are Satanical for all their colourable glosses being in the miscarriages charging God with an Imperfect work page 18.19 of their Agreement wrongers of him of men and of Christ his Son but they are seen and made manifest and wo will be your portion that knowingly in their deceits joynes with them doth uphold them and did not the cheif Priests or the Devill in them and in the Scribes and Pharisees preach the letter of the Scriptures Isa 9.15 16. Isa 3.11 Hos 6.9 Joh. 5.39 40. Isa 2.12 Luke 20.12.19 20 21 23 27 28 45 46 47. verses but wanted the life of them as your Priests do who are wrongers of Christ and of you as they say and made use of it to tempt Christ withall but they and such like were and are for the greater condemnation as Christ hath said Marke 12.38 39 40. And doth not the Devill now in the chief Priests Persecuters Proud Covetous Envious ones and their disciples preach the letter of the Scripture and are out of the life of them seeking honour one of another as the enemies of Christ did that had the letter but wanted the life Joh. 5.39 40 41 42 43 44 And do not they make use of the letter that are out of the life make use of it to oppose the naked truth withall Do not Proude ones preach the letter of the Scripture yet live in Pride and Coveteousnesse or in union with the life of the Devill who is the King of Pride and enemy of all unrighteousnesse c. And doth not the Devill in Proud and Covetous ones as well as Envious and persecuters c. teach them to wrest the Scriptures for their own ends and to plead for pride c under such covers which are not with the spirit of the Lord though the woe from God be against them denounced Isa 3.11 Isa 20 Isa 30. 2 Pet. 3.16 Isa 30.1 c. And doth not the Devill in Covetous ones teach them to break the command of God which forbids covetousnesse And doth not the Devill in Covetous ones and self-seekers c. 2 Tim. 3.1 2. c. now in these latter dayes teach them for their own ends to make use of and preach the letter of the Scripture when they are transgressors of the commands of God and persecuting and killing the Innocent for he that persecutes and Envies the righteous seed he is a murtherer and is out of the life of the Spirit of God as faith the Scriptures 1 Joh. 3.22 15 And so in the lust of the Devill Joh. 8.44 And in union with the Image of Pride in proud flesh and bowing to it with capp and knee as well as worship an Imaginary and false worship and transgresseth the commands of God and therefore must drink deep of his wrath Rev. 14.9 10 11. And if covetousnesse is Idolatry then both Covetous Priests and People are Idolaters and therefore are they and all false worshippers and bowers to the Image of Pride one in another who are persecuters of the righteous seed both transgressors of the commands of God and out of the new bath new nature and out of the new Covenant and life of God and in old envy Wrath Lust Self-Love pride vain glory and then are they not still in union with the life of the Devill which evill fruits floweth there from and doth not the Devil in Pope Papist as well as in prelates persecuting self-seeking Priests Pastors Vicars Rectors and Proud painted Antichristian Ministers make use of and preach the Letter of the Scripture being without the life of truth and in the nature of the Devill and are not you that are wrongers of Christ and in Miscarriages c. and they guided by an evil spirit Joh. 8.39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48.52 verses and in union with that evil nature as the Jews and cheif Priests and such was that persecuted Christ Jesus yet they preached the letter and spake of Moses and the prophets for their own ends by the Spirit of the Devill Joh. 8.39 and would not receive the truth nor forsake their Sins Pride Will-worship Self-love Covetousnesse Self-righteousnesse vain glory and honour of the world but refused to deny self take up the daily crosse and come unto the life and power of truth so that Christ complained against them Joh. 5.40 and letting their visitation slip he wept over them Joh. 5.40 41 42 43 44. and therefore that you may come to understand the truth learn to pray and preach aright minde to be obedient to the Light of Christ in your consciences which reproves in secret for evil and doth convince you of sin self righteousnesse unbeliefe Pride Covetousnesse Persecution the love and honour of the world unrighteousnesse and your Miscarriages and of the wrong you do to Christ and men and as your duty is to depart from iniquity so you are to yield unto the light and follow the same that you may come out of your miscarriages and cease doing wrong to Christ men forsake the evil of your wayes by the light discovered cease to do evil and learn of that which is good for to do well which reproves you for the evil that you may come out of the wrong way unto the right and know the power of truth manifested and Christ at work in your hearts and soules destroying the Pride Lust Covetousnesse self-Self-love vain glory unbeliefe and so all unrighteousnesse as it is discovered to you and also beget you obeying and following the light into righteousnesse pure unfained love and out of the Hypocrisie into the faith unfained and true patience perfecting his work that it may possesâ— your soules and dispossess impatience and distrust that your soules may come into joy and peace through the working