Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
truth_n word_n worship_n worship_v 1,744 5 8.6381 4 false
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A43227 A plain account of certain Christian experiences, labours, services and sufferings, of that ancient servant and minister of Christ, Roger Hebden, deceased containing both warning, consolation, and instruction in righteousness. Hebden, Roger, 1620 or 21-1695. 1700 (1700) Wing H1346A; ESTC R15158 54,976 136

There are 5 snippets containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

declared as I have received where they are to wait even within to hear That of God even his Word which is nigh them even in their Mouths and in their Hearts as in Deut. 30. Rom. 10. speaking unto them and so come to know something of him near them even what is to be known of him Rom. 1.19 Seeking him where they may haply feel after him and find him though he be not far from every one of us as in Acts 17.27 Which being known and obeyed will bring into the true Fear of him which must be before he can be served or worshipped who is a Spirit and is worshipped in Spirit and Truth which is witnessed as in Scripture declared John 4.24 And although it be so now with me and such like as it was with those which did Tremble at the Word of the Lord Isa 66.5 That this Generation doth cast Reproach upon and say That we deny the Ordinances of Jesus Christ and for a pretence say Let the Lord be glorified as they did But the Lord hath already arisen to our Joy who have been made to Tremble at his Word and his Commands obey And your Shame will follow when the Lord lays open your Nakedness to all the World as he hath done to me which hasteth greatly Praises Eternal be unto Him alone who hath let me see by the Light wherewith Christ Jesus hath enlightned me who is the true Light which enlightneth every Man that cometh into the World John 1.9 That divers of your Observations in your pretended Worship of God are not the real Ordinances of Jesus Christ but the Inventions of Man for which you have no Command from Christ nor Example in Scripture as they are used by you And naming thee and thy practice as is hereafter written it came to me for to send thee in Writing what was written of thee before it went forth unto any other With a Warning therein written unto thee and the rest of thy Brethren Priests who live in these Practices hereafter mentioned who take Tithes as the Priests did who were of Levi but the Stranger the Fatherless and the Widdow have no liberty for to eat thereof with you and to be satisfied therewith as it was required Deut. 14.29 And your Store-house that you instead of keeping for them is for your own particular Prosit and not to receive them into for to distribute forth as the Lord required And so as you own Tithes take the Name of Priests who were of Levi and do as they did and never make mention of the Name of Christ who was of another Tribe to wit of Judah of which Tribe Moses spake nothing of Priesthood Heb. 7. 13 14. Neither did Christ ever that we read of in Scripture speak any thing concerning this being continued for to be his Ministers Wages But if any say When were they taken away I answer The Apostle saith That the Priesthood being changed there is made of necessity a change of the Law Heb. 7.12 And none will say but that Law which made the Priests gave the Tithes and so must end together by right For Christ's Ministers were not for to stand and for to condition with People for any such Wages but as they had freely received so freely give Mat. 10.8 And into whatsoever House or City they did enter if they were received there to remain Eating and Drinking such things as they had given them and this was the Hire he appoints his Luke 10.7 But thou and such like will either see or hear from Man what you may have before you will sit down with a People and so plainly shew that you dare not trust but live by Sense and not by Faith in the Son of God And as you are ordained and ordered by Man to your Places and your Wages of Man's setting down and the Will of Man only to be seen in all these things so never profess your selves to be more than Ministers made by Worldly Men and for Worldly Ends and then poor Ignorant People may know you as you are who have long been deceived by you looking upon you to be Ministers of Christ or else prove that it is otherwise But it was not so with the Apostle He was not of Man Gal. 1.1 neither by Man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the Dead and such an one I own and all others who walk contrary I testifie against as Deceivers of the People And now for to write unto thee at present in short thus Concerning those things which you use and call some of them Ordinances of Christ which I say he did not Ordian And prove that he did if thou canst by plain Scripture and let me hear it in Writing and do not Back-bite that is a work of Dark-ness and condemned with the Light that comes from Christ jesus Therefore do to me as thou wouldst be dealt withal And what is said of thee and thy Brethren do not call it Railing for it is no harsher than Christ's telling the Jews That they were of their Father the Devil although they pretended to be of Abraham yet the Fruits which proceeded from their Lusts made them manifest as yours also do to be as he said John 8.44 And as to your Practice this I say That when Christ Jesus was upon Earth whom in Words