world just as if for the accomplishment or performing much things men were sufficient of themselves or it depended meerly of their bodily exercises or abilities and were not according to Gods preventing Grace to be directed from that same ground wherein the true Believers are rooted in the Communion of God who therefore ought to be united together through the Bond of Peace and the love of God in the Spirit for to be established through Faith in the Grace of God and in the freedome of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ his Members being already grafted into him and thus planted or transplanted in the Celestial Being after they were once delivered from the Power of Darkness redeemed through the Blood of the Son of God and dearly purchased for his Everlasting Kingdome For with God there availeth no deceived or inured practise of self-bred holiness or Jewish righteousness as not meerly the outward putting away of the filth in the flesh like unto the painted or glistering wicked Jezabel but the Covenant of a good conscience with God and that through the power of the Isa 48.58 2 Kings 9. 1 Pet. 3. Phil. 2. Eph. 1.3.5 Colos 1.2 1 Pet. 3. Psal 12. Gal. 6. Resurrection of Jesus Christ who is the Head of the Magistrates Principalities and Dominions for whiâ—h cause the Angels the Mighty Ones and the Powers in Heaven and Earth ought to be subject submissive and obedient unto him Heb. 5.12 but yet by no means in any slight or â—uperficial manner only from without according to the nature and practise of hypocrites and dissemblers which make themselves acceptable according to the flesh and neglect withall the weightiest matters in the Law namely the Judgement the Mercy and the Faith by Mat. 23. Jer. 23. 2 Thes 2. Revel 20. Cor. 2.10 Hebr. 12. Mat. 11.2 Mark 8. John 12. Esa 12. 6. Rom. 8.11 John 1.17 Gal. 4. Rom. 5. 2 Pet. 2. Eph. 4. reason of which hypocrisie all things are now through the power and operation of Satan turned loose in the world so that there is none more that desireth to endure the persecutions of the Cross of Christ under the obedience of Faith or that so hoped for the salvation of the Lord or waited for the help out of Sion under the yoak of the Sea of God in contemning the world and denying of himself Mat. 10. 16. 19. Luke 9. 4. 18. as to observe and take heed to the deliverance of Israel according to the Morning Star of the Grace of God 2 Pet. 1. But the dung of the Feasts or Holy-daies whereby the flesh hath now gotten scape to all manner of naughtiness and through the inticement and allurings whereof people are so exâ—remely blinded in the deepest bottom of their hearts and made like to Jer. 17.18 19. Mal. 2. Jer. 23. Phil. 2. 3. Exod. 19. â— Pet. 2. â— Cor. 1.6 â— Cor. 6. Rom. 14. Mat. 15. John 15. â— Cor. 3. Eph. 2. Gal. 6. â— Cor. 4. Colos 2. â— Tim. 4. John 15. â— Cor. 5. Rom. 7. Gal. 3. 5. Eph. 4. Hebr. 3. Luke 1. â— Pet. 1. Hebr. 4. Isa 40. Rom. 9. â— Pet. 2. Ps 87.125 Esa 15. â— Pet. 2. Colos 2. â— Tim. 1. â—… 4. Rom. 11. Mat. 21. Rom. 11. Hebr 8. â—sa 9. Mat. 24. Ep. Iud. Colos 2. â—… 3. 2 Tim. 4. Mark 13. â—… 2. 5. Sepulchres the same shall be cast into face of the Priests for their dreams avail nothing at all but the Word of God doth and that which doth not proceed of Faith or consisteth in the power of Divine Working or Efficacy according as the Holy Ghost will have his own peculiar people to be governed that same is sin therefore saith Christ All the plants which mine heavenly Father hath not planted are cut off and whatsoever bringeth not forth fruit out of Christ the same is cast into the fire Whence it is that the holy Apostle Paul doth not at all allow of or require the bare outward self-performed works by carnal power and ability lest any should glory in of the same exalt himself therein as those in the first Testament when they had not the knowledge of Christ yet but in a new substantial way of the spirit Rom. 7. in holiness and righteousness which is acceptable to God yeilding the fruit of the incorruptible seed and that according