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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58143	Light sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart This is to go abroad among all people who are honest-hearted, especially amongst the inhabitants in Fourns Fells, in Lancashire, and among all who have known me after the flesh, that all honest people may see what I was in profession, and also what I now am by the grace of God. From him which hath come through great tribulations, who hath even left all for Christ, and hath not whereon to lay his head, but is forsaken of father and of mother, and of kinred also, even for the testimony of Jesus, and for the Word of God, whom the world calls, Thomas Rawlinson.	Rawlinson, Thomas.	1657 (1657)	Wing R369; ESTC R220567	29,951	42

Hell and the Grave and through Faith have overcome the World so hath right to eat of the Tree of Life glorious praises to God for ever whose Works now praises him And though I am become a stranger unto my Fathers House and to my Kinred also and hath not whereon to lay my head yet God hath prepared an House for me and hath brought me into his House of Love even into everlasting Dwellings a spiritual house to worship him in hath he even prepared eternally in the Heavens which remaineth for ever and he will never shut me out of his House but he hath given me within his House and within his Walls a place and a Name better then of Sons and of Daughters an everlasting Habitation and a Name that shall not be cut off praises endless praises to God in the Highest This hath the Lord done for his Names sake and how can I forbear to tell of what God hath done for my soul If I should not confess his wondrous Works before men to tell of his wonderful Works it had bin better for me never to have bin born Who hath even filled me with the Riches of his glory in Christ Jesus who hath taken me out of the Olive-Tree which is wild by nature and now hath he grafted me contrary to nature into a good Olive-Tree so in my measure I am come to know him that was from the beginning yea I am in him that is true who is the true God and eternal life being planted into Christ that I may bring forth Fruit unto God who in times past was an alien and a stranger to the Life of God but am now through the grace of God no more a stranger but a Fellow-Citizen with the Saints and of the Houshold of God being built upon the Foundation of the Prophets and Apostles Christ himself being the chief Corner-stone in whom all the Building fitly framed together growth unto an holy Temple in the Lord. Therefore all Friends and Neighbors having tasted that the Lord is gracious and full of compassion towards them that trust in him I cannot but even in bowels of compassion beseech you even to return unto the Lord with your whole heart that ye may love him with all your heart ye who hunger after righteousness ye who would eat of the bread of life come in to the light even ye who are ready to die pine away w th hunger for want of bread turn in hither for in my Fathers house is even Bread enough for all that is hungry indeed that ye may freely eat of live for ever if it were not so I would not invite you but seeing and feeling that it is even so I cannot but beseech you So every one that is a-thirst come and take of the Fountain of the Water of Life freely whosoever will and buy Wine and Milk without money and without price so spend not your money for that which is not Bread and your labour for that which satisfies not my Father giveth you the true bread and whosoever eats thereof shall live for ever and be satisfied and the Fountain of the Water of Life is set open that whosoever is a-thirst may freely drink and be filled And the Bread of God is he that cometh down from Heaven who lightneth every man that cometh into the World that all men through him might be saved who filleth the hungry with good things but the rich he sends empty away So all Friends believe in the light come unto the light least ye dye in your sins for the Lord hath no pleasure that ye should dye in your sins but rather that ye should turn from your evil Ways and live unto him that so ye might know the Way of life from the VVays of death As ye come to own the light of God in you as ye love it it will teach you the right VVay wherein dwelleth righteousness a wise man vvill first seek the Kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof that he may come to knovv the Lord and find rest and peace in him vvhich the vvorld cannot give So Friends if ye would know those things and come to have rest and peace in Christ Jesus then ye must come to the light wherewith ye are enlightned Therefore all mind the light of God in you which shines into your hearts for the light is your vvay if ye love it so if ye choose to follow the Light Christ this is he that reveals the Father whom no man knovvs but the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him this is he in whom the vveary comes to find rest and peace So as every one comes into the obedience of the light he comes to see the Kingdom of God and hath right to enter into the Kingdom and if yee vvait in the light but a vvhile in patience ye shall see that the Kingdom of God is come nigh Know ye not that the Kingdom of Heaven is within you So all in the light wait for the Kingdom of God to be revealed in you which stands not in vvords but in righteousness and in the truth so if even ye knovv the Kingdom of God ye shall know it within you a holy Kingdom holy and everlasting into which nothing that maketh a lye or is unclean shall enter For blessed and holy are they that are counted vvorthy to enter therein vvhich have not defiled themselves with VVomen Novv therefore Friends as ye desire the salvation of your souls wait in the light even in the holy and just principle of God in that vvhich is holy which convinces of sin and of unrighteousness and lets you see your sins and all that ever ye have done if ye vvill but hear and incline your ear and as ye own the light to be taught of the Lord there shall ye come to know Christ the Saviour of your souls who is come to save his people from their sins and to seek and to save that vvhich is lost So here is the vvay of the Lord in the light even the true and living vvay but if ye draw back after the Priests ye have rejected the Lord to be taught of the Lord so ye cannot escape the damnation of Hell so shall never witness to be taught of the Lord in the measure of light who have done despite to the Spirit of grace so it is like ye shall never know Gods salvation profess what you can in words of knowing him or his salvation For God is light and he is not known but in the light so they that are not in the light who knows not the light are in darkness even until now and so knows not the vvay of the Lord for darkness comprehends him not nor his light and they that be in the darkness knows not whither they go nor at what they stumble because that darkness hath blinded their eyes Therefore all Friends and Neighbors ye that have known me after the flesh I beseech you in Christs

