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A38778 A voice from heaven to th[e] common-wealth of England with additions. Evans, Arise, b. 1607. 1653 (1653) Wing E3470; ESTC R25074 31,492 57

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over all the earth and that he will send his Ministers to gather them into this only way of salvation Mat. 24. 31. but now there is no Elect visibly seen save these of the Church of England and all the Elect must come to unity with these in forme of worship doctrine and discipline before they can be justified and saved Isa. 60. 10. 16. Isa. 43. 23 Mat. 24. 23 24 25 26. 2 Pet. 2. Iude 1. 2 Tim. 3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Heb. 12. 16 17. Gen. 25. 31 32 33 34. Gen. 27. 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37. 2 King 14. 23. 27. 28. Amos 1. 1. Amos 7. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13 14. 15. Acts 15. 15. 16. 17. 18. Rom 2. 28 29. Rom. 9. 6. 7. Gal. 6. 16. The Iews judgement is right as you may see Sec. 26 of the hope of Israel They say that their Messiah or deliverer should die in the last war of Gog and Magog and rise again to be glorious and victorious Isa. 35. 8 9. 10. the book of Common-Prayer is promised and is called The way of holinesse And because of the abundance not only of the Iewes Ceremonies but also of Papists ways so that a wise man may lose himself in them But saith be of this way of worship the way faring man though a fool shall not erre therein because there are but a few things to be done and plain direction for every thing Jewes Turks Papists Presbyterians Independents Brownists Anabaptists leave your pernicious wayes and come to this only way of truth where you shall find rest 2 Pet. 2. 2. Heb. 4. 7 8 9. Isa. 35. 8. Hosea 8. 5 6. 1 King 12. 28 29. And here is his Resurrection set downe Amos 〈…〉 Rev. 20 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15. now the former part of this Rev. 20. 1 2 3 4 5 6. was the state of the Church from Constantine the great his time untill the Church was persecuted again by the Romish Heresies which was the cause that God took the sword from thence and put it in King Hen. 8. hand to defend the Church as before mentioned Compare this 5. ver. with Amos 8. ver. 8. where you have the same words in effect onely there is added in the said 8. verse and they shall be cast out which words in Isaiah 66. ver 5. are plainly opened which I besecch you read and observe Exo. 23. 2. Zac. 4. 6. Ezek. 2. 17 18 19. Here I do not mean the Bishops and faithful Ministers of the Church of England but I mean all others generally that pretend themselves to be Divines or Ministers and Instructors The Author being a Prisoner at the Gate-house Westminster in 1637. for foretelling what befell the King It was demanded by some why the Author did scape well seeing Pryn Bastwick and Burton were so severely dealt with And it was answered That what the Author did was from Conscience to forewarn the King but what they did was found to proceed from malice to raise a party against the King So it seems then there was Liberty of Conscience allowed to men in its true being when it was found distinct from malice 1635. 1646. Poor Protestant thine enemies glory against thee because of the Scripture counting thee ignorant and not to have such interest as they have in God and in Scripture Be not dismaid for in the thing wherein they deal proudly thou art above them Exod. 18. 11. 1 Cor. 15. 24. Rev. 14. 18. Rev. 13 13. Three years and a halfe it doth begin from the date of that Act for to do all in the name of the Common wealth And lest you think that nothing remarkable came to passe in September last not to matter your scuffling with the Dutch but to shew in a new thing the threatning band of God upon you from a Nation by which God punished this Land once before I mean the Danes stopping your ships your sending a Fleet of men of War to demand them yet to no purpose And God at their return destroyes the greatest of your men of War and brings them all so neer their end that the mind of God might easily be read therein on the last of September it was done So by his delay God would have you repent and set up the King Here was a severe Judgement shown upon the head Ship yet mercy in saving so narrowly the rest to see if this mercy might draw you to repentance but if not look for Judgment without Mercy hereafter These ten have already brought the Whore to nothing that is the Mountain Parliament is become a Plain before them and now they reign And I am sure there is a Zerubbabel among them that hates confusion who will bring in the King signified by the Headstone Zach. 4. 7. but which of the ten this Zerubbabel is the Lord he knoweth