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<HEAD>Chri&s;tian Reader.</HEAD>
<P>BY that glorious light, which God hath given to me, all people by degrees &s;hall &s;ee, that true peace and &s;ound Religion can|not be e&s;tabli&s;hed without the help of a true and &s;ound preach|er, whom God hath made able by the divine power of his &s;pirit for to open and unfould the my&s;teries and parables in the new Te&s;ta|ment, to the true meaning and &s;ignification, to the &s;etting forth of Chri&s;t, and the true Church with that riches and honour and glory which doth belong to the Saints, and one the other &s;ide to the con|founding of fal&s;e power, and fal&s;e doctrines, which doth belong to the devill, which God hath promi&s;ed &s;hall come to confu&s;ion; and I &s;ay plainely, and truely that God my glorious Father, he hath made me <HI>Iames Hunt</HI> a preacher for the &s;ame purpo&s;e, which I have &s;hewed you here in briefe.</P>
<Q><L>For with my ver&s;es, and my pro&s;e,</L>
<L>The devill, and all his carnall mini&s;ters I &s;hall di&s;clo&s;e.</L>
<L>For my ver&s;es which have &s;hort and long feet,</L>
<L>That will teach tho&s;e that are blind,</L>
<L>For to have more wit.</L></Q>
<P>For it is written in the tenth Chapter of Saint <HI>Matthew</HI> 41. ver&s;e. <HI>Chri&s;t he tells you plainly, he that receiveth a Prophet in the name of a Pro|phet, hee &s;hall receive a Prophet rewards;</HI> And that is the reward of of eternall glory; but ye Prote&s;tants, and Papi&s;ts, your faith is grown &s;o cold, that you will not beleeve that I am a true Prophet except I can &s;hew you a miracle, that you may it behold, why then I will &s;how you in brife of one &s;trange thing, where at you all may wonder, why the Prote&s;tants and Papi&s;t &s;hould devide them&s;elves a&s;under, for the Papi&s;ts they do &s;ay, that they beleeve in the Catholike Church, and &s;o &s;ay the Prote&s;tants, but by the power of God, I will boldly &s;ay that your cleargy, they have deceive you upon both &s;ides, for if there be any Prote&s;tant, or Papi&s;t that can finde any place of Scrip|ture
<PB N="2" REF="2" MS="y">in the new Te&s;tament, for to prove that the true Church of Chri&s;t is a Catholike Church, then I will be content to be burned, but God he hath made me a member of his glorious and triumphing Church, for Chri&s;t &s;aith in <HI>Iohn</HI> the 12. Chap. and the 28. Ver&s;: <HI>Fa|ther glorifie thy name, then came there a voice from heaven &s;aying, I have glorified it, and I will glorifie it again,</HI> and in the 27. Chapter of <HI>Iohn, Chri&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">aith pl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">inly, the glory which thou ha&s;t given me, I have given unto them that they may be all one, as thou Father art in me, and I in thee, that they may be all one in us, that the world may beleeve that thou ha&s;t &s;ent me again.</HI> In the &s;econd Epi&s;tle to the Corinthians the &s;econd chap|ter, and fourteen ver&s;e. <HI>Now thankes be to God which alwayes cau&s;eth us, to triumph in Chri&s;t Ie&s;us,</HI> this word alwayes doth plainly &s;ignifie, here in this world, and in the world to come for ever, and I have proved in brief that Chri&s;t hath a glorious and triumphing Church here in this world, and God my glorious Father, by the power|full preaching of his word, he will cau&s;e the glorious Church of Je|&s;us Chri&s;t for to flouri&s;h by degrees over the whole world, which will be to the confounding of the devill, and the fal&s;e Church; it is written in the twenty chapter of the Revelations. <HI>I &s;aw a great white throne, and him that &s;ate on it, from who&s;e face the earth, and the hea|ven fled away, and there was no place found for them.