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A91118	A testimony of God, and his way, and worship against all the false wayes and worships of the vvorld. Also an answer to some of the false doctrines held forth, by a professed minister, in VVales; shewing the unsoundness of his former actions, and is found to be one, in the nature of the vvorld; which sometime he hath spoken against. With an answer to some queries; propounded by one, who is called an Anabaptist. / Given forth for no other end, but in love to the truth, as it is in Iesus: by Alex: Parker.	Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.	1656 (1656)	Wing P383; Thomason E883_6; ESTC R207301	24,030	31

A Testimony of God And his way and worship against all the false wayes and worships of the VVorld Also an answer to some of the false Doctrines held forth by a professed Minister in VVales shewing the unsoundness of his former actions and is found to be one in the nature of the VVorld which sometime he hath spoken against WITH An answer to some Queries propounded by one who is called an Anabaptist Given forth for no other end but in love to the truth as it is in Iesus BY ALEX PARKER LONDEN Printed for Giles Calvert at the West end of Pauls 1656. A Testimony of God and his way and worship against all the false wayes and worship of the world GOD is pure and holy and loves righteousness and his worship is a pure and a spiritual worship not known to the world that lives in wickedness the world by all their wisdom and study cannot find out the mind of God neither do they worship him in spirit but are wondering and worshipping the Beast who have not found their names written in the book of life and though they make a profession of the name of God yet are aliens and strangers from the pure life and power of God and so are climbing up another way and building up Babel a Tower to reach up to Heaven in their Heathenish and Babilonish wisdom where there is nothing but confusion and strife one crying lo here is Christ another crying lo there one crying up his way to be the onely way and counts all accursed that are not in his way and so the second cries up his way and so all the world lies in confusion and wickednesse strife and debate and though many have long been seeking after God yet have not found him because they sought him not in his own way Which is pure for ever but by their own wit and wisdom have gone about to know and find out the mistery of the Kingdom of God so have walked gone on in the crooked wayes and by paths of the world and have despised that little thing within which is the light of Jesus that shines in the midst of all this darkness and reproves them in secret for their evil deeds and shews them their confusion and oftentimes bring them to a stand and some sense or feeling of the deadness and emptiness of all their profession and of their tottering building which is builded upon the sand and cannot stand in the fiery day of the fierce wrath and indignation of God and when they daub up themselves with smooth words crying the ordinances of Christ and the Church of Christ and the righteousness of Christ and faith in Christ and though they be wicked and sinfull and must be so while they live yet Christ doth not impute their sin unto them they are justified in Christ though they sometime run into sin and thus would make Christ a cloak for their sin yet still the light of Christ testifies against them and all their coloured and painted outside and talking of justification without holiness of life will not bring them peace but still there is a cry after God for purity and reproves them for their sin and iniquity and no peace there is to the wicked as long as they act contrary to the measure of God all their profession and high notions and glorious comprehensions and guilded outsides is but like unto Adams fig-leafe garment and will not cover their nakednesse in the dreadfull and powerfull day of the Lord the wicked shall be as the stuble and shall be consumed root and branch all their crying Lord Lord will not avail them in that day all their sermons reading praying and the like being found workers of iniquity will do them no good but this dreadfull sentence from the Lord will be pronounced against them Go cursed workers of iniquity I know you not depart from me into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Consider of this all you carnall and formall Professors Priests and People who talke so much of the name of God drawing neer unto him with your lips and with your mouths but your hearts goes after your covetousnesse and things of this world which comes to an end and withers and fades away and pleads against the power and purity of Godlyness saying none can ever be made free from sin nor perfect in this world but must continue in sin or sin in him while he lives and so have made a Covenant with hell and with death and no longer time will serve the devill your master whole servants you are as long as you live in sin but terme of life What will ye answer the Lord in that day will then a distinction serve you that you have not sinned unto death or that your sin shall not be imputed to you Shall not then the witnesse of God in your own conscience which all along hath testified against you for your ungodly practises and reproved you for your secret evils Shall it not stop your mouths and you shall stand speechlesse and shall be made to confesse that God is just and your condemnation just who in your life time have rejected his counsell and cast his Law behind your backs and have turned his grace into lasciviousness know this assuredly this will be your portion at the latter day for God is just and will render a just reward unto every one according to their deeds done in the body whether they be good or whether they be evill They that have improved their talents and done well shall enter into the Lords joy But those who have sleighted the Lords free love which is freely tendred and have been carelesse and negligent and have not improved their tallents shall be cast