forgot the mercies of the Lord which he had made manifest to them in a large measure ââo 15. ãâã 47. c. ãâã 48.1 2. ãâã 59. cap. ãâã 1.21 ââ 23 24. and a carnal part goâ up in them after they had back slided and faln from their maker and then oppression got up amongst them and pride and they then ground the faces oâ of the poor and lived in lust and excess and forgot to execute true Judgement and Justice among the people and the Lord saw it and it did greatly displease him and he sent his true Prophets to cry out against them Hos 8. â 9 1 2. Hos 14 1â Isa 3.11 12 13 1â 15 c. Isa 3.17 c. and to tell them that they had faln from their maker O Israel return return saith the Lord why do ye grinde the faces of the poor because the daughters of Sion are haughty and walk with stretched out necks and wanton eyes walking and mincing as they go and making a tinkling with their feet therefore the Lord will smite with a scab from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot and will discover all their secret parts The Judgement of the Lord was to come upon them except they did return from the evil of their doings Isa 28.1 for so long as they were kept in the fear of the Lord it caused them to walke humbly before the Lord Deut. 10 12 13 1â 15 c. Heb. 8.13 and they kept his statutes and his ordinances which he had committed to them he gave them a law to walk by and made a covenant with them in which covenant they had many priests and these priests was to offer up sacrifice and they was to do it without money Heb. 7 2ââ 27 28. and the people they was to bring of the best the pure and the clean and they was to bring it in freely to be offered up in sacrifice in bringing the best they brought their hearts with them the preists offering it up without money was a figure of Jesus Christ being the Saints high priest to offer up their sacrifice to the father freely Numb 28. 29. chââ Heb. 7.23 v. 24 ââ Heb. 9.8 9 10 11 12 c. Heb. 9 13â Heb. 9.18 19 20. Heb. 9.14 15. and the people bringing it in freely and of the best the pure and the clean was a figure of Jesus Christ laying down his life freely and as the life of the creature was to be sacrificed up for the purifying of the flesh the blood of the covenant which could not make him that offered it up clean as touching the conscience was a figure of Jesus Christ being to be sacrificed up and his blood to be shed for the purifying of the conscience Jesus Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered up himself without spot to God the Father was for the purification of the inward parts and in the first covenant which was outward to the Jeâoutwardly Chron. â 22 c. Chron. 1. Acts 47 48. Cor. 6.19 Cor. 6.16 â Exod. â 16 âxo 18.19 â0 21 22. âev 19.15 ãâã verl 20. âeut 1.16 â7 18. âeut 16. â8 19 20. âxod 23.8 Chro. 19. â 6 7 8. âsa 33.22 ââeb 12.23 ââam 5.9 âeut 14. â7 28 29. âen 17. â0 11. Deut. 10. â6 17. Col. 2.11 âsa 56.2 âsa 58.13 â4 Numb â5 32 Heb. ãâã 9.10 mat â2 8 Mark. ââ 27 28. when they was come into the Inhabâted places they was to build a temple which temple was a figure of Jesus Christ and the Saint being the true temple of the living God and the first covenant they had Judges outwardly anâ they was to be such men as feared God and hated ââvetousness and they was to Judge the people at ãâã seasons and they was not to be partial in Judgement but to hear the cause of the poor as well ãâã the great and they was to plead the cause of thâ poor and the needy and to Judge righteously bâtwixt a man and his neighbour and they was to ãâã it freely and not to take neither gifts nor reward for gifts and rewards blinded the eyes of the wiââ and that was a figure of the Lord being the Judgâ of the Jew inwardly himself and in the first conânanâ they was to pay tythes and they was to fee the poor the widdows the fatherless and ãâã strangers with them and to satisfie such as was ãâã want that there might be no begger in Israââ that the Lord might be praised and glorified ãâã them in this first covenant which was outward they was to be circumcised which was a figuââ of the Circumcision which was to be withââ hands and in the first covenant they had a Saâbath outwardly Exod. 31.13 14. A figure of thâ true Sabbath which the Saints should enjoy âââwardly and in this Sabbath they was not to spââ their own words nor think their own thoughts neithââ to carry any burden not so much as gather sticks ãâã that gathered sticks on the Sabbath day was stonââ to death Now so long as they did abide in covenanâ and walked in obedience to the Lord the Lord blââsed them and made his love known unto them ãâã when they did transgress and broke the covenanâ the Lord sent his servants the prophets to cryeâ âgainst them and tell them of their transgressions âee Isa 1. Chap. The vision of Isaiah the son of âmos which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem Isa 1. chaâ ãâã the dayes of Uzziah Jotham Ahaz and Hezekiâh kings of Judah The Lord had opened their conâitions to his servant the prophet and sent him to âhe heads of them to declare unto them their transâressions see vers 2. Hear O heavens He called âpon the heads of them first Isa 1.2 3 4. then he called to the âeet All sorts of people give ear O earth this was the âeople that the Lord had made choice of and gave âhem Statutes and Ordinances to observe and to âalk by but when they waxed full and rich their âearts ran after their riches they made their riches âheir gods and forgot the Lord their Maker and âid not abide in his covenant but rebelled against âhim Thus saith the Lord I have nourished and ârought up children and they have rebelled against ââe This was the people that the Lord had maniâested his love unto in such a large manner as he âid in bringing them out of Egypt where they had been kept in such bondage under Pharoah and by âis mighty power and out-stretched arme he brought them forth and slew all their first born in Egypt and brought his people to the sea-side and there he renewed his love to them againe and made his power known in suffering the Egyptians Pharaoh and his host to pursue them thither and there he kept them safe when they had neither wall nor bulwark to defend them Exod. 14â 18 19 20â 21 22 23â 24 25
