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A44814 A remarkable letter of Mary Howgill to Oliver Cromwell, called Protector a copy whereof was delivered by her self to his own hands some moneths ago, with whom she had face to face a large discourse thereupon : unto which is annexed a paper of hers to the inhabitants of the town of Dover. Howgill, Mary.; Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658. 1657 (1657) Wing H3191; ESTC R6657 6,509 10

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whom we all know and for whom we are a witness against thee this shall witness for us for thou must have condemnation with the light which thou hast turned from which witness is in thy conscience which thou once wast in and heard speak and breathed after the Lord and many dear servants of God have warned thee of thy earthly glory the Lord did send me once before now to thee for the good of thy soul and I could have done any thing once for thee for the seeds sake that thou mightst have known the way of truth but thou hast counted us all of small worth Woe is me for thee that thou canst not see him whom thou hast pierced nor canst lay it to heart what thou hast done I told thee once before that thou hadst crucified the Lamb of God and trodden the blood of the new Covenant under thy feet and counted it a vain thing Thou askedst me once what it was and I told thee the blood of Christ cleansed from all sin and his water washed and his Spirit made alive but thou couldest not receive these things for all the cry that thou couldest hear which was in thee for verily I say thou couldest not hear but hast hardened thy heart for the righteous hath cried to thee for righteousness sake but it could not be heard neither in thy self nor in others and all that ever thou didst do for God is now in vain for thou hast now chosen thy own way and so the cry could never be heard how the righteous hath cried for righteousness sake that they might have had Justice in the Land that many a one might have worshipped God without any disturbance Thou hast suffered thy souldiers which are in the abomination with thy self to disturb peaceable meetings and to hale men to prison Thou hast many colours for thy deceit but thou hast none for these men which were met peaceably together for violently they came amongst them with their horses and acted violently by treading amongst simple and harmless people Oh! what shameless things are done in thy name and by thy authority yea verily the righteous spirit of God is grieved with thee And all these things shalt thou know for all the cunning and subtilties of thy heart is seen and known by them who are come into the everlasting spirit And when thou givest account or all those actions which have been acted by thee and in thy name and by thy power oh what a day will it be with thee For as my soul lives these things shall be laid all to thy charge And for us whom the Lord hath redeemed from the vain-glory of the world and hath graffed us into himself he will plead our cause yea the righteous cause of himself and he will make thee an example to all great ones in the world and when that day comes upon thee thou shalt me remember that thou wast warned of all thy evil By a Lover of thy soul whose name in the flesh is MARY HOWGILL This in one of its first Copies was delivered to Oliver Cromwels own hands by the Author her self at or about the eighth day of the fourth moneth 1656. about ten a clock at night with whom thereupon she had much discourse TO all you Disputers at Dover and all other Towns in the County of Kent who some of you would have a three-fold Light and you are disputing with that which is darkness neither can you come to the true Light which is in God because you are shut up in darkness and cannot understand the things of God but by your darkness and disputings calls good evil and evil good How is it that you refrain in darkness but because you hate the Light which should bring you out of darkness And you Anabaptists who have another colour a finer colour for deceit then the Priests of England have a greater abomination to the Lord in the Light of the Lord you are seen and discovered you who have ●●●sed your selves up in that great abomination which is fornication you are found in Idolatry and the mother of that Idolatry is a whore You who are contending about Water-Baptism I say in the Lords Light you and your Baptism is seen by them who are baptized with the true spiritual Baptism which is to be baptized with Fire and the Holy Ghost by one death into one body which joynes to the Lord and they are not they which joyns to the Harlot nor to the Whore but they are joyned through the death by the Word of God which baptized into the death and that Baptism takes sin away But see what your outward elementary Water-Baptism hath done for you or what it will or is able to do for you you who live in pride and envy persecuting them who are born again by the word of God which leads into the Spirit of God your gay and glorious cloathing it s of your selves and of the whorish woman which hath the cup of abomination in her hand and you are found in an ill smell stinking in the nostrils of God Some