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<P>The Word of the Lord to all Rulers, Governors, and Magi&s;trates
of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> to try them&s;elves by what Spi|rit and Power they Rule
by.</P>
<P>That they may come to know, whether they Rule by the Power of
Je&s;us Chri&s;t, <HI>the true light that lighteneth every man that commeth
into the World, unto whom all Power is gi|ven both in Heaven and in Earth;</HI>
which is the higher Power <HI>which every Soule is to be &s;ubject unto;</HI>
or the Power that man became &s;ubject unto through the Fall.</P>
<P>With a Warning to them, that they hearken not unto the Prie&s;ts
of <HI>England,</HI> by whom they have &s;o long bin deceived, even by that
lying &s;pirit that is gone out into the mouthes of all the fal&s;e Prophets,
which have hitherto prevailed to per|&s;wade them that they &s;hould not
hearken to the true Power within them, <HI>which is the true light that
lighteneth every man that commeth into the World.</HI></P>
<P>Al&s;o it may be profitable for all men, that they may come to
&s;ee the difference between the true power that every &s;oule is to be
&s;ubject unto for con&s;cience &s;ake towards God, and that power that is not
to be obeyed for Con&s;cience &s;ake: but rather &s;uffer according to the will
of God.</P>
<P><HI>VVith &s;ome</HI> Quaeries <HI>put forth concerning the ground
of all true Power, and Government, which is from that power that every &s;oule
is to be &s;ubject to for the Lords &s;ake, and not that which is &s;et up in,
and by the will of man.</HI></P>
<P>This have I Written in the <HI>Word of the Lord God, as I was
commanded by the Lord, on the &s;ixteenth day of the &s;ixth Moneth, about the
eighth houre of the day, as I was eating meat in my own hou&s;e;</HI> &s;aying,
<HI>Ri&s;e, and Write what I &s;hall &s;ay unto thee concern|ing the Rulers and
Magi&s;trates of the Land;</HI> Which was done in the will and countenance of
God: Who am a friend to all men, <HI>for the Seeds &s;ake.</HI> Known to men by
the Name of,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thomas Davenport.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Word of the Lord, to all Rulers, Governors, and
Ma|ge&s;trates of <HI>England,</HI> to try them&s;elves by what Spi|rit and
Power they Rule by, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>HEare the Word of the Lord ye Rulers and Mage&s;trates of
<HI>England,</HI> thus &s;aith the Lord God, who is come near unto you in
judgement, that ye may all be tryed; and therefore try your &s;elves whether ye
be in my power which is the higher Powers that every &s;oule is to be &s;ubject
unto, <HI>for there is no power but of me;</HI> and all that are in this Power,
rule for me, and not for them&s;elves, nor in the will of man, but in my will,
and for me, &s;aith the Lord. And if ye be the higher Powers, then are ye
al&s;o &s;ubject unto me even un|to my Law, which is the light in you and &s;o
your Power is of me, and every &s;oule is to be &s;ubject unto you for my
&s;ake. Now all that are not in my power, rule not for me, but for
them&s;elves, becau&s;e they are gone out from my Spirit and Pow|er, into that
which doth re&s;i&s;t my Power, in which the Enmity is again&s;t my Seed, unto
which the damnation is to: Now unto this power, none is to be <HI>&s;ubject for
Con&s;cience &s;ake;</HI> but for <HI>Con&s;cience &s;ake</HI> &s;uffer
according to my will, becau&s;e it is that which prevailed over man at the
fir&s;t, when he turned a&s;ide, and went out from me into the power of
darkne&s;&s;e, which I had &s;eparated from me; and &s;o I drove him out, to
wit, man from my pre&s;ence, and placed my Flaming Sword to keep him out from
my life, who was &s;hut up in death, as I had &s;aid unto him, out of which
that power he had cho&s;en, could not deliver him, nor by any other could he be
