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A66855	A declaration to the Baptists concerning the name of the Lord, and what it is to be baptized thereinto, and the nature of the Lord, and what it is to be made partaker thereof : and sheweth that none can be saved, but such as are baptized into the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, into which name and nature, the apostles were sent to baptize, and not into water : shewing also, that the apostles were made the administrators of the Spirits baptism ... : also a discovery of the Baptists foundation ... / written by one who was sometimes one with them in the shadows ... but have now found the day wherein the shadows flee away, and hath received another name besides Humphry Wollrich.	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1659 (1659)	Wing W3290; ESTC R39137	27,678	39

power you shall feel Rise in you as you wait out of all your thoughts and reasonings and imaginations and then shall you feel and not before that Gods thoughts are not as your thoughts nor Gods wayes as your wayes neither doth the Lord reveal his secrets to any who are out of the Babes nature and childes nature for there is not any of them as yet that is become as a little child or as a weaned child before the Lord as David was and how then should you see the Kingdom of God for Christ saith a man must be regenerate and become as a child before that he can see the Kingdom of God and again he saith whosoever receives not the Kingdom as a little child shall in no wise enter therein Therefore I say again unto you who are in the halings pullings and tearings and using Antichrists weapons which are not spiritual but carnal when any is moved of the Lord as I have often been to come to your meetings and have spoken unto you in the Name and dread of the Lord then have you made it appear that you are yet in the Lions nature which never trod in the way of the Lord honestly consider and search the Scriptures which you say is your rule to walk by where did you ever find therein that any of the Saints or people of the Lord did ever pull and hale any out of their meetings or elect officers or make it the work of their Deacons which should be full of the Holy ghost to pull or hale any violently out of their meetings as Thomas Lamb and William Allin did who say the Holy Ghost hath made them overseers of the Church of Christ with many more such like actions which ye be found in besides many damnable doctrines which would be too much here to repeat some of which I shall set down in the following discourse And this is the judgement of the Lord and the wrath of the Lord upon you all for your wickedness in that you are still calling your selves Christians and the Church of the Lord and will not see how unlike Christ and his Church you are in all these actions And many of you who are called Baptists have had much tendernesse in you formerly and then was the Lord nearer you and ye nearer to him then now you are and then could you begin to say that all the World lay in vanity by reason of which there is nothing but vexation of spirit and then did many of you begin to deny respect of Persons which you saw to be sin But are now contending for and practising of that which you once saw vanity in and are again building that which you once destroyed and so are become transgressors of the Law But it is happened unto you according to the true proverb the dog is returned to his vomit and the sow that was washed to the wallowing in the mire And many of you in those dayes began to deny the worlds fashions in casting off your gold and silver and costly attire which you saw to be needlesse and contrary to the Scripture and practises of the Saints and not the adorning which the daughters of Sarah and the holy women of old were adorned with and many of you have cast off your points fancies and needlesse toyes which then you did wear but now there is many of you have got again your silk garters and fancies and wear your silver and gold laces and plead for them and say they are needful things and that by your own rule the Scriptures with which rule you could formerly plead against them so that if one come to your meetings one can behold no difference between you and the world which you say you are separated from and who in all the Steeple-houses can be more full of vanity then some of your Teachers and Pastors are in wearing your cuffs and silver hat-bands and your hats licked like a spotted Leopard therefore all your separation from the world is but in words for you are not yet redeemed out of the Worlds wayes fashions friendships and customs which are all enmity with God and must passe away but he that doth the will of God abideth for ever and can never be moved And when I consider these things and whether and from whence ye are fallen and how ye have hardened your hearts against the Lord as Pharaoh did in whose presence and before whom I was altogether unwilling to write unto you so that I may truly say that I do it rather by constraint then willingly But the spirit of the Lord constraineth me which is contrary to mans will in all things and in obedience to him whose wayes and wisdom is not as mans do I write whether you hear or forbear to hear And concerning the order of your Church which you say is the Church of Christ and you say your selves are in the Gospel order and Members thereof answer these queries following First where do ye find or read in the Scriptures that the Ministers of Christ did set up an hour-glasse to preach by as ye do and when that is out to say the time is spent whether your time be in the Fathers hand or in the hour-glasse or whether the Spirit of the Lord is or ever was limited to an hour-glasse or whether the Saints did not all speak one by one as the spirit gave them utterance Secondly Whether the Saints or Ministers of Christ did invent what to say before-hand and writ it down as some of ye do and then read it to your Church or whether they did not speak as the unlimimitted Spirit gave them utterance Thirdly Where did the Church of Christ ever appoint a certain number of their members to speak at set times and call it disorder for any to speak besides them whom they did appoint and whether they might not all speak one by one that all may be edified and all might be comforted whether this was not the order and not counted confusion in any of the Churches of the Saints But Alas alas so are you fallen and so far degenerated from the Lord and apostatized from the Apostles life doctrine and practise and so ignorant are you of the letter of the Scriptures which ye say is your rule and so far hath the God of the World blinded your eyes that now you are seting up things that are seen which are temporal created visible things and must perish in the using thereof in stead of the invisible eternal and unchangeable God you are setting up carnal water in stead of the Name of the Lord which is the nature of God and is invisible and is unchangeable and one with himself and unchangeable as he is unchangeable and so far are ye gone from the Name of the Lord which is a strong tower which is the Rock of Ages and the foundation of many generations into which name Christ gave his Apostles commission to teach and Baptize as ye may read Mat. 28.

