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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

great and high-looked men of the earth You shall see the Day of the Lord upon all flesh upon all might and power you shall see all the pride of the earth stained and defaced and this shall be your joy and rejoycing And it shall then be said Behold the man the woman that gave not the glory to God Behold end see every thing that is not pure God defaced hath lost its life its blood runs to the Rocks and Mountains there to hide themselves O blessed Feast O sweet Supper nothing remaining but the Holy One Iniquity hath here an end and the terrible one is here brought low 2. This Feast is the flesh of the Whore an eating of her and a burning her with fire You know in the burnt-offerings under the Law the flesh and the fat and all was to be burnt and nothing to remain so nothing is to remain in this burnt-offering but the Lord For by Whore I understand to be any thing or person whatever that you love and delight in and go to bed to save the pure and individeble God any of those Lovers that give us our bread and our water our wool and our flax our drink and our oy● whatever it be that refreshes us inwardly or outwardly save God Do you joy and delight in Forms in outward Dispensations and Administrations Nay do you delight in Christ as after the flesh Do you feast your selves with the fleshly presence of Christ This shall be burnt up with fire And do you eat it up and let not ought remain There is a Strumpet within you your wisdom which is your snare your knowledg reason and will which will cause you to fall O let all be burnt up yea this will of yours let it not remain until the morning and it shall be a sweet swelling sacrifice unto the Lord let your will be terminated in God let your reason be the Lords reason and your judgment his let this affect you and the zeal of the Lords house even eat you up Secondly Let me advise that you go and return to your first husband you were first espoused to the Lord well have but one husband stray not from this man of knowledge any longer be not a stranger at home though you have played the harlot yet will your husband receive you Seek the Lord and David your King and fear the Lord and his goodness now in these latter daies Hos 3.5 This is the first thing you must do when you are come out of bondage and out of the Land of Aegypt when delivered out of the strange land ask for the Lord seek him out never leave untill you have found him even him whom your soule loveth You must seek the Lord God and then Zion If you know God perfectly you will know men as they are but this is the reason men and Saints are so much deceived because they first seek the Church and then Lord men and then God But were you fully and prefectly acquainted with God you would know men and things distinctly O you would easily learn to distinguish between the light of God and the darkness of men between the emptiness and vanity of men and things and fulness that is in God God is that blessed key that opens the door to every creature giving a perfect and distinct knowledge of them creatures shall be no more then creatures to you Did you know the Lord by these espousals of his were this the mariage day to you it would work out all strangenes that is in your souls to this God Hos 2.17 For I will take the names of Balaam out of her mouth and they shall no more be remembred by their names They shall no more call God my Lord but my husband vers 16. There is not such a discovery such an intimate understanding of secrets between the master and servant as between the husband and wife The servant knows nothing but as it relates to his dutie and obedience as it relates to the servitude he is under Well saith the Lord I will free you of this bondage you and I will not be strangers but familiar friends It shall be no more I and you but you and I one we will have one table one house one heart one minde and by the effecting this work I will doe it First I will first bring you into the wilderness I will have you alone your lovers shal no more remain before me you shall be where there is no path no way no Church no Temple no company O then saith God you will be glad of company then society with me will be your delight will in that day step in and shew my self and then shall you freely come in worshipping and serving of me Secondly The Lord will in this day reveale and discover himself in a full and glorious manner Your vailes shall then be rent and your coverings removed then shall ye say Lo this is our God we have waited for him This is the invisible One whom no man have seen nor can see whom flesh and blood hath not revealed this consuming fire is he this everlasting burning is our husband O then shall you loath your selves for all your abominations you shall then cease crying up that fleshly knowledge wisdom understanding teaching and hearing which you now so much strive after that it shall be an abhorring to you Isai 66.23 24. And it shall come to pass that from one new Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another shall all flesh come to worship before me saith the Lord. And they shall go forth and look upon carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me for their worm shall not dye neither shall their fire be quenched and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh You shall go forth out of this holy City and you shall look for the Praying Fasting Preaching and Reading men and women for all the carnall worshippers and you shall see