<HI>Redeemed,</HI> but by my Sword by which he is kept out; in which &s;tare
are all Man-kind in now who are in their falne nature gone out from my Spirit,
and &s;o are gone out from my Power, which is the life, by <PB N="4" REF="3">which the whole Creation is to be Ruled and Geverned&punc; And now in
this &s;tate, though men are &s;tanding in the place of Ma|ge&s;trates, and
profe&s;&s;ing them&s;elves to be &s;uch as doe Rule for me; yet being gone out
from me, are gone <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> from the
power which is of me, and by me &s;aith the Lord; and are holding up another
power, which is of another Kingdom, that doth op|po&s;e it &s;elf again&s;t my
Kingdom and Power, unto which every &s;oule is to be &s;ubject.</P>
<P>And now, all you who profe&s;&s;e your &s;elves to be Chri&s;tian
Mage&s;trates, and to maintain my Law, con&s;ider whether ye be &s;uch, yea or
nay; &s;ee whether ye have owned my Son, whom I have &s;ent a light into the
world, unto whom is given all pow|er both in Heaven and in Earth, unto whom
every Knee mu&s;t bow, and every Tongue confe&s;&s;e; ye that &s;ay, ye
maintain my Law, &s;ee whether you have known and owned the Law-giver; for
there is but one Law, and one Law-giver which is Chri&s;t; And this Je&s;us
Chri&s;t is to be known within you, which is the <HI>Immanuel,</HI> God with
us, <HI>even God manife&s;ted in the fle&s;h,</HI> as al&s;o &s;aith the
Scripture, the which if you <HI>reject</HI> to know and <HI>beleeve in,</HI>
you have <HI>rejected</HI> my Law, and gone out from my power, which you
profe&s;&s;e to Rule in, and Govern by, and to have owned with your Mouthes;
and all who are &s;ound here, their profe&s;&s;ions will not cover them,
who&s;e works deny me, for all they doe is in my &s;ight abominable, <HI>and
unto every good work they are reprobate.</HI></P>
<P>And now, O you Mage&s;trates, con&s;ider whether you have Ruled
for me, or for your &s;elves, &s;aith the Lord God, and &s;ee whether you have
not been Crucifying to your &s;elves my Son, whom I have &s;ent a light into
the world, and &s;o have Crucified and &s;lain my power in you, by which you
&s;hould have Ruled your &s;elves fir&s;t, and &s;o the Nations over whom you
are pla|ced; for if a man rule not his own hou&s;e, how <HI>&s;hould he take
care for the Church of God?</HI> And now, how can it be other|wi&s;e, but that
you &s;hould be found having your hands in <HI>per|&s;ecuting the righteous
Seed, even my Sons and Daughters,</HI> &s;aith the Lord, which I have cho&s;en
out of the world, to bear wit|ne&s;&s;e to my name? For had you known, and
owned me, you <PB N="5" REF="3" MS="y">would have known and owned my
&s;ervants, &s;ons and daugh|ters al&s;o; but my words are fulfilled, <HI>If
they have per&s;ecuted me, they will al&s;o per&s;ecute you; and if they had
known me, they would have known you al&s;o;</HI> but they have not known you,
<HI>becau&s;e they knew me not:</HI> And now you Mage&s;trates, confi|der
whether ye are of me, even in my power; Doth now my witne&s;&s;e which I have
placed in you (that bears witne&s;&s;e to my name) te&s;tifie again&s;t you, or
for you? See whether by it, you are not condemned in your &s;elves, for I the
Lord God who hath not left my &s;elf without a witne&s;&s;e in any of the
&s;ons of men; Therefore I &s;ay to you, doe ye now hone&s;tly con&s;ider and
hearken unto me, and in the coolne&s;&s;e of the day you will hear, and on your
Beds, for I the Lord God am he, who &s;earcheth your hearts, and &s;hew unto
you your thoughts, and the intents of your hearts: Now enter ye into my
&s;ecret place, <HI>commune with your own hearts, and be &s;till,</HI> and
&s;ee there what my wit|ne&s;&s;e doth te&s;tifie unto you, for that is your
&s;tate before me, &s;aith the Lord; <HI>and if your hearts condemne you, I am
greater then your hearts: And I the Lord, who am the true and faith|full
