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A44798	The measvring rod of the Lord stretched forth over all nations and the line of true judgment laid to the rulers thereof wherein all governours and rulers, potentates and powers are measured, and all governments and lawes weighed in the true weight : wherein they all may see how far they are degenerated from the law of righteousness, and the rules of wisdome, which was in the beginning, before tyranny, and persecution, and rebellion had shewed it selfe : also shewing the end that will come upon all those rulers and governments, rulers and lawes that have been made in the apostacy, which is to all overthrown ... : also an advertisement to all the rulers upon the earth ... : published for the information of all the rulers upon earth ... / by one who waits to see the kingdoms of the world to become the kingdomes of the Lord ... Francis Howgil.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1658 (1658)	Wing H3171; ESTC R6600	23,099	33

that he brings forth yet take notice of this that as the seed unto which the promise was who were in the Faith and obeyed through Faith they had a Law so they in unbelief had also a Law as the seed worshipped the living God through a lively and a living Faith and so sinned not in so doing the seed of the serpent imitated a worship and worshipped in death and unbelief and as the Laws of one was equal such as David and Solomon the other was unequal such as Jeroboam and Rehoboam and as the one set up equity by a Law the other made a Law to set up iniquity And the seed they sought not their own honour but the honour of him who was their reward but the seed of the evil doer sought himself and his own honour and as the spirit of the Lord breathed forth it self and spoke the truth in the power of God deceit uttered forth lies in hypocrisie and in the power of death and as the upright lived unto God in the spirit deceit lived unto the flesh and unto him who hath the power of death which is the Devill and as they fulfilled the Law of God who were led by his holy spirit of God into all truth the other followed their own imaginations and answered the deceit and foolish mind and they whose understanding was darkened loved them and had pleasure in them So it may be truly said many Nations Rulers and ruled sit in the Region of the shaddow of death and the living God is forgotten among them one against another they are seeking one anothers ruine all in the violence in the cruelty Therefore all Rulers and Potentates of the Earth Magistrates and Governours under the whole face of Heaven hearken unto the words of my mouth and listen unto understanding that you may be partakers of the happiness and felicity which God is shedding abroad now in the latter dayes that so the Restorer you may know in your Regions and the deliverer in your Nations and the maker up of the breach in your Dominions that he who is the desire of all Nations may be revealed among you He which must restore is not born of man nor cometh not to a People or a Nation in the will of man neither seeks he himself but the glory of the Father who hath sent him to seek and to save that which is lost and to heale the breaches and to destroy that which hath made the breach that so all Nations who receive him believe in him may be reconcil'd unto him and one to another that the Earth may injoy rest the Regions quietness therefore all be warned not to look forth in your wils for there you will not receive him but slight him as many before you have done and so lie down in sorrow and weary your selves in vanity and lie down in infamy and never come to see his dignity Now he of whom I declare unto you is the Son of God who is the light of the World and the life of man and hath lightened every man that cometh into the World which light wherewith all men are inlightned is not contrary to the Law of God which indures for ever but one with it and this will let you see violence treachery murder envie wrath maliciousness drunkeness whoredom lying cursed speaking stealing defrauding cheating cosening rioteousness pride arogancy emulation contention strife hatred persecution cruelty opression I say the light which comes from Christ by whom the World was made will shew you that all these things is sin and evil in the sight of God and also will let you see there is a ground from whence these and all other evils proceed which ground is in all the Sons of men in the transgression till it be removed and these things before mentioned be the fruits that grows from it and buds forth themselves in all Nations and in every man in every Nation so the Earth is filled with violence and the grapes are as Sodom the fruit as Gomorrah whom God overthrew and till these things be done away and these fruits wither and the root from whence they arise be removed out of every particular man who is a Ruler he cannot be a blessing to a Nation neither rule for God in a Nation neither will he or can he be a terrour to all these things before mentioned While he himself is in those for he cannot destroy his own life neither will iniquity set up righteousness nor the worker of iniquity advance Christ Therefore listen to the words of my mouth and despise not counsell least you perish among fools and go down to the horrible pit where there is everlasting misery unto all perpetuity Now God that made both Heaven and Earth and all things that therein are he is light and with him is no darkness at all he never changes his purity nor alters his righteous decrees his eye is pure and alwaies fixed to behold all the works of the Sons of men and he searches the heart of man with his eye and pierceth through the secret places and is near to every man although man do not see him he is invisible and eternal and his Law indures