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Doctor Hill's funeral-sermon. Or a nevv-yeers-gift to all the clergie. Daynus, the reviving feet fo the witnesses past and to come, to shew the day and yeer of the Lord, and his time accepted.
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Hesselwood, Henry.
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martyrs Come may the Church say Let us eat her up for God hath given her into our hands and Christ shall raign and shall put all authority under his feet IT shall be a peaceable Dominion when Christ shall raign over the Earth by a personal power of Saints that shall fully hold forth the Scepter He shall come to raign in power over the earth till all rule and authority is put under his feet Kings must throw down and stoop to his peaceable Dominion he shall make straight every crooked way his endless Priesthood shall teach when every mouth shall be stopped he giveth peace which the world cannot give he saith Walk in my way I will be your Sun and your light when every form and written declaration shall cease and be no more I would have all men live above the flesh by a heavenly procreation or inclination of doing good and that is perfection indeed for by doing well thou shalt have joy unspeakable which will be as a whole kingdom in thy soul I would have Gods people preach forth restoration and desire to see a full manifestation of things made out as the Lord alone to be all our teacher he is our Protector and not man his Priestly power shall be a peaceable Dominion when Monarchy is put down though Kings and Lord stands in his place and Protectors stand in his place yet who shall stand when he appeareth by a more brighter shining light when all shall be forced to give up their dignities stoop to his peaceable Dominion Isa 66. I will send them to declare my glory among the Gentiles shewing the great day of Jehovah when men shall finally throw down their high titles and then peaceable Dominions shall raign What Priest will plead for my name saith the Lord against them that set themselves so high as Lord and King and set themselves up by earthly enjoyments Therefore God hath raised my Spirit to plead against all the Priests and to lay open their folly that call themselves Seers in Israel and yet keep all things as they were ye have not yet preached the Gospel but denied the Son of God and the power of his resurrection for ye have given his glory to men Therefore as yet ye have not preached the Gospel nor laid your life down as yet for the truth You have declared the History of the Prophets and of Peter and Paul but we have had enough of it without you would preach them out of their Graves But which of you Priests will vindicate life for the eternal Gospel to set Christ upon his throne to say he is King alone and Lord alone and so deny outward honour and acknowledge nothing honourable but the Lord and that is true Gospel thou must tread down all for Christ thou shalt tread upon Scorpions and Serpents and they shall not hurt thee it is the words of our Saviour thou must tread upon Kings Lords and Princes and Nobles and Rulers if thou beest true for Christ he is the everlasting Gospel thou shalt cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils it is the Lord that preacheth peace keepeth all alive fear not man or any power of men formed against the Gospel it shall not prosper when he appeareth Kings must lay down Princes must lay down Protectors must lay down Lords must lay down Magistrates must lay down Priests must lay down thou must lay down and I must lay down the Stars and Constellations shall fail at his appearing the negative voice shall not stand for he will give power to his two witnesses to plead for all truth before a Judgement-seat of the Saints when this Government shall be taken away and changed at his bright appearing when all formed Gospels of men shall be changed to a new Sabbath when men shall be forced to lay down for the Gospel when they shall ascribe to him kingdom power and glory and that is the full end of preaching to set God upon his throne he is the everlasting Gospel of peace and I know no other Gospel but that he should rule above every man in dignity and honor And that Lord man should not pollute his holy name Ye high Doctors may Object saying What is the power of Christ you speak so much of I answer It is the power of God that shall silence the great mens spirits when it shall apear it shall take away their sting as from King and Lord and Bishop that have formerly persecuted the Saints Christ saith All power is given me in heaven and earth and God saith Vengeance is mine I wonder how men dare do as they have formerly done to put an end to some of Gods chosen people by taking away life and free-creation and by silencing some others in prison which is a type of hell and dare not kill them lest heaven and earth should cry out against them as that it hath done long since Ye Ministers go with your hands full of blood by flattering men in their blood-thirsty-way by sowing pillows and cushions under their elbows very loth to tell them the truth from God saying Why do you take away life and free-creation from the creatures of God seeing life and death is in the hands of the Lord then what hath man to do to take away life from any of the creatures of God it is an intolerable thing which of you Priests will ingage for Christ in this cause saying Oh great men I doubt you will sink in the lake of Gods irrecoverable vengeance for vengeance is the Lords and he will give it them to drink for the Soul that sinneth it shall die Let men take heed how they act and see that they act in righteousness better they had never been born then to be bloody persecutors to offend any of those little ones of Christ either by death or imprisonment GOd teacheth us by his Son he is the sure word of prophesie our everlasting Gospel which may reprove the literal teachers that call the Scriptures the Gospel when indeed they are but the writings of men put together as a History but Christ is the eternal mystery Christ Jesus alone is our eternal peace free from failable mixture it is God from the beginning he is the word of life beyond the written word of man so is the eternal decree in paradise and as by a further manifestion of his Son to preach and declare forth all truth far above the writings of men which is not the word of God but mans word spoken in part nd prophesied in part as Paul declareth Therefore the Scripture cannot fully be called the word of God but mens traditions and part of the minde of God they prophesied in part they writ in part they believed in part of the mystery of God but Christ he comes in the volume of the book he is our sure word of prophesie far higher then any Scripture and for that cause Scripture cannot be fully called the word of God except
