Theauraujohn his Theous ori apokolipikal: or, Gods light declared in mysteries: Salem ori ad te Israel. Theauraujohn Tanni. Dedicated to the army and the risen people in all lands, coming forth in the first fruits in the evangelical operation. To these is the dedication of this book; and their eyes behold the truth, none else. I have added to this book the particular charges in the indictment against Captain Robert Norwood and my self, and my defence against the charge.

Dearly beloved,

THe word grafted in our souls, makes oneness in unione in our lives and conversation, for God teaches us to be like himself in love. Dearly be∣loved, I am constrained to publish to the view of the world the writing I have declared. It is to a tittle without alteration, as every Epistle stands in his place without adding or diminishing one tittle up∣on my oath I will affirm, though sometime I was out of my self, yet the Charge of calumny upon me being so great. I am forced to declare my greatest weakness, which might have been in obscu∣rity. But I beseech the courteous Reader, know that the great sound and name of things are not the very things themselves; for if so Christ and his Apostles suffered justly all whereas charged upon them, but Christ and his Apostles were one truth and the dark world persecuted them even unto death; now know that the new heaven and the new earth is not yet erected in the gene∣rality, and till that work of Grace and power come, there is, and must be enmity betwixt light and darkness: condemn not things by another mans sight, but know, that thou whosoever thou art, must be saved in thy own sight and light, and not in another mans. Every man must give an account of himself but bre∣thren I am accounted a blasphemer, now I am come to try the truth in your Gospel, the Gospel in me that you account blasphe∣my, hath made me act strangely; and whether truly or no, ac∣cording

to the truth in the same Gospel, I commit to judgement. Now if you condemn me for blasphemy, and my actions are the very substance that Gospel or writing points at or unto; I say that then my blasphemy is holiness, and you are found blasphemers with your high cry of holiness. Now brethren I must have you come from your high cry of names, and by things you are and must be justified, and I will put in my actions in the balance, be∣cause I am but one, and many against me. First know, that af∣ter fourteen weeks in humiliation, in fasting and Prayer frequent∣ly, Then the power fell upon me in my shop, and smote me dumb, then after blinde, and then dead, in the beholding of hundreds of people; then I was corded and bound in my bed, and then I received instruction, which afterwards I was forced to put the same into action: which was this Distribute all to the poor Release all pawns, without advantage, give back to them that were not able to redeem; fain to proclaim if I had injured or wronged any man to restore him four-fold, according to the Law. Brethren, the name of this would not serve me, for I was forced to act the thing, I durst not act any thing. O beloved, the Gospel is peace in it self, but 'tis a fiery Law to flesh and blood. Now how have I walked since my affliction? can any man charge me either for drinking, swearing, whoring or deceiving, or lying, or uncivil walking? which do you know, and all the world, that blasphemy is the root on which them names depend; and where a godly life is, there these actions are not to be found; and where godliness is not in the root or soul, these are and will be: for know, that blasphemy is onely the tye in the soul of man, loo∣sed from its principle of obedience, and from that loosness, comes a dissoluteness in life; and take Christs own word, which is this, By their fruits, that is actions, you shall know them. Again, what end or advantage have I sought to my self, ever since, as my Epistles will declare? now I say, the love of Christ hath con∣strained me hereunto, which is not blaspemy; but love in truth, without deceit. Now brethren, you that are so high in holi∣ness in name, I come to see what things you declare, for the Go∣spel is not a lying name, but an over-powring and commanding

thing; who amongst you is gone beyond this blasphemy I have stated, and who is but short of what I have spoken and done he is a blasphemer and a perjured man, for 'tis written, Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain: and have ye not all learned and heard that it is not speaking, but doing, is the justification of him that doth it, and a declaration to the world, that God hath done his work in him from whence this doing doth proceed? So then, be ye hearers no more, deceiving your own selves, but doers. O how many high expressions of Christ, and holiness and the Lord help you, before five pound to help to relieve him in need; nay, five shillings; now if you say that the Gospel is true, I say 'tis made a lye by you, for that being truth, commands thee not to speak without acting, and thou speakst all and acts not, which action is the life of the Gospel; and in truth, and indeed, how many of you are without the Go∣spel for your cloak? Jam. 1.27. Pure religion and undefiled, before God, even the Father, is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world. Brethren this is a metaphorical expression, but I will give you the literal meaning, that is this: the fatherless hold in it all that are in need; for as the Father is the staffe on which the whole Creation depends, so the fatherless amongst us is all that are in want, so as God in his mercy and love condescends to our relief: so to condescend to the fatherless, is no less then helping all in need; & the widow is but the same, for to give out to the capa∣city of our knowing our duty that we may be left without excuse, for we that make a God of the letter, for if we dwel in the let∣ter, that is, in the knowledge of the letter, that letter shall con∣demn us, and Gods judgement shall finde us; for wo unto him that doth acknowledge the letter to be true, and he not reformed in outward obedience to the same,

Yours to serve you in unfained Love.

• Theauraujohn
• Tanniour
• Allah al
• Sabbah Skribahjail.