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A86651	A lamentation for the scattered tribes, who are exiled into captivity, and are now mingled among the heathen, and are joyned to the oppressor, and refuses to return. Presented unto all the separated congregations, under what name or form soever, in love to the lost. Shewing, the difference betwixt them that were separated by the word of faith, and them who have separated themselves, in imitation from the letter: ... / By a servant of truth, and a friend to righteousness, who suffers with the seed, which is held in oppression, waiting and labouring for its return; called Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing H3170; Thomason E885_1; ESTC R204835	28,211	39

the outward part of the Law or Scripture and if that will not do then you looke to be Justified by the righteousness of one you have heard of without you and even then when you your selves are found sinners and so would make Christ a Minister of sin How long will you speake these things and how long shall the words of your mouth be as a strong wind doth God pervert Judgment or doth the Almightie pervert Justice Job 8. 2 3. shall not he that sins dye and is not he that commits sin of the Devil doth God justifie him that 's of the devil nay he shall condemn him the Gospel is not preached to that seed but the day of vengeance and tribulation and wrath upon every one that doth evill and whom he Condemns he Justifies not and whom he redeems he redeems out of sin and creates them that they may walk to the praise and glory of his grace them that praises grace and glorifies grace walks in it and are under it and it hath Dominion over and their ungodlyness and worldly lusts is denyed and holyness and righteousness is brought forth and the Image of God is restored Oh how long shall death talke of the fame of wisdom how long shall a deceived heart lead you aside how long will ye be blind how long will ye hearken to your Imaginations is any redeemed out of sin where sin rules and where it is acted grace reigns not is not this the grace of God which Condemns mans will and selfe and the lusts of the flesh and you that are in your wills and selfe in every thing standing doth not the grace Condemn you how then or by what are ye Justified but this hath been a piece of your Divinity when that in your Consciences Condemned you looking up to Christ Justified at a distance Oh you vayn minds is not the light of Christ one with Christ is Christ divided from his Spirit or against himself or in himself when that his light Condemns and his spirit reproves thee for sin doth he Justifie doth not his spirit bear witness in the spirits of them that are sanctified and is not this the spirit which Convinceth for sin and as thou actest sin it reproves thee and bears witness against thee then How should it bear witness to thee and so you may see all of you who tells of Justification by faith that you are in a dreame and not in the faith that Justifies for he that is Justified by faith which is true he hath the witness in himselfe now if thou be reproved in thy selfe for sin by the light of Christ where is thy witness in thy selfe shew it For them that are saved by grace and Justified by faith selfe and self-will and the lusts of the flesh and disobedience to the Grace of God is Judged and Condemned and self-selfe-righteousness Titus 3. 5. 6 Not by works of righteousness that we have done but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy ghost Ephes. 2. 8 By grace are ye saved through faith and that not of your selves it 's the gift of God and them that receives and believes in the gift of God are Justified and grace is the gift of God which teacheth to deny ungodlyness and them that are taught by this it teacheth and leadeth out of all sin and so redemption from sin is witnessed and Justification is witnessed and the gift of God which is the Spirit of Promise seales the assurance in the heart but where sin is committed grace raignes not through righteousness and thou that art here art under the Law and under wrath and condemnation and art not under grace that Justifies through faith and so your cover being taken off see your shame all and blush and repent The difference betwixt the faith which is feigned which is the worlds and the Saints faith NOw your faith which leads you not to believe that you can ever be freed from sin this faith is reprobate and brings forth no good works but dead works and is not the life of the Just but the Life of the unjust which leads not to overcome the evil and the works of the Devil nor leads not into the Rest which is in God for you speake your own words and thinke your own thoughts and hath not ceased from your own workes but worships in your wills acts in your wills speaks in your wills and are your own and doth not see an overcoming of sia but a growing into it into deceit more and more and looking all is done for you and you believe Christ hath done all and hath fulfilled the Law for you and yet doth witness nothing done in you nor the Law fulfilled in you nor sin destroyed in you and yet you say you lay hold upon the righteousness of Christ by faith O what righteousness is that you lay hold of which is imperfect and leads not out of imperfection that is not true faith that lays hold on a righteousness which is imperfect and all of you say all that is in you there is defects and Imperfections in it yea even the graces and gifts of God you say they are Imperfect then Consider if you see Imperfection in all those things you have laid hold on and have received then you know not faith nor grace nor the gift of God which is perfect but believes in a dream of a thing done and an apprehension of a thing at a distance without you Imagining you are eating but when you awake you are hungry Imagining you are saved but when you enter into your Hearts see nothing