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A33894	A word in season to all in authority with weighty considerations what persons, practices, and things doth chiefly cause division and contention, rending of kingdoms, and distresse of nations : as also a plain discovery of those things and that ministry that will bring blessings and unity, with deliverance from bondage into liberty, and instead of strife, wars, and fighting, righteousnesse, reconciliation and peace in the land of our nativity / published by J.C.	J. C. (John Collens), d. 1682.; Anderdon, John, 1624?-1685.	1660 (1660)	Wing C5235; ESTC R27130	21,270	30

under the power of Satan into the Power of God that Righteousness and just Judgement may run through the Nation as a mighty stream That so him or them whom God shall set up over this Nation may have his Throne established which cannot otherwise be established for for want of these things hath the wrath of God been revealed and his indignation poured out against these who in the day of his wrath after the Lords Long-suffering was over is now justly manifested And so now this is written in short to no other end but that these things may be taken out of the way which Gods Wrath and Vengeance is against That so the Wrath of God may be turned away from this Nation and that the Ruler or Rulers thereof might be firmly established and this is the true end and no other for which it is done And now unto all those who is honesty of heart shall read this let them honestly consider that those who are now set up who were of late Sufferers exiled and banished that what deliverance is now wrought is no way the price of their blood for whilst they strove that way they were continually overthrown from time to time but that the Power and the Glory might be the Lords and that all might be returned unto him the Lord hath made bare his own Arm hath brought this thing to pass that he himself might have the Glory and whether as well for our sakes whose innocent blood-shed in the time of Peace within these last seven years many Goals and other places can testifie besides the many beatings flockings whippings and cruel imprisonments of us for nothing but for crying against sin and oppression in Rulers Magistrates Priests and People I say whether from those multitudes of cruel wrongs done against us by those late Powers we may not now justly expect ease and the redress of our grievance likewise as well as others who then by the same powers were made sufferers since it is so just and so reasonable a thing that we do desire we seek no high Places Promotion nor Worldly glory amongst men We seek no revenge as to our selves upon any Person or People but that we may be protected in the exercise of our Consciences which is the Lords Prerogative in our Worship towards God and that we may be freed from all unjust Lawes that blindeth the Consciences of Gods free people that he hath bought with his own blood that as Sojourners in our own Nation we might dwell in safety as to our outward man as long as we live peaceably in all godliness and honesty And since the Lord hath visited you and hath returned your Captivity and is setting your Feet upon the Neck of your Enemies thus much doth the Lord require of you That you deliver His people and unloose their Bonds and break every Yoak that oppresseth them for this is all that we desire that we may walk in the way of our God And take heed unto your selves how you set up or go about to establish that which Gods wrath hath been made manifest against and hath pluckt down both it and them that did uphold it for the Lord he is God and changeth not and his fury and his anger is against it still and take heed how you continue that or suffer it to stand which is not yet cast down which the Lords wrath hath been of late manifest against the upholders of whom he sent his servants unto and warned and testified from time to time what it was the Lord required and what it was his judgment was against if they disobeyed which is fulfilled and fulfilling and now it is your time to work whilst you have the day to labour in before the night If there be a Heart amongst you to do any thing for the Lord and for his people in return of the large love of God made manifest unto you for the day of deliverance draweth near and all sorts have had a day and a price put into their hands but had not hearts to use it And the Lord hath smote them in his wrath and vexed them in his sore displeasure And the day of your Tryal is come and a time you may have now 〈◊〉 the Lord hath driven you away and chastised you with his Rod for your former Idolatrous Vain Superstitions and for your Pride Vain-glory and many other great abominations which feigned amongst you and if upon your return you forget the day of your distresse and so set up these things again and remain in your former sins and drink in quity with greediness what can you think will be your end but that shame and confusion must cover you and if you will force people to any Form of Worship and bind them to that so that Gods fear shall be taught by mens Precepts the Lord will proceed as formerly to wo●k wonders Even to destroy the wisdom of the wise and to bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent and when Counsel and Understanding is hid then you will grope as in the dark