EVANGELIUM REGNI A joyful MESSAGE OF THE KINGDOM Published by the holy Spirit of the love of Jesus Christ and sent forth unto all Nations of people which love the Truth in Jesus Christ. Set forth by H. N. and by him perused anew and more distinctly declared Translated out of Base-Almayn O how lovely are the feet of the Messengers which publish the peace preach good tidings and evangelize the salvation Isa. 52. b. Nah. 2. a. Rom. 10. c. The Evangely of the Kingdom shall be preached unto the world for a witness unto all people and then shall the end come Matth. 24. b. I saw an angel flie thorow the midst of heaven having an everlasting Evangely to publish unto them which sit and dwell upon the earth namely unto all heathen generations languages and people Apoc. 14. a. Imprinted at London 1652. THE PREFACE COnsider on the Time O all yee People which love the truth of Iesus Christ. 2 Presently in this day of the love and of the appearing of the coming of our Lord Iesus Christ in the Resurrection of the dead wherein the Law the Prophets and all that is written of Christ becometh fulfilled is this Ioyfull Message of the Kingdom out of the hearty mercifulness and love of God the Father Evangelized unto us all and sent especialy by the holy spirit of the love of Iesus Christ unto all lovers of the Truth as also published in all the world for a testimony unto all peoplâ— aâ—â—ording to the scripture To the stirring up of all â—nderstandings unto the true knowledge of the godlines in Iesus Christ and to an everlasting concordable and stedfast peace upon the earth according to the promises 3 Let every one respect well this profered Grace for even now in the last time the Lord sendeth his Angel or Messenger before him for to prepare his way and to publish an everlasting evangelie unto all generations languages and people according to his promises to the intent that they all should now withdraw them from the iniquity turn them to the family of the love of Iesus Christ God his mercy seat and even so to their preservation in the godlines shew fortst upright â—epentance for their sins the end shall come 4 And albeit that we have set forth these present testimonies O yee lovers of the truth of Iesus Christ to an Evangelie of the Kingdome and publish to a joyful message that the God of heaven hatâ— shewed mercy on all people for that they should repent them and stand goâ—d-willing unto his requiring declared his great Day-light of the upright righteousnes through us his elected ones in the world out of heavâ—n from his right-hand and brought it ovâ—r the whole earth for to judge the â—ame with righteousnes yet are not therefore these present testimonies alone the Evangelie of the Kingdome which was promised to be published in the world and unto all people but also all the Testimonies which the God of heaven hath brought forth through his holy ones and through his elected Minister H. N. 5 For all those same are also evangelical testimonies of the Kingdom of his declaring All which testimonies are also new in the last time held forth to a true â—lass of righteousnes before the children of men to an everlasting peace upon earth unto men which are good of will according to the promises 6 For that cause O ye lovers of the truth if yee now this day hear his voice and that this grace and loue of God the Father Christ become to your preservation in the godlines proffered unto you so hardâ—n not then your hearts that ye bide not without the rest of the Lord which is prepared from the beginning for the people of God and for all repentant sinners and is appeared now in the last time according to the Scripture Take it to heart A Joyfull Message of the Kingdom of God and CHRIST The First CHAPTER HN Through the Grace and mercy of God and through the holy Spirit of the love of Iesus Christ raisâ—d up by the highest God from the death according â—o the providence of God and his promises anointed with the Holy Ghost in the old-old-age of the holy understanding of Iesus Christ Godâ—d with God in the spirit of his love made heire with Christ in the heavâ—nly goods of the riches of God â— illuminated in the spirit with the heavenly truth the true light of the perfect being â—lected â—o a Minister of the gracious word which is now in the last time raisâ—d up by God according to his promises in the most holy service of God under the obedience of his love for to publish in the last time out of the same grace and hearty mercifulnes of God and through the same holy Spirit of the love of Iesus Christ good tydings or a joyfull message of the Kingdom of God unto all people which â—it in darknes and have a desire or longing after the true light and to bring unto the beleevers a great light of the true being of Iesus Christ and the glorious day of his godly cleeâ—nes as also to expreâ—â—â— that God hath pitied the generations of mankind and that Iesus Christ hath not left us as orphanes but as our faithfull Father for to beget us anew out of the safe-making water or doctrine of his service and out of his holy spirit of love also to judge us with his righteousness and to bring us into his rest is come againe unto us according to his promises to the end thâ—t they all which love God and his righteousnes and Christ and his upright being might presently enter into the true rest which God hath prepared from the beginning for his elect and inherit the everlasting life 2 For that cause all lovers of the truth and all souls which hunger and thirst after the righteousnes become assembled obediently unto the service of the love of Iesus Christ shal presently according to the word of the Lord eat of the bread of life and drinke out of the fountain of living water and become satisfied 3 Unto the same God which hath prepared all this for us and bringeth it to us out of the bosom of his love be laud honor praise thanks-giving for ever and ever Amen 4. UNto the lovers of the Truth here and there wheresoever or in what quarter of the world they dwell or have their abode of what Nation and Religion soever they be Christians Jews Mahomites or Turks and heathen with all divided people of what condition or dignity soever they be Pastors of the Religious or Fourders of Religion Understanding ones or expert in the godly wisdom well learned exercised eloquent in the holy Scripture High Magistrates and renowned Potentates noble of linage rich or mighty of estate rulers of commonalties together
