mens teachings DENUS to the restored Church in the Isle of Pathmos The personal Reign of the Saints REvel 5.9 And they sang a new Song saying Thou art worthy to open the seals for thou wast shame and hast redeemed us to God by thy bloud out of every kinred people tongue and nation and hast made us Kings and Priests to God and we shall reign on the earth This promise of God beareth us up by a living hope and as Saint Peter saith we look for new heavens and a new earth where Righteousness shall dwell These words have an inference to a new state of Justice when none shall reign but his kingdom of Saints which must execute justice under him by a personal power in so high an enjoyment of God that they well be called a new heaven on earth or an heavenly people that shall reign on earth so that the world seeing their high and sweet enjoyment may imitate them and become a new earth and so comply and rejoyce together As Saint Paul saith Rejoyce ye Gentile with his people so that the natural branch may rejoyce with the spiritual kingdom and government and grift in with them to sing to God saying Thou art worthy O Lord. This personal reign of the Saints shall be a visible State that the ends of the earth shall have when the oppressours shall no more pass through their kingdom or City Zach. 9.8 when they shall have all given into their hands As you may finde by Daniel the 7. vers 27. That the dominion and greatness of the kingdom shall be given to the people of the Saints Revel 20. Saying Ye shall be Kings and Priests to God and shall reign with him Which is interpreted by some that Christ shall reign with his people again in a personal or visible estate which he hath done already upon his participation but now we look only to his substantiality and to bring all into the God-head which is one substance almighty and king of Saints without person or persons which is an undivided substance most high whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and all dominions shall serve and obey him which is God without end or dividing into parts any more For the Lord shall raign in Sion before his ancient glory and the earth shall be silenced when the Saints shall grown in that new heaven and shall raign as Kings over the world in that high calling and Royal Priesthood the Lord will do great things at that time the Saints shall bear the Image of the heavenly by a sure walking with God for he hath made us Kings and Priests to him and we shall raign on the earth when he hath put all rule and Authority under his feet he shall give up the kingdom to his father and shall raign and shall put all powers under him I do not mean that Christ shall raign personally any more but as in power in all places both in Heaven and Earth as Father Son and Holy Ghost joyned all in one power and the Saints shall govern as Deputies under him for David shall never want a man nor the people of God a Priest to offer sacrifices continually which is him above for no flesh shall behold any more but by his power and not by his bodily shape the soul may behold him when it is out of the body and for any further beholding of him I know none for his personall raign hath been already and he hath appeared to his Disciples saying go forth and declare as by a personall command So it appeared FINIS LONDON Printed for Henry Hasilwood dwelling in the Parish of Windsor in the County of Berks. 1651.
shepherd Shewing some poor despised Messenger that God shall send to lay the Ministers under wrath by the seventh Vial. Now a pouring forth further he saith in the same Chapter Woe to the idle shepherds that leave their flock his arm shall be clean dryed up and his right eye darkened upon the sounding the alarm in Sion which is the pouring out of the last Vial which produceth Judgement and Justice in the Earth and by a standing up for it when all the Earth shall be awaked to maintain the Creation of Gods inheritance or institution These seven Vials make out one fulnesse that is all the fulnesse of Gods time and to that end they be called Vials six of them are poured out already the seventh is now in power pouring forth which is Kingdome power and glory for an infallible testimony of his bright appearing which is called the seventh and last Vial which shall violate and burn up every All under it called six All 's or Vial Ordinances that shall be purged by it This is King over all the other six Ordinances whereon all things must be proved upon the Center called the Everlasting Word saying All power is given me in heaven and in earth Thus all Powers dye and live in him by one Power which is true Gospel for he is the Fountain of every Original and at his appearance every Religion shall be purged and all conditions changed and shall darken all things at his bright appearing and under this everlasting Gospel or seventh Vial many shall be slain and fall under Gods hand for it shall try the Consciences of men and it shall judge all the Ordinances Who can but fear thee O Lord Revel 15. for thy Judgments are made manifest and the light is discovered that hath layn hid so long and God is