and seek the way but shall not find him and so misery will come upon you as upon them that went before you Therefore be wise in time and take Counsel and advise amongst your selves for you may see that these which conquer'd you with the Sword are now conquer'd without a Sword Consider whereby they conquer'd and whereby they fell The Lord is now come to Challenge His own Heritage of the Children of Men that is the exercise of the peoples Consciences which is his Throne and Dominion and he will caft out destroy and lay waste all Usurpers that hath or shall Usurpe Authority in His Kingdom for it is his own and if he by his own strength give unto others their Right he will undoubtedly take his own Kingdom to himself and if men will keep him out if those to whom he hath let his Vineyard beat his servants and kill his Son and think the Inheritance shall be theirs yet the Lord of the Vineyard will come at a time when they are not aware and all these who would not deliver up the Vineyard must be brought out and slain before his Face as his Enemies And so as one who desires with my whole heart that the breaches of this Nation my Native Country might be healed and might come to injoy true rest and might be the glory of all the Nations that the blessing of the God of Heaven might be upon it day and night to water it that the Rulers thereof might be established and their seed after them that they may be honourable in their Life and renowned in their death unto Posterity that ignominy and shame may not follow them I have cast in my Mite according to the ability which God hath given me to that very end in the sincerity of my Heart well knowing that untill Judgment and Justice be established and the Yoake of Oppression and Cruelty be broken in pieces and

to the setling of a Government then the setting up of a forc'd Maintenance and that is the thing that the Lord expected should long since been done away The continuance of which Oppression and the many corrupt Lawes made and continued to infringe the LIBERTIES of the CONSCIENCES of the free people of this Nation in their Worship towards God hath been the Cause of so many and so great Overturnings neither can there be any true peace and settlement in these Nations until these things are removed out of the way For if a people were left free in their consciences to worship God according unto that which God makes manifest then all occasion of strife touching Religeon were ended and every one that fears God satisfied and the breach made up And likewise if all forced Maintenance of Ministers were taken off then both People and Ministry were free and so that occasion of strife would cease and that breach made up and here every one would watch for the good of him or them that govern And so such a one on whom the Lord laid a necessity to preach would preach but they that preach only for a maintenance who are not Servants of Christ but serve themselves which are the cause of Strife Debute Division and Contention as is before shewed their work would be ended and then people would be turned from the evil of their wayes because they that preach would be in Gods Counsel and in his power for now what ever people do imagine they that will not preach without a maintenance provided and setled by a Law these preach for a maintenance and so they preach themselves and not Christ Jesus the Lord neither are they his Servants nor Ministers nor sent of Him neither serve they Him but their Bellys and never can teach the way to life or bring people into the way but keep people out of the way though they may have many inticing words which mans wisdome teacheth for every one that enters into Gods Kingdome must be borne againe of the Spirit and he that is borne againe must be begotten by the immortal living Word now he that preacheth for a maintenance serves himself is not Christs Servant not intrusted with his Message but goes in his own Message and abuses his name for a maintenance and the living mortall word he hath not which begetteth the birth that enters into Gods Kingdome because he never sent him and so people are not profited but are kept out of the way to life by them which hath the letter to get a maintenance but hath not the spirit which giveth life And now I have not instanced the several Governments and overturnings either to justify or condemne persons or to meddle with that as in relation to the great transactions which hath been in these few years But this that they who now are in Power who have seen and felt what hath been brought to pass that they might understand what the Ground and Cause is why these things hath been thus brought to pass that so if the Lord give them understanding they may not split themselves upon the same Rock which others hath for I do not look unto men who have been the instruments but unto the Lord who hath all power in his hands who in his Righteousness and judgment for his own glory hath brought about these things for I do believe that the judgments of the Lord are Just and Righteous altogether and therefore because of the multitude of trangressions of this Nation and because the King and his party lightly regarded the cry of the oppressed whose Consciences which is the Lords ●rerogative alone was oppressed and greater Yoaks preparing by cruel Lawes I say because of these things was the