transgression but he shews mercy unto his own seed in man which never consented to sin or evil and he that repents and forsakes his sins and turns unto the Lord with a purpose of heart then will the Lord God shew mercy unto his soul And this is the counsel of the Lord God unto you in dear and in tender love unto your souls turn in turn in your minds into the light of the Son of God in your own particulars with which you are enlightned which is the true Light that enlightneth every man that cometh into the world Therefore I say unto the Light of Christ take heed and wait ye in patience in the Crosse in that which is a Crosse unto your carnal minds and wills which are running abroad into the Earth and Earthly things for in the Crosse and through the Crosse is the power of the Lord God felt and witnessed although the preaching of the Crosse was unto the Greeks foolishnesse and unto the Jews a stumbling block yet this I can give in my Testimony for the Lord God that unto us which are saved it is the power of God unto Salvation unto ever one that believeth Therefore I say turn in your minds into the Light of Christ in your own particulars which is made manifest in you and wait ye in patience in the Crosse that you feel and see the power of the Lord to slay the enmity and to take away the cause and to break down the partition-wall and to rent the vail Now I say who am a lover of all souls wait in patience in the Crosse that you may feel and see the power of the Lord God to take away and to remove the cause to take away that and to remove that and to work out and to expell out all that in you which hath caused a separation betwixt God and you that is to feel and to see the power of the Lord God to work out and to expell sin and iniquity for saith the Lord your sins have separated you from me and your iniquities hath with-held good things from you so wait ye in the Crosse that you may all seek and see the power of the Lord God to break down the partition-wall to break down that in you which is yet standing as a wall in you which is the man of sin which separates you from the Lord God who created you And so all wait in patience in the Light and keep in your minds staid in it I say wait in patience in the Light that you may feel and see the power of the Lord God to rent the vail and to take it off the heart for through mans disobedience unto the Lord God who created him there came a vail over the heart by reason of sin and transgression which vailed the Creature from the Lord So now I say in love unto all your souls wait ye in patience in the Crosse that you may feel and see the pure power of the Lord God to take away and to remove and to expell and to work out all that which is yet remaining alive in you which entered into man through disobedience and transgression by the reason of which man lost the image in which he was created and lost also his Union and Communion and Fellowship which he had with the Lord God before he disobeyed so through disobedience man was driven into the Earth from the presence of the Lord. So all people who are yet in the fall in the transgression and without God in the world this is the counsel of the Lord God unto you all turn in turn in your minds into the light of the Son of God which is made manifest in you and receive it in the love of it for the light is in all and the light is one in all but all have not received it in the love of it and so by the light they are condemned Therefore I say as you tender the good of your own souls receive the light in the love of it and prize it above all things and yield obedience to be led and guided by it For this I testifie unto you from the Lord God that as you receive the light in the love of it and give up to be led and guided by it it will lead you out of sin and out of evil unto the Father from whence it came who is light and in him is no darknesse at all for every good and perfect gift comes from above from God the Father of lights in whom is no variablenesse nor shaddow of turning and it will lead you as you yield obedience to be led and guided by it out of all false wayes worships customs and traditions that are in the world and out of the Church that is in the world into the true Church which is in God which is built up of living pure precious and elect stones of which Christ is the Head and there to worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth for such the Father seeks to worship him and the time is already come that the true worshippers do worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth And this I testifie unto you from the Lord and I know what I say having experienced the thing in my own particular that as you give up freely to be led and guided by the light of the Son of God with which he hath enlightned you withall that in it you will feel and see the power of the Lord God to save you out of sin and out of evil and in it is power strength and sufficiency to destroy sin which is the Devils work in you and death and he that hath the power of death that is the Devil for for this end and purpose was the Son of God manifested for to destroy the works of the Devil Mark that all ye unbelievers who will not believe in Christ Jesus the light nor to have him to