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A77952	The Principles of truth being a declaration of our faith, who are called Quakers, whereby all that wants peace with God may return into their first state, through the operation of the light and power of God in the great work of regeneration / written by E.B., J.C., W.D., H.S.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.; Crook, John, 1617-1699.; Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688.; Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.; Smith, Humphrey, d. 1663.	1668 (1668)	Wing B6019A; ESTC R42820	61,240	151

of what thou comprehendest to be Truth from the Letter of the Scripture under what form name or title soever thou be thou art a dead man and a dead woman and the wrath of God abides on thee though thou see it not Rom. 7.9 there Paul witnesseth saying I was alive without the Law once but when the Commandment came sin revived and I dyed Friends every one in particular deal justly with your hearts see what you can witness of your death with Christ by the powerfull Word of Truth which enlightens the Conscience and condems sin in the flesh for every one would ascend with Christ to be partakers of the Life and Glory with him but he becomes a stumbling-stone to be baptized with him into his Sufferings and Death to descend with him into Hell and this thou must witness before ever thou come to sit with him in heavenly places for it is they and they alone that shall reign with him who suffer with him and they that are dead with him shall live with him It is the dead that hear the Voice of the Son of God and they that hear shall live Arise thou that sleepest in the dust of the Earth securely in thy serpentine wisdom thy mind feeding upon the dust of the Earth created objects which will perish Arise stand up to Judgment that Christ may give thee Life This is required of thee O man To do Justly love Mercy and to walk Humbly with thy God Examine thy heart and deal justly with thy own Soul There is a Light in thy Conscience which Light is of Christ minding it will let thee see the Mystery of Iniquity that lodgeth in thy heart which is deceitfull and desperately wicked and this Light in thy Conscience which discovers unto thee the evil of thy heart is of the eternal Word of God and was from the beginning according as it is written in the outward Testimony of the Truth In th● beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word is God and the same was in the beginning with God all things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made in him was Life and the Life was the Light of men And the Light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not Every one arise out of your earthly wisdom and mind the Light in thy Conscience and wait on the Power of the Lord in it and it will bring thee to judgment before the Throne of the Lamb where the righteous Law will be opened in thy heart that will cry through thy earthly heart for Righteousness and Judgment and the Book will be opened in thee where thou shalt see all written that thou hast done in the body and shalt give an account for every idle word and receive thy reward for what thou hast done and thy reward is Wrath and Condemnation which will pass upon thee from the presence of the Lamb for thy disobedience and breaking of the righteous Law which must be fulfilled and what way soever thou turnest to get life in outward forms and observations the flaming Sword which is the righteous Law that goes out of the mouth of the Lamb 't will turn every way and meet thee and cut thee down and cast thee into Hell where there is weeping and wailing for want of the presence of God and thou canst do nothing to pacify the Wrath of God which is gone out against thee Now wouldst thou hide thy self as Adam did when he appears in thy heart thy fig-leav'd garment of prayers tears forms outward observations according to thy comprehension of the Letter will not cover thy nakedness it served to cover thy nakedness from the sight of men but now when the Lord appears in thy heart thou canst not stand before him Now comes Cain in thee to be driven from the face of God to be a Fugitive and a Vagabond in the Earth notwithstanding all his Sacrifices and Esau in thee reprobated never to have the blessing though he seek it with tears and the Bond-woman and her son cast out and the first Adam now slain with the sharp Sword that goeth out of the mouth of the Lamb and art made to give up thy soul to God whose it is to do with thee what he will if he destroy thee for ever he may and if he save thee from eternal death it is his free Love Now art thou baptized with Christ into his Sufferings and Death where thou liest sealed down under the Eternal Judgment of God and there perishest for ever for any power or help thou hast in thy self and this is the Administration of Moses where thou liest condemned for ever under the righteous Law without any help or hope until the Administration of the Prophets that prophesie of a Christ that hath satisfied the righteous Law of God for thee who art lost and condemned under the power of the Law of Moses And now there is a secret hope raised up in thy soul and thou lookest up from under the condemning power of Moses for a Saviour And the Prophets are until John and of all that were born of women there was not one greater then John for he is a burning and shining Light that lets thee see the filthiness of thy heart and the Law shines in its purity to