A WARNIING To all such who are making a PROFESSION OF God, Christ, AND THE SCRIPTURES, And yet are in their blind zeal, Persecuting of those who are in the Life of what they in words Profess.  
By Christian Web.  
LONDON, Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate, 1659.   

I Being moved of the Lord, seeing the lark of so thick over the face of the whole Earth, to declare unto you who having a Form of godliness and denying the Power, who live in the shadows and have not the Substance, that you come to that which ends all shadows, that is Christ Jesus the light which do shine through the darkness, now you who are estranged from the light in your own particulars, you have lost the sense and leading of God's Spirit which would bring you again into the right way if you would turn to that which checks for sin and evil, that is the light Christ Jesus, but you who are making clean of the outside as the Pharisees did, and inwardly full of all uncleanness, being ignorant of God's Righteousness, you go about to establish your own righteousness, therefore are you warned of the Lord that you turn to the light in your own particulars, that as you come to be obedient unto it in yourselves you will feel it to expel the darkness; for verily you are groping in the dark night of Apostasy, and are gone from the true guide in your own selves, being out of the knowledge of God you are seeking the living among the dead, for you are seeking the Lord in your dead performances, and so you are feeding upon the Swine's food, now Christ Jesus doth feed his Children with the hidden Manna which is hidden from the wise and prudent of this world, and are revealed unto the heirs of God's Kingdom: Oh! you Professors, the Lord God have a tenderness toward his own seed in you which lieth groaning for deliverance in many of you, as he had over Jerusalem in times past, therefore in the fear of the Lord that you turn from the evil of your ways and turn to Christ the light in your own Consciences, which reproves for every secret thought, and every secret motion that comes from the corrupt mind; now all that will be heirs of God's Kingdom must feel something break forth in them which have been captivated by the enemy of the Souls Peace; now you who are in the first Nature, and knoweth not the second Birth which changeth that Nature, you cannot be partakers of the Mystery of God's Kingdom; for the Kingdom of God stands not in outward Observations, as Lo here, or lo there, but the Kingdom of our God is within; Now you who are gazing out into the visible things without, you lose the sight of the invisible; you who are talking of the Prophet's words, and the Apostles words, and out of that life they lived in that gave forth the Scriptures in them, that will stand you in no stead when the Lord shall come to require his own amongst you, and to separate the Sheep from the Goats; now you are to know that which makes the separation, that separates the good thoughts from the bad, and the good words from the bad, you are to come to God's witness in yourselves; Now you outside Professors who are looking for something without you to save you, and imagining of a God, afar off from you in your vain minds, and will not turn to the light in your own particulars which makes manifest sin and evil, therefore ye are ignorantly worshipping the Lord, putting for the Doctrine of Christ the Traditions of men, and striving about Mint, Annis, and Commin, and neglecting the weightier matters which is to love Mercy, to do justly, and to walk humbly with the Lord; now all are to come to the light, and by it to try what you are a doing, whether you are a serving of God or not serving of him, bring your deeds to the light, Professors, and see whether the Lord will be pleased with your out-side-services; No, no, the Lord loveth Truth in the inward parts, it is not lip-service that will please the Lord, it is the heart that the Lord requireth of you; See now you vain Professors how far you are from giving God your heart when you are in the persecuting Nature which persecutes the Servants of the Lord under a pretence of doing God service, whose example do you follow, do you not follow the Jews who were Professors as well as you, and had the Law and the Writings of the Prophets, and the outward Observations, their now Moons and their sabbath-days, and their fast-days, and were they not looking for Christ without them as you do, and did not they put the Lord to death, and persecute his Servants, and hale them out of their Synagogues, and had them before Magistrates as you do now? was this the practice of the Servants of the Lord? when they were reviled they reviled not again; know you not that Christ could pray to his Father for ten Legions of Angels to withstand that power in them, but then their hypocrisy could not be so clearly seen, neither could the scriptures be fulfilled; now these things must come to pass, but woe be to you that do them, you are known by your Fruits what Trees you are, a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit; the Lord is come and coming to cry all Nations of them that serve him and them that serve him not, and to cast dung upon the faces of all the proud and lofty ones of the Earth, for the Lord saith in the Scriptures of Truth, That he will look upon all the lofty and abase them, for the day of the Lord is coming that will burn as an Oven, and all the proud, and all that work wickedness shall be as stubble before him, when the Lord shall come and terribly shake the Earth, then that which is not of his own planting shall be rooted up: Now know all you scoffers and mockers that are mocking at the Truth and calling Quakers scornfully in your vain mind, that so exceeding terrible was the sight that Moses the Servant of the Lord saw, that he exceedingly feared and Quaked; now you who are in the fallen estate, and have not seen the righteous Judgements of the Lord to shake terribly the earthly Foundations, yea, and your heavenly too; it is evident that you have not seen the light which makes manifest the darkness; now therefore come to the light that make manifest sin & evil, you that know not the Lord in his righteous Judgements, all that which you have gotten in the imaginations, imagining of something like God, how vain are you taling of God with your lips, and worshipping of him with your outside, and know him not to be your guide; Therefore come out of your sins you vain Professors, do you think that God will be pleased with your hypocritical services; Why do you not search the Scriptures as the noble Bareans did, who the Apostle called Noble, for that they searched the Scriptures to know whether that which the Servants of the Lord spoke forth was according to the Scriptures yea or no; but the god of this world hath so blinded your eyes that you cannot behold the true light; Now you Professors