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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

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

come upon thee on a day before thou art aware and will reward thee double for all thy iniquities saith the Lord and as thou hast drunk deep of the Cup of thy Fornication so thou shalt drink deep of the Cup of my Indignation and if these things thou departest not from and turn unto me with all thy heart oh people unworthy to be beloved if thou wast as Zion for these things thou shouldst be plowed as a field and as Jerusalem thou shalt be laid on heaps and though the Mountains of thy House be as the High Places yet thou shalt be laid as a Forrest before me saith the Lord. But if thou wilt repent and turn unto me saith the Lord unfeignedly with all thy heart and hear and obey the voice of my servants and Ministers which I have sent unto thee and now of late raised up in thee gifted with my own spirit in the light of my own Son who is the true light which enlightneth ery man that cometh into the world and turn away from all thy false Hirelings and Teachers which run and I never sent them and have not received their vvords from my mouth who profit not the people at all but declare their own dreams and tell of visions and imaginations of their own hearts which I never spake to them which reaches not my Witness and burdens my seed which seed cryes for the bread of life living bread living water from my living Fountain of light and life Then oh then shal it go wel with thee oh Nation oh County oh people saith the Lord and I will be your Teacher I will be your Pastor your Father and you shall be my children and I will be with you and bless and multiply you and you shall know your Teacher in the midst of you and your Bread and Waters shal never fail you no want in your dwellings and peace shall flow in as a River and plenty as a Flood unto you and I will be a Wall about you and for good will watch over you and I will bring forth my living Witnesses in you which shall declare and make known my everlasting Gospel with life and power unto you and shall freely and boldly declare it in the midst of you who shall not flatter nor spare mine Enemies among you who shall not seek themselves but my glory and Name to be exalted in the midst of you who shall not preach for hire nor seek gain from any quarter of you but shal preach the Gospel and live of the Gospel with you and I will be with them to preserve and keep them as the apple of mine eye in the midst of you And you Powers touch not mine anointed nor do my Prophets no harm I warn and charge you saith the Lord for vengeance is mine I wil repay it unto you And you O people prise the Lords love now tendred unto you and know this day of your visitation before it be hid from you and that day of his fierce wrath over take you in the which you will say We have no pleasure in it and then you shall remember that you were warned in your life time by him who is a lover of all your souls and known unto many of you by the Name of Thomas Howseyor Oh City and Town you are weighed and found too light Repent repent AND thou City of Canterbury and Town of Maidstone to you the Inhabitants and people thereof are these lines given forth and vvritten You are great and greatly encreased in riches and strength of this World and you set as Ladyes and Queens in the County and in your hearts as your actions declare say you have need of nothing but vvith the light of Christ you might see and are seen that you are poor miserable blind and naked you have gotten names and distinctions of Worships and in vvords vvith your tongues spoken you say every party of you vve vvorship the true God and so that which is but one and vvithout seam or division you would rent and divide among you and in your sensual and fallen vvisdoms you vvould imagine a vvorship to me and according to the number of your Tribes so you make you Gods to vvorship Oh foolish people saith the Lord God and will not come down to my Witness my Spirit of Truth the Light my Son with vvhom I am vvel pleased and with all those who have learned of him to vvorship me in the Spirit and the Truth and so you not receiving him and his vvitness within you know not me nor cannot come to me for no man knovveth me but him to whom my Son the true light vvhich enlightneth every one that cometh into the vvorld draweth and revealeth Matth. 11. 27. And not receiving him nor feeling him within to guide you have gotten a Profession but vvant the possession and forms you have but vvant the povver the Saints vvords and practises to talk of you have gotten and imitations you have gotten but vvant the life vvhich they vvere in and feel not the life that they felt vvho in the life had dominion over their vvills their lusts their pride their passion their envie their hatred strife and debate wrathfulness maliciousness idle vvords idle talking and vain jesting vvhispering and backiting they vvere in the life and vvitnessed redemption from the vvorld and its vain conversations profits pleasures vanities lusts pollutions fashions words wayes worships and empty traditions and beggarly Elements and Rudiments that perish in the using They vvitnessed the life that grace that taught them to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and that led them to live soberly holy in all manner of conversation in this present evil World Now then try your selves you professors in these Tovvns all of you see if this life you vvitness and by it set over the vvorld and your lusts otherwise all your professions are vain and to the light in all your consciences come down that wil let you see where you are and vvitness for God against you all that you are far from the life and povver of God and not like the Saints that gave forth Scriptures and so vvith the light of Christ you are seen and by the children of Light denied And you who call your selves Independents in these Towns you are become many of you more proud and vain and light in your Attires and more envious and malicious in your practises against the children of light then that people of the Nation and Towns that you say you are seperated from and though you talk of Liberty Freedom and Church Priviledges as you call them and though you once cryed out against your forefathers the Bishops and Presbyters when you were servants and in bondage under them yet now your selves being become Masters your hands are as heavie as their loyns and that many of the servants of the Lord have felt in this Nation and some in this County in your Towns And though you are as Sisters together

