;t;;^-' .\ . 
 
 T H-'E ' 
 
 Way of Life irfevealed, 
 
 AND THE 
 
 Way of Death difcovered: 
 
 Wherein is declared, 
 
 Man's happy Eftate before the Fall^ 
 
 His miferable Eftate in the Fall, 
 
 AND 
 
 The Way of Reftoration out of the Fall, 
 into the Image of God again, in which 
 Man was before the Fall. 
 
 ALSO, 
 
 The By-Paths, Crooked Ways, Wiles, Snares, 
 and Temptations of the Enemy of Man*s Soul 
 difcovered, who goeth about as a roaring Lion, 
 feeking how he may infnare and devour thofs 
 who are in any meafure efcaping out of his 
 Ways of Death and Deftrudion. 
 
 By CHARLES .MARSHALL. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 Printed by Mary Hinde, at N^ 2, in George- 
 Yard, Lombard-Street, 1772.
 
 
 Mii ' i|>» >l «*<»«^ ' a n ^^ [[ '^/'•••••^•^^^'^•'•mm^^m 
 
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 TO THE 
 
 READER. 
 
 
 I> E ferious when thou take/l in Hand ttf rtad 
 
 ^ this following l^reatife^ and have a Jingle 
 
 Regard unto the inward Eftate of thy immortal 
 
 Soul J and let thy Spirit bow down to the Mea-- 
 
 fare of the Spirit of God given thee to profit 
 
 ?8 withal, that by it the Eye of thy Under ftand- 
 
 ^ ing may be opened y fo wilt thou fee the Things 
 
 Z herein contained, which concern thy own eternal 
 
 az Welfare : And let not thy own Thoughts and 
 
 <£ Imaginations, in the Wifdom from below, which 
 
 is fenfual and -earthly, be Jttdge therein^ but 
 
 Jland Jiill out of thy own Comprehendings, 
 
 Jifcendings, and Defcendings j and let a true 
 
 and diligent Regard be had to the Word in thy 
 
 Heart and Mouth, there placed, that thou 
 
 may'* ft obey it and do it ; fo will thy Heart be 
 
 ^ truly opened to read with Delight the Things 
 
 S herein opened by the Spirit of Truth, which 
 
 g fearches all Things^ yea, the deep Things of 
 
 God, and the Travail in Spirit, which is for 
 
 opening the Eyes of the Blind, and unflopping
 
 To the reader: 
 
 rf the Ears of the Deaf, will be anjwered, 
 and the Lord God Almighty will have his 
 Honour from his own Workman/hip, and thou 
 the Benefit ; which is the Dejire, Travail, and 
 Breathings of him, who is a 'traveller for 
 Sion'i perfeii Deliverance. 
 
 C. M. 
 
 Briftol, the 2d of the 
 fcventh Month, in 
 the Year 1673. 
 
 THE
 
 t ' 1 
 
 THE 
 
 Way of Life revealed, 
 
 A N D T H E 
 
 Way of Death difcovered^ i^c. 
 
 IN the Beginning God created the Heaven 
 and the Earth; and after he had made 
 all Things on the Earth, he made Man 
 in his own Image, formed him of the Duft 
 of the Ground, and breathed into him the 
 Breath of Life, and Man became a living 
 Soul: And the Lord planted a Garden in 
 Eden, and there he placed the Man whom 
 he had formed ; and out of the Ground the 
 Lord God made every Tree pleafant to the 
 Sight, and good for Food, to grow; the 
 Tree of Life alfo in the midft of the Garden, 
 and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and 
 Evil : And he that made Man in this Eftate, 
 gave him a Law to preferve him therein, as 
 the Scripture of Truth witneffeth, faying, 
 j^nd the Lord God commanded the Man, fay- 
 ing. Of every Tree in the Garden thou 'mayfi 
 freely eat ; but of the Tree of Knowledge of 
 
 Good
 
 2 The Way of Life revealed. 
 
 Good and Evily thou mafjl not eat ; for in the 
 Day thou eateft thereof ^ thou [halt Jurely die. 
 Now God iaw every Thing that he had 
 made, and behold it was very good; the 
 Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was 
 good, but not for Food : And Man was en* 
 dued with that divine Wifdom, that when 
 the Lord God brought of every Beaft of the 
 Field, and Fowl of the Air, to Adam, he 
 gave Names unto them ; and whalfoever 
 Adam called every living Creature, that was 
 the Name thereof: So here was Man's Sta- 
 tion in the Image of God, a living Soul, a 
 noble Plant, wholly a right Seed, filled with 
 divine Wifdom and Virtue, cloathed with 
 Innocency, covered with Glory, adorned 
 with ccleftial Beauty, in the continual Enjoy- 
 ment of the Love and Favour of the eternal 
 Being of all Beings, having his daily Con- 
 verfation with him that made him ; no Death, 
 no Darknefs, no Sorrow, no Occaiion of 
 Tears, no Tranfgrefnon, no Knowledge of 
 Evil, dwelling in the Innocent Life itfclf, 
 placed in the Garden, into which came the 
 River out of Eden that watered it. Oh, 
 blciTcd State! Oh, happy Condition! Oh, 
 unexprcfTible Enjoyment, undeclarablc Beau- 
 ty and Glory ! 'Tis beyond the Tongue of 
 Man to declare lully that bleficd, happy 
 Eftate of Joy, Peace, Virtue, Purity, Holi- 
 ncfs, Righieoufnefs, and Fruition of Life, 
 which Man was in before he tranfgrefTcd the 
 Royal Law of God. Man'i
 
 and the Way of jD^ath difcovsred. 
 
 Man's miferable Eflate in the Fall. 
 
 D U T now he, who kept not his firft Ha- 
 *-' bitation, neither abode in the Truth, 
 envied Man's Happioefs in the Truth, and 
 therefore, as a Serpent, naore fubtle than any 
 Bcaft of the Field which the Lord God 
 had made, came to the Woman, who out of 
 the Man was made, and faid. Tea, hath God 
 faid, Te fhall not eat of eijery T'ree of the Gar- 
 den ? The Woman faid, We may eat of the 
 Fruits of the Threes of the Garden ; but of the 
 Fruit of the Tree which is in the mid/l of the 
 Garden, God hath faid, Te fid all not eat, nei- 
 ther fhall ye touch of it, left ye die. And the 
 Serpent faid to the Woman, 7 e fhall not fur dy 
 die ', for God doth knowy that in the Day ye 
 eat thereof, then your Eyes fhall be opened, and 
 you fhall be as Gods, knowing Good and Evil : 
 And here the Serpent got an Entrance. And 
 when the Woman [mark] faw that the Tree 
 was good for Food, and that it was pleafant 
 to the Eyes, and a Tree to be defired to 
 make one Wife, ftie took of the Fruit, and 
 did eat, and gave alfo to her Hufband with 
 her, and he did cat, and the Eyes [mark] of 
 them both were opened : Here the God of 
 the World prevailed, fo as to open an Eye 
 that faw Evil pleafant, and to blind the Eye 
 
 B m
 
 M ^e Way of Lije revealed^ 
 
 . in thefe Children of Difobedience, that they 
 (hould no longer behold the ^^^jy/.^^^^ 
 (^c And here they became naked, having 
 loft the Robe of Righteoufneji, and Garment 
 of Innocency, and then made Aprons of l;ig- 
 leaves to cover their Nakednefs; and they 
 heard the Voice ot the Lord God walking iQ 
 the Cool of the Day, and Adam and his 
 Wife hid thcmfelves from the Prefence ot 
 tht Lord God 5 and the Lord God called unto 
 Mam. faying, Where art thu^ And the 
 Man faid, I heard thy Voice in the Garden, 
 and I was afraid, becaufe I was naked-, and 1 
 hid myfelf: And the Lord God faid, Who told 
 thee that thouwafinaked^ Haft thou eaten of 
 the Tree whereoj 1 commanded thee that thou 
 jhouldfi not eat P Who began to excufe him- 
 felf, faying, The Woman thou gaveft to be with 
 me, fiegave me of the Tree, and 1 did eat : 
 And the Lord God faid to the Woman, What 
 is this that thou haft done ? And the Woman 
 iaid. The Serpent beguiled me, and 1 did eat : 
 And the Lord God faid unto the Serpent, Be- 
 caufe thou haji done this, Curjed art thou above 
 all Cattle, and above every Bead of the Field-, on 
 thy Belly Jhalt tkou go. and Duft fialt thou eat 
 ficc. And I will put Enmity between thee and 
 the Woman, and between thy Seed and her Seed-, 
 it pall bruife thy Head, and thou fhalt bruife 
 his Heel. So the Lord fent Adam forth from 
 the Garden to Till the Ground, &c. And 
 placed at the Eaft of the Garden of Eden 
 ^ Cherubims,
 
 and the Way of Death difcovered, g 
 
 Cberubims, and a Flaming Sword, which 
 turned every Way to keep the Way of the 
 Tree of Life. 
 
 Oh miferable Change ! Oh deplorable Al- 
 teration ! Oh lamentable State, undeclarable 
 undone Condition, unexpreffible Fall ! What! 
 He that was in the Image of the Incorrupti- 
 ble Being, a living Soul, inhabiting in the 
 Garden of the Lord, where the Tree of Life 
 was, and the Splendor of the Glory of the 
 Divine Being was known and enjoyed, drove 
 from all into the Earth, and not only fo, but 
 the Cberubims and Flaming Sword, that 
 turneth every Way, placed to keep the Way 
 of the Tree of Life : Be aftonifhed. Oh Hea- 
 vens, at this, and be horribly afraid, Oh 
 Earth ! The Lord God brought up Children, 
 and they rebelled againft him. 
 
 Now, what was the Caufe and Ground, 
 O ye Sons and Daughters of j^dam, that 
 brought this wonderful Change, that brought 
 Man into this deplorable State and Condition I 
 Was it not Difobedience to the righteous Law 
 of God ? Did not Sin enter into the World 
 through Difobedience, and Death by Sin ? 
 And is not Sin continued in the World through 
 Difobedience ? Is there any other Way by 
 which Sin enters now, than it did then, and 
 Death by Sin, which has reigned over all, 
 and reigns over all who are in the fallen 
 pftate from God, even over them that have 
 Slot finned according to the Similitude of 
 
 B 2 Adam.%
 
 6 ^he Way of Life revealed^ 
 
 Mams Tranfgreflion ? For all have not fin- 
 ned according to his Similitude, who was 
 deceived with an Expedtation of an higher 
 Eftate than that in which the Lord God had 
 placed him: But all Iniquity, of what Simi- 
 litudc foevcr, is one in the Ground, and be- 
 comes a Separater of Man from his God : So 
 the Ground of all Iniquity and Tranfgreflion 
 that ever was, is, or fhall be, is Man's dif- 
 obeymg the righteous Law of God, Difobe- 
 dience whereunto bringeth Death. 
 
 But what was that which in Adam died ? 
 And what was the Death ; feeing that the 
 Lord faid. In the Day thou eateji of the Tree^ 
 before mentioned, thou (l:alt furely die 5 and 
 yet, though he did eat thereof, he lived out^ 
 wardly, and had Children ? 
 
