James why John ye know not what spirit ye are on let God alone to avenge his own quarrel Vengeance is mine saith the Lord and I will repay it Think you is not your God strong enough or wise enough But hear what David saith Lord my goodness or my righteousness extends not unto thee but unto the Saints on earth And if our righteousness which is our strength reach not him as in truth it neither doth nor can do Will our unrighteousness or sins think you which is our weakness reach or exten'd to him Be not so ignorant God cannot be moved more or less either with this or that for he is wholly or altogether unchangable But let me tell you You blaspheme him in setting him below himself as he is in his own pure nature and essence ever and always the same from eternity to eternity an unchangeable IS You blaspheme him in proclaiming him to the world to be a cruel merciless and unnatural Father Will the father destroy the son of his loyns and will God do such a thing think you Doth not Christ tell you if your earthly parents know how to give good gifts unto their children much more doth your heavenly Father Will God think you punish a man that 's born blinde because he cannot see neither is it at all in his power to get himself eyes But you would have men punished for denying Christ although none can know or acknowledge him without the power help and assistance of him who is altogether above and beyond his reach and power for as hath been before cited None can know the Son but the Father And again None can call Jesus the Christ but by the Spirit No man cometh unto me except the Father draw him And yet you say This is the minde will or command of God Is not this extreme highly to blaspheme or blast the same do to speak very evilly of God and to cause others to do so also Consider who so much as your selves do in very deed and in truth blaspheme the true and very God and his Christ and the true and very Gospel of the true and very Christ Let all the world see and hear and judge Whatever is unreasonable is none of Gods spelling or telling is not the Gospel of Christ or is none of Christs Gospel Nature or rather Reason or Lightim nature saith to all men in all things Do to all men as you would be done unto but grace or Gods spell or Good spell the reason or light therein for there is Reason in Grace and Gospel as well as in Nature as I could shew you but enough saith or tells you Do good to them that do evil to you love your enemies pray for a pity save deliver help relieve succour comfort c. those who hate and envie you who blaspheme or speak evil of you those who sin against you who persecute and would destroy you And this in truth is Gospel Good-spell or true and right telling and spelling or spelling indeed and in truth when it 's thus put together that is when the speaking and doing the heart and the hand are joyned herein Christ did good to sinners loved sinners and gave his life for sinners even those who persecuted and blasphemed him The Gospel is properly and truely a Reconciliation reconciling or Reconciler rather of things that differ are at oddes or enmity it 's the doing away of all enmities the casting down or taking away all partition-walls the higher the enmity the greater the oddes the vaster the difference the greater the higher the more glorious excellent and beautiful is the Reconciliation or Reconciler It is indeed that spirit of life and power of light and love which really truely and in very deed reconciles all things unto or takes all things into it self it self being reconciled unto all things and in truth that or he which is not fully wholly and perfectly in every jot and tittle in him or it self reconciled to another cannot possibly perfectly reconcile or preach the Gospel of Reconciliation perfectly to that other It 's not a bare preaching or speaking but it 's real reconciling or uniting of those things which indeed either really do differ or at least seem so to do and that in the heighths lengths bredths and depths of oddes enmity difference or contrarieties how else could the heighths lengths bredths and depths of the Reconciliation or Reconciler appear 2 Cor. 5.18,19,20 And all things are of God who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ and hath given to us the ministery of reconciliation to wit that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing their trespasses unto them and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation Now then we are ambassadours for Christ as though God did be seech you by us We pray you in Christs stead be ye reconciled to God 〈◊〉 2.11,12,13,14,15,16,17 At that time ye wore 〈…〉 Christ being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise having no hope and without God in the world But now in Christ Iesus ye who sometimes were afar off are made nigh by the blood of Christ For he is our peace who hath made both one and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us having abolished in his flesh the enmity even the law of commandments contained in ordinances for to make in himself of twain one new man so making peace And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross having slain the enimity thereby And came and precabed unto them which were afar off and to them that were nigh In Ephes 3.8 This is the grace given to me saith Paul that I should preach the unsearchable riches of Christ that 's the grace given him he having it first preached unto him that all might see the fellowship of the MYSTERY which was HID IN GOD. In the tenth verse there you have Gods end or Intent which is that his MANIFOLD wisdom might be known and so prays in vers 16. that God would grant them according to the riches of his glory to be strengthned with all might by his spirit in the inner man that Christ might dwell