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A33894	A word in season to all in authority with weighty considerations what persons, practices, and things doth chiefly cause division and contention, rending of kingdoms, and distresse of nations : as also a plain discovery of those things and that ministry that will bring blessings and unity, with deliverance from bondage into liberty, and instead of strife, wars, and fighting, righteousnesse, reconciliation and peace in the land of our nativity / published by J.C.	J. C. (John Collens), d. 1682.; Anderdon, John, 1624?-1685.	1660 (1660)	Wing C5235; ESTC R27130	21,270	30

to the setling of a Government then the setting up of a forc'd Maintenance and that is the thing that the Lord expected should long since been done away The continuance of which Oppression and the many corrupt Lawes made and continued to infringe the LIBERTIES of the CONSCIENCES of the free people of this Nation in their Worship towards God hath been the Cause of so many and so great Overturnings neither can there be any true peace and settlement in these Nations until these things are removed out of the way For if a people were left free in their consciences to worship God according unto that which God makes manifest then all occasion of strife touching Religeon were ended and every one that fears God satisfied and the breach made up And likewise if all forced Maintenance of Ministers were taken off then both People and Ministry were free and so that occasion of strife would cease and that breach made up and here every one would watch for the good of him or them that govern And so such a one on whom the Lord laid a necessity to preach would preach but they that preach only for a maintenance who are not Servants of Christ but serve themselves which are the cause of Strife Debute Division and Contention as is before shewed their work would be ended and then people would be turned from the evil of their wayes because they that preach would be in Gods Counsel and in his power for now what ever people do imagine they that will not preach without a maintenance provided and setled by a Law these preach for a maintenance and so they preach themselves and not Christ Jesus the Lord neither are they his Servants nor Ministers nor sent of Him neither serve they Him but their Bellys and never can teach the way to life or bring people into the way but keep people out of the way though they may have many inticing words which mans wisdome teacheth for every one that enters into Gods Kingdome must be borne againe of the Spirit and he that is borne againe must be begotten by the immortal living Word now he that preacheth for a maintenance serves himself is not Christs Servant not intrusted with his Message but goes in his own Message and abuses his name for a maintenance and the living mortall word he hath not which begetteth the birth that enters into Gods Kingdome because he never sent him and so people are not profited but are kept out of the way to life by them which hath the letter to get a maintenance but hath not the spirit which giveth life And now I have not instanced the several Governments and overturnings either to justify or condemne persons or to meddle with that as in relation to the great transactions which hath been in these few years But this that they who now are in Power who have seen and felt what hath been brought to pass that they might understand what the Ground and Cause is why these things hath been thus brought to pass that so if the Lord give them understanding they may not split themselves upon the same Rock which others hath for I do not look unto men who have been the instruments but unto the Lord who hath all power in his hands who in his Righteousness and judgment for his own glory hath brought about these things for I do believe that the judgments of the Lord are Just and Righteous altogether and therefore because of the multitude of trangressions of this Nation and because the King and his party lightly regarded the cry of the oppressed whose Consciences which is the Lords ●rerogative alone was oppressed and greater Yoaks preparing by cruel Lawes I say because of these things was the hand of the Lord stretched out against them and the party who chiefly opposed him being in their hearts no better than the other therefore they both long were a scourge one unto another and to the Nation therefore did the Lord raise up another party whom both the other hated who were contemptible and inconsiderable who as Instruments in the hand of God did Wonders and overcame both as is well known But afterward they forgot the Lo●● likewise and turned against him and did not perform the Vowes and Premises which they had made into the Lord in the day of their Distress but corrupted themselves with the same abominations with which they were corrupted whom the Lord cast out before them and suffered many of those corrupt Lawes to continue in force which they had many times in their distress promised the Lord that they would take out of the way To wit That they would set the Consciences of all people free towards God and remove the great oppression of a forced Maintenance for Minister Which whilst they did in any measure persist in the Lord wonderfully delivered them and cut off those that rose up against them But when power was put into their hands and they did not do those things but became corrupt and oppression and Pride and vanity superstition and Idolatry grew and increased yet the Lord sent his Messengers calling them early and sending them often warning them in the peril of their lives but they regarded them not but ill rewarded the Lords Messengers by many cruel and hard Imprisonments and by making yet heavier Yoaks for their consciences Yet the long-suffering of the Lord remained towards them and not any of those Powers which the Lord overthrew but he hath sent this Messengers to warn them and to tell them in plain words what he was about to do which things are in great measure come to pass that all might know that the Lord hath a Prophet in the Land and likewise that they might hear and fear and learn Righteousness And now thus far hath the Lord