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A44842 The real cause of the nations bondage and slavery here demonstrated and the way of their freedome from their sore and hard bondage asserted presented unto the Parliament ... / from one that hath seen the corruption ... Richard Hubberthorn. Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662. 1659 (1659) Wing H3228; ESTC R34471 6,259 9

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THE REAL CAUSE OF THE NATIONS Bondage and Slavery here Demonstrated And the VVay of their Freedome from their sore and hard bondage Asserted Presented unto the PARLIAMENT Of the Common-wealth of England Who have a Power and Opportunity put into their hands to do good and to fulfil the expected ends of many if they improve it From one that hath seen the Corruption which bondageth the whole Creation and that waits for the Redemption of the Creature from under it RICHARD HUBBERTHORN I will restore thy Judges as at the first and thy Councellors as at the beginning afterwards thou shalt be called the City of Righteousness the faithful City Isai. 1. 26. Not before When this is fulfilled in England it shall be truly called a free Nation or Common-wealth Not before LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. THere hath been a time when the prudent hath kept silence but now Wisdom hath opened her mouth and will be justified of all her Children for the Lord is reviving the Spirit that hath been imprisoned and taking the yoak from off the disciples necks and is going on in the Name of his power to make his creature a free creature his people a free people and the Nation that serves him obeys his Law a free Nation and the thundrings of his power is gone forth and his Light is risen to discover and destroy that which hath deceived the Nations and to give a discerning unto all of their freedom from their bondage and in what it stands and that is to be cast out which gendreth to the bondage of Soul Spirit or Conscience in any exercise of worship or obedience unto God which springs from the measure of his own life which must not be hindered nor quenched by any Law Power or Pretence whatsoever Therefore from the free Spirit of Life and Liberty in Christ Jesus this is Proclaimed to the whole Nation and the Nations round about to take off their bondage and to take away their reproach which hath lain upon them for want of the Life of Christ which is now risen to do its own work and perfect its own praise and to deliver its own seed wheresoever it hath been in Captivity the power of life must deliver it from all that which causeth shame and reproach which is the iniquity and transgression of the life of Christ which is the Original Cause of bondage to every Nation which the Lord hath promised to take away in one day Zac. 3. 9. And his work and power shall be known by its fruit Which is to take away their sin Esa. 27. 9. One great yoak of bondage which is upon the subjects and seed of God in this Nation and others is that ministery which is not free neither will Minister without money and the people is not free to hear them yet a yoak of bondage is laid upon them to pay them and this iniquity is established by a Law so here is neither free preaching nor free hearing unto which the free Spirit raised up in this Nation declareth thus That every one that will Minister must do it freely and as of the Ability which God giveth him and as the Oracle of God and that no profession of people may maintain anothers Minister but that there may be a free Preaching and a free Hearing among all People that so it may be a free Nation and they that will have Teachers according to their own lusts and judgements they to maintain them and that there may never any such iniquity be established by a Law as for one sort of people to maintain anothers Minister for this hath caused heart-burnings envy and strife insomuch that little Justice could be done for the Nation by reason of the cry of complainers and oppressors as at every Parliament every high Court every Assizes and Sessions and petty Courts there hath some pretended Minister or other been presenting Addresses Petitions or Complaints and so hath stopt the Just and Lawful proceedings of the affairs of the Nation which interruption may easily be prevented and the Courts of Justice freed from such brawling and unceaseable complaints which hath been more interruption to Justice then any thing in the Nation besides and hath more hindered the peoples deliverance from being a free people and a free Nation then any thing in the Nation besides so let every form and profession of Religion maintain their own Minister and maintain their own Poor which are crying at their Meeting-house doors and in the streets in the Name of their God for some relief that so there may not be a beggar in England for herein the Christians in name are become even a reproach among the Heathens to see their own flesh stand naked and uncovered in the streets and Steeple-house doors and at their doors and they turn their ears from the Poor and forgets God and looses the bowels of Compassion and are not merciful as the Father which is in Heaven is merciful and so walks not according to the Scriptures but is a disgrace to Religion and even a reproach among the Heathen so let no more the cry of the Priests nor of the poor be heard in our land the one crying for Laws to persecute and receive money of those who they preach not unto which receives no teaching from them which cry is intollerable to be heard or suffered in a free Common-wealth And the other for want of the creatures of God when as others spend the creatures of God upon their lusts excessively and so the Creation is out of order but those that are come into the Gospel Ministration and to be taught of the Lord and have received Christ Jesus the Lord and walk in him it is not so amongst us for the creatures of God are not spent upon the lust nor destroyed neither is there a beggar amongst us who are truly of us in the obedience of truth so that we do not desire that any people or profession in the Nation should maintain our poor for they are our own flesh without respect of persons for if any of us have of this Worlds good see our Brother stand in need shuts up the bowels of compassion from him the love of God doth not dwell in us neither doth any other maintain those that Minister unto us the Word and Doctrine so we according to the royal Law of Liberty desire to do unto others as we would have them do unto us and thus to be a free people and a free Nation So every form profession will enjoy their own Minister till they come to know Him unto whom the gatherings of the people must be viz. Christ so that neither Parliament Assizes Sessions nor Courts will have any thing to do in matters of Religion but to keep the peace of the Nation And then he that hath the Word of God may speak his Word faithfully and freely without interruption so that the Gospel of God