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A85129	Antichrists man of vvar, apprehended, and encountred withal, by a souldier of the armie of the Lamb. Otherwise, an answer to a book set forth by one that subscribes his name Edmund Skipp, preacher of the Gospel (as he saith) to a people at Bodenham in Herefordshire; but is found one that is acting Antichrists part disguised: but nakedly seen, & herein discovered in this answer to his book, called the Worlds wonder, or the Quakers blazing-starre. And in this answer he is discovered, and proved to be one that is chief in the service of the old dragon: who pretends in his book to discover the mystery of the Quakers, as he calls them, and to lay open a dangerous design: who is found out, that whilst he hath been pretending to be chief in discovering a plot, or Antichrists misterious actings, is found himself to be the chief plotter, ... / Written in Worcestershire by a servant of the Lord, the second moneth called April, 1655.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.; Smith, Humphrey, d. 1663.	1655 (1655)	Wing F470; Thomason E843_9; ESTC R202123	95,493	95

what I ●n●w that it is the Lord alone that teacheth his people to profit none teacheth like he who is now my teacher indeed and will be yours if you are made willing and obedient to be tought directed and guided by him who is gathering his out of all Nations kindreds and tongues Ezek. 31.11 which is by Jesus Christ the one and only Priest who is the light of the Gentiles and the light of the world by which he hath enlightened every one that commeth into the world John 1.9 which light shineth into the darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not verse 5. Now the world is set in the heart of man Eccles 3.11 of the which world Christ is the light and he that followeth him shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life John 8.12 this is that grace of God that hath appeared unto all men teaching them to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Tit. 2.11 12. this is the light of Christ who is the word of God in the heart for this word of the living God is not farre off but it is nigh thee in thy heart and in thy mouth that thou mayst hear it and see it and do●t Deut. 30.14 Now therefore friends look not forth after them that say Christ is here or there for they are all deceivers the word is nigh the light is within thee even in thy dark heart although thy darkness cannot comprehend it because thou lovest darkness rather then the light of Iesus Christ which shineth in thy Conscience and lets thee see the evil of thy wayes and calles thee to repentance and to forsake the wicked and live this is the Talent that thou art hiding in the earth for the which thou must give an account to therefore say I unto thee minde that teacher that teacheth to deny ungodliness and this is the light of Iesus Christ in thy Conscience the which light proceedeth from Christ and leadeth all that loveth it John 8.12 up to Christ who is the way the truth and the life the only way and no other way to the Father Now all of you owning this word Teacher and light in your own Consciences you will come to witness Iesus Christ in you the light of life and know him to be the way unto the Father which leads out of the darkness of all the worlds wayes worships forms and fashions and customs and words wayes and actions and come to be gathered in the light unto Iesus Christ who is the light and from the light then to come to witness the Scriptures to be true yea even fulfilled in you by the same spirit as it was in them that did write and speak forth the Scriptures and so witness with them against the same things that were witnessed against then by the Children of the light who had fellowship with the Father by the which they saw that which in measure I witnesse that there is but one way one truth one light one faith one baptisme one spirit one head one high Priest who ever liveth to make intercession for us one Church of the first-born whose names are written in Heaven one God over all who is rich unto all that call upon him in spirit and truth the which worshippers the Father seeketh to worship him who is a Spirit and all his Worships are spiritual but God heares not sinners and he that regardeth iniquity in his heart the Lord will not hear him for there are none but the pure in heart that shall see God whose presence is terrible to all the m●kers of iniquity that continue in the unfruitful workers of ●●●ness Now all of you see that you keep unto the true guid which i● Iesus Christ and follow him and see that you do not turn again to the vomit as the manner of some is who begin in the spirit and end in the flesh Oh leave all for Christ you cannot serve two Masters you cannot be of the world and of G●● you must witness a separation therefore i● love to all your somes that have been professors with me in publick in these parts of the Nation and all others flatter not your selves in your conditions promising your selves liberty whilest you are the Servants of corruption therefore forsake the wicked and live H. S. FINIS