</HI> Now I under&s;tand, he that &s;its upon the white Throne, doth &s;ignifie Chri&s;t and his preacher, for he that is joyned to the Lord is one &s;pirit, as you may read in the fir&s;t Epi&s;tle to the Corinthians the &s;ixe chapter, and the &s;eventeen ver&s;. But ye black coats, you do &s;ay, that you are the hea|venly mini&s;ters of God, and that you have the heavenly trea&s;ure of Chri&s;t, in your earthen ve&s;&s;els, but I &s;ay that God he hath made me able for to &s;hew ye black coats, by what meanes you may have the heavenly trea&s;ures of Je&s;us Chri&s;t in your earthen ve&s;&s;els; but you doe flie, from me, as if I were an Antichri&s;t, and a deceiver even like unto your &s;elves, but ye black coats I mu&s;t tell you, and your di&s;ciples that you &s;hall finde no true &s;ound re&s;t for your &s;oul, untill you be reconciled to Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and to the Mini&s;tration of the blood of the new Te&s;tament, which is the Throne of grace, but ma&s;ter black coat you do &s;ay that the devill hath puffed me up with pride, But I prai&s;e God you arrowes hit not mee, for you
<PB N="3" REF="2">&s;hot far wide, for God he hath given me that knowledge for to be as humble as a Lamb, and that valour and courage for to be as bould as a Lyon, and now ye black birds which cry out &s;o loud in your black coats, I mu&s;t tell you plainly you &s;hall be all forced for to change your notes, for you are not able for to make a cleere de&s;tinction be|tweene God and the devill, for to &s;ay, nor yet to &s;ing, and yet will you be &s;o bould for to &s;tir up War and &s;trife between the Parliament &amp; my King, but M^r. black coat you are a man of War, &amp; &s;o am I and there|fore pray let you and I the battell try for by the power of God, I will boldly &s;ay as it is written in the cha. 8. of the Rom. &amp; the 15. v. I have not received the &s;pirit of bondage again to feare, but I have received the &s;pirit of adoption, and now by the help of God I &s;hall prove in briefe, that the &s;pirit of adoption doth &s;ignifie Chri&s;t and the Go&s;pel, but the &s;pirit of bondage that doth &s;ignifie the Devill, and the old law, my fir&s;t proofe is in the &s;econd chapter to the Hebrewes and the fourteene ver&s;e, for as the children were made partakers of fle&s;h and blood, Chri&s;t likewi&s;e took part of the &s;ame, that through death he might de&s;troy him that had the power of death, and that is the Devil; and &s;o deliver tho&s;e who through feare of death, were all there life time &s;ubject to bondage: This place of Scripture doth plainly prove and &s;ignifie that all tho&s;e people that were under the old law, they were under a yoke of bondage, untill Chri&s;t freed them by his &s;uf|fering on the cro&s;&s;e again, in the &s;even chapter to the Romanes and the &s;ixe ver&s;. Now we are delivered from the Law, that being dead, wherein we were held, as held under the chaines and bondage of Sathan, that we &s;hould &s;erve in newne&s;&s;e of &s;pirit, and not in the oldne&s;&s;e of the letter, that in the newne&s;&s;e of the Go&s;pel and not in the oldne&s;&s;e of the Law, and thus I have proved in briefe, that the old Law is the &s;pirit of bondage, and &s;o is the Devill, but ye black coats you do &s;ay that, Chri&s;t hath redeemed us from the ceremoniall Law, and for the Iudiacall &amp; Leviticall Law, and &s;o by your cunning craft, you doe divide the old Law into many parts but if I aske any of you if there be any more the two Te&s;taments you will &s;ay no, why then my an&s;wer to you is, in the ninth chapter to the Hebrewes; and the fifteen ver&s;. Chri&s;t he is the Mediator of the new Te&s;tament, that by his &s;uffering on the cro&s;&s;e, for to Redeeme them that were
<PB N="4" REF="3">under the fir&s;t Te&s;tament, and now all ye black coats by the power of God, you &s;hall be forced for to confe&s;&s;e, that the old Law and Te&s;tament, is the fir&s;t Te&s;tament which Chri&s;t hath Redeemed his people from, but ye cleargy by your darke arts of Scholler&s;hip you doe clime &s;o high that you are yet like the Devill, for the plain truth of God he doth deny, but the fulne&s;&s;e of time was come, God &s;ent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the Law for to redeeme them that were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption of &s;ons, Gal. 4. and now I &s;ay plainly that all tho&s;e that be reconciled to Chri&s;t and to the obedience of his word, be the adopted &s;ons and daughters of Almighty God, for to raine with Chri&s;t in his ever|la&s;ting Kingdom of glory in heaven above for ever.</P>
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<L>For by the power of God all people by degrees &s;hall &s;ee.</L>
