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<P>NEVVES coming up out of the NORTH, Sounding towards the SOUTH.</P>
<P>OR, A Bla&s;t out of the North up into the South, and &s;o to flie abroad into the World: And a warning to all <HI>England,</HI> and Nations el&s;where. The terrible day of the Lord is appearing, that all your hearts mu&s;t be ript up and laid naked and open before the mighty God, before him where nothing can be hid, and that no hiding place will be found for him</P>
<P><HI>You have hid your &s;elves &s;ome in mountains and &s;ome in green trees, and &s;ome under hills; but the Lord is coming to make all naked, and &s;trip all.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Written from the mouth of the Lord, from one who is naked, and &s;tands naked before the Lord cloathed with righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, who&s;e Name is not known in the world, ri&s;en up out of the North; which was prophe&s;ied of, but now it is fulfilled: The Army is coming up out of the North again&s;t you terrible ones, who&s;e weapons are not carnal, but &s;piri|tual.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON</HI> Printed for <HI>Giles Calvert,</HI> and are to be Sold at the Black &s;pread-Eagle, at the We&s;t end of <HI>Pauls.</HI> 1655.</P>
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<HEAD>Newes coming up out of the NORTH, &s;ounding towards the <HI>South.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_GOD eternall, the day di&s;covers all,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 3.13. Gen. 4.5.</NOTE> there|fore there is a Sacrifice that God hath a re&s;pect to, and there is a Sacrifice that God hath no re&s;pect to, which is the fir&s;t birth in the Fall, begott<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">n. To all the world who are in the fir&s;t birth &s;acrifi|cing to God, God hath no re&s;pect to your &s;acrifices, for it is <HI>Cain's,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Jude 11.</NOTE> and &s;tands in the envy: in this generation was all the righteous blood &s;hed, and all the righteous blood is &s;till &s;hed by this generation, <HI>Cain,</HI> who &s;acrifi|ceth to God, but God hath no re&s;pect to his &s;acrifices:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 4.10. Mal. 1.8.13.</NOTE> all you Prie&s;ts and bloody per&s;ecuters, bloody <HI>Cains,</HI> you &s;acrifice the lame, the halt, the blind, which is cur&s;ed; you are in envy raging and revel|ling, none of you can deny it;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Acts 2.39. Acts 23.13.</NOTE> and where the pure &s;eed is born which the promi&s;e is to, which is of God; that you know not, that you &s;eek to &s;lay, all the generation of you ever did, &amp; doth, though you have all the forms of the letter of the Saints conditions, and from that gather a &s;acrifice, and &s;o offer up to God of the earth; but God hath no re&s;pect to it, Prie&s;ts nor people, who are in the envy, and &s;acrifice of the earth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 4.3.</NOTE> But you are hatching mi&s;chief in your minds, and hatch the Cockatrice eggs: but the Saints of the mo&s;t high God are coming to break them to pieces: you are inventing of evill, plotting, talking,<NOTE PLACE="marg">John 11.47. Mark 15.1.</NOTE> taking coun&s;ell together again&s;t the righte|ous &s;eed, where it is brought forth in all your generation, it was and is &s;o, in the fir&s;t birth. Would you number your &s;elves in the generation of <HI>Abel,</HI> in whom there was no envy?<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 23. Rev. 11.8.</NOTE> Oh you pain|ted Sepulchers, whited walls, the blood of all the Prophets was fhed by you in this generation, in the great Cittie <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Gomorra</HI>
<PB N="4" REF="3"> the blood of all the martyrs, the blood of all the Saints, ye are the generation that crucified the ju&s;t, where the Lord Chri&s;t was crucifi|ed by this generation; &amp; all the righteous blood that hath been &s;hed from the beginning, hath been &s;hed by you in this generation, ever following the righteous in imitation, but having the &s;word drawn again&s;t the righteous blood, <HI>Cains</HI> &s;word, Envy, to murder the &s;econd Birth, where&s;oever it doth appeare. Wo to you, who go in the way of <HI>Cain,</HI> for there is no eternall life abiding in you who are in the Envy,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jude 11.</NOTE> the righteous &s;eed of God is ri&s;en, and comes up to the beginning,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 1.18. Rev. 13.8.</NOTE> which &s;tands over the world, which was dead and is alive, and lives for evermore, the Lamb &s;lain &s;ince the beginning and foundation of the world, which is &s;lain by this generation of <HI>Cain.</HI> Now to every one in particular, Prie&s;ts and People, Rulers and Magi&s;trates, and all &s;orts of men and people while you have en|vy in you, and the envy reigns, thou art <HI>Cain,</HI> and do not profe&s;s thy &s;elfe to be <HI>Abel,</HI> for thou art a murtherer of the ju&s;t in thy &s;elf in particular, &amp; thou wilt murder the ju&s;t where ever it is ri&s;en in the general;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mal. 3.7. Col. 2.14. &amp; 20.</NOTE> all your preaching, praying, &s;inging, reading, all your imagina|tions, Bapti&s;m and Sacrament, as you call it, and all your ordinan|ces and Churches and teachings, it is <HI>Cains</HI> &s;acrifice, and the &s;acrifice of the earth, and from the earth, and God hath re&s;pect to it, there is no &s;avour in it: for it is <HI>Abel's</HI> that God hath re&s;pect to, the righ|teous that he receives,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Zeph. 3.2.</NOTE> and God hath given a pure language to his people to offer a &s;acrifice in righteou&s;ne&s;s which he accepts; a &s;acri|fice of righteou&s;ne&s;s is accepted of the Lord of righteou&s;ne&s;s&punc; Blood|dy <HI>Cain</HI> was the fir&s;t birth, which envied his brother, and bloody <HI>Cain</HI> is the fir&s;t now in everyone, put it not farre from you, there is &s;omething in every one of you will tell you &s;o, lay a&s;ide all your &s;a|crifices which you offer up in the fir&s;t nature, which you gather up in your minds from the earth, and from the letter; for upon the earth and in the earth lodgeth envy; but the pure that ari&s;eth through the earth, and through the death; that, is accepted with God: For the Branch which the Lord brings forth,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Zech. 6.12. Ezek 34.29.</NOTE> is the Plant of his re|nown. All the preaching of the world now at this time, which is in the fir&s;t birth is <HI>Cains</HI> &s;acrifice while it &s;tands in the envy, and all who go from the eternall God: guided by the infallible eternall Spi|rit which is pure, &s;peaks to the pure, who is not made a Mini&s;ter by the will of man,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gal. 1.11, 12&punc;</NOTE> nor receives any thing from man, nor of man, but only from the Lord God of glory &s;tanding in his mighty power, gui|ded by his eternall Spirit, te&s;tifying again&s;t <HI>Cains</HI> generation, again&s;t all who are made Mini&s;ters by the wil of man, crept up, imitating, u|&s;ing their tongves who were never &s;ent of God, painting them&s;elves with the Prophets words, Chri&s;ts words, &amp; Apo&s;tles words, and are like the Saints in words, but like the Devill in life and conver&s;ation, living in pride, lu&s;t, exce&s;&s;e, uncleanne&s;&s;e, and all filthine&s;&s;e: but who are &s;ent alone of God te&s;tifie again&s;t all the&s;e &s;infull practices
<PB N="5" REF="3"> again&s;t all this generation, and again&s;t all Idoll-temples, and again&s;t their very foundation what ye &s;peak and preach: for they &s;ay the Go&s;pel is their foundation, which is the four Books, <HI>Matthew, Mark, Luke</HI> and <HI>John,</HI> and their Originall is Hebrew, Greek, and Latine, and the letter is the light, and the letter is the word,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 3.6.</NOTE> and <HI>Oxford</HI> and <HI>Cambridge</HI> are the two well-heads of Divinity, which is all in the fall carnall and naturall, and it is fit for none but the blind to lead the blind, &amp; it is the blind way: but who are made Mini&s;ters by the will of God, te&s;tifie again&s;t all the&s;e practices that &s;tand in <HI>Cains</HI> generation,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 15.14.</NOTE> the letter which kills the ju&s;t, and under the dominion of Satan, and the power of the Prince of the aire, &s;tanding in that generation which Chri&s;t cryed again&s;t, having the chiefe&s;t places in the A&s;&s;emblies,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 3.6.</NOTE> and called of men Ma&s;ter, laying heavy burdens upon the people, &s;hut|ting the Kingdom of God from again&s;t men, neither go in them&s;elves nor &s;uffer other. Woe, woe, woe, is the portion of &s;uch, for they were exalted, and they were Phari&s;ees to whom he &s;aid &s;o, the&s;e are the generation that &s;lew the righteous &s;eed: the&s;e now &s;tanding in <HI>England</HI> and el&s;ewhere, praying before and after Sermon, having the chiefe&s;t places in the A&s;&s;emblies, calling them&s;elves Ma&s;ters,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 23.6, 7, 8.</NOTE> painting them&s;elves with the Prophets words, and Chri&s;ts and the Apo&s;tles words, are in <HI>Cains</HI> generation; for now the Lord God of Heaven and Earth, and of power, hath brought forth his Son,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jude 13.</NOTE> his Plant of re|nown: here all the powers in that generation &s;tand up, Prie&s;ts and people, &s;ome raging, &s;ome &s;toning, &s;ome impri&s;oning, &s;ome mock|ing, &s;ome rai&s;ing up &s;landerous fal&s;e reports and lies, &s;ome haling before Magi&s;trates, &s;ome whipping, &s;ome haling out of the Syna|gogues, and beating in the Markets, and all this is now pre&s;ent in <HI>Cains</HI> generation, which &s;lew the righteous &s;eed, and ever &s;lew the Prophets whom the Lord God of heaven and earth &s;ent forth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Joel 2.28.</NOTE> Now do the Prophets of the Lord begin to prophe&s;ie, &s;ons and daughters, now is the Lord fulfilling of his promi&s;e what he &s;pake by the for|mer Prophets: now are the &s;eals opening,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 5.5.6.1. Luke 21.28.</NOTE> now doth the day of re|demption draw neer to all troubled, longing, wearied &s;ouls: now &s;hall you &s;ing a happy day, the &s;alvation of our God, the Lord of heaven and earth: now do all the fal&s;e Prophets begin to rage and rail, and roar in their pulpits, and &s;eek to the Magi&s;trates to uphold them.</P>
<P>Now is the great and mighty hand of the Lord &s;tretched forth over the wicked, now is the trumpet &s;ounding abroad throughout the whole world. Wo to the inhabitants of the earth,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Zeph. 1.16. Rev. 8.13.</NOTE> now is the Devil raging, becau&s;e his time is &s;hort; now is the Scripture fulfilling which the Lord hath &s;poken by his former Prophets; now is the day of redemption drawing nigh to all who have waited to &s;ee the day: now &s;hall the Bea&s;t be taken, and the fal&s;e Prophet; for the Bea&s;t be|gins to uphold the fal&s;e Prophet, that is, the Bea&s;t who is not in the truth, who will limit God and the Holy one,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 19.20.</NOTE> that is the fal&s;e Prophet, which God never &s;ent, and the Bea&s;t which would make
<PB N="6" REF="4"> make laws to limit the holy one, by which he threatens all to cau&s;e them to wor&s;hip him, or &s;uffer. Now is the Bea&s;t and all the fal&s;e Prophets di&s;covered, and a fire is beginning to kindle for the fal&s;e Prophet and the Bea&s;t:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 18.8.</NOTE> Torment, torment; woe woe; plagues, plagues, are to be powred forth, and judgment and the wrath of God without mixture powred upon you; the vengeance of the Lord is coming upon all his adver&s;aries, and God will be avenged upon the Bea&s;t and the fal&s;e Prophet: you who have drunk the blood of all the Saints, and where the pure truth was &s;pringing and appearing making bonds and making plots to keep the pure in death, gathering and taking coun&s;el together, and con&s;ulting again&s;t the righteous &s;eed where ever it was &s;pringing. O <HI>England!</HI> Is it not now among you where any Prophet is &s;ent into this great Cittie <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Gomorah,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;aiah 2.8. P&s;al. 42.9. Eccle&s;. 5.8. I&s;a. 56.1.</NOTE> &s;on or daughter, to cry again&s;t the deceitfull merchandize, to cry again&s;t this fal&s;e wor&s;hip that God never com|manded, to cry again&s;t oppre&s;&s;ion and unju&s;t dealing, to cry again&s;t your drunkenne&s;s, oaths, and all your bla&s;phemy, cur&s;ed &s;peaking, and oppre&s;&s;ion one and other, and to cry again&s;t you who rule not the Countrey with Ju&s;tice, and keep not all in order, ju&s;tice and equity, where in ju&s;tice reignes, where ju&s;tice is not &s;tirring The Lord hath rai&s;ed up to cry again&s;t all fal&s;e waies, and to cry for ju&s;tice and righteou&s;ne&s;s. The mighty day of the Lord is coming, that all things mu&s;t be brought to light, and all your &s;ecrets brought to light, and all your clo&s;e ways &s;hall be brought to light: Drunkard, thou can&s;t not hide thy &s;elf;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Obadiah 1.6.</NOTE> &s;wearer thou can&s;t not hide thy &s;elf; cou&s;ner, cheater, and di&s;&s;embler, thou can&s;t not hide thy &s;elf, all thy deeds are recko|ned up and made manife&s;t, and all thy filthine&s;s and &s;ubtilty &s;hall be laid open and ript up: all thy underhand dealings and do|ings, all thy fal&s;e judgements and double dealings, now &s;hall come to be ript up and made manife&s;t. Howl, howl, the canker is entring, the ru&s;t is entring,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ier, 13.6. Nahum 3.15. Jer. 23.29. I&s;ai. 30.1. I&s;ai. 3.11. I&s;ai. 41.15. Mica 1.13. Hab. 3.12.</NOTE> the fire is a kindling to burn in your hearts, and to eat you forth, hammering your hearts to pieces; woe, woe to you who have lived in the deceit and treachery, woe woe to all fal&s;e hearts, and proud lu&s;tfull filthy ones, who live without the feare of the living God. Sion is ri&s;en to thre&s;h; thre&s;h, O Sion, down with the mountains, beat the hills as &s;mall as du&s;t, that the winde may &s;catter the chaffe: all you proud ones who &s;eek for honour, all your honour mu&s;t be laid in the du&s;t, all your eys &s;hall be turned into dark|ne&s;s, where &s;hall be weeping, wailing, and gna&s;hing of teeth, and all your deceits &s;hall be brought to light and made manife&s;t, no|thing &s;hall &s;tand but that which is pure, and the Lord will find you out,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke 11.36.</NOTE> the candle is lighted, the day doth appear that God will rule in his Saints above the heathen, above the wicked and the ungod|ly ones, and all you that live in unju&s;tne&s;s, deceit and hypocri&s;ie, the eternall God will rule and reign in his Saints, and be admired, magnified and glorified in them above you all: happy day, prai&s;es, prai&s;es, let all the righteous ones &s;ing to the Lord God Almighty,
<PB N="7" REF="4"> who is now &s;haking the earth, who will rule and be admired, and all the Heathen &s;hall be a&s;toni&s;hed, every one &s;hall be at their wits end;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek. 38.19.</NOTE> for all luke-warm ones who live in your imaginations, in your own ways, in your own conceits, in <HI>Cains</HI> &s;acrifices, in the doublene&s;&s;e in their &s;ins, &amp; in their forms, their prayers, &s;ingings, all is nothing but to be troden under foot, God hath no re&s;pect to it; they that are pure in heart &s;hall &s;ee God, and the pure he accepts: Glory, glory,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 5.8. &s;aalm 147.12 Rev. 19 5. Lev. 26.13.</NOTE> &s;ing of thy glory, all ye Saints of the earth, prai&s;e ye the Lord all you holy ones, and righteous &s;ervants of the Lord, the bonds of iniquity are breaking which have ever been again&s;t the righteous &s;eed to the hol|ding of it in pri&s;on, and keeping it in darkne&s;s; but the glorious Lord God of heaven and earth is ari&s;ing, and the wonderfull, eter|nall powerfull God is reigning, and will reign and be admired in his Saints; to whom be all glory, honour, prai&s;e, riches, &s;trength, domi|nion and glory eternal, holy prai&s;es be to thee for ever, who bring|e&s;t thy children out of captivity, and give&s;t them dominion over their enemies, and glory and thanks be to thee for ever.</P>
<P>Wait all you captivated ones that lie in pri&s;on, wait all you &s;im|ple ones who are in the pure &s;implicity,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Zeph. 3.8. Ezek. 21.9. Jer. 25.29.</NOTE> wait for the wi&s;dom of the mo&s;t high to be made manife&s;t in you, and the eternall power of God to rai&s;e you up, for &s;alvation is coming to you that wait for it; the mighty day of the Lord is coming, the dreadfull day is coming, the glittering &s;word is drawn, and is neer at hand to all you that wait for it, therefore look not at <HI>Cains</HI> generation, nor bow down to him to wor&s;hip the Bea&s;t, but &s;tand in the will of God, mind the &s;pirit of God to guide you home to God the eternal re&s;t, eternal comfort, eternall peace, joy, &s;afety, here all my tender ones come to wait for bread from the Father of life, by whom you may be &s;treng|thened, and watered from the Father of life, by which ye may drink to the pa&s;&s;ing on of your journey heartily and comfortably,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Crnt. 5.1.</NOTE> that you may come to re&s;t out of the great Cittie <HI>Sodom</HI> to the Cittie where you &s;hall abide eternally for ever.</P>
<P>Rea&s;on not with fle&s;h and blood that &s;hall never enter, take not coun&s;el with that which lieth in thy bo&s;ome, for that draweth thee neerer to carnall things, and draws thee to con&s;ult with rea&s;on, and &s;o draws thy eye and mind to vi&s;ible things, and &s;o wanders from going on thy journey; and if thou follow that, thou goe&s;t to death and de&s;truction, to hell, and to the pit and the &s;nare, and the wo|man gets dominion over thee, and &s;o the woman comes to rule over the pure, but every one wait in the pure to guide you to God, then you &s;hall &s;ee the promi&s;e of God fulfilled in you, &s;prings opened, and refre&s;hment daily coming in from the Lord, and then you will come to walk with the Lord for&s;aking all, father, mother, wife and children, lands, livings, and all here is; joyning to the Lord as one &s;pirit, and he that doth not for&s;ake is not worthy of him,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 15.29.</NOTE> all who are in the fir&s;t birth, and all who rea&s;on with fle&s;h and blood, &s;tand here for per&s;ecuting them who are born of the Spirit, and are
