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THE RIGHTS OF CHRIST,
ACCORDING TO
THE PHINCIPLES AND DOCTRINES
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THE CHILDREN OF PEACE.
BY DAVID WILLSON.
PHILADELPHIA:
PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR.
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INTRODUCTION.
Lthe writer, was born of P'e^''j^«t"''N!«hime-
county of Dutchess, state of New-York, in North Ame
™1„ the year .80. I removed with my fe«>-'>y '"^'J;'^
province.' nd after a few years became » member of the
society of the Quakers, at my own request, as I chose a
spWtual people for my brethren and sisters m reUgion.
Bu after^ had been a member thereof about seven
years, I began to speak something of my ^°;^^^
God, or a Divine Being in the heart, soul, or mmd ot
man, all which signifies the same to »/ "''^'■•^"''"/d'
but my language was offensive, my spmt >*^; ^^™'
my person was disdained, my ccmp...y was forsaken by
my brethren and sisters. After which I retired from the
society, and was disowned by them for so do.ng, but
several retired with me, and were disowned also, be-
cause they would not unite in the disownmg and con-
demning the fruits of my spirit, for as 1 had been
accounted a faithful member of the society for many
years, they did not like to be hasty in condemnation.
Therefore we became a separate people, and assembled
ourselves together, under a separate oi-der, which 1 im-
mediately formed. After I retired from our former
meetings, and »b our discipline led to peace with al
people more till any one in our knowledge, we called
ourselves Children of Peace, because we were but young
"■"'"'"• DAVID WILLSON.
East Gwillimburg, county of ^0^^^."^
apd province oi Upper Canada, 3
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Eaet Gvjitlimburgy County of York^
Xat Mo7it/if 21, 1815.
I, and my brethren and sisters, are scandalously
reported of throughout this Province> viz. Upper Ca-
nada, (chiefly by the quakers, and others whom they
have employed) by false accusations on myself and
others, from the beginning of my work in the ministry
in ihis place, for this cause I write as follows:
Sin is a shame to all people; but the works of righte-
ousness remaineth for ever and ever. Therefore it is
jnete for me to make icnown that which I have received,
as it is for others to make known, that which they think
to be evil and against my spirit in the world. Therefore
I commit the same to publication in this Province, and
to all others where it may come: least the day shouh^
come that my enemies should rejoice over me without
a cause, and make themselves glad for nothing. Accord-
ing to the expressions of the wise man ** there is a time
for every purpose under the sun"— So also, there is a
time for me to meet with my enemies, not only in the
sight of men, but in the firesence of God, who is my
judge amongst men this day, and will deliver me from
the hands of mine enemies, that rail against me without
a cause, save this, that they are afraid, that I shall be as
much thought of in principles and doctrines as them-
selves, and they should receive dish^r thereby. As
every class or society wishes their pi^|psion to be best
thought of amongst men, therefore, when others arc
thought to be equal with ourselves, we can receive no
honour from them, for what we think we know more than
others. For which cause, I write not that we should be
exalted above others, but that we should be as others, in
this, that we should have liberty to improve the talent or
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talents which we have received of God in peace, without
the condemnation of any people; seeing we have not dis-
turbed, nor accused any, of those things of which nveare
accused by therm which is unto death and abundant suffer-
ing according to the laws of the British government, un-
der which we both labour and suflFer reproach with joy, for
peace sake. If so, it may be said of me or others, why writ-
est thou against the accusation of others? For the same
cause, that they may repent of their iniquity, become
ashamed of their sins, and have joy in the sight of God
also; where our own sins are our just accusers, without
the condemnation of men, or any, that arc raised up in the .
spirit of judgment, in the sight of God, in the name of
religion.
Hearken to my accusations, and^paarvel not why I write
unto you: ye have gone the greatest length your tongues
can go, my accusers. Now, I demand of you, to give the
world a cause and reason for these things, as I am about
to publish that which I have received of God to your
condemnation.
Blasfihcmy hath been your speech,— (/eni/m^ of Jesus
Christ hath been your common sayings,— -denying the
Godhead is a speech of me, to which ye have been sub-
ject, and that I denied and condemned the scriptures,
hath been your by-word from day to day, to almost every
one you did chance to meet. Now think, what ye have
done unto me, with what I am going to write unto you,
with faith, that God will deliver me from your dark accu-
sations in the sight of all men, who are willing to judge
with an impartial spirit between you and me. It might be
justly supposed, or so ought to be, that those that are
in haste tb judge others, are clear of the crime of con-
demnation, which they so freely place on others, who
they think are far inferior to themselves in the name of
religion. Let him that hath received little, not condemn
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bim that hath received much, becau.e he hath not re-
ceived hi neither let him that hath '««"«<» ""T^'^,'^"";
dem. hi; that hath received little, because he haU. not
received as much as ourselves: or such as condemn
man a^d every woman improve _that .h.ch they have
received of God, without the condemnation of »ny-|~
same liberty I ask of all men without the cor.demnat on
of any. that every man may be free in the grace wh.ch
he ha^h received, seeing it is the g.ft of God to all.
Amen.-It is hard to say, or yet make it appear, that
any one man received the fulness of the knoy'^/sr "^
all the scriptures, save Jesus Christ, who ^f^'^^^^
all according to the will of God: Therefore, ^U that
c ijtu'e thft was of God. given forth by holy in^.-
,ion, was fulfi.led in Jesus Christ, as the «J«"t tnereof
abo^e in him before *e worid began, in the hean „r
soul of man, as his spirit remained with the father or
fountain of all good, both before, and when the jvorldj
nature entered into the heart of Adam, by «atmg t^
fruit of this world, which sets mankind up to be judges
of B-ood and evil in each other, rather than to be proper
Ss o? what we are in c -selves: Therefore A^.m
Cs not left to be his own judge, but God -™! « "T ^
into him in the garden of Paradise to be his judge Ci
;:e things whii he had done. And -hat he di ,
oroved his own condemnation in the sight of Cod. i«
E state, it is lawful for God in n,an to judge -oh
other; as our eyes being opened by the spirit of God, to
?hrcastinK of the deeds of our brethren before their
S:. arcLdid the iniquity of Adam's before his. to
Ms own condemnation. ButwhenGod condemned Adam,
it wraccording to the measure or poi^ion of grace
^Wch he had received of God, and h.s_4isobe_a«nce
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without we stand by, in the hearts of each other, and
hear .vhat the spirit of God *Mth unto us, we must be
incapable of judging accordi. ^ to the will of God, see-
ine we know not what each other receires of God.
Therefore, we cannot judge whether it is fulfilled or
not; but God knoweth, and Christ knoweth, because his
spirit was with God, and is with God when the spirit
Bpeakelh to us, of what we should do. A state very diffe-
rent from this sinful world, when they rise up in judg-
ment against each other. Nevertheless let all men have
received whatsoever they may at the hand of God, it is
no reason we sho«ild iudge each other contrary to his
vail, seeing < n^c not to condemn the gmlty, but
call sinners 1 . ce. Neither is it easy lo make it
appear that h "X man in the sight of God; if
80, he would k. >ved their condemnor and not
their saviour from cv...demnation, which cometh by and
through our own works in the sight of God. Therefore
show unto me and others, a cause why ye have con-
demned me, least your condemnation should be visited
on your own heads, as received fiom your own works
and not from n»ine, who haih condemned you not, save
in this, that your own works prove your own coiKlemnr.-
^^^^Therefore, 1 will make manifest unto the world what
I am, and if cause is found, judge on lo prisons and to
death, as ye have begun to stir up evil against me w
this province. * ^ , , .u
One thing comf /rteth my scul, that after death cometh
the resurrection, or after condemnation is done, then
shall my soul be free. To this purpose came Jesas
Christ into the world to^set sinners free in the Uberly of
the GospeUthat his day might be glorified on earth wrth
peace: And that God might receive praise in heaven for
the coming of Jesus Clirist in man to set oui' mortal bo-
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dies free froiii sin and deat^i, Avhich are the bonds of cor-
ruption in the sight of God. If Jesus Christ saw no
corruption, why will ye remain therdn to the dishonour
of that salvation which comes by Jesus Christ, who
sayeth, *' I judge no man, yet if I judge, my judgment
is tru^ " because the lather is with hiin in judgment m
all things whatsoever. And so also, if God in Ihrist
doth judge ;he world, he must equally be a justifi.u- of
them that lovo his will theiein, which appeare-l m
Christ, by not condemning any that came before him,
but fulfilled their measure to the fulness of the will of
God in all. Which signifieth, that all the spirit of them
that wrote the works in scripture which Christ fulfilled,
rests with him this day on the right hand of peace, as he
condemned them not on earth, who had received less
portions of the grace of God than himself. For, although
it took many souls to fulfil the scriptures by parts; yet
all was fulfilled in Jesus Christ. For which cause, I have,
from the abundance of the heart, called him a man of
God} because he lacked nothing, and was the fulness of
the will of God in one body, to the salvation of every state
that is lost, and lieth under the condemnation ot the
sight of God by our own works, which renders or ren-
dered -thers, incapable of their own salvation, without
some one to testify of God unto us. Therefore the
grace of God or angels of his spirit hath been sent into
The world, for our instruction, prophesying unto us by
Moses and others, that, by and by the day cometh, that
we shall be nmde clean through Jesus Christ, and no part
of the soul or mind left in the deeds of corruption any
more. „ , , . ,
But as touching the salvation of the earth, he saith,
« except ye eat my flesh, and drink my blood, ye have
«n nart with me." The same I make use of for my own
dcfwice, as the same needs but little interpretation, aivd
is plain and easy to be understood by all.
