art and policy who shall learn him knowledge shall Oxford and Cambridge instruct his way their places are inferiour to him for Christ is our true word of prophesie far above all art or pretended skill God is the best University he will teach his people in all truth by an inward renewing the mind if God teacheth then let men lay down and say We cannot savingly teach we preach the letter but salvation is from above he ministreth the gift of healing and man cannot do it Ordination is ceased with the Apostles and God doth appear to us by his Son and under the name of two witnesses which is the Law and Testimony within that teacheth us better then all the Priests Therefore I desire we may all see and live under the teachings of God for he teacheth us the mystery of truth let God be true and every man a lyar you Assyrian Priests may prognosticate the people but Christ is the sure word of prophesie we will hear him with a laudable voice The Priests say Hear us we will not be silenced but for all this thou must be silenced Oh Priest for Kings and Lords and Nobles and Magistrates shall be silenced at his bright appearing There shall be silence in heaven for the space of half an hour Rev. 8.1 Who shall stand when he appeareth by a dividing of time I say all you Ministers have not yet preached the Gospel neither can any man preach the Gospel at all until he throweth down his own power of preaching and make Christ your Priest and Teacher and say you are no more a teacher of salvation but a keeper of cattel from your fathers and to work by the sweat of your brows for knowledge shall run to and fro and meet by voices and witnesses that shall throw off and extinguish all your negative voices that stand deffinating so high in Pulpits one witness of the Minister or Priest of himself is a negative untruth and is centred upon meesum which is by a singular vote and cannot stand for it is Christ alone that shall stand to preach for he is ordained and sent as a Mediator of himself between God and man Priests I believe in short time your people will be few in number for then and at that time the people shall betroth themselves unto the Lord and will refuse your teachings when they are inwardly taught of God they shall remove from you Pulpits and ye shall no more say to the people Know the Lord for they shall all know me that is they shall all know Christ to be the Minister and shall return to their first Love from whence they were fallen saying Come do thy first work as if Christ should say Christians come enter into your rest once in him and ever he is our Sabbath and Gospel of peace he is unchangeable to the end and that is a Sabbath indeed it is not your keeping a day once a week that can make a true rest it is the Sabbath within having Christ dwelling in thee by a true faith that is a Sabbath and a rest that cannot be taken away the receivings of Christ in thee quickeneth thee every moment from day to day which sheweth forth in thee a continual Sabbath From yeer to yeer thou shalt worship the Lord and keep the feast of Tabernacles when a Christian walketh in all outward righteousness that is a feast of one Tabernacle and to walk by inward righteousness that is the other feast of Tabernacles Ye shall once a yeer come up to keep the feast of tabernacles Zach. 14. These two Tabernacles the one for an inward the other for an outward are called first and second Tables which shall be the worship that shall be set up from day to day and yeer to yeer until Shilo come Priests it is not for you to keep a day once a week and be as evious as ever it is not to keep a day and be as covetous as ever that is not a true Sabbath Christ is the Sabbath and he is our eternal rest And Minister thou must deny thy self if ever thou wouldst enter into his rest for Christ sweetneth all things to a Christian every doubt is comprehended and comprimized in him he is the end of trouble of war and of every conflict he is our Gospel-peace to still the rage of all obstruction and for want of making Christ our teacher it causeth us to follow false Christs I mean Priests and Jesuites that teach their own Gospel and set themselves up by fat parsonages feigned lovers to deceive the people as if they had the minde of God at their will Humble-bee-Priests fat belly-goded-Parsons to declare to the people once a week as if God were tied to their set times so as the Jews did so do you keep a day once a week and yet crucifie the Lord and so do ye not knowing his eternal Sabbath Ye silly people I much condole your weakness in that you so much idolize the Priests and neglect your onely true rest The Lord appeareth to us every day aswel as on that day which thou callest the Lords day and truely ye are as legal as ever the Jews were though cunningly you call your Sabbath the Lords day yet cannot take away your observed forms the Lords day is every day Therefore Priest throw down thy observation Christ is the Sabbath of rest his day is every day from yeer to yeer Ye Doctors and Priestical Ministers you are very censurous I cannot but further relate a Pulpit-story of this Doctor Hill by some godly persons of neer relation to him having some discourse with them they did not comply with his element but were a little contrary to his judgement not pleasing to his allegation which to affront them in their judgement he thought to met with them in the Pulpit took a text of Scripture to cross them but as I understood God met him in the way and frustrated him in his first text whereof he took another text and in the same manner God met him again and blasted him upon his third subject so that he judged himself stricken and came down from the Pulpit and related a sad story to some that God justly punished him by reason of his inveterated spirit of bitterness so that I finde God met him by way of etilliation as we have an example in Jacob and Esau the Lord punished Jacob for taking his brother Esau by the heel