rule over you who live in sin and in wickednesse and pleading for it term of life and saying you cannot be free from sin on this side the grave here you do make your selves manifest to be of that number in whom Antichrist that is the man of sin hath his seat in you there he sits as if he were God and he rules and reigns in you as King and his Servants you are and his works you do and his Kingdom you strive to uphold and plead for it term of life that is sin and wickednesse for so long as sin and wickednesse rules and reigns in you so long is Antichrists Kingdom standing in you and so you crying up and pleading for sin term of life and saying that the Creature cannot be free from sin while he is here on this side the grave here you make void and of none effect the coming of Christ Jesus the Son of God for as it is recorded in the Scriptures of Truth and also seen in the record of eternal life that for this purpose the Son of God was manifested
the unclean and I will receive you saith the Lord Therefore I say come forth of Babylon and be not partakers with her in her sins least ye also partake with her in her Plagues And this is also the call of the Lord unto you all Ho every one that thirsteth come buy and eat yea come buy wine and milk freely without money and without price come to the water of life freely for there is a Fountain set open for Judah and for Jerusalem for sin and for uncleannesse Therefore I say People spend your money no longer for that which is not bread nor your labour for that which satisfies not for you have sold your selves for nought and ye shall be Redeemed without Money Therefore all People as you tender the good of your own soules drink of the Whores Cup no longer which Babylons Merchants holds forth unto you as a golden Cup but within is full of deadly poyson but turn in your minds into the light of Christ in your own consciences and this I testifie unto you from the Lord as you yield obedience to be led and Guided by it it will lead you out of sin and out of evil and out of all false waies Worships Customs and Traditions that are in the World and out of the false Church that is in the World into the true Church that is in God which is built up of Living Pure Pretious Elect stones of which Church Christ is the Head and it will lead you unto the Father from whence it came there to worship the Father in spirit and in truth for such the Father seeks to worship him and the time is already come that the true Worshippers do worship the Father in spirit and in truth But the Beast and false Prophet shall be taken alive and cast into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone which burns for ever where they shall be tormented in flames from the presence of the Lord God who will reward every one according unto their deeds and works done in the Body whether they be good or whether they be evil Of the Lord God of life and power was I moved to write unto you and it is in Bowels of dear and tender love unto all your soules and whether you will hear or forbear I shall be clear of your bloods and shall be a good savour unto them that are saved and unto them that perish I remain a lover of your immortal soules but as the Lord requireth of me in obedience unto him I must hear my Testimony against all sin and wickednesse in whomsoever I see it whether in Rulers Priests or People As I was waiting on the Lord and my mind being exercised in the light of the Son of God in the Dungeon at Warwick on the 9th and 10th Day of the Month called May 1661. Most of this that is herein written did the Lord God put it fresh into my heart and it did remain in me till the 20th day of the same Month and then the Lord added more unto it and in obedience unto him I gave it forth From a Prisoner and a Servant of the Lord and a lover of all souls who suffered 16. weekes in outward Bonds in the Dungeon at Warwick which is 20. Staires down because in obedience unto the Lord and unto his Law which he hath written in my heart I could not promise to forsake the assembling of my self with Gods chosen and elect ones called Quakers who is reproachfully and scornfully called Quaker but am known to the World by name Tho. Kent THE END
will be no more to you Oh! prize the light prize the day of the Lords visitation of you for as I said before so I say again from the Lord that the day of your visitation is near passed over your heads and when it is passed over your heads then you may seek the Lord and shall not find him and call upon him and he will not hear you Why because saith the Lord when I called ye would not answer and when I spoke ye would not hear then will the Lord mock at your calamity and laugh when your fear cometh Therefore I say seek ye the Lord while he may be found and call upon him while he is near you for he is a God athand and not a God a far off and he is near unto all that call upon him in truth and in righteousnesse Oh! Earth Earth Earth Oh! People People People dread and fear the living God and tremble and bow before him whose day is at hand that will burn as an Oven Yea and all the proud and all that do wickednesse shall be as stubble and except you speedily repent and return unto him he will burn you up and he will leave you neither root nor