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
THE Fall of Man DECLARED AND The way declared in plainnesse and according unto Truth how faln Man and Woman may be restored into that pure innocent state and being that Adam was in before the fall AND A Warning from the Lord God of life and power in bowels of dear and tender love unto all the Rulers Priests and People that they hasten to Repentance who are spending their time without the fear of the Lord and nourishing their hearts as in a day of slaughter For the triumphing of the wicked is but short and the hope of the hypocrite but for a moment and though his excellency mount up to the heavens and his head reach the clouds yet shall he perish like his own dung and he shall vanish away like a night vision and they which saw him shall see him no more LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the sign of the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1661. The Fall of Man Declared GOD who made the World and all things therein who formed the mountains and created the Winds who is a God at hand and not a God afar off who is near unto all that call upon him in Truth and Righteousnesse Oh all people Seek ye the Lord while he may be found and call upon him while he is near you he created Male and Female after his own Image and to do his will and to delight alone in him and to worship serve and obey him who gave man whom he created after his own image power and authority and set him over and above all the creatures which he by the word of his power created for the use and service of man I say the Lord God gave man so long as man continued in obedience unto him power and authority over all the fowls of the ayr and the fishes of the sea and the beasts of the field And the Lord God he planted a garden in Eden and he took man whom he had formed and put him into the Garden to dresse it and to keep it and commanded him saying Of every tree in the Garden thou mayst freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die And the Lord God he said It is not good that the man should be alone I will make him a meet help for him and the Lord God made of the rib which he took from man a woman and brought her unto man and said Adam this is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh and she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man Now the Serpent being more subtile then any beast of the field which God had made saith he Yea hath God said of every tree in the Garden you may not eat of The Woman said unto the serpent We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the Garden but of the tree that is in the midst of the Garden God hath said ye shall not eat of it neither shall ye touch it least ye die Now the serpent being more subtile then any beast of the field although God had said in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die said the serpent unto the woman Ye shal not surely die for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods knowing good and evil and when the woman saw that it was good for food and pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be desired to make one wise she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave unto her husband with her and he did eat and immediately their eyes were opened and they saw that they were naked and they gathered fig-leaves and sewed them together to make themselves aprons for to make a covering to hide them from the presence of the Lord mark that all ye people who are yet in the fall in the transgression driven out from the presence of the Lord into the earth that when man woman had disobeyed transgressed the command of the Lord God in eating of the the forbidden fruit that was of the tree of knowledge of good and evil which God commanded man whom he had created after his own image saying Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou mayest not eat for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die I say that when man and woman had disobeyed the Command of the Lord in eating of the forbidden fruit immediately their eyes were opened and they saw that they were naked and they sewed figg-leaves together for to hide themselves from the presence of the Lord And they heard the voyce of the Lord God walking in the Garden in the coole of the day they seeing their nakedness they hid themselves amongst the trees of the Garden from the presence of the Lord mark that all ye who are in the fall in the transgression and spending your dayes without the fear of the Lord and your precious time which the Lord God spares you for to see if you will return unto him in sports pleasures rioting and wickednesse turn in your minds into the light of the Son of God with which you are enlightned which checks and reproves you for sin and evil and makes manifest the evil of your doings and the thoughts and intents of your hearts unto you when there is no man present with you or can accuse of them yet is the Lord God present with you by his light which is his true and faithful witnesse which he hath placed in you which never consented unto sin and evil but is a witnesse for God against sin and evil I say then is the Lord present to reprove you and to condemn you for the evil of your doings I say turn in your minds into the Light of the Son of God with which you are inlightned and come and let us reason together a little Is there not in you after the height of your wickednesse is over and you come into a little calmnesse in the cool of the day a still low voice following of you and crying in you man or Woman Where art thou what is this which thou hast done Then by the light of Christ in thee with which thou art enlightned comes to see thou hast disobeyed the Command of the Lord God And that thou hast acted contrary unto his pure mind and will and unto his true and faithful witnesse in thee which is the light of the Son of God with which thou art enlightned So I say by that thou comes to see that thou art naked and then terrour and fear takes hold upon thee and then thou strives to get a covering to hide thy self from the presence of the Lord then in that state and condition as thou art striving to get some Fig-leaved Garment or some words as the enemy of thy souls peace that old serpent who was a lyar from the
