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Claxton. the onelytrue converted Mef[enger of Chrift Fefus, Creator o Heaven and Earth, LONDON: ) Printed for the Author. 1660. , ib JR ——————————— ——— ——— ~~ « T- ; f * a I a A Le ME ASIN Sr Ss, - esvet) a kil A Ca rr i i a a \ - - t ’ . hot * [= - - . . - - a » — . ~ 7 - ~ A ’ ‘ ’ - ‘ * . . SANDEL ASASALSEL00S ¢ Loft fheep ~~." OR, | : The Prodigal returned to his Fathers houfe, afrer many afadand weary Jour- ” ney through many religious Countreys. . r Aving publithed feveral Writings in’ confirmation of this {pirirual lat Commiffion that ever (hall appear 1 mchisunbelieving World, a Well-wifher to this Commiffion, yea a man of no mean parts nor Pa- rentage in this R2afons kingdom, much importuned me to pub-; lith ro chis perithing world, the various leadings forth of my, ~ fpiric chrough™each Dilpen’aiion , from the year 1630, (othis- year 1660. and that for no other end’, chan that Realon, or the Devils mouth might be {topped , wich the hypogrifie of hig - heart laid naked, and the tongues of Faith wich prailes oper; ed, to confider what variety of By-paths, and muluplicigy of . feeming realities, yer ablolute notions, the (ouls of they Efe& may wander or travel through, feeking re®t, and yet find none | till the day unexpedted , thc Soul as a bramd be plucked out of the fire of his own righreoufnefs, or profefled wickednefs, , unto the true belief of a real Commifsion which quenchech a the Rery darts of fin, thar Difpen(ations have left cankering in | his foul, [minde this] ashave buc patience, and choir (hale hear the more I labored for perfe cure and peace in my foul, a Az the if - RR . ¢ LS Er rT er TE wo ROR a re Yh, 0. + Ht . x > Posed TERR a vi al ———— TURE RETR APTy eh Maem hw yr FAT YS HN 4 L. C. travels through the Epifcopal che furcher Iwas fromir, .infomuch thar Iwas reiolved ro feek forch no more , fuppofing my felf in as perfect bealch and li- berty in my fpiric , asany then profefsing anunknown Ged whatfoever. "os a CW tr ; 3 ‘As do but ferioufly minde this en‘uing Epitle, and thou maye(t in me read thy own bypocrifie and difsimulation in poitr of Worfhip 211 al?ng; asin thic year 1650. being of the Age of fifreen yeares , 2n living with my Parents 1n the town of Preflon in Amosndernefs; where 1 was born, and edu- cated in the Fo m ind Worthip of the Church of Englard, then eftablifhed in the Title of the Epifcopal, or Bifhops Go- vernmene ; then, and in tha year, my hearc began ro enquire after (he pure Minifiéry held forth under that Form, not be- ing al:ogether void of fome {mall difcerning, who preached Ch:ift more truly and powerfully, as I choughe, than another, and unto them was 1onely refolved to follow their Deétrine above any other , and to thir end my brethren being more gif- ted in che knowledge of rhe Scriptures than my felf, and very’ zealous in what they kn.wchat they did often prevail wich Mr. Hwdfon our Town-Lecturer, to acmic of fuch Minifters as we judged were true laborious Minifiers of Chrift, who when they came , would thunder sgainft Superflition, and fharply reprove Sin , and prophaning che Lords-day ; which to hear, tears would run down my cheeks for joy : fo having a pruiful fuperflitious fellow the Minmifter of our Town, If] pared no pains to travel to Standsh and other places, where we could hear of a Go ly Minifter, as feveral rimes I have gone ten miles, more or lefs, fafting all the day, when my Parencs never knew of it, and though Ihave been weary: and hungry, yet Icame home rejoycing. Then the Miniflers had an Order, that none (hould receive the Sacrament, but fuch as would rake it at the rayled Alar kneeling, which Icould not do, and therefore went to fuch Miniflers inthe Countrey that gave ic fiteing = Now a while after Mr. Starby the Minifter of our Town, td king notice of leaving our Parifh, informed our father the dan~ gerof his children going into Herefic, and che trouble et . would. a AD, AI i iii. ia I Sl en, WK y a a a a ani <7 jn Lincahire, Ct Tg would enfue upon our father and his children, befides the difgrace of all good Church-men, which did ‘much incenfe onr facher, bur all tc no purpole, for I thoughe it eenfcience to obey God before man; however Ibeing under my fathers tuition, he caft a iri eye over me; and would force me te "read over the praye:s in the book of Cemmen-prayer and Pra- étice of Piety, which Ihave done, till they have fallen afleep and my telt, this was our devotion in thole days, but increafing in knowledge, 1 judged to pray another mans form, was vaine babling , and not aceptable to God -: 2nd then the next thing I fcrupled , was asking my parents bleffidg , char often times inthe wincer mornings , after I have been out of my bed, I have food freezing above, and durft rot come down till my father was gone abroad, and the reafon I was farisfied , the bleffing er prayers of a wicked man God would not hear, and fo fhould offend God to ask him bleffing ; for eicher of thefe t~vo ways I mult, down on my knees, and fay, Father pray to God to blefs me, or give me your bleffing for Gods fake either of which I durft mot ufe wich my lips, bur was in me refrain= ed; and Iimproved my knowledge in the DoQrine of chofe men I judged was the true Mimfters of God, fo thar with teares many cimes I have privatly fought the Lord as I though, “whether thofe chings thar the puritanical Priefts preached, was my own, and the more I was troubled, that Tcould not pray without a Book as my brethren did, fain'would I have been juiz=d a Profeffor with them , but wanted parts, yet ofted times have had motions to tender my felf to prayer amongft them, but dur not, and to that end I might be admitted to prey with them, Ihave prayed alone to try how I could pray, ut could not utter my {elf as I knew they did: fo I remember - their was a day of Humiliation tobe fec-apare by the Puritans fo called, to feek God by prayer and expounding of Scriptures, againft which day I took my pen, and writ a preety form of words, fo gor them by heart , and whenthe day came Iwas called to improve my gifts, at which I was glad, yecin a crem- bling condition lef I {hould be foyled ; however, to Prayer I~ ; went, — a — ' RC ——— — —_— - - x » —— ————— RR RAAT we FTA whi SEAL a Le . . \ A ——— so — © — —— ———. —— a — ~ ———. ; T————_—— — 2 SERINE SUMATRA AT ”, ee —————————. i a - ’ 6 L.C, travelsthrough Epifcopaty i» Lancathire. went, with adevotion as thouglt 1 had known che crue God, bur alas, when Iwasinche mudit of rhat P.ayer, I lottmy form of words, and fo was all tn a fet as though 1 had been fick, and fo came off like a hy oc'iie as 1 was, whichipieized om my foul, that I thought for my hypocriie damnation would be my porcion; however it humbled me, thar [ was glad co become one.of the meaneft of the number, iilitull of fears that when I died, I fhould go to hell ; in which time I wric all the hypocrifie of my heartina Lecter to fend to Mr. Hud- for our Le&Qurer, to know his judgement whether fuch a {oul as there related might bé faved ? in the inrerim comes a mo- tion within me, {aying, A fool, why dof? thos [erd to wan thar knows not what will become of his own [onl ? barxit, and wait np- on me ; which Letcer I did burn, and not many weeks after I had a git of Prayer that was not inferior to my brethren, for which I was glad for the goodnefs of God tomy foul ; and as Iincrealed in knowledge, fowas my zeal, that I have many times privately prayed with rough hard Sinders under my bare knees, that fo God might hear me; and when I could not end my Prayers with tears ranning down my cheeks , 1 was afraid fome fin fhut the attention of God from me : and thus did I do for a few years, inwhich time the Bifhops began to totter and thake , yea, for their cruelty and fuperiiizion, was cotally routed. rate a Now if then vou had asked me what I thought God was, the Devil was, what the Angels nature was, what Heaven and Hell was, and what would become of my foul after death? My anfwer had plainly bin this: Thar my God was a grave, ancient, holy, old man, as I fuppofed farin Heavenina chair of gold , but as for his mature I knew no more than a childe: - and as for the Devil, Ireally believed was fome deformed per- fon out of man, and thathe could where, when, and how, in what thape appear he pleafed ; and cherefare the devil was a great Scar-croe, in fo much that every black thing I faw in che night, I thought was the devil : But as for the Angels, I knew nothing at all ; and for Heaven I thought was a glorious place, with thesfand : 1 bad ra “ “ a md ds A a aa ly, a a i . L.C. travels through Presbytery in London.! 7. wich variety of rooms fuitable for Himielf, and his Son Chih, and the Holy Ghoft : and Hell, where it was 1 knew net, Dug judged ic a local place, al dark, fire and brimitone, which the devils did torment the wicked in, and that for ever ; but for che foul at the hour of death, believed was either by-an An- gel or a Devil ferche immediately to Heaven or Hell. . This was the height of my knowledge under the Bifhops Govern- ment, and I 2m periwaded was the height of all Epifcopal Mi- nifiers then living ; fo thacfurely if they fhallbe eftablifhed for 2 National Miniftery , they will not impofe {uch Ceremo= nies as then they did, bur are grown wifer about God and Dex vil ; for they will finde the major part of Englard is grown wifer, fo cannot ftoop to ie Inf Light ; therefore if. ye w begin to ftand, take heed left ye fall. : A atl After this 1 travelled into the Church of the Presbyterians, where fill I made Brick of firaw and clay , nay chere 1 found my foul the more opprefled, and further enfna= "ted in the land of Egypt , burning Brick all the day; buck know ng no furcher Light, I was willing co bear their yoke,and fomerimes found it pleafanc; for herein confifted the differ ence of the Presbyrerianand Epifcopal, onely in 2 few {upers figicus Rites and Ceremonies, as alfo their Dotrine was more i han the Epifcopal , for they would rbunder the ‘Pulpit hh as unknown Cod , which then I thought was true, and tharply reprove fin, though fince 1 {aw we were the greacefk Ginners ; but however their Dodrine I liked, it being the high~ eft I chen heard of : So war being begun berwixe the Epifco- pal and the Presbyterian, I came for Londen, where I found them more precife than in our Popifh Countrey of Lancafbire ; for wich us the Lords-day was highly profaned b the tolera-. tion of May-poles, Dancing and Rioting, which the Presby-, cerians bated, and in their Do&rine cryed out agaipft , which thing my foul alfo hated , though yet I was not clear butt Steeple was the houfe of God , from that faying of De _ faying, Fora dayinthy Courts i better thas o fond 1 bedr shor bea Deer-keeper in the bonfe of yi, -~ ‘ Te MOIR BE, SA Ls I Rt ns AE CTE “—— | n aaidini v 6 L.C. travelsthrough Epifcopary in Lancathire. went, wich a devotion as though 1 had known che crue God, buc alas, when I was inthe mid@t of rhat P.ayer, I loft my form of words, and fo was all in a five as though 1 had been fick, and fo came off like a hy, oc'ite as I was, whichfoieized o» my foul, that 1 thought for my hypocrilie dzmnation would be my portion; however ic humbled me, thar Iwas glad co become one.of the meanett of the number, iilifull or fears that when I died, I fhould go to hell ; in which time I wric all the hypocrifie of my heartina Letter to fend to Mr. Hud- for our LeQurer, to know his judgement whether fuch a {oul as there related might bé faved ? in the interim comes a mo- tion within me, {aying, A fool, why doff thos [¢rd to wan thas knows rot what will become of his on (onl? bmrmit, and wait wp- on me ; which Letter I did burn, and not many weeks after I had 2 gifc of Prayer that was not inferior to my brethren, for which 1 was glad for the goodnefs of God tomy foul ; and as Iincreaed in knowledge, fowas my zeal, that I have many times privately prayed wich rough hard Sinders under my bare knees, that fo God might hear me; and when I could not end my Prayers with tears running down my cheeks , 1 was afraid fome fin fhut the attention of God from me : and thus did I do for a few years, inwhich time the Bifhops began to cotter and (hake, yea, for their cruclry and fupertiicton, was totally routed. en tras Lago re Now if then vou had asked me what I thought God was, the Devil was, what the Angels nature was, what Heaven and Hell was, and what would become of my {cul after death? My anfwer had plainly bin this: Thar my God was a grave, ancient, holy, old man, as I fuppofed farin Heavenina chair of gold , but as for his mature I knew no more than a child: . and as for the Devil, Ireally believed was fome deformed per- fon out of man, and thache could where, when, and how, in what (hape appear he pleafed ; and rherefore the devil was a great Scar-croe, in fo much that every black thing Ifaw in che nighe, I thought was thedevil : But as for the Angels, f knew nothing atall ; and for Heaven I thought was a glosious place, with i 8 A ——————— ab a ie id cle. Jali L.C. iravels through Presbytery in London. wich variety of rooms fuitable for Himielf, and his Son Chit, and the Holy Ghoft : and Hell, where it was 1 knew net, Dug judged it a local place, ali dark, fire and brimfions, which the devils did torment the wicked in, and that forever ; but for the foul at the hour of death, Ibelieved was eicher by-an An- gel or a Devil fetch immediately to Heaven or Hell. This was the height of my knowledge under the Bifhops Govern- ment, and I am periwaded was the height of all Epifcopal Mi- nifiers then living ; fo thacfurely if they (hall be eftablifhed for 2 National Miniftery , they will not impofe {uch Ceremo- nies as then they did, bur are grown wifer about God and Des vil ; for they will finde the major part of Englard is grown wifer, fo cannot ftoop a Light ; therefore if. ye w begin to ftand, take heed left ye fail. : ; By Aficer this travelled into the Church of the Presbyterians, where fill Tmade Brick of fraw and clay , nay there 1 found my foul the more opprefled, and further enna red in the land of Egypt , burning Brick all the day; buck know ne no furcher light, I was willing to bear their yoke,and PL found it pleafant ; for herein confifted the differ ence of the Presbyterian and Epifcopal onely in a few fepess fligicus Rites and Ceremonies, as alfe their Doltrine was mors i han the Epifcopal , for they would thunder the "Pulpic hiyely oe ns wi , whichthen I thought was true, and ¢harply reprove fin, though fince 1 faw we were the greacefk finners 3 but however their Do&rine 1 liked, ic being the high~ eft I then heard of = So war being begun berwixe the Epifco- pal and che Presbyterian, I came for Londen, where 1 found them more precife than in our Popifh Countrey of Lancafbire } for with us the Lords-day was highly profaned > the tolera-. tion of May-poles, Dancing and Rioting, which the Presby-, cerians hited, and in their Do&trine cryed out again, Which - thing my foul alfo hated , though yet 1 was not clear but oP le was the houfe of God , from that {aying of David, De vs, faying, Fora dayin thy Courts x better ther thesfard : 1 bad oy be & Deer-keeper in the bonfe of my God, as rT ti "ee a Far. 4% 4 + Wa ai 4 4 pho bbs tort IAT rope 4 Ig BN Ene Seis sil a8 . je Ten I A ST IR SO SI Ser ov —— 5 wv Na— AALS ml PU tr a ‘® L.C.travels through Presbytery in London: than te dwell in the tests of wickedrefs ; fo that 1 hinding out the ableft Teachersin Lowndes, asthen I udged was Mr. Calamy, Cafe, Brooks, and fuch iike , waro whom 1 daily reforred ou ~ potitble, to ger aflu. ance of Salvation, not negleQing to re- ceive the O:cinance of Breaking of Bread from them, judging in {0 doing, I (kewed fo th ihe Lords death tili hzcame. Now the perfccution of the Bishops fell fo heavy upon the Pre by- terian Minifters, thar femme fled for New-E-gland ; and Hoe- ker had lefc feveral Books inprint,, which fo tormented my foul, char I thought it unpoflible to be faved ; however, I1a- bored what in me lay, ro finde thofe figns and marks in my - own foul, and to that end negle&ted all things char mighe hin- deric; and thus for a certain ume 1 remairied a hearer of them, till fuch time thac Wars began to be hot,and they pref- fed the people to fend out their husbands and fervants to help the Lord again the Mighty,by which many a poer foul know- ing no better, was murchered, and murchered others , taking the Bible in their Pockets, and the Covenant in their Hars, by me was efteemed the work and command of the Lord , not at all minding the command of the fecond Commiffion to the contrary, as in 3 Cor.10.4. faying, #e do not war af er the flefh, forthe weapons of ony i are not carnal , bur m ht 7 throsigh Gedo the pulling down of [trong holds, 8c. This was noe bv me underftood, but aschey did in che old time in Mofeshis Com- miffion , {o Ithought we might do then’; in which time the Presbyterians began to be a great people, and in high eftcem, and ac that rime there was a great {laughter of the Proreftancs in Ireland, that Londen was thronged with their Minifters and people, and feveral Colle@ions was gathered for them: but chis I obferved, that as the Presbyterians gor power , fo their pride and cruelty increafed againft fuch as was congrary te them, fo thar Wn ey ATELY Thirdly lefc them, and travelled tothe Church of thie In-" dependents ; for this I ebferved as wars increafed , fo variety of Judgements increafed : and comingtothem, of which was Mr. Goodwin, and fome others, I difcerned their Do&rine: So SUE clearer, » Sen, li sin. ee ——— a. - B wy L.C. travels through Independency in Londen. 