witne&s;&s;e, that cannot lye, am near unto you all, and will be a &s;wift
witne&s;&s;e again&s;t you; and al&s;o will come near unto you in judgement, to
pleade with you: And this will I doe to try you, even as I have tryed them that
have gone before you: And if you will not indure my judgements, but turn them
to Gall and Wormwood, and kick at them with the heel, as they did; then will I
come again&s;t you in my fury, as I did to them. And this I did to have healed
them, but they would not be hea|led, therefore were they everturned&punc;</HI>
For thus &s;aith the Lord God, <HI>I, even I am he, that wounds, and heals, and
kills, and makes alive.</HI> And now, if ye will not &s;uffer your &s;elves to
be wounded, then &s;hall you not be healed; and if not killed, ye &s;hall not
be made alive: <HI>For he that &s;aveth his life, &s;hall lo&s;e it; and he
that lo&s;eth his life for my &s;ake, &s;hall find it.</HI> If any can
<HI>receive</HI> this, let him <HI>receive</HI> it.</P>
<P>And now O you Rulers and Magi&s;trates, Is it not time for you to
know judgement? therefore flight not the day of your vi&s;itation; for this is
it wherein I the Lord God am warning <PB N="6" REF="4">you, and proving you,
whether you will now turn unto me at my reproof; and now goe to, and &s;ee
whether my witne&s;&s;e I have placed in you, will not te&s;tifie again&s;t
you, that I would often have gathered you; but ye, (like to old
<HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI>) would not be gathered; therefore if you will not be
gathered, but continue in your rebellion again&s;t me, this &s;hall ye have at
my hand; <HI>Ye &s;hall be &s;cattered, who de&s;pi&s;e the riches of my
goodne&s;&s;e forbearance, and long &s;uffering;</HI> and my goodne&s;&s;e
leads you not to repentance, <HI>but after the hardne&s;&s;e, and im|penitency
of your hearts, trea&s;ures up to your &s;elves wrath, again&s;t the day of
wrath, and revelation of my righteous judge|ments; for according to your deeds
will I reward you,</HI> &s;aith the Lord. But my de&s;ire towards you is, as my
witne&s;&s;e in all your <HI>Con&s;ciences</HI> will te&s;tifie unto you, which
hath not con|&s;ented to your &s;ins, nor takes delight in your
<HI>de&s;truction, but that you may all live, and not die.</HI> And now thus
&s;aith the Lord God, <HI>If ye will turn now unto me, and keep my judgements,
and not depart from my Coun&s;ell; then will I heale you:</HI> which if you
love the light, and come to the light, and bow down unto it, and beleeve in it,
and diligently hearken to it; then will you come to know true judgement,
wi&s;edom, under|&s;tanding, and the fear of me, even the true power, in which
you &s;hould rule and govern the Nations; but if ye <HI>reject</HI> the light,
then doe you <HI>reject</HI> me, and put away true judgement from you, and goe
from my power in which you &s;hould rule.</P>
<P>And therefore O ye Mage&s;trates, be you warned from me, &s;aith
the Lord God, that ye goe not from my Coun&s;ell, for then woe be to you, if ye
turn from my Prophet, which I have rai&s;ed up unto you, to be your Councellor,
&s;aith the Lord; for who&s;oever refu&s;eth to hear the voyce of that Prophet,
that I have rai&s;ed up, that &s;oule &s;hall be cut off from his people. Now
if you heare the fal&s;e Prophets, the Prie&s;ts of <HI>England</HI> (they will
make you vain, for they have <HI>rejected</HI> my Prophet, that
<HI>Mo&s;es</HI> my &s;ervant prophe&s;ied of; <HI>the true light, that
lighteth every man that commeth into the world,</HI>) they will leade you out
from my Prophet, and Son, out of my Councell, &s;aith the Lord God: for they
have gone out from me, and &s;o have <HI>re|jected</HI> 
<PB N="7" REF="4" MS="y">my Councell, and have not &s;tood in it, as the
fal&s;e Pro|phets that <HI>I&s;aiah, Jeremy,</HI> and <HI>Ezekiel</HI>
Prophe&s;ied again&s;t: Now, <HI>my &s;heep heare my voyce,</HI> they know me,
