defile and pollute the Mind and Soul and corrupt the Heart of man hence it is that nothing but the clean and pure Spirit of the Lord God that can in any wise cleanse and sanctifie the Soul and Mind or purge or purifie the Heart again and it seems to be a very vain thing for any man or woman to think otherwise Now let every one that is called a Minister of Jesus Christ see that he be so indeed and in truth for they must come a great way before they can administer Christ Wherefore it is safe to consider that Death reigned or reigneth from Adam to Moses and from Moses till the Prophet John and John was a burning a shining Light the greatest that was born among women but the least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he and John cried in the Wilderness saying Prepare ye the Way of the Lord make his Paths streight for he whose shooe he was not worthy to unloose was coming after him whose fan is in his hand and he will throughly purge his Floor and gather the Wheat into the Garner but the Chaff he will burn with Fire unquenchable And John denied not and said He was not that Light but he came to bear witness of the Light saying This is the true Light that lighteth every one that cometh into the world Now it behoveth all that are called Ministers of Christ to call themselves to mind how they travelled through all these Administrations spiritually from Adam till Moses ye are all in death and when you have received the just and holy Law of Moses upon Mount Sinai then you must journey through all the Prophesies till you come to Mount Sion the heavenly Jerusalem the City of the living God before you can be a noble Minister of Jesus Christ And this I am bold to declare in the Name of the Lord Jesus whose Servant I am through mercy Be ye not deceived the Lord God will not be mocked any longer there is a great Mystery in Godliness insomuch that all the earthly Wisdom and Learning and Languages Studies or Prudency is never able to fathom or comprehend the least Motion of the Life of it but as the Mind is joyned to the Light the Word of Life the Word that was before the World was the Word by which the World was made the Word that is quick and powerful sharper than a two-edged Sword even to the piercing and dividing between soul and spirit joynts and marrow and is a searcher and discerner of the Thoughts and Intents of every ones heart and this is he whose Vesture is dipt in Blood his Name is called the Word of God and he is come according to the determinate Counsel of the Father to make a separation between the Pretious and the Vile and to divide the Sheep from the Goats and to gather in the Flock of his Inheritance the People of his own Pasture the Sheep of his hands to fill up his own Fold out of every Kindred Tongue and Nation Jew and Gentile Bond or Free of his Israelites indeed in whose mouths there is no guile and he will place his Name amongst them again and work his Fear in their hearts and write his Laws in their inward-parts that they may never depart from it and they shall be his People for ever and he will be their God eternally and he will be merciful to their Transgressions their Sins and Iniquities he will remember no more for our God cannot deny himself nor forget his holy Promises who hath said I have given Him for a Covenant of Light to enlighten the Gentiles and a Leader and Commander to the people and the day is come that all the Children of the Lord shall be taught of the Lord and be established in Righteousness And as for those Ministers that say Men and women can never be freed from Sin while they are here nor made perfect while they are in the body I say such Ministers do not know Christ Jesus the Light nor his Ministry which saith When he ascended up on High he led Captivity captive gave gifts unto men some Prophets some Apostles some Ministers for the perfecting of the Saints and for the Work of the Ministry and for the edifying of the whole body of the Church And again it is said All Scripture given by the Inspiration of the Holy Ghost is wholsome for Doctrine for Instruction for Reproof and Correction in Righteousness that the man of God may be made perfect and thorowly furnished to every good Work Now let all sober-minded men consider where men and women should be made perfect if not here while they are in this body If not in this Body where then Solomon saith As the tree falleth so it lieth the Spirit of the Lord doth not once mention any other place to be purged in in all the Scriptures of truth And the Prophet spake to the Church and said The Lord would purely purge away the dross and take away the tin and rebrobate silver and gold And this I know when Souls come to be quickned by the powerful Word of Life and Truth they come to know the Purgings of the Father and the Washing in the Fountain of Eternal Cleansings in the sweet Streams of