WO be unto thoſe that come not forth of Babylon, and break not off from their Graven Images, and ceaſe not from Man whoſe Breath is in his Noſtrils, and that live in Rebellion againſt the Lord God of Heaven and Earth; who gave unto Man Life, Breath and Being, and hath lengthned out a Day of his tender Viſitation unto the Sons and Daughters of men, whom in no wiſe he would have to periſh in their Sins; but his Will is their Sanctification: Now none can be ſanctified, but by Obedience to the Will of God; and this is the Will of God, That men believe on him whom God the Father hath ſent a Light into the World, as Chriſt Jeſus ſaid, I am come a Light into the World; and he that believes in me, ſhall not abide in Darkneſs, but ſhall have the Light of Life; Glory, Honour and Everlaſting Renown be unto the Lord God of Life for evermore, who hath cauſed his Light to ſhine into the Hearts of a Remnant, and hath given them the Knowledge of himſelf in and by the Shinings of his own Light; and all the Nations of the World that are ſaved, muſt walk in the Light of the Lord Jeſus; for Cleanſing from Sin is known as there is a walking in the Light of Jeſus (and no where elſe) that's my Teſtimony, as I have received it of the Lord. And therefore unto you that are of the Church of Rome, and expect Salvation as you are Members thereof, this Word is in my Heart from the Lord unto you all; Deſtruction, and not Salvation, will be your Portion, if you come not to believe in the Light of Chriſt Jeſus, as it appears in you, manifeſting the Evil of your Doings, and hath and doth often ſtrive with you, and would gather you, and bring you out of your own Wayes and Inventions, which the Devil and his Miniſters, Emiſſaries and Agents have ſet up, and have cauſed all that have believed them to bow unto the Image that they have ſet up, and have cauſed all them who have believed their Report, to receive that for Chriſt which is but a Wafer, and made by the Hands, which are Duſt, and muſt return to the Duſt; and this is the Work of your Pope, Biſhops and Prieſts, whom you call Fathers, and Father of Fathers; and ſo, you own your ſelves to be the Children of them who know not God nor Chriſt; but have ſet up a Wafer, and called it Chriſt's Body, Fleſh and Blood, and Compel People to receive it as ſuch; and yet they that received it, never knew cleanſing from Sin by it, nor never will: And therefore Wo be unto you Prieſts and People, which are Falling down, Bowing and Worſhipping that for God which is not God, but the Works of your own Hands: Behold and take notice of it, You ſhall periſh, if you Repent not; and your Croſſes of Wood and Stone, though never ſo finely gilded, nay, though they be made of the Gold it ſelf, and your Images, though never ſo finely drawn by the Art of the Limner, Bow ye and Creep ye never ſo oft unto them, nor yet your Holy Aſhes (as you call them), nor yet your Holy Water (as you call it), ſhall be able to deliver you in the Day of the Indignation of the Lord, which certainly ſhall be poured forth upon you: For your Water, which you have made and waſhed People withal, its not the Water of Life, and therefore it anſwers not the End which you purpoſe it for, which ſay you, It hath Power, or there is Vertue in it to drive away Evil Spirits from thoſe who are ſprinkled with it; and therein you are found to be Lyars; for the Evil Spirit works and bears rule, both in you that make the Water, and ſprinkle your ſelves and others with it.

