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A58143	Light sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart This is to go abroad among all people who are honest-hearted, especially amongst the inhabitants in Fourns Fells, in Lancashire, and among all who have known me after the flesh, that all honest people may see what I was in profession, and also what I now am by the grace of God. From him which hath come through great tribulations, who hath even left all for Christ, and hath not whereon to lay his head, but is forsaken of father and of mother, and of kinred also, even for the testimony of Jesus, and for the Word of God, whom the world calls, Thomas Rawlinson.	Rawlinson, Thomas.	1657 (1657)	Wing R369; ESTC R220567	29,951	42

Hell and the Grave and through Faith have overcome the World so hath right to eat of the Tree of Life glorious praises to God for ever whose Works now praises him And though I am become a stranger unto my Fathers House and to my Kinred also and hath not whereon to lay my head yet God hath prepared an House for me and hath brought me into his House of Love even into everlasting Dwellings a spiritual house to worship him in hath he even prepared eternally in the Heavens which remaineth for ever and he will never shut me out of his House but he hath given me within his House and within his Walls a place and a Name better then of Sons and of Daughters an everlasting Habitation and a Name that shall not be cut off praises endless praises to God in the Highest This hath the Lord done for his Names sake and how can I forbear to tell of what God hath done for my soul If I should not confess his wondrous Works before men to tell of his wonderful Works it had bin better for me never to have bin born Who hath even filled me with the Riches of his glory in Christ Jesus who hath taken me out of the olive-Olive-Tree which is wild by nature and now hath he grafted me contrary to nature into a good olive-Olive-Tree so in my measure I am come to know him that was from the beginning yea I am in him that is true who is the true God and eternal life being planted into Christ that I may bring forth Fruit unto God who in times past was an alien and a stranger to the Life of God but am now through the grace of God no more a stranger but a Fellow-Citizen with the Saints and of the Houshold of God being built upon the Foundation of the Prophets and Apostles Christ himself being the chief Corner-stone in whom all the Building fitly framed together growth unto an holy Temple in the Lord. Therefore all Friends and Neighbors having tasted that the Lord is gracious and full of compassion towards them that trust in him I cannot but even in bowels of compassion beseech you even to return unto the Lord with your whole heart that ye may love him with all your heart ye who hunger after righteousness ye who would eat of the bread of life come in to the light even ye who are ready to die pine away w th hunger for want of bread turn in hither for in my Fathers house is even Bread enough for all that is hungry indeed that ye may freely eat of live for ever if it were not so I would not invite you but seeing and feeling that it is even so I cannot but beseech you So every one that is a-thirst come and take of the Fountain of the Water of Life freely whosoever will and buy Wine and Milk without money and without price so spend not your money for that which is not Bread and your labour for that which satisfies not my Father giveth you the true bread and whosoever eats thereof shall live for ever and be satisfied and the Fountain of the Water of Life is set open that whosoever is a-thirst may freely drink and be filled And the Bread of God is he that cometh down from Heaven who lightneth every man that cometh into the World that all men through him might be saved who filleth the hungry with good things but the rich he sends empty away So all Friends believe in the light come unto the light least ye dye in your sins for the Lord hath no pleasure that ye should dye in your sins but rather that ye should turn from your evil Ways and live unto him that so ye might know the Way of life from the VVays of death As ye come to own the light of God in you as ye love it it will teach you the right VVay wherein dwelleth righteousness a wise man vvill first seek the Kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof that he may come to knovv the Lord and find rest and peace in him vvhich the vvorld cannot give So Friends if ye would know those things and come to have rest and peace in Christ Jesus then ye must come to the light wherewith ye are enlightned Therefore all mind the light of God in you which shines into your hearts for the light is your vvay if ye love it so if ye choose to follow the Light Christ this is he that reveals the Father whom no man knovvs but the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him this is he in whom the vveary comes to find rest and peace So as every one comes into the obedience of the light he comes to see the Kingdom of God and hath right to enter into the Kingdom and if yee vvait in the light but a vvhile in patience ye shall see that the Kingdom of God is come nigh Know ye