women captive laden with sin and divers lusts and though they are ever learning of their Teachers yet come not to the knowledge of the Truth which would make them free from sin and lust and bring into that life which was before a lie was And this is not the fruit of the Popes Ministers for the furthest they bring people to is to bring them to be zealous to pray to a dead stock or stone which they make like unto men and women and tell them it is the likeness or representation of God and Christ and the Virgin Mary St. John St. Peter and the like and the Mistery of iniquity hath so wrought amongst them that though they manifestly prostrate themselves before them yet they say it is not to them which is darkness unheard of in Generations past And they are not content to commit this abominable Idolatry themselves but would constrain all others to do the like as witness the Protestants in this Nation who are constrained to shun and avoyd the way when one of these their Gods is carryed about else the people are ready to stone them if they do not put off their Hats or bow unto them These things are cause of sadness to the hearts of the righteous to consider therefore God will overturn it and cast it into the pit of confusion from whence it sprang even from Mistery Babylon where the Whore sitteth who hath made all Nations about her drunk with the Cup of her fornication which hath been forced upon people by the power of the Beast through the Inchantments of the false Prophets but their torment is near and hastneth apace to come upon them for the Whore and painted Harlot which rides upon the Beast and the false Prophets which attend her shall be taken and cast into the lake which burns with fire and brimstone for ever These are true and faithfull sayings which shall shortly come to passe and blessed shall all they be in that day which have not received the mark of the Beast in their hands nor in their foreheads for they onely shall live and reign for ever with him whose right it is to reign over all Nations and for his sake will God overturn overturn overturn untill his holy will be accomplished and the Nations shall never see peace more untill that day for the mistery of iniquity hath fully wrought and he that hath let shall be taken out of the way in this the day of Gods Allmighty power in which he will thresh the Mountains to dust and will honour his Saints so that they shall have power to bind Kings in Chains and Nobles in Fetters of Iron who also will turn the wisdom of the wise backwards and will make the Diviners mad and turn the counsels of their Achitophels into foolishness In this day the churl shall no more be called liberall neither shall he that doth wickedly be called good light shall not be put for darkness nor darkness for light without a manifest Woe and Judgment upon him which doth it saith the Lord God Allmighty who hath been as a stranger amongst the sons of men as though he had not created them yea more a stranger and unknown unto the chiefest of men than the Ox is to his Owner or the Asse to his Masters Crib It doth even pierce my heart to consider the wofull degeneration of mankinde who was created in the Image of his Creator and whilest he remained in that holy Image nothing but righteousness was wrought by him and he enjoyed the peace of God in him and in this state there was no oppression but through disobedience he was driven from his maker by giving ear to another Teacher by which means he was lead unto lust and uncleanness and to commit it with greediness yea to drink up iniquity as the Ox drinketh up water so as he naturally did at first obey the will of his Creator by which means he was wholly a Servant unto God bringing forth the works of righteousnesse and holinesse so through disobedience he became a Servant to Satan bringing forth nothing but sin and corruption even to the grieving of his Creator so that it repented him that he had made man yet he bore their iniquity untill the measure thereof was full and then swept them away with the flood of his wrath and from that day hath born and forborn the iniquity of many People and Nations untill this your time even untill the filling up of the largest measure of iniquity that ever yet was known so that righteousness is not to be found in the earth nor in the Inhabitants thereof therefore as sure as the righteous Judge of Heaven and Earth destroyed the old world with the flood of his wrath so will he this by fire which is already kindled in the Nations though at present they perceive it not but it shall overtake them unawares Therefore this is sent as a warning unto this Nation of France that they may take warning thereby and repent least they be consumed by the flame and fire of Gods wrath and indignation which is ready to break forth upon them And now ye people of this Nation seriously consider high and low rich and poor bond and free male and female what ye are a doing and with the light of Christ Jesus wherewith he hath enlightned you search whose works ye are a doing and who it is you obey and whose command you have for the things you do whether from God or from men for assuredly according to the Traditions of men God cannot be worshipped nor served for God is a Spirit And the true Worshippers worship him in Spirit and Truth and by such only is he worshipped therefore cease from all your Task-masters which lay heavy burdens upon you telling you that you must pray to the Virgin Mary and to the Saints saying ten Prayers to her and one to God shewing that they exalt her in their Imaginations above God besides this is clear against the Doctrine of Christ who bid them ask in his name for saith he Whatsoever ye ask my Father in my Name it shall be given you Mark that and take good notice of it for he is the only Mediator between God and man 1 Tim. 2.5 For there is one Mediator between God and man the man Christ Jesus for he is the Mediator of a better Covenant than that which stood in outward meats and observations which is established upon better promises and for this cause he is the Mediator of the New Testament that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first Testament that they which are called might enjoy the promise of eternal Inheritance Therefore people are to come to Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel therefore see that ye refuse not him that speaketh from Heaven who saith What ye ask my Father in my Name it shall be
given you therefore cease from asking in any other name Search and read and be no longer deceived for God is come to look for fruit in the earth and every tree which is not found bearing fruit to God shall be cut down and cast into the fire Read the Parable of the Fig-tree and lay it to heart before it be too late and cease from your Taskmasters which tell you a house of stone is a Church contrary to the Scripture which sayes the Church is in God the ground and pillar of truth you may see in this they also deceive you 1 Thess 1.1 For in the true Church nothing that defileth can enter but in yours drunkards lyars and all manner of unclean persons may enter Thus you are deceived by the lying and lightnesse of your Teachers who through covetous practices make Merchandize of your souls for were you truly instituted you would come to know that the Saints bodies are the Temple of the Holy Ghost and their bodies was not for fornication which is openly tollerated amongst you but for the Lord and the Lord for the body therefore you are ignorant of this Doctrine of Paul who said Know ye not that your bodies are the Members of Christ for if you were not ignorant thereof you would be afraid to make them the members of an Harlot For who is joyned to an Harlot is one body for two saith he shall be one flesh Therefore repent and return to God and then you will come to witness your bodyes the Temples of the Holy Ghost which God will put in you and you shall no more be your own for through repentance you will come to know that ye are bought with a price and so will come to glorifie God in your bodies and spirits which then will be Gods as you