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A35122 A defence of the true church called Quakers (come and coming out of the wilderness, Babylon, and the dark night of the apostacy of Antichrist into their own land, which is Sion the mountain of holiness, there to worship the Lord in spirit and truth) against the several sects and sorts of people, called Independants, Separatists or Brownists, Baptists, Fift-Monarchy-Men ... Crook, John, 1617-1699.; J. C. (John Collens), d. 1682. 1659 (1659) Wing C7202; ESTC R35612 46,726 58

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believed being also I deny not then baptized with water they prayed and laid their hands on them which was an outward sign of the blessing and they received the holy Spirit now if any one shall say how could the Apostles who were but men baptize with the Spirit I answer no otherwise then they could at first beget faith and repentance in those so baptized it was the Lords work but they ministerially did it that is they having felt the power in themselves the raised life in them Ministred to the life that lay low in others and so brought it up therefore that the Lord might shew he was not tied up to time or manner in the bestowing of his gift while Peter spake those words to Cornelius and the rest the holy Spirit fell on them that heard the word so that this was the Baptism here meant by Christ which was so Essential to the conversion of the world and building up of the Saints in so much that Paul joyns it with faith as a necessary companion saying there is One Lord one Faith and one Baptisme for by one Spirit are the Saints baptized into one body Christ the baptizer being the head who moreover told the Apostles that he would be with them all the dayes that is of their Ministry even to the finishing of the age mark there was an age or certain space of time wherein the truth of the Gospel should grow and the Baptism of the Spirit or the comforters presence be witnessed through Christs Power accompanying their Ministry and then should the Mystery of iniquity in false Apostles get such a head by stealing and bringing in false Doctrines Traditions and inventions that it should God so permitting it overtop the life and so the true Ministry should cease and his living presence not be felt and enjoyed as before which most certainly came to passe as we see whose eyes the Lord hath opened in the many hundred years Apostacy and reign of Antichrist now if Christ meant that He would be alway with them to the end of the world as it s falsely rendred in English Bibles how could his words be true since we see by experience that the Glory of God which shined in his Temple in the Apostles dayes departed over the threshold the Church went into the wilderness the Seed of God was captivated by the Whore of Babylon and the man-Child Christ in his strength taken up to God and his Throne wherefore in the second restauration of the spiritual Temple and re-edifying of the holy City new Jerusalem people must first come to the true faith by believing in Christ the true light and witness repentance from all false worships and and dead works of the world as those that are wearie of Babylons captivity and that set their faces towards Sion in truth and so must wait with the Lords people in silence and humility for the Fathers promise which is the Comforter even the Spirit of truth which in his due time baptizeth such with fire and so by degrees leads them into all truth and out of all sins and errour and so the Church cometh out of the wilderness leaning upon her beloved that is staying her mind upon the light within and being content with her portion be it much or little be it judgement or mercy be it in a day of blackness or gloominess or in a day wherein it is neither dark nor light or in the evening time wherein it shall be light as saith the Prophet or in the sun-shine of the day it self so not despising the day of small things or overlifted up with great things neither must they all this while set upon or practice any outward thing in the worship of God in their own wils or by imitation of others or meerly from a precept without but onely as Christ the light shall lay that precept upon them for if they do they are will-worshippers and so Idolaters for as the Son of God was once personally present in a body of flesh commanding the Apostles to teach the People at the first raising of the Gospel Church to observe all things whatsover he had before commanded them and said unto them while so present with them which the Comforter afterwards brought to their remembrance so in the re●toring thereof the second time none are to observe any thing or teach any thing to be observed but what Christ manifested in their bodies of flesh doth command them for saith he I go away to wit as to his Personal body and the world shall see me no more but ye shall see me that is in their own bodies manifested Now by this oh all ye Baptists may ye try your selves and present practice of water Baptism and all other Administrations and performances in your Congregations have ye witnessed this true faith or are ye yet disputing against it have ye repented of all dead works or are ye still wallowing in the pollutions of the world have ye waited or do ye wait in silence for the Fathers Promise or do ye set your selves on work in a formal Preaching and dead praying and hanging on the lips of such Preachers and Pray-ers Do ye or others keep an outward Sabbath whether on the seventh or first day from mens