 It was the inward Man that died, which 
 was fo made by the living Breath of the Al- 
 mighty ; for Man going out of the Counfel 
 of the Lord, by his Dilbbedience came to be 
 alienated from the Life of God, and fo be- 
 came infenfiblc of that primary Life in which 
 he was wholly a right Seed, and a noble 
 Plant : In his Degeneration he became in- 
 wardly dead; the inward Scnfes of the in- 
 ward Man was loft; the inward Ear was 
 ftoppcd; the inward Eye was blinded; the 
 inward Senfe of Tafting how good the Lord 
 IS, the inward Feeling after the Divine Vir- 
 tue, who is all Power, Life, Love, and Joy 5 
 the inward Senfe of Smelling his Garments, 
 
 that
 
 and the Way of Death Mfcovered. f 
 
 that fmcU of Myrrh, and of the Spikenard 
 fpiritually, were all loft ; and inftead thereof, 
 an Ear opened, that hearkncd to the Voice of 
 the Stranger ; and an Eye opened that faw 
 the Forbidden Fruit pleafant and defirable j 
 the Heavenly Cloathing of Innocency^ Meeknefs^ 
 and Rejignation loft ; and thus he came to be 
 without God in the Worlds and here, in 
 this Eftate, Man was altogether out of a 
 Capacity of abiding in the Garden, or par- 
 taking of the Heavenly Tree of Life, that 
 was in the midft thereof; and in this Eftate 
 are all the unconverted Sons and Daughters 
 of Men, notwithftanding all Fig-leaf Cover- 
 ings of Profeliions. 
 
 But as the Law of the Spirit of Life brcak- 
 eth forth in its Manifeftation, and the Sons 
 and Daughters of Men come with it to be 
 awakened, they will have the Sight and true 
 Senfc of their inward Eftate and Condition, 
 which will indeed caufe a Cry to arife in the 
 Soul, Oh wretched Ejlate I Oh miferable Con- 
 dition ! And here the Entrance of Sin comes 
 to be feen, which hath brought Death; 
 for the Wages of Sin is Death, which was 
 the Death that came over Adam, and over all 
 fince, that have difobeyed the righteous fpi- 
 ritual Law of God, which is juft, holy, and 
 good, and was before Tranfgreffion, which 
 Law bringeth to Chrift, the promifed Seed, 
 the Gift of God, which is Eternal Life. 
 
 Now,
 
 I l^be Way of Life revealeJ, 
 
 Now, Man being thus departed out of 
 that Nature, Image, and Seed in which Man 
 had his Being before Tranfgreffion, is become 
 the degenerate Plant of a flrange Vine, before 
 the Lord God that made him : And from 
 ^he Sons and Daughters of Men, as they 
 {land joined to this Nature and Seed of the 
 Serpent, which hath defiled Man in Soul, 
 Body, and Spirit, proceed thefe Branches and 
 Fruits of Iniquity, to wit Pride, Envy, 
 Emulation, Strife, Variance, Debate, hatred, 
 Wrath, Anger, Murder, Inordinate AfFedion, 
 Concupifence, Lafcivioufnefs, V^antonnefs, 
 Vanity, Uncleannefs, Fornication, Adulte- 
 ries, Love to this World, Drunkennefs, Re-r 
 veiling, Idlenefs, Swearing, Curfings, Cheat- 
 ing, Defrauding, Double-dealing, Evil- 
 fpeaking, Back-biting, Covetoufnefs, Idola- 
 try, Witchcraft. 
 
 Man being thus fallen from God into this 
 miferable deplorable State, the Divine Being, 
 in his endlefs, boundlefs, fathomlefs Loving- 
 kindnefs, hath opened a Way by which 
 Mankind might be reftored up to himfelf 
 again ; which Way is the promifed Seed, 
 concerning whom he faid to the Serpent, 7 
 will put Enmity between thee and the Woman, 
 and between thy Seed and her Seed j // Jhall 
 bruife thy Head, and thou Pmlt bruife his Heel. 
 So herein was the tender Mercy of the ever- 
 lafting God extended unto Mankind, in giv- 
 ing the Seed, to wit, Chrift Jefus, elfe all 
 
 would.
 
 and the Way of Death difcovered. ^ 
 
 would have been as Sodomy and like unto 
 Gomorrah^ which God deftroyed with Fire 
 in his Wrath: .So this is that one Seed, on 
 which he hath laid Help, who is mighty to 
 feve, who is. the Image of the Invifible God, 
 theFirfl-born of every Creature, in which 
 Image Man was before the Tranfgreffion, 
 who was glorified with the Father before the 
 World began : This is he, of whom, in the 
 Name of the Great 'Jehovah^ I give Tefti- 
 mony, T^hat he is the Way of Life and SaU 
 vation; and that there is no other Name by 
 which any Man can be faved, than by him who 
 waSy and is, and is to come-, who was from, 
 Everlafting to Everlaftingy the Rock of AgeSy 
 which followed Ifrael, and was in the Church in 
 the Wildernefs, as Stephen teflified before he 
 was ftoned to Death : This is he, who is with- 
 out Beginning of Days, or End of Life j who in 
 the Fulnefs of Time was manifefiy taking on him 
 not the Nature of Angels^ but the Seed of Abra.- 
 ham, for whom there was a Body prepared y in 
 which to do the Will of his Father ; who, afterr 
 he had accomplifJjed ity afcended where he was 
 before^ far above all Heavens, that he might 
 fill all : This is the Emmanuel, God with us ; 
 fefus, the Saviour -y Chri/i, the Anointed -, 
 who hath been called by feveral Names, and 
 fpoken of under feveral Denominations and 
 Appellations, through the Mouths of his 
 Servants the Prophets and Apoftles in Ages 
 and Generations by-paft : This is the only 
 
 Beloved
 
 10 Tie tFay of Life revealed^ 
 
 Beloved of the Ranfomcd, and this is our 
 Friend. 
 
 And now he is arifen and ariling, who is 
 the Ancient of Days, in the Might of his 
 Power, and is revealing himfelf the good old 
 Way, and Path of Life, whofc Oiit-goings 
 have been from Everlafting j in which Way 
 Abel^ Setb, Enochs Noah^ Abraham, IfaaCy 
 yacob, and all the Servants, Prophets, Apo- 
 fiks and Saints of the Moft High God walked, 
 through all Ages and Generations; which 
 Way was before all the invented Ways and 
 Worfliips were, which have been fet up in 
 the Will and Time of Man ; for all the holy 
 Men of God, and Saints of the Moft High, 
 worftiipped God in the Spirit of Holinefs, 
 in which they were accepted of him, who is 
 the God of the Spirits of all Flefh : And no 
 outward Performance whatever, performed 
 by any, through Ages and Generations, was 
 any farther acceptable unto the Lord, but as 
 performed in this Spirit, 
 
 fhi
 
 and the Way of Death difcovehd, 1 1 
 
 ^he Way of Rejloration out of the Fall, intd 
 the Image of God again, in which Man was 
 before the Fall, &c. 
 
 BU T how Salvation cbtnes to be wrought 
 by him, and how Mankind may be 
 brought again into him, who is the Way, 
 the l^ruth, and the Life, and brought from 
 under the Power and Dominion of the Seed 
 of the Serpent, in which by Nature all have 
 been the Children of Wrath, is indeed the 
 Thing that lieth on my Spirit weightily to 
 dcmonftrate, having obtained Mercy to fee 
 this Way of Life and Salvation revealed and 
 opened ; and not only fo, but a Neceffity 
 hath been and is upon me to preach the 
 Gbfpel of Chrift Jefus, and declare the Way 
 of Life and Salvation to my Countrymen, 
 through this Illand of England-, and now a 
 Neceffity is alfo upon my Spirit, to leave a 
 Teftimony of the fame on Record. 
 
 This is generally confeffed, that in tl 
 firft Adam all die, and in the fecond 
 Adam, Chrift the Lord, all fhall be _ 
 alive : But how Mankind comes out ar; 
 State of Death, in the firft Man Adaf ^T^^ 
 this State of Life in the fecond Adat/f 
 which the Wifdom of this World i\tf ^^^^J^ 
 
 never faw, never underflood, nA *'?'^S j 
 
 Q f bended
 
 j2 The Way oj Life reveakJ, 
 
 bended truly or rightly : Man by that^#'» 
 hath only imagined and conceived fometh mg 
 in the carnal Mind concerning this great 
 Mvftery, and therein hath fet up man, In- 
 3ons of the IVay of Lije'-i SahaUon 
 And into thefe many IVoys of Man s Inven- 
 tions and Imaginations, fet up >" ^^/^^f"! 
 mfdom of Man, there have been the feveral 
 S Lo here, Lo there ; but the D-^y. « 
 dawned, and appearing, and now breabng 
 forth more and more, magnified and praifed 
 be he Name of the Infinite Almighty God 
 wherein all invented Ways, fet up m the mi 
 and WiJ^iom of Man, that is earthly, fenjual, 
 and deviUlh, fhall come to an End. 
 
 And now, in the Name of 'hem'Shty 
 Cod, all the graven Images, the Work of 
 Men's Hands, and earthly Wifdoms, (hall be 
 broken to Pieces, and ground to P°wder ; the 
 Mouth of the Lord of Hofe hath fpoken , 
 who will perform it by the Might of his 
 Arm, and by the Strength of his Power. 
 
 And therefore, tremble, tremble, all ye 
 Image-makers of all Sorts, who have been 
 making and framing Likeneffes of he Way 
 <: Lift and Salvation, in your fallen mj- 
 <"-,\ni cormpt Wilk. and have made Gols 
 •he.^f and have fallen, bowed down to 
 and v^tftipped them ; (o that it may be faid 
 of Cbrnendom, (o called, as it was once faid 
 of Ijraci^ ji are thy Cities, Jo are thy ijois, 
 O Ilracl !
 
 and the Way of Death dif covered, 13 
 
 But now is the Fulnefs of Time come and 
 coming, wherein the ancient Way of Holinefs^ 
 in which the Righteous walked through all 
 Ages and Generations, is caft up, manifeil 
 and manifefting ; Which Way is Chrift Jefus, 
 the Gift of the Father's Love unto the Sons 
 and Daughters of Men, who hath, as before- 
 mentioned, been preached up and declared of 
 by his Servants, MelTengers, Prophets, and 
 Apoflles, under feveral Denominations and 
 Appellations, according as he was pleafed to 
 manifeft himfelf in aud to them, and as his 
 Spirit gave them Utterance : Amongft many 
 other Appellations, he hath been declared a 
 Friejl for ever^ after the Order of Melchize- 
 deck ; the Rock that followed Ifrael, who was 
 in the Church in the Wildernefs ; a King, a 
 Law-giver ; Wonderful, Counfellor\ Prince oj 
 Peace 'y a Branch, a Light, to lighten the Gen- 
 tiles ; the Arm of God's Salvation j a Cove^ 
 nant j MeJJiah ; a Leader ; a Commander ; a 
 Captain ; the Horn of God's Anointed ; a Stone 
 oJ Stumblijig ; a Foundation laid in Sion ; 
 the Corner-jione-, the Word of God; the Word 
 that was in the Beginning ; the True Light, 
 that lighteth every Man that cofneth into the 
 World ; the Fruth ; the Way and the Life ; 
 King of Kings; Lord of Lords ; Chrifi ; Em- 
 manuel ; fcjus ; the Begitining of the Creation 
 oj God; the Fir fh born of every Creature; the 
 Firji- begotten from the Dead; the Faithful 
 Witnefs; Alpha aiid Omega; Bright and 
 C 2 Morning-
 
 14 ^he Way of Life reveakdy 
 
 Morning-Star ; the Image of the Invifble Gody 
 the Offspring of David : Under thefe, I fay, 
 -and other Names and Denominations, hath 
 he been fpoken and declared of, and by, who 
 ftill hath a Name that no Man knoweth but 
 himfelf, who is that One Eternal Fountain of 
 ^leflednefs, and the One precious Saviour; 
 and there is no other befides him, ahhough 
 diverfly denominated, according as his Spirit 
 gave Utterance, to demonftrate him to thofe 
 unto whom his Servants fpake, prophefied, 
 and wrote. 
 
