sins ye remit they are remitted they received also a Commission from God to preach the Gospel which none can do without the gift of the Holy Ghost which is only able to forgive save and destroy for though it was said to Peter Thou art Peter and upon this Rock will I build my Church this was not spoken unto him as he was a fleshly man but as he had the revelation of the Holy pure Spirit of God upon which the Church is built for the Church is in God who is the only ground and pillar of truth against which the Gates of Hell can never prevail though they prevailed against Peter after them words were spoken unto him so far as that he denyed his Master so here you that are not stark drunk and poysoned with this conception that the Incorruptible Church of God which is only built with living stones elect and precious Christ Jesus being the chief corner stone is built upon a man which is corrupt for it is evident Peter is dead and some of you say you have his bones amongst you which shews their foundation to be decayed had it been upon his person which never could be but upon his spirit by which he made that good confession That Christ was the Son of God which none can truly do without nor call him Lord. Therefore Pope Cardinals Monks Jesuites and Fryers of all sorts come forth and vindicate your selves and shew your Commission for what you do and from whom you had it for from Peter nor from Christ you are never able to shew you had it neither are you able to vindicate your Doctrine and Practice no further then your Inquisition Law and Prison will reach all which weapons will fail you in the terrible day of vengeance which is coming upon your heads for as you have made the Inhabitants of the earth drink deep of the Cup of Mistery Babylons Harlots you likewise shall be made to drink deep of the Cup of Gods vengeance even the dregs thereof shall be wrung out to you and your nakednesse shall be laid open for every eye to behold it And this is the word of the Lord God to you all which can never be recalled nor passe away unfulfilled upon your heads Therefore Oh ye Inhabitants of the Earth hast hast and repent least ye partake of her plagues for if ye endeavour and strive to uphold her ye shall of a truth partake of her Judgements Again I say be ye warned before it be too late and turn to the Lord by true repentance by forsaking and fasting from sin which if you do there is rich mercy in store for you and plenteous redemption in Christ Jesus who is the Light of the world who hath enlightned every one that cometh into the world with his true Light which reproves for sin and evill in the inward parts and if you believe in it and follow it and give up wholly to be guided by it you will become children of the Light and have an Inheritance with the Saints in the Light for the same which condemns you for sin would also purifie and cleanse you from all sin for it is the blood of the Covenant which is plentifully shed for lost and undone man and untill this be witnessed even a purifying washing and cleansing from sin there is no forgiveness for because of transgression the Law was added this is the truth of God unto you all sent amongst you to no other end but that you might be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth which would make you free and lead you out of the deceit of the deceiver as to be no longer deceived by him For seriously consider what have you from them whom you spend your time and substance about but the sight of a company of Images which they make you make Idols of by prostrating your selves before them which is absolutely against the righteous Law of God the Creator of Heaven and Earth see the Scripture Exodus 20. And thus you are fed as long as you feed them and put in their mouths but if you ever come to cease from feeding their inordinate desires they will soon prepare war against you though they have given you the name of Christians by sprinkling a little water upon you when you were children and knew not what they did and this for filthy lucres sake they fed you with the name of Christians but are wholly out of the nature themselves for the true nature and life of a Christian is pure peaceable and easie to be intreated not rendring evill for evill but alwayes overcoming evil with good doing unto all men as they would all men should do unto them which nature they manifestly shew they are out of By their fruits which is the Mark Christ said ye shall know them For it is very evident that none of them will be put into Prison for any thing pertaining to Religion but they will cause others to be imprisoned which thing Christians never did for their weapons were not carnal but spiritual and mighty through God to the pulling down of the strong holds of the kingdome of the man of sin neither did they wrestle with flesh and blood but with Principalities and Powers and spiritual wickednesse in High places which captivate the creature This was the Christians warfare which the Pope and all his Adherents are out of who swear men to destroy Creatures as long as they live contrary to Christ who came not to destroy mens lives but to save them who saith Swear not at all but the Pope as I said contrary to this swears men to destroy creatures as long as they live and to make away with flesh and blood with carnal weapons But they who smite with the sword shall be smitten with the sword and as they have loved blood blood shall they have to drink and so much the more because they have done it under the pretence of Religion and of the defending of the true Church and Faith which needeth not a carnal weapon to defend it for the