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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Hierarchy and against these Cavaliers whose wickedness it is not fit to name who have already polluted the Land as venemous and unclean Creatures here is a call and opportunity for them And because we do not lay down things in the common road but go a step above depraved reason and common understanding in representing things under the notion of the Kingdom of Christ some may be ready simply and ignorantly and others wilfully to mistake and misapprehend us some to malicious ends not knowing what we mean by the Kingdom of Christ as if some strange thing contrary to the sound hope of the Gospel and Doctrine of the true Primitive Church and not in Scripture and reason were intended as that Christ should immediately appear to head an Army We shall therefore throw that stone out of your way by Declaring that by the Kingdom of Christ or that part of it under the Kingdome of the Stone which respects the Government of a well ordered Common-wealth we mean That we should have the best of men of sound Principles of known integrity haters of Bribes and Covetousness lovers of Mercy and Justice that without Fees and tedious vexatious delayes should give you Justice for our Magistrates and Governours that we might have the word of God for our rule and that judgement might proceed in all cases according to that wholesome Law which not onely God himself the great Law-giver but experience and sound reason doth approve the most excellent Deut. 4. 6 7 8. That distributive justice might be equally administred between man and man without respect to poor or rich free or bond for a Magistrate ought to know no man upon the Bench but respect Justice Truth and Mercy That judgement and righteousness might flow down our streets as mighty streams That violence and oppression might be heard no more in our Land That the widows heart might sing for joy and the mournful complaints of widows and fatherless might be turned into songs and their tears into joy that all abuses and oppressions in the cases of Creditors and Debtors might be duly reformed with respect to Justice and Mercy That a constant incorrupted course of Justice might freely run down to all that theft might not be punished with death but that restitution be made according to the Law and the Malefactor sold or made to work out his redemption in some house of Correction which in few years would make us fewer Thieves then a thousand Gallowses but that man-stealers be punished with death That all the poor of the Land might be set to work and we might have no beggars That a due regulation be made with respect to the Natives in the Manufacture and Trade of the Common-wealth That there be no transporting of Leather unwrought Fullers Earth or other Commodities that may spoil the Manufacture of the Land and impoverish the poor Tradesman That Timber be preserved and increased And whatsoever can be named of a common or publick good we mean by the Kingdome of Christ in the Government of the Common-wealth and every good thing will be the fruit of it the which we cannot have without it no more then men sow Fetches and reap Wheat And then also will our Land yield her increase and our fruits will not be blasted or hurt by wet or dry seasons Psal 67. 6. And that our brethren and friends may want no motive to incite them to such an honourable work of so great concernment to common and publick good let us lay to heart the loud crying abominations and wickedness that every where abounds in the Land the open profaneness that rages in our streets their hellish blasphemy drinking healths to the confusion of Zion and her King daring the most high to his face and if he be her King let him come and save her their persecuting rage which hath extended to persons in their Families and Callings to others in their Meetings to worship God and others to the extream perils of their Lives such is the iniquity of this day and the implacable biting serpentine enmity and rage of this Enemy who is so both in Principle and Interest we see what Interest it is that flourishes what Sun it is that shines by its influence and effects in fostering and giving life to cursed Popish and destructive Interests we see the clusters of their Vine the fruits of their Government in all the Land how hath the greatest sins Swearing Drunkenness Sabbath-breaking Whoredome Pride Laciviousness Stage-playes Blasphemy Popery Susterstition Idolatry been propagated and countenanced since their coming in as a new life given to the slain Serpent Do we not also consider the Diametrical opposition they stand in to King Jesus that the K. is a profest Enemy a Rebel and Traytor to Christ And if the sense of the said sufferings and reproach of the precious Name of our dear Lord and the considerations of the right he has by the Oath Covenant and Decree of the Father and the Purchase of his own Heart Blood to the Kingdom the expiring date of Worldly Powers this price that is put into our hands to obtain all the good things we have already or shall declare for the sufferings and Imprisonment of our Friends will not provoke and awaken us yet surely the sense of our own dangers will touch us shall we sit still and have our throats cut or dye like Fools as Abner did Or shall we quietly give up our Necks to the Yoke and suffer the Common Prayer Organs c. to be imposed on us Is Israel a home-born Slave that we should bore the ears of our souls and bodies to their Posts What can we expect from them if we will not take their wicked Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance the which we cannot do though we should dye because they are against both the Priestly and Kingly Offices of our Lord Jesus Are not these already pressed and enforced in the Countreys And are not some already in Prison For every Malignant according to his temper and pleasure may make use of his power or strength against us under the notion of Fanaticks Doth not the Enemy come in as a Flood and Popery as an Inundation of mighty Waters Who sees not that it is coming in amain and is like to over-run the whole What can we expect when the Queen comes in who is said to hate an English Protestant so that she cannot endure the sight of them But there is sad symptoms of something worse then all this and great ground is there to fear and so wise men judge that the old cursed Popish Party whose numerousness in England portends no good to us hath already laid the design of a Butchery and Massacre of the honest Party in this Nation and Ireland who love the Lord Jesus Christ The which they will assuredly put in execution their other Contrivements failing For this grand design twists in the Interests of the Pope the King of Spain the German Empire as well as those

