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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58143	Light sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart This is to go abroad among all people who are honest-hearted, especially amongst the inhabitants in Fourns Fells, in Lancashire, and among all who have known me after the flesh, that all honest people may see what I was in profession, and also what I now am by the grace of God. From him which hath come through great tribulations, who hath even left all for Christ, and hath not whereon to lay his head, but is forsaken of father and of mother, and of kinred also, even for the testimony of Jesus, and for the Word of God, whom the world calls, Thomas Rawlinson.	Rawlinson, Thomas.	1657 (1657)	Wing R369; ESTC R220567	29,951	42

so God which is the way where Christ may be found that I may come to know him even as I am known of him and find him The Priests said That reading the Scriptures and godly Books as they called them and praying and following them and hearing them preach that this was the way where Christ is to be found So I did run from one Priest unto another to see if haply I could find Christ among any of them for several years together but did not vvhilst I followed the Priests so all my labour vvas in vain I spent my labour for that which is not Bread and my strength for that which could not satisfie yea I did read the Scriptures often bought the best books I could hear of and read them and prayed earnestly always but did not obtain nor prevail though I cryed and vvept much and the reason is because I sought unto a people that cannot profit for the Lord in a vvay vvhere he is not to be found in the vvay of the ungodly for God hears not sinners and the prayer of the vvicked is sin but the prayer of the righteoas is his delight and vvhile I remained servant to sin the Lord did not regard my prayer for it is his own that praises him unto whom his ears is opened alvvays vvhich he hears and hath regard unto So I see that the Priests are lyars vvho vvould be Teachers of others and yet knovvs not vvhat they say nor vvhereof they affirm vvho vvould perswade you to follow them and to uphold them in their covetous practises and tells people that hearing them is the right vvay and observing their traditions and customs is the right vvay and believing in a Christ vvithout you and looking for a Christ without you is the right vvay so are those vvhich Christ spake of should come in the last dayes saying Lo here is Christ and lo there is Christ but said he Believe them n●r nor go not after them for Friends that which may be knovvn of God is manifest in you so til you return to that of God in you the light ye are in the darkness out of the good vvay in an evil vvay in a vvay that is not good whatsoever ye and your Priests may say of it Neighbors and Friends I speak by experience what I have seen and known that speak I unto you in the Name of the Lord that ye may take warning betime for there is no other way to know Christ but in the light wherewith ye are enlightned so if you will own the right way where God dwells where he is to be found ye must then return in to the Light to that which may be known of God in you and be in love with the Light for God is Light he that loves the Light brings his deeds to the Light and comes to the light Christ Know ye not how that Christ is in you except ye be reprobates You that talk and prate and say ye believe in a Christ without you who are professing a God and a Christ without you and that he saves his people from their sins What is this to you who knows not that Christ is in you There shall ye find him if ever ye know him a Saviour to you who is come a light into the World that all men through him might believe This is he who suffered and dyed at Jerusalem and no other Christ I own I say What is this to you who are yet in your sins and doth not believe that ever ye shall be made free from sin while ye are here but that ye shall sin while ye live Have ye not learned this of your Priests for this is their Doctrine which they bring you from their Father the Devil and yet you be believe it and receives it So what is this to you for you to say Christ saves his people from their sins for ye bear vvitness against your selves that he is not your Saviour who are yet in your sins for ye deny the Work of God and resist it in your selves and denies the end of Christ coming into the World which is to save his people from their sins who is come into the World a light and is manifest to destroy the Works of the Devil and sin is the Work of the Devil which Christ comes to destroy and you that say ye must sin while ye live ye bear witness against your selves that Christ is not yet come to you so ye are the servants of sin and are free from righteousness so what is Christ to you and what is your profession vvorth So whilest I followed the Priests I never knew the way how to come to Christ therefore I had no rest in my spirit day nor night from God while I followed the Priests but Wrath and Horror and