for ever and the unalterable decree by which sin is judged and reproved in the World and in every particular man and every man who hearkens and hears the words of the pure Law which judges all sin in man receiveth the sentence of death in himself and is judged by the righteous words of his mouth and so sin in the particular comes to be condemned and all these changeable things is trodden under foot which is acted and brought forth from the changeable mind of man and so all Laws Constitutions and Decrees which is made in the will of man comes to be thrown down by his righteous Law which proceeds out of the mouth of the righteous God who is light and so as his unchangeable and unalterable decree comes to be set up in every particular Ruler Governour and himself judged with the just he comes to bear his rule for the just and answers that which is just in every man and no longer can he act against well doing but is a leader and an incourager of it in all and is a terrour to the unjust and so comes to know the dominion again which man lost through disobedience and transgression Now all you powers of the Earth wait that you may come to see that feel it revealed in your selves to wit the Law of God from the mouth of God that so you following it sin may be judged in your selves you come to know the one Lord the Lawgiver which leads man back out of sin transgression by his Son whom he hath sent into the World that all men through him might believe in the Father be restored out of sin transgression unto life eternal where death hath no entrance so all who waits upon the light of the Son of God and is obedient to it they come to feel his power and his decree which cannot alter its property or verity all who comes to be guided by it you will come to see that which unites you unto God one Nation to another in the Covenant of God! Oh that all your eyes were opened that you might see that which belongs to your peace the well being of all Nations that so the power of the flock might be refreshed among you and this I speak unto you a change must be witnessed in your selves before you will cease acting in the changeable mind now the time draws near the Lord will try you for the Earth must be left without excuse and he will have all warned for God will no longer be limited and therefore take heed how you gainsay any or resist any vvho may declare unto you the counsell of God and cause them not to be persecuted or hurt but all be calme and moderate and learn vvisdom from above from him vvho hath inlightned you that you may come to deny your selves and follovv him vvho condems all self actings and self vvill in man and all Customs Lavvs and Worships Traditions that is made in the vvill of man that so he unto vvhom all povver is committed may be feared and vvorshipped in spirit in life truth and righteousness that so all sedition rebellion treachery and unrighteousness may be cleansed out of the Earth and that all quarrelling fighting contention may end and people come out of that vvhich the svvord is against that so the svvords may be beat into Plovvshares and the spears into pruning hooks that so violence may be done avvay and cruelty svvept out of the Nations that the dominion of God may be set over all and his truth advanced above all that the Kingdoms of the World may become the Lords his Christs and blessed are they that stoop unto his Scepter vvho judges the Nations in righteousness and the people vvith equity who is the Salvat●on of all his people for evermore and a hiding place in the day of trouble LONDON The 20. of the 2. Moneth 1658. THE END

THE MEASVRING ROD OF THE LORD Stretched forth over all Nations and the Line of true judgement laid to the Rulers thereof Wherein all Governours and Rulers Potentates and Powers are measured and all Governments and Lawes weighed in the true weight wherein they all may see how far they are degenerated from the Law of Righteousness and the Rules of Wisdome which was in the beginning before Tyranny and Persecution and Rebellion had shewed it selfe Also shewing the end that will come upon all those Rulers and Governments Rules and Lawes that have been made in the Apostacy which is to be all overthrown and all that which is acted out of Gods power to be thrown down by him unto whom all Power is committed Shewing also that they in whom the power of God is made manifest cannot be subject to any Usurper or to that power which is gone from the life of God Also an Advertisement to all the Rulers upon the Earth that they may wait for the Restorer to be revealed in the Nations to make up the Breaches and to crush that down which hath made the Breach that so Righteousness may cover the Earth and gladness of heart may possess the People Published for the information of all the Rulers upon Earth By one who waits to see the Kingdoms of the World to become the Kingdomes of the Lord and his Christ that he alone may rule for ever and ever called FRANCIS HOWGILL London Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1658. The measuring rod of the Lord streched forth c. LIsten oh World hearken oh Earth and all the Inhabitants thereof give eare oh all Nations that are therein and all the Isles thereof draw near ye Potentates thereof ye Emperours Kings Earles Dukes Nobles Princ●pallities and Dominions my mouth shall speake the thing that is right and my lips shall utter forth understanding my toungue shall declare unto you the Counsell of the most high and what he is bringing to pass in the latter dayes he that is higher than the highest hath said he that is greater than the greatest hath spoken the whole World lies in wickedness and thick darkness is over the World his way is perverted his Counsell is despised and all Nations is out of order notwithstanding the multitude of their