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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84777	A declaration against all profession and professors that have not the life of what they profess, from the righteous seed of God; whom the world, priests, and people scornfully calls Quakers, who are in that life that the holy men of God were in, and witness that power that made them to tremble and quake, and shook the earth, and threw it down; which the world, priests, people, and professors, having the words declared from this power and life, but not it, scoffs and scorns at, but this is our riches.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1654 (1654)	Wing F1784; Thomason E809_8	15,926	16

the lusts of the flesh the lusts of the Eye and the pride of life all such virgins which are harlots and their virgin state with the light of Christ the life which brings out of the lusts out of the earth and redeems to God and makes pure the heart from all the defilements of women and to follow the Lamb to the Virgin state whose garments are washed in the blood of the Lamb where nothing that is not pure can enter are they seen and comprehended and their estate known to be in the flesh and with the life which is eternal which is not of this world nor in this world which is raised up through death to the world and all things of the world are they judged and with the light which comes from Christ which leads to the life invisible eternall out of all visible and carnal things are they condemned And all such which are turned from the light of Iesus Christ within and follows their own spirits and conceivings and imaginations and what they study in their own brain of those words that were from the light declared with the light all such are comprehended and condemned their race and their compasse is known and seen with the light and all such we do deny and in the light we have unity which doth them condemne And all such which are turned from the light which Iesus Christ hath enlightned withall whose minds are in books and so boasts in their talke of others words which were declared from the light and speak high and bigg swelling words and has mens persons in admiration all such we do deny with the light of Christ Iesus which with it they are all to be condemned which light is according to that of God in all Consciences and to it are we manifest And all such which do observe the commands which Christ hath spoken the Prophets have spoken and the Apostles spoke and are not led with the light which comes from Christ with the light are they and all their taken on commands condemned which are taken on in that nature contrary to the light as the Iewes and the Pharises did and such that cry up the Ordinances of God the Ordinances of Christ the Temple of the Lord the Ministers of the Gospel the preaching of the word and are not led to know these things with the light which Iesus Christ hath enlightened withall in particular with this light wherewith he hath enlightened every one that come into the world all they are to be condemned and all their Ordinances and commands and are such as use their tongues which acts in the nature contrary to the light and are not led with an eternall principle of life to know those words which were given from the life so with it they are judged and the light with it they are condemned but all such who are are led with the light and walk in the light into the Ordinances of Christ his commands and with the light come to witnesse the word and the Gospel such we own such we witness and honour in our souls And all such which turne from the light of Christ which is given to every one to lead up to Christ them that wait in it and direct to Christ them that in it seek to find him and pretend to be seekers and waiters and meet together and there talke of seeking and waiting but have not their minds turned to the light nor that eye opened which sees Christ which is the light which is within but seeks without and looks without seeking the living among the dead looking for things without and a day and power to come hereafter but neglect the day of their visitation which is to day and not waiting in the light but talking from their vain wisdome of waiting on Christ with the light which comes from Christ which shuts out the wisdome and the reason of man and puts a stop to the forward will and stops the running mind and brings to stand still in the light and to wait on Christ whose kingdom is within and comes with observation who is the substance and the life of all figures and shadowes are they all seen and condemned And all such which are turned from the light which Iesus Christ hath enlightened withall and are in their carnall mind and the carnall mind imitates crosses and formes crosses and Images and worships the name of the Saints with the light which is a crosse to the ground of these crosses is he the founder of these Images and his Images to be condemned and the crosse is to the ground of all these crosses which is his condemnation and all his workes he that hath the eare let him hear and the eye which is the light let him stand still and looke and see that which God is confounding dwelling in the light is a crosse to the ground of all the worlds crosses Papists Ranters Levellers and all who are in Notions whose minds are turned from the light of Christ Iesus into the earth such are enemies to the crosse and with the light they are all condemned and in this crosse do we rejoyce which takes away the foundation of the world for the Lamb of God is slain while it is standing so the crosse is to that that which shall change and doth change and passe away and have an end with that which shall have no end he that can receive me let him it that I have unity and that is it which reads all words that are declared from the life And all who makes a profession of Christ and God and are drunkards and are covetous and Idolaters and adulterers whore-mongers with the light which lets see all these things to be contrary to God with it we do them and their profession deny for in the light is our vnity which brings to deny all deeds of darknesse which is the condemnation of all who lives in the flesh and follows the lusts of it I speak and it I witnesse which shall condemn all such practises And all such which are turned from the light of Iesus Christ within and makes a profession of the words proceeded from the light in others and of Christs words the light and the Apostles who were witnesses of the light and had this light in them and have gotten their words to talke of and followes Bowls and Cards and Dice and Shovelboard and Tables and delighting in Musick Harps and Viols which are acted in the first nature Bearebaitings Horse-racings Cudgell plays Foot-ball plays Leapings Dancings Wrestlings Fencings all such practises boasters which are such Ranters we deny as knowing with the light all this to be condemned and all professors which professe God and Christ and act such things we deny as knowing them to be the works of the flesh which are to be condemned with the light And all such that follows Hawking Hunting Cock-fightings Stage-plays and all other plays whatsoever Tennis Shooting and other exercises to recreat the vain carnall

