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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94802	For those that meet to worship at the steeplehouse, called John Evangelist, in London, or, any other in that nature upon whom the Scriptures are fulfilled, in evil intreating the servants of the Lord Iesus, whom he sends to deliver his message amongst you. Or for any other that are condemned for sin, and have thirstings after righteousness ...	R. T. (Rebecca Travers), 1609-1688.	1659 (1659)	Wing T2059; ESTC R185428	25,680	64

or do so have been hated of men as he Ioh. 7. 15 18. declard at Jerusalem and is fulfilled at London as well as in other places They shall bare you for my Name sake speak all manner of evil of you and they shall think they do God service So blind are all men who from the light are erred in which God dwells the Creator of all things who commanded light to ● Cor. 4. 6. shine out of darkness and hath shined into our hearts who by the light are subject to give us the knowledge of himself in the face of Jesus Christ and Tit. 2 11 being made a partaker of this Grace which is free and hath appeared to all ●ear my testimony as the truth is in Je●●s that if you obey it not you are out of the Covenant so out of the blessing and under the curse and know not the Word of God though it be near unto you all and many hath been thereby quickened to God and it is that which made all things and by it are all things upheld for in it is life Ioh. 1. 4 ● and the life is the true light of men and this is the true light which enlightens every man which comes into the world as it is written John bare testimony of it without your meanings declaring what he had seen felt and handled of Iohn 1 12 13 the Word of life that to as many as believed in him he gave power to become the sons of God not of blood nor of the will of man but of the will of God of which birth which onely must inherit the eternal Kingdom are all you ignorant who preach and pray and hear and act in your own wills though your profession be high as mine once was you are not yet come to the first principle of repentance from dead works which all that are in that have not been quickned by the eternal word which Word abides for ever and is Heb. 4. 12 quick and powerful as a two-edged sword dividing asunder and making manifest the secret thoughts and intentions of the heart and this is not ink and paper or words which the worst of men or the Devil may read or talk of but it is spirit life and power killing and making alive as a fire in the besome did and do the Prophets witness it as a Sword and a Hammer to ●er 23 29 cut off and break down all the uncircumcised of ears and heart This is it that Moses who was faithful called unto this was the Word of faith which Paul preached who was called of God and not of men and all so called bear the testimony to it as he did that none need to say Who shall ascend fetch Rom. 1● 6 7 8 Christ down Or descend and fetch him up for he is near thee in the heart and in the mouth and this is the Word which we preach saith Paul who was sent of God Now they that tell you the Letter without is the Word and the Gospel they preach another Gospel then the Apostles did O that you had ears to hear and hearts to understand the things that belong unto your Peace who have been and are professing godliness for many years and yet stand where you did in the customs in the fashions in the love of the present World and call the Scriptures your rule mind you Scripture-readers is it not written in the World God is not known and who loveth the World the love of God Iames 4 4 is not in him the love of the Worldis enmity to God and is it not the words of him that cannot lye The world loves its own and that his are are not of this world as he was not of Ioh. 15. 19 this vvorld therefore the vvorld hates them So professors of Scriptures see vvhat is vvritten in Scriptures What 's the true Religion Is it not thus vvritten To visit the fatherless and keep Iames 1. 27 unspotted from the vvorld are you this people vvho are in the vvays vvorships and fashions of the vvorld and excess of vanity and pride and fulness and vvhole families of your ovvn flesh and in your own ways ready to perish for want of food and rayment sure you are not they which visits the fatherless sure you are not the Israel in which there was no beggar nor you have not the Storehouse in which all the tythes were put to feed the Widows and the Fatherless and sure you are not in the narrow way in which few walk for the way that you walk many there is in and they walk at ease I feel what I speak who walked there many years and as concerning the Law written in stone blameless as any and had a zeal though not according to knowledge Rom. 7. 9 and when the Commandment came the new Covenant sin revived and I dyed 1 Cor. ● 1● and only by the power of the Cross which in the Wisdom of the World Gal 6 14● was and is esteemed foolishness do I live in the life that never shal have end and in this only do I rejoyce whereby I am crucified to the World and the World to me and this to the World is a mysterie who by Wisdom cannot know the things of God which are spiritually discerned and therefore are in vain imaginations of which God did and doth complain bringing out likennesses Con. 6. 5 ● of it as the Papists in Wood Stone or Gold others calling the Cross that which you cannot flye from not knowing the Cross which is daylie to be taken up but we who of him have learned who saith Take up your cross and follow Luke 9. 23 me know it to be the power of God unto salvation and by it hath the Devil been overcome and before it must all the powers of darkness flye and this is and hath been the defence of the righteous Seed in all generations and the Scriptures declare of it and shall bear a testimony for me and all the children of light against all you that have the words of the Scriptures and yet are found haters of the light which gave forth Scriptures and if ever that eye be opened in any of you that the god of this World hath blinded you shall confess that that wherein you have trusted shall witness against you and however your Teachers which are blind may lead the blind till both fall into the ditch yet is there a seed among you that the Lord will gather unto us and therefore doth his long suffering lead unto repentance but many shall be cut off in their iniquities Isa 65. 12 to whom he hath called and they would not hear and they shall cry and he will not hear but laugh at your calamitie when destruction shall come as a swift Whirlwind and with the Prov. 1 28 beasom of the Lord shall all the Workers of iniquity be swept away and his fierce Wrath