come to the blood of cleansing as the Saints of old did and so did witnesse God to live and walk in them which was a true Christians state for they were led by the Spirit of God and so became the Sons of God but if any come amongst you now and say they have the Spirit of God in them ye make a mock at them and say they are mad and so are ready to stone them though the true Christians did witnesse the same else they could not have been Christians For it is the life of Christ in the Creature which makes him a Christian through which he comes to witnesse the promise of God to be fulfilled which the Prophet Joel prophesied of saying Thus shall it come to passe afterwards that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesie your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions And also upon your servants and handmaids in those dayes will I poure out my Spirit Therefore I in the Spirit do declare unto you my Countrey men this acceptable day that you may turn from your sins and find mercy that the powring out of the Spirit ye may come to witnesse amongst you which will lead you into all truth and from your deceitfull Teachers so will you come to know the spirit of prophesie as the Saints of old did who were truly sanctified through the blood of the Lamb for saith Paul unto them You may all prophesie one by one which was the true Churches order And againe Your Priests tels you you must look for teaching from them but the Covenant of God is That all his people shall be taught of him For this shall be the Covenant that I will make with the House of Israel After these dayes saith the Lord I will put my Law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and I will be their God and they shall be my People and they shall no more teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least to the greatest of them saith the Lord For I will forgive their iniquities and I will remember their sins no more And all the children of the Covenant come to witnesse this which is their great peace for they that come to witnesse the Anointing need not mans teaching but if this you should come to witnesse your Priests should soon be discovered which is the cause they every way hold you in bondage and blindnesse being Ministers thereof themselves as manifestly appeareth by their fruits for were they Ministers of light they would bring people to the light and so to the true knowledge of God for God is light saith the Apostle God is light saith he and in him is no darknesse at all and if we walk in the light as he is in the light then have we fellowship one with another Mark the Saints fellowship was in the light therefore he that saith He knoweth God and walketh in darknesse is a lyar for he that cometh to the light cometh to know the teachings of God which the everlasting Ministry brings into So here People you may measure your Priests by the Scriptures of truth And again Your Priests tell you you must give money to pray for those which are dead which is an invention of the Devill the deceiver from whence that deceit sprung to make you believe there is a place called Purgatory to be purged in after you are dead which thing is only taught for filthy lucres sake for the Scriptures no where speak of a Purgatory for men to be purged in after they are dead but on the contrary it saith As the Tree falls so it lyes for such as a man soweth such shall he reap therefore the true Ministry was for to bring people to the Spirit of God that so their sowing might be to the Spirit the fruits of which is life everlasting So here they were brought off from the works of the flesh by the vertue of the blood of Christ Jesus and came to be cleansed from all sin for saith Paul When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness Rom. 6.20 Mark They were made free from sin so here was no need of a Purgatory to be purged from sin after death being made free from sin while in the body as Adam was and as true Christians were who followed Christ through the regeneration even to the witnessing of the new-birth which sinueth not as saith the Scriptures He that is born of God sinneth not neither can he because his seed remaineth in him And as we know that God is righteous so we know that he that doth righteousnesse is born of him and so this is the Christians boldness in the day of Judgement that as he is so are they in this present world so according to Christs words they come to be perfect even as their Father which is in Heaven is perfect And this is a true Christians life to be like Christ to live in him as he doth in the Father such only are Christians who witnesse Christ in them as the
several houses for himself to dwell in but inricheth all his posterity purchasing to one of his kindred a Prince-ship and by this it appeareth he hath not forsaken all but covets all or as much as in him lyeth to have Christ when he rode was contented with an Asse but the Pope when he goeth forth though but a mile or two is carried by men and notwithstanding hath several Horses to attend upon him and a Coach with six pompered Horses to tend upon him empty which is a horrid shame for any single eye to behold in such a one who taketh upon him the name of Christs Vicar upon Earth did he do it only in the name of an Earthly Prince his abomination would not be altogether so great but this sheweth him to be in the way of the vain Heathen and not a man of God nor God-like in these actions for Paul when he was called of God into his holy Ministry he immediately obeyed the Heavenly voyce and went and preached the Gospel and not go and shut himself up in great possessions and there give forth Indulgences for pardons for sins but on the contrary declared the terrors of the Lord against all sin and said Such as men sowed such should they reap if they sowed to the flesh they should of the flesh reap corruption but if they sowed to the Spirit they should reap life everlasting And also said That the wages of sin is death So that this was far from giving pardons for sins as the Pope doth Christ saith The Heathen exercise Lordship one over another but with you it shall not be so speaking to those who had truly forsaken all to follow him He that will be greatest among you let him be servant to all for he that exalteth himself shall be abased and he that abaseth himself shall be exalted saith Christ who said Learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart But with the Pope and in his Dominion there is Lording and exercising Lordship one over another striving who shall be greatest amongst them as may be seen in the Ecclesiastical Courts in Rome and elsewhere where they are suing and striving for honour and by this they shew they are wholly degenerated from the holy life of Christ and his righteous Commands who was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief who sought not his own glory but the glory of him that sent him who was in travels and tumults in revilings and reproaches giving his back to the smiter and his cheeks to him which plucked off the hair when he was reviled reviled not again when he was persecuted he entreated and rendred not evil for evil but sought the good of all and bore the contradiction of sinners This was his holy life and example in the dayes of his flesh even in that body which was prepared him to do the will of his Father in leaving all his holy examples to follow And now let the Pope and all his Adherents be measured by these fruits they will be found wholly contrary and against him for instead of being acquainted with grief they cause others to be grieved and shut themselves up in the fattest possessions and they are fatned themselves as for the day of slaughter sporting themselves with Wine and Musick destroying and devouring the fat of the Creation this is apparent to every single eye And the Pope instead of bearing the contradiction of sinners is one with them and tollerates them in it and suffereth none to come to speak with him without using a deal of flattering and deceit and when they do obtain the liberty must fall down and worship before him