seed Christ that hath bruised the head of the Serpent the Divel that causeth war he may say a stronger then he is come that keeps the house and that the strong man has bowed himself and that the keepers of the house has trembled and the earth shaken also and that which is to be shaken shaken and that which cannot be shaken is appeared and Christ is in him and his body is dead because of sin and he is the Temple of God and Christ is in him the everlasting Priest and Christ reigns and the first covenant is ended and the law of works which went upon the man which was under types figures and shadowes to which his soul must be subject but Christ is come the end of the Law to every one that believes the Bishop of the soul Christ the power of God and the everlasting covenant is within again and he is come into a greater state then Adam was in the beginning he is come into the second Adam into that which cannot depart from God and all that be here need not say know the Lord from the greatest to the least but are calling every one his neighbour under the vine and fig-tree according to Zacharias prophesie and the branch is brought forth and stone upon stone and ingravening is taken away Concerning Tythes since the dayes of the Apostles And as for Tythes since the dayes of the Apostles the Pope was the first Author of them for as Christ said false Prophets should come inwardly ravening Wolves having the Sheeps cloathing that is the outside in Mat. 7.24 chapter which John saw was come in his first Epistle in chapter the 2. and fourth which went forth from them into the World and in the revelations all that dwelt upon the earth went after them and Christ who said they should come bid they should not go after them and John who said they were come told the Saints that they needed no man to teach them but as the same anointing did teach them which was in them and as that did teach them they should continue in the Son of God and in the Father So those that Christ said should come to his Disciples the false Prophets and Antichrists John saw was come one of his disciples which went forth from them into the World and in the Revelations all that dwelt upon the earth went after them and when they had got a head in the World they turned against the Saints and killed the Saints that kept the Testimony of Jesus Mat. 7.24 1 Joh. 2.4 Rev. 13. And so in the eleventh of the Revelations the witnesses were killed and in the twelfth the dragon was wrath with the woman and she fled into the Wildernesse to be kept a time and times and half a time to be fed and the man-child was caught up to God and the dragon made war with the remnant of her seed so here is the true woman the true Church fled into the Wildernesse and the Dragon gave his power to the Beast in the thirteenth of the Revelations the Least made war with the Saints that kept the Testimony of Jesus the spirit of Prophecy the true Ministers and killed them and overcame them and when he had overcome the Saints power was given to the Beast over all kindreds tongues and peoples and nations So he had power over the naturals Hebrew Greek and Latin called the Original Orthodox men and killed the true Ministers which kept the testimony of Jesus the spirit of prophecy then he having power over all kindreds tongues and Nations then deceit spread it self over all nations the true Church being in the Wildernesse and the man-child caught up to God and then came up the Beast and his names markes and hornes and images who was in the Dragons the Devils power and compelling to worship and set up his lying signes and wonders and has power over the tongues to order them here he has his Schooles and colledges to order them as he will the naturals that killed them that was in the spirit And then the Whore got upon the beast the false Church the false woman the Whore in the Dragons power after the True Church was in the Wilderness and all Nations drunk her cup of Fornication before they could be married and the Kings of the earth drunk her cup of Fornication Then did the Kings of the earth make Nations to bend and the sheeps cloathing to be put upon them for she hath reigned over the earth This fenced city this false Church this Whore where all the blood hath been shed about Religion Church Ministry and Scriptures in the whole Christendom among them called Christians since the dayes of the Apostles and Christ who wrestled not with flesh and blood struck not at creatures did not come to destroy mens lives but to save them and the Apostles that followed him wrestled with Principalities and powers and spiritual wickednesses and brought the creature into the liberty of the sons of God And Christ destroyed the Devil and his works and death which had its authority in men and yet saved mens lives he did not cause any to be put in Prison neither did he put any in Prison though they Blasphemed against him nor the Apostles neither but destroyed the Devil and his works and death where he had his Authority which caused men to Blaspheme and saved the man and the Apostles wrestled with spiritual wickednesses and rulers of darkness which caused men to Blaspheme and brought the creatures into the liberty of the sons of God and such came to know the Redemption of the body But this false church this great city this woman this whore which hath made all Nations drunk with her Fornication the Kings of the earth wrestleth with flesh and blood destroyes mens lives if any one come