not by talking. And he gives his bread from heaven now, for he is the heavenly bread, rock, and foundation; Christ the same to-day as yesterday, and so for ever, to all his people; who was dead, and is alive again, and lives for evermore, and reigns in his people. And now in this gospel day of Christ, the new covenant, God writes his law in the hearts of his people, and puts it in their minds, that all should know him from the greatest to the least; and none need say to his brother, know the Lord, which thousands do witness this law of love, faith, and life, that all may read what God puts in their minds, and writes in their hearts; and such are heavenly Jerusalem's children, who is the mother of them all. And no mother can they own below the heavenly Jerusalem, no more than the christians did in the primitive times; and such are the church of the first born written in heaven,' clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet; all changeable churches, ways, worships, religions and teachers; all which change as changeable things, for the moon changes, but the sun doth not change, but clothes his living members, who is over his house, the royal priesthood offering up spiritual sacrifices to God, (not carnal,) by Jesus Christ.

And when Christ sent his disciples to preach the gospel, it was not with the penalty of prisons, gallows, fire, and spoiling of the goods of them that would not believe and receive them. And therefore, it is time for all that profess christianity, to put up the carnal sword concerning religion, and obey Christ's command, who said he came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them; and therefore love God and Christ, and one another, and enemies, for love and charity is the most excellent way, above all tinkling cymbals and sounding brass; for they that dwell in love, dwell in God.

POSTSCRIPT.

AND all you teachers that make a scoff and a mock at the motion or moving of the spirit of God; you had never had the holy scriptures which you make a trade of, had not the holy men of God spoken them forth as they were moved by the holy spirit of God; and this shows that you are erred from the holy spirit of God, that the apostles were in, and the moving of it, and fellowship in it, which proceedeth from the Father and the son. And as the apostle said to the church of Christ, That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death.' Phil. iii. 10. This is the right knowledge of Christ, and the true conformity.

And they that are conformable to Christ, who saith, he is from above, and not of this world, such are not conformable to this world.

And now all you that go under the name of christians, ‘let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.' 2 Tim. ii. 19. And if any man have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his Rom. viii. 9. And the apostle tells the church of Christ, that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the holy ghost.' 1 Cor. xii. 3. And the holy ghost proceedeth from the Father and the son. John xv. 26. And again the apostle saith to the Corinthians, Examine yourselves whether you be in the faith, prove your own selves; know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except you be reprobates.' 2 Cor. xiii. 5. And again the apostle saith to the Romans, The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart; and this is the word of faith which we preach.' Rom. x. 8. And again the apostle saith, The mystery which hath been from ages and generations, but now is manifest unto the saints; to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory, whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.' Col. i. 26, 27, 28.

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Now, let all that are called christians consider these scriptures before mentioned. Have you the holy ghost and spirit of Christ? If not, how are you Christ's and can call him Lord? Is Christ in you, and the word of faith in your hearts and mouths to obey it, and do it? Oh! mind the hidden man in the heart, and truth in the inward parts, which is with the Lord of a great price; and have salt in yourselves to savour withal, and oil in your own lamps, that you may not be like the foolish virgins; and improve your own talents, and be not like the slothful servant, for the manifestation of the spirit of God is given to every man to profit withal; and be not only sayers or hearers of the word of God, but doers, lest you deceive your own souls. For pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, to visit the fatherless, and the widow in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.' All that profess christianity must come to this pure religion, that will keep them from the world's spots; and therefore this religion is above all the world's religions and spots, and keeps in the pure holy tenderness and exercise to visit the widows and fatherless. So God Almighty preserve all that really profess christianity in it. Amen.

And the apostle said to the true christians, Ye are the temple of the living God, as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.' And again the apostle saith, Know ye not that your bodies are the temples of the holy ghost which is in you, which ye have of God.' 2 Cor. vi. 16. All

christians that profess christianity should come to this knowledge, that their bodies are the temples of God. In the old testament the Jews had an outward temple, but Stephen saith in the new testament, The most high dwells not in temples made with hands.' Acts vi. 47, 48, 49, &c. But as before, God hath said, 'I will dwell in them, and walk in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people;' and their bodies are the temples of the Lord and his holy ghost, and all that profess christianity should know this. And again the apostle saith, Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? And if any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.' 1 Cor. iii. 16, 17.

Now, all that profess christianity, ought to know the spirit of God to dwell in them, and their bodies to be the temple of God, and have a care of defiling it, lest God destroy them; for God is holy, and he would have his people to be holy.

And Christ told the Pharisees, which were great outward professors of the old testament, that the kingdom of God comes not by observations, &c. Neither shall they say, Lo here, or lo there, for behold the kingdom of God is within you.' Luke xvii. 20, 21.

