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lord_n	abhor_v	priest_n	zion_n	111	3	8.5415	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40939	Moses message to Pharoah, or God sending to the heads of England go undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, to serve Him in the wilderness, that he may do them good in their latter dayes. For Israel shall be many dayes without a king, without a priest, without an ephod, and without a teraphim, afterward they shall look [...]he Lord their God, and David their king, and shall [...]ar the Lord, and his goodness in his latter dayes, ...	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1653 (1653)	Wing F491B; ESTC R218272	26,840	33

day of the Lord is coming upon thee to judge thee and his power known upon the heads of it except speedily return and meet the Lord by yielding ●●dience to him Down with all oppression the 〈◊〉 of the poor of England is entred into the ears 〈◊〉 Lord of Sabbaths the sins of England do test●●●gainst their face iniquity is at height ready 〈◊〉 cut down to the ground England England day of the Lord is come upon thee hear yet 〈◊〉 Heads and Rulers the Lord hath a contro●●●● with you he looketh for judgement and j●●●● but behold cruelty and oppression he will re●●●● all the righteous blood that is spilt at your ha●● you kill and slay the righteous ones of the Lord is sent to testifie against your deceits now you all be left without excuse he hath sent bo●● high and low to forewarme them and this is to●●● O heads it is required at your hands to have 〈◊〉 Justice and to have heard the cause of the 〈◊〉 and to have seen that true Justice and Judge● had been executed but behold nothing but ●●●ty and oppression you have imprisoned the 〈◊〉 and suffered it to be trodden under foot and witnesses lies slaine in the streets by you Ah b●● the Lord I will ease me of mine enemies and 〈◊〉 me of my adversaries Ye say as the children ●●●rael did after they had backslided and broke● covenant of the Lord as they did to whom the ●●●phet Micah was sent to cry against Prophecy ye say they to them that prophecy so say you 〈◊〉 and shuts up and imprisons some and beateth stoneth others and suffers it to be so by your 〈◊〉 and will not let the truth declare it self unto y●● but saith the Lord Arise and depart for this i● your rest because it is polluted it shall destroy y●●●ven with a sore destruction Mica 2.10 11 12 13. Mich. 2.10 11 12 Hear this Oh heads of England Is it not for 〈◊〉 know Judgement who hate the good Mic. 3.1 2 3 4. ● Isa 28.1 Mic. 2.1 2 c. Isa 38. Isa 59.8 Hos 9.7 Mic. 3.9 10 Hos 13.6 7 8. Mic. 3.11 1 Thes 5.2 3. 2 Thes 1.7 8 9 10. and love ●●e evil Now you are full pride swelleth amongst ●●u which is odious in the eyes of the Lord ●●ur sins testifie against you covetousness abounds ●●ongst you cruelty and oppression swells the ●nd mourns because of oppression the Lord look●●● down from heaven upon it and he is sore dis●eased at you all even all the heads of England ●●at abhor judgement and pervert equity who ●●ild up Sion with blood slayes the righteous ones 〈◊〉 your laws the heads thereof judge for rewards ●●d the priests thereof teach for hire and lean upon 〈◊〉 Lord and say Is not the Lord amongst us and e●● cannot come upon us but when ye cry peace peace ●●●n cometh sudden destruction from the Almighty and ●●yeth all the unjust Many great deliverances hath the Lord given to ●●is nation never like to any but Israel and af●●r all these large deliverances his mercy is forgot ●●d his grace is turned into wantonness and haugh●●●ess and many large promises have been made ●●●e after time that this nation should be free ●●om tyranny and never the like was seen in any ●●●tion professing Christianity but here is nothing 〈◊〉 all performed but a second beast is set up worse ●●en the first and all the world wonders and wor●●ips the beast but those who have found their ●●mes written in the book of life and the beast ●●akes war with the Saints Rev. 17.8 9 10 11 c. Vers 14. Rev. 14.9 10 11. Isa 29.13 14. Mat. 16.21 but the Saints shall ●vercome and the beast and beastly worship shall ●●●e cast into the lake that burneth and they shall ●●ve no rest day nor night that worship the beast ●●d his Image and that receive the mark of the ●●east all the worship of the world is beastial wor●●iping the work of their own hands and the priests ●●e the greatest enemies to Jesus Christ now