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A54806 The arrainment of Christendom containing a revelation of the rys, growth & fulnes of the great whôr, man of sin or mistery of iniquity, with the comsumtion, ruin & utter destruction of the dragon's, beast's & fals profet's power, with the waters on which the whôr sits, & the sea out of which the beast arôs in Christendom. ... Being the trumpet of the Lord sounded forth which giveth a most sûr & certain sound to Leopold the present Roman Emperor, & to the present Pop of Rôm, ... I John, the servant of the most hy God, ... being a prisoner, (with my companions in travel) at a plâs caled Great Gomara, on a certain ysland in Hungaria, ... The living, eternal, & pur power of God moved in me, & revealed unto me that I should wryt, ... Philly, John.; N. Y. Corrector to the reader, concerning the orthografy or spel-ing herein us'd. aut 1664 (1664) Wing P2127; ESTC R220433 104,628 110

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vvalked the Iews of old said they vver the children of Abraham but they being found in vvays of deceit hypocrisy Oppression Idolatry persecution and murdering the Innocent saints and holy profets of the Lord Christ told them they vver children of their father the Devil being found doing his vvorks so that if yee be found commiting of sin and not vvalking as Christ vvalked and guilty of thôs evil practises vvhich the Jevvs vver then ar yee not such as ar born of God nor tru Christian Emperors Kings Prinses and Rulers by the grâs of God but the children of that Father vvhos works yee do and a company of usurpers such as hav no tru Ryt to exercys Dominion over the nations But that yee ar such is playn and evident in the precedent charg evidensed by a cloud of witneses and therfor your claym of Ryt by heir-ship prescription is rotten nul voyd What it is to be Christs vicar And for the Pôp to affirm himself to be Christs Vicar it Implyeth no les then to represent his person in his spirit and Power to do his work now it s recorded of Christ that he was meek and lowly in heart holy harmles undesyled seperat from sin siners in lyf going up down doing good reproving sin teaching and exhorting peepel to ways of mercy truth ryteosnes purity meeknes humility and holynes But that the Pop is found acted by a spirit and in a practis of dyrect antipathy against the Spirit of Christ and so is rendred to be the Antichrist is playn and evident in the precedent charg evidensed by a cloud of witneses and therfor his pretens of being Christs vicar is fals voyd The Pop succedeth Peter as Sin succceded innocency in order of tym or as a thorn doth a vyn when it grows in the sam plas wher ●ns a vyn did grow And for the Pôp to say he is Peters Successor Importeth no les then to represent his person in his spirit Power to do his work Now Peter in his epistel upon record saith thus the elders which ar amongst you l exhort who am also an elder and a vvitnes of the suffering of Christ a partaker of the glory that shal be revealed feed the flok of God which is among you taking the oversyt therof not by constraint but wilingly nor for filthy luker but of a redy mynd nether as being Lords over Gods heritag but as being good exampels to the flok that when the great shepherd shal appear yee may receiv a crown of glory that fadeth not away But that the Póp is found nether in that spirit or work in which Peter was is playn and evident in the precedent charg evidensed by a cloud of witneses and therfor his claym of being Peters successor is fals voyd also And for the whol body of thy Ecclesiastical Power so caled with al the worshipers to them belonging to affirm themselvs to be the tru church and faithful spous of Christ the holy church vvhich ons appeared and vvas mâd manifest in and throuh the saints vvhich dvvelt at Rôm It importeth no les then that they must be found holding the sâm pur mystery of faith in a pur consciens be the caled and sanctifyed of God according to his purpos vvalking in the sâm holy fellovvship in the Spirit of truth vvhich the saints of the church of Christ vvhich in the Apostels days appeared in Rôm held walked in But that thy Ecclesiastical body or clergy so caled with al the worshipers to them belonging ar corrupt in Doctrin fellowship conversation and faln away and apostatysed from that Pur Doctrin worship fellowship holy conversation with vvas held vvalked in by them is Playn evident in the precedent charg evidensedby a cloud of vvitneses therfor their claym of being the holy Church of Róm is fals voyd also So that upon the whol O Christendom thou art found to be the houshold of an old thief a cruel oppresing murderer and a most filthy abominabel whor standing naked in the syt of God Angels and Men found guilty of al thos great provocations and bloudy abominations which in the precedent charg is prodused against thee Now therfor O thou Leopold thou O Póp of Rom with al yee Kings Prinses Rulers Governors al in authority under you of what degree rank or order soever whether Military Civil Spiritual or Ecclesiastical so caled al Peepel both hy and low rich and poor bond and free smal and great mâl and femâl even the whol body of thee O Christendom with al the Dominions Territorys to thee belonging who ar under the Command Government teaching of Man Givear and hear the most just ryteos decree irrevocabel Sentens of the Lord God Omnipotent of Heven Erth even the living God former of al things against and concerning thee The dredful and most terribel Battel Ax of the most just Ryteos Powerful Lord God of vengeans is now laid to thy Root and that Power and spirit by which thou art now acted and in vvhich thou now standest vvil the Lord God novv hew down root up and utterly destroy yea his most just and Ryteos vvrath plagu's and vengeans is even alredy bròk forth upon thee and shal dayly mòr and mòr appear be revealed from heven against thee even as pangs upon a traveling vvoman from which thou canst by no means escap Thô thy Potentats Prinses Rulers Peepel hav do shal set them selvs and tak counsel against the Lord and his anoynted yet he that sits in heven now lafs them to scorn yea the Lord hath them in derision and he is now speaking to them throuh his sanctifyed ôn's in his wrath hath yet mor mor wil vex them in his sor displesur his Yron rod is novv taking into his hand vvith vvhich he hath begun dayly mor mor dash the Nations to pieces as a poters vessel in thee O Christendom and they shal dayly môr and môr fal be subdued under him til al his enemys becom his foot-stool The Rod of his strength is sent out of Syon he in mesur ruls dayly môr môr shal rul in the midst of his enemys in thee At his ryt Hand he is now stryking throuh Kings yea he is judging among the heathen in thee wounding the heds over dyvers Cuntrys his hed is now lifting up in throuh over al his enemys in thee The evening of that day known to the Lord is now com in which the lyt hath appeared the morning of that day is approached in which the just in mesur hath dayly môr môr shal hav pur Dominion over al their enemys in thee Deth is now feeding on thee thy beauty fading withering away as the gras upon the hous top And for as much as God hath caled thou hast not regarded but set at nouht
gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chik-ens under her wings but thou wouldest not ô that thou hadst known at least in this thy day the things which belong to thy Peas but now they ar hid from thy eys Dauhters of Ierusalem weep not for me but for your selvs sor your children for behold the day cometh that thy enemys shal cast a trench about thee keep thee in on every syd and lay thee even with the ground becaus thou knewest not the tym of thy visitation At the tym of whos suffering soon after as also by the Entrans and prevailing of the Apostacy in the Gentils or Romans the Word of the Lord by the Profet Ioël was fulfil-ed to wit that the Sun should be turned into darknes the Moon into bloud befor the great not abl day of the Lord should com which was fulfil-ed on the Sun Both of the visibl invisibl heven a vail of darknes being drawn over the Lyt Lyf Glory of God in them both which began to com over him in the garden causing that great agony bloudy sweat desyring the Father that if it were possibl that cup myt pas which vail of darknes over him vvas then at the heighth vvhen on the cros he cryed my God my God why hast thou forsaken me And the Moon in him also vvas turned into bloud by their Piercing his Innocent hands feet syd out of vvhich cam forth both Bloud VVater vvhich he that savv bâr record of his record is trû vvherby as in a figur vvas signifyed that notvvithstanding according to their own saying the guilt of his dear pretios lyf bloud myt hav stood unremovably charged on them their children yet in throuh him should that pûr clensing fountain of living water the vertu wherof should wash clens them their posterity coming into it from the guilt filth of al their abominations reconcyl them to God to òn another vvhich Bowels of the lov pitty and mercy of God in him tovvards them vvas mâd manifest throuh him on the cros Christs sufferings and desertion not for his but others sins the just for the unjust in the heighth extremity of his sufferings saying Father forgiv them they knovv not vvhat they do Who 's sufferings vvith that great vail of darknes dravvn over the Lyt Lyf and Glory of God in him vvas not throuh or becaus of any sin transgression or disobediens found in him against his God and Father but it vvas by thrōuh becaus of the sins transgressions disobediens cruelty unryteosnes of the Poepl it being then the hour power of the Kingdom of darknes in vvhich the transgres-ing povver from its first entrans into the World vvas com to its hyest pitch as to the vvhol body the povver strength of the seed of the old Serpent being unyted combyned in both Iew and Gentil against that Innocent pur Lyf Seed VVisdom Power Lyt Glory of God vvhich in and throuh him appeared and vvas manifest vvherby the shepherdvvas smit-en even the man vvhich vvas his fellow the sheep scattered and he bearing the sins and transgressions of many in his body on the tree vvas numbred vvith transgressors mâd and reputed as accursed the end of Christs sufferings suffering under their unjust and cruel wils and laws the Iust for the unjust That so thos vvho by their disobediens transgressions vver justly lyabl to the Cros condemnation of the most just and ryteos Law of God aliens enemys in their mynds against God him by vvik-ed vvorks myt receiv forgivnes of sin an inheritans vvith them vvho are sanctifyed and be reconcyled to him and ôn to another and mâd partakers of the Ryteosnes of God in him And soon after his deth was the Moon to wit the whol body of the Iews turned into bloud also The Judgment exalted which appeared in tho● great destroying wars enmitys destructions and desolations vvhich wer amongst them ôn against another vvhich just and ryteos wrath and vengeans of God on them declared against them throuh Christ and the Profets vvas fulfil-ed by the Romans vvhom God suffered to com on them and utterly to destroy and overturn their glorios City Templ Priest-hood Government disposses them of the good land leading them captyvs into dyvers other Cuntrys in which they stil remain scattered up and dovvn ár mâd a scorn a derision a by-word among the nations under the ours unto this day and as for any outvvard visibl or Erthly power dominion they shal never mor be restored to the exercys of it but according to the prayer of Christ the promis of God throuh the holy Profets recorded in the Scripturs of truth if they abyd not stil in unbeleef they shal be re-in-grafted into the good oliv tree mâd again partakers of the bles-ed Root and Fatnes therof and God vvil povvr on them the Spirit of grâs and supplication and they shal see him in them vvhom they hav pierced not only in that Innocent ôn vvhom they vvith cruel hands murdred and crucifyed on a cros vvithout the Gâts of Ierusalem but also in themselvs by their Rebellions and disobediens against the motions dictats of the sâm living vvord of Faith Lyt lyf and power of God in themselvs and shal mourn for him as ôn mourneth for the los of his first born Son and God vvil vvryt his púr law of Spirit lyf in their hearts and invvard parts and be their God and they shal be his Peepl and becom Citizens of the new Ierusalem vvith the chosen generation the Royal and everlasting Priesthood fellow theyrs vvith the truly nôbl seed in that Kingdom Glory Dominion vvhich is pûr Eternal and be redeemed from that Scorn Reproach Contemt Captivity and curs under vvhich they novv âr At the sâm tym also was a vail of Darkness drawn over the sâm lyt lyf glory of God which is in the Son of the visibl heven so that Darknes was over al the Land from the sixth to the nynth hour wherby as in a figur was sórshewn the fa●ing away Apostacy of the Gentils or the Romans which Apostacy had its Entrans Growth Fulnes in the Opening Sounding Powring forth of the second third fourth Seals Trumpets Vyals wherby a vayl of gros Darknes cam over that Pùr lyt Lyf Glory of Christ which was in mesur manifested shyning forth in throuh them therby crucifying to in themselvs the Son of God afresh put-ing him to pen shâm having murdered slayn the Lyf of Christ that just ôn in themselvs they stretched forth their hands in ways of Persecution Cruelty Murder against the appearans of the sâm Pûr Lyt Innocent Lyf Glory of God in others til they becam Drunk with the Bloud of the dear Innocent Saints Martyrs faithful VVitnes-es of JESUS so that the Sun
