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A86656	A word from the north, sounded into the south, heard, and received of many. Jesus Christ the Son of God, which is the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world; and all that receive this light, and believe in this light, and are obedient to this light, they receive power and do become the sons of God. And as I have heard, so I have and do see in the true light, and am bold to give forth my testimonie that it is true, and there is no other way to salvation but by it. And therefore do I warn all people, and thee, O Kent, with the citie of Canterbury, and town of Maidstone, and all thy magistrates in you all, betimes to consider and take heed that none of you be anie longer enemies to it and its ministers, lest you be found fighters against God. Thomas Howsegoe.	Howsegoe, Thomas.	1657 (1657)	Wing H3197; Thomason E923_2; ESTC R207540	15,258	22

who said to Christ we have eat and drunk in thy presence and preached of thee in the Streets and in thy Name done great things which went far yet said Christ to them Depart ye workers of Iniquity I never knew you Matt. 7.22.23 And here you are all that hate the light and denyes the teaching of it and hates the Messengers and Messengers of it who are sent to you of the Lord to bear vvitness of the true Light vvhich enlightneth every man that cometh into the vvorld to them many of you say Depart out of our Coasts our Cities and Towns we desire not the knowledge of this vvay and some of them you stock whip and imprison by the which you are made manifest of what generation you are And this I declare from the Lord unto you all whatever you be high or low rich or poor vvho are Enemies in your minds to the light of Christ and the vvitnesses of it and refuse by it to be ordered in all your whole lives and conversations to the glory of our God There vvil a day come upon you in the which he shall say Depart depart from me and mine ye vvorkers of Iniquity I knovv you not and then a sad lamentation of hovvling and bitterness wil be upon you and vvo and misery shall be your portion for ever Therefore novv vvhile you have time prize it now is the day of your visitation and many large declarations hath been of late sent forth amongst you in this Nation by which you shall be left without excuse for his sound is gone forth throughout the earth have ye not all heard and have not many been convinced by the Light and that your Teacher is nigh you and the vvitness for God is within you and by it you have been often judged and condemned for your evil deeds and hard speeches done and spoken maliciously against the innocent servants of the Lord But how few among you have received and believed the vvitnesses for God and have felt the strong Arm of the Lord in power to pluck you as brands out of the Fire Are ye not yet for the greatest part both Priests Professors people under all your names and titles whatever called opposing and resisting the spirit of the living God when it moves in you and strives with you or speaks in any sent of the Lord unto you for the eternal good of your poor souls which is of more vvorth then all the vvorld even as your fathers have done so do ye and therein have declared your selves enemies to God and his Ministers and judged your selves unworthy of eternal life Oh Nation oh people repent repent betimes and break off from the evil of all your vvayes and doings that have been acted against the Lord his vvitness within you and his servants sent amongst you and if you will return return indeed to the Lord and forsake all thy abominations by which the seed of God hath long been oppressed and groans and cryes for deliverance from under Pharoahs cruel bondage the cryes of the which seed the Lord hath heard and hath brought forth at this day in thousands of his tender Lambs who are redeemed from off the earth to praise and glorifie his holy Name for evermore who stand living Witnesses for the living God of power this day in this and many other Nations who have not loved their lives but given them to death for the testimony of Jesus who hath purchased them to be to himself a peculiar people out of Kindreds Tongues and Nations And many more hath our God with his eternal Love looked upon and his living pure light shined into who stand single in their souls and in the light of Christ do wait for the pure living manifestation of the whole counsel and revelation of the will of God in every thing what he vvil have them to do and suffer for his Names sake who through Grace received do witness and in the light of Christ do see and testifie against the vvorld its vvickedness its vvayes vvords vvorships vvorks customs fashions and ungodly conversations and abominable uncleannesses thereof and dare not have any fellowship with the unfruitful vvorks or vvorkers of darkness but as moved of the Lord are made to reprove them plainly Praises praises be to our God for evermore And now all people in love to your souls which is more vvorth then all the vvorld do I speak and do you warn and beseech to come off and forsake all your false Teachers and Hirelings who vvalk not in nor by the Light of Christ but are in Cains way and Korahs vvay and Balaams vvay who deny to be ordered and guided by the Light of Christ in their own particular and are Enemies to those that vvalk in it that vvil not receive it themselves nor enter the