People all full of frailty then how canst thou be a teacher and art but equal to other men in sin and sensuallity it is the Sheerds of Gods free mercy that redeemeth thee as well as others What is the University more then any other place your Latine tongue is is but an empty thing it must be onely the Divine power that keepeth thy soul alive and causeth thee and me to live which is above any external power neither can godliness be learned it is from the Ministerial power of Christ and from the gift of God and not by the hearing of faith but thou must have a personal faith of thine own and to prove thy self and lay open thy self to the Church and let thy moderation be known to God and openly to the people and pray for one another to Christ thy Minister for by him we have boldness to the Throne of grace and are made capable of his Ministery which cannot be done by any fleshly Priest which is but as all other men though he may smooth up the people as if he were the Minister of God and so commit Blasphemy against the holy Ghost taking away Christs Authority making themselves Pulpittians to tye up the consciences of such as follow them as if they had full power given them of God Ye Doctors and Ministers ye must fall some degrees worse then your Fathers the Bishops the light of the Lord shall so cleerly usher in that you shall be discovered and Christ shall be chiefe Speaker to his flock one Priest one People one Shepherd one Sheep of the elect Abraham called and sanctified by Christ and not by mens teaching For Mr. Speaker Doctor of tongues you may say What do we stand for a Cypher Yes for Christ is all our teacher and you Ministers lye under the vail as well as others Therefore Minister lay down thy false power and deceive the people no longer and know thy self as low as others and much inferiour to Christ Oh take not away his Divine Authority which properly belongeth to the Son of God Christ he preacheth continually to them that are neer and to them afar off he preacheth to every Kindred Tongue Language and Nation he saith My Sheep hear my voyce not your Sheep he saith My Disciples keep my sayings not your sayings For my part I accompt all you Pulpittians to be but false Christs yet I disparage not the gift of godliness in you but I adhere to any thing that is good in you Christ saith They shall come in my Name and decieve the People And truly ye Ministers and high Doctors must needs be the men for you call your selves the Ministers of God standing in the high place and alas ye are no more then lay-men that never were at Oxford and Cambridge you be men of infirmity as others be and therefore your power will fall and cannot stand O General O Parliament O People why do you commit error against God and his Christ to follow after fained lovers which are but Ministers of the letter and have not the gifts of healing neither are they sent for it is Christ that ministreth the gift to all keepeth all alive by a power from above and every person that is godly shall have a personal power in himself from Christ to stand upon his Feet without a Pulpit-preacher for man cannot preach of himself except he was sent of Christ saying Go or go forth as he said to his Disciples But now in our dayes God hath appeared to us by his Sonne and no other and Christ saith If I go from you I will send you the Comforter that shall teach you in all truth Object What shall he teach the Parsons Answ Yes as well as the People for Minister and People shall be but Sheep in his Fold for Christ is the high Priest his Lips shall preserve knowledge ye shall all know me from the greatest to the least there must be a personal knowing of God by faith as Abraham and Noah lived and walked with God and it was accounted to them for righteousness every degree from the Doctor to the People shall know God and stand upon their Feet without a Preacher whose breath is in their Nostrils silly Guides not able to stand of themselves neither can they Doctor up others but may go teach our Children of seven years old I am but a Fool to speak that which no man hath declared but I can have no rest for Sions sake nor give my self any rest until I see the work of God accomplished in the Earth which is the procreation of the Jews that shall come forth and stand upon their Feet Army Army O Arm of the Lord Almighty Army shall stand upon their Feet Ezekiel 37. which I suppose will be within four or five years after 1650. to the admiration of the World Ye Ministers and Doctors Definators ye would fain hold up your high places but truly your Temple must fall for Christ saith There shall not be one Stone left upon another that shall not be thrown down for your Worldly power will be at an end when Christ the great Shepherd shall call forth his Flock to stand upon their Feet and live without your Declarations when all men shall declare out of the gift and not by the letter to speak the things they have received of God and shall refuse your teachers that are not sent of God but be End-workers and Mony-merchants that shall be dissolved and cast out of the Temple as Mony-changers for God will set up a disciplying when your power lyeth low as Doctor Hill's Bones and we may say with the Prophet Ezekiel Blow Wind and shake the four quarters of the Earth to raise those dry Bones that have been very dry so long that they come up in the Valley of Jesus Christ for he shall sit to judge the Heathen round about Put in the Sickle the Harvest is ripe the Wine-press overfloweth multitudes multitudes shall usher in they shall be a willing People in the day of Gods power but all ye Doctors are so high and justitious that ye keep Christ off from his regal power and Authority therefore ye shall fall with reproach under Armegiddon Oh Arme Arme Arme of the Lord. Finally Doctor you stand in Christs place Man may speak out his judgement that another may answer and Christ he ministreth to all every truth must be proved affirmatively but not by one mans tongue and you shall be called to account by the grand Church for the Prophet John saith There shall be Lightning Thundering Voyces and Witnesses First the Light of the Lord appeares and shall break down the Constellations Secondly he will Thunder forth Justice Judgement and Equity in the Earth by a personal power of Saints under him The Apostle Peter tells you so that the Saints must judge the World and you the Angels of the Churches too Thirdly he will appear by many Voyces that shall give sentence and decide every truth
a Week and walk contrary to God in all the rest If ye keep a day keep it to me and keep every day as a Sabbath One reason is ye make the seventh day a Cloak for your sinne to use holiness for your own turn so did the Jews under the Law and Christ cut off their Sabbath and so he will yours so that you shall not insult over them nor they over you for saith he I hate your new Moons and your Sabbaths The Lords day should be a rest betwixt God and thy Conscience if Christ dwell in thee thy soul is full of light If ye keep Covenant with me I will be your resting-place and that is a Sabbath in thy Conscience Paul saith ye observe dayes and months I wonder who hath bewitched you Your way of holiness is as the witcharft of Endor subtilly to beguile men and cause them to swim in vain conceits and so to hold up your abominations by keeping so many Sabbath dayes once a week for your own turnes as the Jews did their seventh day and yet persecute Christ and therefore it is not for them nor us to observe daies for there is but one Sabbath and that is the Lord in whom we shall have rest and that is to reform our lives and live in all good conscience to walk in righteousness and that is the best Sabbath shewing the day of his resurrection by a newness of life And at the appearing of the Lords power the Jew and Gentiles Sabbath are out by a wonderful dividing of time called once a year so that I finde the whole year is the Lords Sabbath All the year you in me and I in you Thou shalt consecrate thy substance to the Lord which is the seventh from the creation called the seventh vial or valley of Jehosaphat under which the World shall come under judgement called the Sabbaths Vial which is that we now live under called the separate time that God will set apart and take to himself the great glory of Monarchy that now shall resume that name to themselves and therefore Priest thou must fall with the King and Lord of dishonor that the prophesie may be made out that you may say I am no more a Prophet but an Herds-man or keeper of Cattle I am but as other men no Priest no Minister no Minister then silence not the People FINIS The second PART OF D. Hils Funeral-Sermon WITH His Apellation to Priests and People By me Henry Hasselwood THere be four sorts of Definators that may be called the Witch of the world very seenal and subtil I call them not the Witch of Jezebel neither do I call them the Witch of Endor yet I call them the Witch of the earth in that they use their own authority and pretend fair things though foul in effect promoting themselves by skill and art making out the authority of the beast and so deceive the people Those are four in number yet not any of them shall remain