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A78076	By reason of the distraction that is in the Romane Empire, these be delivered especially to the emperour, and then also to all other potentates, kings, princes, rulers, governours, and magistrates, in all Europe; who ought to consider, according to conscience, what their office and place is; and not to rule, judge, and domineere, without righteousness, or against God: as hath been done for a long while by the working of Satan in this false Jerusalem: and yet is still so done more and more apparantly.		1648 (1648)	Wing B6356; Thomason E468_4*; ESTC R205323	14,226	16

By Reason of the DISTRACTION that is in The Romane Empire These be Delivered Especially to the Emperour and then also to all other Potentates Kings Princes Rulers Governours and Magistrates in all Europe Who ought to consider according to Conscience what their Office and Place is and not to Rule Judge and Domineere without Righteousness or against GOD as hath been done for a long while By the workings of Satan in this false Jerusalem and yet is still so done more and more apparantly Printed in the Year MDCXLVIII THere are many within and without the Roman Empire who ascribe these times of distractions desolations and utter destructions of Countries and of mankind both in soul and body according to their own affections and lay the fault thereof sometime upon this sometime upon that cause and every one that is most ingaged and interessed would shift the blame from themselves but very few hitherto have been found who have discovered the true principal ground from whence these distractions took their original at the beginning and have broken forth in such a consuming fire of the anger of God that people fall into the hands and upon the swords of one another For they are but Petitiones principii to alledg one while that the fault is in the contrariety of opinions in Religion and the various misunderstandings about reconciliation of matters in Religion another while that the fault is in the exorbitancy of this or that person or in the too greedy desire of some to domineer and aspire to great Dominion and such seeming pretences they propound to be the causes of it But the question still remains to be made whence the particular causes of the strife about opinions in Religion of that exorbitancy insolency and greedy desire to domineer and make all others servants and slaves to them hath its original ground Out of what evil Well or Fountain do these deadly poysonous streams break forth and so mightily prevail to produce such destruction and desolation so powerfully and who among the children of men is the chief cause thereof Here if the Emperor in particular because of the distractions in Germany and every one else rightly consider and weigh the cause in their hearts and consciences according to the Testimony of God and the power and the truth of his Word without the pre-imagined conceits and humane inventions they shall find no other fundamental cause but this That the spirituall Clergy who usurpedly set up and institute themselves and elect and choose themselves to be such are the chief Cause of these Distractions and Confusions in all Nations FOr after they had forsaken the Covenant of the second or New Testament Joh 12. which teacheth to walk in the Light according to the Law of the Spirit which maketh alive in Christ Jesus Rom. 8. they blasphemed the way of Truth 2 Pet. 2. Phil. 3 1 Cor. 3.11 1 Joh. 1.24 1 Tim. 2 Hos 8.10 12 rent and separated themselves with Schi●●● and Divisions and so are not united in God and they being without the spiritual Communion which the true faithful Beleevers through the only Mediator Jesus Christ should have with God every one of them some here some there according to their own pleasures have erected or congregated Churches and built Altars of Abominations Jer. 11.13 whereby people in the inward ground of their Hearts or Consciences Mat. 24 Eph. 4. Col. 3 Rom. 16. Psa 12.80 1 Pet. 5. Eze. 34. Jer. 8.12 14.23 Is 29 by breaking the bands of the Peace and of the Love of God have separated from one another whereby the vineyard of the Lord must needs come to be destroyed whereupon then all the flocks were scattered in themselves by one another and by the faith or belief which they have covenanted and sworn to keep are made a prey to people voyd of Consciences no better then wilde Beasts Murtherers and Tyrants for the disagreeing distracted and confounded Contentions of the Pastors and Hirelings who only serve the world and their own bellies 1 Tim. 6. Joh. 10. 1 Joh. 4 Phil. 3. Rö. 16. 2 Pet. 2 Psa 12.14 59. Col. 2. and seduce many innocent hearts with sweet words and pleasing Sermons And now the people who walk in their destructive ways in Error and Darkness of Conscience Eph. 4.5 with Hypocritical works which themselves have contrived in their reason 2 Pet. 2. according to the Commandments and Ordinances of Men will make as if themselves were excellent honest pious holy and righteous Man 7.15 23. Hereby it is further made known and discovered 2 Cor. 11 Luk. 17 2 Cor. 3.4 1 Cor. 4 Rom. 1 Psa 12 2 Tim. 3 2 Pet. 2 Mat. 24 Mark 13 1 Cor. 6 Epist Jude Rom. 3.5 6 Col. 3 Rev. 18 Is 13.34.56 that it might be considered after what manner Satan hath changed himself into an Angel of Light and hath clothed himself with a false shew and in and by them hath darkned the Kingdom of God in the hearts and souls of other men and wholly abrogated the power thereof 2 Tim. 3. And on the contrary hath renewed and set up his own Kingdom the Kingdom of Pride Subtilty Craft Lying Covetousness Wrath Contention Strife Murther Hatred Malice Envy and Eternal Death in the sinful birth of the Humane Nature in that they pretend as if they in their contentious and confused doings had full power of