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A28152	A word of reproof and advice to my late fellow-souldiers and officers of the English, Irish, and Scotish army with some inrhoad made upon the hireling and his mass-house, university, orders, degrees, vestments, poperies, heathenism, &c. : with a short catalogue of some of the fighting priests and ... have given them a blow in one of their eyes (pickt out of the whores head) which they call a fountain of religion but is a sink of iniquity ... / by E.B.	Billing, Edward, 1623-1686.	1659 (1659)	Wing B2903; ESTC R23695	86,580	98

Souls for his dishonest gain Oh! who is able to reckon up their deceipts or the number of the innocent that hath and are at this day deceived by them but the Soul which sins shall dye the death for the potter hath power over the clay and though he hide himself in the remotest part of the Garden he will find him out and a vessel of dishonour he shall be and yet after they have sinned he desireth not the death of a sinner although he be dead in sins and trespasses but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live For as I live saith the Lord I will not the death of a sinner Mark of a sinner but the persecutor and he whose tongue is at liberty who defileth his body which is the Temple of the Lord him will God destroy although he be the fattest Bull in Basan or the mightiest Cedar in all Lebanon he is but clay in the hands of the Potter and a vessel of dishonour he will make him But he that liveth in his fear and standeth in his councel and is obedient to the Fathers Commands which are all possible and in no wise grievous him he makes a vessel of honour and he is to him as the apple of his eye Be Holy be Perfect be Just in all your doings all men and let all Mark all that are athirst come and buy milk freely and take of the water of Life without money and without price Oh! Come all and it is in vain to invite them that are predestinated from all Eternity to be damned What I say unto one I say unto all watch and those that are decreed to Hell need not watch but the Lord willeth that all men should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth and he is not like Pharaoh who willed the people to make brick without straw Oh! the Creator doth not so for a measure of himself he hath given to every man to profit withal Mark to all so that if he require the full tale of brick he doth Justly and his doings are Just and he is equal in all his wayes and let not him that is formed though a subject or a King say to him that hath formed Why hast thou made me so But come unto him or look unto him all the ends of the earth and be saved and the Gospel hath been preached to every creature under Heaven and it is he that knowes the Fathers Will and doth it not which shall be beaten but it is impossible that he can do it who never knew it but knowledge is a delitious fruit and pleasant to the eye upon which the reprobate feeds and whom I will I ha●den but first he willeth that all men should be saved or else he might have said except Judas except Pharaoh except Esau except Pilate the Priests friend but Gods enemy Christ knew from the beginning who should betray him Mark he knew it but he did not wil him to do it for if he had it could not have been called treachery in Judas Nay he willeth not the death of a sinner but he willeth that all the ends of the earth should look unto him and be saved that is his Will and purpose for which purpose he hath and doth enlighten every man that cometh into the World that all men through him might believe and be saved Mark and note that he willeth all men I say he did not except Judas Pilate and Pharaoh if they were alive and had not sold themselves to do wickedly for which cause they were given up to a reprobate minde but there is and was some that will not come unto him that they may have life Wherefore such are ordained to condemnation of old but they that come unto him he will in no wise cast off and whom he loves he loves to the end and he that loves him keeps his Commands and he that keeps them not is of the Devil and he that is of the Devil hath no part in him for God and Belial are not one in any one thing neither do they live together and where Jerusalem is Babylon cannot stand and where the Light with which every man is enlightened bears Rule there is no darkness at all and when it is disobeyed if heeded the darkness may be felt Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated before either of those two children had done good or evil Yea the thing Jacob he loved and the thing Esau he hated before either of those two children were begotten or born after the flesh and those two seeds he onely loves and hates at this day and see that there be not a Cain nor an Esau be among ye but let the worm Jacob be cherished for it loves the Light and is the heritage of God but let murtherous Cain although he hath been Prince of the whole City and all hath been called by his sons name and Lord Esau of the mount come under for though there was a time when the seed bowed Jacob's got past and let the elder serve the younger for he sold his Birth-right for his belly Mark he had it A Birth-right or a Right-birth but he sold it and afterwards sought it with tears It was not the earth he wept for although he sold his Birth-right or Right-birth which was immortal for that which was earthly divelish and sensual The great God who created Heaven and Earth willeth that all man-kind should come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved and willeth not the death of one soul of his whole handy-work and the work of his own hands he cannot destroy and that is the infallible and true light the Son of the Father who enlighteneth every individual man and woman that commeth into the World that all through him may believe and be saved it is the particular sins of every particular man and woman that is the cause of death reprobation and c●nd●●n●tion and that soul which sins shall die but for the word Original fin I do not find it in the whole Scriptures but is a contrivance of the false Prophets like unto their baby-baptism but he that believes in the Light of Christ which he is enlightened with and brings all his deeds to the light and dwells and abides in the light and hath the hope in him He purifieth himself as he is pure and the wicked one cannot touch him Again and again I say if a certain and set number from all eternity be predestinated to be saved and damned What doth the hireling preach for or for what hath he his hire I am sure the decrees of the living God are yea and Amen and unalterable And there is another vaine sort of people who are as ignorant as they who say that the Scriptures is the word of God and Mathew Mark Luke and John the Gospel and that the Latin Greek and Hebrew is the Original as for the word which the Scriptures of truth truly declares of he was in the

