mind this Spirit in you and then whither will you run and forsake the Lord of Life will you leave Christ the Fountain which should spring in you and hunt for your selves should you not abide within and drink of that which springs freely and feed on that which is pure meek and lowly in spirit that so you might grow spiritual men into the same Spirit to be as he is the sheep of his pasture for as is your pasture so are you filled High carnal minds seek high things and so they grow lofty and proud and such God resists and keeps them afar off but the poor in spirit seek truth and meekness and are fed thereof at the table of the Lord meek and lowly and just and faithful are all his houshold who feed and sup with him Now mind and consider your wayes who are gone out unto the mountains to worship and feed your selves you may read of Israels sin in going out from the Temple in which the Lord had said he would dwell and be enquired of and they builded Altars without him and there called upon him but found him not for which he rejected their Worships and their Temple also And where hath Christ said he will now be worshipped is it not within for saith Christ the true worshippers worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth mind it Professors not at Jerusalem will he be enquired of but in spirit and truth and the body is the Temple as he hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will put my Law in their inward parts and all shall know me from the least to the greatest Not in Temples made with hands doth the Godhead dwell whose off-spring we are not in your high places and Steeple-house Churches but in that which springs of him Can you read this and understand it aright in that which springs of him is the Godhead and Power known but the high-minded are too far off it to feel it it 's the poor and lowly in spirit that are near it and he that 's become as a little child can only understand it who is not too great in his thoughts to hearken to that which is little and pure in him by birth and nature that springs of God and not the height of that mind which hath Notions Divine but not Nature Life and Sonship begotton and born of God A sanctified life and vessel is God's off-spring but he that saith and doth not is not born of Truth but of Fornication and Falshood so read your birth and nature and kindred with the Truth It 's not the uncircumcised in heart nor the bastard that 's God's Off-spring and Child of his Love but the pure and clean in heart mind and spirit hath his Image And if you look to be godly you must know this in you else you are without God in the world having neither seen him nor known him whom you seem to worship but are alienated from him in your minds and in your members and in your whole strength so that you have neither power nor understanding to do well being taken captive of a contrary spirit in all your abilities of spirit soul and body your wisdom perverted and understandings darkned and parted from the root whose off-spring man is And now this should be your return to sink down to that which is holy and pure in the Light and to that give up your whole man and all you are and have and no more consult with your wisdom nor follow your own understanding but let the little thing in you that 's pure and simple lead you and thereto bow and bend and confess And this will be your restoration to God to give all you have to the Holy who when he hath befooled your cursed wisdom and brought down your high conceits and bound the strong man and tyed the colt to the vine then will he arise in power who is meek and holy and rule in your strength parts and wisdom having purged the enmity out and renewed your abilities and you will have all restored again manifold all new and clear and able by the power of the Holy One who will reign and govern therein and you shall know the Lord whose off-spring you are to be both root and head and all in you and you shall say no more I am weak and can do nothing but all things through him that gives you strength for the devourer shall no more pervert it but great shall be the Holy one in the midst of you if this you can believe and receive And you shall no more as you have done sow for the devourer nor bring forth unto blasting but your fruits shall arise to God who will receive them with good will and your prayers shall not return empty when he hath bent you for himself and taken away the accursed from amongst you And then will you know the Lords Redeemed and that Seed which is elected and blessed which brings not forth as other men and you will see that all who despise the day of small things neglect their own mercy to follow the teacher of lies who turns not at his reproof who is holy and therefore worship without power Then will you know the life and power of Redemption and Sanctification and Justification and renewing of the Holy Ghost in you when your strength is redeemed to God your wisdom redeemed your hearts tongues eyes and ears and all you have redeemed into God into that which is holy to be guided and exercised in all your conversation possessing your vessels in Sanctification Here is that renewing of the holy Ghost known which sanctifies and justifies through the redemption of the bodie and mind and reconciliation which is in Christ Jesus who is not known to be Lord but by the holy Ghost that Spirit of Truth which leads into all Truth which Truth is a witness in you against you who say you are redeemed to God by Christ Jesus when another Lord rules in you and leads you captive into sin by which Christ Jesus is denied and suffers in you and by which you are separated from God and in a nature contrary to him wherefore to that must you come which changeth your nature and not your words and forms and teachers but which begets another seed and kills that which is begotten of whoredom and lust which is after the Prince of this World that God may be served in his own Spirit in his own Truth of his own nature of his own begetting Holy as he is Holy in every measure and growth thereof that so the least of his Children may be known to be of him and separate from the world in soul and in body coming out of the world bearing his image and reproach And as many as honestly desire to be heirs of this holy Power and Kingdom patiently wait till you feel that move in you which is of this pure Nature and having felt it alive in you rejoyce in it
