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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50325	Truth held forth and maintained according to the testimony of the holy prophets, Christ and his Apostles recorded in the Holy Scriptures with some account of the judgments of the Lord lately inflicted upon New-England by witchcraft : to which is added, Something concerning the fall of Adam, his state in the fall, and way of restoration to God again, with many other weighty things ... / written in true love to the souls of my neighbours and all men, which includeth that love to them and myself, by Thomas Maule.	Mall, Thomas, b. 1629 or 30.	1695 (1695)	Wing M1354; ESTC W491354	172,116	273

to do as many say that if they live where Governours and Rulers are they must be subject to their Laws which they say are ordained of God for the benefit of Church and State otherwayes say they we cannot be subject to all Powers which are ordained of God Now this I do believe that all Powers which are to keep down sin and evil that they are ordained of God but for any to think that the holy Apostle did include the Powers of Darkness to be ordained of God is gross Ignorance in them that so believe for all the Powers of Darkness are of the Devil who is the Father of all Unrighteousness and God never ordained the Devil nor any of his Dark Towers which rule in the Children of Disobedience of whom some have asserted to me That God made the Devil as he now is a Devil but it s through Disobedience to God and Obedience to the Power of the Devil men come to grow into such gross Ignorance that they will venture to the hazard of their souls to say that which they neither know nor understand for the Powers of Darkness which God permits to rule in the Children of Disobedience are for a tryal of his Peoples Faith who are not to submit in active obedience to the dark Powers of the Earth among unrighteous men which cause the righteous to suffer for the Truth of God and Testimony of Jesus which if any refuse Obedience to suffer for the Truth of God and Name of his Son Jesus Christ they cannot be his Disciples for he that is not willing to part with his Life for the sake of Christ can never be made partaker of his heavenly Riches in the Life to come for he that denyeth Crhist before men he will be denyed of Gods Kingdom by Jesus Christ in the World to come so that the Righteous are not to be subject in active Obedience they are to submitt and that for Conscience sake well knowing that their reward will follow in heavenly Riches of Gods Kingdom where the Wicked shall never come So all Powers that be are of God who permits the Devils Power in unrighteous men for a tryal of his Peoples Faith and that he may gain honour to his ovvn Name through their damnation which fullfils the Apostles saying Let every soul be subject to the higher Power for there is no Power but what is of God either by commission or permission for the Power of the Devil God doth permit in unrighteous men whose Power the rightous are not actually to obey for if they should actually they any unrighteous Power in so doing they resist the Ordinance of God and to themselves receive Damnation Rom. 13 1● which according to the Apostles words no man is actually to obey any Power save the Power of God which is saving to them that through Faith live in Obedience to his Truth according as the holy Apostle did or example who hinself was accounted one of the grea●est Transgressors of mens Laws in that he was not in ●ctual Obedience to any of their dark Powers which ●ere then in his time for which cause he himself suffered 〈◊〉 the Name of Jesus through whose Power his People ●ome to be redeemed from all actual Obedience to the ●eviles Power which rules in Unrighteous men which ●ould force People from their Obedience to God which ●ermits the Disobedient to wrêst the holy Scriptures to ●eir own Distruction in which state they would bind 〈◊〉 others to believe in their Anti-Christian Faith that 〈◊〉 is of God and that if any man resist their Power that 〈◊〉 resisteth the Ordinance of God and to himself receives ●amnation which is the very way of promoting the Kingdom of Anti-Christ through whose Power many weak People are seduced from the true Faith and have distrusted in the Power of God by their actual Obedience of conforming to the dark Powers of the Devils setting up in wicked men but the day will come which haltens towards the wicked whom the Lord by his mighty Power will overthrow for all power is committed unto him whose power is over the power of the Devil which the power of God suffers to rule that he may see who will serve him the God of all Truth which permits the Devil to set up and pull down even to the making waste o● one another but they that truly serve the Lord shall stand forever for he is God and Lord over all whose almighty Power suffers one dark Power to pull down one and to set up another until his time comes whose right it is to rule in Truth and Righteousness in the heart of every man and woman and in the mean time they that rule for God are not a Terror to good works but to the evil for they are the Ministers of God for the Peoples good that they that do evil might be afra●d for he bareth not the Sword in vain but is the Minister of God and a Revenger to execute wrath upon them that do evil Rom. 13.3.4 Wherefore ye must needs be subject not only for Wrath but also for Conscience sake Vers 5. and for this cause pay you Tribute also for they are Gods Ministers attending continually upon this very thing Vers 6. Render therfore their due Tribute to whom Tribute is due Custom to whom Custom is due Fear to whom Fear is due Honour t● whom Honour is due owe no man any thing but love on another Rom. 13.7 8. Now them that are faithfully in Obedience to the Power of Gods gift of Grace by Jesus Christ they fear the Lord and work his Righteousness through which they live in the love of God towards all men which is the fullfilling of the Law Vers 8. in which sta●e o● true love they render to all men rich and poor vvhatever the Lord requireth of them to do for their obedience is to the power of his own spirit which leads every Just and upright man in Power to rule for Gods Honour through which they have Dominion over the evil Doers and praise unto them that do well such Rulers bare not the Sword in ●aine but he that respects the Person of any man in Justice and Judgment is a Transgressor of Gods holy Law is convinced of the Law as a Transgressor Jam. 2. ● for they that rule for God do no unrighteousness in Judgment neither do they respect the Persons of the Poor nor honour the Persons of the Mighty but in Righteousness judge they their Neighbour Lev 19.15 for they hear the small as well as the great without respecting the persons of either thereby they do not fear the face of any man for the Judgment is the Lords which if there be any thing too hard for them they are to wait on the Lord who in his own due time will manifest the truth of the Cause by which they may come to render true Judgment according to the mind of God Deut. 1.17 but if they respect mens Persons and wrest