in authority for the Witch shall be cut off out of the earth and all that make a lye and every abominable branch shall be found out The Witch of the world is very subtil and much deceiveth by flatteries and seenal Juglings to steal away the peoples appetite as to delude them with smoke or to puff them up with some vain ostentation subtil Sophisters winding themselves into the form of Christ deceiving the people denying the power of his resurrection preaching up themselves bewitching the world and deceive the people So much for the first Definators that call themselves Ministers of God and are not Brethren I would have every one live up to the teachings of God without second-hand-teachers and to walk up to that principle of grace put into them for spiritually we live under the divine power of the Son of God he is all our teacher to guide us in the way of truth it is not for man to do it David saith Renew in me a right spirit Psal 1â— Who knoweth the error of his life Who can teach but Christ alone Then let us stand in that liberty wherein he hath made us free And James saith Walk so that you may be judged by the law of liberty And Paul saith Prove every truth that is by witnesses So that no man can preach of himself but Christ doth preach all both neer and afar off by a singular power from God to teach us all things he saith I am the way walk in it follow my example but not the examples of men The Doctrine is from thence That all men and ministers are but learners and cannot teach any further then they walk by a good example The first Reason is It is not words but works of faith and piety which is a good example It is not for a man to say I am a Minister and yet but all words Look upon the good life and not upon the profession The second Reason is Men or Ministers have no lawful authority to teach for Christ and the holy Ghost inwardly teacheth and they are the two Witnesses by a law inserted in the conscience The third Reason is They cannot teach in that they cannot prove Ordination The fourth Reason is That every petty Priesthood must fall and stoop at Christs Ministery But some silly people may object Shall we lose our teachers better lose our Christ And so they dote upon a Ministery of flesh Was not Christ the Messiah a Minister ordained of God He teacheth and shall sit upon twelve thrones by a power and all men Ministers must come under his teaching and lay down their Crowns and the honourable men must stoop at his Scepter for he is the Minister of God and no other for we have had many Teachers yet none can lead us in the true way And having so great an high-Priest that is able to lead us in all truth he hath once entred into the Priestly Office and maketh intercession to God for us continually Then why should we lean upon the pettifogging Priests which must come down from their Pulpit-Thrones and set up Christ upon his throne For while your Power raigneth Christs power is crucified upon the cross and his truth suffereth violence But now he shall sit upon your thrones and judge the Whorish power by a seat of justice so ordained And until you all throw down and make Christ the full end and scope of all teaching your Temple will be divided for you must come all to the Law and Testimony which is Christ and the Spirit writ as a Law and Testimony in our consciences which are the two witness-bearers to prove every true Christian for this is a time dividing time I speak of a new Sabbath Christ in the conscience every day once a yeer continually I speak of a new Sabbath old things must pass away and the things that are old must change Brethren ye ought not to look so much upon feigned Teachers of the second hand feigned lovers and so
Fourthly he will appear by Witnesses which shall extinguish one mans tongue for the mouth of two or three witnesses shall be an establishment and the many Voyces shall swallow up your Ministerial Voyce These two witnesses shall have power in the dayes of their Prophesie to turn the waters into blood so often as they will that is to declare forth the bloody condition of blood-thirsty persons which you dare not do for losing your impropriated Parsonages These Witnesses shall have power to shut Heaven gates so often as they will that it rain not It is not meant the imperial Heaven of Heavens but it is meant they shall shut the gates of the heavenly and visible Kingdom here below that none shall enter in to raigne in that pure State but such as shall be approved Members of that glorious Jerusalem above These Witnesses shall have power to shut Heaven that iâ— rayne not that is twelve it shall not raigne in the dayes of their power but shall be finally swallowed up in the Victory of Christ it shall not raigne it and it it and it it and it it and it it and it it and it That is no outward power shall raign in the time of Christs power The first the first thing that shall not raigne is Earthly King and Grace The second thing that shall not raigne is Lord and Protector The third thing that shall not raigne is Power and Excellency of Man The fourth thing that shall not raigne is Worship and Honor. The fifth thing that shall not raign is Highness and Greatness of Men. The sixth thing that shall not raigne is Priest and Lawyer for Christ will sit upon the backs of all those and be exalted by the multitude of the people multitudes multitudes shall stand upon Angella Christ must raign by his Saints till he hath put all Authority and power under his Feet 2 Cor. 15. The Feet of the two Witnesses shall tread in pieces the Dragons tail as Christ broke his head so they shall bruise his heel for the Antitype of Satans Kingdom must fall and perish under the power of Army Giddon O Army Army Arme of the Lord he will create a defence upon thy Walls and Bulworks They shall have power to shut Heaven that it rain not that is they shall silence all the powers and the Angels of your Churches that is by a new disciplying power that shall put down the raigning power of such as have raigned over his power though they may make an attempt against the holy City yet fire must come down from Heaven and destroy them Any instrument framed against the power of Jerusalem shall not prosper none shall raigne in this Kingdom but the faithful Witnesses of Christ called and chosen These Witnesses are said to be two though many in number yet two is the least number which maketh one mans testimony void and of none effect Ye great and high Doctors and all ye Legators what will become of your Courts and infamous Colledges I suppose in short time they will stand like old Pauls or the Barn of Westminster without any trading very infamous yet borne up with Crutches whose constellations will fail and all your Priestly powers which have raigned so long over the people for there is one King one Lord one High-Priest and one Prophet that shall put down every power High and lofty Doctors that haâ—e got so many hundreds a year in your hands and yet are commanded to bring your Tythes into Gods Store-house and not into your own houses you have kept the people under bondage which God will now set at liberty when your Ministery is down yet the people shall bring the tenth of their substance into Gods Store-house as their Father Abraham did which shall shame your doings that are not good He saith You go to your Cieled Houses but my House lyeth desolate and ye rob Gods House of the benefits and come not in at the Door but clime up some other way which is unlawful And Christ saith I am the Door the Truth the Life and ye injoy all things of my Father and those benefits of Tythes you cannot injoy to your selves for they be proper to the Widow the Fatherless the Stranger the Blind and the Lame and to be brought into the Store-house for Collection and hospitality to those that want But in this I finde the Priests do omit and commit Sacriledge against the Order of Gods house Ye Doctors see and wonder the Lord hath appeared in me that I should be to you as a foolish Shepherd to tell you of folly sometimes in the night when my Body slept yet my spirit was awake and heard as it had been Voyces both in the night and also on the day which caused me to write when he declared unto me the things that should shortly come to pass by so many dark and spiritual appearances which are hideous to men yet known to me as one born in due time Doctor High-Priest you must stoop at ordination Christ was an ordained Minister so was not you he was sent of his Father Now if you can prove your selves ordained Minsters then you may put Christ out of his place You are of the Stepmother or Bondwoman and came not in at the Door which is not according to ordination but by way of impropriation or a taking Christs place upon your selves and set your selves in high places as Ministers of God though not ordained yet you take upon you the place of Christ and declare your selves Pastors to the People and yet not able to feed your selves O silly Shepherds know assuredly there is but one Pastor and that is Christ alone he is Pastor unus Pastor varius Pastor magnus and Pastor function he is the great Shepherd and Bishop of our souls he is our book of remembrance he is the eternal word without any Letter-teachers It 's a great shame that men live more by the teachings of men then they do by the teachings of the Sonne of God which teacheth us in all things Then down with all your Letter-teachers that are as Lawyers that study wisdom by art by policy by learning and skill to deceive them of weak understanding Mal 3. saith There was a Book of Remembrance opened and they talked often together which was the best teaching So that Voyces and Witnesses shall be heard in the room of the Priests for ye must lay down your Priestly power ye must deny your selves and declare Christ to be all in all that he may be Priest King over all but ye have stood so long as Vice-admiral over all in your Pulpits domineering over the People to keep them under your rule Doctor thou canst not truly preach Christ till thou throwest all down at his Feet and whatever thou beest thou must throw down thy own self-power Object What a Minister and throw-down his power Answ Yes why not for how canst thou royally preach Christ and declare thy self a Minister of God and yet