true Church is in God therefore the gates of Hell cannot prevail against it let them be open never so wide and likewise the true Faith of Gods Elect gives victory over Sin Hell Death and the Grave and needeth not a Defendor but is able to defend it self and conquer all the powers of darknesse which ariseth up against it so it plainly appeareth they have not the true Faith and Church which must have a carnal weapon to defend it and it being so is the cause they cannot defend themselves without an outward power to uphold them and if once that fail them their kingdome would soon have an end and the true Christians kingdome shall flourish and prosper for their kingdome and dominion is invisible and without end being redeemed out of Kingdomes Tongues and Nations to follow the Lamb through many tribulations to enter into the everlasting Kingdome of their Father which is without end
given you therefore cease from asking in any other name Search and read and be no longer deceived for God is come to look for fruit in the earth and every tree which is not found bearing fruit to God shall be cut down and cast into the fire Read the Parable of the Fig-tree and lay it to heart before it be too late and cease from your Taskmasters which tell you a house of stone is a Church contrary to the Scripture which sayes the Church is in God the ground and pillar of truth you may see in this they also deceive you 1 Thess 1.1 For in the true Church nothing that defileth can enter but in yours drunkards lyars and all manner of unclean persons may enter Thus you are deceived by the lying and lightnesse of your Teachers who through covetous practices make Merchandize of your souls for were you truly instituted you would come to know that the Saints bodies are the Temple of the Holy Ghost and their bodies was not for fornication which is openly tollerated amongst you but for the Lord and the Lord for the body therefore you are ignorant of this Doctrine of Paul who said Know ye not that your bodies are the Members of Christ for if you were not ignorant thereof you would be afraid to make them the members of an Harlot For who is joyned to an Harlot is one body for two saith he shall be one flesh Therefore repent and return to God and then you will come to witness your bodyes the Temples of the Holy Ghost which God will put in you and you shall no more be your own for through repentance you will come to know that ye are bought with a price and so will come to glorifie God in your bodies and spirits which then will be Gods as you come to the blood of cleansing as the Saints of old did and so did witnesse God to live and walk in them which was a true Christians state for they were led by the Spirit of God and so became the Sons of God but if any come amongst you now and say they have the Spirit of God in them ye make a mock at them and say they are mad and so are ready to stone them though the true Christians did witnesse the same else they could not have been Christians For it is the life of Christ in the Creature which makes him a Christian through which he comes to witnesse the promise of God to be fulfilled which the Prophet Joel prophesied of saying Thus shall it come to passe afterwards that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesie your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions And also upon your servants and handmaids in those dayes will I poure out my Spirit Therefore I in the Spirit do declare unto you my Countrey men this acceptable day that you may turn from your sins and find mercy that the powring out of the Spirit ye may come to witnesse amongst you which will lead you into all truth and from your deceitfull Teachers so will you come to know the spirit of prophesie as the Saints of old did who were truly sanctified through the blood of the Lamb for saith Paul unto them You may all prophesie one by one which was the true Churches order And againe Your Priests tels you you must look for teaching from them but the Covenant of God is That all his people shall be taught of him For this shall be the Covenant that I will make with the House of Israel After these dayes saith the Lord I will put my Law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and I will be their God and they shall be my People and they shall no more teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least to the greatest of them saith the Lord For I will forgive their iniquities and I will remember their sins no more And all the children of the Covenant come to witnesse this which is their great peace for they that come to witnesse the Anointing need not mans teaching but if this you should come to witnesse your Priests should soon be discovered which is the cause they every way hold you in bondage and blindnesse being Ministers thereof themselves as manifestly appeareth by their fruits for were they Ministers of light they would bring people to the light and so to the true knowledge of God for God is light saith the Apostle God is light saith he and in him is no darknesse at all and if we walk in the light as he is in the light then have we fellowship one with another Mark the Saints fellowship was in the light therefore he that saith He knoweth God and walketh in darknesse is a lyar for he that cometh to the light cometh to know the teachings of God which the everlasting Ministry brings into So here People you may measure your Priests by the Scriptures of truth And again Your Priests tell you you must give money to pray for those which are dead which is an invention of the Devill the deceiver from whence that deceit sprung to make you