Judgement pursued me for disobedience to that of God in my conscience and trouble on every hand on the right hand and on the left was sorrovv and vexation of spirit and my heart within me did faint for fear I vvas even at my Wits-end and had almost despaired of hope and of comfort had not God preserved me though I knew him not for I could find no assurance of the love of God to my soul while I follovved the Priests though then I could vvith the Priests talk of high attainments and could also with them and with professors sometimes boast of experiences and also of joy and peace sometimes when I was lifted up into the airie imaginations with them and so for a while I gloried in the flesh with priests people and made merry over the Witness of God in me then was Satan exalted above all that was called God in me and then both Priests and people did love me and and spake well of me for the World loves its own and the Devil who fills his children with mirth and joy with sports and pleasures and with the glory of this World he will suffer his servants to have a profession of the truth and to boast of God to be their Father and of Christ to be their Saviour and also to talk of faith and of righteousness and the like so that he can but maintain his Works in them which is To lye and to swear to be angry to envy and to hate and to be proud and covetous and to oppress to dissemble and to deceive and to defraud and to cozen to fight to rail and to be drunk to be heady and to be high-minded being filled with all unrighteousness which be the Works of the Devil as lust murder back-biting evil-speaking and all deceit vvhich are the Works of the flesh So I say If the Devil have but the heart and can but keep his Seat there he cares not then vvhat profession they be of he knovvs them that they are his though they may say they defie the Devil and all his Works whose minds Satan hath blinded that they cannot see his Works in themselves brought forth which

even so hath it pleased the Lord to reveal his Son in me blessing and glorious praises to the Lord God everlasting and to the Lamb whose right it is now I plainly see that in vain is the help of man their counsels is nought but deceit and hypocrisie and shall be confounded their Wisdom is foolishness with God who will destroy the Wisdom of the Wise So I do deny all the teachings of the Priests any longer for it is only the Lord that teaches me to profit for through his Word of Truth which I have hid in my heart am I become wiser then all my Teachers the Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want who is now appearing and risen in this the day of his glorious power to teach his people himself of his Ways by his Eternal Infallible Spirit of Light Life and Power which shines into their hearts and gives them the Knowledge of God in the Face of Jesus Christ who enlightneth every man that cometh into the World that all men believing in the light may come to know both the Father and the Sonne whom to know is life eternal all coming to the light this is he that reveals the Father So Friends the light is your Way if ye love it I am the way saith Christ the Light who lightneth every man No man comes to the Father but by me no man knows the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him But Friends wil a profession of Words a talk of knowing the Father and the Son and a boasting of Free-Grace in words be sufficient to any of you who are turned from the light within into darkness to follow the Priests and blind guides which cannot profit you so ye are not taught by Grace who heap up Teachers unto your selves having itching ears ye have turned your ears from the light from the truth so ye are turned from the Grace of God which brings salvation and hath appeared unto all men and what is the Free-Grace of God unto any of you who turn the Free-Grace of God into wantonness who are not taught by it to forsake your sins and to deny all ungodliness and Worldly lusts and to live a godly and a gracious life so are not come into obedience to God but are stiff-necked and rebellious and are alive unto sin and all ungodliness and Worldly lusts so ye are free from Grace And so what such a vain foolish rotten stinking profession is this of yours people who cryes Free-Grace Free-Grace nothing but by Free-Grace are we saved O blush for shame and be ye all horribly afraid for your impudency and lying against God as to say ye are saved by Grace when as ye are yet in your sins and will not receive the Gift of Gods Free-Grace which hath been so largely and so freely tendered unto every one of you from the God of all Grace and hath even appeared in you all and to you all and yet ye have refused to incline your ear and hear For this is the Grace of God and the great love of God towards you all That he hath given you a light which light in you all tells you that ye should not lye nor swear nor be covetous nor be drunk nor that ye should not envy nor hate nor dissemble but lets you see that you should love the Lord God with all your heart and your Neighbor as your selves so