and commonly kisse his toe which is a horrible and detestable thing in the sight of God and instead of being persecuted causeth all to be persecuted within his Dominion that will not bow to these his wicked practices And instead of submitting his body to do the will of God he pompers it dayly Dives-like whilest the poor fatherless and widdow is oppressed one need not go far to prove this for it may be seen all over his Dominion in the open streets Christ saith Freely ye have received freely give For his Ministry is a free Ministry but the Popes is altogether contrary for there is nought to be had of his Ministers but what the people must give money for yea when they have given money all the dayes of their life they must give money to be prayed for after they are dead Ages and Generations cannot paralel this horrible cheat which they through deceit and hypocrisie deceive the hearts of the simple with not an Age I say since the Apostacy can shew the like And thus it is the people are spending their money for that which is not bread and their labour for that which profiteth not ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth as plainly appeareth for if they had come to the knowledge of the truth the truth would have made them free as saith Christ who preached no such thing as Purgatory neither did he tell people they must give money for Masses to be said for them after they were dead to be had out from thence as the Popes doctrine teacheth So this is not with but against Christ and so Antichrist for saith Christ Whosoever is not with me is against me and the tree is known by its fruit and this is a mark for evermore for by their fruits we know them though they may put on Sheeps cloathing yet inwardly they are ravening Wolvs alienated from the Spirit of truth which would lead into all truth and being from it erred are given over to believe lies that they might be damned and so run greedily on in the way of destruction and having lost the key of true knowledge have run on in the fleshly knowledge and wisdome which is earthly sensual and devilish and in it are at enmity against God for that wisdome never knew him but on the contrary ever persecuted them which did it being the Seed of the Bond-woman which persecuted the Seed of the free-woman from righteous Abel unto this day enmity being put between the two Seeds for ever and each Seed is manifestly known by its fruits the one gendereth to sin bondage and corruption and the other keeps the Commandments of God the one a Persecutor and Murderer and the other a Sufferer So here one may see the Pope and all his Adherents as in a glass what seed and lineage they are of even by these their fruits which to their faces testifies what Generation they are of witness their Inquisition and places of tortures which they have so that if any seem to arise or stir among them and declare any thing which is not altogether suitable to their lusts then presently to the Inquisition with them away with them they are Hereticks and deserve not to live and so imprison and shut them up it is much if ever they come out except
by their cruel usage they be made to conform to their Wills this is evident amongst them insomuch that many of them have been kept many years and not been told the cause why for if they have but a Jealousie of a man he shall hardly escape their hands And now what they have to be spoken against let the moderate Reader seriously consider if there be any thing else but abominable Idolatry in all their Worship even such Idolatry as all the Heathen of old never exceeded As for Example in Rome which is the Fountain from whence all this abomination springs they pourtray the likeness of an Old Man upon a Wall and they call him the Image of God the Father with a Cross before him with the Portraicture of a dead man upon it and the likeness of a Pigeon on the top of it and this in their Imaginations they call the Father Son and Spirit And this being openly tollerated in Rome the bordering Nations are made stark drunk with the same abominations and Idolatry So that if one in love and in pity to their souls speak to reclaim them from their gross darkness they are ready to tear them in pieces though it be plainly manifest that they are of those who have changed the Glory of the Incorruptible God into Images made like unto Corruptible men wherefore God hath given them up to uncleannesse through their lost and corrupt hearts who have changed the Truth of God into a lie and do worship the Image which themselves have made more than the Creator who is God blessed for ever This is such gross darkness as was in Egypt even such as might be felt And in God there is no ancientness of dayes who is a Spirit infinite and eternal who created all things by the Word of his power and upholdeth all things thereby unto this day To whom will ye liken me saith the Lord Heaven is my Throne and the Earth is my Footstool hath not my hand made all these things all things being created in and by the Word of his Power which is Christ Jesus for so is his Name who was glorified by his Father before the World began and is the express Image of his Father whose likeness cannot be made by the hands of men therefore it is horrible Idolatry for you to make the Image of a dead man and say it is the Image of Christ and so bewitch the minds of people with those false conceptions and imaginations woe be to them by whom these things are wrought and upheld for the Vengeance and Indignation of the Lord God is kindled against them for they are the unreasonable Task-Masters of Egypt who keep the Seed in bondage and slavery so that the people cannot come to the knowledge of the true God that him only they might serve honour and obey in all things who is the only King Judg and Lawgiver of his people who sheweth mercy unto all who come unto him in his Sons Name for there is no other Name given under Heaven for Salvation but his And all who are in the praying to Saints are in the wicked Idolatry and do forsake the Fountain of living mercy and have hewed to your selves Cisterns which will hold no Water For the true Voyce saith Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest And saith the Prophet All you which are a thirst come and you which have no money come buy and eat yea come buy Wine and Milk without money and without price Why do ye lay out your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not Heare and eat that which is good and let your souls delight themselves in fatness Incline your ear and come unto me hear and your souls shall live And I will establish with you my everlasting Covenant even the sure mercies of David Behold I have given him for a Witnesse to the people This is all free even the free gift of God Who hath so loved the World that he hath given his only begotten Son into the World that all through him might believe for whosoever believes in him shall not abide in darkness but shall have the Light of life who is the Way the Truth and the Life who hath enlightned every one who cometh into the World with his true Light and they which turn to the Light wherewith Christ hath enlightned them they come to Christ who is the free Gift of God This likes not the Pope and his Ministers for they make the people pay tenths of all their increase besides Money for Beads Crosses and Crucifixes and Money for pardon for sins and for Masses to be said for them while they are alive and after they are dead and Money for Christening of Children as they call it and Money for Marrying and all that they doe which thing sheweth plainly that his Ministers are not like the Ministers of the Gospel for that was and is a free Ministry and the Ministers thereof ministreth forth freely as they have received and are moved of God freely thereunto So the Pope is not with Christ but against him in all his actions for Tithes were only due to Levi and that from his Brethren yet they were not Levi's but the Lords and was to be put into the store-houses for to relieve the widow the fatherless and the stranger but how the Pope and his Adherents doth this let the