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Glory be to God and the Lamb, who is over all from everlasting to everlasting, blessed for ever.

Now Adam and Eve disobeying the command of God which he taught them, by that they lost the image of God, and righteousness and holiness, and the power which God had given them, and in it had set them over all the works of his hands; so he came into misery, death and darkness.

And this death reigned from Adam till Moses, and the Lord gave his law by Moses, and the Lord poured out his spirit upon the house of Israel, that they might understand his law, which is spiritual: now the Jews erred from this spirit that God had poured upon them, and then they erred from his law, and then they erred from cleanness, and holiness, and righteousness, purity and uprightness, and perfection, and so there came rents, schisms and divisions amongst them, when they went from the spirit of God and God's holy law, and then they broke to pieces, and into sects one against another, but all against the prophets and Christ; but such as kept in the spirit of God, and in his law.

Such believed in Christ, and received Christ when he came.

The law came by Moses to the Jews, so grace and truth is come by Jesus Christ; and God, who said he would 'pour out his spirit in the last days upon all flesh,' which days are the days of Christ, and he having tasted death for every man, and was an offering for the sins of the whole world; and the apostles were sent by Christ to preach the gospel, which was preached in every creature under heaven; and Christ doth enlighten every man that comes into the world with the life which is in the word, and saith, 'believe in the light.'

So now all christians, and the world that do not believe in the light, that they may become children of the light, nor receive the gospel which is the power of God in every creature under heaven, if they do not receive the power and the light which enlightens all, and the grace of God which brings salvation, that hath appeared unto all men to teach them.

I say, if they do not receive this light, and this grace, and this spirit, which God hath poured upon all flesh, the world, christians, and Jews, though they may make a profession of God and Christ, yet if they receive not his light, his spirit, his grace and gospel, but do err from the spirit of grace, and abuse his power, they are all in confusion and rents, and divisions one amongst another, being erred and rent from the gospel, and from the light, and from the power and spirit of God, and so from the church and Christ the head thereof, and are not like to come into unity and concord; but as they believe in the light and walk in the light, and in the spirit, and their faith standing in the gospel the power of God, and in the grace to teach them and bring their salvation; for in the grace, light, power, and spirit, and truth are all united into Christ, and to the Father in the perfect oneness.

Now concerning Schisms and Errors amongst the Christians.

FIRST, you presbyterians and other sects, that say you have not the same Holy Ghost, and spirit, and power as the apostles and primitive church had; and the papists manifest by their fruits, they have not the same power and Holy Ghost as the primitive church had; it is, because you are erred from it; for you that be erred from the same Holy Ghost the apostles were in, which led them into all truth, and which reproved the world of their sin, righteousness, and judgment, then how can you have the same spirit they had?

Now the reason why you have not the same grace, light, and spirit, is, first, because you hate the divine light, which is the life in Christ, which he commands you to believe in, and so to become children of light.

And so you hate that which should unite you to Christ the head, and to make you members of his body, and to graft you into Christ by belief. So hating the light you are erred from the body, and are not of the body of Christ, of his true church.

Secondly, You turning not at the reproof of the Holy Ghost, which is for your sin, and for your righteousness, and judgment, and unbelief, you cannot be lead into all truth, so no ministers of the truth, and so are in no true substantial, standing comfort, seeing all the true comfort is in the Holy Ghost, which is the true comforter, and takes of Christ, and gives unto them that are led by the Holy Ghost.

So by this you cannot receive any thing from Christ, as you say, now from heaven; for how should you, if you will not turn at the reproofs of the Holy Ghost, which proceeds from the Father and the Son; for it takes of Christ, and gives unto them that are led by him, as is aforesaid.

Thirdly, You say, there is no assurance of salvation on this side the grave; we grant that you have none, but the church of Christ hath assurance, though you have not; and what is the reason you have not? because ye turn the grace of God into wantonness, and walk despitefully against the spirit of grace: and some of you say, the grace of God is not sufficient to teach, and bring their salvation, and therefore they dare not trust in it, the grace of God which taught the saints, and brought their salvation, and taught them to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and established their hearts.

And this grace (God said to Paul,) was sufficient; and this grace the apostle exhorted the church unto, which the true church knew then, it was sufficient to teach them, and to bring their salvation; and the true church knows it so to be now.

And now you will not come to this grace of God, which comes by

Jesus, and then how can you come into the covenant of grace, and to have assurance of your salvation, which this grace brings, which was the teacher of the church in the primitive times, and is the teacher of the church now, which is coming out of the wilderness, and from under the worship of the beast and dragon, and are coming out of Babylon and confusion? they know this grace of God is sufficient to teach them, and to bring their salvation, who are the spouse of Christ the bride, from whence this grace and truth comes, as it did in the apostles' days.

So God pouring out his spirit upon all flesh, if all flesh err from this spirit, they err from God and his way, and his church, and Christ the head of it; and then how can they see Christ their salvation, when they err from his spirit?

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And you that say, you have not the same spirit of Christ, as the apostles had, the apostle tells you, that they that have not the spirit of Christ, are none of his;' and so manifest yourselves to be none of Christ's, and to be but christians in words, but not in the spirit.

