Lord worshipped him in spirit and not in the oldness of the Letter in which you are pretending to worship And friends though you have gotten good words to cover your selves with the St. words which is the sheeps cloathing the Prophets words Christs words and his Appostles words yet you are ravened from that Spirit which was their life by which they were moved and by which those words were brought forth by them and though you make never so goodly a shew outwardly yet you are but ravening Woolves within you have that nature standing which will rend and teare the Lambs when they are sent amongst you but now the Lord hath appeared and is farther appearing to strip you of your Covering and your nakedness will more and more appear and many shall see your shame and loath it for the woe doth belong to all that have gotten a Covering which is not with his Spirit And people that you may not think better of your selves then you ought through Ignorance of the falsness of your way and worship and the Idolatry in which you are wallowing I shall in tender love shew you plainly wherein your sacrifice was Lame and your devotion Blind and such as is nor of the Spiritâ— leading nor like the Saints practice and therefore the Lord will not except it from you nor you therein First of the place you meet in to Worship it is Idollatry in you or your Teacher to call it a Church and though he call it so and teacheth you so to call it that you may have the higher esteem of his Shop or Market house in which he â—rads for dishonest gain and in which he sels unto you that on his market day which he hath stollen on other dayes of the week yet it is in truth no more nor less than an old Mass-house which was by the Popes power and order built and consecrated as they call it and set a part for that use and some of your Grandfathers could remember I believe the Popes Mass sung and said therein in the Lattine tongue I have heard my Grandfather tell of it as now you have the same in whole or in part in English But friends search the Scriptures which your teacher tels you is your law and rule and see therein if you can finde any such thing called a Church which I am sure you cannot but therein â— find the Apostle Paul said the Church is in God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ Thes 1. 1. And the Church is not made of dead but living stones no nor dead men neither such as are dead in sins and trespasses and so he that knowes not aright what is the guide or rule of a Saints life it is no wonder that he knows not the true Church of Christ and if ignorance and gross darkness indeed were not over people they would see these things and if they did know the true Church of Christ and themselves but coming to be Members of it then they would not indure any longer to follow such blind guides as shall call a house of Lime and Stones a Church to give it that name which only is proper and belongs to the body of which Christ Jesus is the head If you were all of you believers and did know follow Christ Jesus the light and did meet in the name and power of the Lord and so did worship him in the Spirit and in the truth yet the best name you could properly give the house or place you meet in was but a meeting house and therefore now while you are in the unbelief in wickedness Idollatrous and ungodly practices how can any one call it any other then a Sinagogue of Satan and not a meeing house of believers or Saints much less a Church though you are met therein for God who is light hath no fellowship with darkness nor the workers thereof those that walk in the light as he is in the light they are in and of the Church which is in God the Piller and ground of truth and such have fellowship with the Father and the Son in the Spirit and one with another and therein the blood of Christ is witnessed which cleanseth from all unrighteousness and such are the peculiar people of God that are zealous of Good works and such connot but bare testimony against the contrary Steven the Apostle of Christ he bore witness against the Tempel which once commanded of the Lord to be builded and worshiped in but when it was Idolised by the people as you do now your stone Church then the Lord sent the Apostle to bare witness against that Tempel as you may read Asts 17. 24. God that made the World and all things therein seeing bâ— is Lord of Heaven and Earth dwelleth not in Temples made with hands â—â—ither is he worshiped with the works of mens hands marke that and friends God never commanded that to be built and set apart for his worship which you call your Church Secondly that which you offer in your high place built by the Popes order is but the works of mens hands and that is abomination unto the Lord as you may read Acts 7. 