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death_n	body_n	live_v	sin_n	8,670	5	5.0764	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44814	A remarkable letter of Mary Howgill to Oliver Cromwell, called Protector a copy whereof was delivered by her self to his own hands some moneths ago, with whom she had face to face a large discourse thereupon : unto which is annexed a paper of hers to the inhabitants of the town of Dover.	Howgill, Mary.; Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.	1657 (1657)	Wing H3191; ESTC R6657	6,509	10

whom we all know and for whom we are a witness against thee this shall witness for us for thou must have condemnation with the light which thou hast turned from which witness is in thy conscience which thou once wast in and heard speak and breathed after the Lord and many dear servants of God have warned thee of thy earthly glory the Lord did send me once before now to thee for the good of thy soul and I could have done any thing once for thee for the seeds sake that thou mightst have known the way of truth but thou hast counted us all of small worth Woe is me for thee that thou canst not see him whom thou hast pierced nor canst lay it to heart what thou hast done I told thee once before that thou hadst crucified the Lamb of God and trodden the blood of the new Covenant under thy feet and counted it a vain thing Thou askedst me once what it was and I told thee the blood of Christ cleansed from all sin and his water washed and his Spirit made alive but thou couldest not receive these things for all the cry that thou couldest hear which was in thee for verily I say thou couldest not hear but hast hardened thy heart for the righteous hath cried to thee for righteousness sake but it could not be heard neither in thy self nor in others and all that ever thou didst do for God is now in vain for thou hast now chosen thy own way and so the cry could never be heard how the righteous hath cried for righteousness sake that they might have had Justice in the Land that many a one might have worshipped God without any disturbance Thou hast suffered thy souldiers which are in the abomination with thy self to disturb peaceable meetings and to hale men to prison Thou hast many colours for thy deceit but thou hast none for these men which were met peaceably together for violently they came amongst them with their horses and acted violently by treading amongst simple and harmless people Oh! what shameless things are done in thy name and by thy authority yea verily the righteous spirit of God is grieved with thee And all these things shalt thou know for all the cunning and subtilties of thy heart is seen and known by them who are come into the everlasting spirit And when thou givest account or all those actions which have been acted by thee and in thy name and by thy power oh what a day will it be with thee For as my soul lives these things shall be laid all to thy charge And for us whom the Lord hath redeemed from the vain-glory of the world and hath graffed us into himself he will plead our cause yea the righteous cause of himself and he will make thee an example to all great ones in the world and when that day comes upon thee thou shalt me remember that thou wast warned of all thy evil By a Lover of thy soul whose name in the flesh is MARY HOWGILL This in one of its first Copies was delivered to Oliver Cromwels own hands by the Author her self at or about the eighth day of the fourth moneth 1656. about ten a clock at night with whom thereupon she had much discourse TO all you Disputers at Dover and all other Towns in the County of Kent who some of you would have a three-fold Light and you are disputing with that which is darkness neither can you come to the true Light which is in God because you are shut up in darkness and cannot understand the things of God but by your darkness and disputings calls good evil and evil good How is it that you refrain in darkness but because you hate the Light which should bring you out of darkness And you Anabaptists who have another colour a finer colour for deceit then the Priests of England have a greater abomination to the Lord in the Light of the Lord you are seen and discovered you who have ●●●sed your selves up in that great abomination which is fornication you are found in Idolatry and the mother of that Idolatry is a whore You who are contending about Water-Baptism I say in the Lords Light you and your Baptism is seen by them who are baptized with the true spiritual Baptism which is to be baptized with Fire and the Holy Ghost by one death into one body which joynes to the Lord and they are not they which joyns to the Harlot nor to the Whore but they are joyned through the death by the Word of God which baptized into the death and that Baptism takes sin away But see what your outward elementary Water-Baptism hath done for you or what it will or is able to do for you you who live in pride and envy persecuting them who are born again by the word of God which leads into the Spirit of God your gay and glorious cloathing it s of your selves and of the whorish woman which hath the cup of abomination in her hand and you are found in an ill smell stinking in the nostrils of God Some of you I say are digging and pruning some of you with your Water-Baptism and some of you eating bread and drinking wine and say it is a command of God but the time is come that your outward Water-Baptism and Eating and Drinking is seen and in the light of the Lord you are weighed and tried in the even ballance and you are all found too light and with the Light are to be condemned a day of terror will overtake you a day of sorrow and all your gallant flesh shal come down and you shall be laid waste all you who have exalted your selves by your own works it is your own works and your own ordinances which hath shut you of the Kingdom of God and the fear of God you have lost and are out of the cross of Christ which you do not know but have it left behind you and so the Lord God is comming to make waste all you builders of this County of Kent the Lord God is comming to reckon with you a day of thunder shall come upon you and that speedily which will make your works abomination for I say you of all people are most lamentable the righteous Spirit of God is grieved with you the seed of God is slain by you which is the seed of the Son yea the righteous blood is trodden down by you and that blood are we cleansed by which is the blood of the Lamb and them who drink of it it taketh away all guilt of sin and there is no sin remaining where guilt is taken away the Son of God hath redeemed us from all evil and there is no evil in them who are in the Son the Angel is flying thorow heaven with the everlasting Gospel and you who will be washed by outward water see now your blindness and you who are raking in the Scriptures to find the way to God out I say you shall not find it