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A42712	The everlasting rule born witness unto, vvhich is to try all people that do profess God and Christ in words, or, I. A tender salutation to all people in what nation soever, and under what form soever, who do profess God and Christ in words ... II. Also an exhortation unto all people to come to that which will give them victory over sin and the devil ... III. A distinction between the ministers of Christ and the ministers of Antichrist ... / by a lover of truth and righteousness, who seeks the well-being of all mankind, William Gibson.	Gibson, William, 1629-1684.	1667 (1667)	Wing G682; ESTC R38756	64,130	72

better for time to come then you have been in that time which you have already spent God doth not desire your Destruction but would have you to come unto his Light in all your Consciences that he might govern and rule you all by that for without that you cannot govern nor rule your selves And now all ye Lyars Swearers Mockers Scoffers Vain-Talkers and Idle-Jesters Whoremongers and Adulterers and all you who delight in Laughter which is Madness and in vain and ungodly Songs with Musick and Chambering and wanton Lusts come to your Tryal The Devil was and is a Lyar Joh 8.44 Rev. 21.8 Rev. 22.15 Hosea 4.2 Jer. 9.3 and every Lye that any of you tell the Devil is the Author of it and he leads you into it and all those that loves and makes Lyes are shut out of the Kingdom of God And all you Mockers and Scoffers it is written That Abraham had two Sons the one by a Bond-woman and the other by the Free-woman Sarah Gen. 21.9 10 11 12. the Mother of the Faithfull Sarahs Son was Isaac and the Son of Hagar the Bond-woman was Ishmael and Ishmael the Bond-womans Son he mocked and scoffed Isaac the Free-womans Son and God was angry at him and he was not an Heir of the Blessing of God with Isaac whom he scoffed but he was cast out but Isaac was an Heir of Gods Everlasting Blessing and so you Scoffers and Mockers who mocks and scoffs those that fears God Isa 28.22 you are of Ishmael's Seed and you are not Heirs of the Blessing of God with those whom you scoff and mock but you are cast out as Ishmael was and hath not the Blessing but the Curse it is written There shall come Mockers in the Last Time Jude 18. who shall walk after their own ungodly Lusts And you Vain-Talkers Foolish-Jesters it is written in the holy Scriptures 2 Tim. 3.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Jam. 1.26 27. Jam. 4.4 5 6 7 8 9 10. That mans Religion is vain who hath not a Bridle to his Tongue and so your Religion is a vain Religion who hath not a Bridle to your Tongue and all peoples Religion upon the Earth is vain who are not come to believe in and obey the Light of Christ in them for none of them have a Bridle to their Tongue for they will say one thing and do another and many will Lye and Swear and Scoff and Mock and Dissemble and speak one thing with their Mouthes and have a contrary purpose in their Hearts and whosoever doth so their Religion is a vain Religion and God abhors it Christ saith In your Communication Let your yea be yea and your nay nay Mat. 5.37 and whatsoever is more then yea and nay cometh of Evil mark that it cometh of Evil Evil doth not come from God Eph. 4.29 but from the Devil and every idle word must an Account be given for unto the Lord God And all you Whoremongers and Adulterers Paul said unto the Ephesians That they knew that no Whoremonger Heb. 13.4 nor unclean person nor any covetous man had any part in the Kingdom of God and Christ Let no man deceive you with vain words for because of these things cometh the Wrath of God upon the Children of Disobedience be not ye therefore partakers with them Ephes 5.5 6 7. And Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge Luk. 6.25 Eccl. 2.2 Eccles 7.3 4 5 6. and it is written Wo unto you that Laugh for you shall Mourn Sorrow is better then Laughter and the Laughter of a Fool is like the crackling of Thorns under a Pot Let your Laughter be turned into Heaviness and your Joy into Mourning Humble your selver under the mighty hand of God and he shall lift you up it is written in the Scriptures That they that live in Sports and Pleasures 1 Tim. 5.6 are dead while they live they are dead in Trespasses and Sins and so are dead from God Sorrow is better then Langhter the hearts of the Wise are in the house of Mourning but the hearts of Fools are in the house of Mirth And you Swearers Christ saith Mat. 5.34 Jam. 5.12 Swear not at all and the Apostle saith Swear not by Heaven nor by the Earth nor by any other Oath And because of Oathes the Land Mourns So all ye wicked and ungodly people those before-mentioned words with many more bears witness against you and the Light of Christ within you which is a nearer and greater Witness it condemns you and so you are in a very Sad and Miserable Condition and you cannot see how to help your selves