dayes and in Christs time by the Rulers and Magistrates of New-England most of all the Rulers and Magistrates of the Town of Boston in New-England who have made a law in their own wills to banish any whom they call in scorn cursed Quakers whom the Lord sends amongst them to warn them to turn from the evil of their doings who witness Christ made manifest in them the hope of Glory and after they have banished them upon pain of death not to come again into their Town or Jurisdiction by their Law made in their own wills when they in obedience to the Lord God of Heaven and Earth as they were commanded of him to come again not in contempt of their Law though made in their own wills but in obedience to the Lord knowing it was better to obey God than man thy unchristian like have put them to death and this is the fruits of New-Englands profession who are out of the life of what they profess in words as their fruits have made them manifest who have put the Innocent to death who came to bear witness to the truth as it is in Jesus and as it was made manifest in them but happy I say were they who loved not their lives more than Christ who have laid it down for his names sake they shall receive a good reward When they that caused them to be put to death shall howl and lament for their day of sorrow is coming on for the Innocent blood cryes aloud for vengeance upon them who put them to death good it had been for them they had never been born or that a milstone had been hanged about their neck and that cast into the Sea rather than they should have put them to death therefore all people who have not had a hand in this thing in putting the Innocent to death who have not suffered as evill doers but because they could not be subject to the Lawes of men for conscience sake knowing it better to obey God than men take warning I say betime while it is called to day if you will hear his voice harden not your hearts as in a day of Slaughter for verily the day of the Lord God is at hand wherein all the proud and they that do wickedly shall be destroyed The axe is laid to the root of the tree and every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit must be hewen down and cast into the fire The Lord hath said it and he will bring it to pass in this the the day of his mighty Power for now is the Lord calling by his messengers to all the inhabitants of the earth to come to repentance repentance from dead works to serve the Lord in newnesse of life in holynesse and purity without which none can see the Lord for holinesse becomes the house of God whose house we are whom he hath called out of the world to be a witnesse to his truth as it is manifest in us as he hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and they shall be my people and I will be their God faith the Lord who is now risen and arising to redeem a people to himself zealous of good works wrought in Christ Jesus made manifest within the hope of Glory and Glory be to the Lord God for ever more who hath redeemed many to himself out of the fallen estate Adams State by Christ Jesus the Second Adam the Lord from Heaven for as is the earthly such are they that are earthly as is the heavenly such are they that are heavenly for the first man Adam is of the earth the second the Lord from Heaven and by this Christ we witnesse redemption from sin the same Christ that died at Jerusalem for our sins and rose again for our justification this we can truly say indeed and in truth that Christ is risen indeed and become the first fruits of them that sleep and by this Christ we witness redemption from sin and also the Law of the members that warrs against the Law of the minde that Paul spoke of yet we with Paul can say we thank God through Christ Jesus our Lord who gives victory over the law of sin and death which the Law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God sent his Son born of a woman to condemn Sin in the flesh that we through him might have life who believe on him whom the Father hath sent into the world whom the world cannot receive for he that receiveth me saith Christ receiveth him that sent me and he that receiveth you saith Christ to his disciples receiveth me also and he that keeps my sayings will keep yours also He that hath an ear may hear what the Spirit saith and he that is a thirst may come and drink freely without mony or without price Oh! dear people why do you spend your mony for that which is not bread and your labour for that which doth not satisfy all you who have been learning may be some tenn years some twenty years some thirty years some forty years some fifty years some sixty years following the blind guides of the world and yet not come to the knowledge of truth but some say loe here in this form and some say in another but I say believe them not for where Christ is made manifest he is made manifest within to destroy the works of the Devil Now people sin is a work of the Devil and the Devil was a lyar from the beginning he abode not in the truth now he that commits sin abides not in the truth for Christ is the truth the way and the life no man can come to the Father but by him now as none can come to the Father but by Christ so none can come to Christ but by the light they be enlightned withal which shewes sin and evill now