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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42020	A call out of gross darkness and idolatry into the light to wak [sic], which is the way of life ... with a word of advice and information ... / by Richard Greenway.	Greenway, R. (Richard)	1662 (1662)	Wing G1863; ESTC R25470	20,414	17

Lord worshipped him in spirit and not in the oldness of the Letter in which you are pretending to worship And friends though you have gotten good words to cover your selves with the St. words which is the sheeps cloathing the Prophets words Christs words and his Appostles words yet you are ravened from that Spirit which was their life by which they were moved and by which those words were brought forth by them and though you make never so goodly a shew outwardly yet you are but ravening Woolves within you have that nature standing which will rend and teare the Lambs when they are sent amongst you but now the Lord hath appeared and is farther appearing to strip you of your Covering and your nakedness will more and more appear and many shall see your shame and loath it for the woe doth belong to all that have gotten a Covering which is not with his Spirit And people that you may not think better of your selves then you ought through Ignorance of the falsness of your way and worship and the Idolatry in which you are wallowing I shall in tender love shew you plainly wherein your sacrifice was Lame and your devotion Blind and such as is nor of the Spirit● leading nor like the Saints practice and therefore the Lord will not except it from you nor you therein First of the place you meet in to Worship it is Idollatry in you or your Teacher to call it a Church and though he call it so and teacheth you so to call it that you may have the higher esteem of his Shop or Market house in which he ●rads for dishonest gain and in which he sels unto you that on his market day which he hath stollen on other dayes of the week yet it is in truth no more nor less than an old Mass-house which was by the Popes power and order built and consecrated as they call it and set a part for that use and some of your Grandfathers could remember I believe the Popes Mass sung and said therein in the Lattine tongue I have heard my Grandfather tell of it as now you have the same in whole or in part in English But friends search the Scriptures which your teacher tels you is your law and rule and see therein if you can finde any such thing called a Church which I am sure you cannot but therein ● find the Apostle Paul said the Church is in God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ Thes 1. 1. And the Church is not made of dead but living stones no nor dead men neither such as are dead in sins and trespasses and so he that knowes not aright what is the guide or rule of a Saints life it is no wonder that he knows not the true Church of Christ and if ignorance and gross darkness indeed were not over people they would see these things and if they did know the true Church of Christ and themselves but coming to be Members of it then they would not indure any longer to follow such blind guides as shall call a house of Lime and Stones a Church to give it that name which only is proper and belongs to the body of which Christ Jesus is the head If you were all of you believers and did know follow Christ Jesus the light and did meet in the name and power of the Lord and so did worship him in the Spirit and in the truth yet the best name you could properly give the house or place you meet in was but a meeting house and therefore now while you are in the unbelief in wickedness Idollatrous and ungodly practices how can any one call it any other then a Sinagogue of Satan and not a meeing house of believers or Saints much less a Church though you are met therein for God who is light hath no fellowship with darkness nor the workers thereof those that walk in the light as he is in the light they are in and of the Church which is in God the Piller and ground of truth and such have fellowship with the Father and the Son in the Spirit and one with another and therein the blood of Christ is witnessed which cleanseth from all unrighteousness and such are the peculiar people of God that are zealous of Good works and such connot but bare testimony against the contrary Steven the Apostle of Christ he bore witness against the Tempel which once commanded of the Lord to be builded and worshiped in but when it was Idolised by the people as you do now your stone Church then the Lord sent the Apostle to bare witness against that Tempel as you may read Asts 17. 24. God that made the World and all things therein seeing b● is Lord of Heaven and Earth dwelleth not in Temples made with hands ●●ither is he worshiped with the works of mens hands marke that and friends God never commanded that to be built and set apart for his worship which you call your Church Secondly that which you offer in your high place built by the Popes order is but the works of mens hands and that is abomination unto the Lord as you may read Acts 7. 4. And they made a Calfe in those days and offered sacrifice unto their Idol and rejoyced in the works of their own hands then God gave them up to Worship the Host of Heaven So that when a people gives themselves up to Idolatry then they may be left of the Lord to be more and more overcome therin now your prayers as you call them are they not a devi●●d thing or a forme that is composed or made ready by mens hands and so is as a Calse which is made and set up which you are worshiping with your bodys and lips but in it there is no Spirit nor life but is a dead blind Lame Image and the Apostle said bodily excercise profiteth little but Godliness is profitable unto all Freinds if bodily excercise profiteth little or nothing at all in the worship of God consider your practice and your several sorts of jestures which you know nothing of the leading of the Spirit of God thereunto 〈◊〉 its abominable unto the Lord and he may justly say as he will do one day who required such things at your hands and what ever you may think of it through Ignorance the Vale being over your hearts yet this I ●estifie unto you in the fear of the Lord that it is not the true Worship of the true God and it is not in the Spirit and he will not accept of it nor you therein as afore said when you read the Prophets words you keep on your hats and when you sing and say them in your common praying then you put them off waht example or command from God have you for so doing Thirdly As for your singing it is not according to the practice of the Saints and primative Christians as you may read the Apostle said I will pray with the Spirit and I will pray

