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A93935	An iron rod put into the Lord Protectors hand, to break all antichristian powers in pieces. Or, A discourse, which tends to a spirituall war with all sects and self-opinions, which are the Churches enemies: wil bring Englands everlasting happiness, and joyn all other lands into the body of Christs Church, to serve God with with [sic] one consent, Zeph. 3.9. All which was discovered to John Sanders of Harburn, neer Brimingham [sic]: by true apparitions, revelations, and many several visions, as the second book sheweth.	Sanders, John, of Harburn.	1655 (1655)	Wing S575; Thomason E842_23; ESTC R203488	52,643	75

is me if I declare not faithfully that which the Lord declareth to me either to King or Parliament Gourteous Reader some Errours have escaped the presse yet but one worth observation In page 38. line 32. for Monday read Wednesday The Table of the First Book FIrst here is shewed in this Book to your Highness and all others that please to hear or read it a Petition to move you with all expedition to goe about the work of God to finde out true Religion for the beautifying of Gods Church and then to build it up Page 1. Secondly the manner and time how Davids Tabernacle fell as well from the Christian Gentiles which were in Gospel-covenant as it did from the 12. Tribes of Israel in Rehoboams time under the Law and how there was never no true Religion in one body since they parted p. 2. Thirdly a short description of the Protestants ruinating in this land by this late war p. 5. Fourthly the true manner described how Davids fallen Tabernacle should be begun to be raised as in the dayes of old Amos 9 proved by Law and Gospel-rule to be the true Channel for the Church to run in first in this land and no other way then this can be proved which wil bring the whole world to one union of faith to serve God with one consent Zeph. 3.9 p. 6. Fifthly what a wilderness infectious poysoned and scattered condition the Church and people of God are in for want of a Church-government according to Patriarchal Prophetical Apostolical and Discipled orders the true manner of which is laid down in this Book p. 13. Sixthly true comparative signes first by the Stars secondly by the Moon that Christs true Religion is ready to breake forth into beautifulness more then ever it was in p. 15. Seventhly a godly direction and admonition for his Highness the Lord Protector to take the like care for the chusing of a High Priest to be Head in chief for Christs Church as Abrahams eldest servant did for a wife for Isaac the figure of Christ Gen. 24. This wil be the beginning of a fifth Monarchy under Christ Eightly the manner of the High Priests receiving of the number of 12. Apostolical Bishops to be Head Fathers of the 12. spiritual Tribes of Israel which are now scattered abroad Jam. 1. by the holy order of laying on of hands and of his and their receiving the number of 70. under them to make a body above the ordinary Ministers of Christs Church p. 22. Ninthly the true manner how to prove them whether their calling and election be of God or not by going to a spiritual war which is a contending for the faith or casting rods and lots with all Sects and self-opinions which are the Churches enemies Num. 17.18 Matth. 27.55 Joh. 19.23 Iude. p. 25. Tenthly the manner of the Whore of Babels fal and all false forms in one day in this land to be a patterned example for the whole world to follow and for the calling of the Jewes Turks Pagans and Infidels to the true faith p. 27. Eleventhly it sheweth the glorious time of the new Jerusalems situated government and of the Churches glory p. 31 Twelfthly it sheweth how that King Charles the Second-is appointed by God to be his chief King under Christ over the whole world and the Lord Protector if he will be obedient to the word of the Lord to be the second under him as Abrahams faithful servant to be chief Ruler for the King for by their agreement the Jews and Turks are to be called p. 36. And all that assist them and are faithful in their places that are now in power and wil be obedient willingly now they see Gods truth and righteous peace ready to break forth to yield to God and his true anointed King if they lose a Captaines place Major Colonel or General which now is held by troublesome fear then it wil be no more loss to them then theattaining to a Knight Lord Judge Earle Duke or Deputy King or Prince by this peaceable agreement til the end of all things come to dissolution over this Land and many more for them to be Governours As I am commanded of God to threaten those that have gotten into other mens possessions contrary to godliness or good consciences and so prove themselves by it to be enemies in that to Gods glorious Gospel and the Primitive Churches practice so I am commanded of God to threaten all with the danger of their own ruine and the displeasure of God that will not forbear plotting and mutyning and so hurt the Kings agreement Doe you think it is possible to stand in a strong wind and throw chaff against the wind and it not fly back upon you Do you think it is possible to doe Gods work before his time be It is but the Devils policie to cause you so to think God is neer arising to deliver his people and to restore his Church Therefore wait patiently