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A64262	A testimony for the Lord, the good shepherd against all the false shepherds and hirelings of the world and more especially, or particularly those of that sort in the nation of England / by Thomas Taylor.	Taylor, Thomas, 1618-1682.	1675 (1675)	Wing T586; ESTC R17791	10,827	16

see the dangerous Pathes that you are in by following these blind Guides who having shut up the Kingdom of God against Men will neither enter into it themselves nor suffer others Oh why will ye dye ye People of England Why will ye sit in Egypt's Darkness still and the Land of God's People so full of Light The Lord God hath lifted up the Standard of his Truth in the midst of you but you chuse rather to fight under the Banner of the Power of Darkness because of your Love to the World to your Hurt and so the old Dragon who beguiled Eve leads you Captive at his Will who will not have Christ the true Light the good Shepherd and Bishop of the Soul to rule in you The Word of the Lord God unto you all both Priests Magistrates and People Awake awake the great and mighty terrible Day of the Lord God is at Hand is very nigh to come upon you like a Thief in the Night like an armed Man like a terrible Tempest to scatter you to spoil you of your Glory to leave you neither Root nor Branch For now is the Lord Jesus Christ mighty in Power arisen to plead with you in his Wrath because you have made void his Law and transgressed the Everlasting Covenant of his gracious Light and instead there of have set up a dead Image a liveless Form of Man's devising the Image of Jealousie a Religion and Worship which makes nothing perfect to God your Root is seen and judged by the true Light Christ Jesus the Root and Off-spring of David It is so And if you still continue in your vain Thoughts thinking to please God with such a Life wherein you are daily doing what you ought not to do and leaving undone what God commands you and never come out of that wretched and miserably defiled State but think a customary Confession of Sins without forsaking of them is a Worship worthy the pure God who is of purer Eyes then to behold Iniquity I say if these Thoughts and this Heart continue in you the Lord will cast you off and will utterly for sake you and bring his fore Plagues upon you and you shall know in that Day that God will not be mocked but will be sanctified and exalted in his Judgments over all his Enemies especially over such as you who take his Name daily in your Mouthes in vain saying Lord Lord and living in a continual Breach of his most holy Commandments and who instead of waiting for his holy Spirit to kindle a pure heavenly Zeal in you towards G●d and Christ do offer the false Fire of your own blind Zeal as Nadab and Abihu did whom God in his Jealousie consumed with a grievous Destruction And now unto you the two Mothers of these Priests of this Nation of England called Oxford and Cambridge see what you have brought forth and nourished at you Breasts O a sad Generation it is O what a Generation of Evil-doers are your Children whom you have given Suck unto become How have you with your Heathenish Arts and Sciences strengthned them against the Simplicity of the Everlasting Gospel which Christ hath restored unto us in this his glorious Day after the long Night of Apostacy The Lord Jesus Christ never ordained such Wayes and Means as you use for the furnishing and enabling of his Servants for the Work of his Ministry But when he ascended up on high he gave Gifts unto Men some Apostles some Prophets some Evangelists some Pastors and Teachers for the edifying of his Heavenly Body and perf●cting of his holy Ones Ephes. 