being blinded by the god of this world which should give the sight thereof and that seed in bondage under the prince of darkness which should give to inherit that immortal Treasure and this must be till there be a denying and coming out of the World to receive that inheritance of divine Light and understanding which none can receive nor be one withal but as they come out of the world from under that seed of enmity which seeks to pervert all the right wayes of God and wrest all his gifts to mans destruction as far as he can prevail Now this destroyer or seed of enmity against the Life of man and his Salvation is kept from that sudden effecting his purpose upon the creature in whom he is head by no other thing but the patience and long-sufferings of God who willing that none of his Creatures should perish but that if by any means all might hearken to the Truth and so recover themselves out of the snares of this subtile deceiver and be saved wherefore he doth many times long bear and forbear with much patience and diligence striving by the Spirit of Truth upon all occasions when ever the Creature doth but mind it checking and reproving and warning even many times at that very instant when the act of sin is committing and if the evil one have got such power in the creature that he will not suffer him to mind reproof before nor in the act of sin then afterwards when the heat of temptation is cooled then he shews the evil and danger of such wickedness that so he might preserve fear in him against the next temptation And thus in many he keeps back destruction a long time so that some are long ere the wicked one get them to fill up their measure and some in that time of Gods patient forbearing and suffering come to repentance and turn to that which reproves and are saved and others go on to destruction which swiftly they draw upon themselves after once the Spirit hath ceased striving and reproving for then the fear is lost and the evil one hath his liberty at his own will the Creature being given up of the Lord and the Spirit of Truth being wholly departed nought but deceit is left to guide him who hath dealt deceitfully with the Spirit of Truth which at the best hath but a form of godliness without the Power for the Power of God is in that Spirit and in that Life which is known by withstanding the evil one which is fallen and covered in such in whom death reigns only such who are born of the Spirit have the Life and Power and know its strength and virtue unto eternal Salvation the rest are left to their thoughts and notions And here is the cause of that strong contention that hath ever been betwixt the Children of Light who are born of that Spirit of Truth and have their light and strength in the inward man and the worlds professors whose expectation stands in something without them which others have spoken of who had it in them and so not knowing the Power and Mystery of the living Faith which is holden in a pure Conscience which only hath the Call and Power to bring out of the worlds darkness they are kept captive therein contending against the Spiritual Light and so while they are in the world go about to comprehend and measure that Spirit of Truth which the world cannot receive neither knoweth thinking that Spirit of Light and Life to have no other opâ—â—â—â—ion in such who are led out of the world and born thereof and in whom Christ lives than they find it to have in themselves who stumble at it and are disobedient and unbelieving in heart when as indeed to us that believe it is Elect and Precious who come to it for all supplies but to the wisdom and profession of the world it is a Rock of offence and stumbling-stone yet is it the Head of the Corner and in them who revile it and reject it it is become all they have in them that is good true and faithful towards God or their Souls as their hearts in secret do witness to them and leaves them without excuse many times For even they that reject this Light and Spirit have nothing else that can shew them so much as one of their thoughts or divide to their understanding the evil from the good either in Thought Word or Action or that can really shew them what is of God really and what is of him who doth but shew himself to be God to deceive withal and is not nor without it can they perceive the several motions of every several spirit that is in them to receive the good and deny the bad nor can they know the several roots of Life and Death which plant to pluck up and which to feed on and how can such labour in Gods Vineyard And indeed without this Light the Body is a house of darkness and a habitation of every deceitful spirit and the heart desperately wicked and no man knows it but he in whom the Light of Truth shineth