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A85462	Simplicities defence against seven-headed policy. Or, innocency vindicated, being unjustly accused, and sorely censured by that seven-headed church-government united in New-England: or, that servant so imperious in his masters absence revived, and now thus re-acting in Nevv-England. Or, the combate of the united colonies, not onely against some of the natives and subjects but against the authority also of the kingdom of England, ... Wherein is declared an act of a great people and country of the Indians in those parts, ... in their voluntary submission and subjection unto the protection and government of Old England ... Imprimatur, Aug. 3d. 1646. Diligently perused, approved, and licensed to the presse, according to order by publike authority.	Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.	1646 (1646)	Wing G1308; Thomason E360_16; ESTC R18590	106,374	127

Pilate that he was crucified in the types and shadows of the law But in the truth and substance when he appeared born of the Virgine Mary so must ye also conclude that the fathers under the law were only saved in purpose and decree in types and shadows but actually and substantially only at the coming of Christ in the flesh Therefore deal plainly with those that depend upon you for instruction as your ancestors in the Papacy have done and proclame a place of purgatory provided for them in the mean without which your doctrine hath no foundation for if you raise up a shadow without a substance and the substance of him that dwelleth in light without a shadow you play the part of wizards or Necromancers not the part of true naturalists in the things of the Kingdome of God So that as far as your men are from being honourable and loyall subjects so far are you from being voluntaries in the day of Gods power and from yeelding subjection to the beauties of holinesse such also is your preferment rule and government in the things that concern the Kingdome of our God they are infinitely beyond and out of the reach of that spirit that is gone out amongst you the capacity whereof can no wayes comprehend the bredth of the land of Emanuel nor entreth it within the vaile Therefore it cannot know those Cherubims of glory neither can it hear the voice of that lively oracle speaking only from off the covering mercy seat and not elsewhere to be heard we speak not but what we know these things are not of its Jurisdiction therefore dumm in telling Justice neither speaks it any of that righteousnesse and glory comprised in another circuit then you were yet made lords of Therefore long may you boast of your Jurisdiction before you attain to Juris prudentia in these things in that you tell us we offer wrong by a pretended purchase you are as much mistaken in the purchase as in the wrong for it is right that we are about to do neither is our purchase a pretence but presidentiall not only in this civill respect but may also admonish all men to take ●eed how they depend upon false and self-seeking interpreters when both themselves and they that have the vision are ignorant of the contract and covenant of God Thence it is that you teach that the Spouse of Christ upon contract with her Lord may conceive the seed of immortality and bring forth fruit unto the Lord when as yet the day of marriage that great festivity and solemnization of the consolations of God is not yet come witnesse your prorogation thereof if not to the descention of Christ from heaven to the earth to raign certain years yet to the calling of the Jews whom ye your selves are according to the flesh and to the destruction of that man of sin whom you so stoutly maintain What is this but to proclame to all the world that audacious spirit of whoredome professing conception and bringing forth before the Nuptiall day in that you conclude your clients right to arise out of four years possession we have no such order if you mean the right of conquest only held in that tenure the true owners were never yet subdued for that is the right they expect to injoy by you For some of them committed part of their supposed right unto us professing it was that they might have help to injoy the rest But when they saw we would not be abettors unto them without much lesse contrary unto covenant then they fly unto you for help their possession being a meer intrusion as all the Natives know and ever exclaimed against them for the same and so may our Countrymen also whose eyes are not dazled with envy and ears open unto lyes as we know yours are else you had heard both sides speak before you had judged but we professe right held in no such interest but according to the ground of covenant only known in its nature in the parties twixt whom it is plight in the possessor and the possessed with the nature of all fruit arising from their accord and concurrency together with their distinct harmonicall reciprocall and joynt properties and operations