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A discovery of truth and falshood discovered by the light of God in the inward parts the spirit of man being the candle of the Lord ... / written ... by one whom the people of the world calls a Quaker ... Yorkshire, 1652, Rich. Farneworth.
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R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.
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A DISCOVERY OF Truth and Falshood Heb. 4.12 13. 1 Cor. 4.6 7. 2 Cor. 2.10 Joh. 8 12. Psal 25.14 Prov. 3.32 Amos 3.8 Rev. 14.1 2 3 4 5 6. Discovered by the light of God in the inward parts the spirit of of man being the candle of the Lord which being enlightned it searcheth the secrets and spyes out all the deceits of the heart and the Lord commandeth that it should shine forth to others for the spirit searcheth all things even the deep things of God that they may be enlightened that sit in darkeness Christ within is the light of the Lord and enlighteneth the understanding and placeth his fear in the heart and the secrets of the Lord are with them that fear him Oh fear the Lord God almighty and worship not the beast as all do that have not found their names written in the book of life Rev. 13.8 God is a Spirit and now he will be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth Joh. 4.24 for he is seeking such to worship him vers 23. Ezek. 34.11 and 16. The Lord is gathering all his elect together by his Spirit out of al Forms into the substance of all Forms to worship him in his temple at New Jerusalem where the tabernacle of God is with men Rev. 21.3 Oh all people cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils Isa 2.22 and fear God Rev. 14.7 and give glory unto him for the hour of his judgement is coming and worship him that made heaven and earth the Lord doth require it Written from the Spirit of the Lord by one whom the people of the world calls a Quaker but is of the Divine nature made partaker whom the world knows not that are in their old nature and so mock and deride but wo to the wicked it shall be ill with them Isai 3.11 Say unto the righteous It shall be well with them for they shall inherit the blessing Isai 3.10 Matth. 5.10 11 12. Yorkshire 1652. Rich. Farneworth London Printed for Giles Calvert 1653. A discovery of truth and falshood ALl people see where you are and consider how you stand and see whether you be yet in the fall or redeemed to God and com'd into the promised land born of water and the Spirit and circumcised with the circumcision made without hands and baptised by one spirit into one body having put on Christ which is the head of his body the Church the first born written in Heaven 1 Cor. 12.13 Gal. 3.27 for they that are baptised into Christ have put on Christ and are crucified to the world and the world to them being com'd thorow the law by which the old man was crucified and are redeemed from under the earth to the Lord God and to the Lambe Christ being the end of the law for righteousness ruling by his power alone in those that are of the new birth and reconciled to God by the bloud of the Lambe the enmity being slaine the old man destroyed with the deeds of darkness which the righteous law was to and the new man raised up and com'd thorow the law by the divine power of righteousness sees now what the law is to not to the righteous but to the unrighteous and hath power over the fleshly man they that are in the flesh cannot please God who is a spirit and of purer eyes then to behold iniquity neither are they Israel that are after the flesh but they that are after the spirit he is not a Jew that is one outwardly but he is a Jew that is one inwardly the Jew outwardly had a law outwardly written in tables of stone Jer. 31.31 32 33 35. Heb 8.10 11. but the Jew inwardly hath his law written in inward fleshly tables of the heart not with pen and ink but by the Spirit of the living God to teach them the knowledge of the everlasting truth and to direct them to holiness and righteousness to walke humbly before him that they may inherit the blessing In the time of the law that was given forth to the children of Israel after the flesh they had it outwardly written in tables of stone in the first Covenant which was outwardly Deut. 27.1 2 3 4. Mica 3.9 10 11. Isai 1.21 22 23 24. and they that ruled over man were to be just and faithful â—it â—as hated God and feared covetousness for such the Lord delights in but when they backslided from the truth then they did not justice neither did they execute true judgement according to the command of God therefore was he displeased with them and sent to cry out against them Now see where you are whether in the transgression and in the fall yea or no and learn to do that which is right in the sight of the God that he may be glorified by you do justly love mercy and walk humbly before him and execute true judgement and justice for he doth require it Mic. 6.8 Just Men are to be rulers of the people Moses was a ruler over the people and he set over them faithfull men such as feared God and hated covetousness Moses was to set over the people Officers to judge the people with just judgement See thou shalt not wrest judgement saith the Lord. The judges are not to respect persons in judgement The Judges and Officers are not to take a gift See Deut 16.19 for gifts blinde the eyes of the wise and pervert the words of the righteous They are to follow that which is altogether just vers 20. Deut. 32.36 The Lord shall judge his people and he judgeth righteously and saith he If I whet my glittering sword and my hand take hold of Judgement I will render vengeance to mine enemies and will reward them that hate me Deut. 32.41 The Lord shall judge the people Psal 7.8 The righteous God tryeth the hearts and reines vers 9. God judgeth the righteous and he is angry with the wicked every day Psal 7.11 13 14. They that judge the people must be righteous that they may judge righteously For they judge for God and not for man See 2 Chron. 