To all the Ignorant people, the word of the Lord, who are under the blind guides the Priests.  
WHo have told you the steplehouse hath been the temple, and the holy place, and saith, did not Christ go into the temple. My answer is, yea to whip out the buyers and sellers, and if you count this the temple now in England, which is called a steeplehouse, it is almost full of buyers and sellers again, for there is the Priest's market day, for to sell his ware which he labours for in the week, ten shillings a day, or a noble a day, or more or less as they can get, and is not here buyers and sellers in the temple, as you call it, and money changers, and is not it a den of thiefs, a den of dragons; such as steals the words of the Prophets, Christ and his Apostles (the Priests which confesseth they have not the spirit which gave forth the scriptures) as you may read. Je. 23.30. but we deny this steeplehouse to be the temple, which God commanded, neither is it holier than any other ground, for though Christ went into the temple to whip out such before mentioned, as you may read. Mat. 21.12. and again you may read. Mat. 24. he prophesied to his disciples, of the destruction of the temple, and you that have built another, are in your own name, and are the deceivers spoken of in that chapter, and so is against prophecy, and so he that is against Christ's prophecy is Antechrist, and if it were possible should deceive the elect, but it is not possible, for Christ hath given them a light, and he saith to them, go not forth and so with the light Christ is seen, and you idolatrous generation, when Israel forgot his maker, they builded temples & Jud●h multiplied fenced cities, but I will send a fire and consume the palaces thereof, as you may read. Hos. 8.14. so as a troup of robbers lie in wait for a man: so doth a company of Priest's murder in the way by consent. Hos. 6.9. who the covenant of God are against, and after Christ's resurrection, Stephen which was a man first of the Holy Ghost, when the Priests examined him in the 7 of Acts, he said in his examination, that the most high dwelleth not in temples made with hands, as saith the Prophet, Heaven is God's throne, and the earth is his footstool, and saith God hath not my hands made, my hands made all these things, and called them stiffnecked and uncircumcised in hearts and ears that held up the temple, and they said he had spoken blasphemous words against the holy place, as Acts. 6.13. such as were stuborn men, and false witnesses: and after that Stephen had spoken along in his examination, and came to themselves, in particular, and said he saw Christ (who had prophesied of the destruction of the temple) and when he was examined before the Priests and people, than they run upon him, and stoned him to death: so are, Priests and people ready to do the same now, he denied the temple which God had commanded and witnessed Christ Jesus the substance, and for that they stoned him to death, for denying the figure, and we deny that which they call a temple, which God never commanded and witness Christ Jesus the substance, and for the substance sake are they ready to murder us a company of Priests, by consent, as a troup of robbers wait for their prey, but our deliverance is by the Lord Jesus from the seed of evil doers, and after the Apostles which went into the temple, and witnessed Christ Jesus the second priesthood, and denied the first priesthood, and then the second priesthood and the chief priests was in a rage against the Apostles, who witnessed Christ Jesus the second priesthood, and they were brought out of the temple, and brought them before their counsel, and the high Priest examined them, and then the Priests commanded them to preach no more in the name of Jesus the second priesthood, and the Apostles which denied the first priesthood and the temple, said, whether was it better to obey God or man, judge ye, and the Apostles which denied the first priesthood, they went daily into the temple and into the houses, and feared not to preach in the name of Jesus, as you may read. Act. 4. and in Act. 17. and the 7. The Apostles Paul said, that God that made the world, and all things therein, who is Lord of all, dwelled not in temples made with hands, neither was he worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he gives to all life and breath and all things, and hath made of one mould and one blood all the nations of men to dwell upon the face of the earth, and hath determined the time before appointed, and the bound of habitation that they should seek the Lord, if happily they might feel him and find him, though he be not far off from every one of us, here the Apostle he saw the times, and declared unto the people which held up the temple, they did not know God, and he denied the temple which God had commanded, and some of them mocked when they heard him preach Christ Jesus and his resurrection, as they mock now which holds up the temple which God never commanded, which jude speaks of, jude 18. and the people said unto the Apostle in Acts 17. when he preached Christ, that the Apostle seemed to be a setter forth of strange Gods, and called him a babbler, and said, let us hear what the babbler will say, for he denied the temple which God had commanded, and preached Christ Jesus, and said, God did not dwell in temples made with hands, as you may read. Acts 17. and Acts 17. and Acts the 19 what uproar there was amongst the tradesmen against Paul, and they said he set at nought their craft, and not only this, but the temple of the great Diana might be despised and set at naught, and their magnificency should be destroyed, whom all the world worships, and when they heard that they were full of wrath they that held up the temple of their great Goddess Diana, and the people made a shout for their great Goddess Diana, for the space of two hours, as you may read. Acts 19 & 21. and the Apostle Paul goes