of the life of Jesus your life is death and death is your end and that end leadeth to self to be selfly minded it is death for self is carnall and devillish did ever you read in the Scriptures your practise which you have amongst you did ever Apostles and Prophets do the same which you do did they ever seek themselves or self advantage for the glory of the world which lyes in death let the righteous in you judge your conscience I mean where Christ hath placed his witness Christ Jesus hath a witness in you all and that shall be your Judge at the latter day where God is known to be that is perfect and that delayeth not time he calleth for repentance by it which discovers sin and lets you know when you have done amiss it is Gods witness in every one which shews them their evill deeds and when they commit sin this judges now turn to this that it may lead you to life and peace but no peace to the wicked they shal dye without mercy now consider whether your deeds are done in the Spirit or in the flesh If by the Spirit of God you are guided then would you not appear in these practises you sit like Kings and Princes Lording over the just by your own invention and not by Gods direction or by any example of those that fear the Lord those that fear the Lord are innocent and harmless like God there are but two Spirits of God and of the devill now mind by which you are guided and by which Spirit you receive this authoritie which you practice doth the Spirit of God lead to murder let the light judge or did ever Christ Jesus shevv any such example or did he give you any authoritie to murther men that be not of your minds the Inquisition you call your selves enquiring of that vvhich you need not busying your selves and Lording it over other mens consciences your own practice you never consider from whence it came nor whether it shall go for to the pit must all that is exalted be turned your Idols cannot save you the day of your visitation is come turn unto the Lord all you exalted bubbles and let the light judge your wayes vvhether they be vvrought in God yea or nay did ever Christ Jesus the son of the living God command these things vvhich you do did ever the Lord of life shevv an example to murder his Spirit leads to suffering through him that maketh vvilling and not to persecution that is your seat to destroy the innocent the Lord is prest under your abhominations you trample up on the just one that discovers sin sin is the enemie of your souls and the Lord is a friend to all that fear and keep his commandements this commandement do I leave among you saith Christ Jesus that ye love one another and love is the fulfilling of the Law of God but where is your love to kill your Brother Cains nature dvvells in you and you are by that Spirit guided vvhich slaies the Just you offer up sacrifice to the Devill your sacrifice and you are one and he is one with you that leads you to it vvhat think you that a dead bable can save your souls it you call your Saviour that you make vvith your hands you make you a God and vvhen you have made it you eat it this corrupts with you corruptible things are not known to those that live in the Spirit but in the place vvhere they are to be used and vvhen and how by the wisdome of God as food for the body as God in his wisdome hath ordered them to be used as wine and strong drink as Paul writ to Timothie as usefull for the body and not for the soul The Spirit feedeth on things not seen with a Carnal eye by the Spirit were they guided to use every thing in its place by this Spirit is Nations redeemed and Kingdomes brought to nought Hell is their Portion that knows not that which redeemeth God redeemeth from sin but you dwell in sin and are dead And yet you say you eat God He that feedeth on me saith Christ Jesus shall live for ever My flesh is meat indeed and my Blood is drink indeed but not Carnal as you â—ay for God is a Spirit and no flesh enters that Kingdome neither can Man by his Spirit know what it is Man by his wisdome knows not God neither can they comprehend his being for his being is not Carnal but you are Carnal Sensuail and Devillish and the Diveil hath beguiled you for the destruction of your souls to enlarge his Kingdome his Kingdome is enlarged by the children of disobedience disobedience entred by Adams fall when he eat the forbidden fruit contrary to the mind of God God is righteous and he leads to righteousness peace and pure holyness and holyness becomes his House for ever Now where is this House can ye tell when you make your Idoll Temples a shelter for murderers and thieves Thieves you are to deceive the people and lead the blind to their destruction Destitute you are of God when you say you will sacrifice for sin and your hands are full of blood it is not your washing with water can save you from sin it is the blood of Jesus that cleanseth this blood is not Wine to drink in Bouls as do the Drunkards so do you You cannot worship him whom you know not in all your outward imitation And all your Ceremonies your Copes and Surplâ—sses and Miters and Crowns and Crosses that are made of wood and your painted flaggs deceiving the people and making