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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35699	Denus petition to the Lord General Cromwell with his Protestation and engagement : also, his description of the house of God and original priesthood : whereunto is annexed The ministerial duty and The personal reign of the saints.	Denus.	1651 (1651)	Wing D1068A; ESTC R26116	23,636	34

so denied to go forth which caused the loss of life And it hath been a woful spectacle in the worlds eye when it hath been apparently known that some devouring Nimrods have bought out many poor souldiers pay some for 4 1 5 1 or 6 1 in the score and all for want of justice Their cries will come up to the God of heaven I beseech your Excellence promote true justice for Gods cause and fear no human flesh and the Lord will be your arm of defence Oh Army of the Lord Esay 1.26 I will restore thy judgments as at the first and thou shalt be called the City of Righteousness when Sion shall be redeemed with justice and when you shall redeem the oppressed judge the fatherless and plead for the widow then the Lord will delight in your works of piety Now that it may please you to take into your consideration and to move our Parliament upon the Lords designe that both they and you may be called blessed in the act of Restoring Ezek. 47.14 the Lord declareth saying Ye shall one inherit as well as another Meaning the Earth or the Land which is the Lords Verse the 22 he saith Ye shall divide the Land by lot for an inheritance And lastly he saith What Tribe soever the stranger sojourneth in there ye shall give him his inheritance Now the clamation of our poor Israel is for want of Commons to plant and build upon and this being alienated and estranged from them by cursed Ahabs which now do enjoy Naboths Vineyard and spoil our good Commons The Lord hath sent me to move you upon this object that they which have possessions should not take away the Commons from the poor Common wealth of Israel but that they which have no inheritance should have their Lots in the Commons as it is their right by Creation from God the Prophets Esay Jeremy and Ezekiel shall be tilled and become as the garden of Eden Joel 3.2 I will plead with them for my people Israel and for my heritage which they have cast lots for my land and parted it among the Nation Now if your Excellency please to help the Lord against the mighty then he saith Joel 2. I will restore to you the years that the Locusts have eaten the Cankerworm the Caterpiller and the Palinerworm which I sent amongst you Lastly That you would please to fall and kneel at the appearing of the Lord when he shall set up his Ordination or Determinate Power then all your subordinate powers must fall then he that is least in the world shall be greatest in his Kingdome and he that overcometh shall rule the Nations Let the high praises of God be in your mouth and a two edged sword in your hand to destroy sin for a spiritual and temporal Justice So I rest your poor petitioner to command Denus to the restored Church in the Isle of Pathmos A Protestation and Engagement I Am ingaged for the Cause and shall lay down my life and dearest blood and will do it in case of conscience for the defence of the everlasting Gospel though humane Lawes do fail and mens ordinances come to nothing yet how unchangeable is the Law of God in his ordination Christ at his first appearance destroyed every mans law and ordinances and thereupon wounded the Beast saying All power is given me in heaven and in earth Go teach all Nations as if be should say every law statute and ordinance of man is at an end yet many strive for earthly and humane power and cause the sword to rule by a law which is not the Law of God to kill and keep alive although for common trespasses making their own wills a law contrary to the law of Sion and we hold up the sword by a law and a law by the sword which is not good our Lord saith he that killeth with the sword shall dye with the sword He in Genesis Whosoever killeth Cain his blood shall be required seven fold and Revel 11. Whosoever killeth them shall be so killed tt is better for a man to dye an Anatomy then to be a man-slayer to take away life and free Creation from any of the Creatures of God and to lord over them by cruelty Our Saviour saith offences will be but woe be to them by whom they do come it were better a milstone were hanged about his neck and cast into the Sea then to offend in bloud robbery or any such thing by legal cruelty pretending a law above the Gospel and Records of Christ to his Disciples which law to maintain is not so ancient as that order of Melchizedeck made to Abraham by a promise though the law was given by Moses yet faith and truth came by Christ So that under the name of Melchizedeck or under the name of Christ he the Lord hath alwayes put an end to mans ordinances according to his Divine Ordination and I know no law of man that can stand before the Law of God in Sion there is but one Law and one Law-giver which gift to us is the free Gospel as James saith So speak and so walk that ye may be judged by the Law of liberty which is the Word of God for an outward record called by David his Statutes Divine meaning the Old and New Testament by way of cau●●●● that every godly Magistrate should lay the Bible book before him to convince every sinne and errour of the offender and not to use any other book of mixture compounded together lest they adde or diminish from Gods Word or Commandment for then and at that time the Bible shall be the chief Statute to maintain Freedome and Justice it is not your statutes of Winchester London or Magna Charta so Evangelical or ancient that can stand when the power of Christ appeareth and shall shine out of the East unto the West and from the North to the South so that all the Nations shall see his glorious appearing which is his testimony of Light to me a sufferer for the Gospel of Christ and I know not whether by imprisonment or losse of life the prison is but freedomes purgatory and it shall at the last conquer hell and Freedome shall have victory by his statutes Divine it is for the Law of God that I dye daily and am much killed in my dear Desires I stand up for the liberty of the Gospel and Freedome of the Creation and to plead for the Kingdome of Christ and the inheritance of the people which I hope you will not hinder me of Our Saviour saith Matth. 10. Fear them not for there is nothing hid that shall not be known and I cannot but declare the things I have seen I am not onely ready to suffer your imprisonment but to suffer death or any torture for the Cause I mean for the Law and Liberties of the Gospel of the Lord. I am a faithful witnesse of God I fear not your Famine Distresse or Death I am the person to raise

