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A testimony to the true and spiritual worship and a word of consolation to the children of light : also a message of truth to professors / by Tho. Taylor.
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Taylor, Thomas, 1618-1682.
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his Name in vain Your Garment is not of the Pure White Linnen which is the Saints Righteousness but Linnen and Woolen is your Covering a thing forbidden by Gods Law Your Field is not sowen with the one Heavenly kind of Grain the good Wheat but another Seed have you mingled with it and the mixture is so great that the bad hath almost choked and covered the good in you If you will work you must into Gods Vineyard and be exceeding Dilligent and Laborious in Spirit in plucking up the Weeds by the Roots in you The Light of Christ in the Conscience waiting in it will give thee Understanding But Wo will be to them who call the Light Darkness and put Darkness for Light and so suffer the Good in them to wither and nourish the Bad Part in them which is like the Grane that never hath enough but is alwayes learning at man without and not at Christ within and ministring from the outward dead spirit of the World and not from the measure of the living Spirit of Christ so not taking heed to the Word of Faith which is nigh in the heart the Word of Christ which is Spirit and Life they never get victory over their sin as is manifest but go laden Teacher and Hearer all their life long with divers sins and lusts as was said before So Wo to the selfish Workers who speak their own words and think their own thoughts on this the holy Sabbath day of the Lord God wherein he hath given his People rest from all their weary labour and burdens The outward day the first day of the Week shall not cover you nor be a Sabbath to you but in the breach of Gods holy everlasting spiritual Sabbath of Rest you being found you must bear his Judgment Behold all ye that kindle a Fire this day and that compass about your selves with Sparks walk in the light of your Fire and in the Sparks that ye have kindled yet know that your reward from the Lords hand is to lie down in sorrow I say all you who feed upon and whose Faith stands in the wisdom of vain mans words raised up in the subtilty to please the iching Ear and not in the Power of God which washeth the inside a day of scattering cometh upon you it cometh and a grievous Whirle-wind from the Lord and the pleasant Brests of Mystery Babylon which you so much delight in shall be dried up for the Lord hath rejected your confidence because you have rejected his good Word and Counsel and chosen your own Delusion and evil entreated his Servants whom he sent rising up early and sending them time after time to warn you to come out of all your dead Forms and dead Faith into the living vertue and power of his eternal Spirit of Truth to worship him there and to know it in you but you would not therefore the Lord will yet do that great Wâ—rk and Wonder amongst you he will confound the wisdom of your Wise and bring to nought the understanding of your Prudent Men and they shall be as Women weak and feeble the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it and the Songs of your Temple shall be Howlings in that day because of the Vine of Sodom that will bear no more Grapes but so many as have drunk of the Wine of her Fornication must drink of the Cup of Gods Wrath. And all you who talk of your Faith and suffering Condition and yer live in your sin you know not what spirit you are of for the same mind that you think to suffer in is it which by Transgression grieves the Spirit of God and stands against the setting up of his Kingdom in your selves and the Testimony thereof in his redeemed Ones this day And so if you could give your bodies to be burnt in this your Unsaved and Unsanctified Condition it would profit you nothing at all Wherefore come out from amongst them all you that would be happy touch no unclean thing but give your hearts to the Lord to know his Light in you to teach you and he will receive you and hide you from the Wrath that is to come upon all that are not in him as saith his Spirit in his Servant This is a Message of Truth to all you in and about Stafford and those of like Spirit with you elsewhere who go under the name of Presbyterians Teachers and Hearers to read and ponder in the cool mind that you may know what the Lords Mind is concerning you in this his day wherein he is manifest with his Fan in his Hand to purge the Floor that he may gather to himself the good Wheat and burn up the Chaff For we knowing the Terrors of the Lord perswade you and all People in love to your Soules to take heed of dallying with God who is a consuming Fire for his Judgments are manifest and who can stand before his Wrath O be not Proud lest your hands be made strong but be meek and lowly and gentle in heart to learn of him that is so that you may find rest for your soules for there is no Peace to the Wicked saith my God the true God that made Heaven and Earth whose Wrath from Heaven is perfect revealed