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A45518	The nations claim of native right Wherein the gross and extreme defection and injustice of the court martial, and of all courts; the destructive abuse of the law, and pressing necessity, that the nation speedily unite (as one man) for an agreement in righteousness, is by particular example, and an appeal to the general councel of the army, and by several considerations cleerly demonstrated and proved. Secondly, the nullity of order, matter, and form of a free people is asserted, and proved by scripture: and how (to persons, families, people, and churches) right order, matter, and form may be attained. Thirdly, a brief pourtraict of a right government of the nation, and agreement of the people; and how such government and agreement may be with ease attained; a new representative freely elected: the laws rectified: the poor relieved: and the peoples, and armies, and every particular persons just interests (in peace with truth) satisfied, is proposed to the nation. By Thom. Harbye, late Quarter-master in the Regiment late	Harby, Thomas.	1650 (1650)	Wing H684; ESTC R216528	94,995	134

Agreements are elementary or literal and virtual or essential Elementary or literal form is the figure or tenour of the matter of the Instrument Virtual or essential form is the subscribing or consigning of force figure and matter in one act Literal forms ought to express the whole necessary substance in summary compactness wherefore because no Instrument is more necessary I insert this Pattern WE the free people of England indent as Persons Families and People to receive as much as in us lies all power of Freedom which God dispenseth to redeem us and ours from misery of most slavish dis-use and destruction and agree to chuse Representors by and for so many families of us as shall be by them judged expedient Secondly to chuse Comissial or Provincial Thirdly National Representors And that the Commissial or National Representors whom we shall chuse shall be by us ordained our free National Representative lawfully constituted and appointed by us Secondly We agree not any more to sacrifice our Freedoms and Estates our Fathers and Childrens Inheritances and Birth-rights to arbytrarie-corrupters of judgement to Leeches of deceit and rapine usurpers and Lawyers but to judge and decide all differences and controversies amongst us in and by our Oeconomical Classes or if need be in and by our Provincial and National Classes Thirdly We agree to prove and examine all causes of every particular person amongst us in relation to all oppressions and wrongs done by or to any of us and in reference to all their particular just Rights and Interests in manner as aforesaid And likewise to commence Suits claim demand and recover all their debts rights dues reparations and interests in the name and power of each particular persons Classis for and in behalf of every particular person amongst us or if need be in the name and power of the Provincial or National Classis Fourthly We agree to remove all Taxes Excise Cessments Free-quarter Impost upon Coals or other Commodities Monopolies and all other burdens from the poor and middle sort especially for ever Because what the poor and middle sort pay or bear in such relations is by double right of propriety and necessity due to themselves to relieve and support their own lives and the lives of their families Also we agree that the estates of those that are rich amongst us all debts due from them which are no part of their Estates being first satisfied shall be freed from all bondage of corruption and slavish dis-use for ever Fiftly We agree to chuse those whether poor or rich whom we conceive most sober sincere and emulous of just Freedom Representers of congregated Families and to be Provincial and National Representors and to negotiate and discharge all business entire in and with our selves by assistance and advice of each other and by and with those Representors When Moses hands were dimitted Amaleck prevailed against the free people when by Aaron and Hur born up the free people prevailed Such in effect shall discreet and faithful Representors be to free people to unite them in order of life and freedom for want of them and consigning Agreements the conscientious of the City Nation and Army convene as cyphers without doing any thing And the effects of their meetings are ruine to the most faithful and confusion of all wailes the really industrious promised indempnity spend time and estate to attain the ends of their just engagements the rest draw back and leave them ruinated to perish by unprevented rigour of cruelty and injustice and they thus wronged and utterly undone and expecting persolvance of their faiths that engaged with them gain their ingrateful enmity for repair of their wrongs These evils are caused for want of consigning an Agreement and for want of discreet and faithful Representors Sixtly We agree to seek things honest for all man and justice absolute to good and bad what may commensurate their evil or good actions equally and impartially and to this end