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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85109	The phanatiques creed, or A door of safety; in answer to a bloody pamphlet intituled A door of hope: or, A call and declaration for the gathering together of the first ripe fruits unto the standard of our Lord, King Jesus. Wherein the principles, danger, malice, and designe of the sectaries, are impartially laid open.		1661 (1661)	Wing F402; Thomason E1055_14; ESTC R208007	10,041	16

Jacob and suffer then for whom his precious blood was shed to fall before Papists and Cavaliers and prophane drunken damning swearing Idolatrous Adulterous wicked and ungodly men and should suffer the Cause of the Papists of the bloody Family of the Stuarts of the old bloody Popish wicked Gentry of the Nation of the drunken dumb Popish scandalous Clergy to get the upperhand of his own Cause and should suffer all our Reformation to be lost then what would become of his great Name It was because he could not bring them into the good Land will the Enemy say that he has destroyed them in the Wildernesse What will become of his promise made to Abraham Isaac and Jacob and their Seed How will the New Covenant sealed with the blood of Christ and the Oath he sware unto David in his holyness be verified Now therefore to come to the matter of our Declaration that we may lay the Ground-work of so great a Building and stir up and provoke our Brethren in all the Countries as also in the City of London to share with us in this honour and be partakers in this work and now to prepare themselves and in all points to be ready in order to a general rendesvouzing on Mount Zions bottom We declare c. Thus far the Saints Call to the Standard Now Their Declaration which consists of Three Heads 1. The Renunciation of Antichristian Magistracy Ministry Tithes c. 2. The Establishment of Civil Liberty upon the Foundation of the Visible Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ 3. The manner of Disposing of the Spoyle which shall be taken in Battel The Substance of their First Proposition runs thus page 9. We contend for a Righteous Magistracy that may be a terrour to evil doers and a praise to them that do well and for a true Gospel-Ministery with their Maintainance And we own and declare our Lord Jesus Christ unto whom and whose Laws we will alone submit as unto him who is the Fountain and Original of all just and lawfull Power to be the Supreme Head and Law-giver of these Natious the alone LEGISLATOR who has right to make and give Laws for the governing of the Commonwealth and who is King of Saints and Nations whose Royal Laws and Precepts must be submitted unto in Church and State and Tyranny Monarchy and Antichristianism destroyed and rooted up in both his Laws and Statutes contained in the Holy Scriptures and remaining in force since his death to be the Law by which these Nations shall be governed and judged and his Saints without respect had to any particular form or judgement on whom shall rest the spirit of councel and wisdom shall be the Administrators thereof or shall have the executive Power So shall we have Magistrates like Job that will be eyes to the blinde and feet to the lame and Fathers to the poor that will break the jaws of the wicked and pluck the spoil out of his teeth Job 29. And we shall be the blessed of the Lord whose habitations shall be full of the blessings of heaven and earth and full of Peace on the foundation of Truth and we shall be the happyest people in the world having the best Laws and the best Governours Deut. 4.6 7 8. Having in a word said enough of the Second Head concerning Civil Liberty I passe to the Third Page 10. which sayes That the chief of the Spoil which shall be taken in Battel and all the Estates which shall be forfeited through Treason and Rebellion shall be brought into one common Treasury according to the Word of God Their Gain shall be consecrate to the Lord and their Substance to the Lord of the whole Earth Mic. 4.13 That it may not feed the Fowles of Prey or enrich and corrupt particular Person as of late but carry on the Work of God with the Army of the Lamb in which every Souldier shall be sufficiently provided for by a certain honourable constant Revenue issuing out of the said Treasury according to his Place Degree Services and Family And for accomplishing and attaining these great and weighty ends we Declare also for the Razing Destroying and perpetual Rooting out of the whole Constitutions and Foundations of the Antichristian Laws and Government of these Nations for the removing of