Counsellers and notwithstanding all their wisdome yet folly is brought forth in the middest of the Nations Because they have asked Counsell and not at the Lord and taken advice and not at the holy One therefore violence is set up as an Ensign and wickedness runneth down as a river and cruelty and opression as a mighty stream the whole Earth is full of folly and madness and all the people thereof are degenerate and grown out of the Image of God into a monstrous and strange nature the prophets are all fooles the diviners thereof are mad and they being degenerate themselves from the life of God have not turned the people from their iniquitie but hath led them into further blindness darkness ignorance and deceit and hath made the Word of truth of none effect through their traditions hath taught for doctrine the precepts of men the traditions of them who are out of the Faith and out of the life and out of the power of God and the Counsellors they have established wickedness by a law they themselves being stranged from the life of God therefore violence is broken forth into the earth as a flood and now all Kings Rulers Potentates of the Earth who have given their power to the Whore who sitts upon many waters and the waters are kindreds and tongues and people and Nations yea all Nations have been drunk with the cup of her Fornication and being all gone forth from the life in which the Prophets and the holy men of God lived in and were established in the Nations are become as waters reeling to and fro hither and thither unsetled unstable there the Whore hath her seate and all having drunk of her cup of Iniquity and Fornication even of mystery-Babylons cup and are inflamed therewith and so reeles to and fro as the waters and are as the waves of the Sea unstable by her who hath made all Nations drunk and by them who have been made drunk with her even all Nations kindreds tongues and people have the Prophets been slain and the witnesses slain and none to bury them not in mystery-Babylon who is drunk with the blood of the Saints and they that have drunk of her cup of Fornication even all the Kings Nobles Potentates of the earth they have acted the like and have slain the appearance of God where ever it hath been brought forth and the red Dragon hath stood ready to devour the heir which is borne of mystery-Ierusalem which is the Mother of all who are borne from above who are heires of the promise of Eternall life and the powers of the earth hath joyned their power to the Dragon who cast out floods of venome after the Child which is brought forth by the woman which is clothed whith the sun and now the powers of the earth taketh part with the Dragon and their authority and dominion that they exercise is by his power which arises out of the bottomless pit and shall goe into perdition and he hath deceived the Nations long and all hath exercised their power against him who is the heire of the promise the first-born of every Creature who is higher than the highest and greater than the greatest and have changed his lawes and made them void and hath set up the law of sinne and death hath established unrighteous Lawes by the power of darkness in which all Nations hath been involved in since the Dragon hath power and whosoever would not obey those Lawes and customs and constitutions the Dragon hath had power and all that have joyned to him for a time to kill to imprison to destroy and they who have been exalted have had thought to weary cut the Saints of the most high and to root out the memoriall of the just that he and all his adherents might reign for ever in the Kingdome of unrighteousness and in the dominion of darkness which is the Devills dwelling place and residence for ever who is at enmity against God and the Children of light which worship God in spirit and truth in life and righteousness Now is the time drawing near and he who is the desire of all Nations appeareth the ancient of dayes is coming whose throne is established in righteousness for ever who will break the head of the Dragon and will lay hold upon him and chaine him up that he deceive the Nations no more and all you Emperours Kings Dukes Earles Nobles Lords and Potentates who have joyned to him your Kingdome shall be rent from you and your hands shall grow weake that you shall not be able to defend your selves against him who travells in the greatness

of his strength who is comming up against you as a Lion greedy of his prey and will devoure at once all his enemies that thought in their hearts to reign for ever and to settle themselves in iniquity for ever now the time draws near when he will put down the authority of the dragon and of the beast and the beast with many heads and hornes and their rule shall come to an end and he will dash you one againe another as broken pitchers till you be consumed and brought to nought and be worn out as a motheaten garment and will overthrow your Lawes and customes which is made in the night of ignorance and blindness and will change your customes and the times and will reduce the earth again into its first purity and you that have ruled shall serve and be tributary and as you have had a time of rejoycing over the wittnesses who hath troubled your earthly and devillish peace and slayn them as sheep for the slaughter a time of mourning is comming upon you when you shall say alas alas for your glory shall pass away and your renown shall wither and for your dominion which shall grow so weake tht you shall not be able to resist him who travells in the greatness of his strength and treadeth the winepress of the wrath of God who is mighty and strong to judge the Whore and all they that have committed fornication with her and have drunk of her cup and are inflamed with Adultery and cannot cease from sinne but burnes in envie