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A85143	Light risen out of darkness now in these latter days. Shewing the dark ways and worships of the ministry of Antichrist now in these apostated times, which is perilous, as is foretold of often by the Holy Ghost that spoke through Paul, and now is fulfilled in these latter days, 2 Tim 3. Thus saith the Lord, Arise Sion, and thresh with a sharp threshing instrument, and shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen, and is arising, and Jerusalem shall be a burdensome stone to all nations, now that Christ is unto his people both the light and glory thereof. Wherein something is written in reply to a book that was set forth by the dry and night vines in and about Beverley, who scornfully nicknameth the people of God, in reviling and falsly accusing them, and calleth them Quakers, in and about York-shire. Iuly, 1653.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing F490; Thomason E729_5; ESTC R206840	47,191	59

of iniquity and out of vain and evil thoughts which you live in and so you are ignorant of the Apostles experience that would be finding it out by thought which is vain and so your life that you live by thought is vain for the just he lives by faith which is the evidence of things unseen which you shew your selves to be ignorant of The Apostle he spoke forth his experiences as he passed through them from death to life and as he was made free by the Body of Christ and said I thank God who hath given me victory through Jesus for the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made him free from the Law of sin and death and he was made more then a Conquerour and was crucified to the world and the world to him and he had Christ living in him and so knew both the life and power of Christ manifested in him which he did w●●ness and he hath left upon record which life and power you are ignorant of and would be aspiring to know his conditions with your vain imaginations but the life and experience of them is hid from all such vulterous eyes and venomous beasts as you are though you can steal his words to trade withal yet you are strangers to that life which was made manifest in Paul and you cannot know it whilest you I ve in the lust and filth of the flesh and in the broad way and in the fall and like theeves you have stoln the declarations of Pauls experiences and the rest to make a trade withal such Sir Simons as you which buy and sell the letter which is carnal for carnal money but the gift of God which is the Holy Ghost that you know not and so you are children of disobedience and are hasting to fill up your measure that destruction might come upon you and fire fall down from Heaven to burn up all your chaff and stoln expressions for the Lord he will and is now gathering his wheat into his garner but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire all your forms and chaff and corrupt dealings is for the fire and wrath of the Almighty and the coming of Christ you know not but are carnal and corruptible and if the last enemy be death that is to be destroyed what is the first you run on but turn you back again and hasten not into your self wills which are for destruction and your fl shly wisdom which is for condemnation and look into that 2 Pet. 3.12 which you have made such haste to and in the latter end of the verse you may read that the face of the Lord is against you and all such evil doers as you are pag. 16. And see how you are hasting to an ungodly corrupt conversation and are neither of the mind nor the same spirit that they were of that spoke forth that 3d Chapter of the Philippians though you have made great haste to steal their Letters or Epistles to trade withal but see what the Holy Ghost spoke through Paul to such as you are who are to be marked that do not follow their example in life and conversation but are enemies to the Cross of Christ as you are and instead of Phil. 3.21 Let it lye where it is and run not over but take your own reward that which is ●ue to you and such as you are whose end is destruction whose God is their belly whose glory in their shame who mind earth things as you do Phil. 3.18 19. And now you Foxes and subul Serpents you are found out of your holes of earthly conceiving inventions and imaginations and are to be whipt with the smal scourge of the righteous judgmen●s of the Lord for the accuser of the brethren is head in you which you speak of in your 17 page Thus saith the Lord Wo to the Idol Shepherds such as you are that ran but the Lord n●ver sent you and you are unprofitable and do not profit the people at all Jer. 23. read that over and s●e where you are and you may see that a whirlwind is to fall grievously upon all such as you are that speak a vision of your own heart and not from the mouth of the Lord and that preach for hire as you do as in Jer. 5.30 31. holding up that which is an abomination in the eyes the Lord but wo is your portion that feeds you with the fat and clothes you with the wool God will feed you with judgement read Ezek. 34. And wo to them that take counsel but not of me and that cover with a covering but not of my Spirit saith the Lord that they may add sin unto sin as you do that are covered with your own inventions the wo s to you read Isai 30. And you blind leaders of the people cause them to erre Isai 31. and Isai 9.16 So that there is like Priest like people Hos 4.9 Therefore wo to you and all blind guides Matth. 