when ●e is appearing in Spirit as they was when he came in the flesh Mat. 21.15 16. ver 23. Mat. 20.18 19. Mat. 26.14 15. ver 47.57 59 c. Heb. 8 ●0 11 c. Jer. 31.31 32 33 34. to fulfill what the law did contai●●● after that the Lord had made a covenant with I●●●el after the flesh and they did not abide in it 〈◊〉 broke it then he promised that the would m●●● new covenant with the house of Israel and the ho●●●● Judah but not according to the first covenant wi●● covenant they broke notwithstanding he was an husb●● to them but this is the covenant that I will make 〈◊〉 them after those dayes saith the Lord I will put 〈◊〉 laws in their hearts and in their minds will I w●● them saith the Lord and they shall not need to tea●●●very man his brother and every man his neighbour s●●●ing know the Lord for they shall all know me from 〈◊〉 least to the greatest and saith the Lord by the p●●●phet Isaiah speaking of Christ I will give thee f●● covenant of the people for a light of the Gentiles open the blind eyes to bring the prisoners out of pris●● and them that sit in darkness into the shaddow light Now this was foretold of by the prophets Isai●● and Jeremiah and the Lord did perform his p●●mises made by the prophets concerning his co●●nant Jesus Christ was foretold to be his new co●●nant and when Jesus Christ which was foretold 〈◊〉 by the prophets came to fulfill and put to an end 〈◊〉 that was contained in the first covenant all t●● Jews chief Priests Scribes and Pharisees Elde● and Rulers of the people sought to put him 〈◊〉 death because he came to testifie against the d●ceits that they then lived in for saith Jesus Chri●● himself Because saith he I testifie against the w●●● that their deeds are evil therefore doth the world h●● me It is the same now as it was then where Jes●● Christ is made manifest in the hearts of his peopl● Now when Jesus Christ came in that single person Heb. 8.6 ● 8 9 10 ●1 ●eb 10.9 〈◊〉 came to put an end to the first covenant which wa● broken and to establish another he went into th● ●●mple and into the Synagogues witnessing the ●●●filling of the Law and said to the people Matth. 5.15 16. ver c. Think 〈◊〉 that I am come to destroy the law I am not come to ●●stroy but to fulfill the law and he took the book ●●d he read that place of Isaiah where he had pro●●esied and foretold of him and said This day is ●●s Scripture fulfilled in your cars now againe he ●●d that heaven and earth should pass away but not 〈◊〉 joi and one title of the word should in no wise fail 〈◊〉 all was fulfilled he came for the fulfilling af●●● that Jesus Christ was sacrificed up Heb. 8.1.2 ver

forgot the mercies of the Lord which he had made manifest to them in a large measure ●●o 15. 〈◊〉 47. c. 〈◊〉 48.1 2. 〈◊〉 59. cap. 〈◊〉 1.21 ●● 23 24. and a carnal part go● up in them after they had back slided and faln from their maker and then oppression got up amongst them and pride and they then ground the faces o● of the poor and lived in lust and excess and forgot to execute true Judgement and Justice among the people and the Lord saw it and it did greatly displease him and he sent his true Prophets to cry out against them Hos 8. ● 9 1 2. Hos 14 1● Isa 3.11 12 13 1● 15 c. Isa 3.17 c. and to tell them that they had faln from their maker O Israel return return saith the Lord why do ye grinde the faces of the poor because the daughters of Sion are haughty and walk with stretched out necks and wanton eyes walking and mincing as they go and making a tinkling with their feet therefore the Lord will smite with a scab from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot and will discover all their secret parts The Judgement of the Lord was to come upon them except they did return from the evil of their doings Isa 28.1 for so long as they were kept in the fear of the Lord it caused them to walke humbly before the Lord Deut. 10 12 13 1● 15 c. Heb. 8.13 and they kept his statutes and his ordinances which he had committed to them he gave them a law to walk by and made a covenant with them in which covenant they had many priests and these priests was to offer up sacrifice and they was to do it without money Heb. 7 2●● 27 28. and the people they was to bring of the best the pure and the clean and they was to bring it in freely to be offered up in sacrifice in bringing the best they brought their hearts with them the preists offering it up without money was a figure of Jesus Christ being the Saints high priest to offer up their sacrifice to the father freely Numb 28. 