into the temple, when the Jews saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people and laid hands on him, crying out, men of Israel help, this is the man which teacheth all men every where, and hath brought also the Greeks into this temple, and polluted this holy place, and all the city was moved, and the people ran together, and laid hold on him, and drew him out of the temple, and the doors were shut, and they went about to kill Paul, and they beat him, and when some soldiers, and the chief captain came, and they saw them, than they left beating Paul, and here the men of Israel were cried unto, which held up the temple to help out with him, here all the wise in heart, may see what was Paul's end in going into the temple, to witness forth the second priesthood Christ Jesus, Solomon build a temple, and the Lord spoke unto David, thy son shall build an house, whom I will set upon thy throne in my name, than Solomon began to set to work the hewers of cedars and timber, and the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, which he did promise him: Solomon had 70000 that bore burdens, and 80000 hewers in the mountains, besides the chief of salomon's officers which were men over the work, 3000 and 300 that were over them that wrought in the work, and many there was at the building of the temple, and Solomon had a command which the Lord said Solomon should do, as you may read. 1 Kings 5. said he should build him an house, and when it was built, and when Christ was come, a greater than Solomon, who was the substance, though he went into the temple to whip out, but it was in their time to be a house of prayer, after Christ shown unto his disciples and prophesied unto them in the 24. Mat. the destruction of it, and Christ who was greater than Solomon, there prophesied the destruction of salomon's building: so Stephen denied it, who witnessed Christ, and the prophet denied it who saw Christ. Acts 7. and the Apostle denied it, who was a witness of Christ. Acts 17. and the people hawled him out of it, and said he polluted the holy place. Acts 21. and the Apostle called it an Idols temple, and the Apostle went into it, and was hawled out of it. Acts the 5. and they that preached Christ witnesses of Christ, witnessed a greater than Solomon who built the temple, such denied salomon's temple and said, what know you not that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, and you are not your own, for you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God with your spirits which is Gods, such as can witness this Christ and this price, and are bought, doth deny the outward temple, and witness their bodies the temples of the Holy Ghost, 1 Cor. 16.19. such do witness a greater than Solomon who built the temple, Christ Jesus who prophesied the destruction of the temple, so the temple which God had commanded was denied with them that witnessed a greater than Solomon, and whereas you call your superstitious place, which was built for popery, a church it is all false and a lie, they are no true temples nor true churches, so they are teachers of lies and causeth people to err by their lies and lightness, as you may read. Jer. 23.32. and the Scripture saith. 1 Thes. 1.1. the true church is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and here let all the honest in heart see how these false prophets have deceived you, and Christ prophesied and said unto his disciples, he sent them forth in the midst of wolves, he bid them be harmless and wise, and he told them that they would scourge them, and this he prophesied to them which we find true, as you may read. Mat. 10.16.17. and how they would hawl them before rulers, and as it is said they that kill you will think he doth God good service, and Paul while he was under the first priesthood, he being in the synogogues, and imprisoned them that believed on Christ Jesus the second priesthood, and here Paul fulfilled Christ's words as you may read. Acts 22. Paul was called Saul at the 19 ver. and while Paul was in the first priesthood, he held up the temple and the synogogues, but after he was hawled out of the temple, he denied them, as you may read in the Scripture , and Christ being the true light which enlighteneth every one that cometh into the world, as you may read. John 1.9. who prophesied the destruction of the temple, the Apostle was sent to turn them from darkness to this light, to believe in Christ Jesus the second priest, as you may read. Acts 26. how he was sent to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they might receive the forgiveness of their sins, and an inheritance amongst them that are sanctified by faith in me, and the Apostle which went into ihe synogogues, the Jews stirred up the gentiles, and there was a great assault made by the Jews and the gentiles and rulers to use them dispightfully, and stone them, as you may read. Acts 14. and the Apostle which preached Christ in the Jews synogogues, and the people said, is not this he which once destroyed them that called upon this name, and after many days they took counsel how they might kill the Apostle, as you may read. Acts the 9 and all they in the synogogues when they heard Jesus was filled with wrath, and thrust him cut of the city to the hill, that they might cast him down headlong. as you may read. Luke 4.28, 29. Here you may see the cruelty of them in the synogogues against Christ, and so likewise against his Apostles, and so likewise against his servants, now as their fruits manifest, so now woe unto them that are whited and painted with Christ and the Apostles words, and out of their life found as you may read Matth. 23. And all you that takes the people's Tithes, and brings the first Priesthood and say they took Tithes, and say Levi took Tithes which came out of the loins of Abraham, and say that the scribes and Pharisees paid Tithes, and Christ jesus said these things you ought to have done.  