hand of the Lord stretched out against them and the party who chiefly opposed him being in their hearts no better than the other therefore they both long were a scourge one unto another and to the Nation therefore did the Lord raise up another party whom both the other hated who were contemptible and inconsiderable who as Instruments in the hand of God did Wonders and overcame both as is well known But afterward they forgot the Lo●● likewise and turned against him and did not perform the Vowes and Premises which they had made into the Lord in the day of their Distress but corrupted themselves with the same abominations with which they were corrupted whom the Lord cast out before them and suffered many of those corrupt Lawes to continue in force which they had many times in their distress promised the Lord that they would take out of the way To wit That they would set the Consciences of all people free towards God and remove the great oppression of a forced Maintenance for Minister Which whilst they did in any measure persist in the Lord wonderfully delivered them and cut off those that rose up against them But when power was put into their hands and they did not do those things but became corrupt and oppression and Pride and vanity superstition and Idolatry grew and increased yet the Lord sent his Messengers calling them early and sending them often warning them in the peril of their lives but they regarded them not but ill rewarded the Lords Messengers by many cruel and hard Imprisonments and by making yet heavier Yoaks for their consciences Yet the long-suffering of the Lord remained towards them and not any of those Powers which the Lord overthrew but he hath sent this Messengers to warn them and to tell them in plain words what he was about to do which things are in great measure come to pass that all might know that the Lord hath a Prophet in the Land and likewise that they might hear and fear and learn Righteousness And now thus far hath the Lord wrought and wonderfully brought those things to pass that every eye might see that his own hand hath done it that he hath not suffered the sound of the weapons of war to be heard what is it that the Lord doth now requite of the men of this Generation Friends I beseech you in the fear of the Lord consider whether that the things which are now wrought amongst you principally and most of all be that which the Lord expects or whether he hath brought you up over your Enemyes because you are more Righteous then they or because of their unrighteousness the Lord hath delivered them into your hands that you might execute his judgments upon them for their Treachery towards him and his people and whether the same God hath not still reserved all power in his own hands and can at his pleasure cast you down as well as lift you up for this I say unto you in the fear of God think not that these whom the Lord hath del●vered into your hands were greater sinners then you but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Do you believe that the Lord takes delight in setting up of May-Poles and for

so many thousands to gather together in so many places with whooping shouting drinking cursing and swearing and all manner of Wantonness and Licentiousness Is the Lord God honoured by these things is the King honoured by any of this Consider hath not the Lord visited in iudgment this Nation as I have before shewed and overturned the workers thereof in former dayes and do you think he now approves of it Do not deceive your selves God is not to be mocked and do you think now since the Lord hath overturned those who formerly hath afflicted us as he had promised and is rewarding them according to their works Do you think that you do God service to kill us Take heed of bringing any of our innocent blood upon you And therefore this I say unto the King who is now proclaimed and that party who hath been for him constantly I say unto them that we ought to be protected under him in peace and safety and in equity to have these just things granted which we stand for for now ever since the death of his Father we have been as well as him and them sufferers under the powers that hath been set up and that especially in the dayes of the Protector since the name of Quaker was given unto us Who was there amongst the many ten thousands that can now cry with their mouths and their lips a KING a KING make Bonefires and such folly that durst open their mouths when he ruled to bear a testimony against his oppression but joyned with him in his Government and did pertake with him in his oppression and cryed against us in his eares and caused more cruel Lawes to be made against us then before not a Prison I believe in this Nation free but some or other of us have been committed and many of us as being dangerous to his Government and yet these men I say many ten thousands of them that have thus done are the only men to cry up a KING to destroy us as dangerous likewise to his Government thus indeavouring to cover their own unrighteousness by rendring us evil never ceasing to seek our blood For this let it be known unto you that we are not for Names or Titles or for these names to set them up above the nature of the thing for it is the Magistrate that rules for God that executeth true judgment and justice in the earth who hath his eare