till the time be for the day is neer a dawning TO HIS HIGHNESSE the Lord PROTECTOR MAy it please your Highness to vouchsafe the reading of this little Book which God caused me your servant in the Lord Iohn Sanders to indite unto you who hath come oftentimes on purpose to speake with you being compelled by the power of the holy Ghost which enableth me to foretel things to shew you what Gods wil is toward you if you will believe and obey the Lord. O my Lord wo is me if I be either fearful or negligent to give you and all others warning since God hath called me and shewed me a sword of Justice which proceedeth out of his mouth which he is now arising to draw forth not onely against you and your power but against all the chiefe governours of the world unlesse speedily you and they deny your own wayes and imbrace Gods wayes Those that so doe it shal go wel with them My Lord I shal in these first lines forbeare making use of any other mens labours study or Scripture phrases lest you should rather think it to be brain knowledge then the dictates of Gods Spirit I conceive your Highness believeth that where God appears by visions and Christ takes up the roome the holy Ghost carrieth them on by a real true power they wil be so guided and shewed Gods waies and wil according to their gift and talent to write or speak the mind of God without either study or natural parts when God pleaseth The Scriptures are given of God to be as a touchstone for them that feare God and obey his wil to try the spirits whether they be of God therefore let them be your Judge but have especial care of wresting them endeavour to let them arest you in this life and you shal have rest in the life to come Truly my Lord if such like counsel which natural men wil not own but count foolishness doe not guide you you wil not only stumble in points of Religion as many

Angels with the names written on them of the twelve Tribes of Israel and the Lamb and his twelve Apostles which are the chiefe Founders and Builders of this glorious situated government Wee must understand that as the judgments of God first began at his own house in this Land so God wil have his house restored and built up again to be as it were a pattern for the King and Lord Protector to frame and set up their State-government by For a● there is to be appointed by God twelve Apostolical Bishops under a Head spiritual Father to be the Leaders of the Church so far as their power can wel be able to rule so likewise it is convenient to have 12. temporal Judges in chief under one Father the King so far as their power is wel able to extend in every division which being thus done according to order righteousnesse and true holinesse every Kingdome wil then become the Kingdome of our Lord and of his Christ Rev. 11.15 16 17. So then the King being as Abraham or Moses in chief under God the Father Exod. 4.16 he must be as Moses was to Aaron as it were a God to the High Priest or Arch-Bishop The High Priest or Arch-Bishop representing Isaac and Rebecca by a Melchisedech-order of Christ must be as it were a chiefe Prophet to the King as Aaron was to Moses And the twelve chief temporal Judges and the twelve Head spiritual Bishops which make the number of 24. Elders must cast themselves down with all their government both for Church and State to give all praises to God the Father and his Son Christ Jesus for judgment given to the great Whore and the other 70. discipled Elders wil doe their office as God wil appoint them to and carry them on by the power of the Holy Ghost And the High Priest shal then weare no more polluted garments but God wil cause him to have change of rayment and a fair Diadem or a Micre on his head as Aaron had And then the Church wil begin to flourish in a glorious manner This fifth and last elect 70. wil by Gods assistance beautifie the fifth Monarchy and God wil carry on this last 70. under the High Priest and the 12. Apostolical Bishops which are to be heads of the 12. spiritual Tribes of Israel Gods holy spirit guiding these and going along with them they wil build up the truth Church better and firmer then ever it was before advancing the true worship of God above all Zach. 3. And they wil give example for the Judges and State-officers to follow them in like manner for the spirit of Daniel wil be among them standing in the Lot the dark letters and the hidden mysteries which are to be revealed to man God by these wil unseal and God wil esteem of them as his dearest Jewels These wil be guided by the Holy Ghost to doe as Solomon exhorteth to purge the tin and the drosse from the go Iden and filver governments The two famous Universities and Schooles of learning shal be made pure fountains by these from whence the sincere milk of Gods word shal flow for the nourishment both of Church and State to feed the flock and people of God as the breasts of Sarah and Rebecca did nourish Isaac and Iacob Then shal all houses of hospitality and religious store houses be setled established according as is intended to their right end again the store houses to be rightly erected without either Idolatry or Superstition for an account of the Tithes and other things to be brought in thither that their may be provision for Gods house for all necessary uses that belong thereunto according to the word of God that