23. The Lord is against you Moreover Quest they admonish that we wait in silence until God open our mouths We answer If that were the end or intent of this admonition Priests to shew to man his dependancy on God c. Herein you shew your selves to be ignorant of the same Spirit that they had that spoke forth the Scriptures Reply whose dependancy was of God and waited upon him for to move in them by his holy Spirit and to put words into their mouths to speak as the Prophets and Apostles did witness as you may read at large in their Declaration For holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1.19 20 21. And those that speak now and speak not by the same movings of the Holy Ghost speaking in them and through them as they did are false Prophets such as you are as in 2 Pet. 2. Who know not the gift of God which is as fire but speak their own words and imaginations from others writings as you do that say none speaks immediately from God now as the Apostles did Herein you shew that you never knew God nor any gift of his but have all this time spoken your own inventions and vain repetitions and not from the mouth of the Lord and now in due time you have laid it open to the view of all that are learned and grounded in the truth who are not unlearned nor untaught of God as you are that wrest the Scriptures to your own destruction being led away with the errour of the wicked as you are and know nothing of the growth in grace as they did which spoke fo●th the Scriptures which I witness the life of and see you where you are in your inventions and imaginations wresting the Scripture being untaught of God following your own thoughts and imaginations 2 Pet. 3.16 1. But we know God by divine inspiration and know him speaking immediately in us by his Son and who are his sheep hear his

LIGHT Risen out of DARKNESS Now in these latter Days Shewing the dark ways and Worships of the Ministry of Antichrist now in these Apostated Times which is perilous as is foretold of often by the Holy Ghost that spoke through Paul and now is fulfilled in these latter days 2 Tim 3. Thus saith the Lord Arise Sion and thresh with a sharp threshing Instrument and shine for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen and is arising and Jerusalem shall be a burdensom stone to all Nations now that Christ is unto his People both the Light and the Glory thereof WHEREIN Something is written in Reply to a Book that was set forth by the dry and night Vines in and about Beverley who scornfully nicknameth the People of God in ●eviling and falsly accusing them and calleth them Quakers in and about York-shire Iuly 1653. LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the black spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1654. To you who suffer for Righteousness and walks in the light about Beverley and elsewhere who love the Lord Jesus Christ Christian Friends AS you have received the Lord Jesus Christ so walk in him and let the love of God be an Ingagement upon your spirits to love the Lord Jesus with all your hearts and walk as children of the light and of the day not in darkness but in light and let the pure light of God in you which is the free gift of God that sheweth darkness and Infidelity lead you and guide you which the Priests about your Beverley faith it doth not shewing that they are ignorant of Christ and doth mightily dishonor the Lord Jesus that say they witness that he or the Light of God which sheweth sin and darkness sheweth not unbelief But all you that know the Lord Jesus made manifest unto your souls and in the Divine discovery of his love by the Divine unfoldings of the Divine light of his holy and blessed spirit which is as the key of David and doth unlock or unsold the Divine misteries of the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus in the souls of his Saints which these dry Vines are ignorant of you may witness against them therefore my beloved in the Lord Iesus Christ who are my Epistles written in my heart not with paper and inck which is but carnal and mortal and perishing which wears and fades away but you are written not with pen and ink but by the Spirit of the living God in the fleshly tables of the heart so that you may manifestly declare your selves to be the Epistles of Christ to be seen and read of all men you that are in union and fellowship with him who are dispersed and scattered abroad from the rudiments of the world but in the Vine of the Lords free love therefore live in love one with another edifying one another in love that so you may build up one another in the most holy Faith laboring in the Power and Strength of the Lord and by the spirit of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ that you my hearts that are as Cedars of Lebanon may labor by the Power of God in you to lead up others as you have been led by the Light of God in you which leadeth into Christ the perfection and beauty of holiness that you may be to the praise of the glory of his Grace who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light to testifie against the dark Ministry of the world as well any where else where it shall be made manifest unto you as it is now in and about Beverley and let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorifie your Father which is in Heaven even the Father of lights and the Father of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ that whereas these your enemies that speak evil of you and say a little time will bring it forth that so by your Godly conversations and upright walkings you may glorifie the Lord and put to silence the foolishness of ignorant men and testifie against blind guides false Prophets Seducers and Antichrists and that you may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the height depth and length of the Love of God and to be comprehended into that which is Incomprehensible dwelling in the light where there is Immortality that so you may be able to give a