Apostles and Prophets did proceed from the Light within for there is a Spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth him an understanding how to speak and their very end was to turn them to the Light within and they testified God was a Spirit and dwelt in the Light and they that walked in the Light had fellowship with him and his Son Jesus Christ and in which both them and their worship was accepted with the Lord and all the rest worshipped they knew not what as Christ saith Iohn 8.4.24 and what if Christ had said as the Quakers say in thy own words turn to the Commandement within I say and the Spirit of Christ in Solomon saith the same Prov. 6. thy Commandement is Light and what if he had said this is the work of God that ye believe in him who is the Commandement and given for a Commander for a Covenant of Light wouldst thou not have scorned him as thy Brethren the Jews did and as thou dost the Quakers did not David say I believe in thy word and it hath quickned me and did he not say it is a Light to my feet and a lanthorn to my paths and that it kept him from sin and was the way for a young man to have his way cleansed if he took heed thereunto and doth not Paul say this word in which David believed and is the Author and begetter of the true faith in all that hearken to it which faith I know thou art a reprobate concerning though the Title of thy Book is Faith in the promises is the Saints best weapon yet thy self hast another weapon and as for thy hiding place slanders and lyes is thy refuge Rom. 10.8 is not this word nigh in the heart and did not Christ say to the unbelievers who rejected the word and Law which is Light While ye have the Light walk in the Light that you may be Children and hath not this enlightened every one that cometh into the world and doth not Christ say Iohn 8. He that follows me shall not abide in darknesse but shall receive the Light of Life but I say and the Lord hath said it the Life is the Light of man and shineth in the darknesse though such blind guides and sottish Children as thou art comprehend it not Iohn 1. vers 1. to the 10. Thou bidst thy Brethren take the shield of faith and so concludes thy Book The Lord hath said thy faith is false and let thy Brethren be warned least they believe as thou dost but as thou sayest in scorn I say in the integrity of my heart let the simple among thy Brethren or elsewhere turn to the Light within and word which is nigh them in their hearts and if thy own day of visitation be not over do thou hear and fear but consider for the time to come the Jews had thy word the Letter and the unbelievers and Apostates had thy rule guide and leader but were reprobates concerning this faith which was once given to the Saints and came by hearing of the eternal word in their hearts but how canst thou believe on him thou hast not heard but art vexing thy self because the Quakers cry turn to the word within Thou likest such a word and rule well and the Children of thy Father ever did which thou canst wrest and turn as thou dost the Letter to fight against the Life but that which is a more sure word and foundation a tryed stone and a perfect rule from generation to generation of them that seek the Lord this thou canst not endure but it is my Crown and the Ornament of the Righteousnesse in which I rejoyce and tread upon the Serpents head and should I never speak more this I say the eye is open that sees thee and comprehends thy muddy mind thou art weighed in an even ballance the Lord will bruise thee with the stone thou art lifting at and the sword and weapon which thou fightest with shall be a perpetual pain and terrour in thy own bowels And in the 59. page of thy Book thou goest on in a scoffng way to oppose the Light within which is to give the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus and thou brings the Prophets words and John Baptists words and Christ and the Apostles words and Paul and Silas their words that speaks of Repentance and concerning the gifts of the holy Ghost and these thou brings to oppose the Light within Now to all sober people this needs no answer but that thou shouldst not exalt thy self among the ignorant these Queries are sent unto thee Can any repent or have their minds changed but they must have the Light within and be turned to it can any receive the gift of the Holy Ghost but they must be turned to the Light within Is not the gift received within And further thou goes on and sayest Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ And then thou scoffest and sayest The Quakers say turn to the Light within Now can any believe but such who are turned to the Light within which gives the Light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Christ Jesus as Cor. 24. And do not they that believe come to the Witness in themselves and are past from death to life And is not that Witness within What hast thou Preached all this while that sets such things upon Record that Generations to come may see thy Ignorance This shews that thou art not as the Churches was in the Primative times that canst not endure the annointing within nor light within the annointing within must needs be light and how many of the Baptists Teachers has brought people to the annointing within them that they need no man to teach them but as the same annointing teacheth them And how many have they brought to the Light within which shines in the heart to give the knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Christ Jesus And how many have the Baptist Teachers brought to the New Covenant the Law written in their hearts and put in their minds that they need not teach every man his brother saying Know the Lord for they shall all know him from the least to the greatest How have you Baptists Apostatized from this practice Doctrine who now appear as Antichrist in opposition to it which was in the Apostles dayes who now look upon Christ and see him as the Pharisees did who with the same eye that looks stedfastly upon him runs upon him and rages at him and these are them that stops the pure eye within that denies the Light as the Pharisees did so you are like to see with no other eyes then the Pharisees did who know him no further then the Pharisees did which flesh and blood does not reveal him to be the Son of God and Christ is the substance of all Figures yet to the world he is a sign see if thou canst read that figure and
