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A91825	The banner of Gods love, and ensign of righteousness spread over his people in these later dayes. Wherein the true light shineth, and the mysterie that hath been hid from ages and generations, is revealed to the saints, which is, Christ in us the hope of glory, as our forefathers witnessed, read Col. I. 26, 27, 28, 29. Also, a testimony against them who formerly hath tasted of the good word of God, and of the power of the world to come, who hath cast the law of God behind their backs, and hath trodden under foot the blood of the covenant. ... most especially, those that are called Anabaptists and Independents. Also, a few words in warning to the priests, professors, and people of the town and county of Southhampton. With a few quæries to the rulers and magistrates of England, to try their fruits whether they be according to the Christian magistrates recorded in the Scripture of truth, ... . Set forth most especially for the sake of the honest-hearted, who are not wholly given up to believe lyes, that they may come to know the way of life and peace. Written by me who are called Ambrose Rigge.	Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.	1657 (1657)	Wing R1475; Thomason E932_4; ESTC R22061	33,117	47

their own eyes and they separated themselves in the outward from other men in Worship but it was self that separated them which was never yet denyed nor separated from by them as doth fully appear at this day in their whole course of life the Seed of the Kingdom was sown among them but they receiving Mark 4. 7. it into the thornie ground it was choaked ere it grew up with the cares of the World and deceitfulness of riches and abominable pride envy and wrath as Nathaniel Robbinson one of their great Sect-Masters of the Town and County of Southampton may bear me witness if his heart be not totally hardneed and he be given up to work all manner of wickedness with greediness and his conscience be seared with a hot Iron Wofully hath these sort of people betrayed their trust their latter end will be worse by double then was their beginning highly are they now exalted upon the Mountains of pride and deeply are they obliged in the bond of iniquity their Sacrifices are now an abomination to the Lord who is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity they have departed from the counsel of the Lord have greatly erred into the Way of Cain as will hereafter plainly Jude 11. appear in Nathaniel Robbinson and many of his Hearers 2 Tim. 3. 4. 2 3 4 5 6 7. in the Town of Hampton who are now become brutish and without natural affection incontinent fierce despisers of those that are good and not onely so but hath a great thirst after their blood without any just cause as hath manifestly appeared both in words and actions not long since all this they cover under a cover of profession and a feigned humility which is seen with the children of light to be double hypocrisie And a covering of a most curious colour Matth. 7. 15 16. have they put on to hide this ravening Wolf but now it is too narrow the ravenous Beast breaks forth in great rage and fury and musters up all his Forces against the Lambs appearance who is now come to torment him before his time And now doth he cast out floods of railings revilings lyes slanders false accusations after the Woman in whom the man-child is moving and this is because his sacrifice is not accepted But oh Cain why art thou wrath and why is thy countenance fallen Why doth thou so rage and swell foame and torment thy self and envy thy Brother If thou dost well thou shall be accepted if not sin lyeth at thy door Thou hast forgotten that Gen 4. 5 6. thou should first be reconciled to thy Brother before thou offer thy gift and this is the main reason why it is not accepted at thy hand which makes thee so envious and wrathful that even nothing will quench thy thirsty stomack but thy Brothers blood which daylie appears to all that are not wilfully blind by thy eager pursuance after it and threatning them that will not to the utmost answer thy cursed desires in persecuting the innocent Oh how art thou postng on in the Way of Cain the Murtherer Jude 11. and treading in the steps of thy Father Balaam Oh thou Nathaniel Robbinson Oh how is the right Wayes of the Lord evil spoken of and reviled daylie by thee and by thy seduced followers who makes lyes your refuge and mischief your dwelling place which is hatched in your deceitful Breasts Wil your high talking of God and Christ cover all this Or are you so given up to believe a lye as to believe it will There is an eye opened that sees you which you see not and a Judge that weighs your actions which you know not but when the Book of every one of your consciences shall be opened then out of that shall you all be judged without respect of persons and receive according to your deeds done in the body In that day shall not your crying Lord Lord and preaching in the Name of Christ in your Synagogues rescue you from that dreadful sentence Depart from me ye workers of iniquity I know you not for I was an hungry Matt. 7. 23. Matth. 25. 