taking off the vail and covering spread over all flesh and Judgment must first begin at his own house and every petty priesthood must fall for behold the constellations shall fail the Sun and the Moon and Ministers may fail but his eternal Priesthood shall stand for ever the Stars or Lights shall fall before him which is true Gospel and I know no other Gospel but that of Christ and his Apostles which is not fully preached forth nor actually performed but the Lord will now make all things new a new heaven a new earth a new Covenant and a new Gospel and old things must become new and though they have layn in darknesse under six or seven Dispensations of time to make out the end of their darknesse yet now the pure Light will spring that shall abolish all under it and his pure Ordinance is now in pouring forth which is his Sabbaths Vial it shall judge all her abominations and all her oppressions and shall make out all the Gospel Promises and priviledges by every outward and inward performance For it is not your peeced out charity or any meritorious work of your hand that God looketh for Thou must bring thine offering into Gods house for those that be destitute of comfort must have and receive of the gift from the Altar and not from any mans personal gift neither can it be so proper as from God and his Church as given from a Fountain and from his house must relief come which is from the Altar of God so the left hand shall not know what the right hand doth for it shall arise from the Tythes or Tenth part of the substance under Gods hand as if we should all say we give thee this from the overplus which is a feeding together in one propriety of an enjoyment under God so that every mans Tythes being consecrated to Gods house should make up every breach that Charity may have its perfect work to fulfill the Law of Liberty which is a Gospel freedome from the first Melchizedeck which may be called an endlesse freedome for the creatures of God to enjoy and so to make his house a Common Treasury to the peodle and not to command Tythes as Dues to the Minister neither can ye lawfully demand it either by Law or Gospel if ye can then disprove this which is written What if the Minister shall receive Tythes yet he is to bring it into Gods house for an offering and not to enrich himself but to be contented with the meanest condition to be humble to God and lowly to man and in so doing he shall not defile the offering of Gods Temple nor make his Ordinance a prophane thing which our Ministers have formerly done Priest I am your Inheritance saith the Lord and no other inheritance can you have of God for the overplus of his house is for you to eat and to drink with the stranger the fathenlesse and the widow What if thy Tythes be charged into Gods House it is the seventh part of thy gift that God looks for which shall make up his seventh Jubilee or seventh Vial called his rest which is a fulsilling all his Commands Ye shall keep my Sabbath Ordinances and not break my rest In a word the Priests of God must be free from all outward inheritance and in case of want they may lawfully eat and drink with such as be receivers at the Altar of God Priest I am your Inheritanee Deutr. 14.29 declareth of their not having any inheritance and because of the uncertainty of their condition therefore they shall eat and drink with the fatherlesse this alarm in Sion cometh home to our Ministers Priests and Levites Under the Law it was to them but a time but to our Teachers for a shorter time And if the Priesthood failed under the time of the Law how much more shall it do under the Gospel By this high Priest and his eternal Priesthood and upon the third appearance your preaching shall cease and that shall be when the two witnesses shall stand up to plead for Gods heritage and the peoples Inheritance and at their appearing your preaching must cease which is the partiality of one mans tongue for God will have two faithful Witnesses to plead in your Churches that shall satisfie the Consciences of the hearers Yet farther Gods Ministers ought not to stain themselves with worldly cares having food and rayment wherewith to be contented which is not so low a condition as our Saviours were having no where to hide his head Ministers what do you fear if God hath an House and in it a Common Treasury then fear not but the Church shall minister to your wants and be not offended though we move you to the Altâ—â— it is not an Altar set up in your Churches to bow unto but it is to the Altar of God that shall alter your Customes and priestly powers Leviticus 27.30 Numb 18.28 Deut. 14.29 Exod. 23. Deut. 26.12 13. Deut. 10.9 18.1 2. the Priests and Levites shall have no Inheritance with Israel therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren Lastly if Christ Jesus had given his Disciples the benefit of Tythes