we agree to prove and examine all causes and differences with all faithful and advised exactness and that our Consciences and Judgements may be free and clear before we pass judgement or determine any thing we agree to permit each party or any for each to declare in word or writing and by demonstrative argument and evidence of witness and reason to prove in particular their Complaints or defences Also agree to compose the state of matters difficult and obscure with all succinct and advised cleerness if need be in writing for satisfaction of all men and that the Scriptures shall be the original literal form and rule of all our results and determinations Seventhly We agree that the present Army shall be paid off all Arrears and disbanded and after rallied as there shall be need every man in his own Parish Shire Country or where his calling or estate lies that Souldiers and Officers may have the advantage of a double benefit in the management and oversight of their own Callings and Estates added to their standing Sallary or Pay Secondly We agree that all Souldiers and Officers that have not bin in actual service in this Army in time of War shall be first paid off and disbanded and that not any more shall be listed except such as have served in this Army in time of War until this Army be wholy paid off and disbanded For it is extreme injustice that they that never served in War should receive the pay of War in time of peace whiles they that have served in War want Arrears and maintenance Thirdly If the Nation agree not generally to pay and disband the Army we agree to pay off disband and to re-dispose of our proportion and to leave to such as assent not their proportion to pay maintain and dispose of at their own charge provided it no way burden or annoy us c. To prevent that bloudy ingrate murder upon souldiers and others by delay of right and privation of it and thereby of their lives for want of it they may demand their whole pay and remit what 's due from them but what can be proved due onely can be justly deducted for Free-quarter or otherwise they that deduct it should give particular receit in his name to whom it is due and secure the payment General confused pretenses cancel not personal debtss nor should the Souldiers be delayed robbed and destroyed under these colours or for want of their Colonels Certificate whereby none but who are mercenary to vicious Officers can have their just dues the price of their lives Nor should they or their Officers be tyed to make oath in cases of this nature nor be tyed to arbytrarie carvings of corrupt accountants nor to receive their pay in such monies houses lands whose title they question nor be entangled or defrauded with Debenters buying them before they receive money or after nor ought their forced conveyances of their Debenters to stand valid or be in any force nor should any reducement of their pay

spirits to serve under all barbarous calamities and bloudy wickedness of blind obedience the vi●est vassals of slavery as the sons of Jacob sold their brother the preserver of their lives and beings into the house of bondage They must in all their motions and actions walk and act in the liberty of the light of God in their own spirits and not act or acquiesce from principles of an implicite-faith in the Arbytrarie commands of will and power in any Representative or person whatsoever It is small satisfaction or security to any man that may see if he will but will follow and be led by a blind man till both fall into a ditch and perish to think to say for himself a blind man led him and it was his own will and he would be led by him So if any sub-Officers Souldiers or others shall execute any unjust decree by order of or from any Commanders or Representatives whatsoever the plea of their order were weak and without all satisfaction They must not think their Officers command if unjust can free them or their Officers from the just doom and due penalty of the Law no more then a murderers plea at the Bar that his fellow robber commanded him to kill the murdered can quit him or his fellow from guilt of murder or from death due to murderers Neither may any person or persons or Representatives Courts or Councels vainly conceive that any imposed Trust Place or Office or personal Eminency or that their being many is or can be of any force to free them more then any one privat mean man from due punishment though it be death which the Law inflicteth for breach of it or to free any person or persons whom they employ from the like punishments Howbeit the Free-born of God in Army or Nation Officers Souldiers or private men that groan under the cursed burdens of bloudy wickedness and barbarous oppressions which they have born themselves or laid upon others if they seek earnestly and effectually endeavour the redemption of their bodies and spirits and to free others from the same bondage whereof the Israelites bondage in Aegypt and deliveranoe out of it was but a type and shaddow may and ought to be in some measure commiserated and their cruelties time past if utterly renounced and really repented of may be