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A29268	God magnified, man dethroned presented to the Parliament, and synod of England : who sit as if judges for saints, as if leaders, and guides unto the generation of Jesus Christ, the body of the communion of God / by W. Bray.	Bray, William, 17th cent.	1647 (1647)	Wing B4302; ESTC R159	47,757	62

erroneous out of the fire with violence instead of feare malice hatred imprisonments bonds Endeavouring to pull others out of the fire and save others with a love respect affection to their fallible mutable garments spotted with the flesh But oh immutable unspotted undefiled God! thou who art able to present me faultless before the presence of thy glory with joy let me not be seperated from any or joyned to any when thou shalt seperate till thou seperatest and joynest that so seperation may be of thee uniting may be of thee and that I may hold forth the interior teachings the hidden unspeakeable mysterie of calling and enjoying Let me not walke according to the minde and will of the men of the world that are something and nothing that live and command according to the will of the flesh let me not walke according to the way of the wandring stars the wonders of the world of mountains of Thrones of Principalities and powers of the aire of the Gods of nations preistly Counsels and Magistrates of the earth chosen by men of the earth But oh Lord let my Exterior be what the Lord and not what the Lords will But methought I saw the preists of the nation in Pompe and glorie in kings Monarches and potentates Courts and methought I saw them instigating the Civill Magistrates of the world and I saw the persons and their waies to be the Preistly Lineage and the successours of the Lord Iesus his and his Apostles and Saints enemies who crucified the Lord Jesus did kill and slay the Apostles and Saints of the most high God and being convinced of the glorie power and truth of God manifested in those Apostles Saints did endeavour to extripate root them out from off the face of the earth made them to wander up down destitute afflicted and tormented And when they thought they had extinguished them and rooted them out of the world they stiled themselves the Apostles successours Ministers of the Lord Jesus and Priests of the high God like certain of the Jews Acts 19.13 yea Vagabond Jews Exorcists who tooke upon them to call over them that had evill spirits the name of the Lord Jesus whom Paul Preached But here I was cast into admiration why the world should ever the more admire the Preists of nations and their adherent that are the scourgers of Saints the incensers of Magistrates because they pretend to the Lord Jesus whom Paul did enjoy and whom Paul did preach But preists but Ministers of the Gospel as you call your selves though I can say in some measure Iesus Christ know somewhat by the power of that eternal spirit I know which Paul know But who are ye But though you are in my apprehension the great enemies of the Lord Jesus and though I shall be accounted an evill spirit by you a Devill or what not I would not insult over you though I had power over you But it 's I can onely say that many of you may be saved it 's the eternall absolute and onely wise can say you shall But yet I think you shall suffer the losse of your craft for many persecutors both before and in the Marian persecution became persecuted ones the Father called some of them from queenly fleshly carnall Antichristian glory to the fire I desire that you would not be offended with words for I profess seriously I speak not out of hatred but out of pitie to you that are in contrarietie to the Lord Jesus You often say you acknowledge a God therefore expect not that I should call you gods that have hands nor your works gods that are made with hands nor any or all your minds or understandings Gods even a whole Synod or Counsaile But the absolute supreame God shall be when you are not to be seen Time may be when your Craft as well as your predecessors craft may be set at nought and your gods and goddesses despised and all your magnificence destroyed though there were as many more eager and violent persecutors and worshippers are not you the cause whilst you have the power in your hands whilest you have the Kings Lords and Potentates of the earth to act for you that there is so great a stir about that way which you partiall fallible Judges call Heresie What though you cry out great is Diana of the Ephesians what though you are full of wrath and bitterness so that fire proceeds out of your mouth and as much malice envy and divellish contrariety to all except your selves as can be supposed to be in the most barbarous and cruell yet your Kingdom is not an everlasting Kingdom nor your Dominion an everlasting dominion but the supream infallible Judge will come gloriously will not tarry It is but a Marian Trick to persecute a poor man and to hale him or indeavour to bring him before you