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A60930	A candle lighted at a coal from the altar whereby the King and rulers of this nation with the people of this present age may see the stone on which many have stumbled, and the rock which hath broken to pieces unfaithful men once in authority, who instead of protecting, did persecute the people of God, when they had the high places of the earth in possession, and that these present rulers may take warning betimes, least they stumble at the same rock, and while they have opportunity they may rather become as nursing-fathers to the flock of God within these dominions, by giving due encouragement to tender consciences, and men fearing God as in matters of religion / and this is directed unto you by a subject of the King of Righteousness, Tho. Salthouse.	Salthouse, Thomas, 1630-1691.	1660 (1660)	Wing S471; ESTC R13989	18,411	26

A Candle lighted At a Coal from the ALTAR Whereby the KING and RULERS of this Nation with the People of this present Age may see the STONE on which many have stumbled and the ROCK which hath broken to pieces unfaithful men once in Authority who instead of protecting did persecute the People of God when they had the High Places of the Earth in possession And that these present Rulers may take warning betimes least they stumble at the same Rock and while they have opportunity they may rather become as Nursing-Fathers to the Flock of God within these Dominions by giving due encouragement to tender Consciences and men fearing God as in matters of Religion And this is directed unto you by a subject of the King of Righteousness THO. SALTHOUSE Zeph. 1.12 And it shall come to pass that I will search Jerusalem with Candles and punish the men that are setled upon their Lees that say in their hearts The Lord will not do good neither will he do evil London Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1660. THE Vision of all hath been as the words of a Book sealed which could neither be read by the learned nor unlearned for no man in Heaven nor in Earth was found worthy to open the Book and to loose the Seals and to read thereon but the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah that root and off-spring of David who hath prevailed to open it and darkness hath covered all the Kingdoms of the world and all the Kindreds of the Earth for many ages and generations and the Great Whore arayed in Purple and Scarlet colour and decked with gold and silver and pretious stones hath had her seat upon the waters which is multitudes and peoples and tongues and languages having in her hand a golden Cup filled with abominations and with the filthiness of her fornication and with her the Kings and Inhabitants of the Earth have committed spiritual fornication and have drunk of the Wine of her fornication and they have given their power unto the Beast and the false prophet who maketh War against the Lamb and his followers and they have drunk the blood of the Martyrs and Saints and have by their Lawes compelled all both free and bond high and low rich and poor to receive that mark of the Beast and to bow down and worship his Image but the faithful witnesses that had the Testimony of Jesus and the Word of God who could not for Conscience sake bow to the Image of the Beast nor receive his mark have they slain in the streets of that great City spiritually called Sodom and Egypt where our Lord Jesus Christ also was crucified by the Princes of the Gentiles who did not know him and by force and violence in these last dayes and perilous times since there hath been a departing from the Faith once delivered unto the Saints have the Princes of this world exercised Lordship over the heritage of God by compelling and forcing people ignorantly to worship the unknown God in the Idols Tempels under pains and penalties of banishment burning stigmatizing stoning to death imprisonment and the like and all the penalties inflicted upon and sustained by the Servants of God and Saints of the Most High hath been by vertue of Authority derived from the higher Power or from men in holy Order as they have been stiled so that all the persecution of tender Consciences and of the Prophets and Saints about Religion and Religious exercises have been and may justly be charged upon the higher Power and holy Church so called and all that have been cast into Prison for the Testimony of Jesus and the Word of God hath been in the name of the higher Power and all that have suffered the spoiling of their goods and the loss of liberty and estates for not putting into the hireling Priests mouths hath been by the higher Powers as in the behalf of God and holy Church and many have suffered for these things as it hath been said in his Highness his name in this last time of Apostacy in which the day hath been dark over the Prophets that they have not had any Vision or Answer of God nor Revelation from him but have denyed Revelation and immediate Inspiration and have been in darkness and blindness as in the land of the shadow and death by whose instigation cruel yokes of bondage have been imposed upon the Israel of God in this long night of darkness and confusion but in patience have we waited for him whose coming was prepared as the morning and in answer to our earnest expectation in an acceptable time when there was none to help the Arm of the Lord was made bare to bring Salvation And now the Everlasting Day-star hath appeared and the God of all the Families of the Earth is bringing a remnant of Righteous Souls