mens teachings DENUS to the restored Church in the Isle of Pathmos The personal Reign of the Saints REvel 5.9 And they sang a new Song saying Thou art worthy to open the seals for thou wast shame and hast redeemed us to God by thy bloud out of every kinred people tongue and nation and hast made us Kings and Priests to God and we shall reign on the earth This promise of God beareth us up by a living hope and as Saint Peter saith we look for new heavens and a new earth where Righteousness shall dwell These words have an inference to a new state of Justice when none shall reign but his kingdom of Saints which must execute justice under him by a personal power in so high an enjoyment of God that they well be called a new heaven on earth or an heavenly people that shall reign on earth so that the world seeing their high and sweet enjoyment may imitate them and become a new earth and so comply and rejoyce together As Saint Paul saith Rejoyce ye Gentile with his people so that the natural branch may rejoyce with the spiritual kingdom and government and grift in with them to sing to God saying Thou art worthy O Lord. This personal reign of the Saints shall be a visible State that the ends of the earth shall have when the oppressours shall no more pass through their kingdom or City Zach. 9.8 when they shall have all given into their hands As you may finde by Daniel the 7. vers 27. That the dominion and greatness of the kingdom shall be given to the people of the Saints Revel 20. Saying Ye shall be Kings and Priests to God and shall reign with him Which is interpreted by some that Christ shall reign with his people again in a personal or visible estate which he hath done already upon his participation but now we look only to his substantiality and to bring all into the God-head which is one substance almighty and king of Saints without person or persons which is an undivided substance most high whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and all dominions shall serve and obey him which is God without end or dividing into parts any more For the Lord shall raign in Sion before his ancient glory and the earth shall be silenced when the Saints shall grown in that new heaven and shall raign as Kings over the world in that high calling and Royal Priesthood the Lord will do great things at that time the Saints shall bear the Image of the heavenly by a sure walking with God for he hath made us Kings and Priests to him and we shall raign on the earth when he hath put all rule and Authority under his feet he shall give up the kingdom to his father and shall raign and shall put all powers under him I do not mean that Christ shall raign personally any more but as in power in all places both in Heaven and Earth as Father Son and Holy Ghost joyned all in one power and the Saints shall govern as Deputies under him for David shall never want a man nor the people of God a Priest to offer sacrifices continually which is him above for no flesh shall behold any more but by his power and not by his bodily shape the soul may behold him when it is out of the body and for any further beholding of him I know none for his personall raign hath been already and he hath appeared to his Disciples saying go forth and declare as by a personall command So it appeared FINIS LONDON Printed for Henry Hasilwood dwelling in the Parish of Windsor in the County of Berks. 1651.
so denied to go forth which caused the loss of life And it hath been a woful spectacle in the worlds eye when it hath been apparently known that some devouring Nimrods have bought out many poor souldiers pay some for 4 1 5 1 or 6 1 in the score and all for want of justice Their cries will come up to the God of heaven I beseech your Excellence promote true justice for Gods cause and fear no human flesh and the Lord will be your arm of defence Oh Army of the Lord Esay 1.26 I will restore thy judgments as at the first and thou shalt be called the City of Righteousness when Sion shall be redeemed with justice and when you shall redeem the oppressed judge the fatherless and plead for the widow then the Lord will delight in your works of piety Now that it may please you to take into your consideration and to move our Parliament upon the Lords designe that both they and you may be called blessed in the act of Restoring Ezek. 47.14 the Lord declareth saying Ye shall one inherit as well as another Meaning the Earth or the Land which is the Lords Verse the 22 he saith Ye shall divide the Land by lot for an inheritance And lastly he saith What Tribe soever the stranger sojourneth in there ye shall give him his inheritance Now the clamation of our poor Israel is for want of Commons to plant and build upon and this being alienated and estranged from them by cursed Ahabs which now do enjoy Naboths Vineyard and spoil our good Commons The Lord hath sent me to move you upon this object that they which have possessions should not take away the Commons from the poor Common wealth of Israel but that they which have no inheritance should have their Lots in the Commons as it is their right by Creation from God the Prophets Esay Jeremy and Ezekiel shall be tilled and become as the garden of Eden Joel 3.2 I will plead with them for my people Israel and for my heritage which they have cast lots for my land and parted it among the Nation Now if your Excellency please to help the Lord against the mighty then he saith Joel 2. I will restore to