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A voice from heaven to th[e] common-wealth of England with additions.
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Evans, Arise, b. 1607.
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Rom. 3. 26. but especially all the Jewes Isaiah 11. 10 11 12. Isai. 59. 19 20. Rom. 11. 25 26. Heb. 9. 28. Ecclesiast 4. 15. 16. and the King is called by nomination the Holy Ghost because he is the speciall great messenger of the Trinity John 14. 26. The Holy Ghost is so full in him and upon him that it gives its name to him as we call a cup that is full of wine saying give me the wine or give me the cup in sense is to be understood the same thing So the King is sent to us under the name of the Holy Ghost because he was full of it but indeed properly the Holy Ghost is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Mathew 1. 18. 20. Luke 1. 35. And therefore the Holy Ghost is called the first and the last Revel. 22. 13. because under that name he begets Jesus Christ Mathew 1. 16. 20. Luke 1. 35. and seems to be elder or before Jesus and under that same name he seemeth to be younger and after Jesus and so sent John 14. 16 26. John 15. 26. John 16. 13 14. and these mysteries are riddles to the world but to the Believers they are evident John 14. 17. 26. there is more honor laid in Scripture upon this King than my tongue or pen can utter though I see it in abundance This King overcame all by his Faith in Jesus Christ which faith he defended by his sufferings through which sufferings he is perfected and become greater then the greatest Conquerour of all the Kings of the earth and in time to come they shall all submit unto him for God hath made him King of Kings and Lord of Lords For the appearing of Jesus Christ in him is to give rest to the people of God and his law shall go forth into all the earth And all the earth shall be gathered into one judgement to worship God according to the rule that this King left to them and sealed it with his bloud according to the appointment of God and our Lord Jesus Christ For it is the rule of the Spirit of truth which Jesus promises to lead men into all truth And now the promise is fulfilled and the Comforter is come and the true way is perfectly known this very day and the wicked shall fall in the way that they have chosen and the righteous shall willingly come to the way of the truth and the wicked shall do wickedly none of the wicked shall understand the truth These wicked are not prophane wicked I mean Drunkards Swearers Whoremasters Lyars Sabbatt-breakers and the like irreligious persons but these wicked are such as think themselves otherwise and the only holy and to have most understanding and from a false confidence do act in these times against the truth and will never be perswaded but they are the wiser sort of men But the wise and righteous shall understand the judg-truth and believe it and they shall shine as the stars and turn many to righteousnesse who were before prophane And their knowledge shall be encreased for the Sun of righteousdesse will shine upon them For Jesus doth shine upon him and give him of his light And they shalt tread down the wicked that they shall never rise againe or their wickednesse will be seen and abhorred of all men and their carkasses shall be as dung upon the earth and they shall be eaten of worms and devoured with the fire of their own anger they shall never be able to help themselves And now is the time that ye shall return and discerne between the righteous and the wicked that ye may know who is righteous and who is wicked who serveth God and who serveth him not and what is the true way of Gods worship Of this I shall speak if God permit and clear it out to your understanding with the uttermost of my ability for the salvation of your souls and bodies and all that ye have For I believe ye shall see more trouble upon this land suddainly then hath been any time heretofore All the Prophets of God prophecied mystically and the ground-work of all the Prophets is the speech of Noah to his Sons Gen. 9. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27. where he curseth Ham for his rebellion against him and blesseth Shem and Iaphet who honored him Jesus Christ is the God of Shem and lineally descended of Shem and conquered all the rebellious seed of Ham by his sufferings Colossians 2. 14 15. and King Charles is that seed of Japhet who by his coming in to Jesus Christ and suffering for his truth brings the rebellious seed of Ham to such an eternall servitude that they shall not rise again All this the Prophets foresaw and declared mystically which mysteries could not be opened till King Charles came and finished his course And at this time all the mysteries are fulfilled as ye have it Revelat. 10. 7. thus In the daies of the voice of the seventh Angell when he begins to sound the mystery of God shall be finished as he hath declared by his servants the Prophets Again a Prophet of our Nation noting to us the time saith more clearly to the same purpose thus Coroni mab Ann. iw diwedde u drogan In English thus The Son of Anne Crowned will finish the Prophecies Ye have this prophecy cited in Master Lillies book called Monarchie or no Monarchie and he doth acknowledge it to be spoken of King Charles his Coronation Though Lilly brings it to prove that there should be no more Kings here in Britain but he erreth For the said Prophet saith that all the prophecies are fulfilled in King Charles called by him Mab Ann. or the Sonne of Anne that we might know the time of the seventh Angell And that now there shall be a rule and a Kingdome that shall subdue all and shall stand for ever under * King Charles and his seed whose seed by the works of God shall appear to have an unquestionable Sovaraignty over all the earth That can never be shaken again Of this construction the Scripture is full and M. Lillies Prophets wrested by him do intend the same thing with the Scripture for all the Kingdomes of the earth at the sound of the seventh †Angell became one Kingdome of Christ Revel. 11. 15. and the word Jesus is left out there and also Revel. 20. 4. now Christ hath a new name that is Charles Revel. 3. 12. so that Charles is the Christ of Christ For so it signifies Revel. 11. 15. where it is said the Kingdome of our Lord JESUS and of his Christ CHARLES And againe saith Jesus I have set my King upon my holy hill of Sion Psal. 2. 6. and this is clear by many places And though the word Charles is not in all the Scripture any more then Jesus in the Old Testament named yet