Kingdom of Heaven themselves nor suffer others to enter I say once more Come off come away from off all those hard Mountains of leanness where no pure Waters are and come down to the true teacher Christ the Light which is nigh you all in you all which if you hear obey vvil lead you into the good Land the fruitful Land where fresh Springs are alwaies open where no want or barrenness is it is to him I exhort you all to come which will tell you truly all that ever you have done that ever you have been and let you see your secret sins and convince you of them and bring you to condemnation for them and purifie and cleanse you from them and to all you that abide in him and look for him he shall appear the second time without sin unto salvation But for all you who will not own him here before men he shall you deny before his Father which is in Heaven And so while you have time prise it before that hour come upon you in which time shall be no more and then repentance shall be hid from your eyes and the day of your visitation be over-past Now is your day prise it and receive the counsel of your friend called T. H. Oh County Oh People hear counsel in time O Kent Kent hear the Word of the Lord unto thee Thou art full thou art full thou art increased in Goods thou art waxed wanton before me saith the Lord thou hast kicked with the heel thou hast given me the back but the face thou hast turned away thy iniquities are many the sins of Sod●m are found in thee pride idleness and fulness of bread but the cry of the needy in thee is not heard thou hast broken the Covenants and solemn Promises made unto me in the day of thy calamity and sore troubles when the Sword was within thy borders and Wars within thy Gates Thou wast less indeed in the fire in the fornace then many other Shires and Counties not so much blood was shed in thee not so much plunder and burnings done in thee but thou hast forgotten the hand by which thou wast smitten and

hast not minded him whose Arm was stretched over thee to save even me saith the Lord thou hast forgotten and forsaken who delivered thee for my own Names sake who hath now given thee peace and sent thee plenty in thy dwellings and thou hast taken my Corn and my Cattel in excess to gluttony my Wine and my Drink to drunkenness my Wool and my Flax to satisfie thy lusts thy pride and lasciviousness worse then the Heathen herein thou hast exceeded many other Counties and Shires even as thou hast exceeded them in my mercies And these are thy Fruits with many other abominations committed in thee O Kent and yet thou drawest near to me with thy lips as a people use to do and thou hast gotten many in thee that make a profession and talk of me in words saith the Lord and they have gotten them several forms and likeness of me and my worship and my truth even as they imagine in their carnal minds and fallen wisdom and so they cry Lo here lo there is Christ Babel confused in their Languages rejecting the Corner-Stone and builds not upon the Rock of Ages against which the powers of hell and death shall not prevail My people perish for want of knowledge saith the Lord they feed on Wind they eat on that which dyes of it self they know not the day of my power and feel not my power but saith the Lord O professors where is the power for my Kingdom stands not in words for then you might all have it it is easie to get words you have all words but it stands in power and now saith the Lord I will see the power of you all for mine is the Kingdom and the Power and my people are a willing people in the day of my power and they are led by my fpirit and power and my Worship is in the spirit and in the truth my truth is but one in all my spirit my light my truth leads into oneness singleness pureness one heart one soul one faith one Lord one baptism my Spirit my Truth my Son makes free indeed sits a top of all the world over the world all its pollutions all its glories profits pleasures vanities my spirit helpeth infirmities and leads into all truth into nothing but truth reproves the world of sin of righteousness and of judgement the life of my spirit consisteth not in words in visible carnal perishing things it s not meat nor drink but righteousness and peace and joy within that is it which helps with sighs and groans that cannot be uttered And now all professors and people with the light of Christ the Candle of the Lord let all your hearts be searched and the secret thoughts and imaginations be brought to light for that will and shall make you all manifest what you are and where your power is and with what you worship me saith the Lord for now all vails and coverings shall be pulled off from all your faces and wo to those that are covered with a covering but not with my spirit saith the Lord And wo to all you professors and people that say you know me and worship me and yet by your works deny me saith the Lord striving who shall be greatest among you and in your hearts and habits out of my fear and in the vanities lusts profits pleasures honors places and worldly preferments seeking to establish your selves posteritie in the midst of the earth build make great your own houses but the house of God lyeth wast not minding the poor and needy within you nor those honest simple hearted ones who were ever found faithful to that cause and trust committed unto them vvith you who freely left all ventured all Estates Wives Children yea and