Royal Law to do unto others as they would have others do unto them but none can fulfill this Royal Law of God that fulfills the Lust of the Flesh and walks according to that Will which makes them Children of Wrath by Nature so then all people must come to that which they have disobeyed and still do disobey then they will walk according to the Will of God and the Royal Law of God and not according to the Prince of the Power of the Air for all they that disobey and walk according to the Prince and Power of the Air have not affections to Nature but they walk according to that Prince and Power of the Air who destroyeth Nature in themselves and then the Nature of others without them and these have not affections to Nature Natural Affections in themselves nor to them without and are out of the Royal Law of God viz. to do unto others as they would have others do unto them now the Religions Worships and Wayes of such are no Religions Wayes nor Worships of God who do disobey the Spirit of God in their own selves and such do not come to this Noble Royal Law and Royal Society in it wherein all men might commune commerce and hold correspondency with all Man-kind and one with another We read in Neh. 9.20 how the Lord gave the Children of Israel his good Spirit to instruct them but in the 28th verse 't is recorded how that they were disobedient and rebelled against the Spirit of the Lord and cast the Law behind their backs and slew the Prophets of the Lord which testified against them c. Now mark after they had rebelled against the Spirit of God and disobeyed the Lord they cast the Law of God behind their backs and slew the Lord's Prophets that testified against them and came to turn them to God again Now but consider whether or no this hath not been your Work in Christendom nay you have been more dark then these Jews and worse for you that be the Teachers in Christendom say that every Man and Woman hath not the Spirit of God to rebel against and God hath not given to every Man and Woman his Spirit and therefore you preach up Rebellion who are found all in the Disobedience and Rebellion to the Spirit of God in your selves that he hath given to instruct you and likewise also you rebel against the Spirit of God that he hath given to others instruct them with so by that you not only cast away the Royal Law of God behind your backs your selves but are also a means to bring others to disobedience to do the same and this Royal Law being cast behind your backs both of Christian and of Jew you are out of the Royal Society and concord in which you might commerce together among your selves and not only so but with all Nations that obey the same Principle of God in them But all you Christians Jews Turks and Heathens that disobey the good Spirit which God hath given you to instruct you you do cast the Royal Law behind your Backs and then you follow all your Wayes Religions and Worships and then are peevish about them and for them persecute others with a disobedient spirit that will not conform to them and to you and destroy people as the Jews did that would not conform So in that as I said before you destroy God's Creatures which he hath created and the Works of his Hands and so in that is manifested that you have no natural Affections nor no Love to God nor his Royal Law being disobedient to the Spirit of God which would lead you to his Law To do unto all as c. In this you might keep a Correspondency viz. In this Royal Law one with another I say above all your Religions Wayes and Worships And if you all lived in this Royal Law both Jews Turks Heathens and Christians so called your Religions Wayes and Worships would all fall to the Ground For in this Royal Law all Men and Women would have Liberty in a common Society and common Commerce and in the Worship of God and might receive a Religion pure from above for Religions Wayes and Worships are below of mens making which are Works of their own hands about which they do persecute their Fellow-creatures and their Brethren And also Such as grieve the Spirit quench and vex the Spirit of God signifying that they have a Measure of it else how could they quench vex and grieve it so quenching grieving and vexing that which would lead them unto the Royal Law To do unto others as they c. And that spirit that quencheth and vexeth the Spirit of God in them will never lead them to the Royal Law of God but lead them to do such things as they would not that others should do unto them but they would judge it hard measure if others should do unto them as they do unto others And so all they let them be Christians Jews Turks or Heathens who quench vex and grieve the Spirit of God and set up Religions of their own and are peevish about them to force and draw others to them those have neither Affections to Nature nor Natural Affections but are in that spirit that destroys Nature and the Affections to it and such do to others as they would not have them do unto them and come not up to that Royal Law To do unto all men as they would have them do unto them And also you may read of some That turned the Grace of God unto Wantonness and walked despightfully against the Spirit of Grace and hating the Light as you may see John 3.19 20. Jude 4. and in other places Now their hating the Light signifieth that they had it for Christ saith They would not come to the Light lest their deeds should be reproved that is by the Light and therefore it was their Condemnation So all Religions Wayes and Worships whatever men make that hate the Light they are made in Darkness both they and those are condemned as in John 3. So every man that comes into the World being inlightened by Christ the Heavenly Man in whom was Life and this Life was the Light of Men so every man that cometh into the World being turned to this Light they are turned to Christ they are turned to this Royal Law To do unto all men as they would have them do unto them for there 's the Liberty Now this shews that every Man and Woman that comes into the World is inlightened with the divine Light of the Heavenly Man Christ Jesus which while they hate it they break the Society with their Fellow-creatures who are of God's Creation as also the civil Commerce and Correspondence one with another And none that hate the Light have Affections to God to Christ Affections to his Royal Law or Affections to a general Communion or Affections to Nature it self or his Creation for they that hate the Light are under the