DENUS PETITION To the Lord General CROMWELL WITH His Protestation and Engagement ALSO His Description of the House of God and Original Priesthood Whereunto is annexed The Ministerial Duty And the Personal Reign of the Saints LONDON Printed for R. H. MDCLI To the Right Honourable OLIVER Lord CROMWEL The humble Petition and supplication of me poor Denus THese are to certifie your Highnesse hoping that with all moderation you will be pleased to condescend so low as to behold and peruse my message from God It is not an Army or an arm of flesh but the power of God that deâ—ndeth you he is the Lord to whom all the powers of the earth shall stoop and throw down their Crowns and all their outward honour For at his appearing man ought not to ascribe or Image out to himself the name Lord or in any graven substance for now he reigneth King upon his Throne since the 13 14 dayes of April last past issuing 1650. being Easter day and the day before called the Jewes Saturday and I Denus appeared to make known the day of the Lord and his year excepted and this visible Power did first Oriently appear in the City of London by four proclamations being placed in the four Corners of the old Exchange which signifieth a great change of States of Lawes of Governments of Religions of Merchandize of Priests of Opinions and a change of every Condition Sir it is in your power to do good Oh that you would see the end of your Work and highest enjoyments there be many refreshments which be Ensigns of Gods Love but none so precious as this which is to live in God I hope you strive not for honour nor yet for any outward preheminence but onely for the glory of Christ and primitive purity if you have any by-end below him it will not prosper for that which is of God will stand when all other things will decay I hope your End is to reduce and to bring all things unto their former Original to heal and restore the breaches then you shall be called the Restorer of places to dwell in Now this your preheminence is to the Work of God and consider it I pray you It is a cursed thing to do Gods work slightly and an honourable thing to appear for Christ in case of greatest danger You have been prosperous God was and is your defence Lord say ride on and prosper Your Army is his Battel Ax and should destroy humane powers fully to maintain Christ's power for other powers I know none that shall stand before him Now that you would please to stand up for a free Nation according to promises made to our Commonalty and not onely for reformation but for restoration the one without the other is not available therefore that it may please you to see the great Oppressions among us which be so inhumane and savage that so violently they spoil and eat out the heart of our Canaan and destroy a good Land Oh that you would stand up to help the poor of this Nation and where you find great Parsonages where the Diviners have and â—njoy too much that some of it might be distributed in the same places Oh that you would please to impropriate to them I mean the helplesse and distrâ—ssed of our Nation and that you would take in consideration to do good with all impropriations and deal with the Butcher Townes according to their deserts but questionlesse they will say we or our fathers have bought them with our money It may be so but whence did Tythes arise Though Aaron the Priest paid Tythes of all to Melchizedeck meaning his whole Substance was liable to Christ having neither end nor beginning Or can you shew the lawful buying of tythes if the Minister possesseth them not why should great men hold them for ought we know they are proper to the poor of such places and for Gods house The holy Scriptures adde to this purpose by an allusion to the Church as he saith elsewhere That ye do to any of those little ones ye do it to me and these things keeping away are but Robbing his house of common Rites I pray you what tythes were given in the Apostles time those Ministers could not be so proud nor their wives neither Or what impropriations or Church-Robbers without Judas was one Or which were the best of them that sold the Church Rites or them that bought them They may both run in one chanel for they neither bought nor sold their own nor can they lawfully hold the tythes from the poor and house of God for God may well say Why do ye rob me in Tythes and offerings You shall not keep my Feast of Tabernacles nor come into my rest or inward Courts There be many other dishonourable over-ruling evills in our Nation which you may please to vindicate to the Parliament that there might be a redressement by a restoring power which may be very comfortable to our state and in so doing God may be fully seen in your work and will answer your desires It were good if the poor of every Parish could have what helps might be within their own Liberties as Commons and ancient enjoyments Our Parliament might see this God seeth it and saith their Captivity shall return it is onely meant the captivity of the poor for the rich be not in that Snare but in a more deep and dangerouâ— condition The poor cry and are sent empty away but the Rich shall have many places and this will be a fire-brand in some of their consciences when they shall remember and so be shut out from the enjoyment of God for he can as well give comfort to the poor in their affliction and give others hell