their own lives in the high places of the field for no other end but that they might enjoy free true pure libertie to worship me saith the Lord in purity as I have promised to reveal and make known unto them by my spirit of truth without traditions or inventions of carnal man and for the preserving and restoring that just and good Laws of God written in his To do unto others as they would be done unto upon which all the Laws of man should be grounded not the wills of men established for a Law But they see and feel by sad experience otherwise for now many of them are thrown into Holes and Prisons in many places in this Nation and some in this County because they cannot submit unto the wills and traditions and inventions of fallen man and now all manner of profaneness as Drunkards Swearers Riotous c. find more favor of many or most of the povvers of this Nation then my poor innocent harmless Saints saith the Lord who fear me and tremble at my word and many of them beaten reproached and shamefully abused by this filthy ungodly prophane generation and some Magistrates so called have justified their beastly actions by their beholding of them who did it without reproof yea and in thee O Kent some violence prisonning and whipping hath been acted against them for their true and faithful obedience unto me in what I commanded them and still the actions of violence and oppression are done upon some of them who cannot in their consciences submit to the will of unjust and unreasonable men who fear not me And you oh professors in the County who are intrusted with Power and Authority have you not seen and known these things and yet kept silence to my Witness within you do I speak which vvill not lye you have not remembred the afflictions of my innocent Josephs and now saith the Lord I will arise and plead their cause my self in truth in righteousness and in judgement and I will support them with my strength to suffer and bear patiently and vvill clear up their innnocency and they shall give me the glory but shame and confusion shall hasten upon the top of mine and their Enemies for ever And as in this vvhole Nation so these iniquities are found in thee O Kent which is none of thy least abominations in my sight saith the Lord The Heads in thee judge for rewards and the Priests in thee teach for hire and thy Prophets prophesie for money and yet thou vvilt lean upon me saith the Lord and thou hast given me many vvords and promises of reforming these things saith the Lord but thou art deceitful and thou hast engaged and vowed in my presence against them and all other Popish Innovations but thou hast not kept them and as yet I have nothing but thy back I have not thy face and yet thou talkest of me and saist Is not the Lord amongst us though all these abominations are found in thee But for these things as with the Nations so will I plead with thee oh Kent and except thou repent and turn unto me saith the Lord and forsake these thy abominable things in my sight ye professors Priests and people I will

as Samaria the elder Sodom the yonger yet thou art become worse then thy elder Sister Samaria and art become more brutish and beastly then many of the Heathen thou art grown haughty and high minded r●●sting truth with impudencie refusing to hear the counsel of th● Lord from the mouth of his Messengers which would deal pl●●nly and faithfully with thee and shew thee all thy abominations but thou must have them to teach thee that will speak pleasing things unto thee and daub thee with untempered morter and healthy wounds slightly and lay Pillows under thee that thou mayestly down softly but wo to you that live at ease you careless Daughters that are at ease and to you Pastors that are at ease and thou O Babylon that art at ease thy Inhabitants will I disquiet saith the Lord Moah hath been at ease from his youth wo to the Heathen that are at ease wo wo to all you that have slain the Witnesse in the streets now grow merry on the earth over the Witness the Lord God of Power will raise to life his own Witness his true faithful Witness Rev 1.5 Jesus Christ the Light of the world he is the faithful Witness and by him all shall be judged he will call forth his own Witness in you all and he will be a swift witness against all that do wickedly against all you scorners haters despisers of them that fear the Lord you proud and lofty ones I warn you all betimes Come down to the Witness of God in you all which will tell you that you should not live in your pride nor lusts nor pleasures for he that is there is dead while he lives So I warn you all again Take heed you go not from it but hear its voice do nothing which he reproves testifies against when any from the Lord speaks to the raising of him in you be stil let the Witness stand on his feet hear his testimony I warn you all that the enemy of your eternal peace may he discovered and with the breath of his mouth and brightness of his coming utterly destroyed that so the life of the Just by you may be witnessed which is by faith in the Son of God the Light it 's not in words and shadows as Clouds without rain but in life and power with joy and peace in the Holy Ghost So all of you while you have time prise it and mind the light of Christ in you all by it to be ordered in every thing that your lives may preach forth holiness in all manner of conversation which is the desire of him who is a friend to truth