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A40250 Several papers some of them given forth by George Fox; others by Jame [sic] Nayler, minister of the eternal word of God, raised up after the long night of apostacy to direct the world, to wait for the revelation of Jesus Christ, and to turn their minds to the true light, that they may be reconciled to God; of the world is not worthy, and therefore doth hate, persecute, and whom inprison them, under the name of Quaker[s]. Gathered together and published by A. P. that the truth may be spread abroad, and deceit be discovered. Wherein the plain, honest, and sober conversation of the saints in fear and trembling, is justified, against the idle bablings of formal professors ... and of all sorts of persons, under pretence of civility. Also the priests of England, with their imaginary doctrines and worships discovered to be the grand enemies of Jesus Christ; and the true worship of God in spirit and truth made manifest. ... With a word to the people of England ... Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Naylor, James, 1617?-1660. aut; Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.; Killam, John. aut; Parnell, James, 1637?-1656. aut 1654 (1654) Wing F1904; ESTC R218791 32,715 40

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SEVERAL PAPERS Some of them given forth by George Fox others by Jame Nayler Minister of the Eternal word of God raised up after the long night of Apostacy to direct the world to wait for the Revelation of Jesus Christ and to turn their minds to the true light that they may be reconciled to God of the world is not worthy and therefore doth hate persecute and whom inprison them under the name of Quakers Gathered together and Published by A.P. that the Truth may be spread abroad and deceit be discovered Wherein the plain honest and sober conversation of the Saints in fear and trembling is justified against the idle bablings of formal Professors the wicked fashions and heathenish customs of this Nation and of all sorts of persons under pretence of civility Also the Priests of England with their imaginary Doctrines and Worships discovered to be the grand enemies of Jesus Christ and the true worship of God in spirit and truth made manifest Also the occasion of divers scandals concerning the Scriptures Baptism Lords Supper Resurrection Magistracy and Ministry cast upon them by the Priests removed With a word to the people of England who in several Forms have long flattered themselves with their Ministry Churches and Ordinances but upon tryall are found to be the Synagogues of Satan Persecuters of the Truth and enemies of the Gospel And a few Queries propounded to Tho. Ledgard of Newcastle or any of those he ranks with himself under the notion of Anti-Quakers Printed in the year as the world accounts 1654. To the Reader THere is a Paper for the Press given forth by George Fox wherein all may see That Forms of Religion Ordinances as they are called and observations where into people are led by the searchings of Wisdom and the light of their Reasons and Vnderstandings from the Letter of the Scripture are nothing but the worship of the first Nature the Sacrifice of Caine which God doth not accept And that the worship of God in spirit is not known to such neither indeed can be for to that eye it is hid and the Revelation of Jesus Christ and of the deep things of God by the spirit is a Mystery to them not understood which is intended if the Lord please to be made publick as soon as this is finished P A. To all who love the Lord Jesus Christ Mercy and Peace be multiplyed unto you WHo have been scattered abroad in the cloudy dark day from mountaine to mountaine and worshipping that which they know not following the imaginations of others which they spake from the divination of their own braine and not from the mouth of the Lord shepherds that fed themselves and cloathed themselves with the wool and sought after the Fleece and so made a prey upon us and do upon the people but God as he promised saith he I will gather my sheep from your mouthes and seek them which have been scattered in the cloudy dark day hath gathered us an doth feed us upon the mountaine in a good pasture and so we witness the Promise of the Lord fulfilled and as the Lord said I will seek that which was lost and bring again that which was driven away who hath one shepherd Jesus Christ herein do we witness the Lord fulfilling the Scriptures in us and I witness the lost sheep is found and the Lord hath brought back again that which was driven away and here do we deny all the Teachers of the world who speak a divination of their own brain and not from the mouth of the Lord for who spoke from the mouth of the Lord denyed them then so do we by the same word and we deny all them that seek for gain from their Quarters which are greedy dumb doggs as the Scripture saith and all those who take the peoples money and sell the Letter which was spoken forth freely For Isaiah that spake from the mouth of the Lord he denyed such things and bid all come freely without money and without price to hear the voice of the Lord that their souls might live and to make with them an everlasting Covenant even the sure mercies of David and this Covenant I do witness therefore I deny with the same word wherewith they spake the same things the Scripture denyeth and all those that bear rule by their means and hirelings which Preach for hire and Prophesie for money For Jeremy who had the eternal words denyes such