witnessed nothing done nor redeemed from nothing your faith and hope stands in works and that is all preaching the letter over and proving that which is proved and was proved in them that witnessed the life of those things in them that are written but nothing is proved in you but applies their righteousness which was the righteousness of faith and of Christ which was in them wrought through death to you that are alive in sin and lust and pride and enmity and malice and deceit yea even to the head of the Serpent and so would be covered in your in quity and saved from Guilt and Condemnation and wrath But to be clensed from sin you regard not for if you own that word and faith and hope which is of God it will slay and kill that life for ever and destroy all your wisdom which stands in the earthly nature and therefore I say unto you repent and cease from your way from your vain conceivings and all be uncovered and you will see the first principle you have to Learn so all your faith which is out of the Light is seen which you gather in from the letter and not wrought in the light it leads not out of the world nor to above the world but all who have faith works in the light and mortification and sanctification and holyness is

brought forth in purity uprighteousness meekness temperance patience and the fruits of righteousness for it is not dead but the Just man lives by it and his works appeares in the world and is as a light but your faith which is dead talks of it and when you are viewed in the light no fruits of righteousness grow in you your hope and faith is vain and it will not save you from condemnation in the day of the Lord and because you finde written in the Scriptures that by the deedes of the law no flesh can be Justified therefore you would exclude the worke of grace and the righteousness of faith and the life of Christ which brings forth fruits and all faith is dead without works for as the body lives not but it moves and acts no more is faith living except it move and so you whose faith stands in words and in things taken on in the fallen wisdom which you read without you that faith is reprobate unto every good work and is vain for the living is not witnessed nor the dead raised in you to life nor the lost sheep found nor that which hath been driven away brought back but the earth yet closeth the blood and the earth in you covers the slain and the grave you see not opened nor the dead raised incorruptible and so you are unchanged but the corruptible lives and the mortal and draws you after it and is exalted and the head not known who is the life of men nor exalted and so he draws you not nor leads you not but you are led by your own wills and Another girds you not nor the gird of strength is not at all known but in words and so the old man is alive uncrucified with his deeds but his deeds are brought forth and so by your fruits you are known Concerning Hope and the difference betwixt true and false hope ANd to all sorts of professors I shall clear my conscience to you all and finish my testimony that I may dwell in peace with the Lord who hath commanded me to bear witness to his Name and his love also constrains me and in love to the seed of Israel who are bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh who are of the true Circumcision that they may come out of Captivitie from among the lying Inchanters and Sorcerers and Diviners where they have been long held Captive and the heritage of the Lord laid waste and therefore you whose hope is without you it 's vain whose hope stands without in these things which are weak as the Apostle said of the Law which made nothing persect because of the weakness and unprofitableness of it which stood in washings and signes of the true tabernacle they were yet they did not make perfect so I say unto you your bread and wine and water which were figures of a more heavenly thing they do make nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope Heb. 7. 18 19. and so while you have hope in any thing without you you stand in that which is Imperfect and Contends about that but looks not for the hope to be brought in by which you might draw near unto God Christ the hope the light and while this you own not to lead you the light you cannot draw near unto God but he will slay you and kill you notwithstanding all your words and all that walks in the light comes to see the hope brought in and this hope purifies the heart as Christ is pure and then by it and through it there is a drawing near unto God and an access to him with boldness for where the lively hope is there is no guilt then there is boldness and so you whose hope is in words without and not in you you forget God all that forgets the light forgets God your hope is the hope of the hypocrite which shall perish whose hope shall be cut off as a spiders web Job 8. 14 and all your hope which doth not purifie the heart and give you victory over sin dayly is the hope of the wicked Job 11 20 but the eyes of the wicked shall faile and they shall not escape and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost True faith how it is wrought and what it is in it 's effects and operations NOw concerning faith it is begotten in the heart of man by preaching of the eternal Word which word is nigh in the mouth and in the heart and all that comes to hearken to the word which is pure and receive it and believe in it comes to see faith revealed by which they draw near unto God and this is begotten by the word of faith which is the word of Christ which word is spirit and life to all that receive it and by it is the mountains removed and sin overcome and victory witnessed over sin Mat. 17. 20. and this faith is pure and leads into purity it is the gift of God and leads all towards God that hath it and it is perfect and all that stands in it comes to have the will of God perfected in them and that which is imperfect comes to be done away and the Just lives by it Heb. 2. 