and he that declares to man his thoughts his Name is the Lord of Hosts Thus is he the Head of the Corner which the stumbler cannot comprehend in his wit and so rejects him without whom there is no building nor working the Work of God And therefore you sons of the darkness of this World mind in your selves what it is you set your selves against is it not that Light which would limit and chain the evil one in you that which condemns you for every evil work secret and open which will not let you be proud and wanton and lustful that which in your own hearts testifies against you for deceit and falshood towards God and towards men deceit in Religion hypocrisie and falshood making a form of what you are not deceit in your dealing with men in your tradings and speakings and severall actings both as Rulers Priests and People without respect of persons nor any other thing but hath respect onely to that of God in you which is of his Nature given to you to guide man in the Light of God out of all the wayes of this deceiving spirit And now he that comes to you with this Doctrine comes near you being manifest in Spirit to that of God in your own hearts you are pricked therewith and then the evil one is stirred up in you to fight against that which is Truth in your selves and answers to the Truth which is spoken to you by another without you from the same Spirit of Truth which by you is rejected And thus you joyning with him that rises up in wrath against the Truth in your selves and denying that which should chain and bind the evil one you deny the Lord of Life and give strength to the evil one to murther the Just in you and quench the Spirit of Truth and weary the Lord with striving till you be given up
temple nor lies in the bosom of harlots who are out of his power and perfect way of a holy Life Therefore Your work would profit you most to take the Candle of Truth and sweep the house at home and cast out the old leaven and whatever is of the world and wait in that which works in spirit against the old till therewith all be made new and the new vessel which will not receive the old nor mix with it that is it which will hold with the new which God will fill with himself there the Seed may spring and not be devoured and the Lilly grow without being choaked There the Lamb may be safe from the Fox and the pure from pollution which can never be while your covetous proud lustful earthly minds are alive in you or ought that therewith you have treasured in or grows up in that ground the Plant of God is more pure and tender then to grow amidst such pollution so to judgment you must first come and own your condemnation upon all the old before you can receive of the new or it grow in you What agreement hath the Spirit of meekness with the spirit of pride Contentedness with covetousness Holiness with lust Christ with Belial Light with darkness Read and understand here is the cause why you have sought and laboured many years and many of you further off then at first but none hath found freedom indeed nor that rest where the Thief and unclear comes not to devour Consider these things while they are near you lest your hearts harden in you through unbelief and the deceit of lusts And if you will come then refuse not him that calls and gives you light in the dark but faithfully manage the watch and the war on his behalf with all your power till all be brought under 〈…〉 which he testifies against in you and do not answer the Truth 〈…〉 calls with deceit and excuses lest he turn away from you and 〈…〉 more worthy If you say the world holds you back then its time you should not delay to break those bonds that are grown so strong already they will be stronger every day and what will the end be Consider understand like men and say not you have not strength but turn with that strength with which you have long served the world and you will find God that gave it you the better Master and the Redeemer is served with less vigor than the spirit of bondage and do but faithfully give the strength you have of God unto the service of God in the Light and he requires no more then he gives its deceit that makes these excuses and not a willing mind and were you in the fear of God these words you would not utter against your selves a witness for these are not the words of children of love nor obedient servants but of such as are without Therefore in truth of heart consider what state you are in and who is your father and hath power in you who thus speak Can you do evil with both hands live to your lusts serve the world compass the earth for your profits and pleasures with power wisdom and delight and have you not power to do well Now should you see your strong captivity and how you are degenerated from God and the end of your creation with your whole strength and become altogether reprobate to Gods service and for this should your hearts be smitten with sorrow did you love God or his true Worship and that evil tongue you would bridle and your eyes you would limit from vanity your ears from pleasure and your hearts from deceit that so you might only hearken to the Light if by any means you might come to hear the voice of him that 's sent into the world to call you from under the power of Satan unto the living God by preaching Light to you who sit in Darkness and are dead while you live neither can you be quickned till you hear the Voice of the Son of God which the deceiver keeps you from in your worldly pleasures long prayers and a lying profession taking the Saints words to cover you from true judgment but have not