walke after the custome of the World I say If thou livest not after the example of Christ thou art a Minister of sinne and thy life doth not teach others then thou maist preach to others and be a cast-away thy self Alas poor fleshly man thou teachest the Letter and yet art ignorant of the truth thou hast set thy self high in a say-Pulpit to speak great things in a seenal way of repetitions speaking many things to please the people Ye be subtil Sophisters men-pleasers and self-seekers that can derive themselves into many formes contrary to the truth of God by setting up Sub-ordination in the place of Ordination to set themselves higher then Christ And in that they are made equal with him for he was made a little lower then the Angel meaning the Angels of your Churches that still keep him upon the Cross and crucifie his power Christ was ordained Minister of God but ye ordained your selves I can give a relation of one within the County of Lincolne a Minster called Mr. Male as I understand doth ordaine Ministers and that some petty Ministers have come many Miles to be ordained of him which is intolerable I wonder his heels are not pictured upwards Thus they may do though not by Lawful means But be you sure all sub-powers must down as things in Heaven and things on Earth and things under the Earth must bow at the name of Jesus He is the Prince of Peace and Prince of Power the Lord shall be exalted in all the Earth and your powers shall come down as low as dry Bones Ye high Priests know this that your state is failable for as you have cryed down the Bishop and his Surplis so now the Witnesses shall cry down with your Pulpits and your Fonts you are spiritual high in your own conceit full of pride sedition and covetousness self-seeking full of envy and bitterness in that ye differ not from the general world yet you can say you are the Ministers of God yet not walk after the example of Christ This that I declare is called your Funeral-Sermon or wind-up for ye shall be eclipsed by the bright appearings of the Lord. This eclipse took its first entrance in the year 1650. which shall cause the greatest earth-quake that ever was since the creation and the power of it shall decline towards the fourth or fifth yeer after 50. here in England Doctors what will ye do when your Tythes fail and your Ministery fails your new-Moons and Sabbaths fail then it shall be to you as the mourning of Hadadrimmon or a destructive time when ye shall have no audience or accommodation of the people for every one shall have a personal power put in them to stand alone without Preachers They shall be so inherently taught of God that the Minister shall say no more to them Know the Lord for they shall all be Prophets inwardly and shall stand by a personal faith as Abraham and Noah did in fulness of Spirit for the Lord saith In the last dayes I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh and my servants and hand-maids shall prophesie When ye Ministers may say We are Vine-dressers and Husbandmen to till the waste Commons for our weekly Sabbaths are changed into one Sabbath once a year we shall go up to worship the Lord and to keep a Feast of Tabernacles which is a true Sabbath according to Christs Resurrection to keep a good conscience which is a Feast in the heart of the Creature and that is the best Sabbath to live in all righteousness every day which is a Sabbath And though the Jew have have lost his new-Moon and thou O Gentile thy new-Moon yet thou shalt remember the Lord and once a year consecrate thy gift to him and keep a new Sabbath by an offering to God in his new Covenant to worship him with all thy substance and then it will appear that thou art one of the new Sabbath Thou must deny thy self-ends and all sinister engagements and so betroth thy self unto God in righteousness to covenant with him according to the new-Sabbath Though the Constellations may fail yet his Sabbath-Ordinance shall stand it shall not be disannulled Heaven and Earth may pass away but not one jot or tittle of his word shall fail For Christ is the word of the Sabbath and in him we shall have rest if we enter into Covenant and that is to acknowledge him by a new Sabbath for in those dayes and at that time saith the Lord I will make with them a new Covenant not according to the old for this shall be the Covenant that I will make never to turn from them or take away the Ordinance of Sabbath from them Yet the Lord saith I hate your Sabbaths because your hands are full of blood As if he should say Ye keep Sabbaths to your selves and transgress my holy day Once a year thou shalt come up to keep a Feast of Tabernacles and all that will not come to the worship of Jerusalem shall have no rain or raigning power in this new Sabbath of rest Silly Priest I question not though thy Sabbath be taken away for Christ is thy eternal Sabbath and thou shalt worship him according to the order of Jerusalem for all your subordinances shall stoop at ordination