condemn the earthly man in thee but he strengthens the hope in thee that was raised up by the Prophets to see the beauty and excellency of Jesus Christ which ravisheth thy lost condemned soul that thou art willing to sell all for him the Scripture now being fulfilled in thee who witnesseth this from the dayes of John even until now The Kingdom of God suffereth violence and the violent take it by force now is every Mountain and Hill laid low in thee and crooked wayes made straight and the rough way in thee made smooth and thou waitest in the Wilderness and lost condition of thy self for the Salvation of God to be manifest to thee in Jesus Christ and in the appointed time of the Father the Son of man comes to thy soul as a thief in the night as the Lightning from the East to the West so is his appearance in thee and causeth thy dead soul to hear his voice which witnesseth to it eternal Life freely through his own blood and thy soul hears his voice and by the word of his Power is made to live and is sealed up by the holy Spirit of Promise the Spirit of God bearing witness with thy spirit that thou art his child Now comest thou to witness the second Adam to be a quickening Spirit and Isaac the promised Seed to be Heir for ever And that the wages of Sin is death but the Gift of God is Eternal Life And that by Grace thou art saved through Faith in the Lord Jesus not of works lest any should boast and he that hath Hope in him purifieth himself as he is pure and the love of Christ

and justifies the Soul through th● virtue of this Blood received into the hear● by this living Faith which receives all it● power and virtue from Christ in whom 〈◊〉 abides as its root and object whereby Justification is witnessed from Sin not in Sin Rom. 6.22 But now being made free from Sin and become servants unto God you hav● your fruits unto Holiness and the end everlasting Life We believe That Justification and Sanctification are distinguished but not divided for as he that sanctifieth and justifieth i● one so do these go together and whe● the Soul hath the greatest sence of Justification upon it through the vertue of th● Blood of Jesus by the Living Faith the● is it most in love with Holiness and at th● greatest distance from Sin and Evil and whenever there is a failing in Sanctification there is also some eclipse of Justification in the eye of the Soul until Faith hath recovered its strength again which i● lost by sins prevailing For as the farthest and clearest sight is in the brightest day so is it with the Soul when it is most in the brightness and beauty of Holiness its Justification appears most glorious and its Union and Communion most sweet and lasting and so like two Twins as they are much of an age so they are like one to the other And what God hath joyned together let no man put asunder We also by this Light believe That Acceptance with the Father is only in Christ and by his Righteousness made ours or imputed unto us not by the creaturely skill but by the applicatory act of Gods gift of Grace whereby the Soul feels the difference between self-applying by its own Faith and God applying by its Spirit and so making Christ unto the Soul Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption So that we believe and are sure that there is a great difference between Imputation as it is the act of mans spirit and as it is the act of Free Grace without mans forcing And so we distinguish between Imagination and Imputation between reckoning or imputing that is real and reckoning or imputation that is not real but a fiction and imagination in the creaturely will and power And because we are against the latter we are clamoured upon as if we denied the Imputation o● Christ's Righteousness when it is only unto those that are not made righteous by it to walk as he also walked For as the Scripture saith It is not he that saith he is righteous by the imputation of Christ's Righteousness but he that doth Righteousness i● righteous even as Christ is Righteous 1 Joh 3.7 he that believes otherwise is deceived And yet it is not Acts of Righteousness as done by us nor as inherent in us as acts by which we are accepted of God and justified before him but by Christ the Author and Worker of those acts in us and for us whereby we know that we are in him and he in us and we hold him as our Head into whom al● things are gathered together into one even in him We further believe That God is only to be worshipped and not any likeness that man makes unto himself of God from any view sight and knowledge that he hath had of him but in every act and service man is to know what substantially as well as whom speculatively or notionally he worshippeth as is is written John 4.22 Ye worship ye know not what we know what we worship for Salvation is of the Jews And he that thus worships the Father honours the Son by the same Spirit which is one with the Father and the Son in which Spirit only God is worshipped according to the form of its own chusing and manifesting of himself in and by according unto the good pleasure of the Father who is a Spirit and limits man unto the Spirit 's Form but allows not man to limit the Spirit unto his form though it be not of his inventing originally but of the Father yet man must no more limit God unto it then he could command God to appear in it at first For as he chose it himself so he hath reserved liberty to leave it at his pleasure who works all things after the counsel of his own Will which he hath purposed in