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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27398	A tender and unfeigned salutation of love and good-will to professors, or, A tender invitation and call unto all people in whose hearts there hath been, and still is, some true desiring and breathing after the Lord God ... from one whose tender soul (in spirit) doth travel for the prosperity of Sion ... / a friend to all people, William Bennit.	Bennit, William, d. 1684.	1664 (1664)	Wing B1894; ESTC R5155	19,011	34

and make a confession of Christ in words as many professors do who say They are justified by Christ and he hath done all for them and yet they are still in their sins in the pride covetousness vanity pomp and vain glory of the world in it's vain customs inventions and traditions seeking and loving it's honour and respect seeking and loving the praise of men more than the praise of God But dear people it is not enough to confess Christ without and say you believe in him c. except you come to know him made manifest in you to destroy the works of the Devil for your professing and confessing of Christ dying at Jerusalem c. doth not cleanse your Hearts nor sanctifie your Souls nor purge your Consciences from dead works to serve the living God in newness of life but still you see you are Bond-slaves unto sin and corruption and led captive with the lusts and desires of your own hearts and it will be so dear people until you turn your minds inward to the pure light of Christ in you that doth discover the sin and corruption of your own hearts and as you come to believe in that to love and follow that you will come to feel and find the working out of the old leaven of sin iniquity and corruption and working you into its nature and so come to see and feel and witness not only a talk of it your Regeneration wrought by Christ in you the Immortal Word to be born again of it the Seed incorruptible which must be known within to bruise the Serpents head the god of the world the wicked spirit that leads man into sin which hath been exalted in the heart of man and hath been Lord Head and King there and the holy Seed the pure life that hath suffered that hath been oppressed even as a Cart is oppressed with sheaves that hath been pierced wounded and crucified the Just hath suffered for the Unjust he hath long been a man of sorrows and largely acquainted with grief he hath been smitten and thou have esteemed him not but oh he hath been wounded for and by thy transgressions and bruised by and for thy iniquities he hath born thy iniquity whilst thou like a sheep hath gone astray and followed thy own way But oh now return unto the good Shepheard who lay down his life for his Sheep and gathereth the scattered into the fold of Rest where he feeds them and causeth them to lie down in the fresh Pastures of life where none can make them afraid and feed and sup with him who is their daily Bread their Life their Rest their Joy and Delight So dear people whose desires are after the Lord but are seeking for Salvation and after a God afar of I beseech you to return inward because I fervently desire that your Souls might come to taste of the love and sweet peace of my God which is that which would satisfie your Souls and to take heed to that in your hearts which as light shineth in a dark place discovering unto you the deeds of darkness and the works of the night to be evil and fear not that that will deceive ye for it is the sure word of Prophecy unto which you do 2 Pet. 1. 19. well to take heed until the day dawn in your hearts and light shine out of darkness and wholly extinguish the night and give no heed to them who speak evil of the way of the Lord and counts Truth to be error and Light darkness even as the prosessing Jews they boasted of Moses and of the Law and of the Prophets but when he whom Moses and the Prophets prophesied of whom the Law did figure out who fulfills the Law who was the life of Moses and the Prophets came unto them they hated him and said We know that God spake by Moses but as for Mat. 9. 29. ● 8. 4 8 the 24. 11. ch 19. this fellow we know not whence he is he is said they a Gluttoner a Wine-bibber a friend to Publicans and Sinners he through Beelzebub the Prince of Devils doth cast out Devils c. And truly I may say not out of a prejudice mind of Enmity towards any for my Soul bears love and good-will towards all men that it is as it were the same now with many of the Professors in this age who as the Jews made a large boast and profession of Moses the Law and the Prophets and hated him the life of them doth make a large boast of Christ in words and of his dying at Jerusalem which I believe he did according as the Scripture testifie and that he hath done all for them and if they can but believe it that is enough c. And yet whilest they are thus professing him in words behold many of them are enemies to his Life and so enemies to him whom they boast of who is the Word that was in the beginning in whom was life and his life is the light of men The true light saith John that lighteth John 1. 9. every man that cometh into the world which the Professors saith is a natural light that which convinceth wicked men of sin in their own hearts and judg them for evil doing it is a natural light say the Professors and so call the life of the Word which is the light of men natural it 's a natural conscience say some it 's an insufficient light it 's a common grace c. so common it is indeed that as Paul says it hath appeared unto Titus 2. 11 all men even that grace that bring Salvation nay some blasphemously will presume to say it 's a spirit of delusion a spirit of errour and these are under the wo vvho 5. 20. 36. call the Truth error and the Light darkness and the Good evil and these one day shall know their blasphemy and their words shall become their burden and these are in great darkness and ignorance indeed thick darkness fills their habitation even the darkness of Egypt that may be felt and it is hard indeed for such to be brought into the pure light and unchangable Truth of God although with the Lord God Almighty nothing is impossible and these like the Scribes and Pharisees who although they professed God in words and said they had one Father even God sought to shut up the Kingdom of Heaven from men and would ● 23. 13. neither enter in themselves nor suffer them that would and so these while they profess Christ in words they speak evil of his Light and Truth and will neither own it themselves nor suffer as much as in them lie them that would but cryes out take heed beware of the light the Quakers prate of it is darkness say they it will deceive you and delude you and lead you into Error c. But let all people know that the light which the people of God called Quakers speak of and in bowels of love direct peoples