And be it known unto you Prieſts and Falſe Prophets, who, as you ſay, have received Power to Abſolve from Sin thoſe that confeſs their Sins unto you, and do that Pennance you enjoyn them to: Behold you are found Lyars, by one who in dayes paſt, and years that are gone, Confeſt unto ſome of you, and did thoſe things which you enjoyned him to do, in hopes thereby he might obtain Peace with the Lord: But behold, and take notice, I ſpeak the Truth, and Lye not; That notwithſtanding all your Abſolutions and Pennances, enjoyned by you, and by me performed, I was not Diſcharged from the Guilt that Sin being committed brought upon me; and in that Day God's holy pure Spirit did condemn me for thoſe Sins which I had committed, and which I had Confeſt to you, and which you had given me Abſolution for; and the Judgments of the Lord were then upon me, and his holy Spirit ſtrove with me; and many times there were ſtrong Cryes raiſed in me, That I might know Power over Sin, and that I might be ſet free from Sin: but in that Day I did not certainly know that it was the Lord that ſtrove with me, becauſe Darkneſs was over my Underſtanding; and though the true Light did ſhine in the Darkneſs, yet the Darkneſs comprehended it not; and I being not turned from the Darkneſs to the Light, did not receive Power over my Sin: But in my Diſtreſs I went to you for Help, (but it was in vain) and when I found no Help from you, then did the Lord by his Spirit ſtrive with me, to bring me from amongſt you; and this that ſet my Sins in order before me, ſome of you have called it the Devil; and ſome of you told me, I was in a Good Condition, and the Devil (you ſaid) was ſtriving to get me out of the Church; and ſaid you, You muſt believe as the Church believes; for out of your Church (ſay you) there is no Salvation. But I teſtifie for the Lord God that lives forever, and for the ſakes of thoſe who among you may in ſome meaſure be in a Senſe of that pure Principle of Life in themſelves, that ſtrives with them againſt Sin, and yet may depend upon Man, or your Church, which is made by Man, That whilſt they have any Dependency upon the Church, or any Man of your Church, let him be called Pope, or Prieſt, or what Name elſe ſoever it be, or whatever Practice he be found in, which the Spirit of the Lord leads him not unto, he will not know Salvation, but Condemnation will be his or their Portion forever, if they repent not, and Forſake not the Evil of their Wayes, and it is not the Prieſt's ſaying, My Soul for thy Soul, will excuſe any in the Day of Account; for the Lord is clear, and will be clear of the Blood of all men; and Man's Deſtruction is of himſelf, but his Help is in me, ſaith the Lord God that lives forever.

And therefore Wo unto, you Prieſts, the Blood of many of the People will be required at your Hands, becauſe through your dark Working and ſubtil Inventions you have allured many, and drawn many, and kept many from the Knowledge of the Lord, and ſpoken Peace unto many when the Lord has ſpoken Trouble; and you being ignorant of the Arm and Power of the Lord, that ſets the Soul free from Sin, have invented or imagined a Purgatory after Death, which ſay you, People whoſe Sins are not done away here, muſt be done away in Purgatory, which Purgatory (ſay you) is a Place of Fire. And O you Prieſts, what is the Reaſon you have no more Love to People who have ſo much Confidence in you, and who confeſs unto their Dying Day unto you, and as you make them believe, you have Power to Abſolve all their Sins, and yet you are ſo Cruel and ſo Hard hearted unto them, that you leave a Part of their Sins unpardoned and unremitted, to be done away in Purgatory? (A Cheat indeed!) Is not one Reaſon that may be given for it, That you may have a Gift given to your Church, that you may ſay Maſs for their Souls many years after? And how do you know who they are that go to Purgatory? But bleſſed be the Name of the Lord that lives forever, who has opened the Eyes of a Remnant to ſee over and beyond all your dark Inventions and Imaginations; and the Lord has and will open the Eyes of Thouſands in this Nation, and in other Nations, who are and ſhall be gathered from amongſt you, and ſhall give Teſtimony to the Arm and Power of the Lord God of Life, and in the Strength thereof ſhall be able to offer up their Lives, if the Lord require it of them, in Teſtimony to his Ancient Way and Holy Path, which was before your dark Inventions were, and ſhall be when they are come to an End. For behold and take notice, they had a time of Riſing, and the Time of their Riſing is ſeen, and the Time of