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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35122	A defence of the true church called Quakers (come and coming out of the wilderness, Babylon, and the dark night of the apostacy of Antichrist into their own land, which is Sion the mountain of holiness, there to worship the Lord in spirit and truth) against the several sects and sorts of people, called Independants, Separatists or Brownists, Baptists, Fift-Monarchy-Men ...	Crook, John, 1617-1699.; J. C. (John Collens), d. 1682.	1659 (1659)	Wing C7202; ESTC R35612	46,726	58

thee saith he to Timothy in the sight of God who quickeneth all things and before Christ Jesus who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession that thou keep this Commandment which was to fight the good fight of Faith and follow after righteousness godliness patience meekness love c. without spot unrebukeable till the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ which in his times he shall shew who is the blessed and onely Potentate the King of Kings and Lord of Lords who onely hath immortalitie dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto to wit in his own wisdom or with his bodily eye whom no man hath seen nor can see to wit with those to whom be honour and Power everlasting Amen Oh that ye sword-men had your eyes opened to behold this King as he is here witnessed how would you then be ashamed and amazed at your own folly in gazing upwards as expecting to see him in a bodily shape and with a corporal eye to Reign on Earth Here you see Paul witnesseth he shall be shewn in his times and that as the onely Potentate or Monarch and yet he saith no man can see him what a contradiction may this seem to be to your grosse understandings but it is really so I averre for his appearance in the world in his times must be agreeable to his nature he onely hath immortality therefore must be seen onely by that which is immortal he dwelleth in the light and therefore must be beheld onely in the light and by an eye internally enlightned So that now stop your mouths for ever and cease from your carnal interpretations of those Scriptures which speaks of Christs coming to reign on earth but turn to within even to his light wherewith every one of you are enlightned that in that light ye may see him who is invisible dwelling in the light whom no man hath nor can see nor approach unto for assure your selves that the world shall see his bodily Shape and Person no more but the Saints do and shall see him for because he liveth they shall live also And as for the manner of this spiritual Kings Government it must be spiritually not by an outward visible shining body quelling and over-awing the enemies of his Kindomg but by his inward and invisible Power in the hearts of his People making the people to fall under him or chaining them up yea making all his enemies within and without to go backward and flee before him and although ye may look upon this as a weak inconsiderable thing because it seems not pompous to your carnal eye yet know that it is of the greatest force that can be imagined For is not Conscience more to a man than a thousand witnesses Which if it once condemn God is greater and knoweth all things and so the comment of the wicked increaseth Now that of Christ in the Saints arising in Power and transforming them into its own Image of Righteousness and true Holiness his Name is seen in their foreheads by living fruits which reaching to the witness of God in wicked men they cannot stand before it for the wicked cannot stand in Judgement nor sinners in the Congregation of the Righteous because by the Righteous Principle of God in themselves they are Judged which worketh in their guilty Consciences the fear and flashes of Eternal vengeance which fierce indignation of the Almighty that they may avoid they also are oft times brought to lay hold of eternal Life bringing forth fruits meet for Repentance and so the work of the Lord prospereth in this his King immortal his hand in his Majesty riding prosperously because of Truth and Meekness and Righteousness and his right hand teaching him terrible things and brings to pass greater things hereby than all outward force fear and violence were able to do Now the reason why ye savour not such things as these is because ye with many other Professours are out from that which should give you salt in your selves to savour withal and so being buried in the Letter of the Scriptures do interpret them according to a mind that is under the ministration of the Letter and not of the Spirit So look what truths of God are to be spiritually understood and discerned ye being out of the light do literally understand and so are for an external or personal appearance of Christ in his Kingdom even as a fifth visible Monarch in the world and for a Holy City outward just so long and broad and every way composed as that description of it in the Revelation seemeth outwardly to describe So ye will talk and be even very zealous for a New Heaven and a New Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness but what fruit doth the expectation of such things in your way expected bring forth in you Doth it make you diligent to be found of him in Peace without spot and blameless as Peter exhorted the Saints to be who looked for such things Or are you in the vanities and folly of the multitude who are without Hope or God in the world How proud rough rugged earthly-minded bitter dead dry and unsavoury do many of you appear Oh People it is not a discourse of or expectation of great and outward changes or happiness though for ever to endure that will bring to the Cross of Christ and slay the enmity of your minds by wicked works but it is the knowing the Cross of Christ in your selves which is his living and quickning Power felt by waiting in his light that must bring you to take up your own cross and follow him else while you think to be the men that shall Reign with Christ and Judge the world ye your selves will be Judged by Christ in this his day which cometh and is come as a snare upon all the earth Your good intentions towards the executing of Justice and Righteousness in the earth in opposition to Tyranny and Oppression I confess is to be owned but ye take not the right course how to bring it forth for it is not the shaking a Weapon or sore threatning or the like at the Beast that will change his nature but it is the Life that is the light of men which will do it for that which alone searcheth the heart can and doth alone turn the same so that if as the Lambs true followers ye knew how to make War in Righteousness with the Whore Beast false Prophet through Faith Patience ye might should do good but if out of a rash and blind zeal ye will steer an indirect course no wonder if you arrive not at your desired Harbour for if ye will needs give blows ye must expect blows again because this exasperates the proud and wilful nature whose Element it is even to live in the fire also an outward force to an outward is like to like but a spiritual Power against a carnal is altogether different and what shall alway stand against Gods living Power in Spirit