41 42 43 44. By Name VVilliam Pinhorn and ye fed me not I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink a stranger and ye took me not in but went with abominable lyes and false reports to the Magistrates to persecute me as a Wanderer and a Deluder and when they would not imprison me you caused them to do it and when there was no Witness against me you came in false Eliz. Horsent said it was a matter of conscience not to visit her Sister in Prison Witnesses your selves whereby to seek my ruine and destruction and when I was in prison some of you said it was a matter of conscience not to visite me and said it was just upon me All this and more have you acted and spoken against me because you neither knew the Father nor me for in as much as you have done this to one of the least Matth. 25. 45 46. Matth. 18. 6. that believe in me you have done it to me And therefore now wo unto you good had it been for you that a Milstone had been hanged about your necks and you cast into the midst of the Sea then to have offended one of them that believe in me Oh Matth. 23. 37 38. how often would I have gathered you as a Hen gathereth her Chickens under her Wings and ye would not but hated persecuted and shamefully intreated my servants and messengers that I sent in tend or love unto you to warn you while you had a day and time to turn unto me from all your abominations But oh how have you hated reproof Prov. 1. 21. Isa 55. 9. and turned your ear from the cry of Wisdom and hath chosen your own wayes which is corrupt before me and as far from mine as the Heaven is from the earth Oh how will you answer this ye stiff-necked and rebellious people that have eyes and see not ears and hear not and hearts and doth not understand Will the Lord be mocked with your vain oblations which you bring before Isa 1. 13. him day by day when your hands is full of blood and your hearts is after your Idols You have set your Nests on Isa 30. 1. high and hath covered your selves with a covering but not with the Spirit of the Lord as is daylie apparent to all whose eyes the Lord hath opened highly are you seated upon the Mountains of pride and exaltation the Scribes and Pharisees did far exceed you in zeal who made clean the outside which you are far from but you say pride is in the heart which is true enough by your garments you are bad patterns before them you call Heathens which can see nothing but the outside yea many of them outstrips you in life and conversation and would be ashamed of your practise You have built you a Tower whose top you

Saints vvords as you can or doth vvhile Matt 7 13. Iohn 8. 44. they themselves are of their father the Devil as the Jevvs vvas vvhose vvorks they did in persecuting his Servants and stoneing him and are not you doing the same let the faithful Prophets of the Lord once speak and lend your Deut. 18. 15. eares a little unto him vvho vvill not flatter nor lye nor daube vvith untempred morter for novv hath the Lord raised him according to his promise vvho speaks vvith authority Iohn 1. 45. Iohn 7. 37. 38. and ministers to the spirit in prison and all that vvill not harken unto him shall be cut off the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it and it shall be accomplished and Acts 3. 22. unto him shall Kings bovv and cast dovvn their Crovvnes Who vvill rule the Nations vvith a rod of Iron and dash them to peices as a Potters Vessel and novv vvoe Isa 28 1. unto the Crovvne of pride that must be brought dovvn and laid in the dust And you that bear it the Lord vvill scatter in your Imaginations in vvhat form or profession Prov. 1. 5. so ever you bee though you be gathered together and hand joyn in hand yet the vvicked shall not go unpunished Matt. 3 8 10. novv this is sad nevves to you that are found vvithout the Camp of the Lord for it is novv fruits that he is now looking for and righteousnesse that his soule delights in and the heart that he requires therefore hear this ye Prov. 23. 16. professors of what sort soever who are out of the life and power of God unto which every soule is to be subject Rom. 13. 1. unto this power you are not brought nor a subjection to it you do not know but are under the power Ephe. 2. 2. of the Prince of the ayre which rules in you whereby some of you are led into pride others into enmity others into abominable lyeing and false accuseing the Innocent without a cause now I know he who hath led you into these things will not let you confesse it nor own that Ezek. 23. 45. Dan 7. ●2 1. Cor. 6. 2. i Cor 2. 16. which condemns you secretly for it but will bring Scripture for his own ends as he did to Christ and say I should not judge but I say the righteous loveth judgement but the wicked cannot stand in it and the Saints shall judge the world and the Spiritual man judgeth all things and he himselfe is udged of no man and your actions is to be condemned with the light and troden upon as dirt in the streets with them who are in the power of God Oh how the seed of God is oppressed amongst you that even the cry thereof hath entered into the ear of the Lord of Sabbaths vvho is novv risen to avenge his ovvn cause and to plead vvith you who are in the flesh and are not only enemies to the seed of God in your selvs but your rage abundantly apperrs towards any in whom it doth arise to rule and guide them in the vvay that is called holy your abominations are increased and your transgressions cannot be numbred the Lord is weary vvith your sacrifices they are an abomination unto him for no sooner have you done that you call your sacrifice Isa 1. 