<PB N="8" REF="5"> pa&s;&s;ing out of this Citie towards the Citie who&s;e foundation and builder is God:<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;aiah 28.16.</NOTE> and in this Citie <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Gomorrah,</HI> all the righte|ous ones are &s;lain by you who are in <HI>Cains</HI> generation, all you who are got up into his &s;teps, pretending Chri&s;t, and to be made Mini|&s;ters of Chri&s;t, who &s;tand in the envy, and have the chiefe&s;t places in the A&s;&s;emblies, called of men Ma&s;ters, which Chri&s;t forbids. Lie down all for &s;hame who are in pride and oppre&s;&s;ion, and in the &s;teps and places of the Phari&s;ees, who have got a form of words what the Apo&s;tles &s;aid, and what Chri&s;t &s;aid, and have got it in three or four languages, the Lord hath di&s;cover'd you, now the Lord God Almighty hath di&s;covered you by his Prophets and &s;ervants. All honor and glory,<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ai. 24.23. P&s;alm. 68.3. Rev. 18.20.</NOTE> and thanks, be to him for ever, who now is come to rule a|lone in his Saints. Rejoyce, O all you Prophets and righteous ones, the Bea&s;t which made war with the Lamb and the Saints, the Lamb hath gotten the victory, and hath gotten the victory over the Bea&s;t, and the ten horns which pu&s;heth at him. Powerfull Father and eternall God, to thee alone be all glory, honour, and thanks for ever.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mal. 3.5.</NOTE>To all you Teachers; and hearers that hold you up, a witne&s;&s;e a|gain&s;t you, that you may be witne&s;&s;es again&s;t your &s;elves, and that you may witne&s;&s;e your &s;elves to be in <HI>Cains</HI> generation; and in the generation of all the fal&s;e Prophets and Antichri&s;ts, and &s;educers, and who have the form of godline&s;&s;e, but deny the power; and in the generation of them that ever &s;lew the righteous &s;eed, as it will ap|pear,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 4.8.</NOTE> who are they that beare rule by their means now; all people take notice, who are the hirelings now, the Scripture &s;peaks of? who &s;eek for their gain from their quarters now, who feed them&s;elves with the fat now? who &s;eek for the fleece, and cloath them&s;elves with the wooll now, and &s;o make a prey of the people? Where are the hirelings now,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek, 34.2, 3.</NOTE> the Prie&s;ts preach for hire, &amp; the Prophets prophe|&s;ie for money. Who &s;ue men at the Law now, which Chri&s;t &s;poke again&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mica. 3.5, 6, 7.</NOTE> which the Apo&s;tle &s;poke again&s;t, which was a Mini&s;ter of the living truth,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jude 11. Matth. 23.4.5, 6, 7.</NOTE> which te&s;tified again&s;t all &s;uch practices? Who goes in the way of <HI>Baal</HI> now for gifts and rewards? Where is the covetous teacher now? Who are in the chiefe&s;t places of the A&s;&s;em|blies now? Who go in long robes now? Who are called of men Ma&s;ter now? Who &s;tand praying in the Synagogues now, and &s;peak a divination of their own brain, which the woe was preached a|gain&s;t? Chri&s;t Je&s;us, the &s;ub&s;tance of the Prophets, cryed woe a|gain&s;t all &s;uch Phari&s;ees and fal&s;e Prophets? Who hale out of the Sy|nagogues now?<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 23.34</NOTE> Who &s;tones and &s;tocks, beats and impri&s;ons now, and hales before Magi&s;trates? This was the Jews Religion, you may &s;ay; the Jews did &s;o, the Prophets of God they te&s;tified again&s;t the&s;e things,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Joh. 2.15, 16</NOTE> and the Apo&s;tles they te&s;tified again&s;t all tho&s;e practices&punc; and Je&s;us Chri&s;t te&s;tified again&s;t all the&s;e works of the world. And all the&s;e practices were held up in <HI>Caius</HI> generation, &s;o be you wit|ne&s;&s;es that you are in the generation of the fal&s;e Prophets, and in
<PB N="9" REF="5"> the Chair of them that &s;poke a divination of their own brain, that are called of men Ma&s;ters, have the chiefe&s;t places in the a&s;&s;emblies, lay heavy burthens upon the people; of them that &s;eek their gain from their quarters, and of them that go in the way of <HI>Balaam,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Jude 11.</NOTE> and in the generation of <HI>Cain.</HI> Where any Prophet comes to cry again&s;t any of you, you &s;eek to impri&s;on him or de&s;troy him, which <HI>Abel</HI> did not, as you read; but <HI>Cain</HI> who was the fir&s;t birth, who&s;e &s;acri|fice God had no re&s;pect to, no more hath God any re&s;pect to your cu&s;tomary praying and prayers, then to <HI>Cains,</HI> for <HI>Cain</HI> was and is the &s;ame generation that ever was, razed out of the generation of the righteous: except you all be born again,<NOTE PLACE="marg">John 3.3.</NOTE> you cannot inherit the kingdom of God. So herebe you witne&s;&s;es again&s;t your &s;elves, that you are in the generation of <HI>Cain</HI> which ever &s;lew the righte|ous &s;eed and in the generation of all the fal&s;e Prophets. Put it not far from you as they did which put Chri&s;t to death: If thou had&s;t li|ved at that day, thou &s;aye&s;t thou woulde&s;t not have put Chri&s;t to death; but thou &s;halt &s;ee the &s;ame nature in thee now as was in them then. For now is the Son of God come, and you are the &s;ame generation that they were, &s;eeking to put him to death;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mark 14.64.</NOTE> but the eternall glorious God of heaven and earth, the &s;ame as ever was, is magnifying him&s;elfe in his Sons and Daughters who are called out of that generation and wor&s;hip. So he &s;aid,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 6.17.</NOTE> Come out from among them, Be ye &s;eparate, touch no unclean thing, and I will be a Father unto you, and you &s;hall be my Sons and Daughters. This we witnes, and this is fulfilled. This generation we know, and the generation of the faithfull we know: here is a &s;eparation between the pretious and the vile, between the holy and the prophane; &s;o all people weigh and con&s;ider in what generation you are: the generation of the righteous &s;hall &s;hine, the generation of the wicked are for the fire prepared to be turned into hell: ye are the &s;tubble,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mal. 4.1.</NOTE> ye that are proud are for the fire, ye that are wicked, ye are chaff that the w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters"> drives to and fro; ye that are &s;corners are &s;corned from God, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> that are heatheni&s;h know not God, and all that are heathen &amp; know not God, the Lord will render vengance in flames of fire <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> you,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mal. 4.1.</NOTE> the mighty day of the Lord is coming, that &s;hall burn as an oven, the fire is kindled in the earth, which &s;hall burn up all root and branch, head and tail, the Lord of ho&s;ts hath &s;poken it, the Lord God of power will reign: O happy day, prai&s;es, prai&s;es! prai&s;e yee the Lord ye righteous ones,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 47.6.</NOTE> &s;ing prai&s;es to the Lord God Almighty for ever.</P>
<P>All ye liers and di&s;&s;emblers mu&s;t never inherit the holy City,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 101.7. P&s;al. 92.6. P&s;al. 101.3. P&s;al. 101.8. Matth. 25.41. P&s;al. 6.8.</NOTE> and all you who commit &s;in, and live in &s;in, know not God: and who are di&s;obedient, and hold the truth in unrighteone&s;s, the wrath of God abides upon you, all you that work iniquity are cur&s;ed from God to everla&s;ting puni&s;hment. Where is your Saviour then, him that ye take in your mouths <HI>(Chri&s;t)</HI> and live in your vain wicked prophane wayes, and take him to be your cloak, and &s;ay, you are
<PB N="10" REF="6"> redeemed by him, and live in your wickedne&s;s, Go you cur&s;ed, he will &s;ay, I know you not: plagues, wo and mi&s;ery will be powred upon you all. Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord, de|part from iniquity:<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 2.19.</NOTE> None can call him Lord but by the holy Gho&s;t, and where the holy Gho&s;t is come, There he is Lord and King, this is witne&s;&s;ed in all his Saints where he is &s;o: But in <HI>Cains</HI> gene|ration it is not, but he per&s;ecutes it; but he is ri&s;en and come in his Saints who is Lord and King, who will reign over all the World, and bear the goverment upon his &s;houlders.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 2.13. Rev. 17.14&punc; I&s;a. 9.6. Prov. 11.21. I&s;ai. 1.4. 2 Pet. 3.18. Rev. 5.13.</NOTE> And &s;o, farewell World, for ever adieu, for the Lord is King in his Saints: he guards them and guides them with his mighty power, and doth pre&s;erve his &s;eed and children from the &s;eed of evill doers into his kingdom of glory and eternall re&s;t, where they find joy and peace, and re&s;t eternall. All glory and prai&s;e be to the Lord God Almighty for ever</P>
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<HEAD>A word from the Lord to all you yet in your fir&s;t birth, &s;lay|ing and per&s;ecuting the righteous, who&s;e ways are righteous, and accepted of God. Therefore now repent and turn to the Lord: For now is he coming to render vengeance upon all who know him not, and all who di&s;obey the Go&s;pel of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, which is now preached forth by his Spirit, which is powred forth upon his &s;ons and daughters: prai&s;es to the Lord for ever.</HEAD>
<P><HI>CAin</HI> was the fir&s;t birth, and <HI>Cain</HI> is the fir&s;t birth in the Fall, and God hath no re&s;pect to <HI>Cains</HI> &s;acrifice: <HI>Cain</HI> was envious and &s;lew his brother,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 4.5. Gen, 4.8. Gen. 4.14.</NOTE> and <HI>Cain</HI> was a vaga|bond, and feared where there was no fear: feared of be|ing &s;lain, when he had &s;lain his brother the &s;econd birth: And all you who are in envy, God hath no re&s;pect to your &s;acrifices, to your prayers,<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 2.11.</NOTE> to your humiliation dayes, in your A&s;&s;emblies he is not among you: And all you who are wicked, are in the fir&s;t birth, and your prayers and prai&s;es are abomination to God; and all you who are workers of iniquity are cur&s;ed, and your profe&s;&s;ion is in the everla&s;ting burning, where the fire is not quenched, and the worm dieth not; you may &s;ay you are redeemed by Chri&s;t, but he that is redeemed is redeemed from all iniquity, and all his vain conver&s;ation: thou that art envious and a murtherer, old <HI>Cain</HI> the Divell is thy father, and no murtherer hath eternall life a|biding in him. And thou that art a &s;coffer, and wilde, art wilde <HI>I&s;hmael,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 John 3.15.</NOTE> who is turned out from <HI>Abraham</HI> and his family into the
<PB N="11" REF="6"> wilderne&s;s, an Archer, who&s;e hand is again&s;t every man,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 16.12. Gen. 21.9. Ver&s;e 20. P&s;al. 2.4. Prov. 1.26.</NOTE> whom God commanded <HI>Abraham</HI> to ca&s;t forth. So who are of <HI>Abraham</HI> now, &s;ee all the &s;coffing <HI>I&s;hmaels</HI> turn'd out from God, and you that are &s;corners, and &s;it in the &s;eat of the &s;cornfull, and have them in deri|&s;ion which are anoynted of God, and live in the truth of God, and tremble at the Word of God; he that &s;its in the heaven &s;corns you the &s;cornfull, and will mock when your calamity comes, and have you in deri&s;ion in the time of your calamity and mi&s;ery; then will you witne&s;s the&s;e things, that the&s;e are the words of life. To all you &s;coffers and &s;corners I &s;peak, you are liers, and the Divell is your father, who lie to get gain,<NOTE PLACE="marg">John 8.44.</NOTE> and lie to cou&s;en your neighbours to make your &s;elves rich, and &s;o di&s;&s;emble and defraud, that you may over reach your brorher in bargainings, and &s;o are for your own ends, you cheat, you cou&s;en and lie, who are in the Kingdom of your father, who&s;e kingdom is the Divels, and he hath dominion over thee, and thou art his &s;on, acting for him, for he was a lier from the beginning, and &s;o are all his children, and all you who are liers are begotten of him: And thou that &s;peak&s;t of thy &s;elf from the letter, applying all the promi&s;es to thee, and living in thy fir&s;t nature and birth, applying the Prophets words, and Chri&s;ts words, and the apo&s;tles words, thou art a painted &s;erpent which is of the Divell, and &s;peak&s;t of thy &s;elf that which is not thy own, but art in envy and a lier: without God are all liers, and no lier &s;hall ever in|herit the Kingdom of God, nor no covetous one,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eph. 5.5, 7.</NOTE> for thou art an idolater, and a fornicator, and a bla&s;phemer, and a whoremonger, and the God of this world is thy God, which rules in all the children of di&s;obedience, and thy trea&s;ure is here in the earth, thy cattell, thy corn, and thy fine apparell, and beautifull attire, there thou wor|&s;hippe&s;t the Ho&s;t of heaven, and it reigns over thee,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Acts 7.42.</NOTE> and thou falle&s;t down under it, &s;o thy trea&s;ure is the earrh, and if the thief &s;teal it, thou art undone, and then thou crie&s;t out on wants, and all thy want is for the earth, and then thou hange&s;t thy fellow-creature contrary to the Law of God; for the Law of God &s;aith, they were to make re|&s;titution, or el&s;e be &s;old for their theft, which Goods thou ha&s;t got|ten by cou&s;ening and cheating, by lying and defrauding, who art the greate&s;t thief. All this is without God, and without are theeves, and robbers without God, and &s;hall never inherit the kingdom of God.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 22.15.</NOTE> Whoremongers and Idolaters are without, and &s;hall never inherit the Kingdom of God; lyers and &s;landerers are without God, and &s;hall never inherit his kingdom; drunkards and railers, and cur&s;ed &s;peakers are without God, and &s;hall never inherit the kingdom of God. And all you who are in the fir&s;t birth, are the old bottels, &s;o what is within you powres out corruption, bla&s;phemy, wickedne&s;s,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 9.17.</NOTE> cur&s;ing &s;peaking, and all manner of ungodline&s;s and unrighteou&s;ne&s;s, taking Gods name in vain, all you who are in the fir&s;t birth, are the corrupt tree which cannot bring forth good fruit. Perverne&s;s, croo|kedne&s;s, all manner of ungodline&s;s, this is gathered of the corrupt
<PB N="12" REF="7"> tree, which cannot bring forth good fruit. And all you who are in the fir&s;t birth, are the fountain which &s;ends forth the bitter waters, bitterne&s;s,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jam. 3.11.12</NOTE> pa&s;&s;ion, envy, wrath, venome, and all ungodline&s;s, and are Doggs and &s;wine, wallowing in the mire; &s;o he that is born of the fle&s;h, per&s;ecutes him that is born of the &s;pirit, and ever did. You may apply the Scriptures and &s;ay, you are redeemed by Chri&s;t; but he will &s;ay, and &s;aith, Go ye workers of iniquity into everla&s;ting puni&s;hment:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 7, 22.</NOTE> howl and weep, mi&s;ery is coming upon you, enemies of God, adver&s;aries of righteou&s;ne&s;s! thou that art in the fir&s;t birth, thou grinde&s;t the face of the poor and oppre&s;&s;e&s;t them, and lifte&s;t thy &s;elf up in thy pride, and &s;et&s;t thy ne&s;t on high, and gathere&s;t riches together to make thy &s;elf great in the earth; thy gold and &s;ilver ru&s;teth, the love of it is within thee, which &s;hall eat thee out as a fire,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jam. 5.1.</NOTE> thy cloaths Moaths eat, through thy abundance, and the poor &s;tarve, and all thy dainty di&s;hes, and thou that art <HI>Dives,</HI> mu&s;t be turned into hell; and this &s;hall you find who are in that nature, the fir&s;t birth: thou that art proud and a taskma&s;ter of Egypt, which is this great City <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Gomorrah,</HI> thou oppre&s;&s;e&s;t the pure &s;eed of God, where it is ri&s;ing to go out of Egypt, thou that art proud and a Taskma&s;ter and an oppre&s;&s;or, thou mu&s;t look for no other por|tion, but all the plagues of God to be powred upon thee, that was upon <HI>Pharaoh,</HI> even he who was proud, and an oppre&s;&s;or, and a Task|ma&s;ter: put it not from thee, plagues and woe is thy portion, and the proud in heart are abomination to God, and the proud will not be taught of God, for it is the humble that he teacheth, and the meek he exhorteth;<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;rl. 25.9.</NOTE> you that are proud which live in the conceivings of the Scripture, you conceive what the prophets &s;poke, and &s;o give meanings and &s;en&s;es, and &s;et up &s;ome things in your minds, being led away by temptation, for when you are tempted, you are led away by your conceivings, all the worlds religion &s;tands there, and the promi&s;e is, that God will &s;catter the proud in their vain imaginati|ons and conceivings, and thou ha&s;t &s;et up an image in thy minde, what thou conceiv'&s;t of the Saints conditions, and &s;o wor&s;hippe&s;t an Idol, and wor&s;hippe&s;t the works of thy own hands, &amp; art in the generation that per&s;ecute&s;t the righteous, who wor&s;hip the living God: And all you who are in the fir&s;t birth, and prophane, and hun|ters, and cunning, &s;wallowing up the earth, are <HI>E&s;au,</HI> which God hates; all you who are the fir&s;t birth, which is but one, chil|dren of <HI>E&s;au</HI> hated of God, thou that art prophane, look for no o|ther portion: thou maye&s;t apply the mercy, but thou art hated of God eternally, hated for ever, and ha&s;t no portion with <HI>Iacob</HI> nor <HI>Io&s;eph,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mal. 1.3. Mal. 4.1.</NOTE> but &s;halt be a wilderne&s;s barren, and a Place for Dragons and devourers, this is thy portion, God hates thee, and thou &s;halt be as &s;tubble, prie&s;ts and people: all who are proud, liers, co|vetous,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pet. 2.13.</NOTE> railers, theeves and Idolaters, &s;peaking your own words, and your own imaginations in plea&s;ures and wantonne&s;s, &s;porting in the day time, following your wicked imaginations, and are the
<PB N="13" REF="7"> cur&s;ed children from God, workers of iniquity,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 6.2.</NOTE> under the domini|on of Satan, who wor&s;hip the Divel; the Saints &s;hall and do judge the world, and all you prie&s;ts, you blind guides, di&s;&s;embling hypo|crites, without the Kingdom of God, plagues and woe is comming to be poured upon you. Wo, wo, wo, the third woe is coming, which &s;hall come upon all the inhabitants of the earth;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 11.14.</NOTE> dreadful is the Lord, he hath &s;poken it, and is terrible to the wicked; all you that are here in the fir&s;t birth, are in the generation of Vipers, full of ve|nome, a generation that is wi&s;e in their own eyes and conceits, an untoward generation, a generation of vipers,<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ai. 52.5. Rom. 2.14.</NOTE> who bla&s;pheme the worthy name of the Lord, by which all the Saints are called, who paint them&s;elves with the prophets words, and Chri&s;ts words, and the Apo&s;tles words, that appear beautiful outwardly to men, but are full of poy&s;on in the heart; and all who are workers of iniquity, profe&s;&s;e what you will, apply what Scripture or promi&s;e you will,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mal. 1.14. Matth 25..41. 1 Pet. 2.14.</NOTE> Prie&s;ts and People, Prophets and Teachers, who are workers of ini|quity, are cur&s;ed, and mu&s;t go into everla&s;ting puni&s;hment: and all you Teachers that teach people they &s;hall never overcome their &s;ins as long as they are here, which keeps them under the dominion of Satan, who are the Divels &s;ervants and in&s;truments, acting in his Kingdom, keeping people in iniquity, under the dominion of Satan in his kingdom. For there is no lier, nor no covetous, nor no pro|phane per&s;on, nor no murderer, nor no &s;triker, nor fighter, nor wrangler, nor quarreller, nor &s;cornfull, nor no unrighteous, nor wicked, &s;hall ever inherit the kingdom of God; but all workers of iniquity mu&s;t depart, and are accur&s;ed from Chri&s;t, from the pre|&s;ence of all his Angels: And all you who bite and devour one ano|ther in the fir&s;t birth, are without in this great City <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Go|morrah,</HI> and are Doggs without God; and all you who live in the lu&s;t of uncleanne&s;s, wallowing in the mire, are Swine; and all you which are in vain contentions with your corrupt minds,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 22.15.</NOTE> are in the fir&s;t birth, and in the Swini&s;h nature, fighting about the husk, which is a declaration of their conditions which had the life of it, who was in the &s;econd birth. And all the uncleanne&s;s and pollutions, and filthine&s;s, and lu&s;t, and begetting the lu&s;t, and the living in it and the thief and the murderer, and the coo&s;ener and cheater, and adulte|rous thoughts, and the Idolater, whoremonger, and the lier, and the railer, and the drunkard are in this great City <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Gomorah,</HI> and are all carnall and naturall in the fir&s;t e&s;tate, and have got a co|lour and profe&s;&s;ion which is carnall and naturall, feeding upon the Letter, which is death, which feeds you &s;erpents, and doggs,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 3.14.</NOTE> and &s;wine; for if any come among you with the life of the Letter, who are in the &s;econd birth, you will bite them, and teare them to pieces, you will &s;tock them, or &s;tone them, or whip them, mock them and jeer them, and &s;eek to teare them to pieces: And as the Hor&s;es of <HI>Pharaoh,</HI> who would trample upon them, and devour them, and run over them, even to your fellows, which are drunkards, and &s;wea|rers,