 And now, by the ancient Power of the 
 
 Holy Everlafling God, is he preached up, 
 
 under the Denomination of LlGHTy in 
 
 this Ifland of the Gentiles, according as was 
 
 prophefied of old, by Jfaiah, Chap. xlix. 
 
 Verf. 6. who faid, // is a light Thing that 
 
 thou fhouldjl he my, Servant , to raije up the 
 
 Tribes of Jacob, and to re ft ore the F referred of 
 
 Ifrael. 1 ivill al/b give thee for a Light to the 
 
 Gentiles, that thou maf/i be my Salvation unto 
 
 the End of the Earth -, which is one with the 
 
 Teflimony of fohn^ Chap. i. faying, In the 
 
 Beginning ivas the fVord, and the IVord was 
 
 v:ith Gody and the Word was God; the fame 
 
 was in the Beginnijig with God\ all Things 
 
 were made by him^ and without him was not 
 
 any Thing ?nade that was made: Jn him was 
 
 Ltfcy and the Life [markl was the Light of 
 
 Men ; and the Light Jl:ineth in Darknefs^ and 
 
 the Jf)arknefs cowprckcndeth it not. There, wqs 
 
 a Mark
 
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 fi Man fent from God, whofe Name was John ; 
 the fame came for aWitnefi, to bear Wttneji 
 of the Light, that all through him might be- 
 lieve : He was not that Light, but was fent to 
 bear Witnefs of that Light that was the true 
 Light, which lighteneth every Man that comes 
 into the World, &c. And to this agrees the 
 Teftimony of juft Simeon, who came by the 
 Spirit into the Temple, and took the Child 
 Jefus into his Arms, and faid, Lordy now let- 
 teji thou thy Servant depart in Peace according 
 to thy Word -, for mine Eyes havefeen thy Sal^ 
 vation, which thou hafl prepared before the 
 Face of all People, a Ligk to lighten the Gen- 
 tiles, and the Glory of thy People Ifrael. This 
 is he of whom we teftify, whofe Light is the 
 Way to Life : And this is the Condemnation, 
 that Light is come into the World, and Men 
 love Darknefs rather than Lights hecaufe their 
 Deeds are Evil: For every one [mark] thcst 
 doth Evil hateth the Light, neither cometh to 
 the Light, left his Deeds fhould be reproved ; 
 but he that doth I'ruth cometh to the Light, 
 that his Deeds may be made manifeft that they 
 are wrought in God. 
 
 Now this Light, which the Servants of the 
 Moft High teftified of, is that which hath 
 been fpoken of and denominated under fe- 
 veral Names: For this Manifeftation of God 
 in Man is fometimes called the Word, the 
 Spirit, the Law, the Grace of God j now the 
 \Vord, Light, Grace, Law, Spirit, are all 
 
 one
 
 1 6 Ih^ Way of Life revtakdy 
 
 one in Nature, aUhbugh diverfly named: 
 Af(?/?/ called it the Word, anddiredbcd to this 
 Word in the Heart and in the Mouth j which 
 Paul, that illuminkted Man, rehearfing, 
 faith, Say not in thy Heart, [riiark] fVho 
 Jhall afcend into Heaven, that is to bring Chrili 
 do^njrom above ; or who {hail dejcend into the 
 Deep, that is, to bring Chri/i up from the 
 Dead : But what faith it? The Word is nigh 
 thee, even in thy Mouth, and in thy Heart-, 
 that is, the Word of Faith that we preach. 
 This is the furc Word of Prophecy unto 
 which Feter direfts to take Heed, as unto a 
 Light that fhineth in a dark Place, until the 
 Day dawn, and the Day-flar arife in the 
 Heart. 
 
 This Light is the Law of the Spirit of -> 
 Life, wherewith Paul was acquainted, that S 
 warred in his Mind againft the Law of Sin \ 
 and Death, which was in his Members : :■ 
 Tnis Light is the Law in the Heart, and the 
 Spirit in the inward Parts, the new Covenant 
 of God Almighty: This is that which con- 
 verts the Soul; which Law Paul delighted 
 in accoiding to the inward Man : This Law -. 
 is Light, of which the Scriptures of Truth 
 plentifully teflify : This is that Grace that 
 P^/J declared, brings Salvation, which hath 
 appeared to all Men ; which Law, Light, 
 Spirit, Grace, Gift, hath in Meafures, as 
 God's Talents, appeared unto all Men, which 
 leacheth all that are led, taught, and guided 
 
 by
 
 and the Way of De^(h difcovered, 17 
 
 by it, to deny all U7tgodlinefs and Worldly 
 Lufts ; and not only fo, but alfo, to live 
 foberly, godly ^ and righteoujly in this prefent 
 World: This is that Grace which the Lord, 
 the Giver thereof, f^id to Paul, was /ufficient 
 for him to deliver him from the Temptation, 
 the Thorn in the Fle(h, of which the fame 
 Apoftle faid unto the Ephjians^ By Grace y^ 
 arefavedy &c. And this is the Manifeftation 
 of the Spirit, fpoken of by Paul^ which is 
 given to every Man to profit withal. And 
 this is that good Spirit of the Lord given io 
 Jfraely who rebelled againfi it, as the old 
 World did, unto whom the Lord faid, My 
 Spirit Omll not always flrive with Man-, of 
 which Word, Law^ Light, Grace, and Spirit ^ 
 given to be the Leader and Guide of Man- 
 kind out of Sin and Death, and Darknefs, 
 into which Man fell through difobeying the 
 righteous Law of God, as is afore declared, 
 the Holy Scriptures give clear and full Tefti- 
 mony, as hath been demonftrated. But now, 
 that which is ready to arife, is an Objed:ion 
 in fome, whofe Underftandings are not open- 
 ed, whofe Searchings to comprehend, and 
 Inquiries after the Way of Man*s Salvation, 
 fland in that Wifdom that is from below, 
 and in the Will and Reafon of Man degene- 
 rated from the Life of God, which is, whe- 
 ther the preaching up this Word, Lights 
 haw. Spirit, and Grace of God ma ni fell 
 within, hath not a Tendency to make Chrift 
 
 Jefus
 
 i8 fhe Way of Life revealed, 
 
 Jefus his Appearance in the Flcfh, his Suffer- 
 ings, Death, Refurredion, and Afcenfion 
 to be invalid? Unto which I anfwer, Nay: 
 Forafmuch as no Perfons ever did, do, or 
 {hall truly fee, difcern, know, underftand, 
 or enjoy the Benefit of Chrift Jefus his 
 Maniieftation in the Fle(h, but as their 
 Hearts were, are, or (hall be opened, and 
 Underftandings illuminated by the Light, 
 which is a Mcafure of the Divine Fulnefs 
 that dwelt in him, and is communicated to, 
 and placed in all immortal Souls, as the uni- 
 verfal Love of God, extended in the Son of 
 his Love to all the Families of the Earth, as 
 the Revealer and Difcoverer of the Will of 
 him from whofe Divine Fulnefs it comes, 
 and iflueth forth itfclf univerfally, for the 
 Scripture thus witnefleth, that no Man know- 
 eth the I'hings of a Man, fave the Spirit of a 
 Man which is in him ; even fo the Things of 
 God knows no Man but the Spirit of God, 
 
 The Hearts of the Jews not being feafon- 
 cd with this Grace of God, and ignorant of 
 the Gift of God, which is Eternal Life, they 
 neither difcerncd, loved, nor received Chrift 
 Jefus, when manifefted in that outward bo- 
 dily Appearance, but rcjeded himj notwith- 
 ftanding they profefled Love, Honour, and 
 Regard to the Prophets, and were in Expecta- 
 tion of the fulfilling their Prophecies of the 
 Coming of the Mefliah, who in due Time 
 tame, and yet they did not receive him, 
 
 but
 
 and the Way of Death difco^ered, ig 
 
 but inftead thereof fet themfelves agalnft 
 him, taking Counfei from Time to Time 
 how they might flay him, though in Words 
 they profeft an earneft Waiting for him : So 
 in this Day, Age, and Generation, there 
 are many, who by their Words do profefs 
 they believe his Coming in the Fiefh, and 
 his Sufferings, Death, Refurredion, and 
 Afcenlion ; but yet having their Faith con- 
 fiding in outward Notions, and having no 
 inward Experience of the End of his Com- 
 ing, nor of the Virtue of his SufFering5> 
 Death, Refurredion, '^c. they are Ene- 
 mies in their Minds to his fecond Appear- 
 ance, and Coming without Sin unto Salvation t 
 So there is a NecefTity for all the Sons and 
 Daughters of Men to come to, and obey this 
 divine fpiritual Principle, which is placed in 
 their Con fciences by the Living Eternal God, 
 that thereby the Eye which hath been blind-^ 
 ed through Difobedience, by the God of the 
 World, may be opened ; for, until this in 
 fome meafure be effcded, the Myftery of* 
 Godlinefs, which is great, can neither be 
 ittn nor underllood ; and therefore Chrift 
 faid, finding the Woman of Samaria igno- 
 rant of himfelf, who was and is that great 
 Myftery, and the Gift of the Father's Love, 
 If thou kneisoefl the Gift of God, and who it 
 is that faith unto thee^ Give me to drink, thou 
 ivouldli have afked of him, and he would have 
 given thee Living fVater. 
 
 D The
 
 20 "the Way of Life revealed, 
 
 The Travail in Spirit of the Meflengcrs 
 and Servants of the Moil High in Ages part, 
 was the fame as now it is, viz. To turn Peo- 
 ple from Darhtffs unto Light, and from the 
 Power of Satan to the Power of the Living 
 God', thereby in no wife invalidating Chiift 
 Jefus his Manifeftation in that bodily Appear- 
 ance, neither his Sufferings, Death, Refur- 
 rcdion, or Afcenfion ; but bringing all People, 
 guided thereby, unto that which will open 
 the Eyes of their Underftandings, whereby 
 they all come unto fuch a Condition and fpi- 
 ritual Underftanding. as to fee and know 
 their Benefit by that Appearance of the Sa- 
 viour of the World ; for this we tcftify. Ail 
 are perfeSfed by that one Offering that are 
 fandiifed' But here arifeth another Objedion 
 by fome, who may come fo far as to own 
 and confefs, that there is a Principle or Light 
 in Man, that difcovercth Sin, and teacheth 
 Man to dojufily and equally, which lomc call 
 Morality, but, that this Light or Principle in 
 Man is of a fa'-cing Property y and of the Na- 
 ture and Quality of the Divine Beings many 
 for want of Underftanding do deny, and fo 
 arc found Oppofcrs of Truth iifclf, and 
 ftumble at the Corner- ftone, which indeed 
 in all Generations hath been to many Men a 
 Stone of flumbling and Pock of Offence, which 
 Thoufands, giving themfelves up to be guided 
 by their own Wifdom and Prudence, reject, 
 )ea, thole accounted the Wife Majler-Buitd- 
 
 ers,
 
 and the Way of Death difcovered. 2 1 
 
 ers, Profeffors of God and Chrifi^ being igno- 
 rant of the Root and Offspring of David, 
 have and yet do rejedt this Corncr-ftone. 
 