some of you pretend to be Followers of when he told his Disciples what they must do to come after him he did not tell them That they must Sing David's Words either themselves or others not being Witnesses of his Conditions Or Sprinkle little Children or Infants with Water Or take a Text or Place of Scripture another's Condition and add to it their own Inventions But these things said he unto them Whosoever will come after me must deny himself and take up his Cross daily and follow me Luke 9.23 A Letter written to Friends in the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire to be read at their settled Meetings ALL Friends In the Measure that you have received of the Spirit of God dwell and wait for increase from him and do not fear Want not do you distrust the Love of God but there wait upon him in the Obedience to his Will made manifest being content with what is made known by him That Mind in you that would know more than he gives you to know is proud and is not willing to do what is made known Therefore take heed of that which would be high that is not of God It 's the Lowly that the Lord loves and he will give more Grace to the Humble but he resists the Proud and the Rich and Full must be sent empty away So all of you I exhort to dwell low at the Feet of Jesus wait for to hear his Word every one at the least Appearance of his Light and Grace which is pure in you bend down in Obedience and herein only do you Worship God who is a Spirit and is Worshipped in the
the more Money And for their often exchanging fained words they do not want saying sometimes that they are sorry to leave them others that they do not see that Fruit of their Ministry which they desire and thereupon they do and may exchange as one did to wit Priest Sinclare of Slingsby near Malton in Yorkshire who having within a few Years time been at three Places or Livings as they are called being come unto the fourth I asked him the cause Why and How they could so often exchange He answered That they might when they did not see that fruit of their Ministry that they desired As if it were to see a change of Reformation in the People as he pretended then But unto me it doth plainly appear since that it was fained and that in his Conscience will witness with me that it was his own Earthly Profit more than the People's Good For this I know that in respect of the People's Wickedness he had as much cause to exchange as before Little Fruit or Reformation of Life doth appear the same fained excuse he might have if he knew of a greater Living For where he is now is near if not more than double the value of that he left and there he had continued longer than at two places before And thus it is with most if not all of them when they exchange Place and People it is for the greater Profit Self is in it commonly plain to be seen And herein they go from Christ and do not take that way to come after him that he hath set down Luke 9.23 If any Man will come after me he must deny himself and take up his Cross daily and follow me But their way that they pretend to folow him in is in pleasing themselves and to have their Wills at Liberty and rule over others And although Christ Command Those that will find Rest to their Souls to take his Yoak upon them and learn of him to be meek and lowly in Heart Mat. 11.29 Yet these Pretenders are not so for Who more Proud or Impatient than they Or greater Patterns of Pride in the Parish than their Wives and Children in most places I leave to all who have any Eyes to see and behold and judge as there is just cause If any shall say Pride lies in the Heart I know it but as the Tree is known by its Fruits even so the Heart may be known by its Fruits for the Image of its delight is set up within before it be set up without this or that thing which they desire or see others have the Heart thinks is Good or Decent and it would have the like And are not they to wit the Priests their Wives and Children such as follow the Fashions of the World in using needless things which are to satisfie the vain Mind and the lustful desires of the Heart and the Apostle's Exhortation they are out of 1 Pet. 1.14 and so shew themselves to be in Ignorance and lust alive many contending for the continuing of Sin and the Devils Kingdom These Scriptures fore-mentioned being by the Priests practised are recommended unto them for to read unto the People which they ought in Plainness and Simplicity as it doth concern them to take them to themselves and acknowledge that they are their Conditions and that they are the Men that have done these things and are guilty and thereupon forsaking and no more practising that horrible and filthy thing that hath been committed in this Land by them to bear rule by their means to seek for their Gain from their Quarter to Teach for Hire and other-like Practices heretofore mentioned committed by them they not only as they come to see it simply confessing it but honestly forsaking it then they shall find Mercy but if they cover and hide their Sins they shall not prosper And this I was moved by the Spirit of the Lord to write unto them that they may not plead Ignorance Now you are warned of the Evil that shall follow whilst you have time prize it and return unto the Lord lest you remember this when it is too late which is from him who is a lover of your Souls And this word is to you O Priests And in the mean time until your Priests come unto this Honesty