<PB N="14" REF="8"> &s;o were all the Prophets &s;toned,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sam. 1.16.</NOTE> per&s;ecuted and &s;lain in this great City, in your generation in the fir&s;t birth, the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and &s;o do you now &s;tone the Prophets &s;ons and daughters, nay Chri&s;t him&s;elf is ri&s;en, and your Church is a &s;teeple-hou&s;e, which is carnall, and your teacher is carnall, made by the will of man, and your Originall is carnall, Hebrew, Greek and Latin, and your Word is carnall, the Letter; and the light is carnall, the Letter; and your Bapti&s;m is carnall, &s;prinkling Infants, which God never comman|ded, and they are wicked which act tho&s;e things which God never commanded,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gal. 3.1.</NOTE> and tell people they are the commands of God; and ye are bewitched, and fools, that follow them: For the <HI>Galatians</HI> were bewitched, which turned to circumci&s;ion, which God had commanded, when the &s;ub&s;tance was come; and their Sacrament, as they call it, is carnall; and there is not a word in the Scripture that &s;peaks of a Sacrament. And their communion is carnal, a little bread and wine, and &s;o drunkards, and raylers, and cur&s;ed &s;peakers, all meet together in this fellow&s;hip,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 10.20.21.</NOTE> which is the table of Divels, and cup of Divels, which is in the generation of &s;erpents in this great City <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Gomorrah;</HI> &s;o du&s;t is the Serpents meat, their origi|nall is but du&s;t, which is but the Letter, which is death. Their Church is du&s;t, a heap of lime and &s;tones gathered together, &s;o the &s;erpent feeds upon du&s;t, and all this is in the fir&s;t birth, and the car|nall minde cannot plea&s;e God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 3.14.</NOTE> which feeds upon all the&s;e carnall things. And their Go&s;pel is du&s;t, <HI>Matthew, Mark, Luke</HI> and <HI>John</HI> which is the Letter, and all this is in the carnall minde, feeding it, which is the enemy again&s;t God, which is without God, in the generation of <HI>Cain</HI> and the wicked, who&s;e prayers are abominati|on, and who&s;e &s;acrifices God hath no re&s;pect to. Prie&s;ts and people, put it not far from you who live in envy,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prov. 28.9. Matth. 25, 41.</NOTE> and are wicked workers of iniquity, are cur&s;ed from God, and Chri&s;t, and all his Angels, De|part ye workers of iniquity into everla&s;ting burnings and torment, for there is your portion. All your application of the Scriptures is nothing, and to all you who are under the dominion of Satan, and the Divell,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nahum 3.1.</NOTE> who is the king of pride, and the glory of the world, and the worlds glory and honour, and the Father of liers, &s;wearers, and cur&s;ed &s;peakers, children of wrath, living in wrath, lu&s;t, envy and murther, who&s;e father is the Divell, and ye are his children and his works ye do, and are obedient to him, and &s;ay, None can do the commands of God who are doing the works to the Devill, and his works ye do, and wor&s;hip him, and live in all uncleane&s;s, lu&s;ting after the creature. Now to all you who have the light of God and can &s;ee,<NOTE PLACE="marg">John 14. John 1.9.</NOTE> who are coming from under the Prince of the air, and out of the kingdom of the world, and towards God, out of the generation from God, into the generation towards God, the &s;ame &s;eed that all the promi&s;es of God is to, pa&s;&s;ing after Chri&s;t in the &s;ame way that he pa&s;&s;ed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 1.20.</NOTE> under the Law and through the Law, and was in Egypt, and pa&s;&s;ed out of Egypt the hou&s;e of darkne&s;s, and he was in
<PB N="15" REF="8"> the wilderne&s;s, and there he was tempted to lu&s;t after the creature,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luk 4, 1.2.</NOTE> he was tempted to make him&s;elf away, he was tempted to wor&s;hip the Divell, which is the wor&s;hip of the world, to bow down and wor&s;hip him. He is the Captain of our &s;alvation, he is the fore-runner gone before, he endured the cro&s;s, he de&s;pi&s;ed the &s;hame, he &s;uffered the contradiction of &s;inners for the glory that was &s;et before him,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 2.10.</NOTE> he hath won the crown, he hath overcome Egypt, and he hath fulfil|led the Law, he hath overcome the world: He hath overcome the temptations, he is able to &s;uccour all who are tempted; it is no &s;in to be tempted, but to enter into temptations: he is the head of the Body, he is the head of the church,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Col. 2.14.</NOTE> who hath blotted out all the Ordinances and Traditions of men, who is the end of the daily &s;a|crifices, who is the end of the Prie&s;ts, who is the end of all out|ward Temples, who is the end of the Prophets,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eph. 4.8, 9, 10.</NOTE> for they all wit|ne&s;&s;ed of him; he is a&s;cended above all Principalities and powers.</P>
<P>Now to all dear ones, and dear hearts, I &s;peak, the &s;ame &s;eed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">John 1.1.</NOTE> which is Chri&s;t, the &s;ame &s;pirit takes upon it now as ever was, the &s;ame world is now as ever was, the &s;ame temptations, and the &s;ame Divels, and the &s;ame wor&s;hip of the world, twining into another form and colour, but Je&s;us Chri&s;t is the way, the truth and life,<NOTE PLACE="marg">John. 14.6. John 10.3. Luke 11.34. John 1.9.</NOTE> he is the door that all mu&s;t pa&s;&s;e through, and he is the porter that opens it; I am the &s;ame door that ever was, the &s;ame Chri&s;t to day, ye&s;terday and for ever; the light is the eye that &s;ees it, which light is Chri&s;t, and that &s;eed pa&s;&s;ing after Chri&s;t out of Egypt the hou&s;e of darkne&s;s, from under the Law, the righteou&s;ne&s;s of the Law is fulfilled in us who walk not after the fle&s;h but after the &s;pirit (as the Apo&s;tle &s;aith) which we do witne&s;s,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 8.4.</NOTE> and the &s;ame &s;eed pa&s;&s;ing into the wilderne&s;s, and there it is tempted to lu&s;t afrer the crea|ture: you that are in the wilderne&s;s witne&s;s this with me; and the &s;ame temptations even to de&s;pair and to make them&s;elves away,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke 22.28. Mark 1.13. Marth. 4.6, 7.</NOTE> the Divell before he would go out of his kingdom he would de&s;troy all. But look at the Captain Je&s;us Chri&s;t, who hath pa&s;&s;ed before, who was tempted, the Captain of our &s;alvation, and the &s;ame tem|ptations to wor&s;hip the Divell: And if thou wilt wor&s;hip the Devill thou &s;halt have the glory of the world; but if thou wilt not bow down and wor&s;hip the Divell, thou &s;halt have none of the worlds glory, but be called a Divell as Chri&s;t was,<NOTE PLACE="marg">John 7.49.</NOTE> and be called a mad man as he was, and none followed him but a cur&s;ed people; them that wor&s;hiped the Divell gave the&s;e titles upon them,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jer. 20.7, 8. P&s;alm 69.12&punc;</NOTE> and thou &s;halt lo&s;e thy good name, and be a laughing-&s;tock to them that wor&s;hip the Devil, and as a deri&s;ion among them, and a mark for every one to &s;hoot at, and the drunkards to make &s;ongs of; this is the portion of them that deny the wor&s;hips of the world, and the glory,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 14.</NOTE> and the favour, and the fa&s;hions, and cannot fa&s;hion them&s;elves to it, who are tempted to all the&s;e things; but it is no &s;in to be tempted: And &s;tanding in the power of the Almighty God, &s;tand again&s;t
<PB N="16" REF="9"> and above all the wiles of Satan; &s;o dwelling in the power of the Almighty God, which carries through the wilderne&s;s, and through temptations, and to the end gets the victory over all the Ordinan|ces and commandments and Traditions of men:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 3.21. I&s;ai, 9.6.</NOTE> And he that over|comes a&s;cends above them all, and he that overcomes &s;hall &s;it with me in my Throne; &s;o every one mu&s;t witne&s;s the &s;ame Chri&s;t born in you, pa&s;&s;ing through death in you, through the world, through the Law, through temptations, through the wilderne&s;s, through the Ordinances, and out of the world, and out of the depth. The Son of God ari&s;eth,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 John 5.4.</NOTE> he it is that doth overcome, that is born of God; and the &s;ame Spirit that rai&s;ed up Je&s;us Chri&s;t, the &s;ame Spi|rit rai&s;eth up the &s;ame &s;eed in you,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 8.10, 11.</NOTE> and quickens the mortall bodies, and he that hath not the &s;ame is none of his. So all people examine your &s;elves,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 1.6, 7.</NOTE> and &s;ee if ye have fellow&s;hip with Chri&s;t in his &s;uffe|rings, and be brought conformable to him in his death, and to have fellow&s;hip with him in his temptations,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Phil, 3.10. Heb. 2.10. Heb. 12.3.</NOTE> and reprochings, and &s;cor|nings, and the contradiction of &s;inners, and to be &s;pitted upon as he was; and he that hath fellow&s;hip with him in his &s;ufferings, &s;hall have fellow&s;hip with him in his glory: And he that doth confe&s;&s;e him in this dark-world,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 10.32. Luke 12.8.</NOTE> him will he confe&s;&s;e before his Father and his Angels; and he that doth deny him in this world, him will he deny before his Father and his Angels in the light world. Now to all you who are convinced, and a light of God is ri&s;en in your un|der&s;tandings, and the wor&s;hip of the world doth appear to you to be contrary to God, and Chri&s;t, and all the prophets and Apo&s;tles who wor&s;hip the living God in newne&s;s of life in the &s;econd birth,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Phil. 3.3. Joh. 4.23. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> Pet. 2.20.</NOTE> you are tempted to the lu&s;t of the creature, and the lazie dreaming minde it enters into the temptations: &s;o there thou art polluted with the pollutions of the world, then thou art tempted to de&s;pair, and the Devill there gets power upon thee; if thou enter into tempta|tions and follow thy imaginations from the light of God within thee, and then thou judge&s;t with evill thoughts and he will come with his in&s;truments or his evil angels to tempt thee from God to the fal&s;e wor&s;hip, el&s;e thou wilt lo&s;e thy credit or good name, or thy place, or thy authority where thou art, except thou wilt bow to him,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 6.23. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">uke 11.34.</NOTE> and every one will &s;tare at thee, and thou wilt be gazed and won|dered at: &s;o thy minde going from the light, and out of the favour of the Lord, thon con&s;ulte&s;t with fle&s;h and blood, which mu&s;t never into the kingdom of God, and that rea&s;on mu&s;t never enter, and thou take&s;t coun&s;el at the harlot that lies in thy bo&s;ome, and &s;o thy eye and minde is turned out from God,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ph. 2.2. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ol, 3.6,</NOTE> and &s;o goes under the power of the Prince of the air, which rules and reignes in the children of di&s;|obedience and the dominion of Satan; and then thou ha&s;t the prai&s;e of the world, and the glory of the world, and di&s;obeye&s;t that which &s;hould lead thee into the kingdom of God from under the dominion of Satan; &s;o thy later end is wor&s;e then the beginning; and in the world there thou ha&s;t thy honour, and the fle&s;hly man is
<PB N="17" REF="9"> nouri&s;hed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eph. 4.6.</NOTE> and thy glory and renown growes again among the fle&s;h|ly ones, who art out from God, who ha&s;t di&s;obeyed the light in thee, which &s;hould have led thee from under the dominion of Sa|tan, under who&s;e dominion thou art now, up to God, where there is comfort eternall, where there is riches eternall, glory eternall, where there is joy eternall, who&s;e kingdom is for ever who&s;e do|minion is a dominion for ever, the Lord God of heaven and earth; but thou who for&s;ake&s;t the right way, goe&s;t into eternall de&s;tru|ction, Wo, wo, is to thee,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 6.12. Jer. 6.16, 17. 1 John 2.15. Luke 9.62.</NOTE> for the love of the world is an enemy to God, and he that hath the love of the world, the love of the Fa|ther is not in him, and thou who &s;ette&s;t thy hand to the plow, and looke&s;t back, art not fit for the kingdom of God.</P>
<P>To all you who can witne&s;s the &s;econd birth and are born a|gain, which all the promi&s;es of God are to, the &s;eed; Yea and Amen,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 1.20. 2 Cor. 7.1.</NOTE> come out of time into time, to that which lies in death in time, to fetch it up out of time to God where there is no time. This faith is a my&s;tery, he that can perceive it let him,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 2.17.</NOTE> and he that hath an ear to hear let him hear what the Spirit &s;aith. <HI>Abel</HI> was the &s;econd birth, he was no murderer nor no &s;inner, for God called him, and &s;aw no iniquity in him; but <HI>E&s;au</HI> the fir&s;t is hated, and not perfect: and except you be born again you cannot enter into the Kingdom of God, Fle&s;h and bloud &s;hall not inherit the kingdom of God; and he that is born of God &s;ins not, neither can he &s;in,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 John 3.9.</NOTE> becau&s;e the &s;eed of God remains in him, and becau&s;e he is born of God; and he that is born of God, overcomes the world: he that is born of God is not not of this world; and he that is born of God te&s;tifies again&s;t all the works of the world, and the wickedne&s;s of it: and he that is born of God, doth not commit &s;in,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 John 3.8.</NOTE> he that commits &s;in is of the Devil, and never knew God. For this purpo&s;e was the Son of God manife&s;ted to de&s;troy the works of the Divell?<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver&s;e 7.</NOTE> and he that doth righteou&s;ne&s;s is righteous, even as he is righteous. And he that was of the &s;econd birth, was taught alone of God, and needed no man to teach him, and is come into the everla&s;ting Covenant, and the&s;e are the &s;econd birth who are born again of the Immortal Seed by the Will of God, and not by the will of Man.<NOTE PLACE="marg">John 1.12. 1 John 5.6.</NOTE> <HI>But as many as received</HI> Chri&s;t, <HI>to them he gave power to become the Sons of God, which are not born by the will of Man, but by the Will of God, not by water onely, but by water and blood.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>To the Heads of this Nation, and all the Dominions of the Earth, and to all who are under the Dominion of the earthly Powers, Nations and Kingdomes every where in all the world; To you all Kings, Princes, Dukes, Rulers, Judges, Ju&s;tices, Third-Burrows, or Town-Clerks.</HEAD>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 99.1. P&s;al. 114.7. Joel 2.1. Matth. 21.35, Acts 7.59. Heb. 11.37. 2 Cor. 11.25.</NOTE>TRemble all before the Lord, O earthly Powers, tremble before the Lord God Almighty; to you the Lord is uttering his thun|ders, to you the Lord is uttering his voyce, to you the Lord is &s;ounding his Trumpet, to you the warning piece is gone out, you have cau&s;ed the Prophets to be &s;toned in this great City, you have cau&s;ed them to be impri&s;oned, you have cau&s;ed them to be ba|ni&s;hed in this great City <HI>Sodom,</HI> and to &s;uffer beating and &s;courging out of your Synagogues.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 1.17.10.18. Heb. 8.10. Job 19.29. Deut. 27.19.</NOTE>Dreadful is the Lord and powerful, who is coming in his power to execute true Judgment upon all you Judges, and to change all your Laws ye Kings. The Lord alone he will place the Law in people hearts, who is the everla&s;ting Law-giver; all you Rulers mu&s;t dow and cea&s;e, (and Ju&s;tice the Lord will &s;et in peoples hearts.) All you that have taken the name of Ju&s;tices, which are not in ju&s;tice you mu&s;t be judged with the ju&s;t; and all you underling Officers, which have been as the arms of this great tree which the fowls have lodged under you,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 4.11, 12.</NOTE> &s;preading over the fowls, all your branches mu&s;t be cut down; for you have been all the fruitle&s;&s;e branches grown on the fruitle&s;&s;e tree,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver&s;. 13.</NOTE> whom in thy honour and in thy glory thou &s;preade&s;t over all Nati|ons; but now the &s;tone is cut out of the Mountain without hands, which &s;hall da&s;h thee to pieces,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 2.34, 35. Zach. 12.3. Dan. 2.31, 32, 33.</NOTE> who&s;e Image was high and fair, who&s;e head was gold, brea&s;t was &s;ilver, there's thy heart, there's thy head, who&s;e thighs were bra&s;&s;e, who&s;e feet were part Iron, part clay; but now thou mu&s;t be hewn down with the watcher, The &s;tone cut out of the Mountain without hands, which &s;trikes at the feet of the Image; for with the bea&s;ts of the field thou mu&s;t go with thy fellows, &s;o thy King|dome and dominion mu&s;t be thrown down.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek. 26.16. Ezek. 32.10. I&s;a. 9.6.</NOTE> Tremble all Nations before the Lord God Almighty of power, who is now &s;etting up his own Kingdom, who&s;e dominion is a dominion for ever, who now will bear his own government upon his &s;houlders. O England, Eng|land, thou ha&s;t for&s;aken thy vi&s;itation, thou ha&s;t not minded thy vi&s;itation, thou ha&s;t ta&s;ted of the Love of God and all people in it; but a whoring thou ha&s;t gone after gold,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 26.22.</NOTE> after riches, after honour, &s;o cau&s;ed many plagues to come upon you: wonderful deliverances God hath wrought, and given many victories; and then the &s;ame nature, pride, and covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and oppre&s;&s;ion got up again when
