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A81625 A door of hope: or, A call and declaration for the gathering together of the first ripe fruits unto the standard of our Lord, King Jesus.; Door of hope. 1661 (1661) Wing D1908; Thomason E764_7; ESTC R207107 22,969 16

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Hierarchy and against these Cavaliers whose wickedness it is not fit to name who have already polluted the Land as venemous and unclean Creatures here is a call and opportunity for them And because we do not lay down things in the common road but go a step above depraved reason and common understanding in representing things under the notion of the Kingdom of Christ some may be ready simply and ignorantly and others wilfully to mistake and misapprehend us some to malicious ends not knowing what we mean by the Kingdom of Christ as if some strange thing contrary to the sound hope of the Gospel and Doctrine of the true Primitive Church and not in Scripture and reason were intended as that Christ should immediately appear to head an Army We shall therefore throw that stone out of your way by Declaring that by the Kingdom of Christ or that part of it under the Kingdome of the Stone which respects the Government of a well ordered Common-wealth we mean That we should have the best of men of sound Principles of known integrity haters of Bribes and Covetousness lovers of Mercy and Justice that without Fees and tedious vexatious delayes should give you Justice for our Magistrates and Governours that we might have the word of God for our rule and that judgement might proceed in all cases according to that wholesome Law which not onely God himself the great Law-giver but experience and sound reason doth approve the most excellent Deut. 4. 6 7 8. That distributive justice might be equally administred between man and man without respect to poor or rich free or bond for a Magistrate ought to know no man upon the Bench but respect Justice Truth and Mercy That judgement and righteousness might flow down our streets as mighty streams That violence and oppression might be heard no more in our Land That the widows heart might sing for joy and the mournful complaints of widows and fatherless might be turned into songs and their tears into joy that all abuses and oppressions in the cases of Creditors and Debtors might be duly reformed with respect to Justice and Mercy That a constant incorrupted course of Justice might freely run down to all that theft might not be punished with death but that restitution be made according to the Law and the Malefactor sold or made to work out his redemption in some house of Correction which in few years would make us fewer Thieves then a thousand Gallowses but that man-stealers be punished with death That all the poor of the Land might be set to work and we might have no beggars That a due regulation be made with respect to the Natives in the Manufacture and Trade of the Common-wealth That there be no transporting of Leather unwrought Fullers Earth or other Commodities that may spoil the Manufacture of the Land and impoverish the poor Tradesman That Timber be preserved and increased And whatsoever can be named of a common or publick good we mean by the Kingdome of Christ in the Government of the Common-wealth and every good thing will be the fruit of it the which we cannot have without it no more then men sow Fetches and reap Wheat And then also will our Land yield her increase and our fruits will not be blasted or hurt by wet or dry seasons Psal 67. 6. And that our brethren and friends may want no motive to incite them to such an honourable work of so great concernment to common and publick good let us lay to heart the loud crying abominations and wickedness that every where abounds in the Land the open profaneness that rages in our streets their hellish blasphemy drinking healths to the confusion of Zion and her King daring the most high to his face and if he be her King let him come and save her their persecuting rage which hath extended to persons in their Families and Callings to others in their Meetings to worship God and others to the extream perils of their Lives such is the iniquity of this day and the implacable biting serpentine enmity and rage of this Enemy who is so both in Principle and Interest we see what Interest it is that flourishes what Sun it is that shines by its influence and effects in fostering and giving life to cursed Popish and destructive Interests we see the clusters of their Vine the fruits of their Government in all the Land how hath the greatest sins Swearing Drunkenness Sabbath-breaking Whoredome Pride Laciviousness Stage-playes Blasphemy Popery Susterstition Idolatry been propagated and countenanced since their coming in as a new life given to the slain Serpent Do we not also consider the Diametrical opposition they stand in to King Jesus that the K. is a profest Enemy a Rebel and Traytor to Christ And if the sense of the said sufferings and reproach of the precious Name of our dear Lord and the considerations of the right he has by the Oath Covenant and Decree of the Father and the Purchase of his own Heart Blood to the Kingdom the expiring date of Worldly Powers this price that is put into our hands to obtain all the good things we have already or shall declare for the sufferings and Imprisonment of our Friends will not provoke and awaken us yet surely the sense of our own dangers will touch us shall we sit still and have our throats cut or dye like Fools as Abner did Or shall we quietly give up our Necks to the Yoke and suffer the Common Prayer Organs c. to be imposed on us Is Israel a home-born Slave that we should bore the ears of our souls and bodies to their Posts What can we expect from them if we will not take their wicked Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance the which we cannot do though we should dye because they are against both the Priestly and Kingly Offices of our Lord Jesus Are not these already pressed and enforced in the Countreys And are not some already in Prison For every Malignant according to his temper and pleasure may make use of his power or strength against us under the notion of Fanaticks Doth not the Enemy come in as a Flood and Popery as an Inundation of mighty Waters Who sees not that it is coming in amain and is like to over-run the whole What can we expect when the Queen comes in who is said to hate an English Protestant so that she cannot endure the sight of them But there is sad symptoms of something worse then all this and great ground is there to fear and so wise men judge that the old cursed Popish Party whose numerousness in England portends no good to us hath already laid the design of a Butchery and Massacre of the honest Party in this Nation and Ireland who love the Lord Jesus Christ The which they will assuredly put in execution their other Contrivements failing For this grand design twists in the Interests of the Pope the King of Spain the German Empire as well as those