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A38778
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A voice from heaven to th[e] common-wealth of England with additions.
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Evans, Arise, b. 1607.
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1653
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saith this is their policy they lost more and they concealed it and it is signified in these words there shall be many dead bodies in every place and they shall cast them forth with silence In ver. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. ye have the sins and cause why the judgment is come set down and that it is not for any fault found in the publique worship of God but for covetousnesse hardnesse of heart towards the poore and the deceit of the people and their neglect in the worship of God For the same cause there is a generall rising throughout the Land and the Kings party utterly overthrown In ver. 9. ye have the Kings untimely death signified by the Sun going down at Noon for the Sun signifies the King 2 Sam. 23. 3 4 5 6 7. Mal. 4. 2. Gen. 37. 9 10. In v. 10. ye have the great mourning for the Kings death and a wrathfull indignation declared by way of revenge upon the enemies at last In ver. 11 12. ye have the form or worship or Common-prayer book taken away so that the Elect cannot hear it read anywhere which book is called the words of the Lord and the word of the Lord and by this you may know that book to be the only true form appointed of God before hand the rule of the spirit of truth the which rule Jesus foresaw and promised to send the spirit to give it for he knew by this word that I do now open unto you that there was a rule to come forth and the forme of it in all things was a secret thing kown to none but the Father therefore Christ commits the directions of the Church in the true worship to the spirit so that untill this time the Church is tossed to and fro because there was no rule known till now Ioh. 16. 13. and now ye are come to a perfect rule given by a perfect man Eph. 4. 13 14. In ver. 13. ye have the constancy of the Kings party to their Religion and King Rev. 14. 4. and their thirsting for their Religion and King again In ver. 14. ye have the States party up signiby the sin of Samaria the God of Dan the manner of Bersheba all which were Idols But saith he they shall fall and never rise again implying thus much that the King and his party though now down shall rise again and stand for ever AMOS 9. In v. 1. the King is risen again and stands upon the altar that is the Scaffold where he suffered and offered himselfe there he triumpheth and commandeth to smite Lintell that is the Speaker of the House of Parliament and cut them all on the head and slay the last of them all this is said of the Parliament to shew that they shall not escape the hand of this mighty Lord In ver. 2 3 4. ye see there is no place in hell nor in heaven nor in the top of the mountains nor in the bottome of the Sea nor anywhere else for them to escape his hands but he pursueth them and takes them In ver. 5. ye have a generall rising caused by his hand throughout the whole land and the Parliaments party utterly overthrown In verse 6. ye have the glorious building of the King in the heavens above all the Kings of the earth and the power he obtained by his sufferings and his glorious name next to Jesus as being his most excellent servant of all others In the 7. verse ye have the wrath of God declared against the Parliament for their killing the King and destroying the Kingly power by which God delivered them from the bondage of Popery and he looks upon them as black children of Ethiopiaus for these ungratefull acts In verse 8 9 10. ye have Gods wrath upon the whole Kingdome he tells them that those who depend upon their power and think they can prevent the evill that it shall not overtake them saith he they shall surely perish but the rest he will save as wheat is winnowed and saved and taken from the chaff In verse 11 12. ye have the Kings Tabernacle or Court see up again and his Kingdome Inlarged over all the earth In verse 13. ye have the King and his party taking all again from the Parliament and their party signified in these words The plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him that draws forth that which is not his own For the King coms from the altar and gives commission to the treader of Grapes that is some one of his seed that shall reigne to cut down the Grapes that is the party now standing as you see both parties The Reapers first and the treader of Grapes after gets the victory Rev. 14. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20. In verse 14 15. ye have the King and his parties captivity ended c. Their building and planting and their enjoying of the fruits of their labour and the promise that they shall possesse their land without any molestation hereafter for ever and ever And now I beseech you look upon this Scripture and lay it to heart and consider how ye have seen before your eyes this 8. Chapter of of Amos fulfilled as I have interpreted it unto you and you see there the rule to worship God by all which is made plain for you to see as well as I that you may be saved I beseech you also to lay to heart and consider this nineth of Amos where you may see perfectly according to the promise of Christ the things to come Ioh. 16. 13. Never had people the like shewed them as ye have now so plain from these two Chapters O take heed that ye slight it not but make use of it for your salvation For if ye be cut down and cast into the winepresse of the fiercenesse of the wrath of God almighty ye are undone for ever and ye may see how to prevent it Rev. 14. 18 19. Rev. 19. 15. by what hath been spoken And this I say to the Parliament to the Army and to all others Do the work for it must be done Be ye valiant set up the King for if Forraigners do it ye are undone And you may see it will be done by a strong power I have also some things to shew you out of the first of Isaiah and it chiefly concernes this City of London which in regard of its action now is called Sodom and Egypt Isa. 1. 10. Rev. 11. 8. and that it was a faithfull loyall City in the time of Queen Elizabeth when she was received by the Citizens out of the Tower and with joy accompanied to Westminster and though now this City be an unfaithfull harlot yet she shall be restored againe to her former faithfulnesse Of this I shall in briefe shew you Isaiah 1. ver. 1. to ver. 10. ye have the King and his party signified with their condition that now they lye in brought upon themselves by their sins and this
