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truth_n	believe_v	pleasure_n	unrighteousness_n	2,527	5	11.3215	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29268	God magnified, man dethroned presented to the Parliament, and synod of England : who sit as if judges for saints, as if leaders, and guides unto the generation of Jesus Christ, the body of the communion of God / by W. Bray.	Bray, William, 17th cent.	1647 (1647)	Wing B4302; ESTC R159	47,757	62

Testimony methought I saw the beast the powers of the world the Aire the Kings of the earth the great men the rich men and the chief Captaines and the mighty men that had the temporarie Crown given them endeavour by all waies and means possibly to destroy the Testifyers and the Testifyers Testimony Methought I saw the temporany and yet infernall Nobles of the earth that wear the momentany and yet perpetuall Crown of Hell and death in themselves according to the power that is committed unto them acting persecution in one form upon the Neck of another which is the manifestation of the varietie and yet unity of that state that body of Antichrist Hell and death sword hunger and beasts of the earth even Ephesian beasts after the manner of men and then I saw the doom of those that have the Testimony of the Lord Iesus and I brake out into Admiration in my self Oh eternity how do the Nations of the world the Nationall powers of the world hear and see and read and seem and would be supposed to understand yet they see not nor understand and yet they suspect not themselves but teach and declare of themselves and say that they are christians walk in the life supereminent But Nobles of the earth take this only if you can lovingly til I am more lovingly inflamed or untill the father will manifest himself more unto you or me even in the interiorest in the dividing assūder rending and tearing in pieces of all your fleshly deceitfull glories whereby you have for many hundred years past deceived the people of the earth I am no disputer of the world I desire to be Tomteltra and not Oedipus I desire not to insinuate with you but to live to my God the God and Lord absolute mercifull holy undefiled and eternall I desire only of the father that I unworthiness weakness may live to him and with him in the interiorest sublimest and truest and that thou worthiness gloriousness wouldest understandingly as to me comprehend my particular and do what thou wilt with me in my exterior or in this visible world if thou worthiness and truly eternall Lord wilt surrender me up into the hands of the Lords and powers of the earth that act in a constitution of persecution Let me in the interior say Amen But yet Sathan that Divell tempts me but yet me thinks I am surrounded and invironed in this my pilgrimage and methinks the exteriors of the world operate insinuate dispute and reason with me and tempts my exterior to conform me to its self and confound me in its self I heard a voyce in the world the other day saying very Schismatically erroneously and according to the witness of men and denying the absolute witness of the great Jehovah denying that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh denying that power is given to the Son loving to have the preheminence the uppermost Rooms at feasts and in Synagogues setting themselves in the place of God attributing that to their fallible deceiptfull devillish understandings actings and contrivings that is to be attributed to the alone supream not waiting when God the absolute changer will give repentance to those that beleeve not the truth but have pleasure in unrighteousness earnestly contending as they say for the faith that was once delivered to the Saints in such wayes of carnallity by such carnall weapons which were not used in the times of that excellent glorious Apostolicall ministrations of God and consequently denying the glorious and supream power of the spirit giving themselves to fornication and going after strange flesh to deceive the Nations desiling the flesh by their filthy dreaming by imposing such things for an exterior worship as if Commanders as are not consistent with the life and glory of the Spirit in us Whereas the flesh of Christ that visible manifestation of God at Jerusalem 1600 years ago was lead according to teachings of the Divine God despising the true and absolute Dominion and dignities of the most High speaking evill of those things they know not and what they do know as brute beasts in those things corrupt themselves running in the way of Cain killing their brethren in the flesh because they are not of the same judgement and understanding in the spirit envying them in the offering of their sacrifices because they offer not their sacrifices as they do pulling and halling them before Magistrates Counsells Powers and Authorities Imprisoning them Banishing them confining them depriving them of their liberties accounting the world not worthy of them acoūting them the off scouring of all things running greedily after the errour of Baalam for reward setting obstacles in the way of true reall and unblameable liberty of Saints