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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57305	Oh ye heads of the nation who are set in the supream authority thereof, and are at this time assembled in Parliament hear ye the word of the Lord, as it came unto me the sixth day of the fifth moneth of this present year, concerning you / by Ambr. Rigg.	Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.	1659 (1659)	Wing R1487; ESTC R9222	5,766	10

for their wickedness but take heed I warn you who now are assembled in Parliament how this is covered any longer by you for they that cover iniquity shall not prosper and he that seeth evil and consenteth to it shall be confounded and brought to shame So beware how this iniquity is countenanced by you let not the false Prophets make you their cloak for their coveteous practices for I believe there is few so blind but they see tythes Antichristian under the administration of the Gospel unless it be the blind guides whose mouth is put into yea many of them dare not to say that it is according to the Law of God though for a long time they affirmed it was but now it begins to be so manifest to all that they are ashamed of that and saith it is given them by act of Parliament oh away with this mire and filth throw it out of your house least it bring a curse upon you and your posteritie for ever For the spirit of the Lord will not always strive with you nor the mouths of his messengers alwayes be opened to warn you but the time cometh suddainly If you will not hear and lay these things to heart to relieve the oppressed that you shall say Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord and this is the word of the Lord unto you all And furthermore what a talk hath been and care been taken for maintaining of godly and painful Ministers which if it had been so indeed it had been well but the contrary is much manifested as concerning godliness if it be the Priests that preach for hire that is meant their own mouths within these late dayes hath made them all Lyars who calls them godly For they have confessed themselves to be wicked and ungodly in the hearing of many people and that the very sins of their prayers were able to bring the judgements of God upon this Nation this was at one of their fasts for the violation of times as they said and confessed themselves That they came together to pray against sin with as bad hearts as they did commit it and spake against the present powers and said they tollerated deceivers and prayed to put a curb in their nostrils and much more of their filthy stuffe which is too tedious to mention Now if these and such like be called godly Ministers who then is wicked and ungodly let the witness of God in all consciences judge And it is not an unknown to many thousands of the good people of this Commonwealth the covetous practices and ungodly deeds of these and such like that is and hath been called godly Ministers how that they have caused many to err by their unsavoury conversation and unholy walking living in all manner of Iacivousness so that none is able to turn from the evil of their ways Oh consider of it and lay it to heart For the cry of the oppressed is great my soul is even loaded and oppressed to hear it how great is the complaint in every Town and City of the hireling Priests by all sorts of people yet they that work so much wickedness is set up and called godly Ministers when their daily practice shews the contrary to all that is not wilsully blind and I believe some of you are not ignorant How that within these late days such were joyned together with the powers of the earth to bring the Nation into misery and slavery if the Lord bad not mightily appeared and suddainly confounded their counsels for his chosens sake and … tered the wicked as chaff and shall such always be set up and called godly Ministers and be maintained in deceit and wickedness Oh I warn you once again to take heed what you do in this thing For the Lord will not alwayes be mocked nor suffer the oppressed alwayes to cry unto him and not lend his ear unto them Will not these company of Priests come cringing and bowing to you now for their bellies which is their god and flatter you as they have done them before you and if you lend your car unto them they will lead you to destruction as they have done many before you therefore let them he called together and proved by the Scripture whether they be godly or no before us and you and tried as Baals Priests were and if they so be found in the doctrine of Christ they will be content with the same wages which they who were sent forth by Christ had which I hope none that fears God will deny but if they be found contrary to the doctrine and out of the true Apostles practice as their daily practice manifests then let them be testified against and denyed of all Least Gods judgement come upon this Land because of the iniquity of Priests and people for the land is almost full of adulterers and because of oaths the land mourns and the pleasant places is dryed up For that which formerly was in a measure dest oyed is now beginning to be set up again both by Priests and people as Herbert Morley one of the Rulers in the County of Sussex professed openly upon the bench in Lewis That he had rather that Prelacy were up again then that the truth should appear which he called bables this was spoken in the hearing of many witnesses And John Fagg another of the Rulers of that County who formerly in the appearance stood for the Nations freedome from Kingly power hath been known within this late years to have Cavaliers often to resort to his house to gaming and sporting and Hunting and feasting and rioting in the time called Christmas which formerly was denyed this may be witnessed by good testimony which if these and more which might be mentioned go on the Nations will soon be brought to misery therefore look about you while you have time for they are not your greatest enemies that deals most plainly with you The Lord give you an understanding to know the truth and your friends from your foes Another Priest whose name is Robert Baker of Rottingden in Sussex who hath received hire of that people near this thirty years said in the Pulpit within this late dayes in the hearing of several witnesses That he and his hearers were worse then the damned spirits that now lay roaring and yelling in Hell and that their sins did exceed many of theirs that were now in infernal misery and said that they were fruitless trees yet not with standing he the said Baker hath from year to year taken the peoples money and hath not profited them at all yet he is set up and called a godly Minister amongst the rest and had power given him within this late days to take twelve Oken six Cows and a Boll worth near an hundred and twenty pounds for one years Tythe of land that the rent of that land is about an hundred pounds per annum from a friend whose name is Nicholas Beard and returned nothing again Will not the cry of this and such like cruelty reach to heaven Surely the Lord will visite for these things and his soul will be avenged on such a Nation as this Was not Zion ploughed as a field And did not Jerusalem become on heapes because of these things Was ever any Nation so deeply involved in iniquitie by a company of hireling Priests as this Nation and yet these go under the Sheeps covering and are called godly Ministers Oh read the Scriptures and be not wilsully blinde least it be said of England as it was of Jerusalem Oh how often would I have gathered thy children together as a Hen gathereth her chickins under her wings mark under her wings but ye would not therefore shall your enemies cast a trench about you and compass you on every side because you have dispised the day of your visitation and rejected the counsel of God to your own destruction Therefore with speed Let all grievances be removed and set men over the people that will execute judgement in the gate that the land may be cleansed of evil doers and lend your ear and shew mercy to the poor and oppressed who hath long laid under the heavy yoke of bondage for if you suffer that oppression to stand in the land for which God overturned them bofore you the Lord will overturn you likewise So that which will make you truely honorable and truly noble is to search out every matter of wrong without respect to any person and to regulate these things which hath long been amiss and to be a terror to all evil doers whatsoever and to set over the people men to rule that truely fears God and hates covetousness that they may rule for God and not wholly for man as it hath been this many years for gifts and rewards hath blinded both Priest Lawyers and people and hath perverted the way of the just which hath kindled the indignation of God against this land which cannot be quenched until the streams of righteousness and true judgement run down this Land so while you have time and power in your hands consider of the oregoing lines which is written in true and perfect love to the seed of God in you all By a friend of the Commonwealth of England called A. R. THE END