out from his presence and shall have their portion in the lake of utter darknesse where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth and this shall be the condemnation of all the world who hate the light that Jesus Christ hath enlightened them withall and love their evill deeds better then the light For this is the condemnation of the world not because light is not come but that light is come into the world and men love darknesse rather then light because their deeds are evil and so all the world lies under condemnation who are in the sin and evill and deny the light which gives the entrance into the Kingdoms of Christ which stands in righteousness and no unrighteous one can enter for no entrance is made but through the death of sin and there is no death nor freedom from sin but only by the Son of God there is no way but by him no salvation but in him no separation from sin nor reconciliation to God but only by the Son o● God who is given of the Father a Covenant of light into the World who doth enlighten every one that cometh into the world and by this light is the Devils work seen and by faith in him who

feeling of his sad and miserable condition is arising in him and the witnesse of God reproving him and calling him from his abominations and whoredoms and many times brings him into some trouble yet he sleights his love and hates the reproof and goes on in his rebellious wayes and so treasures up to himself wrath against the day of wrath and revellation of the righteous judgement of God who will render a just reward unto him according to his deeds and here lies all the ungodly world driven from God out of his Covenant out of his peace out of his presence out of his pure love and spiritual worship and are loving and delighting in and worshiping the creature more then the Creator But the Saints and holy men of God who came to witnesse redemption and were in Covenant with God and faith of his Son had passed from death to life and they had put of the body of sin and the old man and his deeds and were created anew being born again of the eternall word which liveth and abideth for ever and their hearts was purified and their consciences purged from dead works and ther bodies made fit Temples holy and pure for the Lord God to dwell in and there was his worship in the spirit in his holy Temple where there is no need of Sun Moon or of Candle but the glory of the Lord fils the Temple and this they witnessed who were redeemed from the earth and were in Christ Jesus where there union joy and fellowship was where there is neither Greek nor Jew circumsition nor uncircumsition Barbarian Scythian bond nor free but Christ is all and in all and the same is the Lord our God now working and bringing to passe even by his own power and outstretched arm is he getting himself the victory what we are we are of and by him he alone it is that worketh in us both to will and to do by his own power made manifest in us and worketh mightily in us whereby wee are made willing to do his will and work and this is all by his Son who of God is made wisdom justification sanctification and redemption he is made unto us all things and through him we can do all things even through the Son of God whom we know is come and hath given us an understanding to know him that is true and wee are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ who is our life our joy our stay and strength by whom we are freed from sin and from our vain conversations which formerly we lived in who hath broken the bond of iniquity and set the oppressed free to praise and glorify his name who alone do praise him the dead cannot praise him it is the living the living that praises him to whom be everlasting praises and glory world without end Amen So I say and declare that if any man say he hath no sin before he come to confesse his sin and to witnesse the power of God cleansing him from his sin he doth dec●ive himself and the witnesse of God in his own conscience will testify against him and be his condemnation But where the living power of God is made manifest to purify and cleanse and to destroy the works of the devil to burn up and consume the old heavens and the old earth which is cursed and brings forth cursed fruits I say where the old is destroyed and the new heaven and the new earth witnessed wherein dwells righteousness Shall we deny the work of God Not far be it from us but to declare his marvailous works which he hath wrought in our dayes to ages and generations to come that they may dread and fear the name of our God and to others who sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death who are wandring astray as sheep without a Shepherd and are feeding upon the husk and spending their money for that which is not bread and their labour for that which doth not satisfy freely from the bowels of tender love to their soules do we declare what the Lord hath done for our soules that they might return home into the Fathers house where there is bread enough to satisfy the hungry thirsting soul that every one may eat their own bread and sit under their own vine and have union and feilowship with us in our fathers love for evermore So in the name of the Lord I do warn all people who read these lines to repent and cease from all their sins and abominations which formerly they have lived in and from all the false and Idolatrous worships of the world which a long time ye have followed and thereby have been deceived and led captive laden with sin but have not come to the true knowledg of God but are still in their old crooked and perverse nature and knows not the Crosse of Christ nor the yoke nor the bridle to the tongue but are at ease in the flesh and can speake their own words and think their own thoughts and do their own works I say return return and hearken diligently to the voyce of the Son of God which cryes for purity and holinesse without which none can see God that thereby your soules may live and may feed upon the dayly bread in the Fathers bosome which whosoever eats of this bread