false Teachers amongst you saith the Apostle who privily shall bring in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and many shall follow their pernitious wayes by reason of whom the way of truth should be evil spoken of And that perillous times should come that men should be lovers of themselves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful unholy without natural affection truce-breakers false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of those that are good traytors heady high-minded lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God 2 Timothy 3. Now all those before mentioned were and are erred from the Spirit of truth which was in the Saints the holy-men of God who spake forth the Scriptures which declares of these things that there was such then and that there should be such Therefore now behold all People and see whether the things which the Apostles prophecyed of concerning the false Teachers which should come be not come to passe abundantly in the Generations since their dayes and also in this our age insomuch as the whole world hath been deceived by them and led after them and they have drawn them into many Religions Sects and Opinions and set them to kill and murther one another about Religion and about the Scriptures and about their worships and Laws to compel men to them being all erred from the Spirit and from the Truth and now know not the Truth nor the Spirit which was in the Apostles and Saints in which Spirit they worshipped God in their dayes and those then that got Christs words and the Prophets words and had not his Spirit but were arred from it and were out of the Life and out of the Truth which they did professe in words These I say the Saints and true Christians who were followers of Christ and had his Spirit with it they tryed the spirits of the other who had it not and found them not to be of God nor to be beleeved nor received but turned from for they were false Spirits and false Prophets which were gone out into the world from Christ and from the Saints that had the Spirit of God in them by which they tryed the other and found them to be of the world and Antichrists in the spirit of this world and by it led which cometh from him who is called The god of this world who had blinded their minds And so they were not true Prophets or Seers or true Ministers of Christ nor true Teachers but false Teachers false Ministers false Prophets and Antichrists and blind guids gone out into the world in the worlds Spirit and so with that spirit they could not confesse Christ come in the flesh though in words they might say he was come in the flesh as all the Priests and Professors who are called Christians do now at this day in words confesse him but not with the Spirit confesse him as their fruits make it manifest Now saith the Apostle hereby know ye the Spirit of God Every Spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God And every Spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ as come in the flesh is not of God and this is the spirit of Antichrist whereof ye have heard that it should come and even now already is in the world Ye are of God little children and have over come them because greater is he that is in you then he that is in the world They are of the world therefore speak they of the world and the world heareth them We are of God he that knoweth God heareth us Hereby know me the Spirit of Truth and the spirit of Error John 1.4 1 2 3 4 5 6. verses Now if those had not had Christs words and confessed him in words to be come in the flesh while they were out of his life and of another spirit then the Apostle would not have called them Antichrists and Prophets and Teachers but he would have called them Jews or Gentiles or Heathers but this was it which did differ them from the Jews and unbelieving Gentiles and Heathers then Namely They had the words of Christ and the Saints and the Prophets and did professe them as the Priests and Teachers and Professors do now the Scriptures but are erred from the life of Christ and from the Spirit that was in the Saints who gave forth the Scriptures as they were then whom John speakes of erred from the life and Spirit of Christ and the Saints and so were Antichrists and false Prophets and false Teachers and Deceivers which were gone out into the World from the Saints life and Spirit and so the World heard them as they doe now the Priests and false Teachers and they drew people after them then from the Saints the true Church and so set up false Churches and Religions in the World and false worships in imitation of the true Church and true Religion and true worship of God which is in the Spirit and so by this means deceived people then at the first and scattered them from God and led them into confusion and darknesse and disorder and errour and so they broke out into many Sects and Opinions and Religions and wayes of Worship being once gone from