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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86647	An ansvver to a paper; called, A petition of one Thomas Ellyson, late shepherd of Easington in the county of Durham, to his Highness the Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, and to all emperors, kings and princes through the world.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1654 (1654)	Wing H3154; Thomason E814_10; ESTC R207351	12,201	16

AN ANSWER TO A PAPER CALLED A Petition of one Thomas Ellyson late Shepherd of Easingion in the County of Durham to his Highness the Lord Protector of England Scotland and Ireland and to all Emperors Kings and Princes through the world LONDON Printed in the Year 1654. AN ANSWER TO A PAPER CALLED A Petition of one Thomas Ellyson late Shepherd of Easinton in the County of Durham to his Highness the Lord Protector of England Scotland and Ireland and to all Emperors Kings and Princes through the world THere are many in the County of Durham that know that thou hast been a Shepherd lately enough and see thee what thou hast been and where thou hast been and where thou art now and knows thee to be one in nature with those Shepherds which the Lord sent Ezekiel Isaiah and Jeremiah to cry against who feeds themselves with the fat and cloathes themselves with the wool and that thou art one of those Shepherds that cares not for the sheep and art in the nature of one of those Shepherds which the true Prophets cryed against which were as evening Wolves and as Foxes in the desert And for the simples sake I am moved to lay open thy deceit that thou art one of those Foxes thou speaks of which hath fire in their tails and thou are made manifest to be of old Cains nature that old murthering spirit and with thy flattering titles which thon gives to men and hath mens persons in admiration because of advantage and thou art born after the flesh the son of the bond-woman who art petitioning to men that they may abuse their power and exalt themselves over the heritage of God and thou that wouldst have Laws to bind the consciences of men to walk after thy will thou art Antichrist and thou that art petitioning the Powers of the earth to make Laws to limit the Holy One of Isral But blessed be the Lord the day is come that thou and all deceivers persecutors and flatterers is discovered and many sees thee among Majestrates that thy spirit is the same that would command fire to come down from heaven to have destroyed them who would not receive them First Thou saith That Moses who was a Commander over all Israel that he was appointed to bear the people in his bosom as a nursing father and thou saith thou art a cryer for the remembrance of those things that all might be carried in their arms now and thou goes on and tells them that God will require the Government of his Church at their hands Rep. Moses who was faithful and true over the house of God who was a figure of Christ he did receive the Law from the mouth of the Lord he acted in righteousness and when Elead and Madad prophesied he was not angry as thou art but desired that all the Lords people were Prophets and all who wait upon the Lord to receive the Law of God from his mouth now and walk in the same they have the same spirit and they will not limit the holy One But thy cry that thou callest for is that thou wouldst have them who are in Moses stead as thou saith they are for to limit the holy One. And thou art the deceiver the Apostle speaks of which is gone into the world who would perswade the Majestrates that they must govern the Church and so thou wouldest have this generation of Rulers to be dash'd in pieces as all the generations have been before them in exalting themselves in the seat of Christ when as the Prophet saith The government is upon Christs shoulders and the Scripture saith He alone treads the Wine-press And therefore whosoever will assume unto themselves to govern the Church by an outward visible carnal Law shall be as sure to be broken as all the rest The Church is in God and is invisible and that which is visible and natural cannot make any law to bind that which is unlimited but they if they doe go about to limit the holy one of Israel and would set themselvs in his seat of Judgment and take away his glory which he will not give to any and all such as have made any laws in their own wills to limit sons and daughters they have all been broken as the Scripture witnesseth every where and therfore let all Governers in England Scotland and Ireland and all the world to whom thou writest take heed how they set themselves in the room of God and lay yokes upon the necks of them who are free by the Son and are brought by the power of the Lord from under the breach of all righteous Laws or transgressing any holy which is just for the law is for the lawless law not for them who are in righteousness but the law is for the transgressors who are in unrighteousness and they are those that act by that Spirit which dwells in thee who would levy troops for the Innocent and art wroth and thy countenance falls like Cain and hates thy brethren and would haue a law made over the conscience and would have the Powers of the earth to abuse their power in turning their swords against them who live in righteousnes and declare against unrighteousnes And further thou goest on and tellest them this was a law given to Adam and so thou pervertest the Scripture by thy imaginations Where readest thou of such a law given to Adam that he compelled his family to religion And further thou sayest Which care of government is in great neglect in this Nation upon respect to tender consciences sundry Sects and sorts of Schismaticks are suffered unsuppressed and they sacrifice to Dan and Bethel And thou goest on and tellest the Nobles that it lies upon their score that they should suppress them Ans That which was given to a particular family or people which was for its time is not everlasting So any that takes up any rule without them to act by acts not by precept but by tradition in their own wills God abhors that And thou bringest in the Old-Covenant which was given to a particular people the Jews but now the Priesthood is changed and the Law is changed and as for thy law which thou wouldst have the Governors of this Nation to make for suppressing of Sects and Schismaticks that worship at Dan and Bethel and thou sayest this is charged upon them But thou mightst have told them who they had been and where Dan and Bethel is lest they be mistaken as thou art that cals darkness light and light darkness But all that thou art troubled at is this that the light of Christ in the conscience should have liberty and here thou art he which is born after the flesh and art that Egyptian thou speaks of which persecutes the righteous seed It is true there are Sects and Schisms too many and Opinions they stand all in one ground and thou and they come out of one land Babylon is the land of your nativity in the light you are