But he cried, woe unto them blind which strained at a gnat, Who did not discover the second Priesthood Christ Jesus; He said those things you ought to have done, and the Prophet said, they rob God of the Tithes, if they brought them not into the Storehouse, and that was in the first Priesthood▪ so you that say Abraham paid Tithes to Melchizedecke; yea, I say he did so out of the spoil, but not out of his substance; the Apostle in the seaventh of the Hebrews, speaks of Abraham paying-Tythes to Melchizedecke like unto the Son of God: and Levi receiving Tithes in the levitical Priesthood, and he had a command to take Tithes according to the Law. Yea, of their brothers, and said the Law made men high Priests, the 28. verse, and then said the Priesthood was changed, and that there was a necessity of the change of the Law, and there was a disannulling of the command that went before, by which the Priesthood took Tithes, Hebrews 7.18. verse. And when the Apostle had spoken of Tithes in the days of Abraham, and Tithes in the levitical Priesthood, he said the Priesthood was changed: Also the Law as you may read, Hebrews 7.12.18. verses, and when the Apostle had spoken of these things before mentioned, Melchizedecke, like unto the Son of God, who is the end of all likenesses.  
Now of these things which we have spoken, this is the sum, the high Priest Christ Jesus and Tithes was one thing and the Priesthood was another thing the Apostle spoke of; and now if you speak of Tithes after the Law, Christ Jesus is the sum of things, Hebrews 8. and you that keep people in those things, keepeth them from the sum.  
The Word of the Lord God to all poor deceived people, who follow such Priests as bear rule by their means, and you people love to have it so; as you may read Jeremy 5.30.31. and so are the foolish people that are foolish, and the sottish children that are wise to do evil, but to do good have no understanding; as your may read jerem. 4.21. and you follow such shepherds as are greedy, seeking their gain from their quarter and never have enough; as you may read, Isaiah 56.10.11. and you follow such shepherds as seeks for the fleece and cloth themselves with the wool which makes a prey upon you and devours which the Lord sent Ezekiel to cry woe against, Ezek. 54.  
So as a troop of robbers wait for a man, so the company of Priest's murder in the way by consent, Hos. 6 9 And you follow such Priests as teach for hire, and divine for money, and yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, is not the Lord amongst us, no evil can come upon us, and cry peace, peace, and he that will not put into their mouths, they prepare war against him, and thus they build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity, Micah 3. And now all ye Priests, this commandment is for you, if you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, I will send a curse upon you, I will curse your blessing; yea I have cursed them already.  
Behold, I will corrupt your seed and will spread dung upon you, Mal. 2.1, 2.3. and you follow such hypocrites as stand praying in the Synagogues, Matthew 26.5. and such as are called of men Masters, and have the chief seats in the Synagogues, which our Lord Jesus Christ cried woe against, Matthew 23.  
