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A29268	God magnified, man dethroned presented to the Parliament, and synod of England : who sit as if judges for saints, as if leaders, and guides unto the generation of Jesus Christ, the body of the communion of God / by W. Bray.	Bray, William, 17th cent.	1647 (1647)	Wing B4302; ESTC R159	47,757	62

that consult and endeavour to make the places of Saints too straight and to binde up the spirit of God to your formality darkness and bounds You that hear the children that you have lost say in your ears the place is too straight for us give place to us that we may dwell Isa 49.20 21 22 23 24 25 26. You that say in your hearts who hath begotten me these seeing you have lost your children and you are and will become desolate and who hath brought up these these where have they been will you make the broad places straight will you comprehend God in a narrow compass of a man of a Synod will you compass the incompassable will you compare with the incomparable Oh you cannot Do you think that God hath no other Ornament then a Directorie to adorn a Nation which he means to reform If he hath such a minde surely he hath Do you think that he who hath rivers of all sorts and waters of glory and of varietie to change his Creation by Iesus Christ and according to Iesus Christ hath but your stream But that one current of yours which you intend to make to run in the veins of the heavens and of the earth if you can Surely you are deceived God will I am confident dry up your River and make your fish to stink and die for thirst If you have a Jasper do you think all must have Jaspers may not another have a Saphir Yes truly whether you have or have not a Jasper if you have a Saphir may not another have a Chalcedony If you have an Emerauld may not another have a Sardonyx If you have a Sarduis may not another enjoy a Chrysolite if you have a Topar may not another enjoy a Chrysophrasus If you have a Jacynth may not another have an Amethyst Rev. 21.19 If you have or be any of these surely it would be satisfaction enough to you If you have the light of the Sun freely given you will you endeavour to destroy him that hath but the light of the Moon will you despise the day of small things Have you freely received and will you force another to walk as you walk when he hath not received You that were overcome your selves if you have truly overcome evill and Heresie will you have another Conquerour then the brightness of the Fathers glorie Is it not your darkness and inconsiderateness to say in your heart who hath begotten these Do you think you must be perpetuall Fathers shall Saints be alwaies taught of fallible mutable vain man would you not have God to beget how he pleaseth and when he pleaseth Oh vain man why contendest thou with thy maker the holy one of Israel Thou canst not prevail thou never madest a hair of thine own head thou never addest a Cubit to thine own stature He that walks in the circuit of heaven laughs thee to scorn and hath thee in derision daily Doest thou think God can bring none forth but such as thou willest can teach no other way but such as thou teachest can have no other Terms but such as thou understandest comprehendest studiest and contrivest If that invisible God and eternall substance doth begin to set up his Standard to the people to lift up his hand to the Gentiles and to make Kings nursing Fathers and Queens nursing mothers Wilt thou instigate the Magistracy the Kings the powers of the world in the high places to binde the people of God though under another notion in chains of death and darkness Doest thou think that Kings Queens and Magistrates must be only nursing fathers and mothers unto you must honour the God of Heaven and earth only in you and lick up the dust of your feet In the consideration of these things I am cast into admiration of infinitie Oh boundless God and binding man Oh boundless God! that measurest all things comprehendest all things who hast infiniteness in all thy true variety let not thy Saints be ashamed to wait for thee Oh Super-superlative binding God! who art able to bind Synods Counsels Powers of the world in chains and fetters of Iron that have bound the people deceived the Nations a great space manifest thy self that thou bindest and loosest and art able to restrain the bindings of man as well as to unloose after thou hast given him power to binde And if thou hast an intent that this Synod shall be a scourge or means of a scourge to thy people as well as other Synods formerly called Convocations or other names do thou say to thy Saints in the spirit of understanding Where is the fury of former oppressors and am not I the Lord thy God and is not my name the Lord of Hosts who have divided the Sea whose waves roared Isa 51.15 Say thou to thy people as thou saidst of old Isa 52.3 4 5 6. Ye have sold your selves for nought and ye shall be redeemed without money though they that rule over you make you to howle and cause the ignorant of God to blaspheme the Lord every day But let thy people know it is thou that speakest even thou I am confident Synod the thoughts of God are not your thoughts neither are your waies the waies of the Lord for as the heavens are higher then the earth so are the waies of the triumphant God and the thoughts of the triumphant God higher then yours and you may miss of your aime in your generation but I rejoyce you keep your Crown Power Kingdom and Glorie so long as the Father will Synod reade perhaps you may know and understand 56 Isa 11. 