in their true and glorious feastings of spirituall Charity and Love in the dispensation of the various gifts of the most High God feeding themselves without fear when others are living walking talking lovingly conversing eating and drinking in fear Clouds without water Clouds covering the clear Heavens and Firmaments as if they were full of water and as if showres would presently fall great Mountaines travelling in birth Clouds carried about of winds from Popery or Popish Episcopacy to Prelacy in another form and from that to Presbyterie and those that would have the same wind of Doctrine the same teachings of fallible men to blow others whethersoever it blows them whose fruits have often already withered from one age to another and more then twice dead and plucked up by the Roots raging waves of the sea foming out their own shame having not the spirit of meeknes gentlenes tender mercy compassion though Stars yet wandring Stars to whom is reserved blacknes of darknes for ever and therefore they would draw all men unto them Murmerers Complainers Informers Reformers according to their own lusts speaking swelling words having mens persons in admiration because of advantage not knowing the glorious minde infallible will of the eternall God as the Apostles of Iesus Christ Mockers walking after their own ungodly lusts seperating themselves by the power will minde fallibility of fallible sensuall men having not the spirit denying any one but themselves and those whom themselves approve of to build up any in the holy faith or to Minister the gifts they have had of the supereminent God Teaching by necessarie unavoidable consequences that their love sensuall carnall mutable affections are to be looked after before the love of God or as well as the love of God though God the absolute satisfyer informer and reformer satisfies not having no compassion but on themselves those that they thinke they can by flattery draw to themselves making no difference but from themselves making no difference according to the true nature of difference but only making a difference according to their Carnall Lawes ordinances Statutes decrees not endeavouring to save others according to the true absolute infallible holy just warrantable way of salvation Endeavouring to pull men that are as they say

was to be with Jesus Christ who was manifested in the flesh or when the body is exercised according to the life power and will of the supreame Lord in Communion with those that have the same spirit of the most high in knowing and understanding then the Saints must not feare them that can kill the body viz magistracy but they must walk as the divine supereminent Saviour Lord King Judge wil have them Suppose that a Magistrate commands my body to do one thing but the invisible God in the understanding he that is God of body and soule commands another thing whether is it lawfull to obey God or man Judge ye 6. Suppose there is such a Magistrate in the world that does truely and really conceive that there is one eternall God the judge the absolute God the Lawgiver in the conscience and he according to rationality doth endeavour to demonstrate it can he make another beleeve it if any conforme to what he saieth not knowing it is not he an ignorant doer of what he would have him to do or a dissembling person But Aug. one of Gangraena's Fathers saith Simulata sanctitas est duplex iniquitas But the Magistrates and Priests of the earth have led the world in a string and they are at the sensuall beck and will of every base lust and that rule is verified amongst them qui nescit dissimulare nescit vivere But Oh! how excellent will it be when Saints shall more and more live to the supreame absolute God! 7. Whether a man may not have a word of God to deliver to a Magistrate as well as a Magistrate to another man Formerly I know God called some to speake to Kings and Potentates of the earth But we are better then our Fathers Is not the spirit of forbearance as good in a Magistrate as it is in another man if the Magistrate hath had experience that no man can make him beleeve the truths of God that he can not make any one likewise why should he use violence bitterness and wrath But we call it not wrath we call it Justice But the absolute distinguisher sees what it is and he will call that wrath and anger in you which you call justice But we will contrive a great many fine words to waue it But there is nothing hath power but what is given to it nothing enjoyes it longer then he that gave it pleaseth neither shall any thing be waved but what he will wave even that absolute I am But oh Lord supereminent if thou callest me causest me to speak of thee to manifest thee though magistracy heape up words against me strengthen their mouthes according to the judgement of Causidicks Synods of the earth though they hale me teare me in their ire sharpen their eys at me yet let it be sufficient that thou lovest when soever I see man let me be drawn to God let me say with Iob in the spirit of understanding without respect of persons Iob 20.4 5 6 7. Knowest thou not this of old since man was placed