All they which preached faith and made shipwreck of faith, were and are still, denied. All such as preach the light and walk in darkness, and preach the spirit (the fruits of which are love and peace) and are in enmity, were never owned by God, nor Christ, nor good men, though they may be called Christians. All such as cry, Lord, Lord, and preach Christ, Christ, and do not his will, enter not into his kingdom themselves, and into it they can bring none. They are deceivers of their own souls and they may deceive others with their good words; but such cannot be reconciled to God, neither can they bring others to reconciliation with God.
(Works, VIII., p. 139, condensed.)
Keep down all Uncleanness.
Keep your meetings in the power of the Lord God ... that all uncleanness whatsoever may, by the power of the Lord, be brought down and rooted out; and that such have no rule nor authority amongst you, though they be never so fair or excellent of speech.
(Works, VII., p. 128.)
They had Spoken Themselves Dry.
Now they had had great meetings. So I told them that after they had had such meetings they did not wait upon God to feel his power to gather their minds together, to feel his presence and power and therein to sit to wait upon him, for they had spoken themselves dry and spent their portions and not lived in that which they spoke, and now they were dry. They had some kind of meetings but took tobacco and drunk ale in them and so grew light and loose.
But my message unto them was from the Lord that they might all come together again and wait to feel the Lord’s power and spirit in themselves to gather them to Christ, and to be taught of him who says, learn of me.
For after when they had declared that which the Lord had opened to them then the people was to receive it, and the speakers, and they was to live in that themselves.
But when they had no more to declare but to go to seek forms without life, that made themselves dry and barren, and the people. And thence came all their loss. For the Lord renews his mercies, and his strength if they would wait upon him. But the heads of them all came to nothing. But most of the people came to be convinced.