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The naked mans peace is obedience in a word to the magistrates, priests and people. To which is annexed the will of dead living, and living dead man, now called Nicholas Keate, with a word in generall to all sorts. Written by me Edmund Hide.
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Hide, Edmund.
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is propriety so is the peoples the Priest hath a clamorous tongue so have the people the Priest denieth the coming of Christ to be the Resurrection of God in man so do the people the Priest denieth a true Judgment day of God to be come upon the Man of Sin and unrighteousness and that Christ will not bring us to the perfect life of holinesse here and so do the people the Priests have not laid down their lives for Christ neither have the people for if the Magistrates Priests and Lawyers had no greater rewards of men for following the world and its wayes then they should have for following Christ and his wayes it 's possible we should have neither Magistrates Priests nor Lawyers to supply the places they now stand in therefore O ye people give not up your selves to others to be led contrary to what your own consciences guideth you to but walk according to that which ye are fully perswaded of in your own minds for there is a light within you to which if you take heed will lead you into the way of all truth and being guided by that you need not crave the power of the Magistrate to defend nor the help of the Lawyer to plead for you neither need you go to the Priest to direct you for the children of the Lord are all taught of him and they know his voice and the voice of the Hireling they will not hear but if you give not heed nor take not warning by him he will scatter the Sheep with the Shepherd and deliver you up together for destruction And be it known unto you all that I have not writ this out of envy to any mans person but I have written it to that end to shew you the envy within you and that enmity is Judge when you condemn without cause therefore take notice that I do not condemn the Magistrate for punishing evil doers but those that do well and such are all those that in obedience to the will of God go forth to manifest the things they have seen and heard from him neither do I condemn the Lawyers seeing there is a right amongst men for endeavouring to help each man to his right but for coveting the reward or fee more then the pleading the cause of the simple neither do I condemn him that stands in the place of a Minister of the Gospel for doing righteousness but because he doth it not but walketh contrary to the life of Christ as it was made manifest amongst the sons of men God is my witness that this is the last Will and Testament of me the dead living and living dead man who am called Nicholas Keate and have my residence in Harevvel the first of May 1655. Yea God and God only is my witness First I bequeath my soul to the giver and taker of all good things God blessed for evermore Amen as for my body or composed mind of inventions it is the Serpents meat worms shall have it to heritage but the Lord giveth the earth to the children of men Psalm 115. The Lord giveth and he taketh yea he giveth all and I take and I give and keep nothing back for I must serve the Lord my God with all my heart and all my mind and strength honor belongeth unto God but shame and confusion unto the sons of men therefore am I no more neither have any more neither live I any more but the Lord only therefore that which the Lord hath lent me and that which the Law of this Nation doth and must give me do I give and bequeth all and every thing unto the Saints which excell in vertue I I am the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Iacob it is the God of the living that giveth and taketh at his pleasure whose name is Power and Strength and is holy and blessed in himself it is even he which turneth men to destruction and then he saith Come again ye sons of men come and sup and dine with me saith this holy Father to his Sons and Daughters for in my house are all manner of varieties with abundance of plenty I need nothing of yours saith this Father save your obedience what would vain man give unto the Lord seeing the beasts on a thousand hills are mine saith he whose nature shall put fire on all the combustible matter of the earth and sacrifice it at his pleasure I do write unto all that are far and neer to the end that they might know that this is the Lords will and not the will of a carnal minded man for if I had and my had and self had did lord it over me I should be as all the world are worshipping the creature more then the Creator and adore it as God he hath ordained the fruit of my lips and that is peace peace to all far and neer all old things pass away I have no peace but in the new heavens and the new earth for all my earthly substance is become as dead Carrion drawn out for all the souls to feed on therefore it is the Lords will and that is my will that it may be laid wast from propriety and self-interest ever hereafter therefore let it remain as the Lords free inheritance to shelter succour and to be a place of refuge for the fatherless the widows and strangers I mean such widows and strangers as know no man nor any thing that belongeth to man after the flesh and such are all the fatherless they will own no father on earth nor call any man Master on earth for as the Lord hath bruised me and made me to disown all relations of the flesh and of earth and earthly things so will he deal with many thousands and they shall know the Lord in truth and in righteousness and when be hath made us a poor people he will turn to us a pure language therefore naked yea stark naked hath the Lord appointed me to appear before multitudes of people to shew that your hearts ought to be unvaried and uncovered and become innocently naked before the Lord as I am in body and mind and that not only so but he hath made me a sign to shew that all covetous self-seeking worldlings such as I was may hereafter become to obey and do as I have done even resign up all as the Lord hath commanded me so that I dare not say I have one penyworth of any thing left me of many hundred pounds worth of that which heretofore I called mine own and was so by the Laws of this Nation I know men will pass their votes that I am mad or drunk but be it known unto you all people that I am in my right sober mind only the hand of the Lord is strong upon me prevailing over all that follishnesse and unrighteous actions that I have heretofore and the world now liveth in and are glorying in their own shame and unrighteous selfish actions but the Lord hath made me
