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A93935	An iron rod put into the Lord Protectors hand, to break all antichristian powers in pieces. Or, A discourse, which tends to a spirituall war with all sects and self-opinions, which are the Churches enemies: wil bring Englands everlasting happiness, and joyn all other lands into the body of Christs Church, to serve God with with [sic] one consent, Zeph. 3.9. All which was discovered to John Sanders of Harburn, neer Brimingham [sic]: by true apparitions, revelations, and many several visions, as the second book sheweth.	Sanders, John, of Harburn.	1655 (1655)	Wing S575; Thomason E842_23; ESTC R203488	52,643	75

onely cause of the controversies between King and Parliament was first pretended to raise up the Protestants against the Papists some of the Protestants which were ticed to begin these late wars but contrary to Christs command and Gospel-rule or the Apostles doctrine to erect Christs Church by unnatural bloody war therefore God suffered the Spirit of division to arise among themselves and to leave the Papists standing and like unnatural brethren they have ruinated themselves I mean the Protestant Church and all her governments and the High-Priest and all that Apostolical Discipled houshold cast out for their corruption when it was grown to a ripe head much like unto Ely as a judgement from the Lord 1 Sam. 4. All this came to passe by being carried on by the pretence of a religious reformation but God suffered the instruments of his wrath to pluck the Protestant Church government to pieces when it was so old that it could stand no longer The chief workmen that did begin it wear covetous and new fangled Teachers whose Religion hath long time hanged on the deceiving hinges of strange opinions These things have been so far from plucking the Church of Rome down that they have given many great causes for it to stand firmer then it did before and to cause many to cleave to their Church The Church of Rome as she now standeth will fall but that must be done by love and a spiritual war as followeth And as the late several chosen Parliaments were Axes and Sawes to hew down and part a sunder corrupted governments So God hath ordained and put your Highnesse chief now in power to build up and joyne both for Church and State all things in better order then they were before this many hundered years therefore take the founders and builders of the first Jewish and Christian Churches for your example The way to raise up Davids fallen Tabernacle If fire have burned houses and good food hath surfeited mens bodies for want of being carefully used shall we never use fire or food more for the former abuse of them Truly my Lord it is a fit comparison for these things as in the dayes of old Amos 9. HAving now declared the renting and dividing of Christs seamlesse garment my task is now to shew your Highnesse how to raise up the Churchs ruines and build it up as in the days of old therefore take the founders of the Jewish and Christian Churces for your example First my Lord you must set up a Patriarchal and Apostolical true reformed Episcopal order twelve Patriarchs under the Law twelve Apostles under the Gospel the twelve Founders Bishops and Rulers of the Church under one Spiritual head Christ Jesus As Abraham and Sarah are called the Father and Mother of all the Faithful so Christ in God is called the Father the true Church the Mother called the City or new Jerusalem that is to be sent down from heaven Rev. 21.10 which City or new Jerusalem Saint Iohn saw to have twelve gates and at the gates twelve Angels that is Bishops Rev. 3. to the Angels of the seven Churches of Asia that is the Bishops of the seven Churches and the names written therein of the twelve Tribes of Israel whose glory God caused to shine like pretious stones Rev. 21.11 12 14. And the wall of the City had twelve foundations and in them the names of the Lambs twelve Apostles which twelve Apostles were twelve Bishops as appears Acts 1.20 let another take his Bishoprick Psal 69.25 and Psal 109.8 there was such a necessity of twelve in chiefe that Christs Ministry could not be carried on after Iudas his fall without that number Act. 1.25 Isai 63.11 16. Abraham in a typical way signifies God the Father Isaac is the figure of Christ Rebeccah is the espoused Church of Christ Iacob is a representation of the Holy Ghost the which holy Ghost or Iacob must beget twelve Patriarchs or twelve Apostles which were the Founders Bishops and Fathers under God in Christ of the old Ierusalem Iewish and Christian and must be of the new Ierusalem which is to come So likewise