sowing Pillows under great Mens Elbows you will speak a little of Covetousness but much less of blood and oppression and little or nothing of devouring one another for that will touch my self or my parsonage O draw the Curtain there see that God is angry with you and telleth you by his Prophet Micah 3. that ye shall move out of your holes and Ezekiel the Prophet saith The people shall be taken from your mouth and Zachary saith I heard a howling of the Shepherds for their glory was spoiled and Malachy saith Ye rob my Store-house therfore the land is cursed with a curse If ye Ministers should preach against all Impropriations as that ye dare not do for losing your Parsonages lose them and lose all for then preaching will cease and there will be many that will remove our Feet from the Pulpit when every truth shall be defined by two or three witnesses what will becom of us Pulpittians it will be to us as the mourning of Hadadrimmon indeed that is the way to bring down the pride of Palestina and Capernaum exalted so high you Pulpitsayons are set so high as Lord speaker who shall controul you yet your power must come down when your Pulpits shall have never a leg yet the two witnesses shall be upon their Feet to plead for equity and justice which ye do not ye preach for your own ends and cannot satisfie truth alwaies full of repetition but nothing of any new work that God will do in the earth If a lay-man should speak higher things then those you declare you would say as Festus said to Paul that he was mad Ye have slandered many good Christians that have been faithful witnesses to Christ and learned the language from the Heavenly University far passing Oxford and Cambridge Truly we have many Doctors in Oxford and Cambridge that enjoy so much that it is intolerable These blind Doctors Doctor up the Common-wealth and deceive the people impropriating to themselves more then Food and Rayment which is contrary to Christs example they be more in shew then in substance getting to themselves high tolerations which are not of Christ whereof you shall lie under his wrath saying How hard a thing is it for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom Yet take to thy self the instruments of a foolish Shepherd Doctor I am as a fool amongst the Doctors I cannot but tell you the truth for God hath raised my spirit he hath encouraged me to speak of your shame and not to be daunted Some Ministers now of late have made themselves Doctors hoping for some of these great places in Oxford and Cambridge which will prove but veynal or a veyne uncurable that runneth it self out by many obstructions or clashings one against another Minister against Minister there is not that Antipathy nor that Universality for some shall preach up their power and some shall preach it down This Eclipse or terrible shaking will hold until the power of your Priesthood fall at the power of the eternal Priest you must throw down your power at Christs Feet for the Holy Ghost shall be all our teacher Ministers your mouthes shall be stopped Micah 3. you shall not divine you shall no more say to the people Know the Lord for they shall all know me from the greatest to the least and that is by spiritual revelation or by an inward knowing which far passeth your learned places your Colledges are filled with many scandalous Ruffinous Fellows and of a ranting Crew very litteral and not knowing the truth translators and usurping the word of the letter to their own turnes setting themselves higher then the teachings of God thinking lay-men inferior to themselves as if God could not raise up Children to Abraham out of those Stones To be taught of God is the best University for all your wit and skill and univesality of tongues cannot make one godly person for every gift and perfect giving is from above God ministreth grace to whom he pleaseth he is the Minister then how canst thou be a Minister for God ministreth to all things then yeild up thy Priesthood to him he is the Fountaine and all the Streames must go to that Fountaine You Doctors are set so high and shall become low more contemptible then the Bishops were for God will set you as a mark to shoot at or as a lost Jerusalem for the Bittern or Owle to sit in for you have kept all things at a distance blinding the people and keeping them under the letter by the hearing of Faith without inward Faith as if salvation were by the letter and full freedom by the speaker They will not let to say they have begotten souls as if salvation were simply from their teachings And thus they silence the people under their bands Ah go go and tell them so that they silence the people and cannot give them spiritual life but keep them at a distance as a Horse in a Mill alwaies going round teaching them repetition and repetition learning and yet not come to the knowledge of truth but Paul saith Prove all things yet hold fast that which is good Then lay your heads together and ye shall finde the Ministers of our time very faulty They call themselves the Ministers of God and sit in Christs place In the name of the Lord we cast you forth and we discarge your false power for Christ is Adminstrator and you are fleshly and litteral and have no more power to preach then another man for Christ is the Minister of God and giveth us spiritual life to heal our infirmities and he is our example to walk by then lay by your covetousness and pride and follow his example set your selves to know God and then you shall find great comfort for it shall stir up the gift which is the best teaching Ministers cannot live themselves and how should they give life to others they are full of guilt and scandal and yet they accompt themselves high Doctors or Ministers of God when indeed ye are not so but deceivers of the people for there is no Minister but Christ alone though ye stand so high in the Pulpits you must come down at the appearing of Christ in his power when all flesh shall bend both things in Heaven and things on the Earth and things under the Earth shall all be dispowered and dis-throned when nothing shall stand but ordination and that is Christ ordayned a Priest and a Minister for ever he alone is our spiritual teacher and you Ministers are worse then Lay-men for taking upon you that title of Ministery and cannot live free from covetousness which is Idolatry and you are idolatrous Priests which deceive the simple Methinks I could stand an hour or two in your idolatrous places to preach as you do but my conscience informeth me otherwise Therefore I lay the Ax to the root of your one-legged Pulpits to cut them down for you Pulpitsayons must come down and set upon your low
