so pure in a heavenly shape but the Priests are as Locusts that shall fall under Armegiddon Euphrates shall dry up Oh Army Army Arme of the Lord their power shall fall under thee Priest thou sayest thy power is a spiritual power yet it is but a civil power and therefore it must down and fall before Sion The overthrow of the Bishops was for calling it a spiritual and for their spiritual courts audacious to think upon full of blasphemies set up by an Antichristial power which now is thrown down as contemptible therefore all your civil Christs must down as your Spiritual Fathers the Bishops have done if you call your power Ecclesiastial it is equal with Christs if you call it Ecclesiastical you must prove it from Christs saying Go teach whose ordination ceased after the Apostles so that your Authority of Oxford and Cambridge is void and cannot stand Ephes 1.4 and 5. He hath chosen us in himself before the foundation of the world was laid he predestinated us to the adoption of children by Christ Jesus but not by your Ministery You see the Saints were first chosen predestinated and called before your Ministery stood up and yet you say you are called to convert souls in the Pulpit You Priests must have a hand in the work of renovation though you are not called yet ye run and are not sent to do such works of wonder for it is he alone that doth abound to us in love in wisdom and in prudency Having made known to us the mystery of his will vers 6. according to his good pleasure which he had purposed in himself and not by your means Ephes 3.4 and 5. God who is rich in all mercy hath quickned us which sheweth that it is not your teaching that can do it and elsewhere he saith By his grace you are saved and not of works Then down with these working teaching Christs that can learn the people salvation for it is the gift of God not of works left any man should boast Ephes 2.9 and 10. For we are his workmanship created to good works which God hath foreordained therefore it is properly and fully the work of God freely to our souls but let no durt-dawbing Priest have any hand in thy conversion for it is Gods work Let no swineherd meddle with such a pearl as if they were outward means of mens salvation He alone is our peace who hath broke down the mid-wall of our reproach having abolished the enmity even the Law of Commandments contained in Ordinances by making in himself of twain one new man for peace that he might reconcile both into one body by his cross having slain the enmity thereby Ephes 2.17 He preached peace to you afar off and to them that are nigh so that by him we have access to the Father and not by the Priests of the second hand which have little skill in the creation of salvation it is a secret work of God Let no man say he can teach but let us all be taught of God Minister and People from the least to the greatest let us all covenant to him with one consent and betroth our selves to him that he may take pleasure in his Spouse and his beloved ones may have pleasure in him the All-teacher and come out from their fained Priests the gods of their Temples that call themselves Ministers of God saying The people must reverence them as Embassadors for the works sake as if God had not power on earth aswell as in heaven he is present in all places by his omnipotency and omnipresence and by his immensity and by his all-seeing eye and by his providence that governeth the whole creation and by his inspiration and foreknowing what shall come to pass he spiritually beholdeth all things he alone hath created the earth then doth he not see and teach all and will bring all rule and power under himself Then lay down ye high Priests and say Ye are all taught of God for he will teach us of his wayes The Law shall go out of Sion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem which shall be Christ preaching from the Mount when the people shall give audience to him and cast off their fained Priests which are but as wood and straw whose stubble shall burn before the fire of his jealousie wangeable shall their power be when God shall give power to his two Witnesses and the Law shall preach out of Sion Revel 14. The everlasting Gospel shall preach to every language and nation when all your wrangling Priests shall be forced to lay down because they can establish nothing in order correspondent to his bright appearing therefore they must lay down and say We have spent our time in vain too long and besotted the simple people and yet we have said We were the ordained Ministers of God though we were destroyers and no builders historians that have preached this or that but what of the new work can we do it is not our talking of Peter and Paul that will serve the turn for God will make a new heaven and a new earth by a new discipline Ecclesiastical and Civil he will make all new to do away your carnal formes every form shall cease to a new formality God will make his latter temple more glorious then all the former All earthly builders shall not be found fit for the work of Gods house every flatterer shall be nonresidensed and cast out according to Gods extent and laid open to the sight of the grand Church to be excluded from the common community shut out of fellowship and society with the unsociable and rebukeable When God shall try Sion and search Jerusalem with lights when he shall purge the Sons of Levi and break the constellations that stand so high and remove the stars out of their places when the moon shall blush and be ashamed and all the stars come under his feet when this discipline that now standeth upon crutches shall be taken away then you may declare the great things of God saying He hath formed a new temple wherein all righteousness shall dwell Old things are become new and all fashions and forms are passed away but onely one which is called the formal Power and Government of Jerusalem and God and our Lord Jesus Christ is our Temple The Lord is our light within us he is our Sabbath the Sun shall not burn us by day neither shall the dark Night overshade thee thou shalt continually walk in the light of the Citie of the great King when thou shalt throw off thy fained lovers I mean thy Priests that erre in darkness and know not the true way for God will surely consume the smoak of Babylon and burn up all darkness before himself that he may dissolve the great blindeness and ignorance of the Priests that there may be light in the City that hath lain so long under darkness suspended from the truth lying under thick darkness Therefore we must all come
