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A85492	A cal [sic] and a vvarning, to all priests, professors and people, vvho have and do profess the Scriptures, that they may try their doctrines and practises by it, and may own condemnation in their doctrines and practises, wherein they are contrary to the Scriptures. And a tender visitation to the whole vvorld, that they may own this their visitation, and may be healed and restored to the Lord; and this may serve for a looking glass, wherein people may see what visage they are of, and how they stand related as unto God. / By a sufferer in Hartford goale, for faithful witness-bearing, against this sinful generation; known by the name of John Gould.	Gould, John, prisoner at Hertford.	1657 (1657)	Wing G1416; Thomason E932_1; ESTC R202329	27,259	37

thou wilt not return thou must be destroyed both thou and thy King wherefore consider your wayes and doings O ye priests professors and people do ye think a profession of his words who is the life will save you from wrath to come who are enemies to his light and life and will not have him to rule and raign in you and over you who is the way to the Father and to his knowledge whom to know is life eternal and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent And do ye think ever to come to the knowledge of him O ye priests professors and people who are talking and professing of serving God in his own way and that such as will have Christ must have him in his own way and on his own terms and it will not own him the way even the way of his own appointment the light Doth not the Scriptures ye professors declare it or doth it say it self is it or is there another way then what it declareth of or another name given whereby the sons of men can be saved what mean ye that ye thus oppose the Lord and his way are ye stronger then he hath he not said he 'l no longer be served and worshipped in Temples made with mens hands and will ye still be serving him contrary to his mind hands and will and yet profess to serve and worship him in his own way hath he not said that he dwelleth not in temples made with hands and will ye be still seeking of him there notwithstanding all this Hath he not invited and called upon all to come unto him that they might have life and will ye be seekign life in the Scriptures for all this hath he not said the Kingdome of heaven cometh not with outward observances and will ye remain still seeking of it in those things and yet be telling the people and professing that God must be served and worshipped in his own way and yet seek to keep people in your own wayes are ye not deceitful and deceivers of the people who do thus ye are observing daies and moneths and times and years are ye not still carnal ye eat and drink but are ye not still empty and a thirst ye pray-and fast but receive not for ye ask amisse to spend it on your lusts ye observe daies and divers watchings and carnal Ordinances but are the comers thereunto made perfect as pertaining to the conscience ye cry out The Temples of the Lord the Ordinances of the Lord the Church of Christ the Ordinances of Christ but which of you is come to witnesse your bodies to be the Temple of the Holy Ghost or that you are made fit Temples for the Spirit of the Lord to dwell in or him come to wash you and cleanse you in his own blood and so to present you without spot to ●od even his Father or which of you is come to witnesse the Church of the First born which is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Pillar and ground of truth but on the contrarie ye profess teach and say none can or must or shall be set free from sin here and so endeavour to preserve your bodies temples for the devil and not Christ whilest here for Christs Temple is holie and ye say none must or can be set free from sin and so seek to keep people unholie and their bodies Temples of sin this Doctrine pleases the devil well and he loves you for it and will let you professe to serve God in Gods way and profess Christs Church say you are Christs Ministers so he may but keep you to be his Temples and Church and Ministers still and thrust Christ out of rule and dominion for he that commits sin is of the devil and his servants ye are to whom ye yield your members servants to obey whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto life O foolish and exceedinglie blinded and besotted men that will not see this and yet profess the Scriptures and where he is thus come and witnessed who changeth Ordinances and Laws and watchings and observations of daies and times and moneths and years and Sabbaths and dippings and sprinklings do ye not all rise up against him with one accord away with him he is not worthie to live to prison with him we have a Law Consider seriouslie is it not so with you as with them of the same generation of old to the light in all your consciences I speak Do ye think a profession of these things and a boasting of these things will serve your turns any more then it did your Forefathers of old from whom God was departed and removed who became persecutors of the life of his Son in his Saints are ye not found in the steps of those evil husbandmen who say behold the heir let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours and are ye so blind and bewitched by the god of this vvorld to think that ye shall escape their punishment will ye still preach and profess their words vvho vvitnessed Christ vvithin the end of the Lavv the carnal Ordinances the observations the Sabbaths and beggarly rudiments of