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
defile the Christian Marriage and break your Sabbath-union with Christ to follow Teachers whose breath is in their nostrils and shall down at the testimony and feet of the two Witnesses when all things shall be brought upon record and great Babylon shall come in remembrance and power shall be given to the Saints as Daniel John and Peter declareth Then Doctor look to it for thou shalt be censured by the Church then Kings shall throw down and Lords throw down and Honours throw down and Priests throw down we must all throw down our Crowns and Dignities and stoop to the first dominion Thy kingdom come whose Scepter shall not fade away every pretended Power framed against him shall not prosper If thou callest thy self King it is high conspiracie against the King of heaven so to pollute his holy name for he is that one Lord of the whole earth Now if he be Lord then thy name Lord must down of necessity for God will have his Name known thorow all the earth and before him every knee shall bow Then set not up thy self the greatest climb may have the greatest fall If thy place be never so high amongst men yet it may be but a left-hand-mercy or such a priviledge as will decline and whoever standeth as Lord or King shall fall at the appearing of Christs power And the Prophet Daniel saith They shall fall too that hold them up that is he that giveth the name Lord to a man he shall fall by dishonour for there shall be but one Lord over the earth and his Name one for the name of Baal Monarchy shall be cut out of the earth that assume to themselves such high honour and pollute his holy Name it is an intolerable Witchcraft that shall be cut out of the earth that hath so long deceived the people calling fleshly man Lord and so pollute the name of the holy One of Israel taking his name in vain He is the Lord of the Creation therefore stand up for him and thy liberty O Army Army arm of the Lord stand up for it is given thee That every Power shall perish under thee Army-giddon valley of destruction or a destructive sword shall rise that God will fourbish against all the powers none excepted but his Divine power shall stand that shall govern under him his power shall raign in all places and so far as they keep up the Lords honour they shall stand with prosperity But your honourable-men must fall though they set their names as high as heaven yet they shall come down for the Lord will set on fire the four elements which are not the skies as silly men teach but it is that heavenly power that hath raigned so long and shall now burn at his bright appearing and shall expel all the Witchcraft of the world Secondly the general world must change its course by a more sweet comply of Government and to lay by their outward Idolatry The third element that shall burn is the proud waters Euphrates seven streams of powers shall dry up all the Egyptian powers shall be dissolved and no power shall stand but that of the Son of God The fourth element that shall burn is the Moon and Stars Christ saith Matth. 24. When the light shineth from the east to the west then the power of the Son of man is nigh at hand You know when the Sun appeareth in its brightness the Moon and Stars must give place to that light and it onely raigneth over them so Doctors Ministers and Churches your lights shall go out at his appearing and all your Moonorical powers shall be extinguished and all the Stars called Ministers shall lose their borrowed lights when every one shall acknowledge Christ to be their Minister and live under their own vine So much for the four Elements called the four Constellations which is the Church-power or otherwise called Moon and Stars that shall fail at his bright appearing that the glory of the Son of God may appear from on high and that all may be reconciled to his light declaring him to be King Lord Priest and Prophet the onely called Minister of God before whom every Ministery shall cease onely pleading for truth shall hold with prayer and mourning among all Christians called the great mourning of all the families of the earth every family apart when the brightness of the Son of God appeareth it shall be as the mourning in Hadadrimmon when there shall be trembling and quaking as the Prophets did in their times of danger when there shall be a great shaking that men shall shake Ministers shake and every power shake truely then it behoveth every one to quake and tremble for the Lord will terribly shake the earth the mighty men shall fall the honorable men shall throw down their Honors and shall deny their high Titles of Grace and Worship for all their seenal Witchcrafts shall be cut out of the earth and every Witch that deceiveth the people every Soothsayer shall be found out and every Sorcerer that deceiveth for all things shall be proved upon the Sanctuary thou shalt not worship any graven image which is but an earthly man to