Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85310	Fire from heaven, falling upon the present army and the churches: or, Two words from the Lord to both· Held forth to the understanding of those, that make not flesh their arm, and whose hope the Lord is, that cease from man (a piece of earth) whose breath is in his nostrils. As also to the terror and astonishment of all those, who lean upon the broken staff of Egypt, and trust in horses, and strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and joy in the shadow of men; and cry to themselves, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord. / By a man of their councel.	Man of their councel.	1649 (1649)	Wing F954; Thomason E572_12; ESTC R202075	23,108	31

be to the righteous and terror to the wicked How would we have separated between the precious and the viâ—e And this have the people long expected from your hands but behold oppression ernesty and revenge slaying the innocent and righteous ones whom God would have kept alive You have discovered the covering of Judah and treacherously slain your friend and brethren and given up Judah to the sword and Israel to captivity And in that day did the Lord of hoasts call to weeping and to mourning and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth and behold joy and gladness slaying oxen and killing sheep eating flesh and drinking wine giving gifts and taking rewards and thus your are feasted with the blood of the righteous and drunk with their blood until you fall and never rise again Behold Tythes the great oppression of the Nation with its treble damages recoverable of the People if refused though you rule and your own consciences with others are against it yet will you have it so Who would have thought that you would have maintained such a company of Priests whom God as you know and say hath spued cut of his mouth and yet that you should support their Diana and nourish those dark places of the Land called and reputed of many the two eyes of the Land the fountain and seed-plots of all good learning and become Doctors Masters and Fellows in Babels arts and sciences bringing stone timber and morter to the building that City and Tower whose top may reach to Heaven But this is a fruit of the blood of the Saints which you have shed and a return of praise to the Holy One who in his descension upon men was crucified by you Nay how can you suffer faithful members to be excluded the House for professing and asserting the pure Divinity of God no way mixt or compounded That God is not three but one and not many gods as you in your imaginations think That there is no such thing in God though to men as Father Son and Spirit but all one in God though not in man and is thereby onely distinct to men and that to the darkness of men not to the light of God within them which reads God under another notion for that Soul beholds him all love excellency and goodness and this in all his ways to all in all upon all and that this God neither is or can be divided not admitting a seam in his garment Nay what enmity is there in your spirits or at least in your actions to Papists not suffering them or men in gross darkness viz. the Prelates who being in the dark and under cloudy dispensations of God should therefore have the going forth of the morning among them that they might be brought out of darkness into light and won by that love and meekness that is or should be in you to them yea I say not admitting them into the liberty and freedom with your selves I know your hearts you could many of you tolerate Papists and Prelates among you but that the Nation look upon them under such a gross notion that you to please men dare not do it thinking hereby your repute and credit among men will fall to the ground and be esteemed by many such your selves And therefore to retain and keep up your glory among men will you break the rules of love mercy and goodness and make shipwrack of your own and others consciences Yea you can command the People to fast and restrain the Nation from working on those days annexing penalties as formerly to the breach thereof thereby bringing in those legal and Mosaical Fastings Jewish and National which Christ by a more pure and glorious ministration hath abolished Nay let me discover what I know of you viz. That many if not the most of you are wholy dead in your selves to fastings of that nature your souls loathing it but onely that the Nation may judg you to be religious and zealous to make every one your proselite and not deem you to be for such an universal toleration of all sects and sorts of men in their religion until the day and pure glory of God break forth causing all darkness to sly before it yea turning the Sun into darkness and the Moon into blood not admitting any thing save this pure light then to be and converse among men I say for this cause do you thus dissemble with the Nation and seem as if you accounted the peoples fastings a sacrifice that God accepts Object But you may peradventure say through the hardness and obduracy of your hearts This is sedition and a stirring up and enraging the people against you Answ Though I might or could by means procure it I would not lift up or have a sword lifted up against you nor a hand in wrath and indignation The worst mischief I would do you were it in my power would be to create a heart of love and peace among you to engrave upon all your hearts and upon the hearts of the whole Nation an entire perfect union and agreement in God