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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44640	A warning from the Lord unto the rulers of Dover And so to all men which stand guilty of the like practises, that all may know a day of repentance before it be too late; for the night will come when as no man can work, in which the son of man will come as a thief unto all such the workers of iniquity, and give to every man according to his deeds done in their body in their life-time. Then wo to the eveil-doer, for it will go ill with him. Also, the Christian man's plea for his liberty, as he is so indeed and in truth: and also, as he is a free-born English-man, he lays claim to his birth-right, by way of expostulation with the rulers of Dover, who rob him and many others of it, refusing to shew us any order for their so doing. Together with a true testimony born to the Light of Jesus, the power of God, yea the power of the endless life, from everlasting to everlasting: by Luke Howard.	Howard, Luke, 1621-1699.	1661 (1661)	Wing H2988; ESTC R215380	18,231	25

not sanctifie me in their hearts and make me their fear and their dread but would have them fear man whose breath is in his Nostrils who I strike down in my own time he is o All power is in the hand of the Lord therefor should men fear him and take warning from him ly his witness in them that they sin not against him not afflict his people if they love their eternal peace no more therefore be ye forewarned O mortal men and touch not my annointed ones and do my Prophets no harm if you wil have me to say to you at your end Come ye blessed enter into your Masters joy and sit down at my right hand and receive of my Love Life and Joy for evermore with which I satisfie every hungry and thirsty soul in his life-time by which refreshments my servants my sons and my daughters have bore forth their Testimony unto my Life Power and Love the which I have shed abroad in their hearts and thereby have stood over the Power of Hell and of Death and have given their bodies goods and lives a witness for me the which I will own even for ever and it stands upon everlasting Record in my Book of Life never to be blotted out for time shall cease and Seasons have an end and man whose life is there to wit in Times and Seasons shall perish therein and his Name shall rot but my Chosen shall remain on Record in Life everlasting The Mouth of the living God hath spoken it and it shall surely be fulfilled and the eyes of my Heritage shall see it and I will be glorified in and amongst them for ever and for ever and all sorrow and sighing shall be wiped away from off them and nothing be heard p The life of the righteous is a life of joy it shall be for ever world without end but joy and gladness melody and praises on the ten-stringed Instruments Hallelujahs for ever and for ever Then will I be known in the beauty of Holiness to be Head of my Family and Ruler over my Houshold yea when my servants shall sing for joy of heart and their Enemies languish for sorrow of heart and pain of spirit q The torment of the wicked is great endless 〈◊〉 Men pleasing Ministers and their glory must fall before the glory of the Lord. and anguish of Reins yea then will I be exalted among the holy Nation and set up among the Royal Priesthood and then shall the Deceivers faces wax pale and the false Prophets Spirit sink into the Pit and the Diviner be made mad and all r which have leaned on them and not repented go down with them into the Lake and then blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of God for ever and ever and this is the portion of the Heritage of God and their lot for ever saith the righteous God of Jacob and the Leader of Israel who never slumbers nor sleepes but will perform his promise s Gods promises to the Righteous is the ground of a living hope in God of the truth of it I am a witness for the Lord. to Jacob and his Covenant to Israel and not fail in one tittle saith the Lord of Host the God of Israel whose Promise is Yea and Amen to Ages and Generations yea for ever and for ever So be it saith my soul whom the Lord hath reared up in his everlasting Love Power to be a witness of his Name amongst crooked a perverse generation yea a seed of evil-doers children of falshood that are ready to lay and say all maner of evil against me for righteousnes sake but falsly Therefore I say again Come forth and stand upon the Tryal before my Father the righteous God of my Life you workers of Iniquity John Golder George West and all which stand by you in your evil Cause I say let us reason together and let God's Witness in your Consciences be judge between us in the cause for that is my friend t Abraham believed in God and it was reckoned to him for righteousness and he was called the friend of God and he which is Christs is Abraham's Seed and heirs according to promise who hath crucified the flesh with the lust and affections thereof and so is the friend of God and will plead my cause when you are on your Beds in the Morning-Watch in secret it speaks and justifies the innocent and now let it be judge between us in this matter to wit our Right and Priviledges as we are men created of God to live on the face of the Earth Are you born Christians as men account you And free-born English-men So am I. Are you entitled to live in the Nation of England So am I. Are you Free-Men of Dover Town So am I. Have you never forfeited your Freedom Neither have I. Have you served the Town in Offices So have I. Have you lived in good fashion even honestly in the Town So have I. Have you kept men and maid-servants So have I. Have you Families of W●fe and Children So have I. Have you provided for them in honesty by your own Labours without defrand and guile So have I. Have you kept out of all mens Debts and danger of being cast into prison therefore So have I. Can you say you spend not the Creation of God upon your Lust So can I. Can you say you are no drunkards nor Bowlers nor Evil-livers so can I. Can you say such you were but you are washed but you are sanctified so can I. Can you say you once lived in pleasure even wantonly on the earth spending your days out of God's fear so crucifying the Just as saith the Scripture so can I. Can you say you have known a day from the Lord of sorrow and bitterness of soul for it so can I. Can you say you have hearkened to the Spirit of Truth which reproves the world of sin and all ungodliness so can I. Can you say you have believed in the Light which maketh all things manifest that ever you have done against God so can I. Can you say you have known repentance from dead works both in conversation and worship to serve the living God in newness of life so can I. Can you say you have known the reproof of Instruction to be the way of life so can I. Can you say the Judgements of the Lord are sweeter to you then the honey and the honey-comb for by them you have learned obedience unto life so can I. Can you say you love the Lord your God that created you with all your souls with all your minds with all your strength and your neighbours as your selves so can I. Can you say you can forsake Father and Mother Wife and Children House and Land and Gold for his Name sake that is the Light of the World so can I. Can you say you can take it patiently and rejoice that

