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A44798	The measvring rod of the Lord stretched forth over all nations and the line of true judgment laid to the rulers thereof wherein all governours and rulers, potentates and powers are measured, and all governments and lawes weighed in the true weight : wherein they all may see how far they are degenerated from the law of righteousness, and the rules of wisdome, which was in the beginning, before tyranny, and persecution, and rebellion had shewed it selfe : also shewing the end that will come upon all those rulers and governments, rulers and lawes that have been made in the apostacy, which is to all overthrown ... : also an advertisement to all the rulers upon the earth ... : published for the information of all the rulers upon earth ... / by one who waits to see the kingdoms of the world to become the kingdomes of the Lord ... Francis Howgil.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1658 (1658)	Wing H3171; ESTC R6600	23,099	33

stayed 2 years in Asia Acts. 19. ver. 10. In so much that all they that dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord yea and divers great men and of the cheife of Asia were his freinds Acts 19. ver. 21. so its manifest there were 2 great people for Acts 19. 26 verse not only at Ephesus but almost throughout all Asia this Paul hath perswaded and turned away much people said Demetrius and Paul writing to the Corinthians saith 1 Cor 16. 19. the Churches in Asia salute you and Iohn writes to seven Rev. 1 4. Rev. 11. and as was said before all was departed from the faith even all they that are in Asia are turned away from me and the Apostle wrote to Titus Titus 1 ver. 10 11. that there were many unruly and vaine talkers and deceivers who subverted whole houses teaching the things they ought not for filthy lucre And Iohn who wrote the last in the Revelations he writes that the whole World wondred after the beast and his power was so great that it was said who is able to make warre with the beast they worshipped the beast saying who is able to make warre with the beast Rev. 13. ver. 3 4. and the beast that arose out of the Sea having seven heads and ten hornes and upon his hornes ten Crownes and upon his head the name of blasphemy and the Dragon gave him his power his seat and great Authority and he opened his mouth in Blasphemy against God to blaspheme his Name and his Tabernacle and them that dwell in Heaven and it was given him to make war with the Saints ver. 6. 7 and to overcome them and power was given him over all kindreds tongues and Nations and all that dwell upon the earth ver. 9. shall worship him whose names are not written in the Lamb's book of life shin from the foundation of the World this Beast receiving his power and authority from the Dragon hath prevailed he rose out of the Sea the Waters upon which the whore sits and the waters are kindreds tongues and people and the Beast arose out of the Sea also that the whole World wondred after and worshipped and John that saw this coming 14 or 15 hundred years agoe so that in a few ages after the Apostles all was worn out the life lost the Dragon had power the Beast had power and all wondred after him and the Whore had made all Nations drunk with her Fornication and then she came to sit upon many Waters Kindred Tongues and People hears the Waters hears the Sea out of which the Beast rose who received his power from the Dragon and this is he who upon his head had the names of Blasphemy and all kindreds tongues and Nations whose names were not written in the Lambs book they who honoured the Beast and worshipped the Beast and said who is able to make war with him admired his power and submitted unto him and he hath had power and hath prevailed against the saints did overcome them and the Dragon hath made war with the Seed which keep the Commandements of God and the testimony of Iesus all this was seen many Ages agoe and what worke the Dragon hath made in the Nations and in the Earth where he hath had dominion and prevailed and what a raging the roaring Lyon hath kept in the Earth is evident seeking to destroy them in whom the seed remained and to destroy them in whom the power of God was or the least measure and so the false Prophets deceivers Antichrists which wenout then which the Apostle saw they cried up that power which was from the life of God and hath cryed it up for the higher power and said all ought to be subject to it and said who is able to make war with the Beast for the false Apostles and Deceivers and Antichrists went from the Grace of God and from the light and from the power of God into the World and into that Nature which all kindreds and tongues and people walked in and into the power that acts the Children of disobedience and joyned with that power upon which the Whore sits and they taught Nations and People to admire this power and to admire the Beast because of his Heads and Horns and Crowns and Names and hath wrought miracles before the Beast and this power which the Beast had received from the Dragon this power admires the false Prophet and the false Prophet the Beast so that none could buy nor sell nay nor live but that had his marke or the number of his name and so all hath been in utter darknesse and the deeds of darknesse hath spread themselves over the Earth For the Whore who is adulderated from God and the Dragon and the Beast and the false