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Denus petition to the Lord General Cromwell with his Protestation and engagement : also, his description of the house of God and original priesthood : whereunto is annexed The ministerial duty and The personal reign of the saints.
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iniquity with our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts and he charged them saying Thus shall ye do in the fear of the Lord faithfully and with a perfect heart and what cause soever shall come to you betwixt blood and blood betwixt law and commandment statute and judgement let them not trespasse against the Lord. Look upon this all ye that have contrary to this holy Law which is the written word of God given so long since to judge the earth this word of Sion shall throw down all your witchcrafts of Jesabel and your night-Spels of subtilty for ye have not judged according to the holy word of God Some may say Woe to you Judges Lawyers and Juries for destroying the declaration and truth of Gods word changing it into your own forms and not proving all Causes by Scripture all your legal rudiments must fall at the appearing of Sions glory and shall cause all your Rivers in Egypt to dry up for his word and the Saints must judge the earth and your unstable justice shall fall and come to nothing when the word of God shall be every mans true testimony to restore and to redresse to bring again and to reduce to settle all things to their ancient Oiginal which have been so long traduced from their place And without all question the godly of the people shall govern meaning the remnant of the Tribes out of Sion For I will cleanse your bloud I am the Lord that shall rore from thence and utter my voice and the earth shall shake but I will be the hope and heritage of Jacob He will be jealous for his land and have pity by his redeemed that they may have justice from God out of Sion And I cannot see how any other law can be warrantable but onely this word of God and to deny all mens mixture which are but ordinances of men and legal 1 Cor. 6.1 Dare any of you having a matter against another go to law before the unjust and not before the Saints As if he should say will you bring your selves within the danger of the cursed laws of the Gentiles And in Vers 2. he saith Know you not the saints shall judge the world and we shall judge Angels much more the things that pertain to this life Joel 3.2 the Lord saith He will plead with all nations for the heritage of his people saying behold I will raise them out of the place where ye have sold them And elsewhere he saith I will restore unto you the years the Locusts have eaten the Canker-worm the Caterpiller and Palmer-worm which I have sent amongst you As if hee should say I will take away all the devourers that have led you captive which have seduced the simple carying on causes in Latin and in an unknown tongue This is not that law which the Apostle James declareth in his second Chapter saying So walk and so speak as you may be judged by the law of liberty which is Sion to try all your actions by and so to be justified by Gospel truths which is contrary to the laws of men And wicked men ought not to bear sway for God will have a community to communicate justice to all according as truth shall guide them to this law of liberty and Gospel freedom and not by mens ordinances that must fall For mercy shall rejoyce over judgement and shall glory over all oppression We cannot finde by either law or Gospel that men should die by any outward act of theft but the ancient records of God manifest only restitution and if the person be not able to restore then be a servant or slave to the person whom hee hath offended The Lord saith He that killeth with the sword shall die by the sword shewing that by murther bloud shall touch bloud it were good if legal cruelty were restrained as yet it hath not but in short time provided by our God we shall have truth established in our borders with mercy and justice to remain in our streets it hath been a long time mixed with Wormwood by rigorous and cruel laws being enacted that any malitious man that would swear against another man whether it were right or wrong as many times by way of supposition not considering the danger of an oath or whether it be right or wrong the Oath being passed the Jurie presently findeth it the plaintiffe having no way to prove the wrong done but his own Oath by an inditement under the King to prove the theft making the King his grand witness which hath been an intollerable mark of the beast and all ye Jury-men may be ashamed and cover your mouths for all the bloudy Verdicts you have given up look to it for God will call you to an accompt for all your works in that you have set the King to prove mens actions which hath been a lying testimony when the King hath been far distant from the Bench ye corrupt Judges and simple Jury-men it hath evidently appeared by some that hath been wrongfully and hastily put to death a miserable spectacle before your eys and this is a fin that will lye heavie upon Judge and Jury-men when ye shall take the King for a witness as if he were present to prove the felony this is a high principle for a knave to work his will to prove the felony done to the Plaintiff but draw the Curtain there the King hath something else to do then to come and prove your unjust act A miserable heathenish law and Turkish the Turk can but demand a mans life and what is it else to do in this We see plainly the King may be enriched by such a law as for bringing in either to himself or some other Lord of a Mannor felons goods which freedom they have purchased from him that is gone And this law cannot be satisfied with mans life but wife and children must be utterly undone and all taken from them by the lord of felons goods O down with this Babylon I wonder the world doth not violently pull her down for they cannot be contented to take the things that were stoln which is all they can have but they will have all then all shall be mine so that the thing is although he never stole before and the fact be of small value yet he must lose his sweet life and die as a dog which is a base inhumane and salvage cruelty Turkish and not Christian-like the just God and Lord Jehovah will surely confound such doings Some have been by relation prepared for the ladder and yet by accident the right theef hath been taken and for the same fact hath suffered death a heavie thing it is unto that Jurie that shall censure a man to death by an indictment under his own pretence by an indictment in the Kings name yet we do not justifie theft but that it should be lawfully proved as all other trespasses be under two witnesses every truth shall be established for one witnesse which
