satisfie but his life though sometimes but for a trifle for no higher can man go in punishing then to take away the life to go thus high for a thing so low is no proportionable Justice there is no equity in it I would have Magistrates well to consider whether to go so high beyond the proportion of the crime do not lay the guilt of blood upon themselves for consider seriously how high the crime reaches and then proportions the punishment to that as namely Goods for Goods as the Lord did proportion it and then here is equity which lyes in proportion between the crime and the punishment But then the redundency or overplus of the punishment as life for goods where must that lie Here 's life taken away here 's a punishment far transcending the offence at whose door must the overplus lie Must not all be concerned that have to do in the taking of that life away Consider it well ye Judges and all other Officers and ye Parliaments which approve or Amend what other Parliaments have done For all that other Parliaments have done have a new strength in you by permitting their Laws to stand or else are regulated by you and amended So that every Parliament receives the guilt of evil Laws fresh upon themselves till they be amended because this is their proper Work To make the Laws wholsome which if they fail in the guilt of the evil Laws renews it self in them for none else can amend them thoughthey may quit themselves from having a hand in the execution of them Consider I say all ye that are concerned how much blood is spilt yearly in this Nation upon this account for which there is no warrantable ground or true cause to bear it out but is done by force Consider where all this blood will lie and where it will be charged for though the Lord give power to Magistrates and appoint them for that end to punish offendors yet he requires that their Seats be Seats of Judgement and Equity and they are not to go beyond the proportion of the crime for that 's not to judge for the Lord who is a righteous and equal Judge but to ferve their own wills or wrath and cruelty which ought not to take place in the Seat of judgement or punishing Offendors When the Lord had appointed forty stripes to an Offendor as a sufficient punishment they were not to exceed to fifty or a hundred or a thousand for if they exceeded that number of forty they then did not serve the Lord in ministring Justice but their own wills what was more then forty was done in their own wills and was cruelty to their Brother and for that shall they stand guilty of cruelty before the Lord much more if they should take away his life should not they then stand as murtherers before the Lord though the man was a Malefactor or a Thief for they took away his life without the Lords Warrant to bear them out and so taking away his life in their own wills and unjust Laws they would make themselves guilty of his blood See if this be not the case now And consider that the Lord hath care of Thieves as well as of other men The Thief is as dear to him as the covetous man who is an Idolater And the long-suffering of the Lord which waits upon men to lead them to repentance is to be held forth to the Thief as well as to the Covetous and Drunkards and Over-reachers who go beyond and defrand their Brother If any Sons of the Earth whose hearts are so united to this Worlds Goods that their life is bound up in them shall plead and say That there were no living for men if Thieves should be suffered to live and that they may as well take away a mans life from him as his goods and therefore thir life ought to go for it I answer First That man that saith They may as well take away a mans life as his goods he was never yet really and sensibly in that danger of parting with life or else with goods for if he had he would have understood that Goods might have been regained but life never or if not so much Goods to spend upon his lusts yet so much as might serve him to live And to him that saith There would be no living for men if Thieves should be suffered to live I answer That 's not so for there was living in the Common wealth of Israel where they were suffered to live Yea it is very probable there would be better and more quiet living for the nearer that the Nation did come to the Rule of Equity and Righteousnesse in the execution of Laws upon offendors it 's likely their Laws would have the better effects being more blessed to bring forth their proper ends by the Lord whereas being cruel and wicked and not bearing his image and nature in them they are under the curse and not blessed of the Lord to bring forth the expected issue of a quiet and peaceable living Again let men of reason consider whether it would not more restrain Thieves if they should be put to work kept in Bridewells Work-Houses then to be dealt with as they are for there they would be inured to work and some might come to delight in it and give themselves to it when they came to be free and others however whether they would give themselves to it or no yet after tryal might be kept to it and so restrained from thieving whereas now they are either put to death or else let loose again to their Trade of stealing and so are set at liberty to incite and nourish up others in their wicked principles so that out of their Nursery arises stil an increase of Thieves whereas if they were drained out of the Countrey as they were taken into