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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

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

but according to the multitude of his mercies so the long-suffering and patience of God led me to repentance and then J came clearly to see that it was the Lord indeed that appeared unto me and had set these things before me and not man that had so long called unto me though then J knew him not but when J knew indeed that it was the Lord that spoke unto me J then gave up all willingly and left off frequenting all sorts of people their Assemblies too sate alone in silence waiting in the silence of my spirit for the Lord and was as a travelling VVoman pained to be delivered yea J was almost quite gone and had even despaired of hope had not the Lord had compassion and been very merciful unto me who drew near and sustained me when the night of darkness was over me for it pleased the Lord while J was yet in patience waiting for him to reveal his Son in me who hath even appeared and is risen with healing in his Wings So now in him my weary soul after long travel is come to find rest and peace for evermore which no man can take from me if J be faithful to the end Blessing and praises and honor and glory and dominion and thanksgiving to the Lord God of Sabbaths and to the Lamb for ever and ever who hath given me the peace and the victory in measure over death hell and the grave praises to the Lord for his mercies fails not but are renewed every moment towards his servant and such as fear him who hath not left my soul in hell neither hath he suffered his holy one to see corruption but hath ransomed my soul from death and the grave into perfect liberty even to joy and gladness and all sorrovv and sighing doth flye avvay for the years of rejoicing is come praises endless praises and honor and glory to him that sitteth upon the Throne of Judgement and Mercy vvho takes avvay the sins of the vvorld and saves his people from their sins that they may praise him together vvith one accord in the land of the living vvho hath done vvonderfully for me that J even admire the goodness of God tovvards me in all his vvorks everlasting glorious praises and blessing to him for evermore vvhose right it is and vvhose vvorks praises him not unto me Lord not unto me but unto thee holy vvise God over all be all the glory and the honor Let all that know the Lord praise him above all for his mercies endureth for ever who now hath brought me into fellowship with the Saints in light Neighbors and Friends These things I write not unto you to have praise of you for I receive not honor from man but that ye may know and understand what God hath wrought and what he hath done for my soul that all might come to praise the Lord and to admire him who hath done great things in the Earth So this is a Warning unto every one of you That ye rest not satisfied in any thing short of Christ but that ye may all even turn to the light and believe in the light and walk in the light while ye have the light lest any be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin and so come short of the Grace of God So all be warned that ye put not trust in a false confidence in a false faith and in a vain hope and so ye get up into a false joy below Christ for the end of this is weeping mourning sorrow and lamentation so take heed how ye choose to follow your Priests lest ye also perish with them together being partakers with them in their sins so choose not to follow your own Ways neither lean not to your own understandings nor put no trust to your own Righteousness glory not in your own Wisdom and strength but now even all of you come to the Light Christ the Righteousness of God to put him on and so to put off your own righteousness that ye coming to the light and follow the light to have the righousness of the Law fulfilled in you that every one of you may prove your selves so search and try your own Ways and turn to the true light Christ Jesus who enlightneth every man that cometh into the World and see if ye can witness Christ in you Know ye not how Christ is in you except ye be reprobates I say if ye know not Christ formed in you if ye feel not the life of the Son of God moving and breathing in you towards God I say if Christ be not raised ye are yet in your sins if the dead rise not and so your Faith is vain and your Profession also For as many as receives Christ receives the Righteousness of God in him receives Gods Righteousness for Christ is Gods Righteousness and who hath not Christ their Righteousness is of themselves and so are ignorant of Gods righteousness who knows not the Light Christ in them who will not come to the light so will not submit to the righteousness of God but would establish their own righteousness yet will not such people speak against self-righteousness and against self-actings when as all their Righteousness and Works is of themselves How blind are these people who out of their own mouth hath condemned themselves wherein all they do is of themselves in their Will-Worship to be seen of men and would lay these things to our charge whom they call Quakers and saith that we altogether set up Works before Christ always perswades people to Works and to the keeping the Commandments and the like Answ This is false Though We perswade people to be followers of good Works and to the keeping of the Commandments according to Christs exhortation yet We do not turn people to Works before We turn them to Christ but We first exhort them to believe in the light so they are lyars for this is our Message To turn people from the darkness to the Light Christ who lightneth every man that they may have their works wrought in the Light Christ who works all our works in us and for us and he that loves the light brings his deeds to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God but what is this to them who are not come unto the light neither hath believed in the light have they not manifested their ignorance and that all their works of righteousness are of themselves and that they have no other righteousness who are not come to the light mark and take notice of this That all their deeds and works are onely of themselves wrought in darkness until such time as they come to be turned from the darknesse to the light for that which is not wrought in the light is wrought in darknesse So hovv can such escape the judgements of God vvho have so falsly accused us that have renounced our own Righteousness and hath vvillingly submitted to the Righteousness of