open to the cry of the oppressed and is ready to break the staffe and strength of the oppressor It is such a one whom God will honour and whose Kingdome the Lord will establish Therefore friends do not hearken unto flatteries and they who for their own advantage speaks fair for they may deceive you but let your ears be open unto reproof for that cannot hurt you and be not offended at any time with those that speak the truth How many thousands have erred and perished by flatterers but whoever that did hearken to reproof did amiss for now the things that we are against is every appearance of evill and the things that we are for is Righteousness and just judgment and unto this shall we stand whatsoever may be our Portion for why now may not we as justly expect to be eased by the KING now the Righteous hand of God hath removed them by which both HIM and US were sorely afflicted and since we both together suffered under them why is it not just that we with him should enjoy our Liberty for indeed we cannot flatter with any yet this we say that there is no people nor no principle amongst people profest that doth tend more neither so much to the true honour of the King as we do for now it is they that fear the Lord that truly honour the King for for as I have said the King is not honoured where the fear of God is wanting But where the Subjects in a Nation walk in the fear of God and know Christ the King of Righteousness to rule in their hearts by which the Lust which is the ground of warrs and strife which War in the Members comes to be destroyed and subdued such can by no meanes be otherwise but to the honour of the King for if the King rule for God and layes the Sword upon the evil doer and praise such who do well which is Gods Ordinance then such who are in the Fear of God and walk in Gods Covenant the Law written in the heart these are the strength of the King for his Sword is against the evil doer and the evil doer is not his strength for God who is the higher Power hath ordained him to be a terrour unto the evil doer and to praise such who do well so the well doer is his strength For what is it that we desire which ought not to be granted in reason and equity The Thing that we desire as to our selves is no more then this That under him we may live peaceably and Gods Spirit in us may have the exercise of our Consciences towards God in all things That no Law be laid upon us to force that from us which is our own and in that case both by the Scripture of Truth and the Law of God written in the Heart ought to be at our own dispose to wit to maintain a Minister which we cannot own or a Worship we cannot own for the exercise of the Consciences of people is Gods Prerogative alone and whoever meddles with that to exercise Lordship over anothers Conscience he is a Usurper and intrudes into anothers right and he falls upon the Rock that will grind him to powder and which hath done so by many and if Gods Spirit have the exercise of the Conscience in all things whose Spirit is a Sword to cut down the Lust that wars against the Soul inwardly and destroys that in man which causeth war and strife without and keeps the conscience void of offence both towards God and towards man whether such ought not to be protected and cherished and have the Magistrates praise And no otherwise do we desire Protection but as we live peaceably in the exercise of a good Conscience neither do we desire these things only for our selves but likewise that all others who desire to live peaceably in all godliness and honesty might enjoy Freedom and Protection for a greater abomination or Idolatry cannot be committed then for people to be forced to Worship that for God which they believe is no God or to Worship in the Way which they believe in their hearts is contrary to God or in which God is not to be worshipped for we do not desire but that others such as I have said that will live peaceably may every way partake of the same Liberty which we desire or expect He that hath a Gospel to preach let it be free like unto the Gospel of Peace not for money or filthy lucre that so people may be turned from their evil wayes and be brought from

the oppressed set free the Land cannot enjoy her Sabbaths neither can the Righteous rejoyce untill which time there shall be nothing firm nor lasting but heaps of Confusion and tossing to and fro as a Ship driven with a tempest which hath lost her Rudder and so fear and despair an distrust will be amongst the Inhabitants and one devour another untill they are devoured one of another and so the Lord sweep them away with the B●some of destruction and give them their Portion amongst the Workers of Iniquity in the Lake that burns with fire and Brimstone for ever The Conclusion THe Lord will thresh the Mountains and come down that the Inhabitants of the earth shall tremble thereat For it is his determination to purifie the Sons of Levi and to purge and cleanse the house of Judah and Jerusalem that they may be a Royal Priesthood a peculiar people a chosen Generation to the Lord for ever the people of his praise the Glory of Nations the Subjects of Christs Kingdom which shall be established in Righteousness on the top of all the Mountains of the earth which now are risen up against the Lamb and his followers whole government in truth shall stand over