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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84068	The grand oppressor, or the terror of tithes; first felt, and now confest: By William Erberie.	Erbery, William, 1604-1654.	1652 (1652)	Wing E3226; Thomason E671_13; ESTC R207085	45,700	66

Jer. 49.11 Leave thy fatherlesse children and I will preserve them alive and let thy widdows trust in me my children are now fatherlesse and my wife a widdow but God will be a father to them and a husband to her yea her Physitian also according to promise Isai 58.6 7 8. But all men are my flesh also and because I would not hide my self from them Isai 58.7 I had it once in my thoughts to take this hundred pound at present and to give it as a publike stock for the poor of Cardiffe It was presently answered unto me Isai 61.8 I hate robbery for burnt offerings c. God will shortly provide for the poor though Man will not Yea men shall at last whether they will or no when God shall appear in them as fire to burn up all their fulnesse when the rust of their silver shall eat up their flesh as fire Iames 5.3 Isai 2.20 when they shall cast their Idols of silver and gold to the Moles and the Batts who lye now in the dust and flie in the dark Lastly In the day of wrath Ezek. 7.19 when they shall cast their silver in the Streets then God will find a way to feed the poor out of the bellies of the rich who shall not onely make restitution according to their substance but shall vomit up all that they have swallowed yea it is a wonder their children shall seek to please the poor and restore all their goods Job 20.10 15 18. compared I am waiting for the fulfilling of his Word which God will hasten this in his due time in mean while I can but pitie the poor and the rich also even the great Oppressor whose plague is coming I have no more to say but to assure you that I am in truth Sir Your much ingaged Friend and Servant in the Lord WILLIAM ERBERIE THE Sword Doubled To cut off both the RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED Drawn forth in two following Discourses By WILLIAM ERBERIE ISAIA● 31.4 Thus hath the Lord spoken unto me like as the Lyon and the young Lion roaring on his prey when a multitude of Shepherds is called forth against him he will not be afraid of their voyce nor abase himself for the noise of them So shall the Lord of Hosts come down to fight for mount Zion and for the bill-thereof LONDON Printed by G. D. for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the Sign of the Black Spread-Eagle at the West End of Pauls 1652. To the Independent Pastors and Teachers in Wales and in England also THE great design that God hath to doe this day is to undoe man Zeph. 3.19 Hag. 2.22 and the mighty ones of the earth by dividing and destroying that oppressive power upon the states and spirits of men that the outward and inward man may have deliverance at last and perfect liberty to serve the Lord in holiness and righteousness before him without fear all the dayes of our life Luke 1.75 This was the end of Christs first coming in the flesh and of his second in the Spirit by which as the man of sin the great whore Babylon must be destroyed so divided into three parts as in the slaughter of Midian by the annointing by the Spirit of the Lord or God manifest in our flesh by whom all yokes and burthens are removed Isai 10.26 27. Now Babylon or the Assyrian being the great Oppressor in Church and Common wealth Rev. 17.3 in the Civill and Ecclesiastick estate for the Beast carries the Whore both must be broken as all the Prophets and John the last doth prophesie Babylon is fallen is fallen and a third fall wee shall see anon How hath the Oppresser fallen Isaiah 14.4 the golden citie the Lord hath broken the staffe of the wicked and the rod of the Rulers The rod of Oppression appears not to men but in the civil estate and the staffe of the wicked there but we shall find it more in the rulers or ruling Elders of Churches we lookt for the wicked onely in the world Ezek. 7.10 11 but since the rod is budded pride hath blossomed and wickednesse is grown up co a rod the wicked may be found in the Church in Israel it self The Church I call now the people of God in Church fellowship or not but as among my people saith God Ier. 5.26 are found wicked men who surpasse the deeds of the wicked so since God hath prophaned the Princes of the Sanctuary Isal 43.26 or the holy Princes as I said before there are principall men among the people of God for whom the Prophet must cry and howle because the Sword is drawn forth both against the righteous and the wicked Ezek. 21 3. And against all the Princes of Israel verse 12. Yea the Sword is doubled the third time the Sword of the great men which enters into their privy Chambers or closest Councels and the point of the Sword is set against their gates or Governments that their hearts may faint and their ruines be multiplied ah it is made bright and wrapt for slaughter verse 14 15. But among all the holy Princes there is one especially whom the Lord calls upon Thou prophane wicked Prince whose day is come when iniquity shall have an end verse 25. Remove the Diadem take off the Crown this shall not be the same c. As King and Lords had an end and twice the Sword hath been against the Prclatick and Presbyterian party so the Sword being doubled the third time will smite that prophane and wicked Prince whatever he be who is the Oppressor who is imperious proud peevish covetous cruell and cunning for bloud oh the Sword of the Lord will find him out for 't is wrapt for slaughter 't is wrapt I say and secretly 't will come forth to cut off the man that stands before God to oppose the appearance of God in men to oppresse the spirits of men and the Spirit of God in them the Sword of his mouth shall slay him 2 Thess 2.8 I shall not now meddle with matters of State nor of secular men though these also may come under the King of Babylon but our Lords spirituall are those here who are called the King of Babylon against whom thou shalt take up a Proverb or a taunt saying How hath the Oppressor ceased The golden City ceased Isai 14.4 The golden City is the most glorious Church state or the people of God in highest honour and glory this is the golden City or as the Geneva reads the Gold thirsting City the exactresse of Gold as the margin notes None doe more exact and more thirst after Silver and Gold this day then the people of God in spirituall power and therefore no wonder they doe so oppresse both the states of men and the spirits of men yea the Spirit of God as may be seen at large Micah 2.2 6 7. compared with 8 9 10. verses Even of late my people

