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hand_n	bishop_n	church_n	presbyter_n	4,517	5	10.4419	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86656	A word from the north, sounded into the south, heard, and received of many. Jesus Christ the Son of God, which is the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world; and all that receive this light, and believe in this light, and are obedient to this light, they receive power and do become the sons of God. And as I have heard, so I have and do see in the true light, and am bold to give forth my testimonie that it is true, and there is no other way to salvation but by it. And therefore do I warn all people, and thee, O Kent, with the citie of Canterbury, and town of Maidstone, and all thy magistrates in you all, betimes to consider and take heed that none of you be anie longer enemies to it and its ministers, lest you be found fighters against God. Thomas Howsegoe.	Howsegoe, Thomas.	1657 (1657)	Wing H3197; Thomason E923_2; ESTC R207540	15,258	22

come upon thee on a day before thou art aware and will reward thee double for all thy iniquities saith the Lord and as thou hast drunk deep of the Cup of thy Fornication so thou shalt drink deep of the Cup of my Indignation and if these things thou departest not from and turn unto me with all thy heart oh people unworthy to be beloved if thou wast as Zion for these things thou shouldst be plowed as a field and as Jerusalem thou shalt be laid on heaps and though the Mountains of thy House be as the High Places yet thou shalt be laid as a Forrest before me saith the Lord. But if thou wilt repent and turn unto me saith the Lord unfeignedly with all thy heart and hear and obey the voice of my servants and Ministers which I have sent unto thee and now of late raised up in thee gifted with my own spirit in the light of my own Son who is the true light which enlightneth ery man that cometh into the world and turn away from all thy false Hirelings and Teachers which run and I never sent them and have not received their vvords from my mouth who profit not the people at all but declare their own dreams and tell of visions and imaginations of their own hearts which I never spake to them which reaches not my Witness and burdens my seed which seed cryes for the bread of life living bread living water from my living Fountain of light and life Then oh then shal it go wel with thee oh Nation oh County oh people saith the Lord and I will be your Teacher I will be your Pastor your Father and you shall be my children and I will be with you and bless and multiply you and you shall know your Teacher in the midst of you and your Bread and Waters shal never fail you no want in your dwellings and peace shall flow in as a River and plenty as a Flood unto you and I will be a Wall about you and for good will watch over you and I will bring forth my living Witnesses in you which shall declare and make known my everlasting Gospel with life and power unto you and shall freely and boldly declare it in the midst of you who shall not flatter nor spare mine Enemies among you who shall not seek themselves but my glory and Name to be exalted in the midst of you who shall not preach for hire nor seek gain from any quarter of you but shal preach the Gospel and live of the Gospel with you and I will be with them to preserve and keep them as the apple of mine eye in the midst of you And you Powers touch not mine anointed nor do my Prophets no harm I warn and charge you saith the Lord for vengeance is mine I wil repay it unto you And you O people prise the Lords love now tendred unto you and know this day of your visitation before it be hid from you and that day of his fierce wrath over take you in the which you will say We have no pleasure in it and then you shall remember that you were warned in your life time by him who is a lover of all your souls and known unto many of you by the Name of Thomas Howseyor Oh City and Town you are weighed and found too light Repent repent AND thou City of Canterbury and Town of Maidstone to you the Inhabitants and people thereof are these lines given forth and vvritten You are great and greatly encreased in riches and strength of this World and you set as Ladyes and Queens in the County and in your hearts as your actions declare say you have need of nothing but vvith the light of Christ you might see and are seen that you are poor miserable blind and naked you have gotten names and distinctions of Worships and in vvords vvith your tongues spoken you say every party of you vve vvorship the true God and so that which is but one and vvithout seam or division you would rent and divide among you and in your sensual and fallen vvisdoms you vvould imagine a vvorship to me and according to the number of your Tribes so you make you Gods to vvorship Oh foolish people saith the Lord God and will not come down to my Witness my Spirit of Truth the Light my Son with vvhom I am vvel pleased and with all those who have learned of him to vvorship me in the Spirit and the Truth and so you not receiving him and his vvitness within you know not me nor cannot come to me for no man knovveth me but him to whom my Son the true light vvhich enlightneth every one that cometh into the vvorld draweth and revealeth Matth. 11. 27. And not receiving him nor feeling him within to guide you have gotten a Profession but vvant the possession and forms you have but vvant the povver the Saints vvords and practises to talk of you have gotten and imitations you have gotten but vvant the life vvhich they vvere in and feel not the life that they felt vvho in the life had dominion over their vvills their lusts their pride their passion their envie their hatred strife and debate wrathfulness maliciousness idle vvords idle talking and vain jesting vvhispering and backiting they vvere in the life and vvitnessed redemption from the vvorld and its vain conversations profits pleasures vanities lusts pollutions fashions words wayes worships and empty traditions and beggarly Elements and Rudiments that perish in the using They vvitnessed the life that grace that taught them to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and that led them to live soberly holy in all manner of conversation in this present evil World Now then try your selves you professors in these Tovvns all of you see if this life you vvitness and by it set over the vvorld and your lusts otherwise all your professions are vain and to the light in all your consciences come down that wil let you see where you are and vvitness for God against you all that you are far from the life and povver of God and not like the Saints that gave forth Scriptures and so vvith the light of Christ you are seen and by the children of Light denied And you who call your selves Independents in these Towns you are become many of you more proud and vain and light in your Attires and more envious and malicious in your practises against the children of light then that people of the Nation and Towns that you say you are seperated from and though you talk of Liberty Freedom and Church Priviledges as you call them and though you once cryed out against your forefathers the Bishops and Presbyters when you were servants and in bondage under them yet now your selves being become Masters your hands are as heavie as their loyns and that many of the servants of the Lord have felt in this Nation and some in this County in your Towns And though you are as Sisters together