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A94802	For those that meet to worship at the steeplehouse, called John Evangelist, in London, or, any other in that nature upon whom the Scriptures are fulfilled, in evil intreating the servants of the Lord Iesus, whom he sends to deliver his message amongst you. Or for any other that are condemned for sin, and have thirstings after righteousness ...	R. T. (Rebecca Travers), 1609-1688.	1659 (1659)	Wing T2059; ESTC R185428	25,680	64

are found and call not your selves Christians for Christ owns no such workers for that of Christ suffers in you and by you and though you say God is your Father as they did yet you do the works of the Murtherer and though you say Christ is your Saviour yet the destroyer is head in you and though you say the Scriptures is your rule yet they condemn your lives and cast you out amongst such who persecuted them who gave forth the Scriptures and while you stand in that nature you have no part in the Scriptures to inherit but the plagues and woes therein foretold for such workers And the Scriptures needs no meanings to prove you there but are fulfilled in you in the behalf of him whose work you are doing but when you would take them to prove your Teachers or your selves to be of God then you must do it with meanings twinings and wrestlings for in plainness and truth as the Scriptures were given forth they shut you out And when your Teachers and your selves with all their learning and crast have taken the Saints words and put them upon your selves that you might be taken for sheep a sheep indeed is sent forth amongst you and all your covers are too narrow to hide the Wolf that is within and how little a thing of Gods choosing quickly confounds so great a building and profession and lays naked that which many years you have been hiding and thus when the weakness and foolishness which is of God comes amongst you it lays waste your great wisdom great professions great notions long prayers separations and gathering and Names of Ministers of Christ and people of God Church of God and House of Prayer and all is shaken and gone and nought of all this left but a heap of confusion tearing haling beating pulling stoneing laughing and evil-speaking not the least face of a Church of Christ left nor one jot of all your sheeps clothing to be seen and the poor Instrument by which this is done you count but a fool or mad or one not worth hearing speak or worthy an Answer that the Scripture may be fulfilled which saith God hath chosen foolish things weak things base things of the ● Cor 1 World and things that are despised to confound the wise and mighty and bring all to nought that is not in himself and this day is coming upon you unawares who are professing the Scriptures with your Candle out and so not having the light of Faith in you to guide you it is risen against you in the weak to lay open your nakedness blindness and hardness of heart before your selves and all men So thou that would be counted a shepherd and a guide behold thy Flock and the fruits of thy Ministry When I was to come amongst you in obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ and in the power of his spirit to prove you did you carry your selves as sheep towards me Let moderation judge you and be ashamed What a heap of confusion was you all turned into on a sudden when the foolishness of God appeared amongst you in weakness and contempt And did thou carry thy self as a true Shepherd to flye and leave thy flock in such a tumult upon a poor despised woman and neither to stay and answer one question nor to rebuke the devourer which was head in thy flock So that if the Lord had not strengthened and preserved this weak body it might have been crusht with violence pushing and haling to and fro for as one in the waves of a raging sea so was I amongst thy flock Oh shepherd be ashamed of thy flock and they of thee from that day forward till you repent Vine-dresser be ashamed of thy Work how is thy Vineyard over-run with bryars and thorns that the meek cannot pass unless he be fenced with Iron and Steel Oh husbandman What dost thou sow amongst them where this is reaped And people be ashamed of your shepherd and of his hire and of your defence and let the Words of Christ judge what he is that flyes and leaves his flock and hath not the Weapon of truth in the spirit of meekness to defend himself and his flock with let your fruits judge you in the light of Christ Jesus what he hath sown and in what ground it hath sprung up now it is laid open to your faces and the nature of sheep is not in your fold violence hath filled your House of Prayer the abomination that makes desolate is got up therein and stands where it ought not pride is exalted and the wicked worker is set up and the blind is got into the seat of judgement and leads the blind who calls light darkness and darkness light and the ear that should hear the true shepherd you have stop● and the eye of a spiritual mind is blinded by denying the light within and you have lost the defence of truth and so there is no way to make you understand what you are but by laying you open by your fruits before the sun in whose light your fruits are condemned you seen to be none of his flock nor he your defence but enemies to it and his