Precepts or a Mosaical Rule or from a Command of life within Do ye Baptize and are Baptized and break Bread from a particular Command in your selves or because the Saints formerly so practised Do ye exercise the power of the Keyes from the true spiritual discerning judgement and power or because the Churches before the Apostacy did so bind and loose Ye must know that there hath been a wide step between the Apostles and our dayes and that the gathering of the Church at first out of Egypt and the bringing it out of Babylon are two several things and are not brought to pass after one and the self-same manner as to the outward administration of things Also consider that Johns Revelation was a Prophesie of what things came and must come to pass after the Apostles and not a Relation of what was done in their dayes so that in the coming out of mystical Babylon the Lambs followers wait on him for the opening of that mystical Book as that which concerns their present condition Now when the Angel came down from Heaven and lightned the earth with his Glory whereby the everlasting Gospel came to be Preach●d saying Fear God and give G ory to him for the hour of his Judgement is come and come out o● Babylon my p●ople and partake not of her sins lest ye receive of her plagues Then as people came out of her by the guidance of the light the Temple of God or his holy Habitation in the Spirit was opened in Heaven they had a sight in themselves into what state they should be brought even to have a habitation in God and he in them but then was this Temple filled with smoak from the Glory of God and from
with the whole heart and saith David in another place Let all those that seek thee rejoyce and be glad in thee and it is Prophesied by the Prophet Jeremy that when the Jews had been in the captivity of Babylon they should go and seek the Lord their God asking their way to Sion from which they had been captivated with their faces thitherward saying Come and let us joyn our selves to the Lord in a perpetual Covenant that shall not be forgotten Mark when they were weary of their captivity they should go and seek not stand still and enquire onely but aske with their faces thitherward saying Come let us joyn to the Lord c. actually to set about the work Therefore saith the Lord by the Prophet in the 8th vers of the 50th Chapter Remove out of the midst of Babylon and go forth out of the Land of the Chaldeans c. which the Prophet Zachary also secondeth saying Deliver thy self oh Sion that dwelleth with the Daughter of Babylon So here is a lively representation of the Lords bringing his spiritual Seed out of spiritual captivity after the long night of Apostacy Babylon or Confusion was the state they were to depart from Sion or the Mountain of Holiness was the State they were to come to and in order hereunto they were to move and set forward neither was there any station by the way where they were to set down or continue This I speak for your sakes who for divers years have seemed to turn your backs upon the Whore of Babylon as seeing and disliking the false doctrines wayes and worships of Antichrist whereby you have been deceived and captivated but as though the Passage to Sion or Jerusalem was stopped up ye have sit down by the way saying The Church is yet in the Wilderness where she must abide till God makes way for her coming forth which is by raising up his witnesses who must appear with Miracles and such signs as the Apostles did to confirm their Ministry by till which time there is no true Gospel Ministry nor Administration of Baptism or any Ordinances of a visible Church This seems indeed to carry a face of truth with it and hath stumbled many but consider first whether ye are not some of those false prophets which Christ said should come and say Lo here and lo there whether ye are not those that say Christ is in the Desart as yet retired as to his visible appearance in the world whom to go forth after the Saints must not but must keep their own Habitations in the light to which they have been turned for saith he As the lightning riseth in the East and shineth even unto the West so shall the coming of the Son of man be and Luke addeth in his day So then here is a plain token of the Day of the Son of man or the sign of the Son of man in Heaven to wit in the true Church visible at his coming when he cometh as a Universal light that hath enlightned every man that cometh into the world by whose guidance and direction they believing in it all may come out of the false wayes and worships and deceits of the Whore of Babylon or of the whole world and out of all sin into the way of Truth Purity Peace and true Worship to serve the Lord in Spirit and Truth with one consent and those who have believed in this true light themselves which makes manifest all sin and deceit and having waited therein have felt it to be the light of life unto them quickning their Souls up to God and Baptizing them with its Holy Fire so making his living Word to be as fire in their bones and putting words into their mouths to testifie and declare against the Beast and false prophet and against the world that their deeds are evil and to call them to Repentance by believing in the same light in themselves which is Christ the true Prophet Gods faithful witness and are true and living witnesses for his Name and such as preach the Everlasting Gospel or glad Tidings although they speak in no Language but their Mother Tongue do no outward Miracles as to heal the sick cleanse the Lepers or the