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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51402	To the supream authoritie (under God) of the common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland the commons in Parliament assembled / the true and faithfull testimony of William Morris, a late member of the army in Ireland.	Morris, William, member of the army in Ireland.	1659 (1659)	Wing M2813; ESTC R13520	8,390	14

evil dealing with them your welfare or your ruine doth undoubtedly depend for the Tabernacle of the Lord of hosts is with them the Kingdom of his Son is exalted in them his power and glory is manifested to them the shout of a mighty King is among them and all their enemies shall fall before them Wherefore beware you undertake not to defend the hirelings in their opinions imaginations or practices touching the worship of God by your authority from the examinations and tryals of others who are or may be moved of the Lord to try their spirits and Doctrins for the true worshipers of the true God did never appeal to any Humane Authority to defend them in their worship from the words of gain-sayers nor never will but were alwayes ready by sound Doctrines not by prisons stocking and whipping to exhort convince and silence such as did oppose themselves And herein the late Tyranical and conscience-oppressing Rulers have much exceeded the crueltie of the Jewes for although the Ministers of Christ whose manner it was to go into the Synagogues on the Sabbath dayes and reason from the Scriptures perswading the things concerning the Kingdom of God as his Ministers do in these days were sometimes haled out and beaten and brought before Rulers who in their wills put them in prison sometimes a day or two or three and then let them depart yet we never read that chief Authority or Rulers either of the Jewes or Romans did ever so much aggravate their sin or harden themselves against the Lord and against his truth as to make a Law to defend their teachers from the words of Christs Disciples either within or without the Synagogues but this Apostatizing and unbelieving generation have by a cruelly executed Law upon pain of long imprisonment fines and grievous punishments of the body attempted to defend their publique hirelings and soul devouring teachers from the words of Christs Ministers who are sent of him to try their spirits and manifest their deceit and that neither in their publike places nor in their going or returning to nor from them the hireling must be spoken to O high presumption against the Lord as if they intended to to limit and circumscribe the spirit and power of the holy One within the bounds of their Arbitrary dictates as if their Lawes could prevent the wind from blowing or their commands with hold the day from breaking or their decrees obscure the Son from shining or their power withstand the flowing of the Ocean and not be overwhelmed in the vain attempt Beware also that you compell not any by your Lawes to pay their tythes or other considerations towards the maintenance of the common hirelings who do deny them and their Doctrines but if any sort of people in the Nations will voluntarily make choice such to be their leaders it is but just upon grounds of common equitie that those who follow blind guides at their own peril should also maintain them at their own charges And so break ye the bonds of the late oppressing taskmasters and set at liberty those who for several years by-past have suffered cruel bondage besides the spoiling of their goods and have not loved their lives unto the death but given up all for conscience sake rather then betray their testimony and deny the second Priesthood Christ Jesus the everlasting high-Priest who was not made by the Law of a carnal commandment but by the power of an endless life by whose coming the first Priesthood that took Tythes was changed and the Law that gave Tythe as well as that which required sacrifice of burnt-offerings abolished as Heb. 7. nor can they give any part of the creatures whereof the Lord hath made them Stewards towards the maintaining and upholding such a Minister which Christ hath never sent And think it not sufficient that the Saints have liberty to discent from and deny the false and will worship of the common hirelings and yet must be compelled by Law to give them maintennance or suffer spoiling for it were as high iniquitie in the sight of God to cause the Saints to suffer because they cannot give their goods as sacrifice to the Idol as to cause them suffer because they cannot bow and worship and it were no losse cruelty to binde them to the one then to the other And therefore as ever you would be found Innocent before the Lord and have the work of God to prosper in your hands or you be prosperous in your undertakings forbear imposing tythes upon any people in the Nations against their consciences or any other Taxes upon his faithful ones towards the maintenance of the hired teachers For this I have received of the Lord and it is my faithful Testimony to you in the eternal word of truth that shall stand for ever 1. That no true Ministers of the true Christ did ever yet take tythes for Preaching nor never will 2. That no true Ministers of the true Christ did ever yet demand or crave a settled maintenance from the chief Authority of any Nation for Preaching nor never will 3. That no true Ministers of the true Christ did over yet accept of muchless compell a setled maintenance for Preaching from such as did deny them and their Doctrine nor never will 4. That no true Ministers of the true Christ did ever yet petition the authority of any Nation to be defended in their doctrines or practices concerning the worship of God by a Humane Law from the gain sayings of others nor never will 5. That no true Ministers of the true Christ did ever cause men or women to be persecuted imprisoned stocked and shamefully entreated for speaking to them in their meetings or asking them questions nor never will And therefore if any sort of people whatsoever they are called whether Presbyterians Independants Baptists or Quakers do come unto you and tell you they are Ministers of Christ and demand of you a setled maintenance for Gospel Preaching I do affirm from the Lord they are to be denyed as false witnesses and no true Ministers of the true Christ For those who are truely sent of him they neither come to the powers of the earth for maintenance nor a probation but do approve themselves to that of God in every conscience and the Gospel doth maintain them They covet no mans gold nor silver nor raiment but freely as they have received of the Lord they freely give unto such Christ faith He that receiveth you receiveth me and he that dispiseth you dispiseth me and he that despiseth me dispiseth him that sent me And when they come to a City or a Town enquire who is worthy and there abide and eat such things as are set before them for the work-man is worthy of his meat and if any do deny them and their doctrine shake off their feet as a witness against them Christ further tels them he sends them forth as Lambs amongst wolves and that they shall be brought before Rulers