 Now, for the Sake of all who do or may 
 defire after the true and faving Knowledge 
 of Chrift Jefus, it is on my Spirit yet further 
 to open and manifeft the Nature and Property 
 of this Principle and Light j whofe Fountain 
 is the Eternal Being, and Everlafting Ocean 
 of Divine Fulnefs, and its Nature and Qua- 
 lity is one with this Fountain from which 
 it comes: yohn teftified, In the Beginning 
 was the Wcrd^ and the Word ivas with God, 
 and the Word was God. In him was Life, 
 and the Life was the Light of Men. He aifo 
 teftified, 7 hat he was not that Lights but came 
 for a Witnefs, to bear witnfs, that that was 
 the true Light, which lighteth every Man that 
 comcth into the World: So the Original of this 
 Light is Chrift Jefus, the Word. 
 
 But fome may query thus, L Chrijl the 
 Light in every Man f 
 
 To which I anfwer; Chrift doth appear 
 by his Light in every Man ; and the Light, 
 which comes from Chrift, is in every Man ; 
 as is clearly demonftrated from the Scriptures 
 of Truth: And, though f account if unne- 
 cefTary to anfwer the curious lnqu>iries of 
 fuch, who feeking to know much, do not 
 walk anjwerable to what they know\ yet for 
 the Sake of fuch whofe Underftandings are 
 not opened, and yet are enquiring the Way 
 
 Da to
 
 02. ^le Way of Life revealed^ 
 
 to Sion, I add this Similitude: 7ke natural 
 Sun is placed by the Creator to lighten the out- 
 ward World, and doth extend from its Body a 
 tneafure of its Light and natural Property, 
 (hining on the Juji and the Vnjuji, and fo doth 
 'daily give forth of that Virtue which is inhe- 
 rent in itfelf: When the Sun (hineth on any 
 Objedl ivhatfoever, lue fimetimes Jay, the Sun 
 there appears \ and other Tiimes we Jay, there 
 is the Sun ; the Propriety of either of which 
 Manner of Expreffions, I Juppoje, none will 
 queftion j for Light in that Appearance is feen, 
 and Virtue is felt, penetrating to the Rfrejh- 
 went oj our natural Bodies; and this Light, 
 and Heat is injeparable from the Fulncfs ; and 
 notwithftanding it fiineth and dijplays its vir~ 
 tuous Life into, and over all the £.arth and its 
 Inhabitants, yet its Body is 7iot any way ex- 
 haujicd or altered through Ages and Genera- 
 tions. And (o, I fay, that Chrill", the Uni^ 
 verfal Fountain of Life, the Sun of Righieouf- 
 nefs, the Ocean and Fulnefs of Ipiritual 
 Light, Life, and Virtue, from whence is 
 communicated a meafure of his Nature, Pro- 
 perty and Quality, is given of the Father, 
 to enlighten all the Sons and Daughters of 
 Men, who accordingly are all enlightened 
 with hH fpiritual Appearance ; and though 
 this Appearance cannot be called the Ful- 
 nefs, yet being a meafure of that Fulnefs, 
 it is one in Nature and Property with, and 
 infeparable from the Fulnefs; And though 
 
 through
 
 and the Way of Death difcovered. 2 J 
 
 through its Virtue, Life is daily communi- 
 cated unto the Sons of Men, who waiting for 
 the Appearance thereof, as for the Morning- 
 Light, cannot live unto God without it, yet 
 doih he admit of no Diminution, Alteration, 
 or Change ; bat all Fulnefs of divine Light, 
 Life, and Glory, doth and (hall, through 
 every Age and Generation, remain withhim: 
 And albeit the Veil of Darknefs hath over- 
 {hadowed the Hearts of fome, fo as when 
 we give Teftimony unto the Univerfal Ap- 
 pearance of the Sun of Righteoufnefs in the 
 Hearts of all the Sons and Daughters of Men, 
 they are ready to fay, Such a Teftimony leads 
 to the diminipoing of that Glory and Honour 
 which belongs unto him, as he is the Fulnefs ^ 
 and fitting at the right Hand of the Father ; 
 inferring from fuch our Teflimony, as if, 
 whilfl ive teftijy to his appearance in our 
 Hearts, we exclude his Prejence elfewhere : 
 Which Inference, I fay, is as irrational as it 
 would be for any to conclude, that becaufk 
 we fay of the Shining atid Appearance of the 
 Sun^ there is the Sun ; or, the Sun there ap- 
 pears ; therefore we exclude the Being of the 
 Sun eljewhere: For its Virtue is communicat- 
 ed to our natural Bodies, every one having 
 in meafure fome Enjoyment of the Virtue or 
 Light of the natural Sun, which is Light to 
 the Eye, even as the outward Eye is Light 
 to, or of the natural Body ; arid whofoever 
 they are, whofe invifible Senfes are quickened 
 
 by
 
 24 lie Way of Life revealed^ 
 
 by the inflaencing Virtue which proceeds 
 from the Eternal Sun of Righteoufnejs^ do 
 thereby fee and difcern, that thcfe Things 
 are according to the clear Manifeftation of 
 Truth in their inward Parts; and from a 
 true Senfe thereof, can of a Truth give this 
 certain Teftimony, That Chrijl, the Lord, by 
 bis holy quick: ning Spirit, hath appeared in 
 them, to the quickening of their immortal Souls; 
 and that through believing in the Light, and 
 Obedience to his Appearance, being come 
 out of that State which is reprobated by the 
 Lord, can of certain experimental Know- 
 ledge fay, Chrijl is in us the Hope of Glory, 
 
 And fo, when we diredt People to this 
 Word, Light, Law, Grace, and Spirit, we 
 do not thereby intend, that Chrift Jefus, 
 the Light of the World, and Gift of God, is 
 not the true Saviour, Redeemer, and Recon* 
 ciler of Mankind unto God. 
 
 Now this Word, Light, Law, Grace, and 
 Spirit, which is one in Nature, doth lead 
 and guide the Souls and Spirits of all fuch 
 as obey it up to God, the Fountain, from 
 whom it comes J and no Man comes to fee 
 its Nature, but fuch who are led by itj for 
 in the Light of the Lord alone Man cometh 
 to fee Light, and to have an Underftanding 
 from whence it fprings : Before this be fully 
 feen or underftood, the Mind of Man muft 
 be brought down, out of all its own Willings 
 and Runnings, Comprehendings and Search-
 
 and the Way of Death difcovered, 25 
 
 ings, into the Principle of Light, therein to 
 fee a Death to his own Will, and be com- 
 prehended into this Light j and fo Man 
 comes to have an Underftanding to know 
 him that is true, and to be in him that 
 is true. 
 
 Now, as any are convinced of, and con- 
 verted by this Heavenly Principle, which is 
 placed in the Confcience, there given to be 
 a Guide and Leader unto Mankind, they are 
 led thereby cut of Darknefs, wherein they 
 have been, while yet the Light Jhone in 
 Darknejsy in which Darknefs no Man ever 
 comprehended this Light or Heavenly Grace, 
 which fometimes moves through the Dark- 
 nefs, on the Depth of Man's Underftanding, 
 reproving and difcovering Darknefs, caufing 
 Man to hear its fmall ftill Voice, moving in 
 Man Godwards j and fo daily continues with- 
 out Change, reproving Man whilft he re- 
 mains in Rebellion and Difobedience^ all the 
 Time of his Fijitationy and approving and 
 giving Peace unto Man, when he is obe- 
 dient. 
 
 This Principle of Light remains entire in 
 its own Purity; and although Man may 
 change, and alter, and go from it, and rebel 
 againft it, and thereby become one of them 
 of whom Job fpeaks, that 7'ebel againft the 
 Light, and thereby know not the Way of it ; 
 but give way to the TForking of the God of the 
 World, to be drawn out into the Jading perifli- 
 
 ing
 
 *6 7%^ Way of Life re^eaM^ 
 
 ing Things : Yet this Principle remains im- 
 mutable in itfelf, being of and from the 
 immutable unchangeable Being, and remains 
 with Man until it be taken from him, and 
 he be caft into utter Darknefs. 
 
 The firft Operation of this Heavenly Light, 
 amongft thofe who are convinced by, and 
 turn*d to it, the Gift of the Father, which 
 Chrift Jefus, in his Parable to the Jews, 
 compared to 2.^ Grain of Mujiard-Jeed -, and 
 to a little Leaveny which a Woman took and 
 hid in three Meajures of Mealy until the whole 
 came to be leavened, is to fliew Man his in- 
 ward State and Condition ; and the firft Step 
 in the Way of Life is, to be turned to this 
 Holy Principle, that teacheth the Obedient 
 to know God favinglyj and when by this 
 Principle Man comes to have a true Sight and 
 Senfe of his fallen Eftate, and fees how he 
 hath tranfgrefTed againft that Eternal Being 
 that gave him Life and Breath,^ who, not- 
 withftanding his Long- fuffer ing, waiteth dill 
 to be graciouSy and knocketh at the Door of 
 the Hearty and hath ftriven by his divine 
 Light, the true Sight and Senfe hereof will 
 break the Heart, and tender the Spirit before 
 the LDrd ; and under the weighty Senfe of 
 the great Burthen of Sin and Iniquity, there 
 will be a crying out, My Sins they are too 
 heavy Jor me to bear, and mine Iniquities are 
 gone over mine Head; as Paul did, faying, 
 Ob wretched Man that I am I Who p:all de- 
 
 liver
 
 and the Way of "Death difcovered, 27 
 
 Vfoer me from the . Body of this Death ? Arid 
 here pomes the Eye to be opened that feetli 
 him, whom Man, in his Difobedience, hatli 
 pierced afrefh, and put to open Shame ; and 
 then there will be Days of Mourning an'd 
 Wailing, becaufe of him; and this is truly 
 the bay of Jacob's Trouble, And in the 
 Senfe of this deplorable fallen Eftate, and 
 the Long-fufFering of the Lord, and the 
 Long-ftriving of his Spirit, thou wilt fee, 
 that in the Juftice of God, Eternal Death 
 might be thy Portion ; but that which brings 
 into this Senfe, begets a fecret Cry in the 
 immortal Soul, after a Deliverer and Saviour^ 
 and will alfo give a true Senfe and Sight, 
 that there is no way for thy Soul to he^ ran- 
 fomedy but in and through the tender Mercies 
 oj Godj through Jejiis Chriji ^ which thou 
 wilt fee can no other way be effedtually be- 
 gun in thee, but in the Way of the Judg- 
 ments of the Lord ; for 'tis through Judgment 
 that Zion is redeemed^ and her Converts with 
 Righteoufnefs : And here alfo thou wilt fee 
 that the Meafure of the Sufferings of Chrifl 
 yet behind, muft be filled up in thee; for 
 no other Way can any Man pafs unto Life, 
 Peace, and Joy, with the Father of Spirits, 
 but the Way the Captain of Salvation pafTed, 
 which was through Death ; and here thou 
 wilt .begin to Arm thyfelf with the fame 
 Mind : For none ceafeth any further from 
 Sin, but as they fuffer in the Flefh the cru- 
 
 E cifying
 
 i8 ^e Way oj Life revealed^ 
 
 cifying of the AfFcdtions and Lufts thereof j 
 ^tid here the End of the Gofpcl's Preaching 
 comes to be known and witneflcd, which 
 was and is, that all Men might be judged as 
 Men in the Flefj^ that fo they might li've ac- 
 cording to God in the Spirit : And in this 
 fpiritual inward Senfe and Exercifc, the Lord 
 God Almighty will bow down his Ear, and 
 anfwer the Cries of thy awakened Soul, and 
 tnanifeft his Word of Power, which all in 
 this State and PafTagc will know to h^ /harper 
 than any two-edged Sword ^ piercings to the 
 dividing ajiinder of thy immortal Soul, from 
 the Spirit and Nature of Tranfgreffion, and 
 its working daily, as Subjedlion and Obedi- 
 ence is yielded unto it, dividing and making 
 a Separation between "Jointi and 'Marrow, giv- 
 ing thee daily a Difcerning of the Thdughts 
 and Intents of thy Heart. 
 
