WTK Section 4

To All That Would Know The Way To The Kingdom

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The LIGHT in your consciences the true Teacher

Friends, You that look out at teachers without you consider what you have been doing all this while, and what you have learned, and you will see your selves to be strangers from the Covenant of promise, by which all comes to the know the Lord, and need not teach one another; this Covenant of peace you are strangers from who owns not the light, which Christ doth enlighten {Page 21} every one that cometh into the world withal, to teach you, if you have the light which Christ doth enlighten every one with, which shews you sin, and evil, and the deceits of your hearts, and how you have spent your time, and how you spend it, and whom you have served, and whom you do serve, that light is your teacher to teach righteousness, for it is righteous; that light will be your condemnation hating it, and you set up such teachers as hates the light, that are called of men Masters, have the chief places in the Assemblies, which Christ cried woe against, and so doth not own that Christ which the Scripture speaks of, but sets up such as Christ cried wo against: as you as you may try your Spirits, read Matth. 23. If you will own the Scriptures; and if ever you will own God; you must own that light in your consciences which Christ hath enlightened you withal: and if ever you see God, you must see him with that light which Christ hath enlightened you with; for it is the Eye, and if ever you see the Church which is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, it must be with this light, you run to the teachers of the world, and worships of this world, and so from God, and the Church of God, and this light will be your condemnation that hates it. Now if you love this light, it will teach you when you lie in bed, and shew you where your heart is, where your treasure is, and what your thoughts are upon, and all the deceits of your hearts, and bring you to stand in the counsel of God to receive instruction form God, and direction how to walk before him; and as this light doth shew you sin, and the deceits of your hearts; stand still in the light, and will nothing: but wait for the power of God to stand against that nature which the light of Christ discovers in you, and here is your first step to peace.

And eternally you shal witness what is spoken: for to that in your consciences do we speak.
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