like nor do at all practise Baptizing with water laying on of hands or breaking of bread And thus I plainly demonstrate it to any that are not wilfully blind The Jewish state of old was the true figure of the Gospel Church after the Son of God his being manifested in the flesh who was the end of all figures and shadows look then in what manner the Lord brought forth and led the Jew outward then so doth he bring forth and lead the Jew inward afterwards Now when the Children of Israel came first out of Aegypt they were brought out of that house of bondage with a high hand and stretched-out arm as to the outward Moses was loath to go as thinking they would not believe him therefore the Lord gave him a signe of turning the Rod into a Serpent which he did also before hard-hearted Pharaoh upon whom were ten visible Plagues also sent the Sea was divided the Aegyptians drowned the Rock gushed out water Jericho fell by the blowing of Rams Horns and the like in this high manner came they to Canaan but when they for their iniquity were led into captivity by the King of Babylon at their coming out the second time there was no such outward sign shewen or any such visible work wrought in order to their deliverance but as those who had a right to a restauration of that which once they gained by such hardships and mighty works this was Gods way of proceeding towards them he raised up Cyrus to make a Proclamation of liberty and to restore the treasure and vessels of the Temple which was a lively figure of Christ the spiritual King Proclaming in the hearts of his People by the true light which is his word that they should now leave all false and wicked and deceitful wayes of the Whore of Babylon and bring back the vessels of the spiritual Temple to serve and worship God in his holy mountain Jerusalem that they be no longer defiled and profaned by Idol wayes and worships then upon this Proclamation of Cyrus those whose hearts were touched and whose spirits were stirred up as Zerubbabel Joshuah and others stood not still but set about the work leading many Jewes to Jerusalem without any more ado as Nehemiah did also afterwards by the permission of Artaxerxes and when they came thither they went to build the Temple although the enemies made them cease a while by force then the Prophets Haggai and Zechariah prophesied but did no miracle unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the Name of the Lord God of Israel Ezra 5. vers 1. whereupon Zerubbabel and Joshua arose up and began to build the house of God for it is said Hag. 1. the Lord stirred up their spirits so to do and
A DEFENCE OF THE True Church Called QUAKERS Come and coming out of the Wildernesse Babylon and the dark Night of the Apostacy of Antichrist into their own Land which is Sion the Mountain of Holinesse there to Worship the Lord in Spirit and Truth against the several Sects and sorts of people called Independants Separatists or Brownists Baptists Fift Monarchy-men Seekers and High Notionists of all sorts who by the True Light are found and discovered to be out of the same Written by J. C. According to the measure of Wisdom given unto him from God who is the giver of every good gift LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. WHen the Jewes outward Returned from the Captivity of Babylon which was the true figure of the Saints coming out of the long and dark night of Apostacy from the Doctrine and Life of the Apostles in the Primitive Times which was the Captivity of the spiritual Seed so great and many were their Enemies who endeavoured to cause their Work in repairing the desolate and ruined places of Jerusalem to cease that those who were imployed in that Work with one hand wrought and with the other held the Weapon even so is it and must it be now at the Return of the spiritual Seed not only within by exercising Faith and Prayer upon and to him that is able to save to the uttermost and in his strength wrestling against the Dragon and his Angels Principalities Powers and Spiritual Wickednesses in High Places and sundry temptations so quenching by the Armour of Light all the fiery Darts of the wicked one but also without both by holding forth the Word of their testimony and sealing it with their bloud and sufferings for the conviction and conversion of sinners so fitting stones for Gods spiritual building and also by stopping the mouths of gain-sayers who shall not be able to resist the Spirit by which they speak So standing in the gap and quitting themselves like Spiritual-men against the Beast and false Prophet and all the Armies of the Aliens Hear now therefore all ye that are called Independants Separatists or Brownists Baptists Fift Monarchy-men Seekers high Notionists of all sorts the Apologie or Defence that I in the wisdom and strength of my God for without him I can do nothing do make against you and for the true Church called Quakers against whom and whose standing Profession ye variously have prejudice and do contend And First for you called Independants ye assume a great Name but ye are not found in the Independant nature and so are not the true Church for although ye professe your selves as to the visible Administration of Church-power not to have dependance upon other Congregations or Churches as an inferiour on a superiour yet are there many things apparently seen amongst you which do un-Church you and remove your Candlestick far off for the true golden Candlesticks among whom Christ the Son of God walketh do hold up and hold forth the true light