all who live in sin and hate the light which ye be enlightned withal they will not bring their deeds to the light lest they should be reproved so they that hate the light and will not come to Christ that they might have life but goes on in the wicked wayes of the world in scorning dirision of their fellow Creatures who love the light and are guided by it and are come to Christ the way the truth and the life who never persecuted any neither taught he any such doctrine as to imprison any or whip or stock or banish or put to death for conscience sake as the Rulers of New-England have done who cannot receive strangers but persecute them who come to beare witnesse to the truth as it is in Jesus made manifest in them the hope of Glory but here in New-England it is made manifest as it was by Herod when Christ was born he sought to worship him under pretence to destroy him so here they call themselves a Church of Christ but where he is made manifest in his members they put him to death and casts them into prison
out of Hell and in your wills have made a Law to punish the innocent by whom the Lord sends amongst you to warn you to turn from the evil of your doings and thus you have requited the Lord evil for all his good to you ward and you do despite against the Spirit of Grace for the People called Hereticks and cursed Quakers by you who take upon them as you say to be immediately sent of God and infallibly assisted by the Spirit this we own and witness to be true in our measures to be immediately sent of God and to be guided by his Spirit that 's of God but to write or speak blasphemous opinions that we do deny that hath not been proved against us yet by any of you or your hireling Priests for they who are guided by the Spirit of God they neither speak nor write blaspemous opinions for the Spirit of God is not a spirit of blaspemy as you may think or judge it to be who make a mock at an immediate Call and you are the Hereticks who are gone from that of God in you who are erred from the Spirit as Balaam was who loved the wages of unrighteousness as you Teachers do and the People by you in scorn called Quakers are not cursed but blessed of the Lord who came amongst you to bear witness for the truth as it is in Jesus for although you have used incliantment as Balaak and Balaam did together to curse Jacob and defie Israel yet your Inchantments and Laws which you have hatched out of Hell shall be broken and you both and the people in scorn by you called cursed Quakers shall inhabit amongst you and you shall be broken to pieces the Lord hath said it and he will shortly bring it to pass you cannot long strive against God and prosper for he is risen against you already and though your trumpets sound aloud amongst you who delight to shed innocent blood yet the Trumpet of the Lord sound louder in his ears which cryes aloud for vengeance against you who have put his servant to death your condemnation is coming on apace you are all to be condemned with the light that comes from Jesus Christ the Son of God who lighteth every man that comes into the World And whereas you say We despise Government and Order in Church Commonwealth speaking evil of Dignities reproach Magistrates and Ministers that 's false for we own Government and Ministers who fear the Lord hates covetousness and are guided by the Spirit of the Lord but if any Magistrates makes Laws contrary to truth as you have done to put the innocent to death we utterly deny both the Laws and Magistrates therein but Magistrates who are a terrour to evil-doers and a praise to them that do well we own but such Magistrates are not you who shed innocent blood and we own such Ministers as are called of God Who are sent out to preach the Gospel freely without money or without price but such Ministers are not your Hirelings who can never have enough who would limit the Spirit of God in others who would have none to speak but themselves that so they might keep people still in ignorance as they have done ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth but you Magistrates and Ministers so called are all made manifest as Corah Dathan and Abiram was who rebelled against Moses who said All the Congregation were Holy but your end will be like theirs for your Cup is almost full of which you must drink doubtless it shall be filled to you your reward you shall have for God will be honoured by you but it will be your destruction you generation of vipers of serpents who gnash your teeth for torment already for your torment is begun already your sorrow shall never cease nor flye away your destruction draws near you cannot escape the hand of the Almighty he rises against you he will render vengeance in flames of fâ—â—â—â—â—on you wo be unto you who had no pitty good it had been for you if you had not been born on that a Mil-stone had been hanged about your neck and you cast into the Sea rather than you should have made a wicked Law and so put the innocent to death as you have done whose innocent blood cryes aloud for vengeance against you inhabitants of this Town of Boston in New-England who have shed innocent blood Gods Judgments draws near all you who had a hand in shedding innocent blood the blood of the innocent is upon you wo will be to you for evermore except you repent