day of the Lord is coming upon thee to judge thee and his power known upon the heads of it except speedily return and meet the Lord by yielding ââdience to him Down with all oppression the ãâã of the poor of England is entred into the ears ãâã Lord of Sabbaths the sins of England do testâââgainst their face iniquity is at height ready ãâã cut down to the ground England England day of the Lord is come upon thee hear yet ãâã Heads and Rulers the Lord hath a controââââ with you he looketh for judgement and jââââ but behold cruelty and oppression he will reââââ all the righteous blood that is spilt at your haââ you kill and slay the righteous ones of the Lord is sent to testifie against your deceits now you all be left without excuse he hath sent boââ high and low to forewarme them and this is toâââ O heads it is required at your hands to have ãâã Justice and to have heard the cause of the ãâã and to have seen that true Justice and Judgeâ had been executed but behold nothing but âââty and oppression you have imprisoned the ãâã and suffered it to be trodden under foot and witnesses lies slaine in the streets by you Ah bââ the Lord I will ease me of mine enemies and ãâã me of my adversaries Ye say as the children ââârael did after they had backslided and brokeâ covenant of the Lord as they did to whom the âââphet Micah was sent to cry against Prophecy ye say they to them that prophecy so say you ãâã and shuts up and imprisons some and beateth stoneth others and suffers it to be so by your ãâã and will not let the truth declare it self unto yââ but saith the Lord Arise and depart for this iâ your rest because it is polluted it shall destroy yâââven with a sore destruction Mica 2.10 11 12 13. Mich. 2.10 11 12 Hear this Oh heads of England Is it not for ãâã know Judgement who hate the good Mic. 3.1 2 3 4. â Isa 28.1 Mic. 2.1 2 c. Isa 38. Isa 59.8 Hos 9.7 Mic. 3.9 10 Hos 13.6 7 8. Mic. 3.11 1 Thes 5.2 3. 2 Thes 1.7 8 9 10. and love ââe evil Now you are full pride swelleth amongst ââu which is odious in the eyes of the Lord ââur sins testifie against you covetousness abounds ââongst you cruelty and oppression swells the ând mourns because of oppression the Lord lookâââ down from heaven upon it and he is sore disâeased at you all even all the heads of England ââat abhor judgement and pervert equity who ââild up Sion with blood slayes the righteous ones ãâã your laws the heads thereof judge for rewards ââd the priests thereof teach for hire and lean upon ãâã Lord and say Is not the Lord amongst us and eââ cannot come upon us but when ye cry peace peace ââân cometh sudden destruction from the Almighty and ââyeth all the unjust Many great deliverances hath the Lord given to ââis nation never like to any but Israel and afââr all these large deliverances his mercy is forgot ââd his grace is turned into wantonness and haughâââess and many large promises have been made âââe after time that this nation should be free ââom tyranny and never the like was seen in any âââtion professing Christianity but here is nothing ãâã all performed but a second beast is set up worse ââen the first and all the world wonders and worââips the beast but those who have found their ââmes written in the book of life and the beast ââakes war with the Saints Rev. 17.8 9 10 11 c. Vers 14. Rev. 14.9 10 11. Isa 29.13 14. Mat. 16.21 but the Saints shall âvercome and the beast and beastly worship shall âââe cast into the lake that burneth and they shall ââve no rest day nor night that worship the beast ââd his Image and that receive the mark of the ââeast all the worship of the world is beastial worââiping the work of their own hands and the priests ââe the greatest enemies to Jesus Christ now when âe is appearing in Spirit as they was when he came in the flesh Mat. 21.15 16. ver 23. Mat. 20.18 19. Mat. 26.14 15. ver 47.57 59 c. Heb. 8 â0 11 c. Jer. 31.31 32 33 34. to fulfill what the law did contaiâââ after that the Lord had made a covenant with Iâââel after the flesh and they did not abide in it ãâã broke it then he promised that the would mâââ new covenant with the house of Israel and the hoââââ Judah but not according to the first covenant wiââ covenant they broke notwithstanding he was an husbââ to them but this is the covenant that I will make ãâã them after those dayes saith the Lord I will put ãâã laws in their hearts and in their minds will I wââ them saith the Lord and they shall not need to teaâââvery man his brother and every man his neighbour sâââing know the Lord for they shall all know me from ãâã least to the greatest and saith the Lord by the pâââphet Isaiah speaking of Christ I will give thee fââ covenant of the people for a light of the Gentiles open the blind eyes to bring the prisoners out of prisââ and them that sit in darkness into the shaddow light Now this was foretold of by the prophets Isaiââ and Jeremiah and the Lord did perform his pââmises made by the prophets concerning his coâânant Jesus Christ was foretold to be his new coâânant and when Jesus Christ which was foretold ãâã by the prophets came to fulfill and put to an end ãâã that was contained in the first covenant all tââ Jews chief Priests Scribes and Pharisees Eldeâ and Rulers of the people sought to put him ãâã death because he came to testifie against the dâceits that they then lived in for saith Jesus Chriââ himself Because saith he I testifie against the wâââ that their deeds are evil therefore doth the world hââ me It is the same now as it was then where Jesââ Christ is made manifest in the hearts of his peoplâ Now when Jesus Christ came in that single person Heb. 8.6 â 8 9 10 â1 âeb 10.9 ãâã came to put an end to the first covenant which waâ broken and to establish another he went into thâ ââmple and into the Synagogues witnessing the âââfilling of the Law and said to the people Matth. 5.15 16. ver c. Think ãâã that I am come to destroy the law I am not come to ââstroy but to fulfill the law and he took the book ââd he read that place of Isaiah where he had proââesied and foretold of him and said This day is ââs Scripture fulfilled in your cars now againe he ââd that heaven and earth should pass away but not ãâã joi and one title of the word should in no wise fail ãâã all was fulfilled he came for the fulfilling afâââ that Jesus Christ was sacrificed up Heb. 8.1.2 ver