own destruction And so you that know not the moving of the spirit in which the Scriptures are writ have given meanings and so in this long night of Apostacy have brought forch errors and false Doctrines and filled the World with Sects Opinions the simplicitie of the Gospel being betrayed by the crafty subtiltie of men but we who are come Ephes 4 4 〈◊〉 29 14 15 in the light to see the fulfilling of the Scriptures know that the wisdom of the wise is turned into foolishness and the counsel of the prudent is brought to nought the Prophet is become a fool and the diviners shall run mad Hos 9. 7. and he that hides from the wise reveals to babes and sucklings and it seems good unto him though the heathen Luke 10. 2●● then rage and the people imagine vain thugs the Lord is risen to recover his own inheritance that hath Psalms 2. ● Ezek. 34. 2. 3. long been laid waist by the destroyer and the devouring shepherds have not fed the sheep but eat the sheep who have run and were never sent therefore have not the people been profited and the mistery of iniquity that began in the Apostles dayes hath spread Ier. 23. 21. 2 Thes 2. 7. again to the filling of the world with thick darkness as it was foretold by Christ and the Apostles that devouring Wolves should come and make Ma● 7. 15. havock of the flock and that in sheeps cloathing and these were to prevail all the time and times that the world wondred after the beast though your teachers would mak you believe Rev. 13. 3. the false Prophets are come but now that they might hide themselves but O that you did see and believe the Scriptures then would you know who were the ravening Wolves we or they whom you call your ministers see which is the Wolfe that devours and destroyes he that sends for his gain Isa 56. 11. from his quarters and if he has it not raises war and sues and casts in prison and if any speak in his meeting place or asks him a question he causes or suffers his people to beat them or hale them or stone them or whip them and will not speak himself but for gifts and rewards Now are these the Wolves or they that bear all these things in patience going up and down freely giving as freely as they have received try whether of these be the ministers of Christ by that you call your rule and truly people God will not be mocked and his eye beholds the deceitful worker every where and the Scriptures are ours upon whom the ends of the world are come and for us were they written and shall bear witness for us against all the Idolatrous generation that sets them in the place of God to me are they precious who am come to the comfort of them and let the wisest of your teachers if he can without a meaning bring a written Scripture to prove that they any where are called the Iohn 1. 4 6● word the foundation the light or the life I shall give some of the many written in the Scriptures to shew that he who is the light is the life and Iohn 8. 12. the way and the ordinance and the name ohn 14. ● by which only salvation is and are not those then false Prophets and deceivers Iohn 1. 1 which would make you from the Scriptures believe that which is not Iohn 1 14 Phil. 29 and hide from you that which is are not these the Antichrist which instead 1 Cor 3. 11 of Christ are setting up that which is not he in his stead O shall not the Acts 10. 42 Col 2 14 plagues threatned in that book come upon them who are known to add and diminish and surely as the Sorcerers of Egypt are they that harden the Dut. 2 4 Rev. 22 18 19 heart in making likenesses and truly friends these things are not written to you as to have your help or aid to defend or assist us as your parsons use to pray and cry for for we are the people that have no helper on the earth yet beleiving know we shall be Micah 4 1 the mountain set upon the top of every mountain and while you are striving against the little stone cut out of the mountains without hands it Dan 2. 34 growes and you see it not and shall be the praise of the whole earth and the devourers and the destroyer and all the ungodly shal be crusht under it then shall the earth be filled with righteousness and of the increase of this kingdom there shall be no end which is come and coming and not by power might but by my spirit shall all the opposers of this kingdom be brought down saith the Lord and the glory of it is the son and all the subjects are cloathed with holiness all being Priests and Kings to God and the glory of it is now seen coming down from heaven by them that the world hates who are following the Lamb through many tribulations into it and the Dogs and the Whoremungers and Rev. 14. 4 the makers and lovers of lyes Mark this false teachers hearers that speak the things you know not with the Rev. 22. 15 fearfull and unbeleiving must you be shut out Mark you this that cannot beleive what herein is declared ●●t to you it seems strange that God should appear to his people as of old and give us the same spirit as they had that gave forth Scriptures saying to the hardning of your own hearts Mi●●cles are ceased why to us it is not marvelous to receive what we have waited for the spirit of truth to lead into all truth and the Scriptures declare of him and he is the same and changeth not infallible and almighty who is given to convince the world of ●in and till you come to believe in Iohn 16. ●● 92 that which convinces of sin you can neither understand nor beleive the ●criptures nor me nay though one rise from the dead and I who know how precious your souls are with thousands more have been made willing in this the day of the Lords power to go forth with our lives in our hands denying ●ll that has been dear to us that you might be brought from under the power of the Prince of darkness to the obedience of the light in which only is fire salvation no other name given under heaven whereby any can be saved I am the light saith Christ Jesus Iohn 8 12 and if any come to me be shall not abiae in darkness and so all people who hate the light and are speaking against it and giving it names as naturall and such like are you not speaking against the Saviour who is the light and the way and the truth as the Scriptures declare O that for your souls sake you would cease from hearing and speaking lyes and come