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A91825	The banner of Gods love, and ensign of righteousness spread over his people in these later dayes. Wherein the true light shineth, and the mysterie that hath been hid from ages and generations, is revealed to the saints, which is, Christ in us the hope of glory, as our forefathers witnessed, read Col. I. 26, 27, 28, 29. Also, a testimony against them who formerly hath tasted of the good word of God, and of the power of the world to come, who hath cast the law of God behind their backs, and hath trodden under foot the blood of the covenant. ... most especially, those that are called Anabaptists and Independents. Also, a few words in warning to the priests, professors, and people of the town and county of Southhampton. With a few quæries to the rulers and magistrates of England, to try their fruits whether they be according to the Christian magistrates recorded in the Scripture of truth, ... . Set forth most especially for the sake of the honest-hearted, who are not wholly given up to believe lyes, that they may come to know the way of life and peace. Written by me who are called Ambrose Rigge.	Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.	1657 (1657)	Wing R1475; Thomason E932_4; ESTC R22061	33,117	47

in the time of Moses the Prophets and Apostles Yea or Nay I speak of them who were Gods Ministers indeed and did not bear their Sword in vain but was a terror to evil doers and a praise to them that did well according as God had ordained them First Consider are you such as Moses chused in his daies to be Rulers over the people even men fearing God and men of truth hating Covetousness as you may read Exod 18. the 21 22 23 24 25. Again are you such as God commanded his Ministers to be in the daies of Mose who commanded them to doe no unrighteousness in Judgment nor to respect the person of the poor nor honour the person of the mighty as you may read Levi. 19. 15. Again are you such as Moses charged his to be who was to judge righteously between every man and his brother and the Stranger that was with him and were nor to respect persons in Judgement but to hear the small as well as the great as you may see Deut. 1. 16 17. Deut. 16. 18 19. Again are you such as Jehoshaphat the King set over the people who doth not judge for man but for the Lord and is the fear of God upon you with whom there is no respect of persons or taking of gifts as you may read 2 Chro. 19. 4. 5 6 7. Prov. 24. 23. 2 Sam 14. 14. Now let but the witness of God in you all speak and it will plainly tell you whether you and your Judgment be according to them and theirs yea or nay And whatsoever cause came before them between blood and blood and between Law and Commandement thus were they to doe in the fear of God faithfully and with a perfect heart they were even to warn them not to trespass against the Lord least wrath came upon them 2 Chron. 19. 9 10. Is this so among you oh ye Rulers of England of what degree soever would not you even cause them to trespass against the Lord that dare not in persecuting and imprisoning them that dare not break his commands Again are you such as doth execute the Judgment of the fatherless and widdows and loveth the Stranger in giving him food and raiment as you may read Deut. 10. 17 18 19. or are you not such as daily seeks to ensnare and persecute Strangers under the name of wanderers and instead of giving of them food and raiment according to the command of God doth cast them into prison and whip stock and stone them yea or nay as you have done many of the servants of the living God within this few years who by faith hath according to the command of God left their countrie and fathers house and are become Strangers and pilgrims in the earth having in it no certain dwelling place as it was with the holy men of God in former ages as you may see Heb. 11. 36 37 38. 1 Peter 2. 21. Again are you such as David was whom the God of Israel set to rule over the people being a just man and ruling in the fear of God 2 Sam. 23. 3. Again are you such as God commanded the Princes of Israel to be who said let it suffice you O ye Princes of Israel remove violence and spoile and execute Judgement and Justice and take away your exactions from my people as you may read Exek 45. 9. or are not you such as use violence to them that cannot bend to your pride and lust and send out your Warrants to spoil the goods of the innocent who cannot for conscience sake uphold that which they know and see the hand of the Lord is turned against here you are found not to be such as removs violence spoil but are the defenders warrants of such who by violence spoil doth daily oppress the poor fatherless and widows And as for taking away your exactions from the people of God that you are far enough from for you casts them into prison and then adds affliction to their bonds in spoiling their goods and binds heavie burthens upon them which are grievous to be born which you your selves will not touch with one of your fingers now whether this be not as far contrary to them in former ages as light is from darkness let any that fears the Lord judge Furthermore are you such as was in the daies of the Apostles whom he commanded the children of God to be subject unto who stood in the power of God and was a terror to evil doers and a praise to them that did well and did not bear their swords in vain but was ministers of God to execute wrath upon them that did evil unto such they was to be subject not onely for wrath but also for Conscience sake as you may read Rom. 13. 