your Sabbaths shall change into one Sabbath If thou wilt walk in my wayes and do that I command thee this day then thou shalt ride upon the high places of the Earth that is whoever shall Covenant to this new Sabbath shall enjoy all the promises the Lord saith I will dwell in you and ye in me Ministers your Sabbaths are failable therefore they be called your Sabbaths by illusion as if he should say If ye keep a day keep it to me for you observe dayes and do no righteousness therefore your new Moons and Sabbaths shall change and be taken away for I will make a new Covenant with them saith the Lord not according to the old but this shall be my Covenant never to turn from them that truely Covenant to me saying I will betroth thee unto me in mercy and loving kindness and thou shalt know the Lord for my counsel shall stand Doctor the taking away your Sabbath shall cause the Lords Sabbath to shine out more clear for ye have changed my Ordinances Mal. 3. Therefore the Land is cursed with a curse and your moonorital Sabbaths shall change if ye keep one day keep it to me saith the Lord. So that we ought to keep every day as a Sabbath once a year to make out our accompts which is Easter-day and the six dayes before it for every year shall be called as a Sabbath-day and so from year to year ye shall keep my Sabbath Ordinances and live in them that is from year to year ye must come to Jerusalems worship Zachary 14. Christ preached every where and made every day a Sabbath It is not for thee and me to keep a day once
number of seven yeers that their weapons and power shall have an end Now to accomplish this prophecie look in Ezek. 38. he speaketh of burning their weapons burying of their bones which we hope will be in some short time after 1650. or before 1657. in our Nation We cannot predict the full accomplishment or make out a full discovery of the great designe he hath to do or when it shall fully end yet I hope the time is at hand for a short work will the Lord make upon earth to redeem those dry bones that have been very dry poor Witnesses of Christ killed and troden down by your Priestly power false Christs second-hand Teachers of the letter but can give no spiritual life and yet call your selves Ministers of God you shall fall with great rebuke one witness of Christ shall chase a thousand of you and two witnesses shall put ten thousand of you to flight O down with your false power for Christ Jesus will redeem Israel out of your hands The two Witnesses plead shall bring down your power as lowe as Doctor Hill's bones for the Witnesses shall live without your teachings and shall stand upon their feet a mighty Army O Arm of the Lord every Power shall perish under thee Object Doth Christ need Ministers then where is his power or divine light or spiritual appearances Doth he not appear in all and teach all by a spiritual teaching which is far higher then all fleshly teachers can do I am ashamed to hear your Sorceries to say ye are his Ministers then ye may go and teach him what to do The Heavens preach the Stars preach and the Creatures preach in Psal 14. but what is this to the preaching of God in his power Christ Jesus is in the mount and preacheth to all things John saith he is the Angel fleeing in the midst of heaven and preaching the everlasting Gospel to every kindred language and nation then what need we have so many Preachers When Christ preacheth to all he silenceth the tongues of men and Angels Christ is upon the mount and it cleft asunder shewing that every preaching power shall break and dissolve Now the Angel he preacheth in power Christ Jesus is the Angel of the Covenant therefore let all the earth be silent he will make all quiet before him it is he alone that shall still the rage of the sea and will quiet mens spirits when they shall yield the power of preaching into his hand when Ministers shall strive no more for their own power He is the onely preacher When he stood upon mount Olivet it cleft in sunder so shall every preaching power dissolve before him He is the preacher of light and life but ye Diviners Soothsayers and Flatterers ye call your selvs preachers what need that There is but one preacher he standeth on the mount Christ he shall put all rule and all authority under his feet he leadeth us by his holy Spirit that shall guide us in all truth The Creatures may preach yet not declare forth the invisible power of God for that is proper to Christ alone to preach forth the everlasting Gospel Rev. 14. Therefore stop your mouthes ye Priests for every one shall be taught of God from the greteast to the least even ye high Doctors must come under the teachings of the Son of God he is the Day-star that dawneth from on high If ever thou wilt see life that spiritual life must be from him to transform thee into the likeness of him for the way of all mens teachings shall burn up with their wood and straw and every untempered thing which holds up the abomination that makes