Spirit hath done it And why may not this be a providence or sign this piece of Babels Temple falling when a Sparrow fals not otherwise Mat. 10. 29. which they say hath stood so many hundred yeares it is strange why should it fall now in the rising of the Saints the coming forth of the Spirit or the zealous persecuting of the worshippers but to receive wounds in our names holy worships and Christian prophesying as schismaticks hereticks giddie gaddie headie ignorant factious foolish and blasphemous men opposers of all government and all for our holy worship as we think from God and according to the mind of God yea for all these wounds in the houses of our friends Zech. 13. 6. this wounds our soules double as it were This present Simile and fall may prognosticate something our prayer and prayers shall be that you nor your Temple may never be left to outward judgements much lesse your Sacrifice be loathed or any thing hid from your eyes yea all our eyes that may concern your present much more your future weal and happinesse yea we will ever pray that they that see may say and they that say may see what they doe in the day of their visitation yea temptation to all that dwell on the earth or elsewhere below the true God life light and love of God and those wherein this light life and love is daily manifested which heaven froward men neither doe nor can know or did they ever yet now are fallen not as the Angels to bondage and darknesse God forbid or from the Olive either the love and sweetnesse life joyes and fatnesse once of communion with the Vine our head and husbands presence and embraces which makes and keeps our beds and graces heads gifts hearts joyes and glories lovely green and fruitful yea our bed being so by his rising on in and with us our hearts joyes hopes helps are alwayes near us nor may nor can we then be touchie vain wanton sinful or idle yea men may say what they please doe what they please tempt while they please men and devils all but we charge you doe not awaken our beloved till he please Cant. 2. 7. yea once again we charge you by the Roes and the Hindes the leaping of our hearts the joyes of our souls all which are as in a pleasant field a specious and spacious place of liberty where our souls are sported over hils and dales high and low promises all chased and set home upon us by the Spirit but awake not our beloved untill he pleases Yet let us about and about the mountain of spices Cant 8 14. until the day break and all these shadows of sin temptations accusations and sorrows flie all away which for the present the body bed head and whole soul is filled and laden sometimes by friends who through envie would fain wake our beloved but still our bed is grâ—en and fruitful none of these things can cause uncleannesse unclean things may yea do often come out of mens beds and mouths seemingly green like ours this may and can be must and will be but can an unclean thing or action word or thought much more reproach shame sinful evil surmisings false lies and slanders with bitter invectives the brats of Babell begotten with strife pride ill-will and envie on beds of ignorance seemingly green all bastards by bondage and the bond-womans sonnes But Mount Sion the sonnes of her whose beds are green and really so do nor can bring forth any of these unclean spirits or the evil of them love joy and the fruits of love longings and forbearance without envie or evil for any but good will for all yea and good for evil the best of good we can we wish to our enemies whilest we pray for our friends we forget not our selves t is true nor the worst of them neither the falsenesse of them that kisse and smite us love us as their lives and leave us at an hour But we will run on nor off no more from our brethren onely close up the point you know what you must preach up and what down when you go about the work which the Lord set you forward for and assist you in Christ must be preached up in his Kinglie Office all power in his hands it may be Church keyes and all Isai 22. 22. Yet some are too busie and claim more than Peter ever did lock out and lock in worse many times But self and all of self must be preached down the loves of God the coming of the Spirit the Sonnes Merit and tumbling down of Pauls we mean Gods leaving of the froward heart and worshippers but this latter with abundance of caution not loudly nor angerly or seemingly zealous in carriage or countenance bitterly so I mean but with one hand alwayes on your heart in a begging way of consideration ever presse this point be sure to do it in a love-Dove like winning way yea let this holy Spirit breath in you all and live at rest in you all then you must be quiet with all men Rom. 12. 18. self condition and relation Phil. 4. 11. 1 Cor. 6. 7. rather suffer wrong never do any Ier. 22. 3. You must make peace and follow it with and for all men 1 Pet. 3. 11. If you will Preach the God of peace and our Lord Jesus the Prince of peace Isa 9. 8. hear nor tell no newes that may tend to strife Prov. â—6 20. Say it is not so sure you are mistaken Ah but he was weak or angry be sure you be free from pride and covetousnesse the sin of many Preachers Prov 16. 18. Prov. 29. 23. Luk 12. 25. Heb. 13. 5. 1 Cor. 6. 10. do not flye too high nor lye too low in your Preaching but that I leave till anone be grave and sober 1 Cor 14. 40. Tit. 2. 7. be humble and modest Psal 101. 