things Micha denies such things and Jesus Christ who was the Word said The hireling would fly because he is an hireling and this word the Lord hath made manifest which gathers our hearts together up to God and opens to us the Scriptures whereby we see the deceits of the Priests of the world now of the same generation and nature and acting those things there is no Scripture for which the holy men of God did not practice And for taking Tythes in the old time Levi which was to receive Tythes the strangers the fatherless and widows were to come and eat and be filled within his gate but this was according to the Law and here you see the Priests of the world do not act according to the Law in which were Types and Figures of Christ and when Christ was come those he sent forth were not to have a bagg nor a stick to defend them nor two coats nor brass nor silver but freely ye have received freely give The workman is worthy of his meat so they neither walk according to the Law nor the Gospel therefore we deny them and the Ministers of Jesus Christ which went into the world they had no portion of the world but whipping stocking prisoning But them that were gathered out of the world in the eternall word which met together and were of one heart one minde one soule to such they say If we minister unto you spirituall things is it a great thing if you minister to us carnall things But this was spoken to them upon whom the end of the world was come and this I do witness what the Scripture doth say God commanded an outward Temple Circumcision the Sabbath given as Figures and Types and Shadows of Jesus Christ so when Jesus Christ the substance was come and when he was crucified and risen who believed in him Preached his Resurrection and so went up and down in the Synagogues and into the Temple Reasoning and Disputing with them that held them up to bring them out of the Figure up to Jesus Christ who was the substance so all which were gathered together in the substance met together and then the Church was in God and they denyed the outward Temple which God commanded being made the Temples of God and denied Circumcision outwardly being circumcised with the Spirit and denyed the Jewish Sabbath outwardly and observing daies For he that believes is entred into his rest
and thou O Lord of Heaven and Earth and therefore who art thou O proud Flesh that thou art exalted Dost not thou thou God and thou Christ in thy Prayers And wouldst thou be yeed here shews the sonne of perdition himselfe and is exalted above all that is called God in thee and the Language of God is not kown with thee And as for the customes and fashions of the world bowing and making obeysance with cap and knee which man and women have done one to another which lived without the feare of the Lord we deny but we honour all men in the Lord with our soule and with our hearts and who look for these things outwardly there is a fleshly principle for these things may be done and are practized and the heart full of envy therefore all these fashions we deny And touching good-Even an good-Morrow which are customes of the world spoken without feare of the Lord we do deny but good to all men we wish and the good day that they may be brought into it and that they may see the happy day but the fashion and customes which the fleshly and heathenish nature holds up and when it 's crossed in its wayes and customes rageth and is mad we deny and that nature which holds all these things we deny For the God of Power Light and Glory hath raysed up a light in his people and gathered their hearts together to himselfe and hath discovered unto them the vanity of all things wherein they have lived and shewed them his way and truth where they should walke and gloryfie him and serve him in holiness and newness of life and with eternall food and bread of life doth he feed us whereby we become wonders to the world as he hath raised his seed to his praise and glory and is adding dayly to his Church and the strong man bowes himselfe and the keepers of the house tremble and the powers of the earth shake and the glory of the Lord is rising and is risen which terribly shakes the earth that the Idols of Gold and Silver are cast away and God alone loved who is Lord of Heaven and Earth and the works of the Lord are strange and wonderous as ever was as the Scriptures witness When Daniel heard the Voyce he fell downe and trembled and his strength and breath was gone And Paul when he heard the voyce he fell down and trembled And Habakkuk when he heard the voyce his lips quivered his belly shooke rottenness entered into his bones that he might rest in the day of trouble And David when he heard the voyce of God in the holy Temple and his Prayers came before him the Earth shooke and David his flesh trembled And work out your salvation with fear and trembling Now these workings are strange to them where the strong man keeps the house and who are in the Earth but who are rising up out of the Earth witness the power of the Earth to be shaken and who are raised up out of the Earth witness these things and have a cloud of witnesses to witness them passing through the same doore to the same rest and so we witness the Scriptures and the power of them and them to be fulfilled and fulfilling praises praises be unto the Lord God Almighty for ever We witness the happy day of the Lord is come the good and happy day and glad tidings to soules the day of Christ praises praises be unto him for ever All yee Children of the Lord praise the Lord for