desolation And truely Ministers are to blame in this thing of discipline Paul saith Eph. 3.10 that principalities and powers in high places ought to be approved by the Church that is to put forth Queries of Scripture and to quire out every truth by witnesses for every vision shall fail at the beatifical vision Ye sons of Ai must down it is not any visible power that can stand before the invisible nor any created power stand before the Ordained and Created Minister of God Ye sons of Levi must throw down though you have been Legators so long yet now there is an Alligator that teacheth us all things by his bright appearing far higher then you can elevate It is not your literal teachings but it is the invisible teachings of the Son of God that maketh wise to salvation Call not thy self a Minister of Christ for he is a Minister of himself Therefore lay down thy power for he teacheth us in all truth We and our predecessors have been taught by you and such as have called themselves Lord Bishops horrible names and intolerable to call themselves Lords And you Priests call your selvs Ministers of Christ yet you are but of that spawn of Euphrates that shall dry up with thy Lord Bishop Lord of folly Those and such as you be have nuzled up the people to thie day But now God will teach his people to stand and live without your Lordly power Your Bishops are fallen and you must fall under contempt for sitting in the holy place as Ministers or false Christs to deceive and seduce the people Some of you have gone under the notion of Lord Priests great Impropriators of Tythes and Donatives and could license authority and give gifts to men as spiritual Peters that had the keys of Purgatory but not the keys of heaven-gates they could lock and unlock they had all in their own hands as if they had been spiritual Lords of heaven and earth And truely what are ye Ministers and high Doctors If the Bishops were the cedars you are the shrubs that must be pluckt up for your power is like to burn as one of the four Constellations for your heavenly power shall go down with your earthly power and shall be consumed by invisible fire from above The universality of God shall so appear in flesh that men shall refuse your teachings and shall repair to the house of the Lord saying He will teach us of his ways which will put an end to your divided Ministery When God teacheth all shall be silenced Ministers silenced and people silenced and every power silenced in heaven and in earth John saith There was silence in heaven for the space of half an hour which declareth Gods wonderful works When Medeum is in the midst of his power in the top of the mountains your elevated powers shall cleave in sunder and every power shall shake and fall at the presence of Christ the great King Oh faithless generation can ye not stand and live in faithfulness to Christ he teacheth thee and me all things how to live he doth inherently teach every one that will savingly come to God and none can come to the Father but by him all other Teachers are but vain ostentation and failable but God inwardly teacheth Ye high Doctors petty Priests Legators and Merit-mongers
Fourthly he will appear by Witnesses which shall extinguish one mans tongue for the mouth of two or three witnesses shall be an establishment and the many Voyces shall swallow up your Ministerial Voyce These two witnesses shall have power in the dayes of their Prophesie to turn the waters into blood so often as they will that is to declare forth the bloody condition of blood-thirsty persons which you dare not do for losing your impropriated Parsonages These Witnesses shall have power to shut Heaven gates so often as they will that it rain not It is not meant the imperial Heaven of Heavens but it is meant they shall shut the gates of the heavenly and visible Kingdom here below that none shall enter in to raigne in that pure State but such as shall be approved Members of that glorious Jerusalem above These Witnesses shall have power to shut Heaven that iâ— rayne not that is twelve it shall not raigne in the dayes of their power but shall be finally swallowed up in the Victory of Christ it shall not raigne it and it it and it it and it it and it it and it it and it That is no outward power shall raign in the time of Christs power The first the first thing that shall not raigne is Earthly King and Grace The second thing that shall not raigne is Lord and Protector The third thing that shall not raigne is Power and Excellency of Man The fourth thing that shall not raigne is Worship and Honor. The fifth thing that shall not raign is Highness and Greatness of Men. The sixth thing that shall not raigne is Priest and Lawyer for Christ will sit upon the backs of all those and be exalted by the multitude of the people multitudes multitudes shall stand upon Angella Christ must raign by his Saints till he hath put all Authority and power under his Feet 2 Cor. 15. The Feet of the two Witnesses shall tread