4. And they made a Calfe in those days and offered sacrifice unto their Idol and rejoyced in the works of their own hands then God gave them up to Worship the Host of Heaven So that when a people gives themselves up to Idolatry then they may be left of the Lord to be more and more overcome therin now your prayers as you call them are they not a deviâ—â—d thing or a forme that is composed or made ready by mens hands and so is as a Calse which is made and set up which you are worshiping with your bodys and lips but in it there is no Spirit nor life but is a dead blind Lame Image and the Apostle said bodily excercise profiteth little but Godliness is profitable unto all Freinds if bodily excercise profiteth little or nothing at all in the worship of God consider your practice and your several sorts of jestures which you know nothing of the leading of the Spirit of God thereunto 〈◊〉 its abominable unto the Lord and he may justly say as he will do one day who required such things at your hands and what ever you may think of it through Ignorance the Vale being over your hearts yet this I â—estifie unto you in the fear of the Lord that it is not the true Worship of the true God and it is not in the Spirit and he will not accept of it nor you therein as afore said when you read the Prophets words you keep on your hats and when you sing and say them in your common praying then you put them off waht example or command from God have you for so doing Thirdly As for your singing it is not according to the practice of the Saints and primative Christians as you may read the Apostle said I will pray with the Spirit and I will pray
out of the light and fear of the Lord and Judgemen and Condemnation will be against the workes and workers as you keep in the light the measure of the spirit of the Lord which is given you to convince you of your sins to lead you to profit in well doing that was it which Ioseph of old was preserved by when it was tempted and so will you be kept by it if you take heed to it it will cause you to say as he did how shall I do this thing that is evil and sin against the Lord who hath lighted me and let me see the evil of my doings and freinds this is my testimony for the Lord and for his everlasting truth if I should never be sent among you more or if I should never be seen of you again that this is the way of life and Salvation and there is not another way nor name by which any can be saved but by Christ Jesus the light he that is the way hath said no man can come to the Father but by me he hath also said he that follows me shall not abide in darkness nor the works thereof but shall have the light of life drunckweness is a work of darkness Whoredome is a worke of darkness Lying Stealing Cursing Cheating are works of darkness so are fighting mocking sâ—â—ssing and Envying all these works are wrought out of the Light Christ said without are Dogs 〈◊〉 Whore-mongers Murtherers Idollaters And whosoever loveth maketh a lye thay 〈◊〉 without who are gone out from the Light which leads into the fear and so that nature in man which is beastly and brutish bares rule while man is straying from the Covenant of light and life that which brings forth the works of righteousness is the light and spirit of Jesus even that which convâ—nceth of siâ— and evil deeds and as all joyne to tbat love it obey and follow it then you wilâ— come to see the uglinâ—ss of sin and evil deeds and you will come to loath them as I have done whâ—â— once was my self in the broad way walking which leads to dâ—struction even as you are now with many others and in that time I had a profession and the name of a Christian as yâ—u haâ—e but I waâ—â— out of and far from the power nature of Christ which is the only thing which makâ—s men oâ— women Christians that is like him and followers of him And when I was fâ—r off from the Lord in the same way in which you have been visiâ—ed the Lord in his kindness sought me out when I was in a high place like unto that into which he sent me unto you and then â—e 〈…〉 of his servants to call me and othâ—rs from that which did not satisfie my soul unto thaâ— way in which I have been restored from a lost miserable condition in which I was and am turnâ—d in my mâ—asure from thâ—â— which kept me from injoying peace with the Lord and so now having taken â—eed to and prised the visitation and warning of the Lord I am now turned to and do walk in his everlastiâ—g good way in which I have found rest peace and satisfaction for my soul and my hearts 〈◊〉 is that you may every one in whom there is any simplicity or sincerity find the same and this my fâ—iâ—nds is the way to the fear of the Lord and tbe way to the salvation of your souls turning into the light by it to be guided this is the name in which salvation is and it is in no other name or thing undâ—r heaven and as unto this name Jesus Christ the light the spirit and power of the Father you â—ll â—urn thereby to be lead out of the world and wayâ—s and works thereof that are evil and worships that are Idolatrous so will you come to know and feel his name and nature that saves his people that obey him from there sin unto this name every one that ever will be saved there 〈◊〉 mast how and their tongues confess or else salvation they cannot come to witness therefore whilâ— you