fall down and worship before him thou shalt worship God and him alone and not man whose breath is in his nostrils though living in honour yet shall perish as the beasts from his presence as contemptible IT hath always been that wicked Hamans have ruled over the people of God they be called Gog or Haman-Gog that shall be brought under and so low that they shall not act as they have formerly done What have your Pulpittians been all along but as a Gallows to hang up Mordecai's Though I do not say all Ministers are Hamans yet some of that strain have been cruel men called Bishops and for the most part you Priests are much like the generation that fell before Adam so proud that God in his jealousie threw them down They were called the Angels that fell and Royally petype out Ministers that John calleth the Angels of the Churches or the Stars that must fall that have stood so long in the holy place of Christ and now shall be bound down with the world under the name and notion of the worldly kingdom that shall suddenly be bound down for one thousand yeers When Christs power shall raign then Satan and his kingdom shall be bound said to be Haman-Gog that shall have no more power to assail and afflict the people of Christ when the persecuting power is taken off when the Saints shall sit and judge the Ministers which hold up the power of the Beast which stand so high as Lord Speaker to silence the people Ye Ministers are called the abomination sitting in the holy place as Mediators betwixt God and men so high in the place of Christ and therefore Capernaum exalted so high shall come down as lowe as dry bones for Gog and Haman-Gog's bones shall be gathered together and so be buried by the
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
equals Why should ye stand higher then Christ and his Apostles that went from place to place discipling and teaching But for shame some of you Doctors could say your Authority is jure Divino which is a base degree hatched in Oxford and Cambridge and maintained by a prelatical power that one alone may be suprem to preach of himself in his own tongue and all the people give audience to hear one infamous man speak by a primus or supream Authority whereof none may speak but be silenced whether it be right or wrong while they declare forth their own Authority which is the first degree of a lying testimony for one tongue cannot fully make a lawful testimony If one Lawyer plead two mens causes he cannot but use partiality neither can any Minister plead Gods cause and mans cause together it must be Christ the Mediator as a Minister between God and us The truths of God ought to be proved by twelve or by two or three faithful witnesses and that is a truth vindicated and proved according to divine justice and not by one mans tongue preaching in a Pulpit which shall suddenly be cut down and Mr. Presbitian shall stand low among his Fellow-equals Babylon placed so high shall come down to the Dust High Doctor thou countest me a foolish Shepherd yet the Lord is with me to shew thee thy folly for that is truth which is proved by witnesses and by the approbation of the Church for your own tongue is a lye though speak in a Pulpit yet ye cannot silence the people for Saint John saith he heard the sound of many voices and his witnesses shall have power which are they that are within the Covenant or such as shall enter into Covenant to the great Jehovah Ye Doctors of Divinity as ye call your selves ye have preached long in your own tongue to keep the World at a distance you have not been builders but destroyers of the House of God and know ye not the offering of his Temple but have set your selves higher then others exalting your selves by your own tongue as if none could talk of God but Priestbitian or Presbitiry Priests Dictators raised from Oxford and Cambridge but without all question Priestinion must down Doctor I acccmpt my self a fool for I am no good Scribe neither have I been at University to learn the stammering tongue and for that we need not much care unless we were to go to Jerusalem to call in the Jews which shall be some of every Nation that shall be the elect gathered from the four Winds when the Harvest shall appear which is now at hand when the Sheep shall divide themselves from the Goats meaning the procreation of the Jews shall come forth and stand upon their Feet then the World shall be at an end meaning it can work its own end no longer therefore it may be said it is at an end when they can no longer tread over the two witnesses but the Saints on earth shall judge and govern them Doctor I am but a Fool or a foolish Shepherd clothed in sackcloth 42 Months from the year 1650. when the sixth Seal opened the mystery to the end of 42 Months which may be properly taken three years and a halfe about 54 or 55. God hath given me to look for great deliverance to the Kingdom of the Church and that Christ shall raign in power here in England which shall be very Oriential to behold far beyond your learned power and you shall not be Doctor speaker alone and cannot know any true way nor live in any stable righteousness for Christ the Minister of God doth administer life and all quickning power which is the substance of all and you cannot do the same therefore lay down your Ministerial power and accompt your selves as other men let others speak and ye speak to them and so judge the truth among your selves and throw down the error of one mans tongue There hath been many Scholars raised from Oxford and Cambridge swearing voluptuous persons and yet tolerated by your degrees and so become Pulpitsayons another sort have been civil men though not sanctified yet raised by the degrees of learning without any Heavenly substance others have been raised very dunces neither good Scholars