all the Heathen round about for it is his right to raign and he will not give his Kingdome to another Glory to our God for evermore who hath chosen the weak things of the earth to confound the strong by things that are not to bring to nought things that are that the Wisdome of the Wise shall be confounded yet more and more and the understanding of the prudent turned backward That all Nations may see that there is no confidence in Princes nor in the Arme of Flesh which is but as grass before the Lord God Almighty who is exalting his only begotten Son CHRIST JESUS the light of the world to be King of the Nations who is worthy God over all blessed for evermore the King of Saints whose Kingdome is not of this world but in Righteousness and truth over all In which he with his followers the redeemed ones of the earth make war not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers and spirituall wickedness in high places which leads men to destruction going on Conquering and to conquer untill all his enemyes are subdued that he alone may rule and reign in the earth whose right it is to have the Heathen for his Inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possessions the earth being the Lords and fulness thereof though other Lords have had dominion whose right it is not to reigne But the high and lofty ones that are exalted above the fear of the Lord they shall be brought down overturned and broken to pieces and the meek of the earth they shall be exalted who have chosen the foolishness of the Cross of Christ before an earthly Crown which perisheth and commeth to nothing and all the greatness and glory of Kingdomes shall fade as grass before the presence of the Lord and the Lamb who is come and comming in flames of fire to be revealed to consume and burne up the wicked before him for he hath determined a speedy Consumption in this Nation of all Powers Things and Governments that are set up and stand not by the Authority of his eternall spirit which is the rule of Saints the heirs of Gods Kingdome And blessed are they whose names are written in the Lambs book of life that are faithfull and true to the testimony of Jesus the Lamb● followers they only shall reign And all likenesses and false Coverings of Anti-christ shall be stript off and confounded and no longer hide him and his followers from the wrath of the Lamb whose day is come in which his fierce wrath shall be known against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men whatsoever under what forme or notion soever without the life and power of God in which his Kingdome consists which indureth and abideth for ever in which our peace and safety is though the Heathen rage and the people imagine a vaine thing yet they shall know that the Lord God omnipotent ruleth and reigneth in the Kingdomes of men and giveth them unto whomsoever he will The time is come and for the Elects sake he will cut short the work in Righteousness and terrible shall that day be which is nigh at hand wherein the Lord will sweep the Land of evil doers and execute his fierce Wrath and Vengeance upon the Workers of Iniquity of which the Land is full that the Lords Spirit is weary to bear them The Lords decree is gone forth and he will fulfill it That a King shall reign in Righteousness and all they that will not have him to reign over them shall be brought forth and slaine before him the Vials of his wrath are made ready to be pouered our upon this wicked Generation of men who reject Christ Jesus the light of the World to be their King and Law-giver he is come a light into the world that men through him might believe and be saved but they would none of his Counsell Power nor Kingdome but have hardned their hearts stiffened their necks and have chosen their own wayes and the Lusts and imaginations of their own hearts have they followed which are evil continually the Counsell of the wicked have they imbraced which leadeth down to the Chambers of death and Hell where their Portion shall be for ever unless they repent and turn from darkness to the light against which all the world combines and make strong the bonds of the wicked because it shewes men the evil of their wayes and bring the sinner and ungodly to judgment How foolish and unwise is the people of this generation to neglect so great Salvation as the living truth of our God and choose to themselves a thing of rought dumb Idolls that can neither see nor goe nor speak unto which the Beast and false Prophets with their fellows fall down and worship for whom the Lake of fire is made ready into which they shall be cast alive the Bed of Torment is ready made for Babylon and her Merchants and the Kings of the ea●th shall mourn who have traded on her Merchandize and drunk the cup of her Fornications A day of bitter lamentation and howling is at hand for that great Whore the Mother of Harlots that hath drunk the blood of the Saints And the Priests and false Prophets of this Nation shall be known and made manifest to be of the chiefest of her Merchants under the deepest coverings of Antichrist who have long stolen the words of the true Prophets Christ and the Apostles and sold them for unjust gaine with the divinations of their own braines that by their lyes and lightness the people have perished under the highest forme of words for want of the knowledge of God and of Christ whom to know is eternall life without which they are dead in sins and trespasses This painted Harlot great