<L>That the true light and glory of Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</L>
<L>Doth not proceed from the Univer&s;itie.</L>
<L>But yee clergy you are very &s;ubtile and worldly wi&s;e,</L>
<L>For the old law upholds you in your tenthes and tithes.</L>
<L>And that is the maine cau&s;e whereat you need not wonder,</L>
<L>Whay the cleargy will not alow that the old Law,</L>
<L>And Te&s;tament, and the new &s;hould part a&s;under.</L>
<L>But by the power of God for to</L>
<L>Speak the truth I will be bould,</L>
<L>For what will it profit you for to gaine the world, and lo&s;e your &s;oul.</L>
<L>For you &s;hall be forced for to under&s;tand and &s;ee.</L>
<L>That the &s;on of the bond-woman cannot be heir with the free,</L>
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<P>As you may read in the fourth chapter to the Gallations and the thirty ver&s;e.</P>
<P>For ye blacke coates by the powerfull Prie&s;thood of Melchi|&s;edeck I &s;hall cleere all your eyes which are grown &s;o dull and thicke, for if the High Court of parliament will but &s;uffer me for to &s;pread my books about, by the power of God I &s;hall confound the Devill and all his route (now I pray God grant that the High court of Par|liament may &s;it in Judgement for that intent) and then I am &s;ure, marke what I &s;ay, you will not hinder me in my way, for it is writ|ten, Heb. 7. concerning one <HI>Melchi&s;edeck</HI> who is Prie&s;t of the mo&s;t
<PB N="5" REF="3">high God, and he is King of peace which doth &s;ignifie Chri&s;t Je&s;us who is the Second Per&s;on in Vnity, again it is &s;aid that he is with|out Father and Mother and without De&s;cent and that doth &s;ignifie God the Father, who is the fir&s;t par&s;on in unity, again, it is &s;aid that he hath neither beginning of daies nor end of life, but he is made like unto the Son of God, and that doth &s;ignifie God the holy Gho&s;t who is the third Per&s;on in Unity, and thus by the helpe of God I have &s;hewed you in briefe that you may &s;ee, that the true interpretation of <HI>Melchi&s;edech</HI> doth &s;ignifie the Holy and Glorious Unity, Father, Son and holy Gho&s;t, for I &s;ay again, that there are three That bare record in Heaven: The Father, the Word, and the holy Gho&s;t and the&s;e three are one, 1 John 5.7. The word doth &s;ignifie Chri&s;t, <HI>For in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, Iohn</HI> the fir&s;t, for Chri&s;t was with God the Father in the beginning before man was made, and the Word was made fle&s;h, Chri&s;t was made fle&s;h and dwelt among&s;t us, ver&s;. 14. and I have proved in breef that Chri&s;t is the Word and the Word is God, and know you not that chri&s;t is in you except you be reprobates, as you may read in 2 Cor. 5.5. Again, there is one God and father of all, who is above all and in you all, as you may read, Ephe&s;. 4.5. Again, in 1 Cor. 19. What? <HI>know you not that your body is the Temple of the holy Gho&s;t, which is in you, &amp; you are not your owne, for you are all bought with a price, and that is, with the precious blood of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, for it plea&s;ed the Father that in Christ &s;hould all fulne&s;&s;e dwell, and having made peace through the blood of his Cro&s;se for to reconcile all things unto him&s;elfe,</HI> as you may read in 2 Col. 1.19. and thus by the&s;e plain and cleer truths of Scripture, which by Gods helpe I have &s;hewed you, here in breef I have painly and cleerly proved that all tho&s;e people that will bee reconciled to Chri&s;t and to the mini&s;tration of the blood of the New Te&s;tament your &s;pirits, they &s;hall be joyned to the Glorious unity, Father, Son and holy Gho&s;t, for as they three cannot be divided from being one in the Godhead, and unity, neither can the &s;pirits of the true Chrtch be divided from them three which is the life and &s;ub&s;tance of true peace and &s;ound Religion, as I in breefe have &s;hewed you, as God my Father hath &s;hewed me.</P>
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<L>And by the Spirit of Almighty God which proceedeth from above,</L>
<L>I hope to draw my King and Parliament into the bond of peace &amp; love.</L>