Fourthly he will appear by Witnesses which shall extinguish one mans tongue for the mouth of two or three witnesses shall be an establishment and the many Voyces shall swallow up your Ministerial Voyce These two witnesses shall have power in the dayes of their Prophesie to turn the waters into blood so often as they will that is to declare forth the bloody condition of blood-thirsty persons which you dare not do for losing your impropriated Parsonages These Witnesses shall have power to shut Heaven gates so often as they will that it rain not It is not meant the imperial Heaven of Heavens but it is meant they shall shut the gates of the heavenly and visible Kingdom here below that none shall enter in to raigne in that pure State but such as shall be approved Members of that glorious Jerusalem above These Witnesses shall have power to shut Heaven that iâ— rayne not that is twelve it shall not raigne in the dayes of their power but shall be finally swallowed up in the Victory of Christ it shall not raigne it and it it and it it and it it and it it and it it and it That is no outward power shall raign in the time of Christs power The first the first thing that shall not raigne is Earthly King and Grace The second thing that shall not raigne is Lord and Protector The third thing that shall not raigne is Power and Excellency of Man The fourth thing that shall not raigne is Worship and Honor. The fifth thing that shall not raign is Highness and Greatness of Men. The sixth thing that shall not raigne is Priest and Lawyer for Christ will sit upon the backs of all those and be exalted by the multitude of the people multitudes multitudes shall stand upon Angella Christ must raign by his Saints till he hath put all Authority and power under his Feet 2 Cor. 15. The Feet of the two Witnesses shall tread in pieces the Dragons tail as Christ broke his head so they shall bruise his heel for the Antitype of Satans Kingdom must fall and perish under the power of Army Giddon O Army Army Arme of the Lord he will create a defence upon thy Walls and Bulworks They shall have power to shut Heaven that it rain not that is they shall silence all the powers and the Angels of your Churches that is by a new disciplying power that shall put down the raigning power of such as have raigned over his power though they may make an attempt against the holy City yet fire must come down from Heaven and destroy them Any instrument framed against the power of Jerusalem shall not prosper none shall raigne in this Kingdom but the faithful Witnesses of Christ called and chosen These Witnesses are said to be two though many in number yet two is the least number which maketh one mans testimony void and of none effect Ye great and high Doctors and all ye Legators what will become of your Courts and infamous Colledges I suppose in short time they will stand like old Pauls or the Barn of Westminster without any trading very infamous yet borne up with Crutches whose constellations will fail and all your Priestly powers which have raigned so long over the people for there is one King one Lord one High-Priest and one Prophet that shall put down every power High and lofty Doctors that haâ—e got so many hundreds a year in your hands and yet are commanded to bring your Tythes into Gods Store-house and not into your own houses you have kept the people under bondage which God will now set at liberty when your Ministery is down yet the people shall bring the tenth of their substance into Gods Store-house as their Father Abraham did which shall shame your doings that are not good He saith You go to your Cieled Houses but my House lyeth desolate and ye rob Gods House of the benefits and come not in at the Door but clime up some other way which is unlawful And Christ saith I am the Door the Truth the Life and ye injoy all things of my Father and those benefits of Tythes you cannot injoy to your selves for they be proper to the Widow the Fatherless the Stranger the Blind and the Lame and to be brought into the Store-house for Collection and hospitality to those that want But in this I finde the Priests do omit and commit Sacriledge against the Order of Gods house Ye Doctors see and wonder the Lord hath appeared in me that I should be to you as a foolish Shepherd to tell you of folly sometimes in the night when my Body slept yet my spirit was awake and heard as it had been Voyces both in the night and also on the day which caused me to write when he declared unto me the things that should shortly come to pass by so many dark and spiritual appearances which are hideous to men yet known to me as one born in due time Doctor High-Priest you must stoop at ordination Christ was an ordained Minister so was not you he was sent of his Father Now if you can prove your selves ordained Minsters then you may put Christ out of his place You are of the Stepmother or Bondwoman and came not in at the Door which is not according to ordination but by way of impropriation or a taking Christs place upon your selves and set your selves in high places as Ministers of God though not ordained yet you take upon you the place of Christ and declare your selves Pastors to the People and yet not able to feed your selves O silly Shepherds know assuredly there is but one Pastor and that is Christ alone he is Pastor unus Pastor varius Pastor magnus and Pastor function he is the great Shepherd and Bishop of our souls he is our book of remembrance he is the eternal word without any Letter-teachers It 's a great shame that men live more by the teachings of men then they do by the teachings of the Sonne of God which teacheth us in all things Then down with all your Letter-teachers that are as Lawyers that study wisdom by art by policy by learning and skill to deceive them of weak understanding Mal 3. saith There was a Book of Remembrance opened and they talked often together which was the best teaching So that Voyces and Witnesses shall be heard in the room of the Priests for ye must lay down your Priestly power ye must deny your selves and declare Christ to be all in all that he may be Priest King over all but ye have stood so long as Vice-admiral over all in your Pulpits domineering over the People to keep them under your rule Doctor thou canst not truly preach Christ till thou throwest all down at his Feet and whatever thou beest thou must throw down thy own self-power Object What a Minister and throw-down his power Answ Yes why not for how canst thou royally preach Christ and declare thy self a Minister of God and yet