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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65275	The word of the Lord to the inhabitants of Leeds	Watson, Samuel, ca. 1618-1708.	1660 (1660)	Wing W1100; ESTC R220888	6,879	8

The Word of the Lord to the Inhabitants of LEEDS OH Inhabitants of Leeds and the adjacent places belonging I am burdened in spirit till I write unto you and you Rulers and Priests thereof especially shall know in the day of the Lords account that I set not my hand to Paper till I was commanded of the Lord the fire of whose jealousie is kindled though you are not yet come to the feeling of it to burn and consume the house of Esau which is as stubble that his Servant Jacob whom Esau for a time Lords over may have the Inheriance in the purchased possession where none can make afraid and to give his Israel rest and deliverance from under hard-hearted Pharaoh in bringing him even all the Seed which is but one into the Land of uprightnesse which flows with milk and hony that their souls may be refreshed in the green pastures of love and every one have rest under their own vine and rejoyce in the paths of holiness for evermore And this is his work notwithwanding the hardnesse of your hearts which in tears I expresse unto you and the Lord rebuke that spirit which cannot believe in the spirit of Truth which gives every particular who are obedient to feel after Gods Righteousnesse and worship in Spirit and Truth in the true separation from the carnal without which Friends you feel and enjoy all Profession is but sandy and building thereon the time is hasting on a pace that the overflowing Scourge must passe and surely all that 's not built upon the Rock Christ Jesus will be thrown down Therfore in plainness and in Gods Love I exhort you to consider your standing and try what spirit you are of and to what root you are grafted in for such as the tree such is the fruit if the Root be holy the branches are holy And the visitation of Gods Love is yet to you that you may come to the feeling after him that not any of you who as yet are in Ignorance may perish for want of the true Knowledge But to you that yet sit in darkness and under the Region of the shadow of death light may spring up according to the promise to work this effect as t is witnessed by all the Children of God 2 Cor. 14. God who commanded light to shine out of darknesse hath shined in our hearts to give us the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ And this is that the Light which you must come as to a chief Corner-stone which as yet is rejected by you who are of the World as is manifest by your practise and the day is come wherein the Lord abhors profession without the life and power of godlines and his Sword of the Spirit is drawn to cut down that wch cumbers the ground the briars and the Thorns which tears the fleece of the sheep and scarce would suffer them to live upon the earth O People and unwise do you not know that the Lord hath a controversie with you for these things and you that are in the Iniquity shall not escape punishnent though you joyn hand in hand and make many covers from the Scriptures and plead for the Traditions and Customs of the Fathers who lived in Ignorance as well as you and through the profession of a Law and the Scriptures which was read every Sabbath day crucified the just and did dispightfully unto the Spirit of Grace for this I speak in the Truth that your life is not according to the Scriptures nor the power of godlinesse So wait be patient and consider your errour for in this it is partly demonstrated by your particular acting towards me who am a witnesse against your deeds For thus it was to me early in the morning upon the fourth day of the first month the Word of the Lord came unto me mine eyes spiritually being on the Inhabitants of this place Go speak unto them You are a People fitted for destruction because you believe not in that which mortifies the flesh the Spirit of Truth is that which mortifies the flesh and who believes not in this and waits not in this destruction is of themselves and the Steeple-house sacrifice or service which is external as the Priests manifests doth not work any thing unto this the Redemption of the Soul And when I came into the Steeple-house he who is called a Pastor or a Minister was expounding as t is called and after he had done these words beforementioned came on me to speak and before I had them all uttered they manifested themselves not to be a Church but a Synagogue according as t is Recorded in John 16. These things have I spoken unto you that you should not be offended The time shall come when they shall cast you out of the Synagogue so they did not only so but cast me into prison And thou who is called the Pastor was speaking to the people that though some did censure you yet you were to be so charitable as not to be violent to them as even to squeeze blood out of them or the like and then Imediately the little effect of thy words was seen for as soon as I had got the words of Truth spoken away with me to prison and where is your charity in this and what is this but violence and even to squeeze blood out of one for what know you but by such dealings a tender body might be destroyed as several of the Innocent witnesses of God hath been for the Testimony to Truth bearing in the Prisons of England And also John Sayles thou gave forth this Doctrine to the people to feed upon viz. That the Ministers work is onely to meddle with the external things as the Sacraments and the like and to leave the work of the Spirit to Christ O thou dark Antichristian Minister which never was made a Minister by God according to the Testimony wherein all the Ministers of Christ are Acts 26.16 I have appeared unto thee for this purpose to make thee a Minister and a witnesse of the things which thou hast seen and of the things which shall appear unto thee delivering thee from the people and from the Gentiles unto whom now I send thee to open their eyes and to turn them from darknnsse to light and from the power of Satan unto God that they may receive forgivenesse of sins and an Inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me and John 19.19 As thou hast sent me into the World even so have I also sent them into the World Mind this Pastor and People Christ Jesus was not sent carnally to meddle with external things touching the Redemption of souls but he was in God Reconciling the world unto himself preaching deliverance unto those who was in captivity and bringing the prisoner out of prison the seed from under the bondage and power of Satan and saith he as thou hast sent me into the world so have I also