take off the heavy burdens and set the oppressed free by undoing every heavy yoke and unrighteous Decree which my hand hath been set to and help to lay on for in this am I now satisfied and that from the Lord by his Witness x Gods witness in the conscience teacheth all to deny themselves in evil that loves it and is led by it to wit the Light in my own conscience that he which doth not do even to all as he would have another to do to him is no Christian in nature whatsoever he is in name neither can he fulfil the Law of God which is to love our enemies and also our neighbours as our selves and unto this state of life must all men come that ever know true peace with the Lord and he which is not here is out of the life which all the holy men of God were in in all ages past and is under the curse as saith the Law and denies the Faith the power of God as saith the Gospel of Peace and so is a servant to the power of darkness which rules as Lord in the hearts of all men which hateth the Light which shineth therein to shew them the desperate wickedness thereof for all wickedness proceedeth out of the y The heart of man is the very seat of all Evil whilest he hateth the light which shineth therein evil and wickedness of the heart the seat thereof and the pure Light of Jesus the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world shineth therein also as saith the Scripture for to make it manifest to man's clear understanding unto which all men shall one day confess to the glory of God and that is God's everlasting love even to all men which do receive it in the love of it and that is the Grace of God which appears to all men yea the same Grace which bringeth salvation even to as many as believe in it for he which believeth in the Light wherewith he is in his heart lighted shall not abide in the darknesse which first ruled in his heart and is made manifest by the Light but he shall have the light of life yea the same Life which gives him power over those deeds of darkness and evil which the Light makes manifest to his clear understanding to be evil so that he which doth well and takes good heed to the Light in his own heart shall have little need to ask another what is good and what is evil hee may know it plain enough in his own Conscience by the Light as he watcheth to it and this is the same Grace which the Lord unto Paul in his doubting estate gave his full Testimony unto saying My grace is sufficient for thee and Paul found z He which receives the grace of God the light which shines in his heart in the love of it grows into the knowledge of the Lord which is life eternal and to the fulfilling of the Scriptures it so to be and testifies to it saying By the grace of God I am what I am And he gives forth the same Testimony of its bringing salvation in his Letter to Titus in these words saying The Grace of God which bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us Mark that to deny all ungodliness and worldly lust and to live soberly and godly in this present world So that this is a true Testimony by the Spirit of the Lord born unto all men that all which loveth it as it shines in the heart from the Lord the Fountain of Life and Light they are taught by it to deny all ungodliness as Paul and the rest of the Christians in their dayes were and all which hates it are not taught by it neither can they receive it whilest they hate it for no man's heart can be joined to the thing which in his heart he hates but first man must feel a springing of love to the thing he receives and something must appear to him to beget his love to spring Now Light in it self is lovely a All men must love the thing they receive aright therefore love the Light aright that you may know its vertue which is life to the eye which can behold it now the eye which can behold the Light of the glorious Gospel the God of this World hath blinded or the power of the creatures hath stole away the affections of the heart from the Creator who is Light so darkness comes to rule as God in the heart Now that which sometimes even as it were darts into man's heart in secret that is Light and Love from the God of Light and Love and as this is taken heed unto the power is felt which reacheth unto the seed of God which witnesses to the truth which the Light and Love declares in the heart so then a springing begins to be felt from the Seed of God towards the Light and Love which is in it self of a begetting nature and then as the Light is still taken heed unto the springing of the love of the Seed encreases so the eye comes to be open which can see a beauty in the Light that it should be desired for Light is lovely in it self and still as the Light is taken heed unto the love of the Seed encreases as the love encreases b This is a true growing from one degree of Grace to another in the Lord who is that Spirit and as he comes to rule in the heart so comes liberty strength and power is felt to stand over that which the Light maketh manifest to be evil and as a measure of power is felt to deny some evil which the Light reproves then the power of darkness appears to make war against the Power of the Light and this is the true warfare between the flesh and the spirit and in this state most men cry out O wretched man that I am because sin now appears out of measure sinful yea that which man formerly thought to be no sin he now sees to be great and so the ground of sin appears and the whole body of iniquity stands up with which he is now to make war in righteousness and now he seeth his strength though it be but small to stand wholly in the light and love which hath begun the Work in the Spirit to war against the flesh And this is the time to wait on the Lord c He which waiteth on the Lord shall not be ashamed but shall renew his strength in the Lord dai●y to feel the living hope to spring yea the exspectation of the Seed which loves the Light to receive power in the Light from the Fountain of Life to overccome the whole Body of Death and he that hath this hope purifieth himself as God is pure and although he meet with many encounters with the power of darkness yet the hope stands fast in God the Fountain of Life and Light from whom he daily expecteth a supply of