Taxes Tythes Excise and Customes also so far as Oppressive and unlawfull slavish Tenures of Land Oppressions of Landlords Monarchy and Lordship as well in Church as State so also in Cities Societies and Families wherein the Rights of younger Brethren will be vindicated according to Law the nature whereof is Justice Mercy and Equity wherein is no footing for such fictions as this wicked Law teacheth to distinguish between Courts of Justice and Equity and the Nimrod-spirit and Monopolies of elder Brethren unto whom as Kings in the Family the younger Brethren are Slaves and Subjects which is one grand branch of Tyranny and Interest of Monarchy pulled down whose Interest neverthelesse by right of Primogeniture is asserted according to the Kings Law to wit two-fold For the ballance of Lands must be adaequate to the Government of the Common-wealth And as our great desire is to take off all yoaks and oppressions both of a civil and spiritual nature from the necks of the poor People so shall we endeavour to cast the wing of Protection over them their Persons Families and Interests to preserve them from Free-quarter Plunder and all other Injuries and violence whatsoever being resolved first to offer up our own proper Estates for our necessary maintenance For it shall be our great and indefatigable care to preserve an excellent and strict Discipline in our Army that not the least wrong of how small value soever may be done alwaies respecting Propriety so that all Persons other than such as shall oppose and rebel against this righteous Interest may expect the fruition thereof in their peaceable Demeanours of themselves in their lawfull Occasions and Family concerns Our Pamphleter's next Care is the Free Course of the Gospel and he tells us for our comfort page 11. That the Remnant of Jacob shall be as dew from the Lord when Magistrates and Souldiers shall preach the Gospel and teach the people knowledge as well as those appointed unto the Word and Doctrine for this Cheat of the Whore of Rome and Innovation of Antichrist Monopolizing the Work of the Ministry to make a trade of the Gospel and Slaves and Souls of men into their own hands limiting and appropriating it unto Persons in Ecclesiastical Offices shall be taken away And finally We most earnestly desire and call all that love our Lord Jesus Christ and wait for his Kingdom to offer themselves willingly with us in this Work that as in that renowned History Judges 5.9.14 15 16 17 18 23. Out of Ephraim there may be a Root of us against Amaleck after thee Benjamin among thy People out of Machir shall come down Governours and out of Zebulon they that handle the Pen of

driven forth our Enemies here in these Nations and when we shall in a holy Triumph have led our Captivity Captive to sit down under our Vines and Fig-trees but to go on to France Spain Germany and Rome to destroy the Beast and Whore to burn her Flesh with Fire to throw her down with violence as a Milstone into the Sea that she may be found no more at all Rev. 18.21 Jer. 51.35 to bring not only these but all the Nations to the subjection of Christ that the Kingdom may be the Lords and to perfect the deliverance of all the Saints the remnant of the Waldenses and all the Children of the Free-woman who are yet groaning and crying under the Tyranny and Persecutions of Antichrist and to avenge the blood of all the Martyrs which we earnestly remember and which is an especial motive unto us the cry of which is very loud in our ears and much more in the ears of God unto whom vengeance belongeth And this is much more than a National Quarrel that which is the Test now being the interest of Christ the blood of the Butcher'd Murder'd Martyr'd and Massacred Saints the Interest of the good People the Liberties of all men and the undoing of all the sinfull oppressions and yoaks of the whole Creation The Controversie now lyes between Zion and Babylon Christ and Antichrist and therefore we assert That it is lawfull for the true spiritual Seed the legitimate Heirs of the promises and the World Rom. 4.13 To RISE UP against the carnal serpentine accursed seed who are the destroyers of the Earth Ren. 11.18 To possesse the GATE of their Enemies to bind their Kings in Chains and their Nobles in Fetters of Iron And we being called of God and cut out without hands or human contrivement in whom is shewn forth his Power RISE UP on Gods behalf free from the guilt of the breach of Oaths and Covenants upon our Consciences to conflict with this profane persecuting Spirit of the Dragon and the Worshippers of the Beast that dwell on the Earth