out of that Egyptian darkness which hath covered the whole earth in the time of Antichrists Reign and from under that thick vail which hath been spread over this and all Nations hath the Lord delivered a People that sometimes were walking in darkness and wandring from Mountain to Mountain in the night of Apostacy as old Israel did in the cloudy and dark day like sheep without a shepherd and as Israel after the flesh was delivered from their great bondage and hard servitude in outward Egypt and Babylon even so hath the Lord called and by his own Arm gathered his People out of spiritual Egypt and Babylon where they long mourned in desolation under the power of a strange King and cruel Task-masters and this people are fully perswaded in their minds not to return back into Egypt again but to travel on through the Kingdoms of Edom the borders of Moab until they come to the promised Land which is purchased to be a possession and peaceable habitation for them and their off-sping from generation to generation And this people whom the Lord hath called out of darkness into his marvellous light are a dispised people mis-represented to men in Authority as diverse in their Lawes and Customs from all other people and they are reproached with that name of distinction which is the Object of their adversaries indignation being reproachfully called Quakers because they tremble at the Word of the Lord and walkes humbly before him and since the time that the Lord hath appeared for our Salvation and Deliverance out of darkness bondage and captivity and since we set our faces towards Zion the City of Truth we have been tryed with cruel mockings bonds and imprisonments and we have born the reproaches of Moab and the revilings of the children of Ammon yea both Gabel Ammon and Ameleck have set themselves in opposition against Gods peculiar treasure and the uncircumcised in heart and eares Ashur and the Philistians hath joyned with them to help the incestuous children of Lot in their cruelty persecution and opposition against the Lords Servants those weak things of the world

whom he hath chosen to place his Name among and these poor of the world whom he hath made rich in Faith But he that reproved Kings for the sake of his people saying Touch not mine annointed and do my Prophets no harm hath smitten some of our Adversaries and opposers with a deadly wound and with Equity will he plead the Cause of the oppressed that have no helper in the Earth Therefore hearken unto this Word ye Heads and Rulers of the people and give ear O House of the King and all you in Authority whether in Church or State or of matters spiritual or temporal this is the Word of the Lord God unto you in this your day of Tryal touch not the Lords annointed nor offend not any of those little ones who are coming up out Egypt and Babylon neither seek to set up your selves as Lords over Gods Heritage by making Laws or prescribing wayes of worship to impose upon those tender Consciences and those Righteous Souls contrary to the spiritual Law of God according to his promise written in their hearts for behold the day is come in which the Lord is putting his Spirit in the inward parts and writing his Law in the hearts and in the mindes of his people so that we cannot submit to the Laws of the Medes and the Persians nor bow down to worship Nebuchadnezzars Image at the sound of the Musick whether Bell Organs Drum or Trumpet neither can we conform to the old Antichristian Traditions which in the time of ignorance was taught for Doctrines and Church Ordinances and imposed upon our Fore-fathers to be observed by them under pains penalties and corporal punishments neither can we worship or bow down to the resemblance or likeness of any thing either in Heaven above or in the Earth beneath nor in the waters under the Earth least we should provoke the Lord to jealousie who will not give his glory to another nor we cannot have mens persons in admiration because of advantage or for fear of persecution knowing that he who respecteth persons doth commit sin and is convinced of the Law as a transgressor Wherefore all you that are in Authority set up to Rule amongst men as Magistrates whether spiritual Military or Civil remember what the Rock of Israel hath said He that Rules amongst men must be Just ruling in the Fear and Wisdom of God that he may be a terrour to the evil-doers and a praise to them that do well and if you thus rule for God in his fear then will your light go forth as a morning without clouds and those under your Government will revive as the Corn and spring up as the tender grass out of the earth by clear shining after the rain and you must fear God and work Righteousness and hate oppression and covetousnesse else you cannot please God nor Rule for him amongst men neither can your Government be blessed nor of long continuance except you be Wise and Learned Just and Righteous Holy and Humble Gentle and easie to be entreated therefore be instructed O King and all ye Rulers of the earth and serve the Lord with fear and walk humbly before him for humility goeth before true honour and except you be Humble Holy and Upright you cannot be owned or accounted as the honourable of the earth although for a season you have the high Places thereof in possession to prove and try you as others have bin that were before you whom the Lord hath cast out rejected from bearing Rule amongst men not alone for your sakes but because of their unfaithfulness to the Lord in their day and the heavy yoaks which they laid