WAS not a Woman the firſt that Chriſt ſent, and ſhall they not be the laſt? For they ſhall have the hardeſt Task? They are the fineſt of the Mold, and they ſhall tell you things not yet told: Chriſt loved a Woman beſt, becauſe he laid on her Lap and ſuck'd on her Breaſt.
A Woman ſhall not be run down, for conſider a Woman wore the Crown: A Woman brings forth the young, and is the fineſt becauſe ſhe hath ſo done: A Woman's the ſweeteſt Bread, if ſhe will but hear what the Spirit has ſaid: Then ſhe's God's own, for a Woman was made out of the Bone. A Man was made out of the Earth, he can't ſo well convince the Turk: The Earth will forſake, the Earth will give way, a Bone will give none, of a Bone came he that is, and was, and ever will be God's own. By a Woman came the fall, and freely without your Money, they'll help to draw you up all, that will obey your call: A Woman cut off Holiferne's Head, ſhe neither drank his Drink nor eat his Bread; Yet by her the whole Army run and fled: What is it a Woman has not done, that a Man never did, brought our Saviour to Bed, the Virgin Mary was the firſt Preacher, for at the Dinner, ſhe ſaid what he bids you do, that do; ay and ſhe was a Counſellor too, and they took her Council, ſo that when he ſpoke, they fill'd the Water pots, 'twas the beſt Wine that ever was drank, and if you was to hear him ſpeak, you would find that it was the beſt Wine that ever you did drink. And the Woman at the Well of Samaria run into the City and ſaid come ſee a Man that hath told me all that ever I did: And Mary Magdalen was the firſt that ſavv him after he aroſe again, ſays he go tell my Apoſtles that I am riſen, vvas he not angry vvith the Apoſtles becauſe they did not believe the Woman.
Says ſome is the Quakers way, the right way; yes, ye;, for they directed me to him, he is in the inward Soul of Man that will be inwardly read all my Books and they will direct ye to him; I believe this inward teaching is no leſs then the teaching of Chriſt, I have joy in the hearing of it, and joy in the writing of it, and joy in the Printing of it, and exceeding joy in the Preaching of it, and I rejoice when I meet with a Miniſter that I like, and I give him a Book freely, and he takes it be as much as you can alone, as you may have the teaching of God and not be thrown, that that checks you for Sin is the Spirit of Chriſt within, & if you will but mind it, & obey it it will make you wiſer than all your teachers; Is not Chriſt to teach his People himſelf, now find out who is his People that he teaches himſelf; I believe I know them that lies low, ſome Men has outward learning a deal, but can ye tell me what the Spirit does to ye reveal, I ſpeak now to elderly Men, come hold your Tongue and be no more a Reader, but let Chriſt be your Teacher; the ſooner the better ye come from the Letter, for the Letter kill〈…〉
Lye lovv, live lovv, and then ye vvill be the eaſieſt and the happieſt, and the moſt knovv; Come ſeek for the Blood of the Lamb, for that is novv the Spirit teaching, there is Life in that, and joy and peace in the holy Ghoſt, Chriſt's follovvers vvas all led by it, vvhen they came to it; I tell ye the truth vvhat I believe, I am called choſen, ſealed, redeemed, elected and nevv born, and I have the Goſpel to Preach, and woe to me if I hold my Tongue, neither a mock, nor a laugh, nor a jar do I fear; carnal Men vvill laugh at Spiritual Men, and much more at Women; Oxford and Cambridge is to blame, for they make more Miniſters then they can maintain, for no Man ought to be a Preacher before he has the ſpiritually teacher, are you taught by God, or are you taught by Man; for Prayers that comes from on high, aſcends up on high ſuch Warriors, I knevv I long to be ſo too, Anne Anderſon, Anne Frame, and Charles Marſhal's Wife, and Thomas Upſhot, and William Penn, and Leonard Fell; ſaid a Man cannot have a good thought, but as God puts it in his Mind, and yet he may have a Prayer by vvrought vvith a Laughter, he drevv up their Belief, but before he had done, he made a great many vveep; I vvould vvait