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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40939	Moses message to Pharoah, or God sending to the heads of England go undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, to serve Him in the wilderness, that he may do them good in their latter dayes. For Israel shall be many dayes without a king, without a priest, without an ephod, and without a teraphim, afterward they shall look [...]he Lord their God, and David their king, and shall [...]ar the Lord, and his goodness in his latter dayes, ...	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1653 (1653)	Wing F491B; ESTC R218272	26,840	33

day of the Lord is coming upon thee to judge thee and his power known upon the heads of it except speedily return and meet the Lord by yielding ●●dience to him Down with all oppression the 〈◊〉 of the poor of England is entred into the ears 〈◊〉 Lord of Sabbaths the sins of England do test●●●gainst their face iniquity is at height ready 〈◊〉 cut down to the ground England England day of the Lord is come upon thee hear yet 〈◊〉 Heads and Rulers the Lord hath a contro●●●● with you he looketh for judgement and j●●●● but behold cruelty and oppression he will re●●●● all the righteous blood that is spilt at your ha●● you kill and slay the righteous ones of the Lord is sent to testifie against your deceits now you all be left without excuse he hath sent bo●● high and low to forewarme them and this is to●●● O heads it is required at your hands to have 〈◊〉 Justice and to have heard the cause of the 〈◊〉 and to have seen that true Justice and Judge● had been executed but behold nothing but ●●●ty and oppression you have imprisoned the 〈◊〉 and suffered it to be trodden under foot and witnesses lies slaine in the streets by you Ah b●● the Lord I will ease me of mine enemies and 〈◊〉 me of my adversaries Ye say as the children ●●●rael did after they had backslided and broke● covenant of the Lord as they did to whom the ●●●phet Micah was sent to cry against Prophecy ye say they to them that prophecy so say you 〈◊〉 and shuts up and imprisons some and beateth stoneth others and suffers it to be so by your 〈◊〉 and will not let the truth declare it self unto y●● but saith the Lord Arise and depart for this i● your rest because it is polluted it shall destroy y●●●ven with a sore destruction Mica 2.10 11 12 13. Mich. 2.10 11 12 Hear this Oh heads of England Is it not for 〈◊〉 know Judgement who hate the good Mic. 3.1 2 3 4. ● Isa 28.1 Mic. 2.1 2 c. Isa 38. Isa 59.8 Hos 9.7 Mic. 3.9 10 Hos 13.6 7 8. Mic. 3.11 1 Thes 5.2 3. 2 Thes 1.7 8 9 10. and love ●●e evil Now you are full pride swelleth amongst ●●u which is odious in the eyes of the Lord ●●ur sins testifie against you covetousness abounds ●●ongst you cruelty and oppression swells the ●nd mourns because of oppression the Lord look●●● down from heaven upon it and he is sore dis●eased at you all even all the heads of England ●●at abhor judgement and pervert equity who ●●ild up Sion with blood slayes the righteous ones 〈◊〉 your laws the heads thereof judge for rewards ●●d the priests thereof teach for hire and lean upon 〈◊〉 Lord and say Is not the Lord amongst us and e●● cannot come upon us but when ye cry peace peace ●●●n cometh sudden destruction from the Almighty and ●●yeth all the unjust Many great deliverances hath the Lord given to ●●is nation never like to any but Israel and af●●r all these large deliverances his mercy is forgot ●●d his grace is turned into wantonness and haugh●●●ess and many large promises have been made ●●●e after time that this nation should be free ●●om tyranny and never the like was seen in any ●●●tion professing Christianity but here is nothing 〈◊〉 all performed but a second beast is set up worse ●●en the first and all the world wonders and wor●●ips the beast but those who have found their ●●mes written in the book of life and the beast ●●akes war with the Saints Rev. 17.8 9 10 11 c. Vers 14. Rev. 14.9 10 11. Isa 29.13 14. Mat. 16.21 but the Saints shall ●vercome and the beast and beastly worship shall ●●●e cast into the lake that burneth and they shall ●●ve no rest day nor night that worship the beast ●●d his Image and that receive the mark of the ●●east all the worship of the world is beastial wor●●iping the work of their own hands and the priests ●●e the greatest enemies to Jesus Christ now when ●e is appearing in Spirit as they was when he came in the flesh Mat. 21.15 16. ver 23. Mat. 