Work-Houses their Nourseries would be scattered and their wicked principle whereby they animate one another would be taken away which is this They use to say A short life and a sweet Whereas if their life should be prolonged and they kept at labour then there would be another thing for them to look upon not a short life and a sweet but for a little sweet a long servitude and slavery hard Work and Labour for short pleasure which would more awe many that are desperate of their lives then half an hours hanging as they account it 3. As this Law hath great evil in it both to the person sustaining the losse by theft also to the Thief so likewise to the Wife Children of the thief who it may be have no hand in his Theft but may be against such wicked practices If the Felon have any Estate which is the Livelyhood of his Wife and Children this is forfeited from them for his fault and so they exposed to penury and provoked to steal also to sustain their necessities which is a great evil full of unreasonablenesse and unsatisfactory Wrath for the
SEVEN PARTICULARS Containing as followeth I. Against Oppressors II. Magistrates VVork and Honor. III. A Meditation for Magistrates upon Dan. 12.4 IV. Of Hanging for Theft filling the Land with Blood V. To the high lofty in the earth who exalt themselves by discent or blood VI. Of Ministers maintenance two Extreams VII Of persecuting for speaking in the Synagogues by many called Churches Given forth for publique Service by W.T. He will rid the Land of evil-doers and root out the oppressers out of the Earth If that Nation against whom I have pronounced turn from their evil I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them Jer. 18.8 LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at his Shop at the Blackspread-Eagle neer the West end of Pauls 1657. The Word of the LORD AGAINST OPPRESSORS Old and New WOe woe woe to the oppressors of the Earth who grind the faces of the poor who rack stretch out their Rents till the poor with all the sweat of their brows and hard labour can scarce get Bread to eat and Raiment to put on while they for the satisfying of their gnlf of pride and delicacies and gluttony and drunkenness for their excess is no better like the grave stil cry give give and there is no end to their covetousness nor no natural affection to their oppressed Brother These are the Pharoah's the Task-Masters of the Earth who cause the peoples hearts to cry and groan under the heavy yoke of their oppression and God will in time hear the groanings of the whole Creation and then wo wo wo to you who have been such oppressors and hard-hearted Task-Masters and have been so unfaithful in the use of the unrighteous Mammon for God never gave you it to spend upon your lusts but to dispose in his great Family as there was need to the supplying of the wants of one another and for the easing and refreshing of those in the Family that stood in need thereof And if you pretend you do so and yet oppresse others that you may do so this is Robbery for burnt-offerings which God hates Isa 61.8 But especially Wo wo to you who have put on a Cloke of Religion and are counted Christians and high professors and yet exceed the others in oppression without any compassion or tenderness who being ashamed of the Name of Oppression Racking yet love the thing therefore practice it under another Name calling it Improvement Wo to you you Hypocrites who are following the steps of oppressors or rather are got foremost yet wil professe Christ Wo to you for you blaspheme the Name of Jesus for your lives your practices blaspheme him more then ten thousand words You Tygers Tyrants and Blood-suckers Hath God put into your hands a measure of the unrighteous Mammon for this end Have you Houses and Lands given you that you should make your little Finger heavier upon those that possesse them then the Loins of those that were before you And do you call this Improvement Are not you become Brethren of the Drunkards and VVhoremongers Cannot they call their Drunkennesse Good-fellowship Cannot they call their Lust Love Cannot the proud call their Pride Handsomness and lying Complements Civility Is their practice the better because of these words Therefore be you of their brethren for we deny you to be of the Sons of God under whose mercy and tenderness the creature is delivered out of its bondage Rom. 8.19 21. you are quite contrary unto them which the Creation groans after therefore expect your destruction for they must take place and the oppressor must be rooted out of the Earth and then when God shal come to visit for oppression wo to you who have compassed your selves about with thick Clay your Gold and Silver and rich Apparel and excess having the groanings and bitterness of spirit Jam. 5.1 2 3. in which it was got for you stamped upon it all will be as fire and flame to your flesh to consume you and the remembrance thereof will then be dreadful unto you and you shall then see that they who have tilled the ground and by industry and labor helped forward the fruitfulness of it were the improvers and you who wrung from them what they had sweat and laboured for were the Rackers and Oppressors and the Grinders of the Faces of the poor You that have any tendernesse left in you will you enter into the pathes of those whom God hath threatned to ease the earth of in his due time saying Psal 72.4 That the Oppressor shall be