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
Gods Proclamation TO THE INHABITANTS AND PEOPLE OF ENGLAND Published by one of the Lords Servants called forth out of darknesse to be a Witness unto the Everlasting Light of the Son of GOD. According to the Word of the Lord which came unto him on the fifth day of the ninth moneth 1659. Known by the name of JOHN ANDERDON The Lord hath spoken that the Rod of the wicked shall not alwayes be on the back of the Righteous LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1659. REpent Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand and the patience and long suffering of God is almost at an end The Kingdoms of this World shall become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ who must Reign until all his enemies are subdued and the greatness of the Dominions under the whole heavens shall be given into the hands of the saints of the most High God such as faithfully follow the Lamb in the Regeneration in his righteous war against the beast and false Prophet within and without which have combined together to make war against the Lamb and his followers have given their power to the Prince of this world the Dragon cast out of Heaven the Devil that old serpent that hath deceived the Nations whose followers ye are that rebel against the light and love darkenss rather than light because your deeds are evil having chosen to follow your own hearts lusts and vain and wicked imaginations which is out of the fear and councel of the Lord God of light and life How long how long will ye turn the truth of God into a lye and the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like unto corruptible man whose breath is in his nostrils How long will men forsake the Lord the Fountain of living waters and draw waters out of broken Cisterns full of pollutions and defilements How long will ye follow after vanities and forsake your own mercies How long will ye seek the living amongst the dead How long will ye follow the builders of Babel whose Language is confounded with many Tongues and set at nought Christ Jesus the chief corner stone whose building is in spirit and truth a City whose maker and bulider is God which is at unity within it self How long will ye follow after lyes and heap up to your selves teachers after your own corrupt hearts lusts that justifie the Wicked and condemn the Just that call good evil and evil good that put Light for Darkness and Darkness for Light and refuse to be taught and led by the spirit of truth which will lead you out of your own inventions out of the impure into the pure way and worship of God which is in spirit and in truth How long will ye cry up a Kingdom without in words and neglect to seek to know Gods Kingdom within in power That in the heart where the root of the Tree is that bringeth forth evil fruit the Axe may be laid That by the everlasting light of the son of God ye may come to see what is good and what is evil in your selves to a clear understanding of the difference between the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil and the Fruit of the Tree of Life unto which an enterance is no way to be had but under the flaming sword of Gods wrath and anger against that which hath joyned to the seed of the Serpent in the transgression of man from the righteous Law of God That through the Law ye may become dead to the Law that through the death of all that is contrary to God ye may come to know and witness life in your selves redemption by the blood of Jesus which saveth from all sin that ye may be no longer false witnesses to tell of things that ye have not seen but that ye may all come to know the work of God wrought in your selves that ye may no longer glory and boast in another mans line but that through the sensible operation of the word of life in your selves ye may all become Preachers of righteousness in your Generations according to your measures of what you have seen tasted and handled of Gods good word of Grace That the new birth which is after the spirit and sensibly and certainly to be known and felt in the creature through many sore pangs and hard travel may be brought forth not a thing in notion but in truth the onely way to life without which none can enter into Gods Kingdom and if ye are not witnesses of this in your selves all the experiences and records thereof by others will be little available to you but to stand as a witness against you Verily Eternal life is of highest concernment therefore search and seek diligently until ye find it And certainly ye can have no other true hopes thereof then ye witness a death unto sin in your selves and a Resurrection unto life by the spirit of Christ you must know your selves Gods workmanship in Christ Jesus and know the sore travel of soul until ye be formed again into the likeness of Gods image in him that ye may witness Christ in you the hope of glory all other hopes are but the hope of the hypocrites which shall perish As ye have all been in the degeneration from God in the actual transgression joyned to the seed of the serpent that drew man into the fall so ye must all actually and really know the work of regeneration in your selves by the eternal power of Gods spirit working out and destroying the works of the Devil in the creature by joyning him again unto the Seed of God in whom redemption and deliverance is In the manifestation of the measure of Gods good spirit given to every man to profit withal the work is to be known and waited in That so in man where Satans seat and dominion hath been which hath led the creature captive into sin and transgression that there also Gods Kingdom and Dominion in Christ Jesus the power of God may be witnessed truth in the inward parts working out and destroying all that 's contrary to the pure nature of Gods seed Christ That so by the blood of Christ the righteousness of God the creature may be cleansed from all filthiness of flesh and spirit and redeemed up to God again by the word of reconciliation that so that which hath led the creature captive to sin may now be led into captivity that so as sin by mans disobedience hath reigned unto death so by the resurrection of the just Christ in us righteousness may reign unto life everlasting that as ye have yeelded your members to be the weapons of unrighteousness unto sin so now ye may yeeld your selves servants of righteousness unto holiness Truly so not in word but in life and power is Gods Kingdome to be known and manifested in you That as ye have been under Satans power in the