Doctor HILL's FUNERAL-SERMON OR A Nevv-yeers-Gift To all the CLERGIE Daynus the reviving feet of the Witnesses past and to come To shew the day and yeer of the Lord and his time accepted Printed at London 1654. And are to be sold by Richard Moon at the seven Stars in Pauls Church-yard His Epistle and Dedication to the Clergy THou sowest all life in the flesh and thou reapest life to thy self O Lord thou windest up life in the body of life thou art the Center and orency of quickning life All Creatures move in the power of that life That substance of flesh by procreation is not that saving life but thou art the quintessence of all life in the Soul The Soul in its natural condition is vayla and changeable by the instinct of Nature included in the flesh varra changeable in it self fayla not able to stand unless it be redeemed by an inclusive power spiritual and in that way God will be seen to deliver by way of imputation of life to the Soul Reeda Alda at every season Helpative Soona Plyant Dative by a dividual dividing betwixt the Marrow and the Bones Circumference Deus All-fulness Unus varius Allmagnus God the full beauty and life in him all things are computed comprized and comprehended by him he is All meritus and translatirus and doth refine all things he is the final and fountain of all perfection the life and death of all the Creatures every thing that moveth liveth in him All solestial flesh is as a flower or grass that withereth away and shall be no more in its natural perfection for nothing shall live but life that shall not dy which is the principle of God in thee called that immortality which is a spiritual reviving power that shall return to God although the flesh doth not yet the spirit shall return to him that gave it The Soul is the life of the Creation naturally in us prohibited and presented by him which is our life so preserved The Spirit is an inclusive thing of union and by an immortal marriage it hath congruity with the Soul the Soul is a high mystery it is the Virgin of the spirit and the spirit dwelleth in it till the flesh dieth which maketh a dissolution betwixt flesh and soul The spirit of grace is an high mystery and dwelleth in some but not in all every one may have life in them yet not that spitual life which is the life of eternity therefore none can live after the old Adam but shall dy the death until the quickning power of the second Adam come in which is Christ in thee and in me to renew in us that which would die for nothing carnally can live The soul is naturally sowed in the flesh and is of it self fleshly by four natural causes by a Soveraingty from God as Breath blood Heat and Food which keepeth thy natural soul alive there is a threefold life two of them be but natural life as vegetive life natural life and spiritual life and all have their being from that eternal life We see many times that young flesh droppeth off from the Tree of life the aged must do so the King must die as well as the Beggar so must the high Doctor as well as the silly poor man then behold with me the period of mans life and full of brevity fading changeable smoak or as a vapor that soon passeth away So much for mans mortality The next thing is to enquire and speak something of this our late deceased Brother Doctor Hill Doctor HILL'S Funeral-Sermon BY a singular providence of God I happened to be at the Town of Cambridge at the very instant of Doctor Hill's departure then at the same time the Lord moved me to write and he actually taught me what I should write which he the Lord preached to me This Sermon preached to me was not my desire onely yet the God of life put it upon me and supported me with matter accordingly that I could not deny but write for the Lord preached unto me the things I should write and now I declare unto you a new Sabbath which I did write with much niceness and fear of spirit yet the Lord told me that the Sabbath-Ordinances were changed by the Priests under the Law and likewise by the Ministers of our time And therefore of necessity I did write as he commanded me by way of a Funeral-Sermon or a final dissolution of the Clergellical power whereof I declare the life and death of the Creature and the stability and endless power of Christs Ministery with a description of them that call themselves Ministers of God and how they shall fall under the Worlds contempt some degrees worse then the Bishops The Prophets complaine the clamation is The Minister and Priests have robbed Gods store-house taking to themselves those priviledges that are not their own therefore they shall say no more Know the Lord from the greatest to the least and shall be free from your mouth inherently taught of God and live by faith exemplary to Abraham Noah and Christ which is to live in righteousness and not to need the teachings of men for all our teachers are failable now as well as they were under the Law so that our redemption is clearly by Christ Heb. 7.24 Christ he continued ever unchangeable as a Priest whereof he is able to save them to the uttermost that come to God by him seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them which is a plaine proof without dispute that he is the Minister of God and Priest he will put an end to your Ministery because you are failable yet Christ is infailable and therefore we cast you off in the name of the Lord and cry ye down as no Ministers of God but deceivers of the people I would bave all live up to Christ by a personal power free from all the teachings of men and that no man shall ought to teach whether he be a Minister or a lay-man for one mans tongue is no lawful testimony for one may speak of Christ as well as another so that all may prophesy one by one as they did in Christs time for in the last dayes I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh for my servants and handmaids shall prophesie Then said he unto me Prophesie son of man So I prophesied as he commanded me and the breath came into them and they lived and stood upon their feet an exceeding great Army Ezekiel 37. This Army Giddon of the Lord shall cause the River Euphrates with seven streams to dry up and there shall be many voyces heard and witnesses on their Feet Then looke to it Doctor without all dispute your trade of preaching will fall BEloved this Doctor Hill was a man of good ranke an eminent man that I did formerly know though now he was very justitious I was his Country-man about sixteen or eighteen yeers past he was a reasonable good professor called a Puritan in those dayes
equals Why should ye stand higher then Christ and his Apostles that went from place to place discipling and teaching But for shame some of you Doctors could say your Authority is jure Divino which is a base degree hatched in Oxford and Cambridge and maintained by a prelatical power that one alone may be suprem to preach of himself in his own tongue and all the people give audience to hear one infamous man speak by a primus or supream Authority whereof none may speak but be silenced whether it be right or wrong while they declare forth their own Authority which is the first degree of a lying testimony for one tongue cannot fully make a lawful testimony If one Lawyer plead two mens causes he cannot but use partiality neither can any Minister plead Gods cause and mans cause together it must be Christ the Mediator as a Minister between God and us The truths of God ought to be proved by twelve or by two or three faithful witnesses and that is a truth vindicated and proved according to divine justice and not by one mans tongue preaching in a Pulpit which shall suddenly be cut down and Mr. Presbitian shall stand low among his Fellow-equals Babylon placed so high shall come down to the Dust High Doctor thou countest me a foolish Shepherd yet the Lord is with me to shew thee thy folly for that is truth which is proved by witnesses and by the approbation of the Church for your own tongue is a lye though speak in a Pulpit yet ye cannot silence the people for Saint John saith he heard the sound of many voices and his witnesses shall have power which are they that are within the Covenant or such as shall enter into Covenant to the great Jehovah Ye Doctors of Divinity as ye call your selves ye have preached long in your own tongue to keep the World at a distance you have not been builders but destroyers of the House of God and know ye not the offering of his Temple but have set your selves higher then others exalting your selves by your own tongue as if none could talk of God but Priestbitian or Presbitiry Priests Dictators raised from Oxford