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A42712	The everlasting rule born witness unto, vvhich is to try all people that do profess God and Christ in words, or, I. A tender salutation to all people in what nation soever, and under what form soever, who do profess God and Christ in words ... II. Also an exhortation unto all people to come to that which will give them victory over sin and the devil ... III. A distinction between the ministers of Christ and the ministers of Antichrist ... / by a lover of truth and righteousness, who seeks the well-being of all mankind, William Gibson.	Gibson, William, 1629-1684.	1667 (1667)	Wing G682; ESTC R38756	64,130	72

God but like the Devil then they came into the likeness of God again which Adam and Eve lost when they went from the Measure of the Spirit of God wherewith he had enlightened them and which he commanded them to obey Gen. 1.26 27. And though Adam's Sons and Daughters be ravined from the Spirit of God within them and so are committing Sin with greediness Gen 3 1 2. c. to the end and draw-Iniquity with Cords of Vanity and pulling Sin upon them as it were with a Cart Rope yet this is no argument to any good purpose to perswade people that all people must do as they do neither is it an argument to any good purpose to perswade people that there is no better a State or Condition to be attained unto while men and women beareth the Earthly Body or Tabernacle about seeing the Apostle Paul said unto the Saints who had been in the fall ravined from the Spirit or Grace or Light in their hearts but was then when he writ unto them returned to it again Ye were sometimes Darkness Ephes 5.8 9 13 14 15. but now are ye Light in the Lord mark his words Ye were sometimes Darkness that was before they had believed in Christs Light within them which is the true Light that hath Enlightened every one that is come into the World that was before they had believed Pauls Testimony who was sent of God Who is Light Acts 26.18 23. 16 17 ver and in whom there is no Darkness at all to turn people from Darkness to Light and so from Sathans power unto the Power of God but when they had believed in the Light wherewith Christ had enlightened them and had received Pauls Testimony who was sent to turn them from the Darkness which was in them in which they had committed sin unto the Light which was in them which had condemned and troubled them when they did commit sin then were they Light in the Lord 2 Pet. 1.19 Mark that in the Lord and so they were in him who is Light in God and Christ and so they knew God and Christ in them to save them from their sins Rom. 6.17 18 20 21 22. For said Paul When ye were the Servants of Sin ye were free from Righteousness Mark that is they were not in Righteousness but out of Righteousness and so were in unrighteousness which is sin for all unrighteousness is sin and all sin is of the Devil But now said Paul 1 Cor. 3.10 11. being free from Sin you are become the Servants of Righteousness and hath your Fruits unto Holiness and the End Everlasting Life Mark then the Fruit which they brought forth was Holy and the End Everlasting Life so here was a blessed change witnessed while they were in the Earthly Tabernacle the same Paul said to some of the Saints Some of you were Whoremongers and Adulterers but said be you are washed you are ceansed ye are sanctified he did not say unto them when they were Saints that they were Whoremongers and Adulterers as many now adayes call themselves Saints and Christians and yet liveth in much Wickedness and Uncleanness both of Flesh and Spirit But when they were washed and cleansed from their Filthiness and so was brought into the Likeness and Image of God again which is Purity and Holiness and so they came to see and know the Lord and it is written Without holiness no man can see the Lord and it is written Blessed are the Pure in heart for they shall see God 2 John 3.4 5 6 7 9 10 24. and the Apostle John said He that is born of God sinneth not he that sinneth is of the Devil we are of God said he and the whole World lieth in Wickedness Wickedness is Sin but we are of God said he he that is of God sinneth not said he he that sinneth is of the Devil we know said he that the Son of God is come 1 Joh. 5.18 19 20 21. and hath given us an understanding to know him that is true and we are in him that is true Mark they were in him that is true Even in his Son Jesus Christ and this is the true God and Life Eternal and these are true Saints and true Christians which is come to witness Christ in them and hath witnessed him in them to destroy the Works of the Devil in them which is Sin and so to make them new Creatures as he had made those Saints in Paul and John's dayes 2 Cor. 5.17 18. For if any man be in Christ said the Apostles be is a new Creature old things are passed away said he all things are become new they that are Christs said he have crucified