Light and living Refreshment the everlasting Refining in the Sanctifying-Furnace of the Spirit of the Lord God and so they do come to be cleansed purified and sanctified throughout souls bodies and Spirits and are made Vessels of Honour and fitted for Glory without the help of any Man or any outward Observation whatsoever What is to be known of God is manifested within and He that giveth power over any ones sin is sufficient to give power over all sins and will and doth to all that be obedient The willing and obedient shall eat the Good of the Land but they that refuse and rebel the Sword shall devour them the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it and his zeal will perform it There is none can forgive Sins but God only against whom all sin is committed for whatsoever just offence is given to any he that giveth the offence sinneth against the Commandment of God which saith Do by all men as you would have them do unto you and love thy neighbour as thy self He never commanded any to do contrary to his own nature which is Love Mercy and Long suffering waiting to be gracious not willing the death of any but that all should return and forsake the Evil of their Wayes and deny the Evil of their Doings and then he would have mercy upon them and abundantly pardon all such as come to him in the Name of the Lord Jesus bringing nothing with them but a penitent heart and an humble spirit confessing their sins being weary of the burthen and weight of them and he will forgive and take away the Guilt from the Conscience while there is guilt within the sin is not pardoned when the Sin and the Guilt of Sin
in the disobedient nature out from God and his Truth in the earthly mind and carnal will comprehending this thing and that in the fallen wisdom inventing devising and imagining things that never were nor is nor never will be So your Prophets they prophesie lies and the Priests bear rule by their means and the People love to have it so but what will they do in the end thereof in the day when the Lord shall require the Talent that he gave to every one to profit withal Now where is the Talent with the Improvement is it not lost is it not hid in the barren wilderness and in the desolate places of the earth Oh try and examine search and consider where is that good and faithful Servant and just Steward that hath improved his Talent for his Masters use and is ready to give up his Accounts with joy before the Tribunal of the Majesty of the Most High having his Garment washed in the Blood of the Lamb and his heart sprinkled from an evil Conscience and the Body washed with pure water I do not say nor mean external water to wash the out-side of the body but I do mean the spiritual Water that streams from the Fountain or Rock Christ Jesus to wash the inside and to cleanse the Soul and Spirit from all Pollution and Defilement Ye wash the outside while the inside is not cleansed the inside will defile the outside again but if the inside be cleansed and purged from all dross and tin and reprobate silver and gold then it would cleanse the outside also and keep it clean it is the corrupted Beast that is full of Lust and all manner of Deceivableness that defileth the whole body within and without So the man or woman whose heart is without Deceit whose mouth is without guile and whose tongue doth not utter falshood nor hath no flattering lips nor polluted hands nor feet swift to shed blood such are known to be cleansed every whit and they see God The pure in heart do see God but they whose hearts are daubed and slimy through deceit and hypocrisie hard-heartedness and cruelty and the like such cannot see God nor they that take honour and seek honour of one another do not believe How can you believe saith the Apostle while you take Honour one of another And all that Honour or take Honour of earthly men do rob God to whom all Honour Worship Praise and Glory doth belong and all that do honour God and obey his Voice in the Truth the Lord will make them honourable in the sight of all men but all that live in Pride and Covetousness Lust and Drunkenness are out of the Truth and all who live in Swearing Lying Deceit or Hypocrisie or Envy Hatred Malice Bloodshed Hardheartedness or Cruelty are out of the Truth or they which live in Thieving or Cozening Cheating Dissembling Flattering Whispering Backbiting Bragging or Boasting speaking great swelling Words having mens Persons in admiration because of advantage these are all out of the Truth and are Hereticks and are carried out of the Way of God with Nimrod and Judas King Herod and Pharoah and the rest of that untoward Generation not knowing the Scriptures neither the Power of God and because they do not believe them nor understand them therefore they hide them from others and do corrupt them and add to them and diminish from them not fearing the