of the power of God killing sin and quickening you by his spirit begetting and bringing forth that which is pure holy just and good to be your rule and guide as in such it is where the birth is known that is of the spirit of Gods then might you call him Father by divine right and so in truth and righteousnesse with the spirit and true spirituall understanding might you pray with such a right as of Christ are taught and are guided by the Spirit of God c. to say Our Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy name and then would you hallow and so Sanctify the name of the Lord God in your hearts and be ready thereby without your Miscarrying priests to give an answer to every man that shall aske you a reason of the hope that is in you with meeknes and fear 1 Pet. 3.15 having a good conscience as the Saints and Children of God the Father hath and aforetime had 1 Pet. 3.16 in which the mystery of faith is held 1 Tim. 3.9 and not in your Miscarrying nature or a piece of paper from your untaught teachers that know not God nor his eternall Living word but are wrongers
people by casting a mist before the eyes of their understanding seeking to insinuate into them by flatteries and garnishing your flatteries with colourable glosses to cause them to think that your reviving that which hath been used amongst them with out-side Matth. 23.27 28.30 31 c. will now from you receive life to do that which it could not do neither by the Pope or Bishops nor by you their off-springs And with the Light are you seen at your witts end and troubled that you cannot have your wills fulfilled who are the enemies of the Living truth and wrongers both of men and God as you also in your Agreement acknowledge and therefore all your Evasions and Colourable glosses must fall with your Image and Imaginary worships as in your fore-fathers before you and the Ministry that stands out of mans will which you are yet Ignorant of must through the crosse cut down and crucifie and kill that which your Ministry doth not nor your fore-fathers or the Pope or Bishops before you and that Ministry which comes forth from the Light and power of the Spirit of God is for the discovering and killing of the Error Heresie and Miscariages which yours hath and doth leave people in and so as it kills that and the Ignorance Gala. 3.4 5. Eph. 2. Iohn 8.12 1 Iohn 3.8 9. 1. Pet. 1.18 19 22 23 1 Iohn 4.16 17 Iohn 14.20 it quickeneth and raiseth the soul out of death destroying the Ignorance Error Heresie and Miscariages and all the works of the Devill and so bringeth soules out of death and from under the power of darknesse to live in the life of the Eternall truth in the Injoyment of the Fathers love and to Enjoy and walke in the liberty of the Sons of God And saith John We know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding to know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ and this is true God and life eternall 1 John 5.20 Whose Ministry without your familiar personall Instruction discovereth and killeth sin Error and Miscariages which you live in unkilled and therefore out of his Minstiry who killeth that and quickeneth the other that hath suffered under it raising that and them together with it saving them by grace and causing them as they at Ephesus did to sit with Christ Jesus in the heavenly place Ephe. 2.1 2 4 5 6. For by grace were they saved ver 8th Through faith and not of themselves nor of works lest any should boast Eph 2.8 9. As Paul the Gospel-Minister doth witnesse in his Affirmation who did not as you do in your confusion set up a form of words without Spirit and Life grounded upon the Popes practice or generall Councell held at Trent or at Trull And bid people get these to say and be catechized c. And say them over to the Pope or Arch-bishops Persons Preists Rectors and Curates upon pain of damnation neither doth his words warrant you so to do Therefore are they not your warrant from God for that work Neither did Paul go and write out a few words out of the 20. Chap. of Exodus and the 6. Chap. of Matthew and set the people to get them upon pain of damnation and salvation Which words he had before you and witnessed the life in the spirit and power of Christ for the killing of Ignorannce Sin Error and Miscarriages Eph. 5.13 Eph. 6.10 11 12 13 14. Gal 2.19 20. and to quicken the mortall body Rom. 8.10 11. as well for the purifying of the heart and the soul 1 Pet. 1.22 23. Which you have shewed your Ignorance in and to be out of And therefore Pauls words is not your warrant from God who are out of that righteous life And Paul said they were delivered from the law that being dead wherein they had been held their service stood in the newnes of the Spirit and not in the oldnesse of the Letter Rom. 7.6 But your service stands in the oldnesse of the Letter and the old Law and not in the Gospel and newnesse of spirit Rom. 1.16 16. as your fruits and Agreeement doth manifest Therefore you that serve in your wills and set people to serve in theirs and in the oldnesse of the Letter without the Gospel and power of God to salvation and the newnesse of Spirit Clo. 2.21 22 23. Eph. 2.14 15 16. Rom. 1.26 you are not by Pauls words warranted from God to do it who was himself a minister not of the Letter but of the Spirit as he hath witnessed 2 Co. 3.6 c. Therefore your garnishing your selves with his words and wanting his ministery and spirit to guide in the ministration and worship of God that spirit John 4.23 24. 