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I believe in the aulTsrings of Christ from the founda-
tions of the world, and that he suffered death, in that
day that Adam did that he should not; as he was the
spirit of the soul of Adam, before he was made an esc-
ternal or visible being in the presence of God, or all
others th, t beheld him in the garden of Eden, where hs
fell from the prcbcnce of God. Therefore it is the soul
wt man that received the loss, pain or death by sin, and
not the Holy Ghost, seeing t^ ^^oly Ghost which spoke
unto Adam, disobeyed not >od, but the soul that re-
ceived it, and kept not the saying thereof: therefore it is,
and was the soul of man which suffered the loss, and re-
ceived the nain which came by disobedience into man.
Therefore, as the spirit of Christ, being present with
God, when the commands were given to Adam, well
knew how he transgressed them through disobeying
what God, or the Holy Ghost, did speak unto Adam, of
what he might do, and what he should not, in conse-
quence of the reward which should come upon him for
so ^oing;— therefore,- when Christ saw the worlds or
senae3 (which he had made, while he dwelt with the
father,) had suffered a loss by sin, he so loved thi world,
and the honour of God, the power of all creation, that he
imnediately took the nature of condemnation upon
him, to make way for Adam to dwell with the father, as
at the first; where, or when he heard the voice of God
every day in his heart, teaching him what he should d'%
in the world, to the honour of him that made hir^i and
'in obedience thereunto, might have received the lan-
guage, that was long after s;)oken to Jesus Christ, say-
if/^ing, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.
* For Adam was the first son of Gou in the world, and
Christ was his father in spirit, because, he is or was that
power, by which God created all tilings und ^r the ««n;
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so ..o .he ^^^^^^:-:s::x:::::o^^^^
the righwousness thereof. IMr j j^j^e free
of condemnation "P"" '""•*»; *X >.aB »We to hide
f.^ sin, and *. '"J^J^; ji"'^ ^ of righteousness. ,
all the works of darkness, in ^^^
that the fruits thereof '^''""'^^^"^rrcreation suffered
Therefore as soon as the fi^t «t^« °^ fo„„„k his
a loss by Adam, Jesus Christ '"'"« J ^^ ^ork,
joyful rLt ,,hich he ^fj:''^;^^t^':^Z^o save that
if creation, and ''°*«'":"°tL ° orks «.th him might
which was lost by sin, that his «°** «' ^ j^^ed
^t on the right hand of G°d again, -e«.g ^^^ ^ ^.^^
the worlds which he bad ™f «' ^''^f "„„ptio„ which
they did lie — X^he'r^'^Grd -d' c^nde«=ended
came by sm. Theietore n ^^^ ^^, ^„
to dwell with man, m f*'""'^ '"™ j„ ^^,^ presence of
tored, and every man f ""^^ dweU m P^^^^^^^ ^
God's spirit, as Uie soul °f ;'^^»~ "^ ™^„ took place in
God when the worlds was an.shej. U - ^^^P^^^ .^
«an. TO -*'fj'^;'::,tr a^ing is applicable, vi.
hath taken P>»«'*''^^" ..,:./ „ot my blood, ye have
„ U ye eat n«t -y.^-^if f Jdo L these things
no part with me. Therelore, ^^^ ^^ ^^^^
we can have no part with Chmt, and, « ^^ ^^^
with Christ, we have ^ P^^Jht ride of power, how
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shall we be jus..fied by Je ^^ ^^^^^^^
first justify «very 7" /"^^^"""hich is to say, when
up the ^i»Saom to^,',:^^^^^^^^^^ l\ and man is wor-
he hath done «■*.*"* ''^^° nee more in the presence
thy to hear the »<»«=« °^ ^"f"""* Z first ascended the
^f'jesus Christ. Which »'.»y^««' ^„ g..„„
. kingdom of heaven, before ^ejio ^ ^^ ,i„ ,p„.i. of
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would perform that humble act for us, which, ** I,** sahh
he, " will pray the Father, and he shall send you another
comforter even the Holy Spirit." Which aignifyeih to
pie the will of God made manifest in us exclusive of all
flesh. For he saith, " if I go not awa^ the comforter will
not come." Therefore let God and Christ have their
proper due, and God the honour which his son giveth
him: which is to say, him that sent ni^ is greater than y
me, which signifieth to me, that the spirit is greater
than the flesh, and the power of God's spirit came in
Christ, doing all things that ie done in his name. And it
is the spirit that doeth, and not the flesh; seeing his flesh
was but a servant to God, or the spirit thereof, which
was in him from the beginning of sin and transgression
on earth. Now it becometh us to know what part suffer-
ed in Christ, and what did not, least the Godhead should
be aflected and corrupted by the state of sin. Adam was
made a living soul in the. presence of God, fliU of the
knowledge of what he should do, and what he should
not, and received his instruction of God: so also, believe
J, of Jesus Christ, that he was a living soul; born of the
spirit of God, without corruption, free from the dee^s of
his forefather Adam according to the flesh. For such
he was, by Adam's being made flesh, or the soul thereof
clothed with flesh, before the spirit of Jesus Christ. But
after sin began to take place in Paradise, Christ, or the
spirit thereof, so loved the world, that he began to take
upon him the nature of the rewards thereof, and began
to groan under a sense thereof for relief in the presence
of the Almighty fountain of heaven, who had power to
forgive sins through repentance, which is made by the
groans of Jesus Christ in the presence of God. And God
so loved his Son, that in due time he gave him relief
for all men, or for all sinsy and accepted him the second
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there^atthe command of the internal P"^*' °f ^"f;
TeU h t^ internTlaw of God. and keep it not to
Iheiol salvation: >»hich thing A«l^'».«><"'^/" J^"
. . ,„j „j,en God condemned hmi or them,
rrd!; d „t; uSed not the Holy Ghost; ^ut
thatT^rit which led the soul astray *erefn.mi ther^
fori M. Mar, that suffers in man, enabled by God
hereunto. 'dU It receives the rewards of its actto^n ai>d
heCl for receiving, and the flesh for g.ving. Thus,
™!n buffers in body, soul and spirit for sm, seemg, he
man sutlers in u /, . j^ God never com-
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life in us, according to the will of God. But, in Jesus
Christ dwelt the fulness thereof bodily; therefore, he
had to give to them, which had part with him, which is
to say, they that « eat my flesh and drink my blood,"
hath part with me in the kingdom of heaven, or the
right side of power. Which side, is that in which we
are justified of God; and that which is the wrong side,
or left hand of God, is that, in whicK we are lying under
the condemnation of our own works, of which nature,
Jesus Christ took upon him, toiling under which for
our salvation, that we might pass from the left, to the
fight hand of God. Thus, he became a mediator between
the two states, often telling us of what God revealed to
him, that we might believe therein, and do that which
pleases God, till he could testify unto God his father for
us, that we had become as he was, and was fit to dweU
with God, by keeping and doing all things which he
commandeth us, even as he doeth the will of liis father
which is in heaven. Which would be the baptism of
the Son in us, by which we would be fitted to dwell
with God as in the beginning, where Christ and God,
or the spirit and the soul dwells together in man,
actuating the five senses of the body. In which state
Christ is one with the Father, or the soul one, by obe-
dience to the spirit of heaven, which is the salvatioi\ of
the man, in body, soul and spirit: which work, I believe,
Jesus Christ came to accomplish in the world, and was
done in his own soul, before he entered the kingdom of
heaven. Therefore he made way for all men in himself,
to come to the knowledge of God, and be at peace with
his spirit, as he was at peace with all men on earth,
when his groans and agonies had ceased on the cross,
which is the end of corruption to all that hath sinned.