within her city which is fenced though they have the sheeps cloathings yet destroying mens lives stocking whipping and imprisoning killing racking cutting off ears wrestling with flesh and blood dâ—â—â—â—ing the blood of the Saints killing the creatures inâ—â—â—â—◠〈◊〉 wrestling with principalities and powers and spiâ—â—◠〈◊〉 wickednesses and rulers of darkness in high places and so followeth not Christ and the Apostles who are the inwardly raveners that went out from them which is the Whore for a whore goes from something the children of Israel when they went from their God they whored so when these went from the Apostles they whored and all Nations hath drunk the Whores cup. And so the Inhabitants of the earth which hath drunk the Whores cup have the sheep cloathing but not the sheeps Nature which never worried swine nor dogs nor goats nor lyons nor bears so instead of saving mens lives destroyed them and instead of bringing creatures into the liberty of the sons of God hath killed the creatures and this is like neither Christ nor the Apostles but quite contrary out of their power in the Dragons power devourers murtherers And so this Whore sits upon the
is alive and Lives for evermore And another thing Doctor Burgess mentions They sold their Lands and laid them down at the Apostles feet Where did ever any of the Priests and teachers got up fince the dayes of the Apostles made by the will of men any of their hearers do so to them as they did to the Apostles which was in the power of God which opens their hearts and as I said before brought them out of the Ninths They must come into the power which brings people out of the Ninths before they do so for the Law brought up Tenths and I will make the Tenths of the earth serve the Strangers Widows and Fatherless and Priests that must change and could not continue because of death which the everlasting Priest ends them which everlasting Priest remains which brings people out of the Ninths and there the Mystery of God is known which ends all types figures and shadows and parables in which they all end For these that say they are Ministers of the Gospel and have the Gleabes Easter reckonings Midsummer dues and Tenths and have the Augmentations provided for them how do these plant Vineyards and tread out the Corn and Plough and Thresh in hope to be made partakers of their hope and sow Spiritual and keep carnal None of all this need be if they were such Ministers that planted Vineyards and sowed Spirituals and taught the Word of God which was in the beginning which opens the hearts of people Thou sayest in thy seventh page that Gleabes is not to be sold from the Churches but they must be employed for the maintenance of the Ministers of the Gospel Answ Yes for they are set up by the Popes both by the old Mass-houses and the Gleabes and maintains them idle with other things given to them and keeps them from labouring threshing and ploughing who hath ravened from the Spirit of God and went forth from the Apostles so from the Spiritual weapons they should work withal but onely the earthly tools set up earthly Temples and Schools and Colledges to make Ministers which is not the Temple of God the old Mass-houses East and West with a cross on the end of it which were made by men and not by the Wâ—ll of God But them that witness their bodies the Temple of God and comes to the power the Apostles were in denies the old Mass-houses which inwardly raveners have invented and denies them that are made by the will of man they do that are made by the Will of God and preacheth forth freely as they have received freely Though they have power to eat and power to drink yet in many places they will not use their power them that plant Vineyards and eat of the milk of the Flock and keeps the Gospel without charge but why do the Ministers made by the will of men say that the people are carnal in their Petitions and in their writings and yet will have means of the carnal people and Petition the Magistrate for means from them and sue them in Courts for it they should eat of the milk of the Flock but is not this to shew that they wrest the Scriptures and make it serve their own ends And since the True Church went into the Wilderness they set up their Steeple-house to be one and since the True Cross the power of God hath been lost they have set up a wooden one on the top of it And since the True Ministers hath been lost which were made by the Will of God they have set up Schools and Colledges to make Ministers in their own wills and since the Power of God hath been lost which is the Gospel they have put the four Books Matthew Mark Luke and John for the Gospel the false prophets that inwardly ravened that got the sheeps cloathing have put that for the Gospel and went forth from the power of God the Gospel being inwardly ravened And since the Word of God hath been lost from man they have put the Scripture for it the Words of God as in Exodus God spake all these Words and every Word of God is pure saith the Prophet and he that addeth to these Words saith John in the Revelations and my Words saith Christ not the Word of God so the Words of God are the Scriptures of truth learnt of God but Christ is the Word which was in the beginning before the Words were spoken who comes to fulfil the Words of God in whom they end And since men hath ravened from the Spirit of God which should offer Spiritual offerings they invented these Easter reckonings Midsummer dues