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A message from the spirit of the Lord to the people called Anabaptists and to the rest of the sects who are scattered up and down these nations and in the Army, that they may read and consider why the Lords controversie is against them, and that they may understand what the Lords purpose is concerning them.
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J. C. (John Collens), d. 1682.
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his Government shall be established Though all the powers of darkness rise up against him yet shall the Lamb and the Saints have the victory though Gog and Magog join together in battel against him Therefore be ye warned and take heed of giving your power unto the Beast and the false Prophet for the wrath and vengeance of the Lord is against him and the day of Babylons destruction is near in which all her Merchants that have traded with her shall weep and howl for none shall buy their wares any more saying Alas alas for that great City is faln by which so many were made rich through her Merchandize for now is the Lord arisen to uncover her skirts and to make her shame and her nakedness appear in the sight of all men Therefore be not of a fearful heart but be valiant for the Lord for he will bring mighty things to pass such as your eyes hath not seen nor your ears heard nor hath entered into your hearts to believe for he is working a Work and a Wonder the understanding of the Wise shall be confounded and the Wisdom of the prudent shall be hid for the Lord hath purposed and he will certainly bring it to pass for he hath seen he hath seen the affliction of his people and his eye hath beheld the cruelty of their enemies all their purposes are before him and his soul hath pittyed his remnant and his anger is kindled against his adversaries and the day of their recompence is near wherein he will reward them even as they thought to do unto his chosen and their own mischief which they imagined in their own hearts even with the same shall their ovvn bovvels be filled that as they have thirsted for and greedily desired the blood of the innocent even so shall it be done unto them The Lord hath spoken and it shall surely come to pass And now take heed unto your selves and let the fall of others be a warning unto you and see you build upon a right foundation for there is nothing but truth and righteousness shall stand all other buildings shall certainly be overthrown Therefore in humility and meekness consider with your selves that the Lord hath not left himself without a Witness in the hearts of every one of you that the people who have been despised and hated reproached and cruelly intreated hath not been so dealt withall for any evil that they have done but for bearing a true and faithfull testimony for the Lord against all the pride ambition and vain-glory of this wicked and untoward Generation and against all the superstitious Idolatrous and vain worships and against all the hireling greedy devouring Idol dumb Shepherds and against all the vain heathenish customs fashions and traditions that hath been set up by the will and pride of man contrary to the Scriptures and out of the fear of God and for keeping Christs Command Hath not this been the cause why we have been hated persecuted imprisoned slandered murthered and all manner of evil done unto us because we are not of this world even as he is not of this world but hath chosen us out of the world to bear testimony against the deeds thereof that they are evil Therefore try now and throughly examine the ground and reason of all the hatred evil-speaking and dealing that hath been against us And in moderation and the fear of God without prejudice see wherein our practice is not agreeable with the Scriptures and let not your minds be any longer blinded through an evil heart of unbelief but let the long-suffering of our God lead you to repentance And not by resisting his Spirit to hardness of heart and his righteous judgments overtake you and there be no remedy The 22d of the last Month 1659 JOHN COLLENS LONDON Printed by M. I. for Robert Wilson at the sign of the black-spread-Eagle in Martins l'Grand 1660.
