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A52677	An account from the children of light (to them that askes) in several particulars why we have been kept from joyning to, or worshipping in those formes at law, and formes of worships, that have been imposed upon us against our consciences, in these late years, for denying whereof, we have so deeply suffered, with our lives, liberties, and estates. : Also what we owne as to those things, and can be obedient to for conscience sake, according to truth, and the practise of the church of Christ, and the Scriptures.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing N256; ESTC R27517	31,099	57

Conscience from dead works And will you not suffer him to reigne and governe therein hath not he quickned every living soule and created anew every free Spirit and would you take and keepe the kingdome therein out of his hand and rule there for another or your selves with force and cruelty Is not this he for whom the Sabbath was made and all the ordinances under heaven speakes his dominion And will you now read this and professe and withstand him in the Consciences of his tender people and deny him to rule in his Church alone have you not read what God hath said of him and his enemies in the second Psalme nay are not all the Scriptures his and testifie to him alone as head over all and ruler in all his Saints And as you have heard read and professed his dominion more then heathens and yet goe on to keepe it from him so to you is his first appear●nce to seeke his owne of you And if you persist to deny him it s you must drinke the Cup first that the heathens may heare and feare his name fr●m farre and his rising appeare to all the ends of the world that its he alone who is from everlasting at whose name every knee must bow and tongue confesse to the right of his inheritance And this further I lay before you people of this Nation who have long been crying for peace and settlement in the Nations and in your Religion and you cry out of so many divisions and so many religions I say to you all how should you be otherwise when you will not come to the one religion that is of God and was in the beginning with God and brought forth in time by Iesus Christ for the bringing all into God againe and reconciling all sorts of scattered people who are scattered in the imaginations and customes of carnall spirited men from God the one good thing into many things rudiments and traditions wherein you can neither be reconciled to God nor one to another for how is it like that ever that religion can reconcile to God which sets you a killing one another to uphold it are you like to obtaine peace in that Spirit which in your hearts is the cause of enmity and warre or obtaine unitie from that roote which hath thus scattered you in its fruits and off spring This is like the false Prophets of old who would bite with their teeth and cry peace Nay this is not the way of settlement or lasting peace THAT you must have in returning and making peace with the Spirit of Jesus you must kisse the Son and so make peace for this hath been seene concerning you of these Nations that if you owne not the light of Christ in spirit and truth that he may lead you out of these many things which are not of ●od and reconcile you to God in spirit and truth there to worship him alone who is a Spirit you will ere long be in bloud eyther amongst your selves one against another or else i● the bloud of the innocent Lambs of Chri●t which will not be for your peace with God for he that hath letted your peace and settlement is not yet taken away nor his power who is that old bloud-sucker and divider of Nations people and tongues abou● faith and religions and with which a fire hath often been kindled nor can his power be stopped but by the Spirit of the Lambe of God which takes away sin and breakes downe the wall of separation which is made about ordinances litterall ceremoniall and traditionall which can never cease but as men turne to the Spirit of the Lord Iesus That with the light of peace and truth you may be led into peace truth and unity that wrath may be done away and the ground thereof and you and your religion may be setled on the foundation of truth Christ Jesus the chiefe corner stone and not upon dayes times meats drinks and apparell and other things which will perish with the using and so will they that worship and not in the leadings of Christ alone and God will shake the Idolls of peoples minds and all the glory of flesh that he alone may be exalted in the earth as he is in heaven So if you will have peace you must come to the Son of peace and if you will have establishment you must come to the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles of God for I say many have been about to build a house for God to dwell in with carnall things and rudiments and this they would bind him to his people who is a Spirit and his house must be built of spirituall men and women who like living stones must grow up in his owne light and vertue into a holy temple in the Lord In which you must be builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit Eph. 2.20 21 22. And this is Gods house built by Christ alone with that which is elect and precious not with gold and garments or observations of