in them becâm black as Sackloth of hair and their Moon hath bin turned into Bloud which hath manifestly appeared in thôs great Confusions Bloudy wars Destructions Desolations which hâv been amongst themselvs in every Kingdom Dominion throuhout Christendom and now they having filled up the Mesur of their Abominations the great notabl Day of the Lord is com in which the Lord wil throuh by the Turkish power carry on the finishing his Just Ryteos decree of VVrath Vengeans on them to wit Christendom they also shal becom not a peepl of any visibl or outward earthly Power or Government upon the fâs of the earth as of themselvs any môr for ever But according to the Word of the Lord throuh his Servants the Profets he wil Rays up in them a pûr seed which shal ferv him even a numberles number which shal with al the Ransomed ôns stand befor the Thrôn clothed in whyt Rôbs ascrybing salvation unto God which fireth on the Thrôn unto the Lamb saying Bles-ing Glory VVisdom Thanksgiving Honor Power Myt be unto our God for ever ever Amen The slain of the Word by the Lord of the Mouth amongst them shal be many And so both Jew Gentil shal be unyted becom ôn stik in the hand of the Lord ôn Holy Nation upon the Mountains of Israël ôn King shal be King over them al even David my Servant saith the Lord God they shal hâv ôn shepherd walk in the Iudgments of the Lord observ his Statuts to do them shal dwel in the Land even they their Children their Childrens Children for ever in the partipation of the new Everlasting Covenant of God his Sanctuary Tabernacl shal be in the midst of them he be their God they his Peepl for ever môr And when the Lord hath don his work in Zyon he wil also punish the stout heartednes of the King of Assyria bring down the Glory of his hy looks the loftynes of man in them also shal be a based brouht down that hautynes laid low even with the ground the Lord wil aveng the Bloud of the hous of Ahab upon the hous of Jehu caus that Kingdom to ceas for ever even al that Rûl Authority Power risen standing in the Spirit Power of the Dragon that old Serpent shal be thrust down under the feet of the pûr seed Christ the wisdom power of God in his Peepl even throuhout al the habitabel parts of his Erth so that Nation shal not lift up sword against Nation nor learn war any môr but the Kingdoms of this World shal becom the Lords and the Lord God Omnipotent shal rein in throuh over al for ever môr The other exampl which I shal mention is Nebuchadnezzar Belshazzar his Son who together in their power wer the Golden hed of that Imag which Nebuchadnezzar saw of which your predecessors together with you even you the present Roman Empyr with al other the Kings Prinses Heds Rulers throuhout Christendom the Dominions and Territorys therunto belonging in your their Power Military Civil Ecclesiastical so caled ar the feet Toes which the Stôn cutout of the mountain without hands is now smyting Nebuchadnezzar's arrogans Now it is vvriten concerning this Nebuchadnezzar that he was a King of Kings and that the God of heven had given him a Kingdom Power Strength Glory but he being ignorant of that God that mâd him gâv him that great strength larg Dominion did in the Pryd of his heart attribut that Glory myt Majesty Strength Dominion honor unto himself which was dû to the Lord God of heven alôn at his Dispôs exercysing cruelty oppression on whom he pleased making a law in his own vviked wil to caus al to bovv to that Imâg His work which he in his own Idolatros heart had invented sit up or els to Murder and Destroy the Refusers by fyr thô Othervvys Innocent guiltles of any evil don against him His visitation reward thô a King but even vvhylst he vvas in the pryd and arrogancy of his heart assuming that Glory Honor to himself vvhich vvas du only to the God of heven ther fel a voys from heven saying O King Nebuchadnezzar to thee be it spoken thy Kingdom is departed from thee they shal dryv thee from Men thy dweling shal be with ye Beasts of the field they shal mâk thee to eat gras as oxen seven tyms shal pas over thee until thou knowest that the most hy ruleth in the Kingdom of Men giveth them to whom soever the wil. His restoration when he giv God his glory again Which the sam hour vvas fulfiled upon him vvhich vvas a just Judgment yet a gentel vvarning from the the God of heven who after wards restored him to his Kingdom caused him ther by to acknowledg the God of heven that he ruleth in the Kingdoms of Men siteth up Puteth down whom when he pleaseth But Belshazzar his Son not taking warning being found guilty of his Fathers Iniquitys the God of heven did Justly visit the iniquitys of the Father upon the Son sending a hand wryting upon the wal even whylst he was in the Pryd of his heart drinking Wyn in the vessels of the Tempel of God That Son which succeeds in his fathers Vys shal inherit his fathers reward as wel as Crown praysing the Gods of Gold silver bras Yron VVood ston But the God in whos hands his Breth was he glorifyed not at the syt wherof his Countenans changed his Thouhts troubled him the Ioynts of his loyns loosed his knees smot ôn against another Which hand wryting was quickly fulfiled upon him by the most just impartial hand of God Himself being slain his Kingdom finished given to Darius the Median by al which it Evidently appears that the Lord God of heven is a God of most Ryteos Impartial justis on whomsoever they be that ar found persisting in ways of wikednes Rebellion against him non are abel to deliver ether themselvs or others out of his hand Now that which I hav Further to say is concerning your selvs your predecessors but most Nearly it concerneth your selvs of this present ag and Generation according as it was fôr seen fôr told by the Spirit of Prophesy and recorded in the scripturs of truth as wel as other Records so it is tru that they to wit your predecessors together with you wer ar that fourth Beast or Kingdom which was to arys out of the Erth dyvers from al Kingdoms which devoured the whol Erth or powers of the Erth treading them down breaking them to Pieces being dredful and terribel strong execedingly as Yron baving great Yron Teeth devouring breaking to Pieces and stamping the Residu under his
iniquity covered over with outward shews pretenses of Christianity Holynes even in the Elders teachers leaders of the flok til at length from throuh them that cursed seed spred it self as evil leven throuhout the whôl lump becâm a Man of sin opposing and exalting himself abov the pûr seed of God in Man-kynd siting ther as God in the Tempel of God And from this cursed root of biternes hath sprang an evil tree whos Branches hav over spred al Christendom bringing forth the evil fruits of Covetosnes Pryd Oppression Cruelty Idolatry VVars Divisions Persecution sheding the Bloud of the Innocent Murdering the harmles Saints of Iesus by many Cruel Antichristian Vnmercyful Inhuman Torturings Rackings D●ths by Hanging Burning with dyvers other open secret ways of Cruelty Murder under a cursed fals pretens of their being Heritics and lykwys the Apostel Peter whos Successor the Pôp of Rôm falsly pretends to be saw this also taking root in the Elders Lording preaching for filthy Luker of as great antiquity as any other part of Popish faith or a practis teachers that even a Spirit of Covetosnes Pryd Lordlynes was taking root in them therfor exhorted warned them in his Epistel saying thus the Elders which âr amongst you I exhort who am also an Elder a vvitnes of the sufferings of Christ a partaker of the Glory that shal be revealed feed the flok of God which is amongst you taking the oversyt therof not by constraint but wilingly not for filthy Luker but of a redy mynd not as Lords over Gods heritag ' but as good exampels to the flok In this Spirit sprang up al thôs invented Nams Orders Garbs Manners of habits of the Póps Cardinals Fryars Monks Capuchins Nuns c. And the voluntary humility pretended vows of poverty chastity and seperation from the World imitated devotion Worshiping of Angels intruding into things which they hav not seen the Doctrin of Devils spekinglys in H●pocrisy of a Purgatory to purg ' Peepl from sin after they ar Ded forbiding Meats and Marriages which God had ordained in his own fear Wisdom to be enjoyed