and forsaking Father and Mother Wife and Children for Christs sake what a fair colour is this Reply Thy colour we do deny but to the Truth of Christ we witnesse and own and thy Satanicall spirit will not let thee throw off nor deny the World c. for there Antichrist keeps his hold who hurries the hearts of such out after the world to seek the glory love and praise thereof and to deny it is so directly opposite to Antichrist and against his Kingdom that he will not lead creatures out of it and herein thou art discovered in thy colours to be of Antichrist and the world but we are taught first to seek the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all other things shall he added as he hath said Matth. 6. Chapter and art thou so much offended that any should so love Christ above all as to follow him in the cross whereby they become crucified to the world and the world unto them and he that loveth father or mother son or daughter more then me saith Christ is not worthy of me Take notice of that Math. 10.37.38 Galat. 6.13 16. but thou art offended that any should love Christ above al their Neighbours as themselves so manifests that thou art an enemy to those that walk according to the Gospell Rule through the Cross who are of the Israel of God who witnesse grace and mercy which is the Priviledge of the Israel of God that walk according to that Rule in the Gospel Gal. 6. v. 16 which thou art offended at them that walk according to the Rule in the Gospell who love Christ above all and their neighbour as themselves and fulfill the Royall Law by doing the will of God and walking in the Light Life and Power of Truth Therefore let all the children of Light that dwell in the divine Love light life power of the eternall Truth judge of thy deceipt Antichrist will not destroy his own kingdom and now he is offended that the Kingdom of Christ in the souls of his Saints is set and setting up which foretells the destruction and downfall of thine and the downfall of the Priests of the World and their Antichristian ministry at which thou art sore moved and like a troubled Sea froming out thy own shame but thou art discovered and thy deceiptfull works laid open and made manifest therefore stop thy mouth who art of the World and the old S●●pents seed and also Prognosticating Astronomer like but this Astronom call judgment is falss and not true as is proved and laid open to the Publick view Again thou says They endure much affliction opposition and persecution from the World c. Reply Then let all that fears God take notice of that for the World loves its own but the Quakers Reproachfully called and persecuted by the World are not of the World but being in Christ and so Christians they do suffer by the World and men of nature contrary to Christ for Christians did not nor do not afflict one another nor persecute but were so done by informer Ages Hebr. 11. and here thou hast cleared thy self to be no Christian but of the World and so Antichristian and those called Quakers to be Christians and not of the World who are as thou says so persecuted and reproached by the men of the World and thou art one that doth so shamefully reproach Christ Encourageth his to bear the Persecution of the World and speak evill of them and the wayes and workings of God in them c. Yet they being Christians and suffers by thee and the men of the World the Christians aforetime did so suffer and were persecuted by the World as they are now and their Conditions is not contrary but agreeing to the Conditions of Christians friends and servants of Christ before them being compared with Hebr. 11.36 37 38. 2 Cor. 6.4 5 9 7.8 2 Tim. 3.10.11 12. and also compared with that saying of Christ to his where he encourageth them to bear the Reproaches and Persecutions from the men of the World where he saith A warning from the Lord to such as Reproach and persecute under the nick name of Quakers or such as are of the divine nature made partakers if the World hate you it hated me before it hated you if you were of the World the World would love his own but because I have chosen you out of the World therefore the World hateth you c. John 15.16 17 18 19. Here Christ hath a chosen People that suffers affliction from the men of the World for his Names sake But the People whom the World reproachfully calleth Quakers they suffer reproaches afflictions and persecutions from the men of the World for Christs sake therefore they are the People that Christ hath Chosen out of the World Take notice both thou and all you that so slander and reproach and also such as persecute Christs Chosen-people whom you scornfull call Quakers and beware what you do against the Innocent be you sure that the Lord Jesus Christ will cal you to answer before him for it consider also of that 25 Chapter of Ma●h ●● vers 41 42 43. and so on to 〈◊〉 an●●●e what you can ●earn out of it and cease your cruelty ●●ult persec●●●● and reproach not the people of Christ so as you do sco●●●●tly by you called Quakers no● any that ●●e of the divine n●●●re ●●●de p●rtakers 2 Pet. 1.3 4 c. Again thou saye● There●re 〈◊〉 a p●●ple to be sound that cry out more against Antichristi●● all apprea●●●es of sin and ●●●ghteousness then they do c. Page 40. Reply Also here again thou do●st more fully clear th●●●o be the people of God for they are to have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness b●t rather reprove them 〈◊〉 5 11. and that they do according to thy say●ng The people of God may repove sin and cry out against unrighteousness and ●●ey