nothing but the carcasses of these men remaining and they shall stink in your nostrils and be an abhorring to you For Behold the Lord creates new heavens and a new earth and the former shall be remembred no more THE POST-SCRIPT Reader in the Flesh and Disciple in the Spirit I Was encouraged thus to write to the Army and Churches because Michael the great Prince is standing up and it is a time of trouble such as never was since there was a Nation and yet at this time a people are delivered and they are found written in the Book Would you know them who they are Look among the writings of the Spirit and that book will discover them This Book that I have in weakness written tells you of a time of war desolations and forsakings of hoasts of men of an Army of brave spirited-men zealous professing men an Army that hardly any Army can write after them lifted up to Heaven and yet brought down to Hell Of Churches forsaken and made a desolation yet reformed Churches Candlesticks that hold out more then their Fathers did Yet you hear of a people standing upon the same earth and sea clothed with the Sun and the Moon under their feet that are at rest that are entred into Canaan and passed through the river Jordan dry-shod I have written to you because it is the time that men are running to and fro and knowledg is increased That you the Nations and kindreds of the earth fleshly societies may see the Son of man coming in the Clouds and weep and wail because of him That you that seek great things for your selves glorious structures and buildings of men a City made by hands may know the Son of man the Emmanuel God with and in us hath not in all these where to lay his head As you hear in this a house fallen because built up on the sands of a City whose inhabitants are sick weak dying men that are flesh and not spirit So if the Spirit will permit me to write again you shall hear of a house that like Mount Zion shall never be removed and that because it is founded on a Rock a City the inhabitant whereof shall not say I am sick the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity they shall weep no more God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes There shall be no more thence an infant of days nor an old man that hath not filled his days the childe shall dye a hundred years old the full age of a man or more They shall be all from the least to the greatest perfect in knowledg come unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ But the Sinner being an hundred years old the old professor the man that hath known Christ after the flesh for a whole age and more that hath trotted up and down all his life after Eli the old man the man Adam the flesh that is corrupt shall be accursed shall like the barren tree wither and be cut down FINIS

be to the righteous and terror to the wicked How would we have separated between the precious and the vi●e And this have the people long expected from your hands but behold oppression ernesty and revenge slaying the innocent and righteous ones whom God would have kept alive You have discovered the covering of Judah and treacherously slain your friend and brethren and given up Judah to the sword and Israel to captivity And in that day did the Lord of hoasts call to weeping and to mourning and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth and behold joy and gladness slaying oxen and killing sheep eating flesh and drinking wine giving gifts and taking rewards and thus your are feasted with the blood of the righteous and drunk with their blood until you fall and never rise again Behold Tythes the great oppression of the Nation with its treble damages recoverable of the People if refused though you rule and your own consciences with others are against it yet will you have it so Who would have thought that you would have maintained such a company of Priests whom God as you know and say hath spued cut of his mouth and yet that you should support their Diana and nourish those dark places of the Land called and reputed of many the two eyes of the Land the fountain and seed-plots of all good learning and become Doctors Masters and Fellows in Babels arts and sciences bringing stone timber and morter to the building that City and Tower whose top may reach to Heaven But this is a fruit of the blood of the Saints which you have shed and a return of praise to the Holy One who in his descension upon men was crucified by you Nay how can you suffer faithful members to be excluded the House for professing and asserting the pure Divinity of God no way mixt or compounded That God is not three but one and not many gods as you in your imaginations think That there is no such thing in God though to men as Father Son and Spirit but all one in God though not in man and is thereby onely distinct to men and that to the darkness of men not to the light of God within them which reads God under another notion for that Soul beholds him all love excellency and goodness and this in all his ways to all in all upon all and that this God neither is or can be divided not admitting a seam in his garment Nay what enmity is there in your spirits or at least in your actions to Papists not suffering them or men in gross darkness viz. the Prelates who being in the dark and under cloudy dispensations of God should therefore have the going forth of the morning among them that they might be brought out of darkness into light and won by that love and meekness that is or should be in you to them yea I say not admitting them into the liberty and freedom with your