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A91474	The watcher: or, The stone cut out of the mountains without hands, striking at the feet of the image, whose head is gold, and brest of silver, and thighs of brass, and legs of iron, and feet part iron and part clay, Dan. 2. 31, 32, 33, 34, 35. Or, A discovery of the ground and end of all forms, professions, sects and opinions, and also how they now are made as friends, and joyn hand in hand against the substance, the life and power of God, which is now made manifest in his sons and daughters (according to his promise) as hath been plainly manifest in several meetings betwixt the people called Quakers, and the people called Baptists, which is here describ'd. And also a description of the true Church, ... / VVritten by a friend to all tender hearted ones, who hunger and thirst after God, who are hoping and seeking in forms for life, to the directing of their mindes, where and how to finde the true light which leads into the true life and power of Godliness, the end of all forms, where I rest with all who in spirit read me, who am known to them who are without, by the name, Iames Parnell.	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing P541; Thomason E845_18; ESTC R621	62,535	56

THE WATCHER OR The Stone cut out of the mountains without hands striking at the Feet of the JMAGE Whose head is gold and brest of silver and thighs of brass and Legs of iron and feet part iron and part clay Dan. 2.31 32 33 34 35. OR A Discovery of the ground and end of all Forms Professions Sects and opinions and also how they now are made as friends and joyn hand in hand against the substance the Life and Power of God which is now made manifest in his Sons and daughters according to his promise as hath been plainly manifest in several meetings betwixt the people called Quakers and the people called Baptists which is here describ'd And also a Description of the true Church and the gathering thereof by the Power and Spirit of our God which is now made manefest in these later days which so gloriously doth shine forth in the earth so that all who have desires to find the way of truth need no longer walk in darkness and seeking the living amongst the dead where it is not to bee found for now light is come into the world and they that love and follow the light shal not walk in darkness bat shal have the light of Life but such as do evill hate the light and will not come unto the light that the light may reprove them and this is the condemnation of the world who love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil Joh. 8.12 Joh 3.19.20,21 VVritten by a friend to all tender hearted ones who hunger and thirst after God who are groping and seeking in Forms for life to the directing of their mindes where and how to finde the true Light which leads into the true life and power of Godliness the end of all Forms where I rest with all who in Spirit read me who am known to them who are without by the name IAMES PARNELL LONDON Printed for Giles Caluert and are to be sold at his shop at the Black-spread-Eagle neer the West end of Pauls TO THE READER THou that happens to be the Reader of this Book know this that my mind and intent in the publishing thereof was in relation to the simple hearted who hunger and thirst after Grace and Godliness to the directing and turning their mindes from the darkness to the true Light of the Lord Iesus which is not of the world but comprehends the world 2 Cor. 4.4 and makes manfest the many wayes of the world and the Snares Bates Traps and Nets that therein are laid by him who is the God of the world even the Prince of Darkness Eph. 2.2 who rules in all the Children of disobedience now whatsoever makes manifest is Light the which Light will discover unto them whose mindes are turned to it the wiles and subtile ties of Satan and so the simple wil come to learn wisdome and thereby be preserved from the subtile devouring serpent and therein the creature wil come to see wherein consists its safety and preservation and so Israels Tent comes to be found for I in the Light standing above the world comprehending the many wayes that are in the world and the destructions therein with the many forms judgements and opinions one clashing against another with their janglings and disputes with their earthly wisdome which is at enmity with God and about those things which they are strangers to the life and power thereof contending for that which fades and vanishes away pulling down one judgment and setting up another pulling down one forme and setting up another and thus are building Babell 1 Cor. 1. ●● and so are confounded with this confusion by him who confounds the wisdome of the wise and brings to nought the counsell of the prudent and so I seeing many poor creatures in this distraction tossed about with every wind of doctrine and sucking at the husk for life and so gets into the comprehension a deale of light ayry notionall knowledg which is all but as chaffe which the wind will scatter in the day of the Lord so it will stand in no stead when the Lord comes to plead with all flesh for nothing will stand in the day of tryall but what comes through death thus I see many a poor creature lost and tossed in this wide wilderness even this dark world being carried captive by the prince of the Ayre not knowing the true light to be its guide into the way of truth which is the way of life and peace now in the light which was before the