a●●●●g in righteousness being taught by the g●●●e of God to deny ungodliness and worldly lus●● and to live righteously soberly and godly in th●s present evil w●●ld T●l 2.11 12. they may ●●st●y cry out against sin in all appearances and also against ●l●might ●●s●ess whatsoever for the people of God did so b●●ore them that were so taught by the grace of God before them and they that did so cry out against sin in all appearances and unrighteousness of what sort soever were the p●●ple of God and were not del●●ed and they that in the spirit and power of truth do cry out against sin in all appearances and against unrighteousness of what sort soever such are the people of God now and are not del●●●ed but the people whom the world doth scornfully call Quakers they do so to w●● as the people of God ●for●●●me did ●●●●g out against sin in all appearances and all unrighteousness w●●●soever being themselves taught by the grace of God ●●o deny ungodli●ess and worldly luste

in the light and hath no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darknesse out of which the Children of the day are delivered and can witness the darkness past and the true light now shining in them but all those who say they have fellowship with light and walk in darkness are lyers and all lyers are shut out of the Kingdom and are estranged from God who is altogether pure ho● and righteous just perfect light and those that dwell in him are in he is and they only have the minds of Christ the which all the world and earthly hearts are ignorant of Therefore I shall not put the worldly carnal heart to judge of what may be written by me although I am but yet leaving off the world and entering into a little of that which is eternal which no eye of flesh can ever attain unto and live neither can any but those that live in the same life that speaks aright or understand what is spoken from the life by those that speak aright from the pure life therefore let not thy deceitful heart deceive thee in judging herein for the old heart is deceitful as I shall further make manifest both unto the world and unto the Children of the light not only from what I hear but from his own written words and my knowledge and being witnessed by the light and truth as it is manifested in me whereby something may so plainly appear that e●en the world it selfe may see the deceit that alwayes hath been and yet is in this man who now desires all the world to take notice page 23. of his exposition of his lies that he himself hath cast on us who are not of the world therefore the world knoweth us not for we witness against it that the deeds thereof are evill After Edmund Skipp had thrown off his Tithes and convinced of much more which he was waiting to throw off too he then told me not long before he left us that he had not faith to carry him through neither could he beleive but he was confident that the Devil would steal all that he had from him again the which is now too true Woe woe woe from the eternal God to all the Inhabitants of the earth who dwelleth in the earthly darkness being seated in the earth drove out from the presence of the living God and are vagabonds and fugitives in the earth whose Center is in the earthly dark minde woe to all those that put light for darkness and darkness for light woe to all those that go down to Egypt for help in Egypt the pure seed is captivated and kept in bondage in Sodom and Egypt the Lord is daily crucified and put to open shame woe to all the Oaks of Bashan and all the beasts of the field woe to them that build their nests among the Starres for Capernaum that is listed up to Heaven and in its wisdom in its own strength shall be brought down to hell for the Lord God of life and power is risen out of his holy habitation to confound the language of Babel and dry up the tongue of the Egyptian Sea and famish all the gods of the Heathen that know not God whose presence is terrible to all the Children of disobedience therefore woe unto him that striveth with his Maker who ariseth to scatter his enemies and to wound the head of every one that goeth on still in his wickedness Oh the day of the Lord is at hand wherein every man shall receive according to the deeds done in his body then he that hath seemed to wait and now begins to smite his fellow-Servants saying his Master delayes his comming and so eat and drink with the drunken that are drunk indeed with the wine of the fornication of the Whore of Babylon those are Drunkards indeed that are drunk with wine and o●ercome but not with strong drink such stagger at the promises and stumble at the corner stone but when that stone shall fall upon them it will grind them to powder therefore be warned of the Lord thou that despi●est and wonder for all the works of the Lord are wonderful least thou perish for the Lord is working a work in these dayes that thou canst not believe nor any that live in their own wisdom exalted above the pure wisdom of Christ who teacheth all his to deny all yea even all both wisdom righteousness wit and all carnal comprehensions for they are followers of him who lived not in his own will for saith he I came not to do mine own will but the will of him that sent me and saith Not my will but thy will be done and he that is not yet made a fool and so denies his own will and wisdom is yet exalted