temple of God and he went and spoke against ãâã outward temple and said God that made the wâââ did not dwell in temples made with hands Act. 17.24 25. neither ãâã he worshipped with mens hands as though he ãâã any thing who giveth to all life and breath aâââ things and hath made all Nations of the earth of ãâã would and one blood to serve him and the Apoâââ went to draw them off from the outward worsâââ to exhort them to mind the light in them thaâââ shew them sin and evill to mind that and it ãâã ââaâ them into all light 2 Pet. 1.19 2 Cor. 4.6 1 Coâ 4.7.10 11. ver saith he Yee have a ãâã to the which ye do well to take heed unto as unto ãâã that sâinâth in a darke place untill the day dawnâââ the âây-Siar arise in your hearts that light did ãâã them âat of all the wayes and works of darknesâ ãâã wrought out that carnal part in them which ãâã âhem at a distance from the Lord who received it ând were obedient to it and it did it did lead them ãâã purity into righteousness up to the everlasting âay of the Lords love and mercy and brought all ââat walked in obedience to it to be united into one âody to be of one heart and mind Heb. 12.22 23 24. to be a family of ââve a houshould of faith and they met together ând waited upon the Lord and spoke their conditiâns one to another and had no man to speak over ââem 1 Cor. 14.23.30 31 32. Isa 54.13 14. 1 Cor. 14. chap. God did fulfill his promise ââven forth by Jeremiah the Prophet of the Lord in ââe new covenant Jer. 31.34 where it is said that ãâã would teach them himself and in Isa the 54. ââere it was promised by that Prophet that all the ââildren of the Lord should be taught of the Lord ââd he would establish them in righteousness All ââo came to enjoy the second covenant they did ââtness the substance of all that made manifest in ââem which was spoken in the first covenant that ââs made to the Jew outwardly Now he is not a ââw that is one outwardly but he is a Jew that is one ââwardly The Jew outwardly he had his coveâânt outwardly the Jew inwardly had his coveâânt inwardly Christ was this covenant and they ââund him revealed and manifested in them the ââw outwardly in the outward covenant he had a ââw outwardly written in tables of stone the Jew ââwardly he had his law inwardly in the new coâânant written in the fleshly tables of the heart âât with Inke but with the Spirit of the living ââod the Jew outwardly he had his law-giver outâardly but the Jew inwardly he hath his law-giââr inwardly in this second covenant Isa 33.22 Exod. 18.13 to the 28. Heb. 12.22 the Jew outâardly in the first covenant had his Judges outâardly the Jew inwardly he hath his Judge inwardââ in the second covenant in the first covenant ââoses was to set over the people faithful men fearing God and hating covetousness and they was judge the people at all seasons âam 5.9 âxod 18. â0 21 22. the Jew inward he hath the Lord to be his law-giver Iudge aâ King to judge and condemne sin in the flesh that ãâã rightâousness of the law may be fulfilled Christ is ãâã end of the law inwardly for righteousness and ââraigne as king for ever The Jew outwardly in ãâã first covenant which was outward had his propâââ outwardly but the Jew inwardly he hath his pââphet inwardly even Jesus Christ the Jew oââwardly in the first covenant which was outwaââ had his priests outwardly the Jew inwardly he hâââ his teacher inwardly in the new covenant whicâ inward the Lord alone is the teacher of all ãâã himself alone Isa 55. Ye need not that any man tââ you 1 Joh. 2.27 but as the anointing teacheth you 1 Joh. 2.27 ãâã the Children of the Lord are taught of the Loââ in righteousness are they established and are ãâã from oppression The Jew outwardly he hath ãâã word outwardly the Jew inwardly he hath ãâã word inwardly Rom. 10. The word is nigh thee iâ mouth Rom. 10.8 1 Cor. 6.19 2 Cor. 6.16 17 18. and in thy heart the Jew outwardly he ãâã his temple outwardly in the first covenant ãâã Jew inwardly his temple made without hands ãâã bodies made the temples of the living Gad the ãâã outwardly he had his circumcision outwardlâ the first covenant which was outward but the ãâã inwardly in the second covenant he hath his ãâã cumcision inwardly circumcised with the circumââââon made without hands the cutting off the bodâ sin the Jew outward he had his guide outwardââ the Jew inwardly his guide inwardly they that ãâã guided by the Spirit of God they are the son ãâã God Rom. 8.14 The Iew outwardly in the first covenant ãâã had his sacrifice outwardly the life of the creaââ was to be offered up in a sacrifice and it did ãâã purifie the flesh the outward part It coulâ ãâã ââifie as touching the conscience him that offered it up âe Jew inwardly in the new Covenant the blood Jesus Christ is offered up to purifie the consciâe the Jew outwardly he had his evidence outârdly the Jew inwardly he hath his inwardly are is three that bear record in earth the water 1 Joh. 5.6 7 8 9. the âad and the spirit and these three agree in one In the ãâã covenant which was outwardly to the Iew outârdly they had a Sabbath outwardly the chilâân of Israel after they was come out of Egypt Lord gave them a Sabbath a sabbath is a rest ââgne of the true rest which the Saints did injoy in ââist the second covenant Heb. 4. There is a rest the people of God Heb. 4.9 10. and he that believeth hath enâââ into his rest and hath ceased from his works as ãâã did from his In the first covenant which was ward their Church was outward gathered toââer by an outward command of the letter withâââ in the new covenant which was inward the ãâã inwardly their Church was in God 1 Thes 1.1 ãâã and Silvanus and Timotheus 1 Thes 1.1 1 Pet. 2.5 9. they writ unto the âuch of the Thessalonians which were in God the âââer of our Lord Jesus Christ and they was all ââered together by the light of God in them that âât which the Apostle did exhort them to be mindââ of in 2 Pet. 1.19 and that light did lead them guide them out of the pollutions of the world guided them up to purity to holiness to righâââness and they were born againe begotten by the will of man but by the will of God 1 Pet. 1.18 19 20 21 22 23. begotâââ by the immortal word born of water and the ãâã and they did walk after the Spirit in love ââtenderness of compassion one towards another ãâã was of one heart and one minde and was all ââdren of the