not that the Kingdom of Heaven is within you So all in the light wait for the Kingdom of God to be revealed in you which stands not in vvords but in righteousness and in the truth so if even ye knovv the Kingdom of God ye shall know it within you a holy Kingdom holy and everlasting into which nothing that maketh a lye or is unclean shall enter For blessed and holy are they that are counted vvorthy to enter therein vvhich have not defiled themselves with VVomen Novv therefore Friends as ye desire the salvation of your souls wait in the light even in the holy and just principle of God in that vvhich is holy which convinces of sin and of unrighteousness and lets you see your sins and all that ever ye have done if ye vvill but hear and incline your ear and as ye own the light to be taught of the Lord there shall ye come to know Christ the Saviour of your souls who is come to save his people from their sins and to seek and to save that vvhich is lost So here is the vvay of the Lord in the light even the true and living vvay but if ye draw back after the Priests ye have rejected the Lord to be taught of the Lord so ye cannot escape the damnation of Hell so shall never witness to be taught of the Lord in the measure of light who have done despite to the Spirit of grace so it is like ye shall never know Gods salvation profess what you can in words of knowing him or his salvation For God is light and he is not known but in the light so they that are not in the light who knows not the light are in darkness even until now and so knows not the vvay of the Lord for darkness comprehends him not nor his light and they that be in the darkness knows not whither they go nor at what they stumble because that darkness hath blinded their eyes Therefore all Friends and Neighbors ye that have known me after the flesh I beseech you in Christs

so God which is the way where Christ may be found that I may come to know him even as I am known of him and find him The Priests said That reading the Scriptures and godly Books as they called them and praying and following them and hearing them preach that this was the way where Christ is to be found So I did run from one Priest unto another to see if haply I could find Christ among any of them for several years together but did not vvhilst I followed the Priests so all my labour vvas in vain I spent my labour for that which is not Bread and my strength for that which could not satisfie yea I did read the Scriptures often bought the best books I could hear of and read them and prayed earnestly always but did not obtain nor prevail though I cryed and vvept much and the reason is because I sought unto a people that cannot profit for the Lord in a vvay vvhere he is not to be found in the vvay of the ungodly for God hears not sinners and the prayer of the vvicked is sin but the prayer of the righteoas is his delight and vvhile I remained servant to sin the Lord did not regard my prayer for it is his own that praises him unto whom his ears is opened alvvays vvhich he hears and hath regard unto So I see that the Priests are lyars vvho vvould be Teachers of others and yet knovvs not vvhat they say nor vvhereof they affirm vvho vvould perswade you to follow them and to uphold them in their covetous practises and tells people that hearing them is the right vvay and observing their traditions and customs is the right vvay and believing in a Christ vvithout you and looking for a Christ without you is the right vvay so are those vvhich Christ spake of should come in the last dayes saying Lo here is Christ and lo there is Christ but said he Believe them n●r nor go not after them for Friends that which may be knovvn of God is manifest in you so til you return to that of God in you the light ye are in the darkness out of the good vvay in an evil vvay in a vvay that is not good whatsoever ye and your Priests may say of it Neighbors and Friends I speak by experience what I have seen and known that speak I unto you in the Name of the Lord that ye may take warning betime for there is no other way to know Christ but in the light wherewith ye are enlightned so if you will own the right way where God dwells where he is to be found ye must then return in to the Light to that which may be known of God in you and be in love with the Light for God is Light he that loves the Light brings his deeds to the Light and comes to the light Christ Know ye not how that Christ is in you except ye be reprobates You that talk and prate and say ye believe in a Christ without you who are professing a God and a Christ without you and that he saves his people from their sins What is this to you who knows not that Christ is in you There shall ye find him if ever ye know him a Saviour to you who is come a light into the World that all men through him might believe This is he who suffered and dyed at Jerusalem and no other Christ I own I say What is this to you who are yet in your sins and doth not believe that ever ye shall be made free from sin while ye are here but that ye shall sin while ye live Have ye not learned this of your Priests for this is their Doctrine which they bring you from their Father the Devil and yet you be believe