Lord God that gave them forth by his own free Spirit and for the edification of every one But I am bold to declare in the Name of the true and living God that all the Plagues which are written in them will soon come upon the back of such a People or Souls that have wrought this Wickedness in the sight of the Lord God of Power who is risen and will render Vengeance in Flames of Fire upon them that know him not and do not obey his Gospel but live in the earthly Mind and carnal Will fallen from God and compelling the People to follow their devised Wayes building of them up in Sin and Wickedness yet making them believe they may go to Heaven at the last though they live in Sin till they die Oh! that ever any People or Souls should ever be so blind and ignorant to think that though they spend all their appointed Time in Sin and Iniquity and run out the whole course of natures race in pleasure negligence and carelesness and when they cannot retain it any longer then do they offer up their sinful Souls as a Sacrifice acceptable to God who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity though it be in his beloved Jacob it shall not go unpunished Oh! methinks that no rational or sober-minded Man or Woman should once credit or believe that do know the Scriptures that there is any place appointed of God for any Creatures to be purged or cleansed after they are dead seeing the Holy Men of God as they were moved of the holy Ghost have so evidently and clearly set forth in the Scriptures of Truth That those which are Heirs of Eternal Salvation must come to be converted and to live the Life of Christ while they are here in the body Though God delighted in Mercy and that the Thief was saved upon the Cross because it was given him of the Lord to believe at last because that none should despaire yet Woe Woe from the Lord God to every one that puts off the Day of Repentance saying in their hearts The evil day is afar off In the day of ignorance the Lord winked but now he calleth every one to repent And as for such as do talk of a Purgatory it doth manifest their Ignorance of the Knowledge of God for I witness in the Life of God's Spirit such know not Heaven nor Hell God nor Devil and so they call Light Darkness and Darkness Light Good Evil and Evil Good and teach the People so to do but God is not well pleased with any of those nor with them that do boast themselves saying How great the Kingdom is and how many Countries and innumerable sight of People belongeth to their Church in all places but them that trust in the Arm of Flesh yea in the strength of Pharoah and in the Shadow of Egypt but the strength of Pharoah will be her shame and their trusting in the shadow of Egypt their confusion God's Kingdom is the least as to the visible strength but the greatest in the invisible power Fear not little Flock saith Christ it is your Fathers good pleasure to give you the Kingdom The Kingdom of God consists not in the arm of Flesh but it stands in his own Power and Almightiness That is Antichrists Kingdom whose power stands in outward weapons which is carnal as Locks and Bolts and Iron-bars Chains and Whips and Racks and the like Our Weapons are not carnal but spiritual saith the Apostle â—o the pulling down Strong-holds Principalities and Powers and high and lofty Looks with
Lovers for evermore world without end Amen The Glory is the Lord God's who is risen in his mighty Power to raise up Sion and to build up the walls of Jerusalem and to raze down Babel to the ground and to destroy the Kingdom of Antichrist and to bring down all the Powers of Darkness under his feet This was written in the Inquisition of Malta by the Lord's Servant Katherine Evans who am a Sufferer for God's eternal Truth which is my Ioy my Glory and my Crown Magnified be the Name of the Lord God of Life and Power who hath counted me worthy not only to believe unto Salvation but also to suffer for the Sake of my blessed Saviour and perfect Redeemer the Lord Iesus Christ to whom be Glory for ever world without end Amen Amen Oh Friends and People in all places who are called Christians fear the Lord God that gave you Life and obey his holy Gospel the Light in the Conscience that convinceth of all Sin and judgeth the Secrets of every ones Heart O hearken to the heavenly Voice of the true invisible God he is near to every one to save or to condemn Yea of a truth he is risen in great Power to correct the Wayes of men throughout all Nations whose Wayes have been their own Wayes for many Generations past but this is the Day in which the Lord God will restore Judges as at the first and Counsellors as at the beginning Wherefore let every one that hath received Power and Authority from the Lord to rule and regulate amongst the People take heed that they do not abuse the Power the Lord hath committed into their hands as a Stewardship