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A90622	A discovery of the priests, that say they are sent off by the Lord, but upon trial are found out of the commands of Christ, the prophets, and Apostles, and to be those that are not sent of the Lord, but to be such that the sent ones of the Lord did cry wo against, and to be such that are false apostles, deceitful, wicked, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ: and no marvail, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light; therefore it is no great thing, if his ministers be transformed as the ministers of righteousness, ... With a few words to such professors and prophane, that together joyn to persecute the righteous: and to the ranters that do commit all manner of sins with greediness. Darkness denied by the children of Light, and the babe of Christ growing up to a perfect man. / Written from one who is known to the world by the name of John Pain, who accounts it great riches to suffer reproaches, and afflictions with the people of the Lord, who scornfully by the world are called Quakers, ... Written from Starford in Hartford-shire the 7. day of the 4. month. 1655.	Pain, John, shoemaker.	1655 (1655)	Wing P188; Thomason E848_22; ESTC R203094	39,396	39

to live Were not the mouthes of the world open against them with all manner of revilings scoffings and scornings Were not professors gainsaying and blaspheming Were not some hewn asunder and some sawne asunder whom the world was not worthy Act. 13.45 in prisons oft in perils oft in travels oft had no certain dwelling place but sent about from place to place from City to City yet were no vagabonds in hunger and nackedness hid in caves and dens of the earth they were halled out of their Synagogues they were had before Rulers for the witnessing of Jesus Now know those that the Lord hath sent forth now to declare the same everlasting Gospel their lives are not dear to them Nay wo are they if they preach it not what affliction or persecution so ever from the world they do indure counting it their joy to suffer for Christ who hath called them forth to the work of the Ministery And now is this Scripture fulfilled and fulfilling that God hath revealed his counsel to babes and sucklings and hath hid these things from the wife and prudent 1 Cor. 1.27 28 for so it hath pleased him and God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty and base things of the world and things that are despised hath God chosen yea the things that are not to bring to nought things that are that no flesh should glory in his sight but as it is written Let him that glories glory in the Lord. Praised be the Lord for ever that after this long night of darkness he hath sent forth his messengers to direct us to the true light that doth lead into purity and holiness bringing down all things that would exalt it self Heb. 11.26 this is witnessed in those that do obey it to their everlasting joy and comfort unto whom the reproaches of the world is great riches this I do witness that they do approve themselves to the conscience in the sight of God and approve themselves as the Ministers of God in much patience in afflictions in necessities in distresses in stripes and imprisonments in tumults in labors in watchings and fastings by pureness 1 Cor. 4.2 by knowledge by long suffering by kindness by the Holy Ghost by love unfained by the word of truth by the peace of God by the Armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left by honor and dishonor by good report and evil report as deceivers and yet true as unknown and yet well known as dying and behold we live as chastised and not killed as sorrowful yet alwayes rejoycing as poor yet making many rich as having nothing and yet possessing all things All that are joyned by one spirit to them in their measure this doth witness against all ravenous beasts and the Vultur's eye Now consider all sorts of men professors and prophane that do joyn together for to scoff and scorn revile and persecute these innocent Lambes of Christ which he hath sent forth among the Wolves of the world who are rent and torn by you say you had warning for know whatsoever you do to one his little ones that believes in him ye do it to himself and so it will be taken and you judged accordingly and it were better that you had never been born for the Lord will execute judgement upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among you of all your ungodly deeds Jud. 14. which they have ungodly committed and of all your hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against them What you speak against the servants of Christ you speak against Christ all your hard speeches all your evil surmisings against them is all known to the Lord who is just and righteous and will not suffer the wicked to go unpunished Repent repent and turn to the Lord the great day of the Lord is neer it is neer it hasteth greatly even the great day of the Lord the mighty man shall cry out bitterly that day is a day of wrath a day of trouble and distress a day of wastness and desolation a day of darkness and gloominess a day of clouds and thick darkness and I will bring distress upon men and they shall walk like blinde men because they have sinned against the Lord this shall they have for their pride because they reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the Lord of hostes the Lord will be terrible unto you then you will wish the mountains to fall upon you and hide you from the presence of the Lord so terrible will the Lord be to all the enemies of Sion for he will set his Son upon that holy hill and he will roar out of Sion and utter his voice out of Jerusalem and terribly shake the earth and he will famish the gods of the earth and men shall worship him every one from his place even all the Isses of the heathen for then will I turn to the people a pure language that they may call upon the name of the Lord and serve him with one consent Amos 3.16 and will shake all Nations and the desire of all Nations shall come No wart these promises fulfilled and fulfilling praises be to the Lord for ever he hath turned to his people a pure