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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86656	A word from the north, sounded into the south, heard, and received of many. Jesus Christ the Son of God, which is the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world; and all that receive this light, and believe in this light, and are obedient to this light, they receive power and do become the sons of God. And as I have heard, so I have and do see in the true light, and am bold to give forth my testimonie that it is true, and there is no other way to salvation but by it. And therefore do I warn all people, and thee, O Kent, with the citie of Canterbury, and town of Maidstone, and all thy magistrates in you all, betimes to consider and take heed that none of you be anie longer enemies to it and its ministers, lest you be found fighters against God. Thomas Howsegoe.	Howsegoe, Thomas.	1657 (1657)	Wing H3197; Thomason E923_2; ESTC R207540	15,258	22

hast not minded him whose Arm was stretched over thee to save even me saith the Lord thou hast forgotten and forsaken who delivered thee for my own Names sake who hath now given thee peace and sent thee plenty in thy dwellings and thou hast taken my Corn and my Cattel in excess to gluttony my Wine and my Drink to drunkenness my Wool and my Flax to satisfie thy lusts thy pride and lasciviousness worse then the Heathen herein thou hast exceeded many other Counties and Shires even as thou hast exceeded them in my mercies And these are thy Fruits with many other abominations committed in thee O Kent and yet thou drawest near to me with thy lips as a people use to do and thou hast gotten many in thee that make a profession and talk of me in words saith the Lord and they have gotten them several forms and likeness of me and my worship and my truth even as they imagine in their carnal minds and fallen wisdom and so they cry Lo here lo there is Christ Babel confused in their Languages rejecting the Corner-Stone and builds not upon the Rock of Ages against which the powers of hell and death shall not prevail My people perish for want of knowledge saith the Lord they feed on Wind they eat on that which dyes of it self they know not the day of my power and feel not my power but saith the Lord O professors where is the power for my Kingdom stands not in words for then you might all have it it is easie to get words you have all words but it stands in power and now saith the Lord I will see the power of you all for mine is the Kingdom and the Power and my people are a willing people in the day of my power and they are led by my fpirit and power and my Worship is in the spirit and in the truth my truth is but one in all my spirit my light my truth leads into oneness singleness pureness one heart one soul one faith one Lord one baptism my Spirit my Truth my Son makes free indeed sits a top of all the world over the world all its pollutions all its glories profits pleasures vanities my spirit helpeth infirmities and leads into all truth into nothing but truth reproves the world of sin of righteousness and of judgement the life of my spirit consisteth not in words in visible carnal perishing things it s not meat nor drink but righteousness and peace and joy within that is it which helps with sighs and groans that cannot be uttered And now all professors and people with the light of Christ the Candle of the Lord let all your hearts be searched and the secret thoughts and imaginations be brought to light for that will and shall make you all manifest what you are and where your power is and with what you worship me saith the Lord for now all vails and coverings shall be pulled off from all your faces and wo to those that are covered with a covering but not with my spirit saith the Lord And wo to all you professors and people that say you know me and worship me and yet by your works deny me saith the Lord striving who shall be greatest among you and in your hearts and habits out of my fear and in the vanities lusts profits pleasures honors places and worldly preferments seeking to establish your selves posteritie in the midst of the earth build make great your own houses but the house of God lyeth wast not minding the poor and needy within you nor those honest simple hearted ones who were ever found faithful to that cause and trust committed unto them vvith you who freely left all ventured all Estates Wives Children yea and their own lives in the high places of the field for no other end but that they might enjoy free true pure libertie to worship me saith the Lord in purity as I have promised to reveal and make known unto them by my spirit of truth without traditions or inventions of carnal man and for the preserving and restoring that just and good Laws of God written in his To do unto others as they would be done unto upon which all the Laws of man should be grounded not the wills of men established for a Law But they see and feel by sad experience otherwise for now many of them are thrown into Holes and Prisons in many places in this Nation and some in this County because they cannot submit unto the wills and traditions and inventions of fallen man and now all manner of profaneness as Drunkards Swearers Riotous c. find more favor of many or most of the povvers of this Nation then my poor innocent harmless Saints saith the Lord who fear me and tremble at my word and many of them beaten reproached and shamefully abused by this filthy ungodly prophane generation and some Magistrates so called have justified their beastly actions by their beholding of them who did it without reproof yea and in thee O Kent some violence prisonning and whipping hath been acted against them for their true and faithful obedience unto me in what I commanded them and still the actions of violence and oppression are done upon some of them who cannot in their consciences submit to the will of unjust and unreasonable men who fear not me And you oh professors in the County who are intrusted with Power and Authority have you not seen and known these things and yet kept silence to my Witness within you do I speak which vvill not lye you have not remembred the afflictions of my innocent Josephs and now saith the Lord I will arise and plead their cause my self in truth in righteousness and in judgement and I will support them with my strength to suffer and bear patiently and vvill clear up their innnocency and they shall give me the glory but shame and confusion shall hasten upon the top of mine and their Enemies for ever And as in this vvhole Nation so these iniquities are found in thee O Kent which is none of thy least abominations in my sight saith the Lord The Heads in thee judge for rewards and the Priests in thee teach for hire and thy Prophets prophesie for money and yet thou vvilt lean upon me saith the Lord and thou hast given me many vvords and promises of reforming these things saith the Lord but thou art deceitful and thou hast engaged and vowed in my presence against them and all other Popish Innovations but thou hast not kept them and as yet I have nothing but thy back I have not thy face and yet thou talkest of me and saist Is not the Lord amongst us though all these abominations are found in thee But for these things as with the Nations so will I plead with thee oh Kent and except thou repent and turn unto me saith the Lord and forsake these thy abominable things in my sight ye professors Priests and people I will