20.18 19. Mat. 26.14 15. ver 47.57 59 c. Heb. 8 ●0 11 c. Jer. 31.31 32 33 34. to fulfill what the law did contai●●● after that the Lord had made a covenant with I●●●el after the flesh and they did not abide in it 〈◊〉 broke it then he promised that the would m●●● new covenant with the house of Israel and the ho●●●● Judah but not according to the first covenant wi●● covenant they broke notwithstanding he was an husb●● to them but this is the covenant that I will make 〈◊〉 them after those dayes saith the Lord I will put 〈◊〉 laws in their hearts and in their minds will I w●● them saith the Lord and they shall not need to tea●●●very man his brother and every man his neighbour s●●●ing know the Lord for they shall all know me from 〈◊〉 least to the greatest and saith the Lord by the p●●●phet Isaiah speaking of Christ I will give thee f●● covenant of the people for a light of the Gentiles open the blind eyes to bring the prisoners out of pris●● and them that sit in darkness into the shaddow light Now this was foretold of by the prophets Isai●● and Jeremiah and the Lord did perform his p●●mises made by the prophets concerning his co●●nant Jesus Christ was foretold to be his new co●●nant and when Jesus Christ which was foretold 〈◊〉 by the prophets came to fulfill and put to an end 〈◊〉 that was contained in the first covenant all t●● Jews chief Priests Scribes and Pharisees Elde● and Rulers of the people sought to put him 〈◊〉 death because he came to testifie against the d●ceits that they then lived in for saith Jesus Chri●● himself Because saith he I testifie against the w●●● that their deeds are evil therefore doth the world h●● me It is the same now as it was then where Jes●● Christ is made manifest in the hearts of his peopl● Now when Jesus Christ came in that single person Heb. 8.6 ● 8 9 10 ●1 ●eb 10.9 〈◊〉 came to put an end to the first covenant which wa● broken and to establish another he went into th● ●●mple and into the Synagogues witnessing the ●●●filling of the Law and said to the people Matth. 5.15 16. ver c. Think 〈◊〉 that I am come to destroy the law I am not come to ●●stroy but to fulfill the law and he took the book ●●d he read that place of Isaiah where he had pro●●esied and foretold of him and said This day is ●●s Scripture fulfilled in your cars now againe he ●●d that heaven and earth should pass away but not 〈◊〉 joi and one title of the word should in no wise fail 〈◊〉 all was fulfilled he came for the fulfilling af●●● that Jesus Christ was sacrificed up Heb. 8.1.2 ver

7.8 ● 10 11 12. c. Heb. 8.6 7. c. Heb. 9.8 9. Heb. 10.9.10 so far as he followed Christ now Jesus Christ came to take off oppression from the people ●nd to undo the heavy burdens that they groaned ●nder then by the fair-sayers as those hypocrites ●re now that say and do not Jesus Christ came ●o take off that oppression of Tythes that was one ●●ing that he shed his blood for but Antichrist holds ●up which is contrary to Christ Christ came to throw down the idols temple and to throw down ●he outward worship which the Jew outwardly had ●nd to fulfill all that the law did contain outwardly ●hat he might place his law in their hearts to be ful●illed there That he alone might teach them by his Spirit without form Jer. 31.33.34 Heb. 8.10.11 Joh. 4.23.24 to worship the Father in Spirit and in truth Joh. 4. Now the false teachers in Eng●and holds up the idols temple and sits in the seat of the Scribes and Pharisees acting as in a stage●lay for money all for filthy lucre and prosesseth the Scripture to be their rule when there is not a Scripture to warrant them for any thing they do There is not a word in the Scripture for them to go to Cambridge or Oxford to be so long there to ●earn a trade of deceit to give a meaning to the Scripture to gloss them over by their humane and serpentine wisdome to deceive people with their imaginations but to the contrary for the Scripture saith that every word of God is pure and he that addeth thereto or taketh therefrom shall be reproved and found a lyar Prov. 30.5 6. and 〈◊〉 gaine see what the Lord said to Moses in Deut. 4. 