believe there is a place called Purgatory to be purged in after you are dead which thing is only taught for filthy lucres sake for the Scriptures no where speak of a Purgatory for men to be purged in after they are dead but on the contrary it saith As the Tree falls so it lyes for such as a man soweth such shall he reap therefore the true Ministry was for to bring people to the Spirit of God that so their sowing might be to the Spirit the fruits of which is life everlasting So here they were brought off from the works of the flesh by the vertue of the blood of Christ Jesus and came to be cleansed from all sin for saith Paul When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness Rom. 6.20 Mark They were made free from sin so here was no need of a Purgatory to be purged from sin after death being made free from sin while in the body as Adam was and as true Christians were who followed Christ through the regeneration even to the witnessing of the new-birth which sinueth not as saith the Scriptures He that is born of God sinneth not neither can he because his seed remaineth in him And as we know that God is righteous so we know that he that doth righteousnesse is born of him and so this is the Christians boldness in the day of Judgement that as he is so are they in this present world so according to Christs words they come to be perfect even as their Father which is in Heaven is perfect And this is a true Christians life to be like Christ to live in him as he doth in the Father such only are Christians who witnesse Christ in them as the
talent and gift of God let him that readeth understand that his soul may live for untill this be read felt and understood professe what you will the soul lieth in death and misery therefore ye must diligently search and seek this seed in the field which is in the World in you where this precious Pearl lyeth hid that ye may be as the wise Merchant-man who sold all to purchase it so must ye if it ever comes to be yours yea you must dig deep to find it for it lyeth under all the mountaines of sin oppressed like a Cart which is laden with sheaves in you for the field is in you though wide for the field is in the World which is in your hearts and when the precious seed is grown watch and wait least the birds of the aire bereave you of it or else the enemy sow his evill seed in your ground and so choak the good seed and plant of God so that it cannot grow nor prosper for Friends it is truly so that straight is the way which leadeth to life and few there be that find it but broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which goe in thereat for it is the way of sin but the other holinesse and purity without which no man shall see the Lord as the Scripture saith for it is the onely thing which shall stand in stead in the day of account but woe will be unto them which then are or shall be found covered and not with the Holy Spirit of God all other coverings will be to short to cover or save them from the dreadful woe and vengeance which is ready to come upon the inhabitants of the earth for the Lord hath determined to bring Judgement upon the earth that the inhabitants thereof may learn righteousnesse for it is not to be found amongst men but every one is seeking his own way seeking and striving to exalt his own horn by oppression and deceit but the Lord will rebuke many because of these things for oppression shall cease amongst men and the oppressor shall surely be trodden under foot and the meek of the earth shall have the dominion for evermore which is the mind and purpose of the Lord of heaven and earth therefore it shall surely come to passe and woe will be to them who do arise to oppose the Lord in this most glorious work for they shall be beaten to powder for the potsherds may strive with potsherds yet in vain will it be to strive against the Lord and his Holy Anoynted who is come and coming to take the Kingdome whose right it is for ever and ever for all the Kingdomes of the World shall become the Kingdomes of the glorious Son of God Therefore oh ye inhabitants of the earth prepare to meet the Lord and be ye warned that ye joyn not with the power of the oppressor whom God is purposing to overturn and chain down for ever least you perish with him This from the Lord God of heaven and earth is a warning to you all that ye may be warned and left without excuse when the day shall come upon you which is already dawned and hastens apace to shine in its glory whereby all the works of darknesse shall be discovered and made manifest though never so secretly hid as hath been already said It is high time for you to awake out of the deep sleep of ignorance which you have been cast into by the Magicians of Egypt who have long kept your poor souls in spiritual bondage and slavery through their deceit and lyes for their own profit and lucre of which they strive to cast a mist before your eyes telling you of the body of Christ and instead of which they make you worship the works of your own hands which will and doe perish with the using which the body of Christ can never doe inasmuch as it is incorruptible neither did or could see corruption yet notwithstanding your Priests have so far bewitched you as that you your selves commonly confesse that though they be never so wicked yet in the speaking of so many words they make the corruptible bread the very body of Christ and ye are so far inchanted with this lye insomuch that if all within your Dominions do not fall down before this piece of bread and worship you are ready to murder them by which means your fruits shew you are in the spirit of