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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60206	To all the inhabitiants of the town of Youghal who are under the teaching of James Wood ...	Sicklemore, James.	1657 (1657)	Wing S3750; ESTC R24541	13,617	9

and this spirit sees and makes manifest all other spirits and tryes them Here let all the simple-hearted judge by what spirit J.W. is ruled and guided which leaves him in such an ignorant state and condition that if any one come and ask or send so him questions he is forced to confesse he knows not their rule for so doing and thinks that this is excuse enough to get rid of them but the subtilty deceives him for hereby he shuts himself out from having the infallible spirit which sees and discerns and knowes all things and makes manifest the hidden things of Esau and reveals and shews yea and is the good rule and discovers all other rules that is contrary to it and judges them But seeing J. W knows not his rule for Answering my Queries I would desire some of you to enquire of him for if I thould ask him he would not tell me What was his rule for Answering John Browns Queries and sending more to him Did he well or ill in that if well Why may not I send Queries to him expecting an Answer as well as he send Queries to John Brown which were Answered this is not to do as he would be done to But I.W. makes his excuse in framing a false thing which he would have pass currant for truth that is exprest in his next words of his Letter They savoring so much of Contention and Contradiction Answ Surely I.W. hath lost his savour if ever he was well seasoned but it is not to be expected that he which is wanting of that which doth discern and try truly can never be a p … essor of that which savors aright for that which cannot discern cannot savor And there was a generation that did call evil good and good evil and did put darknesse for light and light for darknesse and there is some such now and this is because they cannot truly discern Yet admit this were true as I.W. sayes it is no excuse for his not answering them would he not more have shewed himself a Servant of the Lord and his people in laying them open and making manifest this Spirit of contention and contradiction then in holding his peace for it was the work of the Ministers of the Gospel to labour to beat down that Spirit where-ever they found it and to lay open the deceit of it that the simple may beware of it But though J.W. hath so judged of them it doth not make them so they stand upon record to be examined and tryed by the light in every mans conscience to which I leave them to be judged and with it I desire you all to read them over and see if this be true or false that J.W. accuses them of And although I.W. wil not answer my queries he finding them tending to the enquiring out of the call of the Ministers of the Gospel to the preaching of it and he professing to be in that work himself knows that his mustneeds come to an examination and tryal whether it be according to the Scriptures even by the answering of these Queries if according to the Scriptures therefore he must needs say something which is indeedas good as nothing in vindication of his own Call as you may perceive in the next words of his Letter though neither in my Letter or queries did I inquire of J.W. any thing concerning his own call to the Ministry in particular so that he might have spared these lines Yet he need not boasts for can he have sufficiently proved his Call to the Ministry of God when as yet he is not in that Ministry The Ministers of God had the Seals of their Ministry and they reaped the fruits of their labours And Timothy was Pauls Son and so was Onisimus and he had babes which were begotten by him and little children of whom he travelled till Christ was formed in them Now I would ask of you who have been a long time and are yet under his Ministry How many of you yea is there anie one of you can witnesse a begetting into God by him and can any of you by his labour say Christ is formed in you can you witnesse such a state This is a high state friends and is not a talk and a profession but a possession and must be witnessed in deed and truth Again The Ministry of God was for the perfecting of the Saints and if J.W. hath not by his Ministry brought any thus far he never yet saw the end of his Ministrie neither shall he ever be able to bring anie of you into that state who cannot witnesse such a state himself neither can believe that such a state can be attained to in this life then may not he as good hold his peace as preach But friends be not deceived the Ministrie of God was and is sent to turn people from darknesse to light and he that is a Minister of God is a Minister of light and must minister from the light that so souls may be brought out of darknesse wherein lies imperfection unto the light which is perfect that they may be children of light bringing forth the fruits of the light which none can that hate the light and will not bring their deeds to the light that they may be made manifest And friends when I speak of the light I speak of the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world which John bare witnesse of Christ Jesus which Paul preached and was a Minister of which whosoever follows comes to have the light of life and he that hates it goes into condemnation And this is in every ones conscience checking and reproving him for and convincing him of evil and if they would follow it it will lead from fin and iniquitie which it condemns in all into righteousnesse and holinesse and though this be in every one yet every one doth not love it and follow it for they who are in sin and living in it and in the world and are not redeemed from it but are in the lusts and pleasures of it and customs and fashions of it which are vain are such who act contrary to the light in them which checks them for it And all who are in pride and covetousnesse and in many words which are vain and unnecessarie these are all from the light turned which condemns in the conscience for it whom God will not justifie and none but those who love the light and follow it comes to know redemption and salvation by Christ Jesus who is the light who saves his people from their sins and as many as believe in the light of the world receives power to become the Sons of God and none else But this light J. W. is so far from being a Minister of that he cannot own it to bee of God or from Christ but hath called it natural even that light which is in every mans conscience and so he hath made himself manifest to be an opposer of that which checks and