that it may shine before men but ye as do the common multitude reject it sleight it and Dispute against it as invalid and insufficient to lead in the way everlasting and so ye would have it kept under the bushel yea quite extinguished in the hearts of men and would have the Scriptures or Writings to be a light to it and not it an enlightener and opener of them whereby ye stumble at the Scriptures themselves and cannot discern of the times and seasons or of the Saints several states and conditions to God-ward who because they sometime witnessed a war and striving against the body of sin therefore say you they must alway while they live carry it about them as though the Saints fought as those that beat the Air or as though their labour were in vain in the Lord Oh! foolish people and unwise when will ye come to the true Teacher in your selves that ye may believe and know the Promise made unto the seed That there shall be no more a pricking Bryar unto the House of Israel nor a grieving Thorn of all that are round about them that despise them and they shall know that I am the Lord Also that their Enemies which they have seen to day they shall see them again no more for ever And that ye may see their interest in Christs Prayer whom the Father heard alwayes because he did alwayes the things that pleased him who said Neither Pray I for these alone to wit for the Apostles and Saints then in the world that they might be sanctified through the Truth but for them also who shall believe in me through their words that they all may be one c. I in them and thou in me that hey may be made perfect in one and that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me Mark This was a state of Saints Perfection in this world that worldly Spirits might be convinced thereby but ye being in the unbelief are even as the multitude alwayes hanging upon the lips of men whose tongues are not touched as the Prophets was with a Coal from Gods Altar who witnessed his sin purged and so are ever learning and never come to the true knowledge for the Pastors and Teachers of your Congregations have not yet witnessed the Vrim of the Sanctuary I mean the true spiritual Gift by believing and waiting on the true light which shineth in their dark hearts that should give them power from on high to minister in but are either men learned with the learning of this world or such who through strength of Brain and often reading of the Letter of the Scriptures can compose a Form of Words and deliver it unto you after a Priestly manner so that ye as still unsatisfied heap to your selves National Priests also for Teachers sometimes hearing the one and sometimes the other Yea some of your Pastors so called are National Priests also Oh! Friends it might shame you and make you blush for shame if ye could rightly consider to call your selves the Churches of Christ and Independants and be thus so dependant on mans Teachings Yea joyning with the National Priests about the way of sending out a Ministrie and bearing the Beasts very Mark in your Foreheads while ye are so called owning your Baptism in your Infancie to be true though ministred to a blank and by those who sprang from a Popish stock and sprinkling your own Infants now from a false apprehension of the Promise made to you and your seed after the flesh so calling that the seed whereas the true Churches of Christ knew no such seed nor owned any but that which sprang out of Christs womb in the Regeneration who is a quickning Spirit So Christ the Corner-stone and Head of the Church even the true and universal Light is come to fight against you with the sword of his mouth and to testifie to your faces That though ye call
your selves Jewes yet ye are not but do lye Yea your Conversation in the world most plainly sheweth that your spot is not the spot of his Children for we see you so mingled and interwoven in the Pride Covetousness Policie and Folly of the world that we could not by any holy walking know you or cull you out as the clean from the unclean or as Sheep from the midst of the Goats if we did not now and then hear some of you called Independants Lord how emptie a thing it is to have a Name to live and to be dead Wherefore come to him who is the Resurrection and the life which life is the light of men and becometh the light of life to all that believe and wait in it that they may bring forth fruit unto God and so become living stones built up a spiritual House for this is the Church of the First-born whose Names are written in Heaven For what is it for people to cry The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord The Church of Christ the Church of Christ and to be polluted and unclean both in Worship and Practice or to call themselves the Children of Abraham and not to do the Works of Abraham for he forsook the Idolatry of his Fathers House and in obedience to the Lords call came into a Land that he shewed him so comming to the Cross to his own will he also saw Christs day and was glad and walked before the Lord and was upright but ye do neither of these as being still in the abominations of the Whore who have made the Nations drunk as kicking against the prick the True Light and Reprover for sin and evil and living in the Detestable Waies Customs and Fashions of the World so the Sun-shine of the Light in this the day of the Lords Power hath put and is putting out your Candle in obscuritie hath removed your Candlestick because ye repented not for he hath raised up a People at last in this Nation wherein he