and Cambridge but without all question Priestinion must down Doctor I acccmpt my self a fool for I am no good Scribe neither have I been at University to learn the stammering tongue and for that we need not much care unless we were to go to Jerusalem to call in the Jews which shall be some of every Nation that shall be the elect gathered from the four Winds when the Harvest shall appear which is now at hand when the Sheep shall divide themselves from the Goats meaning the procreation of the Jews shall come forth and stand upon their Feet then the World shall be at an end meaning it can work its own end no longer therefore it may be said it is at an end when they can no longer tread over the two witnesses but the Saints on earth shall judge and govern them Doctor I am but a Fool or a foolish Shepherd clothed in sackcloth 42 Months from the year 1650. when the sixth Seal opened the mystery to the end of 42 Months which may be properly taken three years and a halfe about 54 or 55. God hath given me to look for great deliverance to the Kingdom of the Church and that Christ shall raign in power here in England which shall be very Oriential to behold far beyond your learned power and you shall not be Doctor speaker alone and cannot know any true way nor live in any stable righteousness for Christ the Minister of God doth administer life and all quickning power which is the substance of all and you cannot do the same therefore lay down your Ministerial power and accompt your selves as other men let others speak and ye speak to them and so judge the truth among your selves and throw down the error of one mans tongue There hath been many Scholars raised from Oxford and Cambridge swearing voluptuous persons and yet tolerated by your degrees and so become Pulpitsayons another sort have been civil men though not sanctified yet raised by the degrees of learning without any Heavenly substance others have been raised very dunces neither good Scholars nor spiritually of God and yet have worne long Canonical Gownes Lawyer-like whose folly was raised from those two Fountaines and much typeth out the Scribes Pharisees very proud and sumptuous as the Raven that setteth her Nest high to be seen and heard afar off then think they we are secure and yet their Nest must come down for the Pulpit-tree having but one Leg and set so high will have a great downfall Why should disciplying be kept in a Corner so high by one tongue as one Mr. Speaker Ye Doctors Diffinators know this that disciplying must come down among your Fellow-equals and shall be carried by the Feet of the Witnesses from Sea to Sea and from one end of the Earth to another Therefore Christ denied himself and would not be Mr. Speaker saying If I speak my own words my testimony is not true there is one that beareth witness with me and that is tolerable O man why should thy tongue bear down all and silence all the people and cannot prove thy self a Minister of God but sitteth as Scribe in Moses Chair Doctor Pulpittian four things I strike at Thy Pride thy Power thy Calling and thy Pulpit First for thy Pride which is unseemly for a Disciple of Christ to be proud by such carnal policy Secondly Thy Power if it be spiritual it is of God but if a carnal power it cannot stand for he will give power to his two faithful Witnesses and not to one though he be never so wise Doctor it is not that Latine tongue that can be good English Isa 33. calleth it the stammering tongue but ye high Priests and Lawyers take any course to hold up your power The Universities and Innes of Court are fine places for the stammering tongue they be not for the simple-hearted Fools shall not come therein and I am the Fool to tell you so The Prophet Zachary saith Behold thy King commeth riding upon an Ass Now in the time Christs power is appearing a man was better to be a Fool or an Ass then a high Doctor when their power is shaking and ready to fall with the rest of their Pulpittians Doctor the third thing I strike at is thy calling Art thou called of God then shew thy assent if it be of God it is not from those two high places but from a heavenly assent Divinalligy of it is from Christ and that is a true calling But I find your calling is from men wich cannot be a Divine calling but hatched by the learned Dictators which is not from the Divine nature neither doth it savour of Canaan but is derived from learned Art and Skill very traditional and when it goeth down we shall have a new Government on the earth
which I suppose wil be betwixt 50. or 57. or sooner that your pulpits wil down Farther To vindicate thy Calling thou sayest thou art the Minister of God so wise who may gainsay it but Solomon saith There is more hope of a fool then of him that is wise in his own conceit If thou beest the Minister of God then Christ must lose his place or thou shalt lose thine for none can say I am a Minister of God without he be sent of him saying Go or go tell them of my resurrection I doubt you will hardly prove any such calling yet we finde Christ was sent God he sent his Son in the similitude of sinful flesh once for all as the Minister of eternal life then why should men hang upon Doctor Speakers that have learned their skill from Oxford and Cambridge Ye Pulpitsayans must down one witness cannot be tolerated for he appeared to the twelve Apostles and David calleth us the Ends of the Earth that God will appear to Where two or three are met in my name I will be in the midst of them which doth debarre one mans speakal tongue for Christ is Divine of himself and man is to be joyntly as one of the Brethren and shall plead for righteousness among the rest and to live by the teachings of the Holy Ghost without Dictators or cunning deceivers And let all the Doctors high Priests and Prelates know they are but as other men and have the same infirmities not able to stand then no high Priest or Minister but faylable Then let us all talk together of the goodness of the Lord and what he hath done for our Souls acknowledging our sins one to another and pray for one another and give to one another the right hand of Fellowship which will be a sweet savour of goodness to laud the Lord together Doctor I know none but Christs Disciples that were tolerated to preach and not any but such as he said unto Go and learn all the Nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father Son and holy Ghost Mat. 28. he appeared to the two Maries saying Go which was a lawfuller calling then any you can shew and he gave some of his Disciples gifts of healing which you have not received Doctor one mans tongue cannot comparmise nor comprehend the full truth of God as the Church may do by many voyces and witnesses if Christ himself the eternal Priest denyed himself from his own power of speaking how ought you to be cautelous of speaking your own words though in a Pulpit I marvel how Pulpits first came up they be much a kin to your Fonts where ye disciple Babes in Clouts which is as a Monster that shall never come to perfection There be many things more that I may tell you of Malachy 3. saith Bring the Tythes into my store-house as if by an illusion he should say For the Blind the Lame the Fatherless the Widow and the Aged to relieve the Oppressed that men might be eased of Collection to the Poor in every Parish and for all such as want And you Pulpit-men work with your hands as others do for you are almost at the end of your period having so much of the Letter and so much example of Christ that I wonder with Paul when he said Who hath bewitched you that you do not