you are grown fat and strong and you spurn with the heel against God you are worse than Pharaoh was who said Who was the Lord that he should obey him to let Israel go wo will be to you for ever who will not let the Lords people worship him in his own way but they must be cast into Prison and whipt and banished and their ears cut and burnt and put to death because they come to bear witness to the truth against your Idolatrous worship and witness the true worship who worship him in Spirit and in Truth And now is he seeking such worshippers but you have rejected his messengers and slighted the day of your visitation and put his servants to death and evil intreated many whom he hath sent amongst you to bear witness to his truth as it is manifest in Jesus but sorrow shall accompany you where ever you go vengeance from the Lord and punishment as came upon Cain shall come upon you cursed shall you be for evermore in sorrow shall you lye down and so shall you rise up and in torment shall you be where ever ye go your God whom you serve is not able to deliver you out my hand saith the Lord your prayers and praises are accursed of God your sacrifices is Cain-like God will never hear you your bud shall rot as the drunkard for you are drunk with the Saints words and you shall have blood to drink who have shed innocent blood and this is to you who have put the servants of the Living God to Death TO you the Inhabitants of Boston in New-England who have not had a hand in putting the innocent to death if ye will return return unto me saith the Lord or else I will visit your sin upon you with the rest for when I begin I will also make an end therefore if ye will return unto me saith the Lord I will yet have mercy upon your unrighteousness if you will break off your sins by true repentance and own the light of Christ Jesus which you be enlightned withal which shews you your transgressions which lets you see when you have done any manner of thing that is evil which reproves you in secret when no eye sees you for whatsoever is done in secret shall be made manifest by the light for the day is dawning and the sun-rising is appearing amongst you and
THE STANDARD Of the Lord lifted up in New-England In Opposition to the MAN OF SIN OR The Trumpet of the Lord sounding there with a Visitation to the suffering Seed of God in New-England or elsewhere With a Warning from the Lord to the Rulers and Magistrates Priests and People of New-England but more especially to the Rulers and Magistrates of the Bloody Town of Boston who have put the Servants of the Living God to Death The Lyon hath roared who can but fear The Trumpet hath sounded who can but prepare himself to Battel before the great and notable day of the Lord come Fear ye not me saith the Lord will ye not tremble at my presence which placed the sands for the bounds of the Sea by a perpetual Decree that it cannot passe it and though the waves thereof tosse themselves yet can they not prevail though they roar yet can they not pass over it Jer. 5.20 Written in the Prison at Boston in New-England in America By a Friend of Israels Commonwealth known to the world by name Joseph Nicholson LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson at the Signe of the Black-spread-Eagle and Winde-mil in Martins Le grand 1660. The Standard of the Lord lifted up in New-England or the Trumpet of the Lord sounding there THe mighty day of the Lord is coming wherein the secrets of every mans heart shall be revealed with the Light of Jesus Christ which comes from Jesus Christ the Son of God who lighteth every man that comes into the world John 1. ver 9. And this is my beloved Son saith God hear you him who lighteth every man that comes into the world Drunkard hates the Light Lyar hates the Light Swearers and cursed Speakers you all hate the Light and all you who live by stealth you hate the Light all you that live in envy as Cain did who slew his Brother you hate the Light all you that are proud as Haman was ye hate the Light all you who commit adultery you hate the Light all you who live by cozening and cheating your fellow-creatures by deceitful merchandize in buying and selling and speaking otherwise by your commodities than it is you hate the Light and all you who live in any form of Profession whatsoever and persecute them who are in the life who come to witness forth the Truth as it is in Jesus Christ made manifested in them as it was in the Apostles you are all to be condemned with the Light that comes from Jesus Christ For â—his is the condemnation of the world the Light saith Christ â—hat Light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil John 3. ver 19. For every one that doth evil hateth the Light neither cometh to the â—ight lest his deeds should be reproved but he that doth truth â—â—meth to the Light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God Therefore all people high and low rich and poor bond and free take warning betime and put not the evil day afar off and the good day afar off and say in your hearts the Lord delayeth his coming and so eat and drink with drunkards and beat and persecute your fellow-creatures who witness the life and Power as they did who spoke-forth the Scriptures for the Scriptures was given forth by Inspiration of the Spirit holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost and as the Spirit gave them utterance Now people consider the Scripture was not given forth for men to talk of or make a trade of or for men to get money by as your hireling Teachers of the world do who have so much a year for preaching and talking of the Scriptures of things made ready to their hands other mens conditions saying in such a Chapter and such a verse saying Hearken my beloved brethren in such a Chapter and such a verse to the Word of God as it is written for your instruction when truly people the Lord never spoke unto them Why may some say is not the Scriptures true yea they are true but the Scripture as a declaration of other mens conditions the Prophets conditions Christs words the Apostles words given forth from the life but I am against him saith the Lord that steals the Word from his Neighbour and saith The Lord saith when the Lord never spoke to him but as they find it written in the Scriptures other mens conditions who were made partakers and possessed and enjoyed what they spoke this was not a Chapter or verse in Scripture other mens conditions but this was and is the same as ever was from the beginning the Innocent life the holy life Adams state wherein he was created at first in the Image of God but being fallen from that estate in Adam there must be a coming back again as the Scriptures speaks of I will bring the blind by a way that they have not known and there must be a bringing back again the Captivity a restauration out of the fallen estate For as in Adam all die so in Christ shall all be made alive As many as believe on him whom the Father hath sent into the World he was in the world and the world knew him not but as many as received him he gave power to become the Sons of God and he that hath the Son hath Life he that hath not the Son hath not Life and this life is the light of men he was in the world and the world was made by him and the world became flesh and dwelt amongst us and we saw the only begotten Son of God full of Glory Mercy Grace and Peace and to him that is at rest saith Christ will I give of the water of life freely he that hath an eare may hear what the Spirit saith he that overcomes shall reign with me saith Christ Therefore all people take warning berime and do not deceive your selves by a profession of God and Christ in words and have not the life and power of what you profess for it is not profession without possession that will stand you instead in the day of the Lord God which is coming upon all the ungodly of the world who are out of the life and power of that which the Scriptures were given forth from for except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdome of God this Birth is not by mans will but by the will of God and where this Birth is known and witnessed in the least measure it is hated and persecuted by the world as ever it was in the dayes of the Apostles and Christ for if they persecuted me saith Christ they will also persecute you and if they have done this to the master of the house how much more to them of his houshold for the Scribes and Pharisees knew where Christ should be born but when he came they put him to death The same is now made manifest as ever was in the Apostles
that comes to live among them only because they are tituled Quakers and thus they have entertained their country men and friends in New-England and especially at the town of Boston where they cannot endure to see one walk in the street who they in scorn call cursed Quakers though truly the people in scorn called cursed Quakers by them are they who truly fear the Lord God of Heaven and Earth and are witnesses for him against the man of sin against the Beast and the false Prophet which they worship here in New-England much most of all at this Town of Boston for all that will not worship in their way though a false worship they must be banished out of their Town and their Jurisdiction and if they come again put them to death And their fruits have made them manifest to be no Church of Christ but of Anti-christ hypocrites got above the Light of Christ in themselves painted Sepulchers having got the Saints words declared from the life but are found persecuting the same life where it is made manifest as they were in that they gave forth the Scripture truly they are like the seaven lean kine of Egypt which eat up the wel-favoured kine and behold they wear still ill-favoured so they as much as in them lyes they devour all the appearance of that which is good in any and yet they remain wicked still so the Scripture comes to be fulfilled of them evil men seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived but truly their condemnation slumbers not for the Lord is coming near to Judgement to reckon with them for their Stewardship for they have been long persecuting and now they have put to death its like they have long thirsted after blood as their fruits have made it manifest indeed to be no Church of Christ as they call themselves but such as the cheif Rulers and Priests were of who put Christ to death who said they had a Law and by their Law he ought to die so here we have a law said they if they come here again we will put them to death they are afraid their kingdom should fall for it shakes