and professing Christians That is their false god even the love which is not of the True GOD who is Love and who is Light for the Light in all your Consciences upon a due search of all your hearts will reprove it And again Gen. 6.5 Where the Imagination of the heart of man ruleth which is only evil continually I say where the Imagination worketh in Jew or Gentile to walk according to the Law or the Gospel being not in that by which the Law was given forth and the Gospel preached they worship a false god that which their own hearts do imagine to be God whilst the True GOD is hid from Imaginers the worshippers of strange gods which their Imaginations do make in their minds Now that is the ground of an Idol and the ground of Idolatry The Imagination which blinds the eye and blinds the heart Rom. 1.28 and blinds the understanding altogether concerning the true Knowledge of the True GOD. For they like not to retain GOD in their knowledge who like to retain Imaginations in their minds Many have heard it said that GOD is a Spirit Joh. 4.24 and he will be worshipped in Spirit and do think from that report they have enough of the knowledge of GOD and of the True Worship and yet the World that thus confess are divers in their Worships being not yet in the Spirit in which GOD is truly known and witnessed to be a Spirit they worship they know not what Joh. 4.22 who are in the flesh in the lust nature and deeds of the flesh which is at enmity with God who is a Spirit Here I find all the World Jew and Gentile Professor and Prophane of all Nations in sin in the flesh at enmity with GOD and the Spirit and with all that walk with GOD and Worship GOD in Spirit and do hate and persecute them Gal. 4.29 according to that which Paul said As then he that was born after the Flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit even so it is now mark even so it is now because they know not GOD which hath begotten us into the Spirit and therefore they hate the Father and them whom the Father sendeth And this to all the Idol Worshippers within and the Idol-worshippers without in the World is the Word of the LORD GOD. Concerning the strait Way to Life IT is not the will of the LORD that alwayes the simple should be held in a by-way Therefore let me declare unto the simple Isa 35.8 the strait-way of the Lord which the way-faring-men though fools shall not erre therein All the World is yet ignorant of that way being in divers pathes in the going forth of their Feet but in the substance and body their footsteps lead them Matth. 7.13 to meet all in the one broad wide way of sin and transgression which leads to the Pit of Perdition This is glad-tidings to the Seed of the captivity which I sound among the sons of men The LORD is come and coming to fulfil the Promise of his Covenant which he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophet Jeremiah whom GOD sent as a Child among the Nations with his Word and to confound the counsels of the wise by the Revelation of his Wisdom in Childhood Behold the dayes come Jer. 3.31 33. saith the LORD that I will make a new Covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah I will put my Law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and will be their GOD and they shall be my People 1 Cor. 10.1 2 3 4. That was the Law which God gave unto Moses who was a Follower of Christ which was not written in tables of stone but engraven upon the table of the heart For this commandment which I give thee this day is not hidden from thee neither is it a far off it is not in heaven Deut. 30.11 12 13 14. that thou shouldest say who shall go up for us to heaven and bring it to us that we may hear it and do it neither is it beyond the Sea that thou shouldest say who shall go over the Sea for us and bring it unto us that we may hear it and do it But the Word is very nigh unto thee in thy Mouth and in thy Heart that thou mayest do it Rom. 10.8 2 Pet. 1.19 And this was the Word of Faith which Paul preached and the same Word of Faith which Peter also bore witnesse to saying We have a more sure Word of Prophecie whereunto ye do well if ye take heed as unto a Light that shineth in a dark Place until the day dawn and the day-Star arise in your Hearts Now all that are not come to this Word of Faith which is a Light that shineth in a dark Place they are out of the true Faith of Christ whose Name is called the Word of GOD Who saith Rev. 19.13 John 8.12 Joh. 12.46 I am the Light of the World which lighteth every man that cometh into the World saith John 1.9 And Christ the Light of the World who said I am the Way the Truth and the Life no man cometh unto the Father but by by me John 14. v. 6. This is the Way which for Ages hath been hid from the simple the Light which leadeth to the Father who giveth Life everlasting to all that love the Light and follow and walk in the Light wherewith they are lightened which tells you in youâ— own mindes and consciences that you must not Swear nor Lye nor Steal nor Covet nor be Proud nor Scornful nor vain in your Words and Hearts nor wanton in your Mindes unto uncleanness and lust of the Flesh nor Envy any man which is murder nor be Drunk nor Gluttenous nor to do any Wickedness This is the strait-way Matth. 