wrought and wonderfully brought those things to pass that every eye might see that his own hand hath done it that he hath not suffered the sound of the weapons of war to be heard what is it that the Lord doth now requite of the men of this Generation Friends I beseech you in the fear of the Lord consider whether that the things which are now wrought amongst you principally and most of all be that which the Lord expects or whether he hath brought you up over your Enemyes because you are more Righteous then they or because of their unrighteousness the Lord hath delivered them into your hands that you might execute his judgments upon them for their Treachery towards him and his people and whether the same God hath not still reserved all power in his own hands and can at his pleasure cast you down as well as lift you up for this I say unto you in the fear of God think not that these whom the Lord hath del●vered into your hands were greater sinners then you but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Do you believe that the Lord takes delight in setting up of May-Poles and for

A WORD IN SEASON TO ALL IN AUTHORITY WITH Weighty CONSIDERATIONS what PERSONS PRACTICES and THINGS doth chiefly cause DIVISION and CONTENTION RENDING of KINGDOMS and DISTRESSE of NATIONS AS ALSO A Plain DISCOVERY of those THINGS and that MINISTERY that will bring BLESSINGS and UNITY with Deliverance from BONDAGE into LIBERTY and instead of STRIFE WARS and FIGHTINGS RIGHTEOUSNESSE RECONCILIATION and PEACE in the Land of our Nativity Published by a Lover of Truth and the Kingdoms Peace J. C. LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson at the sign of the Black-Spread-Eagle and Windmill in Martins near 〈…〉 A VVord in Season YOu Rulers and Chief in Authority I have Written this unto you that you might Read and understand what and who is the cause of Strife and War and Division and Rending of Kingdoms Governments and Common-wealths and causing Distraction amongst people and Heart-burning and Murder and Revenge one Brother against another and one Neighbour against another And farther that no Ruler not Governour nor Government can be Established nor firmly settled until these things are removed which is the Ground of Unsettledness and which hath unsettled Kings and Parliaments and divided them and dasht them one against another Now they that Preach for Hire and Divine for mony whose maintenance doth depend upon their Office and their Office doth depend upon Persons and Forms and Times so that if their Office be taken away their Maintenance fails and if their Form be disliked their Office comes in question and their Maintenance in danger and through these Men and these Things have been the cause of all the late War and expence of Blood and Treasure And all People who have trusted in them have been deceived by them and cheated and betrayed and brought to misery whilst they have feasted and been ready to turn with all Times to serve themselves For now consider that before the Wars when Idolatry and Superstition grew amongst people under Episcopacy so call'd and prophaneness and licenciousness became tollerated by that generation and all the conscientious zealous people for God became persecuted and hated and made a prey so that it were a hard matter for any man to live without suspicion of 〈◊〉 dangerous who made Conscience of any thing especially in the worship of God But they who were Lovers of Pr●de and wantonness letters up of May-poles Bull-baitings Revels Wakes and such like by which many people did assemble together to be drunk and to Riot Blaspheme the Name of the most Holy God And if the Spirit of the Lord was grieved in any to see these things committed and a Testimony borne against it by any How were such made a reproach their goods spoyled by the Officers of the then called Spiritual Courts and that kind of Ministery that tollerated and partaked in such wickedness they were the men set up countenanced and intrusted and bore all the Rule amongst people every where and many years was the Spirit of the Lord grieved and his righteous Soul vexed with these abominations and often called them to return but they would not hear but hardned their hearts in their wickedness and went on in their Rebellion against God until his w●ath waxed hot against them and the Contest began between the King and the Parliament and increased until a great War began as is well and b● woful experience unto many to this day remembred and the Bishops being near unto the KING and well discerning that if by force they were not able to uphold their Office they must fail and their great yearly Revenue which depended upon their Office would be lost and they not doubting their strength because of the KING and the greatness of their number forgot God who saveth not by many nor by few and then they preached up the KING and their Office their Form of their Service upon 〈◊〉 of Damnation to all that should resist them calling them Rebels and Traytors and Heriteks that should oppose Another sort of Clergy-men who were then something more refined and were indeed many of them more zealous and consciencious they prayed against the prosperity of the KING and his Party and against the Bishops with the rest of their Train and so when one Blessed another Cursed and so men according to their affections sided and both were upon pain of damnation and here the Leaders of the people caused them to erre and many thousands that were thus led were destroyed and with great difficulty did the War go on for a long season and the victory inclining to neither But the Army of the King and his party grew numerous and still they who were called the Ministers ceased not on either part to Preach up the interest they had undertaken though never so much blood might be shed in the prosecution thereof untill the King and that party was worsted and overthrown And then some began to see that it was not honesty but interest that made them so eager So then they called Ministers of the Parliaments part many of them seeing that their gain was in danger by reason of that prevailing party which then had overthrown the King and his Army they to wit the Ministers so