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A60630	The faithful witness, or, A hand of love reached forth, that the blind may be guided, and the scattered gathered also, mans sinne and rebellion declared and the long-suffering of the Lord shewed: with a true call unto all people to meet the Lord by speedy repentance ..., also the state of professors plainly manifested ..., with a warning unto all the tender hearted amongst them to arise, and receive the hand of love ... : also, truth defended and cleared from the lyes and slanders declared by Ionathan Iohnson of Lincoln, a Baptist in profession / from one who bears no evil will to any man, but wisheth well to all men, and am known to many by the name of William Smith.	Smith, William.	1659 (1659)	Wing S4300; ESTC R38932	32,830	41

delusions many are given up and do believe his lyes in which they oppose the truth and are at open enmity with it being filled with Wrath and Envy against it Now such whose deeds are evil loves not the light neither will come to it but runs from it and speaks despightfully of it as the Pharisees did of him who is the Son of God and though mighty signs and wonders he did amongst them making the blind to see and the dumb to speak yet were they filled with envy against him and said he cast out Devils by Beelzebub the Prince of Devils But he knowing their thoughts said unto them Every kingdom divided against it self is brought to desolation and if Satan cast ●●t Satan he is divided against himself how shall then his kingdome stand But if I cast out Devils by the Spirit of God then the kingdom of God is come unto you this you may read Matth. 12. And here you may read whose off-spring you are for this Scripture is fulfilled this day upon this ungodly generation though your eyes be blinded that you see it not therefore repent and be converted that the hand of love may lead you and that your sins may be blotted out for with a light of Christ are you all enlightned that doth discover your secrets parts and makes manifest the counsels of all your hearts and is the true light that lighteth every man that comes into the World Ioh. 1. 9. This is plain Scripture and you say you believe the Scripture but you say again This Scripture doth not speak of a light within then weigh it wisely and see how every man that comes into the World is enlightned and by it you may read 2 Cor. 4. 6. For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledg of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ This is plain Scripture and this was the Apostles Testimony That the light shone in the heart that 's within people and there gave them the light of the knowledge of Gods glory But then you say These were believers and you grant that believers have a light of Christ in them but not people in their natural state the Apostle was once in the natural state and was a persecutor of those that did believe in the light yet was the light in him shining in the darkness but the darkness comprehended it not but when it came to shine round him and convince him that he was an enemy to it and kicking against it he bowed before it and submitted unto it and yeilded ready obedience Lord what wilt thou have me to do Then did it shine forth of darkness and did shine in the heart in which the knowledge of Gods glory was made manifest read this in Gods pure fear and consider if you be not where the Apostles once were and there stands in open rebellion against that which he came to believe in and bear his testimony unto and further witnessed That a people who held the truth in unrighteousness had a manifestation of God in them Rom. 1. 19. Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God hath shewed it unto them Here was a people who was not in the faith and yet that which might be known of God was manifest in them and whatsoever doth make manifest is light Eph. 5. 13. then the light was within them and the truth was within them but they did not believe in it but changed it into a lye Ver. 25. and did not like to retain God in their knowledge Ver. 28. Therefore unto vile affection did God give them up that they might believe lyes because they received not truth in the love of it this is a Witness which none of you can flye from whithersoever you go it will ●●nd you out contend no longer against it for in it doth the Grace of God appear to all men by which the love of God comes to be felt in all that do obey and submits to the teachings of it and though there be many in the unbelief that speaks unadvisedly of it neither knowing what they say nor whereof they affirm who calls it a natural light and delusion yet in that love which unto me is freely opened and through the Grace which I have received in it I am constrained to bear my Testimony and to declare unto all people That the light of Christ with which every man is enlightened is the mighty power of God unto salvation to every one that do believe in it and a living Witness in every mans conscience is placed to condemn the Workers of iniquity who hath not a love to it because