7.14 and the little narrow way which Christ the Light who is the Way spake of leads to Life it is strait and narrow to that Nature in all flesh living which walks in sin enemies to the strait way of Life John 16.8 The Light which convinceth the World of sin if you love it and follow it will lead out of all sin this is the way which the Prophets prophesied of should be to the wayfaring-men though fools wherein they should not erre This is tryal to all the Worlds ways of Jew and Gentile upon the face of the earth Are they entred in that way in which a Sinner cannot walk 1 Jo. 3.8 Joh. 3.19 No Sinner doth walk in the Light for all Sin is of the Devil And he that commits Sin is of the Devil And this is the condemnation of the world that Light is come into the world and men love Darknesse rather than Light because their deeds are evil The Lord God is come to put all Professions in the Ballance and wil weigh them in the Ballance of Equity and that which is found in the vanity of
person where that of God in the conscience rules which respects no man's person 1 Kin. 3 24. here the Sword divides aright It gives a whole living Child to the true mother and the harlot set to be stoned without the Camp this makes the heart of the Righteous glad and so the whole Land becomes as God's Israel in which the showers of blessing and mercy flow for ever whose dwellers plagues come not to touch And this is the offering which God requires among you true Iudgement and Iustice to be executed upon the head of the transgressor without mercy But mercy to the Poor the Widdow the Fatherlesse and Oppressed and not to pervert the way of the stranger to turn him out of his way and all to be done and executed by the measuring line of true Judgement that of God in your consciences to order all your Lawes Acts and Ordinances that when God comes Innocent blood may not be found in your Land for which God is coming to visit and where the measure is scant and the ballances falsified God will find out the Iniquity and overturn it and make all as a plain before him and plant such in the Nations for his service as shall not bear the Sword in vain Concerning the Law saith Paul 1 Tim. 1.9 10 The Law is not made for a Righteous man but for the lawlesse and disobedient for the ungodly and for sinners for unholy and prophane for murderers and man-flayers for whoremongers for them that defile themselves with mankind for Stealers for Lyars and for Perjured persons Where the measure of the Lord Rules there the Law is fulfilled but where the Will rules concerning the Law or concerning the Customes or concerning Professions and Religions then the Heart is blind and cannot Judge then the unrighteous rules and it judgeth the just and by this the Just alwaies suffered the Prophets were killed and Christ crucified and the Apostles stoned and put to Death read Ps 94.20 21. Sinners and ungodly for whom the Law was made judged them for whom the Law was not made in their perverse Wills by a Law and this was alwaies the blindnesse and Ignorance of the World who did not judge according to that of God in the conscience for which cause the Jewes and Greeks are under a curse to this day whose sin is not repented of Therefore a warning to the whole World how they being sinners and in their sins Judge and condemn the Innocent and such in whose mouth is no guile nor in their heart Iniquity for the mighty day of God is at hand and the Lord is coming to enter into Iudgement for his own Therefore let all your Lawes be according to that of God in the conscience that you wrong not the Innocent nor hale Innocent blood upon your heads for such a Nation God will establish for ever and give their enemies as a prey to their net And this is your Visitation from the Lord whether you will hear or forbear I. P. Postscript GO ye and learn what that meaneth I will have MERCY and not SACRIFICE Mat. 9.13 saith Christ Learn to offer unto the Lord of his own that which is acceptable in his sight offer Truth and offer Righteousness the fruits of an upright heart God requireth substance and not shadows Psa 50.9 10 11 12. substance without all shadows I will take no Bullock out of thy house saith the Lord nor He-Goats out of thy folds for every beast of the Forrest is mine and the cattel upon a thousand Hills I know all the Fowls of the Mountains and the Wild-beasts of the Field are mine all the Bees of the Woods and the Waters of the Fountains are the