1 2 3 4 5. Again search and trie whether you and your ordinances be such as the Apostle Pete commanded the Saints to submit unto for the Lords sake whether it was to the King as Supream or unto Governors as unto them that was sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them that doe well as you may read 1 Peter 2. 13 14. marke they was to submit to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake which was for the punishment of evil doers But he did not command them to submit to such ordinances of men as was for the punishment of such as obeyed the command of God now let the witnesse of God in you all search you and see whether you be such Judges Justices and Rulers as is aforementioned yea or nay who was men fearing God and did not respect the person of the poor nor honour the person of the mightie and was not to take gifts Now if you be such he that is not subject to you resisteth the ordinance of God But if you be found in the steps of them who were oppressors of Gods people that when your pride is not bowed unto doth in your rage and furie persecute and cast into prison the innocent children of the Lord contrarie both to the law of God and man I say they that resists this power doth not resist the ordinance of God for such a power was never ordained of God but set up in the corrupt Wills of men therefore they that comes to be turned from darknesse to the light and from the power of Satan unto the power of God which is the higher power which every soul is to be subject unto doth rather chuse to suffer by that power then to be subject unto ill as you may read Dan. 3. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21. Dan. 6. 14 15 16 Acts 16. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26. And now we shall come to search into the actions and fruites of the Heathenish Kings and Rulers recorded in the Scripture of truth who were persecuters of the people of God and weigh their actions with yours who are called Christian Magistrates in this Nation of England and

and people lived in they had a zeal for God and his glory and a tenderness of affection arose in their hearts one to another to exhort one another to love and to good Works and the Seed of the Kingdom of God was sown in them but it falling by the way-side the Fowles of the air picked it a-away so that it came not to take root downward nor Mar. 4 4. bring forth fruit upward to him that sowed it So these fell back again and lost their zeal and tenderness which they had and got the words of truth in the airy mind but in the life was one with the World after a little time and then was the Lord grieved that his Heritage was wholly Jer. 12. 8. left desolate for the Fowls of the Air to tread under their feet and make a prey upon and it pittyed him to see his own seed so oppressed and his Vinyard so wholly laid waste to the Beasts of the field Isa 3. 14. And then did he arise for his own Name sake and opened the eyes of many and appeared in a large measure into a People that was called Anabaptists and shewed them in a large measure the Witchcraft of the great Whore who Rev. 17. 1 2. had made all Nations drunk with the Wine of her Fornication and then did he lead them from the mouths of the Idol dumb shepherds which had made a prey upon them and had taken their money for that which they saw was not bread nor had not in the least satisfied their hungry Isa 55. 2. souls even then did God raise his living Witness in them and shed his eternal love abroad in their hearts and gathered them together in several quarters of the world and his Name was witnessed among them and his Power did appear in them and a great zeal and tenderness for a while was among them so that they met with part of the rage of the Devil and indured it for a time with joy and while they was near unto the Lord he was known to be near unto them and gave them the necks of their Enemies to tread upon and a great sight of the good Land they had and the Seed of the Kingdom of God was abundantly sown amongst them but it falling upon the stony ground in them Mar. 4. 5. when the Sun arose vvith his burning heat it vvas scorched and became unfruitful so that after a time the povver of God ceased and vvas not seen amongst them but coldness and barrenness got up and pride and exaltation and self-conceitedness crept in by little and little and then they begun to build again those things vvhich they had in a measure destroyed and he that got the most in his brain-knovvledge vvas set up to be a Teacher and a Ruler and so gloryed in the gift more then in the Giver and this Ministry became one in nature vvith the Priests and did not profit the people at all vvhich may be vvitnessed at this day And novv are they set dovvn at ease in a dead form of that vvhich the Saints vvitnessed the life of nay they have so far departed from the povver of God vvhich the Saints did doth vvitness to lead guide them that they have lost the very form and are become one in nature vvith the World and differ nothing but in vvords and in outward shews and pretences The true Proverb is fulfilled upon them The Dog is turned to his own Vomit again and the 2 Pet. 2. 22. Prov. 26. 