should bear to a Covenant of God in their flesh for evermore 6. And even so God made through his Covenant of Circumcision that there should be always a difference had and known betwixt Abraham and his seed and the other heathen or uncircumcised people Which Covenant of Circumcision God made with Abraham when he had called him out of the heatheâ—ship and shewed him the land of promise to an everlasting Inheritance for his seed which should bear the same Covenant in their flesh 7. VErily this Covenant of God of the Circumcision which God hath set for an everlasting Covenant betwix him and Abraham and his seed in their flesh giveth us presently in this day a great cleerâ—ess of his true being of the upright Circumcision in our hearts and teacheth or sheweth us the whilst we are captived with the heathâ—nship either implanted into the heathenship and bear yet the foreskin of the sinful flesh before our hearts the departing from all heathenish being and from all ungodliness or uncircumcision of all fleshly minds as also the entrance into the fear of God whereout the right wisdom doth spring and how we shall go forth therein till unto the mortifying of all fleshly minds through the obedience of the requiring of the godly word and his service 8. This is verily the upright Circumcision which cometh to pass without the help of mens hands and which is the everlasting and stedfast Covenant between God and Abraham and his seed Through which true circumcision the upright seed of Abraham which is of the faith of Abraham is easily to be known from the uncircumcised heathen or unbeleevers 9. For the right stock of the seed of Abraham bear the same upright Circumcision for an everlasting Covenant of their God in their flesh to a token and testimony of their upright Righteousness and also that the God of Abraham is their God and they his eâ—ected people 10. HEre out may we perceive ye beloved that the laying away of the sin in the flesh is the upright Circumcision which God regardeth and that the same maketh the right difference betwixt the circumcised and uncircumcised or betwixt them that fear God and them that fear not God For they that fear not God and are not of the right stock or of the faith of Abraham or else that have turned them away therefrom and yet nevertheless boast them to be the seed of Abraham those can well bear the circumcision outwardly on their flesh but not as Abraham inwardly in the flesh 11. Therefore there is not as concerning the Righteousness according to the inward man any difference at all betwixt such Circumcised which bear no more but the circumcision outwardly on their flesh and the uncircumcised heathen but they are both alike under the sin 12. For the laying away of the sin in the flesh which is the upright Circumcision maketh unto us the right difference betwixt the seed of Abraham and the brutish or Uncircumcised Heathen even as there is said 13. Which Circumcised of heart bear God his true covenant of circumcision in their flesh and express even so through their upright Conversation in the fear of God that God hath called them out of the heathenship as also led them into the forefront of his true tabernacle and planted them in his Sanctuary 14. And this token of the true covenant of God namely the circumcision on the foreskin of the heart which is the laying away of the sin in the flesh and the walking in the fear of God is not left by the right seed of Abraham but observed according to the word of the Lord for evermore 15. COnsider then unto all those that are in such like of the right stock of Abraham or of his seed and faith and bide stedfast therein it is given to understand the mistery of the work of God which God always taketh in hand and atchieveth with Abraham and with his right seed of the belief 16 But unto them that are therewithout and also unto all that fall away from the stock of Abraham or his belief either turn them therefrom and cleave unto any strange belief which Abraham hath not known or that bind themselves without the Righteousness of the faith of Abraham on any self-wisdom mens good thinking Scripture learnedness or on the Imagination of their own knowledge all things chance in similitudes figures or images which they also honour serve and greatly esteem but of the mystery of the true being they know not any thing at all 17. Therefore it is all unto them a dark speech or Parable and a closed book which no man of all their wise Seers nor Prophets or Teachers can read much less understand or comprehend the Contents of the same 18. WHat we had here more to say of the departing out of the heathenship of the Gelatenheyt or free giving over of the upright Circumcision of the forefront of the true Tabernacle of God of the difference betwixt the seed of Abraham and the heathen and of the closed book which is a book of life is rehearsed with larger declaration in the Glass of Righteousness The VIII Chapter ABraham which was indued with understanding in the godly wisdom hath to a memorial of the godly works of God and of the things which are right and reasonable to the Serviceableness of his houshold or of the posterity after him brought forth writings or letters wherein he witnessed or figured forth before them the righteousness of the upright being for a seal on their hearts to his end that the posterity the whilst they were yet young in the holy understanding and understood not the upright being might have the Lord his word Institutions and rites and the events or things chanched concerning his wonderful works figured forth in the letter and remember those same and might even so with the service of the letter be served nourished up and sustained in all good discipline nurture and equity for to deal with that which is right and reasonable until that the old age of the perfect wisdom and Righteousness came unto them the which is the true light of Christ or the heavenly truth whereunto Moses the law and the Prophets of God do lead and which cometh unto al the elect of God from on high in their spirit wherein it is given unto them as to the children of God to understand the mystery of the works of God 2. Therefore Abraham which walked and lived in the light or day of â—hrist whereon all Scriptures given by inspiration of God do witness and had a lust unto the seed of promise to the blessing of all generations of the earth held him stedfastly by the belief the true Testament whereout he hoped to obtain the seed of Promise to the blessing of all generations of the earth 3. Which true Testament namely