the Flesh with its Affections and Lusts and they bad put off concerning their former conversation the old man with his deeds which is corrupt and they had put on the new man Christ Jesus the true Light Col. 1.26 27 28. who is the Lamb of God who hath enlightened every one that is come into the World that all men in his Light wherewith he hath enlightened them might believe and the Saints and true Christians in the Apostles daye did believe in the true Light wherewith Christ Jesus had enlightened them and God by it did lead them out of Sin and so out of the Fall for before Sin entred there was no Fall for Sin was the Fall from God so who is come unto the Eternal true Light within them and by it is led out of Sin which was mans I all from God they are come out of the state of the first Adam in whose state men are dead in Trespasses and Sins and they are come into the Second Adam the Lord from Heaven the quickning Spirit 1 Cor 15.20 19. and though they did once bear the Image of the First Adam in whom all are dead in Trespasses and Sins yet now they are come to bear the Image of the Second Adam the Lord from Heaven the Light which hath redeemed them from their Sins and though they were once dead in Adam who fell yet now are they made alive by the Second Adam who never fell and though they did commit sin daily while they were in the First Adams state faln and ravined from the Spirit of the Second Adam in their hearts yet now being come unto the Spirit of the Second Adam which they had ravined from and now having learned obedience unto it it being the Spirit of Truth or the True Spirit it leadeth them into all Truth and so out of all untruth and so all who hath in faithfulness followed and obeyed the Light wherewith Christ the Second Adam hath enlightened them they and none but they are made alive in and by Christ the Second Adam so as it is written it is come to be witnessed by such As in the First Adam all die so in the Second Adam all shall be made alive Mark in Adam all have

no habitation in God but was a Vagabond and his Soul delighted in Evil Gen. 4. from vers 5 to 17. then in that state he offered unto the Lord God but the Lord God did not accept of his Offering no God took no pleasure at all in it because he was ravened from the Spirit or Light of God within him and was wicked and then when Cain and his Offering was rejected then Cain was wroth and his countenance fell and the Lord said unto Cain Why art thou Wroth and why is thy Countenance faln if thou doest well shalt thou not be accepted but if thou doest evil sin lieth at thy door But Cain who was full of wrath because he was reproved and his Offering not accepted he in his wrath rose up against his righteous Brother whom God loved and whose Offering God accepted and he slew his righteous Brother because his Brothers works were righteous and his own were wicked and the Lord God cursed Cain for shedding innocent blood and Cain when he was ravined from the Spirit of God within him and had shed innocent blood he became great in the Earth and builded a City and although he had a City upon Earth yet he was a Vagabond because he was wandered and ravened from the Spirit of God within him for his Soul had no habitation in God but the Wrath of God did abide upon him And now all ye Priests and People and Professors of all sorts who have been or are or desire to be Persecutors of those whom the Lord God loveth and taketh pleasure in take notice of Cain's Reward that great and first Persecutor about Religion and all of you repent and give over persecuting people for the exercise of their Consciences towards God Or else you will undo your selves The Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it for whosoever persecutes any man for the exercise of his Conscience towards God they are of the same Spirit with Cain and their Reward will be the same with his if they do not give over persecuting and speedily repent for there ought none to exercise Authority over the Consciences of men and women but the Lord God and his Son Jesus Christ who are one for it is Gods Right only to Rule in and over the Consciences of people and what man or men soever upon the Face of the whole Earth who doth take upon him or them to lay a yoke upon the Consciences of people to limit people from a Worship into which they are already led by the Spirit of the Lord God such who so doth they do and will provoke the Lord God of Heaven and Earth against them and he will bring his Wrath upon them and it will fall heavy upon them 1 Cor. 12.7 and he will bring them down For God is a Spirit and he hath given the manifestation of his Spirit to every one to profit withal and every one that believeth in the measure of the Spirit of God which he hath given them to profit withal they come by that to be led into a pure Spiritual Worship in which the Lord God takes pleasure and whosoever striveth against them the Lord God