 And as the Soul, Mind and Heart, gives 
 up in Love to God, freely to follow him in 
 the Way of his Judgments, and gives up to 
 the Sword of the Lord, that which is for the 
 Sword \ and that which is for DejlruBion^ to 
 be defiroyed •■, thus will the precious Work of 
 the Lord profpcr. And although this be a 
 Time of Sorrow, and a Time of Trouble, 
 I'ravail, and Anguifh ; yet, notwithftanding, 
 it is a good Day : Therefore, flrive not to get 
 from under it, neither to make Hajle j jor the 
 true godly Sorrow worketh the true Repcfitance, 
 which is never to be repented of: And after 
 
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 and the Way of Death difcovered, 29 
 
 the true Repentance, follows the true Know- 
 ledge of RemiJJion and Forgivenejs ; and (o 
 thy Iniquities by the Judgments of the Lord 
 God Almighty come to be blotted out ; ^nd 
 then the Times of Refrefhment come from 
 the Preience of the Lord, and from the 
 Glory of his Power. 
 
 And as there is a faithful abiding in in- 
 ward Watchfulnefs, and continual Obedi- 
 ence to this Heavenly Light, in which 
 the Beginning of the Work of God was 
 known, there will be a going on from 
 Step to Step in the Foot-fteps of the Flock 
 of Chrifl Jefus, and a growing from Strength 
 to Strength, over Sin and the Nature there- 
 of, and from one Degree of Grace to ano- 
 ther;^ and as there is a faithful Perfever- 
 ance in this divine Principle, the Eye of 
 the Underftanding will be fingle ; and here 
 every Thing which hath or doth let, will 
 be fcen, and the Soul never ftart afide from 
 an inward Travail, until that which hin- 
 dereth be taken out of the way, and until 
 thou fceft all the Rule and Authority of 
 •the Enemy to be fubdued under the Feet 
 of the Lord's Anointed, and the Govern- 
 ment in the Soul upon his Shoulders, whofe 
 Right it is to reign over all. 
 
 And here Salvation, Redemption, and Re- 
 
 fioration is efFedually enjoyed, thro' Faith^ 
 
 and the effeSiual Working and Operating of 
 
 E2 the
 
 39 'the Way of Life refvealei^ 
 
 the Almighty Power and Arm of God Al- 
 mighty, unto whom be the Glory of his 
 own Work for ever; and fo here will be 
 a growing and increafing, until there is 
 a coming into that precious State and Image, 
 In which Min was before he fell. 
 
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 and the Way. of De^th difcovered, 31 
 
 t-tr- 
 
 N 
 
 The By-Paths, Crooked Ways, Wiles, ani 
 Snares of the Enemy difcovered.- . 
 
 O W when the Mind is turned to this 
 Divine Heavenly Principle, and that 
 ^herein the Work of the Lord is begun, 
 which before is faid, is the bringing Man into 
 a real fenfible Kno^^dge of his State and C(?«- 
 dition, then/will the fame De/iroyer, that 
 brought Man into Bondage at firft, and hath 
 kept him in Bondage, begin to work cun^ 
 ningly, and every Way endeavour to dejiroy 
 the Work of God begun in the Soul, and that 
 he may accomplifh his End, he will go about 
 every 'Way, feeking an Entrance, and will 
 lay his Temptations fuitable to the Propenfity 
 or Inclinations of the Creature. 
 
 If the Heart and Mind be bowed down 
 under the weighty Senfe of Iniquity, the Sins 
 committed coming in Order, and the many 
 tranfgreflions in Sight, through which the 
 Sorrow and Bitternefs is great, here the Ene- 
 my will work in his Transformings, and 
 Although in Appearance like the Light, yet 
 in Nature contrary thereto : For, albeit the 
 Light and Appearance of God gives the cer- 
 tain Underftanding of the inward State, and 
 brings Sorrow becaufe of Sin, and (hews the 
 Mountain of Iniquity, and the exalted Hills 
 1^ of
 
 32 The Way (f Life revealed, 
 
 of Tranfgreffion, yet its Workings inwardly > 
 beget a fccret Hope of overcoming by the ^ 
 Lord's Strength', but then the Enemy, when 
 he feeth the Soul bowed down, as aforefaid, 
 oftentimes afflidleth, and bringeth down the 
 Mind into Unbelief of ever overcoming, therc--^ 
 by endeavouring to (inic the Soul down into 
 Defpair ; knowing, if he overcomes, he ftiil 
 keeps under his Power, although in another 
 Appearance ; but all that are exercifed in 
 this kind, waiting on the Lord fingly, with 
 the Mind ftay*d in the Light, this Snare will 
 be difcovered; for, as I faid, although the 
 true Appearance of Gods Heavenly Light and 
 Grace brings a Day of Trouble^ Sorrow, and 
 Anguifh'y yet that Sorrow is not a Sorrow 
 without Hope ; but the Enemy's Working is, 
 to bring into a Sorrow, Trouble, and Anguifh 
 without Hope, and to draw down the Spirit 
 into the Chambers of Darknefs, where there 
 is no Order. 
 
 But now, when the Enemy of the Soul's 
 Peace is difcovered in this his Working, and 
 the Heart and Soul, through the Love and 
 Power of God, is comforted, encouraged, 
 and refrefhed, and raifed up into a Meafur« 
 of the living Hope, Satisfadion, and Con- - 
 tent, then the old, crooked, fmbtle Serpent 
 endeavours to lead from off the inward daily 
 Travail, that fo Judgment may not be ^ 
 brought forth into Vidory ; and fo draw up 
 the Mind into a falfe Perfuafjon of Obedience 
 
 and
 
 and the Way of Death dijcovered. • 3 3 
 
 and Diligence, whenas there is not an abid- 
 ing in that which gives a true Sight and Scnfe 
 of the State and Condilion: And as before 
 he would have deftroyed the Hope that is an 
 Anchor fure and ftedfaft, fo now on the 
 other hand, he would beget a falfe Hope and 
 Confidence, and fo bring out of the daily 
 Crofs, through which the Nature which hath 
 alienated from God, (hould be deftroyed. 
 
 And if the Workings of the Enemy be 
 feen and overcome in both thefe Wiles and 
 Snares, on the right Hand and on the left, 
 and that the Work profpereth even until 
 much be fubjedled, and that, through the 
 daily Obedience to the Heavenly Power, 
 much is flain, and that the Heart and Mind 
 comes in a good meafure to be cleanfed, and 
 that in pure Obedience and conftant Faith- 
 fulnefs, in this Light of Righteoufnefs, a 
 good Progrefs is made through the Admini- 
 ftration of Condemnation, that is glorious in 
 its Time, and that fomething of pure Peace 
 and Heavenly Joy fprings and arifes in the 
 Heart and Soul 5 here again the Enemy will 
 be fubtilly at work, to betray and lead afide, 
 in perfuading to fit down now, as if all 
 were done 5 and fo lead out from the feed- 
 ing on the Tree of Life, to feed on the 
 Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil: 
 And fo lead out into a Liberty to break 
 the Commandment of the Lord ; and here 
 at firft fubtilly and cunningly draws the 
 Mind out fo far as to take a little Li- 
 berty.
 
 5^ ■ TbeWdyofLifer^eatect, 
 
 berty, and draws the Mind fomewhat from 
 that diligent Watchfulnefs, Dread, Fear, and 
 Awe it was in before in the inward Travail 
 of Spirit : And here, if the deftroying fubtil 
 Etiemy can but prbvail a little he will lead 
 out of the innocent harmlefs Life, and fo 
 gradually lead a little forth, and fo by de- 
 grees openeth an Eye that may fee fomething 
 in the outward vifible Things, that may 
 fomewhat afFedl' the Mind; and as here hie 
 j>revails, and caufeth his Work to profper^ 
 which he doth fubtilly, gradualfy, and hid- ) 
 denly, the Eye that was open'd comes again, ,^ 
 through Difobedience, to be in fome mea^ 
 fure blinded ; and here Lofs is fuftaincd. ; 
 even before the Un watchful is aware. And ^ 
 fo the Working of the Enemy firft is, to 
 caufe juch to make Shipwrack of Faith in a ^ 
 tittle meajure -, that is, not to have the daily : 
 Belief to fland in the Power ; the daily En- 
 joyment of which, coming to be left by de- 
 grees, there will then be a turning from 
 the Power of Godlinefs, into the Form 
 thereof: And although at (bme Times the 
 eternal Power of the Lord God may be felt ^ 
 in this Eftate, yet there being not a daily 
 feeling after it, the Enjoyment thereof, as 
 to true Refrefliment and Gonfolation, comes ^ 
 to be loft, and an Image comes up in its <■ 
 Place J and the Enemy provides and prefents 
 fome Object or Objedls fo to take up the 
 Mind, as that by degrees he may enter in, ^^ 
 and defile tlie Mind, and draw it out from ) 
 
 its
 
 and the tFay of T)eath difcovered. 35 
 
 its true Guide, fo as alfo to make Shipwratk 
 of a good Confcience. 
 
 And now, if the Enemy be difcovered In 
 thefe his Workings, before he can (d efFedt 
 his Work, as to bring Death ^nd Darknefs 
 over again, and that the Power of the Lord 
 breaks his Snares, and gives a true weighty 
 Senfe thereof, through which Trouble and 
 Anguifh of Spirit comes, here he will agairi 
 transform and b-gin to work, as in the Be- 
 ginning of the Work, like ihe condemnihg 
 Power of the Lord y endeavouring to lead the n 
 Mind down into Defpair of ever recovering 
 again into the fortlier Condition; and here- ^ 
 by endeavour to draw the Mind to look at 
 him that hath ftiing, that fo the Remedy; 
 the Soul-ranfoming Power of the Lord, may 
 not be felt after, nor looked at ; but here, 
 as there is a true Regard to the Lord, and a 
 waiting upon him in the Way of his fudg-, 
 ments, having the Faith and Confidence to ft and 
 in his Power ^ the Backllidirig will be healed ; 
 and returning, and diligently keeping ia 
 the Light, the Power of the Lord God 
 Almighty will work over that which hath 
 hurt, and endeavoured like a roaring Lion 
 to deftroy, &'c, and fo leads on the Wa^ 
 again. 
 
 But vvhen Deliverance is known ap-alrt 
 from this dtad^y Snare, and the Work agiin 
 goes on profperoufly until the Houfe be 
 fwept and garniflied, and there is a PafT^ge 
 
 F known
 
 ^6 ^ ^ay of Life revealed, 
 
 known and witnelTed from Death unto Life, 
 and the Adminift ration of Condemnation be- 
 ing pafled through, and the Spirit that ruled 
 in the difobcdicnt Eftate caft out, and the 
 Openings of that which doth exceed in 
 Glory, the Adminiftration of the Spirit, be- 
 ing known, here the Enemy will again 
 transform, and wiih all his Power and 
 Strength in the Transformation, as an Angel 
 tf Light, work by his Temptation on the 
 right Hand and on the left : For when there 
 are Openings to the Underftanding, and Pio- 
 diccies, and through the Working of the 
 Eternal Power, Joy fprings in the Heart, 
 then will the Enemy work fecretly and cun- 
 ningly, to draw the Mind out of the Valley 
 of Humility; and if he prevaileth here to 
 draw out of this Habitation of Safety, then 
 be will transform to lead the Mind out, 
 through the Motions of his transforming 
 Spirit and Power, into Extreams, thereby 
 endeavouring to deftroy the true Birth, 
 which is bringing forth, and fo bewilder the 
 Mind, and hurry it forth, through imagin- 
 ary Notions, to diflionour the Name of the 
 Living Eternal God, and to deftroy his 
 Work, which through Sorrow and Travail 
 hath been brought forth. 
 