in pieces the Dragons tail as Christ broke his head so they shall bruise his heel for the Antitype of Satans Kingdom must fall and perish under the power of Army Giddon O Army Army Arme of the Lord he will create a defence upon thy Walls and Bulworks They shall have power to shut Heaven that it rain not that is they shall silence all the powers and the Angels of your Churches that is by a new disciplying power that shall put down the raigning power of such as have raigned over his power though they may make an attempt against the holy City yet fire must come down from Heaven and destroy them Any instrument framed against the power of Jerusalem shall not prosper none shall raigne in this Kingdom but the faithful Witnesses of Christ called and chosen These Witnesses are said to be two though many in number yet two is the least number which maketh one mans testimony void and of none effect Ye great and high Doctors and all ye Legators what will become of your Courts and infamous Colledges I suppose in short time they will stand like old Pauls or the Barn of Westminster without any trading very infamous yet borne up with Crutches whose constellations will fail and all your Priestly powers which have raigned so long over the people for there is one King one Lord one High-Priest and one Prophet that shall put down every power High and lofty Doctors that haâ—e got so many hundreds a year in your hands and yet are commanded to bring your Tythes into Gods Store-house and not into your own houses you have kept the people under bondage which God will now set at liberty when your Ministery is down yet the people shall bring the tenth of their substance into Gods Store-house as their Father Abraham did which shall shame your doings that are not good He saith You go to your Cieled Houses but my House lyeth desolate and ye rob Gods House of the benefits and come not in at the Door but clime up some other way which is unlawful And Christ saith I am the Door the Truth the Life and ye injoy all things of my Father and those benefits of Tythes you cannot injoy to your selves for they be proper to the Widow the Fatherless the Stranger the Blind and the Lame and to be brought into the Store-house for Collection and hospitality to those that want But in this I finde the Priests do omit and commit Sacriledge against the Order of Gods house Ye Doctors see and wonder the Lord hath appeared in me that I should be to you as a foolish Shepherd to tell you of folly sometimes in the night when my Body slept yet my spirit was awake and heard as it had been Voyces both in the night and also on the day which caused me to write when he declared unto me the things that should shortly come to pass by so many dark and spiritual appearances which are hideous to men yet known to me as one born in due time Doctor High-Priest you must stoop at ordination Christ was an ordained Minister so was not you he was sent of his Father Now if you can prove your selves ordained Minsters then you may put Christ out of his place You are of the Stepmother or Bondwoman and came not in at the Door which is not according to ordination but by way of impropriation or a taking Christs place upon your selves and set your selves in high places as Ministers of God though not ordained yet you take upon you the place of Christ and declare your selves Pastors to the People and yet not able to feed your selves O silly Shepherds know assuredly there is but one Pastor and that is Christ alone he is Pastor unus Pastor varius Pastor magnus and Pastor function he is the great Shepherd and Bishop of our souls he is our book of remembrance he is the eternal word without any Letter-teachers It 's a great shame that men live more by the teachings of men then they do by the teachings of the Sonne of God which teacheth us in all things Then down with all your Letter-teachers that are as Lawyers that study wisdom by art by policy by learning and skill to deceive them of weak understanding Mal 3. saith There was a Book of Remembrance opened and they talked often together which was the best teaching So that Voyces and Witnesses shall be heard in the room of the Priests for ye must lay down your Priestly power ye must deny your selves and declare Christ to be all in all that he may be Priest King over all but ye have stood so long as Vice-admiral over all in your Pulpits domineering over the People to keep them under your rule Doctor thou canst not truly preach Christ till thou throwest all down at his Feet and whatever thou beest thou must throw down thy own self-power Object What a Minister and throw-down his power Answ Yes why not for how canst thou royally preach Christ and declare thy self a Minister of God and yet
