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A21069	Information for the ignorant, or, The applicatory part of a late printed book, called, A light for the ignorant containing a few observations upon the I Cor. 10, which doe strongly prove it to be absolutely sinfull to heare the word preached in any false state, or assembly, whatsoever : also a postscript containing a challenge (layd down in 9. propositions) to all the Non-conformists in Old and New England, and Holland / made by N.E.	N. E.	1640 (1640)	STC 7435.5; ESTC S1911	21,219	26

Euphrates spoken of in the Revelation which principally we must labour to dry up because till it be dryed up we the sons of righteousnesse and Kings of the East cannot come to take her and destroy her Now the chief meanes to dry up her offices is to refuse all spirituall subjection to them and not to give to any of them at any time their usurped fees for this I will maintain that it is absolutely sinfull and unlawfull to pay unto them any money which they demand as an Ecclesiasticall right or to enter bayl unto them therfore in my judgement those doe deny and dishonour God and his truth that directly or indirectly fee or give money to their Diabollicall Pursevants for their liberty when they are taken by them sure I am the Apostles and their followers were never so base and cowardly yet this is a common sinne amongst all our Congregations the Lord amend it and in after time give us more courage and zeale for his glory otherwise our condition will be like to Laodicea even to be luke-warme for which we may shortly feare the Lord will spew us out of his mouth A Second sort of her Champions are those that draw nearer to God in many things then others of their Bretheren doe and these are called Puritans or Professours whose vizards I have in part in my foregoing Propositions unmasked and these by how much the more they seemingly draw nearer to God in their false wayes so much the more hurt and mischief they do by keeping others more weaker then themselves from a willing stooping intirely to the Scepter of Christ for which sinne the Lord plagues them for it is dayly seen that even Publicans and Harlots enter into the Kingdome before them to walke in that order which God hath appointed for their building up therfore against these should we fight and with all our strength and cunning take from them their masks vizards and figge-leaves unto whom I may truly say as God by the Prophet * Esay 47. Esay said to the old Babilonians that your wisdome and your knowledge hath perverted you which makes you say in your hearts you are well and need no mending Therfore shall evill come upon you and you shall not know from whence it ariseth and mischief shall fall upon you and you shall not be able to put it off and desolation shall come upon you sodainly which you shall not know Therfore stand now with your inchantments and with the multitude of your services that is to say with your tricks and quillets and cunning soule-deceiving shifts wherin you have laboured from your youth if so be you shall be able to profit and prevaile you are wearied in the multitude of your Councels Let now the Astrologers the Starre-gazers the monethly Prognosticaters that is to say your famous Priests those wise and learned men as you esteem them whose frothy savings and foolish councell by some of you are judged as Oracles let these I say stand up and save you if they be able from those things that shall shortly come upon you Behold they shall be as stubble the fire shall burn them and they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame therof and there shall not be a coals for you to warme at nor fire to set before you Thus shall it be unto you with whom you have laboured even your spirituall Merchants from your youth they shall wander every one to his quarter none shall save you O Iehovah thou Lord of hosts and powerfull God that thou wouldest rend the heavens that thou wouldst in wrath and fury come down that the Mountains might flow down at thy presence as when the melting fire burneth even the fire that causeth the waters to layle to make thy great dreadfull and terrible name known to thy Babilonian Antichristian adversaries that the Nations therof may * Isay 64.1.2 tremble at thy presence and hasten thy coming in thy glorious Kingdome and cause the brightnes therof to scorch torment and torture the very soules and spirits of thy spirituall enemies and put ‡ Neh. 13. Nehemiahs courage and zeale into the hearts of all the Lambs redeemed ones that they may at once power out the Vyalls of thy fury and fierce indignation ‡ Rev. 16. upon the very throne of the Beast to the ruine therof that his worshippers may gnaw their tongues for very pain and cry out with weeping and wayling for the destruction of their spirituall Babylon alas alas and cause thy servants in all their spirituall battayles never to make use of any of the Beasts foolishnes or humane weapons which are no better then bul-rushes but make it known unto them that it is their duty to be as unlike unto him in all things whatsoever as ‡ possibly they can and to keep close to thy Law and Statutes § For blessed are they that do thy Commandements that they may have right to the Tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the holy City And so my opposites I bid you farewell and rest yours in any service for Christ his truth and glory to be commanded and truly desiring the good and welfare of your soules N. E. FINIS