in their great possessions for at the end every foundation shall stand upon their own bottome I cannot but declare the things of God Further your poor petitioner intreateth you to take into your consideration the abusess of all Common Destroyers of our good Common wealth or well being It hath formerly been when a dear year hath come the poor have paid for it but now we cannot find it so others will pay for it before them we have so many that do ingrosse priviledges and are loth that the rust of their money should not be a witnesse against them therefore they buy whole Lordships though the earth be the Lords and not theirs yet they can make it their own from men untill the Lord blow upon it thus they build Babylon to their hearts desire which must suddenly fall There be many other great offenders which keep up and imprison plenty hoarding up many hundred Quarters of Corne buying it contrary to the Will of the Lord and so eat out the heart and name of plenty to ingrosse as they do We have some Badgerly Woolves that will come between the ficle and the sythe saying I will give thus much or such a Rate for Corn all the year about and thus they
Witch up the prices of corn These are abominable branches and theeves to the Common wealths good All these and such as these be would be branded with the letter G. signifying God hath plagued thee Now this publick theft is far worse then poor poverteous theft for poor poverty judgeth the law and justifieth it self When the world and all outward means fail yet God will be seen in equity and will justifie the poor mans condition in a way of consideration Sir you and all the Parliament should be the breasts of our Consolation yet we know not how you will order our Common wealths affaires which as yet we lye under your veyl and liable to your Disposing not yet enjoying a free National stability according to Gods Institution or Creation but to live in hope and above hope looking beyond all outward externals which is nothing in his sight Now the Over-ruling power and providence of God guide you in those great affaires you take in hand Yet further to let you understand we lie yet in Darknesse under a sad Dispensation betwixt a King and an unsetled State full of murmurings distractions and declinings from true godlinesse working our own ends by personal greatnesse not seeing that sweet enjoyment we might have in God if we did not so highly prize this fading world but to see nothing honourable below Christ but all mens honours shall quake as an Aspen leafe and none shall hold but that of godlinesse Who is afflicted and I not or who shall declare but I from the Lord I fear not to speak the truth in the Lords Design I can have no rest night nor day untill I see his work accomplished but there is much covetuousnesse and oppression in our Nation that as yet we must not say our God is a reconciled God but his hand is stretched out still untill he hath bent Juda and gathered in Israel and restored Jerusalem and untill then the sword shall drink bloud and shall not cease is it riches honour or greatnesse ye strive for O take the best Season and goldenest Opportunity it is not an outward enjoyment will make you inwardly happy but in that you tread down all principalities and powers for Christ Jesus his Crown and Dignities and that is the highest appearance and fullest power and God will crown the works of all his Saints that stand up for his Kingly Power and I beseech you to lay down your honour at Christs feet and then you shall be exalted for things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth must bowe at the Name of Jesus and at his appearance for God will bring down the high spirits of Mount Seir and Capernaum and he haughtinesse of the proud earth shall come down and the humble shall be exalted for the Lord will raise the honour of his Son that hath been long crucified under the worlds tyranny so that at his appearing both Lord and King shall refuse their titles of honour I speak not this to your disgrace but to speak the things I have heard and seen Act. 4.20 and I dare not but appear for Christ in the face of fire and faggot or greatest damp or danger I am a poor man I am sure I need not look for honour neither do I acknowledge any thing honourable below Christ therefore in truth Lord your honour must fall at his appearing O would to God you would make known that which cannot be hid for now it is high time to awake that Sion should put on strength for now it is come to the birth and wanteth your help to bring forth O that you would please to stand up to maintain true Judgment that Justice may run down our streets so you shall prosper in blessings even as a garden refreshed with sweet drops from above verily ye shall be as the morning Star in brightnesse to passe the Lord shall blesse your going out and your comig in he shall be your consolation and great peace and much happinesse shall attend your gates The Work in hand is to raise the Tabernacle of David that is fallen which is a restoring of many generations The duty we are Obliged is to build Gods house and to destroy all other foundations and to come into one fold which is Christs sheepfold called the new Model or Jewestical Fabrick We are all bound to build up the partition wall that hath been trod down so long even the holy City which our Saviour and Lord telleth us shall be trod down untill the fulnesse of the Gentiles come in Zach. 6.14 the 3. 