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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90622	A discovery of the priests, that say they are sent off by the Lord, but upon trial are found out of the commands of Christ, the prophets, and Apostles, and to be those that are not sent of the Lord, but to be such that the sent ones of the Lord did cry wo against, and to be such that are false apostles, deceitful, wicked, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ: and no marvail, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light; therefore it is no great thing, if his ministers be transformed as the ministers of righteousness, ... With a few words to such professors and prophane, that together joyn to persecute the righteous: and to the ranters that do commit all manner of sins with greediness. Darkness denied by the children of Light, and the babe of Christ growing up to a perfect man. / Written from one who is known to the world by the name of John Pain, who accounts it great riches to suffer reproaches, and afflictions with the people of the Lord, who scornfully by the world are called Quakers, ... Written from Starford in Hartford-shire the 7. day of the 4. month. 1655.	Pain, John, shoemaker.	1655 (1655)	Wing P188; Thomason E848_22; ESTC R203094	39,396	39

made you manifest that these are works of darkness proceeding from darkness and will end in darkness O the deceit of some of the chief professors in the Town of Starfford when there come one into their place of meeting to declare against the Priests deceit before they did know what was spoken she was haled out by these professors which were then officers and was led by them to the Cage and there she did sit seven hours where she was pissed on and spit on by those bruites of Starfford 2 Thess 1.4 5 6 7 8. these professors knowing of it which they did tell me did grieve their hearts for to see and about two or three of the clock did come to my house to me to know whether I would receive her and I did tell them I would but they went away and did not bring her tell six of the clock at night here was the deceit of you made manifest had it grieved your hearts as you said it did Why did not you sooner release her but the double hearted man God will judge Know that mercy to your fellow creature had been better then sacrifice but thus is the heart made manifest that it may be known by the fruits of it The next day she was carried to a Justice thinking to lase her in prison but when they came there they had none to accuse her thus was their folly made manifest She came a second time to their meeting where she was haled out like a dog and the officers did turn her out of the grave-yard to the mercies of the heathen who rent her and did tear her pulling her head tire oft pulling her by the hair of the head and throwing her down in the street as she passed along to come to a friends house which is nigh half the quarter of a mile from the steeple house howling and shouting at their fellow creature was it not your office to see the peace kept that these bruites might not make a prey of her had not a stranger which was at our meeting took her part and rescued her from the violence of those heathen what he could he did see no other but they would have killed her Be ashamed that ever such wickedness should be suffered in a town professing Christ you Magistrates had warning to deal justly to love mercy to walk humbly with the Lord not to respect the persons of men in judgement but to deal righteously according to that righteous Law of God in the conscience was this a righteous act of yours to leave your fellow creature to the mercy of the heathen Take counsel together and it shall come to nought speak the word and it shall not stand for God is with us Oh all people will walke in the name of his God and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever Micha 4.6 DARKNESSE Denyed by the CHILDREN OF LIGHT IN the fourth moneth upon the sixth day of the moneth I went to John Pains house of Starford to know of him if he did not receive a letter of mine that was sent me from Cambridge from James Blackly Justice of the peace and he said he had none of it but James Blackly asked the Coachman that did bring it and he said it was delivered to Mr. Pain Minister of Starford his name being the same with mine both of us being named John Pain but if he had or hath it and doth deny it it is his deceit this was the cause of my going to his house And then when I was there with him he did begin with me about some words that I did say to him about the publike Ministery as it doth now stand the National Ministery that I did say the spirit of the Lord in their Ministery was departed from them that they should not convert one soul more to the Lord by their Ministery which thing was true I did so say to him and so I shall do still and the fruites of it shall appear more and more as they stand contrary to the commands of Christ they shall not as is proved they do they that neither follow the example of Christ Prophet nor Apostles they shall not profit the people their preaching is like the blood of a dead man as is manifest they have the form of truth but the power is denyed by them and so the power is not made manifest among them for this many yeers but this power was by thee denied for thou did tell me thou hadst not the infallible spirit of Paul if not that spirit J then another the spirit in the Saints is but one in all and is the spirit of truth that leads into all truth and shews things to come even the spirit of truth Joh. 14.17 whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not neither knoweth him but we know him for had welleth with us and shall be in us and this spirit is the same as ever this spirit was in Paul in the Prophets in the Saints that ever were or ever shall be From this spirit was the Scripture gave forth and none but the spirit can reveal the Mysteries of God in them for no man doth know the things of God but the Spirit of God and he to whom the Spirit of God doth reveal them and he that hath not the Spirit of Christ is note of his and this spirit is the spirit of Revelation now in the Saints and no man knows any thing as he ought to know it but what is revealed by the spirit 1 Cor. 2.11 It is recorded in Scripture that the Spirit beareth witness with our spirits Rom. 8.9 that we are the sons of God How doth it witness but by revealing to our spirits 〈◊〉 it is so This is the earnest of our inheritance this is the intrance into the everlasting kingdom for there none of our names after the flesh are set down but this maketh known the white stone and the new name which no man doth know but those that do receive it and this spirit of revelation and the Apostle pray for for the Church of the Ephesians that the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ the father of 〈◊〉 may 〈◊〉 unto ●ou the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him Eph. 1.17 18. Eph. 4.4 5 6. and 〈◊〉 man 〈◊〉 the ●●ther but 〈◊〉 Son and he to whom the Son doth reveal him so revelations are not ceased as might be proved by many places of the Scripture yea I witness against all gain-sayers that Scripture fulfilled in me Joh. 16.13 That he will shew you things to come This I witness is truth and many with me will witness the same these things are hid from wise men and revealed to babes the weak things of the world confound the strong and might glory be to thy name for ever and ever 1 Cor. 12.13 This spirit is in all his Saints and this spirit is infallible it