the true Worship which is in the Spirit of God alone in which the unity is where this is wanting there cannot be unity nor gathering unto God nor true worship of God And so after the Apostles decease they being erred from the true Spirit who did professe themselves to be gatherers could not gather unto God but did draw people more and more from God and so the whole world went after the false Prophets and false Teachers And these were the grievous Wolves which entered and scattered the Flock which the Apostle spoke of before which should come and Christs words were fulfilled who said He that is not with me is against me and he that gathereth not with me scattereth So he that is not with Christ but is against him the same is Antichrist he that gathereth not with him but scattereth there is the grievous Wolfe that scattereth the Flock and spoyles the Sheep of the Lords pasture and makes havock of them And such are all they now at this day who are called Ministers and have been accounted gatherers and Divines and are called Orthodox men but are found to be Wolves in Sheeps cloathing who doe scatter the Flock and make havock of the Sheep of Christ and spoyle their goods and cast into Prison and whip and stock and cut off eares and wound and hang and banish c. and cause people to hayle them before Magistrates and stone and beat them knock them downe in streets for dead and haile out of the Synagogues and Steeple-houses and reproach and scoffe and scome and speake all manner of evill falsely against them who are true Christians that not only confesse Christ come in flesh in words but also in works and walke in that
the right hand and the left the Sheep and the Goats him that serveth God and him that serveth him not between the righteous and the wicked between him that sweareth and him that feareth an oath So then ye will not put darknesse for Light and Light for darknesse nor call evil good nor good evil nor put bitter for sweet not sweet for bitter nor call that which is corrupt holy nor the proud happy as they did in former times who wereblind and as they do now who deny the Light of Christ and teach people that it is but a natural light c. These are they now who are blind and without discerning and tasting and savouring of the things of God and their hearts are hardned through the deceitfulnesle of sin and they are without feeling Now the Light of Christ wil let you see what is in your hearts and in your minds and in your thoughts and what ye think and what ye speake For a good man saith Christ out of the treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things and an evill man out of the treasure of his heart bringeth forth evill things Now whose minds are turned to the Light of Christ within it will let you see what treasure you have in your hearts and what ye do bring forth or whether ye be the good men which brings forth good things good words and good deeds good desires good motions good thoughts and good affections or whether ye be the evil men who out of the evil treasure of your hearts brings forth the evil things as evil thoughts evil words and evil deeds c. This will let ye see whether the good things be there or the evil things be there at all times if ye do minde it and shew ye what ye bring forth and what ye keep in secret which ye would not have seen for that is the evil doer who doth not doe truth that would not have his work seen and so doth not love the Light because the Light will reproove him but the good man who doth truth he loves it and brings his deeds to the Light to be proved And the Light will let ye see if there be any deceit or hypocrisie in your hearts or desperate wickednesse there and it will reprove for that and will search your hearts and try your Rains and let you see what rules there and what Reigns there in your hearts and in your minds and desires and affections and whether ye have any Rains to hold in your desires and affections that they should not run into the lusts and vanityes of the world and of the flesh yea or nay And it will let ye see whether ye have the girdle of truth to girt up the loins of your minds to God or whether they are at liberty and loose and tossed to and fro as the raging Sea yea or nay And it will let ye see whether ye have a Bit and Bridle for your tongue which otherwise will be unruly and thereby you will offend if ye use it as your own I say the Light will discover this unto every one whose minds are turned to it and wait in it and who hearken diligently to it and beleeve in it and obey it they shall come to know their souls to live For obedience to it is life and disobedience to it is death And now whilest men who have been in power to govern the Nations have been making laws without to bind mens consciences and to limit them and compell them to this or that worship and have been talking long of Reformation and Church-Government and have gathered-Churches as they have called them