A VVord of Reproof And Advice to my late Fellow-Souldiers and Officers of the English Irish and Scotish Army With some Inrhoad made upon the Hireling and his Mass-house University Orders Degrees Vestments Poperies Heathenism c. With a short Catologue of some of the fighting Priests And for just cause given have given them a blow in one of their eyes pickt out of the whores head which they call A Fountain of Religion but is a sink of iniquity Also a word to those old Creatures who are old in iniquity and in the fallen estate yet deny falling away Likewise a word to those Magistrates and Rulers who whip or suffer to be whipt or imprisoned the Saints of the most High as Vagabonds amongst whom there is no Begger As also a word to that bad Generation of people who in their reprobate minds and with their unwholsome tongues blaspheme and belye the dreadful and just God in saying that he hath created some men intentionally to be damned and a particular number to be saved and damn'd Wherefore then doth the Hireling preach and for what hath he his hire Mark the decrees of God are yea Amen and unalterable A word to these who are called Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts Lords Barrons Bannerets Baronets Knights of all sorts Esquires and Gentlemen so called Also let that Generation that desire a signe read some of the Examples that have befallen the Persecutors of the Innocent By a lover of good Men good Laws good Governments and Governours good Judges and Ministers as at the beginning Who hates nor fears no man and is a lover and honourer of all men in the Lord but cannot give flattering Titles or respect the person of any man E. B. LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. And I said hear I pray you O heads of Jacob and ye Princes of the house of Israel Is it not for you to know judgement Who hate the good and love the evil who pluck off their skin from off them and their flesh from off their bones Who also eat the flesh of my people and flay their skin from off them and they break their bones and chop them in pieces as for the pot and as flesh within the cauldron Micah 3. 1 2 3. FRIENDS I Do believe that very many among you are not unsensible of your own unfruitfulnesse and unfaithful dealing to God-ward and I know that ye may not deny but if ye had stood in your former integrity that is to say when ye were little in your own eyes when compassion was no stranger and tendernesse was well known amongst ye then was the hireling and all his Jewish and Popish trumpery sentenced and liberty of conscience vowed I say if ye had stood in that integrity ye might have been instrumental to have saved much of the innocent blood that hath been shed for which I know the Lords hand will be speedily and eminently revealed upon some amongst ye who have connived at cruel murthers when as the blood of the innocent hath been laid before ye as James Parnels in the first place was but since him many others have drank of the same cup even to death And I am sure the Lord will rebuke princes for our sakes and let the most sturdiest oak amongst ye know that the indignation and fierce wrath of the dreadful God is kindled and his righteous judgement is nigh even at the door and a sudain and terrible breach will he make amongst ye at unawares when ye look not for his coming for verily his righteous spirit is grieved at the cruelties that are done although ye hedge your selves up with many spears and think to surround your selves with battleaxes yet the same spirit which ye have many of ye like fools gone about to limit will suddainly break through all your contrivances and a day of mourning will overtake ye although for the present ye are not troubled like other men but suffer the Prophets and messengers of the living God to be slain before your faces yea I know the righteous have perished and none of ye have laid it to heart so as to remedy it and if any of them be moved of the Lord to come among you some of ye have even shamefully and cruelly entreated them madly resisting the holy One in his way but let the most surliest among ye know that the blood of the innocent hath reached heaven and he will not spare ye And now that none of ye from the General to the meanest sentinel may be ignorant what innocent blood I mean It is the blood of such who did believe and declare that Christ is come in the flesh and so durst not uphold a Jewish or Popish priest-hood by paying of them tythes and some for going into a Mass-house and desiring the hireling to fear the Lord and turn from the evil of his wayes or asking a sober question and for not swearing which is the breach of an especial command of Christ who sayes swear not at all many others dragged out of their peaceable meetings without the breach of the least Popish law whatsoever and thrown into dungeons and nasty holes amongst theeves and murtherers other being upon their knees at prayer have been taken up by the hair of the head some thrown into prison without so much as a Mittimus there kept for many moneths others have been stoned knockt down with clubs and stones mangled with swords and run into the body and abundance of such cruelties I might name besides the exceeding great number of our friends that have been whipt as vagabonds and committed to prison for vagabonds and yet be it known to the whole World we have not a begger amongst us One and the same woman hath been committed for not coming and coming to the Steeple-house although she spake not a word to either Priest or people others have been invited by the Magistrates in my hearing to the Steeple-house to have a dispute and yet afterwards was committed to prison but the cause of the innocont which of ye have pleaded or what Justice hath there been done to the poor Nazarenes when any of us have been falsly and contrary to all manner of Law imprisoned for the space of a year more or lesse there is some would have us call it a favour when as for shame they are forced to deliver us When some of the Lambs of God have been brought to the bar the Judge hath asked the plaintiff what he had against the Prisoner he answered he abused me he abused me wherein why said the plaintiff he bid me fear the Lord and this he called an abuse and many such rediculous absurdities I might name that hath been committed by the Anti-christian Romish Clergy and those upon whom that beast rides in these our yet bad-reformed times but I shall wade further into that Sea anon Friends It is not unknown to me the exceeding largeness of your borders in