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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77067	The labyrinth the kingdom's in: with a golden threed to bring it forth into light, liberty, and peace agen. Being a brief but impartial history of the good and evil of the former, later, and present power of the nation, as it relates to God and the people. The result is a plea for the restauration of all in Christ (the kingdoms rest,) who is expected to appear more in the present, then in any former power of the nation. / By R. Bacon, a lover of mankinde.	Bacon, Robert, M.A.	1649 (1649)	Wing B369; Thomason E541_26; ESTC R204342	33,585	52

THE LABYRINTH the KINGDOM 's in With a golden threed to bring it forth into Light Liberty and Peace agen BEING A brief but impartial History OF THE Good and Evil of the former later and present Power of the Nation as it relates to GOD and the PEOPLE The Result is a Plea for the Restauration of all in Christ the Kingdoms Rest who is expected to appear more in the present then in any former Power of the Nation By R. BACON a Lover of Mankinde Obsequium amicos veritas odium parit Terent. 1 Pet. 4.6 For this cause the Gospel is preached to them that are dead that they might be judged according to men in the flesh but saved according to God in the spirit Gal. 2. If I build again the things I have destroyed I make my self a transgressor LONDON Printed in the Year M.DC.XLIX TO THE High Court of Iustice so called Light and Truth Mercy and Peace Right honorable YOu are in your present proceedings a shadow and but a shadow of good things to come not the very things themselves not he that should come we are yet to look for another even Christ himself the true anointing that shall not as you judg according to the seeing of the Eye and hearing of the Ear but he shall do righteous Judgment upon you as well as others I mean not upon King Charles for All but King Lucifer in All King Parliament Army All. This is and hath been the King of the bottomless pit who hath let in all manner of devils into the Nation to be the torment and trouble of it his name is therefore in the Hebrew tongue ABADDON but in the Greek tongue hath his name APOLLYON and is indeed the great Destroyer of all Good in You and the whole Kingdom I give my vote to the slaughter of this King I have but two things more to say to You and say it I may I hope without offence for I intend none neither do I say it after or to serve or please men but God as they said to Christ By whose Authority do you do these things or who gave you this Authority or as Christ said to them of John Is it from heaven or of men If You say it is of men then you your selves are witnesses against your selves that you tread in the steps i. e. are living in the same principle of those that went before you and do as they did judg that evil in others which you have not yet overcome in the principle of it in your selves Let therefore he that is among you without this fault throw the first stone But if you say it is from Heaven let it appear by your doing the works of your father which is in heaven This we will beleeve when we shall see you do that which none others did before you that is to say when you shall do good for evil not only love those that love you but those too not their evil that hate you and despitefully use you Let your rain of goodness descend and your Sun of righteousness shine upon the Just for their Justification and the unjust for their Clarification and Restoration Then shall we set to our seal that you are that you expect to be * As Cyrus was said to be The Christ of God the anointed of the Lord for the saving healing and restoring of the Land to which God and all good men say Amen The aberrations from and the walking after the light of this star this anointing by King Parliament Army is the subject of this Discourse with all Christian submission put into your hands By R. BACON Who in his sphere seeks the good of all The Labyrinth the Kingdom is in With a golden Threed to bring it forth into LIGHT LIBERTY and PEACE agen Being an impartial History of the Good and Evil of the former later and present Power of the Nation as it relates to God and the People CHAP. I. Of the height and fall of the King and his Party together with the cause and manner how THe King of England Scotland France and Ireland so is his title at least so it was in times past being through Flattery Oppression Superstition Ignorance and the like lifted up in himself and over the Nation and all orders and estates of men and consciences therein yea above all that was or is truly called God among men so that he said in his heart and all that were heightned by and took up their rest in this great and tall Cedar as some●ime the King of Assyria did I will ascend above the heights of the cloude I will be like the most high that is as wise as strong as great as he Or as did that other great and mighty Poter●ate we read of in Daniel reflecting upon his own glory and the works of his own hands boasted himself before God and men saying interpretatively and in the account of both Is not this great Babel which I have built for the honor of my Majesty for the spreading of my glory and for a lasting rest and tabernacle to me and mine to all future ages § 2. No sooner was this thus in his ignorance of God gone forth of the mouth of him and his but there apeared written upon the wall of this his and their so great but carnal Confidence by the invisible and irresistible hand of God which only then and now the Daniels of the Kingdom were able to read and interpret MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN This is now not only Prophetically but that which is come to pass easily to be interpreted by every one that passeth by or goeth in and out this Kingdom so that every man may see and understand this to be the interpretation of the thing or hand writing Mene God hath numbred thy Kingdom taken a note of all the particular vanities follies cruelties therein and finished it in respect of the glory pride and vanity it now is and hath been in Tekel Thou art weigh●d in the ballances of God and man and art found too light Peres divisit God hath divided it from thee and thee from it or divided it into several peeces and smaller parts and parcels so that one hath one part and another hath another First the Irish take one peece then the Scots take another and the English take the last or rather the first and best and they too divide it among themselves and strive who shall have the better part or the whole of it Sect. 3. Thus the King in this way and confidence of his and those that had stretched themselves with him upon this bed of rest which they have now found by woful experience is too short for them I say he and they have found that come upon them at the Call and Command of God which sometime the Land of Judah did yea that very voyce of God hath thundered in their ears houses and among their friends and estates as sometime did among that people and that in these

