face thou shalt die But these as Nabals servants said of him are such sonnes of Belial that the people of God cannot speak to them nor make any humble and faithful Addresses to them to undeceive and convince their judgements and cause them to see and forsake their bloody sins and oppressions or if they do make any such humble and faithful Addresses they do not only raile upon them as Nabal did and send them away emptie with churlish answers but add greater wrongs to their injuries and cruelty to their oppressions they answer their humble and faithful Addresses by doing double injurie and satisfie their just interests by making their oppressions so much greater as their thigh is thicker than their little finger they do not only threaten to kill them as Pharoah did Moses but do murder and kill them either by immediate stroak of lawless and wicked violence or by injury oppression and extortion But they will not believe that injuries oppressions and extortions wel hooded and masked under false formes of holy pretences can be murder as if Saul standing in the midst of the people was Saul but Saul hid amongst the stuffe was not Saul but Saul hid amongst the stuffe was Saul and the people ran and brought him thence and he stood before the people So injuries oppressions and extortions hooded and masked under formes of holy pretences are murders hid in the stuffe and the people must run as the Israelits did to fetch them thence and set them before the people Murders of the tallest statures are ever hid amongst the stuffe and these implicit massacres are most in number and the worst kinds of murder Lam. 4.9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger Therefore to murder the poor or midle-sort of people or the Soldiers by poverty or hunger caused by unjust oppression is worse than to slay them with the sword If the people do not seek out these sinister and implicit murders that are hiden amongst the stuffe and seâ— them before the people they cannot be freed from their Nations sins and their and its destruction 11ly They cannot support her because of the grand imposturies of her Sorcerers and Seducers who by her harkning to them do deceive and harden her heart The Kings of Egypt and their servants did once harken to the wholsome councel of the people of God then they exceeded all Nations in peace riches strength and glory but when they rejected their counsel and harkened to Sorcerers and corrupters creatures most vile and filthy they were led and fel into infamous sins and the plagues of their destruction came upon them But by her that is Babels Sorcerers all Nations are deceived Rev. 18 23. Her Rulers Commanders and Officers reject the people of God and hate them and their Councels and their own Sorcerers and flatterers vilest and most wicked of execrable creatures take up their the affections and understandings and entire beings as spirits take up little children and sel them for slaves into far countries And why do they dote so upon the Sorcerers because they cover their filthy sins and nakedness with the figg-leaves of their Libels cast stumbling blocks before them betray and destroy them but these Sorcerers must set no name to their Libels lest the vertue of their hocus pocus vanish like bloome colours as soon as it sees light these lead them and by these they are and will lead and hardned that the people of God cannot by any faithfulnes undeceive and convince their judgments that they might be freed from their sins and from the plagues of their destruction 12ly The people of God in Babylon cannot support her from falling because they themselves are fallen in the spirit of their forme which is love The Apostle distiguisheth man into body soul and spirit and the form of the new man into faith hope and love Spirits are the fiery living and executive powers of creatures so is love in the people of God But their love is fallen from all lively executive heat and become contrary to the nature of spirits cold The love of many saith our Saviour shal wax cold Coldness of love is the power of death in the spirit and sourse of life from whence universal defection in the people of God floweth their goodness righteousness and faith is cold dying and decaying their courage and constancy wavering as a wave of the Sea the Sun and the light and the Moon and the Starres are in them darkened Their faith to God and man doth but deceive and destroy themselves and others they are pillars made up of shadows and deceits dashing pitchers broken pot-sheards The stars of heaven fell to the earth as a fig-tree casts her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind Rev. 6.13 They are the stars fallen from heaven to earth from heat to coldness from life to death or are dying They are Fig-trees that keep their leaves and cast their fruits They have left the power of Righteousness for appearances and embraced like Demas this present World Their Designes and Actions relate not to God nor the good of one another but terminate in their own corrupt ends and interests They are ignorant of true Righteousness and know not what it is nor wherein it consists but are zealous in their own Righteousness For the Jews the Type of the people of God had a Righteousness of their own wherein they were exceeding strict and that Righteousness was extreme wickedness So the people of God have a Righteousness not of God but of their own not of faith but of their own fancies and they are zealous in tihs their own Righteousness The Righteousness which the Jews had of their own consisted in Sacrifices refrainings from meats washings and in solemn fruitless Assemblies and Meetings Isa 1.10 and they were most hot and violent in pursuit of this their own Righteousness when they were most cold and fallen in their love to true Righteousness So the people of God being most cold and fallen in their love to true Righteousness are most hot and violent in pursuit of their own Righteousness which consists much in many Assemblings and fruitless solemn Meetings most needful were they well improved where they come together to serve God by jaring one with another What is true Righteousness the doing of that which is good and just unto all men they call moral and civil Righteousness and think it not essential in Religion whereas to give to every one their just right and proper due to evil doers their just reward to those that do well theirs and to all persons their own proper interests is the only expressive esential part of Religion and the visible life and marrow of all righteousness pure religion and undefiled with them is to abound in fruitless and needless disputes nice tenets and fond opinions They conceive that true righteousness and their obedience consists much in certain joynt solemnities of
life also Want is Vertues clog and the most violent spur and provocation to all wickedness It fits men for all vassallage and slavery It puts out the eys of reason and renders mens minds brutish It subjects their Spirits to all servile wickedness and their Bodies to all unjust burdens of corporal calamities and miseries It maketh Souldiers slaves to bloudy Designes Vassals of base and wicked enterprises to kill if commanded or not commanded one another or their best friends and to engage in bloud against any or against all the Free-born People to destroy them Extreme and unjust Poverty caused by cruel oppression is the iron chain of cursed bondage which makes men slaves to other mens wills and wickedness Slaves to their own sins slaves to all miseries slaves to their own utter â—uine slaves to destruction of Body and Spirit They that put the poor and the Souldiers and the middle sort of people in iron chains of unjust wrongs and oppressions and they that do not effectually endeavour to break their chains and to redress their wrongs and oppressions bring the guilt of the bloud of the poor and of the Nation upon themselves and upon the Nation The poor of the Nation for the most part are Souldiers undone in service turn'd out and deprived of their proper Rights the price of their bloud Many of the Nation are made poor in pursuing their and the Peoples Rights and Liberties and the rest of the poor for the most part are such as are undone by slavery and oppression I mention these things for no other purpose but that the bloud-guilty defilement of the Land if possible may be purged from it and for redress of it I propose First that the Foot may have 12. d. per diem from the begining of the Service as was promised or as due by a better right the just claim of Equity and Necessity Why should the Souldiers eat ashes and be clothed in rags by those for whom they have purchased by their hazard and bloud to be clothed in Scarlet and to eat the fat of the Land Secondly That the constant future pay for the Foot be at least and when things are as cheap as they have bin twelve pence per diem and that their present and future pay be as rates of all provisions are now and may be so much above twelve pence per diem as may competently maintain them and their charge in due health with honesty 3. That Troopers and Dragoons may have 2. s 6. d per diem from the begining of the Service and for future what more may justly countervail their necessities the deerness and scarcity of all things considered 4. That the sick and wounded Horse and Foot that for that cause are out of Service may have the same pay that they in service have but not pay for horses except they keep horses for the Service The Souldiers when sick and wounded have most need of their pay and they best deserve it who in discharge of their faithfulness have suffered most 5. That the sick and wounded Officers may the same pay which they had in service it being extreme hard and unjust measure that they or the Souldiers should be then most destitute when they have most need or that their faithfulness wherein they have hazarded their lives and bin wounded should be punished with privation or abridgement of their pay 6. That all Officers and Souldiers that have bin faithful to their trust and for that cause or otherwise unjustly turn'd out dismissed or cashiered may be forthwith restored to their respective charge and places of trust and have all legal and due administrations of Right and Justice and equal and answerable reparations given them in all just relations For it is unreasonable and unjust in the Nation and in its Trustees and Officers and dangerous to the Nation That they that have bin ever faithful to their trust and born the burden of the Service should be turned out or cashiered especially without due satisfaction and other Officers and Souldiers perhaps false to their present Trust or late enemies to it or newters or not fit for Service should ' be trusted with the charge and trust of the Nation Seventhly That all Widdows and Orphants or the next kindred of all such Souldiers or Officers if they have been faithful to their Trust as have been or shall be dead or slain in Service may have their Arrears Audited and paid them that the Nation may be free from the guilt and sins of bloud and oppression least God say to it or to many of it as Elisha to Ahab for Naboths bloud Hast thou killed and also taken possession or least God plead the Cause of the many thousands of Souldiers slain by cruel and unjust murder and oppression and the Cause of their desolate widdows and fatherless with the Nation and Representative of it and say Have you killed not one man as Naboth was but one but many thousans not who denied you their vineyards but gave their lives for you to do you service Have you killed them by keeping back the slender pittance of their deer purchase their due Pay which should have kept them alive Have you killed there by keeping back the price of their blouds who kept not back their own bloud that they might preserve your lives and Estates entire Did you enthral their bodies in all corporal calamities exigences extremities even unto death and did you kill their bodies did their calamities and extreme exigents enslave their Souls and Spirits in all excess of wickedness for â—so greater inforcement can be to all wickedness then necessity are they utterly cut of and killed Body and Soul in and by their and in them your wickedness And have you cut off and killed them in body and soul To keep back and bridle them from wickedness had been your duty and did you set your steely spurs of oppression in their sides and cause them to rush headlong into all wickedness and perish in it Did you kill them by keeping back the price of their hazard and bloud which had you paid them they had not perished or you had bin guiltless And have you taken possessian of it Did you possess the whole Land in peace and did you keep back when you had no need the price of their lives from their desolate widdows and forsaken fatherless Did you give possession of it to others that had no right to it and did dogs to whom it was not due lick their bloud Did you when you had power free the Nation from bloud or by not doing it plunge and re-involve it in a new bloudy War Did Ahab when sharply reproved humble himself and have you hardned your hearts when friendly admonished in the spirit of meekness Did you harken to corrupters and seducers and despise imprison persecute and destroy those that did faithfully admonish and friendly exhort you Let the Nation at least the Conscientious Party seriously consider these things as
would save their lives they will not allow them their own straw with such violent rigour do they make them serve in slavery therefore were the Israelites scattered over all Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw that the fires of their Briekilnes might not dy And for this cause the people of God are scattered all over their Egypt to get food and rayment to sustain them instead of their own which their oppressors keep back from them They are scattered in their persons and estates scattered in their resolutions and power in their executions scattered scattered in commutual help succour and assistance and inprudence direction and Councel scattered They are scattered and divided us the dry bones were in the valley of Bones Ezek. 37. which were an expresse figure of the people of God in Babylon the bones were scattered in the open valley they had no flesh nor sinnews upon them they were the whole house of Israel that is all the people of God and the text saith they were slain So all the People of God in Babylon are these dry bones their flesh is consumed that is they have no substance of truth nor sinnew of strength their marrow of true righteousnesse within is all wasted they are dry bones and they are all slain by slavery and therefore are as dead men in no power or capacity to be gathered or to be spoken unto or to hearken that they might be gathered their sins of slothfull unfaithfulnesse to those that have been most faithfull amongst them the guilt of their blood and their often breaches of their just Faith to God and man wherein they are so hardned that their hearts smite them not are breaches great as the Sea which cannot be healed The first heaven and earth departed away but the reason is given in reference to Heaven only The Sun and the Moon and the light was darkned and the starres fell from heaven as the figg-tree casts her untimely figgs that is the light of truth the knowledge of true righteousness departed from the people of God and they fell from the love of righteousness to the love of the world coveteousness sloth slavish feares sensuall pleasure and their own designes choak like thornes all life and power of God in them that none appeares they are barren figg-trees that bring forth figg-leaves and no fruits of righteousness or if they do there is no faith nor truth in them but they fall to the ground and are scattered before they be ripe the first earth departed because Heaven first departed from all righteousnesse their form and essence they let them fancie what they will have no order way guide or light how or which way to stand in Babilon Representers in the Army was their most likely and possible way to regain strength that they might stand but those Agitators that were faithfull were turn'd out and destroyed and they that betrayed their Trust preferred they cannot advize themselves nor be advised nor help forward but hinder her and their own support and as they are scattered and divided all they do or can do is but to contradict and divide and dash against one another and against that means most and those that offer it by which they might be gathered and united Many also are caused to trespasse and blaspheme through the rigour and cruelty of oppression therefore their oppressors are guilty of oppression and blasphemy and the Authors of it their passions indeed thereby