and will fol|low me; <HI>and a &s;tranger they will not follow,</HI> but will
flee from him, for they know not the voyce of &s;trangers.</P>
<P>And now, O ye Rulers, and Mage&s;trates, try your &s;elves by what
&s;pirit you are led, and be no more deceived by them who daube with untempered
Morter, <HI>and cry peace, when there is no peace; for from the lea&s;t of them
to the greate&s;t, they are all given to Covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e; even both the
Prophets and Prie&s;ts, every one dealeth fal&s;ly, for they have healed your
wound de|ceitfully, crying peace, when there is no peace,</HI> &s;aith the
Lord. But to whom of you &s;hall I &s;peak, and give warning, that ye may hear
and fear before me? behold your Ears are uncircumci&s;ed, that ye cannot heare:
for behold, the light of the Lord is unto you a reproach, ye have no delight in
it; and &s;o my power by which you &s;hould rule and govern the Nations, you
will not know, <HI>becau&s;e you delight not to know me,</HI> &s;aith the Lord:
Therefore be you all warned, now you have time, <HI>that ye pri&s;e it, for my
Spirit &s;hall not alwayes &s;trive with you,</HI> as it hath not &s;triven
with them that have gone before you, who <HI>rejected me, therefore were they
con&s;umed,</HI> &s;aith the Lord God.</P>
<P>And now, all you Mage&s;trates and Rulers in <HI>England,</HI>
what is the power ye rule by? Is it of me, &s;aith the Lord? See what it
differs from tho&s;e that were before you, who per&s;ecuted the Prophets,
Chri&s;t, the Apo&s;tles, and all the Saints, who bare their te&s;timony to my
name, and again&s;t the world: And was it my power by which &s;uch Ruled and
Governed, who were thus per&s;ecuting my &s;ervants, Sons and Daughters, who
could not for <HI>con&s;cience &s;ake</HI> &s;ubmit to their wills? And have
not the &s;ame per&s;ecutions in this my day attended them, in all parts of
the&s;e three Nations, (and el&s;e-where) where ever I the Lord have &s;ent
them to declare my Me&s;&s;age, even to beare te&s;timony to my name, and
again&s;t the ungodline&s;&s;e of men, <HI>warning them every where to Repent,
left they peri&s;hed? For behold, I have &s;ent among you Prophets, and wi&s;e
men, and &s;ome of them have you per&s;ecuted,</HI> by Whipping, Stocking, 
<PB N="8" REF="5">Stoning, beating in your Synagogues and Streets; &s;ome have
&s;uffered the tryalls of cruell mockings, and &s;ome per&s;ecuted from City to
City, and &s;ome of them have ye killed. More|over <HI>I have &s;ent unto you
my Son a light into the world, Saying, &s;urely ye will reverence my Son: But
they &s;aid, this is the Heire, Come, let us kill him, that the Inheritance may
be ours:</HI> and &s;o they &s;lew the Lord of life, whom I have &s;ent a light
into the world, and have preferred and &s;et up above the light, a murtherer;
and &s;o the old City <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> is yet &s;tanding, <HI>which is
called Spiritually Sodom, and Egypt,</HI> where the Lord lyeth Crucified. And
now ye Rulers and Mage&s;trates, con&s;i|der this, Is it becau&s;e &s;uch men
are &s;et up in the highe&s;t place of Authority among men, by rea&s;on of
their greatne&s;&s;e in the world, and not for their under&s;tanding,
wi&s;edom, and the fear of my name, are they &s;et up above their Brethren? not
in the Lord, but the things of the world; therefore to conclude, that they
&s;tand in my power, and are therefore to Rule and Govern the re&s;t of their
Brethren: Nay, unle&s;&s;e they from my power in them Rule for me, the which ye
will not doe, if <HI>ye pleade not the cau&s;e of the poor and needy,
&s;trangers, Widows, and fatherle&s;&s;e; &s;et open the Gates to the
Pri&s;oners, and let the oppre&s;&s;ed goe free, taking off the heavy burthens,
and yoak<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> that have been put upon