reason of the hope that is in you which is Christ the hope of glory Col. 1.27 and he that hath this hope in him purifyeth himself even as he is pure 1 Iohn 3.1.2 It is in the behalf of all the Godly dispersed ones that suffer under the name of Quakers that I have written this as well as my self So commending you to the Lord God of power even the Father of lights I remain a friend and lover of all that love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity and truth Rich. Farneworth Iuly 1653. An Epistle to the Reader Reader I would not have set pen to paper had I not seen the truth much defamed by those that stand in opposition against it and seek to defame it and strangle it by their faln wisdom and pride and fleshly boastings where envy is hatched so that the Dragon casts out floods of waters of revilings after the woman that brings forth the man-child but the Eaath is made to help the woman and the child is caught up to Heaven with God where it is preserved and kept safe as in a City of refuge and wait but upon God in patience a while and thou wilt see great things for the Lord is bringing to pass his act his strange act that is Prophecyed and foretold of and the destruction and downfal of Antichrists Kingdom that the Kingdom of Jesus Christ may be established in power and shine forth in brightness and the Lord leading forth his People in Power and Majesty and going before his ancients gloriously and he will be their rereward and the Kingdoms of the World shall be the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ the Beast makes war with the Lamb but the Lamb shall overcome prevail and get the victory Read this little ensuing Treatise and give thy Christian attention in the reading and take heed how thou dost pass thy Judgment If thou have not a spirit of discerning least thou Judg false and Judgment return into thine own besom it may be that thou mayst find something in it hard to be digested by thy carnal wisdom take heed of calling truth railing for all deceit must be cursed burned and cut down by the Sword of the Spirit that so the pure seed may be raised up the blessing to inherit Leave not till thou hast read it over and if thy mind stand free and thy Judgment cleare It will some deceits and deceivableness of the man of sin more cleerly and fully unto thee discover So farewel in the Lord and the Lord give

false Apostles stealing the words of the true Apostles to trade withal and are vainly puft up by your fleshly minds intruding into those things you have not seen Col. 2.18 but live by conceivings and Imaginations if's and may be 's and so feed on husks and outsides not holding the head from which all the body by joynts and bands where nourishment comes in from the Divine appearance and glorious administration of the spirit of truth being administred by the spirit which causeth an Increase with the Increase of God Col. 2.19 which you are ignorant of that are alive and lives in the rudiments of the world which are perishing Col. 2.20 21 22. which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship c. Verse 23. and here you are and out of the head where the life is and you are Apostated and are out of the life of the truth guided by your own wills and following the Imaginations of your own hearts and are of the number of those that the Apostle speaks of in 2 Cor. 11.13.14 for he had a free spirit and was chargeable to no man 2 Cor. 11.9 but in all things kept himself for being burdensome but you are out of that condition that are chargeable and burdensome and have not the same spir t that the Apostle had who had the Lord Jesus Christ revealed in him and spoke by Divine Revelation Gal. 1. but you speak by humane invention and brain study and so lives and acts in deceit intruding by your inventions into those things you have not seen and so are contrary to the Apostle both in that 2 Cor. 11.10.11 and that of Gal. 1.11.12 15.16 but you are in your own Inventions and are Apostated out of the truth that do not speak immediately from the Mouth of the Lord as the Apostles did and so you preach your own flatteries and deceits but what is the chaff to the wheat saith the Lord or what is the form to the power you sifted chaff or fine painted expressions is for the fire and all your formings and imaginations must be burnt you speak your own words and not the Words of the Lord and he is against you Ier. 23.29 30 31 32. and you that bring another Doctrine then to know the power and light and life within as the Apostle did you are to be held accursed and you are under the curse Gal. 1.8 9 10. And whereas you say Quest you will proceed to enquire into that doctrine which saith The light in you held forth by those you in scorn and derision call Quakers and which light doth enlighten every man that cometh into the world is Christ You make enquiry and say What then is become of the Person of the Mediatour in 1 Tim. Chap. 2. ver 5. and Heb. 7.24 c. Were you but acquainted with the life of the Scriptures Reply which is Christ in us the hope of glory Col. 1.27 whom the Apostle which was a Gospel-Minister did preach warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom to know the Mediatour within him Chr st the power of God unto salvation and he did labour mightily by the power of God the Mediatourship Christ revealed in him that he might present every man perfect in Christ Jesus Col. 1.28 29. That their hearts might be comforted being knit together in love which love is Christ the divine power of righteousness who is the Mediatour of the New Covenant to bring the soul into the riches of the full assurance of understanding to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ Col. 2.2 3. Which had you