against the appearing of the manchild who is heir of the promise yea of life everlasting born heir to the inheritance which is incoruptible unto whom all power belongeth both in heaven and earth who will subdue the lower power and powers of darkness and tread them under foot and all who act from that power which is below the life below the truth below the light that power will he and all whom he brings out of the grave and raises above the grave tread down under foot which stands but in the earth wherein dwells unrighteousness Allthough thy teachers and diviners in the oh earth who preacheth a divnation of their own brain from the imagination of their own hearts hath made you beleive oh you powers of the earth who are in the fall in the transgression of the life that you were the higher powers every Emperour King Duke Earle Nobles Lords and that all were to stoop to your wills how contrary soever they have been to God but you and they must know there is one higher than the highest who is King of kings and Lord of Lords who alone will judge the hearts of his people and their consciences for he will not give his glory to another although you have long usurped it since the dayes of the Apostacy and would have had all to bow to that power which hath transgressed the life and is gone from the power of God oh long hath been the night of ignorance and darkness and great hath been the apostacy in the earth since the dayes of the Apostles and since the false Christs and false prophets entered into the World which Christ said should come and cry lo here and there and should deceive many yea all the world wondered after the beast and Iohn sa● it all ly in wickedness and the time that Christ prophesied of came to be fullfilled in the dayes of Iohn and he saw it Matt. 24. 23 24. that many false prophets and Antichrists were gone out into the World out from the life out from the truth cut from the light wherein the Saints had fellowship who wrote forth the Scriptures and he said they were gone into the World and he said the whole World lay in wickedness and so they went from holyness into wickedness and from the fathers love into the love of the World and Peter and Jude who lived in the same age they saw them that went in the error of Balaam and in the way of Cain and in gainsaying the Power being turned from it like Corah and also their hearts were exercised with covetuous practices So Iohn saw they were come 1 John 2. 18 19 ver. Little Chilldren it is the last times as you have heard that Antichrist shall come even now there are many Antichrists whereby we know its the last time and Peter saw that false Apostles should come who should make merchandise of the people and prophesied of it as you may read 2 Pet. 2. 2 3. and in the 14 15. verses you may know them by their fruits having eyes full of adultery and cannot cease from sinne beguiling unstable soules and hearts they have exercised with covetuous practices and they were the cursed children and these had forsaken the right way Christ the way and his command also freely ye have received freely give and they laboured to keep the Gospell without charge who were true Apostles but these false prophets deceitfull workers Antichrists and false Apostles they were gone in Balaams way after the wayes of unrighteousness in Cains way in Coras way in Antichrists way cut of Christs way and these false prophets false Apostles they spoke swelling words of vanitie and did allure through the lusts of the flesh and they like the rest of the false Prophets gone before them cried peace and promised peace unto others while they run with them into riotousness and while they put into their mouthes and these promised libertie to themselves and others while they themselves were servants of corruption and Jude bore witnesse that they were turned from the Grace of God into lasciviousnesse and wantonnesse even from the grace that taught them to deny ungodlinesse and was sufficient to preserve them from these errours before mentioned but they went from it and from the light and life of men and denied him and owned another even him who abode not in the truth the foundation of God but went out of the truth and so are bottomlesse or without foundation and there is the very center ground and residence of all the false prophets Antichrists deceivers all comes from or out of the bottomless pit and leades to perdition And Paul if not in that age yet in the next age after lived he saw the mystery of iniquity already begin to worke 2 Thess. 2. 6. and Paul an Apostle of Christ wrote to Timothy his Son that the spirit spoke expresly some should depart from the faith and they should speake lies in hypocrisie 1 Timothy 4. 1 2. and in the 2 of Tim. he gave him notice what fruits they should bring forth they that departed from the faith Chap. 4. ver. 2 3 4 5 6. yea a great Apostacy from the faith there was while Paul was yet living for he writes to Timothy 2. Tim Chap. 1. this thou knowest that all they which were in Asia be turned away from me and there were a great people in Asia for great persecution he suffered in Asia and