broken in pieces and rooted out of the Earth VVill you partake in the sins of those whom God hath cast out before you for their ungodlinesse Know you not that the hand of the Lord can reach you as well as others Now when you should do as Nehemiah did in easing your brethren Neh. 5â— are you turned into the Footsteps of the Tyrants of the Earth and of unbelievers who are without Faith in the Providence of God for them and therefore by right or wrong pursue and covet after abundance of the things of this World as if all happinesse were bound up in them you that have any Fear of God in you turn from such practises and let it appear to all men that you hate the bread of Oppression and that you are lovers of mercy for that 's one of the weighty things which the Lord requires of you Mic. 6.8 VVhat doth the Lord require of thee O man but to do justly to love mercy and to walke humbly with thy God And without these weighty matters of Judgment or Truth and Equity and Mercy and Faith let your profession have as glorious outside as it will and though you can speake as Angels yet you are no better then the Pharisees were whited Walls painted Sepulchres beautiful without to the purblind Eye but within full of stinck filth putrifaction rottennesse and an ill savour in the Nostrils of the Lord and of all his faithful ones and an occasion of blasphemy to the World Against Oppression the second time THere is no one sin which the Lord cryed more against among the Israelites of old by his prophets Isa 1.16 17 23. ch 3.14 15. ch 5.7 ch 58.6 Ames 3.9 10. ch 4.1 2. Mic. 2.1 2. Zeph. 3.1 2. Zach. 6.9 10. then their Oppression and grinding the Faces of the poor and this sin hath grown high in these our days every man emulating another and seeking to advance his Estate as he sees others do and so squeezing those under them to suck all out that they can get until their groanings grow great and their cry go up And this their Oppression they cover with a handsom Name and call it Improvement of their Estates yet under this Improvement their little Finger is become heavier then their predecessors Loynes Be ashamed ye that professe the Name of God that ye should enter into the possessions of lewd and
may be an even way crooked made strait and rough made plain John came to prepare such a way for the Lord and so to make his pathes strait and yet the great Mountains of Earth which you see with your bodily eyes remained Therefore look at your selves who are exalted in your minds high above your Brethren and look at those you despise as low and whose spirits you have dejected in the earth by your loftiness who have not the spirits of men before you the distance is made so great by your exaltednesse and then you 'l see something of the Mountains and Valleys that must be made even by the power of Truth before the glory of the Lord be revealed for the Lord will have no such distance among them that enter into his kingdom Matth. 20.25 26 27 28. Hmong the Princes of the Gentiles this exaltedness is found and the Lord concludes it there shuts them and it up together there and gives it no admission into his Kingdom It shall not be so among you saith he to his Followers ver 26. And look at your high imaginations and greatnesse of mind and loftiness of spirit as things to be thrown out again and brought down in you that those weak low faint thoughts of God and of holinesse which dare scarce appear or shew themselves in you may be born up and desires after the Lord and after righteousness may grow up in you and the Witness of God against sin may arise in you and not be continually stifled and quenched by the high imaginations and exaltedness of mind and love of honor from men which rise up over them to keep them down for these cannot rise up in you into victory so long as you seek honor of men so long you cannot become as little children yea saith Christ Jesus How can ye believe who receive honor one of another and seeke not the honor that cometh of God onely Joh. 5.44 Humbleness of mind lowliness in heart esteeming others better then our selves love which is not puffed up which exalts not it self which teaches to be meek and lowly in heart these are badges of Christs Kingdom and are of the Ornaments thereof But pride lofty looks lofty language and high conceits of things that profits not these are badges of Satans Kingdom and Dominion in the heart and therefore where the Kingdom of God comes in power and truth it throws down imaginations and every thing that exalts it self against the Knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ Therefore let go your vain imaginations you that are lifted up in your minds and humble your selves before the Lord that he may lift you up and bring you to true honor which will not fade away that you may be grafted into the royal Race of Kings and Priests in Christ Jesus then will your honor be beautiful and glorious though outwardly in the world you seem to be covered with blackness for a time they that would reign with him must first suffer with him I know there be some among you whose spirits are lower then the spirits of many of inferior race according to the worlds account and this shall turn to their honor For he that humbles himself before the Lord shall be exalted as well as he that exalts himself shall be abased Luk. 14.11 Two Extreams concerning Ministers Maintenance ONE is of such as standing in the