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A93935	An iron rod put into the Lord Protectors hand, to break all antichristian powers in pieces. Or, A discourse, which tends to a spirituall war with all sects and self-opinions, which are the Churches enemies: wil bring Englands everlasting happiness, and joyn all other lands into the body of Christs Church, to serve God with with [sic] one consent, Zeph. 3.9. All which was discovered to John Sanders of Harburn, neer Brimingham [sic]: by true apparitions, revelations, and many several visions, as the second book sheweth.	Sanders, John, of Harburn.	1655 (1655)	Wing S575; Thomason E842_23; ESTC R203488	52,643	75

is me if I declare not faithfully that which the Lord declareth to me either to King or Parliament Gourteous Reader some Errours have escaped the presse yet but one worth observation In page 38. line 32. for Monday read Wednesday The Table of the First Book FIrst here is shewed in this Book to your Highness and all others that please to hear or read it a Petition to move you with all expedition to goe about the work of God to finde out true Religion for the beautifying of Gods Church and then to build it up Page 1. Secondly the manner and time how Davids Tabernacle fell as well from the Christian Gentiles which were in Gospel-covenant as it did from the 12. Tribes of Israel in Rehoboams time under the Law and how there was never no true Religion in one body since they parted p. 2. Thirdly a short description of the Protestants ruinating in this land by this late war p. 5. Fourthly the true manner described how Davids fallen Tabernacle should be begun to be raised as in the dayes of old Amos 9 proved by Law and Gospel-rule to be the true Channel for the Church to run in first in this land and no other way then this can be proved which wil bring the whole world to one union of faith to serve God with one consent Zeph. 3.9 p. 6. Fifthly what a wilderness infectious poysoned and scattered condition the Church and people of God are in for want of a Church-government according to Patriarchal Prophetical Apostolical and Discipled orders the true manner of which is laid down in this Book p. 13. Sixthly true comparative signes first by the Stars secondly by the Moon that Christs true Religion is ready to breake forth into beautifulness more then ever it was in p. 15. Seventhly a godly direction and admonition for his Highness the Lord Protector to take the like care for the chusing of a High Priest to be Head in chief for Christs Church as Abrahams eldest servant did for a wife for Isaac the figure of Christ Gen. 24. This wil be the beginning of a fifth Monarchy under Christ Eightly the manner of the High Priests receiving of the number of 12. Apostolical Bishops to be Head Fathers of the 12. spiritual Tribes of Israel which are now scattered abroad Jam. 1. by the holy order of laying on of hands and of his and their receiving the number of 70. under them to make a body above the ordinary Ministers of Christs Church p. 22. Ninthly the true manner how to prove them whether their calling and election be of God or not by going to a spiritual war which is a contending for the faith or casting rods and lots with all Sects and self-opinions which are the Churches enemies Num. 17.18 Matth. 27.55 Joh. 19.23 Iude. p. 25. Tenthly the manner of the Whore of Babels fal and all false forms in one day in this land to be a patterned example for the whole world to follow and for the calling of the Jewes Turks Pagans and Infidels to the true faith p. 27. Eleventhly it sheweth the glorious time of the new Jerusalems situated government and of the Churches glory p. 31 Twelfthly it sheweth how that King Charles the Second-is appointed by God to be his chief King under Christ over the whole world and the Lord Protector if he will be obedient to the word of the Lord to be the second under him as Abrahams faithful servant to be chief Ruler for the King for by their agreement the Jews and Turks are to be called p. 36. And all that assist them and are faithful in their places that are now in power and wil be obedient willingly now they see Gods truth and righteous peace ready to break forth to yield to God and his true anointed King if they lose a Captaines place Major Colonel or General which now is held by troublesome fear then it wil be no more loss to them then theattaining to a Knight Lord Judge Earle Duke or Deputy King or Prince by this peaceable agreement til the end of all things come to dissolution over this Land and many more for them to be Governours As I am commanded of God to threaten those that have gotten into other mens possessions contrary to godliness or good consciences and so prove themselves by it to be enemies in that to Gods glorious Gospel and the Primitive Churches practice so I am commanded of God to threaten all with the danger of their own ruine and the displeasure of God that will not forbear plotting and mutyning and so hurt the Kings agreement Doe you think it is possible