appearance in the weakest thereof whom he chooseth for such a work Glory to the Lamb And let all that learn his nature praise his Power and Wisdow sor evermore for he hath fitted the meek of the Earth for his defence but the horse and his rider he hath cast into the sea And so people had there been in you reasonableness or moderation or any desire to have known the truth in its power when I did but ask a moderate question of your Teacher you would have been stil and sober moved him to answer and in meekness of spirit you to have heard both parties that so you might have judged with that of God in you which wil arise to the truth where it is who had truth on his side and if your Teacher had had it in him is it not stonger then all to defend him and you therewith which is Christs weapon against all errors whatsoever and then if he had had the Staff of the true Shepherd to have stood over you and defended you then had he shewed himself like a shepherd and you like sheep and not he to betake himself to flye for his defence and you to carnal Weapons and with the fist of wickedness list up run all a heaps in rage and confusion to defend your Teacher and his Doctrine by uncivil demeanor not becoming men and women of government wherein you have but made it appear openly to be Truth that you withstood by what way you took against is as truth hath foretold in Scripture concerning the Worlds Teachers and Professors and what usage Christs sheep should have in the midst of Wolves and upon you this day is this Scripture fulfilled for a witness against Teacher and People and out of it you are cast and out of the Kingdom and patience

FOR ●●ose that meet to worship at the Steeplehouse called John Evangelist IN LONDON OR ●ny other in that nature upon whom ●●e Scriptures are fulfilled in evil intreat●●● by the servants of the Lord Iesus whom he lends to deliver his Message amongst you 〈◊〉 for any other that are condemned for sin and have thirstings after righteousness that from sin transgression they may be turned to the righteousness that is perfect and eternal without vvhich there is no sure salvation 〈◊〉 a Word of truth to rebuke the de●●●rer and him that pleads for him against the restoration of the Creation to ●he liberty of God 〈◊〉 your hearts condemn you God is greater and knoweth all things 1 Iohn 3. 20. Rebecca Travers LONDON Printed and are to be sold at the black spread Eagle near the west end of Pauls 1659. A Word of Reproof for those that meet at the Steeplehouse called John Evangelist in London O You foolish people and unwise How long will you love your folly How long will you resist our Maker Are you stronger then he ●●o is as truly striving with you as ever Gen. 6. 12. 〈◊〉 was with that generation in Noahs ●●yes who not receiving the warning the one Preacher of Righteousness 〈◊〉 overwhelmed in their wickedness 〈◊〉 having safety but they who were the Ark. And I and thousands yea 〈◊〉 thousands praises to the Lord who ●●come to the ends of the world do ●ow the world in which you live is 〈◊〉 unto destruction and are moved him that made the world to come into your meeting-places to declare unto you what must shortly come to pass and to shew you the blindness of your Teachers with their blasphemous 2 Tim 3. 6 7. 8. ●ph 2. 2. and idolatrous Doctrines whereby they deceive the simple lead captive silly women which are always learning but never come to the knowledge of the truth which makes free from the bonds of Death and Satan who hath captivated your minds and hath blinded the eye that gives the knowledge of God which rules in all you the children of disobedience being the god of the world a lyar and a murderer from the beginning and so as acted by him his fruits ye bring forth even in your most holy Assemblies Teacher and people as in your Steeplehouse called John Evangelists there the Teacher exhorted the people to read and study the Scripture for they were light and life speaking of the written Letter bringing a carnal comparison to maintain his idolatrous Doctrine saying A written piece of Paper to a sore would do no good but a little written Scripture to a wounded soul was of great force and tha● that was which quickened David and was a light 〈◊〉 a lanthorn unto his feet And I who ●as brought thither of the living God whom I serve in obedience to him and ●or the Seed's sake was moved to ask him a question when he had ended in moderarion and fear telling him it was not to disturb but for edification and not speaking any other words to my knowledge then these Doth the Scripture more plentifully declare of any one Isa 45. 16 thing then that for Idolatry God brings wrath and vengeance upon Nations Peoples Zech. 13 2 and Persons But he hasting away ●s hirelings use to do his people fell on me as so many devouring Wolfes railing tearing thrusting haling and pushing me down several times yet a hair of Ez●k 16. 38. my head they could not hurt but the murderer was strong and no hand to help the innocent nor tongue to plead for the harmless seen or heard in your Congregation though some were nea● related to me in the outward stood by said they thought I was a made woman in which I can rejoice being no other Acts 26. 24. Ioh. 15. 