and a beating of your swords into plow shares and your spears into pruning hooks and to learn war no more I am for peace but you are for war and in times of peace shed blood therefore hath the Lord prepared you a cup to drink and you shall drink deep of it Death shall swallow you up alive and the grave shall open for you and hell shall be your portion because they that have killed with the sword shall be killed by the sword and they that have led into captivity shall go into captivity This is a sweet word wait for the fulfilling of it The Lord will destroy you all the Lord will give you blood to drink you shall drink and be drunken with your own blood It is a mystery and you it may be understand it not and therefore admire it Remember you not the voyce of the Church of old In the way of thy judgments have we waited for thee O Lord Great is the mystery of godliness thus it is You have shed the blood of thousands thousands you have have wasted Cities Countries c God hath provided a double portion for you and both of judgment and destruction The one is to destroy your flesh to give it up to the sword A second to cut off two parts of you out of the land of the living First The Lord will destroy your flesh and make a great slaughter among you even of your reason wisdom judgment credit glory repute all that is flesh in you to lay your glory in the dust to turn your wisdom into folly to burn up your righteousness holiness to give you a new heart to destroy that warlike envious and bloody spirit that is in you to create peace in all your dwellings and love in all your hearts not suffering any thing of the earth to have a being among you in no wise admitting flesh and blood entrance into

Reformation but a figure of it and after him cometh he whose san is in his hand and throughly purge his floor yet do you sit down on this side Reformation not approaching to that House made without hands eternal in the Heavens Yea others of you passing through all these arrive at a seeking what hath been and not reaching forth to that which is before Some of you are content with the borders of Canaan and think not of entering in and possessing the good Land expecting Moses that angered the Lord at the waters of strife a Minister of weakness to lead you to your Rest and not Jesus who is a Saviour and Deliverer from being captive to any thing below God whatsoever and therefore stay on this side Jordan not believing the waters shall divide and be cut off before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord born by the Melchisedec of God Therefore all of you whatsoever that are working in your six days under sundry and several dispensations tiring and wearing out your selves in your own vanities shall lie down in sorrow and be bitten by the Serpents in the Wilderness until you pass over into the Lord your Canaan and Day of Rest where you shall all of you rest from your labours and your works follow And this Day of the Lord is coming upon you it is near at hand even at the doors the fulness of the Gentiles coming in and all Israel shall be saved And in this Day who so will not come up of all the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King the Lord of Hosts upon them shall be no rain there shall be a famine in all their dwellings a drying up of all their gifts parts excellencies righteousness praying reading preaching yea all that they have be taken away For the Day of the Lord is upon all the proud and upon all that are lifted up and upon all that being taken up into this high Mountain a figure of the true say Come let us build three Tabernacles let us never move from this station let us never go beyond Moses his legal and carnal administrations let us retain what we have and seek not to attain what we have not O let not this mind be in any of you lest the Day of the Lord come upon you and your oyl being out of your lamps and you not ready are shut out of doors and cast into the fire that burneth and never goeth out The sinners in Zion are afraid Who shall dwell with devouring fire Who shall dwell with everlasting burnings The clean hands and upright heart Therefore cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils wait under your dispensations enquire under your old fabrick and in the desolations thereof for him that shall make all things new and then shall I be Yours new in the Kingdom Fire from Heaven Falling upon the present ARMY and CHVRCHES OR TWO WORDS from the LORD To Both. First to the Army YOu have had many words from the Lord many sweet invitations tenders embraces and kisses from the God of the whole earth You have been dandled upon his knees and gently led by his right hand but yet with Jesurun have you waxed sat and kicked They have been to you either words of contempt and reproach or of momentary excellency and good like the morning dew that by the glorious sun of outward good and prosperity have wasted and consumed away Yet behold one kiss more one cord of love more drawing you peradventure the last word of good you shall have I am at first to rebuke you then to advise you In the reprehension of you I shall tell you what you are viz. The executioners of Gods wrath and vengeance you are men conversant in the lower-most parts of the earth in hell the place of Gods wrath You are Gods sword and it is in your hand to execute wrath upon the Heathens You are skilled in the wasting Kingdoms burning Cities Towns and Villages but not in the repairing the breaches that are broken down nor closing the