hath placed his Name that it might not fall in the streets who as they are faithful to the first Principle of God in them to wit the Light shall out-live out-shine and eat out the Heart and Soul of all Professors and professions in the World that are found in the Idolatry Pride and Vanity thereof though under great and fair pretences of Christian Religion which stands not in high words but in loving Mercy doing Justice and walking humbly with the Lord God so every way and in every thing keeping themselves unspotted of the World yea hating even the garment spotted with the flesh So that neither can ye Brownists or Separatists in this the Lords day escape his Righteous Judgement and censure though ye seem to stand at a greater distance from false Worship then the Independents do but being weighed in the equal ballance are found too light to be accounted by us for the True Church of Christ yet I Know that because it is said in the Scripture come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord and touch no unclean thing and I will receive you c. ye are very confident of your standing for ye say ye are separated from the National Antichristian Worship abhorring their Idol Temples and will not hear any of their Baals Priests or break any Bread with them c. But consider impa●●●●lly whether ye touch no unclean thing yea whether ye came not from them with their grand abomination in your bosoms which ye have ever since fostered and practised and that with a seeming no little zeal I mean the Sprinkling or Baptizing of your Infants upon the account of their being the Seed of the Covenant as they are your Children who say ye are believers a most bewiching Sorcerie this is and an exceeding betrayer of the Pure Life of God and that which bears death in the very face of it and if ye are true to your own Principles ye must needs be soon un-churched hereby and brought back to Babylon do what you can for your Children being hereby made Visible Members of your Body they must needs be accounted Brethren as they grow up in years amongst you though Regeneration be not witnessed by them for by your own Approbation and Act ye received them in before they knew their very right Hand from their left and so they must have all the priveledges of Brethren though not discerning the Lords Body or able to separate between the Precious and the Vile or not savouring the things of the Spirit of God as the Natural man doth not whereby a confused medly and mixt multitude must needs appear yea and the tares soon overspread and overgrow and overtop the Wheat if there be any and so that which ye counted the Churches of Christ plainly be come and be seen to be by those in the Light but the Field which is the World is not this to mock God and to throw down with one hand what ye would set up with the other Come to the Light of Christ in your Consciences which makes manifest all things and let True Judgement proceed But alas ye are as great Enemies to that Pure Principle of God which should reprove you for all deceitful and confused actings and give you a right discerning and purge you from all sin as any other whatsoever and are so rivited on the letter without that ye will not endure to hear of the True Light within which enlighteneth every man that cometh into the World without which no mans heart could be searched or ever any man converted to God For I would know of you Separatists how any of you at first came to be troubled for sin or to have any good desires begotten in you towards the Lord or his Truth which ye desired to know and w●●● willing to suffer for was not this done by the Spirit of the Lord which moved and stirred in you and whence came this convincing and illuminating Spirit came it from above the clouds or pierced it into you from without or was the thing alwayes within you striving and strugling at several times though ye took little notice of it before ye began to be humbled by it can any man even while unregenerate flee any more from Gods presence and Spirit that his hand should not find him out then after Regeneration or could David have done so before conversion more then afterwards can the wicked hide themselves that the Lord should not see them any more then the godly I believe ye will all answer Nay and if so is the Spirit of the Lord God who filleth all places and things with its presence out of a wicked man or at a greater distance as to place from him then from a Righteous Man though in the manner of its operation in them I know it is different judging and reproving the one and comforting and encouraging the other So then the Spirit or Life being in and nigh every one
their guide and would also see that most words that are spoken are for their sakes as taking compassion on the multitude who are wandring like sheep without a shepherd and the Lord God will have all this so to be for Jerusalems sake which he will make the praise of the whole earth therefore shall not his Watch-men keep silence night nor day till her brightness go forth as the light and her Righteousness as the Lamp that burneth Wherefore if ye knew what this meaneth ye would not condemn the guiltless yea the faithful for doing their duty for which they so suffer by the hands of wicked men but it is no wonder that ye do so for ye being in a too loose liberty under pretence of Christian Liberty despise and shun the Cross as foolishness which to us is the Power of God But perhaps ye will further say Although words may be useful to the world as also to build up those who are weak or that are not come to perfection yet to those who have attained they are useless according to thy own Doctrine who hast said before that the Holy City had no need of the Sun Moon or light of a Candle c. 