sent them into the world and he prayed that they all might be one as the Father was one in him and he in him that they all may be one in us that the world might believe that thou hast sent me mark here is one cause of the unity that the World might be convinced and believe the Father sent him and in the same message is his Ministers But who can be convinced and believe by such dark Pastours as thou art and you Teachers of the World generally are who do not witnesse the unity with Christ and to be sent by him onely to witnesse the work in the eternal and not in the external which is temporal And so you are manifest here by this Doctrine that you are of the earth and first man in old Adams Transgression and so keeps people in the earth in the letter and the corrupt and this brings not people out of the darknesse into the light to sit together with Christ Jesus in the heavenly places into the unity of the faith to be refreshed together in Gods Spiritual Worship nor your Ministry brings not out of prison but keeps in prison contrary to Christs to which end the gifts was given by him who ascended up on high Eph. 4. and gave some Apostles some Prophets some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ till all come to the unity of the Faith which gives the victory over the World so over sin contrary to your dark Ministry and to this end was the gifts given to be Pastors and Teachers to perfect the Saints which now all your carnal Sacraments and Rudiments cannot bring this to passe viz. perfection in the Saints degree Then come and let us reason with you To what purpose is all your Ringing of Bells dead prayers dead Sermons Bread and Wine singing of Davids experiences Baptizing with a little cold water being all external things which cannot bring to perfect the Saints I say in the fear of the Lord consider what is all these to purpose and wherein doth God require these things at your hands seeing you have excluded or separated your selves from Christs unity and so your gifts are bought and sold with mony and may you not well be called the Merchants of Babylon Therefore O Royal Seed where ever thou art turn away from these who through covetousnesse make merchandize of souls and are evidently separate by their life and Doctrine from the unity of Christ and so from his Ministry for I shew thee that first the power of the light of Christ working mightily in them delivers them from a people that sits in darknesse and evil And then in the time of his love gives the command to them as Ministers as he did to Paul in the spirit when he delivered him from the persecuting state and dark condition he sent him to this end to open their eyes and turn them from darknesse to light and from the power of Satan unto God c. which now you Pastors and Ministers so called of Leeds I charge you to give an account of this Testimony viz. your deliverance from the evil the pride the covetousnesse the envy the drunkennesse the lasciviousnesse the feasting of the Rich and neglecting the poor the envy and the wrath that is in the hearts of people with all the works of the flesh and that you are Redeemed from these and sent by God in the spirit to them to speak the mind of Christ without coveting any mans gold or silver or else be silent for shame and come under the judgement and first pluck the beam out of your own eye and then you may see the evil that is in others which bondages their souls and so be profitable to them and not hurtful till which be witnessed you cannot fly from the judgement but are the blind guides and none but the blind are led by you So I beseech you in the spirit of love be warned and let the light in your own particulars search you Rent your hearts and strip you of every false covering This is a false covering for you to be named Ministers of Christ and your work onely external This is a false covering for you to be called Presbyterians to lay on hands for the work of the Ministery and call Elders when you never came yet to the babes estate to desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow thereby to become Elders in the Truth whilst you have been taking the letter for the Word the Baptizing with outward water for the Baptism of Christ to give the name Christian the Bread and Wine carnal for the Supper of Christ and the Light of Christ which is able to save to the utmost all that come to God by him the light to be that of a natural conscience for the Scripture Records these to be in the power of the Spirit Therefore search the Scriptures and see whether these things be so and you finding them thus be ashamed of your forms and come to Christ the Light who is the life of men kisse him that judgeth who is the Son of Righteousnesse least his wrath kindle speedily against you and you be consumed from not being a people because of disobedience And thou Martin Hyles who made this Prison much-what to put the witnesses of God in which testifie against deceit Remember Hamans policy wrath and envy against the upright-hearted Jew and what did that avail him in the end or was not he worse for that and not better Take heed in the dread of God I warn thee to Repentance of thy past actions against the upright-hearted who worship God in Spirit and Truth the Righteous Seed and let thy rashnesse be turned into moderation and thy spirit of fury into love and meeknesse And if thou be a Magistrate be glad to defend the Innocent and let true Justice passe upon the workers of iniquity for that 's the Magistrates place and this Greeting is to thee Martin Hyles from thy prison-house And to you all Rulers and Priests in and about this Leeds who live in the flesh and worship not God in Spirit and Truth lay aside all superfluity of naughtinesse and let the time past be sufficient for you to have persecuted the Innocent and cause the People of God by Creation to erre who as yet sit in darknesse by your lyes and lightnesse pride and vanity many are yet under your and kept in the Land of darknesse as sheep scattered in the darke and cloudy day And your selves with the lust of your own hearts keep the witnesse under Deaths Dominion in the particular And so may not the dispersed of Israel say what good can be expected from such Teachers and Leaders who themselves are in bondage to Satan the Prince of darknesse may not a Lamentation be taken up in the true Prophesie concerning this people They build up Zion with blood and