as to confess and forsake these filthy Practices all you that profess your selves to be Christians and own the Scriptures search the Scriptures and see if these things be not so and if you find that it be so and that your Teachers are such in their Practices as the true Prophets Christ and his Apostles spoke against then take heed I warn you from the Lord how you joyn with them to hold them up in their Sins lest you partake of their Plagues Now you are forewarned of the Evil know that the Light is arisen that discovers their Ways and Deeds of Darkness in their Practices therefore come forth from amongst these wicked Men who fear not God but live in these wicked Practices fore-mentioned And this word is to you O People Object Now if any shall say as they must if they will but speak Truth We know it is so with the most of them but if we leave them How shall we do for Teaching They have Learning and they are most likely to know the meaning of the Scriptures Answ The Scriptures were not given forth by the Learning Wisdom not Will of Man as in 2 Pet. 1.21 The Prophesie came not in old time by the Will of Man but holy Men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost And in the fore-going verse he saith Know this first that no Prophesie of the Scripture is of any private Interpretation and that nothing but that which gave them forth can open them And so in vain it is for you to go to such as say They are not guided by the Spirit that gave forth the Scripture nor do therewith speak when unto you they do speak of the Scriptures nay their Fruits their Lives and Conversations will Witness it against them if they should affirm it with words This know likewise many of those who gave forth the Scriptures were Unlearned Men in the World's Learning nay from the World's Learning they did not speak them forth but from the Mouth of the Lord by the movings of his Spirit which the World's Wisdom cannot reach for Man by this Wisdom knows not God nor the things of God We read that Jacob and David were keepers of Sheep and Elisha was a Plowman that Amos was an Herdsman and they said of Christ How knows this Man Letters having never learned John 7.14 15. Peter and John being brought before the Rulers Acts 4.13 The Rulers perceiving that they were Unlearned and Ignorant Men marvelled and divers of the Apostles were Fishermen and Paul tho' a learned Man yet was a Tent-maker Acts 18.3 And what things formerly he accounted gain to him he accounted loss for the excellency of the
Judgment from the Righteous God of Life to pass upon the Enemies of your Soul 's good and from the same you will find Commands go forth to let you know what you are to do which will be contrary to what you have formerly delighted in so your desires will be crossed when they are running forth into the Earth to delight in fading Objects or any manner of Wickedness and so you will come to find a Law come forth from another which formerly you have not known so as to obey and as Obedience is given thereunto you will find that arise up in you for to Rule over whatsoever would not it should Reign and then Salvation is near Thus by degrees by a living Faith and Obedience to the Commands of God made known by that his Light within you shall come to find him Judge Lawgiver King and Sarviour Therefore none expect to know God otherwise than he is The Children of Disobedience must know him to be a just Judge rendering unto every one according unto their Works as the Scriptures declare of him such as do not cease to do Evil and learn to do Well but Rebel against him must be devoured with the Sword read Isaiah 1. Rom. 2.6 7 8 9 10 11. where the Apostle saith that God will render unto every Man according to his Deeds To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for Glory and Honour and Immortality Eternal Life But unto them that are Contentious and do not obey the Truth but obey Unrighteousness Indignation and Wrath Tribulation and Anguish upon every Soul of Man that doth Evil of the Jew first and also of the Gentile But Glory Honour and Peace to every Man that worketh Good to the Jew first and also to the Gentile For there is no respect of Persons with God Therefore what is said unto the Priests is said to the People of all Professions Search the Scriptures and see where you do find your Condition in the Scriptures whoso lives in Wickedness being guided by the wicked One Woes and the Plagues of God they may expect as the Scriptures declare Isa 3.11 Wo to the Wicked it shall be ill with him for the Reward of his hands shall be given him First therefore thou that lives in a Profession of God and Christ in Words and acts not the same in Deed and Truth read Mat. 23.5 but these things dost to be seen of Men this was their Practice to whom the Wo was due Mat. 23.27 to 37. Read You that have got the Prophets Christ's and the Apostles Words to talk of and Paint your selves outwardly with a Form of Godliness but deny the Power thereof and Hate and Persecute those who live in the Life of what you Profess the Woes the Damnation of Hell you may read there to be your Portion unless you Repent You Hypocrites consider betime and Repent that you may escape it And in the next place you that would have the good word of all this may be accounted Wisdom so to Conform but it is that Wisdom which is from beneath from the Serpents Seed to which the Curse is therefore thou that wouldest have all to speak