world was I do comprehend the world and the ground and end of all Forms Sects and Opinions and so for some simple ones sakes and the tender hearted have I here laid them open and withall directing the mind how and where to finde the true light by which these things are seen and read and understood and as it is loved and followed the mind will be brought into the life and power out of these fading empty shadows unto the possession of the substance even the stone cut out of the mountain without hands Mat. 29.39 the end of all forms shadows and imaginations and thus doth the stone which the builders rejected become the head of the Corner and thus the Creature is turned from the power of Satan unto God I. P. THE WATCHER striking at the Feet of the Jmage OR A Discovery of the ground and end of FORMS SECTS and OPINIONS IN the dayes of old the Holy Men of God who was indued with the Spirit of God did as they was acted and guided moved and commanded by the Power and Spirit of God which dwelt in them and here was their Rule and also the Serpent as an Angell of Light he acted and worked in his Instruments by the power of Darkness in opposition to the Spirit of God the enmity being placed beiwixt the two seeds and the more gloriously the true Light appeared in any age Satan also reformed himself and appeared accordingly in the shape and form and likeness thereof as it is now to this day but his was alwayes but the form and likeness of the thing but not the thing it self his is the false Light the other the true Light and so the true Light all along discovered him and made him manifest to those in whom it ruled but thus by his subtilty and deceit he hath ever deceived the world and blinded the world so that he might keep his kingdome who is the God of the world as for example Moses a servant and messenger of the most high God to whom God had revealed and made known himself when he and Aaron was sent unto Pharoah to require him to let Israel go free for a sign unto him they cast down their Rod and it became a Serpent Exo. 10 11 12. and the Magicians of Aegypt they was brought and by their sorceries and inchantments they cast down their Rods and they became Serpents and thereby Pharoahs heart was hardned and thy would

and Flocks and Heards then they have a Law even to devour them and their whole estates and this is far from Gospel Ministers nay Jesus Christ the Light saw their fore-fathers and marked them out to be the ravening wolves Mat. 7.15 16. in sheeps cloathing as these doth now appear to any but those that love to have it so for so long as you put into their mouthes they cry peace peace and speak you fare and calls you christians and beloved but put not into their mouthes then they even prepare war then they have a Law for you to take treble damage from you 2 Pet. 2.3 and so fulfils the Apostles words Oh what a horrible filthy thing is here committed in the land are not they plaine ravening wolves that would devour hoth body and soul Now you people of England consider where you are and whom you follow and whither you are going and see now who is your fore-fathers and see now how you have walked by tradition and form and have been blinded by a vain profession and outside-worship and so have taken Antichrist for Christ and the Ministers of Antichrist for the Ministers of Christ and have put Darkness for Light and Light for Darkness and your fear towards God hath beene taught by the precepts of men Isa 29.13 and they have taught for Doctrine the traditions of men as I have before proved how many things they have led you in by tradition without any Scripture proofes though to you they have been Oracles of God but now they are searched by the light they are made manifest to be vaine heathennish traditions and thus the blind have led the blind along and many of them into the ditch but yet I say not but the Lord hath had his people in all ages those who was zealous and faithfull and true in what they knew but I know the Priests have been long utter enemies to God and his truth and the tares have long covered the wheat and in the time of ignorance God winked but now the Light shines out of Darkness and now is the separation and gathering the sheep from the goats the wheat from the tares and to convince the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment because the Prince of the Ayre is judged and now the Lord doth require all every whereto repent and they that love the light will bring their deeds to the light that the light may prove them whether they be wrought in God and it is not to say you wil follow your forefathers and go on the old way for such are they that hate the light and despise it and love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evill and so having drunk old wine doth not straightway desire new for they say the old is better and those are they that cry up the old way and cry away with new wayes and new Lights and this is the condemnation of the world Iohn 3.19 20. light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil Light is now to them who have alwayes been in darkness and truth is new to them who have alwayes lived in deceit but the light is the same as ever it was for it is unchangeable and the truth is the same So people take heed of obstinancy and wilful blindness and love not to be deceived for now the light plainly and clearly shines and here your old way is plainly laid open what it is and from whence it is and also your Priests and though