2 Cor. 3.17 18. you are but as founding Brasse and tinkling Cymbals being in the envy and out of love the of the Father as the false Prophets was therefore let Pauls words rest where they are 1 Cor. 13. H s 16.9 Mic. 3.11 Iude 11. till you depart from your lusts and go make restitution for the Lord is against you and all such who are yet without warrant from God for all your stealing of words to garnish your selves as your fore-fathers did But thus saith the Lord therefore behold I am against them that steal my words from his neighbour I sent them not nor commanded them Therefore they shall not profit the people at all Ier. 23.30 c. And now that you are without warrant from the Scripture being out of the life of truth and reviving your fore-fathers works taking a ground from the sixth-Generall Councell held at Trent or at Trull in the time of the Pope or Bishopps Matth. 7.15 16 17 20 22 22 26 27. ver 2. and are you not also left without warrant from them then where are you now and what ground do you stand on are you not without ground or bottom and on the Sandy foundation ready to be washed away when the floods come c. Whose fall as Christ saith therefrom is like to be great and as may be Read Math. 7.26 27. Let the Priests minde and see If they know From whence they came BEhold and see from whence you came and minde your return was not your Original I head root and foundation the Pope or Arch-bishops and Bishops amongst which was not the Bishop of Rome called the Pope Chiefe Supreame head c. Untill the time or raign of Henry the 8. Late King of England as by the Lawes of this Nation may appeare c. And the Called Arch-Bishopps and such as received Orders from them to be Priests Ministers Deacons and Clarks c. Were they not called the body Spirituall and were and are they not called the English Church c. And after the Pope was put out of Tythes and that which he had begott by Henry the 8 the Arch-Bishopps your fathers Priests Ministers Deacons Rectors Clarks
was they not both wrongers of men and of Christ and cut off or turned out for their Miscarriages c And by the late Parliment they were dis-annulled and rendered uselesse and they are cryed down and their mouthes stopt viz. the Arch-Bishops and Bishops c. who cryed themselves up with as wide a mouth as you can do saying they was the Ministers of Christ and Jure divino c. and were ready to call all hereticks and the like that dissented from them and witnessed against their deceits and how did they punish afflict them for the same And have not you learned to walk in their steps And did not the Episcopals and Prelates those that were branches of the Bishops as you are â—o as you do and cryed up themselves by the name of the Ministers of Christ and counted others Hereticks and were ready to rank them with Papists as you do But was not the Prelates and Episcopals sound to be in the Miscarriages and wrongers of God and Men as you are and was not they cut off and turned out for their Miscarriages c And are not they silent and their mouths stopt and cryed down though they were forward to cry up themselves as you do and to call others Sectaries and Hereticks that are not so as you are but though you now open your mouthes wide to cry up your selves as your fore-fathers did being a bough or branch from them yet with the Light you are now seen and if they was cut off or turned out for their miscarriages and wrong done to Christ and to men do you deserve to stand who are found in and confessing the same But when you have filled up your measures and comes by all to be seen in the same must not you then descend and turn back from whence you came and be as you are men in miscarriages and neglecters of the great work of God wronging men and Christ as you say and your fruirs with your Agreement stands witnesse against you but in patience let all that see your deceits possese their soules and praise God for the riches of his love that hath led them out of your miscarriages and from under your mist or popish darknesse into the pure and glorious light and teaching of Christ wherein they are growing in grace Col. 2.3 4 5 6. Eph. 3.17.18 19 Col 2.7 8 9. Col 3.12 13 14 15. Ephe. 5.11 Rev. 3.9 being rooted and grounded in the true Gospel soul-saving purifying faith in which their soules are purifyed whose loves runs out unto the bretheren from a pure heart being of the new birth 1 Pet. 22.23 and denying your deceits and dead doctrin who witnesse against the works of darknesse and all that which proceeds from your Miscarrying nature and from the popish root and that spirit of deceit by which you wrong men and Christ and are neglecters of his work and without pardon for the same c. Rev. 14.9 10 11. Growing worse and runing yet further from God as you also say And you say page 19 It astonished you many times when you have occasion to talke with your hearers page 19. to perceive that they know very little of the doctrin which you say you have been preaching to them so many yeares there The people may take notice of the unprofitablenesse of your preaching and ministry and that they have spent their money upon you for that which is no bread and doth not after long time hearing and living under little or not at all profit them Luke 16 15. but how should it