ordain and appoint without the help of man Let no man say He can teach for no man can teach life and salvation Then down with all teachers that we may live under a peaceable Government our own Vine Christ Jesus for he will teach us of his wayes without all differing disputations Those that call themselves teachers they live as drone-bees by the sweat of other mens brows Therefore let them stop their mouths for the people will not give ear to them but will live under their own vine by a new Sabbath Covenantial and you shall bewitch the people no longer when fulness comes God will teach and the people shall declare what God hath done for their souls Then all these Dromidaries of Midian must break off your heavenly teaching and come under the peaceable Dominion of Christ You high Doctors blame me not for speaking where life is it will branch it self forth Who shall hinder my speaking the truth the silly Worm to the cold Earth the Sallamander to the Fire so all things to their proper use to the honour of God Oh that these rotten Priests would lay down their power and make Christ all in all Fat Priests that live as Drones belly-godded persons proud and delicious God is angry with you because no power will throw you down God will give his people wisdom to come out from you and to live by a higher teaching which is from the holy Ghost for there will be a great falling away that the iniquity of the Priests may be discovered I have tried all your Ministeryes and can have no rest in them my spirit is so universally taken up with the appearings of Christ that I unfailably see an absolute doing away of your Forms your Sabbaths your Sacraments your Baptism your common-Churches your separate-Churches your Anabaptist-Churches your Papist Churches all your set forms must return to the ancient Church of the Jews which is the stable perfection of Christ for now he apeareth all your forms must be done away Christ at the first came under a state of imperfection yeilding to the laws of men but now he cometh in perfection and will do away all your forms and shadows for when that which is perfect is come the unperfect must be done away My desire is to see the Priests thrown down and let the Lord preach alone for all the Ministers under the cope of heaven are not able to define or make out the truth neither can they speak truth till they give up their Ministery to Christ for all teaching belongeth to him and I know not any as can teach but shall run themselves into errors for it is God that teacheth and not fleshly man for by mans teaching the curse hath continued on the earth to this day neither shall it be till Christ hath the full pre-eminency and all powers yeilded up to him by an endless Covenant saying When that which is perfect is come then that which is not shall be done away when he cometh in power your illegal forms and relecks shall be done away for his formal power shall throw off your shadows as all the creatures declare the glory of God and preach forth his excellency but not as a Priest to Minister in Christs place but to shew what the Lord hath done for the creation and to acknowledge Christ alone to teach life He preacheth forth peaceable dominion to them that are nigh and to them that are afar off from him righteousness doth arise which is the end of all preaching Christ is the stability of the Church I do not say of named Churches but of one Church without difference or dividual dividing he is the husband of one spouse his perfection shall guide us unto all truth and for want of setting up Christ in his oriency of power men set themselves up and destroy his heritage but the chosen people of God must act against every thing that is opposite to Christ for he is Prince of peace and Prince of power and for his cause sacrifice thy life otherwise thou art no Christian for we must look no more upon the Ark of the Covenant it must not be once named amongst us The letter of the Scripture shall be failable when the testimony truly dwelleth in us by faith then all our outward shadows shall be done away Christ hath redeemed us from all typical shadows and from the curse of the letter being once made a curse for us that the blessing may come upon the people by faith and not by literal forms and shadows Gal. 3.13 Cursed is every one that hangeth upon a tree Shewing the miserable condition of all such that hold so much by the tree of the Law and deny the freedom of the Spirit they might have in the Son of God for as many as rely upon works are men-workers lie still under the curse for Christ is the free Abraham he hath done all the work of renovation and we are free in him without works and saved in him without mens works if once in Christ then free indeed from all mens traditional teaching while we are justified in Christ we acknowledge our selves sinners in that we see nothing in our selves and Christ to be just in all It is the believing Abraham that shall be justified and not the working Abraham For grace is of faith and not by works lest any man should boast for if the inheritance be of the letter it cannot be of faith God gave it to Abraham as he believed so the Lord promised to him and to his seed for ever according to the Covenant of faith which is the