murther and envy envying those which will not own your lye and blasphemy calling earthly bread the Lords body which is held in and by the hands of corruptible men as you your selves are ready to say the Lords soul abhors these things for they are an abominable abomination before him Consider and lay it to heart can the words that proceed out of the mouth of a sinful man make any thing incorruptible nay they cannot seeing it is evident that out of one fountain salt water and sweet cannot be had neither can a bad tree bring forth good fruit as saith Christ neither can your deceivable Priests who thus deceive you doe any such thing as they tell you of neither have they any place in the holy Scripture which speaks of any such practices as those which they deceive you with that is that men should take a piece of bread and say such and such words over it that then it should become the body of Christ and that men should fall down and prostrate themselves before it nay they cannot cause bread to be converted into the body of Christ neither can they convert the body of Christ into bread let them speak what or as many words as they can over it And thus they keep you in bondage as much as in them lyes least you should search and find out their deceit and also from the reading of the Scriptures least their wickednesse should be manifestly discovered though Christ saith Search the Scriptures for they testifie of me but the Pope and his Priests forbid you to read them which sheweth that they are not of his mind who would that all should come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved and not to keep people in darknesse for in the Scriptures it is recorded that the Bereans were more noble than others because that after they had heard the truth declared they went home and searched the Scriptures to see whether those things were so or no yea or nay you may see they were commended for so doing and not forbidden as your Priests doe and the Apostles did bid try all things and hold fast that which is good which is far from forbidding any tryal in and for truth many of your own regular Priests will say themselves that they are forbidden to dispute You may easily be kept in blindnesse and darknesse when many of your own teachers themselves are not permitted to vindicate their own practises and works which they make you thus adore Surely it is high time for you to ponder your wayes
against thee then shalt thou grind them to powder And because of this wo wo unto the hypocrite wo unto the swearer who unto the liar wo unto the Adulterer yea wo unto the inhabitants of the earth who shall joyn with the Dragon in war against thee thou shalt command the holy Angels of the Father which shall attend on thee continually to bind and to cast into the pit of utter darkness for evermore out of which there shall be no redemption Therefore be ye warned O ye Kings Judges and Rulers of this Nation and people not to meddle in this matter for as sure as the Lord God liveth who hath created the Heavens and the Earth these things shall surely come to pass and it will be a folly for you to take counsel of the Sorcerers Enchanters and Deviners for no such thing shall be able to prevail against the holy anointed one of the Lord but as I have said through the holy Spirit of the Lord if ye fall not upon him ye will surely be ground to powder and though his coming may be contrary to the expectation of all flesh marvel not at it for it was ever so that the Princes of the world never knew him though never so wise for if they had they would never have crucified him And remember what was written by the Prophet concerning the way of God who had it from the mouth of the Lord saying My wayes are not your wayes nor my thoughts your thoughts but as the Heavens are higher than the Earth so are my wayes higher than yours and my thoughts higher than your thoughts saith the Lord of Hosts Therefore marvel not at the coming and establishing of his only begotten Son in this Nation as he hath purposed in all Nations I say marvel not though it be to the destruction and overturning of all outward glory Therefore if any in whom he is witnessed to live and reign be caused and compelled to come before you and they cannot bow unto you witt Hat or Knee as all manner of flatterers and dissemblers do be ye warned even from the Lord God of life that ye touch not nor hurt them for these things for if ye do know assuredly that God Almighty will avenge their Cause evidently amongst you who shall thus do for God is jealous of his honour and he will not give it unto another and so beware that ye respect not the persons of any in judgment lest the Lord rebuke you for it and everlasting shame and reproach come upon your heads for ever for He which respecteth persons saith the Apostle committeth sin and is convinced by the Law for a Transgressor mark that the righteous Law convinceth him for a transgressour which saith Thou shalt not respect persons in judgment they being such who held not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of Glory who respecteth not persons they having their Lord and Master for an example who respected not the person of any man and said How can ye believe who seek honour one of another and seek not the honour which comes from God only So they who seek the honour and they who give it are all one even unbelievers and transgressors for so faith the wise man also It is not good to have respect to persons for for a piece of bread such an one will offend And the thing is evident amongst you from the Priests and people who have mens persons in admiration because of