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A94531	Theavrauiohn high priest to the Ievves, his disputive challenge to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and the whole hirach. of Roms clargical priests.	Tany, Thomas, fl. 1649-1655.	1652 (1652)	Wing T152B; Thomason E656_10; ESTC R206604	7,875	8

glad and rejoyce to hear and see the truth drawn from the ly which are yee called Priests for you say that you are called and sent of Christ it must be then messengers of his second comming that is to restore the captive Iewes according to the promise and then your declarative must be in the height in the Divine wisdom in the Beauteous Excellency and delectable Oratory and now if your learning will over-reach my wisdom and knowledge though I am unlearned then I will subscribe unto you and write THEAURAU JOHN High-Priest no more But be you sure I will be there and I expect the tryal of your selected choyce that makes me give you warning before to provide Now though I expect a Champion of yours out of all the choyce of your glorious numbers as you tearm them even I expect and look for the select Ey of your whole conclave I desire that he may be free from himself in persecution of others for persecution is of mans self-will which is in deed and in truth the Devil in man now where you see persecution in man that is the very Devil in man nay properer Devel-man man-Devil that is Satan that deceiver that Man slayer that Murtherer who was a Lyar from the beginning Now I will desipher out unto the clear view of all people who are the sons of God and who are the Devils moones or Devils children Asaphel arki that is Devils of strength and might First Gods sons who are restored by Massah or Christ they are children of obedience acting in love unto all even unto the children of darkness or Devils children Not forgetting what they were reduced from before they were made obedient in light and in love they do demonstrate by their loveliness in walking in the beams of Excellency which is the light of love and it is love that giveth darkness or Devils light and sight and doth abstract their dackness into lights own Ey then that that was a Devil or darkness is made light acting in love then them two contraries by light is reconciled unto the unity of one Spirit and then behold all is then very good in all all one unto all the all which is but one All in the all of all things Now you that are in darkness that is Mone children or children of the Devil you alwayes act your Fathers work which was and is persecuting the light which are the children of God Now by your persecuting Any you show you are Devlis and in darkness for persecuting it is from the Devil for God and Christ is love and in love there is no persecution for know affoon as you appear in persecution that man doth declare absolutely that he is possessed with the Devil For know that if ye be in light you love them that are in darkness and in the bands of the Deuil because your selves were in darkness before you were made light by that glorious Spirit of Christ the Lord who hath cast forth your envious Devil and turned you into the light of Life which is the Spirit of the living God Look upon Christs own example I do not bid you look unto his words for ye persecutors are all words but no Foundation or example in the truth as by your persecuting you declare your selves for to be the Devils children and you fetch your coloured Cloak from Christs own words so indeed you are Angels in words but in action you are persecuting Devils Now you Persecutors you dwell in formes and know the form of the thing is not the true thing for the true light it is not in any mans forme or formed or forming but it is Truth in its own root unforming your Independancy your Annabaptisme and your Antinomisme and your Presbyte●anisme and your Judisme and all the rest of these Base Beggerly pached Cloaks of Knavery under which so many Woolfish Devils walk devouring one another and this is Religion which whilst you are devouring one another you must have Christs cloak to cover all your Villany under what kind of devouring soever Now know that all Religion is a ly and a cheat a deceat for there is but one Truth that is Love that devoureth not neither destroyeth any man but lives in its own fire fed with its own heat beholding all Beutious desiring no part but unto all alike alike unto all Love it is Salma Oriam that is it is the adornative beauty of select vertue Now if you be in the Gospel of Light you must see none poor neither in need neither can you be in true Love unless all have an enjoyment as your selves and none want for God is light filling all his Creation with the Beames of his fulness and if his fulness hath so shined upon thee as to write upon thee Digitus Dei then thou walkest in light acting in Love and thy Sealing of light is demonstrated unto all in need in acts of mercy and compassion I had need to speak plain them words the meaning is thou shouldst not have it by thee and let any want if thou doest as the Lord lives thy Religion is all lies the Devil himself reigns in thy heart uncast forth Now your old way of your lying Appol●onian Spirit which is the Father of all your litteral learned Clergical Priests when you are not able to reach or understand the Truth in the Spirit of light then your Abbadonisme of aspersions is cast forth crying that the men are Blasphemors Witches Sorcerers Deceivers aud of the Devil Now hear in this very cry of aspersion if trusy viewed you in your lying colors are clearly desiphered out for know they or that which accuseth it is a Devil a deceived Spirit for if you were in light then you were in Love then no accusation but Love and that acting in mercy for the Reducement of them that are Deceived and in darkness Sabeanus alla Sam ardi peleg ory the English is The sase light accuseth not but it is the Non resident that flieteth crying Segad that word holds the full import Now my Brethren both Jewes and Gentiles since the power of my God did overpower my understanding and manhood wisdom which is indeed the very Devil in man and this Devil did the Lord cast forth of me when the power of my God in mercy fell upon me smiting me dead unto the earth then I saw the great light shine in me and upon me saying Theaurau John my servant I have chosen thee my Shepherd thou art adorned with the jewel of Exceliency and this saying or voice speaking I heard when I was with God in the High and holy Mount O Beloved this saying is strange in our dayes but it was and is true for it was in Gods own time and he is not confined unto mens writings as in the Bible and Testament but he is that eternal Root that light that life for ever stable and yet he is the cause of all moving Motions for hee is the Center

