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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38772	A brief discovery of God's eternal truth and a way opened to the simple hearted whereby they may come to know Christ and his ministers, from Antichrist and his ministers : with a warning from the Lord to all people that do name the name of Christ, to depart from iniquity / written in the inquisition of Malta by ... Katherine Evans.	Evans, Katharine, d. 1692.	1663 (1663)	Wing E3453; ESTC R15841	22,883	58

A BRIEF DISCOVERY OF God's Eternal Truth AND A Way opened to the simple hearted whereby they may come to know CHRIST and his Ministers from ANTICHRIST and his Ministers With a WARNING from the Lord to all people that do name the Name of Christ to depart from Iniquity Written in the Inquisition of Malta by a Servant of the Most High called KATHERINE EVANS London Printed for R. Wilson 1663. A brief DISCOVERY of Gods Eternal Truth THus saith the Lord Let every one that nameth the Name of Christ depart from Iniquity for the day cometh and now is that the Name of Christ will be dreadful and terrible to all workers of iniquity and God the Father hath committed all Power in Heaven and in Earth and Seas also to his Son Jesus Christ and hath raised him in Power and great Glory in thousands of his Saints to convince the world of Sin of Righteousness and of Judgment that the Prince of this World may be judged and cast out for he shall never have any part or portion with the Heir of Eternal Life and Salvation who hath Power to judge and to justifie and to condemn or to save to scatter and to gather to break to pieces and to bind up that which is broken to pieces and he will establish his own Spiritual Government Righteous Rule and Pure Holy Worship to the ends of the Earth and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it for whatsoever he hath purposed shall surely come to pass and his Decree shal stand and Wo wo wo to every one that doth lift up a hand against any of those that the Lord God doth send forth in his Name in this the Day of his Power to preach Glad-tydings to the meek or do form any carnal weapon against him in his Anointed thinking to disinherite him who is possessed Heir of all But the time doth hasten that the Lord God of Power will exalt his Princely Scepter over all Scepters Thrones and Dominions Kingdoms and Countries and none shall be able to prevent him or resist his mighty Power Hear ye this O all ye People upon the face of the Earth who are called Christians or do call your selves by Christ's Name both Kings and Princes Emperors Nobles and mighty men of the Earth by what name or title soever ye are called high or low rich or poor for our God is no respecter of persons but every one that feareth his Name and worketh Righteousness is accepted of him Wherefore it chiefly behoveth every one of you to turn your minds within to the Light in your Consciences that convinceth of all Sin and makes manifest every evil deed be it done never so secret the Light will discover it It is a measure of God's free Grace given to every one to profit themselves withal and search examine and duely consider how you come to have right or title to Christ's Name or what it is that maketh a Christian for every true Christian is an Heir of God and Joynt-heir with Christ For as in Adam all die so in Christ shall all be made alive Now you know that God created Adam at the first in a pure perfect state of Innocency his mind and soul in his own Image and likeness which was Light and Life and placed him in the Garden of Paradise a place of eternal blessedness to all that do obey the Light and God gave Adam dominion over all the creatures that God created for the use of man and blessed them unto him in that state of Innocency and bid him eat of the fruit of every tree of the Garden but the tree of knowledge of good and evil that was good too but not for food And the Lord said unto Adam Thou shalt not eat of the fruit of that tree for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye Adam did not stand in the Counsel of the Lord but turned from the Light and hearkened to the Woman whom the Serpent beguiled and did eat of the forbidden Fruit and so disobeyed the Commandment of the Lord God and fell from that state of Blessedness into that state wherein all things are an utter curse unto him and unto all in that state of disobedience eternally but the just and wise and holy Lord God whose mercies are above all his works did promise that the Seed of the Woman should bruise the Serpents head There are but two seeds the Seed of the Woman and the seed of the Serpent Now this was the way which the pure and wise and perfect Lord God did find out in himself to recover Man out of the Fall again through the everlasting Covenant of the promised Seed of all blessedness The Promise of God was not unto seeds as to many but unto the Seed as unto one In Isaac shall all the Kindreds of the Earth be blessed The Promise of God which cannot fail was only to the Seed of faithful Abraham And Paul saith If ye are Christs then are ye Abrahams seed and heirs to the Promise Wherefore every one of you in Christendom may do well to turn in your minds to the Light of God in your own Consciences and try your selves and see whether you have received the true righteous Seed or are born of the pure and perfect Spirit of Christ Iesus yea or nay the Light will not deceive you but deal plainly with you and make manifest unto you all that ever was or is within you And he that is in Christ hath the witness in himself so that he need not go forth to seek after him or to ask the way to Sion for I am the Way the Truth and the Light saith Christ and he that followeth me shall not abide in darkness but have the Light of Life and He that hath not the Witness in himself is in darkness and hath not received the Light of Life the Spirit of Christ and He that hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of his Then what profit hath anyone to have the Name of Christ and out of his Nature The Nature of Christ is altogether pure perfect holy and upright meek humble sober loving merciful tender-hearted liberal in all good long-suffering and ready to forgive and willing to bear the contradictions of sinners and the rebukes of the vile sons of men and did lay down his Life for to save them that hated him and were and are Enemies to his Cross And all that are in Christ ought themselves to walk as he walked or else how should they be known to be born of the true Seed of God for where the Seed of the Kingdom is sown and received into good ground in an honest heart it taketh deep root and bringeth forth fruit answerable to the Seed in some thirty in some sixty and in some an hundred fold that God may be glorified for herein is my Father glorified that ye bring forth much fruit saith Christ speaking to them that were called by his Name and were his