advantage search and see whether any of these things be not so yea or nay with the pure Light of Christ Jesus which shineth in all your Consciences which reproveth for sin and will make all the works of darkness manifest unto you as you diligently heed it and follow it and love it while you have the Light walk in the Light that you may be children of the Light least it be taken from you and given to them which are faithfull Therefore I warn and advise you in the everlasting bowels of love not to slight but prize the day of your visitation for the day-spring from on high hath visited you as I have already said therefore whilst yet a time and day is in your hand improve it that the blessing of the most high God may be upon you and your posterity for ever but if you harden your hearts and reject this counsel and warning of love which is freely tendered unto you then do ye hear the word of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth unto you who will not be mocked thus saith the Lord If you harden your hearts against me my unresistible vengeance shall come upon your life as the unresistible Waves of the Sea when moved with a tempestuous wind which shall even devour and swallow you up at once none shall be able to deliver you out of my hands my fury shall come forth against you like a mighty wind that none knoweth from whence it ariseth which shall scatter break and tear you to pieces This is the Word of the Lord unto you all who is righteous in mercy and judgment and unto them that fear my name saith the Lord and embrace my counsell even to you shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing under his wings and ye shall go forth and grow as Calves of the stall but the proud and those who do wickedly shall be as stubble which is cast into the Oven fully dryed And this is the determined counsel of the Most High concerning all the Nations of the Earth which are respecting of persons Therefore be thou warned O thou Nation of France to whom I have been sent and set as a Sign that thou mayest find mercy after thy long provocation and estrangement from God and that thou may'st with a ready mind and willing heart submit to the Kingdome of his Son which he hath determined to establish in the midst of thee and that thou mayst submit unto his Government for to know him by his Name whose Name is The Mighty God the Prince of Peace upon whose shoulder the Government is 〈◊〉 which all Nations either by constraint or willingly shall submit unto even the true Immanuel God with man whose Scepter is freely held forth that thou Nation of France with all Nations might come under it which if thou dost thine inhabitants shall be blessed but if thou refusest instead of blessing that which is tendered unto you shall be turned into a curse for ever By a true Servant of the living God who suffers imprisonment in Bourg de Ault neer Deppt known by the Name of Charles Baily Given forth in the Year 1661. 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Harlot Rome for all Nations professing the name of Christianity hath been made drunk with the Cup of her fornication which they have deeply drank off the one part of which are called Papists who are stark drunk with worshiping of Images and observing of dayes and times and men and are so horribly bewitched as to give money for pardons for sins as may evidently be seen in Rome and all the Popes Dominions but chiefly in Italy where they may have Indulgences for as little or as much as they will and some Indulgences perpetual As I have seen written in Greek Characters over an Idols-House door belonging to Rome And through such witchcraft and wickednesse as this is the people are strengthned in their sins and glory therein Oh! the Holy Spirit of the Lord is grieved with these things who hath said I will arise and ease me of my Adversaries And this is the fruits of that place which the people blasphemously call The Holy City which aboundeth as much in open whoredome and more in Idolatry than any City upon the face of the whole Earth yea whoredome is tollerated without any manner of Contradiction at all and every Idoll-Masse-House is a shelter for murder and if any murderer get but into one of them the Priests are by a Law bound to be a shelter unto them this and such like is the fruits of that place which people so much admire so that many leave their own Native Countrey to see it and when they are come thither they are carried to admire a great Image of Brasse which they say is the Image of Saint Peter and in honour to it fall down on their knees and kisse its feet which shews they are ignorant of the Image which Peter bare who was a Son of God and of the Apostles Doctrine who said Little Children keep your selves from Idols what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols For ye are the Temple of the living God as God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be my People John 5.21 1 Cor. 2.16 Levit. 