2. Rom. 12. 13. Be sure you do not Preach humm haw speak little nonsence when you Preach or Pray yea and look to the main chance at home 1 Tâ—m 5. 8. for we will never feed you as a Minister give or lend you sixpence more than another brother it is better to give then to borrow Acts 20. 35. have a care of running into debt Rom. 13. 8. ill comming out these cares and thornes will spoil any Saint or Preacher in the world Luk. 8. 14. Preach sometimes abroad yea be sure to Preach and pray to and with every one that is sick Jam. 5. 14. And this you may have leave to do especially to poor people and poor Saints I am afraid may want and want for all some Perswade all erring Gal. 6. 1. convince all living one time or other if it were possible remember while ye live this saying Wo be to him that all men speak well of Luk. 6. 26. What good thing dost thou Mat. 5. 47. more then another And yet a Teacher a full gut and empty stomack alwayes goes together I am sure in
Church in time wise men would weep to see mad men laugh and as much laugh to hear fools rail for their Ministers and they know not what well curse rail jear and do what you will we are still the same yea such as do truly pity and pray for you though you cannot for your selves nor will not so well as you may the Lord Jesus do both for you and open your eyes to see and loath what you love and love what you lâ—ath especially the people of God some of which you would send for if you were to die with speed fetch them fetch them let them come pray well now you have them do not rail that is divilish nor judge them that is presumption or leave your Churches if they should come there to exercise their Gifts they time and your present meanes of grace will too soon be gone if they speak of their experiences they have learned something if they speak of Christ the love and lovelines of Christ Eph. 2. 4. Cant. 5. 16. then it seems they know him and that it life eternall John If they speak of sin the sinfulnesse of that then it seems they loath it if they speak of you and the way to heaven they would save you from the wayes to hell which we are sure you are in if you loath them for their love to God Christ his Word and your souls one of which is more worth than a thousand worlds and although it be your own proper work and the Ministers to minde that yet are we in conscience bound not to suffer sin upon your heads who would not help an ox out of the pit Mat. 12. 11. if like to perish Much more a soul they that this way set theiâ— helping hands can never be your enemies God forbid that these lamps should be so counted though they be not torches lesser lights may be useful so may the gifts graces of the Saints the Spirit speaketh where it listeth John 3. 8. Hear that where ever it be Would a soul in hell say If I were on earth I would not hear the Saints or should a man for heaven say I wil go no further such such are going too ô Friend if you be going to hell or they be going to heaven hear consider before it be too late time wil never come again nor they nor you from the dead to hear one another now you have Moses the Prophets Luk. â—6 31. so are they whom ye despise if they preach to you the same trutâ—s by the same Spirit the Lord make you wise after wit will do no good nor repentance neither one day you may say O that we had the Saints again their prayers light and Counsels when it is too late A certain man where some of these lay prisoners in the late warres thought of them as some of you now do but he being sick to death cryed night and day fetch the Saints again fetch the Saints again but they were gone long before be the Sun-set or near it you are they dead or dying what will good Sun good death or good Saint stay a little longer Any thing avail No no the night comes and none can work John 9. 3. they for you nor you for your selves Let them preach let them speak let them pray while they may if they be against your sins they are for your souls if they be against your customes the old or the new it is for a better may not time before and after Ministers have done be better spent then it is especially the Lords day and the after part of it but you are afraid your Religion will go down take heed that that be not a form rather than a truth many have the form of godlinesse but deny the power 2 Tim. 3. 5. But the bulk of men deny both in England Lord what should be the cause have our Pastors made us so nusling us up in ignorance My people perish for want of knowledge sayeth the Lord Prov. 29. 28. Hos 4 6. And sayeth Christ If the blinde lead the blinde wo be to both Luk. 6. 39. or have you opposed truth and would not see the light because of your deeds John 3 19. Searching light is a saving light if well improved have your Ministers so preached as certainly many have take heed that you refuse not him that speaks from heaven Heb. 12. 25. by their mouths yea and take heed of winking at what you see or may see in guifted Christians they can tell you from experience in their own language the mercies of a God Eph. 3. 18. the heighth depth breadth and length yea to you the worst of sinners if you will accept it but I obtained mercy 1 Tim. 1. 13. Yea they can tell you of his Loves the length and strength of that in some measure which is better than life so sayeth David Psal 63. 