and such like but now are they discovered And the cry hath been in this great City by Beast Dragon and false prophets great Whore and the teachers under her and professors prophecy is ceased Revelation is ceased And how should they say Revelation was standing or Prophecy standing When they are inwardly ravened from the Spirit of God which doth inspire and reveal And to hear the voice of God there is no such thing now cry people Now how should they hear the voice of God who are inwardly ravened So no Ministers made by the will of God now but by men by Schooles and Colledges But who are come to the spirit of God they ravened from knowes revelation and inspiration and hearing of Gods voice and not of men nor by men are they made Ministers but by the Revelation of Jesus as the Apostles witnessed and are come to that which hath gotten the great Whore Mystery Babylon Beast Dragon false prophets betwixt them and the Apostles with the power of God and are come over them with the power that the Apostles was in Glory in the Highest for ever And so when they inwardly ravened and went from Christ the Everlasting Priest they set up other Priests made by men and heard them instead of Christ and when they inwardly ravened and went from the Apostles from the annointing within which did teach them and needed none other to teach them but as the same annointing did teach them to continue in the Son and in the Father so not in the Peace Christ the Peace but are such as destroy and worry one another about Easter reckonings Midsummer dues Tithes and Stipends and Augmentations and worry their Hearers for Tenths such are like them that Micah spoke of in the third chapter That brings people all on heaps that must be ploughed up like a field out of the Apostles Power and Doctrine out of the Prophet Micahs Spirit The first Priest-hood was a type of the everlasting Priesthood Christ Jesus the law without a figure of the Law within the first covenant was a figure of the everlasting covenant which first covenant stood in types shadowes and figures for the bringing in of a better hope so we witnesse the better hope come in and the end of the other and the offerings in the first Priest-hood was a figure of Christ the everlasting offering who offered up
the express Image of his Substance Christ Jesus who was with him before the World began as I said before Well seeing that Christ ended them that had Tenths in the time of the Law and War and ended the War and Law by which they were made that took them and the Commandment that gave them to them and ends the War before the Law and is the end of all Wars who puts the fire and the sword in the earth and destroyes the destroyer that causeth Wars and brings peace on the earth and good Will towards men and his Ministers preacht the Gospel and the Kingdom of God which hath no end Mark the Kingodm of God there is more in that that followed Christ that they preacht and asked not for Tithes for Tenths of the earth that was Elected before the World began that was Redeemed out of the Ninths that witnessed the Kingdom of God that stands in Righteousness Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost and that sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus And you may read what they witnessed in the Hebrews among them that stuck in the Figures Priests Tithes and Offerings which told them that the one offering was offered up the end of their offerings and Priesthood both that could not continue because of death and Christ was come the end of all similitudes he remains a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedeck and the Priesthood was changed that took the Tithes and the Law was changed and the Commandment disannulled so when the Priesthood was changed and the Law changed that gave them and the Commandment disannulled and men come up out of the Ninths to the heavenly gift and did partake of the power of the World to come and yet these things was but as milk among Babes Before Christ was offered up they ought to pay Tithes but when he was offered up then they ought not the Commandment disannulled the Priesthood changed the Law changed also Was ended peace on earth and good will towards men Election known before the World began and men Redeemed to God from the earth who had been drove from God into the earth who had lost his Image by transgression and disobedience who is brought into the Image by the obedience of Christ who blots out the transgression and finisheth sin and reconciles for iniquity and brings in Everlasting Righteousness Mark Righteousness lasteth for ever that Redeems men out of the Ninths and ends the War in whom Melchizedeck the figure ends and liveth not in the Righteousness of the Law of works of the Priests that had the Tenths and Command that Commands the Tenths but lives in Christ and by him and under him who is the Treasure of Wisdom and Knowledge that ends the Command and Law and Priesthood and War and Figures and in him doth Melchizedeck end Christ who is the end of all things and here is the Saints life and the Churches head that the gates of Hell cannot prevail against who is the sum of all things that ends Ninths and Tenths And his Church is Redeemed out of the Ninths and reigns upon the earth and preaches the Gospel the Kingdome of God Mark Kingdom and preaches the Substance the end of the similitudes the end of the first Priesthood the Law is changed that he was made by and he also and the Command