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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09348	A voice out of the wildernes, crying with many tears and strong perswasions to the world for repentance. Proving by undeniable grounds from the word of God, that the great day of his righteous judgment will certainly be in this present age, namely about the 45th. yeer after the ruine of Rome, in 1666. Wherein are unfolded many great and wonderful mysteries of God, foretold in his word to come to pass unto th' end of the world. This work consists of five small tracts: 1. To the church of Rome, printed first in an. 1588. 2. To Qu. Elizabeth, presented to her in an. 1589. 3. To the E. of Essex in her days, called, Babylon is fal'n 4. To K. James, being an exposition of the 11. 12, 13. ch. Apoc. 5. De fide, against Baro, since translated into English. / By T.L. sometime a student in the University of Cambridge in the daies of Q: Elizabeth.	T. L.	1661 (1661)	Wing L83A; ESTC R179227	116,012	190

Jerusalem his steps beautifull as are the steps of God the flames and Angells of heaven ascending and descending at his commandement and it was fulfiled which was spoken In Jury is God knowne great is his name in Israel and opening his mouth taught them and marvellous gracious and true were the words which proceeded from him told them their Fathers were wonderfully indeed fed and cloathed in the Wildernesse and yet were dead because they were not fed nor cloathed with him who feedeth and arayeth to life everlasting and the food and rayment which he gave was his blood and they that are fed and apparrelled therewith are those that beleeve in him commanded them not to work as did their Fathers in the Wildernesse but as did Abraham whose Children they pretended to be and were not for he beleeved in him being yet but promised whom they refused now performed and witnessed plainly in their eares that day there were no other works but these alone that led from the rod of th' oppressor to the Land of promise saying This is to doe the work and commandement of God to believe in him whom God hath sent Which thing your Fathers the Pharisees denying to doe evermore seeking after their hard and brazen progenitors t' establish a righteousnesse and justice of their owne to work the works and Commandements of God according to their way and meaning by doing refusing the justice appointed by God to work his works and Commandements according to his way meaning by beleeving rushed against the square approved precious stone which was set up in Sion and were bruised and broken to death everlasting And doest thou know Balaam what it is to beleeve in him whom God hath sent We speak the things we know and testifie what we have seen and learnt That which is borne from below is flesh subdued unto sin imbondaged to death and cannot see th' inheritance and Kingdome of God wherefore it was requisite a new birth to be established subduing the flesh unto the spirit delivering from the power of sin and breaking the chaines of death Without the which vaine and impossible is the Commandement to believe in him whom God hath sent as it is written Vnlesse a man be begotten by water and by the holy Ghost he cannot enter into the Kingdome of God So many Baalists heapt on another at your conspiracy he●d at Trent against God and his anointed and knew not what it is to be borne of water and of the holy Ghost have ye indeed so planed the c●●atures of God wrought in them a beliefe ye are successors and dispensers in heavenly things and understand not earthly There was a man sent from God his name was John your Fathers ran out in troops to see him a strange and sour fellow was not lodg'd like a Prince nor cloathed like a Courtier neither wine nor water dranke he no other drinke but ●ears and in his mouth never entered bread Murderers how chanceth it that hanging up his dead body in your Courts and Caves drawing it through your streets once a yeare at the least denying it the naturall courtesie of buriall you have not considered that he was appointed from heaven the Minister of the Baptisme of water as of himselfe he testifieth in a place saying He that sent me to baptize with water said unto me on whom thou seest the Spirit discend and tarry he it is that baptizeth with the holy Ghost Doe yee know wherefore his Lord gave him that honourable testimony namely that he was more then a Prophet and that among all the sons of women there was none to be found his greater because who so is not prepared by him which was appointed the Minister of the baptisme of water shall never be purged by his Lord which comes after who sanctifieth with fire and with the holy Ghost for this was the Angell appointed to goe before the face of the great Dominator and teach the