without respect ether to Tym or Persons injoyning the Observation of Days Tyms Months Years imposing their own corrupt Inventions Traditions upon the Peepl for Doctrin The faith of Devils and from this Root sprang the faith of Devils in an Imaginary God without them and at a distans from them abov the skys comprehended in three Persons and of a Resurrection of their Carkases with the Carkases of al others that hav bin sins man was created an Imaginary expectation of Christ to com in the sâm body os flesh in which he suffered Deth without the gàts of Jerusalem out of the visibel hevens upon the material Clouds to Judgments of a heven to the injoyed after they ar Ded above the skys and an Imaginary hel or plâs of torment for the wiked after they are Ded with material fyr brimston of al which they cannot giv ether themselvs or others a Rational Account from this Root sprang the tabel of Devils to wit eating the tabe● of Divls drinking to exces Ryot to the raising norishing of that Spirit in man which is enmity against God leads in to al the ways of Deceit Covetosnes Pryd lust Cruelty unryteosnes which ar the Spirits of Devils in al manner of the cursed fruits of the works of sin darknes throuhout Christendom among al sorts Hy Low Rich Poor Rulers the Fellowship of Devils what VVariors Teachers Peepl which cursed seed evil leven took plàs Rooting in many in the Apostels days and they seeing feeling the working therof did according to the wisdom of the Spirit of Christ in them wryt concerning the sàm to the end that such as wer wavering myt be established in truth that such as wer gon astray myt be brouht bak and that such as did wilfuly persist in ways of Apostacy myt be left without excus that a testimony myt be left upon record unto succeeding ages to stay comfort such as should suffer for truths sàk at the hands of thos that were faln under the Spirit of Apostacy and that at the appearans of Christ in his Peepl now màd manifest in the brytnes of his coming to Reveal Consum Destroy the Man of sin The recorded Testimony of the Profets Christ the Apostels migt be prodused as A trù Witnes or Testimony against the spirit of Apostacy warning thos to whom they wrot Not to be beguyled of their Reward or Spoyled by vain Philososij voluntary humility Or worshiping of Angels for al performanses what soever which are don Only in the wil of Man or Imitation of others ar nether acceptabel to God nor truly profitabel to man The worsshiping of Angels what Which worship of Angels is the Creaturs being exalted in its self becaus of the Operation of the Power Or gift of God in throuh it or to lift up Or exalt Others becaus of the Eminent operation of the Power Or gift of God in throuh them The Operation of which Power Or gift of God is an Angel of God in Mál femál which things wer taking Root Amongst them the strong despysing the weak the weak judging the strong Others making partys lifting up of Instruments ón abov against another som saying they wer for Paul Others for Apollo Others for Cephas Others boasting in others lyns of things mád up to their hands intruding into things which they had not seen wher as the Apostels said That which they declared was that which they had seen tasted handled of the word of lyf And the grás ' of God had tauht them not in shew or desaitful hypocritical profession but in truth of Practis to deny al ungodlynes and vvorldly lusts and to liv soberly Ryteosly in this present vvorld vvhich vvas and is the tru Purgatory vvhich they held The tru Purgatory is the clensing vertu of the bloud or lyf of Christ even the Bloud the Pur spirit of Christ in them vvhich purged clensed them from al filthynes of flesh and spirit whyl they wer living in the Body wherby they vver presented in Body soul spirit blamles with out spot befor God befor his thron Affirming that ther is nether vvork Knowledg Or vvisdom in the grav that as every tree fals so it lys as Deth leavs so Judgment fynds al and as concerning meats and drinks observation of Days tyms Marriages the Apostels advysed not to Judg ón-another in thos things and that the strong should bear with the weak not to pleas them selvs but when he wrot to such as had seen beyond thos things wer Apostatysing and faling bak again into thos begerly Rudiments he reproved them sharply saying that the Kingdom of God
of vvhom the vvay of truth vvas evil spoken of vvhich cursed Spirit taking hold of the flok also many appeared vvho vvould not endur soünd Doctrin but after their own lusts gat to them selvs heap● of sals Teachers turning away their ears from truth unto fabels And so it cam to pas by degrees that such as refused to answer their covetos desyrs and to put into their months they prepared war against them counting them enemys to the ministry of Christ to be against the propagation of the gospel such as bòr Testimony against refused to follow their Pernicios ways Practises wer counted Erronious Enemys to the church good order so truth the followers therof got the Nams of Error heresy Non conformists disorderly Persons And Deecit Error the Practisers therof assumed to themselvs the nams of holy church tru Christians ministers of Christ in their own faln wisdoms set up On amongst them as chief Father Overseer or universal Bishop vvhos successors wer stil ar caled Christs Vicars Peters successors hed of the church and Póps whos Personal seat is ROM but his spiritual seat the Peepels Kindreds Tongu's Nations who in the whol Body of them caled the Clergy throuhout Christendom ar the woman that great City that hath yet Doth rul over the Kings of the Erth so proceeded to erect Counsels and Synods in them to mak many unryteos and Antichristian Laws Decrees which they cal Spiritual Holy Canonical Orders of Holy Church imposing their own commands inventions upon the Peepel as the Commands of God Holy Church assuming to themselvs in their faln Wisdom Power to bynd loos to set up put down Powers things both in heven in Erth to retain remit the sins of the Peepel in their own wils for Mony Dishonest gain such as refused conformity to their wiked Orders Carnal laws Commands Canons Devilish injunctions they cast forth as Heritics suffering non to buy or sel but such as would bow under their Spiritual wikedneses receiv their Idolatros mark in their hands or on their forheds thes their proud Antichristian Iezabelish Luciferian practises hav reached al Christendom mâl femâl from the lowest to the hyest of you your predecessors in government causing Emperors Kings Prinses Potentats to bovv dovvn to the sôls of her feet deposing disposing of Powers Potentats Crowns Kingdoms at their ovvn vvils and plesurs therby falsly and blasphemosy pretending to trampel upon the Powers Pomp Glory of this World whylst themselvs ar delyting affecting living at eas in the sensual lusts Pryd Plesurs therof to the hyest degree And so they proceeded to set Bounds limits to Congregations caling them Parishes erecting houses with steepels Croses on them Bels Baptysed in them falsly ignorantly caling them Churches appointing Arch inferior Bishops Priests Curats with several other Kynds of Hyrlings over them appointing them great Revenus Stypends yearly Incoms by Church lands gleab lands tyths taxes easter reckonings offerings sprinkling of Infants Churching