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The naked mans peace is obedience in a word to the magistrates, priests and people. To which is annexed the will of dead living, and living dead man, now called Nicholas Keate, with a word in generall to all sorts. Written by me Edmund Hide.
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Hide, Edmund.
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Wing H1931A; ESTC R224204
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THE NAKED MANS PEACE IS OBEDIENCE In a word to the Magistrates Priests and People The Sword of the righteous mans war bringeth in Righteousnesse Holinesse and Peace without which no man shall see God True love pleads the cause of the just Behold Christ rideth to Jerusalem upon an Asse A naked man in true innocency is regarded more with the Lord then thousands which are cloathed and their hearts full of hypocrisie To which is annexed the will of dead living and living dead man now called NICHOLAS KEATE with a word in generall to all sorts Isaiah 66. ver. 16. For the Lord will judge with fire and with his Sword all flesh and the slain of the Lord shall be many James 1. ver. 16. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth that we should be as the first fruits of his creatures verse the 25. read Written by me Edmund Hide London printed and are to be sold neere Fleet-Bridge 1655. Friends and people J am constrained in my self to publish to you some lines not craveing any thing of you but what is meet NOw concerning my Friend and Brother who was constrained to go naked in publike view about ten miles unto the Town of Newbery which in appearance unto men might hazard his life yet through that powerful operation and constraint of that Spirit of God in him he was made to effect that which he was commanded to do which was to go naked and take a Sword in his hand and fire on the top of it and a golden girdle on his loyns and standalls on his feet for this his obedience he is condemned and cried out against with scorn and contempt saying he is mad and hath a devil with more such like cruelties as their scorn can afford him yet his joy still continues and his heart still moveth towards God for the day of our Redemption draweth nigh Therefore hearken now my beloved friends and you our enemies to what the Lord shall speak to you in this matter and is made good unto us by his spirit in love and so bringing of us unto the glory of the Father and also to the fellowship of the Saints by the overturning of iniquity and slaying of sin and giving to us the true life of the Gospell in the Spirit of peace to walk in it in our generation that so the light of God may shine and have its day in true appearance and manifestation of love then shall the fire of God be kindled in your consciences then you shall see that you are one slaying of another yet you shall have a pretence of godliness but woe unto all that go down unto Egypt for help for his Sword is a Sword of peace Now again my beloved the truth of Religion is a mystery to Magistrates Priests and people which have a pretence to maintain the fundamentals thereof for they are true in none except they â—re truly practised Therefore in the first place I shall write a word unto the Magistrate and shall bring or compare their life with the life of Christ to prove whether it is one with his When he appeared amongst the sons of men to make manifest his life he appeared in the love of his Fathers will and that he might be an example of it unto us to shew the righteousnesse of God amongst men and that it might be followed by us who own the righteousness of God Then you Magistrates take notice had he honour of men or did he crave it or was he full of pride and did use it was he a follower of the customes and traditions of men was he full of superfluities in meats and drinks and apparel or was he chiefest among them that did meet in the Synagogues did he lord it over Gods Heritage as ye do or was he ever inriched by the things of this world or gained he by the Sword or did he by his obedience to his Fathers wil get into the honor of men and so raign over them He rid unto Ierusalem upon an Asse but ye Rulers of men now ride upon horses that is swift judgment to be put in execution upon the simple the strangers and widows and them which have no Father on earth he was not swift to destroy as those are who have a pretence to the doctrine of the Gospel by one name or other or one Ordinance or other and so call themselves Saints when they differ not from the world but in words for who have gained honour and riches more then they that pretend for Religion or who have divided the spoil but they or who are more proud then they or have more superfluities of meats and drinks then they so let the light in your own consciences discover to you that you are not risen with Christ neither know you what it is to bear his cross or Religion what it is for that is it which tyeth us to God and also one to another but the Daughter of Sion is lest as a cottage therefore give ear ye Rulers of Sodom and ye people of Gomorrah may not I say unto you as it was said unto them ye pray and keep daies of fasting and appointed times it is iniquity before the Lord your hands are full of blood do not these things fall upon the back of the righteous and can such that practise these things maintain true Religion how many were laid up in prisons of those that held up the power of Antichrist by Christ or his Apostles it is the cruel one that doth imprison but it is mercy and love that sets free is Christ your patern then where will you find that he imprisoned or punished any for the breach of the Law of God if he did not so to wicked then why are you so to the righteous I am now called to speak to you in truth and let the light within you testifie that these are the enemies Laws and unrighteous judgments Do we not daily see that those Rulers that are put in Authority for to judg of matter concerning the Civil State will also take upon them to examine the spiritual man and inflict punishments if there be a crying out against wickedness or vain-glory or such like things they take advantage against the simple which do not nor cannot do wrong unto State or people for they have a Law within them which is Christ though they come in appearance within them which is Christ though they come in appearance with sword as this my Brother did where are the wrongs that are or were done by him or any of those who of late have been imprisoned by the Officers of State are all Magistrates full of Divine Mystery surely no but sit as Judges to let Barrabas go free The people of God in former times were cloathed in sheep skins and goat-skins and dwelt in dens and caves of the earth and what we may undergo now we know not but the Lord is our peace and our all and when Christ who is