provoked have been the bellows of these distempers and the right temper of the best mettal may be spoyled in an over-heated forge yet not the mettal nor the forge nor the bellows but the black Smith is the author of these distempers but the effects of their provocations in the yron furnaces of their oppressions and slavery are not light distempers but all composed order wisdom and sobriety and their spiritual endowments and righteousnesse which should support them are reduced through the vehemency of the fire and rage of their slaverie not into sindars but ashes like the ashes of the fornace which Moses took and sprinkled up towards Heaven which became small dust scattered throughout the land of Egypt and Heaven saw that scattered dust and turn'd it into a real Plague upon all the Land of Egypt When Israel was most falne to dust and ashes God then raised them when they were most slain he then revived them when most scattered he then gathered them and when they were most irrecoverable and desparately lost he then sought them out and that there might be no appearance of mans power in their deliverance he then saved them from bondage and destruction of body and spirit So his people being most fallen slain scattered and lost God will now raise and gather them out of dust and arm and unite them in life and power that there may be nothing of theirs nor of man but of God only in their deliverance and that his power alone may be made known by calling Israel out of Egypt and causing them to hearken was Israel delivered and by calling his People out of Egypt and Babylon the house of their bondage and destruction and causing them to hearken shall his people be delivered Lastly The second principal cause and end of their coming out of her is that they might with all speedy care and providence make and constitute such a Government amongst themselves as may by Justice absolute and impartial preserve the persons estates lives and entire beings of each other and of all those that close with and co-adhere unto them Such Government consists in a right constitution and Direction In a right constituted Government the power is to be for substance wholy in the people and not in pretense or title but really This power is the power of God the richest Talent of his goodness which he dispenseth to a people If they improve it well it brings the greatest Safety Peace Freedom and Prosperity that a People can have and if they improve it ill the greatest confusion ruine and destruction Therefore the people are seriously and advisedly to consider how they may best improve it to Gods glory and their benefit They are to consider it in relation to God in relation to it self and in relation to themselves This power in relation to God is the power of God demised and dispensed from him to a people for their Prosperity Peace and Safety Secondly In it self it is the richest Talent which a people can receive from God therefore God will require the strictest account of them for their improvement of it That servant that lost not nor wasted his masters Talent but kept it and return'd it back to his master was called a wicked slothful and an unprofitable servant and cast into utter darkness because heâ—â—d not increase and improve it All powers are of God therefore all Powers are good but some Powers are in relations evil wicked and unjust the evil and injustice in Powers is the abuse of them That
opened the locks and iron barres of all otherwise impossibilities in Israels way out of bondage into the land of promised liberty was the pillar of fire which after they hearkened to Gods call and command in coming out of Egypt and had manifested perfect obedience in a type went before them and led them And the people of God that shall manifest perfect obedience to Gods call and command shall find the pillar of light and truth from God in their own spirits which is the true key of liberty from all burdens destruction and bondage of soul and body They that manifest not the life and power of God by ready obedience to Gods call and command in coming out of bondage to all oppression misery unrighteousness and destruction of soul and body are not only dead and drie bones but they rebel against God and sell his talent and power their breath of life from him into bondage God called upon the drye bones that they might live and did they rebel and reject life no but as the Prophet called upon them to hear the word of the Lord there was a noyse and a shaking and the bones came together bone to his bone That noise was the rallying noise of a re-uniting Army These dead and dry bones were all the people of God slain and destroyed by slavery into whom the breath of life from God was re-enterings and they by ready hearkening and obedience willingly received it Did they then return to the valley of bones never but became an exceeding great Army and never sould themselves into bondage unto death and destruction any more Israel being gathered out of bondage wherein they were scattered in Egypt was an exceeding great Army before the most miserable and slavish but then the freest-people that ever were They that were poor amongst them before were then rich and the persons and estates of poor and rich were-freed from bondage all the house of bondage durst not lay their hand upon a Kid of the Hebrews to bring it back into bondage Before there was no appearance of the life and power of God in them The drie bones when God called upon them to hearken and live did hearken and live but Israel at first when God called upon them to hearken and live did not hearken but refused life Exod. 6.9 The life and power of God in his People is first manifested by their real hearkening and resolved obedience when God calls them out of bondage to all that he commandeth and when their hearkening obedience and righteousness are not Sorceries that is are not sayings but doings not shaddows but substance and not parcels of obedience which are but Hypocrisie but perfect obedience The first real appearance of the life and power of God in Israel in a Type was when first they being called out of bondage did all joyntly hearken unto and do all that God commanded them which was when the Passeover was first kept by them wherein as Moses was faithful in all the house of God in a Type so were they every man faithful in his own house in all that God commanded This their joynt faithfulness in keeping the Passeover in a Type was the present and immediate insertion and the ingraffing of them into the life and power of God and that very night they re-united and rallied into a living Army and were delivered from bondage and destruction of body and spirit in a Type the Lambe which they were commanded to kill and eat was called the Lords Passeover Exod. 12.11 and their observance of that command was called the Sacrifice of the Lords Passeover vers 27. It was the first Ordinance which God gave unto Israel and the first fruits of their faith and obedience That Ordinance was an Propheticall Act of a thing really done in Israel or an actuall Prophesie of the same thing in truth and substance which shall be done in and by the true Israel For as all Israel did that very night they were delivered observe and keep the Passeover so all Gods people the true Israel shall and must as certainly observe and do the whole substance of that Ordinance at the instant time of or immediately before their deliverance from reall bondage and destruction whereof the Egyptian was but a Type or shaddow their obedience in that Ordinance was Typically inward and outward Their inward Typicall obedience required and done was in that each family or so many together as might eat up the Lambe did that very night they were freed from bondage eat it in one house without carrying any part of it out and none of them might go out of the house untill the morning vers 22.46 Which shews that Gods People must and shall with one accord depart out of bondage and not by cowardly fears or faithless backslidings betraye and destroy one another or be scattered all over Egypt but co-unite indissolubly in the life and power of God Secondly they did eat the whole Lambe to shew that Gods People must and shall readily do and observe all which God in Christ the Lambe their perfect Freer and Redeemer shall command them that they shall gladly and willingly receive as the best meat when they are most hungry Freedom from all bondage to all unrighteousness sin misery and destruction and come not only out of Egypt but out of Sodom and Babylon and out of bloody and Pharisaical Ierusalem Thirdly they might not eat it soden in water at all but rosted with fire to shew that the spirit of Freedom in Gods People must and shall be fervent as fire and that their love of deliverance from bondage and slavery shall not be as it is cold decayed and dead as Water is the coldest of all Elements God would not accept of but rejected their service that bowed down to drink Water when they were to pursue their deliverance from slavery Iudges 7. They that thirst more after ditch water than Freedom from bondage are sit for nothing but slavery Fourthly they were to eat it with their shooes on their feet and their staf in their hand c. and they were to eat it in hast and the reason is given for it is the Lords Passeover verse 11. to shew that Gods people must and shall pursue their deliverance from bondage with a ready and dilligent preparation to depart and not remissely but in hast the reason is for it is the Lords Passeover that is because if they do not haste to make diligent preparation to come out of Aegypt and Babylon to which God calls them and which God commands and out of all bondage and if God when he comes to passe through Egypt and Babylon find them there he will lay upon them their and their own sins and rebelion and their and their own due plagues and destruction But his People are not ready for deliverance if God should deliver them they can no way use it but mis-improve it to destroy themselves because they make not any reall and faithful
earth was not man until the sixt day So Israel was the people of God before as they were dead earth and dust of bondage but never the people of God redeemed in a type until the lamb was killed and until they all with one accord kept the Pass-over as God commanded and then and therefore God commanded Israel that that moneth should be the begining of all moneths unto them and the first moneth of the yeer because it was unto them really the begining of their being So the keeping of the true Pass-over shall be the first begining of the being and existence of the true people of God They are Gods people as Israel was before they kept the Pass-over that is as dead earth and scattered dust they are not nor have order matter or form nor manifest any life of obedience as a people redeemed dead trees bring not forth fruits of life and power nor plants of bondage righteous obedience What obedience they do manifest which is little and in bondage is as persons Jonas might pray when in bondage in the belly of hell but perform as families people and churches nothing really because they are as Israel before they kept the Pass-over in bondage as persons families people and Churches Strict professors and pretenders to freedom and righteousness of all nations were ever many but Israel was free by birth and promise and a figure of the true free-born Professors were and are four sorts The first were pretenders in all nations to freedom and righteousness who notwithstanding were not of Abrahams substance after the flesh and to whom no promise of blessing that is of freedom from the curse was made So now there are many strict professors and pretenders to freedom of all nations who not withstanding manifest no spiritual substance of Abraham no true righteousness in practise which is the substance of the free-born of God Secondly The Aegyptians Pharaohs servants and sorcerers especially approved and did falsly that which Moses did and practised quite contrary they were not Abrahams but Chams seed after the flesh the peculiar people of the curse in the antithesis to Israel so usurpers over the free-born and all that receive the seal of the spirit of Sorcery and the mark of the power of the beast to enslave the free-born profess what the free-born do and practise quite contrary and are the peculiar people of the curse in an antithesis to the true Israel The curse is bondage and slavery the blessing redemption unto freedom The power of the curse is diffidence slavish fear and subjection to the spirit of bondage unto sin and destruction of body and spirit The form of the blessing is faith freedom and life in the power and obedience of God A third sort not Hebrews nor Aegyptians but Neuters set the Ark in one Temple with Dagon and in profession serve God Dagon in practise They serve God by sleeping and to that end creep into strictest societies of Profession as into sleeping holes that they may onely sleep as Dormice and do nothing They serve God and Dagon as the rebellious Ephramites did Judg. 12.2 who when they were called upon to free the people of God and themselves front bondage slept and harkned not and after when God by Jephtah had delivered his people without them they falsly pretended great wrong from Jephtah in not calling them whereas he had called them and they would not hearken So Neuters serve God by a slothful and sleepy profession Those Ephramites slandred Jephtah for his faithful service in freeing Israel and gathered themselves together to burn down his house upon him so Neuters serve Dagon in slandring and destroying such as hate sloth and slavish fear and are diligent and faithful They say sibboleth in a sleepy profession but they cannot frame to pronounce shibboleth in practise Iudg. 12.6 The fourth sort were Israelites Abrahams seed the true Professors of freedom and people of God in a type the peculiar people in whom the promise of blessing unto all Nations was made and Abrahams substance after the flesh in an Antithesis to the Aegyptians Israel had the flesh but not the faith of Abraham So the true Israel seem to hold forth the spiritual substance of Abraham faith and obedience and are the true people of God in antithesis to all that receive the seal of the power of the beast and in reference to the type but not in relation to truth in sincerity They hold forth the outward carcass of Abrahams faith and obedienc or a shadow of it but not the life and power of Abrahams faith and obedience Gods people are sincere or seeming All Creatures clean and unclean that came into the Ark were a type of the people of God manifesting faith and obedience outwardly but there 's no mention of more then Noah and Sem onely that were sincere All that kept the Pass-over in Aegypt were a figure of Gods people but there 's no mention of above five or six that were sincere and but two onely entred into the land of promise the rest received again the spirit of bondage and perisht and fell by slavishness So Israelites like Nathaniel indeed are few scarce visible but have and had ever an inward principle of life and power obscure and infirm because of bondage their faith and obedience is like that Prophets that was sent to prophesie against the Altar in Bethel and returned back an other way who did go prophesied and returned back an other way but before he had throughly done his work he sat him down under an Oak and then contrary to Gods command returned back to Bethel wherefore a Lyon met him and â—lâ—e him Some small hid sincerity there is in their actions but if they do any work of God they either leave it off before they well begin it or sit down before it is half done The best of them are like the barren fig-tree full of fruitless leaves of profession If a man seek as the Prophet did Mic. 7. ripe fruit he may weary or destroy himself before he find any Their fruit falls before it is ripe yet they put forth some ripe if a man could find it they desist from all good actions before they perfect them or transmit them seemingly imperfect because they are outwardly under the power of bondage The seeming people of God manifest outward faith and obedience as the generality of creatures that came into the Ark did in a Type and as the generality of Israel that harkned to Moses when he was first sent did but their faith and obedience is not sealed with any life and power inward or outward nor shall be until they prepare to keep the true Pas-over Israel at first harkned and then generally revolted and would not harken their harkning was no obedience because not sealed and what is not sealed is in no force or being but their disobedience in not hearkning was rebellion against God So Gods people seem forward to harken and to