upon the earth that the triumph of the wicked is short and the joy of the wicked is but for a moment Though his Excellencie mount up to the heavens and his head reach to the clouds yet he shall perish for ever like his owne dung they which have seen him shall say where is he 8. Those that the Magistrates endeavour to compell to the Laws wills Ordinances interpretations of Scriptures the Magistrates being and confessing themselves fallible may for ought the Magistrates know have an obligation and an absolute understanding ingagement upon their spirits as to God to live to Gods owne interpretation Law will and ordinance which may be contrary to the Magistrate For God is the absolute originall of all things that are and that are to be interpreted 9. The People shall not suffer for the Magistrates sins but their owne nor the Magistrates for the peoples sins but their owne But the soule that sinneth shall die But yet in a common calamity the one may suffer as well as the other though not for the sins of another 18 Eezekiel 1 2 3 4. c. There is a declaration as from the Lord. And the word of the Lord came to me saying What meane ye that ye Use this Proverb concerning the Land of Israel saying the Fathers have eaten sower Grapes and the childrens Teeth are set on edge As I live saith the Lord ye shall not have occasion any more to use this Proverb in Israel Behold all souls are mine as the soule of the Father so also the soule of the sonne is mine The soule that sinneth it shall die you may reade the whole Chapter This was a glorious Prophesie of the time that should be when God should peculiarly manifest himselfe when God would be no more vayled by a man when God would manifest himselfe to be the absolute Lord me thinks a Magistrate confessing himselfe fallible should feare to desire much more to command another to that which that other is not satisfied of God For the soule of the person that the Magistrate commands is Gods It was no argument for a poor soule when the absolute supreame entred into judgement to say that the Magistrate gave me and I did eate nor an argument for the Magistrate to say that a companie of people invested me with this and that authority as I thought or desired this or that thing and I did eate I had received a Petition from the people or from the Major part to release one Barabbas crucifie Jesus Christ I received a Petition to deprive such and such People of their liberties being such as they when they did petition confessed God had honoured in doing them good estates priviledges and benefits of living in the world unlesse they indeed were not perswaded of in their own consciences If it was an Argument inexcusable that Adam and Eve used to God this may also hardly be They had an infallible Ministration what should be death and life But the Magistracy of the world and Synods of the times confess themselves fallible It was an Argument in that most certain case for Satan to use to suggest to poor weak Eve as it was presented to deceive God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof your eys shall be opened and ye shall be as gods knowing good and evil But oh Lord I let me seek unto thee with thee and from thee though that Devil tempts me to unite and manifest my self to that and in that way of darkness and man-sinning in the world whatsoever specious and fallacious pretences I shall receive from the men of the world and from my own soul as considered in its way of operations contrary to the body of Jesus Christ Let me though I hear men in the world pretend to the glorious mysteries of the Eternall God and the honour and glory of him try things with thy self alone and therefore be

give forth some way or other to discover the thoughts of all hearts Oh Lord Supereminent Thou hast made all men almost to differ one from another and thou hast set the world in their hearts to some thou didst give the gift of prophesie it may be in some measure to some Tongues to some discerning of spirits to some working of miracles to some wisdom to some knowledge to some Faith if thou givest me but the glimmerings of love in the least of these or in any one let me not despise him that hath more or judge him that hath more nor yet despise him that hath less or judge him that hath less if any have less then my self in relation to capacity or understanding for thou art the same let me not pretēd to know above what I really know though the powers of the world would have me do that I am not convinced of or leave undone that which I cannot because I am thine not their servant Oh then the absolute Lord over-rule the lords in me and let me see thee and walk before thee in the understanding yet if thou wilt have a Nero a Domitian a Caligula or any power of the visible world to scourge me Give my back to the smiters and let me know and see thou givest it and then let me take pleasure in it For oh Lord me thinks I see that a man may have a vision of God and may see a star to arise out of Jacob and may be convinced in his conscience that the earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof and that God is the alone