beginning shall put into thee or raise up in thee to speak but this I tell ye all from the Lord God who are yet in the fall and in the transgression driven out from the presence of the Lord and without God in the World that all the coverings that you have made or ever shall make are too narrow and they cannot hide you neither can you be hid under them from the presence of the Lord God for from the Lord God you cannot hide nor from him you cannot flie but unto him you must give an account for the deeds and works done in the body whether they be good or whether they be evil And the woe of the Lord is unto all ye who are making false fained coverings to hide you from the Lord and from the eyes of men for woe saith the Lord unto the rebellious Children who take counsell and not of me and that cover with a covering but not with my Spirit And woe unto them that hide their sins for they shall not prosper And this I tell you again from the Lord that your coverings are too narrow and they cannot hide you neither are you hid under them from the Lord nor from the pure single Eie which the Lord God hath opened in hundreds of his dear Babes and Lambs who are counted by you the off-scouring of all things and people not fit to live upon the Earth and as sheep for the slaughter and are reproachfully and scornfully by you called Quakers So now all people as you tender the good of your own souls and have any desire to know the Lord God who created ye this is the counsel of the Lord God unto ye Oh! Turn in turn in your minds into the Light of the Son of God with which you are enlightned and waite ye in patience in it and hearken diligently unto the Voice of the Lord unto the Voice of the true Prophet Christ Jesus the Son of God the light of the World Who is the light that enlightneth every man that cometh into the World who must be heard in all things For said the servant of the Lord A Prophet will the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you And it shall come to passe that every soul which will not hear that Prophet shall be destroyed from amongst the People So all people who are yet in the fall in the transgression driven out from the presence of the Lord into the Earth and without God in the World I say as you tender the good and welfare and happinesse of your immortal souls cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils who keeps you ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth and give not way unto that spirit which hath led and acted you into sin and into transgression into lightnesse and ayrinesse but turn in your minds into the light of the Son of God and keep in your minds and wait ye in patience in it and hearken ye diligently unto the voice the true Prophet Christ Jesus the Light of the World who is the true Light that enlightneth every man that cometh into the World I say hearken ye diligently unto the voice of the true Prophet which is a still low voice which follows the Creature and when the Creature turns either unto the right hand or unto the left it saith this is the way walk in it Mark that all ye who are yet in the fall and in the transgression that is the voice of the true Prophet which cries in you for purity and holinesse and after the heighth of your wickednesse is over and you come into a little calmnesse then in the cool of the day it cries in you Man or Woman where art thou what is this that thou hast acted and done then you with the Light of the Son of God comes to see your nakednesse and then you strive to make coverings to hide your selves from the presence of the Lord and in this state and condition as I said before the wo of the Lord is unto you For wo saith the Lord unto the rebellious Children who take counsel and not of me and that cover with a covering but not with my Spirit And the Lord God called unto Adam and said where art thou sayes Adam unto God again I heard thy voice and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid my self so when Man whom God created after his own Image had disobeyed the command of the Lord who created him in eating of the forbidden fruit that is of the tree of knowledge of good and evil which God said in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye and immediately after Adam and Eve his wife had eaten of the forbidden fruit the Lord he opened their eyes and then they saw their nakednesse and they gathered fig-leaves and sewed them together to make them coverings and they strove to hide themselves amongst the trees of the garden from the presence of the Lord and said the Lord unto Adam who shewed thee thy nakednesse Hast thou eaten of the forbidden fruit which I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat of Then answered Adam unto the Lord the woman that thou gavest to be with me did give unto me and I did eat Then said the Lord unto the Woman What is this that thou hast done Then answered the Woman and said The Serpent did beguile me and I did eat Then said the Lord God unto the Serpent for this that thou hast done thou art cursed above all Cattle and above every Beast of the field upon thy belly shalt thou go and dust shall be thy meat all the dayes of thy life And said the Lord God I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed and it shall bruise thy head that is the seed of the woman and thou shalt bruise her heel And so now all people who are yet in the fall and in the transgression in the earth driven out from the presence of the Lord unredeemed and without God in the world This I write unto you all in dear love and in bowels of tender love and as you prize the good of your own souls consider and lay it to heart how you have spent your time without the fear of the Lord God who created you to do his will and to serve and obey him so now I say unto you all come to a true and a serious consideration for what end and purpose God created you whether to do his will and to serve and obey him or to do your own wicked corrupt wills and to serve and obey your own hearts lusts unto the witnesse of God in all your Consciences do I speak which I know from the Lord God will answer and confesse that God created you to do his will and to serve and obey him Then this is the counsel of