Lord's who sanctifieth Israel If I were hungry I would not tell thee for the World is mine and the fulness thereof The Lord hath no pleasure with thousands of Rams or with the offering of ten thousand Rivers of Oyl for he hath shewed thee O Man what is good Mic. 6 7 8 9 12 13. and what the Lord doth require of thee But to DO JUSTLY and to LOVE MERCY and to WALK HUMBLY with thy GOD The Lord's voice crieth unto the City The rich men thereof are full of Violence and the Inhabitants thereof have spoken Lyes and their Tongue is deceitful in their Mouth Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee Hose 5.4 in making thee desolate because of thy sins They frame not their doings to turn unto God for the spirit of Whoredomes is in the midst of them And they have not known the Lord Hos 4.2 3 4 6 9. for with Swearing and Lying and Killing and Stealing and committing Adultery they break out and Blood toucheth Blood Therefore shall the Land mourn and the Inhabitants shall fall in the day and the Prophet also shall fall with thee in the night and I will destroy thy Mother My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge For it is come to passe that there is like People like Priest wherefore I will punish them for their wayes and reward them for their doings The Lord God is working a Work of glory and praise unto his own Name and utter confusion to the whole Earth Confusion of their Words Confusion of their Works Confusion of their Wayes and will shew the Confusion of their Doings and confound the Imaginations of their Hearts and will make the Earth to know Rev. 21 23. ch 22.5 that in his holy Temple in the City of the Living God there needeth not the Light of a Candle nor the Light of the Moon nor the Light of the Sun for the Lamb is the Light thereof And if the Lord had need of any of those Lights who created them he would not say unto vain man that he needed them For he sheweth thee O man that thou shouldst walk by the Light which shineth in thy Conscience which sheweth and convinceth thee of thy sins and transgressions he requireth not the Songs of the cruel nor the Prayers of sinners Io. 9.31 Psa 34.18 Ps 51.17 but in a broken heart the soul of the Lord taketh pleasure Wherefore strip you make you naked and bare put away the Lyes and Oathes and Curses of your Lips and the Iniquity and Lusts of your Hearts Come now and cloath you with Righteousness and adorn your Breasts with the Chain of the Glory of Truth and be bound to the Lord therein Then in stead of Vengeance the dew of Mercy in stead of the overflowing wrath showers of Compassion in stead of a cup of trembling the wine of everlasting consolation Else behold the Indignation of the Lord as a Flood from his holy Mountain shall sweep the Channels and the stream of the fury of the Lord shall accomplish his end upon all the possessors of corruption And this is the Word of the Lord God to all the Inhabitants of Sodom Written by his Servant in obedience to his Commandment who is made a man of sorrows because of your sins Oh! that you all heard the voice of my cry over your City then would you cloath with sack-cloath and joyn in mourning and repent and know that your warning is from the Lord God which hath measured thy streets whose channels flow with blood and uncleanness I am a Lover of all your Souls JOHN PERROTT THE END
the heart is not upright before the LORD but their bones are full of Rottenness And would not this very Generation make a mock of Christ if Christ should come to ask of them What was your Father Adam Did my Father say that he was a Gentleman when he was made in his uprightness â—or your Mother Eve a Gentlewoman as the proud deceitful flesh among you are titled Gentlemen and Gentlewomen What was Abel Seth and Enoch Noah Abraham Isaac Jacob Moses Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel Daniel Job Micha Zechary and the rest of the Prophets were they such Gentlemen as you Or if Christ should say was I reckoned such a Gentleman as you who was by such transgressors as you are numbred among transgressors Was Peter Paul Matthew Mark Luke or John Gentlemen such as you are If Christ should ask you these things would not you laugh at him and mock at him as the Jews laughed and mocked him upon the Crosse And now I ask you which of you is better than they were And further Where did any of the Apostles or Disciples or Brethren say one to another You are my Lord Sir I am your slave Sir with pulling off of Hats one to another and making great bowings one to another Where do you find that that was the manner of their salutation and greeting one another which you hold in deceit one towards another Yet these Gentlemen of your nature besides that Name in their cursed nature will say We are Christians and Christ is our Lord and Saviour Mat. 7.21 22. But I will tell you what Christ will