of women Marriages Burials Prayers for the Ded Dirges Masses for Redemption of souls out of Purgatory Confession of sins Smoak-pennys Indulgenses Buls Pardons c. With many other Antichristian ways inventions to mak Marchandys of the Bodys souls of the Peepel throuhout Christendom The elergys spiritual we●pons of wikednes fayling they fly to the carnal weapons of the Magistrats But when they found that their own spirtual laws Canons helish church orders wer not of fo rs enuf to keep al in subjection to their carnal orders and Inventions in Matters of Religion worship and to answer their covetos and greedy desyrs after Mony tyths and larg yearly Incoms they Addresed themselvs to the Potentats Kings Prinses and Rulers of the Erth requyring their help and Assistans pretending that they therby would be servisabel to God holy church furtherers of the propagation of the Gospel good Countenansers Patrons Incoragers of the Ministers of Christ c. Whom they met with in the twylyt of the evening of the Blak Dark nyt of Apostacy as so many young men voyd of understanding who by their good words fayr speeches pretenses wer easily drawn to go after her as Oxen to the slauhter fools to the corection of the stoks making dyvers unreasonabel Penal Wiked Antichristian bloudy cruel laws and statuts with cursed Inquisition courts to fo rs al to a conformity to their Antichristian Idolatros Canons Institutions Inventions Injunctions Cursed Practises in matters of Religion church worship which are Extant and upon Record unto this day for vvhich they Rewarded the Potentats Kings and Rulers of the Erth with the Nams of Defenders of the faith c. who also received dyvers of them into their counsels to sit negotiat vvith them about the spiritual Affairs of holy church falsly and blasphemosly so caled pretending therby to bring al into unity uniformity to the tru Christian Church Faith Practis with which cam in the treading the holy city under foot and the Prophecying of the witneses in Sak-cloth and the flyt of the vvoman into the vvildernes and so it cam to pas that if any did bear Testimony against their Apostat Antichristian vvays and Practises or Refused to be conformabel to their Invented Laws Commands and Canons in Matter of Religion and vvorship they vver summoned to appear at their spiritual courts so called and if after three tyms summonings or appearans they would not deny the truth conform to their church orders and satisfy their covetos desyros they proceeded gradualy to censur Fyn cast out or Excommunicat them as heritics ordering that non should buy or sel eat or drink with them turning them over to the vvorldly or secular Povvers of the Erth to deal vvith them acording to the cruel Antichristian unmanly Inhuman Bloudy Laws statuts vvhich in such cases they had lyk bruit beasts not Men mâd provyded to wit the Emperors Kings Prinses Rulers throuhout Christendom who hav bin as cruel Unnatural beastly bloudy in the execution of them on thousands of Gods Dear Innocent ôns as they wer blyndly zealos Beastly in making of them spoyling many familys of their goods cruely dealing with others in their persons by bonds imprisonments cruel rackings torturings banishings secretly openly Murdering kiling the innocent Saints Martyrs faithfull witneses of Iesus by hanging burning with dyvers other ways of open secret cruelty murder the cry of al which cruelty bloud Murder of the Innocent hath piersed the hevens entred into the ears of the Lord God Omnipotent who is now risen in his holy plas causing the vengeans of his Tempel to tak hold of al his his dear oppresed cruely tortured murdered Innocent peepels Unnatural bloudy
leadeth them into al truth the holy Anoynting which giveth the tru knovvledg of al things as the Apostel said so that al who abyd in it it in them need not any man to teach them but as the sam Anoynting teacheth them vvhich is the living fountain set open in the heart inward parts for al to com freely unto vvithout mony vvithout prys Such vvil not com to us and giv us of the fruits of their labor tyths or larg sums of mony by the year to hear us say our invented prayers to talk to them of that vvith vve our selvs rytly understand not ar out of the lyf Practis of having that most suer word of Prophesy in themselvs vvhich is the most suer and infallibel teacher and so we may shut up our mashouses or shop doors and ceas ringing our Bels for our trads of dishonest gain vvil vvither àvvay and com to nouht The great Generals Commanders Officers in hostil military Affairs may say If Peepel be brouht to Christ the Lyf Lyt and everlasting Covenant of God in them of whom the Scripturs of truth say he is given of God the Leader and Commander in Peepel the Captain and Anthor of Eternal Salvation whos Commands are not grievos who leads and Establishes his Peepel in plesant ways of Lyt Lyf Lov Peas Ryteosnes whos banner and standard is lov meeknes truth and Ryteosnes Then the enmity in Peepel ôn against another wil com to be destroyed and they reconcyled to God ôn unto another such wil not com to list themselvs under our standards or fyt under other banners be at our Commands to murder destroy ôn another to serv the lusts pryd cursed ambitios wils of our Cruel oppressing Masters the Emperors Kings Prinses Rulers of the Erth under fals pretenses of serving God their Country whos practis hath bin stil is to mak great fayr Promises to get peepel in to their servis and then mak it Deth ether to quit their servis or demand the performans of what they promis So that we may throw our Commissions of Array into the fyr beat our swords other instruments of Bloud Murder Cruelty into plouh shars pruning hooks learn to mak ûs of them as such for our cursed tràds wil dy wither away also Thos cald Judges Sherifs Majors Baylifs Justises of the peas Doctors in the law Counselers Advocats Sollicitors Atturnys Clerks Scrybs with al their dependencys may say If Peepel com to be turned from the Darknes to the lyt obey Christ the wisdom Power of God in them of whom the Scriptur saith that al Judgment is commited unto him by the Father who is the wonderful counseler the Advocat that pleadeth the caus of his Peepel wryteth their nams in his Book of lyf who is no Respecter of Persons the habitation of whos Thron is Ryteosnes rewarding every ôn according to their works who leads al who ar counseled by him in the pur paths of truth peas lov ryteosnes Then Peepel wil com to do to ôn another as themselvs would be dôn unto to be a law unto themselvs to bear ón with another chusing rather to suffer then to do wrong or seek advantages by outward laws ôn against another that cursed covetos greedy Spirit of enmity in peepel ôn against another after the injoyments of ôn another wil ceas Such wil not wear out their bodys vex torment their Spirits wast consum their estats to attend on our Throns seats of brybery injustis extortion oppression giv us larg unreasonabel fees to pervert justis whos practis hath bin stil is insted of ending peepels differenses in truth ryteosnes reconcyling them together in peas lov to màk them by far the mor at enmity and irreconcylabel ôn to another inventing ways to lengthen out their contentios law suits by removing them from Court to Court from City to Country in deceit unryteos pretenses