the Keyes or Ju● Divinum over Heaven to bring the old Adam thither by their word and promise where with they had allured the wicked souls to them whereupon the abomination of desolation is come into the holy place viz. into the Humane Soul wherein there should be a Temple or habitation of God built and set up from whence such hellish fruits of sinful actions of the old birth have changed it into a Cage of Devils of all unelean spirits and hateful birds which have broke forth from thence and so have gotten the opper hand in this world as is manifest Mat. 24 Isa 42.43 2 Tim. 3 Luke 17.18 Mat. 24. Rō 1. Is 1.3 5.59 4 Esd 5 6 7 8 9.14 15 16 Jer. 7.8.9.18 2 Tim. 4 Mat. 24 Mark 13 Zech. 13 Epist Jude 2 Pet. 2 Jer. 5.23 Eph. 4 Mark 13 1 Tim. 1.6 as clear as the Noon day and long ago foretold by the holy Scripture and declared by the Word of God viz. That in these last days horrible times shall come wherein there shall be neither Faith Love nor Righteousness to be found but Oppression Mischief all kinds of malice and wickedness undermining crafty cunning subtilty and unrighteousness shall get the upper hand among the children of men and destroying works of iniquity shall get to the highest pitch which yet the Teachers in the outward Temple or in Babel do boast in saying here is Christ or there he is so that if it were possible for the Devil that arch enemy hereby to seduce the Elect of God and allure them to all

which he with his fellows have committed spiritual whoredom for a long while and desist from those deadly damned purposes these base false pernicious thoughts yea devilish doings and cleanse himself from other works of darkness for which the wrath of God is gone forth over all the world and desire to grow sober minded and then he and they may expect grace from God so far as they do so without any crafty prevariation fraud deceit or reservation to which God hath a piercing watchful eye and circumspection and will not be mocked or deceived in this business of the suppressing of the faithful ones For a civil or worldly Magistrate who is ordained from God to rule and govern should judg no otherwise but according to Righteousness for the welfare of the subjects and the universal temporal and eternal welfare of mankind and especially as this so long continued desolating great necessity and misery doth require that the poor and miserable may be delivered from the power of the oppressors thereby But not that the Elect of God should be yet further condemned judged and abused to bring them to temporal and eternal perdition as it hath been for a long time hitherto from whence so many great plagues lamentation and necessities have arisen in the Roman Empire and Ruine been brought upon one Country after another But if the Emperors and they should not regard these things nor consider how God proceeded in former times against others his fellows King Pharoah and the King of Assyria and Babylon where his name was so blasphemed and his people of Israel so ground trodden under-foot and vexed who regarded not the mighty arm of the Lord or the terrible deeds which God in former times for that cause shewed upon his Enemies neither would they return and regard these threatnings and plagues or take them to heart and consider them And if he also should slight those things which hitherto for his purpose against God he hath so much experience of and felt them by a living knowledg of them then it is to be feared that God will not only make an end of him and them but that worse things shall befall him and them then in former times befel those to whom such deeds were not so known and testified to as they have bin to him for God will not have his admonitions warnings and threatnings slightly passed over though he be long suffering and of great patience for afterwards there will be no deliverance out of his hand Therefore if the Emperor with his Reformation or afflicting of consciences in all places and Counties doth not leave it off and give it over and will not let those Captives or prisoners go free which are already under the Babylonian yoak and abomination and let every one enjoy the liberty of his conscience and doth not from the inward ground of his heart put away the devilish doings and practises of the forcerers the false Prophets which they entice him to or else God will destroy all that hath remained and bin hither to saved and preserved and will proceed still further against them and must be revenged on him and his fellows and bring those things upon his own head both in soul and body which he will have cause to repent of here in this life and in the other Eternal Given According to the Councel of the Lord Isaiah 8.30 Mat. 11. 1 Cor. 1.15 Psal 89.119 Isa 5.51.59 Wisdom 5. Dan. 7.12 and according to the mystery of the hidden Wisdom of God and his Eternal Divine Righteousness according to which for the deliverance of his Elect he willbring his Enemies the opposers to an end 2 Thes 1.2 Luke 17.18.21 I●el 83. FINIS