5. he is your King Hos 2. I will betroth thee unto me in loving kindnesse and in mercy Make the Lord your King he is your King which if you do the high Lord will blesse you in your good name in your person and in your estate and will raise good out of your generations that you may be called the Repairer of the breach and restorer of paths to dwell in He is your King Psal 21. thou hast a perfect crown of gold upon his head Psalm 22. For the Kingdome is the Lords and he is the Governour among the Nations Psalm 2. Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill Sion His Kingly power was seen in Joseph Psalm 150.21 22. He made him Ruler over all his substance to bind his Princes at his pleasure and to teach his Senatours wisdome he set Moises his servant and Aaron whom he had chosen and his wonders was seen in the Land of Ham. And the Prophet John saith he that overcometh shall rule the Nations with a rod of iron Surely our God shall do this and greater things Another great example under the type of Joshuah Jos 3. If thou wilt walk in my ways and if thou wilt keep my charge then shalt thou judge my House and keep my Court and I will give thee places with them that stand by In this we see that God is ever ready to crown a good work also they that be faithful to God he will be faithful to them Further that your Excellency would be pleased to let the prisoners go free that their cry may not come up to the Lord by relation some of them have died in prison by salvage cruelty There is no Nation under heaven but do allow their prisoners something if it be but bread and water but in truth some have not had that allowance which is not Christian-like being kept there having no relief nor support Is God seen in it or shall he not controverse for these things Open your prison gates for pity and let offenders be branded as bond-servants with a letter to be known to whom they have offended and so to restore as they be able and and not to keep them in hell upon earth Also it is manifested that some poor godly Christians have lost their lives denying their designe not having justice which were their arrears desiring it for their wives and could not have it and
so denied to go forth which caused the loss of life And it hath been a woful spectacle in the worlds eye when it hath been apparently known that some devouring Nimrods have bought out many poor souldiers pay some for 4 1 5 1 or 6 1 in the score and all for want of justice Their cries will come up to the God of heaven I beseech your Excellence promote true justice for Gods cause and fear no human flesh and the Lord will be your arm of defence Oh Army of the Lord Esay 1.26 I will restore thy judgments as at the first and thou shalt be called the City of Righteousness when Sion shall be redeemed with justice and when you shall redeem the oppressed judge the fatherless and plead for the widow then the Lord will delight in your works of piety Now that it may please you to take into your consideration and to move our Parliament upon the Lords designe that both they and you may be called blessed in the act of Restoring Ezek. 47.14 the Lord declareth saying Ye shall one inherit as well as another Meaning the Earth or the Land which is the Lords Verse the 22 he saith Ye shall divide the Land by lot for an inheritance And lastly he saith What Tribe soever the stranger sojourneth in there ye shall give him his inheritance Now the clamation of our poor Israel is for want of Commons to plant and build upon and this being alienated and estranged from them by cursed Ahabs which now do enjoy Naboths Vineyard and spoil our good Commons The Lord hath sent me to move you upon this object that they which have possessions should not take away the Commons from the poor Common wealth of Israel but that they which have no inheritance should have their Lots in the Commons as it is their right by Creation from God the Prophets Esay Jeremy and Ezekiel shall be tilled and become as the garden of Eden Joel 3.2 I will plead with them for my people Israel and for my heritage which they have cast lots for my land and parted it among the Nation Now if your Excellency please to help the Lord against the mighty then he saith Joel 2. I will restore to you the years that the Locusts have eaten the Cankerworm the Caterpiller and the Palinerworm which I sent amongst you Lastly That you would please to fall and kneel at the appearing of the Lord when he shall set up his Ordination or Determinate Power then all your subordinate powers must fall then he that is least in the world shall be greatest in his Kingdome and he that overcometh shall rule the Nations Let the high praises of God be in your mouth and a two edged sword in your hand to destroy sin for a spiritual and temporal