and to some of you known by the name of T. H. To those called Magistrates and Justices in the County of Kent a warning that you shed no innocent blood To Michael Leusey High Sheriff of the County with those in present Power and Authority THis is the Word of the Lord God of life and power to you all who is over you all blessed for evermore I am he by whom Kings reign and Governors make Decrees who searcheth all hearts and knoweth all secrets and will do righteously and reward all according to their works and doings I am he that respecteth no mans person but every where those that fear me and work righteousness shall be accepted Yea I am he saith the Lord who hath preserved and defended many of you when the Sword was drawn and drunk much blood in your Land and in your County and you have seen my strong Arm which is mighty to save and deliver in the day of battel and have brought to nought the plottings and conspiracies of mine and your Enemies to this day And you are preserved to this day and intrusted with my power and in places of Government in this County not to please your selvs not to seek your selvs but in all things him who hath kept and preserved and intrusted you in his service and for me saith the Lord to govern and on me to wait pure wisdom and counsel to receive all things to do and order to the praise and glory of my Name who hath the whole power and there is no other with me nor like unto me saith the Lord who kills and makes alive throweth down one and exalteth whom I please Therefore O ye Powers of the earth fear before me continuallie and tremble at my word which is a sword and a fire that will devour all bryars and thorns yea all that stand against it but it is good to all that walk uprightly yea my Word is nigh unto you I have placed a measure of my self my eternal Witness that wil not consent to any evil in your consciences it is that vvil that shall accuse you when you do evil and excuse you when you are righteously justly singly uprightly And this my word is light in you all and doth make manifest all your deeds of darkness and doth not spare but reproveth plainly it 's that which searcheth the heart and tryeth the reins and knoweth all your thoughts I am he saith the Lord stand in awe before me And this is my word now to you all that you mind my eternal Witness placed in the midst of you and that to it you keep at all times in all places and by it to be ordered in all you do in every thing committed to your trust that you never depart from it but in its power you alwaies stand that the unruly and disobedient by it in you all may be brought low and your own wils denyed in every thing that you begin at home to lay the yoke upon the unruly and the sword upon the transgressor to cut him out out of the Land that it may be cleansed from the evil doer in your own particular that so my wil which is pure being done in you and by you and my Law which is undefiled being written in your hearts and you all in my fear abide waiting in the light of Christ which hath shined into your own souls and shewn you the Enemy there and past ●udgement on him there you in that abiding wil be compleatly furnished with my wisdom saith the Lord to govern and rule over men in righteousness and so you wil all become a terror to the evil doer at home abroad at all times in all seasons but a praise and incouragement to them that do wel and then the end for which I the Lord have ordained Magistrates to rule wil by you in your places be truly accomplished and then shall the righteous in you rejoice and that wicked shal be brought to shame then shal you be to the just as the rain to the Land new sown then shal the righteous in the County praise my Name for you and I wil establish you in peace who makes peace and none can make war and exalt you above all your enemies at home and abroad but if from my teachings my Witness in the midst of you ye

turn and his voice wil not hear and obey then my wil by you wil be denied your ovvn vvils vvhich are corrupted vvil be done and then I make vvar and none can make peace Novv therefore O ye men of place and authoritie in that Nation and Countie I am moved of the Lord to vvarn you all to take heed what you do in all things committed to your power and trust that you therein be found faithful as the Lords Stevvards and that none of you go beyond your power nor yet from the true Povver the Light of Christ in all your consciences vvhich vvil shevv you if you keep to it hovv and vvhen to give Caesar his due and God his the conscience is the Lords he rules there that must be kept single holie for him I vvarn you Meddle not vvith them that cannot bovv to the vvils of any but God alone touch not Gods annointed harm not his innocent Lambs vvho are as the apple of his eie vvho dare not do their ovvn vvils nor please themselves but in all things him in him all power is and for him at this day stand single and rather suffer the loss of all their outword injoyments then to sin against their God by doing any thing contrarie to the Witness of God within and the Scriptures recorded without I am free to tell you it is a good report of you I mean many of you in thi Countie vvho have not appeared forward as yet to shed innocent blood nor to restrain and imprison the Messengers and Ministers of Christ sent amongst us and if you keep faithful to the Witness of God in your consciences you vvil never do it whatever