4. and in it and by it and through it is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith Rom. 1. 17. and all that do witness the birth which is from above which is borne of God which sins not faith is the life of this birth which is Just and the Son of God lives by it who doth the will of God as it is written The life that I now live is by the faith of the Son of God and all who hath it and believes in this shall never die for by it is translation witnessed from sin and death and condemnation into the Immortal life and by it is Gods righteousness revealed and well pleased is he with all who walk in it and where this is not his wrath and displeasure arises and all who stands in the least measure of it is perfect and comes to be free from sin for it brings and reveales the righteousness of God which Justifies Sanctifies and Mortifies even the righteousness of God which takes away sin and purges the heart from all filthyness both of flesh and Spirit and thus remission of sins comes to be witnessed and man Justified by the righteousness of Christ which is the righteousness of faith wrought in the Creature by the eternal Spirit and word which is one and thus assurance comes to be made manifest for it bears witness and is the true evidence of the everlasting substance which is brought in and sin and self and all Iniquity comes to be seen and revealed judged and Condemned and cast out and Gods righteousness comes to be the life of a believer even the life of Christ which is immortal by which man comes to be redeemed and purchased unto God and not his own but becomes servant to him and

A LAMENTATION FOR THE SCATTERED TRIBES Who are exiled into Captivity and are now mingled among the Heathen and are joyned to the Oppressor and refuses to return Presented unto all the separated Congregations under what Name or Form soever in love to the Lost SHEWING The difference betwixt them that were separated by the Word of Faith and them who have separated themselves in imitation from the letter And how they differ both in Doctrine in Matter in Form and so not the same with the Churches of Christ in the Unity The difference between the true and false Ministery The difference betwixt the Faith which is feigned and the Saints Faith The difference betwixt true and false Hope A few words to the Ministery in all Sects and to all the mingled people who dwell in the Land of Darkness and are tossed up and down and knows not where the power is which is of God which gives Victory A few words for your Information Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee and they have not discovered thine iniquity to turn away thy captivity but have seen for thee false burthens and causes of banishment Lament. 2. 14. By a Servant of Truth and a Friend to Righteousness who suffers with the Seed which is held in oppression waiting and labouring for its return called FRANCIS HOWGILL London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1656. The Contents Concerning the word of Christ which the Apostles and Ministers preached who had it in them revealed which did gather them into One that believed in it and its effect and operation that it had And the difference shewed betwixt that M●nistery and the Ministery of them that preach the Letter for the Word The difference between them that were separated by the Word and them who have separated themselves The difference shewn betwixt them that are taught of Christ and them that follow the principles of Darkness that leads into Error The difference betwixt the Faith which is feigned which is the worlds and the Saints Faith Concerning Hope and the difference betwixt true and false Hope True Faith how it s wrought and what it is and its operation A word to all the Ministers of the world in all Sects and to all People in every Sect. A few words to all you who put out the eye through long accustoming unto sin who are near utter darkness With some Information to them who are tossed and findes no rest nor knows not where the Power of God is that gives dominion over sin the Power declared and the way to Peace TO all you who profess the name of our Lord Jesus in words and makes mention of his words and of his Ministers words who had the everlasting Gospel and the word of reconciliation and of those practises which the Churches of Christ had in their day committed unto them after they were gathered out of the world and had denied it and its nature and were not conformable to it but were changed in their inward man fruits of righteousness were brought forth and they were as lights in the world and did bear witness against the world that they were evill and said they were of God and had the witness in themselves and were bold to say the whole world lay in wickedness To you who are called separated Churches and fellowships under this or that name to you I write my soul pities you above the rest of the world and in love to those desires which was once among you I write that so if it be possible you may come to see your selves and the foundation on which you stand that those desires which was after God begotten may not wholly be slayn extinguished and betrayed through the subtiltie of the serpent whose wayes are crooked and whose subtiltie is great to keep man under his power This I have to say unto you There was and is a zeale in you but not according to knowledge bear my words and judge that in your selves which would be angry There was that which shewed you the Nationall way of worship under Episcopacie and Prelacy and Presbyterie which is one in the ground and nature that this was the broad way and not according to the mind of the Lord neither was it according to precept nor the practises of the Churches of Christ which is cleare from the Scripture Now you seeing this was not according to Christ nor