Witch up the prices of corn These are abominable branches and theeves to the Common wealths good All these and such as these be would be branded with the letter G. signifying God hath plagued thee Now this publick theft is far worse then poor poverteous theft for poor poverty judgeth the law and justifieth it self When the world and all outward means fail yet God will be seen in equity and will justifie the poor mans condition in a way of consideration Sir you and all the Parliament should be the breasts of our Consolation yet we know not how you will order our Common wealths affaires which as yet we lye under your veyl and liable to your Disposing not yet enjoying a free National stability according to Gods Institution or Creation but to live in hope and above hope looking beyond all outward externals which is nothing in his sight Now the Over-ruling power and providence of God guide you in those great affaires you take in hand Yet further to let you understand we lie yet in Darknesse under a sad Dispensation betwixt a King and an unsetled State full of murmurings distractions and declinings from true godlinesse working our own ends by personal greatnesse not seeing that sweet enjoyment we might have in God if we did not so highly prize this fading world but to see nothing honourable below Christ but all mens honours shall quake as an Aspen leafe and none shall hold but that of godlinesse Who is afflicted and I not or who shall declare but I from the Lord I fear not to speak the truth in the Lords Design I can have no rest night nor day untill I see his work accomplished but there is much covetuousnesse and oppression in our Nation that as yet we must not say our God is a reconciled God but his hand is stretched out still untill he hath bent Juda and gathered in Israel and restored Jerusalem and untill then the sword shall drink bloud and shall not cease is it riches honour or greatnesse ye strive for O take the best Season and goldenest Opportunity it is not an outward enjoyment will make you inwardly happy but in that you tread down all principalities and powers for Christ Jesus his Crown and Dignities and that is the highest appearance and fullest power and God will crown the works of all his Saints that stand up for his Kingly Power and I beseech you to lay down your honour at Christs feet and then you shall be exalted for things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth must bowe at the Name of Jesus and at his appearance for God will bring down the high spirits of Mount Seir and Capernaum and he haughtinesse of the proud earth shall come down and the humble shall be exalted for the Lord will raise the honour of his Son that hath been long crucified under the worlds tyranny so that at his appearing both Lord and King shall refuse their titles of honour I speak not this to your disgrace but to speak the things I have heard and seen Act. 4.20 and I dare not but appear for Christ in the face of fire and faggot or greatest damp or danger I am a poor man I am sure I need not look for honour neither do I acknowledge any thing honourable below Christ therefore in truth Lord your honour must fall at his appearing O would to God you would make known that which cannot be hid for now it is high time to awake that Sion should put on strength for now it is come to the birth and wanteth your help to bring forth O that you would please to stand up to maintain true Judgment that Justice may run down our streets so you shall prosper in blessings even as a garden refreshed with sweet drops from above verily ye shall be as the morning Star in brightnesse to passe the Lord shall blesse your going out and your comig in he shall be your consolation and great peace and much happinesse shall attend your gates The Work in hand is to raise the Tabernacle of David that is fallen which is a restoring of many generations The duty we are Obliged is to build Gods house and to destroy all other foundations and to come into one fold which is Christs sheepfold called the new Model or Jewestical Fabrick We are all bound to build up the partition wall that hath been trod down so long even the holy City which our Saviour and Lord telleth us shall be trod down untill the fulnesse of the Gentiles come in Zach. 6.14 the 3. 5. he is your King Hos 2. I will betroth thee unto me in loving kindnesse and in mercy Make the Lord your King he is your King which if you do the high Lord will blesse you in your good name in your person and in your estate and will raise good out of your generations that you may be called the Repairer of the breach and restorer of paths to dwell in He is your King Psal 21. thou hast a perfect crown of gold upon his head Psalm 22. For the Kingdome is the Lords and he is the Governour among the Nations Psalm 2. Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill Sion His Kingly power was seen in Joseph Psalm 150.21 22. He made him Ruler over all his substance to bind his Princes at his pleasure and to teach his Senatours wisdome he set Moises his servant and Aaron whom he had chosen and his wonders was seen in the Land of Ham. And the Prophet John saith he that overcometh shall rule the Nations with a rod of iron Surely our God shall do this and greater things Another great example under the type of Joshuah Jos 3. If thou wilt walk in my ways and if thou wilt keep my charge then shalt thou judge my House and keep my Court and I will give thee places with them that stand by In this we see that God is ever ready to crown a good work also they that be faithful to God he will be faithful to them Further that your Excellency would be pleased to let the prisoners go free that their cry may not come up to the Lord by relation some of them have died in prison by salvage cruelty There is no Nation under heaven but do allow their prisoners something if it be but bread and water but in truth some have not had that allowance which is not Christian-like being kept there having no relief nor support Is God seen in it or shall he not controverse for these things Open your prison gates for pity and let offenders be branded as bond-servants with a letter to be known to whom they have offended and so to restore as they be able and and not to keep them in hell upon earth Also it is manifested that some poor godly Christians have lost their lives denying their designe not having justice which were their arrears desiring it for their wives and could not have it and
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