THE NAKED MANS PEACE IS OBEDIENCE In a word to the Magistrates Priests and People The Sword of the righteous mans war bringeth in Righteousnesse Holinesse and Peace without which no man shall see God True love pleads the cause of the just Behold Christ rideth to Jerusalem upon an Asse A naked man in true innocency is regarded more with the Lord then thousands which are cloathed and their hearts full of hypocrisie To which is annexed the will of dead living and living dead man now called NICHOLAS KEATE with a word in generall to all sorts Isaiah 66. ver. 16. For the Lord will judge with fire and with his Sword all flesh and the slain of the Lord shall be many James 1. ver. 16. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth that we should be as the first fruits of his creatures verse the 25. read Written by me Edmund Hide London printed and are to be sold neere Fleet-Bridge 1655. Friends and people J am constrained in my self to publish to you some lines not craveing any thing of you but what is meet NOw concerning my Friend and Brother who was constrained to go naked in publike view about ten miles unto the Town of Newbery which in appearance unto men might hazard his life yet through that powerful operation and constraint of that Spirit of God in him he was made to effect that which he was commanded to do which was to go naked and take a Sword in his hand and fire on the top of it and a golden girdle on his loyns and standalls on his feet for this his obedience he is condemned and cried out against with scorn and contempt saying he is mad and hath a devil with more such like cruelties as their scorn can afford him yet his joy still continues and his heart still moveth towards God for the day of our Redemption draweth nigh Therefore hearken now my beloved friends and you our enemies to what the Lord shall speak to you in this matter and is made good unto us by his spirit in love and so bringing of us unto the glory of the Father and also to the fellowship of the Saints by the overturning of iniquity and slaying of sin and giving to us the true life of the Gospell in the Spirit of peace to walk in it in our generation that so the light of God may shine and have its day in true appearance and manifestation of love then shall the fire of God be kindled in your consciences then you shall see that you are one slaying of another yet you shall have a pretence of godliness but woe unto all that go down unto Egypt for help for his Sword is a Sword of peace Now again my beloved the truth of Religion is a mystery to Magistrates Priests and people which have a pretence to maintain the fundamentals thereof for they are true in none except they â—re truly practised Therefore in the first place I shall write a word unto the Magistrate and shall bring or compare their life with the life of Christ to prove whether it is one with his When he appeared amongst the sons of men to make manifest his life he appeared in the love of his Fathers will and that he might be an example of it unto us to shew the righteousnesse of God amongst men and that it might be followed by us who own the righteousness of God Then you Magistrates take notice had he honour of men or did he crave it or was he full of pride and did use it was he a follower of the customes and traditions of men was he full of superfluities in meats and drinks and apparel or was he chiefest among them that did meet in the Synagogues did he lord it over Gods Heritage as ye do or was he ever inriched by the things of this world or gained he by the Sword or did he by his obedience to his Fathers wil get into the honor of men and so raign over them He rid unto Ierusalem upon an Asse but ye Rulers of men now ride upon horses that is swift judgment to be put in execution upon the simple the strangers and widows and them which have no Father on earth he was not swift to destroy as those are who have a pretence to the doctrine of the Gospel by one name or other or one Ordinance or other and so call themselves Saints when they differ not from the world but in words for who have gained honour and riches more then they that pretend for Religion or who have divided the spoil but they or who are more proud then they or have more superfluities of meats and drinks then they so let the light in your own consciences discover to you that you are not risen with Christ neither know you what it is to bear his cross or Religion what it is for that is it which tyeth us to God and also one to another but the Daughter of Sion is lest as a cottage therefore give ear ye Rulers of Sodom and ye people of Gomorrah may not I say unto you as it was said unto them ye pray and keep daies of fasting and appointed times it is iniquity before the Lord your hands are full of blood do not these things fall upon the back of the righteous and can such that practise these things maintain true Religion how many were laid up in prisons of those that held up the power of Antichrist by Christ or his Apostles it is the cruel one that doth imprison but it is mercy and love that sets free is Christ your patern then where will you find that he imprisoned or punished any for the breach of the Law of God if he did not so to wicked then why are you so to the righteous I am now called to speak to you in truth and let the light within you testifie that these are the enemies Laws and unrighteous judgments Do we not daily see that those Rulers that are put in Authority for to judg of matter concerning the Civil State will also take upon them to examine the spiritual man and inflict punishments if there be a crying out against wickedness or vain-glory or such like things they take advantage against the simple which do not nor cannot do wrong unto State or people for they have a Law within them which is Christ though they come in appearance within them which is Christ though they come in appearance with sword as this my Brother did where are the wrongs that are or were done by him or any of those who of late have been imprisoned by the Officers of State are all Magistrates full of Divine Mystery surely no but sit as Judges to let Barrabas go free The people of God in former times were cloathed in sheep skins and goat-skins and dwelt in dens and caves of the earth and what we may undergo now we know not but the Lord is our peace and our all and when Christ who is