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truth_n	place_n	spirit_n	worship_v	2,835	5	9.1263	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29604	Silent meeting, a wonder to the world, yet practised by the apostles and owned by the people of God, scornfully called Quakers	Britten, William, d. 1669.; Fox, George, 1624-1691. Concerning gathering in the name of Jesus.	1671 (1671)	Wing B4826; ESTC R9144	10,828	17

they are pure or impure Thirdly Use the Spiritual Scales to weigh ponder or consider all things to be spoken or done before they pass from thee for man durst not let so many filthy words drop from his tongue if first they were weighed and considered within at the Heart Yea and Nay Yes and No must be the same as they are spoken and so speak the same thing intended and pretended for otherwise you are Lyars and Lyars are for the Lake Rev. 21.8 Rev. 22.15 to be amongst Doggs and Whoremongers without Yet with many Lying is common who have not learned to speak the same thing intended as if you ask them to eat to drink to tarry c. they will say No yet desire them again and they will accept it so here they are Lyars Some in Scoffs and Mocks think it is witty to speak a Lye in Jest others being asked the truth of a thing will sometimes flourish and enlarge it making the same too much or too little as in Praising or dispraising in buying or selling and account themselves expert dealers and cunning Chapmen because they can use their tongues for advantage whereas they are but Lyars in it and such know not what a Spiritual Watch meaneth Therefore know that in all such estates ye are quite out of the good old way or way of truth and remember If any such seem Religious yet they are not so seeing their tongues are unbridled not brought to the truth and their Religion is vain or empty Jam. 1.26 Yet because you are such I do not say you are damned but declare your being captive in fleshly Babylon shewing from the Spirit of God what must be done by you if ye are saved If any are in Christ they are New Creatures and there is a new Heaven and a new Earth in them for all the parts members faculties and abilties are put to a new use the new heart and new spirit is in them so they speak and act new things from that law of God written in their inward parts and such dare not vent their frothy words as flesh did formerly but now there is a killing of that as Paul died dayly 1 Cor. 15.31 so the New Creature dies dayly to sin he is dead as to act in sin but lively to Righteousnesse whereas the Sinner is quick to sin but dead and dull in the things of God So thou shalt see the difference of these Two Estates betwixt Darknesse and Light when thou comest to use the Spiritual Watch Spiritual Touchstone and Spiritual Scales according to thy measure in the growth of Grace to know the power of an endless life within thee working and effecting these things and then thou mayest say I now see what pure silence is yea then thou shalt benefit by Silent Meetings And those that are come to the pure silencing of flesh to bridle the tongue to wrestle with the spiritual wickedness in the high place of the heart Ephes 6.12 2 Cor. 10.5 1 Cor. 10.31 that each thought may be brought into obedience unto Christ and whatsoever they act do all to the Glory of God such can witness the power of Christ in them and when he pleaseth to call them by his Eternal Spirit to go forth as Ministers they can best declare what God hath revealed unto them As the Man having the Devils cast forth published in Decapolis how great things Jesus hath done for him Mar. 5.20 wheareas they that preach by hear-say and humane study shew they speak not as the Spirit gives them utterance but with the tongues of flesh from carnal Apprehensions So that when they preach unto the people it might be objected Jesus I know hath the Spirit and Paul I know had it Act. 19 15. but who are ye upon what account would ye conjure forth sin out of others who have not the True Spirit your selves Therefore let none assume or own any other Gospel-Ministers than those called forth by the Spirit of God as Christ in Spirit after his Resurrection and Ascension confirmed the same to lead them into all truth and bring all things to their remembrence as able Ministers of the Spirit and not of the Letter 2 Cor. 3.6 as Carnal men do who teach one another Humane Learning and then sell it for Divinity forcing many to pay for it at a dear rate even to spoiling of Goods Imprisonment and cruelty But some will Object their Non-Scripture Distinctions of Mediate and Immediate Ordinary and Extraordinary c. saying That although the Apoctles were so called of God yet they ordained others not so called and so out of their carnall Inventions they undertake to consecrate or make Steeple-houses Masse-houses High-places or the Tower-houses to be Churches and to be holy-Holy-places and fit men by their Arts and Degrees to preach in such places c. Answ All their pretences can no more make such Places holy than a heap of stones nor add any more vertue thereby into the Pulpit than into a Tub For God is worshipped in Spirit and Truth Gal. 1.18 John 4.23 24. 