so far passed by as the Law can admit also some unjust actions o● infirmity and weakness so far only as may stand with law and equity may be born withal God keeps not the children of light in chains of darkness but willeth that all men should be saved from cursed servitude and bondage of body and spirit by coming unto and following after the pillar of God the knowledge of the Truth in their own Judgements and Spirits and that they walk and act at all times and in all relations in the light of this pillar of fire within them Wherefore let all the Free-born of God in the Army and Nation cast off the wicked burdens of cursed and blind obedience to Representatives Arbytrarie commands of Will and Power and fix the eys of their understandings upon the pillar of God in their own Judgements and Spirits Let them seriously consider in and with themselves and with one another the grounds of all their actions engagements and executions and be well advised and satisfied in their Spirits to what end and where unto they tend whether to liberty or bondage light o● darkness to Zion or Sinai whether they be works of Hagar o● Sarah Sem or Cham and whether they tend to enslave oppress and wrong themselves the people and Nation and other persons people or Nations or to right and free themselves and Nation and other Nations from slavery wrong and oppression Let them improve the most rich and precious Talent of their Birth-right and Freedom to debate dispute pleade question and examine the causes grounds and terms upon which they act engage or execute any thing Eph. 5.15 And in all things walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise Heb. 15.14 And as those that are of full age who by reason of perfection and use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil Let them consider their Representatives Propositions Counsels and Decrees whether they be just or unjust whether they are to be observed by them or to be reproved or punished in their Representatives whether they tend to involve them and the Land in bloud and massacre or to free it and them from it If Chams cursed Sons compel or perswade them to forsake Freedom and imbrace bondage to mo●l themselves by doing all base and dirty drudgery of vile and servil wickedness and to wallow in all unjust and extream wants and cursed calamities caused by unjust oppressions and cruelties let them fix their eyes upon the pillar of God in their own Spirits and walk in the light of it and follow after it If they command them to couch under all burdens of cursed servitude and to be with them as they are servants of servants slaves of servile and blind obedience and bruitish ignorance to act from an implicite Faith in their usurping task-masters arbritary commands of Will and Power to kill and murder at their command their best and most faithful friends and fellow Souldiers to enterprize any bloudy act of massacre and slaughter upon each other or upon the nation to perpetrate and execute at their command all oppression and crueltie upon the nation and through wicked blindness and brutish ignorance upon and against themselves also and to involve the nation at their wills in new Wars to destroy it and themselves Let them renounce and detest such cursed servitude and cast off slavish bondage of such blind obedience and fix their eyes upon the pillar of God the pillar of light and truth in their own Spirits and let them walk in the liberty of that light Let them try all things and hold fast the truth for this liberty is the proper peculiar and most rich and precious Talent of all the free-born of God which God hath given them Therefore let them try and examine with all exactness in themselves and advise together whether the light in their own Spirits be the light of the pillar of God or a delusion and whether it be the light of truth or a lying dream in their own fancies For if it be a true light to discover the truth of God and if they walk in that light and follow after that truth it will be certainly and infallibly a pillar of support and deliverance to free them from the most extensive and deepest guilt of bloudy and desperate wickedness and from the fruit and reward of such bloudy wickedness the most cruel and accursed calamities and destruction of bodie and Spirit All that observed and followed the commands of Chams cursed sons being free from danger before were drawn into a sea of death and destroyed not one escaped All Israel that observed and followed the