And we Call all that have a Life to lay down for their King and Saviour to come forth against them with the Sword and execute upon them the judgements written Are you a poor despised Remnant why God has formed you for himself As Christ was a tender Plant and a Root of dry Ground so may his Kingdom arise out of a poor obscure illiterate and such as the World calls Fanatick people And out of them shall come forth the Corner the Nail and the Battel-bow we look for a righteous Spiritual Magistracy out of the new sharp threshing Instrument From hence after another Page divided betwixt Raylings against Bishops Ceremonies and Cavaliers and the Recommendation of a well-order'd Commonwealth which he sayes is Intended by his Kingdom of Christ having Called in All to his Assistance that either Hate the One or Love the Other he pronounces the King to be a Profest Enemy a Rebell and Traytor to Christ Page 5. And half a dozen Lines further Shall wee Quietly sayes he give up our Necks to the Yoke and suffer the Common Prayer Organ c. to be imposed on us Is Israel a home-born Slave that we should bore the Ears of our Souls and Bodies in their Posts What can we expect from them if we will not take their wicked Oathes of Supremacy and Allegeance that which we cannot doe though we should Dye because they are against both the Priestly and Kingly offices of our Lord Jesus c. Did but this Miserable Creature Think of Christs Doctrine while he Prates thus Impertinently of his Offices he might Remember that we are to Obey not to Destroy our Governours for the Lords sake Does not our Blessed Saviour say himself My Kingdom is not of this world But why do I contest with Whirlwinds or with Shadowes with a Phantôme that is nothing but Fury and Delusion To Follow him through All his wandrings he runs himself Quite out of Breath in the next Leaf against Popery and the Design of Crushing the Reformed Interest He tells us further of Massacres design'd by the Jesuites but whether by Those of the Society of Jesus or These of the Kingdom of Jesus may be another Question Upon the Whole he concludes the Necessitie of Taking Armes and here followes his Christian Invitation to that Purpose Page 8. Who so loveth God his Country or his own Rights which Christ purchased for him by his Blood and cannot sell his Body Soul and Conscience to the Devil to wicked men and their lusts to commit sin with greedinesse and run with them to the same excesse of all manner of filthinesse and wickednesse must now take up the Sword against this Beastly crew as the last remedy God has left us for such is the unparallel'd iniquity of this day we hope the Devil is playing his last game in England that a man that hath but Sobrietie in his looks can scarcely passe without the brand of Fanatick And these men themselves have set us free from the Bonds of Subjection for we have no benefit by the Government of this bloody Family neither are we comprehended within the Verge of their Protection Wherefore they cannot justly challenge any obedience from us by the Law of Nature or Nations For a man is not bound to pay him Subjection who seeks his Destruction But although The Children are brought to the birth there is no strength to bring forth the hour is now come and we are travelling in pain to be delivered for the Name of our God the Noble and Precious Interest of his Christ and the Deliverance of his Saints and People and O how are we straitned till it be done We have been with much fear and trembling in this Work and much wrestling have we had with the Lord for so far as he has revealed our selves unto us we had rather suffer all things not only to the losse of our Names and Estates but even our very Lives for his sake who since we believed is made precious to us then dishonour his great and holy Name and our Souls are sweetly quieted in the Lord and abundantly satisfied in the time and certainly if we be deceived God has deceived us And now the Love of Christ has constrained us in the face of the greatest perils and dangers none of which move us so we may finish our course with joy and serve our Generation in the works which God has committed to us according to his will And we professe we have nothing but the naked Arm of the Lord to trust in and if we perish we 'll perish in believing his promises in serving and promoting his Cause in cont●nding for this Noble Truth of the Kingdom of his dear Son And this is our joy that our God has bound himself by his Promises in his fear we speak it and with reverence to appear for his People And if God should not appear for his poor Remnant of