being their guide and all parish Churches and Places that are or have been appointed for Gods worship as neede requireth to be desently restored to their Priestine adornments to make them the beauty of holinesse as Gods word requireth without superstition or idolatry as Paul saith Let all things be done decently and in order and the Ministery for every degree rightly to be restored and they to have their charge and orders from the Apostolical Bishop and Discipled Elders of their several limitted Diocesses in all degrees as belong to the Ministerial office to be as careful of their chargeover every Parish according to Vrim and Thummim soundnesse of Doctrine and integrity of life and to be as careful over all sorts of people that belong to their congregated charge in all needful degrees as great rich mens Shepherds must be over their folded or pastured Sheep which were onely kept and appointed for that end if any of their flock be lost by the Shepherds negligence as earthly Masters wil look for the price of the sheep at their hand as is hired and kept for that end Zeph. 3.9 Saith the Lord surely I will turne to the people a pure Language that they may call upon the name of the Lord and serve him with one consent Lord hasten this time In this time of the kingdom of glorious grace there shall no man need to ask the wayes of God of Lay men but we shal all be taught of God and fed with the sincere milk of Gods word which floweth from the mouth of Gods messengers the true Ministers Every neighbour and private man to follow his temporal calling living in unity amity and true Christian brotherly love saying one to another where sin and envy hath heretofore abounded so now true love grace shal much more abound serving God with one consent saying one to another Come let us go up to the house of the God of Jacob to learn of his true Shepherds and Ministers We may wel conclude believe this to be the time that the whole earth wil be filled with the knowledge and glory of the Lord as the waters covereth the Sea Yea much more must the Minister Shepherd or Watchman give an account both to God and them as God hath set over them of their charge for if any be lost for want of their care their blood God wil require at their hands Ezek. 33. The same charge lieth upon me or any other that hath a message to declare from God to your Highnesse concerning the seeing of a sword or a judgement or an alteration of the times we must not fear to declare the mind of God for the displeasure of either King or Potentate if we doe whensoever it be they die in their sins or ignorance for want of having warning by the seer that God revealeth it to they shal die and their blood shal be required at his hand For by this which I am to declare to your Highnesse I am appointed of God to assure you and the whole Council of State that although other powers of the late several choices for Church and State have not sought Gods ways but their own yet those that God wil perfect his work by he wil have them to deny all to follow

Christ although the other selfeseeking powers took not Solomons counsel who exhorted them to take away the evil counsel from before the King and the Kings Throne should be established according to righteousnesse but they wilfully and unadvisedly took away the King instead of his evil Counsel to establish themselves by it in great places these natural warriers did it unadvisedly by spiritual blindnesse yet the thing could not be omitted because it was long before so determined of God These spiritual warriers will restore his son again to the royal Throne to be supream in more Dignity and Majesty then ever his Father enjoyed it to be established in and by peace if God harden not the Churches enemies to their own destruction as he did Pharaoh and his host neverthelesse whatever the malice of Satan and wrath of wicked men do endeavor themselves against the ways of God yet it wil be at last for their greater ruine that withstand the wil of God the more violently they withstand it the more God wil be glorified by their destruction which wil come upon them like a suddain whirlewind when God ariseth to deliver his Church Fhr God and his chosen as he will doe his work by he wil cause them to restore every thing in the right order both in Church and State which hath been displaced and disjoynted this many hundred yeares and so he wil preserve it til the end of all things come to dissolution because God hath the hearts of all Kingly Potentates in his hand to dispose of them as pleaseth him either for the establishment of a Nation in peace or the remove of them by war I must needs be bold to speak and declare my conscience in the presence of God and the like to all the world Concerning King Charles his Life and Death that for ought I could ever see or heare upon ground or proofe waving afide envious or slanderous aspersions cast upon him that are now plainly seen were cast upon him to carry the design of his enemies on against him in a violent way as things were laid to Davids charge that he never knew of If Christ were so wronged by false witnesse and put to to death and his Apostles Martyrs and Saints and the holy men of God in all ages let no man judge the worse of him for his untimely death for there is a righteous Judge that knoweth all therefore let every