say to such yea unto many such as will say Lord Lord In thy Name we have done many miracles in thy Name we have cast out Devils your Gentlemen are far from that of casting out Devils and if the Lord Christ will say to them Depart you cursed workers of Iniquity I know you not think you will he say lesse to your Gentlemen Again you that call Christ Lord hear you what the Lord Christ said unto such as you are Luke 6.46 Why call ye me LORD and do not the things which I say Now this Christ said Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy mind and with all thy soul and thy neighbour as thy self Paul witnessed to it Rom. 8.4 John 14.15 John 2.4 That the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit And again saith Christ He that loveth me keepeth my Commandments Unto which John bears Testimony saying Whosoever saith he knows God and keeps not his Commandments is a lyar So you are here brought to proof and tryal whether GOD is your LORD or the Prince of the power of darknesse he that was a Lyar from the beginning your principal Head and Ruler let that of GOD the Light in all your Consciences Answer Psa 50.16 17. How dare you take my Name in your mouthes saith GOD whilst you hate to be reformed This is to you also that take God's Name in vain when your hearts are vain and exercised in vanity and telling vain stories and speaking about vain things GOD will not hold you guiltless that take his Name in vain and the Name of Jesus in vain Exod. 20.7 yet you would have the Name of Christians because you confesse Christ to have been slain at Jerusalem but that will not serve you though also you call him Lord whilst you keep not the Commandments of the Lord. For I enquire among you all concerning the Lord of Life whether you know him to be daily crucified in your streets which spiritually are called Sodom and Egypt Revel 11.8 Here Christ is but called Lord with that Iniquity which for the love of the unrighteous Mammon call men Masters and Lords and saith I am your Servant Sir I am your Slave Sir whilst that is but a flattering Lye And here they flatter others with Lyes and flatter themselves with Lyes and in Lyes and are so vain in their Imaginations that they would flatter GOD with Lyes But GOD will make you all to know that he will not be mocked Gal. 6.7 Wherefore I say unto you that in vain hopes you expect Salvation whose pleasure is to persevere in Iniquity who are bound in the Womb of Witch-crafts in the loathsomness of all manner of unrighteousness If Noah Daniel and Job were among you Ezek. 14.14 their righteousness should but save themselves and but onely Jesus the Righteousness of GOD intercede for them or if Paul Peter and Mary were among this Generation of loathsome sinners their righteousness should but only save themselves and Jesus the only Intercessor and Mediator but only Intercede for them So wherein you hope to die the death of the Just and so to receive the Inheritance of the Just and live not the life of the Just I tell you nay The Inheritance of the Just will not be yours who live not the Life of the Just Your hope in the end Remember in vengeance when you are under wrath that I told you before mark the end their hope is the hope of the Hypocrite and their trust is as a Spider's-web Job 8.13 14. Luke 16.20 21 22 23 24 25. Isa 3.18 to 24. you that are called Gentlemen and Gentlewomen who live in your lusts and pleasures Read you your Figure as in a Glass the Scripture concerning the Rich man and Lazarus Read the Torment of Dives and mark his portion and consider your latter end Judah and Jerusalem had a day of warning whose Inhabitants were adorned with all manner of bravery and tinkling Ornaments with chains and bracelets and ornaments of the leggs and ear-rings and rings and changable suits of apparrel wimples and crisping-pins and glasses and fine linen and hoods and vails but the LORD GOD changed the glory of their Liberty and brought them down into Captivity Let their Sufferings be your Example and remember when Suffering comes upon you that you were warned to Repent And now you that would know the true adorning let me tell you what Peter witnesseth to be the true adorning he saith Let it not be the outward adorning of plaiting the hair and of wearing of gold or of putting on of apparrel but let it be the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of great price Now what will you all say for your selves who in your life are enemies to the Life walking contrary to the Doctrine of the Apostle Peter Deceive not your Souls if you would chuse to dye the death of the Just to have the Inheritance of the Just You must all choose first to come to the Light in all your Consciences which reproves you for all your sins and wickedness and following the Light which comes from Christ and none other Guide it will lead you to the Life