20 then what was done and said unto my Lord The servant is not greater then his Master and him I serve and he is my reward by whom David was quickned by whom Abraham Isaac and Jacob were saved before any of that was written vvhich you call the Scriptures the same quickning Word I witness who was once dead as well as you in Epb. 2. ● sins and trespasses but by the obedience of the spirit hath the soul been sanctified and I made a witness of the resurrection of Jesus and do as called of God thereto bear my testimony that he who was dead is alive and his Name Rev. 10. 9 13. is called the Word of God who hath been caught up to God and she that brought him forth hath been hid in Rev. 12 5 6. the Wilderness from the Dragon that hath made war with the remnant of her Rev. 17.1 15. Seed and the Beast hath prevailed and none hath been made able for ages to make war with him nor the Whore who sits in the Waters Mark the Waters are people nations and tougues on which the Beast that carries the Whore doth sit who hath made drunk with her fornications the Kings of the Earth and is drunk with the cup of abominations and the hour of her righteous judgement is come with her Rev 20. ● shall be tormented the beast the salfe prophet and all that love make a lye for evermore and blessed are they and they only that know these things which shall shortly come to pass but they that read Scriptures and have not heard the Word which gave forth the Iohn 5. 7. Scriptures to them the Scripture is as it was to them at Jerusalem that there crucified the Lord of life a parable and as it was said to them it may to you Search the Scriptures for in them you think to have eternal life and they tectifie of me but you will not come to me that you may have life saith Christ Jesus And so they who read the Scriptures killed him who gave them forth and came to fulfil the Scriptures even the holy One and the Just whom you now slay in the street of the great City spiritually called Rev. 11. ● Aegypt but the Witness shall arise whom you are yet making merry over and as a thief in the night shall he come upon you and then shall you know that this Visitation of mine though now despised shall be upon your heads the Lord shall be clear and a good savour am I unto him as well in them that perish as in them that are saved who am honoured of him whom I honour and know that in the doing of his Will there is great reward and though of you hated and scorned and despitefully used yet bear I the reproach and despise the shame following the Captain and Author of my salvation who was perfected Heb. 2. 10 11. 2 Tim. 2. 12. Matth. 10. 32. thtough the suffering and none shall reign with him but they that suffer with him nor will he confess any before his Father but they which confels him before men and all that have

own destruction And so you that know not the moving of the spirit in which the Scriptures are writ have given meanings and so in this long night of Apostacy have brought forch errors and false Doctrines and filled the World with Sects Opinions the simplicitie of the Gospel being betrayed by the crafty subtiltie of men but we who are come Ephes 4 4 〈◊〉 29 14 15 in the light to see the fulfilling of the Scriptures know that the wisdom of the wise is turned into foolishness and the counsel of the prudent is brought to nought the Prophet is become a fool and the diviners shall run mad Hos 9. 7. and he that hides from the wise reveals to babes and sucklings and it seems good unto him though the heathen Luke 10. 2●● then rage and the people imagine vain thugs the Lord is risen to recover his own inheritance that hath Psalms 2. ● Ezek. 34. 2. 3. long been laid waist by the destroyer and the devouring shepherds have not fed the sheep but eat the sheep who have run and were never sent therefore have not the people been profited and the mistery of iniquity that began in the Apostles dayes hath spread Ier. 23. 21. 2 Thes 2. 7. again to the filling of the world with thick darkness as it was foretold by Christ and the Apostles that devouring Wolves should come and make Ma● 7. 15. havock of the flock and that in sheeps cloathing and these were to prevail all the time and times that the world wondred after the beast though your teachers would mak you believe Rev. 13. 3. the false Prophets are come but now that they might hide themselves but O that you did see and believe the Scriptures then would you know who were the ravening Wolves we or they whom you call your ministers see which is the Wolfe that devours and destroyes he that sends for his gain Isa 56. 11. from his quarters and if he has it not raises war and sues and casts in prison and if any speak in his meeting place or asks him a question he causes or suffers his people to beat them or hale them or stone them or whip them and will not speak himself but for gifts and rewards Now are these the Wolves or they that bear all these things in patience going up and down freely giving as freely as they have received try whether of these be the ministers of Christ by that you call your rule and truly people God will not be mocked and his eye beholds the deceitful worker every where and the Scriptures are ours upon whom the ends of the world are come and for us were they written and shall bear witness for us against all the Idolatrous generation that sets them in the place of God to me are they precious who am come to the comfort of them and let the wisest of your teachers if he can without a meaning bring a written Scripture to prove that they any where are called the Iohn 1. 