as Samaria the elder Sodom the yonger yet thou art become worse then thy elder Sister Samaria and art become more brutish and beastly then many of the Heathen thou art grown haughty and high minded r●●sting truth with impudencie refusing to hear the counsel of th● Lord from the mouth of his Messengers which would deal pl●●nly and faithfully with thee and shew thee all thy abominations but thou must have them to teach thee that will speak pleasing things unto thee and daub thee with untempered morter and healthy wounds slightly and lay Pillows under thee that thou mayestly down softly but wo to you that live at ease you careless Daughters that are at ease and to you Pastors that are at ease and thou O Babylon that art at ease thy Inhabitants will I disquiet saith the Lord Moah hath been at ease from his youth wo to the Heathen that are at ease wo wo to all you that have slain the Witnesse in the streets now grow merry on the earth over the Witness the Lord God of Power will raise to life his own Witness his true faithful Witness Rev 1.5 Jesus Christ the Light of the world he is the faithful Witness and by him all shall be judged he will call forth his own Witness in you all and he will be a swift witness against all that do wickedly against all you scorners haters despisers of them that fear the Lord you proud and lofty ones I warn you all betimes Come down to the Witness of God in you all which will tell you that you should not live in your pride nor lusts nor pleasures for he that is there is dead while he lives So I warn you all again Take heed you go not from it but hear its voice do nothing which he reproves testifies against when any from the Lord speaks to the raising of him in you be stil let the Witness stand on his feet hear his testimony I warn you all that the enemy of your eternal peace may he discovered and with the breath of his mouth and brightness of his coming utterly destroyed that so the life of the Just by you may be witnessed which is by faith in the Son of God the Light it 's not in words and shadows as Clouds without rain but in life and power with joy and peace in the Holy Ghost So all of you while you have time prise it and mind the light of Christ in you all by it to be ordered in every thing that your lives may preach forth holiness in all manner of conversation which is the desire of him who is a friend to truth and to some of you known by the name of T. H. To those called Magistrates and Justices in the County of Kent a warning that you shed no innocent blood To Michael Leusey High Sheriff of the County with those in present Power and Authority THis is the Word of the Lord God of life and power to you all who is over you all blessed for evermore I am he by whom Kings reign and Governors make Decrees who searcheth all hearts and knoweth all secrets and will do righteously and reward all according to their works and doings I am he that respecteth no mans person but every where those that fear me and work righteousness shall be accepted Yea I am he saith the Lord who hath preserved and defended many of you when the Sword was drawn and drunk much blood in your Land and in your County and you have seen my strong Arm which is mighty to save and deliver in the day of battel and have brought to nought the plottings and conspiracies of mine and your Enemies to this day And you are preserved to this day and intrusted with my power and in places of Government in this County not to please your selvs not to seek your selvs but in all things him who hath kept and preserved and intrusted you in his service and for me saith the Lord to govern and on me to wait pure wisdom and counsel to receive all things to do and order to the praise and glory of my Name who hath the whole power and there is no other with me nor like unto me saith the Lord who kills and makes alive throweth down one and exalteth whom I please Therefore O ye Powers of the earth fear before me continuallie and tremble at my word which is a sword and a fire that will devour all bryars and thorns yea all that stand against it but it is good to all that walk uprightly yea my Word is nigh unto you I have placed a measure of my self my eternal Witness that wil not consent to any evil in your consciences it is that vvil that shall accuse you when you do evil and excuse you when you are righteously justly singly uprightly And this my word is light in you all and doth make manifest all your deeds of darkness and doth not spare but reproveth plainly it 's that which searcheth the heart and tryeth the reins and knoweth all your thoughts I am he saith the Lord stand in awe before me And this is my word now to you all that you mind my eternal Witness placed in the midst of you and that to it you keep at all times in all places and by it to be ordered in all you do in every thing committed to your trust that you never depart from it but in its power you alwaies stand that the unruly and disobedient by it in you all may be brought low and your own wils denyed in every thing that you begin at home to lay the yoke upon the unruly and the sword upon the transgressor to cut him out out of the Land that it may be cleansed from the evil doer in your own particular that so my wil which is pure being done in you and by you and my Law which is undefiled being written in your hearts and you all in my fear abide waiting in the light of Christ which hath shined into your own souls and shewn you the Enemy there and past ●udgement on him there you in that abiding wil be compleatly furnished with my wisdom saith the Lord to govern and rule over men in righteousness and so you wil all become a terror to the evil doer at home abroad at all times in all seasons but a praise and incouragement to them that do wel and then the end for which I the Lord have ordained Magistrates to rule wil by you in your places be truly accomplished and then shall the righteous in you rejoice and that wicked shal be brought to shame then shal you be to the just as the rain to the Land new sown then shal the righteous in the County praise my Name for you and I wil establish you in peace who makes peace and none can make war and exalt you above all your enemies at home and abroad but if from my teachings my Witness in the midst of you ye