language and they do serve him with one consent Heb. 12 2● and now is the shaking all Nations shaking earth and shaking heaven that those things that cannot be shaken may remain therefore take heed you powers of the earth how you set your power against this great power of the Lord least he shake you out with the workers of iniquity when he shall come to cleanse the Land of evil doers for at last he will make his Jerusalem a praise upon the earth and he will arise and have mercy upon his Sion Behold at that time I will undo all that afflict thee and will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame Consider this ye persecuters ye scoffers and scorners ye sons of Ishmael who scoffes the righteous and makes a scorn of the upright but the Lord that sits in heaven shall laugh have you in derision and will mock when your fear cometh Prov. 1.26 27. your destruction shall come like a whirle winde affliction and anguish shall come upon you then shall you call but he will not answer you but shall cast you forth with the workers of iniquity Repent behold the day cometh that shall burn as an even and all the proud yea all that do wickedly shall be stuble and the day that cometh shall burn them up it shall leave you neither root nor branch and ye shall be troden under the soles of their feet in the day that I shall do this saith the Lord of Hosts Repent all scoffers and scorners repent all proud ones which know not what to eat

state of death and a state of life the state of death is imperfection there it lyeth the state of life is perfect and in perfection that lieth And this was Pauls Ministery and that which he did preach warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that he may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus Col. 1.28 and this was the end of the sending forth of the Ministery for the perfecting of the Saints There are Babes in Christ in their growth and measure attained are the children of God for they are begotten by the immortal seed of God partakers of the Divine nature which liveth and abideth for ever there are young men in Christ and there are fathers and according to the measure that every one hath attained so let him walk but the state of all those is a perfect state Eph. 4.12 13. it is a state of life but the old man that is begotten by the will of man is not perfect but he that is in Christ Jesus is a new creature old things are passed away and all things are become new Here is cleansing our selves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord this state this new birth is witnessed by those that know the Lord though by you denyed and called heresie this is the seed of God that cannot sin this is the perfect state 2 Cor. 7.1 this seed of God dwelleth in the Saints this is their new birth from carnal to spiritual the translation from death to life by this life they know the Lord and by this life are joyned to the Lord and he that is joyned to the Lord is one spirit with the Lord and so the Church is called Christ 1 Cor. 12.12 and is the temple of the Lord which is holy and the Lord will dwell in them and walk in them and will be their God and they shall be his people and for this cause we faint not 2 Cor. 6.16 but though our outward man perish yet the inward man is renewed day by day which is the perfect man These are they that are not defiled with women for they are Virgins these are they that follow the Lamb wheresoever he goeth Rev. 12.4 5. these were redeemed from among men being the first fruites unto God and to the Lambe and in their mouth was found no guile for they are without fault before the throne Can. 4.7 there is no spot in them they are all faire beloved of the Lord. Thou didst tell me Paul did complain of a body of sin all his life long I told thee there was a time he did there was a time he did witness the putting off the body of sin and thou didst say to me he did not and didst tell me it was heresie See what the declaration of truth saith against thy heresie Col. 2.11 in whom ye are Circumcised with the Circumcision made without hands in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ Rom. 6. chapter vers 6. Knowing that the old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed for this end was the Son of God made manifest to destroy the works of Satan Joh. 3.8 3. I did tell thee the Saints habitation was in God thou didst it deny and didst say it was a new word to thee it is so but the infallible spirit saith Col. 3.3 4. 1 Joh. 4.15 16. whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God God dwelleth in him and he in God and he that dwelleth in God Job 17.21 and God in him where the Saints doth dwell there is his habitation For ye see your calling brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty 1 Cor. 1.26 27. I would desire thee if thou wilt answer any thing that is here against thee said to answer it in plainness of speech by writting or some other way that I may know of it and not to speak in thy Pulpit against heresie but prove none and if thou knowest any heresie by me that I now do hold make it manifest name what it is and that day thou hast a mind so for to do send for me do it not when I am absent and I shall give thee the hearing and answer to such things as thou shalt object against me He that hath an ear to hear let him hear what the spirit saith he that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death Rev. 2.11 John Payne Shoomaker living in Bishopstarford FINIS