shal never hunger and he that drinks of this cup shall never thirst but it shall be a well of living water springing up unto eternal life so every one wayt in the measure of light which from Christ you have received for the appearance of Christ in you that his life may be made manifest in your mortal bodies for this is the command of God This is my beloved Son hear him and Christ the Son calls and says Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden take my yoke upon you and learn of me I am meek and lowly in spirit and you shall find rest to your soules So all people come freely his love is freely tendred to you sleight not the tender profers of his love but come forth and separate your selves and touch no unclean thing and the Lord will receive you and will be a Father unto you and you shall be his Sons and Daughters mind the pure and still voyce that thereby you may be led into the pure life and pure union and love of the children of light for if you neglect such great salvation woe will be your portion for ever There ore whi●e you have the light believe in the light and work while it is day before the dreadfull night of darkness come when none can work By one who hath seen the deadness and emptiness of all the formal worships and formal profession that stands in the will of man act d in mans will who is returned back into his fathers house and there dwels in rest and peace and hath ceased from his own work written forth in the bowels of love to captive and weary

souls who have long been tossed to and fro by following the changeable doctrine of men but are not satisfied that they may return home into the fathers house with me where they shall find satisfaction and plenteous redemption where all the Saints are one and their food one and have a new name written which none knows nor can read but those that hath it and there my name is written in the Spiritual book of life and they that are there do it read and know Who am known to the World by the name of ALEX PARKER An answer to some of the false doctrines held forth by one Vavasar Powel who is called a Master and a Minister and something further occasioned by some conference held with the said Vavasar in the publick meeting place at old Radnor in Wales shewing the unsoundness of his sormation and to be one in nature and rage with all the Parish Teachers which hee hath so much tryed against written for the sake of the simple ones that they may be awarned and fore-armed to keep out of his snare GReat hath been and is the rage of the world the professors of truth against the life and power of truth where-ever it was made manifest in former generations as it is now in this generation against the despised people of God whom the Lord hath owned and made his power manifest whom the scorners that knows not God do call Quakers especially the Priests and they who professe themselves Teachers of the Nations who in their high places utters forth their spight and venome and incensing their hearts against them as though they were a people not worthy to live Amongst whom one who is called Mr. Vavasar Powel who is called a Teacher and much set up and adored by the blind Professors in Wales and other parts who is looked upon to be one above the rest and separated from them yet in persecution rage joyn with them and exceeds many of them in railing backbiting and casiling many false aspersions upon the innocent people and harmlesse Lambs of Christ in his high place uttering forth such things as are not fit to be mentioned by any that professes the name of God much lesse by one who professes himself a Minister of God And I being in those parts of Wales and hearing of his railing accusations against the people of God in most places where he came and I amongst the rest of my b●ethren was falsly accused and slandered by some of his hearers and I being innocent and the Lords truth cleer from all those things falsly charged upon us was moved of the Lord to go to old Radnor in VVales on the 5. day of the 3. month called May 1656. to stand a witness for the living truth of God against Powel and all opposers of the truth and that day he the said Powel was found in the steps of the Scribes and Pharisees whom our Lord Jesus Christ cried woe against he went up into the high place and stood praying in the Sinagogue as the Scribes and Pharisees did he is called of men Master contrary to the command of Christ to his Ministers who saith unto his be not ye called of men Master for ye have but one Master even Christ and ye are brethren but Vavasar Powell is called of men Master contrary to the command of Christ which none of his true Ministers were and so under the woe The true Ministers of God had the Spirit of God and had salt in themselves to savour withall and they knew who were the true Ministers of God and who were deceivers even by the Spirit of God that was in them and they prayed by the Spirit of God But Vavasar Powel in this is short of the true Ministers for he in his prayer desired that the Lord would discover and shew them who his true Ministers were and who were deceivers and in this thing he is made manifest and doth plainly appear that he prayed not by the Spirit of God who cannot discern the true Ministers from the deceivers and so hath not salt in himself to savour withall but hath lost his honour and is good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under foot of man for the Spirit of the Lord doth discern and discover and put a difference between the precious and the vile and betwixt the true Ministers and the deceivers in this he is found contrary to the true Ministers of God He said and held forth that every naturall man had a fourfold light but denyed that he had any light in him that was pure to lead him to Christ He said that all men were wholy in darknesse and nothing at all of the spiritual light in them or words to that effect and yet said that every naturall man had a talent which if he did not improve was his condemnation Now all whose eyes are in any measure opened may see his confusion