and made Leagues and Covenants and Assemblies of Divines so called to make confessions of Faith Catechismes and set-Forms of worships as Directoryes c. to worship God by and to settle Church-Government and have Laws that all that would not worship God in such a way and such a Form as they had set up to fine them imprison them and whip them and stock them and banish them and hang them or cut oft their ears c. These have been the Reformations in the world in the Apostacy among the Apostate Christians since the dayes of the Apostles ' Among the Protestants and Papists with their Laws and Statutes and Customes and Ordinances without and carnal Weapons and Goales and Whips and Houses of correction and Inquisitions and Fires and Faggots and Courts and Pennance and Stools of Repentance so called now all these things have been and are in order to their Reformation and worshipping of God and to bring people to the Kingdom of God But now mind People what hath all this produced For they have all this while begun at the wrong end of the work and their labour hath been in vain hitherto and will be and little Reformation hath been wrought among people all this while for many himdreds of years past but one Generation hath exceeded another in wickednesse pride and covetousnesse drunkennesse uncleannesse deceit and hypocrisie c. I say what hath it brought sorth but to make people hypocrites not Saints false Christians not true Christians and Wolves in Sheeps cloathing to professe God and Christ in words but in works to deny God And professe the Scriptures to be their Rule and yet they are walking as contrary to that which they call their Rule as if they had no Rule at all nor no Scripture at all nor no Law at all to bind them to this or that form of worship These are but Babels builders whose work the Lord is comingto confound throw down their languages is already confounded and they are all on heaps still After all their bustle and stir which the many builders have made for many hundreds of years about Religion and worship and Reformation and they are as far from the true worship as they were And people do not yet know the Truth nor the true worship of God which is in the Spirit And the Lord is seeking such to worship him as worship him in the Spirit and in the Truth for God is a Spirit But all the world Teachers and the Priests and Professors therein do not know the Spirit of God nor know not the truth yet and so were not like to worship God in it or to find him in their outward worships and carnal Ordinances and Doctrines and Commandements or in the outward Observations and Forms which men have prescribed Nay God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and in Truth Now all this while people have been erred from the Spirit of God and the Wolf hath been covered with the Sheeps cloathing and the Wolves nature still retain'd and lived in and not the Sheeps nature They have been all inwardly ravening Wolves and not in the true Christians nature which is the Divine Nature Innocent and harmlesse and separated from sinners Now it hath been contrary
the Saints formerly and the testimony thereof we know is true and your deceit and hypocrisie comes to be laid open as theirs were whom ye have been crying against for many yeares the Scribes and Pharisees and Jewes who crucified Christ and killed the Saints and Prophets and have been envying against them and have a Law made that none of the Jewes should come into this Nation c. and speake against them as they did against the false Prophets and their fore-fathers that slew the true Prophets and said if they had been in the dayes of their fore-fathers they would not have done so but Christ told them not withstanding that they were the Children of them that killed the Prophets and they built their Tombs and garnished the Sepulchers of the righteous And he called them Whited Walls and painted Sepulchers and Serpents and a generation of Vipers c. Therefore come now ye Professors and Teachers and Priests own your fore-fathers the Scribes and Pharisees and Jewes which are gone before you whom ye have cryed against and said ye would not have done as they did And yet have ye not done and are doing many of the same things as they did in persecuting of the righteous for now have ye not slaine the Prophet in you which Moses spake of Saying Like unto me will the Lord raise up a Prophet in the midst of you him ye shall hear in all things c. And are ye not slaying and persecuring the righteous and killing the just who doth not resist you and are painting and garnishing the Sepulchers and building the Tombs of the Prophet and of the righteous And are in your faire outside Worships as they were to be seen of men and crying 〈◊〉 this Forme and the other Forme of Church government and this Ordinance and the other Ordinance and this way of Worship and the other way of Worship and crying up this Learned man and the other Rabbi and