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A89677	A blast from the Lord, or A vvarning to England, by way of exhortation to take heed, and not run upon their own destruction; which will be speedily, without true repentance. By a lover of the truth, and a prisoner for declaring truth abroad Ben: Nicholson.	Nicholson, Benjamin.	1653 (1653)	Wing N1104; Thomason E689_19; ESTC R203018	15,970	22

to hear let him hear Ier. 51.6 to 14 and he that readeth let him consider for the words hereof are true Mal. 3.1 and the time short Repent repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand and ye that fear the Lord rejoyce for he is risen and wil come speedily to his Temple All you Town Clarks in England Ier 50.28 or parish ing prophets your downfall is at hand Isa 5.20 read all the chap. and God hath bid me forewarn you and cry out against your ungodly and wicked practices blasphemous and beastly worship you put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter you call evil good and good evil which God abhors you put light for darkness darkness is by you called light and thus you deceive and delude poor souls into error by your vain immaginary minds and by the fansie and brats of your brain you draw away three parts of England after you the stars to the earth you have nothing of God in you but what you preach Io 4.5 to 28. you like the woman of Samaria have a rope and water-pots to draw out water of wels which others digged your rope is the learning you get at Oxford and Cambridg and your water-pots is your wisdom with which you draw water out of wels which others digged is not this so do you not tel all who have received the testimony of Jesus Christ in the spirit of truth that they have nothing to draw with and the well is deep that is you want Learning and the Scriptures are deep mysteries but let one tel you the waters that they drink is a well-spring of life living in them Io. 4.7 to 27. and to all that daink thereof then you say What art thou greater then our fore-fathers who gave us the Scriptures and they were made partakers of the blessings spoken in them Whence hast thou this new light and thoughts O ye false worshipers stand con●ending against Iesus Christ by telling him of outward worships but never considers the words of Iesus Christ which saith the true worshippers shal worship the Father in spirit and truth for he seeketh such to worship him and no outward worship was accepted by him nor the Temple at Jerusalem which was far better then the Idol Temples of our days Thus you cover your selves with fair words as with fig-leaves Mic. 7.2 3 4. glorious outsides but within full of filthiness no fruit nor performances is found in or among you you commit evil with both hands but how to do wel you know not O you blind guides how dare you profess your selves to be the Ministers of Iesus Christ and never yet knew him neither dare you trust him for your wages is he so little credited by you that you dare not believe him he saith cast your care upon me and I will care for you Do you take him to be your Master and will you not trust him for your Wages for shame give over pretending serving of him 1 Pet. 5.7 Mat. 20.10 Isa 56 9 to end for he hath Servants whole thousands which dare trust him and will labour in his vineyard and ask him nothing but freely be content with his Penny O you greedy Dogs idle Dogs and dumb Dogs which will not bark without one put into your mouths and lies down to bark in your Parishes where every one looks for gain from your Quarters how doe you conjure up your dead Doctrines dead Reasons and dead Uses nay and more then that 1 Sam. 28.15 you like the Witch of Endor conjure up the dead bodies of the Prophets and Apostles out of the Letter which is Death making the Letter to stand before a many deceitfull Sauls whom the Spirit of the Lord ruleth not in not knowing the living power of them who gave them forth nor have you the Spirit to administer by but death in you raiseth up death to speak to death all is Death and to death you shall speedily be brought by the Spirit of the Lord who shall by the Breath of his mouth 2 Thef 2.3 10 11 and the brightness of his comming destroy all which opposeth the true light of God as you Parish ing Ministers doe by your seeking to put to silence all who have not the mark of the Beast in their Right hands or in their Foreheads none but themselves must buy or sell Trade in Spirituall things But take warning God is coming to burn that great Whore whereof you Priests of England are members and shall one member be burnt and not the other suffer Howle and weep you proud ones of the Earth Rev. 16.19 ch 17.16 17 18. ch 18. for your Mother Babylon is falling is falling and all her Children shall taste of her plagues and great is the fall thereof for God hath put it into the hearts of the Powers of the Earth to hate the Whore and to burn her with Fire the Battell of the Lord of Hosts goeth on apace Rev. 19.11 to end and he will cut down every son of Babylon and dash all her Brats against the stones every Truth of God is a stone which dashes in pieces all Babylons children both Bond and free Male and female Yong and old that stands up in opposition against the great God shall be cut off Rev. 12.12 Chap. 18.5 6. 20. ver Rejoyce O ye holy Apostles and Prophets for the Lord is comming to avenge the blood of his Saints upon that great Whore which hath made her self drunk with the blood of Saints not by might nor power of men but by my Spirit saith the Lord God shall ye be redeemed from out of the hands of them that hate you O you Just and upright Ones lift up your Heads your Redemption is at hand even at the Dore. All people in England take warning Rev. 17.18 19. ch the Lord is comming to pour out the Vials of his wrath upon the Whore that prostrates her self to all that pass by as the Ministers of England doe and to plague the Beast the Majesty which she rideth upon and which she is upheld by Yea and all the people which are at one with her without a speedy departing out of her shall taste of her plagues Come out of 〈…〉 for my people saith the Lord God separate you●se●ves from among them touch no one 〈◊〉 thing and I will receive you It is nothing to be s●parate from the inwar● Worship of Babylon and yet inwardly be full of uncleanness Therefore all you which live in sinne High and low Rich and poor Bond and free Male and female take warning and repent speedily and turn every one of you from your evill wayes lest the Lord come upon you at unawares and cast you into utter darkness f●●… behold the Lord is risen he is good fo●th Conquering and to Conquer all his Enemies and happy are all those who trust in him for how his wrath is kindled in his breast and it