himself that the Gift of the knowledge of the Mystery of his Will might for ever be acknowledged to be of his Grace and for the riches of the glory thereof according to Ephes 1. and man be bound but God free Man bound to wait in the Light for Gods Movings but God free to move in whom to what and when he pleaseth then man is to go when he saith Go and come when he saith Come and such Servants do serve him And then there is no more Curse as in the dayes of Will-worship and voluntary Humility but the Throne of God and of the Lamb Col. 2.18 23. Rev. 22.3 4. And they shall see his Face and his Name shall be on their foreheads We believe also That this Worship is spiritual and not carnal in all its Parts and Ordinances and not to be imposed by any outward force but performed by the inward leading of Gods holy Spirit according as the holy men of God were led and guided in the days past who gave forth the Scriptures all impositions of Worship outward being only enjoyned under the first Covenant that made nothing perfect until the time of Reformation spoken of Hebr. 9.10 But Christ being come there is an end as well of such Impositions as of the Meats and Drinks and divers Baptisms and carnal Ordinances they being all but temporary and in order unto an end but all to vail to Christ the sum and substance of all the first pointed at by all and the last ending of all the Amen And he that thus worships God in Christ his Ordinances are spiritual and not carnal and his Faith carries him beyond his Works with righteous Abel and preserves him that he is not drowned in the Form like Cain neither falls he short of the glory of God nor of his assurance of Acceptance with him We believe There is one Baptism necessary to Salvation Ephes 4.5 One Lord one Faith one Baptism And this Baptism is Spiritual of which John's Water was but a figure John 1.31 That he should be made manifest to Israel therefore am I come baptizing with Water saith John and 1 Pet. 3.21 The like figure whereunto even Baptism doth also now save us not the putting away the filth of the Flesh but the answer of a good conscience towards God by the Re●urrection of Jesus Christ This one Spiri●ual Baptism into the Name of Jesus Christ ●s that which saves the Water being but a figure that Christ might be manifest to Israel who had divers Baptisms imposed on them untill the time of Reformation but Christ the Substance being come the Shadows flee away And yet where-ever any are commanded now by the same Spirit that commanded the Believers to

foolishness whose beauty and excellency is hid from its eye But this is because the wisdom of man is out of its place not subjected to the Wisdom of God but exalted above it therefore as a curse unto it is it suffered to lift up it self in its conceitfulness against and so to persecute the pure Wisdom of God and the birth thereof that it might fall and be broken and snared and taken and its day deservedly come to an end and be shut up in the shadows and chambers of eternal darkness But what ear of Man can hear this Surely none that is whole in the line of Man's wisdom reason and understanding but that alone which is bruised broken and in some measure dashed to pieces by the inroads of a diviner Life and Nature This in the Leading of that Life which hath broken it and in the shinings of the Light eternal upon it and into it may be enabled to take up the Cross to the natural part and to die that Death with Christ which preserves from the second Death with the misery thereof Happy is he who knows and hearkens to the Perswasions of Gods Spirit who is born of God and taught to wait upon him and worship him in Spirit who receives his Religion from the Light of Faith into the renewed Nature and Mind and not from the Reason of Man into the natural understanding which is easily corrupted and cannot be kept pure but alone by the indwelling of the Principle of Eternal Life in it For though such may suffer very deeply in this World from the men of this World as the Subjects and Servants to the Principle of Life have done in all Ages and Generations yet their Principle will bear them out in which God will appear to strengthen and refresh their spirits and carry them up above all their Sufferings in the Patience Meekness and Faith of the Lamb And keeping to their Principle they cannot be overcome but must either live or die Conquerors according to the will and good pleasure of Him who ordereth and disposeth of all things well and bringeth good out of every evil in despite of all the Powers of Darkness And he that overcometh whether by life or death in the Lamb's Spirit shall wear the Lamb's Crown and sit down in that perfect Rest in the Kingdom of the Father which will give the hearts of all his Children full Satisfaction In which assured hope Life stirring in our bosoms and quickning our hearts with Love unto our God and Zeal for his Truth we can freely give up all that is near and dear unto u● in this World and lay down our heads i● inward Peace in the midst of the greates● outward Persecution and Trouble Eve● so O Lord thy Will be done concerning the● Generation of thy People whom thou hast begotten to thy Self and brought forth by thy mighty Power to testifie to thy Truth in thi● present day Dispose of them as it pleaseth Thee and let not their Faith in thee nor thy Faithfulness to them fail but let them be 〈◊〉 Praise to thy Name throughout all Generations and tendered by Thee as the First-fruits of thine Appearance in the Glorious