'T is one thing to hear words that come from the life out of necessity and another thing to hear them in the Unity now the Saints who walk in the Lambs immediate light alone may hear the Bride-grooms voice in others and have great joy therein though they are not spoken to their particular conditions or have no need at all of any outward Declaration to build them up so John his joy was fulfilled in hearing what Christ preached to others Therefore the Assembly of all Saints is still needful both to rejoyce together in the Truth and to witness the same in the sight of others But some of you may say Though we are not of the number of any of those Sects thou hast mentioned nor walk with you yet we do meet together at certain times and pray and preach yea and sing also and are therefore called the singing People and professing the Virgin life as those who live in the highest Region of Light and Truth Friends consider seriously with your selves what you do least ye deceive your own Souls for it is not in words no nor the highest words that can be uttered nor those in the highest manner that Gods Kingdom doth consist therefore examine your selves whether ye are yet come to the first Principle of God in your selves which is the true light within that searcheth the heart judgeth the deceit thereof makes humble and meek pulls down pride within and without roots out the covetousness denies respect of or from persons brings to the Cross every way into the true silence before the mouth is opened by the Power for who shall take his Word or Covenant into his mouth that is not Reformed Or how can the dead praise the living Now those marks of Non-reformation by the light are too visible upon you Wherefore stop your mouths ye Preaching Praying lumenaries that are found in the pollutions of the world that flee the Cross and love not to come to the light that ye may be Judged but will be ready to be angry or touchy at such words as these saying We are too censorious or the like when as they are but the words of truth and soberness for truth and sobriety consists in plain dealing which ye all will confess is a Jewel and yet do not desire to be plainly dealt withal ye are they that cause divisions rents professing to be taught of God yet stand at a distance from those who by his true Teachings take up the Cross and stand in it Wherefore sink down I charge you all such and come to the light believing and waiting in it with us and let not the glory of this world or any other interest pleasure or lust hinder you from so doing so shall ye be called the Repairers of the breaches and those that follow Love and Peace aright which is shewen in nothing more than by having one heart and one way with Gods People who ye will not deny many of us to be to serve him with them with one consent for we know that ye ought to return to us and that we must not return to you And as for you Singers consider whether ye have not rather cause to mourn and lament since those things which are the proper causes of sorrow are found in and among you Will ye be covetous proud and lofty self-seeking dissemble for advantage sake respect and court persons and the like and come before the Lord with a Song Can such sing the New Song as Redeemed from the earth Nay they that live in pleasure are dead while they live and so are in the grave of sin in which there is no true remembrance of the Lord God of Life and Power and far from the undefiled Virginity of the Lambs Wife Wherefore be not deceived God is not mocked for this is but a mockery and except ye come first to the house of mourning and bid Adieu to all your lovers and pass under the Rod ye cannot be brought into the bond of the Covenant of Light Life and Peace but your Harps must needs be ere long hanged upon the Willowes For how should ye sing the Song of the Lord in a strange Land But I hear some of you retorting and saying Thou hast judged all but your selves as living in sin and divers lusts and idolatry c. but we see the same things among you that thou chargest us with and deniest us for Is not covetousness idolatry and unmercifulness a fruit of unrighteousness are not some of you also in the pride in your house and in the fulnesse of bread when some are pinched are ye not too partial in looking upon one more than another doth not anger and emulation and judging one another wrongfully and rash speaking appear among you do we not see these things and why then should ye be accounted more the Church of Christ than any other People for the Kingdom of God stands not in yea and nay pulling or not pulling off a hat saying thou to any one or wearing of apparel or taking by the hand but in Righteousnesse and all the fruits thereof as thou thy self hast said If I speak of my self my witness is not true I judge you not out of that light which judgeth all things which ye either call natural and insufficient or sleight as a little low and weak thing and so are out of that which should make all works acceptable to the Lord and which should discover and destroy all unri●●●●ousness so that ye are not only denied because of your b●●● fruits but as being out from that which would make you bring forth good fruits for make the tree good and the fruit shall be good saith Christ the light in whom the tree is made good as acting from a living