defile the Christian Marriage and break your Sabbath-union with Christ to follow Teachers whose breath is in their nostrils and shall down at the testimony and feet of the two Witnesses when all things shall be brought upon record and great Babylon shall come in remembrance and power shall be given to the Saints as Daniel John and Peter declareth Then Doctor look to it for thou shalt be censured by the Church then Kings shall throw down and Lords throw down and Honours throw down and Priests throw down we must all throw down our Crowns and Dignities and stoop to the first dominion Thy kingdom come whose Scepter shall not fade away every pretended Power framed against him shall not prosper If thou callest thy self King it is high conspiracie against the King of heaven so to pollute his holy name for he is that one Lord of the whole earth Now if he be Lord then thy name Lord must down of necessity for God will have his Name known thorow all the earth and before him every knee shall bow Then set not up thy self the greatest climb may have the greatest fall If thy place be never so high amongst men yet it may be but a left-hand-mercy or such a priviledge as will decline and whoever standeth as Lord or King shall fall at the appearing of Christs power And the Prophet Daniel saith They shall fall too that hold them up that is he that giveth the name Lord to a man he shall fall by dishonour for there shall be but one Lord over the earth and his Name one for the name of Baal Monarchy shall be cut out of the earth that assume to themselves such high honour and pollute his holy Name it is an intolerable Witchcraft that shall be cut out of the earth that hath so long deceived the people calling fleshly man Lord and so pollute the name of the holy One of Israel taking his name in vain He is the Lord of the Creation therefore stand up for him and thy liberty O Army Army arm of the Lord stand up for it is given thee That every Power shall perish under thee Army-giddon valley of destruction or a destructive sword shall rise that God will fourbish against all the powers none excepted but his Divine power shall stand that shall govern under him his power shall raign in all places and so far as they keep up the Lords honour they shall stand with prosperity But your honourable-men must fall though they set their names as high as heaven yet they shall come down for the Lord will set on fire the four elements which are not the skies as silly men teach but it is that heavenly power that hath raigned so long and shall now burn at his bright appearing and shall expel all the Witchcraft of the world Secondly the general world must change its course by a more sweet comply of Government and to lay by their outward Idolatry The third element that shall burn is the proud waters Euphrates seven streams of powers shall dry up all the Egyptian powers shall be dissolved and no power shall stand but that of the Son of God The fourth element that shall burn is the Moon and Stars Christ saith Matth. 24. When the light shineth from the east to the west then the power of the Son of man is nigh at hand You know when the Sun appeareth in its brightness the Moon and Stars must give place to that light and it onely raigneth over them so Doctors Ministers and Churches your lights shall go out at his appearing and all your Moonorical powers shall be extinguished and all the Stars called Ministers shall lose their borrowed lights when every one shall acknowledge Christ to be their Minister and live under their own vine So much for the four Elements called the four Constellations which is the Church-power or otherwise called Moon and Stars that shall fail at his bright appearing that the glory of the Son of God may appear from on high and that all may be reconciled to his light declaring him to be King Lord Priest and Prophet the onely called Minister of God before whom every Ministery shall cease onely pleading for truth shall hold with prayer and mourning among all Christians called the great mourning of all the families of the earth every family apart when the brightness of the Son of God appeareth it shall be as the mourning in Hadadrimmon when there shall be trembling and quaking as the Prophets did in their times of danger when there shall be a great shaking that men shall shake Ministers shake and every power shake truely then it behoveth every one to quake and tremble for the Lord will terribly shake the earth the mighty men shall fall the honorable men shall throw down their Honors and shall deny their high Titles of Grace and Worship for all their seenal Witchcrafts shall be cut out of the earth and every Witch that deceiveth the people every Soothsayer shall be found out and every Sorcerer that deceiveth for all things shall be proved upon the Sanctuary thou shalt not worship any graven image which is but an earthly man to fall down and worship before him thou shalt worship God and him alone and not man whose breath is in his nostrils though living in honour yet shall perish as the beasts from his presence as contemptible IT hath always been that wicked Hamans have ruled over the people of God they be called Gog or Haman-Gog that shall be brought under and