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A78076	By reason of the distraction that is in the Romane Empire, these be delivered especially to the emperour, and then also to all other potentates, kings, princes, rulers, governours, and magistrates, in all Europe; who ought to consider, according to conscience, what their office and place is; and not to rule, judge, and domineere, without righteousness, or against God: as hath been done for a long while by the working of Satan in this false Jerusalem: and yet is still so done more and more apparantly.		1648 (1648)	Wing B6356; Thomason E468_4*; ESTC R205323	14,226	16

Isaiah 28. Epist Iude. Mal. 3. 1 Thes 5. Psalm 109. Zeph. 1.3 2 Pet. 3.5 and have made a laughing stock of them and resist God inwardly in their hearts and consciences with the sorcery of their false Prophets and wholly subject themselves to the Devil in this ruining desolation and destroying of the just the poor and miserable they shall have only such a deliverance from the day of wrath Rom. 1. and from the fiery Judgment thereof as their fellow scorners and despisers in former times have had whom God drowned in the deluge and many other ways destroyed them Gen. 6.7.19 and cut them off The people and nations of this present and last world who heap sin upon sin Romans 1. Ier. 7.8 Ezek. 8.9 Isaiah 29. Colloss 2. Acts 17. 1 Pet. 1.2 Mat. 15.23 Gal. 4. Joh. 4. 1 Tim. 2. Rom. 12. Phil. 2. Jer. 23. Isai 66. Psal 51. Isa 57. Eph. 5. 1 Pet. 4. James 4. Ephes 2. Epist Jude Syrach 35. Psal 10.72.75 Amos 6.8 Romans 1. Isaiah 8.28 Zeph. 1.3 Rev. 9.17.20 4 Esd 5. Isaiah 1.5.29.59 2 Tim. 3. Mat. 24. and persevere go on in their damnable course for a while hitherto they have not deceived God but themselves by their outward Church matters or false worship of God whereby they would fain he hidden in their flyness or abominations from God who is every where present in Spirit and is not blind nor doth regard to be served in a wel adorned Temple of stone or Churches according to the accustomed traditions and invented opinions For all those dwell and are in him who are redeemed by Christ and are built up and rooted in him Col. 1.3 therefore he must not be served superficially and carelesly in a shew or in a custommary manner but in the inward ground of the soul the heart and conscience in spirit and truth with holy pure clean and upright thoughts desires and actions which he himself worketh by his word and the power of his Spirit in the faithful For he is not a God that is afar off that standeth in need of a Vicegerent but he is ever filling heaven and earth and dwelleth by his word in them that are of the contrite and humble spirit of grace and loose them the band of darkness and the snares of death who are such as do not purposely resist God nor knowingly persist and go on in sin But to the proud kist-necked obstinate wrathful envious covetous and malicious who live only according to the will of their flesh of the world and of their reason after their own lusts and desires looking after nothing but their own honor and glory greatness and profit and quite forget the miserable that lie in the dust and ashes of death yea daily make it still worse and worse by using their wicked power to maintain their perverse Government and vain doings to the perdition of whole mankind To such he will be nothing else but a stone of offence Rom. 9. 1 Pet. 2. and a consuming fire of eternal burning Isaiah 33.47.50.65.66 and they shall be swallowed up in the bottomless pit from whence such damnable works have proceeded where it will avail them but little that they have prospered in their unrighteousness tyranny pernicious power and authority to their own perdition and eternal torment of hell Psalm 82. Therefore every one of what state dignity and authority soever they be Jer. 5.9 Wisd 2.12 Isai 49.60 Isai 3.42.50 59. 2 Cor. 4. but especially the Potentates Rulers Magistrates and Officers who have authority to rule others according to Conscience and should be Cherishers and Nursers of the Church or Congregation which God hath purchased with his blood Act. 20. and who are not altogether held captive in blindness by the Devil as to this horrible distraction and snailed in the net or caught in his snare they ought long ago to have opened the inward Eyes of their Conscience Ezek. 5.6 ● 9.11.12.14.22.23.36 Col. 3. Rō 1. Mat. 24 Eph. 5. Luke 19.20 Rev. 6.12.22 Isai 5. Epist Jude Mat. 15. Acts 20. Mark 13. 1 Joh. 1.2.4 Epist. Jude and have had a care sometime to cleanse their hearts chiefly from the inward abomination viz. Covetousness Bravery Pride Subtilty Circumvention Force Injury Infidelity Unrighteousness and all other the works of darknes from whence existeth all outward perdition viz. Robbery Murther Theft for which nothing but death and the eternal damnation of hell is deserved that thereby some may be kept out of Hell which now standeth wide open with its jaws or soul and be delivered from the bands of eternal blackness and so might be pluckt out of the fire and henceforth not suffer themselves to be tyed and bound by humane Ordinances and Traditions to those men who preach perverse doctrine whereby they seduce the whole world and set themselves up to be the heads of the Churches among those people who are not of the Congregation of God every one promising Heaven to the adherence of their own Sect or Schism whereas themselves are but the slaves of perdition 2 Pet. 2. Ministers or Servants 2 Cor. 11. Stewards or Deputies of Satan 2 Thes 2. Math. 3.13.23.24 Joel 2 1 Cor. 15. 