to the power of the living Word of God which endureth for ever wherefore the true Believers according to and for the inward grounds of their hearts are to be built and bottomed or grounded fast that so conformably to the Gospel of Christ they may be cemented and junctary be supported together for the improvement of the common body for when the people of the Jews who yet were the true natural branch did not adhere to their Testament in this manner and brought not accordingly fruits worthy of the Kingdome of God the same was taken from them yea no more regarded and quite cast or cut off from the root Rom. 11. Let none at all therefore imagine or be conceited as if his false Prophets now had false Power and Commission yet from God or part of his everlasting Kingdome for those dreams which are meerly carnal and have no spirit at all namely those light-swelling proud Saints on whom the world relieth Now for their Salvation and by whom the people ever according to their own wills and pleasures are so far seduced and led away from God that none doth care or desire any more in the inward ground of the heart or conscience to square his actions to the Counsel of the Lord or the Will of God arrogating besides unto themselves according to their audaciousness to Lord and Master it over heaven it self by their false or pick-key-office according to or by which the Devil through them absolveth now from or forgiveth sins to the utter ruine of all mankind 1 Pet. 2.5 Jer. 23. Mat. 7.21 Esa 28. John 10. Rev. 16.20 Ezek. 13. Hos 4. Psal 12. Esa 47.52 Rev. 14.17 2 Pet. 2. Zac. 10.11 13. Esa 33. 1 Cor. 1. Jer. 5. 1 Cor. 2. Mat. 21. 1 Cor. 4. 1 Tim. 1.4 These I say for the deliverance sake of the poor and afflicted which perish are ruined and destroyed hereby or else under the Babylonians Yoke or Abomination fall into perdition of Soul and Body shall be the foremost thrust and destroyed in Hell or obscurity of darkness for evermore Epist Jude The wisdome of the Wise and the understanding of the understanding ones which the Scribes and worldly learned have of God and his Word is already discharged defeated and rejected by God although they have not the Word of the Lord but repeated the same afore-hand according to the spiritual knowledge of it Jerem 8. Hos 4. teaching the word of God not at all in his Power or according to the instruction of the Spirit but falsly and perversly by Humane Reasons and Worldly Constitutions according to the fabulousness of their deceitful Philosophy Col. 2.
DISCOVERY OR DECLARATION That the Judgement in behalf of the Fundamental Jam. 5. Deliverance of the Poor and Afflicted the Faithful and Elect â—is not at all to Psa 12.72 begin with the Pope of Rome but from the Mat. 24. House of God or His Sanctuary for which cause also Luk. 18. God shall cut off both head and tail both branch and stock in one day The Honourable Ancient men 1 Pet. 4. are the head but the Prophets that teach falsly are Ezek. 9. the tayle for the Leaders of the people are Seducers and they which are lead by them perish Isa 9. Therefore shall the Lord with his sore great and long Sword visit both the Leviathan Isa 27. that is a streight Serpent and the Leviathan that is a crooked and slay the Dragon in the Sea CONCERNING The Heads Judges or Governors in Holland and England as who Mich. 3.7 Wisd 6. Zeph. 3. Revel 13. 16. 17.21 Psal 10.33 94. Isa 8 30 do build Zion with blood and overthrow the Decree and Judgement of God about the Fundamental Destruction of the Whore of Babylon Yea do all they can by their designs humane Councels and Devices utterly to disanul the Eternal Counsel of God in that behalf Psal 33. LONDON Printed in the Year 1660. GOD. A stumbling stone and Rock of offence unto the Heathen or false Christian that do not believe the word whereon they are set Mat. 24. 1 Pet. 2. Esa 8. â—8 Mat. 21. â— Thes 3. Mat. 1.13 Luke 8.10 Jam. 3. Zepha 3. Esa 3.10 Esa 24. 