Therefore, take heed what ye say, least ye condemn
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many others) that I own and believe in all the scriptures,
vft I have not condemned any part of them. But it is not
kwful for me in the sight of God, to say that which I
am not, and if I should say, that the spirit of Christ
dwells in me, then I might in justice say that I owned
or professed all the scriptures that are written of God s
snirit But, suffer me to be small in my beginnmg; that
K grl in the grace of God, least I should be ffr.««
in JoLsion and small in ,.<.rA:„ like many of my con-
demners, and instead of growing greater in the works of
God, I should grow less than my profession, and great
in the service of the Devil, like some of you, who cannot
distinguish the works of one day from another, and for
ir thereof, have no knowledge how Jesus Christ
« grew in favour, both with God and man, nor how the
iace of God was multiplied upon him, till he received
L fulness of all things written in the scriptures in o
one body, even that which his spirit took upon him, m
lich he endured the nature of all sin, and the tempta-
bns thereof like unto us, and more in abundance; for
•ne couW not be overcome with the temptations of all the
Xies of the earth. Therefore, beware how ye judge of
- trZvls of the spirit of Christ, either in an mward or
lu'Jar? ensl of the word. Ye whohave been overcome
riess than the tenth part of that, by which he was
Jmptedtd fell not, least ye yourselves should be fou.d
S under the condemnation of the works of Christ,
SUe no part with him, who f"lfi"'=1;'- --?f -;
to the coming of the glorious spirit of God in m^n,
rn,ri«t ve have no part with him. .... . t._ _c
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for us after sin had taken place in the world? He imme-
diately look upon him the rewards thereof for our salva-
tion, and became as one of ws in all things save sin in the
sight of God: which obedience, maketh intercession with
God, for all states that have sinned, till this day.— The
same was, and is his stale of mediation in man, as by
obedience, he doeth the will of God, and, as by pain,
suffereth for that which we have done. That we might
be free therefrom, by eating hisjflesh, and drinking his
blood on the cross of death Which ran from his side after
his crucifixion. Then, in order to have part with Jesu^
Christ, we must begin at the beginning, and follow him
through all, as he hath followed us through sin: which
is to say, when we have sinned in the sight of God, %ve
have need of a mediator, and, if we have any part in be-
ing redeemed from sin, must follow him into heaven:
and how did he enter the kingdom of fieaven, or how did
he come down therefrom, that we may know the way to
return, seeing Jesus Christ is not personally with us to
teach us the way how he came from or passed into hea-
ven? Again true, but nevertheless, he promised he would
be with his disciples, till the coming of the end of the
world: this must be in spirit, seeing in flesh he is long
since absent, and the world yet remaiueth, and the spirit
thereof in the hearts of the people: therefore, j,t becometh
us to know the spirit of Jesus Christ, till this spirit is
done away in us, after which, the spirit of God, or Jesus
Christ in the fulness of his glory is only necessary, and
not in the pains of sin and death.
But as we have sinned, we must first know him in
sorrow, before we can receive him in joy; in which state
the eating and drinking of his flesh and blood is neces-
sary, or the knowledge thereof. Jesus Christ descended
down out of heaven, in that day that condemnation and
darkness took place in the Paradise of God, or infant
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state of man; Uiat day he suffered death spiritually for ua,
not according to the spirit of God, but according to the
nature of the spirit of a man, which was to do the wiU oi
God on earth, according to the purposeof his creator, who
formed him to do his will, that he might be changed
into the nature thereof, and dwell with God, like Christ
in the beginning. And in order thereunto. Christ came
down out of heaven, to fashion sinful man into his own
likeness, that he might dwell in favour with God, and be
like himself in the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, he
began to suffer for the loss in Adam, and began to toil
for bread in him, which he had already earned, and was
with God in the kingdom of heaven, ready ^^ Uie re-
wards of man, if he had kept the commands of God in
his own soul. ..
Therefore, Christ began in man, to build up all thmgs
anew in him, as he began the creation in the presence ot
God, he himself sufferin?: the loss by sin, as coming
down out of heaven, and dwelling in the absence of the
father's glory, resting and toUing under condemnation,
for the restoration of that which was lost. And the com-
mands of Jesus Christ unto us, I believe to be the will of
God to man, as he gave unto Christ these things, which
he gave unto us-which was his body and blood on the
cross: but his soul, he resigned not into the hands of any
save God; which body, suffered from the foundation of
the world, which was unlawfully received inti the hear
of man by partawing thereof, when God giveth U not
untTus. A knowledge, which I think, thousands have
received of the life of Christ which I think never was
given them by God: else there would be more know-
fedge of the partaking of the pains of his flesh and drink-
ing^into us his life, which is the New Testame^because
it is partaking of a new life, contrary to that which
comeih by sin in ws all.
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Mark, while Jesus died by parts, and suffered in Mo-
ses and the prophets, by the loss of their outward inhe-
ritance, and in the patriarchs, by the loss of their
children; the world remained in sin and but part clean,
not doubting:, but that all that eat of the sufferings of his
flesh, received their rewards equally with the members
of his body, till the day came, that his whole body suf-
fered in death; after which the world was made clean in
him, by giving up that ghosi in every whit, which is con-
trary to the nature and will of God. ThcTsame said in
him> •< if it be possible let it pass away from me, never- ,
theless not my will but thine be done," Which sheweth
unto me, that the desires of man are inferior to the will
of God, which ought to have been denied by the soul of
Adam in paradise, and said to the will of the flesh; or
fruit of the body, not thy will, but that which God hath
commanded me be done, which was fulfilled by Christ
on the cross, after suffering through the whole of the
Old Testament dispensation, to the fulfilment thereof.
Therefore take heed how ye profess Christ and condemn
others, seeing he may not be in all men alike. I may
have received the least portion of his spirit, and am
hardly worthy to be numbered with them that lived in
the world before the appearance of his fulness in the
flesh, seeing he.is not in all men alike; but one hath re-
ceived one portion of his spirit, and another, another
portion, all to the honour of tlie works done in his body
when he dwelt therein in the fulness thereof. The same
£^race was multiplied in him, as in the world before his
coming, when one i-eceived one portion, and another,
another, 'till he himself received the fulness of all things
withoitt measure in one body, and is able thereby to jus-
tify the least portion of the spirit or works of grace in all,
withoutthe condemnation of any in whom the grace of God
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abides, to the glorifying of these things, %>hich he done
on earth^'in his body, by doing the same in the Hesh of
others, to the honour of God, both in the Old and New
Testament, which U his life unto salvation in all.
Wntten on the /irosfiect of death, by the Author, in the
thirty seventh year of his age, ^6th of the Ut Month,
1815.
THE powers of hell are now combir/d;
With war against me rage.
But in my God my souFs resignM—
The rock of every age .
Hif. power in my soul I'll see,
When death and hell has done;
The hope thereof sustaineth me,
Until that day doth come.
In vain men rage against God's will;
His power on earth is all;
For which I do resign my skill.
And on his power call.
O God, thy Son hath formed me;
I nothing was at all;
And if my like well pleases thee,
Thy spirit is my all.
For this is what thoti giv'st to them,
That doth thy gracious will;
In this I am like other men,
According to thy skill.
Some thou doth set in kings' estate,
And some on earth must serve;
When others almost starve.
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Choose which of these shall be my lot,
Before I'm doom'd to die;
For notwithstanding all I've got
My lot is yet to cry.
For crowns may fall from great estate,
And children dear may die;
And those with gold and silver plate,
May for thy mercy cry.
If thou would grant what I would choose.
With beggars let me share;
And with thy will proud Satan bruise,
That none may with him fare.
He sits as king in many a seat,
In a religious name,
And grants his servants daily meat,
To war against thy name.
But God my Lord Til yield to thee
My body and my breath;
And my poor soul shall subject be
Although my lot is death.
r^e earth doth hunger for my blood,
C. ^:^nd Satan for my soul;
And men my flesh, for daily food.
That they may me control.
if this O God should be thy will,
Resign'd I am to thee;
For Jesus Christ my Saviour's skill,
Prov'd ^eace and liberty.
Therefore to death I should resign,
Just as thy hopeful Son;
For after death did him confine.
The resurrection come.
Therefore my soul should follow him,
As he's the only way;
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And death and hell must rage again,
With war against his day.
The same hath set proud hell to work.
And Satan's men to roar,
Least his greaf. kingdom should be broke,
And death should rule no more.
Now tiy thy tyrants, king of hell,
Against a man that's poor;
And if thou can't destroy my skill;
I would thou try no more.
If God dpth give what I receive,
The same is due to thee;
And thou, in spirit, must believe
!n Gospel liberty.
Now this is what all men profess,
In this our darken'd day,
It's also what my God doth bless,
In lands of liberty.
It's also mine, by George our king,
The ruler of my day;
But yet if I dishonour bring,
Cut short my feeble stay.
For this is in your hearts to do,
Ye inferiors of the earth;
And it's in mine to do so too,
And stop that cursed birth.
Its yfiij\ was conceiv'd of helj,
By wi<
And bast.
And this is all its worth.
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That every man may have his due.
And God my Lord be free;
And this is what I'll give to you,
For my own liberty.
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CROWN OF ENGLAND.
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ADDRESS.
To thy Crown J Englandy and !hy great name, I write
as /oliows'-^to all the InhMfants thereof.
1, WHO am the least amongst thy subjects in the sight
of men, beg leave of thy ruling po' ^^ on earth, to ad-
dress thy dominions with the language of my heart,
which is no less for thy good than other men, who ap-
pear by action to be more for thy support in this world
than I am— ne^rertheless thy dominions are great, thy
subjects are many, and thy power ruleth over many in the
earth, of which I am one, asking of thee that which is in
thy hands, or power to grant, or to deny, wiiich may, or
might be of some consequence to thy kingdom, although
I am but small therein in thy sight, nay scarcely worthy
of thy notice, in a day of clamorous war and great dis-
tress in the earth to them that suffer there' y. I am no
sufferer in these things,— save a little property which
is taken from me by distraint, which is not M'orthy of
mention in thy sight. I am a man of very little educa-
tion in literal things, neither am I acquainted with much
liistory in the ear*h, neither do I wish to recollect these
things, or write therefrom, any more than concerns my-
self, or the work of my day which I may be called to do
in thy dominions, before I pass away therefrom.