ever sing praises unto the Lord for evermore This is the day of salvation and the everlasting Gospel glad tidings is come into soules free pardon of sin by Jesus Christ who is come to take away sin and to destroy the works of the Devil this do we witness the Scriptures fulfilled by God alone therefore deny all the Ministers of the letter G F. CAnst thou prove in all the Scripture that God commanded any of his to salute any by the way or to take his name in vaine or to use any other heathenish customes but God Christ the Prophets and Apostles commands The contrary God saith Thou shalt not take my name in vain nor bow to any creature Christ saith Salute no man by the way The Prophet saith Salute no man by the way if any salute you answer him not again And the Apostle saith Bid Godspeed to none but such as abide in the Doctrine of Christ and have both the Father and the Son for he that bids him Godspeed is partaker of his evil deeds God saith Thou shalt not do after the manner of the heathen And Christ saith Every idle word shall be accounted for at the day of judgement and by thy words thou shalt be condemned Now thou that art offended at any for obeying the commands of God Christ the Prophets and Apostles shewst thy selfe to be no Christian but a Heathen and wilt neither obey the commands of God thy selfe nor suffer them that would but strives to uphold such costomes as God never commanded but are set up by the World and used without the feare of God Now how art thou exalted thou man of sin who wilt both dishonour God thy selfe and would compel thy brother also to act contrary to his Conscience What place would thou leave for the Throne of Christ I. N. Truth cleared from Scandalls HAving heard of divers untruths cast upon me by some of the Priests in their high places though I stand onely to the Lord in the respect of my self yet least any that love the truth should be led on to speake evil of the things they know not I shall lay open the truth as it is in me revealed touching those things whereof I have bin falsely accused 1. Concerning Jesus Christ who is the eternall Word of God by whom all things were made and are upholden which was before all time but manifested in time for the recovery of lost man which Word became Flesh and dwelt amongst the Saints who is the same yesterday and to day and for ever who did and doth dwell in the Saints who suffered and rose agine and ascended into Heaven and is set at the right hand of God to whom all power is given in Heaven and in Earth who filleth all places is the light of the World but known to none but those who receive and follow him and those he leads up to God out of all the wayes works and worships of the world by his pure light in them whereby he reveales the man of sin and by his power casts him out and so prepares the bodies of the Saints a fit Temple for the pure God to dwell in with whom dwells no uncleane thing and thus he reconciles God and man and the Image of God which in
purity and holiness is renewed and the Image of Satan which is all sin and uncleanness is defaced and none can witness redemption further then Christ is thus revealed in them to set them free from sin Which Christ I witness to he revealed in me in measure Gal. 1.16 2 Cor. 13.5 Col. 1.27 2. Concerning the Scriptures That they are true declaration of that word which was in them that gave or spake them forth and are of no private interpretation but were given forth to be read and fulfilled in the Saints as they were given forth by the holy Ghost without adding or diminishing and was not given forth for men to make a Trade upon to get money by but as they are they are profitable for Doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto every good work but they who tread in the Letter and are ignorant of the Mystery deny all perfection and none can rightly understand the Scriptures but they who read them with the same spirit that gave them forth For the naturall man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God for they spiritually discerned 3. Concerning Baptisme the true Baptisme is that of the spirit with the holy Ghost and with Fire Baptized by one spirit into one body not the washing away the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience towards God by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ without which no other Baptisme can save us they being but Figures or shadowes but this Baptisme of Christ is the substance whereby we are Baptized into his death and those who are Baptized into Christ have put on Christ 4. Concerning the Lords Supper the true Supper of the Lord is the Spirituall eating and drinking of the Flesh Blood of Christ which the spirituall man onely eateth and is thereby nourished up unto eternall life without which eating there can be no life in the creature profess what you will and all who eate of this Bread and drink of this Cup have reall communion with Christ the Head and also one with another as members and are all of one heart and one mind a compleat body in Christ Now the world who take onely the outward Signes and are not brought into a discerning of the Lords Body eate and drink damnation to themselves and so become guilty of the Body and Blood of Christ and calls this a Communion but lives in envy strife and debate fighting and going to Law one with another for Earthly things 5. Concerning the Resurrection That all shall arise to give account and receive at the last day according to their works done in the flesh whether good or evil these