9 clearer, and of 2 more mo.!erate {pirit : Now the greaceft dif- ference berwixe them, was about baptizing of infants, plead- ing by Scripture , thac nope bat the infants or children of Be- lievers ought to be baptized ; and that none of them muft re- ceive the Sacrament, as thenit was ealled, bucduch as was Church-members , judging all that was not congregared “inte fellowlhip,, were not of God , but the world : So that ‘bout thefe things 1 was fearching the truch thereof , and 1266réd in the letter of the Scripture to fatisfie my judgement; inthe Interim hearing of one Do&or Crifp, to him I went, and he held rorch againft all che aforefaid Churches, That lec his peo- ple bein foctety or no, though walked all alone, yet if he be- lieved that Chrit Jefus died for him, God beheld no iniquity in him : and to that end Iferiovfly peruied his Bookes, and found it proved by Scripture, asic is written Numbers 23. 21. He ha hxet beheld smguity in Jacob o neither ba b be [een per- werfenefs in Iiracl. This was confirmed by other Scripeures, that I conceived whofe fins Chrift died for, thgir fin was to be required no more ; for thus thinking when the debe wis paid; the Creditor would not lock upon him as indebred to him, yet. this Teve- thought Chrift never died for all, though the Serip: ture was fluent to thac purpofe , yet 1found Scriprures t6 the conirary, and was ever as touching thac facished’, thar as Chrift prayed for none bue fuch as was given him ont of the world, / pray for them, Ipray not for the world, {6 'thar Ithotght he did not die for them he would not pray for , which'thdaghe now I know is true, "and have by pen, and can by tongue ntake good the tame : But I muft return to the tinie chen indet Tp- &or Crifp’s Dogring, in which Tdid éndéavor to come She of tho'e that God Taw no fin, ‘and in fofmt meififfe1eAnYY be cémforred therewith, but hew, or Which why to céntintié TY the fame 1 copid nor tell; having as yer ba fiecle Underlidrids ing inthe Scripture Tyas filent, oncly'Rill enquifiad ifeer higieft-pirch of Light then held foritvin'Zordon: in whieh Mc Bardilippeared; with Mr Simpfor wich (ch dl D6RkE as Doctor ‘Chip, onely higher and dlekrer a kl B - calle - ~- -r ARIEL ln Sr LL a EO | rE ———y ~ Company at Yarmouth ; (0 after a few dayes on E—— ET. > ln in. lil s0 LC. travels through Antinomians inLondoa. remit i j fo tha I left all Antiviemians, 0: againtt the Law, fc l Oe and Sea of Brick in Egypt, and ne. Jed with them up and down the borders, part Egypt , and P Wildernefs. Fourthly, rake notice in this Se@t 1 continued 2 certain ’ « time, for Church ir wasnong, in thagic was bape fo 2 Sm parc none 3 in which progrefs I had a go a of on Ses acquainted with me, fo.begm to be fome Oy and havinga notable gift in Prayer, ge 0 a osha ‘private, improving my gifts , judging then 4 LS this world was onely prepared for the Sa'nes, © ion! {ior hnowing any other but t x Gadwas 4 out in-o his Sainrs,and thar this 1 1 Cow was Gods King tom, and we his pegyle ; and Juertore } Js ed God did figac for us againit out ow ii pcan, ae pM ro 4 of Gad, wich fuch expreffions of the 1n-=Co! a bac my. foul much defired fuch a gift of preaching, cer ile ‘Hobfon and 1 being acquainted, be hada Captains judged my fel: ong, AX a §pirt, and did motion man | “place under: Colonel Electwosd for Tarmosuth {o that thither eich | ie p.vith them, at which ith him I weng;and there tarried a {oldie wit : , ae oh of Preaching, and iy > degrees Hh fedinco a: mathod, that Tatrempred che Pulp atm | Paihin Sufolk and {oacquainted wy ge mo as fate in publick, that having gor acquaintance at ric aHerybe 1 n from Pu- 1 Pulpit two of three times : fo coming a m3 rh h Noyfolk_and hearing of me, Was geeacly ifged with my Doftrine, bucefpecially my Pagers oi Evy urgent with me rogoto their Parith of Lg, w iin twoweeks after I affented 2 be there Juss, Noha eainftehe Fak-day; for attharume t : EE atnetly Faft, which was the lat welneiley shire monech : at the fet time Teams ro the place IME Wo this p20 had given nogice tothe belt affeed people in arcs, what a FATE San as to preach thac day , which thieg¥ cello i, ; p p_ an - L.C. travels throigh Antinimidns ju guiiolk 3 een was ambitious of as alio to get fome filver: Well, to the mac . ter I went, and as was my Dogtrine, fo was their underftand- ing, though I fay’r, as young as Iwas, yer was noe I inferior to any Prictt in thofe days : So in conclufion of my days work there came feveral in the Church-yard to me, and gave me thanks for my paines, yea, hoped the Lord would fettle me among them, which news I was glad to hear ; {6 for the next Lords-Day by Goodman Aays and Bwrtow was I invited to preach at Pulems , which was a great Parith ; fo upon liking I went, and was well approved of by all the Godly, fo there for a ime I was fertled for twenty fhillings a week, and very: gallantly was provided for, fo that I thought I was in Heaven upon earth, judging che Priefts had a brave time in chis world, to have a houfe butlc for them, and means provided for them to tell the people flosies of other mens works. Now after F hid con:inued half a year, more or lefs , the Minifters began to envy me for my Do&rine, it being free Grace , focontra- ry totheirs, and that the more , their people came from ¢heir: own Parith to hear me, fo that they called me Sheep-fiealey for robbing them of their flock, and to that end came to catch: and crap me ac feveral Letures where I was called ; thac ac lat they prevailed with the Heads of the Parifh to turn me our, fo I{lighting them as they could me, we parted, and thew kaving many friends, I was imporruned to come and live wich: them, fo above all I chofe Robert Marcharts houfe my Lodging place , becaufe hts Daughter I loved ; and fora CE oll, preached up and downin feveral Churches , both of and Norfalk., and manytimesin private , that Lhad a gredr, company. Now in the interim there was one Jahn 7: ler &! Colchefler. man frequented thofe parts where then I inhabited, - who was a Teacher of the Baptifts, and: had a few fcatrered, up and-down the Countrey, which feveral rimeswe had meegr« ings and converfe about a lawful Minifter: now Iknowing ne other buz that chofe f ayings, Go ye teachall Nations, bagtivin}y them, and lol am with you te the end of the world that contd, riance to the end of the world, was the Load-flone that Ba brought re ————— vem a — v . TI tnd eps Li Wn OW cmt Sits mrss - tai, i i y——— — oy 32 LC, tren); through tbe Baptifis in Suffolk. rau” ~- %. . WE Ra ‘4 Tn me to believe chat the Baprifm of -the Apoftles was 2s much in force now , as intheirdays, and that Command did as really belong to me as to them; fo being convineed, for London I went to be further fatisfied; fo thac after a lictle dif- courfe with Pasience, 1 was by him baptized in the water that runneth about the Tower, after which I (tayed at Lowden a- bout a week™ . Fiithly, then for Swffolk again I travelled through the Church of th: Baprifts, and was of Rebert Marchasts family received with joy, for I had the love of all the family ; and though he had tour Daughters marriageable, yet there was one 1 loved above any in that Countrey, though Iwasbelo- ved of other friends daughrers*far beyond her ineitare, yet for her knowledge and moderation in {piric, 1 loved her ; fo there up and down a certain time 1 continued preaching the Gofpel, and very zealous I was for obedience t6 the Com- mands of Chrift Jefus; which Do&rine of mine converted miny of my former friends and others, robe baptized , and fo into a Church-fellowfhip was gathered to officiate the order of the Apofiles, {otha really I thought if ever] wasina true happy condition, then Iwas, knowing no other but as afore~ faid, that this Command of Chrift did as really belong to me as to them ; and we having the very fame rule, as Eldersand: Deacons, with Dipping, and Breaking of bread in the fame manner as they , I was (atisfied we onely were the Church of Chrift in chis world. Thus having a greac company, and baprizing of many into that Faith, there was no {mall ftir among the priefts. what to de with me , which afterwards they gota Warrant from the Par- - llament , to apprehend Mr. Kvewles and my felf, for then Knowles was about Ipfwich preaching that do&rine , and bap- tizing cerrain people into that Faith; now they apprehended Mr. Kwowls in Ip[wick Goal, and from thence with their War- rant came to fecure me, fo in the week day being privately affembled in a friends houfe , withinthree miles of Ay, chere came in an Officer from the Parliament with certain Soldiers, and LC. apprehended and imprifonsd for Dippin: 33 and tivo Conftables, wich fome of che parifh, having clubs and faves furrounded she houfe,I being earnelt in my do&rine,and at that time was very much prefling the people, that withoug fubmitring to Bapei(m all cheir profeffion was nothing , proy- ing by Scripture hac as Chrift was our patern,fo we muft follow him as enlampl¢; fvhich could mot be unlefs we kept his coms mandments , 4$1¢ is wriccen, If yedove me, keep my command- ments : Now djpping being a command of Chrift', I judged them rebells that did profefs che name of Chrift, and not fub- mic their bodies to the Ordinance of Chrift, and thar Chrift. requires obedience from none but fuch as was capaple of being taughr, and therefore no children, bur men and women, oughe toreceive the Ordinance of Baptiim, in which time fome of the Officers hearing me , interrupted me in my do&rine,and told me I muft leave off, and go along with them, thewing me the Authority they had fromthe Pa-liament ; however, fome of our friends would have oppofed them , bur I faw ic was in vain, and fo defired our friends to be quiet, and faid, we mu not onely profefs Chrift, buc alfo (uffer fof him ; folic beingin the wintertime, and almoft nighe, they hafted me for Ay, though T, with our friends, defired bug fo much liberey as toga - to my wifes fathers houfe for linnem ind other ngceffaries, and - théy would engage for my appearance befoe the Commirtee at Bary ; but all in vain, then my wife told them they thquld, provide a herfe for her,for whither ever I wenr, (be would go: at which they were very much incenfed, bu all ro no purpofe, - fo ar laft a Trooper would have her to ride behind him, pe fhe wich {cor .refufed , then they gor ber furnicure to ride be- hind me , fo aking leave with our friends, to Atha nighe. we were carried ; now one of them went before to provide Lodging, fo the Town having intelligence chey had takens, great Anabaprift; there was ho {mall waiting for my coming, that when I came into che entéring of ‘the frown, the inhabie tants had befer both fides of the fircers ro fee my perfon, fup-, pofing an Anabaptift had bin a firange creacure, but when chev beheld me, with my wife, they faid ane ro another, He is like; one of us, yea, they are a very pretcy couple, ic 5 pity thai] .' . 2 x . —— ' — Lip ~ ——— A Tir mm pe - ToTeET. —y Ey er tn —— — RIEL vw a a eI ra Peep ne —— a. — A E—y a — Sp ——— tn, Sins i . “ . BE at — — vt TE ———e TE - 1 14 LC.exhmidirish before 1he Cammittiv is Bry, - fuffer : {oto the Inne | came, Where 2 prea company was in thé yard to behold me; fo being iy they i toour Lodging, and greae provifion was mide for Supper where many a por was (pant chat n'ghit to fee my face ; fo to bed we enc, andiniche nexe room by Soldiers guarded. fo In the morning we werd hafted for St. Edmonds Bury = which that morning Captain’ Harvey gave out miny {ad and grievous words whac the Committee would do wich me, but che devil Was deceived ; however I (aid lieele : fo they amas to me Wich 2 Bill what I had to pay for B-er, Wine, and Mex. unto which I{atd, I'had rons, bu if | had, Iwould pay none ic Was (ufficient T wag wrongfully deprived of my freedom and NOt to pay for their rioting ; howevsr they cold me, I mui} pe. fore Igo; then keep me here fil] ; furely, faid I, Your Ma- fies chat fet you on work, are able ro pay you your Wages: Well , they aid before I came out of prifon, if I were nop anged, I thoutd payic ; chen faid I, reft your elves congepy. ed ttl chat day: (6 cowards Bury we took our Journ:y and One was gone before to ifiform the Committee I was taken ; aint MY appearanee théy were affembled in 2 full Commie (ex, of which as I rake i¢ » Captain Bloyes of Woodbridge wag then Chait-man, So csehe Hill T was guarded, the room be. 0g full; Iwas conveyed up to che Chair-man, who asked m name? To which I replied, chis was firange tha- yoy had 7 Wirrany to take'me , and knsw nog my name : Well, hag Wag no made, do you tell us your name ; foleonld them : Y Hat countrey-may are you p I (aid Lancaire, What made youtravel fo far off ince chefe parts? The like motions thag Hioved others, moved nie, How long have you profeffed this. Way of dipping? Not fo lofi as T ought ro have done, had m tderfandin been entighiened, ‘Whar then ; yon pron of what your 0? Otherways I thoutd not da ic: How many - rive you dipped in thefe pares | being a free born fubed of. hig Nation’ ought forte accife myfelf; but you are co prove our charge, by fufficierit mienefs again me's: bur however I 118 brought before you For my sbedignce to he. Commands Lote of \ ped, that Tcannot cell.” Then you have dipped fome ? Yea, - Then faid Sit John Rowfe, we are informed yon dipped {fix:Siz ———_—, tie thrill inion wn "i TSS i ii. L.C. examination before she Commitee at Bury. ag of Ch:ift, I am neither afraid nor athamed to tell you what I have done : but to give you an account how many have dips that I have. After whac manner do you dip them? Afters decent order. We are informed you dip both men and women naked ? As unto that you are not righcly informed. Wheseis - i your Ferdas you dip chemin ? Though it is poc Jerdas, yet : there are feveral places convenient, Do you not dipthem i. a in che night? Yea, And why do you not dip tiem in the day, | itbeing am Ordimance of Churft as You fay ? Becaufe fuch as you are not able to bear the truch. Then (aid Sit #i/liam Spring but Mr. Clasx-or, have not you forced fome in the water - againit cheir wills? Thac 15. contrary to: Scripryre, Did you not gi! on2 time, being on ho:{-back, with a (witch forge fome into phe wares? Lec them rhac foinformed you, affirm it before you to my face. But Mr. Claxton wh> were thofe thar you dipped about Framingham? Ac this time I cannot remember, bur fe- veral I hwve dippad there aways. Did pot you dip fix, Stiters there about ac ope tims? I never dipped ix at pneitimey FENCTT 3 Y Pp Te > - fers one night naked. Tha is nothing to me what you:are in fo med, for I never did fuch a thing ; Nay furcher,ic is repogs ted, that which of them you liked bef}, you lay with berin che $ = water? Surely your experience eeacheth you't contrary, thag nature hath ml defire to copulation in water, acwhich chap laughed; Bu, {aid I, you have more cule to weep fot che un~ ¥ t ! clean So of your heart. Mr. Claxton have pot youg wife? One that brought me, (aid (he is in town. Whereis fhe? Fetch herhicher : (he being withone the door came in quickly, and took me by the hand. ~ Well faid the:Chair-man, you are g loving woman, is this your husband ? Yes , be is my husband, How long have you been married ? ‘About two moneths, Where were you married ? At #upbread in my fachershoufe. f Who married you 2 My hushind ,-4yith- the. con eat of uy } parents, and the Church, -At ghar there iwae 1 grea laugbrer, and faid, your husband marry you 10 himlelf,chiagis geal) the | : Co : Wa 1 a ee ee i bi HS bi a wn bd do. atin 4 > 16 L.C. exapsination before the Commiitée és Bury. Yaw; Ibeing vexed at their folly, an‘wered , Marriage is no other, but a free con’ent in love each ro the other before God, and who was fufficienr to publifh the Contragt as my felr? Nay but Mr. Claxton, you are not rightly infermed as touching a true Marriage. I {ay I was married acco ding to truch: then if your Marriage be lawful, we are not lawfully married, I quegi- flion not yours, fosk ye to that; but thiz I know,and can prove, 12m married according to the word of God; neither can . Your law repeal the contra& of thar couple, thae hath their parents confent, and che Church confirming the fame. Well, well, we fhall give you the hearing, but how many was prefent When you took her to your wite ? About twelve, Whae did you fay to her and the Church » Firft » Ifought the Lord by Prayer for a bleifing upen that Ordinance, and thea I declared unto her parents and the’ Church what had Wa betwixt (he and I, and that before them all I took her y the hand, and asked her if fhe was noc willing to take me fér her husband during life > To which the aflented, 3s alto her parents ap; ro- ved of ir, and gave her to’ me wich the confirmationof the Church. Then faid the Chair- man, What think you Gentle- men, of this"Marriage > They faid it was afirange Marriage, | What then Mrs. Claxton; you look upon this man your lawful husband ? Yea, Ideny all other men in the world Then you, have [ain with him » Toughe toly with no other. ‘Bur Mrs. Claxton , did your husband dip you before, or afrer he became your husband ? Before I was eonicrated in publick > Hew or after what manner did your husbind dip you? in your clothes or naked? Sir, we defie any undeeent cariage, if you were dip- ped in your ‘clothes yeu would poil them; and befi tesie might endanger your life Wich cold : we haye clothes for botly mien-and women provided for char purpefe. What were you plunged over head 2nd eafs 3 So faich the Scriprure. What Mr. Claxton, did you go with her into the water ? Nb I ftond. onthe bank fide.