them follow you up and down Towns and Cities and call this a procession it is a procession indeed for the Devill hath possessed you to make Images like unto himself Images and Likenesses is your Religion as you call it but he that seems to be Religious let him bridle his tongue but your tongues are at liberty to sing and pray and imitate how can he pray or preach that is not sent he that is sent is born of God can this birth you witness Christ came into the World by the will of his Father and whatsoever he see the Father do that did he also When did you see God to receive this authority your authority is from your Father the Devill and his Servants ye are whom ye do obey Obey the Lord turn to the Light of Jesus that leads to a holy Life and an innocent habitation out of all subtlety You do feed your Colledges with Philosophy which is not the Doctrine of Christ but the Doctrine of Devills Paul speaks Teach not vain Philosophy no Traditions of man for man in his wisdome knows not God neither is he known of God for God is a Judge of deceit and his judgements true and just And the just God will be avenged of his enemies yea the eternal God will call you to accompt for your Stewardship He hath given to every man a Talent to
improve and the unprofitable Servant shall be cast into the Lake where shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth out of Hell there is no Redemption Purgatory say you is a place of purging and cleansing by fire the fire of God is a cleanser he burneth up the wicked and bringeth sinners to repentance how can you be cleansed from sin without the blood of Jesus he is not divided from the Father I and my Father are one saith Christ and he that dwells in God dwells in Love where is your Love to one another you sell the innocent for money ye make the righteousness of Christ of no effect in your account when you say you can redeeme Souls for money Money is your portion and your reward Your plagues shall be doubled yea verily your plagues shall be doubled for your Life is deceit and abomination before the Lord For ever are you condemned if you do not repent and turn unto the Lord and his light minde that you may see where you are and what you do that all things may be known to be the fruits of darkness which is not wrought in God God is a worker of wonders in the hearts of them who dread his presence and tremble at his word his word you know not neither do you regard it and yet you say you work wonders where are your wonders do you know that that leads to righteousness and holyness and cleanseth the heart from corruption your hearts are corrupted in wickedness and yet you say you work wonders and miracles It is a miracle to change from death to life but where have you changed any Are not you desperately wicked when you tolerate and allow of murder and make your Steeple-houses a refuge for murder and you call it the Sanctuary of God and say that it is a holy place where is the place that is holy saith the Lord You have builded Temples and worshiped Idols you are Lyers you worship a Den of thieves You have stoln your Prerogative from the Devill the father of lyes and you are subject to him who is a Prince of darkness Darkness hath possessed your hearts you have stoln a practice from the Devill and you set it up in the stead of innocency for subtlety is your order you have no other thing to preserve you but subtlety and deceit to deceive the people in telling them you are their Fathers and that you can forgive sins There is but one Father and one God and he is from everlasting to everlasting World without end The God of Heaven is a Father indeed he saves his people from sin but sin is your Author and your finisher of your end In sin you live and in sin you dye Where is your Father whom you serve do you not serve your lusts and your filthy desires in all things which your minds run after and flattering your selves that you are holy and calling your selves holy men the holy men of old did so as you do ruling as Kings by your Authority which you have received from the Devill whose Dominion is strife and debate and the Spirit of God leads to peace and to an oneness The Father and the Son are but one and he that knowes the Father knowes the Son alsoe with you it is not so you know not one another but as bruit beasts in fighting quarreling one with another one Nation with another and one Kingdome with another this is your fruits of your Religion as you call it You have a name to live but are dead while you live for your deeds make you manifest from whence you came and what you are and whether you go and what you do your practices are abomination to the Lord and yet you say you have unity and an oneness amongst you in that which you call your Church and yet you cannot reconcile your members one to another For the Church as you call it hath seven Heads which you compare to seven Hills and these Hills you say give light to the Nations How comes it then that Nations are drunk with wickedness he that is drunke is drunke in the night day makes your deeds mannifest Yea that innocent Lamb discovereth your subtlery and your deceit deceiving the Nations and Kingdomes