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death_n	dead_a	live_v	see_v	4,176	5	3.4250	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44798	The measvring rod of the Lord stretched forth over all nations and the line of true judgment laid to the rulers thereof wherein all governours and rulers, potentates and powers are measured, and all governments and lawes weighed in the true weight : wherein they all may see how far they are degenerated from the law of righteousness, and the rules of wisdome, which was in the beginning, before tyranny, and persecution, and rebellion had shewed it selfe : also shewing the end that will come upon all those rulers and governments, rulers and lawes that have been made in the apostacy, which is to all overthrown ... : also an advertisement to all the rulers upon the earth ... : published for the information of all the rulers upon earth ... / by one who waits to see the kingdoms of the world to become the kingdomes of the Lord ... Francis Howgil.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1658 (1658)	Wing H3171; ESTC R6600	23,099	33

gets head and is set up as a rule and the law of God both in the Ruler and the ruled is throwne behind their back and so deceit leadeth and the changeable mind acteth it self out in every thing that it hath to do withall and so tyranie and opression spreads over a whole Nation and the just suffers in it And hence it is that there are so many several Laws Ordinances and Constitutions and Traditions and Customs among men in many Nations and Countreys and Regions one differing from another and heaps of confusion that hardly in any Nations or few in a Nation knows what is Law there is so much variableness and changeableness amongst the Lawmakers one while setting up another while pulling down and as deceit advanceth it self in any particular Ruler then there must be a Law made and a penalty upon the non-performance as death banishment tortering whipping racking prisonment fining to the utter destruction of many and all the ground of this is because the Rulers are gone from that of God in themselves and then acts in their own wills and by their craft and deceit which stands in the Ground which is cursed and calls this Christian pollicy and wisdom and cruelty becomes a Law and the Devil keeps his Dominion in the Earth and deceit gets a Cover and hides it self Now it was not so from the beginning For as God is one and his Name one his Law is one which is pure and equal and unalterable and indures for ever and ever Now man being made in Gods own Image answered the pure Law of God and being Gods Image was one with the Law and the Law was not against him but was his life and joy and he had power to obey it for he was of its own nature for as God is pure and holy and the Image which he brought forth man in was pure and holy and that which was mans guide and rule was pure and holy here was unity and purity and he that created and man that was created was in unity and then there was no woe no condemnation no sorrow no death no tribulation nor anguish nor wrath revealed against man who was the Image of God and he stood in the Dominion of God and had dominion over that which was contrary here was no tyranie here was no cruelty no prisons no envie no persecution no killing nor destroying no defrauding no jarre no strife no devouring but all Gods creation at unity and man at unity with God being partakers of his Dominion whereby all the Earth was in order and in that wisdom which changed not and here man had dominion and power and ruled in Gods authority and was guided by the higher power and while he was subject to it death had no power over him now this was before sin entered and before death entred before enmity had appeared in the Earth but now was the Lord King and Law-giver and Judge who ruled in righteousness and man being subject to him there was no Law against him nor no guilt of any thing for transgression was not known in the Earth and there was no curse but all was in unity and peace no changeableness but all was in the covenant all the workmanship of his hand was united unto him and all that he had made was blessed and all the Creation were partakers of his blessedness and all stood in the covenant by which every Creature received power virtue and dominion here was one mind and here was no double no variation no mutation nor change but the dominion of the everlasting God was felt which indures for ever and ever and any other thing was not seen in the Earth but man crowned with honour dominion and dignity wherein could be nothing but rejoycing and pure peace and joy now no evill was known neither was there any such thing but goodness possessed the whole Earth and righteousness breathed forth it self in all things in the circumference thereof and all the works of his hends pleased him and man made partakers of his pleasure and was accepted and not rejected thus in part I have shewed unto you the state of the Earth and of mankind and the glory of Gods Creation and the blessedness thereof but if I could declare unto the whole World from years end to years end I should fall short and words would be wanting to express the felicity and happiness in which man was brought forth in neither shall any be able to see into those things or to declare certainly of those