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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85492	A cal [sic] and a vvarning, to all priests, professors and people, vvho have and do profess the Scriptures, that they may try their doctrines and practises by it, and may own condemnation in their doctrines and practises, wherein they are contrary to the Scriptures. And a tender visitation to the whole vvorld, that they may own this their visitation, and may be healed and restored to the Lord; and this may serve for a looking glass, wherein people may see what visage they are of, and how they stand related as unto God. / By a sufferer in Hartford goale, for faithful witness-bearing, against this sinful generation; known by the name of John Gould.	Gould, John, prisoner at Hertford.	1657 (1657)	Wing G1416; Thomason E932_1; ESTC R202329	27,259	37

profess him yet say ye shall never be set free from sin here Are ye guided by Christ To the light in all your consciences I speak which will let you see who 's your Leader and Guide into sin and imperfection even the man of sin and son of perdition whom Christ is come and made manifest to destroy And do ye profess he 's come and it say sin shall not be destroyed nor none can or shall be set free from it here What a profession is this and what a belief is this it even pitties me to see that men should be thus miserably deceived by Christs Enemy and the Enemy of your souls to be thus deluded and yet if any one be moved of the Lord to declare it unto you in love to your souls cry out one to another Take heed of delusion it 's a spirit of delusion which is gone forth into the world which the Apostles said should come in the last days which privily should bring in damnable errors even denying the Lord that bought them Are ye not there who are led into sin and say you shall not be free And is it not the Devil that tells you this who is afraid his Kingdom should be destroyed which is sin in you What think you is it not so and are we not accounted your Enemies for thus telling you the truth O ye priests professors and people and O all ye Inhabitants of the Earth And do ye not now plainly perceive how he have been thus long deluded by the Devil and his Instruments to denie the light which lets you see this And will you still love to have it so Oh! What will ye do in the end hereof think ye to be saved in your sin seeing ye will not come to him nor own him to be saved by him who sets free Do ye not love your sin better then him and it profess to love him when in words ye denie him and so are unto everie good Work reprobate for such as are come to the good Work are come to him who was before the evil Work was but who are in the evil Work are not and so are not in him who works the good Work but in him who works the evil and yet think to be saved by professing the words of him who worketh all our Works in us and for us for this is he of whom vve are Witnesses even the Righteousness of God by which we are saved and set free from our sin and this not of our selves it is the gift of God not of Works lest any should boast for we are the Workmanship of God created in Christ Jesus unto good Works that we should grow and increase in them And is this your Saviour who profess and say ye shall never be set free from sin here Or are ye not setting up a Saviour of your own making after your own hearts lust which ye love and worship more then Christ which is not of Gods appointment and it talk and profess of worshipping the Lord after his own appointment whilst ye are serving of him by your own confession who is not sufficient to set free from sin here And so the true Christ and God ye are ignorant on who saves his people from sin whom we witness And are ye not fighting among your selves in words almost blood to Knees for your God the manner of his Service and VVorship and yet all join'd together against the true Worshippers who hath not sav'd you from sin nor never will and so not from Wrath to come Who would take part with such a God and fight for such a God or serve such a God and Christ and Gospel if they were not ignorantlie zealous and blind And how can ye be otherwise who denie the true light which lighteth every one that cometh into the world to be sufficient Is it not just with God ye should be blind still who will not own his light wherewith he hath enlightned you but are Enemies to it and haters of it calling it natural and persecutors and opposers of them that witness it and believe in it and are guided by it and account them not worthie to live in the World who are not of the World but such as he hath chosen out of the World And yet will ye not yet see whose steps ye are in Search the Scriptures and see are they not plain enough to the light in you I speak Or will ye still be hireing of a man to give you the meaning Did they who spake and writ that which ye profess speak one thing and mean another Will ye be such blasphemers against the Spirit of Truth the Holie Ghost Know ye not their portion search the Scriptures and see Or will ye still follow their meanings rather then it vvho are saying The Scriptures vvere spoken in other Tongues and none can understand them but such as know and understand the Tongues Hebrew Greek and Latine vvhich the builders of Babel call the original Are not such blasphemers vvho call Letters and Syllables the Original and say none can understand the Scripture but such Are they not ignorant of the Original vvho say so And vvill ye still believe and follovv their meanings and opinions vvho are out of the Original and enemies to the Original Had not the Jews and Pilate their Original And vvere they not persecutors and murtherers of Christ Jesus our Original Search the Scriptures and see And are there none such to be found amongst you O ye Priests Professors and People to the Light in all your consciences I speak If there be Will ye still be follovvers of them Is this to be follovvers of God as dear children or not follovvers of them that do evil from vvhom the Apostle bids turn avvay And can ye be such lovers of the Apostles Words as ye profess vvho vvill not take his advice vvho vvalked in the Grace of God vvhich he had received and it vvas sufficient for him as the other Saints did and vvitnessed they needed not another Teacher to teach them but as the same Anointing vvhich vvas in them taught them vvhich vvas truth and in it vvas no lye Or are ye not rather hypocrites and haters of the Apostles and their vvords too though in shevv ye profess them calling them Blessed S. Paul and Holy St. Peter and the Evangelical Prophet and the Holy and Blessed Evangelists and Blessed St. Stephen that holy Martyr vvhose vvords ye profess but can't abide his Doctrine because he vvitnessed against Temples made vvith hands as by your vvorks ye plainly shevv for the Tree is to be knovvn and judged of by its fruits and that 's according to vvhat ye professe Search and see is it not so VVill their VVords think ye bear ye out any longer to profess vvho hate their VVorks and scoff at their VVorker saying Where was the Light I pray when Paul persecuted the Church of God VVhy even vvhere yours is hid under a Bed or under a