Johns testimony he was Juda and I am Israel Denus the feet of the two Witnesses Septemb. 29 1651. The Law of Sion HEre is an Alligory of two Lawes the first is the singular and pure Law of God the other is the unjust lawes of Man This pure Law of God shall put an end to all the lawes of man upon the seventh Vial this Law of God gendereth to life and salvation but the lawes of man do gender to cruelty and corruption which lawes of man must fall before Sion which are not lawes according to his Word and true equity all such lawes are but mens ordinances and shall not stand before the Law of God for there is but one Law and one Law-giver which is God that hath given us his Word for a Law to be a restoring right to all and for want of this true execution of Gods word it maketh the curse remain upon the Creature to this day and because of forbidden fruit which is contrary to his Institution maketh it so but Gods word should be set in its place to judge or condemn to save or justifie and not mens traditions which are vain Our Saviour saith Man liveth not onely by bread but by every word that cometh out of Gods mouth which is from his ancient Decree to keep all things by his Providence which is a hidden law and spiritual and agreeable to the letter of his Word and I know no other law that man can erect but to judge all things by the law of Gods Word and to throw down mens ordinances which be not agreeable to it for such lawes proceed not out of Sion neither can our Judges be Judges in Israel except they make Gods word the rule of justice to try causes by And going contrary to this Rule it maketh many fleshly Judges and weak Jury-men O simple ignorance and base folly to go from the Judge of Heaven and Earth to serve under these Judges which destroy his Word and Law of justice for there is no offence committed before God or against man but may be judged by his word of Truth and pure Gospel under the jurisdiction of Christ and his Church which may be called Jure Divino that is under twelve holy persons or so many Senatours of Gods house that your law may wholly proceed out of Sion that Divine Justice may censure all judicature power and so to tread them under feet with the scarlet whore which have taken away many mens lives contrary to Gods word and holy Scripture it hath been a poor businesse carried on so long that wicked Judges should sit to give sentence and some wicked fore-men among the rest should give up their verdict contrary to the Law of Sion having judged for reward and some for want of seeing the pure Will of God and declaration of his word his word ought to judge and govern and shall throw down all oppressing that his people may have rest from all their enemies these Judges have been in such esteem before men and yet ignorant of Divine justice which he hath set before them in his Word I desire you all to know both Judge and Justice if you adde or diminish from Gods VVord it will prove unjustice and therein ye fall severity and hinder the free passage of the Gospel changing it into your own ordinances using the Gospel to your own turns which is a cursed thing to do your lawes are of Euphrates which shall perish in Armagiddon and fall by destruction ye Judges Lawyers Priests and Jesuites your ordinances shall burn with Babylon and your seven streams of power are struck by the seventh Vial of Gods wrath his Law must go out of Sion which shall cast out all your laws that justice may run down our streets What makes so much bauling in our Churches To answer it is because they go on hood-winked compounding the lawes of men amongst the ordinances of God which be far distant the one from the other and for want of the true executing of this word of God all your Churches are in a combustion as Bees up in armes one against another for the truth and untill we make Gods word the Rule and Law of our civil affaires to bring our selves under the Captivity of Christ and untill then the curse shall remain I properly mean the cursed lawes of man which have bought and sold the lives of some men contrary to the Word of God and Law of Sion this curse or cursed ordinance of man God will suddenly burn up and abolish by the brightnesse of his appearing and David saith Blessed are they that keep his testimonies thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee I will not forget thy word Princes did sit and speak against me but I did meditate in thy statutes devine Thy Law is my counsel day and night I have more understanding then all my Teachers I understand more then the Ancient because I keep thy Law I have refrained my feet from every evill way because of thy word How sweet are thy words unto my taste Thy word is a light to my feet quicken me according to thy word mine eyes prevent the night watch I beheld the transgressours and was grieved because they kept not thy word Tears run down mine eyes because they keep not thy word Now if our Lawyers would truly see this Law of God they durst not do as they do and if our Judges would prove causes by this word of God then might we call them the Judges in Israel but it is not so for they prove their own testimonies and act sin by a law but look into this 119. Psalm and ye shall find it pithy to this purpose he calleth it thy Statutes divine which if our Magistrates did but savingly look in this glasse of Gods law they might well throw away their books which be but the step-mother to this Law of Sion called mens ordinances which have thus traded in power over Gods word and true Gospel untill the year of our Lord 1650. which was then shaken though not utterly faln yet it shall lose its shining light of oriency and tho Lawyers and Judges shall never gain credit nor comfort until they do erect the true word of God far above the statutes of Winchester 2 Chron. 19. there ye may find at large that Jehosaphat made of the Levites and of the Priests and of the chiefest of the Fathers of Israel for the judgment of the Lord and for all Controversies And in that ye may find he did not set the ungodly to judge nor bloudy men that should judge according to their own wills but such as were chosen men of the Lord that should make his holy word the rule of justice to end all differences Now good Jehosaphat gave the Judges a charge saying Take heed what ye do ye judge not for man but for the Lord who is with you in the judgment take heed and do it for there is no