out of this your Sad Estate for you are neither ruled by the holy Scriptures without you nor by the Light of Christ within you and so you are an unruly and ill-governed people for you are shut out from God because you do not believe in the Light wherewith he hath enlightened you and you are shut out of the Scriptures also which you do profess to be your Rule for if you did believe in the Light in would lead you to do those things which God doth require of you and so to do the good that is spoken of in the Scriptures and to leave the evil undone which is spoken against in the Scriptures but you hating the Light and loving the Darkness you do the evil that is spoken against in the Scriptures but you leave the good undone and so you are not like Gods Children but the Children of the wicked One whose work you are in and so you are stripped of all your Coverings and you stand judged and condemned by the Lord God and you have no Cloak for your Sins But now I say unto you all in the Fear of the Lord God there is Mercy with the Lord God that you may yet come to Fear him if you will come unto his Light in all your Consciences which lets you see how wickedly and vainly you have and still do spend your time I say if you will believe in the Light which condemns you for your Sins and follow it it will lead you out of your Sins which it condemns you for and though it is a condemning Light to you while you disobey it and do the evil that it lets you see you should not do yet when you obey it it will keep you from doing any evil and then you will find it to be a Saving Light and when it hath Redeemed you out of the evil which it condemns you for then it will not condemn you but it will justifie you and speak comfortably unto you But I say unto you all do not delay but come unto the Light and wait in it to receive power from God against the Devil and all his wicked works which he hath wrought in you and when the Judgements of God doth arise in your hearts for your Sins which you have committed then do not flee from that which judgeth you and filleth your

God that we keep his Commandments and his Commandments are not grievous 1 John 5.2 3. And now Oh ye Magistrates Priests and People who have persecuted and imprisoned until death your Neighbours called Quakers and spoiled and made havock of their Goods here you have broken the commands of Christ which is upon Record in the holy Scriptures of Truth which you call your Rule and everlasting Wo will come upon you if you do not speedily repent and with speed forsake those evil deeds for it is written in the Scriptures of Truth Wo unto thee that spoilest and thou wast not spoiled and I know we have not spoiled your goods nor sought your hurt any way but hath and still doth desire that you might repent and forsake the evil of your wayes and have your Sins forgiven you and obtain mercy from the Lord God we desire not your destruction the Lord God knoweth but we desire that you might repent and live But the words of Christ in the holy Scriptures bears witness against you that you have not done unto us as ye would we should have done unto you if you had been in our condition and we in yours you would not have had us to have imprisoned you unto death as you have done many of our dear Brethren whose innocent blood lies upon you and it cryeth unto God against you for vengeance as righteous Abel's did cry unto God against Murthering Cain and God doth hear and will avenge the blood of his Elect And you would not have had us to have spoiled your goods as you have done ours therefore the Scriptures of Truth without you and the Light of Christ within you doth bear witness against you And now you are stripped of all your Coverings and you stand judged and condemned before the Lord God of Heaven before whom all things are naked and bare he searcheth all hearts Ezek. 18 read it through and tryeth all reins and there is not any wicked work that you do or have done but the Lord God seeth them all and they must not go unpunished for the Lord God is just and equal in all his wayes and he will deal justly with you and with all people upon the Earth yea he will certainly reward every one according to their deeds done in the body whether they be good or evil And Christs words are upon Record in the holy Scriptures which you call your Rule where he commanded his Disciples to love their Enemies Mat. 5 43 44 45 46 47 48. and to do good unto those that did dispitefully use them and persecute them and they did as he commanded them for they loved him with all their hearts and his Commandments were not grievous unto them but to keep his Commandments was great joy unto them and so it is unto us whom you in scorn call Quakers endless infinite eternal everlasting praises honour dominion and thanks be unto the Lord our God who hath gathered us out from amongst you and by his own everlasting power working in our hearts he hath made us a