it and receives it So what is this to you for you to say Christ saves his people from their sins for ye bear vvitness against your selves that he is not your Saviour who are yet in your sins for ye deny the Work of God and resist it in your selves and denies the end of Christ coming into the World which is to save his people from their sins who is come into the World a light and is manifest to destroy the Works of the Devil and sin is the Work of the Devil which Christ comes to destroy and you that say ye must sin while ye live ye bear witness against your selves that Christ is not yet come to you so ye are the servants of sin and are free from righteousness so what is Christ to you and what is your profession vvorth So whilest I followed the Priests I never knew the way how to come to Christ therefore I had no rest in my spirit day nor night from God while I followed the Priests but Wrath and Horror and Judgement pursued me for disobedience to that of God in my conscience and trouble on every hand on the right hand and on the left was sorrovv and vexation of spirit and my heart within me did faint for fear I vvas even at my Wits-end and had almost despaired of hope and of comfort had not God preserved me though I knew him not for I could find no assurance of the love of God to my soul while I follovved the Priests though then I could vvith the Priests talk of high attainments and could also with them and with professors sometimes boast of experiences and also of joy and peace sometimes when I was lifted up into the airie imaginations with them and so for a while I gloried in the flesh with priests people and made merry over the Witness of God in me then was Satan exalted above all that was called God in me and then both Priests and people did love me and and spake well of me for the World loves its own and the Devil who fills his children with mirth and joy with sports and pleasures and with the glory of this World he will suffer his servants to have a profession of the truth and to boast of God to be their Father and of Christ to be their Saviour and also to talk of faith and of righteousness and the like so that he can but maintain his Works in them which is To lye and to swear to be angry to envy and to hate and to be proud and covetous and to oppress to dissemble and to deceive and to defraud and to cozen to fight to rail and to be drunk to be heady and to be high-minded being filled with all unrighteousness which be the Works of the Devil as lust murder back-biting evil-speaking and all deceit vvhich are the Works of the flesh So I say If the Devil have but the heart and can but keep his Seat there he cares not then vvhat profession they be of he knovvs them that they are his though they may say they defie the Devil and all his Works whose minds Satan hath blinded that they cannot see his Works in themselves brought forth which

bears witness against them that they are of their Father the Devil whose Works they do yet with their mouth and with their lips and tongue will profess that they love God who have the high swelling Words of hypocrisie so have a zeal without knowledge holding a profession of God in hypocrisie until the day of sudden destruction from God fall upon them for their Wickedness to sweep them all into the pit of blackness for ever who are Workers of iniquity both Priests and people All-along while I followed the Priests there was something in me of God I see though I knew it not which did witness against all unrighteousness did reprove me if I did but swear or tell a lye which did not speak peace to me in those things but I was judged by that of God in me when I did any unrighteous thing so stood condemned in my self when I had but an evil thought of doing Wrong which was sufficient to have preserved me from all evil if I had but been obedient but being ignorant of it what it was gave no heed unto it but went on in a Way that is not good so did not believe in the light though I had the light neither was obedient to the light though the light did convince me So I had no peace from God though in the World I had peace and with the VVorld was at peace yet in Christ I had no peace while I was of the VVorld for that of God in me cryed against me Desolation VVo and Misery for God seeth not as man neither canst thou hide thy self in secret and he not see thee So I came to see that notwithstanding all the shew in the flesh I had profest of knowing the Lord I was but a hypocrite when I came in deed and in truth to search try my ways honestly and to prove my self in truth and in plainness then I did see that I was out of the VVay of truth knew not the truth though I had the Words of truth in my mouth so was ignorant of God so the peace which I had did then flye away it was as it were but for a moment the Worlds peace which the greedy Priests speak unto the people that stop into their mouths they cry peace peace when there is no peace from God where the Lord hath not spoken peace so would heal the hurt of the daughter of my people saith the Lord sleightly who daub with untempered morter for from the Prophet even unto the Priest every one dealeth falsly and deceitfully and all are given to covetousness