Commanders in chief your Magistracy and Counsels for Preaching as you call it I will acquaint you with one thing I providentially saw not long since in the Book of Martyrs of one Rawlins White a Fisher man of Cardiff who was burnt for an Heretick a little before the fire flasht up to his body many of his friends came to him and took him by the hand and one held held him till the flame arose and seperated friends but a Priest said it was not lawfull to take him by the hand for he was an Heretick and condemned by the Church I wonder Mr. Pryn doth not insert this as of divine Authority to prove the lawfulness of persecution and violence to be used to Hereticks But Nationall Ministers you are the Children or the Childrens Children of those that were so constituted and did Act according to an unjust papall way and as one sayth of them Cujus faetor usque ad nubes fumum teterrimum exhalabat whose filthy stinck did fume even to the Clouds of Heaven but indeed you did still indeavour to cloth your selves finer and finer to make the world wonder at you and think you were really for Reformation but be not deceived so as to think that God can be mocked and deluded though you finde men almost the whole world very facile and easie to be deluded with a lye with a fancy It was formerly wont to be said Agnus dei qui tollis peccata mundi miserere nobis but must we take it in this acceptation Synodus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi miserere nobis Oh the intolerable pride of Lucifer O the Vanity of the high Priests who are made by the power of the great God to confess they are not infallible yet act as if they were But methinks I see and behold I thank my eternall life and only wise God my Lord to laugh at the Lords my God at the Gods the and my absolute immutable perfect infallible informer and Reformer to laugh at the mutable non-absolute imperfect fallible Informers and Reformers but it may be these men may be sealed up to

God Magnified MAN DETHRONED Presented to the PARLIAMENT And SYNOD of England Who sit as if Judges for Saints as if Leaders and Guides unto the Generation of Jesus Christ the Body of the Communion of God By W. BRAY. ISA. 9.15 16. The ancient and honourable he is the Head the Prophet that teacheth lies he is the Tayl. For the Leaders of this people cause them to erre and they that are led of them are destroyed MAT. 21.13 14 15 16. JOB 20.26 A Fire not blown shall consume him it shall go ill with him that is left in his Tabernacle The heaven shall reveal his iniquity and the earth shall rise up against him JOB 36.22 Behold God exalteth by his power who teacheth like him JOB 21.22 34. Shall any teach God knowledge seeing he judgeth those that are on high How then comfort ye me in vain seeing in your answers there remaineth falshood LONDON Printed Anno Domini 1647. TO The High Court OF PARLIAMENT Right Honourable HAving by experience beheld God and in seeîng God have seen man also I desire to speak a word or two unto you as not loosing my life unto the death for I desire more and more to be translated and transformed into the Image of Jesus manifested in the flesh and to live by the Faith of the Son of God in the Spirit I have now seen man the perfection of the earths Creation to be vanity and his wayes to be as mutable as the wind which is sometimes East and sometimes West sometimes North and sometimes South and now I desire to lie low before the God of the whole earth and to lay aside all voluntary humility and worshipping of Angels or men I have seen many writings and I have heard many tongues which have endeavoured to hinder the pure flamings of the Eternal God even the God the King and Judge The pure Scepter is in the hand of Immortality and Immutability that can make the light to shine in the darkness so that darkness shall not withstand or comprehend the power of its infiniteness There is much contending for victorie over one anothers censcience in the world the root of such endeavor for a present Conformity proceed from your Synod which you have chosen who would if they could fain be riding on others and making the Image of God in others a slave a servant to their fallible fallibly interpreted results whereas the walkings of the visible man should alone proceed from the pure power and teachings of the invisible God both as to God and to man if we walked as he also walked The Gods of the Nations they are all Idols vanity a lie and a shadow though I remember I have read it was an opinion of old Quicquid Humus Pelagus Coelum miserabile gignit Id dixere deos c. What ever Heavens Sea and Land begat Hils Sea and Rivers God was this and that Me thinks I see sensibly and experimentally praised be the Father of mercies that the Saints sit by the River of Babylon and weep when they have the remembrance of Sion and may yet still do if the Lord give power any longer to the enemie and oppressor then they that carry us away captive will require of us a