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
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
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
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
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
a Week and walk contrary to God in all the rest If ye keep a day keep it to me and keep every day as a Sabbath One reason is ye make the seventh day a Cloak for your sinne to use holiness for your own turn so did the Jews under the Law and Christ cut off their Sabbath and so he will yours so that you shall not insult over them nor they over you for saith he I hate your new Moons and your Sabbaths The Lords day should be a rest betwixt God and thy Conscience if Christ dwell in thee thy soul is full of light If ye keep Covenant with me I will be your resting-place and that is a Sabbath in thy Conscience Paul saith ye observe dayes and months I wonder who hath bewitched you Your way of holiness is as the witcharft of Endor subtilly to beguile men and cause them to swim in vain conceits and so to hold up your abominations by keeping so many Sabbath dayes once a week for your own turnes as the Jews did their seventh day and yet persecute Christ and therefore it is not for them nor us to observe daies for there is but one Sabbath and that is the Lord in whom we shall have rest and that is to reform our lives and live in all good conscience to walk in righteousness and that is the best Sabbath shewing the day of his resurrection by a newness of life And at the appearing of the Lords power the Jew and Gentiles Sabbath are out by a wonderful dividing of time called once a year so that I finde the whole year is the Lords Sabbath All the year you in me and I in you Thou shalt consecrate thy substance to the Lord which is the seventh from the creation called the seventh vial or valley of Jehosaphat under which the World shall come under judgement called the Sabbaths Vial which is that we now live under called the separate time that God will set apart and take to himself the great glory of Monarchy that now shall resume that name to themselves and therefore Priest thou must fall with the King and Lord of dishonor that the prophesie may be made out that you may say I am no more a Prophet but an Herds-man or keeper of Cattle I am but as other men no Priest no Minister no Minister then silence not the People FINIS The second PART OF D. Hils Funeral-Sermon WITH His Apellation to Priests and People By me Henry Hasselwood THere be four sorts of Definators that may be called the Witch of the world very seenal and subtil I call them not the Witch of Jezebel neither do I call them the Witch of Endor yet I call them the Witch of the earth in that they use their own authority and pretend fair things though foul in effect promoting themselves by skill and art making out the authority of the beast and so deceive the people Those are four in number yet not any of them shall remain in authority for the Witch shall be cut off out of the earth and all that make a lye and every abominable branch shall be found out The Witch of the world is very subtil and much deceiveth by flatteries and seenal Juglings to steal away the peoples appetite as to delude them with smoke or to puff them up with some vain ostentation subtil Sophisters winding themselves into the form of Christ deceiving the people denying the power of his resurrection preaching up themselves bewitching the world and deceive the people So much for the first Definators that call themselves Ministers of God and are not Brethren I would have every one live up to the teachings of God without second-hand-teachers and to walk up to that principle of grace put into them for spiritually we live under the divine power of the Son of God he is all our teacher to guide us in the way of truth it is not for man to do it David saith Renew in me a right spirit Psal 1â— Who knoweth the error of his life Who can teach but Christ alone Then let us stand in that liberty wherein he hath made us free And James saith Walk so that you may be judged by the law of liberty And Paul saith Prove every truth that is by witnesses So that no man can preach of himself but Christ doth preach all both neer and afar off by a singular power from God to teach us all things he saith I am the way walk in it follow my example but not the examples of men The Doctrine is from thence That all men and ministers are but learners and cannot teach any further then they walk by a good example The first Reason is It is not words but works of faith and piety which is a good example It is not for a man to say I am a Minister and yet but all words Look upon the good life and not upon the profession The second Reason is Men or Ministers have no lawful authority to teach for Christ and the holy Ghost inwardly teacheth and they are the two Witnesses by a law inserted in the conscience The third Reason is They cannot teach in that they cannot prove Ordination The fourth Reason is That every petty Priesthood must fall and stoop at Christs Ministery But some silly people may object Shall we lose our teachers better lose our Christ And so they dote upon a Ministery of flesh Was not Christ the Messiah a Minister ordained of God He