by whom all things were made and in which they all subsist and by which all hearts are bridled Saul was a stout and valiant Warriour and higher than the rest by the head and shoulders and went in and out a notable Chieftain before the People but when Gods witness accused him he was as weak as water yea fell down upon his face to the ground So now we keeping close to this as the Head-stone in the Corner the Weapon we War withal though it be managed with much Meekness and Patience as it ought to be is far stronger than yours that keeps a greater clattering for yours hath yet wrought no deliverance in the earth nor never will but thousands Glory be to the Lord God of Power can witness deliverance from the unjust power and from Injustice and unrighteousness in thought word and deed even by the Armour of light which is Gods faithful witness within them and the Government placed upon his shoulders who by his most powerful and good Spirit will in due time Govern the Nations Righteously upon the earth and in no other way Therefore I advise you to put up your Sword of Steel into his Sheath for ever yea to break him into a Plow-share for so he may be of some good use among mankind and wrestle not so against flesh and blood as to kill the Creature which is Gods Workmanship but come to know the Weapons of the Saints Warfare which are not carnal but spiritual yet mighty through God to the pulling down all the Strong-holds of sin and sinners both within and without for saith Paul They have in readiness to revenge every disobedience when your obedience speaking to the Saints is fulfilled So then if ye will be accounted of the number of the Saints that follow the Lamb in his Holy War wait to feel his living Power in your own Particulars which may fulfil your obedience towards him and then shall the same Power appearing in you be able to revenge all disobedience in others be they Magistrates Priests or People but if ye live in the disobedience your selves against Gods faithful witness which is his true light within you and come not to the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ which maketh Humble and Meek slayeth the earthly mind and brings out of self and all selfish wayes into the true self-denial which is to Love and give Glory onely to God and to love ones Neighbour as ones self which to do aright the light waited in in truth will discover your out-cries against others wickedness and injustice will be but as the espial of a Mote in anothers eye when as a Beam is still in your own But ye will say That Christ Luke 22.36 a little before his suffering bad the Disciples That he who had not a Sword should sell his Garment and buy one which could not be but for some great and necessary use that the having of it should be preferred before a necessary Garment Can ye say in truth of heart and nothing within you tell you that ye lye that what Christ in this Particular said to the eleven that he in them spake to all Saints who should come after As he did when he exhorted them to Watch saying What I say unto you I say unto all Watch Or was this Sword that he bid them to buy onely for some special use at the time of his apprehension Which was to hold forth that all such fighting with the Sword by the Saints was now to take its farewel in the world Christ was made under the Law which both tolerated and oft times commanded the Jews not onely to defend themselves but to offend their enemies so an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth and he was not yet offered up which put an end to the Law also observe his reason for his so speaking for saith he I say unto you that this which is written must be accomplished in me And he was reckoned among the transgressours for the things concerning me have an end intimating hereby that the buying of the Sword was for the very forementioned purpose and when the things written concerning his sufferings were finished then the outward Sword must be put up and laid aside as he bid Peter to do when he had once smitten with it least he perished by it Likewise mark his answer to them when they said there were two Swords saith he It is enough although he seemed to say before that every one should sell his Garment that had not a Sword to buy one shewing thereby that this thing was not of Universal use as ye would understand therefore when Judas had betrayed him to the multitude and those about him said unto him Lord shall we smite with the sword And one of them had smitten and cut off the High Priests servants ear Christ answered and said Suffer ye thus far Shewing that now the Sword had done his Office And so he touched his ear healed him Thus exercising his Power of love in requiting good for evil and even making up the breach that the Sword had made in revenge neither was any sign of a Sword seen in the hands of any of the Apostles and Saints after Christs departure but they suffered with all Patience through faith in the Power of God so must do the Lambs true followers in this his day of restoring the desolate Places as John testifies in his Book of Revelation he that killeth with the Sword must be killed by the Sword here is the Patience and Faith of the Saints And as for divers Scriptures that speak of the Lords overturning again again till he come to Reign whose Right it is and of punishing the stout heart of the Oppressour and of wasting utterly those Nations that will not serve the Church and such like they must be understood of the exercising of Christs Power in Peoples hearts and also of justly suffering the false and unrighteous powers of the earth to scourge and destroy each other for their iniquity till they come to serve and fear the Lord in Truth which brings into Peace and Unity for the Devils kingdom is divided against it self but Jerusalem is a City in Unity with it self but that the Saints shall and ought to have a hand in these outward desolations as moved thereto by the Spirit of the Lord I deny for his Kingdom in them stands in righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Spirit which they are to hold forth visibly before all men and not their hands to act contrary to their hearts Now come we to you called Seekers to try what ye seek after stick at and whether ye seek the Lord in a right way that it is a pretious thing to seek the Lord and his Way of Righteousness in truth all the Righteous and upright in heart do experimentally know for seek and ye shall find saith Christ the true light to his and blessed are they that keep his Testimonies and seek him