are in your Observations as they were and have set up the Jewes Tythes which were to the first Priesthood and so deny Christ Jesus the second Priesthood and have set up Sacraments and Sabboths and Schools and Colledges and Churches which God never commanded and giving them Saints names as the Papists do and call the Papists old Masse-houses Churches and so are crying up dead things and dead Names and Ordinances of men and Doctrines of men and things which may be touched tasted and handled which all perish with the using And by these things have ye kept people in the Death while they have seemed to live and have made a great stirre and bustle in the World for many hundreds of yeares by crying them up and setting them up and your Ministry or Ministers as the Oracles of God and the maintenance for them and have killed some for witnessing against these things and have been ready to kill one another about these things and could not agree about them and one hath built a Wall and another hath dawbed with untempered Morter and so have been dawbing and dawbing to keep it up from falling and whiteing of it to make it appear beautifull to please men and to be seen of men And all this invented Worship and Imitations which ye have set up and brought people into are but as so many Tombes and Sepulchers of the righteous and these have been cryed up by the Priests for Divine Institutions and Orthodox and Canonical and whiteed over with large Pretences and plausible Arguments and undeniable Consequences as they have called them and the poor people have received all this for Gospell and Ordinances of Christ and of his Church as if Christ had been there present who is the true Prophet and the Righteous Seed which the Promise is to when as there was nothing but Tombes and Sepulchers of the Prophets and of the Righteous which they had garnished And so people while ye have been in these things ye have been all in the darknesse and in the Death and have been all as Graves which men goe over unawares being erred from the Spirit which quickens and makes alive which Spirit was in the Prophets by which they Prophesied and declared forth the Truth which came to passe accordingly to the Jewes That in seeing they should see and not perceive and in hearing they should hear but not understand which also is come to passe in these our dayes among all the Teachers and Professors who have been thus dawbing and building and painting the Tombes and Sepulchers and whiteing the Walls the just hath been killed and he hath not resisted you and the Prophet lyes flain in you all and ye understand not nor hear him nor see him neither have perceived nor known his Voyce who is the true Light that lighteth every one that all in the Light might beleeve him whom Moses said was like unto him whom the Lord would raise up a Prophet from the midst of them whom ye should hear in all things And it shall come to passe saith he that whosoever will not hearken unto this Prophet shall be cut off from amongst the people And so Moses saw and declared of concerning Christ that which ye do not know nor see nor hear though ye have long been talking of him and naming of his Name but it was but death speaking of the fame of Wisdome because ye have been erred from his Spirir which is the Spirit of truth which convinceth the World of sin and reproves them for sin but this the World cannot receive which doth reprove them for their sins and evill deeds because they love their sins and evill deeds and not God Now they that love the Lord hate evill but he that loves not God nor receives the Light of Christ nor beleeves in it which is the true Pro and faithfull Witnesse of God he loves his evill deeds but hates the Light which reproves him for his sins and evill deeds and therefore the Light is his condemnation as Christ saith and so this is not their Comforter who beleeve not but love their evill deeds But this is he whom we have received and followed even Christ Jesus who is come a Light into the World and denyed our selves and our own Wills for him and taken up his Crosse and we know the Prophet raised the Spirit of truth come which is our Comforter in all our troubles and leads us into all truth and brings all things to our remembrance and knowledg which were spoken before by the Prophets Christ and the Saints which Spirit is in us which was made manifest in the flesh and dwelt amongst the Saints and they saw his Glory who was the begotten Son of God and did hear Testimony of him who said unto them who beleeved in him I will pray the Father and he shall give you another Comforter that he may abide with you for ever Even the Spirit of truth whom the World cannot receive Mark Because it
