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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28152	A word of reproof and advice to my late fellow-souldiers and officers of the English, Irish, and Scotish army with some inrhoad made upon the hireling and his mass-house, university, orders, degrees, vestments, poperies, heathenism, &c. : with a short catalogue of some of the fighting priests and ... have given them a blow in one of their eyes (pickt out of the whores head) which they call a fountain of religion but is a sink of iniquity ... / by E.B.	Billing, Edward, 1623-1686.	1659 (1659)	Wing B2903; ESTC R23695	86,580	98

beginning before the Scriptures began and Heaven and Earth may passe away with which the Scriptures must passe but the Word lives and abides for ever the Letter killeth but the Word gives Life and is quick and powerful and sharper then any two edged-sword and divides assunder betwixt the joynts and marrow and he that hath the word hath life and Simon Magus could not buy the Word for money but ● man may buy learn and have the Scriptures and be a Judas and quote them as the Devil did to Christ and yet be a devil and the Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us and His Name is the word of God and his vesture is dipped in blood and the Word is the Light the Hope the Way the Gospel the Door the Vine the Shepherd the fairest of Millions the Original the Kin● and Kingdom the way to the Kingdom and this Way this Word this Door this Hope this King and Kingdom this Christ this Original is above a● and all in all and in ye all except ye be reprobates for the Kingdom of Heaven is within ye and that which may be known of God is manifest in ye and these manifestations within doth the Scr●ptures of truth truly declare o● the same is the Original and not the Lat. Gr. and Heb. neither is it so much as a help to know the true and Living God for a man may have the tongues of men and Angels and yet be without God in the World and P●●ate may understand the Latin Greek and Hebrew full well and set it over the Originals head and go to hell with his understanding and those that have the tongues may be mad and at this day do wrest the Scriptures to their own destructions for want of learning as Peter said they did of old calling the book-learnt men an unlearned generation and himself had no letters and it is like Christ spake to none of the meanest letter-men when he said they had at no time seen the shape of God nor heard his voice and I am su●●●● was because they were not good Schollars n●r willing to learn for I am the Lords witness that he is found of all that truly learn to seek him and learnt of all those that fear him for his very secrets are with them that fear him and to know and believe in him and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent is absolute life eternal and he that believes not is condemned already and to day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts for it is the same voice within that calls to ye for equity and truth in your inner parts as did to them of old it is not another then what the Scriptures truly declareth of and let him that preaches or brings a Gospel contrary to that which they delare of be an athema maranatha so it is not sufficient to have the Latin Greek and Hebrew and be accounted Orthodox and an able Diviner when the womb is barren and the eye not kept in the head and that which brought the wo-to-man or the wo-man prevail which is not permitted to speak in the Church but is to be silent and ask the husband at home whether they be married or unmarried according to the flesh and happy and onely happy are they who are espoused to the Lamb and can witnesse the eternal mariage the unseparable tye which neither heights nor breadths nor depths nor lengths nor tribulation persecution principalities or powers whatsoever can separate And he that hath the word of God abiding in him which was in the beginning before the Scriptures Prophets holy men and Apostles were by whom the World was made before it was made He deserneth all things judgeth all things Mark all things Orthodox and non Orthodox Pilate and his Original and himself is judged of no man And the grace of God which brings salvation hath appeared to all men and that is the true light that doth enlighten every man that cometh into the World And this is the condemnation that light is come into the World and men love darkness rather then light because their deeds are evil for every one that doth evil hateth the light neither cometh to the light least his deeds should be reproved but he that doth truth cometh to the light that his deeds might be manifest that they are wrought in God John 3. And this is my testimony for the Original the Lord Jesus and is according to the word that Original which was in the beginning before the Scriptures began to and against all Babilonians from whence came and is derived all confusion and diversity of tongues but in the beginning it was not so for God was the Word and the Word is God E. B. THE END A VVORD To those who are called Dukes Marquesses Earles Viscounts Lords Barons Bannerets Baronets Knights of all sorts Esquires Gentlemen and to the women who are called these mens Ladies upon which rabble of appellations depends and hangs most of the bad people of this Nation And who is the deboicher and vitiator of women-kind I leave it to that of God in the Conscience of these who are called Lords and Ladies Gentlemen and Gentlewomen to judge AH Poor men and women repent repent repent for the Lords righteous Judgement is nigh even at the door to be poured forth against many of you who even hate to be reformed but like evil men and deceivers wax worse and worse being as it were rivetted to all manner of sin grown old in iniquity And although you are called Lords Ladies Gentlemen and Women yet for the most part ye are ungentle untame without the yoke your tongues at liberty to blaspheme the Name of the dreadful pure and living God and Ishmael-like scoff and speak evil of dignities and things ye know not cursers swearers fighters and killers one of another fierce despisers of them that are good many of you are and yet calls yourselves Gentlemen c. When as patience and long suffering is the thing ye truly know not and soberness with many of ye makes no long tarrying and with your lusts ye are led captive at the Devils will and amongst many yea very many of ye oppression is your constant in-mate envy cruelty lust exaltation and pride the very beloved of your bosoms and in your own particulars ye hurt the innocent ye grieve that which would be righteous ye slay and make merry over the witness swallowing down the cups of pleasure and iniquity as the Ox drinketh water ye oppress the seed ye put the Lord of Life to open shame ye crucifie him afresh and that continually In spiritual ●●●ne and Egypt all the day long ye are content to dwell and in the night season lye down in your beastialities and in the morning ye rise up early to drink wine take pleasure and commit sin with greediness boiling in your own lusts overwhelmed in gluttony wholly swallowed up in all manner of worldly delight being dead

