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A81625 A door of hope: or, A call and declaration for the gathering together of the first ripe fruits unto the standard of our Lord, King Jesus.; Door of hope. 1661 (1661) Wing D1908; Thomason E764_7; ESTC R207107 22,969 16

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A Door of Hope OR A CALL and DECLARATION for the gathering together of the first ripe Fruits unto the STANDARD of our Lord KING JESUS WE must begin with this Song Great and marvellous are thy Works Lord God Almighty just and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints Rev. 15. And if he will breath in us the Life and Wisdom of his own holy Spirit we will call to minde and Rehearse the Righteous Acts of the Lord who has been doing by mean and despicable Instruments a great and good work full of wonder and astonishment of late years in these utmost Isles of the world according to the Prophesies of the Scriptures in order to the introducing the best Interest which is the desire of all Nations namely the Exaltation of the Throne and Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ among us And this beginning of Reformation and the honest Party engaged in this Quarrel however by far the less number God did abundantly own and witness too from heaven by opening his Salvation and making bare his own Arm against the late King who was justly cut off as a Murtherer see Decl. of Parl. 11. Feb. 1647. Tyrant and Traytor insomuch that Germany was not without a witness that Learned and Judicious Author of Clavis Apocalyptica to the Righteousnesse of that Sentence who concludes by vertue of that clear Text Rev. 16. 5 7. Lord thou art Righteous because thou hast Judged thus P 100. Novertheless God hath now taken away all our bancks and permitted this old Enemy to come in upon us as a flood Isa 59. 19. And now C. S. the Son of that Murtherer is Proclaimed King of England whose Throne of Iniquity is built on the Blood of precious Saints and Martyrs and on the Blood of all our Brethren in the late Wars In whom is continued from Nimrod their first Head and Original the succession of the same cursed Seed and Serpentine Off-spring which by a continued Series runs through the Veins of the Assyrian Persian Grecian and Roman Monarchies So that now this common Enemy the seed of Ham is risen up in the spirit of that Murtherer Cain in the spirit of Esau Pharoah Amaleck Nebuchadnezzar Haman in the spirit of Herod and of the old Heathen Romane Persecutors such as Dioclesian against whom the Blood of the butcher'd and martyr'd Saints cryed under the fifth Seal at the beginning of whose ten years most cruel savage Persecution as M. Mede hath observed within thirty dayes about 17000. are reported to have been butcher'd In Egypt alone how small a part of the Empire of Rome there were butcher'd 144000. men and all the world almost was stained with the precious blood of the Martyrs in the spirit of the monstrous cruell unparallel'd Beast Rev. 13. who hath all the cursed properties of a Leopard for fierceness the feet of a Bear to catch and hold and the mouth of a Lion to tear and devour in the spirit of that Scarlet filthy Whore Rev. 17. the Mother of Harlots the Whorish Churches who is drunk with the blood of Saints and in her is found the blood of Prophets and Martyrs and all that has been slain on the Earth we say they are now Risen up in this spirit against the Lord against his Christ and People This is the spirit that put to death our Lord Jesus Christ and that murthered all the Martyrs But when we seriously weigh with our selves the great and good designs God hath in this strange Providence whereat most are confounded to punish and spue out of his mouth a Lukewarm People who had not a thorough spirit for the Work to try the Faith and Patience of his own People as pure Gold to conform them to their Head to Redeem and Separate them from all the rest by choice distinguishing Characters as Gold from more impure Mettal as Gideons three hundred from the thousands to this great Work of following the Lamb To fulfil the Word of God and the Prophecies of these last dayes among which those three in that blessed Book of the Revelations chap. 11. 10 11 12 13. chap. 18 7 8. chap. 17. 17. are not the least And to get himself a great Name which will be more glorious by much then that of Egypt Jer. 23. 7 8. For as he raised up Pharoah so hath he them to shew his Power in them and that his Name may be declared throughout all the Earth Rom. 9 17. They are brought as Foxes into the Snare and as Birds into the Net We say when we consider these things we are so far from being dejected that we cannot restrain from singing and praise knowing that this will make much for Gods Honour our good and this Works advantage and they shall not be able to touch one hair of our head nay we were very much confirmed in our hopes of the sudden appearance of this Work by the coming in of their poor wretched King at whom as the Daughter of Zion did at that great boasting Assyrian we laugh and have them in derision And when we consider the great opinions of this year the wonderfull effects it is like to produce the sweet harmony and agreement of the Prophecies the visibility of those things therein foretold to fall in the time of the Witnesses death the great likelihood of the Witnesses Resurrection the great New Covenant-Promise of the spirit made to this Work the wonderfull undeniable signs of the times and how miraculously we have been cut out and preserved for this Work of which we shall speak in a brief Treatise by it self And also having our hearts broken with the Love of Christ and boiling over and having tasted through choice distinguishing grace the Preciousness Power and Love of a soul-endearing Jesus we are mightily awakend and stirred up and that Fire that has been hid under our Ashes will break out into Flames and that Fountain of the Rivers of Living Waters into Streams as the bubbling Springs that searcheth the ground and finding entrance gusheth out Our Lives and every thing else that is dear unto us upon a worldly account we despise as a mean thing in comparison of the glory of that Name which is to us as precious Oyntment and we lay all down at the feet of our Lord Jesus resolving if we perish to perish there And first we desire to lay our selves in the dust to have soul-abasing thoughts of our selves for such is the nature and fruits both of the Grace and teachings of Christ and freely to admire what we have freely received that his preserving Grace has kept us from the defilements soul-destroying Iniquities and heart-entraping snares of these perillous times the cheats and delusions of Satan sin the world and an evil heart that we have not worshipped the Beast Rev. 13. 8. defiled our Garments and gone a whoring after strange Interests of which we may say as Solomon of the strange woman Many strong men have been slain by her Prov. 7. 26. And