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-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

stead to be reconciled to God and even now while ye have yet a little time in the body hast to meet the Lord in the manifestation of the Spirit of Light from God For that which may be known of God is manifest in you and God hath even shewed it unto you So here is your vvay to know God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent if ever ye come to know him vvhom to know is life eternal For there is no other vvay but by that of God in you So if ye will indeed own the right vvay the good vvay vvherein dvvelleth righteousness then come in to the light Christ vvho lightneth every man and even novv while ye have the light believe in the light that ye may be the children of the light and vvalk in the light as he is in the light that the blood of Christ may clense you from all sin and then if ye abide in the light ye shall continue in the Father and in the Son so shall ye have Fellowship vvith the Saints in light vvhom the VVorld knovvs not of vvhom the VVorld is not vvorthy that henceforth ye may no more knovv me after the flesh onely but in the spirit as ye come to be faithful unto the Lord in your measures of the light of Christ where ye may feel me and read me and knovv me vvho am unknovvn unto the VVorld yet vvell knovvn to the children of light vvho in the light of the Lord Jesus Christ doth continue and abides vvith God and vvalks in the light as he is in the light For the children of light hath Fellovvship one vvith another in the light which unites their hearts together in one But vvith the unfruitful VVorks of darkness vve have no Fellovvship and here in the light in the truth though ten thousand times ten thousand yet all one in the light even in Christ Jesus who walks not after the flesh but after the Spirit So Friends by this I shall know that ye love me and that ye love the Truth as many as can receive my Testimony and keeps my Fathers Commandments For the Testimony is not mine but his who hath chosen me to bear vvitness of him unto many but if I bear vvitness of my self my vvitness is not true there is one that beareth witness and I know that the witness that he witnesses is true for I can of my own self do nothing yet through Christ that strengthens me I can do all things For I seek not my own but the things of Jesus Christ that I may do the will of God who hath chosen me out of the VVorld to follow him in the regeneration where the VVorld seeth me not nor knows me not therefore the World hates me and scorns me VVhy because I am not of the VVorld so the VVorld cannot receive my sayings they hear me not because they are not of God for I receive not Testimony from man but these things I speak that ye might believe the truth not by way of boasting to exalt self or to puff up for all boasting is excluded and self-ends condemned with the Light of Truth so a VVitness in my measure I stand eternally against all selfishness for self is of the Devil and all proud boastings which Christ comes to destroy But These things Neighbours and Friends I write unto you that ye may come to know where rest and true peace is and not to exalt self that ye might praise me but these things I declare to the end That ye may all be awakened towards God that ye might be saved and believe what good things God hath in store for them that fear him love● his appearance and believing in the light ye may have life and that every weary soul may be comforted and ●ome to find rest as he comes into the obedience of the light that the righteous God o●er all might have his glory who is the Author and Finisher of every good Work the first and the last God blessed for evermore So all friends in the love of the truth receive this into your hearts with meekness and fear which was given me from the Lord in the spirit to write as a Testimony from the Lord to my Nation Countrey and People for the Seed of Gods sake throughout all the VVorld where this may come was I moved of the Lord God from the love of the Spirit which are the very breathings of my soul for my Nation Countrey and People that they might be saved and hid in the day of the Lords wrath but my desire is That the wicked one in you may be destroyed and what soever worketh unrighteousness and deceit unto which I say Wo that ye may be separated from all unrighteousness therefore keep your selves to that of God in you that the wicked one touch you not and from all idolatry and so will the old man with his deeds come to be put off when the Just comes to liberty when Christ comes to have the preheminence and rules whose right it is So Friends take unto you the whole Armor of God even the Armor of Light as it comes to be put on ye will be able to resist all the fiery darts of the Devil I say As there is a watching and a waiting in the light of Christ Jesus for the teachings of God in the Spirit the lusts of the flesh and fleshly confidences withers and vanishes away and the hidden man of the heart comes to be felt and witnessed as there is an abiding in the Crosse of Christ so ye come to dye unto sinne and to be crucified to the VVorld and to live unto God Therefore all waite that yee may have Bread to feed upon which gives life to the Soule which is nourishment and health to every weary Soul who comes to feed upon the living Immortal Bread which comes downe from GOD out of Heaven shall live for ever And blessed for evermore they are who hunger after this for they shall be satisfied As many as comes to eat of this Bread and receives it into them they shall grow up as Trees of Righteousness the planting of the Lord. So let every one that nameth the Name of CHRIST depart from Iniquity and follow the Light and believe in the Light while ye have the Light that ye may be established in Righteousnesse and Truth Thomas Rawlinson FINIS