7.8 â 10 11 12. c. Heb. 8.6 7. c. Heb. 9.8 9. Heb. 10.9.10 so far as he followed Christ now Jesus Christ came to take off oppression from the people ând to undo the heavy burdens that they groaned ânder then by the fair-sayers as those hypocrites âre now that say and do not Jesus Christ came âo take off that oppression of Tythes that was one ââing that he shed his blood for but Antichrist holds âup which is contrary to Christ Christ came to throw down the idols temple and to throw down âhe outward worship which the Jew outwardly had ând to fulfill all that the law did contain outwardly âhat he might place his law in their hearts to be fulâilled there That he alone might teach them by his Spirit without form Jer. 31.33.34 Heb. 8.10.11 Joh. 4.23.24 to worship the Father in Spirit and in truth Joh. 4. Now the false teachers in Engâand holds up the idols temple and sits in the seat of the Scribes and Pharisees acting as in a stageâlay for money all for filthy lucre and prosesseth the Scripture to be their rule when there is not a Scripture to warrant them for any thing they do There is not a word in the Scripture for them to go to Cambridge or Oxford to be so long there to âearn a trade of deceit to give a meaning to the Scripture to gloss them over by their humane and serpentine wisdome to deceive people with their imaginations but to the contrary for the Scripture saith that every word of God is pure and he that addeth thereto or taketh therefrom shall be reproved and found a lyar Prov. 30.5 6. and ãâã gaine see what the Lord said to Moses in Deut. 4. ãâã Ye shall not adde unto the word which I command ãâ¦ã but these goes contrary to the command of tââ Lord that goes to learn deceit to add their ãâã mane wisdom to that which is truth in it self aââ the Spirit of God could not understand its own dâclaration And again saith Jesus Christ I testiââ that he that addes to the word of the prophecie I wââ adde to him all the plagues that are written in the Bâââ Rev. ult And again it is said that no man knows ãâã Son but the Father neither knows any man the Fathââ but the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him as iâ ãâã in John Then what use is all their brain-study ãâã It is all deceit dung and dirt Away with it aâââ with it the Lord is coming to burn up all deceâââ and deceivers and to scatter the proud in all their iâââginations Howl ye proud Priests for wo and miseâââ is your portion wo was the portion of the Scriââââ and Pharisees that laid heavie burdens upon ãâã people as these deceivers do that deceive the pââple and bewitcheth them with those things whâââ God never commanded telling the people that thââ are Ordinances of God There is not a word in tââ Scripture for sprinkling Infants and those faââââ Priests say that it is an Ordinance of Christ aââ they can make Christians as they say by sprinklâââ them with a little water and so entreth them iââ Covenant so making Christians by their imagiâtions These are the false christs and false prophâââ spoken of in Scripture Now the Saints they wâââ baptized by one Spâââ m o one body and they were ãâã of one heart and one minde There is not a word ãâã the Scripture for Tythe-mongers and false teachâââ in England to have the tenth of the yeers Increââââ of all things for their brain-study whereby they ââceive the people professing themselves to be the ââââsters of Christ and act altogether against Christ âewing themselves to be Antichrists What Scripture âave they to take Tythe of wheat rye and barley What Scripture have they for their rule to take tithe âf oats pease and beans What Scripture have they ââr their rule to take tythe of sheep the tenth lamb ând the tenth fleece Eze. 34 2â 3.4 v. 16 â But as it was amongst the false âeachers in Israel Ezek. 34. so it is with the false teaâhers in England now they teach for the fleece and ââed themselves with the fat but the Lord will feed âuch with judgement ãâã âââse tâââââest thââââipture ãâã Miniââââ Saints âââphold ãâã not of ââânding ââââng in âââmies ââââgn in ãâã âââeer What Scripture have they for âheir rule to take tythe of hemp and flax pigs ând what Scripture have they for their rule to take âythe-apples and plums walnuts and cherries what Scripture have they for their rule to take money for âggs and to have tythe-geese What Scripture have âhey for their rule to take money for the reek passing âp the chimneys What Scripture have they for their âule to take a peny for a garden every yeer What Scripture have they for their rule to take money for every foal that is foaled What Scripture have they âor their rule to take money for every cow that hath a calf and a peny for them that have none What Scripture have they for their rule to take a farthing of a shilling of servants for their wages What Scripture have they for their rule to Church women as they do and take mony for it when they have done What Scripture have they for their rule to bury as they do and take mony for it when they have done did either Jesus Christ or his Apostles that were the true Minister of the Gospel ever do so See if these be not the task-masters of Egypt there is scarce any thing but these deceivers have an end in it they are altogether for filthy lucre contrary to the Apostle to Timothy and Titus 1 Tim. 1 2 3. Tit. 1.7 â 1 Pet 5.2 â who were true Ministers of Christ Tit. 1.8 9 10. See who denies the Scriptures but those that deny to walk according to them in life and conversation For shame down with oppression blush for shame all such deceivers aââ upholders of the deceits and never profess love ãâã God nor Christ âsa 33.14 â5 for your profession is found to ãâã hypocrisie and wo and misery will be your portiâââ except ye repent give over deceiving the peopââ Down with all deceivers âude 11. v. false worships the greâââ day of the Lord is coming upon them all What Scâââpture have these for their rule that have great suââââ of money so much a yeer gifts and rewards as ãâã laams priests had What Scripture have they ãâã their rule that have Augmentations And what Scrâpture have they for their rule to go to law for tithââ or for any thing else that profess themselves to ãâã Ministers of Christ Neither Christ nor any that ãâã sent forth to preach the Gospel but all spoke againââ it saith Christ Whosoever shall sue thee at the law aââ take away thy coat let him have thy cloak also Matth ãâã and the Apostle who was a true Minister spoke