act unto righteousness and freedom from the curse and then immediately relinquish freedâ—m and righteousness and desert and betray those that co-operate sincerely to slaughter and destruction Their best and most forward obedience is not wrought by the free spirit of God in life and power but their perfideous Apostasie and trâ—châ—ry are real works of the spirit of bondage No Fountain sends forth at the same place sweet water and bitter Iam. 3.11 12. Neither can a fountain of bondage bring forth any work of Freedom Their continued breaches of faith and their quiet and peaceable doing and suffering of all unrighteousness and their oft revoltings are manifestly the works of bondage and do manifest that all their obedience are real works of bondage They seek just things for and from slavish and unjust principles and ends and seek to accomplish those ends by head-long and rash means and their best actions being subject to unjust ends and under the powers and forms of bondage the matter must needs be the matter of those forms and not of the free spirit in the power of God That some sincere are among them alters not their condition of bondage because they also are outwardly in bondage and outwardly not seen nor visible their righteousness and freedom is inward and so secret and secret things belong to God They that wore sincere of Israel in bondage did not alter the condition of the generality for they were all in bondage But as the Law by transgression is the power of sin so their service and obedience by back-sliding is the power of the curse of bondage for they could not revolt did they not first seem to stand nor betray the sincere did they not seem to hold forth faith and obedience nor be nigh unto cursing were it not that they were once enlightned Heb. 6. therefore the people of God are so far from being or begining of order matter or form of a people called to the life and form of freedom and righteousness which is of God that their seeming form their service and obedience is the occasion and their deflecting from it the real cause of their being under the form or power of the spirit of bondage There is no mention of any service to God that Israel ever did in Egypt before they kept the Passe-over for it was impossible for them to serve God before they were or had being or beginning of order matter or form of righteousnesse and freedom but of bondage unto sin and slavery only in a type So the true Israel as persons families people and Churches did never nor can or shall ever do any service to God at least in the cleer evidence of the life and power of God until they by and in their anti-typical families prepare and keep the true Passeover neither shall they have being or beginning of order matter or form in the power of true righteousnesse and freedom until they be called out of the power of bondage into the freedom and power of God receiving the seal of the Name of God c. and they onely shall bee the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb Rev. 14.21 A stone or clodd of earth cast by a strong hand flies as fast as the swiftest creatures that have life and motion in themselves so the people of God act just things vigorously for their own private ends singly of which did they seek them in the joynt good and safety of each other and by right means they could not misse and their outward motives failing they fall as a clodd of earth quit freedom and if peril appears their hearts like Nabals are dead as stones but they not only lick up the vomit of a slavish spirit but bend the power of it in resistance against God They hide their treacheries and apostasies with fig-leaves of deceits adding fraud to unfaithfulnesse and ensnare and betray those that are sincere and themselves in them to destruction and slavery Israel told Sampson plainly that they were come down to bind him and to deliver him into the hands of the Philistims and that they would bind him fast and deliver him that is betray him and they did so Iudges 15.12 13. but the people of God deal not so sincerely and truly with those that are faithfull and sincere amongst them They indeed bind them fast in cords of bondage and betray them but tell them not they will do so they need not they have many examples to warn them Moses and the Prophets reason and experience tells them that as Israel bound Sampson and betrayed him and Moses and in them all Israel into the power of slavery and death so all that the people of God do or can do in bondage by any Engagement is but to bind those that are sincere and faithful in strong cords of slavery and death and betray them to destruction and slaughter And this their trecherous disservice thus quitted they confine and terminate in outward strict form of profession and their own corrupt interests until opportunity be given that they may again seek for slavish ends just things by head-long and rash means and again betray those that are faithful to slaughter and themselves to slavery So they scarce leave any name or being of those that are sincere as few were left when the floud came in a Type They rally not but to revolt desert and betray those that are faithful and oppose base excuses to faith and obedience Israel heard gladly the message of their deliverance and then all both Elders and People so soon as resisted revolted and were scattered all over Aegypt under the power of bondage more then ever God sent a second message but they in no wise harkned Exod. 6.9 They had somthing else to mind then Moses they must either submit to bear or be beaten it was their living their calling and they must follow it The people of God bidden to the great Supper Luke 14.17 begin all with one consent to make excuse one had bought five yoak of Oxen another a house c. So the people of God called out of bondage at first seem forward to harken and engage for just Freedom but then the first noise of Fear before they see any danger puts them all to retreat and scatters them under the power of bondage more then ever the first brunt before it approach or come neer them breaks their spirit Moses was sent with a second message but they did not harken for cruel bondage their servile spirits made bondage matter of excuse and a strong Bar against their deliverance from it The Lord sent to call those that were bidden to the great Supper and they also harkned not but opposed the power of bondage against the power of God in making excuses an excuse is a shaking off or a casting out and they by making excuses did shake off God and his power for their deliverance So the people of God cast off God oppose his messages and resist his power
the earth chandle and trade their high prised deceits of no value which they exchange for the treasure of the earth to make themselves rich some teach against some some against all forms of Godliness and deny all the power of it others press empty forms of fruitless profession and make these and all other painted Sepulchers seem to arise out of this Cup They seem to make the blindest braâ—s of Aegyptian darkness their brain-sick conceits of grossest folly and blasphemy to arise out of this cup. All base Sorcerers and seducers take up this cup for a pretence to dissimulation for lucre sake and make it their instrument to deceive and inslave the Nations subordinate to their own unjust gain and ends The Scriptures are but nets spread only to catch their prey their shaddow of darkness to deceit their vessel of divination to ensnare and destroy the earth for reward All Impostors take up out of this cup forms to deceive for gain unto themselves and they that receive the marke of bondage hardness of heart drink deceit and all deceivers the wages of lying divinations out of this cup. The word of God shall be but is not but the wills and power of wicked Impostors and their filthy lusts and desires are the power of the dead subjected and inslaved Scriptures Therefore the Scriptures in bondage under the formes of vilest and most slavish disuse and death cannot be the form and power of the Image of God nor of reason nor reason of the Law nor the Law of the free people of God But as the abomination of desolation was instead of the Arke of God set up in the Temple of God so right order matter and form of Freedom life and power in the people of God is by a general falling away from what they seemed null and voyd and positive opposit forms and powers of bondage the substance shaddowed by that abomination of desolation set up in the Temple the people of God and in all powers of their being Law reason and Scripture And the matter joyned to these forms is their proper matter in being and the order ends and effects must necessarily as effects their causes follow their productive matter and forms therefore the people of God as families persons people and Churches and all their powers and forms Law reason and Scriptures and the order ends and effects of these forms are wholly in the power of bondage and basest disuse dead to Freedom life and power of God alive and active to slavish destruction sin and death and shall be untill God call them and they come and bring with them all that is theirs out of the power of bondage unto the power and freedom of God in their anti-typical families While Israel was in bondage their persons estates law reason traditions and intire beings were wholly in the same bondage and they never had being nor begining of Freedom until they were called out of the power of bondage unto their proper form of Freedom the power of God and of the Lamb and were gathered and sealed in that power typically by their families So the true Israel and all that is theirs are alike in the same bondage their bodys spirits power rights estates and their forms of being law reason and Scriptures are to life and Freedom voyd of being and begining But by occasion vials of slavish disuse destructive sinful and must so remain untill God gather Israel and all that is theirs from being putrified dust rebelling against him to a being and begining in his power of Freedom by their anti-typical families The dust which after was Man had no order unity nor figure of body whiles it was dust nor fleshly form untill it was transmutated into flesh nor life until the flesh had liniaments and breath of life and not till then it had the begining and being of a man So Israel were and and the true Israel are scattered dividuals of dust and Atomes most contrary to order and unity of a body and form of life When Israel rebelled against God and being cald out of bondage hearkned not Exod. 6.12 they were putrified and scattered dust warring against the life and power of God when they readily hearkned to prepare and keep the Passeover as God comanded then they were changed from dead and scattered dust into fit matter of a redeemed people when all their families were gathered together into their own houses or so many as could eat the Lamb into one house and kept together without going out or stirring from one another then they were rallyed and knit in a compact body when they did eat the Passeover together as God commanded then the life and power of God their breath of life from bondage of death was in a Type breathed into them and that night they were delivered and all the first-born the power of Egypt in a Type were that very night destroyed and God ordained that moneth by an Ordinance for ever to be the beginning of all moneths unto them and the first moneth of the yeare because it was indeed really the first beginning of their being So the true Israel the free people of God and all that is theirs have bin and are in that deep sleep and horror of great darkness of bondage and death in the substance of it did which fell upon Abraham in a figure Gen. 15. and are really those divided peices of flesh betwixt which the furnace and burning lampe passed which peices of flesh putrified That deep sleep and great darkness and those peices of flesh were a twofold figure of Abrahams seed after the flesh and after the spirit in bondage dead disobedient and putrified dust which being called hearken not When they shall readily hearken to prepare and keep the true Passeover the substance and truth of the typical then they shall be changed from putrid dust repugnant to all life and freedom of God into fit matter of a free people When their anti-typical families shall be gathered in the unity of the spirit of life and freedom unto the power of God in their natural and mystical houses to prepare and keep the true Passeover and not revolt not stir out nor desert one another then they shall be rallied into the com-pages and joynts of a body of a Free People When they shall eat the Passeover together as God commandeth that is when they shall do really the works of righteousness not the Type but the truth and substance of what God and the Lamb requires of a people redeemed to life and Freedom then the power of God their breath of life from real bondage shall be breathed into them and that time which is at hand shall be unto them and all that is theirs really the very first begining of being Then Israel and theirs first began in a Type and then the true Israel as persons families people and churches shall first begin really That shall be the first time wherein their proper Rights Estates Law Power and the
The Nations Claim Of Native RIGHT Wherein the gross and extreme Defection and Injustice of the Court Martial and of all Courts The destructive abuse of the Law and pressing necessity that the Nation speedily unite as one man for an Agreement in Righteousness is by particular Example and an Appeal to the general Councel of the Army and by several considerations cleerly demonstrated and proved Secondly The nullity of Order Matter and Form of a Free People is asserted and proved by Scripture and how to Persons Families People and Churches right Order Matter and Form may be attained Thirdly A brief Pourtraict of a right Government of the Nation and Agreement of the People and how such Government and Agreement may be with ease attained A new Representative freely Elected The Law rectified The Poor relieved and the Peoples and Armies and every particular Persons just Interests in Peace with Truth satisfied is preposed to the Nation By Thom. Harlye late Quarter-master in the Regiment lately under Command of Maj. Gen. Skippon Gen. 1.2 3. The Earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the Deep And God said Let there be light LONDON Printed in the Yeer MDCL To the Reader Reader I Have set the faults in Printing as they may be mended With little labor Much reading is weariness to the Flesh and many books a burden Therefore I set out this to ease the Reader upon his and Nation upon its accompts of their burdens Let him that runeth so run that he may obtain So let him that writes yet this is not in him that runeth nor in me nor in man but in God and from God He that so runs not as he may obtain is at double loss of his labor and of the end of his runing If I propose not an expeditious and safe way to free the Reader and Nation on their accompts from burdens I must accompt me an Oppressor and him and it oppressed and burdened With double loss Freedom in part is but pretense not freedom and the end of it worse by occasion then the begining Let every man be fully perswaded in his own mind Ro. 14. Full perswasion is the whole duty of man redeemed to Freedom and my endeavor herein in reference to the Nation False perswasion is disswasion and deceit the cause in and through lying spirits of the Peoples fal as Ahab fill at Ramoth Gilead Full perswasion is perfect conviction the essence of Faith Rom. 4. that frees the people and the chief part in them their judgements and spirits from chains of darkness The key of deliverance from the curse of bondage The Bond-womans son so soon as God opened her eyes to see a Fountain of Life was freed from death the business was soon done the matter ended Reason reduced to right order is the ground of just perswasion and rule of the Laws and actions of a free people The literal rule and form of Reason in order is the Scriptures quickned from bondage of death The essential form is perfect and free light the work of the free Spirit in the word of God But all Families People and Churches as to these Forms Order and Matter are now most at least outwardly without form and void 〈◊〉 not void nor without form in reference to opposite forms of corruption of bondage sin and death as the earth without form and void of light had an opposite form of darkness That darkness and that darkness in Aegypt that might be felt and that horror of darkness which fell upon Abraham were figures of Past Present Oeconomick Civil and Ecclesiastical darkness of bondage to all slavish misery destruction sin and death in and under which the free people 〈…〉 and the whole Creation oppressed groan and travel in pain to be delivered out of it I do not in this Treatise mind so much to discover the evils of bondage yet I do that as an evident and easie issue out of them without violence difficulty disturbance not in part but entire For Freedom in part is by occasion worse than bondage The begining of this Treatise is not the Index but order to the premises Who answers or judges any thing before he hears or knows it judgeth himself guilty of shame and folly All I desire of the Reader is his faithful perusal of it in order and his care to mend the faults in Printing Farewel Thomas Harbye Septemb. 