called began to drive on new designes so that they can never cease fomentinng of division except their interest be at top and they themselves alwaies divided amongst themselves by reason of their great number that some of them alwayes wants room so that they have leisure and liberty ability and opportunity to devise new stratagems to carry on new devisions that they may supplant one another to make roome But then when the Army had gotten the upper hand and that the Generall begins to appeare as if he might be at the Stern and that he countenanced those who at that time the Lord had opened their eyes and they discovered the rottenness of them called Ministers then they set themselves as it were wholly against him by all manner of means Labouring by Plotting Preaching and Printing against them believing in their minds that if he should once be at rest and in full power he would certainly have pluckt down their Tythes So from time to time the fear of loosing their great income on the one side and the Pride and Ambition of the other side they never in no time want matter wherewith to blow the ●ire of contention still crying out against one or other sort of people that stand in their way and so labouring to remove them out of their way by cruelty towards them having time and opportunity to fill peoples hearts and minds with evill by Preaching up the wickedness of their own hearts laying it upon others whom they 'l not suffer to answer for themselves by that meanes laying such loads of bitter Persecutions upon people that have forced many to be Enemyes to those against whom they had no thought of evill for who is there but will stand for his life So in that time when the then Generall had subdued them

the oppressed set free the Land cannot enjoy her Sabbaths neither can the Righteous rejoyce untill which time there shall be nothing firm nor lasting but heaps of Confusion and tossing to and fro as a Ship driven with a tempest which hath lost her Rudder and so fear and despair an distrust will be amongst the Inhabitants and one devour another untill they are devoured one of another and so the Lord sweep them away with the B●some of destruction and give them their Portion amongst the Workers of Iniquity in the Lake that burns with fire and Brimstone for ever The Conclusion THe Lord will thresh the Mountains and come down that the Inhabitants of the earth shall tremble thereat For it is his determination to purifie the Sons of Levi and to purge and cleanse the house of Judah and Jerusalem that they may be a Royal Priesthood a peculiar people a chosen Generation to the Lord for ever the people of his praise the Glory of Nations the Subjects of Christs Kingdom which shall be established in Righteousness on the top of all the Mountains of the earth which now are risen up against the Lamb and his followers whole government in truth shall stand over all the Heathen round about for it is his right to raign and he will not give his Kingdome to another Glory to our God for evermore who hath chosen the weak things of the earth to confound the strong by things that are not to bring to nought things that are that the Wisdome of the Wise shall be confounded yet more and more and the understanding of the prudent turned backward That all Nations may see that there is no confidence in Princes nor in the Arme of Flesh which is but as grass before the Lord God Almighty who is exalting his only begotten Son CHRIST JESUS the light of the world to be King of the Nations who is worthy God over all blessed for evermore the King of Saints whose Kingdome is not of this world but in Righteousness and truth over all In which he with his followers the redeemed ones of the earth make war not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers and spirituall wickedness in high places which leads men to destruction going on Conquering and to conquer untill all his enemyes are subdued that he alone may rule and reign in the earth whose right it is to have the Heathen for his Inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possessions the earth being the Lords and fulness thereof though other Lords have had dominion whose right it is not to reigne But the high and lofty ones that are exalted above the fear of the Lord they shall be brought down overturned and broken to pieces and the meek of the earth they shall be exalted who have chosen the foolishness of the Cross of Christ before an earthly Crown which perisheth and commeth to nothing and all the greatness and glory of Kingdomes shall fade as grass before the presence of the Lord and the Lamb who is come and comming in flames of fire to be revealed to consume and burne up the wicked before him for he hath determined a speedy Consumption in this Nation of all Powers Things and Governments that are set up and stand not by the Authority of his eternall spirit which is the rule of Saints the heirs of Gods Kingdome And blessed are they whose names are written in the Lambs book of life that are faithfull and true to the testimony of Jesus the Lamb● followers they only shall reign And all likenesses and false Coverings of Anti-christ shall be stript off and confounded and no longer hide him and his followers from the wrath of the Lamb whose day is come in which his fierce wrath shall be known against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men whatsoever under what forme or notion soever without the life and power of God in which his Kingdome consists which indureth and abideth for ever in which our peace and safety is though the Heathen rage and the people imagine a vaine thing yet they shall know that the Lord God omnipotent ruleth and reigneth in the Kingdomes of men and giveth them unto whomsoever he will The time is come and for the Elects sake he will cut short the work in Righteousness and terrible shall that day be which is nigh at hand wherein the Lord will sweep the Land of evil doers and execute his fierce Wrath and Vengeance upon the Workers of Iniquity of which the Land is full that the Lords Spirit is weary to bear them The Lords decree is gone forth and he will fulfill it That a King shall reign in Righteousness and all they that