see if ye be come to this These things ye know and happy are ye if ye do them otherwise ye are not saved by grace but doth come short of the grace of God to be taught of God if ye be overtaken with lying or swearing or with covetousness or drunkenness with envying or hatred or dissembling and the like which are the Fruits of the flesh So ye do despite to the Spirit of grace whatsoever your profession in Words to the contrary be who are found here But unto us who have believed in the light the grace of God which hath appeared unto all men teaches us to deny all ungodliness and Worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present World And so by grace are we saved not of our selves it is the gift of God for by grace we stand and by grace we have obtained salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ And this in my measure I witness But Friends Will ye sin because grace hath abounded and hath appeared in you all Consider Is that the measure of the gift of the grace of God which teaches ye to sin against God and to be proud and covetous to lye and to swear to envy and to hate and to be drunk and to sight to be light vain and wanton to lust murder and to destroy and to live in all the customs and fashions of the Heathen God forbid Nay but that Spirit which brings forth these things is the Spirit of Devils and not from the Spirit of grace So you who are not subject to the Spirit of grace but brings forth the like Fruits as abovesaid are not come to grace so cannot grow in grace from grace to grace who are not taught by grace to deny all unrighteousness whatsoever So what have ye to do as to take my Words in your mouths saith the Lord who talk and make a profession of free grace What have ye to do to take my Name in your mouths for the Way of grace and truth ye have despised yea verily ye have done despite to the Spirit of grace and hath cast my Law behind your backs saith the Lord. Truly Friends I cannot sow pillows under your arm-holes or under your elbows as your greedy hireling-Priests do who cry peace peace but I shall deal plainly with you whether you will hear or forbear For this is the free grace of God and the love by grace that God hath given us of his Son Hath sent his own Son a light into the World that all men through him might believe and know the truth who enlightneth every man that cometh into the World And he that is not faithful and obedient to the pure light in his conscience which comes from the Son of God and lets him see his evil deeds and that he should not sin at all he hears not God so whosoever sins against the light wrongs his own soul To the light in all your consciences people of all professions I speak And Friends and Neighbors While I was one with you in profession with a profession of God and of Christ in my mouth without the life and possession ye loved me and did speak well of me I being then one with you in the World for the World loves its own and many of you rejoiced to see me and Friends What am I now become your Enemy because God hath put it into my heart to choose the better part who hath had mercy on me and hath chosen me out of the World to be a Vessel unto honour who hath redeemed me

stead to be reconciled to God and even now while ye have yet a little time in the body hast to meet the Lord in the manifestation of the Spirit of Light from God For that which may be known of God is manifest in you and God hath even shewed it unto you So here is your vvay to know God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent if ever ye come to know him vvhom to know is life eternal For there is no other vvay but by that of God in you So if ye will indeed own the right vvay the good vvay vvherein dvvelleth righteousness then come in to the light Christ vvho lightneth every man and even novv while ye have the light believe in the light that ye may be the children of the light and vvalk in the light as he is in the light that the blood of Christ may clense you from all sin and then if ye abide in the light ye shall continue in the Father and in the Son so shall ye have Fellowship vvith the Saints in light vvhom the VVorld knovvs not of vvhom the VVorld is not vvorthy that henceforth ye may no more knovv me after the flesh onely but in the spirit as ye come to be faithful unto the Lord in your measures of the light of Christ where ye may feel me and read me and knovv me vvho am unknovvn unto the VVorld yet vvell knovvn to the children of light vvho in the light of the Lord Jesus Christ doth continue and abides vvith God and vvalks in the light as he is in the light For the children of light hath Fellovvship one vvith another in the light which unites their hearts together in one But vvith the unfruitful VVorks of darkness vve have no Fellovvship and here in the light in the truth though ten thousand times ten thousand yet all one in the light even in Christ Jesus who walks not after the flesh but after the Spirit So Friends by this I shall know that ye love me and that ye love the Truth as many as can receive my Testimony and keeps my