gaps that are made nor raising up it ruines The way of peace you have not known you have declined the steps that lead to that blessed centre the foundations of love and peace are not founded and bottomed in your hearts therefore no marvel the buildings appear not Love and goodness meekness and gentleness cross your designs of greatness pomp glory safety and security You cannot make salvation your walls and bulwarks You cannot sing the Day of the Lord is not yet come upon you we have a strong City and yet without gates You cannot see Jerusalem inhabited as a Town without walls You cannot march forth like the virgins of Zion in their dances nor with Noahs dove return with an olive leaf in your mouth You have for many years faced the Nation with a sharp glittering sword in your hands executing vengeance but have not appeared in the majesty and brightness of God and thereby gathered them up into him Object But you may object and say Why what can we do have we a Will of our own thus to act forth that glory and brightness of God Answ No in no wise It is not in him that willeth nor in him that runneth but in God that sheweth mercy But you pretend it is God that acts you and carries you forth to act for the People and to be a wall between them and ruine and upon this account you break through all opposition and answer what ever is objected against your actions being in themselves as you your selves confess unlawful You pretend you are not mercenary and servile in the work you do but free and volunteer and all is for God and the People otherwise you would leave off A company of hypocrites and carnal Christians you are that plainly act the contrary Hath not God by a mighty hand of his own and through an unexpected way made you this day the lords and rulers of the Nation that all freely or forcedly pay tribute unto you serve and bow to you Is not the great Councel of the Nation your Councel your Election Are not all their actings and what ever is by them brought to the birth that which hath been first begotten and bred within you Have not you prescribed a pattern for the removal of the King and judgment upon his party and the house of Lords to be useless and they oppressing creatures and have not the great Councel writ after it Nay are not you soared so high that now we may truly say If any of the people of the Nation are in captivity if any Saint afficted it is you that afflict and oppress them either because you will have it so or neglect the relieving of them though you may and can All your pretences Oaths and Covenants have preached forth thus much to us if the Lord should ever set us up in authority O how would we relieve the oppressed help the fatherless What a joy would we

great and high-looked men of the earth You shall see the Day of the Lord upon all flesh upon all might and power you shall see all the pride of the earth stained and defaced and this shall be your joy and rejoycing And it shall then be said Behold the man the woman that gave not the glory to God Behold end see every thing that is not pure God defaced hath lost its life its blood runs to the Rocks and Mountains there to hide themselves O blessed Feast O sweet Supper nothing remaining but the Holy One Iniquity hath here an end and the terrible one is here brought low 2. This Feast is the flesh of the Whore an eating of her and a burning her with fire You know in the burnt-offerings under the Law the flesh and the fat and all was to be burnt and nothing to remain so nothing is to remain in this burnt-offering but the Lord For by Whore I understand to be any thing or person whatever that you love and delight in and go to bed to save the pure and individeble God any of those Lovers that give us our bread and our water our wool and our flax our drink and our oyâ— whatever it be that refreshes us inwardly or outwardly save God Do you joy and delight in Forms in outward Dispensations and Administrations Nay do you delight in Christ as after the flesh Do you feast your selves with the fleshly presence of Christ This shall be burnt up with fire And do you eat it up and let not ought remain There is a Strumpet within you your wisdom which is your snare your knowledg reason and will which will cause you to fall O let all be burnt up yea this will of yours let it not remain until the morning and it shall be a sweet swelling sacrifice unto the Lord let your will be terminated in God let your reason be the Lords reason and your judgment his let this affect you and the zeal of the Lords house even eat you up Secondly Let me advise that you go and return to your first husband you were first espoused to the Lord well have but one husband stray not from this man of knowledge any longer be not a stranger at home though you have played the harlot yet will your husband receive you Seek the Lord and David your King and fear the Lord and his goodness now in these latter daies Hos 3.5 This is the first thing you must do when you are come out of bondage and out of the Land of Aegypt when delivered out of the strange land ask for the Lord seek him out never leave untill you have found him even him whom your soule loveth You must seek the Lord God and then Zion If you know God perfectly you will know men as they are but this is the reason men and Saints are so much deceived because they first seek the Church and then Lord men and then God But were you fully and prefectly acquainted with God you would know men and things distinctly O you would easily learn to distinguish