their Down fal • is ſeen alſo; for all your dark Inventions did riſe when the Apoſtacye t • red, when the Devil (the old Adverſary of Mankind) had drawn the Mind of man from the Gift of God, from the Appearance of Chriſt within, which is the Saints Hope of Glory; and ſo led men into Imaginations and Inventions of Worſhips, out of the Spirit of God, and from the Life of Chriſt; and ſo men being gone from the Spirit, and out of the Life of Jeſus, imagined a Purgatory after Death, and ſet up Worſhips and Services contrary to the Worſhip that Chriſt Jeſus ſet up, and bore Teſtimony unto, whoſe Worſhip was and is in the Spirit and in the Truth, which the Devil is out of, and has no part therein: Now they that have ſet up Worſhips and Services in their own Wills, and in their own Times, and have compelled People to bow thereunto, and have taken the Lives of thoſe who have been raiſed to bear Teſtimony againſt their Idolatries and Superſtitions; its manifeſt theſe are not of the Church of God, but of the Devil, who was a Murderer from the Beginning, who moved Cain to kill Abel his Brother: So you Papiſts, that Murder for Religion, ſee who is your Father, and what Stock you are of; and if in your Wills you Faſt and Pray, and at times Afflict your Bodies with your own Doings, the Lord will not regard you for none of theſe things; for you are found Workers of Iniquity: Therefore be awakened unto Righteouſneſs, and turn your Minds inward to the Righteous Principle of God; For whatſoever may be known of God is manifeſted within man; for the Appearance of God is within; and he that formed the Mountains, and he that created the Winds, and maketh the Morning Darkneſs, and treadeth upon the High Places of the Earth, and ſheweth unto Man what his Thoughts are, the Lord God of Hoſts is his Name: Therefore fear ye before him, and dread his Holy Name, and break off from your Idols and Images, and from your own Inventions, and hearken unto him, in the inward of your Hearts, that ſhews you when you tell a Lye, and when you ſwear an Oath, and when you ſpeak Vain Words, and when you have been ſporting your ſelves in Pleaſures, and paſſing away your Times in Playes, that ſometimes after all theſe things meets with you, and ſometimes in the midſt of your Pleaſures cauſes Sadneſs of Heart; yea, and when you are from your Company, or when you are upon your Beds meets with you, and ſmites you in your Conſciences, and reproves you for theſe things; Oh! my Cry is unto you, Turn you unto him that reproves; for if ever you come to know a laying down your Heads in Peace, when time in this World ſhall be no more, you muſt turn and depart from that which he reproves you for; for the Reproofs of God's Inſtruction is the Way to Life; and there is not another Way, now I know: Self has a Life in the Pleaſures that are in this World, but Self muſt be denyed by all that will be Diſciples of Jeſus; for Chriſt Jeſus has ſaid, He that will be my Diſciple, muſt deny himſelf, and take up his daily Croſs, and follow me: This Croſs of Chriſt is not made with Hands, but it is the Power of God, which ſeparates from the Evil that is in the World, and crucifies and mortifies the Luſt of the Fleſh, and leads out of the Pride of Life, which is not of the Father, but of this World; and this World paſſeth away, and the Glory of it. Therefore fear man no longer, whoſe Breath is in his Noſtrils; but fear and dread the Living God, who will give unto every man a Reward according to the Deeds done in the Body, whether they be Good or whether they be Evil; this was the Doctrine of Chriſt Jeſus, who preached himſelf the Light of the World: He ſaid to the Jews, If you believe not that I am he, you ſhall dye in your Sins, and whither I go you cannot come; this was Chriſt's Teſtimony to the Unbelieving Jews. Now Papiſts, what will you do? Will you believe Chriſt Jeſus, in whoſe Mouth was never Guile found? Or will you believe your lying Prieſts, who tell you of a Purgatory after Death, which ſome of you muſt go into, & ſtay a while there, and then go to Heaven afterwards, where Chriſt Jeſus is? lying Prieſts & Deceivers, & Murderers of Souls indeed, for ſo I in truth can call them; they have not known the Word of the Lord as a Fire in them, to burn up and to conſume their Sins and their Iniquities; and ſo being out of the Faith that purifies the Heart (on this ſide the Grave) have imagined a Purgatory after Death, notwithſtanding the Spirit of the Lord through his Faithful Servants in dayes paſt, hath given this Teſtimony, as its left upon Record in the Holy Scriptures of Truth, that As the Tree