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lord_n	daughter_n	father_n	son_n	10,765	5	4.8829	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93935	An iron rod put into the Lord Protectors hand, to break all antichristian powers in pieces. Or, A discourse, which tends to a spirituall war with all sects and self-opinions, which are the Churches enemies: wil bring Englands everlasting happiness, and joyn all other lands into the body of Christs Church, to serve God with with [sic] one consent, Zeph. 3.9. All which was discovered to John Sanders of Harburn, neer Brimingham [sic]: by true apparitions, revelations, and many several visions, as the second book sheweth.	Sanders, John, of Harburn.	1655 (1655)	Wing S575; Thomason E842_23; ESTC R203488	52,643	75

there and scoffing at me her Father desired that we were divorced Wel said I pray you let it be so His answer was he would give forty pound upon the condition to have it so I have witnesse of it At last they gave me good words My desire was for her to bring my daughter to me that I might see her She told me she would not and gave me very desperate urging words to make a solemn Vow that if she did not bring my daughter between that time and Wednesday following according to the Law of Moses I would write her a bil of divorcement if I could not get ink I would write the first Copy of it with my owne blood if I loft one of the joynts of my little finger on my left hand to do it that all the rest of my body might mourn for the losse of her that wanted grace to mourn for her selfe Besides this I thought that many men might take example to put their wives away by divorcement without any true desert And therefore because I intended to put the Bil of Divorcement in print I would go such a hard way that none dare follow such an example Furthermore I desired to know by a token if it were of God or no that if she came not with my child by Wednesday I might neither eat nor sleep with quietnesse til I had disjoynted my selfe of the nail-joynt of my left hand being the little fingers end She came not and that signe was fulfild yet I did not doe it til above two dayes after Wednesday and when I had done it I having some revelations from God to confirm it suddenly I had a Revelation and a Vision that God had appointed it to be done and that it was lawful for me to take another wife as Hosea did in a typical way And it was shewed me by a Vision between four which was allotted for me and how that I must speak to one of the foure and then speak openly of it to others This is near six yeares paft and I beleeve the parties are unmarried stil Let no man judge this to be madnesse but let them think if it be of God it cannot be prevented The Bill of Divorcement KNow this all my honest Christian Neighbors and all others whom it may concern That I with much reverence and holy feare do call God to the recording and renewing the condition of this Obligation or Bill of Divorcement which breaketh and violateth the band of Wedlock and Matrimony and separateth for ever she that was formerly my Wife and me asunder It is a very weighty matter therefore it had need to bee understood and throughly to be proved by the word of God and the light of a good conscience which is that glittering sword which standeth drawn to slay every son and daughter of Adam and Eve that either turneth to the right hand or to the lest either by hypecrisie or their own sinister ends in such weighty affaires as this I do therefore for several great causes in the presence of God the Father Son and Holy Ghost which is my Redeemer Creator and Preserver whose powerful providence hath still from time to time preserved me from being swallowed up or destroyed by many great dangers and several desperate enemies which the Devil hath formerly raised up against me to bring me to an untimely death without any just cause offered by me whereof the said Briget Bissel daughter of the the late said Richard Bissel which is now dead of the Parish of Yardlie in the County of Worcester Ironmonger the which said Briget Bissel which was the married wife to me the said John Sanders whose dwelling was at Harburn in the County of Stafford Ironmonger she being a great instrument to bring me into many borrible persecutions by Satans malicious invention and some of her neerest kindreds counsel for no other end but for the witness of Jesus and his testimony which hath carried me on by his holy Spirit of Prophesie Besides more then this misery which she and they brought upon me she and they have often urged me to be divorced from her for ever I doe therefore according to the Law of God as he gave to Moses Deut. 24. and Gods command to me which caused me to write her this Bill of Divorcement after this manner and deliver it to her neere six yeares past and now again it is renewed desiring that Gods mercy and forgivenesse may be extended to her for the forgiveness of her sins as well as for my selfe And that it may please God I humbly desire upon the bended knees of my body and souleaffections that the parting and breaking of this temporal wedlock may cause a spiritual warriage to the Lamb Jesus for us both and that all profane and wicked persons mouths may be stopt that shall be apt to speak against this seeing it is permitted and so appointed by thee O Lord raise me up speedily by thy mercy and providence again that so I may be able to take a godly fatherly care for my daughter in the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen and so be it And she is ever to be free from me to be any other mans wife if it please God and her own conscience And the like release is to me if God and my own conscience please only some chattels and goods of mine which are in her keeping contrary to my minde at my demands to be at my request when I please if it be not otherwise agreed upon These troubles were true signes to me and gave mee cause to believe that God had appointed me as hee did Hosea Hos 1.2 typically to take a wife of Fornications because the whole land had committed spiritual whoredom against the Lord and as the Prophet of God was to doe by Gods appointment and to signifie how they had divorced themselves from the Lord by their idolatrous whoredomes he was to divorce his wife for that as a figne Truly Brethren there is none can say but that the word of God is written as wel for our instruction as it was to the natural seed of Israel for we are of Abraharis seed by Faith And though the Scripture speaks of such things done then yet there is a signification now of the same things to us Our whole Land hath comitted spiritual whoredome against God First in this manner by breaking our ancient Covenant with God to worship him in new fangled manners of their own invention hating Gods old true way of worship now there is no King neither hath been this many dayes in England neither true Sacrifice Hosea 3. Secondly our whole State being like the Nobility of Israel which brought no fruits of Reformation to God but made High Altars to themselves by Covetousnesse which is idolatry and spiritual whoredome And our being divided like them Hosea 10.2 3. Thirdly we may wel say our wars began because we would have no King to reign over us for want of