of them both such is the tenure that we hold and maintain it before men and angels and oppose it against men and devils not in taking up unto our selves certain offices and officers which we can teach children to be and to performe and from thence presently to conclude the possession of the Kingdome crying out our peace-offerings are upon us this day we have payd our vows But that dark cloud that descended on the Tabernacle becomes the light and glory of all Israel there being nothing acknowledged amongst them but what ariseth out thence then and then only are the orders as also the men of Israel derived from their true fountain which no tongue can confesse but is salvation and then not else is the heritage of our Lord in possession yea even the waylesse wildernesse knows how to afford them an habitation which had its being before the hills and mountains were borne which men begin to fly unto for refuge to hide themselves from the presence of the Lamb This is a possession which no man can intrude himselfe into it is onely covenanted with him through an inlightned eye and boared ear which man performeth not neither can it be received from him for we know that cloud of thick darknesse that hides and covers the whole frame and fabrick of the work of God to be the clearing and evidencing of every point and particular thereof yea to us it is even that cloud of witnesse which testifies to us the like work to appear when ever the world hath occasion to make use of us Never doth it shine but in the night never is it dark to Israel but in the day but in the one and the other the only glory and safety of all the tribes but how you know not neither can you with all your librariers give the interpretation thereof but have lost it in the wildernesse and accordingly have made the whole way and will of our Lord the oldnesse of the letter both to your selves and all that have an ear to listen unto you thence it is that the day of the Lord is a day of darknesse and gloominesse unto you but of joy and gladnesse unto us yea it lifts up our head only and then is our salvation near for we know the Worthies of David doubled about the bed of Solomon which expell all fear in the night handling the sword with successe making the adversaries nothing but meat to feed upon so that the time of your fear is the time of our courage and conquest for when ye fear Error Schism Rents and Confusions in Church and State then do we know the

SIMPLICITIES DEFENCE against SEVEN-HEADED POLICY OR Innocency Vindicated being unjustly Accused and sorely Censured by that Seven-headed Church-Government United in NEW-ENGLAND OR That Servant so Imperious in his Masters Absence Revived and now thus re-acting in NEVV-ENGLAND OR The combate of the United Colonies not onely against some of the Natives and Subjects but against the Authority also of the Kingdme of England with their execution of Laws in the name and Authority of the servant or of themselves and not in the Name and Authority of the Lord or fountain of the Government Wherein is declared an Act of a great people and Country of the Indians in those parts both Princes and People unanimously in their voluntary Submission and Subjection unto the Protection and Government of Old England from the Fame they hear thereof together with the true manner and forme of it as it appears under their own hands and seals being stirred up and provoked thereto by the Combate and courses above-said Throughout which Treatise is secretly intermingled that great Opposition which is in the goings forth of those two grand Spirits that are and ever have been extant in the World through the sons of men from the beginning and foundation thereof Jmprimatur Aug. 3d. 1646. Diligently perused approved and Licensed to the Presse according to Order by publike Authority LONDON Printed by John Macock and are to be sold by LUKE FAVVNE at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the sign of the Parrot 1646. Vpon an occasionall view of this unexpected and much unwished for Story THis Story 's strange but altogether true Old Englands Saints are banisht out of New Oh Monstrous Art and cunning of the Devill What hidden paths he goes to spread his evill The Man of Sin 's the same his eldest Son Both have more shapes then be moats in the Sun Hence disappointed are the most of men When trouble 's past some thinke they rise agen Thus it befell these Pilgrims in that Land To which they fled from persecutions hand This Indians note with Papists Iews and Turks For in them all the selfe same spirit works Thus is the Name of Christ blaspem'd by these Who burthen them to whom they promise ease Oh Christ arise and spread thy glorious fame That all may know the sweetnesse of thy Name As● Affric Europe and America Expect and waite the dawnings of that day That Papists Greeks and we the Protestants Of Calvins Sect those too the Lutherans And they that are a streine above them all At Iesus feet at