Therefore let no man think so low of his brother but that God can spiritually raise men to higher knowledge then Cambridge can do And let not Ministers and Doctors be so high now God appeareth to the weak things of the world to confound the haughtiness of the proud for we have a sure word of prophesie far higher then you can teach Doctors and Ministers ye preach of a Prince that ruleth in the Air I pray you what is that if you were as far from that as you are from right disciplying you would have but little to do with it Doctor I must tell you what it is that ruleth in the Air it is money which is the King of all the creatures that ruleth in the Air it buyes and sells and captivates all things under it silver and gold bewitcheth the world and you would spend your lives in the Pulpit for it and it is called but the Prince that rules in the Air and beguileth the Priests that preach for hire Christs is a free-Ministery and an endless Priesthood yours is failable I can give relation of a Priest that removed himself from about 40. l. a year for a place of 300. or 400. l. a year This Priest cunningly bewitched his people of the new place where he came and in the midst of his Sermon related to them That God had brought him thither in a cloud from the substance of 40. l. a year to 300. l. a year And was not this a cunning dawber to delude the people by a dark cloud Numbers Leviticus and Deuteronomy declareth That the Priests shall have no inheritances therefore I finde they that have bought Tythes and Impropriations have bought and sold that which was none of their own Lord Protector I desire you would give Tythes and impropriations to the widows the fatherless the blinde and the lame and to the poor as Christ would have it done so let it be that every Parish be eased of collection and praise God for the great good you have done for them A poor messenger a disciple separate for the kingdom of Christ I could have added much more to this work but in short I have declared some of the minde of God Daynus A messenger of the new Covenant under the Ark-angel of the Covenant As John was sent a messenger to the Jews to declare the kingdom of heaven at hand so I Daynus am sent to the whole Israel of God to shew the kingdom of heaven is come in power to me and I am the first upon the feet restored of the dry-bones of Israel Daynus to shew the day and year of the Lord and his year excepted FINIS
sowing Pillows under great Mens Elbows you will speak a little of Covetousness but much less of blood and oppression and little or nothing of devouring one another for that will touch my self or my parsonage O draw the Curtain there see that God is angry with you and telleth you by his Prophet Micah 3. that ye shall move out of your holes and Ezekiel the Prophet saith The people shall be taken from your mouth and Zachary saith I heard a howling of the Shepherds for their glory was spoiled and Malachy saith Ye rob my Store-house therfore the land is cursed with a curse If ye Ministers should preach against all Impropriations as that ye dare not do for losing your Parsonages lose them and lose all for then preaching will cease and there will be many that will remove our Feet from the Pulpit when every truth shall be defined by two or three witnesses what will becom of us Pulpittians it will be to us as the mourning of Hadadrimmon indeed that is the way to bring down the pride of Palestina and Capernaum exalted so high you Pulpitsayons are set so high as Lord speaker who shall controul you yet your power must come down when your Pulpits shall have never a leg yet the two witnesses shall be upon their Feet to plead for equity and justice which ye do not ye preach for your own ends and cannot satisfie truth alwaies full of repetition but nothing of any new work that God will do in the earth If a lay-man should speak higher things then those you declare you would say as Festus said to Paul that he was mad Ye have slandered many good Christians that have been faithful witnesses to Christ and learned the language from the Heavenly University far passing Oxford and Cambridge Truly we have many Doctors in Oxford and Cambridge that enjoy so much that it is intolerable These blind Doctors Doctor up the Common-wealth and deceive the people impropriating to themselves more then Food and Rayment which is contrary to Christs example they be more in shew then in substance getting to themselves high tolerations which are not of Christ whereof you shall lie under his wrath saying How hard a thing is it for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom Yet take to thy self the instruments of a foolish Shepherd Doctor I am as a fool amongst the Doctors I cannot but tell you the truth for God hath raised my spirit he hath encouraged me to speak of your shame and not to be daunted Some Ministers now of late have made themselves Doctors hoping for some of these great places in Oxford and Cambridge which will prove but veynal or a veyne uncurable that runneth it self out by many obstructions or clashings one against another Minister against Minister there is not that Antipathy nor that Universality for some shall preach up their power and some shall preach it down This Eclipse or terrible shaking will hold until the power of your Priesthood fall at the power of the eternal Priest you must throw down your power at Christs Feet for the Holy Ghost shall be all our teacher Ministers your mouthes shall be stopped Micah 3. you shall not divine you shall no more say to the people Know the Lord for they shall all know me from the greatest to the least and that is by spiritual revelation or by an inward knowing which far passeth your learned places your Colledges are filled with many scandalous Ruffinous Fellows and of a ranting Crew very litteral and not knowing the truth translators and usurping the word of the letter to their own turnes setting themselves higher then the teachings of God