teacheth and shall sit upon twelve thrones by a power and all men Ministers must come under his teaching and lay down their Crowns and the honourable men must stoop at his Scepter for he is the Minister of God and no other for we have had many Teachers yet none can lead us in the true way And having so great an high-Priest that is able to lead us in all truth he hath once entred into the Priestly Office and maketh intercession to God for us continually Then why should we lean upon the pettifogging Priests which must come down from their Pulpit-Thrones and set up Christ upon his throne For while your Power raigneth Christs power is crucified upon the cross and his truth suffereth violence But now he shall sit upon your thrones and judge the Whorish power by a seat of justice so ordained And until you all throw down and make Christ the full end and scope of all teaching your Temple will be divided for you must come all to the Law and Testimony which is Christ and the Spirit writ as a Law and Testimony in our consciences which are the two witness-bearers to prove every true Christian for this is a time dividing time I speak of a new Sabbath Christ in the conscience every day once a yeer continually I speak of a new Sabbath old things must pass away and the things that are old must change Brethren ye ought not to look so much upon feigned Teachers of the second hand feigned lovers and so
the old road but what is that to the setting up of thrones that all clear justice may proceed I can behold nothing but discovery discovery The Scripture saith The moon and stars shall be as the sun shewing a seeming brightness in them all or some equality with the sun which petypeth and prefigureth a great discovery of Christ and his Saints by some new disciplying way Ecclesiastical and Civil We must come to a higher beholding of God which shall be marvelous in the eyes of the remnant when they shall throw off your old customs and forms your Sacraments will be changeable Christ saith That ye do do in remembrance of me till I come And truly that is when he cometh by a new light then all your old forms shall be taken away and to that purpose he speaks of a new Covenant that he will make with the people not according to the old he saith All things shall become new That declareth that old forms must be taken away by a more excellent power that shall stand for the ordering of spiritual affairs and civil affairs brought all into one called The law of Sion that shall be governed by twelve or by four and twenty according to Ordination and so to cut off all forms that have been erected by Bishops and Priests The Lord hath raised me by the degrees of light and still one light hath frustrated another so that the Lord hath followed me with new lights caused me to throw off the old for the Sacrament and Baptism is declared to me as an outward thing and cannot stand when the Lord cometh in power by a new light He saith to his disciples Do as I have commanded you and lo I will be with you to the end It implieth that he will be with his people in the Old and new work but the new light shall do away the old Doctor Presbytian thou cryest Down with water-baptism then why dost thou baptize babes in clouts Paul saith Neither circumcision nor Baptism availeth but a new creature Christ went into the water and I think that to be more tolerable then to baptize babes that cannot understand or speak This difference of Baptism will not be ended until we lay down both the forms of outward discipline And if ye deny it to them of understanding then for shame leave off discipling of babes that have no understanding and let every one chiefly see himself to be a new creature baptized in Christ Jesus by a new Covenant for throwing off old forms and authors of men that be so failable and superfluous so that I find every form must come to the formal power of Christ for he is that all power to settle our differences and to make known the living Gospel to every creature it is far higher then the letter it is the power of Christ that is our true testimony by an inward law of conscience called The two Testimonies called The two Witnesses without which none can savingly prove themselves Christians so that every one ought not to live by the teaching of others but effectually to see something of God in themselves otherwise outward teaching will but intoxicate the brain and cannot restollize thy soul Then look not so much upon outward forms which have no substance in them It is not your Sacraments or Sabbaths or Baptisms or Preachings it is onely something of God within us that moveth us to work righteousness Outward ostentations or customs cannot do it for they are failable When Christ comes to us by true faith those forms must be done away by an higher light called his bright appearing that shall abolish all the Antichristian forms when men shall know God in spirit and in truth without old Popery The Papists look upon Christ by their Crucifix and you look upon Christ by your Forms so that all of you look upon the sepulchre or upon something below Christ giving your selves content and rest in outward shadows THe honourable seat of Justice or two Olive-trees the two branches standing on both sides the bank of the river called the conduit-pipes