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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91118	A testimony of God, and his way, and worship against all the false wayes and worships of the vvorld. Also an answer to some of the false doctrines held forth, by a professed minister, in VVales; shewing the unsoundness of his former actions, and is found to be one, in the nature of the vvorld; which sometime he hath spoken against. With an answer to some queries; propounded by one, who is called an Anabaptist. / Given forth for no other end, but in love to the truth, as it is in Iesus: by Alex: Parker.	Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.	1656 (1656)	Wing P383; Thomason E883_6; ESTC R207301	24,030	31

A Testimony of God And his way and worship against all the false wayes and worships of the VVorld Also an answer to some of the false Doctrines held forth by a professed Minister in VVales shewing the unsoundness of his former actions and is found to be one in the nature of the VVorld which sometime he hath spoken against WITH An answer to some Queries propounded by one who is called an Anabaptist Given forth for no other end but in love to the truth as it is in Iesus BY ALEX PARKER LONDEN Printed for Giles Calvert at the West end of Pauls 1656. A Testimony of God and his way and worship against all the false wayes and worship of the world GOD is pure and holy and loves righteousness and his worship is a pure and a spiritual worship not known to the world that lives in wickedness the world by all their wisdom and study cannot find out the mind of God neither do they worship him in spirit but are wondering and worshipping the Beast who have not found their names written in the book of life and though they make a profession of the name of God yet are aliens and strangers from the pure life and power of God and so are climbing up another way and building up Babel a Tower to reach up to Heaven in their Heathenish and Babilonish wisdom where there is nothing but confusion and strife one crying lo here is Christ another crying lo there one crying up his way to be the onely way and counts all accursed that are not in his way and so the second cries up his way and so all the world lies in confusion and wickednesse strife and debate and though many have long been seeking after God yet have not found him because they sought him not in his own way Which is pure for ever but by their own wit and wisdom have gone about to know and find out the mistery of the Kingdom of God so have walked gone on in the crooked wayes and by paths of the world and have despised that little thing within which is the light of Jesus that shines in the midst of all this darkness and reproves them in secret for their evil deeds and shews them their confusion and oftentimes bring them to a stand and some sense or feeling of the deadness and emptiness of all their profession and of their tottering building which is builded upon the sand and cannot stand in the fiery day of the fierce wrath and indignation of God and when they daub up themselves with smooth words crying the ordinances of Christ and the Church of Christ and the righteousness of Christ and faith in Christ and though they be wicked and sinfull and must be so while they live yet Christ doth not impute their sin unto them they are justified in Christ though they sometime run into sin and thus would make Christ a cloak for their sin yet still the light of Christ testifies against them and all their coloured and painted outside and talking of justification without holiness of life will not bring them peace but still there is a cry after God for purity and reproves them for their sin and iniquity and no peace there is to the wicked as long as they act contrary to the measure of God all their profession and high notions and glorious comprehensions and guilded outsides is but like unto Adams fig-leafe garment and will not cover their nakednesse in the dreadfull and powerfull day of the Lord the wicked shall be as the stuble and shall be consumed root and branch all their crying Lord Lord will not avail them in that day all their sermons reading praying and the like being found workers of iniquity will do them no good but this dreadfull sentence from the Lord will be pronounced against them Go cursed workers of iniquity I know you not depart from me into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Consider of this all you carnall and formall Professors Priests and People who talke so much of the name of God drawing neer unto him with your lips and with your mouths but your hearts goes after your covetousnesse and things of this world which comes to an end and withers and fades away and pleads against the power and purity of Godlyness saying none can ever be made free from sin nor perfect in this world but must continue in sin or sin in him while he lives and so have made a Covenant with hell and with death and no longer time will serve the devill your master whole servants you are as long as you live in sin but terme of life What will ye answer the Lord in that day will then a distinction serve you that you have not sinned unto death or that your sin shall not be imputed to you Shall not then the witnesse of God in your own conscience which all along hath testified against you for your ungodly practises and reproved you for your secret evils Shall it not stop your mouths and you shall stand speechlesse and shall be made to confesse that God is just and your condemnation just who in your life time have rejected his counsell and cast his Law behind your backs and have turned his grace into lasciviousness know this assuredly this will be your portion at the latter day for God is just and will render a just reward unto every one according to their deeds done in the body whether they be good or whether they be evill They that have improved their talents and done well shall enter into the Lords joy But those who have sleighted the Lords free love which is freely tendred and have been carelesse and negligent and have not improved their tallents shall be cast out from his presence and shall have their portion in the lake of utter darknesse where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth and this shall be the condemnation of all the world who hate the light that Jesus Christ hath enlightened them withall and love their evill deeds better then the light For this is the condemnation of the world not because light is not come but that light is come into the world and men love darknesse rather then light because their deeds are evil and so all the world lies under condemnation who are in the sin and evill and deny the light which gives the entrance into the Kingdoms of Christ which stands in righteousness and no unrighteous one can enter for no entrance is made but through the death of sin and there is no death nor freedom from sin but only by the Son of God there is no way but by him no salvation but in him no separation from sin nor reconciliation to God but only by the Son o● God who is given of the Father a Covenant of light into the World who doth enlighten every one that cometh into the world and by this light is the Devils work seen and by faith in him who

