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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52300	The standard of the Lord lifted up in New-England, in opposition to the man of sin, or, The trumpet of the Lord sounding there with a visitation to the suffering seed of God in New-England or elsewhere with a warning from the Lord to the rulers and magistrates, priests, and people of New-England, but more especially to the rulers and magistrates of the bloody town of Boston, who have put the servants of the living God to death / written (in the prison at Boston in New-England in America) by ... Joseph Nicholson.	Nicholson, Joseph, 17th cent.	1660 (1660)	Wing N1109; ESTC R4235	17,642	26

THE STANDARD Of the Lord lifted up in New-England In Opposition to the MAN OF SIN OR The Trumpet of the Lord sounding there with a Visitation to the suffering Seed of God in New-England or elsewhere With a Warning from the Lord to the Rulers and Magistrates Priests and People of New-England but more especially to the Rulers and Magistrates of the Bloody Town of Boston who have put the Servants of the Living God to Death The Lyon hath roared who can but fear The Trumpet hath sounded who can but prepare himself to Battel before the great and notable day of the Lord come Fear ye not me saith the Lord will ye not tremble at my presence which placed the sands for the bounds of the Sea by a perpetual Decree that it cannot passe it and though the waves thereof tosse themselves yet can they not prevail though they roar yet can they not pass over it Jer. 5.20 Written in the Prison at Boston in New-England in America By a Friend of Israels Commonwealth known to the world by name Joseph Nicholson LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson at the Signe of the Black-spread-Eagle and Winde-mil in Martins Le grand 1660. The Standard of the Lord lifted up in New-England or the Trumpet of the Lord sounding there THe mighty day of the Lord is coming wherein the secrets of every mans heart shall be revealed with the Light of Jesus Christ which comes from Jesus Christ the Son of God who lighteth every man that comes into the world John 1. ver 9. And this is my beloved Son saith God hear you him who lighteth every man that comes into the world Drunkard hates the Light Lyar hates the Light Swearers and cursed Speakers you all hate the Light and all you who live by stealth you hate the Light all you that live in envy as Cain did who slew his Brother you hate the Light all you that are proud as Haman was ye hate the Light all you who commit adultery you hate the Light all you who live by cozening and cheating your fellow-creatures by deceitful merchandize in buying and selling and speaking otherwise by your commodities than it is you hate the Light and all you who live in any form of Profession whatsoever and persecute them who are in the life who come to witness forth the Truth as it is in Jesus Christ made manifested in them as it was in the Apostles you are all to be condemned with the Light that comes from Jesus Christ For ●his is the condemnation of the world the Light saith Christ ●hat Light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil John 3. ver 19. For every one that doth evil hateth the Light neither cometh to the ●ight lest his deeds should be reproved but he that doth truth ●●meth to the Light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God Therefore all people high and low rich and poor bond and free take warning betime and put not the evil day afar off and the good day afar off and say in your hearts the Lord delayeth his coming and so eat and drink with drunkards and beat and persecute your fellow-creatures who witness the life and Power as they did who spoke-forth the Scriptures for the Scriptures was given forth by Inspiration of the Spirit holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost and as the Spirit gave them utterance Now people consider the Scripture was not given forth for men to talk of or make a trade of or for men to get money by as your hireling Teachers of the world do who have so much a year for preaching and talking of the Scriptures of things made ready to their hands other mens conditions saying in such a Chapter and such a verse saying Hearken my beloved brethren in such a Chapter and such a verse to the Word of God as it is written for your instruction when truly people the Lord never spoke unto them Why may some say is not the Scriptures true yea they are true but the Scripture as a declaration of other mens conditions the Prophets conditions Christs words the Apostles words given forth from the life but I am against him saith the Lord that steals the Word from his Neighbour and saith The Lord saith when the Lord never spoke to him but as they find it written in the Scriptures other mens conditions who were made partakers and possessed and enjoyed what they spoke this was not a Chapter or verse in Scripture other mens conditions but this was and is the same as ever was from the beginning the Innocent life the holy life Adams state wherein he was created at first in the Image of God but being fallen from that estate in Adam there must be a coming back again as the Scriptures speaks of I will bring the blind by a way that they have not known and there must be a bringing back again the Captivity a restauration out of the fallen estate For as in Adam all die so in Christ shall all be made alive As many as believe on him whom the Father hath sent into the World he was in the world and the world knew him not but as many as received him he gave power to become the Sons of God and he that hath the Son hath Life he that hath not the Son hath not Life and this life is the light of men he was in the world and the world was made by him and the world became flesh and dwelt amongst us and we saw the only begotten Son of God full of Glory Mercy Grace and Peace and to him that is at rest saith Christ will I give of the water of life freely he that hath an eare may hear what the Spirit saith he that overcomes shall reign with me saith Christ Therefore all people take warning berime and do not deceive your selves by a profession of God and Christ in words and have not the life and power of what you profess for it is not profession without possession that will stand you instead in the day of the Lord God which is coming upon all the ungodly of the world who are out of the life and power of that which the Scriptures were given forth from for except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdome of God this Birth is not by mans will but by the will of God and where this Birth is known and witnessed in the least measure it is hated and persecuted by the world as ever it was in the dayes of the Apostles and Christ for if they persecuted me saith Christ they will also persecute you and if they have done this to the master of the house how much more to them of his houshold for the Scribes and Pharisees knew where Christ should be born but when he came they put him to death The same is now made manifest as ever was in the Apostles

