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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86651	A lamentation for the scattered tribes, who are exiled into captivity, and are now mingled among the heathen, and are joyned to the oppressor, and refuses to return. Presented unto all the separated congregations, under what name or form soever, in love to the lost. Shewing, the difference betwixt them that were separated by the word of faith, and them who have separated themselves, in imitation from the letter: ... / By a servant of truth, and a friend to righteousness, who suffers with the seed, which is held in oppression, waiting and labouring for its return; called Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing H3170; Thomason E885_1; ESTC R204835	28,211	39

nor never did and so not the same nor hath not the same operation and so is not the same faith nor word which they preached And now to you who are called Members in all separated societies and yet in Babylon and Egypt spiritually so called where the seed is held in captivity I say Come forth of her and returne to your Maker from whence you are erred and cast off your garments of selfe-righteousness and those coverings you hid your selves under must all be rent they will wax old yea your heaven shall wax old as a garment and your stars will fall and your towers will be demolished and all your buildings will fall and your strength will fayle and Egypt cannot save you Why gad you abroad why trim you your selves with the Saints words when you are ignorant of the life return return to him that is the first love and the first-borne of every creature who is the light of the world which light will show you backe againe is the way from off the mountains of leanness and poverty where you feed upon wind and huskes and now returne home to within sweep your houses all the groat is there the little leaven is there the graine of mustard-seed you will see which the kingdom of God is like and you will see from whence you have erred from the true Shepherd Christ the light of the world who hath enlightened you with his light which light will show you sin and let you see what rules in the mind and heart which light will let you see the way out of the world and will judge sin in you and bind it and give you power over it this is the true shepherd and if you say you love him manifest your love unto him by following his light revealed in you which leads into the true separation from sin unto the Lord to see his presence neer you who will guide you with his eye the light is the eye of the body and here you will see your Teacher not removed into a corner but present when you are upon your beds and about your labor convincing instructing leading correcting judging giving peace to all that love and follow him Therefore haste I say come away while the Lord is near and at hand while his grace shines with you and he waits and hath waited long to be gratious and you have kept him out so long his lockes is bedewed with the drops of the night his Spirit shall not always strive that that checks and strives against sin is it in love follow it let it lye in your bosome day and night make it your companion I pitie you I pitie you my bowells is troubled for you I am payned for the seeds sake therefore all sleight not this love quench not the Spirit put not that which reproves sin away owne it that sin may be seene and the man of sin may be revealed by the brightness of Christ whose coming is as the light shines from east into the west discovers all darke pathes and the twining of the serpent and the crooked wayes of the old Dragon by this light and thus if you wait you will see the day revealed in you which the Scripture speaks of which shall declare all things and make manifest the hidden things of Esau who hunts abroad and is a man of the field whose minde is a broad And you whose mindes are a broad hunting after savory meat to please the flesh withall you are of his birth you will be laid wast and the mount in which you dwelt Therefore all prize your time and your visitation if you will returne come that he may heale your backsliding and receive you if you resist the light misery will be your end and you will lie down in sorrow This have I written in love to all your soules who am one who did drinke of the Cup of fornication and have drunke of the Cup of indignation but now drinkes the Cup of salvation where sorrow and tears is fled away and yet am a man of sorrows and well acquainted with griefe and suffers with the seed and travels that it may be brought forth of captivity called by the world F. H. The difference shewn betwixt them that learne of Christ and are taught of him and them that follows the principal of darkness that leads into Error HE that stumbles at the light stumbles at the door and his minde is erred from the truth and he followes his owe will and walks after the imaginations of his own heart without a Law or a guide to his feet and so falls into snares and temptations and into the noison lusts which doth hurt and annoy the Spirit of grace which should lead and guide man up to God out of the fall and transgression He that sees not with the light he is blind for the light is the eye of the body and makes manifest the light of the body which cleanseth from sin and leads to the body where Christ is the head where the unitie stands in one by which all comes to be united by one who is the light and life of men and comes to the one baptism and all who waits in the light that is pure comes to know the name of the Father and the Son which is one and here is the one baptisme seen and received and all that comes to be baptized into his Name comes to be baptized into his nature and comes to see the word which was in the begininng and there is no other name but the word which sanctifies and washes so all that knows not this Baptism nor this Word nor this Name knows not salvation from sin but lives in the reasonings and Imaginations and knows not that water which is the gift of Christ nor the Spirit which is given to every one to profit withall of which a man must be born of else he cannot enter into the kingdom of God and all who denies the light wherewith Christ hath enlightened every one withal denies the gift of God which leads to repentance and so lives in sin Repentance is the gift of God and this is the gift of the Father which was promised the light of the world and all that receives not and believe not in the light they are in the old nature and he that is not born of the light is not born of God for God is light he that is not born of the light knowes not the Virgins womb where the Man-childe is borne and conceived nor the day of Christ nor cannot discerne his coming but lookes for signes and outward observations Lo here and there in the outward and are in the unbeliefe nor discernes not the Kingdom where Christ reignes which is not of this world all things that are outward are of this world and who live in them and have their hearts exercised in them knows not that which leads to before the world and to the end of the world and knows not the true