 And if he cannot prevail here, but the 
 Light of the Lord difcovercth him, and the 
 Power of the Lord works over his Appear- 
 ance herein, then will he be at work, to 
 
 drain
 
 and the Way of Death difcovered, 37 
 
 draw the Mind out of the Watchfulnefi, out 
 of the daily Awe and Fear^ and out of the 
 Liberty of the Sons oj God, which Liberty is, 
 cnlyy to Jerve the Lord j for Dominion being 
 felt in fome Meafurc, the Morning of Com- 
 fort and Confolation enjoyed, and Praifes 
 fpringing in the Heart to him that viHted and 
 redeemed, the Enemy will be ready here 
 alfo to draw the Mind out of the Valley of 
 Humility^ out of the flayed Eft ate of meek 
 and conftant Watchfulnefi in the Light y there- 
 by caufing the Creature prodigally to fpend 
 the Portion, and to lavifh out the Enjoyment 
 by running and climbing up to facrifice upon 
 the Mountains^ and run before the Leadings^ 
 GuidingSj and Movings of the Power of the 
 Lord, into the fpeaking forth of the En- 
 joyment, the Prophefyings and Openings, not 
 being led thereunto by that Eternal Power 
 that firft opened the Heart; and here is 
 the Ground of the untimely Birth, that 
 hath been brought forth, that hath and 
 will wither^ and come to nothing. 
 
 But now, where the Enemy is feen and 
 dlfcovered in all the aforefaid Workings, and 
 cannot prevail by thefe Snares, Traps, Gins, 
 and Temptations aforefaid, he will not ceafe, 
 who goes about as a roaring Lion, feeking whom 
 he may devour, and how he may again get En- 
 trance ; fo that he lays his Temptations accord- 
 ing to the Spirit^ Growth, Capacities, and 
 Inclinations, of every one. Now after the good 
 
 :i,J5y|j? z Work
 
 3^ ^e Way of Life revsaleJ, 
 
 Work of God has been begun profperoufly, 
 and that the right Arm oi God's Salvation 
 hath been wonderfully revealed, and Jignally 
 manijejl, to bring out of Egypt's Land of 
 Darknefs fpiritualiy, and that the Lord hath 
 magnified his Arm fpiritualiy, in giving 
 many Jignql D.elheranas from the defiroying 
 Enemy, and has often fed with the Heavenly 
 Food' and caufed the Rock to yield Water 
 for the Thirfty, and that the many Turnings 
 Cifide in the Pallage through the Wildernejl 
 have been fcen, and the Back-Jlidings and 
 'gqing out, from a Senfe of the Eternal Power, 
 hj^ye been difcovered, and that there is a 
 coming through the Rroer of Judgment, 
 and t^e mighty Pov^'er and Arm of the Ever- 
 l.iifing God drive;^ oi^t the Efiemy that hath 
 inhabited, where only Ahrahavis Seed is to 
 inhabit, and that the War in ^reat meafure 
 ceaCeth, and Part of th? good Land is poiTef- 
 led and enjoyed, even ihi Land that jlovoeth 
 *ivith fpiritual Milk and Boney, and Fruit of 
 the Vine drunk of j here alfo, as in the Tra- 
 vails afore- mention'd, will the old, crooked, 
 j.ubtil Enemy be working, as he did with out- 
 ward Ifrael, caufing "fejurun to ii\ix fat, and 
 then kick againfl the yJncient Power, leading 
 the Mind out, through the Enjoyment of 
 that which in its place is good, into Eafe, 
 and fo to forget the Lord that made and formed 
 MaUy and brought him into the Land of Reft, 
 liglt'y to ejlccm of the very Rock oj Salvation -,
 
 find the Way of Death dijcovered, 39 
 
 apd fo leadeth into an eafeful State, in a Pro- 
 feflion, and draws away the Mind from the 
 inward Enjoyment of Virtue, to fet up Idols in 
 the Heart, and to jerve other Gods of Silver 
 and Gold, and an Idol, a Projejton without 
 Lije and PoJfeJJion : And into this State and 
 Condition did the old Enemy prevail to lead 
 a People, who in many Ages had feen the 
 great and mighty Works ot the Lord, who 
 faw from Time to Time the Arm of God 
 Almighty out-ftretched, and magnified in 
 the Sight of their Enemies for them j how- 
 heit, as aforefaid, they departed from the Lord, 
 and from the inward Senfe of his Eternal Power, 
 Now here the Spirit that was caft out, and 
 wandred in dry Places, takes to \i [even worfe 
 Spirits, and returns, tempts, prevails, an4 
 enters, and here indeed the Latter-end is, 
 worfe than the Beginning; for in the Begin- 
 7iing, although the Enemy had his Power and 
 Rule, yet there was a Senfe thereof, and the 
 Heart and Mind was humbled, tender, and 
 brought into the true Pc-jerty, and there was a 
 Mourning before the Lord for want of the 
 Dominion : And this State of Humiliation, 
 Brokennefs of Heart, and T'endernejs of Spi- 
 rit, in which the Lord took and taketh De- 
 light, and therefore in his endkfs, houndlefs 
 Loving-liindnefs vifited and caus'd his redeem- 
 ing favi Jig Power and Arm to be reveal'd: 
 . ?ut now in this other Eftate, the Mind is 
 iiigh, the Heart fat and full, and at Eafe, and 
 
 gotten
 
 4© the Way of Life reveakd, 
 
 gotten forth into the Love of the World, and 
 the Things thereof, through which there is 
 an Vnmindjulnefs of the Lord, who in the 
 Beginning was every Day fought after, and 
 diligently waited for; and here the Rock, 
 the Power, is Hghily eftecmed of; for thc^ 
 Ellimation is of another Thing j and here 
 two great Evils are committed even at once, 
 viz. tie Fountain of the former living Mercies 
 forfaken, and a hewing out broken Cifierns, a 
 Pioftflion, that 'will hold no Water, no dura- 
 hie Refrefkment, no durable Joy, no durable 
 Peace nor Conlblation, And ihe Enemy hath 
 thus p evailtd through many Agts, to bring 
 ^oufandi from their Enjoyment of God in 
 the pure, tender, broken^ contrite, upright^ 
 fpirited Eftate, which he hath and doth cfFe<ft 
 through his Workings and Subtilty, and 
 that gradually j his firft Footfiep hereunto is, 
 to bring out of the conftant, daily, fure 
 Watchh Inefs, and caufing a little Liberty to 
 be taken to the carnal Mind, and to the Flejh^ 
 and that gradually, and, as it were unpercciv- 
 ably, caufing fuch to take, as it were, a 
 Tafte, a certain Enjoyment of Sweetnefs 
 therein, and thereby a little darkning the 
 Sight, and fo alluring into a little more Li- 
 berty : Sometimes his Beginnings are to draw 
 out of Obediennce in thofe. Things that werQ 
 required in the Day of fmall Things ; lome- 
 times into many Words out of Watchfulnefs^ 
 no moic to be as a Door-keeper in the Houfe 
 
 of
 
 and the Way of Death difcvoered, 4 1 
 
 0/ the Lordy and fo the Enemy works to caufe 
 luch-like Things to feem fmali and indifferent 
 Things, thereby to caufe the Offence of the 
 Crofs in thofe Things to ceafe j and then the 
 Heart and Mind runs forth to make Provifion 
 for the Flefli to fulfil the Luft thereof, either 
 in MeatSy Drinks^ Jpparel^ or fuch like, 
 which the Truth in Times paft hath difco- 
 ver'd and made manifeft, and the Power of 
 God, the Crofi of Chrifl, hath crofs'd, and 
 in meafure led out of, into Watchfulnefs, in 
 pure Fear and holy Awe, not making Pro- 
 vifion for the Flefli, in any refped:, to fulfil 
 the Lufts thereof J but drawing the Creature 
 in Pra<aice, as well as in Principle, into 
 Plainnefs, and out of all Superfluities, ad- 
 mitting of the Creature to refrefh Nature, 
 and not feed the Lufts* 
 
 But yet the Enemy works by degrees, fub-" 
 tilly and covertly to lead out of the Liberty 
 of the Crofs of Chrift Jefus, the Power of God 
 unto Salvation, into the Liberty of the Flefti 
 again, and hereby gets a little further En- 
 trance J and though the Enemy be working 
 to draw forth the Mind into a wrong Liberty^ 
 as into many Words in Dealings, in Commerce^ 
 or Converfe, and into the Love of the Worlds 
 and the Enemy may be contented therewith, 
 yea, and many Times the Power of God 
 may be felt in feme meafure, which indeed 
 works not in the Approvement, but to draw 
 out of the Snare; but the God of the World 
 
 having
 
 i 2 ^^ ^^y ^f ^^fi revealed^ 
 
 having by this Time much blinded the Eyfe, 
 and darkned the Heart, and dcceiv'd theUn- 
 derftanding, there is not a Senfe nor Know- 
 ledge of the Mind of the Tower of the Lord 
 in its Workings, nor a real Senfe of the Be- 
 cay and gradual fubtil Workings of the Enemy ; 
 for the outward Profeffion and Conformity 
 may be in a great meafurc kept to, which 
 is a Cover under which the Enemy may 
 work undifcovercd by the Unwatchful : And 
 fo the Enemy many Times leads cunningly 
 Stept by Step, until he hath led out of the 
 Power of Godlincfs, and (lain the tender 
 Birth, which in the firft Days of tender Vifit- 
 ations was begotten ; and fo here, now there 
 will be a growing high, fat, and thick ; 
 and fuch will call the Operation of God's 
 dividing Power, Extrcams and Imaginations, 
 and, Jefurun-hkc, will kick, and turn againft 
 the dividing Power of the mighty God, for 
 fuch are beft contented with a Likenefs and 
 Image; for it loves the fmooth Things in 
 the Wifdom of the gifted Man, that has loft 
 his Way, through erring from the Power, 
 not ivaiting continually on all Occafiom to he 
 guided thereby : So here is the itching Ear, 
 and heaping up Teachers to pleafe Self, to 
 pleafe that, and uphold that, and here Jeze- 
 bel is fuffer'd and upheld ; which Error crept 
 into the Church of Thyatira , and in all 
 Ages they that went from the broken, tender 
 Eftate, into the Conditions before difcover'd, 
 
 did
 
 > and the Way of Death di [covered. \^ 
 
 did and do both fuffer and nurture this ^i?2r?- 
 bel, who muO: be CaA on the Bed of Torment s^ 
 and all her Children mufl: be killed with 
 Death: And all the Workings of the Ene- 
 my, under every Difguife, is to flair that 
 which was quickned^ ' and to bring in a 
 Content ednefs with an out fide Frofeffion of the 
 Way of Truth, Light and Life of Chn/i Jefus^ 
 the Power of God unto Salvation, whilfl the 
 Heart is adulterated and gone from the Lord^ 
 and has embraced other Lovers j and fo in 
 procefs of Time, where the Enemy thus 
 prevails, he leads again into the World, from 
 whence the Arm of the Lord gathered j and 
 the Latter -end of fuch is indeed worfe than 
 the Beginning : For the Enemy having led 
 to make Shipwrack of Faith and of a good 
 Confcience, the fecond Death comes over, and 
 luch become twice dead, and become as 
 Salt which has loft its Savour, and are good 
 for nothing, but to be caft forth, and trodden 
 under Foot of Men. The Frefirvation out 
 of thefe By-paths, Crooked Ways, Wiles, Snares, 
 a?2d Temptations of the E?iemy, is only in the 
 true waiting and fmcere abiding in the Light, 
 Gift, and Grace of God, in which the daily 
 Revelations and Manifejlations of God^s Eter- 
 nal Fower, and right Arm of Salvation, and 
 Frejervatiojt, is known, in the daily Acquaint- 
 ance and Experience thereof, which keeps all 
 Minds truly low, and Hearts fmcerely tender, 
 
 G laherein
 
 ^ The Way of Life revealed^ 
 
 Viberein arijeth an inward Travail, Longing, 
 Breathing, and Panting after the daily and 
 tontinual Enjoyment of the Life, Power, and 
 hleffed refrefhingy heavenly Virtue, which alone 
 renews and increafes the Strength of the in- 
 ward Mam in which God Almighty pre- 
 ferve all the Travellers Zion-wztds to the 
 End. 
 
