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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33894	A word in season to all in authority with weighty considerations what persons, practices, and things doth chiefly cause division and contention, rending of kingdoms, and distresse of nations : as also a plain discovery of those things and that ministry that will bring blessings and unity, with deliverance from bondage into liberty, and instead of strife, wars, and fighting, righteousnesse, reconciliation and peace in the land of our nativity / published by J.C.	J. C. (John Collens), d. 1682.; Anderdon, John, 1624?-1685.	1660 (1660)	Wing C5235; ESTC R27130	21,270	30

are her sins and great shall be their Plagues and Judgments from the Righteous hand of the Lord God who will have the Nations know that he is become the Teacher of his people himself and will send forth Pastors after his own heart in the power of his eternall spirit to make warr with the Nations before whom the Heathen shall be confounded and the powers of the earth broken to pieces as a Potters Vessel A day of Tryall is at hand and judgment beginneth at the house of God that the Lambs followers may be known who are chosen faithfull and true that deceipt and Hypocrisie the mistery of iniquity may be made manifest that they that are called Jewes and are not may be discovered that such as have a name that they live yet are dead under the Covering of the profession of truth yet out of the life and power may be made naked and bare before the Lord who hates Hypocrisie as a most abominable thing and loves and requires truth in the inward parts and with such he delights to dwell for ever who in faithfulness followes the Lamb whithersoever he goes who doth the will of God in whom the Father is well pleased on whom the Government is laid which shall stand sure and firme for ever against which neither the powers of darkness nor the gates of Hell shall prevaile and blessed are they who are made Subjects of his Government who rules and raignes in Righteousness for they shall find 〈◊〉 and a sure Rock of defence in the time of stormes and bitter Calamity which is comming upon the wicked who drink iniquity as water and hasten to fulfill their measures raging in the fires of their Lusts the smoak whereof is ascended up even to Heaven that the Lord God is provoked with this wicked and adulterous Generation who wallow in their iniquityes and have not God in their thoughts that his soul is weary to bear them his spirit is grieved and his patience and long suffering is almost at an end towards the people of this Nation that have rejected the Lord and his wayes and have chosen lyes and vanityes by reason whereof the Land mournes and the ●●p of the Lords wrath is full ready to be poured forth upon this Rebellious and gainsaying people who will not repent and return but run on in the broad way that leads to destruction death and hell being ready to receive them against whom the fire of the Lords wrath and indignation is kinded and shall not cease untill they be utterly consumed Tophet is prepared for them of old that repent not and give Glory to God And the Nations shall know that he that was dead is alive and behold he liveth for evermore to execute Righteous judgments upon the workers of iniquity for which he is come into the world even for judgment through which Sions Redemption is to be known the place of Gods Habitation the Temple made without hands pure and undefiled the Spouse the Lambs Wife which brings forth that which is begotten of God to his prayse and glory for evermore And blessed are they that are found so doing which are the remnant that shall be saved by the Lord when the overflowing scourge of destruction shall come upon the wicked Oh England England thou who killest the Prophets and stonest them with stones how often would the Lord have gathered thee even as a Hen gathereth her Chickens but thou wouldest not and how glorious mightest thou have been in the sight of all the Nations if thou had'st considered and known the things of thy peace in the day of thy visitation wherein the Lord hath visited thee with the day springing from on high with his rich and living mercyes and thou mightest have been the first fruits of Faith and Reformation unto God of the whole earth But as thou hast rejected and refu●●● to drink the Cup of Gods Salvation so thou may'st as the 〈◊〉 of the Nations expect to drink the bitter cup of Gods wrath and Indignation that the Inhabitants of the Earth may learn Righteousness and fear and tremble before the mighty God of Jacob 27th day of the third moneth 1660 J. A. THE END * The old Parliament * Voted up Tythes * The Committee of Safety

A WORD IN SEASON TO ALL IN AUTHORITY WITH Weighty CONSIDERATIONS what PERSONS PRACTICES and THINGS doth chiefly cause DIVISION and CONTENTION RENDING of KINGDOMS and DISTRESSE of NATIONS AS ALSO A Plain DISCOVERY of those THINGS and that MINISTERY that will bring BLESSINGS and UNITY with Deliverance from BONDAGE into LIBERTY and instead of STRIFE WARS and FIGHTINGS RIGHTEOUSNESSE RECONCILIATION and PEACE in the Land of our Nativity Published by a Lover of Truth and the Kingdoms Peace J. C. LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson at the sign of the Black-Spread-Eagle and Windmill in Martins near 〈…〉 A VVord in Season YOu Rulers and Chief in Authority I have Written this unto you that you might Read and understand what and who is the cause of Strife and War and Division and Rending of Kingdoms Governments and Common-wealths and causing Distraction amongst people and Heart-burning and Murder and Revenge one Brother against another and one Neighbour against another And farther that no Ruler not Governour nor Government can be Established nor firmly settled until these things are removed which is the Ground of Unsettledness and which hath unsettled Kings and Parliaments and divided them and dasht them one against another Now they that