thinking lay-men inferior to themselves as if God could not raise up Children to Abraham out of those Stones To be taught of God is the best University for all your wit and skill and univesality of tongues cannot make one godly person for every gift and perfect giving is from above God ministreth grace to whom he pleaseth he is the Minister then how canst thou be a Minister for God ministreth to all things then yeild up thy Priesthood to him he is the Fountaine and all the Streames must go to that Fountaine You Doctors are set so high and shall become low more contemptible then the Bishops were for God will set you as a mark to shoot at or as a lost Jerusalem for the Bittern or Owle to sit in for you have kept all things at a distance blinding the people and keeping them under the letter by the hearing of Faith without inward Faith as if salvation were by the letter and full freedom by the speaker They will not let to say they have begotten souls as if salvation were simply from their teachings And thus they silence the people under their bands Ah go go and tell them so that they silence the people and cannot give them spiritual life but keep them at a distance as a Horse in a Mill alwaies going round teaching them repetition and repetition learning and yet not come to the knowledge of truth but Paul saith Prove all things yet hold fast that which is good Then lay your heads together and ye shall finde the Ministers of our time very faulty They call themselves the Ministers of God and sit in Christs place In the name of the Lord we cast you forth and we discarge your false power for Christ is Adminstrator and you are fleshly and litteral and have no more power to preach then another man for Christ is the Minister of God and giveth us spiritual life to heal our infirmities and he is our example to walk by then lay by your covetousness and pride and follow his example set your selves to know God and then you shall find great comfort for it shall stir up the gift which is the best teaching Ministers cannot live themselves and how should they give life to others they are full of guilt and scandal and yet they accompt themselves high Doctors or Ministers of God when indeed ye are not so but deceivers of the people for there is no Minister but Christ alone though ye stand so high in the Pulpits you must come down at the appearing of Christ in his power when all flesh shall bend both things in Heaven and things on the Earth and things under the Earth shall all be dispowered and dis-throned when nothing shall stand but ordination and that is Christ ordayned a Priest and a Minister for ever he alone is our spiritual teacher and you Ministers are worse then Lay-men for taking upon you that title of Ministery and cannot live free from covetousness which is Idolatry and you are idolatrous Priests which deceive the simple Methinks I could stand an hour or two in your idolatrous places to preach as you do but my conscience informeth me otherwise Therefore I lay the Ax to the root of your one-legged Pulpits to cut them down for you Pulpitsayons must come down and set upon your low
which I suppose wil be betwixt 50. or 57. or sooner that your pulpits wil down Farther To vindicate thy Calling thou sayest thou art the Minister of God so wise who may gainsay it but Solomon saith There is more hope of a fool then of him that is wise in his own conceit If thou beest the Minister of God then Christ must lose his place or thou shalt lose thine for none can say I am a Minister of God without he be sent of him saying Go or go tell them of my resurrection I doubt you will hardly prove any such calling yet we finde Christ was sent God he sent his Son in the similitude of sinful flesh once for all as the Minister of eternal life then why should men hang upon Doctor Speakers that have learned their skill from Oxford and Cambridge Ye Pulpitsayans must down one witness cannot be tolerated for he appeared to the twelve Apostles and David calleth us the Ends of the Earth that God will appear to Where two or three are met in my name I will be in the midst of them which doth debarre one mans speakal tongue for Christ is Divine of himself and man is to be joyntly as one of the Brethren and shall plead for righteousness among the rest and to live by the teachings of the Holy Ghost without Dictators or cunning deceivers And let all the Doctors high Priests and Prelates know they are but as other men and have the same infirmities not able to stand then no high Priest or Minister but faylable Then let us all talk together of the goodness of the Lord and what he hath done for our Souls acknowledging our sins one to another and pray for one another and give to one another the right hand of Fellowship which will be a sweet savour of goodness to laud the Lord together Doctor I know none but Christs Disciples that were tolerated to preach and not any but such as he said unto Go and learn all the Nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father Son and holy Ghost Mat. 28. he appeared to the two Maries saying Go which was a lawfuller calling then any you can shew and he gave some of his Disciples gifts of healing which you have not received Doctor one mans tongue cannot comparmise nor comprehend the full truth of God as the Church may do by many voyces and witnesses if Christ himself the eternal Priest denyed himself from his own power of speaking how ought you to be cautelous of speaking your own words though in a Pulpit I marvel how Pulpits first came up they be much a kin to your Fonts where ye disciple Babes in Clouts which is as a Monster that shall never come to perfection There be many things more that I may tell you of Malachy 3. saith Bring the Tythes into my store-house as if by an illusion he should say For the Blind the Lame the Fatherless the Widow and the Aged to relieve the Oppressed that men might be eased of Collection to the Poor in every Parish and for