against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men without respect of Persons or Professions who hold the Truth in any manner of Vnrighteousness So be it In the 2d Moneth 1670. T. T. WEEP thou England Houl Houl ye People for the Dreadful Day of the Lord God is at hand it is at the Door as an Armed Man coming swiftly upon you to break down and tread under feet thy Pomp Glory and Strength Thou hast exceeded in thy Sins and art grown monstrous in thine Iniquities so the Lord will be exceeding Terrible unto thee Thou hast suffered the Wicked in thee to have Liberty and to take their fill of sin when the Voice of the Righteous cannot be endured in thee but he that departs from Iniquity and would perswade others so to do is even made a Prey of by Ungodly and Unreasonable Men their Bodies Imprisoned and Banished and Estates spoiled and all sorts of Injuries done them for God's Name Truths sake And therefore will the Lord God arise to take Vengeance for these things Yea his Soul will certainly be avenged on such a Nation as this saith this Spirit in his Servant AND moreover because you have said in your hearts We have compassed them about with an Act and none shall Worship God but as we please Therefore will the Lord the mighty God compass you about with his Terrors and you shall find no place to hide your selves in from his Wrath because of the Pride of your Hearts and Evil of your Doings O all ye People of the Land saith the Lord God who are guilty of these things T. T. THE Lord even the Lord God of infinite endless glorious Power and Truth plead our Cause our innocent Cause against you the Rulers of this Nation and of all the World who hate us and persecute us without all cause The Lord hath raised us up in Righteousness ever praised be his Name to bear our Testimony for God and his Christ against all the Wayes and false Worships of faln man and therefore it is that such as are in the fall through the ignorance and evil that is in them number us with the Transgressors and account all manner of Punishments and Grievances too little for us yea Banishment Imprisonment Spoiling of our Goods and Death it self is judged not less then we deserve So the Scripture is fulfilled see John 16.2 3. And all this for no manner of evil at all but meerly because we cannot cease to Worship and Serve the living and true God our Father as he hath taught us and doth teach all that come to him For our Worship to God is pure in Spirit and Truth And this is the true standing and established Worship for evermore and God is now mightily seeking such to worship him And so the Lord the Ever-blessed and True God plead our holy Cause against you who hate us without a Cause We have laid before you the Truth and Righteousness of our Cause and our Good-will to all men and how it is not in our hearts and hands in the least to injure you or any but to this day you will not hear but stop your Ears to our innocent Cryes and therefore to the Lord God of Heaven and Earth do we call and before him who is the KING of Kings and LORD of Lords and RULER of Rulers and JUDGE of Judges do we lay our innocent Cause O that you had known at least in this your day the things of your peace but you will not and therefore how can ye expect less then a Forsaking and Casting-off by the Lord as the People of old called Israel found who would not hear the Voice of the Lord and his Servants crying and calling unto them in those dayes Read the Prophesie of Hosea Hos. 1.6 8 9 and see what Lo-ruhaemah and Lo-ammi signifie and humble your selves greatly before the Lord for assuredly great wrath is gone out from the presence of the eternal Majesty of Heaven and Earth against you and nothing can stay it but your ceasing from Persecuting the blessed Truth of God which we the People of God in Scorn called Quakers do love and live in It is so T. T. THE END
Flesh they would charge them upon Gods Elect and make their Works like their own These Fleshly ones are great Enemies to Christ his Righteousness and his Members for they that are in Christ are New Creatures and to Abel and his Offering God hath still Respect though Cain and his Offering was alwayes rejected because polluted with Sin as the Prayers and Performances of all Hypocrites are at this day Therefore for this purpose was the Son of God manifested and is at this Day received of the Faithful even to destroy Sin which is the Devils Work And in him to wit Christ Jesus the Ligh◠is there no Sin nor sinful Nature So they who love Christ and Walk in his Life and Light please God For he is that Way undefiled wherein no Unclean can walk but the Redeemed are here And what if I should set down the words of Jesus to wit Whosoever abideth in Christ Sinneth not whosoever Sinneth hath not seen him nor known him 1 John 3.6 Can you believe it I know you cannot whilst you stand reasoning with Flesh and Blood not believing in the Light that lightneth every man that cometh into the World but call the Light of Christ in man Natural and then put the Letter which only witnesses to the Light instead of it And then the Enemy works in your natural Earthly wisdom causing you to wrest Scriptures to