57 Isa Whose Chapter may appertain to thee in thy own understanding and the 13 Ezekiel 14 Ezekiel 9 10. 41 Isa 10 Ieremiah 23 Ieremiah the 26 Ieremiah 29 Ieremiah 8 12 verses c. And also the 34 of Ieremiah 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 c. I can I thank the most High the invisible substance make parallels and the parallels aequipolent Therefore though you shall endeavour to scourge me and afflict me yet I shall see the love of the absolute Lord in scourgings and whippings Though you shall say as others before you have said Come let us scourge him and afflict him for he hath sinned against the Lord yet my glory is in the absolute God washer cleanser purger discerner informer reformer and acquitter and from him I have my Quietus est What though you make me an offender for a word What though you shall have the Nobles the Powers of the world the Parliament whom you instigate the People to say Come let us devise devices against him because he speaks of the things of God he being not Ordained The Law shall not perish from the Priest nor Counsel from the Wise nor the Word from the Prophet Come let us smite him with the tongue and let us not give heed to any of his words Yet the absolute Lord non-respecter of persons can

God Magnified MAN DETHRONED Presented to the PARLIAMENT And SYNOD of England Who sit as if Judges for Saints as if Leaders and Guides unto the Generation of Jesus Christ the Body of the Communion of God By W. BRAY. ISA. 9.15 16. The ancient and honourable he is the Head the Prophet that teacheth lies he is the Tayl. For the Leaders of this people cause them to erre and they that are led of them are destroyed MAT. 21.13 14 15 16. JOB 20.26 A Fire not blown shall consume him it shall go ill with him that is left in his Tabernacle The heaven shall reveal his iniquity and the earth shall rise up against him JOB 36.22 Behold God exalteth by his power who teacheth like him JOB 21.22 34. Shall any teach God knowledge seeing he judgeth those that are on high How then comfort ye me in vain seeing in your answers there remaineth falshood LONDON Printed Anno Domini 1647. TO The High Court OF PARLIAMENT Right Honourable HAving by experience beheld God and in seeîng God have seen man also I desire to speak a word or two unto you as not loosing my life unto the death for I desire more and more to be translated and transformed into the Image of Jesus manifested in the flesh and to live by the Faith of the Son of God in the Spirit I have now seen man the perfection of the earths Creation to be vanity and his wayes to be as mutable as the wind which is sometimes East and sometimes West sometimes North and sometimes South and now I desire to lie low before the God of the whole earth and to lay aside all voluntary humility and worshipping of Angels or men I have seen many writings and I have heard many tongues which have endeavoured to hinder the pure flamings of the Eternal God even the God the King and Judge The pure Scepter is in the hand of Immortality and Immutability that can make the light to shine in the darkness so that darkness shall not withstand or comprehend the power of its infiniteness There is much contending for victorie over one anothers censcience in the world the root of such endeavor for a present Conformity proceed from your Synod which you have chosen who would if they could fain be riding on others and making the Image of God in others a slave a servant to their fallible fallibly interpreted results whereas the walkings of the visible man should alone proceed from the pure power and teachings of the invisible God both as to God and to man if we walked as he also walked The Gods of the Nations they are all Idols vanity a lie and a shadow though I remember I have read it was an opinion of old Quicquid Humus Pelagus Coelum miserabile gignit Id dixere deos c. What ever Heavens Sea and Land begat Hils Sea and Rivers God was this and that Me thinks I see sensibly and experimentally praised be the Father of mercies that the Saints sit by the River of Babylon and weep when they have the remembrance of Sion and may yet still do if the Lord give power any longer to the enemie and oppressor then they that carry us away captive will require of us a song and they that made exile or banishment our portion as a Synodean Minister so called told me there was no other way for