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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25350	Gods proclamation to the inhabitants and people of England published by one of the Lords servants ... known by the name of John Anderson.	Anderson, John.	1659 (1659)	Wing A3081; ESTC R31900	11,388	20

left laying snares and watched by false accusations to intrap him until they had most shamefully crucified him accounting him not worthy to live They crucifie the life and set another to bear the cross as all you formal professors in England do this day who reject the cross of Christ whereby the enmity should be destroyed in you that the life of righteousness might there appear which suffers by your formed weapons writing at top of the cross in several Languages This is the King of the Jews In your vain imaginations saying Loe here loe there and wote not that the Kingdom of God is within you where Christ hath long waited to reign But ye would not have this man to reign over you but have sent him out of your Coasts and having lost the sence of his life within are making likenesses to your selves from the Letter without seeking for him about Jerusalem below not minding where Sodom and Aegypt spiritually so called are where darkness pride and fulness of bread lusts and uncleanness are where the Lord is crucified Cain slew Abel in the beginning because he was more righteous then himself and his Sacrifice was accepted with God but Cains was not The beast and false Prophet Gog and Magog and all the Armies of the Aliens those that are strangers to Gods Covenant of Light they now rage and make war against the witness of God the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world now raised from death to life to execute righteous judgements upon the workers of iniquity surely this must needs trouble the world because their deeds are evil Come down all ye high and lofty ones from the mountains and hills that ye have set up in your vain imaginations unto the pure principle of God in you that will shew you that God is worshipped neither in this mountain nor at Jerusalem but in spirit and in truth no longer in the oldness of the letter but in newness of the spirit And this as a witness for the Lord I testifie and declare to all the world that all other worships and worshippers though they make never so fair a shew in the flesh all their fastings prayers preachings sabbaths singings and other performances are all abominable in the sight of the Lord no better then the cutting off a Doggs Neck or the offering of Swines blood being a burden to the Lord the which his soul is weary to bear Know O man what ever thou art that pleadest against perfection in this life for any one sin either pride covetousness drunkenness swearing lying or what ever it be let thy cloak or pretence be never so colourable in thee the Devil hath his Kingdom by consent and doest thou expect salvation from them which thou delightest to live in Knowest thou not there is no fellowship between Christ and Belial no communion between light and darkness and he that is joyned to an Harlot is one with the Harlot and he that breaketh one of Gods Commandements is guilty of the whole Truly the Lord God of heaven and earth hath waited long to be gracious to this Nation and hath often called them to repentance by his witness within and visited them by his messengers and servants early and late for several years together but they have hardned their hearts and stiffned their necks cast the councels of the Lord behind their backs persecuted and scornfully intreated and despitefully used his messengers that the Lord God is grieved with this wicked Generation that have chosen their own wayes and rejected and set at nought Christ Jesus the way to everlasting life whose right it is to reign on whom the Government is laid and he ought to be the King and Law giver in these Nations And all ye wise builders and setters up of worships and governments in your fallen wisdom which is out of Gods Councel have but robbed God and Christ of their right Know ye not that your wisdom is confounded and ye do but contract shame to your selves What think ye pot-shards of the earth that ye can stand against the Lord God Almighty Nay assuredly he will overturn overturn and overturn all your forms and frames of Worships and Governments set up without him see ye not how your enterprizes have been blasted and your designes against the Lord and his Christ frustrated yea and so shall all the Councels of the ungodly perish and the wisdom of the wise be turned into foolishness Know ye not ye Sects Formalists and Notionists that ye have betrayed the just and righteous principle of God in you from whence liberty reformation righteous Laws and freedom should flow forth that so from the good old cause ye are degenerated into the bad old principle and having no better hopes are gone down again into Aegypt for councel and help from the Lords enemies into the dark ye are gone backward from the light ye are waxen fat with Geshurun and have forgotten the Lord who brought you up out of the house of bondage and set you above all the Nations round about you O ye strong men of the Nations and sometimes valiants of Israel who hath bewitched you with Sampson to give your strength into Dalilahs lap that Harlot that will betray you into the hands of the Philistines and take heed least the end be the same destruction upon Sampson and the Philistines together let them that know themselves concerned herein by the witness of God in them consider what is said least sudden destruction come upon them and repentance be hid from their eyes for the Lords spirit is grieved with this people and cannot indure that men should deal so deceitfull in his work that after God hath planted them in Vineyards and given them to eat the fruit of the Vine they should rebel against him and revolt as back-sliding Israel that they should take the Son of the husbandman and kill him that they may have his inheritance This is great unkindness indeed that men should thus requite the Lord. What think ye that ye can hide your selves from the Lord Nay verily he will surely search and find out those rebels that will not have his Son to reign over them What are the Princes of this people become the companions of thieves robbers that murther upon the way by consent How is that City wherein righteousness did sometime lodge now become an Harlot How are those that have talked of and waited for the coming of Christs Kingdom now turned Apostates to set up their own greatness instead of Christs righteousness amongst men how have these people forsaken the Lords Councel given them by his servants and have taken councel with the ungodly against him that will break them to pieces and rule them with an iron rod How long will ye neglect the day of your visitation Verily the Lord will not be mocked and let not the long suffering of God be so much abused for his Spirit shall not alwayes strive with men Know this of a truth that