his side who thought but perhaps to attaine onely to the forbidden tree by them i. e. to satisfie their own lusts which yet I will not altogether affirme but this I do openly professe and declare that this overture with the King was the most hopefull promising innocent candid and Christian that ever was made since these troubles began and the most like to bring forth the wished for peace truth and righteousnesse to and for the rest of all the inhabitants of the Nation without respect of persons into which unlesse the door stand equally open unto all it is like nay it will certainly be shut against all it being the nature of all good men and governments to give downe like the Sun in the firmament light warmth as well to the benefit and refreshing of the unjust and unrighteous though not for their encouragement as such but for their conviction as the just and righteous according to the patterne given us in the Mount which is Christ himselfe to whom the Publicans and Harlots which were outwardly unclean as that party of people are which we in our selfe justifying language have and do call Malignants had as easie and open accesse as the Scribes and Pharises which were only outwardly holy and cleane but within were full of rottennesse and filth as the most of those are on the other side amongst us that boast of their Saintship and reformation This sun of righteousnesse mercy and peace was dawning in that day I say an appearing of righteousnesse and peace of Justice and mercy for the one without the other is not in God or Christ or good men and therefore where they are divided as for the most part they are brought forth among men they are not in truth but in pretence § 2. And therefore I do utterly dislike the late unreasonable Jewish Heathenish unchristian outcry or clamour for justice to be done upon the person of the King and those of his party and no mention made of mercy love grace goodnesse reconciliation nor reaching forth the arms and turning of the bowels of compassion towards him and them it being certain the former is not of God without the later yea the former without the later doth but irritate provoke and stir up anger wrath war and tumults to the confusion of the Nation And therefore I affirm again That that overture with the King as it was more Christian so it was infinitely more probable to bring in truth and peace then is the present course taken though by the same party and persons SECT 3. But an eclipse came suddenly upon this Sun that it set even at noon-day upon the whole kingdom and all the Heads of it King Parliament Army English and Scots The common Mother of the good and peace of all being forcibly made to withhold her brests her Son the man-childe of all our hope being taken up to God and to his throne ruling yet among men though in a hidden and secret way the woman her self those weak and feeble people being fain to fly into the wildernesse to hide her self not appearing scarce with any comelinesse or beauty at all among men she hath a place prepared of God where shee is nourished for a time times and half a time from the face of the Serpent that is as Paraeus on the Revelation observeth well a time seeming lon but proving short SECT 4. And now Behold the Divel is come down again amongst men having great wrath reigning raging working confounding darkning the Councels of King Lords Commons Bishops Presbyters Independents Anabaptists Levellers and all In all whose counsels and projects appeared manifest weaknesse errour ignorance yea open wickednesse and Apostacy in some The retiring himself for rest and recovery out of his lost estate into his old principles and compliances with his Bishops and now again beginning to be revived party who are prepared every one in secret to engage again and to revive their old and almost crucified Cause which immediately after broke forth into a more fierce and cruel War almost in all parts That which nourished and gave life again to this dying Cause was apparantly and to the view of all the treble Apostacy of the Army it self England's glory that I say not England's pride And I pray God that spirit that is too potent in them which was both the life and ruine of both King and Parliament prove not in conclusion both their own and the kingdoms ruine 1. This Armie this so Saint-like Army fell first from making good those honest Proposals they had made in the behalf of the King which gave too much cause to the King and his party to desist from their expectation of salvation and hope from them which they had too before-hand given them just cause to look for from them 2. They fell from any further concurrence with the honest Agitators which now they begin violently to oppose that I say not exasperate yea pursue and persecute witnesse the strife at Putney the unrighteous and untrue suggestion that was made of them to the King as though they intended to lay hands on him in secret or indeed at all which opposition grew to that height and heat that either side appeared in a way of open war against the other folly in the one begetting phrensie and fury in the other so that the Heads of the Army imprisoned their own persons and errours in the persons and errours of others so that they themselves were not free till they had repented and set the other as free as themselves This awakened the Spirit of God in Sedgwick Saltmarsh Pinnell Ingrave like the Angel of God that met Balaam riding beyond his Commission openly and professedly to oppose and stand in their way so that even as the dumb Asse reproved the madnesse of the Prophet so at the light of God appearing in these men the very naturall strength and sinews of the Army stood sensless as a brute amazed animal not able to go either backward or forward either back to a complyance with the honest principles of the Agitators or forward in their acquiescing in the Parliaments Votes and Counsels Which leads 3 to a discovery of the third degree of their deparure from their faith hope and first good purpose to wit their hiding and burying that good principle of seeking without partiality the good and freedom of all like the earth our common parent especially the new Earth Jerusalem which is above the true parent of all the Children that are truly and eternally free in the freedom of God and Christ himself I say in stead of this they bury this good and usefull talent or rather bottle it up in one sort of Vessels whence arose that great strife at Windsor about Ordinances having this only for the most part like the Jewes to distinguish themselves from the Gentiles and for this cause manifestly opposing that I say not brow-beating and persecuting those that professed to live in no other Ordinance but that