and crucified became the living way Heb. 10.20 as with God I shall shew another time Fifthly that worthy man brings men to the way but not to the Truth and Life Now Christ was all First the way for no man cometh to the Father but by me Iohn 14.6 now 't is a vain thing to keep men still in the way to stand still in the way and not to goe on by Christ into the Father into the holiest and thus was Christ the Truth Iohn 14.3 also taking us into the Father with himself for as this was eternall life to know the Father to be the onely true God Ioh. 17.3 and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent so Christ was sent or God even the Father was manifest in his flesh that we might see God in us as he was in him Iohn 17.21 23 24. and our life with him in God Lastly thus Christ is the life and thus he that hath the Son hath life that is the Son being once revealed in us reveals the Father in us also God in our flesh as in his and we living with him in God alone Joh. 14.19 20. 1 Joh. 5.11 12. This is the knowledge of Christ in the Spirit and this is the fourth step which some have attained to holding forth Christ in the Spirit as Mr. Sedgwick Mr. Sterrie Mr. Sprig and others these with their fellows are neerest Zion yet are they not come into it for as every Prophet shall one day be ashamed of his vision Zach. 13.4 yea prophesie it self shall fail So it is manifest these men are of a dark and deeper speech then can be easily understood Isai 33.19 therefore it is not Zion when there shall be such a glorious appearance of God in men that all shall see and hear him in them and as they shall see eye to eye when the Lord shall bring again Zion Isai 52.8 or bring forth himself cleerly in us who are now in captivity or he rather captive in our flesh so men shall hear God himself in us for so it is in the Hebrew Zach. 8.23 not we have heard that God is with you but we will go with you for we have heard God with you and in you Then man shall be nothing and God shall be all in all yet man shall be all in God and nothing but God shall appear in man This glorious appearance of the great God in man the three Shepherds the Pastors and Teachers doe indeed abhor they hate his appearance as I said and he abhors all their performances But who are these three Shepherds the Pastors of Churches What their cutting off is my former Letter shewed to suffer the curse of God and contempt of men How God cuts them off It is by unchurching them and by confounding or dividing them the Lord doth first unchurch them burns up the Church with fire Zachariah 11.1 there he calls Lebanon to open the doors that the fire may come in to burn up the tallest Cedars What 's Lebanon but the Temple for it was built with that Who are the Cedars but the tallest Members the principall of the flock What is the fire but the Spirit of the Lord as the Lord God calls upon Lebanon so he commands that the Church doors may be open for the fire to enter and the spirit to burn up all their chiefest members and Ministers for so it is vers 2. The mighty men or the gallants are spoiled yea there is a howling of the shepherds for their glory is spoiled v. 3. Their Church-fellowship and forms is that they glory in God spoils them and stains the pride of all their glory yea he burns it up How By fire The baptisme of the Spirit and of fire was the first Gospel-Ordinance Acts 1.4 5. or that which first set up the Church in a Gospel-order Fire will be the last that shall burn up the Churches who because they would not as the Primitive Saints did wait for the Spirit to build them the Spirit shall come to burn and consume them at last Secondly God cuts them off confounds and divides them he cuts them into three parts as we shall see by and by Thus then the three shepherds are the Pastors of all the Churches or whole Ministery of the Church Ezek. 16.30 Rev. 17.2 for as the Apostate Jewish Church was a Type of the Christian Church now under the Apostacie the whoredomes of Israel typifying the great whore whose fornications and the wine thereof in their forms of doctrine and false worships as we shall shew another time so Junius well notes the three Shepherds to signifie the whole teaching Ministery of the Jewish Church Vid. Junium in Zach. 11. for the Pharisees Sadduces and Essenes saith he were the onely Pastors or Teachers who did instruct the people in the Word of God as Prelates Presbyters and Independents are the whole Ministery of the Church of England this day These are divided not onely in Worship and Discipline but in doctrine also especially in three things 1. In the free grace of God which some call Antinomianism 2. In the free-will of man which otherscall Pelagianism 3. In the death of Christ or universal Redemption of mankind thereby which both Presbyters and Independants abhorre as Paganisme though nearest the Gospel indeed I shall not now shew the cause of all those divisions in Doctrine being engaged onely at present to prove their defilements in the worship of God and in their walking with men Yet this is one cause of their former difference and divisions in Doctrine Acts 2.42 because the Apostles Doctrine being before all Gospel-Ordinances is out of order in the Churches 1 Tim. 6.3 2. Tim. 1.13 who not content with that forme of sound words and wholsome Doctrine delivered by them doe follow the childish Dictates of Fathers the Decrees of Councels being a company of Bishops with such Creeds Confessions and Catechismes formed by them and reformed Churches whose conformities and fooleries in formes of worship though our Churches cannot chuse but see yet with a blind devotion they follow all their formes of doctrine not suffering a doubt or the least debate to passe upon their reason and judgement therein How injudicious this is with ingenuous men let all men judge Iohn 3.12 for if I tell you of earthly things saith Christ and yee beleeve not how will yee beleeve if I tell you of heavenly all outward worship is but an earthly thing Now if all Fathers and former Churches have erred in worship why not I pray you may they not erre in Doctrine in heavenly and hidden things in the high Mystery of God and of Christ especially seeing the Apostles did prophesie of such deceit to come in this by vain Philosophy Col. 2.8 and metaphysicall speculations of the Deity by the traditions and inventions of men the rudiments of the world the rudiments that is the A. B. C. or common Catechismes which