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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38772	A brief discovery of God's eternal truth and a way opened to the simple hearted whereby they may come to know Christ and his ministers, from Antichrist and his ministers : with a warning from the Lord to all people that do name the name of Christ, to depart from iniquity / written in the inquisition of Malta by ... Katherine Evans.	Evans, Katharine, d. 1692.	1663 (1663)	Wing E3453; ESTC R15841	22,883	58

A BRIEF DISCOVERY OF God's Eternal Truth AND A Way opened to the simple hearted whereby they may come to know CHRIST and his Ministers from ANTICHRIST and his Ministers With a WARNING from the Lord to all people that do name the Name of Christ to depart from Iniquity Written in the Inquisition of Malta by a Servant of the Most High called KATHERINE EVANS London Printed for R. Wilson 1663. A brief DISCOVERY of Gods Eternal Truth THus saith the Lord Let every one that nameth the Name of Christ depart from Iniquity for the day cometh and now is that the Name of Christ will be dreadful and terrible to all workers of iniquity and God the Father hath committed all Power in Heaven and in Earth and Seas also to his Son Jesus Christ and hath raised him in Power and great Glory in thousands of his Saints to convince the world of Sin of Righteousness and of Judgment that the Prince of this World may be judged and cast out for he shall never have any part or portion with the Heir of Eternal Life and Salvation who hath Power to judge and to justifie and to condemn or to save to scatter and to gather to break to pieces and to bind up that which is broken to pieces and he will establish his own Spiritual Government Righteous Rule and Pure Holy Worship to the ends of the Earth and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it for whatsoever he hath purposed shall surely come to pass and his Decree shal stand and Wo wo wo to every one that doth lift up a hand against any of those that the Lord God doth send forth in his Name in this the Day of his Power to preach Glad-tydings to the meek or do form any carnal weapon against him in his Anointed thinking to disinherite him who is possessed Heir of all But the time doth hasten that the Lord God of Power will exalt his Princely Scepter over all Scepters Thrones and Dominions Kingdoms and Countries and none shall be able to prevent him or resist his mighty Power Hear ye this O all ye People upon the face of the Earth who are called Christians or do call your selves by Christ's Name both Kings and Princes Emperors Nobles and mighty men of the Earth by what name or title soever ye are called high or low rich or poor for our God is no respecter of persons but every one that feareth his Name and worketh Righteousness is accepted of him Wherefore it chiefly behoveth every one of you to turn your minds within to the Light in your Consciences that convinceth of all Sin and makes manifest every evil deed be it done never so secret the Light will discover it It is a measure of God's free Grace given to every one to profit themselves withal and search examine and duely consider how you come to have right or title to Christ's Name or what it is that maketh a Christian for every true Christian is an Heir of God and Joynt-heir with Christ For as in Adam all die so in Christ shall all be made alive Now you know that God created Adam at the first in a pure perfect state of Innocency his mind and soul in his own Image and likeness which was Light and Life and placed him in the Garden of Paradise a place of eternal blessedness to all that do obey the Light and God gave Adam dominion over all the creatures that God created for the use of man and blessed them unto him in that state of Innocency and bid him eat of the fruit of every tree of the Garden but the tree of knowledge of good and evil that was good too but not for food And the Lord said unto Adam Thou shalt not eat of the fruit of that tree for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye Adam did not stand in the Counsel of the Lord but turned from the Light and hearkened to the Woman whom the Serpent beguiled and did eat of the forbidden Fruit and so disobeyed the Commandment of the Lord God and fell from that state of Blessedness into that state wherein all things are an utter curse unto him and unto all in that state of disobedience eternally but the just and wise and holy Lord God whose mercies are above all his works did promise that the Seed of the Woman should bruise the Serpents head There are but two seeds the Seed of the Woman and the seed of the Serpent Now this was the way which the pure and wise and perfect Lord God did find out in himself to recover Man out of the Fall again through the everlasting Covenant of the promised Seed of all blessedness The Promise of God was not unto seeds as to many but unto the Seed as unto one In Isaac shall all the Kindreds of the Earth be blessed The Promise of God which cannot fail was only to the Seed of faithful Abraham And Paul saith If ye are Christs then are ye Abrahams seed and heirs to the Promise Wherefore every one of you in Christendom may do well to turn in your minds to the Light of God in your own Consciences and try your selves and see whether you have received the true righteous Seed or are born of the pure and perfect Spirit of Christ Iesus yea or nay the Light will not deceive you but deal plainly with you and make manifest unto you all that ever was or is within you And he that is in Christ hath the witness in himself so that he need not go forth to seek after him or to ask the way to Sion for I am the Way the Truth and the Light saith Christ and he that followeth me shall not abide in darkness but have the Light of Life and He that hath not the Witness in himself is in darkness and hath not received the Light of Life the Spirit of Christ and He that hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of his Then what profit hath anyone to have the Name of Christ and out of his Nature The Nature of Christ is altogether pure perfect holy and upright meek humble sober loving merciful tender-hearted liberal in all good long-suffering and ready to forgive and willing to bear the contradictions of sinners and the rebukes of the vile sons of men and did lay down his Life for to save them that hated him and were and are Enemies to his Cross And all that are in Christ ought themselves to walk as he walked or else how should they be known to be born of the true Seed of God for where the Seed of the Kingdom is sown and received into good ground in an honest heart it taketh deep root and bringeth forth fruit answerable to the Seed in some thirty in some sixty and in some an hundred fold that God may be glorified for herein is my Father glorified that ye bring forth much fruit saith Christ speaking to them that were called by his Name and were his