division of parishes as Churches would have all of the parish compelled to pay whether tythes or money to the Minister of that parish Not considering the want of a ground for such a practice having neither Precept nor Example in the New-Testament either from Christ or any of his Ministers for such a practice Nor considering the unreasonableness of it that they who are not of the Parish as to their Ministration but of another Society and do maintain one Minister already should be compelled to maintain another and so maintain two Neither considering the unjustness of the thing That they should be compelled to pay to that Ministry which they own not as a Ministry to them nor receive of their labours and yet must pay them wages is it not sufficient that they have the wages of those they give their labors to who own them Which of the Apostles or Ministers of Christ ever sought for Wages of such as owned not their Ministry Lastly Not considering That such compulsion stands not with the profession of the Gospel of Peace which layes down and teaches to lay down compelling by Law and that it stands not with his Office who should be an example to Believers Now how can he give an example â—o Believees of suffering and of not goeing to Law who goes to Law and compells So here by his practice he overthrows that which he should teach The other extream is of them who would have no maintenance or supply of the necessities of Ministers at all Which they undavisedly would ground upon a passage that Paul had to the Elders of the Church of Ephesus Where he saith I have coveted no mans Silver or Gold or Apparell These hands have ministred to my necessities and to them that were with me And this he leaves as an example to the Elders of the Church of Ephesus Act. 20.33.34.35 To this I say Paul might have some particular reason or motion from the Lord to induce him so to carry to that and some other Church as he did to Corinth likewise 2 Cor. 11.9 and so might keep the Gospel of Christ from being at all chargeable unto them But to make a generall rule of this would contradict not only other Scriptures but even Pauls own practice and acknowledgements Yea and the practice of Christ himselfe who was ministred unto Paul himselfe confesses that he took wages of some to do others Service 2. Cor. 11.7.8.9 And he acknowledged vindicated his own power to eat and to drink and to forbear working as well as the rest of the Apostles 1. Cor. 9.46 And reasons also strongly for that liberty Vers 7.8.9.10.11.12.13 14. Who goeth a Warfare at any time at his own charges Who planteth a Vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof And who feedeth a Flock and eateth not of the milk of the Elock Say I these things as a man Or saith not the Law the same also For it is written in the Law of Moses Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the Oxe that treadeth out the Corn. Doth God take care for Oxen Or saith be it altogether for our sakes For our sakes no doubt this is written that he that ploweth should plow in hope he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope if we have sown unto you Spirituall things is it a great thing if wee shall reap your Carnall things If others be partakers of this power over you are not we rather Neverthelesse we have not used this power but suffer all things lest we should hinder the Gospel of Christ Do ye not know that they
which minister about holy things live of the things of the Temple And they which waite at the Alter are partakers with the Alter Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel Thus the Apostle pleads for that liberty or power but yet he would not make use of it to the Corinthians nor with the Church of Ephesus But with some others he did as the forequoted place makes manifest 2. Cor. 11.7.8.9 And likewise Phil. 4.14.15.16 17.18 Where he takes notice in way of commendation of the Philippians liberality to him when none ministred to his necessities but they only I shall set down the words as they stand in both places To the Corinths he saith thus Have I committed an offence in abasing my selfe that you might be exted because I have preached to you the Gospel of God freely I robbed other Churches taking wages of them to do you service And when I was present with you and wanted I was chargeable to no man For that which was lacking to me the Brethren which came from Macedonia supplyed and in all things I have kept my selfe from being burdensom to you and so will I keep my selfe So that here its plain that at Corinth the Brethren from Macedonia supplyed his wants And to the Philippians he saith thus Chap. 4 Ver. 10. to 19. But I rejoyced in the Lord greatly that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again wherein ye were also carefull but yet lacked opportunity not that I spake in respect of want for I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and to suffer need I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me Notwithstanding ye have well done that ye did communicate with my affliction Now ye Phillippians know also that in the beginning of the Gospel when I departed from Macedonia no Church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving but ye only For even in Thessalonia ye sent once and again unto my necessity Not because I desire a gift But I desire fruit that may abound to your account But I have all and abound I am full