length may humbly fall That so such Christs which most in fancy make Whence 'tis Men think that Christendome doth shake May at th' appearing of the Lord depart And all may worship him ev'n with one heart That so the Nations may this glory see And into it at length transformed be This to effect can't be by sword of man But that which to with-stand no Kingdomes can For t is the Lords owne might the sword that doth Ev'n with two edges flow out of Gods mouth By which are slaine the wicked of each Land And will sure breake each Persecutors band Then England and Yee Nations round about That are now so lofty and so stout At length downe fall to him that 's Lord of you And learne with him like meeknesse for to show If you with iron Rods Saints breake and bruise Know then your selves that Christ you so will use R. B. A Lover of peace and one of eminent respect viewing this Treatise at the Presse kindly added this verse prefixed which hath both sodainly and unexpectedly drawn from my thoughts as here followeth as a testimony of my kind respects unto the party though but a stranger unto him it may also serve as an intelligencer what was the only ground of controversie in acting according unto and publishing of this Treatise THe serpent with a voyce so slie and fine Consults with nature as though he were divine Whil'st she doth seek for glory wealth and love In things that are below and not in that above Lending an ear to listen unto him The fruit looks fair the tree seems nothing grim And thence doth he at first begin t' arise Through earthly projects for to make man wise Whereas the light of heaven GOD himself ordain'd To be that thing whereby man is maintain'd In wisdom honor happiness and peace That doth from serpent sin death hell release And not conjectural doubtful subtil notion Set forth by art with sign of great devotion Come from the Prelates your persecuting foes Our Church as Primitive Christ Jesus doth disclose Her Ordinances pure a Church erected here Where you may worship voyd of care or fear Our Land is large Our Magistracy good Come o're to save that innocent-like blood From such as are to cruelty so bent Our ways are meek and humble to give all content Thus he appears apparrelled in white To snare in that wherein he takes delight An earthly Kingdom he would fain erect Then spiritual honor he must needs reject That when that woman appeareth in her glory With him in womb of whom intreats all story Then 's he a dragon red for to devour That child to whom is given all the power In heaven and in earth to rule as King and Lord. None to the serpent no heaven cannot afford A place of residence he must thence depart Down to the earth full sore against his heart That he a place cannot devise to frame Which from the heavens may seem to take its fame Cruel Raging Carnal now he cometh forth His slie and subtil wisdom now proves nothing worth This woman now in travel finds not time To listen unto him nought but the child is mine Which child in her can nothing else confesse But Throne of glory and bare Wildernesse Which twain together give all praise to one Then fury 's in the Serpent smooth policy is gone No middle place for Sathan now is found Not one with th' manehild down he goes to ground His cunning cannot now intice so far But Michael and his Angels wil make War With Dragon and with all his Angels great Yea overcome him never sound retreat Most of his skil he useth he knows how To talk of benefits to receive although not now And so from place and person still delights to wend Where 's outward peace there 's Christ doth he pretend And if so be that troubles do arise Himself he saves the serpent is so wise No tye to fold nor flock he then wil know Christ in an earthly peace he 'l have where e're he go Whereas our Lord his voyce doth sometimes teach Go to Decapolis and there thou shalt me preach Unto ten Cities great the number bee My Word shal reach them and I am with thee For I am truth and truth thou goest to show Which makes thee free my presence thou dost know No place can scant thee off then walke at large Doubt not I 'm

because of advantage or else to seek all occasions against them to brand them with all manner of reproach and ignominy but for the truth taught dayly in the Temple you know not how to stretch out your hand or exercise your ministery against it least it become leprous and you take it back again with losse when it appears dryed and withered and wherefore reason ye amongst your selves saying we exercise the power of our ministrations against none but such as are Delinquents whereby we clear the innocent and establish peace in our borders we demand what think you of those two witnesses prophesying in sackcloth a thousand two hundred and three●●ore dayes those two Olive trees and Candlesticks standing before the God of the earth are these guilty and vile persons out of whose hands by the power of your ministery you are delivering and releasing the world