Peace in the land, is an honour to the crown of all
nations, because God is peace, and in peace created the
heavens, the earth, and the seas, with aii that remain
therein; yea, canst thou say, oh England, but what the
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very ground on which thou standest, and which yields
up thy support, was created in peace; canst thou deny
but that the very seas, Ihe ocean on which thou rovest
with ships of war and merchantmen, was formed in
peace by the Almighty forming hand of power; yea,
these things are undeniable truths according to your own
F:*ofession, of which I ask not the aalvatiofi of my own
soul, but of God that gave it. But my person and pro-
perties, which I have received of God, is given into thy
hands: now consider what ye will do with it after I make
known unto thee, and prove hereby, what manner of
man I am, of which yc know not, except I write unto
you according to the wisdom of God which I have re-
ceived respecting thy nation and kingdom in the earth.
I was caught as a child from his mother's lap, and
brought into thy dominions, where I have been blest
with a sufficient support to myself and family; and al-
though this may be counted as but a common or earthly
favour, yet I receive it as at the hand of God, and have
been even or almost ready to bless the earth in the name
of God in th;- dominions. For wi.en God created the
earth as well as the heavens, he saw that it was good
and blessed it; so I can say it has been to me under thy
government, for which I give God praise in thy land,
by calling the inhabitants thereof to repent of their
wickedness, be baptized, and believe in the name of the
Lord, who is the great governor of all the earth: there-
fore as he has caused me to offer these things to you in
his name, I would not that ye account them as trifles, or
as though they were small, least by so doing ye despise
the things of God and enter into error thereby, and come
under the condemnation of God, the greater power, for
despising the day of small things in thy land. Great
Britain, that hath long ruled as king in the earth: peace
be unto thee, and grace be multiplied by my soul, and
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hll others that serve the true and living God in thy
name. Thou that art great in the earth, with thee I speak
no more, but to thy inhabitants in every degree therein.
Hemember the time of thy beginning, and when thou
wast but as an infant in the hand of God, and consider
what he hath done for thee, that thou may know thereby
what to do with me, who am but as an infant in the hand,
or works of God in thy nation.
Hath not God multiplied thy borders, and made of
thee a great and mighty people in the earth? Hath n»t -
the womb of thy mother been blest unto thee, and
borne many subjects to support thy cause. Yea, may
U not be said of thee, that God hath been thy father;
e^sethine enemy would have conquered thee long ago
Hath not God settled disputes and disturbances in thy
nation, when one was raised up against another; aim by
» domg, suffered thee to be a people in peace in thy
land and there hath supported thee and sustained thee,
been for the mercy and power of God in thy name, thjr
own nation and subjects would have been involved in
blood one against another, and thine enemy would have
and trodden thy crown under their feet, and by so doine
ye could no more have been a people, neither could y!
have bad a nam« m the earth any more.-Consider what
the Loi-d your God hath d. ,- un.o you, not toZtaZ
but that the enemy yet strivuh for a place in youTund
o overthrow the kingdom which ye possess. Bu while
U IS yet in your hands, I would that ve consider the Door
subjects that are therein and are subject to .1 y tw"
Forget them not, I say unto thee, for this cause, thlt a
nation u, no more than one man, in the sigh, of God
and as he hath power in his wrath, to curse! nut 0^^^;
injusuce done .0 one man, so also hath he v^ZZ
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bless the same for kindness and jusdce done to one of
the least of his people, of which I am one that speaketh
with thee this day.
Ye may think it strange that such an inferio. should
address the crown of Great Britain with all her subjects,
nevertheless, inferior I am indeed, and have no posses-
sions therein, save what the Lord my God hath given
unto me, neither do I rule over any therein, save that of
which I am made master, of which I hardly durst say
m the vain thoughts and imaginations of my own heart,
an inferior crew to rule over, if I had full dominion over
them all, but more inferior is my lot when some, or
many of them doth rule over me. And now I have made
known unto thee, these things which concern myself in
thy dominions, and of my inferior station therein, I
would that ye suffer me to be free in all things which the
Lord may give unto me for thy eternal good, Seeing
that which every minister receives of God in thy name
and nation, is for the good of thy inhabitants throughout
the whole of them, save those that needeth no repen-
tance in thy name, if any such there be in thy land; I
mean not that they should be included in my hand
writing, seeing they are already whole and need no re-
pentance. In this way I wish to be excused for my pre-
sumption, for as I did not know these from the rest, I
included the whole of you iijtKe beginning, least I should
miss some that had need of preaching, and I thereby
should be deprived of my rewards. Therefore after I have
writtea 1 will leave God to judge between you and me;
and also to make judges of you, whether you will receive
my mijiistry in your land in peace, yea or nay. Not for-
gettmg the text, that God is peace, in which I am callecl
to preach the gospel unlo you, whether ye will receive
it or not — it is the same to me, seeing 1 have received,
or trust in God for my own salvation. Ye are great
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indeedj I can*t help that, neither do I want to, but am
willing ye should remain great in the sight of God,
although I am but small therein, in the things thereof.
Now choose whether I should, or might be your servant
in these things, yea or nay; as I think it would be a shame
for a minister to be banished from your nation, for
preaching the gospel of peace therein.
I am a man under the visitation of God*s power in
your land, and many scandalous reports are in circulation
against me. The intent of the spirit of the thing, is to
put me to flight from your dominions, or that I should
be imprisoned therein; for which cause, I as a dutiful
subject make myself known hereby unto you of great
estate in the world, least your minds should be affected
and stirred up against me without a cause, by your in-
feriors, who seek to do evil to the works of God, when-
ever the Almighty is trying to do you good: this practice
hath prevailed in your land, till it is enough, and suffi-
cient proofs have been made amongst you by formjr
disseiiters: which is to say, when they come to be well
examined and tried, they were not the people that they
were judged to be in the beginning. The last that suffered
under the crown of Great Britain, I believe to have been
the Quakers, through the scandalous reports and false
surmisings of their enemies. And as I am one that have
dissented from tl^em, and have become a little body of
people in this place, and on a little trial in our separate
station from them, find that they are very envious
against us, especially the most zealouc amongst them,
and by false reports and wrong judgments, have stirred
up much evil against us in thy dominions: and in order
that the power of government which is in your hands,
should not be affected thereby, we write as follows for
your information and peace sake between you and us,
not desiring to be so far taken notice of, that you should
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plead our cause against our enemies, but that ye should
not become a weapon in their hands to stir up str»fc
-against us without a cause, which might prove to your
own condemnation in the sight of God; for which cause,
peace be still, and let there be a calm in your land, in
these things in the sight of God; remembering that the
evil hath raged against the good in thy dominions like
the mighty seas, to which Christ said, peace be still,
and there was a calm and the seas obeyed him. There-
fore I would that ye make such use of that power which
is in your hands, O England, as never to suffer such
things to rise in thee any more, but rather repent of that
which is done in thee, by suffering the gospel to rise in
peace in thy dominions; seeing none can do any thing
against us without ye give countenance thereunto, and
commit the power of the law into the hands of those
who may make evil use thereof, against us in thy name.
It is not the nature of my spirit to lie bound in prisons,
without a cause, as others have done. Therefore I write
unto you, that ye may shew unto me a cause, and make
manifest that I am an oiTender thereof, before I suffer
thereby. Ye may wonder why I write these things, but
as they concern me they may be better known to myself,
than almost any other, in this place. Therefore 1 write
the following precaution to you, lest ye should be found
engaging in a work, of which ye know not the end: see-
ing the Lord is with his people, and God goeth before
us in the way: therefore as a messenger of his will,
I transcribe these few lines to you, ye inhabitants of
England, with all the rest of thy dominions: peace be
unto me and peace be unto you therein; God be with
you, and God be with me, that the power of peace may
have fiill dominion between you and us, that it may be
said of thy government, kingdom and nation, we have
been blessed with many great and bright ministers, who
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have shone forth unto us, giving light to our nation, as
stars in the firmament of heaven.
And now, as thus our land is visited once more, with
the nature of dissention, separation, and reformation from
that which is evil; let us bless it while it doeth no evil
unto us, that we may be blest of God who has done no
evil unto us, but has often rewarded us with a good re-
ward, although we have done evil unto those whom he
hath sent unto us; lest the day should come upon us,
that he wil^ visit us with his servants no more, and take
the crown of our blessings from our heads and all be left
to go to the fi^d of battle, and the seas of cruising
against our enemy, and there will be none left to ciy
peace in our land any more. Seeing in peace God doth all
his work in the beginning, and God changeth not, there-
fore let his wok'ks be at peace in our land, and the
Lord's work be done in peace therein, because God is
peace.