all such as want And you Pulpit-men work with your hands as others do for you are almost at the end of your period having so much of the Letter and so much example of Christ that I wonder with Paul when he said Who hath bewitched you that you do not obey the truth Ye Doctors are carried away from Christ by Self-ends and personal interest as great Tythes which is utterly unlawful for them that call themselves Ministers of God and yet rob his Store-house and commit Sacriledge against God Under the Law the order of Gods House was changed by the Priests and the Prophets reproved them for it under whose reproach ye Doctors and Ministers lye to this day in that ye rob God of his interest Bring the Tythes into my Store-house for now I reprove you under the testimony of Christ There was a Treasury in the time of the Apostles and Christ which the people ministred unto and brought in their gifts consecrating their love to Gods house as Joanah and Susanna ministred of their substance to the Treasury and the Widow brought in her mite which was received with great acceptation which way of Gods worship you and the Bishops have strangled Gods House and got those priviledges into your own hands Again I must tell you both Minister and People impropriations would make the poor of such places merry if they might or could have their right given them but we have so many devouring Foxes have stoln them away and you have not pleaded for them in the Pulpits but you falsly keep those benefits to your selves ye blind guides of the people that make clean the outside and the inside is full of putrification These Pulpitians have spoyled the Commonwealth of Israel you have been one of the Hornes of Oppression otherwise we might have had the Government of Christ set up before now which is by Four and Twenty as we may call Governallity which is Governation A Parliament of Four and Twenty which should be for commonality but you have stood so high in your Pulpits that the silly World believeth that your Pulpits were ordained of Christ which were nothing so but arose from Bishops Deanes Chancellors Deacons or Doctors of Divinity as ye call them men of low descent yet raised from those two Fountaines Oxford and Cambridge pethy places for learning of the stammering tongue Christ gave gifts of learning which was not to one but to more then one as if he should say Let no man silence the people as he said John was a burning and a shining Light but I have greater witnesses then that of John for the work to finish so that one mans tongue shall not stand but the talking of witnesses shall manifest every truth for Pulpittian Christ questioneth thy Authority thy People shall speak and thou must answer otherwise the truth cannot be established without much trouble and many witnesses which produceth the grand voyce of the Church And therefore ye Taskmasters down with your Hour-glasses many words in your own tongue cannot satisfie the people neither can you make out truth by your own tongue Noah was a Preacher of righteousness but not in a Pulpit and Abraham preached forth Faith he believed and it was counted for him for righteousness The good life of those two Fathers preached righteousness to the people and so should yours be to act in righteousness without partiality of the tongue It is not the hearing nor the preaching but the doing of righteousness for to enquire the way and not to walk in it is a vain thing We ought all to live up to God in truth and that is the best teaching To disciply and distinguish truths is good learning and the best preaching to answer the things of conscience by the grand power of the Church and not to rest upon the mouth of one teacher neither do I know any Minister after the flesh but like Minister like
People all full of frailty then how canst thou be a teacher and art but equal to other men in sin and sensuallity it is the Sheerds of Gods free mercy that redeemeth thee as well as others What is the University more then any other place your Latine tongue is is but an empty thing it must be onely the Divine power that keepeth thy soul alive and causeth thee and me to live which is above any external power neither can godliness be learned it is from the Ministerial power of Christ and from the gift of God and not by the hearing of faith but thou must have a personal faith of thine own and to prove thy self and lay open thy self to the Church and let thy moderation be known to God and openly to the people and pray for one another to Christ thy Minister for by him we have boldness to the Throne of grace and are made capable of his Ministery which cannot be done by any fleshly Priest which is but as all other men though he may smooth up the people as if he were the Minister of God and so commit Blasphemy against the holy Ghost taking away Christs Authority making themselves Pulpittians to tye up the consciences of such as follow them as if they had full power given them of God Ye Doctors and Ministers ye must fall some degrees worse then your Fathers the Bishops the light of the Lord shall so cleerly usher in that you shall be discovered and Christ shall be chiefe Speaker to his flock one Priest one People one Shepherd one Sheep of the elect Abraham called and sanctified by Christ and not by mens teaching For Mr. Speaker Doctor of tongues you may say What do we stand for a Cypher Yes for Christ is all our teacher and you Ministers lye under the vail as well as others Therefore Minister lay down thy false power and deceive the people no longer and know thy self as low as others and much inferiour to Christ Oh take not away his Divine Authority which properly belongeth to the Son of God Christ he preacheth continually to them that are neer and to them afar off he preacheth to every Kindred Tongue Language and Nation he saith My Sheep hear my voyce not your Sheep he saith My Disciples keep my sayings not your sayings For my part I accompt all you Pulpittians