but according to the multitude of his mercies so the long-suffering and patience of God led me to repentance and then J came clearly to see that it was the Lord indeed that appeared unto me and had set these things before me and not man that had so long called unto me though then J knew him not but when J knew indeed that it was the Lord that spoke unto me J then gave up all willingly and left off frequenting all sorts of people their Assemblies too sate alone in silence waiting in the silence of my spirit for the Lord and was as a travelling VVoman pained to be delivered yea J was almost quite gone and had even despaired of hope had not the Lord had compassion and been very merciful unto me who drew near and sustained me when the night of darkness was over me for it pleased the Lord while J was yet in patience waiting for him to reveal his Son in me who hath even appeared and is risen with healing in his Wings So now in him my weary soul after long travel is come to find rest and peace for evermore which no man can take from me if J be faithful to the end Blessing and praises and honor and glory and dominion and thanksgiving to the Lord God of Sabbaths and to the Lamb for ever and ever who hath given me the peace and the victory in measure over death hell and the grave praises to the Lord for his mercies fails not but are renewed every moment towards his servant and such as fear him who hath not left my soul in hell neither hath he suffered his holy one to see corruption but hath ransomed my soul from death and the grave into perfect liberty even to joy and gladness and all sorrovv and sighing doth flye avvay for the years of rejoicing is come praises endless praises and honor and glory to him that sitteth upon the Throne of Judgement and Mercy vvho takes avvay the sins of the vvorld and saves his people from their sins that they may praise him together vvith one accord in the land of the living vvho hath done vvonderfully for me that J even admire the goodness of God tovvards me in all his vvorks everlasting glorious praises and blessing to him for evermore vvhose right it is and vvhose vvorks praises him not unto me Lord not unto me but unto thee holy vvise God over all be all the glory and the honor Let all that know the Lord praise him above all for his mercies endureth for ever who now hath brought me into fellowship with the Saints in light Neighbors and Friends These things I write not unto you to have praise of you for I receive not honor from man but that ye may know and understand what God hath wrought and what he hath done for my soul that all might come to praise the Lord and to admire him who hath done great things in the Earth So this is a Warning unto every one of you That ye rest not satisfied in any thing short of Christ but that ye may all even turn to the light and believe in the light and walk in the light while ye have the light lest any be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin and so come short of the Grace of God So all be warned that ye put not trust in a false confidence in a false faith and in a vain hope and so ye get up into a false joy below Christ for the end of this is weeping mourning sorrow and lamentation so take heed how ye choose to follow your Priests lest ye also perish with them together being partakers with them in their sins so choose not to follow your own Ways neither lean not to your own understandings nor put no trust to your own Righteousness glory not in your own Wisdom and strength but now even all of you come to the Light Christ the Righteousness of God to put him on and so to put off your own righteousness that ye coming to the light and follow the light to have the righousness of the Law fulfilled in you that every one of you may prove your selves so search and try your own Ways and turn to the true light Christ Jesus who enlightneth every man that cometh into the World and see if ye can witness Christ in you Know ye not how Christ is in you except ye be reprobates I say if ye know not Christ formed in you if ye feel not the life of the Son of God moving and breathing in you towards God I say if Christ be not raised ye are yet in your sins if the dead rise not and so your Faith is vain and your Profession also For as many as receives Christ receives the Righteousness of God in him receives Gods Righteousness for Christ is Gods Righteousness and who hath not Christ their Righteousness is of themselves and so are ignorant of Gods righteousness who knows not the Light Christ in them who will not come to the light so will not submit to the righteousness of God but would establish their own righteousness yet will not such people speak against self-righteousness and against self-actings when as all their Righteousness and Works is of themselves How blind are these people who out of their own mouth hath condemned themselves wherein all they do is of themselves in their Will-Worship to be seen of men and would lay these things to our charge whom they call Quakers and saith that we altogether set up Works before Christ always perswades people to Works and to the keeping the Commandments and the like Answ This is false Though We perswade people to be followers of good Works and to the keeping of the Commandments according to Christs exhortation yet We do not turn people to Works before We turn them to Christ but We first exhort them to believe in the light so they are lyars for this is our Message To turn people from the darkness to the Light Christ who lightneth every man that they may have their works wrought in the Light Christ who works all our works in us and for us and he that loves the light brings his deeds to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God but what is this to them who are not come unto the light neither hath believed in the light have they not manifested their ignorance and that all their works of righteousness are of themselves and that they have no other righteousness who are not come to the light mark and take notice of this That all their deeds and works are onely of themselves wrought in darkness until such time as they come to be turned from the darknesse to the light for that which is not wrought in the light is wrought in darknesse So hovv can such escape the judgements of God vvho have so falsly accused us that have renounced our own Righteousness and hath vvillingly submitted to the Righteousness of