out of Hell and in your wills have made a Law to punish the innocent by whom the Lord sends amongst you to warn you to turn from the evil of your doings and thus you have requited the Lord evil for all his good to you ward and you do despite against the Spirit of Grace for the People called Hereticks and cursed Quakers by you who take upon them as you say to be immediately sent of God and infallibly assisted by the Spirit this we own and witness to be true in our measures to be immediately sent of God and to be guided by his Spirit that 's of God but to write or speak blasphemous opinions that we do deny that hath not been proved against us yet by any of you or your hireling Priests for they who are guided by the Spirit of God they neither speak nor write blaspemous opinions for the Spirit of God is not a spirit of blaspemy as you may think or judge it to be who make a mock at an immediate Call and you are the Hereticks who are gone from that of God in you who are erred from the Spirit as Balaam was who loved the wages of unrighteousness as you Teachers do and the People by you in scorn called Quakers are not cursed but blessed of the Lord who came amongst you to bear witness for the truth as it is in Jesus for although you have used incliantment as Balaak and Balaam did together to curse Jacob and defie Israel yet your Inchantments and Laws which you have hatched out of Hell shall be broken and you both and the people in scorn by you called cursed Quakers shall inhabit amongst you and you shall be broken to pieces the Lord hath said it and he will shortly bring it to pass you cannot long strive against God and prosper for he is risen against you already and though your trumpets sound aloud amongst you who delight to shed innocent blood yet the Trumpet of the Lord sound louder in his ears which cryes aloud for vengeance against you who have put his servant to death your condemnation is coming on apace you are all to be condemned with the light that comes from Jesus Christ the Son of God who lighteth every man that comes into the World And whereas you say We despise Government and Order in Church Commonwealth speaking evil of Dignities reproach Magistrates and Ministers that 's false for we own Government and Ministers who fear the Lord hates covetousness and are guided by the Spirit of the Lord but if any Magistrates makes Laws contrary to truth as you have done to put the innocent to death we utterly deny both the Laws and Magistrates therein but Magistrates who are a terrour to evil-doers and a praise to them that do well we own but such Magistrates are not you who shed innocent blood and we own such Ministers as are called of God Who are sent out to preach the Gospel freely without money or without price but such Ministers are not your Hirelings who can never have enough who would limit the Spirit of God in others who would have none to speak but themselves that so they might keep people still in ignorance as they have done ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth but you Magistrates and Ministers so called are all made manifest as Corah Dathan and Abiram was who rebelled against Moses who said All the Congregation were Holy but your end will be like theirs for your Cup is almost full of which you must drink doubtless it shall be filled to you your reward you shall have for God will be honoured by you but it will be your destruction you generation of vipers of serpents who gnash your teeth for torment already for your torment is begun already your sorrow shall never cease nor flye away your destruction draws near you cannot escape the hand of the Almighty he rises against you he will render vengeance in flames of f●●●●●on you wo be unto you who had no pitty good it had been for you if you had not been born on that a Mil-stone had been hanged about your neck and you cast into the Sea rather than you should have made a wicked Law and so put the innocent to death as you have done whose innocent blood cryes aloud for vengeance against you inhabitants of this Town of Boston in New-England who have shed innocent blood Gods Judgments draws near all you who had a hand in shedding innocent blood the blood of the innocent is upon you wo will be to you for evermore except you repent you are grown fat and strong and you spurn with the heel against God you are worse than Pharaoh was who said Who was the Lord that he should obey him to let Israel go wo will be to you for ever who will not let the Lords people worship him in his own way but they must be cast into Prison and whipt and banished and their ears cut and burnt and put to death because they come to bear witness to the truth against your Idolatrous worship and witness the true worship who worship him in Spirit and in Truth And now is he seeking such worshippers but you have rejected his messengers and slighted the day of your visitation and put his servants to death and evil intreated many whom he hath sent amongst you to bear witness to his truth as it is manifest in Jesus but sorrow shall accompany you where ever you go vengeance from the Lord and punishment as came upon Cain shall come upon you cursed shall you be for evermore in sorrow shall you lye down and so shall you rise up and in torment shall you be where ever ye go your God whom you serve is not able to deliver you out my hand saith the Lord your prayers and praises are accursed of God your sacrifices is Cain-like God will never hear you your bud shall rot as the drunkard for you are drunk with the Saints words and you shall have blood to drink who have shed innocent blood and this is to you who have put the servants of the Living God to Death TO you the Inhabitants of Boston in New-England who have not had a hand in putting the innocent to death if ye will return return unto me saith the Lord or else I will visit your sin upon you with the rest for when I begin I will also make an end therefore if ye will return unto me saith the Lord I will yet have mercy upon your unrighteousness if you will break off your sins by true repentance and own the light of Christ Jesus which you be enlightned withal which shews you your transgressions which lets you see when you have done any manner of thing that is evil which reproves you in secret when no eye sees you for whatsoever is done in secret shall be made manifest by the light for the day is dawning and the sun-rising is appearing amongst you and