the neckes of the poor: Seek the good, and not the evill: hate the evill, and
love the good, and e&s;tabli&s;h judgement in the Gate, that the &s;poyled may
be &s;trengthe|ned again&s;t the &s;trong and mighty, that judgement may run
down as water, and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e as a mighty &s;tream.</HI> And can
the&s;e things be done, while the&s;e abominations &s;tands un|taken down? as
namely, Law, Prie&s;thood, Temple, Tythes, Worldly Honour, as bowing to men,
and re&s;pecting their Per|&s;ons, contrary to my Law, the maintenance of which
being impo&s;ed upon the Con&s;ciences of my people, &s;ons and daugh|ters,
whom I have &s;et free from all impo&s;itions of men, that are contrary to my
pure Law in them, and my Covenant e&s;ta|bli&s;hed with them, to walk before me
in truth and righteou&s;|ne&s;&s;e, wherein they are to Wor&s;hip me, <HI>even
in &s;pirit and in truth,</HI> as is made known unto them in the &s;pirit of my
Son&punc; <PB N="9" REF="5" MS="y">whom I have given unto them for an
everla&s;ting Covenant <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">hat cannot
be broken: And now, unle&s;&s;e my Servants, Sons and Daughters break Covenant
with me, cannot &s;ubmit to &s;uch things as are by you impo&s;ed on them.</P>
<P>Therefore O ye Magi&s;trates, how doe you Rule for me, when you
goe about to force my people to break Covenant with me? Was it not the
practi&s;e of the <HI>Heathen,</HI> and wicked <HI>Rulers</HI> that knew not my
name and power by which they &s;hould have Ruled, to compell my Servants, Sons
and Daughters, to have denied my Name, as <HI>Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar,</HI> and
the <HI>Jewes,</HI> and others, who per&s;ecuted me, as the Scriptures, my
Servants, have &s;poken forth (by the moving of my &s;pirit in them) have
declared of? And come now, O ye Magi&s;trates, and try your &s;elves, what
&s;pirit and power ye have been led by: Now if you have been led by my
&s;pirit, then are ye my Sons; but &s;ee whether it have not been by a lying
&s;pirit, which is gone forth into the mouthes of all the &s;alfe Prophets, and
&s;ee whether they have not prevailed to per&s;wade you, to hearken unto them,
whom I have determined a con&s;umption, and an utter de&s;truction to come upon
them, and to &s;trip them of all their coverings, that the &s;hame of their
nakedne&s;&s;e may ap|pear unto all men; yet, for all this, &s;hall not your
guilt be taken away from you, if you turn not to me, &s;aith the Lord;
becau&s;e you have been warned by my Servants from my mouth of their deceit,
and have not turned from them, but &s;till you have hearkened to them, to
continue the yoake upon the necks of my people, whom I have determined to
deliver by my mighty hand, and an out&s;tretched arme, as I did deliver my
&s;ervants of old, out of the hands of <HI>Pharaoh,</HI> that cruell
op|pre&s;&s;or; even &s;o will I now deliver my &s;ervants, &s;ons and
daughters; <HI>for my hand is not &s;hortned that it cannot &s;ave,</HI>
&s;aith the Lord, <HI>neither mine Eare heavy, that it cannot heare,</HI> as
before I have heard the cryes of my people: And now have I heard their cryes
that are come before me, and am now comming to deliver them, that write upon my
Name: Therefore con&s;ider the&s;e things betime, le&s;t ye become &s;uch 
<PB N="10" REF="6">as I the Lord have de&s;troyed from before my Face for their
di&s;obedience, &s;aith the Lord God.</P>
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<HEAD>Quaeries.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Quae. 1.</HI> WHether there be any Power, Rule, and
Govern|ment to be &s;et up and impo&s;ed upon men, but onely that Power and
Authority, Rule and Government, that every Soule is to be &s;ubject unto for
Con&s;cience &s;ake towards God?</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2.</HI> Whether that Power, Authority, Rule, and
