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A85310 Fire from heaven, falling upon the present army and the churches: or, Two words from the Lord to both· Held forth to the understanding of those, that make not flesh their arm, and whose hope the Lord is, that cease from man (a piece of earth) whose breath is in his nostrils. As also to the terror and astonishment of all those, who lean upon the broken staff of Egypt, and trust in horses, and strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and joy in the shadow of men; and cry to themselves, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord. / By a man of their councel. Man of their councel. 1649 (1649) Wing F954; Thomason E572_12; ESTC R202075 23,108 31

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first pull that down and make it a desolation and then lay a sure foundation for a more glorious one Thus doth God Your house saith he shall be left unto you desolate The people boasted in the Temple God had a Temple to build Well saith God I will first destroy yours desolation shall first attend your worldly earthly Temple God hath now a pure glorious House to build a pure Government to which the Nations must all bow and bring their glory to Now the Saints that are under dark and cloudy dispensations say Come let us govern and rule and we will rule for the Lord but they alas by reason of their darkness patch and peece up a Government made up of the Laws and Statutes that our forefathers in their days not partakers of our light or rather the Lords in us formed and made and their Reformation is a retreating back to prestine purity but not a going forward pressing after that purity and glory which eye hath not seen nor ear heard nor entred into the heart of man to conceive For further testimony see Isai 24. the whole Chapter especially 20 21 22 23 verses Chap. 26.20 21. Chap. 65.15 16 23. Zeph. 3.8 9. where you may plainly read that when the Lord will do his great work when all shall confess to him and every knee bow when his glory shall be lifted up and peace and love shall dwell in the hearts of men and women and no hurting in Gods holy mountain That destruction shall go before and the high and lofty ones shall be brought low a consumption will the Lord bring and make a short work in all the earth Object But it may be said and that by honest hearts That Anarchy and Confusion is that aspersion which the world casts upon the Saints by reason of the changes the Lord makes in the Government of the Nation and the people of God conceive themselves wronged in it and will you own that which they disclaim Answ I am against Anarchy utterly as that which hath no Order and Government and the dissolver of all Order but yet as it leads to the setting up of a pure righteous and everlasting Government I quietly and contentedly submit to it and behold the strange and marvellous actings of the Lord in it and there feasting my self with those dainties that are secretly involved in those black and dark dispensations and in this confusion finde a sweet and blessed Order begun in me and behold the Lord bringing it forth to the view of the world that every eye may see him and all shut their mouths at him 2. That you would remain naked and sensless before the Lord and men to be as helpless creatures You could be content many of you peradventure to be naked before the Lord but not before men O then say you will the world trample upon us and we shall be destroyed and that without remedy and make our selves a reproach and contempt to all Nations when we shall thus freely and voluntarily resign up our selves Wives Children City Country and Nation into the Fathers hands and so to have no Wife Child Servant or Habitation yea no Husband Parent or Master but what is in the Fathers resignment To have no Keeper of the Vineyard but the Lord no Watchman but the Watchman of Israel to have no bulwarks and no walls but Salvation Freedom and Liberty from on high to have a strong City and yet without Gates To be presented to the Lord and men as creatures undone broken in their estates glory and repute having nothing to live upon but what the Ravens by the Word of the Lord bring morning and evening to them beholding all the vessels of the earth broken to pieces and not a potsheard left to take up coals withal You must lose all part with all have nothing be nothing to God to the world Have nothing but what the barrel of meal and cruse of oyl affordeth a famine being in the Land upon the Prophet Teacher mighty men and men of war upon the Captains and men of strength and no bread but in the Lord nor water but in this living fountain 2. My counsel is That you would come forth clothed with pure and white linnen with the man God or the God-man in your arms dressed with divine attire clothed with embrodered garments yea of needle-work of all curious workmanship and this work is not yours but the Lords in which you are onely to wait until the Lord bring forth his name in you in which day you shall go forth bearing to men the meekness quietness peace love and goodness of God as you did once administer to your brethren destruction misery wrath and judgment and as you soar up into God so shall you in the majesty of this God heal and cure the Nations even by the leaves that this tree of life shall yeeld and thus shall ye become men of another garb men of another dress and you shall be named by a new name which the Lord our God shall name new Jerusalem shall be written upon you and there shall be no goings out not a thought of man not a word of man that name shall be mentioned no more unless as an abhorring to all the Israel of God The earth shall cease to yeeld her fruit man shall give forth no longer he shall be emptiness unto the Lord vanity shall be written upon every thing that remains and all things shall sound forth God a trumpet shall not blow that cannot eccho forth the Lord and this shall be the great conquest and the great reward That we our selves are conquered and brought in subjection to the Lord That whereas after all our victories and successes there still remained Creature and God now there remaineth after this success and victory God and nothing of Creature And whereas you were the fear of men when you were gift with a sword so now you are swordless and manless you are the love and good will of the people and what you are you are to the Lord and for the Lord not to nor for your selves Object But you may object and say This is a happy time were it in our days were it to be fulfilled upon us but the time is not yet Answ All that dye shall live and all that live shall dye They that now have neither house land credit profit repute glory wife childe brother and sister but having had all do now part with all shall find all these in God And they that have these as you have in abundance shall lose all and be without all You that cease from your own honor shall enjoy far more in God and cease as to your offices among men shall obtain greater in God and from a common Soldier shall become a Captain and from a Captain a General and from a General to be One with the great God of Heaven and Earth who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords And for the time behold it is