<PB N="19" REF="10"> the plagues have been off you. The god of the world doth blind your eye,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lev. 26.15. Job 41.34.</NOTE> which is the light which lets you &s;ee the mercies and deliveran|ces; but pride getting up, then you have forgotten the mercy, for the Devil is the King of pride; &s;o you mu&s;t be cut down with the &s;ame power that cut down the King who reigned over the Nation, in who&s;e Family was a Nur&s;e for Papi&s;ts &amp; for Bi&s;hops, which held up Pictures, Rails, Altars and Cro&s;&s;es, which all is in one generation So them ye call Papi&s;ts, hath God overturned many of the&s;e things, and given you victory over the outward actings of many of them: But the Bea&s;t and the fal&s;e Prophet is &s;tanding &s;till, which held up the&s;e things and they keep their places: &s;o another Parliament grew, and God hath cut down that. Beware of your &s;elves, for the Lord will pluck down you, he hath &s;uffered you to reign long, and &s;hewed you many favors,<NOTE PLACE="marg">John 5.44.</NOTE> and you have promi&s;ed many fair promi&s;es to the Nation, but little you have performed; but you have had ends, and &s;ought for honour when the plagues were off you, <HI>Pharaoh</HI>-like, and then fell to oppre&s;|&s;ion,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jer. 5.30.</NOTE> and &s;uffered the horrible filthy thing to be committed in the Land, the Bea&s;t and the fal&s;e Prophet to &s;tand; and you which have the &s;ame nature hold them up. But God is coming to plague you, and pour forth all his plagues upon the earth where ju&s;tice hath not reigned. Woe, woe is coming upon you all,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Hab. 2.12.</NOTE> the &s;ame Tea|chers are &s;tanding that were in the time of the King, and the &s;ame that were in the time of the Bi&s;hops, and many of the&s;e are and have been your Coun&s;ellers, and the &s;ame that held up the Rails, Cro&s;&s;es and Pictures, are &s;tanding &s;till. But the Lord God of power, according to his promi&s;e, as he hath &s;aid,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Joel 2.28.</NOTE> He will pour forth his Spirit, and his Sons and his Daughters &s;hall prophe&s;ie; and thou&s;ands of them do prophe&s;ie, and thou&s;ands of them have been mocked, &s;ome &s;toned, pri&s;oned, whipped and beaten in this your ge|neration; for the Lord hath &s;ent his Prophets to warn you, and to cry again&s;t your Teachers,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jer. 5.30.</NOTE> which &s;eek for their gain from their Quar|ters, and bear rule by their means, and hold up the horrible filthy thing that is committed in the Land, as in <HI>Jer.</HI> 6. and are called of men Ma&s;ters, and lay heavy burdens upon the people, and are &s;uch as &s;ue men at the Law, which Chri&s;t forbad, and are &s;uch as go in the way of <HI>Cain,</HI> to envy, pride and plea&s;ures;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Judg. 1.11.</NOTE> and the Apo&s;tles bad the Saints turn away from them, who cryed again&s;t &s;uch: and &s;uch as take Tythes, act contrary to the Apo&s;tles; the true Prophets of the Lord cryed again&s;t them then, and the Lord hath rai&s;ed up his Prophets to cry again&s;t them now as then, and again&s;t you Judges and Ju&s;tices, which have held them up and maintained them with your Law, you mu&s;t both be tormented together, Bea&s;t and fal&s;e Prophet,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 19.19, 20. 2 Chr. 18.7.</NOTE> the Lord God will pour out his plagues upon you, the Lord of Ho&s;ts hath &s;po|ken it, and except ye repent ye &s;hall all likewi&s;e peri&s;h and be con&s;u|med as the King was, and peri&s;h with the &s;ame power. The Lord God hath &s;ent his Prophets oft to tell you &s;o, but you have nor regarded it, but have made light of it. The Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t who bears the
<PB N="20" REF="11"> Government upon his &s;houlders,<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ai. 9.6.</NOTE> and he is coming to rule all Nati|ons with a rod of Iron. All you Hills which have been &s;heltring-pla|ces,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nahum 1.6. Matth. 27.51.</NOTE> &s;hall be beaten to pieces: you Rocks that have been hiding pla|ces, &s;hall be cloven a&s;under, you Mountains &s;hall be laid low, you green trees where much adultery hath been committed, mu&s;t be cut down, and you adulterers judged, the Lord hath &s;poken it, who will bear the government him&s;elf, and rule all Nations with his own migh|ty power, and women &s;hall not rule the people, there &s;hall be one Judge and one Law-giver,<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ai. 3.12. I&s;ai. 41.27.</NOTE> one King, Glory and Honour for ever. Sing all ye Saints and rejoyce, clap your hands and be glad, for the Lord Jehovah will reign, and the government &s;hall be taken from you pretended Rulers, Judges and Ju&s;tices, Lawyers and Con&s;tables, all this tree mu&s;t be cut down, and Je&s;us Chri&s;t will rule alone: <HI>Glory and honour for ever be unto him.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 15.34.</NOTE> <HI>Be warned all betime, and awake and re|pent, and turn to the Lord betime, that you may find mercy by putting off the evill deeds and works of darkne&s;&s;e, that you may be received into the Kingdom of glory,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 18.21. I&s;a. 57.77. Jer. 8.10. Jam. 5.12. Matth. 5.34.</NOTE> <HI>and lay a&s;ide all filthine&s;&s;e, pride and covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and &s;peedily repent; uncleanne&s;&s;e and cur&s;ed &s;peaking, lying, &s;landering and &s;wearing; &s;ome you have made to &s;wear, &s;ome you have made to pay for &s;wearing, &s;o you live in the confu&s;ion: Some you have made Teach|ers, which you &s;et up, and &s;ome you put down, and &s;o you live in confu&s;ion in the dark blind world &s;o</HI> Dives-<HI>like, which mu&s;t be turned into hell; but Je&s;us Chri&s;t who &s;aw this then, he is come to govern, and true ju&s;tice &s;hall &s;tand up,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 12.2. P&s;al. 82.8.</NOTE> <HI>and true Judgment there &s;hall be, and the righteous Law-giver, who&s;e Law is come forth which &s;hall judge eternally; and the great King will reign and doth reign, who reigns for evermore, who&s;e do|minion is over all,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 89.18. Rev. 17.14. Rev. 1.35.</NOTE> <HI>who is the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, to him be prai&s;e for evermore; who will take his government from you, and he alone will bear it upon his &s;houlders, you mu&s;t all repent and come to re|pentance, and the fruits of your amendment of life, and your change; before you know him who governs all things.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ai. 26.10.</NOTE>Fir&s;t, there mu&s;t Ju&s;tice before righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e run down: there hath been much pretended ju&s;tice and judgment in this Nation, and Nations el&s;ewhere; but corruptions run down as &s;treams, and as large rivers, and all unrighteou&s;ne&s;&s;e and ungodline&s;&s;e, and in ju&s;tice, drun|kenne&s;&s;e runs down, pride and oppre&s;&s;ion &s;tand up: Where hath the &s;oul been &s;ubject to the higher power,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 13.1.</NOTE> who <HI>is a terrour to the evill doers;</HI> but this power hath not been known much, but it is now com|ming up which will cut down all corruptions in your &s;elves,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Job 12.17. Ver&s;. 21. Ver&s;. 25.</NOTE> it mu&s;t be before you bear that &s;word to cut it down in others. But now God, the Lord God of heaven and earth is di&s;covering all the powers of the earth, in throwing them down, and all the Powers and Mini&s;ters of the earth are but earth,<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ai. 1.11.</NOTE> and the &s;acrifice which they &s;acrifice is from the earth, which is <HI>Cains;</HI> but the terrible One is coming with his power,<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ai. 2.19, 20.</NOTE> to &s;hake terribly the earth; and the glory of the Lord is ari|&s;ing, and all the Idols of gold mu&s;t be ca&s;t out, and all the honours mu&s;t be cut down and ca&s;t out, and the high-places pull'd down, and
<PB N="21" REF="11"> the Tribes of the earth begin to mourn, and the powers of the earth are &s;haking, and the earth &s;hall reel to and fro like a drunken man, &s;aith the Lord of Ho&s;ts, who is coming with his army, and the Trumpet is begun to &s;ound. Woe, woe, woe, woe,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 8.13.</NOTE> to you the Inhabitants of the earth, for the proud people &s;hall grow feeble: Therefore if you love the light, which &s;hewes you all the time you have &s;pent, and &s;in, and all your ungodly deeds and wayes, and it will lead you to repentance, and to the Lord; and if you hate the light, it is your condemnation, and you hate Chri&s;t;<NOTE PLACE="marg">John 3.19. 2 Tim. 4.8.</NOTE> and if you love the light, and bring all your works to the light, you love Chri&s;t, which is the way to the Father, and there is your Teacher, you never need man more, but it brings to wor&s;hip God alone.</P>
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<HEAD>Moved of the Lord from the Spirit of the Lord, which is to you all a vi&s;itation who are in the everla&s;ting Covenant, &s;ent from God, to warn you all of woe and mi&s;ery which is coming upon all inju&s;tice and ungod|line&s;&s;e, and fal&s;e wayes, therefore ha&s;te, ha&s;te, to meet the Lord, by putting off the works of darkne&s;&s;e, and none take the title of Ju&s;tice which are unju&s;t, le&s;t you be found liers before God, which is ju&s;t, and will plague you: For a day of vengeance and plagues is coming upon the Bea&s;t and fal&s;e Prophet, from him who is ju&s;t, who will bear the government upon his &s;houlders, who is righteous and ju&s;t, glorious and ble&s;&s;ed for ever.</HEAD>
<HEAD>And here to you all I clear my con&s;cience.</HEAD>
<P>GOd hath made his Name known in this Nation, therefore all people mind that which is of God in you, to guide you into unity one with another up to God, and to keep you in the fear of God, that you may &s;tand in the coun&s;el of God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Job 28.28. Jer. 11.14. Prov. 19.20.</NOTE> for then what you do &s;hall pro&s;per, and you will grow famous in the eyes of the Lord, growing up to be as trees in righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e and in truth; but if you go out of the coun&s;el of the Lord, you go out of the fear of the Lord, then ha&s;tine&s;&s;e of mind gets up, then ra&s;hne&s;&s;e, then &s;elf-ends and minds running out into the earth, which would covet all the earth unto him&s;elf, that he may &s;et his ne&s;t on high: then honour gets up, and pride gets up, and oppre&s;&s;ion gets up; therefore all bre|thren,
<PB N="22" REF="12"> mind that which is of God in you to keep you low: for woe is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">o thee that take&s;t coun&s;el and not of the Lord.<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ai. 30.1.</NOTE> To all ye Heads and Rulers of the people, as God hath ble&s;&s;ed this Nation, and made known his power and wondrous works to it,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek. 21.27. I&s;ai. 2.12, 27.</NOTE> and wrought forth abun|dance of corruption, who is overturning the Kingdoms of the world, and bringing down the proud and lofty ones. Fear the Lord all ye Heads, Rulers, Judges, Ju&s;tices and Con&s;tables, all ye Heads of the people fear the Lord and he at his Word and depart from all evil and covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, for it blinds the eyes of the wi&s;e: for &s;uch were to be &s;et over the people which feared God and hated covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 19.7. Exod. 18.21.</NOTE> and men that were faithful. Now &s;ee that &s;uch be &s;et over the people, men that hate covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, which are faithful and fear God, and that no Drunkard nor Swearer bear office, for the Law of God doth forbid it; and &s;uch &s;trengthen the hand of the wicked, and the Law is not effectual as long as it is put into unju&s;t and corrupt mens hands to execute, and that no man or woman &s;hould be put to death for the creature, cattel or money: for as you read in the Law of God, they that did &s;teal and thieve, were to make re&s;titution fourfold if they were able,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 22.1, 3. Gen. 9.6.</NOTE> or el&s;e to be &s;old for their theft. He that &s;heds mans blood, by man &s;hall his blood be &s;hed. So the Lord direct you to mind the Law of God, and not your own Inventions: and that they which are to be &s;et over the people, be not covetous, for they will &s;eek for their own ends; nor no proud man to be &s;et in authority, that &s;eeks for honour, for he will rule with tyranny as <HI>Pharaoh</HI> did: And wo is to him that is proud,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 10.4. I&s;ai. 28.1.</NOTE> for the Devil is the King of it, and the plagues of God were poured upon <HI>Pharaoh,</HI> &s;o will it be upon all &s;uch; nor no drunkard, for he will pity &s;in, and wink at evil, and bear with iniquity, and will be partial, and re&s;pect per&s;ons in Judgment, both proud,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prov. 17.23.</NOTE> and covetous, and drunkards; but &s;et &s;uch as fear the Lord, and hate covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and &s;ee that your &s;elves be &s;uch; nor none to judge for gifts or rewards, nor money, for it blinds the eyes of the wi&s;e; nor to have money for judging: then high places will not be &s;ought after by men of corrupt minds for &s;elf-ends; and that the Law may be openly known in every mans language,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 23.8. Deut. 16.19, 20.</NOTE> &s;o every man &s;hall know when he is a tran&s;gre&s;&s;our; and that there may be none idle, but that the people in every Town where they are, may work and be maintained; and that every Con&s;table in every town may have the law committed to him, and call all the people together, that they all may know it; and that no drunkard nor &s;wearer bear office, for &s;uch cannot re&s;train others; and that there may be no gaming, as carding, dicing, &s;hovelboard, &s;wearing in Ale-hou&s;es, drinking of healths, nor no Ale-hou&s;e but &s;uch as keep Lodging for Travellers; for they nouri&s;h up young and old people to vanity, and draw them unto uncleanne&s;&s;e;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gal. 5.19, 20, 21.</NOTE> &s;o the creation is devoured by &s;uch, for the people lu&s;t after &s;uch things, and that begets idlene&s;&s;e, adultery, theft and mur|ther; and that there may be no Cock-fightings, nor Bull-baiting, nor Bear-baiting, nor ob&s;erving holy-dayes, as the times of Chri&s;t|ma&s;&s;e,
<PB N="23" REF="12"> Ea&s;ter, and Whit&s;ontide, for the&s;e are times of &s;porting and wantonne&s;&s;e, and filthy plea&s;ures, devouring the creation upon their lu&s;ts: for the righteous Law of God is a limit to the carnal mind and cur&s;ed nature: but who are redeemed from under the Cur&s;e, and all the pollutions and filthine&s;&s;e, to live up to God, are out of all Lawes, whereas the unrea&s;onable nature, and fle&s;hly man is de&s;troyed: and this is &s;o, I witne&s;&s;e it; but where the unrea&s;onable nature is alive, and fle&s;hly man, the righteous Law of God takes hold upon it,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 8.21, 22.</NOTE> for all the whole Creation groans under the burden of corruption, un|till the body be redeemed out of the pollutions, &s;o be faithful, and dwell in that which is pure, and mind the Law of God, that God may ble&s;&s;e and pro&s;per you in all your wayes and proceedings: and if you go from that which is pure, then the cur&s;ed nature gets up, &s;o then plagues and woes will follow. And call in all your Acts which you have given forth concerning Religion, le&s;t you lay it upon them where the Seed of God is rai&s;ed up: And you be found fighters again&s;t God, and bring the cur&s;e, and woe and plagues upon you: For the Magi&s;trate which bears the &s;word, which is Ju&s;tice, meddles with no mans con&s;cience; for who exerci&s;eth con&s;cience, he delights in Ju|&s;tice; for every &s;oul mu&s;t be &s;ubject to the higher power,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 13.1, 2.</NOTE> for there is no power but of God, and he that re&s;i&s;teth the power, re&s;i&s;teth the Ordinance of God, and all who do not exerci&s;e a good con&s;cience, but live in uncleanne&s;&s;e, there the con&s;cience is not exerci&s;ed, but the mind goes out from God, that &s;oul is not &s;ubject to the higher power, but re&s;i&s;teth the Ordinance of God. I charge you by the Lord,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 13.4, 5.</NOTE> that no Ballads nor je&s;ting books be &s;uffered to be printed, for they &s;tir up lightne&s;&s;e and wantonne&s;&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe&s;. 5.4.</NOTE> and gather the people together to exer|ci&s;e their minds in that which drawes from God, and that no &s;wearer nor drunkard, nor proud, nor &s;elf willed man bear an office, nor none that &s;eeks to enrich him&s;elf, nor none that is partial and re&s;pects per|&s;ons in Judgment, for &s;uch are tran&s;gre&s;&s;ours of the Law of God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 16.19.</NOTE> nor none that is high minded, nor none that is &s;cornful to bear office, for &s;uch per&s;ecute the ju&s;t, and ju&s;tifie the wicked,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mal. 3.15.</NOTE> and call the proud happy, and they that work wickedne&s;&s;e are &s;et up with &s;uch which the Prophets cryed again&s;t, and where the &s;ame &s;eed is made mani|fe&s;t, it eryes again&s;t &s;uch. For Sions &s;ake, and for the Lords &s;ake, &s;ee that your &s;elves be &s;uch, and that you &s;et up &s;uch as fear God and hate covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and have compa&s;&s;ion of the poor and needy,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 18.21.</NOTE> widows and fatherle&s;&s;e, and men faithful, of courage and wi&s;dome, and under&s;tanding, hating gifts and rewards, for it blinds the eyes of the wi&s;e, and then comes re&s;pecting of per&s;ons, re&s;pecting the rich and de&s;pi&s;ing the poor, and &s;uch are bea&s;ts which the plagues of God mu&s;t be poured forth uopn, which are abomination to the Lord, which is contrary to God and his Law, for he nor his Law, nor the Faith that is in Chri&s;t re&s;pects no mans per&s;on.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jam. 2.1, 2, 9.</NOTE> As the Nation hath been long ruled by Cu&s;tomes, but God is rai&s;ing a light in mens hearts, which di&s;covers all their filthine&s;&s;e and corruption.</P>
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<P>And all Souldiers mind your places aright, a Souldier he mu&s;t be qualified,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke 3.14.</NOTE> he mu&s;t be content with his wages, and accu&s;e no man fal&s;ly, and do no violence to no man, and &s;ee that thou be all here.</P>