11. Sow that was washed to her wallowing in he Myre so that the Lord is weary with their sacrifices and their solemn Assemblies he cannot away with because they have cast his righteous Law Isa 11. to 16. Heb. 10. to 29. behind their backs and hath trodden under foot the blood of the Covenant and now hath sitten down in a rest which is polluted and are become enemies to the Crosse of Christ therefore is the same hand of the Lord that vvas turned against his Enemies before the same is lifted up against them novv vvhereby they are torn and rent as an old Garment and as a tottering VVall that is daubed vvith untempered Morter And thus have they rendred unto the Lord evil for all his kindness and hath turned his grace into lasciviousness vvhich vvould have led them to salvation if they had been taught vvith it vvhereby the vvorks of the Devil Tit. 2. 11. 12. vvould have been destroyed in them vvhich they are so strongly pleading for and concluding all to be deceived and seduced that shall vvithstand or oppose it and if any vvill not bovv dovvn to their Image vvhich they have set up from the Scripture Letter presently he is judged and censured not vvorthy to have communion vvith though he have the povver of God for his defence and be led and guided by the Spirit of the living God and have fellovvship vvith him and be brought into his Covenant of light and life And this is that now which they call their Fundamentals Baptism of Water and taking of material Bread and Wine which there is no command for throughout the Scripture but Judgement Mercy and Faith is omitted Luk. 11. 49. which is the weighty matters of the Law and so the Wo that was unto their forefathers is to the same generation still And thus hath the Lord been mocked with a voluntary humility and a Will-Worship after the traditions of men after the Rudiments of the World and not after Christ the Light of the World who hath lighted every man that cometh into the World And so now are they Joh. 1. 9. crying up the Ordinances of God the Ordinances of God as the Jews did the Temple but are as ignorant of Christ Jesus the Substance as the Jews was that stoned him Though there was a time that he was known in such things and in the flesh yet he that came through it desired to know him so no more but these deny all that comes to know him ony otherwise as the Jews did them that testified against the outward Temple which was a time commanded of God when their Bodies was made the Temples of God and they came to witness the Substance 1 Cor. 6. 19. of the Figure Now this is the reason of so much confusion now among several sorts of men and forms That the Life and Substance of all Types Shadows and Figures is denyed and only the Husk fed upon and this hath been the ruine and down-fall of these people that are called Anabaptists Then in another dispensation of the Lords love did he appear to a People called Independents brought many of them to se the emptiness of all sorms of profession they thought only to depend upon the Lord was the safest way and there was a love begot in them to God and his Way and truth and tenderness of spirit one towards another and they were a little brought low in

judgments upon Read Isa 3. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26. Therefore hear this all you that are found in this path the Lord will take away your bravery and instead thereof he will cover you with contempt and he will bring down the haughtiness of man and woman and will lay your honour Isa 2. 11 12 13 17. Isa 10. 33. in the dust and scatter you as chaff is scattered with the Wind because you have cast his righteous Law behind your backs and hath walked despightfully against the Spirit of Grace Who hath been warned like unto you hath not the Lord sent his Servants earlie and late to forewarn You of the Judgement that he hath intended against You because of Your manie transgressions whereby You daily provoke him to anger even to sweep You all awaie with the besome of destruction And have not You executed Your cruelty upon his messengers in mocking scoffing spitting upon hailing to prison Math 23. 33 34 35 36 37 38 39. them that have been sent in tender love unto your Souls to call You to Repentance and to seek the Lord while he may be found but You may say You doe not this to the servants of Christ but to Vagabonds and Wanderers Deluders and Deceivers and the Ringleaders of the Sect of the Quakers as You in scorn calls them which is every where spoken against and hailed out of the Synagogues and persecuted and cast into prison but all this while cannot see Your selves as blind as Your Forefathers the Persecutors was and as ignorant of God and his works as Cain the Vagabond was vvho vvas in Envie as you are though he builded the first Cittie to make bimself an habitation Gen. ● 12. God called him a Vagabond Gen. 4. 12. but he did not call his Son a Vagabond vvho had not vvhereon to lay his head nor his Son did not call them vvhich vvent about in Sheep skins and goat skins and had no certain Heb. 11. 35 36 37 38 39 40. dvvelling place he did not call such Vagabonds vvho had a habitation vvhere neither Cain nor any of his stock hath but you are the Vagabonds rightly named vvho are in envie and vvrath vvho hath great habitations in the earth as he had but are driven out from the presence of the Lord into pride and highmindedness and into the Earth and its pleasure and treasure laying up treasure there but are ignorant of the true treasure vvhich they have in earthen 2 Cor. 4. 7. vessels vvhich vvander up and dovvn and are made a prey upon by you vvho are in Cains vvay and in God hath not an habitation but are vvandering starres vvandering Isa 59. 