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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58143	Light sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart This is to go abroad among all people who are honest-hearted, especially amongst the inhabitants in Fourns Fells, in Lancashire, and among all who have known me after the flesh, that all honest people may see what I was in profession, and also what I now am by the grace of God. From him which hath come through great tribulations, who hath even left all for Christ, and hath not whereon to lay his head, but is forsaken of father and of mother, and of kinred also, even for the testimony of Jesus, and for the Word of God, whom the world calls, Thomas Rawlinson.	Rawlinson, Thomas.	1657 (1657)	Wing R369; ESTC R220567	29,951	42

stead to be reconciled to God and even now while ye have yet a little time in the body hast to meet the Lord in the manifestation of the Spirit of Light from God For that which may be known of God is manifest in you and God hath even shewed it unto you So here is your vvay to know God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent if ever ye come to know him vvhom to know is life eternal For there is no other vvay but by that of God in you So if ye will indeed own the right vvay the good vvay vvherein dvvelleth righteousness then come in to the light Christ vvho lightneth every man and even novv while ye have the light believe in the light that ye may be the children of the light and vvalk in the light as he is in the light that the blood of Christ may clense you from all sin and then if ye abide in the light ye shall continue in the Father and in the Son so shall ye have Fellowship vvith the Saints in light vvhom the VVorld knovvs not of vvhom the VVorld is not vvorthy that henceforth ye may no more knovv me after the flesh onely but in the spirit as ye come to be faithful unto the Lord in your measures of the light of Christ where ye may feel me and read me and knovv me vvho am unknovvn unto the VVorld yet vvell knovvn to the children of light vvho in the light of the Lord Jesus Christ doth continue and abides vvith God and vvalks in the light as he is in the light For the children of light hath Fellovvship one vvith another in the light which unites their hearts together in one But vvith the unfruitful VVorks of darkness vve have no Fellovvship and here in the light in the truth though ten thousand times ten thousand yet all one in the light even in Christ Jesus who walks not after the flesh but after the Spirit So Friends by this I shall know that ye love me and that ye love the Truth as many as can receive my Testimony and keeps my Fathers Commandments For the Testimony is not mine but his who hath chosen me to bear vvitness of him unto many but if I bear vvitness of my self my vvitness is not true there is one that beareth witness and I know that the witness that he witnesses is true for I can of my own self do nothing yet through Christ that strengthens me I can do all things For I seek not my own but the things of Jesus Christ that I may do the will of God who hath chosen me out of the VVorld to follow him in the regeneration where the VVorld seeth me not nor knows me not therefore the World hates me and scorns me VVhy because I am not of the VVorld so the VVorld cannot receive my sayings they hear me not because they are not of God for I receive not Testimony from man but these things I speak that ye might believe the truth not by way of boasting to exalt self or to puff up for all boasting is excluded and self-ends condemned with the Light of Truth so a VVitness in my measure I stand eternally against all selfishness for self is of the Devil and all proud boastings which Christ comes to destroy But These things Neighbours and Friends I write unto you that ye may come to know where rest and true peace is and not to exalt self that ye might praise me but these things I declare to the end That ye may all be awakened towards God that ye might be saved and believe what good things God hath in store for them that fear him love● his appearance and believing in the light ye may have life and that every weary soul may be comforted and ●ome to find rest as he comes into the obedience of the light that the righteous God o●er all might have his glory who is the Author and Finisher of every good Work the first and the last God blessed for evermore So all friends in the love of the truth receive this into your hearts with meekness and fear which was given me from the Lord in the spirit to write as a Testimony from the Lord to my Nation Countrey and People for the Seed of Gods sake throughout all the VVorld where this may come was I moved of the Lord God from the love of the Spirit which are the very breathings of my soul for my Nation Countrey and People that they might be saved and hid in the day of the Lords wrath but my desire is That the wicked one in you may be destroyed and what soever worketh unrighteousness and deceit unto which I say Wo that ye may be separated from all unrighteousness therefore keep your selves to that of God in you that the wicked one touch you not and from all idolatry and so will the old man with his deeds come to be put off when the Just comes to liberty when Christ comes to have the preheminence and rules whose right it is So Friends take unto you the whole Armor of God even the Armor of Light as it comes to be put on ye will be able to resist all the fiery darts of the Devil I say As there is a watching and a waiting in the light of Christ Jesus for the teachings of God in the Spirit the lusts of the flesh and fleshly confidences withers and vanishes away and the hidden man of the heart comes to be felt and witnessed as there is an abiding in the Crosse of Christ so ye come to dye unto sinne and to be crucified to the VVorld and to live unto God Therefore all waite that yee may have Bread to feed upon which gives life to the Soule which is nourishment and health to every weary Soul who comes to feed upon the living Immortal Bread which comes downe from GOD out of Heaven shall live for ever And blessed for evermore they are who hunger after this for they shall be satisfied As many as comes to eat of this Bread and receives it into them they shall grow up as Trees of Righteousness the planting of the Lord. So let every one that nameth the Name of CHRIST depart from Iniquity and follow the Light and believe in the Light while ye have the Light that ye may be established in Righteousnesse and Truth Thomas Rawlinson FINIS