12 13 14 15. Prov. 15. 8. if there be any in whom the seed of God is brought forth that are sent of him ro declare against your abominations before they can be suffered to speak the words of truth in sobernesse you like doggs and swine Wolves and Lions Mat. 23. 34 35 do fall upon the Lambs of Christ who wrongeth no man neither can you lay any thing justly to their charge and pulls and hails them out of your Assemblies even ready to Luk. 19. 3. take their bloud as Cain did and casts into prison such without any cause at all are these a Company of sheep or of doggs and Swine yea or nay And is not this Cains way Gen. 4. 5. that you are found in and is your sacrifice more accepted of the Lord then his was why are you so wroth envious they that learn of Christ are meek when they are smitten smites not again or doe you ever read that any of them ha●led out of their Assemblies or persecuted or imprisonned any What administration do you live under Answer in plainness if you say you are Christians shew where such actions were acted among Christians if not confess it openly and doe not play the Hypocrite Read and see if your eies be not wholly blinded by the God of the World whom Yee worship and serve who was an accuser of the brethren from the beginning and an envious man Is not all out of order amongst you your children wild and rude in the evil communication which corrupts the good manners 1 Cor. 15. 33. brought up out of the fear of God like wilde Colts mocking scoffing stoneing deriding and scorning Ephes 6. 4. the Servants of the Lord in your Streets so that those that neither doth nor speaketh any thing to you that is evil are daily by you abused both by words and actions as they pass peaceably along the Streets are not you that are Parents Titus 2. 2 3. or Masters to such ashamed of such things or doe you not delight in such things your selves and incourage your children and servants in it What doe you think will be the end of these things doe you not think the Lord scornes the scornfull or what is it your malice is so much against And again is not your young men and maids uncivill blaspheming the name of the Lord daily following youthful Titus 2. 4. 5 6. Psal 119. 9. pleasures living wantonly upon the earth scoffing and scorning them that cannot partake with them in their filthy pleasures which will be bitter in the end and are they not inventing how to make themselves glorious in the sight of the World not remembring their Creator in the Eccl. 12. 1. daies of their youth but following after pride and vanity which corrupts youth and leads out of the Moderation which they who fear the Lord are in and are adorned with a meek and quiet spirit which is of great price in the sight of God And doth not your Women array themselves in costly apparell in gold and pearle contrary to the Apostles 1 Tim. 2. 9. 10. 1 Pet 3. 2 3 4. command and doe not they goe in hoods and vailes scarfes and rings and changable Suits of Apparell and walking with stretched out necks and wanton eies making Isa 3. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26. a mincing as they goe and a tinkling with their feet and their broadered hair that they can scarce tell how to goe they are so proud and puft up in the lust of the Flesh even such if not worse as the Lord sent his plagues and

THE BANNER OF GODS LOVE AND ENSIGN OF RIGHTEOVSNESS Spread over his people in these later dayes Wherein the true light shineth and the mysterie that hath been hid from Ages and Generations is revealed to the Saints which is Christ in us the hope of glory as our forefathers witnessed Read Col. 1. 26 27 28 29. ALSO A Testimony against them who formerly hath tasted of the good Word of God and of the Power of the world to come who hath cast the Law of God behind their backs and hath trodden under foot the blood of the Covenant and now doth labour with one shoulder to destroy the Man-child which is now brought forth to rule the Nations with an Iron Rod and these are most especially those that are called Anabaptists and Independents Also A few Words in warning to the Priests Professors and People of the Town and County of Southampton With a few Quaeries to the Rulers and Magistrates of England to try their fruits whether they be according to the Christian Magistrates recorded in the Scripture of truth or according to the heathenish Kings and Rulers in former Ages Set forth most especially for the sake of the honest-hearted who are not wholly given up to believe lyes that they may come to know the way of life and peace Written by me who am called Ambrose Rigge London Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at his shop at the Black spread-Eagle neer the West end of Pauls 1657. To the sober Reader GReat and admirable is the Love and Mercy of the Lord God unto the sons of men that he hath not with-held his onely Son but hath sent him a Light into the world that all men through him might believe and be saved But there is a generation of men in these our dayes that cannot endure sound Doctrine and such will not receive him who is the good shepherd but heaps unto themselves Teachers having itching ears which hath never profited them nor never shall and the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet stands now where it ought not therefore I desire thee who readeth these ensuing lines to understand and weigh them in an equal Ballance and with a single eye look upon them and thou wilt clearly see that here is nothing written but what is just and true to every mans condition without flattering or daubing with untempered Morter as the false Prophets have done these many years which hath made the abomination so great in our Nation of ENGLAND And take heed of judging or censuring any thing hastily but try all things as he hath done who writ this unto thee and hold fast that which is good For to this end was this sent forth to publike view That every one may be knowne by their fruits From him who is a Friend to all that love the Truth as it is in JESUS called of men Ambrose Rigge THE BANNER OF GODS LOVE AND ENSIGNE OF RIGHTEOVSNESS c. FOrasmuch as many dear and precious Isa 8. 18. Joh. 17. 23. Servants and Children of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth whom he hath loved with an everlasting love and hath opened their eyes and ears to behold him whom they had pierced and hath armed them with Zach. 12. 10. power from on High to make war in righteousness against all the powers Rev. 20. 8 9. of darkness that stands up against the appearance of the Lamb of God who hath now cloathed them with his Armor of Light and Life and given them for an Helmet the Hope Rom. i3 12. Eph. 6. 13 17. of Salvation and hath put the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God into their mouths that with boldness they may declare abroad the Name of him who is now come a Light into the World and hath lighted every man that Joh. 12. 46. Joh. 17. 9. cometh into the World that all men through him might believe and come to the knowledge of the truth And for this end is he now made manifest To destroy the 1 Joh. 3. 8. Eccles 12. 3 Ezek. 32. 25 26 Ezek. 2i 28. Works that the devil hath wrought in man even to make the strong man bow before him and the Keepers of the House to tremble that the uncircumcised may fall by the stroke of his Sword which is now drawn in his hand and made ready for a mighty slaughter even to cut off the wicked from the Land of the living that their remembrance may Luk. i9 27 be blotted out from the earth which wlil not that he shall rule whose right it is and he hath made his children and servants living Witnesses of his eternal Truth to declare his eternal Name among the Gentiles and hath given them a 1 Joh. 5 20 Luk. 22 35 good understanding to know him that is true and hath sent them forth into the VVorld vvithout Bag or Scrip or tvvo Coats and hath given them his Word of Life and Light to declare to the Spirit in Prison and these have as they have been moved of the Lord run to and fro in the earth in true and tender love to peoples souls vvarning all men every Acts 17 30 31. Acts 20 33 vvhere to repent and seek the Lord vvhile he may be found vvithout coveting any mans Silver Gold or Apparel and for this have they been stocked stoned vvhipped imprisoned and shamefully intreated and not counted vvorthy to live upon the earth not onely by them that professed little or nothing of God Christ or the Scriptures but rather by the Scribes and Pharisees and chief Priests and zealous professors Mark 8 31 as the Jevvs vvas as may be vvitnessed at this day by hundreds in our Nation of England vvhose fruits shame their Profession and vvhose Works shevv to their faces they are of their Father the Devil And those vvhom the Lord Joh. 8 44 1 Cor. 4 2 hath called and chosen to commit his secrets unto and to place his eternal Name in as they have freely received of the Lord freely have they ministred unto all whereby many hath been turned from darknesse unto light and from the Matth. i0 8. Acts 26. 18. power of Satan unto God and God hath greatly blessed their labours within these few years so that many that was scattered as Sheep without a Shepherd in the cloudy and dark day by the Idol dumb Sepherds which had made a prey Ezek. 34 12. upon them their feet are now directed into the Way of life and peace wherein they are now walking up to Zion with Songs of Deliverance and are sitting down with Abraham Isa 35 10 Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of God and the children of the Kingdom shall be cast out into utter darkness where Matth. 8 11 is weeping and gnashing of teeth for ever And now quick and powerful hath the Word of the Lord Heb. 4 12 been in the mouth of his Messengers and Ministers in

this Nation of England and elsewhere whereby the strong man in hundreds hath been made to bow and the Keepers of the House to tremble and by it hath the Wisdom of the Wise Isa 29 14 1 Cor. 1 19 1 Pet. 1 23 25 Isa 40 8 Acts 19 20 been confounded and the understanding of the prudent brought to nought but the Word of the Lord hath stood and shall stand and accomplish the VVork for which it was sent and hath grown and encreased abundantly so that many by it is quickned and raised from death to life and they have not laboured in vain as the false Prophets have done this many years but many Vessels are full and an innumerable multitude is drawn out of the Sea of confusion where Luk. 5 5 6 they were overwhelmed and could never have come to the Son of God unlesse they had been drawn by the Cords of the Fathers Love wherein