wise in heart judge who devour the Tenths and much more upon their lusts as the Nations may witness against them which plainly shews they are neither of the Tribe of Levi nor of the Flock of Christ And the Apostle who was a Minister of the Gospel speaking of Levi said That Priesthood being changed there is made of necessity a change of the Law for the Priesthood being changed it is evident that the Law is disanulled which took them so that this paying of Tithes is but a usurpation of those which crope in in this dark night of Apostacy which Christ foretold us of saying The Night would come wherein no man could work And Paul saw this coming in For I know this saith he that after my departure shall grievous Wolves enter in among you not sparing the Flock And such did come in who taught things they ought not for filthy lucres sake The Pope and his Adherents will plainly appear to be of that stock and spring from that cursed Root and Spirit as his and their fruits will plainly manifest for they who forsook the right way did run on in the way of Balaam for gifts and rewards but they have far exceeded all their Ancestors and will not be content with a gift and reward but rob and take by force where they cannot have it otherwise so far as their power reacheth And this running out of the way and commandement of God is the cause why they profit not the people at all though they creep into houses and lead silly
will-worship and voluntary humility and nothing to the edifying of the body and so by degrees hath crope in more and more as the dark night of apostacy came in which time Christ Jesus said would come wherein no man could work And also the Apostle saw before his decease as I said before even such a falling away in his time that he said All Asia was turned from him Likewise Peter John and Jude speak of it for John in his Revelation saw all the world wandering after the Beast and none could buy or sell but those who received the mark of the Beast yea such will be the misery of the sons of men who are wandering after him saying Who is able to make war with him And the Harlot rides upon the Beast cloathed with Scarlet with the Cup full of abomination and filthiness in her hand which hath made all Nations drunk Let him which hath wisdome read and understand and consider whether the Pope and Cardinals in Rome doth not wear her Livery without and within yea or nay are they not built upon blood and to this very day are thirsting after it if not what means their Inquisitions and secret places of murder yet they themselves will shew and tell of the place they call by the name of Amphiatar where they say the Christians were put in in former times to be destroyed with wild Beasts though the same they themselves do at this very day even to those who have the least desire after the Lord by which they come to misturst the Idolatrous way they are in and if this be perceived amongst them then presently he or she is termed under the name of an Heritick and then to the Inquisition with them where the wild bruit Beasts set about them to devour them though at first they may flatter and fawn upon them like a Dog and if they see they cannot prevail with them that way it is much if ever they escape their devouring hands and this is not unknown to many but the Lord God of Heaven and Earth is risen to make inquisition for the blood of the slain and it is not the Inquisition which shall be able to conceal it from him for he will rip it open and lay it desolate for ever so that it shall become a hiss and a by-word by all the passers by for it shall be made like their Amphiatar for ever open and free and Gods eternall Glory and Truth shall freely be declared in it with free consent every way and this will the Lord work for his own Gloryes sake and none can prevent the Lords purpose which he hath determined for all the world hath wandered after the Beast and hath given their glory and honour unto him I say notwithstanding all this the Lord will raise up to himself an holy seed which shall make war with him and overcome him his chosen ones have already read the number of his name which is the number of a man and all that rise up and joyn in war with the Beast against them woe woe will be to them for ever The Angels of the Lord are going forth with Commission from the God of Heaven to curse the Earth because of the abominations of the Inhabitants thereof Therefore O ye people be awakened and warned and seriously consider what you are a doing for of a truth woe and vengeance will be powred out upon you in an unresistable manner except ye repent speedily therefore as one who is a follower of the Lamb through tribulations do I warn you in obedience to my King and Law-giver to kisse the Son least he be angry that ye may obtain mercy in this day of love and visitation to the sons of men for the Lord hath certainly determined to reap the earth of all corruption which aboundeth and superaboundeth therein the harvest is fully ripe and long hath the Lord born and forborn and his righteous Spirit hath long been oppressed even as a Cart is pressed which is laden with sheaves therefore will he plead with all flesh with the sword and with fire which none shall be able to withstand therefore be ye warned that your souls may live And though many of them make vows in their own wills to abstain from meats and women this shall stand them in no stead for in words they say they will do this and that but being out of Gods will lust burns in their hearts they not being come to that which would subdue the evill in themselves and these are they which the Apostle speaks of They promise others liberty whilest they themselves are the servants of corruption for of what a man is overcome by the same he is brought in bondage 2 Pet. 2.19 for at best they say they are of such a Saints Order which will avail them nothing they not being sanctified themselves were it so that Saints were of several Orders and Lifes but that 's an absolute lye and a false conception and this is only to blind the minds of the simple-hearted thereby to get the more several Inheritances and fat possessions to themselves by going in several habits and going under several denominations by which policy and deceit where they have been most believed received they have got the fattest and best possessions and notwithstanding go a begging and a roving up and down and take and receive from them who have great families to maintain which thing is grievous to be born in the Land but God will judge for this hypocrisie and deceit and ease the Land of this oppression of a Truth and their lyes and feignedness shall be laid open to every eye for the Saints were not of many Orders but of one only true Order which was truth in the Inward parts which is the root and ground of Religion in which they did not shut up themselves in houses and live in idleness and eat the bread thereof which the poor laboureth hard for and purchaseth by the sweat of their brows and with it these men under a pretence of holiness feed themselves without fear and this is not the order of Saints but of belly-gods for the Apostle writing unto the Saints saith He that will not work let him not eat He being an Example unto them though he laboured in the Gospel above many yea and the care of all the Churches were upon him yet notwithstanding his own hands ministred to his necessities which is a witnesse against the idle drones of this Generation which you take for your Confessors and they pretend to have power to absolve you from your sins and are not cleansed from their own Therefore hear and consider all people who are thus kept in blindnesse and ignorance there is nothing but the pure Holy Spirit of God which is able or can forgive sins for to it only is the power committed and not unto you who live in sins And therefore be awakened out of this horrid delusion for Christ Jesus said to his Apostles Whose