3. This love and mercy God sends to sinners sometimes by poor weak plain and unworthy men without Latine Phrases therefore thousands do refuse it yea Christ the Bread the Tree Rev. 2. 7. the Well of life Psal 36. 9. is the like with all his Loves loveliness and vertues Luk 6. 19 upon the same account O Christ who almost knowes thee Who almost owns thee the chiefest of ten thousand Cant. 5. 10. which art all in all in life death and eternity Col. 3. 11. Well this King Priest and Prophet can the Saints tell the world of yea by the Spirit in the Word they can open as it were his side and heart give them out his blood to set their souls free from sin death hell and eternall burnings yea they can give a taste of the life and joyes to come 1 Pet. 2. 3. one drop thereof is more worth than the treasures of the world if well considered yea they can breath upon you the holy Ghost my meaning is they by the Spirit in them breathing from them conveyes the words of life to poor sinners many times thousands can seal to this no fires ever kindled one another like this hoâ—y fire the Spirit of love the Dove in Noahs Ark Gen. 8. 8. rest it where it will it ever brings an embleme of peace from the God of peace O that men should refuse this love this Dove this peace an embleme of peace speckled with the blood of Christ because it breatheth not where the world listeth but it self Joh. 3. 8. Well be ye not offended I go not to throw down men nor Ministers no the Lord Jesus keep up them that are good and watch for your souls as they that must give account for in the day of judgement Heb. 13. 17. and throw down all yea all besides and what I say for Ministers who are your Seerâ— Isa 13. 10. Prophets Watchmen Jer. 6. 19. Shepherds Jer. 23. 4. which have the main care of your souls commited Acts 20. 28. to them by Christ when as he sends them to you and not a lesser benefice
seems to be given us for this very purpose 1 Cor. 12. 6 7. again is it not Prophesied we shal be able so to do Joel 2. 1 Thes 4 8. Rom. 8. 16. 1 John 46. 13. Is not this Spirit that thus dwels in us a teaching Spirit as well as a pleading or a preaching Spirit as wel as a praying yea are not we bid to covet and desire that it may be so Minde those Texts wel and give a Sermon on one of them if you dare at White-Hall 1 Cor. 14. 1 5 30. but ye are all of you to shie this way yea I think scarce any of you good men that can freely say as Moses Num. 11. 29. I would all the Lords people were Prophets and with Paul I rejoice that Christ is preached though it be of ill will Phil. 1. 15 15. But you grieve although we preach Christ of good will judge us to be selfish proud and self-conceited the Lord pardon we do and in his presence professe what we do we do in love and obedience though you say in pride the Word of Christ which we preach thus in good will seems to be committed to our care and charge as well as yours Contend earnestly for the faith Jude 3. once delivered to the Saints that is the doctrine of the Scripture which we are to dispute pray and preach up you tell us of Corah Dathan Vzza's staying of the Ark 1 Chron. and would fain frighten us from the Work of God What things the people were forbidden they might not do but what we are commanded we may and must do and we are bid to build up one another pray with and for one another admonish and Prophesie to one another yea all Prophesie one by one 1 Cor. 14. 31. meaning not in an extraordinary way but in an ordinay way of opening Scriptures Prophesies and Promises to one another you tell and fright us with what men were forbidden to do we tell you of what we are bidden and commanded thou shalt not suffer sin upon thy brothers head but come ye and tell us what judgement did befall upon Apolos or Priscilla and Aquilla that preached unto him Acts 18. 26 28. Pray tell us if you can in the next the meaning of this Scripture 1 Cor. 14. 24. But you object and cry out this kinde of Doctrine and if all might preach will fill the Church with Errors from whence comes that Christ is of another mind Math. 22. 29. We are called not you sayes the Preachers to one place and people in an outward way they are so yea some to two or three but that we know no warrant for nor well which flock they are charged withall we are not with any not is it our duty to make it our whole businesse as it is yours and not to write newes make strife accuse us to or the Magistrates to us you say the Priests lips were to preserve knowledge now the Spirit is poured out upon the people breaths in and from the people this is a better help to us then the gift of tongues The Spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God and that learning cannot 1 Cor. 2. 