18. 1649. The Complaint of Thomas Harby Quartermaster of the Regiment lately under the Command of Major Generall Skippon against Richard Ashfield Lieutenant Col. of the same Regiment Charge I. FIrst The Complainant saith that the said Lieutenant Colonel keepeth back from him six weeks pay amounting to seven pounds due to him from the 26 of Feb. 1647. to the 9 of April 1648. And keepeth receipts in his hands for 81.15 having not withstanding received out of the Complanants pay the said summe I cannot set downe the proofes of this or of any Charge because the Court Martiall would not admit me to make any proofe nor my witnesses to be examined though I had Petitioned the Court Martiall for that purpose and had Order upon that Petition from the said Court under the Judg-Advocates hand I was mustered the 26 of February 1647. and the precedent Quartermaster was crost out of the role because dead before and I had Commission from the Generall bearing the same date with that muster and the mony which was allowed by the State upon that muster the Lieutenant Colonel received and paid it as he saith to the widow of the precedent Quartermaster as in right to the said Quattermaster whereas it had been rather due to any Alien or to any new-born or un-born infant if living because living then to him that was dead before any part of it was due for to any living it might be rather due for their service but to the dead nothing can be due for their service to the State after they are dead no Mustermaster may muster a man dead upon paine of death nor passe any man if he know it that is dead before the date of the Muster and before the Muster-roles are closed neither was this the Muster-masters but the Lieutenant Colonels fault but to deprive the States living servants of their due pay to pay it to the dead that never did nor ever could do service for it and who when living were not really and indeed the States Servants but usurpers over and intruders upon the Proprieties and Rights of those who were really and indeed the States Servants is worse then false muster or to muster the dead for the living What the Lieutenant Colonel spake at the Court-Martiall as being meer aire and emptinesse I omit But if I may be admitted upon equall terms of freedom and right to have a legall and just tryall let the Lieutenant Colonel object what he can and chuse whom he will to assist him I shall by Gods assistance declare to what he or
it was no satisfaction as to the assoylment of Ahab by the Elders of Israel from the bloud of Naboth that Naboth was put to death by a wicked Representative through false witness Also that the evidence of men of Pharasaical and bloudy Spirits common Barretters and men of Belial and such as manifest loosness and little or no Conscience in their conversations may not be easily admitted in Judgement especially against men of known honesty and integrity Let their testimony be circumspectly examined and if their evidence upon due examination be found false let them suffer the same punishment which had bin due to the defender if their witness had bin true 8 Consider the wrong and abuse done to the Souldiers and Nation in not paying the Souldiers at disbanding their full and total due for their Service especially in disbanding some without having their Arrears Audited and Stated without any Debenter and without any Pay at Disbanding First Because the Nation is thereby made guilty of devouring the Symbol and price of the Bloud and Lives of the Souldiers who with the uttermost hazard of their bloud and lives have supported the Nation this David abhorred and would not drink the price of the bloud of his souldiers though it was but water and he himself like to perish for want of it Secondly the Nation is hereby made guilty of most unnatural ingratitude of extensive horror and vastness Thirdly The Nation is hereby made guilty of perfidious violation and enfringment of the Faith and Honor of the Nation and the Army of its Faith and Honor in its just Engagements to the contrary Fourthly By this means many of the Army and Nation were justly and some desperatly imbittered and provoked and thereby as a just punishment of this Nations bloudy sins a new War was caused wherin the whole Nation was at the very brink of being wholly lost Fifthly The Nation is thereby made guilty of the bloud that was shed in that War and of its own extream hazard by that War for the violation of the Faith of the Nation by the Nation and of the Army by the Army was judged to be the undoubted main Cause of that dangerous and bloudy War and of all the distresses and miseries that have thereby since ensued therefore it had been more safe and honorable better accepted of men and more just in the sight of God though they had Disbanded but. Ten in a day to have paid them their total and full Due in Arrears at Disbanding Sixthly Consider that a Debenter is but a titular and no real Interest and satisfies not the Nations and Peoples nor the Souldiers just interest in relation to the Freedom of the Nation from the slain of guilt that lies upon it and in relation to the Souldiers in point of Right The Kings Party are râ—koned by some better without Debenters because they are not therewith undone and destroyed by fruitless seeking their Pay in Arrears till they starve and perish To prevent this and procure present necessary relief many Souldiers are forced to sell as Esaâ— his birth right for pottage their Debenters fâ—r some small me inconsiderable sum of money perhaps Ten pound in Arrears for Ten or five shillings of present money So whiles the Souldiers serve the State with hazards of their lives perhaps they that have bin their enemies in field or their oppressers receive their pay in arrears and by making advantage of their necessities wrong and defraud them of the price of their bloud and they and their families miserably without remedy starve and perish for want of it Consider this bloudy extortion and the cause of it necessity and the cause of that necessity a paper insteed of real pay insufficient to relieve the least necessity Consider the equity that this superlative extortion and the causes of it be effectually abrogated that all such contracts may be null and that the Souldiers may receive the entire price of so deer a purchase without fraud infallibly 9. Consider the sad condition of all the Foot and Horse in relation to their present pay and of the disbanded sick and wounded Souldiers Many of the Foot and Horse have Families to provide for now whether is 8 d per diem sufficient to maintain a single man in any due equipage as to conserve health or keep him an honest man Much less him that hath a charge and family A single man in ordinary health may eat eight penny worth of bread and wholsom meat as rates are at one meal and yet be forc'd to drink water with it But a Souldiers clothes and linen and washing and reparations and shoes and stockings if he order himself in any wholsom or seemly manner will cost him 4 d per diem throughout the yeer So then he hath 4 d a day to find him which as rates are is not so much as 2 d a day was formerly and which is not sufficient for one Souldier to afford him half of one good meal in a day through the year and yet this must maintain his Wife and Family also if he have any And because this pittance too short for any prisoner is too much for a Sâ—uldier about a third part of their pay in Arrears must be deducted for Free-quarter which no Law nor Equity can justifie except they that deduct it can prove to whom and from whom in particular it is due and pay it accordingly and then the rest of the Souldiers pay in arrears which amounts to nothing except extreme damage and loss looking after it must be paid them seldom or never So that the condition of Souldiers of the disbanded sick and wounded much more is the most exquisite master-piece of oppression and slavery that can be conceived and directly and wholy against all humanity much more against Christian equity integrity and goodness The Souldiers of Horse and Foot are Free-born English and not Native Bondslaves Slavery and Bondage in corporal and spiritual Corporal Bondage is a subduing and bringing under of the Body by sore labor and servile work or watchings not affording food and rayment sufficient to bear up the body in its laborious thrall Spiritual bondage is co-incident to Corporal bondage For as a corrupt vessel corrupteth what is contained in it so the bodies of the Souldiers brought low by many surfets through sundry constant hard services wearied with often watchings and ill accomodations lamed and broken with bruises wounds heats hunger cold aches and often sicknesses filled with all serdes and filth of lothsom poverty and nakedness renders their Spirits slavish and abject their persons desperate and careless of themselves and families and them and their families debauched and wicked and ready and prone to pursue rash and unjust courses which cast them upon the mercies of their Representatives who condemn and cashier them deprive them of their just and necessary livelihood the staff of their lives and bridle which should restrain them from wickedness and they deprive many of
what highly concerns the entire safeties of them and it Eighthly For relieving of the rest of the poor and for preserving of the middle sort of people from extream poverty and beggary Let every parish be brought into a Body represented and constitute a Representative and Representators of its own in its self Let the body represented Conveen as oft as there shall be just cause the body Representative if need be every week Let the end of the Conveening of the body represented and of the body representative be especially at first to determine who are the poor of that body that must be relieved and how relieved Secondly Who are the middle sort that cannot relieve and need not be relieved And Thirdly who are the rich that may relieve and bear some burden and what burden they may bear towards the discharge of the Debts of the Nation and relief of the poor The poor are to be relieved by having all Commons Fennes Forrests Parks and donations of Houses Lands and Monies that have been anciently their due restored to them and a stock of cattel raised for them to improve it for their maintenance They that cannot improve Land or Cattel by their labour are to be relieved by being set at work and what they want of sufficiency to relieve them by their labour must be allowed by Contributions Secondly The middle sort that cannot relieve and need not relief and the poor must be freed from all burdens that they may the better provide for and maintain their own Families and to this end let Excise and Tythes be taken off from all 2 Where Tythes have been bought let just recompence be given to the Buyer if it may be by the Seller and let the Seller in like manner require his satisfaction 3 The considerations and original grounds upon which Tythes were first granted by the people are to be considered If they were at first freely demised and granted by the people and not extorted and if the considerations and grounds upon which they were demised and graunted were in those times visibly just and equal then there is some reason they should be re-bought by the people they not paying more then what the buyer paid Thirdly Let all Taxes Sessements and Quartering be taken off from the poor and middle sort of people and let their Landlords bear their burden Fourthly Let no Farmers pay any Taxes or Sessements nor bear any burden of Free-Quarter or otherwise in relation to the Land they Rent For Free Quarter is not nor can be quite taken away as Rates of Provisions are and the Souldiers Pay being no more Fifthly Let no Souldiers Quarter in Cities and Market-Towns which causeth scarcity and famine in the Land and destroyes the poor and middle sort of people Representors of every Parish are to be but two their Office is to see and provide that the poor and middle sort of people whose Representors they are be not oppressed or deprived of their just Rights and to obtain them where wanting that all due administrations of Right and Justice be extended to all persons and to decide and end all differences and cause strife to cease in their respective Parishes without going to Law as Heathens to destroy one another To compleate a perfect Representative in every Parish let eleven or twelve more be added to the two Representors to performe the same Office with them where they have first done their endeavours and cannot determine or end any difference Let every compleat Representative consist of twelve men and a President Let their Representors especially and also the body Representative be men fearing God dealing truly and hating Covetousness haters of Oppression enemies to Vsurpers and Oppressors impartial to all free from Pharisaical bloudy rigour and lovers and approvers of the Nations and Armies just Engagements for the Nations Freedom and the just Liberties and Interests of all persons If two or twelve so qualified cannot be found in some Parishes then they are to joyn with some other Parish or Parishes until so many may be found No person or grieved parties shall be tyed to refer their grievances to the said two or twelve unless they freely chuse them themselves otherwise they may equally and freely chuse any other two or twelve Every person in every Represented and Representative may freely give his Vote and Advice but if the Sentence and Result be recented as unjust their sufferage and Voyce only that are known to be conscientious and qualified as aforesaid shall stand and the Voyces of others though never so rich and powerful usurpers and oppressors be of no force Two Representors in every Parish elected by the Represented or by the poor and middle sort of people in it may by the approbation and assent of their respective poor and middle sort of people chuse two for the County or Shire to perform the like Offices to the poor and middle sort of people of the Shire or County Also two Representors chosen in every Shire or County may by approbation and assent of their respective Parochial Representors and of the middle sort of people and poor of the Nation chuse and appoint two Representors for the middle sort of people and poor of the Nation who being fitly qualified may reduce the sad and afflicted condition of the poor and middle sort of people into an expeditious and right order of speedy and effectual redress Consider that slavery is the most vile and miserable condition and blackest curse that is or can be incident to men the bond of sin and death to their bodies and spirits the chain of destruction to the Nation and therefore it requires our earnest care to quit our selves and Nation from it A Pillar of a cloud and of fire did direct Israel out of Aegyptian Bondage into the promised Land of Liberty The light and truth of God in the Judgements and Spirits of men is that real and true Pillar of fire which all free-born people of God do and must follow That was outward this inward That gave light to the Body this to the Spirit God in and by that Pillar of fire led and delivered Israel Abrahams Free-born from their chains of cruel bondage into their land of promised liberty God in and by this Pillar of light and fire in the judgements and Spirits of his people leadeth and delivereth his Free-born from real bondage of body and spirit under all burdens of bloudy guilt and cruel oppressions into the land of promised peace truth and perfect freedom Israel moved not but after that cloud by day and moved and did all things by night in and by the light of that pillar of fire So the Free-born of God in the Army and Nation must in all their motions and actings follow after and act in and by the light of the Pillar of God the pillar of light and truth in their own Spirits They must not sell or enslave their own or others lives light liberties interests bodies and