above the crosse and the son of perdition is exalted above all that is called God sitting in the Temple of God even in the holy place where truth should alwayes be exalted Christ should raign as King and subdue all his enemies under his feet and lead captivity captive that a gift may be received which gift is eternal life and this life is in the son by which gift all that are in the son-like obedience do witness being made heirs with him in the eternal Covenant which is established upon better promises then the first therefore he taketh away the first that he might establish the second which is witnessed in the son-like obedience by the which we are made the righteousness of God through him the which is a mystery to the dark world whole mouthes are now open to speak evil of that they know not calling the great and mighty works of God the delusions of Satan and the conditions now witnessed in the Sons and Daughters that the Prophets and Apostles both passed through to speak of those things they now call the works of Antichrist But he is an Antichrist that denieth the Father and the Son now see who is an Antichrist no man knowes the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him he that denies this Revelation denies both Father and Son that is Antichrist Now to know the Father is eternal life and he that saith he knoweth and hath fellowship with the Father and walketh in darkness is a lyer and the Devil is the Father of lies and he that liveth not in the truth which is Jesus Christ he must needs lie because he is out of the truth and t●erfore found an enemy to the pure truth as it is in Jesus who is the truth and life it self by whom the world is and shall be judged when the Lord shall come in flaming fire rendering vengeance on all that know him not this day is even at hand yea even now the Lord is comming a swift witness against all unrighteous ones who hold the truth of God in unrighteousness living in their ungodly practises sporting themselves now in the day-time spending their time upon their lusts living in their own wils speaking forth the

Saints words but are enemies to the Saints conditions On consider consider the Lord is just in all his wayes and he is come to judge the earth with righteousness he will plead with all flesh before him all faces shall gather blackness and in him who is pure light are all the secrets of all hearts laid open for nothing hideth from him who is a God of consuming fire and of purer eyes then to behold iniquity Oh be ashamed and confounded all ye Inhabitants of the earth and of the Sea for the Devil is come down unto you and rageth because his time is but short To thy first in page 6. where thou sayest it must needs be the spirit of Antichrist and delusion that doth misinform the heart I answer the heart it selfe is deceitful and out of the abundance of thy heart thy mouth speaketh page 8. or else thou wouldest not speak as though a deceitful heart might be misinformed by a delusion for deceit and delusion is but one which lodgeth in the hearts of all the Children of disobedience who are all in the death the curse and the fall unless they come to witness restoration the stony heart taken away and a new heart given which is by the putting off the old man with his Iusts and corruptions and the new man put on which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness without which no man shall see the Lord. But in the light in thy own Conscience see when thou couldest witness thy redemption and thy heart free from delusions as thou speakest or from the power or darkness when thou by thy own relation to me went from one Parsonage to another and that not without thy Gown as thou callest it upon thy back that thou hast looked upon as it was indeed Antichristian and then after at Bodinham thou didst sue the poor people for tithes to my knowledge witness one poor man thou didst sue for 1 s. and would have constrained the poor man to have paid charges for that 1 s. if I and some other had not spoke to thee after thou hadst often refused the 1 s. without charge thou the light let thee see tithes to be contrary to Christ yet then lived contrary to the light in thy own Conscience as thou wast made to confess in my hearing and hundreds more that thou hadst acted in it contrary to thy conscience two years and before that time thou didst confess unto me and to others how thou was going to take counsel of men how to sue for thy tithes and the Lord met with thee yet the De●il had like to have taken thee off of the work of the Lord again divers times as thou confessed then thou layest groaning under the burden of thy tithes yet thou resolvest to keep them another year yet I had thoughts to the contrary and was made to tell thee at Jo. Ba. his house in Hereford on the sixth day that thou wouldest ere long roar against thy tithes like a Lion and on the next first day after it was so and thou wast made to acknowledge the Lord in it and sent thy man with those few words to me Brother Smith the Lord hath done a strange work in me this morning and I shall alter strangely this day therefore pray earnestly for me and make what haste thou canst to come unto me now this is that which thou now calles delusion for this was the greatest power that ever thou couldest witness but thou was made to see by the light the