they be more refined within this late years than they was before it is because the Light is more broken forth within this late years so that many is come to see their deceit and declare against them and now they are but the more subtiler and closer deceivers Satan transformed into anothe shape more like the light but still they have no parted with their great benefices add Augmentations or tythes nor the chiefest place of the Assembly nor their long gowns though they are almost ashamed of their colour nor to be called of men Master nor from seeking their gain from their quarter nor from making a trade of other mens words nor from their lying divinations and saying the Lord saith when he never spoke to them nor from stealing the word into their mouth and saying heare the word of the Lord when they never heard his voyce neither turns the wicked ones from their wickedness nor the proud ones from their pride nor the ungodly from their ungodliness nor the prophane from their prophaneness but are stil prophane themselves and stil proud and covetous and stil shelter themselves under the powers of the earth as their fore-fathers the false Prophets alwayes did and stil runs when the Lord never sends them but ordained and set up and upheld by the wil of man therefore they profit not the people at all but only hath gotten a higher notion to feed the notionists withall and so makes more Pharises hypocrites and whited walls and they are more whited over themselves to deceive the world but the pure light is so broken forth that they cannot hide themselves and many sees the deceit of the Priests and their folly is a manifesting even to all so that none need to be deceived by them but the wilful obstinate and blind who love to have it so who love darkness rather than light which is their condemnation the light which reproves them for their evill deeds and therefore they hate it for every one that doth evil hates the light and this is his condemnation and no ignorance here is to be pleaded and these are they that uphold the Priests and the Pharises but all who have desires to see may see and now here is the Priests or the ministers so called of England laid open with the church of England with their form profession and outside worship with their ground and originall and sandy foundation and to be within differing from the Heathen but in name and form and profession therefore down it must though the powers of the earth hath long upheld them more than any other sect so that they have continued so long as they do not a little boast of and thereby say they are of God but let the Magistrate look to his office and let the minister alone with his office and then you shall see the professed ministers of England to be the weakest of all sects and forms but Antichrist hath had his limited time to raigne over the earth but now the King of righteousness is risen with a sword in his hand and by his mighty arm he wil overturn overturn all until it come into his hand Psal 149.8 whose own it is and he wil bind the Kings in chains and the Nobles in fetters of iron and he wil brake the powers of the earth assunder and all who oppose him Rev. 19.20 and the Beast and false Prophet shall

many wondrous works and yet they must depart for works of iniquity he knows them not now read your selves you wicked ones you murderers you rude multitude you Priests you Pharises and professors you formalists selfe-actors and im●tators for now all joyne hand in hand and Gog and Magog joyns in Battel against the Lamb and Pilate and Herod is made friends and you chiefe Priests and Pharises who are the professors of these times and you Rulers and you rude and bruitish ones and you formalists and sectaries now at the comming of Christ in the Spirit even the substance of what you have long talked of all joyned together in one who formerly have been at great division and wars among your selves but now you are made friends and muster up all your strength against the substance even Jesus Christ whom you as your fore-fathers did call a blasphemer a seducer a deceiver and a devil and now the rude multitude they stand up for their Priests and they fall upon the messengers of Christ when they come into their Synagogues and they hale them out of their Synagogues and strike them and buffet them and despitefully use them and stone them as their fore-father ever did and the Priests they seek to Rulers Magistrates and hales them before them and they persecute them and imprison them as their fore-fathers ever did and the pharises and ancient hypocriticall rotten professors they side with the Priests and goes about railing and evill speaking of the truth learning and insensing peoples mindes against it with their lyes and slanders and reproaches to present it odious to all people and also fauning and crouching and seeking to Magistrates to act in their wills and persecute as their forefathers alwayes did against the same seed and likewise the formalists and sectaries do the same and thus they that were after the flesh alwayes persecuted them that were after the spirit Gal. 4.29 and yet these are ready to cry out what hard hearted Jews was those that crucified Christ and persecuted his Apostles and if they had been in those dayes they would not have been partakers with them in the blood of Christ and his Apostles whenas they are now found the same generation of persecutors persecuting the righteous seed and so they fil up the measure of their fathers