the world and cause the Cross of Christ to cease through your traditions vvill ye still be found thus fighters against God in his Saints vvho novv vvitness forth the same and cannot submit unto those things vvhich he hath redeemed and purchased them out of even vvith his ovvn precious blood and are made to vvitness against them and your idol Worshipps and crie you have a Lavv will your Lavv think you excuse you in his sight vvho seeth you your vvaies and actions against him and his nay nay deceive not your selves God will not be mocked for such as you sow such shall you reap if ye sow to the flesh think ye shall ye not of the flesh reap corruption but if ye sow to the spirit of the spirit reap life everlasting Seriouslie sit down and weigh and consider is pride vanitie lust of the flesh idleness fulness of bread lying swearing drunkenness covetousness deceipt back-biting emulation strife quarrelling fighting reviling slandering evil speaking whispering halling out of Synagogues or Steeple-houses mocking stocking imprisoning cruel and evil entreating fruits of the Spirit or did ever such as witnessed the Spirit of God bring forth such fruits nay nay who witnessed the Spirit of Christ never were found in such practises search and see in the Scriptures in which ye think to find eternal life where ever any of the Saints of Christ who were possessors and not professors brought forth such fruits and can ye think or are ye so far blinded by the devil to believe ye shall be saved by professing their words and enemies to their life and led and guided by another spirit then that which they witnessed to be guided and led by or dare ye say that the Spirit of Christ is changed now from what it was then as some of ye do if not all that Revelation is

to nor worship man for conscience sake Are these things onely to be found at Rome and Italy and Spain and France who are called Christians as well as ye I and boast in it too and not in England also where liberty of conscience is profest even amongst you O ye great and tall Professors of the Scritures Do you think the Scriptures will cover you any more then they or that your Faith and Gospel and Christ is better then theirs who are respecting one anothers persons Will that Faith save ye any more then theirs Search the Scriptures and see Doth the change of the Air or of the Climate or of the Names or of the Languages or of the places or of the profession of God and Christ the Scriptures after another form or likenesse then theirs for they have the Names Christian and God and Christ and the Scriptures as well as ye and a form of godlinesse in some things as near the Letter as ye change the nature or beget a saving-faith which is that which purifies the heart and sets free from sin Or are ye not in your sin as well as they and say ye shall not be free here Onely herein they out-strip ye in profession for they professe a Purgatorie after this life through which they must passe and be cleansed and purified for they know that no unclean thing must enter into Heaven and ye think to enter in with your sins for here ye say you shall never be set free and so are deniers of the Scriptures in that particular more then they for you will not come to me saith Christ the light that you may have life Do ye think that the profession of the Scriptures will save you any more then them Or is the Scriptures me Were the Scriptures crucified at Jerusalem or slain since the foundation of the VVorld Or do ye think that Letters and Syllables joined together in words as God and Jesus will save from sin Or is that the blood which was shed without the City which only cleanseth from sin and purgeth from all unrighteousnesse Or is that to be found in things without VVill the blood of Bulls or Goats or the ashes of a Heifer think ye cleanse from sin If they would what needed he have come and been offered up and shed his blood at Jerusalem who came to fulfil the Law and the Prophets and the Passeover and the Circumcision and the divers washings and carnal Ordinances which could not make the comers thereto perfect as pertaining to the conscience And do ye think that Bread and VVine and VVater which are carnal things which you call Sacraments who taught you that VVord had you it by Revelation for the Scripture no where hath it will do it now why then the Pope of Rome and they of Italy Spain and France have more of them then ye yet they you say are Antichrist and none of the Saints and Church and people of God and we say so too Or is the manner or form of eating and drinking or dipping or sprinkling that alters the nature and makes it more saving to one then to another for 't is only in that ye differ for they have the same and more then ye circumstances by your own Doctrine alters not where the ground and foundation is one for circumstances doth not save according to your own Opinions nor change the ground VVhy then do you exclude them from being a Church of Christ more then your selves who professe more of the carnal Ordinances then ye and professe the same Scriptures the same Faith the same God the same Christ and the same Sacraments and where 's the difference but in the circumstances And it you say they are not a Church of Christ and professe that you your selves are and it say circumstances doth not save if the ground and foundation be one VVhat confusion is here Are you not all in Babylon Are not Mother and Daughter both Harlots Is your Bread and VVine and VVine and VVater better and holier the theirs Are they not all carnal Or is yours more pure and