56 57. EVen as the only true and alone saving Faith is not common to all and every one so neither and much less yet is thâ— Teaching or Ministry of Faith as of the mystery or Kingdome of God indifferent to any the name having ever been hid to the wise and prudent of the world even from the beginning 1 Cor. 1. Therefore not every one should take upon him to be a Teacher he shall pass the heavier judgement for the outward destructions in the world Rom. 9. which have been set on foot or introduced all this while with the ruine of mankind ye are the fruits whereby the false Teachers 2 Pet. 2. the Priests and Prophets that were never known nor sent of God are to be Ezek. 9.13 22. 34. 2 Tim. 4. Rom. 2. Colos 2. 1 Cor. 3. Mat. 21. known Jer. 14.23 Mat. 7. Mark 13. whom indeed the people have heaped or charged upon themselves among themselves and by whom to the reproach of Christ that are not at all builâ— up according to the renewing in the Spirit of the mind upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles 1 Pet. 2. where Jesus Christ is the Corner-stone Act. 4. For which cause also they viz. the Herb or false Christians Mark 13. are so divideâ— 2 Pet 2. Rom. 1.11 Epis Jud. Rom. 16. Hos 10. or torn and rent in pieces now in all their Sectaries and Parties through the contentious practises of their Shepherds or Learne-men Jer. 2. 10. and so blinded in regard of Christ the Light of Faith Eph. 4. that ye take no heed at all according to the 2 Cor. 4. 1 Thes 5. Dan. 7.22 Jer. 5. 8 9 10 30. brightness of the Gospel which yet ought principally to enlighten or shine in their hearts or consciences unto this present and last time viz. unto the day of the Lord yet believe neither God nor right Judgement nor Righteousness more Sap. 2. 8. concerning the Fundamental Charge or removal of this present trouble great distress and universal calamity which fearful slighting Christ the Arch-Shepherd the true Hereditary inheriting Lord of all the Heathen Psal 82. will be sure to avenge Rom. 9. Luk. 21. Mark 13. Mica 4. 5. â— Pet. 5. Heb. 13. Mat. 21.24 Mark 12. 13. â— Pet. 2. Mich. 5. But in the first place upon the builders of this present false Jerusalem or unspiritual Temple and unholy Priest-hood 1 Pet. 4. For that stately Building of the Shepheards which built this present Babel and made the Flocks to become a prey to all the wilde beasts of the forrest even by themselves is not at all to stand or endure to the end of the world even as the scorners of old had likewise imagined who ever more resisted God inwardly in their hearts and consciences Epistle Jude It is not lawful for any shepherd or minister at all to prevent the Jer. 25. Rev. 16. Ezek. 34. â— Pet. 3. Jer. 23. Ezek. 13. Acts 10. Isa 28. â— Pet. 2. â— Tim. 1. Tit. 1. Matt. 15. 23 24. Mark 7. 13. John 2. 4. â— Tim. 4. Col. 2. Mat. 7. John 10. Ezek. 13. 22. Mat. 23. Luk. 11. Eph. 4.5 â— Pet. 2. Ps 14.141 Mat. 15. Col. 2. â— Tim. 3. Psal 53. Zeph. 3. Mat. 23. Luk. 11. word of the living God the Lord of Hosts or to teach the same falsely or perversly only according to the Vision or Spirit of his own heart much less according to his own Satanical harebraind puft up arrogant and develish presumption Psal 12. 73. or to master the Scripture altogether as is now adays the common practice amongst these audacious unprofitable bablers and seducers who have made all the world to hang after them seduced the same or for doing upright and dealing uprightly according to conscience led them away from God Jer. 2. 10. 50. being indeed not all of God but only of the world come from the high Schools or Universities covering themselves with black or sheeps cloathing walking in the humbleness and decentness or glistringness of Angels but being therewithal inwardly ravening wolves and hirelings yea theeves and murderers of souls deceiving the people and outwardly painting dawbing over or covering such of them as delight to hear their hypocrisie and lying giving about too contrary to the doctrine of Christ and his Disciples the true Apostles and Prophets to make them outwardly fair and godly through themselves or holy out of their own power But in vain saith Christ do ye teach such doctrines