then indeed are your wayes justifiable But if these be the just chosen and peculiar friends of God yea such as without which his truth and righteousnesse are not justified his wisdome and holynesse maintained and upheld in the world in point of salvation by Christ then are your ways wicked and to be abhorred for in your professed course you are they by whom they are slain and put to death and all your glory is to keep their Corps unburied in your streets and yet you know not what you are doing no more then you know what these witnesses are whom you are altogether ignorant of for your ●●●●●ries never ●●w them and you see not but by their eyes for these are two and never more nor yet lesse yea ever the same they are Olive tree● else no witnesses and also Candlesticks else both the former fail yea are not at all we must tell you what these are else we cannot declare how ye kill them for it is not our intent to open unto you the house of the creatures the silver and the gold the spices and the precious ointment no● the house of our armor because ye take all as execrable and put all to a prophane use that cometh from us But these two witnesses are the life and death of our Lord Jesus Christ or in the true language of heaven also the strength and the weaknesse of Christ for he was crucified through weaknesse but liveth by the power of God This is the Word of the Lord in Zorob●bel not by an army nor by power and so deprives him of all strength but by a spirit that the greatest mountain o● loftiest hill in the world cannot stand before but becomes a plain which with facility and ease he passeth upon thence it is that he doth not only ●ay the top or the head stone of all but also the lowest in the foundation and then onely is the voice of shouting heard Grace grace in the house for ever and then doth the day of smal things become the day of joy and triumph yea of parting the rich spoils and prey of all the world for then he that doth but turn and lift up his eyes he cannot look besides that great flying book of the Curse that is gone forth over the whole earth without these two witnesses joyntly uttering themselves in every particular Scripture undertaken to be divulged by any no evidence nor testimony of God is given or brought in at all but a meer refuge of lyes for the souls of men to betake themselves unto without these two pipes of the Olive trees emptying into the bowl of the Candlesticks no unction nor oyl at all is found in them and that being wanting the light of the sanctuary is gone out so that the light appearing amongst you is onely the light of Baalam whose eye was open which you may read either Shethum or Sethum for that opening is nothing else but the shutting up of the holy things of God so that in seeing ye see not but communicate only in the light of that beast who puts the witnesses to death as Baalam did in the sight of that dumm beast of his whose eyes were so opened as to see the Angell before him So that while you think it is our wisdome to stoop unto you for light we never come amongst you but see our selves in a regiment of gross and palpable darknesse and discern you very plainly how you scrable upon the wall to find the door of L●ts house and cannot as also how you toil your selves to climb up into the sheepfold another way yea so many other wayes and have no sight nor discerning of the door at all by the which whosoever entreth becomes a true feeder of the flock yea none entreth in thereat but the true shepherd himselfe Most impious it is to put to death two such noble witnesses that have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the dayes of their prophesying to turn waters into blood and to smite the earth with all manner of plagues as oft as they wil whom that spirit that is amongst you kils on this wise The life and power of the Son of God as above which is infinite not admitting of circumscription or contenent for the heaven of heavens cannot contain him yet have ye not dared to grasp and inviron that power in the heavens and therefore have resolved and concluded that hee only rules upon the earth in these dayes by his Deputies Lieutenants and Visegerents whereby you limit and so destroy the holy one of Israel for give him that in one time or place which afterwards or else where yee deny unto him and you make a nullitie of him unto your selves and in so doing you kill the other witnesse namely the death or weaknesse of the Lord Jesus for you must have man to be honourable learned wise experienced and of good report else they may not rule amongst you yea and these things are of man and by man as Peeres in that they only officiate so as man may disanull and take it away againe witnesse your change of officers constantly speaking for us herein thus have you slaine also the Death or the weaknesse of Christ who professeth himselfe to be a worme and no man the shame and contempt of the people and these faithfull and true witnesses thus slaine you must of necessitie deny buriall and keepe them both in your streets in open view otherwise all your pompe and glory fals to the dust whence it came and on which it feeds nor can you send your presents one to an other of your acts of Justice power to protect wealth honour and friends wherewith you gratifie one another And where these are thus slaine and their corps lye in open view none of the Gentiles peoples tongues and kindreds suffering their corps to be put in grave there is that great Citie which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt where our Lord is crucified But after three dayes and