you the years that the Locusts have eaten the Cankerworm the Caterpiller and the Palinerworm which I sent amongst you Lastly That you would please to fall and kneel at the appearing of the Lord when he shall set up his Ordination or Determinate Power then all your subordinate powers must fall then he that is least in the world shall be greatest in his Kingdome and he that overcometh shall rule the Nations Let the high praises of God be in your mouth and a two edged sword in your hand to destroy sin for a spiritual and temporal Justice So I rest your poor petitioner to command Denus to the restored Church in the Isle of Pathmos A Protestation and Engagement I Am ingaged for the Cause and shall lay down my life and dearest blood and will do it in case of conscience for the defence of the everlasting Gospel though humane Lawes do fail and mens ordinances come to nothing yet how unchangeable is the Law of God in his ordination Christ at his first appearance destroyed every mans law and ordinances and thereupon wounded the Beast saying All power is given me in heaven and in earth Go teach all Nations as if be should say every law statute and ordinance of man is at an end yet many strive for earthly and humane power and cause the sword to rule by a law which is not the Law of God to kill and keep alive although for common trespasses making their own wills a law contrary to the law of Sion and we hold up the sword by a law and a law by the sword which is not good our Lord saith he that killeth with the sword shall dye with the sword He in Genesis Whosoever killeth Cain his blood shall be required seven fold and Revel 11. Whosoever killeth them shall be so killed tt is better for a man to dye an Anatomy then to be a man-slayer to take away life and free Creation from any of the Creatures of God and to lord over them by cruelty Our Saviour saith offences will be but woe be to them by whom they do come it were better a milstone were hanged about his neck and cast into the Sea then to offend in bloud robbery or any such thing by legal cruelty pretending a law above the Gospel and Records of Christ to his Disciples which law to maintain is not so ancient as that order of Melchizedeck made to Abraham by a promise though the law was given by Moses yet faith and truth came by Christ So that under the name of Melchizedeck or under the name of Christ he the Lord hath alwayes put an end to mans ordinances according to his Divine Ordination and I know no law of man that can stand before the Law of God in Sion there is but one Law and one Law-giver which gift to us is the free Gospel as James saith So speak and so walk that ye may be judged by the Law of liberty which is the Word of God for an outward record called by David his Statutes Divine meaning the Old and New Testament by way of cauâ—â—â—â— that every godly Magistrate should lay the Bible book before him to convince every sinne and errour of the offender and not to use any other book of mixture compounded together lest they adde or diminish from Gods Word or Commandment for then and at that time the Bible shall be the chief Statute to maintain Freedome and Justice it is not your statutes of Winchester London or Magna Charta so Evangelical or ancient that can stand when the power of Christ appeareth and shall shine out of the East unto the West and from the North to the South so that all the Nations shall see his glorious appearing which is his testimony of Light to me a sufferer for the Gospel of Christ and I know not whether by imprisonment or losse of life the prison is but freedomes purgatory and it shall at the last conquer hell and Freedome shall have victory by his statutes Divine it is for the Law of God that I dye daily and am much killed in my dear Desires I stand up for the liberty of the Gospel and Freedome of the Creation and to plead for the Kingdome of Christ and the inheritance of the people which I hope you will not hinder me of Our Saviour saith Matth. 10. Fear them not for there is nothing hid that shall not be known and I cannot but declare the things I have seen I am not onely ready to suffer your imprisonment but to suffer death or any torture for the Cause I mean for the Law and Liberties of the Gospel of the Lord. I am a faithful witnesse of God I fear not your Famine Distresse or Death I am the person to raise
shepherd Shewing some poor despised Messenger that God shall send to lay the Ministers under wrath by the seventh Vial. Now a pouring forth further he saith in the same Chapter Woe to the idle shepherds that leave their flock his arm shall be clean dryed up and his right eye darkened upon the sounding the alarm in Sion which is the pouring out of the last Vial which produceth Judgement and Justice in the Earth and by a standing up for it when all the Earth shall be awaked to maintain the Creation of Gods inheritance or institution These seven Vials make out one fulnesse that is all the fulnesse of Gods time and to that end they be called Vials six of them are poured out already the seventh is now in power pouring forth which is Kingdome power and glory for an infallible testimony of his bright appearing which is called the seventh and last Vial which shall violate and burn up every All under it called six All 's or Vial Ordinances that shall be purged by it This is King over all the other six Ordinances whereon all things must be proved upon the Center called the Everlasting Word