Light of the Everlasting Day after this great long thick and dark Night of Apostacy from the Life and Spirit of the Apostles which hath so long eclipsed and covered the brightness of thy Beauty from the sight of the Earth Isaac Pennington A Declaration to all the World of our Faith and what we believe who are called Quakers ALSO What Ministers and Magistrates we own and what and whom we deny Concerning God Christ and the Spirit thus we believe FIrst That there is only one true God who is a Spirit and his Presence filleth Heaven and Earth he is Eternal and Everlasting the Creator and Preserver of all things That Heaven and Earth and all things therein by him were framed and brought forth and all things remain unto this day by his Power and whatsoever h● willeth in Heaven and Earth he brings to pass by his Word and Power And we believe That this God onely is and ought to be feared loved obeyed and worshipped by all Creatures and no other thing besides him in Heaven and Earth and we believe that his Worship and Obedience and Fear and Love is to be given in Spirit even in what his own Spirit moveth and leadeth his people unto And we believe his True Worship required and accepted of him is not by the tradition of men in outward observances or set dayes or places but he is worshippe● only in Spirit and Truth without respect o● times places or things and that none ca● worship him in Righteousness but his Children who are born of his Spirit and are le● and guided thereby And we believe That this God hath given his Son Christ Jesus into the World a free Gift unto the whole World and tha● every man that cometh into the World i● lighted by him that every man may believ● and be saved And we believe That he is given int● the World and no Nation Country o● People excepted but to all mankind he is given of God and hath enlightened them And every man through the world that be●ieveth in and receiveth Christ who is ●he Wisdom and Power of the Father shall be saved with eternal Salvation And eve●y one that believeth not in him shall be damned and shall possess everlasting misery And we believe That Salvation Justification and Sanctification is onely in Him wrought by him and no other for there is no other Name given under Heaven but Him alone by which Salvation is and we be●ieve all that receive him and believe ●n him are reconciled to God and are made alive to God to live to him in all things and do receive the forgiveness of Sins and are set free from all unrighteousness and from the body of Sin and Death and have the witness of the Spirit ●n them and the Spirit of the Father they have received and it witnesseth in them of the Father and of the Son and of the things that belong to their peace and it is the Earnest of the Inheritance and the Seal of the Promise of Eternal Life and by it are the deep things of God revealed to mankind and by it the Father and the Son dwell in the Saints and by it they have fellowship one with another and th● Father Son and Spirit are one And thi● we faithfully believe Again concerning Christ we believe That he is one with the Father and wa● with the Father before the World was and what the Father worketh is by the Son for he is the Arm of Gods Salvation and the very Power and Wisdom of the Creator and was is and is to come without beginning or end And we believe That all the Prophet● gave Testimony of him and that he wa● made manifest in Judea and Jerusalem an● did the Work of the Father and was persecuted of the Jews and was crucified by

Perfection and so denies the Ministers work neither do minister freely but seek for gain from ●heir Quarters and will not preach without a price who are not sanctified by the Word of God but plead for a continuance in Sin while people walk upon the Earth Such as minister from the Letter and not from the Spirit who cannot preach except they have time to study and so by their industry provide themselves and ●re not provided of the Lord such a Ministry is of Works and not the Free Gift from God such cannot profit people but ●ead them captive in an empty and dead Form alwayes learning but never able to come to the true knowledge of God such cal●ed Ministers we do deny and turn from them and testifie against them as the ho●y men of God formerly did read Isaiah 56.10 11. Jer. 5.30 31. Mic. 3.11 1 Cor. 1.19 20 26 27 28 29. and chap 2.10 11. Jer. 23.22 30 31 32 Isaiah 56.10 11. Phil. 3.18 19. Jude 11. John 8.24 1 John 3.8 Jer. 23.15 16 17. 2 Tim. 3.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Ezek. 34. Hosea 6.9 Matth. 23. 1 Tim. 5.6 10 11. 2 Tim. 3. 2 Pet. 2. 2. Such Magistrates who rule for God who be men of Truth fearing God and hating Covetousness who execute true Justice and Judgment in the Earth without partiality not respecting the persons of the Rich nor despising the persons of th● Poor but in Truth and Equity giving to every one his due and portion according to the Law of Equity who neither sees nor receive honour from men but see the honour that comes from God onely who are a terror to Evil-doers but a prai● to them that do well such Magistrates w● own and in the Lord honour Exod. 18.21 Deut. 16.18 19 20. John 5.41 4● Rom. 13.3 4. But such Magistrates who be proud an● lofty who rule not for God but for themselves who love the praise of men an● judge for gifts and rewards and love money which is the root of all evil who respect the rich in their gay cloathing abov● the poor in vile rayment who seek an● receive honour of men and if