an halfe the spirit of life from God shall enter into them and they shall stand up upon their feet to the terrour of you all Nor doe you thinke that wee only inveigh against the great ones of the world for thus doing for wee know that the greatest of the Princes of this world hath the very same spirit wherewith the basest Peasant hath laid himselfe open in the view of all the world and the basest Peasant hath the same spirit with the greatest of the Princes of this world These wee say are the two witnesses if you can receive it and what dishonour is it to trade so much by meanes of witnesses and yet know not what a true witnesse is which if you did you durst not attempt the things yee doe whereby you cast reproach upon all the world in that you professe your selves a choice people pickt out of it and yet you goe on with such practises as you doe maintaining them as your only glory Our Lord gives you in charge not to sweare at all but it is your dignity to bring men to your seats of Justice with nothing but oaths in their mouths why doe you not ballance the Scriptures in this point It hath beene said of old thou shalt not commit Adultery but I say unto you hee that looketh on a Woman to lust after her hath committed Adultery with her in his heart already So also it hath beene said of old thou shalt not forsweare thy selfe but I say unto you sweare not at all So that if it bee Adultery to looke to lust it is also forswearing of a mans selfe to sweare at all if one be Adulterie the other is Perjury if one be admitted in some cases the other also so that in preaching the Toleration nay the duty of an oath you preach the toleration yea the dutie of adulterie it selfe So that our Lord plainely evinceth unto all mens consciences not only the guilt but the folly and madnesse of the oath of man to sh●w how farre it is from investing into place or demonstrating causes So that hee that concludeth upon honour and power received from the oath of man or upon knowledge and holdnesse to judge in a cause from that Testimonie without the which hee could not have it is as vaine in his thoughts as if hee should hereupon conclude I have now altered the frame of Heaven which is no lesse stable then the Throne of the great God or demolished the earth which is as firme as his Foot-stoole for ever or made a fraction in the orders of Ierusalem that choice and peculiar Citie of the great King whose institutions no mortall breath can intrench upon or to professe his authority and skill to be such whereby hee can make a ●●ire of his head black or white viz. cause his age to wax old as a garment or renew it with the Eagle at his pleasure hereby doth man in this point of swearing professe his folly to be such that he is become not onely vaine in his imaginations but to that pride and usurpation therein as to intrude himselfe into the Prerogative Royall of his Maker so tha● howsoever ye boast of the Ordinances of God yet hee t●ls you there is no more then yea yea and nay nay in them for that which is once nay is ever nay in the ordination of Christ and what is once yea is ever yea with him and according to his account howsoever man reckoneth whose accounts shall be called over againe what is once the curse is ever the curse and that which is once the Principality and power of Christ is ever the principalitie and power of Christ as that which is once the principalitie and power of darkenesse is e●er the same what hands soever it commeth into for manifestation measure your Kingdome whether it be eternall and your jurisdiction whether it be illimited for hee hath given him the Heathen for his inheritance and the utmost parts of the earth for his possession and a Kingdome of lesse extent hee professeth not nor can he approve or acknowledge any that do no more then light can approve of darkenesse or the Lord I●hovah of the lord Baal Be wise therefore and bethinke your selves while it is called to day harden not your hearts as though you would make your selves Meribba nothing but strife and contention against the Lord rather kisse the So●ne if it be possible lest his wrath kindle and you perish from the way for ever Oh blessed onely they that hope in him so that hee which professeth on this wise it is yea I am a Pastor but it was nay at such a time I was none at all hee renounceth that spirit