tead on in that 1 Tim. 2.5 in the verse following it would have answered you in that thing Herein you shew your ignorance in the things of God and are blind and cannot see and you shew that you are ignorant of the same Ministery that the Apostle held forth teaching them-to know Christ in them Col. 1.27 2 Cor. 13.5 and the life in them And he was the Minister of the Gospel and had the power in him and laboured by that power in him his Ministery was not of man but of God as he did certifie to the Brethren Gal. 1.11 12. And his Exhortation was not of man but of God and he was bold in God to speak unto them the Gospel or power of God Christ in him which you here shew your selves to be ignorant of that asketh what is become of Christ have you lost him or is not the lust head in you and the Prince of the power of the air head in you and so your doctrine is of deceit and the Gospel is hid from you 2 Cor 4.1.2.3 4 5. And so you are full of uncleanness and of guil and contrary to the Apostle in that 1 Thes 2.3 who was allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel not as to please men as you do but he did please God who tryeth the heart and he neither used flattering words nor covetousness as you do that are ignorant of this spiritual Gospel he took God to witness it 1 Thes 2.4 5 6 7 8 9 10. See how ignorant you are of these things ye blind guides that knows not that the first Adam was made a living Soul and the second a quickening Spirit and is Lord from Heaven and that Christ is the same yesterday to day and for ever Heb. 13.8 And had you read on in Heb. 7.24 25. would have told you that he is able to save to the utmost all that come unto God by him who ever liveth to make intercession for them and he is the way the truth and the life and no man can come to the Father but by him Herein you shew your ignorance in the life of the Scriptures that are ignorant of the letter which is without life as said Jesus to the Jews and self conceited hypocrites Such as you are search the Scriptures for in them ye think ye have Eternal life saith he and so do you but saith he they do but testifie of me saith Christ I am the life and ye will not come to me that ye may have life John 5.39 40. And so you l ve in the shadow of things wanting the substance are blind and cannot see therefore wo to you ye blind guids who follow the imaginations and deceits of your own hearts for Christ is yet a mystery unto you and the Med atour you know not For we are come to Mount Sion and unto the City of the living God the Heavenly Ierusalem and to an innumerable Company of Angels and to the spirits of just men mads perfect the general Assembly of the Church of the first-born writen in Heaven and to Iesus the Mediatour of the New Covenant Heb. 12.22 23 24. Herein you are exceeding carnal and the natural man knows not the things of God because they are spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2.14 And whereas you say Priest Doth not

the Scripture speak to Saints not every man when he saith Christ in you the hope of glory c. Col. 1.27 Herein you would have all to take notice of your ignorance Reply for the next verse will contradict you and so in all you have said yet the very letter of the Scripture will let you see your blindness Well may you be ignorant of the life when you are ignorant of the letter for they that spoke forth the Scriptures they passed from death to life and the in fellowship 〈◊〉 with the Father and the Son and he that hath the Son hath life 1 John but he that hath not the Son manifested in him hath not life but is in death You plainly make it appear here that you are in the letter without life and the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life and you never passed from death to life but are yet in death and sin for to be carnally minded is death and the wages of sin is death and he that commits sin is the servant of sin and lying is of the divel and an abomination to the Lord And here you lye ye proud Priests that say the Apostle did not say to every man That Christ or the light was in them for saith he in ver 28. Christ in you whom we preach he did not only preach Christ in them the hope of glory but he saith we preach that is all the Ministers of the Spirit and we preach Christ in you the mystery that is to be unfolded in you to every man warning every man and teaching every man Col. 1.28 Herein you erre not knowing the Scriptures and the Apostle saith to the Romans That as well as to them God hath given to every man a measure of grace Rom. 12.31 And none shall be condemned for that which they know not but for that which they know and do not obey who saith Obey my voyce for obedience is better then sacrifice And Christ saith That he is the light of the world and enlightens every man that cometh into the world Iohn 1.9 And they that follow him shall have the light of life Iohn 8.12 Herein you shew that you are ignorant of this l ght and so are in darkness and without God in the world living by conceivings and imaginations and you that are ignorant of the light are ignorant of Christ and preaches death the letter without the spirit and your Min stry is for for condemnation 2 Cor. 3. and you are ignorant both of the light life and power but as you would comprehend it by your carnal reason but this cannot be comprehended the light shines in darkness but darkness comprehends it not Iohn 1.5 And whereas you say That Paul spoke to none but Saints Priest in that 2 Cor. 5.26 27. c. I looked ply and could not find so many verses in that Chapter for it hath but 21 verses but notwithstanding I knew that Scripture the life of it if I had never seen letter but as you say he spoke to Saints when he saith we know