- Mrs.( axe, were not you amazed, or alm waed? ‘No Sir ; the obedience to the Command of God did {bur eut’ all feir and cold.’ What did not'you'ge to bed i Viki after wifedo? Then faid my wife, Where ever my husband is, L.C. examination before the Covimittes at Bury, rr after dipred ? Thad a warm bed wich dry linnen provided 3 Did not your hu band lodge wich you that night ? There is do fueh wickedneis among us. Why whit mater, you were mar- ried before God. Till we were publickly before witnefs y We bad no {uch cultom, and let m: re] you, if it be the pratife of your Church, it is net fo in ours, Nay woman, be not angry, I donot fay you did fo, for truly I'am a¢ much againft (in as youare. But Mrs, (lax:on, we have an Order to {ecure your husband, and there ro endu-e the pleafure of the Parliament, what will you do? we have no Order re ftay you. If you Ray my busband, you muft Ray me alfo. Why, are you willing to 80 to Coal with your husband ? For the Cayfe of Chit 1am - willing to fuffer imp:ifonment. - Then you are refolved yours is the way of Truth. Then faid I, for the prefent know no Truth buc this. Well Mr. Claxton, after 2 while you will be otherwiie informed. Never to turs back again. Weare to commit you to cuftody, that fo you may feduce no more peo- ple. Sir, I muft obey your pleafure, bu I (hall mot deny to be ebedient to the Command of, Chrift. Well, we (hall ralk wich you another time : fo they ordered to make my Mittimsns, and in my prefence gave it Caprain Poe my Keeper, and faid, Mr. Claxton , you may take norice hat the Pailiamene is fa- vorable to you , that they will not fend you to the common Goal, bur to a houfe where none but mien of Quality are kept + in cuftody. Then faid Pee, who was my Goaler, what (hall hig there will I be, then the Committee Ordered her with me: fo coming thither, there was none but two Papifis Knighes and a Sea Caprain , fo after we had fupped, we were direfted to our Chamber, which was a large chamber, and precey gopd Furnirure, Now unter a week I told Captain Pee that Iwas . not able to board ac half a crown 2 Meal, Then, (ith he, you muft go to the common Goal : Thither would I go, for Iam not afhimed to fit in the flocks in the Market-place , far, the Name of Chrift. So he informed the Commicree but hey would not remove me, and faid, hemuft ag-ee for the cham- , o LiL bis ed i a SBR ts vo isiuriiiiiiii. ay la wu 18 L.C.hitmprifov-enta Buy. © ber, and Ifinde my felf Diet : Acchis Pec was vexed, and fenc up his Handmaid Mifrils Tuck, ro agree with me for the chamber at four fhillings a week, which for the {pace of halfa ear I gave her, in which time our people increaled, there be- ing William Muly and {ome others of this way in Bury, Thad oftentimes money from the Army, andthe Churches at Lox- don and Celcheffer, fo thac 1 wanted for nothing ; and fome came to my chamber, and there | preached unto them, info much that che Keeper informed che Committee, who that Sun- day at night affembled, to confider what to do with me: in conclufion they fhue me clofe prifoner,and kept my wife from me, which was more grief to me then the ret. Well, again(t the next Lords-day I appointed our friends te ftand before my window on the Argel-hill, thar being the way forall the great Ones of the Town to go to their worihip, fo ac the very infant time putting my head forth of the Window , 1did beldly exhort the people to bewa re of the priefts, and whileic is the time of your healch , fubmit your fouls and bodies in obedience to the rue Bape, and be ro longer deluded to think that your infants are commanded to obey, or capable of an Ordinance impofed upon them. Oh for (hame, if not for fear, ftand Rill and hear che cruth related by his true and law- ful Minifter, otherwife turn back 2gain ; Ac which a great fore of people gave atcention, which did emrage the Prieft and Ma- giftrace, yer they knew not wha to do with me, bur charged me to do fo nomore. Then faid I, tike heed how you keep my wife from me : is this todo as you would be done unco ? fo they forthwith took off the Pad-lock, and let my friends come to me. Afcer chis I had che liberty of the whole houfe, nay, to fit at the fireer-door ; for he h ad no prifoners but fuch as gave ingreac fecurity for their fafe imprifonment ; and as for me, and #effrep my fetlow-prifoner, they feared not our going away, onely they were afraid Ifhould dip fome. Soa licele after, Spring coming on, I got liberty, not being well, to go abroad wich a Keeper, and Captain Gray , who was called Captain Drink-warer, wastogowithme : Now above all ihe reft, 1, C. travels through the Beptifts Ceontrey. ip ref}, I defired Captain Gray to go wich me to a Wood 2 mile diftant from me ; ic having rained over night , the Brook was up, fo.a man coming.with a Pole, I defired him to lay it over, ‘which he did, 10 I wen over firtt , and the Captain followed me, and fhakingthe Pole, he fell in to che middle in water, ‘and in a trembling conditien he was » left the Committee fhould hear of ir; foro the Wood we went, and there he dried his Hofe and Stockings, fo after we came co prifonegain, the Committee hearing of ir, queftioned Captain Gray, but he told them che truth, ar which they laughed. After Ihad lain there » long time, Mr. Sedgewick, and Mr. Erberycame to vilit me, with whom I had great difeourfe, and after they - were gene, 1 had a great conteft in my minde, as touching the fuccelienof Baptifm, which I could not fee but inthe death of the Apoltles, there was never {ince no true Adminiftraror ; for I could not read chere was ever any that had power by im- pofition of hands, ro give the Holy Ghoft, and work miracles astheydid ; fo that in the death of them I concluded Bap. tifm ce either young or old, was ceafed. Now obferve, I could difcern this, but could ner by the fame rule fee thae preaching and prayer was to ceafe : for this now Iknow, asin the deach of the Apofiles, and them commiffionated by chem, the Commiffion ceafed , asunto all their, Form and Worhip: So finding I was bur Rill in Egyps burning Brick, I was minded tortravel into the Wilderness; fo fecing the vanity of che * Baprifts, I renounced them and had myfreedom. Then. Sixthly , I took my journey into che fociety of thofe peo- ple called Seekers, who worfhipped God oncly by prayer and preaching , therefore to Ely 1 went, to took for Sedgwick 2nd Erbery,but found them nor, onely their people were afi: mbieds with whom I had difcourfe , bur found licrle fatisfadtion 5 fo after thar for Londen I went to finde Seekers there , which when came, there was divers fallen from the Bapuifis as} bad done, lo coming to Horin Fleer-laneyand Flatenin Seasanbs Lane, they informed me that feveral had lefc the Church.of Pas tence, in feeing che vanity of Kiffin and achers,bow highly they » C2 too a ——— _ t tyme ——— - £ oe o——— TY rT TT py ———— ——— - . ae NETTIE WY SRY a ———— va —— — Tr. 20 L C.oravelsstiroughthe Seekers Countrey, ' took it upon them, and ye could not prove their Call fuece(- fively; fo glad was I there was a people to have fociery witha, then was I moved co pu forth a book which was the firft thar ever I writ, bearing rhis Title , The pilgrimage of Saints, by church caf? out, in Chiff found feck» g truth, this being a fucable Peeceof workin thofe days, thar it wounded (he Churches; which book Randel owned,” and fold many for me. Now as I Was gaing over London- bridge, mec with Thomas Gus areacher of the Baprilts, who wasa man of a very humble , modersce fpiric,who asked me if T own'd the Pilgrimage of Saints? 1rold him yea: then 1aid he, you have writ 193inft the church of Chrift , and have diicovered your felf an enemy to Chrift, Then Ifaid, ic is betcer be a hypocrite to man then to God, for 1 finde as much diilimulacion, coveroulnefs , back- biting and envy, yea as filchy wickednefs among fome of them , as any people I know : and norwich@anding your heaven-like carriage, if all your faults were written in your forehead , for ought I know,yeu are a hypocrite as well as I; which after- wards it was found out he had lain with his Landlady many times; and tha he mighe facisfie his Luft , upon flighty erands, he fen her husband into the country,thac fo he might lodge with his wife all nigh ; which being found out, fo {more his confcience, that he privately took aPiRol and {het himfelf to death in Georgeafields. As alt along in this my, travel I was (ubje& to thar fin, and yet as faine-like, as though fin were a burden to me, fo thar the fall of this Gu» did fo feize on my foul , that I concluded there Was nore could live without fin in this world ; for notwithftanding I had great knowledge in che things of God, yet 1 found my heare was not right to what I pretended , bu full of luft and vain-glory of this world, finding no truth in fincericy thac I.had gone threugh, but meerly the vain pride and conceit of Reafons imagination , finding my heart with the ref » feeking nothing but the praife of menin the heighth of my prayer and preach- ing, yet in my do&rine through all chefe opinions,cieading the contrary, yea abafing my feif,and exalting a Chrift char chen I knew. L. C. travels throughthe Seekers in Kent, -3p knew not. Now after chis I rerurn’d to my wife in Suffolk, and wholly bent my mind to travel ed country, preach ing for monies, which then intended for Loxden y {ocoming to Colciefier where I had John Aplewhir, Pwrkis , and fome o- ther friends, I preached in prblick; {o going for Londen, a mile from Colchefler , 1fer my Cane upright upon the ground, -and which way it fell, thar way woul : I go; fo falling towards Ket, I'was aca ftand wha Irhould do there, having no acquiin- - ‘tance, and bu- little money, yer whatever hardfhip I met wiche al, Iwas re(olved for Gravefend, fowith much ado ¥ got chat night to a town called Bilrekey , it being in the height of Sum- mer, and in that cova then having no friends, and Fehink but fix pence, I lodeed inthe Church porch all nigh, fo when day appeared, I took my journzy for Gravefexd , and in the way I fpent a goat of my fix pence, and the other two penice carried me over the water ;- fo being inthe town, I enquired for fome firange opinionated people in the town, not in tFe leat owni of them, but feemingly eo enfnare them, which they dire&e me to one Rugg 2 Vidualler, fo coming in; though having no monies, yet I called for a pot of Ale, fo after a few words tics tered by me, che man was greatly taken with my {ayings, info much that he brought me feme bread and cheefe, wich which I was refrefhed, and bid me take no care . for I fhould want for nothing , you being the man that writ The Pilgrimage of Saints, Ihave had a great defire to fee you , with fome foldiers and others , fo for the prefent he left me , and informed Cornet Lokger and the ret, thar I was in town, who forthwith came tome, and kindly received me, and made way for me to preach in che Blockhrufe; fo afteting my dodrine, they quater= ed me in the Officers lodging, ard two days after they carried me to Dartford, where there I preached ; fo againft the nexo Lords-day came for Gravefend, and there preached in the Market- place, which was fuch 2 wonder to the townand ceun« trey, that fome for love, and others for envy , came to hear; that the Prieft of the town had almoft none to hesr himr, chag if the Magifirace durft, he would have apprehended me fol | - nro ~~ tn Ye Rav SR Fr ETE ny. 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Sh - ——— — 23 LC. travels through the S cehers i» Kens, boldly told them God dweiled not in the Tempie made with bands, neichar was any place mere holy then another, proving by Scripture, thac where two or three were gathered in his name, God was 'n the midft of them, and that every Believer was the Temple of God, asitis written, God dwelleth with a bumble and contrite [pir ; So after this we went to Maid- Sen and Tewn-manlin , and chere I preached up and down, fo at laft having given me about five pounds, 1 wentto my wife and promifed in two weekesto recarn again, which 1did, bue I found not Lokier nor the refi fo affe&ionate as before, for he had a gift of preaching, & therein did teck honor, fo fufpicious of my blafting his repucacion, {lighted and perfecuted me, fo that Ilefc them. and towards Maiden travelled , 10 one Bulfinch of Town-manlin having friends towards Canterbury, periwaded spe tego with him, and fo againft the nexe Lords-day, having no fteeple free, we had a Gen:lemans barn free, where a great company was affembled :then for Sandwich I went,and up ard down found friends, fo coming to Canterbury there was fome fix of this way, amongtt whom was a maid of pretty knowlecge, who wich my Doctrine was affe®ed , and Iaffe&ed to lye with her, fo chat night prevailed, and f{arisfied my luk, afrer- wards the mayd was highly in love with me, and as gladly would I have been fhur of her, left fome danger had enfued, fo not knowing I bad a wife (he was in hopes to marry me, and fo would have me lodge with her again, which fain T would, bur durft not , then fhe was afraid I would deceive her, and weuld travel wich me, but by fubrilty of reafon I perfwaded ker to have patience, while I wene inco Suffolk , and fered my occafiens, then I would come and marry her, {o for the pre. fence we parced , and full glad was | thac I was from her de- livered , fo to AMaidflen] came, and having sor fome fix pounds, returned to my wife, which a while after I wen for Kent 3gain, but found none of the people (o zealous as for- merly , fo thar my journey was bur a fmall advantage to me, and chen I heard che maid had been inthofe pares to feck me, buc noc hesring of me, returned home again, and not long Ys © after - ———————— a —— Gl lL a ~ L.C. travels through Seckers in Hartfordthire, 33 after was mariied to one o: that fe&, and fo there was an end of any further progrefs into Kem. Then not long after I. wene for Londen, and fome while remained preaching ac Bows in Mr. Sterry’s place, and Lendon-flexe , but got nothing ; fo to Suffolk 1 vient, and having but ene childe, put ic to nurfe, intending to go tomy Parents in Lavcafbire : So leaving my Wife ac my coufin Andertens , 1hearing of Seekers in Hare- fordjbre, wene thither , and ar laft was hired by Mr. Hickman to preach at Peters in Sto Albans , {o being liked, I was hired for 2 monzch longer, fo fetch my Wife , and there continued till fuch time che Town of Sanderidge took me for their Mi- nifter, and fetled me in the Vica:idge, where Sit Jobn Gare, Colonel Cox, and Juftice Robotems came conflantly to hear me, and gave me feveral Gifts, fo thatinheavenI was again ; for I had a high picch of free Grace, and mighrily flown in the: fweet Difcove ies of God, and fet mor at all knowing what Ged was, onely aninfinite Spirit, which when he pleated did glance in:o his people the fiwcer breachings of his Spirit ; and therefore preached, itwas not fufficient to be a profefior, but