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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81980	The word of the Lord to all rulers, governors, and magistrates of England, to try themselves by what spirit and power they rule by. That they may come to know, whether they rule by the power of Jesus Christ ... : With a warning to them, that they hearken not unto the priests of England, by whom they have so long bin deceived, even by that lying spirit that is gone out into the mouthes of all the false prophets ... : Also it may be profitable for all men, that they may come to see the difference between the true power that every soule is to be subject unto for conscience sake towards God and that powerthat is not to be obeyed for conscience sake: but rather suffer according to the will of God. : VVith some quæries put forth concerning the groundof all true power, and government, which is from that power that every soule is to be subject to for the Lords sake, and not that which is set up in, and by the will of man. / This I have written in the word of the Lord God, as I was commanded by the Lord, on the sixteenth day of the sixth moneth, about the eighth houre of the day ... Known to men by the name of, Thomas Davenport.	Davenport, Thomas.	1675 (1675)	Wing D373A; ESTC R174439	7,717	11

Authority among men by reason of their greatnesse in the world and not for their understanding wisedom and the fear of my name are they set up above their Brethren not in the Lord but the things of the world therefore to conclude that they stand in my power and are therefore to Rule and Govern the rest of their Brethren Nay unlesse they from my power in them Rule for me the which ye will not doe if ye pleade not the cause of the poor and needy strangers Widows and fatherlesse set open the Gates to the Prisoners and let the oppressed goe free taking off the heavy burthens and yoak● that have been put upon the neckes of the poor Seek the good and not the evill hate the evill and love the good and establish judgement in the Gate that the spoyled may be strengthened against the strong and mighty that judgement may run down as water and righteousnesse as a mighty stream And can these things be done while these abominations stands untaken down as namely Law Priesthood Temple Tythes Worldly Honour as bowing to men and respecting their Persons contrary to my Law the maintenance of which being imposed upon the Consciences of my people sons and daughters whom I have set free from all impositions of men that are contrary to my pure Law in them and my Covenant established with them to walk before me in truth and righteousnesse wherein they are to Worship me even in spirit and in truth as is made known unto them in the spirit of my Son whom I have given unto them for an everlasting Covenant ●hat cannot be broken And now unlesse my Servants Sons and Daughters break Covenant with me cannot submit to such things as are by you imposed on them Therefore O ye Magistrates how doe you Rule for me when you goe about to force my people to break Covenant with me Was it not the practise of the Heathen and wicked Rulers that knew not my name and power by which they should have Ruled to compell my Servants Sons and Daughters to have denied my Name as Pharaoh Nebuchadnezzar and the Jewes and others who persecuted me as the Scriptures my Servants have spoken forth by the moving of my spirit in them have declared of And come now O ye Magistrates and try your selves what spirit and power ye have been led by Now if you have been led by my spirit then are ye my Sons but see whether it have not been by a lying spirit which is gone forth into the mouthes of all the salfe Prophets and see whether they have not prevailed to perswade you to hearken unto them whom I have determined a consumption and an utter destruction to come upon them and to strip them of all their coverings that the shame of their nakednesse may appear unto all men yet for all this shall not your guilt be taken away from you if you turn not to me saith the Lord because you have been warned by my Servants from my mouth of their deceit and have not turned from them but still you have hearkened to them to continue the yoake upon the necks of my people whom I have determined to deliver by my mighty hand and an outstretched arme as I did deliver my servants of old out of the hands of Pharaoh that cruell oppressor even so will I now deliver my servants sons and daughters for my hand is not shortned that it cannot save saith the Lord neither mine Eare heavy that it cannot heare as before I have heard the cryes of my people And now have I heard their cryes that are come before me and am now comming to deliver them that write upon my Name Therefore consider these things betime lest ye become such as I the Lord have destroyed from before my Face for their disobedience saith the Lord God Quaeries Quae. 1. WHether there be any Power Rule and Government to be set up and imposed upon men but onely that Power and Authority Rule and Government that every Soule is to be subject unto for Conscience sake towards God 2. Whether that Power Authority Rule and Government which men have invented to themselves to maintain their own outward fleshly carnall Priviledges and to bring the poor into subjection unto their own wills be the power that every Soule should be subject unto for Conscience sake 3. Whether Jesus Christ be not the true ground of all Power Rule and Authority that every Soule is to be subject unto being that all Power both in Heaven and Earth is given unto him to Rule and Governe the Nations And whether the Rule and Government be not onely upon his shoulders which is the endlesse Power Rule Authority and Government of whose Dominion there is no end 4. Whether ever any in the Power and Authority of God did ever persecute the Servants of the Lord or did uphold any that were their persecutors but such as Pharaoh who was out of the power and authority of God and rejected it who knew not the Lord saying Who is the Lord that I should obey him And whether it be not the power of the World which are the powers of darknesse that persecutes the righteous Seed And whether such as persecute and such as tollerate persecution be not all of one Seed and be not in the enmity against God even such as are borne after the flesh 5. Whether there be any Rulers and Magistrates that are in the just power and authority to Rule and Governe but such as are in the power and authority of God And whether there be any in the power of God but such as are the Minister of God for good even to execute wrath upon them that doth evill and for the prayse of him that doth well And whether this be not the power onely that every Soule is to be subject unto And if any Rule not thus Whether he beare not the Sword in vaine 6. Whether those be Rulers and Ministers for God that are out of the power of the Lord and are set up by those that are out of the power of the Lord themselves and that Rules for themselves and not for the Lord to maintaine their worldly Lusts Riches and Honour who are made Rulers by Men not for truths sake as they are men fearing the Lord but for the Worlds sake even because they are Rich and Great in this present World and to maintain the Worlds Interests 7. Whether hath not the Lord shewed unto man what is Good that is to keep Judgement to doe Justice and to love Mercy and to Walke with God And can ever this be done even Iudgement kept Iustice done Mercy Truth and Righteousnesse loved but Gifts and Rewards taken and mens persons respected and the Cause of the poor and needy not pleaded till Iudges Iustices and Rulers be as at the first I who are men fearing God hating Covetousnesse and dealing uprightly 8. And whether that of God in all your Consciences doth not beare witnesse to the truth of all these things and that generally Rulers Governours and Magistrates in their Rule and Government are turned from truth and righteousnesse and whether they ought not to turne out from the Power of darkenesse into the Power of the living God to Rule and Governe for the Lord God of Heaven and Earth Unto whom every Knee must bow and every Tongue confesse and to whom every one must give an account of himselfe of the things done in the Body whether they be good or bad And so in the light all is left without excuse FINIS