14. yea this Spirit leads us into all truth when men leads us by many times but here comes in the great one If ye preach ye will baptize in a little while No no we deny that and it may be are not for it as you are or the baptized Churches either more of Mr. Dells judgement the Spirit Baptism but we think some of us thinks so that believers may break bread together though it be most convenient for a Pastor and Preacher in office yea the dead may bury the dead and who will unlesse he be a fat hog or rich Saint yea the best Text in the Bible is scarce good enough for either this in practice you alow and now cryes some we will have no Preachers at all within a little while God forbid we should say so and yet will we bake brew and dresse meat for our selves yet do we not destroy the Trades nor your peculiar calling in all that we stand for nor do we ever intend to set it up more then he the profession of a Lawyer that studieth the Lrwes for the good of himself and some few friends or many for whom he freely pleads now and then but you like not that neither Well we have hinted at our judgement as well as we can in a sheet or two and what have we said to offend you ourself denying godly Pastors truly nothing we should think but now happily we may and yet we will hide our Fathers nakednesse with the mantle of modesty minding our distance you cry out for our affections we for our affliction yea all of us for our Liberty the truth is you rob us and chide us but loosers best may speak you cry out for honour we freely give you double our dutie it is and yours to be diligently in the Word of Christ withholding nothing of his minde from us Acts 20. 27. But however see you be John the Baptists self-denying men John 3 30. and such as give all your glorie to Christ owning his Members and the gifts of his Spirit every where and God will give you honour He that honours me him will my father honour John 12. 26. yea and all the Saints too Again would you honour us now and then in our meetings where we may erre and do what we please for all you we should honour you more in your Pulpits yea this condescension would bring the world to a love and liking of the Saints Assemblings Heb. 10. 25. which now they throw dirt on you not commending them so much as in your Pulpits but revile them too often you cry out of Errors more then needs many times yet too many are we do confesse but to put the Divel Pope Jesuites Anabaptists Antinomians together meaning Gospel Ministers I think as a great Presbyterian Minister lately did in his Prayer then cryed out the Lord confound the designes of them all or worse seems something bitter and why might not liberty be given to object in such a case without offence Sermon being ended you would weigh the more what you sometimes pray and preach yee too often read from a Paper and we grieve the lesse when we hear such kind of things but we will wind up all lest we should offend too much where we love honour Our request is in the name of Christ our Lord and yours that ye would be faithful in this controversal points and iâ— in truth our desires be according to the minde of God as certainly they are for the glory of his Name the exaltation of his Son and Spirit and against sin and Satans Kingdom wicked men divels and the works of darknesse yea if it be against ignorance the mother sin of the Nation whereby souls perish Hos 4 6. and go down to hell every hour in the year one where or
Jonathans was with David froward things are sometimes in our mouths yet our hearts can never be divorc'd nor our affections let go you out of our thoughts no no my Lord far be that ingratitude from us who long since have learned better things and as far be it from you to forget us who were once as deer to you almost as Israel was to Paul for whom he even wisht himself accurst jeapordi'd his life a thousand times hunger cold and perils sure the latter you have done more than ever any did that for us a murmuring people against you and your God whose protection with you the Israel of God under your command was your guard rearguard yea your strength victory in all your mighty battels in every nation Oh that we should do so oh that we should be so unworthy so illy to requit so good a God so good a servant it is our sin let never yours be to revenge or yet be angry with a froward people it was Moses sin you know his punishment far be that from you may you see the deliverance of Sion fully wrought and they as in the land of promise all the priveledges of the Gospel yea this may you see in your dayes and say in the end thereof Let me now thy servant depart in peace so mine eyes have seen thy salvation the salvation of Sion and her deliverance fully wrought and oh that your soul with such expressions may leave this world at once this flattering world whose highest glories joyes and pleasures leaves but sadnesse in the soul of man yea they fill that immortall Jewell with nothing else but shame guilt and sorrow but may your Sun never set in such clouds but like a rain-bow in a hopefull day This is our Prayer and now comes our Petition not for our lives nor our liberties commonly so called but our Christian Priviledge yet not granted to us no nor scarce thought on neither My Lord excuse us we cannot but with hearts grief so speak it care is taken for many things we doubt not the poor the fatherlesse the right of the needy the debts Lawes and Liberties of the Nation as far as this juncture of time will give leave yea further the Gospel and the Preaching of the Gospel by godly sound and able men with the discountenance of all vice and unsoundnesse And yet my Lord is this all far be it from you to think so we look we long we hope for more yea for more than all this and never shall be silent till you or your God and ours hear We look we long for liberty in our selves whilst men have it in their thoughts to crush us for owning Christ too much and yet it is too little yea this is the thing we tend the throne of grace for now whilst we petition you and the godly in your Councel for Liberty in our selves for the word is as fire in our bones the Spirit having long