the Ark were obedient to the call and command of God in a Type Lots Family in Sodom was in a Type obedient to the call and command of God to be delivered from her sins and destruction and all creatures clean and unclean birds beasts and creeping things that came into the Ark were in a figure obedient to the call and command of God to be delivered from the destruction upon the world by the flood So all persons and creatures clean and unclean that manifest obedience to the call and command of God by coming out of Babel that they may be delivered from her sins plagues and destruction are here meant by the people of God Secondly All that have desires and spirits of Freedom from being real bond-slaves to all oppressions and miseries and sin and death of body and spirit as Israel groaned to be delivered from their sore oppressions and miseries and slavish destruction are here meant by the people of God Lastly God calls and commands his people in Babylon to come out of her and the answer of their obedience to him and the onely means of their deliverance from her sins and plagues is according to their call and command from God to come out of her Israels going out was local and corporal this real and spiritual not by change of place but of the order form and end of their Government All Nations are Babylon but this Nation is the Tower of it All are the Cities of the Plain but this Sodom where Lot dweleth and preserveth them and it from destruction All Nations are the body of the beast the serpent but its head where its eys life and wiles are is in this Nation God hath promised the seed of the woman shall break the serpents head not in type but in truth not by promise or passing that sentence of judgement but by performance and execution of it The breach upon its head begins here and in this Nation the first stroke is given for Babels downfal Therefore there is a strict necessity from God upon all his people to obey him and come out of her lest they in the body of this dying serpent utterly perish with it The onely safest way and best means for the people of God to come out of her in order to their own perfect Freedom and Peace is to discharge all faithfulness to her to move her if it may be to an Agreement in Righteousness to inform and convince her of and in all wisdom and meekness to reprove her for her sins the cause of her plagues and destruction When Moses continued to discharge all faithfulness to Pharaoh and his servants then their destruction came and Israels deliverance When Lot ceased not to admonish Sodom two Angels came and freed him and fire fell and destroy'd it And the people of God in Babylon exercising all goodness what may be with Justice towards her discharging all faithfulness to her advertising convincing and exhorting her to forsake her sins the cause of her plagues and she not hearkning doth more fully and cleerly justifie their going out of her and magnifie the righteous judgements of God in pouring forth upon her the full vials of her plagues and destruction Secondly The reason of this necessity upon the people of God that they must come out of her is because of the greatness of her sins The violence and cruelties of the old World Sodom's sins Aegypts iniquities and murders Babels pride persecution presumption and Jerusalems pharisaical bloudy hypocrisie were but types of her sins Her sins presumption pride hypocrisie guilt of innocent bloud insolent and wicked confidence and hardness of heart transcends theirs as truth exceeds the Type and as a real substance the shadow and they that come not out of her commit these her sins and must suffer her plagues Thirdly They must come out of her because of the greatness of the voice of Gods call and strictness of his command His cals to the old World Sodom Babylon and Jerusalem were but Types And the voice of Gods miracles by Moses the voice of that express type of the Harp of God Moses wisdom and meekness and the silver shrill Trumpet of Aarons Eloquence which summoned Pharaoh to hearken and free Israel from their bonds of slavery and death wherein they were destroyed and murdered and which summoned Israel to hearken and to free themselves if Pharoah did not from those bonds were but types of Gods call to Babylon But God dispenseth his summons to her to hearken and to his people in her to come out of her if she hearken not under the figure of a mighty Angel crying with a loud voice as when a Lyon roareth and under the similitude of seven thunders uttering their voices Rev. 10.3 Therefore her sins and hardness of heart are and her plagues must be so much greater if she hearken not by how much greater her summons and the call of God is and the rebellions and disobedience of the people of God in her are and their plagues if they come not out of her must be so much greater by how much their summons and Gods call to them to come out of her is greater Fourthly The people of God must come out of her because if they be in her when she falls as a Milstone cast into the Sea by a mighty Angel they must after all her fore-running plagues are inflicted upon them fall with her into the deepest and most irrecoverable destruction and because they in her at her best much more in her dying condition are as Ionas was in her figure the Whales belly where his complaint was That the weeds wrapt about his head in the Belly of hell That the depth in the midst of the Sea enclosed him That he went down to the bottom of the Mountains That the Earth with her Bars were about him for ever So the people of God in the belly of this Leviathan are caged and imprisoned in bondage to her sins death and miseries involve and inclose them and the weeds of her wickedness and destruction wrap about them and if they get not out of her before she