upon the necks of those over whom they bore Rule and by reason of their envy violence and unkindness unto those sons of Jacob the Israel of God who are passing thorow your borders out of the house of bondage who did desire nothing of them nor now of you but to pass peaceably by the high way which is cast up and prepared for the Redeemed of the Lord out of Egypt and Assyria to that holy City whose Builder and Maker is God where they may worship God in the Spirit and Truth in the beauty of holiness and now let it enter into your Consideration that the Lord hath had a remnant of Righteous Servants in this Nation that have not defiled their garments with the detestible things nor with the abominations that have been committed in the land and that have not bowed their knee unto Baal and these are they that trembles at the Word of the Lord and they have been alwayes grieved and oppressed by reason of the great evils and abominations that have been committed in the land not onely open prophaneness pride and wantonness among the baser sort but also in things relating to Religion and the Worship of God and Church Ordinances so called and the Spirit of Grace and Truth which is poured forth from on high and which rests upon them hath strove from time to time with the Rulers of this Nation for Freedom and Liberty of Conscience in matters of such weighty concernment as the Work Worship of God and sometimes the Cry thereof hath entred into the ears of King Parliaments others in Authority and then they would promise or at least pretend a Reformation in Church and State and much action hath been in this Nation in a few years last past and the Lord hath overturned one Government after another without either Bow Battel-Ax or outward Weapon but not without giving them warning by his Watch-men either in word or writing for they have had precept upon precept and line upon line and the Lord hath pleaded with them by his Judgements and when his hand hath been upon them then they would humble themselves for a season and set upon doing something in answer to the expectation of that Spirit that did strive with them but it may and alwayes hath been observed that the people in whom this oppressed Spirit did strive and operate most of all and who were most zealous for a Reformation they have alwayes been accounted as Hereticks and Sectaries and reproached with the names of Puritans Round-heads and Quakers and such like brands of reproach as might render them odious to men in Authority or as a discontented people not fit to live upon the Earth yet nevertheless the witness of God in the Consciences of Men in places of trust hath somtimes answered to the cry of the oppressed so that they began to remove some Antichristian Yoaks of Bondage out of the way which was the greatest burden to tender Consciences as for instance several Monuments of Idolatry and Superstition was abolished all representations of the persons of the Trinity Angels or Saints in or about the Cathedral Collegiate or Parish Church or Chappel so called and the High Altars taken down and all Superstitious Vestments as Copes Surplices Roods Holy Water Funts Crosses Crucifixes and Pictures defaced and no more

the expectation of many who hath swept away the resuge of lyes and the unrighteous covering under which many were hid until the Lord appeared who is bringing down the loftiness of men that had set their nests on high and who were ready to say within themselves every one in his own heart I sit as a Queen and shall see no more sorrow I 'le ascend into Heaven and I will exalt my Throne above the stars of God I will sit also upon the Mount of the Congregation in the sides of the North whom God hath brought down into contempt and near unto the sides of the pit and upon whom he hath brought these two things in one day even desolation widow-hood and loss of Children let none rejoice over them nor seek to be avenged on them by killing their bodies or destroying their substance nor be lifted up by their fall for all these things have happened unto them for examples unto such as after all these things shall live ungodly and lift up themselves as Lords over Gods heritage for all things that have happened unto them all things written aforetime is for the admonition of these present Rolers this generation that they may not sit down to eat and drink and rise up to play as in the dayes of Noah and Lot for he that spared not the Angels that sinned but cast them down to Hell and delivered them into Chains of darkness to be reserved unto Judgement nor the old world that sinned who had corrupted their wayes upon the earth but brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly and turned the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemning them with an overthrow for their ungodly deeds 2. P●t and he that cut off from Israel both head and tail branch and rush in one day the antient and the honourable he is the Head and the Prophet that teacheth lyes he is the tail Esay 9.14 and who hath reproved Kings for the sake of his People saying Touch not my annointed and do my Prophets no harm he is the same both in Justice and Power at this day and his hand is not shortned neither is he slack as some men count slackness but will render a Just recompence of reward unto every man according to his works whether they be good or evil and the sin of Sodom must not go unpunished for pride goes before destruction and a high mind before a fall therefore fear the Lord and tremble at the Word of his holiness all ye Rulers