God that We might be found in Christ There is but as it were two Righteousnesses the Righteousness of God and mans Righteousness so until man return unto God and comes to know how Christ is in him who is Gods Righteousness all his Righteousness is of himself and these are contrary the one to the other So the Way to know the one from the other is To believe in the light and in the light to know each from other and walking in the light comes to put on the Righteousnesse of God and put off their own and to deny themselves and then comes to see their own Righteousnesse filthy and abominable So here is the Way of Righteousness in the Light of the Lord Jesus Christ who lightneth every man that cometh into the World and he that follows the Light Christ puts on Righteousness as a Garment and he that doth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous and he that doth not righteousness is not of God So We who are come unto Christ our Righteousness our Light and Life We come to be made the Righteousness of God in him and so in the Light wherein We have believed comes to fulfil all righteousness and for this end That we might be found in himn ot having our own righteousness which is of the Law but that which is through the faith of Christ even the righteousnesse which is of God by faith many of us who are called Quakers have denyed our selves our lives and whatsoever was dear unto us our Father and Mother Husband Wife and Children Brethren and Sisters and Kinred all Houses Lands and Livings and the World too and all the Glory and the Pleasures of this life who have taken up the Cross of Christ that We might be counted worthy to follow him in the Regeneration as obedient children not fashioning our selves unto this World any longer putting off the former conversation which is corrupt the old man with his deeds that We might be renewed in the spirit of our mind putting on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness without which no man shall see God keeping the holy Commandment of our Lord Jesus who said If ye love me keep my Commandments and if a man love me he will keepe my sayings So Neighbors and Friends it is not only a profession and talking of Free-Grace and of Justification by Christ this will not serve you except ye come into the obedience of the Grace of God which brings salvation and hath appeared unto all men For the Grace of God is the Saints Teacher which teaches them to deny all ungodliness and Worldly lusts and to deny the Priests to be taught of them any longer For all the children of the Lord is taught of the Lord and in righteousness they are established and great is their peace So ye who are not turned from your Priests are not taught of the Lord who said Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of So Friends while ye remain under them ye are not come into the leadings and teachings of the Spirit of Grace and Truth which hath appeared unto all men and teaches us to live soberly righteously and godly in this present World So take heed unto your selves and hearken not unto your Priests nor to your Diviners who divine for money for they deceive you but all turn to the Light wherewith Christ hath enlightned you which is truth and no lye for there is no lye of the Truth He that doth Truth cometh to the Light and he that doth evil hateth the light neither cometh to the light least his deeds should be reproved and this is the condemnation the Light said Christ So see if all your Priests be not in the evil under the condemnation of the Devil who hate the Light evil beasts slow-bellies hating the light reproaching and railing against it because their deeds are evil and because that they know if the people turn to the light they will then come to see their deceit and covetousness and will be ashamed of them So Friends take not counsel of your Priests for mischief is in their hearts lest vvhile ye follow after them ye come to be hardned in your sins and your sences and feeling after God be taken from you and so ye become past feeling having your consciences seared and your hearts hardened against God and then ye be given up unto a reprobate minde to work all unrighteousness with greediness even with the Priests Consider Friends Can the Priests satisfie you and please you with vain Words onley to talk of Free-Grace and of the Righteousness of Christ imputed who are in the unrighteousness themselves so holds the Truth in unrighteousness and will not come to the light verily Friends ye are then far short of what I was when I was where ye now are with a profession of God and godliness but without the power and the life for nothing then would satisfie me but Christ only None but Christ None but Christ was my continual cry to have Christ how I might come to know Christ in me Give me Christ or I dye to feel him near which justifies and saves his people from their sins this was the dayly desires and the longings of my weary soul had I but hold on Christ let them take the world that will said I in my heart so that I might but come to know Christ and to enjoy him that I might come to live unto Christ was the daily desires of my heart and soul yet though I sought diligently after him with Tears and VVeeping and asked the Way to Christ from one Priest unto another to see if they could shevv me vvhere Christ is to be found yet none of them could shevv me the Way nor could tell me hovv to come to Christ So I found no comfort for my soul from them therefore I had no rest day nor night from God in my spirit vvhile I sought unto the Priests lips for counsel for Wicked Counsellors are they all vvho turn not people to the light from the darkness for Christ the light vvas condemnation to me vvhilst I remained in the old nature vvith the Priests rebellious and no Justification then and Sanctification and Peace sitting in the darkness and vvalking in the darkness and blindness with the Priests being then ignorant of the light vvhich Christ had enlightned me vvithall so shall all who comes to knovv vvhat God is more or less shall first feel the Wrath of God revealed from Heaven against them for their unrighteousness and shall see Wrath and Horror and the Vengeance of God to come upon the Head of the Wicked even the Judgements of God coming upon that nature in them vvhich hath acted iniquity and transgression and the povver of God shall make the Inhabitants of the Earth to tremble the Prison-Houses shall shake when the Prisoner comes forth to be set free and then