what Change is wrought in you, do you not run uviht the multitude to do evil, do you not call them forth to help you to carry the servants of the Lord where you will in your blind and ignorant zeal, will not the Lord be avenged of such Professors as these? Yes surely, this was not the Practices of the Lords People; but you say, you stand for Gods Cause when you persecute them that live in God's fear: Oh! you blind leaders of the blind, know you not that the Lord will have none of your blinde-services, the Lord have no need of your Carnal weapons to fight in his cause, nor your carnal profession neither, for the Lord hath a Sword to cut down, and a Fire to burn up all that stubble that you in your imaginations are building; Therefore be warned all you professors of England that are worshipping of a God afar off, somewhere without you, but where you cannot tell, that you turn to God's witness in yourselves, that will let you see who you are following, if you will be obedient to it, you must take up that great ordinance which you are strangers to, even the daily Cross and self-denial, the Cross of Christ Jesus and follow him; Now that which crosseth thy vain mind, and teacheth thee to deny thyself, to that you must be obedient, now the Cross of Christ to the Worldly wise is foolishness, but to them that believe it is the Power of God to the saving of their souls; In the fear of the Lord God am I moved to declare unto you, who say, that we tell you of a Light within you, but you say, you hope to be saved by Christ that was crucified at Jerusalem without you, which truth we own, and verily believe that Christ Jesus was crucified without the gates at Jerusalem, and that he suffered under Pontius Pilate, and that he was dead and buried, and risen again the third day from the dead, and that he likewise suffered in Sodom and Egypt, but what is this to you that hath but heard of his fame, and have neither heard his voice nor seen his shape? Now that which is to be known of Christ is manifested within; now you that have put the Lord to death, and slain the just principle of God in yourselves by reason of sin and iniquity, this Testimony do I bear for the Lord, that sorrow and great lamentation must come upon the head of the transgressor before the ransomed of the Lord can be witnessed, you must all come to feel that crucified in you that have crucified the just, before you can have fellowship with the Father or with the Son Jesus Christ, you must feel the Lord to strike the Rock, that a cleansing you may know in yourselves, before you can be refreshed with the pure refreshments that cometh from the Fountain of Living Waters; I say in the fear of the Lord that you must come to know a cleansing in your own particulars, that that may be cleansed out which have been gathered in the corrupt mind; You who live in sin and iniquity, and have not felt the movings of God's Spirit to cleanse, you have corrupted your ways, and the Lord can take no delight in any thing which is not of his own begetting; Therefore all turn to that which begets to Gods, the Light Christ, and know that to be a Light to your feet, and a Lantern to your paths; now that which sets free from sin is Light, God sent his Son into the World, that whosoever believed in him should not perish but should have the Light of Life; now Christ Gods gift sets free from the bondage of corruption; Now that the Law could not do, by reason of the weakness and unprofitableness thereof, now the Lord sent his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemning sin in the flesh, that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in them that believe, now all to feel the tender Plant that is of the Lords own planting to grow and bud forth in the earth, that pure tender plant that lieth low in you, like a little grain of Mustardseed under earth, the Plant lieth low in the earth, the ground must be opened and digged about it, and that taken away which do hinder the growth of it before it can fructify and spring forth, you must come to feel Gods tender Plant that he hath planted in you to spring, that which stands a witness in you against all your ungodly ways, this must you all come to feel and know in your own particulars; Now in love to the Seed am I constrained to declare that which my eyes have seen, and my ears heard, and my hands handled, and I have tasted of the good word of God in measure according to the manifestation of his powerful working in me.  
Now you who are looking to the Mountains to cover you, and the Halls to overshadow you, all in vain, for the Lord is making bare his own arm, and he is riding Triumphantly to turn, and overturn, overturn, till he come whose right it is to reign, and he will give it him.  
Now all you Rulers and Governors of the earth, who are Ruling and Governing in your wills, the word of the Lord God is to you, that you run not before the Lord in your own wills, but you are to stand still and wait to be guided by God's pure witness in your own particulars, and to know that it is not in man to direct his way, for it is not in him that willeth nor in him that runneth, but in God who showeth mercy, but you that are running before the Lord, and wait not to be guided by God's pure Principle in yourselves, you condemn the just and let the guilty go free; Therefore a lamentation is to be for you, as it was for Jerusalem in times past, that had they known in that day the things that belong to their peace, they would not have put the Lord to death; Therefore are you warned you that rule in your wills, that you turn from the evil of your do, and be obedient to the Light Christ Jesus, before the day of God's anger overtake you, and before the day of God's visitation pass away, and then many of you may seek the blessing with tears, and may not find it, while you are worshipping of God in the perishing things the blessing is not felt; now none can know God the Father but as the Light doth make him manifest, that that makes the Truth manifest is that that reproves for sin and iniquity; now you being ignorant of the way of the Lord, and not learned by his pure Spirit, the Book is sealed to you; Now the Lord complains of such Rulers and Professors, therefore saith the Lord in Isa. 29. v. 13. Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear towards me is taught by the precepts of men; Therefore behold you Rulers and professors, the Lord will proceed to do a marvellous work amongst this people, and a wonder; for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid; Woe be to them that seek deep to hid their Council from the Lord; therefore all come to the light, and wait at the Pool that you step in and be cleansed.  
Given forth by one who have tasted of the love of the Lord, through the Spirit of burning, and who desire to be made manifest to your Consciences in the sight of God,   
THE END.