to be but false Christs yet I disparage not the gift of godliness in you but I adhere to any thing that is good in you Christ saith They shall come in my Name and decieve the People And truly ye Ministers and high Doctors must needs be the men for you call your selves the Ministers of God standing in the high place and alas ye are no more then lay-men that never were at Oxford and Cambridge you be men of infirmity as others be and therefore your power will fall and cannot stand O General O Parliament O People why do you commit error against God and his Christ to follow after fained lovers which are but Ministers of the letter and have not the gifts of healing neither are they sent for it is Christ that ministreth the gift to all keepeth all alive by a power from above and every person that is godly shall have a personal power in himself from Christ to stand upon his Feet without a Pulpit-preacher for man cannot preach of himself except he was sent of Christ saying Go or go forth as he said to his Disciples But now in our dayes God hath appeared to us by his Sonne and no other and Christ saith If I go from you I will send you the Comforter that shall teach you in all truth Object What shall he teach the Parsons Answ Yes as well as the People for Minister and People shall be but Sheep in his Fold for Christ is the high Priest his Lips shall preserve knowledge ye shall all know me from the greatest to the least there must be a personal knowing of God by faith as Abraham and Noah lived and walked with God and it was accounted to them for righteousness every degree from the Doctor to the People shall know God and stand upon their Feet without a Preacher whose breath is in their Nostrils silly Guides not able to stand of themselves neither can they Doctor up others but may go teach our Children of seven years old I am but a Fool to speak that which no man hath declared but I can have no rest for Sions sake nor give my self any rest until I see the work of God accomplished in the Earth which is the procreation of the Jews that shall come forth and stand upon their Feet Army Army O Arm of the Lord Almighty Army shall stand upon their Feet Ezekiel 37. which I suppose will be within four or five years after 1650. to the admiration of the World Ye Ministers and Doctors Definators ye would fain hold up your high places but truly your Temple must fall for Christ saith There shall not be one Stone left upon another that shall not be thrown down for your Worldly power will be at an end when Christ the great Shepherd shall call forth his Flock to stand upon their Feet and live without your Declarations when all men shall declare out of the gift and not by the letter to speak the things they have received of God and shall refuse your teachers that are not sent of God but be End-workers and Mony-merchants that shall be dissolved and cast out of the Temple as Mony-changers for God will set up a disciplying when your power lyeth low as Doctor Hill's Bones and we may say with the Prophet Ezekiel Blow Wind and shake the four quarters of the Earth to raise those dry Bones that have been very dry so long that they come up in the Valley of Jesus Christ for he shall sit to judge the Heathen round about Put in the Sickle the Harvest is ripe the Wine-press overfloweth multitudes multitudes shall usher in they shall be a willing People in the day of Gods power but all ye Doctors are so high and justitious that ye keep Christ off from his regal power and Authority therefore ye shall fall with reproach under Armegiddon Oh Arme Arme Arme of the Lord. Finally Doctor you stand in Christs place Man may speak out his judgement that another may answer and Christ he ministreth to all every truth must be proved affirmatively but not by one mans tongue and you shall be called to account by the grand Church for the Prophet John saith There shall be Lightning Thundering Voyces and Witnesses First the Light of the Lord appeares and shall break down the Constellations Secondly he will Thunder forth Justice Judgement and Equity in the Earth by a personal power of Saints under him The Apostle Peter tells you so that the Saints must judge the World and you the Angels of the Churches too Thirdly he will appear by many Voyces that shall give sentence and decide every truth
all to me he is a Mediator and a Minister without your deffinating It is not your Church going or all your preaching that can do me any good but what I have received inwardly of God that keepers my life Christ saith He that heareth me heareth him that sent me and he that believeth me believeth him that sent me so that we ought to believe Christ and be taught of him alone for teachings of men are not the spirit of truth He saith If I go away I will send you the Comforter that shall teach you in all truth so that we must prove every spirit and hear the voice of Christ onely once in the Lord and ever in him once a year and ever from year to year to keep a Sabbath on Earth as it is in Heaven and so stand free and effectual to stand and live and live and stand fast in the liberty wherein Christ hath made us free and be no more entangled under the yoke of bondage of Priests that are in so many mindes and know not the truth Twenty Ministers twenty mindes and yet Mediators of the letter and tie themselves to observe dayes and new-moons beggerly rudiments full of legality and superfluity of words I wonder the world is so miserably seduced by them as if they could teach Heaven in the Mass-houses or Churches as ye call them which if men could teach Heaven what need we then to look upon Christ having so many merit-mongers or soul-saving Ministers Oh but say they We declare the minde of God and Christ to the people as if God were not present in all places or as if he were afar off and must have Embassadours to satisfie his elect Oh ye blinde guides doth not God keep up the full creation by a providence then much more by his