Moses Message TO PHARAOH OR God sending to the heads of England âo undo the âeavy burdens to let the oppressed go free Exod. â 9 to serve âim in the wilderness that he may do them good in âheir latter dayes For Israel shall be many dayes âithout a King without a Priest without an Ephod Hos 3.4 5. ând without a Teraphim afterward they shall look âhe Lord their God and David their King and shall âar the Lord and his goodness in his latter dayes âos 3.4 5. Sent in the time of Israels Captivity under Phaâah and his task-masters to call to remembrance âhat the Lord did to proud hard-hearted Pharaoh ââd his hoste then that did oppress and burden ââem and would not take warning till they were ââerwhelmed in the red sea and he is the same God ãâã power now that he was then take warning beââe Exod. 14.14 15 16 17 18 c. and stop not your ears against the crys of the ââor Let England be a fred Nation to serve the âord in his own way and take off all oppressions for ãâã is grieved at it A word from the Lord both to-Priest and People ââdges and Justices and cursed Lawyers which opââss and burthen the creation to call to cease from opâssion and grinding the faces of the poor Isa 1.17 18 19 20. and to ân to the Lord by putting away the evil of your doings relieving the oppressed and with Zacheus to reââe to whom you the proud Priests and cursed Lawyers âve taken in tithes gifts bribes and rewards and ââe it to the poor that they may not want the Lord doth require it for that is the ordinance of Christ bâ oppression is the ordinance of the divel and his servaââ ye are to whom ye do obey put off the old man with ãâã deeds as pride and oppression and grinding the faces the poor the Lord doth require it for these are orânances of the devil âsa 3.13 14 15. and the Priests and Lawyers lââ it wondrous well The ordinance of Christ is to feâ the hungry cloth the naked and let the oppressed free Put this in practise Isa 58.6 7 8 9 10 11 12. Therefore put off lying it is of the Divel put ãâã pride it is as evil put off covetousness it is unciviâ put off heady-high-mindedness and envy for they ãâã cruel Joh. 4.20 and he that envies is a murderer and no mâderer hath eternal life abiding in him 1 Joh. 8.15 Aâ he that saith he loves God and keepeth not his coâmandments is a lyar and the truth is not in him 1 Joâ 2.4 And he that abideth not in the Doctrine of Chriââ he hath not God 2 Joh. 1.9 Joh. 8.44 and Châââ saith Resist not evil but abstaine from all appearaâ of it And the servant of the Lord must be gentle ãâã wards all even towards them that oppose themselveâ and he saith Put on as the elect of God bowels of câââ passion humbleness of mind meekness long-sufferiââ and forbearing one another and if any man have quarrel against another forgive him freely Colos 3.1 and if ye forgive men their trespasses your heavenly ââther will forgive you your trespasses and if ye forgiââ not men their trespasses neither will your heavenly ââther forgive you your trespasses How do the Priests of England walk according these Scriptures that deny them in practise As the Priests in York shire do that imprison the servants the most high God for testifying against their deceits ãâã some of them have lain in prison neer hand a yeer ãâã never could have his ââyal by the Laws of England suâ a Turk would allow more freedome It is high time the Lord to draw his glittering sword and exeââ judgement upon the unjust See do these Priests ãâã Lawyers walk any wayes answerable to the Scriptures Wo to the wicked It shall be ill with them Isa 3.1 Isa 3. Take warning betime lest the judgements of God come upon you at unawares ye heads and rulers priests and Lawyers and destroy with a sore destruction Now you have time prize it and turn to the Lord with all your hearts that he may have mercy upon you Written from the Spirit of the Lord Ezek. 1 18 19. Dan. 10 Heb. 12. by one whom the people of the world calls A Quaker By name Rich. Farnworth Whose name is written in the Book of Life Rev. 12.17 Dan. 12.1 2 3. Oh England return unto the Lord lest his indignation come upon thee at unawares O Israel return to the Lord for thou hast faln by thine iniquity Hos 14. and art at a distance from thy Maker remember from whence thou art faln and return now the Lord is calling upon all people in all places to return from the evil of their doings that he may have mercy upon them Rev. 2.5 14 15 1â all people whose minds are yet in the earth and are delighting in vanities you are faln from your maker Isa 55.6 Isa 19. and are hewing to your selves broken cisterns that will hold no water forming up wayes of worships according to your imaginations and so worships the work of your own hands Isa 29.1 delighting in them ãâã 2.22 O cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of All mans teaching is vain and it doth exalt and feed the fleshly man ââl 5.19 21. and keeps that alive which must be destroyed and it leads to vanity it self the fruit of it is made manifest Israel after the flesh are not the people of the onely true God ââl 4 â c. ãâã 26.7 â it is Israel after the spirit of that the Lord delights in he makes his abode with the sons of men he is purifying their hearts that he may have an holy people to place his name in the Lord is now leading Israel to his chosen ones ãâã 66.1 2 through the sea of troubles and persecutions to bring them into the wilderness out of all the earthly delights âor 6.16 ââv 2.8 9 ââ 11. ãâã 28.9 and earthly vanities to win them from all the worlds wayes and worships and customes and fashions and delights and outside teachings of men that he alone may be their teacher himself as he led Israel after the flesh out of Egypt from under proud hard-hearted Pharaoh ãâã 31.34 ãâã 54.13 ââb 8.10 which was an oppressor and kept them in bondage that they could not serve him till he had them out of Egypt through the sea into the wilderness where the Egyptians could not come âoh 2.27 ââh 14.26 ââo 14 ââ c. but as they pursued hard after them they was destroyed and could not come over the sea to them where the Lord had carryed them there to make to make his love manifest to them there the Lord did teach them and gave them a law to walk by and made a Covenant with them which covenant they broke and