ONE Warning more TO THE BAPTISTS BEFORE Their Day be wholly spent and the Night cover them in which no man can work for God which the Lord moved me to write or else I should have been silent for ever With a short Answer to a Book of Matthew Caffin's one of their Teachers in Horsham in Sussex Intituled Faith in Gods Promises the Saints best Weapons With many Queries also for them to Answer Also my desire is that all that read it would send it to them that they may see how they are degenerated from their first Love and are now fighting against the Light of the Day that did formerly shine more clear in their Hearts then now it doth being shadowed over with that which must perish and come to an end Written by one that hath sat under those shadows with them but hath now found the day in which all shadows fly away HUMPHERY WOLRICH In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God then was there no shadow of death or covering over the Life LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson at the Sign of the Black-spread-Eagle and Wind-Mill in Martins Le Grand 1661. Where are the wise LEt them be confounded for ever and vexed by a foolish people all the disputers of the world where are they let their mouths be stopped for evermore let Christ speak and his Eternal Spirit as in the dayes past and him that spake in all his Prophets who is the same yesterday and for ever let him speak and all keep silence even him whose words are Spirit and Life which the fleshly mind and carnal mind that can neither hear nor perceive the things that he speaks be silent before the Lord for ever and all blind guides that are setting up the shadow instead of the substance and things that are seen with a carnal and visible eye above those things that are eternal everlasting and are not seen but with another eye nor heard but onely with the ear that can hear what the Spirit saith let this be a warning and a charge from the Lord to you all that ye stop your mouths in the dust for ever let the wife be mad and the disputer and the contradictious blasphemer's tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth for ever the eye is open that runs thorow the earth and the hand is stretched out against you all that is everlasting and ye are weighed in an even ballance and found as light as a thing of nought you and all your wisdom is comprehended as in a span and your Mountain will the Lord thresh with the new threshing instrument and lay it waste for ever There is a way that the Vulturous eye hath not seen and a path that the fierce Lions whelp hath not trodden in a way of Holinesse is it for ever it is the same that changeth not for ever known is it to the righteous and the redeemed walk in it for ever and the ransomed of the Lord from generation to generation Now are the Dogs angry for want of the Childrens bread and the Swine that are feeding on the busks would devour the pearl and are fighting against them that have found it and cannot feed them therewith now are their mouths filled with lyes and slanders and their tongues set on fire of hell the poyson of Asps is in their hearts the way of Truth they have not known there is no fear of God before their eyes therefore is the Lord God the Almighty God risen against all fighters swearers lyars and he will dash to pieces their Idols and all that rise up against him the Lord hath spoken it righteousness shall Reign and Truth shall be established in the earth and Christ the corner Stone rejected of the Builders abhored of the Nations and despised of men will he set a top of all he that hath been rejected shall be exalted on high and break down all Images and confound all likenesses the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it he will turn all but his own glory into shame and take the Sons of Nimrod that hunted mightily before the Lord in their own net and all the Children of Babylon in the work of their own hands will he confound he will exalt the Life and Power and darken all shadows and break the forms with the brightnesse of his rising and rent the Vail and destroy the Covering that hath covered the Mercy Seat for I have seen the place of Righteousness and Transgression is there and Sathan is exalted and the abomination sitteth as God in his Temple where he ought not also I have seen the place of Justice and Iniquity hath been there this have I seen in the everlasting day in which all shadows fly away which is dawned in the Hearts of his Chosen in whom he is become a Leader and an Instructer in all Righteousnesse as in the dayes of old a Saviour and a Redeemer as in the Generations past This is the Lord who saith I am the Lord and besides me there is no Saviour he is become a hiding place indeed a shelter and a hiding place to the weary a covering that is not too narrow is his Spirit become therefore are the children of old Adam onely with the Name of Christ covering themselves with the shadow instead of the substance and cloathing themselves with their fig-leave forms having lost the image of him who is the Substance Life Virtue and Goodnesse of all shadows the end and the Finisher of them all the first and the last who was and is from everlasting to everlasting the Substance of all Virtue Life and Goodnesse of all to his people in all ages was he the same and changed not he was is is to come to all that know him the Rock of Ages and the Christ in the Wildernesse which followed them he is a Teacher Leader and Guide to his People for ever he is a Horn of Salvation for ever he is the beginner and the end of all that is good the Author and Finisher of the Faith of his people in all Generations in this Generation is he the same and in his people doth he fulfil the Righteousnesse of the Law as in the Generations past Rom. 8.4 Mark in us all ye that are speaking of Justification by a Christ a far off who ye never saw and of Faith in his Promises whom ye never heard but are yet dead in your sins Now do ye rage and fill your mouths with venome because Babylon is falling and your kingdom departing Now do you cast out your flouds of wickednesse to drownd the Man-child that will rule you all and vex you in his sore displeasure mark the Child is born the Sun is known that in the dayes of the Prophets was born and given unto them Abraham saw his day and rejoyced and heard his voice and was glad this is he and he doth not change though to blind man he appears not the same and all
