and so calling upon the Name of the Lord whom they serve and obey he answereth them and gives them more Grace more Strength more Power to rule over much because they are faithful in a little and this is the profiting by the Gift the Manifestation of the Spirit that is given to every Man to profit withal without which there is no profiting nor pleasing God And this Ministry that comes in the Name of the Lord but few will hear because he comes with the Sword of the Spirit to slay that Life that lives in the fleshly Lusts that wars against the Soul but they that do hear him that comes in the Name of the Lord they do hear the Lord who saith Hear and your Souls shall live that is who do obey the Voice of the Lord they receive Power to become the Sons of God but he that is not sent of God may have the Words but not having received the Word hath but his Dream and the Words to tell who comes in his own Name that is his own Power and Wisdom and the People being in the same hear him and receive his Doctrine because he spares their Life of Pleasure in the Flesh and makes them believe they shall receive a Life of Glory after Death and that is his Dream he tells for Money and so deceives the Soul and keeps it in Death serving the Lust and so the Sin yet perswading themselves by the Help of the Hireling that they serve the Lord But no Man saith Chrst can serve two Masters especially whose Wayes are so contrary one to the other and so being taught to confess him in Words but deny him in Deeds drawing nigh with their Mouthes but the Heart is after other Lovers these having at most but a Form of Godliness but denying the Power thereof These the Children of Truth deny and turn from therefore are hated and persecuted by them whose false Religion they deny who themselves shew it to be false by their persecuting Spirit that is of Cain for Cain's Spirit can bring forth no other but Cain's Religion that ist a Worship and Sacrifice that is out of the Truth that can never please God nor ever will but it ever pleased most Men and so it doth now but we can say The Lord forgive them they know not what they do and so we must drink of our Master's Cup and be baptized with his Sufferings and so suffering with him shall reign with him World without End Amen The MARKS of the FALSE CHVRCH or Whore that brings forth by an Evil Seed the cursed Birth that never could please God I. SHE is made up of such Members who walk in Darkness and love Darkness rather then Light because their Deeds are Evil For every one that doth Evil hateth the Light neither cometh to the Light Joh. 3.20 Therefore it is clear they that walk in Darkness are Evil-doers and Evil-doers are the Members of the false Church or Whore For if any that walk in Darkness say they are Members of the Church of Christ and have not Fellowship with him they lye and do not the Truth 1 John 1.6 And so all that cannot witness in Measure Darkness to be past are still in it and Children of it II. Such who have not received the Word grafted in them yet are professing the Words but will not come to the Word of Eternal Life that gave forth the Words and being astray from that Err not knowing the Scripture nor the Power of God being out of the Faith of God's Elect that overcomes the Word which Christ the Word is the Author and Finisher of and is a Mystery held in a pure Conscience and whosoever hath not this Faith the Gates of Hell will prevail against him and his House not being built upon this Rock Christ the Word of Life in the Day of Tryal will be overturned and great will be the Fall thereof but the Foundation of God for Salvation standeth sure that is the Ingrafted Word that is able to save the Soul that dwelt richly in the Children of God in all Ages and also in this Age who were the Houshould of Faith Members of the Church in God III. To be of a Faith or Belief that is not in the Unity of the Spirit of Life but of that which Man is Author and Finisher of which he hath made and formed in the House of his Imaginary of the Words and Confessions of the Saints in Light and Children of God that were in the Faith of that they confessed and witnessed and so in the Mystery that they which have only the Words of the History cannot see nor doth that reveal it to them IV. Professing Obedience to God and Christ in Words but living in the Disobedience of his Spirit and so in Works deny him doing the Things they ought not to do and leaving the Things undone that they ought to do these love not our Lord Jesus Christ but are in the World's Love which is selfish and Enmity to God from whence proceed the Lusts that war in the Members the Fruits of the Flesh and being in the Flesh cannot please God V. Are such whose Head is a visible Man without them who takes in and puts out in his own Will and Pleasure these chuse rather to obey Man then God and cannot suffer for Righteousness sake because their Head is not Christ the Righteousness of God VI. Such in whom the Unregenerate Nature bears Rule and the Seed of the Serpent is Head and the Government of Christ is not set up within but Death through the Lusts reigns and captivates the Soul under it that it lives not to God nor brings forth Fruit of Righteousness but is the Tree that cumbreth the Ground that will be hewn down and cast into the Fire VII Are such whose Weapons of