15. up and dovvn in the Element of your imaginations out of one fashion and vanitie of the World into another and here are you scattered upon the mountains of Pride and high mindedness in the clouds of darkness and stops your eares at the true Shepheards voice vvho would gather you off from the barren mountains into the lovv vallies to feed among his Lambs and to drink of the fresh fountain of living Water but this You loath and vvill not hear of but loves to vvallovv vvith the Svvine in the filth and mire therefore vvill Your condemnation be just and the Lord vvill be clear of Your blood Again is not the harmless and innocent children of the Lord vvhom he hath placed his Name in and hath set as Phill. 2. i5 Witnesses against you as he did Lot in Sodom whom you have nothing justly to lay to their charge are not such by 1 Joh● 3. ●● you abused as Lot was scoffed and scorned at stoned in the Streets and spitted upon who cannot goe with you into the same excess of riot doe you think the Lord doth 1 Pet 4. 4. not take notice of this Yea surely one day ye shall know that it had been better for you that a milstone had been hanged about your necks and you cast into the midst of John 15. 19. the sea then to offend one of the least of his who is the good Shepherd but because Judgement is not executed upon Math 18. 6. Eccl 8. 11. you speedily therefore are your hearts bent in you to doe wickedly but this know that there is a Witness in every one of your consciences that takes notice of all your waies and actings therefore once more I warn you from the Lord to repent and turn unto the Lord and put off your bravery of your tinkling ornaments and put on sackcloth and sit down in the dust if so be you may be hid in the day of the fierce indignation of the Lord and cease to doe evil and learn to doe well lest the overflowing scourge of the Lord sweep you all away for his sword is Isa i. 16 17. drawn and his bow bent and his arrowes are made very sharp and will fall grievously upon the head of the wicked Amos 5. 14 15 16. and how can you escape when he appears who will plead with you by his Sword and by Fire and will render to every man according to his works without Math. 16. 27. respect of persons and then shall you all know that you had warning in your life time by them which you hated and persecuted scoffed and scorned so while you have time prize it and sleight not the day of your Visitation nor the mercie of the Lord to your Souls least you be shut out among the Unbelievers into utter darkness where is weeping wailing Math. 8. 12. and gnashing of teeth for ever I charge you as you will answer it to the Lord search these Scriptures out which are quoted and read them in the fear of God and try your teachers and your fruits whether they be according to them which spoke forth Scriptures Yea or Nay for every tree is known by his fruits and so are the false prophets from the true Matth. 7 20. Written by me whom you greatly hate because I am sent to bear testimony against your abominations and by you am I called a Quaker but thorow the tender mercy of the Lord am I made partaker of the Divine nature 2 Pet. 1. 4. and onely known to the world by the name of Ambrose Rigge ANd now Oh ye Rulers of the earth the word of the Lord is to you who hath gotten the Seat of Moses the Servant of the Lord you who are called Judges Justices or Head Officers of what kind or sort soever And doth pretend that you are Gods Ministers to lay the sword upon the transgressors and to be a praise unto them that doth well according as the Lord hath appointed his Ministers to be now if you profess the Scriptures to be your rule and the Christian Magistrates to be your example which is recorded in the Scriptures Let us now reason together in meekness and trie your fruits whether they be according to the Magistrates

see whether doth over-ballance So these are left as Queries to be answered by any of you 1. VVHether Pharoah King of Aegypt who oppressed the children of God might not have pleaded as well as you That they were to be subject to his command and bow down to his power yea or nay who said Come let us deal wisely with them lest they multiply and grow stronger then we that when there fall out any war they become our enemies and fight against us and he used cruel rigor unto them and laid great burthens upon them as you may read Exod. the first chap. Now whether or no is not this your Wisdom now To use all your power and strength to oppress the people of God now by cruel bondage and rigor and when your power is not strong enough doth join together and take counsel to make cruel Laws against them whereby to bring them into bondage and make them serve you as Bond-slaves which you cannot read that Pharoah did So whether your cruelty doth not exceed his yea or nay let that in all your consciences judge 2. Whether this power that Pharoah ruled in was the power of God yea or nay If yea Why did the Lord with an high hand and an outstretched arm deliver his children from him and his power and overthrow him and his Chariots and Horsemen in the midst of the Sea as you may read Exod. 14. 