in the disobedient nature out from God and his Truth in the earthly mind and carnal will comprehending this thing and that in the fallen wisdom inventing devising and imagining things that never were nor is nor never will be So your Prophets they prophesie lies and the Priests bear rule by their means and the People love to have it so but what will they do in the end thereof in the day when the Lord shall require the Talent that he gave to every one to profit withal Now where is the Talent with the Improvement is it not lost is it not hid in the barren wilderness and in the desolate places of the earth Oh try and examine search and consider where is that good and faithful Servant and just Steward that hath improved his Talent for his Masters use and is ready to give up his Accounts with joy before the Tribunal of the Majesty of the Most High having his Garment washed in the Blood of the Lamb and his heart sprinkled from an evil Conscience and the Body washed with pure water I do not say nor mean external water to wash the out-side of the body but I do mean the spiritual Water that streams from the Fountain or Rock Christ Jesus to wash the inside and to cleanse the Soul and Spirit from all Pollution and Defilement Ye wash the outside while the inside is not cleansed the inside will defile the outside again but if the inside be cleansed and purged from all dross and tin and reprobate silver and gold then it would cleanse the outside also and keep it clean it is the corrupted Beast that is full of Lust and all manner of Deceivableness that defileth the whole body within and without So the man or woman whose heart is without Deceit whose mouth is without guile and whose tongue doth not utter falshood nor hath no flattering lips nor polluted hands nor feet swift to shed blood such are known to be cleansed every whit and they see God The pure in heart do see God but they whose hearts are daubed and slimy through deceit and hypocrisie hard-heartedness and cruelty and the like such cannot see God nor they that take honour and seek honour of one another do not believe How can you believe saith the Apostle while you take Honour one of another And all that Honour or take Honour of earthly men do rob God to whom all Honour Worship Praise and Glory doth belong and all that do honour God and obey his Voice in the Truth the Lord will make them honourable in the sight of all men but all that live in Pride and Covetousness Lust and Drunkenness are out of the Truth and all who live in Swearing Lying Deceit or Hypocrisie or Envy Hatred Malice Bloodshed Hardheartedness or Cruelty are out of the Truth or they which live in Thieving or Cozening Cheating Dissembling Flattering Whispering Backbiting Bragging or Boasting speaking great swelling Words having mens Persons in admiration because of advantage these are all out of the Truth and are Hereticks and are carried out of the Way of God with Nimrod and Judas King Herod and Pharoah and the rest of that untoward Generation not knowing the Scriptures neither the Power of God and because they do not believe them nor understand them therefore they hide them from others and do corrupt them and add to them and diminish from them not fearing the Lord God that gave them forth by his own free Spirit and for the edification of every one But I am bold to declare in the Name of the true and living God that all the Plagues which are written in them will soon come upon the back of such a People or Souls that have wrought this Wickedness in the sight of the Lord God of Power who is risen and will render Vengeance in Flames of Fire upon them that know him not and do not obey his Gospel but live in the earthly Mind and carnal Will fallen from God and compelling the People to follow their devised Wayes building of them up in Sin and Wickedness yet making them believe they may go to Heaven at the last though they live in Sin till they die Oh! that ever any People or Souls should ever be so blind and ignorant to think that though they spend all their appointed Time in Sin and Iniquity and run out the whole course of natures race in pleasure negligence and carelesness and when they cannot retain it any longer then do they offer up their sinful Souls as a Sacrifice acceptable to God who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity though it be in his beloved Jacob it shall not go unpunished Oh! methinks that no rational or sober-minded Man or Woman should once credit or believe that do know the Scriptures that there is any place appointed of God for any Creatures to be purged or cleansed after they are dead seeing the Holy Men of God as they were moved of the holy Ghost have so evidently and clearly set forth in the Scriptures of Truth That those which are Heirs of Eternal Salvation must come to be converted and to live the Life of Christ while they are here in the body Though God delighted in Mercy and that the Thief was saved upon the Cross because it was given him of the Lord to believe at last because that none should despaire yet Woe Woe from the Lord God to every one that puts off the Day of Repentance saying in their hearts The evil day is afar off In the day of ignorance the Lord winked but now he calleth every one to repent And as for such as do talk of a Purgatory it doth manifest their Ignorance of the Knowledge of God for I witness in the Life of God's Spirit such know not Heaven nor Hell God nor Devil and so they call Light Darkness and Darkness Light Good Evil and Evil Good and teach the People so to do but God is not well pleased with any of those nor with them that do boast themselves saying How great the Kingdom is and how many Countries and innumerable sight of People belongeth to their Church in all places but them that trust in the Arm of Flesh yea in the strength of Pharoah and in the Shadow of Egypt but the strength of Pharoah will be her shame and their trusting in the shadow of Egypt their confusion God's Kingdom is the least as to the visible strength but the greatest in the invisible power Fear not little Flock saith Christ it is your Fathers good pleasure to give you the Kingdom The Kingdom of God consists not in the arm of Flesh but it stands in his own Power and Almightiness That is Antichrists Kingdom whose power stands in outward weapons which is carnal as Locks and Bolts and Iron-bars Chains and Whips and Racks and the like Our Weapons are not carnal but spiritual saith the Apostle ●o the pulling down Strong-holds Principalities and Powers and high and lofty Looks with