selves I know your hearts you could many of you tolerate Papists and Prelates among you but that the Nation look upon them under such a gross notion that you to please men dare not do it thinking hereby your repute and credit among men will fall to the ground and be esteemed by many such your selves And therefore to retain and keep up your glory among men will you break the rules of love mercy and goodness and make shipwrack of your own and others consciences Yea you can command the People to fast and restrain the Nation from working on those days annexing penalties as formerly to the breach thereof thereby bringing in those legal and Mosaical Fastings Jewish and National which Christ by a more pure and glorious ministration hath abolished Nay let me discover what I know of you viz. That many if not the most of you are wholy dead in your selves to fastings of that nature your souls loathing it but onely that the Nation may judg you to be religious and zealous to make every one your proselite and not deem you to be for such an universal toleration of all sects and sorts of men in their religion until the day and pure glory of God break forth causing all darkness to sly before it yea turning the Sun into darkness and the Moon into blood not admitting any thing save this pure light then to be and converse among men I say for this cause do you thus dissemble with the Nation and seem as if you accounted the peoples fastings a sacrifice that God accepts Object But you may peradventure say through the hardness and obduracy of your hearts This is sedition and a stirring up and enraging the people against you Answ Though I might or could by means procure it I would not lift up or have a sword lifted up against you nor a hand in wrath and indignation The worst mischief I would do you were it in my power would be to create a heart of love and peace among you to engrave upon all your hearts and upon the hearts of the whole Nation an entire perfect union and agreement in God and a beating of your swords into plow shares and your spears into pruning hooks and to learn war no more I am for peace but you are for war and in times of peace shed blood therefore hath the Lord prepared you a cup to drink and you shall drink deep of it Death shall swallow you up alive and the grave shall open for you and hell shall be your portion because they that have killed with the sword shall be killed by the sword and they that have led into captivity shall go into captivity This is a sweet word wait for the fulfilling of it The Lord will destroy you all the Lord will give you blood to drink you shall drink and be drunken with your own blood It is a mystery and you it may be understand it not and therefore admire it Remember you not the voyce of the Church of old In the way of thy judgments have we waited for thee O Lord Great is the mystery of godliness thus it is You have shed the blood of thousands thousands you have have wasted Cities Countries c God hath provided a double portion for you and both of judgment and destruction The one is to destroy your flesh to give it up to the sword A second to cut off two parts of you out of the land of the living First The Lord will destroy your flesh and make a great slaughter among you even of your reason wisdom judgment credit glory repute all that is flesh in you to lay your glory in the dust to turn your wisdom into folly to burn up your righteousness holiness to give you a new heart to destroy that warlike envious and bloody spirit that is in you to create peace in all your dwellings and love in all your hearts not suffering any thing of the earth to have a being among you in no wise admitting flesh and blood entrance into

day of the Lord wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved c. Nevertheless we according to his promise look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness Peter though an Apostle and Minister of the Churches and to the world yet he expected a more glorious Church and Ministry for you must not understand by heavens and elements is here meant those visible to us as if they should be burnt up or heavens and earth to be that which you behold and live in but Churches and Ministry Doctrines and teachings of and by men Yea John will lead you to the knowledge of this Rev. 21.3 22 23. Behold the tabernacle of God is with men and God himself shall be with them c. And I saw no temple therein for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it He is a weake man and a weak Christian that is under the Ministry of the Apostles that hath any man to teach him or is under any teaching of God by men And my dear friends and brethren let me tell you without offence that you are not under the second Covenant but under a Covenant of the outward man under the Compact of the Letter untill you cease teaching one another and preaching one to the other but are taught of God onely So runs the terms of that Covenant observe it Hebr. 8.10 11. In that Covenant when persons are under it they shall not say one to another brother know the Lord this is the voice of the Lord that is not This the Lord saith that man saith this is truth that is error No in this Covenant you shall know God perfectly fully and clearly O strange doctrine and horrid blasphemy will some of you my brothren say but I will bear with the fruits of your darkness And now I am to deliver to you First a word of terror and judgment and secondly of counsel and advice First Terror and Judgement I am to tell you the Lord hath cursed the Figtree he hath caused