power for Almedium teacheth in the Mount of his power which is far above your teachings and truly it is for you to leave off teaching that have stood singularly in Christs place so long and done little good it is time now to call an assembly to sit and set up thrones for Justice Oh people ye men of Galilee that stand gazing I believe I shall see you abhor your earthly gods and look upwards I mean you shall abominate all those leaders of silly women that bewitch the world in their own forms Can we think God is tied to the outward means once a week Is not he the same every day yesterday to day and for ever Ye endworkers that object and say Ye be the means that God hath ordained ye false Christs Mediators that stand so high to limit that holy one of Israel Is not God and his Son wise enough but they must have your help Had not we Abraham Moses and the Prophets and the Son of God after them to confirm all that are once entered into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God which is a free state free from the teaching power of a man and being set at liberty by Jesus Christ Then let us be no more entangled under their Priestly yoke Ye silly simple Priests you must come under the teachings of God as all other men must do when Justice Divine Thrones of Justice are set up then God will purge all you sons of Levi. But methinks I hear some high Priests say Why do you not quote Scripture to prove what you write My answer is Christ is the end of legal Scriptures and you have quoted Scriptures long enough and could never make out truth Christ is the word and the end of all Scriptures and standeth in his place when all Scriptures shall be failable and every vision shall be unfolded at the beatifical vision of Christ Jesus and truly Scriptures are good but Christ is the principal then let us hold fast to the principal and wave the letter Christ is the foundation and every mans work ought to be built upon him Men and Prophets in the old time spake as they were moved by inspiration and yet it was but by the by or by the moving power of the holy Ghost so being written by the inspiration of Christ sheweth that he is the Word far beyond all Scripture written by men that stand but by Christ and are failable when he cometh in power He is the chief medium and principal Senator and we must throw off our earthly gods I mean all our Priests onely to rest upon him for until then we shall have no true Sabbath He is our Sabbath if we come out from the Priests then he will give us true rest he is our Vine to live under therefore my bowels yearne over the people to see them led off from Christ by legating Priests as wise-men and Lawyers standing in Pulpits when grave Christians shall be taught by some young boyes standing in their Priestly Office so high in Pulpits it is a great shame that godly men and women do not come out from them and stand upon their feet and say Christ alone is my Teacher I have been much deluded by proud Priests by covetous Priests by scandalous Priests by young Priests by ruffinly Priests by swearing Priests by literal Priests by historical Priests and by deceiving Priests that have kept us from the power of Christ and freedom of Sabbath tying the people to their set-forms or what they call a Sabbath Their mass and dirge shall down for every form shall cease but one and that is the Government of Christ that shall stand when all your Priestly power shall lie as low as Doctor Hill's bones Doctor thou canst prove but one calling and that was a Law to Adam That thou shouldst work and labour by the sweat of thy brows as others do none excepted and no other calling of Ministery canst thou prove Therefore thou must without dispute throw down thy trade of preaching at Christs feet of two Witnesses called the Law and Testimony writ in thy conscience People I can but controverse with you ye say ye know God and love God and fear God I say No ye know the Priests ye fear the Priests and ye love the Priests otherwayes ye would renounce their wayes contrary to Christs The Priests are dissemblers but Christ is our true Minister They tell thee a fair tale that Christ is simply good he is full of pure simplicity an high attribute so low yet above all the Priests how are ye married to Christ and yet follow after fained lovers If Christ hath redeemed you think it enough follow not after those that deceive silly men and women and lead them captive from Christ as if we could not enjoy Christ without the teachings of men having the Spirit of God and the Scripture with the example of Christ and the Prophets and having so much Apostolical divine light methinks they might guide us in the true way Methinks I see the Priests grow shamed the light discovereth their veile cast over the people and the people begin to see them so black and Christ in his brightness
martyrs Come may the Church say Let us eat her up for God hath given her into our hands and Christ shall raign and shall put all authority under his feet IT shall be a peaceable Dominion when Christ shall raign over the Earth by a personal power of Saints that shall fully hold forth the Scepter He shall come to raign in power over the earth till all rule and authority is put under his feet Kings must throw down and stoop to his peaceable Dominion he shall make straight every crooked way his endless Priesthood shall teach when every mouth shall be stopped he giveth peace which the world cannot give he saith Walk in my way I will be your Sun and your light when every form and written declaration shall cease and be no more I would have all men live above the flesh by a heavenly procreation or inclination of doing good and that is perfection indeed for by doing well thou shalt have joy unspeakable which will be as a whole kingdom in thy soul I would have Gods people preach forth restoration and desire to see a full manifestation of things made out as the Lord alone to be all our teacher he is our Protector