Law and Testimony written in the conscience called two Witnesses within which do Christian a creature and baptize him into the promised Covenant of Abraham and Christ which is far above all your teaching forms and shadows I speak to the people saying Stand fast in the liberty wherein Christ hath made you free and be no more entangled with the yoke of bondage but know your selves at liberty as children of the day and rejoyce with Jerusalem all that love her be glad and rejoyce for the amplitude and stability of the Church when all the Churches shall be maried to Christ in the new Covenant that they may suck and be satisfied with the brest of consolation for the Lord will extend peace to his Church as a river and to the people as a flowing stream from a fountain of teaching from above GOod men may sometimes deny Christ not knowing the end of disciplying This Doctor Hill was an eminent man and without all question declared forth many good things in his time yet subject to erre as we be by relation of some of the Souldiers that quartered in the town of Cambridge as they told me I cannot tell but as they related a sad story of this Doctor Hill by relation he was intended to persecute with the tongue whether right or wrong his spirit knoweth it best I cannot prove it yet it was certified me
own soul and say no more I am in Christs stead Doctor know that thine is an earthly authority but Christ is a Minister by an heavenly authority Then lay down thy false power You say you are Ministers of God and yet can minister but the outward letter and the letter shall non-residence you and suspend your authority for you are but false Christs Therefore Priest thou must lay down Christ is all thy Lectury he is eggal tyal and substantial You are but egg but he is eggal Therefore lay down and say We are no teachers but pleaders for righteousness mercy and justice and cannot teach the holy Ghost Christ is the altar then go no more to the Scribe nor to any earthly teacher If Christ be truely formed in thee go no more to the Wise-man or the Scribe which be inwardly ravening wolves and yet they come in Christs name which enjoy the tenth part of our Nation called the Tythes and Impropriations which might outwardly redeem the poor the blinde and the lame the fatherless and widow People you look for an outward speaking but the inward speaking is of God It is the holy Ghost that speaketh in thee and me and that is the surest teaching and ten thousand times more good it will do thee then all thy second-hand-teachers that cannot declare a true testimony Then all ye blinde guides that lead the blinde the Lord doth rightly teach Ministers dare not express themselves men dare not express themselves therefore the truth of Christ must needs suffer violence And I finde that these Wise-men and Counsellors are but the Witch of the world Ye Pulpittians there can be no election of Ministers but by Christ in whom he said Go it was in those days a work of election onely of Christ and from Christ an Ordination tolerated by the Son of God but now that power of election is of none effect and let him be what he will if a Minister or Lay-man if he take upon him to ordain or elect any to be Ministers of God or to give any such authority he falsly standerh in Christs place and cometh not in at the door but take Christs Office in their hand and they are not called to it The work of mans Priesthood failed long since for Christ is our high-priest once for all and he standeth a Priest for ever after the Order of Melchizedek He shall purge the sons of Levi that they may bring an offering in righteousness which is to throw down their power at the eternal power and live up to the endless Ministery of Christ and shall say I am no more a Minister of God I am but as other men Mens Priesthoods have been ever held up with money and outward territories but Christ teacheth freely and so did all they that he tolerated and sent All his disciples were without resting-places so are not ye he said The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests but the Son of man hath nowhere to hide his head Which of all the disciples of Christ held up personal proprieties to themselves I am sure amongst them it was not a common thing as it is amongst you for some of our Priests have large inheritances and will rather lose Christ then lose their Parsonages or great possessions of land But Christ did not ordain such disciples but such as were to carry neither scrip nor staff to trust to shewing that proprieties were not given them Learn of me saith Christ if I have nothing what can you expect if I be your example be as I am I tell thee if thou beest never so high a Doctor and eminent for gifts and yet dost buy and sell the creation thou art no Minister of God Therefore lay down thy authority for it is false At the first the Creation was not bought and sold for money it was to stand in its own original and not to be traduced or ingrossed by money and so to be changed from its original None of the Apostles bought or sold the Creation for money as some of our Doctors have done which is utterly unlawful Heaven is the Lords throne and the earth his footstool Now ye abominable Priests that buy and ingross the earth into