spirits to serve under all barbarous calamities and bloudy wickedness of blind obedience the viâ—est vassals of slavery as the sons of Jacob sold their brother the preserver of their lives and beings into the house of bondage They must in all their motions and actions walk and act in the liberty of the light of God in their own spirits and not act or acquiesce from principles of an implicite-faith in the Arbytrarie commands of will and power in any Representative or person whatsoever It is small satisfaction or security to any man that may see if he will but will follow and be led by a blind man till both fall into a ditch and perish to think to say for himself a blind man led him and it was his own will and he would be led by him So if any sub-Officers Souldiers or others shall execute any unjust decree by order of or from any Commanders or Representatives whatsoever the plea of their order were weak and without all satisfaction They must not think their Officers command if unjust can free them or their Officers from the just doom and due penalty of the Law no more then a murderers plea at the Bar that his fellow robber commanded him to kill the murdered can quit him or his fellow from guilt of murder or from death due to murderers Neither may any person or persons or Representatives Courts or Councels vainly conceive that any imposed Trust Place or Office or personal Eminency or that their being many is or can be of any force to free them more then any one privat mean man from due punishment though it be death which the Law inflicteth for breach of it or to free any person or persons whom they employ from the like punishments Howbeit the Free-born of God in Army or Nation Officers Souldiers or private men that groan under the cursed burdens of bloudy wickedness and barbarous oppressions which they have born themselves or laid upon others if they seek earnestly and effectually endeavour the redemption of their bodies and spirits and to free others from the same bondage whereof the Israelites bondage in Aegypt and deliveranoe out of it was but a type and shaddow may and ought to be in some measure commiserated and their cruelties time past if utterly renounced and really repented of may be so far passed by as the Law can admit also some unjust actions oâ— infirmity and weakness so far only as may stand with law and equity may be born withal God keeps not the children of light in chains of darkness but willeth that all men should be saved from cursed servitude and bondage of body and spirit by coming unto and following after the pillar of God the knowledge of the Truth in their own Judgements and Spirits and that they walk and act at all times and in all relations in the light of this pillar of fire within them Wherefore let all the Free-born of God in the Army and Nation cast off the wicked burdens of cursed and blind obedience to Representatives Arbytrarie commands of Will and Power and fix the eys of their understandings upon the pillar of God in their own Judgements and Spirits Let them seriously consider in and with themselves and with one another the grounds of all their actions engagements and executions and be well advised and satisfied in their Spirits to what end and where unto they tend whether to liberty or bondage light oâ— darkness to Zion or Sinai whether they be works of Hagar oâ— Sarah Sem or Cham and whether they tend to enslave oppress and wrong themselves the people and Nation and other persons people or Nations or to right and free themselves and Nation and other Nations from slavery wrong and oppression Let them improve the most rich and precious Talent of their Birth-right and Freedom to debate dispute pleade question and examine the causes grounds and terms upon which they act engage or execute any thing Eph. 5.15 And in all things walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise Heb. 15.14 And as those that are of full age who by reason of perfection and use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil Let them consider their Representatives Propositions Counsels and Decrees whether they be just or unjust whether they are to be observed by them or to be reproved or punished in their Representatives whether they tend to involve them and the Land in bloud and massacre or to free it and them from it If Chams cursed Sons compel or perswade them to forsake Freedom and imbrace bondage to moâ—l themselves by doing all base and dirty drudgery of vile and servil wickedness and to wallow in all unjust and extream wants and cursed calamities caused by unjust oppressions and cruelties let them fix their eyes upon the pillar of God in their own Spirits and walk in the light of it and follow after it If they command them to couch under all burdens of cursed servitude and to be with them as they are servants of servants slaves of servile and blind obedience and bruitish ignorance to act from an implicite Faith in their usurping task-masters arbritary commands of Will and Power to kill and murder at their command their best and most faithful friends and fellow Souldiers to enterprize any bloudy act of massacre and slaughter upon each other or upon the nation to perpetrate and execute at their command all oppression and crueltie upon the nation and through wicked blindness and brutish ignorance upon and against themselves also and to involve the nation at their wills in new Wars to destroy it and themselves Let them renounce and detest such cursed servitude and cast off slavish bondage of such blind obedience and fix their eyes upon the pillar of God the pillar of light and truth in their own Spirits and let them walk in the liberty of that light Let them try all things and hold fast the truth for this liberty is the proper peculiar and most rich and precious Talent of all the free-born of God which God hath given them Therefore let them try and examine with all exactness in themselves and advise together whether the light in their own Spirits be the light of the pillar of God or a delusion and whether it be the light of truth or a lying dream in their own fancies For if it be a true light to discover the truth of God and if they walk in that light and follow after that truth it will be certainly and infallibly a pillar of support and deliverance to free them from the most extensive and deepest guilt of bloudy and desperate wickedness and from the fruit and reward of such bloudy wickedness the most cruel and accursed calamities and destruction of bodie and Spirit All that observed and followed the commands of Chams cursed sons being free from danger before were drawn into a sea of death and destroyed not one escaped All Israel that observed and followed the
pillar of God being before involved in the greatest troubles that ever were were all freed and delivered not one perished That this pillar of Light and Truth may be more conspicuous and apparent to all the free-born of the Army and Nation I propose first for the Army That all Troops and Companies select and appoint in each Troop of horse and Company of foot two Representors men if it may be that have been ever firm to all the Armies and Nations just Interests and Engagements and faithful and wel-affected to the conscientious and honest party in both impartial to all yet free from Pharisaical bloudy rigour and indiscreet rashness Let these sit and act in all Councels of their Regiments with those Officers that concur with them in their Agreements according to their just Engagements Secondly Let them have liberty to sit and act in general Councels with concurring Officers as aforesaid Thirdly To sit and act in Councel in their own Troops and Companies Fourthly To sit and act in Councel in their proper Bodies represented the Souldiers of their respective Troops and Companies Their Office in Councel in and with their proper represented the souldiers of their respective Troops and Companies is to inform satisfie and convince their understandings and judgments what their and the armies and the nations proper Rights and Interests are what the proper Rights of the poor of the nation are and to re-present the Proposals Results and decrees of superior Councels to the Souldiers of their respective Troops and Companies in all things wherein their concurrence in execution is to be required They are to assert sign and attest under their hands superior Councels Proposals Results and Decrees to their said Troops and Companies that the truth may be firmly ascertained and established to them by testimony of two witnesses in all things wherin their concurrence in execution is to be required They are to represent to them and from them reciprocally to superior Councels such things as are profitable and honest for the Army and Nation and those things that are good just and lawful for them and for all men Without this or the like Order the particular Bodies Represented and their Representatives and the general Body Represented the State and its Representatives must sit in darkness and the shaddow of death without guide of light or pillar of truth to deliver them from the most execrable slavery of bondage and misery in body and Spirit and both Army and Nation must remain a dead Babylonish Chaos of confusion darkness and disorder without light or form Let the Representors of Troops and Companies by concurrence and assent of their respective Represented chuse in every Regiment two Representors for the Regiment to concentrate the work of many into unity and to avoid confusion Let the Representors of Regiments by concurrence and assent of their respective Troops and Companies and their Representors chuse two Representors for the whole Army who may sit and act in any Councel in the Army and also sit and act in the general Representative of the Nation for and in behalf of the Army as Commoners and Souldiers Let the people of the Nation the poor and middle sort of people especially select and appoint for them Representors to perform like offices to them to preserve them from iminent and otherwise irresistable necessity of perishing and to free them from most vile and miserable bondage of body and Spirit Let the poor and middle sort of people in every parish chuse two Representors for the poor of their parish or at least for every 120 or 200 families of poor Representors that fear God deal truly and hate covetousness and that are qualified as aforesaid are to the Army Nation and poor of it as Anchors in violent storms to ships and as strong cords binding arrows in bundles whereby they cannot be broken 14 Consider the Impostury and guilt of those that what they can cast infamy and odium upon the conscientious and honest party of the Army and Nation calling them Levellers Jesuits c. putting them upon vile and unjust actions turning them out of employment and places of Trust oppressing killing or cashiering them without cause and feigning many aâ—persions and slanders against them as to which I enquire whether there is not the same Analâ—gy in anti-type and substance betwixt these and the usurping and tyrannical Egyptians in type and shadow The Egyptians wicked and unjust fear was That the Israelites by their might and multitude would Level the powers of Egypt and therefore sought by all means to Level their number and power by drowning their Males in rivers by imposing heavie burdens and servile labour upon them to keep them under by with-holding straw for fuel by restraining them their proper rights and liberties and the use of their own goods wherewith to sacrifice unto God and to serve him Whereas the Israelites from the time they came first into Egypt were under God the only supporters of the power and might of Egypt and the only freers of the whole Land from all destructions and plagues So these real and indeed self Levellers the true sons of Cham servants of wicked Jealousies and Fears doubting the honest party of Army and Nation will level and over-power their might begin first and that effectually to level them They level their power and number by casting their male Children that is such as have the spirit and courage of a man to stand for the Armies and Nations just Rights and Liberties into the violent streams of unrighteous judgments rash executions unjust oppressions starving prisons where they sink and perish And none but Females that is such as are of feeble spirits and courage to seek and stand for Right and Justice are suffered to survive and live They level them by imposing upon them heavie burdens not only of hard service but of wicked and unlawful actions and by setting the vilest and basest persons to be over-seers and task-masters over them They Level them by putting them out of places of Trust by Disbanding them without satisfying their and the Nations just Interests without considerable recompence for their faithful service and some without any pay or recompence by cashiering them without cause or for being true to their Trust conscientious and faithfull by condemning them contrary to all Law of God or Nature their enemies being Judges accusers and witnesses against them They Level them by reducing their pay already due for their service past in deducting part for free Quarter without showing or proving what or how much or to whom or from whom in particular any part of it is due They Level them by reducing the future past and present pay of the Horse in general and of divers Officers of Horse and Foot contrary to the Faith of this Nation and their own just engagements By this means they that are conscientious and honest both Souldiers and Officers and their families perish and are destroyed or at least
the Ark were obedient to the call and command of God in a Type Lots Family in Sodom was in a Type obedient to the call and command of God to be delivered from her sins and destruction and all creatures clean and unclean birds beasts and creeping things that came into the Ark were in a figure obedient to the call and command of God to be delivered from the destruction upon the world by the flood So all persons and creatures clean and unclean that manifest obedience to the call and command of God by coming out of Babel that they may be delivered from her sins plagues and destruction are here meant by the people of God Secondly All that have desires and spirits of Freedom from being real bond-slaves to all oppressions and miseries and sin and death of body and spirit as Israel groaned to be delivered from their sore oppressions and miseries and slavish destruction are here meant by the people of God Lastly God calls and commands his people in Babylon to come out of her and the answer of their obedience to him and the onely means of their deliverance from her sins and plagues is according to their call and command from God to come out of her Israels going out was local and corporal this real and spiritual not by change of place but of the order form and end of their Government All Nations are Babylon but this Nation is the Tower of it All are the Cities of the Plain but this Sodom where Lot dweleth and preserveth them and it from destruction All Nations are the body of the beast the serpent but its head where its eys life and wiles are is in this Nation God hath promised the seed of the woman shall break the serpents head not in type but in truth not by promise or passing that sentence of judgement but by performance and execution of it The breach upon its head begins here and in this Nation the first stroke is given for Babels downfal Therefore there is a strict necessity from God upon all his people to obey him and come out of her lest they in the body of this dying serpent utterly perish with it The onely safest way and best means for the people of God to come out of her in order to their own perfect Freedom and Peace is to discharge all faithfulness to her to move her if it may be to an Agreement in Righteousness to inform and convince her of and in all wisdom and meekness to reprove her for her sins the cause of her plagues and destruction When Moses continued to discharge all faithfulness to Pharaoh and his servants then their destruction came and Israels deliverance When Lot ceased not to admonish Sodom two Angels came and freed him and fire fell and destroy'd it And the people of God in Babylon exercising all goodness what may be with Justice towards her discharging all faithfulness to her advertising convincing and exhorting her to forsake her sins the cause of her plagues and she not hearkning doth more fully and cleerly justifie their going out of her and magnifie the righteous judgements of God in pouring forth upon her the full vials of her plagues and destruction Secondly The reason of this necessity upon the people of God that they must come out of her is because of the greatness of her sins The violence and cruelties of the old World Sodom's sins Aegypts iniquities and murders Babels pride persecution presumption and Jerusalems pharisaical bloudy hypocrisie were but types of her sins Her