1 Tim. 1.3 Mat. 16.17 Nor are true Teachers to deliver any other Doctrine than what the Apostles did Therefore see what Qualifications they were to have 1 Tim. 32 c. Tit. 1.6 c. Now it is not flesh and blood that reveals this unto them nor the Tongues of Humane Learning which qualifies men thus for the Ministry but the same Spirit of God Therfore it is common to see those having much humane Learning to be Great Persecutors and will not take up the Crosse to follow Christ and so crosse their own Lusts Pride Covetousness Envy and Filth but give way unto it by which means we find so many cruel Priests for there is scarce any Persecution of Saiants but the Priests are chief Actors therein either by instigating or acting Now consider Friends it was that charged on Thyatira for suffering Jezebell who called her self a Prophetesse to teach and seduce the People Rev. 2.20 So these Nationall Ministers call themselves Divines and Gospell Ministers yet lead the People in Error which we now seeing by the Light of Christ if we do not discover reprove and oppose them therein God will lay the same thing to our charge as he did unto Thyatira For now Jesus Christ will set up his own Ministry And although he forbad not his Disciples to hear the Scribes and Pharisees Mat. 23.3 when the Law-Ministry was not ended yet now having finished that work in his flesh his Spiritual Ministry he hath set up to continue unto the end and no other are we to hear And this is the Testimony which the Lord hath called me to hold forth Therefore hearken unto it The 23d Day of the 8th Month 1660. William Britten Concerning Gathering in the Name of Jesus CHrist Jesus the Second Adam who came amongst the Sons of Fallen Adam you may see the beginning of his setting up his Meetings when he saith Where two or three are gathered together in my Name I am in the middest of them so you see here Christ begins with a few two or three for there was the gathering of the Jews Scribes and Pharisees their Temple and Synagogues and likewise there was the gathering of the Heathen to Dianas Temple And all them that gathered in the Name of Jesus came from the Jews Synagogue and Temple and likewise the Gentiles into the Name of Jesus for they who are gathered in the Name of Jesus whose Name is above every name and there is no Salvation by any other name under the whole Heaven but by the Name of Jesus into which the gathering is where all know their Salvation and so who are gathered into the Name of Jesus are gathered into the Power and Authority For you know when a Tax or Assessment is gathered in the name of the Head or Heads of a Nation it comes in Power and Authority that you obey it either actively or passively And so who are gathered in the Name of Jesus they are gathered in the Power the Second Adam whose Power and Authority is above the Power of the first Adams Sons and Daughters by which Power and in whose name their People are gathered But Christ whose Name is above every name and there is no Salvation by any other Name under Heaven but by the Name of Jesus and they that be gathered in this Name of Jesus by the Power in which they know their Salvation and they do see there is no Salvation by any other Name under the whole Heaven nor gathering by which they gather they bid farewel to all other names and gatherings under Heaven as knowing there is no Salvation but in the Name of Jesus And this fulfils Jacobs Prophesie who saith The Law shall not depart from between Judahs feet until Shilo come and the gathering of all Nations shall be unto him So then its clear if the gathering of all Nations be unto Christ they must forsake all that into which they were gathered And therefore that makes all the Heads of the National Wayes to be angry that holds them up and therefore with such The Lamb makes War in Righteousness going on Conquering and to Conquer that he may Rule whose Right it is that he might subdue all things to himself in whose Name all things are to be done and in whom all People are to be gathered whom God hath given for Salvation to the ends of the Earth And likewise this doth fulfil Moses Prophesie who said Like unto me will God raise up a Prophet whom in all things the People shall hear who is the Salvation to the ends of the Earth to whom the Gathering of all Nations must be And they who be gathered in his Name do and must hear him in all things by whom all things were made and created who was glorified with the Father before the World began G. F. THE END