their Spirit nor Power to live their lives nor are you Plants of that Root and Nature which brings forth to God as he is in whom there is no change And this is not the Sacrifice that God accepts which is brought in the unclean Vessel without his power and renewed strength Wherefore that nature which is become so wholly unprofitable should be denyed its will and its way stopt and to that seed you should dye which rules in that strength you have and runs to and fro to seek for its self but seeks not God first and to that which is pure must you turn and therein wait for the Anointing and the rising of the holy Seed for it 's the most holy that must be anointed in you ere you can know Christ in you and without Christ you can do nothing and that seed which is neither willing nor able is not he but is the seed of the evil-doer as is manifest by his fruits which must be denyed his thoughts his words his profession his prayers his lusts his sin and his righteousness for it 's all of one nature and stands up in you to withstand the coming of the Seed of the Covenant Christ Jesus the Life of God and Light of Men which hath Gods Power which was in the beginning Gods Righteousness and is to all generations whom the Heavens must retain until the end of all these things and the restitution of the Creation to God till which you cannot know his appearance in you without sin who died for sin Whose Light as is before declared shews you his Law and the Spirit of Prophesie testifies of him to come whose way before his face must be prepared if you have ears to hear and understand and all your crooked untoward wanton wayes must be made streight and your hidden subtile wayes made plain and the Refiners fire must pass through your house and take hold on all that will burn till it be consumed for till the filth be purged out and an end made of sin God comes not to his Temple nor is everlasting Righteousnesse brought in for an Inheritance to eternal Life And here will you come to learn the first Principle of pure Religion and Doctrine of the beginning of Christ and the foundation of Repentance from dead works will be laid in you then will you see what kind of treasure your wanton careless minds have treasured up in your vessels your deceitful unprofitable words and works you will then see by that which will not lie then will you find that all will fail but Truth and what you have gathered by craft and deceit will stand in no stead but to deceive you Truth in the inward parts must be your stay if any you find for to that Rock you will be
to him that liveth and sinneth not And this appearance will be your daily Salvation and Peace and daily growth and encrease in God and make this sure to you in that principle which would not sin for gaining the whole world so shall you not lose your Election nor your Calling but an entrance thereby will be daily ministred into the Kingdom everlasting which is in Christ Jesus the Light and Truth and Power of God But if you go out to any other thing for help or counsel then that Spirit which is pure which is just which is meek and lowly by nature as God is which is righteous by nature and springs in you to bring forth fruit of it self to God alone in that principle which is pure and clean then you go from the fountain of living waters to dig for your selves and into your own works and what you bring forth is your own righteousness and not that which is revealed from above to all generations of God elected And you will go through your work hard bestead and when you have brought it forth it will not satisfie that in you which hungers towards God and is of him onely it will puff up that nature which is selfish and exalt that which is too high already to receive life from God and this righteousness God accepts not nor is it everlasting to all generations which is brought in by works and not by vertue of the Divine nature springing freely in you from an eternal Spirit which those who are entred into rest and keep the Sabbath holy are freely fed with and covered over who are ceased from their own works whose works are wrought in God and in him are brought to light where the holy Child is born and the Son of God manifest through that Spirit which the World neither seeth nor knoweth which gives to see and inherit God and godliness in a clean nature and vessel Which Birth if you desire to be born of then cease from flesh and blood and what ever that can do for you within and without that is defiled and in that which calls and convinceth you of sin wait and be faithful till you find a life and desire quickned in you which can savour or delight in nothing but that which is as God is pure just and holy and loaths whatever is contrary and cannot joyn to it in thought word nor action for this is the life of the holy Child if ever you feel it move and breath in you and that spiritual birth which as it grows in the vessel is to be heir of the heavenly treasure which though at first it be weak as a child without understanding or full strength and you not knowing what way it is ever like to come to have all the power and dominion in you by reason of the abundance of corruption that is above in you and the strong bonds of iniquity that rules in your flesh which all war against the resurrection of this Innocent life and by which the strong man keeps the house with much subtilty and spiritual wickedness against the pure and simple life yet if you do but abide in that which first gave you light to the quickening of it and be obedient thereto it will bring you a way you know not and though you