things who come not beyond time to him who is eternal who gave them a being But after man had taken of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evill and had eate of the fruit thereof and consented to the beguiler and to the Serpent sin entered and death by sin man lost his dominion and became subject to another and another had power over him and now the course of nature was set on the fire of Hell the curse entered and man dead while he lives and in that day he eate did die and death breathed forth it self in the Earth and Cain is brought forth in his own Image to wit in the Image of him who was gone out of Gods Dominion and he became a murderer and slew him that was accepted of God and here appeared now the enmity and its life was to destroy and to murder and to kill Abell who believed and offered up a sacrifice and Cain offered in the unbelief and was not accepted so Abell who was just lived by Faith but Cain who was in the envie and in the wrath this life was death to him and to his nature and so all who are out of the Faith are dead while they live Now after the transgression in process of time when the seed of fallen Adam began to increase in the Earth being driven out from the presence of the Lord they spread over the whole Earth and sought many inventions being gone from that of God in themselves by which they were united unto him having broken his covenant and joyned in covenant with death death acts forth it self against the seed which is not of its nature and alwaies sought to imbondage it and to kill it as Cain did Abell and Esau Jacob and Ismael did unto Isaack and unto his seed Now the seed unto which the promise was received the Law from the mouth of the Lord and they that persecuted the seed invented and made Laws of their own according to that nature in which they lived and so became heathenish in their Fashions and Laws and Customs and cruelty grew up as it was nourished and leavened into its own nature and unbelief grew into a mighty stature and monsters was brought forth in such a strange shape in every thing that the enmity did appear in as had not been seen in the Earth before and and so man being gone astray from the life of righteousness every thing is abominable and of a stranger nature

that he brings forth yet take notice of this that as the seed unto which the promise was who were in the Faith and obeyed through Faith they had a Law so they in unbelief had also a Law as the seed worshipped the living God through a lively and a living Faith and so sinned not in so doing the seed of the serpent imitated a worship and worshipped in death and unbelief and as the Laws of one was equal such as David and Solomon the other was unequal such as Jeroboam and Rehoboam and as the one set up equity by a Law the other made a Law to set up iniquity And the seed they sought not their own honour but the honour of him who was their reward but the seed of the evil doer sought himself and his own honour and as the spirit of the Lord breathed forth it self and spoke the truth in the power of God deceit uttered forth lies in hypocrisie and in the power of death and as the upright lived unto God in the spirit deceit lived unto the flesh and unto him who hath the power of death which is the Devill and as they fulfilled the Law of God who were led by his holy spirit of God into all truth the other followed their own imaginations and answered the deceit and foolish mind and they whose understanding was darkened loved them and had pleasure in them So it may be truly said many Nations Rulers and ruled sit in the Region of the shaddow of death and the living God is forgotten among them one against another they are seeking one anothers ruine all in the violence in the cruelty Therefore all Rulers and Potentates of the Earth Magistrates and Governours under the whole face of Heaven hearken unto the words of my mouth and listen unto understanding that you may be partakers of the happiness and felicity which God is shedding abroad now in the latter dayes that so the Restorer you may know in your Regions and the deliverer in your Nations and the maker up of the breach in your Dominions that he who is the desire of all Nations may be revealed among you He which must restore is not born of man nor cometh not to a People or a Nation in the will of man neither seeks he himself but the glory of the Father who hath sent him to seek and to save that which is lost and to heale the breaches and to destroy that which hath made the breach that so all Nations who receive him believe in him may be reconcil'd unto him and one to another that the Earth may injoy rest the Regions quietness therefore all be warned not to look forth in your wils for there you will not receive him but slight him as many before you have done and so lie down in sorrow and weary your selves in vanity and lie down in infamy and never come to see his dignity Now he of whom I declare unto you is the Son of God who is the light of the World and the life of man and hath lightened every man that cometh into the World which light wherewith all men are inlightned is not contrary to the Law of God which indures for ever but one with it and this will let you see violence treachery murder envie wrath maliciousness drunkeness whoredom lying cursed speaking stealing defrauding