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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89029	A standard set up: whereunto the true seed and saints of the most High may be gathered together into one, out of their several forms: for the Lambe against the Beast, and false prophet in this good and honourable cause. Or The principles & declaration of the remnant, who have waited for the blessed appearance and hope. Shewing, how saints as saints, men as men, and the creation shall have their blessings herein, as in the deliverance of the true Church out of Babylon, and all confusion; as in the most righteous and free-common-wealth-state; as in the restitution of all things. Subscribed W. Medley, scribe.	Medley, William, scribe.	1657 (1657)	Wing M1612; Thomason E910_10; ESTC R202911	20,825	28

A STANDARD SET UP Whereunto the true Seed and Saints of the most High may be gathered together into one out of their several Forms For the Lambe against the Beast and False Prophet in this good and honourable Cause OR THE PRINCIPLES DECLARATION Of the REMNANT who have waited for the blessed Appearance and Hope Shewing how Saints as Saints men as men and the Creation shall have their blessings herein as in the Deliverance of the True Church out of Babylon and all Confusion as in the most Righteous and Free-Common-Wealth-State As in the Restitution of all things Subscribed W. Medley Scribe Gen. 49.9 WHO SHALL ROVSE HIM VP Deut. 33.27 The eternall God is thy Refuge and underneath are the everlasting Arms and he shall thrust out the Enemy from before thee and shall say Destroy them Isai 60.22 A little-one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong Nation I the Lord will hasten it in his time Isai 62.10 Lift up a STANDARD for the People Rev. 19.2 For True and Righteous are his Judgements for he hath judged the great Whore which did corrupt the Earth with her Fornication and hath avenged the Blood of his Servants at her hands Printed in the Year 1657. I. VVHilst the Lords own People in these Three Nations were in a very Low Condition and state of Persecution continually hunted by Cruel Adversaries through the Treasonable Practices Oppression and Tyranny of the late King and the Cruelty Rage and bloody Persecuting Spirit of the Bishops and Prelates insomuch that the Land was filled with Blood See large Petition to Parliament 11. Sept. 1648. And the people of these Nations inslaved to the Lust and pleasure of the King The freedome of the People being directly Opposite to the Prerogative of Kings in their Estates and Liberties Robbed and Spoiled of their Common-Rights and Priviledges and their Representatives deprived of their Law-making-Power and subjected to the Negative-voice of a single Person and Dissolved at Will and Pleasure so that a perfect Yook of Bondage was upon the Bodies and Consciences of men The Lord by his wise Providence raised up an Instrument to worke Deliverance and Salvation from the hands of this Common-Enemy in which should we note the wonderful passages of Providences from time to time would be marvellous Afterwards i. e. about the midest of the War The Instrument became more refined See Speech to l. Parliament p. 2 3. The Lord winnowing the Forces of this Nation and putting them into the hands of men of other Principles than those engaged at first Soe crossing the designes of men and causing his own to take place which he carried on in all the late warres yea to this day So the thoughts of his heart take place in all Generations he raised up a poor and contemptible company neither vers'd in Millitary affairs nor having much natural Propensity no them and this through owning a Principle of Godlinesse of Religion This Army Declared They were not meer mercinary men Declarat June 14. 1647. hired to serve an Arbitrary power of State But took up Arms in Judgement and Conscience for the defence of the peoples just Rights and Priviledges and to vindicate the power of the Nation in Parliaments against all Arbitrary Power Violence and Oppression Declarat in Scotl. Anno. 1650. and all particular parties and interests And being perswaded in their consciences that the King and his Monarchy was one of the 10. hornes of the Beast spoken of Rev. 17 c. And being witnesses to so much of the innocent Blood of the Saints he had shed in supporting the Beast and considering the loud cries of the Soules of the Saints under the Altar they were extraordinarily carried forth to desire justice upon the King that m●n of blood Withall desiring to let those of Scotland know That they were not Souldiers of fortune nor meerly the Servants of men having not only PROCLAYMED Jesus Christ King of Saints to be their