that receive the Oyl and declare it forth the sweet Odours these two Olive-trees are called the bowls on both sides of the Altar or the two Candlesticks or two Anoynted ones standing before the great God of the earth which indeed are the two Witnesses that shal faithfully plead for all truth at the right hand three on the one hand and three on the other those six shall attend one witness the other witness shall be attended with other six in the same order twelve on one side and twelve on the other four and twenty in number with two Witnesses standing on both sides which may be called the seat of Justice for Christ to sit and rule upon his throne he is the Sanctuary in the midst of them said to be the Altar of gold that shall sit upon the throne of Justice called Davids throne sitting upon twelve thrones which is the ends of the earth or remnant of the tribes Those two faithful Witnesses that shall stand before the seat of Justice shall plead for equity in all considerable places and nations and all such thrones shall be called the seat of Justice they shall put forth Queries and answer as the one declareth the other shall answer in due order so that twelve Senators shall judge and declare their sentence to prove every truth which shall be excellent sweet and amiable so that people shall abominate their earthly Christs that have deluded them so long and look upwards to the minister of God the highest teacher Our Priests are not like the Prophets of old that quaked and trembled when they saw danger at hand there hath been a great deal of difference between the Priests and the Prophets The Priests have ever been proud and high and much sought themselves by self-greatness which doth not prove themselves Ministers of God but stand in a Ministers place as if they were the very Christ which go in sheeps clothing yet ravenous and cruel as the Bishops if they had the same power But for all their Presbytian sting the pricking brier must be taken away that troubleth the Israel of God Christ is the fountain and finisher of the work he sets his foot on mount Olivet and it cleaveth in sunder so shall your Ministerial power be dashed in sunder and happie shall he be called that dasheth your power in pieces for the raising up the dry bone of Israel Christ sent his disciples or by two and two he called fishermen not one man One Priest ought not to stand so high to elevate his own tongue he will not have one speaker but by the mouth of two or three faithful witnesses truth shall be proved from one end of the earth to another though our blind guides see it not Therefore their tongues shall be no more an Allegator it must be two called the two Olive-trees that shall stand before the great God of the earth
so pure in a heavenly shape but the Priests are as Locusts that shall fall under Armegiddon Euphrates shall dry up Oh Army Army Arme of the Lord their power shall fall under thee Priest thou sayest thy power is a spiritual power yet it is but a civil power and therefore it must down and fall before Sion The overthrow of the Bishops was for calling it a spiritual and for their spiritual courts audacious to think upon full of blasphemies set up by an Antichristial power which now is thrown down as contemptible therefore all your civil Christs must down as your Spiritual Fathers the Bishops have done if you call your power Ecclesiastial it is equal with Christs if you call it Ecclesiastical you must prove it from Christs saying Go teach whose ordination ceased after the Apostles so that your Authority of Oxford and Cambridge is void and cannot stand Ephes 1.4 and 5. He hath chosen us in himself before the foundation of the world was laid he predestinated us to the adoption of children by Christ Jesus but not by your Ministery You see the Saints were first chosen predestinated and called before your Ministery stood up and yet you say you are called to convert souls in the Pulpit You Priests must have a hand in the work of renovation though you are not called yet ye run and are not sent to do such works of wonder for it is he alone that doth abound to us in love in wisdom and in prudency Having made known to us the mystery of his will vers 6. according to his good pleasure which he had purposed in himself and not by your means Ephes 3.4 and 5. God who is rich in all mercy hath quickned us which sheweth that it is not your teaching that can do it and elsewhere he saith By his grace you are saved and not of works Then down with these working teaching Christs that can learn the people salvation for it is the gift of God not of works left any man should boast Ephes 2.9 and 10. For we are his workmanship created to good works which God hath foreordained therefore it is properly and fully the work of God freely to our souls but let no durt-dawbing Priest have any hand in thy conversion for it is Gods work Let no swineherd meddle with such a pearl as if they were outward means of mens salvation He alone is our peace who hath broke down the mid-wall of our reproach having abolished the enmity even the Law of Commandments contained in Ordinances by making in himself of twain one new man for peace that he might reconcile both into one body by his cross having slain the enmity thereby Ephes 2.17 He