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A81625 A door of hope: or, A call and declaration for the gathering together of the first ripe fruits unto the standard of our Lord, King Jesus.; Door of hope. 1661 (1661) Wing D1908; Thomason E764_7; ESTC R207107 22,969 16

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we may encourage the persevering Remnant in the words of Moses Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-Peor for all the men that followed Baal-Peor the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you but ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day Deut. 4. 3 3. Here is the faith and patience of the Saints And indeed we cannot but admire the grace of God and to his praise we would speak it that we were preserved from the wicked Apostacy of O. C. against which we spared not to contend to the loss of our Liberties and to the hazard of our Lives the which we cannot but look on as the door and inlet to all this that is now come upon us Psal 81. 11 12 13 14 15. And all those unfaithful servants that complyed with him and his Interest and continued in a sinful perseverance as highly guilty of betraying the Righteous Interest and Cause of Christ and the Liberties of all the Saints of sin against God and the work of their Generation whereby they have made themselves unmeet for any place of Power and Trust and others must take their Crown neither will they any more finde acceptance with the Lord or his People but upon unfeigned Repentance which they may best testifie by making themselves nothing that Christ may be all and serving him in the lowest and meanest capacity For those that Christ will delight to honour in this work are Virgins Rev. 14. who never were espoused or marryed to a worldly or defiling Interest and except our names be found in those blessed distinguishing Characters as in the Kings muster Roll we shall never follow the Lamb with another spirit as Josbua and Caleb did We conclude with David instead of thy Fathers shall be thy Children a second Generation whom thou mayest make Princes in all the Earth Psal 45. 16. We therefore freely of a ready minde and with a most chearful heart accounting it an honour too great for us poor worms who are the meanest of men the greatest of sinners and the least of Saints to gird on a Sword for Christ Give up our Lives and Estates unto our Lord King Jesus and to his People to become Souldiers in the Lambs Army abhorring Mercenary Principles and Interests And for this works sake we desire not to love our lives unto the death neither will we ever if we may speak so great a word with reverence in the fear of God sheath our Swords again untill Mount Zion become the joy of the whole Earth a Mountain of holiness and a habitation of justice untill Rome be in Ashes and Babylon become a hissing and a curse the border of wickedness and the People against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever there being left unto her neither Name nor Remnant Son nor Nephew For that we are not purposed when the Lord shall have driven forth our Enemies here in these Nations and when we shall in a holy Triumph have led our Captivity Captive to sit down under our Vines and Figg-trees but to go on to France Spain Germany and Rome to destroy the Beast and Whore to burn her flesh with Fire to throw her down with violence as a Milstone into the Sea that she may be found no more at all Rev. 18. 21. Jer. 51. 35. to bring not onely these but all the Nations to the subjection of Christ that the Kingdome may be the Lords and to perfect the deliverance of all the Saints the Remnant of the Waldenses and all the Children of the Free-woman who are yet groaning and crying under the Tyranny and Persecutions of Antichrist and to avenge the blood of all the Martyrs which we earnestly remember and which is an especial motive unto us the cry of which is very loud in our ears and much more in the ears of God unto whom vengeance belangeth And this is much more then a National Quarrel that which is the Test now being the Interest of Christ the blood of the Butcher'd Murder'd Martyr'd and Massacred Saints the interest of the good People the Liberties of all men and the undoing of all the sinful oppressions and yoaks of the whole Creation The Controversie now therefore lies between Zion and Babylon Christ and Antichrist and therefore we assert That it is lawfull for the true spiritual Seed the legitimate Heirs of the promises and the World Rom. 4. 13. To RISE VP against the carnal serpentine accursed seed who are the destroyers of the Earth Rev. 11. 18. To possess the GATE of their Enemies to binde their Kings in Chains and their Nobles in Fetters of Iron And we being called of God and cut out without hands or humane contrivement in whom is shewn forth his Power RISE UP on Gods behalf free from the guilt of the breach of Oaths and Covenants upon our Consciences to conflict with this prophane persecuting Spirit of the Dragon and the Worshippers of the Beast that dwell on the Earth And we Call all that have a life to lay down for their King and Saviour to come forth against them with the Sword and execute upon them the Judgements written Are you a poor despised Remnant why God has formed you for himself As Christ was a tender Plant and a Root out of dry ground so may his Kingdom arise out of a poor obscure illitterate and such as the world calls Fanatick People And out of them shall come forth the Corner the Nail and the Battel-bow we look for a righteous spiritual Magistracy out of the new sharp threshing Instrument And to the end we may not lay a stumbling-block to shut out any for this good and wholesome Principle of Christs Government is so large that it involves every honest Interest and this bottom can onely secure our Cause as we could prove but that we write not in an argumentary way who are against the same abominations and enormities that we are own at least the negative part of our Cause and in the main are substantially and really for the same good things with us we also declare that whoso hath a heart to appear for God for his Christ for Reformation Justice and Righteousness for the Cause of Truth and for the good People of these Nations under so much reproach and sufferings whose Lives Estates Liberties and Posterities are ready to be made a Prey by the cruellest and worst of men who in the Properties of their natures are beasts against Popery Prelacy Common-prayer Organs Superstitions false prophane forms of Worship Idolatrous Ceremonial Typical Antichristian shadows and vanities such as is Sirplices Lawn Sleeves Hoods Tippets and such whorish trash and Trinkery Altars Bowing Kneeling and Worshipping a piece of Wood and Bread and a Wax Candle a filthy base Idol for the true God against Idolatrous Pictures and Images the seeds of Superstition and Ignorance we say whoso hath a heart to rise up for God against the Pope his Bishops and