fall and sink as a Milstone they perish for ever Fiftly The people of God in Babylon are to come out of her because she is already fallen or falling in her quickning form her Righteousness after which her plagues and her total fall must follow Rev. 18.2 An Angel cryed mightily with a strong voice saying Babylon the great is fallen is fallen that is is fallen sick irrecoverably in the form of her being her righteousness and is become the habitation of Devils c. and then and not before a voice from heaven called and commanded the people of God in her to come out of her for if she do not or shall not fall from righteousness which onely can support her from falling and the people of God in her from perishing if she retain Truth that the people of God may retain peace in Truth I mean not aëry

tenents of truth but practique and executive truth which is righteousness then the people of God in her are in no wise to come out of her but they are to pray for the peace of Babylon and to seek it for in her peace they shall have peace Neither were the people of God ever called or commanded to come out of her until she be first fallen or falling in her righteousness her and their form and life of their being but if no address or agreement in righteousness whereby all just interests may be satisfied shall be endeavoured or shall or can be made and if Babylon be already fallen or falling in her supporting form her righteousness if she be an habitation of Devils a strong hold wherein every foul spirit is fortified Then God with a strong voice calls and commands his people to come out of her and then her plagues are coming upon her and her final destruction follows But it is to be feared that she is already fallen in her supporting form and become a strong hold wherein every foul spirit is fortified and that the plagues of her destruction have seized or are seizing upon her because she vomits up all antidotes which should expel her sins the poison of her plagues If a man infected with the plague be taken with a violent vomiting and casting it shews that the plague hath seized or is seizing upon the life When God sent all his plagues upon Pharaohs heart and upon the hearts of his servants they vomited up the antidotes of wholesom admonitions by Moses which shewed that those plagues had seized upon the life of Pharaoh and his servants and were the plagues of their destruction So Babylon is taken with a violent vomiting and casting If any wholesom means or medicine of faithful and sincere admonitions be given her she vomits it up If any thing profitable for her peace and safety be proposed to her or if any thing that should free her from her sins break her sickness and bring health be given her her stomack nauseates and loaths it it staies not there she casts it up again her soul loaths all cordial antidotes against the poyson of her plagues which shews that she is fallen or falling in her supporting form her righteousness and become a strong hold wherein every foul spirit is fortified and that the plagues of her destruction have seized or are seizing upon her Sixtly The people of God must come out of her because they al so are fallen from their righteousness which is their and her sole life and support and therefore cannot support her nor be supported in her They were once in her type that great Image in Daniel a head of gold compact and knit in Righteousness and had in and with her a Kingdom Power Strength and Glory Then they were in that Image as a little gold in its Breast and Arms of Silver which did not change the name and property of Silver yet did support the whole Body that it fell not Then they were as a little gold in its Belly and Thighs of Brass which did not change the property of Brass yet did support the whole Body that it fell not Then they were as a little gold in its legs of Iron not changing the property of Iron yet did they support those legs of Iron and the whole Body that it fell not Then they were as a little gold in its feet and toes that were part Iron and part clay not changing the property of Iron and Clay yet did they support those Feet and Toes of Iron and Clay and the whole Body that it fell not But now the Iron will not mix with the Gold but rejects it and thinks to rule by perfect force of the Sword alone and will have no power of the gold by Law and Righteousness mixt in its government and gold mixing with myrie clay is made weaker and more embased Therefore the gold in this Image that is the people of God in Babylon can now no more support her or themselves in her from falling Seventhly But the people of God in Babylon are so far from supporting her or themselves that they are if they come not out of her the first that must fall and be destroyed The two middle pillars in Dagons house upon which the house stood and on which it was born up fell first and then all the House fell So the people of God in Babylon are the middle pillars upon which she stands and on which she is born up and shall be if they come not out of her the first that must fall and be destroyed 8ly The people of God in Babylon must come out of her because