Preach for Hire and Divine for mony whose maintenance doth depend upon their Office and their Office doth depend upon Persons and Forms and Times so that if their Office be taken away their Maintenance fails and if their Form be disliked their Office comes in question and their Maintenance in danger and through these Men and these Things have been the cause of all the late War and expence of Blood and Treasure And all People who have trusted in them have been deceived by them and cheated and betrayed and brought to misery whilst they have feasted and been ready to turn with all Times to serve themselves For now consider that before the Wars when Idolatry and Superstition grew amongst people under Episcopacy so call'd and prophaneness and licenciousness became tollerated by that generation and all the conscientious zealous people for God became persecuted and hated and made a prey so that it were a hard matter for any man to live without suspicion of 〈◊〉 dangerous who made Conscience of any thing especially in the worship of God But they who were Lovers of Pr●de and wantonness letters up of May-poles Bull-baitings Revels Wakes and such like by which many people did assemble together to be drunk and to Riot Blaspheme the Name of the most Holy God And if the Spirit of the Lord was grieved in any to see these things committed and a Testimony borne against it by any How were such made a reproach their goods spoyled by the Officers of the then called Spiritual Courts and that kind of Ministery that tollerated and partaked in such wickedness they were the men set up countenanced and intrusted and bore all the Rule amongst people every where and many years was the Spirit of the Lord grieved and his righteous Soul vexed with these abominations and often called them to return but they would not hear but hardned their hearts in their wickedness and went on in their Rebellion against God until his w●ath waxed hot against them and the Contest began between the King and the Parliament and increased until a great War began as is well and b● woful experience unto many to this day remembred and the Bishops being near unto the KING and well discerning that if by force they were not able to uphold their Office they must fail and their great yearly Revenue which depended upon their Office would be lost and they not doubting their strength because of the KING and the greatness of their number forgot God who saveth not by many nor by few and then they preached up the KING and their Office their Form of their Service upon 〈◊〉 of Damnation to all that should resist them calling them Rebels and Traytors and Heriteks that should oppose Another sort of Clergy-men who were then something more refined and were indeed many of them more zealous and consciencious they prayed against the prosperity of the KING and his Party and against the Bishops with the rest of their Train and so when one Blessed another Cursed and so men according to their affections sided and both were upon pain of damnation and here the Leaders of the people caused them to erre and many thousands that were thus led were destroyed and with great difficulty did the War go on for a long season and the victory inclining to neither But the Army of the King and his party grew numerous and still they who were called the Ministers ceased not on either part to Preach up the interest they had undertaken though never so much blood might be shed in the prosecution thereof untill the King and that party was worsted and overthrown And then some began to see that it was not honesty but interest that made them so eager So then they called Ministers of the Parliaments part many of them seeing that their gain was in danger by reason of that prevailing party which then had overthrown the King and his Army they to wit the Ministers so called began to drive on new designes so that they can never cease fomentinng of division except their interest be at top and they themselves alwaies divided amongst themselves by reason of their great number that some of them alwayes wants room so that they have leisure and liberty ability and opportunity to devise new stratagems to carry on new devisions that they may supplant one another to make roome But then when the Army had gotten the upper hand and that the Generall begins to appeare as if he might be at the Stern and that he countenanced those who at that time the Lord had opened their eyes and they discovered the rottenness of them called Ministers then they set themselves as it were wholly against him by all manner of means Labouring by Plotting Preaching and Printing against them believing in their minds that if he should once be at rest and in full power he would certainly have pluckt down their Tythes So from time to time the fear of loosing their great income on the one side and the Pride and Ambition of the other side they never in no time want matter wherewith to blow the ●ire of contention still crying out against one or other sort of people that stand in their way and so labouring to remove them out of their way by cruelty towards them having time and opportunity to fill peoples hearts and minds with evill by Preaching up the wickedness of their own hearts laying it upon others whom they 'l not suffer to answer for themselves by that meanes laying such loads of bitter Persecutions upon people that have forced many to be Enemyes to those against whom they had no thought of evill for who is there but will stand for his life So in that time when the then Generall had subdued them