wrath that upon them might come all the righteous blood-shed from righteous Abel until now And now the Priests and the Baptists can agree and they joyne together and the Priests calls them honest men and the Baptists calls them Gentlemen of Divinity and the Baptists and Independents they joyne together and the Independants and the Presbiterians they joyne togegether all against the life and power which the Lord hath now manifested in his Sons and Daughters and hath sent them to declare and lay open their hypocrisie and deceit which they have long covered with a Gospell-like profession but now all their coverings are found too narrow before the Light which is come now into the world to convince and reprove them of their sin of their righteousness and of their judgment and therefore now they have enough to do to joyne together with all their strength and wisdome to put out this light and so they endeavour to sew their tares in peoples hearts and all the wayes they can invent to destroy the work which now is begun and as Iannes and Iambres withstood Moses so do they withstand the truth according to the prophesie of the Apostle being men of corrupt mindes and reprobates concerning the saith which I have much experience in severall meetings which I have had with the teachers of the baptized people which shall follow in order afterward But the more they strive in their wills and wisdomes the more doth the work of the Lord prosper and go on and flourish by his mighty power and outstretched arm and their shame and folly and down-fall the more appear and when they have done all they can they shall be glad to lay down their grounds and bow unto this truth which they now so oppose and every tongue shall confess it though to their condemnation who do now oppose and gain-say it wo unto such they shall perish in the gain-saying of Core And the time shal come Luke 13.25 that when the master of the house shall have shut the dore they shall knock and shall strive to enter and shall not be able all who now oppose and reject the Counsell of the Lord and will not hearken now they are called And thus the LORD will exhalt his SONNE in his SAINTS when his ENEMIES shall bee his Foot stole and be made to bow before him And thus doth all Sects Judgements and Opinions joyne in one against the Life and Substance they being all sprung from one Root so make up all one Image whose head is Gold Breast of silver whose Thighes is Brass and Legs of Iron and feet part of Iron and part of Clay and the Stone cut out of the Mountain without hands which strikes at the feet of the Image Now the head of the Image which is of gold those that have had a light shining into them and have had a sight of many things have seen the emptiness of many forms and have gotten the thing in their comprehension have a notion above others of much of that which is now witnessed possest in life by the faithful there have been exalted gotten up a life therein and a false rest but have lost the light which once shined into them by catching the thing in their Comprehension and so got it in the notion but did not obey nor suffer the death of the Cross and the breast of the Image which is of Silver and the thighes of brass are the rest of the sects and opinions and forms and likenesses which are more glorious one than another for as I said before Satan can imitate every appearance of the true Light in his forms shapes and likenesses and the more glorious the light appears in any creature so doth he refine himself and appear more glorious to deceive the simple so that many by the light of God stirring in them have come to see the deceit and emptiness in one form and how they have been deceived therein then presently the deceit appears in another more glorious shape or form and calls that the truth and the creature stil looking without from the Light within it is insnared there again stil painted with the Scripture words and then the creature thinks its a Saint in that form whenas it s but a painted Sepulcher stil in the old nature and under the power of the same deceit but the Cross tryes all for there all forms and professions misses and comes short so that many a creature hath passed through many forms and hath thought it self a Saint in every form but coming yea but to see the Cross which they are to take up before they can be the

which blinded their eyes and covered their sins so that they could not see their sins nor him that was the way the truth and the life therefore did he pronounce so many woes against them and called them whited Walls and painted Sepulchers who washed the outside but was the generation of vipers and serpents within and thus Christ who was the Light searched them and judged them who appeared faire on the outside but within full of uncleanness but they could not hide themselves from the Light therefore they joyned against it and the Saduces and the Pharises and the chiefe Priests and Scribes and the Herodians and Pilate and Herod and the rude multitude all joyned together against the life and they consulted against him and took counsell against him how they might destroy him Mat. 16.1 and the Pharises came to tempt him and insnare him with questions that they might get somewhat against him to bring him under their Law but he fore-saw their deceitfull hearts their plots and confounded their intentions and brought to nought their counsell then they said if we let this man alone all men will go after him and so they sought