more saving Yet neither of them make the Comers thereunto perfect by your own confession is not their Saviour then as good as yours and their Church as yours both imperfect And is the Church of Christ so Search the Scriptures and see Doth they say it is Or doth it not say that he washeth and clenseth it in his own blood and presents it to God his Father without spot or wrinkle or anie such thing And do not the Apostles write to the Church which is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and dare ye say that 's imperfect as by your own confession yours is and it would be accounted a Church of Christ and your Teachers Ministers of Christ Is Christ imperfect Are ye not ministring the carnal Is Christ carnal Are ye not ministring the Letter Is the Letter the Spirit Are ye not ministring the Bread and VVine Is this Christ But it may be you 'l say You receive it by faith but is it faith in Christ search the Scriptures and trie Hath this faith purified your hearts If not it 's not Christs Hath it given you victorie over the world Hath it subdued and crucified the world unto you and you unto it Hath it sav'd clensed you from sin as by your own confession it hath not nor you say you believe never will here and so is not the faith in Christ which the Saints witnessed and if not in Christ not true nor saving nor wel-grounded faith which you oft talk of but know it not for the daie is come and approaching that your Foundations shall be shaken the Light comprehends you your Faith and Foundation which is tottering and sandie Therefore look about you ye that professe believers and beware for your image of Faith will not save ye anie more then the Popes Images VVhat 's that ye worship and pretend to serve Do ye know Is the Scriptures or mens meanings of them He Is Bread and VVine He Is the Ordinances He 'T is like you 'l say No but they lead to him VVhich of you have they lead to him Are ye found out Is your Ordinances Christ Doth anie lead to God but Christ Knows anie the Father save the Son and he to whom the Son will reveal him Are ye not making a Christ of your Ordinance and yet condemn the Pope and his Church to the devil for believing the bread vvine is transubstantiated into the Bodie Blood of Christ that when they eat it they eat his flesh drink his blood What difference betwixt their eating their God and yours leading to God and yet saying it 's Bread and Wine still which is carnal Doth that which is carnal lead to God whom to know and be led unto is life eternal And hath your dead Christ brought you thither yea or nay The Light sees your Christ and in it are you comprehended

ceas'd now and that none must expect Revelation now and so are deniers your selves of the Scriptures ye profess Nay nay it will not serve your turns ye cannot deceive the Lord though ye have long deceived men with the light ye are seen and comprehended and the Tree judged of by his fruits Is it the Spirit of the Lord that leads you into those things what means your pride and vanitie in apparrel your excess in eating and drinking rioting and sporting in the day time your chambering and wantonness your idle talk and foolish jesting and laughter which is madness and follie your lying one to another and deceipt and over-reaching one another in your dealings and commerce and Merchandize one with another and fighting and quarrelling and going to Law and swearing O ye priests professors and people are these the fruits of Christs Spirit or did ever any who were so guided act thus and except ye come to be guided by his Spirit O ye professors of the Scriptures ye are none of his profess what ye will for whosoever hath not the Spirit of Christ the same is none of his and know ye not that Christ Jesus is in you except ye be reprobates and they that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts Are ye so sottishlie blinded by the God of this world to believe and imagine that ye are Christs who are in the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life fashioning your selves according to the vanities of your minds after the conversation of this world after the deceiveable lusts fulfilling the desires of the wil of the mind being children of wrath and yet imagine your selves children of God Did ever any of the Saints do thus or take the children of Gods words to profess and cover over themselves withal whose adorning was not after the fashions of the world in the outward adorning as of plaiting and powdering the hair of gold and silver and costly Array but their adorning was in the hidden man of the heart even a meek and quiet spirit which in the sight of God is of great price and are you so blind to think these words will cover you who are found contrarie to their life or do you think that the holie womens of old their moderate decent attire mixt with gravitie sobrietie and chastitie and a quiet spirit such as accompanies holiness of life and conversation will be a fit cover to cover over your excess and pride and knots and spots and toyes and baubles and fashions and vails and neck-laces and gorgets and whisks and cuffs up to the elbowes and crispings and powderings and rings and bracelets and points and lace and ribbons and tops about mens legs to make them straddle with other evil behaviour of bowing and cringing the body and idle and vain-lying complements as you call them of your servant Sir or Madam or forsooth when oft there is evil in their hearts one against another and oft laughing and scoffing and cursing and wishing evil one of another behind their backs or it