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A rout, a rout: or some part of the Armies quarters beaten up, by the day of the Lord stealing upon them. Wherein is briefly discovered the present cloudy and dark appearance of God amongst them. / By Joseph Salmon, a present member of the Army.
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Salmon, Joseph.
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1649
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Wing S416; Thomason E542_5; ESTC R203442
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A Rout A Rout Or some part of the ARMIES QVARTERS BEATEN VP By the DAY of the LORD Stealing upon Them Wherein is briefly discovered the present cloudy and dark appearance of God amongst them By JOSEPH SALMON a present Member of the ARMY He that hath an ear to hear let him hear what the Spirit saith Arise ye and depart for this is not your rest it is polluted c. The weapons of our warfare are not carnall but mighty through God to beat down strong holds c. London Printed by T. N. 1649. A Word to the Commanding Power in the ARMY By your leave Gentlemen I Hope in these dayes of Liberty I may be free to speak a word to my fellow-Souldiers I shall not trouble you with much at the present for I know you have more trouble already upon your spirits then you can well tell how to be rid of My speech is intended especially as I said before to my fellow-Souldiers those of the inferiour rank and quality I have very little from the Lord to declare to You as yet All that I have to say is this That you go on as fast as you can with the Work you have begun for the time draws nigh that is allotted you Make haste I say yet not more haste then good speed Make a short work but cut it short in righteousnesse for the day is at hand wherein he that helpeth and they that are holpen shall fall together Gentlemen you are the rod of God yea the rod of the Lords anger in his own hand the Almighty Arm acts you and so it appears for no manly glory can encounter with you in this day of the Lords wrath you strike thorow King Gentry and Nobility they all fall before you You have a Commission from the Lord to scourge England's Oppressors do it in the name of God do it I say fully hotly sharply and the same measure you mete shall be met to you again for the Lord will ere long cast his rod into the fire of burning and destruction It will be a sweet destruction wait for it Gentlemen Vnder an abrupt form I subscribe my self Yours in life and death JOSEPH SALMON To the Fellowship of SAINTS scattered in the ARMIE Dear Hearts I Know it will be a wonder to some of you to behold this Frontispiece faced with my Character and truly it is as much my wonder as yours I little thought that ever God would have called me hither Friends I am yet amongst you I own you I can say Amen to your Proceedings although I cannot close with you in the managing of them I have a fellowship with you in the Lord but I am distant from your dark and fleshly enterprises You are a scattered seed amongst tares and it is your name that upholds the fame of the whole You are that little Leaven hid in the meale whose reputation seasons the whole lump if it were not for you this power of the Sword would vanish and be annihilated Behold I shew you a Mystery it is yet hidden from many yea most of you Thus saith the Lord of Hosts The day is coming and now is when I will gather up my jewels in the Army from under this dark and carnall form of the Sword into my self where I will be unto them Life Liberty Priviledge and Satisfaction the fulness of Arrears and plenty of Accommodation when they shall no more contend with the world for outward Interest but beholding all in Divine fulness shall in the enjoyment of it sit down contented And this I partly see fulfilled in my self and others But now it may be you will wonder why I yet remain amongst you seeing I am brought hither I am sure many of your verdicts will passe upon me I shall not want the censure of most But it is no matter Cast all your cruelty and malice upon me the Lord in me is mighty to bear it I will own it all being willing to become sin for you though the Lord in me knows no sin that you together with me may be presented in the Lord an eternall righteousnesse I have but this at present to say I am now with you as Mary at the Sepulchre waiting to see the Lord but he is risen Your carnall affairs are the Sepulchre where the Lord is buryed to me he is not here he is certainly risen but where to see him in his next appearance I wait I must stand at the sepulchre till the voyce be uttered behinde me which I beleeve will be shortly both to me and many others Till the day break and the shadows flee away Farewell my Beloved be thou as a Roe or a young Hart upon the mountains of Bether Sirs I am yours JOS. 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A ROVT A ROVT OR Some part of the Armie's Quarters beaten up by the DAY of the LORD stealing upon them THat Power or Mystery which acts all things and by which whole man in his counsels actions and engagements is led out and disposed according to divine will and pleasure I say this Power which is God comes forth and offers it self in a diversity of appearance and still by a divine progresse in the affairs of the earth moves from one power to another from one dispensation to another from one party to another hereby accomplishing his eternally decreed designe in and upon the Creature This is manifest in all dispensations civil and spirituall Time was when God had faced the Jewish Ceremonies those carnall manifestations with a great beauty and splendor of divine Majestie the Lord was there seen under that form to vail and hide his beauty and glory In a time appointed he departed from them went out of them he would dwell there no longer but he casts off that form or garment and clothes himself with another swallowed up that glory in another the lesser in the greater and then all the brightness and lustre of divine appearance resided in and dwelt upon the flesh of the Son as being a more true pattern and exact resemblance of God the divine Power But the Lord was not here in his appearance where he would be neither and therefore having no resolution eternally here to tabernacle or abide in the fulness of Time he lays this form aside also Though he was the Son the dear Son the only begotten Son a Son so like the Father yet he must not be spared he must be crucified the Lord will move hence also whence note That this Divine power or Mystery admits of no eternall habitation in any thing below it self Now as This power God hath a daily motion out of one dispensation spirituall into another so also it is in Civil or outward dispensations This I have found in my own experience by tracing this Divine power in its going forth amongst the sons of Men that it sometimes owns this sometimes that form sometimes this sometimes that party daily moving from one to another as it pleaseth now the Lord lives in all these