walke after the custome of the World I say If thou livest not after the example of Christ thou art a Minister of sinne and thy life doth not teach others then thou maist preach to others and be a cast-away thy self Alas poor fleshly man thou teachest the Letter and yet art ignorant of the truth thou hast set thy self high in a say-Pulpit to speak great things in a seenal way of repetitions speaking many things to please the people Ye be subtil Sophisters men-pleasers and self-seekers that can derive themselves into many formes contrary to the truth of God by setting up Sub-ordination in the place of Ordination to set themselves higher then Christ And in that they are made equal with him for he was made a little lower then the Angel meaning the Angels of your Churches that still keep him upon the Cross and crucifie his power Christ was ordained Minister of God but ye ordained your selves I can give a relation of one within the County of Lincolne a Minster called Mr. Male as I understand doth ordaine Ministers and that some petty Ministers have come many Miles to be ordained of him which is intolerable I wonder his heels are not pictured upwards Thus they may do though not by Lawful means But be you sure all sub-powers must down as things in Heaven and things on Earth and things under the Earth must bow at the name of Jesus He is the Prince of Peace and Prince of Power the Lord shall be exalted in all the Earth and your powers shall come down as low as dry Bones Ye high Priests know this that your state is failable for as you have cryed down the Bishop and his Surplis so now the Witnesses shall cry down with your Pulpits and your Fonts you are spiritual high in your own conceit full of pride sedition and covetousness self-seeking full of envy and bitterness in that ye differ not from the general world yet you can say you are the Ministers of God yet not walk after the example of Christ This that I declare is called your Funeral-Sermon or wind-up for ye shall be eclipsed by the bright appearings of the Lord. This eclipse took its first entrance in the year 1650. which shall cause the greatest earth-quake that ever was since the creation and the power of it shall decline towards the fourth or fifth yeer after 50. here in England Doctors what will ye do when your Tythes fail and your Ministery fails your new-Moons and Sabbaths fail then it shall be to you as the mourning of Hadadrimmon or a destructive time when ye shall have no audience or accommodation of the people for every one shall have a personal power put in them to stand alone without Preachers They shall be so inherently taught of God that the Minister shall say no more to them Know the Lord for they shall all be Prophets inwardly and shall stand by a personal faith as Abraham and Noah did in fulness of Spirit for the Lord saith In the last dayes I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh and my servants and hand-maids shall prophesie When ye Ministers may say We are Vine-dressers and Husbandmen to till the waste Commons for our weekly Sabbaths are changed into one Sabbath once a year we shall go up to worship the Lord and to keep a Feast of Tabernacles which is a true Sabbath according to Christs Resurrection to keep a good conscience which is a Feast in the heart of the Creature and that is the best Sabbath to live in all righteousness every day which is a Sabbath And though the Jew have have lost his new-Moon and thou O Gentile thy new-Moon yet thou shalt remember the Lord and once a year consecrate thy gift to him and keep a new Sabbath by an offering to God in his new Covenant to worship him with all thy substance and then it will appear that thou art one of the new Sabbath Thou must deny thy self-ends and all sinister engagements and so betroth thy self unto God in righteousness to covenant with him according to the new-Sabbath Though the Constellations may fail yet his Sabbath-Ordinance shall stand it shall not be disannulled Heaven and Earth may pass away but not one jot or tittle of his word shall fail For Christ is the word of the Sabbath and in him we shall have rest if we enter into Covenant and that is to acknowledge him by a new Sabbath for in those dayes and at that time saith the Lord I will make with them a new Covenant not according to the old for this shall be the Covenant that I will make never to turn from them or take away the Ordinance of Sabbath from them Yet the Lord saith I hate your Sabbaths because your hands are full of blood As if he should say Ye keep Sabbaths to your selves and transgress my holy day Once a year thou shalt come up to keep a Feast of Tabernacles and all that will not come to the worship of Jerusalem shall have no rain or raigning power in this new Sabbath of rest Silly Priest I question not though thy Sabbath be taken away for Christ is thy eternal Sabbath and thou shalt worship him according to the order of Jerusalem for all your subordinances shall stoop at ordination your Sabbaths shall change into one Sabbath If thou wilt walk in my wayes and do that I command thee this day then thou shalt ride upon the high places of the Earth that is whoever shall Covenant to this new Sabbath shall enjoy all the promises the Lord saith I will dwell in you and ye in me Ministers your Sabbaths are failable therefore they be called your Sabbaths by illusion as if he should say If ye keep a day keep it to me for you observe dayes and do no righteousness therefore your new Moons and Sabbaths shall change and be taken away for I will make a new Covenant with them saith the Lord not according to the old but this shall be my Covenant never to turn from them that truely Covenant to me saying I will betroth thee unto me in mercy and loving kindness and thou shalt know the Lord for my counsel shall stand Doctor the taking away your Sabbath shall cause the Lords Sabbath to shine out more clear for ye have changed my Ordinances Mal. 3. Therefore the Land is cursed with a curse and your moonorital Sabbaths shall change if ye keep one day keep it to me saith the Lord. So that we ought to keep every day as a Sabbath once a year to make out our accompts which is Easter-day and the six dayes before it for every year shall be called as a Sabbath-day and so from year to year ye shall keep my Sabbath Ordinances and live in them that is from year to year ye must come to Jerusalems worship Zachary 14. Christ preached every where and made every day a Sabbath It is not for thee and me to keep a day once
number of seven yeers that their weapons and power shall have an end Now to accomplish this prophecie look in Ezek. 38. he speaketh of burning their weapons burying of their bones which we hope will be in some short time after 1650. or before 1657. in our Nation We cannot predict the full accomplishment or make out a full discovery of the great designe he hath to do or when it shall fully end yet I hope the time is at hand for a short work will the Lord make upon earth to redeem those dry bones that have been very dry poor Witnesses of Christ killed and troden down by your Priestly power false Christs second-hand Teachers of the letter but can give no spiritual life and yet call your selves Ministers of God you shall fall with great rebuke one witness of Christ shall chase a thousand of you and two witnesses shall put ten thousand of you to flight O down with your false power for Christ Jesus will redeem Israel out of your hands The two Witnesses plead shall bring down your power as lowe as Doctor Hill's bones for the Witnesses shall live without your teachings and shall stand upon their feet a mighty Army O Arm of the Lord every Power shall perish under thee Object Doth Christ need Ministers then where is his power or divine light or spiritual appearances Doth he not appear in all and teach all by a spiritual teaching which is far higher then all fleshly teachers can do I am ashamed to hear your Sorceries to say ye are his Ministers then ye may go and teach him what to do The Heavens preach the Stars preach and the Creatures preach in Psal 14. but what is this to the preaching of God in his power Christ Jesus is in the