A MESSAGE FROM THE Spirit of the Lord To the People called ANABAPTISTS AND To the rest of the Sects who are scattered up and down these Nations and in the ARMY that they may read and consider why the Lords Controversie is against them and that they may understand what the Lords Purpose is concerning them HOW is my bowels filled with grief and my heart compassed about with sorrow Wo is me for you I am even undone for your sakes who despise reproof and reject the counsel of the Holy One Surely you are a rebellious house and a gain-saying people saith the Lord All the day long have I stretched out my hands unto you and visited you in loving kindness and called upon you to return but you have stopped your ears hardened your hearts against me saith the Lord You have despised my Messengers and set at nought those who have been sent unto you and have not regarded my Word How many of my servants have been as a Sign a by-word and as a proverb and a reproach amongst you And you have not considered the evil day that is to come upon all the Inhabitants of the Earth Why had you not seen Why had you not beheld my goings out in my Servants in this day even amongst all the Sons of men How have I made them to bear the iniquities of this Nation and have suffered the Rulers thereof to afflict them even from day to day and from time to time yet have they not ceased to warn this Nation in their Towns and Villages in their Markets and in their Streets in their Goals and in their Assemblies How many of my Servants have dyed in prison and you have not visited them even for the Word of God and for the Testimony of Jesus even the exercise of their pure consciences These things have not been done in a corner but in the sight of the Sun before your eyes and you have not laid it to heart but ready to add affliction to their Bonds and to join your hands with their persecutors in your Bookes and Pamphlets in your preachings and pretended prayers and in your places of Justice and you have strengthened the hands of the Wicked and persecuted slandered reproached my Servants Wherefore thus saith the Lord I am now arisen in jealousie even for the meek of the earth I will be avenged of my adversaries and plead the cause of my despised remnant even by sword and by fire wil I plead with my enemies I wil overturn their counsels and wil blow upon their whole strength and they shall not be But as for your parts you have had a day and a price put into your hands but had not hearts to use it you forgot me saith the Lord and did not remember the cause of the innocent but every one sought his own honor and his own advantage and forgot me and the cause of my people Therefore did I cause your Sun to set at noon even in the midst of your day and did deliver you up into the hands of your enemies even without a Sword or a Spear but by my own might and power that you might know that I am God and that I can do whatsoever I will in the Kingdoms of men Look back now see if your Fathers could ever remember or the generations that are past could ever declare that the Lord did greater wonders or that my Arm hath brought stranger things to pass then your eyes have seen your ears have heard But will all this awake you Will all this make you to consider Why do you not break off your sins by repentance and turn unto me saith the Lord that I may heal your backslidings and wash away your sins What advantage is it unto you that you set your selves against me and devise mischief against my chosen What do you reap unto your selves to make peace with your enemies to destroy my Heritage Surely this people have forgotten me and they trust unto an arm of flesh and a number of men and their own fear overcomes them Can you not look back call to your remembrance the former dayes how I was with you in the day of distress how I girded you with strength and made you a terror to your enemies even to them unto whom now you are become servants And why is all this come to pass Because you vowed a vow unto me in your distress in that day when many enemies had compassed you about from whom I delivered you but you forgot the vow the promise that you had made and thought not upon my Cause and the Cause of my people but rejoiced and sate down in the spoil of your enemies and corrupted your selves with those things until your hearts became fat and you fill'd and corrupted with all the abominations of them which were cast out before you so that no deliverance was wrought in the earth but like treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously and so your reward must be according to your works And now what is man that you should trust in him or the sons of men that you should regard them and forget me saith the Lord Yet once more return return unto me that I may once more build you up and not pluck you down Humble your selves before me and consider of your backslidings Consider that ye have forgotten me and trusted to lying vanities and slight not the day of your visitation neither despise my Messengers nor reproach my Servants for he that despiseth them despiseth me for they are as deare unto me as the apple of mine eye whosoever riseth up against them shall be confounded but he that blesseth them shall be blessed because they have chosen me to be their feare and they have not sought themselves nor defiled themselves with the World nor its vanities nor its fading and perishing glory but have walked before me with an upright heart in the midst of a perverse generation amongst whom they have been as sheep for the slaughter and have been killed even all the day long who have pleaded their cause or who have stood up in their defence But even all people all professors and all powers have combined together to root out their Name and to blot out their memorial from the earth had not my power upheld them and my own Arm made bare for their deliverance How often had they been devoured by the teeth of their adversaries and by the jaws of their cruel oppressing enemies had not I arisen for them and put my hook into the nose and my brâ—dle into the teeth of their enemies and turned them backwards confounded their enterprises overturned Rulers and Powers and Armies yea reproved Kings for their sakes And this let it be known unto you He that blesseth them shall be blessed but he that curseth them shall not prosper For for their sakes is all this come to pass because I will make them the oy of many nations