turn and his voice wil not hear and obey then my wil by you wil be denied your ovvn vvils vvhich are corrupted vvil be done and then I make vvar and none can make peace Novv therefore O ye men of place and authoritie in that Nation and Countie I am moved of the Lord to vvarn you all to take heed what you do in all things committed to your power and trust that you therein be found faithful as the Lords Stevvards and that none of you go beyond your power nor yet from the true Povver the Light of Christ in all your consciences vvhich vvil shevv you if you keep to it hovv and vvhen to give Caesar his due and God his the conscience is the Lords he rules there that must be kept single holie for him I vvarn you Meddle not vvith them that cannot bovv to the vvils of any but God alone touch not Gods annointed harm not his innocent Lambs vvho are as the apple of his eie vvho dare not do their ovvn vvils nor please themselves but in all things him in him all power is and for him at this day stand single and rather suffer the loss of all their outword injoyments then to sin against their God by doing any thing contrarie to the Witness of God within and the Scriptures recorded without I am free to tell you it is a good report of you I mean many of you in thi Countie vvho have not appeared forward as yet to shed innocent blood nor to restrain and imprison the Messengers and Ministers of Christ sent amongst us and if you keep faithful to the Witness of God in your consciences you vvil never do it whatever it cost you And for such of you as are and have been friendlie to truth and the declarers of it I can safely tel you who are single and upright in what you do you do and shal know that your rewarder is nigh you with the Lord our God and for any who are enemies to us and the truth of our God their rage shal he restrain and we shal be enabled with patience and long-suffering to bear his vvil and good pleasure and in the midst of all our cruelties to pray our Father to forgive them they know not what they do Also I desire and warn you all in Authoritie to take heed that you do not lend your ear to the Priests of this Countie that preach for hire and divine for monie and if it be not put into their mouths they prepare war against their Neighbor for that generation the Scriptures of truth declare to be bloodie they smote the Prophets they cried crucifie the Son of God and said he was worthy to die that generation in these daies are little behind them their Fathers eat the Grapes and their teeth are on edge they go so fast as they durst and wait for further power Oh ye Power of the Earth take heed what ye do in delivering the innocent servants of God into their hands for the best of their mercies and cruelties as many prisons in this Nation if not some in this Countie wil witness where many of the servants of the Lord have laine many months because they cannot in their consciences pay them as they call it tithes that idle antichristian beggarlie Rudiment which none of the Ministers of Christ do or durst own or compel the Saints unto but did rather labour with their hands then make their Gospel chargeable to any who said they had freely received and did freelie give and so the Ministers of Christ do now Paul said 1 Cor. 9.14 That God had ordained that they which preach the Gospel shall live of the Gospel Therefore take heed you Powers that you do not go beyond your Power to compel any to pay Tithes to maintain a Gospel Ministrie when God hath ordained that they were to live of the Gospel and should live of the Gospel and not by the Law for if you do compel any to that thing I declare unto you all you are Enemies to God and his children and do inasmuch as in you lieth cause them to disobey the Ordinance of God And you may read that tithes to be paid to the first Priesthood the Levitical Priesthood which was after the Order of Aaron not of Christ the second Priesthood the everlasting offering so all that pay tithes that take tithes are of the first Priesthood they denie the second to be come and the Priesthood to be changed and the Law changed Therefore consider what you do all of you lest you resist the Povver God is the Povver vvhat he hath ordained stands vvith povver and his Gospel hath in it a povver and he that resisteth the povver resisteth the ordinrnce of God and all such shal bring upon themselves judgement So all that vvil be out of fear of the Povver do vvel and so thou shalt have praise o● the same but he that doth evil is under the povver and the Svvord is not placed there for naught but vvil take vengeance on them that do evill vvithout respect of persons Let none deceive you vvith their vain vvords and flattering speeches vvho seeks not the good of your souls but their own bellies and now do the same things the Prelates and Priests did before them by vvhose means much innocent blood hath been shed in these Nations So to that of God in all your consciences I have and do speak which is the witness for God and wil not deal deceitfully with you but wil speak the truth if you wil hear it to all of you and if anie now shal refuse to hear its voice and wil not receive its testimonie which is truth there wil come a day in which the Lord wil have his everlasting witness come forth and if that condemn he is greater so in the mouth of two Witnesses all shal be confirmed therefore now hear and be warned everie one of you and do nothing in your own wils but wait in the pure light of Christ and by it be directed and ordered at all times in all things quench not its motions stay not behinde it neither go before it for if you do you shal be judged and condemned by it And blessed are all those that love the light and walk in the Light and believe in the Light and become obedient children to the Light such have their part in the first Resurrection and over them the second death shal have no power And to so manie as receive him and believe in him and obey him of him they receive power and are become the sons of God But all that denie him before men he wil denie them before his Father which is in heaven So in love to all your souls which are more worth then all the world then all your honor then all your riches I warn you all to minde the light of Christ in you all the witness for God by it to be ordered in everie thing word and work believe it become children of it and if you walk in the light as he is in the light you have fellowship with him and his Father and by his blood you are all purged from all sin but if you denie the light of Christ and wil not obey its teachings by it you shall be eternally condemned and then wo and condemnation shall be your portion for ever This is the Word of the Lord God unto you all whether you heare or forbeare declared and given forth by him who is a friend to all your souls and seeks the redemption of the seed out of bondage and am known to manie of you by the name of Thomas Howseyor THE END