worth which hath only stood in words and out-side worships and formes without the power and life of that which ye have professed Therefore honestly consider in time and turne in your minds to the Light of Christ Jesus in all your Consciences which is Gods witnesse in you all which will either accuse or excuse you and acquit or condemne you in every thing that ye doe or word ye speake or thought that ye thinke If ye doe turne your minds into it and waite in it by it you will come to see and examine and truly to search and try what is in your hearts and minds at all times and so come to be acquainted therewith and see what lodgeth there Otherwise ye will not know nor be acquainted with your own hearts which will then deceive you for they are desperately wicked and ye will not know that wickednesse that is there which is ready to joyne to any thing that is evill and to be led into any errour but as ye doe minde that of God within you which will searh your hearts and try your reynes And in this Condition have people been and are still in the World and in all their professions there and worships which stands in ourward observations and carnall ordinances and worships set up in mens wills and practised in the worlds spirit which knowes not God nor the things of God and are in their own wills and led by that spirit So their hearts minds are drawn out into those things to looke at the things that are seene which are temporall which are of the World from that which may be known of God which is manifest in them from the things which are not seene which are eternall and with which they should know the true and living God whom they have for a long time been thus ignorantly worshipping not knowing of him though he was not far from every one of them neither have they known the true worship of him which is in the Spirit in the truth in wch the true Church stands and is gathered our of the world and out of itsworships wayes and customes which are corrupt and are upholden by mens lawes made in their corrupt wills whereby they have compelled people to their worships which is not true but are all erred from the truth and true worship and true Church which is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the pillar and ground of truth wherein they worship God in the Spirit and in the truth and so have found the Father who is seeking such to worship him in this his day which now is dawned after the long night of Apostacy darkness which hath been over all people so that the whole earth hath been covered with darknesse and the vayle hath been over all faces and the whole Earth been corrupted by the abominable worships that hath been therein in this time of darknesse in the false Church which is the whore of Babylon the mother of harlots and the abomination of the Earth gotten up in the roome of the true Church with her false worships in Imitation of the true worship whereby all nations have been drunken with the Cup of her fornications And all the Emperours Kings Princes and Judges and Rulers of the Earth and they have all been making of Lawes to uphold her and she hath ridden upon them for they have been the beast which have carried her and the beast and the false Prophet which receives their power from the Dragon have made warr with the Saints and overcome them and their blood hath been shed by her which hath cryed and doth cry unto the Lord for vengeance and the Lord hath heard the cry of it And he is now risen to take vengeance upon all them that dwell upon the earth where the Devill hath been their King who is the Dragon that old Serpent who was cast out into the earth And now the time is come that he shall be bound and chained and cast into the pit and the beast the false Prophet with him shall be taken alive and cast into the Lake And the Lord God is come to Judge the great whore the false Church who hath set upon the Kings of the Earth made them drunke with her cup and to render vengeance with fury upon her and burne her with fire And all her Merchants shall cry woe and alacke who have been made rich with her merchandize and the great City shall fall in which they have been trading which is Babylon the mother of them all in what forme or profession of shew or colour or dresse soever they have appeared For the houre of her Judgement is come and strong is the Lord that Judgeth her Therefore woe woe from the Lord will be unto all that seek to uphold her and come 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of her For all that drinke of her cup and partake with her in her sâ—â—â— must be sure to partake of her plagues And the decree of the Lord is sealed and gone forth against her and the warre is openly proclaimed against her and the Beast and the false Prophets who have gove forth to deceive And the Lambe is come forth and his sword is drawne and ho is riding on conguering and to conquer and with him are his Saints who are called and faithfull and chosen who are made willing to follow him whither soever he goes And the victory is determined the Lambe and the Saints shall have the victory and their weapons are not carnall but spirituall For with the sword of the Spirit which proceeds