now they walk to the praise and glory of God for evermore And those whom the Lord God of Heaven and Earth hath 2 Cor. 1 22 indued with his Spirit of Life and Light in Christ Jesus his only Son and as they have been moved of the Lord have taken Luk. 1 1 2 in hand to set forth from the very first a Declaration in order of those things which are most surely believed among us who have been eye-witnesses of him from the beginning and of all the things that Jesus began to do and to teach of Psal 112 4 the works and mighty wonders which he hath wrought for the sons of men who sate in darknesse and in the shadow of death how he hath caused his everlasting day to dawn upon them and hath commanded light to shine out of darknesse Luke 1 79 2 Cor 4 6 whereby his children comes to have the knowledge or his glory And this Declaration hath been set forth for the sake of the simple that they may turn in at the call of Wisdom who is now uttering her Voice in the Streets and opening Prov. 1 20 22 23 24. her Gate wide so that many hearkens to her Voice and enters in at her Gate and by such is Wisdom justified daylie Matth. 11 19 Isa 11 9 Zech 4 9 and Knowledge encreased abundantly so that the Lord God is known to be one and his Name one And he hath confirmed his Work not by Word onely but by his mighty Power and by his Armor of Righteousnesse on the right hand and on the left whereby his Enemies is subdned under his feet 2 Cor 6 7 and the Power given unto him to rule whose right it is And this hath his own Arm accomplished for his own Seed sake which lay in captivity and was oppressed and burthened so Ezek 21 ●7 that it could not arise to bring forth fruit unto him but his Vinyard wholly laid desolate to the Beasts of the field to make a prey upon and his Heritage was become as a speckled Bird that was wandered into the desolate places of the earth Je● 2 9 and not one stone was found to build up the desolation of Zion with till it was hewed and suted by the Word of God which is as a Hammer which was put into the mouths of his chosen ones in the fulnesse of time Jer 23 29 And now I with the rest of my dear Brethren and Sisters who have obtained grace and mercy from the Lord and having had perfect knowledge from the very first of the things that Jesus hath done for me and the rest who have believed in his Name and how it pleased the Father to reveal him in us that we might preach him among the Gentiles for the Gal. ● 16 salvation of his people Israel and for the redemption of all the children of Adam who were made sinners by his disobedience Now am I moved of the Lord to bear my testimony with the rest of my Brethen and Sisters who are in scorn called Quakers unto Christ Jesus the Light of the World whom wee witnesse in us the hope of Glory and how He did there Col. 1. 27. begin his work and wrought in us both the will and the deed as our fore-Fathers witnessed in their declaration in Phil. 2. 13. order the mistery that was hid from ages and generations was Christ in them the hope of glory and them that sought Col. 1. 26. a proofe of Christ in them they exhorted to try themselves and prove themselves and told them that Christ was in them 2 Cor. 13. 3. 4. 5. except they were reprobates and this is the mistery that is now hid from all sorts of profession and professors at this day who are found without the life of Christ manifested in the mortal flesh and so are seeking proofs of his speaking 2 Cor. 4. 11. Deut. 18. 15. 18. Acts 3. 22. in his people and such hath ears but doth not hear him of whom Moses wrote which the Lord hath now raised to be a Teacher and a Leader to his people which they now bear in all things according to the word of the Lord by the mouth of his servant Moses And this doth set all the world in an uproar so that Gog and Magog doth strike hands together Rev. 20. 8. Rev. 17. 14. Rev. 12. 5. Rev. 19. 15. Matth. 3 12 Luk. 3. 17 to joyn in Battle against the Lamb who is now arisen to rule the nations with a Rod of Iron and Fan and purifie his Sons and Daughters that he may gather his Wheat into his Garner according to his promise and burn up the Ghaff with unquenchable fire And now shall they clearly be known that serveth the Lord in truth and tighteousnesse from them who pretend Mal. 3. 18. Titus 1. 16 2 Tim 43. in words they know him but in works deny him for the time is already come wherein men cannot endure sound Doctrine but after their own lusts heaps up unto themselves Isa 56 10 11 12 Ier 23 Ezetk 34 Matth 23. Teachers which doth not profit them at all but are such as the Prophets and Apostles of the Lord did always bear testimony against as all that are not wilfully blind may clearly see But now hath the Lord furnished us with power from on high to preach his everlasting Gosple unto every creature Mark 16 1● so that our labour and travel is to see Christ formed in them who is the expresse image of his fathers person that henceforth Gal 4 19 Heb. 1 3 they might not be tosed to and fro with every wind of Doctrine through the sleight of men but that all may Eph 4 14 come to the knowledge of him in them subduing all things under his feet and leading Captivity Captive and destroying 1 Cor 15 ●8 Ephe 4 8. Ephe 5 27. and defacing the image of the Devil in all his children that they may be presented without spot unto his Father and for