and not man his Priestly power shall be a peaceable Dominion when Monarchy is put down though Kings and Lord stands in his place and Protectors stand in his place yet who shall stand when he appeareth by a more brighter shining light when all shall be forced to give up their dignities stoop to his peaceable Dominion Isa 66. I will send them to declare my glory among the Gentiles shewing the great day of Jehovah when men shall finally throw down their high titles and then peaceable Dominions shall raign What Priest will plead for my name saith the Lord against them that set themselves so high as Lord and King and set themselves up by earthly enjoyments Therefore God hath raised my Spirit to plead against all the Priests and to lay open their folly that call themselves Seers in Israel and yet keep all things as they were ye have not yet preached the Gospel but denied the Son of God and the power of his resurrection for ye have given his glory to men Therefore as yet ye have not preached the Gospel nor laid your life down as yet for the truth You have declared the History of the Prophets and of Peter and Paul but we have had enough of it without you would preach them out of their Graves But which of you Priests will vindicate life for the eternal Gospel to set Christ upon his throne to say he is King alone and Lord alone and so deny outward honour and acknowledge nothing honourable but the Lord and that is true Gospel thou must tread down all for Christ thou shalt tread upon Scorpions and Serpents and they shall not hurt thee it is the words of our Saviour thou must tread upon Kings Lords and Princes and Nobles and Rulers if thou beest true for Christ he is the everlasting Gospel thou shalt cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils it is the Lord that preacheth peace keepeth all alive fear not man or any power of men formed against the Gospel it shall not prosper when he appeareth Kings must lay down Princes must lay down Protectors must lay down Lords must lay down Magistrates must lay down Priests must lay down thou must lay down and I must lay down the Stars and Constellations shall fail at his appearing the negative voice shall not stand for he will give power to his two witnesses to plead for all truth before a Judgement-seat of the Saints when this Government shall be taken away and changed at his bright appearing when all formed Gospels of men shall be changed to a new Sabbath when men shall be forced to lay down for the Gospel when they shall ascribe to him kingdom power and glory and that is the full end of preaching to set God upon his throne he is the everlasting Gospel of peace and I know no other Gospel but that he should rule above every man in dignity and honor And that Lord man should not pollute his holy name Ye high Doctors may Object saying What is the power of Christ you speak so much of I answer It is the power of God that shall silence the great mens spirits when it shall apear it shall take away their sting as from King and Lord and Bishop that have formerly persecuted the Saints Christ saith All power is given me in heaven and earth and God saith Vengeance is mine I wonder how men dare do as they have formerly done to put an end to some of Gods chosen people by taking away life and free-creation and by silencing some others in prison which is a type of hell and dare not kill them lest heaven and earth should cry out against them as that it hath done long since Ye Ministers go with your hands full of blood by flattering men in their blood-thirsty-way by sowing pillows and cushions under their elbows very loth to tell them the truth from God saying Why do you take away life and free-creation from the creatures of God seeing life and death is in the hands of the Lord then what hath man to do to take away life from any of the creatures of God it is an intolerable thing which of you Priests will ingage for Christ in this cause saying Oh great men I doubt you will sink in the lake of Gods irrecoverable vengeance for vengeance is the Lords and he will give it them to drink for the Soul that sinneth it shall die Let men take heed how they act and see that they act in righteousness better they had never been born then to be bloody persecutors to offend any of those little ones of Christ either by death or imprisonment GOd teacheth us by his Son he is the sure word of prophesie our everlasting Gospel which may reprove the literal teachers that call the Scriptures the Gospel when indeed they are but the writings of men put together as a History but Christ is the eternal mystery Christ Jesus alone is our eternal peace free from failable mixture it is God from the beginning he is the word of life beyond the written word of man so is the eternal decree in paradise and as by a further manifestion of his Son to preach and declare forth all truth far above the writings of men which is not the word of God but mans word spoken in part nd prophesied in part as Paul declareth Therefore the Scripture cannot fully be called the word of God but mens traditions and part of the minde of God they prophesied in part they writ in part they believed in part of the mystery of God but Christ he comes in the volume of the book he is our sure word of prophesie far higher then any Scripture and for that cause Scripture cannot be fully called the word of God except