may be as soon as they are past each other plot one another mischief or raising evil reports one of another Is this according to godliness laughter and lightness and idle jesting and sporting and minceing and tinkling with your feet and dancing and curching and bowing the bodie each to other like Stage-players with lightness of behaviour and unchast looks and actions Is this according to holiness of life and conversation which the holie women of old lived in to the light in all your consciences I speak which will let you see that many of you are farther off from God then you were many years ago when it may be ye made not so large a show of profession as now and are ye not then hypocrites hypt above that which then convinced you of the evil of it and of them that walked in such things and so become worse instead of witnessing a growth in grace which the Saints of old did and are not these things to be found amongst you O ye priests professors and people and do ye think still to cover over your selves with the good words who are out of the good life and manners for if any come to you who are guided by the good manners Christs manners which is without respect to persons and speak thee or thou the Scripture language to any single person whatsoever are ye not ready to deride them or thrust them out of doors if not worse or say its filthy language and methinks ye may have better manners or if a man come to speak to some of you with his hat on and not doff it because he dare not act contrarie to Christs manners nor follow the vain customes of the world are ye not ready to deride him or strike him or cast him into prison and say he may lie there till he learn better manners and so ye manifest your selves to be enemies to Christ and his manners and teachings and faith which is without respect to persons and account it too low and mean a breeding and behaviour for your great worships who are big swoln with pride and envy even ready to burst again and in your faces plainlie shew whose image you bear and whose mark Will the Scriptures ye profess think you cover you who are found in these or such like practises vain men and women to be thus miserably deceived and deluded by the devil to say pride is not in the apparrel or in outward things pride is in the heart and so it 's plainly seen the day hath declar'd it even out of thy own mouth found a witness against thy self for if it were not then what means all this and much more vanity in thy life which might be declar'd and spoken of enough almost to defile a chaft mind to write it and yet if any be sent to declare the truth to you as it is in Jesus against your excess and vanitie are ye not ready to cry out one to another take heed of being bewitched or of being deceived can any be greater deceived and bewitched by the devil the old Serpent then you are already who are found in such practises And thus the devil would fain keep you still his subjects unto sin lust and vanities of the world by bidding of you take heed of being deceived and deluded lest he should lose a member and subject of his Kingdome but your follie and his subtilty must be made manifest it can no longer be hid for he is come and witnessed who makes all things manifest even your hidden works of darkness which are acted by you in secret are now brought to light even your chambering and wantonness where no eye of man sees there are your skirts uncovered O Sodom and AEgypt where our Lord lies crucified and that which is done in secret is now come to be preach'd upon the house-tops therefore in vain do ye hide your selves under a

profession of the Saints words fair fig-leaves but underneath a Serpent your coverings rent it will no longer hide you the bed is too short to stretch your selves upon and your covering is grown too narrow to any longer hide you your shame and nakedness appears And how think ye can ye ever come to know the covering of his Spirit who will not own nor believe in that which convinceth of sin but say it 's not sufficient to lead and guide unto salvation Do ye think a profession of their words will do it who did own it and were led and guided by it who witnessed salvation by it will this save you who are not led and guided by it but make slight of it even of that which was their leader and conducter into the New Jerusalem the City of the living God which is come down from God out of Heaven and yet professes their words who did believe and were witnesses of it O ye foolish and slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have written and that the Apostles witnessed unto and yet think to profess their words will save you who are not in their life Think you my servants of old were saved after this manner by professing my Saints and Servants words who went before them into the land of Rest Think ye Moses who was a faithful servant in my house was saved without Abrahams Faith which justified him by Works who was many hundred years before him Whom think ye was the Patriark Abraham saved by who was many hundreds of years before Moses Writings who saw my day saith Christ and rejoyced was he think ye sav'd by ritings Who shew'd Adam his transgression when he would have hid himself and run away to hide his nakedness knowing that he had sinned was it not he of whom Moses declares saying A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your Brethern like unto me him shall ye hear who though he were dead yet speaketh By whom think ye were the Patriarks told there was Corn in AEgypt who had sold Joseph thither to preserve them alive