well of thee read Luke 6.26 Wo unto you when all Men shall speak well of you This may seem strange to others as it did unto me whose desire is to have all to speak well of them Now this is not to encourage any for to walk so as to give any just occasion for any to speak evil of them but on the contrary as Christ doth Exhort in the next Verses to Love your Enemies do good to them which Hate you Bless them that Curse you and Pray for them which Despitefully use you Yet this I know and so all others find it as they come to walk up in Obedience to that which is pure of God in them it is so cross and contrary unto that which guides the World even all Men of what Profession soever being guided by another Seed they cannot have their good words as formerly the Enmity between the two Seeds that is the cause therefore thou that hast the good word of the wicked question thy Condition thou hast great cause lest thou art not under the blessing of God but under the Wo of Christ And thou whose desires is to get Wealth by Fraud and Deceit Lying and Dissembling and may call this a provident Care for thy Self and Family thou Infidel that darest not trust God but acts contrary unto that of him in thee that tells thee in secret that thou oughtest not so to do read Hab. 2.9 Wo unto him that coveteth an evil Covetousness to his House that he may set his Nest on High And all you who live in the Lust of the Flesh the Lust of the Eye and Pride of Life which things are not of God read 1 John 2.16 Lusting after strong Drink not only to be Drunk themselves but to make others Drunk read Hab. 2.15 Isa 28.1 Wo to the Crown of Pride to the Drunkards of Ephraim So others from the Lust within let the Eye loose after Beauty fine Apparel and the like all these proceed from one Root the Unrighteous Seed within to which the Plagues and Woes of God are due and the Kingdom of God it must not Inherit therefore let none deceive themselves with vain hopes but read 1 Cor. 6.9 10. Know ye not that the Unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God c. but such if they Repent not must be for the Lake and the Wine-press of the Lord's Wrath without the City with whatsoever worketh Abomination or telleth a Lye Rev. 21.8 27. 14.19 20. Therefore all People of all Professions consider your own Condition your Life and Practices take the Scriptures search and see where you can find out your own Condition and amongst whom whether amongst the Godly or amongst the Wicked and that you may take and read the Portion laid down in Scripture belonging unto your Practice And do not meddle with others Conditions laid down in Scriptures nor the Promises that were made to them so as to apply them to your selves whilst in your Sins that did Fear and Serve the Lord who when they witnessed the same fulfilled in them they were made to rejoyce with Trembling Psalm 2.11 which is now witnessed by many Praises to the Lord our God for evermore who hath arisen to our joy although we be such as are cast forth and reproached as they were who did Fear before the Lord and Tremble at his Word by such as did pretend to Glorifie God as in Isa 66.5 This Scripture we whom the World in Scorn call Quakers of which Name I am not ashamed being one whose Flesh hath been made for to Tremble and Bones to Shake at the Judgments of the Lord and at his Word as the Holy Men of God did read Ezra 10.3 9. Job 4.14 21.6 Psalm 119.120 Jer. 23.9 Dan. 10. Hab. 3.16 These and such like Scriptures we
but pronounce Woes as they are moved by the Lord and Wo unto that in thee which would have all Men to speak well of thee that is thy Enemy and the Enemy of God and whilst that rules in thee thou art under the Wrath and the Woes belonging to the Wicked thou must expect whilst therewith guided And in bidding Let high Aspiring Thoughts and Conceits depart thou speakest of Conceits and Aspiring Thoughts and thou bids Let Tenderness and Pity possess his Soul Here thou art to be tryed whether thou live not in Conceits thy self yea or nay So What is the Soul Now this thou may'st answer as Scripture declares That God breathed into Man's Nostrils the Breath of Life and Man became a Living Soul But further I demand of thee What this is in the Creature Now if thou canst not give an account of this What this is in the Creature Then thou must acknowledge that thou hast been Exhorting another To let Tenderness and Pity possess thou know'st not what more than a Word but the Soul is more that a Word And when thou comest to know it then thou shalt see thy high Aspiring Thoughts and Conceits that thou hast lived in and to know and acknowledge that this is written in love and Pity unto thee from R. H. York-Castle the 11th Day of the 4th Month 1655. FRom the time of my being committed Prisoner by Robert Barwicke as is expressed in the fore-part of this Book I continued as Prisoner but several times at my own and Friends desire had liberty to visit Friends in the Country and at the Assizes held in the 7th Month of the Year 1655. when I had been between thirty and forty Weeks a Prisoner I was called and was tryed and cleared accordingly as is hereafter mentioned Being called before William Steel Judge it was said That I stood there Indicted since the last Assizes the Indictment being read it was demanded of me What I said to it Was I guilty or not guilty To which was answered to this purpose That what I said I should not deny there being put into the