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The Pearl found in ENGLAND.
COme all ye wearied Souls who have been long travelling these many yeares since the dayes of Apostacy from the true Apostles and Disciples, where darknesse and mists has gone over the earth, and blinded and darkened the minds and eyes of the people, the true Ministry being lost since the dayes of Apo∣stacy, whereby people has run into heads and parties and sects, and truth amongst them held in the unrighteousnesse, the sin and the enemity in every ones mind, men slaying one another about Religion and for Religion, and about worship which was not the work of the true Christians, true Ministers and true Apostles, but they brought people into unity and wrestled against principalities and powers and spiritual wickednesses, which ruled in the children of disobedience, and brought them to the thing which they disobyed, so the enemity having been in all minds of professors upon earth, amongst Christians, Teachers, people and Rulers, who would slay one another, murther one another about worship, about Scriptures, the Prophets, Christs and the Apostles words; here is the Devil, the old adversary of man, got amongst professors, provoking to destroy one ano∣ther, keeping up the form of the Saints words, in the nature of the Jewes, that kept up the form of the Prophets and Moses words, which Christ said were of their Father the Devil, amongst whom the Pearl was lost, as has been lost since the dayes of A∣postacy from the Apostles life, Christs life; Nations covered with ignorance like unto waters; Now the Prophets, Christs and the Apostles they were in unity in the Spirit which led them to speak forth the Scriptures, wch now being professed amongst Christians in Christendome, but the life of Christ, of the Pro∣phets and the Apostles, they having been out of, they want the bond of peace, the unity; for the unity is in the Spirit which is the bond of peace, which Christ, the Prophets and Apostles were in that gave forth the Scriptures, so words, forms, traditions,