mount and preacheth to all things John saith he is the Angel fleeing in the midst of heaven and preaching the everlasting Gospel to every kindred language and nation then what need we have so many Preachers When Christ preacheth to all he silenceth the tongues of men and Angels Christ is upon the mount and it cleft asunder shewing that every preaching power shall break and dissolve Now the Angel he preacheth in power Christ Jesus is the Angel of the Covenant therefore let all the earth be silent he will make all quiet before him it is he alone that shall still the rage of the sea and will quiet mens spirits when they shall yield the power of preaching into his hand when Ministers shall strive no more for their own power He is the onely preacher When he stood upon mount Olivet it cleft in sunder so shall every preaching power dissolve before him He is the preacher of light and life but ye Diviners Soothsayers and Flatterers ye call your selvs preachers what need that There is but one preacher he standeth on the mount Christ he shall put all rule and all authority under his feet he leadeth us by his holy Spirit that shall guide us in all truth The Creatures may preach yet not declare forth the invisible power of God for that is proper to Christ alone to preach forth the everlasting Gospel Rev. 14. Therefore stop your mouthes ye Priests for every one shall be taught of God from the greteast to the least even ye high Doctors must come under the teachings of the Son of God he is the Day-star that dawneth from on high If ever thou wilt see life that spiritual life must be from him to transform thee into the likeness of him for the way of all mens teachings shall burn up with their wood and straw and every untempered thing which holds up the abomination that makes desolation And truely Ministers are to blame in this thing of discipline Paul saith Eph. 3.10 that principalities and powers in high places ought to be approved by the Church that is to put forth Queries of Scripture and to quire out every truth by witnesses for every vision shall fail at the beatifical vision Ye sons of Ai must down it is not any visible power that can stand before the invisible nor any created power stand before the Ordained and Created Minister of God Ye sons of Levi must throw down though you have been Legators so long yet now there is an Alligator that teacheth us all things by his bright appearing far higher then you can elevate It is not your literal teachings but it is the invisible teachings of the Son of God that maketh wise to salvation Call not thy self a Minister of Christ for he is a Minister of himself Therefore lay down thy power for he teacheth us in all truth We and our predecessors have been taught by you and such as have called themselves Lord Bishops horrible names and intolerable to call themselves Lords And you Priests call your selvs Ministers of Christ yet you are but of that spawn of Euphrates that shall dry up with thy Lord Bishop Lord of folly Those and such as you be have nuzled up the people to thie day But now God will teach his people to stand and live without your Lordly power Your Bishops are fallen and you must fall under contempt for sitting in the holy place as Ministers or false Christs to deceive and seduce the people Some of you have gone under the notion of Lord Priests great Impropriators of Tythes and Donatives and could license authority and give gifts to men as spiritual Peters that had the keys of Purgatory but not the keys of heaven-gates they could lock and unlock they had all in their own hands as if they had been spiritual Lords of heaven and earth And truely what are ye Ministers and high Doctors If the Bishops were the cedars you are the shrubs that must be pluckt up for your power is like to burn as one of the four Constellations for your heavenly power shall go down with your earthly power and shall be consumed by invisible fire from above The universality of God shall so appear in flesh that men shall refuse your teachings and shall repair to the house of the Lord saying He will teach us of his ways which will put an end to your divided Ministery When God teacheth all shall be silenced Ministers silenced and people silenced and every power silenced in heaven and in earth John saith There was silence in heaven for the space of half an hour which declareth Gods wonderful works When Medeum is in the midst of his power in the top of the mountains your elevated powers shall cleave in sunder and every power shall shake and fall at the presence of Christ the great King Oh faithless generation can ye not stand and live in faithfulness to Christ he teacheth thee and me all things how to live he doth inherently teach every one that will savingly come to God and none can come to the Father but by him all other Teachers are but vain ostentation and failable but God inwardly teacheth Ye high Doctors petty Priests Legators and Merit-mongers
you that can teach the holy Ghost saying ye have begotten souls and have power to convert souls truely in that ye are the greatest deceivers in the world Conversion is not from the letter of history it is a work of great mystery beyond mens prating Yet some of you will say you have begotten many souls to Christ which if ye can do so ye may set up Meriting-houses to please the people It is not your much teaching that can do it you be but Historians all upon the literal history not discerning the mystery of Gods work which is called Conversion It is Gods work let no dirt-danber meddle with converting of souls But some of you Historian Priests will say Did not Paul the great Doctor of the Gentiles convert souls I answer No. But did not Peter convert 3000 at one Sermon Yes he did so but it was but to an outward conformity of Religion as you train the people up to and all is but in the outward that ye can do for ye are not the very Christ to do it Then lay down for renovation is a work of God and not of man to do and Ministers stand for a cypher and the men of Galilee stand gazing upon them I am but a fool yet not the son of folly if I erre I erre for Christ He that giveth honour to mâ—n can never truely honour God Silly people have your Ministers perswaded you all this while saying they can convert souls and cannot O down with their power as lowe as Doctor Hills bones Let their power be utterly dissolved for in Gods account they be no more then other men and shall fall more contemptibly then the Bishops for they have hid the mystery of iniquity and kept it as a sweet morsel under their tongues and seduced the people These Merit-mongers Legators that keep the people under their bonds meriting Christs mediators betwixt God and the people as if the history of the Bible could convert souls Alas no it is not done by the history of mens works neither can it be done by the example of Historian Fatherly Authors it is not a work of history but Gods work of mystery to convert to salvation Therefore Priest lay down thy power and let the people speak from the heavenly University and as they be taught of God so let them speak from the All-speaker that shall teach both Minister and People Ye Mediators Ministers as ye call your selves ye seduce many souls and keep them under your yoke from that freedom they have or might have in God being free and yet not free by your bonds O down with all such yoke-Ministers if Christ hath made thee free thou art free indeed come no more under their yoke but walk so as thou mayst be judged by the law of liberty John bids thee buy eye-salve but not of men which is an outward and vain ostentation it is not an outward knowing that can do it it is by a spiritual inward knowing that we live You say that we receive faith by hearing or the preaching of faith I confess outward faith may come by the letter preached but saving faith is of the gift from above Then salvation is onely of God and not from the letter Then how hard a thing is it for a Priest to convert souls Even as to create the whole creation Therefore Doctor Priest thou must surely lay down thy power for thou hast taken upon thee a work of renovation which is beyond Ministers art and skill for Christ is the souls solempnicy and the first moving cause of our salvation he is our Minister and sollicitor and ye dissembling Christs that say ye have been means of mens salvation and have begotten souls to God and call your selves soul-saving Ministers Ye false tongues stop your mouthes for shame ye Wise-men Counsellors Priests and Legators Definators Merit-mongers that call your selves the Seers in Israel or Watch-men over poor souls Alas Doctors your sorrow is at hand Mic. 3. saith The seer shall be ashamed and the diviner confounded they shall cover their mouth for there is no answer of God You call your selves soul-savers but we may call you Wise-men that beguile the people whose counsel shall stand but a while for the Prophet Isaih saith Your counsellors shall be as at the first taught of God as Abraham and Noah were Christ and the Spirit of God is our great Counsellor and shall be as Law and Testimony in us that shall lead us in all truth and those be the two Witnesses of the great Jehovah dwelling in us which