more esteem then of the dirt in the kennell The most of whose Books are fit for no other use or place then to be burnt in the fire as the Books of those that used curious Arts in the § Act. 19.19 Apostles time were and so shall the word of God grow flourish and prevaile as then it did Neither let their answere be with tricks and quillets by the cunning of their deceivable humane Arts with which they can make blacke seem white just Jugler like Nor yet with their rotten and false Scholasticall distinctions as hearing the word of God from an officer and yet they doe not heare him as an Officer which is but a Sophisticall distinction serving to no purpose And all these humane devises I esteem of no more use in matters of controversie to find out the naked truth of God then pitch rosen and flax is to quench fire which will much more increase and aggravate it even so will they though things now should be very darke yet the making use of them to make them more obvious and cleare will make them more misty and obscure Therfore I desire him whosoever he be that answers me to weigh things in the ballance of the sanctuary I mean the unerring word of God and to go to the Law and the Testimony and speak according to that otherwise I shall tell him and that in the words of the Spirit of God * Isay 8.20 there is no light of truth in him Therfore let it be answered by the Authority of the Scripture for it is that which testifies of ‡ Ioh. 5.39 Christ And the want of the true knowledge of this is the ground of all errour and ‡ Mat. 22.29 ignorance which your Priests by their rotten filthy Diabolicall arts and inventions do obscure darken and ecclipse Therfore I doe verily think and beleeve that for this cause God will never honour them to doe him any speciall or singuler piece of service for he taketh the wise in their own craftinesse and disappointeth the devises of the crafty and sets up on high those that below § Ioh. 5.11.12 and maketh the wise men to perish † Isay 29.14 and frustrateth the tokens of lyars as they are and maketh diviners mad and turneth wise men backward and maketh their knowledge foolish which by dayly and large experience we see manifested and made good nor never make use of them for principall instruments to pull down and destroy the filthy black Soddomitist Babilonian Kingdome of Antichrist for as fast as any of them by the word of God doe labour to pull it down with one hand they by making use of their humane arts and learning build it up with both hands and more stregthen the enemy with these their wicked weapons then they weaken him with any other they can make use of Therfore let all Gods people that desire with all their might to pull down the whore and make her desolate and naked cry down all these wicked Arts and human-learning and all worldly wisdome to the pit of hell from whence they came and only make use of the two-edged sword of Gods word as the very chief weapon to pierce and run through the very heart of the scarlet whore and her upholders for this will pierce even to the dividing asunder of the soule and Spirit * Heb. 4.12 and of the joynts and marrow For the word of God is that two-edged sword that comes out of the mouth of the Lamb our Captain Christ Jesus who sits upon the white Horse who in righteousnesse and truth doth judge and make war and with this he goes forth conquering and to conquer and to smite the Nations and people that doe not nor will not obey his truth for he treadeth the winepresse of the fiercenes of the wrath of ‡ Rev. 19. ● Almighty God And with this spirituall overcoming unresistable conquering weapon are we his Souldiers or Armies that are in heaven or stand upon Mount Sion that is in the true Church or state of God ready to do our Fathers will and pleasure to fight couragiously against our spirituall Babilonian enemies in following the Lamb whither soever he goeth and to do him what service soever he pleaseth to call us to and not to love our lives unto the death seeing he hath redeemed us from among men and made us Kings and Priests unto God our Father Therfore O my Brethren be exhorted to courage and zeale for the Lord and his truth for this is it wherin he shall be glorified by us therfore shake off all base and carnall feare and be not afraid of the greatnes of our enemies but let us publikely in an united bond professe the purity of his truth in sincerity for we are sure by the word of his ‡ Rev. 12.12 Testimony to overcome all that do oppose us For the Lord ere long by the spirit of his mouth and the brightnes of his coming in this his glorious Kingdome before spoken of will destroy the man of sin that so long hath trampled this his holy City under foot for the prosperity and flourishing of which we are bound in duty to strain for and hazard all we have Therfore if I forget thee ô Ierusalem let my right hand forget her cunning and if I doe not remember thee ô Sion let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth yea if I prefer not § Psal 137.6 7. Ierusalem above my chief joy For my soule longs yea exceedingly with earnest desires to see Ierusalem become as I am sure when Antichrist is destroyed she shall be the prayse of the whole earth Therfore all ye choice Speare-men of the Lord be as valiant for your God now in the dayes of Babels tottering as † 2 Sam. 23.16 17. Davids worthies was for him and stoutly break through the Hoasts of the Babilonians those spirituall Phylistims and fetch and take the water of life from out of their polluted hands which they theevishly have stolen and usurpedly make use of that the Lords weake ones may freely drink of it without feare of being poysoned and let us all yea every one of us that stand upon Mount Sion with our Fathers name written in our “ Iere. 50. 51. Reve. 18. foreheads according to our duty Let us put our selvs in array against Babilon round about and call together the Lords valiant Spearmen and Archers against her Therfore all ye that bend the Bow Camp against her round about and let none that belong unto her escape but recompence her according to her worke according to all that she hath done let us do unto her for she hath been proud against the Lord even against the holy one of Israel Therfore let us cause her young men to fall in the streets and all her men of war let us as much as we are able cut off Now her choice men of war are her officers whose offices is that great River