as are nothing but the Commandements of men that say thou shalt not touch taste handle this things that perish all under the hands that have a shew of wisdom through self invented spirituality and humility ever teaching and never able to attain to the knowledge of truth urging men by their unprofitable and perverse doctrines from without troubling them with grievous institutions dragging or loading them with great burdens or intollerable Yoaks because of their false works and self-devised holiness whereby God the foundation of the Head-spring of all good being already rejected by the Master-buildings Ps 59. 144 Mat. 21. Mark 12. Luke 20. Psa 118. 1 Tim. 4. Titus 3. Rom. 9. 1 Joh. 1.4 Colos 2.3 Eph. 2.4 Rom. 4.11 1 Pet. 5. Gal. 5. Rom. 5.12 Eph. 2. Colos 1. 1 Cor. 6.7 1 Pet. 1. Rom. 9.10 must stand behind now and have no interest nor esteem more in the
and wherewith the whole world is led away already by doing of evil or dealing wrongfully from Christ the Light of Everlasting Salvation or narrow way of life according to the knowledge of God But what the issue or condition will be of these blinded Heathens in Christ the Light of Faith or false Tit. 1. Acts 20. Jer. 23. Rom. 1. Eph. 4. Joh. 8.12 14. Mat. 7. 2 Cor. 4. Tit. 1. Esa 26. Mat. 7.12 21. 24. Rom 1.6 Hos 10. Jer. 7. 8. Esa 1. Nah. 3. Jer. â— mouthed Christians being spiritually dead already Rev. 12. 20. and having never regarded nor cared to bring forth the fruits of Faith of Love of Righteousness but growing or tarrying now by this their outward Temple wayes or false worship and for to maintain the same such thieves and murderers that ye do far surpass the uncircumcised Heathens Jerem. 9. or the uncharmed beasts by whom the Devil did rage and exercise his fury in former times Psal 2. 10. 65. 76. 94. 99. with their selfish revengeful Cainical cruel more then devillish uncessant practises of robberies and murders that same shall be made manifest in such sort with the vindicating of the holy Name of God his Eternal Truth and Righteousness that those thieves and murderers shall not be able to escape the fierceness of Gods Wrath and the five Pools of the Eternal Hellish condemnation Isa 1. 34. 36. who rob God of his Honour and Vengeance and quite overthrow his Decrees and Judgements in behalf of the everlasting deliverance of Israel with their horns or wicked power which ye do maintain or keep on foot with the encrease of the land the sweat and blood of the Subjects and they indeavour Hab. 3. Joel 23. Ezek. 36. Ps 89.119 Rev. 16.19 Zac. 5.10 Ier. 25.30 Rev. 6. 12. â—sa 4. Deut. 32. Rev. 13. â—sa 45. Amos 6. Psal 7.6 Amos 5. â—am 50. Psa 10.33 â—sa 30.31 â—ab 3. â—eut 32. â—â—r 2.7.14 â—2 23. â—zd 4.15 â—sa 12.74 â—… 80. â—al 4. â—sa 8. â—om 4. 5. â—11 â—eb 10.11 â—eph 1. â—â—a 14.28 â—at 24. Pet. 3. â—sal 12. â— Cor. 3. 〈◊〉 Jude â— Pet. 2. 〈◊〉 1.57 〈◊〉 13.22 â—â—h 4.5 2 Pet. 2. â—â—v 16. Cor. 11. â—…l 12. 〈◊〉 52. â—…s 20. 〈◊〉 7. Rom. 16. 2 Pet. 2. or go about to frustrate or disanul the Counsel of the most high altogether only for their selfish humour and glory or Luciferous exaltations Obad. 1. Nah. 3. For the blood of the slain Isa 26. poor innocent souls that have been spilt here and there for such a time hitherto in the murdering dens of this false Christendome and the ruine of the poor that are destroyed in all places or countreys because of the hypocrisie of the evil dis-united disagreeing practises of the Shepherds all that same shall be judged yet now before the end of the world as before the great and terrible day of God Hez 37. Mic. 4. Now that there is none at all more who according to the inward Law or testimony of faith or conscience wherein yet every true believer ought to stand or walk for his own salvations sake doth observe to take notice of the day of the Lord or but believe in regard of the deliverance of the faithful and Elect That there is either a God or a Judgement that same resteth wholly and principally upon the hypocrisie and lies of the Shepheard Jerem. 