sins ye remit they are remitted they received also a Commission from God to preach the Gospel which none can do without the gift of the Holy Ghost which is only able to forgive save and destroy for though it was said to Peter Thou art Peter and upon this Rock will I build my Church this was not spoken unto him as he was a fleshly man but as he had the revelation of the Holy pure Spirit of God upon which the Church is built for the Church is in God who is the only ground and pillar of truth against which the Gates of Hell can never prevail though they prevailed against Peter after them words were spoken unto him so far as that he denyed his Master so here you that are not stark drunk and poysoned with this conception that the Incorruptible Church of God which is only built with living stones elect and precious Christ Jesus being the chief corner stone is built upon a man which is corrupt for it is evident Peter is dead and some of you say you have his bones amongst you which shews their foundation to be decayed had it been upon his person which never could be but upon his spirit by which he made that good confession That Christ was the Son of God which none can truly do without nor call him Lord. Therefore Pope Cardinals Monks Jesuites and Fryers of all sorts come forth and vindicate your selves and shew your Commission for what you do and from whom you had it for from Peter nor from Christ you are never able to shew you had it neither are you able to vindicate your Doctrine and Practice no further then your Inquisition Law and Prison will reach all which weapons will fail you in the terrible day of vengeance which is coming upon your heads for as you have made the Inhabitants of the earth drink deep of the Cup of Mistery Babylons Harlots you likewise shall be made to drink deep of the Cup of Gods vengeance even the dregs thereof shall be wrung out to you and your nakednesse shall be laid open for every eye to behold it And this is the word of the Lord God to you all which can never be recalled nor passe away unfulfilled upon your heads Therefore Oh ye Inhabitants of the Earth hast hast and repent least ye partake of her plagues for if ye endeavour and strive to uphold her ye shall of a truth partake of her Judgements Again I say be ye warned before it be too late and turn to the Lord by true repentance by forsaking and fasting from sin which if you do there is rich mercy in store for you and plenteous redemption in Christ Jesus who is the Light of the world who hath enlightned every one that cometh into the world with his true Light which reproves for sin and evill in the inward parts and if you believe in it and follow it and give up wholly to be guided by it you will become children of the Light and have an Inheritance with the Saints in the Light for the same which condemns you for sin would also purifie and cleanse you from all sin for it is the blood of the Covenant which is plentifully shed for lost and undone man and untill this be witnessed even a purifying washing and cleansing from sin there is no forgiveness for because of transgression the Law was added this is the truth of God unto you all sent amongst you to no other end but that you might be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth which would make you free and lead you out of the deceit of the deceiver as to be no longer deceived by him For seriously consider what have you from them whom you spend your time and substance about but the sight of a company of Images which they make you make Idols of by prostrating your selves before them which is absolutely against the righteous Law of God the Creator of Heaven and Earth see the Scripture Exodus 20. And thus you are fed as long as you feed them and put in their mouths but if you ever come to cease from feeding their inordinate desires they will soon prepare war against you though they have given you the name of Christians by sprinkling a little water upon you when you were children and knew not what they did and this for filthy lucres sake they fed you with the name of Christians but are wholly out of the nature themselves for the true nature and life of a Christian is pure peaceable and easie to be intreated not rendring evill for evill but alwayes overcoming evil with good doing unto all men as they would all men should do unto them which nature they manifestly shew they are out of By their fruits which is the Mark Christ said ye shall know them For it is very evident that none of them will be put into Prison for any thing pertaining to Religion but they will cause others to be imprisoned which thing Christians never did for their weapons were not carnal but spiritual and mighty through God to the pulling down of the strong holds of the kingdome of the man of sin neither did they wrestle with flesh and blood but with Principalities and Powers and spiritual wickednesse in High places which captivate the creature This was the Christians warfare which the Pope and all his Adherents are out of who swear men to destroy Creatures as long as they live contrary to Christ who came not to destroy mens lives but to save them who saith Swear not at all but the Pope as I said contrary to this swears men to destroy creatures as long as they live and to make away with flesh and blood with carnal weapons But they who smite with the sword shall be smitten with the sword and as they have loved blood blood shall they have to drink and so much the more because they have done it under the pretence of Religion and of the defending of the true Church and Faith which needeth not a carnal weapon to defend it for the true Church is in God therefore the gates of Hell cannot prevail against it let them be open never so wide and likewise the true Faith of Gods Elect gives victory over Sin Hell Death and the Grave and needeth not a Defendor but is able to defend it self and conquer all the powers of darknesse which ariseth up against it so it plainly appeareth they have not the true Faith and Church which must have a carnal weapon to defend it and it being so is the cause they cannot defend themselves without an outward power to uphold them and if once that fail them their kingdome would soon have an end and the true Christians kingdome shall flourish and prosper for their kingdome and dominion is invisible and without end being redeemed out of Kingdomes Tongues and Nations to follow the Lamb through many tribulations to enter into the everlasting Kingdome of their Father which is without end
so this is the true Christians life state and warfare to suffer persecution pray for enemies and to do good to them which hate them and ever ready to lay down his life for his vilest enemies and freely forgive as he desireth God his Father to forgive him and out of this life I testifie there is no salvation therefore read and consider a name will never save you without the nature and this nature you can never witness except you follow Christ Jesus through the Regeneration for until the new birth come to be witnessed and the new creature known that is renewed according to the likeness of him that created him for neither Circumcision availeth nor uncircumcision but a new creature there is but those two bare rule in man even Cain and Abel the one a Murderer the other a sufferer for which cause the sacrifice of the one was accepted and not the other though they both offered of the good yet Cain not being in the good was not accepted neither is any in that nature unto this day accepted for the Sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord therefore saith Christ Except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees you shall in no wife enter into the Kingdome of God Math. 5.20 Mark that and consider what their righteousness stood in even in the same that yours doth to this day even in meats and drinks and in the observation of dayes and times new Moons and Sabbaths and stand praying in the streets as I have seen some of you do and that before Images Therefore cease from those dead works that you may come to worship and serve the living God in spirit and truth for such only he seeketh to worship him And again Christ saith Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God Joh. 3. which is certain and true So all people