and People upon the earth and meet the Judge by the way kiss the Son least he be angry if once his wrath be kindled but a little blessed are all they that puts their trust in him Oh who would not fear the King of Nations whom God hath determined by a perpetual Decree to set upon the holy Hill of Zion by whom Kings reign and Princes Decree Justice and who will Rule the Nations with a rod of Iron and break them in pieces like a Potters Vessel And unto whom God will give the Heathen for an Inheritance and the uttermost parts of the Earth for a Possession That the Government may be upon His Shoulder from generation to generation of the increase of whose righteous Government and Peace there shall be no End And unto him who hath been despised and rejected amongst men and whose Visage hath been more marred than any man against whom the Kings of the Earth have shut their mouths and said We will not have this man to Reign over us Even unto this man of Sorrows who is acquainted with grief must all the ends of the earth look for salvation And unto him must all the Kings of the Earth and the Mighty men and the chief Captains bring their glory and their honour and cast their Crowns at his Feet that He whose Right it is may have the Crown and sway the Scepter in the Kingdoms of men and he must reign till All his Enemies be made his Foot-stool and all Thrones and Dominions Principalities and Pow●rs must be made subject unto him and they that will not have him to reign must be be broken to pieces And this is the Foundation which God hath laid in Zion and Other Foundation can no man lay then that which is laid which is Jesus Christ the Foundation of the Prophets and Apostles and whosoever believeth and buildeth on him shall never be ashamed nor confounded But they that believe not on him shall stumble and fall and be broken and snared and taken And this is the Rock and Corner-Stone which the Builders have refused which to us is elect and precious and is become the Head-Stone of the Corner and the Top-Stone of that spiritual Building which is fitly framed together and is growing unto an holy Temple in the Lord and that house which is builded on this Foundation shall stand as Mount Zion which cannot be moved for it is not divided against it self neither can the Gates of Hell prevail against it For whosoever are established in Righteousnesse upon this Rock are not soon shaken in minde nor tossed to and fro with every winde of Doctrine by the slight of men whereby they lie in wait by 〈◊〉 Policy and cunning devised Fables to draw people from the hope of the Gospel and from the simplicity that is in Christ Neither doth these people who are as Living stones or the spiritual house cry to the Magistrates and outward Powers to have Religion setled by outward force imposing penalties upon Non-Conformists unto and Disturbers of their Way and Worship and Ordinances For they are already setled and satisfied and established in the true Religion and in Righteousness and it is the Double-minded who are unstable like the Waters and are tossed to and fro like the troubled Sea that are unsetled and the best way to settle such in the true Religion or to leave them without excuse is to suffer the Ministers of Gods Word to preach the Gospel in the Power and Demonstration of the Spirit that the witnesse of God may be raised in them and the sober Principle brought forth to rule men in matters both Religious and Civil and this meek spirit and Principle is according to the will of God and minde of Christ And as this comes to be raised up by a powerful free Ministry to rule in men or in Families Congregations and Nations so they come to be setled and stayed and builded up a spiritual house that the Lord may dwel in them as he hath said To this man will I look that 's humble and of a broken heart and trembleth at my word and I 'le walk in them and dwell in them saith the Lord and they shall be my sonnes and daughters And that which is required of you is to keep the peace and to be a Tertor to the Evil-doers and not to suffer wicked men to fight and persecute and hale out of Assemblies and smite with the fist of wickednesse nor

to be used in or about the Worship of God Likewise several Clauses and Articles of Ordinances and Acts of Parliament repealed which did impose Penalties upon people for not coming to Parish Churches for not keeping Holy Daies and for not hearing the Common Prayer with Penalties enjoyned to be imposed upon such as should use or read the Common Prayer in any Church or Chappel or private Family as may appear by several Ordinances and Acts of Parliament about that Year 44 and many Carnal invented Ordinances of the Church of Rome as sprinkling infants at the Funt finging before the dead bowing to the high Altar rails about the Communion Tables and abundance of such like things relating to the Worship and Service of God which was known to be but meer scraps and Rags of Popery were denied as beggarly Elements and rudiments of the world and no Ordinances of Jesus Christ to be practised among the Protestants Now these were good beginnings in order towards a Reformation in spiritual things and in relation to Church Worship but alas we have seen many good appearances and such fair promises come to little or nothing that we are jealous with a Godly Jealousie lest the old Serpent should deceive these Rulers and draw them back into bondage again in things of this Nature as he hath done them that formerly had the ordering and disposing of the great Affairs of this