their deeds are evil there is no escaping of it for it is quick and powerful searching trying proving all secrets and the counsels of all hearts are naked and bare before it Read this soberly for it is written plainly in the love of God who is rich in mercy and plenteous in goodness and truth whose bowels of compassion moveth in pitty towards a sinful generation who hath no pleasure that any of you should dye therefore in this his day doth he reach forth a hand of love to lead and guide out of darkness all that turn unto it and are made willing to be guided by it Now all prove your selves in the light which you are enlightened withall and examine your selves truly and see if you cannot witness this testimony to be faithful and true and feel the Testimony of the Spirit bearing witness in your inward parts unto what is here declared for unto that of God in all consciences I am manifest which doth not consent to your sins but is seperate from sin and made manifest to take away ●in who is the Lamb of God pure and undefiled and though you have a general talk amongst you of Faith in Christ and living by faith upon him and that he is your Saviour and Redeemer yet you work iniquity daily and pleads for sin term of life and neither knows salvation nor redemption in him who is the Son of Gods love Therefore be not deceived with a vain hope and groundless Faith which stands onely in Words when your Works denies your Faith to be living being yet in your sins for the lusts of the flesh you do fulfil and draws iniquity with Cords of Vanity look inward the light will not deceive you but manifest every secret sin which lodgeth in your hearts which you would keep hidden to have your life in for though you may not be committing all sin so greedily as may stand with your hearts against many things which may be commonly counted prophane yet examine if you have not something secretly lodged which your minds are captivated in and which the light of Christ in your consciences doth reprove you for there is your lover and that must be cast out and trodden under foot if ever you come to vvitness redemption

by Christ Some men are not common Drunkards as the World calls them yet secretly hath a love to be in the excess some in neither of these yet hath another lover So some in pride some in covetousness some in foolish jesting and idle talking some in vain sports and pleasures of the World that so you are all found to have some secret lover vvhich you vvould not have tried in the light novv there is nothing so secret vvhich shall not come to light though long you may hide it and smothe● the Witness of God in your ovvn conscience that testifies against it yet to the light must every secret thing come vvhether it be good or evil and in the light be tried and judged in righteous judgement Therefore all unto the light give up your selves and yeild obedience to every motion thereof in your own consciences that you may become followers of it in love to it for if you stand in the enmity against it and be more in love vvith your evil deeds then you are vvith the light there vvill be no escaping the condemnation of it therefore let this be a Warning unto you all who live in pleasures upon the Earth that you may cease to do evil and depart from your iniquities and break off from your sins before the time come in which you will say There is no pleasure in them O hearken hearken for this is the day of your visitation now is the accepted time now is Gods Witness striving with you now is the Hand of Love reached forth unto you therefore whilst it is called to day harden not your hearts but turn unto the Lord who stands ready to have mercy upon you for therein doth he delight Now let not your hearts be hardened to outstand this day of Visitation left the day of Vengeance and Indignation come upon you and overtake you because mercy you have refused Consider this all you who have your life in pride covetousness drunkenness swearing lying envy and malice and vanities of the World if these things be not shewed you to be evil by something in your own conscience that doth convince you of them and reprove you for them and brings you to an understanding that you ought not to do them this is the light of Christ which is pure and hath no communion with darkness nor the unfruitful Works thereof but is seperated from the unclean neither joining with it nor consenting to it but hath a life in it self which is holy and undefiled and doth pursue the evil-doer in judgement who is at enmity with it and in disobedience to it O sink down in Gods fear and consider what a day of patience and forbearance he hath continued unto you how long hath he spared you And what a time of repentance hath he given you And how many years hath he striven vvith you that with the Cords of Love he might have drawn you and with the Hand of Love have led you But you have rejected it and casts love behind your backs and likes to retain your evil deeds better and to love darkness rather What Visitations of Gods pure love have you set at nought that you might