sins presumption pride hypocrisie guilt of innocent bloud insolent and wicked confidence and hardness of heart transcends theirs as truth exceeds the Type and as a real substance the shadow and they that come not out of her commit these her sins and must suffer her plagues Thirdly They must come out of her because of the greatness of the voice of Gods call and strictness of his command His cals to the old World Sodom Babylon and Jerusalem were but Types And the voice of Gods miracles by Moses the voice of that express type of the Harp of God Moses wisdom and meekness and the silver shrill Trumpet of Aarons Eloquence which summoned Pharaoh to hearken and free Israel from their bonds of slavery and death wherein they were destroyed and murdered and which summoned Israel to hearken and to free themselves if Pharoah did not from those bonds were but types of Gods call to Babylon But God dispenseth his summons to her to hearken and to his people in her to come out of her if she hearken not under the figure of a mighty Angel crying with a loud voice as when a Lyon roareth and under the similitude of seven thunders uttering their voices Rev. 10.3 Therefore her sins and hardness of heart are and her plagues must be so much greater if she hearken not by how much greater her summons and the call of God is and the rebellions and disobedience of the people of God in her are and their plagues if they come not out of her must be so much greater by how much their summons and Gods call to them to come out of her is greater Fourthly The people of God must come out of her because if they be in her when she falls as a Milstone cast into the Sea by a mighty Angel they must after all her fore-running plagues are inflicted upon them fall with her into the deepest and most irrecoverable destruction and because they in her at her best much more in her dying condition are as Ionas was in her figure the Whales belly where his complaint was That the weeds wrapt about his head in the Belly of hell That the depth in the midst of the Sea enclosed him That he went down to the bottom of the Mountains That the Earth with her Bars were about him for ever So the people of God in the belly of this Leviathan are caged and imprisoned in bondage to her sins death and miseries involve and inclose them and the weeds of her wickedness and destruction wrap about them and if they get not out of her before she fall and sink as a Milstone they perish for ever Fiftly The people of God in Babylon are to come out of her because she is already fallen or falling in her quickning form her Righteousness after which her plagues and her total fall must follow Rev. 18.2 An Angel cryed mightily with a strong voice saying Babylon the great is fallen is fallen that is is fallen sick irrecoverably in the form of her being her righteousness and is become the habitation of Devils c. and then and not before a voice from heaven called and commanded the people of God in her to come out of her for if she do not or shall not fall from righteousness which onely can support her from falling and the people of God in her from perishing if she retain Truth that the people of God may retain peace in Truth I mean not aëry
empty functions which they call duties whereof just consideration might be had in their due respects and as some filled spunge with vineger and gave it to Christ so they sacrifice these empty spunges or take and fill them with all filth and defilement of oppression and wickedness and offer them up to God these sacrifices without salt of sincerity or substance of truth are their owne righteousness which is extrem wickedness and in this their own righteousness they are very zealous they are also forward to execute true righteousness so far as it conduceth to the satisfying of their own lusts or advanceth their own designes and unjust ends But for pure religion and undefiled and perfect righteousness without respect to their own corrupt ends and interests they will not once see it nor looke towards it their love to true righteousness is cold that is indeed dead or dying for coldness is as contrary to life as light to darkness therefore the original sourse and cause of life in the people of God being cold and dying all its effects the whole body of true righteousness in them is dying and dissolving they are slippery as ice brittle as glasse you may put your life in their hands and be sure they will deceive you ask not their counsel in any thing for they can give none nor receive any but carp at without cause those men and that means wherein and in whom their own safety most consists 't is dangerous to advise them for they can give no advice but to destroy themselves nor take any but to destroy those that give it Moses advised two striving Israelites to agree and he that was in fault betrayed him and in him all Israel and questioned him for his life for which cause he was forced to flee from Aegypt to Midian so if any faithfully advise the people of God to agree in righteousness they are the first that will betray and destroy them and it is their best safety that are faithful amongst them to flee from them as Moses did and not come neere them for they will betray and destroy both them and themselves such are the violent evils and effects of slavery the furnaces of base and slavish bondage separate as fire separtes gold from drosse or oare all vertues from the people of God and deprives them of wisdom prudence and reason This imbased the Israelits spirits and made them slavish and wicked Num. 14.12.10 But it separates occasionally the dross from their gold that are his people indeed as in Moses Caleb and Ioshuah and makes them more compact and refined yet the people of God have a great noyse of a name as Sardis had that she lived and was dead Laodicea that was most fallen from her love to true righteousness boasted more than all the other six Churches that she was rich and increased with goods and needed nothing but knew not that she was wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked So the people of God are rich and increased in the riches of their own righteousness that is in Babels scarlet sins and apostasies the eyes of their faith look back like Lots wife to her Sorcerers they are fallen or falling from God and from all love unto true righteousness and have imbraced a righteousness of their own a righteousness contrary to true righteousness of their own fansies and deceitful hearts as the Iewes and Churches of Sardis and Laodicea did which is an immediate fore-runer of sure destruction to the people of God as it was to them without their vigourous and speedy care to prevent it which they may and must endevour but can hardly do it without being transient or passing into another body The people of God are so far from supporting her by their righteousness that their sins are the chifest cause of her fall and they most guilty of her sins she is fallen from truth and righteousness and they from faith towards her and themselves she is wholely putrified and corrupted and they her salt have lost â—ts savour she was a City of defence they her watch-men but she is surpriz'd and become a habitation of divels and they did not warn her but betray her they have seen as the Prophets of Israel did foolish things for her and themselves have not discovered their own and her iniquity but have loved vaine visions and flattering divinations Ezek. 12.24 Lam. 2.14 They have betrayed her and themselves by suffering their hearts to be deceived and hardned by her Sorcerers she hath committed main crying sins and they like the men of Iabish Gilead have sitten still and have not gathered themselves together as one man unto the Lord to convince her and to free her and themselves from these sins and have thereby dyed her sins in a scarlet dye upon their own spirits she had not fallen had not they fallen her power to stand was in them and their righteousness and they have dissolved and destroyed her and their own power to stand they have drawn one another and those that have bin farthful amongst them to unite and engage in righteousnesse for her and their own support and then have apostated perfideously and broken their faith to God and Man leaving these that were faithfull that in Conscience could not betray their faith and revolt as sacrifices to the yron teeth of her tyranny and oppression They have been forward to condemn them themselves for their faithfulnesse and have seen her grind and destroy them whiles they stood and lookt on as those Parents that offered their children to Molech The blood of those that have been most faithfull and their perfideous infringement of their just faith to God and Man will be required at their hands if they do not vigourously and faithfully quit themselves Therefore they are so far from supporting her by their righteousnesse that their wickednesse and guilt of blood and their slothfull unfaithfulnesse hath polluted her and their sins are the cause of her fall Fourteenthly The People of God cannot support her or themselves and therefore must come out of her because they are divided and scattered The Israelites because straw was not allowed were scattered over all Egypt The cause is the same here Gods people are Pharaohs Brickills those in Egypt burnt with fire these in the fire and rage of slavery and food maintains their lives as straw did their fires Pharaoh denyed Israel straw afflicted them with burdens and hard bondage and all their service wherein their Task-masters made them serve was with rigour The oppressors of Gods people deny them straw afflict them with burdens and hard bondage and all their service wherein they make them to serve is with rigour Israels oppressors kept back Straw but these both straw and corn they kept back fuel these food and raiment they kept back that straw which was the Egyptians but these keep back that Straw that food and raiment which belongs to Israel and if they would eat straw or if straw
preparation to receive and use it they are all unready and neither shod nor clothed they have put on no garment no shooes of preparation Fiftly they were to eat it with their loins girded and they were not to eat it raw to shew that Gods People must and shall pursue their deliverance from bondage and destruction not with head-long rashness but with vigourous advisedness and not scatteredly but succinctly and orderly When Israel was commanded to observe the Passeover they did not confusedly run to contest with their Task-masters or to tell the Aegyptians of their cruelties or to continue long fruitless and wicked brawles in word or writing nor to demolish Phythom and Raamases Cities of treasure which they had built for Pharoah Gods People have built all Babels Cities of strength and procured for her all her power and riches as they built her Cities so let them fal of themselves they are called out of her neither doeth her strength consist in Cities or Armies but in the People of God and their righteousness Why did not Pharoah put all the first-born of Aegypt and his own in Phythom to preserve them from being destroyed Why did not he and his mighty Hoast flee into Raamses to preserve himself and them from being wholely destroyed without ever seeing any one enemie whilst they in vain pursued Israel to destroy them Israel had other business and being commanded to observe the Passeover did with their loines girt observe it So Gods People commanded to observe the Passeover shall speedily and faithfully prepare it and with their loines girt observe it that is their resolutions and endeavours to depart from bondage shall and must be girt with the girdle of faithfulness righteousness wisdom and sobriety Sixthly Their outward Typical obedience required and done was in the striking of the Lintel and Posts of the door with the blood of the Lamb that it might be a token upon the houses where they were that God seeing the blood might passe over them and that the plague might not be upon them to destroy them when he should smite the Land ver 13. A token is a signe or seale This signe or seale was in blood and the life and power of all living creatures is in the blood Therefore that seal was a typical seal of the life and power of God in his people The Anti-type and substance of that Typical seale is the seale of God upon the foreheads of his People Rev. 7.3 These are numbred 144000. ver 4. But whether Persons or Families the letter doth not clearly determine Israel were sealed by their Families Israels Families were Natural and Typical and these Anti-typical if Families may be mystical freely gathered to Representors in the life and power of God they were Israel these are Israel they were twelve tribes these are twelve Tribes vers 4.5 The Egyptians were not slain till they were sealed the earth must not be hurt till these be sealed vers 3. God past over them and did not destroy them when he smote the Land of Egypt and these are exempted and redeemed from the destruction of the earth v. 14.3 They were the Typical Free-born these the true Free-born They were redeemed from Egyptian bondage and destruction these from the slavery sins plagues and destruction of Sodom Egypt Babylon and Ierusalem they Typically these Really and truly They sung a Song of deliverance Moses Song these sung a New Song of deliverance the Song of Moses and of the Lambe Exod. 15. Revel 15.14 That seale was an outward Typical seale of the life and power of God in his People this seale is the Name of God written in their foreheads Revel 14.1 This Name or seale of God written in their foreheads is an outward real indicies and signe in their practise that they are armed sealed and united in the life and power of God that was the seale or signe of the Typical Passe-over this of the real and true Passe-over The Israelites sealed were Gods first born in a Type that is his first fruits redeemed by a Lamb unto himself and these are redeemed from among men and are the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb. Rev. 14.4 That Mark Seal and Name which is opposite and contrary to the Seal and Name of God written in the foreheads of his people is the mark and name of the beast in their foreheads or hands that worship the beast Rev. 13.16 and 14.9 This name of the beast is the seal of slavery the mark of bondage and the manifestation of the life and power of the beast in profession or practise which is the power of Antichrist working unto bondage against Christ as the Sorcerers resisted Moses Seventhly All the Congregation of Israel was commanded to keep the Passe-over v. 49. and they kept it as the Lord commanded So all the true Israel that is all the people of God must speedily prepare and observe the true Pass-over All that shall not faithfully prepare and observe the true Pass-over that is all that shall not manifest the life and power of God in the unity of the spirit of freedom from all bondage and destruction are really as all they were in the Type that did not Aegyptians sons of Cham children of the curse improvident for their own and all families deny the faith of God and have no power of God nor any seal or sign of it but are ruled and governed by the spirit of bondage unto all sins slavery and destruction of body and spirit Secondly All the people or God must speedily prepare and observe the true Pass-over because as God past through all Aegypt and smote all the first born both of man and beast in every family where the Type was not kept so God will as certainly pass through the earth and smite all Families where the life and power of God appears not in the unity of the spirit of freedom and visit upon it and them not Aegypts but Sodoms and Babels and back-sliding Jerusalems sins and the bloud of all that have bin slain upon the earth and the bloud of all that have bin wronged and oppressed and the blasphemous atheistical sortish and brutish opinions and practises of hypocrites and formal professors upon it and them and the breach of faith in those that have broken their just faith to God and man and their defections that have fallen from all righteousness and from all life and power of it and their unrighteousness that have kept righteousness and truth and goodness in relation to spiritual forms and things in bondage and chains of darkness and ignorance in their own judgements upon them and it and involve the earth in circum-ambient and sharp destruction sharp as sickles Rev. 14.16 17. Eightly The keeping of that Pass-over was the first begining of Israels typical-being and existence Exod. 12.2 This moneth shall be unto you the begining of moneths it shall be the first moneth of the yeer Man was earth the first day but that
