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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85147	The ranters principles & deceits discovered and declared against, denied and disowned by us whom the world cals Quakers. With a discovery of the mistery of the crosse of Christ. And a discovery of the true light and the false, with their wayes, worships, natures, properties and effects. &c. A vindication for the truth against the deceit. to clear the truth, of scandalls written for simple ones sake, that desire to know the truth as it is in Jesus.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1655 (1655)	Wing F501; Thomason E830_14; ESTC R207442	21,296	22

root of all enmity to reconcile thy soul unto God in yielding to the pure law of love and the divine power of purity in thee and so circumcise thy heart and cut off the evil nature which hinders thy soul of the unity so will the righteous law kill sin in thee and give thee knowledge of the true way that leadeth to life joy and comfort in yielding obedience to the principle of purity in thee heartken to that which checks thee for running into folly and van●ity and it will crosse thy mind will and affections 2 Pet. 1.19 2 Cor. 4.6 7. Pro. 20.27 that runs out after carnality and so search thy heart and turn thee out of the iniquity and guide and lead thee into holynesse and purity in walking up to God in the right way that leadeth to the divinity with Christ I am the way the truth and the life and no man cometh to the father but by me know Christ the way in you to lead out of darkness into the light of purity Christ is the light and Christ is the way and he comes to set up his judgement within and to reveal wrath against sin and to break the peace of the carnall mind and to draw under judgement all the first birth Ioh. 9.39 1 Cor. 1.19 20 21 22 23 24 25. Col. 2.13.14 Eph. 2.11 12 13 14 15 16 both the love of the world the wisdom of the flesh and carnall reason and lead that into the pit of confusion to slay the enmity by the execution of the righteous judgement upon the unjust nature that he may pour forth fury upon the head of the wicked and slay that which crosseth purity and opposeth the work of redemption as man doth imbrace the comings in of wrath to the wrathfull nature to cut it down and burn it up that the good seed may hare room to grow in man and make man fruitfull to God in joining with the slayer of sin that the world or the creature man may be saved by the power of the Lord which doth redeem the soul and unite both soul and body to God that they may be reconciled by the death of the cross in the mystery to praise and glorify God in sincerity and in integrity The true light and the false with their waies worships natures properties and effects This then is the message that we have received to declare unto you that God is light and in him is no darknesse at all and that every good and perfect gift is from above and cometh from the father of lights with whom is no variableness Iam. 1.17 18. 1 Pet. 1.22 Rom. 11.16 Eph. 5.1 2. Eph. 2.8 9 10. neither shaddow of turning for of his own will begat he us that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures being born again and children of the light 1 Pet. 1.22 Rom. 11.16 Eph. 5.1 2. God is the fountain of all good and of mans salvation and happinesse and God is pure his waies words works and worships are pure and holy and this holy God doth inhabit in eternity and dwelleth in purity in himself and none can approach to come near him in their sins nor by their faln wisdom none knowes him but those that are born again and washed and cleansed not in his purity therefore as he that hath called you is holy Heb. 12.14 1 Pet. 1.15 16. so be ye holy in all manner of conversation because it is written be ye holy as I am holy for holinesse becometh mine house for ever as God is pure and holy so the light that proceedeth and cometh forth from God is pure and holy and stands out of all apprehensions and comprehensions of man by his faln wisdom and so sees all mans devices his deceits and false waies and false worships and this pure light that doth proceed and come forth from God which is pure and perfect it convinceth man of all the deceits of his heart and of all his devices and deceiveablenesse and of all his false waies of worship and sheweth him his transgressions and convinceth him of unrighteousnesse and infidelity and all manner of evil whatsoever and calleth him out of the waies and works of darknesse into unity with this pure light and leads him into the way of peace and salvation in obedience to it to worship God in purity even in spirit and in the life and power of truth Ioh. 16.25 26 17 28. Ioh. 12.35 36. this light is from the fountain of lights it is not a conceited thing that is conceived in the brain but it is the light of life and is not to be found in books nor learning without it gathers out of all books without to reading the book of life within this light opens all Scriptures 1 Ioh. 5.8 9 10 11. Ioh. 17.23 14. and Ieads man out of the fall up to God the fountain father of lights this is the true light leadeth into life eternall 1 Joh. 5.12 13. Joh. 17.10 But the naturall men know it not by their naturall learning at studies at universities that is but a borrowed or false light that leads them into books and studies to find out the truth by their carnall wisdom which is gathered up from the serpent and is accursed from God and that faln wisdom and man that lives by conceivings and comprehension and catching of truthes in the nation to speak of and sell for mony it is earthly carnall and divelish Iam. 3.15 16. and he that is joined to that serpentine wisdom is one with it in the same nature and sets up a way of worship that stands in the carnall conceivings of his own brain in imitation from them who lived in the life and power of truth and his ministry that is of the seed of the serpent stands in his own will and so learns his naturall tongues and so would be a judge of spirituall things by his naturall learning and trades out of books and the conceivings of his own brain to sell his divinations at a great rate and calIs them his spirituall things when he is in his carnall corrupt nature 1 Cor. 2.7 8 9 10 11 13 14. 2 Cor. 10.4 5. 2 Pet. 1.19 20 21. Ioh. 28.7 8 to the 22. Isa 30. Ier. 23.29 30 31 32. Isa 5.20 Mat. 23.24 25. Ioh. 8.12 and the naturall man knows not the things of the spirit God for they are foolishnesse to him 1 Cor. 1.14 15. And that is a false light that leads the minds of men out into conceivings and imaginations and to gather up knowledge out of old authours or books without them and that light which is borrowed from without and gathered into the brain through the conceivings and imaginations leads the mind will and affections out after pride and oppression self-love and the honour of the world and the like and it conceives that to be good also and all to be evil that crosseth his knowledge in his carnall