apoileflor of Chift, the pofleffion of which would caufes profeilion of him, with many fuch high flown notions , which at that time I knew no better, may, and in truth I (peak i, there was few of the Clergy able toreach me in Doétrine of Prayer; yer notwith®anding, nocbeing an Univerfity man, 1 was very often turned out of employment, that eruly 1 (peak ir, I think chere was not any poor foul fo toffed in judgement, and for a poor livelihood, as then Twas. Now in this my pros fperity I continued not a year, but the Parron being a fuper- Rlitious Cavelier, got an Order from the Affembly of Divine$ «to call me inqueftion for my Do&rine, and fo put ina drua- ken fellow in my room: and thus was I difplaced from my heaven upon earch, for I was dearly beloved of Smirks and Thrales , the chief of the Parith. Well, there was no othet way but for Londen again, and after a while fent my Goeds for Snffolk hy water : now at this I concluded all was a cheats yea preaching ic {elf , and fo wich chis apprebenfion went uh $ — or pe A AEA TE eT i ; = aT —— - GS LSE CPI RG AT lic RS — ET TI TE OT Ir EI "ra Soy : | | 5 a ¢4 L.C travels through Seekers in Hartford hire: and down Harifordfpire, Bedford, and Buckisghamire, and by my fubtilcy of reafon gor monies more or leis; as of one at Barton , 1 had twelve pounds for che printing of a book again(t- the Commsnalty of Exglard, impeaching them for craycors, for fuffering the Parliamenc their fervancs, to ufurp over them Judging che .Common-wealch was to cut our the form, and fhape of cheir grievances, and fend it up to their fervanes che the Pa framenc to finith, (hewing, asthe Common-wealch gave the Parliament power, fo they were greater then the Parliament | wich macer to the effect. And chen being pre- fore 9% il parith in Lince flare , thither I went, but 3-188 no lociety to hear, Igrew weary thereof, and Rayd wich fome friends at Oford, fo wich a litle monies went home again, and not long after going into Lircolnftire, 1 preached in feveral places, that ar [aft Captain Cambridge hearine of and was much affected wich en made " teacher to i Ccmpany, and faid I thould have all neceflaries provided me and a man alowed mz; chen I was well recruiced and hotfed. fo thar I judged ic was the mercy of God to me, my diftre(s being grear, and my care for my family. Now after a while our Regiment wen for London | fo though T had preached in'Lix- coln, Horncaftle, Spilshy, and many other places, yerthey would excufe me for twe moneths , having no need of preach- Ing at Landon , fo wich what monies | had Iwent co my wife and faid there a while, and fo came for London : Now our Reigment being 7wiflrons, Quartered in Smirh- field, bur I Quarcered ina privare-houfe,who was a former friend of mine asked me if T heard not of a people called Ay one flefh 3 10aid no, whar was their pinion, and how (hould I'fpeak with any of them ?* Then fhe direted me to Giles Calvert So that now friends, I 1m eravelling futher into the Wildernefs having now done burning of Brick, I muft Rill wander in the mountains and deferes 5 {o coming to Calvert , and miking enquiry aires fuch a people, hs was a fraid I came to betray them, bur ex- changing a few words-in rhe height of my language, he wis much affefted, and facisfied I was a friend of theirs, fo he writ i © me ’ an Angel, foto Mr. Bruh I went, and prefented chis Note; which ke peruied, fobidane come in; and.told meif. Thad come a little fooner, 1 might Rive {een Mr, Copp, who then had lately appeared in a moit dreadfyl manner;io their being Aary Lake, we had tome difcourfe, but nothing to what. was in me, however, they told me, if next {unday Iwould come te Mr, Adeluin Trinity-lane there would thay day fome friends meet, Now cbierve ar this time my judgment was this , thacthee was no man could be free’d from fin, till he had a&ed thacfo caljed fin, as no fin, this a cerrain time had been burning withe in me, yer durft not revealic to any, in thac I chought none wisable to receive it, and a greac defire 1 had tq make. rial whether I fhould be troubled or fatisfied therein ; fo that: .- Sevenehly, I rook my progrefs into the Wilderne/s 5 and igs cording to the day appointed, I found Mr, Brafb, Mr. Rawljnfen, Mr. Gold[mith, with Mary Lake; and ome four-morg;;, now -Mary Lake was the chief {peaker » whichin her difcourfe sya ; fome thing agreeable ,- but net fo high as was in me experiggr ced, and what I chen knew with boldne(s declared, in fo much that Mary Lake being blind; asked who that was chac {paked Brib faid the man that Giles Calvert-fent vo ns, fo widrmapy . more words I affirmed thac there was no fin, bur’ as mangy fteemed ic fin, and therefore none can be free from fin, tHlin purity it be a&ed as no fin, for 1 judged thar pure to me, which to adarkunderflanding was impure, for to the pure all things, -yea all alts were pure : thus mak'ng the Scriptu:g a writing of wax , J pleaded the words of Paul, That { know, and am per- Swaded bythe Lord Jefus, that thre was nathirg wiclean, ont as man ¢/lcemed it, unfolding char was intended all acts, as well -as meats and drinks, and therefore till you can lie wich all wo=_ men 2s ene woman , and nor judge ic fin, you can do pothing -buc fin: now in Scripture I found a parfeition fpokenofy{o phat J underfood no man could attain perfedtion bug f5is way , af xe D © which promt vow sdf. . Cpe Ys “ » A ——— —————— A — mbes a ———— ne ——— L.C.travelsthrongh Seékers in Hartfordfhite. 128 5 me 2 Note to Mr. Br#b, and the effet thereof was, the bearer | hereot is aman of the grearefi light I ever yer heard fpeak, and for ought 1 know infeed of receiving of him you may receiv i‘ a AT — aa a : 7 a ———— ‘ . rh. =m TTT pean res NE III TT Ye. a pe & - -— gs wae a . Xa . re. GL EE, A i lh, lL i el ll hn LE ) TH ———_— . y - —aos . rp ———— . em 1 A hl Ra de ain dl iti i cet i a a - 36 L.C. travels thriugh the Rantersin London, L.C.srevels through the Ranteys in Suffolk. a9 | which Mr. Rawlinfon was much taken, and Sarah Kullin being which then Major Rainsberough, and Door Barker was mind- | then p-efent, did invite me to make tric] of whae I had expref- ed for Mr. Wal of Elford, {0 there I met them, where was no fed, fo as I rake it,after we parted, fhe invited me to Mr, Wats | , {mall pleafure and delighc in praifing of a God chat was an in- af hk in Rosd-lane, where was_one of two more like her {elf,and as I finite nothing , wha greac and glorious things the Lordhad- : take it, lay with me that nighe : now againtt nexc {unday ic was done, in bringing us out of bondage, tothe perfeq liberty of “ele meiled abroad wh:carare man of knowledge was to {peak ac the fons of God, and yet then che very notion of my hearr was F Mr. Brufbes; acwaichday there wasa great company of men to all manner of chef, cheat, wrong, “or injury that privately i and women, bcth young and old, and fo from day to day in- could be acted, though in tongue 1 profefled the contrary, not i creafed , thac now I had choice of what “before I afpired af- confidering 1 brake che Law in all points (murcher excepred:) ¥ - ter, infomuch thar it came to our Others ears ; but having and che ground of this my judgement was » God had made ait P| got my pay I1eft chem, and lodged in Reod-line , where 1 had things good, fo nothing evil bur as man judged it ; for Iap- ¥ | Clients many , thac I was nor able to aniwer all defires, yet prehended there was no fuch thing as cheft, cheat, or a lie, bug Bi none knew our a&ions but our felves; however I was careful as manmade it {o : fer if the creature had broughe chis world ii wich whom I had co do. This luftful principle encreafed fo intono propriety, as Mine and Thine , there had been no fuch iif E [ much , that the Lod Mayor with his Officers came ar mid- ticle as heft, chear, or 2 ic ; for the prevention hereof Evga | fi ¢ night to take me, but knowing thereof , he was prevented. rard and Gerrard Winfieniey did dig up the Commons that fo ; bi : H Now Cepp was by himfelf witha company ranting and {wear- al! might have to live of themfelves, "then there had been ne oS ar ing, which I was feldom addiQed to, onely proving by Scrip- need of defrauding, but unity one wich another , not then | | i ture the cruch of what I a&ed ; and indeed Selomons Writings knowing this was the devils kingdom, and Reafon lord i Hi was the original of my filthy luft, fuppofing I might cake the of , and that Reafon was naturally enclined to love ic feff 5- i Ee fame liberty ashe did, not then underftanding his Writings beve any other, and to gather to ic felf what riches and honor ; { Was no Scripture, that I was moved to write to the world what trcould, thatfo it mighe bear fway overits fellow creatures i | my Principle was, fo brought te publick viewa Book called for I made ic appear ro Gerrard Winflanley there was 2 felf-love a rE. The Single Eye, fo that men and women came from many pares . and vain-glory nurfed in his heart, hac if poffibje, by digging ¥ L to fee my face, and hear my knowledge in thefe things, being to have gained people to him, by which his name might become - } kr reftiefs cill they were made free; as then we called it. Now I great among the poor Commonalty of the Nation , as afer t I being as they faid, Capra of the Rawr, Thad molt of the prin- wardsin him appeared a moft thamefu] recreat from Georgese ciple women came to my lodging for knowledge , which then kill, wich a fpiric of pretended univerfality, to become a real i | h was called The Head-quarters. Now in the heighe of this ran- Tithe-gatherer of propriety; fo what by thefe chings in others, CB ting, I was made ill careful for moneys for my Wife, onely and che experience of my own heare, I {aw all that men fpake fh my body was given to other women: fo our Company encrea- or aited, was a lye, and therefore my thought was, I hadas 2 fing, I wanted for nothing that hear could defire , but ac laf} . good chear for (omething among them , and that fo T mighe 8 Ic became a trade fo common. that all the froth and feum broke live im profperity wich them , and nor come under the lath of i forth inzo the height of this wickednefs,yea began to be 2 pub- the Law; for here was the thought of ny heart from chac fa | lick reproach, that I broke up my Quarters, and went into the ing of Selemew, Ecclef, 319. For that which befalleth the foms * | countrey to my Wife, where I had by che way difciplesplenty, of mem, befallesh beats, even ore thing befallerh them; x the rue | Me ~ ! BE Kain EE 158 - LC. dvels through ihe Rantersin Suffolk, - dieth, fo dieth the other yea, they have all one breath ; fo that “wan bith no preheminence above abeaft ; for all is vani’y , ‘all go inte oxe place, all are of the duft, and all ‘twrnie duff again. So that the-1 Sth and 1 och veriés of Ecclefiafies was the rule and direQion of my (pir, tokac ahd to drink , and rodelight my foul in rhe 11bor of my minde all the days of my life, which I thought Gd give mz 1s my portion, yea to feioyce inte as the git of God, as (aid thar wile Head-piece Selomon ; for ¢his (hen, an ever after, till 1 cams to bisa: of a Commiifion, ‘ws the thought of my heare , that inthe grave there was no more remembrance of either joy or forrow after, ForchisI conceived, as I knew noc what I was before I came in being, fo for ever after I(hould know nothing after this my being was diffolved ; bucevenas-a fiream from the Ocean was di- ftin& in ic felt while ir was a ftream, bur when returned co the Ocean, was therein (wallowed and become one with the Oce- “an; fo the fpiritof manwhnileinthe body, was diftiné from God, bur when death came ic returned to God, and fo became one wich God, .yea God it felf ; yer notwithflanding thie, 1 had fometimes a relening light in my foul, fearing this fheuld not be fo, asindeed ic was concrary ; buc however, then a cup ’ SN: of Wine would wath away this doubt. But now ro recarn to fy progrefs, I came for Lexden 22210, tovific my old fociery; which then Mary Midleton of C bels- ford, and Mrs, Star was deeply in love wich me, fo having par- ted wich Mrs. Midleton, Mrs, Star and 1 wen up afid dewn the coun-ries as man and wife , {pending our time in feafting and drinking, fo rhac Tavernes 1 called the houfe of God g and the Drawers, Meffenges; and Sack, Divinity; reading in Selemsns writings it muft be (o, ‘in thar'it made glad the heare of God ; which before, ahd ac that time, we had ieveral meer inge of gre ac company , "an that ome , nd miean ones neicher, where then, ani at thar rime they im roved theirdiberty, where Doftor Pagets maid ripped her felf naked, and tkipped among them, bue bein int 2 Cooks fhop, there was no hunger, fo that I kepe my Yelf co Mrs, Star, pleading the Tawfulnzis of 3 Le! our ~ volcus things 5 fo comin] ro the bu is 7 Alot iL tin. vn sl Wh I LC. examingetipnbefore she Dackigment 29 ~our doings as afo efaid, concluding with Solomon al). vas vani- ty., In ihe’ inerim the Parliament bad lug forth {everal . Warrancs inzo the hands of. Chy-¢h-membars, which keew me moby geilon, bur by name, fo could hot take mi, though fe- ~erl times mee with me’, ‘thar at Jaft the Parliament 6 him that could bring me before oa , ~ would give. a hundred “pounds, fo that one Tones for lucre of mony; knowing me, got ‘a \Warjanaio apprehend me, who miegting me in) the fouf (vans Wighin Liflep/gace , ti1A me he had. ALT Court of Parlizmenc to'take me Gave no power to ferve 1 wich TN ave 80 pore chp ap Oificer, - and fo would have eica cd, but’ could not the people fo thronged.ahont &e, 3a a great tumult ehere was’, fome fighting wich him for, ap Jaicfiper, bur being City Troppér'y and ome ‘more, of his Com, any wich him, they carried me, 2s T'take iz, to Alderman Andrews, where they | carchéd my Pockets; bug having drop: ped an Almanck chat had the names of fuch as Told or: forme, they founu it , andcarried if'to the Pa-liamene, foin- . formed the Houfe I wistakeén, and likewiie defired to know what'they fhould. do wi h.me , who gave Order to bring me by water to #hirthall-Raizes , and deliver, die 10 Bark fead’s ‘Soldiers, where afret 2 while a meflenger wis fent to rake me ‘neo cuftody , where Twas lodged in Hhireball over again} the Djal’, and two fouldiess guarded me night apd day ,, for which I was cc pay’; but fome being of, my prinsi le the would guard m; for nothing, and a Captaincy, theirs oy give me,moneys ; fe afteriwo days T jas fen: or before the Committee of Pa'liimz That you'ate to'prove. Here'is the two firft Let. tersof your name, What is that to me # it may ferve for o- ther names as well as mine. “Did not Major Raimsbor:ugh and thefe men give you monies to print this Book ? How fhould they give me monies to print that which neither I nor they knew of. “This BOgk mult be yours , for it fpeaks your language, fuitable to your pradife. * I being but 2 ftranger to yon, how thould you know my language or pra@ife > Though “you will confefs nothing; yet we have witnefs to proveit. Let them be examined in my prefenec : So calling Jones thatbea: - trayed me, ‘did you nevet fee Mr. (Taxon lye with no wo- . man? is FRANC ARETE | SRE ISIE SRO BG EL ts nL laid a - L C.exéiminationbefare thé Parliament; | 33 man? Ihave heard him tal: of fuch things, but fay moad, Though you cannot, there is fome will, sherefore Mr. Claxe - -tendeal plainly , that though you lay with none, yet did not you alow it none others? | faw no evil in them todifalow 3 And Gentlemen let me fpeak freely toyou, Suppofe I were your fervant, entrufted with your fecrets, and knew that you were Traitors againft this prefent Power, would you take it . well for me to impeach you, and bear witnefs gainft you ? At which, either the Earl of Denby, or the Earl of Salisbury faid, No : Such a fervant. deferved to be hang'd ; at which they laughed arid faid, this was a cae of another nature. Ifayasie is in the one; fo it is in the other. Well then. Mr. Claxton, you will not confels the truech. You fay yeu have witncisto prove it. However the tructh T have confeffid, ‘and no more can be expeited. D> not yoa know one Copp? : Yea I know him, and that is all, for I have not feen him above two or three times. Then they faid, th's isa fad principle, which if not.rout- . ° ed, all borelt men will have their wives deluded. One of them fiid, he feared not his wife (he was too.old, fo they difmiffed me to the place from whence I'came ;’ and faid we (hall report it to the Houle, thar fo with fpeed you may have your trial bat 1 think it was about fourteen weeks before received the Sen- ’ tence of the Houfe | ‘which took up the Houfe aday and half work, as Jabn Lilborn faid , flood the Nationin a Thoufand pounds : And thus they fate {pending the Common-weaiths monies, about