disannulled that gave him Tithes and here the peace on earth and the good will towards men is known for Christ is the Peace and Redeemer and now he is come to reign and doth reign among his Saints who ends all similitudes and likenesses and in him is no shadow nor turning nor winding nor variableness who is the Image of God glorified with the Father before the World began For since man went out of the Image of God and his Righteousness has been the Wars the first Priesthood and the Tenths in the War and the Tenths in the first Priesthood and Figures which Christ the Image of God ends the War and Priesthood and figures and similitudes and Tenths and brings men up into the Image of God and his Righteousness and Redeems people out of the Ninths and so to the end of the Tenths and Warre being come out of the fall up to God again where peace is redeemed out of the earth and reigns upon it and there is the end of that at present and so much for that at the present And Tenths was paid from the Principle of God within them for man transgressing the Principle of God within him was drove from God but when the Law came which went over all transgressors and transgressions answered the just Principle of God in every man the Tenths was offered up in the time of the War and Law from the Principle of God within and so is the Ninths from the Spirit of God within the power of God the Gospel and where life and immortality is come to light all is offered up to God And man come up out of the earth unto God from whom he has been drove And from the Principle of God within he did offer up the Tenths according to Law for death reigned man transgressing the Law of God within him when he fell went from the power The Devil went out of truth tempted man out of truth to sin and so to death and death reigned from Adam till Moses and so the Law came by Moses who saw the first transgression upon the earth and so the law was added because of transgression which is called the higher power higher then all evil doers to which power every soul must be subject And Moses saw the blessed state of the creatures before transgression before the Divel and man went out of truth and so man had the power within him before the transgression the power within him the law within him and so the law was added upon him called the law of works because of transgression and that served tell the seed came and Moses saw the Prophet of God he knew that the seed of the Woman should bruise the head of the Serpent Christ Jesus should destroy the Devil and his works the salvation of mankind And Moses the Prophet God gave him that wisdom to make the pattern the figure and Moses saw the time it should stand and before it was and the Prophet God should raise up like unto him whom the people should hear who should come to end it Now he that can read this and see this and hear this prophet which should end the pattern types figures and shadowes may read something and he that hath offered up the ninths of the earth and is come out of the ninths by Christ the substance redeemed out of the earth and witnesseth sin and transgression finished and the bond of iniquity broken and Christ reconciled to him and everlasting righteousnesse brought in he witnesseth the end of tenths and may speak something of what the tenths figured forth and offerings and Priests that witness the seed and is in the
inwardly ravened that went from the Apostles into the World which now by the power of the Lord God are comprehended and fathomed So Tithes to Melchizedeck in the time of the War and Tithes in the time of the Law and all the Tithes of the land was the Lords and he would make the Tenths of the earth give the Priests Levites Strangers Widows and Fatherless enough and fill them that there should not be a Begger among them and the Ninths would give the other enough and those were offered up according to the Principle of God in people which answered the Law of God and the Commandment that commanded them Now Tithes since the dayes of the Apostles set up by them that went from them inwardly ravened hath been invented and not set up by the principle of God within So here is Priests and Impropriators Kings of the earth and Pope hath got them and Widows and Strangers and Fatherless starving abroad and yet these Priests will be called Ministers of the Gospel that takes Tenths and keeps people in the Ninths which they have invented and their mother the great Whore the false church and calls them a Gospel maintenance which are not like unto the Apostles but contrary to the Law and Gospel both and all people are nor blind that they cannot see For the tenths was offered up in the time of the war and law but the ninths comes to be offered up in the end of the war and law and types figures and shadowes by such as comes to the Kingdom of God for they that preach the Kingdom of God and the Gospel doth not take the tenths of the earth and this is but a touch of what might be spoken concerning these things And so Tythes is not the Ministers of the Gospels homage as thou Dr. saith in thy ninth page for Tythes is not the Ministers of the Gospels homage who brought people out of the ninths but it was the first Priest-hoods which Christ the second came to end and redeems out of the ninths up to God out of the earth for ninths and tenths hath been since man was drove from God into the earth but the tenths has bin the Popes homage and held up by his lawes in the whole Christendom