Fathers Commandments For the Testimony is not mine but his who hath chosen me to bear vvitness of him unto many but if I bear vvitness of my self my vvitness is not true there is one that beareth witness and I know that the witness that he witnesses is true for I can of my own self do nothing yet through Christ that strengthens me I can do all things For I seek not my own but the things of Jesus Christ that I may do the will of God who hath chosen me out of the VVorld to follow him in the regeneration where the VVorld seeth me not nor knows me not therefore the World hates me and scorns me VVhy because I am not of the VVorld so the VVorld cannot receive my sayings they hear me not because they are not of God for I receive not Testimony from man but these things I speak that ye might believe the truth not by way of boasting to exalt self or to puff up for all boasting is excluded and self-ends condemned with the Light of Truth so a VVitness in my measure I stand eternally against all selfishness for self is of the Devil and all proud boastings which Christ comes to destroy But These things Neighbours and Friends I write unto you that ye may come to know where rest and true peace is and not to exalt self that ye might praise me but these things I declare to the end That ye may all be awakened towards God that ye might be saved and believe what good things God hath in store for them that fear him love● his appearance and believing in the light ye may have life and that every weary soul may be comforted and ●ome to find rest as he comes into the obedience of the light that the righteous God o●er all might have his glory who is the Author and Finisher of every good Work the first and the last God blessed for evermore So all friends in the love of the truth receive this into your hearts with meekness and fear which was given me from the Lord in the spirit to write as a Testimony from the Lord to my Nation Countrey and People for the Seed of Gods sake throughout all the VVorld where this may come was I moved of the Lord God from the love of the Spirit which are the very breathings of my soul for my Nation Countrey and People that they might be saved and hid in the day of the Lords wrath but my desire is That the wicked one in you may be destroyed and what soever worketh unrighteousness and deceit unto which I say Wo that ye may be separated from all unrighteousness therefore keep your selves to that of God in you that the wicked one touch you not and from all idolatry and so will the old man with his deeds come to be put off when the Just comes to liberty when Christ comes to have the preheminence and rules whose right it is So Friends take unto you the whole Armor of God even the Armor of Light as it comes to be put on ye will be able to resist all the fiery darts of the Devil I say As there is a watching and a waiting in the light of Christ Jesus for the teachings of God in the Spirit the lusts of the flesh and fleshly confidences withers and vanishes away and the hidden man of the heart comes to be felt and witnessed as there is an abiding in the Crosse of Christ so ye come to dye unto sinne and to be crucified to the VVorld and to live unto God Therefore all waite that yee may have Bread to feed upon which gives life to the Soule which is nourishment and health to every weary Soul who comes to feed upon the living Immortal Bread which comes downe from GOD out of Heaven shall live for ever And blessed for evermore they are who hunger after this for they shall be satisfied As many as comes to eat of this Bread and receives it into them they shall grow up as Trees of Righteousness the planting of the Lord. So let every one that nameth the Name of CHRIST depart from Iniquity and follow the Light and believe in the Light while ye have the Light that ye may be established in Righteousnesse and Truth Thomas Rawlinson FINIS

from amongst the Sons of men to bear his Name among the Heathen in truth and righteousness according to my measure who hath given me life in the blood of the everlasting Covenant of Light and Peace who hath pluckt my Feet out of the myre and clay and hath set them in a plain Way that I may for ever walk in the Light of the Lord where no occasion of stumbling is But now Friends Where is all your love ye had towards me Is it all lost and gone Doe ye not love the World and few the things of Jesus Christ for they that love the World hath not the love of God in them And since it pleased God to reveal his Son in me who hath chosen me and called me by his grace out from my Fathers House from my Kinred also do not even many of you hate me without a cause and even scorns me and even wags your heads at me and gazes upon me and saith Lo this is he and some sayes that they pitty me and are sorry for me that I should choose a Way that is so contemptible and despised amongst men Friends To the Light of Christ in all your consciences I speak What evil have I done since I owned Christ Jesus my everlasting Light to be my Teacher whereof I may be ashamed Convince me Is it an unrighteous thing