DAVID WILLSON,
Whitchurch, county of York, and"
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X ROM whence came man but of God? From whence
came sin but of man? seeing there was no sin before man
'/done that which he should not. Who or what is right, save ■
God; and who or what is wrong, save man, and the works
thereof? Then if man in his works is wrong, it becometh
him to labour and toil to know that which is right, that
he may do that which is wrong no more. Did God make
all things right in the beginning? yea, because God is,
and was altogether rightj therefore no wrong or unclean
thing Cometh fortli of God. If God was and is good with
all his works, how could man do that which was wrong
in his sight; because man had a work to do in the begin-
ning, the neglect thereof was wrong in the sight of God;
seeing God spake unto, or ii7^'> mao, of what he should,
or might do; but positively ot :hat which he should not;
for in so doing, he should die to the rewards of that
which he might have done; if he had kept the word of
God in himself, by which all things was created. Behold
the goodness of God to man in the beginning, and doubt
not but God is altogether good; for when he had finish-
ed the worlds^ and all things which is, or was therein, by
his all-powerfal, or labouring word; he gave the same
unto man, whereby he might toil, and become an image,
or heir of his gtoiious res^; whlgh wa^ with liiiii Wr^n the
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worlds were made; therefor-, man was made in the image
of God in the beginning, that he might be an heir to his
rest in the end, seeing in the spirit of God are many
mansions, which signifies to me, a place for all that tul-
iil the purpose of their creation, which is to obey
whatever the word of God saith unto us in the beginnmg
in us all. r i- j» • %
When man, or Adam is, or was born of God s spirit,
he was upright in Iiis sight, as he had not yet fallen; but
in order that he should know his creator, and the pur-
pose of his creation, God commanded him to toil, or do,
by which experience we come to the knowledge of all
things which is done; otherwise man could not keep the
image of God, from the beginning to the end of his
days, and the image of God's hereafter presence, or
glory for ever and ever, into which God entered when
his work on earth, or in earthly things was done, into
which man can never enter, nor behold the presence
thereof, until he comes to that state of uprightness in
which he was created, or born cf the spirit of God, and
that which is fallen or lost, altogether restored, or found
by him in the first state of creation; after which he may
receive his word* or the Holy Ghost again, as in Adam,
and keep the commands thereof till the end of our days,
and do the will of God from our cradle to our gr^ve, and
keep the image, or glory of God, in which we was made
for ever and ever peace without end. Amen.
Because the ghost of God is holy, from the beginning
to the en4 in the life of man; unto this state all must
come that hath sinned; seeing in sin, or corruption, no
man is worthy of the will, or presence of God; then it
Tiiay be said, how did God appear unto Adam after trans-
gression of soul: he first appeared in Adam by remem-
. .. , . .1 1 1 J ««:«! uTifrt Viim before he
brance oi wnat iiiv wui"u A*a-u =ai« «:=-.-.^ ^
had disobeyed the commands thereof, the same as Christ
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appeared in Peter, causing him to remember what he
had said unto him that night in which he was betrayed
into the hands of sin and corruption; so Adam also by
forgetfulness, carelessness, or neglect, refused to keep
the word of God, and thereby was betrayed into the
state of shame before God, or the power thereof appear-
ed unto, or into him; in condemnation for that, or for
not doing that which he ought to have done; the ne-
glect of which caused him to do that which he should
aot. If things had been right in the world, the same
might have been said of them in the act of denying and
betraying Jesus Christ; but suffer it so to be, seeing the
same preaches unto us, that we should not do like them in
these things; neither should we do like Adam, in what
he done, that was contrary to the will of God. But of the
former cometh the latter, and from the fall of Adam, or
first transgression in us, cometh all iniquity, seeing it
is, and was the root of all evil under the sun; therefore
him, or them which hath sinned in the sight of God,
must first know the beginning of evil in ourselves, be-
fore we can know the beginning of the will and power of
God in us, because good was before evil in the sight of
God, but evil works was before that which was good in
Adam, or in us, that is like unto him in all things which
we do in the state of sin. Therefore it is meet for Adam ^
or his fallen state in us, to first know the evil which we
have done, before we can know the will of God, which
was in us before evil took place by transgrt- ssicn there-
in. The want of which knowledge is the downfall of so
many good buildings, and great ciiies, or societies that
are raised up in the earth, after the order oi Babylon, or
the tower thereof, which grew well for a while, till the
language got confounded, and the builders, or ministers
could build no more: the reason isj the v have not the
will, or the spirit of God, for their foundation; neither
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had the builders of Babylon, else it nexer could be over-
.htwn; seeing th« po«er of God is the greatest power,
lndrureslfoundatio.8 amongst men; yea, the globe, the
heavens, and the earth, remains thereon, «.th the sun.
moon, and stars, in the firmament thereof, and their
Ught goeth not out for ever.because God ts the bu.lder.
pfwer! and light thereof. But these »hatbmld"P good, not
knowing the foundations, and beginning of evil, is very
S to build thereon, and down comes Babylon, with all
he glories of the earth, seeing Jesus Christ refused and
despised them all. before he began to preachthe gospel of
peace to the people; and his first cry was not "«<> *ein,
do good, but repent of that evil which is done, that here-
after we migh. do good. Mark how he was baptized of
John, when in man's estate, according to the size of the
flesh, before he could endure all these temptations, by
which all the Sons of Adam fell from uprightness of
heart before God, net as though he had need to be bap-
tized for his own sins, but as though we had need he should
pass through this state, for our sakes, that his whole Ufe
might be the complete and full ministry of God, from
the state of the fall, to uprightness of heart, or the full
resloralion of all that which was lost in us, which ap-
peared in Jesus Christ on earth, by fulfilling every state
of the mercy, and power of God to all that hath sinned;
therefore, in the life of Christ, are many mansions,
much room, or many states, wherein all may rest, and
never fall like Babylon; because every state m hirn is,
and was right; therefore God is the author of that which
is right, and man the author of that which is wrong; and
Jesus Christ, in whom was both the'nature of God and
man, in one body, the perfect knowledge of a mtAimr
jj.M-o.p »hp tivn states in us: therefore the life ol Christ
U 'th7 full 'and ample ministry of God in us, while we
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remain in a state of sin, or by experience in the least
sense thereof, which sense was not in Adam, when he
first heard the word of God, neither can it be in us, when
his spirit speaketh in us again, which state I call God in
man, and Christ with the father, as in the beginning; and
his spirit only known in us, exclusive of the flei^h of all
men, as no man had laboured on earth to corrupt the
mind of Adam before he sinned, or might have done
that which is, or was right in the sig^ of God.
But now while we have got things into a small com-
pass) even in us, let us try to know what we, or I am,
wluch becometh every man, let them be born of Adam,
Christ, or God, which are the three states in man, or the
soul thereof, God striving by Christ, for the victory
therein, over all the powers of the earth, or temptations
of the Devil therein. How came man into three parts, or
the Godhead into three natures subsisting on or in one
God? God made all things in his own image, which
image ,s good in .i' hings that are made; in that day I
cannot see, that there was any thing more in the world,
or m man, than God, and his works, or God in his works.
Xr? •^•'^^rK^^'^^' ,nd all things to obey him,
which dominion he had when he dwelt with the father
and whatsoever he said should be the name and power of
he beasts, that it was, and thsy were contented therewith,
that Adam the first son of God should rule over them in
peace, because all were satisfied with the name or power
which Adam gave unto them. The same is an emblem of
that which was fulfilled by Christ and his disciples, wl'o
once had lost their first estate, and fallen into the n^tue
of beasts by serving the temptations of the earth: there!
and be passive m the har, ! of the son, spirit, or son] of
God once morp. Qio..^;f„:..^.u^„^i.. ., . ... ' ^ =>"i»i oi
*u^ u ' " ' -o-"/-"5 iiiwrvuy meir iaiien state from
the begmnrng; when the spirit of God, or the Holv Gho«
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\i-i
both
.„,,. u ever, r^'^':^^^^:.:^:^^^:!:::^^
the body and soul °f ''\"'»" or us it would have pre-
order had been kept .n Adam, or us^ '^ « ^
served us in soul and body, or ^^"^J^J^; „„ ^arth,
other Lord and .aster, - — -J^^ru God's «orUs.
seeing man was and is the mosi i
and aLe worthy to be — ^»"f ^„7„\ bTthe last in
^as the Hrst c-der of God m man, and will be ^^^
us, if we ;ver know our own «°">» '» ^ ^"^b^^ ^hen
s. te of Paradise -"""-J.'^tf^f ''.tre'^as. or is one
™an or Adam first entered f ° «>"; '^^^'^J^^; „eated;
«ore nature in "^han J^t - -h.a. w ^^^ .^^^^^^ ^^
and when we ^o 'hat which we _^ ^ ^^^_
that which we should do, there is an ^s,
trary to the will «"''P°:t;;;f'i: professions, or so-
and tens of thousands >- J »P J^ ^ ^,, ^.j.h is the
cieues in the earth, PJ°™ ,^„ ;„ „s after we
second nature of Gcd, "h'ch ''« J „^jures in us,
have sinned, in which «;=> « ^^^^.^^Vrh" knowledge of
,.hich are the nature of «>" J^ J^^^ ^^ich the know-
God is lost, and the nature oChr^^hy ^^ ^^^^
ledge of God may be fo-f ^^l .hereof by the ^
sinned, and received «ome know g ^^^^^^^ ^^_
spirit of Christ crying repentance m j ^^ ^
/eived God, but J^e kno-J^^^^^J,, „, ,,e spirit there-
found, seeing the hfeoH""'' ^ reconciliation, to bring
of, is a spirit of -ef ««°»; ° J^, „f the Holy Ghost,
mankind back into the knowie g ^^^^^.^^^ ^^
^hich is without flesh or -"ho»t^^";^„, ,^^, God be-
all that labour in the will °f «°° '°^ ,fter man had
came into, or came in twonatu es n m , ^^ ^^^ ^.^^ ^^
taken into him a -'";;;'^,f^;;h°ch Go'd appeared no
God, which he should not after ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^
more naked before him, as in_spu«, ^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^
in the beginning, but Dega-.. v" "■"- -
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upon him which first veiled Adam, or ourselves from his
sight: therefore he began to speaK to the sons of Adam
or repeated transgressions in another manner, than that
in which he first did speak to him in the beginning, in
the heart, soul, or mind thereof. Therefore Christ first
began his work, with, or in the state of sin by the first
teachers of righteousness, after transgression first took
place in the heart of man; therefore God in Christ, or the
fiesh thereof, first became veiled from the presence of
all that have sinned, and became unworthy of his holy
presence, or that Ghost which is holy in man, the same
hath a right to the whole heart thereof, and while any
other ghost or spirit abides therein, no man hath re-
ceived the whole interpretation of God to man, or the
spirit thereof in man, in which state no man is perfect
neither have they received God*s holy ghost, seeing
the heart is partly filled up with another, which is con-
trary to the pure aind undefile^ nature thereof. There-
fore God remained or remains veiled in the spirit, or
flesh of Christ, and only reveals himself to man, by and
through the flesh, or the spirit thereof, by parts, as the
heart becomes clean by repentance, to the reception
thereof, till he appears naked and bare in man as at the
beginning, speaking to man by and through no object of
mediation any more, in which state we receive Christ, in
the glory and will of God; but in the first state, under the
bonds of sin, and corruption, in which state his acts are
not clean in the sight of God, as though we had not
sinned, yet they are clean in his sight, because we have
sinned and the first nature of Jesus Christ, or God
therein after \ye have sinned, is agreeable to the will and
mercy of the Holy Ghost, because of sin in us purging
the heart of man, by the spirit of Jesus Christ, that the
temple of God might be made clean thereby; that the
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, might dwell together
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therein as in the beginning when these three made one
all powerful, all living and one all eternal God in man
throughout all the earth.