in their hearts that so being rooted and grounded 〈◊〉 love they might comprehend with all saints what is the heighth length bredth and depth and to know the love of God that passeth knowledge that they might be filled with all the fulness of God and verily less will not do it for so long so far or so much as I apprehend any man or thing to be an enemy unto me so long so far and so much must I of necessity be an enemy unto him or it there it 's said God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself how was that by preaching shewing and declaring himself fully wholly perfectly every jot and tittle reconciled unto it The Gospel indeed is that Loadstone which draweth all things unto or rather and indeed and in truth that great Elixir or Philosophers stone which turneth all things it touches into its own nature but it must touch them first I could say much more but I bear with you forbear and spare you I have no evil will unto any of you I am enemy to none neither would I hurt any because no man nor no thing can hurt me but as Paul saith All things shall work together for my good To conclude were Christ or his Messengers his Apostles so fearful so timerons it 's written of them that they preached openly and boldly and waxed more and more bold by their sufferings although the powers were wholly and altogether engaged against them as these men are who if they have not the powers chiefly and wholly engaged for them yet are they very little if at all engaged against them I would offer it to consideration whether the primitive Christians would not have thought and judged it sufficient enough if the Magistrate had not engaged against them although he had not in the least declared or engaged for them And would not any reasonable any sober any quiet peaceable-minded man or men now judge him or themselves to have due and true justice and equity done them by the Commonwealth to have every way and in all things equally the same priviledges and respects with others from and by the Commonwealth which is all that is pleaded for or desired in reference to every one as to himself Who is The Commonwealths under the best and surest bonds of love unfained in all faithfulness to be commanded Robert Norwood Omitted in the Printing Pag. 21. Col. 1.16 For by him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth visible and invisible whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers all things were created by him and for him As there you see all things were made by him so in vers 20. you shall finde all things to be again reconciled or saved by him By whom that is by Christ it pleased the Father to reconcile all things to himself by him whether they be things in earth or things in heaven even you that were sometimes alienated and enemies in your minde by wicked works hath he now reconciled
anointed of God cannot himself in deed and in truth preach the Gospel unto another He who preaches the Gospel must be Gospelized Evangelized must be in very deed and truth the very thing he speaks and preaches The Gospel is not the kingdom of Christ is not letter or dead word onely but it is life and power it is not a dead Christ but a living Christ or Christ indeed and in truth dwelling or living lively and powerfully in flesh manifesting preaching or speaking forth it self by or through flesh and that not in or by dead word or letter only but in power and life declared by real sensible and sutable acts as is before quoted according as is also in 2 Cor. 3.2,3 Ye are our Epistle written in our hearts which is understood and read of all men in that ye are manifest to be the Epistle of Christ ministred by us and written not with Inke but with the Spirit of the living God not in Tables of stone but in the fleshly Tables of the heart Thus as the Gospel was received in power so was it again preached or given forth in power What Paul had received that he also communicated which what it was you there see Wherefore I leave it to be duly weighed and considered whether it be not necessary that he who goes forth to preach the Gospel of God or Christ or Christ's Gospel or God's Gods Spell or good Spell be not thus ordained appointed impowered or anointed of God as is before expressed And that he do indeed and in truth receive his power or anoynting not from below not from men but from God or from above And then Whether any are-thus ordained appointed or anoynted and who and where those are And then if there be any such Whether they do not highly dishonour their Lord and Master in seeking power from below or from men contrary to the example of Christ and his Apostles yea contrary to the very nature of the thing or power it self they pretend to It was said by some of the Clergy at the Committee To what end or purpose was it for them to propose any thing to the Parliament were it not in their power or the power of the Magistrate to make Lawes in such cases and to punish the Breakers of those Lawes so made As much as if they had said To what end is it for us to preach and proclaim the Gospel of God or Christ although ordained impowered constituted appointed and anoynted thereunto by God or Christ except you the Civil Magistrate do not or will not onely tolerate and allow us but incourage and protect us also therein nay except you also follow after us with your swords to cut all their throats who believe not as we believe who do not hear or receive the things we say and speak although we can indeed and in truth give no better reason nor shew any better Commission then our bare say so Which whether it be not quite contrary to a Gospel Spirit I leave to be considered yea contrary to Christ's and the Apostles both precepts and practises Mat. 5.38 to the end Ye have heard that it hath been said An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth But I say unto you That ye resist not evil but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek turne to him the other also And if any man will sue thee at the law and take away thy coat let him have thy cloak also And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile go with him twain Give to him that asketh thee and from him that would borrow of thee turn thou not away Ye have heard that it hath been said Thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy but I say unto you Love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despight sully use you and hate you That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sendeth his rain on the just and unjust For if ye love them which love you what reward have ye do not even the publicans the same And if ye salute your brethren onely what do ye more then others do not even the publicans so Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect This indeed and in truth is The Gospel of Christ or this is Christ's Gospel indeed and in truth and it lies not in a few outside preachings prayings baptizings humiliations thanksgivings and the like not in any or all the outward visible Forms of administration whatsoever that ever were are or shall be but this written in the heart this spirit living and dwelling in us in life and power speaking and preaching acting and working it self forth by real visible and sensible demonstrations which the best of us all I fear notwithstanding our so high pretensions are so far from being anointed with so as to preach to others that we cannot nor are we able to bear almost the very hearsay of it from others Now this living life of God in our spirits or this law of God written in our hearts by the Spirit of God is indeed and in truth the Gospel upon whomsoever it falls it will make all his earthliness and fleshliness to tremble and fall and he who looks upon it will presently lower all his stately plumes there is Christ's precept for president look into Luk. 9.54,55,56 when being refused to be entertained and received by the Samaritans John and James would that they might as Elias did command fire from heaven to have consumed them but Jesus rebuked them saying Ye know not of what spirit ye are for the Son of man is not come to destroy mens lives but to save them So when Peter attempted his rescue from those who came to apprehend him he reproves him saying He that kills with the sword shall perish by the sword and further saith he could pray unto the Father and he would send him more then twelve legions of angels but his kingdom is not of this world as he says Joh. 13.36 My Kingdom is not c. if my kingdom were of this world my servants would surely fight for me but now my kingdom is not from hence Wherefore then since Christs kingdom is not of this world as indeed and in truth it is not but diametrically opposite and contrary to it therefore is it not to be propagated supported maintained or defended with or by any the weapons of this world And that whenas he himself would not in his own person or by any other defend himself or be defended by any outward force violence or power whatsoever I offer it to consideration whether any other man or men whatsoever may or ought to do it And if his Kingdom be spiritual as it 's said it is what then should carnal weapons do in it or about it And then whether
those who give counsel to States and Commonwealths herein give not counsel evidently and eminently destructive to them For no one command precept or president is there given for it by Christ or any of his Apostles who brought preached and published the Gospel but the quite contrary as hath been shewed I would next offer to consideration what surer or better pretension the present Clergie have may or can have to the Chair of Peter to the power given from on high to the appointing or anointing of the Father then hath the Romish Episcopal or other Clergie that what they propose preach or publish should be more obliging or binding then others And then whether they can pretend any more or further to the spirit of infallibility for the opening those mysteries of the Kingdom the mysteries of Christ or to open unfold and truly to declare Christ who is the Mystery of mysteries Great is the mystery of godliness Christ manifest in flesh Perhaps they think it easie let them take heed that lest seeing they be made blinde but Christ himself saith in Matth. 11.27 No man knoweth the Son but the Father Or whether they be able to unriddle the riddles open the parables declared by Christ for it 's written Without a parable spake he not Or to unseal the book spoken of by John in the Revelations And if any man understand not these mysteries as they do unfold or open these riddles or parables according to their sence meaning or interpretation he must presently without all doubt or peradventure be an Heretick or Blasphemer And then from the consideration of what Christ and his Gospel as it is held forth unto us in the Scriptures quoted and many other coherent thereunto whether the constituting or appointing any other laws by any in reference to the promulgation and propagation thereof other then are by himself expresly commanded and appointed be not derogatory unto if not a denying of Christ himself whom we lay and affirm to be the onely and alone King Priest and Prophet in and unto his Church and people And then whether it be not upon the fore-going grounds indeed and in truth the spirit of Antichrist as in their predecessors so now risen up again in these their successors labouring and endeavouring by all the force and power they can and by all the subtil devices they are able to engage stir up and incite the present powers for the support defence and maintenance of their own kingdom under colour