 The
 
 and the Way of Death difcovered, 45 
 
 9l&^ utter End, and final DeflruBion prophe- 
 fiedy of all falfe ProfeJ/ions^ who have had 
 their Rife in the Night of Afoftacy, 
 
 AFTER the glorious Breakings forth of 
 ^^ the Day of God amongft the Apoftles, 
 &c. the Enemy wrought mightily againft 
 that Appearance, both in his Inftruments, by 
 and through which he raifed up Perfecution, 
 and alfo in thofe Apoftates, in whom he got 
 an Entrance, amongft the Churches, and has 
 fo prevailed, that great has been that horrible 
 Night of Darknefs and Apoftacy, that hath 
 been many Centuries, in and over the Na- 
 tions of the Earth j in which Times the old 
 fubtil Serpent, in his many Transformings 
 and Appearances, has mightily wrought, to 
 alienate Man from his God : Oh ! the Ways 
 and Inventions that have been by him fet up, 
 through his Workings in the Wifdom which 
 is from below, which is earthly, fenfual, and 
 devilifh, under pretence of Religion, Obedi- 
 ence, and JVorJhip of God ! What rending, 
 tearing, devouring, murdering, and deftroying, 
 has there been for thefe many hundred of 
 Years about Religion? Firft, the great red 
 Dragon of Perfecution appeared to devour 
 the Man-child, and deftroy the Woman, but 
 both were preferved ; then he made War 
 
 G z with 
 
 *^
 
 ^ lie Way of Life revealed, 
 
 with the Remnant of her Seed, and after 
 came in another Appearance, which John 
 faw rife as a Beaft out of the Sea, ivho had 
 feven Heads, and ten Horns -, and on hts Horns, 
 Crowns; and upon his Heads, the Name of 
 Blafphemy ; and one of his Heads bad a deadly 
 Wound by the Sword, but this deadly Wound 
 was again healed; and all the World ^wondered 
 after th Beaft, foying, Who is like the Beaft ^ 
 jlnd who. is able to make War with him ? And 
 all on the Earth have and do woriliip the 
 Bcaft, whofe Names are not written in the 
 Book of Life of the Lamb, flain from the 
 Foundation of the World : And after this, a 
 fecond Beafi appeared, that came out of the 
 Earth j and this Beajl had. two Horns like a 
 Lamb, biU jpake like a Dragon : And John 
 faw he exercifed all the Power of the firfi 
 Beaft, who receii:cd his Power and Authority 
 from the Dragon, like unto which this fecond 
 Beafl fpake j and this Bea/l that had Horns 
 like a Lamb, caufed the Earth, and them that 
 dwelt therein, to worjhip the firft Beaft, whofe 
 deadly Wound was healed; and he caufed all, 
 both Small and Great, Rich and Poor, Free 
 and Bond, to recei'-oc a Mark in their right 
 Hand, or in their Foreheads. And here has 
 been the univerfil Working of the Power and 
 Spirit of Darknefs, that hath exalted him- 
 feif, jitting in the Temple of God, as God 
 and Ruler. But, blefled for ever be the 
 Name of the Almighty God, the gi-eat red 
 
 Dragon^
 
 and the Way of Death difcovered, 47 
 
 Dragoriy and the Beafl that arofe out of the 
 Sea, and the Beaji that arofe out of the 
 Earth, and Myftery Babylon, are and (hall 
 be manifeft: The Wifdom that is pure and 
 peaceable, numbers thefe Appearances : And 
 the Judgment of the great Whore is come 
 and coming, who rides upon the firft Beaft ; 
 for now the Angel of God's Prefence is come 
 down from Heaven, having great Power, 
 who lightens the Earth with his Glory, and 
 the mighty Cry is now going over the Earth, 
 utter'd with a ftrong Voice, faying, Babylon 
 the Great is j alien, is fallen, and become the 
 Habitation of Devils, &c. All Nations have 
 drunk of the Wine of the Wrath of her 
 Fornications, and the Kings of the Earth 
 have committed Fornication with her, and 
 the Merchants of the Earth are waxed rich, 
 through the Abundance of her Delicacies 5 
 and the Voice is now uttering from Heaven, 
 Come out oj her, my People, that ye be not 
 Partakers of her Sins, and that ye partake not 
 of her Plagues ; for her Sins have reached un- 
 to Heaven, and God has re mem bred her Ini' 
 quities : And now is the one Day dawning 
 over the Earth, wherein her Plagues, Mourn- 
 ing, and Famine come, and (he fhall be ut- 
 terly burn'd with the Fire of God's Jealoufy j 
 for jlrong is the Lord God who judges her. 
 And now, in the Name of the eternal, ever- 
 living, blelTed God, the Creator of all 
 Things, I prophefy of the perpetual De- 
 
 ftrudion
 
 4^ ^e Way of Life revealed, 
 
 ftroaion, and utter Defolation, of the Reli- 
 gions, Inventions, Ways, Worfhips, Prcfcrip- 
 tions, Orders, Decrees, and Imitations, that 
 have been letting up thefe many hundreds of 
 Years, and not by the eternal living Power of 
 the living God, nor by the Directions, Lead- 
 ings, and Guidings of his quickning Spirit of 
 Life, that led and guided the Apoftles in their 
 Day, Age and Generation ; Root and Branch, 
 Head and Tail, and the whole Fabrick of 
 the Babylonijh Building, fhall be utterly con- 
 fumed, razed down, and confounded for 
 c?er ; and all the Worfhippers of the Beaft 
 and his Image, ihall drink of the Wine of 
 the Wrath of God, which is pour*d forth, 
 without Mixture, into the Cup of his Indig- 
 nation ; and thefe Worfhippers (hall be tor- 
 mented, and have no Reft Night nor Day, 
 who worftiip the Beaft and his Irnage. and 
 whofoever receive the Mark of his Name, 
 
 A Can,
 
 and the Way of Death dijcovered. 45^ 
 
 A Caliy in the tender Bowels of the Love of 
 Gody Jhed abroad in this Day^ Age^ and 
 Generation^ unto all the fcattered Sheep^ 
 &c. 
 
 IJ E ARK EN and give Ear, ye fcattered 
 •■' *- ones, upon the barren Mountains of Pro- 
 fcilion, who having loft the living Senfe that 
 was on many of your Spirits Years ago, and 
 are now feeking the Living amongft the dead 
 Profeffions, and your Bread in defolate Places j 
 remember the Days, Months, and Years 
 paft ; call to Mind the Days of your Ten- 
 dernefs, when the Light of God fo fhined 
 on your Tabernacle, that by it you faw 
 yourfelves in Darknefs, and in Separation 
 from the Enjoyment of your Creator ; which 
 Senfe brought a Day of Mourning and bitter 
 Lamentation on you, which was the Caufc 
 of your Parting, Praying, and carneft Seek- 
 ing after the Lord, with Multitude of Sighs, 
 Groans, and Tears, which caufed you to 
 put many Days and Times apart, to meet 
 together to pour forth your Souls in feek- 
 ing the living God, for his Appearance and 
 Breaking-forth by his Eternal Power, and 
 for the Revealings of his ancient Arm and 
 Horn of Salvation : And in that Day how did 
 many of you retire yourfelves into your Clo- 
 
 fets.
 
 ro T*he Way of Life revealed^ 
 
 fets, and fecret Places, to mourn before the 
 Lord? And how did your Cries, Breathings, 
 and Pan tings after the Lord, prevent the 
 Morning-watches ? And in that Day, was it 
 not SubiUnce itfelf that you fought after, 
 even the Revealings of the Son of God's 
 Love in your Souls ? Let me now come near, 
 and expoftulate with you in the Name of 
 the Mighty God, even with you, amongft 
 all Profeilions, that have any Tendernefs or 
 Breathings after the Lord remaining in you : 
 What was it that ftirred up your Hearts, 
 many Years fince, thus to feek after the 
 Lord? What was it that gave you the Senfe 
 of your own inward Conditions? What was 
 it that made Sin appear exceeding linful ? 
 What was it that you felt in your Minds that 
 warr'd againft the Law of Sin and Death in 
 your Members ? What was it that in fome 
 meafure open'd the Eye of your Under- 
 ftanding to fee Idolatry and Superftition ? 
 What was it that was drawing your Hearts 
 out of the World, that even made thofe 
 Things of light Efteem, in Comparifon of 
 that which your awakened Souls fought after? 
 What was it that inwardly upheld you in 
 Sufferings? What was it that you retir'd your 
 Minds unto, when the Wicked raged as the 
 Waves of the Sea^ when you were mocked 
 for the Plainjtefs of your Jpparel, and for 
 your Striclnefs tJ^oiir Families? Remember 
 your many fignai Deliverances : How did 
 
 the
 
 end the Way of Death difcovered. r i 
 
 the Lord anfwcr you in the Day of your 
 
 Tendernefs ? What was it that extrcikd you 
 inwardly, moving on every one of your par- 
 ticular Souls and Spirits for a Refoimation ? 
 Was it not the free Grace of God ? Was it 
 not that Light which (hin'd on your Taber- 
 nac»e ? Did not thiS fhine in your Hearts, 
 and move on your Spirits God-wards, and 
 began the inward Woik of the Lord in you? 
 Why did you ftart afide from following oa 
 toward the Lord in the Way of his Judgments^ 
 when a little Profperity attended you ? Why 
 did you feek to get from under the Judgment, 
 before it was brought foth into Vidory ? Be 
 awaken'd, and come back, you ProfelTors of 
 all Sorts, that have thus turned afide for a 
 Thing of nought, which has caus'd you to 
 wander from one Mountain of ProfefTion to 
 another, and from one exalted Hill of Ima- 
 ginations and Conceivings to another, until 
 you have fpent all your Portion, and are in 
 Nature return'd to Babylon^ the City of Con- 
 jufion, out of which the Lord God Almighty 
 thus calls you, Hall en, haft en to come forth, 
 and partake no longer ivith her in her Sins^ 
 left ye partake ivith her of her Plagues, ^ivhich 
 are now haliening to come upcn her, and upon 
 all that (Imll be found iiithin her Borders. 
 Open now your Eves, and behold where 
 you mifs'd and turn'd afide, through which 
 your foolifh Hearts have been and are dark- 
 ned ; for the Enemy that goes about as a 
 