of the true Pastor yea the only Feeder of Israel but professeth that spirit only that pusheth the weake with the horne and pudleth with his feet the waters where the flocke of God should drink He with whom it is yea I am a Ruler but it was nay when I was none renounceth that spirit of him that rules in Righteousnesse professing the spirit of him that rules according to the god of this world that Prince of the power of the ayre who is now working so effectually in the children of disobedience so also he with whom it is yea I am a Captain or chiefe slaughter-man but it was nay time was I was none at all renounceth that victory and slaughter made by the Captaine and High Priest of our profession who as he is a Lambe slain from the beginning his victory and slaughter must be of the same antiquity professing himselfe to be a chiefe slaughter-man or superfluous Giant made in the Hoast of the Philistims standing in readinesse to come out to defie the Hoasts of the ever living God yea it is evident whatsoever is more then yea yea and nay nay not setting each upon his base whereon it standeth for ever without controule but can remove create or make void offices and officers at their pleasure is of that evill one not of Jesus the Salvation of his people but of Shedim that Waster and Destroyer of man-kind for ever Know therefore that it is the oath of God which confirmes and makes good his Covenant and promise to a thousand generations and it is the oath of man that is the bond and obligation of that league and agreement made with hell and death for ever Be ye assured it is not the Tabernacle of witnesse which you have amongst you brought in by Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles but it is Siccuth your King or the Tabernacle of Molech the Star of your God Remphan figures that you have made to your selves which you have taken up and are bearing so stoutly upon your shoulders Now to tell you what an oath according to God is that the Scriptures are delivered upon no other ground or termes of certaintie where ever they are

the world can require nothing at his hands hereby shewing also the transcendencie of that kingdome wherein his authority is exercised beyond the kingdoms of this world which must borrow one of another else cannot any be glorious in the height of glory concerning the things of this life therefore had Solomon himself Gold Silver Ivory apes and peacocks brought from other nations to augment his glory But he that is greater then Solomon beautifieth himself with none of the things of this life though he had right to them all that so he might make it manifest that his Kingdome is not of this world therefore gives charge unto his disciples that as they had freely received so they should freely give for by how much we injoyn people to contribute unto us for preaching the Gospell by so ●●ch we proclaim that we have given unto God for what we have received of him and teach others so to do namely to bring some preparations operation or fitnesse to receive his grace which is as far from man to attain unto as it was to prepare and fit himself for his creation at the first so that the benevolence of the Saints in communicating of the things of this life is ●o part of the glory or beautifying of the house of God for then a wicked man might adde somewhat thereunto no● shall the glory in the least measure be diminished when these things s●all have an end But it is a declaration of their vilification of the things of this present life as things of no account or reckoning when they come into competition with the well being of the Saints and as these things are consumed and turned into ●shes upon that golden altar so doth there ascend up a perfumatory sacrifice of sweet savour unto the Lord for according to our vilification of the things of this life so is our valuation of the Lord Iesus who is either all or none at all in our estimation and account and if he be all then he that gathereth much of the things according unto man hath nothing over or above him that hath the least and he that gathereth little hath no la●k or falls short of him that hath the most for the one and the other consume them in the act of the present supply of their necessity knowing that if they keep them in making any accoun● o● reckoning of them for the time to come they presently putrifie and corrupt Learn this parable therefore that there is ●hat in the heavenly Manna that the rebells may eat in the wilderness and die eternally as wel as that which whosoever ●a●eth sha● never die but live for ever yea there is a seed to be sown in giving away to another as well as food to receive for the nourishing of our selves and he that sows sparingly in that shall reap sparingly yea he that knows not how to minister carnall things cannot have Spirituall things ministred unto him no m●●●●h●n ● man can keep his sinne and have the righteousnesse of Christ also Those onely therefore that in giving