she rejecteth God and them Saul rejected God and Samuel and God him and Samuel came no more at him but prayed for him unto the day of his death When Pharoah and his servants rejected the just Addresses of the Elders of Israel and the crys of the Israelits and drove out Moses and Aaron from their presence then their destruction and Israels deliverance from bondage was at hand so Babylon rejecteth all cals and commands of God rejecteth the crys of the poor and perishing free-born people rejecteth all just Addresses and drives out the people of God from her presence in Army and Nation therefore it may be feard the plagues of her destruction are coming upon her and therefore the people of God in her may justly and must come out of her 9ly They must come out of her because as the people of God in Babylon did by their righteousness ever suport her and themselves in her so if they come not out of her being called and commanded of God their sins of stubborness and rebellion against God shal be the only main cause of bringing the plagues of her destruction and her sal upon her and upon themselves as Ionas by his sin of disobedience was the only cause that the ship and all in it was ready to sink and perish until they cast him out into the Sea So the people of God in Babylon who by their righteousness have ever heretofore suported her and themselves from falling shal now being called if they come not out of her sink her and destroy her and themselves by their sinnes of stuborness and rebelion against God and it is not likely that they should preserve and support her or themselves in her any ●onger who by their sins of rebelion against God are the only main cause of her and their fal and destruction 10ly The people of God cannot support her nor subsist in her and therefore must come out of her because her Governors and Commanders are bruitishly violent and impatient and by impatience incapable of being convinced by reason and satisfaction Nabal as a foole railed upon Davids messengers that came in peace and sent them away empty with a churlish answer And Pharoah said to Moses get thee from me see my face no more for in that day thou seest my

warning The Aegyptians were Chams children the peculiar people of the curse in the antithesis to the promise of blessing and so most contrary to all order matter and form of a free people above all Nations but Israel under their power and command and in bondage unto them were visibly their vassals slaves unto servants bond-slaves to the curse They were servants to God by promise but in power servants to the Aegyptians under whose power they were and so more contrary to all order matter and form of free families persons people and churches then the Aegyptians until being sealed with the bloud of the Pass-over they were called and redeemed unto freedom in the power of God by the Lamb in a Type So usurpers and their servants all that receive the mark of the power of the Beast are the people of the curse servants of servants in antithesis to the true blessing and so their slaves Gods free people excepted most contrary to order matter and form of a free people But Israel Gods free people in bondage to them are visibly their vassals servants to God by promise by power theirs bond-slaves to servants and so are and shall be more contrary to right order matter and form as Persons Families or Churches then the peculiar people of the Curse or any people upon earth until being sealed with the seal of God in the bloud of the Lamb they shall be called and redeemed from the Will and power of Usurpers to the power and Freedom of God in their anti-typical Families The rule and form of a free people is the Law of Law Reason of Reason the Word by the work of his free spirit the elementary form and rule of the law of Nature and Reason is the Scripture But the matter the people of God and their forms Law Reason and Scriptures and the order of both matter and form are kept in chains of slavish dis-use dead to Freedom and Life alive and active unto bondage and death as all Israel living in bondage acted unto bondage onely The most just Law is but a bond-slave to Will and Power Will without Reason is the form of it Right if any be or seem is an effect contingent or a work of Bribery or of by-respects and not of the Law for there can be no right effect from that cause whereof Reason is not the Form and Power Reason is the power of Law-natural the Image of God in man fallen when man fell under the power of bondage and death Dead bodies not presently but in time wholy corrupt and putrifie So this Image and its form Reason though dead did not presently but in time wholy putrifie the order and manner of its dissolution is set forth in that Image in Dan. 2. Howbeit God by his Word the embalming myrrhe of this dead Image hath at some times healed its unsoundness But now this Image and Reason the form of it is as in a Type when the Floud came wholy corrupted and putrified Learning and Ignorance have puft up the wise and foolish and pride hath putrified this Image in man and the form of it Reason as it did in Nebuchadnezzar in a