have time 〈◊〉 it every one and take heed to your true guide which is the light in you as I have said and thâ—n you will come to know your true teacher that will never be removed from you as you keâ—p â—o 〈◊〉 either for more gain or greater honour and as your minds are kâ—pt thereto of it to leaâ—n you will hear a voicâ— behind you saying this is the way which leads to holinâ—ssâ— and â—ighteousâ—â—ssâ— walk ye therein when ye are turning to the right hand or to the lâ—ft to do the things that are noâ— right O all people therfore now give eare hear regard consider of that which concâ—rnâ— your 〈◊〉 lasting peace now turn in seek â—fter the Lord while he may be found câ—ll 〈◊〉 him while he is neer unto you while he is striving with you turne at his reproof be it known unâ—o you that if you dâ—sregard his call tend râ—visitation he will not alwâ—yâ—s strivâ— with yâ—u thâ— when he ceaseth to strive with you by his spirit within to check and reprove or by his servants without to warn you then will you be everlastingly miserable and this know also the Lord by his witness and good spirit hath striven with you long day by day and many times in the night season and you have little regarded it and the most of you do not know that it is the striving of thâ— Lord and thâ—rfore your state is miserable and your condition to â—â— the more lamented and the bowâ—ls of the Lords love hath been and is movâ—d in mâ— towards you and his holy power constrained me to come amongst you to warn you and to turn you from darkness to light and from the broad way whiâ—h leads to the Chambers of death grose darkness ignorance and Idolatry so that in the light you might come to finde the way of truth liâ—e peace rest and salvation Therefore I say be you warned and take heed that you slight not the tender love of the Lord in sending one amongst you which 〈◊〉 raised from the dead that once was dead in siâ—s and trespasses buried underneath iniquity even as you are at this day And so now you are warned in your life time by one that is raised from the dead and friends this I testifie unto you in the fear of the Lord I came not amongst you in my own will but contrary thereto in obedience to the requâ—ring of the Lord and that yâ—u may know it more fully I have written this for you and that I may be clear of your blood and the Lord also may be clear of it and that your blood may lye upon your own heads for ever except you believe and repent while you have time and space and herein I am your friend called The End Richard Greenway
and that it may the more clearely appear that he is so Mark what was said by Moses the servant of the Lord conâ—erning the Law in the heart or the word of faith Deut. 30. 11 12. The Commandment which I command thee this day is not hidden from thee neither is it far off It is not in heaven that thou shouldest say who shall go up for us to bring it down to us that we may hear it and do it neither is it beyond the Seas that you should say who shall go over the Sea for us to bring it unto us that we may hear it and do it but the word is very â—igh thee in thy mouth in thy heart that thou maiâ—st hâ—ar it and do it And the Apostle Paul said to the Romans Ro. 10. is 7 8. The Righteousnâ—ss of saith soeaketh on this wise say not in your hearts who shall ascend into heaven that is to bring Chirst down from above or who shall descend into the deep that is to bring up Christ again from the dead But what saith it the word is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thy heart and that is the werd of faith which we Preach Faith comes by hearing this word and faith is the gift of God the word is nigh which was in the begining with God by it he made all things it came forth from him and 〈◊〉 among men even Christ Jesus whose name is called the word of God and they that know not Christ or the light a measure of his spirit which comes from him in them they are in the reprobate state so saith the Apostle And so friends and people tâ—rne in your minds to the light in your Conscience and that will bring you to feel and taste the word which is as a fire hamer and sword it will deâ—ide between the pretious and the vile in you it will devide your good thoughts from 〈◊〉 bad for the Lord thereby sheweth unto man his thoughts and it will shew your 〈◊〉 words and actions from your bad judging the evil in you and giving you peace in well doing so that freinds it is very clear by the Scripture of truth the writings of the holy men of old as by experience of many in this day that the word which is to be a gâ—ide and a rule of life to men and women is neerer to them at all times then the Scriptaâ—e or letter outward can be even in the mouth and heart that it may be felt and heard â—â— all times and the voice of the Lord may be heard thereby and obeyed and his counsel received therein for the Saints of old heard handled and tastâ—d of the word of life and then thereof declared unto others as you may read John 1. 