King by profession but desired to submit to him upon his own Tearms and to admit him to the EXERCISE of his ROYAL-AVTHORITY in their hearts and to follow him whithersoever he went c. And the work with this Army was generally owned and acknowledged as the Cause of God Which so soon as it came to be owned The state of Affairs put upon that foot of Account the Lord blessed them in all their undertakings Insomuch that after the Army was New-modelled and the war put upon an Offensive and purely Active Account with Execution upon the Adversary where ever he was found they never lost one Field-Battail in any of the three Nations II. The Lord having thus Owned and Blessed this Cause in the hands of this Army The King brought to Tryal and Justice Executed upon him as a Murderer a Traytor and an Oppressor and common-Common-Enemy of the Nation A Statute in Parliament made against his posterity and any other that should now pretend to be Chief-Magistrate and so declared of these Nations condemning them guilty of high Treason after these wonderful successes The great Deliverance and marvellous Solvation to use the words of the General wrought at Worcester by a signal hand were it weighed See Speech to l. Parliament p. 5. The Old Parliament notwithstanding God had used them Eminently in the wars against the King Dissolved as in the Judgements of the Saints and Churches Unfit for the further carrying on the Worke and Cause These poor Nations freed from their Yoaks and Bands in a great measure and in a very hopeful and blessed way to obtain a very thorough Reformation and perfect deliverance The Lord Jesus Christ unanimously owned in the Army and in many of the Churches of the Saints and in the several parts of the Nation as LORD and KING The Power therefore was now by the wonderfull providence of God given into the hands of this professing victorious overcoming Army And thereby an opportunity given into them to serve the Lord fully according as they had Declared Accordingly The Generall and Officers of the Army to manifest to the world their singlnesse of heart and integrity pag. 18. and that they did not grasp after the Power their selves to keep it in a Millitary hand no not for a day were incouraged as in the Dissolving the old Parliament The consent and affections of the Officers of the three Nations at land pag. 26. and their Brethren at Sea though no Artifice had been used to perswade their approbations to this work flowing into them from all parts beyond their expectations besides their approbations and consent unsought for to the other work And above all which is esteemable very many Papers from the Churches of God throughout the Nation wonderfully approving both what had been done in removing Obstacles pag. 17. and approving what herein was done To the Exercising an extraordinary way and course beyond and contrary to the ordinary way of Elections and constitutions of

the bartail to the gate That the Arrowes of the Almighty may be sharp in the hearts of the Kings Enemies That rivers may be opened in high-places and Fountains in the midst of the Valleyes His spirit poured out upon his seed and his blessing upon his Off-spring 3. That the BRANCH of righteousnesse may grow up unto David to execute Judgement and righteousnesse in the Land upon the Throne of David Jer. 33.15 16. ch 23.5 Isa 9.6 7. ch 1.26 ch 60.17 ch 32.1 Deut. 17.15 ch 1.13 Jer. 3.15 Isa 10.27 Exod. 30.23 Isa 61 3. ch 60.18 Zech. 9.8 Psal 72.4.12 14. Amos 5.24 Isa 33.5 ch 32.16 Psal 94.15 Mat. 12.20 Psal 119.19 54. Heb. 11.13 John 10.4.5 Zeph. 3.9 Isa 11.13 Jer. 32.38 39. Cant. 6.9 Phil. 2.20 Psal 102.14 Eph. 2.20 21. Rev. 16.12 compa Isa 11.11 15 16. ch 27.12 13. Rom. 9.4 and upon his Kingdome To order it with judgement and with justice In whom there is mercy for Saints as Saints for men as men and for the whole Creation That we might have Judges as at first and Councellours as at the beginning That our Officers may be Peace and our Exacters righteousnesse And that we might have Pastors according to Gods heart to feed the Flock with knowledge and understanding And that all yoaks upon the inward and outward man may be destroyed because of the Anoynting the holy Spirit the Myrrhe of Liberty Oyl of joy poured out into the wounds of the persecuted and bleeding Flock and the groaning Creation That violence be no more heard in our Land wasting nor destruction within our borders But that we may call our Walls Salvation and our Gates Praise And that Judgement run down as waters and Righteousnesse as a mighty stream Dwelling in the Wildernesse and remaning in the in the fruitful Field 4. That Judgement may be returned unto Righteousnesse and brought forth unto