 H roaring
 
 52 ^he Way of Life revealed^ 
 
 roaring Lion, feeking whom he may dle- 
 vour, wrought in you to turn you fiom 
 this pure immoitai Principle of the divine 
 Being, that in the Days, Months, and 
 Years by-paft, awakened you, and began 
 to work the Work of God in you, into 
 a Profeflion of the Words, States and Con- 
 ditions, whereof the Saints wrote and left 
 on Record behind them, who attained 
 thereunto, through paffing from Death to 
 Life, in Obedience to the Grace of God, 
 that is given to every Man to profit 
 withal, who knew the holy War, and 
 fought the good Fight, and fo obtained 
 the Victory ; through the efFedual Work- 
 ings of God they obtained ir, and not 
 through meer Notions, upon the Words of 
 their Brethren the Prophets, of which Vic- 
 tory, through Faith and Obedience unto, 
 and in the Eternal Spirit of Holinefs, they 
 were made Partakers ; and thus was it that "J^ 
 they came to put off the old Man, which (^ 
 indeed is a great Work, and to put on the S 
 new Man, which is a real Change and ^ 
 Tranflation out of Satan's Kingdom, and '^ 
 from under his Power, into the Kingdom > 
 of the dear Son of the living God, and fo J 
 to be under his Power: But the Enemy 
 of your Souls turrj'd you from this Free 
 Grace of Gcd, (which was that which ftirr'd 
 in you, and wrought in you in your Day 
 of Tendernefs,) by drawing your Minds 
 
 up
 
 ajid the TV a)' of Death di /hovered. 55 
 
 np into an airy notional Profeflion of this 
 Grace, and that by it you were faved ; 
 not confidering that the immortal Souls of 
 Inch lie in Bondage, whofe Faith ftands 
 in Notions, and not in the Power of God ; 
 of whofe Faith is no other than a Belief 
 of what is done for them without, not 
 coming experimenrally to know the Work 
 of God in themfelves, and the Obedience 
 of Fairh which puiifies the Confcience, 
 and makes alive unto God: And fuch was 
 the fearing up into Imaginations of fome 
 called gijted Men for the Miniftry, that 
 they pre- fumed to teach and hold forth the 
 Free Grace of God after fuch a manner, 
 as that the Underfiandings of many were 
 defiied and corrupted, by admitting a Li- 
 berty unto the flcHily Nature, and avoiding 
 the Crofs of Chrift, contrary to that holy 
 Liberty, which through the Operation of 
 the Grace of God is known : For tho' it 
 is true, that, as the Apoflle faith. By Grace 
 we are faved', yet whofoever holds forth 
 this Grace, fo as to raife a Belief in any, 
 that they are thereby fa-ced from CGndemna- 
 tion^ whilft thty are found TranfgrcfTors 
 againft the righteous Law of God : ^iich, I 
 fay, divide not the Word oj God aright^ but 
 teach for DocJrine, the Conceptions of their 
 own Brains : For, its not a bare Belief or 
 Aflent of the Mind, to the Power of the 
 <5race which can give Satisfadion to the 
 H 2 immortal'.
 
 54 ^^ ^^y ^J Life revealed J 
 
 immortal Soul, or true AlTuiance ot Eternal 
 Peace with God; but thee mud be alfo a 
 Conformity in the inward Man, unto the 
 Power thereof J and fo iMan comes to be 
 created in Chrirt Jefus unto good l4^orks, to 
 be landified throughout, boLli z;2 Body^ Soul 
 and Spirit : And ijjdeed, I have found, that ^ 
 inftead of pieaching up Conformity to the ^' 
 Powtr of the dace, thty have not only ; 
 preached up Free Grace, v\hich indeed is ^ 
 an Exprtffion, in itfcit, proper enough to 
 be held forth, for that the Grace ot God / 
 is tictly extended unro all, bat alio there- ( 
 wiih they have preached up a Juilification '^ 
 ot linful and unfandtihcd Perlons, by im- ( 
 puied Righteoufnels ; even in luch a man- ^ 
 ner, as many have Irom thence, corclud- ( 
 ed themlelves in a State of Salvation, while •^ 
 ,'i^<. Sin has had its Rcijn in their mortal > 
 B' dies ; which J cann )t but tcftify, is as 
 g eat an Error, atid as contrary to the Gofpel- 
 Miniflration, and the End for which Chiift 1 
 was manifell in the Fkfli, which was, to ( 
 fave People frem their Sins, fo as to live "} 
 no longer therein, as the E'ior of the / 
 Scribes and Phariices was, Vv'iien thev were <, 
 fceking and believing Juilification by the " 
 Works of the Law, without the Righte- , 
 oulncJs of Faith. 
 
 And thus has it been, that manv have -\ 
 turned the Grace of Cod mo Wanton- \ 
 ntfs, or tum'd iiom the Giace of God, ' 
 
 into
 
 and the Way of Death dijcovered. 55 
 
 into Wantonnefsj fo that in a little Time, 
 how did many Pioteffors grow light and 
 vain, and lan wiih the very Prophane into 
 the iame Excefs of Riot, and lifted up 
 in the Fltlh, and io came to be much in 
 Shew, but little and light in the Ballance? 
 And here, you Profefiois of all Sorts, that 
 have gone from the fpiritual Appearance 
 of Chnit Jefus within, into a Profeffion of 
 the Sainis Conditions and Performances, 
 without the Leadings and Guidings of the 
 fame Spirit and Power, loft your Way,' 
 and went out from your Guide, which 
 wculd have led you up to the Subftance, 
 Chriil Jtius ; And Thoufands of ignorant 
 People iiave been led here through the 
 cunning Slights of Men, into an empty 
 Profefiion j and when the Manifeftation 
 of the Spirit of God, which is given unto 
 every Man to profit withal, hath ftirred 
 in the Heart and Soul to draw the Mind 
 out of the Ways, Spirit, and Nature of 
 the World, then the transforming Enemy 
 of Mankind has lain near to betray and 
 deceive, by pointing and diredting People 
 to lun into this Profeffion or the other 
 or take up this outward Performance, or 
 the other Shadow, under the fpecious Pre- 
 tence of the Ordinances of God and Chriji : 
 And hereby the lubtil Enemy, that will 
 admit ot ihe People's being in the out- 
 ward Piadice of outward Things, whilft 
 
 that
 
 56 The Way of Life revealed, 
 
 that he can have his Place, Seat, ancf 
 Throne in the F^eart of Mankind, has led 
 Thoufands afide out of the ftrait Way of 
 Salvation, through his drawing them from 
 the true inward Guide, the Grace of God 
 that bringi Salvation, that has appeared un- 
 to all Men^ into the outward Obfervations : 
 And here the Fear of Thoufands, towards 
 God, is taught by the Precepts of Men, 
 who know not the Leadings and Guidings 
 of the Spirit and Power of God j and To 
 have heal'd the Hurt of the Daughter of 
 Zion deceitfully, and have daubed with the 
 untempered Mortar. 
 
 And now all you fcatter'd Ones upon 
 the barren Mountains of ProfefTions, give 
 Ear, hear the Counfel and Call of the 
 Lord : Turn ycu, Prodigals, who have , 
 fpent your Portions, and loft much of your > 
 Sincerity and Tendernefs, and that fecret 
 Enjoyment you had of the Lord inwardly. 
 Years ago, and who for a long Seafon , 
 have endeavoured to fill your Bellies with - 
 Hufks, and the Ptofcflion of the Saints, 
 Enjoyments, my Heart yearns on you, and 
 for you are my Bowels turn'd j my Soul 
 is often bow*d down in the Senfe of your ^ 
 Eftates ; yea, often my Heart is pained 
 within me, when I behold your Wan- "^ 
 derings up and down from Mountain to ; 
 Mountain, feeking Reft, and finding none, :^ 
 but what is polluted, and your Souls are 
 
 lean
 
 and the Way of Death difcovered. 57 
 
 lean for want of the Fatnefs of God's 
 Houfe, and you have not the Enjoyment 
 of it; my Soul is even many Times diftrefled 
 for you ; God that made Heaven and 
 Earth, bears me Record, whom my Soul 
 cries unto even Night and Day, to vifit 
 you with an out-ftretched Arm : Return 
 return, unto that which will (hew you all 
 that ever you have done, and that will y 
 haften you to the Father's Houfe, where 
 the Bread of Life is ; and no longer fpend ^ 
 your Money, precious Time, and Labour, 
 for that which is not the Bread of Life* ^^ 
 but a Profefiion, a Talk of Bread, which ^ 
 cannot truly fatisfy your Souls. 
 
 And now, in the Name and Authority, ., 
 and by the Motion of the Spirit of the 
 Eternal God, Behold ! I found the Trum- 
 pet of the Lord God Almighty in your 
 Ears: Prepare, prepare, to meet the Lord 
 jehovab in the Valley of Decifion ; and all 
 you who have any Tendernefs in vour 
 Hearts, and Breathings inwardly after"^ the 
 Lord, amongft all Profeffions, of what Name 
 or Denomination foever. Come out^ come out ' 
 oj Babylon, and be you feparate ; touch not 
 any longer the unclean Thing, that the 
 Lord may receive you, who ftands ready 
 to receive all that come in Truth and Righ- 
 teoufnefs unto him ; who now will mark 
 all that mourn becaufe of the Sins of the 
 People, which are great, and the Meafure 
 
 thereof
 
 58 ^e Way of Life revealed^ 
 
 thereof filling up apace ; and the Day and 
 Time is haftening, of the pouring out of 
 the Vials of the unmixt Fury and Indig- 
 nation of God, who lives for ever and 
 ever: And therefore flee, flee for your Lives, 
 out of Sodomy Nature, and flick not in the 
 Profeflion of Things, neither the one nor > 
 the other, whilfl; the Ground of thy Pro- \ 
 feflion did not, or doth not fpring from the ', 
 immediate Work of God, and daily Ope- ( 
 ration of his Eternal Power in thy Heart; S 
 but come down into pure Obedience to \ 
 the pure ftill Voice of the Spirit, and > 
 Gift of God in thy own Heart and Soul, > 
 which will, as thy inward Ears are at- ( 
 tentive, direct thee in the narrow Way of ^ 
 Life Eternal, in which thou (hould'fl walk : > 
 So coming here, you come to that which 
 moved in the Hearts of many, Years fince, 
 God-wards, which was that which w-ought 
 many into the Tendernefs before fpoken 
 of; herein walk, and be faithful, and it 
 will lead to the Fountain of Bleflednefs, 
 from which it came, and unto the Horn 
 of God's Anointed ; and to Shiloh fhall be 
 the gathering of Thoufands through the 
 Nations, Tongues, Languages, and People ; 
 and the Mountain of the Lord's Houfe 
 fhall be exalted, through this great Day 
 of Trial, Tribulation, and Anguifh, upon 
 the Top of all the Mountains. 
 
 So
 
 and the Way of Death difcovered, 59 
 
 So the Lord God Almighty^ by the Arm of -) 
 
 Strength^ reach all Hearts that have any / 
 
 breathings panting Defres after him, 7 
 
 amongH all ProfeJJions, and full many as 
 
 Brands out of the Fire. So breathes my - 
 
 Souls who am a traveller for the univer- '^: 
 
 fal Vijitation and Deliverance of the Seed tf 
 
 of Jacob, and raijed up to prophefy of A^, 
 
 the things which Jhall come to pafs^ and ■ 
 
 he fulfilled in their lime and Seafon, ^ ' 
 
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