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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37214	This for the Parliament, Counsel, and the officers of the army of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland; in patience to read and consider, Eccle. 7. 8, 9. Hag. 1. 5. Being that the servants of the Lord are to finish their true and faithful testimony against the world, as the Lord shall move them so to do, who live and move in him, that so they may finish their course with joy; and now for this end and purpose have I given forth this my testimony, that I might be found doing the will of God, whom I serve in the Spirit of his Son, not knowing but that my service herein may be acceptable to all, or some of you, and if but to one, shall be glad, and if to none, my labour shall not be in vain in the Lord, who is the reward of all them that obey him and diligently seek him. Written about the middle of the sixth month, 1659. By a lover of the truth, as it is in Jesus, a late member of the army, known by the name of Thomas Davenport	T. D. Thomas Davenport.	1659 (1659)	Wing D373; ESTC R215332	6,019	10

and Righteous thing that we should pay them wages that do no work for us or would you have us to pay wages to other mens servants nay would you have the servants of the Lord to pay them wages who serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies who are enemies to the Son of Righteousness in that service they do seeking to turn men from the true Light and so shuts the Kingdom against men and will neither go in themselves nor suffer them that are entering to go in which Christ cryes wo against Now can ye friends and servants of the Lord uphold such as these and now let that of God in you all judge whether you be his servants that uphold them shall not we rather with the Prophets Christ and the Apostles bear our Testimony against them who have said The watchmen are all blind and ignorant all of them dumb dogs and greedy which can never have enough and shepherds that cannot understand they all look to their own way every one for his own gain from his Quarter like beasts of the field that seek to devour and also the Prophet cryeth out Mine heart is broken within me because of the Prophets all my bones shake for both the Prophets and Priests are prophane yea in mine house have I found their wickedness saith the Lord I have seen also in the Prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing They commit adultery and walk in lyes they strengthen also the hands of the evil-doers that none do return from his wickedness for from the Prophets is prophanness gone out into all the land and saith the Prophet There is a conspiracy among the Prophets like roaring Lyons ravening the prey they have devoured Souls her Priests have violated my Law and have prophaned my Holy things they have put no difference between the Holy and prophane neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean and may not the same Testimony be born against the Priests of England now in this his day by the Servants of the Lord and the Lord Jesus calls them Pharisees Hypocrites and cryes wo against them that go in long robes and loves the uppermost rooms at Feasts and the chief seats in the Synagogues and greeting in the Markets and love to be called of men Master Master and saith he ye shall know them by their fruits their hearts they have exercised with covetous practises witness their cruel persecutions that they have forsaken the right way and are gone astray following the way of Balaam who loved the wages of unrighteousness but these are worse for he durst not take it and saith the Prophet Put into their mouths and they will speak Peace to them but these are worse for those that have upheld them and put into their mouths they are preparing War against them and if you say they are not all such to wit the Ministers so called I s wer though some of them have put on a thicker covering and their deceit to them who are out of the Light of the Body which is the single eye cannot be discerned yet in the pure Light of God are they all seen and made manifest to be of the same nature root and ground for there is no difference among them who brings not the doctrine of Christ and being out of the faith that purifieth the heart are drove out from the presence of the Lord God with Cain who was a murtherer and slew his Brother and wherefore slew he him because his works were evil and his Brothers good but behold the Lord is against all false prophets priests and ministers that steals my Word every one from his Neighbour and use their tongues and say He saith it when the Lord hath not spoken unto them the Lord will require it at their hands Now be you warned from the Lord God of Heaven and Earth that ye do not hold them up in their deceits for this I declare from the Lord God of Heaven and Earth that that which helpeth and they that are holpen shall fall together for a witness I am for the Lord God knowing the terrour of the Lord whose wrath is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness and unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth indignation and wrath tribulation and anguish upon every Soul of man that doth evil for there is no respect of persons with God And if you say we will not be subject to the higher Power but slight Magistrates and will give them no honour nor yield obedience to the Laws of the Land which ye Magistrates are bound to uphold I answer We are subject to the higher Power for there is no power but of God and to that Power which is of God we are subject unto which all must bow of things both in Heaven and Earth and because we are subject to the higher Power and for Conscience sake cannot resist the power which is the Ordinance of God therefore it is that we suffer by them who are out of the Power and will not be subject to it and to all Magistrates are we subject who are the Ministers of God for good who Rule in and by the Power unto which all are to be subject for Conscience sake but to those who are out of the Power unto which all are to be subject for Conscience sake and have set by another in their own wills which is of the Prince of the power of the air to that for Conscience sake we cannot obey but for Conscience sake towards God bear our Testimony against it by our sufferings for the truths sake and otherwise as we are moved of the Lord for we cannot be subject but for the Lords sake And for the laws you maintain contrary to Christ for Conscience sake towards God you are not bound to maintain them for that which binds here is in the will of man therefore are you bound by the Will of God and for Conscience sake to throw them down and so to break the bonds of wickedness that the oppressed may go free that so you may be established in maintaining the righteous Law of God that ye may become a blessing to these Nations which if ye refuse ye will become a curse And for honouring the persons of the Magistrates with hat and knee or the persons of any men that we deny and what honour can they expect who are not vessels of honour but of dishonour being not purged from these things and so not fit for their Masters use Now whether ye be such let that of God in all your Consciences which cannot lye judge or whether you have gone from that which is truly honourable and is that in all which is to be honoured And those that comes to this neither honour nor respects mens persons nor honour one of another but seeks the honour woh cometh from God onely which will stain the glory of all flesh now as the Lord requires have we honoured all for our love hath wrought unto all men without respect of persons that all might come to the knowledge of the truth that they might be saved and redeemed from their vain conversations even from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God and hath not the mouths of the servants of the Lord been opened towards you in dear love to your Souls and bodies to warn you to repent and turn from that which will be your ruine if you turn not betimes unto the Lord and have not the servants of the Lord been made free for the seeds sake which is in you and among you which most of you have not owned to discover to you the Plots of your enemies that are intending to devour some of you which had you stood in the Councel of the Lord had been under your feet trodden on by you the dust for such honour have all the Saints and had not this been greater honour to you then the putting off the hat and to give you flattering titles which your enemies would do if they came before you while mischief were in their hearts against you though when such have come to some of you to shew love in making known your enemies because they could not put off the hat and give you flattering titles you would not suffer to come into the room to you Is not this a shame that such a thing as this should be when Jesus Christ hath denied and shuts them out from the Faith which have it but in respect of persons I say that such a thing as this should be held up by them who profess to believe in the Name of Christ Jesus who hath said I receive not honour from men And how can ye believe that receive honour one of another and seek not the honour which cometh from God onely But saith he They loved the praise of men more then the praise of God therefore came ruine to themselves and the Nation both Now I say to you all be you warned from the Lord God that ye consider these things betime and turn not from the Councel of the Lord which that of God in all your Consciences if you take heed unto it will make manifest to you that ye perish not in your gain saying This have I written in dear love to all your Souls that the time and opportunity put into your hands may be by you faithfully improved for the carrying on of the Lords work in this his day as that of God in all your Consciences shall make manifest unto you and whether you will hear or forbear I am clear of you all having dealt plainly with you in the sight of the Lord God who am a Friend to all men without respect of persons for the seeds sake T. D. THE END