and overturned, and seen to be chaff that is to be burned, with that which cannot be quenched; for the light is but one, which is Christ, who enlighteneth every one, and all are enlightened with one light; every one taking heed to that light which Christ hath enlightened you withal, it leads you out of sects, out of forms, out of the beauty of the world, to live in life and power: and waiting in the light which Christ hath enlightened you withal, you come to be disciples of Jesus Christ, and servants to the truth, and not to serve the lusts, nor the desires, nor pleasures, but the light judgeth them; for serving the desires and the lusts, thou turnest into the beastly nature in the world, and into the flesh, and comest to be darkened and veiled; then thy throat is an open sepulchre, that thou drinkest up iniquity as it were water: but dwelling in the light, it judgeth all that; and all thy works and actions come to be judged by that light and all walking in this light which Christ hath enlightened you with, you all walk in unity and sameness of mind, and lay away all guile, sin, and uncleanness, and are all taught to fear the Lord God: and it will lead you to the church of God, from the church of the world, and from your teachers, to cease from men, to be taught alone of God, who teacheth eternal things eternally; and leads the mind up out of external things.

And dwelling in the light, there is no occasion at all of stumbling, for all things are discovered with the light: thou that lovest it, here is thy teacher; when thou art walking abroad, it is present with thee in thy bosom; thou needest not to say, lo here, or lo there: and as thou liest in thy bed it is present to teach thee, and judge thy wandering mind, which would wander abroad, and thy high thoughts and imaginations, and makes them subject; for following thy thoughts thou art quickly lost. But dwelling in this light, it will discover to thee the body of sin, and thy corruptions, and fallen estate, where thou art, and multitude of thoughts: in that light which shews thee all this, stand, neither go to the right hand, nor to the left: here is patience exercised, here is thy will subjected, here thou wilt see the mercies of God made manifest in death: here thou wilt see the drinking of the waters of Shiloah, which run softly, and the promises of God fulfilled, which are to the seed, which seed is Christ: here thou wilt find a saviour, and the election thou wilt come to know, and the reprobation, and what is cast from God, and what enters: he that can own me here, and receive my testimony into his heart, the immortal seed is born up, and his own will thrust forth, for it is not him that willeth, nor him that runneth, but the election obtaineth it, and God that shews mercy; for the first step of peace is to stand still in the light (which discovers things contrary to it) for power and strength to stand against that nature which the light dis covers: here grace grows, here is God alone glorified and exalted, and VOL. IV.—3

the unknown truth, unknown to the world, made manifest, which draws up that which lies in the prison, and refresheth it in time, up to God, out of time, through time.

Whom God loves, he loves to the end, where the eternal unity is, there is all peace, all clean, no jar, who are all of one mind, hid from the world's wisdom, knowledge, comprehension, and thoughts which can never enter, as it is written, the world by wisdom knows not God, and he is coming to confound the wisdom of the wise. And the church in God, is not in imitation, gathered from the letter, nor is a high-flown people in their imaginations, but are they who are born again of the immortal seed, by the word of God, which lives and endures for ever, which the world knows not; for the word cuts asunder, hews down all wickedness, corruption, pride, and honour of men, that all the honour and glory may be given alone to God; he hews down the first birth, that he may establish the second, and raise up the second; and the word of the Lord is a fire, burns up all the corruptions, burns up all that is hewn down, and as an hammer to beat down, that nothing can stand it; and this is the word by which the saints are born again; you are born again by the immortal word, which lives and endures for ever, and feeding upon the milk of the word, which word is God, which word became flesh, and dwelt among us; so he (Christ) is the head of the church, and they are lively stones: but all you now who put the letter for the word, and have got it in your minds, and gather assemblies by it; this you cannot witness, and it is ignorance for you to say, the letter is the word; when the letter saith, God is the word; and it is a lie to speak and say, the steeple-house is the church; or to say, they that are gathered by the form of the letter, is the church of God; for the church is the pillar and ground of truth, gathered by the eternal power that was before letter was; and all who are in this church, as it is called of the world, and live in the comprehension of the letter, and the earthly part yet standing, there is devilishness in your minds, and earthliness, and pride, and filth; do but hearken to that light in thy conscience, and it will let thee see so: and while those are standing, such sacrifice God accepts not, and praises (while nature is standing) God accepts not, which is Cain's, to which God has no respect, but to Abel's.