no man after the flesh and though we have known Christ after the flesh yet henceforth know we him so no more but your knowledge stands in the flesh the lust and the fall and here you steal the Apostles words to apply to your selves and that is the Serpent in you go and make restitution as Zacheus did and let him that stole steal no more Ephes 4 28. And you are discovered you that lives by theft and steals the words of your neighbours to trade withal but the Lord is against you and all such as you are Jer. 23.30 You are of those theeves that Christ speaks of in John 10. That climbs up another way and c mes not in by the door And that makes you to speak you know not what See who the Apostle spoke to in that 2 Cor. 5.10 he saith there That all shall appear and every man give account that he may receive according to the deeds done in the flesh Did he but speak but only to Saints when he saith all and every man See whom he spoke to in ver 14.15 and see if you be not exceeding blind Well may you be ignorant of the life and power that are ignoront of the lett●r which is death and so you living in darkness are ignorant of the l●ght and now you are discovered to be ignoront of the same spirit that spoke forth the Scriptures and so shews forth the spirit of errour and you are in the flesh and know not God who is a consuming fire Heb. 12.29 and like a refiners fire Mal 3.2 3. Your God it imagination and the Lord God Almighty who made Heaven and Earth and is the Father of light him you know not that would limit him by your carnal minds but the carnal mind is death and an enemy to the Cross of Christ Rom. 8.6 Phil. 3.18 19. So are you enemies both to God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ and know you not ye blind that the Grace of God which bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men Tit. 2.11 12. But is turned by you and such as you are into wantonness who profess God in words as you do but in works deny him Tit. 1.16 who lives in form without either life or power having a form of Godliness denying the power thereof but your folly will appear daily more and more 2 Tim. 3. And that light is your Condemnation But though the Apostle did speak his experience● in the things of God he spoke what he knew made manifest unto him by experience through the divine operation of the holy Spirit But you live in th● fl●sh and are ignorant of the light of God that he did exhort others to be mindful of which light did lead t●em out of darkness and they were all Children of the light and of the day who were obedient to it for their souls were purified in yeilding obedience to the Commands of the Spirit as in 1 Pet. 1.22 And by the word of life they were sanctified washed and cleansed and justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of the Lord and they that are now guided by the Spirit of God are the Sons of God 1 Cor. 6.11 Rom. 8.14 Which you shew your selves to be none of But you are ignorant of the first Principle of Religion that makes a scorn of the light and shew your selves to be children of darkness having your understanding darkened and live in pride scorn and subtilty and turns the grace of God into wantonness children of disobedience which the wrath of God is to The wrath of God is to be revealed in flames of fire upon all the children of disobedience as you are who disobey the truth and know not the light but are in darkness and walk in darkness For darkness hath blinded your eyes who stand in opposition to the Spirit of truth and disobeyeth the Gospel of our Lord Jesus

are sanctified are all of one and he is not ashamed to call them brethren Heb. 2.11 But such as you are he doth deny and against you and your dark Ministery I do testifie that it is of Antichrist and not of Christ who live in darkness and know not God and that is your ignorance and sottishness we are of the light and of the day Ephes 5.13 And are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones and witness the life of the Scriptures Ephes 5.30 And I witness the washings and cleansings with the water of the word as they did that spoke forth the Scriptures which you shew your selves to be ignorant of Ephes 5.26 27. Therefore I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth that thou hast hid these things from the wise prudent of the world that the wisdom of the world may appear to be foolishness as it 's said 1 Cor. 1.25 26 27 28. and hast revealed them to us by thy Spirit that thou mayest have the praise 1 Cor. 2.9 10. Behold what manner of love is this that the Father hath bestowed on us that we should be c●lled the Sons of God therefore the world knoweth us not because he knew him not 1 John 3.1 4. You shew that you know him not but are in lying and deceit and flatteries walking in deceit and craftiness shewing forth your subtilties that standeth in opposition against the light and so dishonoureth the Lord Christ and saith that he knows not all things in saying that he doth not discover unbelief and for that end came he into the world to judge and condemn all unbelief and unbelievers For he that believeth not is condemned already John 3.18 And saith For judgement am I come into the world that they that see not might see into the knowledge of the divine mystery and that they which see by their own conceits and imaginations as you do might be made blind to see nothing of them For he is the true light and none sees any divine truth but in him for he is the divine light and in him is no darkness at all And hereby know we that we dwell in him and he in us who is both divine light and divine good and we know it because he hath given us of his spirit 1 John 4.13 14 15 16 17. Herein you are found lyars Seducers