are sorry to see this mans zeal now for God and they call i● blind and say he is deceived and deluded Then in the latter end of his Letter he calls himself A servant of the Lords and his people in the Gospel How far God hath owned his service let the fruits of his ministery these many years last past in this Town of Youghall testifie and in this long service let him produce and manifest what fruits hath been brought forth to God and how many hath been brought into the Vineyard of God where no unfruitful tree must be without being out down whatservice he hath done for his people and who J. W. calls the Lords people would be enquired after sure there 's not many in the town of Youghall among whom he hath bin so long preaching wil own him to be their Servant seeing he refuses to do what service they desire from him yet no doubt but they help pay him his wages if we should make a strict enquiry among his own people and Church we shall find that though he calls himself their servant yet most of them call him Master so that upon a true search this wil prove but words and little less then a bare complement Friends and people At the times of ignorance God wincked but now he commandeth all men every where to repent Be not deceived God will not be mocked Not every one that cries Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but he that doth the will of my Father saith Christ In the fear God examine your selves whose will you are doing daily if you will do the will of God you must deny your own wills in all things and they that are doing evil and committing sin are not doing the will of God 't is not a talk of Repentance and forsaking sin will stand you in stead or give you true peace but a forsaking of it indeed and in truth and a putting off the old man with his deeds and a orucifying of the flesh with the affections and Lusts must be witnessed before you can say you are Christs and witness him in you righteousness and sanctification and redemption t is not a giving up your names to be written in J. W. his book or any other paper that will administer true comfort to you but you must come to know your names written in the Lambs book of life where nothing that desiles can come pure Religion stands not in a separation that is sensual and in a shew only but in being unspotted with the world I judge none of you Search your selves with the Light that comes from Jesus which is nigh you and it will truly show you your own states and conditions and when you see your selves beleeve none that will daub you and tell you a story contrary to what you see with your eye which is the Light of the body Friends This Light will shew you all that ever you did and makes manifest all things that have been and are done in secret and judges all that is evil and justifies none but such who to it are obedient this is Gods faithful witness in your Consciences which doth either accuse or excuse if it accuse beleeve not any that would excuse if it excuse none can condemn if any one sin it accuses and brings trouble upon the evil doer unto whom there is no peace Therefore do not live securely but try your selves and what the light of Christ in you shews you to be evil abstain from it even in its appearance Love the light and bring all your deeds to it that they may be made manifest where they are wrought follow the light of the world wherewith you are enlightened that you may come to have the light of life which gives victory over death and brings out of its snare and from under its dominion sin is deaths kingdom and all who are in sin and by it carryed captive are in its snare and out of the kingdom of God into which nothing that defiles can enter Friends look out no longer for a teacher for the teachers that are without cause you to erre but the word is nigh you in your hearts and mouths turn in to hear it speak and it will shew you the way you should walk in there is a measure of the gift of God committed to you all in particular and the grace of God hath largely appeared to some of you it teaches all that loves it to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live righteously ana soberly in this present evil world this will bring you to the Repentance not to be repented of this is that which washeth and sprinkleth and purgeth the conscience from dead works to serve the living God Every sin is a dead work he that serves sin is free from Righteousness he that doth sin is of the devil Friends Beware I write nothing but what that of God in your consciences bears witness to that 's the light if you love your own souls love the light that is in you that checks you for sin and follow it it leads from sin unto Christ the Saviour who saves from sin Who is in you except ye be Reprobates it leads out of the world al that follow it into the kingdom of heaven which is within you if you beleeve in the light who lighteth every one that cometh into the World you will com to the faith which purifies and to the hope which purifies Christ in you the hope of glory this hope will not fail you when al other hopes shall perish So prise your time and neglect not this day of Gods visiting you but come to the light and try all your thoughts words and wayes by it and all spirits this will discover all seducers and deceivers and the false prophets shew you and it will bring you if you it follow to the true prophet which whosoever will not hear shall be cut off And all you who are burthened with sin and feels the weight of it and are weary and would be eased and are hungring and thirsting after satisfaction and rest and true peace of which you were never yet made partakers neither could you meet with or obtain in all your profession I say unto you from the Lord cease from looking out for help and running from one hill to another to find out the way of the Lord for your help is nigh unto you and he is not afar off and till you come to turn in your minds and to take heed unto that which works the desire in you you shall never come to be satisfied for the desire is not in your selves or in any thing you can do but is wrought by God and nothing but something from God must satisfie and what may be known of him is manifest in you and the desire is within and the content also is to be found there for this is the cause that you y … ly down in sorrow because you seek to that which is without for help and art going to Egypt for aid and forget him who is near at hand and so the true desires many times are lost and you rest satisfied for a season till the witnesse in you arises again and shews you your state then you are more unsatisfied than before and your Teachers to whom you seek endeavours to heal this wound also and will bid you believe in Christ and lay hold upon him good words but yet you are ignorant of him to be in you and of his life and power you are not partakers who washes and sanctifies and purifies and makes clean Therefore friends mind the light which is of God which shews your sinful state and sad condition and follow is that by it you may be led out of that state and come to witnesse a new state and a new birth which is of God which sins not and to find and enjoy and possesse the true peace which passeth understanding which they who are in the world knows not nor doth not enjoy 〈◊〉 all you who are running into sin with delight and are drinking iniquity like water and have forgotten God who is not in all your thoughts and have set your faces against instruction reproof and shuts your eyes and stops your ears least you should see with your eyes and hear with your ears and be converted but are living in your sins and in them are secure and cannot endure to hear of a 〈◊〉 of holynesse and righteousnesse and purity but are opposers of it and persecuters of 〈◊〉 who witnesse it I say from the Lord Gods hand is over you and his arm is stretched out against you and an utter desolation he will make of you except you repent speedily and turn from the evil of your ways and seek the Lord by unfeigned repentance for the time of his striving with you is well nigh past and the day is coming upon you that sorrow shall take hold uyon you and trouble shall come upon you as an armed man and you shall seek for help and shall not find it because you have been 〈◊〉 and rebellious and stiff-necked against the Lord and would not hearken when by his light which is in you he called but from day to day resisted his spirit and quenched it in you when it did arise in your consciences to condemn you for sin and have slain his witnesse in you and are making merry over it behold it shall arise as an evidence against you in the day of Gods pleading with you and you shall not be able to stand Therefore take warning in time before the evil day comes upon you lest your dayes be shortned and you dye in your sins and you become a cursed example to all the workers of iniquity All people let the love and long-sufferings of the Lord God move you and lead you to repentance James Sicklemore The End