in Famine Was it not by him of whom Moses declares By whom did Joseph make mention of the Removing of his bones when as he was yet in AEgypt long before their departure By whom did Jacob bless both the sons of Joseph leaning on the top of his staff All these obtained a good report through Faith having not received the Promise who being dead yet speaketh Whom think ye that my servant Joshua called Jesus was sav'd by was it by Moses Writings Or by Faith in him whom Moses declared should come by which he entred the good land What should I speak of Jeptha and David and Sampson and Gideon and many others who through Faith remov'd Mountains stopt the mouths of Lions quench'd the violence of fire fought many battels over-come great Nations slew mighty Giants Ogg King of Bashan and Doeg King of the Amorites and Tidal King of Nations and Tartan Pull and Lud who bent the bow By whom think ye was Abraham strengthned when he rescued the spoils of the men of the East out of the hands of their enemies when Melchisedeck met him who was without beginning of dayes or end of life whose Father and Mother none knew neither had they a name in the earth unto whom the Patriarch Abraham gave the Tenth of the spoyls that he had taken who blessed him who had the Promise and without doubt the lesser was blessed of the greater who was the figure of him who was to come And do ye think O ye Priests People Professors and Inhabitants of the World that a making of Profession of these words will save you who know not him who was to come nor will not believe in the light from whence the words were declared forth who was the Oath and Promise unto Abraham when as he was yet uncircumcised who is the Father of all who believe in the Oath who said Of the fruit of thy Loyns shall he come in whom all the Nations of the Earth shall be blessed even by turning away the Curse for sin and saving his People from their sin in whose Seed all the Nations of the Earth shall be blessed and again in blessing I will bless thee and in multiplying I will multiply thee and thou shalt be the Father of many Nations and as the stars of heaven so shall thy Seed be you who are professing these words do ye know the Seed here spoken of which shall be as the stars of heaven for multitude unto which the Promise is not unto seeds as many but unto thy seed which is Christ in the Male and in the Female of which Moses in the Spirit testifieth Or how can ye ever come to this knowledg vvho deny the light vvhich lighteth every man that cometh into the World and so the seed of God ye are strangers and enemies to vvho deny the light to be sufficient to lead unto salvation all vvho believe in it and vvalk up to it and yet professe their vvords vvho vvitnessed salvation by it and take their sayings the holy men of Gods Words vvhich they spake vvrote from the Word that dvvelt in them and vvas vvith them and call them the Word of the Lord saying Hearken to the Word of the Lord vvho never knevv his Word nor had seen his shape at any time but are enemies to his Word and to those vvho professes his Word abiding in them and they in it and so are such found to be vvho have not his Word abiding in you who call that his Word which were Writings from his Word which they who knew the Word no where did And so his Word you are ignorant of and his life haters of and despisers of who have his words to make a profession of I wonder how ye should be still thus ignorantly blindfold as not to see this when as his so plainly declared of to you Do ye not wilfully stop your ears and blind your eies O ye priests professors and people that ye will not see this or do ye think or imagine to be saved by a Profession without the life and power or are ye resolv'd on 't that ye will not be saved and say still He 's not sufficient Will ye professe to be lovers of God and Christ and the spirit and yet say He 's not sufficient and be haters of them who are so who are followers of that which is good and do witnesse he 's sufficient Is this to love God and Christ and the Spirit as ye profess who are haters of the Brethren Can such a profession save you Doth the Scriptures ye profess witness forth such a salvation as this Or do ye think there 's another salvation then what they witness to which is the light of the World Christ Jesus And can you think to be saved by him who will not be led and guided by him Or doth he lead any into sin You who

and your Christ and with it denied and your Faith which doth not purifie for whilst I was under the leading and conduct of it I came not to the knowledge of God by it and so not to eternal life which is witnessed through faith in him and in his blood which purifies my heart and gives me dominion over the world and that Christ I know own and witnesse which saves from sin all that come unto him but your Christ is denied which you say you believe will not set you free from sin here and so is not the Christ of God which is the true Light which lighteth every one that cometh into the world who is manifest to take away sin and to destroy the works of the Devil and in him is no sin And this Christ I own and bear witnesse of who is the true Light the Ordinance of the Father whom ye hate and destroy and make void through your traditions and denie your Mock-Christ which you say will not save you from sin here but leaves you in the Devils work which is sin by your own confession and so your Christ is but transform'd in you like unto an Angel of Light O ye Professors and People and your Ministers like unto Ministers of Righteousnesse and