all and brought them into subjection how soon did they Court him with Flatteryes endeavouring to promote him to the highest honour and so blinded his judgment and he suffering them to breath a while and not executing judgment speedily their hearts had another mischief to devise and so then preaching up his Government as Jure divino and then both they that had joyned with the King and stirred up people to fight for the King and for the Service-Book and the rest of that stuffe and them also who had fought against the King and Service-Book they soon became one and they preach up Oliver to be Protector and they all make use of his Authority they tooke the Engagement against King or House of Lords and so then he was the only man and this was the only Government But still there was a few people who still saw their deceit and Treacherous dealing with all sorts and these could not cease to make mention of it their souls being grieved with their abominable deceit and then they make it their whole business in all places to stir up the Rulers and especially the Protector to cut off such from the earth and they labour to create Parliaments to their mind and all sorts of Rulers to their mind never ceasing by all meanes to cut off this people But Oliver the Protector being by the Righteous hand of God cut off because he had not executed the thing for which the Lord raised him up but suffered the people of the Lord to be sorely afflicted and the same oppression to remaine upon the free people of this Nation as before His Son Richard he came in his stead how then did the men called Ministers hasten with their addresses from their severall Townes and Corporations to congratulate the young Protector and to give unto him the greatest stile that could be thought upon so that to some he was the Orient Star that was risen to give them light and such like and so having lifted up the young mans heart they then thought themselves secure and then they with him call a Parliament according to their own hearts desire whom they thought were fitted to do the work which they long had desired but when they had as it were brought that work to maturity that was to have cut off all those from the earth which would not bow to their Image the Lord overturned their Counsels in one * day brought up another people in their stead into whose hands the Lord delivered them for that they many of them had long cryed against the Protectors Oppression and Usurpation and had promi●ed to execute the judgment which God expected should be done upon those who had kept his people in bondage but they likewise forgot the day of their adversity in which they cryed unto the Lord and he heard them and they likewise began to lay more heavy Yoaks upon Gods people * and the Lord overturned them likewise and set up another sort * but their hearts being not right in the sight of God and had no mind to execute his judgment upon these who still held the people of God in bondage the Lord gave them no rest but brought in their Enemyes upon them as a flood his long-suffering being at an end and the measure of their transgression finished he hath now delivered them into the hands of their Enemyes that as the Lord sent his Servants to cry unto them and to wa●ne them and they had no regard unto the sufferings of his people yet the Lord often warned all sorts of them of the evil day that is now come upon them and they would not hear nor regard the cry of the Oppressed but the men called Ministers they preacht peace unto them and said no evil should happen unto them and they cryed that the Lord had not sent these men but they were deluded untill sudden destruction came upon them as is seen even pain as upon a Woman in Travell And now what is become of these men called Ministers who as I said before the war and in the war Preach'd and Prayed against the King who made it as it were their work and the Cause of God to f●ght against the King the same men against the Protector and for the Protector who were so zealous for the Government of the Protector that they imprisoned and whipped and cryed out in the ears of Magistrates where ever they came against a poor despired people that they were Enemies to the Government and were suspected that they met together to plot against the Government of the Protector I mean and stirred up the Rulers and they got Souldiers and they called Ministers with the Souldiers and rude people brake their meetings and accused them as being dangerous to the Government having a design against the Government and so cast into prison and all this in Zeal to the Government of the Protector and these were Ministers so called of all sorts as well of them who had been formerly for the King and those who had likewise been against him were become one for the government and one against the people of God which discovered their deceit and the Protector as it s well known and his government was the onely Man and Government that stood in opposition both to the Person and Government of the King yet all this and much more that might be said was then done by that sort of men in behalf and by vertue of that Government and these are the men that now as it were with one heart and