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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60930	A candle lighted at a coal from the altar whereby the King and rulers of this nation with the people of this present age may see the stone on which many have stumbled, and the rock which hath broken to pieces unfaithful men once in authority, who instead of protecting, did persecute the people of God, when they had the high places of the earth in possession, and that these present rulers may take warning betimes, least they stumble at the same rock, and while they have opportunity they may rather become as nursing-fathers to the flock of God within these dominions, by giving due encouragement to tender consciences, and men fearing God as in matters of religion / and this is directed unto you by a subject of the King of Righteousness, Tho. Salthouse.	Salthouse, Thomas, 1630-1691.	1660 (1660)	Wing S471; ESTC R13989	18,411	26

A Candle lighted At a Coal from the ALTAR Whereby the KING and RULERS of this Nation with the People of this present Age may see the STONE on which many have stumbled and the ROCK which hath broken to pieces unfaithful men once in Authority who instead of protecting did persecute the People of God when they had the High Places of the Earth in possession And that these present Rulers may take warning betimes least they stumble at the same Rock and while they have opportunity they may rather become as Nursing-Fathers to the Flock of God within these Dominions by giving due encouragement to tender Consciences and men fearing God as in matters of Religion And this is directed unto you by a subject of the King of Righteousness THO. SALTHOUSE Zeph. 1.12 And it shall come to pass that I will search Jerusalem with Candles and punish the men that are setled upon their Lees that say in their hearts The Lord will not do good neither will he do evil London Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1660. THE Vision of all hath been as the words of a Book sealed which could neither be read by the learned nor unlearned for no man in Heaven nor in Earth was found worthy to open the Book and to loose the Seals and to read thereon but the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah that root and off-spring of David who hath prevailed to open it and darkness hath covered all the Kingdoms of the world and all the Kindreds of the Earth for many ages and generations and the Great Whore arayed in Purple and Scarlet colour and decked with gold and silver and pretious stones hath had her seat upon the waters which is multitudes and peoples and tongues and languages having in her hand a golden Cup filled with abominations and with the filthiness of her fornication and with her the Kings and Inhabitants of the Earth have committed spiritual fornication and have drunk of the Wine of her fornication and they have given their power unto the Beast and the false prophet who maketh War against the Lamb and his followers and they have drunk the blood of the Martyrs and Saints and have by their Lawes compelled all both free and bond high and low rich and poor to receive that mark of the Beast and to bow down and worship his Image but the faithful witnesses that had the Testimony of Jesus and the Word of God who could not for Conscience sake bow to the Image of the Beast nor receive his mark have they slain in the streets of that great City spiritually called Sodom and Egypt where our Lord Jesus Christ also was crucified by the Princes of the Gentiles who did not know him and by force and violence in these last dayes and perilous times since there hath been a departing from the Faith once delivered unto the Saints have the Princes of this world exercised Lordship over the heritage of God by compelling and forcing people ignorantly to worship the unknown God in the Idols Tempels under pains and penalties of banishment burning stigmatizing stoning to death imprisonment and the like and all the penalties inflicted upon and sustained by the Servants of God and Saints of the Most High hath been by vertue of Authority derived from the higher Power or from men in holy Order as they have been stiled so that all the persecution of tender Consciences and of the Prophets and Saints about Religion and Religious exercises have been and may justly be charged upon the higher Power and holy Church so called and all that have been cast into Prison for the Testimony of Jesus and the Word of God hath been in the name of the higher Power and all that have suffered the spoiling of their goods and the loss of liberty and estates for not putting into the hireling Priests mouths hath been by the higher Powers as in the behalf of God and holy Church and many have suffered for these things as it hath been said in his Highness his name in this last time of Apostacy in which the day hath been dark over the Prophets that they have not had any Vision or Answer of God nor Revelation from him but have denyed Revelation and immediate Inspiration and have been in darkness and blindness as in the land of the shadow and death by whose instigation cruel yokes of bondage have been imposed upon the Israel of God in this long night of darkness and confusion but in patience have we waited for him whose coming was prepared as the morning and in answer to our earnest expectation in an acceptable time when there was none to help the Arm of the Lord was made bare to bring Salvation And now the Everlasting Day-star hath appeared and the God of all the Families of the Earth is bringing a remnant of Righteous Souls out of that Egyptian darkness which hath covered the whole earth in the time of Antichrists Reign and from under that thick vail which hath been spread over this and all Nations hath the Lord delivered a People that sometimes were walking in darkness and wandring from Mountain to Mountain in the night of Apostacy as old Israel did in the cloudy and dark day like sheep without a shepherd and as Israel after the flesh was delivered from their great bondage and hard servitude in outward Egypt and Babylon even so hath the Lord called and by his own Arm gathered his People out of spiritual Egypt and Babylon where they long mourned in desolation under the power of a strange King and cruel Task-masters and this people are fully perswaded in their minds not to return back into Egypt again but to travel on through the Kingdoms of Edom the borders of Moab until they come to the promised Land which is purchased to be a possession and peaceable habitation for them and their off-sping from generation to generation And this people whom the Lord hath called out of darkness into his marvellous light are a dispised people mis-represented to men in Authority as diverse in their Lawes and Customs from all other people and they are reproached with that name of distinction which is the Object of their adversaries indignation being reproachfully called Quakers because they tremble at the Word of the Lord and walkes humbly before him and since the time that the Lord hath appeared for our Salvation and Deliverance out of darkness bondage and captivity and since we set our faces towards Zion the City of Truth we have been tryed with cruel mockings bonds and imprisonments and we have born the reproaches of Moab and the revilings of the children of Ammon yea both Gabel Ammon and Ameleck have set themselves in opposition against Gods peculiar treasure and the uncircumcised in heart and eares Ashur and the Philistians hath joyned with them to help the incestuous children of Lot in their cruelty persecution and opposition against the Lords Servants those weak things of the world

