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A44638 A few plain words of instruction given forth as moved of the Lord, for all people whose minds and hearts are inclinable after the way of peace ... / by him who is known to many by name, Luke Howard. Howard, Luke, 1621-1699. 1658 (1658) Wing H2985; ESTC R6500 15,631 23

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A FEW Plain Words OF INSTRUCTION Given forth as moved of the Lord for all people whose minds and hearts are inclinable after the way of peace and rest with the Lord which the Leaders of the people in this age have caused them to erre from and have forgotten their resting place With a true Testimony for the Lord and his power which gathereth out of the World and against all gathered and not by the true Jesus the Saviour of the soul Gods Salvation and Rock of Ages from everlasting to everlasting And a Testimony against all blind guides and foolish builders which would make the word of God the word of faith in the heart and in the mouth of no effect by their own Imaginations and so bringeth forth the Hypocrites hope and so leaveth and people in Egypt and Sodom where they found them where our Lord was and is crucified And this is a true Testimony in righteousness born unto all the World for the Truths sake which is better then life it self by him who is known to many by name Luke Howard LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate 1658. ON the eleventh day of the third Moneth 1658. as I stood at my labour in my outward calling with my mind staid on the Lord and my thoughts exercised in his Law which is light the state and condition of the deceived and the deceiving Preachers of these times came into my mind and their unrighteousness was laid before me as it had been many a time before by which the people have been and are deceived and perisheth for want of knowledge so I was moved of Lord in the clear spirit of truth to propound these queries for the seed sake which is kept in bondage in all people which are led by such blind guides to the making manifest some part of their unclean spirit which ruleth in them and in all people which are lead by them which liveth out of the Truth the which truth maketh free all which liveth in it and therefore is their anger kindled against all which are made free by it because they are in bondage to the spirit of this world and so have a life in another thing then in the truth of the Lord God who made the World and all things therein which dwelleth not in Temples made with hands neither is he worshipped by mens hands seeing he giveth life and breath unto all for that end alone that all should live unto him and praise his great and glorious Name which is known over all as all stand in the Covenant of life and light with him in which they were created And seeing that this God is very much professed and little known and lesse worshiped in the spirit and in the truth although there be so many worshippers of him in words of all sorts they all worshipping they know not what being out of the Covenant wherein they were created even of the light wherein the true knowledge and worship of God standeth and therefore as one which hath obtained mercy and by it brought into Covenant again do I propound these Queries in love unto all to consider of and let the witnesse of God in all consciences answer Quere 1. WHether God be not all light and in him is no darkness at all And whether this were not and be not the message which the Saints and Ministers of Christ were and are now to preach according to the Scriptures Quere 2. Whether Jesus Christ be not the light of the World and hath not enlightened every one which cometh into the World And whether all which believeth in his light shall not come out of darkness and feel and witness the light of light according to the Scriptures Quere 3. Whether God and Christ in the light be not one according to the Scriptures And although many may and do say so because it is left on Record by the spirit of Truth which dwelt in the Children of light yet whether any can come unto the true knowledge of it but by the mistery of faith held in a pure concience And whether all men be not without that faith by nature and whether any can come unto that faith until they believe in the light which shineth in the heart to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ which is eternal life as it is abided in according to the Scripture Quere 4. Whether Christ Jesus the Covenant of Light doth not proceed from the Father and God of Light as a free gift of grace unto man shining in his heart to make manifest with the Spirit of Truth the thoughts and intents of the heart for to keep man from the committing of actions which are evil which are first committed in the thoughts of the heart where the alienation stands And whether this be not the condemnation of all which are condemned that they turn from the Covenant of God and do not set to their seales by believing in it the Covenant of light And whether this the Covenant of light be not the way of God for all to meet him in and to work righteousness in by casting off the workes and deeds of darknesse which by the light in the heart are made manifest And whether all which doth joyn unto the light by believing in it doth not joyne unto God in Christ Jesus in the new Covenant which God maketh with his people which is written in the heart and put into the inward parts wherein the light shineth according to the Scripture Quere 5 And whether all unrighteousnesse be not sin and whether he which committeth sin be not of the Devil and whether he which loveth so to do be not brought forth into the image of the Devil and whether any which will not cast off what by the light is made manifest to be evil doth not love their sins and hate the light and so joyning unto the evil shut themselves out of Covenant with God in the light and so remaineth in the Covenant of death and darknesse and so under the bond of iniquity And whether any which therein stand be fit to preach unto others the way of God which is life and light and if any do presume to use their tongues to preach to others in that state then whether all such be not hypocrites and vain talkers intruding into such things as they never saw from the Lord in the Covenant of light but have learned it by nature and tradition and so are vainly puft up in their fleshly mindes and whether they are not those who shall never profit the people at all they having gotten as it were a form of Godlinesse but denying the power thereof which standeth in the Covenant of light and whether all people which have been followers of such be not to turn away from them and to turn to Christ Jesus Gods Covenant of light which he hath freely given as a free gift of grace unto all men