bodies that are dust shall turn to dust but God shall give a body as pleaseth him that which is sowne in curruption shall be raysed in incorruption it is sowne a naturall body it is raysed a spirituall body and as we have borne the Image of the earthly so we shall beare the Image of the heavenly But flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdome of Heaven neither doth corruption inherit incorruption for we shall all be changed but they who cannot witness the first Resurrection within themselves know nothing of the second but by heare-say And therefore say some of your Teachers that Christ is in Heaven with a carnall body now that Christ who is the first fruits shall be there with a carnall body and the Saints with a spirituall body is not proportionable 6. Concerning Magistracy that it is an Ordinance of God ordained for the punishment of evil doers and an encouragement of them that do well Where justice and righteousness is the head and ruleth without partiality that Land is kept in peace and those who judge for the Lord I honour as my owne life not with a flattering honour of putting off the Hat and bowing the Knee which is the honour of the world having mens persons in admiration because of advantage for selfe-ends but from my heart for conscience sake as to the power which is of God and not to mens persons For the Scripture saith He that respects persons commits sin And the Apostle commands the Saints not to have the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of Glory with respect of persons and saith such are partiall in themselves and become judges of evil thoughts And saith Paul Let every soule be subject to the higher Powers for saith he there is no power but of God the Powers that be are of God not of man and whosoever resisteth resisteth the Ordinance of God therefore subject for conscience sake And therefore though the Prophets and Saints were often sent to pronounce judgement against unjust men who had the power committed to them and did not judge for God but for selfe-ends yet they never attempted to raise any violence against them but used all means to perswade them to do justice love mercy and walke humbly with God that they might be established and the wrath of God turned away from them for those that be of God cannot rejoyce in the destruction of any but would have all to turn to God and finde mercy 7. Concerning Ministry the true Ministry of Jesus Christ hath alwayes been and are still such as came not by the will of man but by the will of God neither are they fitted for that worke by any thing of man but by God alone for the true Ministry is the gift of Jesus Christ given for the perfecting of the Saints and need no addition of humane helps and learning but as the worke is spirituall and of the Lord so they are spiritually fiued onely by the Lord And therefore he chose Heardsmen Fishermen and Plowmen and such-like and as he gave them an immediate call without the leave of man so he fitted them immediately without the help of man and as they received the gift freely so they were to give freely And when ever they found any of the false Ministery that taught for hire they cryed out against them and pronounced woes against them and shewed them that they lay in iniquity because they thought that the gift of God could be bought and sold for money And Christ calls them Hirelings and saith they care not for the sheep And Micah cryes out against the Priests that taught for Hire and saith They build up Sion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity And Ieremy cryes out against the Priests in his dayes That bare rule by their means and calls it an horrible thing and saith That from the least to the greatest they are all given to covetousness Esay cryes out of such in his dayes and calls them greedy Doggs that can never have enough and saith
as you will answer it before the Lord consider of it and lay it to heart this is the day of your visitation Freind D. W. MY love salutes that which is pure of God in thee mind that light of God in thy conscience which checks and reproves thee for sin and evil and it will turn thy mind within and shew thee the evil of thy doings and tell thee plainly thou ought not to act in that which is evil this is the light which Christ Jesus hath enlightened every one that comes into the world withall and this light will not onely shew thee thy evil deeds but it will shew thee the good way which thou ought to walk in yeilding obedience to this light which discovers unto thee sin and evil it will teach thee to deny that which is evil as the light makes it manifest unto thee in measure and this light which Christ hath given to every one to enlighten thee withall it will not onely teach thee to deny that which is evil but it will teach thee to act in righteousness and to do unto all as thou would be done by Loving this light thou wilt bring thy deeds to the light that the light may prove them and here is thy teacher present with thee obeying it the light and hating this light which makes manifest sin and evil here is thy condemnation eternally Now thou hast time prize it and put not the day of the Lord afarr off for the time past is unrecoverable the time to come is uncertaine the time present is thine now while time is improve thy talent which the Lord hath given thee that thou mayest receive the Blessing which is Well done thou good and faithfull servant thou shalt be made Ruler over much but on the contrary if thou be negligent and sloathfull and slight the mercies