may not be a famine of hearing the Word in this Nation and forasmuch as the Lord hath spoken we cannot but Prophesie Declare of the things which we have seen and heard and that which we have tasted and handled of the Word of life that people may be turned from the darkness to the light and from the power of Satan unto God and it is the Command of Christ unto his Ministers that as they have freely received they must freely give that the Gospel may be made without charge and it must be freely preached not for filthy lucre sake but of a ready mind and a necessity hath laid upon the Ministers of Christ in these last dayes and perilous times though the more they love the less they are beloved again to reprove sin in the Gates and to give warning to Magistrates and men in Authority both in word and writing by way of admonition exortation wholsom advice and counsel that in the fight of the Lord they may be clear of the blood of all men and that all might be left without excuse in that day when God shall Judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to the Gospel and because Judgement hath been turned backward and good Councel rejected by Protector Parliaments and others once in Authority and the Servants of the Lord cruelly persecuted by whom it was directed to them therefore hath the Lord rejected them from bearing the Sword of justice and now you are set as at the stearn of Government and this is your day of Tryal and the Lord God will prove you try you whether you will be a terrour to the evil-doers and a praise to them that do well or limit his Spirit as others have done before you and if you expect subjection to your power you must Rule for God in love and fear and humility and not as Lords over Gods heritage and then you will engage all the honest and upright hearted in these Nations to submit to your Government not for wrath or fear of punishment but for Couscience sake and this will be more honour to you and your Government then if you could force every individual person both professors prophane in the Nation to own you for fear of your wrath for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God and the best effects of it will but make hypocrites for fear of punishment persecution if God do not perswade the hearts of people by his Word and Spirit submit their spirits by his Power to very Ordinance of man both spiritual and temporal for the Lords sake they that were before you promised and pretended much as in matter of Reformation and removing of oppression both in Church and State but we may and do expect better things from you that have promised less and not made so much show of holiness as they did which if it so come to pass the Lord shall have the glory by whom you are permitted to bear Rule in the Nation and you shall not loose your reward if you be found faithful in what he requires of you according to what you know but if you walk in the steps of Tyrants and Oppressors and smite with the fist of wickedness and persecute tender Consciences for and concerning the Law and Worship of their God Then What can you expect But the same reward from him that is no respector of persons which they already have received that hated the reproofs of instruction and the good and wholsom Advice and Councel from time to time directed unto them by these suffring servants of the Lord that have all the day long been accounted as sheep for the slaughter who are coming up out of Egypt and travelling towards the Promised Land Now if it be matter of Conscience to one sort of people in this Nation or if it be supposed by them that the Book of Common Prayer or Divine Service so called is the best way of Worship and that they suppose it is well pleasing and acceptable to the Lord and from such a perswasion they do determine to practice it in their Families and in places of publick worship then let them that are so perswaded give liberty to others that are of another perswasion for the exercise of their Consciences according to their perswafion and Principles and let there be no fighting nor fining persecution nor imprisonment nor no corporal Oath or punishment be inflicted on the bodies and estates of the good people of this Nation upon any Ecclesiastical or spiritual account according to the true intent and meaning of the Act above-mentioned and as the Law of God requires of every man to do unto others as he would have others to do unto him and this will satisfie all the sober-minded and reasonable men in the Nation and make way for a happy settlement of pure Religion everlasting Righteousness and perfect peace among people in matters relating to the Worship and Service of God and in all things appertaining to the spiritual Kingdom and Government of Christ Jesus the chief shepherd and Bishop of our Souls whose right it is to reignes Supream head of the Church who is the Authour Finisher and Defender of our Faith and who is so to be owned especially in this Nation by them who are of the the Protestant Religion and who have denyed and protested against the Popes Supremacy and usurpt Authority and as his Supremacy and Authority is denyed so let his Lawes Institutions impositions be denyed also that it may manifestly be declared that lesus Christ is the head of the Church who is the Foundation of the Prophets and Apostles And they that are established upon him have no need of the Turks Alcoran for a Rule to walk by nor the Popes Mass to teach them the knowledge of God and Christ for God who commanded the light to shine out of darknesse hath shined in their hearts to teach them the knowledge of God and his Wayes and they that have received the Spirit of God and can pray with the Spirit and with the understanding have no need of the Bishops Book of composed or Common-payer which is a set Form of words that every prophane person can repeat for the Spirit it self will help their infirmities that have received it and make intercession unto God for the Saints and for Kings and all that are in Authority and they that have this Spirit of God for a Rule to walk by which is agreeable to the Scripture of the Prophets and Apostles they need not the Presbyters directory as a Rule for publick Worship Church Ordinances and Administrations for the God of Order teacheth them how to walk and worship and when to speak and pray as they are moved by his Spirit and in the Church of God they may all Prophecy one by one and if any thing be revealed unto him that sitteth by the first is to hold his peace for the Spirits of the Prophets are subject to