and receiving know how to perform all in the same act as the woman in casting her two mites into the treasury and out of deep povertie can see the abounding of the riches of liberality Such can perform an acceptable service to the Lord but such as onely exercise themselves in piece mealing of the things of God and the things of man to serve at times and turns for advantage and reserve the rest this is as the cutting off of a dogs head or the offering of swines blood in the house of God how ever else where they may be done without any such abomination the Saints therefore depend not upon neither desire the worlds benevolence knowing wel what their mercies are in the winding up nor can they expect from them ought else but bonds imprisonments and spoyling of their goods which through the secret supplies their master makes unto them they suffer joyfully not looking for so much as a shoe latchet from the King of Sodom to enrich themselves with all knowing that the blessing of the Lord upon their indevours shall yield sufficient to convey them through this valley of Bac● which indevours God directeth unto times and seasons to use according to strength and constitution without any to lay tasks upon them even as he teacheth the husbandman when to throw in the cummin and the fitches though they know notwithstanding what it is to have power not to work and to lead about a wife that is a sister as well as others But I am longer in my introduction then I did intend my Question therefore in short is this namely whether I may have liberty to speak and expresse the word of the Lord in the publick congregation freely without interruption either on the Lords day or the ordinary Lecture now whilst I am kept from my family and friends with whom I have been formerly exercised for seeing our dayes as a shadow decline and we are presently withered as grasse when in a moment we go hence and are no more We are earnest therefore to expresse the word of life that fadeth not nor waxeth old as doth a garment that Gods memoriall may abide with our posterity when we are gone the way of all the earth and that you shall not need to feare my touching upon any of those things which it seems are to lie sealed as in the grave for the present I shall tell you vvhat Scripture urgeth my heart for the present to impart of God lead not into another before the opportunity be attained for we cannot treasure up to bring forth at our pleasure unto profit no more then vve can fetch down at our pleasure for our supply but onely as our God performeth both the one and the other for vve depend not upon Baal O both as Saul did but upon the Lord Iehovah as David did The Scripture intended is the founding of the fifth trumpet Revel 9 out of vvhich I ●esire as God shall assist to open and declare these points follovving 1 What the sound of the trumpet is ● who the angel is 3 why the fifth 1 What that starre is that falls from heaven to the earth 2 what the fall of it is 3 how it falls from heaven unto the earth 1 What the key of the bottomlesse pit is 2 To whom it is given 3 The manner how it is given 4 How the pit is opened 5 How it can be said to be bottomlesse seeing nothing can be without banks and bottome but the Lord himself 1 what the smoke of the bottomlesse pit is 2 The cause and manner of its rise even as the smoke of a great furnace 1 What the Sunne and the aire are 2 How they are darkened by the

true copy of the answer given unto the things propounded as above in way of satisfaction how we are to think of such kind of doctrine which the world is so taken up with and see●s to stand in such expectation and hopes of COncerning that point you wri● fr●m Mat. the 24 29. as also Heb. the 12. 26 27. N●m●●● that the Apostles ministery was a ministery of witnesse ●●●●●dily grant but that it was no more then a ministery of witnesse we utterly deny for it had not onely witnesse but judgement also of condemnation and absolution in it therefore the Apostle saith God shall judge you according to my Gospel for the Apostles are not but through the Spirit of the Sonne who is that faithfull and true witnesse yea and the judge of all also and higher then his ministration who comes out of the bosome of the Father we look nor nor ever desire to go Therefore we onely confesse him who is and who was and who is to come and therefore reject such a Gospell as professeth such persons times and ministrations past as never shall come again and such persons times and ministrations to come as yet never were as a cunning device and sleight of Sathan to beguile the soules of men either to stand in expectation of things to come or else in admiration of things past whiles in the mean time they are kept void of faith which gives being unto the things yea even at the present time otherwise it is but to know persons and things after the flesh but henceforth know we no man after the flesh no though we have known Christ Iesus after the flesh yet