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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

a way which is hid from the eyes of all living and kept close from the fowls of the air there did he lead us by the hand of Moses and Aaron the saint of the Lord there did he lead us from one Nation to another people and rebuked mighty Kings yea famous Kings for our sakes saying Touch not mine Annointed and do my Prophets no harm and we have been Baptized with Moses in the Sea and in the Cloud and we have heard the voice of the Lord speaking out of the cloudy Pillar and his Light is arisen and his arm is made Bare in us and darkness is under his feet Now he who is the Light of the world and shined in the darkness is risen out of darkness and in him and by him we comprehend all you who are yet in the darkness in the diverse washings and carnal ordinances which were imposed but till the time of Reformation and no longer and we see your bottom and know your ground and we know your house of Imagery and see with the eye of God that ye are looking with beastly eyes which are many in you which are in the many bodies who are alienated and reprobated from the one body the Light which is the Eye of God by which his Children are led and guided into all truth which truth sets free from iniquity transgression and sin a thing which ye never look to be set free from in this life but are preaching and disputing against it Therefore to you all This is the Word of the Lord God and a charge from the Lord God to you all that are high in your profession above the Door Christ Repent and turn to the Light of the Lord God in you for there is not one of ye all that is yet come to the first principle which is Repentance from dead works for he that is dead sinneth not therefore come out of Babylon out of all your inventions imitations and likenesses into which ye are run and the Spirit of the Lord God never led you by your own Confession who say the Letter is the Leader Guider and Teacher which is contrary to the Doctrine of Christ and the Scriptures which say Christ is given for a Covenant of Light for a Leader and for a Teacher of his people therefore the leaders of this people causeth them to Err and they that are led of them are destroyed But they that are the sons of God are led by the Spirit of God and are Redeemed out of all your types and figures and shadowes and divers washings for which you have nothing to say or prove them by but by the Hand-writing which we know he hath taken away and abolished and nailed to his Cross which are a shadow of Good things to come But the Body is Christ into which body by one Spirit we are all Baptized whether Jewes or Greeks Bond or Free and have all been made to drink into that one Spirit in which Spirit is found the life of all types shadows and figures and in whom there is no variableness nor shadow of changing and him we witness in us to be greater then he that is in the world he himself is not of this world but he leadeth all that follow him out of the world which passeth away and gives us an entrance and by him an entrance is ministred into the Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and this is the Saviour of the Soul even the ingrafted word of the Lord which ye that say ye are wise have rejected and cast his Law behind your backs and to you all he is become a stone of stumbling and Rock of offence and the preaching of his Cross is to you foolishness who gird your selves and esteemed by you in that wisdom nothing but confusion babling and non-sence though unto us that are saved the power of God and the wisdom of God Therefore in the fear of the Lord God and in the dread of the Lord God I charge you all again Repent whilst wisdom uttereth her voice in the streets saying turn in and the Lord calleth by that of himself in you and reproveth you by his pure witness and smiteth you in your Consciences I say all turn to that which smiteth checketh and reproveth that the Lord God may pour forth his Spirit upon you and cause you to know the mind of the Lord and to feel the word of the Lord which is nigh you in your hearts and is quick and powerful sharper then a two edged sword and searcheth your hearts and sheweth you your hearts and sheweth you all your hypocrisie and how you are hypt from the pure Spirit of the Lord God and have lost the Image of the heavenly and bears the image of the earthly sensual and divelish and in that wisdom you are with all the world which is enmity with God and brings not any to the knowledge of God no more then it brought the Jews to the knowledge of Christ when he came and this is your woful and sad Estate and herein are you crying as they were of old that ye are the Church of the Lord and keep the Ordinances of the Lord and are crying out against them who witness Christ the substance the body the end of all types and figures who is the Everlasting Day in which all shadows flee away and he was before all shadows was and they that are out of him are in the shadows and not they that are in him And your actions plainly declare and make it manifest unto all that are not blind and have not utterly lost the feeling of the Lord God that ye are wholly degenerated from the Lord and inwardly ravened from the Spirit of the Lord God which gave forth the Scriptures For both of them bear Testimony against you that ye have lost the spiritual weapon and knows not the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God to defend your shadows types and figures and all your ordinances which you in your immaginations have set up and have made to your selves many likenesses and fall down to them and worship them and would have all to do the like as if they were the true God but God is a Spirit and all that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth therefore all come down and feel the spirit of the Lord the power of the Lord God in you leading guiding you out of all the Worlds wayes and the wickedness thereof and it will lead you by a way which you never went and in a path which the vulters eye hath not seen nor the fierce lionish nature hath not troden therein But the Children of the Lord and the redeemed of the Lord walk therein and a fool cannot erre therein Therefore all cease from your own wisdom which is foolishness with God and own Gods wisdom in you even the Light which is accounted foolishness by you and all wait low in it and a secret strength and