out of the mouth of the Lambe shall all his enemies be slaine and great shall be the day of slaughter of Gods enemies who have the Beasts marke or his name or are of the number of his name they shall all be slaine both small and great even all whose names are not written in the Lambs book of life who was staine from the foundation of the world And this the Lord is now bringing to passe in this his day not by might nor by power but by my Spirit will I doe this saith the Lord And therefore blessed are all they who have an care to heare and an eye open to see what the Lord is doing and a heart to understand and receive his counsell and to doe his Commandments and his will and to answer his requirings Written by a Friend to all your soules a lover of truth and righteousnesse and a sufferer for the testimony of a good Conscience towards God Who am called by the name of Henry Fell Written at Thersord in Norfolke the place of my Imprisonment the 5th month in the yeare 1660. THE END 2 Thess 2.9 10 11. Isa. 5.24 Isa. 66.15 2 Tim. 3.5 Iude 10. 2 Pet. 2.1 2. 12 Cor. 4. Acts 20.29 Math 12.30 Rom. 8. 1 Iohn 4.5 1 Iohn 4 8. 1.3.12 13. Iohn 8.44 1 Iohn 2.22.4.20 2 Cor. 4.4 Isa. 5.20 1 Cor. 2.8 Math. 15.14 2 Pet 1.19 Rev. 3.17 Iohn 1.9 Iohn 12.35.36 Isa. 55. Mark 8.18 Ephef 2.1 Isa. 47. Rev 3.18 1 Cor 2.10 11 12 c. Heb. 3.10 Rom 1.21 Matth 5.13 Mark 9.5 Matth 15.11 Mark 7.20 Matth 15.18.19 Eccles. 9.2 Mal: 3.15.18 Luke 6.45 Ier 17.9 Psal. 32.9.39 Iames 1.26 Iames 3.2 Iohn 4.23 24. Matth 7 2 Pet. 1.3 4. Matth. 7.15 16 17. Ieremy 23. Isa. 56. Rom. 16. Ezek. 34.2 3. 10 c. Iohn 10. Iohn 10. Ephes 2.12 1 Thess. 5.7 Iohn 10.10 2 Tim. 3.6 Isa. 3.12 1 Tim 〈…〉 Iohn 3.19 20 2 Cor. 6.17 Rev. 17.4.9 10 11 12 15 20. 1 Cor. 3.13 Iohn 3.19 Ierem 3.23 Rev. 6.15.16 Matth. 7.23 Luke 13.27 Matth. 7.20 Gal. 7.17 2 Thess. 2.8 Heb. 2.14 1 Iohn 3.8 Iohn 8.29 Iohn 1.11 12. Matth. 6.9 Romans 10. Luke 17.20 Matth. 3.23 Heb. 12.13 Acts 13.41 Iohn 16.25 13 verse Rom. 8. 1 Pet. 4.10 1 Tam. 17. Iohn 17.3 1 Ioh. 5.19 20. Iohn 1.16 Rom. 11.6 1 Cor. 1.29 Luker 35. 1 Cor. 2.8 Rom. 2.19 20 â—â— Gal. 5.22 Math. 23.31 Deut. 12.85.18 Iam. 5.6 Math. 13.14 Mark 9.12 Ioh. 5.37 38. Joh. 3.19 20 21. Joh. 8.12 John 1. 1 Cor. 12.7 1 Iohn 9. Ezek. 13.3 Ier. 14 14. Ier. 23.25 Isa 50.11 1 Ioh. 11.12 2. Tim. 2.19 Isa. 53.2 3. Isa. 6 13. 2 Col. 1. Rom. 1. 2 Tim. 3.8 1 Tim. 6.10 21. Judg. 3. 1. Cor. 2.5 1 Tim. 3.9 Math. 29.48 49. Luke 18.8 Luke 1.78 Math. 24.14 Mark 16.15 Isa 49.8.42.6 Isa. 28.18 Exod. 5. 2 Gor. 11.15 Matth 12.29 Luke 11.12 Matth. 10.34 Acts 26.18 Isa. 42. Iere. 31.31 Pro 6.23 Psal. 19.7 8 9 10 11. Psal. 119.97 98 99. Rome 7. Rom 7.1 Rom 10.4 Mat. 23.27 Mat 23.13 2 Pet. 2.14 Iohn 1.9 Iohn 12.35 2 Pet. 1.17 18 19. Mal. 4. 1 Pet. 2.11 Luk. 10.30 31 32.33 Iohn 10. Hosea 6.9 Math. 25. Rom. 10.3 Rom 8 Iohn 1.34 Rom 4.7 Rom 6.2.6 7. Rom 6.18 Rome 8.10 1 John 1.7 1 John 3.8.9 I Joh 3.6 I Iohn 5.18 Rom 8.3.4 Rom. 8.2 Rom. 6.18 20. Ephef. 1.1 1 Gor. 15.55 56 57. Ioh. 5.25 28. Rom. 5.12 19. 21. 1 Cor. 15.46 48. Heb. 4.12 Iohn 11.26 Ioh. 8.12 Iob 28.22 Luke 10. Math. 5.16 1 Cor. 15.14 Isa. 42. Isa. 49. Rev. 1.8 2 Tim. 3.8 2 Tim. 3 6. Ioh. 8.32 I Cor. 10.2 Rom 6.3 4. Gal. 3.19 Math. 16.24 1 Coll. 20. 2 Coll. 14. Cor. 1.18 c. Mat. 11.30 1 Iohn 4.5 Iohn 26.40 Iohn 11.25 Iohn 14.6 Isa. 28.17 Col. 2.3 Col 1.26 Ephef. 2.3 Rom. 8.11 1 Cor. 2 12 13 19. Isa. 9.24 Math. 2.29 Mark 2. 24. Ezek. 3. 1 Tim. 4.1 2 Pet. 1.20 21. Iames 41.5 Chron. 6.16 Isa. 6.22 Math. 7.16 17 18 19. Joh. 1.9 10. Math. 13.11 Titus 2.11 Rev. 3.7 2 Cor. 4.16 Acts 17.23 Iohn 4. Rev. 17.2.18 18.3.9 19. 19. Rev. 13.4 17. 3. Rev. 12.9 Rev. 20.3 Rev. 8.4 Rev. 17.4 Rev. 14.4 Rev. 21.27 Zach. 4.6
seath him not neither knoweth him but ye know him for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you Joh. 14.16 17. and now is in all his Saints and so he did come to them according to his Promise Acts 1.4 And he doth come again to all that waite for him in the manifestation of his Spirit which is given to every one to profit withall which is the true Light which Christ Jesus hath inlightned every man that cometh into the World withall that all through the Ligh might beleeve and follow the Light and not walk in darknesse but might come to have the Light of Life and might come to Christ from whence the Light comes But now all ye who have set your selves against the Light and denyed it to be sufficient to lead to Christ and say it 's naturall and so have kept people from it are the seducers which John speakes of 1 Joh. 2.26 Ye are still in darknesse and walking in darknesse and following your own spirits and have seen nothing who have prophesied lyes in the name of the Lord and have been walking in the light of the fire and of the sparkes of your own kindling but you shall lye down in sorrow for that will not bring you to Christ neither hath nor to his Life whose Life is the Light of men with which he hath inlightned them that they might beleeve