their Warfare are not Spiritual but Carnal therefore the strong Holds of Satan are standing in them who are Aliens and Strangers from the New Covenant in which is no Fighter Killer Murtherer nor Envious Wicked Person but the New Creation is witnessed in which dwelleth Righteousness the Sword turned into a Plow-share and the Spear into a pruning Hook where War is learn'd no more VIII Such who despise and neglect the Gift of God the Light that shines in their Hearts the Manifestation of the Spirit that is given to every Man to profit withal without which none can please God nor worship him as I have said but are unprofitable Servants out of the Way of God in their own Way the Way of Sinners out of the Counsel of God's Spirit in the Counsel of the Ungodly Spirit out of the Way of Light Life in the Way of Death and Darkness dead to God but alive to the World and in the Wickedness thereof IX Such who are not turned to the Spirit of Truth in which God is worshipped cannot worship him but as Christ said Ye worship ye know not what such Worshippers are all that are astray
again the false Church that persecutes is gone from the sound Doctrine of the Apostles and cannot endure it Now the Spirit of Truth that ministred in the Apostles hath opened the Mouthes of many to minister as they have freely received the Gift and sound Doctrine of Truth and the Teachers that were heaped up by them that were gone from the Word after their own Lusts cannot endure the Doctrine of the Light that manifests their Deeds of Darkness and that which the Apostles turned the People to the Teachers heaped up in Mens Wills turn the People from and so turn Peoples Ears from the Truth to give Ear unto Fables the Imaginations of the Heart that are gone after the Lusts and this Paul did prophesie should come to pass as hath been and is fulfilled saying For the Time will come when they will not endure sound Doctrine but after their own Lusts shall they heap to themselves Teachers having Itching Ears and they shall turn away their Ears from the Truth and shall be turned to Fables 2 Tim. 4.3 4. Here was an Apostacy prophesied of that in the Light is seen to be fulfilled in its Time And now by the Brightness of the Rising of the Son of Righteousness that is the Day-spring from on high that hath visited us and hath given Light to us that sate in Darkness and in the Shadow of Death and hath guided our Feet into the Way of Peace and the Light sown for the Righteous Thou ands witness Glory be to God on high for evermore And the Unrighteous Works of Darkness are denyed and reproved which the Children of Light can have no Fellowship with but are come out from them in Obedience to the Heavenly Vision the Voice from Heaven that is the Trumpet that hath awakened Thousands which saith Come out of her my People come out of her and partake not of her Sin lest ye partake of her Plagues And now the Lord hath according to his Promise in the latter Dayes brought us a Way we did not know out of her and led us in Pathes we had not walked in and this we can say that walk in the Light if it were the last Words that we should speak upon the Earth that the Way we are brought to walk in and in which the Faithful do walk is the Way that the God of Heaven hath brought us into let all the Earth speak what they will against it God that lives forever will make it prosper to the Ends of the Earth and the saved in this Nation shall and do walk in it and so shall the saved in all Nations that is in Christ the Light of the New Jerusalem as it is written And the Lord God and the Lamb is the Light thereof And all the rotten-Principle'd Men in all Nations shall not be able to stand before nor abide the sound Doctrine of the Word of Life that is Juick and powerful and a Discerner of the Thoughts and Intentions of the Heart except they come to the Hour of his Judgment and be judged as Men in the Flesh that they may be quickned by the second Adam and live to God in the Spirit And now being led out from among them that are in the Filthiness of the Flesh by the Spirit of the Lord and touching no unclean Thing the Lord hath received us and is a blessed Father unto his Sons and Daughters that he hath begotten unto himself by an Immortal Seed the Word of Life that liveth and abideth sorever And now those pretended Fathers in God who are called Lords Spiritual which Title the Bishops made by the Holy Ghost Overseers of the Flock of God never received not owned nor ever will and had you been our Fathers indeed who had begotten us in God we should have been your most dear and dutiful Children in all the Commands of Christ through you but you know by whom you were made but not by whom we are begotten for if you did we believe you would not labour to destroy us as some of you have done and still do but for such we desire that the Lord would forgive you and shew you what you do but not to convince us by sound Doctrine but by the Instruments of foolish Shepherds do you war against us sâ—â—h as they use whom you your selves account Anti christian as well as we for such that think the Way to save Souls is to afflict punish and kill the Body have not received the Truth as it is in Jesus nor the sound Wisdom from above Which is first pure then peaceable gentle and easie to be entreated full of Mercy and good Fruits