and some of them imprisoned ãâã a Popish law and doth not give them so much âave as theeves and robbers but shuts them up ââose by a popish law and professeth themselves to ãâã Christians Acts 3.18 19. Acts 4.1 2 3 vers 6. to the 22. Act. 5.11 16 17. ver 25. to the 34. Act. 7.51 c. Act. 17.5 c. Act. 18.12 c. Mat. 5.39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 Rom. 12.10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Hos 6.9 Joh. 3.15 Mat. 23.10 to the end of the Chap. Luk. 11.46 to vers 53 but now they are made manifest to ãâã of that generation that persecuted the servants âf the Lord and are of the generation of Cain ând are no Christians but enemies to Jesus Christ âeither Christ nor the Saints of God ever perseââted or imprisoned any but was persecuted and ââprisoned and by those that made the greatest ârofession of love to God but was the greatest ânemies to the truth of God as it is now Joh. 8.40 ââain was a persecuter from the beginning and where âersecution is now it is from Cains generation for âesus Christ said to his Love your enemies bless them âhat curse you do good to them that hate you and pray âor them that despitefully use you that ye may be chilâren of your heavenly Father for if ye love them that âove you what reward have you do not Publicanes so âut I say unto you Love your enemies and if thine enemy âunger feed him If he thirst give him drink and who oâver shall smite thee on the one cheek turn to him the other also Resist not evil but abstaine from all appearance of it and do unto all men as ye would they should do unto you Now he that abideth not in the doctrine of Christ is a Divel Christ never persecuted he that professeth love to Christ and acts contrary to him is Antichrist and so is an enemy to Christ devourers and murderets the truth is imprisoned by the laws and may not be suffered to speak and all manner of evil is freed and at liberty pride is at liberty covetousness at liberty envy at liberty lying and swearing and drunkenness at liberty because of oaths the land mourns Christ Jesus is imprisoned and Barabbas set free as it was Hos 4.2 3. Isa 1.23 Jer. 5.28 29. Jer. 7.3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Jer. 5.30 31. Mica 3.11 Jer. 23.16 17 18 19 20. 2 Chron. 19.4 5 6 7 8 9. Isa 56.10 11. it is thy princes are rebellious and compaââ of theeves saith the Lord by his prophet tââ children of Israel Isa 1.23 Every one loveth and followeth after rewards they judge not the fâless neither doth the cause of the poor come unto ãâã Is it not so now the same deceits that was theââ now the priests they preach for hire which is abomination to the Lord the false prophets did the true prophets never did but was sent to out against them After that the children of Isââ had revolted and backslided then they broke covenant of the Lord that he had made with thâ the priests was to do what they did without monââ but when they did not the Lord was displeased ãâã them and the Lord sent to cry out against the See Isa 56.10 11. His watchmen ore all blind ãâã and rewards had blinded their eyes and they lââ every one for his gaine from his quarter The ãâã teachers did so then do they not so now eâââ one looks for his gaine from his quarter and whâ they are Isaiah was a true prophet of the Lord ãâã as he had received freely of the Lord he spoke fâââ to them again and said Ho every one that thirstâome and receive freely without money or price Isâ was a true prophet of the Lord Isa 55.1 2. and was sent to ãâã out against the false prophets and he did not lââ for any gaine Joh. 1. Isa 29.23 24. Joh. 6.8 1 Cor. 1.27 28 29. 2 Cor. 6.7 8 9 10. Rev. 3.9 10 11 12 13. but as he had received freely spoke freely again Isa 55.1 2 3. Where the saââ light of God is made manifest now It sees the saââ deceits amongst the false teachers in England he did among the false teachers in Israel and sent by the Lord to cry against them but the diâ is more subtil now then he was then he is unâ finer habit of profession and he hath a guard defend him he hath got great strength by ââting off the Popes head and sets it to defend ãâã by that if any come to speak against his deceitâ âath the Popes law to lay hold on him by 1 Mary 2. Asserti on 3. Chap. But see first of Eliz. 2. Cha. last clause Sir Nichelas Hides cited that it was repealed Dolt 103.104 p. Rev. 17.7 8 9 80 11 c. Rev. 22.11 12. Rev. 19. ch Rev. 21. to the 8. v. 22. to the end Joh. 10.1 Jer. 23.30 31. Hos 6.9 1 Joh. 3.15 1 Cor. 6.9 10 11. Isa 1.28 Isa 48.16 Jer. 5.30 31. Rev. 18.1 2 c. and ãâã a prison to put him into and so he is safe the beast sits acting there as in a stage-play for ââey and if any be sent by the Lord to speak aââst him when he hath done though the Parliaâât professed so much love to Christ that he might ãâã a little time to speak after the beast had done âhe stage-players are so cunning and had trainââp their schollers so much that there is a combiââon among them all to uphold the kingdome ântichrist still that speak when he hath ended play and he calls upon his followers to take away and saith he makes an uproare and so he very way armed against the Lord and hath the ââices to take his part and will not suffer the truth ââe declared But the Lord is coming in power âverturn all powers but his own and he alone ãâã rule and raign for ever and ever and nothing ââst stand but his own pure being Zeph. 3.8 9. All ââeits and deceivers and theeves and robbers ââst be cast out into the lake that burneth he will ãâã have a deceitful person to dwell in his house âây with all deceivers the Lord is coming to judge ãâã avenge himself upon all Jeremiah he was a true âââphet of the Lord and he was sent to cry out aââânst the false ones See Jer. 5. A horrible and a ââây thing is committed in the land the prophets proââây falsely and the priests bear rule by their means ãâã the people love to have it so It was so then but is not so now and the Lord sent to cry against ââm and so doth he now Down with them down ââh them the day of vengeance is coming upon ââh them and all that holds them up except we ãâã repent and turn to the Lord speedily Isa 55. â7 Oh England England repent and turn to the âârd sit down in dust and ashes the