obey the truth Ye Doctors are carried away from Christ by Self-ends and personal interest as great Tythes which is utterly unlawful for them that call themselves Ministers of God and yet rob his Store-house and commit Sacriledge against God Under the Law the order of Gods House was changed by the Priests and the Prophets reproved them for it under whose reproach ye Doctors and Ministers lye to this day in that ye rob God of his interest Bring the Tythes into my Store-house for now I reprove you under the testimony of Christ There was a Treasury in the time of the Apostles and Christ which the people ministred unto and brought in their gifts consecrating their love to Gods house as Joanah and Susanna ministred of their substance to the Treasury and the Widow brought in her mite which was received with great acceptation which way of Gods worship you and the Bishops have strangled Gods House and got those priviledges into your own hands Again I must tell you both Minister and People impropriations would make the poor of such places merry if they might or could have their right given them but we have so many devouring Foxes have stoln them away and you have not pleaded for them in the Pulpits but you falsly keep those benefits to your selves ye blind guides of the people that make clean the outside and the inside is full of putrification These Pulpitians have spoyled the Commonwealth of Israel you have been one of the Hornes of Oppression otherwise we might have had the Government of Christ set up before now which is by Four and Twenty as we may call Governallity which is Governation A Parliament of Four and Twenty which should be for commonality but you have stood so high in your Pulpits that the silly World believeth that your Pulpits were ordained of Christ which were nothing so but arose from Bishops Deanes Chancellors Deacons or Doctors of Divinity as ye call them men of low descent yet raised from those two Fountaines Oxford and Cambridge pethy places for learning of the stammering tongue Christ gave gifts of learning which was not to one but to more then one as if he should say Let no man silence the people as he said John was a burning and a shining Light but I have greater witnesses then that of John for the work to finish so that one mans tongue shall not stand but the talking of witnesses shall manifest every truth for Pulpittian Christ questioneth thy Authority thy People shall speak and thou must answer otherwise the truth cannot be established without much trouble and many witnesses which produceth the grand voyce of the Church And therefore ye Taskmasters down with your Hour-glasses many words in your own tongue cannot satisfie the people neither can you make out truth by your own tongue Noah was a Preacher of righteousness but not in a Pulpit and Abraham preached forth Faith he believed and it was counted for him for righteousness The good life of those two Fathers preached righteousness to the people and so should yours be to act in righteousness without partiality of the tongue It is not the hearing nor the preaching but the doing of righteousness for to enquire the way and not to walk in it is a vain thing We ought all to live up to God in truth and that is the best teaching To disciply and distinguish truths is good learning and the best preaching to answer the things of conscience by the grand power of the Church and not to rest upon the mouth of one teacher neither do I know any Minister after the flesh but like Minister like
a Week and walk contrary to God in all the rest If ye keep a day keep it to me and keep every day as a Sabbath One reason is ye make the seventh day a Cloak for your sinne to use holiness for your own turn so did the Jews under the Law and Christ cut off their Sabbath and so he will yours so that you shall not insult over them nor they over you for saith he I hate your new Moons and your Sabbaths The Lords day should be a rest betwixt God and thy Conscience if Christ dwell in thee thy soul is full of light If ye keep Covenant with me I will be your resting-place and that is a Sabbath in thy Conscience Paul saith ye observe dayes and months I wonder who hath bewitched you Your way of holiness is as the witcharft of Endor subtilly to beguile men and cause them to swim in vain conceits and so to hold up your abominations by keeping so many Sabbath dayes once a week for your own turnes as the Jews did their seventh day and yet persecute Christ and therefore it is not for them nor us to observe daies for there is but one Sabbath and that is the Lord in whom we shall have rest and that is to reform our lives and live in all good conscience to walk in righteousness and that is the best Sabbath shewing the day of his resurrection by a newness of life And at the appearing of the Lords power the Jew and Gentiles Sabbath are out by a wonderful dividing of time called once a year so that I finde the whole year is the Lords Sabbath All the year you in me and I in you Thou shalt consecrate thy substance to the Lord which is the seventh from the creation called the seventh vial or valley of Jehosaphat under which the World shall come under judgement called the Sabbaths Vial which is that we now live under called the separate time that God will set apart and take to himself the great glory of Monarchy that now shall resume that name to themselves and therefore Priest thou must fall with the King and Lord of dishonor that the prophesie may be made out that you may say I am no more a Prophet but an Herds-man or keeper of Cattle I am but as other men no Priest no Minister no Minister then silence not the People FINIS The second PART OF D. Hils Funeral-Sermon WITH His Apellation to Priests and People By me Henry Hasselwood THere be four sorts of Definators that may be called the Witch of the world very seenal and subtil I call them not the Witch of Jezebel neither do I call them the Witch of Endor yet I call them the Witch of the earth in that they use their own authority and pretend fair things though foul in effect promoting themselves by skill and art making out the authority of the beast and so deceive the people Those are four in number yet not any of them shall remain in authority for the Witch shall be cut off out of the earth and all that make a lye and every abominable branch shall be found out The Witch of the world is very subtil and much deceiveth by flatteries and seenal Juglings to steal away the peoples appetite as to delude them with smoke or to puff them up with some vain ostentation subtil Sophisters winding themselves into the form of Christ deceiving the people denying the power of his resurrection preaching up themselves bewitching the world and deceive the people So much for the first Definators that call themselves Ministers of God and are not Brethren I would have every one live up to the teachings of God without second-hand-teachers and to walk up to that principle of grace put into them for spiritually we live under the divine power of the Son of God he is all our teacher to guide us in the way of truth it is not for man to do it David saith Renew in me a right spirit Psal 1â— Who knoweth the error of his life Who can teach but Christ alone Then let us stand in that liberty wherein he hath made us free And James saith Walk so that you may be judged by the law of liberty And Paul saith Prove every truth that is by witnesses So that no man can preach of himself but Christ doth preach all both neer and afar off by a singular power from God to teach us all things he saith I am the way walk