profit Them when it hath not taught You to come out of your miscarriages and that cursed nature from which your wrong to Christ and men doth proceed in which wrongfull and miscarrying nature your ministry stands and therefore is not like to profit the people But you speak in your own behalf as self justifyers Pharisies false Prophets and Hypocrits use to do and you say you know that they must understand it or perish yet though they have made use of you and spend their time and money upon you you have not nor doth not bring them to understand it and then with you their miscarrying and untaught teachers them to understand it and then with you their miscarrying and untaught teachers they accordingly as you say are like to perish yet you cry up your own way at a very high rate for your own ends and sets the price of a perishing condition without the understanding of your brain Imaginations which you call your preachings or your humane Inventions and poor people your hearers c. that after they have spent their labour and meanes or money upon you this many years yet want their understanding and benefit from you therefore it is high time for them to cease from you and hearken to the light of Christ in their conscience that calls to repentance that it they may obey and thereby come into the teaching of God Isa 54.13 Joh. 6.46 which causeth all to profit 1 Cor. 12.7 that obey the true light and follow the same Ioh. 8.11 Heb. 5.8 9. But people have many yeares heard you and are yet little or nothing at all as you say benefited by you for they remain yet in Ignorance c. you say and are like to do so for you I say Whose ministry stands in your wills and not in the will of God and can alter and change as times and mens wills alter and change but now that you see your ministry doth not kill Ignorance c. you are using the same meanes which your fore-fathers did to do it but left undone and is found with you in the Error Heresies and Miscarriages but you say that Catecthisme and personall Instruction is a great meanes to overcome that killing Ignorance c. page 9. If so how was it that the same meanes viz. personall Catechizing and familiar Instruction from the same spirit that led into miscarriages and to wrong men and Christ as you do did not kill that killing Ignorance in the time of the Pope Prelates Episcopalls and old out-cast or rooted out Bishops whose branches from that body are you and did not they set people on the same work and to use the same meanes as you do which did not kill it c. they set them to get the Creed as you call it and the same Creed as you do and the Lords prayer ten Commandements and those Catechismes which they as well as you call Orthodox Catechismes and their old Expositers as you do and yet the killing Ignorance is unkilled amongst you their off-spring that growes a little more into subtilty and gets words to talk of and sets people to get a few words by you summed together to talk of but are out of the life of them and are in pride coveteousnesse vain glory self conceitednesse Error and Heresies persecution and commiting abomination in as high a degree as your fore-fathers did though under a
and said to Abraham Walk before me and be thou perfect and said to the Children of Israel Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God Christ himself did did not detest it as thou says he did for he was so far from detesting it that he highly approved of it viz. the doctrine of perfection and when he was upon the mount he so far shewed his love estimation and true approbation of it that he viz. Christ himself did preach the same and gave it forth by command upon the Mount to his Disciples saying Be ye perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect Math. 5.48 And here thou hast wronged Christ and lyed against him saying he detested it thou blind guide and false accuser of the truth behold thy absurdity If Christ had detested the doctrine of perfection as thou sayes wouldest not thou have had him to have gone against the command of the Father and to have detested his own doctrine but none will believe thee except the willfull blind and such as are wrapt up in deceipt with thee and hereby instead of ministring and maintaining the truth thou hast both ministred and maintained lies slanders and deceits and wronged Christ therefore art thou no Minister of his And if the Devill should have bred the doctrine of perfection would not he have bred a doctrine against himselfe to have rooted out his own Kingdom But are not you and the Devils disciples so much against that doctrine that you labour with all your skill to preach it out Gen. 17.1 Math. 5.48 Joh. 14.20 2 Joh. 9. Joh. 14.15 1 Joh. 5.3 4. 