nor spiritually of God and yet have worne long Canonical Gownes Lawyer-like whose folly was raised from those two Fountaines and much typeth out the Scribes Pharisees very proud and sumptuous as the Raven that setteth her Nest high to be seen and heard afar off then think they we are secure and yet their Nest must come down for the Pulpit-tree having but one Leg and set so high will have a great downfall Why should disciplying be kept in a Corner so high by one tongue as one Mr. Speaker Ye Doctors Diffinators know this that disciplying must come down among your Fellow-equals and shall be carried by the Feet of the Witnesses from Sea to Sea and from one end of the Earth to another Therefore Christ denied himself and would not be Mr. Speaker saying If I speak my own words my testimony is not true there is one that beareth witness with me and that is tolerable O man why should thy tongue bear down all and silence all the people and cannot prove thy self a Minister of God but sitteth as Scribe in Moses Chair Doctor Pulpittian four things I strike at Thy Pride thy Power thy Calling and thy Pulpit First for thy Pride which is unseemly for a Disciple of Christ to be proud by such carnal policy Secondly Thy Power if it be spiritual it is of God but if a carnal power it cannot stand for he will give power to his two faithful Witnesses and not to one though he be never so wise Doctor it is not that Latine tongue that can be good English Isa 33. calleth it the stammering tongue but ye high Priests and Lawyers take any course to hold up your power The Universities and Innes of Court are fine places for the stammering tongue they be not for the simple-hearted Fools shall not come therein and I am the Fool to tell you so The Prophet Zachary saith Behold thy King commeth riding upon an Ass Now in the time Christs power is appearing a man was better to be a Fool or an Ass then a high Doctor when their power is shaking and ready to fall with the rest of their Pulpittians Doctor the third thing I strike at is thy calling Art thou called of God then shew thy assent if it be of God it is not from those two high places but from a heavenly assent Divinalligy of it is from Christ and that is a true calling But I find your calling is from men wich cannot be a Divine calling but hatched by the learned Dictators which is not from the Divine nature neither doth it savour of Canaan but is derived from learned Art and Skill very traditional and when it goeth down we shall have a new Government on the earth
which I suppose wil be betwixt 50. or 57. or sooner that your pulpits wil down Farther To vindicate thy Calling thou sayest thou art the Minister of God so wise who may gainsay it but Solomon saith There is more hope of a fool then of him that is wise in his own conceit If thou beest the Minister of God then Christ must lose his place or thou shalt lose thine for none can say I am a Minister of God without he be sent of him saying Go or go tell them of my resurrection I doubt you will hardly prove any such calling yet we finde Christ was sent God he sent his Son in the similitude of sinful flesh once for all as the Minister of eternal life then why should men hang upon Doctor Speakers that have learned their skill from Oxford and Cambridge Ye Pulpitsayans must down one witness cannot be tolerated for he appeared to the twelve Apostles and David calleth us the Ends of the Earth that God will appear to Where two or three are met in my name I will be in the midst of them which doth debarre one mans speakal tongue for Christ is Divine of himself and man is to be joyntly as one of the Brethren and shall plead for righteousness among the rest and to live by the teachings of the Holy Ghost without Dictators or cunning deceivers And let all the Doctors high Priests and Prelates know they are but as other men and have the same infirmities not able to stand then no high Priest or Minister but faylable Then let us all talk together of the goodness of the Lord and what he hath done for our Souls acknowledging our sins one to another and pray for one another and give to one another the right hand of Fellowship which will be a sweet savour of goodness to laud the Lord together Doctor I know none but Christs Disciples that were tolerated to preach and not any but such as he said unto Go and learn all the Nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father Son and holy Ghost Mat. 28. he appeared to the two Maries saying Go which was a lawfuller calling then any you can shew and he gave some of his Disciples gifts of healing which you have not received Doctor one mans tongue cannot comparmise nor comprehend the full truth of God as the Church may do by many voyces and witnesses if Christ himself the eternal Priest denyed himself from his own power of speaking how ought you to be cautelous of speaking your own words though in a Pulpit I marvel how Pulpits first came up they be much a kin to your Fonts where ye disciple Babes in Clouts which is as a Monster that shall never come to perfection There be many things more that I may tell you of Malachy 3. saith Bring the Tythes into my store-house as if by an illusion he should say For the Blind the Lame the Fatherless the Widow and the Aged to relieve the Oppressed that men might be eased of Collection to the Poor in every Parish and for all such as want And you Pulpit-men work with your hands as others do for you are almost at the end of your period having so much of the Letter and so much example of Christ that I wonder with Paul when he said Who hath bewitched you that you do not obey the truth Ye Doctors are carried away from Christ by Self-ends and personal interest as great Tythes which is utterly unlawful for them that call themselves Ministers of God and yet rob his