may come through great travels and temptations and many fiery tryals and tribulations where you may come to be sifted and winnowed yet shall not one grain of that pure Seed perish and fail in the way for that Spirit of light and truth will lead you in his light and in his truth which hath been tryed in that way for many generations for this is he that comes in the Name of Christ Jesus the Light and Salvation of Ages who hath overcome the Devil and the world and all the power of darkness for all that are sanctified and now is come to do it in you that you may inherit your purchased possession and sit with him in heavenly places also so that your work is faith and obedience and patience towards him who is that Spirit and Light in you and to him must you give up life and all who will confound your corrupted wisdom and blind his adversary that he may give light to that Seed that 's yet under the shadow of death and build up in you the way of peace and you shall no more live by your works and gifts natural but because he liveth in you shall you live also and your life will be that which is begotten of God which never dieth and this will he do for as many as give up themselves wholly to him whose light leads out of sin this is the King of Saints and holy Life if you will receive him he hath the Power of God But you that pray and profess and seek abroad and cry for help but know not him who hath help in his hands for you in him alone to wait that in all things you might observe him you worship you know not what nor where and while in words you talk of God that liveth in works you deny him and give your strength to the dead and not to the living Should not every man know his God liveth in him and go to his own God for life according to the manifestation of the Spirit of Truth given to profit withal in every creature to Godward And this God that liveth who is just holy and true should you hear and know and learn of not of dead forms but the power of the Spirit of life whose Word giveth life to as many as have that ear open to hear the living spirit and can savour the living from the dead Now what ever you look to for life and salvation which is not in this spirit and power it 's that which kills and devours your strength to no purpose for nothing gives life but the Spirit it 's the pure Spirit that feeds the hungry soul with bread of life and to that you should give up all you have and are in hearkening and obeying spend your time and all your strength to encrease in the life that 's bread indeed but when you give your strength to customs and forms and carnal rudiments vain pleasures and delights and set your minds on these visible things then you spend your strength for that which is not bread and labour for that which profits not to life eternal nor can carnal things give you an entrance into the most Holy but in that which is pure should you wait that he may open to you the door of life I am the Door the Truth and the Life saith Christ Jesus who is not carnal who is pure clean and lowly and meek in spirit who is in you except you be reprobates and if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Minde and consider well the Spirit of Christ in you that 's he lowly in you that 's meek in you that 's just and holy in you
with hope and faith and keep therein and be not discouraged because of the littleness of it in your present sight neither do you judge and measure it thereby for you know not what power it hath with God and how precious it is in his sight and what it will obtain for you at his hands in the time of need you have not yet proved nor can you while you have things greater in your thoughts than it to run to the power of Holiness and Truth in the inward parts is not known but in the depth when the fire of wrath comes upon all vain hopes and hypocritical confidence when all that is without a man is removed far away when all relations friends and acquaintance are become farther off than strangers and what-ever thing the creature seeks to for comfort turns against him and adds to his grief then is known the power of Holiness and Truth in heart with God and a clean Conscience will speak peace and none can take it away from you if you abide but in it He that hath proved it commends it to you who have been stript of all that ye might learn and know the treasure of life and holiness with God wherefore judge not that which is holier and lower then your selves but let that which is just and holy judge that which is above it in you which is not of that nature The cause why it is so little esteemed in you is because you are so great in the contrary nature and the proud despises the poor and the rich undervalues him that is better then himself And this you will find in you if you measure with that which God esteems and weighs all flesh by to wit by that which is his own and as he is in every creature so do not you judge the most Holy but believe and obey for the time for you to judge is not yet come till the most Holy and Just be King in you and you in him so keep in that which is holy and just and grow in him that he may grow in you and arise through death of his enemies to be greater then the greatest greater then the World and the Prince of it which is the Devil wherein is all unbelief false fears and doubting and exaltation against the Holy One and as these Towers fall which are lifted up against the Lord so his way will become a plain and Truth will take his place in you as King and Lord which God loves which the unbelief is out of and against and as the Pure arises you will