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<P>This is to all Officers and Souldiers OF THE ARMIES IN <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland;</HI> AND TO ALL MAGISTRATES, And them in Authority in the&s;e Nations, and the Dominions thereunto appertaining for them to read.</P>
<P><ADD>May 29</ADD> <HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Thomas Simmons</HI> at the <HI>Bull</HI> and <HI>Mouth</HI> neer <HI>Alder&s;gate.</HI> 1657</P>
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<HEAD>This is to all <HI>OFFICERS</HI> &amp; <HI>SO&V;LDIERS</HI> OF THE ARMIES IN <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> &amp; <HI>Ireland.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THE word of the Lord to all you Souldiers, Governors, and Rulers, to rule in Power and Love, to that in your con&s;ci|ences I &s;peak, which is of God, that your minds may be guided up to God, that you may &s;ee what you mu&s;t rule o|ver; for all you dwelling in the Light which comes from Je&s;us, it leads all to Chri&s;ts Government, and it leads from the world, and it leads from under the occa&s;ion of the war; from whence doth the wars ari&s;e but from the lu&s;ts; and &s;o you that follow the lu&s;ts, go from the light, you go from the true Sword of Ju&s;tice, and &s;o in the light ye come to be condemned; and let nothing rule in you but the light, that with it Chri&s;t Je&s;us you may all come to &s;ee, and him rule and reign; &amp; ye who would not have him rule, ye are for the Sword, and mu&s;t be &s;lain; And all &s;uch as re&s;pect per&s;ons, contrary to the Light doth act, and the light there doth not reign, and the Law of God is not hearkened unto, which is upon all re&s;pectors of per&s;ons; but the light love, to lead you to the Law of God which is perfect, according to that of God in every ones con&s;cience, which is Equity, and the Law here is Equity, and judges that
<PB N="2" REF="2">which is not Equity, and cuts down, and cuts out that which is not Equity, and that which is contrary to that which is pure in every ones con&s;cience, and &s;o the Land comes to be &s;wept of evil doers, and the refuge of lyes ta|ken away; and all you Souldiers know a Souldiers place, and &s;ee that ye be Souldiers qualified, that ye do accu&s;e no man fal&s;ly, that ye do violence to no man, and that ye be content with your wages; &s;o then you will &s;ee what the Sword is to, and is to be laid upon all that do violence, and all the fal&s;e accu&s;ers. And you that are Governors mu&s;t be no fal&s;e accu&s;ers, nor do vio|lence to any man, but ruled with that of God in your con&s;ciences, to exer|ci&s;e toward God and towards man, again&s;t all violence, and again&s;t all fal&s;e accu&s;ations; &s;ee that you, and none of you be &s;uch; and then let your Sword be laid upon &s;uch, and then &s;et your Souldiers in their places, and then let them go forth, and let them have their wages; for who are fal&s;e accu&s;ers, and do violence, are out of the natural affection, and have not affection to Nature, but would de&s;troy it in his own particular, and then in the general through the ra&s;h headyne&s;s, upon &s;uch is the Sword laid. So to you this is the word of the Lord, that ye may come to a pure and right under&s;tanding, to know that which leads Nature out of its cour&s;e, and hath not affection to Nature, upon &s;uch is the &s;word laid, and is to be ruled with the Sword, and kept down; and &s;ee that none of you be &s;uch. To that in your con&s;ciences I &s;peak, be not violent doers, fal&s;e accu&s;ers, drunkards; nor be prophane nor loo&s;e Souldiers, Governors, nor Rulers, if you be, that in your con&s;cien|ces will witne&s;s me, that you are all for the &s;word of the Lord God Al|mighty, and not ju&s;tifiable in his &s;ight; to the light in all your con&s;ciences I &s;peak, that with it you may all &s;ee your &s;elves, and what you have done, and how you have &s;pent your time, and how you do do &s;pend your time, the end of your Souldiery, the end of your war, what the war is to, and what the &s;word is laid upon, and what it is to keep in order, for all your Souldiers, Governors and Rulers, which contrary to the light do act, which comes from Chri&s;t Je&s;us, which light is in you; ye are to be ruled with the &s;word of the Lord God: To you this is the