fuiviolus things. Now having paft fome votes, £2 1aft they carried the day for my banithment , which vote that day was printed, and pafted upon many pofis abomt the City of Lowdws , That Lawrence Claxton fhould remain in- 4 remain ta. | New-bridwel « moneth and 4 day and then the High Sheriffe of 1 London to cendu} him te the High Sheriffe in Kent, and foro be * Go, banifot England, Scotland «wd Ireland and the Territories theres: of during Life , and Mujor Rainsborough te ve ne lo-ger Fuftize dwring his life. Now when my moncth was expired, their ‘Vote wis not executed, fo after a while T cane forth of pri and thea took my journey with my wife to my boule in Sedin- May feild. QD “ B . iT vo gh Fg 2 rr SE SEF BR x 3 pun CEE gr A “ vn. \ LT GR. ATE toa res i Er RE BT p—— ws ra LEE TE uF Tod TRAN re mo Boel a ——— J —— - cc i, "> % iy Wr 33 L.Cusrziielsrbioughithe Rawters in Aftroligy. field, and from thence T oo my progrefs into Cambrigdefhire, to the towns of Foxesiand Orwel where fillT conginved my Ranrirg principle, with a high hand, + . € . Now'in the interiny 1 actempeed the are. of Afteology and Phufici, which in a. fhore time [ gained and herewith travelled up and down Cambridgelhire and Effex, as Lint. and S«ffron. waldin, and other rountrey towns, improving my s-iil to the "utmoft, that 1 had clients many, vet could not be th-cewith con. . tended , bac afpired Yo the are of Magick, fo finding {ome of Door wards and Byelerds Manulripss, Dim proved my genius to fetch Goods bac. that were floln, yea to raife fpirits, ard fetch treafore out of the carth,, with many fuch diabolical ations. as 2 woman of Swabwyy in Suffolk aflilted me, pretend- ing the could doiby her witch-crofe. whatever fhe pleafed ;. now fomethingwas-done , but mothing to; what I pretended, however monies J guined.. and wasup and down looked upon as a dangerous man, that the ignorant and religious people was sfraid to come near me, yet tis I may fay, and fpeax the crush, that 1 bave cured many; defperate Difeafes, ‘and one’ time brought from Glesfird. to. ayillage town wide of Laxkam to Dolor Clark, twomwomen!and one, man that had bewitched ~ hisdaughter, who came in a frofty cold night, tormented in “what then Clerk was a doing , and fo dfter that his daughter ‘was in perfe@-héslch, with many fyclylike things, that it puffed sup my fpirit; and made many fools believe in me, for at that time I looked upon al) was good , and God the author of all, ‘and therefore have feveral times attempted to raife the dev, “that fo I might (ee what he was, but all in vain, fo that I judged -all was a:lie,and that:there was no devil at all, nor.indeed np “God but ane’y ngtuse; for when I have perufed the Scriptures I + bave found fo. e1ueh contradiion as, then conceived, that -bad no faith in it ar 21], no morethen a hiftory,though I. wou! talk of if, and fpeek from it for my own advantage, but if I had - really thearelated my thoughts, 1 neither believed that 4d ym. was the firlt. Creatpre, but that there was a Creation before diay, which world J thorght was eternal, judging chat: bed . -~ - Ab . L.C. travels lmof ended, | 33 of Ned-where Cain took his wife, was inhabited a long time before Cain, not confidering that Mefes was che firft Writer of Scripture , and that we were to look no further than what there was written ; buc I really believed no AMofes, Prophets, . Chrift, or Apoliles; ner no relurre&ion at all : for I under- flood chac which was life inman, went into that infinite Bulk and Bignefs, fo called Ged, asa drop into the Ocean, and the body roteed in the grave, and for ever fo to remain. In the interimcame forch a people called Quakers, wich whom I had fome difcourfe, from whence I difcerned chac they, were no furcher than burning brick in Egypt, though in a more purer way than their fathers before them; alfo their God, their devil, and their refurre@ion and mine, was all one,one- ly they had a righceoufnefs of the Law which I had nor; which righteoufnefls I then judged was to be deftroyed, as well as my unrighteoufnefs, and fo kept on my trade of Preaching, not minding any thing after death, but as aforefaid , asalfo thac greac cheat of Aftrelogy and Phyfick I praftifed , which not long after Iwas beneficed in Aderfland , at Terington and St. Jebns, and from thence went to Swetfham in Norfolk, where I +, was by all the Town received, and had moft of their hands for the Prefencation , then for Londew 1 went, and going tovific C betweed my former acquaintance, the, with the wife of A€id- Alesen, related tome the two Witne(les ; fo having fome con- ference with Reeve the prophet, and reading his Writings, I wasina trembling condition ; the nature thereof you may read in the Jntreduttion of that Book [Loek_ about yew, for the devil that you fear ss in you | cor.” _:ring how fadly I had thefe . many years {pent my time, and that in none of thefe leven Churches could I'finde che true God, or right devil ; for in- deed that is not in rhe leaft defired, onely to prate of him, and _ pray to him we knew not, thoughit is wricten, Jt 4 life eternal 20 know the trae Ged, yet that none of them mindes, but from _ education believeth himto be an eternal, infinite Spirit, here, there, and every where ; which after I'was fully perfwaded, . that there was to be three Commiffions upon this earth, ta. "bear record so the three Titles Dore , and that this was the - debi: i iia” Aer. [Pe Tp — J ———— ig a 34 fd L. C.pardincdby's Commifsivm, aft of thole chree : upon the beficf of this I came to the know- ledge of the two Seeds, by which I knew the nature and form of the true God, and the righe devil, whichin all my crava!; - through the feven Chuches I could never finde, inthat now I fee, 1t was onely from che revelation of this CommiiGion to make it known. Now being at my Journeys end, as in point of nozional wor- fhip, I came to {ee the vaft difference of Faith from Reafon, which before 1 conclude, you inall hear, and how tha from “Faichs royal Prerogative all its feed in Adam was faved, and all ‘Reafon in che fallen Angel was damned, from whence I came to know my eleition and pardon of all my former tran{greifions ; after which my revelation growing, moved me “to publifh to the world, what my Father was, whee he liveth, and the glory of his houfe, asis confirmed by my writings now in publick ; fo that now Ican fay, of all my formal righteout- nefs, and profefled wickednefs, I am firipped naked , and in room thereof clothed wich innocency of life , perfe&t aflu- ‘ranee, and feed of difcerning with the fpiric of revelation. I {hall proceed to anfwer {ome Objeitions thar may be raifed, asunto what I have already afferred. Fir, what had become of ma if 1 bad died before £ beard of this [piritual laff Commei/fion > _Anfw. Linfallibly againft angels and men, thacis, againft all che feed of Reafon whatfoever, declarz, Thac if I had dy- ed in my time of wickedne(s, Thad been damned. Bur then, you may fay , How can this canbe thie I fhould have been damned then,and not now; when the determinace will of God ftands fuce, that whe before of old ordained to condemnation | or falvation, fo (hall elestion ffand. Asunto chis, it is to be fe- rioufly minded, cha while I was travelling through Egypr , or the wildernefs, I knew no more than Pawl when he was a blai- phemer, chac I waseleited as I do'now, and ac chae time had ~ no perfedk peace, nor fully perfvaded of my falvation ac all 3 for alas, what comfort is ic to 2 man chat is ready co be t. “2éd over the ladder, and knoweth of no pardon, no more thana min cha dieth in ignorance knoweth hisele&ion ; fo char you may - Na) “ L.C. pardoned by aCommifsjon, velin, even berwixe hope and defpair ; for ic is unpoffibl thar a foul in unbelief fhould know whether he be eleqed, no : and therefore that Determination or Decree , doth pro- 5. mayb ehold what 2 fad journey moft pare of the world do trae”. duce a means to effet the end of that mans (alvation, fpring- . ing in the Well of Faith, the knowledge of his ele@tion » With a protection or prefervation of its own feed from the breach of the Law ; or if that foul have tran(greffed the Law, he (half not die ti{l 2a Commiflion come in being ; fothac I being ele- &ed, and yer having broken the Law, there was a necefficy I (hould live rill chis laft came in being, for the Law would have condemned me, and God would have difewned me » fothat there was no other way buc the belief of this Commiffion, te frec ine from the law of fin and death, into ecernal fife. : Buc youmay fay, What became of allthe Seed of Faith fimce the Apoftlesto this day that had wot a Comms fiom to believe jn ard lived sn wickedne[s as I have done ? oy As unto this Ifay, all the feed of Adams thaclived til ca- pable of a Law, did not commit wickednsfs, but was kepr in- nocent from breaking the Law ; which innocency life, | though not knowing any other, buc JeTus Chrift che San of God, fhail be railed to glory. For this isto be underRtood, thar till wichin thefe thirty years , there hach no angels founded a- “bove the Baptift , and cherafore no fuch provocation ro tempe the Seed of Faith to commit finas hach bean in my days ; for the fixth angel founding forch , the Ranting principle broke forch all maner of wickednefs with a bigh bani, thar did tempg fuch 2s Ttobreak the Law as themselves : Sochar I{ay, the Seed of Faith that was not to ling t (this Commifsion came in bzing, had no fuch provocation, there being n> fuch tempt- ing Difpen(ations chen apparent as they are now, fo that they were all kepr. innocent in their lives from cammiteing of fa, { minde this] nar from thinking or (peaking, but from adi fin, ~vichout which :& the Law will nat candemn chee ; for the Law hah nothing todo avich the heatt, bue an a&,’ asics wiiccen, noche thar thinketh, bw: be that comenitterh fm, i of She devil ; ‘therefore blame not-y-revelation.chat it frees ou Ea 0 From 7&0 a rom 7. ’ ’ FINE TE Twn TEXT RT" N=. — A —— Fn T ~~ - a . tiny i m——— ol -—— slr 36 TN pardon like 4 Commifsiom, from looks or thoughts upon a woman , but rather rejoycee- fcaping the a& , [ otherways none ] no net the Seed of Faich would be free from fin , and then how will you blot out that faying, 1 John 3. 9. Whofoever ss born of God doth net commit fin, for bis [eed remainesh in him, and be cannot fin 5 and all the account is given, becanfe be ss born of God. Thenin the fir of Jobn 1 8. if we [ay we have no fin we deceive oar [elves, and the truth i rot insu, (hall your blicde learned Reafon thar never fpake this, or fhall Tin che heighe of revelation of the fame Seed interprec this? that he that isbom of God, as T am now, cannot fin to a& ; burif I, that am according to birth, of the Royal Seed, fhould fay I have nometion to fin, I fhould be 2 liar like unto the feed of Reafon : will ye believe this, or be- lieve your lying imagination ? however for your furcher farif- faition , read the chirceenth Chapter of my Paradifical Dia- logue 5 fo that I (hall recurn to the nexc Query, where you may {a . 3 hal "all the Seed of Faithnow living believe in this Commif- fon, or (ball net the innocensy of life aswell [ave them wow, as when there was no Commision sn being ? } :. * Anfwer, There is not any of the feed of Faith now living,bue if he hear the report of our Commifion found in his ears, though never fee our faces, but he will believe ; though all che feed of reafon hear or read never fo often, they cannot believe; but fo many of the feed of Adams iow living in this our day, that do not hear of vs, nor see our Writings, and fo die in the ignorance of it , through yf jnnessacy of life, hall be hap- py on the other ficle of death,” though not fo happy here ; for this T know , the real belief of a Commiffion, gives perfe& ace and full aflurance hers which the other wants , and therefore I infallibly fay it is seven imes more happy te be fa- ved by a Commu ion, then by innocency of life ; otha Othe freedom, O the freedom that attends a Commiffion Again you may fay , may aman receive your Commiffion wich joyim the beliefof it , and afterwards fall away to eter- ml perdition ? : | 7 Asfwer. Yea, afoul may come tobelicve the glorious pv : yg A a o_o - No-parden like 8 Commifsion,” "©. 39: fon ef our Lord Jefus, to be the onely God, and no other in finite {pirit befides him, and that he is now with the fame per=' fon that was crucified, in heaven glorified ; as unto this I have * known fome in Lerdon and elfewhere, that have rejoyced init, / ~ and contended for it ; and yet not being rooted in the right feed, it hath in time withered and turned back to Egypr again. Now the main thing of fuch a ones falling away, in plains tearmes, is, becaufe they are according to birch the feed of reafon , which may go very far with a believer in this Com- miffion, as Tuda« with the twelve, before it be betrayed, which ar one time or another, itis found out and fo condemned ; as the devil Langly exceeded molt of you in this nature , yet not believing a prerogative, fell off and defpifed, for which,is now eternally damned. “~ hinds Again one thing mere is required to be anfwered , whether: one that hath received the crutch in the power and love thereof, : whether fuch areal believer, maybe lefe over: to break the faw? and if, how delivered? : ; FA Ax[wer. As unto this I fay, 2 Commiffion changeth noc the: nature of man, but according as he was in unbelief fubje& ro: paflion , wanton carriage, or foolifh language, and fuchlike;. Lasis too much apparent in fome] will now and then be cemp-: ting chac foul furable to its nature to difturb ics prefent peace, through the fragments of reafons nature that hangs about him: bur as to a&ion in breach of the law,a Commiffion doth change the power of corruption, that though he is not free from mo- tions to fin, yet he is frecd from the a& of fin,chis 1 finde in my own foul the truth of what] write, but whether an clefted veflel in the real belief of y may once flip into ad, as Ar. dulrery and fuch like, and by returning wich fiich in-the Come. milion may be recovered, this | cannot gain-fay but ic maybe fo,as I could inftance:buc let ic be a warning toail others here. after, and remember I told theefo. ~~. 