walk after the way of your own hearts the lust of your own eyes rising up in rebellion against the pure Witness of God in your own conscience and ●laying it that you might live in pleasures and walk at liberty in the flesh without reproof And thus is the just condemned and killed by you and he resists not he is rejected and despised by you wounding him by your transgressions and bruising him with your iniquities yet doth not he open his mouth but as a Lamb is he led to the slaughter O look up unto him whom you pierce and mourn let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into heaviness for he doth not so deal with you but suffers and bears in patience and in the bowels of pitty is yet striving with you that his goodness might lead you to repentance and thus doth he love his enemies and doth good to those that hates him Therefore all bow your ears and hearken and be diligent to obey the light before it cease striving with you and the long-suffering of the Lord come to an end concerning you and his tender love be shut up from you who have gain-sayed and outstood the day of your Visitation and then you begin to knock like foolish Virgins when the doors is shut and all things quiet and to seek a place of repentance when it cannot be found though you seek it with tears O prize the day of your Visitation and let all vain Disputers of this World lay their hands upon their mouths and confess they have done foolishly in contending and striving in their own wills against that which hath so long striven with them that they might be turned from the darkness unto the light and from the power of Satan unto God tha● the hand of Love might guide them to receive the Grace of God which so freely he hath made manifest unto them Read you Priests Professors and all people who hates the light and will not ●bide to hear of it so near you as in your own conscience but are filled with rage and fury against it speaking scornfully proudly and disdainfully of it and ast that are guided by it in this you are all friends and joins together fear and tremble before the living God for his wrath is revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness and ungodliness of men and a day of sad lamentation is kindling from the breath of the Almighty and wil fall upon the heads of the ungodly● who in their stout-heartedness outstand the day of Gods loving kindness this testimony wil reach you all and that of God in your conscience answers to it give all diligence thereunto for it is a sure Word and teacheth right things it will not deceive you if you incline your m●●ds unto it that you may be doers of what it teacheth for it is Gods Grace that appeareth and if you yeild obedience to it you will know it brings salvation with it and will teach you to deny the ungodliness and worldly lusts in which the Prince of darkness leads you and deceives you and brings forth his Work by you in all manner of sin and wickedness in which you are serving him and in which your minds are captivated by him and the light of Christ in your conscience hath no communion with such Works of darkness but stands a Witness against them and reproves you for them as you join unto them And this is the Word of his Grace that would have you to deny them and forsake them and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present evil World for the fashions of this World passeth away and all your vanities will wither and your beauty consume and the later end wil come upon you when the Lord will have no pleasure in you but will give

loveth and will stand above thee and all thy deceit though thou hast blasphemed him 4 Partic. That they steat Scriptures to deck their false Harlots with Proof Is proved in first calling the Scriptures dead and liveless to bring their false Harlot called light within into osteem and then fills their mouths with it to seem spiritualized and to make the world believe 't is from themselves and not from Scripture and this was proved against thes in thy Title Page of thy Book to H. H. Reply The light within is already proved from plain Scripture to be Christ the light of the world and the eternal truth and power of God and the Scriptures are dead and liveless unto thee who art at enmity with the light and life from which they were declared and unto which they bear testimony and therefore we deny thee though thy mouth may be somtimes filled with Scripture expressions and of which it is now empty but the Scriptures we own and have unity with them in the same Spirit from which they were given forth and knows them to be fulfilled in us who walk after the Spirit and what thou sayest was proved before to this matter against me is a proof which was of thy own inventions as these are which thou hast now offered to thy shame for ever not giving a Scripture expression nor naming a Scripture for what thou hast said but thy mouth is filled with Lyes instead of Scripture and that thou calls a proof 5. Partic. That they labour to have the Scriptures dead in m●ns est●mation Proof Is proved plain●y in telling men the