rise of the Witnesses the preaching of the everlasting Gospel the begining of the down-fall of Antichrist and the setting up the Kingdome of Christ the Churches of Christ and sincere professours of the Gospel with the addition of new converts will begin to appear with the Lamb on Mount-Zion in all the Primitive Glory and Purity of the New Testament-Churches for Matter Doctrine and Order But so far as the Churches are in Babylon and by sinful compliance with Antichristian worship and the evils and Apostacy of the times have not kept but defiled their Garments and so far as they have left their first Love owned and stood by them that held the Doctrine of Balaam suffered that woman Jezebel to teach and seduce had a name to live and are dead have not kept the word of Christs patience and have been luke-warm and lost their favour their Candlestick shall be removed and the true mortified quickened spiritual Members that are in the flower of their virginity or have kept their simplicity will be gathered as the precious from the vile and with all the poor scattered stones and dust of Zion the living spiritual stones be built up the second time the great New Testament-Temple when also our Lord will appear in his Glory Psal 102. 13 14 16. For God we are perswaded has a great Controversie with the Churches who ought to be the ground and pillar of Truth for their corruption and Apostacy and because they have not received and contended for the great New Covenant-Truth of the Kingdome of our Lord Jesus 2. That all Civill Liberty and Rights of men which with every mans Propertie we assert shall rise alone upon the Foundation and grow upon the Root of the Visible Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ which we hope and greatly desire may from henceforth take place among us according to the Prophecies of the Scriptures and become a great Mountain filling the whole Earth 3. That the chief of the Spoil which shall be taken in Battell and all the Estates which shall be forfeited through Treason and Rebellion shall be brought into one common Treasury according to the Word of the Lord Their Gain shall be consecrate to the Lord and their Substance to the Lord of the whole Earth Micah 4. 13. That it may not feed the Fowls of Prey or enrich and corrupt particular persons as of late but carry on the Work of God with the Army of the Lamb in which every Souldier shall be sufficiently provided for by a certain honourable constant Revenue issuing out of the said Treasury according to his Place Degree Services and Family And for accomplishing and attaining these great and weighty ends we Declare also for the Razing Destroying and perpetuall Rooting out of the whole Constitutions and Foundations of the Antichristian Laws and Government of these Nations for the Removing of Taxes Tythes Excise and Customes also so far as Oppressive and unlawfull slavish tenures of Land Oppressions of Landlords Monarthy and Lordship as well in Church as State so also in Cities Societies and Families wherein the Rights of younger Brethren will be vindicated according to Law the nature whereof is Justice Mercy and Equity wherein is no footing for such sictions as this wicked Law teacheth to distinguish between Courts of Justice and Equity and the Nimrod spirit and Monopolies of elder Brethren unto whom as Kings in the Family the younger Brethren are Slaves and Subjects which is one grand branch of Tyranny and Interest of Monarchy pulled down whose Interest nevertheless by right of Primogeniture is asserted according to the Kings Law to wit two-fold For the ballance of Lands must be adaequate to the Government of the Commonwealth And as our great desire is to take off all yoaks and oppressions both of a civil and spiritual nature from the necks of the poor people so shall we endeavour to cast the wing of protection over them their Persons Families and Interests to preserve them from Free-quarter Plunder and all other injuries and violences whatsoever being resolved first to offer up our own proper Estates for our necessary maintainance For it shall be our great and indefatigable care to preserve an excellent and strict Discipline in our Army that not the least wrong of how small value soever may be done alwayes respecting Propriety so that all persons other then such as shall oppose and rebell against this righteous Interest may expect the fruition thereof in their peaceable demeanours of themselves in their lawful occasions and Family concerns And it is not the least thing to be looked at that hereby the Gospel will have free access which seems to be one of the first fruits of the Saints rendesvouze Revel 14. 6 7. and poor sinners will be converted unto Christ and be enlightened with the glorious light of his salvation And indeed that great and general conversion both of Jews and Gentiles which the Prophecies speaks of Isa 60. 5 will be one of the greatest blessings the soul-blessing that the Kingdom of Christ will bring with it under which both sin and Satan will receive so fatall a blow that his Kingdom will be destroyed the which doth commend the Excellency and Nature of this blessed Kingdom above the barren and soul-destroying Interests of Antichrist Rev. 18. 13. under whose Government poor ignorant souls are hardened and lost And it has been for some years past a rare thing to hear of the reall Conversion of one soul through the Ministry of the National Parish Ministers so dead dry dark and barren has their Ministry been so much have they desiled their Garments stumbled hardened and offended sinners kept out the Truth of the Kingdom from their Churches and Assemblies so losing abundance of the Power and Riches of the Gospel which nevertheless by the mouths of Babes and Sucklings has been conveyed to poor vile sinners so effectual has it been unto Conversion so little has the Gospel been powerfully and effectually preached by them whose hired Labours can never countervail the many Families they have wickedly destroyed for Tythes But the Remnant of Jacob shall be as a dew from the Lord when Magistrates and Soldiers shall preach the Gospel and teach the people knowledge as well as those appointed unto the Word and Doctrine for this Cheat of the Whore of Rome and Innovation of Antichrist Monopolizing the Work of the Ministry to make a Trade of the Gospel and Slaves and Souls of men into their own hands limiting and appropriating it unto Persons in Ecclesiasticall Offices shall be taken away And finally We most earnestly desire and call all that love our Lord Jesus Christ and wait for his Kingdom to offer themselves willingly with us in this Work that as in that Renowned History Judges 5. 9 14 15 16 17 18 23. Out of Ephraim there may be a Root of us against Amaleek after thee Benjamin among thy People out of Machir shall come down Governours and out of Zebulun they that