branch and then the Rocks and the Mountains nor all your outward strength shall not be able to save you from the wrath of the Lamb nor from the indignation of the Just One who is risen and arising as a Mighty man of War to take the Kingdom and the greatnesse of the Kingdoms Yea he is risen and arising to plead with all flesh by Fire and by Sword and the slain of the Lord shall be many for the Sword of the Lord is drawn and furbished and he is preparing of it for the slaughter and except you speedily return unto the Lord he will kindle a fire in your bowels which shall never be quenched until it hath consumed you Therefore all ye tall Cedars Sturdy and stout ones if you go on in rebellion and stif-neckednesse against the Lord and continue your persecuting and imprisoning of the servants of the most high God which are by you reproachfully called Quakers thus saith the Lord God I will dash you to pieces as a potters Vessel and will make you bend and bow before me saith the Lord and will exalt the horn of mine Anointed Therefore all ye Rulers Priests and People whose trust is in the Arm of flesh and whose strength consisteth in the Host of men and in Horses and Chariots and in Tumults Noises and Voices and although you have made a Covenant with Death and an agreement with Hell yet your Covenant with Death and agreement with Hell shall be broken by the Power of the Lord God and although at the present you have power to cast the servants of the most High God some into one Prison and some into another and some into Dungeons and Holes and under many locks and boults and make havock and spoil of their goods yet thus saith the Lord God that he will not leave us nor forsake us for our enemies to destroy us but he will with his own out-stretched Arm bring deliverance for us as we wait in patience on him which deliverance shall be beyond the expectation of man whose breath is in his Nostrils And it shall be an astonishment unto all the Heathen round about and the Lord God will give us the necks of our Enemies to tread upon and they shall be as ashes under the soles of our feet And this I can truly and boldly say through the love of God towards me whose love I hope will never be forgotten by me although at the present I am in outward bonds yet neverthelesse in the pure Eternal truth of God I do reign and triump and do Trample upon all the heads and necks of the wicked and this I do declare in boldnesse from the Lord God who hath said and doth still say unto me fear not what man can do unto thee for I will never leave thee nor forsake thee That the Lord God will make you all bend and bow unto his pure everlasting truth which he hath by his own power gathered us into who are scornfully and reproachfully by you called Quakers Mark I do not say that you shall bend and bow unto us as Creatures but unto his pure everlasting Truth and unto his pure Divine power by which we are upheld and by which we reign over all the heads of the wicked Yea verily the Lord God will make you bow unto his Son Christ Jesus the light of the World who is the true light that enlightneth every man that cometh into the World who is the Way the Truth and the Life who is risen to rule the Nations with a Rod of Iron and he will make all bend and bow before him for there is no other Name by-which any man can be saved but by the Name of Jesus at which every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confesse unto him and although Gog and Magog Beast and false Prophet and all the powers of darknesse joyn hand in hand and gather to gather and make a head against the Lamb and his Followers yet the Lamb shall gain the Victory For there is no Weapon formed against you shall prosper saith the Lord. And know this assuredly that the work which the Lord God hath begun in the Earth he will accomplish it and you can no more stop or hinder the work of the Lord which he hath begun then you can stop or hinder the Sun from rising or the Wind from blowing or the Rain from descending no more can you stop or hinder the Work of the Lord Therefore in vain do you strive against the Lord and his Anointed for if I do work saith the Lord who can hinder Therefore all ye fruitlesse Trees which cumbers the ground ye are good for nought but for the fire who have long made a profession of a God and a Christ in words but in life and in power you do deny him For now is the Lord come to seek for Fruit and behold what is to be found amongst you but corruption and wickednesse for the best of you is as a Bryar and the uprightest of you sharper then a Thorn hedge so you are found to be fruitlesse Trees which cumbers the Ground ye are good for nothing but for the fire and now is the Ax laid to the Root of the Tree and every Tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewed down and cast into the fire Therefore cease professing of a God and a Christ in words and make no more profession of a God and a Christ in words then you can witnesse of them in life and in power for profession without possession is no more before the Lord then the Chaffe is before the Wind neither is it any more in the fight of the Lord then the cutting off a Dogsneck or offering Swines blood Therefore all ye Rulers Priests and People who professe and