house she gaddeth abroad to change her ways she is barren her womb cannot be satisfied she is a grave where dead men lieth and she like the witch of Endor conjureth them up to stand before a many Sauls whom the spirit of God reigneth not in 1 Sam. 28.11 12 13 14. making a trade of raising up of the Apostles Prophets and Christ's words feeding the poor people which they have led blind with apperitions and falcities of their own corrupted wisdom not knowing at all the wisdom of God nor being made partaker of the power and life which the Apostles Prophets and Jesus Christ lived in yet they preach forth lies in hypocricy telling the people that God and the Kingdom of God is without them or in a place in heaven a great many miles above their heads making the ignorant people think that God is as some great man sitting in a Throne in the natural heavens 1 Kings 8.27 and thus they either know not or else are willingly ignorant of that God fills heaven and earth and all things and that the hea of heavens cannot contain him and that he is Omni present in all places and that he lives in himself and of him all things consists and in him have their life and being to whom belongeth all honour and glory and everlasting praises and to none els O ye whose strength upholds this deceitful lying and bloud-thirsty whore take warning and all you who have loved her and helpt to bear her up and that have given your power unto her now bestirr your selves and discover her wickedness hate her and burn her with fire for this is the decree of God upon her Rev. 19.20 and he hath put it into the hearts of those who once loved her to do so unto her Rev. 14.10 11. I cannot but take notice how she is already burning and how the fire of Gods wrath descendeth continually down upon her and scorcheth her Rev. 17.12 to end that I am sure it is the breath of Gods mouth and the brightness of his appearance in his Saints that shall wholly destroy her this whore the Antichrist who make a profession of God and Christ in words but in power and practice deny them Every one who makes a profession of Christ in words denies him in their practices and keeps not his Commandments is an Antichrist saying lye down and let us go over you a deceiver which the Lord will cut off suddenly from amongst his people without speedy repentance 1 Joh. 4.2 3. He is not a Iew who is one outwardly only but he is a Iew who is one inwardly neither is he an Antichrist which is one outwardly only but he is an Antichrist which is one inwardly This is the true Iew and the false Christ or Antichrist which Iew God will call and save and which Antichrist God will judge and destroy A warning to all Antichrists and dissemblers who profess much but practice little who speak forth the word of God and hear it but do it not and so deceives their own souls and these are children of the whore of Babylon Mat. 21.44 which the Lovd Iesus will dash in pieces he is that stone that being fallen upon will bruise but on whomsoever it shall fall it will grind them to powder and by it shall the whore of Babylon which is made rich by the great company of her ships Merchants and Marriners that trusted in Egipt in one day become dessolate all her ships shall fail for want of water her Merchants shall become poor Rev. 14.9 10. and her Marriners wall be terribly afraid and shall bewail her and stand afarr off when they see the smoke of her burning ascend up towards heaven saying Rev. 18.18 alas alas the great City Babylon how is thy destruction come upon thee in one day but shall not com near to help her Ezek. 27.29 to end thou Babylon art confusion thou whore which rulest therein is the wisdom of the flesh and the brats or children which thou bringest forth are pride covetousness lying swearing stealing whoring anger and revenge hating one-another evil communication idle talking and foolish jesting c. all the Priests in England are full of confusion both in themselves and one against another by the wisdom of the flesh they are set up Rev. 18.23 and bear rule their Merchants are the great men of the earth and the wise men thereof their Marriners the water wherein they have their great traffick is the light of the first nature and their ships their human learning many Books in which they heap up all their wares to traffick with and make sale on the walls which defend them are the people living in sin even all her children Read Ezek. 8.27 the Beast which they ride on are all their followers Then see what follows The Priests of England are part of Babylon members of the Whore thereof Ez k. 27.27 which are maintained by the great men of England and by the wise men thereof are helped to steer on their design in the old sea of frothy invention the Schools of learning their Ship-Carpenters their learning and books their rotten ships and their preaching out of their human learning and heathenish Authors books many lies and foolish histories are their wares which they counsell people to buy the wall which defendeth them and the Beast which they ride on are almost all the men in England but that of late much of their wall is fallen off from them Then look to it thou Babylon thou whore in Babylon you Merchants and Mariners the waters and ships with the wares thy walls and the Beast which thou ridest upon shall all be shortly burnt dried up and broken to pieces and the glorious Lord God will be unto his people a place of broad Rivers and streams wherein shall go no gally with Oars Psa 46.4 Isa 33.21 to the end nor gallant ships pass there but the Lord will be their King and save them and their Law-giver and he wil plead for them the Saints of God shall need no stearing by the powers of the world in the light of Nature or in the waters of the old frothy sea of the filthy inventions of the naturall man nor need they any to fight to defend their caus or plead for them for the Lord will save protect Dan. 7.27 defend and deliver them from all their enemies wil give the rule the power and dominion of the world to the Saints of the most High and they shall rule in peace and govern in righteousness and their Kingdom shall be an everlasting Kingdom and Christs Dominion shall endure for ever in them and of the rule and government there shall be no end for when they die or leave the visible body they shall be wholly swallowed up into him who reigned in them and so from the time of Christs first reigning in them 1 Thess 4.17