so being not the same Christ but like him cannot save ye from sin and so not from condemnation but keepes you in it whilest ye are here and perswades you that ye cannot be set free and this Christ ye believe in And here 's the mysterie of iniquitie hid and discovered even the spiritual wickednesse got into high places unto all who have an eye to see and an ear to hear and an heart to understand and will not wilfullie blind themselves by hating knowledge and instruction And this mysterie of iniquitie works not onelie at Rome and Italy and Spain and France but in England also and in every particular Member of that Church which is not in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the pillar and ground of Truth whom to know is life eternal which none comes to know but such who comes down to know and own the light within them which is pure of God which convinceth of sin and iniquitie and shews evil deeds that 's the Light which lets ye see when ye tell a lie when ye swear or be drunk or commit anie other sin that ye are serving the devil and not God when ye are fulfilling the lust of the flesh the lust of the eie and the pride of life that this is not of the Father but of the World and the World passeth awaie and the lusts thereof but he that doth the Will of God the same abideth for ever and this being obeyed which convinceth and sin denied it leads unto Christ from whence the light comes who leads to the Father of Light with whom there is no variableness neither shadow of changing who of his own good will hath he begotten us by the Word of his Povver unto a livelie hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead that we should be as the first fruits unto him having slain the enmitie on the Cross and broken down the Partition-wall and hath brought in everlasting Righteousness even by washing and purging of us in his own blood and his flesh we know which is meat indeed and his blood which is drink indeed and his covering we know But the wo from him is unto all such as are found covered and covering themselves with a covering and not of the spirit of the Lord for the Lord our God is come and coming in the Clouds of Heaven with the voice of the Arch Angel and the shout of a great Trump to call all vvho are in the Graves to arise and stand up to judgement they that have done vvell to the resurrection of life but they that have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation and the daie dravvs nigh a pace vvherein the Book of conscience must be opened and every one come to be judged out of the book of his ovvn conscience for all that ever hath been done in the bodie vvhether it be good or evil and he that hath done good shall go into life everlasting but he that hath done evil into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his Angels vvhere shall be vveeping and hovvling and gnashing of teeth vvhere the vvorm never dieth nor the fire is not quenched vvhich is the second death out of vvhich there 's no Redemption but blessed and holie is he that hath his part in the first Resurrection over such the second death shall have no povver but they shall reign Kings and Priests to God even for ever and ever even so Lord Jesus come quickly Amen Written to you from the Lord God vvho is Judge of quick and dead by a lover of all your souls that so vvith the Light of Christ Jesus vvithin you might come to a true sight and discoverie of your estates and conditions that so coming to be sensible of them you might return to the Lord in your life time before you be sealed up in the pit of everlasting darkness for the day of sealing is come and the Bride the Lambs Wife hath made her self readie and is entred into the Bed-Chamber And I John saw the Angel flying through the midst of Heaven having the Key of the bottomless Pit in his hand to seal and shut up all such who are found bearing the mark of the Beast in their fore-heads and in their right hand that they may be shut up and sealed for ever and ever And this in love is vvritten to go abroad as a vvarning from the Lord to all people professors and priests every vvhere but in particular to them in Hartford and Ware that so if possible some of them may come to repentance and to an acknowledgment of the truth in their life time as it is in Jesus before it be hid from their eyes and may serve also for the use of any vvho have an eye to see and an ear to hear From a lover of all souls knovvn to the vvorld by the name of IOHN GOULD But hath a nevv Name and a vvhite Stone vvhich none knovvs but he that hath it THE END

A CAL AND A VVARNING TO ALL Priests Professors and People VVho have and do profess the Scriptures that they may try their Doctrines and Practises by it and may own condemnation in their Doctrines and Practises wherein they are contrary to the Scriptures AND A TENDER VISITATION TO The whole VVORLD That they may own this their Visitation and may be healed and restored to the Lord And this may serve for a LOOKING GLASS wherein People may see what visage they are of and how they stand related as unto GOD By a Sufferer in Hartford Goale for faithful witness-bearing against this sinful generation known by the name of JOHN GOULD London Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate 1657. THis following testimony was given forth chiefly as out of tender love to the Priests and Professors and inhabitants of Hartford and Ware and the countrey thereabout who lyes in darkness and ignorance under blinde guides and so are ever learning and cannot come to the knowledge of the truth and