so many thousands to gather together in so many places with whooping shouting drinking cursing and swearing and all manner of Wantonness and Licentiousness Is the Lord God honoured by these things is the King honoured by any of this Consider hath not the Lord visited in iudgment this Nation as I have before shewed and overturned the workers thereof in former dayes and do you think he now approves of it Do not deceive your selves God is not to be mocked and do you think now since the Lord hath overturned those who formerly hath afflicted us as he had promised and is rewarding them according to their works Do you think that you do God service to kill us Take heed of bringing any of our innocent blood upon you And therefore this I say unto the King who is now proclaimed and that party who hath been for him constantly I say unto them that we ought to be protected under him in peace and safety and in equity to have these just things granted which we stand for for now ever since the death of his Father we have been as well as him and them sufferers under the powers that hath been set up and that especially in the dayes of the Protector since the name of Quaker was given unto us Who was there amongst the many ten thousands that can now cry with their mouths and their lips a KING a KING make Bonefires and such folly that durst open their mouths when he ruled to bear a testimony against his oppression but joyned with him in his Government and did pertake with him in his oppression and cryed against us in his eares and caused more cruel Lawes to be made against us then before not a Prison I believe in this Nation free but some or other of us have been committed and many of us as being dangerous to his Government and yet these men I say many ten thousands of them that have thus done are the only men to cry up a KING to destroy us as dangerous likewise to his Government thus indeavouring to cover their own unrighteousness by rendring us evil never ceasing to seek our blood For this let it be known unto you that we are not for Names or Titles or for these names to set them up above the nature of the thing for it is the Magistrate that rules for God that executeth true judgment and justice in the earth who hath his eare open to the cry of the oppressed and is ready to break the staffe and strength of the oppressor It is such a one whom God will honour and whose Kingdome the Lord will establish Therefore friends do not hearken unto flatteries and they who for their own advantage speaks fair for they may deceive you but let your ears be open unto reproof for that cannot hurt you and be not offended at any time with those that speak the truth How many thousands have erred and perished by flatterers but whoever that did hearken to reproof did amiss for now the things that we are against is every appearance of evill and the things that we are for is Righteousness and just judgment and unto this shall we stand whatsoever may be our Portion for why now may not we as justly expect to be eased by the KING now the Righteous hand of God hath removed them by which both HIM and US were sorely afflicted and since we both together suffered under them why is it not just that we with him should enjoy our Liberty for indeed we cannot flatter with any yet this we say that there is no people nor no principle amongst people profest that doth tend more neither so much to the true honour of the King as we do for now it is they that fear the Lord that truly honour the King for for as I have said the King is not honoured where the fear of God is wanting But where the Subjects in a Nation walk in the fear of God and know Christ the King of Righteousness to rule in their hearts by which the Lust which is the ground of warrs and strife which War in the Members comes to be destroyed and subdued such can by no meanes be otherwise but to the honour of the King for if the King rule for God and layes the Sword upon the evil doer and praise such who do well which is Gods Ordinance then such who are in the Fear of God and walk in Gods Covenant the Law written in the heart these are the strength of the King for his Sword is against the evil doer and the evil doer is not his strength for God who is the higher Power hath ordained him to be a terrour unto the evil doer and to praise such who do well so the well doer is his strength For what is it that we desire which ought not to be granted in reason and equity The Thing that we desire as to our selves is no more then this That under him we may live peaceably and Gods Spirit in us may have the exercise of our Consciences towards God in all things That no Law be laid upon us to force that from us which is our own and in that case both by the Scripture of Truth and the Law of God written in the Heart ought to be at our own dispose to wit to maintain a Minister which we cannot own or a Worship we cannot own for the exercise of the Consciences of people is Gods Prerogative alone and whoever meddles with that to exercise Lordship over anothers Conscience he is a Usurper and intrudes into anothers right and he falls upon the Rock that will grind him to powder and which hath done so by many and if Gods Spirit have the exercise of the Conscience in all things whose Spirit is a Sword to cut down the Lust that wars against the Soul inwardly and destroys that in man which causeth war and strife without and keeps the conscience void of offence both towards God and towards man whether such ought not to be protected and cherished and have the Magistrates praise And no otherwise do we desire Protection but as we live peaceably in the exercise of a good Conscience neither do we desire these things only for our selves but likewise that all others who desire to live peaceably in all godliness and honesty might enjoy Freedom and Protection for a greater abomination or Idolatry cannot be committed then for people to be forced to Worship that for God which they believe is no God or to Worship in the Way which they believe in their hearts is contrary to God or in which God is not to be worshipped for we do not desire but that others such as I have said that will live peaceably may every way partake of the same Liberty which we desire or expect He that hath a Gospel to preach let it be free like unto the Gospel of Peace not for money or filthy lucre that so people may be turned from their evil wayes and be brought from