God hath writ it Christ never pen'd down the mystery he is the final end of perfection The promise was made in him 400 yeers before the local Scripture the promise was before the Law and righteousness came by faith and not by local Scriptures Christ opened the seals in order He is the word from the beginning John 1. The word was at the beginning before the traditions of men were written and shall stand till fulness come which shall then be failable perfection shall put an end to imperfection when mans writing is done away the Son of God is that wisdom from the decree of God to make out his full work and shall stand when all mens Scriptures shall be failable David cryes out in the 19 Psalm saying Who knows the errors of his life so that men and Prophets may be unstable in their judgement All Scriptures were written by the permission of God and men declared of things a far off and could not fully speak of things to come but as they spake in part Heaven and earth shall pass away but not one tittle of Gods word which was his ancient decree from the beginning before men writ the Scriptures his decrees were and his councel shall stand he spake the word and it was done if Scriptures could be the word of God then common Christians might write by inspiration and call it the word of God which that they cannot do for it is but mens declaration yet the Priests say They preach the word of God though they deceive the poor people with the letter men may be very plyant and prophetical as the Prophets were and write many sweet truths yet the decree of God shall stand when written words are failable though they write after their judgements they shall be failable being yet in the flesh for Christ is our sure word of prophesie far above Scripture to declare what the word is first it is God Secondly it is perfection Thirdly it is his councel and decree Fourthly it is spiritual light from above Fifthly it is a word of life that preacheth out from the mouth of God Therefore the written letter is not the word of God but put into them from a spiritual ingenuity or received of God by a spiritual power from above being writ by failable man that hath received in part of that full perfection Christ is the full end of all mystery he preacheth upon the mount hear him with a laudable voice he inwardly teacheth his wisdom is excellent past finding out mens writings and teachings are subject to change but the word of God is the same from the beginning not any thing of God shall fail Mount Sion shall ever stand stable and firm the Lord is unchangeable though mens teachings fail and Scriptures fail and Prophets fail and Priests fail and all outward forms and ceremonies fail though outward Sabbaths fail yet the two witnesses shall not fail the two anointed ones shall stand before the God of the whole earth if Christ and the Spirit dwell in us they shall teach us how to live in all truth though man in his ignorance lieth under the letter and liveth altogether by line and verse the Law being a Schoolmaster or Teacher to him yet when he is redeemed by the Spirit he walketh above the letter knowing himself free incorporated and brought within the precincts of the glorious liberty of the Son of God Christ is the sure word of prophesie far higher then the Scriptures which the Doctors call the word of God and is not but part of the truth but Christ shall endure when all mens writings be as low as Doctor Hill's bones and shall be failable before the great manifestation of the light that shall appear when all shall bend at the Scepter his wisdom teacheth all truth men teach for envy some for pride and some for money and some teach other mens works and yet call it the word of God though they can declare nothing out of the gift but what they have received by learned phrases and much slight the word of the eternal Covenant by adoring the writing and preaching of men which are outward literal and not the word of God but Scriptures of men as Chronicles and Histories and shall be failable I do not deny the good as is in the Scriptures but I adhere to it so far as it answereth to the righteousness of God and so far we ought to walk plyant to the Scriptures as by the example of Christ his rule ought not to be compounded with other mens works but that his fame should be seen alone for by that means the Priests do preach mens praises more then the honor and authority of Christ Now in all your learning I desire you would learn to know Christ the sure word of prophesie which is God alone above the Scriptures and so the Scriptures are but mens traditions laid together chronicled up what good men had declared by history for a memorial or example for us that come after and not to look for spiritual life by the Scriptures for that is the free gift from above by his grace but to look on them for an exhoraation Christ saith In the Scriptures ye think to have eternal life yet he doth not say In them there is eternal life for he is life eternal and he hath done all things well Prophets and Priests and Men may write yet of themselves can establish no truth for Christ is the stable center of all he is Almedium that preacheth in the Mount he is our sure word of prophesie yet he writ no Scripture nor declared himself by letter yet many Scriptures have testified of him he was and is exemplary to all Therefore I would have all men live to the Lord above that which is written of men for what is written but shall be failable or what light can keep its full oriency before the Sun every borrowed light shall be failable I desire men would not hang so much upon the letter Christ Jesus is unfailable he is yesterday to day and for ever Let us set Christ above all literal Scriptures which shall contingently fail when he cometh in power he shall put an end to every work Christ is the prime reality of all true integrity he is the eternal word of life all things live by the decree of God finished in us his promise was above 400 yeers before any Scripture was writ given to Abraham by faith and not by Scripture in that we ought to know somthing above the letter which is the word of faith a sure prophesie it is not the word preached that can redeem us except we have personal holiness in us by a right knowing of God by inspiration otherwise it is unpossible to please God for men may hear Scripture preached and yet not be happilized and Priests may preach and yet cannot save souls Therefore ye high Priests lay down your authority God teacheth from above and will order his affairs above your