cheating cosening rioteousness pride arogancy emulation contention strife hatred persecution cruelty opression I say the light which comes from Christ by whom the World was made will shew you that all these things is sin and evil in the sight of God and also will let you see there is a ground from whence these and all other evils proceed which ground is in all the Sons of men in the transgression till it be removed and these things before mentioned be the fruits that grows from it and buds forth themselves in all Nations and in every man in every Nation so the Earth is filled with violence and the grapes are as Sodom the fruit as Gomorrah whom God overthrew and till these things be done away and these fruits wither and the root from whence they arise be removed out of every particular man who is a Ruler he cannot be a blessing to a Nation neither rule for God in a Nation neither will he or can he be a terrour to all these things before mentioned While he himself is in those for he cannot destroy his own life neither will iniquity set up righteousness nor the worker of iniquity advance Christ Therefore listen to the words of my mouth and despise not counsell least you perish among fools and go down to the horrible pit where there is everlasting misery unto all perpetuity Now God that made both Heaven and Earth and all things that therein are he is light and with him is no darkness at all he never changes his purity nor alters his righteous decrees his eye is pure and alwaies fixed to behold all the works of the Sons of men and he searches the heart of man with his eye and pierceth through the secret places and is near to every man although man do not see him he is invisible and eternal and his Law indures for ever and the unalterable decree by which sin is judged and reproved in the World and in every particular man and every man who hearkens and hears the words of the pure Law which judges all sin in man receiveth the sentence of death in himself and is judged by the righteous words of his mouth and so sin in the particular comes to be condemned and all these changeable things is trodden under foot which is acted and brought forth from the changeable mind of man and so all Laws Constitutions and Decrees which is made in the will of man comes to be thrown down by his righteous Law which proceeds out of the mouth of the righteous God who is light and so as his unchangeable and unalterable decree comes to be set up in every particular Ruler Governour and himself judged with the just he comes to bear his rule for the just and answers that which is just in every man and no longer can he act against well doing but is a leader and an incourager of it in all and is a terrour to the unjust and so comes to know the dominion again which man lost through disobedience and transgression Now all you powers of the Earth wait that you may come to see that feel it revealed in your selves to wit the Law of God from the mouth of God that so you following it sin may be judged in your selves you come to know the one Lord the Lawgiver which leads man back out of sin transgression by his Son whom he hath sent into the World that all men through him might believe in the Father be restored out of sin transgression unto life eternal where death hath no entrance so all who waits upon the light of the Son of God and is obedient to it they come to feel his power and his decree which cannot alter its property or verity all who comes to be guided by it you will come to see that which unites you unto God one Nation to another in the Covenant of God! Oh that all your eyes were opened that you might see that which belongs to your peace the well being of all Nations that so the power of the flock might be refreshed among you and this I speak unto you a change must be witnessed in your selves before you will cease acting in the changeable mind now the time draws near the Lord will try you for the Earth must be left without excuse and he will have all warned for God will no longer be limited and therefore take heed how you gainsay any or resist any vvho may declare unto you the counsell of God and cause them not to be persecuted or hurt but all be calme and moderate and learn vvisdom from above from him vvho hath inlightned you that you may come to deny your selves and follovv him vvho condems all self actings and self vvill in man and all Customs Lavvs and Worships Traditions that is made in the vvill of man that so he unto vvhom all povver is committed may be feared and vvorshipped in spirit in life truth and righteousness that so all sedition rebellion treachery and unrighteousness may be cleansed out of the Earth and that all quarrelling fighting contention may end and people come out of that vvhich the svvord is against that so the svvords may be beat into Plovvshares and the spears into pruning hooks that so violence may be done avvay and cruelty svvept out of the Nations that the dominion of God may be set over all and his truth advanced above all that the Kingdoms of the World may become the Lords his Christs and blessed are they that stoop unto his Scepter vvho judges the Nations in righteousness and the people vvith equity who is the Salvat●on of all his people for evermore and a hiding place in the day of trouble LONDON The 20. of the 2. Moneth 1658. THE END