willing people yea willing to bear all that you are permitted to do unto us and also makes us willing to do you any good that lieth in our power and so to reward you good for evil and this shall add to your torment and our God for whom we suffer he will clear our innocency in the sight of all Nations But you are far from fulfilling of this Command who hates and persecutes us who are your friends and so these words which Christ spake which is in the holy Scriptures which you call your Rule bears witness against you and the Light of Christ within you condemns you and so you are stripped of all your Coverings and so you stand judged and condemned by the Lord God in the presence of all holy just and upright men who sees and behold your wicked works And now all ye Merchant men Husbandmen and Tradesmen of what Trade or Calling soever who are Extortioners who take unlawfull gain and use unjust Weights and Measures who cheat and defraud one another in Buying and Selling and Exchanging of Gods good Creatures some of you lying and speaking worse of Gods good Creatures then you know them to be for your own corrupt ends that you may make a prey upon them that hath those good Creatures to sell and others of you that hath Gods Creatures to sell you speak better of them then you know them to be and so you tell lyes to get gain and so to make a prey of the Buyer and here you are judged and condemned by the Light of Christ within you and by his words which are upon Record in the holy Scriptures of Truth without you which you call your Rule because you do not do unto others as ye would they should do unto you and you do not love the Lord God with all your hearts and therefore you cannot love your Neighbour as your self therefore those words with many more in the holy Scriptures bears witness against you and the Light of Christ within you condemns you so you are neither Ruled by the Light of Christ within you nor by the Scriptures of Truth without you and so you are unruly Therefore I say unto you all turn in your minds unto the Eternal true Light wherewith Christ Jesus hath enlightened you all and if you love it it will work repentance in your hearts and if you give up your minds to be led by it it will lead you out of all deceit and double dealing and if you love it and in faithfulness follow and obey it it will lead you to love your Neighbours as your selves and then I am sure you neither can nor will nor dare cheat nor defraud them but then you will do unto them as you would they should do unto you and I am sure there is no man that would be cheated nor defrauded by any man that he deals withal in buying and selling and exchanging Gods good Creatures and so let every man and woman come to the Light wherewith Christ hath enlightened them and as they would have none to cheat nor defraud them the Light of Christ will not suffer them to cheat nor deceive nor defraud any man or woman or child whatsoever if they love it and in faithfulness follow it for the Light is the Spirit of Truth which leadeth into all Truth all those that believe in it and in faithfulness follow it and so if all people would come unto the Light wherewith Christ hath enlightened them then it would lead them all to deal justly plainly truly and uprightly one with another But alas this pure Light and Spirit in peoples Consciences is not loved nor heeded nor believed nor obeyed by many thousands of men and women who doth profess God and Christ in words and calls the Scripture their Rule and that is the reason that there is so much cheating and defrauding amongst people in buying and selling and exchanging

and the excellency of it is of him and not of us and to him we give the glory and honour for to him it is due for ever who by his Light which he hath caused to shine in our hearts hath given us to see them and their false Doctrines and false Worships and Wayes and now he hath given unto us Christ his Son his Covenant of Light to be our Teacher and this is that Way which once we did not know And God said unto man Thy Teacher shall no more be removed into a Corner but thine eye shall see thy Teacher thou shalt hear a voice behind thee saying This is the way walk in it And we can say Experimentally through Gods mercy that that which in times past came behind us to call us out of Evil when we were gone into Evil even than same hath led us out of Evil and so that which formerly we were turned from we are now turned to again so that which followed us and condemned us when we did Evil that is come before us and leads us into those things which is well-pleasing to the Lord our God and so Christ Jesus the Light in us is become our Shepherd and we do hear his Voice in us and we do follow him and he doth give us Peace in our inward parts which neither the Devil nor Wicked men can take from us if we abide faithful unto him And so we are set down under him who is the true Vine and we are Branches