will visit them with Judgment and he will deliver his oppressed people out of their hands And so all Persecutors come to the Light wherewith Christ Jesus the Son of God hath enlightened you and that will let you see that all this while you have been perfecting a people whom God hath made harmless for the exercise of their Conscitnces unto him in a pure Spiritual Worship you have been fighting against God who oreased you as Soul was who was as zealous for his Form of Religion as you are for yours and in his blind zeal he persecuted the Church of God and he thought he had been doing God service as many of you zealous Professors have done in your bitter angry zeal but both his thoughts and yours have been vain in this particular and so you have fulfilled the words of Christ who said unto the Saints The time will come that they will think they do God service that shall kill you Joh. 16.2 3. but Saul was an Enemy of God and a Fighter against God and a Voice came unto him from the Lord God and the Voice said Saul Saul why persecutest thou me Acts 9.5 and Saul being strucken down answered the Voice which spake unto him and said Who art thou Lord Acts 22.8 19 20. and the Voice answered unto his question and said I am Jesus of Nazareth whom thou persecutest it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks take notice that Saul who after his Conversion was called Paul his Conversion to the Christian Faith was after Christ had suffered without the Gate of Jerusalem for Saul was going to Damascus with Letters from the high Priests to bring the Saints which was at Damascus to Jerusalem to be persecuted for Jesus Christ the Light and Life of men he had suffered without the Gate of Jerusalem in that Body which his Enemies called Joseph the Carpenters Son before the Voice told him I am Jesus of Nazareth whom thou persecutest So all Persecutors take notice that it was Jesus in those Saints which was at Damascus and in other Saints that Saul persecuted I say it was Jesus the Spirit Life and Power in those and other Saints that Saul persecuted for as for the Vessel which was supposed by his Enemies to be Joseph the Carpenters Son that was offered up before so Jesus Christ was in the Saints and he was their Comforter the Spirit of Truth and he did lead them into all Truth and the Saints were hated and persecuted both by Jews and Gentiles who did not believe in the Spirit and Light of Christ within them and as it was in their dayes so it is in our dayes Joh. 14.16 17 18 26. He that is born of the Flesh persecutes him that is born of the Spirit and they that will live Godlike in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution Mark they that will live in the likeness of God in which state man was created they must suffer persecution but if they will continue in the likeness or Image of the Devil in Pride Drunkenness and Hypocrisie and only profess God and Christ without them and winde and turn about unto every new Invention which is invented in the thick and dark Night of Apostacy which yet remains in and over the hearts of many thousands of those that calls themselves Christians then they may not be persecuted but if they be Proud men then they may find some friendship amongst the Proud Joh. 15 18 89 20 21. and if they be Drunkards they may find some friendship amongst the Drunkards and if they be Hypocrites Time-servers and Men-pleasers and Dissemblers then they may find some friendship amongst the children of the same nature for the World loves its own but if a man be redeemed from these things by Christ the Light within him

and then Christ who is Gods Power speaks in him and judges and reproves the Proud for their Pride the Drunkards for their Drunkenness the Covetous for their Covetousness and the Hypocrites and Dissemblers for their dissembling hypocrisie then their wrath and sury riseth against the man in whom the Spirit of God speaketh and their anger is so great against the Spirit of God which speaketh in and through the man to reprove them for their wickedness that they would even break the Vessel through which the Lord God speaketh to reprove them for Christ said unto his Disciples before he was Crucified as to the outward They shall hale you before Rulers and Magistrates for my Name sake but take you no thought what you shall speak nor what you shall say for it is not you that speaketh but the Spirit of the Father that speaketh in you and the Prophet said Behold the Tabernacle of God is with men I will walk in them and dwell in them said the Lord God I will be their God and they shall be my people and Christ said before he was offered up as to the outward I and my Father we will come and make our abode with you and the Apostle John witnessed this fulfilled when he wrot his first Epistle which was after Christ had suffered without the Gate of Jerusalem John said unto the Saints We know that the Son of God is come 1 Joh. 5.19 