For the Jews in the letter and outward circumcision were looked upon to be no Jews; therefore, how can you be looked upon to be true christians, that are not in the same spirit of Christ, as the apostles were in, seeing he tells you, that he that hath not the spirit of Christ is none of his?' for these may have the praise of men, but what praise of God have they? for God hath his praise of all them that walk in his spirit. And so now it is clear, you being erred from the grace, and from the spirit, and from the gospel, and from the living, pure, divine faith, which Christ is the author of; therefore, you make faiths.

And being erred from the spirit, as I said before, you are erred from the body of Christ; for by one spirit are all the church baptized into one body, and so are all made to drink into one spirit;' and this is their spiritual unity.

But now you being erred from this spirit, and from this baptism that plungeth down sin and corruption, and imperfection, you do plead for sin, and its body, and imperfection to the grave; but the church of Christ is to be perfect, and never pleaded for any such thing; but what can you plead for else, that are unbaptized with the spirit, and not circumcised in your hearts therewith?

And so being erred from this faith that gives the victory, and from the spirit that doth baptize, and from the light which Christ commands to believe in; and from the grace which brings salvation; and from the gospel, which brings life and immortality to light: and from the faith, which is the victory, which brings to build upon Christ the sure foundation; and likewise erred from the Holy Ghost, which led the true church into all truth, and reproves the world of sin, &c. so in this you are erred from the body of Christ, his church, and from him the living head, and

from God and his way; though without this light, faith, grace, spirit, gospel, and Holy Ghost, you may make a profession of the scriptures, and of the prophets' and apostles' words, and have many churches amongst you in the world, and in Christendom.

And so there you have many heads and many bodies which you call churches, both in Christendom and in the world, being erred and rent from that which leads into the true church, which Christ is the head of. And now, as it sometimes happens and falls out, that when some of your church members forsake you, and go to other churches, then you cry error, and heresy, and schism; when alas! you are all in the error, and schismatics, teaching the insufficiency of the light, and of the grace and of the spirit to lead into all truth: and confess that you yourselves are not in the same spirit or Holy Ghost the apostles were in; and then are you not all in schisms and rents from the spiritual body and head: and therefore, when one plucks members from one church to another, you do but pluck from one schism to another, and from one error to another.

For all, both Turks, papists, and all other sects in the world, until they do turn at the reproofs of the Holy Ghost, and at the reproofs of the light, and believe in it, there is no coming to be grafted into Christ the head, but by belief: and no coming into all the truth of the prophets', Christ's, and the apostles' words, but by being led by the same Holy Ghost, that gave them forth.

But if any turn to the grace and Holy Ghost that doth reprove them of their sin, righteousness and judgment, and come to believe in the light, and so to be children of the light, and leave those churches that be erred from the light and spirit, then all the sects will rise against them, though they do differ one amongst another in their error and schism, being rent from the body of Christ, and from him the head; and erred from the spirit, grace and truth, which came from him and by him; for John truly said, and called the false church, the mother of harlots:' now these harlots doth harlot from the light, from the grace, from the faith and true church, and Christ the head and husband of his church.

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And John, said this mother of harlots sits upon the beast, and the beast rose out of the earth, and the dragon that is out of the truth gave his power to the beast.'

So the beast is from the earth, and the devil is out of the truth, and the mother of harlots is harlotted from the power as the apostles were in; so she has corrupted the earth, and is the abomination of the earth, and so would plead for corruptions, she and her harlots to the grave; for how can they plead for pureness, and perfection, being erred from the spirit that mortifies?

But Christ Jesus's everlasting gospel is preached again, that was

preached in the apostles' days, which bringeth life and immortality to light in people, who have been darkened by the whore, beast and dragon, that are out of the truth.

So they come from under the beast's worship, and the dragon's, and cannot touch the whore's unclean cup, that are whored from the spirit, light, grace, and truth, and faith the apostles and the true church were in.

And that is the faith, that is the victory, and the belief in the light, by which they are children of light, and overcome the world, and are passed from death to life, and so are grafted into Christ the heavenly head, and so are members of the body, as the church in the primitive times were, and have the same head, and the same Holy Ghost, and the same spirit of truth that leads into all truth, of the prophets', Christ's, and the apostles' words, which were given forth by the Holy Ghost: and so such have the comfort of Christ, and of the Holy Ghost, and the comfort of all the scriptures given forth from the Holy Ghost, and the comfort of the Father and the Son; and sing praises and glory and honour, over all unto him, that lives and reigns forever and

ever.

And much might be written, of the state of the true church, and of the state of the false, which is gotten up since the apostles' days.

But the church that was and is, is in the head that was and is, in the power, and grace, and spirit, and faith, and belief, which was, and is, by which the church is united together in one, with Christ the one holy, and heavenly, and spiritual head, (and over the heads of the beast, and dragon, and whore,) to whom alone belongs all holy praises, glory and honour over all, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen.

And the saints had, and have, both assurance and confidence; for David saith, 'O, thou God of our salvation, who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea.' Psalm lxv. 5.

And Solomon said, 'in the fear of the Lord is strong confidence, and his children have a place of refuge.' Prov. xiv. 26.

Now they that be out of the fear of God, and in the evil, undeparted from it, are not like to enjoy this confidence.

And the Lord said, 'the work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.' Isa. xxxii. 17. Now they that have this peace, and quietness, and assurance, forever, must be in this work.

And Paul preached the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence. Acts xxviii. 31. And the apostle said, 'that in Christ Jesus our Lord we have boldness and access with confidence, by the faith of him,' (to wit, Christ.) Ephes. iii. 11, 12.

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