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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27082	A seasonable warning to such who profess themselves members of reformed churches, into what forme soever gathered ...	Bayley, Charles, 17th cent.	1663 (1663)	Wing B1473B; ESTC R20749	60,761	76

can do nothing I am the Vine saith Christ and ye are the branches and my Father is the husbandman and every branch which bringeth not forth fruit my Father cutteth it off and casteth it into the fire but every branch which bringeth forth fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth more abundantly so abide in me saith he the light of the world for in him only is their fruit found to be accepted So read try and consider in whom ye are and whether ye are in the true Vine yea or nay if not your state is miserable and ye are yet in your sins Therefore cease from your hireling teachers and learn of Christ the pure light in you and you will come to witness a teacher continually with you Which will never be removed into a corner any more but your ear shall hear a voice behind you saying this is the way walk in it turn neither to the right hand nor to the left which if once witnessed ye will abhor all hireling teachers for ever and being come to know the voice of the true Shepherd of your souls ye will witnesse the pure holy teachings of the holy God lying down and rising up directing you in the pure holy and undefiled path of peace in which no Lions whelp can tread and this to witnesse is the end of all Ministrations Types and shadows whatsoever the life and substance being witnessed in you even Christ Jesus the Light the Covenant of God which is given a Covenant of Light unto all Nations that he might be his Salvation unto the ends of the earth which is the only true Cistern that is able to hold water for your souls And John did bear witness in like manner of him saying He was the true light which inlightned every one that came into the world and the light is the life of men and as you come to the light you will witness it so and not before ye know his life to abide in you which light being received and followed you will receive power to become the sons of God even a birth which is not of man nor of the will of man but of God which only is loved so the sons of God you will witnesse to be and his holy Spirit you will be lead by For as many as are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God and they who have not the Spirit of Christ are none of his Therefore I say again and again try whose ye are for if you have not the Spirit of Christ you are none of the sons of God but of the Devil These are true and plain words unto you all that ye may not be any longer deceived nor trust to lying vanities any longer and forsake your own mercies which is freely tendred unto you of the Lord in this the day of his love wherein he doth invite you freely to come unto him Without money and without pride that ye may eat and drink and be satisfied at the Rivers of his pleasures and not to spend your labour and precious time for nought for your time is but short and the measure of your iniquitie is even up amongst the sons of men and the Angel of his wrath is even ready to smite Therefore be ye separated and touch no unclean thing and God Almighty will accept you for verily I have seen the wrath of the Lord breaking forth against this Nation and it was very terrible Therefore stand not as you love your immortal souls to contend about words or any outward thing but come to the light that ye may witnesse life that so your covering may only be the pure Spirit of the Lord thereby to have a hiding place in him else the sword of his indignation and wrath you will never be able to escape but it will cut you off for ever with all the unclean and uncircumcised of the earth Therefore be ye not mockers nor despisers least ye perish for the Lord is working a work in these dayes that such cannot believe though it were told them and this is a true warning and testimony of Gods everlasting love in and through one that is a witness thereof and a friend to all souls And now that you may read and seriously consider into what a sad state you are fallen from the Image of him that created you is the desire of my heart and come for to be restored again into the same dominion for all are degenerated into the plant of a strange Vine bringing forth wild fruit contrary to the expectation of the good husbandman and to the grieving of his righteous soul for read and consider He planted a Vineyard and fenced it about and pruned it and cast the stones out of it and expected it should bring forth fruit as I have said but it brought forth wild fruit what could I have done more for my Vineyard saith the Lord. Here all the sons of men may consider their condition which is truly sad and miserable though they are so setled upon the Lees of iniquity that they do not consider it as it is written There is none that understandeth there is none that seeketh God they are all gone out of the way they have been made altogether unprofitable there is none that doth good no not one their throat is an open sepulchre they have used their tongues to deceit the poison of aspes is under their lips Rom. 3.11 Yea they commit iniquity with greedinesse even as the Ox drinketh in water their table is full of vomit and there is no soundnesse in them they conceive mischief in the night upon their bed and rise early in the morning to put it in practice and say in their hearts the Lord seeth us not our mouthes are our own who shall us controll they lye in waite privily for the innocent and lay a snare in secret for him O! what a sad and dolefull condition are the sons of men fallen into yea there is no fear of God before their eyes Eating and drinking and rising up to play marrying and giving in marriage and all in the lust and uncleanness the seed of the evil one being head in them nought but pride and oppression is brought forth envy and malice yea the best of men is but a lyer every one seeking by fraud and deceit to exalt his own horn and seeking to maintain his own carkase in great honour and dignity and he which is stronger then his neighbour will take all advantages against him to bring him under him and to bow to his will O woful state and hard to be declared is the degeneration of fallen man from his Creator who at first created him in his own Image and likenesse in holinesse and purity to reign over all the works of his hands in the power and wisdome of his Creator and had put all things in subjection under him and knew the right use of every thing he standing in the dominion and wisdome of God and to