will confound every Ministerial power and every ordained power of man For now is the time of the Elijah and the Witnesses prophecie If ye be soul-saving Ministers then change the course of the rain if you can You say you can and have converted souls then you may as well change the course of drought which is now a judgement upon the earth for three yeers and a half But the Lord will make the heavens as brass and the clouds as iron And under this three yeers and a half the Witnesses shall prophesie in sackcloth though not utterly killed as they have been before the Law and under the Law and since Christ came in the flesh until now the opening of the sixth Seal which produceth life to the two Witnesses though by prisonment and sackcloth under this seventh Vial. Noble Pulpittian thou must lay down four high titles and give them up to Christ Thy Ministery Thy Priesthood Thy Power and thy Teaching for all this belongs to Christ But thou sayst thou art an instrument I doubt not but ye are some of those instruments spoken of by the Prophet Zechariah saying What are those instruments in thy hand he said to me These were they that wounded me in the house of my friends And the Lord saith he was wounded by such instruments You Ministers may be outward Ministers and yet come short of converting souls to God but what ye can do outwardly by a conformity and no more Thou art an instrument but not instrumental that is too high for man seeing thou art but a creature so I finde that there is no power in thy hand thy instrument cannot do it for he is instrumental and not thou Thou art haven but he is havencial Thou art a petty Priest but he is an eternal Priest Then become a fool as I am and throw down that thou mayst be made wise For he is the Priesthood-power and glory renovation is of God and not of men Doctor thou tellest me thou art instrumental and so far thou speakest an untruth for it 's proper onely to God And thou art but star but he is starrestial He is unmoveable and thou art changeable He is Minister and thou but Star Thou art an Angel but he is Angelical Thou art Man but he is God Christ is the Minister and Mediator of our souls and therefore lay down thy care and charge of mens souls and look to thy
inward Sabbath to rest in God I wonder who hath bewitched you from the eternal rest Doctors and Ministers Once in that setled rest made free in Christ then free indeed The houshold of faith are no more under your Legalities once free in Christ free indeed he is our true vine and ministreth to us the Holy Ghost and setteth us at liberty from all the earthly Christs to live by the spirit of life and Christ preaching in us that maketh us inwardly and outwardly free from the traditional and literal teachings of men Once in covenant with Christ and for ever sallowmorted in the fellowship of the Son of God by a solempnisie or setled union with the Lord as Abraham and Noah did free from the teachings of men that came in his name and are not the very Christ but deceive the people using many words yet Christ never did so he spake few words and the people answered him And likewise the Apostles did so by disciplying and answering Disputations Every Christian ought to be in a married union with Christ and so throw off the Priests and cry Abraham Abraham our father after the order of Melchizedek a Priest for ever Christ a Prophet a Priest a Teacher a Fore-runner and so throw off all Legators that stand as Lawyers in their Pulpits pleading Mediators betwixt God and many mens souls But Melchizedek was a Priest long before Aaron the Priest or any high Priest of you all Christ was and is a Priest unchangeable but you are instruments in his hand I do not call you Ministers because you destroy the Offering of Gods Temple so you shall be destroyed and your change it is nigh at hand God had an house before any Priest of Levi was whereof Gods extent was first extended by an Ordinance ordained to Abraham which was the Tenth of all his substance that should go to the house of God whereof Abraham brought in the Tenth of his substance unto the house of God after the order of Melchizedek after Gods order And because you have denied these things therefore your Priestdom shall cease and your power shall go down You Sâ—onets Ministers of God as you call your selves though but outward instruments such as have wounded the Lord in the house of his friends The Prophet Zâ—chariah much complaineth against all such ministring instruments as Pulpittians men of conformity as if their conformity was the way to salvation Those are instruments indeed that teach salvation and yet not the very Christ yet come in his Name and deceive many and will not lose one days teaching of the people by no means but will get one Sionet or another to learn the people salvation and will give the man that stands in their absence twenty shillings for his Sabbath-days work of preaching conformity to the people night and morning as if the way of conformity was the very way to salvation and thus one Priest gratifieth another for money as if salvation could be bought with money O out with all money-changers of the Temple for the Lord will cut off the name of Baal out of the earth that stand bawling with their own tongues for money And are not these money-changers of the seenal Witchcrafts very subtil and crafty yet call themselves the Ministers of God simple instruments in his hand We may call a spade a spade in ones hand for what is one man more then another When God is instrumental and teacheth us all by his Son a Priest for ever he is instrumental and not man Foolish man may take upon him Christs office and set himself high as Scribe over the people yet he shall come down to plead among his low equals Wo to you Scribes Pharisees and Hypocrites ye outside Preachers of the letter and cannot minister the spirit for God inwardly teacheth and so will do when all your forms are down for Christ saith Ye shall all be taught of God from the least to the greatest which is a far higher teaching then that of men The next thing that I shall treat upon is my desire to see the people come out from those false Christs and be married to Christ Jesus in the new Covenant which is a glorious and spiritual marriage made free in him and come no more under Legators yoke To be taught of God is to live by the Son of God without the teachings of men and that is to stand in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free and come no more under their yoke of bondage but live up to Ordination which is above the teachings of men Though they call themselves Ministers of God believe them not for our Lord saith they be false Christs that come in his name And truely those be the men that call themselves Converters and soul-savers of the people or the feet that bring glad tidings of salvation and so nuzzle up the poor ignorant people O come out from those false Christs and see your freedom and liberty in Jesus Christ come out and stand upon your feet as faithful Witnesses raised of the dry bones redeemed from the spawn of Euphrates I mean from the Priests that preach up their own self-honour and cunningly keep to themselves the heritage of Gods house by a carnal and usurped authority that call themselves instrumental when indeed they are but formed instruments in his hand and as low as others and have wounded him in the house of his friends The Lord is ministerial and instrumental without the help of men or any such Merit-mongers that have stood so long in their Pulpits as Mediators betwixt God and so many thousand poor souls These satisfactorious Priests not ordained of God nor sent of Christ yet they run and call themselvs Curates of mens souls and Ministers of God as if the work of God were in their hands Miserable blind guides that deceive the people feigned Christs Ambassadors as they call themselves as if Christ were not in all places to preach salvation without them Doctor what will you do when your Churches stand forlorn and your people withdraw themselvs when the Lord will be worshipped in every place then what will become of your Jerusalems when God will be known in every place and the people not tyed to your formed Churches Your forms must cease and go down I cannot see but Gods people that have enjoyed the clearest light from above have ever bin persecuted by your Ministers and Clergical power if not by Bishops yet by secret counsellors that call themselves Ministers of God Though they may set themselves high and seem to take away some of the power of Christ yet God will blast their seenal Witchcrafts and cunning sophistry Though they may call themselves by those great names yet the Witch shall be cut out of the earth I cannot tell but I am sure ye have made your selvs rich and great justitious and high by robbing Gods house of Tythes and common rights and yet can set nothing in order but preach on in