Lawgiver Judge and absolute supream as many or most of the Nationall Priests and Lords confess yet at the request of a base sensitive lust and divilish desire will endeavour to have Altars built yea Altar upon Altar to see whether they can curse the Israel of God Let us proclaim a Fast that so God may hear our Prayers and grant our desires the longing of our souls But Lord how far is this from the true life of Saintship and love in the World But O Lord refine me and then let me walk as refined Thirteenth The mandates of the Scripture even the Scriptures from which the Potentates and powers of the earth have and do maintain persecution and violence to others do all of them extend to the Magistrate and if he were in a Christian constitution as he pretends he ought not in that relation to use carnall weapons neither will he unless he supposes himself wiser then ever Christ or an Apostle was or hath received the Spirit more then an Apostle had or hath received the Spirit to maintain and defend such a practise as the Apostle could not neither did 2 Cor. 10.4 Christ saith when they were persecuted should pray when cursed bless Christ could have had twelve Legions of Angels to defend him in this visible world but he would not take any invisible glory or visible excellency of God to defend him And if the Magistrates will tell us plainly that they have that power given them as considered in a constitution of holiness and truth which the Father would not give Jesus the Son or which he would not assume or exercise nor give his Apostles power to assume or exercise Let them prove that they or this or that particular Magistrate had or have that which neither of them had neither Jesus Christ nor Apostles And let those whom they are pleased to call Hereticks and to banish imprison and afflict see their Arguments that they have in themselves as in the presence though they think it not nor perceive it or know it or though knowing it will not acknowledge it of the Eternall incomprehensible Judge non-respecter of persons the interiorest discerner that can describe that which man describes with a fuller description and judge with a fuller judgement then man or any visible glory or rationall intellect in the world who is without the exteriorest and within the interiorest and indivisible in himself who judges with a more absolute judgement then all the Councels Potentates Lords Synods or Parliaments of the earth And when he enters into judgement the flesh of a Lord is no more then the flesh of another man nor shall more be justified by him or be able to justifie it self But I beleeve if things were demonstrated in the world according to the spirit of truth reallity and non-confusion the Lords Potentates and Counsels of the earth would appear to be the greatest Anti-scripturists though in words they would not have it so expressed or so express it themselves Fourteenth Is it not a case of conscience or is there not necessity that every particular man should be perswaded in his own minde for what he doth or for what he is commanded to do least he call good evil and evil good least he call oppressing persecuting Lords Magistrates Counsels Synods followers of the God of heaven in love light and truth Citizens of the New Ierusalem Saints of the most high God livers in the Spirit those that walk with God when indeed they are not so but grinders of the faces of the poor Idolaters carnall sensuall and divilish having not the spirit having mens persons in admiration because of advantage making a prey of the poor and needy having wisdom yet are not wise unto God but to themselves oppressours though not of their friends or themselves of the Saints of the most High or those that are not perswaded in their consciences by the Divine Supream God It is not strange to say know and think that magistrates and ministers so called have been so are and may be so The Scriptures of the most High God testifie it the saints have witnessed it and still do witness it with their blood and bodies Are there not men magistrates and ministers of such mindes as Caesar Caligula was of that wished that all the people of Rome had but one neck that he might destroy many at once Many can apply this But Hell must inlarge her self Gods design must be accomplished in Hell as well as in Heaven Saints give your backs to the smiters In this my last Demonstration and apprehension I was in the conclusion desiring in my own spirit of that eternall Jehovah and everlasting God that I might be so swallowed up into that eternall glory wisdom power will that I might not manifest my self with my self but that my self or rather himself might be manifested in me by me and from me then though the mutable Lords of the Aire oppose me yet my alone substantiall ever-remaining supereminent Lord remaines If I live he is if I die those that live after me shall not truly say he is not but he is the same I also desired that I might be so swallowed up to the life of the Lord that in seeing of that Lord in the things of that Lord I might not respect persons that it might be all one to me to be hated and to be loved to