1 Pet. 2.4 1 Thes 5. Heb. 7.8.9.10.12.13 Eph. 1.5 Col. 1. 1 Cor. 6.7 But according as every one acknowledgeth his long-practised wickedness and abomination hath remorse or repenting sorrow for sins and misdeeds and in the inward ground of his heart or conscience desireth to dense himself from them to be sober-minded and henceforth resolveth to keep himself meerly to Jesus Christ the only high Priest Arch-Shepherd and Bishop of the Soul that he may attain unto the universal or Catholique union or unity of the Body or Congregation where Christ only is the head of his Members whom he hath redeemed with his blood and delivered from the power of Darkness and dearly bought to his eternal Kingdom 1 Pet. 1. For the true faithful are not Clergy or Laity Spiritual or Temporal after the manner of the world pleasing to this or the other party Rom. 1.16 who by the vanity in their Consciences are severed and departed from God and have cut or sent themselves asunder Hosea 10. Eph. 4. 2 Cor. 10 1 Cor. 6 Joh. 16. Rō 8 1 Cor. 2.4.11 Ephes 4 Col. 2.3 1 Cor. 12.13 Rom. 12.13 Joh. 13.15 But they are all one Spirit with God according the inward obedience of Faith so far as they do not resist him but overcome themselves they kill the doings of the flesh by the power of the Spirit of Christ and so in the Faith they bring forth the fruits of the Spirit and judg all things spiritually In this manner the body of Christ should have been edified and built so that always one member should feel the sufferings of his neighbors or suffering fellow-members by putting in the hearty compassion of the love of God and should take care for them and take pity on their necessities with

By Reason of the DISTRACTION that is in The Romane Empire These be Delivered Especially to the Emperour and then also to all other Potentates Kings Princes Rulers Governours and Magistrates in all Europe Who ought to consider according to Conscience what their Office and Place is and not to Rule Judge and Domineere without Righteousness or against GOD as hath been done for a long while By the workings of Satan in this false Jerusalem and yet is still so done more and more apparantly Printed in the Year MDCXLVIII THere are many within and without the Roman Empire who ascribe these times of distractions desolations and utter destructions of Countries and of mankind both in soul and body according to their own affections and lay the fault thereof sometime upon this sometime upon that cause and every one that is most ingaged and interessed would shift the blame from themselves but very few hitherto have been found who have discovered the true principal ground from whence these distractions took their original at the beginning and have broken forth in such a consuming fire of the anger of God that people fall into the hands and upon the swords of one another For they are but Petitiones principii to alledg one while that the fault is in the contrariety of opinions in Religion and the various misunderstandings about reconciliation of matters in Religion another while that the fault is in the exorbitancy of this or that person or in the too greedy desire of some to domineer and aspire to great Dominion and such seeming pretences they propound to be the causes of it But the question still remains to be made whence the particular causes of the strife about opinions in Religion of that exorbitancy insolency and greedy desire to domineer and make all others servants and slaves to them hath its original ground Out of what evil Well or Fountain do these deadly poysonous streams break forth and so mightily prevail to produce such destruction and desolation so powerfully and who among the children of men is the chief cause thereof Here if the Emperor in particular because of the distractions in Germany and every one else rightly consider and weigh the cause in their hearts and consciences according to the Testimony of God and the power and the truth of his Word without the pre-imagined conceits and humane inventions they shall find no other fundamental cause but this That the spirituall Clergy who usurpedly set up and institute themselves and elect and choose themselves to be such are the chief Cause of these Distractions and Confusions in all Nations FOr after they had forsaken the Covenant of the second or New Testament Joh 12. which teacheth to walk in the Light according to the Law of the Spirit which maketh alive in Christ Jesus Rom. 8. they blasphemed the way of Truth 2 Pet. 2. Phil. 3 1 Cor. 3.11 1 Joh. 1.24 1 Tim. 2 Hos 8.10 12 rent and separated themselves with Schi●●● and Divisions and so are not united in God and they being without the spiritual