for the Fruit of Righteousness is sown in Peace mark that but the Fruit of Unrighteousness is sown in Fightings Beatings Stockings Stonings Banishings Imprisonings Finings Robbing and Spoiling of Goods destroying of Families by making many Widdows and Fatherless-Children Is this the Way to bring People to the Kingdom of God then the Apostles were much mistaken for they never made Use of this Way but the contrary for these Things were uâ—ed against them by those that knew not God but those that have received the Spirit of Christ are Christ's and know the Apostles were not mistaken but it is you that are mistaken in suffering the Spirit of the World to bear Rule in you and that take to it the Honours and Preferments of the World that are but Temporal and so in the World are Lords many but in the Church of Christ one God and one Lord the great Shepherd and Bishop of his Soul who gives many Bishops or Overseers but no Lords as the Apostle saith But to us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all Things and we by him 1 Cor. 8.6 And those who are by him now gathered out of the World that lyeth in VVickedness and have received the Spirit of Truth cannot but stand Witnesses against those that are of the World who receive and give Honour one to another and would be accounted sent of God to rule in his House which is the Church of the Living God 1 Tim. 3.15 But such manifest themselves by taking the World that lyeth in Wickedness to be the Church the House of God and so make all the Nation to be of their Church except such they have cast out which for the most Part are such that are gathered of Christ out of the World So that all the Thieves Murderers VVhoremongers Adulterers Whores Drunkards Swearers Cursers Lyars and all People of all Sorts that will heaâ— and pay you both Papists and all Sects and Sorts you account are of your Church except such you cast out as I have said so that Babylon and Egypt and Sodom and all is here by you taken to be the Church of Christ the House of God what a House have you provided for the living God to dwel in the midst of What a Church is here Is
this the Pillar and Ground of the Truth Do these hold the Mystery of Faith in a pure Conscience Or rather doth not the Mystery of Iniquity hold them in a defiled One But if they will hear the Priest and pay him as I have said let them believe or hold what they will all is received of the Church Oh! what a foul House is here for those you would force to dwell in who are called out to touch no Unclean Thing What a Body have you prepared for that glorious Head to be joyned to that is separate from Sinners and made higher then the Heavens Was not here sufficient Cause for the People spiritually gathered to come out from among you Do you put a Difference between the Precious and the Vile Yes you do for the Precious you curse out and deliver to Satan though some of them were never of you nor owned you And you have heaped up such a Company of your spiritual Children to reform your Church who are so Zealous for God Mammon that for Non-Payment of a Groat or two they cast out a Man and deliver him to Satan so it seems a Groat or two by them is more prized then the Soul of a Man 〈◊〉 yea or his Body Life and Family that they can deliver them to Prisons to the ruining of Families but as to their delivering to Satan it is past their Spiritual Skill in Reality who are erred and strayed from the Power of God which is the Way of God and that Power gives them Victory over Satan that are turned to it and so their Satan is some Goaler a Member of their own Body it is like they may be conscious to themselves that they have not spiritual Power to bind and loose the Souls of Men and therefore they will be sure to bind the Body in some nasty Hole or Prison but if Money come then Soul and Body and all shall be loosed and blest into their Church again though he be of the worser Sort to Men. These Practices savour more of a Synagogue of Satan then a Church of God for the Church of God that abides in the Doctrine of Christ and is a sweet Savour to God and all Just Men that live by Faith but these are a Stink in his Nostrils and an Ill Savour to all sober minded Men and one of the greatest Grievances in the Nation that is to say the Spiritual Courts so called that are yet of the World and cannot overcome the Flesh nor the Devil these pretend to cast People out of that which they were ever in themselves to wit the Church of God And some being cast out of their Church once and delivered to Satan as they pretend which in Truth is but the delivering of the Body to the Envy and Cruelty of that persecuting oppressing Spirit that dwells in their Adversaries and these that could never come to them to be restored yet have cast them out the second Time and some the third for not coming to their Church which was contrary to their own Law Was ever such Non-sensical Work acted by Men pretending to reform the Church Is not Hoseah's Prophecy fulfilled upon them as it was upon Israel when they went a whoring from their God and loved 〈◊〉 Reward The Dayes of Visitation are come the Dayes of Recompence are come Israel shall know it the Prophet is a Fool the Spiritual Man is mad for the Multitude of thine Iniquity and the great Hatred Hosea 9.7 What Prophets were they that were Fools in