to prove the truth Two candlesticks and two lights before the people when one mans tongue speaking shall be a lye every singular power shall be dissolved onely Christ shall stand singular over all He set his foot upon the hinder sea and his other foot upon the far sea he cleaveth the mount of Olivet in sunder and will diselevate all your historical power which shall be the beginning of the downfal of your Priestly power for Christ will sit upon it by twelve thrones will dis-throne all that stand so high in the place of ostentation they must come down and plead for truth among their lowe equals for their mount is cleft in sunder from the hinder sea to the far sea There shall no power stand before Christ the new Jerusalem for none shall stand singular in place of speaking but Christ alone and his two anoynted ones Therefore Alphaba it must down with thy all power of preaching in thine own tongue Now Christ doth appear your mount Elevate is cleft in sunder there shall not be one stone left upon another that shall not be thrown down And happy shall be that man that shall take your power and dash it against the wall Zech. 11. 10. I took my staff Beauty and brake it in sunder and it was broke in that day so the sheep that waited upon me knew that I was the word of the Lord. And truely he that brake the staff Beauty wil surely break the staff Bands that your elevated power may fall Christ is the Middinal Sainter or Mediator betwixt two he standeth as a tree of Mustard-seed little in shew yet great and orient in substance and splendorious to all and his name is Branch that is beautiful and shall grow up in the earth He is the tree of life standing in the garden of God and whoever eateth of it shall live for ever He is life eternal to all that thirst after him He is a Medium of comfort to all the oppressed he will in some measure still the rage of the sea Christ the Lord he is all righteousness You may definate but Christ is the definer of truth He is the Centre and stable medium of all things in heaven and in earth He is the fountain that filleth the two conduit-pipes with oyl called The two anoynted ones that stand before the God of the whole earth He filleth every Lamp with oyl Every high hill shall cleave asunder at his presence Who art thou O mountain before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain For every power shall be cleft in sunder before Almiddium the Lord he shall stand upon the sea with his face toward the hinder sea he and his two Witnesses shall stand in power to destroy the Red Dragon and his fury The faithful Witnesses of God shall stand by many two's yet one shall stand in the midst of them which is the tree of life Angelical And if any shall attempt or hurt them fire cometh down from heaven and shall destroy them This Angelical power of Christ with his Saints Evangelical shall strike the hinder parts of Leviathan which is the Dragons tayl so that fire from heaven shall burn up his fury for the jealousie of the Lord is gone forth and shall not return till it hath wrought the full work of God for lo saith the Lord the stone that I have laid before Joshua upon it shall be seven eyes which sheweth the glory of Christ that taketh away the iniquity of the land in one day and that shall be when we make the Lord our Minister then he shall take away our reproach Christ the heavenly Branch shall silence all flesh Men may preach all their days and cannot remove our reproach yet Christ can make our Gospel peace Mans preaching is but carnal policie But Christ is raised out of his place let men and Ministers be silent he hath the key of the bottomless pit he took the dragon bound him Rev. 20. he set a seal upon him that he should deceive the nations no more tell certain yeers expired The time when he was first bound was about 1600 yeers ago or thereabout And God hath shewed himself the more merciful in keeping us from his personal visage for so long since God hath shut him up under chains of darkness and from thence to this day his common appearance hath been hideous to man YE Assyrian Priests it is not your way to save souls it is proper to God alone ye may counsel them or inform them that 's all ye can do for God alone teacheth I will write my Law in their inward parts He spiritually teacheth and infuseth grace in the soul Priests and Levites it was to you for a time but our Ministers for a shorter time if mens Priesthood failed under the Law how much more shall yours be under Christ and as the Priests were cryed down under the Law by the Prophets how much more failable are you under the eternal Priesthood of Christ for all Tythes and Levitical forms of Tythes have ceased since Christ came in the flesh If Aaron the Priest could have no inheritance amongst Israel what benefits can ye expect under the everlasting Gospel Tythes were given at the first by a legal power of men and therefore it was called Legal or Levitical pretending td Gods house or to the righteousness of God till Christ came in the flesh which cut off old Levitical forms by a new Covenant nor according to the old saying I will make a new Covenant with them and write my Law in their inward parts as an eternal Sabbath in the conscience that shall burn up every outward form When Christ appeared in the flesh all Tythes and forms of slavery sure ceased Truly Doctor thou maist say what thou wilt yet I cannot believe thee though thou saist Thou art Christs Disciple yet I say thou art not except thou deniest thy self by a cessation of Tythe-forms for they must all cease there cannot a bit of Levitical Priesthood stand before Christ Jesus the eternal Priest every Priesthood must down for that made the Law a Law and the Divel a Divel Christ Jesus is a free Pastor to all that come unto him and all ye Doctors and Ministers are a generation of Angels must fall calling your selves Ministers of Christ for the Tythe and for the Fleece for money and Glebe-land ye sit as little Bishops gaping under a sunny bank so fat and so proud and no Disciples of Christ in his poverty Therefore Bishop-black shall array himself in Sheeps-clothing among others that be his low equals Christ is the royal Shepherd in the Mount Al-medium preacheth in the Mount and your Ministerial power shall go down he set his foot upon Mount Olivet and it cleft in sunder so shall your elevated power divide in sunder Now Al-medium preacheth in the Mount your Ministerial preaching shall go down your Olivet will cleave in sunder you go to your mercenary mediating houses but Christ is all in
all to me he is a Mediator and a Minister without your deffinating It is not your Church going or all your preaching that can do me any good but what I have received inwardly of God that keepers my life Christ saith He that heareth me heareth him that sent me and he that believeth me believeth him that sent me so that we ought to believe Christ and be taught of him alone for teachings of men are not the spirit of truth He saith If I go away I will send you the Comforter that shall teach you in all truth so that we must prove every spirit and hear the voice of Christ onely once in the Lord and ever in him once a year and ever from year to year to keep a Sabbath on Earth as it is in Heaven and so stand free and effectual to stand and live and live and stand fast in the liberty wherein Christ hath made us free and be no more entangled under the yoke of bondage of Priests that are in so many mindes and know not the truth Twenty Ministers twenty mindes and yet Mediators of the letter and tie themselves to observe dayes and new-moons beggerly rudiments full of legality and superfluity of words I wonder the world is so miserably seduced by them as if they could teach Heaven in the Mass-houses or Churches as ye call them which if men could teach Heaven what need we then to look upon Christ having so many merit-mongers or soul-saving Ministers Oh but say they We declare the minde of God and Christ to the people as if God were not present in all places or as if he were afar off and must have Embassadours to satisfie his elect Oh ye blinde guides doth not God keep up the full creation by a providence then much more by his power for Almedium teacheth in the Mount of his power which is far above your teachings and truly it is for you to leave off teaching that have stood singularly in Christs place so long and done little good it is time now to call an assembly to sit and set up thrones for Justice Oh people ye men of Galilee that stand gazing I believe I shall see you abhor your earthly gods and look upwards I mean you shall abominate all those leaders of silly women that bewitch the world in their own forms Can we think God is tied to the outward means once a week Is not he the same every day yesterday to day and for ever Ye endworkers that object and say Ye be the means that God hath ordained ye false Christs Mediators that stand so high to limit that holy one of Israel Is not God and his Son wise enough but they must have your help Had not we Abraham Moses and the Prophets and the Son of God after them to confirm all that are once entered into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God which is a free state free from the teaching power of a man and being set at liberty by Jesus Christ Then let us be no more entangled under their Priestly yoke Ye silly simple Priests you must come under the teachings of God as all other men must do when Justice Divine Thrones of Justice are set up then God will purge all you sons of