But in order thereto, many if not all of these little ^
B-.bylons that are not more than knee high must come
down; which is to say, our society, and our profession,
and our folks exceed all accorcUng to scriptures, but
which exceeds in the life of Christ, which is the rights of
man, or the right of God in man, after he hath sinned to
his own condemnation. Why the most spiritual people
say, that most assuredly we are right, and must stand
the longest; seeing we have the very spirit of Christ for
our fDundation. Boast not of these things, because in the
end, Christ resigns up the kingdom in the heart of man
to God, and his spirit becomes all and all therein; and
the spirit of the works, or life of Christ, is a spirit of
mediation, and must pass away from between God and
man, or the works done in his body; from between the
Holy Ghost and the soul. The same caused Chrifit to say
to his disciples, if I go not away, the comforter, or ano-
ther will not come: in which state he resigned up the
heart of his disciples to the immediate power of God, or
commands of the Ho., Ghost; in which state the servant
was as their Lord, when he was commanded by the Holy
Ghost from the manger, to the cross; where he died and
rose again, free from the condemnation of sm, which he
put off in his agonies on the tree, sentence by sentencer
or croan by groan till he gave up the whole ghost of sm,
death, and corruption, which state we must all see before
ever we know the first coming of the state of Jesus
Christ in us, seeing he was without sin in his fir^ body,
which was born of the virgin, formed of God as the soul
of Adam in Paradise, and was without sin throughout his
days until death. ^» . , -n ^««,-
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down from heaven, and abide in us, doing his former
acts in our sinful bodies, yea, or nay; if we say yea, so it
is, then why did God chose, or form a body without sin,
to dwell in, because he would not dwell in the heart,
with the spirit of corruption; therefore, he appeared on
earth in one that was altogether clean, for although the
wages, or rewards of si.^ was upon him, yet the spirit
thereof was not in him, where God the power of his
father did dwell; for which cause I think many are not
quite in as high a stats of spiritual things, as they would
feign teach to others, if they would receive them, fo^
which cause I murmur not, that I have received no
man's doctrine, save that which God hath given, for by
so doing 1 shall not break through and steal that which
is given to others, which I think all do that profess Jesus
Christ in the second state, not knowing him in the first.
These to me are like a people that never toiled, resting
before they are wearv, entering into heaven before the
work is done, setting down in a state of dumb stupid
case, as though the pains of Jesus Christ had washed
their sins away, when I believe his life to be the only
pattern, of example by which we are made clean, ard
as Ood in the first place spake in Adam, in spirit, so
also in the third he spake in us by and through the
power of the Holy Ghost, but as in the second, by
and through his Son, our souls or God*s redeemer of
mankind, unto him that is or was lost. Now if God, or
his immediate power, or the Holy Ghost is in us, as
professed by many in our day, the same I believe to be
God in the beginning and in the end And as it is a
common saying, or profession, that we all have sinned,
so also I would that it was as common to. tell how all
was redeemed therefrom that profess they have receiv-
ed the spirit of Christ, or that inspiration that is alto-
gether acceptable in the sight of God. Seeintr I have nnt
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professed these things, but the name of God only, not
as though I was great and did profess, or possess the
fulness thereof; but as though he was the father of all
good, both great and small, I professed his name, lest
I should err in profession. Seeing it is testified that it
is by him that we come to the knowledge of Jesus
Christ, and by the power or spirit of Christ, we come
to the knowledge of the Holy Ghost. And it appears by
the doctrine, and life, and prayers of Christ, that God
giveth all; which signifies to me, that God giveth unto
us the right knowledge and sense of Jesus Christ; and
how we should work by him as our pattern, or follow
him as our example, or believe in him as our God, till
the Holy Ghost cometh. All which is born of the spirit
of God and the Holy Ghost, his internal likeness for ever
in the heart and soul of man, bringing forth fruits of its
own kind for ever. But as the God of all nature, both
spiritual and temporal, save sin, hath become divided
into three parts for our sakes that hath sinned, it oe-
cometh us to know how we receive it, lest we should
do dishonour to the author of all good thereby, seemg
the Almighty in his several existences in man, cannot
be divided against himself, lest his kingdom thereby
should fall in us, and the works thereof in the world,
and the desired prayers of Jesus Christ to his disciples,
should never be fulfilled on earth: which is to say, thy
will be done on earth, as it is in heaven, which signifies
thy kingdom rule in the heart, as in thy spirit, where
all things issue for thy praise, as in the beginning. Then
it becometh us who have fallen into a lower degree of
nature than our first state, to praise God for all, or every
means of our deliverance therefrom, as people m every
age, state, or degree, hath given unto him a measure of
praise. But if vc should praise God for that which we
. _ -^ : A ,*« oU/MiU Ha false worshiDDcrSy
nave noi yei icvwiicuj ww aw-'-^i-- — - — — »• '
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serving a God whom we know not, and none would be
our equals in these things, save the state of the Pha-
risee, who praised God for that which he had not yet
received, and gave him thanks for that which he had
not. And I can say of a truth with the Publican, that
spake after hirn in the world, as I speak after your great
and mighty spiritual professions therein:— that him that
knoweth his own sins, and the spirit thereof, is more
justified in the sight of God, than a great many others
that are boasting of what they have received, puffed up
with some knowledge of the Holy Ghost according to
professions.
Suffer me to ask of you some questions, you tliat are
my superiors in your own eyes, according to your un-
blameable profession. If Jesus Christ is; the way to God,
and the mercy and power of God in us, the way to Jesus
Christ, and the spirit thereof, how far ye have travelled
in the way, where ye came from, and when you got
there; seeing ye have received Christ, and the Holy
Ghost, that lightest every man, coming into the state,
or nature of this world. 1 herefore ye that have the
light, are a very proper people to ask, how myself or
others shall get out of it. What foolish questions to ask,
seeing eveiy man hath received the light: true, but
every mar. hath not brought forth fruits of the light, by
which all men shall know that ye have received it.
What good doth it do, to say there is a light in dark^
ness, if the darkness cannot comprehend it: ye might as
well say there is a light under a bushel, as to say that
Christ, or the Holy Ghost, dwells in 9 heart of wicked-
ness. Christ saith, when I am in the world, I am the
light thereof; so also believe I,* that when Christ is in
tis, we is a light in the world, by works which he hath
done, when, or while he dwelt immortal in that body of
mortality on earth, in which he TninictAr^^ /^» ^A^i^f
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tered his father's will unto us; beginning at the first and
j-emaining till the last therein. Not after the order of
those societies, that rise and fall according to the order
of Babylon in us, which spirit takes place in us, when-
ever we think we get pretty high in the world: then
doth every society return to the place where it came
from, as the materials, or spirit of the builders of Babel
returned to the earth. And there I think many are, that
are this day professing Christ, and the Holy Ghost, by
which he was actuated according to the most holy, great
and adorable will of God. For this cause, that ye cannot
tell, or never have told, the difference between the
Father and the Son, or between the diap-osation, or
visitation of the Son in the world, or the Holy Ghost.
-For which cause I am tempted to believe, that ye know
not these things in us, and so much like the builders of
Babylon in this day, that ye think, that your present state
will carry you to heaven, and that every society is right
that professes Jesus Christ to be the light of the world:
till some amongst you continue to build up, while
others are pulling down seven times faster than others
build. In which state the spiritual professors, with all
. the rest are like to fall into that state in which Babylon
was begun in spirit, which is to say, in a state of sm,
death and darkness. We, 1 or us, believe m Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost, because they have heard of these
"things, or names in the Godhead: therefore they under-
take to profess them all, not knowing any of them, nay,
scarcely received so much as to know we are sinners
and hath much need thereof; which is and was just like
the builders of Babylon, who when they heard of heaven
immediately provided a way to get there, like a man pro-
fessing Christ in sin, which is the ministry to, or for
that state, like a people professing to go to heaven on a
tower, built of the things of God.