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 by vertue of their Commission Matth. 28. Go ye therefore into all Nations teaching them and Baptising them in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost ALSO A Discovery of the BAPTISTS Foundation and Bottom and many of their principal Doctrines set down herein held forth at a Dispute in Leicester-Shire at one Henry Smiths at Wythcock the 27 day of teh 12th moneth 1658. Before a multitude of people with an Answer thereunto wherein is shewed also that the Baptists are setting up Types and Shadows above Christ and visible carnal created things above the invisible Eternal and unchangeable God Zach. 10.12 And they shall walk up and down in the Name of the Lord. 1 Cor. 12. For by one Spirit are we all Baptized into one Body Written by one who was sometimes one with them in the shadows feeding upon the wind and eating that which died of its self and did not satisfie But have now found the day wherein the shadows flee away and hath received another name Besides HUMPHRY WOLLRICH London Printed for G. C. and are to be sold by Thomas Simmons 1659. A DECLARATION To the Baptists concerning the name of the Lord Mat. 28.18 19 20. FRiends all ye that are called Baptists you are they amongst whom I have sometime had my conversation and as you are now so was I whilst I was among you professing a God and a Christ whom I knew not but by the hearing of the ear and then I was looking at things that were seen as you are building my foundation upon carnal created visible things which all must perish in the using but my self knew not Christ the Rock of Ages who is invisible and eternal and a foundation of many generations and the foundation of his people in all generations him have I found whom Moses and the Prophets wrote of and therefore I leave those things which must decrease as Johns Disciples did and follow him who must and doth encrease even Christ Jesus the Light of the World who hath lighted every man that cometh into the World who is the end of all shaddowes types and figures the end of the Law to his people who are come in to him who was before sin and transgression was the same it is that doth put an end to sin and finish transgression unto which and because of which the Law was added untill the seed came which is made under the Law shadowes types and figures I say when he is come and doth reign and rule in his Saints and hath condemed in them all iniquity transgression and sin to such and none but such is Christ the end of the Law for the Law takes hold of a man so long as he lives in sin for the Law was added because of sin and none are under grace till the Law hath condemned sin therefore all friends who are breathing after the Lord but your minds still without and ye being alienated from that which may be known of God in you which is the candle of the Lord and searcheth all your hearts and tryeth all your reins to you I say let your profession be what it will and your form be what it will it is but your own will and so contrary to the will of God you not being led into it by the pure eternall unchangeable spirit of the Lord God in whom as I have said before there is no variableness or shaddow of changing therefore in love to you all and the welfare of your immortal souls which is of more worth and value then all the World all turn to the Light of the Lord that shines in darkness that convinceth you reproves you and checks you for all your ungodly words and for all your hard speeches which ye have ignorantly and wickedly spoken against the Lord and against his people whom he hath anointed with the oyl of joy and gladnesse above their brethren who have cast them out for his names sake and have said Let the Lord be glorified as you have hated mee and cast mee out as an evil doer as a blasphemer a heretick and as one not fit to live upon the earth though to this day ye can prove no evil against me either in life or doctrine but as Christ his Apostles and Saints in all ages who were innocent suffered as evil doers by this evil and adulterous generation who were gone a whoring from under their God and are run into the things that are seen which are temporal and have got the shaddowes types and figures and a form but are enemies unto and deny the life and power of Godlinesse and in obedience to the Lord because of these things which I found among you I turned from you and separated from you and this is according to the Apostles doctrine and not contrary to Scripture But the Lord commandeth his people to separate from all that walk disorderly under what name or form soever they be and he will be a Father unto them and a God unto them and will dwell in them and walk in them and they shall be my sons and daughters saith the Lord Almighty and into this state and condition the Lord God is gathering his Sheep which have been scattered in their thoughts and imaginations upon all the dark mountains of Israel crying lo here and lo there even into a sure resting place to sit under their own vine and under their own fig-tree where none shall make them afraid and their place of defence shall be the munition of rocks where their bread is sure and their water given them and they eat of the hidden Manna which hath been hid from many generations where they eat of the bread of life and are refreshed and strengthened in the Inward man where they drink abundantly of the Rivers of pleasures that are at the right hand of God for evermore Into this place is the Lord God of life gathering his children more and more even into this land which flowes with milk and honey where they drink of the Living fountain and eat of the honey out of the Rock which hath followed them in the wilderness and hath led them out of darkness even out of thick darkness and by his Light they walk and are walking through darkness and through the wilderness where they have been long tempted proved and tryed even by a way which we knew not and he suffered us to hunger and he fed us there with Manna which had been hid from us and by a way which we never went hath heled us by