minds unto is the Life of the Word which is Immortal Eternal Permanent ● 1. 2 3 9 Divine and Immutable and not Natural Thou who ever thou art and whatever by men thou be accounted of that doth make a large profession of God Christ and the Scriptures of Truth in words and doth hate and speak evil of the Light the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world thou art a hater of God and of Christ and art of Antichrist against Christ although thou profess him in words and say thou art saved by him and justified by him c. yet if thou hate his light in thy own Conscience which doth check thee for evil doing and prick thee for thy sins in secret thou art in enmity to him and condemned by the Light and not justified and thy confession of Christ in words will not save thee from his Righteous Condemnation whilst thou hate his pure light in thy Conscience and thy profession is for the fire and unto the Light thou must come before thou canst find true peace with the Lord God Yea what ever thou art who art climbed and a climbing up thy Imaginations and a soaring up aloft with the god of the world the Prince of the power of the Air above the light the door into the fold striving to enter into the fold and not by the door to wit the Light thou art the Thief and Rober Joh. 10. ● who run before Christ the Light the Door into the Fold and thou must come down come down to that which appears a small thing in thy eye who art swell'd big in thy fleshly wisdom from which the things of Gods Kingdom is hid even to that which 1 Cor. 1. 2● 29 30 31 19 20 21 thou counts a foolish thing a weak a poor thing not worth the minding or heeding but this is it the foolish thing in the eye that is to confound thy wisdom and turn it into foolishness that so thou becoming a fool may be made wise in it This is the weak thing in thy eye which is to confound thy strength and make thee weak that thou may be strong in it and the poor thing in thy eye which is to rob thee of all thy Riches that thou becoming poor in it may be made Rich so where is the Wise the Rabby the Scribe the Disputer of this world Hath not God made foolish the Wisdom of this world for the world by wisdom know not God and so the boaster is excluded that God may have the Glory and all flesh abased and silent before him who of God is made unto his Saints that love his Light and are led by his Spirit Wisdom Strength Power Righteousness Justification and Redemption who have the heavenly Treasure in the Earthen vessel that the glory may be of God who is worthy of all Glory and Praise for ever So heed not dear people you who have any desire in you after the Lord what this man or the other saith of the Light but love the Light and take heed ● 3. 20. unto it for that which judge and condemn sin in you which is that which separate you from the Lord and hinders your peace with the Lord and is the cause of your burden and sorrow this you shall not need to fear will delude you That is a spirit of delusion that leads into sin and evil beware of that but that which reproves you for evil in your own hearts and manifest the deeds of darkness take heed unto it for that is the ● 5. 13 14. Light that doth make manifest darkness that which is reprovable is made manifest by the Light for what ever make manifest is Light and that will not onely make manifest the sin and evil but as you come to turn your minds in unto it and love and follow it it will save you from your sins and redeem your minds and souls unto God for who receive his Light his pure Grace in them they receive power through it to become the Sons of God for through his Grace doth he manifest his power in them that believe in the Light to the drawing of their hearts and minds out of the ungodliness and worldly lusts and to the teaching of them to live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world and thus the free Grace of God bring Salvation to their Souls And so dear people thus you who come to believe in the Light to love and obey the Light in your own Consciences will come to feel and witness the work of the Lord God in your hearts the working and opperation of the Word of Life to the casting out of the Bondwoman and her son which is not to inherit to the binding of the strong man and casting of him out yea the Old man with his deeds Eph. 4. 20 2● 22 23. is to be put off and you renewed in the spirit of your minds and the new Man is to be put on who after God is created in Righteousness and true Holiness to put him on and to bring him forth before all men the only begotten Son of God who is full of Grace and Truth Mercy and Love Pitty and Compassion Purity and Holiness and Good-will towards all who love his Enemies and do good to them that hate him c. So coming to the Light Christ Jesus you come to the Substance to him in whom the Figures Types and Shaddows end in and so come to witness him in you who fulfil all Righteousness he who is the end of the Law for Righteousness sake unto them Col. 2. 11 1● that believe in him and to be Circumcised in him with the Circumcision made without hands by the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the Circumcision of Christ which the outward Circumcision was a figure of and to witness the Baptism of Christ which is with the Holy Ghost and with fire which Johns Baptism with water outward was a true figure of and he bore Testimony unto Christ the Light of the world who said I must decrease but he must increase I indeed baptise you with water but he Christ 3. 30. Jesus who was before me shall baptise you with the Holy Ghost and with Fire whose fan is in his hand 3 11 12. and he shall throughly purge his floor the Wheat he shall gather into his garner but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire So the outward water was but a type the outward washing a type of the inward washing and inward cleansing and inward purging and purifying by the Water of Life or the Blood of Jesus that cleanseth from all sin which is felt thus to work in them who believe in the Light and walk in the Light and they come to know that begotten in them that feeds upon the flesh of Christ which is the living Bread upon which the living Soul feed and is the Substance which