mind which is out of the feare of God and lives in the lust of the flesh and the lusts of the eye and yet makes a profession and all such we deny who live in the light of Iesus Christ and with it we see all these works of the flesh and lust and vainly are to be condemned with it And all such that makes a profession of Christ Iesus and are deceitfull in their trading in their buyings and sellings in their merchandize which are more then yea and nay and are in oathes all such professors stink before the Lord God and with the light which comes from Christ which brings to yea and nay we all such deny for in it is our unity which brings to pure comunication and to the holy conversation then words are savoury and seasoned with grace and all such filthie practises we know are with the light to be condemned And all such teachers which are turned from the light of Iesus Christ and keeps their people from it and so tells people of a mediate call mediate meanes that the steeple-house is the Church Hebrew Greek and Latine is the Originall which Pilate had and the naturall man may have the words declared from the life into the naturall language yet never know the Originall yet never knew the Original from whence they come and Mathew Marke Luke and Iohn is the Gospel and sprinkling Infants is the baptisme and bread and wine is the communion such draws forth the immediate to the mediate and tell them its the means so with the immediate are all such judged and the everlasting Gospel witnessed and the comunion knowne in the spirit and the baptisme in the spirit and the Church in God and the immediate call but all the mediate we deny with the imediate and see them to be carnall beggarly worldly rudiments and wither and to be condemned with the light which shall never wither And all such teachers which are turned from the light of Iesus Christ we deny which seek for their gaine from their quarter bear rule by their means are hirelings and seeks for the fleece and makes a prey upon the people and sue them at the law and are called of men Master have the chiefest place in the assemblies and stand praying in the Synagogues and takes guifts and rewards the wages of unrighteousnesse and are erred from the spirit as Balaam was with the spirit all such we deny who are in the way of Core gainsaies the truth and in the way of Cain turned from the pure command and are in envy with the light which Iesus Christ hath enlightened withall we see such as the Prophets saw Christ saw and the Apostles saw so with the same light as they saw withall we do see that which they testified against and that which they denyed we deny for in it we have unity and all them we deny praised be God which we see are for condemnation with the light And all such which are turned from this pure light which Christ Iesus hath enlightened withall and makes a profession of Christ of God lives in the lust their minds turned into the earth in the fashions of the world adorning themselves with gold plattings of the Haire Broydered hoods and Uailes and round attire like the moone which can scarce tell how to walk upon the earth envying one another and serving lusts and pleasures sporting themselves feasting and rioting and professing liberty to all these things in all these things these are such that the Apostle spoke of who while they professe themselves liberty are the servants of corruption and all such prrfession and all such liberty we do deny for with the light we do it see and that liberty must be limited and condemned for such are they that crucifie the Son of God which who are made free are made free by the Son of God from the bondage of corruption then the creature shall not groan which while the bondage of Corruption the Creation groans who are servants of Corruption turn from the light and with the light they are to be condemned and all that liberty so all such professors and profession and such liberty we do deny And all such that are turned from the pure light of Iesus Christ which is eternall and have got a fained love a fained profession a fained humility and a customary false sighing and false groaning all such with the light we do deny as seeing they are for condemnation but true humility true love and sighing and groaning we own which is in it selfe its selfe And all such that are turned from the pure light which Iesus Christ hath enlightened withall and makes a profession of God and Christ and his words and sues one another at the law and strive about the earthly things and wrangle about earthly things and strive about things that are changeable and vexing and fretting one another about such things in Courts Assizes and Benches and Suites here you declare where your minds are and what they are upon and to and here you declare that you are out of the doctrine of Christ and are they that are turned from the light and all such filthy profession and professors we utterly deny with the light which is your condemnation And all such teachers and people that are turned from the pure light of Christ within them and turnes the words that were declared from the light into Rime and meeter prophesies Prayers Cryings Tremblings makes songs of them to stir up the carnal mind some part they sing some part they take and make a prayer of that part they turne into Rime and Meeter and sing then they doff their Hats which when they read they keep them on here they worship the work of their own hands another part of the same mind goes to expound and get mony withall all such as thus abuse the Scripture with their carnall minds and makes them bend to their own fancies we do utterly deny for the spirit we witnesse that gave forth the Scriptures and we own the words again and they are ours and all such prayers and all such singers and all such preachers and expounders with that nature that acts contrary to the light with the light all such are to be condemned with the light we see that condemnation is upon all such in which light we have unity which gathers our hearts together to God which brings us to witnesse praying to witnesse singing in the spirit which spirit opens the Scriptures without any private interpretation And all ye that are in warrs are turned from the light from whence rise wars but from the lust which with the light all wars and that warring nature is to be condemned for it will lead before warrs was into another kingdom which is not of this world that which is turned from the sight warres for the kingdomes of the world but he that is guided with the light comes to warr against the kingdoms of the world and with it