so low that they shall not act as they have formerly done What have your Pulpittians been all along but as a Gallows to hang up Mordecai's Though I do not say all Ministers are Hamans yet some of that strain have been cruel men called Bishops and for the most part you Priests are much like the generation that fell before Adam so proud that God in his jealousie threw them down They were called the Angels that fell and Royally petype out Ministers that John calleth the Angels of the Churches or the Stars that must fall that have stood so long in the holy place of Christ and now shall be bound down with the world under the name and notion of the worldly kingdom that shall suddenly be bound down for one thousand yeers When Christs power shall raign then Satan and his kingdom shall be bound said to be Haman-Gog that shall have no more power to assail and afflict the people of Christ when the persecuting power is taken off when the Saints shall sit and judge the Ministers which hold up the power of the Beast which stand so high as Lord Speaker to silence the people Ye Ministers are called the abomination sitting in the holy place as Mediators betwixt God and men so high in the place of Christ and therefore Capernaum exalted so high shall come down as lowe as dry bones for Gog and Haman-Gog's bones shall be gathered together and so be buried by the
you that can teach the holy Ghost saying ye have begotten souls and have power to convert souls truely in that ye are the greatest deceivers in the world Conversion is not from the letter of history it is a work of great mystery beyond mens prating Yet some of you will say you have begotten many souls to Christ which if ye can do so ye may set up Meriting-houses to please the people It is not your much teaching that can do it you be but Historians all upon the literal history not discerning the mystery of Gods work which is called Conversion It is Gods work let no dirt-danber meddle with converting of souls But some of you Historian Priests will say Did not Paul the great Doctor of the Gentiles convert souls I answer No. But did not Peter convert 3000 at one Sermon Yes he did so but it was but to an outward conformity of Religion as you train the people up to and all is but in the outward that ye can do for ye are not the very Christ to do it Then lay down for renovation is a work of God and not of man to do and Ministers stand for a cypher and the men of Galilee stand gazing upon them I am but a fool yet not the son of folly if I erre I erre for Christ He that giveth honour to mâ—n can never truely honour God Silly people have your Ministers perswaded you all this while saying they can convert souls and cannot O down with their power as lowe as Doctor Hills bones Let their power be utterly dissolved for in Gods account they be no more then other men and shall fall more contemptibly then the Bishops for they have hid the mystery of iniquity and kept it as a sweet morsel under their tongues and seduced the people These Merit-mongers Legators that keep the people under their bonds meriting Christs mediators betwixt God and the people as if the history of the Bible could convert souls Alas no it is not done by the history of mens works neither can it be done by the example of Historian Fatherly Authors it is not a work of history but Gods work of mystery to convert to salvation Therefore Priest lay down thy power and let the people speak from the heavenly University and as they be taught of God so let them speak from the All-speaker that shall teach both Minister and People Ye Mediators Ministers as ye call your selves ye seduce many souls and keep them under your yoke from that freedom they have or might have in God being free and yet not free by your bonds O down with all such yoke-Ministers if Christ hath made thee free thou art free indeed come no more under their yoke but walk so as thou mayst be judged by the law of liberty John bids thee buy eye-salve but not of men which is an outward and vain ostentation it is not an outward knowing that can do it it is by a spiritual inward knowing that we live You say that we receive faith by hearing or the preaching of faith I confess outward faith may come by the letter preached but saving faith is of the gift from above Then salvation is onely of God and not from the letter Then how hard a thing is it for a Priest to convert souls Even as to create the whole creation Therefore Doctor Priest thou must surely lay down thy power for thou hast taken upon thee a work of renovation which is beyond Ministers art and skill for Christ is the souls solempnicy and the first moving cause of our salvation he is our Minister and sollicitor and ye dissembling Christs that say ye have been means of mens salvation and have begotten souls to God and call your selves soul-saving Ministers Ye false tongues stop your mouthes for shame ye Wise-men Counsellors Priests and Legators Definators Merit-mongers that call your