provision for his Church since the dayes of the Apostles that the true Church went into the Wilderness and his Ministers and the inheritance that he hath given to his Teachers that hath got the Sheeps cloathing that went forth from the Apostles inwardly ravened and set up first by his law and persecute people if they would not give them and put them into prison till death and hale them before Courts which is not the work of the Ministers of the Gospel as thou may read in the Acts and Epistles And thou sayest in the same page that to imploy Tythes to any other use then to maintain Ministers of the Gospel is sacriledge for they are due by God and holy to himself so to give them to any other then Ministers of the Gospel or to such as set Ministers to preach because they are fick themselves and cannot preach it is sacriledge to put them to any other use So then thou hast made all the impropriators robbers and the Pope and all the chief Magistrates and Kings that take the tenths robbers and the great men that takes the Tythes robbers now I say they have no more due to them then the Ministers nor they then them but is quite contrary to the Ministery of the Gospel to keep people in the ninths that they might have the tenths and having no store-house for them that all the strangers fatherless and widowes might be filled as well as the Priests Deut. 14 and Mal. 3. But if you had store-houses and did fill all the Fatherlesse and widowes in the whole Christendome yet we which are Ministers of the Gospel must deny you and the first Priest-hood that took them we that are one with the Apostles that brings people out of the ninths that they may be redeemed out of the earth up to God for since men was drove into the earth from God was tenths set up by the command of God which Christ the Saviour of the World redeemes up to God again out of the earth for tenths was a figure in the time of the law and Christ who was made under the law redeemes from under the law ends the law and the figures and the war and brings people to reign upon the earth and such be elect before the World was made of his Church of his body he is the head Now Tythes which been invented by the inwardly raveners that went out from the Apostles by the beast false Prophets and false Church since the true Church went into the Wildernesse and since the true Ministers hath been slain by the Beast and their blood drunk by the whore and so deceit spread over all nations and as the Apostles was to go with truth into all Nation so the beast false Prophets and great whore and old dragon taken and cast into the lake of fire and their flesh burnt and the everlasting Gospel shall go forth again to all nations tongues and people to all that dwell upon the earth and so truth shall spread it self over again So mind these three states and what age you are in that you may decern the time and seasons which be in the Fathers hand how that people shall come out of the ninths and tenths which has been invented by them that were inwardly raveners that went forth from the Apostles and how that people are comming to that which they ravened from whereby the power of God the Gospel is felt and life and immortality is come to light and the thirst is risen among people who shall have the waters of life freely and the marriage of the Lamb the Church is known again the manchild is brought forth to rule all nations with a rod of Iron for they have been waters and tongues and multitudes and that which has been called the original among the inwardly raveners the tongues but not called so by John nor any of the Apostles For all the earth was of one language before Babel and Pilate set the languages over Christ and Luke doth not call that the original for Pilate did not know the Scripture and the Beast and the whore hath been upon the tongues which hath killed the Saints and John in the Revevelations did not call that the Original for John saw well that tongues were waters But they had the Original which was killed by the beast and the whore and this hath been the language since the beast whore and dragon hath reigned and the true Church hath been in the Wildernesse and the true Ministers killed but I shall tell you in the beginning was the word before beast false Prophets dragon great whore Pilate and Babylon was and Abides when they all end when they are not so that I declare unto you that which was
in the beginning the word of life that you might have fellowship with the Father and the Son and with us And who are in this are out of ninths and tenths both in which all figures ends types and shadowes ends and by which word all inventions of men are thrown down And so taking away tythes is but robbing as they call it the Popes Church the false Church which set them up but not according to the Law of God which was not according to the Law of God nor Gospel and have not given them according to the Law of God had they done it there had not been a begger in Christendome for the Law made that provision but the Gospel is above the Law which redeemes people out of the ninths opens the heart of people So they are pitiful poor and silly that are talking of the tenths in this the day of the Gospel the Lambs power and his marriage and the comming up of the true Church out of the Wildernesse judging the false Church and great whore which is got up since the dayes of the Apostles which hath fulfilled Christs words and Christs words must be fulfilled as in