upon the face of the whole earth may prove themselves by it whether they be in the Kingdome yea or nay for no unclean thing can enter there because it is the holy habitation of the glorious God of all power So be no longer deceived by the deceivers but search try and prove your selves If Christ be not in you ye are Reprobates 2 Cor. 13.1 Profess what you will dross and reprobate silver shall ye be called except ye repent and cease from this grievous Idolatry and will-Worship Priests and People without respect of persons Therefore whilst you have a little time prize and lay it to heart before it be too late for your Idolatry much exceedeth that of the Scribes and Pharisees much less your righteousnesse Therefore lay it to heart before things which belong to your eternal peace be hid from your eyes and you be left to perish eternally Consider it is a dreadfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God and if you slight this the day of your visitation ye shall in no wise escape them but shall feel them in dreadful vengeance and judgment which will be too heavy for you to bear and in the day which is nigh at hand you shall cry to the rocks and mountains to fall upon you to cover you from the wrath of him who hath long born with you like a Lamb checking and reproving you for evill by his pure light in your Consciences which if ye refuse to hear and obey you will feel him also as a Lion before whom you shall never be able to flee but by his dreadful wrath will you be consumed and all they who have executed judgment without mercy shall have the same rendred into their own bosomes for God is no respecter of persons And dreadful is that day which is dawning over your heads wherein the hearts of every one shall be made manifest and accordingly shall they receive at the hand of the Lord and not according to names habits or titles These are true and faithful sayings which shall shortly come to pass therefore blessed is he which is found waiting that he may not be found eating and drinking with the drunken nor smiting his fellow servant for an account must every one give of their talents Woe will be to the slothful and unfaithful servant when his Lord shall reckon with him for every one of you have received a talent and gift from God to improve and every particular of you shall be called to an account for it how you have made use of the Lords money Read the portion of him who hid his Lords money in the earth Math. 25.30 for it will assuredly be yours if ye do the like even to be cast into utter darkness where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth If any shall say have I a talent given me to improve seeing I was never told so by any of my Teachers which have been many a one upon whom I have bestowed a great part of my substance yea thou hast a talent given thee of God yet I do believe not any of the Teachers or Hireling Priests could tell thee or any so but of a truth a talent both thee and all men have which is given them of God to improve which talent is the Light wherewith Christ hath enlightned all men which Light shineth in the Consciences of all men and testifieth against all the deeds of darkness Joh. 1. This is the grace of God unto salvation which hath appeared unto all men which taught the Saints to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly and righteously in this present evil world which is the true improvement of it and to that end it is given and because it is given and hath appeared to all men therefore shall all men be left without excuse in the day of account and to plead ignorance will stand you in no stead in that day Christ Jesus saith The Kingdome of Heaven is within you speaking unto the Scribes and Pharisees yet they were not in the Kingdome for if they had they would not have crucified the Lord of glory But this is a Mistery to this dark Generation for Christ compared the Kingdome of Heaven unto a grain of Mustard-Seed and also unto a little leaven which a Woman took and hid in Meal and it leavened the whole lump therefore blessed and happy will they be who come to know this leaven in themselves that so they may be leavened into its own holy pure nature for the seed of the Kingdome is in every one though every one be not in it yet it is there as a grain of Mustard seed yet where it takes root and grows it becomes the biggest amongst all the plants and so covereth the whole earth in man Read the Parable and consider how the sower went forth to sow he sowed upon all sorts of ground but it was onely the good ground where it prospered and tooke root downward and brough forth fruit upward some thirty some sixty and some an hundred fold this is the true increase of the
yet served with corrupt mens hands and for bearing witnesse unto this Steven was stoned whose name ye adore but he is a witnesse against you and your practices herein for whilest you are observing the things before named you are but in the nature which stoned him for witnessing the end of all outward Ceremonies even of those which were true Figures and Types of the Substance which was to come and if them things were witnessed against as being unprofitable the Substance being come which was Christ may not yours much more be witnessed against as being wholly unprofitable which never were commanded nor types of any thing but of the mistery of iniquity being things of your own inventing through which you are wholly lead from the knowledge of God being meer vanities and inventions of mens hands so as you sow to your selves vanity you will have nothing else to reap in the end for the true Christians came to witnesse their bodies to be the Temples of God through the Spirit which dwelt in them which was the new creature which onely availeth for saith God I will be in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people This is Gods Covenant with his people which Covenant standeth onely with the New Creature And again saith he Vnto this man will I have regard unto him who is of an humble and a contrite spirit and trembleth at my word And untill you come to witnesse this state God Allmighty hath no regard as to accept any thing at your hands therefore prize the new-birth and seek vigilantly after it that ye might have acceptance with God and have an entrance into his holy Kingdome for no unclean thing can enter therein therefore there is a necessity of putting off the old man with his deeds that a new may be witnessed who after God is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse and where this comes to be witnessed the mind is renewed and all old things are passed away and all things become new which is the onely and alone blessed state and this onely availeth and standeth instead in the day of tryal when the hearts of all shall be made manifest and the secrets of all judged by Jesus Christ according to the everlasting Gospel of life truth and power for God hath verily appointed a day wherein he will surely judge the world though many say and think that he delayeth his coming not considering that his long-suffering and forbearance should lead them to repentance but of a truth he is not slack as some men count slackness concerning his coming though many say or think he delayeth but his day shall overtake them as a thief in the night even in a time when they look not for him Remember the old world they were eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage but the just man preached repentance unto them untill the overflowing stroak of Gods wrath swept them away and also just Lot whose righteous soul was dayly grieved with the unrighteous conversation of the wicked Sodomites who would not be warned but when they were told of the evil which came upon them they slighted the message and sought evilly to entreat the Messengers therefore God made them examples for Generations to come yea even to this Generation whose measure of iniquity surpasseth theirs and do you think God will spare you any more than he did them nay he will not for God bore untill they had filled up the measure of their iniquity as he doth yours now whose