but those that have the life that gave forth the Scriptures and that brings to the life of the Scriptures and so there is no jurring nor wresting of Scriptures to their own destruction which those that are unlearned in that which gave forth the Scriptures do Here is the subtilty of the Priests to keep the people in ignorance they tell them the ignorant and unlearned they do wrest the Scripture to their own destruction but never tell the people It is such as are not learned by Christ by the spirit that gave forth the Scriptures but makes you believe those are the learned that know the Latin Greek and Hebrew which they call the Original Now consider all people whether the wresting of the Scriptures be by the learned or the unlearned what preaching what writtings and printings what wrestings and wringings are amongst the learned so called the one he writes for Free-will and Universal redemption another he writes and printes against it one writes for infants baptizing comes another and he writes against him one writes for a Sabbath the other writes preaches and printes against them nay further if learning as they say keep men from wresting the Scriptures Why do they finde fault with the Jesuites for so doing they are as learned as any of you and do as well know that you call the original but not many learned but not many wise but the Lord hath chosen the poor of the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom and God doth reveal his secrets to Babes and sucklings therefore silence deceivers for Peter that gave forth that Epistle to the Saints did not say those that were not Scholars and so unlearned 1 Cor. 2.10 to the 3 5. for so he was not learned himself as the Scriptures doth witness Now who wrests this Scriptures you or the unlearned When Peter and John were brought before the chief Priests and they did perceive that they were unlearned men and ignorant they took knowledge that they had been with Jesus Act. 4.13 But this will not you do acknowledge that Jesus Christ doth now so teach the unlearned and ignorant but makes the people believe you are the onely learned when the wayes of the Lord are hid from you The way of the Lord is a way of holiness the unclean cannot pass over it but the waifaring man though a fool shall not erre therein but the Scriptures are hid from all the outward learning of the world never to be revealed they are a book that is sealed with seven seals and none can open them but the Lion of the Tribe of Juda never did humane learning open one of the seals nor never shall do but those that are taught by Christ are led by the spirit of Christ into the power of them into the truth of them into the life of them and so the seals come to be opened for the spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God and no man knows the things of God but the spirit of God he to whom the spirit doth reveal them for the natural man in his highest wisdom is emnity against the Lord for man by wisdom knows not God Come down proud flesh that would aspire to know the things of God by the serpent's wisdom from whom it is hide the first wisdom hath a portion in them but it is the plagues and wees that are to rest upon it it shall never enter the kingdom the lake is prepared for it it can speak of Scripture but persecute the power where ever it is manifest the wo of the Lord is upon it it hath been a murderer from the beginning it would murder the righteous seed wherever it is made manifest it is an enemy to man it is an enemie to the Lord it never was subject to him and from this wisdom do they speak that do not live the life of the Scriptures and such are to be shut out from the Scriptures and to own their portion which are the curses they were not made for men that love vain janglings and contentions they were given forth from a spirit of unity therefore silence vain janglers meddle not with them that are not your portion the Scriptures they are profitable for doctrine for reproof and correction and he that adds his own meanings to them or takes from them is cursed of the Lord as they are They are profitable for those Ends the Lord gave them forth 2 Tim. 3.15 16. without adding to them those that spoke them forth were guided by the spirit of truth and they spake forth their own meanings Now consider what a contradiction and confusion do both prophet and people run into they do confess they were immediately inspired by the Holy Ghost when they spake forth the Scriptures and yet they will put meanings and addings to their words as if there were something wanting in them that the Apostles and Prophets did not see when they did write them Here is the subtilty of the first wisdom that would give the Prophets and Apostles good words but would give forth his meanings upon their words this is the Antichrist and the deceiver for to make a trade of them giving meanings to them Is not this exalting your selves above the wisdom of God and running into the invention and so through fained words makes merchandise of the people selling the letter for money which was spoke forth freely and by this ungodly gain live you and your wifes and children in pride which is manifest but come to the first principal that gave forth the Scriptures and you will see the life of them and witness the truth of them every one in your measures and then there will be no wrestings to finde out their meanings by the light you may read them and your selves and know your portion in them but not knowing the life of them though you know all the parts of them and can speak and preach from them yet you are persecuters of the life of them For the Jews did know as much of the letter as any but when the Life came him they did persecute they did know the Latin Greek and Hebrew but persecuted the Original which is Christ Luk. 23.28 and were enemies against him and yet did know the Scriptures in the form of them and did search the Scriptures Be not deceived with vain shewes but come to the life and substance of truth as it is in Jesus and the truth will make you free to serve the Lord with fear which is the beginning of wisdom it keep● 〈…〉 it will shew the deceits that doth lodge in the heart the light will lead you out of them it will shew you deceit under what pretence soever it will shew you that those that are Ministers of Christ and Ambassadors of Christ have not their message to seek and so run to be holpen by another preach from that which is made ready to their hands 2 Cor. 10. 