your gifts to wither you tree yeelds no more fruit your root is without sap your teachings without life your ministrations affording no peace either I say none at all but dejection and casting down or else peace temporary because of the uncertainty of your doctrine peace mixed with enmity and breakings out and a love with feare when perfect love casts out fear for fear hath torment A Saint and yet a sinner when he that is horn of God sinneth not You shall call in this old Church-way and not be heard cry and the Lord will turn from you you shall sly at the rebuke of one though you are a thousand at the rebuke of five shall ye slye untill you be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain and as an Ensigne on a hill The Sun shall go down over the Prophets and the day shall be dark over them Emptiness and a shadow shall be written upon all that you 〈◊〉 This Sun and Moon of yours shall be ashamed when the Lord shall reign in mount Zion The Lord is sending leanness among you and a famine not of bread and a thirst not of water but of hearing the Word of the Lord and you shall wander from Sea to Sea from Church to Church from Society to Society from Preacher to Preacher from man to man from brother to brother from doctrine to doctrine and shall not finde the Lord you your selves shall shortly see this fulfilled upon you you shal burn your books and writings you shal see this mountain of yours forsaken and thus judgement shall follow you and a fire shall be kindled among you and burn you up And the Lord to make out tokens of his indignation against you how he hath left you as you have left him and his glory hath in these our daies visibly discovered it by a giving you up to the weakness and folly of your own hearts which hath produced and effected in you the betraying and shedding innocent blood even the blood of those whom you formerly honoured strengthning the hands of their oppressors adding affliction to affliction which the spirit of God calleth cruelty In the day that the strangers carried away captive his even Jacobs forces and foreigners entred into his even the righteous gates and casts lots upon them even thou wast as one of them thou stood'st in the cross-waies to cut off those that did escape But the day of the Lord is near as thou hast done shall it be done to thee the reward shall return upon thine owne head this innocent blood have you shed even you or most of you that call your selves the Churches of God As I do not own their boasting in or gathering to themselves an arm of flesh and by a warlike way to endeavour to free themselves and establish righteousness in the Land So I cannot but testifie against the bloody unchristian-like thoughts and actions that hath been manifested in you to them And who should have thought that no sooner could liberty be given you which once were so enslaved and captived in and for the practise of your Religion that for so doing you daily suffered or in continual leopardy I say that you should seek to enslave and embondage others whom you professedly honour as righteous some to God and others of them to men save in this action But sweet and good is the hand of the Lord in this that he might thereby make a discovery of you to the World Now I shall shew you a few Reasons of the judgements of the Lord thus falling upon you 1. Because the Temple of the Lord not the Lord is your glory Every thing that God welleth in you fall down to and so fall down to Angels Saints Men Ordinances Ministers and Officers when these at the best are but Gods habitation garments of the earth and decaying vestures wherewith God cloathes himself You are satisfied that you are a Church member that you are of such and such a Congregation that you have such a Pastor that you have submitted to such an Ordinance or Ordinances O this doth tickle you I know it when I walked among you Nay it further appeares by those mean and low thoughts you have of those that are not of your Order some of you can hardly pray with them others not own them as brethren and the rest charging them with disobedience in not walking up to those withered dead and decayed things that you seek to keep alive Now as long as you remain under these dispensations the Lord in and under these should only be your glory 1 Cor. 1.31 He that glorieth let him glory in the Lord. Object But some of you will say Though indeed we are under all these administrations yet we glory not in them if we may be said to know our own hearts we are commanded so to do by God and we dare not sleight any injunction from the Lord. Answ I know it is here you stick

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

the Kingdom of Heaven God is coming upon you as a thief in the night of your beating your fellow servants eating and drinking until you are drunk and will plunder you of all you have and cast you into outer darkness you have a will within and among you that rules and reigns this will the Lord steal from you in the night and leave you none at all but his will shall do all and carry on all and be in you all And thus doth the Kingdom of God come not with observations saying Lo here is Christ or lo there for behold it is within you and thus shall the Kingdom of God take place and all Kingdoms bow and come in to it This is the onely King and Kingdom that shall be set up and there shall be but one in all the earth This is the time when God takes to him his great power and reign and then shall you be ashamed of all your doings And as you have cut off much of the unrighteousness of men and gross