Rev. 19.20 Rom. 1. Zeph. 3. Iohn 5. Mat. 13.23 Ezek. 13. 2 Pet. 2 Mat. 7. Mat. 3. Ia. 5 Mich. 3 For in this so long appointed and denounced day of harvest wherein the sentence of God shall be revealed and the books of the consciences of every one shall be opened 4. Esdras 6.16 God will send down afar other kind of Judgment upon the unbelieving and ungodly hypocrites scorners and despisers then the unspiritual or fleshly dreamers expect who instead of the Kingdom of Grace or of the heavenly essentiadity into which the faithful should be ingrassed by the redemption of Christ they have set up and propagated to the Kingdom of the Devil and of all disturbance of anger contention and division of hatred envy and bitterness by their own appropriated and usurped authority which in a proud sta●●●y manner Isai 28. they all for their hypocrisy and lyes uphold which Kangdom or darknes they also now wil desend and maintain by those who follow after their destruction in the broad way and are bewitched by them and their false spiritual shew wherein they set forth themselves among them with the strength of the Land viz. that which they get by hook and by crook from the poor people But seeing by this so desperate yea devilish a purpose Rev. 13. Rom. 14. Dan. ● 7 the Kingdom of God is not only hindred which is righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost on which the universal temporal and eternal welfare of mankind doth depend Luke 17. Isai 49.51 2 Tim. 3.4 Rev. 6. Psalm 12. but Christ also in his members is put to open shame about the knowledg and profession of the Word or holy Name of God and they are hated and persecuted for the truths sake and for that cause from the beginning to this time so many witnesses of God have been in most lamentable manner condemned and put to death and the poor people are not only thus desolated but by the instigation of such sorcerers Ezech. 13 Malachi 3. Every one of whom will preserve and defend his own by that means Iames 2. they are in many places and Countries most unmercifully tyrannically and almost utterly destroyed and rooted out with their own sweat and blood Psa 52.109 which these filthy men devour and gluttonize withall 2 Pet. 2. wherewith they patch and stitch to their Babell those who never desire to return to God that they may thereby uphold the Kingdom of darkness Rev. 16.20 wherein one man is become a Devil to another Mark 13. therefore it shall be judged in such a manner that not one stone of this false Jerusalem will be left upon another Mat. 24. For the day of the Vengeance of God 2 Thes 1. Luke 18.21 Ieramiah 25 1 Cor. 3 Ep. Iude. Psalm 14. Isaiah 52. 2 Cor. 11. Ezek 22 Isaiah 28. Rev. 20 Acts 20. Mat. 7. Iohn 10. Titus 1. Ezek. 13 Deu. 1.10.17 Syrach 10. Mich. 7. Psal 58.92 Ier. 5.10 4 Esd 11.12.15 Mich. 7.6 Rev. 16. Isa 61.63 for the deliverance of his Elect shall begin or break forth with the overthrow and destruction of the glorious building of the Pastors or Shepheards which every one hath heaped to himself 2 Tim. 4. in his own Religion Sect or Schism 2 Pet. 2. who do nothing but devour the people to nourish and maintain themselves they have a long time blasphemed the Name of God as to the redemption of Sion and have most of all chiefly with-stood the servants and witnesses thereof for the truths sake 2 Tim. 3. whom God hath a long time winked at and their murdering of bodies and souls which chiefly for their deceit sake in all places and Countries hath been exceedingly practised and yet have been absolved Ep. Iud. by the false theevish office of the keys of those horrible devouring wolves and hirelings for their bellies sake their filthy lucre a bit of bread and for a handful of barly But being the office of Judgment Rule and Government here upon earth doth nor belong to man but to the Lord of Lords and to God the supream Judg Wisdom 6. And being it doth not belong to any Ruler or Magistrate to domineer according to their own perverse wills and pleasures in the world therefore it is fit that the Potentates should know the ways of the Lord and the Laws and Rights of their God as in particular because of the distractions in Germany the Emperor and all other Potentates Kings Princes and Judges who would avoyd the remaining vials or woes and plagues of the anger of God should have long ago considered what they had to do in these so long continued great miserles and warlike distractions Luke 21. Psal 2.76 Nahem 3. Zach. 11. Psal 12.94 Isa 52. Rev. 20. Ezek. 13 1 Tim. 4. 4. Esd 15.16 2 Thes 2. Rom. 9.11 Ier. 30.50.51 Isa 13.14.30 by which Satan is altogether let loose with raging and raving fury murdering stealing robbing kiling and shedding of blood in the distraction of the poor and especially in the oppression of the faithful concerning whom the Name of God is blasphemed they should no longer trust to any of their false Prophets who flatter and sooth up every one in their party Ieremiah 28. and especially look no longer supersicially with hardned hearts and blinded eyes upon the hipocritical cunning slights of Satan because of the desolation and fire that hath risen from thence as is manifest in the external distractions and horrible ruins of Countries which have been caused to break forth thus by the working of the Devil but they should consider them seriously by entring deeply into their consciences that God may not have cause to multiply and enlarge the misery and stormy tempest of his fiery wrath according as he hath begun upon him and other Potentates Psalm 137. For the false Prophets Mat. 24. who from the clear and plain testimonies which for a long time have been revealed and brought to light because of their bewitching Babilonish doings Isaiah 47. should have given place to the Spirit of God or the Testimony of Jesus Christ inwardly in themselves and yet have not grown sober thereby 2 Tim. 2. Zeph. 1. nor ever desired to acknowledg their cunning slights and abominations nor considered the miserable and deplorable condition which mankind is brought into chiefly for their sakes but moreover do still according to the working of the Devil inwardly in them continually allure intice 2 Thes 2. Rev. 1.6 Romans 1. 2 Pet. 3. Mark 13. and put on people to the furtherance of all mischief and wickedness These together with those that uphold such wicked doings with their braneadoes shal be sent and thrown into hell where such disputings and making of parties by perverting teachings will avail no more the stool or throne of the beast and false Prophets Revel 16.19 20. Whosoever they be that have always contemned and scorned the admonitions warnings and threatnings of God