Prophet all have acted from that power which is below the truth and below the life which power is at enmity against the truth and the life and against the light and this power overspread all Nations and the Sun being set the night came over all and the shadow of death over all Nations and a veil and a covering hath been spread over all and so out of the midst of thick darkness all hath acted this long and darke night of ignorance in the Apostacy wherein the Dragon hath had power and the Beast and that power hath been admired and set up which hath transgressed the life so that any who have been zealous for the truth and have kept the testimony of Jesus and the spirit of prophesie the false prophets in all Nations who are from the testimony of Jesus have called to the Beast to slay and to kill and to destroy the seed of the woman which is cloathed with the Sun and so the Beast exercising his power which is from below have killed and destroyed them who were subject to the higher power And what torturing and Massacring and persecution what burning and strangling there hath been what cruell deaths many have been put to over all Nations and in all Nations where the beast have had power who makes warr against the life so that the streets have run with blood and all being gone from the life and power of God they set up themselves to be Judges over mens consciences and they who were in the errour they cryed out of heresie and they that are gone from the truth into a lie the ground of Blasphemy they cry out of Blasphemy and under the hornes of the beast and under the heads and the Crownes of the beast what Cannons constitutions edicts and lawes have been in all Nations what trapps ginns and snares have been laid in every Nation yea every home hath pushed and every head hath lifted up it selfe against Christ the head and every mortall Crowne hath advanced it selfe against the Crowne of glory and against the immortall Crowne so that it might be said as Eliah said the altar of the Lord hath been broken down and his prophets and his witnesses slain none hath

THE MEASVRING ROD OF THE LORD Stretched forth over all Nations and the Line of true judgement laid to the Rulers thereof Wherein all Governours and Rulers Potentates and Powers are measured and all Governments and Lawes weighed in the true weight wherein they all may see how far they are degenerated from the Law of Righteousness and the Rules of Wisdome which was in the beginning before Tyranny and Persecution and Rebellion had shewed it selfe Also shewing the end that will come upon all those Rulers and Governments Rules and Lawes that have been made in the Apostacy which is to be all overthrown and all that which is acted out of Gods power to be thrown down by him unto whom all Power is committed Shewing also that they in whom the power of God is made manifest cannot be subject to any Usurper or to that power which is gone from the life of God Also an Advertisement to all the Rulers upon the Earth that they may wait for the Restorer to be revealed in the Nations to make up the Breaches and to crush that down which hath made the Breach that so Righteousness may cover the Earth and gladness of heart may possess the People Published for the information of all the Rulers upon Earth By one who waits to see the Kingdoms of the World to become the Kingdomes of the Lord and his Christ that he alone may rule for ever and ever called FRANCIS HOWGILL London Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1658. The measuring rod of the Lord streched forth c. LIsten oh World hearken oh Earth and all the Inhabitants thereof give eare oh all Nations that are therein and all the Isles thereof draw near ye Potentates thereof ye Emperours Kings Earles Dukes Nobles Princ●pallities and Dominions my mouth shall speake the thing that is right and my lips shall utter forth understanding my toungue shall declare unto you the Counsell of the most high and what he is bringing to pass in the latter dayes he that is higher than the highest hath said he that is greater than the greatest hath spoken the whole World lies in wickedness and thick darkness is over the World his way is perverted his Counsell is despised and all Nations is out of order notwithstanding the multitude of their Counsellers and notwithstanding all their wisdome yet folly is brought forth in the middest of the Nations Because they have asked Counsell and not at the Lord and taken advice and not at the holy One therefore violence is set up as an Ensign and wickedness runneth down as a river and cruelty and opression as a mighty stream the whole Earth is full of folly and madness and all the people thereof are degenerate and grown out of the Image of God into a monstrous and strange nature the prophets are all fooles the diviners thereof are mad and they being degenerate themselves from the life of God have not turned the people from their iniquitie but hath led them into further blindness darkness ignorance and deceit and hath made the Word of truth of none effect through their traditions hath taught for doctrine the precepts of men the traditions of them who are out of the Faith and out of the life and out of the power of God and the Counsellors they have established wickedness by a law they themselves being stranged from the life of God therefore violence is broken forth into the earth as a flood and now all Kings Rulers Potentates of