your hands and tolerate all others so to do can a man buy the Lords throne for money No for it his place of rest neither can ye buy the earth which is his footstool Therefore ye Ministers are buyers and sellers and as money-changers in the Temple of God and for this cause of buying and selling the Creation your Temple is broken in pieces and there shall not be one stone lest upon another that shall not be thrown down So that I clearly finde that Ordination of Priests and Ministers ceased at buying and selling the Creation for then Christ came and put an end to their Ministery and God appears chiefly to us by his Son having him dwelling in us by the gift of the holy Ghost that is the Law and Testimony in us And God hath left power to his two Witnesses to plead for righteousness because there was no truth in the Priests therefore he hath given the two Witnesses power that shall hold to the end DOctor I see nothing but an end of all Traditional preaching for Mediumal preacheth in the mount of his power and requireth setting up thrones and to bring all things before the seat of justice Christ must sit upon his seat and judge the ends of the earth He is said to sit upon twelve thrones that is by an audiencee of twelve voices to vindicate and make out the full truth by Witnesses Then where is your preaching power your grinding in a Mill will cease Ye stand beating the Pulpit but all is in vain for the honourable seat of Justice will exclude all your seenal Witcherasts You have preached long yet no justice mercy nor truth is in our borders But the Prophet Zâ—chariah saith In those days and at that time many shall be joyned to the Lord which sheweth they shall throw off the Ministeries of men And the Prophet Hosea saith They shall be sowed to the Lord in truth in mercâ— and loving kindness saith the Lord I will betroth thee unto me That shews that every one should understand and know their Mariage union with Christ and come out from Priest and People It is not enough to say thou art a Christian but thou must prove thy self by an inward Law and testimony with the approbation of the grand Church that is by an inward and outward testimony that shall make them free Heb. 4.9 There remaineth a rest to the people of God and in vers 10. He that is entred into that rest hath ceased from his own works as God did from his This Christian rest is perfection of parts without toyl and legal cate having inward sanctity in the soul which is a sweet Sabbath-rest and I know no other Sabbath You observe days called Sundays outwardly and do not look to the
the old road but what is that to the setting up of thrones that all clear justice may proceed I can behold nothing but discovery discovery The Scripture saith The moon and stars shall be as the sun shewing a seeming brightness in them all or some equality with the sun which petypeth and prefigureth a great discovery of Christ and his Saints by some new disciplying way Ecclesiastical and Civil We must come to a higher beholding of God which shall be marvelous in the eyes of the remnant when they shall throw off your old customs and forms your Sacraments will be changeable Christ saith That ye do do in remembrance of me till I come And truly that is when he cometh by a new light then all your old forms shall be taken away and to that purpose he speaks of a new Covenant that he will make with the people not according to the old he saith All things shall become new That declareth that old forms must be taken away by a more excellent power that shall stand for the ordering of spiritual affairs and civil affairs brought all into one called The law of Sion that shall be governed by twelve or by four and twenty according to Ordination and so to cut off all forms that have been erected by Bishops and Priests The Lord hath raised me by the degrees of light and still one light hath frustrated another so that the Lord hath followed me with new lights caused me to throw off the old for the Sacrament and Baptism is declared to me as an outward thing and cannot stand when the Lord cometh in power by a new light He saith to his disciples Do as I have commanded you and lo I will be with you to the end It implieth that he will be with his people in the Old and new work but the new light shall do away the old Doctor Presbytian thou cryest Down with water-baptism then why dost thou baptize babes in clouts Paul saith Neither circumcision nor Baptism availeth but a new creature Christ went into the water and I think that to be more tolerable then to baptize babes that cannot understand or speak This difference of Baptism will not be ended until we lay down both the forms of outward discipline And if ye deny it to them of understanding then for shame leave off discipling of babes that have no understanding and let every one chiefly see himself to be a new creature baptized in Christ Jesus by a new Covenant for throwing off old forms and authors of men that be so failable and superfluous so that I find every form must come to the formal power of Christ for he is that all power to settle our differences and to make known the living Gospel to every creature it is far higher then the letter it is the power of Christ that is our true testimony