go on in these ways of wickedness the Lord will forsake you and cast dung upon you you have a long while pretended that what you did was by the example of Christ the Prophets and the Apostles these you say have been your rule but are you not sound to be those that are out of the example of Christ of the Prophets and the Apostles Ye call Christ Lord and Master and so he is If I then your Lord and Master have washed your feet ye also ought to wash one anothers feet for I have given you an example that ye should do as I have done to you Christ was meek and loving and did in all things obey the will of his Father that sent him do you follow this example Christ spake nothing of himself but from his Father that sent him for saith Christ I have not spoken of my self but the Father that sent me he gave me a commandment what I should say and what I should speak Do you follow this example do not you speak your own words and not from the Father do you not speak the true words of Christ the Prophets and Apostles but not by the spirit of the Father Is this to follow Christs example the Prophets and Apostles example they spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost do you follow their example but you speak even when you will and pray when you will begin when you will and end when you will was this their example you shall finde the Prophets they did not so read the prophesie of Ezekiel and you shall there finde that he did not speak many words but the word of the Lord came to him again and so he spake as he was moved when the Lord did not speak to him then he was silent Is this your example but you can pray by the hour and speak by the hour what you have patched up together from their true words but the Lord doth not speak those words to you if he had you would follow their example and live the life of them Those the Lord doth speak to they are not thus limited neither do they thus limit but as the Lord doth give them utterance they speak sometimes many hours sometimes not many words is this your practices no you would think this a shame to you Silence flesh that it may not speak before the Lord but the spirit that doth lead into the truth may have the preheminence that the Lord alone may speak in his own temple if you did thus speak the true Declaration of Christ and Prophets and Apostles which is the Scriptures which nothing is to be added to them Rev. 22.18 19. then you would witness the word to be a fire and a hammer wheat and not chaff purifying and cleansing the word ingrafting the immortal seed of it and so witness light so now consider it is not they that know the will of the Father but those that do it that shall inherit the blessing no many shall come in that day and say Lord we have prophesied in thy name and done many miraculous works yet the Lord shall say I know ye not ye are workers of iniquity depart from me they had the Scriptures but not the light of them therefore friends be not deceived with fair shows but try all things try your selves and try your teachers whether they or you follow Christs example but are not they found out of Christs example the Prophets and Apostles example which were the true messengers of Christ Acts 3.7 and 4.5 that did receive their power from him and yet were questioned by Priests the Professors by what authority they did these things and who gave them that authority so it was though Peter and John did do a miracle amongst them upon one that was lame from the womb of his mother yet they did question his power and it came to pass that on the morrow that their Rulers and Elders and Scribes and Annas the high Priest and Caiphas and John and Alexander and as many as were of the kindred of the Priests were gathered together at Jerusalem and when they had set them in the midst they asked them by what Power or by what Name have ye done this So it is now this day by the chief Priests and their kindred they say by what authority and who gave them their power though their power be made manifest in bringing home many a soul to the Lord yet none so much as by them opposed the same spirit that was in them though they are dead many years agon yet that spirit doth still live and bring forth the same fruits of persecution Acts 5.34.38 Mic. 3.11 Mat. 10.8 therefore take warning how you do oppose the work of the Lord remember Gamaliels counsel lest you be found fighters against him for we cannot but speak the things that we have heard and seen whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more then unto God judge ye when Christ sent forth his Prophets and Apostles to preach or to publish the Gospel did he send them forth to preach for hire no against all hirelings they did witness freely they had received it and freely they did administer it they had not a living provided for them of the world or else they would not preach to them if they had not a setled maintenance in one place they did remove to another they did not covenant with the world and say What will you give me no this was not their example but this was their practice wo were they if they did not preach the Gospel through necessity persecution and afflictions were laid upon them did the Apostles of Christ receive any thing of the world for to maintain them was it not the command of Christ that they should not stay in any house to eat or drink if the people were not worthy but if they were worthy there they were to stay and to eat such things as were set before them Is this your example Did the Apostle Paul when he was planting the Church of Corinth receive any thing from them to be a supply to him no he was chargeable to no man for that which was lacking the Brethren which did come from Macedony supplied and in all things I kept my selfe from being burdensome to you and so will I keep my selfe 2 Cor. 11.9 is this your example did not he plant a Vineyard before he did eat the fruit did not he minister spiritual things bringing them to the faith of Christ before he did receive their carnal is this your example no yours is contrary do not you receive temporall of them that never received spiritual from you was this their example do you plant a Vineyard before you do eat the fruit of it no they are not your example as is manifest by your practises are you not them that walk out of the life of the Apostles and by their life is to be condemned with those that in