4 6● word the foundation the light or the life I shall give some of the many written in the Scriptures to shew that he who is the light is the life and Iohn 8. 12. the way and the ordinance and the name ohn 14. ● by which only salvation is and are not those then false Prophets and deceivers Iohn 1. 1 which would make you from the Scriptures believe that which is not Iohn 1 14 Phil. 29 and hide from you that which is are not these the Antichrist which instead 1 Cor 3. 11 of Christ are setting up that which is not he in his stead O shall not the Acts 10. 42 Col 2 14 plagues threatned in that book come upon them who are known to add and diminish and surely as the Sorcerers of Egypt are they that harden the Dut. 2 4 Rev. 22 18 19 heart in making likenesses and truly friends these things are not written to you as to have your help or aid to defend or assist us as your parsons use to pray and cry for for we are the people that have no helper on the earth yet beleiving know we shall be Micah 4 1 the mountain set upon the top of every mountain and while you are striving against the little stone cut out of the mountains without hands it Dan 2. 34 growes and you see it not and shall be the praise of the whole earth and the devourers and the destroyer and all the ungodly shal be crusht under it then shall the earth be filled with righteousness and of the increase of this kingdom there shall be no end which is come and coming and not by power might but by my spirit shall all the opposers of this kingdom be brought down saith the Lord and the glory of it is the son and all the subjects are cloathed with holiness all being Priests and Kings to God and the glory of it is now seen coming down from heaven by them that the world hates who are following the Lamb through many tribulations into it and the Dogs and the Whoremungers and Rev. 14. 4 the makers and lovers of lyes Mark this false teachers hearers that speak the things you know not with the Rev. 22. 15 fearfull and unbeleiving must you be shut out Mark you this that cannot beleive what herein is declared ●●t to you it seems strange that God should appear to his people as of old and give us the same spirit as they had that gave forth Scriptures saying to the hardning of your own hearts Mi●●cles are ceased why to us it is not marvelous to receive what we have waited for the spirit of truth to lead into all truth and the Scriptures declare of him and he is the same and changeth not infallible and almighty who is given to convince the world of ●in and till you come to believe in Iohn 16. ●● 92 that which convinces of sin you can neither understand nor beleive the ●criptures nor me nay though one rise from the dead and I who know how precious your souls are with thousands more have been made willing in this the day of the Lords power to go forth with our lives in our hands denying ●ll that has been dear to us that you might be brought from under the power of the Prince of darkness to the obedience of the light in which only is fire salvation no other name given under heaven whereby any can be saved I am the light saith Christ Jesus Iohn 8 12 and if any come to me be shall not abiae in darkness and so all people who hate the light and are speaking against it and giving it names as naturall and such like are you not speaking against the Saviour who is the light and the way and the truth as the Scriptures declare O that for your souls sake you would cease from hearing and speaking lyes and come

wants of others by wasting that which should releive them spending as much one of you upon your lust and vanity as would feed two plentifully if not ten And this is all the care of proud men and women and gluttonous men and women and drunken men and women to serve your selves and feed the devourer in you with the mercies of God which he gives freely that all might be feed and praise him therein And then you say you spend but your own and it 's for you that are rich to live thereafter c. But then what do you to profess the knowledge of God or name of Christ or redemption that is in him If you live as the heathen Gentiles do then bear their name and pollute not the name of Christ and live as do the Gentiles not knowing Christ in you to restore all things in you to God that you may see them to be his and not your own know him in you to order them who made them which all the redeemed of Christ Jesus doth in whom the restauration is wrought by Jesus Christ and all things of God as in the beginning before the prince of pride the glutton the whoremonger the drunkard or the false Prophet that teacheth lyes entred into man or was exalted in the seat of truth to deceive and bewitch people by calling evil good and good evil as in you he doth who they preach practise and profess to devour which Christ comes to restore and your life to condem and to deliver the creation from the waster and destruction and to redeem it to the guiding of God the service of God in his will and not the will of men nor the blind boaster who saith I spend but my own And who is exalted in Pride and excess because of abundance who knows not redemption