wish much grace and Salvation in the Lord here have I endeavoured me to express and signifie unto you all out of our most holy service of love the counsel mind and will of God whereunto every one is debtour to humble and to submit himself obediently also Gods wonderfull work with his holy ones which the wicked world hath never known nor understood and which also bideth alwayes and for ever hidden or secret before the same and the declaration of the foregoing services of God and how that they all lead and have their ministration unto the service of love which is ministred out of the most holy of the true Tabernacle of God thus largely and in the most simple manner and each ones service briefly and with few words to an assistance and introduction unto those heavenly things which shall yet in their manifestation of clearness in the Spirit be seen and spoken of in the most perfect manner 2. For thereunto do we under the obedience of the love shew forth our service namely towards all them that God stirreth into our way and that assemble them unto us which also love the truth of the declaration of the true God-services and Christian Ceremonies and desire to accomplish the requiring of those same To the end that they all which seek after the truth of Jesu Christ and read or hear these godly testimonies of our writings mought be somewhat furthered with this assistance or hand-teaching to the knowledge of the truth of Jesu Christ and that the true God-services and Ceremonies which lead unto the godliness mought be in their upright use and whereto each ones God-service reacheth seen into and understood of them according to the truth and that likewise the unilluminated and unregenerated men mought then even so understand and know that they ought not through any taking out of the knowledge of the Scripture nor through any knowledge which ariseth in their hearts to set forth to preach nor to teach any services nor Ceremonies wherewith doubtless they seduce themselves and other moe but that they ought first humbly to turn them unto the Word of grace to submit them obediently under the service of love wherein the true light cometh with full clearness to give eare and credit to the same and to accomplish his requiring For in the same service every one shall receive good resolution and instruction how for to come to the new birth in Jesus Christ and to what manner of accomplishment the services and Ceremonies ought to be used and obeyed in their right use 3. And thereto and to the unity of heart in the love is likewise all my service chieffest unto all lovers of the truth That they all which love the truth mought now come-somewhat nearer unto us in the holy understading and be concordably minded with us under the obedience of the love to the unity of the heart in Jesu Christ and become assembled unto us and that they should then even so so much the better understand the holy mind of our God the true service of love wherein God the most highest hath comprehended us and the heavenly truth witnessed in The glass of righteousness and administred out of love in this declaration 4. FOr that cause my desire is unto you all which read and hear these our writings that ye will diligently revolve in minde and throughly measure our upright and undeceiveable service shewed on you and the ground of this same and have an inspection and consideration with pure devotion unto God upon the understanding of every particular sentence and whereunto the same serveth to the lightning of our understanding And take even so good heed unto the hearty mercifulness of God shewed on you through the service of love 5. For out of grace undeserved is this mystery of the works of God uncovered unto you all which love the truth and presently in this day of love is the Evangely of the Kingdome which is breathed on and brought unto us now in the last time out of of the word of grace and out of the Spirit of the living God to the procreating of the living souls of Sion published or evangelized in these perilous times to the Salvation and Preservation of you all To the end that you mought now in the last time be led out from the wicked world and from her perverse generations be released from all conceited opinions which the man taketh to him out of the knowledge of the Scripture and have your communion or society with us 6. For our communion in this true light of the love is the uniformity with God the Father with his son our Lord Jesus Christ with the holy Ghost the pledge of the promises of our Inheritance and with all the holy ones of God in the heavenly being It is very true The XLI Chapter UNto this same grace which is this day O ye lovers of the truth with all ye which love the upright and lovely life of the love proffered unto you and to the same Majesty of God and communiality of his holy ones which is this day declared unto you ye are all presently called and invited 2. For seeing that this great grace and hearty love is chanced unto us through the appearing of the glorious coming of our Lord Jesus Christ from God the Father and that the Lord hath stirred us up in the end of the world and sent us in the right time for to gather together his chosen holy ones unto the mercy-seat of the of the Majesty of God to unity of heart in the love of Jesu Christ So pass we with the presenting of the same grace and intire love of God thorow the Nations of People from the chiefest in the understanding and knowledge of the Scripture even unto the smallest and simplest For the sound of the last trumpet namely the voice or testimony of the grace of the holy Spirit of love shall be heard in all the world 3. Happy is he which to day heareth this voice and hardeneth not his heart but believing the Word becometh assembled unto the body of Jesu Christ the mercy-seat of the majesty of God and entreth into the rest of the Lord. 4. BEhold thereto is our service among all Nations of the people If happily we mought find any lovers of the truth which seek God and his righteousness with all their heart and assemble them with us to our communiality of love the onely Body of Christ and that they mought even so enter with us and all the children of God into the rest of the Lord to their preservation in this day of the righteous judgment of God 5. For that cause let every one take now good heed unto this Day and have regard what the holy Spirit of love requireth 6. For whosoever assembleth not himself in this day unto the body of Jesu Christ under the obedience of his