shall come upon all your strength and all your rest in the flesh and ease in your beds that you have made shall be taken away you have slayn those desires in you which was once after God and now follows the pleasures of the flesh and have set up such a Worship over every one of you as you can live at ease and in pleasures and in pride and vain-glory and covetousness and are men-pleasers and respecters of persons and yet your Justification stands sure and your fayth which you hold and this fayth is reprobate which leads into the works of darkness Oh you are high you are strong warriors for the prince of darkness and greater opposers of the power of the Lord then they that have professed lesse who are gone before Verily this is fulfilled in this generation Publicans and harlots enter the kingdom and comes to fit down with Abraham Isaac and Iacob and you are shut out Will he accept you for your words will he accept you because you eat his bread and drink his wine and one of you is hungry and another company of you plead that your communion must now be as much wine as you can drink and this is Gods ordinance you say Oh ye blind and slow of heart to believe Is not Parphar and Damascus and Jordan and all the water his and the cattel upon a thousand hills is he beholding to thee for thy lame and blind sacrifice will he accept you for these things while your wills stands and while you hate to be guided by his light and Spirit which cleanseth the inside shall I not say as Paul sayd of Circumcision It 's neither baptisme or not being baptized it 's neither breaking of bread nor drinking of wine neither your observances and washings your prayers nor your fasts your feigned communion and fellowship but a new creature that God requires not outward washings nor things carnal which none of these things makes perfect as pertaining to the conscience nor the coming unto these doth not purifie nor make the answer of a good conscience while you do not witness that which makes you partakers of the divine nature you have no fellowship with the Father nor the Son but only sacrifice to your nets and feed upon ashes and would take those things which was but figures to oppose the substance as the Jews did and never looks for him to be revealed in you who is the end of the figures and the end of the law for righteousness and the end of the prophets who now is not worshipped in the oldness of the letter nor in figures but in newness of Spirit and in the new and living way which he hath consecrated for all them that come to him and believe in him and comes to within the Veile Heb. 10. 20. nay these things which you call ordinances as you practise them are not so much as the image of heavenly things and though you come to them year by year and weeke by weeke they do not make you that are comers thereunto perfect for if they did then there were a necessity for the continuance of them But now to that of God in all your consciences I speak which shall witness in the day of the Lord that your consciences are no more purified nor you made any more perfect then the first day you took them up And this I say unto you in love to your soules I know no more of the power and presence you do witness among you in these things then if you worshipped in the temple at Jerusalem and burned incense and offered sacrifice and burnt-offerings which Christ sayd was left unto them desolate and verily in the day of the Lords account you shall bear witness unto me that I speak not in mine own name although you cannot believe I say the Lord is departed out of these things and the Gentiles and heathen who knows not God hath now all these things to tread upon and all also to feed upon but this I say unto you Sacrifices and offerings without which are Carnal and elementary and perishes with the using he will not have but he is come whose flesh is the life of the Saints and his body is known which is prepared to take away sin and it was witnessed of him and he is come to do the will of God and this is he in whom the Father is well pleased who is the light of the world and hath enlightned every one that comes into the world and whoso is not led by the light he is not led by the Son and there is no offering but in the light that is accepted nor nothing which is well pleasing to God but what he now Commands who is entered to within the veil into the Heavenly tabernacle and you whose Hearts the veile is over and flesh is over unturned to him you are and his face doth not see nor his mind doth not know and now his worship is no more outward and Carnal but spirituall and everlasting and all you that cannot own the measure of God in you which shews you his teachings and doctrine the offering up of that which is perfect you do not know nor the offering up in and by the eternal Spirit you do not know and so doth not know purging away sin but still you are Checked and Condemned in your selves notwithstanding your large phylacteries and long garments of self-righteousness and selfe taken in performance in your wills from Imitation yet all of you confess the guilt must remain because none of you are come from under Condemnation therefore you judge all is so Ah ah miserable redemption and Justification is this what redemption is wrought among you when the light in your own Consciences shews there is guilt and you are under the power of pride and Covetousness and envy and wrath rayling and slandering them that bears witness against your deceipt and hath not power over your tongues nor over your thoughts but are led captive by him that workes unrighteousness nay so ignorant are you most of you that you know not what it is that is in captivitie and what it is that wants redemption nor what it is which the Gospel is preached to and puritie of Spirit you do not know Verily I say unto you all whose minds are not turned to the light of Christ which will let you see notwithstanding all your righteousness and fulness which you judge you have attained to there is one thing you lack yet you that hath keeped all the commands in the letter which few of you have done you must sell all and give to the poore and yet before you witness a disciple of Christ you must take up the cross of Christ which you all stumble at and it is foolishness to you as it was to your generation who were in your nature who sought to be justified by the works without them and even you are the same looks that God accepts you because you have conformed to