falls, ſo it lies; and there's no Repentance in the Grave: So that it is evident, if man dyes in his Sins, where Chriſt is, thither he cannot come: So the Gulf is fixed, ſo that no unclean thing can enter the Kingdom of God; and the Wicked, and all thoſe who forget God (or neglect to anſwer God in the Day of their Viſitation, but ſin out the Day of their Viſitation,) ſhall be turned into Hell, and the Lyar ſhall have his Portion in the Lake that burns with Fire and Brimſtone. Oh, the Redemption of the Soul! its very precious; but its not your Bowings to your Altars, nor Praying to Saints or Angels, that can redeem the Soul that has been in Death, or add any thing thereunto; if you ſhould offer a Thouſand Rams, or Ten Thouſand Rivers of Oyl, nay, if any of you ſhould give the Fruit of your Bodies for the Sin of your Souls, it will not avail: But the New Creature, it avails; the Life of Chriſt, it will avail; and the Life of Chriſt is the Light of men; and the Light appears, and ſhines in all men, to diſcover and to make manifeſt unto all thoſe things that are reproved, and that is the Spirit of Truth in thy own Heart and in thy own Conſcience, O Man and O Woman, which convinces thee of Sin, and reproves thee for doing the thing that is Evil; Oh! turn ye at his Reproofs; why will ye Dye? his Spirit will not alwayes ſtrive with Man; but it ſtrives at one time or another with every man, that every man might be left without Excuſe And this Cry has run often through me, O Man, ceaſe from thy own Inventions, and from thy own Imaginations, and let the Word of Truth have a Place in thee, that thou mayſt be ſanctified by it, and cleanſed from Sin by it, before thou go hence and ſee man no more: that is the Deſire of my Soul for you all, that have not ſinned out your Day; for there is no Repentance in the Grave; and if no Repentance in the Grave, then there is no Change nor no cleanſing from Sin. So away with your Imaginations of a Purgatory after Death; for the Lord is riſen, and has manifeſted, and is manifeſting his Ancient Power, which redeems the Soul out of all Evil on this ſide the Grave: And the Church is come and coming out of the Wilderneſs, leaning upon the Breaſt of her Beloved; and ſhe cryes, Draw me, and I will run after thee; and the Day haſtens in which her Glory ſhall be more and more ſeen, and none ſhall be able to ecclipſe her Glory, but it ſhall dazle the Eyes of many Nations, and many of the Sons and Daughters of men, whoſe Region is now in the Darkneſs, and under the Shadow of Death, ſhall behold his Glory, and ſhall fear before him, who is our Strength, our Rock, and our Refuge, and the Stay of our Minds, and our ſure Hiding place in the Time of Storms, to whoſe Power belongs the Glory forever and for evermore, and not to the Beaſt and Falſe Prophet, for their Portion is the Lake that burns forever; and they that give their Strength to the Beaſt and Falſe Prophet, and receive his Mark in their Right-hand or Forehead, ſhall be puniſhed together with them. And you Papiſts, I muſt deal plainly with you, and I muſt tell you, That you are the People that are departed from the Faith that was once delivered to the Saints, giving heed unto ſeducing ſpirits and doctrines of Devils, ſpeaking Lyes in Hypocriſie, whereby many of your Conſciences come to be ſeared as with a Hot Iron: And you are forbidding Marriage, which was God's Ordinance in Paradiſe, before man fell; and the Prieſts of God under the Law were Married, and the Apoſtles of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt were many of them Married; and the Apoſtle Paul allowed of Marriage, and ſaid, Let a Biſhop be the Husband of one Wife; and its better to Marry then to Burn: And do not many of your Prieſts burn with Luſt? Let God's Witneſs in your Conſciences ariſe and anſwer: And they tell you, You muſt Abſtain from Meats on ſuch dayes as they in their own Wills have appointed for Faſting Dayes, and the next day after give Liberty to Exceſs of Eating and Drinking, and ſpending much of the Creatures out of the Fear of God, and give Liberty to Sports and Playes, whereby Youth comes to be Corrupted, and the Name of the Lord Blaſphemed; and call thoſe dayes Holy Dayes, and keep them as they ſay in Commemoration of the Saints, whoſe Life they crucifie; for they that live in Pleaſures, crucifie the Juſts: And do not your Sins exceed the Sins of Sodom, which God overthrew? And notwithſtanding theſe things, you would be counted the Church of Chriſt; but you are ſeen to be of the Whore, the Falſe Church, and not the Lamb's Wife, your Fruits have made you manifeſt.