19.6 Jehosaphat dwelt at Jerusalem and he set over the Cities Judges and gave them charge and said to them Take heed what ye do for ye judge not for man but for the Lord who is with you in judgement 2 Chron. 16.5 6 7. wherefore saith he now that you are to judge for the Lord see that you judge righteously and the fear of the Lord be with you and saith he Take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the Lord nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts And he charged the Judges and Officers saying Thus shall ye do in the fear of the Lord faithfully and with a perfect heart vers 9. The Judge is to open his mouth for the dumb Prov. 31.8 in the cause of such as are appointed for destruction They that judge the people are to judge righteously and they
walk humbly before him and to live in love with one another to do justly and take off oppression and to shew mercy towards all people and to walk in humbleness of heart before him and to do freely for all the gifts of God are free and large and he is very loving and bountiful and now he looks for fruits not in words but in actions but it is not so among them that profess to be the people of the Lord yet in their actions deny him for the true Church of Christ was loving and tender one to another there was not any among them that lacked any thing they was of one heart and one minde there was no cruelty executed amongst them the true Church of Christ is to be as he is holy and harmless pure and peaceable and to be in subjection to him that is head even to Christ and to keep his commands they that love him do obey him and abide in his doctrine Jesus Christ and his Spouse are both one he is the head and his Saints are the body and the Spouse must be in subjection to him and obedient to him in all things as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him Lord the wife is subject to her husband so the Church is to Christ Christ is the head they are the body and the body is guided by the head Christ is the head in all things and the Church is subject to Christ for he is not without the body and they are not without the head so Christ and the Saints are one and as he is so are they they are bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh the Church is the love of Christ and Christ is the love of the Church as he is so are they all love united together into one even into the Law of the Father the Father Son and Saints make but one perfect Christ I in them and they in me as thou Father art in me Christ gave himself for the Church that he might present it to his Father without any spot or wrInkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish and the Church of Christ is sanctified and cleansed with the blood of the Lamb and it is covered with the robes of righteousness and made perfect through his holiness being all glorious within and the head of it is love and Christ and the Church is all one But the Church of Babylon is an Harlot and rides upon the scarlet coloured Beast and professeth love to Christ but lives like a Whore for she is committing fornication under every green tree and playing the Harlot with many lovers The Church of Christ is glorious within and so the Whore of Babylon is glorious without rideing upon a painted Beast a Beast is that which is not in the truth and yet professeth to be by words but in actions walk contrary satisfying the flesh with the affections and lusts thereof lusting after pride and lusting after covetousness and lusting after honours and after pleasures and wantonness and yet profess love to Christ and can speak fine words painted with the words of Christ and with the words of the Prophets and Apostles but lives in the wicked Imaginations of their hearts and the Beast and the Whore is one and are united together to live in pleasures and wantonness upon earth being marryed to pride and profits covetousness and oppression and grinding the faces of the poor and the head of them is envy wrath and malice and if any speak of the love of Christ among them they are so full of envie and wrath that they persecute them to death and yet profess to be the Spouse of Christ too but Christ and his Spouse is one in love and tenderness and pity and compassion and they are united both into the divine being of the Father and as the harlot is out of the divine nature marryed to the lusts and pleasures of the world so Christ and his are taken up into the full enjoyment of the Fathers love and they loath pride and covetousness malice and envie wrath and deceit and oppression knowing that all unrighteousness is of the devil And as the Church of Christ is all glorious within and covered with the righteousness of Christ and contends for the faith that was once given to the Saints so the Church of Babylon is all glorious without but the inside is full of rottenness and filthy hypocrisie and secret envie and hatred and secret subtilty and dissimulation and yet makes a profession of God and of Christ but their folly doth appear dayly more and more and their secret abominations are discovering dayly and as the Saints are covered with the righteousness of Christ the worlds Church they are covered with unrighteousness and in stead of contending for the faith in his purity they contend altogether for the deceit that they may uphold the kingdome of sin and Satan and live altogether in pride and oppression and lust and excess and so makes themselves manifest by their fruits that they do not live in what they do profess