24. of Novemb. 1651. and received them again from Alderman Andrews the 28. who bad me advise with some Divines about them and get them printed I have also delivered these things to the Lord Generall Cromwells own hands and he had them three days also And now I beseech you all consider that what I say unto you of my own words I say it with love and humility as to men whom I honor in regard I believe you would willingly fear God and do his will But what I say of you from Scripture I do it in faithfulnesse to you that ye might fear God do his will of which ye are as yet ignorant For though ye have thousands of instructors yet the spirit of illumination and instruction is with me alone and there is a darknesse upon all your Divines and Prophets at this time as you may see in Micah 3. 4 5 6 7. and verse 8. these words are fitted for me to speak unto you But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the LORD and of judgment and of might to declare to you your sins And 19. years ago I did declare the thing that came upon the King and his party I was not then regarded because there was a necessity that all things should come to passe as they did else how should the Scripture have been fulfilled and truly yet I may strive to warn but I know all will not believe me notwithstanding for the Elects sake who I know not but by their conversion I must warne all for that 's my work and 't is Gods to perswade the hearts of men to believe what I say And this I understand concerning my selfe I am a man to whom God hath given foreknowledge which I declare with all humility love and respect But I find that when 't is not regarded then immediately judgement follows as the Kings party and afterwards the Presbyterian who not only slighted my love but also imprisoned me at Newgate brought me before the Bar in the Old-Bayley and would have had my life if God had not been on my side have found it to their costs So now the same judgement and a heavier attends the contemners of this truth Therefore I thought my self bound in conscience to make these things known to them whom it chiefly belongs to that is generally the Commonwealth in love and to clear my self from bloud Being more satisfied with a good conscience and perhaps the hatred of many then to flatter them against my conscience to obtaine a great reward I know every one is more able then I to write and can make their matters good against me to seduce you and glosse it over with pieces of Scripture But I say unto you if any can bring you so much Scripture together that declares the things past present and to come as ye have seen the things past done before your eyes and that makes all things so clear and easie to be understood as this 〈◊〉 and speaks to the purpose as Amos 8. and 9. Isaiah 1. of all first and last I say if any shall do so by Scripture for the justifying of this matter then look upon it and judge between us But if ye find none such then rest in this and remember the true Religion is that of K. Ed. 6. Q. Elizabeth K. James and K. Charles which truth according to the appointment of God is now cast down to the ground Dan. 8. 10 11 12 13. Isa. 56. 14 15 16 17. and will by the power of God be set up again and this truth will triumph over all the earth and put down all rule and authority under its feet 1 Cor. 15. 24 25 26 27 28. So that all shall be subject unto it The Reformation of Luther in Germany of the Calvinist and Hugonit in France of John Knoxe in Scotland of Anabaptist Brownist or whatsoever else are but rebellious rules like the rods of the Sorcerers of Egypt which were devoured by the rod of Aaron Exod. 7. 9 10 11 12. so they all shall come to nought for the Apostle foresaw by the Scripture that there was but one King and one Rule to be over all the earth Zech. 14. 9. Zeph. 3. 9. and therefore they had an eye to that when they wrote as you may see in 1 Pet. 1. 1. who wrote to men of divers countries under divers Kings And when he cometh to that point submit your selves c. he doth not say whether it be to the Kings as supreme or to Governours as to them that are sent by them c. But he saith submit your selves c. whether it be to the King as supreme or unto Governours as unto them that are sent by him c. 1 Pet. 2. 13. 14. 7. So that you may sâ—e his meaning is not that men should submit unto all Kings in all things but unto one King in all things they are to submit and this King they must honor and obey For the Apostles saw thaâ— God would hold forth a King at last whose Lawes should be right according to Gods mind and therefore the Apostle doth presse all men in point of obedience to this King in all â—hings 1 Pet. 2 3 And this King or Angell is said to come from the altar and to have power over fire which fire shall consume the corruption of the world For this King hath the true power over fire really and not as the wicked one who is said to bring down fire from heaven in the sight of men making men see things that are not really done as Juglers couzen And of this King and this altar you have the Prophet Isaiah speaking Isaiah 19. 19 20. who calls him a Saviour and a great one giving to understand that he is not the Saviour and the great one even Jesus but one impowered by him who suffered this altar or scaffold in spirituall Sodom and Egypt Rev. 11. 8. And this King is that Lyon who by his sufferings opens all the secrets both in the New and Old Testament Rev. 5. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. 1 Cor. 14. 5 6. Here is work for you that are the Ministers of God that keep your first station Preach these truths unto the world great will be your glory thereby And you that are in the faith of Gods elect and the elect of God put on the bowells of compassion edifie one another in your most holy faith and adorn it with a holy life â—nd ye that are our of this faith know that though ye wash your selves with snow-water ye cannot be saved And now to say somthing concerning the Kings life The King all his time untill at last had a stammering in his speech like Moses Exod. 4. 10 11 12 therefore acknowledging his infirmity he spake but seldome yet when he spake none could say more to the matter for he drove the naile to the head But when he had lost his army and came