33. upon their hypocritical shew of holy ways and courses which every one doth strive in his own Religion Seat or Party to maintain and desend without and against God in which regard they do yet once again outwardly garnish the same people they have already deceived and seduced aforehand Mat. 24. having in regard of the light or the only true and saving faith led them astray or away from God and plunged them into error or darkness of conscience which yet shall not so succeed or avail to the Devil for ever namely to transform himself still by his servants the false Apostles or deceitful Labourers after such an impudent and shamless sort into an Angel of Light all whose endeavour and labour is but to maintain their own things Hez 13. devouring the people to feed and fat themselves and therewithal reviling the counsel of the poor in regard of the deliverance of Israel or the help out of Zion nay even utterly denying herein the Almighty Power of God in Christ Jesus the only Lord and Monarch Epist Iude. Wherefore also such fierce and ravening wolves and hirelings who indeed serve but the world and their own bellies will draw or hale a sudden condemnation upon themselves For not every one that saith Lord Lord shall enter into Mat. 7.21 Rom. â— Heb. 3.10 Jer. 2. 17. Psa 33.71 72. Luke 17. 18. Esa 28.50 Zeph. 1.3 Dan. 12. Ps 58.96 98. the Kingdome of Heaven and those that inwardly in their hearts or consciences have so far lost or forsaken the hope confidence and assurance in God the living Fountain touching the deliverance of the poor and afflicted the faithful and elect that ye never yet desired above all things to do what the universal temporal and eternal welfare of mankind do require they shall find it by experience to their own eternal shame and confusion that God both is and shall be Judge in that matter here upon his earth or under heaven Dan. 7. The Devil for a good while hitherto hath taken away or usurped by the Heathens or false Christians who are grown Rom. 1.11 Mark 13. Jam. 5. 1 Cor. 10. Psal 72. Mat. 12. Revel 18. Esa 1. 5. 45. Psal 10. wroth to destroy the earth Revel 12. 16. all that which in the first place is Gods as Silver Gold Hag. 2. Tribute Custome Taxes Excise Contribution or the blood-money of the poor Amos 5. Whatsoever is necessary for the deliverance of the Faithful and fulfilling of the Judgement of God thereby not only to hinder the Redemption of Israel or the Fundamental Deliverance of the Elect but altogether to frustrate and disanul the same to the end that only the vain worldly and Sectarian quarrelsome contentions Rom 1.16 Hos 10. Amos 5. Zeph. 1.3 Sap. 5. Esa 3. 59. 2 Pet. 2.3 Mat. 24. Luke 17. Syr. 40. Gen. 6.7 19. 1 Cor. 3. 2 Pet. 3. Psa 7.11 18.89.97 distracted Religions cause prate and dispute courses might be maintained but that hereupon only the fire of destruction and desolation was kindled all the world over that same shal surely be judged yet in these according to the Righteousness of God that partake in the guilt and cause of it and do as much care for God in matter of their purposes or practises herein as their fellow-scorners and scoffers of old in the dayes of Noah and Lot whom God for that very cause afterwards drowned with the deluge and destroyed with fire and brimstone from heaven Epist Jude Malach. 4. The Lord shall judge all flesh by fire and by his sword Isa 66. Amos 9. First of all
The men or people of this present and last John 5. 1 Pet. 2. world have not the word of God within them consequently all their practises and purposes are contrary to the writings of the Apostles and Prophets Isa 8. 28. and Jer. 7.8.11 14. Deut. 18. Mat. 3.11 17. John 16. Psalm 69. John 2. Zachar. 9. Luk. 19.21 Mat. 24. Aâ— 5.6.7 Ier. 23. Joh. 8.10 12. though Moses or Elias nay Christ himself were in the world now to argue and reprove the evil unrighteous wicked false and perverse courses of the children of men and should begin according to the zeal of God to stir against their false worship of God and according to the true ground seriously take to heart and endeavour the rescuing of mankind from these present troubles and great tribulations assuredly it would fare far worse with them in regard of this present presumptuous government in the world then ever hapned in former times among the Jews in the house of Ahab and by wicked Jezabel to any 1 Kings 19. 