and exalting your selves above all that is called God Your names are an abomination to those that fear the Lord Turn to the light of Jesus that a new name you may witness by renewing of your minds that light leadeth to a new Life out of the old world which hath poysoned and hath deceived many Nations the World of sin which hath been exalted in your hearts Behold a new Heaven and a new Earth is spoken of but what is this to you for you know it not you live in the old World and yet you say you are Church-men Christs Church is pure even like himself as clear as Christall is his body and his members is not devided you are divided you fight and kill one another and destroy your souls through wickedness and injustice Is this Justice think you to be a man-slayer and kill them that will not yeild and become subject to your abhominations abhominable is your practice and your deceit you are grand deceivers this many hundred years but now is the Lord appearing to lay open your deceit your nakedness shall appear even as it is you can no longer be hidden for the lightness of your Sun discovereth deeds of darkness what think you of this can you forgive sin yea or no from vvhence did you receive this authoritie and are sinners your seâ—ves and yet you say you have received this authority from the Pope and the Pope from Peter say you but you are lyars and the truth is not in you Peter usurpt no such authoritie he was subject to the Lord and to his Commandements and his faith vvas grounded upon Jâ—sus the Rock of ages and that faith saves from sin he that hath faith becomes pure as God is pure and he is pure indeed and yet you say you have the Keys of Heaven and of Hell and do say that this authoritie is left by Peter but you are lyars and the truth is not in you A chief Bishop is your Pope as you call him Christ head on the earth say you hath Christ two deads yea or nay Is Christ divided what think you How can this be Christ is the Son of God he hath no carnall Members nor no earthly Crown although your Pope hath three you account him your chief Bishop he is a covetous man like your selves in pride you exalt one another covetouâ—ness is your Root it is the Root of all evill it upholds pride and pride upholdeth the Devils kingdom you are proud and covetous men seâ—fly minded and seek nothing but self in all your practices you care not hovv vvicked the people be so they put into your mouths and feed your corrupt desires with filthie lucre gain to the flesh is your end you have no other
sin for now is the Lord a going â—o reckon with the ends of the earth your glory shall be laid in the cust dust is the Serpents food food for Devils and not for men learn to feed on the substance which is Christ Jesus which leadeth out of all that is visible up to him by whom the world was made In the beginning was the word and the word was God and dwelt among men man hath turnd his back off the light he is fallen from innocency by subtilty hath he been led to the destruction of his soul The light of Jesus shews you this that your enemy is sin and leadeth to a desolate habitation which is not in God God is a finisher of faith and the Author of righteousness peace and pure holiness The Devil he is the Author of sin he was a lyar from the beginning and by a lye are you led to disobey the Lord of life The living praise the Lord yea the living praise the Lord for ever and ever never wil God forsake those that fear his presence and tremble at his word tremble all ye Cedars of the earth for your glory shall be shaken by the brightness of his coming shall your glory be consumed even as Chaff before the wind shall the wicked be scattered and their glory brought to nought the glory of the earth shall be laid waste God will leved the Hills and mountains The barren mountains shall become a fruitfull field and the true shepheard shall be known he will feed his Sheep in the plain where no Wolves shall come to devoure them he is a good Shepheard indeed he carryeth his Lambs in his arms he preserves the innocent and feedeth the Hungry and the rich he sends empty away Away with all your abhominations that you have gathered into your selves in the wrong nature and fed the flesh and starved your souls by the fall is flesh exalted and by the Spirit is righteousness increased the Spirit of God I mean which leadeth out of lust covetousness pride and murder all this hath been gathered in by the fall of Adam In that nature you are you cannot witness a new life and yet you say you are holy and unblameable in your actings towards God God you never knew your actions is denyed by the Lord of life for they are but dead works your works is like your selves fruitless trees you are full of leaves bearing no fruit at all The fruits of righteousness is a stranger amongst you your deceit is known to the Lord you can no longer be hidden light iâ— come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evill The evill root hath been advanced the Nations have been drunk all manner of abhominations have been gathered in and men thereon have built Palaces and Towers and strong Holds These Camps shall be broken the Army of the Lord shall