already for they think either now or never when their kingdom of sin which they so much plead for comes to be opposed and the Priests trade called in question who have got so much a year by the Scripture telling the people of other mens conditions things made ready to their hands and pleading for sin it plainly appears that they are Satans messengers indeed who plead for sin and say men shall never be perfect while they are here and yet they must have so much a year for preaching the Word of God as they say when the Word is not to be bought and sold for money but he that wills may buy without money or without price as the Prophet of old have said he that thirsts let him come and he that will may come and buy wine and milk without money or without price and the Word nigh in thee in thy mouth and heart the word of faith which Paul preached So people this is not a chapter or a verse in Scripture other mens conditions but this is a measure of the Spirit of Truth which the Lord foretold by the prophet of old saith he It shall come to passe in the latter days that I will poure out my Spirit upon all flesh and your Sons and Daughters shall prophesy and now is the Lord fulfilling his promise and his Sons and Daughters doth prophesy whereby the world begins to rage when they see the kingdom of Antichrist is like to fall and the Merchants of Babylon their wave will not passe for currant as formerly it hath done therefore they have combined together against the Lord and against his people whom they in scorn call cursed Quakers and have made a law in their will to put them to death therefore all people who desires after the Lord God of Heaven and Earth and hopes for mercy and forgivenesse for your sins as you will say by Jesus Christ to such I say own the Light of Jesus Christ which you be enlightned withal which shews sin and evill which lets you see when you have done wrong that condemns you for so doing it will let you see all that ever you have done in your life time if you take heed to it to be guided by it and the same Light being minded and obeyed it will bring you to hear Christs voice for his sheep hear his voice and they follow him but the voice of a tranger they will not follow and he that hears the voice of the Son of God shall live For the life that I now live said Paul is by the faith of the Son of God in me and the same life is now made manitest in these our dayes as was in the Apostles time and Christs time who said He would send the Comforter the Spirit of Truth which should lead into all Truth Now this people is not a chapter or verse in Scripture other mens conditions for this is no profit for me or for another what other men enjoyed except I come to enjoy the same as they did who spoke forth the Scripture so people it is not for men and women to take the Scriptures or get words out of the Scriptures and say Thus saith the Lord and this is the Word of God because they find it written in the Scripture this was other mens works the Lord said so to them But wait in the Light of Christ within our selves to know the Word there as they did who gave forth the Scriptures and as David said hark what the Lord saith for he it is that speaks peace to his people and to the Saints upon earth that they turn not again to folly and you may read in the Scripture that Paul said to Timothy thou ha known the Holy Scriptures which was able to make him wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus the second of Timothy the 3. Chap. and 15th verse So all people that desires to know the truth as it is in Jesus you must come to that of God in your selves and know the Scriptures there from that which is holy of God in you as Paul said to Timothy that which is or may be known of God is manifest within as it is said I have shewn it to thee O man what I would have thee to do to chuse the good and hate the evil So people be not deceived God will not be mocked for such as you sow such shall you reap He that sows to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corrvption but he that sows to the Spirit shall reap life eternal and this life is in the Son of God and where he is revealed and made manifest he is revealed within as Paul said it pleased the Lord to reveal his Son in me and where he is now revealed as ever he was he sets free from sin for
if the Son shall make you free then shall you be free indeed So people this makes it plainly appear that they that plead so much for sin they plead for the Devil for all sin is of the Devil also it appears plainly that they know not the Son of God that sets free who pleads so much for sin as the Teachers of the world do though they can talke much of him by hear-say what other men speak who witnessed him made manifest in them for the Teachers of the world can say as the Prophets said and as Christ spoke and the Apostles spoke as they find it written in the Scripture and thus saith the Lord say they and may be they will begin to reckon up Davids failings as thay say and Peters denying of Christ and such like and so begin to plead for sin a thing truly abhorred of all them that fear the Lord they dare not plead for sin because God hath forbiden it so the Teachers of the world are out of the true Prophets life that they spoke from who were sent to warn people to turn