false witnesses and took Counsel against him Iohn 11.47.48 Mat. 26.59 and Crucified him and let Barrabus go free and thus the devill blinded their eyes in that age with a strickt profession and their own righteousness and wisdom so that they could not see the Light and the Life but persecuted it and seeked the living in the dead Letter but if they had known him they would not have Crucified the Lord of Glory yet they was wise in their own eyes and despised those that followed him and said none of the rulers believed on him Ioh. 7.48.49 but an ignorant people that knew not the Law that were accursed because they was the Publicans and sinners and they themselves was the greatest sinners but they healed themselves up with their own wisdome and righteousness and therefore said Christ they that are whole need no Physician but they that are sick therefore he said publicans and harlots should enter the kingdome before them Mat. 9.11 12. Mat. 21.31 Mat. 11.5 but the blinde the deafe the lame the dumb and the Leopardies came unto him and believed on him and were healed and the poor received the Gospel but the Priests and professors or the Pharises and Scribes and Elders and Rulers could not believe on him that he was the Messias but looked for another and these was the most zealous in their profession and builded the Tombs of the prophets and garnished the Sepulchers of the righteous and said Mat. 23.29.30 if they had been in the day of their fathers they would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the Prophets and yet those was the chiefe persecutors of Christ the substance of those things which they upheld in the Law and the Prophets therefore they was witnesses against themselves and filled up the measure of their fathers wrath and those professed Abraham Iohn 8.39 Ver. 44. Mat. 23.33 Mark 15.15 and said Abraham was their father and yet denyed Christ whom Abraham foretold of but Christ told them they were of their father the Devil and his works they did and would do and thus he judged them for all their zeale and profession and said how could they escape the damnation of hell Then after he was sacrificed up he appeared unto his Apostles and sent them to preach the Gospell to every creature and here they did not run because the Prophets run nor take up a command without them in the Prophets writings to do a thing because the Prophets was commanded to do it but they was also acted and guided by the same spirit and word of truth which dwelt in them Iohn 14.16 17. Iohn 16.7.8 which Christ before he was offered up had promised that he would send the comforter even the Spirit of Truth which the world could not receive which should lead them into all truth and should reprove the world of sin of righteousness and of Iudgment then after they had received the holy-ghost they went abroad preaching Christ and shewing thereby the fulfilling the Law and the Prophets which figured forth and prophesied of Christ Acts 2. Acts 4. and this they declared in their Temples and in their Synagogues and they haled them out of the Temple and out of their synagogues and brought them before Governors Rulers and Magistrates and the chiefe Priests and their kinred and the chiefest professors which was the Pharisees was the head acters therein but nevertheless they went on boldly being filled with the power of the Holy-Ghost without the fear of man obeying God rather than man so they was not subject to the authority of man in that respect but they was subject unto the Law of man so far as it was subject to the Law of God and so they went on preaching C●rist and many believed and were baptized and received the Holy-Ghost and were converted and it was so that the multitude that believed was of one heart and one minde and they was so far of one being exalted over another or seeking themselves that not any of them said Acts. 4.32 that ought of the things which he possessed was his own and the works of God went on in much power the ministers being acted and guided by the Holy Ghost And also Stephen a man full of faith and the Holy-Ghost he declared against the Temple which God had once commanded to be built and said Solomon built him an House yet nevertheless Acts 7. God that made the world and all things therein dwells not in Temples made with hands as faith the Prophet Heaven is my Throne and Earth is my Foot-stoole and where is the House that ye will build me and where is the place of my rest hath not mine hand made all things and he judged them and said ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in hearts and eares ye do alwayes resist the Holy-Ghost as did your Fathers so do ye and they gnashed upon him with their teeth and fell upon him and stoned him and when Saul was converted and became Paul Acts 26.17 18. his message was for to turn peoples mindes from the Darkness to the Light and then saith Paul when it pleased God to reveal his Son in me that I might preach him amongst the hearhen imediately I conferred not with flesh blood Gal. 1.15 16. 2 Cor. 4.2 2 Cor. 2.15 Acts. 1● 22 c Acts. 17. chap. here was Pauls call to the ministry they was made manifest to every mans conscience was a sweet savour unto God both in them that believed them that perished and Paul declared against the temple and told them that worshipped there they was too superstitious he went into their synagogues on sabboth days and reasoned with them they persecuted him and haled him before rulers and there complained of him