establish your empty Forms which makes nothing perfect and this was the sin of the old Jews who though they talked of the Messiah yet when he appeared they would not come to him that they might be saved and so under the dead Profession of the Letter they lay slain And though they had a Zeal for God as you have now yet it was not according to knowledge and so stumble at the Stumbling-Stone and so in their dark minds would needs keep up the Forms and Shaddows of things in opposition to the Substance the thing it self Christ Jesus when he appeared as you do now O that you could be perswaded of this how well would it be for your poor Souls in time to come Therefore now that the True Heavenly Everlasting Al-sufficient Light is broken forth again from under the Clouds after the long dark Night of Apostacy turn your Minds in to know a measure of it in you and wait therein to be led out of all the dark Paths of Sin and Error by it For I am the Way saith Christ the Light that true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World and I will send my holy Spirit of Truth to lead into all Truth He i◠come and his Promise fulfilled Glory to his Name forever And do you not know how that Christ is in you except you be Reprobates saith the Apostle And if we walk in the Light as he is in the Light then have we fellowship one with another and the Blood of this Innocent Lamb cleanseth from all Sin and washeth from all Unrighteousness all real Commers thereunto saith the same Spirit Therefore go not sorth for without are Doggs and all Lyars but Truth and the Kingdom of it is to be found within nigh in the Heart or never O how Beautiful is the Way of the Just Holiness is the Girdle of their Reins continually their hearts ponder deep things in Holiness they do no Iniquity who walk in this Everlasting Undefiled WAY Christ Jesus the Light for by the Light are they led out of all Defilements and to such there is no occasion of Stumbling O stoop down low with your minds to the Light of Christ in you that convinceth you of sin and evil that through the Light the true Door and Daily-Cross to the Carnal Mind you may come into the Sheep-fold for all who clime up another Way are but as Thieves and Robbers and must be judged as Goats and set on the left hand because they would not hear Christ Voice the Light in the Conscience to be led by it Great Wo to the Climers over the Door such neither receive Christ nor his Servants whom he sends but chose rather to follow such as love to be called of men Master and live in the respect of Persons and persecuting Nature and daub over an old heart with fair Promises of Life as it is amongst you this day for what though some in the outward-stand against you for your Form and Worlds sake as the Heathen of old did the outward Jews yet both those outward Jews then as you outward Professors do now stood and do stand against Christ and us for his Truth 's sake For we find it true from you all That whosoever walketh in Christ and holdeth forth his Life and so Worship God in Spirit and Truth shall be hated of all men whether Professors or Prophane who are out of that Life and holy Worship even for Christs very Name and Life's sake because it is a Cross and Offence to all the World who are in their own Wills under what Form or Profession soever who are gotten into a Profession of Christ without Christ and the daily Cross which his Followers bear Therefore all who are climed up into the Tree of an outward Profession without the true real feeling and spiritual acquaintance with the daily Cross and fiery Law of the Lord and flaming Sword which Guards the Tree of Life which is in the Hand of the Angel of the Covenant for the cutting down of the Man of Sin that the Birth Immortal which is Holy may enter in and possess the Inheritance must come down again I say they must come to the beginning from which in their faln Wisdom they are wandred to learn of him in Silence who speaks from Heaven whose Word is nigh in the heart before ever they be established for except you become as little Children not in Talk but in Truth ye cannot enter Gods Kingdom O ye People hearken a while whether Teachers or Hearers You who have been feeding upon the Tree of Knowledge and never came through Gods judgments the Flaming Sword to the Tree of Life Your Food 〈◊〉 Death your Works will Burn and your Fig-leaf-Covers will fall off you and you be left Naked and Bare to the shame of your Nakedness as in the day that you were Born For what is any Covering unless it be that of the Spirit of Christ. The Lord God who is of purer Eyes then to behold Iniquity will bring your Deeds to the Light of his Judgments within you from which you cannot flee and before him will nothing stand but that which is Pure Your defiled Preachings Prayings Singings Hearings Readings will be rejected and cast out as Dung from the Presence of the Pure Holy God that is a consuming Fire You have multiplied words without Knowledge Ye have not been neither yet are ye Doers of Gods Will to the Witness of God in your Consciences I speak therefore in vain do you say Lord Lord and he will not hold them guiltless that take