whereof they must give an account before the High and Mighty Judge of Heaven and Earth that sits upon the Throne to Judge the Nations in Righteousness and the People with Equity and he will smite the Earth with the Rod of his mouth and consume the Wicked with the Breath of his lips and the Lord God will remove and overturn and cut down till he hath exalted men like to faithful Moses and righteous Samuel to do the work of Justice Mercy and Equity to every one without respect to Persons in the Fear and Dread of the Lord not seeking their own honour and glory but the Honour and Glory of the Lord God And thus he will make you honourable in the sight of all men for of a truth they that exalt themselves shall be brought low but they which the Lord doth exalt none can cast down and likewise see that you do nor judge others for that which your selves stand guilty of or the like sin in the self-same nature if so wherein ye judge others you condemn your selves and your own Condemnation will stand over your own heads for ever Wherefore take heed how you do mount in the Seat of Tribunal and let every Thought Word and Action in your Sentences of Judgment of others be according to the Light of God in your own Consciences which otherwise will be your eternal Condemnation without any excuse in the Presence of the Lord God Almighty whose Voice doth shake terribly the Earth and makes the Hearts of the Heathen to tremble and doth and will remove Mountains and over-turn Hills and take all that lets and stands in opposition against his pure Truth and the little Hill of Sion shall trample over all the Mountains to the Ends of the Earth And who shall be able to resist it no no not one the Lord will rip up every false Covering strip off every deceitful Garment and make manifest every seducing Spirit and blind Guide and false Teacher that doth work by signs and lying wonders with all manner of Deceivableness and doth deceive the hearts of the Simple and stealeth away their hearts and draweth out their minds from the true invisible Lord God that made them and doth set them upon earthly Objects and visible Appearances and the Glory of this life that will perish for ever and vanish away like the smoak in the aire and the invisible God they have no more knowledge of than the beast that perisheth and these be them that run and the Lord never sent them and saith Thus saith the Lord and the Lord hath not spoken unto them neither did they ever see his face nor hear his voice at any time neither do they profit the people at all but build them up in the Mystery of Iniquity and teach them to wonder after the monstrous Beast which hath many Heads and many Horns and Mouths full of Blasphemy and Eyes full of Adultery walking in the broad way that leads to the chambers of death and destruction and to the Pit of everlasting Perdition and shuts up the Kingdom from the Simple-hearted and hides the Key of Knowledge from the innocent Ones and will not enter in themselves nor suffer them to enter that would and these are them that feed of the Fat and go on their Bellies all their life long the Serpents of the earth that suck the sweet up the spirit of the earth and they make the poor people believe it doth belong to them in Christ because they must pray for them to the saving of their Souls O these be Hypocrites and they do not know the Price of the redemption of a Soul out of death neither have they the Knowledge of God nor his Way to Salvation for if they did know the Lord they would fear and dread his holy Name and teach the People the Way to Life eternal which is the Light in the Conscience in every one and he that comes not to the Light comes not into the Way of God which leads to the Kingdom of God The Kingdom of God is one his Way is one his Light is one his Life is one and his Spirit of Truth is one and his Word is one and what he speaks once he speaks still and what he once condemns he never justifies and what he once justifies he never condemns He is God and changeth not but the same yesterday and to day and so likewise for ever Now they that are in the changeable and in the many wayes are out of the Way of God which is Light and are in the dark and do not see the way they walk in neither do they know the Lord nor his Word that is quick and powerful sharper than a two-edged Sword for did they know that Word they would not dare to mock and scorn at them that tremble at the Word and meet together to wait upon the Lord in silence and do hearken diligently to know the Mind of God that they may not sin against him nor act contrary to him but those men or women cannot disscern the Mind of God that are not crucified with Christ Jesus and the Body of sin death destroyed which is a mystery to all the Wisdom Learning in the world that do not own the Light in the Conscience to be their alone Teacher but live