measure aboundeth more than any that ever yet went before you in lust pride and envy deceitfulness idleness and fulness of bread which were the sins of Sodome which crucified the Just even as you do this day dayly and hourly for it is in spirituall Sodom and Egypt where the Lord of glory is crucified Let him that readeth understand you need not a Stock or a Stone to put you in mind or the Image of a dead man to put you in mind how the Just suffered sixteen hundred years agoe if ye rightly considered for it is your wicked conversation which crucifieth him amongst you so that ye are as truly guilty of his blood as the Jews were though you keep them in oppression And these my words ye shall eternally witness if ever you come to a true conversion and fear of God for such shall come to see him whom they have pierced and mourn over him as a man mourneth over his only begotten son as saith the Prophet Therefore I declare unto you all there is not a man but is or hath been guilty of the blood of the Son of God for he is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the World and The whole world lyeth in wickedness as also saith the Apostle and it is the wickedness which slayeth the Lamb as it is written The just suffereth by the unjust Therefore repent that ye may find mercy or else his blood will be too heavy for you to bear and it will not justifie you to call him Lord Lord while the Devil reigns as Lord in you neither to call God Father while your works testifie openly to your faces that you are of your father the Devil whose works ye do for if ye were the children of God ye would do the works of God which are all righteous holy and true but that birth ye never yet knew for they who are born of God sinneth not as saith the Scripture And your praying to Mary will not serve your turns for it is only those who do the will of the Father which are accepted of him for saith Christ Jesus He that doth the will of my Father the same is my Mother Sister and Brother Mark that and consider what your invoking the Saints with vain Repetitions will availe you but only adde to your condemnation for Christ saith for every idle word a man shall give an account at the day of Judgment for though ye could say in that dreadful day Lord we have prophesied in thy name and in thy name have we cast out Devils yet consider the answer Depart from me ye cursed workers of iniquity I know you not the Lake is prepared for all such therefore consider I was sick and ye visited me not naked and ye cloathed me not I was an hungry and ye gave me no bread and if the portion of such be so dreadfull what will yours be who have cast into prison even woe and vengeance for evermore Therefore beware what you do and consider the true Christians never imprisoned any which may be a warning and an example unto you to follow that you may no further become guilty of the blood of the innocent for God will assuredly try you with these things Therefore a warning from the God of love is this unto you which if ye reject dreadfull will be the end thereof therefore in time consider This word is often in my heart towards you that you may lay it to
of sobriety and patterns of holinesse to others but on the contrary examples of folly and vanity and instead of being husbands to one wife marriage is forbidden amongst them which is a Doctrine of Devils which the Spirit did speak expressely should come and how these men govern their families may be clearly seen by tollerating of whoredome in such an open manner But whoremongers God will judge and all who tollerate and uphold them shall in no wise be cleer thereof for they are not ignorant that the Scripture saith That the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodlinesse and unrighteousnesse of men and notwithstanding are not onely wicked and ungodly themselves but tollerate and take pleasure in them which commit all iniquity with greediness And this is the apparent fruits of that ye call The Holy City where the Whore sitteth at the Chappel dore to be hired of men Oh cursed abomination that such a place should be called A Holy City but this painting wherewith this impudent Harlot is painted shall decay and all Nations shall see her shame and the true Holy City shall be made manifest unto the sons of men let down from Heaven as a Bride adorned for her Husband into which nothing that worketh an abomination or a lye can enter though the Gates thereof are never shut but stand open day and night in which they shall not need the light of the Sun nor the Moon to give them light who walk therein but the Lamb shall be the light thereof and they shall reign for ever and ever But in Rome they must have wax Candles to give them light at noon-day and all manner of abominable works are committed therein even as Sodom and the Inhabitants of Gomorrah whose measure of iniquity never exceeded them This is not written from a spirit of envy or malice but from a simple heart being truly moved of the Lord thereunto that the simple may come to understand and consider what they are a doing and repent and turn to the Lord to worship him in Spirit and in Truth for such onely he hath regard unto and they who refuse such a visitation of love he will surely smite with a Curse which they will in no wise escape Therefore whilest you have time prize it before it be too late for the Lord waiteth to be gracious unto you Oh thou Nation of France though thine iniquities hath surpassed many yet the Lord stands at the door of your hearts and knocks and if any open to him in this the day of his love he will come in and sup with him and make his abode there so will you become a holy habitation and Temple for the Lord to dwell and abide in so ye will not need to go to Rome to fetch pieces of dead mens bones nor Pardons as murderers and all manner of unclean persons do which she receiveth and harboureth as good Christians and will give them Pardons as many as they will and thus is the hands of the wicked strengthned under the name of Peters Successor who was a true witnesse against all sin and uncleannesse whatsoever who did not settle himself in an earthly possession for he was not his own but the Lords who said unto him When thou wast young thou girdedst thy self and went whither thou wouldest but now thou art old another shall gird thee and thou shalt go whither thou wouldest not which is far from the Popes example just as light is from darknesse Oh ye Inhabitants of the Earth my bowels my bowels yearneth towards you and your captivated state my soul pityeth to see how the shadow of death hath overshadowed you by which means you are kept in sore captivity and bondage but the Lord God of my life hath compassion on you and if you do not wilfully count your selves unworthy of his tender compassion by refusing his love he will rend the Vail from off your hearts and will cause the Light of the glorious Gospel to shine therein which will give you the light and knowledge of himself in the face of Jesus Christ that ye may know that glory honour and praise belongeth only unto him not unto man from whom ye are to cease for his breath is in his nostrils and is nothing to be accounted of and make not flesh your arm least instead of a blessing the everlasting curse shame confusion come upon your heads for ever Therefore give up your selves unto the Lord in obeying his Light in all things that you may come to witnesse a sanctified state even in Soul Body and Spirit that holy pure and undefiled Temples your bodies may be for the Lord to take delight to dwell and walk therein which is the end of all Ministrations Types and Shaddows for this ends them all even to witnesse the Immanuel which is by Interpretation God with us or in us and this is the mistery which hath been hid from Ages and Generations even Christ in his people the hope of their glory So read and the Lord give you understanding to know the things which belongs to your peace and everlasting rest which if you turn to the Light of Christ Jesus in you they shall not be hid from your eyes for as it is written The light of the righteous shineth