A Call out of Gross Darkness and Idolatry 〈◊〉 the light to walk which is the way of Life rest peace 〈◊〉 Salvation and a declaration of the burthen of the word 〈◊〉 Lord which came unto his servant to be declared ●he People that meet to worship in that place ignorantly 〈◊〉 St. Denis Back Church which is neer Limestreet end 〈◊〉 the 23 day of the first Month 1662. 〈◊〉 Reproof unto them for their fall Worship and 〈◊〉 and it is a warning to them to repent thereof while 〈◊〉 have time and here is shown how evilly they requited 〈◊〉 Servant of the Lord who in obedience unto him and in 〈◊〉 to their Souls came amongst them With a word of advice and information 〈◊〉 the simple hearted that desire to know the right way of 〈◊〉 ●ord and that they may see themselves to be out of it and may 〈…〉 at his reproof and come to see his way even the good way and may walk therein and finde rest for their souls by one 〈◊〉 well to the souls of all people and is known to many 〈◊〉 by the name Richard Greenway 〈◊〉 may be seasonable and serviceable to any other that are in their nature and practice 〈◊〉 way of a fool is right in his own eye but he that heareth Counsil is wise Prov. 12. 15. ●●ghteous is more excellent then his neighbour but the way of the wicked will deceive them Prov. 12. 16. 〈◊〉 I said surely these are poor they are foolish for they know not the way of their God Jeremy 5. 4. 〈…〉 wayes and see and ask for the good old paths wherein is the good 〈…〉 and walk therein and ye shall find rest for your souls Jer. 6. 16. London Printed for the Author 1662. To the Reader or any that this may hear FRiends the Lord of Hosts the mighty God is risen in his mgihty power and in great Glory and he is come and coming to make known his everlasting name and truth in the Earth and to make manifest all deceivers that turn his truth into a lye as far as they can and all them that hold the truth in the unrighteousness he is revealing his wr●th against them all that keep the seed in bondage he is visiting in his sore displeasure sor th● Cry of the poor he hath heard and the growning of the opressed is come up before him and he hath taken notice of the sore bondage of his Captivated seed and he is come down to deliver his Heritage that hath long been grevously opressed and burthened by the Cruel Task-masters that bears rule in 〈◊〉 Land of Gross darkness And the Lord in his love and tender mercy hath sent his servant● to declare his offer of Grace in which he would deliver his seed out of bondage and to show unto them his Salvation which he hath prepared for them that wi●● receive it and believe therein and he is now come to seek and to save tha● which hath long been lost and in his great love and tender mercy he hath sent to call back again that which hath been driven out of the way upon th● Hills and barren Mountains in this Cloudy and dark day whereon they have been scattered and driven to and fro not knowing whether they have been going for the right way hath been hidden from them by reason of the thick foggs and mist of Antichrist that hath darkned the Aire so that the ligh● of the Sun could not appear which should shew the way now the Lord by his power is expelling the fog and moving the Clouds and all that hath hindered out of the way and blessed will all them be that do not resist his Love nor slight but accept of his kinde visitation and offer of Grace and so Freind what is written in these following lines is for thy sake that art out of the way read it therefore in the fear of the Lord and turne in thy minde to the witnes● of God in thee and consider it in the singleness of thy heart and coolnes● of thy minde and then I know the witness in thee will answer hereunto for it is unto that I desire to be made manifest and unto it my love and service 〈◊〉 herein to which I am a freind Richard Greenway A Call out of Gross darkness and Idolatry HEare on people and give eare unto the visitation of the Lord and slight not this the day of his kindness in which he is reaching out his hand of Love and tender mercy unto you to gather you out from the way of wickedness darkness gross blindness and Idolatry into which you are fallen that so you may come the way of life to know and in walking therein may finde peace and rest for your souls for ever Vpon the 17 day of the first month commonly called March 1661. as I was at my labour with my mind to the Law of God in me which Solomon calleth light the word of the Lord came unto me even that word which is powerful and hath been as a fire in my bones saying in me go unto that meeting house neer Limestreet end on the next first day and stand and behold their way and the blindness of their worship and then speak these my words unto them Wo wo From the Lord to him or them which hath a male in their flock that is without blemish and shall continue to offer in Sacrifice unto the God of Heaven the lame the halt the maimed and the blind he will not accept it at your hand and people such is your sacrifice it is lame and your devotion is blind and the Lord doth not regard it And people this to you was and is the word of the Lord therefore take heed it be not slighted by you and somthing more I believe the Lord had spoken by me if your hearts and ears had not been uncircumcised by which the spirit of the Lord was resisted wo unto you st●●ecked as your Fathers of old resisted the Lords spirit so do you And as I was standing to behold your devotion my heart was grieved within me to see your Idolatry and my spirit was sore troubled to see and consider the darkness and blindness that was over you and I pittyed you with my very heart to see you so greedily licking up again with your tongues that which by many was spued up so long agoe and I was sorry to think your stomacks were become so dead of feeling that you swallow down and bare that which hath been and now is loathsome unto many tender people and it is loathsome in the sight of the pure Eye of the Lord who is a spirit and will be worshiped in the spirit and in the truth and such he hath sought and is seeking to worship him which is the new and living way and was the good old way in which the Saints and holy men worshipped and served the Lord in dayes that are past in all ages of the world the servants of the