by an inward law of conscience called The two Testimonies called The two Witnesses without which none can savingly prove themselves Christians so that every one ought not to live by the teaching of others but effectually to see something of God in themselves otherwise outward teaching will but intoxicate the brain and cannot restollize thy soul Then look not so much upon outward forms which have no substance in them It is not your Sacraments or Sabbaths or Baptisms or Preachings it is onely something of God within us that moveth us to work righteousness Outward ostentations or customs cannot do it for they are failable When Christ comes to us by true faith those forms must be done away by an higher light called his bright appearing that shall abolish all the Antichristian forms when men shall know God in spirit and in truth without old Popery The Papists look upon Christ by their Crucifix and you look upon Christ by your Forms so that all of you look upon the sepulchre or upon something below Christ giving your selves content and rest in outward shadows THe honourable seat of Justice or two Olive-trees the two branches standing on both sides the bank of the river called the conduit-pipes that receive the Oyl and declare it forth the sweet Odours these two Olive-trees are called the bowls on both sides of the Altar or the two Candlesticks or two Anoynted ones standing before the great God of the earth which indeed are the two Witnesses that shal faithfully plead for all truth at the right hand three on the one hand and three on the other those six shall attend one witness the other witness shall be attended with other six in the same order twelve on one side and twelve on the other four and twenty in number with two Witnesses standing on both sides which may be called the seat of Justice for Christ to sit and rule upon his throne he is the Sanctuary in the midst of them said to be the Altar of gold that shall sit upon the throne of Justice called Davids throne sitting upon twelve thrones which is the ends of the earth or remnant of the tribes Those two faithful Witnesses that shall stand before the seat of Justice shall plead for equity in all considerable places and nations and all such thrones shall be called the seat of Justice they shall put forth Queries and answer as the one declareth the other shall answer in due order so that twelve Senators shall judge and declare their sentence to prove every truth which shall be excellent sweet and amiable so that people shall abominate their earthly Christs that have deluded them so long and look upwards to the minister of God the highest teacher Our Priests are not like the Prophets of old that quaked and trembled when they saw danger at hand there hath been a great deal of difference between the Priests and the Prophets The Priests have ever been proud and high and much sought themselves by self-greatness which doth not prove themselves Ministers of God but stand in a Ministers place as if they were the very Christ which go in sheeps clothing yet ravenous and cruel as the Bishops if they had the same power But for all their Presbytian sting the pricking brier must be taken away that troubleth the Israel of God Christ is the fountain and finisher of the work he sets his foot on mount Olivet and it cleaveth in sunder so shall your Ministerial power be dashed in sunder and happie shall he be called that dasheth your power in pieces for the raising up the dry bone of Israel Christ sent his disciples or by two and two he called fishermen not one man One Priest ought not to stand so high to elevate his own tongue he will not have one speaker but by the mouth of two or three faithful witnesses truth shall be proved from one end of the earth to another though our blind guides see it not Therefore their tongues shall be no more an Allegator it must be two called the two Olive-trees that shall stand before the great God of the earth
to prove the truth Two candlesticks and two lights before the people when one mans tongue speaking shall be a lye every singular power shall be dissolved onely Christ shall stand singular over all He set his foot upon the hinder sea and his other foot upon the far sea he cleaveth the mount of Olivet in sunder and will diselevate all your historical power which shall be the beginning of the downfal of your Priestly power for Christ will sit upon it by twelve thrones will dis-throne all that stand so high in the place of ostentation they must come down and plead for truth among their lowe equals for their mount is cleft in sunder from the hinder sea to the far sea There shall no power stand before Christ the new Jerusalem for none shall stand singular in place of speaking but Christ alone and his two anoynted ones Therefore Alphaba it must down with thy all power of preaching in thine own tongue Now Christ doth appear your mount Elevate is cleft in sunder there shall not be one stone left upon another that shall not be thrown down And happy shall be that man that shall take your power and dash it against the wall Zech. 11. 