nor what to drink nor what for to put on but feeding your selves without the fear of the Lord living like fed beasts that are fatted against the day of slaughter setting your selves forth with every new and strange fashion to make you seem glorious in the eyes of the world but the Lord will visit you for it ye the day is near at hand when you shall be called to an account for spending the Lords goods upon your lusts every steward must give an account how he hath disposed of his Masters goods whether for the use and service of the Lord or to save your selves Repent all lustful ones above your fellow creatures as if you had not all one father from whence you did proceed did not the Lord of one blood make all Nations that live upon the face of the earth Act. 17.26 remember from whence you came and whether you are going as dyes the rich so dies the poor as dyes the wise so dyes the fool there is an end to all flesh as flesh What advantage is it for you to act in all manner of filthiness for a time to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season and after death to be tormented for ever You act your parts upon the stage of this world and make your folly manifest and then ly down in sorrow O the filthy pride that is among the rich and great of the world the high mindedness and disdainful carriages of most of the great ones brow-beating their inferiors as they call them be not high minded nor trust not in uncertain riches but in the living Lord who is an enemy against all those that do commit such things but turn to the light that doth discover these things to be fruits of darkness whose end is destruction and shame for ever this was and is the main end of the Ministers of Christ and Ministery of Christ to tum people from darkness to the light for that which doth discover darkness is light the light maketh all things manifest Christ is the light of the world and the life of Christ is the light of the world and this is the true light that doth inlighten every one that cometh into the world this light shineth in darkness but the darkness cannot comprehend it and therefore will not own it the world was made by him and the world knows him not and this is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men love darkness rather then light because their deeds are evil for every one that doth evil hateth the light neither cometh to the light least his deeds should be reproved but he that doth truth cometh to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God and he that walketh in this light there is no occasion of stumbling in him This light is pure as Christ is pure it is not of man nor nothing of man but it is in man it is the gift of God it is not of mans will but crosses the will of man for the will of man is to run away from the Lord but this would lead the will of man up to the Lord so it is neither him that willeth nor him that runneth but the Lord that sheweth mercy but the will of man running from the light into darkness runneth away from his own mercy and so his destruction is of himself that which doth convince the world of sin is that which is not of the world but would lead men out of the world up to God from whence it came This light is the gift and talent of God which he hath invested every man withall it is not mans own but every man must be countable how he doth imploy it this is the grace of God that hath appeared to all men and it teacheth the Saints to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live righteously soberly and godly in this present evil world but this by the world 's turned into wantonness and done despite unto such by the light may come to know the way of righteousness which natural light cannot discover for if they after they have escaped from the filthiness of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and of the Saviour Jesus Christ are yet again tangled therein and over run the latter end is worse then their beginning for it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness then after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment given unto them but it is come unto them according to the true Proverb The dogg is returned to his vomit and the sow that was washed to the wallowing in the mire And here is the worlds condemnation did not this light reprove the world of sin the world would have no condemnation but now the world hath no cloak for their sin Man will not be condemned because he hath not a talent to improve but because they have a talent and doth not improve it but hide it in the earth and are sloathful servants so at the last day every mouth will be stopped and all the world be found guilty before the Lord and it will be just with the Lord to take away his talent and cast him into outer darkness therefore while you have the light walk in the light that you may be the children of the light How oft hath Christ by his light discovered to you your deeds of darkness and if ever they were discovered to you which I know they have it was by this light How oft hath it checked you in secret when no eye did see you telling you that you should not swear nor lie nor be drunk nor take Gods name in vain nor do any evil but to do to all men as you would they should do to you This is the love of God to every one that would lead men up to the Lord out of sin out of pollution and minding it it would lead to the father of light that ye should return no more to folly but if you sleight it it will not alwayes strive with you for it is impossible for those that were once enlightned and have tasted of the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost and have tasted of the good word of God and the powers of the world to come if they shall fall away to renew them again by repentance seeing they crucifie to themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame If those that did despise Moses Law died without mercy under two or three witnesses of how much soarer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who hath troden under feet the Son of God and hath done despite to the spirit of grace Consider these things you ranting spirits that hath turned the grace of God that should lead you to repentance into wantonness and make it your cloak for your wicked practices running into sin with greediness but you shall not proceed for your folly is