the Earth who have given their power to the Whore who sitts upon many waters and the waters are kindreds and tongues and people and Nations yea all Nations have been drunk with the cup of her Fornication and being all gone forth from the life in which the Prophets and the holy men of God lived in and were established in the Nations are become as waters reeling to and fro hither and thither unsetled unstable there the Whore hath her seate and all having drunk of her cup of Iniquity and Fornication even of mystery-Babylons cup and are inflamed therewith and so reeles to and fro as the waters and are as the waves of the Sea unstable by her who hath made all Nations drunk and by them who have been made drunk with her even all Nations kindreds tongues and people have the Prophets been slain and the witnesses slain and none to bury them not in mystery-Babylon who is drunk with the blood of the Saints and they that have drunk of her cup of Fornication even all the Kings Nobles Potentates of the earth they have acted the like and have slain the appearance of God where ever it hath been brought forth and the red Dragon hath stood ready to devour the heir which is borne of mystery-Ierusalem which is the Mother of all who are borne from above who are heires of the promise of Eternall life and the powers of the earth hath joyned their power to the Dragon who cast out floods of venome after the Child which is brought forth by the woman which is clothed whith the sun and now the powers of the earth taketh part with the Dragon and their authority and dominion that they exercise is by his power which arises out of the bottomless pit and shall goe into perdition and he hath deceived the Nations long and all hath exercised their power against him who is the heire of the promise the first-born of every Creature who is higher than the highest and greater than the greatest and have changed his lawes and made them void and hath set up the law of sinne and death hath established unrighteous Lawes by the power of darkness in which all Nations hath been involved in since the Dragon hath power and whosoever would not obey those Lawes and customs and constitutions the Dragon hath had power and all that have joyned to him for a time to kill to imprison to destroy and they who have been exalted have had thought to weary cut the Saints of the most high and to root out the memoriall of the just that he and all his adherents might reign for ever in the Kingdome of unrighteousness and in the dominion of darkness which is the Devills dwelling place and residence for ever who is at enmity against God and the Children of light which worship God in spirit and truth in life and righteousness Now is the time drawing near and he who is the desire of all Nations appeareth the ancient of dayes is coming whose throne is established in righteousness for ever who will break the head of the Dragon and will lay hold upon him and chaine him up that he deceive the Nations no more and all you Emperours Kings Dukes Earles Nobles Lords and Potentates who have joyned to him your Kingdome shall be rent from you and your hands shall grow weake that you shall not be able to defend your selves against him who travells in the greatness

people and prescribe the Lord a way and a limit in your several Nations and dominions they shall not be able to deliver themselves neither you but the helper and the helped shall both fall together the strengthener and the strengthened shall grow feeble their loines weake so that they shall not be able to stand before him who is the higher power and the greatest digni●y who will rule over all usurpers and over all the children of pride the Dragon the beast and the false prophet and teller of lies shall have their portion in the lake that burns Then shall the ransomed of the Lord and the righteous seed whom the Nations have slain and persecuted the prophets and holy men of God and all that have been slain for the testimony of Iesus rejoice over the deceit and it shall be sung in that day the Lord God omnipotent reigneth who will ascend above all principallities and powers thrones and dominions and tread down all under his feet that the earth may be filled with his glory and behold he cometh quickly in a moment and suddain destruction shall be upon his enemies and the breath of his mouth shall make all melt away that hate the Lord and their remembrance shall rot for ever and ever Therefore oh all ye powers of the earth who are the sons of fallen Adam whose power ariseth out of the earth in which the Devill dwells and the serpent fe●ds who bear rule but not by the Lord who sits as judges in the earth and yet your judgment is from the earth and from below know this you shall all be judged with the just and all your unrighteous decrees lawes constitutions ordinances and edicts which is made in the fallen wisdome you and they both together will be cast aside as a thing of nought and must all be judged with the just therefore repent and turn to the Lord of heaven and earth that you may know his righteouss judgment set up in your hearts and the spirit of in justice and error purged out of your hearts or else you judge not for God for all the lawes constitutions and ordinances which are made in the fallen principle and fallen wisdome to have all these in the head or in the memory so that he may act in a Nation or Kingdome according to the letter of a law