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<HEAD>Moved of the Lord, which is the Word of the Lord, written from the Spirit of the Lord, a friend of the Common-wealth of I&s;rael, and the freedome of the righteous &s;eed, and e&s;tabli&s;hing righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>GOd hath made his Name known in this Nation, therefore all people mind that which is of God in you,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Job 28.28. Prov. 11.14. Prov. 19.20.</NOTE> to guide you into Unity one with another, up to God, and to keep you in the fear of God, that you may &s;tand in the coun&s;el of God, for then what you do &s;hall pro&s;per, and you &s;hall grow famous in the eyes of the Lord, growing up to be as trees in righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e and in truth. But if you go out of the coun&s;el of the Lord, you go out of the fear of the Lord; then ha&s;tine&s;&s;e of mind gets up, then ra&s;hne&s;&s;e, then &s;elf-ends, and minds running into the earth, which would cover all the earth unto him&s;elf,<NOTE PLACE="marg">John 5.44.</NOTE> that he may &s;et his ne&s;t on high; then honour gets up, and pride gets up, and oppre&s;&s;ion gets up, therefore all bre|thren mind that which is of God in you to keep you low and hum|ble: For woe is to thee that take&s;t coun&s;el and not of the Lord, and woe is to the crown of pride, for the Devil is the King of it; and wo to him that makes him&s;elf rich,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lev. 26.19.</NOTE> and &s;ets his ne&s;t on high, and op|pre&s;&s;eth the poor and needy, and turns them away from their right, therefore take heed of all the&s;e things, le&s;t your minds run out into the &s;nares of the earth, and &s;o run from God, and then make riches your God, and riches your trea&s;ure, gold and &s;ilver your trea&s;ures, and honour your delight. And as God hath ble&s;&s;ed this Nation, and made him&s;elf manife&s;t in it, &s;o walk with God, and do ju&s;tice and equity, and love mercy, that breaks the bonds of iniquity off from you; for this is required of God &s;o to do; covet not after earthly things that pa&s;&s;e away, the fa&s;hions of this world pa&s;&s;e away, the lu&s;t of it pa&s;&s;eth away, the pride and honour of it pa&s;&s;eth away; but honour Gods all honour and glory belongs unto him,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 6.12.</NOTE> and all men are to be honoured in him; let your words be few, &s;ound, pithy, and &s;ea&s;oned, and that &s;peak in you, which denyes a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">o ungodline&s;&s;e and wordly lu&s;ts, then all your words are &s;a|voury, &s;ea&s;oned with grace, edifying them that do hear, &s;o that you may be Stewards of the grace of God, and the wi&s;dom of the mo&s;t high God to guide you,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prov. 11.14. Job 28.28.</NOTE> by which you may order and guide the crea|tion, order and rule the Creation; and the fear of the Lord is the
<PB N="25" REF="13"> beginning of this pure wi&s;dom, and that which brings you into this fear, is that which convinceth you of &s;in, of the going forth of your minds, and all underminings, and &s;elf-ends, and highminded|ne&s;s, and all ungodline&s;s or deceit, or any thing which is not ju&s;t and righteous, this pure light of God convinceth you of, &s;o you love equity, love righteou&s;ne&s;s, and brings you to &s;tand in the fear of the mo&s;t high God, who is dreadfull and mighty in power, and rules all Heaven and Earth, and all Nations &s;hall tremble before him, and the heavens bow down unto him, and the rocks cleave when he &s;peaks, &amp;<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 99.1. P&s;al. 114.7.</NOTE> &amp; he &s;hakes the mountains; and removes the wilderne&s;s out of its place, and makes a place in the wilderne&s;s for his people to go; he now is co|ming to rule in his people, and to throw down all the Kingdoms of the earth, according as he hath promi&s;ed to make all the Kingdoms of the earth the Kingdom of his dear Son. O therefore dwell in the fear of the Lord, for the fear of the Lord keeps the heart clean, and the pure wi&s;dom of God is put into pure hearts, true trea&s;ure is commit|ted to him that is faithfull; and thou that art not faithfull in the unrighteous Mammon and worldly things, who will tru&s;t thee with the true wi&s;dom? And as you depart from evil, your under&s;tan|dings are enlightned and grow,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Iohn 1.9.</NOTE> being guided by the pure light of God within you, to depart from evil, and your under&s;tandings come to be enlightned, and the Lord God more and more manife&s;ted in your &s;ouls; therefore every one of you in particular, having a mea|&s;ure, mind the light of God within you, for God hath given all of you a light, which will draw up all your minds to God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 3.1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> and walk in that light, and be children of the day, and have unity one with ano|ther; and walk in the pure day, there is your teacher, and loving that, you love Chri&s;t; if you hate it, you hate Chri&s;t, &amp; will not bring your deeds to be proved by it, becau&s;e they are evill, and eternally you &s;hall witne&s;s me; and walking in the light,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Iohn 2.10. 1 Iohn 2.11.</NOTE> there is no &s;tumbling at all; but going from the pure light of God within you, you &s;tum|ble at noon day, and that mind that goes from the light, puts the letter for the light, as all the blind guides in the world put the let|ter for the light, which is but a declaration of the light; but they are not of one mind that &s;ay &s;o, and the letter &s;aith, Chri&s;t is the light, and the light is but one, and it leads all one way, into one truth and unity, to be of one mind, one &s;oul, one heart, to the Lord God of light, Father of light,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Iohn 1.4. Iohn 14.6.</NOTE> and to the Church that is in God, with whom there is no &s;hadow, no darkne&s;&s;e at all. So dear frinds, &s;pend not your time about carnall talk, words that are about other mens matters; le&s;t your minds be drawn from God, and keep to Yea and Nay in all your communication, as Chri&s;t com|mends the man that the Scripture &s;peaks of, that had &s;ervants under him, and he &s;aid to the one come and he comes, to another do this &amp; he doth it; he rules in love, in &s;oundne&s;&s;e, in gravity, &amp; this was no|ble. O do not provoke one another to wrath nor &s;trife about words, which are to no effect, but draws your minds from God; let your
<PB N="22" REF="14"> words be few, and hear one another with patience, that you may di&s;cern the intent of words that are &s;poken, and &s;o you may have &s;alt in your &s;elves, and be kept in &s;aviour, and run not out with your mindes among words, and do not wear apparrell to make your &s;elves fine, le&s;t you be lifted up with pride and forget God; for the proud is an abomination unto the Lord, but that is exalted and &s;et up with man: but what is e&s;teemed with man, in that eye is abominati|on unto the Lord.<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 10.4. P&s;al. 101.5. Iam. 5.6. Iam. 5.5.</NOTE> O do not eat and drink to make your &s;elves wanton, for the creatures were created for the health, to be u&s;ed in their places as &s;ervants to us, and we to God, as Kings over them; &s;o they in their places, and we in our places, prai&s;ing and glorifying God. But thou O man, who art drove into earth, who ha&s;t an evill eye, an evill heart, thou art gone out of the truth from God, and de|vours the creation and the creatures upon thy lu&s;t. O do not make a profe&s;&s;ion outwardly to be &s;een of man for the prai&s;e of men, for he is not a Jew which is one outwardly,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iam. 4.3.</NOTE> who is a proud Phari&s;ee, a double heart, a heart full of deceit, they crucified Chri&s;t the &s;ub|&s;tance of what they did profe&s;s in words, therefore take heed le&s;t any of you be found here;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 2.28, 29</NOTE> he is not a Iew which is one out|wardly, who&s;e prai&s;e is of men, but he is a Jew which is one in|wardly, who&s;e prai&s;e is of God: therefore all men make no profe&s;&s;ion of any thing but what you do po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e, &s;o that always you may be kept to the Lord, and &s;ee him pre&s;ent; and the Lord God of powers be among you, and throw down that which oppo&s;eth the pure &s;eed; and keep your minds unto him&s;elf, for this is the day of your vi&s;ita|tion and &s;alvation: now you have time prize it.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>A friend to the eternall Truth, and a lover of your &s;oules;</HI> GEORGE FOX.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The voyce of the Lord uttering forth the word of the Lord in the power of the Lord &s;ounding forth to all you who profe&s;s Je&s;us Chri&s;t in words but deny him in life and conver&s;ation, therefore refu&s;e not him that &s;peaks from heaven; if ye do, ye cannot e&s;cape the damnation of hell.</HEAD>
<P><HI>CAin</HI> was the fir&s;t, and God hath no re&s;pect to his &s;acrifice, and all who &s;acrifice of the earth, God hath no re&s;pect to them; but to <HI>Abel</HI> he hath.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 4.5. Iohn 1.9. Iohn 11.9. Iohn 3.20.</NOTE> Chri&s;t Je&s;us &s;aith, I am the light that en|lightneth every one that cometh into the world; he that loves the light, and brings his deeds to the light, there is no occa&s;ion of &s;tum|bling; he that hates the light his deeds are evill, and he will not
<PB N="25" REF="14"> bring his works to the light, becau&s;e the light will reprove him, This is the condemnation of the world, the light: thou that wilt not bring thy works to the light to be proved, thou hate&s;t it, thou hate&s;t all the commandements of God, and thou hate&s;t Chri&s;t, thou hate&s;t God and all Gods people, who are of God;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn 8.12.</NOTE> and all thy pro|fe&s;&s;ion is fal&s;e and hypocri&s;ie, and for the fire: But thou that love&s;t the light, and walke&s;t in the light, it leads to the day, keeps all Gods commandements, doth not &s;teal, doth not Idolize, doth not commit adultery, doth no evill, but loves the light, and walks in the light, it leads out of all the works of darkne&s;s, and to lay them a&s;ide; it leads up to God, to the beginning, before the fal&s;e Prophets were. Now walk in the light, and it will let you &s;ee that all the Prophets of God &s;poke from the &s;ame light, and in the light,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn 12.46.</NOTE> and all the Saints which were in unity one with another, were in the light, and had joy in the light and &s;ight of one another in the light, as Chri&s;t &s;aith, Father you in me and I in you, one light from the Father and Chri&s;t, in the Saints, and &s;o Chri&s;t is the way to the Father: all the Mini&s;ters of God &s;poke from the light, and in the light,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Iohn 1.3. ver&s;e 7.</NOTE> and all of one way, one light, the Saints, Chri&s;t and God, all come up to be one light, and &s;o they have unity with the Father, and unity with the Sonne and the Father, al&s;o the Saints are all in one light, he that can receive it, let him. To all you who are children of the light I &s;peak; but being di&s;obedient to the light, and hating the light, all your fal&s;e teachers are there, all the fal&s;e Prophets are there,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 18.22. Mat. 24.24.</NOTE> all An|tichri&s;ts are there, <HI>Babylon</HI> and <HI>Cain</HI> is there, who hate the light, and the Commandements of God, and di&s;obey them: As <HI>Cain,</HI> when God &s;aid, If thou do&s;t well, if not, &s;in lies at thy door; &s;o there was a promi&s;e, as God &s;aid to <HI>Adam,</HI> that he &s;hould not eat of the tree of knowledge, &s;o the light lets all &s;ee their tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion; &s;o di&s;obey|ing the light, brought death upon him, to all who walk in the light the fal&s;e Prophets are di&s;covered,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 2.1. Gal. 2.4.</NOTE> the fal&s;e teachers are di&s;covered to you, Antichri&s;ts are di&s;covered to them, fal&s;e Apo&s;tles and fal&s;e brethren are di&s;covered: For all are brethren who are in the light, and children of the light, and children of the day, who walk in unity in the light. So in all Ages the deceit followed the Saints in the form; they got the form of the Prophets and the people of God, but not the power nor the light, therefore they per&s;ecuted them who were in the power of the truth, who lived in the form and not in the light. When the children of I&s;rael were to come up out of Egypt, <HI>Jannes</HI> and <HI>Jambres</HI> with&s;tood <HI>Mo&s;es;</HI> whom the Lord &s;ent to lead them forth (or declare unto them:) when they were brought forth with a mighty power out of the land of Egypt,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 3.8.</NOTE> and the land of dark|ne&s;s, from under their oppre&s;&s;ors and Task-ma&s;ters, were de&s;troyed: and all you who are in pride and oppre&s;&s;ion, are Task-ma&s;ters, you are King <HI>Pharoah,</HI> put it not farre from you, and you are for the plagues, the plagues are your portion. And when they were brought forth of Egypt with a mighty power,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 18.8.</NOTE> who did not abide in the
<PB N="28" REF="15"> power, and in the light, but they turned away, and ran a whoring after other Lords and Gods, the Lord &s;ent his true Prophets to cry again&s;t them, and to tell them, and they were not hired, nor did not do it for gifts,<NOTE PLACE="marg">John 15.10. ctAs 7.51.</NOTE> rewards, nor wages: but freely they &s;poke in the pow|er, in the light and from the light, and from the mouth of the Lord, to that which they had impri&s;oned through their back&s;liding with their earthly carnal minds, and therefore they per&s;ecuted them who &s;poke in the power of truth, to that which was in pri&s;on, with that mind which impri&s;oned it in the world, then the fal&s;e pro|phets got into the form of the true Prophets words, and they ran un&s;ent, and u&s;ed their tongues, and &s;poke a vain divination of their own brain, and not from the mouth of the Lord, and the Lord never &s;poke to them: tho&s;e did not profit the people at all. Then the Lord &s;ent his Prophets to cry again&s;t tho&s;e Prophets;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mica. 3.11. Iude 11. Iea. 14.14.</NOTE> for tho&s;e Prophets prophe&s;ied for money, and for <HI>Balaam,</HI> who loved the wages of un|righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e: Now the Prophets of the Lord &s;poke freely to all in all generations and ages, who had received freely: and their porti|on they had in the world was mocking, &s;coffing, &s;toning, beating, railing, or being called fools or mad-men. This was their reward, wages and portion in the world, and of all who had the worlds na|ture;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 11.36.</NOTE> but their reward was the Lord God, and it is the Lord which &s;ent them, then there were Prie&s;ts which offered, which did the &s;er|vice of the Altar, whfch were true Types and Figures, being com|manded of God and of Je&s;us Chri&s;t. When their minds turned in|to the earth, and into their lufts, they did it for hire, they preached for hire, then the Lord &s;ent his Prophets to cry again&s;t the&s;e, and all &s;uch,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ier. 5.30, 31.</NOTE> and told them, a horrible filthy thing is committed in the land, and they were blind, and had eyes and did not &s;ee, and called them a fooli&s;h people, and &s;aid the Prophets prophe&s;ied fal&s;ly, and the Prie&s;ts bear rule by their means, and the people love to have it &s;o. Shall not I vi&s;it for the&s;e things &s;aith the Lord? Shall not my &s;oul be avenged on &s;uch a Nation as this? So the Lord &s;ent his Prophets to cry again&s;t the&s;e things,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ier. 5.9.</NOTE> which were acted not in the power but in the will of man, in their carnall wills for their own ends. So do all the Prophets of the Lord, of the mo&s;t High, cry a|gain&s;t all the abominations for ever. And when the Lord brought the children of I&s;rael out of Egypt, he gave them Laws and faith|full men<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> And when <HI>Jethro, Mo&s;es</HI> Father-in-law, came to him, <HI>Mo|&s;es</HI> judged the people from morning till evening; and his father &s;aid it was too hard for him to do,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 18.13. Ver&s;e 18.</NOTE> and he wearied him&s;elf and the peo|ple, and bid him chu&s;e out faithfull men that hated covetou&s;ne&s;s, fea|ring God, and men of courage, to &s;et &s;uch over thou&s;ands, over hun|dreds,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver&s;e 26.</NOTE> over fifties and tens, to judge the people at all &s;ea&s;ons, and to bring the greater and weightier matters to <HI>Mo&s;es.</HI> But here was no re&s;pecting of per&s;ons,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prov. 29.4.</NOTE> but he that did commit &s;in, and tran&s;gre&s;s the Law, when their minds went forth from the true Law of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e and equity, and ju&s;tice for gifts, and received rewards,
<PB N="29" REF="15"> which the Law of God forbids, and gifts which God forbids,<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ai. 2.28. 2 Chron. 17.7. Eccle&s;. 7.7.</NOTE> then the Lord &s;ent Prophets in his power and light to cry again&s;t tho&s;e that received gifts, and told them that gifts blinded the eyes of the wi&s;e, and again&s;t tho&s;e that &s;ought for rewards: for then they grew partiall, and then the &s;oul is not &s;ubject to the power of God, but man rules there with his will. And in the fir&s;t Covenant there was Circumci&s;ion that God commanded, there was a Temple that God commanded, and there were Prie&s;ts that God commanded,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 9.24. Heb. 10.1.</NOTE> which were Figures, Types and Shadows of Je&s;us Chri&s;t the ever|la&s;ting Prie&s;t; there was a Sabbath, a &s;igne of the everla&s;ting re&s;t, the Temple of the Lord God and of Chri&s;t and the Saints, where he comes to dwell in his Temple; and Circumci&s;ion, a Figure of the inward circumci&s;ion, and when Je&s;us Chri&s;t was come, the &s;ub&s;tance of circumci&s;ion, the &s;ub&s;tance of all the Law, and of the Sabbath, of the Temple, and of all the Prie&s;ts, and of the Lamb that was to be offered up without blemi&s;h, of all the clean that was to be offer|ed, the Goats, the Bulls, the Rams, the Kids, and all tho&s;e things the &s;ub&s;tance was come; When the &s;ub&s;tance was owned, received,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Col. 2.17.</NOTE> and witne&s;&s;ed and come <HI>(Je&s;us Chri&s;t)</HI> and &s;acrificed up, they who prea|ched Chri&s;t the re&s;urrection, who were made Temples of God, denied the outward Temples, who had received Je&s;us Chri&s;t an high Prie&s;t for ever, without Father, without Mother, denied all the Prie&s;ts, who were types and figures of him which was of Father and Mother; who had received circumci&s;ion, inwardly the Jew,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 8.4, 5.</NOTE> Chri&s;t Je&s;us the King of the Jews denied Circumci&s;ion outwardly in the fle&s;h; and who witne&s;&s;ed and received Je&s;us Chri&s;t the fir&s;t offer|ing which was offered up, denied all the offerings which were types and figures of him; for that which was to be offered in the tpye, was that which was pure, a pure Lamb without blemi&s;h, and the fir&s;t born; but when they offered the lame, the halt,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mal. 1.8. Deut. 15.21.</NOTE> or the maimed, or the blind, it was a cur&s;ed &s;acrifice; for the cur&s;ed nature offered that, and &s;o the nature was cur&s;ed that offered it; and &s;o that which was to be offered in the figure, was that which was pure without blemi&s;h: but who received the &s;ub&s;tance Je&s;us Chri&s;t, de|nied all tho&s;e things, and witne&s;&s;ed the re&s;urrection, and preached his re&s;urrection; and all who were, were gathered in the &s;ub&s;tance,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Acts 4.1, 2, 3.</NOTE> the eternall Word <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> which all the Prophets witne&s;&s;ed of, had received the end of the Prophets, the end of the Law, the end of all types, and figures, and &s;hadows, Je&s;us Chri&s;t the Corner|&s;tone, the life of God which is unknown to the world;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 10.4.</NOTE> &s;o the &s;ame Spirit that rai&s;ed up Je&s;us Chri&s;t, the &s;ame Spirit have all the Saints unity withal, who deny all carnall traditions and outward cu&s;toms, and outward inventions, and outward wor&s;hips, and come to wor|&s;hip the true God in Spirit and truth, and lets all &s;ee that they have been &s;trangers to the life of God; and after the Apo&s;tles did preach the &s;ub&s;tance <HI>Je&s;us Christ,</HI> the eternall Word, then fal&s;e Prophets come and get the form of the true Prophets words,<NOTE PLACE="marg">John 4.23.</NOTE> and of