emptiness of thy own words both in speaking and prayer before as thou callest it witness that in Margarets Graves yard where thou spokest words the which were a burthen to thy life and after acknowledged that it was nothing but flesh though thou didst strive much in thy own strength and at Len. thou toldest the whole assembly that thou had long spoke after the manner of men but now they must expect no more such from thee and that thy praying was as dead as ditch-water but now thou shouldest wait to pray in the spirit and speak by the spirit and the like at Cliston and then thou was convinced that thou must leave all even Glebe-land too and so live on thy own Land and build on thy own Land as thou callest it and thou then was convinced of more deceit in thy heart therefore thou wast not at all freed from deceit but alwayes lived in the Antichristian state where thou art yet witness thy own hand in page 5. where thou confessest thou hast got a sinful heart which is a heart got in sin and full of sin and we know that none but the pure in heart shall see God but sin is of the Devil and is the work of darkness and none that walketh in darkness have fellowship with God 1 John 1.6 here thou discoverest plainly that the old heart is not yet taken away therefore thou wast not at all nor yet is free from delusions therefore for shame leave off thy judging the hearts of others as thou hast Read Skipp page 6.11.19.16 As for the five charges which you mention page 9. and saying that if we had had more accusations against thee its like thou should have had them and in saying the first charge was hypocrisie in page 7. I answer that that which was written by me in answer to thy deceitful lines first sent to us that which I shall for the sake of the simple set down plainly in the same order as it was written by me having a just Copy of it by me and then let the tender spirited read thy lies in thy own book A true Copy of the Answer sent by me and the rest to thy Letter and Accusation 1. YOu said you would tell us truly c. Answ There cannot be a true discovery of truth brought forth in those that are yet in the fallen estate as thou art 2. That there is a mystery of iniquity in us that we see not Answ The Mystery of Iniquity is not discovered but by the pure light and life of God as it is freely given forth from God the which light all the Children of light liveth in but thou livest in the dark wayes of the world and liveth not in this pure light to judge by 3. That the time is come that thou shouldest disburthen thy self of the discovery of truth Answ Thou hast laid aside too much truth that which convinced of thy evil is now a burthen unto thee but we disown all that disown the truth 4. That the Devil is an Angel of light and his nature is to act in the light make Doth the Scripture say that devils nature is to act in the light Answ Thou art imagining what the Devil is without thee but thou knowes but little of his actings in thee although thou art his Servant and livest in his light as thou callest it but the light of life thou art a stranger unto 5. The light as it is acted in the soul

giveth no discovery of the deceit but rather covers it all Answ By vertue of the pure light that proceeds from the Father we see thee live in that which thou calles light which doth not discover unto thee the abominable practises thou art in to wit pride thou dost usually call thy own Child Mr. Benjamin Skippe a proud practi●e seldom heard of the love of the world deceiving the people upholding the worship of the Beast painted over with the Saints words an enemy to the Saints life as doth now more fully appear 6. Thou writest so largely of the Devil as it thou were acquainted with all his secrets both what he is doing and what he will do Answ The things of God thou art a stranger to for they are hid from thine eyes and all such wife ones of the Devil the world and the flesh who are in the first nature as thou art 7. Thou writes of what the Devil will bring us to Answ 1. It is neither thee nor the Devil in thee that knoweth what we are much lesse what we shall be 2. If thou and the accuser of the brethren in thee have ought against us at present that we walk not up to the present discovery of the pure light as it is in measure brought forth in us then I charge thee to speak 3. Thou hypocrite first cast out the beam that is at present in thy own eye before thou go to cast the supposed mote that thou thinks may fall into our eyes hereafter In the close of this Answer I write a tender letter in lo●e to his soul now let any that live in the light compare these severall answers with that in his pag. 7 8 9. In answer to that which thou callest railing and reviling language in page 10. the Devil hath alwayes brought up his Children with so much manners that they must not tell a lier he lies nor a Thief he is a Robber or if any tell the proud of their pride or the covetous of their covetousness then this is called railing read the Scriptures cited by him this is fully cited Tit. 1.13.3.15 c. see how thou condemns the practice of Christ both in his Person and Members in pag. 11. To that which thou calles thy experience in pag. 11. I tell thee thou hast had much experience of deceit being alwayes in it but thou had never any experience of the powerful workings of God in us only