Store-house and commit Sacriledge against God Under the Law the order of Gods House was changed by the Priests and the Prophets reproved them for it under whose reproach ye Doctors and Ministers lye to this day in that ye rob God of his interest Bring the Tythes into my Store-house for now I reprove you under the testimony of Christ There was a Treasury in the time of the Apostles and Christ which the people ministred unto and brought in their gifts consecrating their love to Gods house as Joanah and Susanna ministred of their substance to the Treasury and the Widow brought in her mite which was received with great acceptation which way of Gods worship you and the Bishops have strangled Gods House and got those priviledges into your own hands Again I must tell you both Minister and People impropriations would make the poor of such places merry if they might or could have their right given them but we have so many devouring Foxes have stoln them away and you have not pleaded for them in the Pulpits but you falsly keep those benefits to your selves ye blind guides of the people that make clean the outside and the inside is full of putrification These Pulpitians have spoyled the Commonwealth of Israel you have been one of the Hornes of Oppression otherwise we might have had the Government of Christ set up before now which is by Four and Twenty as we may call Governallity which is Governation A Parliament of Four and Twenty which should be for commonality but you have stood so high in your Pulpits that the silly World believeth that your Pulpits were ordained of Christ which were nothing so but arose from Bishops Deanes Chancellors Deacons or Doctors of Divinity as ye call them men of low descent yet raised from those two Fountaines Oxford and Cambridge pethy places for learning of the stammering tongue Christ gave gifts of learning which was not to one but to more then one as if he should say Let no man silence the people as he said John was a burning and a shining Light but I have greater witnesses then that of John for the work to finish so that one mans tongue shall not stand but the talking of witnesses shall manifest every truth for Pulpittian Christ questioneth thy Authority thy People shall speak and thou must answer otherwise the truth cannot be established without much trouble and many witnesses which produceth the grand voyce of the Church And therefore ye Taskmasters down with your Hour-glasses many words in your own tongue cannot satisfie the people neither can you make out truth by your own tongue Noah was a Preacher of righteousness but not in a Pulpit and Abraham preached forth Faith he believed and it was counted for him for righteousness The good life of those two Fathers preached righteousness to the people and so should yours be to act in righteousness without partiality of the tongue It is not the hearing nor the preaching but the doing of righteousness for to enquire the way and not to walk in it is a vain thing We ought all to live up to God in truth and that is the best teaching To disciply and distinguish truths is good learning and the best preaching to answer the things of conscience by the grand power of the Church and not to rest upon the mouth of one teacher neither do I know any Minister after the flesh but like Minister like
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
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
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
the old road but what is that to the setting up of thrones that all clear justice may proceed I can behold nothing but discovery discovery The Scripture saith The moon and stars shall be as the sun shewing a seeming brightness in them all or some equality with the sun which petypeth and prefigureth a great discovery of Christ and his Saints by some new disciplying way Ecclesiastical and Civil We must come to a higher beholding of God which shall be marvelous in the eyes of the remnant when they shall throw off your old customs and forms your Sacraments will be changeable Christ saith That ye do do in remembrance of me till I come And truly that is when he cometh by a new light then all your old forms shall be taken away and to that purpose he speaks of a new Covenant that he will make with the people not according to the old he saith All things shall become new That declareth that old forms must be taken away by a more excellent power that shall stand for the ordering of spiritual affairs and civil affairs brought all into one called The law of Sion that shall be governed by twelve or by four and twenty according to Ordination and so to cut off all forms that have been erected by Bishops and Priests The Lord hath raised me by the degrees of light and still one light hath frustrated another so that the Lord hath followed me with new lights caused me to throw off the old for the Sacrament and Baptism is declared to me as an outward thing and cannot stand when the Lord cometh in power by a new light He saith to his disciples Do as I have commanded you and lo I will be with you to the end It implieth that he will be with his people in the Old and new work but the new light shall do away the old Doctor Presbytian thou cryest Down with water-baptism then why dost thou baptize babes in clouts Paul saith Neither circumcision nor Baptism availeth but a new creature Christ went into the water and I think that to be more tolerable then to baptize babes that cannot understand or speak This difference of Baptism will not be ended until we lay down both the forms of outward discipline And if ye deny it to them of understanding then for shame leave off discipling of babes that have no understanding and let every one chiefly see himself to be a new creature baptized in Christ Jesus by a new