since kindled it we cannot longer now be silent but do claime for this as our undoubted Priviledge Namely the exercise of our Gifts in the open Congregations yea this is so much our duty and a Priviledge that we cannot without guilt sin and shame keep one moment longer silent no no it is too long since we have wrong'd our selves our choycest selves this way and grieved the Spirit to purpose yea we have wrong'd thousands as our selves had our candle been as on a hill which is as underneath a bushell how many souls might we ere this day have enlightned some of which unhappily are in hell complaining of their unhappinesse and our unfaithfulnesse My Lord this is the case and it is plain and clear we are guilty we are guilty in the presence of the LORD yea we confesse before heaven earth men and Angels and all the hoste of both we are guilty and what shall we now do but with ropes about our necks guilt shame and sorrow in our souls now about our work and oh that the the time is so far past and we not aware but the night comes on wherein no man can work for God Christ self or others yet that we may at last be doing to purpose yea for all men My Lord we cry for help and cry we will untill deliverance come by you or else some other way Israel was heard we doubt not but we shall be the like our cause is far better we groan not for outward burdens though some do and that justly too but for the glorious liberty of the Sons of God yea to be set into that by you O my Lord Crumwel now under God our Protector if you shall say the time is not yet come and defer us one moment longer God will lay you by and certainly out of the hearts of his deerest ones and raise up deliverance some other way for the time of Sions deliverance is come will come let men and divels say nay yea the set time is come and the watchmen are on her walls there they see it and the Spirit of Prophesie is in their mouths and they will not keep silent longer you are to guard them that is your Title work and Honour the subjection of Nations without the affections of Gods people is a small thing your greatnesse glory and honour is nothing if while you sit at the stern you guide not the ship for the most to Gods glory the good of his people and souls of all men how much will this tend to both yea to the Nations of which we may with sadnesse say millions perish for want of knowledge thousands have words in their mouths abilities with sincerity in their hearts why should they want incouragement or rather protection by a law for that same purpose for that is all they do desire a small thing for you my Lord to deny to them Let them be tryed and tryed again and again for sincerity soundnesse holinesse and ability in some measure the latter will come on apace when we have this Liberty Protection and Commission to speak in all the schooles of the Prophets and Churches of Christ the national ones In all which we promise by the grace of God whose we are to do nothing against the truth but for it waving all disputes and contentions whatsoever nothing in disdain to our Fathers in Christ but in love to our brethren and sisters especially the little ones yea for their sakes plead we thus and the strangers that knowes not God but you will say they are taught already true my Lord and better then we can do it yet we will not rob them nor unteach them but add a word of our experience in convenient seasons sometimes sooner sometimes later This was practised by your Army to the good of thousands in their marches up and down yea the greatest my Lord you know it well enough the publick exercises are as the bellowes of the Almighty on â—â—s people carried on in the
one for an Antinomian and the other for a Flyer Yea sometimes a Lyer to make up the number of the Hereticks because you for the present it may be do not see them yet trulie for my part I do love exceedingly to see a Preacher as well as hear him yet I must confesse they flye sometimes higer than I can well tell yet or see where they are or hear either what they say understandingly which I do not well like not dare not too hastily judge I know but in part Yea saith Paul we all know but in part 1 Cor. 13. 9. But when I do consider Christ and the Apostles most of which slew very low Yea preached according to the understanding and best advantage for the people that is a good rule but to flye to high is dangerous and unprofitable one may get a fall and the other two be dazled Yea stagger in his judgement and misled it may be in judgement from the Lord for want of love to plain truths 2 Thes 20. 11 12. and too much too high Disputes the fruit of spirituall pride so I like not men too high but as heavenly as they will in Emblems Divine things and Meditations Yea I say I love to hear men so Preach and they take us up like John in the Spirit Rev. 1. 10. or Paul in his rapture but these are still in New-England Old-England hath but few so many changes have been of late and every change distempers some Ministers halfe a year at least after Mr. Loves head how long before the Presbyterians settled right to the work of Preaching Christ up down self Yea are they yet at it especially the latter I do not know but I have heard a little But will you hear a fool and Friend gladly by way of advice Iob and David did so of you know whom will you lift up Christ more in Prayer Yea your selves and the Saints in what God hath done for us in a way of praises Eph. 1. 