Now all you that profess yourselves christians, have you found the kingdom of God within you? Christ saith the kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened; and again Christ saith, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed. You that profess christianity have you found this kingdom, and the pearl hid in your field? Come light your candles and sweep your house, that you may find the heavenly treasure in your earthern vessels, who have been looking without for it; and that you may know the leaven of the kingdom to leaven your souls, hearts, and minds, &c. into one heavenly lump, as you may read, Matt. xii. and Luke xv. And the apostle saith, The things of God knows no man, but the spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given us of God.' 1 Cor. ii. 11, 12. So all that profess themselves christians, they must come to the spirit of God in them, if that they come to know God and Christ, and the things of God which he freely gives unto them, without money, and without price.

And Isaiah saith, 'Oh! every one that thirsteth come to the waters, and he that hath no money: come ye, &c. and ye may have milk and wine without money, and without price. Wherefore do ye spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which satisfies not? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat that which is good,

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Incline your ears and come Isa. lv. 1, 2. John vii. 37, 38.

and let your soul delight itself in fatness. unto me; hear, and your souls shall live.' Now is it not time for all Christians to hearken unto the Lord by his spirit, and come unto his free waters of life, that their souls may live? And the spirit and the bride say, come. And let him that heareth, say, come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.' Rev. xxii. 17. Here are the free callers to the free water of life, without money, and without price. And the Lord saith, 'Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else.' Isa. xlv. 22. Now God having poured his spirit upon all flesh, that with his spirit they might all look unto the Lord Jesus Christ, and see their salvation. And again the Lord saith, All the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of God:' and that must be by his spirit; for the Lord saith, My righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.' Isaiah li. 8. and lii. 10. 'Your strength is to sit still,' (viz.) in the spirit and power of God. Isa. XXX. 7. They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. Now this is the comfort of all them that wait upon the Lord, whose 'strength is to sit still,' or to stand still and see the Lord their salvation. And all the children of the Lord shall be taught of the Lord, and great shall be the peace of his children, and in righteousness shall they be established,' &c. Isaiah liv. 13. John vi. 45. And the many weapons that are formed against them shall not prosper, and every tongue that shall rise up against them in judgment, God's children shall condemn, that are taught of him; and we know many weapons have been formed against us, and many tongues have risen up in judgment against us that are taught of God, but God hath restrained the weapons, and given power to his children to condemn their false judgments, and evil tongues.

Now concerning Prayer and Singing.

The apostle said, 'I will pray with the spirit, and pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and sing with the understanding also.' And the apostle Jude exhorts the church of Christ, 'to pray in the holy ghost.' Jude xx. and 1 Cor. xiv. 15. So he did not give them books to pray by; to pray with the spirit, and to pray with the holy ghost, is not to pray with books. The apostle saith, 'The spirit helps our infirmities, for we know not what we should pray for, as we ought, but the spirit itself makes intercession for us with groans that cannot be uttered; and he that searcheth the heart knows what is the

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mind of the spirit; because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.' Rom. viii. 26, 27. So my desire is, that all may come to this holy ghost, or holy spirit, in their hearts, in which they pray to God, and for one another, and for all men, and praise God for his mercies which endure for ever.

The apostle said, 'God hath revealed his things unto us by his spirit, for the spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.' 1 Cor. ii. 10. And again the apostle saith, "The righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith.' Rom. i. 17. And again the apostle saith, "The gospel which was preached by me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.' Now can any preach the righteousness of God, and the faith of Christ, and the deep things of God and the gospel of Christ, except these things be revealed to them by the spirit of God, as they were to the church of Christ in the apostles' days? Gal. i. 11, 12.

And the apostle saith, When it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen.' Gal. i. 15, 16. And Christ saith, No man knows the son but the Father, neither knows any man the Father save the son, and he to whom the son will reveal him.' Matt. xi. 27.

Now can any be ministers, or preachers of the son of God, or of the Father, without this revelation, seeing they cannot know the son, or the Father but by revelation? So then none can truly preach God or Christ, if they do not know them, except Christ do reveal him and his Father to them, which blessed be God he hath done to thousands in this age, that freely preach him and the Father, who walk in the light, as he is in the light, and have fellowship with the Father and the son, and one with another: blessed be God for ever. G. F.

A Scripture testimony against persecution for religion; and a persuasive to take off all the laws in Christendom, made to force or bind the tender consciences, which is God's prerogative.

HAMAN would have destroyed all the seed of the Jews, because their laws, religion, and worship, were contrary to Ahasuerus the king; but Haman was destroyed himself, who said, 'it was not for the king's profit that they should live ;' but the king saw it was for his profit they should live, and have their liberty.1