the Lord God unto you and my exhortation unto you all in his pure dread and fear and in bowels of tender love unto your souls Oh dread and fear ye God and let the time past be too much which you have spent without the fear of the Lord God and cease to do evil and learn to do well and go on no longer in rebellion and disobedience unto the Lord God least you provoke his wrath against you to destroy you Therefore I say kisse the Son least he be angry and ye perish in the way for when his wrath is kindled but a little blessed and happy are all they who put their trust in him Now as touching the state and condition that man was in before the fall and before he disobeyed so long as he continued in obedience unto the command of the Lord and in that pure innocent holy and harmlesse being wherein God created him he did enjoy the presence of the Lord God and had Union and Communion and Fellowship with the Lord and then he had power and authority over the Creatures which God created for the use and service of man but through disobedience and transgression unto the holy and righteous command of the Lord God who created him he the Creature man lost the image in which he was created and lost also his Union and Communion and Fellowship with the Lord which he had with the Lord before he disobeyed his command so through disobedience he was drove into the earth from the presence of the Lord and then the Lord placed Cherubims and a flaming sword at the garden of Eden which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life so through mans disobedience he lost the image and was driven out from the presence of the Lord into the earth and lost his Power Authority and Dominion which he had with the Lord before he disobeyed he lost that Power and that Authority and that Dominion which he had over the Creatures which God created for the use and service of man So now since the fall of Man his fall being so great the Creatures have had Power and Dominion over the Creature Man and Man hath been in bondage unto the Creatures through disobedience unto God the Creator Mark that all ye unbelievers who will not believe in Christ Jesus the Light who are yet in the fall in the transgression and in the Earth driven out from the presence of the Lord and without God in the world who are in bondage and in slavery unto the Creatures and they have Power and Dominion over you some of you running into the abuse of one Creature and some of you running into the abuse of another your hearts being fixed and setled in the Earth and in some Creature-enjoyment your treasure being in the Earth and Earthly things there is your hearts also So now as you are in the fall in the transgression driven out from the presence of the Lord into the Earth and you standing in this state and condition the Creatures which Man had power over at the beginning so long as he stood in the counsel of God they Rule and have Power and Dominion over you you being run into the abuse of the Creatures so hereby you are in slavery and in bondage unto them No way out of the Fall but by following the Light NOw all people who are yet in the fall and in the transgression driven out from the presence of the Lord into the Earth and without God in the World as the Lord God giveth me utterance I shall declare the way in plainnesse and according unto the Truth how fallen Men and Women may be restored into that pure innocent state and being that Adam was in before the fall Oh all people dread dread dread and fear and tremble before the living God of Heaven and Earth at whose voice the wind and the Sea obeyeth who by the breath of his Nostrils and the brightnesse of his coming he will slay the wicked Oh return return return unto the Lord God and repent while ye have time and turn in your minds into the light of the Son of God in your own Consciences with which he hath enlightned you who is the true Light that enlightneth every man that cometh into the world who came not into the world to save man in sin but from sin and in him is no sin and whosoever abideth in him sinneth not neither can he sin because his seed remaineth in him therefore I say unto ye all unto the light of Christ take heed and keep in your minds and wait ye in patience in it in that which checks and reproves you for sin and evil and makes manifest the evil of your doings unto you when no man sees you or can accuse you of it yet is the Lord God present with his Light which is his true and faithful witnesse which he hath placed in man which never consented unto sin or evil but stands a witnesse for God in man against sin and evil I say the Lord God is present with his Light to condemn you for sin and evil Therefore I say submit ye unto the Lord God and unto the Light of his Son which is manifested in you and humble your selves and lye down under the hand of his mighty power that he may pour out his judgements and vials of wrath and plagues and woes upon the head of the wicked in you which rules and reigns in you as King and hath led and doth still lead and act you into sin and into transgression that so the Lord God may shew mercy unto your souls for the Lord he shews not mercy unto that which hath led and acted the Creature into transgression but it is his own seed in man which lieth yet in you oppressed and burthened as a Cart pressed with sheaves by reason of sin and wickednesse which is yet remaining alive in you and uncrucified and unsubdued by the power of God Therefore 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 and wait ye in patience in it that you may feel the power of the Lord God to crucifie and to subdue and to expell and to work out all that in you which entred into man through disobedience and transgression that so the seed of God the seed immortal which is yet oppressed in you may be eased and delivered that so it may grow and increase unto the praise and glory of the Lord who is God blessed for evermore Amen Therefore I say in love unto all your souls submit ye unto the Lord God and lye down under the hand of his mighty power that so he may pour out his judgements and his vials of wrath upon that which hath led and acted you into transgression that so he may shew mercy unto your souls for the Lord he shews not mercy as I said before unto that which leads the Creature into
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