and inventions caled VVrits of Error Appeals Habeas Corpuses c. Especially if the plaintifs and defendants besuch as hav Estats to answer and supply their greedy and covetos desyrs vvith Brybs and larg and unreasonabel fees And so vve may lay asyd our flat caps Robs ruf garments of deceit and cast our Books and Librarys of lavv cases into the fyr And Peepl being brouht into the pur bond of the everlasting Covenant com to be so Knit and unyted together in lov faithfulnes ôn to another that ther vvil be no need of any outvvard bils bonds or Obligations to mak thē honest faithful to do the thing that is just equal òn to another so our wiked trads wil wither avvay also com to nouht Those cald Doctors tutors fellovvs and Masters of arts in schools colledges and universitys in that learning vvhich stands in that Spirit Povver vvisdom vvhich is foolishnes vvith and enmity against God may say If Peepel be hrouht to Christ the lyt power wisdom of God in them to be tauht tutored therby then they vvil com to learn the blesed art of denying al ungodlynes vvordly lusts to liv soberly ryteosly in this present world to speak the pur languag ' to know hold the mysterys of faith in a pur Consciens and Read the book sealed vvith seven seals vvhich nether the learned or unlearned vvithal their tongu's and arts amongst us never could or shal be abel to understand or read and their seed and ofspring by their holy Exampels vvalking in the pur fear lyf and vvisdom of God befor them vvil com to be trained up in the sâm Such wil not need to com Or send their children to our Schools Colledges or universitys to be tauht to Read in books of feined storys lyng Fabels filthy unsavory corrupt corrupting words to act their parts on stages in Comedys Tragedys or to acquyr degrees in learning of thos tongu's and arts standing in that wisdom wich is Enmity against God So that we may shut up our Schools Colledges and university doors and cast our filthy books of liberal arts into the fyr for our vviked tràds of corrupting Man-kynd vvil dy and vvither avvay also Thos cald doctors of Physic Chirurgions Apothecarys who ar members of that corrupt body of wikednes acting their parts in the Devils craft vvryting their receits in Latin and puting Latin nams upon the simpels of which they mak their compounds salvs c. keeeping the peepel therby ignorant of the natur vertu of what they administer unto them having and using ways to lengthen the continuans of peepels distempers somtyms abating somtyms increasing then puting larg unreasonabel Rât's upon things with cost littel or nothing sav gathering especially if their patients hav wherwith to supply their greedy Covetos desyrs of mony The rys continuans of whos
fear him vvhich shal caus the Pur Lyt knowledg and glory of the Lord to overspred fil and dwel in the whol creation and mercy and truth to meet together and Ryteosnes and Peas to kis and imbrás ech other and truth to spring out of the Erth and Ryteosnes to look down from heven and everlasting joy to rest upon the heds of al the Sons and dauhters of Syon and al caus of syghing and sorrow to flee away forever mor. But to proceed this cursed seed of the Serpent took Root the mistery of Iniquity hath abounded over spred al Christendom the abomination which maketh desolat was stil is standing wher it ouht not abominabel covetosnes Pryd Cruelty Oppression Idolatry sheding the bloud of the innocent saints of God hath bin stil is Practised in thee O Christendom even with a bold impudent fàs which hath long cryed aloud how long Lord holy tru dost thou not judg aveng ' our bloud on them that dwel on the Erth notwithstanding al the Abominations Oppressions Idolatry murders great provocations against the Lord vvhich yee your predecessors hav bin stil ar so openly impudently found guilty of yet exceeding long and larg hath bin the Patiens forbearans of God towards them you many hav bin the Fatherly warnings chastysments vvholsom counsels of the Lord towards them you but yee your predecessors ar found mor abominably guilty of thos abominations crueltys oppressions Idolatrys sheding the bloud of the Innocent then the Jews of old wer for which the Lord màd ûs of your predecessors of the Roman Power as instruments in his hand to execut his just dredful wrath vengeans on them yee hav not only moked Gods messengers despysed his word misused his Profets Saints as they towit the Jews did befor you but yee hav màd cruelly executed dyvers Antichristian Cruel bloudy laws statuts to keep them from coming amongst you to Murder Kil Burn destroy them if they open their mouths on the behalf of God his truth ryteosnes or bear their faithful testimony against the cruelty oppressions Idolatrys sheding the bloud of the Innocent exhorting them to repent turn from your their evil cruel and abominabel ways and Practis which yee your predecessors wer and stil ar found guilty of And so both they you hav returned unto God his dear saints servants which he hath raysed up many tyms sent amongst you in Lov mercy hatred for their lov yea cruel torturings murdeings even the worst of evil for their good wil towards you al which provokations crueltys murders rebellious practised against the Lord in his dear precios innocent ôns are Exceedingly heihtened aggravated in you even to the hyest pitch in regard that the hav hard and hav upon record befor you in the Scripturs of truth the many precepts commands of God against such abomniabel ways practises the many woes Judgments dredful Curses denounsed by God against al who ar found guilty of them and the many Just and Ryteos plagu's wrath and dredful Judgments of God Executed on the ages generations past befor you who wer found guilty of the lyk abommations but mor especially in regard that the Lord mâd your predecessors instruments as an Yron rod in his hand to execut his Just wrath dredful Indignation upon the Jews for the sam sins and abominations which your predecessors yee hav bin and stil ar found guilty of and verely the day is now com in which yee wil fynd that he is a God that changeth not but abyds stil the sam as wel in Power ryteosnes wrath and justis as in long forberans patiens goodnes Mercy The Apostels tru Ministers of Christ wer not mâd so by men nor sent forth in the wil or by the approbation of Man nether did they Minister forth from the Letter vvhat others had received by their own acquyred parts learned at Schools universitys for mony nether did they complain or addres themselvs to the Potentats and powers of the Erth to mák laws to fo rs compel peepel to giv them tyths great sums of Mony or yearly Incoms for their prea●hing or to defend them in their Doct●ins faith Church Order Holy and Christian practises which they held forth and walked in or to fo rs Peepel to conform therunto upon pain of being fyned imprisoned racked tortured banished hanged burned or cruelly put to Deth No No. But they wer caled sent forth by the wil Power and appointment of God the Father the Lord Jesus Christ ministring forth freely and with a redy mynd what they had freely received of God throuh the Revelation of Jesus Christ the tru Lyt and gift of God in them What they had seen felt handled and tasted of the grás Eternal Word living pur Power of God in themselvs they preached forth and declared