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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90819	An alarum of vvar given to the army and to their high court of justice (so called) revealed by the will of God in a vision to E. Poole, (sometime a messenger of the Lord to the Generall Councel, concerning the cure of the land and the manner thereof) foretelling the judgements of God ready to fall upon them for disobeying the word of the Lord in taking away the life of the king : also a letter to the congregation, in fellowship with Mr. Kissin, in vindication of E.P. ...	Poole, Elizabeth.	1649 (1649)	Wing P2809; ESTC R203189	14,208	17

to lay down your lives in the field SIRS I Have considered the agreement of the people that is before you and I am very jealous lest you should betray your trust in it in as much as the Kingly Power is faln into your hands in giving it up to the people for thereby you give up the trust committed to you and in so doing you will prove your selves more treacherous then they that went before you they being no wayes able to improve it without you You justly blame the King for betraying his trust and the Parliament for betraying theirs This is the great thing I have to say to you Betray not you your trust I have yet another Message to shew you I know not what acceptance it may finde with you yet I am content here it is let it finde what acceptance it may I leave it with you The Message is as followeth Dear Sirs HAving already found so free admission into your presences it hath given me the greater incouragement though more peculiarly the truth perswading me thereunto to present you with my thoughts in these following lines I am in divine pleasure made sensible of the might of the affaires which lye upon you and the Spirit of sympathie abiding in me constraineth me to groan with you in your pains you may remember I told you the Kingly power is undoubtedly fallen into your hands which power is to punish evil doers and to praise them that doe well Now therefore my cumble advice to you is that you stand as in the awfull presence of the most high Father acting your parts before God and man you stand in the place of interpreters for many hard sayings present themselves to you and will do look for it wherefore see That you give unto men the things that are theirs and unto God the things that are his it is true indeed as unto men I know I appeale by the gift of God upon me the King is your Father and husband which you were and are to obey in the Lord and no other way for when he forgot his Subordination to divine Father-hood headship thinking he had begotten you a generation to his own pleasure and taking you a wife for his own lusts thereby is the yoak taken from your necks I mean the neck of the Spirit and Law which is the bond of your union that the holy life in it might not be prophaned it being free and can not be bound For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath freed us from the law of sin and of death for the letter of the law which speaketh to the flesh killeth therefore you must suffer of men in the flesh for the Lords sake that so dying to your own bodies that is to all self interest in divine will your might also receive your resurrection for you must dye before you can rise you must loose your lives Interests Liberties and all before you can save them casting your Crowne at the feet of the Lamb who only is worthy yet still pleading for them with men for they are your due with them a share they may not deny you Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord for they rest from their labours and their works doe follow them From your own labours I wish you rest in the Lord that the fruit of your labours which is the life of your faith may follow you to prison and to death know this that true liberty either is not bound to any thing nor from any thing for it is subject to this or that neither this nor that in divine will neverthelesse as from the Lord you have all that you have and are so to the Lord you owe all that you have and are for his own name sake So from the King in Subordination You have all that you have and are and also in Subordination you owe him all that you have and are and although hee would not bee your father and husband Subordinate but absolute yet know that you are for the Lords sake to honour his person For he is the Father and Husband of your bodyes as unto men and therefore your right cannot bee without him as unto men I know and am very sensible that no small straight lyeth upon you in respect of securing his person for the manifold conceived inconveniences following and necessities of evill event in respect of raising more wars and also other things well known to you which will present themselves unpossible for you to avoid neverthelesse this is my humble and hearty prayer to the everlasting Father which I present to you in words that you may bee edified thereby Remember I said everlasting Father for so we shall best know him for our consolation that it might please him of his infinite eternall life and goodnesse to grant you a sure and certaine knowledge of this that all things which are impossible with men at the utmost extent of impossibillity are possible with him who only saith it and it commeth to passe the Lord of hoasts the God of the whole earth who commandeth all hoasts of men Angels and Devils whose eyes run to and fro throughout the face of the whole earth To shew himselfe strong in the behalf of all those that trust in him wherefore put your swords into his hands for your defence and fear not to act the part of Abigail seing Nabal hath refused it by Appropriating his goods to himself in relieving David and his men in their distresle it was to her praise it shall be to yours fear it not Onely consider that as she lifted not her hand against her husband to take his life no more doe ye against yours For as the Lord revenged his own cause on him he shall do on yours For vengeance is mine I will repay it saith the Lord who made him the Saviour of your body though hee hath profaned his Saviour-ship Stretch not forth the hand against him For know this the Conquest was not without divine pleasure whereby Kings came to reigne though through lust they tyrannized which God excuseth not but judgeth and his judgements are fallen heavy as you see upon Charles your Lord Forget not your pitty towards him for you were given him an helper in the body of the people Which people are they that agreed with him to subject unto the punishment of evill doers and the praise of them that doe well which law is the spirit of your Union And although this bond be broken on his part You never heard that a wife might put away her husband as he is the head of her body but for the Lords sake suffereth his terrour to her flesh though she be free in the spirit to the Lord and he being uncapable to act as her husband she acteth in his stead and having the spirit of Union abiding in her shee considereth him in his temptations as tempted with him And if he will usurpe over her she appealeth to the Fatherhood for