between the light of God and the darkness of men between the emptiness and vanity of men and things and fulness that is in God God is that blessed key that opens the door to every creature giving a perfect and distinct knowledge of them creatures shall be no more then creatures to you Did you know the Lord by these espousals of his were this the mariage day to you it would work out all strangenes that is in your souls to this God Hos 2.17 For I will take the names of Balaam out of her mouth and they shall no more be remembred by their names They shall no more call God my Lord but my husband vers 16. There is not such a discovery such an intimate understanding of secrets between the master and servant as between the husband and wife The servant knows nothing but as it relates to his dutie and obedience as it relates to the servitude he is under Well saith the Lord I will free you of this bondage you and I will not be strangers but familiar friends It shall be no more I and you but you and I one we will have one table one house one heart one minde and by the effecting this work I will doe it First I will first bring you into the wilderness I will have you alone your lovers shal no more remain before me you shall be where there is no path no way no Church no Temple no company O then saith God you will be glad of company then society with me will be your delight will in that day step in and shew my self and then shall you freely come in worshipping and serving of me Secondly The Lord will in this day reveale and discover himself in a full and glorious manner Your vailes shall then be rent and your coverings removed then shall ye say Lo this is our God we have waited for him This is the invisible One whom no man have seen nor can see whom flesh and blood hath not revealed this consuming fire is he this everlasting burning is our husband O then shall you loath your selves for all your abominations you shall then cease crying up that fleshly knowledge wisdom understanding teaching and hearing which you now so much strive after that it shall be an abhorring to you Isai 66.23 24. And it shall come to pass that from one new Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another shall all flesh come to worship before me saith the Lord. And they shall go forth and look upon carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me for their worm shall not dye neither shall their fire be quenched and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh You shall go forth out of this holy City and you shall look for the Praying Fasting Preaching and Reading men and women for all the carnall worshippers and you shall see nothing but the carcasses of these men remaining and they shall stink in your nostrils and be an abhorring to you For Behold the Lord creates new heavens and a new earth and the former shall be remembred no more THE POST-SCRIPT Reader in the Flesh and Disciple in the Spirit I Was encouraged thus to write to the Army and Churches because Michael the great Prince is standing up and it is a time of trouble such as never was since there was a Nation and yet at this time a people are delivered and they are found written in the Book Would you know them who they are Look among the writings of the Spirit and that book will discover them This Book that I have in weakness written tells you of a time of war desolations and forsakings of hoasts of men of an Army of brave spirited-men zealous professing men an Army that hardly any Army can write after them lifted up to Heaven and yet brought down to Hell Of Churches forsaken and made a desolation yet reformed Churches Candlesticks that hold out more then their Fathers did Yet you hear of a people standing upon the same earth and sea clothed with the Sun and the Moon under their feet that are at rest that are entred into Canaan and passed through the river Jordan dry-shod I have written to you because it is the time that men are running to and fro and knowledg is increased That you the Nations and kindreds of the earth fleshly societies may see the Son of man coming in the Clouds and weep and wail because of him That you that seek great things for your selves glorious structures and buildings of men a City made by hands may know the Son of man the Emmanuel God with and in us hath not in all these where to lay his head As you hear in this a house fallen because built up on the sands of a City whose inhabitants are sick weak dying men that are flesh and not spirit So if the Spirit will permit me to write again you shall hear of a house that like Mount Zion shall never be removed and that because it is founded on a Rock a City the inhabitant whereof shall not say I am sick the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity they shall weep no more God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes There shall be no more thence an infant of days nor an old man that hath not filled his days the childe shall dye a hundred years old the full age of a man or more They shall be all from the least to the greatest perfect in knowledg come unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ But the Sinner being an hundred years old the old professor the man that hath known Christ after the flesh for a whole age and more that hath trotted up and down all his life after Eli the old man the man Adam the flesh that is corrupt shall be accursed shall like the barren tree wither and be cut down FINIS

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