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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28152	A word of reproof and advice to my late fellow-souldiers and officers of the English, Irish, and Scotish army with some inrhoad made upon the hireling and his mass-house, university, orders, degrees, vestments, poperies, heathenism, &c. : with a short catalogue of some of the fighting priests and ... have given them a blow in one of their eyes (pickt out of the whores head) which they call a fountain of religion but is a sink of iniquity ... / by E.B.	Billing, Edward, 1623-1686.	1659 (1659)	Wing B2903; ESTC R23695	86,580	98

is not all this and very many other things which ye use Popish Jewish and heathenish and yet ye would force the innocent whom ye know for conscience cannot swear at all to take an oath to abjure the Pope which would be to swear against your selves but because of oathes the Land mourns And if I hear a wicked wretch swear and many times blaspheam the name of the dreadful and living God with bloody oathes and if I complain of that wicked man to a Magistrate that he hath in my hearing sworn many oathes to the grief of my very soul and dishonour of my maker but except I will also swear and enter into the same sin the guiltless make himself guilty he which did in the first place offend the pure God shall not be punished but on the contrary if the true man do but speak to this man called Justice in plainnes of speech such as the servants used to the Lord of li●e and the same Lord to his servants or do not put of my hat to him and bow which I dare not do le●st my Maker should take me away I say its much if I go not to prison my self or at least exceedingly rebuked which I my self am a witnest off and this is turning of Justice backward so that except a man will break a positive command of the Lord Jesus the sword will not be laid upon the evil doer but is born in vain and not for the praise of them which do well the wicked Magistrate bids me ●wear and sayes I may swear or take a judicial oath the Papists he sayes bow down to an image and wear a crucifix or an agnus dei about thy neck it s but to put thee in mind and for a remembrance but Christ the oath and hope in me who was before judicial oathes or images were says swear not at all and above all things my brethren sayes James swear not and I had rather be accounted as one of his brethren by keeping the commands of the Lord Jesus by not swearing then by swearing to be made a friend to Caesar or a companion to the Prince the command of the most high God is thou shalt not make to thy self any graven image nor bow down to them and so let the Papists and yee part this matter between yee for yee are a like guilty the one breaks the command of God the other of Christ and he that breaks one is guilty of all The King bid or commanded that all should bow to his image which he had set up the three children refused and obeyed God rather then the accursed Edicts of a King the King gave command that they should be thrown into the fire and into the fire they were cast with their hats on were they Rebels yea or nay and whether is it better to obey God or men judge ye But except I will rebell against the Lord and make my self a transgressor of the royal Law I shall not have the benefit of your Law and except I will swear I cannot desend or come by my own nor hardly keep my self out of a Goal So vile are your Lawes and many the Ministers of them and the guilty do go free and the heart of the righteous is grieved and the righteous man doth perish and few or none layes it to heart but the Lord our God treasureth up all these things with many more of your iniquities and if yee think he will not visit for these things yee deceive your selves and are deceived because the truth doth not guide ye● The good Magistrate is worthy of double honour but it consisteth not in my hat for that waxeth old as doth my o●her garments and may be burnt and turned to ashes and become dong or I may throw my hat upon the ground and set my feet upon i● is then the Magistrats honor in the dust do I tread upon his honor when I tread upon mine own hat Nay the good Magistrate is still worthy of double honour and for a good man some will dare to die and so I dare for the good Magistracy ●ut to sawn c●ing to any mans person I may not It is the good Magistrate that 's worthy of double honour the office good Magistrat● in the man not the bad man because he is in the office and to every ordinance of man I submit am no rebell therefore let me and all Gods people have the benefit of your best Laws And your worst doth not require me to put of my hat swear or appear by an Attourny my self being in the Nation and willing to appear but admit ye had a corrupt Law or an act for every violence which is acted I believe some of ye heretofore when ye lived under the oppression of wicked Magistrates and unright●ous Lawes which are yet standing would have said that the welfare of the people was above the Salus populi suprema lex Law Paul says that an oath is for the end of strife among men mark but the same Paul says walk not as men but as Saints and although they of old time sware to the Lord and performed their oathes to the Lord and the Lord performed THE substance to them which oathes was a type of and the oath and vow is come in the flesh who sayes swear not at all but if Paul or John who was the greatest born among women should should affirm or had affirmed it to be lawful to swear I le not believe John but rather chuse to hear believe and obey the great mighty Prophet in all things but the persecutor and he that will not hear this Prophet and bring all his deeds to the light and to the witness of God in him and there try if they be wrought in God shall be cut off Notwithstanding he may pretend to have an Edict or a law from man for what he doth And if he commit murther and all manner of wickednes most greedily man can pardon one another by an Act or call it chance-medly man slaughter petti-laseny c. and Hang another man for the fame fault because he cannot read and this amongst the rest is persecution and is not equal nor doing as a man would be done unto And like a naked and simple hearted man I shall hear declare unto all the world the words of the living God to me when I was but onely able to die for the truth and not able to write dispute or controvert for it when as heretofore I have met with an able skilful cunning deceiver This was the word of the Lord and thus said the Lord unto me If an Angel should pretend to come from heaven and should affirm unto thee that that Ministry is of God or Christ which in the least persecutes stocks whips imprisons strikes or causeth to be strucken sweares or causeth others to swear for his dishonest gain believe him not For they obey not the great Prophet and they shall be cut