find a change in your mind in your nature in your judgment and in your government and you will come to know that your kingdom and power with the highest stands in the anointing of the most Holy and the Kingdom of God is within you and the poor takes it So you must not fix your faith upon that which is great and strong in you because it is so nor because it is likely nor because it promiseth great things but believe in that which is most holy true and just in you that to the Anointing of the most Holy you may come in your particular and he will bring you into the Assembly of the Sanctified where the Holy One reigneth over all for it 's he that 's sent out into the world that lies in wickedness to gather them one by one into Sanctification therein to present unto God as many as receive him who is without spot or blemish And all the world take notice of this where ever it comes this is He whom the Father of Lights hath now sent into you that are in the world the Holy One of God sent to call you and give you light who saith I am the Light of the World Hear him and believe that you may become Children of Light and Truth this is the glad-tydings and Gospel of Jesus Christ who is preached to you in the world Professions and forms would limit the Holy One to themselves and exclude others but Gods gift is free in Christ Jesus and his tender is to all men who would have all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth none he excludes none but who will not receive his gift his Son the most Holy which calls you who through the preaching of the Gospel is come near you yea he is in you with his Light giving you to see the way out of darkness which no other thing could do for you and without money or price you have him If you receive him and keep his sayings and obey his movings He will dwell in you and take up his aboad and you shall know that the Father hath sent him to call you out of the world into the Light of Life if you deny Him he will deny you If you receive Him the Father will love you and power from above will be given to become the Sons of God Wherefore mind that Spirit which calls you out of sin out of the world and gives you light to see what is sin and deceit in your own hearts hearken to that which is Holy and would not have you do evil that 's of the Holy One and the most Holy in you believe in Him and follow Him believe not them who would make you believe you have him not in you who are past feeling in themselves and have already rejected him but you who feel him abide in him who is holy in you against all unholiness a witness cut not your selves off through disobedience and unbelief and he will in no wise cast you out but will encrease your light through obedience and purifie your souls and cleanse your bodies and work in you mightily in Truth to Salvation and you shall see that his working is pure and good and that which none else can do for you and this is the Lord your Righteousnesse though yet you know him not as he is And if you will receive the most Holy this is your time and the day of your visitation by him whose Light is now rejected of the builders of this world and the wisdom of the wise will not know him nor suffer him to rule above their carnal rudiments nor to be all in their hearts to guide with his Light to Salvation so to the out-casts he is preached who are afar off and have not sought him You is he seeking with his Light if you reject him not he will make you to see Light who have sat in the region of death and gross darkness hath covered you wherefore hearken to him that saith Come and feel that Spirit that draws that you may answer his love freely as it is freely tendred and know him by his holiness that it is he and let his uuchangeable witness in you in the night and in the day perswade your hearts that he is the Lord who changeth not and he that declares unto man his thoughts his name is the Lord of Hosts And you that withstand
market-place at the best not yet come into the Vineyard of God till you be set on work against sin to pluck up and cut down every evil thing that offends in the Kingdom of God with his spiritual Light and Power which Kingdom is within you and that which offends is within you and that which is offended is within and that which is lost and fallen is within and there to be sought and the Pearl and the Seed and the Word and the Law of the Spirit of Life and the Covenant is within and this is not seen nor believed nor can it shine till the House of God be swept and the fruit of darkness denyed and the Light of Christ turned to and the Just obeyed which gives to see the unjust and power against him when the ground of darkness is removed by the working of Faith And as many as be called to this work and entred into it in truth and faith must not be idle but obey the Spirit of Life till the house be cleansed and the unclean wrought out and the pure exalted and then is the rest holy and then you will find your rest within you and your God near you and your souls to dwell at ease with God in your own habitation whose Temples you are if this you obtain by faith in him that calleth and quickeneth you to Holiness and the fruit is the Lords and so is the Seed and the safety for ever to all and in all that abide therein And this is not self-works nor self-will but pure faith and obedience to the Seed of God which in you wars against the world and every selfish fleshly lust and delight which is the Seed of the holy Covenant which Seed is Christ the holy and just One if you can receive it This is he that makes clean and keeps you