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Was Christ like the tower of Babylon? nay, Christ
lUrt "''"''' '° '""' ^"^ '"^ 'o-- °f Babylon
buU, of the things of God. Can people make a Babylon
when they should begin at the bottom, and begin in tl^
lluT. *"' 5"' '"■"'■' "'«y '"^^ '° »"« second,
vvhtch leads mto the kingdom of heaven, and in favour
and in the presence of God: but the builders of Baby-
ln"J'f T ^^'" '° ■'""'' "^ '""^ '°P' ""y' "« they
ought to, for there they come to the spirit of that which
was in them before they began to build; which if they
had known, they might have tried to have built a little
downwards, and have become into one spirit before they
began; in which state I think many of them would not
have bu.It at all, to come to nothing. Moreover, I be-
.eve If some of the active members knew what spirit
they were of they would be still; but for want thereof so-
cieUes get confounded on the top, or after they have
g own up a while by different kinds of spirits, which
will bnng many of them to the earth, as low as the tower
was before one stone was laid on another, or any two
formed together in the earth. Thus Christ is professed
in the dark, and the works of God hidden in the night,
• for want of repentance in the soul, every man building
on his own foundation in a state of sin. before the heart is
made clean, having corruption at the root thereof. So was
the builders of Babylon corrupted in spirit, which thing
destroyed the building, to the dishonour of the work-
man; so will, hath, and do societies fall to the disho-
nourof the ministry and acUve members therein, be- I >
cause they lay the foundation in the night, and build, or t
profess thereon, without being baptized, or prepared \
thereunto, ull the day cometh that they can see to buUd
no more; after which they do one thine over and ov,-.
Deeause no more is given them of G<^. The reason is
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plain to all: we think we know so much, and hath re-
ceived such large portions of his spirit, we do not . and
in need of any more, or that any man should teach us
any farther: true, that is far enough, and we have need
of some one, or sotnething to teach us backwards, and
bring all such Babylons in us to the ground, that profess
every thing, knowing nothing in the order and purpose
thereof, which is the state of many in this day, crying
up and down the Lord is with us, come follow us for we
are right, come and hear what our teachers say. Well
I will stand by and see you build, and see how high you
can go before you fall. But hear me a moment before
you begin to preach, after which you may be at liberty to
build, or say on.
Seven days make one week, one of which belongeth
unto God alone, and Jesus Christ rested therein, and be-
came, or was Lord thereof; the seventh power, day,
1 cn^-n'R
eth to me, the spirit of God, of which
no man is Lord, save God alone; but when the six days
of the week are fulfilled, then the seventh is his to rest
with all his works, or beasts and servants, which is
the senses of his body; on the sixth day Adam was made
a living soul; after which cometh the seventh, on which
God rested; therefore it is hard for me to believe that
after God made Adam a living soul, or the knowledge
of all things living therein, that he done any thing more,
save form, or abide in a state of rest which he finished,
and rested on the seventh day, signifying thereby that he
was the greatest number, or highest power of all the
days of the week: but when ever one evening and morn-
ing was formed, it was counted or numbered in this
yyay,— calling it the first, and that it was good, because
it was of God, and so on throughout the whole of them,
a.:ii »u^ ,.,^^\r r^f tK<i c^^vADtH ws R fim&hed. attd God bless-
04 all things which he had made, because he saw that it
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was good; so also done he in Christ the second time,
aiid all tl,at Christ done on earth, from the cradle to the
grave, or sepulchre, was good; in which state, or day, his
spirit or soul rested with God in Paradise, till the begin-
ning of another day, or new creation, which took piace
on the first day of the week once more, when God called
his whole body from the dead, to arise and show forth
the power, honour, and glory of God, on earth, before
he ascended the kingdom, which he must do before he
could return unto us, calling our mortal bodies from sin
by John, Moses, prophets, and others crying to, and in
us, repent of our wickedness:— Let that which we have
exalted, be laid low, and all crooked professions be made "
straight in us, by receiving the spirit of Moses and the
prophets, with them that baptize on earth, that the ways
of the Lord be made straisfht in us, and not one exalted
atiove another, in which ,ate John was sent into the
world as a messenger ijefore his face, prepanng the
world, or our hearts in the spirit of the nature thereof,
for Jesus Christ, or the ministry of God to become ac-
tive therein, building us up in his most holy faith, that
all things which Christ doeth therein, is good, and pass-
eth not away; but that every act which is done in us, in
obedience to his life, is justified of God, when Christ
resigns up the soul to God that gave it, that he may be-
come all and all therein; therefore the order of God in a
state of peace, is first to know our own sir/i; second, to
repent thereof, by the ministry of the spirit of y is
Christ, which first brings us to a knowledge theicji
after which we are made clean from the power of temp,
tation, by his ministry, as he overcame all temptations,
before he began to preach the will of God in the soul of
man, in the midst of this wicked wo.id, by which we
become worthy to receive, or conceive the Holy GhoRS
once more; after which, or by which, we can do 'the will
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of God in Christ to the praise of God for visiting us, or
the world, by the ministry of his Son, who preached,
nor done nothing else in the world for or to us, save the
•will of his father, by which life, or ministry in the world,
he became equal with the will of God in us, and a visi-
ble object that we could both see and hear, after the eye
and ear of the soul is, or was closed up by death, which
took place by sin in uc all.
Therefore in the ministry of the word of God or the
spirit thereof is much room, and in the house of God are
many mansions, else the spirit of Jesus Christ could not
have been the salvation of God to all that believe there-
in, to the doing thereof, as in Christ, when he passed
through the world, from the manger to the cross, in
which he was in many states, and a minister to us in all,
by keeping and doing the will of God in all. But if we
know not in which of these states we are in, or which of
them Christ is in — in us if we have received him
at all, then our profession is a Babylon on earth, and
is more likely to fall than to stand, when the master
builders, or ministers thereof, cannot teach another
what they should do in the spiritual l -ne of Jesus
Christ; neither has the inhabitants thereof got to that
state in society in which they are satisfied.
Therefore Babylon is built up in many, and must fall,
or be overthrown, and the exaltation thereof be laid low
before the spirit of Christ will do the will of God in the
hearts of these, in which it is exalted; seeing all things
had to be made straight, and even in the world by John,
before he preached the power of God therein. So also
believe I, that many a profession will be laid low, before
many will come to a knowledge of Jesus Christ in them-
selves, and the ministry of the Godhead in Christ, and
how God came aoart into his thrpp. rlistinrt nQf.it.^., ««
baptisms which again bringeth all things together, in
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the name of one all great and all powerful God, into
TnJlh "f" '°"""' ^y """'"R °»e thing firM, and then
another, till every seal is opened in them, a..d every day
of the woik filled up before the seventh cometh: so must
every purpose of the coming of Jesus Christ be filled
up, before the knowledge and power of the Holy Ghost
cometh: so must the doctrines and mysteries of the old
and new testament be filled up, before we receive the
knowledge of the Holy Ghost, which taught Adam before
s.n, and w.ll teach us when sin is done, the same gifts
which are wntten, preceded out from the Holy Ghost to
us m a state of sin, and must be known by us before we
Z T"' "" ^^°'^ ^'^°'' "eain, seeing the spirit '
thereof IS greater than all things which are written, and
the Father greater than the Son, while he abides on
earth, or ,„ us. Therefore he must be first known in ex-
perience, before we can know God, an..' be at peace, see-
wg we have lost the greater spirit by sin, and the less is
given us, til we return in that state in which we firs
received it, in which state Christ goeth away from us in
the flesh, and appeareth in us with the father, where all
thing, are given into his power, which is the gift of God
and the ghost of Christ, or the spirit of God, rests in
thZf '"""""'""'•/'•"« the various gifts, or portions
thereof are on earth striving with man for his ledemp-
«on, m the various states thereof; if which portion »c
had received as with God, we would know in wh.t state
M- « !■* r' ""'° ""= "'^" ^» 'hat hunger might be
satisfied; and all that are unclean be washed; and a due
proportion of God's will, or spirit be preached to ^'
p o^e; andin our hearts .here would be much room fo
all God s people to rest: for the h^.,., :. .,.„ r... .
house and Ms order will appear" UieVe'in. ;,;;:s';Xa:
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know the will of God therein, and portion of grace which
he hath received: after which there shall be peace on
earth with all, and all walk in the order of God in Christ
for ever; and the building shall not come down any more,
neither shall the spirit of Christ be crucified unto death
by the builders of laws, and temples on the earth any
more; and while sin remains on earth, Christ will be still
in the souls of some, as he was in his mother's womb on
earth; these can profess nothing, and others shall be
passive in the power >f beasts, as Christ was in the
manger, amongst oxen, and not be hurt; and others shall
be fulfilling the law as other men, and not be distin-
guished, or discovered from others, as was Jesus Christ
in the days of his yo'itli, when wisdom was multiplying
upon him, preparing him for the conception, or recep-
tion, and bringing forth of the gospel of order and peace;
and when it appeared, it condemned no pa^i of his past
life; nor yet them that had lived on earth before the
coming of his fletjh therein. Therefore he is and was the
house of God; in which there is much room; his spirit
containing the inspiration of all things which are written
in scripture of God: therefore blessed was, and is he in
every state; which if we knew in ourselves, we should
no more judge and condemn each other, but reprove by
the word of instruction till the least became like the
greatest, and the greatest like the least, seeing the son
of God once became a child, and was born of a woman
like unto us, and more in obedience than all that hath
binned; in this, that he humbly kept the will and law of
God from the beginning in us, which we ourselves did
not: therefore he that saith that he hath Jesus Christ, or
the spirit thereof to his Lord and master, and receiveth
not his doctrines to do them, nor keepeih not his com-
mands is a liar, and his profession is a perfect Babylon
on earth, as professing Christ, not knowing nor fulfilling
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any part of his life. Such are the professors of the God-
head separated apart, not being in one spirit together, as
God, and Christ; as Son, or Holy Ghost, he want of
which makes more Babylons on earth, thfc . there are
stars in the firmament of heaven; and for want of the
knowledge jf which, or lights* of God's power in the
scriptures, many will be confounded and Tall to the earth,
both Jew and Gentile as the one work and one spirit are
necessary in all, either by, or without the knowledge
thereof.