4. But what can you edifie or perfect to God whose Wisdom is from below and whose Studies and Exercises for the most Part run in the Channel of the Heathenish Philosophy and vain Deceit of the World's Spirit which can neither receive in nor minister forth any Thing of Christ's Kingdom And so we are given by the Lord's blessed Light and Spirit in this Day of the Lord to see and declare That you are gone from Christ and the Way of the true ancient Christians into the Way of the Heathens who know not God as the Apostle said The World by Wisdom knew not God And so the People of the Country are greatly deceived by you and their Children extreamly wronged and corrupted by you for many send up their Youth to learn some Good amongst you but alas how can you that are so evil bring forth good Fruit Nay nay for if any come amongst you and conform not to the filthy and bad Customs of your Universities how are they looked upon as strange Things how are they hooted at as Owls in a Desart You are altogether corrupt from the Crown of the Head to the Sole of the Foot no Soundness in you Oh what Lewdness and Debauchery hath mine Eyes beheld in you The Lord will ease himself of you your high Looks and high Towers he will pull down Your Theater that you glory in shall be a Curse And the Lord will deliver his Lambs from your Teeth What a Face have you that you cannot blush what will you never give over provoaking God with your Acts and Degrees what Heathenish Stuff is this to find you at this Time a Day telling of and glorying in Your Bachellors of Art and Masters of the same Bachellors of Divinity and Doctors of Divinity and such like but if any come amongst you who through the Grace of God hath attained to that blessed Degree of a true living Member of Jesus Christ and Man of God to preach the Mystery of God's Kingdom to awaken you out of your deep Slumbers of Sin and Death him you persecute him you disallow as your Fore-fathers the old Scribes and Pharisees rejected Christ Jesus the true Foundation and Corner-Stone of the Heavenly Building with his blessed Followers And therefore will God's Controversie be with you forever until you repent of your Sorceries and great Abominations where with you have burdened his good Spirit Dayes without Number But the Everlasting Gospel of God's Light and Love shall spread and the Branch thereof shall over all your Walls grow up to his Praise who is come in this Day of his Power to judge the great Whores Works in England as well as in other Countries that the Earth may be swept and fill●d with the Knowledge of God as the Waters cover the Sea So be it so be it saith my Spirit Thomas Taylor And now the Heavenly Free Mother with her happy Children is come and coming down from God out of Heaven to possess inherit and everlastingly to enjoy the Kingdom of his endless Love Peace Righteousness and Joy where Mystery Babylon with all her false Mothers and sinful Children shall have no Name nor Place at all for at the Downfall of Mystery Babylon doth arise in the Saints the pure unspeakeable Joy which none of the Children of the d●rk World understand any Thing of at all It is so See Rev. 2. 17. and Rev. 7. from ver 9. to the End And Rev. 11. from ver 15 to the End And Rev. 12. 7 8 9 10 11. And Rev. 14. from ver 1. to ver 13. And Rev. 15. 1 2 3 4. And Rev. 16. 17 18 19. And Rev. 17. 18. And Rev. 18. 24. And Rev. 19. from verse 1. to verse 10. It is done HALLELUJAH 2 Pet. 2. 2 Cor. 3. 1● Dan. 5. 26 27. D● 1. 7. Dan. 7. 2 Thes. 2. Acts 9. 10 11. Dan. 7. 26 27. Rev. 16. 19. Rev. 18. 15 16. 2. Pet. 2. throughout Rev. 12. 7 8 9 10. Jer. 13. Mich. 3. Isa. 14. 5 6. Mat. 13. 31. Mat 23. 13. Mat 5. 34 37. Jam. 5. 12. Hos. 4. 2 3. 2 Thes. 1. 8. Mat. 13. 15. Ephes. 9. 11 12 13. Jude 18 19. Zach. 13. 1. Rev. 22. 1. c. 2 Pet. 3. 16. John 5. 44. 2 Thes. 2. 8. Isa. 66. 24 Gen. 4. 5. Rev. 14. 11. Rev. 16. 19. Mich. 3. 6 7. Mat. 23. 10 11. Mat. 20. 25 26. Mat. 15. 13. Isa. 11. 9. Hab. 2. 14. John 20. 21 22. Heb. 7. 16. 1 Cor. 1. 20 21. Rev. 3. 18 19 20. 1. Joh. 4 5. Mat. 15. 14. Isa. 55. 2. Isa. 56. 10. Isa. 1. 4 5 6. Joh. 10. 1. Mat. 7. 2● Rev 17. 5 14. 11. Acts 21. 2 Mat. 10. E●ek 34. Acts 24. 14. 〈◊〉 ● 5 7. Jer. 2● 28 29 Ez●k 18. 23. Ezek. 32. 11 Jer. 3● 17. Hos. 4. 2. Rev. 3. 18. Mat. 23. 13 Exod. 10. 21 22 23. Isa. 11. 10. 〈◊〉 ● 19 20 Gen. 3. 1 4. 2 Pet. 3. 16. 2 Thes. 5. 2 3. Prov. 1. 27. Mat. 4. 〈◊〉 Rom. 1. 18. Rev. 1● 14. Hos. 1. 6 9. Lev. 10. 1 2. Isa. 1. 4 Col. 2. 8. Isa. 1. 26. Rev. 14. 6 7. Jam. 3. 15 16. 1 Cor. 2. from ver 4. to the End Isa. 1. 4 5 6. Isa. 2. 17. Isa. 31. 4 5 Jer. 6. 15. Isa. 56. 10. Mat. 27. 21 22. Rev. 14. 6. Isa. 11. 9. Rev. 21. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Gal. 4. 26.