his Ministers nor the Churches you began to separate from them into this or that body under this or that name as a body separate from the world and their worship because you found in the writings of that which is called the Gospel people be gathered out of the world now your eyes being still without you conformed to their practises as you judged both in matter and manner and practising those things which you read in the Scripture that the Churches practised and so some zealous did go forth and gather people together in this or that forme and here was your beginning and so here you set up your rest that you walk according to the most exact patern that is visible or written yet since this you do not agree but are divided in your selves one sets up this and another that thing which you in your reason judge right Now many things I might write unto you which you cannot bear but rather in love a few words that you may see the vast difference betwixt your assemblies and Churches and the Churches which you say is your example And first of all I will show in the ground how far you fall short although it may be you may hate my instruction yet I say Suffer me a little for I am one who have obtained mercy after a long and a sore travel and tossed up and downe in great tempests but at last entered into the everlasting rest and do not desire to contend with you for out of debates carnal I am brought but rather in love to the honesty in you all which is not of this world I speake First they received power from on high and commission given to preach the Gospel to all nations I speak of the Ministers of Christ and those things which they had heard and seen and felt and tasted of and had handled of the word of life which life was manifest in them this they preached and were sent to turne people from darkness to light and from Satan's power unto God's power and as many as received and believed the word which they preached which was the word of faith and faith was begotten by the preaching of it and they heard and learned of the word of life fayth came by hearing that word and this word which they preached unto them was nigh them in their mouth and in their heart which as people turned to it and received it and believed so a change was wrought in the hearers of it and they were turned from dead workes unto the measure

and faithfull witness the beginning of the Creation of God and all that waits in the light waits not in the grace of God but waits in that which turnes the grace into wantonness there Christ suffers and is denied and another is owned and learned of and another teacher and where the grace of God is not taught and learned of ungodlyness is not denied but ungodlyness is denied where the grace teacheth and where another thing is hearkened unto and learned of that which is not like God is learned and deceipt is brought forth and the Childe of fornication which must not inherit and all who learne of this nature they are blind and Ignorant of the will of God and so knows not the Doctrine of Christ but their eyes is without in the world where the false prophets are gone out into the world and there is the Errors and the Sects and the judgments which are many and the opinions which are out of the unitie and their vaine Imaginations and vaine thoughts lodges in the heart and there the light of Christ is not known but the woman speakes which ought to learn in silence who was first in the transgression And all you that put the letter for the light are blind and calls it the Word and the Gospel you are not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God for the word of God is the power of God which is immortal and eternal and all that which is visible stands in time and cannot lead to know him which was before time in the beginning and so all you who are in your earthly carnal minds Imagining a Rule without you and a word without you you have not learned of him who is entered with the veil you are hunting upon the wild mountains and forests and knows not the voyce of the true Shepherd who saith learn of me whose word is nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart and thou that hath not hearkned unto this a separation thou never didst see but darkness is upon the face of the deep and the Word of God is not known by which the heavens and the earth was made and all things therein are upholden by the word of his power which word of power is seen by them whose mindes are turned within and there the thoughts and intents of the heart is by it discerned and seen which word is quick and powerful and discernes the secrets of mans heart and is as a hammer to break the rocks and the hard hearts and this is immediate and eternal and all who knows not this your carnal minde stands wholly in your and your hard hearts is unbroken and the mountaines is unlevelled and you walke in the crooked ways of the old serpent in subtiltie and deceipt and stands covered before the Lord and the straight paths of righteousness you have not known Therefore awake out of deceipt and security all sorts of people where you have been making your rest in the lap of the adulterer and have drunken of the wine of fornication and of the old drags of unrighteousness whereby the whole man is in flamed and the whole course of Nature is set on the fire of hell and filth and abomination lodges in the heart and you talke of the word of God and of the law of God and of the new covenant and yet never see any thing in you which you can own to guide you which is contrary to your wills which is the will of God All sorts of professors whether Presbyters Independents Bapists or of what name soever you are called by who sayes you are separated let me ask this What are you separated from and what separated you If you deny the sufficiency of the Spirits teaching alone and it to be the rule and alone guide unto God who is separated from