34. 56. as well as what we are by nature and that is bad enough in our selves yet in Christs righteousnesse we are still righteous Minde that however confesse no more then you are guilty and in that confession distinguish between men and men and this hint to in your preaching and I shall presume no more Lift him up there who is the true brazen Serpent Iohn 3. 14 15. for every eye to look on Spread upon the pole of the Crosse with his Crown of thornes fast nailed to the Law yea justice of God for satisfaction and so let his side run freely yea tell the world of his Speech Wâ—man behold thy son Iohn 19. 26. Yea sinner sinner thy Saviour for it is thee he calls as well as she and when ye have clearlie so done by right distinguishing between the Law and Gospel what he hath freely done for us Yea to the uttermost farthing and what he requires of us more then he hath given or promised to us and so ye give us the very man that once looked down from Mount Olives Luk 19. 41. with soul-longings for us Yea ye give us then the very names of Christ Jesus the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of of the world Iohn 1. 29. before Repentance and from thence gives right repentance never to be repented of world without end Amen Will ye try a little this Doctrine and give us this wine reserved for the latter age Iohn 2. 2. at least one cup full now and then and you will draw the hearts of all men more then you do unto Christ and your selves and off from all sin and sorrow yea our lives will be better and our stirrings quicker when you pour this oyl of gladenesse upon our heads and hearts And now you that have it come away to the old work and Petition for our Liberty to preach the Scapegoat Lev. 16 21. the Paschall Lamb Exod. 12. 21. the brazen Serpent but some a little scruple at this namely our Call if it be but so a little scruple come away never be too nice in a good Work for an honest heart 't is for thousands indeed it is so Oh but it is divelish and damnable saith many of our Brethren honest sincere and godly ones say and think so happily because they have been taught so that they have been the truth of it is too much but for these that thought so and was once of that judgement will you still maintain it therefore I hope not so again many see and will not see but are sinfully silent marry pray God some great Ministers be not so well when one comes t'other will the people yea both in time how many of the latter would not come to a meeting till they found the sweetnesse but then like some cattell having tasted sweet corn how did they run and cry come husband come wife let us go to such and such a place to day there is a very sweet meeting ten or twenty of them in a Parlour they begin and end with Prayer two or three speak but one at a time all to one point I am sure by the same Spirit 1 Cor. 12. 13. it was so sweet and did warm my very heart and soul saith one that hath tryed Well will ye try now you that are against the publick exercisings of the People Oh but I am not for that yet Why A private life is good but a publick Saint is best if a Private meeting of ten or twenty Believers and others be so sweet the latter saying nothing nor the former but about forgivenesse faith and Repentance how God pardoned them and how sweet it was what now they will do and how much through grace love again this God and that the Lord is gracious in himself in his Son and Promises he is good to all yea all his works saith one yea to Saints and the worst of sinners Yea saith a third or else I had been in hell believe you saith a fourth Saint to the Sinners then Yea you may believe now look unto him and be saved straight from that Text Look unto me all the ends of the earth and be saved Isa 45. 22. Leave and loath your sins after this home runnes the sinner and cryes God was amongst them makes restitution straight crying out with David Away from me all ye workers of iniquity Psal 6. 8. which another hearing of cryes this was good if it were so alwayes when they meet to Preach but they wrangle much fall out and judge one another very seldome we assure you aâ— our set meetings carried on by a knot of true lovers sober able Christians but from whence comes the Errours some cry we have none amongst us we answer for our selves in two or three meetings that we know but do hold the same truths with our Ministers in every particular Yea we are baptized into one and the same faith with them by the same Spirit through the same blood 1 Cor. 12. 13. Yea we
Priests Prophets Samuel Moses Aaron David and Daniel now Peter Paul James and John again yet not without the old Spirit the Spirit of his Son God who at sundry times and in diverse manners spake in times past by the fathers the Prophets hath in these last times spoken to us by his Son Heb. 1. 1. You the great Saints of England and glory of the world we would intreat you on the knee again and again yea beseech you in the bowels of love yea the God of love and the mercies of that God Rom. 12. 2 for his own and the honour of his and the poor gifted Saints sake that you would all pull off your Crowns of honour for an hour as once the poor fishers did their great bootes to follow Christ else it would have been but slow And you my Lord Protector What if you should begin in this high and low work and give us in your own Person one short and sweet Sermon now at White-Hall as late you did to your own Family we would say King David were on earth again and put in their murmuring no more at your present greatnesse who did a meaner thing in dancing before the Ark of God 2 Sam. 6. 