1 Joh. 2.3 4.5.6 Joh. 14.23.24 and keep it for taking place in the peoples hearts and is there any that are against the doctrine of perfection which is the doctrine of the Father and the Son but such as are against the Father and the Son and as you are who are wrongers of Christ and men and do not all those that deny the doctrine of perfection deny the doctrine both of God and Christ and so are neither Gospel-Ministers nor true Christians seeing they both do command it and he that loves Christ keepeth his command but such as love him not keepeth not his command and so are out of his doctrine and without God 2 Joh. 9. in the iniquity and selfe separation and in sin unturned yet to God Isa 59.1 2. and yet in the Heresies Errors and Miscarriages in the killing ignorance unkilled filthy dreamers that defile the flesh or in the sleep of security wronging Christ and men as in your Agreement you confesse you do and says you grow worse and are running yet further from God and so it appeares And as thou Richard Baxter ministers against the Father and the Son and hast wronged them so hast thou wronged the servants of God and Ministers of Christ and all the Saints and Sons of God saying the Devill thou beleives bred the doctrine of perfection saying Christ detested it when God Almighty bred or brought forth the same and both he himselfe and Christ his Son did not only bring it forth and preach it but commanded it to be obeyed and walked in and thou says thou beleives that none that had any sparke of true grace did hartily beleive in or receive the same and so hereby with thy false doctrine or reprobate faith thou would exclude all from grace that received the doctrine of perfection viz. the doctrine of God and Christ and so the doctrine of the Father and the Son but let me tell thee that such as doth not transgresse but abide in the doctrine of Christ they had and have grace for they had both the Father and the Son eternall life and the holy unction abiding in them and this the Scripture with me doth stand a witnesse against thee and thy lyes false doctrines and deceipts and let those that please read 2 John 9. 1 John 2.20 27. 1 John 5.10 11 12. and 20. verses to be witnesse for them that had grace and received the same against thy false testimony and lying Spirit by which thou art acted and guided Also several of the servants of God received the fathers doctrin in the time of old viz. the doctrin of perfection and walked in it and wouldest thou exclude them all from grace What a devilish doctrin is thine and crosse unto the Scriptures and contrary to the true Gospel ministers Therefore is both it and thee that brings it for to be holden accursed Gal. 1.8 9. Noah was not without grace and he received the doctrin of God the Father and were accounted perfect in his generation who found grace in the eyes of the Lord and being a Just and a perfect man he received the doctrin of the Father and walked with God Gen. 6.8 9. Abraham was not without grace and he received the doctrin of perfection taught him by God almighty when he appeared to him when he was 99. years old c. And God blessed him and made a covenant with him Gen. 17.1 Gen. 6.18 c. Iob 1.8 Heb. 13.20 21. as he did with Noah and they both had experience of his goodnes and found favor in the eyes of the Lord Iob 1.8 was not without grace and he were accounted a perfect and an upright man being one that feared God and eschewed evil as the Lord hath said King Hezekiah was not without grace and experience of the Lords goodnes who walked before him in truth and with a perfect heart and did that which was good in his sight 2 Kings 20.3 And David that said Marke the perfect man for the end of that man is peace Psal 37.37 was not without grace and he exhorted or rather commanded his Son Solomon to serve the Lord with a perfect heart 1 Chron. 28.8 9. And as David said The way of God was and is perfect Psal 18.30 So Solomon saith that the path of the Just is as a shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day and they are not without grace that walk therein Pro. 4.18 Christ the way to the Father Joh. 14.6 and to salvation to all that obey him Heb. 5.8 9. he commands to be perfect Math. 5.48 And his command ought to obeyed his ministry is to lead to a perfect man Eph. 4.12 13. The ministers of the Gospel preached wisdom amongst them that were perfect 1 Cor. 2.6 And as many as are perfect be thus minded Phil. 3. â—5 that the man of God may be perfect 2 Tim. 3.17 to presse others on to perfection Heb. 6.1 that they may attain Heb. 12.22 23. And the God of peace make you perfect saith the minister of the Gospel to them he ministred unto and exhorted to go on unto it And another of the Gospel ministers said to them he ministred unto The God of grace make you perfect 1 Pet 5.10 Go on to perfection Heb. 6. finally my brethren farewell and be perfect 2 Cor. 13.11 saith the Embassad or of Christ Having
the rich fall into and are snared for the love of money is the roote of all evil and whilst you are coveting after that you are in danger of peirceing your soules through with many sorrowes and to fall into perdition as such did that erred from the faith 1 Tim. 6.9.10 therefore beware any one that have set their faces Sion-ward where-ever you are of that and give not way to that which enclines to the Temptation for the enemie both knows what to work upon and how as well as he knoweth what will receive him therefore with the light that lets you see the Temptation let your minds be giâ—t up and stand in the crosse to that inclination which would entertaine the Temptation and abide in the measure and proportion of faith Rom. 12.3.6 Rom. 12.3.6 and stand stedfast without wavering in that which supplies the faith as well as discovereth Temptations and there is the gift known and power given to resist the Devil and judge the evil and the encrease both of faith and patience will through the Crosse and Judgment which crucifyeth the lust be at work in your soules and be support to you in time of triall that you may stand and be