light and were guided by the Spiâââ God and their consciences was purged from ââncleanness by the blood of the covenat and were all gathered together by the Spirit of trâââ out of all the wayes and works of darkness ãâã light did lead them out of all the worlds wayes of all the worlds worships which was outward carnal saith the Apostle to them Touch not ãâã not handle not which all are to perish with using Col. 2.21 22. This light of God in them ãâã lead them out of all the worlds customes and âââons which the Apostle did exhort them to ãâã he Be not conformed like unto this world but be tâââ formed by the renewing of your minds that yeâ know what is that good that acceptable and peâââ will of God this light of God in them did them and guide them out of all the worlds ãâã and did lead them into the way of peace and ãâã and they were gathered by this light out of alââ crookedness and perversenss out of all lying ãâã maliciousness for they was to put off anger aââ speak the truth one to another for the Lordâ delight in them who walk in righteousness beââ him saith Jesus Christ Let your yea be yea your nay Mat. 5.37 nay in all things being faithful in waâ one towards another faithfulness grows anaâânesty grows and uprightness grows and so theââ come faithful to bring forth fruit To the ãâã and glory of God by this light was they gaââââ together up to unity of spirit they were aââtized into one body Joh. 15.8 1 Cor. 12.12 13 14. Eph. 4.4 5 6. by one Spirit and they weââ made to drinke into one Spirit they were come uâââ to mount Sion and unto the City of the living Geââ heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable câââ of Angels and to the Spirits of just men made pââ the Church of the first born Heb. 12.21 22. The Sâââ did enjoy the substance of the second coveâ made manifest in them which was Christ reaââââ in them 1 Cor. 2 7. Gal. 1.16 the life of Christ was made manifeââ their mortal flesh and the glory of the Lord âârealed in them 2 Cor. 4.10 11. Rom. 8.1 1 Joh. 2. 15 16. Mat. 6.2 they had the substance of what ââe first covenant did contain which was outward ãâã the Jew outwardly made manifest in them and ây the light of God revealing and manifesting it to ââeir souls after they came to the enjoyment of it ãâã caused them to deny the world and they exhorâed others to take heed of it saying Love not the âorld not the things of the world for say they If âây man love the world the love of the Fther is not in âim no man can serve two masters they cannot âerve God and the world for the love of the world ãâã enmity with God and by experience from the enjoyment of this mystery of godliness made manifest in them they said Eye hath not seen 1 Cor. 2.10 ear hath not heard neither hath it entred into the heart of man ãâã conceive those things that God hath laid up for those that love him The Saints did possess that which the world doth but now profess they had the full enjoyment of those things which the Scripture doth declare and they did live the life of the righteous and they were gathered out of the world and did walk up in obedience to the commands of God therein was they known to differ from the world for saith Jesus Christ If you love me 1 Joh. 2.6 1 Joh. 5.2 3. keep my Commandments now they did so wherein say they by this we know that we love God because we keep his Commandments and his Commandments are not grievious but joyous 1 Joh. 2.3 It is the delight of those that are borne againe to do the will of God none can but those that are born anew for every man by nature is a childre of wrath and the naturall man he knows not the things of God because they are spiritually discerned and again no man knows the Son but the Father neither knoweth any man the Faher but the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him all the wisdom of the world cannot enter into the knowledge of this mystery to unfold it it was revealed to the Saints that had the enjoyment of it whââ the world hated at every appearance of God in tââ discovering himself to his people the world is in eââmity against it marvel not if the world hate you saiââ Jesus Christ it is not to be marvelled at for saith he hated me before it hated you saith he if ye were of iââ world Joh. 3.13 âoh 15.17 â3 19 20 ââ ââak 6.22 ââ Pet. 4.13 ââ âat 5.11 ââ ââh 17.18 ââ 20 21. the world would love you but because I have chosen you out of the world therefore doth the world haââ you and again saith he Ye shall be hated of all men faâââ my names sake but saith he Blessed are you when ãâã revile you and persecute you and say all manner ãâã evill against you falsly for my names sake rejoyce aââ be exceeding glad for great is your reward in Heâven for so persecuted they the Prophets that were before you And where the Lord is appearing in his people now great is the rage and madness of the world for whom God loves the world hates nay the higheââ profession persecutes the Lord in his Saints wheââ he is made manifest in power all profession without possession is hypocrisy and dissimulation Alââ the holy men of God were possessers but the world now lives in words deceiving themselves and diâsembling both with God and man and practising nothing but deceit and the Priests are the grand enemies to Jesus Christ and the great deceivers of the people they tell the people they are the Ministers of Jesus Christ and indeed they are Antichrist acting altogether against Christ and they are the greatest upholders of oppression of any which Jesus Christ came to throw down the whole creation is burdened by this stinking professed Ministery they act the same things that the Scribes and Pharisees did they hold up those things that Jesus Christ came to throw down and laid down his life for and yet these deceivers that deceive the nations say they are sent of Christ but they are found lyars Jesus Christ foretold of such that should âome for saith he there shall come false prophets in ââeeps clothing Mat. 7 1â.16 17 1â 19 20 21. but inwardly are ravening woolves but saith he By their fruits ye shall know them Mat. 7. âhey say and do not Is it not so with the false âeachers in England they say they are sent of Christ but he that saith he is in Christ 1 Joh. 2.6 ought to âalk as he walked Jesus Christ was an example âor all his to follow and the Apostle who was a ârue Minister of Christ did exhort the people to âollow him Heb.
