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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60930	A candle lighted at a coal from the altar whereby the King and rulers of this nation with the people of this present age may see the stone on which many have stumbled, and the rock which hath broken to pieces unfaithful men once in authority, who instead of protecting, did persecute the people of God, when they had the high places of the earth in possession, and that these present rulers may take warning betimes, least they stumble at the same rock, and while they have opportunity they may rather become as nursing-fathers to the flock of God within these dominions, by giving due encouragement to tender consciences, and men fearing God as in matters of religion / and this is directed unto you by a subject of the King of Righteousness, Tho. Salthouse.	Salthouse, Thomas, 1630-1691.	1660 (1660)	Wing S471; ESTC R13989	18,411	26

Amos was unto the King by Amaziah the Priest of Bethel who sent unto Jeroboam King of Israel saying Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the House of Israel the land is not able to bear his words when he declared unto them that which the Lord had shewed unto him concerning them and without all Controversie some of our old Adversaries by whom we have been persecuted ever since we were a people may yet go about to perswade these present Rulers that it is not for the Kings profit to suffer us to enjoy our Liberty and Religion within his Dominions and so wait for a Law from him to limit the Holy One of Israel as the uncircumcised in all ages and generations have done and as the Rulers of this last age have laboured and endeavoured to do until the Lord hath made the House of Jacob as a fire and the House of Joseph as a flame and the House of Esau like stubble fully dry and hath consumed their bryars and thorns as in one day for the same spirit of envy remains yet unsatisfied in the Priests of the high Places who prayed against the King and for the Protector and cryed out for assistance liek as the unbelieving Jews cryed Men of Israel help these are they that will turn the world upside down help Protector and Parliament Councel Committee and Army make your Law both Military and Civil a defence of our Faith and Religion Church Ministry and Ordinances else these men that pretends the Motion of the Spirit and immediate Revelation from Heaven those Quakers that trembles at the Word of God will prevail against us undermine the foundation of all our great Truths and then not onely our Craft is in danger by which we have got a livel hood for our selves and Families but also our Traditional Ordinances and those old Mass-houses our Churches in which are all these pleasant pictures painted upon the Walls and the glory of their magnificence will come into disesteem and so by a corrupt new invented Law hath iniquity been established and the Saints of the most high persecuted and imprisoned for the Testimony of Jesus and the Word of God and their Righteous Souls have cryed How long Lord How long Holy and True Wilt not thou Judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell upon the Earth And because Judgement was not speedily executed upon the usurpers of Authority workers of iniquity and oppressors of the Just all the false Prophets and bireling Priests promised peace and safety to themselves to the men in Authority and they were perswaded that their Mountain was so invincible that it could never have been moved Nay all the chief ones of the Nation would not have believed that an enemy to their imperfect peace should have entred into this Nation to take all the antient high Places thereof again in possession But what shall we say to these things the purpose of the Lord must come to pass That the oppressed may go free and that the sins of the false Prophets and the imquity of the hireling Priests and the corruption of Rulers may be punished which is the Cause of all the Judgements of the Lord upon the Nation for all the judgements which came upon Jerusalem who had neglected the day of their visitation and mocked Gods Messengers and stoned them that were sent unto them was for the sins of the Prophets and the iniquity of her priests that shed the blood of the just in the midst of her that wandred as blind men in the streets and were polluted with blood so that they would not touch their garments Lam. 4.13 And this is the Cause of all these alterations and overturnings which is so strange and marvellous to the beholders that such strong men should wax feeble and leave their glory to others not by might nor by power but by the Spirit of the Lord God and according to his Word by his Servants the Prophets whom they have mocked despised persecuted and shameful entreated in the day of their prosperity and exaltation But they would not receive instruction and therefore must they receive correction they would not be gathered when the Lord would have gathered them as a Hen gathereth her Chickens under her wings and therefore are they scattered and broken to pieces and that Stone which the Builders resused is become a Some of stumbling and a rock of offence unto them on which they are fallen and broken and snared and taken and whosoever shall strive with their Maker and fight against the Lord shall not prosper nor prevail for the Lord will thunder out of heaven upon his adversaries will break them to pieces but this is the portion and heritage of his suffering Servants whose Faith stands in his Power whose Righteousness is of him every tongue that riseth in Judgment against them shall be condemned and this is the honour of all the Saints to bind Kings in Chains and Nobles with fetters of Iron and to execute upon the Heathen the Judgements written Psal 149.8 For the Lord will not cast off his People neither will he forsake his Inheritance who are unto him as the Apple of his Eye and whosoever shall offend any of those little ones whose Faith stands in the Power of God and who trembles at the Word of his Holiness It were better for him that a Mill-stone were hanged about his neck and he drowned in the midst of the Sea and though the wicked be highly exalted and joyn hand and hand against the Seed which God hath blessed yet must not they go unpunished though the Servants of the Lord be far from oppression or rendring unto them evil for evil for although we were all the day long accounted as sheep for the slaughter and have been smitten with the tongue of the uncircumcised and with the sist of wickedness every Horn of the Beasts head hath pushed at us from time to time yet have we not desired fire from Heaven to consume our adversaries neither have we sought to be avenged on them or desired their overthrow God is witness for us but we have loved them that hated us without a Cause and we have prayed for them that persecuted us and to this day we desire not their death or that they should be dealt with as they have dealt with others and that their trespastes may be forgiven them more then they have forgiven others and that the Lord would humble them in their afflictions that they might return to him and know that the Most High Rules in the Kingdomes of men who desires not the death of sinners but rather that all men every where should repent and come to the knowledge of his truth for he waits to be gratious because he delights in the exercise of loving kindness and there is mercy with him that he may be feared And as for the strange Act of the Lord which he hath brought to pass so far contrary to