<L>And now all ye carnall Mini&s;ters and fal&s;e Powers, what &s;o ever you be,</L>
<L>By the Power of God you &s;hall be forced for to &s;ee:</L>
<L>That if you will not be reconciled to this ble&s;&s;ed peace and unity:</L>
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<L>I &s;ay again if you will not be reconciled, you &s;hall be &s;ure damned to be.</L>
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<P>I or I mu&s;t plainly tell you that God and his preacher you &s;hall finde true. For what &s;aith the &s;cripture, God will take vengeance on tho&s;e that know not God, and that obey not the Go&s;pel of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, who &s;hall be puni&s;hed with everla&s;ting de&s;truction from the pre&s;ence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power as you may read, 2 The&s;. 1.8. But I pray under|&s;tand the Go&s;pel in his right place. For it is the new Te&s;tement which pro|ceedeth from the throne of grace for mercy and &s;ound judgement, they are notes of my Pro&s;e and my Song;</P>
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<L>For by Gods mercy and &s;ound judgement I no man wrong.</L>
<L>For mercy and &s;ound judgement belongeth to my powerfull Godand to my Kings &s;eat.</L>
<L>Whereunto I am Ordained a preacher with power and courage &s;trongly for to pleat.</L>
<L>And now ye <HI>Round-Heads</HI> which for true Religion do beare the name:</L>
<L>I hope that you will not fight again&s;t God and the Truth for very &s;hame,</L>
<L>For if you will be per&s;waded by God and me:</L>
<L>You may live in peace and unitee.</L>
</LG>
<P>And now the God of love and peace who hath brought againe from the dead our Lord Ie&s;us, that Great Sepheard of the &s;heep, through the blood of the everla&s;ting Covenat, make you all perfect to do his will, working in you that which is plea&s;ing in his &s;ight, through the divine power of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord, Heb. 13.20. I &s;ay again, that Chri&s;t Je&s;us He is the great Shep|heard of the &s;heep, and I acknowledge that there is but one true and perfect God, and there mu&s;t be but one Religion, one Sepheard and one &s;heepfold, and I &s;ay plainely and truely that God my Father He hath made me a preach|er for to gather the &s;heep into the true found, that Gods love, and power, and Glory you may behold.</P>
<LG>
<L>For now my ver&s;es and my pro&s;e, which &s;hall be plainly &s;howne.</L>
<L>They will prove that God hath lighted my candle within his glorious throne.</L>
<L>And now ye Magi&s;trates and Churchwardens, I pray take not that in hand,</L>
<L>For to fight again&s;t the Power of God, which you are not able to with&s;tand,</L>
<L>For God he hath given me authority, as you &s;hall know and finde,</L>
<L>For to be a preacher in the Church for to declare his minde,</L>
<L>That by his power I may open the peoples eys whom the Clergy do keep blinde.</L>
<L>But there are &s;ome of you Magi&s;trates and Churchwardens which doe hold forth &s;uch a fal&s;e power,</L>
<L>That you fight again&s;t the power of God but you &s;hall be all brought lower.</L>
<L>For if you will fight again&s;t the power of God, for to hinder him in his way,</L>
<L>If you do not repent you will be &s;ure hell fire for to obay.</L>
<L>But I hope there is none of you that doth de&s;ire for to hurn in Hell.</L>
<L>Why then I pray fight not again&s;t the power of God for he will have his Will,</L>
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<L>But are not all tho&s;e plain hypocrites as I &s;hall &s;how you by relation,</L>
<L>Which fight again&s;t that you pray for, which is abomination.</L>
<L>For in the Lords prayer you do pray that Gods will may be done,</L>
<L>Why then I pray fight not again&s;t that power which doth proceed from the Father and the Sonne.</L>
<L>For they have made me a powerfull preacher of Their Word,</L>
<L>Which is the powerfull and fiery &s;word:</L>
<L>That thereby I may cut and burn down that helli&s;h power,</L>
<L>Which doth the Saints of God devour.</L>
<L>For as a temporall fire will burn and con&s;ume Straw or Hay,</L>
<L>Even &s;o Gods Word willl &s;hine &s;o cleer, mark what I &s;ay,</L>