whosoever abideth in him sinneth not whosoever sinneth hath not seen him nor known him and all ye that are commiting sin and preaching for sin and disputing for sin and say none can be perfect and free from sin while they live you are all of your father the Devil for the Devil sineth from the beginning and the work of the Devil hath been wrought in you and the lusts of the flesh and the pride of life is brought forth amongst you and for this purpose is the Son of God manifested that he may destroy the works of the Devil whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God for thus saith the Lord I planted thee a Noble vine and I made thee an upright plant how art thou become the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me saith the Lord And so you are degenerated from the Lord and estranged from the life which is the Light of man and ye are without God in the World and the world lieth in darknesse and the light shineth in darknesse Jc. 1. and the darknesse comprehendes it not and in this state you are who are pleading for sin and cannot cease from sin as ye may read Ro. 3.12 they are all gone out of the way they are altogether become abominable there is none that doth good no not one their throat is an open Sepulchre with their tongues they have used deceit the poison of Asps is under their lips but the way of peace they have not known and this is the reason why you cannot cease from sin 2 Pet 2.14 15. because ye have forsaken the right way as those cursed children which he speaks of had and had erred in their hearts from the light which is the way the power of God and wisdom of God and so blind are you notwithstanding all this that ye preach and pray sometimes against all sin and say you know it is your duty to abstain from all appearance of evil and to press and to strive after perfection and yet connot see that your striving is sin and your preaching against and striving against sin is sin for all that is not of faith is sin for this is contrary to your belief that men can be perfect and free from sin and your selves being gone out of the waie and striving against sin while out of the waie to you the commands of God must needs appear to be hard and grevious you being gone from the light the power which makes his waies waies of pleasantnesse and all his paths and commands easie and is not this the command of God Be ye holy for I the Lord am holy and be you perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect and that you should abstain not onely from the evil but from all appearance of evil and Paul who was an Elder and Minister of Christ he praied in the Name of the Lord and his praier was not in vain as yours are who pray for that which ye believe can never be who praied that the Saints might be kept blamelesse and spotlesse both in soul bodie and spirit until the coming of the Lord and to present the Churches as a chaste virgin and loyall spouse to the Lord without spot or wrinkle or anie such thing and was it not Pauls work to present everie man perfect in Christ and did he work and labour in vain as ye do or strive in vain or preach in vain who said he preached wisdom in a misterie to them that were perfect and doth not John say 1 John 2.14 when he spake to the young men and fathers doth not he tell them that greater was he that was in them then he that was in the world 1 John 4.4 And they were such as had the word abiding in them and they kept themselves that the wicked one touched them not and they were led by the spirit it of the Lord and walked in the light of the Lord and brought their words and all their actions to the tryer and touch-stone which is the Law and the Testamony which law is light saith Solomon Proverbs 6. and which Testimony is the spirit of prophesie saith John Rev. 19.10 and this is bound up and sealed with his Disciples Isa 8.19 20. and this is the word of reconciliation and reconciles to the Lord all that follow it and this is the light of the World and all that follow it are led out of darknesse and all sin and this is hated by you whatever you say who live in sin for all that do evil hate Christ all who are full of vain words and use vain words and all which are in the fashions of the World and love and friendships of the World even this is the condemnation of them all because they hate it and love it not and no man is justified in the sight of God nor hath peace with God neither is he reconciled unto God who is not led and guided by that which reconciles unto the Father therefore all you that speak of being justified by Christ and say you do believe in Christ and yet your selves are found sinners deceive not your selves my friends for it is hard for you to believe against Gods witnesse and to speak peace to your selves while Gods witnesse in your conciences speaks war and condemnation for man must be regenerated and born again of the immortal word which word is like a fire and like a hammer and as you wait lo ye shall feel it so and it will break down and hammer down that which separates you from the Lord it will finish transgression and condemn sin in you it will rent the vail and destroy the covering which is over the heart and so will purifie you and open the pure eye which can see the Lord and open the deaf ear which can hear what the spirit saith the grave shall be opened and the prisoner of hope shall come out of the pit where there is no water and he that hath been your condemnation shall now become your Saviour and he that hath been slain since the foundation of the World shall live in you and the great mistery of Godlinesse shall be made manifest to you which is Christ in you the hope of glory and Satan which hath been exalted in you even in the Temple of God above all that is called God and the abomination which makes desolate and the great misterie of iniquity shall then be seen by the great mistery of Godlinesse and then shall come to passe and ye shall come to witnesse it true without a meaning that which is written by the Prophet Isa 35.1 the Wildernesse and the solitary place shall be glad and the desert shall rejoyce and blossom as the rose then shall the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped then shall the lame man leap as an hart and the tongue of the dumb sing for in the