and forsaketh his sins coming to see the exc●eding sinfulness of ●●n and confesseth and forsaketh with repentance never to be repented of That is it which is ever in Christ and shall find mercy and as many as are led by the Spirit of God are now and ever the sons of God Such are new Creatures and onely they So he who is proud heady high minded covetous envious voluptious seditious a r●●ler brawler striker lyar persecutor c. is not in but out of Christ Jesus is no new creature is not led by the Spirit of God For that which is in of Christ Jesus is equal doth not hurt the creature the handy work of God the Creator but strikes at the power which captivates the creature and turns men from darkness to light and from the power of Sathan to the Power of God and that weapon which convinceth and coverts men and women in any measure to God-ward is not carnal but Spiritual but the outward sword in its place I own which only is to be laid upon the evil-doer let it be exactly done but to touch no man for his Conscience or principle in Religion provided it be not bloody so let the bloody hearted Priest look into himself who murthers men for his belly How much better is that then the Romish Jesuit who kills a Protestant for a Heritck and I am sure those who do so are not in Christ Jesus nor new creatures nor in the Spiri● but of the flesh of old Cain and in the condemnation For the Son came not to destroy but to save mens lives And he and his Ministers struck at at this day do strike at the power only which captivates the creature to wit the spiritual wickedness which lodgeth within Which the carnal weapon cannot reach and they struck onely at the Herisie and the errour and that which lead into the errour and Heresie and not at the creature neither strove they with flesh and blood nor for earthly benefit Nay they were full of patience gentleness long-suffering forbearing forgiving all and suffered all things Yea themselves to be defrauded and laboured with their own hands and were burthensom to no man But there is no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus note that are in him and who are in him Those that walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit for those who walk after the flesh cannot please God and to be but so so much as carnally minded is death and the death is not in the Life which Life is the Light of men But some there were who did taste of the power of an endless life yet fell away and some there were who were grafted into the Vine and yet became degenerate plants and the the righteous man may forsake his righteousness for some were washed others cleansed or emptied and yet returned like the sow to the mire and the dog to the vomit so that it is plain that a man may fall away as Lucifer did and to the same place for although they once knew God and have tasted indeed of the power of God the endless Life yet if they turn that grace of God into wantonness oppression pride and excess live above the witness of God which is a forgetting of God they shall with the wicked at last be turned into Hell Then it will not be a saying Once in Christ and ever in Christ but dying in pride oppression persecution and covetousness which is the root of all evil I say to such Once in Hell and ever i● Hell Therefore on this side time and the grave whilst ye have time prize it for the time present is all that is yours and the dayes past ye cannot recal and who knows what one day may bring to pass Wherefore in the fear of the Lord lay aside your empty drowzy and onely professing his Name and being in him whose Life ye are out of And turn into him the Light the Life who doth enlighten every man that comeeth into the World and that Life and no other is the Light of men him it is by whom the World was made before it was made which is which was and is to come and is already come who is the Word of God the Original and first born of every creature the Everlasting Gospel which hath been preached to every creature who shews reproves checks in secret for all your evil deeds done openly and secretly and is as secret as your most beloved secrets Oh! wait upon him and believe in him for he that knows obeys and abides in the Life is a cohire and hath Life and shall live for ever but if ye know him and obey him not he is your condemnation wherefore let him that knows the Lord fear him stand in awe and sin not And that is once in Christ and ever in Christ. So blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find doing his Will he shall make him Ruler over all his goods but if that evil servant shall say in his heart My Lord deferreth his coming and in the mean space be a companion with drunkards the Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him and in an hour that he is not aware of and shall cut him asunder and appoint him his portion with hypocrites where there is weeping wailing and knashing of teeth Therefore watch continually and pray without ceasing for you know not what hour the Lord cometh and he that is not upon his guard will be taken and made a perpetual prisoner But it may be alledged and to me it hath been by the highest professor that I yet ever met with either preacher or hea●er hath affirmed it come as his doctrine and belief that the be●t of men Saints do will sin and have their failings whilest they are in the body the best of men that ever were had their failings to their dying day to which I p●ssitively answer that which is in the least faileable cannot be sanctified for that which sanctifieth is infallible and it is impossible that sin and fallibility can be joyned to or with him who is infallible and hath not union with any manner of sin though but a sinful thought for all manner of sin is evil and cometh of evil and is of the evil one who is as faileable as the faileable accursed doctrine of imperfection and it as him for he is in it and it in him and he is the onely Minister and Father of it but every gift of God is perfect So that imperfection is the Devils gift but every good and perfect gift cometh from and is of God Mark but imperfections sin and failings and all that fails whatsoever though but an evil thought commeth from and is of the imperfect and faileable Divel who abode not in the infallibility Wherefore he fails to be s●ved but is a Divel although he believe and they are but poor or rather