And God is coming to judge the great whore, all manner of opinions, and all manner of sects and fellowships, (as you call them) all manner of her forms, as every one that lives in God is coming to overturn and overthrow, for they all lodge in her: all the foundation of them is in the earth, and earthly wisdom, gathered in the earthly nature he will overturn them, that he may establish his own truth, his own truth in righteousness, his own kingdom. Now the stone cut out of the mountain without hands, begins to strike at the feet of the image, (that the head of gold begins to fall, and the breast of silver, and thighs of brass, and

feet part iron, and part clay,) and his dominion is a dominion for ever over all, and all who dwell not in this light, which Christ hath enlightened you withal, you will be found too light, for he is coming to weigh all things in this balance, and before him the hills shall move, and the mountains shall melt, and the rocks shall cleave, who measures the waters in the hollow of his hand, and his thunders begin to utter their voices, that the mysteries of God may be opened, and the carnal hearts rent; great earthquakes shall be, the terrible day of the Lord draws near, the beast shall be taken, and the false prophet, into the fire must they go, for the beast and the false prophet have gone together, the one has holden up the other. Now is the Lord coming to sit as judge, and reign as king, who is the law giver which shall go forth of Zion. Now shall Zion arise and thresh to beat the hills, and thresh the mountains, now is the sword drawn, which glitters and is furbished, the sword of the Almighty, to hew down Baal's priests, corrupt judges, corrupt justices, corrupt lawyers, fruitless trees which cumber the ground. Drunkard, thou canst not hide thyself; cursed speaker, thou canst not hide thyself; whoremonger, thou canst not hide thyself. Awake, awake all people every where who live in forms, see what ye possess, not having that eternal spirit that gave forth the scriptures; all your formal prayers, formal preaching, formal singing, will be found as the chaff, which is for the unquenchable fire; for Christ is risen, the true light shines, the glory of the Lord appears, and you are discovered to him, to be empty of that eternal spirit in your understandings, which gave forth the scriptures. I am the light, saith Christ, which enlighteneth every one; that light you hate, and all who hate this light, set up teachers without them; but all who love this light, are of God, and lead to God, which is a cross to all the world, and this light is in every one; wait in it to receive Christ; and as many as receive Christ; to them he gives power to become the sons of God, which are not born of the will of man, nor by the will of man, but by the will of God: and these are they who are out of imitations, and have no images, nor likeness of truth, but are in it, and possess it: glory, glory to the Lord God for ever, who governs his people, and is the head of the church, Christ is the head of the man, God is the head of Christ. He that can receive this, if he had not known the letter, let him. He is come who was before the letter was written. In the beginning was the word.

Now all you that hate the light, your deeds are evil: Christ saith, he is the light of the world, and he enlighteneth every one that comes into the world: the one he loves the light, and brings his works to the light, and walks in it, there is no occasion of stumbling in him: the other he hates the light, and will not bring his works to the light to be made manifest, because his deeds are evil, and the light will reprove him:

thou that sayest, the light is natural, and that sayest, Christ doth not enlighten every one that comes into the world, thou art a liar, and blasphemer, and denier of Christ's words, and lays waste the scripture; and thou that sayest, the light is natural, thou puts the letter for the light, which is natural; darkness (true it is) cannot comprehend this light, but the light makes manifest darkness, and this is the condemnation of the world, the light that thou hatest, this light thou hast. Christ saith, swear not at all, the light will say the same to thee, in thee: Christ saith, he that lusteth after a woman committeth adultery with her in his heart; this light will tell thee the same, bringing thy works to it, and loving it. Christ cried woe against the Pharisee, the hypocrite; this light will let thee see the same. Christ will say, go ye cursed workers of iniquity; this light will say the same to thee, in thee, who art a worker of iniquity; here shalt thou be condemned with the light, and judged with the light out of thy own mouth; this light will let thee see all thy hard speeches, thy venomous thoughts, thy evil intentions, and covetous desires, which is idolatry, and dissembling, and deceit, to be works of darkness, and let thee see that all those things are evil; there thou hast learned thy condemnation, there is thy teacher, that would teach thee to know God, there is thy condemnation, hating that light that will condemn thee from him. Thou wilt say, thou knowest in thy conscience that drunkenness is sin, here thou lovest darkness rather than the light that shews it thee, and lying, and swearing, and cursed speaking is sin, and yet thou followest it, and pleasures, there thou lovest darkness rather than the light that shews thee them, because thy deeds are evil; and there thou hast learned thy condemnation; when God's righteousness shall be revealed in flames of fire, thou shalt witness I speak truth. Thou knowest theft is sin, and all unrighteousness God forbids; thou wilt say something in thy conscience tells thee so; if thou hearken to that, it will exercise thy conscience, and bring thee to repentance. Christ saith, I call sinners to repentance; that light in thee calls thee to repentance, and if thou hearkenest to that, thou hearkenest to Christ, and if thou hatest that, thou hatest Christ, and God, then thou turnest into sorcery and evil, into all uncleanness, and then God is not in thy thoughts, and then thou art the disobedient one, which disobeyest the light which God hath enlightened thee with, and there the wrath of God abides on thee, and the prince of the air rules in thee, as he doth in all the children of disobedience, who hate this light.

Now do not think that I hold free will here, man's free will, I speak of that which is contrary to man's will, and loving the light it will keep your wills from running, and your wills from willing any thing, and keep them in subjection; but he that hates this light, and makes a profession of God and Christ, and saith, the letter is the word, and the four books of Mat

thew, Mark, Luke and John is the gospel, he knoweth not Christ which is glad tidings, the lamb of God, which takes away the sins of the world; for the letter takes not away sin. And thou that sayest thou hadst not come to repentance, if thou hadst not known the letter, thou deniest Christ, who came to call sinners to repentance before the letter was; it is he that calls sinners to repentance, and not the letter, but the letter is a declaration of the word, God is the word; and it is a declaration of the light, Christ is the light; and it is a declaration of the spirit, but the spirit is not it; a declaration of power, but the power is not it; the power, and the life, and the light, was in them that spoke it forth, which ever the world hated; therefore waiting in the light, which Christ hath enlightened you with, that is scripture within you, and that will open the scripture (accor ding as you grow in the light,) and the saint's conditions, as you are sanctified, and as you are cleansed and made free by the son of God, for it is he that maketh free; who are made free from sin, and from the world, are made free by the son of God; and blessed be the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath raised him from the dead, and by him raised us up from the dead.

And to you that tempt God, and say, the Lord give us a sight of our sins, priests and people, does not the light, which Christ hath enlightened you with, let you see your sins, that lying and swearing, cursed speaking, theft, murder, and whoredom, and covetousness, and pride, and lust, and pleasures, all these to be the works of flesh, and fruits of darkness? this light within you lets you see it, so you need not tempt God to give you a sight of your sins, for ye know enough; and waiting in the light, power and strength will be given to you; for they that wait upon the Lord, their strength shall be renewed; and living in the light, and walking up to God, it will bring you to true hunger and thirst after righteousness, that you may receive the blessing from God; and give over tempting of God, as if he had not given you a sight of your sins. And to all ye that say, God give us grace, and we shall refrain from our sin, there ye have got a tempting customary word, for the free grace of God hath appeared to all men, and this is the grace of God, which shews thee ungodliness and worldly lusts. Now thou that livest in ungodliness, lying, and swearing, and theft, and murder, and drunkenness, and filthy pleasures, and lusting after the world, thou art he that turnest the free grace of God into wantonness, and casteth his laws behind thy back, and walkest despitefully against the spirit of grace; here the scripture is fulfilled upon thee! oh vain man! yet thou canst say, God is merciful; he is merciful and just, and that shalt thou see, when destruction comes upon thee; for thou canst say, God is merciful, yet liveth in thy wickedness, passing on thy time without the fear of God, sporting thyself in thy wickedness. Oh ye covetous proud priests! which deceive the nation, who