●od and the glory of the World and there 〈◊〉 catcheth thee with his bait and keepes ●●ee feeding upon fancies Heb. 11.24 25 26 and thou losest the ●●bstance and art among the Gentiles in the ●●●ward Court trodden under foot and at ●●●st cast into hell there to be tormented for ●●er Take heed to your selves all you that 〈◊〉 ●e professe God in words but in workes ●●●ny him it is not he that saith Lord Lord Mat. 7.21 ●●at shall enter into the Kingdome of Heaven ●●t he that doth the will of my Father saith Je●●s Christ Now be not Sayers but Doers ●●●nd walke in order to the spirit of God and 〈◊〉 will lead you and guide you into all 〈◊〉 ●●uth Suffer a word of Exhortation and Admo●●tion We have no envy to any mans person ●ut to his evill actions that he may not live 〈◊〉 them lest he be destroyed with a sore de●ruction and knowing the terrour of the ●ord out of love doe I perswade you all to ●●ke heede of dissembling with the Lord it is 〈◊〉 dangerous thing you say you love God with all your hearts ●ets 5.1 3 5 6. the 12. you say well but doe so Ananias and Saphira said that they brough all their substance to lay downe at the Apostles feet but did not and for their dissemble the judgement of God came upon them a●● struck them dead to the ground and t●● Lord is the same God of power now that 〈◊〉 was then take heed of dissimulation You say you love God with all your heart you that make a profession of him but 〈◊〉 knowes your hearts Ieb 4.13 now looke to it as y●● will answer it before the Lord the righteo● Judge of heaven and earth when you stand nakednesse of heart before the tribunall s● of judgement that you doe professe no mo●● then you doe possesse and practise lest t●● judgement of God come upon you at u●● wares as it did upon them and strike y●● dead to the ground and your name and 〈◊〉 mory come to rot and perish it is a dan●●rous thing to dissemble with the Lord loo● to it and let your love be made manifest your actions in walking in order to 〈◊〉 commands of the spirit of truth Rom. 8.13 14. Jesus Chr●●● the divine power of righteousnesse Now to love God is to keep his comm●● dements Joh. 14.15 1 Joh. 2.4 for saith Jesus Christ If ye 〈◊〉 me keep my commandements and he that s●● he loves God and keepeth not his commandem●●●● is a lyar and the truth is not in him See h●● you doe obey him in keeping his commandements and do not dissemble John 14.23 24. I command you to love one another saith Jesus Christ how doest thou obey this when thou livest in envie with thy br●ther Joh. 15.13 14. 1 Joh. 3.16 and he that envieth is a muderer as saith the Scripture take heed of disorderly walking God doth forbid it and the judgement of God hangs over thy head that doth so Now thou that livest in envie thou art a disorderly fellow and art guided by the spirit of errour 1 Joh. 4.6 7 8. yet thou canst talk much of God and of Christ but walkes contrary it is not the Sayer but the Doer that shall be justified before the Lord the righteous Judge take heed of dissimulation and disorderly walking for God is a God of order Saith Jesus Christ Mat. 5.1 20.44.45 46 47 4 Do unto all men as ye would be done by love your enemies blesse them that curse you pray for them that despightfully use you that ye may be the children of your Father which is in Heaven 1. But how do you walk in obedience to these commands when you mock and scoffe and scorne and deride others would you have them to doe so by you take heede of dissimulation lest the judgements of God come upon you at unawares and so destroy you with a sore destruction This is disorder to the spirit of truth it 〈◊〉 5.34.37 and tell you when you doe any evill the you should not doe so if thou doe but heat ken to it and let it lead and guide your mind● it will bring you to few words sollidnesse and temperatenesse in all things and to pr●●on faithfulnesse to be what you speake in a●● things for that is orderly and according t● the spirit of truth These with many more thou shalt find commanded in thy spirit written in the ne●● law of righteousnesse in thy heart 〈◊〉 31.33 if thou d●● but turne within to read there it will brin● thee to the law and to the testimony b. 8.10 alway● to see that thy thoughts words and action● be according to righteousnesse so shalt th● have peace in walking in obedience to th● righteousnesse of the law in thy heart and will not let thee doe any evill if thou dost b● minde its leadings in thee 〈◊〉 5.7 ●al 119. it will bring tha● to faithfulness and orderly walking toward God and Man in all things let all things b● done orderly by the spirit of truth that Go● may be glorified by you all that doe profe●● love unto his name and take heede of diss●● mulation and disorderly walking for 〈◊〉 God is a severe Judge and hee will not suff●● sinne to go unpunished for he is a God 〈◊〉 order and of purer eyes then to behold i●●quity be not Sayers but Doers professe 〈◊〉 more then you doe possesse and take heede 〈◊〉 speaking evill of that which you know not and if any thing seeme strange to your carnall mindes be not hasty in speaking evill of it but wait upon the Lord till