Communion which the true faithful Beleevers through the only Mediator Jesus Christ should have with God every one of them some here some there according to their own pleasures have erected or congregated Churches and built Altars of Abominations Jer. 11.13 whereby people in the inward ground of their Hearts or Consciences Mat. 24 Eph. 4. Col. 3 Rom. 16. Psa 12.80 1 Pet. 5. Eze. 34. Jer. 8.12 14.23 Is 29 by breaking the bands of the Peace and of the Love of God have separated from one another whereby the vineyard of the Lord must needs come to be destroyed whereupon then all the flocks were scattered in themselves by one another and by the faith or belief which they have covenanted and sworn to keep are made a prey to people voyd of Consciences no better then wilde Beasts Murtherers and Tyrants for the disagreeing distracted and confounded Contentions of the Pastors and Hirelings who only serve the world and their own bellies 1 Tim. 6. Joh. 10. 1 Joh. 4 Phil. 3. Rö. 16. 2 Pet. 2 Psa 12.14 59. Col. 2. and seduce many innocent hearts with sweet words and pleasing Sermons And now the people who walk in their destructive ways in Error and Darkness of Conscience Eph. 4.5 with Hypocritical works which themselves have contrived in their reason 2 Pet. 2. according to the Commandments and Ordinances of Men will make as if themselves were excellent honest pious holy and righteous Man 7.15 23. Hereby it is further made known and discovered 2 Cor. 11 Luk. 17 2 Cor. 3.4 1 Cor. 4 Rom. 1 Psa 12 2 Tim. 3 2 Pet. 2 Mat. 24 Mark 13 1 Cor. 6 Epist Jude Rom. 3.5 6 Col. 3 Rev. 18 Is 13.34.56 that it might be considered after what manner Satan hath changed himself into an Angel of Light and hath clothed himself with a false shew and in and by them hath darkned the Kingdom of God in the hearts and souls of other men and wholly abrogated the power thereof 2 Tim. 3. And on the contrary hath renewed and set up his own Kingdom the Kingdom of Pride Subtilty Craft Lying Covetousness Wrath Contention Strife Murther Hatred Malice Envy and Eternal Death in the sinful birth of the Humane Nature in that they pretend as if they in their contentious and confused doings had full power of the Keyes or Ju● Divinum over Heaven to bring the old Adam thither by their word and promise where with they had allured the wicked souls to them whereupon the abomination of desolation is come into the holy place viz. into the Humane Soul wherein there should be a Temple or habitation of God built and set up from whence such hellish fruits of sinful actions of the old birth have changed it into a Cage of Devils of all unelean spirits and hateful birds which have broke forth from thence and so have gotten the opper hand in this world as is manifest Mat. 24 Isa 42.43 2 Tim. 3 Luke 17.18 Mat. 24. Rō 1. Is 1.3 5.59 4 Esd 5 6 7 8 9.14 15 16 Jer. 7.8.9.18 2 Tim. 4 Mat. 24 Mark 13 Zech. 13 Epist Jude 2 Pet. 2 Jer. 5.23 Eph. 4 Mark 13 1 Tim. 1.6 as clear as the Noon day and long ago foretold by the holy Scripture and declared by the Word of God viz. That in these last days horrible times shall come wherein there shall be neither Faith Love nor Righteousness to be found but Oppression Mischief all kinds of malice and wickedness undermining crafty cunning subtilty and unrighteousness shall get the upper hand among the children of men and destroying works of iniquity shall get to the highest pitch which yet the Teachers in the outward Temple or in Babel do boast in saying here is Christ or there he is so that if it were possible for the Devil that arch enemy hereby to seduce the Elect of God and allure them to all

wickedness they might be constrained to do evil Now because every-unclean spirit of his Crew and Sect who depend on him or are addicted to his external matters is perswaded and flattereth himself as if one in this way another in that way among them being unregenerated in the spirit of his mind do but use their Ceremonies or follow their Church way are true Christians and then according to their Scholastick doings people think themselves bound to maintain their way against all other by the sword From thence it is come to pass Rev. 16. Gal. 5 4 Esd 5.9.15.16 that for these many years the inward fire of the angry wrath of God hath been stirred up and kindled in the hearts of those men by the contentions disputations and bitter croakings of Frogs whereby one People one Kingdom County and City so furiously burn in outward strife and contention and rise up against another 2 Chro. 15 1 Cor. 3. Isa 42.57 Mat. 13. Tit. 1 2 Tim. 2. J●● 3.4 1 Cor. 4 Eph. 4 Heb. 10. Col. 1.3 Mat. 5. Tit. 2.3 Psa 10 36.68.80.83 94. Eph. 4 Rom. 1.3 Thes ● 2 Tim. 2 1 Joh. 3. and yet they all boast and proclaim that they do it to defend and protect their Religion and the glory and name of God therein and for the rooting out of wickedness which maketh Satan now laugh in his sleeve to see that he hath set those together by the ears that boast themselves for Christians in such an unchristian and worse them bestial hostility for which they have not the least precept example or testimony from Christ nor his Apostles