the Prophets and Righteous men heard his voice and he wrought all their works in them for them and saved his people from their sins took away the shadowand destroyed death and ransomed them from the power of the grave and did such works in them for them as never man ever did is not this the very Christ yea this is he and besides him there is no Saviour neither do I look for another he opens the blind eye and the deaf ear he causeth to hear he makes the dumb to speak and the lame to walk he opens the heart to discipline and commandeth man to depart from iniquity he saith and it cometh to passe as ever the Winds and the Sea doth he rebuke and still the proud Waves thereof as in the Generations past this is the Lords doing and in my eyes very marvellous this is his Name and his Memorial the Lord our Righteousnesse throughout all Generations this is he that saith I am the Lord and change not that is my Name and besides me there is no Saviour let all Disputers of this World be confounded before him whose way is everlasting that sitteth upon the Flouds and walketh on the Sea as on dry land and the waters sink not under him that turneth the darknesse into light and the day light into the shadow of death let all the wise to do evil and oppose him be made mad for ever and let them not find an arm to help them that cannot see the Arm of Gods Salvation but are comparing the Holy One of Israel the Immanuel to and with themselves and likening the invisible and incorruptible Redeemer of the invisible and immortal soul unto corruptible man that are setting up the letter instead of the eternal quickening Spirit that giveth life that sees not a difference betwixt the flesh that profiteth not and the flesh that is the life and if I say the Saviour of the World I lie not between the word that doth wash cleanse and purifie the Hearts of the Saints and was like a hammer and a fire in Jeremiah and in all the Prophets and is the same and changes not in all Generations which word they heard and believed in it and therefore spake and the Word that the Apostles did feel taste hear and handle which was in the beginning with God and was God and this is the Saviour of the World and besides him there is not another but ye being blind cannot perceive him that took Flesh upon him and had a Body prepared to do the will of him that set him if thou hast an ear to hear or an eye to perceive this is he that descended and the same that ascended far above all Heavens into the bosom of the Father and sitteth on the right hand on the Majesty on high and is glorified with the same Glory that he had with the Father before the world began this is a mystery if thou canst receive it thou art happy But may not I say as once was said to the men of Galilee Why stand ye gazing Why are you seeking the Living among the Dead Is not he the Resurrection And is there any life in any other Is not this he that is the eternal and everlasting day in which ye ought to walk And out of the Bosom of the Father did he not proceed and was one with him who saith This is my beloved Son hear Him And the Holy Ghost did appear in the likenesse of a Dove yet was not a Dove so say I and my sayings are faithful and true Christ the Saviour of the World came in the likenesse of sinful flesh and took upon him the form of a Servant yet was he not sinful flesh but the eternal Son of God which was begotten of the Spirit and is Spirit there is a Spiritual Body and there is a natural Body there is a corruptible and there is an incorruptible Body but this is a mystery to the World in a few words time would fail me to declare his Generation to the uttermost I may say that which I have seen of him Oh the depth and heighth length and breadth of his unsearchable riches and wisdom and how in all generations he hath been to his people an infinite treasure a boundlesse fountain and an everlasting stream of goodnesse life vertue peace and pure satisfaction in all generations who was before all the Authour Creator and Maker of all in whom was Life and he is not changed but in him is life eternal peace everlasting and satisfaction eternally and his life runs through all discerns and beholds all and shines in the darknesse and none can flee from him neither is there any darknesse nor shadow of death where the worker of iniquity can hide himself from his dreadful hand that it should not find him out though man being in the first birth and born blind and a transgressor from his mothers womb doth not see nor comprehend the Light that hath enlightned him though it shine in his heart and doth convince all and reprove all of their ungodly deeds and hard speeches that they have wickedly spoken against the Lord yea and it will condemn thee Matthew Caffin for all thy ungod like and unchristian-like lyes and slanders cast upon the people whom the Lord hath blessed and chosen for his peculiar treasure even thee in whom the Father of lyes ruleth and his works are wrought in thy wicked heart out of which cometh slanders and lyes abundantly and them thou dost invent thy self and calst them the Quakers errors when thou hast done whose foundation and principle thou knowest not but speakest evil of that wch thou art a stranger unto though thou talkest of faith of being a Christian indeed which thou sayst few do attain unto yet art thou one of the vain disputers of the world like Cain art wounding and shooting thy arrows against the innocent and like Ishmael art scorning the Lords people saying the Quakers saith turn to the light within this was Pauls Commission and the Quakers work which in this world they have to do this was the Prophets work and Johns message to turn people from darknesse to the light and from the Power of Satan to God Act. 26.18 and 1 John 5. and Paul saith it was the Light that shone in the heart which must give them the knowledge of the glory of God and John said the anointing which was in them that was truth and nolye taught them all things and with this anointing or unction they were to try the false Spirits though thou scornest at the Quakers because their message is to turn people to the light and though it be true that the light within was sufficient and it is the same and changeth not to all the Fathers which died in the faith to save them from all sin and redeem them out of all tribulation and in which Light they walked with God who is the Fountain and Father of Lights and they were