29. ch●● Heb. 7.23 v. 24 ●● Heb. 9.8 9 10 11 12 c. Heb. 9 13● Heb. 9.18 19 20. Heb. 9.14 15. and the people bringing it in freely and of the best the pure and the clean was a figure of Jesus Christ laying down his life freely and as the life of the creature was to be sacrificed up for the purifying of the flesh the blood of the covenant which could not make him that offered it up clean as touching the conscience was a figure of Jesus Christ being to be sacrificed up and his blood to be shed for the purifying of the conscience Jesus Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered up himself without spot to God the Father was for the purification of the inward parts and in the first covenant which was outward to the Je●outwardly Chron. ● 22 c. Chron. 1. Acts 47 48. Cor. 6.19 Cor. 6.16 ● Exod. ● 16 ●xo 18.19 ●0 21 22. ●ev 19.15 〈◊〉 verl 20. ●eut 1.16 ●7 18. ●eut 16. ●8 19 20. ●xod 23.8 Chro. 19. ● 6 7 8. ●sa 33.22 ●●eb 12.23 ●●am 5.9 ●eut 14. ●7 28 29. ●en 17. ●0 11. Deut. 10. ●6 17. Col. 2.11 ●sa 56.2 ●sa 58.13 ●4 Numb ●5 32 Heb. 〈◊〉 9.10 mat ●2 8 Mark. ●● 27 28. when they was come into the Inhab●ted places they was to build a temple which temple was a figure of Jesus Christ and the Saint being the true temple of the living God and the first covenant they had Judges outwardly an● they was to be such men as feared God and hated ●●vetousness and they was to Judge the people at 〈◊〉 seasons and they was not to be partial in Judgement but to hear the cause of the poor as well 〈◊〉 the great and they was to plead the cause of th● poor and the needy and to Judge righteously b●twixt a man and his neighbour and they was to 〈◊〉 it freely and not to take neither gifts nor reward for gifts and rewards blinded the eyes of the wi●● and that was a figure of the Lord being the Judg● of the Jew inwardly himself and in the first con●nan● they was to pay tythes and they was to fee the poor the widdows the fatherless and 〈◊〉 strangers with them and to satisfie such as was 〈◊〉 want that there might be no begger in Isra●● that the Lord might be praised and glorified 〈◊〉 them in this first covenant which was outward they was to be circumcised which was a figu●● of the Circumcision which was to be with●● hands and in the first covenant they had a Sa●bath outwardly Exod. 31.13 14. A figure of th● true Sabbath which the Saints should enjoy ●●●wardly and in this Sabbath they was not to sp●● their own words nor think their own thoughts neith●● to carry any burden not so much as gather sticks 〈◊〉 that gathered sticks on the Sabbath day was ston●● to death Now so long as they did abide in covenan● and walked in obedience to the Lord the Lord bl●●sed them and made his love known unto them 〈◊〉 when they did transgress and broke the covenan● the Lord sent his servants the prophets to crye● ●gainst them and tell them of their transgressions ●ee Isa 1. Chap. The vision of Isaiah the son of ●mos which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem Isa 1. cha● 〈◊〉 the dayes of Uzziah Jotham Ahaz and Hezeki●h kings of Judah The Lord had opened their con●itions to his servant the prophet and sent him to ●he heads of them to declare unto them their trans●ressions see vers 2. Hear O heavens He called ●pon the heads of them first Isa 1.2 3 4. then he called to the ●eet All sorts of people give ear O earth this was the ●eople that the Lord had made choice of and gave ●hem Statutes and Ordinances to observe and to ●alk by but when they waxed full and rich their ●earts ran after their riches they made their riches ●heir gods and forgot the Lord their Maker and ●id not abide in his covenant but rebelled against ●him Thus saith the Lord I have nourished and ●rought up children and they have rebelled against ●●e This was the people that the Lord had mani●ested his love unto in such a large manner as he ●id in bringing them out of Egypt where they had been kept in such bondage under Pharoah and by ●is mighty power and out-stretched arme he brought them forth and slew all their first born in Egypt and brought his people to the sea-side and there he renewed his love to them againe and made his power known in suffering the Egyptians Pharaoh and his host to pursue them thither and there he kept them safe when they had neither wall nor bulwark to defend them Exod. 14● 18 19 20● 21 22 23● 24 25