transgression and alienation from God so now by Gods eternal spirit ye may be brought to be subjects of Gods power in Christ Jesus the seed of God whose right it is to reign in the heart and in the World in truth and righteousness Yea and his Kingdom is to be set up on top of all deceit and deceiveableness of unrighteousness which long hath fate in the seat of God and lifted it self above all that is called God the Devil having bewitched the Nations to believe a lye to lead them forth from that which is pure of God within which would shew men the way of life to look abroad to powers and dominions and inventions without conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity where the Prince of this World rules and so keeps men to be bond-slaves to himself following their lustfull imaginations and he in subtilty keeps possession of the house within as a strong man armed against the appearance of the seed of God in the heart where Satans Kingdom must be destroyed And so long as he can keep men from turning to the work of God within he in peace keeps his hold and shews the creature with his guile and deceit as at the beginning that the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil the inventions and wisdom of man in the fall is pleasant and good for food But indeed and truth in the cool of the day when Gods voice comes to be heard it 's found to be but the increase of sorrow and bitterness to the soul when by the everlasting Light of the Son of God all false coverings and pretences are made manifest and in Gods wisdom Christ in us all this wisdom of the World found to be foolishness and not able to fathom or comprehend or give the knowledg of the things of God which are spiritual which seeth over and above all deceit and deceiveableness of unrighteousness set up in the Worldly principle in the carnal mind which canot please God being at enmity against the Seed of God in which he is well pleased out of which all your services and worships are but abomination in the sight of the Lord which maketh desolate being but false coverings of Antichrist while he rules in the heart and ye never come to know a separation made in the earth between the seed of the Serpent and the seed of the Woman working in the heart of man by one of which two powers all creatures are guided and led forth to act and until ye come to true judgement in the light to discern ye know not by which power ye are acted and so bring forth nothing but confusion and are servants of sin and Satan under a pretence of righteousness and zeal for God yet all out of the life and power of truth whose voice must be heard and is known by the sheep of Christ from all false teachers and deceivers who have put on sheeps cloathing but inwardly are ravening Wolves that rob God and Christ of his right within and raven from the spirit of life which ought to be the onely guide to the creature in the performance of duties towards God and man all other performances are but images and likenesses of things begotten and brought forth from a false power crying up self-righteousness without and let sin and iniquity reign within from which corrupt root all that proceeds is but bitter fruit It is the great design of Antichrist to keep people from the power of God within Christ in us and to perswade them to high performances in the imaginations and imitation without which pleaseth the carnal mind and makes pahaps a fair shew in the flesh But this child though as goodly as Ishmael that came from Abrahams loynes after the flesh yet it is not the heir of the promise according to the Covenant of life Assuredly that which is begotten of God and brought forth of a Virgin is the heir of Gods Kingdome all other are but false births from the seed of the bond-woman which with her son though never so stately is to be cast out and not to be heir with the son of the free-woman Let him that hath an Ear hear what the spirit saith Judas the Traytor hath gotten himself into an high form of words Hail Master and kissed him much for deceitful greetings as most false teachers are and the Pharisees that crucifie the Lord of life can make clean the out-side of the cup and platter Vnless your righteousness exceed theirs ye shall not enter into Gods Kingdom Pilate being warned of the woman that was in the transsion may wash his hands and yet give unjust judgement to crucifie the innocent Lamb of God The highest and greatest Professors of the letter and words without can joyn unanimously together to cry out against the life within the City of Gods habitation crucifie him crucifie him and so carrie him without the Gates where are Dogs Sorcerers and Whoremongers and Murtherers and Idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a lye there the Lord of life is put to death Wolves in sheeps cloathing counterfeits that deceive the World having killed Gods witness within they hate persecute and devour Gods witnesses without whose testimony is from the life of truth which discovers all their false coverings they having lost the sheeps nature within they make it their work to prey upon and destroy Gods Lambes without whose blood cryes loud from the earth for vengeance upon those ungodly and wicked men those idol shepheards that sell souls for morsels of bread and handfulls of Barley those Ministers of unrighteousness who by their lyes and lightness have caused thousands to err from the truth of God running greedily after the errour of Balaam for the wages of unrighteousness that are called of men Master who loves the uppermost seats in the Synagogues receive honour one of another as unbelievers do and many follow their pernicious ways whereby the way of truth is evil spoken of blind guides haters of the light deceitful heady high-minded proud covetous whose spots of uncleanness are seen in their flesh without proceeding from the power of darkness within which rules in the hearts of the children of disobedience workers of inqiuity they are the seed of evil doers that say and do not that under pretence make long prayers to deceive fast and pray to smite with the fist of wickedness and to murther the just who is more righteous then themselves Cursed children they are such as the Lord hates and never sent them in his service neither do they his work but the works of their father the Devil they do who was a lyar from the beginning and aboad not in the truth And will this people alwayes follow the errour of the wicked and believe in lyes and never come to the Light to try the spirits that are gone forth into the world Know you not that the Scriptures of truth testifie That that spirit is true that confesseth that Christ is come in the flesh for the