20. and he hath given us an understanding to know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ this is the true God and Life Eternal and Christ said unto his Disciples while he was outwardly with them He that is with you shall be in you and you may read in the seventeenth of John how Jesus prayed for the Saints and he said unto the Father I in them and thou in me Righteous Father that they may be one even as we are one O Righteous Father keep them in thine own Name and now Righteous Father I come unto thee and I am no more in the World but these are in the World I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the World but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil they are not of the World even as I am not of the World And now unto all people this we can truly say that it is a great joy and comfort to our Souls that our God by his holy Spirit in our hearts hath redeemed us out of our vain conversation which we for many dayes walked in after our own hearts lusts and that he hath now accounted us worthy to suffer for his Name sake and if you cannot love us so much now as ye could have done-several years ago when many of us were walking in the Broad way that leads unto destruction then this is an evident token unto you that you do not love God who created you for if you do love God who begets people into a holy and righteous life and conversation then you will love those people that are so begotten by him for it is written They that love him that begets they love them also that are begotten of him and we can tell you of a truth that it is God who hath begotten us out of that which is evil into that which is good yea he hath wrought a good change in us Glory to his Name for evermore for he hath created us anew in Christ Jesus the Light in the inner Man unto good works which he before ordained that we should walk in them and as we keep our minds stayed in the Light wherewith Christ hath enlightened us and walketh in it it is God that worketh all our work in us and for us and we are his Workmanship and his Husbandry and we are his Sheep and he is our Shepherd and we do hear his Voice inwardly in our own hearts and he teacheth and instructs us by his good Spirit which he hath given us and we can tell you of a truth that he is a good Shepherd for he doth not let us want any thing that is good for us And we tell you plainly we cannot forsake our God who is the true Shepherd of Israel who never slumbers nor sleeps Ezek. 34. from vers 2 to 19. to follow a stranger or a Hireling for we have seen it by large experience that when the times of the greatest danger and the most need is then Hireling Shepherds flees from their Flocks Hos 4.9 and if you would have us to leave and forsake the Spirit of God within us to follow a Hireling Priest without us Mat 7. from verse 15 c. to the end this we cannot do for the Lord God hath let us see their deceit and hath led us from them and if we should turn unto them again it had been a great deal better for us that we had never been born Therefore it is in vain for you to strive to bring us to forsake Christ Jesus the true Shepherd who lays down his life for his Sheep Mat. 15.13 14. to follow a Hireling who loveth the Fleece but careth not for the Sheep for we know that they would have our outward things to live upon and would feed and cloath themselves therewith but Physitians of no value we have found and proved them to be and we did adventure our Souls under their Antichristian Ministry for a long time and we did expect help from them and some of us sought it with a great deal of diligence and zeal and we said in our hearts if there be good to be had in these men we shall have it but though we sought diligently in zeal to receive some good and help and comfort from them to have satisfied our poor hungry and starved Souls we could not get it but when we had with great diligence given attention to their Airy Doctrine which they speak in their own will and in their own wisdom and in their own time and thought to get something to have satisfied our longing desires withal behold we were like a man who in his sleep dreameth that he eateth but when he waketh it is not so but he is empty and hungry and unsatisfied and so have we been under the Ministry of the Priests of England we have been seeking Living Bread from them for many years and thought we should have gotten it from them and sometimes we thought we had been eating the true Bread that would have satisfied our longing desires but then we were deceived and it was but with us as it is with a man that dreameth in his sleep that he eateth but when he awaketh he is faint and hungry and the Living Bread we could never get from them for they never had it to give us but that we did not know certainly until we came to believe in the Light wherewith Christ Jesus the Son of God hath enlightened us but now having believed in the Light it