with you to choose to follow that which is good in the sight of God and of all honest men even to follovv after righteousness and truth and to turn from darkness unto the light and from the power of Satan unto God And vvas not the Way of God alvvaies despised and rejected of men even Christ Jesus the Light the Way the Truth and the Life Have ye never read that the Stone vvhich the Builders rejected and despised that the same is become the Head of the corner A man of sorrovvs despised and rejected of men and how that Herod and his mighty men of VVar set him at nought So it is possible that that which is highly esteemed amongst men may be abomination in the sight of God and that which is chiefly despised amongst men and set at nought with them may be chiefly owned and highly estemed with God and precious For my wayes are not as your wayes neither are your wayes as my wayes saith the Lord So it is plain That whosoever will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution and must be hated of all men For whosoever departs from iniquity makes himself a prey to the Heathen and becomes a reproach and a by-word among the people for righteousness sake So ye that say ye pitty me and are sorry for me this I say Be not troubled for me but pitty your selves your children so weep not for me because my Father according to the flesh hath shut his doors against me who hath despised and forsaken his ovvn child contrary to nature as one not worthy to inhabit under his roof who may be ashamed of his profession a hard hearted man even without natural affections who hath exceeded the Heathen vvho knovv not God in his rage and cruelty I pray God that it may not be laid to his charge For my part I am vvilling to suffer the loss of all things if the will of God be so rather then to turn from the righteous vvay of the Lord my God choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season now when I am come to years And now if God should even deal with him who is my natural Father according as he hath dealt with me as to shut him out of his Kingdom for ever vvere it not just and equal but far be it from me to desire any mans destruction but rather desires that the thoughts of his heart may be forgiven him that he might come to repentance but truly this I know from the Lord that if he come not to repentance that vvhat he hath done against me he shall find it heavy in the dreadful day of the Lords Vengeance when he comes to revvard him according unto his VVorks Truly when I think of this my soul even mourns and vveeps for him vvho now Dives-like is feeding upon his many dishes and hath forgotten God that made him for I told him before that he put me from him That I was willing to abide with him and to serve him faithfully as it becomes a Son to honor his Father and said that it was fitting for him to suffer me to stay with him in his House until such times as he could find any unfaithfulness in me in what things as he should please to commit unto my care and then he might after that he could convince me of unfaithfulness have some ground of cause why he would put me from him but to put me away without cause for a thing of nought this is a thing altogether unjust contrary to all reason and equity And as for any part of disobedience on my part towards him I know of none unless refusing to follow after the Priests as he would have had me and I told him that I could not find any profit by them and why would he therefore have me to follow after a people that cannot profit For God hath said That they shall not profit the people at all And this shall all people find true by woful experience That they shall never profit by them while they follow them for I would as gladly have profited by them as any if it had been possible but the Priests being a covetous wicked lying people a generation of Vipers who never was sent of God how should they therefore profit the people at all as by the Scriptures of truth I can prove them to be lyars and deceivers all out of the Doctrine of Christ and of the Apostles and it is not requisite that we should follow lyars and deceivers and blind guides so I could not but turn from them when I saw their wickedness and lying against God and so in this thing it was better for me to obey God rather then my parents according to the flesh it being a matter of conscience towards God and it had been but fitting I should have had my liberty of conscience towards God to worship but my natural Father would not suffer me to have this liberty but hath shut his doors against me and hath put me from him upon this account For not following the Priests any longer So hath he not even hated me without cause when as both before he put me away and since I have proved the Priests to be lyars and deceivers according to the Scriptures therefore hath he not herein exceeded the Heathen for a hard-hearted man against his own child let all honest men judge for the very first day I went unto a meeting of the people of God the same day at night I returned again unto my Fathers House and the doors was shut against