Indictment that I wilfully and maliciously uttered forth such words as they read the truth was that I spoke such words but that such words were spoken from my own Will or Malice that I denied and said That was their Condition which put the words in Then the Judge asked What I said as to the Substance of the thing My answer was What I spoke I should not deny Then he asked me If I would be tried by God and the Country My answer was The Lord he is my Tryer and what he will suffer the Country to do I am satisfied Thus I with other three Friends who had been called at the Assizes before and could not say neither Guilty nor Not Guilty true words and false being mixt together in our Indictments were to come to our Tryal before the Country and the next day being called and set in the midst amongst those there Arraigned for Fellony and Murder A Jury being chosen and they being about to swear them I spoke to the Judge to put him in mind of what passed between us the Day before how that he asked If I would be tried by God and the Country And my answer thereunto being That the Lord he is my Tryer and what he suffered the Country to do I am satisfied but that their Swearing is not allowed but forbidden by Christ and in testifying against it I clear my Conscience Notwithstanding this they called for Evidence against me but not any appearing the Jury gave in their Verdict as it is called that I was Not Guilty Then I appealed to that of God in all their Consciences to judge how I had been dealt withal who had been between thirty and forty weeks a Prisoner and none for to lay any thing to my charge But they would make no answer to that but hasted to take me away After some said I might recover Damage for my Imprisonment But I answered them I had not so learned of Christ for to render Evil for Evil. Roger Hebden Here follows a Copy of my Release To the Goaler of the Goal of York WHereas Roger Hebden was Indicted at these Assizes and Acquitted You may therefore set him at Liberty if for no other cause you detain him Witness my Hand this 12th day of September in Year of your Lord 1655. John Clarill Clerk of Assizes Here is an Account of my being a Prisoner at Alisbury To the Keeper of the Common Goal at Alisbury or to his Deputy there WHereas Roger Hebden Bucks ss herewith sent you yesterday being the Sabbath-day came into the Parish Church of Newport-Pagnell and there in the time of publick Service did openly and publickly before the whole Congregation disturb the Minister contrary to the Law in that case made and provided These are therefore to Will and Require you upon Sight hereof That you receive the Body of the said Roger herewith sent you into your said Goal and him safely keep until he shall be thence discharged by order of Law Hereof fail not Dated this 4th Day of January 1657. Thomas White ACcording unto this foregoing Warrant I was received and kept in the Goal between three and four Days and then brought forth and had my tryal at the last Sessions who ordered me to the House of Correction there to be kept fourteen Days and then to be discharged Which was done accordingly R. H. A Copy of my Commitment to York-Castle Thomas Harrison Esq Sheriff of the said County to the Goaler or Keeper of the Castle of York Greeting I Command you Yorkshire That the Body of Roger Hebden by me taken you receive into your Custody and him safe keep so that I may have him before the Justices of the Peace at the next General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the North-Riding of the said County to answer his Highness the Lord Protectour of certain Trespasses and other Misdemeanors whereof he stands indicted Given under the Seal of my Office the 1st day of April 1658. A true Copy examined by John Thomlinson By the Sheriff NOW Whereas mention is made before of my being cast into Prison at Alisbury it was for my going into a Steeple-House at Newport-pagnel where standing quietly until the Priest had done his Preaching who had been telling in a bemoaning manner that The Devil cast Fiery-Darts and Hand-Granadoes as it were into the Soul It being made known unto me as I stood by that he knew not what the Soul was which he said the Devil did such things to so words were spoken unto him to this purpose Man thou hast been speaking much as concerning the Soul it were needful for the People's Satisfaction thou mightest declare what the Soul is but instead of answering this needful Question he put it off with saying That he would Dispute with me there the next day But there being present one Thomas White a Man
Spirit and in Truth This is not only in Form here is no acting by meer imitation of others who keep here to be guided by that which is pure in themselves this leads into the Power and into the endless Life which changes not nor will wither but endure for ever where is Peace endless and unutterable Therefore all to come forth of that which Fades into that which will Endure and every one of you as you come into the sincere Obedience of that which is pure the measure of the Grace of God within your Selves you will come to witness that Comfort flow in which is not from below but is from above and over all these things that are Visible and Perishing And this which Unites you unto God the same will Unite you one unto another and the Peace of God you will come to witness which passeth Understanding whereby the Heart and Mind is kept in the Knowledge and Fear of God