more and more untill it comes to a perfect day So if you turn to the righteous Light which condemneth you for sin then a perfect and true discovery of all things will be made manifest unto you but if you hate the Light and bring not your deeds unto it ye will be as the wicked that walk in darknesse and know not at what they stumble so be wise lest this saying come justly upon your heads as it is written The wonderers shall perish for God is working a work-in these dayes which ye cannot believe though it be told you A warning from the Lord God of Heaven and Earth is this day unto you all whose day is sprung from on high and hath visited the sons of men for he delighteth not in the destruction of any of you but rather desireth that you should turn from your sins and live for our God is a God of mercy and judgement therefore if you turn unto him by true repentance and forsake your sins which is the only true repentance never to be repented of in which you will come to witnesse judgement and mercy to meet together and righteousnesse and peace will embrace each other in you which is the onely happy and blessed state which never can be known or witnessed but by the death of the man of sin for that nature can never come to have peace but horror and judgement for evermore These are words of love and truth unto you all in and through a true lover of all your immortal souls who is ready to sacrifice his life for his vilest enemies even for those who revile persecute and imprison him as he is at this day for the testimony of a
is an Abomination amongst many even to Turk and Jew even in cheating and cozening swearing and lying and open Abominations which causeth them to blaspheme the name of Christ therefore will the unresistable vengeance of God come irresistably upon you suddenly except you repent and plead no longer antiquity for your Religion seeing it is but of sin and uncleanness in which you openly live as all the heathen and profane ever did yea grosser Idolatry is not to be found amongst the sons of men than is in the Territories and Dominions of Rome this day though ye seek to paint your selves over with the name of God ye do but shew the more to every one that is not wilfully blind that ye are of Mistery Babylon the Mother of Harlots Mark that whose children are such as hold the truth in unrighteousness and have changed the glory of the incorruptible God as much as in you lyeth though his glory cannot be changed into flesh but you have perverted his true worship into a lye and make Images and prostrate your selves before them and yet say it is not Idolatry this is mistery Babylon which is now made manifest Glory Honour and Praise be to the Lord God for ever and let all the faithful say Amen for the secrets of the Whore is laid open with her Abominations and the place of her torment is prepared for her who hath thus made the Nations drunk with the Cup of her fornication out of which the Kings of the earth have been made drunk and not only have compelled the people of their Nations but others which thing will be heavy in the end if they repent not before it be too late for God is a righteous Judge who will render to every one according to their works without respect of persons time or places Therefore be wise O ye Kings be instructed O ye Judges of the Earth and serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling in your Generation and beware of persecuting of any people for that will unthrone you if ye meddle with the Throne of God which is the Consciences of men and women Therefore let it suffice you that your sword be turned against the evil-doer in the Land so will you be a praise to them that do well and blessed will you be of the Lord if ye put this in effect to wit to suppresse and expel Idolatry lying swearing drunkennesse and whoredome in the Land where ye are Rulers but if ye suffer those things to abound as they do this day in this Nation then know assuredly as the Lord God lives who hath created the Heavens and the Earth ye shall be expelled and those who shall be found more worthy than you shall be exalted in your stead though the Lord may take them from the Sheepfold as he did David and think not to stand because of your greatness and strength or by the multitude of an host Remember Nebuchadnezzar whom the Lord humbled unto the dust and made him to know that the Most High ruleth and reigneth in the Kingdomes of men Therefore ye Rulers of this Nation to you do I speak in particular I say hear and give ear and the words of my mouth shall be the words of truth and life unto you if ye receive them but if ye slight and reject them and will have none of the counsel of the Allmighty which through me is proffer'd freely unto you that ye may be warned from the evil which is to come then know assuredly that blacknesse and darknesse shall be your portion and habitation for ever and Gods dreadful face you shall never see but in judgement therefore I say give over for the Lord is raising to himself a Seed and People in this Nation which shall serve him with fear and trembling and hath purposed to establish them in peace and righteousnesse in this Land that living examples they may be unto all the Inhabitants about them and this hath the Lord determined to do in thee O France Therefore as I said ye Judges Rulers Officers Counsellors and King be ye warned as from the Lord that ye touch them not though you may have many false accusations against them and reports as people not fitting to live upon the earth as the innocent was in all Ages so reported to be as people being destructive to Law Rulers and Government and the like and enemies to the King Oh let this word be turned against these false Accusers and beware of touching the Innocent for for their sakes the Lord will rebuke Kings and he is the same as ever he was And this is a true and faithful warning and prophecy which shall shortly come to passe that when it come you may not be ignorant thereof and be left without excuse Remember Nineveh who at the preaching of Jonas repented and do ye take warning in time Consider and lay it to heart and look through the Nations ye Rulers thereof and weigh the thing seriously in your secret parts whether Nineveh or any other Nation could abound more in abomination than this Nation or that the city of Sodome or the inhabitants of Gomorrah was more in lust pride and fulnesse of bread then Paris surely is nay the like was hardly to be found or paraleld in all generations for pride hypocrisie lust deceit and murder and whatsoever is evill Therefore I say againe Be ye warned and take diligent heed that ye persecute not any whom the Lord is raising up amongst you bringing and sending amongst you to bear witnesse unto or against any thing even against the grievous Idolatry and whoredome which aboundeth amongst you and in all the Land and if ye instead of receiving their testimonies persecute and imprison them or doe them any harm better it were that a milstone were put about your necks and that ye were cast into the midst of the Sea for the Lord will avenge their innocent causes and utterly overturn their oppressors and will rebuke Kings for their sakes yea Potentates Armies Judges and Rulers as he hath done already in the Land of England and he who is mightier then the mightiest is on their parts and will rebuke and tear in pieces their adversaries for the Lord hath long born the iniquities of this Nation and his righteous Spirit hath long been grieved and he hath looked down out of his holy habitation amongst you and beholdeth your state and seeth that none of you so much as consider the cause of the needy and oppressed so as to ease their burthens but every one of you striving to maintain his own lust by cruelty fraud and oppression the like is not to be found in any Nation but the Lord will break the bonds of oppression and the oppressed shall goe free and be set at liberty to Gods endlesse praise for ever The mighty and terrible day of the Lord God is come and is at hand wherein the hearts of all shall be made manifest and accordingly shall every one