will not have him to reign over them shall be brought forth and slaine before him the Vials of his wrath are made ready to be pouered our upon this wicked Generation of men who reject Christ Jesus the light of the World to be their King and Law-giver he is come a light into the world that men through him might believe and be saved but they would none of his Counsell Power nor Kingdome but have hardned their hearts stiffened their necks and have chosen their own wayes and the Lusts and imaginations of their own hearts have they followed which are evil continually the Counsell of the wicked have they imbraced which leadeth down to the Chambers of death and Hell where their Portion shall be for ever unless they repent and turn from darkness to the light against which all the world combines and make strong the bonds of the wicked because it shewes men the evil of their wayes and bring the sinner and ungodly to judgment How foolish and unwise is the people of this generation to neglect so great Salvation as the living truth of our God and choose to themselves a thing of rought dumb Idolls that can neither see nor goe nor speak unto which the Beast and false Prophets with their fellows fall down and worship for whom the Lake of fire is made ready into which they shall be cast alive the Bed of Torment is ready made for Babylon and her Merchants and the Kings of the ea●th shall mourn who have traded on her Merchandize and drunk the cup of her Fornications A day of bitter lamentation and howling is at hand for that great Whore the Mother of Harlots that hath drunk the blood of the Saints And the Priests and false Prophets of this Nation shall be known and made manifest to be of the chiefest of her Merchants under the deepest coverings of Antichrist who have long stolen the words of the true Prophets Christ and the Apostles and sold them for unjust gaine with the divinations of their own braines that by their lyes and lightness the people have perished under the highest forme of words for want of the knowledge of God and of Christ whom to know is eternall life without which they are dead in sins and trespasses This painted Harlot great

are her sins and great shall be their Plagues and Judgments from the Righteous hand of the Lord God who will have the Nations know that he is become the Teacher of his people himself and will send forth Pastors after his own heart in the power of his eternall spirit to make warr with the Nations before whom the Heathen shall be confounded and the powers of the earth broken to pieces as a Potters Vessel A day of Tryall is at hand and judgment beginneth at the house of God that the Lambs followers may be known who are chosen faithfull and true that deceipt and Hypocrisie the mistery of iniquity may be made manifest that they that are called Jewes and are not may be discovered that such as have a name that they live yet are dead under the Covering of the profession of truth yet out of the life and power may be made naked and bare before the Lord who hates Hypocrisie as a most abominable thing and loves and requires truth in the inward parts and with such he delights to dwell for ever who in faithfulness followes the Lamb whithersoever he goes who doth the will of God in whom the Father is well pleased on whom the Government is laid which shall stand sure and firme for ever against which neither the powers of darkness nor the gates of Hell shall prevaile and blessed are they who are made Subjects of his Government who rules and raignes in Righteousness for they shall find 〈◊〉 and a sure Rock of defence in the time of stormes and bitter Calamity which is comming upon the wicked who drink iniquity as water and hasten to fulfill their measures raging in the fires of their Lusts the smoak whereof is ascended up even to Heaven that the Lord God is provoked with this wicked and adulterous Generation who wallow in their iniquityes and have not God in their thoughts that his soul is weary to bear them his spirit is grieved and his patience and long suffering is almost at an end towards the people of this Nation that have rejected the Lord and his wayes and have chosen lyes and vanityes by reason whereof the Land mournes and the ●●p of the Lords wrath is full ready to be poured forth upon this Rebellious and gainsaying people who will not repent and return but run on in the broad way that leads to destruction death and hell being ready to receive them against whom the fire of the Lords wrath and indignation is kinded and shall not cease untill they be utterly consumed Tophet is prepared for them of old that repent not and give Glory to God And the Nations shall know that he that was dead is alive and behold he liveth for evermore to execute Righteous judgments upon the workers of iniquity for which he is come into the world even for judgment through which Sions Redemption is to be known the place of Gods Habitation the Temple made without hands pure and undefiled the Spouse the Lambs Wife which brings forth that which is begotten of God to his prayse and glory for evermore And blessed are they that are found so doing which are the remnant that shall be saved by the Lord when the overflowing scourge of destruction shall come upon the wicked Oh England England thou who killest the Prophets and stonest them with stones how often would the Lord have gathered thee even as a Hen gathereth her Chickens but thou wouldest not and how glorious mightest thou have been in the sight of all the Nations if thou had'st considered and known the things of thy peace in the day of thy visitation wherein the Lord hath visited thee with the day springing from on high with his rich and living mercyes and thou mightest have been the first fruits of Faith and Reformation unto God of the whole earth But as thou hast rejected and refu●●● to drink the Cup of Gods Salvation so thou may'st as the 〈◊〉 of the Nations expect to drink the bitter cup of Gods wrath and Indignation that the Inhabitants of the Earth may learn Righteousness and fear and tremble before the mighty God of Jacob 27th day of the third moneth 1660 J. A. THE END * The old Parliament * Voted up Tythes * The Committee of Safety