figure for he was the head of Civil Empire and government and a shadow of it from his time in which the Image of God as to Justice Reason and Sobriety is wholy destroyed and the people ruling and ruled turned through pride feral agrest and wild in the substance whereof the same in him was a shadow The wise and learned render reason sensual and divelish the unlearned bruitish Gross and stupid but conceited ignorance and pedantick learning have eaten up like Pharaohs ill-favored lean kine all real Vertue and honesty Religion and the Law and light of Reason is turned putrified filth and dirt of wickedness and folly in the thin bellies of these ill-favored beasts Reason is but a bond-slave to absurd Tenents of fond and sottish bruitishness delatory and evasive sophistry seems most to be but is no part of just reason or of the Image of God but of Satan There 's no true indoles of goodness or good nature left in this Image because the Scriptures are not neither can be but the imaginations of the thoughts of the hearts of men which are in bondage and onely evil continually are as they were in the Type Gen. 6.5 the forms and power of Reason wherefore this spiritual Image in man and the form of it Reason being dead corrupt and putrified as to Freedom Life and Power but alive and active unto bondage and death cannot be the form and power of the Law of the free people of God Thirdly The Scriptures are not but ought to be and shall be the elementary form and power of reason and of the Image of God in man that is they are properly and shall be really the Conduit and Instrument by which the Spirit of life in the Word of God shall convey light of life into the Image of God and into the form of it Reason But the Scriptures are also in bondage of death Rev. 11.7 dead to Freedom and Life and alive and active unto bondage The Scripture is not by strictest pretenders to it extended to Persons Families and People as the elementary form and rule of their Law and Government as Persons Families and people They call the Law of the people the Civil Law and discern it as having it original power and form not from the Scriptures but from the people and for government of Families and Persons and the power of it they think not of it or at least practise not really and indeed any They confine the power of the Scriptures to Churches only as Shimei was to his house in Jerusalem by which means the Scriptures are in bondage and are dead and have no power but to promote empty forms of pretenses and hypocrisie For it is impossible that those herbs that retein the strength and power of poyson in the place where they grow and likewise retein the same strength of poyson in the pot and in the mess should ever be wholsom in the stomack So it is impossible that they that have no power or form of Law or government according to Scriptures as Persons Families or People should have any form or power of Law or Government according to the Scriptures as Churches The Scriptures are a Cup of Gold Rev. 17.4 that is a vessel of pure righteousness not kept in the power of Gods people but in mystical Jezabels hand the mother of all abominations and filthiness Josephs steward said to the Brethren of Joseph That the Silver Cup was that wherein his Master used to drink and indeed to divine The Scriptures are indeed a vessel of perfect honor but as kept in bondage of death in possession and under the power of an harlot a vessel of vilest dishonor a cup of divination full of all abominations and filthiness of her fornications the false wares with which all mercenaries the Merchants of

the earth chandle and trade their high prised deceits of no value which they exchange for the treasure of the earth to make themselves rich some teach against some some against all forms of Godliness and deny all the power of it others press empty forms of fruitless profession and make these and all other painted Sepulchers seem to arise out of this Cup They seem to make the blindest bra●s of Aegyptian darkness their brain-sick conceits of grossest folly and blasphemy to arise out of this cup. All base Sorcerers and seducers take up this cup for a pretence to dissimulation for lucre sake and make it their instrument to deceive and inslave the Nations subordinate to their own unjust gain and ends The Scriptures are but nets spread only to catch their prey their shaddow of darkness to deceit their vessel of divination to ensnare and destroy the earth for reward All Impostors take up out of this cup forms to deceive for gain unto themselves and they that receive the marke of bondage hardness of heart drink deceit and all deceivers the wages of lying divinations out of this cup. The word of God shall be but is not but the wills and power of wicked Impostors and their filthy lusts and desires are the power of the dead subjected and inslaved Scriptures Therefore the Scriptures in bondage under the formes of vilest and most slavish disuse and death cannot be the form and power of the Image of God nor of reason nor reason of the Law nor the Law of the free people of God But as the abomination of desolation was instead