word of God; for the Law of God is perfect, and an&s;wers that of God in every one in the world; and he that hath the &s;word, that is a terror to the evil doer, he an|&s;wereth with the &s;word that of God in every one that cometh into the world, which if he do evil, he acts contrary to that of God in him, which the &s;word takes hold upon him that doth evil; and he that doth evil, acts contra|ry to the Ju&s;t, &s;o the Sword of Ju&s;tice takes hold upon him; now this is that which &s;hall &s;tand over the whole world, (not over a Nation only) and doth not regard cu&s;toms of Nations, but it &s;hall an&s;wer that of God in every man that comes into the world; &s;o he that an&s;wereth that of God in every one that comes into the world, he mu&s;t be ju&s;t, he mu&s;t not be a fal&s;e accu|&s;er, that is not ju&s;t, that is not true; and he mu&s;t not do violence, that that bears the &s;word for violence is not ju&s;t; for if he doth, this will take hold up|on him, the law of God which is ju&s;t &s;hall take hold of him; and this &s;hall an&s;wer that of God in every one.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>G. F.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To all the Magi&s;trates and them in Authority in the&s;e Nations, and the Domini|ons thereunto appertaining, for them to read this.</HEAD>
<P>YE Magi&s;trates, ye Rulers, who have known the power of the Lord in giving of ye Dominion, be low, and keep low, lea&s;t you abu&s;e the Pow|er that ye once ta&s;ted of; and wait for wi&s;dom, the wi&s;dom of God, that in it, and with it ye may be ordered to the glory of God, and not abu&s;e his power; for the mighty day of the Lord hath been &s;een in this Age, and hath brought forth much to his glory, and given you victory over much, and thrown down much, and &s;et you above much; and them that the power of the Lord hath thrown down, of the power of the Lord they may take no|tice. Now ye that have known this power, the power of the Lord, be not lifted up, lea&s;t the &s;ame power throw you down, that hath thrown down tho&s;e before you; for the &s;ame power throws down that which is exalted, as it did before. Be not high minded, but fear and be watchful unto Prayer, le&s;t ye run into wantonne&s;s, and cry <HI>Aha,</HI> your own hand hath done this, and this I have done, and the other I have done; and &s;o boa&s;t, and take glory to your &s;elves, and rob God of his honor, and honor one another, &s;uch God will &s;tain their glory and honor, and deface it, and bring it into contempt, and overthrow it with the &s;ame power that he overthrew his Enemies be|fore, the &s;ame power overthrows that, who are joyned together, a Harlot, and make you to know that he reigns the Ruler of Heaven and Earth, the Creator of all things, who&s;e power is dreadful in overturning, &s;haking down, and removing, and defacing, and taking the glory to him&s;elf, and the honor to whom it belongs, and the fear to whom it belongs. Therefore boa&s;t not your &s;elves none, but be watchful and meek, and learn the true humility, which goeth before the honor, and the true patience, which ob|tains the Crown of eternal life, and the immortal life, through the pati|ence received.</P>
<P>Now in Cau&s;es of Judgements in Controver&s;ies, with patience hear each party, the Accu&s;ed, the Accu&s;er; the Offended, and the Offendor, with meekne&s;s and humblene&s;s hear; that goes before the Honor; for it is an ho|nor for a King to find out a matter, and to &s;earch it out. And let not there be an eye among you, nor in any of you, nor an ear that will re&s;pect per|&s;ons, or have per&s;ons re&s;pected; for in &s;uch cau&s;es there will be a will that will be brickle, earthly, changeable, wanting the patience to judge rightly; &s;elfi&s;h, and &s;tubbornne&s;e, and prejudice, and &s;idings to parties more then to Truth; and right judgement is blinded in the&s;e, and the true Mea&s;ure is wanting, and the true Weight to weigh withall, and to mea&s;ure withall. While&s;t there is prejudice in the Officer, Judge, Ju&s;tice, or Ruler, while&s;t he is pa&s;&s;ionate, out of the humblene&s;s and humility, out of the mercy, out of the patience, in the wilfulne&s;s, in the &s;tubbornne&s;s, &s;turdines, high min|dedne&s;s, minding the per&s;on, re&s;pecting, under this doth the ju&s;t groan; un|der this doth the ju&s;t feel the weight, which feels the want of the true mea|&s;ure, and cryes for the true mea&s;ure, and cryes for the true weight, and puts