this is written onely for their information but may be serviceable in any part of the world among such who doth profess the Scriptures So let all the sober people of that countrey about Hartford consider and not wilfully contemn and despise the day of their visitation which now is upon them from the Lord that they may come to the knowledge of his wayes and let all other people weigh what herein is written for the very clear day of Gods tender visitation is upon the whole world Remember you are warned now in your life-time A CALL AND A VVARNING TO ALL Priests Professors and People c. O All ye people Professors and Priests of the world and to all others every where who have an eye to see and an ear to hear high and low rich or poor of what sort of profession soever whether Presbyterians Independents Baptists or by what other by-name known or distinguished who are seeking the Kingdome of heaven in outward observations Loe here and loe there in this duty and this daies observation or in the other performances as you call them Be it known unto you all from the Lord that you are out of the way it is not to be found there for the Kingdome of God comes not with outward observations neither shall they say any longer loe here or loe there for the Kingdome of heaven is within So said Christ Jesus to the Pharisees who were seeking the Kingdom without in outward observations so say I to you their children by the spirit of the same Christ Jesus whom your fathers slew and hung upon a tree for your new Moons and Sabbaths your calling of your Solemne and your appointed Fasts and Feasts my soul loaths they are even an abomination unto me saith the Lord for your hands are full of blood and cruelty even the blood of the innocent cryeth in mine ears whom ye like your fathers have shamefully entreated and crucified and hung upon a tree and yet are professing his words whom they slew and their words who witnessed him and preach'd him and your selves found in the same practise with them who crucified the just one and requir'd to let loose the murtherer yet ready many of you to say as they of old did if we had lived in those daies we would not have done so wickedly Oh what think ye will be in the end hereof when the just God shall come to call you to an accompt for all this do you think getting his words and their words to profess and talk of will save you from the wrath to come who are despisers and haters of their life both in your selves and others where he is made manifest and are scoffers and scorners at them who do witness it calling them in derision Quakers and yet make a profession of Moses writings and Davids words and Habakkuks Prophesie and Pauls Epistles who all witnessed Quaking ye Hypocrites search the Scriptures and see whether ye are not in their steps who despised Moses Law and made Songs of David and mock'd and slew the Prophets and persecuted Paul and ston'd Stephen which bare witness to and for the Lord and against your Idol Temples and yet make profession of their words to the light in all your consciences I speak which will let you see that you are out of their life who wrote and spake forth those words and are ye so foolish to think a profession of those words will save you who do not know nor witness the same life from which those words were spoken but are enemies to it and murtherers of it in your selves and persecutors of it in others witness some of my righteous servants in Hartford Goal whom ye have cast into prison some of you without the breach of any known Law of your own Nation and contrary to my righteous Law which I have plac'd in all your consciences unto which you must all be accountable in that day wherein God shall co●e to judg the secrets of all hearts by my Gospel which hath been declared even in your streets and Sinagogues if you had ears to hear O foolish and slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have written and all that Christ and the Apostles were witnesses of ought not Jesus thus to have suffered and to have entered into his glory is there another way for the salvation of your souls but him who is the way the truth and the life and can any come to the father but by him who is the light of the world and lighteth every one that cometh into the world Is there another Saviour save me saith the Lord or another Redeemer save the Holy One of Israel our King whom ye professors priests people with bloody hands have crucified and slain even him whom God hath raised up to be a Prince and a Saviour to give repentance unto Israel and remission of sins Have ye not evilly entreated his messengers and servants whom he hath called and chosen to be witnesses hereof in these your daies as your Forefathers of old did so do ye search the Scriptures which ye profess and see if they be not fulfilled by you and shall be fulfilled upon you as ever by them of old they shall hall you out of their Synagogues and before Rulers and Magistrates and some of you shall they cast into prison and shall do and speak all manner of evil falsly and despightfully against you for my name sake saith Christ yea they that killeth you shall think they do God service and this will they do unto you for my name sake because they have neither known me nor my father see if ye be not they and if this be not so O ye priests professors and people who deny the Revelation of Christ and say all Revelation is ceas'd and that none must expect Revelation now are ye not such as the Scriptures which in words ye profess but in life and power deny witnesseth against to know neither