sinners and behold them a far off I say you who cannot own that which shews you your vain minds and vain thoughts and that discerns the thoughts if you cannot own this the word of God you never knew nor the Law written in your hearts nor the word of separation and all are in your imaginations and vain conceivings in your fleshly minds here and there setting up an Image raised from a dead letter and founded on your earthly Imaginations and they stands in the vallies of vain hopes and there is no life in nothing you worship and set up neither sight nor hearing and every one of you worship a dead thing and that which makes not the comers thereunto perfect but you are all pleading for imperfection and sin in the body and all joyne together to oppose the life and power of God which the Saints ought to press after and they that stand in the counsel doth obtain victory and witness of his righteousness which is perfect Are you not many of you turning into the old Bishops road who would tie all unto their Idols temple or parish-Church so called and are not you many of you going about to stop all from hearing any but you under payn of Excommunication Oh the gross darkness you are led in and the wilful blindness who have taken up your rest in that which is carnal and without where all the hypocrites may come verily I say unto you your rest will be but as the leaning upon a bowed wall or as a reed of Egypt for the ground of iniquitie stands whole and the whole body of darkness is not removed the earth is whole the fallow ground is not plowed up thornes and briers and fruitless trees which cumbers the ground of the Lord is not cut down and so the works of condemnation you are none of you brought from under but selfe stands and your wills is alive which is at enmitie against God only talking of a Christ at a distance and his righteousness as far from you as betwixt earth and heaven and here is your Justification applying this unto your selves while you are disobedient to the grace of God in you this is your fayth and your rest and this fayth all the world hath and this hope but this fayth cannot justifie nor not one of you hath assurance who hath but this who doth not witness Gods righteousness brought forth in you which is wrought by the word of fayth which is incorruptible which justifies and gives assurance and is witnessed through the death of the Cross And therefore I cannot forbear but to declare your Ignorance and shew you your deceipt you ly in and your ragged veiles you hide your selves under for I know your peace you have is that which will not last and therefore be not secure and careless nor obstinate but lay down your Crowns at his feet and come out of your ease and rest and fleshly exaltation puffed up by the wisdom of the flesh and that which you have gathered in and not witnesses of the same wrought in you all for the fire yet a little while and time shall be no longer for the end of time

shall come upon all your strength and all your rest in the flesh and ease in your beds that you have made shall be taken away you have slayn those desires in you which was once after God and now follows the pleasures of the flesh and have set up such a Worship over every one of you as you can live at ease and in pleasures and in pride and vain-glory and covetousness and are men-pleasers and respecters of persons and yet your Justification stands sure and your fayth which you hold and this fayth is reprobate which leads into the works of darkness Oh you are high you are strong warriors for the prince of darkness and greater opposers of the power of the Lord then they that have professed lesse who are gone before Verily this is fulfilled in this generation Publicans and harlots enter the kingdom and comes to fit down with Abraham Isaac and Iacob and you are shut out Will he accept you for your words will he accept you because you eat his bread and drink his wine and one of you is hungry and another company of you plead that your communion must now be as much wine as you can drink and this is Gods ordinance you say Oh ye blind and slow of heart to believe Is not Parphar and Damascus and Jordan and all the water his and the cattel upon a thousand hills is he beholding to thee for thy lame and blind sacrifice will he accept you for these things while your wills stands and while you hate to be guided by his light and Spirit which cleanseth the inside shall I not say as Paul sayd of Circumcision It 's neither baptisme or not being baptized it 's neither breaking of bread nor drinking of wine neither your observances and washings your prayers nor your fasts your feigned communion and fellowship but a new creature that God requires not outward washings nor things carnal which none of these things makes perfect as pertaining to the conscience nor the coming unto these doth not purifie nor make the answer of a good conscience while you do not witness that which makes you partakers of the divine nature you have no fellowship with the Father nor the Son but only sacrifice to your nets and feed upon ashes and would take those things which was but figures to oppose the substance as the Jews did and never looks for him to be revealed in you who is the end of the figures and the end of the law for righteousness and the end of the prophets who now is not worshipped in the oldness of the letter nor in figures but in newness of Spirit and in the new and living way which he hath consecrated for all them that come to him and believe in him and comes to within the Veile Heb. 10. 