saying All power is given me in heaven and in earth Thus all Powers dye and live in him by one Power which is true Gospel for he is the Fountain of every Original and at his appearance every Religion shall be purged and all conditions changed and shall darken all things at his bright appearing and under this everlasting Gospel or seventh Vial many shall be slain and fall under Gods hand for it shall try the Consciences of men and it shall judge all the Ordinances Who can but fear thee O Lord Revel 15. for thy Judgments are made manifest and the light is discovered that hath layn hid so long and God is taking off the vail and covering spread over all flesh and Judgment must first begin at his own house and every petty priesthood must fall for behold the constellations shall fail the Sun and the Moon and Ministers may fail but his eternal Priesthood shall stand for ever the Stars or Lights shall fall before him which is true Gospel and I know no other Gospel but that of Christ and his Apostles which is not fully preached forth nor actually performed but the Lord will now make all things new a new heaven a new earth a new Covenant and a new Gospel and old things must become new and though they have layn in darknesse under six or seven Dispensations of time to make out the end of their darknesse yet now the pure Light will spring that shall abolish all under it and his pure Ordinance is now in pouring forth which is his Sabbaths Vial it shall judge all her abominations and all her oppressions and shall make out all the Gospel Promises and priviledges by every outward and inward performance For it is not your peeced out charity or any meritorious work of your hand that God looketh for Thou must bring thine offering into Gods house for those that be destitute of comfort must have and receive of the gift from the Altar and not from any mans personal gift neither can it be so proper as from God and his Church as given from a Fountain and from his house must relief come which is from the Altar of God so the left hand shall not know what the right hand doth for it shall arise from the Tythes or Tenth part of the substance under Gods hand as if we should all say we give thee this from the overplus which is a feeding together in one propriety of an enjoyment under God so that every mans Tythes being consecrated to Gods house should make up every breach that Charity may have its perfect work to fulfill the Law of Liberty which is a Gospel freedome from the first Melchizedeck which may be called an endlesse freedome for the creatures of God to enjoy and so to make his house a Common Treasury to the peodle and not to command Tythes as Dues to the Minister neither can ye lawfully demand it either by Law or Gospel if ye can then disprove this which is written What if the Minister shall receive Tythes yet he is to bring it into Gods house for an offering and not to enrich himself but to be contented with the meanest condition to be humble to God and lowly to man and in so doing he shall not defile the offering of Gods Temple nor make his Ordinance a prophane thing which our Ministers have formerly done Priest I am your Inheritance saith the Lord and no other inheritance can you have of God for the overplus of his house is for you to eat and to drink with the stranger the fathenlesse and the widow What if thy Tythes be charged into Gods House it is the seventh part of thy gift that God looks for which shall make up his seventh Jubilee or seventh Vial called his rest which is a fulsilling all his Commands Ye shall keep my Sabbath Ordinances and not break my rest In a word the Priests of God must be free from all outward inheritance and in case of want they may lawfully eat and drink with such as be receivers at the Altar of God Priest I am your Inheritanee Deutr. 14.29 declareth of their not having any inheritance and because of the uncertainty of their condition therefore they shall eat and drink with the fatherlesse this alarm in Sion cometh home to our Ministers Priests and Levites Under the Law it was to them but a time but to our Teachers for a shorter time And if the Priesthood failed under the time of the Law how much more shall it do under the Gospel By this high Priest and his eternal Priesthood and upon the third appearance your preaching shall cease and that shall be when the two witnesses shall stand up to plead for Gods heritage and the peoples Inheritance and at their appearing your preaching must cease which is the partiality of one mans tongue for God will have two faithful Witnesses to plead in your Churches that shall satisfie the Consciences of the hearers Yet farther Gods Ministers ought not to stain themselves with worldly cares having food and rayment wherewith to be contented which is not so low a condition as our Saviours were having no where to hide his head Ministers what do you fear if God hath an House and in it a Common Treasury then fear not but the Church shall minister to your wants and be not offended though we move you to the Altâ—â— it is not an Altar set up in your Churches to bow unto but it is to the Altar of God that shall alter your Customes and priestly powers Leviticus 27.30 Numb 18.28 Deut. 14.29 Exod. 23. Deut. 26.12 13. Deut. 10.9 18.1 2. the Priests and Levites shall have no Inheritance with Israel therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren Lastly if Christ Jesus had given his Disciples the benefit of Tythes