70 on . Secondly, whether ever any, let bim be of what-Chureh foever, bad a Callor were ~ + by voice of words but a.C sommes [fiom onely? Anfwer,As1: aued with the height of revelation, that neither angel nor w.ia can take from me ; which reveladom . ko od | I a PL ll 3%: Notrue dinifier fur whad ie fens by tiice, ha th begot moft of you inco the belief of chis Commiffion, let me tell you thac I'write not now as I have done formerly, when I was in Egyps 0: the Wilderne[s , but T'wrice infalibly, without the help of any, asi flows by infpiration or revelation from my Royal feed-fpring,etherways it wete no other but rea- fons imagination , and fo ir may be true or it may be falfe , as all your Philofophical Fiflories are dubious to the writcer,and indeed the Reader thereof doth approve of no other language, but what is written wich a provifio, under corre@ion to berrer judgements, and more learned Fachers , and fotike a School- boy that writes by dire&tion of his Tutor » fo do ye write the Commiflioners revelation and form of worfhip contained in * Mofes,.the Prophets, and Apoftles, and not from any revela- tion of your own,though you write you have a call from God, & are fent of God, when you fhall hear to che contrary ; as fuffer me bur to inflance the vain deceir and judgling carriage of (hie: Quakers , intheir pretended Errands and Meflages to Kings and Rulers of this kingdom, publithing chey are fene of God, to tell them, that for their pride, cheir vain=glory , opprefiion, and cruelty, they fhall have their kingdom rent from them, as igzwas from Oliver before them; with thefe and fuch like detufions their fouls are poffeft-withal, thar they are fent, and by the Lord commanded, when in the revelation from my feed-fpring 1 know they are liars , asin thefe particulars {hall appears: oc Gf eae © - Fir; That God did never spake toany of you,as he fpake to Mofes, Paul, and John scot if you can desl plainly, and tell me if ever Chriit from y throne of glory, did ever audibly to the hearing of the eare,say Gurq€ Fox, Francs Howgil, or John Harweod, or any of you bsksld 1end you forch as my onelyerucand fat meutrger to the king of England, or any eT, to reprove them of sin whatsoever , and therefore ye go beyond the feas to other nations ysdying the Lord fent you, ~ when¥rom rhac fpiric of divine voyce that fnake to Tobn Reeve Ectll you ; you go forth inthe firensch oF ~afons lying ima? girrion, which you calt your lighe wichis ,Land fo receive dread of your deceit upon job, as itheday of account ri : you \ ~~. > No Meffege true witboir 4 Commish 39 ou fhall know that you run before you were fenc. =" Secondly, Do but obferve the nature and form of words - “you de are they any other but borrowed from the Pro- phets and Apofiles, and fo ye run up and down with their Commiffion, and their Doctrine , repeating what the faidto Kings and Rulers , who were truly and really fea forch to de- liver what they fpake: now you in the vettue of anothers Com- miffion, bufic your felves like the feven fons of one Serva a Jew, who were vagabonds exorcifts thas tosk “spon them 't1o' call “over thems which bad evil fpirits | in the name of the Lord Jena, aying , we adjnre you by Tefus whom Paul preacheth ; So ye ea oR the Quakers like vagabonds run wich the leteer and doftrine of Aefes, the Prophets ind ‘Apo- files, (aying, Hear this I pray you, y¢ heads of the howe of Jacob, wand princes of lirael, that abhor :udgement and pervert all equity, they build wp Ston with blosd, and Jerufalem with iniquity pte heads thereof rudge for reward, the Priefis thereof teac for ire, and the Prophets thereof divine for money , and yet they wit] bean. upon the Lord , and [ay is not the Lord among wa, rong evil can * come unto ws? With thefe and fuch like fayings y& go to che agiftrace and Miniftery, and bid them remzmber what judge- Moi the Prophets IE fuch Magtftraces and Minifter¢, net in rhe lealt having any call or command from God in yourselves, without loubt and confidence, ying I George Fox by virtue of my Comissicn that Was given iy voyce of Words From yf mouth of y Lard Jefusin che hig : heavens, do Ir fall by JgainstAppliS men, tell jie | King, the Parliment®dsigy of England, if ye eftabli fuperflitiong sere «was (orciencis t@ your form of Webs fhip, then know; y’ 0 king that the God that bid me tel thee, contrary to thy expectation will rayfe up an Asshy againt chee, will blast the proceedings of thee and chy v {ent for Councel for ever,lsay were ye thu called’, and fent > as ye Were tric messengers io would yo Mellage ua effet, and prove true as ye have publi ¥ : Rs Lind (riateres! > relia 1 know Chrilt “ Jefus fie onely God, ¥y Prophi ts and Apofiles tom- A miflioned, ’ pr +h ad A 40 No 2efJage true without a Comsmifsiom, miffioned, and fen forth by God, fe I as really believe ye neither knew God, nor were fent forch by God, but are meer diffemblers, and liars again the true Commiffioners of God ; therefore Itell thee O King , and all powers under thee, thac this 120 Commiffion of the eternal (piric, hathne Meflages to Kings or Rulers touching the Affairs of their Government, and cherefore as we have none, (thor {hale not need to credic ary other,) onely this by permifion I fay, if thou fo far recain the 2rezogative in thy own hand, that no Councel, Bifthop, or Minifter, may moleft or perfecute any Oiroon » Church, or Difpen(ation, much our Commision , that is contrary to them in maceer of worfhip, provided they be obedient to thy - Government in juft civil chings, I fay, if this be really per- [formed by thee, thou and thy poftericy, after thee may in fafe- ty reiga during this perithing world : This being done, let him be of what Church foever, that fhall not without Hipocryfi of heart, be free from writing or fighting againit thee, be puni- {hed. . " ‘ . Now ye being falle, and not fent, notwichftanding all your waes,plagues,and judgements you threaren againft 2 Kingdom (if they do but repent) though chey punith withdeath, they be “happy as well 2s you , nor knowing your own happinefs, you cannot difcern anathers(when it is nat fo in ours) you having ne difcerning of the twa feeds, viz. Faith and Redo, you make no differences , but wraps up all together, not knowing but Gads nature , _Realon ix) hsvgthe fame, and fo if man de ‘but hearken to thelighr of reason within him, he fhall be as . happy as the Seed of £a:th this vs ave are blind leaders of the blind, pretending acall, sre not of Sod, and yer you know - mat the form of Godnor firs cater: thinking that in Adew both Seeds die, and fa in (trict both sr. be madealive, not ac all that Reafon was damned in yf argelical Serpene , and Faich faved in Adam, as in y Quakers Dewnfal, and che ‘Dialogs is a>ened ac large. . Now had you been Commift 0 raeed pyvoice of words, or were it poftible to think of an inward commision by the Spi- Lik, 48 forms of your fine-fpun Pre hus do imagine, and to me Gl a 0 | Was ba The onakers dark angel found in thi world, ar. was confirmed by one Laine , buc efpecially by one Tomlinfon a very moderate Brother of yours, that would prove a Call from God, fo fent of God by the fucceffion of the Spirit , nor: underftanding that the Apoftles, who were the Stewards and Shepherds of Chrit, and in his Read had the power of falva- tion and condemnation committed ro them, were all put to death, with every Believer of them : then how do you chink they, being the condu of the Spiric » that you thould receive, the influence of cheir Authority ‘from a dead lecter , and tha: conveyed to you by the Roman power that put the true €om-- miffioners to death, ic islike chere fhould be a fuccefsion, ei- ther by voice of words, or the Spirit , when you have neither. + of them both, but the light or learning of Reafons imagina- tions onely. era bad Loa en And then, if ye had a Commifsion by voice of words, fo. fent of God, your language and your wor(hip would {peak for you, that you were the true and lak Meflenger of the third and laf Commifsion ; but alas, poor ap you. are the [aft angel that ever fhall found a pretended truth, yer real lying notion that ever fhall appear in thisworld; coneer-: ning which both the Miniflers and Hearers are ignorant, thac the Teachers of the QOwakers are the laft angel fpoken of in the tenth of Revelat!r2 the fi evenrh verfe Saying , Inthe days cb of the voice of thes x: ith wii wisahe shall fain to found, the J, o Lr ¢ A . myflery of God (hall be finished Se now ye angels orreach~ $5 fills Gualess de ye send Fors: any shir do@rine or wars: 'Py PUL What 1s recordvd in f (Smifs{on of others, even: what they faides did do as io A oye; wh envy, read our Revelation flowing Fromfcohifsion, doth far tranfeend 7 fan guage er worship of either of the two Commifsions before vs: but ye being of y Angels nature, fo the feed of fserpent, ye know not y voice ofa Commi(- fion froma dispensation: astovehing vio I fhallepenin. the third Obiection or {eary thus stated © ©. Whether there ocr wai more yee truth ata time , and whe they there pe mer §" enc niye gered 1 o~ and if but one way, \ ! ( €areas you wn doye; which’, if yehad a discerning fPitit you wuld without cenfure of ied which SRL rE ————————————————————————— ———— A Ls — — » { 43 Newer watruthbut in 4 Commifijon, © which 5 the trae and onely way to the trmb. Anfwer. Truth was never known till a Commifsiorier was. chofen , fo that till Mofes there was nothing made manifeft what was crutch, and what not , and therefore from thence it muft be enquired, whether there was more then onz truth, he being the firft writer of truch that ever was, doth all along cell you in his days, there wasbuc one truth, the knowledge of which confifted in the true God, as in the fir Command it is written, thou (halt have no other Gods before me, {o that this was the onely true God ; and therefore faich Mofes , there is one Jike unto the Lord onr God : and agaim it is wricten, thos art the God , eventhou alone; and fo all along the Prophets de declare no other God, but what before by A%efes was revealed, crying, Tam God, and there ssnencelfe | Tans God, and there ss none like wee, therefore look unto me , for I ams God and there sis none befides . Mee, Then, and ax that time, this was truth, yea che onely truth, and no truth befides it, though then moft parc of the world wor(hipped idols, yea 1 lie of their own Invention, yet in the Commufsion of Moefes was truth onely maintained, under che title of Ged the Farher. Secondly, After this Ged became flefh,as it is wricten, 7%. word was with God, yea the word was Ged, which word was mad, fle(b, and dwelt among ft men now called a Son, or Chr-ift che Sa- vior , which none but the Apoftles Commifsien believed , as fremshelr faying SERirEisne other name snder heaven gvena- wong ween whereby wer ist bs saved, with many fayings to cha purpefe, proving that (ir/it was y Son of Ged. Then, and atcha time y was truth yeathe onely cruch, and no cruch befides st, theugh vt}. e re were both Saducees and Pharifees , yea most part of y lews and almoft all che Gentiles worthipped aGedbestdes Christ yet in the Commif- fion of the Apoftles, was truth enely revcalidunder the ticle of Chrift the Son. _ oo | Thirdly, After chis, yea tn y Instant time both Father and Son are in this our third and last comissten made manife® tobe the holy GhoRt, or one entire spirinal bddy, yea the fame Cad” body, But one tush reveeledin three (omwsifsions. 45. body, and no other body but what upon the crofs fuffered., is now in heaven glorified , both Father and Son, one fpiritual form, Creator of heaven and earth, fo called che Lord Jefus. Now,and at this time, this is che truth, yea che onely crutch, and no cruth befides it, though all the Seven Churches pre- tends to know crutch, and fo by their profeffions holds forth feven truchs , yer linfalibly fay in chis our laf Commifsion, this is the truth onely revealed under the cite of Chrit , as he is a fpiritual perfon not in us, but above us, in his own kingdom of glory, blefled for ever. : And yet they are not chree truths | but one truth , asin re- fpe&t of God the Father, God the Son, and Ged che holy Ghoft, which three are not perfons , buc titles comprehended in the (ingle perfon of Chrift alone ; but as im relation to their Commifsions intime , they are three Commifsions , im three diftin perfons, though they all three acknowledge themfelves to have their authority from one and the fame perfon; for chae perfon which (pake to Mofes, fpake to Paul, and fpake to Jobs Reeve : the truch of this is clearly revealed inmy Dialogue, the - fecond and twelfth chapeers, fo that I fhall omit te peste any further , onely leave you to that faying of Paul, he that de- [cended, sa the [ame alfo that afcended, fo that fill itis but one, and he fame perfon, even Jefus alone, but worry Secondly, As there is bue one truth, fo chere is but one way to this crutch, and chat must nssds ffow From them thatare the publifhers of truths for it is ridiculus to think that man of men which knows not truth should be the way of truth, [cheretore take notice # do not forgetjas there isno ‘truth but in a Camilsion, soy 1s none bef them be never fo wife or eloquent, y ea Rightsous 3% Heavenlike, if he be nora -Commifsionersent by voice of worcls % that audibly tothe hearing eares.from y spirie of Divine faiththat cannot lie,I cell thee thou art'no Skepard, butan hireling; no fon,byc abaftard; no true (omnifiicnsz, but A counterfeir's as"deal plainly,canany o you yAngels or teachers of the féven Churches Intallibly say, y God by yeiceof words; fentyou ashe did Mosss the Apostles ¥ ‘John Reeve? certain am, 1 without a tr I S———— Cg po Aan + Anfuer. Tgrane that Carist is | fheep, and was the onely Prophet y living oes then and ac dali 44 Ashutone truth, fo but one way t4 that truth. wichout doubt ye cammos. O then what do you think wi the end of all your profound lies, that a Hi publick and private , by taking upon you fucceflively tobe Prophets, Apoftles , and Minilters from anothers Authoric and thereby you cavel and rayle one brother againft Wy faying tne Papift, Efpiicopal, Presbyterian, and Independent, are falfe Prophets and hirelings, and they fay, you Ba tifls, Rancers, and Quakers are fal'e Prophets and rere and who fhall be judge of your pretended Commiffions , and rai- ling accufations, thall the Scripture thacis a dead leceer 2 or fhall Ithac have the fpiric of revelation ? can any of you tell me, who made you Minilters and Teachers over ochers 3 the Apoftles and their Bithops difowns tr writ you , their writ your fathers murchered all of them, fo chat there a oq lef alive to continue their fucceffion , by imyoficion of hands or etherways, fo thac what can you fay for your felves, but thar the Pope, who was made the fupream head over the dead le¢-- ter, and that Roman power eftablithingic , by ics fupream au- thority,you have your ordination from Minifters, and from no ~ ether God or fpirit, but the dead lecter onely : now let me tell you all, and yet not 1, but the fpirit of revelation. Aowi from my {eed-{pring , [mind what Ta that I am as ons fent now, as 7smorky and Tits were in their Commifsion, and therefore I can without fear , and wich a real undoubted confidence {ay , that you are all but the Meffencers of Men. and therefore the next tims you read or preach f rom the tench of Febs, remember ¥you react your felves the falfe Pro- phets and Hirelings there quoted 25 inthe day of eternal ac- count you fhall find y truth of what 1fay, but chen too {x04 in vain yd our dolefull cries be e ~ Buryoumay object #52y From these meds i - Ing, J am the good (hepard ss know my sk op Solis pA wine, from hence youmay cave ¥say there is no morral man a true (hepherd, but Christ aloanew y becaufe he faich > dams the way, and the 1ymh % the (ifs. f ec great shepherd of the thar * A + » ——————— 5 OU———— = —— AAA “ hia alii a } AR hirelings except commifstmmers; SE IE that time, he was the onely way to eternal life, and all that be- lievedin him were his (heep and fellowed him, for thenthe ApoBles were but fheep, and Chrift their (hepherd, buc after that our Lord and good fhepherd, had by his bleod purchafed eternal happinefs for his fheep, then he Commifsionated his Apofiles to be thepherds in his place, as before he was afcended he bid Peter feed bis (beep , which after they were indued wich pawer from on high , they went forth in the Rrength of their Commifsien, and declared them(elves to be Ambafladors and Stewards in Chrifts fiead , yea the way and life of their falva- tion ; and cherefore faith Paul, bretheren be followerstogether of me , knowing affuredly if they believed in their Do&rine, they fhould be as happy , as when they believed the words of Chrift from his own mouth, {o that this know there is no got to God, but by Commifsioners, for who they curfe are curfs and who they bles are bleffed , in thar the revelation thereof hath an infallible difcerning who are the feed of Adam, and who are the {eed of the Serpent. And therefore take notice if Chrift be che way now, and teachech you by his (piric, why are yeu net therewith conten- ted, and keepevery man athome , but run upand down the City, fome to publick and fome to private, negleing waisg upon God, and teachings of hisfpirit to watt vpon mea their vain reaching? and so y Prissts tells them they mult wait upon God, in the v(e of means Jmmitating A trut auchori- ty faying the Lord fent y. when they neither knew the Lord nor their Meflage sc being but mans flinistirs they compel men to go thebroad way with them to destructions: 4. Againycy read but of 2 wayesa mp Afalle, the narrow way, & y broad way y is y way O Faith, and the way of Redson, sc yrlis you deny scrpurg you cannot. but conels, yf as truth tsofsly tn A comiGion, fo them of nece(sity (t must follow Vy true. comnfifsioners are the narrow way, # wa of | a ithto sternal gruch. So that ye feven Gurches what do you say for your selves? arc you risht,orare youwrong?are you rus reas you falfe? Sure I mye deallsay,y youare tny tre th and the Way ot » - . -» > - o—— et TE ah ie mre A —— eR — amr Laat a ah by FL from your fore fathers and them your fons in the crach: if ye will not believe me, enquire of AMefes and the A- pofiles, and fee if they do not fay thar there was no truch but in a Commifsien, and ask chem ‘if truth were ever eftablithed by Authority ? [ minde this] fure I am you will finde ir recor- ded, that truth was onely contained in one Commision to an- ether, and that truth was ever pe-fecured by Authority. Have you not read this ? do ye noc believe this? then from the lec- ter I {hall prove this, thar the hypocritical Scribes ard Pheri- fees did build the tombs of the Prophets , asd garviith the [epsl- chres of the righteous,” and [ay, if we hadbeer 1 ibe days of ony fatbers | we would not have been partakers with thems in the blood of ske Prophets : So your fathers murchered Chrift and all his Apoftles, and fice their children have eftablithed the Ordi- nance of the Apoftles, and with tradition and learned Philo- fophy, have garniihed the letter of the Scriprures with a penal- ty, that if any one de {peak againft Mofes, Chrift, or the Apo- ftles , they fhall be punithed ; fo hac ye be witneffes unto your felves that you feven Churches are the onely heires of - then chac killed che Apofiles. As row the laff and higheft cruch is held forch in ‘this our {alt Commifsien, 25in my writings 1 have told you again and again, thacthere isno truth buc what is revealed by us, and noway to ecernal happinefs without us, fo har when you have .eftablithed that fo called Religion, 1 them expe no other dea- lings at your hands then our brethren che Apofiles found m your next gene. racton, will fay of youas now ys say of your fathers but wo wo, if not for fegre, yet for shams ‘lant off your tearming you felves the Churches ‘of Christ o y your traditionsd notio- nal Forms are the true wayes of ride y $0¥0u may be mere excufable in theeternal decornt of y Lord Do by, en- quire whether the way of llasis % the prophets be your rufe now, when it was not YApestlss in their “Time? and thal you that belong neither to flzres nor y Apos tes, by fuccef. fion of voice of words. or (REPLTALLON of y spirit ordain: : 2 CTR ¢ purtg ordain you felves Bifhops and Ministers by yf d ead line of the Fi files, and chen you ferch yourGarbsattire from the dead leteer wy . 