destroy their buildings he is a coming with ten thousands of his Angels to reckon with all flesh he will gather his people together out of all corners of the earth yea throughout the earth will God be known his kingdom shal be advanced Long long hath the Heritage of the Lord laid waste now shall the Harlot be discovered the wicked have been exalted and the poor have suffâ—red the Lamb of innocencie hath been forgotten amongst men men have gloryed in their shame and gathered to themselves swift destruction Come down unto the Lord and mind innocencie it it will bring you to know an eternall kingdom that kingdom is endless that kingdom can no man enter by subtilty or deceit even as a child is nourished by the mother so doth the Lord tender those that feed on him this food is an innocent life and an harmless habitation an habitation of glory is the kingdom of God and none can enter there but those that are sanctified by his blood he redeemeth from sin and death death is the end of all under the Sun The Son of righteousness maketh his enemies to fly before him he dissolveth their glory by the brightness of his coming this appearance is not by mans will it cuts the rebellious minds in sunder and bringeth down the lofty in their imaginations Is not this an imagination to consecrate and make holy as you say water to sprinkle your faces what is it that can make holy you being sinners your selves you do call it holy water where have you this rule or by what Spirit are you guided If by the Spirit of God then would your fruits appear to be like unto him that Spirit begets like it self things that are sanctified those that are sanctified are by that Spirit guided their fruits are not like yours setting your selves in an exalted seat of judgement and you your selves are to be judged by that eternall Spirit which cuts down transgression you your selves being found transgressors how can you sit in the seat of judgement with a safe conscience to judge others and you your selves as corrupt as any and as sinfull as any how can you then be so impudent as to take upon you these things which belong to the Lord onely he is judge of all he is judged of none and his judgement is true and shall stand eternally for ever and ever never will God be known in this nature which you act in as your committing of murther did ever Christ when he was upon the earth murther those that would not believe in him have you received this example from the Lord of life let that in your consciences judge whether these fruits be wrought in God yea or nay if not of God then must it be of the Devil he was a murtherer from the beginning and so are you even as Cain slew Abel so are you murtherers and manslayers your foundation is tyranny against the living God are you bent your mischief is made manifest to the children of light and life they who lives in God sees the dark world how it stands advanced in mans heart the world is compleated in the children of disobedience and they are become Princes by their Author the Devill he is the Prince of darkness and darkness possesseth their hearts that is guided by lyes that Spirit say you can't erre which you are guided by now consider with your selves what Spirit it is whether it be the Spirit of God or of the Devil did ever God command you to murder men yea or nay minde your selves and in this practise do not you uphold adulterers murderers and thieves If they be never so wicked you let them alone in their sin if they will but honour you who calls your selves the Romish Church you are Romans indeed and not Israelites your fruits makes you manifest what you are and from whence you came and whether you will go if you do not repent to him which is the Author and the finisher of all wickedness it is he that gives you glory this glory which shall become desolate desolation is your portion if
an exalted Bubble your Pope I mean that sells you pardons for your sins and say that they are forgiven when he himself sinneth worse than you in so doing even as Judas betrayed the innocent for money turn unto the Lord he is a cleanser and a redeemer his redemption standeth for ever and ever he that is redeemed by the Lord is free from sin sin is death and death leadeth to the destructions of mans soul man is made desolate by sin and death and death is the end of all them who love their iniquities love the Lord he is a friend to all them who come unto him come all ye ends of the earth and be saved saith the Lord come all ye people of the earth and turn to the righteous God he will cleanse you of all manner of pollution and your bloody garments shall be washt in the blood of the Lamb if you repent repent and be baptized that your sins may be be forgiven This Baptism is not sprinkling of childrens faces with water and putting Salt in their mouth and spitting upon their noses and under their ears and crossing of them with their fingers Are you not ashamed of these practises did ever the Apostles do these things you say you have a Scripture to put Salt in the childrens mouths it is said in the Scriptures let your words be seasoned with Salt how comes it then that your children and you swear and curse