all things are of God who hath reconciled us to himself by Iesus Christ c. I answer Ans that the liberty which Christ parchaseth to and for his is a liberty and freedom from sin and he that saith he is in Christ ought to walk as he also walked 1 Joh. 2.4 5 6. who was a pattern and an example for all his to follow 1. Ioh. 2.4 5 6. 2. Pet. 3. chap to the end but who lives in the flesh and have their liberty in the pleasures and delights thereof and are in the lust are out of the light and so out of Christ an I know no freedom by the son but are in the pathes that leads to destruction and are servant● to sin and lives in uncleanesse and filthinesse of the flesh which neither Christ nor the Apostles did use but doth forbid such practise and fleshly liberty as you use who are in uncleanesse and are servants of Corruption 2 Pet. 13. to the end with the light are you seen comprehended and with the light condemned And where he said all things were lawfull to him he was speaking of meats and such like but he did no● 〈◊〉 any liberty to the flesh Rom. 8.16 1 Ioh. 3.6 7 8. v. but said shall we continue in sin that grace may abound God forbid know ye not saith he that they which commit sin are the servants of sin and so serveth the Devill Rom. 6.16 1 Job 3.6 7 8. And thirdly where he saith I know and am perswaded by the Lord Iesus that there is nothing unclean ot it self but to him that esteemeth it to be unclean it is so but he is not speaking of sin nor fleshly liberty but to tender consciences in that place and his care was so tender ever them that were in a scrupling condition about the unlawfulnesse of eating all meats and such like Rom. 14. chap. that he would not have a weak brother grieved for saith he if thy brother be offended with thy meat which he had been speaking of the purenesse and lawfulnesse of it as it came out of the covenant from God yet saith he if he be grieved now walkest thou not charitably destroy ●ot him with thy meat for whom Christ died let not then your good be evil spoken of for the kingdom of God is nor meat nor drink but righteousnesse and peace and joy in the holy Ghost for he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God and approved of men let us therefore follow after those things which make for peace and things wherewith o●● may edify another Rom. 14. from the 14. verse where he is speaking of the ●awfulnesse and purity of all things as they are in God and so on to the end he sheweth how they are and in what manner to be us●d but you that follow after unrighteousnesse to satisfy your fleshly lusts and pleasures are not in the light nor the kingdom of God but out of the l●ght and in that nature which is accursed from God and you who are turned from the light and live in unrighteousnesse you are the very enemies of all purity and lives in uncleanes●e and must be torn ented with the wrath of God and to the light in all your conscience shall this be witnessed and where he saith All things are of God he is speaking to them that were born of God who abode in the light and were new creatures the old things were passed away and the old lusts and old naturall corruptions and they were new creatures and so redeemed into purity with God and in covenant with him and they knew no man in the fleshly union wherefore saith he henceforth we know no man after the flesh yea though we have known Christ after the flesh yet henceforth know we him so no more therefore sa●●h ●e to others that were in the light as well as them 2 Cor. 5.16 17 18. that were in the life and power of truth if any man be in Christ he is a n●w creature but you cannot say so in truth who lives in the unity of the world and in the old nature he that is in the new nature all things that were from the old root of corruption is passed away in him and all things become new and that is the all things which the Apostle there speaks of 2 Cor. 5. 16 17 18. All things that are in the new nature are pure and he that is born of God is pure and one in that nature and he is coined before the world was and before the corruptions or filthinesse of the flesh was and he sees all things in God to be pure and good and from one root and all things to be unpure and unclean that is of the evil root and so that which proceeds from the fountain of corruption to be of the Divell and if any man have an car let him hear what the spirit saith for the secrets of the Lord are with them that fear him here with that light which never changeth are you all seen and comprehended who art turned out of the light Iam. 3.11 to the end and with the light chained and conemned and lastly to the pure all things are pure none is pure but God the father of spirits without Lord Iesus Christ and he that is born of God the father and the son they are all one and he that is sanctified by the Son he is made clean in and by the divine power of righteounesse and ye are clean through the word saith Iesus Christ and I am in you and you are in me and all things that the Father hath are mine and the holy Ghost shall take of mine and shew unto you all that are in covenant with God are made pure with the bloud of the Lamb and are redeemed to purity again and all things that comes out of the covenant from God to them is pure his love is pure without any mixture of the love of the world for that is unpure and full of lust and self-ends but the love of God is pure and his wisdom is pure pure love pure heart pure peace comfort and joy in the holy Ghost all the makings forth of God to the soul is pure and all the works of God in themselves as they are wrought in the soul are pure but the Divell would defile the work and sow in his seed if he be not watched over and all his works are evil such is his namesuch is his nature and his seed is corrupt and he acteth and guideth it and raiseth it up by the power of darknesse to oppose the good seed which is of God and is acted and guided and raised up by the power of God in those that are obedient to the commands of the spirit of truth and quenches not the motions of it it works into purity and also into unity with the divinity and reconciliation with the father and the son and in that unity things are pure but