21. Rom. 11. For the Heathens or false Christians Mat. 24. like unto the Sodomites and Gomoritans will not endure to be reproved Rom. 1.11 Gen. 19. Re. 11.19 Rom. 1. Hos 10. or mastered here upon the earth and ground of God the Lord of Hosts Psal 24. 89. 95. 103. Their vain Counsels destroying and hurtful Designes and what they themselves project and make choice of among themselves Isa 65.66 that must stand according to their imagination Psal 33. Isa 8.30 for ever and prosper But on the contrary the eternal counsel of the Lord most high touching the setting up of his Kingdom and the executing of his Judgments Mat. Dan. 2. 7. Rev. 18.19 Num. 16. 12. that must be no more but remain behind or perish altogether in their account These people nevertheless like Korah Dathan and gathering of Abiram have outwardly a godly shew of godliness but they deny the power 2 Tim. 3.4 Acts 20. thereof as also do their worldly learned and perverted men through whose doctrine they are possessed and blinded already by the God of this world viz. by the Devil or Spirit Eph. 2.4.6 2 Cor. 4. Epist Jud. Heb. 4. of darkness which indeed very soon discovers it self in them when they are rightly set upon by the power and truth of the living word of God Mich. 3. 7. Summarily those people which are so earnest and counted by their outward Temple or false worship of God as Ier. 7. â— Ez. 13.22 that in the first place they do inwardly in their hearts and consciences resist the Grace of God our Lord and Saviour Mat. 23.24 Tit. 2. Gal. 4.5 Rom. 5. 8. Ier. 23. Isa 28.65 66. 2 Thess 1. Deutr. 32. Jesus Christ according to the Spirit of Adoption and then in regard of the outward troubles of the world do not at all desire or endeavour above all things to conform their practise to the Councel of the Lord or Will of God Mat. 7. 21. they shall find God to be a Vengeance upon them and a consuming fire in the nethermost Hell Heb. 10. 12. Zeph. 1.3 Out of Zion there breaketh forth the beauteous Splendour of Psa 59. God Our God is coming and holdeth not silence a Devouring Fire goeth before him and Psa 50. about him a great Tempest He calleth Heaven and Earth together Jer. 50. to judge His People Given at the Hague in Holland in the Year 1642. Like as the men and people of this last and present world 4 Esdr 2. Mat. 7.11 Luk. 8. 10. Isa 8.28 Lu. 17.21 Mark 13. Epis Jude as having forsaken God in their hearts or consciences according to the Mistery of his Kingdom do not believe that there shall be a Judgment Yet for a fundamental change or removal of these present troubles and tribulations in the world So neither and much less yet do the Shepheards or Teachers believe that the Judgment of God shall light upon Jer. 2.10 23. 1 Pet. 4. Isa 3. 10. 59. Zeph. 3. Ier. 23. Ezek. 13. Mark 11. Isa 40.65 Rev. 16. Mark 13. Isa 28. Hosea 4. Iohn 17. 2 Pet. 2.3 Rom. 1.5 Tit. 2. Mic. 3.7 Dan. 7.12 Isa 30.51 Ier. 9. Isa 1. 5. Hos 10. Barac 3. Syr. 16. Gen. 6.7 themselves in the first place by reason that the destruction the people came and was brought into through their unacknowledgement of God shall light upon themselves and their hypocrisie Mat. 24. Briefly these men and people that have forgotten all the works and deeds God did or wrought from the beginning of the world they are conceited now as if all the earth were properly their own and as if their false Prophets had already taken the full possession and disposing of Heaven unto themselves and God according to their perverse and stupid imaginations had quite lost his Almighty Power over Heaven and Earth Wherefore nevertheless the Devil will be exceedingly disappointed as his members that will not suffer the Soveraignty of the Spirit of Christ or of the Grace of God to prevail any more neither inwardly in their hearts nor outwardly in the world according to his right Judgement or Government They know well enough already every one according to his own wisedom and pollicy how to defend themselves like unto those Mighties and Tyrants of old that were ruined with all their strength and drowned in the deluge when the earth was likewise overgrown with violence and presumption Fpist Jude A Servant of that God Isa 42. Act. 17. Psa 89. 