26.12 Wherefore I say unto you People Come out from amongst these things for God will cut off the names of the Idols out of the Land Zech. 13.2 and the makers of Idols shall go into confusion therefore cease from these pilgrimages which tend but to the worshiping of Idols and many under a pretence of this go up and down the Countrey begging untill some of them are ready to starve and others steal where they can get an opportunity and all under the name of the Holy Cause And they who perform this pilgrimage are the most strict of them after they have prayed to Images and bowed to stocks and stones bring away a few Beads and Images and it may be kisse the Popes foot whom they say is Peters Successor who was the Temple of God and could not bow to an Idol as he doth therefore being measured by the line of true Judgement he will be found to be the Temple and Successour of the Devil else he would not bow to Idols and teach others so to do which sheweth nothing else but the Succession of the Man of Sin even the Antichrist for all his actings are absolutely against Christ and the holy Apostles and Prophets of God for they sought not the honour and riches of this world not the greatnesse thereof but in all things sought to be humbled that God alone might be exalted and honoured over all for Christ said How can ye believe whilest ye seek honour one of another And said this of himself He received not honour from man John 5.5 41 44. And they which did receive honour one of another were so far from being Christs Disciples of Peters Successors that it plainly appears that they were not Believers because they sought not the honour which cometh from God only for when they sought to make Christ an earthly King who sought his Fathers glory in all things he therefore denyed the earthly honours which men would have put upon him and hid himself from them And Peter when Cornelius fell down before him Peter took him up saying Stand up I my self also am a man Act. 10.26 So did the Angel forbid John bidding him worship God though he was one of them who kept the Commandements of God Christ Jesus and all who followed him forsook all earthly possessions and were so far from being honoured of men that they were hated persecuted reviled and shamefully entreated of men But the Pope when he was Elected though in worldly pomp before yet entereth into greater and is honoured and worshiped by men and causeth others to be persecuted imprisoned and put to death witnesse one of the dear Servants of the Lord called by name John Luff who came to Rome as he was moved of the Lord with his dear Brother John Parrot who only desiring to speak with the Pope were taken Prisoners from whence the said John Luff was taken and hanged secretly and to cover this same wicked murder they said He starved himself to death but this their secret murder they could not hide from the All-seeing eye who revealed their secret murder unto me and commanded me to fast for a witnesse against them which I did in their own Prison-House or Hospital of Mad-men where they held me in Chains for no other cause but for tendring my body for my Brother as I was commanded of the Lord they having detained him about three years Prisoner in which time his sufferings are hard to be uttered with the tongue of man neither could it hardly enter into the hearts of men if it were to be told unto them for I believe from Adams day of all the sufferings of the holy men of God the like could hardly be paralel'd the whippings buffetings and bruises which he received amongst them yet I believe the dayly grief of his righteous soul was more than all his outward sufferings and all this plainly maketh them to appear not to be Christ-like but wholly against him for his Spirit is the Spirit of meeknesse love forbearance peace long-suffering and forgivenesse for he teacheth to forgive enemies and to pray for them yea even for them that would shamefully entreat us in this the Pope plainly appeareth not to be Christ-like but contrary unto him and so Antichrist and against Christ who said Blesse and curse not but the Pope curseth those which will not be subject unto him and Christ said He came not to destroy mens lives but to save them and also said Swear not at all but the Pope ingages men to swear to fight and destroy men so long as they live witnesse the Knights of Malta who are also forbidden to marry which Paul said was a Doctrine of Devils and in this also he plainly appeareth to be absolutely against Christ who had not whereon to lay his head in this world but the Pope is not contented to have
will-worship and voluntary humility and nothing to the edifying of the body and so by degrees hath crope in more and more as the dark night of apostacy came in which time Christ Jesus said would come wherein no man could work And also the Apostle saw before his decease as I said before even such a falling away in his time that he said All Asia was turned from him Likewise Peter John and Jude speak of it for John in his Revelation saw all the world wandering after the Beast and none could buy or sell but those who received the mark of the Beast yea such will be the misery of the sons of men who are wandering after him saying Who is able to make war with him And the Harlot rides upon the Beast cloathed with Scarlet with the Cup full of abomination and filthiness in her hand which hath made all Nations drunk Let him which hath wisdome read and understand and consider whether the Pope and Cardinals in Rome doth not wear her Livery without and within yea or nay are they not built upon blood and to this very day are thirsting after it if not what means their Inquisitions and secret places of murder yet they themselves will shew and tell of the place they call by the name of Amphiatar where they say the Christians were put in in former times to be destroyed with wild Beasts though the same they themselves do at this very day even to those who have the least desire after the Lord by which they come to misturst the Idolatrous way they are in and if this be perceived amongst them then presently he or she is termed under the name of an Heritick and then to the Inquisition with them where the wild bruit Beasts set about them to devour them though at first they may flatter and fawn upon them like a