so as many as obey and walk in him and from his Spirit receives your Law which Spirit giveth you his life to inherit here on earth if you walk in the Spirit you shall not live to the flesh And in this life and knowledge truly learned is answered that common objection which the spirit of the world makes against the holy Life and Kingdom saying If it were possible that we could live without sin then we need no Saviour yea the same that cleanses the house must keep it so and he that 's the death of sin is the life of righteousness and the same light and fear of God which leads to the putting off the old man with his affections and evil works leads to put on the new man which is Christ and so to walk in him which is renewed after the image of him that created him where Christ is all in life and guiding and the good man keeps the house not the strong man and how can that man say he needs no Saviour who can do nought without him whose righteous life is both food and rayment and his light their armor daily against the evil in this world in every thought word and work and in whom this is not so Christ is not all and in whom it is so they are compleat in him and do not say they have no need of him but consess him in them their head and glory and this is the Kingdom of God upon earth and the King in his Kingdom which you that resist in your faith and practice deny the Lord and his Power and his Faith and his Prayer which is Thy Kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven where no sin is And this further to all you that in words professe Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Master let it be in Truth and Righteousnesse that you may have his witnesse thereto who is pure and clean and cannot join to evil but is an open witnesse against every appearance of it and so are all his Servants whom he hath hired and sent into the world in what place or imployment so ever you are in if you be his servants you are chiefly about his work and not your own Now his work is manifest in every appearance of his in this world it is against sin and to destroy the works of the Devil out of this world mind this To destroy the works of the Devil out of this world that so the Kingdoms of this world may become the Kingdoms of Christ Jesus and the most Holy One may rule and bring forth fruits therein Now his Servants are known by this that they stand for the Kingdom of Christ in this world and his works and against all the works of the Devil in this world to destroy and bring down and make an end of sin in this world and the servants of the Devil are known in the contrary by being in his work which is to keep sin in this world while people live and this is the strength of his kingdom take away sin and take away his kingdom here and his power here and his place here for where he is resisted he flies but where he is received he sets up his throne and takes pleasure in his servants and they in his works which is to encrease deceit and vanity in them and to fill their hearts with every lust and so strongly carrying out their hearts thereunto that they have no delight in that which is contrary nor can believe that ever any can receive power in the Spirit of Christ against him or such redemption as to overcome him and be freed from him in all his works in this world And here is an agreement with death in your faith and a covenant confessed with unrighteousness And you that are in this mind and belief you are not hired of Christ Jesus the Righteous nor have you received his Faith which is pure as he is pure and believes unto Righteousness and unto Victory and not unto sin and that 's his faith which overcomes the world and the prince of it and resists him stedfast in the faith in hope of victory in the end and this faith his servants confess openly which faith the world cannot receive but confess the contrary openly and so you are kept captive at his will and you believe you must be his servants while you live here in this world And this faith you confess openly against the victory of Christ and herein you are faithful to your own Master whose works you do and plead for and confess his faith which none of the Servants of Christ ever confessed such a faith that they must needs serve sin as long as they live for the youngest and the weakest servant of Jesus Christ that know themselves hired of him they know his work is to destroy sin out of the world and to subdue the Devil and to this work they are set in themselves by faith and power which is in Christ Jesus the Lord and they labour in hope having their hearts turned in them and their faces set towards holiness and from the world and are set
on their way out of the world which is Christ the life that 's holy and light that 's pure and to this the mind is kept in all their travels and tribulations and temptions which worketh in them by faith in Christ more hope and more strength daily and every thing that happens them in the way gives experience and renewed strength against their adversarie the Devil while they keep close to Christ in faith and love and though they feel the Devil in the sensual part to be strong and powerful and past their strength at present yet they yeeld him not the Kingdom for that but into the faith and hope and patience of Christ Jesus they sink down waiting for the resurrection of that Life which never sinned but died when sin took his kingdome and there wait for the appearance of Christ without sin to save them from that power of death which wars in their own members to bring forth sin in this world and this is to