Justice So I rest your poor petitioner to command Denus to the restored Church in the Isle of Pathmos A Protestation and Engagement I Am ingaged for the Cause and shall lay down my life and dearest blood and will do it in case of conscience for the defence of the everlasting Gospel though humane Lawes do fail and mens ordinances come to nothing yet how unchangeable is the Law of God in his ordination Christ at his first appearance destroyed every mans law and ordinances and thereupon wounded the Beast saying All power is given me in heaven and in earth Go teach all Nations as if be should say every law statute and ordinance of man is at an end yet many strive for earthly and humane power and cause the sword to rule by a law which is not the Law of God to kill and keep alive although for common trespasses making their own wills a law contrary to the law of Sion and we hold up the sword by a law and a law by the sword which is not good our Lord saith he that killeth with the sword shall dye with the sword He in Genesis Whosoever killeth Cain his blood shall be required seven fold and Revel 11. Whosoever killeth them shall be so killed tt is better for a man to dye an Anatomy then to be a man-slayer to take away life and free Creation from any of the Creatures of God and to lord over them by cruelty Our Saviour saith offences will be but woe be to them by whom they do come it were better a milstone were hanged about his neck and cast into the Sea then to offend in bloud robbery or any such thing by legal cruelty pretending a law above the Gospel and Records of Christ to his Disciples which law to maintain is not so ancient as that order of Melchizedeck made to Abraham by a promise though the law was given by Moses yet faith and truth came by Christ So that under the name of Melchizedeck or under the name of Christ he the Lord hath alwayes put an end to mans ordinances according to his Divine Ordination and I know no law of man that can stand before the Law of God in Sion there is but one Law and one Law-giver which gift to us is the free Gospel as James saith So speak and so walk that ye may be judged by the Law of liberty which is the Word of God for an outward record called by David his Statutes Divine meaning the Old and New Testament by way of cauâ—â—â—â— that every godly Magistrate should lay the Bible book before him to convince every sinne and errour of the offender and not to use any other book of mixture compounded together lest they adde or diminish from Gods Word or Commandment for then and at that time the Bible shall be the chief Statute to maintain Freedome and Justice it is not your statutes of Winchester London or Magna Charta so Evangelical or ancient that can stand when the power of Christ appeareth and shall shine out of the East unto the West and from the North to the South so that all the Nations shall see his glorious appearing which is his testimony of Light to me a sufferer for the Gospel of Christ and I know not whether by imprisonment or losse of life the prison is but freedomes purgatory and it shall at the last conquer hell and Freedome shall have victory by his statutes Divine it is for the Law of God that I dye daily and am much killed in my dear Desires I stand up for the liberty of the Gospel and Freedome of the Creation and to plead for the Kingdome of Christ and the inheritance of the people which I hope you will not hinder me of Our Saviour saith Matth. 10. Fear them not for there is nothing hid that shall not be known and I cannot but declare the things I have seen I am not onely ready to suffer your imprisonment but to suffer death or any torture for the Cause I mean for the Law and Liberties of the Gospel of the Lord. I am a faithful witnesse of God I fear not your Famine Distresse or Death I am the person to raise
Johns testimony he was Juda and I am Israel Denus the feet of the two Witnesses Septemb. 29 1651. The Law of Sion HEre is an Alligory of two Lawes the first is the singular and pure Law of God the other is the unjust lawes of Man This pure Law of God shall put an end to all the lawes of man upon the seventh Vial this Law of God gendereth to life and salvation but the lawes of man do gender to cruelty and corruption which lawes of man must fall before Sion which are not lawes according to his Word and true equity all such lawes are but mens ordinances and shall not stand before the Law of God for there is but one Law and one Law-giver which is God that hath given us his Word for a Law to be a restoring right to all and for want of this true execution of Gods word it maketh the curse remain upon the Creature to this day and because of forbidden fruit which is contrary to his Institution maketh it so but Gods word should be set in its place to judge or condemn to save or justifie and not mens traditions which are vain Our Saviour saith Man liveth not onely by bread but by every word that cometh out of Gods mouth which is from his ancient Decree to keep all things by his Providence which is a hidden law and spiritual and agreeable to the letter of his Word and I know no