perishing things but with redeemed soules by the bloud of Iesus out of their vaine conversation and gathered into the Spirit of truth and life and power to worship God who is a Spirit in spirit truth and this is Gods house at this day which was his house in the Apostles dayes who dwells not in Temples made with hands as saith the Apostles nor with mens hands is worshipped but with him that 's poore in spirit and of a broken and contrite heart to him will I looke saith the Lord and there will I dwell And the bodyes of his holy people are the Temples of the living God as he hath said I will dwell in them and walke in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people 2 Cor. 6.16 And untill you come to this building of God in your selves God will not dwell with you in peace but all your buildings will he cōfound and not accept your sacrifice and then the Devill will enrage you against Gods house and spirituall building even his poore despised people them to destroy like Cain when his sacrifice was not accepted in his owne will But if you turne to the Lord who is that Spirit then will he cause his light to shine in your hearts to give you an heavenly understanding and he will put his Spirit in your inward parts and fill you with heavenly power and will let you see the lively Image of truth and peace and he will take away the vaile of the Covering that is spead over all Nations from which arises all their carnall comprehensions and carnall worships of the invisible spirituall God and he will also swallow up death in victory which now worketh in the Nations to kill one another about religion and worship without spirit and life so will you come to be taught his true worship who is a Spirit and become true worshippers in Spirit and so grow up in his knowledge and he will owne your worship whom as yet you have neither heard hi● voyce at any time nor seene his shape And Christ saith of such worshippers You worship you know not what but the true worshippers worship in faith and know what they worship and such the Father ● now seeking to worship him saith Christ Iesus John 4.22 23 24. And this is the thing oh England tha● concernes thy peace with thy God in thi● thy day who art Combred with many things about Christ and worship but neglects the one thing needfull for thy everlasting peace and establishment and to bring thee into that worship of Spirit withou● which God cannot accept thee and that religion which is pure and undefiled in the sight of God which will keepe thee unspotted in the world which till thou turn● to thou wilt be working against the Spirit of God through the darknesse of enmity that is in thee and he will certainly worke against thee except thou repent THE END J. N. R. H. 1 John 3.27 Isa. 5.6 2 Chro. 19.6 Isa. 6.9 Mat. 12.8 Heb. 2.10 Dan. 4.25 Acts 2.36 1 Tim. 6.15 Isa. 11.4 Isa. 40.11 Psal. 45.7 Jer. 23.5 6. Luk. 1.24 Isa. 6.3 2 Sam. 23.4 Isa. 32.1 2. Eccles. 10.16 17. Psal. 69.9 Lam. 3.14 Rev. 21.24 Isa. 5.21 Jer. 17.5 John 5.44 Isa. 30.1 Rom. 8.14 Gal. 5.18 Mat. 17.5 2 Cor. 10.6 Isa. 28.7 Jere. 23. Amos 2.4 Amos 7.14 Jerem. 23. Isa. 1.9 Hester 3. Dan. 6. Dan. 3. Acts 5.28 29. John 16.2.3 2 Tim. 1.13 Job 32.21 22. James 2. Dan. 3.21 Lev. 18.30 Ier. 23.10 Mat. 5.34 Iames 5.12 Lev. 19.12 Mat. 5.34 Mat. 5. Isa. 59.4 Isa. 28.15 Jer. 9.3 4 5 Pro. 12.19.22 Pro. 29.12 Psal. 40.4 Deut. 19.16 17 18 19 20 1 Cor. 7.39 M●la 2.15 Ma●h. 19.6 M●th. 19.8 Mah. 19.4 5. Rom. 8.2 Nom. 13. Acts 4.19 2 C●r 1.12 1 Tim. 3.9 James 1.27 John 4.23 24. Dan. 4.17 Heb. 1.8 9. Isa. 11.1 2. 2 Cor. 4.5 2 Cor. 1.24 1 Pet. 5.3 2 Cor. 10.4 Eph. 6.12 1 Cor. 4.5 Mic. 3.10 Col. 1.18 Phil. 2.10 Rev. 17.14 John 6.27 Col. 1.18 Mat. 1.21 Phil. 2.13 1 Cor. 6.10 Rom. 14.23 Rom. 14.4 Mat. 7.12 1 Cor. 2.10 11. John 3.20 21. Rom. 7.6 1 Thes. 1.1 Gala. 1.16 Gal. 1.11.12 1 Cor. 9.14 1 Cor. ● 17 18. 2 Cor. 4.5 1 Cor. 14 29 30 31. 1 Cor. 2.12 1 John 4.1 1 Thes. 5.21 1 Cor. 8.5 6. 〈◊〉 4 5 6. Heb. 7. John 4.21 24. Acts 7.48 Acts 17.24 Jer. 10.2 3. Isa. 55.4 Luke 1.79 Heb. 1.6 Mica 3. Col. 2.14 15 16 17 20 21 22. Heb. 10.11 Isa. 66.2 Isa. 25.7 8. 2 Cor. 3.16 17 18. John 5 37. Luke 19 42· Luke 10.41 42. James 1.27

but to love our enemies and pray for them that dispitefully use us and hate us And so from all men to suffer for peace sake for to peace we are called towards all men and under the Prince of peace is our government so that we need not men to end Controversies amongst us who are all in unity of spirit and life in Christ Iesus But when men haile us before Iudgement-Seats or cause us to appeare at their Courts of Law then we meet with many things among them there which for Conscience sake we cannot bow to nor uphold finding them not onely against the rule of Christians but out of the way of common honesty as men yea many things against truth it selfe and this we cannot serve as Law which is against truth As when they send a Writ to appeare at their Courts in a mans owne proper person and in obedience thereto we have come may be two hundred miles or above and tendred our appearance accordingly at the very day appointed then they have with violence and reproach thrust us out of their Court● because we did appeare in our owne person● and not ●n another mans person whom we have not known and for this have we suffered much