and Antichrists that say we believe not in him for that is your condition that know him not that is come a light into the world that whosoever believeth in him may not abide in darkness which light life I witness with all that do believe in the Lord Jesus the light of the world but you that know not this true light that enlighteneth every man to guide you there is you condemnation your Ministry is for condemnation for he that loveth the light and is guided by it that shews him salvat ō but he that walks contrary to the light as you do is in darkness abideth in death are for condemnation Ioh. 3.19 20 21. You do mightily dishonour the Lord that say this light doth not shew all darkness and unbelief Herein you erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of truth The Apostle said That God who commanded light to shine out of darkness had shined in their hearts which I bare testimony to through death to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the f●ce of Jesus and that was the doctrine that he preached who had the Heavenly treasure in an Earthen vessel which you are ignorant of 2 Cor. 4.5 6 7. And so you are found to be enemies to Jesus Christ and strangers to the true l ght your ignorance and folly is now made manifest First Christ who is the true light that enlighteneth every man that cometh into the world Ioh. 1.9 doth altogether condemn unbelief and that is your condemnation for we which have the light of life and witness against you that say this light doth not discover unbelief for it hath condemned it and sets us free from it who are redeemed to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ by it which you are ignorant of and so are ignorant of the life of the Scriptures as in Ioh. 19. 8.12 3.19 20 21. Act. 13.47 where Christ is the Covenant of his people as the Lord hath promised by his Servant the Prophet who Prophecying of Christ Sai●h the Lord there I will give thee for a light of the people to enlighten the Gentiles which were unbeleevers that thou mayst be the glory of my People Israel herein you mightily do dishonour the Lord Jesus Christ but they are not Israel that are after the flesh as you are that live in the fall and in darkness and in enmity to God but they are Israel that are after the spirit and walk in the light bringing forth fruits to the Praise and Glory of God and there is your condemnation the light which lighteneth every man that cometh into the world and your ministry is darkness and not light of Antichrist and not of Christ and you are men-pleasers time-servers seducers blind guides Hypocrites and dissemblers and sheweth your envy and subtilty being of the world and in darkness and guided by the spirit of error we are of God he that is of God heareth us and walketh in the light which guideth and leadeth up to the Father of Lights he that is not of God heareth us not hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error by the touchstone and tryer and light of life 1 Ioh. 4. which is Christ revealed in us as the Apostle did witness Gal. 1. which you are ignorant of and live in form without either light life or power and are servants of sin and your wages are death and destruction tribulation and anguish Repent and blush for shame wo and misery is your portion the mouth of the Lord of H sts hath spoken it who is the righteous Judg of Heaven and Earth the Father of Lights even the Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who is God blessed for ever Yet further they conclude that power accompanies that light to destroy every evil Quest as it appears in them that yeild themselves unto it and watch that their vain minds draw them not forth from abiding in the pure light of Christ c. It were a smal thing Oh all ye that pass by Priests If we and our means should sleep in the dust in everlasting silence and contempt but will not the stones cry out if we hold our peace whilst these deceits seem to lay all upon Christ c. Here you shew your selves to be of the number of Reprobates Reply and know not Christ as in that 2 Cor. 13.5 who yet never knew any thing of Christ the Divine Light and the Divine Power and are of those that Christ speaks of he came to his own and his own received him

and comfort which is eternal which the Scriptures do declare of that we own But yours that is carnal and stands without in old Authours and Books a studied out faith and an hypocritical hope which is to perish and your love which is dissimulation c. and is forbidden by the Spirit of truth that we disown He that is a B●shop Pastour or Teacher Spiritual B●shops 1 Tim. 3.1 2.3 4 5. ●●t 1.7 8. 1 Per. 5.1 2 3. Acts 20. and is taught by the Spirit who is not of man but of God and is blameless and doth contend for the faith that was delivered to the Saints who are not carnal but spiritual who are not proud nor covetous nor given to filthy lucre who are lovers of good men who are sober just holy and temperate in all things who are without partiality or hypocrifie and who watch for the souls as those that are to give an account to God and are governed by the Spirit of God free-hearted such we do own For all who do prof●ss themselves to be Ministers of Christ and to be sent of God and do not walk in obedinece to the Lord Christ but go out of his Doctrine all such are Seducers and Antichrists cover over themselves with never such fair shews and covers by their vain imaginations and fleshly wisdom as you do But wo to them that cover with a covering but not of my Spirit saith the Lord that they may add sin unto sin as you do Isai 30. You are constrained by tythes gifts and rewards and large augmentations and preaches for hire as the false prophets did but the Lord is against you as he