Sectaries will revile us exceedingly and say race race them even to the ground and they that waste us will require of us mirth saying sing us one of the song of Zion But if we have not the Lord with us God with us How shall we sing the Lords song in a strange Land Psal 137.1 2 3 4. verses Me thinks it should be a business of high concernment to you to offend one of the littele ones of the Father which you may doe seeing neither you nor your teachers are infallible lest you be found fighters against God as God is in Iesus and crucifiers of the body of love and complacency But if you are and if you are to me Crucifiers I desire to imbrace the Cross as my Fathers Crown to me I desire to see the Cross and Crowne from one supreame cause power and will I shall be glad if the Father will accompt me worthy when I have no ground to accompt my selfe so to suffer for his sake if you shall have the Crown any longer yet know this that your crown your dominion is not an everlasting dominion the people of the most high God shall appear more palpably as God with them in the inmost man and then God shall be palpably exalted and man dethroned The invisible God and substance hath carried me out to write these things and hath answered all objections though many of flesh hell and death so that to me to will and to do is God so that all or any thing shall be to me gaine and immortall advantage In fine is not particular fleshly interest the God of the world is there not a generall acting judging censuring and condemning without infallible judgment and Testimonys and have not men thrown downe Episcopacy to set up tyrannicall dominering Presbyterie mutato nomine tantum And is not formall Philosophie vaine deceipt traditions of men and rudiments of the world the great Argument that swayes witness many men who write many elaborate Volumes and the continuall man-teachings of preists to Counsells do not the Preists of the nation endeavour to blow the bellows of contention and to divide deare friends because of difference in judgment so that as one Augustine one of they Fathers Tempestate contentionis serenitas charitatis obnubilatur In the tempest of contention the serenity of charity is over-clouded may not Episcopalls Presbyterians and Independents sit all under their owne Vines and Fig-trees and yet live lovingly one with another one to another be contraries yet be contraries in the spirit of love and mekeness forbearing forgiving one another may not every one walk in the light of his God according to the prophesie And the Saints walke in the light of the Lord their God surely if all that talke of Christ of that anoinment were really possest in the glorie of it man would not be any thing but God would be all in all I cannot hold my peace I am Idem calamo quod in mente I desire you to excuse me if you can that I have been so bold according to the common denomination of boldness God hath condescended to speak to me and I have spoken to God and his Testmony is sure why should not you condescend peradventure God may give you an invisible dart to think on temperance and judgment to come So I rest Your Honours humble Servant if you walke according to the pure light of nature and if you shall stand for justice and mercy in the Land W. Bray Nationall Assemblie YOU that endeavour to make your selves renowned and to exalt God with your selves alone you

would scarce afford him to write or seeme to write upon the ground If he did we should have a gangraena made presently to condemn this Heretick this Belzebub this friend to publicans sinners But Lords But Counsailes but Synods in fine but men when the absolute Lord and supereminent God shal tell you though a poore man it may be that is iudged and condemned before you may not neither doth that you who were or are called Lords in the sublunary Visible Kingdome glory did endeavour to cast a moate out of anothers eye you had a beame in your owne and that you having a beam are no competent judges of a mote But it may be you will say that you are infallible in this and also say that that saying of Christ doth not appertain to you Let him that is without sin cast the first stone when God shall discover himself and manifest you what you are even that you that judge other are Cast-awaies your selves are Hereticks your selves you would not be very willing to finde a stone for another When the Lord shall say though you cried Templum Domini Templum Domini yet the everlasting was not in your esteem even he that can when he will both cast out Beam and Mote But thus it is when the Lord is not or will not be understandingly supereminently in the Lords thoughts though he be neer and sees yet he will not be seen but they say how doth God know can he judge through the dark Cloud thick Clouds are a covering to him that he seeth not and he walketh in the circuit of heaven Job 22 23 24. But Oh Immortality thy righteousness thy seeing and thy seeing to be seen thy knowing to be