to stand in a strong wind and throw chaff against the wind and it not fly back upon you Do you think it is possible to doe Gods work before his time be It is but the Devils policie to cause you so to think God is neer arising to deliver his people and to restore his Church Therefore wait patiently till the time be for the day is neer a dawning TO HIS HIGHNESSE the Lord PROTECTOR MAy it please your Highness to vouchsafe the reading of this little Book which God caused me your servant in the Lord Iohn Sanders to indite unto you who hath come oftentimes on purpose to speake with you being compelled by the power of the holy Ghost which enableth me to foretel things to shew you what Gods wil is toward you if you will believe and obey the Lord. O my Lord wo is me if I be either fearful or negligent to give you and all others warning since God hath called me and shewed me a sword of Justice which proceedeth out of his mouth which he is now arising to draw forth not onely against you and your power but against all the chiefe governours of the world unlesse speedily you and they deny your own wayes and imbrace Gods wayes Those that so doe it shal go wel with them My Lord I shal in these first lines forbeare making use of any other mens labours study or Scripture phrases lest you should rather think it to be brain knowledge then the dictates of Gods Spirit I conceive your Highness believeth that where God appears by visions and Christ takes up the roome the holy Ghost carrieth them on by a real true power they wil be so guided and shewed Gods waies and wil according to their gift and talent to write or speak the mind of God without either study or natural parts when God pleaseth The Scriptures are given of God to be as a touchstone for them that feare God and obey his wil to try the spirits whether they be of God therefore let them be your Judge but have especial care of wresting them endeavour to let them arest you in this life and you shal have rest in the life to come Truly my Lord if such like counsel which natural men wil not own but count foolishness doe not guide you you wil not only stumble in points of Religion as many

AN IRON ROD PUT INTO The Lord PROTECTORS Hand To break all Antichristian Powers in pieces OR A Discourse which tends to a Spirituall War with all Sects and Self-opinions which are the Churches enemies wil bring Englands everlasting happiness and joyn all other Lands into the body of Christs Church to serve God with with one consent Zeph. 3.9 All which was discovered to John Sanders of Harburn neer Brimingham By true Apparitions Revelations and many several Visions as the second Book sheweth Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a Potters vessel Psal 2.9 Rev. 2.27 The Lords voice cryeth unto the City and the man of wisedome shall see my name hear the rod and who hath appointed it Micah 6.9 LONDON Printed for the Author and are to be sold at the Angel in Cornhil 1655. The Table of the Second Book THis Second Book of John Saunders sheweth a true relation how and where he was called at noon-time of the day on the 11. day of June 1643. by a true and a terrible apparition and further how the Lord revealed his secret intent and confirmed it to him by true signs and shewed him the greatest remarkable revolutions turnings chances and changes as have been ever since between King and Parliament which he then declared before many And what way the Church shal be re-builded to bring all Lands into one Christian Body and Union of Eaith Surely saith the Lord then will I turne to the people a pure language that they may call upon the name of the Lord and serve him with one consent Zephany 3.9 And a true Relation of what horrible afflictions God suffered him to be sundry and many times cast into by Satan and his instruments because he did at first neglect the message of the Lord of Hosts conterning King and Parliament Church and State Dear Christian Reader IN this Second Book of John Sanders here is shewn a true Relation of the manner how God called me to this work in as wonderful a way as he did Paul at noon-time of the day by an open apparition on the 11. day of June 1643. Page 37 As I was employed in a Faire with my Master Mr. Robert Bloomer it pleased my heavenly Master and Father in Christ to cause me to see the Apparition then at that immediate time But God knowing that I was inclined by nature to be hard of beliefe like Thomas who would not believe unles he felt and saw both or like the men of our late dayes which will not believe but that Apparitions Revelations and true Visions are now ceased it pleased God to convert me from that erroneous unbelieving mind in as wonderful a manner as he did Paul at noon-time of the day and caused me to feele his indignation as the reading of this Book wil tel you in what manner and at noon again four dayes after how the Lords holy Angel was sent to comfort my comfortlesse condition by secret and strange Revelation and on the morrow at night after and on the next morning being Friday