23 24 25 26 27 28. If nay Whether your power be not the same now in oppressing the innocent children of God now whom he hath appointed to offer a sacrifice to him in righteousness And whether ever any that stood in the power of God and was guided by the Spirit of God was ever persecutors yea or nay 3. Where did ever Pharoah King of Aegypt fine or imprison any of the people of the Lord for such a small thing as not for putting off their Hats as many of you have done Or whether he did oppress the people of God so many waies as you have done within these late Years yea or nay 4. Where did ever Moses who was a true and faithful Judge over all Israel fine or imprison any that came before him for not putting off their Hats Shew one example either among the Christian Magistrates throughout the Scriptures or among the Heathenish Rulers in former ages and if you cannot find one example among either of them then confess your selves to be grown higher in pride and ambition then the persecutors in former ages 5 VVhether there be anie transgression where there is no Law If you say Yea shew how or wherein If Nay then whether do not you persecute and imprison them that are no transgressors for not putting off their Hats when there is neither Law of God nor man that commands it 6. VVhere did Balaak King of the Moabites whose enmitie was against the people of God whom God had delivered from under the hand of Pharoah as you may read Numb 22. 4 5 6. yet shew where he persecuted or imprisoned so many of them as you have done of the children of the Lord who are in derision called Quakers in the Nation of England without any justcause and whether the power was not in him to do it aswell as you yea or nay 7. VVhether Haman who was full of wrath when Mordecai could not bow unto him as others did was in the power of God or in the pride of his heart who made a Gallows to hang Mordecai on because he crossed his lust as you may read Esth 5. Now whether you who are full of rage and fury when the people of God cannot bow down to your pride and lust be not in the same steps yea or nay Therefore consider what was the end of Haman read Esth 7. 9 10. 8. VVhether Nebuchadnezzar who was a heathenish King stood in the power of God when he commanded to bind he three children of God and cast them into the fiery Fornace because they could not bow to his will as you may read Dan. 3. the whole chapter Now you that say all power is of God and therefore ought to be obeyed whether did Shadrak Meshek and Abednego well in resisting this power and choosing rather to suffer under it then obey it yea or nay as you may see Dan. 3. 16 17 18. So you who commands the people of God to bow unto that which in conscience to the Lord they cannot are not you full of rage and fury and commands them to be cast into prison without Bail or Mainprise and makes their affliction seven-fold worse then it used to be to others who were offenders So what this Power and command differs from Nebuchadnezzars let that in all your consciences judge 9. VVhether Darius the King stood in the power of God when he commanded Daniel to be cast into the Den of Lyons for praying to the true God as you may read Dan. 6. 16. If you say Yea VVhether did Daniel well yea or nay in not regarding the King nor the Decree that he had signed Dan. 6. 13. If Nay VVhether you stand not in the same power now who casts into Dens and Holes the children of the Lord whose prayers he hears because they cannot bow down to any but to the command of God yea or nay 10. VVhether Herod who imprisoned Peter the servant of God was in the power of God yea or nay as you may read Act. 12. 3. 4. If you say Yea then why did God send his Angel and deliver Peter from him and smite Herod that he was eaten with VVorms as you may read A●● 12. 7 8 23. If you say Nay Then all power is not of God by your own confession but the Devil keeps many under his power to act his will upon the children and servants of God 11. VVhether King Agrippa or Festus or Foelix who had as much power to execute their wills upon the servants of God as you have now yet shew wherein they acted half so much rigor upon the servants of Christ as many of you have acted Therefore now consider your state and weigh your actions and fruits and in this your day I warn you all high and low to mind the things that belongs to your peace before they be hid from your eyes and you be shut up in utter darkness for the Spirit of the Lord will not alwaies strive vvith you as it hath done Therefore be wise now ye Kings and be instructed ye Judges and Rulers of the Earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoice before him with trembling kiss the Son lest he be angry and you perish from the way for if his VVrath be kindled a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him And cease persecuting the inocent vvho neither vvrongeth you nor any man and consider the end of the persecutors in former ages Pharoah the oppressor of Gods people vvas drovvned in the depth of the Sea as you may see Exod. 14. 27 28. Haman vvas hanged on the Gallovvs that he prepared for Mordecai read Esth 7 9 10. Nebuchadnezzar his Kingdom vvas rent from him and his dvvelling vvas vvith the Beasts of the field and did eat grasse as the Oxen Read Dan. 4. 32 33. Darius was made to repent and confess to the truth That it vvas the true God that Daniel served vvhom he persecuted as you may read Dan. 6. 26 27. Herod vvas eaten vvith VVorms vvho prisoned and persecuted the servants of God as you may read Acts 12. 23. These things I vvrite unto you that you may see the just judgements of the Lord upon the persecutors of his in former ages not that I desire in the least such things to come upon you but that vvhile you have time to prise it and return to the Lord if so be you may be hid in the day of his fierce vvrath So thus far am I clear of all your blood vvho am knovvn in England by the Name of Ambrose Rigge FINIS