and your Christ and with it denied and your Faith which doth not purifie for whilst I was under the leading and conduct of it I came not to the knowledge of God by it and so not to eternal life which is witnessed through faith in him and in his blood which purifies my heart and gives me dominion over the world and that Christ I know own and witnesse which saves from sin all that come unto him but your Christ is denied which you say you believe will not set you free from sin here and so is not the Christ of God which is the true Light which lighteth every one that cometh into the world who is manifest to take away sin and to destroy the works of the Devil and in him is no sin And this Christ I own and bear witnesse of who is the true Light the Ordinance of the Father whom ye hate and destroy and make void through your traditions and denie your Mock-Christ which you say will not save you from sin here but leaves you in the Devils work which is sin by your own confession and so your Christ is but transform'd in you like unto an Angel of Light O ye Professors and People and your Ministers like unto Ministers of Righteousnesse and so being not the same Christ but like him cannot save ye from sin and so not from condemnation but keepes you in it whilest ye are here and perswades you that ye cannot be set free and this Christ ye believe in And here 's the mysterie of iniquitie hid and discovered even the spiritual wickednesse got into high places unto all who have an eye to see and an ear to hear and an heart to understand and will not wilfullie blind themselves by hating knowledge and instruction And this mysterie of iniquitie works not onelie at Rome and Italy and Spain and France but in England also and in every particular Member of that Church which is not in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the pillar and ground of Truth whom to know is life eternal which none comes to know but such who comes down to know and own the light within them which is pure of God which convinceth of sin and iniquitie and shews evil deeds that 's the Light which lets ye see when ye tell a lie when ye swear or be drunk or commit anie other sin that ye are serving the devil and not God when ye are fulfilling the lust of the flesh the lust of the eie and the pride of life that this is not of the Father but of the World and the World passeth awaie and the lusts thereof but he that doth the Will of God the same abideth for ever and this being obeyed which convinceth and sin denied it leads unto Christ from whence the light comes who leads to the Father of Light with whom there is no variableness neither shadow of changing who of his own good will hath he begotten us by the Word of his Povver unto a livelie hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead that we should be as the first fruits unto him having slain the enmitie on the Cross and broken down the Partition-wall and hath brought in everlasting Righteousness even by washing and purging of us in his own blood and his flesh we know which is meat indeed and his blood which is drink indeed and his covering we know But the wo from him is unto all such as are found covered and covering themselves with a covering and not of the spirit of the Lord for the Lord our God is come and coming in the Clouds of Heaven with the voice of the Arch Angel and the shout of a great Trump to call all vvho are in the Graves to arise and stand up to judgement they that have done vvell to the resurrection of life but they that have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation and the daie dravvs nigh a pace vvherein the Book of conscience must be opened and every one come to be judged out of the book of his ovvn conscience for all that ever hath been done in the bodie vvhether it be good or evil and he that hath done good shall go into life everlasting but he that hath done evil into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his Angels vvhere shall be vveeping and hovvling and gnashing of teeth vvhere the vvorm never dieth nor the fire is not quenched vvhich is the second death out of vvhich there 's no Redemption but blessed and holie is he that hath his part in the first Resurrection over such the second death shall have no povver but they shall reign Kings and Priests to God even for ever and ever even so Lord Jesus come quickly Amen Written to you from the Lord God vvho is Judge of quick and dead by a lover of all your souls that so vvith the Light of Christ Jesus vvithin you might come to a true sight and discoverie of your estates and conditions that so coming to be sensible of them you might return to the Lord in your life time before you be sealed up in the pit of everlasting darkness for the day of sealing is come and the Bride the Lambs Wife hath made her self readie and is entred into the Bed-Chamber And I John saw the Angel flying through the midst of Heaven having the Key of the bottomless Pit in his hand to seal and shut up all such who are found bearing the mark of the Beast in their fore-heads and in their right hand that they may be shut up and sealed for ever and ever And this in love is vvritten to go abroad as a vvarning from the Lord to all people professors and priests every vvhere but in particular to them in Hartford and Ware that so if possible some of them may come to repentance and to an acknowledgment of the truth in their life time as it is in Jesus before it be hid from their eyes and may serve also for the use of any vvho have an eye to see and an ear to hear From a lover of all souls knovvn to the vvorld by the name of IOHN GOULD But hath a nevv Name and a vvhite Stone vvhich none knovvs but he that hath it THE END