it be made manifest to you for all the workes of God are strange to the carnall heart prove all things Eph. 5.1 11. hold fast that which is good but take heede of dissimulation and disorderly walking stand i●●we and sinne not for God is a God of truth is God of power and of purer eyes then to behold iniquity Thus saith the Lord Will ye not feare me Jer. 5.22 Will ●e not tremble at my presence Jer. 5.22 Would you not say it was madnesse Quest delusions or witchery and disorderly to see men and women to tremble now in these dayes What thinke you of it but thoughts are vaine that arise out of the earthly heart Answ But would it not be a wonder to you to see men and women to tremble 1 Cor. 3 19 20. and their flesh to shake and their bones to quake and some to fall downe to the ground and others to chatter like a Crane or a Swallow as Daniel and the men that were with him did Dan. 10.10 11. Isa 28.1 15. Hab 3.1 Psal 38 and as Hezekiah did and would

made conformable unto his Image agai●● which was lost by sin ●om 8.29 but what conformity 〈◊〉 there in thee whilst thou art in sin thou art n●● like him but like the Devill for every sinne 〈◊〉 the Image of the Devill who sinned from th●● beginning and whilst thou cornmittest sin●● thou holdest forth the Image of the Devill i●● thee who is thy Father and Christ told the Seribes and Pharisees who professed themselves to be the children of God but lived in 〈◊〉 that they were of their Father the Devill Joh. ● 〈◊〉 his workes they would doe for every sin 〈◊〉 the worke of the Devill and saith John 〈◊〉 that committeth sin is of the Devill and saith Joh. ● ●●t for this purpose was the Son of God mani●●sted to destroy the workes of the Devill who ●●er can witnesse Christ manifest in them can ●●itnesse sin destroyed but if thou sayest thou ●●nst witnesse Christ manifest in thee and yet ●●mmit sin thou art a lyar for the Scripture ●ith that whosoever abideth in him sinneth not 1 Joh. 3.6 ●hosoever sinneth hath not seen him neither ●nowne him and he that saith I know him and ●eepeth not his Commandements is a lyar and ●he truth is not in him Joh. 2. ● And saith the Holy Ghost whosoever is borne of God sinneth not ●ut he that is begotten of God keepeth himselfe ●nd that wicked one toucheth him not and saith ●gaine whosoever is borne of God doth not commit sinne 1 Joh. 5.1 1 John 3.9 10. for his seede remaineth in him and hee cannot sin because he is borne of God and saith plainly In this are the children of God manifest and the children of the Devill Whosoever doth not righteousnesse is not of God neither he that loveth not his brother God in all ages hath known his by their obedience Gen. 18 Rev. 7.3 but thou sayest thou must live in disobedience and yet would be counted for one of his too but where is thy marke by which thou art known from the world those that are God's are marked 〈◊〉 knowne from the world 〈…〉 and therefore ha●● of the world but thou art in love with 〈◊〉 world and can conforme to them in all th●● wayes words works and worships and 〈◊〉 would be counted one of Gods too O th●● deceiver thou deceivest both thy selfe ● men that are like thee but thou canst 〈◊〉 deceive the Lord take heed repent halt 〈◊〉 longer betwixt God and the World if th●● wilt owne God thou must dis-own the Wo●● and the world will dis●owne thee thou 〈◊〉 not have both I received these few lines inclosed in a ●●●ter which came from my deare Brother ●●orge Fox whose desire was that they ●●uld be put in a booke I having written is to go to the Presse was moved to answer 〈◊〉 desire it being my desire also as in the ●●ite out of the Treasury as it is there expres●●d that peoples mindes may be taken wholly ●●t of all bookes and formes that they may ●ow God the Father of our Lord Jesus ●hist to be their Teacher by his spirit Jesus ●hrist the unsolder and opener of the Booke ●●f life within even the hidden mystery of his ●athers will which hath beene hid from ages ●nd generations which the Lord doth now ●eveale unto these that wait upon him for ●eaching whose mindes are taken out of all ●ens teachings and words formall wayes of worships to worship the Father in spirit and in ●ruth John 4.23 24. R.F. Oh all Friends who write or speake 〈◊〉 your wills nor mindes go before the light in you but let all your words be from that is infallible that all your words may be the of life which is eternall which shall jud●●nally Therefore deare friends all every write nothing but as you are moved by the and from the Lord lest there be presu● rashnesse hastinesse or pride and light●● your spirits but every one improve your that which is pure in you to the bringing 〈◊〉 the unpure by the pure Let none print 〈◊〉 What they can eternally witnesse here all will be cleare and pull downe that which clear● and cut downe all that which is filth● holy and unrighteous Curious mindes write and print things which feede the light minde 〈◊〉 fleshly mind thirsteth after novelties Diver But a warning to all you who make all th●● for the Fire which keepeth up Formes an● stomes lest you be burned your selves Take wa●● G. 〈◊〉 FINIS