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made manifest to all men you are a stink to the Lord and a reproach to man wo be to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity and sin with cart ropes Wo be to you that speak good of evil and evil of good which our darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for sowre therefore as the fire devoureth the stuble and as the chaffe is consumed of the flame so your root shall be rottenness and your bud shall rise up like dust because ye have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts and contemned the word of the holy one of Israel this is the will of God your sanctification that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in holiness and honor and not in the lusts of concupiscence even as the Gentiles which know not God for God hath not called any unto uncleaness but out of uncleanness unto holiness for those that are Christs have crucified the world with the affections lusts every one in their measures growing into conformity to the head Christ Jesus the wrath of the Lord will feaze upon you except you return from your evil to the Lord from whence you are faln the world shall see it and fear before the Lord the Lord will not hide it it shall be made manifest to man If your consciences be not seared as with a hot iron or if you are not given up to a reprobate minde past feeling if you have not solde your selves to work wickedness there is that in your conscience that doth convince you that living in filthiness in the fruites of the flesh is not to be in conformity to Christ Hear what is said O God thy Throne is for ever the Scepter of thy Kingdom is a Scepter of righteousness thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity wherefore God even thy God hath annointed thee with the oile of gladness above thy fellows and know though your good works and holy life will not save you yet God hath ordained good works that men should walk in them and without holiness no man shall see the Lord but you will finde the Lambe to be a Lion that will render vengeance upon all that obey him not in flames of fire truely I can say with the Apostle having known the terrors of the Lord against sin I do perswade you for our God is a consuming fire the wicked shall not stand in his presence I charge you in the name of the Lord to take warning and to minde that pure light which leads out of these works of impurity lest you be like those corrupt trees without fruit twice dead and plucked up by the roots so be cut assunder from all good for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men which withhold the truth in unrighteousness be not high minded but fear for assuredly the Lord will not quit the guilty that will run on in sin without repentance and count it part of his perfection but snares fire and brimstome will he rain upon the head of the ungodly know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be not deceived for these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience the Lord will not be mocked but if you do sow to the flesh of the flesh you shall reap corruption those that did commit these things had the light and following the light were led out of darkness and did see those fruites of darkness and were ashamed Now consider this both Priest and people that say it is a natural light nature doth not nor cannot discover the sin that is in nature for this light doth convince and condemn the sin in nature many yeers past now that which doth reprove of sin is not natural but spiritual for it doth convince of spiritual wickedness and leads into holiness it is the light of life to those that do obey it and condemnation to them that sin against it yea I witness it is so this is the true guide this is the door to come to Christ and the Father those that do own the light are made the children of the light and of the day but those that live in sin are dead while they live they are enemies to the Lord and so hate the light and will not bring their deeds to the light least they should be reproved Now for those that do get the Saints words steal the true words that were given forth from the light and not walk in the life those are the thieves and robbers that do not come in by the door but clime up some other way Joh. 10.1.10 12 13 these are they that do make merchandize of the letter and so deceive the hearts of the simple those that spoke forth those words they spake forth their life they did live them they spake what they had heard and seen and not from other men but did believe therefore they spake and when you come to the faith then you may speak what is made manifest to you going not before nor beyond your measure you have received but standing in silence in the counsel of the Lord 2 Pet. 1.20 21. and then you will his power 〈◊〉 that gave forth the Scriptures and then you will know they are of no private interpretation but holymen spake them forth as they were moved by the Holy Ghost This will bring you to the life that was before Scripture was to the beginning to know the truth which the Scriptures are a true declaration of and so you will grow up to the life of the Scripture which the world are departed from though they have the Scriptures and can talke from the Scriptures and can preach from the Scriptures and can mightily plead for the Scriptures and say what will you deny the Scriptures and must ye not be ruled by the Scriptures and mighty zealous to the sight of the world for the Scriptures but to the life are enemies not having the life of the Scriptures and so are condemned by the Scriptures therefore it is a book sealed to the wisdom The first wisdom cannot comprehend them they were never given forth by it that rends them that wrests them and stretches them to finde out their meanings but from that eye it is hid never to be revealed here comes in the private interpretation here comes meanings to the Scripture one saith this is the meaning of this place another he conceives it means thus and so conceivings meanings is put upon them from hence comes all Sects and opinions from dark minds not from the Scripture for that was gave forth from the spirit of unity and peace but from the dark minds arises debates and strise vain janglings and contentions this is from the first wisdon that would aspire to know the things of God but cannot for it is earthly sensual and devilish and none come to know the Scriptures