Children that sat in Prison in darknesse and shadow of death that if they would be Sons of the Fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob they should prepare their hearts by water as did the Fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob. And therefore his Lord in parable calleth him the Mourner wot ye why because who so sorroweth not with him shall never rejoyce with the Bridegroome shall never see the birth of the holy Ghost the faith which beleeveth in him which God hath sent The poor woman which entred into the house of Simon the Pharisee where her Lord was at meat and falling downwashed kissed his feet how commeth it to passe ye wise that nayling up her dead body in your Groves and Temples to the view ye have not considered her tears and her love preaching and crying so many hundred years the birth of water of the holy Ghost but yee say when Elias commeth he shall restore all Murderers and doe ye indeed lie in wait for another Elias behold the first came and had not his God delivered him from your hands by wonder sending downe his Chariot and Horsemen of fire ye had slaine him with the rest of his Prophets for ye sought his life also and the second came a righteous and holy man and behold as innocent as ye pretend to be his righteous blood shall be found in your Courts and his holy head in one of your vessells and doe ye yet more attend a third Elias like to your stiffe reprooved brethren which walke stinking in your streets to day gaping the comming of a second Messias wherefore thus saith the truth there shall no Elias come and he that reading considereth the dwelling the fare and rayment of the second Elias how read and swolne were his eyes with tears how dry his lips with sighs and doth not weep and wayle with him if seven thousand Mourners should rise from the dead they cannot make that man to sorrow This was the voyce who in the dayes of his flesh called unto Israel from out of the Wildernesse crying that if the would be sons and daughters of God they should not look up unto their pa●entage boasting their pedegree ●etcht from the loins of Abraham but should take up the true and perfect sorrow for their sin and th' unspeakable de●i●e to be reconciled to God as did his servant Abraham that then the God of Abraham would turne to th● Children a● he did unto the Fathers write his Laws ●n their hearts cover their offences and be unto them a God and a Father and they to him sons and daughters and every one which was to receive the light that followed in whose hand was the power to make of a ●●nner a Son unto God hearkened to the Mourner of Israel sate downe and sorrowed with him And he that sorrowed sorrowed indeed his eye refused sleep his mouth dened t'eate lost and dead was his cheere his mirth was t●●n'd to sadnesse and if an asked what ill he had seight and could not speake so great was his sorrow

curse of the Tree for the redemption of those that were his sworne enemies And this is the love whose rich and plentifull nature the Apostle describeth saying Love forbeareth 1 Cor. 13. and is gentle void of envy and of doing wrong vaunteth not her selfe nor disgraceth others seeketh not her owne nor giveth place to anger never deviseth or joyeth in evill but alwayes rejoyceth in the company of truth beareth all beleeveth all hopeth all endureth all And this is that Love and that new Commandement whose often praise shineth in the two lights and Lamps of God which burn before his Throne day and night and no man can attaine thereto or have his part therein that hath not first been cleansed by the promise of the Father which is the Spirit of adoption wherein he cryeth Abba Father And this is that Holinesse and Newnesse of life which the Scripture so often commendeth unto us by the names Vivification renovation spirituall and the first resurrection Blessed and holy are they that have their parts therein for on such the second death shall have no power as it is sealed in the book of life And this is the first and last the beginning and the end of the counsell and wisedome of God even his secret hidden eternall and onely ordinance wherein before the day knew his comming up or going down he purposed to save and to recover againe the thing which was lost And they that understand it and doe thereafter are those which are registred in the book of life called in Scripture by so many faire and beautifull names as A righteous Tree a pleasant Land a habitation of Justice a holy Mountaine a City of truth a City sought out and not forsaken a holy City a holy Nation the plantation of God the Mountaine of the Lord of Hosts the pillar and sustainer of truth Beloved Beautifull Free Faithfull Chosen Kings Priests Saints Sion Daughter of Sion Mother of the just Jerusalem Children of promise Vessells of Mercy Israel Jacob Judah Ephraim his first borne House of Levi his Temple his Tabernacle his Sanctuary his People his Vine his Body his Spouse his Church and such like And these are the Stones of Sion which altho they be for their transgressions as testifieth the Prophet scattered among the heathen and unbaptized in heart for a season given up to the pleasures of Murtherers Jer. 4. 