neither have you any part of it by command or example in the Scripture of truth therefore it lyeth upon you to shew who were your first authors and examples for all the customes and traditions you have amongst you singing one part of Davids Psalms with your hats off and reading another part with your hats on and putting them in Meeter like Ballads by which meanes people come to sing that which they never came to witnesse as hath been before spoken of and your Sacraments and such like which ye have not one word in the Scripture for Therefore come forth and shew openly who were the first inventers of these things reading over a company of Chapters when you come together and the like all these things when they and you come to be weighed in the Ballance of the Sanctuary will be found too light and far short of the true worship of God who is not to be worshipped any other way then in Spirit and in Truth and in that one Spirit if any had a Psalm or Hymn or Prayer or Praises he did it and sung it to the praise and true glory of God and this was the true order of the Saints and not to take another mans words for Psalm or Praise or Prayer and say it over nay these things are an abominable abomination unto the Lord for it is the Spirit onely which maketh intercession for the true children and servants of God for it alone knoweth our wants and is many times poured forth unto the Lord with sighes and groanes which cannot be uttered and this only and such like Sacrifices doth God accept not for Drunkards Swearers Lyars and all manner of unclean persons to take the Saints words in their mouths and come before him with them Gods soul abhorreth it So all that ever is practised amongst you will be found to be but in sin your Apostatizing and falling away from the true faith which was prophesied both by Christ and his Apostles should come for saith Christ The night cometh wherein no man can work in which time because of iniquity the love of many shall wax cold And this is the fruits and marks of that day and Paul saw them coming in his time even those who should teach things they ought not for filthy lucres sake yea and before his decease so grievous was the falling away that he said all Asia was turned from him and also to Timothy he prophesied of these things plainly that men should heap up to themselves teachers having itching eares and should not endure sound Doctrine and the like which ye may see in the many teachers come up and made by and in the will of men according to their own lust which answereth unto Christs word who said many should come and say Lo here is Christ or Lo he is there believe them not saith Christ for the Kingdome of Heaven is within you Mark and such shall deceive the very Elect if it were possible but it is impossible to deceive them for such are Christs sheep who know his voice and a stranger they will not follow But saith Christ Ye shall know them by their fruits so by their fruits must we try them now for such teachers as men doe heap up to themselves are seen in the light which tryeth your Priests who preach up sin and lust as long as men live so here you are tryed and found to be such who are chose in mens will but Christs sheep hear his voyce and obey it and follow him who leadeth into all purity and holinesse And thus are all distinguished and known by their fruits as Christ hath said we should therefore consider these things and lay them to heart and repent before it be too late This word doth the Lord often put in my heart towards you for dreadful and terrible is the day which is already dawned over your heads The voyce of the true Shepherd saith Come Come freely without money and without price and let him that heareth come and let him that is a thirst come and whosoever will let him take of the water of life freely and let him that will buy Wine and Milk without money and without price Why will ye spend your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not Incline your eares and your Souls shall live and your Souls shall delight themselves in fatnesse This is the voyce of the true Shepherd to all the inhabitants of the Earth therefore whilst it is said to day harden not your hearts as in the provocation but away all to the fountain which is freely set open to wash away sin and transgression for you have all forsaken the fountain of living waters and have hewen out Cisterns broken Cisterns that hold no water saith the Lord every one is gone astray after the imagination of his own heart and the Lord hath looked down from his holy habitation and beheld there is none that seeketh after him amongst the sons of men who are thus degenerated from him for though he hath created man upright yet he hath found out many inventions one thing being neglected by which meanes he is become more strang to his Creator than the Ox to his owner or the Asse to his masters crib Sad and deplorable estate miserable man is fallen into running on greedily in the way of destruction and drinking in iniquity as the Ox drinketh water and yet will seeme to lean upon the Lord and say is not the Lord amongst us though they forsake him and refuse his tender reproofs and cast his holy Law behind their backs and will none of his reproof and make unto themselves Laws Statutes and ordinances which will sute most unto their lusts and heap up to themselves teachers having itching eares even such as they make in their own will who preach for hire and divine for money which was alwaies an abominable thing unto the Lord who sent his holy servants and Prophets to cry against such things yet do the sons of men delight to have it so And such teachers as these cry peace peace to the wicked and say no evil shall come upon them so long as they put into their mouths but otherwise suddenly prepare warre against you as the tryal will manifest the same and they with great swelling words of vanity promise to others liberty while they themselves are servants unto corruption and such like do people choose unto themselves because they prophesie smooth things unto them and under their teachings they can live as they list in pride covetousnesse wantonnesse and all manner of evil all the dayes of their lives as their fruits manifest telling people they cannot but sin as long as they live by which means instead of turning people from their wickedness they strengthen their hands in it which sheweth plainly they are such who ran when the Lord never sent them therefore they do not profit the people at all who are ever learning of them but