song and they that made exile or banishment our portion as a Synodean Minister so called told me there was no other way for Sectaries will revile us exceedingly and say race race them even to the ground and they that waste us will require of us mirth saying sing us one of the song of Zion But if we have not the Lord with us God with us How shall we sing the Lords song in a strange Land Psal 137.1 2 3 4. verses Me thinks it should be a business of high concernment to you to offend one of the littele ones of the Father which you may doe seeing neither you nor your teachers are infallible lest you be found fighters against God as God is in Iesus and crucifiers of the body of love and complacency But if you are and if you are to me Crucifiers I desire to imbrace the Cross as my Fathers Crown to me I desire to see the Cross and Crowne from one supreame cause power and will I shall be glad if the Father will accompt me worthy when I have no ground to accompt my selfe so to suffer for his sake if you shall have the Crown any longer yet know this that your crown your dominion is not an everlasting dominion the people of the most high God shall appear more palpably as God with them in the inmost man and then God shall be palpably exalted and man dethroned The invisible God and substance hath carried me out to write these things and hath answered all objections though many of flesh hell and death so that to me to will and to do is God so that all or any thing shall be to me gaine and immortall advantage In fine is not particular fleshly interest the God of the world is there not a generall acting judging censuring and condemning without infallible judgment and Testimonys and have not men thrown downe Episcopacy to set up tyrannicall dominering Presbyterie mutato nomine tantum And is not formall Philosophie vaine deceipt traditions of men and rudiments of the world the great Argument that swayes witness many men who write many elaborate Volumes and the continuall man-teachings of preists to Counsells do not the Preists of the nation endeavour to blow the bellows of contention and to divide deare friends because of difference in judgment so that as one Augustine one of they Fathers Tempestate contentionis serenitas charitatis obnubilatur In the tempest of contention the serenity of charity is over-clouded may not Episcopalls Presbyterians and Independents sit all under their owne Vines and Fig-trees and yet live lovingly one with another one to another be contraries yet be contraries in the spirit of love and mekeness forbearing forgiving one another may not every one walk in the light of his God according to the prophesie And the Saints walke in the light of the Lord their God surely if all that talke of Christ of that anoinment were really possest in the glorie of it man would not be any thing but God would be all in all I cannot hold my peace I am Idem calamo quod in mente I desire you to excuse me if you can that I have been so bold according to the common denomination of boldness God hath condescended to speak to me and I have spoken to God and his Testmony is sure why should not you condescend peradventure God may give you an invisible dart to think on temperance and judgment to come So I rest Your Honours humble Servant if you walke according to the pure light of nature and if you shall stand for justice and mercy in the Land W. Bray Nationall Assemblie YOU that endeavour to make your selves renowned and to exalt God with your selves alone you

be honoured and to be dishonoured to have evill report to have good report to be buffetted scorned contemned despised and to be counted the off-scouring of the world to be courteously entertained affected delighted in to be out of prison when I am in and to be in when I am out to have all things when I have nothing and to see only that all that eternall wise God alone when I have any thing if he shall call me to speak of himself that I may not live to any thing under the Sun for I see vanity in all things I desired that I might see and live in the eternall life in the life supereminent and if I shall be called amongst the called Gods and Lords that I might speak as seeing truly but one eternall God and Lord For all the Gods and Lords of the earth shall wax old lik a garment and shall be folded up like a vesture this I know and see by experience Thou Lord makest the lords of the earth their name to rot and their memory to perish and what shall be to them in their severall particulars everlastingly thou LORD knowest In companie I desire to see thee and to look up to thee in the understanding as if I had none that so I might see and not see behold and not behold be thou my alone companion Here in the world men love one another because they are as to one another according to sence but let me not be to any but to thee alone let my life as the Apostle said be in the flesh by the faith of the Son of God in the Spirit In this world none