preached peace to you afar off and to them that are nigh so that by him we have access to the Father and not by the Priests of the second hand which have little skill in the creation of salvation it is a secret work of God Let no man say he can teach but let us all be taught of God Minister and People from the least to the greatest let us all covenant to him with one consent and betroth our selves to him that he may take pleasure in his Spouse and his beloved ones may have pleasure in him the All-teacher and come out from their fained Priests the gods of their Temples that call themselves Ministers of God saying The people must reverence them as Embassadors for the works sake as if God had not power on earth aswell as in heaven he is present in all places by his omnipotency and omnipresence and by his immensity and by his all-seeing eye and by his providence that governeth the whole creation and by his inspiration and foreknowing what shall come to pass he spiritually beholdeth all things he alone hath created the earth then doth he not see and teach all and will bring all rule and power under himself Then lay down ye high Priests and say Ye are all taught of God for he will teach us of his wayes The Law shall go out of Sion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem which shall be Christ preaching from the Mount when the people shall give audience to him and cast off their fained Priests which are but as wood and straw whose stubble shall burn before the fire of his jealousie wangeable shall their power be when God shall give power to his two Witnesses and the Law shall preach out of Sion Revel 14. The everlasting Gospel shall preach to every language and nation when all your wrangling Priests shall be forced to lay down because they can establish nothing in order correspondent to his bright appearing therefore they must lay down and say We have spent our time in vain too long and besotted the simple people and yet we have said We were the ordained Ministers of God though we were destroyers and no builders historians that have preached this or that but what of the new work can we do it is not our talking of Peter and Paul that will serve the turn for God will make a new heaven and a new earth by a new discipline Ecclesiastical and Civil he will make all new to do away your carnal formes every form shall cease to a new formality God will make his latter temple more glorious then all the former All earthly builders shall not be found fit for the work of Gods house every flatterer shall be nonresidensed and cast out according to Gods extent and laid open to the sight of the grand Church to be excluded from the common community shut out of fellowship and society with the unsociable and rebukeable When God shall try Sion and search Jerusalem with lights when he shall purge the Sons of Levi and break the constellations that stand so high and remove the stars out of their places when the moon shall blush and be ashamed and all the stars come under his feet when this discipline that now standeth upon crutches shall be taken away then you may declare the great things of God saying He hath formed a new temple wherein all righteousness shall dwell Old things are become new and all fashions and forms are passed away but onely one which is called the formal Power and Government of Jerusalem and God and our Lord Jesus Christ is our Temple The Lord is our light within us he is our Sabbath the Sun shall not burn us by day neither shall the dark Night overshade thee thou shalt continually walk in the light of the Citie of the great King when thou shalt throw off thy fained lovers I mean thy Priests that erre in darkness and know not the true way for God will surely consume the smoak of Babylon and burn up all darkness before himself that he may dissolve the great blindeness and ignorance of the Priests that there may be light in the City that hath lain so long under darkness suspended from the truth lying under thick darkness Therefore we must all come
under the teachings of God which will be a stable peaceable Government when we shall strive no more for disciplying Ministers Your power that you hold up is full of many horns of the beasts pushing and persecuting in your thought such as will not come under your bow but God will have a peaceable dominion when your power lies as low as Doctor Hill's bones This is a hard doctrine to you which you have not learned at Oxford and Cambridge yet you must stoop to his dominion Christians and People how have you been deluded in your way and solely conceited in earthly Priests Is not Christ all in all Ye look upon mortal man to teach yet God hath a providence that teacheth and ruleth all things in heaven and in earth Doth he not guide Winter and Summer and every season declareth his wisdom and by his power dark things declare forth the light that the people may know there is an higher Ministery then that of men Doctor Pulpitian know this the more you tie men to your audience the more they shall break off from your tyecal ties and your hearers shall be few in number Further know this When they turn their backs upon you there will be a great consumption of your power as we may call a consumption of the lungs or an endless consuming so