man begin to judge his own heart and there he shal find himself to be in a great high rebellion against God and guilty of high Treason The meanest creature as God made for our necessity and servile service in their nature doth condemn us in the things they were created for so they remain stil I cal God to record I speak nothing in his behalfe no not a word more then I would for any man else for God caused me to fortel his overthrow and I have had great losse and trouble by some that were of his Army yet I have been long assured and caused to write and speak how that he was the Lords anointed King and that his conscience being firm to maintain the ancient Rights of the Protestant Church was the cause of his death Furthermore I am forced to foretel how that his Posterity and Heire wil come to enjoy the Crown And this I am caused and compelled to speak as I have heretofore foretold by the power of God of the greatest remarkable changes and chances as have fel out between King and Parliament neer this 12. yeares past which is all come to passe since but onely the manner of Church-government and the Kings Son being restored to his Fathers Throne and in what manner if any man wil needs ask me what ground I have for it I must needs tel him it is the witnesse of Jesus which is the spirit of Prophesie which hath carried me on in this manner Not that I can fortel any of these things by any power of my own or by any natural Art but when it pleases God to compel me then I cannot forbeare to goe As for King Charles his life they could speak no other of him when he reigned in peace but that he was a loving godly peaceable Prince sticking close to the fundamental point of the Protestant Religion I butsaid many he was almost turned Papist but they that cast that aspersion upon him first soone after when they had made many beleeve that then they said the Common-prayer and the Protestant Religion was all Idolatrous Popery and so they esteemed Charity a while after I judge noue that were the instruments of the Kings death I with great fervency of spirit pray that his bloed may not cry to Heaven for vengeance like Abels but like our Saviours for they that were the instruments did not know what they did God hiding it from their eyes by their spiritual blindnesse as the Jews that put Christ their heavenly King to death I fully believe that this City of London wil be a second new Jerusalem ordained by God to reigne over the Gentiles I speak not this by any prophetical command of God but by permission and several natural reasons as cause me so to think You know Paul was a great man in discernment of the wayes of God by Visions yet he spake many things by permission more then onely Gods immediate command at all times to him but this by the power of God and his holy spirit that I hope dwelleth in me and I trust wil alwayes guide me in all my wayes by his holy spirit in the way of truth both in speaking writing walking and talking I wil shew you As our Saviour Christ was envyed by the Pharisees and put to death by their Counsels but not against the ordination of God by those hard hearted Jewes yet Christ prayed for them and his death was a destruction to their Religion even of those wilful blinded Jewes that put their King Christ to death by the Souldiers who guarded them to doe it Even so wil it prove in the end with those Pharisalcal Presbyterians that first put to death their High Priest raised up some of the Army which caused the King to be put to death also they gave the first onset by their preaching and covetous lives to raise Sectaries and Herifies to be the instruments to doe it it could not be omitted it was both permitted and long so before determined that he should be cut off by an Army and a flood of-Heresies Dan. 11. Hos 10.3 4 7. The King he imitated Christ and Steven in praying for his enemies and to be a meek man and a godly Christian Prince standing firm for the Protestant Covenant But by the Bishops death which none but the Presbyterian Priests were the cause of that every one of them thinking to reign as Bishops by it some of them gave the first onset to set others against the King But the death of the King and the Arch-bishop which all Sectaries thought

bed and went to bed again A while after being something warm in my bed the Lords Angel gave me warning that I must undergoe the strongest temptation that night as any man had endured yet the Lord would uphold me in it Dear friends it was no dream nor fancy for I was awake and had my perfect memory A little while after there was as it had been a book opened in my conscience I cannot forget the remembrance of the letters stil and there was laid to my open view and memory all the sins that ever I had offended God either by omission or commission and the Lord assured my conscience they were forgiven assuring me that they were buried in the Sea of Christs blood That was no sooner past and another Book opened but there came into my mind a remembrance of al my dealing between man and man and there was found no accusation against me but onely for 4 d. which had been neer six years past For the first journey that ever my Master sent me out with iron ware he sent me three dayes journey from his house to a place called Chessom in Buckinghamshire and before I came home againe I lost 1 s. of my