damage long imprisonment as contemners of authority and Law Now this we cannot joyne to in our hearts nor owne as honesty and truth and plain dealing as men to let goe all talke of Christian● the heathen would not doe this to us Also when our adversary puts up a Bill o● Charge against us drawn up in a forme without truth fill'd with false accusations a●though our offence amounted to hundreds or thousands of pounds wrong or damage when with the truth of Christ in our Conscience we know that we have never wronged that man one penny in our lives but that it is the enemy of truth and peace even that Old accuser of the brethren which now workes in that Creature to spoyle our goods or take our lives or liberties from us Then we are not suffered to returne an answer in the feare of our God and in plainnesse and truth of expressions as the Spirit of truth shall move in the simplicity of our hearts And so with the Spirit of truth to deny the lyes and false accusations of the adversary But we must be forced to give unreasonable sums of money to another man whom we know not nor knows he our state and case in this matter to answer in our stead who for ought we know may in stead of sharply reproving those abominable lyes justifie them at least as a legall thing or forme at Law fit to be used And thus our testimony against falshood is taken from us which the Spirit of truth requires of us and we pay money to have it justified as a forme at Law when we know it to be a forme of lyes And we cannot leave the truth to serve this deceipt beside were the truth no dearer to us but that we could thus give it up to be betrayed knowingly yet it seems to us unreasonable as men to give our cause into the hands of him that knows it not further then we must informe him nor when we have informed him have no assurance whether he will speak our words or his owne or our adversaries and so bring us under the guilt of the whole body of falshood This appeares to us very unreasonable and dangerous and below the priviledge of a man as a man much more as a Christian so we rather chuse to suffer innocently under falshood keeping our consciences cleare then consent thereto and so establish mischiefe under pretence of a Law Psal. 94.20 and deny our testimony for the truth to which we are called and for which we suffer in all these things Also if any of us be sued at the Exchequer or Chancery and appeare and take a Coppie of the Bill and goe to the Iudges with a true answer thereto they will refuse it because we cannot sweare though they will shew us no written law for so doing but tell us its a Custome and this custome is preferred above his Law who saith sweare not at all and for this have many been imprisoned it being put upon us either to deny their Custome or Christs Command so we chuse to suffer by men for a season rather then defile our Consciences If we be summon'd to doe service for the Country on a Iury and be willing to do the service faithfully as to God and man yet because we cannot sweare many are fined imprisoned and their goods spoyled and reputed unserviceable in the nation when we would freely serve the Country so as we might not therein deny Christ our Saviour If one of us be summon'd to appeare at a Court for a witnesse that would testifie the truth before God from a good Conscience and in the feare of God and according to his Law viz. in all things that if we should wrong any man whatsoever through our false testimony that its just the same should be done to us yet because we cannot sweare be the action never so great our true testimony is refused and we thrust away without Iudgement threaten'd to cause us to pay what they say the party is damnified for our not swearing and all this we must suffer for obeying Christs Commands If one of us should buy a piece of land or have some fallen to him by inheritance and come to the Court Baron to take it up they will not let him take it except he sweare and so breake Christs sayings or if a man purchase or have an inheritance within a Customary Court it s the same and they will turne us without it if we will not sweare contrary to Christs Commands And thus is the evill Custome of a Cour● preferred before Christs Commands a good Conscience and a familyes whole estate and livelihood If a man bind an apprentice in this Citie of London and give a great summe of money with him and the prentice serves his time honestly and truely and have his Masters testimony thereto yet is he denyed his freedome if he cannot sweare for Conscience sake and so must lose money and service if he be faithfull to Christ If one of us should dye intestate they will not suffer our owne wife or Children to administer on our owne goods unlesse they will sweare against their Conscience and the Law of Christ or if we make a will and make wife or Children Executer they are denyed to prove the will whereby they are to enjoy their estates but by breaking that Command of Christ in swearing Likewise when some of us have been arrested to appeare at such a Court such a day and have simply given bond to appeare And when the ap●earance hath been made at the day expressed by the party so bound neither the appearance would be taken nor the bond delivered but a further snare because another man appeares not for us whom