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A vvarning from the Lord, to the town of Cambridge.
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Harwood, John.
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edge of the sword you cannot escape you bloody persecutors haters and enviers of the righteous seed against you the edge of the sword is turned and you cannot escape for the Lord wil cut you down the Lord sees your plotting and secret actings against his dear servants and children you deceitful Priests and corrupt Magistrates who combine together to murther the innocent so far as your Power extends but praised be our Lord God for ever who hath your Power limited so that you cannot go beyond your bounds your snares the Lord wil break in pieces which you make to catch the innocent and the Pits you dig for others you into them must fall no weapons which you form against the harmless shal prosper the Lord hath spoken it who is our Deliverer who wil be your Destroyer yea your day of Destruction draws nigh and the God of the world whom you pray unto which so long hath blinded your eyes shall not be able to deliver you in this day of the Lords fierce wrath who wil plead with you by fire and by his sword which are already kindled and drawn against you and the enemies of the Lord and his servants shal be consumed and utterly destroyed fore ever for the Beast and the false Prophet which now bend their forces together to make war with the Lamb shal be taken and into the Lake must be cast that burneth with fire and brimstone and the Lamb shal have victory over you you bloody persecutors And you Schollars who come hither to learn naturall languages who spend and wast your time in idleness and prophanenefs many of you living in pleasures and wantonness sporting your selves in the day-time Consider what you are doing doth not the Lord see and know these things And wil not he visit you for your vanities and fooleries Do you think to escape the just judgmenns of God Nay your Logick and your vain Philosophy wil not cover you the Lord wil find you out and you shall not escape unpunished you according to you actions shall be rewarded Therefore to you I say repent lest the Evill Day come upon you at unawares and there bee none to deliver you And you that keep Taverns and Alehouses who keeps Cards Dice and Shovel boords in your Houses for to satisfie the lusts of vaine mindes which delights in gaming and foolerie and fills wine and strong drink to men till they be inflamed and so are the Upholders of that filthie Thing Drunkenness which is one of the horrible filthiest sins in the Nation Therefore to You I say repent and suffer such things no more to bee used in your Houses as is before mentioned least you partaking of their sinns bee made partakers of their Judgements and Plagues which t s neerer you then yet you are aware of for Your cannot escape the Edge of the Sword being found TREES which cumbers the ground And You TRADES-MEN of what sort soever who uses Lying and Dissembling for Gaine and are in the manie Words out of the Doctrine of CRIST who â—aith Let your Yea bee Yea and your Nay bee Nay in all things for whatsoever commeth of more is Evill What will your cheating and cozening availe You Consider though you may through deceitful waits and measures your crafty enluring speeches heap up much of the worldS treasure what wil it all profit you in the day wherein you must give an account for all your dishonest gain then the same Measure you meet withall the same to you shall be measured again To you I say repent and forsake the evil of your waies and provoke the Lord no longer for the Lord God of Life and power sees and knows these things and his judgments are night you and his fury and indignation you cannot escape therefore now I warn you in the name and fear of the Lord Trades men give over deceit and cozening and deal plainlie and honestlie with your Brethren in your buying and selling and give just weight and measure and let your yea be yea and your nay be nay and use not so many vain words in your bargaining for to the Lord an account you must give for everie idle word therefore now yon are warned take heed of adding to your condemnation for this is the free love of God to your souls to give you warning therefore prize it now while your have time lest swift destruction come upon you for now hath the Lord left you without excuse you cannot plead ignorance and the Light in your own Consciences which is the Light of Jesus Christ wherewith he hath enlightned you shall bear true testimony against you and witness for the Lord that his judgements are just when they come to be executed upon you And you Magistrates who are sword-bearers see that you bear the sword no more in vain but let the edge of the sword be turned against the seed of evil doers that by it all manner of Sin and wickedness may be cut down and the RIGHTEOUS SEED preserved that the TOWN may be set free from evil doers that RIGHTEOUSNESSE may run down your Streets c. But first sin and wickedness see in your own selves cut down by the sword of the Lord which is his righteous judgements that the righteous seed in you may be raised up to rule and reign that true judgement and justice may be executed by you for he that ruleth over men must be just for he is righteous that judgeth and according to your judgement so shall you be judged And to the Vice-Chancellor so called and to you who are the chiefe in Colledges as you call them who study and teach others natural Languages as Hebrew Greek and Latine and the Arts of Lodgick and Phylosophy which is all for the fire for the knowledge of these things puffs up your minds and keepes you from the true knowledge of the living God who can be known no other way but through his Son for none shal ever know God by studying old Authors and learning naturall Languages as Hebrew Greek and Latine which you call the Original for natural men cannot receive the things of the Spirit of God God is a Mysterie sealed to that nature which studieth these things before mentioned for proud high-minded selfewilled men studie and teach these Languages but the secrets of God are kept from such God to his Son reveales himself who is meek and lowlie and those who knows God keeps his commands and knows him by the revelation of his Son and we whom the Lord hath made himself known unto through his Son deny and bear witness against all such as comes not in by the dore but climbs up another way in their own humane inventions therefore to you I say cease from your own imaginations studies and naturall Languages for all your Heathenish Authors which your Liberaries and studies are so furnished withall are for the Fire read Aâ—ts 19.19 many who used curious Arts as you do brought their Books and burned them when they came to own the everlasting truth which by the Apostles was preached and as you come to own the truth which by the despised and persecuted ones is preached your books then wil be of little value which is now by you so highly prized when your minds comes to be turned out of your vain imaginations to the Light of Jesus Christ in you which Jesus Christ hath lightned you with you need not to study in old authors to know what meanings they gave with their heathenish inventions upon the Saints conditions who spoke forth the Scriptures as they were moved by the Holy Ghost nay their meanings and their imaginations upon them are accursed your meanings which you give upon the Scriptures and your imaginations upon them are accursed for the Scripture which was spoke from the life of the Saints are of no private interpretations and til you come to own the Light of Jesus Christ which he hath enlightned you with and live in it and receive it to be your Teachers and even as it teach you to abide in it that with it you may be led into the holie life which life gave forth the Scripture you cannot know the mysterie of the Scripture for it is sealed to all the Worlds Wisdome and one of the seaven Seals you cannot open with which the Book of life is sealed with all your rotten stuff nay you are not found worthie your Lodgick and Phylosophie and all your naturall reason and natural Languages is shut out of the Life of the Scriptures you have the letter vvhich is the outside the husk and vvith that you feed people therefore they profit nothing by you for both you who are Teachers and take upon you to teach others you and they who are taught by you are with the Prodigal feeding among Swine upon the husk and your souls are starved for want of living food for the Bread of Life you are strangers to which if you once come to tast on you wil then Witness with me that upon the husk you have been feeding but this is childrens food this is not to be cast unto Dogs you who are ful of envie and bitterness and feeds upon the Tree of Knowledge you cannot feed with children who hungers and thirsts continuallie after living food nay it is the hungrie that the Lord feeds with good things you who are ful and rich shal emptie be sent awaie your are they which are to be fed vvith judgement and judgement you shall finde before Mercy therefore to you I say repent in dust and ashes lest the dore of Mercy for ever be shut against you Vice-Chancellor and you who are chiefe in Colledges and Chiefe Priests who above measure are exalted you have builded your Nests on high but the Lord God of life and power wil you pul down though your building be as high as Babel yet the Lord wil bring you down he that can receive it let him This to you is a warning from the Lord Cambridge 14. day of the 5. month 1655. By one of his Servants who is despised of the world known by the name of John Harrwood FJNJS