from the evill of their doings and Christ said to his as I am so are you in this present world and I hope none will say Christ was a sinner for if any say or think so they are lyars and knows not the truth as it is in Jesus and the Apostles exhorted them who were turned from darknesse to light To be perfect and as many as were perfect be thus minded and the Apostles was sent to turn people from the power of Satan unto God and that was and is out of sin for sin is of the Devil so here the Teachers of the world who have so much a year for preaching as they can get more or lesse at such a Town or such a Parish as they call it on such and such dayes and may be some preach by a glasse a hour or more as their sermon holds out so here they are limited to a time and place contrary to the Apostles who were to go into all Nations to Preach and they were not to have so much a year where ever they came neither bargained before hand neither taught any for filthy lucre as the Teachers of the world do that people should never be free from sin while they were upon the earth for the Saints of old were set free from sin â—â—â—â—e they were upon earth and the same is now made manifest as ever was in the Apostles days Glory and Honor be given to God for evermore and the Lamb of God is now risen and arising who makes warr in Righteousnesse who is saving his people from their sins who is giving them victory dayle who now follow him in the regeneration or new birth which is not born by mans will but by the will of God which is heir of the kingdom which never fades away So all people deceive not your selves 〈◊〉 profession of God and Christ which you have or may not in words and have not the life which the words were given forth from and cease from your hireling Shepherds and Teachers who preach peace to all for mony if you put into their mouths but if you put not into their mouths they will prepare warr against you and may be rayle much upon you as they have against others before if you will not buy their stuff at their rate they will say you are deluded and bewitched when any comes to beare witnesse against their false worship which they have set up to compel all to bow down to their God though a false God Now Christ and his Disciples whom he sent forth they never taught any such doctrine that all that would not come and hear them might be banished or put in prison till they acknowledge their fault as they call it in not coming to their worship or else pay such a sum of mony a week as their Rulers and Priests of Boton in New-England do who hath put men to death for conscience sake because they cannot obey their wicked law made in their own wills and this is the fruits of New-Englands profession burning men as some men use to do with their oxen in the horns that they might know them from others and cutting mens ears as men mark their cattel to know them by and banishing of people and putting them to death and beating them with pitch ropes even to death and whiping of them that fear the Lord God of Heaven and Earth who are moved of him to come thousands of miles to bear witness to his truth whiping of them and banishing of them and putting of them to death and casting them into prison that come to inhabit among them all this is accounted but a small thing in New-England most of all at the town of Boston where they call themselves a Church of Christ but let all people that fear the Lord or desire to know the truth as it is in Jesus Judge what a Church this is who neither fears God nor reverences man that hath dealt thus with their fellow-creatures who have been moved of the Lord to come from far to warn them of the evil of their doings this is a bad requital indeed to requite the Lord evil for good who hath thus dealt with his servants whom he hath sent among them to exhort them to turne from the evil of her doings and yet these Rulers and Magistrates and Priests will plead for sin and deal thus with them that would admonish them to turn from it this is a filthy and a horrible thing indeed that is committed in this land Prophets prophesy falsly and the Priests bear rule by their means and people love to have it so and what will you do in the end thereof Oh dear people consider betime while it is called to day if you will hear his voice harden not your hearts against the Lord least he vex you in his wrath and trouble you in his hote displeasure which is coming on Some may object and say at what time soever a sinner doth repent the Lord will forgive To which I answer at what time soever a sinner doth truly repent and turn from the evill of his doings he shall find mercy with the Lord who is worthy to be feared But let none dare to continue in sin and say at what time soever a sinner doth repent he shall find mercy but while it is called to day if you will come to true repentance from dead works to serve the living God in newnesse of life owne the light of Christ in you which shewes sin and evil in will bring you out of the worlds ways and customs and fashions and traditions of men that you have long lived in if you take heed to it to be guided by it you will come to Christ to feel him in you the hope of Glory he who saves his people from their sins he who is the Power of God unto salvation to all them that believe in him who