Hoseah's Dayes those that prophecied and the Lord never sent them who had not received the Word of the Lord but told the People their Dream for a Reward upon every Corn flâ—or but the true Prophets that had received the Word spake it or preached it freely as the Lord said He that hath my Word let him speak my Word freely what is the Châ—ff to the Wheat The Word is the Wheat the Chaff is what he preacheth that hath not received the Word that is but the Divination of his own Brainâ— and these were the Fools that had not received the Word of Wisdom from above that is fiâ—st pure the peaceable but the foolish Prophets that prophesied for a Reward he that resnsed to put into their Mouthes they prepared War against them Were these foolish and false in the Dayes of the Children of Israel and can those that walk in their Steps be true in this Age Nay for the Testimony of the Spirit of God was against such in all Ages and so it is against them in this Age Were they fasse then that preached or propliesied and had not received the Word so they are now Were they false then that prophesied for a Reward in every Corn-floor and are they not so now that preach for a Reward in every Corn-field Was the false Prophet then as the Snare of a Fowler in all his Wayes and Haâ—râ—ed against the House of his God and is he not so now All that have escaped the Snare know the Lord hath delivered them out of the Mouthes of the false Shepherds according to his Premise and hath exalted the Mountain of his House above their Mountains and above all Hills and thither he hath gathered and is gathering his People in this Nation and will gather them in all Nations into this House of the Lord where there is Bread enough and the false Prophets and foolish blind Priests in this Age are in Hatred against this House of the Lord of Hosts and against the Gatherings of his People in it and the Flewings together of the Nations unto it according to the Word of the Lord but the Work of the Lord doth prosper and will prosper and all Opposers of it except they repent will perish for the false Shepherds shall howl and their Pastere shall be spoiled For you have despised and rejected the Counsel of the great Shepherd and Bishop of the Soul and are Opposers of the Work of his Spirit in his People who have received the Truth the Spirit of Christ And if any Man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his as the Apostle saith and those that walk in the Obedience of the Measure of his Spirit you have hated and persecuted and some of you being fill'd with Envy against them have turned informers like Judas that informed against Christ for Money after he had betrayed the Truth in himself the Devil entered and fitted him with Envy to come against Christ and his Disciples where they were assembled to betray them into the Hands of their Enemies and hath not Envy filled some of your Hearts and so fitted you to inform against the Assemblies gathered in the Name and Spirit of Christ as some of you have done and have sworn against them and one confest before the Magistrate that he did not know that ever he had seen some of their Faces before and yet some time before had sworn they were at the Meeting but all must be
construed for the Purpose that is to spoil the Goods of those that cannot forsake the assembling of themselves together in the true Worship of God And some of you have procured Warrants to spoil the Goods of your Neighbours and some have spoiled them over and over and prosecuted those that would not spoil them Is this the Way to teach the People to Love their Neighbours as themselves and to do to all People as they would be done unto this is the Way indeed to manifest what Spirit you are of and so People may read your Father's Name in your Forehead 's whose Works do you do what Spirit leads you whether the Spirit of Cain that wicked One or the Spirit of Abel the Righteous One by your Fruits you are known Doth the Work of this Spirit confess that Christ is come in your Flesh that Righteous One or Anti-christ that Wicked One whom Christ is Consuming with Breath of his Mouth and the Brightness of his â—oming Was it ever known that a Minister of Christ was an Informer against Christian Meetings no it never was nor ever will be for such are not in the Doctrine of Christ but in the Practice of those the Scripture calls Wolves in Sheeps Cloathing but in this Work of Informing the Wolf only appears that comes to devour so that Spirit that preacheth for Hire is the same that spoils Men's Goods for Hire and he that takes Wages of Unrighteousness doth the Work of Unrighteousness Did not those that devoured Wiâ—dows Houses do the Work of Unrighteousness though for a Pretence made long Prayers and those were Enemies to Christ then and can they be Friends now no such are an ill Savour to God and a Stink in his Nostrils what have such to do to take his Name into their Mouthes who hate to be reformed by his Spirit and persecute those that are How many Souls are you guilty of the Blood of And how many Bodies have you cast into Prison till Death How many Widdows and Fatherless Children have you made in this Nation because they could not put into your Mouthes knowing what Spirit you were of and that the Lord never sent you as by your Fruits you have manifested to the View of the Nation