in it follow my example but not the examples of men The Doctrine is from thence That all men and ministers are but learners and cannot teach any further then they walk by a good example The first Reason is It is not words but works of faith and piety which is a good example It is not for a man to say I am a Minister and yet but all words Look upon the good life and not upon the profession The second Reason is Men or Ministers have no lawful authority to teach for Christ and the holy Ghost inwardly teacheth and they are the two Witnesses by a law inserted in the conscience The third Reason is They cannot teach in that they cannot prove Ordination The fourth Reason is That every petty Priesthood must fall and stoop at Christs Ministery But some silly people may object Shall we lose our teachers better lose our Christ And so they dote upon a Ministery of flesh Was not Christ the Messiah a Minister ordained of God He teacheth and shall sit upon twelve thrones by a power and all men Ministers must come under his teaching and lay down their Crowns and the honourable men must stoop at his Scepter for he is the Minister of God and no other for we have had many Teachers yet none can lead us in the true way And having so great an high-Priest that is able to lead us in all truth he hath once entred into the Priestly Office and maketh intercession to God for us continually Then why should we lean upon the pettifogging Priests which must come down from their Pulpit-Thrones and set up Christ upon his throne For while your Power raigneth Christs power is crucified upon the cross and his truth suffereth violence But now he shall sit upon your thrones and judge the Whorish power by a seat of justice so ordained And until you all throw down and make Christ the full end and scope of all teaching your Temple will be divided for you must come all to the Law and Testimony which is Christ and the Spirit writ as a Law and Testimony in our consciences which are the two witness-bearers to prove every true Christian for this is a time dividing time I speak of a new Sabbath Christ in the conscience every day once a yeer continually I speak of a new Sabbath old things must pass away and the things that are old must change Brethren ye ought not to look so much upon feigned Teachers of the second hand feigned lovers and so
defile the Christian Marriage and break your Sabbath-union with Christ to follow Teachers whose breath is in their nostrils and shall down at the testimony and feet of the two Witnesses when all things shall be brought upon record and great Babylon shall come in remembrance and power shall be given to the Saints as Daniel John and Peter declareth Then Doctor look to it for thou shalt be censured by the Church then Kings shall throw down and Lords throw down and Honours throw down and Priests throw down we must all throw down our Crowns and Dignities and stoop to the first dominion Thy kingdom come whose Scepter shall not fade away every pretended Power framed against him shall not prosper If thou callest thy self King it is high conspiracie against the King of heaven so to pollute his holy name for he is that one Lord of the whole earth Now if he be Lord then thy name Lord must down of necessity for God will have his Name known thorow all the earth and before him every knee shall bow Then set not up thy self the greatest climb may have the greatest fall If thy place be never so high amongst men yet it may be but a left-hand-mercy or such a priviledge as will decline and whoever standeth as Lord or King shall fall at the appearing of Christs power And the Prophet Daniel saith They shall fall too that hold them up that is he that giveth the name Lord to a man he shall fall by dishonour for there shall be but one Lord over the earth and his Name one for the name of Baal Monarchy shall be cut out of the earth that assume to themselves such high honour and pollute his holy Name it is an intolerable Witchcraft that shall be cut out of the earth that hath so long deceived the people calling fleshly man Lord and so pollute the name of the holy One of Israel taking his name in vain He is the Lord of the Creation therefore stand up for him and thy liberty O Army Army arm of the Lord stand up for it is given thee That every Power shall perish under thee Army-giddon valley of destruction or a destructive sword shall rise that God will fourbish against all the powers none excepted but his Divine power shall stand that shall govern under him his power shall raign in all places and so far as they keep up the Lords honour they shall stand with prosperity But your honourable-men must fall though they set their names as high as heaven yet they shall come down for the Lord will set on fire the four elements which are not the skies as silly men teach but it is that heavenly power that hath raigned so long and shall now burn at his bright appearing and shall expel all the Witchcraft of the world Secondly the general world must change its course by a more sweet comply of Government and to lay by their outward Idolatry The third element that shall burn is the proud waters Euphrates seven streams of powers shall dry up all the Egyptian powers shall be dissolved and no power shall stand but that of the Son of God The fourth element that shall burn is the Moon and Stars Christ saith Matth. 24. When the light shineth from the east to the west then the power of the Son of man is nigh at hand You know when the Sun appeareth in its brightness the Moon and Stars must give place to that light and it onely raigneth over them so Doctors Ministers and Churches your lights shall go out at his appearing and all your Moonorical powers shall be extinguished and all the Stars called Ministers shall lose their borrowed lights when every one shall acknowledge Christ to be their Minister and live under their own vine So much for the four Elements called the four Constellations which is the Church-power or otherwise called Moon and Stars that shall fail at his bright appearing that the glory of the Son of God may appear from on high and that all may be reconciled to his light declaring him to be King Lord Priest and Prophet the onely called Minister of God before whom every Ministery shall cease onely pleading for truth shall hold with prayer and mourning among all Christians called the great mourning of all the families of the earth every family apart when the brightness of the Son of God appeareth it shall be as the mourning in Hadadrimmon when there shall be trembling and quaking as the Prophets did in their times of danger when there shall be a great shaking that men shall shake Ministers shake and every power shake truely then it behoveth every one to quake and tremble for the Lord will terribly shake the earth the mighty men shall fall the honorable men shall throw down their Honors and shall deny their high Titles of Grace and Worship for all their seenal Witchcrafts shall be cut out of the earth and every Witch that deceiveth the people every Soothsayer shall be found out and every Sorcerer that deceiveth for all things shall be proved upon the Sanctuary thou shalt not worship any graven image which is but an earthly man to fall down and worship before him thou shalt worship God and him alone and not man whose breath is in his nostrils though living in honour yet shall perish as the beasts from his presence as contemptible IT hath always been that wicked Hamans have ruled over the people of God they be called Gog or Haman-Gog that shall be brought under and so low that they