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<PB N="29" REF="17"> the true Apo&s;tles and Chri&s;ts words.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jude 11.</NOTE> Who lived in the fle&s;h, and in the pollutions and lu&s;ts of uncleanne&s;s, and &s;o people followed them, but they went in the way of <HI>Cain</HI> and envy, and after the error of <HI>Balaam,</HI> who peri&s;hed in the gain&s;aying of <HI>Corah,</HI> who gain|&s;aid the truth, and the Saints which were gathered into the eternal day with the eternall Word,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 3.6.7</NOTE> the &s;ub&s;tance, which denied the Tem|ple outward, Sabbath outward, the circumci&s;ion outward, and all the Prie&s;ts; they met together in &s;everall hou&s;es, and they exhorted one another daily; then fal&s;e Teachers crept up, and crept into hou|&s;es, and led &s;illy women captive, who were always learning, and ne|ver able to come to the knowledge of the truth, led away with di|vers lu&s;ts, which did with&s;tand the truth as <HI>Iannes</HI> and <HI>Jambres</HI> did, and that doctrine crept in which hath now pa&s;&s;ed over the world,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 3.2, 3, 4, 5.</NOTE> and now covetous men preach, &s;elf-willed men preach, men that are given to plea&s;ures preach, drunkards and railers preach; and &s;o you may &s;ee all people who are in the light, how they are always learning, and never come to the knowledge of the truth. For this &s;ort of preaching is over all the world now. Men preach that people &s;hall never overcome the body of &s;in, and &s;o they keep all in their &s;ins. Men preach that people &s;hall never be perfect, and &s;o they keep them all out of perfection in imperfection. Men preach that they &s;hall never overcome the body of &s;in, &s;o long as they are here, and &s;o they are holders up of the body of &s;in. And they preach, Men &s;hall never overcome the world and corruptions &s;o long as they are here, and &s;o they are all holders up of the Kingdom of Satan, for they &s;in and &s;tand for the &s;ame, for the maintaining of the body of &s;in,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jude 11.</NOTE> for they have all gifts and rewards as <HI>Balaam</HI> had, and &s;o they are wor&s;e then <HI>Balaam,</HI> for he dur&s;t not take it, becau&s;e the word of the Lord had re&s;trained him. They are all hirelings, they are not re|&s;trained, but take it, they take gifts and are not re&s;trained, and therefore are not come &s;o farre as <HI>Balaam</HI> to know the word of the Lord doth re&s;train, but per&s;umptuou&s;ly they &s;hew men the Law, he that will not give him his gift or reward, which the Prophets ne|ver did that were &s;ent of God, nor ever did the Mini&s;ters which were &s;ent of God, nor ever did the Apo&s;tles of Chri&s;t, who prea|ched perfection and overcoming of &s;in,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 2.15.</NOTE> but cried wo again&s;t them all that went for wages in the way of <HI>Balaam;</HI> &s;uch are they that &s;tand for &s;in, being reprobates concerning the faith; and all who preach the faith of Je&s;us, preach purification, and all who have the faith of God purifie them&s;elves as he is pure; and all who have the belief in God, are born of God, and overcome the world and all things that are in the world; but all who are haters of the light, are reprobates concerning the faith, all their teachings is for the fire, and all that contend for them: for the eternall light where it is made manife&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 3.8.</NOTE> it judges them, and all the plagues of God are to be poured out upon them, the vials of the wrath of the Almighty, and all hypocrites &s;uch are without the light, and have
<PB N="27" REF="17"> but the letter of it; flatterers, fal&s;e Prophets,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 24, 24.</NOTE> fal&s;e Apo&s;tles are with|out the light, and are haters of it; the&s;e fal&s;e Shepherds are without the light, which &s;eek for their gain from their quarters, which all the Shepherds of the world &s;hew them&s;elves to be there: He that was in the light cried again&s;t them, as <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 56, 10, 11. and all them that bear rule by their means, are without the light: <HI>Ieremy</HI> who was in the light, cried again&s;t them, <HI>Ier.</HI> 5.30, 31. <HI>Ier.</HI> 23.14. v. 21. &amp; v. 30. and all them that preach for hire are without the light, and hate the light: for <HI>Mica</HI> who was in the light, cried again&s;t them, <HI>Mica</HI> 3.11. and all who go for gifts and rewards hate the light, and are without the light; for it would reprove them if they loved it; for he was in the light, the Apo&s;tles dwelt in it, and walked in it, he cried again&s;t them who went in the way of <HI>Balaam</HI> for gifts and rewards, and all who have got up into the chiefe&s;t places in the A&s;&s;emblies,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 23, 6, 7, 8.</NOTE> and love to be called of men Ma&s;ters, who &s;tand praying in the Synagogues and are painted with other mens words, as the Apo&s;tles, the Pro|phets, and Chri&s;ts words, are haters of the light and not lovers of it, nor walk not in it: For Je&s;us Chri&s;t who was the light, cried wo to &s;uch who were &s;o then; and Je&s;us Chri&s;t which is the light made manife&s;t, cries wo again&s;t all &s;uch now as then. And all the Teachers of the world now, that are now in England, hate the light, they bear rule by their means, &amp; they receive gifts in their hands, vvhich <HI>Ieremy</HI> cried again&s;t, vvhich blind the eyes of the vvi&s;e; and they are hire|lings, vvhich <HI>Micah</HI> cried again&s;t, <HI>Mica.</HI> 3.11. and they &s;eek all for gain from their quarters, vvhich <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> cried again&s;t, and to cloathe them&s;elves vvith the vvooll, and feed them&s;elves vvith the fat, and make a prey of the people, vvhich <HI>Ezekiel</HI> cried again&s;t, vvho vvas in the light, and cried vvo to tho&s;e Idol-Shepherds vvhich had not the light, vvhich vvalked not in the light. So vvoe is to all novv, vvho &s;eek for the fleece &amp; vvooll, &amp; make a prey of the people novv as they did in the time of <HI>Ezekiel,</HI> 34.2, 3, 4.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek. 34.2, 3.4.</NOTE> The Lord God of povvers is uttering his thunders, Thre&s;h, thre&s;h, O S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">on, ari&s;e up and thre&s;h obey the Lord his commands, &s;tand up for the povverfull truth up on the earth, be valiant for the Lord, bovv not to the deceit: trem|ble all Nations before the Lord, and before his Army, his Ho&s;t.<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 114.7. Joel 2.1, 2, 3.4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Luke 13.7. Iohn 10, 12.13</NOTE> Sound the Trumpet, &s;ound an Alarm, call up to the battel, gather together for the de&s;truction, dravv the &s;vvord, hevv dovvn all fruit|le&s;s trees vvhich cumber the ground, hevv dovvn <HI>all</HI> fal&s;e ju&s;tice which is not ju&s;tice, hevv dovvn all the povvers of the earth, clean&s;e the land from all filthine&s;s, purge forth the dro&s;s, the filth and corrupti|on, &s;lay <HI>Baal, Baalam</HI> mu&s;t be &s;lain, all the hirelings mu&s;t be turned out of the Kingdom, who have pretended that God &s;ent them, the &s;word of the Lord is drawn again&s;t you all,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 17.14. Deut. 28.65. Lam. 3.65.</NOTE> you are all ruled by the Prince of the air, and in the powers of darkne&s;s ye &s;tand, maintain|ing <HI>all</HI> the works of darkne&s;&s;e, a day of &s;laughter is coming to you who have made war again&s;t the Lamb and again&s;t the Saints, for de|&s;truction you are, the &s;word you cannot e&s;cape, and it &s;hall be upon you <HI>all</HI> ere long; you have &s;it as Queen, and you have &s;een
<PB N="32" REF="18"> no &s;orrow nor no lo&s;s; but now de&s;truction is drawing nigh, &s;or|row is coming. Sons and daughters are going abroad joyfully in the power and &s;trength of the Almighty, the arm of the Lord, in who&s;e hand is the Lords &s;word, the Lord will honour him&s;elfe, the Lord will get him&s;elf renown,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 23.35.</NOTE> the Lord will be known to be King. Howl, wo and mi&s;ery all ye Prie&s;ts, ye blind Prie&s;ts, by whom all the righ|teous blood hath been &s;hed, you who are in the fir&s;t birth in your generation, plagues are coming upon you, and to be poured out without mixture;<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ai. 34.8. I&s;ai. 35.4. P&s;al. 5.11. P&s;al. 149.2.</NOTE> the wrath of the Almighty God to you all op|pre&s;&s;ors who have the power, to you all limiters, who limit the power of God to your Doctrine, to your will; the &s;word is drawn again&s;t you all, a day of vengeance is coming upon you all; that the Lord will be recompenced upon you all his adver&s;aries, the Lord of Ho&s;ts hath &s;poken it. Joyfull days ye Saints, joyfull days ye righteous ones, clearne&s;s, purene&s;s, freedom from the Bea&s;t, freedom from the fal&s;e Prophets, feedom from the hirelings, freedom from the ob&s;erver of days, freedom from the limiter with the carnall will, freedom from the fal&s;e Shepherds that &s;eek for gain from their quarters, freedom from them that cloath them&s;elves with the wooll, and make a prey upon you, which while you were there ran from mountain to moun|tain, from hill to hill. <HI>Prai&s;es, prai&s;es be to the Lord God who hath made free,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek. 32.6, 7.8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.</NOTE> <HI>who hath gathered that which was driven away to him&s;elf, and &s;eeked that which was lo&s;t. Rejoyce ye Saints and &s;ervants of the Lord, triumph over the deceits, walk in that which is pure, walk in the pure righteous ways of the Lord, triumphing and trampling over the world, &s;inging the &s;ongs of the Lamb: &s;pread the truth abroad all you righteous ones, &s;tand fa&s;t in your freedom in that which is pure, being guided by that which is of the Lord to the Lord. Here the true wor&s;hippers are that cannot bow down to any man but to the Lord,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 15.3.</NOTE> <HI>here are ye that are come out of Aegypt and Edom, who witne&s;&s;e</HI> Phraoh <HI>drowned and all his Ho&s;t, which while they were in Aegypt, were under</HI> Pharoahs <HI>taskings and his limits, and &s;uffered if they did not obey his will and his tasks, and were under the proud, and under the oppre&s;&s;or; but now being brought out of Aegypt by the mighty power,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 6.12.</NOTE> <HI>and hand of the Lord,</HI> Pharaoh <HI>and his Ho&s;t is drowned by the Lord of Ho&s;ts; dwelling in the power, and guided by that life which is pure and eternall to the Lord cannot bow down to any thing but God, nor wor&s;hip any thing but God, nor have any other Gods but the living God, by who&s;e power he is brought out of Aegypt.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Lev. 26.45.</NOTE> <HI>But all Nations, and Languages, and Tongues, and Kindreds, and People, tremble before the Lords Ho&s;t, and the Lords Army who dwell in the power of the mighty God;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Joel 2.11. P&s;al. 29.3. P&s;al. 24.7.</NOTE> <HI>here is the Lord glori|fied, here is the Lord exalted, and his Name known, to whom be all glory, honour and thanks, and prai&s;e for his eternall riches for ever.</HI></P>
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<P>A word of exhortation to you all &s;onnes and daughters of God, who have obeyed the voyce of God, and come out from all the fal&s;e Prophets in <HI>England,</HI> and all them that &s;eek gain from their quarters, and that have the chiefe&s;t places in the A&s;&s;emblies, are cal|led of men Ma&s;ters, walking in the light which hath called you forth up to God, the Father of light, who are &s;ent to cry again&s;t the Prie&s;ts in <HI>England,</HI> who have the chiefe&s;t places in the A&s;&s;em|blies, now &s;tand praying there, now get up into the Phari&s;ees &s;eat,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jer. 23.</NOTE> now Antichri&s;ts that have Chri&s;ts words, but Phari&s;ees in life and practice, in the &s;ame &s;teps and places that they were in: like the Prophets in words, but bear rule by their means; like the true Shepherds in words, but &s;eek gain from their quarters: Is not this al&s;o now?<NOTE PLACE="marg">John 18, 12.13.</NOTE> Sons and daughters may witne&s;&s;e with all the Prophets that ever cried again&s;t tho&s;e things, which were all witne&s;&s;es of Chri&s;t, and Chri&s;t ju&s;tified the &s;ame, and that they were all hirelings, and would flie becau&s;e the &s;heep were not his own. But the good Shepherd Chri&s;t Je&s;us lays down his life for his &s;heep, I am the good Shep|herd &s;aith Chri&s;t, and lay down my life for my &s;heep, and they go in the way of <HI>Cain</HI> for gifts and rewards, this you all &s;ee with the &s;ame light which is the eye, as was in the Prophets and Apo&s;tles; which light is Je&s;us Chri&s;t that enlightneth every one that cometh into the world, and the one loves it and walks in it, and there is his Teacher, his guide to the Father; the other he hates it,<NOTE PLACE="marg">John 1.9.</NOTE> and there is his condemnation to the hell, the pit, and mi&s;ery, this light is the &s;ame as ever was in all the Prophets, which light is Chri&s;t which comes from God, which draws to God, which light is God: For God is light; he that can receive it, let him: Ye &s;ons and daughters of the Lord, ye &s;ons and daughters of the God Almighty,<NOTE PLACE="marg">John 8.12.</NOTE> rejoyce in prai&s;es, rejoyce in prai&s;es, &s;ing prai&s;es unto the Lord God, Sing prai&s;es to the Lord God Almighty, who breaks the bonds of iniquity.<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 116, 16, 17.</NOTE> Iniquity is the band over the pure, and there is no health while the bands of iniquity are &s;tanding.</P>
<P>A voyce and a word to all you &s;ervants of the Lord: Be obedi|ent to what you know, walk in the truth in your mea&s;ure made manife&s;t by Je&s;us Chri&s;t, wrangle not, &s;trike not one another, but walk together in the Vineyard in love, nor think your time long,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 4.30. I&s;ai. 1.19.</NOTE> nor your work hard, which you mu&s;t obey and do when your Ma|&s;ter commands you, neither murmure nor complain, for &s;uch are de|&s;troyed, nor grudg, but all be diligent in your place, in that which your ma&s;ter hath committed to you, that when your Lord and Ma|&s;ter cometh, you may receive your ble&s;&s;ing which your Lord and Ma&s;ter hath promi&s;ed you,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 25.21. Matth. 25.23.</NOTE> and &s;o to enter into the joy of your Ma|&s;ter as good and faithfull &s;ervants, according to the promi&s;e of your Lord; be hold &s;erviceable and diligent in your ma&s;ters work, be rea|dy and obedient in all things what ever he requires of you without grudging.</P>
<P>A word of mi&s;ery to the &s;lothfull &s;ervant, that is thy portion,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 25.26.</NOTE> thy
<PB N="34" REF="19"> day of de&s;truction is coming, the night of utter darkne&s;s draws neer which thou mu&s;t be turned into:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pro. 12.24.</NOTE> thither to enter, thou ha&s;t negle|cted thy time, thy de&s;truction is appearing, thou ha&s;t hid the Lords money in the earth,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 25.24.</NOTE> thou ha&s;t been &s;loathfull in his work, thou judg|e&s;t him to be a hard ma&s;ter, thou &s;aye&s;t he reaps where he did not &s;ow, and gathers where he &s;trewed not. O thou wicked and &s;loath|full &s;ervant, now out of thy own mouth &s;halt thou be judged, and thy Talent taken away from thee, and thou ca&s;t into outter darkne&s;&s;e where &s;hall be weeping and gna&s;hing of teeth for ever.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom 6.20.</NOTE></P>
<P>A voyce and a word to all you who are &s;ervants of Sin, ye are free from righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e and enemies to God, your ma&s;ter is the Di|vell, ye are the hirelings, ye are they that bear rule by their means, ye are they that eat the rat, and cloath your &s;elves with the wooll, ye are they which are called of men Ma&s;ters, which &s;hut up the Kingdom again&s;t men (which Chri&s;t forbids) now here and every where,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek. 34.3.</NOTE> and ever did; ye are they which &s;eek for gain from your quarters, and go in the way of <HI>Cain</HI> and envy, and <HI>Balaam,</HI> for gift and rewards, ye are enemies to the true and living God, and ye are drunkards, ye are oppre&s;&s;ors, ye are proud, ye are covetous, ye are wranglers,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jude 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> ye are cheaters and quarrellers, ye are &s;ervants of &s;in, yee &s;erve lu&s;ts and plea&s;ures; fir&s;t lu&s;t and then plea&s;ure, for there is no plea&s;ure but fir&s;t there is lu&s;t; ye are they which are free from righteou&s;ne&s;s, ye are not they which are free from &s;in; ye are them that plead for &s;in, as long as people are in the world, for the whole world lies in wickedne&s;s, ye can plead for nothing el&s;e; fal&s;e Pro|phets, fal&s;e Rulers and Magi&s;trates, who live in their &s;ins, and plead for nothing el&s;e, who hate the light, your de&s;truction is coming, the wrath of the Almighty is coming, the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t is coming in flame<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> of fire to render vengeance upon all you ungodly ones,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 The&s;&s;. 1.8.</NOTE> who hold the truth in ungodly minds, all drunkards and profe&s;&s;ors, all you fained profe&s;&s;ors, all you a&s;piring profe&s;&s;ors, a day of how|ling is coming upon you,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 8.12.</NOTE> that you &s;hall gna&s;h your teeth for pain: all your prayers are abomination to the Lord, dead and dry, husky, and barren, and &s;tink before the Lord, worm-eaten.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 114.7. Dan. 5.19.</NOTE>Tremble all Nations before the Lord, the Power, the Lord of Ho&s;ts, who is making manife&s;t his Kingdom, and &s;etting it up, and you that &s;erve &s;in, your wages is death, that is your portion, the Lord of Ho&s;ts hath &s;poken it.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 John 7. Rev. 2.9:</NOTE>A voyce and a word to all you deceivers, who deceive the people, and bla&s;phemers who utter forth your bla&s;phemy and hypocri&s;ie, that tell people of a Sacrament, and tell them it is the ordinance of God;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mal. 1.14.</NOTE> blu&s;h, blu&s;h, and tremble before the Almighty, for dreadfull is he that will poure forth his vengeance upon you: and tell people of &s;prinkling infants, and tell them it is an ordinance of God, and pra|cti&s;e &s;uch things, who have got this by form and cu&s;tome one gene|ration from another; and never from the mouth of the Lord of Ho&s;ts. Did ever God give forth any &s;uch thing? but you who live