both Priests and people So whilest I followed the Priests I see that I was but a fair sayer made clean the outside of the Cup and the Platter and appeared righteous outwardly unto man as Neighbors and Friends ye know who knew me after the flesh That I was as touching the righteousness of the Law blameless and had a zeal for God though not according to knowledge by fair Words professing the Substance but had not the Evidence the Seal of the Spirit of God to my Spirit so being ignorant of Gods righteousness as I said before which is by the Faith of the Son of God knowing this That without righteousness no man can enter into the Kingdom of God so I went about to establish my own righteousness looking for a righteousness without me that I might appear righteous unto man being ignorant of the righteousness of faith which saith on this wise as it is written Say not in thy heart Who shall ascend into Heaven That is to bring Christ down from above or who shall descend into the deepe That is to bring Christ again from the dead But what saith it The Word is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thy heart that thou mayest do it that is the Word of Faith which we preach said the Apostle who was a Minister of God But unto this Word I was not obedient while I followed the Priests neither knew I it though it was near for none of the Priests from the least even unto the chiefest did ever direct my mind unto the Word of Faith which is nigh in the mouth and in the heart to take heed unto as unto a light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn and the day star arise in my heart So they are the false Prophets and Deceivers who is come in sheeps clothing making merchandise of souls for dishonest gain And these are they vvhich Christ said should come in the last dayes vvhich John saw was come in his dayes vvhich all the World vvondered after and that all the World is gone after them so they run yet never was sent of God to turn people from darkness to the light vvho divine for money and speak a Divination of their ovvn brain and not from the mouth of the Lord. So I sought to find the living among the dead vvhile I sought unto the Priests so followed a people which cannot profit and wandered from Mountain to Hill to find the living even from one sort of Priests and people unto another that had the greatest shew of godliness one sort said Lo here is Christ and another sort of professors said Lo here and glad would I with all my heart to have found him among them that I might come to find a rest for my weary soul but Christ I found not among any of them though I did find that some sort of professors could talk much more of Christ with their lips then others could do and had his Name in their mouth oftener then others having many good Words vvhereby they do beguile souls even with the enticing Words of mens Wisdom pretending much towards Christ but are as vain and wanton as they vvho have not so great a shew in Words towards Christ and though in Words they profess that they know him yet in Works they do deny him so are the greatest Deceivers of all vvho have the greatest shew of godliness when their Works are as bad and their lives too as them who have no shew of godlinesse at all for Christ said Ye shall know them by their fruits so vvhen I came to prove them and to try them by their fruits I did find them to be as bad as others vvho have not so great a shew of righteousness so it is not every one that saith Lord Lord nor proud boasters in another mans line of things made ready to their hand vvho steal their Words from their Neighbor that shall enter into life but he that doth the Will of God for they make themselves manifest that they are without God and without Christ as by their Fruits I knew them then to be deceitful Workers though vvith fair speeches and good Words they deceive the simple and so blinds the minds of them that believe not in the light And though I did like the chief Priests and the chief Professors Words then vvell so far as they was according to

me and then I called unto my Brother William and bad him let me into the House and he told me that he durst not let me into the House I asked him Why He said That his Father had sent all his children and servants to bed that he went throughout all the House himself to see that all the doors was locked and bolted against me and did charge them all that if I did come not any of them to let me into the House if they did any of them he said that he would turn them also out of the doors with me So William told me these things and that he durst not let me into the House so unto this day I remain a sufferer for righteousness sake and truly I believe that I should not have put pen to paper in reference as to all my sufferings from my natural Father had I not heard how he hath reported it that I ran from him and the like So for the right informing all peoples understandings as to the truth of this matter I have briefly in few Words declared something of what hath been done by him towards me and of what Words passed between us but I might have intimated much more of his rage and cruelty sore usuage of me but that I am against laying open nakedness and