16. My Lord look to the Canopies above and down again to White-Hall yea your self and what are you though so great a Saint more than a worm gnat nothing Isa 41. 14. Yet may you Nothing this way honour him that is what he is and doth what he pleases in heaven and in earth yea in hell amongst and with Saints Angels men and divels yea every living thing as well things that are not winds Seas storm fire hail ice snow yea day and night for they are all his too Psal 74. 16. This one Being and Being of all Beings may you poor Nothing yet preach and our good Lord Jesus who once becaâ—e nothing to serve and make you and us all Kings Priests and Prophets to our God by his blood Rev. 1. 6. Not that above once or twice we desire this work of honour from and for you to preach this God that every moment rides the circle of the heavens Isa 40. 22. upon the mighty wings and Chariots of the windes that drawes or drives the cloudâ— hither and thither yea the Seas where he wills quite from off the earth and flings them down again upon the Prayers of his people when and where he please as lately now when man and beast was mourning yea every senslesse creature dying yea the earth it self yauning wide as if that and all would dye yea dye they would and dye they must at once but God prevented all for his peoples sake and said live again Oh that men would praise his Name and sing again his mercy endureth for ever Psal 136. a Psalm for your soul in secret but a Sermon it is we beg yea one at at least from you my Lord and the Princes among the people yea the Saints of the most high God Dan. 7. 27 shall imitate you all for the honour of the work Nathaniel Pickering Wooslâ—y Sadler and Sir Henry Vane all which and many more could and can pray and Preach bravelie and if all Jacob be but one worm to the God of Jacob 't is no dishonour to these choice bitts of this worm to praise their Maker once or twice at the least in the great Congregations and the Assemblies of the Saints which David hints so often at as his own practice in a soul exalting way of glorie I will praise thee in the Congregation yea in the great Congregation of the people yea among the Gods Psal 111. 1. and 138. 1. I will do it and will not you Gods your selves once at the Prayers of all Saints as Paul speaks in another case God forbid you or any should be ashamed of a good Master and what is it else that some princes stick at Come come it will be an honour one day to come bowing to the Saints and lick the dust of their feet yea the meanest work for Christ and them will be an honour for the greatest Monarchs in the world yea to preach this King of kings that hath this Name written on his thigh The Word of God Rev 19. 13. and 16. Read ye often the sixtie of Isaiah but let us come down from these gods to the people yea to the Saints that may tend it best and most to them we have a word Be as the tree or river in the Paradise of God Rev. 2. 7. Watering and feeding yea feed and water yea that have gifts all the rest yea all the Church of God over which you are made in your own proper places Overseers a high glory so to be Acts 20. 28. but begin at the 17. verse and mark well the whole Chapter The Angels never were but servants to bring newes or carry Saints to their home Heb. 1. 14. and how sweetly did they sing for joy of this glorying in the Work Luk. 29. And what may you say Oh yee dust of Jacob who are all of you together lesse then the least of the mercies of a God Gen. 32. 10. Your God we mean and your work we are at that is to Preach him up sin Satan death and Devils down yea to their own places I mean the sorrowes of the Saints and the works of darknesse all which are to be Preached down and Christ up from the grave of death and hell with the keyes of both in his hand Rev. 1. 18. This Lord and these keyes must you Preach up yea the power now in his hand and in his hand alone over sin Satan curse grave Law men devils Saints and Angels things present and to come yea over all these he is King for ever and hath wholly and solely the power of and over these things souls and consciences of men That is one thing my Brethren you are now called to Preach up by the first born which do call on you from the rising of the light life and love of God now in their souls and therefore do not scruple Oh ye Kings of the East Rev. 16. 12. but come forth as the morning Sun in the glory of your gifts and graces and the Spirit of the Son and Father and Preach up all three the Father in his love Iohn 3. 16. the Son in his merit 1 Tim. 1. 18. yea and the fruits joyes life and power of the Spirit Gal. 5. 22. converting and convincing killing saving damning and destroying powers burning up and burning down like devouring fire in and on the soul the world and all the works of flesh flaming up to the heavens the righteousnesse of men much more pride hypocrâ—sie self and the foolishnesse of and in man every whereas he turns from one form to another resting more than he ought therein Well and who is now free fit and sufficient for this thing but our sufficiency is of God 2 Cor. 3. 5. And he hath appointed for good men every one to