of the Lord to thy soule and hide thy talent in the earth then thou art that sloathfull servant who said Christ was an austere man for the Lord hath given every one a measure to Profit withall then thou must receive thy portion Go ye cursed into hell prepared for the Devil and his Angels Now it is called to day arise and put off the old man with his deeds for the old man must be put off with his deeds in measure before the new man can be put on with his deeds which is after God created in righteousness and true holiness therefore in the feare of God worke while it is day for the night comes when none can worke it is said Rejoyce O young man in thy youth But know for all this thou must come to Judgement Now friend consider what thou art a doing and take heed of spending thy time carelesly without the fear of God and the Lord give thee understanding that thou mayest see what thou art doing that thou mayest chuse the good and refuse the evil From a friend to thy soule and to all that love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity and in truth This was I moved to write to thee who am a prisoner of the Lord in York Castle whose name in the flesh is John Killam ALL friends in your several measures dwell and abide in that which is immortall of God in you which is begotten by the ministry of the word which is not of the world but leads out of the world and crucifies the world who in it dwells this doth witness so all to the witness keep your minds and upon it wait and be attentive that you all in the tenderness may be kept and the witness preserved waking and alive in you that which witnesseth with the Just and righteous pure God in you against all deceits hypocrisie or self-ends in you that herein you may be preserved every one in your measures faithfull to God who hath called you that herein you may grow out of the world self flesh and the knowledge thereof which all defiles and perisheth into purity righteousness and holiness which condemns the world that in the true favour and discerning you may grow to sever between the precious and the vse the clean and the unclean the pure and the unpure that you may know and owne the pure life in one another the pure language and the pure voice that true Judgement may pass upon that which is contrary least for want of favour and true Judgement you joyne with the unclean spirit which spots and defiles staines and darkens the understanding and then slothfulness gets up and earthly mindedness and self-endedness and self takes its liberty which all staines and dishonours the truth of God the father of truth from whence all truth proceeds But woe from the Lord will follow the careless slothful disobedient rebellious one who causes offences so all in the presence of the living God to the witness of God in you I speake to feare the living God of life and Power and in it dwell that in it you may be preserved low and tender your minds to the measure of light which manifests darkness and what out of it ariseth which is contrary to the light drawes from the light and so draws from God that in the light this may be seen Judged and condemned and here you are kept in your measures and daily growth out of the world self flesh or whatsoever is of the same that all things may be given up into his will who is God over all and creator of all whose owne all is and here you are kept single and free Just upright and pure every one in your measures in the continuall exercise in a growing condition the witness being kept waking but I do you all warne to take heed of setting up a false rest out of light in the carnality in the form without the life and power painted with the word of truth catched in the comprehension talked of such feeds death in whom death raign and such with the light which they are turned from are seen Judged and condemned Ignorance not to be pleaded So all tender ones who feare the living God and abide to the light which opens manifests and discovers within that upon it you may wait for teaching and direction looking out at any but every one in particular mind the light of the Lord Jesus which hath convniced you to be your guide and teacher in all things bringing all your thoughts words and actions to the light by it to be tryed and proved at it to ask councel and direction and here God alone is teacher orderer and mighty counceller who is the everlasting Father and Prince of peace and joy and here true Judgement is set up which keeps in the watch and the cross and here true peace is preserved which stands in obedience through the Cross and herein true favour you grow and in the discerning and the pure wisdome you grow in your measures received from the fountaine which orders all and distinguishes between the precious and the vile and the two seeds and what is