Covenant for throwing off old forms and authors of men that be so failable and superfluous so that I find every form must come to the formal power of Christ for he is that all power to settle our differences and to make known the living Gospel to every creature it is far higher then the letter it is the power of Christ that is our true testimony by an inward law of conscience called The two Testimonies called The two Witnesses without which none can savingly prove themselves Christians so that every one ought not to live by the teaching of others but effectually to see something of God in themselves otherwise outward teaching will but intoxicate the brain and cannot restollize thy soul Then look not so much upon outward forms which have no substance in them It is not your Sacraments or Sabbaths or Baptisms or Preachings it is onely something of God within us that moveth us to work righteousness Outward ostentations or customs cannot do it for they are failable When Christ comes to us by true faith those forms must be done away by an higher light called his bright appearing that shall abolish all the Antichristian forms when men shall know God in spirit and in truth without old Popery The Papists look upon Christ by their Crucifix and you look upon Christ by your Forms so that all of you look upon the sepulchre or upon something below Christ giving your selves content and rest in outward shadows THe honourable seat of Justice or two Olive-trees the two branches standing on both sides the bank of the river called the conduit-pipes that receive the Oyl and declare it forth the sweet Odours these two Olive-trees are called the bowls on both sides of the Altar or the two Candlesticks or two Anoynted ones standing before the great God of the earth which indeed are the two Witnesses that shal faithfully plead for all truth at the right hand three on the one hand and three on the other those six shall attend one witness the other witness shall be attended with other six in the same order twelve on one side and twelve on the other four and twenty in number with two Witnesses standing on both sides which may be called the seat of Justice for Christ to sit and rule upon his throne he is the Sanctuary in the midst of them said to be the Altar of gold that shall sit upon the throne of Justice called Davids throne sitting upon twelve thrones which is the ends of the earth or remnant of the tribes Those two faithful Witnesses that shall stand before the seat of Justice shall plead for equity in all considerable places and nations and all such thrones shall be called the seat of Justice they shall put forth Queries and answer as the one declareth the other shall answer in due order so that twelve Senators shall judge and declare their sentence to prove every truth which shall be excellent sweet and amiable so that people shall abominate their earthly Christs that have deluded them so long and look upwards to the minister of God the highest teacher Our Priests are not like the Prophets of old that quaked and trembled when they saw danger at hand there hath been a great deal of difference between the Priests and the Prophets The Priests have ever been proud and high and much sought themselves by self-greatness which doth not prove themselves Ministers of God but stand in a Ministers place as if they were the very Christ which go in sheeps clothing yet ravenous and cruel as the Bishops if they had the same power But for all their Presbytian sting the pricking brier must be taken away that troubleth the Israel of God Christ is the fountain and finisher of the work he sets his foot on mount Olivet and it cleaveth in sunder so shall your Ministerial power be dashed in sunder and happie shall he be called that dasheth your power in pieces for the raising up the dry bone of Israel Christ sent his disciples or by two and two he called fishermen not one man One Priest ought not to stand so high to elevate his own tongue he will not have one speaker but by the mouth of two or three faithful witnesses truth shall be proved from one end of the earth to another though our blind guides see it not Therefore their tongues shall be no more an Allegator it must be two called the two Olive-trees that shall stand before the great God of the earth
so pure in a heavenly shape but the Priests are as Locusts that shall fall under Armegiddon Euphrates shall dry up Oh Army Army Arme of the Lord their power shall fall under thee Priest thou sayest thy power is a spiritual power yet it is but a civil power and therefore it must down and fall before Sion The overthrow of the Bishops was for calling it a spiritual and for their spiritual courts audacious to think upon full of blasphemies set up by an Antichristial power which now is thrown down as contemptible therefore all your civil Christs must down as your Spiritual Fathers the Bishops have done if you call your power Ecclesiastial it is equal with Christs if you call it Ecclesiastical you must prove it from Christs saying Go teach whose ordination ceased after the Apostles so that your Authority of Oxford and Cambridge is void and cannot stand Ephes 1.4 and 5. He hath chosen us in himself before the foundation of the world was laid he predestinated us to the adoption of children by Christ Jesus but not by your Ministery You see the Saints were first chosen predestinated and called before your Ministery stood up and yet you say you are called to convert souls in the Pulpit You Priests must have a hand in the work of renovation though you are not called yet ye run and are not sent to do such works of wonder for it is he alone that doth abound to us in love in wisdom and in prudency Having made known to us the mystery of his will vers 6. according to his good pleasure which he had