and all men for they are the Workmanship of God God's Creatures and their Fellow-creatures made of the same Flesh and Mould to dwell upon the Face of the Earth and they that be out of this whatever Worship Profession or Religion they are of its worth nothing And saith the Apostle further in 2 Cor. 10.12 For we dare not make our selves of the number or compare our selves with some that commend themselves but they measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves amongst themselves are not wise But we will not boast of things without our Measure but according to the Measure of the Rule which God hath distributed to us a measure even to reach unto you Now this Rule this Measure was the Spirit of God by which they reacht unto the Corinthians by which they were one anothers Epistle to one anothers Hearts and known and read of all men Now they that measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves among themselves which was not Wisdom they were without this Rule and this Spirit and Measure As now look over all Christendom and you shall find them without this Measure and this Rule who say The Letter is the Rule and are broken into so many Sects one against another measuring themselves and comparing themselves with themselves which are not wise for none are made wise but by the Spirit of God which is indeed the Rule and the Measure and that is it which brings To do unto all men as they would have them do unto them to that Royal Law and Royal Liberty and Royal Society and they that do so do shew their Loyalty and Obedience unto God and his Law So all people in the whole World of what Sect or Worship or Religion soever they must come to their measure of the Spirit of God and so to the Rule and lay away their own Rule that they rule things by and rule their religions by and their worships by and righteousness by that they have made and lay aside their Measure by which they have measured their religions and worships and their Righteousness and have measured others Now if People would not come according to their Measure and their Rule they have been ready to destroy God's Creatures who are made after the similitude of God and to curse them and to damn them This is the Practice of such that measure with their own Measure and that walk according to their own Rule who have not Natural Affections that do come to the Royal Law and Liberty Therefore all I say must lay aside their own measure and rule and come to the Spirit of God and so to the Rule which is the Spirit of God by which they may come to the Royal Law of God and so to the Royal Society and so to the Natural Affections to the Divine and Natural Affections And that of the Apostle in 1 Cor. 13. is very remarkable where the Apostle speaks of Love which ought to be amongst all Christians who profess the Name of Christ which Love if a man hath not he is nothing nay his Religion and Worship is nothing yea if he hath Faith it is nothing if he hath not Love if he saith he hath Knowledge and knows Secrets if he saith he hath Prophesie if he speaks with Tongues and hath not Love all is nothing and so his Profession is nothing So all ye Schollars all ye Sects in the whole Christendom if you have not this Love if out of it all that you have is nothing if you feed the poor and give your Body to be burnt and will burn others all this will profit you nothing if I say you have not Love Love to one onother Love to God Love to Christ Love to Enemies Natural Affection through which you will not destroy Nature you will not destroy God's Creatures God's Creation Man and Woman whom God hath made after his own Similitude Ye profess ye love God and yet hate your Brethren for ye are all Brethren in Adam you are all Lyars for how can you love God whom you see not and hate your Brother whom you do see daily Now this Love it suffers long and is curteous and kind and envieth not God's Creatures God's Creation Man and Woman who are I say made after the Similitude of God It doth not behave it self unseemly whereas they that are out of this Love behave themselves unseemly and are not curteous and kind which are the works of the Flesh Now Love seeks not her own nor is she easily provoked thinketh no Evil Now they that be out of this Love are easily provokt think Evil and do it seek their own Welfare and not the Welfare of another their own Good and not the Good of another Love bears all things believes all things hopes all things Whereas they that are out of Love cannot believe all things nor hope all things nor cannot endure all things full of Unbelief and Impatience now this is that that hath been wanting in Christendom and who be out of this Love though they may profess Christ and the Prophets and Apostles words yet all their Profession is nothing and such as be in this Love have Natural Affections and do not despise the Royal Law of God nor his Creatures viz. To do to all as we would have all do to us And none come to receive this Love but those alone who come to the Principle of God in themselves in their Measure And also for further Proof you may see in the Scriptures of Truth how those whom you stile Heathens many of them that speak good of God and of his Kingdom which they could not do without the Spirit of God as what Abimilech spoke to Abraham and the King of the Philistines to Isaac Pharaoh to Joseph as also Potiphar his first Master and the very Goaler was sensible of God's being with Joseph in Prison and blessing him so likewise Cyrus and King Darius spake good of God and Nebuchadnezar in his Dream saw Christ and his Kingdom Cornelius we read in the Acts prayed to God though a Heathen and the Queen of the South acknowledged the Lord likewise Rahab the Harlot who entertained the Spies King Hyram the Marriners with whom Jonah was embarqued not forgetting the King of Nineveth all which with a Cloud of other Witnesses which for brevity we pass over denote that there is something of God in all people whereas Christian Professors and Jews fondly imagine That none have the Spirit of God but them and so these others Scriptures judge them and these are those that make themselves a Sect and are the blind Guides who do not see the Seed sown upon all Grounds and how the Grace of God that brings Salvation hath appeared unto all men nor the Light by which Christ enlightens every man that comes into the World So these blind guides lead into the Ditch a corrupting place and see not Christ who tasted Death for every man and shed his Blood for all