no Saints that are not cleansed purged washed and sanctified throughout ye are cleansed ye are washed ye are sanctified throughout and as he is so are we in this present World and he that fails to witness this condition on this side the grave though he may be covinced of the very truth it self he may be called but never chosen Friends it is a high state yea the very highest on this side the grave I do not say its impossible not to faile and alone to live move and do all to and for the praise and glory of God and to live and abide in the infallible and not to fail but as the Lords witnesse I declare it He who lives and dies in his sins imperfections and failings doth fail and falls short of that Kingdom where the imperfect or impure cannot enter for its the pure in heart that sees God but the wicked he beholds a far off and the sinner cannot stand before the righteous God in judgement wherefore as many as be perfectly minded work out your salvation with fear and trembling for the night cometh wherein no man can work And there is another sort of idle people who say Christ hath taken away the guilt of sin but not the presents of sin Oh! seared conscience that hath no guilt for sin I do not say he hath taken the Devil out of Hell or J●das from his own place neither do I say or think the Devil doth at this day cease to seek whom he may devour Nay I know he is the Prince of the power of the air and the Kingdom of darkness is his Sodom is his throne and Egypt and the dwellers there are altogether within his Dominion Mystery-Babylon her Merchants are his own all the children of disobedience to all who live in the mistery of iniquity he is a Law-maker also I say he is a roaring Lion and continually seeketh whom he may devour and the most upright that is or ever was upon the earth he may tempt yea Christ himself as the words of the Divel recorded in Scripture do testifie but it s no sin to be tempted but the sin is to yeeld to and do the will of the temptor and commit the sin but blessed are they who stand in the power and fear of the Lord and endure the temptation Adam was never accursed until he had yeelded taken and eaten so its sin acted and the purpose of your corrupt hearts to sin if not grose yet little sins and at least to have your failings tearm of life and that 's it which hinders the union keeps ye in the unbelief and separates betwixt ye and your maker and the wages of s●n is death and such as ye sow such shall ye reap and if with the hands which are defiled and not in the pure hope which is perfect ye plow and sow corruption What can ye expect to reap or be in the harvest or day of the Lord when he makes up his jewels but tares corruption or reprobate silver and of failings and imperfection ye can reap no other thing for according to your faith so will it be unto ye and failings will fail to be saved or enter into the rest of him that is unfallible and without fail saves all those that come unto him by faith and a good conscience void of offence towards God and man mark a good conscience towards God and void of offence towards man not striking spilling of blood or reaping ca●nals where they have sow● neither spiritual nor carnal And although imperfection is the practice and general preached and received doctrine of the Church of England so called I utterly deny it neither do I trust to be saved as they believe but I believe they will take it ill if I should say they who believe th●y may live and die in some failings should not go to Heaven or if I should say that is the Hypocrites hope and will fail But I do say if they say its the true hope or living faith which is of God in by which the Just lives or if that he which lives and intends to die in some failings sayes the Lord lives with Jeremiah I say he or they swear falsly But if we continue faithful or full of faith in our measures to the end we shall be saved without fail for he that is in us is greater then he that is in the World and he that abides in him is pure without failings and the wicked one cannot touch him though he may attempt it hourly for a stronger then he keeps the house and he cannot enter but by our consents otherwise the whole creation of mankind would be the Divels for he is the enemy of mankind and his nature is to devour but the true light which doth enlighten every man that cometh into the World and the ligh● with which every man is enlightened comprehends the darknesse but the Divel and darknesse cannot comprehend the light for he that is in us is far greater then he and is quick and powerful and divides betwixt the pretious thoughts and the vile before they come to actions I say if the watch be kept and the light believed in which is in ye infallibly is the l●fe of men and shewes man all his sins and failings I say it will discern the thoughts and dash the brains of Babylons children against the wall Yea that brain which invents and deviseth evil and break the cockatrice egg before it is an egg and mischief shall not be hatched or prod●cted and the same is the sure word of prophesie which if ye take heed unto ye may infallibly do well though it be as a light shining in a dark place tell the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts for which wait that ye may be delivered from all your sins and failings and become the Sons of God For as much then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh arm your selves likewise with the same mind for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin 1 Pet. 4. 1. Therefore let the time p●st be si ficient for the end of all things is at hand and to be carnally minded is death And if any man have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his and if Christ be in ye the bod●●s dead because of sin By a Friend to perfection and a believer in that unfallible Jesus who saves his p●ople from their sins failings and imperfections but a professed enemy to that Hellish doctrine of imperfection E. B. THE END A VVORD To such Rulers and Magistrates who Whip cause or suffer to be whipped the Saints of the most High for Vagabonds among whom there are no Beggers and sends them to Prison for not Swearing and not taking an Oath to abjure that which themselves may be found in and requires Bonds of the upright in heart for the good behaviour a thing which themselves are not truly in for that is no good