must speak of the God but that those the gods will approve of none must speak of the eternal immutable incondemnable but those whom the mutable condemnable dying Lords please none must declare the eternal God to the world but those whom the Ministers or Synods of Nations or the Gods of the Nation pleaseth But if thou absolute infallible minister ministrests to me if thou committest a word unto me inflame me and let me be thy flame in the spirit though the world indeavour to drown to quench thy glory in me But if I am not manifested by thee let my hiding place be in thee and of thee so that let manifestation and cessation to be and not to be and again to be be all of thee who hast times and seasons comprehended in thy self But Lord if the lords of the earth imprison me visit me in the understanding and lay not if it be thy will that sin to their charge for I desire not to have pleasure in their horror when hel and death seizes upon them I desire not to be taken up with them nor to live unto them nor to rejoyce in their pains for I desire not to live unto my own pleasure in me nor any pleasure to me but be affected with pain to me from them if thou wilst it But let me wholly live to thee but Lord thy will be done for all things are of thee all things are for thee all things are to thee though particulars see it not 15. If it be supposed as there is great probability to suppose or if it hath been and be known as by experience that Magistrates Lords Potentates Counsellours Priests yea high Priests are swearers drunkards oppressors walkers after their own lusts blasphemous fallible men will-worshippers having none as they say to rule them contemners and despisers of that which is good unless it be from a Priest from a Carpenters son from a fisherman then Lords are you competent Judges May not a man say to you when you would punish such a one as you call a Heretick though a man doth not countenance Heresie no more then Christ did countenance adultery in the woman when they would have had her stoned Let him that is without sin cast the first stone at her so you that are without Heresie or without the same Heresie for many times expressions of formality do make a difference cast the first stone imprison destroy banish or take away the lives of those you call Hereticks whose life perhaps may be better then ten thousand of yours But precious in the sight of the Lord though not of the Lords is the death of his Saints but you may do such a thing in your dayes that you may never blot out of your consciences at such a time when you shall not be able to redeem your selves or others with ten Thousands of Gold or Silver or ten Thousand Rams or ten Thousand Rivers of Oyl or the first fruit of your body for the sin of your soul But the Will supereminent indescribable is that there must be persecutors and persecuted crucifiers and crucified Lords and high Priests look to your selves if you can God hath chosen the poor of the world rich in faith not many mighty not many rich not many Noble c. I exclude not all What eternity hath done that it self knows 16. A man for what he doth especially in a business of high concernment had need be infallible be absolutely resolved it is the minde of God as in Jesus Christ for if you live not to the supream Originall according to the of knowledg God you judge the things so God with your own mindes you judge the supream so that it may be said as well that the lords Judge the Lord as that the Lord judges the lords But ye will not say so will ye neither wil you say you think so but whether you say or think so you do so 17. If you are infallible your infallibility must proceed from the most high immediately truly and understandingly if you will declare things without the Scriptures as you say you will not if you will be absolute Judges if you will have Hereticks depart out of your coasts if you will have them banished according to the minde of a Synodean Minister who declared himself so to me if you your selves are your own teachers you will not say you are infallible if the pretended Ministers of the Lord Jesus are your teachers they will not alwaies be so audacious thanks be to the most High to say that they are infallible so that you shall finde great cause to confess you are at a loss 18. If your infallibility depends upon the understanding of the Scriptures and so you as you say will walk according to the Scriptures you must have the infallible Teacher to teach according to them what is mysterious and what not to distinguish between the mysticall and the plain if you acknowledge that there is a plain and a mysticall and so to be more infallible distinguishers then others Suppose a Noble man should send a Letter to one that hath been an intimate friend of his in the Kings Army and they having had precedent intimacy know the minde one of another by this Letter but when this Letter is intercepted and comes to the hands of others every man interprets this