Levi. But methinks I hear some high Priests say Why do you not quote Scripture to prove what you write My answer is Christ is the end of legal Scriptures and you have quoted Scriptures long enough and could never make out truth Christ is the word and the end of all Scriptures and standeth in his place when all Scriptures shall be failable and every vision shall be unfolded at the beatifical vision of Christ Jesus and truly Scriptures are good but Christ is the principal then let us hold fast to the principal and wave the letter Christ is the foundation and every mans work ought to be built upon him Men and Prophets in the old time spake as they were moved by inspiration and yet it was but by the by or by the moving power of the holy Ghost so being written by the inspiration of Christ sheweth that he is the Word far beyond all Scripture written by men that stand but by Christ and are failable when he cometh in power He is the chief medium and principal Senator and we must throw off our earthly gods I mean all our Priests onely to rest upon him for until then we shall have no true Sabbath He is our Sabbath if we come out from the Priests then he will give us true rest he is our Vine to live under therefore my bowels yearne over the people to see them led off from Christ by legating Priests as wise-men and Lawyers standing in Pulpits when grave Christians shall be taught by some young boyes standing in their Priestly Office so high in Pulpits it is a great shame that godly men and women do not come out from them and stand upon their feet and say Christ alone is my Teacher I have been much deluded by proud Priests by covetous Priests by scandalous Priests by young Priests by ruffinly Priests by swearing Priests by literal Priests by historical Priests and by deceiving Priests that have kept us from the power of Christ and freedom of Sabbath tying the people to their set-forms or what they call a Sabbath Their mass and dirge shall down for every form shall cease but one and that is the Government of Christ that shall stand when all your Priestly power shall lie as low as Doctor Hill's bones Doctor thou canst prove but one calling and that was a Law to Adam That thou shouldst work and labour by the sweat of thy brows as others do none excepted and no other calling of Ministery canst thou prove Therefore thou must without dispute throw down thy trade of preaching at Christs feet of two Witnesses called the Law and Testimony writ in thy conscience People I can but controverse with you ye say ye know God and love God and fear God I say No ye know the Priests ye fear the Priests and ye love the Priests otherwayes ye would renounce their wayes contrary to Christs The Priests are dissemblers but Christ is our true Minister They tell thee a fair tale that Christ is simply good he is full of pure simplicity an high attribute so low yet above all the Priests how are ye married to Christ and yet follow after fained lovers If Christ hath redeemed you think it enough follow not after those that deceive silly men and women and lead them captive from Christ as if we could not enjoy Christ without the teachings of men having the Spirit of God and the Scripture with the example of Christ and the Prophets and having so much Apostolical divine light methinks they might guide us in the true way Methinks I see the Priests grow shamed the light discovereth their veile cast over the people and the people begin to see them so black and Christ in his brightness
ordain and appoint without the help of man Let no man say He can teach for no man can teach life and salvation Then down with all teachers that we may live under a peaceable Government our own Vine Christ Jesus for he will teach us of his wayes without all differing disputations Those that call themselves teachers they live as drone-bees by the sweat of other mens brows Therefore let them stop their mouths for the people will not give ear to them but will live under their own vine by a new Sabbath Covenantial and you shall bewitch the people no longer when fulness comes God will teach and the people shall declare what God hath done for their souls Then all these Dromidaries of Midian must break off your heavenly teaching and come under the peaceable Dominion of Christ You high Doctors blame me not for speaking where life is it will branch it self forth Who shall hinder my speaking the truth the silly Worm to the cold Earth the Sallamander to the Fire so all things to their proper use to the honour of God Oh that these rotten Priests would lay down their power and make Christ all in all Fat Priests that live as Drones belly-godded persons proud and delicious God is angry with you because no power will throw you down God will give his people wisdom to come out from you and to live by a higher teaching which is from the holy Ghost for there will be a great falling away that the iniquity of the Priests may be discovered I have tried all your Ministeryes and can have no rest in them my spirit is so universally taken up with the appearings of Christ that I unfailably see an absolute doing away of your Forms your Sabbaths your Sacraments your Baptism your common-Churches your separate-Churches your Anabaptist-Churches your Papist Churches all your set forms must return to the ancient Church of the Jews which is the stable perfection of Christ for now he apeareth all your forms must be done away Christ at the first came under a state of imperfection yeilding to the laws of men but now he cometh in perfection and will do away all your forms and shadows for when that which is perfect is come the unperfect must be done away My desire is to see the Priests thrown down and let the Lord preach alone for all the Ministers under the cope of heaven are not able to define or make out the truth neither can they speak truth till they give up their Ministery to Christ for all teaching belongeth to him and I know not any as can teach but shall run themselves into errors for it is God that teacheth and not fleshly man for by mans teaching the curse hath continued on the earth to this day neither shall it be till Christ hath the full pre-eminency and all powers yeilded up to him by an endless Covenant saying When that which is perfect is come then that which is not shall be done away when he cometh in power your illegal forms and relecks shall be done away for his formal power shall throw off your shadows as all the creatures declare the glory of God and preach forth his excellency but not as a Priest to Minister in Christs place but to shew what the Lord hath done for the creation and to acknowledge Christ alone to teach life He preacheth forth peaceable dominion to them that are nigh and to them that are afar off from him righteousness doth arise which is the end of all preaching Christ is the stability of the Church I do not say of named Churches but of one Church without difference or dividual dividing he is the husband of one spouse his perfection shall guide us unto all truth and for want of setting up Christ in his oriency of power men set themselves up and destroy his heritage but the chosen people of God must act against every thing that is opposite to Christ for he is Prince of peace and Prince of power and for his cause sacrifice thy life otherwise thou art no Christian for we must look no more upon the Ark of the Covenant it must not be once named amongst us The letter of the Scripture shall be failable when the testimony truly dwelleth in us by faith then all our outward shadows shall be done away Christ hath redeemed us from all typical shadows and from the curse of the letter being once made a curse for us that the blessing may come upon the people by faith and not by literal forms and shadows Gal. 3.13 Cursed is every one that hangeth upon a tree Shewing the miserable condition of all such that hold so much by the tree of the Law and deny the freedom of the Spirit they might have in the Son of God for as many as rely upon works are men-workers lie still under the curse for Christ is the free Abraham he hath done all the work of renovation and we are free in him without works and saved in him without mens works if once in Christ then free indeed from all mens traditional teaching while we are justified in Christ we acknowledge our selves sinners in that we see nothing in our selves and Christ to be just in all It is the believing Abraham that shall be justified and not the working Abraham For grace is of faith and not by works lest any man should boast for if the inheritance be of the letter it cannot be of faith God gave it to Abraham as he believed so the Lord promised to him and to his seed for ever according to the Covenant of faith which is the Law and Testimony written in the conscience called two Witnesses within which do Christian a creature and baptize him into the promised Covenant of Abraham and Christ which is far above all your teaching forms and shadows I speak to the people saying Stand fast in the liberty wherein Christ hath made you free and be no more entangled with the yoke of bondage but know your selves at liberty as children of the day and rejoyce with Jerusalem all that love her be glad and rejoyce for the amplitude and stability of the Church when all the Churches shall be maried to Christ in the new Covenant that they may suck and be satisfied with the brest of consolation for the Lord will extend peace to his Church as a river and to the people as a flowing stream from a fountain of teaching from above GOod men may sometimes deny Christ not knowing the end of disciplying This Doctor Hill was an eminent man and without all question declared forth many good things in his time yet subject to erre as we be by relation of some of the Souldiers that quartered in the town of Cambridge as they told me I cannot tell but as they related a sad story of this Doctor Hill by relation he was intended to persecute with the tongue whether right or wrong his spirit knoweth it best I cannot prove it yet it was certified me