20. nay these things which you call ordinances as you practise them are not so much as the image of heavenly things and though you come to them year by year and weeke by weeke they do not make you that are comers thereunto perfect for if they did then there were a necessity for the continuance of them But now to that of God in all your consciences I speak which shall witness in the day of the Lord that your consciences are no more purified nor you made any more perfect then the first day you took them up And this I say unto you in love to your soules I know no more of the power and presence you do witness among you in these things then if you worshipped in the temple at Jerusalem and burned incense and offered sacrifice and burnt-offerings which Christ sayd was left unto them desolate and verily in the day of the Lords account you shall bear witness unto me that I speak not in mine own name although you cannot believe I say the Lord is departed out of these things and the Gentiles and heathen who knows not God hath now all these things to tread upon and all also to feed upon but this I say unto you Sacrifices and offerings without which are Carnal and elementary and perishes with the using he will not have but he is come whose flesh is the life of the Saints and his body is known which is prepared to take away sin and it was witnessed of him and he is come to do the will of God and this is he in whom the Father is well pleased who is the light of the world and hath enlightned every one that comes into the world and whoso is not led by the light he is not led by the Son and there is no offering but in the light that is accepted nor nothing which is well pleasing to God but what he now Commands who is entered to within the veil into the Heavenly tabernacle and you whose Hearts the veile is over and flesh is over unturned to him you are and his face doth not see nor his mind doth not know and now his worship is no more outward and Carnal but spirituall and everlasting and all you that cannot own the measure of God in you which shews you his teachings and doctrine the offering up of that which is perfect you do not know nor the offering up in and by the eternal Spirit you do not know and so doth not know purging away sin but still you are Checked and Condemned in your selves notwithstanding your large phylacteries and long garments of self-righteousness and selfe taken in performance in your wills from Imitation yet all of you confess the guilt must remain because none of you are come from under Condemnation therefore you judge all is so Ah ah miserable redemption and Justification is this what redemption is wrought among you when the light in your own Consciences shews there is guilt and you are under the power of pride and Covetousness and envy and wrath rayling and slandering them that bears witness against your deceipt and hath not power over your tongues nor over your thoughts but are led captive by him that workes unrighteousness nay so ignorant are you most of you that you know not what it is that is in captivitie and what it is that wants redemption nor what it is which the Gospel is preached to and puritie of Spirit you do not know Verily I say unto you all whose minds are not turned to the light of Christ which will let you see notwithstanding all your righteousness and fulness which you judge you have attained to there is one thing you lack yet you that hath keeped all the commands in the letter which few of you have done you must sell all and give to the poore and yet before you witness a disciple of Christ you must take up the cross of Christ which you all stumble at and it is foolishness to you as it was to your generation who were in your nature who sought to be justified by the works without them and even you are the same looks that God accepts you because you have conformed to

and the briers and thornes in bundles and cast them into everlasting fire where where is perpetuall exilement from the presence of God and from the Lamb for ever and ever and from the light of his countenance and this as the Lord lives will come upon all who are not cleansed from sin and purged from your iniquity and destruction is of your selves it is not because there it no balm enough in Gilead nor no Physitian nor because you have no grace nor power but because you despise it and will not come to Christ who is the light least your deeds should be repoved nor mind that which is given into you to lead you out of sin and so the one thing needful you heed not and you that doe not will lie down in everlasting misery and sorrow world without end And now to you that are tossed and finde no rest for the sole of your foot but are still led aside into pollutions and sin and knows not how to come forth nor where the Power is CEase gadding abroad and seeking in that principle which leads you further from God and from your own wisdom and reason which is in the fall and in the disobedient nature for there can you never finde peace nor the way that leads unto it all that you have heard you see still there is one thing lacking and you are unsatisfied and while your eyes are without his power you know not that gave the Saints dominion and the further you inquire in the natural fallen wit and reason the further you are off the first principle that leads to know God Now I say unto you all Christ Jesus who is anointed of God to preach glad tidings to the poor and to the captive who in the days of his flesh declared and preached the Kingdom of God was neer yea in them I say unto you now he preaches by his Spirit in the world and he is now in the world and this is he that convinceth the world of sin and shews thee thy evil deeds by his light in thy conscience and as thou waits upon that light that is given from God it will open thy understanding and let thee see all that ever thou hast done and will bring trouble upon thee and a true sensibleness of thy condition and will bring wrath upon that nature in thee which is corrupt and contrary to the light for the light is of the nature of Christ Jesus and so thou wilt come to see as thou waitest in the true light wherewith Christ hath enlightned thee withal two seeds and each of these seeds hath a nature and they