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A69638 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. 1660 (1660) Wing B4825; ESTC R13581 10,015 15

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proceed out of thy mouth whether they are pure or impure Thirdly Use the Spiritual Scales to weigh ponder or consider all things to bee 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 or considered within at the heart Yea and Nay Yes and No must bee 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 to bee 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 speake a Lye in a 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 disprasing 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 Yet because you are such I do not say you are damn'd 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 their Parts Members Faculties and Abilities are put to a New Use the New Heart and New Spirit is in them so they Speake 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 dyed daily so the new Creature Dyes daily to Sin he is Dead as to Act in Sin but Lively to Righteousness 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 Darkness 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 that each Tongue 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 please 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 Devil 's cast forth published in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him Whereas 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 but who are ye Upon what account would you conjure forth sin out of others who have not the true Spirit your selves Therefore let none Assume or Own any other Gospel Ministers then those called forth by the Spirit of God as Christ in Spirit after his Resurrection and Ascention confirmed the same to lead them into all Truth and bring all things to their Remembrance as able Ministers of the Spirit and not of the Letter as Carnal men do who teach one another Humane Learning and then sell it for Divinity forcing many to pay for it a dear rate even to spoyling 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 Apostles were so called of God yet they ordained others not so called and so out of their Carnal Inventions they undertake to consecrate or make Steeple-houses Mass-Houses High-Places or the Tower-houses to be Churches and to be Holy-places and fit men by their Arts and Degrees to preach in such places c. Ans. All their pretences can no more make such places holy then a heap of stones nor add any vertue thereby into the Pulpit then into a Tub For God is worshipped in Spirit and Truth Nor are true Teachers to deliver any other Doctrine than what the Apostles did Therefore see what Qualifications they were to have 1 Tim. 3. 2. 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 Therefore it is common to see those having much Humane Learning to be Great Persecutors and will not take up the Cross to follow Christ and so cross their own Lusts Pride Covetousness Envie and Filth but give way unto it by which means we find so many cruel Priests For there is scarce any Persecution of Saints but the Priests are chief Actors therein either by Instigating or Acting Now consider Friends it was that charged on Thyatira for suffering Jezebel who call'd her self a Prophetess to teach and seduce the people So these National Ministers call themselves Divines and Gospel-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 forbade not his Disciples to hear the Scribes and Pharisees 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 THE END Deut. 32. 49. 〈…〉 48. 1 〈…〉 Dan. 2. Lu. 15. 17 Iohn 6 51 53. Iohn 4. 23. 2 cor. 6. 16 2 Cor. 6. 17 2 Cor. 7. 1 Isa. 55. 2. ● Cor. 10. 5 2 Tim. 3. 15. Ioh 5. 39. Rom. 6. 13 16. Luk 17. 21 Mat. 10. 5 Act. 1. 14. Eph. 1. 13. Joh. 4. 2. 2 Cor. 13. 5. Eccles. 2. 1 Iohn 2. 15. Rom. 8. 23 Deut. 18. 15 19. Iohn 1. 9. Ioh. 16 17. Iohn 12 34 Gal. 1. 16. Acts 2. Luke 10. 2 Mar. 13. 37. Iohn 3. 8. Psal. 39. 1. Mar. 13. 37. Eph. 5 10. Mal. 3. 3. Rev. 21. 8. Rev. 22. 15 Iam. 1. 26. 1 Cor. 15. 31. Eph. 6. 12 2 Cor. 10. 5. 1 Cor. 10. 31. Mar. 5 20 Acts 19 15 2 Cor. 3. 6 Gal. 1. 8. Iohn 4. 23 24. ● Tim. 1 3 Mat. 16. 17 Rev. 2. 20. Mat. 23. 3