Judgment and receive Gifts then they are out of Gods way and rule not for his Honour but for their own Honour and self-ends among men for a Gift blindeth the Eyes of the Wise and causeth them to pervert the words of the Righteous Dan. 6.19 Now that Honour which is of Hand Hat and Knee to each other it is not of God for the Honour of God dwelleth in the heart of every faithful man which is faithful to what the Lord hath ●●mmitted to his charge for it is the Lord that searcheth the heart and tryeth the reigns of the heart and declareth unto man what is his thoughts which no man can know by the Hat Hand and Knee of another for which Honour they have no express command from God nor example from his Servants in dayes past who in their day did render Tribute Custom Fear and Honour in its right place which at all times doth not belong to one and the same Person but as he appears for Gods cause is there Honour due to him as in the case of Paul before Festus and Agrippa the one appearing in the truth of Pauls cause and the other by Paul almost perswaded to be a Christian which Noble Principle in them was worthy of Honour from Paul Act. 26.2.28 31. 32 and divers other instances do the holy Scriptures afford of that noble Spirit appearing in man of outward Power whom they of this Generation esteem as Heathens but be what they will or whatsoever they were the Lord and his People well know that them so esteemed their works towards the Lords People in their day do condemn the works of many men towards the People of God in this day which do give Honour unto them unto whom it doth belong and not to honour them which honour not the Lord for they whose works bring no honour to the Name of the Lord they are not to be honoured by his People for Old Age to many is lengthened out by many dayes that the condemnation of him that fears not God and works not his righteousness may be the greater for though the Wicked may live to a hundred years so living and so dying they are accursed 〈◊〉 but the Hoary Head is a Crown of Glory if it be found in the way of Righteousness Prov. 16.31 By which we see and know that God hath no respect for them that live not in the way of his Truth for Old Age is as a Judgment to some which desire to dye because of outward Troubles in Body and Horror of Conscience for their evil Deeds but Death as an addition to Gods Judgments from such flyeth away others again for their unrighte ous living in sin and Rebellion against God are by his Just Judgments cut off in the midst of their days And as to such Rulers that trouble the People of God from day to day and from time to time they may read their Portion Luke 16.19 to 24. but the People of the Lord cannot be brought into bondage by the Power of unrighteous Laws made by wicked men to ensnare and hinder the faithful of their Obedience to God who doth abhor the dark Works of unrighteous Rulers whose wicked Works against the Lords People are done in pretence of some service for God when that they are altogether for the service of Anti-Christ and the promoting of the Devils Kingdom which the Lords People by the Power of God are kept and preserved from touching tasting or handling with any unclean thing well knowing that the Wages of Sin is Death but the gift of God is Life Everlasting so then Death remains in the unrighteous Powers of Wicked and Ungodly Men who Balaam like love the Wages of Unrighteousness which the dumb Ass declared against when he forbid the madness of the wicked Prophet who had forsaken the right Way of the Lord to obey the dark Power of an Earthly Ruler So the portion of Balaam will be the Inheritance of them that do not obey the Power of God by Jesus Christ whose Power is the higher Power unto which every soul is to be subject for his Power is ordained of God and there is no other Power but the Power of God which is by Jesus Christ whom all men are commanded to obey for by and through his Power are the faithfull supported in all their Sufferrings for his Truth which is the Condemnation of all unrighteous Judges CHAP. XXI Concerning Oathes which includes all Swearing IN the first ●ovenant the Lords People were commanded to Swear by the Name of God in which time of the Law Oathes were observed in that Covenant which was faulty for if that Covenant had been faultless then should no place been sought for the second Heb. 8.7 Now that Ordinance did not ma●e perfect as pertaining to the Conscience by which there came to be an end to that Covenant and a better H●pe was brought in which stood upon better Promises for that Covenant and the Ordinances thereof were only to continue till the time of Reformation which stood only in Meats and Drinks and divers Washings and carnal Ordinances imposed on them until the time of Reformation Heb. 9.10 Now Christ the everlasting Covenant of God to his People fullfilled all Righteousness under the Law by which the Covenant of Grace took place in which the Oath ended for Christ is the Oath of God and the end of all Oathes Strife and Contention Mat. 5.33 to 37. It was said of old Time Thou shalt not Forswear thy self but shalt perform unto the Lord thine Oathes but I say unto you Svvear not at all Plain Doctrine easie to be understood commanded by Christ Not at all to swear or not to Swear at all there is not a plainer and more strict Command contained in the holy Scriptures of Truth than for people Not to Swear at all which doth exclude from all manner of Oathes otherwise Christ would not have mentioned Oathes which were observed in the first Covenant of Works under the Law in which time they were not to forswear themselves but to perform their Oathes unto the Lord which were to be conscientiously performed according to Truth in what they were engaged or had engaged themselves in Gods Name to do Now Christ the Oath of God is come and in him is fullfilled the Righteousness of the Law for he is the end of all Oathes Strife and Contention and the holy Apostles followed Christs Doctrine and exhorted People to follow them as for Ensample they were Followers of Christ whose Command they obeyed and directed People to perform the same and that was Above all things not to Swear at all but to let their Yea be Yea and their Nay Nay lest they fall into Condemnation Mat. 5.33 34 35 36 37. James 5.12 Now the Apostles exhorting the Brethren to observe and keep close to the Truth of God according to the Doctrine of Christ which was Not to Swear at all which doth manifest by his calling them Brethren that they