are one contrary to the other in their natures the nature of the one is to work unrighteousness and of the other to bear witness against sin and also works righteousness and these two are contrary the one leads into bondage the Just and the other leads into bondage the Injust the one is the Image of God the other the Image of the devil and if thou wait in the light thou wilt see two striving in the wombe and here is nation against nation and Kingdom against Kingdom and these are at variance and the life of the one is the death of the other Now that which lets thee see that Cain and Ismael are goodly children who are of the first birth yet they must not enter nor have any share with the seed of the free-woman but must be cast out and therefore another seed must be witnessed which the promise is to who are born again are born of that which is pure of the living water and that washes from sin and uncleanness and also of the Spirit which is life they that are borne of this enters into the City where no unclean thing enters for God takes nothing into Communion with himself but that which is made holy and cleansed and purged and purified by the operation and working of his Spirit which Spirit is life to them that receive it and it reproves them that receives it not and this is in the world and reproves the world yet the world receives it not and so lies wholly in wickedness in darkness and blindness Now unto you that hath but any stirring or desires begotten in your hearts after God or his truth that so you may know the power of God which gives dominion over sin hearken a little and I shall declare unto thee if thou have an eare to hear Christ Jesus who is the light of the world and hath lightened every one that comes into the world by his true light and this is it that shews thee thy evill deeds and the vanities of the world and shews thee what is evil and discovers unto thee all things that ever thou hast done and will check thee when thou doth any thing contrary it and Judge thee for that which is past and this is the gift of God and as thou turns thy mind to it It will turn from sin and evil unto Jesus Christ from whence it comes and this is present with thee and as thou hearkenest to this thou seest God is pure who is present and by the light takes notice of all thy actions and performances with what heart thou dost them and offers them up in and this will let the see if thou regard iniquity in thy heart all is abomination to the Lord therefore keep into this and it will shew thee sin and evil before thou commit it and as thou stands in the Counsell of the light thou stands in the Counsell of Christ and his power preserves thee for the light is power all that hearken not unto another is preserved out of sin and temptation and pollution and sees an overcoming by the power of Christ which is present and here is a guide to all your minds who have wandred here and there and have found nothing here you come to know the Doctrine and teaching of Christ which leads into all truth all that believe in it and receive it and so it will change you out of pride and wantonness out of covetousness and earthly mindedness and from sin it will lead you and from the pathes of unrighteousness into righteousness which is the pure path of the Lord which all comes to injoy peace in who walk in it but the cross of Christ must be taken up daily or else you cannot walk in the way of the Lord and so to the Cross all come and to the Yoak that you may see the wild nature bound under and limited and your vain thoughts Judged out and you may come to see the straight way where no lyer can enter nor no ravenous beast nor no unclean but they come all to be kept out and so as you love your soules and the way of the Lord mind the witness of Christ in you and if you go from it and despise it it will follow and pursue you and you shall never know peace while you stand in disobedience to the Grace of God and the free Gift of God you can never see redemption nor know Gods power which he gives unto all that receive him and you cannot receive his gift but self and self-will must be denied and so the will of Christ which is the will which wills in the light and works in the light and reveales sin by the light and declares righteousness through the light and here the coming of Christ comes to be seen and his day comes to be known which Abraham saw but through death this comes to be read and known and so turne all to this here the word you will hear which is pure and powerful it separates as you hearken unto it and divides between the pretious and the vile in you all who love it and it 's nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart and discerns thy thoughts and here thou wilt learn as thou waitest in patience of the Son in whom the Father is well pleased and if thou hearken to any other it 's the false Prophet which leads thee to Error and so the displeasure of God will come against thee for ever until thou return Blessed is he that hears and receives and considers and prizes the offers of grace and the day of Gods everlasting love and ownes the gift of God in him revealed which leads to repentance and works a change in the heart and mind of all that believe in it and gathers up into its nature all that waits in diligence and believes in it and so the day of redemption comes to be seen and known out of death out of the grave and immortality comes to be brought forth and incorruption comes to be put on and they that witness this can truely say we have found him whom our soul loves and doth not look for any other Blessed is he that hears and considers and waits to be made partakers of Gods righteousness revealed Justifies all that receives it and believe in it and they by it comes to be Pillars in the house of God for ever and follows the Lamb whither soever he goes where Pure Peace is injoyed for ever and ever FINIS