And you follow such deceivers, as tells you the Steeplehouse is the Temple, when Christ prophesied of the destruction of the Temple, Matthew 24. And Stephen denied it, Acts the 7. and the Apostle denied it, Acts 17. and he was haled out of the Temple, Acts 21.30. and you follow such as tells you the Steeplehouse is the Church, when the Apostle saith the Church is in God, 1 Thessalonians 1.1. And you follow such which through feigned words and covetousness, doth make merchandise of you, by whom the way of Truth is evil spoken of, 2 Peter 2. and you follow such as go in the way of Cain in envy, and after the error of Balaam, for gifts and rewards, 2 Peter 2. Judas 11. and you follow such as are mockers, and scoffers and sierce despisers and railers, whose bands are made strong Esay 28.22. 2 Timothy 3. which hath the form of Godliness, but denies the power from such you are to turn away if you hear that Spirit that spoke in the Apostles, and from all such before mentioned, and you follow such as serve not the Lord Jesus Christ, but their own bellies, and by good words an fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple, Romans 16.18. and hear with the Scripture you may judge and try your teachers, and you follow such as are given to filthy lucre, whose mouths must be stopped, Titus 1.11, 12. and such you follow as the Apostle called evil beasts and slow bellies, and you follow such as stands not in God's counsel, but speaks a vain divination of their own hearts, who by their lies, and by their lightness have caused the people to err, and hath not profited the people at all saith the Lord: Therefore I am against the Prophets saith the Lord, that steals my word from his neighbour, and saith, the Lord saith, and use their tongues when the Lord never spoke to them; but Priest and Prophet are both profane, jeremy 23. and they are such as gave you David's quakings, prayers and prophecies in meeter, and when you read the Psalms, you keep on your hats, and when you sing them, you put off your hats; and here you worship the works of your own hands, and they are such as tell you the sprinkiing of Infants is the Baptism, and of a Sacrament, and their is no such Scriptyres, and so the plagues of God are added to them that addeth, Revelation 22.  
But the one Baptism with the Spirit into the one body, and the singing with the Spirit, and with the understanding according to Scripture that we own and witness, 1 Corinthians 12.13. 1 Cor. 14.   

To the light of Christ in all your Consciences, I do speak which comes from the Lord Jesus Christ, who enlightens every one that cometh into the world, which if you all do love it will lead you all from those teachers aforementioned up to Christ from whence the light doth come, and hear is your way to salvation, and this is the light which shows you sin and evil; if you love it, it will lead you to Christ from whence the light doth come, and if you hate it, it is your condemnation: so remember you are warned in your life time this is the day of your visitation.  
ALL you that reproach, revile, scoff and scorn at the children and servants and messengers of the most high God, whom you nickname Quakers, and under the same name persecute them as a people not worthy to live, and have no ground for it, neither knows any evil by them, but all along their lives and conversations condemns yours, and therefore you hate them, revile them and reproach them, in whom the power of the living God is made manifest the same which ever was, which shakes the earth & makes the strong man to bow himself and the keepers of the house to tremble, Eccl. 12.3. the same power which all the children of God witnessed and passed through in all ages, which then by the same generation suffered both by Magistrates, Professors, Priests and People, who were and are strangers to the life of God and his power; and therefore reproached it, scoffed and scorned at it as you now do.  