when Ioshuah was about to enter Canaan the Lord caused him to chuse twelve men out of every several Tribe a man to bear twelve stones before the Ark thorough Iordan and to take them where the Priests feet stood firm which stones they were to set up for 12 pillars in Gilgal and he set up twelve more in the midst of Iordan in the place where the Priests feet stood that bare the Ark of Gods covenant Ioshua 4. which 12 pillars being set up in natural Canaan for a memorial of the dividing of Iordan and being carried on the shoulders of 12 several men out of every Tribe a man under the Law as soon as they came to enter natural Canaan Signifieth the twelve chief pillars of Christs Church which are to be the head Founders of the new Ierusalem Rev. 21.14 which must and will be set up when we are at the entrance of a spiritual Canaans peace All Scriptures are written for our instruction and they speak of things past onely to tell us what should be done now as figures and types of things to come But happily it may be objected against what I have said that there were 13 Patriarchs and 13 Apostles 'T is true Iacob and his 12 sons were 13 and a little before his death he received Iosephs sons by laying on of hands to be as his sons in his and Iosephs place to make for his 12 Tribes 13 heads fathers of which Iudah was chiefe in that he brought forth Christ So likewise Christ first chose 12 to be head spiritual fathers of the 12 spiritual Tribes to make them one body under him the head Acts 1. After Christs death resurrection and ascension before the holy Ghost was come downe to give them the fulnesse of their power and gifts the number was made 12. Acts 1. after Judas fall but after the holy Ghost was come down to carry them on in their work when they began to be persecuted and scattered it pleased God to convert Paul even their greatest persecutor and furiousest enemy and to make them 13 Apostles Peter being the head in Christs Church and by his command to feed his Lambs and sheep thrice to whom Christ committed the keys of Davids Tabernacle or heaven to bind or loose things either in heaven or earth he being head the body were 12. Besides here in England following that example at one time as Chronicles shew there were 24 Bishops under two high Priests or Archbishops Your Highnesse must likewise remember that besides this Apostolical order you must set up a Discipled order of 70. both which Orders I shal prove first under the law secondly under the Gospel Your Highnesse ought to remember the Law which gave to Moses to instruct you what to do to be as it were a School Master who when he found the government for Church affairs too

that are called to this spiritual warfare to see which can gaine Christs seamlesse garment of government which so oftentimes hath been parted and rent to pieces and dipt in Christians blood formerly And there wil be likewise a casting of rods also together one with another the Egyptians rod that would keep the Church in bondage or the covetous idolatrous time servers or the divided new fangled people or the Church of Rome All these their several rods may turne like Serpents or bud many Scriptures each of them But Aarons rod or the true Priesthoods iron rod wil devour up the rest of 〈◊〉 ●ods and break their power to pieces like a potters 〈◊〉 all that are Antichristian or Tyrannical or seducing Yet they may at the first bud many Scripture phrases like the true Priesthood in the fight of the ignorant but they wil soon discover themselves when they come to the touchstone of trial by division to bring themselves to confusion and so silence themselves But the true Priesthood which hath his foundation from Antiquity that is entered into a hallowed Covenant with God and joyned together in a compleat body under a head shal then shew forth themselves to be the true Prophetical and Apostolical Discipled Church in a most manifest way they wil then appear before al people by their several gifts and places being all guided by the spirit of Union for their rod wil not onely devour the other Serpent-like rods but also it wil blossom and the spirit of Daniel wil appear in their lot to defend the woman Christs espoused Church which otherwise if she were not known by this kinde of trial and spiritual war they would judge her to be a Whore stil and say shee were as full of fornication as other-idolatrous Churches have been in other Kings reigns before But now shee wil prove her selfe to be a pure Virgin and that day the iniquity of Jacob wil be removed out of this land Zach. 3. and the Whore of Babel shal fal and all false formes shal sink in the Sea like a