1 2 3. and the Apostles said when they were forbiden to preach in that name we cannot but 〈◊〉 of the things we have seen and heard So dear people hear beleive and receive the word of life for it is not a dead form that will serve to present you to the Lord so as to be excepted by him unlâ—ss you turn into the light in you and thereby to be lead to live in the life of righteousness and so to worship him in the spirit truth all you do will be in vaine for he is a spirit such as worship him must worship in the spirit and the truth and such he hath sought and is seekiâ—g to worship him and therefore be not any longer deceived by him that daubs you with â—â—tempered morter and flatters you with fained words and faire speeches by which the impel hearted are deceived He told you he had led you in a rough and tedious path but for the time to come he pâ—omised to lead you in a smother way and prophecy smother things by which it seems â—e will please you in putting more pillows under your arme holes as calling you Saints Christians and Children of God when indeed you cannot witness the new birth or work â—â— regeneration without which it is imposible to enter into the Kingdome of Heaven and then what are you the better for the name of Christian Saint or Child of God as long as you are in the heathenish and unchristian-like nature when the witness of God in your Consciences will shew you your lives is uncleane and unsanctified and that you are not the servants of Righteousness but slaves and subjects unto sin to fulfil the lusts and motâ—â—ns thereof I cannot but pitty you oveer whome a Cloude of darkness and Vale of ignorance is spread by reason of the God of this World that blinds your eyes so that you do not see the empty chaf and vanity which you lay out your money and labour for even that which will never satisfie your souls et him prophecy never so smoothly but freinds mark â—hat the Lord by the Propet saith concerning such as desired smooth things Isa 30. 9. 10. This is a rebelliouus people lying Children that will not hear the Law of the Lord which is 〈◊〉 which say to the seers see not and to the Prophets Prophecy not unto us right things speak unto us smooth things prophecy unto us deceit and so is it thisday among you like 〈◊〉 like people and the horrible silthy thing is committed in the Land the Prophets prophecy falsly the Priests beare rule by their means and the people love to have it so 〈◊〉 see what is farther wâ—itten from the Lord by the prophet ver 12. and so on wherefore 〈◊〉 saith the Lord the holy one because you despise this word which is iâ— you trust in 〈◊〉 and perversness and stay thereon therefore this iniquity shall be unto you as a breach ready â—f all And further thus saith the Lord the holy one in turning shall you be saved in quietness 〈…〉 shall â—e your strength and you would not mark that So freinds prise this day of your visitation and slight not the Love of the Lord who is seeking to be gratious unto you in making known this his way to life which is his gift in you his word and measure of his spirit given unto you to profit withal and as you turne into it thereby to be guided in it salvation you will feel and confidence and assurance you will have therein and strength thereby to be preserved but if you will not that Christ Jesus the light of the world shall come to raigne in you nor if you wâ—ll not be subject unto his power in your hearts nor let his light nor Spirit be your rule and guide then you are the enemies that he will slay with his Iron rod and he will dash you in peices like Potters Vessels Cease therefore from man by which you are deceived and hearken to the true Prophet dilligently that your souls mâ—y come to live and may partake of the sure meâ—â—iâ—s of David then you will not any longer lay out your mony for that which is not bread noâ— your
labour for that which will not satisfie the Lord complained of too evils which his people had committed in days past and the same evils you are guilty of mark Jâ—â— 2. 13. They have forsaken me the fountain of living waters and have hewed to themselves broken Cesterns that can hold no water Moses prophesied of the true Prophets and said Deut. 18. 15. The Lord will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee of thy brethren like unto me unto him shal you harken mark and farther from the Lord he said And it shall come to pass that whosoever will not hearkâ—n unto my words which he shall speak in my name I will require it of him It is not he shall be cut off that doth not hear man that may come in his own name buâ— him â—hat came in the name of him that sent him for as Christ said in his day so it may be said unto you in this day if one came to you in the name dread and power of the Lord him you will not heaâ— but if one come in his own name or as sent by man him you will hear câ—y up and fight for but him that was sent of the Lord you cry down with him away with him he is not fit to live and so fall to halling and rending in your madness and blind zeal smite and beat with the fist of wickednâ—ss by which â—t appears you