and take Gods name in vain this is not seasond nor commendable before the sight of God or man it is unsavory before the Lord to what effect is this Salt Johns Baptism it is not so he preached to amendment of life and to be washed and cleansed by the blood of Jesus who cleanseth from sin and redeemeth from dead works to serve the living God your service is vain your practice vain without wisdom are you guided the true wisdom of God you do not know the Covenant of Grace you are strangers to you are without where are Dogs and Wolves and ravenous Beasts in the beastly nature in that which God cannot own in the filth and lust of your flesh you offer up that which cannot be accepted Cains sacrifice it is enmity against God you murther the just your service that you do pretend to the Lord it is abhomination the just God will not be so served any longer for he will be avenged of his enemies he will call to an account the iniquity of the Heathen By vain Philosophy have the innocent been betrayed that which the Apostle speaks against your Schools of learning which hath upheld the Den of Divills Vain Philosophy have ye studied to deceive the people of their eternall happiness to advance your selves the Spirit of Christ is plainness it cometh not by study Innocencie leadeth into Christs kingdom even as a little Child must you there enter no policie of man can therein come it is hidden from that nature which dwelleth in the Serpents kingdom A light from Jesus is come into the world which discovereth all your deceit and all that abhomination The mighty day of the Lord is coming yea it is coming upon you all to consume and dash in pieces and rend your kingdom in sunder the vail shall be rent the dark world shall be enlightned by the light of Jesus who enlightneth all men now shall he appear in glory a glorious possession shall he gather unto himself out of the dust long hath the heritage of the Lord lain waste yea long hath the glory of man been exalted and the Lamb of innocencie forgotten howl ye inhabitants of the earth yea howl for bitter lamentation shall come upon you in a day when you know not know this God is righteous and his judgements are true you shall give an account for all your abhominations to the living God of life and power powerfull is the Lord he will execute judgement upon all his enemies yea he will be avenged of all his enemies and bring them under his feet now is the Lord going to reckon with all flesh and the glory of it shall be stained his own kingdom shall be advanced the glory of man shall be laid in the dust and God alone shall reign and the kingdoms of the earth shall become the kingdoms of God for many hundred years hath the righteous Law of God been forgotten he hath been a patient God and hath spared the Heathen but now will the Lord call to account your unrighteous dealing and all your worldly mindedness earth hath been lodged in your hearts covetousness and pride and all manner of abhomination hath been exalted in your minds turn to the light of Jesus that discovers sin God is a true witness placed in your consciences be guided by that it leadeth to the kingdom of Jesus Christ the son of the eternall God this kingdom is righteousness purity peace to them which love God and keep his Commandements but no peace to the wicked they shall dye without mercy The wicked shall have their portion in the lake where there shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth The Well-spring of life shall be set open to all those that fear the Lord and obey his voyce the voyce of God is known to all but they burden their hearts and will not hear they will not bring their deeds to judgement because they have hardned their hearts against the Lord and his annointed the holy one of Israel is he called he who leadeth from death to life to serve the living God of life and power to him be all power and glory for ever and ever A Declaration of truth be it unto you receive it in the honesty of your minds receive the truth as it is in Jesus in honesty of your Spirits examine your selves whether or no these things be not so come down to the light of Jesus and let that judge your fruits from whence they come and what they are and what he is that leads you to these practises If by the Spirit of God you are led then would your works make you manifest whose children you are there is that in your consciences tells you your deeds are evill and not accepted of the Lord. Turn unto it which lets you see the sight of sin wait in it in true obedience to the Lord and power shall be given against your enemies and you shall receive peace through him which is a redeemer of his people his they are that fear the Lord and dread his presence and fear to sin This was I moved of the eternall God to write unto you for the good of your souls who call your selves Roman Catholicks Written per me from the Spirit of truth who is called of the world A. GARGIL UNto thee that calls thy self Bishop of Rome thy Bishoprick is of the Devill the Devill is the Author and finisher of thy authority where is thy authority gathered from out of the pit it came and thither shall it return Thy Genealogy and thy