Mil-stone never to rise again then wil that Scripture be fulfilled Revel 12.1 The Woman wil appear cloathed with the Sun and the Moon under her feet and that 's meant all changable Church-Governments and she wil have a Crown of twelve Stars on her head which is to be understood the new Jerusalems Church cloathed with Christs righteousnesse and the twelve Stars are the twelve Patriarchs or Apostolical Rulers Rev. 21.11 12 13 14. And Christs promise then wil be fulfilled to his twelve Apostles when he was with them on the Earth that they should be head in chief over the twelve Tribes of Israel and the fulnesse of the Gentiles brought in and the Jewes called then the kingdom wil be at this immediate time restored again to Israel and all the kingdoms of the earth wil be under the glorious government of Jesus Christ and the foure beasts and the four and twenty Elders wil cast downe their Crowns before the Lamb that sitteth on the throne praising God Rev. 4. By the four Beasts we may understand the four Monarchies or head ruling powers that have been already broken to pieces and brought to their former beginnings of nothing againe when their corruptions were growne ripe By the 24. Elders are to be understood 12. natural Patriarchal Judges under the Law for Temporals under a natural Head a King and 12. Apostolical Spiritual Bishops over the Church under their spiritual Father the Head of the Church the Judges of late years have turned judgment for the poore widow and fatherlesse into wormwood and gall Hos 10.3 4 7. Amos 6.12 Though the temporal Father of the State be now cut off and cast out for the corruption and bribing partiality of the Judges and the Judges held in at this present but not without great corruption and God hath so severely dealt with the spiritual Father and all his Houshold to cut off the Head and cast out the body but look what Peter saith 1 Pet. 4.17 But the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God If it first begin at us what shall be the end of them that obey not the Gospel of God Wherefore let them that suffer now according to the will of God commit their soules unto him in all well doing as unto a faithful Creator Look what Ieremiah saith Chap. 23. v. 3 4. Though it hath befel so with our Church of late yeares and although God hath suffered his people to be thus scattered Yet they shall be brought again to their folds and he will set up Shepherds over them which shall feed them and they shall dread no more nor be afraid neither shall any of them be lacking saith the Lord. Behold saith the Lord the dayes shal come that I wil raise unto David a righteous branch and a King shal reign and prosper and execute judgement and justice in the earth Jer. 23.5 And Dan. 2.44 That God wil restore to us Shepherds for the Church and an Apostolical discipled order above them under a High Priest Even so his promise is to restore to us a true stock of Judges under a temporal Head their true borne King In his dayes Judah shal bee saved and Israel shal dwel safely Zeph. 3.9 In those dayes surely saith the Lord I wil turne to the people a pure language that they may call upon the name of the Lord and serve him with one consent And all powers wil be broken to pieces and the Heathen shal be smitten by that sharp sword which proceedeth out of the mouth of God And he according to his promise will rule the Heathen with an iron rod for he it is that treadeth the winepresse of the fierconesse of the wrath of God Psal 2.9 Rev. 2.27 Rev. 19.15 Then wil that time be that the swords shal be broken into plow-shares and the spears into pruning-hooks and Nations shal have no more cause to lift themselves up one against another in warlike manner Wherefore I intreat your Highnesse and your wisest Counsel for the Lords sake that you wil make no delay but speedily with all expedition chuse such a number by election and holy ordination that is laid down a perfect rule from the Scriptures and a command from God and try them by spiritual war against all Sects and self-opinions and they wil bring the Church out of her wildernesse and widowhood-condition not onely of all danger of being brought into danger again but also through these red seas of bloody wars which have been maintaned under the pretence of Religion but contrary to Christs command or Gospel-rule Likewise they wil cause these feigned Rivers of Iordan to be dried up that all the Israel of God may come unto one united spiritual Canaans peace within the Harbour or Suburbs of the new Ierusalem to make us all Citizens of that place which Saint Iohn saw in his Vision to have twelve gates and at the gates twelve