even so hath it pleased the Lord to reveal his Son in me blessing and glorious praises to the Lord God everlasting and to the Lamb whose right it is now I plainly see that in vain is the help of man their counsels is nought but deceit and hypocrisie and shall be confounded their Wisdom is foolishness with God who will destroy the Wisdom of the Wise So I do deny all the teachings of the Priests any longer for it is only the Lord that teaches me to profit for through his Word of Truth which I have hid in my heart am I become wiser then all my Teachers the Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want who is now appearing and risen in this the day of his glorious power to teach his people himself of his Ways by his Eternal Infallible Spirit of Light Life and Power which shines into their hearts and gives them the Knowledge of God in the Face of Jesus Christ who enlightneth every man that cometh into the World that all men believing in the light may come to know both the Father and the Sonne whom to know is life eternal all coming to the light this is he that reveals the Father So Friends the light is your Way if ye love it I am the way saith Christ the Light who lightneth every man No man comes to the Father but by me no man knows the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him But Friends wil a profession of Words a talk of knowing the Father and the Son and a boasting of Free-Grace in words be sufficient to any of you who are turned from the light within into darkness to follow the Priests and blind guides which cannot profit you so ye are not taught by Grace who heap up Teachers unto your selves having itching ears ye have turned your ears from the light from the truth so ye are turned from the Grace of God which brings salvation and hath appeared unto all men and what is the Free-Grace of God unto any of you who turn the Free-Grace of God into wantonness who are not taught by it to forsake your sins and to deny all ungodliness and Worldly lusts and to live a godly and a gracious life so are not come into obedience to God but are stiff-necked and rebellious and are alive unto sin and all ungodliness and Worldly lusts so ye are free from Grace And so what such a vain foolish rotten stinking profession is this of yours people who cryes Free-Grace Free-Grace nothing but by Free-Grace are we saved O blush for shame and be ye all horribly afraid for your impudency and lying against God as to say ye are saved by Grace when as ye are yet in your sins and will not receive the Gift of Gods Free-Grace which hath been so largely and so freely tendered unto every one of you from the God of all Grace and hath even appeared in you all and to you all and yet ye have refused to incline your ear and hear For this is the Grace of God and the great love of God towards you all That he hath given you a light which light in you all tells you that ye should not lye nor swear nor be covetous nor be drunk nor that ye should not envy nor hate nor dissemble but lets you see that you should love the Lord God with all your heart and your Neighbor as your selves so see if ye be come to this These things ye know and happy are ye if ye do them otherwise ye are not saved by grace but doth come short of the grace of God to be taught of God if ye be overtaken with lying or swearing or with covetousness or drunkenness with envying or hatred or dissembling and the like which are the Fruits of the flesh So ye do despite to the Spirit of grace whatsoever your profession in Words to the contrary be who are found here But unto us who have believed in the light the grace of God which hath appeared unto all men teaches us to deny all ungodliness and Worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present World And so by grace are we saved not of our selves it is the gift of God for by grace we stand and by grace we have obtained salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ And this in my measure I witness But Friends Will ye sin because grace hath abounded and hath appeared in you all Consider Is that the measure of the gift of the grace of God which teaches ye to sin against God and to be proud and covetous to lye and to swear to envy and to hate and to be drunk and to sight to be light vain and wanton to lust murder and to destroy and to live in all the customs and fashions of the Heathen God forbid Nay but that Spirit which brings forth these things is the Spirit of Devils and not from the Spirit of grace So you who are not subject to the Spirit of grace but brings forth the like Fruits as abovesaid are not come to grace so cannot grow in grace from grace to grace who are not taught by grace to deny all unrighteousness whatsoever So what have ye to do as to take my Words in your mouths saith the Lord who talk and make a profession of free grace What have ye to do to take my Name in your mouths for the Way of grace and truth ye have despised yea verily ye have done despite to the Spirit of grace and hath cast my Law behind your backs saith the Lord. Truly Friends I cannot sow pillows under your arm-holes or under your elbows as your greedy hireling-Priests do who cry peace peace but I shall deal plainly with you whether you will hear or forbear For this is the free grace of God and the love by grace that God hath given us of his Son Hath sent his own Son a light into the World that all men through him might believe and know the truth who enlightneth every man that cometh into the World And he that is not faithful and obedient to the pure light in his conscience which comes from the Son of God and lets him see his evil deeds and that he should not sin at all he hears not God so whosoever sins against the light wrongs his own soul To the light in all your consciences people of all professions I speak And Friends and Neighbors While I was one with you in profession with a profession of God and of Christ in my mouth without the life and possession ye loved me and did speak well of me I being then one with you in the World for the World loves its own and many of you rejoiced to see me and Friends What am I now become your Enemy because God hath put it into my heart to choose the better part who hath had mercy on me and hath chosen me out of the World to be a Vessel unto honour who hath redeemed me