be true in their service and faithful who wait for the Kingdom of God within them and Righteousnesse thereof and the comming of their Lord with their minds girt up with holinesse and hearts stedfast not to consent to the least work of the Devil if it would gain the whole world in the aperition of the sensual reason and wisdom And if these be overtaken with a fault it is not willingly but as Servants of Christ they stand against it to the utmost they then see and sin being a work of the wrong master they abhor it and themselves for it and deny it and will not plead for it or seek to hide it in them but confesse it and cannot have peace till it be cleansed out and these are the little children who have an Advocate with the Father to whom sin is as death and dare not speak a word for it but against it in themselves and in others and these appear against sin openly and confess to him that is holy with all their hearts and words But what a difference is there betwixt one of these who when they either see it or are told of their offence against the Lord are broken before the least reproof into tears or sorrow condemning themselves for it and it in themselves openly and you who when you are reproved for sin which is both open and known you set your selves with all your strength and wisdom to plead for it and like the Devil bring the letter to strengthen your selves against just reproof and with hearts full of envie and mouths full of reproach you stand up seeking to ensuare them that reprove you in love to Christs Kingdom and your souls and to recover you out of the works of Satan that his kingdom might fall in you and so he have fewer subjects left in his power and you be added unto the Kingdom of Christ by being brought under his Commands through denying your old matter and confessing and condemning his evil works for a denying of the Devil and his works there must be ere Christ will receive you And thus it is that Christ hath ever taken his Kingdom out of the hand of his adversary in the world by sending his Servants into the high-wayes and hedges to gather his creatures out of the Devils works by true reproof and testifying against them where ever he led them for which they were torn and scratched and evil entreated by that evil spirit in whom it had power as you now do who rise up against reproof Christ Jesus known to be King in his Temples through the power of the Holy Ghost and sword of the Spirit lifted up against the man of sin in true Judgement You who look for the Kingdom of Christ Jesus it stands not in observations words and forms but in the power of the holy Ghost in judgment in truth and righteousness If you would know his appearance to salvation wait for it without sin in that Spirit and Power which is holy to judge and condemn sin this is his Kingdom with men if you can receive it that he be known in his spiritual power in the bodies of holy men and women to dwell and walk in a holy life a witness against all sin by the breath of his mouth and Sword of his Spirit and therein that he hath power and consent to judge all contrary spirits within and without and all contrary actions And what ever opposes him in this his Kingdom is Antichrist which denies Christ in his Temples and House whose House and Temple is the new Creation of holy men and women and in whom he speaks dwells and walks as saith the Scriptures in whom he judges the Prince of this world and all his out-goings in the children of darkness and in his own Temples shews forth his nature and virtue a witness against him and all his works and he that would let this is Antichrist who sits in the Temple of Christ to resist the Holy One and cannot receive the Judgements of Christ against sin in his Temples nor his witness against sin to Salvation but cries do not judge when Truth speaks and the Spirit of Christ testifies against sin in true Judgement and this is he that lets and withstands the coming of Christ without sin who withstands him in his Temple and denies his righteous Judgement against sin and blasphemes and sayes it is not he nor is he now on earth nor speaks in any body now against sin but saith Thou must not judge lest thou be judged and so through deceit would turn Christs words against his work who saith I will redeem Zion with Judgement and Christ did not speak those words to save sin from Judgement when he saith Judge not that ye be not judged not to stop the mouth of Truth and Righteousness for then had he contradicted himself who in another place commands them to judge righteous Judgement And he is manifest to destroy sin and not to save sin in whomsoever he is manifest and for this end he liveth in his people which Antichrist would make as though he lived not nor heard or spoke but as a dumb Idol would he make the living God for people to talk on or set up a form of him to make void his present life and spiritual power in his people that he should not shew forth his vertue and give forth his Laws and Judgements by the mouth of his Servants against the works of his adversary where ever they appear in his eye Therefore you professors of Christ in words and forms seek his Kingdom in you and take heed that your forms withstand not his powerful appearance in spirit His Kingly Authority stands in his heavenly holy Nature and Vertue in Spirit and not in perishing rudiments and shadows without Read in Scriptures how often Antichrist hath deceived people by turning these outward forms to let the spiritual power and so have kept people in words without life opposing Christ in his Kingdom So in the first