and Thousands see you and will buy your Merchandize no more and if you cannot compel them by your Law then you make Merchandize and Spoil of their Goods But Wo is unto you that ever you were born because of the terrible Day that is coming upon you which you can no wayes escape but by coming out of her in whom is found all the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs and all that have been slain for the Testimony of Jesus upon the Earth For now the Everlasting Gospel is preaching that shall be preached to all Nations Tongues and Languages for the gathering of the Gentiles to their Light and Israel to the Hope of their Glory For to him shall the Gathering of the People be and the Gentiles shall walk in thy Light and Kings in the Brightness of thy Rising then thou shall see and shine thy Heart shall be astonished and enlarged because the Multitude of the Sea shall be converted unto thee and the Riches of the Gentiles shall come unto thee Isa 60.3.5 For the Lord shall be thy Everlasting Light and thy God thy Glory Ver. 19. Thy People also shall be all Righteous they shall possess the Land forever the Graft of my planting shall be the Work of mine Hands that I may be glorified a little One shall become a Thousand and a small One as a strong Nation I the Lord will hasten it in due Time And this is that Jerusalem prophesied of that should be a Burthensom Stone unto all Nations which is become a burthensome Stone in this Nation but all that burthen themselves with it shall be broken in Pieces by it and how many have been broken in Pieces by it that opposed it in this Nation and all that yet shall oppose it in this or any other Nation shall be broken in Pieces and confounded by it except they repent and be gathered into it for God is making his little One to become a Thousand and his small One a strong Nation and these are his holy Nation and peculiar People and spiritual Priesthood that are gathered out of the Flesh where none can please God into the Spirit of his Son where all walking do please him and these cannot please Men for the Gift that God hath given that Man is to receive if he please God the VVisdom of the Flesh did alwayes reject in all Ages and so it doth in this and it was a stumbling Stone and a Rock of Offence to the VVise and Prudent of this World among the Jews in that Age disallowed of Men but chosen of God elect and precious to those that believe both Jews and Gentiles in all Ages a tryed Corner-Stone the Power of God to all those that receive it who through Obedience of it become the Sons and Daughters of God And now I warn all in this Nation that profess Christianity to consider your Wayes whether you are entered in at the straight Gate and whether you walk in the narrow VVay that only leads to Life for out of it there is no Salvation And God is risen to overturn every false VVay in this the Day of his Power in which the VVay of the VVicked shall be turned upside down but the VVay of the Lord shall be exalted which as the Apostle saith Is the New and Living Way the New Covenant of Light to the Gentiles that is Israel's Hope of Glory which is Christ the Spirit of Truth and VVord of Life in Man that whosoever receives and walks in is of God and come out of the VVorld but he that receives it not is not past from Darkness but is under the Power of it in the VVorld that lyeth in VVickedness where God is not pleased but as many as have received the VVord in their Hearts and in it believe are grafted by Faith into Christ the Root the Vine and Power of Life the incorruptible Seed the Word of God that liveth and abideth for ever and because he liveth all in him are made alive to God again and these walk in him that is his Spirit that God the Father hath given to lead them into all Truth and out of him none can please God nor walk in his Truth and these be his Disciples in this Age that have received him the VVord and for the Obedience of him the World hates them as it doth him and now persecutes him in his Members as he said they would and we witness his Word fulfilled in us but in his Spirit we have Victory over the World and their Spirit because he that we have received the Word the Spirit of Truth in us is greater then he that is in in the World and that Spirit that is in the World is now making â—ar against the Spirit which
from the Spirit of Truth who are all false from the rising of the Sun to the going down of the same for being out of the Spirit out of the Truth for the Spirit is Truth X. Such whose Principle and Belief is That the Ministerial Offices in the Church of Christ are intailed to a Succession of Persons chosen in the Will of Man as if Man were to send forth Labourers into the Lord's Vineyard and the Lord engaged to accept their Choice of such saith the Lord I have not sent these Prophets yet they ran Jer. 23.21 It is the Lord of the Harvest as I have said that is to send forth Labourers into his Harvest and Man to accept the Lord's Choice because they come in his Name and the Apostles prayed and said Thou Lord which knowest the Hearts of all Men shew whether of these two thou hast chosen So the Chosen of God will receive none but the Lord's Choice XI Such who have a Form of Godliness but denying the Power thereof ever learning of the Hireling that will ever be paid for Teaching but