TO THE Supream Authoritie VNDER GOD OF THE COMMON-WEALTH Of England Scotland and Ireland THE COMMONS in PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED The true and faithfull Testimony of William Morris a late Member of the Army in IRELAND When the wicked rise men hide themselves but when they perish the righteous increase The fear of the Lord prolongeth dayes but the years of the wicked shall be shortened The memory of the just is blessed but the name of the wicked shall rot LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. To the supream authority under God of the Common-Wealth of England Scotland and Ireland the Commons assemblies in Parliament THe Lord Almighty whose Name is Holy whose power no creature is able to resist hath heard the cry of the afflicted and the cruelly oppressed Innocent for his names sake he hath beheld and hath not ceased turning and overturning persons and powers until he hath once more returned the desperate forlorn and sinking concernments of all the Godly in the Nations into your bosoms their tossed tumbled torn and tottering intrest is once more imported into your harbour And indeed the revival of your prestine Authority begins to appear like the resurrection of the just before whom all the contrary is and must be judged and condemned and this is seen and felt even by outward observation already in Ireland O how do the scandalous and persecuting Magistrates the greedy hirelings and blind-guides the prophane and blood-thirsty people even all the cursed bryars thorns and brambles of all sorts which of late have sprung up and flourished under the shadow of Henry Cromwell these four years by-past in this Nation now begin to droop to hang the head and wither as if their end which is to be burnt were near at hand And now that the Lord hath once more put a price into your hands and given you another precious oppertunity wherby you may be more serviceable then ever to the interest of his beloved Son who is come forth a light into the World and after a long and dark night of Apostacie hath arisen and is arising and coming in thousands of his saints as it is written of him who are gathered gathering and to be gathered in this the day of his glorious appearance out of the Aegyptian bondage of the mercenary hirelings and soul-starving pastors out of all opinions forms and practises professing or prophane into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God and into the unity of the eternal spirit that therein they might have fellowship with the Father and the Son Beware that you turn not the edge of your authority against his Royal seed who saith touch not mine annointed and do my Prophets no harm yea those that touch them touch the apple of his own eye and Kings hath he rebuked for their sakes and brought down the mighty before them And as in former ages and Generations so in this present hath his mighty arm been stretched out whereby he hath wrought deliverance for his chosen and redeemed his heritage and the loftinesse of man hath he bowed down who took pleasure in unrighteousnesse in transgressing and lying against the Lord and departing from the way of God fasting for strife and debate and that they might smite with the fist of wickednesse conceiving and uttering from the heart words of deceit and falshood yet covering all over with pretence of reformation and settlement until judgement was turned away backward justice stood afar off truth was fallen in the streets and equity could not enter for the wicked were set in high places the proud were called happie the greedy hirelings and soul devouring blind guides the plundering parish Priests exalted against the Lord and against his truth and upheld in their false Doctrines and cruel oppressions b a Law And he that reproved in the gate was hated and he that spake uprightly was abhorred and he that departed from inequity was made a prey and many of the faithful in the Nations for their Testimony against the crying atominations of the times and for tender conscience sake towards God were thrust into prisons holes and corners and otherwise persecuted and cruelly intreated and this was the true state of the-case until the oppression of the innocent and the cry of iniquity was exceeding great and the Lord harkened and heard it and looking down from the habitation of his holinesse and his glory he saw it and it greatly displeased him and his zeal and his strength and the sounding of his bowels and his mercies towards them were not restrained and after long waiting and often warning and things growing worse and worse at last his wrath break forth and there was no remedy and his purpose he established and his decree was sealed that although that Ruler had been as the Signet upon his right hand yet would he pluck him off and rend the goverment from him and from his house as formerly he did the government of his people from Saul when he departed from him and so by his own right Arm made way for you by overturning him that neither Argument nor Arts nor Arms could overcome And now seeing it is not by your might nor by your power but by the wonder-working hand of God alone you are restored Be you warned from the Lord God Almighty that you take heed of drinking in the murderous Cain-like spirit of the greedy and mercenary hirelings who teach for hire and Divine for sums of mony tythes and other customes established by the Pope whose God is their belly whose glory is their shame who mind earthly things whose sacrifice the Lord abhorreth and it is an abomination to him I say take heed of drinking in that spirit for it is the wine of fornication which they will be presenting to you in a golden cup of glorious and shining pretences to external holiness formality and lip Religion but it is the cup of the Whores ebomination wherewith the Princes and Rulers of the earth earth have been made drunk in all ages to this very day by that persecuting generation who have made themselves even drunk with the blood and rich spoil of Saints And as ever you expect the presence of the Lord with you or his blessing upon your Government beware that ye neither do nor cause nor consent to any act of crueltie against any sort of people in the Nations who have hungering and breathing desires after the clearest and most manifest enjoyments of Jesus Christ and who are come to see the deceit of the hirelings and blind guides and for tender conscience sake cannot pay towards their maintainance And especially the Lords most tenderly affected and beloved friends the seed of faithful Abraham according to the spirit who greatly fear and tremble at his powerful word and are by the scorners of this generation called Quakers but know you this assuredly that amongst those people your greatest and most powerful interest truly stands and upon your well or