corruption of the world so shall the Lord in this day cut off all your righteousness holiness goodness beauty and comeliness leaving you none at all but you shall be the vilest among men 2. There is a second judgment which is proper to you and that you shall finde mentioned Zech. 13.7 8. Awake O sword against my shepherd and against the man that is my fellow and I will turn my hand upon the little ones And it shall be that in all the land saith the Lord two parts thereof shall be cut off and dye but the third shall be left therein Note the word his hand shall be turned against the little ones Two parts of you and two parts of the Land and Nation shall be cut off and destroyed God hath used you in this work you have wounded destroyed and slaughtered multitudes of people Captains mighty men and nobles have you cut off in one day Thus the Day of the Lord is begun and you see it not this is the day of Judgment and you say it is afar off Joel 3.12 13 14. Let the Heathen be wakened c. and Vers 14. Multitudes multitudes in the valley of decision for the Day of the Lord is neer in the valley of cutting off God hath rouzed up the Nation out of that careless and secure posture in which they lay God is a disquieting the whole earth multitudes in the valley of slaughter people gather and aslemble to this destroying Angel People muster their forces and march along with this destroyer they delight in blood and thus the people are consumed for their parts and destroyed out of the Land and blood toucheth blood And yet in these is the design of God carryed on in a slaughtering the pride of all flesh in putting a final period to the credit repute excellency goodness hopes and comforts of man blasting all that outward glory because the Spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it and now every man beginneth to be weary and ashamed of himself and of all others and doth hug and embrace to them a naked pure and divine God yea cry out creatures have been our destruction men have undone us we have built our hope joy and peace upon the sands O how have we bin deceived O how vile is every man how have we called good evil and evil good O how have we deified those which had any good holines or righteousness dwelling in them burying God the goodnes and holiness wrapt up in that earth and dwelling in those houses of clay and heathen-like have changed the truth of God into a lye worshipped and served the creature more then the Creator God blessed for ever 2. Now as I have rebuked you viz. that evil in you am I in the second place to counsel you and therein not I but the Lord And this is two-fold 1. To cast off your filthy polluted garments to wear your garments of blood no longer 2. To become a white Army clothed in white linnen therein following the Prince of Peace First Cast off your filthy polluted garments shake your selves from the dust strip your selves of your bloody garments leave off contending you have a long time been disciplined in war to the ruine of your selves and others And as you have ruined and killed others so the sword of the Lord hath killed you and stained your pride and glory self-interest self-preservation the outward liberties of you and the people You must dye to your outward peace and liberty and lay down your lives and thereby take it up again yea I mean all you that are the little ones of Christ shall thus have power as well as the man Christ to lay down your lives and take them up again Come with me my friends and dear hearts come with me from the Lions den from the fury wrath destruction and violence that have dwelt in your borders Come beat your swords into plow shares say to the people We will no more oppress you we will no more fight you O my hearts let the oppressed lord go free you have taken the Lord captive for these many years your God and King on high is your prisoner he preaches peace to the Heathens and compassion to the Nations and yet you take him captive and you preach blood contention and make laws to destroy every man that dislikes your government it must be called treason that you might thereby kill all that do oppose you What still sheding of blood Are you not wearyed in your vanities When when shall nothing binde but love Object But if we should thus leave off sighting our Liberties and all that we have striven for to obtain these many years will fall to the ground our righteous cause dye and the people return either to their former bondage or to Anarchy and Confusion and the godly party become the prey of their and the Lords enemies Ans In answer hereto I could first tell you that which every man knows That though you rule the people still remain in bondage and the righteous souls are cut off and many Saints afflicted and persecuted for their zeal to God and worshipping him according to their Consciences which may sufficiently discover your pretended zeal for God and how little truth there is in it but I forbear And in answer to your scruple know That the way to the pure and upright Government of the great God among and towards men is by Anarchy and Confusion This doctrine is strange yet true That the only way God hath declared he will use in the promoting and carrying on that design of greatness and Majesty he is intended to advance in the world is by depopulating defacing and wasting Kingdoms and People and this design of God hath been actually carryed on among us God hath hastened to this work of his in our days and his Charet wheels have run swiftly this way When we build a new house if there be an old one in the room we