having received of Epaphrodiâ—us the things from you an Odour of a sweet smell a sacrifice acceptable well pleasing to God So here its plain also that the Philippians did also communicate to his necessities and he accepts it with much love and as a sacrifice accepted to God and tells them they had well done in so doing Therefore this particular carriage of Pauls to Ephesus in laboring with their hands to supply their own and others necessity was but to them or some others but he did not alwayes do so nor bind all others to do so seeing he himselfe practised the contrary in other places and pleads for the justnesse of such a practice This therefore I find according to the Scriptures contrary to both these aforenamed extreams 1. That they who minister Spirituall things they may be ministred unto they may receive of their carnall things to whom they minister Spirituall For so God hath appointed that they who preach the Gospel ' should live of the Gospel 1. Cor. 9.14 And Christ our Lord and Captain and Saviour the only begotten Son of God our Pattern he was ministred unto Luke 8.3 Ioanna the Wife of Chuza Herods Steward and Susanna and many others ministred to him of their substance And saith Christ such things as they set before ye eat for the Laborer is worthy of his hire Lak 10.7 go not from house to house Again saith the Scriptures to distribute and communicate forget not for with such sacrifices God is well pleased Is he well pleased with such sacrifices only to others How came his Ministers to be excluded 2. Though they may receive yet they may not compell or strive or contend for the things of others no nor covet after them They have no warrant for that If any man do so he is gone out from the Doctrine of Christ Jesus from his example from his spirit and run into the way of Balam into the number of the false Prophets who prepared war for such as put not into their mouthes against which the true Prophets witnessed and cryed out against them 3. It is agreeable to the Scripture That he that is taught communicate to him that teacheth in all good things Gal. 6.6 if he need and be willing to receive And where the heart is refreshed comforted enlightned strengthened by the Word of Truth and their love constrains or moves to communicate this is a Fruit of love a Fruit of the Spirit a Sacrifice acceptable and well-pleasing before the Lord. This is to feed and eat of the Fruit of the flock this is to live of the Altar and be partakers with the Altar This is right Gospel-Maintenance Gospel-Wages Gospel-Hire where Christ is the Giver This hath a sweet favour But where there is strife and debate about it there the Devil is at work and the Wisdom that 's from beneath there is confusion and evil Work this gives an ill favour before the Lord and before all his Servants and discovers their minds to be earthly and sensual who are here and not having the Spirit they are of the earth therefore strive they for the earth and raise contention about it if their Kingdom were not of this world they would not strive for the things of this World but looke up at the Giver of them and wait on him whom they serve to draw forth the hearts of the people to supply their wants they would learn to be contented when their Master gave forth little and so learn to suffer with the Gospel expecting another Kingdom not of this world but in that they strive and contend and make debate for the earthly Treasure they shew whence they are and where their hearts is and such will daylie more and more be made manifest of the earth they are and therefore to the earth their hearts return So then concerning Ministers Maintenance I lay down these Particulars I own 1. THat there is a publike Ministry of Christ Jesus 2 Cor. 6.3 4. 2. That this Ministry hath power to forbear working else had Peter and the other Apostles transgressed Read 1 Cor. 9.4 to 15. 3. That this Ministry hath liberty to work where they see it convenient and have liberty in spirit else had Paul transgressed Acts 20.33 34 35. 4. That this Ministry hath liberty to eat such things as are set before them Luke 10.7 5. That they have power to receive temporals of those to whom they impart spirituals 1 Cor. 9.11 But I deny and let others prove it 1. That they have any power from Christ to take where it is not freely given for that 's not a fruit of the Gospel that 's
offence done void of mercy and natural compassion Is it not enough that the Wife hath lost her Husband and the Children their Father but to increase their misery their Livelyhood must go also with his life See how highly they were incensed for the losse of things of this VVorld who made this Law that the life of the Thief which far exceeded the crime yet did not quench their anger and wrath and revenge upon them that should meddle with their goods for so far as the punishment exceeds the crime so far is to be put upon mans account and is the revengefulness of his own implacable heart and not Gods Judgement upon the transgressor and yet men little mind or consider how they make themselves Ministers and Servants of this spirit of implacable revenge contained in this Law while they are the supporters of it These things I lay before you quit your selves as you can Blood is spilt in the Nation yea much blood and that yearly and without a sufficient ground to bear it forth Now do you lay the guilt of that blood where you can For the