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A41061	A testimonie of the touch-stone, for all professions, and all forms, and gathered churches (as they call them), of what sort soever to try their ground and foundation by and a tryal by the Scriptures, who the false prophets are, which are in the world, which John said should be in the last times / by Margret Fell ; also, some of the ranters principles answered.	Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702.	1656 (1656)	Wing F636; ESTC R13179	30,378	40

have your minds that ye may come to witness cleansing and purging within that ye may come to see the uncleannesse which proceeds out of the heart which defiles the man Mat. 15.18 19. For out of the heart cometh evil thoughts murthers adulteries fornications thefts false testimony slanders these are the things which defiles a man How will you teachers and you professors who looks without you and turns from this which should cleanse you within How do you look that that which is without you should cleanse from this uncleannesse within Let that of God in your consciences now see how you can be cleansed by this when ye turn from it But now if ye turn to the light which makes these things manifest and dwell and abide in it then will ye abstain from them and so come to witnesse cleansing For he that walketh in the light as he is in the light the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin And Christ Jesus saith Luke 6.45 A good man out of the treasury of his heart bringeth forth that which is good and an evil man out of the treasury of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil for out of the abundance of his heart his mouth speaketh And why call ye me Lord Lord and do not the things which I say Whosoever cometh to me and heareth my sayings and doth them I will shew you to whom he is like He is like a man which built an house and digged deep and laid the foundation on a Rock and when the floods arose the streams beat violently upon the house and could not shake it for it was built upon a Rock But he that heareth and doth is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth against which the streams did beat violently and immediately it fell and the fall of that house was great Now professors here 's your building eternally you shall witnesse this Parable fulfilled upon you the tempests and storms is coming upon you your house will be beaten down it cannot stand for ye have been sayers a long time and not doers of the word your house which ye have built is without foundation it is not founded upon the rock Christ Jesus Ye who denies the light he saith into you why call ye me Lord do not the things which I say upon him shall ye be beaten to pieces and all your prefession It is known and seen ye are made manifest ye cannot hide your selves Therefore let the time past of your lives suffice and repent while ye have time least the whirl-winde of the Lord come upon you and destroy you ere ye are aware and remember that ye are warned in your life time Ye who talkes of faith where is your foundation who denies the light Christ Jesus the corner-stone whose blood washeth and cleanseth and purgeth away the filth of the daughter of Sion What will your faith advantage you who are yet in your sin Is not that faith vain which doth not purifie the heart The Apostle Paul saith Now the end of the Commandment 〈◊〉 Charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfeigned 1 Tim. 1.5 And again he saith Holding the mysterie of faith in a pure conscience 1 Tim. 3.9 And the Apostle John saith For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world and this is the victory that overcometh the world even our faith 1 John 6.4 Now see your faith hath overcome the world and given you victory over sin else never talk of faith for ye are yet in your sins all who is of the faith by which the just lives denies your faith for ye who are alive to sin crucifies and slayes the Just ●et who is in the faith of God the just lives by his faith And so now here ye may read your faith by your works For the Apostle James saith What doth it profit though a man say he hath faith and hath not works that faith cannot save See what comparison James makes James 2.16 Even so faith if it hath not works is dead being alone Yea a man may say thou hast faith and I have works shew me thy faith without thy works and I will shew thee my faith by my works Now see how blinde ye are who reads these Scriptures and professes them and yet talks of faith and lives in your sins Oh the righteous God will plead with you for all your deceit and hypocrisie Thou believes there is a God thou dost well the devils believe also and tremble Therefore know Oh vain man that thy faith without works is dead And what is thy works who art yet in thy sins Is not sin the work of the devil Oh that ever ye should be so blinde and befotted Will the fig-leaves of your profession cover your nakednesse Nay the Lord hath found you out and all your coverings is too narrow And your faith which is holden with respect of persons which the Apostle exhorts from the Lord God abhors But if ye had true living faith as a grain of musterd-seed ye might say to this mountain be thou removed into the Sea and it would be so But to you whose faith is dead who are yet in your sins this is a mysterie Therefore repent and turn to the Lord God and believe in the light which is rising and shining in your consciences he it is who is the resurrection and the life whosoever believeth in him though he were dead yet shall he live Therefore hearken diligently to the Prophet which the Lord is raising in this his day and believe in the light For whosoever doth not hearken to this Prophet is to be cut off Turn to the light and believe and hearken diligently that your souls may live Why will ye give your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which profiteth not The pure everlasting fountain of life is set open and the voice is calling to every one to come All that thirsteth to come and buy wine and milk without money they that have been sold for nought shall be redeemed without money The blood of the everlasting Covenant which brings again the Lord Jesus from the dead is poured forth and shedding for the redemption of Israels seed Therefore all turn to the voice that calls ye this is the way walk in it And that which turns and draws your minds towards God the light which cometh from the father of light turn to and there will ye witnesse a living hope which was that hope which Paul the Apostle was called in question for the resurrection of the dead who was a Minister of God who watched for the soul which your Ministers of death knoweth not nor hath no hope of but their labor is to keep you in the death But if ye wait in the light of Jesus Christ who is the resurrection and the life which is the mysterie which is Christ in you the hope of glory For this is

