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

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

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

A WORD From the NORTH Sounded into the SOUTH Heard and received of Many Jesus Christ the Son of God which is the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world and all that receive this light and believe in this light and are obedient to this light they receive power and do become the sons of God And as I have heard so I have and do see in the true light and am bold to give forth my testimonie that it is true and there is no other way to salvation but by it And therefore do I warn all the people and thee O Kent with the citie of Canterbury and town of Maidstone and all thy Magistrates in you all betimes to consider and take heed that none of you be anie longer enemies to it and its Ministers lest you be found fighters against God Thomas Howse●o● London Printed for Giles Calvert at the black Spread-Eagle neer the West end of Pauls 1657. A Warning unto all people that live wantonly upon the Earth WO wo saith the Lord to the Inhabitants of the Earth that live wantonly and proudly upon the earth which oppresseth the innocent and murders the just that say Who is the Lord and to the Almighty Depart we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes we wil not have this man Christ the light which enlightneth every man that cometh into the world to reign over us to rule in us to be the only true Teacher unto us by him to be governed and convinced of all sin and to be reproved for all our evil deeds of darkness for if him we receive then all our gain of unrighteousness will be lost all our pomp and glories of this world must be denyed all our evil vain thoughts all our formal Profession without the life out of the possession by this light wil be condemned and all our forms without the power by it and by the children of it are denyed and if this be received all sin and iniquity must be denied while we are here in this life And we have been taught by our Teachers and Priests That while we are here we cannot be freed from sin and that none can be without sin while they are in this life and that freedom from our sins should be in another world and them we have believed and this for truth we have received And for the light of Christ that shews sin and leads out of sin which was in the beginning we confess Scriptures speaks of such a thing and there is something in our consciences tells us it is truth we should not serve sin and the Devil here in this life and we are condemned often by it when we do evil though no eye of man sees us and this is the Witness of God in our consciences and the Witness is true but it 's a cross to our Wills and Lusts And our Priests and learned men they must needs know and they have taught us otherwise That we cannot be free here and we see they are as we and do the same things that we do and we hope we shall do as well as they And further we see that the Rulers and great ones but very few of them receive this Testimony nor own this Light of Christ to be ruled by it and if we receive it and be ordered by it then we must deny all ungodliness and vvordly lusts all our pride and oppression all our vain words and light idle communication jesting and foolish talking lying and double-dealing c. And this is a great cross to our own wills and we shall be a cross to the will of man and the povvers of the Earth and the Priests of the Nation vvill frown upon us Yea further it tells us we may not think our own thoughts nor speak our own words but a watch must be kept over all And that tells us if we commit sin we are of the Devil and that him to whom we yeild obedience his servants we are and that the Tree is known by its fruit and that no unclean thing can enter into the kindom of God and that if we be Christs we must be new creatures and that his blood cleanseth from all sin we acknowledge this to be truth But we have received another testimony of men and most professors and people are of this judgement that is We cannot be free from sin here And with the Enemy to their eternal peace here many joine and deny the pure Light of Christ within them and refuseth its teachings and leadings out of all ungodliness and wordly lusts to a holy and godly life and conversation in this present evil world and to have no fellowship with the unfruitful works and workers of darkness but to reprove them plainly Here the vain world and carnal professors joynes together and both conclude that this they cannot be nor do and so exclude themselves from its leadings which would make them to be found meet to be partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light These say to the Almighty Depart depart we desire not the knowledge of thy Law these deny the grace of God which bringeth salvation these deny the living way to the Father these deny the power of God these resist the Light in which the power is placed and he that resisteth this Power resisteth the Ordinance of God these deny the Lord that bought them and such shall bring damnation upon themselves for this is witnessed and testified that there is no other way to salvation then that which was from the beginning Christ the true Light which enlightneth every one that cometh into the world and was given for a light of the Gentiles the salvation of God unto the ends of the world Isa 4.9.6 Acts 13.47 Mark He was given for a light he was he is the true light he was given for a Covenant Isa 42.6 All that have not him to be the true Light have not the Covenant are out of the Covenant denies the door of entrance to the Father for none can come to the Father but by him And so all people be warned what you do for where this cursed ground is standing and darkness over the face of the earth and the light denyed there the cursed fruit is brought forth as hatred pride envie wrath emulation strife seditions hypocrisie heresies c. and all fruits of the flesh have a habitation in that kingdom where Pharaoh rules which oppresses the Israel of God there Judas dwelleth that betrayes the just there is that envious generation harboured that cryes Deliver to us the murdererer and crucifie the light the Son of God Therefore all people I warn you all betimes consider what you do that deny the light of Christ and ●y it to be ordered and calls it natural it matters not what you profess or talk of in words all your Religion and Profession is but vain your vain words will not save you no more then it did the generation which you may read of

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