have onely cleared my own innocency as touching false reports of running from my Fathers House and the like as also his own Family and others can witness against him to the contrary for me if they wil but testifie So let him consider and look back and see what he hath done against the innocent that seeks not his own who seeketh no revenge but suffereth all things endureth all things and envieth not but in the peace which the World cannot give nor take away rests satisfied in his Fathers love from above and so refers his cause unto him that seeth in secret who rewardeth openly and taketh vengeance For vengeance is mine saith the Lord So I have boldness towards God in all my sufferings and tribulations yea verily I have the answer of a good conscience towards God and man herein Gods Witness in me even the Spirit of truth which bears witness to my spirit that I suffer for well doing and who shall then condemn me And because I cannot for conscience-sake worship the beast nor follow the blind guides any longer I am persecuted and forsaken of Father and Mother and of Brethren and Sisters and of Kinred too and these things have they done unto me that the Scriptures might be fulfilled according to Christs Words who said Ye shall be hated of all men for my sake and marvel not if the World hate you for it hated me before it hated you if ye were of the World the World would love you for the World loves its own but because I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hates you because ye are not of the world even as I am not of the world said Christ to them that followed him in the regeneration who turned people from the darkness to the Light Christ And he that forsaketh not Father and Mother Brethren and Sisters Husband Wife or children and his own life too for my sake and the Gospel said Christ he cannot be my disciple and he that taketh not up his Cross and followeth not after me he is not worthy of me but every one that hath left Father or Mother Brethren or Sisters Husband Wife or Children or House or Lands for my Names sake and the ●ospel let him rejoice that he is counted worthy to suffer it said the Lord Jesus Christ for he shall not lose his reward but shall receive an hundred-fold in this life and in the world to come everlasting life So it is evident That whosoever will ●ive godly in Christ Jesus must suffer For he that departs from iniquity makes himself a prey to the wicked and to the unrighteous and sinners So Friends think it not strange I run not with you to the same excess of riot into all uncleanness and filthiness and sorrow not for me for the sorrow of the World works death so speak not evil of the things ye know not least ye speak evil against God and though I am counted as the off-scouring of all things unto this day and hath not whereon to lay my head being forsaken of Father and of Mother and counted as one not worthy to live nor to inhabit under them who could not have so much as a servants place under them for I told my Father before he put me from him That I was willing to abide with him and to serve him faithfully and to labour with my hands in the thing that is good yet would he not suffer me to inhabit under him but in all this what evil have I done So I have comfort towards God notwithstanding all his cruel usuage of me and though Father and Mother hath forsaken me yet the Lord hath not forsaken me neither left me comfortless but hath been with me in all my afflictions to support me and though they through the hardness of their hearts hath had no pitty on me but I was even cast out for righteousness sake as though I had been some great transgressor Where are my Accusers If I have done evil let them bear witness of the evil but if well for cleaving unto the Lord why are they so offended in me I could even desire that the Lord would not reward them as they have rewarded me who are even without natural affections and without any pitty towards me yet the Lord hath had pitty because his mercies fails not who in his favour hath redeemed me and hath had compassion when no eye pittyed for he hath said it Thou hadst a little strength and hast trusted in me therefore I will never leave thee nor forsake thee Thou hast hated iniquity and loved righteousness therefore walk before me and be thou perfect and I will help thee I will be with thee and go before thee all the Way that thou shalt go So in the Arms of his everlasting Love doth the Lord carry me and in his hand doth he hide me that so in the pure love of God I might remain under the shadow of his Wings for evermore and in his Name to trust which is a strong Tower for the righteous to flye unto for God hath given me an entrance into the eternal inheritance with the Saints in light Surely I have made a good choice blessed be the Name of the Lord for evermore who hath put it into my heart as to choose the good Way and the fear of the Lord wherein dwelleth righteousness So I am perswaded in my heart to cleave unto the Lord my God with my whole heart that the Lamb of God I may follow wheresoever he goes though I dye with him bearing his reproach for through Christ that strengthens me I am more then a Conqueror and have in measure conquered Death