<PB N="4" REF="3">up Petitions to the Lord, who hears and an&s;wers the cryes of the oppre&s;&s;ed, and removeth the Oppre&s;&s;or, and brings him to &s;hame and contempt, though for a time he hath a day of honor and glory; but &s;uch the Lord of glory their dayes doth &s;horten often in turning them out, and cutting them off, bringing his righteous judgements upon them who rightly hath not judged; &s;uch God mea&s;ures their wayes, God gives to them mea&s;ure and ju&s;t weight according to their works.</P>
<P>Therefore all ye Rulers of the earth be awakened with the mea&s;ure of God, be awakened to righteou&s;ne&s;s, and to the mea&s;ure of God in you all take heed, to guide your minds up to God, whereby ye may &s;tand all in Gods Coun&s;el, to receive that from God which &s;hall never be &s;haken, whereby with it you may an&s;wer that of God in every man, and be to the Lord a prai&s;e, and a terror to the Nations about you; for true Judgment and Ju&s;tice being &s;et up, and being in the hands of &s;uch that hath the true mea&s;ure to reach that of God in every man, that of God in every man &s;hal an&s;wer his mea&s;ure; and having the true weight to weigh things aright, that of God in every man &s;hall witne&s;s his weight to be ju&s;t and true, and not too light, and his mea&s;ure not too &s;hort; he gives to every man his due, and every m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n his weight; here is the equity, here the righteous is glad, the righteous re|joicetth the evil doer, that reigns, which is a terror to it.</P>
<P>From the Lord God of Heaven and Earth I am moved to charge all to be meek, to be humble, to be patient, and not to be ra&s;h, nor to be heady, nor to be fierce, but to be gentle, and fear before the Lord God, whereby ye may receive his wi&s;dom, that in all Countreys where ye come, where ye are Judges, Ju&s;tices, Rulers, and Magi&s;trates, ye may be a prai&s;e in the Coun|try where ye are, and where ye come, and a good &s;avour to the Lord God, an&s;wering that of God in every man, which will exerci&s;e your con&s;cience towards God, and towards man, which is for con&s;cience &s;ake, and not for wrath, that all may come &s;ubject to the Higher Power, (mark) the High|er Power, which is above that Power which abode not in the truth, but is out of the truth, out of the life, which is the light; and that is the Powers of Darkne&s;s, and there is the &s;piritual wickedne&s;s, and there is the Rulers of Darkne&s;s, out of the truth, which is out of the light that doth enligh|ten every man that cometh into the world; the light which every man is enlightned withal that cometh into the world, will witne&s;s to him the high|er Power, which is a terror to him if he do evil. And &s;o ye all knowing and coming into the higher power to which the &s;oul mu&s;t be &s;ubject unto, ye that are come to this, ye are in that that is above the &s;piritual wickedne&s;&s;es, that is above the Rulers of darkne&s;s of this world, ye come to be on top of all the world, in the whole world ye will be a dread and terror to all the world; ye will be the Higher Power, ye will reach over Nations, Tongues, People, Kinreds, and Languages, and &s;o &s;ound a dread and terror over them all; ye which be in the higher Power, higher then the POWERS of DARKNESSE, Higher then the &s;pirituall wickedne&s;&s;es, higher then all the Heatheni&s;h gods and Rulers; higher then the Rulers of darkne&s;s in the highe&s;t places of the world; this is higher, the higher Pow|er
<PB N="5" REF="4">is above the world, and them all, on top of them all, and chains them all, and an&s;wers that of God in all, the fa&s;hion of it, the lu&s;ts of it, which wars again&s;t the &s;oul (mark) which again&s;t the &s;oul wars, which &s;oul mu&s;t be &s;ubject to the higher Power, which higher Power goes again&s;t the lu&s;ts of the world, of the fle&s;h, that again&s;t the &s;oul wars. Therefore who&s;e &s;oul &s;oever is &s;ubject to the higher power, above the power of him that abode not in the truth; none of them that be here do the lu&s;ts of the Devil, thats out of the truth, but they are in the Power above him, the higher power, which chains, overturns, brings down, brings