and the Blessing of God you thereupon will partake of even of the Father Son and Holy Ghost as the Apostle prayed that they might have to whom he writ And I pray God that you may have the same continually whereby you may be known to be of God and Christ and to be guided by his Spirit the Fruit whereof is Love Joy Peace c. Therefore my Friends and Brethren every where I exhort you to consider from whence comes Strife Envying and Divisions proceed they not from hence from the Lusts that war in the Members of such who are looking at others with an evil Eye and watching over others for Hurt and not Good Therefore in the Presence of the Living God I charge you by his Spirit that you suffer not this amongst you even no Strife nor Envying one another as you will answer it before the Terrible and Dreadful God before whom you must all give an Account for all the Actions done in the Body therefore any of you that hath any thing against another do not speak of it behind his Back for that 's a work of Darkness but in love speak to them of it and if they will not hear then acquaint those who are appointed in the Church for to examine Differences and end Strife that they may be proceeded against according to the good Order given forth in the Churches from the Spirit of Truth and so Strife will be ended and Controversies cease so that those who are found in the fault if they fall not under the just Reproof then they may be denyed But Friends It is sadness of Heart to me to think of it that any that hath made but so much as a Profession of Christ much more that those that have tasted of the Love of God in measure should so much forget themselves and what they do Profess as that there should be cause for to Reject any such and deny them the Society of the Saints Therefore as my Heart's desire is so my Prayers unto the Lord for you all are That he would open the Eyes of such who have been in froward ways or that live in Strife Envying and Back-biting one another that they may turn from their wicked Ways and live for their Destruction if they be Destroyed is of themselves for the Lord not only by his Light in them shews the Evil but also by his Messengers hath many times and now at this time by his Servant whom he is pleased for to make use of doth Charge and Require all such among you once more for to cease from all Strife and Envying Surmising Whispering and speaking Evil one of another behind your Backs and that you all deal Plainly Simply and Honestly one with another in what you see or hear that is amiss and none to be Rash or Hasty in Reproving but let all things that are done amongst you be done in Meekness and Love and then you will be a People amongst whom the Lord will delight to dwell who is a God of Love and the Fruit of the Spirit will be seen amongst you which is Love and then I shall not have cause for to write unto you from Sorrow but from the Inflowings of Love which is my Delight for Sorrow it is unto me God is my Witness for to Write unto any among you of a Rod but I cannot forbear for the Rod is prepared for the Backs of Fools who wander from That of God within which is pure which ought to Guide and it is to Such that I am forced to hold forth the Rod with Sorrow and Weeping that there should be any such Fools sheltering themselves amongst the Flock of Christ But I thank my God that there is such amongst you who are my Joy and Rejoycing yea my glorying to my Brethren yea and I trust in the Lord that they shall be so and none can take it from me Therefore all who have received the Love of God dwell low in the Love received that you may find daily the Inflowings of the Love of God that the daily growth you may witness even that which Nourishes the Babe that it daily feeds upon the Milk of the Word you may suck from the Breasts of Consolation which all they receive who are obedient to that which is Pure even the Measure of the Grace of God in themselves And all you whose Minds are run forth into the Vanities Ob turn ye turn ye Why will you Dye This is the Lords call by his Spirit in his Servant and consider wherein have you run forth return within hearken call to mind what is past and what did call when you were running forth into the Evil and you would not hear but put off And now whilst that you have time prize it and return unto the Lord by a speedy Reformation of Life all you stiff necked ones who think much to stoop down to the Cross to walk in that way wherein your Wills are crossed and Self is denyed never expect to have Sin to dye until you deny your Selves and your own Wills for it 's the daily Cross that Christ's Disciples must take up and follow him in Therefore thou Fool and Unwise do not deceive thy self in forming up a nearer or easier Way than this his Yoke is easie his Burden is light when it comes to be taken up it is not Grievous but Joyous Oh come into the Obedience and than thou shalt witness what I say to be Truth do not say How long shall I do such things That 's it which makes the Burthen great for to consult with the Carnal Part which would limit the Lord and would set him down a way that you would serve him in that is for Destruction that must never enter it 's that which is willing and obedient and doth not say wherein or how long but which is willing to wait and doth not make haste but believes in the Lord it is that part and those that are therewith guided that Eat the good of the Land and come to partake of