are not spiritual 〈◊〉 neither Priest nor people had not the weapons whicht he Ministers and people of the Church of Christ had who said our weapons are not caâ—nal but spiritual and mighty through God for the bringing down of strong holds of sin and Satan and if you or your Priest had been armed with that which the Christians were of old and used to war with resist gainsayers with then you would not have smote me with the fist of wickedness as some of you did lay upon me and though I was beaten thrust and punched by some of you yet from my very heart I do desire it may never be layd to your charge but that you may come to see the evil of it and repent and mâ—y find mercy and truly I can say concerning them that were most inraged against me Father forgive them for they knew not what spirit they were of and I know it was blind zeal in some of them and it may be they might think I deserved no less looking upon me as their enemy and one that did disturbe them but freinds you that were so disturbed what was that which was disturbed in you was it not an evil nature that was in your selves that was so soon distâ—rbed if it had not been a mad hasty rash spirit which rose in you against me and carried you violently to run upon me if you had been but sober reasonable men you would have heard me in what I had to speak and then left me to the Law if in any thing I hâ—d been a transgressor you ought to have left me to that to have suffered according to Law but amongst the true Christians it was not accounted a disturbance to do as I did for in the Church of true Christians if any thing were revealed to one that stood by the first was to hold his peace the Apostle true Minister of Christ said you may all prophecy one by one that all may be edified and sometimes the Apostle went into the Synagogs and into the Tempels as their manner was to dispute with them and to bare their testimony against Idolatry and somâ—times they were haled out by the professing Jews Sometimes had before Magistrats and into Prisons and Somtimes beaten and stoned by the vagabond Jews and baser sort of the people and its like they might be called disturbers then too as we are now by you but mark this you may read that the Christians were always persecuted but never were persecutors Paul before he was a Christian he was a persecutor when he was a Zealous professing Pharesee he was exceeding mad in his blind zeal against the Christians but the Lord pricked him in his Conscience and called unto him by his powerful word saying in him Saul Saul why persecute thou me and when he took heed to that which pricked in him and by which the Lord called unto him then with the light he saw what he had done and was going to do and so he repented and found mercy and that is the desire of my soul that those which offered the most violence against me may feel the checking of the witness in their own conscience may repent thereof and may finde mercy as he did and so may come to be witnesses of the grace of God which hath appeared unto all as he was who said it taught to deny all ungodliness c. And that you all may do to others as you would be done unto at all times and then you will not hurt nor wrong any one nor in your hast rage nor madness offer violence unto any because you would not so be done unto and my freinds this is the way for you to fulfil the Royal Law of God the light which if you keep to you will do well And now here is a word to the simple hearted Come you Children in whome there is any hunger and thirst after the righteousness of God both young and old read and consider and I will teach you the fear of the Lord which David and Solomon said was the beginning of the true heavenly wisdome and knowledge and a good understanding have all they that do thereafter in keeping the commandments and observing the statuts of the Lord the fear of the Lord is to hate pride arogancy the evil way which is broad leads to destruction and from a froward mouth and lying tongue which are both abhorred by the Lord. Man woman is fallen from that state in which they were Created in the beginning is now by reason of disobedience erred from that which leads into thâ— fear and brings back again into that state which was before the fall and that is the light of Jesus Christ the Son of Gods love be is the way back again out of the fall he redeems the heart and minde out of the earth into which it is driven by reason of sin and transgrssieon up again unto the Lord and mankind having 〈◊〉 this way are in their minds alienated from the Lord his true fear which is as a fountaine 〈◊〉 cleanse the heart of the creature from evil and as a defence to keep it cleane it being lost and mankind being strayed from the good way of the Lord therefore before you can come again to finde it and to feel his puere fear you must take heed to the Light in you as aforesaid by which Christ Jesus hath lighted every one of you and as you waite therein you will come to see your â—â—il deeds your thoughts words and works which your have wrought