SOME REASONS
FOR BELIEVING THAT THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST IS
NOT IN ALL THAT PROFESS HIS NAME.
If I could stand on yonder shore,
And see yon distant sun
Arise from death, to set no more,
l*d think that time ha*, come,
When Christ in spirit had come down,
To light these glromy skies;
O then my soul would give renown
To every word that flies.
That is proclaimed by Christ aloft, ^^
. y That dwells above the skies;
That is not by the billows tost,
Nor trusts in earthly joys.
But we in our immortal strains,
How oft they pass away,
And all our labour and our pains,
Will scarcely last one day.
Behold how many a goodly work,
In one poor age doth fail:
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Behold how Christ, our law, is brok .,
And scripture turn'd to tales.
That's sang and preached by every man,
Let him be rich or poor;
To preach the scripture, that he can,
Although he knows no more.
He takes the book, and rambles o'er
The works that's ready done;
In doing this, he does no more,
Nor tells of what's to come.
Therefore he's not a prophet's name.
Descriptive of God's power;
Neither doth he in scripture gain,
Although he'd preach for ever.
Therefore the point we'd best give o'er,
And seek some other spirit;
And ramble o'er the book no more,
Till we ourselves can wear it.
Then we would be like Christ indeed,
That scripture did fulfil.
And not be like that cursed breed.
That preaches others* skill.
The men of God hath not done so,
Nor yet on scripture cali'd;
But this is what their souls did do,
To say what was reveal'd.
But if we do climb up again,
In works which they have done,
A thief, a bz^itard, is our name,
When Jesus Christ doth come.
Therefore 1 would, tiiou preach no more?
In telling th!\t that's done;
But rather seek ihat goodly store.
That knows what is to come.
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For so done Jesus in the way,
Poor Moses done the same,
So done the Prophets in iheir day,
In God our father's name.
But now men tell what they did say,
The same's already done;
The same's the work of every day,-—
Of every bastard son.
What others say do they profess,
And tell that Christ has come;
And in the speech of others rest,
Not doing what he done.
They say that laws have pass'd away,
And gospel freedom's come,
When they have not fulfil'd one day,
Of all that Jesus done.
The law of God in these is broke,
And that that's written down;
I think they do the Devil's work,
And give to hell renown.
Arise Christ JesusTn my soul,
Just as my mind doth grow;
And just as I fulfil in all,
Let me thy spirit know.
Let me be as the least on earth.
If it should please God's will;
Or be my lot my Saviour's birth,
According to my skill.
Not mine, O God, that I posst js.
Contrary to thy will;
B«t yet let ray poor soul profess,
According to my skill.
Which is to be a little one,
And hope of pleasure lost;
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That I may see thy Gospel Son,
Surmounting all that's past.
Then I'll stand on the shore and sing,
Although I joy alone;
That God my Lord and sovereign King,
In Jesus Christ has come.
In vain the billows roar aloud,
God's spirit is supreme;
And soon will overthrow the proud,
By heavens' mighty scheme.
Arise Christ Jesus in the skies,
On earth thy power is all;
Thy spirit's over fading joys.
Triumphant in my soul.
Let me be great, let me be small,
My Saviour I adore;
Because his spirit in my soul.
Will rise to set no more.
A SONG,
Giving God praise, on the first day qp the week
OR THE Morning op the Resurrection, '
TRIUMPHANT OVER DeATH, HeLL, AND
THE Grave.
How great, O God's thy heavenly cause,
Triumphant in my soul;
How strict my God's, my Saviour's laws,
And truth which thou hast told.
Behold Christ Jesus on the cross.
How he doth bleed and djie;
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Behold his poor disciples* loss,
That for their Lord did cry.
Behold dark sins which we have done,
Did cause his soul to bleed;
Behold this day in us must come.
Of which we stand in need.
We all have loving servants here,
The pleasure of this life;
But where on earth will these appear,
When death doth take our life.
I think they will be scattered all.
In lands of deep distress,
Till God our Lord doth on us call.
To his great name profess.
He is the father of our Lord,
That dwelt beneath the skies;
He is that living saving word.
That death never destroys.
How great's my God my Lord to me.
His spirit in my soul;
When I the resurrection see,
And am reliev'd from all.
On earth dark prisons do surround.
And Sons of Death doth howl;
That spirit that Christ Jesus bound
Is seeking for my soul.
The sixth day of the week is gone,
And death itself 's overcome;
And now my soul lie& in the tomb.
As Christ my Lord hath done.
I call him Lord because he's great.
And doth my pain 8UPi*ound;
But until death he's just our mate,
Till deatli and hell is bound.
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Then he from death doth flee away.
And God our father comes; ^^X-^
That Holy Ghost of every day,
That opens all the tombs. f'Luti^
He from the grave set Jesus free; ^«*'x.^
His right's to rule as Lord;
His spirit is what teaches me,
By me alone ador'd.
He is the God of every age,
Since ever Jesus come;
He is that honourM reverend sage,
That does all good that's done.
Renown to thy great spirit, God,
All men receive of thee;
Thou art the Father of all good,
In thy great liberty.
Thou an that God that rul'd above,
When Christ no more did reign;
Thou art that God that hell did prove,
By raising Christ again.
Now God, let all blind objects see
That death and hell's in vain,
To raise up death to war with thee
In whom thy Son doth reign.
In hell they had him once confin'd.
And strongly fix'd the door;
The powers of hell was then combin'd.
With gallant shouts did roar.
In vain they spent their noisy breath.
In vain they fix'd the door; '
For God his father rent the earth.
And Christ's in hell no more.
So let my soul, my humble God,
Christ's honour'd ways fulfil;
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And me by thy eternal word,
Reign master over hell:
That no dark tyrants of the night,
Confine my infant soul;
But yet if thou should see it right,
I give to them mine all.
For so done Jesus on the Cross,
That day when he did die;
But now let Christ my Saviour's loss,
Prove liberty and joy.
lie died, to set my body free,
0*er this he rules as Lord;
To set my soul at liberty,
To God*s inspiring word.
Christ, the salvation of the ilesh.
Hath set my body free;
And hell can never have her wish,
In ruling over me.
Great God, for me these things thou'st done;
For peace and liberty;
And now for ever more to come.
Great honour be to thee.
Thou form'd those lights within the skies;
The earth is rul'd by men;
But thou can curse all earthly joys.
And raise them up again.
Just so is all baptized souls,
From death's dark prisons free;
Just so is all proud Satan's fools.
That try to conquer mee.
They once on earth had liberty.
And hell did Christ control;
But thou, in thy great bravery.
Did overcome them all.
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Thy spirit's like the morning sun,
That's unconfin'd by men;
That in the firmament doth run,
While others do condemn.
, Thy spirit in my soul arise,
The morning star hath come;
And Christ the crown of earthly joys,
Before that light doth run.
He conqueV'd all thy wrath on earth,
When he went down to hell;
And also died for every birth,
That by proud Satan fell.
To tell the truth, he's thine, O God,
No more belongs to hell; <
. He also is thy pierceing word.
Of which I know right well.
He fears the works of death no more.
His skill hath conquer'd all;
In vain for men to fix a door.
To keep my soul in hell.
God bless my soul with Christ my Lord,
This resurrection day;
For by the virtue of thy word,
I hear what thou doth say.
Proud hell yield up, thou ancient gljost
And let my Son be free; ; ^^
I am the Lord and God of hosts.
That calleth unto thee.
The earth did rend, and hell gave up
Those souls that in it be.
And hell became a broken cup.
And God my Lord is free.
Let^Il on earth proclaim his namV,
In gospel liberty;
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When they with Christ have pass*d the same,
With him their God shall see.
More glorious than the sun at noon,
When stars are put to flight;
But these that doth profess too soon,
Doth labour in the night.
Great God thy name as king ador'd,
To rule on earth's thy right;
And let thy spirit rule as Lord,
On earth to shine most bright.
The resurrection morning's come,
My soul doth leave the shore:
Thy will alone in me be done,
The sun doth set no more.
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