<PB N="35" REF="19"> in the witchery, and bewitch the people:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ier. 25.36. Zach. 11.3. Amos 8.3.</NOTE> And the&s;e things that God never commanded, are given forth by you who are brazned with the deceit: a day of howling and de&s;truction is coming upon you who have ca&s;t the Law and the commandments of Chri&s;t be|hind your backs, who live in all uncleanne&s;s, and ungodline&s;s, pride, lu&s;t and exce&s;s. And in &s;tead of being &s;ervants to all, ye are ma|&s;ters to all; but your kingdom is di&s;covered, the Lord alone hath di&s;covered to his &s;ons and daughters, and to his &s;ervants, that you mu&s;t be taken in your witchcraft and Sorcery, and receive the plagues from the Lord God; that is your portion.</P>
<P>A voyce and a word to all you Seducers, who live in your imagi|nations and inventions, &s;orcery and witchcraft,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek. 13.10. 1 Iohn 2.26. 2 Tim. 3.13.</NOTE> to draw people to your inventions, to follow your imaginations that you have &s;et up in your mindes, to draw them from the living God, and light of God within them, thou art for the fire, and no witch mu&s;t live in I&s;rael, thou mai&s;t live in the world, but in I&s;rael thou mu&s;t not: among the wicked ones thou mu&s;t live, but de&s;truction and fire, and the wrath of the Almighty is thy portion.</P>
<P>A voyce and a word to all fal&s;e Prophets,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Iohn 5.1. Matth. 24.11.</NOTE> who are taking texts of other mens conditions, and your preaching an hour, and limiting God and all the people to your hour, your mouthes mu&s;t be &s;topped who u&s;e your tongues and &s;ay, He &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ier. 23.</NOTE> and the Lord never &s;poke to you, you are di&s;covered to the true Prophets, to the &s;ons and daugh|ters of God, you are &s;een to be the dumb Prophets, which have not a word from the Lord, but the letter which is carnall, and get the true Prophets words and &s;peake forth the carnall, in <HI>England</HI> and el&s;e where.</P>
<P>A voyce and a word to all you that take tythes in the old Cove|nant: <HI>Levi</HI> which received tythes, the &s;trangers, the Fatherle&s;s, and the widows, were to come within his gate to be filled,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 14.19.</NOTE> and to be &s;atisfied, this was in the Old Covenant among the Children of I&s;|rael, and not among the heathen; to all you now who receive tythes, ye deny that Chri&s;t is come to us in the fle&s;h, and you do not fill the &s;trangers, the Fatherle&s;s, and widows, ye do not walk accor|ding to the old Covenant, but have got the words of the Old Cove|nant to maintain you in your filthyne&s;s, and to deceive the people with their words, and to get your tythes: and if they will not give them to you, you &s;ue them at the law;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 5.40. 1 Cor. 6.6.</NOTE> &s;o they did not in the old Co|venant. Here you raze your &s;elves out of the old Covenant, and yet you profe&s;s your &s;elves that Chri&s;t hath &s;ent you, and that you are Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t. O you &s;landerers and bla&s;phemers of Je&s;us Chri&s;t to render him &s;o odious as your &s;elves, in holding up the&s;e filthy things which you act contrary to the old covenant, which was in the old covenant a figure of the new;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 10.4.</NOTE> for when Je&s;us Chri&s;t came, he came to put an end to all the&s;e things, &amp; there you are razed out from the old covenant, and from the new, and from Ie&s;us Chri&s;t both.</P>
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<P>A voice and a word to all you that &s;ay Chri&s;t &s;ent you to preach the Go&s;pel, and take tythes, and mingle with the world; and them that will not give it you, you &s;ue them at the law. Oh you liars, woe be to you liers of Chri&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tit. 1.10.11. 2 Tim. 3.13. Matth. 10.8.</NOTE> Chri&s;t never &s;ent you, you deceivers, you are all the deceivers &s;poken of: for whom Chri&s;t &s;ent, to them, he &s;aith, free|ly ye have received, freely give: here ye are razed out of the new covenant, to be no mini&s;ters of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, Chri&s;t denies you, and all &s;uch as you are.</P>
<P>And a word to all you who profe&s;&s;e your &s;elves to be the Mini&s;ters of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and go and take a text of another mans words, and &s;tudy out of it in the week day, what you &s;hould &s;peak on the fir&s;t day, which you call the Sabbath day, which Chri&s;t came to end: there you are liers of Chri&s;t, &amp; you gather a great company to a &s;teeple hou&s;e, and tell them it is the church, ye are the deceivers that were prophe&s;ied of by Je&s;us Chri&s;t which was the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">ue light,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 18 23.</NOTE> &amp; you are them that tell the people that every one hath not the light which hath enlightned every one that cometh in the world, openly &s;hewing your &s;elves to be Antichri&s;ts and deceivers, denying the light, &amp; ma|king your &s;elves &s;tark blind, &amp; denying the light which would lead you up to God,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> John 7.8.</NOTE> and to the church in God, &amp; &s;o uttering forth your bla&s;phemy, and &s;landering Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and &s;o tell people the Lord &s;ent you, and act tho&s;e things he never commanded, &s;hewing your &s;elves to be the &s;ervants of the devil, not obeying the commande|ments of Je&s;us Chri&s;t: your wo and mi&s;ery is coming, wo unto you, your wo and mi&s;ery is coming,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 14.20.</NOTE> you are for the lake, and to be torment|ed with fire and brim&s;tone.</P>
<P>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> a word and a voice to all you that are got up, &s;tanding in the chiefe&s;t places in the a&s;&s;emblies, ye are them that devour Widdows hou&s;es, and paint your &s;elves with other mens words, with the Pro|phets words, &amp; with Chri&s;ts &amp; the Apo&s;tles words, ye are them that appear beautiful outwardly to men;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jer. 23.</NOTE> but are full of poy&s;on within, &s;erpent-like, ye are they that are full of dead mens bones, ye are they which &s;ay and do not, ye are them that lay heavy burthens upon the people, ye are them that all the woes of Chri&s;t &s;poke are upon, the &s;ame light is ri&s;en which is Chri&s;t, and by it ye are di&s;cove|red, and ye are them which &s;ay that Chri&s;t &s;ent you; ye are liers of Chri&s;t, he never &s;ent you; you are they which &s;ay you are free from acting all the&s;e abominations, and &s;ay that the Lord hath made you free; ye are them that will belie him, &amp; are of the Devil your father who was a lier from the beginning;<NOTE PLACE="marg">John 8.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">8. 1 John 3.8.</NOTE> you are they which &s;hut the king|dom of heaven again&s;t men, and neither go in your &s;elves, nor &s;uf|fer others, you are them that get the form as they had got the form of Mo&s;es words, who was a &s;ervant, but they had not his power, and &s;o they were called of men Ma&s;ters, which Chri&s;t cried woe unto them; and &s;o you are them now that have got the form of Chri&s;ts words, but ye are in the place and &s;teps of the Phari&s;ees &s;till, which Chri&s;t cries woe again&s;t you &s;till, di&s;&s;emblers, liers, hypocrites, ye
<PB N="37" REF="20"> are di&s;covered to all the people of God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nahum 2.4.</NOTE> ye are them that are the well favoured harlot, out of the truth, which deceives the Nations, and you are them that have &s;everall colours to fit &s;everall peoples minds; but your abominations are di&s;covered by them who live and walk in the &s;pirit; you are them in whom lodgeth the my&s;tery of witchcraft to draw peoples mindes to you from their inward teacher, your wages is death, your portion is the lake,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek. 21.9.10 11, 12.</NOTE> and the plagues and the wrath of God, you cannot e&s;cape it; for the &s;word is drawn out again&s;t you all.</P>
<P>A voyce and a word to all you who pretend ju&s;tice and equity,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 18.19. P&s;al. 82.3. Eccle&s;. 5.8. Rev. 20.10.</NOTE> who have taken the &s;eat of the Lord upon you, who live not in ju|&s;tice, who have taken the title of Ju&s;tice, and Judge, and Ruler, and live not in true judgment and ju&s;tice, ye are the Bea&s;ts that mu&s;t into the lake with the fal&s;e Prophet, ye do maintain the Prophets that Prophe&s;ie for mony, and the judges that judge for rewards: All this is abomination to the Lord, the one holds up the other,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 82.2.</NOTE> he that bera<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">s rule by his means; the fal&s;e prophet, and he that pretends ju&s;tice, all uphold one another, and maintains warre again&s;t the truth, and impri&s;on them that cry out again&s;t the&s;e abominations,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mica 3.11.</NOTE> which is held up with you, which makes warre again&s;t the Saints, and the Lamb; but the Lamb &s;hall get the victory. Prai&s;es, prai&s;es, to the Lord for ever, over the fal&s;e Prophets, and over the &s;edu|cers, and over all the powers of the world; he is offended over all Principalities and Dominions, who is righteous and ju&s;t, who bears the goverment upon his &s;houlders,<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ai. 9.6.</NOTE> who is he Captain of our &s;al|vation, who hath overcome Death, Hell and the Grave, the Di|vell and all his Angels, he is the leader of his people, through him they overcome; he is their way to the Father: Glory, and honour, and prai&s;e be to him for ever, Father of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jer. 5.5.28.</NOTE> who gives them victory over you all pretended Ju&s;tices, Rulers and Ma|gi&s;trates, and Judges: the Lord is coming to &s;top all the mouthes of the unju&s;t, it mu&s;t not bear rule, the corrupt Judge mu&s;t not &s;tand up, and the corrupt Ruler mo&s;t not rule. which holds up the de|ceit; but the Lord alone will place his law in the hearts of his peo|ple, that true ju&s;tice, and that true iudgment may &s;tand.<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 35.5. Jer. 9.24. Amos 5.24. Matth. 10.17. Mark 13.19.</NOTE> Then righteou&s;nes &s;hall run down in every &s;treet like a &s;tream or a river, and all you that pretend the&s;e things are and will be di&s;covered; for you have beaten them which wor&s;hip the true and living God, and &s;peak from the mouth of the Lord, and cry again&s;t all unju&s;t wayes of man, and the deceits and deceiveable wayes of unrighte|ou&s;ne&s;s, ungodline&s;s and unju&s;tne&s;s; &s;uch are them as you per&s;e|cute, who are in the truth. You who are out of the truth, who do not &s;peak freely, therefore your reward is from man and not from the Lord God; ye hear them that guard the pulpits, ye maintain them and uphold them: ye maintain them and uphold them that &s;eek&punc; their gain from their quarters, poor people are oppre&s;&s;ed with it, ye maintain and uphold them that take tythes of mens e&s;tates,
<PB N="38" REF="21"> and wool,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 2.24 P&s;al. 12.3. I&s;a. 5.7.</NOTE> and the creation, and poor people are oppre&s;&s;ed with it, which cry and groan under the oppre&s;&s;ion of it, and under the bur|then of this oppre&s;&s;ion, and they cry and &s;ay they are Teachers, and &s;ay that Chri&s;t &s;ent them; and they oppre&s;&s;e poor people, and the creation is burthened with the&s;e filthy pretended Mini&s;tery; and if people will not give or bring it home to them, they come to you, and you with your laws compel them to pay three times as much. Is this the Law of God, is this the Mini&s;tery of God? Fear, fear, blu&s;h and tremble: they that are hirelings, them that will not find them their hire, they come to you and &s;ue men at the law, and if they will not give it them they mu&s;t lie in pri&s;on. Did ever any Mini&s;ter of God cau&s;e them to &s;uffer, becau&s;e they would not give them their meanes, but them that received tythes, their gates were open to receive the &s;trangers, fatherle&s;s, and widows; and they did not burthen the creation, but relieve it. The&s;e things are come in remembrance before the Lord, and the abominations that are com|mitted in the earth,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 6.6. Rev. 20.10. Jude 11.</NOTE> the Lord hearkens and hears the groans of his people, which lie under the oppre&s;&s;ion and tyranny, and the Lord is coming to bring them out of captivity, who will redeem his people from you: And thou Bea&s;t and fal&s;e Prophet mu&s;t into the fire, the fal&s;e Prophet is the Councellour to the Bea&s;t, and the Bea&s;t main|tains the fal&s;e Prophets, who &s;tands out of the Coun&s;el of God, both into the pit, into the lake, and fire, you mu&s;t go both, the Lord hath &s;poken it; for ye have maintained <HI>Balaam</HI> with all his gifts and rewards: Wo, wo, is upon him and you both; which wo is upon him, and &s;o is without with the hirelings, and them that &s;eek their gain from their quarters, and them that bear rule by their means; And them that are called of men Ma&s;ters, and them that have the chiefe&s;t places in the A&s;&s;emblies and praying in the Synagogues, &s;ee|king for the Fleece, and &s;uing for the Fleece, and cloathing your &s;elves with the wooll, and laying heavy burthens, and making a prey upon the people:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jer. 23. Ezek. 34</NOTE> The&s;e are they which rule and teach the nation; which are the Mini&s;ters of the world, and the&s;e are they which are held up, and the&s;e are them that hold up the Pictures, Altars, and Cro&s;&s;es, many of them: though many of them have got into higher forms of deceit, yet the &s;ame places they have &s;till, which all the Prophets cryed again&s;t, and Je&s;us Chri&s;t and the Apo&s;tles; therefore wo unto them and you both which hold them up.</P>
<P>A voice and a word to all you Teachers, that &s;ing Davids qua|kings, and tremblings, and prophecyings, and prayings, and prai|&s;ings &amp; this is turned into a meeter, and this ye give to ignorant peo|ple, and &s;ay, Let us &s;ing to the prai&s;e and glory of God, which is al|together to his di&s;honour and again&s;t his glory: for ye being dead, &amp; carnal,<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 38.18.</NOTE> &amp; that which &s;hould &s;ing in you, is in the grave, and cannot witne&s;&s;e Davids condition; but ye mu&s;t to trembling and quaking, and watering your bed with your tears, and weeping, and the grave
<PB N="39" REF="21"> mu&s;t be opened, and you mu&s;t come forth of the pit and &s;nare be|fore you can &s;ing the prai&s;es that <HI>David</HI> &s;ung; but for all your &s;inging of <HI>Davids</HI> experiences, and his conditions in a meeter,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Amos. 8.3.</NOTE> that nature &s;hall be turned into howling that doth it; for when ye &s;ing what ye have turned into meeter, and as ye &s;ay, To the honour and glory of God, when you know him not; and when you read <HI>Davids</HI> P&s;alms and Experiences, and Prophe&s;ies, and Quakings, and Tremblings, and Weepings and Roarings, ye do not put off your hats; but when ye &s;ing them, hats ye put off, and &s;o ye wor&s;hip the works of your own hands, &s;hewing forth the &s;pirit of error, which lodgeth upon the carnal mind, the earthly principle within, the earthly mind with|in, which is not &s;haken down, but all your joy mu&s;t be turned into &s;orrow, for it is abomination to the Lord God, and the Songs of the Temple &s;hall be turned into howling, the Lord of Ho&s;ts hath &s;po|ken it; every one that &s;ings in that nature with dead minds, the dead letter, turning it into a meeter, and every one of you that preach the dead letter, and dead minds, and dead people,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Amos. 8.3.</NOTE> &amp; bring your dead preachings, your dead ordinances as you call them, &amp; your dead rea&s;ons, and your dead applications,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Col. 2.20.22.</NOTE> and &s;o you feed death with death; the letter is death, the carnall mind is death, which death &s;eeketh death, and all is death.</P>
<P>And a voice and word to all you that &s;ay Hebrew, Greek and La|tine is the original, ye are the liars or the fal&s;e prophets, and that <HI>Oxford</HI> and <HI>Cambridge</HI> are the two Well-heads of Divinity, you are them that deny God and Chri&s;t, and all the Prophets and Apo&s;tles and Mini&s;ters of God, and keep people alwaies in your carnall dark waies who live under you: for all the Prophets were taught of God immediately alone, and God was the living fountain of mercy,<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ai. 54.13. Heb. 8.11. 1 Iohn 2.27.</NOTE> and who turned from God, for&s;ook the living mercies, and Chri&s;t &s;aid, ye &s;hall be all taught of the Father, and the Apo&s;tles were taught of God, taught of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and &s;o they all witne&s;&s;ed one Foun|tain, one God-head, from whom all living &s;prings come, and this do we witne&s;&s;e now with the Apo&s;tles, &amp; all the &s;ervants of the Lord, &amp; &s;ons and daughters of God; but you who live in your natural ori|ginal, that &s;ay, Hebrew, Greek and Latine is your original, which is carnal, you &s;ay that the &s;teeple hou&s;e is the Church, which is car|nall; you &s;ay that <HI>Matthew, Mark, Luke</HI> and <HI>John</HI> is the Go&s;pell, which is carnal, and that your word is the Go&s;pel, which is carnall. You &s;ay that &s;prinkling infants is the bapti&s;m which baptizeth them into the faith, and &s;o into the Church, which is carnal: and you tell people of a Sacrament, bringing them to eat a little bread and wine, and &s;ay, that this is a Communion of Saints, which is carnall, and all this feeds the carnal mind, and he that is the Mini&s;ter is here called of men Ma&s;ter,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 23.7. Matth. 21.35. Heb. 11.37.</NOTE> and hath the chiefe&s;t place in the A&s;|&s;emblies, which Je&s;us Chri&s;t forbad, and he hath a Magi&s;trate to maintain him, and all the vitious carnal people to fight for him,