Johns testimony he was Juda and I am Israel Denus the feet of the two Witnesses Septemb. 29 1651. The Law of Sion HEre is an Alligory of two Lawes the first is the singular and pure Law of God the other is the unjust lawes of Man This pure Law of God shall put an end to all the lawes of man upon the seventh Vial this Law of God gendereth to life and salvation but the lawes of man do gender to cruelty and corruption which lawes of man must fall before Sion which are not lawes according to his Word and true equity all such lawes are but mens ordinances and shall not stand before the Law of God for there is but one Law and one Law-giver which is God that hath given us his Word for a Law to be a restoring right to all and for want of this true execution of Gods word it maketh the curse remain upon the Creature to this day and because of forbidden fruit which is contrary to his Institution maketh it so but Gods word should be set in its place to judge or condemn to save or justifie and not mens traditions which are vain Our Saviour saith Man liveth not onely by bread but by every word that cometh out of Gods mouth which is from his ancient Decree to keep all things by his Providence which is a hidden law and spiritual and agreeable to the letter of his Word and I know no other law that man can erect but to judge all things by the law of Gods Word and to throw down mens ordinances which be not agreeable to it for such lawes proceed not out of Sion neither can our Judges be Judges in Israel except they make Gods word the rule of justice to try causes by And going contrary to this Rule it maketh many fleshly Judges and weak Jury-men O simple ignorance and base folly to go from the Judge of Heaven and Earth to serve under these Judges which destroy his Word and Law of justice for there is no offence committed before God or against man but may be judged by his word of Truth and pure Gospel under the jurisdiction of Christ and his Church which may be called Jure Divino that is under twelve holy persons or so many Senatours of Gods house that your law may wholly proceed out of Sion that Divine Justice may censure all judicature power and so to tread them under feet with the scarlet whore which have taken away many mens lives contrary to Gods word and holy Scripture it hath been a poor businesse carried on so long that wicked Judges should sit to give sentence and some wicked fore-men among the rest should give up their verdict contrary to the Law of Sion having judged for reward and some for want of seeing the pure Will of God and declaration of his word his word ought to judge and govern and shall throw down all oppressing that his people may have rest from all their enemies these Judges have been in such esteem before men and yet ignorant of Divine justice which he hath set before them in his Word I desire you all to know both Judge and Justice if you adde or diminish from Gods VVord it will prove unjustice and therein ye fall severity and hinder the free passage of the Gospel changing it into your own ordinances using the Gospel to your own turns which is a cursed thing to do your lawes are of Euphrates which shall perish in Armagiddon and fall by destruction ye Judges Lawyers Priests and Jesuites your ordinances shall burn with Babylon and your seven streams of power are struck by the seventh Vial of Gods wrath his Law must go out of Sion which shall cast out all your laws that justice may run down our streets What makes so much bauling in our Churches To answer it is because they go on hood-winked compounding the lawes of men amongst the ordinances of God which be far distant the one from the other and for want of the true executing of this word of God all your Churches are in a combustion as Bees up in armes one against another for the truth and untill we make Gods word the Rule and Law of our civil affaires to bring our selves under the Captivity of Christ and untill then the curse shall remain I properly mean the cursed lawes of man which have bought and sold the lives of some men contrary to the Word of God and Law of Sion this curse or cursed ordinance of man God will suddenly burn up and abolish by the brightnesse of his appearing and David saith Blessed are they that keep his testimonies thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee I will not forget thy word Princes did sit and speak against me but I did meditate in thy statutes devine Thy Law is my counsel day and night I have more understanding then all my Teachers I understand more then the Ancient because I keep thy Law I have refrained my feet from every evill way because of thy word How sweet are thy words unto my taste Thy word is a light to my feet quicken me according to thy word mine eyes prevent the night watch I beheld the transgressours and was grieved because they kept not thy word Tears run down mine eyes because they keep not thy word Now if our Lawyers would truly see this Law of God they durst not do as they do and if our Judges would prove causes by this word of God then might we call them the Judges in Israel but it is not so for they prove their own testimonies and act sin by a law but look into this 119. Psalm and ye shall find it pithy to this purpose he calleth it thy Statutes divine which if our Magistrates did but savingly look in this glasse of Gods law they might well throw away their books which be but the step-mother to this Law of Sion called mens ordinances which have thus traded in power over Gods word and true Gospel untill the year of our Lord 1650. which was then shaken though not utterly faln yet it shall lose its shining light of oriency and tho Lawyers and Judges shall never gain credit nor comfort until they do erect the true word of God far above the statutes of Winchester 2 Chron. 19. there ye may find at large that Jehosaphat made of the Levites and of the Priests and of the chiefest of the Fathers of Israel for the judgment of the Lord and for all Controversies And in that ye may find he did not set the ungodly to judge nor bloudy men that should judge according to their own wills but such as were chosen men of the Lord that should make his holy word the rule of justice to end all differences Now good Jehosaphat gave the Judges a charge saying Take heed what ye do ye judge not for man but for the Lord who is with you in the judgment take heed and do it for there is no