for if the natural man have a talent and the talent be natural then a natural man that improves his natural talent may enter into the Lords joy as is plain in Scripture for he that had five talents gained other five and he that had two he gained other two and the Lord calling them to account pronounces to them well done good and faithful servants enter into your Masters joy but the slothful servant who did not improve his talent was cast out but the talent was taken from him and given to him that had improved And in this thing I stand a withesse against Mr. Powell so called and do witnesse to Jesus the True Light the same which Iohn bare testimony of who lighteth every one that cometh into the world who is pure and spiritual in whom is life and the life is the light of men and his life is spiritual and so is his light which the dark world cannot comprehend for this is the condemnation of the world who love their evill deeds and hate the light for every one that doth truth he loveth the light and brings his deeds to the light and thereby is led out of darknesse by oaths and crooked wayes and so shall have the light of life But he that doth evil he hateth the light and will not bring his deeds to the light because he knows the light will reprove him and so the light is his condemnation and is the same and one with that which is the salvation of the believer so I say that the light is one in the believer as in the unbeliever according to measure as the talents were one given to the slothfull as well as the faithfull and the talents were pure and those who improved them entred into joy and he that did not was cast out into utter darknesse but the talent was not for it was taken from him and given to him that had c. So this is the condemnation of the world and all the ungodly ones who live in ungodlinesse they are condemned by the light for the light

is pure and that which reproves and makes manifest sin is light as the Apostle declares Eph. 5.13 and this light shews sin before the action of it it shews it in its rise and conception before it come to action if there be but an evil thought or an evill motion or an evil desire or any evill intent the light discovers it and waiting in the light and believing in Christ who hath given the light the victory is obtained for the true faith purifies the heart and gives victory over the world and without faith it is not possible to please God and Paul who was a true Minister of God he was sent to open the blind eyes not to bring them eyes but to open that eye which the God of the world had blinded and so to turn them from darknesse unto light and from the power of Satan unto God that they might receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance a mongst them that are sanctified by faith in Jesus Christ and he preached Jesus Christ which was within the Saints their hope of glory teaching and exhorting every man in all wisedom that they might present every man perfect in Christ Jesus Col. 1.27 28. And when Christ ascended he gave some Apostles and some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ Eph. 4.11 12. this is the pure doctrine of Christ Jesus and that which he himself taught Mat. 5.48 Be ye perfect as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect But this doctrine Powell and all the Parish Teachers do oppose and so manifest themselves to bee Anti-Christ a gainst Christ and his true Ministers and serve another Master which is the Devil whose work they are doing pleading strongly for his Kingdom which stands in sin and imperfection and sayes none can be perfect while they live upon the earth this with them is an impossible thing but with God all things are possible and the true Ministers of God believe it and do earnestly contend for this faith and for their Master Christ and his Kingdom which stands in righteousnesse purity and perfection and no unrighteous one nor imperfect one can enter into it then woe to them that live in sin while they are upon earth their end will be in the lake of endlesse misery and this shall Powell and all the Antixtian Bablers one day witnesse And Powell in words this did preach that no unrighteous one could enter into the Kingdom of God and as long as any one sin was alive in any though never so little the devil could keep them by one as well as by many bringing this comparison that if a fisher-man had catched hold of a fish and the fish had broken two of his haires yet by one he might catch him so saith he all sin must be destroyed and the house clean swept and afterward he pleaded for sin and said none could be without sin nor perfect while he lived see his confusion by this doctrine a man must never be without the devill in him for all sin is of the devill and while sin is within the devill is with in But the true Ministers of God who came to witnesse Christ Iesus and his life and power made manifest in them did witnesse the devills work destroyed and consumed by his word which was as a fire in them and the Ministers of Christ do witnesse the same now by the same living power by which the devils works comes to be destroyed and the Son of God witnessed who makes free from sin and if the Son make you free then are you free indeed and in this Mr. Powell so called is out of the doctrine of Christ and contrary to his true Ministers Further the said Powell in the presence of many people did affirm that the Scriptures were the foundation and ground of Faith which thing I did deny and did testify a gainst him for blasphemy and do still affirm the same that whosoever doth say and teach that the Scripture is the foundation of Faith is a liar and a blasphemer and doth lay another foundation contrary to the Apostles as is testifyed of in 1 Cor. 3.11 For no other foundation can any man lay then that is laid which is Iesus Christ and the same do I witnesse and no other and here Powell must either confesse the Scriptures to be Christ or else he layeth another foundation contrary to that which all the holy men of God were built upon which had faith before the