Scriptures are a dead Letter and a liveless Book and saying it is a damnable Doctrine to say the Spirit is received by the hearing of Faith preached and beleeving according to the Scriptures and in calling the Doctrine and Ordinances of Christ in the Scriptures outward Forms and liveless Reply That which hath not life in it self is dead and thou cannot deny it and the Book hath not life in it self neither can the Letter thereof give life to any though they may read it and hear it all their life time and if ever thou come to know the Scriptures and the true use of them thou must come to the light which is the life of men without whom all things are dead and it is a damnable Doctrine to preach the Letter for Christ and set it above him which is not according to the Doctrine of those who were Ministers of the Spirit and not of the Letter and this doth the Letter declare and the Spirit is not received by hearing or reading the Letter but by the hearing of Faith preached in the heart by the Spirit that quickneth and the Doctrine of Christ and the Apostles which the Scriptures do declare and beleeving according to that Doctrine we own and in it walk by the same spirit which doth not lead any contrary who by it are guided but leads into the fulfilling of all and into the life where living vertue is received which from the beginning was ordained which is not dead nor formal but life and power but thou can sit down in thy own time to eat and drink in immitation of what thy imagination comprehends by reading the Scriptures that the Saints did and so thou glories in appearance and not in heart 6. Partic. That they deny the Scriptures Proof Is proved afore in which they are manifested to be the most audacious denyers of Scripture that ever hath been of all the Antich istian party Reply That which thou hast proved afore thou hast manifested thy self in to be a servant unto him who is an enemy to truth and every appearance of Righteousness which by the light is brought forth in the Children of Obedience that strikes at every work of darkness having no Communion with it and this makes him rage in Wrath and Fury in thee to speak great swelling words of vanity and offer them for a Proof that his Lyes might have a likeness of truth put upon them by which many are at this day deceived for the scriptures are owned and beleeved in and the Doctrine of Christ is obeyed and the light is walked in which gives us fellowship with the Father and with the Son where we have Communion with the life but Antichrist denyeth the Father and the Son and is at enmity with the divine Nature and fighting against every appearance of godliness which from the living vertue thereof is brought forth which thou makes thy great business to oppose and contend against 7. Partic. ●hat they are not guided by that light and spirit that gave forth the Scriptures Proof Is proved both by their denyal of those Scriptures and Commands g●v●n forth by the light and spirit of God in the Scriptures and also in their se●ting up a pretended light within contrary to any teachings of the spirit of God in the Scriptures Reply Thou art proved a Lyar by plain scripture in the Third Reply where it is proved that Christ is the light and it was in their hearts and this doth the teachings of Gods spirit in the scripture witness and we neither deny the teachings nor Commands given forth by the light and spirit of God in the scriptures but have unity with them and the s●me light and spirit teacheth us and unto the Commands thereof we wait to yield obedience but it is thy business to make Lyes thy Refuge and adds one to another without shame neither shewing what the Teachings and Commands are which thou sayest the scriptures teacheth and commandeth and what we deny nor what the light and spirit is nor where to be waited for which thou sayest we are not guided by but thou passeth all for Proof because thou sayest it 8. Par That they are evil dealers and fighters against God Proof Is proved in their evil dealing and fighting against the spirit of God speaking in the Scriptures and denying obedience thereunto and rayling against those that d● obey to exalt their lying spirit against it Reply What shall be done unto thee O thou false tongue who without fear uttereth such Lyes against the innocent who are guided by the spirit of truth out of all evil dealing or wrong doing but thou art in the depth of the bottomless pit and from thence foaming out thy own shame not fearing to speak any thing which the lying spirit puts into thy mouth and calls it a Proof when thou hast neither scripture ground nor reason to shew for what thou sayest but as the Devil hatcheth mischief in thy heart so with a ready mind thou serves him in what he will have thee to do and so falsely accuses the innocent who in all obedience serves the Lord and walks-after the spirit and yields all obedience to it and yet thou sayest they deny the spirit of God speaking in the scriptures but hast not shewed what those speakings are nor who they are that do obey that they rail against nor what