on God, and I believe he vvill Proclaim me thro' the City. I am like a War Horſe to the Battle, I hear the Drums beat up for Volunteers, the War is novv begun and I cannot hold my Tongue, here is Trumpets put into Mouths that vvill blovv, let the Storms beat never ſo; It vvas ſaid to me blovv your Trumpet, it ſhall not be in vain, throvv your Bread upon the Waters and you ſhall find it again, ſhall I have a Trumpet, and I ſhall ſound it vvell, for I am cut from all the Earth, and all therein does dvvell, my thinks this inward teaching is like my Husband's Father, Colemine that runs under Ground; you knovv not the vvorth of it, nor the depth of it, it is more vvorth then ſeven hundred a Year; I vvill not ſell it, nor game it avvay from my Children dear but vvork and get Rich, all my Day I vvould not looſe no time; I ſay, no Dancing, no Singing, no Muſick for me, Dancing ſhould make ye dread, becauſe for it John the Baptiſt loſt his Head, Singing alures Men to Whoring, I don't love no outvvard Muſick to pleaſe an outvvard Ear, for that is not right, for it does all the Spiritual Worſhip a fright: O! happy Day may come to me at three ſcore and three, and at four ſcore and four, ſorrovvs may not trouble me no more, and at a hundred Year old I may be more Beautiful, then now humble, meek and patience then ever, then People may mind me more, vvhen I deliver both invvard Riches and outvvard Riches: O! that vvill be Beauty indeed.
Who knows what ſhall be done ſeven Years hence, I don't know but God knows I hope well for me and mine, who knows what ſhall be done ten Years hence, better and better, for them that•…weth God and comes further in the Letter, and them that lives twenty Years louger and can ſee the Goſpel increaſe will have a noble Feaſt, and I believe in five and thirty Years and four, in a glorious Body that will decend down, for me to launce in, when I go out of this mortal Body then where is Purgatory, there is no ſuch thing; Purgation is here when you are in Sorrow and Sin fear, ſome is judg'd now while their here well, and ſome not till they die and juſt a going to Hell; if ye have done Evil and will do it again and again, there is a Gulf to fall in, but if ye will repent and Sin fear, the greateſt Sinner may become the greateſt Saint; therefore let no Man faint, and the greateſt Sufferer may become the greateſt Preacher, to tell you the Truth I believe I ſhall be rich and ſent by God to Preach. I would uot be hindred from being a Preacher, nor for all the World I would not looſe this heavenly Teacher, I believe I ſhall riſe as the Sun at Noon Day, and all my Enemies will go away.
I hope when the Romiſh Prieſt ſees the Subſtance of all Things is come, Hell bid my youngeſt Daughter hold her Tongue, and the Abby Common Prayer Men my Mother; the Carnal Man would if they could Laugh the Spiritual Men to Scorn; but they can't if their Sealed and new Born, are you come to the Spirit of Chriſt's Teaching then are you not Sealed and new Born, he that Lives is Faith his Living is ſafe! O it is rare to live in Faith and not in fear,•…t it is rare for〈…〉to Preaching,〈◊〉to Smoaking or to Drinking for all elderly People, will take to ſomething. Ay often to a Concubine, where they loſe their Strength, and ſight if you don't a•ree with your wife before you die, fear you•Damn'd to all Etenity; which did firſt offend, to agree let them firſt ſend.
Prophecy: Prophecy, what muſt I Prophecy; He that does vvith another Man's Wife lye ſhall ſurely in Sin dye and you VVhore, be ſure you ſhall pay the Score for watching the VVoman's Husband, in and out of his Door, a VVhore is like a Louſe if you don't keep your ſelf fat and greaſy, and ſeldom ſhifting of ye a Louſe vvon't ſtay long vvith ye, but vvill drop avvay from ye, and ſo vvill a VVhore, if you have Subſtance for her no more.
The Whores they trap the Men in the Night, and〈◊〉Wives are waiting and weeping when they ſhould be Sleeping. A Whore is a deep Ditch, a naſty Sink the way to Hell, utter ruin and Confuſion.
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