that you shall be a hopeless Ministery for Christ is the beginning and end of every work and all truth is from the Father and the Son Christ never resisted the powers but said Give tribute to whom tribute belongeth he further said Give Caesar his due He was circumcised he read the Law he went into the water and was baptized yet all things are failable when he cometh in power then all such customes and forms must be done away though he suffered all after the flesh yet he redeemed all by a spiritual power and shall controverse for every wrong done in the flesh contrary to the will of God Doctor there must be a falling away but not from God but shall bring them neerer to God It shall not be a falling from their Sabbath rest which is the endless Ministery of Christ but it shall be a falling away from your power that the mystery of iniquity may be dissolved or discovered for there must be a great falling away and then you Stars or Ministers called shall fall from your high perfection and shall dissolve before Sion Ministers you shall be much disconsolate at this great falling away when your sheep shall seek a new Shepherd and go to the right Shepherd Christ Jesus when the kingdoms and powers shall be all given into his hand when no man shall say I am a Priest or a Minister of God then you high Doctors may say How are the mighty fallen How be our weapons of spiritual warfare perished and we are counted as low as other men Babylon thy honour is going down thy Temple is rent for there will be a falling away from thee two parts of the people shall fall away and the other two shall be tryed in the fire of his jealousie for God will bring all things upon trial to prove who are sincere and who are not and who will lay down life and all for him and who will not This falling away from you will be a redeeming of the people to Christ by bringing them out from your adulterous power of Ministery which is not of Christ but of men and cannot stand for yours is the Gospel of men and not from above your power is literal and you as so many decoy-ducks that deceive and insnare many others so do you captivate all those that follow you and neglect the principal of all which is Christ Isai 20. and 23. The Lord saith He will make a consumption in the midst of the Land which is now to be observed by this great falling away as by a shaking or quaking of the people of God which sheweth they must fall from your Ministery and be restored to Christ their great Conquerour This Tribe of Christ called the North-Tribe shall grow and prosper until it come to be an invincible Tribe of the Lion of Judah This Lion of the North shall cause all the beasts of the field to quake and a terrible shaking shall be that have disobeyed him This great Conquerour Christ Jesus of the new covenant first appeareth to the Messenger of the covenant and so to the North-country by an alusion to Jeremiah saying As I have scattered them so will I gather them from the North country and from all the countries where they have been scattered Christ alone he shall gather the people he is King of the North-country and of all the countries when his power doth arise it shall be as water in the bowels of the world he shall gather the people he shall sit and rule upon his Throne he is the Lion of the North-skâ—…t of the Jews whose power shall go forth This Tribe of the North is the Tribe of Judah to whom every Tribe shall stoop and fall Gen. 49.8 Judah thou art as a Lion thy hand shall he upon the neck of thy enemies Judah thou art as a Lion from the prey and shalt stand up for the Scepter shall not depart from thee nor a lawgiver from between thy feet until Shiloh come and unto thee shall the gathering of the people be So that I finde this Lion of the Tribe of Judah shall gather in all the lost Sheep of Israel to their fold that Christ may separate the Sheep from the Goats which will be a great shaking and falling away from your Ministery When God shall divide your Sichem and deliver his people out of your hands to be taught of Christ and taken from your mouth Then they may joyfully say Our Moon is set and no darkness appeareth The Lord is the light of our Temple The seventh and last part of this Sermon is set forth to declare the peaceable dominion of the Son of righteousness Obj. SOme Priests may say We have fasted we have prayed we have sighed and mourned for the people All this may be yet Christ hath done so before thee for he hath laid his life down and done the work thorowly for all that can believe Then Oh Priest look to thine own soul and take no charge of other mens souls though Noah Daniel and Job should pray for others yet they can have an answer but for their own souls for Christ is the end of all happiness and salvation he is the end of war look upon Sion the City of solemnisie to see Jerusalem a quiet habitation a peaceable dominion When the people see the Ministiners shall be ashamed when the Lord of Hostes shall raigne in Mount Sion and sit before his ancient glory to judge when Christ shall sit upon his throne by a Government called Mount Sion by an Auditory of twenty four or some twelves in other places to declare and effect condigne justice to all according as God shall
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