But t is that the Scripture might be fulfilled upon you, who are despisers of those that are good, 2 Timothy 3.3. Isaac the seed of the promise trembled, Gen. 27.33. who was mocked by Ishmael the son of the bond woman who was cast out, Gen. 21.9.10. Gallat. 4.30. As the same seed is mocked now by you Ishmaelites, who are the children of the bondwoman, who are cast out and are found without mocking and scoffing at the righteous seed; and Moses the servant of God, quaked and trembled, Heb. 12.21. who counted it greater riches to suffer affliction with the people of God, then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, Heb. 11.26. and this you now call madness and folly who know not that godliness is great gain, 1 Tim. 6.6. and David who was a King quaked and trembled, Psalm. 119.120. and drunkards made a song of him, Psalm. 69.12. and some shot out their tongues and wagged their heads at him, Psalm. 22.7. and gaped upon him with their mouths, verse 13. and this you sing in your Steeplehouse like hypocrites without knowledge, Psalm. 35.16. and yet scoff and scorn and reproach those in whom the same power is made manifest, and yet you will say as he said you are not puffed in mind, nor have no scornful eye, Psalm. 131.1. And thus you deceive your souls and love to have it so: and Job the servant of the Lord trembled, Job 4.14. and Jeremy a Prophet of the Lord, his heart was broken, and all his bones did shake, and he was as a drunken man, Jer. 23.19. who was then persecuted by the same generation, and Daniel trembled and they that were with him quaked, Daniel 10.7, 8, 11. who was cast into the lion's den, because he would not deny his God. Daniel 6.16. but by his power he was preserved as we are now from these lions, whelps, which would us devour, and Habbakuk a prophet of the Lord, his belly trembled and his lips quivered. Habbakuk 3.16. and Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ fell down and trembled. Acts the 9.4, 5, 6. who was reviled, reproached and persecuted even to death, who was one that hazarded his life for the name of Jesus. Acts 16.26. and said, all the day long was they killed and accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Romans 8.36. now read what generation you are in, for they that were after the flesh, always persecuted them that were after the spirit. Gal. 4.29. there was always a generation, by which the righteous ever suffered since Cain the firstborn upon earth, in whose way you are found, who envy, who are in wrath. Judas 11. you kill the just, and he lies slain in the streets, jam. 5.5, 6. at whose hands his blood shall be required. Mat. 23.35. and the son of man was to eat his bread with quaking, and to drink his water with trembling. Ezek. 12.10. out of which life you are found, who are at ease in the flesh, feeding without the fear of God, spending the creatures upon your lusts. Rom. 13.14. scorning them who are not one with you, in the same liberty and excess of riot. 1 Corinth. 10.7. 1 Pet. 4.4. 1 Cor. 10.13. but fears before the throne of God, and thus you err not knowing the Scripture, nor the power of God, therefore behold ye despisers, and wonder and perish, I will work a work in your days, which though you see it, you shall not believe it, Acts 13.41. is it not apparent before your eyes, the wicked man returns from his wickedness, and the ungodly from his ungodliness, and the drunkard from his drunkenness, and a profane one from his profaneness, and seeks after God, and fears his name, and yet you cannot believe, but despiseth, scoffs and scorns the power by which this work is done, for it is no new thing, but the same which was, and you are in the same adulterous generation which cannot see the signs which follow the Truth, Matth. 16.4. from whom the Gospel is hid, whose eyes is darkened by the god of the world. 2 Cor. 4.3.4. and so speaks evil of the things you know not. jud. 10. putting darkness for light and light for darkness, evil for good and good for evil. Isa. 5.10, you are the scoffers foretell of by the Apostles to be in the last times. jude 18. who are despisers of those that are good incontinent fierce traitors, heady highminded lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God having a form of godliness, but denying the life and power, 2 Tim. 3.3, 4, 5.  
And, here you are both Priest, People and Professors, who are scoffing and scorning, slandering, reproaching and reviling and persecuting the righteous innocent servants and messengers of the most high God, who is uttering forth his voice through them in power against all ungodlyness and unrighteousness of men, who will you call to judgement and convince you of all your ungodly deeds and all your hard speeches, which you have wrongfully spoken against him and his power, and will reward you accordingly, jude 14.15. Revel. 22.12. Therefore to that which is of God in all your consciences I speak, which is my witness against your ungodly lives, which turning to it will let you see you speak evil of the things you know not, loving darkness rather than light because your deeds are evil, john 3.19. Therefore fear the Lord God and repent and take heed of mocking lest your bands be made strong, Isa. 18.22. for God will not be mocked, such as you sow such shall you reap, Gal. 6.7. Therefore fear before the Lord and try all things, and hold fast that which is good, 1 Thess. 5.21. and despise nothing before you know it, lest you speak evil of Gods elect; for it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God, Heb. 10.31. Therefore take this for a warning as from the mouth of the Lord, for now no ignorance is to be pleaded before the Throne of God, this was given forth in vindication of the power of God which he is now manifesting in his sons and daughters, lest the simple who are not yet acquainted with it should stumble at the name by a friend of the Truth, and a lover of those people, which you who are out of the Truth scornfully calls quakers; but the scorners God will judge, Prov. 19.29. and the righteous God will bless, who work out their salvation with fear and trembling, Phil. 2.12. For saith the Lord to such an one will I look, who is of a meek and contrite spirit, and trembleth at my words, Isa. 66.1.2.   
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