account and having cast it up at Warwick the last night of my journey and then I fearing to tel my Master of it kept halfe a peck of oats from my horses thinking to get the shilling that way at several times so after with my with my Master I losing 8 d. and wronging the dumb creatures of their allowance my conscience being troubled at it did so no more And when I was at the point of death God suffered two ugly Devils in shape like Blackmoors to accuse me before him so that I was forced to look out of the bed and they stood between my bed and the window at my left hand I was in a terrible fright they standing neer my bed-side a little after midnight The Lord gave me a strong spirit to resist the Fiends by prayer which made them fly from my bed-side And Gods holy Angel comforted me exceedingly and so left me for a little time Anon after there appeared another Devil who was transformed into a glorious shape whose adornments shone like gold as it had been a great Emperor King or Monarch with a Crown on his head who would have perswaded me to have denied that Christian Faith as I was trained up in and renounce the Baptism as I had received in my infancy and I should bee in as great estimation for the time to come as any in the world I endeavoured to pray against those perswading temptations but my own heart would have deceived me one time I could scarce keep my mind close to God and being mighty hot by sweating and faint by sicknesse my soule desired to keep close to God My heart was brought very weak I was brought so feeble-minded I thinking all hope past but I must yield at last I said avoid Satan At these words and many more such like the transformed Fiend vanished away and the Angel appeared at my right hand as I lay in my bed and strengthened me with exceeding inward comfort and so left me againe The black Fiends appeared a second time and being resisted by prayer they fled And there was another like a General or great Commander in gay apparel in several colours as red black green yellow in a bunch perswading me as the former did but the Lords power was strong in me to resist him by prayer which made them fly from my bed-side then began it to be a little morning-light I prayed all night looking every minute when the Lord would fetch away my soule from my body but I desired much of the Lord to live to see my Father and brothers and to make a Will to dispose of some little money and some cattel some to the poor some to my brothers some to friends according to my Talent as I had When the day began to dawn in my chamber there was the shape of a Ladder reared from the chamber-floor to the window the top of the Ladder was above the window the two ugly black Fiends and the transformed Devil appeared again neer my bed-side in violent way to feare and tempt me I prayed to God for defence and succour the transformed Devil shining like an Angel of Light ran up to the top of the Ladder above the window there I was tempted again the two black Fiends ran up after and stood one above another on the Ladder calling to me twice and saying Come wil you come The Lord strengthened my heart to prayer the transformed Fiend vanished away from the top of the Ladder The ugly black Fiends after they had turned feet to feet the ones head was up towards the top of the Ladder the others hung downward and thus they hung their soles of their feet together on the Ladder I thought all this while on Jacobs Ladder Lord thought I to my selfe this is such a Ladder as Jacob saw in his Vision Gen. 28.12 At the end of these terrible fights of the fearful Vision I brake forth uttering these very words saying O my Saviour thou that wast tempted and hadst no sinne 〈◊〉 able to succour me a poor finful creatore in the name of the whole Godhead avoid Satan The one fel one way the other another way the Fiends parting asunder and I praise God I had no more temptation all the rest of the time of my sickness And the Angel of the Lord came and comforted me and told me when I was restored to health I must go on Gods message to the King and tel him he must agree with the Parliament and condiscend to them by agreement and forgive them that which had been past as a loving Father although it were against him in that way as he was in and his Army if he did refuse to doe it speedily and for to work Reformation both in Church and State if this were neglected the Kings Army would come to nothing but destruction and hee would be destroyed and cut off but yet his Son would come at last to reign Then I was to tel the Parliament in withstanding the King they must not doe it to make themselves great but perform their vow for the setting up of Gods truth in the true purity for Church-government and for Temporal and State Affaires it must be to maintaine true Judgment in all degrees for the Magistrate according to truth If this in the beginning were not their ayme and in the end in the end their actions God would blast all their proceedings by one power displacing and dissolving another til at last their heresie and injustice and division would bring them to confusion And the Angel then gave me direction how the King and Parliament must make their agreement at last and what form and manner the Church must and would be established and governed And how that God had ordained tha I must be one of