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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94802	For those that meet to worship at the steeplehouse, called John Evangelist, in London, or, any other in that nature upon whom the Scriptures are fulfilled, in evil intreating the servants of the Lord Iesus, whom he sends to deliver his message amongst you. Or for any other that are condemned for sin, and have thirstings after righteousness ...	R. T. (Rebecca Travers), 1609-1688.	1659 (1659)	Wing T2059; ESTC R185428	25,680	64

are found and call not your selves Christians for Christ owns no such workers for that of Christ suffers in you and by you and though you say God is your Father as they did yet you do the works of the Murtherer and though you say Christ is your Saviour yet the destroyer is head in you and though you say the Scriptures is your rule yet they condemn your lives and cast you out amongst such who persecuted them who gave forth the Scriptures and while you stand in that nature you have no part in the Scriptures to inherit but the plagues and woes therein foretold for such workers And the Scriptures needs no meanings to prove you there but are fulfilled in you in the behalf of him whose work you are doing but when you would take them to prove your Teachers or your selves to be of God then you must do it with meanings twinings and wrestlings for in plainness and truth as the Scriptures were given forth they shut you out And when your Teachers and your selves with all their learning and crast have taken the Saints words and put them upon your selves that you might be taken for sheep a sheep indeed is sent forth amongst you and all your covers are too narrow to hide the Wolf that is within and how little a thing of Gods choosing quickly confounds so great a building and profession and lays naked that which many years you have been hiding and thus when the weakness and foolishness which is of God comes amongst you it lays waste your great wisdom great professions great notions long prayers separations and gathering and Names of Ministers of Christ and people of God Church of God and House of Prayer and all is shaken and gone and nought of all this left but a heap of confusion tearing haling beating pulling stoneing laughing and evil-speaking not the least face of a Church of Christ left nor one jot of all your sheeps clothing to be seen and the poor Instrument by which this is done you count but a fool or mad or one not worth hearing speak or worthy an Answer that the Scripture may be fulfilled which saith God hath chosen foolish things weak things base things of the ● Cor 1 World and things that are despised to confound the wise and mighty and bring all to nought that is not in himself and this day is coming upon you unawares who are professing the Scriptures with your Candle out and so not having the light of Faith in you to guide you it is risen against you in the weak to lay open your nakedness blindness and hardness of heart before your selves and all men So thou that would be counted a shepherd and a guide behold thy Flock and the fruits of thy Ministry When I was to come amongst you in obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ and in the power of his spirit to prove you did you carry your selves as sheep towards me Let moderation judge you and be ashamed What a heap of confusion was you all turned into on a sudden when the foolishness of God appeared amongst you in weakness and contempt And did thou carry thy self as a true Shepherd to flye and leave thy flock in such a tumult upon a poor despised woman and neither to stay and answer one question nor to rebuke the devourer which was head in thy flock So that if the Lord had not strengthened and preserved this weak body it might have been crusht with violence pushing and haling to and fro for as one in the waves of a raging sea so was I amongst thy flock Oh shepherd be ashamed of thy flock and they of thee from that day forward till you repent Vine-dresser be ashamed of thy Work how is thy Vineyard over-run with bryars and thorns that the meek cannot pass unless he be fenced with Iron and Steel Oh husbandman What dost thou sow amongst them where this is reaped And people be ashamed of your shepherd and of his hire and of your defence and let the Words of Christ judge what he is that flyes and leaves his flock and hath not the Weapon of truth in the spirit of meekness to defend himself and his flock with let your fruits judge you in the light of Christ Jesus what he hath sown and in what ground it hath sprung up now it is laid open to your faces and the nature of sheep is not in your fold violence hath filled your House of Prayer the abomination that makes desolate is got up therein and stands where it ought not pride is exalted and the wicked worker is set up and the blind is got into the seat of judgement and leads the blind who calls light darkness and darkness light and the ear that should hear the true shepherd you have stop● and the eye of a spiritual mind is blinded by denying the light within and you have lost the defence of truth and so there is no way to make you understand what you are but by laying you open by your fruits before the sun in whose light your fruits are condemned you seen to be none of his flock nor he your defence but enemies to it and his appearance in the weakest thereof whom he chooseth for such a work Glory to the Lamb And let all that learn his nature praise his Power and Wisdow sor evermore for he hath fitted the meek of the Earth for his defence but the horse and his rider he hath cast into the sea And so people had there been in you reasonableness or moderation or any desire to have known the truth in its power when I did but ask a moderate question of your Teacher you would have been stil and sober moved him to answer and in meekness of spirit you to have heard both parties that so you might have judged with that of God in you which wil arise to the truth where it is who had truth on his side and if your Teacher had had it in him is it not stonger then all to defend him and you therewith which is Christs weapon against all errors whatsoever and then if he had had the Staff of the true Shepherd to have stood over you and defended you then had he shewed himself like a shepherd and you like sheep and not he to betake himself to flye for his defence and you to carnal Weapons and with the fist of wickedness list up run all a heaps in rage and confusion to defend your Teacher and his Doctrine by uncivil demeanor not becoming men and women of government wherein you have but made it appear openly to be Truth that you withstood by what way you took against is as truth hath foretold in Scripture concerning the Worlds Teachers and Professors and what usage Christs sheep should have in the midst of Wolves and upon you this day is this Scripture fulfilled for a witness against Teacher and People and out of it you are cast and out of the Kingdom and patience