never able to bring them to the Knowledge of the Truth because he himself is astray from that which gives the Infallible Knowledge of it XII Such who persecute and destroy Mens Lives for their Religion thus did Cain who was of that Wicked One and all that do so are of him still for he that doth not Righteousness but hateth his Brother is manifest to be a Child of the Devil 1 John 3.10 And it was ever from the Beginning the Unrighteous persecuted the Righteous and to be persecuted for Righteousness sake was ever an Infallible Mark of God's Children and to persecute for Righteousness sake was ever an Infallible Mark of the Children of the Wicked One Let none mistake me I do not say that all that are persecuted are the Children of God for Men have suffered and may be persecuted and not for the Righteousness sake of God's Kingdom but for their own Righteousness sake who in their blind Zeal and Self-Will are labouring to set up their Idol or false Way in Opposition to others and others in the same opposing them and here is one in the Beastly Nature and Will pushing at another in the same and they that can get most Power and Strength in the Earth they tear and devour the others And if a Man give his Body to be burnt and all his Goods to the Poor and yet may not be accepted of God for the Life of all true Religion is Love for God is Love and where that is wanting Though a Man may speak with the Tongue of Men and Angels 't is all but as sounding Brass or a tinckling Cymbal for indeed pure Religion springs from the Nature Vertue and Operation of the pure Spirit of God brought forth in that Man that hath received it and denyes his own Will that the Will of the Divine Nature may be done which is come to be done in Earth as it is in Heaven and that is the Kingdom that all Men are required to seek which whosoever receives not as a little Child can by no Means enter into it And blessed are all those that having received it do suffer for its Righteousness sake And it was ever and still is the greatest Blindness and Ignorance among the Sons of Men to believe or think that pure Religion is to be forced into by Persecution for this I declare They that are of that Judgment never knew what pure Religion was but those that will have People to come to pure Religion must let the Light and Glory of their Religion shine forth before Men that God's Works in them may be seen to others that is to do Good before all and to all even as the Son of God did upon Earth in his own Body and now doth the same by his Spirit in the Bodies of those that receive him He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked 1 Joh. 2.6 For all such that think they ought to compel People to their Religion because they think it is true must also judge that their Spirit is Infallible for if it may fail then it ought not to be a Rule to the Souls of ohers nor a Judge of another Man's Faith or Religion nor of the Things of God but the Truth is where any Force or Compulsion is put upon the Consciences of Men that is an Infallible Sign of a Fallible and Anti-christian Spirit for the Infallible Spirit of God in the Holy Men left no such Rule nor Example but commanded the contrary saying Let every Man be fully perswaded or fully assured in his own Mind Rom. 14.5 Again saith So then every one of us shall give an Account of himself to God Ver. 12. For in this Case saith Paul Hast thou Faith have it to thy self Then what hath any Man to do to Lord it over another Man's Faith seeing he that doubteth is damned that is condemned in himself because not done in Faith it is Sin And now you blind Hypocrites that would compel all to fall down to your Idol or Image of Heavenly Things can you give Men Faith to believe your Image hath Life if not do not you compel Men to sin against their Consciences seeing what is not of Faith is Sin Rom. 14.23 And the Devil is the Author of all Sin and all Persecutors for Righteousness sake are his Subjects in whom the Man of Sin is unrevealed who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he as God mark that 's he that would rule over Men's Consciences sitteth in tqe Temple of God shewing himself that he is God that is by taking that Power to himself that God never gave to any Man that is to force or compel People to any Worship that is not of Faith that is Sin and God that made Heaven and Earth is not the Author of Sin but it is the Man of Sin whom the Lord of Life is Consuming with the Spirit of his Mouth and destroying with the Brightness of his Coming 2 Thes 2.3 8. Objection But some may say Did not Christ in the Parable say Compel them to come in Answer Blessed be the Lord many do witness that Compulsion which is not Outward Force that are come into his House and that is by the Power of his Love wherein he invites the Poor who receive the Gospel that hath constrained us to deny our selves and take up his Daily Cross and follow him for the Truth is to be received in the Love of it and then it overcomes the Enmity of the Fleshly Will and covers with the Spirit and Life the Wedding-Garment that the Heavenly Guests at God's Feast have put on that no Persecutor ever knew on himself nor can be put it upon another So they that compel and they that are thus compelled are both without a Wedding-Garment and not meet for the Marriage Feast And