known and thy understanding to be understood shines not upon all Thou hast O Lord set the world in my heart so that no man can finde out the work that thou hast made from the beginning to the end Ecclesiastes 3.11 Therefore Lord if thou wilt give a Crown Power and Authority to Temporarie Lords to excercise their Dominion and power even upon me if thou shalt manifest me and make me a little flame of thy self thy will be done It is only in thy self to comprehend the works that thou hast made from the beginning to the end if man indeavours to comprehend endeavours to inthrone himself in a state of comprehending others and persecuting others from an apprehension that he comprehends when he doth not in deed and in truth and though I shall if thou comprehending incomprehensib e willest be afflicted scorrned contemned by that generation yet let me in particular lie down and be satisfied that I am apprehended and comprehended of thee and that I know see and speake according to the true and reall nature of knowing seeing speaking living and injoying as comprehended let me see before I say I see know before I say I know and be spoken to before I speak Oh! thou immutable knower see'r and absolute speaker as to the things that thou hast made capable of seeing knowing and speaking let thy loving spirit of righteousness and wisdom uphold me and though thou deliverest me to the ungodly and turnest me over into the hands of the wicked let me say truly knowingly and understandingly my witness is in heaven and my record is on high in love Job 26.19 But Counsellours of the Earth Weak Contenders of the Earth with the absolute Lord I see and consider oppressions though I see not all oppressions under the Sun But a comfort it is that the absolute Lord sees Eccles 4.1 2. But it may be Lords you will say when you persecute there is no remedy in the death of a man it is sutable to conveniency and the constitution of a Kingdom to destroy a man so as it was indeed to crucifie the Son of God who was known is known to some not to be held of the grave But you it may be will say you have not known any man to returne it may be you will say men are born at an adventure and shall be hereafter as though they had never bin that the breath of your nostrils is as smoake a little spark in the moving of your Breast which being extinguished your body shall be turned into ashes and your spirit shall vanish as the soft Aire therefore you will lie in waite for the righteous because he is not for your turn he is clean contrary to your doings because he professeth to have the knowledge of God and he calleth himself the child of the Lord he is made to reprove your doings therefore he is grievous to behold because his life is not like other mens his waies are of another fashion because you are esteemed of him as counterfeits and he abstaineth from your filthiness and because he maketh his boast that God is his Father And therefore you will examine him with despightfulness and torture to know his meekness and prove his Patience But Potentates I shall present a few things to your consideration paradventure you may see with your eyes and heare with your ears and when you are converted if ever you shall you may set to your seals that these things are true to the praise and glory of the absolute infallible God Judge power wisdome and true glory 1. God is the alone supream King of kings Lord of lords and God may as well as he hath already give the Nations or those to whom he intends to shew and manifest himself unto a light and glorious understanding to see that Lords by speciall authority and power formerly constituted are but types and shadowes of the absolute supream immortall God and Judge but this is true though the Lords and Kings see it not themselves for I know they will say you Prophecie not good unto them in these things 2. Christ the perfect pattern of the Fathers manifested perfection to men never gave any such power or kingly authority to any that then were in the world either Magistrates or Apostles he never gave the Apostles power to exercise themselves with scourgings whippings imprisonments banishments or oppositions of such a kind therefore there is no such successive Magistracy 2 Cor. 11.3 4. verses If he that cometh Preacheth another Jesus whom we have not Preached and if ye receive another Spirit whom ye have not received or another Gospel which ye have not accepted ye might well bear with him Likewise there was power given or the manifestation of the most High in a way supereminent that the Saints should do great things by the power of the Spirit and in the name of the Lord Jesus that supereminent name that name above every name In whose name the seventy returned with joy and said the Devils were subject unto them by it Luke 10.17 I know no other authority power or glory given to any that should profess that name according to the spirit 3. Christs commanding the Apostles to give Caesar his due and God