to others to the end that they also to whom they preached myt hav fellowship with them in the sam whos fellswship was in the Father in the Son Jesus Christ they ministred forth according to the mesur of the gift of the Spirit of the free grâs of Christ in them they wer tauht of God and had learned of the Father and ther by mâd abel Ministers of the New Testament the eve●lasting Covenant of God needed not outward laws of Man to fo rs Peepel to maintain them or giv them Mony for their preaching but such as becam obedient to the faith and Christian practises which they preached walked in the constraining Power therof wrouht such a lov of God in them to whom they preached which drew them forth in lov freely to communicat of their carnal substans to them as their Needs necessitys required who having food and raiment had learned therwith to be content And the way and weapons which they took used to defend their Holy Faith Christian Doctrins and practises by to convins gainsayers and Herities wer not outward or carnal not spoiling of goods prisons banishments racks hanging burning other cruel ways of open and secret Murder but Holy Spiritual The saints weapons even by the armor of ryteosnes on the ryt hand and on the left by arguments of sound truth pur and wholsom doctrins Holy harmles innocent and godly conversations Nether was the end of their preaching that Peepel should be ever learning never abel to com to the knowledg of the truth nor that Peepel should be only talking of God The end of the tru Ministers Preaching Christ and Holynes and abyd strangers enemys to ignorant of the lyt lyf Power and Spirit of God Christ and godlynes in themselvs but the end of their preaching was to bring Peepel to the knowledg feeling and obediens of the Spirit pur power and presens of God in themselfs and to
caused to be màd a multitud of abominabel Idolatros images and ydols in their and your spiritual adulteros abominabel blasphemos and idolatros hearts and mynds to represent God Christ the spirit angels and saints màd of gold silver bras yron wood and ston after the manner of the ignorant and idolatros heathen of old which they and you hav caused to be set up in your hyh ways Markets Streets Courts of judicatur and plases of your idolatros vvorship and set up and hang in your houses and carry about you throuhout Christendom filing the land with ydols and picturs and abominabel images of jelosy ther by grievosly provoking the just and ryteos Lord God omnipotent to caus his fiers vvrath indignation and jelosy to smoak burn against you having worshiped the works of your own hands even that which your fingers hav mâd the mean Man hath bowed down even Mâl Femâl Rich Poor Bond Free Smal Great and yee the Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers great ôns hav Debased your selvs beforthem THERFOR WIL I NOT FOR GIV OR SPAR YOU saith THE LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT And yee the Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers throuhout Christendom and your predecessors having forgoten turned your baks upon and becom Ignorant of the God that formed you and raised you up in whos hand at whos dispos your breth lyvs dominons ar it hath rendred both them and you voyd of that nobel Spirit of tru wisdom counsel gravity Prudens vertu holynes which appeared ons in som of your predecessors rendring them famos terribel dredful to their enemys abroad their Goverment lovly desyrabel at hom among the several Nations tongu's and languages under their subjection They you becam stil remain lyk Cruel Uunatural bruit-beasts or evening wolvs turning that sword which ons rendred them dredful terribel to their enemys unto their own bowels therwith by wars division stryf contentions murdering kiling and destroying on Another in the wikednes pryd stoutnes of their your ambitios hearts mynds quarreling ôn with another about Erthly dominions greatnes and preheminens emty blasphemos Antichristian Nâms tytels of worldly Antichristian and Spiritually wiked Honor Dominion to wit Master worshipful Hy Myty Lords Stâts General most Illustrios Nobel Vertuos Honorabel Excelent Sereen Earls Duks Lord Protectors Prinses Kings most invincibel Emperors Cardinals Eminency Archbishops Bishops Grâs Ryht Reverend Fathers in God common Priests Reverend Divyns c. with the Pôps Holynes al the other Nâms Tytels assumed in the Military Civil Ecelestastical Powers so caled which ar not of Christ but cam out of the bottomles pit ar Erthly sensual Devilish into the Lâk of Gods most Just Ryteos Dredful wrath vengeans Plagu's Indignation must that Power Spirit be cast in which yee now stand by which ye ar acted Yee hav not learned of Christ to lov ôn another who said to Peter put up thy sword into its plas for al that ták the sword must perish by the sword and heer by both yee and your goverment ar rendred odios yea even most intolerably burdensom cruel and opresing in the syt of God and in the hearts of the Peepel over whom yee rul lading them with Burdens taxes oppresions labor Sôr travels in bloud wars on against another And althô yee cal your goverment The Holy Roman Empyr the Pop blasphemosly his holynes and the Rest of that spiritual Babylonian Antichristian crew holy Bishops patrons Fathers of holy Church so caled and profes your selvs to be Christian Emperos Kings Prinses Rulers and Peepel yet ar yee found voyd of the tru Christian Spirit lyf bav not learned of Christ nether ar found in his nor the tru Christians ways practises who said lov your enemys bles them that Curs you do good to them that hât you pray for them that persecut you despytfully ûs you be not overcom of evil but over com evil by doing good But yee hav bin môr barbaros stil ar mor cruel to your Enemys then any that ever I hav heard seen or red of causing them to be with Yrons ôn their legs lyk horses nyt day and their hands in Yrons chaining them by the neks lyk dogs to a post or wal with their feet in the stoks lying on the ground with litel under them cruelly torturing their bodys to fo rs them to confes and tel what ther outward estats ar or what rich abel friends they hav ther by to procur great sums of mony for their ransoms causing them to work dayly with thos Yrons upon their legs provyding no cloths for them allowing them only water to drink and hardly bred enuf of the courser sort to fustain their outward man yea causing som of them to work without allovving them ether bred or mony hardly permiting them to fetch good water or go to such as pased by them wher they wer at work to beg buying seling them ôn to another as slavs lyk beasts for mony according to what was of old forseen fortold by the Spirit of prophesy in John the faithful witnes of Jesus recorded in the Scripturs of truth of al which Inhuman antichristian cursed and cruel dealings my self and companion in travel hav bin not only Ey and ear witneses but also in mesur hav gon throuh suffered and sustained So that this seed of the serpent even that cursed Spirit of apostacy and faling away from the tru Christian Spirit purfaith lyf having taken root in your predecessors it hath continued in its cursed operations fruits working in you to this very day and hens it hath com to pas that tru wisdom is Perished from thy anients good wholsom counsel is not to be found among the honorabel ôns and insted of governing the Peepel in truth peas and ryteosnes behold on al hands a grievos cry of vyolens spoyl oppression insted of unity and concord behold stryf debat rumors of cruel and dredful wars on al hands And not having Christ to be your hed Bishop King Priest Counseler Lawgiver and horn of your salvation yee ar becom broken to Pieces and divyded under dyvers heds Bishops Kings Blasphemos nams heaps and horns pushing stryving contending and waring ôn against another in bloud and cruelty wherby whol Christendom hath bin mâd an Akeldama or field of bloud even a plâs not of kyndnes and good entertainment but of cruelty and Murder and to bury strangers in even Christ the tru and Ryt heryr and Lord of al who hath bin long as a stranger in the Erth as driven out of his possession but now com to demand recover posses his inheritans which is the purchas of your denying betraying and Spiritually Murdering and Crucifying the Lord of lyf and glory And thy Peepel O Christendom being Ignorant of Christ vvho vvas given of the