Again you would have none to kill you or to covet your Goods or to steal from you you would have none to commit Adultry with your Wives or defile your Children which things are an Abomination unto the Lord therefore do not you so to any others but mind the Righteous Law that answers the Righteous Principle of God in you that keeps you in Holiness and Righteousness that is good and in this you will have esteem of God and his Royal Law and will have an esteem of your Souls and bodies which are the Lords that they may be kept holy that so they may be an acceptable Offering unto the Lord who is holy whose they are for Christ came to destroy the Devil and his Works who had sowed the evil Seed of Discord among the Children of men who are the Creation of God his Creatures And Christ that came to redeem man and save him sayes Love your Enemies and love one another for that is of God then Hatred and Enmity is not of God so here they were to love the Creatureâ— but not the Evil for the Creatures were of God's Creation for Christ came to destroy the Devil and not Man-kind but that onely which would destroy them This is the General and Universal Love for God so loved the World in sending his Son into the World when Jews and Gentiles were concluded under Sin to be an Offering and Sacrifice for the sins of the whole World And therefore Christ Jesus saith Love one another and love Enemies for that shews and answers the Mind of God and of Christ who lays down his Life for Enemies and dies for Sinners and so loved the World though they were Enemies that he sent his Son into the World that the World through him might live and so God was in Christ reconciling the World unto himself and God causeth his Son to shine upon the Just and the Unjust and the Rain to fall upon the Good and the Evil Mat. 5.44 45. So here is the Universal Love of God to Man-kind his Son shines upon the Unjust Man's Field as well as on the Just Man's and his Rain falls upon the Unjust Man's Ground as well as on the Just Man's And therefore you should be of the same mind with Christ for that was the end of his speaking those words that so you might go and do likewise If your rain do not fall upon the Unjust Man's Field as upon the Just you are the wandring Clouds that are said to have no Water in them and so deceive people and your Sun is turned to Darkness that think it shines upon no Body but your selves So you be out of Christ's Doctrine that do not practice his namely to love Enemies and to have your Rain and your Sun if your Rain be from God and your Sun be from God it will shine upon the Unjust as well as upon the Just even for their good and it will fall upon the Unjust and the Just I mean the Rain now they that have not this let them profess what they will God's words and Christ's words they are Hypocrites and are blind Guides that lead into the Ditch Now the Lord saith Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self and so commands his Law Mark Thy Neighbour thou shalt love as thy self for all Nations of men hath God made of one Blood and one Mould to dwell upon the Face of the Earth So mark they are made of one so there is the Natural Affections out of that one to the one all men made of one and there comes the love to his Neighbour of the same Blood and Mould as himself and there comes the Royal Law to be received to do to all men of the same Blood and Mould of the Lord 's making as he would have them do unto him And whosoever professeth godliness and christianity or God or Christ or whatsoever other Religion in the whole World and do not love their Neighbour as themselves and all being made of one Blood and Mould on the face of the Earth they are all Breakers of the Law of God and Dishonourers of God and are Hypocrites that do profess the Law and Gospel that come short of this and do not practice that is to say love your Neighbours as your selves and are out of the Royal Society and the Royal Law And whatsoever Religion Way or Worship people have made and are out of this that is to say Love thy Neighbour as thy self and do unto all men as they would have them do unto them their Religion Way and Worship is no Religion it is but Vanity and their profession of God and Christ is but Vanity and Hypocrisie and do call upon God with their Lips and their Hearts are far off from him and his Royal Law and such destroy Natural Affections and Nature it self for they that love their Neighbour as themselves which is above all the Religions in the World of mens making do shew forth Natural Affections if they love their Neighbours as themselves which is the general Command And in this here is a general Unity a general Concord a general Commerce and Correspondency with all their Neighbours in the whole World neighbour Nations neighbour Countries neighbour Towns And 1 Pet. 2.13 Honour all men love the Brother-hood fear God honour the King Now to honour all men is to have all men in esteem as you may read and if I esteem all men I shall certainly hurt no man neither would I have any other to hurt any man or to hurt one another for I esteem and honour them Why Because they are of God's Creation and God's Creatures and made after the Similitude of God and therefore I am to honour them all 2d To love the Brotherhood those that are Brethren born again and begotten again of the immortal Seed which are living Stones and made a Spiritual Houshold of Brethren 3d Fear God Honour the King so there 's none can honour the King but those that fear God and none can fear God who live in Evil and in Sin And in Heb. 12.14 the Spirit of God by the Apostle commands us To follow Peace with all men and elsewhere saith he Seek the Peace of all men and the Good of all men So now mind this All men must seek the Good of one another one anothers Peace which is in Christ Jesus not in old Adam and in his Royal Law in which they may come to a Concord and demonstrate a Natural Affection and divine Affections to all men who seek the Peace of all men And they that seek the Peace of all men they will not seek their Trouble nor Captivity nor their Slavery nor their Hurt but their Eternal Good and Eternal Peace and this is that that is wanting among them that have been Professors of Christianity So they that have profest and not in the Possession of this in not seeking the Peace of all men are Hypocrites to seek the Peace of Jew Gentile Heathen