was against them and you are under the Curse and the Wrath of the Almighty The Apostle who was a man of God taught of God and had his Ministry and Authority of God and not of man and his learning was of God and not of man as it is left upon record Gal. 1.11 12. and were after the Example and Doctrine of Christ That we do witness and that we don own But you that run to Studies and Arts to raise death out of death speaking the letter which is death for money which is carnal and are led by your own wills which are corrupt and not by the will of God as the Apostle was and you are of man and your authority of man and not of God and so your Ministry is Antichristian wh●ch differeth both from the practise of Christ and his Apostles The Apostle who taught the people as he was taught by divine Revelation had all his wisdom and learning cast out which became of none account and was loss dross and dung Phil. 3.7 8. The Apostle who was taught of God and had his Ministry not of man nor by the will of man but by the will of God taught freely Acts 20.33 34. And necessity was laid upon him and he laboured to make the Gospel free and himself servant to all 1 Cor. 9.15 16 17. c. And the Apostle who had spiritual gifts was a Minister of the Spirit made an able Minister 2 Cor. 3.5 And not of the letter but of the spirit 2 Cor. 3.6 And the Apostle was made a Minister by the dispensation of the gift of God that was given to him and he was a Minster of the mystery that was revealed to him which you are ignorant and know nothing of who deny the light know neither the gift nor the power as he did Ephes 3.2 3. Ephes 3.7 8 9 10. And you are darkness and your Ministry is darkness and not of the light not of the spirit which is the gift and you are not of Christ but of Antichrist and saith the Holy Ghost Little children let no man deceive you he that doth righteousness is of God and knows the mind and will of God and acts in the light and is righteous and is guided by the Spirit of God and is as he is 1 Iohn 3.6 7. in the truth and in the righteousness of Lord Iesus Christ 1 Cor. 1.30 31. And the Apostles who were of righteousness and of the Spirit were able Ministers of the manifold graces of God and fellow-labourers with him and had both the gift and the spirit and were able to give gifts unto others and such was the Seal of their Apostleship as were Epistles written in their hearts by the Spirit of the ever living God and not by the letter as in 2 Cor. 3.1 2 3. And they needed not the recommendation of others But you that are carnal and corrupt in your old nature and being evil how can ye give gifts unto others out of that which you have nothing to do withal For the natural man knows not the things of God you have nothing to give being evil your selves but that which is evil and go and make restitution to whom you have robbed For the thief comes not but for to kill and to steal and to destroy Ioh. 10.10 And let him that stole steal no more Ephes 4.28 The Lord is against them Ier. 23.30 And he that doth not righteousness is not of God 1 Joh. 3.10 And what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols 2. Cor. 6.17 18. And the true worshippers did worship the Father in spirit and in truth Iohn 4.23 24. And not by imagination and invention tradition and rudiments of the world Those that were true worshippers and did worship the Father in spirit and in truth did meet together often and see what Temple they worshipped in such as were made without hands 1 Cor. 6.19 20. 1 Cor. 3.16 Rev. 21. But to these that are Brethren salute me to the Church that is in their house as Paul to Aquila and to the Brethren of Laodicea and Nimphas 1 Cor. 16.19 Col. 4.15 And those did abide in the Doctrine of Christ and I witness with them but you do not abide in the Doctrine of Christ that profess to be sent of him nor regard what the Holy Ghost said by Paul and by Stephen Acts 17.47 48 49. But you who are contrary to these and instead of being Stewards of the manifold graces of God and of the houshold of faith are of corruption corrupt minds and corrupt hearts and are of the Synagogue of Satan and are proud and covetous and snuffeth up the ayr and watches for great benefits and large augmentations and are Ministers of man and sprinkle Infants couzening them with your inventions and you your selves are out of covenant with Christ and shall never enter with your high notions and fleshly imaginations which are of Antichrist and not of Christ who contend for earth and earthly things shewing that your treasure and your heart also is in the earth and you your seves earthly and are in the same seats that those were who were enemies to Jesus Christ as you are whom he exhorteth in his Doctrin to beware of Mark 12.38 39 40. And you Christopher Feak John Simson George Cocking Laurence Wise John Pomroy Paul

thee understanding and lead thee into his marvelous light that thou mayst know the truth as it is in Jesus R F. Light risen out of Darkness now in these latter days Which is the cause of such Persecution Therefore Thus saith Iesus Christ blessed are they that suffer for righ teousness sake for ' theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Mat. 5.10.11.12 and again saith he blossed are you when men revile you and perfecute you and say all wanner of evil against you all manner of evil not some but all but saith he rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward for so perseruted they the Prophets which were before you and saith he the time will come that they shall put you out of their Synagogues and they that kill you will think that they do God good service Ioh. 16.1 AS it hath been largely manifested in and about Beverley by them of the