your hearts and shew unto you your thoughts and the intents of your hearts Now enter ye into my secret place commune with your own hearts and be still and see there what my witnesse doth testifie unto you for that is your state before me saith the Lord and if your hearts condemne you I am greater then your hearts And I the Lord who am the true and faithfull witnesse that cannot lye am near unto you all and will be a swift witnesse against you and also will come near unto you in judgement to pleade with you And this will I doe to try you even as I have tryed them that have gone before you And if you will not indure my judgements but turn them to Gall and Wormwood and kick at them with the heel as they did then will I come against you in my fury as I did to them And this I did to have healed them but they would not be healed therefore were they everturned For thus saith the Lord God I even I am he that wounds and heals and kills and makes alive And now if ye will not suffer your selves to be wounded then shall you not be healed and if not killed ye shall not be made alive For he that saveth his life shall lose it and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it If any can receive this let him receive it And now O you Rulers and Magistrates Is it not time for you to know judgement therefore flight not the day of your visitation for this is it wherein I the Lord God am warning you and proving you whether you will now turn unto me at my reproof and now goe to and see whether my witnesse I have placed in you will not testifie against you that I would often have gathered you but ye like to old Jerusalem would not be gathered therefore if you will not be gathered but continue in your rebellion against me this shall ye have at my hand Ye shall be scattered who despise the riches of my goodnesse forbearance and long suffering and my goodnesse leads you not to repentance but after the hardnesse and impenitency of your hearts treasures up to your selves wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of my righteous judgements for according to your deeds will I reward you saith the Lord. But my desire towards you is as my witnesse in all your Consciences will testifie unto you which hath not consented to your sins nor takes delight in your destruction but that you may all live and not die And now thus saith the Lord God If ye will turn now unto me and keep my judgements and not depart from my Counsell then will I heale you which if you love the light and come to the light and bow down unto it and beleeve in it and diligently hearken to it then will you come to know true judgement wisedom understanding and the fear of me even the true power in which you should rule and govern the Nations but if ye reject the light then doe you reject me and put away true judgement from you and goe from my power in which you should rule And therefore O ye Magestrates be you warned from me saith the Lord God that ye goe not from my Counsell for then woe be to you if ye turn from my Prophet which I have raised up unto you to be your Councellor saith the Lord for whosoever refuseth to hear the voyce of that Prophet that I have raised up that soule shall be cut off from his people Now if you heare the false Prophets the Priests of England they will make you vain for they have rejected my Prophet that Moses my servant prophesied of the true light that lighteth every man that commeth into the world they will leade you out from my Prophet and Son out of my Councell saith the Lord God for they have gone out from me and so have rejected my Councell and have not stood in it as the false Prophets that Isaiah Jeremy and Ezekiel Prophesied against Now my sheep heare my voyce they know me and will follow me and a stranger they will not follow but will flee from him for they know not the voyce of strangers And now O ye Rulers and Magestrates try your selves by what spirit you are led and be no more deceived by them who daube with untempered Morter and cry peace when there is no peace for from the least of them to the greatest they are all given to Covetousnesse even both the Prophets and Priests every one dealeth falsly for they have healed your wound deceitfully crying peace when there is no peace saith the Lord. But to whom of you shall I speak and give warning that ye may hear and fear before me behold your Ears are uncircumcised that ye cannot heare for behold the light of the Lord is unto you a reproach ye have no delight in it and so my power by which you should rule and govern the Nations you will not know because you delight not to know me saith the Lord Therefore be you all warned now you have time that ye prise it for my Spirit shall not alwayes strive with you as it hath not striven with them that have gone before you who rejected me therefore were they consumed saith the Lord God And now all you Magestrates and Rulers in England what is the power ye rule by Is it of me saith the Lord See what it differs from those that were before you who persecuted the Prophets Christ the Apostles and all the Saints who bare their testimony to my name and against the world And was it my power by which such Ruled and Governed who were thus persecuting my servants Sons and Daughters who could not for conscience sake submit to their wills And have not the same persecutions in this my day attended them in all parts of these three Nations and else-where where ever I the Lord have sent them to declare my Message even to beare testimony to my name and against the ungodlinesse of men warning them every where to Repent left they perished For behold I have sent among you Prophets and wise men and some of them have you persecuted by Whipping Stocking Stoning beating in your Synagogues and Streets some have suffered the tryalls of cruell mockings and some persecuted from City to City and some of them have ye killed Moreover I have sent unto you my Son a light into the world Saying surely ye will reverence my Son But they said this is the Heire Come let us kill him that the Inheritance may be ours and so they slew the Lord of life whom I have sent a light into the world and have preferred and set up above the light a murtherer and so the old City Jerusalem is yet standing which is called Spiritually Sodom and Egypt where the Lord lyeth Crucified And now ye Rulers and Magestrates consider this Is it because such men are set up in the highest place of