âgainst it and they that say they are the Ministers ãâã Christ and act contrary to Christ are Antichristâ though they have never so fair a colour they aââ but the coloured Beast painted outsides marâââ them that say and do not those are false Prophets Mat. 7. What Scripture have they any of them tââ have the chiefest places in the Assemblies and to bâ called of men masters The Scribes and Phariseeâ had which were enemies to Jesus Christ and those that sits in their seats are the same What Scripture have they for their rule to go in long Robes or in a colour differing from their brethren The Scribes and Pharisees did so which were enemies to Jesus Christ What Scripture have they for their rule to pray standing in the Synagogues before they preach as they call it and after they have done there is Scripture to the contrary where Jesus Christ saith Pray not standing in the Synagogues What Scripture have they for their rule to be idle 6 days of 7 and then to go into the Idols temple take a glass to speak ãâã and none must speak till they have done nor then neither ãâã there is to the contrary In the true Church all may speak ââât all may be edified but it is plain that it is the false Church ãâã of any thing be revealed to him that stood by in the true Church ãâã that had it revealed to him was to speak and the other was to hold ãâã peace 2 Cor. 14. but it is not so now he must be haled out the Apostles were by the Jews and either beaten or stoned oâ ãâã imprisoned and shut close up and not one to come at him ââcept he give them money all contrary to the Scripture for ãâã Apostle had more favour shewed of the Heathen when he ãâã imprisoned then the Saints of God have now by those that âââfess themselves to be Christians but it is plainly manifest that ââây are enemies both to God and Christ What Scripture ââve they for their rule professing themselves to be the Miniâââs of Jesus Christ to imprison so many of the dear Saints ãâã servants of the Lord by a Law that was made to uphold ãâã Popish Clergie withal See now whether these be not of ãâã generation of Cain yea or no and are of the devil standing âctual rebellion against Jesus Christ now that he is arising in ãâã Saints but the Lord will be avenged of all his enemies ãâã his adversaries and he alone will be honoured and reign in ãâã Saints for ever and ever The great day of the Lord is neer âand Awake thou that sleepest and come to judgement ãâã glittering sword is drawn it is four bished and made fit for ãâã slaughter to cut down to the ground all the enemies of the âââd he will plead with all flesh by his sword and by fire and ââât shall be the slain of the Lord. Oh England England repent and turn to the Lord Let the ââe past of your lives be sufficient that you have wrought eââââ and now turn from the evill of your ways Let him that stole ãâã no more Let him that is proud forsake his pride and haughââss it is abomination to the Lord Let Nabal forsake his ââliness and the covetous man his covetousness Let the drunâd forsake his drunkenness let the vain talkers forsake their ãâã talk and put away their foolish jesâings for God doth forâââ it Let the lustful one take up the Cross of Christ that his ãâã may be sacrificed up that innocency may be head let the enâââs man forsake his envy and let the inventor forsake his cunning inventions and let the backbiter forsake his backbââââ and the scoffing Ishmael his scoffing and the scorner leâ ãâã forsake his scornfulness lest his bands be made strong Lââ ãâã âwearer forsake his swearing God doth forbid it Let the ãâã forsake his lying the false accuser his false accusations ãâã you Priests and Lawyers go and make restitution to whoâ ãâã have robbed They that steal they steal in the night they ãâã are drunk are drunk in the night but now the day is daâââ ãâã and the Day-star is risen and the Sun begins to rise and hââ ãâã run forth in power and you will be spyed out where eveâ ãâã are all your old store-houses your corrupt hearts mâââ ãâã searched the Lord is come and is coming let him come ãâã will now be found guilty before the divine Magistrate he ãâã drawn his glittering sword it is sharpe on both sides it hath ãâã edges wo wo to you Priests and Lawyers wo wo to you pââââ and lustful ones Isa 28.1 2 3. Let the oppressor forsake hâââ pression the earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof Lââââ bloodthirsty ones forsake their bloodthirstiness The Magiââââ bears not the sword in vain he will not suffer sin to go uâââââished Awake awake and stand up to judgement the Lâââ ãâã coming the Lord is coming in power and great glory to ãâã his power known upon all that act in unrighteousness ãâã Priests and Lawyers the Lord will plead with you all staâââââ awe of him and tremble you must all give up your accââââ and wo to the unjust they must be turned into hell and all ãâã that forget God Thus saith the Lord Will ye not fear me ãâã ye not tremble at my presence Now the Trumpet begins to soâââ Come out of your wickedness and meet the Lord by truâââpentance lest your hearts be hardened and your hands be ãâã strong and so you be given up to a reprobate minde and ãâã into continual torment Let the Adulterer forsake his Adâââry for Adulterers and Whoremongers God will judge Noâ ãâã new Law is found and given forth of Sion and as these are ãâã ââgressions all unrighteousness and are covered over by aââââfession but all Covers must be ript and stand before the ãâã âââteous Magistrate that hath and doth establish this new ãâã righteousness and he is a just Judge look to it all both greaââ small that act in unrighteousness Hear ye this O heads ãâã people Let the time past suffice you and now remove violenâ ãâã spoil and execute judgement and justice and take away your ãâ¦ã