selves the Seers in Israel or Watch-men over poor souls Alas Doctors your sorrow is at hand Mic. 3. saith The seer shall be ashamed and the diviner confounded they shall cover their mouth for there is no answer of God You call your selves soul-savers but we may call you Wise-men that beguile the people whose counsel shall stand but a while for the Prophet Isaih saith Your counsellors shall be as at the first taught of God as Abraham and Noah were Christ and the Spirit of God is our great Counsellor and shall be as Law and Testimony in us that shall lead us in all truth and those be the two Witnesses of the great Jehovah dwelling in us which will confound every Ministerial power and every ordained power of man For now is the time of the Elijah and the Witnesses prophecie If ye be soul-saving Ministers then change the course of the rain if you can You say you can and have converted souls then you may as well change the course of drought which is now a judgement upon the earth for three yeers and a half But the Lord will make the heavens as brass and the clouds as iron And under this three yeers and a half the Witnesses shall prophesie in sackcloth though not utterly killed as they have been before the Law and under the Law and since Christ came in the flesh until now the opening of the sixth Seal which produceth life to the two Witnesses though by prisonment and sackcloth under this seventh Vial. Noble Pulpittian thou must lay down four high titles and give them up to Christ Thy Ministery Thy Priesthood Thy Power and thy Teaching for all this belongs to Christ But thou sayst thou art an instrument I doubt not but ye are some of those instruments spoken of by the Prophet Zechariah saying What are those instruments in thy hand he said to me These were they that wounded me in the house of my friends And the Lord saith he was wounded by such instruments You Ministers may be outward Ministers and yet come short of converting souls to God but what ye can do outwardly by a conformity and no more Thou art an instrument but not instrumental that is too high for man seeing thou art but a creature so I finde that there is no power in thy hand thy instrument cannot do it for he is instrumental and not thou Thou art haven but he is havencial Thou art a petty Priest but he is an eternal Priest Then become a fool as I am and throw down that thou mayst be made wise For he is the Priesthood-power and glory renovation is of God and not of men Doctor thou tellest me thou art instrumental and so far thou speakest an untruth for it 's proper onely to God And thou art but star but he is starrestial He is unmoveable and thou art changeable He is Minister and thou but Star Thou art an Angel but he is Angelical Thou art Man but he is God Christ is the Minister and Mediator of our souls and therefore lay down thy care and charge of mens souls and look to thy
to prove the truth Two candlesticks and two lights before the people when one mans tongue speaking shall be a lye every singular power shall be dissolved onely Christ shall stand singular over all He set his foot upon the hinder sea and his other foot upon the far sea he cleaveth the mount of Olivet in sunder and will diselevate all your historical power which shall be the beginning of the downfal of your Priestly power for Christ will sit upon it by twelve thrones will dis-throne all that stand so high in the place of ostentation they must come down and plead for truth among their lowe equals for their mount is cleft in sunder from the hinder sea to the far sea There shall no power stand before Christ the new Jerusalem for none shall stand singular in place of speaking but Christ alone and his two anoynted ones Therefore Alphaba it must down with thy all power of preaching in thine own tongue Now Christ doth appear your mount Elevate is cleft in sunder there shall not be one stone left upon another that shall not be thrown down And happy shall be that man that shall take your power and dash it against the wall Zech. 11. 10. I took my staff Beauty and brake it in sunder and it was broke in that day so the sheep that waited upon me knew that I was the word of the Lord. And truely he that brake the staff Beauty wil surely break the staff Bands that your elevated power may fall Christ is the Middinal Sainter or Mediator betwixt two he standeth as a tree of Mustard-seed little in shew yet great and orient in substance and splendorious to all and his name is Branch that is beautiful and shall grow up in the earth He is the tree of life standing in the garden of God and whoever eateth of it shall live for ever He is life eternal to all that thirst after him He is a Medium of comfort to all the oppressed he will in some measure still the rage of the sea Christ the Lord he is all righteousness You may definate but Christ is the definer of truth He is the Centre and stable medium of all things in heaven and in earth He is the fountain that filleth the two conduit-pipes