with one consent Preach up and cry up the King O you that are now Rulers Are these men to be trusted Are these men to be followed as leaders Are these men to be regarded as to teach the way to eternall life Are they not guilty of all the blood-shed in these Nations Can any Government be secure whilst they are the men set up and their wayes upheld after such a manner as now it is Did not the King and that party follow them and were guided by them in their Councell and had their blessing and were taught by them that they were in the Truth and that they should prosper And did they not prove false Prophets unto them and were deceived by them and led into destruction Whereas on the contrary if the King had removed the Yoak off from the Consciences of people and had set peoples Consciences free and have had his eare open to have heard the cry of them who were afflicted by the Cruelty of the then Bishops and their Courts and Clergy and had eased the burthen from off their shoulder why then might not the King have lived in peace and ruled over the people and gone to the grave in peace And again after if the Parliament had not fought to inslave this people and have brought a greater yoke upon the Consciences of those who sought after God in sincerity of heart might not they have remained and their

are her sins and great shall be their Plagues and Judgments from the Righteous hand of the Lord God who will have the Nations know that he is become the Teacher of his people himself and will send forth Pastors after his own heart in the power of his eternall spirit to make warr with the Nations before whom the Heathen shall be confounded and the powers of the earth broken to pieces as a Potters Vessel A day of Tryall is at hand and judgment beginneth at the house of God that the Lambs followers may be known who are chosen faithfull and true that deceipt and Hypocrisie the mistery of iniquity may be made manifest that they that are called Jewes and are not may be discovered that such as have a name that they live yet are dead under the Covering of the profession of truth yet out of the life and power may be made naked and bare before the Lord who hates Hypocrisie as a most abominable thing and loves and requires truth in the inward parts and with such he delights to dwell for ever who in faithfulness followes the Lamb whithersoever he goes who doth the will of God in whom the Father is well pleased on whom the Government is laid which shall stand sure and firme for ever against which neither the powers of darkness nor the gates of Hell shall prevaile and blessed are they who are made Subjects of his Government who rules and raignes in Righteousness for they shall find 〈◊〉 and a sure Rock of defence in the time of stormes and bitter Calamity which is comming upon the wicked who drink iniquity as water and hasten to fulfill their measures raging in the fires of their Lusts the smoak whereof is ascended up even to Heaven that the Lord God is provoked with this wicked and adulterous Generation who wallow in their iniquityes and have not God in their thoughts that his soul is weary to bear them his spirit is grieved and his patience and long suffering is almost at an end towards the people of this Nation that have rejected the Lord and his wayes and have chosen lyes and vanityes by reason whereof the Land mournes and the ●●p of the Lords wrath is full ready to be poured forth upon this Rebellious and gainsaying people who will not repent and return but run on in the broad way that leads to destruction death and hell being ready to receive them against whom the fire of the Lords wrath and indignation is kinded and shall not cease untill they be utterly consumed Tophet is prepared for them of old that repent not and give Glory to God And the Nations shall know that he that was dead is alive and behold he liveth for evermore to execute Righteous judgments upon the workers of iniquity for which he is come into the world even for judgment through which Sions Redemption is to be known the place of Gods Habitation the Temple made without hands pure and undefiled the Spouse the Lambs Wife which brings forth that which is begotten of God to his prayse and glory for evermore And blessed are they that are found so doing which are the remnant that shall be saved by the Lord when the overflowing scourge of destruction shall come upon the wicked Oh England England thou who killest the Prophets and stonest them with stones how often would the Lord have gathered thee even as a Hen gathereth her Chickens but thou wouldest not and how glorious mightest thou have been in the sight of all the Nations if thou had'st considered and known the things of thy peace in the day of thy visitation wherein the Lord hath visited thee with the day springing from on high with his rich and living mercyes and thou mightest have been the first fruits of Faith and Reformation unto God of the whole earth But as thou hast rejected and refu●●● to drink the Cup of Gods Salvation so thou may'st as the 〈◊〉 of the Nations expect to drink the bitter cup of Gods wrath and Indignation that the Inhabitants of the Earth may learn Righteousness and fear and tremble before the mighty God of Jacob 27th day of the third moneth 1660 J. A. THE END * The old Parliament * Voted up Tythes * The Committee of Safety