Priests and Prelates of England do rise up in Judgment against you For which of the Priests in Turky or Rome are more eager for their Bellies then you are What Means do you leave unessayed against those who for Conscience sake cannot put into your Mouthes Will any whose Eyes are open believe you to be Ministers of the Gospel who rather then loose a little of the Earth will expose both your selves and your Gospel to all the Blame and Shame that may be The very Name of Tythes shews you to be Jewish and of Easter-Reckonings and such like to be Popish and now where is your Reformation You may well confess there is no Health in you who have so palpably done and do what you ought not to have done and left ndone nwhat you ought to have done as in your Custom you confess Health nay nay how should you have any spiritual Health in you who live in such manifest Opposition to the Spirit of Christ Jesus the Heavenly Physitian Christ Jesus saith to his Disciples Freely you have received freely give but you are all for Money and great Earthly Revenues that you may live in Pride Idleness and Fulness of Bread Christ saith Seek ye first the Kingdom of God but your Care is how to get great Livings and fat Benefices and as for the Heavenly Kingdom which Christ compared to a Grain of Mustardseed you neither know it nor are willing to learn you will neither enter into it your selves nor suffer others but by your Traditions you shut it up against Men. Christ saith to his Swear not at all but you teach for Doctrine that Christians may swear and you do swear not only before the Magistrates but even some of you in your ordinary Communication yea and which is most abominable in your very Church-Service compelling the Men called Church-Wardens to swear and that oftentimes with an Unwillingness of Heart and Condemnation of Conscience to perform your Church-Offices which layes a kind of Impossibility upon them Oh sad may it not be said The Land mourns because of Oathes What have you no Shame nor Care of your Credit that can do such Things in the open Sun and not blush Will you never open your Eyes a little to see your Works What do you mean to do Or where will you hide your selves in the Day of God's Judgments when he calls you to an ●ccount and pleads with you in Flames of Fire for all your mighty Sins Do you indeed believe as in Words you say That you regenerate the little Infants by sprinkling a little Water on its Face and speaking a few Words of your own devising over it which it knows nothing of Do you indeed I say believe that by this kind of Baptism they are made the Children of God the Members of Christ and Inheritors of the Kingdom of God Or do you not rather do these Things to get Money by Oh Cursed Covetousness the Root of all Evil Oh how it hath drowned your Souls in Perdition how it hath blinded your Hearts that you can see nothing of the Kingdom of God You bring in a Company of poor deluded Souls who follow you blind Guides to promise for the little Infant That it shall forsake the Devil and all his Works then what shall these bold Promisers suffer if the Child do not so Will they or you their Teachers for them be content to suffer the Pains of Hell the Reward of such as break Covenant with God And when will you see that this Custom of undertaking for the little Infants greatly derogates from the Honour of Christ who is the only Undertaker for Man towards God But what if a Child through Grace be so strengthned when it grows up as to see your Wretchness and so to forsake and bear Testimony against all the Works of the Evil One that are done amongst you will you not call him Heretick and put him out of your Synagogues Yea yea for you can have no Fellowship with any that have Health in them for by your own Confession you are miserable Offenders all the Dayes of your Life and have no Health in you and so cannot endure to hear of Perfection or perfect Soundness on this Side the Grave Yea though you read in Scripture That Christ's Ministry perfects to God Ephes. 4. Yet there is not so much Faith amongst you as a Grain of Mustard Seed to believe any such Thing for if any come to be healed by Christ and so made perfectly sound to God and witness forth the same they are not for your Company even you who have no Health in you but are miserable Offenders Oh you that cry out against Separatists and Separation what a woful Separation have you made you are of them who have separated your selves from the Lord in Unbelief and are sensual not living in God's Spirit but in the broad Way of the World Oh when will you be weaned from the Breasts of Mystery Babylon and learn to suck at Truth 's Breasts and draw Water out of God's Well which in the Light and Life of Jesus Christ is opened to the true Hungerers and Thirsters after Righteousness this Day But you have transgressed the Everlasting Covenant and offered Violence to the righteous Law of the Lord Jesus and miserably wrested and perverted the Holy Scriptures which witness of him and his glorious Appearance in these latter Dayes and this you do that you may establish your own Traditions that you may keep your selves up in the Earth in the Glory of this VVorld and Esteem of faln Man who knows not Christ nor his Kingdom and therefore hath the Lord already discovered your Skirts and will yet daily more and more by the bright shining forth of his Light make you so manifest naked and bare that every Eye shall see the Shame of your Nakedness And to the Nations of them that are saved who walk in the Light of the Heavenly Jerusalem shall you be an abhorring forever and the redeemed of the Lord shall daily flock to Zion out of your frozen Land to offer their spiritual Sacrifices to God upon his holy Altar and shall see the Smoak of your defiled Sacrifices go downwards as Cain 's did which God had no Respect to And the Smoak of your Torment shall go up forever and ever for strong is the Lord that judges you because you have given his Lambs Gall and Vinegar to drink and have pushed them with Side and Shoulder and therefore a bitter Cup will God give you to drink Oh how hath the Lord born with you how hath his Voice uttered it self amongst you in your Streets in your Assemblies saying in your Ears O Repent repent Give Glory to God by giving over to deceive your own and the poor Peoples Souls which are precious to God O ye that have exalted your selves into the Place of Teachers and are untaught your selves into the