united minde with one accord to carry on the great weighty affaires both for Church and State to begin the work in a perfect way and so goe on to more perfection Your Highness cannot chuse but see what great things the Lord hath done for you by preserving your person in many and sundry great Battels of war and since many several dangerous plots which have been lately found out which for brevities sake I must omit to name all which plots and dangers shew you God is angry with you to see his house lie waste still and no one is setting about the work of God You may well assure your selfe that God is sorely displeased that many are planting and setling themselves in great Estates and making themselves great by this slaughterous wars and so cast Gods work behind their backs Now his House and Worship hath been pluckt down and brought to ruine by several Sects and evil members which have some of them been of the Army and the rest the Army have favoured I meane all Hereticks seditious and blasphemous persons in this fiery time of trial or consuming of the true worship and zeal of Gods good old wayes of worship which did shine in a flourishing condition And now you see God hath preserved your Highnesse as he spake by the Prophet Zechariah 3.2 concerning Joshua the High Priest The Lord will rebuke Satan and chuse Ierusalem to reprove him But saith the Lord Is not this a brand pluckt out of the fire And thus you see the Lord many times brings his beloved children very neare the very gates of Hell or in great danger of falling And now you may see God hath pluckt your Highness from among those brands and brought you to the Kings Throne to be chiefe Ruler over all as Abrahams eldest servant was The first thing you ought to have done that would have been most pleasing to God and best and surest for your selfe was to have found out the true worship of God and to have been as faithful in chusing a spiritual Head for the Church the woman as St. Iohn saw to be cloathed with the Sun and the Moon under her feet having a crown of 12. Stars on her head Revel 12.1 being meant Christ or one in his stead twelve Apostolical governours called a crown of twelve Stars that is Bishops of his Church being cloathed with the Son of Gods bright garment of pure government Having the Moon under her feet that is all changeable governments which change like the Moon Take one imitation of Abrahams servant who refused the eating of bread to feed his hungry appetite after his long journey till he had shewed his faithfulness and knew Rebeccha and her friends mind Gen. 24. So take heed of feeding your selves with worldly dignitie till you have found out a Head and an espoused company to make a body for Christs Church Take your example from Moses who after he was Gods chiefe servant although he was brought up in Pharaohs Court by Pharaohs daughter when he came to yeares of understanding he refused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter O therefore take heed of those Courtly offers after you understand the wayes of God as either to defraud or detaine any man from his Right or keep the Church and people of God either in bondage or a wildernesse condition O therefore for the Lords sake delay no more time by building your own houses but set about the house of the Lord which is called a house of prayer for all people For the neglect of that God shewed you a sign of his anger when you were in that great danger of being kild in Hide Park on S. Michaels day if you can beleive the word of God to be true That God commanded Moses to put off his natural shooes when God called him from being a natural shepherd to be the chiefe Leader of his people Exod. 3.5 and likewise the same he commanded to Joshua Josh 5. The shooes signifie the natural affection of a mans heart and minde when he is called to the holy work of the Lord. We read that for a very small offence the Lord met Moses and would have killed him in the way Exod. 4.24 And as the Angel of the Lord stood with his sword drawn before Ioshua to cause him to unloose the natural shooes from his feet if the Lord hide it not from you and so leave you off to hardnesse of heart and spiritual blindness you may well see that the Lord is not pleased by the many dangers you have been near All those plots and dangers should be as warning pieces to set you forward to goe about the work of the Lord or as goads to stir you up to it I intreat the Lord and oftentimes doe pray that God will be pleased to open the spiritual eyes of your soul and clear up your understanding that you may goe about the great work of the Lord with all expedition And you may well assure your selfe that if the burden was too heavy for Moses who had his counsel at Gods own mouth who had likewise Aaron the High Priest and other Priests to assist him yet it made him to cry out to be eased of the Lord or slain Therefore let the example of the Jewish and Christian Churches lead you as a pattern or line Chuse first a High Priest then 12. and gather 70. The manner of the High Priests receiving the number of 12. for to be Apostolical Bishops by the holy order of laying on of Hands and then 70. proved from Jacob Moses and the Apostles ●octrine YOur Highnesse having according to Gods command and Scripture rule to be your guide chosen a High Priest for the head of Christs Church as Aaron and Peter were and then by the High Priests advice ●o ordaine twelve Apostolical Bishops as several heads under him for to be over the twelve spiritual Tribes of Israel or Christs Church the High Priest should not receive them to be his spiritual Sons without the laying on of hands this holy order and confirmation of laying on of hands I shal prove to you by example from Jacob Gen. 48.14 who when he was about to die and to receive Manasse● and Ephraim into the number of his twelve Sons to make them thirteen Head Fathers of the twelve natural Tribes of Israel Manasseh and Ephraim being called the two halfe Tribes at Jacobs receiving of them at the hands of their Father Ioseph to make them as his sons to bear their part of his name for the time to come throughout all generations he did not do it without laying on of hands and receiving them without that holy order to confirm them by his blessing Ioseph at his bringing them to old Iacob his Father whose eyes were dim his ful intention was that old Israel should have laid his right hand on the eldest and his left on the youngest but he would not do so although his natural eyes were dim yet God gave him