shall not act as they have formerly done What have your Pulpittians been all along but as a Gallows to hang up Mordecai's Though I do not say all Ministers are Hamans yet some of that strain have been cruel men called Bishops and for the most part you Priests are much like the generation that fell before Adam so proud that God in his jealousie threw them down They were called the Angels that fell and Royally petype out Ministers that John calleth the Angels of the Churches or the Stars that must fall that have stood so long in the holy place of Christ and now shall be bound down with the world under the name and notion of the worldly kingdom that shall suddenly be bound down for one thousand yeers When Christs power shall raign then Satan and his kingdom shall be bound said to be Haman-Gog that shall have no more power to assail and afflict the people of Christ when the persecuting power is taken off when the Saints shall sit and judge the Ministers which hold up the power of the Beast which stand so high as Lord Speaker to silence the people Ye Ministers are called the abomination sitting in the holy place as Mediators betwixt God and men so high in the place of Christ and therefore Capernaum exalted so high shall come down as lowe as dry bones for Gog and Haman-Gog's bones shall be gathered together and so be buried by the
all to me he is a Mediator and a Minister without your deffinating It is not your Church going or all your preaching that can do me any good but what I have received inwardly of God that keepers my life Christ saith He that heareth me heareth him that sent me and he that believeth me believeth him that sent me so that we ought to believe Christ and be taught of him alone for teachings of men are not the spirit of truth He saith If I go away I will send you the Comforter that shall teach you in all truth so that we must prove every spirit and hear the voice of Christ onely once in the Lord and ever in him once a year and ever from year to year to keep a Sabbath on Earth as it is in Heaven and so stand free and effectual to stand and live and live and stand fast in the liberty wherein Christ hath made us free and be no more entangled under the yoke of bondage of Priests that are in so many mindes and know not the truth Twenty Ministers twenty mindes and yet Mediators of the letter and tie themselves to observe dayes and new-moons beggerly rudiments full of legality and superfluity of words I wonder the world is so miserably seduced by them as if they could teach Heaven in the Mass-houses or Churches as ye call them which if men could teach Heaven what need we then to look upon Christ having so many merit-mongers or soul-saving Ministers Oh but say they We declare the minde of God and Christ to the people as if God were not present in all places or as if he were afar off and must have Embassadours to satisfie his elect Oh ye blinde guides doth not God keep up the full creation by a providence then much more by his power for Almedium teacheth in the Mount of his power which is far above your teachings and truly it is for you to leave off teaching that have stood singularly in Christs place so long and done little good it is time now to call an assembly to sit and set up thrones for Justice Oh people ye men of Galilee that stand gazing I believe I shall see you abhor your earthly gods and look upwards I mean you shall abominate all those leaders of silly women that bewitch the world in their own forms Can we think God is tied to the outward means once a week Is not he the same every day yesterday to day and for ever Ye endworkers that object and say Ye be the means that God hath ordained ye false Christs Mediators that stand so high to limit that holy one of Israel Is not God and his Son wise enough but they must have your help Had not we Abraham Moses and the Prophets and the Son of God after them to confirm all that are once entered into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God which is a free state free from the teaching power of a man and being set at liberty by Jesus Christ Then let us be no more entangled under their Priestly yoke Ye silly simple Priests you must come under the teachings of God as all other men must do when Justice Divine Thrones of Justice are set up then God will purge all you sons of Levi. But methinks I hear some high Priests say Why do you not quote Scripture to prove what you write My answer is Christ is the end of legal Scriptures and you have quoted Scriptures long enough and could never make out truth Christ is the word and the end of all Scriptures and standeth in his place when all Scriptures shall be failable and every vision shall be unfolded at the beatifical vision of Christ Jesus and truly Scriptures are good but Christ is the principal then let us hold fast to the principal and wave the letter Christ is the foundation and every mans work ought to be built upon him Men and Prophets in the old time spake as they were moved by inspiration and yet it was but by the by or by the moving power of the holy Ghost so being written by the inspiration of Christ sheweth that he is the Word far beyond all Scripture written by men that stand but by Christ and are failable when he cometh in power He is the chief medium and principal Senator and we must throw off our earthly gods I mean all our Priests onely to rest upon him for until then we shall have no true Sabbath He is our Sabbath if we come out from the Priests then he will give us true rest he is our Vine to live under therefore my bowels yearne over the people to see them led off from Christ by legating Priests as wise-men and Lawyers standing in Pulpits when grave Christians shall be taught by some young boyes standing in their Priestly Office so high in Pulpits it is a great shame that godly men and women do not come out from them and stand upon their feet and say Christ alone is my Teacher I have been much deluded by proud Priests by covetous Priests by scandalous Priests by young Priests by ruffinly Priests by swearing Priests by literal Priests by historical Priests and by deceiving Priests that have kept us from the power of Christ and freedom of Sabbath tying the people to their set-forms or what they call a Sabbath Their mass and dirge shall down for every form shall cease but one and that is the Government of Christ that shall stand when all your Priestly power shall lie as low as Doctor Hill's bones Doctor thou canst prove but one calling and that was a Law to Adam That thou shouldst work and labour by the sweat of thy brows as others do none excepted and no other calling of Ministery canst thou prove Therefore thou must without dispute throw down thy trade of preaching at Christs feet of two Witnesses called the Law and Testimony writ in thy conscience People I can but controverse with you ye say ye know God and love God and fear God I say No ye know the Priests ye fear the Priests and ye love the Priests otherwayes ye would renounce their wayes contrary to Christs The Priests are dissemblers but Christ is our true Minister They tell thee a fair tale that Christ is simply good he is full of pure simplicity an high attribute so low yet above all the Priests how are ye married to Christ and yet follow after fained lovers If Christ hath redeemed you think it enough follow not after those that deceive silly men and women and lead them captive from Christ as if we could not enjoy Christ without the teachings of men having the Spirit of God and the Scripture with the example of Christ and the Prophets and having so much Apostolical divine light methinks they might guide us in the true way Methinks I see the Priests grow shamed the light discovereth their veile cast over the people and the people begin to see them so black and Christ in his brightness