or Disciples and so put them beside the Kingdom of Grace which should be in their hearts consisting in Faith Love Peace and Unity Truth Mercy and Righteousness Thus subtilly under colour of an angry zeal and imagination as if they did God good service thereby in his Kingdom he setteth up Wrath Anger Enmity Pride Covetousness Envy Unrighteousness and Unmercifulness and so by strong delusions hathled them captive and intangled them in his fetters and chains and compelled them to do according to his will and meaning and that which is according to his disposition and nature which is indeed the abomination of desolation Mat. ●4 Mark 13. Dan. 8.9 which is now set up in the holy place by the departing and falling away from Christ from hence the abomination is grown which is now made manifest and risible to the eyes of the whole world For all such things done by this or the other party about the outward distractions 2 Chron. 15 4 Esd 9.15 Ior. 30. Syra 15.1 Ioh. 3.4 Rev. 9.17.20 Ioh. 8. Eph. 4 5. Psal 36.58.59.64.73 141. 2 Tim. 4. Iohn 16. Neh. 3. Zep. 3. Ier. 2.7 Zach. 11. Ps 44.74 Ezek. 22. Ier. 5.8.18.23 Rom. 1. Acts 20. Ezek. 6.7.8 9.13 Psa 5.55.58 Gal. 5 1 Iohn 4. Psalm 144. 1 Cor. 13. Luke 6.11 Psalm 12.49.109 I am 2.3 4.5 Ephos 5. 1 Iohn 3. Gen. 4. Rev. 16.19 Hebr. 4.10 Rom. ● 14 or customary committing of wickedness whereby mankind is oppressed suppressed tormented vexed wasted desolated and destroyed both in soul and body These are not the works of God who is the fountain of all goodness and is love it self but they are the fruits of the bottomless pit and workes of the Devil who is a lyar and a murtherer from the beginning and the author of all evil and mischief who yet under a glorious and holy shew especially in these whom the world calleth spiritual with a very fine cunning slight of argument can perswade Kings Potentates and Magistrates that they please God and do him very acceptable service when they raise such murdering Massacres and bloody Wars and when disturbances and tumults are made for the upholding of their unspiritual affairs though the poor souls thereby come to be torn murdered and slain in a cruel manner Countries and people miserably wasted and desolated yea brought to utter destruction and when once the burning fire is kindled by their artificial sorcery and more and more inflamed then he knoweth how to wrest and pervert the holy Scripture cunningly after his lying manner very peremptorily and to use and turn it to be a cloak to cover his abhominable unrighteøusness wickedness and knavery whereas the Scripture doth witness clearly that the wicked ways of the blood-thirsty deceitful are an abomination unto God and that they are not of God who do not love their neighbors help them in their want let them boast as much as they will of God and of their works all is false for though they should suffer their bodies to be burned and give all their goods in alms to those of their own opinion it is meer hypocrisy and the works of the desolation of the poor needy and afflicted testifie of their malicious wrathful envious bitter and deceitful hearts and of their spirit of darkness and that they are of the number of Cain whose works are naught wicked and abominable and therefore they always persecute destroy and slay their honest brother Abel But ere long they shall feel in their hearts the Judgment of the Word of God which penetrateth through all things as a sharp two-edged sword and judgeth and revealeth the thoughts of man And in the other world they shall 〈◊〉 the sentence of their horrible Judgment Mat. 7.25 Depart from me ye evil done I have not sent you neither have I known you Psalm 50. Luke 36.12 Also away from the ye enised into everlasting hell fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels ye have eryed Lord Lord and have taken my Covenant into your false mouths Mat. 7.21.25 and yet you have not done according to my will for I have been poor nalied hungry thirsty sick in prison and in misery in my members and you have not only not administred to me Ierem. 30. Amos 5.8 Mich. 3.6 or helped me but you have taken away from me that which was mine own and men over sayd me inprison persecuted hunted worried and vexed me and have upheld your unrighteousness and wicked doings with the swear and blood of the poor Iames 5. and have made your selves fat fair for the day of slanghter which will come upon you for these things According to this 2 Pet. 3. Isaia 3.6.8.9.24 Ierem. 5.7.9.11.14.16 Hosea 4. Collos 2. now every one that is subjected under the outward desolation and incorporated with at and is not wilfully hardned and blinded may very well find and know well enough in his heart and conscience that such abominable and destroying works of the present desolation cannot be protected in the sight of God the righteous Judg by an imagined absolution or by some great commendation preached in a formons by the unspiritual CLERGY or spiritual elected and chosen by themselves to that office who teach that God hath service done him thereby Heb. 10.12 Mat. 13. Re. 14.15.20 Mala. 4. Epist Iude. Eph. 2. Col. 1