Father to be Gods salvation in the ends of the Erth even the way the truth and the lyf in Mâl and femâl to lead out of stryf and discord up to God in vvays of lov truth peas and ryteosnes whol Christendom is becom lyk the Raging sea tos ed to and fro vvith every vvynd of Doctrin runing al on heaps contending and quarreling ôn vvith another about emty nâms ways forms professions in Religion ôn sort or sect crying lo heer another lo ther a third this is the way being al of them strangers aliens enemys to the Power Spirit of God in themselvs in his Peepel Ignorant of him who is the former of al things and is without form was befor al forms or visibel appearances and abyds the sâm vvhen they hav their end vvrangling and contending about outvvard bred and wyn and water Baptisms and Carnal ordinanses which wer figurs in their tym but the living bred of God vvhich cometh dovvn from heven in his saints and the Pur Wyn of the Kingdom of God vvhich refresheth and norisheth the lyf vvhich is pur eternal and Immortal of God in the Imvard parts is not truly fed on or drank of by them And the ón Baptism vvhich saveth even the pur living water of lyf which clenseth washeth the Inward man and sprinkleth from an evil consciens is not known felt or truly Experiensed in them Betwixt thos two to wit the Beast fals Profet the Civil Ecclesiastical Power so caled hath the lamb slayn from the foundation of the world which lyeth in wikednes bin crucifyed afresh as betwixt two theevs the ón being accuser the old accuser of the Brethren the other Iudg the third to wit the Military Power the executioner which is the Barrabas vvhich they hav chosen in rejecting crucifying of Jesus by vvhom al the Insurrections Murders divydings of his garment to wit the creation into particular Intrests casting lots on his vestur hath bin don commited sins the entrans of transgression to this day vvhos practis hath bin stil is to Rob spoyl plunder the nations of their tresurs fruits of their labors to uphold themselvs in pryd lusts eas Fulnes cruelty oppression over the Nations under fals pertenses of protecting teaching them in vvays of Peas ryteosnes and salvation Thes ar the Phisicians of no valu the Nations hav bin the woman vvith the bloudy Issu that hath gon to them for help cur but notvvithstanding vvel ny al hath bin spent on them the bloudy Issu hath not bin healed but rendred by far the mor Incurabel but blesed be the Lord the vvoman hath now met vvith Jesus the good Phisician goten a touch of the hem of his garment feels in her self the healing vertu the Bloudy Issu is in mesur stayed vvhich blesed healing vertu shal not ceas vvorking til it pas throuh the vvhol body of the Creation and the cûr and redemtion therof be compleated the thre that beare Record in bel Thes tovvit the Dragon Beast fals profet àr the three that bear record in Erth and hel vvhich ar ôn and Agree in ôn to vvit the Spirit of the old serpent in man its corrupting of Man-kynd its cursed fruits and operations throuh Man kynd And heer may be noted that which I may cal the living or essential differens betwixt the living tru Lord God the Devil the old Serpent the God of the World about which the learned Disputers eloquent Orators Comentators in the Spirit of the World hav bin so long Disputing contending and wryting larg Commentarys Contradictory ôn to the other But having nether the Key of David nor the Heffer of Sampson to Plow with could never truly open or unfold the Matter and al thô they hav mâd ûs ' of the Words of the Holy Men of God recorded in the Scripturs yet ar they therin found fals witneses being strangers aliens from that Holy Pur Spirit Lyt Wisdom of God in the Holy Profets by which they spâk and wrot The living tru God is that Eternal Pur Spirit of Lyt Lyf Wisdom Power which hath its being in of its self and was befor al Creaturs visibel and in visibel wer is the lyf former fulnes end of them al abydeth the sâm when they hav their end But the old Serpent the Devil the God of the World was not befor things visibel and invisibel wer but was màd manifest in tym throuh matter form and is not but by and throuh matter and form and ceaseth to be when they hav their end in every particular towit the Spirit of that old Serpent the carnal covetos mynd with the law therof which hath its Seat in the members the Erthly or sensual part of Man-kynd which is the Woman that was deceived first in the transgression both of mâl femâl which is Deth Hel a Devil in al in whom it dwels reins even the Kingdom and Power offin darknes the seat and Thrôn of al Iniquity and al who in that Spirit and Power Exercys Rul and Dominion ever others ar a hel of Devils and tormentors to them which is the Spirit of the Beast in Man-kynd that goeth downward and renders al in whom it Dwels ruls to be the Seed and Children of the Devil that old Serpent which is mor subtil then any beast of the field which the Lord God hath mâd whos curs and portion was is for ever shal be on their Bellys to go to eat dust al the Days of their lyf but the lyf which is pur of God in Man-kynd is not up held by bred alon but by the pur Word of the Lord of lyf and Power in the inward parts doth man liv whom God is now restoring and redeeming again up into himself to Partak o● his own pur Divyn Natur and fulnes and to bear his Imag to the injoyment of the gift which he freely gav to the Children of Men whom the Lord wil again Crown with his own pur lyf Plas in Eternal Dominion over the works of his hands The Son is in mesur risen and the day com in which al the devouring Beasts of Prey shal ly down in their dens sleep a perpetual sleep man goforth unto his labor until the evening from under the curs Power of transgression sin Deth hel in the blesing of Eternal lyf pur lov Peas Ryteosnes for ever mor. And so having slayn the Innocent murdered and crucifyed the just to and in themselvs the tru Lord and heyr of al cast him out of his inheritans and possesed themselvs therof they contryved hovv to mâk sur the possession therof to themselvs theyr heyrs and Successors in that Serpentyn Murderos oppresing Spirit Power if possibel to al ages generations And the woman the Ecclesiastical Power being deceived first in the