Dog and if they see they cannot prevail with them that way it is much if ever they escape their devouring hands and this is not unknown to many but the Lord God of Heaven and Earth is risen to make inquisition for the blood of the slain and it is not the Inquisition which shall be able to conceal it from him for he will rip it open and lay it desolate for ever so that it shall become a hiss and a by-word by all the passers by for it shall be made like their Amphiatar for ever open and free and Gods eternall Glory and Truth shall freely be declared in it with free consent every way and this will the Lord work for his own Gloryes sake and none can prevent the Lords purpose which he hath determined for all the world hath wandered after the Beast and hath given their glory and honour unto him I say notwithstanding all this the Lord will raise up to himself an holy seed which shall make war with him and overcome him his chosen ones have already read the number of his name which is the number of a man and all that rise up and joyn in war with the Beast against them woe woe will be to them for ever The Angels of the Lord are going forth with Commission from the God of Heaven to curse the Earth because of the abominations of the Inhabitants thereof Therefore O ye people be awakened and warned and seriously consider what you are a doing for of a truth woe and vengeance will be powred out upon you in an unresistable manner except ye repent speedily therefore as one who is a follower of the Lamb through tribulations do I warn you in obedience to my King and Law-giver to kisse the Son least he be angry that ye may obtain mercy in this day of love and visitation to the sons of men for the Lord hath certainly determined to reap the earth of all corruption which aboundeth and superaboundeth therein the harvest is fully ripe and long hath the Lord born and forborn and his righteous Spirit hath long been oppressed even as a Cart is pressed which is laden with sheaves therefore will he plead with all flesh with the sword and with fire which none shall be able to withstand therefore be ye warned that your souls may live And though many of them make vows in their own wills to abstain from meats and women this shall stand them in no stead for in words they say they will do this and that but being out of Gods will lust burns in their hearts they not being come to that which would subdue the evill in themselves and these are they which the Apostle speaks of They promise others liberty whilest they themselves are the servants of corruption for of what a man is overcome by the same he is brought in bondage 2 Pet. 2.19 for at best they say they are of such a Saints Order which will avail them nothing they not being sanctified themselves were it so that Saints were of several Orders and Lifes but that 's an absolute lye and a false conception and this is only to blind the minds of the simple-hearted thereby to get the more several Inheritances and fat possessions to themselves by going in several habits and going under several denominations by which policy and deceit where they have been most believed received they have got the fattest and best possessions and notwithstanding go a begging and a roving up and down and take and receive from them who have great families to maintain which thing is grievous to be born in the Land but God will judge for this hypocrisie and deceit and ease the Land of this oppression of a Truth and their lyes and feignedness shall be laid open to every eye for the Saints were not of many Orders but of one only true Order which was truth in the Inward parts which is the root and ground of Religion in which they did not shut up themselves in houses and live in idleness and eat the bread thereof which the poor laboureth hard for and purchaseth by the sweat of their brows and with it these men under a pretence of holiness feed themselves without fear and this is not the order of Saints but of belly-gods for the Apostle writing unto the Saints saith He that will not work let him not eat He being an Example unto them though he laboured in the Gospel above many yea and the care of all the Churches were upon him yet notwithstanding his own hands ministred to his necessities which is a witnesse against the idle drones of this Generation which you take for your Confessors and they pretend to have power to absolve you from your sins and are not cleansed from their own Therefore hear and consider all people who are thus kept in blindnesse and ignorance there is nothing but the pure Holy Spirit of God which is able or can forgive sins for to it only is the power committed and not unto you who live in sins And therefore be awakened out of this horrid delusion for Christ Jesus said to his Apostles Whose
good Conscience who cannot bow to an Idol nor an Idol-maker but beareth witnesse against them all as the Lambs followers ever did in all Ages and Generations from righteous Abel unto this day who was a true Sufferer in innocency and therein finished his course as a true and faithful example for all as should follow after it being the seed of the Bond-woman which persecuted the seed of the Free-woman which kept the Commandements of God though it never persecuted any but loveth all even the whole Creation of God without respect of persons for this cause hath it suffered by the hands of unreasonable men even in seeking for to reclaim them from the evil of their wayes that they might not perish therein for it is the love and desire of God towards the Inhabitants of the Earth and in this work many have been imprisoned stocked stoned and put