of the Indignation of the Lords Judgment If Iudgment first begin at the house of God what will become of them that obey not the Gospel of God for if the Righteous scarcely be saved where shall the Wicked and Ungodly appear Now for some help and light for the understanding of them that do not know the Mystery of Iniquity and that spirit that doth generate it here as aforesaid the spirit of Antichrist is that spirit in every one that doth profess Christ Jesus in words but doth not possess him in life and power and such are they that are making Images and forms and likenesses without and call it by Christ's Name and say it doth represent Christ when none can make his Likeness nor bear his Image but those that are created anew in Christ Jesus and born of the same Spirit The righteous Image or Form of Christ is the perfect Life of Innocency and the pure Spirit of Meekness and an upright heart of true Humility as it is written Upon whomsoever you shall see the Spirit of the Lord descend like a Dove and abide upon him this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased You all know a Dove is an innocent harmless creature and so are all God's Children which are sanctified in the undefiled womb of God's second creation where the first Heaven and the first Earth is passed away and new Heavens and a new Earth are witnessed wherein dwelleth Righteousness for evermore and he that is called the Son of Perdition is the Man of Sin in every particular that steals away the heart and draws out the mind from the true invisible God and sets it upon earthly objects and visible appearances The glory of the world that doth fade and vanish away as the smoak in the eye and the painted harlot is the fallen wisdom that is comprehended in the earthly mind carnal understanding and airy spirit inventing and devising how to deck and beautifie her self with the glory of this world and outside shews to get her self a name over all the Earth and calls her self holy pure and spiritual that all people may fall down and worship her painted image and so the wind of her spirit goeth forth and overchargeth the hearts of the people and corrupts them and when the heart is corrupted it conceiveth lust and when lust is conceived it bringeth forth sin and when sin is finished it bringeth forth death The wages of sin is death and the Scarlet-coloured Beast that doth uphold the adulterous woman with all her allurements upon whom she sits is that beast-like will of or in man that is not subject to the Will of God but hath received power to exalt his horn even to the Host of Heaven for the cleansing of the Sanctuary and purifying of the Temple and for the tryal of the Faith of God's Elect that the power of God may rest upon them and so they come to be approved in the sight of all and herein our God is glorified honoured and renowned over all in purchasing to himself a holy Kingdom through the blood of the everlasting Covenant in the faithful-hearted that do follow the Lamb through great tribulations according to the Scriptures Every man out of the Covenant of God is bruitish and that spirit which doth exalt it self over the consciences of any people to compel them by a tymnnous Law to worship according to his will and in his way without any Commandment or Precept from the Lord that is Lucifer which the Lord God will cast down to the bottom of Infamy and will do unto him as he did to proud and lofty Haman as the Spirit of the Lord hath manifested for God and his Word are one and his way to the Kingdom is but one and he never compelled any with camal weapons or any visible thing to worship him And whereas it is said he sent forth his servants to compel them that were in the streets and in the high-wayes to come in by the powerful preaching of his Word of Life and Truth that did limit and bind that in them that did rebel against him and so he drawed them after him in love and so he doth at this day Praises praises to his holy and blessed Name for evermore Amen And the false Prophet is he that cryeth Lo here is Christ and Lo there but Christ foretold of them saying Many false Christs would come saying Lo here and Lo there but believe them not go not forth by their fruits you shall know them And these are they that for advantage will cry Peace peace while ye are unsaved from your sins and so with good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple and smoothly draws them after him in the broad way that leads to the chambers of death and destruction and in their high places they will tell you you must not be drunk nor lust nor envy nor covet nor live in pride nor any such evil things when they themselves are wholly guided and led by that same spirit which is the very rise author yea as I may safely say the father of all manner of uncleanness and evil concupiscence and so though they do speak good words it is but in imitation because it was the practice of the Servants of the living God so to do yet being out of their Life they can never convert any into the Truth but their spirit doth beget the same form in the Hearers as is in the Teachers for such Seed as they sow such Fruits they do reap of all manner of unrighteousness and these be they that will go about to limit the Spirit of God and make the people believe none ought to speak in the Name of Christ but the Wise and the Learned and them that have received Gifts of Men to Preach but Christ doth ordain his Ministers and gives them Gifts both Male and Female yet they say Paul would not permit of a Woman to speak in the Church it is true Paul would not permit of a woman to speak in the Church no more do not the Quakers neither do they permit a Woman to speak in the Church nor a Man that is born of a woman but he that is born of God whether in Male or in Female let him speak freely as his Father giveth him Utterance Let him that doth not understand come into Christ's School and learn Paul said That if a Woman did pray or prophesie with her Head uncovered she did dishonour her Head if a woman might pray or prophesie with her head covered it 's very like she might do it in the Church assoon as in another place But Paul nor John neither would not permit that Jezabel that painted Harlot should speak in the Church who hath painted her self with the Saints Words but out of their life she must keep silence in the Church yea verily the Power is made manifest in this the Lord 's present day that will shortly stop her mouth and all her