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cause_n	king_n	lord_n	people_n	4,953	5	4.9858	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78076	By reason of the distraction that is in the Romane Empire, these be delivered especially to the emperour, and then also to all other potentates, kings, princes, rulers, governours, and magistrates, in all Europe; who ought to consider, according to conscience, what their office and place is; and not to rule, judge, and domineere, without righteousness, or against God: as hath been done for a long while by the working of Satan in this false Jerusalem: and yet is still so done more and more apparantly.		1648 (1648)	Wing B6356; Thomason E468_4*; ESTC R205323	14,226	16

which he with his fellows have committed spiritual whoredom for a long while and desist from those deadly damned purposes these base false pernicious thoughts yea devilish doings and cleanse himself from other works of darkness for which the wrath of God is gone forth over all the world and desire to grow sober minded and then he and they may expect grace from God so far as they do so without any crafty prevariation fraud deceit or reservation to which God hath a piercing watchful eye and circumspection and will not be mocked or deceived in this business of the suppressing of the faithful ones For a civil or worldly Magistrate who is ordained from God to rule and govern should judg no otherwise but according to Righteousness for the welfare of the subjects and the universal temporal and eternal welfare of mankind and especially as this so long continued desolating great necessity and misery doth require that the poor and miserable may be delivered from the power of the oppressors thereby But not that the Elect of God should be yet further condemned judged and abused to bring them to temporal and eternal perdition as it hath been for a long time hitherto from whence so many great plagues lamentation and necessities have arisen in the Roman Empire and Ruine been brought upon one Country after another But if the Emperors and they should not regard these things nor consider how God proceeded in former times against others his fellows King Pharoah and the King of Assyria and Babylon where his name was so blasphemed and his people of Israel so ground trodden under-foot and vexed who regarded not the mighty arm of the Lord or the terrible deeds which God in former times for that cause shewed upon his Enemies neither would they return and regard these threatnings and plagues or take them to heart and consider them And if he also should slight those things which hitherto for his purpose against God he hath so much experience of and felt them by a living knowledg of them then it is to be feared that God will not only make an end of him and them but that worse things shall befall him and them then in former times befel those to whom such deeds were not so known and testified to as they have bin to him for God will not have his admonitions warnings and threatnings slightly passed over though he be long suffering and of great patience for afterwards there will be no deliverance out of his hand Therefore if the Emperor with his Reformation or afflicting of consciences in all places and Counties doth not leave it off and give it over and will not let those Captives or prisoners go free which are already under the Babylonian yoak and abomination and let every one enjoy the liberty of his conscience and doth not from the inward ground of his heart put away the devilish doings and practises of the forcerers the false Prophets which they entice him to or else God will destroy all that hath remained and bin hither to saved and preserved and will proceed still further against them and must be revenged on him and his fellows and bring those things upon his own head both in soul and body which he will have cause to repent of here in this life and in the other Eternal Given According to the Councel of the Lord Isaiah 8.30 Mat. 11. 1 Cor. 1.15 Psal 89.119 Isa 5.51.59 Wisdom 5. Dan. 7.12 and according to the mystery of the hidden Wisdom of God and his Eternal Divine Righteousness according to which for the deliverance of his Elect he willbring his Enemies the opposers to an end 2 Thes 1.2 Luke 17.18.21 I●el 83. FINIS

Rev. 19.20 Rom. 1. Zeph. 3. Iohn 5. Mat. 13.23 Ezek. 13. 2 Pet. 2 Mat. 7. Mat. 3. Ia. 5 Mich. 3 For in this so long appointed and denounced day of harvest wherein the sentence of God shall be revealed and the books of the consciences of every one shall be opened 4. Esdras 6.16 God will send down afar other kind of Judgment upon the unbelieving and ungodly hypocrites scorners and despisers then the unspiritual or fleshly dreamers expect who instead of the Kingdom of Grace or of the heavenly essentiadity into which the faithful should be ingrassed by the redemption of Christ they have set up and propagated to the Kingdom of the Devil and of all disturbance of anger contention and division of hatred envy and bitterness by their own appropriated and usurped authority which in a proud sta●●●y manner Isai 28. they all for their hypocrisy and lyes uphold which Kangdom or darknes they also now wil desend and maintain by those who follow after their destruction in the broad way and are bewitched by them and their false spiritual shew wherein they set forth themselves among them with the strength of the Land viz. that which they get by hook and by crook from the poor people But seeing by this so desperate yea devilish a purpose Rev. 13. Rom. 14. Dan. ● 7 the Kingdom of God is not only hindred which is righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost on which the universal temporal and eternal welfare of mankind doth depend Luke 17. Isai 49.51 2 Tim. 3.4 Rev. 6. Psalm 12. but Christ also in his members is put to open shame about the knowledg and profession of the Word or holy Name of God and they are hated and persecuted for the truths sake and for that cause from the beginning to this time so many witnesses of God have been in most lamentable manner condemned and put to death and the poor people are not only thus desolated but by the instigation of such sorcerers Ezech. 