Government, which men have invented to them&s;elves, to maintain their own
outward fle&s;hly carnall Priviledges, and to bring the poor into &s;ubjection
unto their own wills, be the power that every Soule &s;hould be &s;ubject unto
for Con&s;cience &s;ake?</P>
<P N="3"><HI>3.</HI> Whether <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t</HI> be not the
true ground of all Power, Rule, and Authority, that every Soule is to be
&s;ubject unto, being that all Power both in Heaven and Earth is given un|to
him, to Rule and Governe the Nations? And whether the Rule and Government be
not onely upon his &s;houlders, which is the endle&s;&s;e Power, Rule,
Authority and Government, of who&s;e Dominion there is no end?</P>
<P N="4"><HI>4.</HI> Whether ever any in the Power and Authority of
God, did ever per&s;ecute the Servants of the Lord, or did uphold any that were
their per&s;ecutors; but &s;uch as <HI>Pharaoh,</HI> who was out of the power
and authority of God, and rejected it, who knew not the Lord, &s;aying, <HI>Who
is the Lord, that I &s;hould obey him?</HI> And whether it be not the power of
the World, which are the powers of darkne&s;&s;e, that per&s;ecutes the
righteous Seed? And whether &s;uch as per&s;ecute, and &s;uch as tollerate
per&s;ecu|tion, be not all of one Seed, and be not in the enmity again&s;t God,
even &s;uch as are borne after the fle&s;h?</P>
<P N="5"><HI>5.</HI> Whether there be any Rulers and Magi&s;trates,
that are in the ju&s;t power and authority to Rule and Governe, but &s;uch as
are in the power and authority of God? And whether <PB N="11" REF="6" MS="y">there be any in the power of God, but &s;uch as are the Mini|&s;ter of
God for good, even to execute wrath upon them that doth evill, and for the
pray&s;e of him that doth well? And whether this be not the power onely, that
every Soule is to be &s;ubject unto? And if any Rule not thus, Whether he beare
not the Sword in vaine?</P>
<P N="6"><HI>6.</HI> Whether tho&s;e be Rulers, and Mini&s;ters for
God, that are out of the power of the Lord, and are &s;et up by tho&s;e that
are out of the power of the Lord them&s;elves, (and that Rules for
them&s;elves, and not for the Lord) to maintaine their worldly Lu&s;ts, Riches,
and Honour, who are made Rulers by Men, not for truths &s;ake, as they are men
fearing the Lord; but for the Worlds &s;ake, even becau&s;e they are Rich and
Great in this pre&s;ent World, and to maintain the Worlds Inte|re&s;ts?</P>
<P N="7"><HI>7.</HI> Whether hath not the Lord &s;hewed unto man,
<HI>what is Good,</HI> that is, <HI>to keep Judgement, to doe Ju&s;tice, and to
love Mercy, and to Walke with God?</HI> And can ever this be done, (even
Iudgement kept, Iu&s;tice done, Mercy, Truth, and Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e loved;
but Gifts and Rewards taken, and mens per&s;ons re&s;pected, and the Cau&s;e of
the poor and needy not pleaded,) till Iudges, Iu&s;tices, and Rulers be as at
the fir&s;t I who are men <HI>fearing God, hating Covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and
dealing uprightly.</HI></P>
<P N="8"><HI>8.</HI> And whether that of God in all your
Con&s;ciences doth not beare witne&s;&s;e to the truth of all the&s;e things?
and that generally, Rulers, Governours, and Magi&s;trates, in their Rule and
Government, are turned from truth and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e; and whether they
ought not to turne out from the <HI>Power of darkene&s;&s;e&punc; into the
Power of the living God, to Rule and Governe for the Lord God of Heaven and
Earth; Unto whom every Knee mu&s;t bow, and every Tongue confe&s;&s;e, and to
whom every one mu&s;t give an account of him&s;elfe of the things done in the
Body, whether they be good or bad?</HI> And &s;o in the light, all is left
without excu&s;e,</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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