<L>For to burn and con&s;ume fal&s;e power quite away.</L>
<L>And now all per&s;ecuting Angels, if you can be able to hinder the Sun in the Firmament that he &s;hall not &s;hine at Noone day,</L>
<L>Then you may be able for to hinder my powerfull God from going forward in his way.</L>
<L>For all fal&s;e power which is hatefull in Gods &s;ight,</L>
<L>That &s;hall be reproved and quite overthrown, by the power and glory of the true light.</L>
<L>And now by that glorious light which God hath given to me,</L>
<L>Ye Prote&s;tants and Papi&s;ts you may under&s;tand and &s;ee,</L>
<L>That your Clergy they have deceived you upon both &s;ides by their craft and policie.</L>
<L>But now ye prote&s;tants and Papi&s;ts which are always at warre and &s;trife,</L>
<L>In this Book I have &s;hewed you how your &s;pirits may be joyned to my God of Peace, and leade a quiet life.</L>
<L>But Greek and Latin, you that bear dominion over Gods hou&s;e,</L>
<L>I mu&s;t tell you plainly your deceitfull craft is not worth a Low&s;e,</L>
<L>For ye Clergy by your Greek and Latin phra&s;e,</L>
<L>You do blinde the people many wayes:</L>
<L>For you call the Church of Chri&s;t by the name Catholike, and Militant, and Prote&s;tant, but alas you are more blinde and cannot &s;ee,</L>
<L>For a true Chri&s;tian he doth bear the true toyl of the Church of Chri&s;t, and I in him, and he in me.</L>
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<P>And all the members of the true Church of Chri&s;t, they are to be called by the name of Chri&s;tians, for Chri&s;t and his Church is compared in Scrip|pture to man and wife, for Chri&s;t he is the Bridegroom and his Church is the Bride, although the Members thereof &s;hall be infinite in number: And therefore I &s;ay again that the Church of Chri&s;t &s;he mu&s;t be called by the name of her Husband, for whether things pre&s;ent or things to come all is one, and we are Chri&s;ts and Chri&s;t is Gods: 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 3.23.</P>
<LG>
<L>But the Ravens are black and the Doves are gray,</L>
<L>But yet I pray will you mark well what I do &s;ay:</L>
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<P>For I do not de&s;pi&s;e a black garment, but the clergy by their black gar|ments they do &s;trengthen them&s;elves in their fal&s;e power for their black gar|ments doth &s;ignifie unto the people, that they have been all bred up in Uni|ver&s;ities, and the people they are yet &s;o farre deluded by tho&s;e dark Arts of Scholler&s;hip which proceed from the clergie, that you do think that no man can be a true and a &s;ound Preacher, but fir&s;t he mu&s;t be bred up in the Uni|ver&s;itie.</P>
<LG>
<L>But by that glorious light which God hath given to me,</L>
<L>You may under&s;tand and plainly &s;ee,</L>
<L>That you have been mightily deceived in your judgement.</L>
<L>But there is one Mr. <HI>Kenti&s;h</HI> which is grown a crafty foxe,</L>
<L>But God he hath given me a key for to open all your locks,</L>
<L>For I hear that you have got a Mittimus from the Committee for to &s;end me to the Goal.</L>
<L>But by the power of God I &s;hall &s;et a fire the Foxes tayl.</L>
<L>For you are a great enemy again&s;t the Cavalier,</L>
<L>But your fal&s;e power &s;hall be quite burnt up with fire:</L>
<L>For when I &s;trike you home with Gods fiery dart,</L>
<L>Then you creep to the Committees, and intreat them to take your part.</L>
<L>But I hope the Committees will learn that wi&s;edome for to give way and roome,</L>
<L>That I may within your Pulpit come.</L>
<L>That &s;o by the power of God I may &s;how them and you the true way of peace</L>
<L>That by the power therof your war and plunder may end and cea&s;e.</L>
<L>For the&s;e things I behold with my &s;pirttuall eye,</L>
<L>For which I honour my King, and wor&s;hip the holy and glorious unitie:</L>
<L>And wi&s;h well to the Parliament that is &s;o high.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For if you will be per&s;waded by God and me,</L>
<L>You may live in peace and unitie;</L>
<L>For to triumph in true peace and glory,</L>
<L>Here for a time, and in the world to come world without end.</L>
</LG>
<CLOSER>Amen.</CLOSER>
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