other law that man can erect but to judge all things by the law of Gods Word and to throw down mens ordinances which be not agreeable to it for such lawes proceed not out of Sion neither can our Judges be Judges in Israel except they make Gods word the rule of justice to try causes by And going contrary to this Rule it maketh many fleshly Judges and weak Jury-men O simple ignorance and base folly to go from the Judge of Heaven and Earth to serve under these Judges which destroy his Word and Law of justice for there is no offence committed before God or against man but may be judged by his word of Truth and pure Gospel under the jurisdiction of Christ and his Church which may be called Jure Divino that is under twelve holy persons or so many Senatours of Gods house that your law may wholly proceed out of Sion that Divine Justice may censure all judicature power and so to tread them under feet with the scarlet whore which have taken away many mens lives contrary to Gods word and holy Scripture it hath been a poor businesse carried on so long that wicked Judges should sit to give sentence and some wicked fore-men among the rest should give up their verdict contrary to the Law of Sion having judged for reward and some for want of seeing the pure Will of God and declaration of his word his word ought to judge and govern and shall throw down all oppressing that his people may have rest from all their enemies these Judges have been in such esteem before men and yet ignorant of Divine justice which he hath set before them in his Word I desire you all to know both Judge and Justice if you adde or diminish from Gods VVord it will prove unjustice and therein ye fall severity and hinder the free passage of the Gospel changing it into your own ordinances using the Gospel to your own turns which is a cursed thing to do your lawes are of Euphrates which shall perish in Armagiddon and fall by destruction ye Judges Lawyers Priests and Jesuites your ordinances shall burn with Babylon and your seven streams of power are struck by the seventh Vial of Gods wrath his Law must go out of Sion which shall cast out all your laws that justice may run down our streets What makes so much bauling in our Churches To answer it is because they go on hood-winked compounding the lawes of men amongst the ordinances of God which be far distant the one from the other and for want of the true executing of this word of God all your Churches are in a combustion as Bees up in armes one against another for the truth and untill we make Gods word the Rule and Law of our civil affaires to bring our selves under the Captivity of Christ and untill then the curse shall remain I properly mean the cursed lawes of man which have bought and sold the lives of some men contrary to the Word of God and Law of Sion this curse or cursed ordinance of man God will suddenly burn up and abolish by the brightnesse of his appearing and David saith Blessed are they that keep his testimonies thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee I will not forget thy word Princes did sit and speak against me but I did meditate in thy statutes devine Thy Law is my counsel day and night I have more understanding then all my Teachers I understand more then the Ancient because I keep thy Law I have refrained my feet from every evill way because of thy word How sweet are thy words unto my taste Thy word is a light to my feet quicken me according to thy word mine eyes prevent the night watch I beheld the transgressours and was grieved because they kept not thy word Tears run down mine eyes because they keep not thy word Now if our Lawyers would truly see this Law of God they durst not do as they do and if our Judges would prove causes by this word of God then might we call them the Judges in Israel but it is not so for they prove their own testimonies and act sin by a law but look into this 119. Psalm and ye shall find it pithy to this purpose he calleth it thy Statutes divine which if our Magistrates did but savingly look in this glasse of Gods law they might well throw away their books which be but the step-mother to this Law of Sion called mens ordinances which have thus traded in power over Gods word and true Gospel untill the year of our Lord 1650. which was then shaken though not utterly faln yet it shall lose its shining light of oriency and tho Lawyers and Judges shall never gain credit nor comfort until they do erect the true word of God far above the statutes of Winchester 2 Chron. 19. there ye may find at large that Jehosaphat made of the Levites and of the Priests and of the chiefest of the Fathers of Israel for the judgment of the Lord and for all Controversies And in that ye may find he did not set the ungodly to judge nor bloudy men that should judge according to their own wills but such as were chosen men of the Lord that should make his holy word the rule of justice to end all differences Now good Jehosaphat gave the Judges a charge saying Take heed what ye do ye judge not for man but for the Lord who is with you in the judgment take heed and do it for there is no