Mat. 24. who saith every tree that bears not fruit must be hewen down and cast into the fire which scripture is fulfilling to destroy the false Prophets and yet save the creature who wrestleth with the power of darknesse and spiritual wickednesses and not with flesh and blood such have spiritual weapons but they that ravened from the spirit of God lost the spiritual weapons and so got Caines which hath guarded the great whore which has killed the Saints with Caines weapons Cain killed Abel and built a City and so who ever comes into this great City where ninâ—â—â— and tenths and inwardly raveners are false Prophets great whore the false Church old Mass-houses they must look to have their flesh and blood wrestled against where the dragons flag and the whores golden cup is holden forth Now look over whole Christendom you may see what hath got up since the dayes of the Apostles and what a fenced City here hath been and how it is fenced and how the blood of the Martyrs hath been drunk in it which keeps the Commands of God and the Testimony of Jesus which hath the Spiritual weapons and how many this great Whore hath put to death by her weapons this false church the Lord open your understandings that you may see to the dayes of the Apostles who said that the ages should come that God would shew forth the exceeding Riches that was among them as you may read in the Ephesians the second chapter And these ages are come so here is a distinction betwixt the Ministers of the Spirit and the ministers of the great Whore which ravened inwardly from the Spirit of God which hath had the sheeps cloathing which beast and great Whore hath been in the Dragons power killing and murthering which City hath been filled with violence and blood But the power of God over all this is gone over all this is felt to the dayes of the Apostles what state they were in and what state hath been since with that we see to the beginning with the Word of God which was in the beginning Doctor page the seventh Thou sayest thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the Ox that treadeath out the Corn. Answer We say so where he gets out Corn not to muzzle his mouth but let not the Ox eat where he doth not tread out the Corn let him not transgress all this is nothing to Tithes for we do not read that the children of Israel the Priests was to take Tithes of any but of the children of Israel not of the Gentiles we do not read that Christ set up a Law or the Apostles that they should take the Tenths of the Gentiles but man being drove from God into the earth A Virgin shall bare a Child which by interpretation is Immanuel God with us and I will give him for a light to the Gentiles and for a new Covenant to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah and many of the prisoners have shewed themselves forth man drove from God man brought to God again Doctor Let him that is taught in the Word communicate to him that teacheth in all good things Gal. the sixth chapter Answ We say yes let him that is taught do it but he doth not say he that is not taught Therefore this condemns all the Priests since the dayes of the Apostles who would have from them they do not teach contrary to the Rule of Scripture and Doctrine of the Apostles and cast into Prison those they do not teach these serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies and teach for filthy lucre which they ought not who would have all good things communicated to them from them they do not teach So he that is taught in the Word communicates to him that teacheth in all good things Mark this just Rule He that is taught he that teacheth so every one maintain his own Minister that will have one And be not deceived God is not mocked for that which you sow that you shall reap sow to the flesh you shall reap corruption sow to the Spirit life Eternal and they that are inwardly ravened cannot sow to the Spirit but sows to the flesh Therefore you may look in whole Christendom what a Field of corruption there is to be Reaped and what unreasonable Ministers there is that will bring this Scripture and say That he that is taught in the Word let him Communicate to him that teacheth in all good things when they never taught him hath not taught him in the Word yet will have good things Communicated to him whether these be not unreasonable wolves in sheeps cloathing who will take treble Tithes of him and hale him before Courts if it be a hundred or two hundred miles and then cast him into Prison and then bring people the Scriptures for a Cloak and denying the light within which they should fee withal So such are transgressors of the Doctrine of the Apostles which takes of them which they have not taught in the Word neither do they preach the Word which was in the beginning which ends the Priests that had the Tenths and wresteth the Scriptures and this is nothing to Tenths and no where Tithes is Commanded in the New Testament but onely as Christ said ye ought to do it before he was offered up but when he was Sacrificed up it was finished and the Priesthood that took them the Law and Command they Triumphed over them And Ananias and Saphirah makes nothing for Tithes and Christ being hungry they fed him c. And Christ sent forth his Disciples without Bag But what did Judas Bag signifie That Steward that Betrayer Are not all such as invented Tithes and so greedy after the Bag of the substance of Judas that will cast into Prison and betray the innocent in