made you manifest that these are works of darkness proceeding from darkness and will end in darkness O the deceit of some of the chief professors in the Town of Starfford when there come one into their place of meeting to declare against the Priests deceit before they did know what was spoken she was haled out by these professors which were then officers and was led by them to the Cage and there she did sit seven hours where she was pissed on and spit on by those bruites of Starfford 2 Thess 1.4 5 6 7 8. these professors knowing of it which they did tell me did grieve their hearts for to see and about two or three of the clock did come to my house to me to know whether I would receive her and I did tell them I would but they went away and did not bring her tell six of the clock at night here was the deceit of you made manifest had it grieved your hearts as you said it did Why did not you sooner release her but the double hearted man God will judge Know that mercy to your fellow creature had been better then sacrifice but thus is the heart made manifest that it may be known by the fruits of it The next day she was carried to a Justice thinking to lase her in prison but when they came there they had none to accuse her thus was their folly made manifest She came a second time to their meeting where she was haled out like a dog and the officers did turn her out of the grave-yard to the mercies of the heathen who rent her and did tear her pulling her head tire oft pulling her by the hair of the head and throwing her down in the street as she passed along to come to a friends house which is nigh half the quarter of a mile from the steeple house howling and shouting at their fellow creature was it not your office to see the peace kept that these bruites might not make a prey of her had not a stranger which was at our meeting took her part and rescued her from the violence of those heathen what he could he did see no other but they would have killed her Be ashamed that ever such wickedness should be suffered in a town professing Christ you Magistrates had warning to deal justly to love mercy to walk humbly with the Lord not to respect the persons of men in judgement but to deal righteously according to that righteous Law of God in the conscience was this a righteous act of yours to leave your fellow creature to the mercy of the heathen Take counsel together and it shall come to nought speak the word and it shall not stand for God is with us Oh all people will walke in the name of his God and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever Micha 4.6 DARKNESSE Denyed by the CHILDREN OF LIGHT IN the fourth moneth upon the sixth day of the moneth I went to John Pains house of Starford to know of him if he did not receive a letter of mine that was sent me from Cambridge from James Blackly Justice of the peace and he said he had none of it but James Blackly asked the Coachman that did bring it and he said it was delivered to Mr. Pain Minister of Starford his name being the same with mine both of us being named John Pain but if he had or hath it and doth deny it it is his deceit this was the cause of my going to his house And then when I was there with him he did begin with me about some words that I did say to him about the publike Ministery as it doth now stand the National Ministery that I did say the spirit of the Lord in their Ministery was departed from them that they should not convert one soul more to the Lord by their Ministery which thing was true I did so say to him and so I shall do still and the fruites of it shall appear more and more as they stand contrary to the commands of Christ they shall not as is proved they do they that neither follow the example of Christ Prophet nor Apostles they shall not profit the people their preaching is like the blood of a dead man as is manifest they have the form of truth but the power is denyed by them and so the power is not made manifest among them for this many yeers but this power was by thee denied for thou did tell me thou hadst not the infallible spirit of Paul if not that spirit J then another the spirit in the Saints is but one in all and is the spirit of truth that leads into all truth and shews things to come even the spirit of truth Joh. 14.17 whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not neither knoweth him but we know him for had welleth with us and shall be in us and this spirit is the same as ever this spirit was in Paul in the Prophets in the Saints that ever were or ever shall be From this spirit was the Scripture gave forth and none but the spirit can reveal the Mysteries of God in them for no man doth know the things of God but the Spirit of God and he to whom the Spirit of God doth reveal them and he that hath not the Spirit of Christ is note of his and this spirit is the spirit of Revelation now in the Saints and no man knows any thing as he ought to know it but what is revealed by the spirit 1 Cor. 2.11 It is recorded in Scripture that the Spirit beareth witness with our spirits Rom. 8.9 that we are the sons of God How doth it witness but by revealing to our spirits 〈◊〉 it is so This is the earnest of our inheritance this is the intrance into the everlasting kingdom for there none of our names after the flesh are set down but this maketh known the white stone and the new name which no man doth know but those that do receive it and this spirit of revelation and the Apostle pray for for the Church of the Ephesians that the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ the father of 〈◊〉 may 〈◊〉 unto ●ou the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him Eph. 1.17 18. Eph. 4.4 5 6. and 〈◊〉 man 〈◊〉 the ●●ther but 〈◊〉 Son and he to whom the Son doth reveal him so revelations are not ceased as might be proved by many places of the Scripture yea I witness against all gain-sayers that Scripture fulfilled in me Joh. 16.13 That he will shew you things to come This I witness is truth and many with me will witness the same these things are hid from wise men and revealed to babes the weak things of the world confound the strong and might glory be to thy name for ever and ever 1 Cor. 12.13 This spirit is in all his Saints and this spirit is infallible it