prescribed in a Nation that doth not at all make a man an able minister of justice or a magistrate for God for the root being unholy and corrupt and erronious from whence those lawes were given forth the branches is unholy also the ground being corrupt the tree bad the fruit is bad also and so all nations who are degenerate from the life of God their lawes and constitutions doth alwayes imbondage the regenerate so the heart being deceitfull and unrighteous such lawes proceeds forth which doth oppress the upright in heart and all or most of the lawes in all nations are received by tradition from generation to generation since the scattering of Israell who received the law from Gods own mouth by the hand of Moses a Magistrate of the Lord and a judge over Israell and so heapes of decrees statutes and ordinances there is in the nations which doth not answer that of God in the conscience of every man and so that which is pure of God in the conscience of every one cannot be subject to those lawes and tradi●ions but rather suffers as many thousands have done cruell deaths and great oppression all this dark time of Antichrist reign and of the beast in all nations since the apostacy and death raigning over all the sonnes of the first Adam in the transgression death hath breathed forth it self upon the face of the earth for sin entering and death by sinne it rules in the heart and exerciseth his power which stands in unrighteousness and so all mankind in all their acting can do nothing for God but against him and against his people who are redeemed out of the region of death and so all law-givers and law-makers and lawes which stands in the will of man and in the unrighteous principle will the second Adam the Lord from Heaven the restorer of mankind utterly overthrow abolish and take away their power for the law-giver shall come out of Sion who ever in all nations that ever come to see him must see him come from thence whose appearance shall be as a lamp that burnes and he shall change the customes and the times and the lawes and overthrow all them that stands in the curse for he shall lead out of death and out of its path and from under the law of sin and death that all that heares him and comes to be subject to his law shall deny all those lawes in the very ground and bear their testimonie against them which stands in that nature that transgresseth the life and therefore give ear all nations and all Emperors Kings Monarkes Lord Iudges and rulers of the earth in all nations he is come and coming whose right it is to judge the earth in righteousness and the people with equity even he unto whome all judgment is committed and he hath appeared as the sonne of God in the north region of the world in power and majesty and great glory and hath made the mountaines me●t before him and he hath dried up all the springs of Babylon and hath made the Cedars bow and made the trees of the forrest to shake and the sturdy oakes hath he cut up by the rootes and turned a pleasant land into a wilderness and hath made the wilderness to blossome and hath changed the customes allready and hath broken deaths covenant and hath overthrown the mighty men yea even the horse and his rider and hath taken off their chariot wheeles in the day of battail and it hath been a dreadfull day and a sore slaughter as in the dayes of Gibea or as in the valley Jehos●phat and a sorrowfull day hath come and great mourning as Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo for one post hath met another and the news hath been Babylon is taken at both ends and he hath over-run the multitude of Egypt and trampled upon them as the prancing of horses in battel so that the mighty are fallen by him and the strong hath not been able to help themselves against him who hath come as one that trod the winepress and now hath overturned the powers of death hell and the grave and hath broken deathes covenant and will put an end to all changeable lawes and hath and will establish his law which indures for ever ever and now heare all that are left unspoyled are angry and all that worship the Beast are left unslain blasphemes him and speakes evi●l of his name and of his wondrous workes which he hath done in t●is day as in the land of Egypt and in the fields of ZOAN for he hath turned the waters into blood and hath cut all the fresh springs and hath

gets head and is set up as a rule and the law of God both in the Ruler and the ruled is throwne behind their back and so deceit leadeth and the changeable mind acteth it self out in every thing that it hath to do withall and so tyranie and opression spreads over a whole Nation and the just suffers in it And hence it is that there are so many several Laws Ordinances and Constitutions and Traditions and Customs among men in many Nations and Countreys and Regions one differing from another and heaps of confusion that hardly in any Nations or few in a Nation knows what is Law there is so much variableness and changeableness amongst the Lawmakers one while setting up another while pulling down and as deceit advanceth it self in any particular Ruler then there must be a Law made and a penalty upon the non-performance as death banishment tortering whipping racking prisonment fining to the utter destruction of many and all the ground of this is because the Rulers are gone from that of God in themselves and then acts in their own wills and by their craft and