stayed 2 years in Asia Acts. 19. ver. 10. In so much that all they that dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord yea and divers great men and of the cheife of Asia were his freinds Acts 19. ver. 21. so its manifest there were 2 great people for Acts 19. 26 verse not only at Ephesus but almost throughout all Asia this Paul hath perswaded and turned away much people said Demetrius and Paul writing to the Corinthians saith 1 Cor 16. 19. the Churches in Asia salute you and Iohn writes to seven Rev. 1 4. Rev. 11. and as was said before all was departed from the faith even all they that are in Asia are turned away from me and the Apostle wrote to Titus Titus 1 ver. 10 11. that there were many unruly and vaine talkers and deceivers who subverted whole houses teaching the things they ought not for filthy lucre And Iohn who wrote the last in the Revelations he writes that the whole World wondred after the beast and his power was so great that it was said who is able to make warre with the beast they worshipped the beast saying who is able to make warre with the beast Rev. 13. ver. 3 4. and the beast that arose out of the Sea having seven heads and ten hornes and upon his hornes ten Crownes and upon his head the name of blasphemy and the Dragon gave him his power his seat and great Authority and he opened his mouth in Blasphemy against God to blaspheme his Name and his Tabernacle and them that dwell in Heaven and it was given him to make war with the Saints ver. 6. 7 and to overcome them and power was given him over all kindreds tongues and Nations and all that dwell upon the earth ver. 9. shall worship him whose names are not written in the Lamb's book of life shin from the foundation of the World this Beast receiving his power and authority from the Dragon hath prevailed he rose out of the Sea the Waters upon which the whore sits and the waters are kindreds tongues and people and the Beast arose out of the Sea also that the whole World wondred after and worshipped and John that saw this coming 14 or 15 hundred years agoe so that in a few ages after the Apostles all was worn out the life lost the Dragon had power the Beast had power and all wondred after him and the Whore had made all Nations drunk with her Fornication and then she came to sit upon many Waters Kindred Tongues and People hears the Waters hears the Sea out of which the Beast rose who received his power from the Dragon and this is he who upon his head had the names of Blasphemy and all kindreds tongues and Nations whose names were not written in the Lambs book they who honoured the Beast and worshipped the Beast and said who is able to make war with him admired his power and submitted unto him and he hath had power and hath prevailed against the saints did overcome them and the Dragon hath made war with the Seed which keep the Commandements of God and the testimony of Iesus all this was seen many Ages agoe and what worke the Dragon hath made in the Nations and in the Earth where he hath had dominion and prevailed and what a raging the roaring Lyon hath kept in the Earth is evident seeking to destroy them in whom the seed remained and to destroy them in whom the power of God was or the least measure and so the false Prophets deceivers Antichrists which wenout then which the Apostle saw they cried up that power which was from the life of God and hath cryed it up for the higher power and said all ought to be subject to it and said who is able to make war with the Beast for the false Apostles and Deceivers and Antichrists went from the Grace of God and from the light and from the power of God into the World and into that Nature which all kindreds and tongues and people walked in and into the power that acts the Children of disobedience and joyned with that power upon which the Whore sits and they taught Nations and People to admire this power and to admire the Beast because of his Heads and Horns and Crowns and Names and hath wrought miracles before the Beast and this power which the Beast had received from the Dragon this power admires the false Prophet and the false Prophet the Beast so that none could buy nor sell nay nor live but that had his marke or the number of his name and so all hath been in utter darknesse and the deeds of darknesse hath spread themselves over the Earth For the Whore who is adulderated from God and the Dragon and the Beast and the false Prophet all have acted from that power which is below the truth and below the life which power is at enmity against the truth and the life and against the light and this power overspread all Nations and the Sun being set the night came over all and the shadow of death over all Nations and a veil and a covering hath been spread over all and so out of the midst of thick darkness all hath acted this long and darke night of ignorance in the Apostacy wherein the Dragon hath had power and the Beast and that power hath been admired and set up which hath transgressed the life so that any who have been zealous for the truth and have kept the testimony of Jesus and the spirit of prophesie the false prophets in all Nations who are from the testimony of Jesus have called to the Beast to slay and to kill and to destroy the seed of the woman which is cloathed with the Sun and so the Beast exercising his power which is from below have killed and destroyed them who were subject to the higher power And what torturing and Massacring and persecution what burning and strangling there hath been what cruell deaths many have been put to over all Nations and in all Nations where the beast have had power who makes warr against the life so that the streets have run with blood and all being gone from the life and power of God they set up themselves to be Judges over mens consciences and they who were in the errour they cryed out of heresie and they that are gone from the truth into a lie the ground of Blasphemy they cry out of Blasphemy and under the hornes of the beast and under the heads and the Crownes of the beast what Cannons constitutions edicts and lawes have been in all Nations what trapps ginns and snares have been laid in every Nation yea every home hath pushed and every head hath lifted up it selfe against Christ the head and every mortall Crowne hath advanced it selfe against the Crowne of glory and against the immortall Crowne so that it might be said as Eliah said the altar of the Lord hath been broken down and his prophets and his witnesses slain none hath