you cannot get off it O it is a command of God and you dare not omit it To which I reply First That when God had an outward Tabernacle and Temple Church and Ministery as under the Law he was very exact with the people in the observation thereof a Pin must not be left out nor a Naile out of its place but Looke that thou make them after the patterne which was shewed thee in the mount Exod. 25.40 And this day shall you observe for ever in your generations Exod. 12.14 And this the tenth day of the first month vers 3. And the seventh year should be a Sabbath to them and the fiftieth year a year of Jubile Levit. 25.4 11. There must be no swerving from the observation of these Secondly When the Lord leaves this house and will build another Cloathed with greater glory he tyes not his people to the outward observation of things he is not now as formerly exact in them Doth not command them to be baptized with water but into the Spirit Christ tells them They shall be baptized with the holy Ghost and with fire commands that they be baptized into the Name of Father Son and Spirit viz into the power and glory of these three and yet one into a clear knowledg and understanding of these And for the Supper doth not enjoyn them to the strict and absolute observation of it nor when as under the law such a day shall you observe the Passeover but now As oft as you do it do it in remembrance of me not telling them how oft they should do it But how long must this eating bread and drinking wine last during your continuance in the dark until the Lord comes and be a feast of fat things in the spirit and life to you until he be revealed from Heaven consuming this dross and earthly knowledg within you and then shall you drink no more of this fruit of the Vine but drink it new in the Kingdom You used signs and tokens of his death c. had many letters representing him but now he is come what need these he is come himself even his sweet self nay further as the Lord did not then binde his people to outwards so were they used by the Apostles as in them they might become all to all stoop to them and speak them in their own language and as children to deal with them 3. Those Churches with their glory ministry and all were to dye and wither away apostatize and fall back and this for time times and half a time as the Scripture plentifully witnesseth and the holy City under foot and when Christ cometh shall he finde faith on the earth And this should be until the Kingdoms of this world become the Lords his Christs and God take to him his great reign yea till the Tabernacle of God shall be with men and a new Heaven and Earth appear and God make all things new and this is the Church and the Ministry which the Scripture tells you shall be set up after the Apostatizing days Therefore dear hearts binde not your selves where God hath not bound you be free in what the Lord hath made you free 2. A second Reason why the judgment of the Lord shall from Heaven fall upon you is because you by reason of your narrow thoughts and apprehensions keep the Lord Jesus prisoner will not permit him to go any where or dwell in any save your selves You are offended if the Lord break forth in a further manifestation of Glory to others not of your rank and order Lord saith the Presbyter here thou must abide this is thy dwelling place never remove from hence And here saith the Independent And here saith the Anabaptist c. Do you think that he that hath the key of David that openeth and no man shutteth and shutteth and no man openeth will become your prisoner No no his glory he will not give to another The Lord if he rend the vail of this fleshly Temple and pass through it into the highest Heavens you will serpent-like wait for this man-childe brought forth by the woman viz. weakness that you may devour it and therefore you cry out Lo here is Christ and lo there and question people saying Are you a member of a visible Church of what society and so lessen that comfort and peace or at least endeavor it that poor souls have in God by reason they are not joyned to your societies But in all their afflictions he is afflicted the Lord in this weak brother or sister is afflicted and beareth all he beareth and thus you imprison and afflict the Lord himself 3. Because it is your shame to live upon a naked God to have the Kingdom of God onely within you you are unwilling to leave outward bread and wine for God the bread and water of life and he that is ashamed of God of him shall God himself be ashamed What say you shall we by men be accounted no more praying fasting men hearing and preaching men no more to weep and mourn but all tears to be wiped from our eyes to observe no Sabbath but the Lord God and to call him holy a delight honorable not to think our own thoughts nor speak our own words O this is your shame namely to leave the water in the cisterns and that run in the channels for that great river and fountain whose streams make glad the City of God It is to you a greater shame to be at your fathers house with the fatted calf then in the Country to feed swine and to eat their husks therefore he that helpeth shall fall and he that is holpen shall fall down and they shall all fail together II. A second word and that of advice and counsel First That you would assemble your selves to the Supper of the great God and this saith the Angel the Messenger of God that stands and abides in the glory of God Rev. 19.17 And I saw an Angel standing in the Sun and cryed with a loud voyce saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven Come and gather your selves together unto the Supper of the great God The Lord invites you the great and mighty God woos you by his Messenger by another appearance of his My advice is That you would go tarry not and that you may understand the Supper what it is 1. The flesh and blood of the mighty men of the earth the power and authority of the rulers of the world which are bound in chains Rev. 19.18 That ye may eat the flesh of Kings and the flesh of Captains c. Ezek. 39.18 19. Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the Princes of the earth of Rams of Lambs c. And ye shall eat fat until ye be full and drink blood until ye be drunken of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you You shall fill and satisfie your selves with the judgment of the Lord upon the