and pretence of defending the Kingdom of Christ which he disclaims as is before proved and under the notion of suppressing Blasphemy and Heresie that spirit doth not in very deed and in truth aim at labour and endeavour the suppressing of the very Truth it self as it hath constantly been seen to this day though perhaps and I do verily believe many of them see or know it not Verily Truth is seldom or never heard in out-cries against others it 's seldom whispering against or secretly backbiting of any Truth is strong and therefore not easily oftended it willingly hurts no man because it knows no man can hurt it Verily that 's not worth owning that will not stand alone by it self Wherefore I say Let them alone to stand or fall to their own master and if Christ be their Master what need they fear I should therefore offer As you have already broken the Head of that Abaddonism in this Nation that same persecuring spirit that same spirit of division and dividings so that you would also cut off its Tayl. Not that I would have them or any other injured troubled persecuted or molested no for that were contrary to the Gospel as is already declared it were contrary to that rule also which saith Love thy neighbour as thy self and Do to all men as thou wouldst they should do to thee nay as thou wouldst God should do to thee and Do not that unto another man that thou wouldst not another man should do to thee And indeed herein is the fulfilling of the whole Law and on this as Christ saith hangeth or dependeth all the Law and the Prophets this being indeed and in truth all in all this and this onely being the onely and alone necessary and fundamental thing so far as I can or ever could understand It and it onely serving and enduring in and unto all sorts of men whatsoever Wherefore it is that Paul in 1 Cor. 12. the four last verses and the eight first verses of the thirteenth Chapter after he had reckoned up all the most glorious gifts of the Spirit as Apostles Prophets Teachers workers of Miracles Gifts Healings Helps Governments diversities of Tongues but saith he Study earnestly the best gifts and yet saith he shew I unto you a more excellent way intimating there was something more desirable more excellent then all or any of these as in the thirteenth Chapter it appears And God hath set some in the church first apostles secondarily prophets thirdly teachers after that miracles then gifts of healings helps in governments diversities of tongues Are all apostles are all prophets are all teachers are all workers of miracles have all the gifts of healing do all speak with tongues do all interpret But covet earnestly the best gifts and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way Though I speak with the tongue of men and angels and have not charity I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal And though I have the gift of prophecie and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains and have no charity I am nothing And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity it profiteth me nothing Charity suffereth long and is kinde charity envieth not charity vannteth not it self is not puffed up doth not behave it self unseemly seeketh not her own is not easily provoked thinketh no evil rejoyceth not in iniquity but rejoyceth in the truth beareth all things believeth all things hopeth all things endureth all things Charity never faileth but whether there be prophesies they shall fail whether there be tongues they shall cease whether there be knowledge it shall vanish away So that here you see Love or Charity is preferred before and above all other things and the reason of it as you see also is because it and it onely is everlasting for it is God or Christ as the Scriptures testifie God or Christ made visible manifest born or brought forth in flesh Apostles Prophets Teachers may nay must cease nay all things but it then it and it onely is and can be Fundamental The Temple with all the rites laws and administrations thereof are ceased and done away the Brazen serpent one especial type and figure of Christ after the flesh it also when idolized is stamped to powder and done away the Priesthood must be changed from Levi to Judah as it was in
Christ Christ himself also as he was after the flesh must be crucified that veil rent and done away as Paul saith he will know no man after the flesh no although he had known Christ after the flesh yet henceforth would he know him so no more so also all those things that had their dependence thereupon or related thereunto as it is in the Hebrews Leaving saith he the doctrine of the beginning of Christ let us go forward unto perfection not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of the doctrine of Baptisms and laying on of hands and of the resurrection from the dead and of the eternal judgement as if these things would not make perfect if they could we are not to leave them The same thing appears by that which was before cited Ye shall no more need teach one another saying Know the Lord for all shall know me from the greatest to the least I am so far from having any who in any kinde whatsoever differ or dissent in opinion from me therefore to be persecuted molested or troubled that I would have him in all things have the same respect from the State equal with my self Provided he keep close fast and firm to that rule of doing to everyman as he would every man should do to him and so of not doing that to any man which he would not any should do to him And in this and this only to my understanding is the care diligence and industry of the Magistrate to be exercised and for the breach hereof is the sword onely to be drawn Where or in whom this Gospel is not indeed and in truth preached where or in whose heart this Law is not written