to him that giveth all things but are out of the fear far from restauration for were you redeemed to God your selves you would also know that all you have was restored to God in your redemption out of the power of the destroyer and into the disposing of that spirit which works the repemption for the redeemed indeed are no more their own much more is not that they have received Wherefore men be sober minded and take heed what you plead for and boast not in your wickedness then double your iniquity by professing the pure name of God the nature of redemption lye not against the truth of Christ Jesues ●n saying our redeemer our redeemer further then yo● konwhis spirit power living in you t●nlighten and quicken you against ●●se evils by which his holy spirit 〈◊〉 the creation suffers and power in 〈◊〉 over them and the Prince there●● that you may serve his spirit in you 〈◊〉 a new life not serving divers lusts 〈◊〉 serving your bellyes but in fear 〈◊〉 sober meekness of spirit serving 〈◊〉 Lord in your souls and bodyes ●●d estates and this only is redempti●● without a lye or without hypocri●● And this is the confession of Christ ●ome in the flesh in life and power to ●●ucifie the flesh the affections and 〈◊〉 thereof which wars against your ●ouls and against Christ so long as ●ou live therein and in works you de●y Christ to be come in the flesh ●hough in vvords you confess him ●herefore let that mouth be silent that ●eaches lyes and let truth speak in ●ou all and cease to say pride is not ●n your hearts when it hath taken ●oot there and is grown as a covering and hath over-spred you in the ●ight of all men and say not you do it to releive the poor for shame blush at such deceit and let not the drunkard say the same with you for you are seen to be the devourer and destroyer of the creation nor let the glutton say the creatures are made for him for the day is at hand that he must vomit them up and then he will know that they were not made for him when truth comes to judge in you all and to devide aright between the oppressed and the oppressor this will be confessed nor let the covetous person say his Idolatry is but providing for them of his houshould nor the swearer say it 's but to confirm the truth which is found out of the truth which saith swear not at all nor the wanton person say there is a time to be merry whose times are not in the Lord Jesus nor ever knew the man of sorrows nor him that in secret mourns for that abomination which wantons lives in whose time of mourning is to come which you that now laugh ●●ould remember for truth must come to sit as Judge upon all your pretences then these things will not cover you nor lyes be a safe refuge for you Wherefore wait to know the truth of Christ Jesus the light of the world in your own hearts to give you the good understanding which wil let you see that this is from the root of wickedness in your hearts that these things ●rise and that piety and pitty mercy is but a pretence to cover the destroyer in you while he gets his work wrought of his servants lest he should be seen in your selves or by others and that you are but wise to do evil and plead for it whereby you do but shut your selves out from the power of truth and feed upon lyes and put on false covers which God vvill rend in judgement and your wisdom of words cannot cover your works from the light which sees the covetous proud envious gluttons drunkards and all lyars and vain persons and cursed speakers to be without God not knowing in you the povver of an holy life nor him that is made redemption and sanctification though in vvords you profess Father Son and Holy Ghost do you knovv God in you of vvhose off-spring all these good creatures are vvhich you wast and by vvhose vertue they are made to spring in their kind and vvhose life suffers vvhere they are spent on the lust Do you know the Redeemer in you vvhose vvork is to restore all things to God in you who say you spend but your own when you are reproved Or do you know him in you to live to who sayes you must live after your riches Are you richer then he that had all fullness in himself and yet said let nothing be lost this would you say also did you know that life in you that gives it forth which your lust devours who is pressed therewith as a Cart with sheaves who is broken with your whorish hearts and made to serve with your sins whom you know not though he be not far from every one of you yet his knowledge you have loft and your hearts are too hard to hear his voice and your wisdom is too high to bow to his government in you but being got above the meek you have lost the way which gives light to the blind and grace to the lowly and that which should measure and search your hearts is out of your sight who are seeking without for that you have buried within under your pride and fullness lyes the pearl shut up in the earth and the key of knowledge you have lost in your wisdom by your wanton living on the earth the holy one and the just you have slain the man of God is fallen into your streets the man of mercy and pitie is perished by the proud and there is no Judgement nor deliverance in you for the ear is stopt that should hear the cry And where this is so within what knowledge of God is there but man is become like the beast that perisheth The End