they 〈◊〉 not honoured with that which they see for turns Judgment backward that Equi● cannot enter such as be wrathfull and malicious cannot rule for God such are e●couragers of Vice and Wickedness an● turn their Sword backward against the U● right and Innocent who reprove sin i● the gate such Magistrates we do deny and testifie against for when the Wicked bear rule the Righteous mourn and the Evil-doers rejoyce over them and mock and reproach them Isa 2.11 12 c. Isa 1. ●1 23. John 6.43 Mic. 3.11 Jam. 2.1 2 3 4 9. John 5.44 Isa 59.13 14 15. ●sa 29.21 Prov. 29.2 Such as live in Pride and Pleasures and ●ollow ungodly Lusts and wicked practi●es deny God though in words they may ●rofess him even so all such as do evil who follows Drunkenness Oaths Games ●ain Sports and Pleasures and such like ●ngodly actions do deny disgrace and ●reatly dishonour both Ministers and Ma●istrates though in words they may own ●hem and bow the Hat and Knee and give ●ttering Titles unto them Tit. 1.16 Pasm 15. Hosea 4. James 1.25 Job 32.1 22. To walk Soberly Righteously and do●g Justly according as the Grace of God which brings Salvation doth teach an di●ect is a sweet savour to the Lord and true owning and in the Lord honouring ●ue Ministers and Magistrates Micah 6. 8. Tit. 2.11 12. Psal 51.17 Isa 57.15 Rom 13.3 But to walk loosly and prophanely doing wicked and unjust actions turning th● Grace of God into wantonness Suc● are an ill savour to God and denies an● dishonours True Ministers and Magistrate● James 3.14 15 16. Jude 4. Isa 59.2 3 c. True Honour doth not consist in bowing the Hat and Knee and such like thing for that is the honour below which me● seek and receive one of another whic● is in the unbelief but in the obedienc● of the Magistrates just Commands wh● are a Terror to wickedness but a Praise 〈◊〉 them that do well For the Law w● not made for the Righteous who fe● God and live uprightly but for th● Lawless who are out of Gods Fear wh● live wickedly casting the Law of God behind their backs John 5.44 Romans 1● 3 4. 1 Tim. 1.8 9 10. Psalm 50 1● 17. So this may certifie all whom this m● come unto that we do not deny Minister● nor Magistrates who are made and ordained by God but honour them in th● Lord let our Lives and Conversations and That of God in all your Consciences judge for if all were brought into our Life the Magistrate should live at peace and so as the eyes of your understandings come to be opened with true Light you will see that those who live Soberly and Righteously do own and honour Ministers and Magisrates though they cannot for conscience sake respect their persons nor give them flattering Titles as your Highness your Lordship your Worship and such like for such belong to God For Christ Jesus said I receive not honour from man and saith he How can you believe that receive honour one of another and seeks not the honour that comes from God only Gal. 1.11 12. Rom. 13.1 Deut. 16.18 19. John 1.9 Jam. 2.1 2 3 4 9. John 5.44 Read with understanding prove all things hold fast that which is good 1 Thes 5.21 A. Parker To all that want Peace with God T● the Sheep every where not brough● home To the thirty breathing Sou● and to the Seed though in Captivity among and in the midst of 〈◊〉 Professors Greetings of Love Mercy and Peace from God the Father 〈◊〉 the Living VVHere the Bowels are not shut up nor the Heart darkened an● where that doth not bear rule which stoppeth the ear and closeth the eye an● where prejudice and Rebellion again● the Light with the wisdom of the fles● through that knowledge which puffeth u● hath not wholly eaten up devoured g● over and wholly overcome that Tend● Principle which once moved in th● heart towards that Beeing of the Livin● Substance there may my words ta● entrance and unto such who feel th● which breaths to God and who are wi●ling to be satisfied concerning the Livin● Truth of his Son and who would receive the Truth if they knew it and do yet more desire after the Power of God then all the temporal things that are seen and who are yet come no further than the reading of the Law the Priests Tythes and that Religion that makes nothing perfect and who are come no further then the outward Baptism or Shadow or Figure or such things which are to be left behind Hebr. 6. or who are come no further than the Supper or the Death and so not yet saved by his Life nor drunk of that which saveth and is to cleanse from all that which separateth from God after whom and the incomes of his Love immortal whosoever

after and he that gets the most is highest exalted so every one is exalted above another and there is nothing but Tyranny Cruelty and Oppression among you you sons and daughters of Babylon And in her was found the blood of the Prophets and of the Sains and all that were slain upon the Earth The Merchants of Babylon are your Teachers who draw you from your Guide which is the pure Light of Christ in you to seek the Kingdom of God in observations without you contrary to the mind of Christ The Kingdom of God comes not with observations neither shall they say Lo here or Lo there for behold the Kingdom of God is within you But these your Merchants have no Scripture for their Merchandize which they sell to you enslaved Captives for so many hundreds in the year and is paid in the Nation or elsewhere for these observations they tell you you must observe or else you cannot come to the Kingdom of Heaven though they are contrary to the Scripture as are practised by them there is no Scripture