deceit which stands in the Ground which is cursed and calls this Christian pollicy and wisdom and cruelty becomes a Law and the Devil keeps his Dominion in the Earth and deceit gets a Cover and hides it self Now it was not so from the beginning For as God is one and his Name one his Law is one which is pure and equal and unalterable and indures for ever and ever Now man being made in Gods own Image answered the pure Law of God and being Gods Image was one with the Law and the Law was not against him but was his life and joy and he had power to obey it for he was of its own nature for as God is pure and holy and the Image which he brought forth man in was pure and holy and that which was mans guide and rule was pure and holy here was unity and purity and he that created and man that was created was in unity and then there was no woe no condemnation no sorrow no death no tribulation nor anguish nor wrath revealed against man who was the Image of God and he stood in the Dominion of God and had dominion over that which was contrary here was no tyranie here was no cruelty no prisons no envie no persecution no killing nor destroying no defrauding no jarre no strife no devouring but all Gods creation at unity and man at unity with God being partakers of his Dominion whereby all the Earth was in order and in that wisdom which changed not and here man had dominion and power and ruled in Gods authority and was guided by the higher power and while he was subject to it death had no power over him now this was before sin entered and before death entred before enmity had appeared in the Earth but now was the Lord King and Law-giver and Judge who ruled in righteousness and man being subject to him there was no Law against him nor no guilt of any thing for transgression was not known in the Earth and there was no curse but all was in unity and peace no changeableness but all was in the covenant all the workmanship of his hand was united unto him and all that he had made was blessed and all the Creation were partakers of his blessedness and all stood in the covenant by which every Creature received power virtue and dominion here was one mind and here was no double no variation no mutation nor change but the dominion of the everlasting God was felt which indures for ever and ever and any other thing was not seen in the Earth but man crowned with honour dominion and dignity wherein could be nothing but rejoycing and pure peace and joy now no evill was known neither was there any such thing but goodness possessed the whole Earth and righteousness breathed forth it self in all things in the circumference thereof and all the works of his hends pleased him and man made partakers of his pleasure and was accepted and not rejected thus in part I have shewed unto you the state of the Earth and of mankind and the glory of Gods Creation and the blessedness thereof but if I could declare unto the whole World from years end to years end I should fall short and words would be wanting to express the felicity and happiness in which man was brought forth in neither shall any be able to see into those things or to declare certainly of those things who come not beyond time to him who is eternal who gave them a being But after man had taken of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evill and had eate of the fruit thereof and consented to the beguiler and to the Serpent sin entered and death by sin man lost his dominion and became subject to another and another had power over him and now the course of nature was set on the fire of Hell the curse entered and man dead while he lives and in that day he eate did die and death breathed forth it self in the Earth and Cain is brought forth in his own Image to wit in the Image of him who was gone out of Gods Dominion and he became a murderer and slew him that was accepted of God and here appeared now the enmity and its life was to destroy and to murder and to kill Abell who believed and offered up a sacrifice and Cain offered in the unbelief and was not accepted so Abell who was just lived by Faith but Cain who was in the envie and in the wrath this life was death to him and to his nature and so all who are out of the Faith are dead while they live Now after the transgression in process of time when the seed of fallen Adam began to increase in the Earth being driven out from the presence of the Lord they spread over the whole Earth and sought many inventions being gone from that of God in themselves by which they were united unto him having broken his covenant and joyned in covenant with death death acts forth it self against the seed which is not of its nature and alwaies sought to imbondage it and to kill it as Cain did Abell and Esau Jacob and Ismael did unto Isaack and unto his seed Now the seed unto which the promise was received the Law from the mouth of the Lord and they that persecuted the seed invented and made Laws of their own according to that nature in which they lived and so became heathenish in their Fashions and Laws and Customs and cruelty grew up as it was nourished and leavened into its own nature and unbelief grew into a mighty stature and monsters was brought forth in such a strange shape in every thing that the enmity did appear in as had not been seen in the Earth before and and so man being gone astray from the life of righteousness every thing is abominable and of a stranger nature