to death all which they have born like Lambs as the Lamb was their Example Who was as a Lamb led to the slaughter and as a Sheep before the Shearers is dumb so he opened not his mouth This is the true Christian and Lambs life Who is able to declare his Generation And such is every one that is born of the Spirit even as the wind that bloweth where it listeth and men hear the sound thereof but knoweth not whence it cometh nor whither it goeth And this is the cause why all those that are born of the Spirit are hated and despised of men and a wonder unto them even because they know not the birth which is of God which is undefiled and incorruptible because this life is hid with Christ in God being translated as Enoch was whose life the sons of men could not see because they looked upon him with that eye which counted Christ Jesus but a natural man even the son of a Carpenter and the like and indeed it is the furthest the natural eye can see though never so much endued with earthly wisdome and knowledge for amongst the wisest in that time and in all Ages whether Scribes Doctors and Learned men Christ was judged to be the son of Joseph and of earthly kindred and parentage therefore beware how you judge of these things ye sons of men for though the spiritual man judgeth all things yet he himself can be judged of no man This is the naked truth of God unto you all that ye may be warned to take heed what you do and what spirit you joyn unto and with what and in what ye judge least you judge with that spirit that is to be judged and so fall the deeper into condemnation and so heap coals of fire upon your own heads against the day of wrath Remember it is Judge not least ye be judged for all judgement is committed unto the Son and only in him in whom he liveth and is made manifest can any judgement be aright concerning the things of God and to the true knowledge of this righteous judgement did the true Christians come unto for the Apostle Paul said unto them Know ye not that we shall judge Angels which could never be without the judgement of the Son of Righteousnesse who lived and reigned in them And this did he speak unto them when he reproved them for going to Law one with another and that before the unjust Why saith he do ye not rather suffer wrong which words standeth a witnesse against the Pope and all his Adherents which in Rome it self these things almost dayly may be seen even amongst themselves suing one another for Curates places and striving for titles of honour these things are well known to the Inhabitants of Rome for it is evidently known and manifest among them and the heads being thus corrupted the whole body cannot but be all infected with the same disease suing and haling one another before Judgement-Seats which the Apostle said was verily a fault amongst them which so did and by this unchristian-like means is there swearing and forswearing amongst them which is out of the Doctrine of Christ Jesus who saith Swear not at all but let your yea be yea and your nay be nay in all your communications for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evill So ye may see how ye have been taught and led in blindness and all under the name of Christianity but wholly out of the life thereof for saith Christ If any man take thy cloak forbid him not to take thy coat also and if any smite thee on the one cheek turn to him the other also But how these things are observed amongst you let the Light of Christ Jesus judge a true Christians life is to bear all things and not to overcome evill with evill but on the contrary overcome evill with good and he which doth thus that man shall be blessed in his deed and may in truth call Christ Lord for he observeth the things which he saith but they who follow the Romish practices shall be numbred among the Unbelievers for the Apostle exhorteth not only to be Hearers of the Word but Doers also For it shall be more tollerable in the day of Judgement for Sodome and Gomorrah than for those who know the will of God and do it not for if one speak unto you in the spirit of meeknesse and love exhorting you to repentance and telling you the end of the wicked we know that say you thou tellest us nothing but what we know already I say the greater is your condemnation yea it will go better with the Indians in America than with you in the day of tryal than for many of you for whom my soul hath and doth mourn who are setting up lyes crying The Catholick the Apostolick Church and Roman You are its true of the Romish Religion but the Apostolick you are far from for ye are not like them any way in any one thing yet in the name ye boast and count none Christians but those who are conformable to the Romish abominations which is hard to be uttered it is so abominable and wicked as hath been shewed in many things yea they are grown so hard in their abominable Imaginations that it is common for them to make the picture of a woman with a child in her lap playing with a Dog and say it is the picture of Christ yea with a child on the ground and its armes about the dogs neck and say the same of it Oh unheard of darknesse and wickednesse is this and these things may be commonly seen as one passeth along the streets and is not a secret thing this is the fruits of your ancient Religion and truly it is so ancient as the man of sin as appeareth by the fruits thereof for if one speak but against an Image though it be expressely forbidden of the Lord yet you are ready to tear him in pieces for it which neither is nor never was the Life or Spirit of a Christian but through such doings as these the very name of a Christian