the 17. day to confirm me by trial and terrible Visions and strange temptations and then to comfort me with his holy Angel to give me a command to goe to King and Parliament as it were to be a Herauld of Armes or heavenly Embassador from the King of Kings And to tel first the King what would befal him unless such things were agreed on as this Book sheweth and then to go to the Parliament to shew what they must do or else the like and worse judgment would befal them at last unless they would do as Zacheus did when Christ called him Yet the Kings Son and a remnant of them must and would agree at last for upon their agreement is the greatest meanes under God to call the Jewes and convert the whole world into one union of Faith Then I was shewed what misery I was to undergoe if I refused to goe on Gods message yet must go at last This book of my troubles sheweth the manner what I have endured First of my going to speak with the King when he was prisoner at Holmby and in what manner I was prevented from speaking with the King himself and then what I told Colonel Graves would befal first to the King and then the Parliament if such things were not done as this Book speaks of and what great troubles befel me after by Satans malicious working against me by my wife and her kindred and some of my own and many wicked men besides and of Gods great miraculous deliverance and mercy to me p. 44 46 47 48 Secondly of my putting out of a little Book about the time that the Levellers rose against the Parliament called A Description of the Ten Commandements concerning this late War laying open the misery of the Church by reason of covetous and new fangled Teachers were crept into it for want of true Church-government And then what troubles befel me again and how some of her friends urged her to be divorced from me and of their persecuting of me p. 54 55 Thirdly the Bill of Divorcement put in print in this Book given her six yeares since after this manner which she and they were the causers of p. 58 Fourthly the manner how God compelled me to foretel Worcester fight and the manner and time of it and how the King would be overthrown if he fought and eminent witness produced that heard me speak it p. 62. Fifthly the humble petition of Iohn Sanders to the Lord Protector of his often comming to London since to speak with the Parliament to tel that Parliament that they could not stand and to shew them what was the cause Colonel Barkstead can witnesse it that God compelled me to tel him and what would be the cause p. 53 Sixthly of my comming out of Ireland neer 6. weeks before the little Parliaments dissolution and to tel some of them that Gods decree was so gone out against them that they would be dissolved about the shortest day in the yeare Witness Colonel Barkestead which is now the Lieutenant of the Tower And then of my going into our Country of my being compelled by God to prefigure declare in Brimingham what was then doing that day in London 88. miles from London then of my being thrown into prison p. 64 Seventhly of my being compelled by the dictates of Gods spirit to speak and write many times and make many journeys since to the present power and the last Parliament to tel them what hath and wil befal them unlesse they wil deny themselves and seek God p. 65 Eightly of several Visions as I have had this yeare concerning the Church being rebuilded suddenly and the Lord Protectors Councel and King Charles his agreeing And how God revealed the plot of the Countrys-rising to me and caused me to carry a Letter to the Tower of it and to deliver it before the rising was p. 66 67 Woe

beere and let us drink together before we part J said she if J could finde any Rats-bane to poyson thee J would So I left her and went to my Fathers house with a heavy heart the Lord knoweth So the next time I went to the Constable with a warrant to bring them her Mother eldest Brother John and Sister Katherine before the Justice but before I could have my warrant executed they lighted on mee first and her eldest brother that before had like to have kild me having an Officer ready arrested me of flat fellony I being kept as a felonious prisoner So I sent for my Father when he came my Father-in-Law and he took up the matter and made agreement with my Fathers perswading me I presently imitating Christs forgiving his enemies committed my cause to God and was perswaded by my Father and Father-in-Law But I came not neere my wife a great while after but abode with my own Father And I began to follow my trade againe My wife seeing that she made many friends to come to live with me again making great moane and shewing her selfe very penitent I being perswaded by my Father and many friends more consented and we lived together again at a place called Harburn in Staffordshire two miles from Brimingham My losse was above 200 l. besides the misery I endured and God blessed my trading when I began with a little stock again as I had left having nothing to set me forward in trading from them but