her offence which is the spirit of Justice and is in you For I know no power in England to whom it is committed save your selves and the present Parliament which are to act in the Church of Christ as shee by the gift of faith upon her shall be your guide for the cure of her body that you might therefore commit an unsound member to Sathan though the head as it is flesh that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord I believe And accordingly you may hold the hands of your husband that he pierce not your bowels with a knife or sword to take your life Neither may you take his I speak unto you as Men Fathers and Brethren in the Lord. who are to walk by this rule Whatsoever you would that men should doe unto you doe yee the same unto them I know it would affright you to be cut off in your iniquity but O how fain would you have your iniquity taken away Consider also others in their amazement I know you have said it and I believe that if you could see suitable sorrow for so great offence you should embrace it I beseech you in the bowels of love for there it is I pleade with you look upon the patience of God towards you and see if it will not constrain you to forbearance for his sake I know the spirit of sanctity is in you and I know as well the spirit of bondage holdeth you oft-times that you cannot but groane for deliverance Wherefore I beseech you for the Lords sake whose I am and whom I serve in the spirit that you let not goe the Vision which I shewed you concerning the cure of England as it was presented to mee Wherein the party acting being first required to stand as in the awfull presence of God and to act for her cure according to the direction which he should receive from the Church by the gift of faith upon her Act he must but not after any former rule by men prescribed for cure but after the rule of the gift of faith which I humbly beseech the Almighty Lord to establish in you I rest Your servant in the Church and Kingdome of Christ Elizabeth Poole After the delivery of this she was asked whether she spake against the bringing of him to tryall or against their taking of his life She answered Bring him to his tryall that he may be convicted in his conscience but touch not his Person A Friend to truth and of the Authors to the Reader THe occasion of the next ensuing Letter written by T. P. in vindication of the Author was this the Author Mrs. E. Poole having delivered a Message of the Lord to the Generall Counsell of the Army forewarning them against that great sin fore told of by the Apostle to be the sin of these latter dayes viz. Selfe-love the forsaking of which would be a great stop and let to the Independent designe viz. the taking away the life of the King there arose diverse false witnesses viz. W. K. Mr. P. and Mr. John Fountaine but none of these stood to the publike test but Mr. Fountaine who endeavouring to weaken the Message by scandalizing and reproaching the Messenger charging her with some follies committed many yeares agoe and long since repented of and with other things she knew not The old Serpentine trick new revived but in a finer dress For it is not unknowne to thee good Reader how the Lord Christ when in flesh was called a glutton a wine bibber a friend of Publicans and Harlots and shall Christ in spirit thinke you fare any better As also thou art not ignorant of that place in Math. 13 25. where it saith the Kingdome of Heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his feild but while men slept his Enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way this man is the Lord from Heaven who sends his Servant to sow right good seed viz. wheat the word of God the Child Jesus in his feild even your hearts but while you sleepe the Enemy comes the Devill the accuser of the brethren who alwayes comes in a sleeping time in the night and dark understandings of men when they are commanded from him to watch and stealingly soweth tares among the wheat on purpose to choake the wheat or at least to cause it to be despised upon the instant of time when Christ was borne in the flesh King Herod fearing his Kingdome and government should be taken from him sent forth * Mat. 2.16 and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem and in all the Coasts thereof this was a figure of that which was to come to be done upon the first appearings of Christ in spirit for as the child of the bond-woman did persecute the childe of the free-woman so they that are borne after the flesh doe persecute them that are borne after the spirit and the first borne of the forme will persecute them that come in the power of the most high you know the Story in the 12. of the Revelations * Rev. 12.1 2.3 4 ● 6. c. of the woman cloathed with the Suane c. being with child cried traveling in birth and pained 〈…〉 deliuered and a great 〈◊〉 ●●●gon having 7. heads c before the woman c. to devoure her childe as soon as it was born the issue of it was the great Dragon was cast out the old Serpent called the Devil and Satan the accuser of the Brethren and I make no question but the same effect it shall have upon some I pray let these things be considered by thee ver 9.10 the Lord himself will make application of this in due time to the hearts of these refined persecutors Farewell The Copy of a letter as it was sent from T. P. a friend of Mrs. Elizabeth Poole To the Congregation of Saints walking in fellowship with Mr. William Kiffin DEar brethren in the bowels of love and meeknes I kindely salute you wishing you an encrease of all faithfulnes and true knowledg in the mystery of Christ The cause of my present writing is to acquaint you that providence hath lately brought a letter to my hand directed to my husband concerning one Mrs. Poole once a member with you which woman say you for scandalous evils was cast out Now it being some years since it was done I humbly desire a little to reason with you about the grounds why this still remains upon your spirits seeing Christ saith forgive yee one another as I forgive you and God is said to remember our sins no more this therefore is a note of forgivenesse not to remember and sure we should shew our selves children of our heavenly father but further I desire before the Lord that you examine your own hearts in this thing what your end is in it if it be you think she is not worthy to have a livelihood amongst men then why doe you not either by