thou was made by the light to see thy filthiness in some measure and then presently thou went forth from the counsel of the Lord and acted and spoke in thy own will the which was deceit indeed running before the light the which I mourned over and often complained to my friends who can witness the same page 12. The Scripture cited by thee Mal 3. they shall discern between the righteous and the wicked between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not the promise being in measure fulfilled in us we discern thee still to live in thy own will and wisdom therefore when thou halted between two opinions long at last one of our friends was made sharply to reprove thee the which thou couldest not own and therefore left us that had undergone burthens upon our own spirits for thee in condescending unto thee in tender love desiring that thou mightest be made at last to witness the work of the Lord in thee unto which thou art still a stranger and now an enemy unto In thy page 13. thou mentions a Scripture as to us 1 Tim. 6.4 5. they there are discovered by their covetousness for they suppose that gain is godliness and canst thou in the least accuse us of covetousness if thou canst spare not to speak the truth but else let shame cover thy face for so many lies and comparing us with those in this Text. Aske the light in thy own Conscience whether thou hast not looked after gain witness thy Tithes thy looking after another Parsonage to that thou hast witness thy Physical Office thy questioning what to do for more maintenance although thou hast told me that thy Lands was 10 l. per Annum 2 Tim. 3.4 that is thy own portion witness thy many Instruments of Musick in thy house page 16. thou writest of faith but thou knowest not that faith that purifieth the soul he that hath this hope purifieth himself as he is pure he that believeth is entered into his rest hath ceased from his own works as God did from his the which faith thou art a stranger unto for thou hast writ ●●y own lies and the deceit of thy own heart and thy carnal ●●oughts the which thou callest the world with whom thou art to judge witness page 9. line 11. and 7.18 and thou thinkest in pag. 16.51.56.57 Page 17. Thou sayest that we esteem The more our hearts are brought off the dealings of God and prayer and spiritual exercises the more pure and perfect the which thou knowest to be a lie witness thy own words after the meeting at Clifton where thou sayst thou saw such a spirit of prayer as thou never had seen before to which those that were there can yet testifie and we witness growth in grace and knowledge 2 Pet. 3.18 and walk from grace to grace leaving the first principles of the Doctrine of Christ Heb. 6.1 forgetting those things which are behind we presse forwards for man in his own wisdom cannot finde out the Lord who is a spirit John 4.24 and regardeth not the wise in heart Job 37.23.24 therefore if any man will be wise let him become a fool that so he may be found in the wisdom that is from above Jam. 3.17 Next thou sayes that we desire the perishing of the former wayes of God this is another of thy lies for all the wayes of the Lord are righteous Psal 145.17 so in page 18. Satan acts thee to call that Scripture dangerous Phil. 3.7.8 if thou call Pauls experiences dangerous it s no wonder that thou callest ours so too but we know that all Scriptures are written for our learning the which we are searching Next thou wilt show the thoughts and but the thoughts of thy own heart which is thy old sinful heart witness thy own hand page 5. line 11.12 therefore from thy wicked heart thou being ignorant of the spirit dost in page 24. even jeer at speaking by the spirit in opposition to all the holy men of God 1 Pet. 1.21 therefore thou art an enemy to prayer in the spirit Ephes 6.18 the which we witness therefore in the light of Jesus Christ thou art calling thy own company to wit the world to try thy exposition of thy own lies that thou hast cast upon us in page 23. and the last in thy second rule page 23. there thou denyest the sufferings of Christ being ignorant of it in thy own soul but we know that if we suffer with him we shall be glorified with him so we are made willing to fill up

swift witness against all deceitful workers who live within the power of what they speak or write much more against those that write filthy abhominable lies Oh if thou love either Christ or thy own soul return return unto the light of Christ in thy own conscience which will let thee see the deceit of thy own sinful heart out of the abundant deceit thereof thy pen hath run so largely in confusion now I charge thee in the presence of the living God in as much love to thy soul as ever that thou return to the light of Christ in thy own conscience and mind that which checks thee in secret I tell thee man in love there is something yet in thee which will witness me to be true See one more page 64. where for thy own defence not for the defence of the truth thou sai●● thou wast necessitated to fly unto the practices and truths of other men to wit Baptists where it is plain thou had not the spirit of Christ to fly unto and speak from as the true Apostles had witness one Acts 6.10 therefore thou art both seen in the light proved by Scripture and thy own Writings to be a false Apostle and a false Minister 