purposed in himself and not by your means Ephes 3.4 and 5. God who is rich in all mercy hath quickned us which sheweth that it is not your teaching that can do it and elsewhere he saith By his grace you are saved and not of works Then down with these working teaching Christs that can learn the people salvation for it is the gift of God not of works left any man should boast Ephes 2.9 and 10. For we are his workmanship created to good works which God hath foreordained therefore it is properly and fully the work of God freely to our souls but let no durt-dawbing Priest have any hand in thy conversion for it is Gods work Let no swineherd meddle with such a pearl as if they were outward means of mens salvation He alone is our peace who hath broke down the mid-wall of our reproach having abolished the enmity even the Law of Commandments contained in Ordinances by making in himself of twain one new man for peace that he might reconcile both into one body by his cross having slain the enmity thereby Ephes 2.17 He preached peace to you afar off and to them that are nigh so that by him we have access to the Father and not by the Priests of the second hand which have little skill in the creation of salvation it is a secret work of God Let no man say he can teach but let us all be taught of God Minister and People from the least to the greatest let us all covenant to him with one consent and betroth our selves to him that he may take pleasure in his Spouse and his beloved ones may have pleasure in him the All-teacher and come out from their fained Priests the gods of their Temples that call themselves Ministers of God saying The people must reverence them as Embassadors for the works sake as if God had not power on earth aswell as in heaven he is present in all places by his omnipotency and omnipresence and by his immensity and by his all-seeing eye and by his providence that governeth the whole creation and by his inspiration and foreknowing what shall come to pass he spiritually beholdeth all things he alone hath created the earth then doth he not see and teach all and will bring all rule and power under himself Then lay down ye high Priests and say Ye are all taught of God for he will teach us of his wayes The Law shall go out of Sion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem which shall be Christ preaching from the Mount when the people shall give audience to him and cast off their fained Priests which are but as wood and straw whose stubble shall burn before the fire of his jealousie wangeable shall their power be when God shall give power to his two Witnesses and the Law shall preach out of Sion Revel 14. The everlasting Gospel shall preach to every language and nation when all your wrangling Priests shall be forced to lay down because they can establish nothing in order correspondent to his bright appearing therefore they must lay down and say We have spent our time in vain too long and besotted the simple people and yet we have said We were the ordained Ministers of God though we were destroyers and no builders historians that have preached this or that but what of the new work can we do it is not our talking of Peter and Paul that will serve the turn for God will make a new heaven and a new earth by a new discipline Ecclesiastical and Civil he will make all new to do away your carnal formes every form shall cease to a new formality God will make his latter temple more glorious then all the former All earthly builders shall not be found fit for the work of Gods house every flatterer shall be nonresidensed and cast out according to Gods extent and laid open to the sight of the grand Church to be excluded from the common community shut out of fellowship and society with the unsociable and rebukeable When God shall try Sion and search Jerusalem with lights when he shall purge the Sons of Levi and break the constellations that stand so high and remove the stars out of their places when the moon shall blush and be ashamed and all the stars come under his feet when this discipline that now standeth upon crutches shall be taken away then you may declare the great things of God saying He hath formed a new temple wherein all righteousness shall dwell Old things are become new and all fashions and forms are passed away but onely one which is called the formal Power and Government of Jerusalem and God and our Lord Jesus Christ is our Temple The Lord is our light within us he is our Sabbath the Sun shall not burn us by day neither shall the dark Night overshade thee thou shalt continually walk in the light of the Citie of the great King when thou shalt throw off thy fained lovers I mean thy Priests that erre in darkness and know not the true way for God will surely consume the smoak of Babylon and burn up all darkness before himself that he may dissolve the great blindeness and ignorance of the Priests that there may be light in the City that hath lain so long under darkness suspended from the truth lying under thick darkness Therefore we must all come
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