it cost you And for such of you as are and have been friendlie to truth and the declarers of it I can safely tel you who are single and upright in what you do you do and shal know that your rewarder is nigh you with the Lord our God and for any who are enemies to us and the truth of our God their rage shal he restrain and we shal be enabled with patience and long-suffering to bear his vvil and good pleasure and in the midst of all our cruelties to pray our Father to forgive them they know not what they do Also I desire and warn you all in Authoritie to take heed that you do not lend your ear to the Priests of this Countie that preach for hire and divine for monie and if it be not put into their mouths they prepare war against their Neighbor for that generation the Scriptures of truth declare to be bloodie they smote the Prophets they cried crucifie the Son of God and said he was worthy to die that generation in these daies are little behind them their Fathers eat the Grapes and their teeth are on edge they go so fast as they durst and wait for further power Oh ye Power of the Earth take heed what ye do in delivering the innocent servants of God into their hands for the best of their mercies and cruelties as many prisons in this Nation if not some in this Countie wil witness where many of the servants of the Lord have laine many months because they cannot in their consciences pay them as they call it tithes that idle antichristian beggarlie Rudiment which none of the Ministers of Christ do or durst own or compel the Saints unto but did rather labour with their hands then make their Gospel chargeable to any who said they had freely received and did freelie give and so the Ministers of Christ do now Paul said 1 Cor. 9.14 That God had ordained that they which preach the Gospel shall live of the Gospel Therefore take heed you Powers that you do not go beyond your Power to compel any to pay Tithes to maintain a Gospel Ministrie when God hath ordained that they were to live of the Gospel and should live of the Gospel and not by the Law for if you do compel any to that thing I declare unto you all you are Enemies to God and his children and do inasmuch as in you lieth cause them to disobey the Ordinance of God And you may read that tithes to be paid to the first Priesthood the Levitical Priesthood which was after the Order of Aaron not of Christ the second Priesthood the everlasting offering so all that pay tithes that take tithes are of the first Priesthood they denie the second to be come and the Priesthood to be changed and the Law changed Therefore consider what you do all of you lest you resist the Povver God is the Povver vvhat he hath ordained stands vvith povver and his Gospel hath in it a povver and he that resisteth the povver resisteth the ordinrnce of God and all such shal bring upon themselves judgement So all that vvil be out of fear of the Povver do vvel and so thou shalt have praise o● the same but he that doth evil is under the povver and the Svvord is not placed there for naught but vvil take vengeance on them that do evill vvithout respect of persons Let none deceive you vvith their vain vvords and flattering speeches vvho seeks not the good of your souls but their own bellies and now do the same things the Prelates and Priests did before them by vvhose means much innocent blood hath been shed in these Nations So to that of God in all your consciences I have and do speak which is the witness for God and wil not deal deceitfully with you but wil speak the truth if you wil hear it to all of you and if anie now shal refuse to hear its voice and wil not receive its testimonie which is truth there wil come a day in which the Lord wil have his everlasting witness come forth and if that condemn he is greater so in the mouth of two Witnesses all shal be confirmed therefore now hear and be warned everie one of you and do nothing in your own wils but wait in the pure light of Christ and by it be directed and ordered at all times in all things quench not its motions stay not behinde it neither go before it for if you do you shal be judged and condemned by it And blessed are all those that love the light and walk in the Light and believe in the Light and become obedient children to the Light such have their part in the first Resurrection and over them the second death shal have no power And to so manie as receive him and believe in him and obey him of him they receive power and are become the sons of God But all that denie him before men he wil denie them before his Father which is in heaven So in love to all your souls which are more worth then all the world then all your honor then all your riches I warn you all to minde the light of Christ in you all the witness for God by it to be ordered in everie thing word and work believe it become children of it and if you walk in the light as he is in the light you have fellowship with him and his Father and by his blood you are all purged from all sin but if you denie the light of Christ and wil not obey its teachings by it you shall be eternally condemned and then wo and condemnation shall be your portion for ever This is the Word of the Lord God unto you all whether you heare or forbeare declared and given forth by him who is a friend to all your souls and seeks the redemption of the seed out of bondage and am known to manie of you by the name of Thomas Howseyor THE END