me and then I called unto my Brother William and bad him let me into the House and he told me that he durst not let me into the House I asked him Why He said That his Father had sent all his children and servants to bed that he went throughout all the House himself to see that all the doors was locked and bolted against me and did charge them all that if I did come not any of them to let me into the House if they did any of them he said that he would turn them also out of the doors with me So William told me these things and that he durst not let me into the House so unto this day I remain a sufferer for righteousness sake and truly I believe that I should not have put pen to paper in reference as to all my sufferings from my natural Father had I not heard how he hath reported it that I ran from him and the like So for the right informing all peoples understandings as to the truth of this matter I have briefly in few Words declared something of what hath been done by him towards me and of what Words passed between us but I might have intimated much more of his rage and cruelty sore usuage of me but that I am against laying open nakedness and have onely cleared my own innocency as touching false reports of running from my Fathers House and the like as also his own Family and others can witness against him to the contrary for me if they wil but testifie So let him consider and look back and see what he hath done against the innocent that seeks not his own who seeketh no revenge but suffereth all things endureth all things and envieth not but in the peace which the World cannot give nor take away rests satisfied in his Fathers love from above and so refers his cause unto him that seeth in secret who rewardeth openly and taketh vengeance For vengeance is mine saith the Lord So I have boldness towards God in all my sufferings and tribulations yea verily I have the answer of a good conscience towards God and man herein Gods Witness in me even the Spirit of truth which bears witness to my spirit that I suffer for well doing and who shall then condemn me And because I cannot for conscience-sake worship the beast nor follow the blind guides any longer I am persecuted and forsaken of Father and Mother and of Brethren and Sisters and of Kinred too and these things have they done unto me that the Scriptures might be fulfilled according to Christs Words who said Ye shall be hated of all men for my sake and marvel not if the World hate you for it hated me before it hated you if ye were of the World the World would love you for the World loves its own but because I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hates you because ye are not of the world even as I am not of the world said Christ to them that followed him in the regeneration who turned people from the darkness to the Light Christ And he that forsaketh not Father and Mother Brethren and Sisters Husband Wife or children and his own life too for my sake and the Gospel said Christ he cannot be my disciple and he that taketh not up his Cross and followeth not after me he is not worthy of me but every one that hath left Father or Mother Brethren or Sisters Husband Wife or Children or House or Lands for my Names sake and the ●ospel let him rejoice that he is counted worthy to suffer it said the Lord Jesus Christ for he shall not lose his reward but shall receive an hundred-fold in this life and in the world to come everlasting life So it is evident That whosoever will ●ive godly in Christ Jesus must suffer For he that departs from iniquity makes himself a prey to the wicked and to the unrighteous and sinners So Friends think it not strange I run not with you to the same excess of riot into all uncleanness and filthiness and sorrow not for me for the sorrow of the World works death so speak not evil of the things ye know not least ye speak evil against God and though I am counted as the off-scouring of all things unto this day and hath not whereon to lay my head being forsaken of Father and of Mother and counted as one not worthy to live nor to inhabit under them who could not have so much as a servants place under them for I told my Father before he put me from him That I was willing to abide with him and to serve him faithfully and to labour with my hands in the thing that is good yet would he not suffer me to inhabit under him but in all this what evil have I done So I have comfort towards God notwithstanding all his cruel usuage of me and though Father and Mother hath forsaken me yet the Lord hath not forsaken me neither left me comfortless but hath been with me in all my afflictions to support me and though they through the hardness of their hearts hath had no pitty on me but I was even cast out for righteousness sake as though I had been some great transgressor Where are my Accusers If I have done evil let them bear witness of the evil but if well for cleaving unto the Lord why are they so offended in me I could even desire that the Lord would not reward them as they have rewarded me who are even without natural affections and without any pitty towards me yet the Lord hath had pitty because his mercies fails not who in his favour hath redeemed me and hath had compassion when no eye pittyed for he hath said it Thou hadst a little strength and hast trusted in me therefore I will never leave thee nor forsake thee Thou hast hated iniquity and loved righteousness therefore walk before me and be thou perfect and I will help thee I will be with thee and go before thee all the Way that thou shalt go So in the Arms of his everlasting Love doth the Lord carry me and in his hand doth he hide me that so in the pure love of God I might remain under the shadow of his Wings for evermore and in his Name to trust which is a strong Tower for the righteous to flye unto for God hath given me an entrance into the eternal inheritance with the Saints in light Surely I have made a good choice blessed be the Name of the Lord for evermore who hath put it into my heart as to choose the good Way and the fear of the Lord wherein dwelleth righteousness So I am perswaded in my heart to cleave unto the Lord my God with my whole heart that the Lamb of God I may follow wheresoever he goes though I dye with him bearing his reproach for through Christ that strengthens me I am more then a Conqueror and have in measure conquered Death