may not be a famine of hearing the Word in this Nation and forasmuch as the Lord hath spoken we cannot but Prophesie Declare of the things which we have seen and heard and that which we have tasted and handled of the Word of life that people may be turned from the darkness to the light and from the power of Satan unto God and it is the Command of Christ unto his Ministers that as they have freely received they must freely give that the Gospel may be made without charge and it must be freely preached not for filthy lucre sake but of a ready mind and a necessity hath laid upon the Ministers of Christ in these last dayes and perilous times though the more they love the less they are beloved again to reprove sin in the Gates and to give warning to Magistrates and men in Authority both in word and writing by way of admonition exortation wholsom advice and counsel that in the fight of the Lord they may be clear of the blood of all men and that all might be left without excuse in that day when God shall Judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to the Gospel and because Judgement hath been turned backward and good Councel rejected by Protector Parliaments and others once in Authority and the Servants of the Lord cruelly persecuted by whom it was directed to them therefore hath the Lord rejected them from bearing the Sword of justice and now you are set as at the stearn of Government and this is your day of Tryal and the Lord God will prove you try you whether you will be a terrour to the evil-doers and a praise to them that do well or limit his Spirit as others have done before you and if you expect subjection to your power you must Rule for God in love and fear and humility and not as Lords over Gods heritage and then you will engage all the honest and upright hearted in these Nations to submit to your Government not for wrath or fear of punishment but for Couscience sake and this will be more honour to you and your Government then if you could force every individual person both professors prophane in the Nation to own you for fear of your wrath for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God and the best effects of it will but make hypocrites for fear of punishment persecution if God do not perswade the hearts of people by his Word and Spirit submit their spirits by his Power to very Ordinance of man both spiritual and temporal for the Lords sake they that were before you promised and pretended much as in matter of Reformation and removing of oppression both in Church and State but we may and do expect better things from you that have promised less and not made so much show of holiness as they did which if it so come to pass the Lord shall have the glory by whom you are permitted to bear Rule in the Nation and you shall not loose your reward if you be found faithful in what he requires of you according to what you know but if you walk in the steps of Tyrants and Oppressors and smite with the fist of wickedness and persecute tender Consciences for and concerning the Law and Worship of their God Then What can you expect But the same reward from him that is no respector of persons which they already have received that hated the reproofs of instruction and the good and wholsom Advice and Councel from time to time directed unto them by these suffring servants of the Lord that have all the day long been accounted as sheep for the slaughter who are coming up out of Egypt and travelling towards the Promised Land Now if it be matter of Conscience to one sort of people in this Nation or if it be supposed by them that the Book of Common Prayer or Divine Service so called is the best way of Worship and that they suppose it is well pleasing and acceptable to the Lord and from such a perswasion they do determine to practice it in their Families and in places of publick worship then let them that are so perswaded give liberty to others that are of another perswasion for the exercise of their Consciences according to their perswafion and Principles and let there be no fighting nor fining persecution nor imprisonment nor no corporal Oath or punishment be inflicted on the bodies and estates of the good people of this Nation upon any Ecclesiastical or spiritual account according to the true intent and meaning of the Act above-mentioned and as the Law of God requires of every man to do unto others as he would have others to do unto him and this will satisfie all the sober-minded and reasonable men in the Nation and make way for a happy settlement of pure Religion everlasting Righteousness and perfect peace among people in matters relating to the Worship and Service of God and in all things appertaining to the spiritual Kingdom and Government of Christ Jesus the chief shepherd and Bishop of our Souls whose right it is to reignes Supream head of the Church who is the Authour Finisher and Defender of our Faith and who is so to be owned especially in this Nation by them who are of the the Protestant Religion and who have denyed and protested against the Popes Supremacy and usurpt Authority and as his Supremacy and Authority is denyed so let his Lawes Institutions impositions be denyed also that it may manifestly be declared that lesus Christ is the head of the Church who is the Foundation of the Prophets and Apostles And they that are established upon him have no need of the Turks Alcoran for a Rule to walk by nor the Popes Mass to teach them the knowledge of God and Christ for God who commanded the light to shine out of darknesse hath shined in their hearts to teach them the knowledge of God and his Wayes and they that have received the Spirit of God and can pray with the Spirit and with the understanding have no need of the Bishops Book of composed or Common-payer which is a set Form of words that every prophane person can repeat for the Spirit it self will help their infirmities that have received it and make intercession unto God for the Saints and for Kings and all that are in Authority and they that have this Spirit of God for a Rule to walk by which is agreeable to the Scripture of the Prophets and Apostles they need not the Presbyters directory as a Rule for publick Worship Church Ordinances and Administrations for the God of Order teacheth them how to walk and worship and when to speak and pray as they are moved by his Spirit and in the Church of God they may all Prophecy one by one and if any thing be revealed unto him that sitteth by the first is to hold his peace for the Spirits of the Prophets are subject to