Wildernesse shall waters break out and streams in the desert and the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads they shall obtain joy and gladness and sorrow and sighing shall flee away and then shall the parable be opened and plainnesse to you when you have found the key of David unto whom the parable is not I say when you have found the Immanuel which Moses and the Prophets writ of then shall you leave your figures your shadowes and types when you witnesse the Prophet raised up in you who is the life and substance and the everlasting day and the Lord of the Sabbaoth then shall you leave your images and cast away your Idols and leave off your idolatry and follow the Lamb where-ever he goeth and then shall you know that Scripture which ye have been so much in your imaginations about to know the meaning of Zach. 10 11 12. and then shall you see Jerusalem searched with candles and the inhabitants of Judah with torches and the hidden things of Esan brought to light and the seed of Jacob which hath bowed to Esaus seed shall bow no longer but until he be past and then shall Babylon the great the tumultuous city and golden city and city of confusion be broken down and that in which the blood of the innocent hath been found and the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus and the blood of the souls of them that lies slain under the Altar crying how long thou holy and just God shall all be required at her hands and come into remembrance with the Lord God and he that hath slain with the sword shall be killed with the sword and he that hath led into captivity and here is the mind that hath wisdom and here is the patience of the Saints and Babylon the great is fallen is fallen and then shall ye know Jerusalem and the new city even new Jerusalem become a peaceable habitation and then shall ye be gathered into general assembly and shall come to the spirit of just men made perfect and unto Mount Zion and unto the city of the living God the Heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of Angels and general assembly and Church of the first-born as Paul was Heb. 12 22 24 and unto God the judge of all and to Jesus the Reconciler and Mediator of the new Covenant and to the blood of sprinkling which speaketh better things then that of Abes and then shall your water even your foundation be shaken and nothing shall stand with you but the Rock of Ages which cannot be moved vers 27 and in the presence and power of the Lord God I warn you all put not this day a far off which is the joyful day and year of Jubile to his people and the day of Zions deliverance to his chosen which have overcome by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of his Testimony and patience which they do keep and thereby have made an enterance into the Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Rev. 1.9 and are become companions in tribulation and in the Kingdom and patience of Jesus and are come from far and knows our mansions in our Fathers house and know the rest which remains for the people of God and are gathered into one sheep-fold and witnesse the Lord our shepherd and we see his shape and hear his voice and follow him who is invisible eternal and unchangeable and abides a Priest for ever and a shelter and a hiding place for ever and with Abraham Isaac and Jacob do we sit in our Fathers Kingdom and our place of defence is the munition of Rocks and our bread is sure and water is given and the Lord is become our King and law-giver and we rain with him upon earth and he hath made us Kings and Priests to ●od the Father and we sit with him in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus even him who rules the heathen with a rod of iron and it is he who doth all our workes in us and for us and slayes our enemies and breaks our enemies like a potters vessel and the sharp two edged sword and the new threshing instrument which hath teeth we know wherewith he hath threshed our mountains and laid them waste without Inhabitants and is now threshing your mountains and is breaking down and scattering you and he is ungirding your loines which are girding your selves and have made to your selves likenesses but have lost the spirit of truth and ye have joyned your selves to the Heathen and have eat the sacrifice of the dead and have learned their works and ye are like Ephraim feeding upon the wind and that which withers and dies of it self and in this woful and lamentable state are ye all who are not lead guided and acted by the light and so your prayers are as if ye slew a man and all your sacrifices is as the blessing of an Idol or offering of Swines flesh for you have chosen your own wayes and are gone from the way of the Lord and light of the Lord and ye have set up the idol in your hearts and ye live in that and delight in that and are led by that which my soul abhors saith the Lord and ye have set up the letter for your rule in stead of the new creature and life and ye have set up the Babel which is ink and paper to be your judge and tryer of the anointing and with that ye condemn the Innocent and judge him unto whom all judgement is committed as the blind Jewes who were painred with a profession as you are but were inwardly ravened and gone from the anointing in them which was and for ever shall be the Saints tryer and judge of the spirits which lead out into the World and he is the same to his children as ever he was and his sons pray and preach and are led by his spirit as ever they were though ye cannot believe these which are apostatized from the Apostles doctrine and have set up carnal created visible things and have set up water in stead of the Name of the Lord and the letter in stead of the life of the Lord and ye have put the letter and your meaning thereof and your private interpretations which ye have added to be the rule the tryer and the leader of the Saints and the law and the Testimony and the judger of Spirits and all these have ye set up above Christ who is the spiritual man who judgeth all things and ought to be your judge in all things and to whom all power and judgement is given and committed in Heaven and earth and he himself is judged of no man and so the beam is in your eye and the mote in your eye end ye being hipt from the pure of God and with that which hath been exalted above all that is called God are ye judging and condemning the Son of God unto whom all judgement