under, puts down all the pow|ers of darkne&s;s, the &s;piritual wickedne&s;s. Who are in this higher Power, they are in the Throne of God, and they be in that which is honorable, and in that which doth remain; they be in that which limits and &s;tops, and &s;ets bars to that which is out of the higher Power, which comes under the chain, the bridle, the yoke, the gage, the rule, which would de&s;troy, devour, tear to pieces; the higher power over that hath Dominion; and all that which wars again&s;t the &s;oul, to which the &s;oul mu&s;t be &s;ubject to, and where this rules there is peace, and the burden is taken off; the innocent rejoiceth, the &s;implicity is glad; the righteous prai&s;eth God, and magnifies him where this rules; and where this rules, &s;uch as be in it, they know the kingdom of the Mo&s;t High tuling in men, and his Dominion which hath no end; and his Scepter of Righteou&s;ne&s;s, &amp; his Throne is exalted, &amp; the Kingdom where there is no end is known, &s;een, enjoyed; who be in this are in the honorable power, throne, Dominion, which hath no end, which moves, throws down, &s;hakes all the contrary; which Power reacheth to the &s;eed of God, &amp; to y^t of God in every man; who are here, him comes to know who upholds all things by his Word &amp; Power, &amp; comes under the government of the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and are the help Magi&s;trates for him who hath all Power in Heaven and Earth given to him, who&s;e Kindom is now &s;et up, and &s;etting up, to whom the glory is given; I will not give it to another, &s;aith the Lord, but to his Son: And &s;uch as are here, they be in the higher power, they &s;eek that honor that comes from God only, and honor the Son and the Father; &s;uch as receive honor one from another, and honor them&s;elves, receive Honor of men, be &s;uch as be without, the unbelieving, not under Chri&s;ts government.</P>
<P>Therefore all wait in the light which Chri&s;t Je&s;us hath inlightned you withal, that with the light you may &s;ee Chri&s;t Je&s;us, from whence it comes, and receive power from Chri&s;t, who hath all power in heaven and earth given to him, which if you hate the light, and do not believe in it, which ye are enlightned withall, which Light lets ye &s;ee (mark) your deeds, whe|ther they be wrought in God or no; the Light doth let you &s;ee that comes to Chri&s;t, him by whom the world was made, before it was made, this light will let you &s;ee whether your deeds be wrought in God; but hating this light which lets you &s;ee, it will be your condemnation; &s;o &s;top not the ear again&s;t that which tells ye what ye have been, and tells ye what yee have done, and tells ye what ye have &s;aid, and tells ye what ways ye have walk|ed
<PB N="6" REF="4">in, and what actions ye have acted, and what deeds ye have committed; &s;top not the ear again&s;t that, but let the ear be open to that, le&s;t ye remain in the unconverted e&s;tate, the unhealed e&s;tate in the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion; &s;tran|gers from the life of God, his Covenant of Light, of Life, and peace; Therefore clo&s;e not the eye which lets you &s;ee your words, your wayes, your actions; for not clo&s;ing the eye, not &s;topping the ear, the ear open, the eye open, Gods coun&s;el is heard, Gods &s;ecrets received, out of the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion ye come, and healing ye wi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ne&s;s, and the wi&s;dom and &s;ecret of the Lord God, and the renewing of your minde ye will here come to witne&s;s, &amp; that &s;tand and brought up, that brings to &s;tand in the coun&s;el of God, and do his will; the eye being unclo&s;ed to that which lets you &s;ee, and the ear be|ing un&s;topt to that which cries to the Lord in you, the Lords voyce is heard, which keeps ye tender, and from hardne&s;s of heart. And to you this is the word of the Lord God, and with that ye an&s;wer that of God in every man: This &s;hal &s;tand for a witne&s;s for ever to ye or again&s;t ye.</P>