and hath ceased from his own work even as God did from his And all those now who have received Jesus Christ the substance who is the Head of the Church deny all Types and Figures of him and do witness the Scriptures fulfilled And Jesus Christ who is the chiefe Shepheard the Bishop of their soules And Jesus Christ who is the Mediator between God and Man being made manifest in them makes them all of one mind and one heart and to deny the priests of the world who profess him in words and act those things he forbids First for sprinkling of infants and telling people they baptize them into the Faith into the Church which there is no Scripture for but the baptism by one spirit into one body this we own and the Church is in God as Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus write to the Church of the Thessalonians which was in God And they tell people of a Sacrament for which there is no Scripture that we do deny and them but the Supper of the Lord we own The Bread that we break is the body of Christ the Cup we drink is the Blood of Christ all made to drink into one spirit And the singing of Psalmes after their manner we deny for they sing Davids tremblings quakings and roarings this they have turned into meeter as if we should see one of you lying roaring crying till your eyes should grow dim and watering your bed with your teares and we should turn it into meeter and make a Rime of it and take it and go among a company of ignorant people and say let us sing to the praise and glory of God O Lord I am not puft in mind I have no scornfull eye when they are puft in minds and have scornfull eyes and when they read the Psames they keep on their hats and when they sing them they keep off their hats here they worship the work of their own hands all such practises we deny but we will sing with the spirit we will sing with grace we will sing with understanding Praises praises unto the Lord God on high And they speak a divination of their own braine and not from the mouth of the Lord and such the Lord sent his Prophets to cry out against all these now who study a divination of their own brain and speak not from the mouth of the Lord we do deny and all who are made Ministers by Oxford and Cambrige bred up with Learning and so made Mininsters by the will of men and speak natural Languages as Hebrew and Greek and say that is the Original which a natural man may learn and the natural man knowes not the things of God and all such we do deny for Paul was brought up at the feet of Gamaliel in the Jewish Religion but that did not make him a Minister of Jesus Christ for he declares that he was not made a Minister by the will of man nor of man neither by man but by the will of God and all such I own who stand out of the will of man denying all carnal ends for this ministry draws up to God out of the world and doth not respect any mans person but ministers to that which is in prison But those Teachers which are made by man say The Letter is the Light the Letter is the Word the four Books Matthew Mark Luk and John is the Gospel when the Letter saith Christ is the light and God is the World and Jesus Christ is the glad tidings which was promised the Lambe of God which taketh away the sins of the world and this we witness to be fulfilled all they that are in the light are in unity for the light is but one and who know the light are in unity all who know the word which is a mystery are come to the beginning are sanctified by the word and clean through the word for this word is a Fire burning up all corruption as an Hammer beats down all high minds high nature that the pure seed may be raised up as a sword cuts to pieces and divides asunder the precious from the evil and makes a separation inwardly and outwardly from uncleanness and this is the word of reconciliation that reconcileth together to God and gathers the hearts of his together to live in love and unity one with another and lets them see how they have been strangers and aliens from the life of God the light doth and the word draws from under the occasion of all Laws outwardly working out that silthy nature which the outward Law takes hold on so walking in the spirit there is not a fulfilling the lusts of the flesh and the spirit is but one which baptizeth into one body which we do witness praise be to the Lord to be fulfilled And whereas we are a people accused to raise up a new War it is false for dwelling in the word it takes away the occasion of Wars and gathers our hearts together to God and unto one another and brings to the beginning before War ● was for the Ministers of God which had the word of reconciliation to draw them from the occasion of all wars working out that nature that occasions warre said whence do wars arise even from the lusts Therefore all dear people who love the Lord Jesus Christ and the appearance of Jesus Christ in your souls be not talkers of the truth nor followers of the blinde guides but mind the pure light of God in you which shews your sin and evil and how you have spent your time and shews you how your mindes goe forth and every carnal thought and if you love that light you love Christ and walking in the light in measure there will be no occasion of stumbling for all stumbling is being disobedient and wait to finde the word in you as the Scripture saith Not to fetch it from above nor from beneath but what saith it It is nigh thee in thy heart for with the heart man believeth and with the tongue confession is made unto salvation and abiding inwardly in the light it will let you see one another and have unity one with another and the Teachers of the world to be the Ministers of the letter And whereas we are accused for going into Steeple-houses It was the practice of the Apostles to go into the Synagogues reasoning and disputing about the Scriptures shewing them the substance and told them that God did not dwell in Temples made with hands neither was he worshipped with mens hands Stephen saith the most high dwels not in Temples made with hands and for witnessing forth the substance was stoned to death but these were types of Jesus Christ and the Saints and who were made the Temples of God denied all outward Temples But the Ministery now which doth profess Jesus Christ holds up these