or where any man or men whatsoever are destitute or fall short in this or transgress herein then and therein onely if at any time according to the Gospel is the Magistrate to step in and by his power to make up such neglects or defects therefore it 's said The law was not made for arighteous man but for the disobedient and sinner and he who breaks that royal and onely royal law Love shall unavoidably suffer in or with the breach thereof That I would then humbly seriously and faithfully advise and move you unto is That you would try every spirit whence it comes and whither it tends see whether it be of God and Christ or no try it by what is here laid down try it by the Gospel which you would propagate Can any but a truely-Gospel-spirit in truth propagate the Gospel or propagate the Gospel in truth Take heed lest this spirit if you receive it if you hearken unto and embrace it and its counsels prove not as dangerous and fatal as it hath to those who have gone before and whether by these means and upon these occasions many of the truely real sincerely godly upright hearted people of this Nation have not been and are very much estranged from you And think you that you will be able to spare any such Are not hereby divisions and animosities fomented cherished nourished and increased betwixt us and amongst us And will the present state of things well bear this Nay hath not this Commonwealth often lost and been bereaved by these means and occasions of its best and most faithful members You have now seen according to my understanding what the very Gospel indeed and in truth is and what spirit it is that must indeed and in truth propagate this Gospel even a Gospel-spirit an Evangelized or Evangelical spirit and indeed and in truth none else can as hath likewise been shewed and proved You may likewise now in part determine where or whether there be at present or as yet in very deed and truth any such spirit or no whatever the thoughts and high pretensions of some men are Then it 's not I humbly conceive unworthy consideration whether that Christ that man-childe according as S. John speaks was not before that great desection in the Apostles times taken up again into heaven there to remain until the appointed time for whom or for whose coming again in greater power and glory then before all who have the first fruits of the spirit in great ful and assured hopes and expectations do and must wait bearing their witness in sackcloth to him and to that day of his appearing with watchfulness when by whom or at what time the book shall be unsealed all the mysteries of Christ and his Kingdom made manifest opened or revealed Wherefore being if I mistake not in that juncture of time where it is said that it was neither day nor night but in the evening it should be light I conceive that great care should be had of stigmatizing any with blasphemy and heresie but rather leave it to the Great Day to declare them Wherefore for propagation of the Gospel if it may be by us done I should humbly offer that there be a removal so far and so much as may be of all and every thing which in its own nature and property is evidently and eminently visibly and certainly destructive or contrary thereunto As first that inquisition be made for and repeal had of all such Statutes Orders Ordinances and Acts of Parliament any ways tending that way for it 's better if I may so speak that many Errours and Hereticks escape unpunished by the Civil Magistrate had he indeed a rightful power thereunto then that one true witness of Christ should suffer that many tares should remain in the field and grow together with the wheat until the time of harvest as Christ himself saith when it's easie to distinguish then by plucking them up before endanger the wheat also The earth hath done may do nay must help the woman though many false Prophets may nay shall arise insomuch that they should deceive the very elect if it were possible but it 's not possible and it 's necessary as the Scripture speaks that such should be that they which are approved may be made manifest Secondly that all compulsive and forcible maintenance for such who call themselves the Ministers of the Gospel be also removed and done away because it 's contrary to the rules of the Gospel and to the command of Christ which saith Take onely the things that are set before you by those who receive you but they were not to carry away any thing with them for they were not to have so much as a scrip to put it in and were onely to cast off the dust of their feet against them that received them not Thirdly that there may be no outward compulsions or enforcements of any to receive their or any other mens doctrines or principles neither that any mulcts fines banishments or any other corporal punishment be inflicted upon those that receive them not or who write preach or speak against any others so that no affronts injury or violence be done by the one unto the other because these things also as is before declared
