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The naked mans peace is obedience in a word to the magistrates, priests and people. To which is annexed the will of dead living, and living dead man, now called Nicholas Keate, with a word in generall to all sorts. Written by me Edmund Hide.
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Hide, Edmund.
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Wing H1931A; ESTC R224204
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is propriety so is the peoples the Priest hath a clamorous tongue so have the people the Priest denieth the coming of Christ to be the Resurrection of God in man so do the people the Priest denieth a true Judgment day of God to be come upon the Man of Sin and unrighteousness and that Christ will not bring us to the perfect life of holinesse here and so do the people the Priests have not laid down their lives for Christ neither have the people for if the Magistrates Priests and Lawyers had no greater rewards of men for following the world and its wayes then they should have for following Christ and his wayes it 's possible we should have neither Magistrates Priests nor Lawyers to supply the places they now stand in therefore O ye people give not up your selves to others to be led contrary to what your own consciences guideth you to but walk according to that which ye are fully perswaded of in your own minds for there is a light within you to which if you take heed will lead you into the way of all truth and being guided by that you need not crave the power of the Magistrate to defend nor the help of the Lawyer to plead for you neither need you go to the Priest to direct you for the children of the Lord are all taught of him and they know his voice and the voice of the Hireling they will not hear but if you give not heed nor take not warning by him he will scatter the Sheep with the Shepherd and deliver you up together for destruction And be it known unto you all that I have not writ this out of envy to any mans person but I have written it to that end to shew you the envy within you and that enmity is Judge when you condemn without cause therefore take notice that I do not condemn the Magistrate for punishing evil doers but those that do well and such are all those that in obedience to the will of God go forth to manifest the things they have seen and heard from him neither do I condemn the Lawyers seeing there is a right amongst men for endeavouring to help each man to his right but for coveting the reward or fee more then the pleading the cause of the simple neither do I condemn him that stands in the place of a Minister of the Gospel for doing righteousness but because he doth it not but walketh contrary to the life of Christ as it was made manifest amongst the sons of men God is my witness that this is the last Will and Testament of me the dead living and living dead man who am called Nicholas Keate and have my residence in Harevvel the first of May 1655. Yea God and God only is my witness First I bequeath my soul to the giver and taker of all good things God blessed for evermore Amen as for my body or composed mind of inventions it is the Serpents meat worms shall have it to heritage but the Lord giveth the earth to the children of men Psalm 115. The Lord giveth and he taketh yea he giveth all and I take and I give and keep nothing back for I must serve the Lord my God with all my heart and all my mind and strength honor belongeth unto God but shame and confusion unto the sons of men therefore am I no more neither have any more neither live I any more but the Lord only therefore that which the Lord hath lent me and that which the Law of this Nation doth and must give me do I give and bequeth all and every thing unto the Saints which excell in vertue I I am the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Iacob it is the God of the living that giveth and taketh at his pleasure whose name is Power and Strength and is holy and blessed in himself it is even he which turneth men to destruction and then he saith Come again ye sons of men come and sup and dine with me saith this holy Father to his Sons and Daughters for in my house are all manner of varieties with abundance of plenty I need nothing of yours saith this Father save your obedience what would vain man give unto the Lord seeing the beasts on a thousand hills are mine saith he whose nature shall put fire on all the combustible matter of the earth and sacrifice it at his pleasure I do write unto all that are far and neer to the end that they might know that this is the Lords will and not the will of a carnal minded man for if I had and my had and self had did lord it over me I should be as all the world are worshipping the creature more then the Creator and adore it as God he hath ordained the fruit of my lips and that is peace peace to all far and neer all old things pass away I have no peace but in the new heavens and the new earth for all my earthly substance is become as dead Carrion drawn out for all the souls to feed on therefore it is the Lords will and that is my will that it may be laid wast from propriety and self-interest ever hereafter therefore let it remain as the Lords free inheritance to shelter succour and to be a place of refuge for the fatherless the widows and strangers I mean such widows and strangers as know no man nor any thing that belongeth to man after the flesh and such are all the fatherless they will own no father on earth nor call any man Master on earth for as the Lord hath bruised me and made me to disown all relations of the flesh and of earth and earthly things so will he deal with many thousands and they shall know the Lord in truth and in righteousness and when be hath made us a poor people he will turn to us a pure language therefore naked yea stark naked hath the Lord appointed me to appear before multitudes of people to shew that your hearts ought to be unvaried and uncovered and become innocently naked before the Lord as I am in body and mind and that not only so but he hath made me a sign to shew that all covetous self-seeking worldlings such as I was may hereafter become to obey and do as I have done even resign up all as the Lord hath commanded me so that I dare not say I have one penyworth of any thing left me of many hundred pounds worth of that which heretofore I called mine own and was so by the Laws of this Nation I know men will pass their votes that I am mad or drunk but be it known unto you all people that I am in my right sober mind only the hand of the Lord is strong upon me prevailing over all that follishnesse and unrighteous actions that I have heretofore and the world now liveth in and are glorying in their own shame and unrighteous selfish actions but the Lord hath made me