Scriptures were written Abel had faith before the Scripture was written and Abraham Isaac and Jacob and many others mentioned and spoken of in the Scripture they had faith and were built upon the rock even Iesus Christ who was before Abraham was and before the letter or writing was who was before the world was who is the same yesterday to day and for ever who is the ground and foundation of faith And Powell and all the Parish Teachers in England and else where that says the Scriptures are the foundation are in the blasphemy and error and his and their fouudation will not stand in the day of the Lord which shall burn up their works as hay and stuble and this shall Powell one day witnesse to be truth to him and all others who lay another foundation which is but sandy and cannot stand but great shall be the fall of it when the storm and tempest doth arise and in this the said called Mr. Powel is contrary to the true Ministers of Christ and the Scriptures shall be a testimony against him and his blasphemy who sets the Scriptures in the place of Christ which onely testify of Christ but are not Christ and the Scriptures declare of the foundation of faith Iesus Christ but the Scriptures are not the foundation Christ Jesus neither did any of the Ministers of Christ ever call the Scriptures the foundation and ground of faith but witnessed and declared Christ to be the Author and the finisher of their faith and the rock and foundation which they were built upon and the same do I testify of even Jesus Christ who was from the beginning and the same to day and for ever who was the rock in former ages and the ground of their faith and the rock of this age and so the rock of ages and the ground and foundation and the Author and finisher of our faith to whom be all honour and glory of and from all that know him for evermore And further as I was speaking of the word of the Lord and its power and effect and that the Holy men of God who came to witnesse the word of the Lord then knew it not by hearsay from others but by its

from sin upon their owning of the light within and so cannot sin any more while they live in this flesh Ans The Scriptures are not forsaken by those who own the light but with the light the words are owned and all those denyed who talk of the good words and professe the Scriptures to be their rule but live not in the pure life but walk contrary to the Scriptures and as there is a waiting in the light there is a growth up from strength to strength and from glory to glory untill the perfect day But those who live in the flesh cannot prease God whose faith is not perfect but is reprobate concerning the faith of Christ and such cannot believe that ever they shall be made perfect or free from sin while they live upon the earth and without faith it is impossible to please God Qu. VIII VVhether or no the first Resurrection spoken of Revel 20.6 be in this life yea or nay And if it be whether hath all that walk by the light within them part in the first resurrection so soon as they own that light and if they have then whether or no is it not possible that they may forsake the light and walk in darknesse and so come to cast of the second death which they that come to partake of the first resurrection shall never cast of or is not the testimony of that place of Scripture true Answ Concerning the first resurrection spoken of Rev. 20.6 it is not in that life that thou lives in which gave forth these queries But those who dwelt in the light and were in the faith had passed from death to life and in the new life it is known which is in Christ Jesus who is the resurrection and the life on such the second death hath no power and such hath part in the first resurrection and are blessed But thou hast wronged the Scripture and so it shall be a witnesse against thee which testimony is true witnessed by the same spirit that gave forth the Scripture Qu. IX VVhether or no that body of flesh of Christ that suffered at Ierusalem upon the Cross which Joseph of Arithmathea begged of Pilate and buried in his own sepulchre rose again the 3. day after it was buried whether the same body of flesh be now glorified in Heaven with the Father These few Queries I have written unto you who are called by the name of Quakers I have not written them to any particular person of you but to whomsoever of you shall be free to give me an answer of them in particular in truth according to your understanding in them I have not written them in any intent but onely to be better informed in things wherein I am not informed in things wherein I am not satisfied from him who wisheth good to all and hurt to none Richard Stephens Answ In this query thou art disputing and querying about the body of Jesus as the devil disputed about the body of Moses But it is a mistery hid from all dark understandings who hate the light that comes from Jesus which is the eye that sees him who is invisible which all who love their evill deeds and hate the light never shall know nor see but are shut out and with the light condemned Thou must first own the light that shewes thee the body of sin and so pass through the death of the crosse whereby the body of sin is put of and crucified then shalt thou know with what body Christ is glorified in Heaven with the Father Godliness is a great mistery not known to the world nor to the earthly wisedom but the secrets of God are with them that fear him the spirit searcheth all things yea the deep and hidden things of God So in the fear of God I do exhort thee to return unto God and mind that principle of God in thee that reproves thee in secret for thy evill deeds there is thy Teacher if thou love it to guide thee to God but if thou hate it and live according to the course of this world it will be thy comdemnation Prize thy time while thou hast it VVritten by one who is a lover of all those that love the truth in simplicity and sincerity of heart who is known to the world by the name of Alexander Parker but hath a new name which the world knows not written in the Book of Life FINIS