THEAVRAUIOHN High Priest to the IEVVES HIS Disputive challenge to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and the whole Hirach of Roms Clargical Priests If the States or men or man would hear of 〈◊〉 live at Eltham but at M. Giles Calverts at the Black spred-Eagle at the West end of Saint Pauls church there you may be directed to my lodging for know all people that I turn my face from no man upon Earth In Amazanorum Salmam Addah O Early Beloved The beauty of Excellency hath so farre unvailed it felf that the shining thereof is so strong that it hath caused the dead to raise their dark malice to persecute the Dove of innocency the innocent Dove Theauran●ohn your Brother who are the first fruits in that holy lump or holy composed figurative Figure in SABA EL But Beloved my Bonds and Imprisonments they are for the hope sake that God left in Oath unto our fore-father the Jewes that he would gather their Branches We their children his dispersed ones and build her whom he had destroyed and for the truth in that Oath for the performance thereof unto you my Brethren God hath sent me forth the High-Priest of God and Recorder to the thirteen Tribes of the Jewes for the return of the captivity And know all people that my desent in my Line I am inferior unto no man upon the whole Globe and yet I was made a Joseph unto my Parents for they were poor through the Tyrannical power reigning in the Norman Yoak he subdued the Noble Saxon Line and deprived it of its right of regency My desent is in the Tribe of Reuben of the House of AVSTRIA as England France and Spain shall witness as also the Record of my Generalogy will make appear And now my Brethren the Jewes in and for whose defence I stand and for the Oath made unto our twelve Tribes but in this return 13 Tribes as I shall de nonstrate unto the clear view of them it doth concern And now my Brethren for the demonstration of the glorious clothing wherewith my God hath clothed me withall I do challenge the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge as also the Assembly of dessembling deceived and deceiving Clergie to dispute in giving or taking the state in any Divine Mistery or created thing in the depth of height or in the heighth in the depth of that Hight which is in Ori. All Absalamss Am. Also I challenge the whole Hirarchie of Rome Et omnia in Terra hominem in se That word se holds in its imbodiment all learned Clergical men and against no other will I dispute but onely against the head of the Baallists and the Harlots children and know I will not despute but before an audible number Oratoried or before the States of the Land and if I do not confound yee Priests and all men then know I am not the High-Priest neither am I sent for the return of the Captivity nor the gathering the people in peace which is the word of God binding us up together into the unity of one Spirit And if you dare not appear to despute then know I take your silence to consent to my affirmation and further know that if you out of all your numbers of learned men yee cannot select men or man to appear as your Champion to maintain your cause then know ye that you are Liars Cheaters and Deceivers and dare not come to the Light And know your old trade of lies it must be maintained by and with false Oaths for to cry Blasphemy and Blasphemers when you are not able for to answer or defend your selves neither dare bring your lies unto the Teast Now by that word Teast know I was and am the Gold-smith and God hath made me the Refiners fire to refine the Gold from the dross which is but thus much to separate ye Priests from your trade of lies Now if you be in the light and as you say the Ministers of the Gospel I pray you be not ashamed both of your message and your Master and know that on the fifth day of April 1652. but this account is false in Saint Pauls that old called Church but now that new made Stable there I shall appear as a place free for men to meet in peace for to be confirmed in the word if Life be in themselves for my Sheep shall hear my voyce but a Stranger they will not hear and my Sheep are not women but Men no● men but Man not man but the Sons sons of God shining in the beauteous Excellency which is the glorious declarative of the eternal Deity in Se. And know all people I am not learned in what I declare neither yet could I ever speak unto the people nor despute but read unto the people what I had wrote but in my six months Imprisonment in Newgate and the Kings-bench in them two Land-Colledges I have taken my Degrees and my Docter-ship is advanced over Omnia terra yet in Se in Se. But because Kings-bench is an excommunicated word amongst the great ones in our land yet the poor of the land feels the same nature in the Law for before it was Leo but now it is Vulpes that is to stretch the words in their intent unto their full extent it is a Fex wraped in a Lion's skin My Nobles this Fox I must Cast out of this Lion's skin that is when the Devill is cast out of deceived men for know names are no things Now my Brethren both Iewes and Gentiles let the curse of my God light upon my understanding if ever I shall forecast to set or cause to compose two words together to give any denotation by thus farre am I from lerning any thing that my prayer is this Arki selexsi ori am the English is In thy strength O my God deliver me from my own wisdom for it is the Devil Now Brethren I have lien neer ten months wating for the word an 100 and fifty dayes in purification for receiving the word and it is said unto me that on the fifth of April my mouth shall open for I have been dark and have had no light but now in confidence of that word that hath spoken vnto me I write unto you my Brethren and you of the greatest learning I do not exempt and on that day being the fifth of Apr. to be in that place Pauls Church and so weekly to meet and declare what God shall discover unto me or any of my Brethren whom God hath fvrnished for the gathering the people into the unity out of this confused variety and we meeting in peace according to the Act of State giving us Authority thereunto And further we do intreat that we in so meeting in Innocency may be and have preservation by the Law as our Birth-right of integiity this I intend if your lying Spirits Devils Devils Spirits do not hinder me But I hope the State will not wilfully shut their eyes against the light but be