3 Cor. 11.13 14 15. much more might be said and proved both from thy writing and actings but I desire the good of thy soul by this which is sufficient at present to prove thee at present to be one of the wondering Startes Iude 13. A word to all Professors in the world BEing it was ordered of my Lord God and Father of lights that something must go forth in print as from me who am the least of all Saints I was even as freely engaged in my spirit out of tender love to your souls to present a few lines from that measure of spirit which is brought forth in me Oh my friends my friends the hour is not only comming but now is witnessed in me that the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and they that hear shall live Iohn 5.25 and the voice of the true Dove is heard in our Land to wit this earthly Tabernacle that is made the Temple of the living God who is now fulfilling his promises in us that walk not after the flesh but after the spirit even in us is the Lord establishing his new and everlasting Covenant even the sure and certain mercies of David which is by the life of Iesus Christ in us fulfilled and witnessed whereby we have fellowship with the Father and one in measure brought to live in him and he in us where we have joy and rest and eternal peace which passeth all understanding and all the worlds comprehension where all the Children of the light meet and see face to face for the Lord hath brought again Sion who is become the perfection of beauty out of the which God now shineth Psal 50.2 and is become our glory and we his Isa 46.13 Oh prayses prayses be unto him who hath redeemed us out of Nations kindreds and tongues to serve the living God in newness of life and not in oldness of Letter that so now we may offer up eternally living and eternal sacrifice and prayse for evermore who hath in measure redeemed us from the world and out of all darkness that is therein and hath translated us into the Kingdom of his dear Son and made us partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light which is the eternal light of life for God is light and in him is no darkness at all and all those that live in him are Children of the day who walked in the day even the pure light in the which there is no occasion of stumbling our feet being guided in the path of peace which is the true and living way in which the wafaring man though a fool shall not erre Isa 35.8 which is a pure way of holiness leading up into the full enjoyment of the Father who hath long waited to be gracious unto us and now in the day of his love and power hath gathered us in his arms of love and brought us home unto himself who were before the out-casts of Israel wondering with you from Mountain to Hill but did not finde rest unto our souls but now the great and mighty power of the Lord hath raised up his own seed in us now indeed we are made by the life of the Sonne in us to cry Hallelujah unto him to him alone be all honour glory and obedience and eternal prayses forever even for ever and ever for he that was lost is found he that was dead is alive and behold he liveth for ever more Now my friends the whole world lieth in wickedness and all the world by wisdom knowes not God the natural man perceiveth not the things of God which are hid from the wi●e and prudent even from the readers of the Scripture from Scribes Pharisees Priests yea the Princes of this world for had they known they would not have crucified the Lord of glory who is crucified daily by the same spirit that now ruleth in the Children of disobedience even in the Scribes Priests and people that live in the same Nation where the learned ones of the world are 〈◊〉 all those that walk in darkness to wit pride to covetousness 〈◊〉 love of the world hatred variance strife sedition heresie ba●● biting heady high-minded lovers of pleasures more then the over of God scoffers walking after their own ungodly lusts raging waves of the Sea foaming out their own shame who accounts gain godliness whose eyes are full of adultery feet swift to shed blood eares open to all deceit whose mouthes are full of cursing and bitterness the poyson of Aspes are under their lips their throats an open Sepulcher who imagineth mischief lying altogether deceitful and desperately wicked who can know it such as these are the fruits of the flesh in the which all the world lies therefore I witness against the world that the works thereof are evil Now in the world there are Sects Schismes Judgements and Opinions there they are heaping up teachers to themselves having itching eares and according to the number of their fansies so are their wayes of worship according to the number of their imaginations so are their Gods for there are many Gods and many Lords but the living God is not known by the world for it by wisdom knowes not God no man knoweth the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son revealeth him now he that hath the Son revealed in him is born of God and he that is born of God overcometh the world and sinneth not he that sinneth hath not seen him but this is a hard saying who can bear it the world cannot for the world hears its own they that are of God heareth Gods word ye hear them not therefore ye are not of God Now friends all you that have looked after me and other men for teaching now I can write unto you