of you I say are digging and pruning some of you with your Water-Baptism and some of you eating bread and drinking wine and say it is a command of God but the time is come that your outward Water-Baptism and Eating and Drinking is seen and in the light of the Lord you are weighed and tried in the even ballance and you are all found too light and with the Light are to be condemned a day of terror will overtake you a day of sorrow and all your gallant flesh shal come down and you shall be laid waste all you who have exalted your selves by your own works it is your own works and your own ordinances which hath shut you of the Kingdom of God and the fear of God you have lost and are out of the cross of Christ which you do not know but have it left behind you and so the Lord God is comming to make waste all you builders of this County of Kent the Lord God is comming to reckon with you a day of thunder shall come upon you and that speedily which will make your works abomination for I say you of all people are most lamentable the righteous Spirit of God is grieved with you the seed of God is slain by you which is the seed of the Son yea the righteous blood is trodden down by you and that blood are we cleansed by which is the blood of the Lamb and them who drink of it it taketh away all guilt of sin and there is no sin remaining where guilt is taken away the Son of God hath redeemed us from all evil and there is no evil in them who are in the Son the Angel is flying thorow heaven with the everlasting Gospel and you who will be washed by outward water see now your blindness and you who are raking in the Scriptures to find the way to God out I say you shall not find it
there nor the word of God is not there for the word of God which was in the beginning we who have found it by it we were led into the way God and his Word is one and by his Word we were wounded it laid desolate all our own buildings and by the word of God the Son of God was redeemed and the true faith in God was witnessed and that which gave victory over the world is God and the Word and he 〈◊〉 so we witness the Scripture fulfilled in us And some of you asketh questions whether the reading of the Scripture is of none effect to them who are in the fall I answer you have made them of none effect by your 〈◊〉 fallen wisedom with your pride who live in all manner of evil and in the earthly nature who with the earthly nature crucifies him who gave the Scripture forth for he gave it forth for a true declaration of the Light Life and Way to the Father which Light Life and Way are the true way to walk by and you live in all manner of evil you do not walk according to it but contrary to it and so to you it is of none effect for it is theirs who are learned of the Lord and are in his fear they are the Lords and the Scripture is theirs as they witness them and the Lord God is ●●●●ming to take vengeance upon you who will not be warned yea I say he will make you all afraid at his comming and he will silence all you vain d●sputers a day of vengeance is coming upon you the fierce indignation 〈◊〉 the Lord shall overtake you because of your abominations for your a●●●minations are so great that the innocencie of God is lost by them and ●he Lord God is coming to take hold of you all yea all of you filthy and ●roud Sodomites who are found in the evil your gold rings and counterfit jewels shall be pulled off for your jewels are not the true jewels of God And you who say the Lord will have a willing people you are ●●ling to the God you serve even the Prince of the Air your jewels 〈◊〉 your willingness and your filthy garments inwardly and outwardly the Lord God wil destroy the Lord God wil have his own in you he is appearing which is stronger then the man of sin in you a warning to all sorts of Profession which hath no possession but hath lost the fear of God he who is the Possession and the Substance and Life and Light with it you shall be condemed and then you shall remember your abominations the Land shall mourn no longer by you the Lord God with h●s pure righteous Law shall take hold of you and he shall ease the creation of you you who have cumbred the ground so long and have been unfruitful you have dishonoured your Head but he who is Head over heaven earth I te●l you will 〈◊〉 down all fruitless trees and throw them into the fire and so he will have his own And you are all hereby warned of your evil and all your profession will be in vain to you at that day for the Lord God is righteous and you unrighteous ones shall me remember that you were warned of all your evil that you may return while you have time to return the Law of God shall take hold on you and the coming of the Son of man shall be like the roaring of a lion the lions and the bears shall roar and the earth shall pass away with a great noise he shall come upon you suddenly and the end of your work shall be destruction the power of the Son of God shall all your works destroy Given forth by the Spirit of the Lord against all deceit 7. day the 5. moneth 1656. By a true lover of all your souls who hath a new name given from above which is not earthly nor carnal as yours are though 〈◊〉 the outward called MARY HOUGHIL