saith this is their policy they lost more and they concealed it and it is signified in these words there shall be many dead bodies in every place and they shall cast them forth with silence In ver. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. ye have the sins and cause why the judgment is come set down and that it is not for any fault found in the publique worship of God but for covetousnesse hardnesse of heart towards the poore and the deceit of the people and their neglect in the worship of God For the same cause there is a generall rising throughout the Land and the Kings party utterly overthrown In ver. 9. ye have the Kings untimely death signified by the Sun going down at Noon for the Sun signifies the King 2 Sam. 23. 3 4 5 6 7. Mal. 4. 2. Gen. 37. 9 10. In v. 10. ye have the great mourning for the Kings death and a wrathfull indignation declared by way of revenge upon the enemies at last In ver. 11 12. ye have the form or worship or Common-prayer book taken away so that the Elect cannot hear it read anywhere which book is called the words of the Lord and the word of the Lord and by this you may know that book to be the only true form appointed of God before hand the rule of the spirit of truth the which rule Jesus foresaw and promised to send the spirit to give it for he knew by this word that I do now open unto you that there was a rule to come forth and the forme of it in all things was a secret thing kown to none but the Father therefore Christ commits the directions of the Church in the true worship to the spirit so that untill this time the Church is tossed to and fro because there was no rule known till now Ioh. 16. 13. and now ye are come to a perfect rule given by a perfect man Eph. 4. 13 14. In ver. 13. ye have the constancy of the Kings party to their Religion and King Rev. 14. 4. and their thirsting for their Religion and King again In ver. 14. ye have the States party up signiby the sin of Samaria the God of Dan the manner of Bersheba all which were Idols But saith he they shall fall and never rise again implying thus much that the King and his party though now down shall rise again and stand for ever AMOS 9. In v. 1. the King is risen again and stands upon the altar that is the Scaffold where he suffered and offered himselfe there he triumpheth and commandeth to smite Lintell that is the Speaker of the House of Parliament and cut them all on the head and slay the last of them all this is said of the Parliament to shew that they shall not escape the hand of this mighty Lord In ver. 2 3 4. ye see there is no place in hell nor in heaven nor in the top of the mountains nor in the bottome of the Sea nor anywhere else for them to escape his hands but he pursueth them and takes them In ver. 5. ye have a generall rising caused by his hand throughout the whole land and the Parliaments party utterly overthrown In verse 6. ye have the glorious building of the King in the heavens above all the Kings of the earth and the power he obtained by his sufferings and his glorious name next to Jesus as being his most excellent servant of all others In the 7. verse ye have the wrath of God declared against the Parliament for their killing the King and destroying the Kingly power by which God delivered them from the bondage of Popery and he looks upon them as black children of Ethiopiaus for these ungratefull acts In verse 8 9 10. ye have Gods wrath upon the whole Kingdome he tells them that those who depend upon their power and think they can prevent the evill that it shall not overtake them saith he they shall surely perish but the rest he will save as wheat is winnowed and saved and taken from the chaff In verse 11 12. ye have the Kings Tabernacle or Court see up again and his Kingdome Inlarged over all the earth In verse 13. ye have the King and his party taking all again from the Parliament and their party signified in these words The plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him that draws forth that which is not his own For the King coms from the altar and gives commission to the treader of Grapes that is some one of his seed that shall reigne to cut down the Grapes that is the party now standing as you see both parties The Reapers first and the treader of Grapes after gets the victory Rev. 14. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20. In verse 14 15. ye have the King and his parties captivity ended c. Their building and planting and their enjoying of the fruits of their labour and the promise that they shall possesse their land without any molestation hereafter for ever and ever And now I beseech you look upon this Scripture and lay it to heart and consider how ye have seen before your eyes this 8. Chapter of of Amos fulfilled as I have interpreted it unto you and you see there the rule to worship God by all which is made plain for you to see as well as I that you may be saved I beseech you also to lay to heart and consider this nineth of Amos where you may see perfectly according to the promise of Christ the things to come Ioh. 16. 13. Never had people the like shewed them as ye have now so plain from these two Chapters O take heed that ye slight it not but make use of it for your salvation For if ye be cut down and cast into the winepresse of the fiercenesse of the wrath of God almighty ye are undone for ever and ye may see how to prevent it Rev. 14. 18 19. Rev. 19. 15. by what hath been spoken And this I say to the Parliament to the Army and to all others Do the work for it must be done Be ye valiant set up the King for if Forraigners do it ye are undone And you may see it will be done by a strong power I have also some things to shew you out of the first of Isaiah and it chiefly concernes this City of London which in regard of its action now is called Sodom and Egypt Isa. 1. 10. Rev. 11. 8. and that it was a faithfull loyall City in the time of Queen Elizabeth when she was received by the Citizens out of the Tower and with joy accompanied to Westminster and though now this City be an unfaithfull harlot yet she shall be restored againe to her former faithfulnesse Of this I shall in briefe shew you Isaiah 1. ver. 1. to ver. 10. ye have the King and his party signified with their condition that now they lye in brought upon themselves by their sins and this