48 Trathnever efablifbed by Authority, lk - Notrue Bifbap in shis world befide the Author: 4y letter of Aefes? all which was abolifhed in che death of Christ, [and by the Apoftles detefted againft as beggarly rudiments] fo no examples for any morrals now living to imitate, |minde that] unlefs you do wilfully fhut your eyes againft what che Apofiles fay, and what I now write ; for the glory of this pe- rifhing world hath fo bewitched you to believe a lye, that you wreft che Scripture into an image of wax, framingit aceordi to Reafons imagination, your onely idl, god, and favior, when from an infallible fpirit I fay , there is not one fentence in the leer of Scripture to warrant any of you feven Churches in your Forms of Worfhip , ner can you from any grounds of reafon make Exgland believe thar you are the true Bi and Minilters of God, unlefs you could make it apparent that you wereall Jewes, and all che world befides you Heathen Gentiles, that worfhipped gods of flocks and flones, then you + might have {ome colour to pra&ife the Rites and Ceremonies of the Lai; whichif you could, you muft not onely wear Aarons holy garments, but your male, both yong and old,muft be circemciled, and have your peace-offerings and burnt-of - ferings of the blood of bulls and goats, with al] other Ceremo~ ries thereunto belonging, chat fo the ignorane might have fome faith in you ; but inthac moft of your Churches knows that the Jews and the Gentiles are by mixture of feeds become one Nation, they cantell youtheri aizs no Bithops, Elders, or Deacons in Mofesor y prophets timeand t erefers ye retending a fuccefsion from Jimotty & Tews, your younger Brethren. viz. Presbyterians Sadsperdane %¢. caninform ‘ OF l you, if ye were trite bisheps, instead of th A Sarments of Aaron, youmust w' inothy & jitus were A mean garb, as plain habit, and such [iKe,% not to Go long Gowns and Sircingles; and (nstead of varisty of daintissyoumuft eae with no gentile, but suffer want's hunger, #'infRead of 2 Coach and six Horses you must go onjeety€d , in room of many Attendance toserye wart on you, you muft waic and ferve your flock: tf you had believed scripture,- ds.ye pretendre make it your rile why do ys not yritate the true and great Bishop (rst YisitSl who sa uth he thatis the great *. ch -— EE ————— a — AA. oa al Sie ll 48 A true Bilhop rich in fasth,peer in this world, eft, and will bear rule, muft be a fervant to others, faying, though I be the fon of God, nay God himfelf, yet Iwathed ‘my difciples feet, and there was no room for me in an Inn, but a manger, and I never ride but once, and that was uponan Afs, thus was I humbled, and abated my felf; and though ye pretend a Commifsion fuccefsively , yet ye altogether exale and honor your felves, in contempt of meand my true Gom- mifsioners ; So that as I am che true and onely Bithop now living, feeing ye boaft of things that was Aefes and the Apo- (les labors, and like School-boys, vaunt your tongues in o- ther mens rules of things made ready to your hands, | minde what 1fay] yet whether yedo or not, I infallibly tell you \ from that {piric of divine voice, in the perfon of the Lord Je- fus, that (pake to Aofes, Paul, and Fobn Reeve , that you have now no gard ro (hadow you from that dreadful fenrence of this our fpiritual and laft Commiffion of the moft high and mighty God, the Man Jeius. Now having iufficiencly fhewen ou, chat all Churches, Difpenfations , Gifts, or Ways are fille, asc} proceeding fromm a Commifsion, and chat from a Commifsion then in force and being ; but all the {even Sons, or Churches , have ail pro- ~ ceeded from no Commiision , but from Reafons invention to -eftablifh othersrevelacions for their rule : fo now I thal (hew you in a few parciculars | that ye all run invain, and fo do lok the prize of the bigh calling, the knowledge of the Man efus.” \ Firft, in that ye know Rot mio. hie is, nor where he is, thae yerunto,- and therefore some of yourun aftera God of three perfons, whenye neither have scripture nor revelation for to warrant you che tricth ot your) cur y and others of you run after a God of an (nfinite spirit & twoperfons ; and the reft of you run after AGod y hath noPerson ag all, fothae I fay you are all ou: of y way,d really beltevesno God at “all peither can any of you say w' Pail, § know In whom I bawe believed ; but ye run deubtrully not bicag fufly perfwaded thar the God ye preach % pray to is 3" trie God , neither “indeed do ye trouble your elves to know what he is,but onely ’ (ay, \I have not runin yain,y these w in'y Knowledge of God-I thought was beforé me are all lt bsaind zealous whome ys jqnorandy wor hip, which (nall my writeings divs Agvedsd that yout God cannot be known neither to stor Angel havingno form or perfon Jbut am yas stirnal spl rit withogta body, how do you think your nothing God should bxknown? nay, had Abraban known no ctherfod y'ye rofels, he had never been tempted to slay his Sm, tn y from sucha Go therc had been no jnvitation nether hd, Confidence besa fo far fixed, as to obeya comand without 4 body ; bur ; really believing yf his God was no s haddow; bur a peefonal < subftance, made Abratan zo willing toofger vp his onely be / - gt, \ . hid = wy ever RARE ST / ' ; got ot - a Se - . - DE ‘ » i ] Is ’ od > ” ny — - — a a —————— — a I Sim * v 5G No tine Faith without spe rvs ingle perfondlonc, pirchits confidence upon,but asin a Lottery men venture thete money, {odo yein your worlhip venture your falvacion , not really knowing at all chat your preaching and prayingistoa ctue God, onzly ye hope well, yea hope the beft, that you are i the truth and the tight way , and chat your God is the God, when Tinfalibly cell you he thac runneth to God, or profedeth God, muft believe him as bes , [O mind whic you read] not as he is in your hope, and vain imag‘ nation, but asheisreallyin himfelf, a glorious perfonall God : and know this while you are in hope you dono: believe , for hope that ss [een is net hope, for what aman [ecthywhy doth be yet hope fer? thou knowing God is crue as thou believes,hope is {ivallowsd up in thac belief, for she hope of the hypocrite (pall perifb, but when thou canft without doubt fay as Jebn faid, we hope not, but we brtitve, and really know thas we are of God , and the whole world lieth'iv wickednefs, and we know that the Son of God sscome , and hath given ws an under[barding that we may know him that is true , and we aren him that is true, even in bi Sen Tefus Chrift , this is the true God and eternal life, once come to this, thy hope 1s no more hope, but becomes faith. Pr ead rd : "\Which 1 am cetrain there is not ‘any of you the feven Churches, that knowes the true God, and the righ devil, the true heaven, and righ hell, no without doubt I know that all your hopes, fo living and fe'dying, that hath been acquainted with our Commsifsion sill eternally perifh : and furthermore I know, thatifye did belieye Mises Chritt, and che Apofties, Je would believe meI knowing y $0 many of you as really lieves the twg former Comiisions. tf ye hear but our re- port, will as really believe nus tAnah Kriow all of youwill ay, ye believe in Mos1s Giristand the. apofles, bat ye can- not believe inus : % why do y€ not vnderstand we are the laft Commiffion , as they y f( rst and second? even nothing but becai(e ye know vsalive,# by tradition are educated to believe them though dead: for while Christ and the Apo- files was among ther they were innomore €stegm than we. As joe Paul his letersT say they] ave weighty wl, azd pew ut his bodily presence is weak and his [peech con-. vg temptible, . / sn 3 temsptible , fo while any living knows our perfons, for that ous writings are defpifed ; however, let me refelve you why you cannot believe our words now living, is becaufe ye are of the feed of unbelief, reafon, the devil, and take chis for couch , ye do not believe Aofes, Chrift, nor the Apofiles ; ye hope ye do, ye fay ye do, as the Jewes faid of CH RIST, we are Mofes Difciples , we know that God [pake wnto Moles, « for this fellow we know not from whence he 5. Who would have choughe but what chey faid , was truth; yer Chrift cells chem Fobn 545° Had ye elicved Mofes, ye won!d bavg believed me, for he wrote of me, but if ye believe not his writings, how fhonid ye believe my words ? Se that from the Lozd of Clog) fay, dud ye really believe the writings of Mofe#,Chrifk and the Apofiles, ve would believe in our words; bug 1 know yedo nos believe, but only confefs and profefs for your ows honor and advancage which in che hour of death ye will be all ar a lofs what will become of your fouls , for all your preaching and praying ro your God onyourbed of ficknels, you have all your work to do, fo that it is evident, you are al] cut of che way, y¢3 fill in Egypt ot the Wildernef[s. . - -, ory Aoi Hearth ~ "Fifthly, Again ye run in-vaia , sot knowing the Scriptures 3 for as they were written by men inspired withthe fpiric of revelation , fo none an aire Any true Interpretation thereof, but thole endued wy same spirit ardthae I really believe é «2 o’ none of you canwsatety say ye€ dre y men s seraily knowing, that your Learning (5 fromy istd of veafon, Whit is, the wifdom of tlesh;soy tt su npelsible ye (hould dif- cern theplainlanguage of faith er giveatrue ipeerpferarion of Scripture written by ys ced of faith, andl gherefore ye “knownot what (Jfcripture is pwhae not though, acknow- ledge your wisdome Reason can translate Hebrew, Greek, and latin inte english, th yf being done oye make yout .ignorant disciples pelievey yeu kav Interpreted the Scrip-_ ure. when [Knew § scripture in its Divine fence, aS ~anddle not onfold 2 toally learned Rabbies of the world; furthermore lcan w confidence say y- when any of you do ,afumean Interpretation, yeu ders not concludethat 15 tie Ins meaning : . fn -. oh None believes the former Commifsions but we, §3 i: § TE ~ m— — - fae Co BER Aaa ln) a dain Coins es a ES pan Stair du ul MB itoar —— gi Rowe judge of the Scripture but wet meaning thereof, and no other , and yer fuch of you who are of a conrrary {eed to the Writers of Scrip ure, do take upon _ you to be Judge of their writings, when fay, as Ifaid be- fore, you underftand not what you are your felves ; nor what will become of anocher, n:ither doch the wifdom of Faith that fearcheth the high things, yea the deep things of God, proceea from the learned education of Univerfiries, fo no (pi- ritual men to judge of things concerning God , and his king- dom; O then why will ye prefume to {ay thisor thac is blaf- phemy, when you know mor what God nor his natare is, che devil or his nature is, and yet none fo forward to cry down tho(e that are cruly (ant, for falfe prophets , deluders, bick- fliders, and bla(phemers, when mow 1 infallibly know that you onely are the men; asdo but look back to the true and falfe prophets of old, and then if you can [peak the eruch] thae whether the true be more in number than the falfe. Eljch faith, [7 even I) onely remain a Prophes of the Lord , bur Baals pricfts are four hundred and fifty men. And fo all along in the fecond Commiffion there was a great number of falfe, to the fmall sumber of true : As now in our days what multicudes there is of falfe prophets and falle teachers, to one true pro- phet and true Bithop? fer this you muft granc , thacif ye all e true, then Mofes, the Apofiles and we, are falfe, and if fo, in vain were that faying of Chuifty Strait isthe gate , and nar- vow isthe way that leadeth var lire and few (not muldcudes) but few there bey find it 5 which, if ye were all true pro- . phets, or true teachers (as if any of yeu were, ic muft be che - Bapaft] but inchat | Know yeare all falce blot out char fay- _Ingof our Lord, and write it thus wide is thegae,and broad 1s the way that leadeth unto (fe salvation and moft of the world do finde (¢:] were it thus ye might have fone co- four of juflification pa reall trie, and our Commifsion onely falfe, then Heaven would be Full Hell would be ~ smpty. Burlet me tell you cnce more #4 $0 many as are elected will believe me, y y ts the last commi (sion, yea the frau gate, and narrow way,yeay onely way 10 erer- mal life, fo narrew yf ne Hipocrite can enter among us, bug - ——— rr ppe— pr TT; © AR{alfe prophess, bot ony Commilsied, 53 but he is difcovered and condemned by ws, "And then becaufe ic is written, Beware of falfe Prophets, which come to you in [beeps clothing, bur inwardly are ravemisg wolves. What a noife do ye make in your pulpits, one brother * impeaching another for falfe Prophsts , when I know not any of you cam without doubt fay, which of you are true, and which’ are falle , though ics faid , By their fruits ye (ball know them. Can you tell me the fruics of a true Prophet from a falfe one ? Sure I am ye canner ; therefore 1{hall cell you, how ye fhall know a true from a falle, | mind what you read] the fruits ofa falfe Prophet , is togo before he be fent, yea fent by voice of werds from Chrift the true Ordainer of Prophets, fo that ye go forth by the voice and ordination of men, fo preach the do&rine of men, and that oneiy for your honor and prefer- ment, thisisa falfe Prophet, and che fruits of your prophecy, - is to be chofen by your members, to, fight with che fword of fteel , to inrich your felves in che ruine of your difciples , to Lord it over your hearers, to teach a falfe God, and a fille de- vil, to cheat and murcher one another, as now ye do ac this’ d.y, this all of you are guilty of , in one kind or ancther, and’ yet ye thar are che onely {alfe Prophets, fay to your deluded’ aT 3 phets; which if ye could eliscern truth ye should bid them’ beware of you, thatthey pin not y salvation =pen your do=’ &rine ; for the fruits thereof asateoresaid, onely Realons, philofophy and vaine decietas ot yedid but observe what you read, whenyo tu say, As: mary wife agtir the fefh, nos many mighty rot mary nobly, hilt bad hath chasin the foolifb thig te confeadd y wis, % wid X things oy the “wo rid fo con- found the mighty, 3 paoc things or fF ivorla andy things which, ave defpifed, God hath chosen vez thirgs while aye rot, 9, ye (ay tothislare ye fools are ye Ignorant,areye weak, are. ye bafe, are ye dispised? that ye might have §ome plea that. you ate the true Churches of (Arist but youars towif b Vile, Log, firong, too many toe hone rable to be true Brsheps ind MeF~ fengas cr Crist y ord of Glory, ts yet you «pill hoc? : ’ ve - . members, thefe are dangerous times , rake heed of falfepro- - brirg to nauakt thiigs y arcs da ye belie ve this 7’ whatde TET AT 'U ' i Sh Kuipledgé if thevwo ferds, fe thermal lieve this, bug perfivade Your {elves thac the riche®,the grous deR, and the wifeft are the onely true Believers, when Iin- fallibly know from that Spiricof divine Faith, thac ye are all’ the fons and daughters of Cain, that proud Licifer your father, which ere long {hall have your wages wich him 1d flanies of eternal burning, and thac for ever. : 6. Again, you are fall, and run in vain, not difcerning the twe feeds how they became tivo, where they remain, wich the effelts and operations fince the beginning ro this day ; but having in the fifth chapter of my Wonder of Wonders fpoken fomeching of this fecrec , Ifhall forbear , and ina higher na- ture make manifelt what hath been their effets and opera- tions, from chat to this day. As unto this, all char do not willfully {hue cheir eyes, may read as they ryn, that iccording ~ to the faying of God, hath ever fince been at enmity , and chat not onely in its