that witnesseth their call to the Ministry by humane wisdom Not many great not many noble not many wise after the flesh There is no Scripture which testifies of any that Jesus Christ sent forth that made a Bargain with the People for so much a year as these do that profess themselves to be sent of Christ This is the call of the Ministers of Christ Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ neither of man nor by man but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ I send you forth saith Jesus Christ as Lambs among Wolves Into what Town or City ye enter enquire who is worthy and if they receive you there abide eating such things as is set before you the Labourer is worthy of his meat freely ye have received freely minister Those whom Jesus Christ commits the Word of Eternal life unto and calls them forth to declare it unto others the Love of Jesus Christ which is sealed up to their souls through his own blood constrains them to give up themselves to death in witnessing forth the Eternal Life they enjoy in Christ as it was it is The Love of Christ constraineth me to preach the Gospel saith Paul But these your Merchants are they which have forsaken the right way and are gone astray following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor who loved the wages of unrighteousness And as there is no Scripture for their call to the Ministry by their human learning nor making bargains with the people for so much in the year so there is no Scripture for these observations they call the Ordinances of God as they are practised by them There is no Scripture that Christ or any that he sent forth did take a Child and sprinkle water on its face and said in so doing they baptized it into the Church of Christ Suffer little Children to come unto me saith Christ and forbid them not for of such is the Kingdom of God for whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little Child shall not enter therein He sets the Child as a type and a figure to shew forth to every one that they must become as a little Child depending upon the Will of God before they enter into the Kingdom of God He took them up in his arms and put his hands on them and blessed them but that he sprinkled water on their faces and said He baptized them into his Church there is no such Scripture Another observation your Teachers tell you you must observe is hearing these Studied Sermons in taking a part of Scripture and adding to it their wisdom calls it The Word of God which is contrary to the Scripture but they say They have Christ for an example There was delivered to him the Book of the Prophet Isaiah and when he had opened the Book he found where it was written The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel unto the poor he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted to preach deliverance to the Captives and recovering of the sight of the blind and to set at liberty them that are bruised to preach the acceptable year of the Lord And he closed the Book and sate down and he began to say unto them This day is the Scripture fulfilled in your ears And all bare him witness and wondred at the gracious words that proceeded out of his mouth He was the substance of the Prophesie which was then fulfilled in him This is no ground for any to take the Saints words and to add to it their wisdom and call that the Word of God The Prophet that hath a Dream let him tell a Dream He that hath my Word let him speak my Word faithfully What is the Chaff to the Wheat saith the Lord Is not my word like a fire and like a hammer saith the Lord that breaks the Rocks in pieces All to whom the Word of the Lord is committed can witness it to be as a fire within them and as a hammer that breaketh the rocks in pieces subjecting all in the heart under the power of it self so it alone rules and guides him that he is what he speaks that if he had never seen any thing that the Saints have declared without him he had known what is manifest in him and he to whom the Word is thus made manifest is a true Minister of Christ who is called to speak the Word faithfully But these that call themselves your Teachers and make bargains with you for so much by the year they never witnessed the word of the Lord in them as a fire and like a hammer that breaketh the Rocks in pieces so they never had any thing to have spoken of the Lord but as they have stoln it from the testimony of the Saints So they speak a divination of their own brain a riddle to their own hearts and whilst they speak to others themselves are cast-aways And the Lord testifies against them Behold I am against the Prophets saith the Lord that steal my Word every one from his Neighbour 〈…〉 Behold I am against the Prophets saith the Lord that use their tongue and say He saith Behold I am against them that prophesie false Dreams saith the Lord and to tell them and cause my People to err by their Lyes and by their lightness yet I sent them not nor commanded them therefore they shall not profit the People at all saith the Lord And this fruit is made manifest of the Ministry that hath been in England Another Observation your Teachers bid you observe which is contrary to Scripture as it is practised by them in singing of David's Psalms in Meeter taking David's words who was a man after Gods own heart and putting words into the mouthes of poor ignorant People to sing that which they never knew and so causeth them to blaspheme the Name of God saying Let us sing to the Praise and Glory of