souls who have long been tossed to and fro by following the changeable doctrine of men but are not satisfied that they may return home into the fathers house with me where they shall find satisfaction and plenteous redemption where all the Saints are one and their food one and have a new name written which none knows nor can read but those that hath it and there my name is written in the Spiritual book of life and they that are there do it read and know Who am known to the World by the name of ALEX PARKER An answer to some of the false doctrines held forth by one Vavasar Powel who is called a Master and a Minister and something further occasioned by some conference held with the said Vavasar in the publick meeting place at old Radnor in Wales shewing the unsoundness of his sormation and to be one in nature and rage with all the Parish Teachers which hee hath so much tryed against written for the sake of the simple ones that they may be awarned and fore-armed to keep out of his snare GReat hath been and is the rage of the world the professors of truth against the life and power of truth where-ever it was made manifest in former generations as it is now in this generation against the despised people of God whom the Lord hath owned and made his power manifest whom the scorners that knows not God do call Quakers especially the Priests and they who professe themselves Teachers of the Nations who in their high places utters forth their spight and venome and incensing their hearts against them as though they were a people not worthy to live Amongst whom one who is called Mr. Vavasar Powel who is called a Teacher and much set up and adored by the blind Professors in Wales and other parts who is looked upon to be one above the rest and separated from them yet in persecution rage joyn with them and exceeds many of them in railing backbiting and casiling many false aspersions upon the innocent people and harmlesse Lambs of Christ in his high place uttering forth such things as are not fit to be mentioned by any that professes the name of God much lesse by one who professes himself a Minister of God And I being in those parts of Wales and hearing of his railing accusations against the people of God in most places where he came and I amongst the rest of my b●ethren was falsly accused and slandered by some of his hearers and I being innocent and the Lords truth cleer from all those things falsly charged upon us was moved of the Lord to go to old Radnor in VVales on the 5. day of the 3. month called May 1656. to stand a witness for the living truth of God against Powel and all opposers of the truth and that day he the said Powel was found in the steps of the Scribes and Pharisees whom our Lord Jesus Christ cried woe against he went up into the high place and stood praying in the Sinagogue as the Scribes and Pharisees did he is called of men Master contrary to the command of Christ to his Ministers who saith unto his be not ye called of men Master for ye have but one Master even Christ and ye are brethren but Vavasar Powell is called of men Master contrary to the command of Christ which none of his true Ministers were and so under the woe The true Ministers of God had the Spirit of God and had salt in themselves to savour withall and they knew who were the true Ministers of God and who were deceivers even by the Spirit of God that was in them and they prayed by the Spirit of God But Vavasar Powel in this is short of the true Ministers for he in his prayer desired that the Lord would discover and shew them who his true Ministers were and who were deceivers and in this thing he is made manifest and doth plainly appear that he prayed not by the Spirit of God who cannot discern the true Ministers from the deceivers and so hath not salt in himself to savour withall but hath lost his honour and is good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under foot of man for the Spirit of the Lord doth discern and discover and put a difference between the precious and the vile and betwixt the true Ministers and the deceivers in this he is found contrary to the true Ministers of God He said and held forth that every naturall man had a fourfold light but denyed that he had any light in him that was pure to lead him to Christ He said that all men were wholy in darknesse and nothing at all of the spiritual light in them or words to that effect and yet said that every naturall man had a talent which if he did not improve was his condemnation Now all whose eyes are in any measure opened may see his confusion for if the natural man have a talent and the talent be natural then a natural man that improves his natural talent may enter into the Lords joy as is plain in Scripture for he that had five talents gained other five and he that had two he gained other two and the Lord calling them to account pronounces to them well done good and faithful servants enter into your Masters joy but the slothful servant who did not improve his talent was cast out but the talent was taken from him and given to him that had improved And in this thing I stand a withesse against Mr. Powell so called and do witnesse to Jesus the True Light the same which Iohn bare testimony of who lighteth every one that cometh into the world who is pure and spiritual in whom is life and the life is the light of men and his life is spiritual and so is his light which the dark world cannot comprehend for this is the condemnation of the world who love their evill deeds and hate the light for every one that doth truth he loveth the light and brings his deeds to the light and thereby is led out of darknesse by oaths and crooked wayes and so shall have the light of life But he that doth evil he hateth the light and will not bring his deeds to the light because he knows the light will reprove him and so the light is his condemnation and is the same and one with that which is the salvation of the believer so I say that the light is one in the believer as in the unbeliever according to measure as the talents were one given to the slothfull as well as the faithfull and the talents were pure and those who improved them entred into joy and he that did not was cast out into utter darknesse but the talent was not for it was taken from him and given to him that had c. So this is the condemnation of the world and all the ungodly ones who live in ungodlinesse they are condemned by the light for the light