strength to deny the evil and so he feels the body of sin to weaken and this is true purifying of the heart by faith and these experiences come to be witnessed of God's power the hope is confirmed which makes not ashamed but the shame of the daily cross begins now to flee away and here is strength in God known now to take up the Cross and despise the shame and now the Cross is known and felt to be the power of God which crucifies to the world and the affections that have been in it and after it they now are felt to be wounded d Here the Scripture comes to be fulfilled and the hope stand fast still as the Anchor of the soul unto God that in due time the body of death shall be slain and now comes the watching to the light against fainting to be known for still the enemy will seek to perswade the mind against overcoming e VVhich is the doctrine of the Devil and his Ministers saying in the heart The time is long and the work is tedi●us and thy streights are many and strength is small and how shalt thou get through will he in the heart be ready to say when the watch to the light is neglected for then is his time to work f The Lord sows the good seed of his word in the field of the world which is in mans heart as saith the Scripture and whilest man sleeps the evil ●●●sons ta●es in the darkness or night whilst man neglects to watch and so sleeps Therefore I say watch ye to the light and when temptations comes in yea great and many look not at all at them but look to the light which makes them manifest and watch to the power to withstand them and so the Seed which at the first loved the light will now feel its strength encrease and its power abound over the temptation and here is the Victory even that which overcomes felt and witnessed and now the pleasant fruits of Righteousness comes to be brought forth and the fruits of the obedience of the Spirit which are joy and peace and now a measure of conquering comes to be witnessed through Jesus Christ the Light of men and the Power of God by whose Blood and Life Victory is witnessed and now all self-righteousness self-strength or power is denied and the righteousness of Jesus Christ the Power of God g The Lord is the strength of the righteous it s he which worketh all our works for us and in us alone given glory unto and honor and everlasting thanksgiving for ever and evermore for he is worthy who is the Light that was the beginning of the work and is the Life and Power of God to bring to the end and accomplish the work over the power of Hell and the Body of Death and so to give entrance into the Rest which remains for the people of God through believing in him that is the Light and Power of God to save from all which by his Light he condemns and now comes the peace to be felt which passeth the understanding of all which rebel against the Light which shines in the heart to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ the which all know and feel which live in the faith which gives the Victory and keeps in the same and serves the Lord in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the Letter which the first Nature can make a profession of in the enmity as Cain the first-born could do yea offer outward Sacrifices with that heart and mind which he could murder his Brother in which many can do now even profess God and Christ and Scripture and yet live Enemies to the life of God and Christ and Scripture and Cross and so in Cain's nature h And must have Cains reward a Vagabond from God and so marked until repentance be witnessed are seldom but angry with such as live in the faith by which Abel offered a more acceptable Sacrifice then Cain did And when the power of their anger moves in them then are ready to murder as he he did and even desire in their envious hearts for a Law to do it by being ashamed and also afraid of their own lives to do it without But let all such know and that from the living God that they stand as Murderers in the account of God i For he which in his heart envies is a mans slayer and that this is true of that Spirit which cannot live but in sin and yet will cover it over with a profession in the oldness of the Letter You may take a view of New-England which have drunk very much of the Blood of the Faithful of late days and in Old-England too many thirst after it and are in the plain steps for it to cast the faithful into Holes and Prisons as they do boasting in the Evil and Pride of their hearts of a Law before it be made of Banishment after much other cruelty is used and cast into Prisons before-hand as if it were to be ready for it but this is our Joy and Confidence that we know in whom we have believed even in him by whom Kings reign and Princes decree Justice and for such as will decree unjustice and cruelty by Law we fear k Christ Iesus our Saviour our Example our Captain our Fore-runner our elder Brother was put to death by a Law leaving us an example that we should follow his steps saying if they did so to the green tree what will they do unto the dry But remember what befel them and also whether such can escape which do it to his Members and Body the Church which is in God the Father whereof Christ the Light is the Head So in this be ye all warned them not but shall commit our Righteous Cause to the God of our Life the God of Justice and let him plead it for us which I am assured of will be too strong for his and his people Enemies in the end and this is the Counsel he hath given us and wee have taken it blessed be his Name for ever not to fear man whose breath is in his Nostrils but to fear the Lord alone and to sanctifie him in our hearts and to make him our fear and our dread for evermore Even so be it saith the hearts of all the faithful ones the Heritage of God and sheep of his Pasture and Lambs of his Fold and Labourers in his Vinyard and Garden into which he is come to ear his pleasant fruits and to walk amongst his Lillyes Praises Praises be unto him for evermore yea everlasting glory be unto the ancient of dayes our God and our Father from everlasting to everlasting even so Amen saith all the upright in heart for ever and for ever And thus have I cleared my Conscience in faithfulness to God and man as the Lord put it