Kingdom who promised a Reformation both in Church and State and yet after these old corrupted Popish Ceremonies and Laws relating to spiritual Cognizance so called was abolished by the King Parliament Protector and his Councel they soon fell from those good beginnings and sought to set up themselves and their own Interests and then Religion was little regarded but as a Cloak for them to carry their own designs under and when they were setled in the high places then Magistrates and the Priests of the high Places consulted and took Councel together against the Lord and against his Annointed and instead of the old superstitious Laws and Ordinances they began to make new Laws to limit the Spirit to their Directions and Prescriptions and Observations by which the Servants and Handmaids of the Lord whose Consciences were tender and could not deny one Form to take up another instead thereof was haled before their Judgment Seats and somtimes whipped persecuted fined and imprisoned for reproving sin in the Gates for not swearing for meeting together in the fear of the Lord such like things until the Lord pleaded with the Rulers and visited for those things and made that Rock against which they strove and could not prevail a stone of stumbling and a Rock of offence on which they are fallen and broken to pieces Likewise King Charles the first and his Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament took away the High Commission Court when they saw the many harms and inconveniences that were in it and that it was a great snare and a bondage to tender Consciences and abolished several Acts and Ordinances that did bind people in an uniformity thereunto as may at large appear by an Act of the Parliament begun and held at Westminster the third of the ninth month called November in the year 1649. In which Act it is expressed that no Arch Bishop Bishop nor Vicar-general nor no Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Judg exercising Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Power or Authority shall by any grant license or Commission of the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors from and after the first of August 1●41 inflict any pain penalty or fine amercement imprisonment or other Corporal punishment upon any of the Kings Subjects for any matter or thing whatsoever belonging to Spiritual Cognizance or Jurisdiction and that they shall not administer any Corporal Oath whereby any may be forced to confess or accuse themselves in any offence whereby they are liable or exposed to any censure pain penalty or punishment on a spiritual account upon pain that every person who shall offend contrary to the Act above mentioned shall forfeit and pay treble dammage to every person thereby grieved and the sum of 100 pound to him or them who shall first demand or sue for the same Now this was a Legal Authority and this Act remains in as full force and vertue as if there had been no interruption of that power or as if it had been made by the King and Parliament now in being and therefore it may be expected that the Kings Subjects shall not suffer any penalty for not swearing or upon any spiritual account whatsoever for the King hath discharged all Judges and Ministers of Justice in the name of himself his Heirs and Successors not to impose any Oath pain penalty or punishment upon any person or persons male or female as upon a spiritual account and if the Kings Successors shall put this Law in execution it will be some ease to tender Consciences and will give the good people of these Nations hopes that a Reformation may yet be wrought and compleated in this Nation after all these strange alterations and overturnings though it is contrary to the expectation of many from any thing that appears visible Consider in time what the Lord God requires at your hands who are now intrusted with the Government and bring not upon the Nation the old Antichristian yoak of bondage which neither we nor our Fathers were able to bear let Christ Jesus the Everlasting high Priest who is the souls Bishop have the whole power in the Church as the head of it and let him order all things therein according to his Heavenly Wisdom and wonderful Councel both as to the Calling Ordination and sending forth Ministers to preach the Everlasting Gospel and Pastors according to his own heart and mind that the people may be fed with knowledg and understanding and let these Ministers sent forth by Christ who have the mind of Christ and do abide in his Doctrine have free Liberty without persecution to preach the Gospel in all the Provinces of these Dominions and suffer no Judg nor Minister of Justice to inflict any Penalty or Corporal punishment upon them on this spiritual account nor to cast them into prison for the Testimony which they hold and which is agreeable to the Testimony of Jesus the Word of God and Scripture of Truth for it is both against the Law of God also against the good Laws of this Nation that any man should suffer punishment persecution or imprisonment on any Religious or Spiritual account whatsoever Therefore let the world know even your adversaries themselves that you are of the Christian Religion by giving due encouragement to tender Consciences and to Christs Ministers to preach the Word in season and out of season without molestation or interruption by any colour or pretence of Authority derived from that higher Power For he who ascended up on high who led Captivity captive hath given gifts unto men for the work of that Ministry that there