<PB N="40" REF="22"> with clubs,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 2.14.</NOTE> &s;taves and &s;tones and if any di&s;turb him, or cry again&s;t the deceit he practi&s;eth, he hath the &s;tocks or the pri&s;on for him, and all this is natural and carnal. And the naturall man knows not the things of God. And all this &s;tands in the will of man, and out of the will of God, and feeds the &s;erpent, for all this is du&s;t, and du&s;t is the Ser|pents meat.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 3.15. 1 The&s;&s;. 1.1.</NOTE><HI>To all you that can witne&s;s the &s;eed of the Serpent is brui&s;ed with the &s;eed of the woman, in particular; your originall is the Word, your light is Chri&s;t, the &s;ame which was in them that &s;poke forth the Scriptures,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor- 1.12, 13 <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> Cor. 10.16, 17.</NOTE> <HI>your Church is in God, your Bapti&s;m is with the Spirit into one Body, your communion in the Blood of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, which clean&s;eth from all filthine&s;s, and redeemeth from all your vain conver&s;ation. This is the cup which the Saints drink of which is the Saints bli&s;s. But you who drink the cup, a little bread, and a little wine, and &s;ay that is the Comunion, you are not redee|med from your vain conver&s;ation, but you live in all uncleanne&s;s, and all ungodline&s;s, in drunkenne&s;s and exce&s;s, in filthine&s;s, in quarrelling, in pride, in plea&s;ure, and lu&s;ts of uncleanne&s;s, that is the cup of the Divell which you drink. And all you who witne&s;s the feed of the woman, your Go&s;pel is Chri&s;t Je&s;us which takes away the &s;ins of the world.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 10.20, 21. Matth. 4.23. Acts 5.31.</NOTE> <HI>And all who profe&s;s the Letter to be the Go&s;pel, can|not beleive their &s;ins &s;hall be taken away, &s;o long as they are here upon earth. But to you who witne&s;s the eternall Word, the light of God, the Bapti&s;m of the Spirit; all the&s;e things are di&s;covered to be carnal and natural, and acted with them who live without the fear of God and without God in the Fall, in the earth &amp; for the earth, and keep all in the Fall who &s;ay that every one cometh not to be enlight|ned with Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, which is the light which cometh into the world, which light is Chri&s;t, and here you keep them all from the light which &s;hould guide them to the Father of light, to follow your imaginations, and ye are them that keep them blind, and lead them blind,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 15.14.</NOTE> <HI>and draw them from the light, and have taught them that the letter is the light, and that the letter is the word, and that the four Books</HI> Matthew, Mark, Luke <HI>and</HI> John, <HI>are the Go&s;pel, amd that</HI> Ox|ford <HI>and</HI> Cambridge <HI>are the two well-heads of Divinity and that Hebrew, Greek and Latine are the originall, and that you mu&s;t have learned men to open it, &s;uch as you are: but all your abominations now are di&s;covered, prai&s;e, glory and honour to the Lord God Al|mightty for ever, to the Highe&s;t, who is now come and coming, to teach his people, and to &s;eek that which was lo&s;t, and bring a|gain that which was driven away, and to feed them upon the moun|tains, fulfilling his Prophets words, and Chri&s;ts words, by which you are di&s;covered all fal&s;e Teachers, fal&s;e Prophets, Seducers, fal&s;e Apo&s;tles,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek. 34.11, 12, 13.</NOTE> <HI>fal&s;e Di&s;ciples, fal&s;e brethren, and Antichri&s;ts, now you are brought to the touch-&s;tone, and tried with the children of the Lord God.</HI> Now is your whore judged, now is the whoredom
<PB N="41" REF="22"> di&s;covered, now thou harlot, wilt be made bare, for the Lord hath rai&s;ed up a light in peoples hearts by which you are di&s;covered,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nahum 3, 4.</NOTE> and God alone wor&s;hipped and &s;erved. Now the true wor&s;hippers of God are known from the fal&s;e wor&s;hippers: and now is known who hath the form and who hath the power; and who live in the truth, and who talk of the truth: To you all &s;inners who talk of the truth, to you I have a word and a voice. All &s;inners are without, and vain talkers are without, and the woe is upon you, the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t hath &s;poken it. To all you that love the truth, walk in it up to God in the love of it; and you that are in the faith which is from God, abide in it; and you that are in the anointing, abide in it; for your promi&s;e is eternal life, and you need no man to teach you, and they that &s;ay you do need, are &s;educers, and are without God and all his people, and cannot abide in his doctrine <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> that which is pure within you: For all who abide in that which is pure, are one, therefore abide in that one Spirit and Light, and it will lead you up to God the Father of Light. So farewel world!<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gal. 5.16.</NOTE> wo is your portion, wo and mi&s;ery: but with all you Saints and &s;er|vants, &s;ons and daughters; and Prophets of the Lord God Al|mighty, I have unity and joy eternal, and my joy and rejoycing is in you, and you in me, &s;aith the Lord. God Almighty ble&s;&s;e you.</P>
<P>To all you that live in honour, and &s;eek for honour, you rob God;<NOTE PLACE="marg">John. 5.4.</NOTE> for all honour and glory is given to the Lord, the Lord is coming to overturn you and your kingdome, and all your glory, and all your honour: For he is <HI>Jehovah,</HI> of his honour and glory he will give to none but to his Son, &amp; &s;o farewel: for to the pit and de&s;truction you mu&s;t go, and down you mu&s;t fall who are exalted and lifted up, and in your fall God will be exalted and glorified, and all you proud people &s;hall grow feeble, and all you lofty ones &s;hall lie low, and be laid low, the Lord of Ho&s;ts hath &s;poken it,<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ai. 2.11.12.</NOTE> who &s;hall raign in his mighty power, in his &s;ons and daughters over you all: de&s;truction is your portion. Wo to the crown of pride, and wo to him that is lif|ted up, and wo to him that joyneth hou&s;e to hou&s;e, and field to field, when there is no place for the poor; Wo is thy portion, thou may&s;t apply the mercies, but woe is thy portion; thou art an oppre&s;|&s;or pro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">d and covetous, and the plagues are thy portion; and in de|&s;troying thee God is honoured and glorified. Hearken to &s;omething within thy con&s;cience and it will tell thee &s;o, the &s;ame as the Let|ter tells thee without, &amp; witne&s;s what I &s;peak eternally; for to your con&s;ciences all I &s;peak, and to be made manife&s;t who am not of the world, therefore the world knows me not, but I te&s;tifie the truth. And to that which is not of the world, I &s;peak, &amp; that hears, believes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 4.2. 2 Cor. 5.</NOTE> &amp; receives my doctrine and words. But no man receives my te&s;timo|ny: For I am not known to the world, but well known to God. So Fare you well all: to that in every ones con&s;cience, I have &s;poken
<PB N="42" REF="23" MS="y"> and do &s;peak,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mal. 4.1. Luke 19.12.</NOTE> and to every one of you all I have cleared my con&s;ci|ence, which will eternally witne&s;&s;e me. Sons and Daughters of God &s;hall rejoyce, and the wicked &s;hall be turned into hell and be tor|mented, who have ca&s;t the Law of God behind their backs, you have had a time, and have not prized it, <HI>Dives</HI>-like.</P>
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<HEAD>To all the World.</HEAD>
<P>TO all you who are in the night and go forth, ye are the corrupt trees which cannot bring forth good fruit, ye are the Fountain which &s;ends forth bitter Waters, ye are the Bottel which venteth forth wickedne&s;&s;e, prophanene&s;&s;e, cur&s;ed &s;peaking, mi&s;chief, &s;pewing forth your venom: and, what is within you, in the bottel in you, that you pour out, from the abundance of the heart the mouth &s;peaketh. Ye are the Trees&punc; which bear the evil fruit, drunkenne&s;&s;e, filthine&s;&s;e, plea&s;ures, covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, fighting, wrangling, theft, murther, &s;wearing, lying: the&s;e are the fruits of the corrupt Tree, which cannot bring forth good fruit, and the Fountain that bringeth forth bitterne&s;&s;e, wrath, anger, clamour, revenge, filthine&s;&s;e, fooli&s;h talking, perver&s;ene&s;&s;e, this is that which i&s;&s;ues out of the bitter Fountain which is within you; and perver&s;e|ne&s;&s;e, and di&s;&s;embling, and all unrighteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, growes on this cor|rupt Tree, and proceeds out of this corrupt Tree, and ye cannot keep the Commandements of God: but the Devil's, that ye do. Who are the new bottles, the new wine, there righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e is pouring forth of it, and that will not de&s;ire to drink the old: So the new wine is put into new bottles, and the old wine is put into old bottles, and they both are pre&s;erved. The good tree who are, cannot bring evil fruit: The good tree bears Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, purene&s;&s;e, godline&s;&s;e, tenderne&s;&s;e, gentlene&s;&s;e, holine&s;&s;e, temperance, patience, vertue, brotherly kindne&s;&s;e: The&s;e fruits prai&s;e God, this is the fruit that is brought forth to the glory of God, and this is the good Fountain &s;ending forth &s;weet water, joy, the living &s;treams proceed out, where there is no guile, but the living &s;treams of life. But the&s;e that are here are not of the World, that is once, that is the good tree, that cannot bring forth evil fruit, and there is the bottle where the new wine is pouring out, there is the Fountain which &s;ends forth &s;weet water. But this is not of the world, but ye are of the world, that corrupt tree, which cannot bring forth good fruit, ye are the bottel which holds the old wine, ye are the fountain which &s;ends forth bitter waters hither. Here every one of you all &s;hall read your &s;elves, where ye are. To that in every one of your con&s;ciences
<PB N="43" REF="23"> I &s;peak, which is the Light which &s;hewes you &s;in and evil, and dark|ne&s;&s;e, which Light is Chri&s;t, which will teach you, if you love it and walk in it, which Light will condemn you, if you hate it. There is your Teacher, and there is your condemnation.</P>
<P>The mighty Day of the Lord is coming, wo and mi&s;ery to the World: Ha&s;te, ha&s;te by &s;peedy repentance, and put off the works of darkne&s;&s;e to meet the Lord; for the mighty day of the Lord is com|ming, in which ye &s;hall receive every one a reward according to your doings and works, and God is no re&s;pecter of per&s;ons, and the Book of con&s;cience &s;hall be opened, and all &s;hall be judged out of it. There|fore now you have time prize it: For this is the day of your vi&s;itation and Salvation. So Farewell.</P>
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<HEAD>To the <HI>Heads</HI> and <HI>Rulers</HI> of the People.</HEAD>
<P>A Warning of the Lord to all you that make Lawes: I am moved of the Lord to &s;peak to you &s;tanding in the place of Ju&s;tice, giving forth Laws, and who make Laws, that you make no Laws for to uphold the&s;e and them that profe&s;s them&s;elves to be Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t which are hirelings, which &s;eek for their gain from their quarters, which the Prophet cry|ed again&s;t, which &s;eek for the wooll and for the fleece, which <HI>Ezekiel</HI> cryed again&s;t, which bear rule by their means, which go in the way of <HI>Cain</HI> to Envy, and after the errour of <HI>Balaam,</HI> who loved the wages of unrighteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, who peri&s;hed in the gain&s;aying of <HI>Corah,</HI> who gain|&s;aid the truth, and likewi&s;e &s;o do the&s;e filthy dreamers, which you give them a Law to &s;ue men at, they that will not pay them, they take treble of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">hem. A horrible filthy thing is committed in the Land, Jer. 2.30, 31. Never in all ages was &s;uch a thing &s;poken of. Surely the Lord will come and vi&s;it for the&s;e things, and be avenged upon all &s;uch. It was a horrible filthy thing that was com|mitted in the Land in the time of <HI>Jeremy,</HI> when the Prie&s;ts did bear rule by their means, and the Prophets prophe&s;ied fal&s;ly, and the people did love to have it &s;o then; but it is the &s;ame now, and you have given them a Law who profe&s;&s;e them&s;elves to be the Mini&s;ters of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, who bear rule by their means, and &s;eek for their gain from their Quarters, and are hirelings; and if any will not pay them, for con&s;cience &s;ake they cannot, and with that Law which
<PB N="44" REF="24"> you have given them they receive treble, and &s;o wrong and oppre&s;&s;e the Nation, and poor Creatures. O horrible! Was there ever &s;uch a thing practi&s;ed in all ages as you read on? Are the&s;e the Go&s;|pel-Mini&s;ters? Woe, woe, and mi&s;ery will fall upon you, except you repent; and &s;o you and they di&s;honour the Church of Chri&s;t, and di&s;honour the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, all the Prophets, and all the Apo&s;tles, with their and your filthine&s;&s;e. <HI>Jeremy</HI> &s;poke freely, and was not hired, and had no Augmentments, nor no &s;et Benefices nor Tyths. <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> &s;poke freely, and &s;ued no man at the Law, nor had no &s;et wages, but cried again&s;t it. And <HI>Micah</HI> &s;poke forth freely, and cried again&s;t the Judges that judged for rewards, and the Prie&s;ts that preached for h ire, and the Prophets that divined for mony, who &s;aid they leaned upon the Lord and &s;aid; Was not the Lord a|mong them, no evil could come upon them. Surely for your &s;akes &s;hall <HI>Sion</HI> be plowed up, and <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> be laid wa&s;t. <HI>Ezekiel</HI> &s;poke forth freely, and cried again&s;t them that &s;ought for the Fleece, and cloathed them with the wooll, and made a prey upon the people. The Lord hath &s;ent forth his Prophets to cry forth freely again&s;t them that oppre&s;&s;e, the Creation, and they had no law but the Lord God and his Law, to maintain them. And the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, who is the end of the Prophets, and the end of the Law, who &s;ent forth his Apo&s;tles, and &s;ervants, and Di&s;ciples, and he &s;aid unto them, Freely ye have received freely give, the Workman is wor|thy of his meat: So I &s;ay, if any come to my hou&s;e a Mini|&s;ter of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, Servant or Di&s;ciple, and mini&s;ter unto me &s;pirituall things, I will mini&s;ter unto him of my carnal things freely; but he that &s;ues men at the law for Flax, or for Corn, or for Wooll, or for Lamb, or for Bea&s;t, or for Hor&s;e, or for Hay, and all other creatures, which he would have a hand in, Chri&s;t gave no &s;uch command to his Di&s;ciples, when he &s;ent them forth. But the&s;e are the &s;low bellies that are &s;poken of, and evil bea&s;ts, which love the wages of unrighteou&s;ne&s;&s;e; and the Mini&s;ters of Je&s;us Chri&s;t are a&s;hamed of &s;uch that &s;hould make a profe&s;&s;ion, and they &s;peak in his Name when they are Antichri&s;ts which Chri&s;t never &s;ent, who get up into the chiefe&s;t places of A&s;&s;emblies, and &s;tand praying there and with a pretence make long prayers, who devour Widdows hou|&s;es, and paint them&s;elves with other mens words, the Prophets, Chri&s;ts and the Apo&s;tles: and &s;ay, he &s;aith it, when he never &s;ent them, and are called of men Ma&s;ters, which Chri&s;t forbad and &s;aid, Are not ye all brethren? Now friends you may call the&s;e things frivolous and &s;mall, but Chri&s;t cried woe again&s;t all &s;uch as were in the&s;e practi&s;es then; and &s;o woe is upon you all that hold them up now. And with &s;uch is Chri&s;ts name pla&s;phemed, and the Church of God di&s;honoured, and the creation oppre&s;&s;ed, and poor people kept blind, and they keep you blind, and &s;uch are your Coun&s;el|lours in the carnal &s;tate. But mind the light of God within you,
<PB N="45" REF="24"> which light is the eye; The light of the body is the eye, <HI>Matth.</HI> 6.22. which will light you up to God the Father of lights, and let you &s;ee all the deceits all the time you have lived in that is pa&s;t, and the &s;tate you live in now. And call in all your Acts and Laws, which you have made for the maintaining of all tho&s;e actions and practices which keep people under oppre&s;&s;ion both you and the prie&s;ts which have profe&s;&s;ed that this Nation &s;hould have been a free Na|tion, but it mu&s;t not be made by you, but by God alone, who is the Saviour of his people from the &s;eed of evil doers, who is the &s;al|vation of I&s;rael, who is coming to overturn all your laws that you have made in your own wils, and who will rule and place his righ|teous law in the hearts of his people, by which they &s;hall be guided up to God, to know God, and they &s;hall have one Prie&s;t for ever even Je&s;us Chri&s;t, who is made after the order of <HI>Melchi&s;edeck,</HI> without Father or Mother, and they &s;hall have one Law and one Law-giver, one Lord and King which is the Lord of Ho&s;ts, to whom be glory and honour for ever.</P>
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<P>MOved of the Lord, written from the Spirit of the Lord, for the e&s;tabli&s;hing of the righteous Law within, and the overturning of all unrighteous laws, which is upon the pure and righteous &s;eed of God, and to the directing of that to guide your minds to that which is righteouss, the pure &s;hining light of God within you, to the e&s;tabli&s;hing of righteou&s;ne&s;s and of true judgment, that righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e may run down the &s;treets, and the Go&s;pel be freely preached by tho&s;e who are &s;ent of God, who freely cry again&s;t all &s;uch as burden the Creation now as they did then, who were &s;ent without a &s;taffe, without two coats, without &s;ilver in their pur&s;es, or bra&s;s now as was then, who needed not to take thought for what they &s;hould &s;peak, who are haled out of the Synagogues now as then: The free Go&s;pel-Teachers are &s;uch who &s;ee the Phari&s;ees in their high places of the A&s;&s;emblies, called of men Ma&s;ters now as then; who &s;ee men beare rule by their meanes now as they did then, who &s;ue men at the law, who profe&s;s them&s;elves to be the Mini&s;ters of Je&s;us Chri&s;t; and the Apo&s;tle who was a Mini&s;ter of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, &s;aid, there was not a wi&s;e man among them that did &s;o. Here you raze your &s;elves out from the Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t and of the Apo&s;tles. I cannot but deal plainly with you, I mu&s;t not &s;ew pillows under your elbows, and make a &s;oft place for the deceit; but woe and mi&s;ery is coming upon all you that do &s;o, who have long deceived the Nation, and profe&s;s your &s;elves to be the Mini&s;ters of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and &s;ay, Chri&s;t &s;ent you, who have li|ved in the practices that Chri&s;t and the Apo&s;tles &s;poke again&s;t in that generation; you are acting tho&s;e things which Chri&s;t cried woe
<PB N="46" REF="25"> again&s;t; to that which &s;hould exerci&s;e your con&s;ciences do I &s;peak, to the light of God which &s;hall eternally witne&s;&s;e me, which light if ye love it, it will bring all your deeds to the light to be proved, and bring you to own what I &s;peak, and then there will be no occa&s;ion of &s;tumbling; but hating this light, your deeds are evil, and you &s;tum|ble at noon day; which light if you hate it, is your condemnation: to that in your con&s;cience I clear my con&s;cience; &s;poken from the mouth of the Lord, which you &s;hall eternally witne&s;&s;e: Therefore ha&s;te, ha&s;te, by &s;peedy repentance, and putting off the works of dark|ne&s;&s;e, to the meeting of the Lord in the ayr; for the mighty day of the Lord is coming.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>George Fox.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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