own foul , but one man wich another, other- ways what need had chere been of a Law given to Reafon the devil, but that Reafon oppreffeth and injureth another, and fo makes work for the Lawyer, yea ever fince hath devoured and murchered one another, thar Realon hath erected Magiftrases, Judges and Lawyers to reconcile Realon divided againfl it felf, 0: elfe condemn ic to bz executed by the Haxgmar. That you may in brief fee che fruits, and influence of Faith and Reson T fhall demonftrate what their operagions aré,both infpirituals and cemporals, TE mi oo Fir, As unto spiritualls both Faith and Reafon do motion forth to their oreginall, from whencithey had their being, and therefore Faith in y'Comilsion of this lat age, can tell Whatit was before (+ pacame mortal # what ic is now being mortal, and what it shall be when immortalized again, when as Reafon motion out to y same but having by its difobe- ence loft its purity, ¥ now in mortality it Soars if poffible, to know whar ir was, what (tts now, % what tt shall be here- after, bur canfior arain it, in yy ce genane + Or promife Was nog made to Reason but to Faith one ly.ssdobur erquire Whether Abraham was yf Father of Faith or Reason, ant then You all read bewas puathir af the Fuaithpull; and~ upot that _ acount ~ Faith, whesall spereeus sbi tive feeds much differen 33 2ec 1a Covenant’ was madejwith Abrahams, as 10 18 wric~ a A nsy Covenant between thee and me, and thy feed . Ny thee. 8c. So that Pas/ aman of his (eed faich , Now to A Laban, ard bis [eed were the prem: fes made, Bc. Sotharin all the genealogy of Faith; 1c hach in one meafure or anotben, been capable of its defeent, though never fo clear , as Row in chis 120t witnefs of the fpiric, for I can with confidence (ay, that - my Faith hath motioned through the grave, yea pressed heavens , and beheld the glorious peifon of our Lo Jefus, (and in that view) hath been filled full of divine revelation, _ a —~ ics pleafure can afcend and defcend in full per- A by Faith I have feenin glory above, 1 have yn part made known to you below ; fot my Faith hach pn ced in my Toul , thar what 1 have writcen as rondbing Ook, De. vil Heaven, Hell, withthe death and refurretion of the foul, i the crutch and no ether, without the knowledge of which no foul can have perfe& peace here , or glory hereafter 5 forthe onarations of Reafon and Faith are much differefi¢ ’ a . a defires things impoffible : for what Faith can ay will do. Reafon never defiresit, but is continually LEA ou Lord to impoffibities, as to imagine God created the rd nothing, -and God a Spirit wirheutabody 0d ered d me gels bodilefs {pirits, andy usd never create d~>man co damn him. Now Faith knows y earth water was eternal, and : is he created the Angels Aegon te © Sanued tn w¥0s 1th isi sible to ! poTiblete Fath, is tmpo Re -Hesrbut Faith can. imagines is polsible, Faith kiows 15 pessih Hepes do what it Jeaseth yet will not be ned 44 RRs Tie fure , but what ever Faith demands is passibls Do ue! “inthe Faith desires nothing but what bole P a Sy “ing moved in y cperation of its own seed, CWI oubc evi ith asketh it shall reasvsnot that balieving what ever Eaithasketiuit sha C : de Led to.ts originaland fo theeffed »18 boundless bue limited tots erg We to the tenok thereof is moved to demapd plsthigpasicy es, °t ofits camiiston, given by y divine yore ene 11 powetl ol 1ts Lom iis ton, §iv! I ot mowed ro any esvernal God hatha fpirisuall , the An efl~ likwife, and thac ~ TC a A A gE XT J ’ . reer ee Re MARX 2. oi le nih ” % 5 3 £ 1 is £6 The twa fesds aremich differeme, miracles, asthe’ two former were , and therefore generated Faithin all Commifsions did never requeft Chirifi ics Facher, but what grew in its feed po sible, knowing tha his prerogative would no mere move his divine will thereunto; now Reafon not knowing the mind of our God, ic cries and defires that . God would 1end fire from heaven, and blaft che preceeding of its enemies , (uppofing the will of God is the fame mow , asic Was chen, and thacic 1s as pofsible for God to turn the inten. tions of their adverfaries upon their own head as formerly. I acknowledge our God can do what his divine fou pleatech, yet whac he hath decreed co the contrary is unpofsible , and {ure I amas unto your requeR, bss band i [Pertned, and bis car heavy, that he will ro: hear you ; for your hands ara full of bos i, your lips have fpoken lies, nor have you done justice or equity when the power was in your hands ; To chat in the highe® picch of revelacion I celt you, thac icisa work of as greac a wonder for our God to take notice of none of you, as when he did ob. {erve all the cranfactions of his Commifsioners before you, and fure Iam asuntoexcernals he doth not hear us his Lait Com- mifsioners , chen how do ye think ye being finners » our God thould hear you ? So thac I infallibly fay, our Lord will noe perferve you, nor defiroy you , bug Reafon fubtiley muft de- liver you , asic hach delivered your enemies inco your hands before you. If ye will noc believe me, then believe che fruits of your own prayers and much good may they do you. An- fwer to this, Reason tyes varoscriprure , where icis wiltten, Lam ste Lord, Jchnas not; and Chit ss the [ame yofterday, to day, and for ever, notin fF least undecttanding che drifgof -thofe fayings, nay pele tng our pd insvery Commifsion hath NEW tea: ms of mercys #ludgments (,S utable ta the nature - of the Commision; for y | Know those sayings lay in point . of his eterna] prerogative as vato damnationgnd falvarion, Deis the fame ane( fa ngeth not: but tn extern sp repented the Lord be made man; repanted that He had Spade Saul ~ Es King ; buehe never repented § he saved Faith an damned’ +-Realon, though Reason moderate can soar h (gh w exellent heaven-like Words, (f possible, weears to move the Lordta RL | t anfwer - ~ fon under eternal mifery ; and yet ~ brafs, feel, fron, pew:er, | néd, lea . and what not (ne var ety of formse fashens, for ia eye J ih i . a i < What is pofsible to Reafon, is impo fsible to Faith, 59 anfwer his defires, yet all thac Reafon cando, can ror change our Lords prerogative, to take of thaterern:l curfe chae was given to Realon inthe womb of Eve + it being imgalsible for God to do Faith never requellsic , though what lies in the ace count of Faith nothing is impoisible ; as Luke 1. 13. that (ay- ing Was {poke upon as great a work of Faich as ever was, though to Reafon ic is im oisible tha che power of the highet, which was the Father, could as fiwift as thought defcend into che womb of AZy, and there diffolve into feed , and conceive himfelfinto a morcal childe of flefh, blood, and bone, focal- led Emanuel or Jefus the Son of God, now what che royal will of all Faith. had decreed and promifed to do thar Reafon can- notbelieve , but what Faith hach decreed, he will not, fo can- not do chat Reafon would have him to do, as to make of flones . bread, or come dowa from the Crofs and fave him(elf, which - Chriftcould not do , -becaufe for that end he came to die, tha thereby he might net oncly raife himfelf to glery , bur alf his feed that Reafon murthered, to glory with him, and keep Rea- ow highly is Reafon re- puted by you, and Faich {lighted with you ; and tha becaufe Faith revealeth chac which Reafon cannot comprehend » When as Reafon candeclare nothing as touche Etsrncty, but Faich can fachomir, and bind Reason hand foot (nthe incer- pretation of it; and therefore tn scripture (tis written the high eranfcendent virtues of Facth butnoa plause of Reale avall as concerning y Kingdom ot God: but, ~~ Secondly, as it is y' Lord % governor of this world, fo the elder brother, its producing afuins thereaf are fo wife, gallant, maiesticall$ Glorious, Fit Faich Knew ic not, 1¢ woulddelude y seed of eternity sorts wisdom is fo great, ~thaeic dives intoall ysecrets of nature which way to make it felf happy iny (tskingdom % therefore out of Reafdns feed op A or ri eny Knowledy of all Arts and Sai ences, men gravi ar ving % framt ail opld , filver, ead, glals, weoling, linned, leathers. A VITIL0 , TE — exer = - TT vm A TAA Si _ rian - i " dn “8 CC Reafen ss lord and governor of this world. | robehold, risbackeo clothe, and belly to feed , fo that in brief there is nothing that the wildom or hand of man hath in- vented, bucic came from Realons ubciley , without the aifift- ance of Faith at all ; for Faith is foignoran: and fimplein the Arcs and Sciences of this world , thac without Reafons dire- Sion it could not make u’e of what Reafon brings ro his hand, fo when Reafon is moderated and well qualified, Fach hath a helpful Handmaid of Reafon, but when Reafon is immode - rate and hypocritical as feldom it is otherwvays,O what a mon- fier it is to Fairh, that it cramples innocency under foot! vea, rands ir guilty of tha which onely belongs toit felf, and that ‘becaufe Faith cannot diffemble as Reafon doth; nay, immo- derate Reafon is foproud and majeftical, thac ic will not (uffer its moderate brother to live by it, but fuer, imprifon it, and beggar ic. O what a changeable, defiring , unfatished feed.is Reafon , that iris never beter but when it is plottmg muf- chief, by back-biting, envying, and if pofTible,ro murcher what ir bares] Sothar where Faith is fupream, ic reigns as a Kingly Prerogative over Reafon, otherways Realon would not fub- mit ; far both Seeds cannot reign , but there mutt be divifions rill ane of them be filenc , not but thatthe conquered will fcout farth upon the borders of the Law, but being caprivated jt cannot 2& . it may-talk and prace what it would do, but Faith being Lord it must have licenfe from Faith before it can conceive its thought to action,fo thit where Reafon is lord, itsioperarionsare never satisfiidno not 3 year, moneth, era day, but inventing new fashons ne wdelights, new mifchtefs, fomerimes ic will be ruled over and, fometimes 1c wil rule de felf, as chee late transdctio ns" confirm what is written, fothac well may y Imagination there of be compared to a boctomlefs pit, for indeed it knows not whit & would be, nor what ic svould hae, never long contented but gicher roo full ar too empty , raoRich or too pogre too wile of 100 foolifi, £00 high orpo low; but however Y, true nature of Rom motion isto be rich # great tn y (ts Heaven , ford jmow his world was ei % 1 eh o Riches and glory this world was given to Reason w all the Eta gy — LIUa3e i. has att dg " i o i pak Reafons is lord avd governor of thisn wld, 59 thereunto belonging , and therefore lec not the devil think that chis world will hold as long as ic hath dene, nor thagit ihall enjoy its pleafure and lordly reign here, and in our kirg- dom on the other fide of death too ; for I krow this is your inheritance by birch-right, and noc the Saints ac sll, and there- fore we the lait Commiffioners, of the Believers theseof, fhall not plot of confpire againiino Power then reigning , but fyb- mit te you however you deal withus; for it is none bug your feed char difiurhs your peace ; cherefore Faith will be quiet under thy reign, and pay according to our ability what is your demand, onely in fpiricuals ic will not fpare to reveal iruch in obedience to eternity : and therefore we defire nothing of you but what Aoefes the fir Commiffioner requefted of Siken king of the Amorites in nawrals, fo we would have the fame in fpisicealsy which was, thar he might but onely pafs therough their land, nor turning into their fields or vineyards , neither vould rhey drink their water, or eat their bread, buc what che paid for; yet the children of Efau, the feed of Reafon, would — not let the Seed of Faith pafs by, for which theyin theirowp kingdom were deftroyed, So as 12m the true and belaved Bilhop of the Lord, we requeft but orely te pals quietly chow row ycur kingdem , as we have nor so ne will not turn ta the ‘riche, orto the left, to molest you,but be silent under your Government : but if ye will not let vs pals but Stay usin pri- fon, and there murcher vsfor pretending blasphempas the chil - dren of Efas would have done wo/leiis % his, people for re- bellion, thenrake notice assure as§ amnosiks Were eter- nally defiroyed sc shall ye be eternally damned ; for to O88 kingdom we must go, ¥ Without detth we canngt 80: uf ye bemade instramental to hasten curlourne _therehy ou haften your misery, ® remenber iny Height of revglanon Seventhly w actly foulis,hsoare ign Ldn what diesard thereforcby sutpor- tyin my Revelation] shall wall brevity y “Tn be, make it appear, yimmcrtality cannot inhabit in ‘mortality, Dt of . ’ ' e run (n yainenot Knowing what the i nl TT lin A te tT RR ETA XD LON ert wn . , omy h LU enanilL Fo PRN gs wi dba ad —— dnd Sal i : - Reafon lord and governor of this world, §1 to eternity, the body is faid to be killed , and not the foul, in that the foul (hall quickly rife to life again , and bring with ita body fuitable to its nature, asit is written , and to every feedits 5 own body ; concerning up you may finde more at Jarge in the | inch chapter of my Dialogue. 2 But wa you will er Ifthe foul and bedy be one , fo bus - one life, and tbat life in the blood, then it 5 the foul afflicted with pa‘n, forrew, and grief na) it 3s the [onl 1bas 5 famt Weary, erry, and [uffers cold. : a be ry. ag ye not of the contrary feed, 1 (hould not nced to trouble my pen any further, but anfwer you in plain tearms, thatit is the foul that eats and drinks, and that is capable of any. pain, forrow, or joy ; nay Iinfallibly fay, that when you cet a childe, yon get a foul, asit 1s written, And all the fonles they kad gotten, foe bare unto Jacob, fixreen fouls , and al the fowls went wish Jacob inte Egypt. And what foul [oever eateth ary maner of bleod: And fie was in bisternefs of foul : bis foul Within him foall mourn : and my [ex 5 brah nto death. Now thefe fouls that were got, and upon their feet did go, and eat, and drink, fc. were they not men and women 2 judge ye; So that now let any fober man judge, whether that any ching bat life is capable of death. O how fencelefs itis ro thi nk y cleath moft dic, and that mortal lifecan get to Jamorta.! life without death ! fordeathisthe waytoanew lifeoy Remember when you fee aman dead, you se A soul dead % flame verbally, but really; foras darknels sas realasy lightfo death isas reala beng as fife. rhoy gh dsath is net hyNOCE=. ftood but by lie % so to be ownedby everytabeliever. 80 Reafon lord and governor of this world." mult be fwallowed up of the other ; However ye cannot un- der@and this, yet from an infallible fpirit I know, that the fpirit, foul, and body, is all one, though three itles, yet but one eflcnce, the fpiric mortal, the foul mortal , and the body mor- tal, yet not three morals, but one mortal ; none divine, but all humane; for they are fo interwoven in the blood , through the whole body as it is written the life of the flefb is in the blood, fo not two but one ; that if you hang one, you mult hang both. As now you that fuppofeth the foul cannot die, and were fpe@ators of thofe that were hanged , drawn, and Quatered, deal plainly and tell me, when you faw their bodiesby a halter ftifled , and by the Executioner opened , what did you fee 2 Was there ary thing whipt out when the hang-man came? Certain I am, if the foul were immortal and could not be killed, you would have feen it fly fome whither : And this know, if the foul could not die, it would not fuffer its body to die, but take it along with it , in that the foul cannot live without the bo- dy, no more than the body can live without the foul. O blinde Reafon! that you fhould imagine you faw any thing but their fouls murthered and burned in the fire ; for if the foul be in the blood, (then minde) in letting out the blood, you pour out the foul , as when by the fpear therecame out water and blood, ‘then was the foul of our Lord poured forth, asitis written, be hash poured aut his soul” vito death. Now without a Scrip- ture you will not believe that y loulisin thebleod, and in fpif- ling the blood you spill ysoul thenread Fer. 2,34. and there you (hall finde, tn thy skirts ts foundy blood of the fouls of the peor $2M0Conts ; J° y without you ki the foul sy you cannot _ kilithe body, foraslongasyfsoulis alive thebody is not dead; but when y soul,y'is y' life, is o Killed, then the be- dy ow likewile, but YH shall we clo ows wi - te Te - ; ing. Fear not them wll f bady sur 2rt noe abletoRid the AF : 17% Jol &c. the true meaning is why y bedy ¢s sald tobe killed PA HULSE NEE - and net the foul, inyy soul should riseagrine and not the 5 Tr ivy! body: the foul by death is but changed soanew life 1yben as Twp id the body is killed roan everlasting death so that in relation - . ! to ph Adin (THE 5 @"' ns 8 METRIC 1]