31. 30. 15. Isa 54. as to the paines of a woman that travelleth accounted vile desolate despised cast away no body no where compared with the glorious Synagogues and Churches of this world yet what saith the Scripture Rejoyce thou barren that bearest no children breake forth into joy and gladnesse thou that travellest not for the desolate hath many more then the married wise saith the Lord Meaning thereby that tho his captive Daughter Sion during the days of her soiourning in earth as in a strange Land be bowed downe and layed low like a street for the beasts of the field Citizens of the earthly Jerusalem to tread upon and goe over yet when the morning Isa 52. commeth the morning of extermina●ion determined to come upon the whole earth she shall arise and shake of her graves her tears and dust wherein she lyeth and put on a garment of light of beauty and joy everlasting And all the delices the pompes and paraments of her oppressors shall vanish as a dreame Isa 60. 14. Ier. 20. 16 Ezek. 28. 25. Dan. 7. 27. Ioel 3. Amo. ● 9. Mic. 5. 8. Sap. 1. 9. Hag. 2. 23 Za. 2. 8. Mal. 4. 1 2 3. and themselves covered with torments shall be sold for slaves to the daughter of Sion whom in the days of their pleasures they so much despised as i● testified by the Prophets And this is the Church and City of God not like unto the shamelesse and adulterous Congregations of these times pure in skin and soule in heart which ●oast to be that they are not each discovering other spots themselves full of Ulcers daily squaring and falling out like Theeves about the treasures and riches of God which appertaine to truer men then they Neither is she like those foolish and irr●formed reformers that in all this time have not learnt to discern between the Image of God and the Inscription of Caesar I mean those that have not yet learnt that every one that feareth God what or whersoever he be sustaineth two persons the one of a Citizen the other of a Christian Touching his person of a Citizen if he be called to be a Prince and Ruler over his brethren knoweth that this his authority is the allowed and approved rule and lawfull Seniory to constitute and determine every vocation and therein in those especially that attend upon the Altar carefully foreseeing that in their sort they be provided for according to the word which commandeth Deut. 25. Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the Ox that treadeth out the Corne prescribing to every one committed to his charge in meats in drinks in cloth in day and such like according to his wisdom heedfully respecting in guiding the Bark of his Government as the Pilot doth the Needle the commandement of God and quality of his people On the other side if he be called a servant and to live in subjection knoweth that the magistracy whereunder he is placed whether it be of one of few or many is his allowed seniory and lawfull presbytery and unto whom by immediate prescription and authority from God belongeth to defend the innocent and correct the faulty and thereafter feareth he taking up his vocation as his Prince alloweth contented with such dismes as his Prince provideth eateth drinketh weareth and keepeth as his Prince prescribeth giving to his Prince the obedience which to a Prince belongeth And as concerning his person of a Christian this man whither he be placed in authority or under authority knoweth that neither Thrones nor Chaires of state nor gracious titles of Lordship and Soveraignty availe him any thing but that he is called to a like subjection and equall participation with the rest of his fellows as it is written He that is greatest let him be as Luke 22. 26. the least and he that is chiefest as him that serveth For all are baptized with one baptisme the water of repentance all are sanctified with one fire the Word of Faith all are children of one Mother Jerusalem from above all are subjects to one Lord who by his obedience and Sacrifice once for all hath sanctified and reconciled them and made them of ser●ants and sons of wrath his brethren and sons to his owne father as it is Heb. 2. 11. written He that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one And thus and so walketh this man giving tribute to whom tribute is due fear to whom fear belongeth and honour to him to whom it pertaineth according to the commandement of his Lord which saith Give then to Caesar the things which