art and policy who shall learn him knowledge shall Oxford and Cambridge instruct his way their places are inferiour to him for Christ is our true word of prophesie far above all art or pretended skill God is the best University he will teach his people in all truth by an inward renewing the mind if God teacheth then let men lay down and say We cannot savingly teach we preach the letter but salvation is from above he ministreth the gift of healing and man cannot do it Ordination is ceased with the Apostles and God doth appear to us by his Son and under the name of two witnesses which is the Law and Testimony within that teacheth us better then all the Priests Therefore I desire we may all see and live under the teachings of God for he teacheth us the mystery of truth let God be true and every man a lyar you Assyrian Priests may prognosticate the people but Christ is the sure word of prophesie we will hear him with a laudable voice The Priests say Hear us we will not be silenced but for all this thou must be silenced Oh Priest for Kings and Lords and Nobles and Magistrates shall be silenced at his bright appearing There shall be silence in heaven for the space of half an hour Rev. 8.1 Who shall stand when he appeareth by a dividing of time I say all you Ministers have not yet preached the Gospel neither can any man preach the Gospel at all until he throweth down his own power of preaching and make Christ your Priest and Teacher and say you are no more a teacher of salvation but a keeper of cattel from your fathers and to work by the sweat of your brows for knowledge shall run to and fro and meet by voices and witnesses that shall throw off and extinguish all your negative voices that stand deffinating so high in Pulpits one witness of the Minister or Priest of himself is a negative untruth and is centred upon meesum which is by a singular vote and cannot stand for it is Christ alone that shall stand to preach for he is ordained and sent as a Mediator of himself between God and man Priests I believe in short time your people will be few in number for then and at that time the people shall betroth themselves unto the Lord and will refuse your teachings when they are inwardly taught of God they shall remove from you Pulpits and ye shall no more say to the people Know the Lord for they shall all know me that is they shall all know Christ to be the Minister and shall return to their first Love from whence they were fallen saying Come do thy first work as if Christ should say Christians come enter into your rest once in him and ever he is our Sabbath and Gospel of peace he is unchangeable to the end and that is a Sabbath indeed it is not your keeping a day once a week that can make a true rest it is the Sabbath within having Christ dwelling in thee by a true faith that is a Sabbath and a rest that cannot be taken away the receivings of Christ in thee quickeneth thee every moment from day to day which sheweth forth in thee a continual Sabbath From yeer to yeer thou shalt worship the Lord and keep the feast of Tabernacles when a Christian walketh in all outward righteousness that is a feast of one Tabernacle and to walk by inward righteousness that is the other feast of Tabernacles Ye shall once a yeer come up to keep the feast of tabernacles Zach. 14. These two Tabernacles the one for an inward the other for an outward are called first and second Tables which shall be the worship that shall be set up from day to day and yeer to yeer until Shilo come Priests it is not for you to keep a day once a week and be as evious as ever it is not to keep a day and be as covetous as ever that is not a true Sabbath Christ is the Sabbath and he is our eternal rest And Minister thou must deny thy self if ever thou wouldst enter into his rest for Christ sweetneth all things to a Christian every doubt is comprehended and comprimized in him he is the end of trouble of war and of every conflict he is our Gospel-peace to still the rage of all obstruction and for want of making Christ our teacher it causeth us to follow false Christs I mean Priests and Jesuites that teach their own Gospel and set themselves up by fat parsonages feigned lovers to deceive the people as if they had the minde of God at their will Humble-bee-Priests fat belly-goded-Parsons to declare to the people once a week as if God were tied to their set times so as the Jews did so do you keep a day once a week and yet crucifie the Lord and so do ye not knowing his eternal Sabbath Ye silly people I much condole your weakness in that you so much idolize the Priests and neglect your onely true rest The Lord appeareth to us every day aswel as on that day which thou callest the Lords day and truely ye are as legal as ever the Jews were though cunningly you call your Sabbath the Lords day yet cannot take away your observed forms the Lords day is every day Therefore Priest throw down thy observation Christ is the Sabbath of rest his day is every day from yeer to yeer Ye Doctors and Priestical Ministers you are very censurous I cannot but further relate a Pulpit-story of this Doctor Hill by some godly persons of neer relation to him having some discourse with them they did not comply with his element but were a little contrary to his judgement not pleasing to his allegation which to affront them in their judgement he thought to met with them in the Pulpit took a text of Scripture to cross them but as I understood God met him in the way and frustrated him in his first text whereof he took another text and in the same manner God met him again and blasted him upon his third subject so that he judged himself stricken and came down from the Pulpit and related a sad story to some that God justly punished him by reason of his inveterated spirit of bitterness so that I finde God met him by way of etilliation as we have an example in Jacob and Esau the Lord punished Jacob for taking his brother Esau by the heel Therefore let no man think so low of his brother but that God can spiritually raise men to higher knowledge then Cambridge can do And let not Ministers and Doctors be so high now God appeareth to the weak things of the world to confound the haughtiness of the proud for we have a sure word of prophesie far higher then you can teach Doctors and Ministers ye preach of a Prince that ruleth in the Air I pray you what is that if you were as far from that as you are from right disciplying you would have but little to do with it Doctor I must tell you what it is that ruleth in the Air it is money which is the King of all the creatures that ruleth in the Air it buyes and sells and captivates all things under it silver and gold bewitcheth the world and you would spend your lives in the Pulpit for it and it is called but the Prince that rules in the Air and beguileth the Priests that preach for hire Christs is a free-Ministery and an endless Priesthood yours is failable I can give relation of a Priest that removed himself from about 40. l. a year for a place of 300. or 400. l. a year This Priest cunningly bewitched his people of the new place where he came and in the midst of his Sermon related to them That God had brought him thither in a cloud from the substance of 40. l. a year to 300. l. a year And was not this a cunning dawber to delude the people by a dark cloud Numbers Leviticus and Deuteronomy declareth That the Priests shall have no inheritances therefore I finde they that have bought Tythes and Impropriations have bought and sold that which was none of their own Lord Protector I desire you would give Tythes and impropriations to the widows the fatherless the blinde and the lame and to the poor as Christ would have it done so let it be that every Parish be eased of collection and praise God for the great good you have done for them A poor messenger a disciple separate for the kingdom of Christ I could have added much more to this work but in short I have declared some of the minde of God Daynus A messenger of the new Covenant under the Ark-angel of the Covenant As John was sent a messenger to the Jews to declare the kingdom of heaven at hand so I Daynus am sent to the whole Israel of God to shew the kingdom of heaven is come in power to me and I am the first upon the feet restored of the dry-bones of Israel Daynus to shew the day and year of the Lord and his year excepted FINIS