victory That all the upright in heart may follow it that the Lambs of Christ Torne and scatered by Wolves and the rage cruelty of Antichrist now as Pilgrims and strangers in the Earth may be gathered out of their several formes and from their holes and corners at the voice of their great Shepheard and may serve the Lord with one consent and may all call upon his name My Dove my undefiled is but one That the whole building of the spiritual Temple for whom we naturally care As taking pleasure in her stones and favoring the dust thereof Upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets and Christ the chief-corner stone may grow up unto an holy Temple in the Lord. And that according to the many Prophecies and Promises in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments The way of the Kings of the East might be prepared The Jews and Isralites To whom pertaineth the Adoption and the Glory Isa 43 5 6. Ezek 36.24 ch 37.14.15 21. 34.12 13 14. Ier. 23 7 8. ch 32 37. Ier. 30 18. Isa 66 12. Dan. 2 35. Is 2.2 Coll. 1 15 16 18 o 1.1 2 3. Heb. 1.2 Rev. 19 13. 1 Cor. 1.24 Pro. 8.22 23 30 31. Mark 1.11 John 1 14. Rev. 1.5 Heb. 1.2 Eph. 4.8 Coll. 2.15 Heb. 1 4 8. Ps 45.6 Joh. 5.27 Rev 19.16 c. 17.14 Phil. 2.9 10. Isa 45 33. Matt. 28.18 Gen. 22.17 compa Gall. 3.16 Luke 1 32 33. Dan. 7.27 Ps 2.7 8. Isa 53.12 Rev. 11.15 Isa 9.6 7. and the Covenants and the giving of the Law and the service of God and the promises may be Redeemed from their long Captivities and gathered from the Isles of the Sea and from the four corners of the Earth and so all Israel may be saved and restored to the possession of their own Land And with the fulnesse of the Gentiles being add●d to them as a ●●owing stream They may together become a great Mountain filling the whole Earth with their power and glory And may be established in top of the Mountains and exalted above the Hills 5. That as all things that are in Heaven and in Earth visible and invisible whether Thrones Dominions Principallities or Powers were created by our Lord Jesus As he is the Word the Power and the Wisdome of God and for him as He is the only begotten Son of God the first born from cry Creature the image of the invisible God the head of the Church the Beginning the first born of the Dead that in all things he might have the preheminence the head of Principallities and Powers That as he is by the wise purpose of the Father appointed heir of all things And having triumphed over Satan Hell Death and Sin And having spoiled Principallities and Powers hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than that of the Angels whose Throne is for ever and ever a Scepter of Righteousnesse is the Scepter of his Kingdome Vnto whom also is given Authority to execute jugement because he is the Son of man On whose Vesture and Thigh is a name written KING OF KINGS and LORD OF LORDS Unto whom is given all power both in Heaven and in Earth And unto him is also promised The Gate of his Enemies The THRONE of his Father David The Kingdoms of this world A portion with the great and the spoyl with the strong Therefore That all the Kingdomes of this world should become the Kingdomes of our Lord Christ The Government put upon his shoulders who is called Wonderfull Councellor mighty God everlasting Father Prince of Peace 2 Kings 19 31. Isa 37 32. Eph. 6.10 Mic. 5.4 Psa 72.1 8. Zech. 9 10. Ps 72 9 11. Luke 19.27 1 Tim. 6.15 Jer. 23.6 ch 33.16 That his THRONE may be established with Judgement and Justice by the Zeal of the Lord of Hosts and the power of his might That he might be great unto the ends of the earth That the Lords righteous judgments might be given to the king and his righteousnesse unto the kings son That he may have his Dominion from sea to sea and from the river unto the ends of the Earth That they that dwell in the wildernesse may bow before him and his enemies may lick the dust And that all kings may fall down before him and all Nations may serve him who is the onely and blessed Potentate THE LORD OVR RIGHTEOVSNES 6. That the supream absolute LEGISLATIVE POWER and AVTHORITY to make Laws for the governing of the Nations and the good and well-being of man-kind Isa 9 6. c. 32.1 33.22 Jer. 10.7 Ps 2.7 8. Acts 2.30 c. 3.22 23 Iam. 4.12 Mat. 29.18 is originally and essentially in the Lord Jesus Christ by Right Conquest Gift Election and Inheritance who is the onely absolute single person whom the father hath loved decreed sworn to anointed and given all power unto in heaven and in earth 7. That the scriptures being given by inspiration of God with his holy spirit are the revealed Will and Rule of this LEGISLATOR to be constantly owned and submitted unto in ●imes of War and Peace