by slavish excuses They oppose against their just faith to God and man broken by their trechery the unfaithfulness of others to excuse their own They through greedy avarice betray the true Israel and themselves their liberties estates and entire Beings to perish and be destroyed by slavery as Judas betrayed the Truth and himself for money and then cover that bitter root of all evil with false pretenses of Frugal Providence Their occasions obstruct their obedience and their callings and business are meer instruments emissary to slavery Neuters that out-sit the time in sleeping and censure all that are not slothful excuse their trechery under pretense of wary and secure acting they are moderate men who sit still and suffer the Lands like Sodoms swift destruction whiles they drink the sweet and eat the fat of it and receive the States pay for so doing The people of God will not put the strength of their little finger to remove really and indeed the least burden though they groan under the greatest that ever were of which the Aegyptian were but shaddows Why Their burdens are so great and many and their slavish fear suggests more and greater yet they are forward enough to seek just Freedom and Righteousness and just things for their own ends singly to enslave and by head-long and rash means like Nadabs and Abihu's strange fires to destroy themselves But if any message or command from God recal them to seek their own safeties and freedom not in their own single but of one another and to do all righteousness in the right order and rule of God they reject it and them them that bring it propose what and from whom you will they 'l not meddle with it nor engage in what 's good They have bin burnt enough It urged or pressed they summon all the powers of the curse of covetousness sloth and slavish fears to make excuses swords befit not their hands nor hearts but burdens and sharp scourges their servil backs Why say they Are Zeba and Zalmunna the keepers of our Captivity in your hands c. Iudg. 8. Why servile back-sliding Israel can your trecherous and bas e excuses or churlish slavishness prevent Gods purpose to free his people or free your selves from the curse and destruction of bondage The Lord declared expresly that none of all those that were bidden and made excuses should taste of his supper Luk. 14.24 Let all Gods people that make excuses fear and beware utter rejection The fearful and unbelieving spies and all Israel by believing them brought evil reports upon the Land of Canaan and the guilt of most degenerous and base wickedness upon themselves they feared strong Cities and tall statures of men more than confided in the living God and that fear destroyed except Caleb and Ioshua that sought to bear up their slavish spirits every man of them when Caleb told them they were well able to overcome they all lift up their voyces and cryed and wept fore and were wholly routed and slain without any enemy or danger neer them by meer slavishness all above twenty years old women not excepted fell and perished through the power of the curse of their own slavish spirit when Caleb and Ioshua sought to bear up their backsliding spirits all Israel bid stone them with stones rebelled and gathered together against God Numb 14.9.35 that is they gathered together in the power of bondage against the power of God for their freedom and deliverance So all that the people of God in bondage do or can do is but to begin seemingly in the spirit and end in the flesh to seek Freedom and righteousness by head-long and rash means and for their own sinister and base ends increase bondage destroy themselves and resist God They bring if opposed especially only evil reports upon all right means and ends of their deliverance and project nothing but base excuses and cavils the fruits of wicked fears their hope like Nabals heart is dead as a stone they quit faith and their love to true righteousness and Freedom leaves them and they it why say they its in vain to stir our just ends the more we act are the farther off and to accomplish them by any means is impossible What should we run our selves into danger for and need not we see clearly that to stir in this way is but to destroy our selves without remedy and for our parts we have seen a great deale of means used and much pains taken and no good has come of it wee 'l labour to seek God keep in compasse of our own callings and leave the affairs of the State to those they do belong the times are suffering times and call not to stir but sit still we must mind Christ preached and not these just things indeed but dangerous to be medled with We define bowing our knee in holy profession to Baal as much as any but in practise none but turbulent spirits deny it troublers of Israel and themselves that disturb the Naâ—ion We will wait upon God and turn back into Aegypt They vent the slanders of their slavish spirits as the Type did and say thus in effect They told us of the land of Canaan and of the land of promise and bring us into a Wilderness of milk and honey and now we see it indeed it is the sharp sword of unvanquishable enemies to slay us and ours They pretended to give us the land of Promise a place of rest from all burdens see how well they have performed it Had we not tasks hard enough in Aegypt but they must bring us out from thence to set us harder tasks impossible to be performed Tasks to destroy us to cause us to engage our lives against men of tall and procerous stature and invincible strength whose very names are enough to affright our little ones Must we come thus far to buy our burials purchased with the loss of our lives and must our wives and children to purchase this prize be likewise slain without obtaining it Israel the peculiar people in whom the promise of blessing to all people and nations was made made themselves by rebellious unbelief and slavish fear the curse scorn and shame of all people and Nations So the true Israel from amongst whom the real blessing of freedom and deliverance from bondage shall be derived to all People and Nations make themselves by their rebellious base and slavish fears the curse scorn and shame of all people and Nations upon earth Because Israel when they were brought to subdue Canaan subjected their own spirits to covetousness sloth and faithless and slavish fears Gods wrath brake out upon them and slew them by sword plague and famine forty yeers his displeasure the heaviest he ever manifested to his people rested upon them forty yeers until he had utterly destroyed every man and woman that re-assumed the plague of a slavish spirit that the true Israel might not want example the most remarkable that ever was for their
Image of God and Reason and the Scriptures shall have in reference to right use begining of Freedom from desolation slavish dis-use sin and death The Text is express Rev. 14. That the hundred forty and four thousand sealed in their fore-heads were the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb redeemed from the earth And it is not supposed but cleerly proved by Scripture that these one hundred forty and four thousand shall be the same in truth and substance that the Israelites sealed in the bloud of the Lamb in Egypt were in Type and shaddow They came out of the greatest Thrall and Oppression that ever was these come out of great tribulations Rev. 7.14 They overcame Pharaoh and all his servants and seducers these shall overcome the Beast Chap. 15.2 They sang a song of deliverance the song of Moses These sing a song of deliverance the song of Moses expresly v. 3. They came forth out of Aegypt by their Families Tribes and Armies which may be a figure of the sub-ordination of anti-typical families Oeconomical Provincial and National They were wholy freed from all slavish rigor of bearing any Aegyptian burdens in the least measure for ever These shall be freed from all affliction tribulation and oppression for ever Rev. 7.16 That night was a still and silent night wherein Israel prepared the Pass-over against whom not a dog moved his tongue Exod. 11.7 but a night of the greatest cry amongst the Aegyptians that ever was before or after They received not the outward but the inward seal also and did eat the Pass-over and could not be diverted in that action by going about any other occasion because they were to eat it standing and they were to eat it in hast therefore they would not speak much or be diverted or hindred by talking and they might be well satisfied eating in hast in about half an hours time therefore that time for about half an hours space was a time of the greatest stilness and silence and more was done in that half hours time of silence then was done in all the time from the begining of the world before for all Israel received the inward seal of the life and power of God and of the Lamb in a Type in the time of that half hours silence There was silence in heaven about ths spate of half an hour Rev. 8.1 We need not enquire what was said but what was done in that half hours space There is not the like expression in all the Scripture nor any place so pertinent and express for the action of that time In heaven that is in the houses of the hundred forty and four thousand immediately fore-mentioned Large mention is made of the outward seal but insteed of any mention of the inward seal it is only said That there was silence in heaven for the space of half an hour The Tongue interprets the Spirits secresie and the outward seal of the Name of God in their fore-heads declares the secret actings of this half hours silence The following and fore-going coherence shews That as all Israel did not prepare only but eat the Pass-over so Israel their anti-type shall not receive the outward only but the inward seal of the free Spirit of life in Christ the Lamb and this is to eat the flesh and substance of the Lamb It s soon gathered what hungry men are doing that have meat set before them and are silent When all free people the true Israel shall be gathered together in their anti-typical families to eat the flesh and substance of the Lamb after this manner as all Israel were by their families in a Type and shall thus conveen to take real not verbal councel to accomplish these ends then the yoke of bondage upon them and upon all they are and have shall be broken for ever then the seal of constant conformity or real sincerity in true righteousness of freedom shall be engraven upon their spirits then the vanity that is the nullity of right use and slavish dis-use to which the people of God and what they are and have is subjected and the bondage of corruption under which they their just rights and estates the Image of God in them their Laws Power Scriptures and the whole Creation groan and travel in pain to be delivered Rom. 8.21 shall be taken off for ever and their and the creatures earnest desire and expectation of the manifestation of the sons of God v. 15. shall be then accomplished that shall be the time of the great Marriage-Supper of the Lamb Rev. 19.7 9. And these shall be the high and serious transactions of this half hours silence More was done in a Type in that short space by the seeming weakest means then had bin done in all the time before and more shall be done by the seeming weakest means in this half hours silence then hath bin since time had begining Actual redemption is the hardest work that ever was yet done upon the easiest terms What easier terms of redemption can be to hungry weary bond-slaves then to say go home to Supper you have bin heretofore in rigous of cruel bondage ever restless go home and hence-forward rest quiet for ever God offers the same terms in substance to the true Israel to redeem them and the whole Creation from bondage unto vanity and corruption As if he should say Israel in Aegypt was opprest and murdered with heavie burdens and by rigour of cruel bondage you really and indeed I redeemed them naturally and will redeem you effectually Free grace freely given them was all the ransom they paid and Free grace from me the greatest that was ever and your acceptance in it shall be all your ransom required from you Their task was most easie and acceptable yours the easiest and most acceptable in truth and substance I bid them go home rest and refresh themselves for ever Go ye home and be free from all burdens rest and refresh your selves for ever A dog did not open his mouth against any of them nor shall against you I did not busie their memories with many observations onely to prepare and eat the Pass-over neither be you busied Martha-like about many things but mind the only one thing necessary to follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth and to do and observe in your Oecunomical consults and executions all which God and the Lamb saith That was the first feast and sacrifice that ever was kept in Israel they kept it by their families the first subjects of begining and being of all Power and Government I in like manner call and redeem you by your families out of the greatest and most slavish tribulation and destruction that ever was to keep the same feast in truth and substance and your anti-typical families so called and redeemed shall be really and indeed the first subjects of begining and being of all true Power and Government Government is the intense Order of Agreement Oeconomical Agreements are conjunct political Forms of right
life in anti-type and truth shall then bring forth and not till then its first fruits of righteousness of life and freedom when the order of its mansions that is the prefigured mystical families there shall be compleated and full The righteousness which is now and hath bin is the righteousness of false appearance covetousness and filthy corruptions of bondage born and begotten by and for base designes and ends the off-spring of illegitimacy and seed of incest conceived like Moah and Ammon in the heat and zeal of blind and empty profession and bloudy hypocrisie the fruit of perfideous trechery and deceit If any righteousness of life and freedom hath bin or is that Righteousness or they that produce it have or hath bin or is the first fruits to God and the Lamb but the Text is express That the sealed Tribes or Families of Israel shall be the first fruits to God and the Lamb There was no righteousness of deliverance from the curse of destruction bondage and death of Adams sin in a type until those creatures that were saved the shadow of the free people of God came as it were by their families into the Ark after their kind and there hath not bin any perfect but dead spurious and illegitimate righteousness no righteousness of deliverance life and freedom from real destruction sin and death nor shall be any until the free people come into the true Ark by their anti-typical Tribes and Families and possess their proper mansions in truth and substance The people of God absolute free and their righteousness shall be equally legitimate in relation to God their father and in relation to the new policy or City their mother descending which shall be free And they and their righteousness shall be perfect as their heavenly father is perfect and as their mother descending from God out of heaven shall be perfect Perfect not of the essence of God but after the pattern and image of the mind of God as the Tabernacle was the figure of that pattern in the Mount and as the Rain-bow is the Image of the Sun so they shall be created and formed by the free Spirit of life in Christ after the Image of God For the Creator Former and Inhabitant is not the creature thing formed or house Howbeit God shall dwell in them more fully The perfection of a free people and of their righteousness consists in an impress intermediate and express act of Life and Freedom but the last gives their and its denomination and being and the first two without the third are properly the righteousness of bondage This perfect righteousness of a Free people is a commutative three-fold righteousness of deliverance from evil in evil and out of evil of bondage a figure of this righteousness was in Moses his visiting of his brethren three times the first time he went forth he seeing an Egyptian and an Israelite at strife slew the Egyptian and freed the Israelite in a Type from evil of bondage The second time he went forth he seeing two Israelites at strife sought to reconcile and unite them and so to releive and support them in the evil of bondage These actions were properly the righteousness of bondage for Moses was then in bondage and therefore it inslaved him and them and hazarded his life much more for which cause he fled and left them forty yeers Men may not be faithful indeed nor do impress or intense works of Freedom in bondage but extremely hazard their lives or estates they their righteousnes must be corupt by constraint or they must act if strictly faithful single For