95. who calleth himself a Lord of Heaven and Earth Isa 66. The people of this last and present world who indeed 1 Ioh. 1.2 Ier. 2.17 Eph. 4.5 Ioh. 1.8.12 a Pet. 2. have no Communion more with God but are rent asunder by the dissolving of the bond of the love of God walking not at all in Christ the light of faith but in errour or darkness of conscience and thus having broke or forsaken the Covenant of the Second or New Testament inwardly in Rom. 1.9 12. 1 Cor. 1.3 6. 12. Esa 1.5.4 8. 56 57. 58. 59. Exod. 20. Ezek. 5. 6. 15. 20.21 43. 44. Zac. 9. Jer. 7.8.11 Luke 22. Mat. 27. 1 Cor. 12. 1 Thes 2. 2. Ezek. 34. Zac. 10.11 Revel 16. Jer. 5. 23. Acts 20. Ezek. 13. Mat. 24. Eph. 4. Gal. 1. 5. 1 Pet. 4. Mica 3. Ps 12.80 Jer. 7. Mat. 21.24 Mar. 11.13 Rom. 1.11 Mat. 24. Jer. 7. 8. Hos 4. 10. Ezek. 22. Hab. 3. Psal 94. Esa â— 30. Amos 5. Esa 9. Amos. 9. their hearts or consciences they are now Gods people just in the same manner as were the Jews of old who walked no more in the Law of Moses nor lived after the Commandments Statutes and Ordinances of God for any spiritual deliverance and crucified and killed even Christ himself the Son of God for their Temple-Cause and for their false worships sake by the power of darkness in their unacknowledgement of God The Shepherds of this present Babel being divided into three parts viz. the three unclean Spirits Frogs and Spirits of the Devil that were never known nor sent of God Mat. 7. they have not the Word of God but steal it one from another and have so far perverted the Word of the living God the Lord of Hosts that the people that were deceived and seduced by them do not any more at all agree among themselves according to the Gospel of Christ his Disciples and Apostles for which cause the Judgement of God shall light on them in the very first place by reason of the destruction of the poor which for such a while hitherto hath been practised in the murdering Den of this false Christendome throughout all places and countryes for the maintenance and support of the hypocrisie of their distracted Religions Luke 19. 20. Revel 10. 12. 16. And for as much as the Heathens or false Christians ought not in no wise to maintain their outward Temple-Cause or false worship with rage and fury therefore they have cause to look well unto themselves now what they are about in regard of these murdering Armes which they have taken up one against another only according to their own fierceness and revengefulness as whereby they do not only pull the Judgement out of Gods hand but they withall kindle but the fire so much the more to the utter ruine and destruction of the poor In which regard else or by reason whereof these writings are addressed both unto the Parliament and also to the King of England lest by their unrighteous designs and purposes and besides too with the very sweat and Jam. 5. Nah. 3. Jam. 23. Hos 4. Mar. 13. blood-money of the subjects Amos 5. the substance and revenues which they take away from them they do make them an utter prey and spoil even to their own destruction in the mean while soothing themselves and relying upon the hypocrisie and lyes of their false Prophets or their remissions or absolving of sins For the same God that in former times hath drowned such people with the deluge is ready now to execute his judgement upon this present and last world and upon their Gen. 67. Ep. Jude 2 Pet. 2.3 2 Tim. 4. Shepherds their False Teachers which every one this Sect or Religion hath heaped up unto himself Given according to the Rights of God his Judgements which Jer. 5.8 is to be executed over this present Rev. 16. Babel Zeph. 3. Isa 47. FINIS