About some short time before his end he was appointed to preach as he had formerly done and went up into the Pulpit and God gave him time to declare forth his text and being inraged against some good people that were not of his judgement fitted himself with words against those that were not of his belief and suddenly after he had mentioned the words of his text something as it were twinged him as if he had been stung Lamented saying He was stricken and so left off his preaching-discousre a sad thing to think upon I doubt many of your Priests are so taken with discontent now God appeareth unto all flesh yet they think no flesh like their flesh as when God giveth gifts to men below them they envy them and preach against them calling them opinionus-men as if none be of the heavenly privy-counsel but they of the black guard I mean Priests and Legators Literal historian Priests I must tell the truth I am inwardly called and sent to do it I fear no flesh nor the person of any man I must do my message from God though I die SInce the time of Adams fall the world hath been quartered out by the name of four beasts as a time and times and half a time lying under the rage of Antichristian power contrary to the everlasting Gospel three times past that the sinful kingdom hath ruled over the kingdom of the Gospel by a beastlike power and now is the fourth Monarchy which we lie under a dispensation called the fourth beast or Monarchy wherein the beast and false Priest shall be taken together and shall uphold their power together by a comply as if they cure the wound and make the world to wonder but they shall be taken by an extent from God for in this fourth Monarchy the time shall divide within the time though they may ware out the Saints for a time yet God will give the power of Monarchy into their hands though God may suffer for a time and times yet Daniel saith Judgement shall sit to take away and consume their power Dan. 7.26 So that this fourth beast shall magnifie himself above other gods of the earth and shall lift himself up in honors by blood and shall extol his name as high as the God of Gods but time shall divide within his time and judgement shall sit and he shall be taken with the Priests and the false Christs and shall be censured for blasphemy against the God of Gods taking to themselves such high titles as Lord and King Isa 2. The Lord shall be King of the earth and shall rule many strong Nations Isa 2.17 The haughtiness of man shall be bowed down and the Lord alone shall be exalted Isa 4.18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinckling ornaments Isa 9. Behold the children that the Lord hath given me are for signes wonders in Israel when they shall say Seek unto them that have familar spirits The Lord saith Shall not a people seek to their God they have changed the Ordinances trangressed and broke the everlasting Covenant Therefore the Priests shall fall by heaps and their power will lie as low as Doctor Hill's bones for the fifth Monarchial power shall put down their power and Priesthood I cannot fully declare my self in this great mystery of God preaching in flesh Therefore I confine my self to end with much grief and sorrow desiring to see truth magnified and all error trod down that the Lord may be all our fort ALl that love the appearing of Christs power come out from the suttle delusions destructive to Christ and betroth your selves to him that ye may be free from the seducings of men so miserable and sottish by their great conspiracy against Christ by their whitchcrafts and whoredoms God will judge them that seek to wise men and counsellors and not to the Lord which is the principal and so make men their teachers but all Christian propriety is called of the Israel of God And I can call none Christians till they fall off from beastion and covenant to Christ in the new Covenant and that is utterly to fall from their beastly power he is a Christian that lives up to Christ without going to wisemen for councel The counsel of the Priests have alwaies seduced the people Solomon speaking of the wisdom of Christ questioneth all things saying Where is wisdom It is not in me it cannot be found in the creature wisdom was before the creation The sea and the deeps give up saying It is not in me So that we may pertinently finde that Christ teacheth all wisdom by the power of God and he that wanteth wisdom let him ask of God that shall give him all things Then throw off thy beastion wise men and counsellors that keep thee from the Covenant of peace and cause thee to deny thy marriage-union with Christ Christ is the Husband of the Church then why do you seek to fained lovers Beastion durt-dawbers that seek all wit art and skill to hold up their trade to secerate the people from the way of Christ and see the blinde lead the blinde Thou must be a great professor yet be thou what thou wilt I cannot call thee a Christian until thou dost quake and fall from all thy wise men and seducing councellors I mean from all thy Pulpitian Priests fully to come unto Christ for there must be a falling away from the Priests that the mystery of iniquity may be discovered and every beastly power dissolved Some of your Presbyterian Priests are so fat and yet full of frailty very unconstant and unstable for the truth but Christ is our never fading hopes Then look not so low upon men below Christ having little or no percility in them not living power in themselves then how shall they teach others to live Let us go out to the fountain for Christ is our immortality he is the beginning and end of wisdom he teacheth in heaven and in earth Then stop your mouths you beastians that ye may may become Christians laying down all your bewitched forms that contradict the truth of Christ MAn is not born to live to himself neither can he cross providences The winde bloweth where it will so God guideth the stern of all things by a living providence surmounting every pretended thing My cross is my outward loss if God will have it so I am unfortunate to the world God raised me up and immediately cast me down which caused my soul not to look upon any outward interest or self-seeking hopes below Christ my Protector for God is all in all to me his intent hath been all along to drive me out of all earthly freedom which proved hard and difficult to my thoughts That I of necessity must throw up all worldly interest to be least in the world if I did not I could not be a faithful Disciple or a witness to Christ Nature considered what a hard thing it would be