not so much as observing a day or not a day unto the Lord But art the servant of sin and uncleannesse speaking great swelling words of vanity and allure through the lusts of the flesh through much wantonnesse those who were clean escaped from you who lives in error and so while ye are promising your selves liberty you your selves are the servants of corruption 2 Pet. 2.18 19. For of whom a man is overcome of the same he is brought into bondage And the liberty of the Sons of God thou nor none of thy spirit shall never know And thou who hast liberties to all things art shut out from the liberty of the Sons of God which is purchased by the Son of God who bindes and chains thee and thy liberty RANT And whereas thou sayest Man in his Carnall apprehensions of the one power which is God calls one thing clean and another thing unclean but in the sight of God all things are good and clean But to man that esteem and apprehends a thing to be evil to him it is evil but in the sight of God all things and all wayes are clean and good Answ Thou who art carnal and in thy apprehensions knows not the power which is of God nor favours the things which be of God and that which puts the difference betwixt the clean and unclean and makes the separation betwixt the precious and the vile to this thou art an enemy but this hath found thee out and hath separated thee and all of thy spirit from God and all who are of him on the left hand amongst the Goats thou art and all of thy nature and of thy spirit is for the fire and destruction and the sword of the Lord shall cut thee down root and branch who art the cursed tree that cannot bring forth good fruit and in the sight of God thou art filthy polluted and unclean who to thee is a consuming fire and thou art before him as stubble Thou brings a Scripture in the 14. Rom. 14. where the Apostle saith There is nothing unclean of it self but to thee who art art unclean filthy and polluted there is nothing clean but all is defiled by thee who lives in the lust of uncleannesse RANT And whereas thou sayest Whatsoever hath been done in darknesse may be done in the light as swearing lying drunkennesse cheating which being done in the light are done in faith and what is of faith is not sin Answ Here thou hast made it manifest that thy light is darknesse that thy faith is vain who art yet in thy sins and that thy God is the god of the world and that the Devil who is the father of lyes and of oaths and drunkennesse and of all sin is thy God And so as I said to thee before thou and thy god is to be bound and chained by the Angel who hath the key of the bottomlesse pit and art to be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the Beast and the false Prophet are and shall be tormented day and night for ever Rev. 20.10 R. And whereas thou sayest One power act all things which appear sometime in darknesse and sometimes in light sometimes in glory sometimes in shame as to the Creature yet in God light and darknesse glory and shame is one I the Lord do all these things so one power Answ That power that acts thee is limitted and bound and chained and comprehended and thy compasse is known and seen with that which was before thee and thy power was which seals thee up in thy torment for evermore And thy glory is thy shame and thy God is thy belly who mindes earthly things And thy power acts in the darknesse and with the light which never changeth which comes from Jesus who is the light of the world thou art condemned into the pit of darkness and from God who is the father of light thou art shut for ever eternally who doth all things by his power R. And whereas thou sayest All things that be are brought out by one wisdome which inventions all that are found out by one wisedome are found out And no invention opposeth this wisdom every invention being found out by this wisdom Answ Here thou serpent is spewing forth thy poyson and blasphemy indeed which would lay the deceit and subtilty of the serpent which lodgeth in thy bosom upon God But the Lord God lifteth up his hand against thee to overthrow thy seed who hath joyned thy self to Baal-Peor and provoked the Lord to anger with thy inventions and the plagues shall break in upon thee for the Lord will take vengence upon thy inventions who art defiled with thy own works and goes a whoring after thy own invention Psal. 99.8 106. Psal. 28.39 And the righteous God will be avenged on thee for thy blasphemy and thou brings a Scripture in Prov. 8.12 where Solomon saith I Wisdom dwells with prudence and finds out knowledge of witty Inventions Oh thou blasphemous Beast this is a mysterie to thee which lives in thy lusts and uncleannesse He saith in the next verse the fear of the Lord is to hate evil pride and arrogancy and the evil way and the froward mouth do I hate Dost thou so who art pleading for all manner of vilenesse and filthinesse Oh thou abominable wretch who lives in that which Solomon hated R. And thou sayest Men in their dark knowledge of the one power in his several workings say one number worships one God the god of the world another company a God which is not of the world when as God is but one working according to the good pleasure of his will Answ Thou who art in thy dark knowledge under the Prince of the power of darknesse doth not know nor never shall know the eternall power of the living God but to thy destruction for he is come and made manifest which reproves the world of sin and of righteousnesse and of Judgment John 16.8 and now is the time that thou and thy God is judged and thy number as thou calls them who art of the number of the Beast Rev. 13.18 And the one God which was before thee and thy god was thou knows not which shall be God when thou art in the lake R. And whereas thou sayest God loves and takes pleasure in all things in darknesse as well as in the light for darknesse and light is both alike to him Answ That is false and Blasphemy for in thee who art darknesse God doth not take pleasure neither love for God hath no pleasure in wickednesse neither shall evil dwell with him The foolish shall not stand in his sight he hates all the workers of iniquity and will destroy all them that speaks lyes The Lord doth abhor the bloody and deceitfull man God hath no pleasure in fools Psal. 5.4 5 6. Who is there among you that would shut the doors for nought neither do ye kindle fire on mine Altar for nought I have no pleasure in you saith