13 Malachi 3. Every one of whom will preserve and defend his own by that means Iames 2. they are in many places and Countries most unmercifully tyrannically and almost utterly destroyed and rooted out with their own sweat and blood Psa 52.109 which these filthy men devour and gluttonize withall 2 Pet. 2. wherewith they patch and stitch to their Babell those who never desire to return to God that they may thereby uphold the Kingdom of darkness Rev. 16.20 wherein one man is become a Devil to another Mark 13. therefore it shall be judged in such a manner that not one stone of this false Jerusalem will be left upon another Mat. 24. For the day of the Vengeance of God 2 Thes 1. Luke 18.21 Ieramiah 25 1 Cor. 3 Ep. Iude. Psalm 14. Isaiah 52. 2 Cor. 11. Ezek 22 Isaiah 28. Rev. 20 Acts 20. Mat. 7. Iohn 10. Titus 1. Ezek. 13 Deu. 1.10.17 Syrach 10. Mich. 7. Psal 58.92 Ier. 5.10 4 Esd 11.12.15 Mich. 7.6 Rev. 16. Isa 61.63 for the deliverance of his Elect shall begin or break forth with the overthrow and destruction of the glorious building of the Pastors or Shepheards which every one hath heaped to himself 2 Tim. 4. in his own Religion Sect or Schism 2 Pet. 2. who do nothing but devour the people to nourish and maintain themselves they have a long time blasphemed the Name of God as to the redemption of Sion and have most of all chiefly with-stood the servants and witnesses thereof for the truths sake 2 Tim. 3. whom God hath a long time winked at and their murdering of bodies and souls which chiefly for their deceit sake in all places and Countries hath been exceedingly practised and yet have been absolved Ep. Iud. by the false theevish office of the keys of those horrible devouring wolves and hirelings for their bellies sake their filthy lucre a bit of bread and for a handful of barly But being the office of Judgment Rule and Government here upon earth doth nor belong to man but to the Lord of Lords and to God the supream Judg Wisdom 6. And being it doth not belong to any Ruler or Magistrate to domineer according to their own perverse wills and pleasures in the world therefore it is fit that the Potentates should know the ways of the Lord and the Laws and Rights of their God as in particular because of the distractions in Germany the Emperor and all other Potentates Kings Princes and Judges who would avoyd the remaining vials or woes and plagues of the anger of God should have long ago considered what they had to do in these so long continued great miserles and warlike distractions Luke 21. Psal 2.76 Nahem 3. Zach. 11. Psal 12.94 Isa 52. Rev. 20. Ezek. 13 1 Tim. 4. 4. Esd 15.16 2 Thes 2. Rom. 9.11 Ier. 30.50.51 Isa 13.14.30 by which Satan is altogether let loose with raging and raving fury murdering stealing robbing kiling and shedding of blood in the distraction of the poor and especially in the oppression of the faithful concerning whom the Name of God is blasphemed they should no longer trust to any of their false Prophets who flatter and sooth up every one in their party Ieremiah 28. and especially look no longer supersicially with hardned hearts and blinded eyes upon the hipocritical cunning slights of Satan because of the desolation and fire that hath risen from thence as is manifest in the external distractions and horrible ruins of Countries which have been caused to break forth thus by the working of the Devil but they should consider them seriously by entring deeply into their consciences that God may not have cause to multiply and enlarge the misery and stormy tempest of his fiery wrath according as he hath begun upon him and other Potentates Psalm 137. For the false Prophets Mat. 24. who from the clear and plain testimonies which for a long time have been revealed and brought to light because of their bewitching Babilonish doings Isaiah 47. should have given place to the Spirit of God or the Testimony of Jesus Christ inwardly in themselves and yet have not grown sober thereby 2 Tim. 2. Zeph. 1. nor ever desired to acknowledg their cunning slights and abominations nor considered the miserable and deplorable condition which mankind is brought into chiefly for their sakes but moreover do still according to the working of the Devil inwardly in them continually allure intice 2 Thes 2. Rev. 1.6 Romans 1. 2 Pet. 3. Mark 13. and put on people to the furtherance of all mischief and wickedness These together with those that uphold such wicked doings with their braneadoes shal be sent and thrown into hell where such disputings and making of parties by perverting teachings will avail no more the stool or throne of the beast and false Prophets Revel 16.19 20. Whosoever they be that have always contemned and scorned the admonitions warnings and threatnings of God