the people of God in bondage having no order nor unity deceive and betray each other Moses in his first visit acted but with one Israelite and delivered him and that one betrayed him The second time he acted but with two and one of them betrayed him and he fled for his life such are the perfidious treacheries deceits of the righteousness of bondage but Moses did not desist but sent came the third time and Freed Israel and their intire beings out of bondage all Israel therein joyned with him and this his and their joynt work was the proper righteousness of Freedom in a Type To avert evils of bondage in bondage or relieve and support those that groan under the rigour of it and rest so being works of bondage strengthens the power and rage of it and depresseth all means of deliverance So Moses did and fled for his life and left all Israel desperately helpless and worse inslaved than ever Ahimelech relieved David with the shew-bread and Goliahs Sword which was a very just and good work yet it occasioned that Ahimelech and all the Preists of the Lord and their City were cut off and destroyed man woman and child such are the violent evils of the bondage of corruption that the best and most perfect righteousness of bondage causeth through corruption the worst evils and effects because corruption of the best things is the most destructive corruption that can be It s the greatest and most desparate hazard of utter ruine to a mans life or estate to be conscientious and exactly faithful in bondage Also performances of impress and intense acts of righteousness in bondage without the express act of the righteousness of Freedom out of bondage is dead and imperfect righteousness and meer impostury which deceives and hardens like the works of Pharaohs Sorcerers all mens hearts in vanities and corruptions of bondage For whiles they follow and mind sorceries and deceits imperfect righteousness of relief or support in bondage they dream not nor once think of any legitimate or perfect righteousness of Life and Freedom out of bondage These rotten deceits destroy or hazard as in Moses and the Priests of the the Lord their Lives Families and Estates for the righteousness of relief and support in bondage and not of Freedom out of it rouseth up the power and rigour of it as a sleepy lyon to destroy them he that pricks a sleepy lyon must also kill him or be sure to be destroyed This corruption of bondage under which the Creation groans and travels in pain to be delivered out of it is briefly this The Creation was at first subservient to bruit beasts till man a figure of the Creatures Freedom was made the head of all creatures and thus far the creature was not properly subjected unto vanity under bondage of corruption Satan and the serpent the parents of all corruption of bondage sin and death co-inspired into the spirit of man the corrupt nature of bruit beasts from the bruit beast the serpent the mother of sin in a type and of fallen Angels from Satan the Father of sin and filthy corruptions of bondage So the spirit of man the head of the Creation became bruitish and divelish and then the creature was properly subjected unto vanity and bondage of corruption The corruption of bruitishness in man did corrupt and darken the Image of
is the strength of it Impress and intense righteousness of bondage reliefe and support from and against the evils of it without righteousness of Freedom out of it is like Sions strong Tower in the Iebusits hands which deceives and hardens their hearts that extend it destroys their lives Families and estates and is so far from all righteousness of Freedom that it ratifies and fortifies an opposit habit of spurious and imposturous deceits against all perfect and legitimate righteousness of Freedom it stirs them up to say Soul Soul take thine ease thou hast many parcels of good words and works too of releif support and refreshings done to oppressed imprisoned and undone Saints the people of God That Fool that put his confidence in deceitful riches for that cause lost his soul and his riches that night So the people of God for and by their puting confidence in rotten deceits of imperfect righteousness of bondage as the Iebusits did in their lame and blind gods 2 Sam. 5. lose their souls Families and their deceitful temporal riches and of supposed righteousness Their relief and support they boast of and confide in is straitned in its bowels and theirs it is their blood their Soul is in it and goes with it and by much strugling in their striving spirits t' is strangled a dead birth destructive to both its parents their Families and estates Blood and things strangled are forbidden Why should the people of God â—un such real hazards worse far than the curse layd upon women in bringing forth children to bring forth these straitned and strangled dead births of the bondage of corruption who requires it to what use let them pay not this mint and cumin of the righteousness of bondage but that only one necessary main debt of the righteousness of Freedom out of bondage due to God and to each other to the Nation to the whole Creation to their own Souls and Consciences Estates Families and to all their interests intire let them seale to God and to each other in perfect and legitimate righteousness of Freedom and there will be no need of this strangled and slavish righteousness of the corruptions of bondage Bondage and the powers thereof are inward and outward the righteousness of inward bondage is real wickedness of outward violence and unrighteousness both are destructive to their subjects and objects their Families estates and entire beings but inward bondage causally outward bondage occasionally Nabals bowels were straitned by inward bondage which brought imminent destruction upon him his Family and estate and he by it lost with his life both Family and estate This straitness of bowels by inward bondage destroyed Ananias Nabal Iudas whole Nations and the first world filled thereby with violence and this straitness of bowels by inward bondage hath filled the hands of the rich oppressors of this Nation and the rest are not free ful of blood and violence the greatest that ever was The miserable objects of this violence the poor wronged and oppressed are murdered meerly by their oppressors straitned bowels of inward bondage and are robbed of their most just Rights due not for keeping sheep or without indentment but upon better accompts of most deeply engaged Faith and extremest hazard Nabals words were churlish yet he did not destroy Davids messengers but the words of these are churlish and they also destroy those that come or are sent peaceably in meekness for their rights and for redress of their wrongs therefore these straitned subjects of extremest violence oppressors may much more expect destruction of their Lives Families and Estates then Nabal or the old world if they seek not free deliverance and full acquittance from this inward Abaddon this inward straitned spirit of bondage the destroyer of their Souls Families and Estates Ahimelech was not straitned by inward but outward bondage his relief to David a very good and just work could cause no evil effect but being in outward bondage of corruption under the power of Saul that wicked power took occasion by his good work and made it through corruption what in it self it was not the cause of destruction of the Priests of the Lord of his and their lives and of the lives of their Families man woman and child Such are the rage and cruelties of outward bondage of corruption that the people of God in bondage under these powers cannot so much as exercise the outward carcass of dead righteousness but their lives and estates are extremely in danger for it or destroyed by it A necessity from God binds all to provide for their Families He that does not denies the faith and is worse then an Infidel But no man in bondage can provide for his House and Family but by seeking Freedom out of bondage Providence of inward bondage is perfect wickedness of outward oppression There 's no Providence but of Freedom only Freedom and Bondage as Fire and Water eagerly cast out each others joynt Beings and Powers Cast out the Bond-woman and her son saith Sarah the Free-woman for he shall not inherit So bondage alternately suffers not the Free-born to inherit any thing no fruits of faithfulness industry providence not their lives nor goods What just providence goodness and justice builds Bondage casts out and destroys Aegypts bondage dis-inherited the Hebrew males of their lives cast them out of all so real bondage dis-inherits the true Israel of all they have or can provide lives liberties and goods yet they may provide things not honest but corrupt fruits of deceit and those inherit Gods people in bondage cannot provide but to destroy their own lives Families and Estates No Providence but of perfect Freedom out of bondage by possessing their mansions and Families prefigured by those in the Ark and in Aegypt can preserve their Lives Families or Estates All providence of men and creatures without this of perfect Freedom out of bondage deceived and destroyed utterly all creatures and men from the earth in a figure when the floud came The first fruit of Faith and ground of true Righteousness is providence of Freedom out of bondage The first object of providence of the Free-born in bondage is that they may have being and begining of right order matter and form as Families People and Churches It s preposterouâ— fondness and improvidence for a person or a people to act before they are or seek to be or have begining of form and power They that act or cease to act without or against providence deny the faith and destroy themselves without remedy The people in inward bondage are really wicked and they that are in outward bondage must be wicked or destroyed by constraint there 's no safety but in hypocrisie and deceit therefore a most urgent and pressing necessity is laid upon the people of God from God their consciences the creature and their duties to God and each other from their joynt Interests and just Liberties from their own Lives Families Estates as to their security entire
to labor with all speed and fidelity to gâ—t a just power of Freedom and Being of their own in manner as is declared All Armies upon earth could not hinder the rallying of the dry bones into a living exceeding mighty Army They came together bone to his bone as it were by their Families into their own houses natural their own bodies and were sealed and cemented with strength and sinew in life and power All Armies and Powers of death that opposed them were utterly dasht in pieces and destroyed by them Moses in bondage lookt this way and that way least he should be seen and the people of God in bondage must act warily and watch narrowly if they do any good or just action if they relieve any or support any that none see them If any Doeg or Edomite be nigh them or amongst them they are verily betrayd utterly destroyed and so must and shall be till they get a power of Freedom of their own the Free power of God which now is the easiest thing to atttain God freely giving it that is or can be But this relief and support so dangerous to the people of God is but vain boasting they releive none and support none but in talk as the Amalekit told David he kild Saul whereas he was free from his death so are they from relieving or supporting any David slew that Amalekit because he said he kild Saul though he did not and they and their Families and estates are ruinated and destroyed because they say and pretend they relieve and support the people of God in and against their evils of bondage whereas they releive none and support none but in word only and indeed destroy those that have sacrificed liberally their lives and estates for their support and relief The Spirit of bondage inward avaricâ— and the irregularities and rage of it kills and consumes as the worm smote Ionas Gourd and consumed it the slavish lives families and estates of each other with their own entire they releive and succour none but by deceits and shaddows of doing good without doing any But if any fragment of relief fall or if they fancy they have done or do any good or just work in bondage there they rest and there they stay Ioabs soldiers followed him till they came to slain Amases dying carkass and they stood still so but few yet some Free people in bondage follow righteousness until they come to some fragments of this dead carkass of releif and support in bondage and here they sit still there they rest they go no further The chief pretenders to Freedom look no farther they think not of any legitimate and perfect righteousness of Freedom out of bondage The slavish Spirits of the people of God in bondage desire private Freedom only a tanto but not a toto If they could have but so much of their just Right for themselves they care not they wish no more the Harlot so she had but half the Child was indifferent the mind of a murderous and bloody Harlot so satisfaction in the people of God with half righteousness or part or with imperfect righteousness denotes the basest mind of bloody Iezebel mother of all abominations and filthyness So long as Israel were of this wicked and base mind and demanded no more then Freedom in part their cruel burdens and ridged slavery was justly greater and they were never freed nor fit for deliverance till Moses demanded all and they accordingly acted with him and had all their Rights entire All imperfect righteousness whatsoever is impostury and deceit of the curse of bondage and a main cause of rejection and destruction to those that do it or joyning rest in it as Sauls imperfect righteousness was the cause of his utter rejection and of his and his whole Families destruction All true righteousness is of Freedom only a fruit of the tree of life from death for ever a freeing righteousness so soon as the creatures that came into the Ark did but one work of Freedom out of bondage they were all freed from destruction So soon as the Israelites did but that one work of Freedom out of bondage in coming by their Families into their own houses c. they were all freed from destruction and so soon as the people of God shall perform but this one work of Freedom out of bondage which is to come out of great tribulations reall bondage by their Anti-typical Families into their Oeconomick bodies and houses mystical they shall be freed from all coercive externall power of bondage destruction sin and death for ever these works were the first fruits of the Tree of life in a Type this work shall be the first fruit of the Tree of life prefigured When man Christ mystical shall put forth his hand and taste this legitimate and perfect fruit of the righteousness of Freedom out of bondage he shall live in the power of life and Freedom of God for ever and never be wholy subjected to vanity corruption and death of bondage any more The people of God and their righteousness shall be perfect after their pattern their mother the new Policy or City descending that City shall be four square equally without convex or indents every way and on every side exactly just and even Secondly the height and bredth and length of that City shall be equal So the reallity of things what they are and the judgments and estimations of the people of God upon them and their executions according to their iust estimations shall be exactly paral or equal Thirdly that City shall be perfectly square the most firm pattern of immovable stability So shall they and their righteousness be permanent in a progressive way in the righteousness of Freedom for ever and not generally revolt any more but if any as particular persons shall look back they shall return back and cease to be the people of God Lots wife delivered out of Sodom lookt back and returned back to destruction They that look back unto the horour of darkness of bondage shall return back unto that horour of darkness Nothing so displeased God as the spirit of apostacy and slavery in his people in looking back unto the house of bondage the land of their destruction after they were delivered out of it The Free people of God indeed must and will constantly press forward in the power of perfect and legitimate righteousness of Freedom and follow after Rev 14.4 and be led by the Lamb wheresoever he goeth I have herein as in the sight of God discharged my Faith Faithfulness reapes what it doth not sow destruction to those that are Faithful but this God disposeth The sequel to my self whether love or hatred bonds or liberty life or death I leave to God it is sufficient for me If I may by all meanes discharge my duty and disoblige my Conscience FINIS ERRATA Page 5. l. 22. 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