are humbly conceived to be diametrically opposite and contrary to Christ and his Gospel I shall for further confirmation offer to your consideration that in Luke 12. where Christ is likened unto a man that had taken a journey into a far country and bids them therefore have their loyns always girt about and their lamps burning waiting for their masters coming pronounceth him blessed that thus continues watching because he knows not what hour he will come in he blesseth that servant that giveth forth the portion in season but he who shall begin to smite his fellow-servants even that servant he will cut off Wherefore according to the Law he who injures not his brother in any kinde let him not in any kinde be injured by his brother and herein may the Civil Magistrate interpose as I conceive if his help and assistance be required but if the one will forgive pardon and pass by the injury and offence of the other it 's better I should lastly offer that those who are growing up into or unto the spirit of the Gospel or unto a Gospel-spirit be not contrary to these rules rejected injured or molested but rather I say rather cherished There are other things might be proposed being supposed to be done by others I omit them and leave you unto this rule That what you would any other man should do to you that do you or let be done unto them and so Whatever you would not that any other man or men should do unto you that do not you do nor let be done unto them for what measure you mete unto others must and shall be measured unto you again because God is just Let us be in or under what time or dispensation soever be it mixt as neither dark nor light neither day nor night neither perfectly under the dispensation or administration of the Law nor yet under the dispensation or administration of the Gospel but as it were partly the one and partly the other This rule will be light and strength unto you in this yea and in all otherthings states and conditions whatsoever as is before noted even as a light shining in a dark place if well looked upon duely weighed and considered As suppose the question should be Whether the Jews should be tolerated amongst us or no This Law and Gospel saith Yes because we would if under their power that they should tolerate us And herein I meddle not with States-men nor that which is called Reason of State but leave that and them to stand and fall to their and its own master I speak ad rem I speak onely to what is proposed and so much cried up and called out for which now it is decalred but in the letter onely how few receive it lo but when it is or shall be decalred manifested or preached as it is indeed and in truth in the power of it few I fear will be found to embrace own shew forth and practise the same in its life and power Though I could say something also as to that which is called Reason of State or State-Reason or rather State-Police but that 's not my business here nor at this time More might be said for their reception and toleration As first We cannot be perfect without them secondly Our salvation came by their stumbling or falling and that as their diminishing was the riches of the Gentiles how much more shall their abundance be and if the casting off of them onely for a time be the reconciling of the world what shall their receiving be but life from the dead I as Paul the Apostle of the Gentiles argues in Rom. 11. So that we are but in a condition of death or dead condition at least comparatively until they be received in again And again he saith Boast not thy self against 〈…〉 be not high-minded but fear lest as God â—…ared not the natural branches so he do not spare thee but that thou be broken off also as they were The whole Chapter is worthy a most sorious consideration We daily pray for them let it therefore really and truly appear that we be what we seem or would seem to be I leave it in the last place seriously to be considered Whether in all Ages Kingdoms and States the Clergie have not been the chief if not the onely occsioners if not the somenters hatchers plotters and contrivers of all the considerable or eminent treasons treacheries conspiracies wars and bloodshed thorowout all or most part of Europe and that under the name or notion of propagation of the Kingdom and Gospel of Christ All whether they have been Princes Kingdoms States or private persons who have at any time in any age dissented from disowned or disavowed their preachings or practices their doctrines or principles have by them been constantly pursued with Excommunications Execrations Sword Fire and Fagot and yet they are all for the Gospel You shall finde that this spirit hath risen up in and with every degree sort or sect of them as all our Histories do unanimously declare I speak onely as to the generality there are good and godly peaceable and quiet-minded men amongst them but it is rara avis in terra as if indeed it were intailed to them or they intailed to it This is the anointing they have received an anointing from belowe from the bottomless pit not from heaven or from above it 's not a Gospel-anointing ecce signum the tree is known by its fruits you shall finde them one day crying out Heresie heresie blasphemy blasphemy fire fagot what not and the next day Hosanna to the Highest that 's heresie and blasphemy to day nay this hour which the next day or hours is sound Orthodoxal truth Have not our eyes ost seen and our ears oft heard this thing Is it not now at present seen daily amongst us I never yet have seen read or heard that the Clergie were true to the interest of any Kingdom State or Commonwealth any longer then such Kingdom State or Commonwealth was true to their private and particular interests and accommodations The former Clergie would be still crying up and praying for the House and Tribe of Levi although they pretended somewhat from Christ also who was of Judah but had they plainly or directly held from Judah from Christ they had upon all accounts lost all manner of claim to their Tythes or Tenths therefore they will hold and derive from Levi which indeed was the best and safest claim But whence these men hold claim or derive I know not nor I think themselves neither surely they finde their foundation to be weak and rotten they take so much care use so much diligence and industry for its support Why fear not if you and your doctrines have their foundation in and upon Christ they shall they must stand let the windes blowe the floods beat Why man Christ is a Rock Oh but they blaspheme our God and that we cannot bear with such the Magistrate must punish Why