martyrs Come may the Church say Let us eat her up for God hath given her into our hands and Christ shall raign and shall put all authority under his feet IT shall be a peaceable Dominion when Christ shall raign over the Earth by a personal power of Saints that shall fully hold forth the Scepter He shall come to raign in power over the earth till all rule and authority is put under his feet Kings must throw down and stoop to his peaceable Dominion he shall make straight every crooked way his endless Priesthood shall teach when every mouth shall be stopped he giveth peace which the world cannot give he saith Walk in my way I will be your Sun and your light when every form and written declaration shall cease and be no more I would have all men live above the flesh by a heavenly procreation or inclination of doing good and that is perfection indeed for by doing well thou shalt have joy unspeakable which will be as a whole kingdom in thy soul I would have Gods people preach forth restoration and desire to see a full manifestation of things made out as the Lord alone to be all our teacher he is our Protector and not man his Priestly power shall be a peaceable Dominion when Monarchy is put down though Kings and Lord stands in his place and Protectors stand in his place yet who shall stand when he appeareth by a more brighter shining light when all shall be forced to give up their dignities stoop to his peaceable Dominion Isa 66. I will send them to declare my glory among the Gentiles shewing the great day of Jehovah when men shall finally throw down their high titles and then peaceable Dominions shall raign What Priest will plead for my name saith the Lord against them that set themselves so high as Lord and King and set themselves up by earthly enjoyments Therefore God hath raised my Spirit to plead against all the Priests and to lay open their folly that call themselves Seers in Israel and yet keep all things as they were ye have not yet preached the Gospel but denied the Son of God and the power of his resurrection for ye have given his glory to men Therefore as yet ye have not preached the Gospel nor laid your life down as yet for the truth You have declared the History of the Prophets and of Peter and Paul but we have had enough of it without you would preach them out of their Graves But which of you Priests will vindicate life for the eternal Gospel to set Christ upon his throne to say he is King alone and Lord alone and so deny outward honour and acknowledge nothing honourable but the Lord and that is true Gospel thou must tread down all for Christ thou shalt tread upon Scorpions and Serpents and they shall not hurt thee it is the words of our Saviour thou must tread upon Kings Lords and Princes and Nobles and Rulers if thou beest true for Christ he is the everlasting Gospel thou shalt cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils it is the Lord that preacheth peace keepeth all alive fear not man or any power of men formed against the Gospel it shall not prosper when he appeareth Kings must lay down Princes must lay down Protectors must lay down Lords must lay down Magistrates must lay down Priests must lay down thou must lay down and I must lay down the Stars and Constellations shall fail at his appearing the negative voice shall not stand for he will give power to his two witnesses to plead for all truth before a Judgement-seat of the Saints when this Government shall be taken away and changed at his bright appearing when all formed Gospels of men shall be changed to a new Sabbath when men shall be forced to lay down for the Gospel when they shall ascribe to him kingdom power and glory and that is the full end of preaching to set God upon his throne he is the everlasting Gospel of peace and I know no other Gospel but that he should rule above every man in dignity and honor And that Lord man should not pollute his holy name Ye high Doctors may Object saying What is the power of Christ you speak so much of I answer It is the power of God that shall silence the great mens spirits when it shall apear it shall take away their sting as from King and Lord and Bishop that have formerly persecuted the Saints Christ saith All power is given me in heaven and earth and God saith Vengeance is mine I wonder how men dare do as they have formerly done to put an end to some of Gods chosen people by taking away life and free-creation and by silencing some others in prison which is a type of hell and dare not kill them lest heaven and earth should cry out against them as that it hath done long since Ye Ministers go with your hands full of blood by flattering men in their blood-thirsty-way by sowing pillows and cushions under their elbows very loth to tell them the truth from God saying Why do you take away life and free-creation from the creatures of God seeing life and death is in the hands of the Lord then what hath man to do to take away life from any of the creatures of God it is an intolerable thing which of you Priests will ingage for Christ in this cause saying Oh great men I doubt you will sink in the lake of Gods irrecoverable vengeance for vengeance is the Lords and he will give it them to drink for the Soul that sinneth it shall die Let men take heed how they act and see that they act in righteousness better they had never been born then to be bloody persecutors to offend any of those little ones of Christ either by death or imprisonment GOd teacheth us by his Son he is the sure word of prophesie our everlasting Gospel which may reprove the literal teachers that call the Scriptures the Gospel when indeed they are but the writings of men put together as a History but Christ is the eternal mystery Christ Jesus alone is our eternal peace free from failable mixture it is God from the beginning he is the word of life beyond the written word of man so is the eternal decree in paradise and as by a further manifestion of his Son to preach and declare forth all truth far above the writings of men which is not the word of God but mans word spoken in part nd prophesied in part as Paul declareth Therefore the Scripture cannot fully be called the word of God but mens traditions and part of the minde of God they prophesied in part they writ in part they believed in part of the mystery of God but Christ he comes in the volume of the book he is our sure word of prophesie far higher then any Scripture and for that cause Scripture cannot be fully called the word of God except