kept as you in the Counsell of the pure light of Christ waite and abide for he is faithfull who will not suffer you to be Tempted above your measure as you therein stand but doth and will with the Temptation make away to escape 1 Cor. 10.13 who is the deliver for many are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of them all as he did Paul c 2 Tim. 3.10.11 12. though the unrighteous and persecuters evil men and seducers be ignorant of it yet we know and are sure that as the Lord delivered just Lot vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked and punished them condemning them with an overthrow makeing them an ensample unto those like you the wicked and persecuters seed of evil doers now and such that after should live ungodly but the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of Temptations and afflictions and how to reserve persecuters seed of evil doers wrongers of Christ and of men be they Priests and their followers that lives in such miscarriages and all the unjust unto the day of Judgment for to be punished 2 Pet. 2.4 5 6 7 8 9. Therefore all that are not hardened and seared in sin and iniquitie give eare to the cry of the just and depart from the evil of your Preists and your selves and waite to receive the teachings of God that you may profit seare the living dreadfull Lord God stand in awe of him and sin not for the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himselfe Psa 4.3.4 but the transgressors shall be destroyed together the end of the wicked shall be cut off Psa 37.38 And you that are wrongers of God and men in your miscarriages unpardoned for the same that sets people to get that which you call the Creed you say you beleive in God the Father Almighty in Jesus Christ his Son who suffered under Pontius Pilate c. I say that such as beleives in him loves him and doth not him wrong it was Pilate and the Jews that did him wrong who loved him nor and are not you found in their nature persecuting him in his Saints as Pilate and Herod did that are in the miscarriages as they was wronging Christ and men and therefore it is manifest how little you beleive in him or love him such as are wrongers of him and liers against him are out of the love and faith towards him but you confesse you are wrongers of him and therefore out of the love and the faith he that loves him keeps his sayings but you neglect and keepe them not and therefore you love him not that are as you say neglecters of his work and wrongers of him in the miscarriages growing worse and therefore you are out of his faith and doing the worke of your Father as Pilate and Herod did And thou Richard Baxter art a grevious slanderer of him as before is proved that saith he detested his own doctrine viz. the doctrine of sinlesse perfection Math. 5.48 blush with your deeds of darknesse made manifest who are out of the faith and doctrine of Christ and turned persecuters of his and wrongers of him but it is given to us and them in his faith not to persecute his and wrong him as you and infidels do to suffer for his names-sake as well as beleive in his name as the Saints and faithfull in Christ-Jesus did Phil. 1.29.30 and are nothing terrified by you and our adversaries Phil. 1 28. though we have the same conflict as our brethren had that suffered under Pilate the Jewes and cheife Preists that crucified the just and as the sufferings of Christ abound in us so our consolation aboundeth by Christ 1 Cor. 1.5 knowing also that such as you persecute and cause to suffer for his name-sake whom you confesse you wrong they shall partake of the consolation as of the sufferings they have done 2 Cor. 1.7 that are stedfast unto him but woe unto the wicked and you painted Tombes and all the false worshippers as well as persecuters of his and wrongers of him it shall goe ill with you and them Isa 3.11 and all your guilding and painting flatteries and Colourable glosses will not save you and such from the wrath of the Lambe the cup is prepared as you may read for all such Reve. 14.9 10.11 and great will be their torment as well as yours who are out of his faith in the old birth and miscarriages growing worse as you say who are persecuters of his and wrongers of him but you are seen and your designe is known and are left naked and bare that to the single eyed you may appeare and that others may see your deceipts and of them and you be aware least they with you come under the same condemnation they are warned and I am cleared though by your generation falsely accused to be Popishly affected but have left my Testimony against the Pope and his brood and stands to witnesse against that and all other deceipt and hath not the least affection to it but stands a witnesse through the strength of my God against it and therefore that accusation is proved false and left co returne from whence it came till it returne into the Popes brest or where it first had its rise And though the author being in outward bonds have outward helps taken from him and kept from him yet truth is not bound but stands free and leaves against the deceipt from a servant of the Lord this same testimony and returnes praise to the Lord for the riches of his love and remaines therein A faithfull witnesse against Pope and Papists and all deceivers but a lover of all the honest hearted such as are not wrongers but lovers of the Lord Jesus The 8th