guilt must lie somewhere and mans blood is not of so light an account as to be spent in vain and that so plentifully Consider ye that are Magistrates that this is done in this Nation and therefore upon this Nation must the blood-guiltinesse fall and the hands of some must hereby be full of blood Therefore clense your hands ye sinners ye evil-doers who being found out from the counsel of the Lord walk in the counsel of the wicked in the counsel and cruel Laws of the unjust and unmerciful and so fill your hands daylie and yearly with blood Repent and turn from these evils and walk in the counsel of the Lord and in the Judgements of the Lord and make them your delight so will you be found walking in pathes of equity and mercy for the Lord is a God of Judgement and Judgement is a just thing discerning and proportioning punishments to offences To the high and lofty in the earth in whom there is a spirit that seekes to be exalted or exalts it self by blood or discent YOU who are exalted in your imaginations and lifted up above your Fellows and above the faithful Witnesse of God in your own hearts how do you ever think to come into the Kingdom of God for except a man become as a little child he cannot see the Kingdom of God Therefore consider with your selves whether you ever had or yet have any thoughts of entring into the Kingdom if you had or have then what 's the way you propound to your selves See if it will not fail you for he that is the Way saith Learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart not only in appearance but in heart also And saith he Except a man be converted and become as a little child he cannot see the Kingdome of God Matth. 18.3 4. See therefore where you stand you that are high and lofty and wanton upon earth exalted in your greatnesse glorying in your selves that you are higher thâ—â— others or desiring to be higher you stand in that which is shut out of the Kingdom of God and of Christ what then will all your glorying come to when your earthly glory hath an end when you shall see such as you look't upon as Worms received into glory and you your selves shut out Think upon the example of Dives that parable is spoken to you that are rich in your own thoughts And consider in time that the hand of the Lord will be upon every one that is lifted up to abase him read carefully and with fear what is written against you by the Prophet Isaiah chap. 2. v. 10. to the end and let your exaltedness make you afraid for the words of the Lord shall be fulfilled upon you Hath he said That the lofty looks of man shall be humbled and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down and the Lord alone shall be exalted And that the day of the Lord of Hosts shall be upon every one that 's proud and lofty and upon every one that 's lifted up and he shall be brought low Hath he said it and shall it not come to passe yea surely there can be no escaping it But some of you will say Are we not of a better discent and of more Noble Blood then others and are we not to demean our selves and to have thoughts of our selves answerable tâ— our discent and blood I answer Such thoughts as these have begot you into what you are and puft you up in your minds yea some of you are so habituated and naturalized into this loftiness of mind that though you become outwardly poorer in the world then other men yet your minds are hereupon exalted in you above them and yet that is usually the rise of blood namely Riches of this world But consider you that stand upon discent and blood Do you know upon what Foundation the greatnesse of your Family was laid Are you sure it was not upon Tyranny Cruelty Oppression Covetousnesse Fraud and Injury and so have its Foundation in that bestial spirit which because its stronger pushes aside all that are weaker If it had this Original as usually it hath then see to the Foundation of your glorying Again consider That the Lord hath laid aside the glorying of those that had a more excellent discent then you have they that could boast of Abraham for their Father and of Isaac and Jacob and David and such Worthies approved of God in their generations yet what good will it do them to say We have Abraham for our Father Though Dives can call Abraham Father yet this wil do him no good it will not afford him a drop of cold Water Consider again you that glory in Blood and Discent Look upon a Tree Were it not a vain thing for one Twig of the same Tree to boast it self against another because it is not of the same Branch it may be they are not both of one branch but both meet in one bough So look but a little surther and you will see the Beggars and your selves both of one blood of one discent For of one blood hath God made all Nations Act. 17.26 And it 's but a little while with some since we were all in one Ark. Again consider That if a little while ago your Family was exalted and so your spirits raised yet before the glory of the Lord can be revealed in you this height of your spirits must be thrown out again Therefore John came as a preparer of the way of the Lord saying Every Valley shall be exalted and every Mountain and Hill must be brought down and the crooked made strait and the rough places plaine and then the glory of the Lord shall be revealed Isa 40.3 4 5. What do you think are those Mountains and Hills that are to be cast down and those Valleys that are to be born up that there