Priests party when any was moved of the Lord to go speak in their Synagogue against the deceits that were upheld by them they haled them forth and gave them into the hands of the rude people who did use them most barbarously and had not the Lord been gracious unto them they would even have swallowed them up quick but such was the rage of the Priests party in and about Beverley that the Servants of the Lord suffered much persecution by them as it is well known but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled as David said The wrath of man shall praise thee and the remainder of wrath thou wilt restrain such is the goodness of the Lord to his poor despised people now in these days of persecution for the persecutors are the Priests and their associates they act in the same state and condition as the Iewish high Priest and Scribes and Pharisees did to Jesus Christ when he came in the flesh to fulfil the Law and to put an end to the first Covenant that he might establish a second the new Covenant upon better premisses but as it was then so is it now the Iewish high Priests and the fair-sayers did then persecute Christ and his Apostles and haled them out of their Synagogues and bear them and stoned them for witnessing forth the truth as it is left upon record in these places of Scripture See Acts. 4 1 2 3 4 5 6. See vers 15.16.17.18.19 Act. 6.9.10 to the end Act. 7 57. to the end read Acts. 17. with certain other places And that Christ is coming in spirit to manifest his power and love and to gather his dispersed ones together that hath been scattered by the proud Priests in the cloudy and dark day as in Ezek. 34. The Lord is now fulfilling his promises in gathering them together out of all Kindreds Tongues and Nations that they may come to worship the Lord in his holy Mount where the Mountain of the Lords House is to be established on the top of the Mountains above all humane wisdom and carnal reason to worship the Lord in spirit and in truth in his Holy Temple at new Ierusalem where the Tabernacle of God is and shall be with men of pure hearts and the Na●ions that are saved shall walk in the glorious light and liberty of the Sons of God to serve him in a new and living way consecrated for us by his Son redeeming us by his own blood purchasing to himself a peculiar people to praise and glorify his great and glorious Name that he may rule in us by his own power and set up the Kingdom of his Son in our hearts who is our peace-maker breaking down the middle wall of pertition bringing us nigh unto him by his blood reconcileing us in one body by the Cross slaying the enmity thereby preaching peace to us by his spirit so that we through him have a free access by one spirit unto the Father and are made fellow Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God being built upon the foundations of the Prophets and Apostles Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner Stone and the chief builder in us and through us throwing down the first building of humane wisdom and carnal reason building us up into union with himself in the makings forth of his love to us through the unfoldings of the divine mystery of his love which is Christ in us the hope of glory in whom all the building spiritually groweth unto an holy Temple in the Lord Ephes 2.14 to the end being builded together by the divine power of God working in us who maketh our bodies temples of the Holy Ghost to sound forth his holy praise he ruling in his Temple and dwelling in his habitation even in our souls where his delight is causing us to delight in him to do his will in declaring and testifying against all deceits and deceivableness whatsoever And now the Priests are found the greatest deceivers and upholders of the deceits as their fruits makes them manifest and they labour every wayes to destroy the work of God that he is working in his Saints and they are the greatest persecuters of him in his Saints as it hath been largely manifested by the Priests party in and about Beberley in reviling beating and stoning the children of the Lord. But the Lord will plead the cause of his own people himself alone and then wo to the wicked and all that acts in unrighteousness For thus saith the Lord Ah I will ease me of mine enemies and avenge me of mine adversaries And saith he Wo to them that offends one of these little ones that believe in me it were better that a milstone were hanged about their necks and that they were cast into the sea The occasion of this my writing was upon the reading of a Book that was written by the Priests in and about Beverley by name Ioseph Kellat Iohn Pomroy Paul Glisson c. 1. Wherein is discovered the subtilty of the Serpent that lodgeth in them and a theevish spirit in them stealing the words of the Saints to trade withal for money which is their Dianah but are ignorant of the Saints life and practise as their fruits doth make them manifest for it is not unknown to many the debths of their deceits and how great sufferings there hath been to the people of God by them Of the Priests Confederates Antichrist and his upholders in and about Beberley which the wo is to as it was pronounced to them in that nature in Matth. 23. 2. Antichrist the man of sin is exalted in those dissembling Priests who are as the painted Harlot and scarlet coloured Whore that is spoken of by John in the Revelations that deceive the Nations by their glorious notions and gielded pretences which is for the fire the whorish nature in them being full of flatteries having a golden Cup full of abominations and filthiness of her fornications which the Wrath and the Plagues is to 3. These dissembling Priests painted Sepulchres are full of deadly poyson and are not