10. I took my staff Beauty and brake it in sunder and it was broke in that day so the sheep that waited upon me knew that I was the word of the Lord. And truely he that brake the staff Beauty wil surely break the staff Bands that your elevated power may fall Christ is the Middinal Sainter or Mediator betwixt two he standeth as a tree of Mustard-seed little in shew yet great and orient in substance and splendorious to all and his name is Branch that is beautiful and shall grow up in the earth He is the tree of life standing in the garden of God and whoever eateth of it shall live for ever He is life eternal to all that thirst after him He is a Medium of comfort to all the oppressed he will in some measure still the rage of the sea Christ the Lord he is all righteousness You may definate but Christ is the definer of truth He is the Centre and stable medium of all things in heaven and in earth He is the fountain that filleth the two conduit-pipes with oyl called The two anoynted ones that stand before the God of the whole earth He filleth every Lamp with oyl Every high hill shall cleave asunder at his presence Who art thou O mountain before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain For every power shall be cleft in sunder before Almiddium the Lord he shall stand upon the sea with his face toward the hinder sea he and his two Witnesses shall stand in power to destroy the Red Dragon and his fury The faithful Witnesses of God shall stand by many two's yet one shall stand in the midst of them which is the tree of life Angelical And if any shall attempt or hurt them fire cometh down from heaven and shall destroy them This Angelical power of Christ with his Saints Evangelical shall strike the hinder parts of Leviathan which is the Dragons tayl so that fire from heaven shall burn up his fury for the jealousie of the Lord is gone forth and shall not return till it hath wrought the full work of God for lo saith the Lord the stone that I have laid before Joshua upon it shall be seven eyes which sheweth the glory of Christ that taketh away the iniquity of the land in one day and that shall be when we make the Lord our Minister then he shall take away our reproach Christ the heavenly Branch shall silence all flesh Men may preach all their days and cannot remove our reproach yet Christ can make our Gospel peace Mans preaching is but carnal policie But Christ is raised out of his place let men and Ministers be silent he hath the key of the bottomless pit he took the dragon bound him Rev. 20. he set a seal upon him that he should deceive the nations no more tell certain yeers expired The time when he was first bound was about 1600 yeers ago or thereabout And God hath shewed himself the more merciful in keeping us from his personal visage for so long since God hath shut him up under chains of darkness and from thence to this day his common appearance hath been hideous to man YE Assyrian Priests it is not your way to save souls it is proper to God alone ye may counsel them or inform them that 's all ye can do for God alone teacheth I will write my Law in their inward parts He spiritually teacheth and infuseth grace in the soul Priests and Levites it was to you for a time but our Ministers for a shorter time if mens Priesthood failed under the Law how much more shall yours be under Christ and as the Priests were cryed down under the Law by the Prophets how much more failable are you under the eternal Priesthood of Christ for all Tythes and Levitical forms of Tythes have ceased since Christ came in the flesh If Aaron the Priest could have no inheritance amongst Israel what benefits can ye expect under the everlasting Gospel Tythes were given at the first by a legal power of men and therefore it was called Legal or Levitical pretending td Gods house or to the righteousness of God till Christ came in the flesh which cut off old Levitical forms by a new Covenant nor according to the old saying I will make a new Covenant with them and write my Law in their inward parts as an eternal Sabbath in the conscience that shall burn up every outward form When Christ appeared in the flesh all Tythes and forms of slavery sure ceased Truly Doctor thou maist say what thou wilt yet I cannot believe thee though thou saist Thou art Christs Disciple yet I say thou art not except thou deniest thy self by a cessation of Tythe-forms for they must all cease there cannot a bit of Levitical Priesthood stand before Christ Jesus the eternal Priest every Priesthood must down for that made the Law a Law and the Divel a Divel Christ Jesus is a free Pastor to all that come unto him and all ye Doctors and Ministers are a generation of Angels must fall calling your selves Ministers of Christ for the Tythe and for the Fleece for money and Glebe-land ye sit as little Bishops gaping under a sunny bank so fat and so proud and no Disciples of Christ in his poverty Therefore Bishop-black shall array himself in Sheeps-clothing among others that be his low equals Christ is the royal Shepherd in the Mount Al-medium preacheth in the Mount and your Ministerial power shall go down he set his foot upon Mount Olivet and it cleft in sunder so shall your elevated power divide in sunder Now Al-medium preacheth in the Mount your Ministerial preaching shall go down your Olivet will cleave in sunder you go to your mercenary mediating houses but Christ is all in