henceforth know we him no more And for the Sun being darkened to be the ministery of the Apo●tles becoming dark in respect of a greater light appearing we may in no case allow for the Sunne there spoken of is that Sunne of righteousnesse a greater then which shall never appear but when the crosse of Christ spoken of in that Chapter is evidently set forth and declared to be that which indeed it is then is that sunne of Righteousnesse that is light in it self turned into darknesse in all the men of the world even as the Saints which are darknesse in themselves become light in the Lord for as the wicked turn the truth of God into a lie which is truth in it self and ever will be so they transform the light of the Lord into darknesse which in it self is light and can never be darknesse the Moon also whose time is to appeare and her place to have dominion in the night shall not give her light she shall fail in her office to shine waxe waine and ●o set bounds to times and seasons that is the wicked shall see themselves deprived of all hope to attain to a change time or season which shall alter their wofull condition or remove the wrath of the Lord from them yea in their looking back to the changes of their life before wherein they have thought themselves so well exercised the Moon in that respect shall be turned into blood as Ioel speaks in the same case all times shall affor● them no hing else but to see how they have been practising the shedding of that innocent blood even from the blood of Abe whom his brother slew ●n the field where they were exercised in ordinary imployments in the things of this life unto the blood of Zacharias slaine between or in the middle of the temple and the altar ●●en in the very height of their worship and ordinances so much stood for at this day Nothing but such manner of light or such a time or season shall that light of heaven the times and changes which they have passed through afford unto them ye● the starres shall fall from heaven even cease to afford their various glories and lights yea that day starre shall never give notice of that day springing from on high to visit them or the rise of that Sunne of righteousnesse with healing under his wings nor shall their severall operations and vertues yield any refreshment unto these terrene sublunary things that is all those ●everall glories and various vertues and operations that are in that bright morning star the Lord Iesus and in those seven sta●rres which he holds in his right hand they shall all fall off and lose th●ir lustre light and influence in and towards the earthly sonnes of Adam as though they had never been for as t●e rejoycing of the lamp of the righteous is a putting out and cess●tion of all sinne and sorrow even so the putting out of the candle of the wicked is a cessation and utter de●olishing of all the ●ertues and excellencies of Christ unto them as though they were not at all nay more then so for as the sinne and miseries which non are by nature subject unto are made througe the wisdome of God a meanes whereby we see the height and depth yea all the dimensions of the love of God do appear unto us so are the excellencies that are in Jesus Christ made through the wisdom of that serpent means of torture torment to the wicked for ●ver even as the excellencies of these visible heaven● would be a greater torture to man to lose them then if he had never seen or enjoyed them and thence it is that the powers of heaven are shaken or the dominions of heaven for every thing in the heavens hath its Lordship the Sunne hath dominion of the day the Moone and the starres the dominion of the night the Su●ne hath Lordship in shining when the Moon hides her face but not in setting bounds to times and seasons for the Moon hath Lordship in that but not in affording vertue and influence ●o herbs plants for the stars have power and dominion in that yea every starre hath its particular power and vertue yet can they not water the earth The clouds have their dominion in that yet cannot they serve man to breathe in the aire bath dominion in that so it is in the heavenly powers of our Lord Christ whatsoever is in him hath its dominion so as all the rest have not their glorie without it so that whatsoever is declared in the Kingdome of heaven it is the first and the chief and all the rest do serve to make up all its power or chief●ie so as all the Elders cast down their crownes before ●t all the excellencies that are in Christ Jesus as love wisdom righteousnes holines power glory all things in him have dominion and power all these heavenly powers whatsoever are shaken that is removed out of their places not to appeare in them any more for the place wherein God declared his image at the first in the beginning was man but when the crosse of Christ is truly declared then are all these heavenly powers shaken out of man yea removed out of that proper place given unto them in the beginning therfore it is said