obedient to him whose life is given and laid down and revealed to redeem his own seed and all that come to see this comes to prize his love and walkes in his fear and hath the shield of faith by which they are defended from the enemie of their souls and his temptations are resisted and the fiery darts quenched and so the enemies comes to be subdued and this faith is present power against all sin and all that keep in it out of doubts and distrusts and consultations and murmurings come to be preserved and all that hath this faith doth believe the overcoming of all sin and walk from faith to faith and they are daily renewed in the Lords strength and comes to have Victory as they keep in it and so remains in the true rest with God for ever which none that lives in sin shall ever come to attain unto A Word to all the Ministers of the world in all Opinions and Sects And to all yourpeople in every Sect. THe Lord is risen in his glory and is arising in his power to tread down the mountaines all nations make way make way and all ye Isles be removed all ye high walls fall down and all ye strong towers be rent asunder all ye strong gates flie open ye fenced Cities fall ye mighty men of valour bow your hands shall grow feeble you mighty warriours for the prince of darknesse a day of sore distress is coming upon you the princes of Tyre shall no more rejoyce ye dukes of Edom shall fall by the edge of his sword ye daughters of the Philistins shall no more rejoyce nor ye daughters of Moab who have been at ease from your youth shall no more take pleasure in your delicacies for the earth is growing thin and feeble where all your renowne and glory lay the root is cursed from whence your joy hath sprung God is risen and blasting all with the breath of his mouth and darkness shall cover all your pavilions and leanness shall cover your faces who have rejoyced at the Captivitie of the holy seed for now is he arising as a Giant that runs his course and shall tread down the earth and blast all its glory and will fan the nations and all the uncircumcized in heart shall be as chaff for now is the Lord bringing his determination upon the whole earth to cut down all the Gods of gold and silver and spoyle all your pleasant pictures and images which stand in the earth which you have worshipped in your hearts yea the Lord of life hath a sacrifice in Babylon to performe to confound her languages which is many and to slay all her Children in the place where they have slaine the seed of the free-borne Woe is me what will become of ye ye shepherds who have nourished people into the nature of Swine and led into the nature of Dogs and hath driven away the sheep from the fold and hath begotten nothing but subtilty and deceit in peoples mindes hath made them wise to do evil and subtil to deceive and causing to turne away from righteousness yea many of their eares you have bored and they have sold themselves to be bond-slaves unto you and to their lusts for ever a wofull reckoning will you make to the Lord of heaven and earth who is coming to take an account of all what they have done and brought and what sheep they have gathered in the Bill is drawne against you all you hirelings the Cup of vengeance will be your reward not one lamb have you brought in the bosome of the father nor one sheep into the fold but hath scattered them so that by deceiving them so long with your strange voyce they have forgot the true shepherds voyce for into a Wolfes nature you have nourished them and they are become wild and now loves no fold no bond nor limit but loves to lie downe with you upon the mountains of iniquity pride lust and deceit where all the wild beasts of the field play and they are all gone out of the way into the crooked paths of unrighteousness and they follow your example who leads them and this will be proved against you all shepherds who are idle who loves the fleece and feeds upon the fat and seekes for your gaine from your quarter the blood of soules will be your Charge guilty will you all be found your mouthes stopped the light in your consciences shall be the Lords witness bound will you be and cast into utter darkness And you that have set up your selves to be Teachers who pretends Separation from the world who have run in your wills and have gathered to worship an image with a more beautifull face you are strong you are fat you shine you are full you appeare as Oracles at which them that seeks after knowledge seekes unto you are painted over with names and Colours and appeares of a comelie hue your Cup is golden and beautiful to behold to the earthly wisdom and desirable to drinke of yea many have drunke of it and are drinking of it and they come to grow tall and as strong as horses in battel and as rampant as lions and as Behemoth who thinkes he can drinke Iordan drie But one thing you have left behind you and that is the cross of Christ which is the power of God now is the Lord coming to fan you and to weigh you how you came hither to tell of justification and of being saved by the righteousness of Chist when you will not owne the simplicity of the Gospel nor the meeke principle to giude you into the Lambes nature your flocke is not so speckled as the former and yet they feed in the same pasture where knowledge the tree of knowledge is the food which nourishes them into a strange nature and turnes them farther into degeneration Woe is me for you all who are leaders and you who are thus led upon the left hand among the goats you will be turned who hates the still small voyce that you cannot abide to hear in you therefore you are erred for lack of true knowledg and you shall goe into captivity with them that go into captivity for you have lost the key of knowledge and you are setting up and seeking to open with another thing then the key of David but you must either have that or else where the Saints life is you cannot come although you are reaching at it with your sensuall wisdome but farther it flies from you Oh when will you be weary of feeding upon ashes of winde and air which puffs up your fleshly mindes when will ye seriously consider what ye enjoy of God and what you possess of him are you not lost in your selves in and about that which you acount great part of obedience unto your God Are not some of you who are called Baptized persons differing about the form some baptizing into this some into that some sprinkling some dipping some plunging where is your example for these