art and policy who shall learn him knowledge shall Oxford and Cambridge instruct his way their places are inferiour to him for Christ is our true word of prophesie far above all art or pretended skill God is the best University he will teach his people in all truth by an inward renewing the mind if God teacheth then let men lay down and say We cannot savingly teach we preach the letter but salvation is from above he ministreth the gift of healing and man cannot do it Ordination is ceased with the Apostles and God doth appear to us by his Son and under the name of two witnesses which is the Law and Testimony within that teacheth us better then all the Priests Therefore I desire we may all see and live under the teachings of God for he teacheth us the mystery of truth let God be true and every man a lyar you Assyrian Priests may prognosticate the people but Christ is the sure word of prophesie we will hear him with a laudable voice The Priests say Hear us we will not be silenced but for all this thou must be silenced Oh Priest for Kings and Lords and Nobles and Magistrates shall be silenced at his bright appearing There shall be silence in heaven for the space of half an hour Rev. 8.1 Who shall stand when he appeareth by a dividing of time I say all you Ministers have not yet preached the Gospel neither can any man preach the Gospel at all until he throweth down his own power of preaching and make Christ your Priest and Teacher and say you are no more a teacher of salvation but a keeper of cattel from your fathers and to work by the sweat of your brows for knowledge shall run to and fro and meet by voices and witnesses that shall throw off and extinguish all your negative voices that stand deffinating so high in Pulpits one witness of the Minister or Priest of himself is a negative untruth and is centred upon meesum which is by a singular vote and cannot stand for it is Christ alone that shall stand to preach for he is ordained and sent as a Mediator of himself between God and man Priests I believe in short time your people will be few in number for then and at that time the people shall betroth themselves unto the Lord and will refuse your teachings when they are inwardly taught of God they shall remove from you Pulpits and ye shall no more say to the people Know the Lord for they shall all know me that is they shall all know Christ to be the Minister and shall return to their first Love from whence they were fallen saying Come do thy first work as if Christ should say Christians come enter into your rest once in him and ever he is our Sabbath and Gospel of peace he is unchangeable to the end and that is a Sabbath indeed it is not your keeping a day once a week that can make a true rest it is the Sabbath within having Christ dwelling in thee by a true faith that is a Sabbath and a rest that cannot be taken away the receivings of Christ in thee quickeneth thee every moment from day to day which sheweth forth in thee a continual Sabbath From yeer to yeer thou shalt worship the Lord and keep the feast of Tabernacles when a Christian walketh in all outward righteousness that is a feast of one Tabernacle and to walk by inward righteousness that is the other feast of Tabernacles Ye shall once a yeer come up to keep the feast of tabernacles Zach. 14. These two Tabernacles the one for an inward the other for an outward are called first and second Tables which shall be the worship that shall be set up from day to day and yeer to yeer until Shilo come Priests it is not for you to keep a day once a week and be as evious as ever it is not to keep a day and be as covetous as ever that is not a true Sabbath Christ is the Sabbath and he is our eternal rest And Minister thou must deny thy self if ever thou wouldst enter into his rest for Christ sweetneth all things to a Christian every doubt is comprehended and comprimized in him he is the end of trouble of war and of every conflict he is our Gospel-peace to still the rage of all obstruction and for want of making Christ our teacher it causeth us to follow false Christs I mean Priests and Jesuites that teach their own Gospel and set themselves up by fat parsonages feigned lovers to deceive the people as if they had the minde of God at their will Humble-bee-Priests fat belly-goded-Parsons to declare to the people once a week as if God were tied to their set times so as the Jews did so do you keep a day once a week and yet crucifie the Lord and so do ye not knowing his eternal Sabbath Ye silly people I much condole your weakness in that you so much idolize the Priests and neglect your onely true rest The Lord appeareth to us every day aswel as on that day which thou callest the Lords day and truely ye are as legal as ever the Jews were though cunningly you call your Sabbath the Lords day yet cannot take away your observed forms the Lords day is every day Therefore Priest throw down thy observation Christ is the Sabbath of rest his day is every day from yeer to yeer Ye Doctors and Priestical Ministers you are very censurous I cannot but further relate a Pulpit-story of this Doctor Hill by some godly persons of neer relation to him having some discourse with them they did not comply with his element but were a little contrary to his judgement not pleasing to his allegation which to affront them in their judgement he thought to met with them in the Pulpit took a text of Scripture to cross them but as I understood God met him in the way and frustrated him in his first text whereof he took another text and in the same manner God met him again and blasted him upon his third subject so that he judged himself stricken and came down from the Pulpit and related a sad story to some that God justly punished him by reason of his inveterated spirit of bitterness so that I finde God met him by way of etilliation as we have an example in Jacob and Esau the Lord punished Jacob for taking his brother Esau by the heel Therefore let no man think so low of his brother but that God can spiritually raise men to higher knowledge then Cambridge can do And let not Ministers and Doctors be so high now God appeareth to the weak things of the world to confound the haughtiness of the proud for we have a sure word of prophesie far higher then you can teach Doctors and Ministers ye preach of a Prince that ruleth in the Air I pray you what is that if you were as far from that as you are from right disciplying you would have but little to do with it Doctor I must tell you what it is that ruleth in the Air it is money which is the King of all the creatures that ruleth in the Air it buyes and sells and captivates all things under it silver and gold bewitcheth the world and you would spend your lives in the Pulpit for it and it is called but the Prince that rules in the Air and beguileth the Priests that preach for hire Christs is a free-Ministery and an endless Priesthood yours is failable I can give relation of a Priest that removed himself from about 40. l. a year for a place of 300. or 400. l. a year This Priest cunningly bewitched his people of the new place where he came and in the midst of his Sermon related to them That God had brought him thither in a cloud from the substance of 40. l. a year to 300. l. a year And was not this a cunning dawber to delude the people by a dark cloud Numbers Leviticus and Deuteronomy declareth That the Priests shall have no inheritances therefore I finde they that have bought Tythes and Impropriations have bought and sold that which was none of their own Lord Protector I desire you would give Tythes and impropriations to the widows the fatherless the blinde and the lame and to the poor as Christ would have it done so let it be that every Parish be eased of collection and praise God for the great good you have done for them A poor messenger a disciple separate for the kingdom of Christ I could have added much more to this work but in short I have declared some of the minde of God Daynus A messenger of the new Covenant under the Ark-angel of the Covenant As John was sent a messenger to the Jews to declare the kingdom of heaven at hand so I Daynus am sent to the whole Israel of God to shew the kingdom of heaven is come in power to me and I am the first upon the feet restored of the dry-bones of Israel Daynus to shew the day and year of the Lord and his year excepted FINIS