of the Arke of God set up in the Temple of God so right order matter and form of Freedom life and power in the people of God is by a general falling away from what they seemed null and voyd and positive opposit forms and powers of bondage the substance shaddowed by that abomination of desolation set up in the Temple the people of God and in all powers of their being Law reason and Scripture And the matter joyned to these forms is their proper matter in being and the order ends and effects must necessarily as effects their causes follow their productive matter and forms therefore the people of God as families persons people and Churches and all their powers and forms Law reason and Scriptures and the order ends and effects of these forms are wholly in the power of bondage and basest disuse dead to Freedom life and power of God alive and active to slavish destruction sin and death and shall be untill God call them and they come and bring with them all that is theirs out of the power of bondage unto the power and freedom of God in their anti-typical families While Israel was in bondage their persons estates law reason traditions and intire beings were wholly in the same bondage and they never had being nor begining of Freedom until they were called out of the power of bondage unto their proper form of Freedom the power of God and of the Lamb and were gathered and sealed in that power typically by their families So the true Israel and all that is theirs are alike in the same bondage their bodys spirits power rights estates and their forms of being law reason and Scriptures are to life and Freedom voyd of being and begining But by occasion vials of slavish disuse destructive sinful and must so remain untill God gather Israel and all that is theirs from being putrified dust rebelling against him to a being and begining in his power of Freedom by their anti-typical families The dust which after was Man had no order unity nor figure of body whiles it was dust nor fleshly form untill it was transmutated into flesh nor life until the flesh had liniaments and breath of life and not till then it had the begining and being of a man So Israel were and and the true Israel are scattered dividuals of dust and Atomes most contrary to order and unity of a body and form of life When Israel rebelled against God and being cald out of bondage hearkned not Exod. 6.12 they were putrified and scattered dust warring against the life and power of God when they readily hearkned to prepare and keep the Passeover as God comanded then they were changed from dead and scattered dust into fit matter of a redeemed people when all their families were gathered together into their own houses or so many as could eat the Lamb into one house and kept together without going out or stirring from one another then they were rallyed and knit in a compact body when they did eat the Passeover together as God commanded then the life and power of God their breath of life from bondage of death was in a Type breathed into them and that night they were delivered and all the first-born the power of Egypt in a Type were that very night destroyed and God ordained that moneth by an Ordinance for ever to be the beginning of all moneths unto them and the first moneth of the yeare because it was indeed really the first beginning of their being So the true Israel the free people of God and all that is theirs have bin and are in that deep sleep and horror of great darkness of bondage and death in the substance of it did which fell upon Abraham in a figure Gen. 15. and are really those divided peices of flesh betwixt which the furnace and burning lampe passed which peices of flesh putrified That deep sleep and great darkness and those peices of flesh were a twofold figure of Abrahams seed after the flesh and after the spirit in bondage dead disobedient and putrified dust which being called hearken not When they shall readily hearken to prepare and keep the true Passeover the substance and truth of the typical then they shall be changed from putrid dust repugnant to all life and freedom of God into fit matter of a free people When their anti-typical families shall be gathered in the unity of the spirit of life and freedom unto the power of God in their natural and mystical houses to prepare and keep the true Passeover and not revolt not stir out nor desert one another then they shall be rallied into the com-pages and joynts of a body of a Free People When they shall eat the Passeover together as God commandeth that is when they shall do really the works of righteousness not the Type but the truth and substance of what God and the Lamb requires of a people redeemed to life and Freedom then the power of God their breath of life from real bondage shall be breathed into them and that time which is at hand shall be unto them and all that is theirs really the very first begining of being Then Israel and theirs first began in a Type and then the true Israel as persons families people and churches shall first begin really That shall be the first time wherein their proper Rights Estates Law Power and the