words of promise We were all made friends but since I may curse the day that ever I did trust any such former enemies to be reconciled friends again For about the time as the Levellers did rise against the Parliament I having attained to a good flock of cattel and horses and trading more then ever I was in before my wife and I both living in a quiet condition all former in juries forgiven by me to her and every one of them And the spirit of God caused me to put out a little book concerning the present misery of the times both for Church and State My wise and her frends that abased me before brought greater calamity upon me then I endured before Thus I was abused and they banded themselves together against me My own natural friends forsook me God had so ordained it to try me and punish me for them that were formerly great pretended frends became my utter enemies I looked up stil towards God his holy spirit stil guiding me with patience to endure it and assuring me dayly more that the cause of my being thus abused by men and women was because I had cast Gods message behind my back I often thinking how God punished Jonah for his neglect when God called him and sent him to Nineveh Many of my best friends that loved me wel would blame my Father for not taking my part but God had suffered Satan to blind his eyes from the spirit of true discernment as all natural men are so that he did shew mee no favour but added more affliction to me Many would say to him why doe you not seek to have him released out of his misery If I should doe so saith he he would be imprisoned for medling with King and Parliament-affaires for I had been in prison at Buckingham a little before by some souldiers who raised thimselves against me by false witnesse to make a prize of me for my horses and goods and carried mee from Buckingham to Alisbury to try me for my life by false Articles as they had forged against me But when I came to be tryed by a Councel of War God gave me such an undaunted spirit that those false witnesses had not power to witnesse against me So I was set at liberty having losse and hinderance of time After these miseries of imprisonment and many more great troubles in the mean time of my troubles my wives friends setcht my best goods a way from my house and some cattel after I had forbid them to meddle with any thing For when they saw they could not take my life away they thought to make me run my Countrey but God gave me much patience and courage for I went to the house and took four men with me I demanded my goods taking a cart and horses to fetch them in a peaceable manner if I could have them so But they denied me my goods and my wife stood against me with railing words and her Mother and one Sifter the younger daughter did never speak against me So with much patience I went my way and looked in their grounds to see whether I could find any of my cattel there Finding a Cow and a young Bul that were mine I took them away to my house at Harburn in Staffordshire The manner that they had taken them from me according to the Lawes of God and man was but a felonious way of robbing me for they owed me part of my Wives portion as was due to mee long before that time This was on the Wednesday On the Thursday my wife knew that I would goe to Brimingham-market her Father being from home my wives Mother her eldest Son and my wife and her sister Katherine being fearful that I should begin to trouble them or bind them over by an order from the Justices to answer at the Assizes before the Judge for all the wrong they had done mee they thought they had no other way to take but to begin with me first and so they did For my brother-in-law his name is John Bissel met me at Brimingham on the Market-day and arrested me with flat felony and so suddenly caused me to be thrown into the Dungeon no Bail would be taken All did condemn him shamefully for it yet wilfully and presumptuously he did it On the morrow I went to the Justices the Justice could not perswade him but he would take an oath of Felony against me yet he could not deny but that the cattel were mine After the Justice had examined thorowly the Witnesses he told him hanging was too good for him and he should dearly answer for it Then when his Father came home out of the Country for his Son did all in his Fathers name he was almost out of his wits to heare what his Son had done Fearing he should be undone by it presently he made to the Justices and to my Father and me and my friends to take up the businesse againe and to keep me from going to prison This ensuing Bil of Divorcement was made after she and her kindred had by Satans malice and their cruelty brought me into horrible persecution and misery I may not now for brevity-sake lay down the manner of it but I hope in God in another Book I may because alwayes I hope I shal have all the mercies of God shewed to me stil in remembrance Her Father and she coming on a Sabbath day where I was in prison gave me threatening words and said they were glad to see me