grace of God teacheth us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to walk righteously soberly and godly in this present world And do not these deceivers live in the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye and the pride of life and are they not of Antichrist Try them by their fruits they are made manifest Do men gather Grapes of Thorns and Figgs of Thistles Believe them not for there is a lying spirit in the mouth of these Priests and false Prophets and be ye separate and come out from amongst them and partake not any longer with them in their sins least ye also partake with them in their Plagues which assuredly shall fall upon this wicked Generation of men that will not have the Lord to be the Teacher of his people How long will ye give your selves up to sottishness blindeness and ignorance as not to come to the Light that you may see where you and they are in the Dark under false coverings What cry them up for Ministers of Christ which should be cloathed upon with the robes of his righteousness made white in the blood of the Lamb Try them are they such Nay verily they are such as have dyed their garments red with the blood of Christs Saints and servants read the truth hereof in their barbarous and bloody cruelty acted upon the bodies and goods of the people called Quakers throughout England the Saints of the most high God they are so and the Lord will own them to be so to the shame and confusion of all their enemies though now they gnash their teeth at them and grin like Dogs crying out help help O Magistrates or else we are undone or the like of that A confederacy a confederacy report and we will report it and make lyes their refuge which from the beginning to the end hath been the practice of their Father the Devil Balak and Balaam together consult against this people that are come up over against them whose God is the Lord great and mighty The Priests and People Jews and Gentiles combine together to betray the Son of man into the hands of sinners The beast and false Prophet the Whore arrayed in Purple and Scarlet colour that sits upon many waters peoples Tongues and Languages the Priests original Mystery Babylon the mother of Harlots false Churches and false worshippers have made themselvs drunk with the blood of the Saints that have suffered for the Testimony of Jesus Yet would have People believe that Christ is their Saviour So drunk are people with the Whores cup of Fornications that they are blinde and given up to believe lyes they can sit at ease in the flesh and talk of God and Christ afar off but cannot indure that the truth should come nigh them What is the Kingdom of God within is the light within Christ to be known within the word nigh thee in thy heart and in thy mouth Truly this may seem strange that that God whom ye have ignorantly worshipped so long afar off should be so nigh in the heart and doth God require truth in the inward parts where Satans reign and Kingdom hath so long been and must that old housholder of iniquity be turned out withal his deceitful Merchandize and profitable crafts This sets all the world in an uproar that lyeth in wickedness and the witness of God begins to make the wicked cry out let us alone Why art thou come to torment us before the time Must it be so indeed that Christ alone must have the Kingdom and may not Pride Covetousness and other lusts of the flesh and works of darkness stand with this Kingdom of God in the heart of man and in the world to be set up Nay out must all sin and iniquity all thy old lovers pleasures profit honour credit all must be forsaken for Christs sake or else thou shalt never be found worthy of him and as thou hast in thy unregenerate estate been wholly a servant of sin so now in the regeneration thou must wholly and faithfully follow Christ the Saviour to redeem thee from all sin and give thy self up body soul and spirit a living sacrifice unto God that so being in Christ Jesus thou mayest with him in Gods dominion which man lost in the fall reign with him in righteousness over all deceit and uncleanness within and without and in God thy maker live move and have thy being Is it so some may say this seems to be hard sayings and who then shall be saved what must we leave all in truth without deceit yea and deny your selves as the Scriptures testifie and take up the dayly cross to the carnal mind that hath gone a whoring after false worships and strange Gods that the enmity may be destroyed that 's in you or else ye cannot be Christs Disciples nor witnesses of the word of Reconciliation without which ye cannot be saved whatever other hopes ye have they are but dead hopes and such as ye shall be ashamed of It 's an easie matter to read and talk of the way to life to be a strait and narrow way and that few there be that find it and to talk of Christs sufferings at Jerusalem Death and destruction hath heard the fame of wisdom and can preach thereof but to witness the straightness of the way to the Kingdom and the measure of Christs sufferings to be fulfilled in your selves without which ye shall not reign with him in glory This you will finde not to be a work of flesh and blood nor accordding to the will of man but a work wrought by the arm of Gods salvation that can give life to the dust of the earth That all Pharaohs Magicians shall be made to know and confess to the truth of God that this is the Finger of God Know ye not or hath the God of this World wholly blinded your eyes that the Devils rage appeareth and the mystery of iniquity then works strongly when the life and power comes nigh him that destroyes his work and kingdom Pharoah and his mighty Host rageth mightily when Israel should be gone out of his bondage to serve the living God The Scribes and Pharisees Priests and Elders Rulers and People can delight themselves to talk of the Law and the Prophets which fore-tell of Christs coming and can make an outward profession accordingly and can build again the Tombes of the Prophets and adorn the Sepulchers of the Just Yet when the Just and Holy one comes they are all of an uproar and the Devil is so high in them that they charge him that he cast out Devils by Belzebub the Prince of Devils what strange deceit and wickedness is this think ye in professors of the letter that accounted Christs life madness and those that followed him fools and mad men and though the Scriptures which they had testified of him yet they would not come to him that they might have life but despised rejected and scorned both him and his Doctrine and never