〈◊〉 Ye shall not adde unto the word which I command 〈…〉 but these goes contrary to the command of t●● Lord that goes to learn deceit to add their 〈◊〉 mane wisdom to that which is truth in it self a●● the Spirit of God could not understand its own d●claration And again saith Jesus Christ I testi●● that he that addes to the word of the prophecie I w●● adde to him all the plagues that are written in the B●●● Rev. ult And again it is said that no man knows 〈◊〉 Son but the Father neither knows any man the Fath●● but the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him as i● 〈◊〉 in John Then what use is all their brain-study 〈◊〉 It is all deceit dung and dirt Away with it a●●● with it the Lord is coming to burn up all dece●●● and deceivers and to scatter the proud in all their i●●●ginations Howl ye proud Priests for wo and mise●●● is your portion wo was the portion of the Scri●●●● and Pharisees that laid heavie burdens upon 〈◊〉 people as these deceivers do that deceive the p●●ple and bewitcheth them with those things wh●●● God never commanded telling the people that th●● are Ordinances of God There is not a word in t●● Scripture for sprinkling Infants and those fa●●●● Priests say that it is an Ordinance of Christ a●● they can make Christians as they say by sprinkl●●● them with a little water and so entreth them i●● Covenant so making Christians by their imagi●tions These are the false christs and false proph●●● spoken of in Scripture Now the Saints they w●●● baptized by one Sp●●● m o one body and they were 〈◊〉 of one heart and one minde There is not a word 〈◊〉 the Scripture for Tythe-mongers and false teach●●● in England to have the tenth of the yeers Incre●●●● of all things for their brain-study whereby they ●●ceive the people professing themselves to be the ●●●●sters of Christ and act altogether against Christ ●ewing themselves to be Antichrists What Scripture ●ave they to take Tythe of wheat rye and barley What Scripture have they for their rule to take tithe ●f oats pease and beans What Scripture have they ●●r their rule to take tythe of sheep the tenth lamb ●nd the tenth fleece Eze. 34 2● 3.4 v. 16 ● But as it was amongst the false ●eachers in Israel Ezek. 34. so it is with the false tea●hers in England now they teach for the fleece and ●●ed themselves with the fat but the Lord will feed ●uch with judgement 〈◊〉 ●●●se t●●●●●est th●●●●ipture 〈◊〉 Mini●●●● Saints ●●●phold 〈◊〉 not of ●●●nding ●●●●ng in ●●●mies ●●●●gn in 〈◊〉 ●●●eer What Scripture have they for ●heir rule to take tythe of hemp and flax pigs ●nd what Scripture have they for their rule to take ●ythe-apples and plums walnuts and cherries what Scripture have they for their rule to take money for ●ggs and to have tythe-geese What Scripture have ●hey for their rule to take money for the reek passing ●p the chimneys What Scripture have they for their ●ule to take a peny for a garden every yeer What Scripture have they for their rule to take money for every foal that is foaled What Scripture have they ●or their rule to take money for every cow that hath a calf and a peny for them that have none What Scripture have they for their rule to take a farthing of a shilling of servants for their wages What Scripture have they for their rule to Church women as they do and take mony for it when they have done What Scripture have they for their rule to bury as they do and take mony for it when they have done did either Jesus Christ or his Apostles that were the true Minister of the Gospel ever do so See if these be not the task-masters of Egypt there is scarce any thing but these deceivers have an end in it they are altogether for filthy lucre contrary to the Apostle to Timothy and Titus 1 Tim. 1 2 3. Tit. 1.7 ● 1 Pet 5.2 ● who were true Ministers of Christ Tit. 1.8 9 10. See who denies the Scriptures but those that deny to walk according to them in life and conversation For shame down with oppression blush for shame all such deceivers a●● upholders of the deceits and never profess love 〈◊〉 God nor Christ ●sa 33.14 ●5 for your profession is found to 〈◊〉 hypocrisie and wo and misery will be your porti●●● except ye repent give over deceiving the peop●● Down with all deceivers ●ude 11. v. false worships the gre●●● day of the Lord is coming upon them all What Sc●●●pture have these for their rule that have great su●●●● of money so much a yeer gifts and rewards as 〈◊〉 laams priests had What Scripture have they 〈◊〉 their rule that have Augmentations And what Scr●pture have they for their rule to go to law for tith●● or for any thing else that profess themselves to 〈◊〉 Ministers of Christ Neither Christ nor any that 〈◊〉 sent forth to preach the Gospel but all spoke again●● it saith Christ Whosoever shall sue thee at the law a●● take away thy coat let him have thy cloak also Matth 〈◊〉 and the Apostle who was a true Minister spoke