<P>And ye that have known the power of God, take heed of your getting out of it, and then that nature which is gone out of it, &s;ets up &s;uch in autho|rity that the power hath thrown down, which are out of it, le&s;t the Lord God &s;weep you both away with his power, who joyn to that which formerly the power of the Lord God hath overthrown, the Oppre&s;&s;or which would have reigned, which the Lord hath overthrown, and would not have the Lord to reign, therefore the Lord laid it as the du&s;t, and as the ground with his pow|er, therefore keep you in that power, and if any of them come in to repen|tance, and doth acknowledg the power which hath thrown them down, &amp; renewed and converted, then ye are in unity, then you are in one in that which makes plain the way of the Lord, and laies down mountains, that the Lord alone may be exalted, and his hou&s;e e&s;tabli&s;hed on the top of the mountains.</P>
<P>And none is worthy to have the name of a Magi&s;trate, that is proud, peevi&s;h, &s;elfi&s;h, crabb<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d; or that is wilful, or wicked, or is heady, &amp; high|minded, for the Higher Power is to chain &s;uch from their intents &amp; mi&s;chie|vous ends, that they would do and wrong the innocent with their unrighte|ousintents; and &s;uch as touching judgment are blinde, that be perver&s;e, &amp; ful of ambition &amp; pride, &s;uch forget God, &amp; is not in their thoughts, tho&s;e feel nor the burden of the oppre&s;&s;ed, they feel not the burden that the innocent groans under; for &s;uch as be there, be in that nature as burdens the ju&s;t in particular, &amp; in the general, before who&s;e eyes the fear of God is not, who makes a prcy of the ju&s;t, of whom the Lords eye beholds, &amp; who &s;hal be a terror to the evil doer, and a prai&s;e to them that do well, which they all be that be in the higher power, before who&s;e eye is the fear of God, who&s;e eye they behold that watcheth over them, the Almighty with whom they have peace, in acting things that are righteous, that of God in every man an|&s;wering.</P>
<P>Now as concerning Prie&s;ts and Teachers, who wil not preach without a &s;um of money, of whom they look for it of you, &amp; with petitions to you
<PB N="8" REF="5" MS="y">come or &s;end, which them&s;elves have not heard the voyce of the Lord, the word of the Lord, &s;uch as comes with petitions, &amp; have not heard the voice of the Lord, nor his word which was in the beginning, are to &s;tand by, the Word commands them &s;ilence, as it was in the days of Jeremiah, and &s;uch the higher power &s;ilenceth that u&s;e their tongues, who&s;e doubts is for out|ward maintenance, &amp; taking thought for that; &s;uch are in the &s;tate of the Gentiles, the kingdoms of the world, &amp; &s;eeking for that, and not for the Kingdom of God, and the righteou&s;ne&s;s of it fir&s;t, which the other things follow, if this were found, and a word from the Lord received, and his coun|&s;el &s;tood in, people would be turned from their evil ways, there would bee no want of outwards then; but if they be Prie&s;ts of the Readers of the Law to the people, then they mu&s;t have their Pulpit of wood, and a thing made ready for their hands, &amp; boa&s;t in other mens labours, but this was not the practice of the Apo&s;tles, but &s;uch are excluded out of the Kingdom, the boa&s;ters, and are from their own mea&s;ure, with which they &s;hould reach that of God in every man, &amp; &s;uch be they who would have their mouths &s;topt, and would &s;top the mouths of them that have the word of the Lord God immediately from his mouth, and &s;peaks his word (by which all things were made) without money or price freely.</P>
<P>So as ye all Magi&s;trates be kept in the fear of God, &amp; in the higher pow|er, in the true under&s;tanding, and the true wi&s;dom which is pure, gentle, from above, &amp; ea&s;ie to be intreated, it will bring you to the true in&s;tructi|ons, and ye being in them it wil bring you to in&s;truct all others, where ever ye come, or be; in the wi&s;dom &amp; ways of God, Peace, Righteou&s;ne&s;s, and Truth, &amp; Meekne&s;&s;e and Patience, whereby you may all come to love as the family of God, and no frowardne&s;&s;e or bitterne&s;&s;e, but with wi&s;dome, order and rvle the creatures, by which they were created; for with that mu&s;t all be governed to the glory of the Lord God, the Creator, with the wi&s;dome by which all things are created.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>G. F.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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