in it and follow him and so with this they know him and hear him and deny you who are strangers and hear him not nor know him nor receive him and so have not power but are crying out ye want power and the reason is because ye receive him nor nor beleeve in his Name who gives power to become the Sons of God and yet are professing his Name and asking and preaching and praying and baptizing in his Name but none of you are baptized yet into his Name who depart not from iniquity though ye have been crying Lord Lord We have eaten and drunken in thy Presence c. Who have had a Forme of godliness but denyed the Power which was before the Forme and is without Forme and is the substance which shall stand when all your Formes shall end And so ye know not the Life the Power the Substance the Holy Seed which is come who stands and remains and abides and lives for ever ye are all out of that and strangers to it But ye are in that which ends out of the truth who denies the Power and Life but retains the Forme and have a shew of Wisdome in your will-Worships and voluntary Humility intruding into those things ye have not seen being vainly rufft up by your fleshly minds having a Forme and Shadowes of things to come but the Body which is Christ who is the Life and Substance hath been wanting amongst you who have been making a large Profession of Christ and of the Gospell and had a Forme but the Substance being wanting which is the Life and Power which ye are all our of and therefore ye do not know Christ nor the Gospel for it is the Fower of God unto Salvation to every one that beleeves But many have had that which ye have called the Gospell namely the four Books of Matthew Mark Luke and John and yet want this Power and know nothing of it but say they want Power to doe what they should doe and ought to doe and this is the farthest that any of them can come and there they are still in the weaknesse in the flesh ferred from the Spirit and cry out they want power which is the Gospell and so want peace and want Salvation to their soules for the Gospell is still hid from them which is the Power of God which saves the soul So the Gospell had need to be preached to you all againe ye Priests and Teachers and Profestors for it is hid from you and ye are all in the lost State seeing ye are all erred from the Spirit by which it was Preached and is Preached which proceeeds from the Father and came down from Heaven and so it is hid from you you want it ye have lost it lost the Power but retained a Forme in the long night of Apostacy since the dayes of the Apostles and have been erred from the Faith which was once delivered to the Saints which stood not in the wisdome of Words but in the Power of God but the Power you want and so the Faith ye have lost and erred from it and it hath been so long wanting among you that ye doe not know it what it is for it is a Mistery held in a pure Conscience And ye have been in the night all this while and are still and have been eating and drinking with the drunken and beating your fellow-servants and have said in your hearts The Lord deferreth his Coming who hath been in a farre Country from you and ye have not knowne where he hath been for the Man-child hath been caught up unto God but he is come and coming upon you as a thief in the Night and ye doe not see him because ye have not watched for his coming but have been asleep in sin and have been carelesse and thought your selves secure as if all had been well with you and said none can be free from sin here c. And now behold the Son of man is come He doth not find faith in the earth as Christ said When the Son of man cometh shall be find faith in the earth And now the day of the Lord is come and coming wherein every mans work shall be tryed of what sort it is and Truth shall now be known from error and deceit I say the Day-spring from on high hath now again visited us after the long time of darknesse which hath been over the earth Yea such a time hath been that the darknesse hath been so great that it might be felt that none could rise from the place where they sate and is yet upon many Peoples and Nations and Kindreds and Tongues as it was in AEgypt of old see Exed 10.21 22. so it is now and hath been in spiritual Aegypt where also our Lord Jesus Christ hath been crucified And so his Gospel is again to be preached unto all Nations Kindreds and Tongues and People whom God hath given for a Covenant for a Light unto the Gentiles to open the blind eyes and to bring the prisoner out of prison and them that have sate in darknesse out of the prison-house For People have sate in darknesse and have taken up their seat there and the Priests have laboured to keep them there and have been crying out against New-Lights and calling it Heresie and getting Laws made to keep out all New-Light as they called it to keep out Truth from being known any more then it was and so have made a Covenant with death and an