in him and so 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 the Son of God Christ Jesus and this is the true God and Life Eternal and he is our Teacher Bishop and High-priest and Lord and King and we do believe that he shall no more be removed out of our sight nor hearing but we shall for ever see him and he shall Live and Reign for evermore and he said Because I live ye shall live also and we know what he said is true and he said I am the Resurrection and the Life he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live and he that liveth and believeth shall never die and these things we do stedfastly believe And as for those Priests and Professors who say Revelation is ceased and there is no immediate teaching to be received in this Age and those that say they have not an infallible Spirit as the Apostle had as for those that hate the Light wherewith Christ Jesus hath enlightned them and loveth darkness which is of the Devil that cannot reveal the things of God and his Kingdom unto them and we know that those who hate the Light and will not hearken to the Light nor obey the Light they can have no immediate testimony to bear for God unto others and we know that there is no infallible Spirit but the Spirit of God and Christ and so they who do not believe in that measure of the Spirit of God and Christ which he hath placed in them to instruct them they have no infallibility but they fail of their Duty toward God and one towards another and so they are unprofitable Servants and wholy useless in the worship of God For if any man have nor the Spirit of Christ he is none of his now it is certain that the Spirit of Christ is infallible it did never fail to fulfil the Will of his Father and the Apostle said God had sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts whereby they called him Father and we do confess to the Glory of God that he hath sent the same Spirit of his Son into our hearts by which we can experimentally call him Father and in and by this we have the things of God and his Kingdom revealed unto us and are immediatly taught by this and this is infallible and doth not fail to lead us into all truth if we do in Faithfulness follow it and so it is our Comforter who love it and obey it but it is and will be the Torment and Condemnation of all those that hate it So the way of the Wicked is Darkness they know not at what they stumble Destruction and Misery is in their way and the way of Peace they know not The Priests and Professors who cry Revelation is Ceased and there is no immediate Teaching to be received in this Age and say that they have no Infallible Spirit These People say that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament is the Revealed Will of God unto them I say the Scriptures was given forth by the Inspiration of God which gives understanding and they do not stand and remain Open and Revealed unto any man or woman but unto such who comes into the Spirit of God and Christ which is infallible for when the Son of God opened his mouth and spake unto the World he spoke in Parables and they could not understand his words because their minds was out from that of God in them for Christ told the unbelieving Jewes that they did neither know the Scriptures nor the Power of God And now all People whose minds are out from that of God in them they can no more know the Scriptures then the unbelieving Jewes could for it is that from which they were at first given forth which must give People the true understanding of them for Christ said unto his Disciples unto you it is given to know the Mysteries of the Kingdom but unto others who were in the unbelief he did speak in Parables even the same words which to unbelievers seemed Lyes and madness even those words was made plain unto them And their hearts did burn within them when he opened unto them the Scriptures after his Resurrection and I say the Scriptures is a book sealed from all People who hath the Light and will not own it to be their Teacher and they are jangling and quarrelling about the meaning of the Scriptures and so are fighting and striving one with another about the Shaddow and Outside of things and never comes to Christ the Substance for said Christ to the unbelieving Jewes Search the Scriptures for in them ye think you have Eternal Life But ye will not come unto me that you might have Life He did not say you cannot come unto me but he said you will not come unto me that you might have Life so Reader thou mayst see they had a Stubborn will who would not come unto Christ God said unto man in the daies of old I have set Life and Good before thee and Death and Evil and God did not nor doth not say unto man Choose Death that thou mayest dye but he did say and doth say choose Life that thou mayest live Paul said I will that Prayers and Supplications be put up for all men in as much as God would have all men to be saved and come to the knowledge