turned from the light of Christ and makes a profession of his words and lives in bending and bowing one to another and in it taking Pride Cap and Knee and he that doth not deny the light and worship with them in that worship such are hated and envied and scorned and scoffed at now with the light which Christ Iesus hath enlightened withall which brings us to deny all the worships of the world which brings us to worship God in spirit and in truth with it all such respects and such profession are condemned And all such which turns from the light of Christ Iesus within and hears it not but lives in hardness of heart and Oppression and Pride and Ambition gathering the earth together and makes themselves Lords over the creatures and oppresse with great fines and rents and live in fulness Dives like and feed themselves so fat they can hardly goe and with their cloathes they dresse themselves that they can hardly tell how to walk when the other scarce have Bread or Clothes and yet they make a profession of Christ Iesus and say that they exalt him here the devil is exalted the King of Pride and Oppression and the lying tongue is found in their mouths And such men gets the earth under their hands in whom the devourer rules and the curse is upon it and keep it under their hands from the people from dressing of it and it doth not yeild her encreas none who are here waits for the Restoration of the Creation but some Creatures are lost for want of the Creatures and some creatures are destroyed for want of ordering where this wisdome reignes and rules in the earthly which is earthly sensuall and divelish in the nature which acts contrary to the light with the light are all such professors to be condemned and with it they are seen they have not the life that gave forth the scriptures such cannot witnesse Christ Iesus but by hear say such swels in the vanity such swels against the poor such swells against the needy and the contrite heart such despises them who walk in the fear of God and are growing into the life that gave forth the Scriptures such professors and profession we deny they have long cumbred the ground such are harlotted from the truth and such gets the earth under their hands Commons Wastes and Forrest and Fels and Mores and Mountaines and lets it lye wast and calls themselves Lords of it and keeps it from the pe ple when so many are ready to starve and begg with the light that comes from Christ which brings to Christ all such that are destroyers of the Creatures of the Creation are condemned and all earthly mindes and all who for self ends acts contrary to the light And all whose minds are single and with the light guided and receives the pure wisdome from above such are fit to order and rule to give the earth its liberty that it may come to enjoy her Saboths and yield her encrease But all such as make a profession of the words declared from the light and are in the selfish principle such are not fit to rule that are in the wisdome which is earthly but with the light which leads into the fear of God which is the beginning of the pure wisdome all that is to be condemned by which all things comes to be ordered and by nothing that is earthly but with the just all that is judged to the light in all your consciences I speak that with it all your minds may be turned to God and come to grow into the life that gave forth the Scriptures that every one may come to possesse what you doe professe for all profession whatsoever the manner of it is without the life Opinions Sects they are all in that nature that acts contrary to the light and with the light which never changeth all such we doe deny And all such that turne from the light that turne from the command of God turne into Cains way and all such as have had mighty openings by the spirit and have erred from it and then such set up to be teachers for guift and rewards and wages all such we doe deny who goes after the error of Balaam such are they that lay stumbling blocks before them that dwell in their tents such are for the sword such their fruit wither therefore to the light in you all I speak which never changeth that with it all that may be judged with that which never changeth for all that we utterly deny And all such that are turned from the light of Christ within which say they are guifted men and experienced men and goes forth into the w●rld and 〈◊〉 people they are guifted and have so much a piece for speaking their guift here they are lyers they have not received the gift of God which cannot be bought and sold for money and with the light an such are to be condemned which doth never change And all such as are turned from the light of Christ Iesus which have gotten words in their braine and cals them experiences and have had some flashes and have some conceivings and let one another of these experiences sometimes with a Tobacco pipe in their mouthes taking Tobacco in the lust and sometime as they are drinking in in alehouses these are the evill beasts which the scriptures speaks of that live in the lusts of the flesh these are such as defile the flesh and speak through the lusts of the flesh all such experiences and such meetings and such declaring of experiences with the light and life that gave forth the scriptures whose words were savoury and seasoned we utterly deny and witnesse the light in which we have union and fellowship one with another and with God and the Son who testified against all the world that the works of it were evil and with his light we doe the same And all such that doe not own the light which Christ Iesus hath enlightned withall to guide them to lead them into the life that gave forth the scriptures but with that nature that hates the light doe make the profession of the scripture and would be satisfied in things of the spirit and the scripture that is it which must goe empty away and that is he which would know and not doe and that is he which is approved of men but not of God and this is he whose prayers are abomination to God with his light which comes from him are all these seen and with it they are condemned and all such we deny who dwels in the light which comes from God which is eternall the father of light And all such which doe not walk in the light which comes from Iesus Christ but are turned from it and judges for rewards such their eye is blinded which is the light with the earth And all such that takes tithes of the people which denies the unchangeable priest and holds up the figure and brings Caesar