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A05464 [Come out of her my people] or an ansvver to the questions of a gentlevvoman (a professour in the Antichristian Church of England) about hearing the publicke ministers vvhere it is largely discussed and proved to be sinfull and unlavvfull. Also a iust apologie for the way of total separation (commonly but falsely called Brownisme) that it is the truth of God, though lightly esteemed in the eyes of the blinde world. With a challenge to dispute with them publickly before King & Counsell: to prove whatsoever I said at the pillery against them. Viz. that the calling of them all is jure diabolo: even from the divell himselfe. By mee John Lilburne. Close prisoner in the Fleete for the cause of Christ.; Come out of her my people. Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657. 1639 (1639) STC 15596; ESTC S107364 35,511 36

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hands and from your Tyrannising crueltie But if he doe not be it knowne unto you Oh ye Prelates that I will not serve you nor worship you nor yeeld nor submit in any spirituall things unto you And if I were at liberty I would professe those Truths of God surely without feare which he himselfe hath made knowne unto me And if J were at any time taken by any of their Officers I would not goe to prison with them unlesse they carried me by force Yet if it were the meanest Officer in the Kingdome that tooke me that were made an Officer by vertue of the Kings Authority and power I would submit unto him and goe with him whether he would have me for I know the Kings Authority is from God And if I should disobey it I should disobey God and sinne against God and breake his Command Rom. 13. And therefore I will obey him his Lawes and all those that beare his Authority in all things they command or enjoyne me without any the least resistance at all heartily from my heart either actively or passively for if they command me any thing that is not contrary to the Word of God I will obey them actively But if they command me any thing that is dishonourable to God or his Truth I dare not in the least obey them actively but say with the Apostle whether it be fitt to obey God or Men judge ye for we ought to obey God rather then Men Acts 5.29 Yet I will submit my body to them and suffer cheerfully without any grudging any thing they shall inflict upon me for I doe hold it unlawfull for any of Gods people in their greatest Oppression by the Majestrate to rebell or to take up any Temporal armes against them whether the Oppression be in Spirituall or Temporall things but only to pray and make use of Gods two edged Sword Heb. 4.12 Rev. 19.15 and waite upon with patience for redresse and deliverance and to seeke unto him for strength that they may willingly and couragiously suffer any Terrours or Torments that they will inflict upon them for standing close to God and his naked Truth and cause But to the Kingdome of the Beast these members of which the Prelates are will I never stoope by the might of the Lord of Hosts nor have any spirituall communion with them for the Lord hath expresly commanded me and all his people to have nothing to doe with Idols nor with Idolaters 1 Cor. 10.14 1 Iohn 5.21 Exod. 23.32 Deut. 7.1.2.3.4.5 and 12.3 Now they are the greatest Idolaters that euer were in rhe world and the most pernitious Idols that are upon the Earth Rev. 9.20 cap 17. for they haue a golden Cup put in their hands it is full of abomination filthines with it they dazle the eyes of the world make it to cōmit close hiddē fornication Idolatrie which is the greatest and most dangerous Idolatrie that is for they couer their wickednesse and deceiveablenesse over with the Name of the Lamb but for all that doe the deeds of the Dragon Rev. 13.11 Iohn 8.44 But if they professed Idolatry openly to the eyes of the World the people would detest them but they doe it closely and covertly and therefore are not so easily discerned but deceive very many Math. 24.5 And therefore the Beasts Kingdome is called as it is indeed the Misterie of iniquitie 2 Thess 2.7 Now J will maintaine it that the Kingdome of the Beast is the greatest Idol that ever was in the World and the greatest plague that ever God sent into the World as the Revelation of Saint Iohn doth declare and as appeares by the expressions of the Spirit of God in the 8. Chapter where we may read that when the 4. First Angels had sounded their Trumpets mighty and horrible plagues then followed them worse and more great were to come after as appeares by the vehement expressions and calling out of the Holy Ghost with a loud voice Verse the last Saying Woe Woe Woe to the inhabitants of the Earth reitterating 3 times together by reason of the other voices of the Trumpet of the three Angels which are yet to sound For why the fifth Angell in the first Verse of the next Chapter sounded then followed a mighty horrible plague to all the inhabitants of the world The like whereof was never heard off before and that is the smoake that came out of the bottomlesse pitt which was that horrible darkenesse and spirituall blindnesse and sottish ignorance that seazed upon the World dureing the time of the Beasts Kingdome which was so great that the visible face of a Church of Christ could not be found upon the Earth for the heavens departed as a scroll together Rev. 6.14 And out of this smoake or darknesse came the Locusts the beasts officers or Clergy which are a multitude in number there being in the Kingdome of Antichrist at this day above an hundred severall Officers Whereas in the Kingdome of Christ there is but 5. Namely Pastor Teacher Elder Deacon and Widdow Rom. 12.7.1 Ephes 4.11 Phil. 1.1 1 Tim. 3.1.2 and 5. Titus 1.5.7 Againe the Spirit of God pronounceth another woe to the inhabitants of the Earth and of the Sea for the Devill is turned downe unto you having great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time the like expression we read not of in the whole Booke of God nor that there were any such plagues since the beginning of the World As those were which came along with the Kingdome of the Roman Beast as the Stories of all ages since his beginning is able to witnesse and prove for men worshipped the Devill and committed such horrible wickednesse for which God sent such mighty plagues upon them as the like before was never heard off before in the world as the whole Booke of the Revelation doth witnesse Therefore of all Idols that ever were in the World Gods people have most cause of all to detest abhorre and abominate the Idolaters and the Idols in the Kingdom of the Beast whosoever the Lord loves he will deliver frō them Rev. 20.4 But those that are his enemies and hated of him shall continue in subjection to it Rev 9.4 and 13.8 and 14.9.10.11 and 19.20 Pro. 2.18.19 and 5.5 and 7.27 and 9.18 Now the time of the raigne and durance of the Kingdome of the Beast in the 11. Rev. 2. is said to be 42 moneths and in the 12. Rev. 14. it is called a time times and halfe a time which is three yeares and a halfe And in the first Verse of this Chapter it is tearmed to be 1260 dayes which is just 42 moneths reckoning 30 dayes to every moneth and it makes also three yeares and a halfe accounting 12 Moneths to every yeare and this is the time of the Raigne of the Beast or the durance of Antichrists Kingdome Which if we reckon each day for a yeare as the Lord himselfe in Scripture