with oyl called The two anoynted ones that stand before the God of the whole earth He filleth every Lamp with oyl Every high hill shall cleave asunder at his presence Who art thou O mountain before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain For every power shall be cleft in sunder before Almiddium the Lord he shall stand upon the sea with his face toward the hinder sea he and his two Witnesses shall stand in power to destroy the Red Dragon and his fury The faithful Witnesses of God shall stand by many two's yet one shall stand in the midst of them which is the tree of life Angelical And if any shall attempt or hurt them fire cometh down from heaven and shall destroy them This Angelical power of Christ with his Saints Evangelical shall strike the hinder parts of Leviathan which is the Dragons tayl so that fire from heaven shall burn up his fury for the jealousie of the Lord is gone forth and shall not return till it hath wrought the full work of God for lo saith the Lord the stone that I have laid before Joshua upon it shall be seven eyes which sheweth the glory of Christ that taketh away the iniquity of the land in one day and that shall be when we make the Lord our Minister then he shall take away our reproach Christ the heavenly Branch shall silence all flesh Men may preach all their days and cannot remove our reproach yet Christ can make our Gospel peace Mans preaching is but carnal policie But Christ is raised out of his place let men and Ministers be silent he hath the key of the bottomless pit he took the dragon bound him Rev. 20. he set a seal upon him that he should deceive the nations no more tell certain yeers expired The time when he was first bound was about 1600 yeers ago or thereabout And God hath shewed himself the more merciful in keeping us from his personal visage for so long since God hath shut him up under chains of darkness and from thence to this day his common appearance hath been hideous to man YE Assyrian Priests it is not your way to save souls it is proper to God alone ye may counsel them or inform them that 's all ye can do for God alone teacheth I will write my Law in their inward parts He spiritually teacheth and infuseth grace in the soul Priests and Levites it was to you for a time but our Ministers for a shorter time if mens Priesthood failed under the Law how much more shall yours be under Christ and as the Priests were cryed down under the Law by the Prophets how much more failable are you under the eternal Priesthood of Christ for all Tythes and Levitical forms of Tythes have ceased since Christ came in the flesh If Aaron the Priest could have no inheritance amongst Israel what benefits can ye expect under the everlasting Gospel Tythes were given at the first by a legal power of men and therefore it was called Legal or Levitical pretending td Gods house or to the righteousness of God till Christ came in the flesh which cut off old Levitical forms by a new Covenant nor according to the old saying I will make a new Covenant with them and write my Law in their inward parts as an eternal Sabbath in the conscience that shall burn up every outward form When Christ appeared in the flesh all Tythes and forms of slavery sure ceased Truly Doctor thou maist say what thou wilt yet I cannot believe thee though thou saist Thou art Christs Disciple yet I say thou art not except thou deniest thy self by a cessation of Tythe-forms for they must all cease there cannot a bit of Levitical Priesthood stand before Christ Jesus the eternal Priest every Priesthood must down for that made the Law a Law and the Divel a Divel Christ Jesus is a free Pastor to all that come unto him and all ye Doctors and Ministers are a generation of Angels must fall calling your selves Ministers of Christ for the Tythe and for the Fleece for money and Glebe-land ye sit as little Bishops gaping under a sunny bank so fat and so proud and no Disciples of Christ in his poverty Therefore Bishop-black shall array himself in Sheeps-clothing among others that be his low equals Christ is the royal Shepherd in the Mount Al-medium preacheth in the Mount and your Ministerial power shall go down he set his foot upon Mount Olivet and it cleft in sunder so shall your elevated power divide in sunder Now Al-medium preacheth in the Mount your Ministerial preaching shall go down your Olivet will cleave in sunder you go to your mercenary mediating houses but Christ is all in
all to me he is a Mediator and a Minister without your deffinating It is not your Church going or all your preaching that can do me any good but what I have received inwardly of God that keepers my life Christ saith He that heareth me heareth him that sent me and he that believeth me believeth him that sent me so that we ought to believe Christ and be taught of him alone for teachings of men are not the spirit of truth He saith If I go away I will send you the Comforter that shall teach you in all truth so that we must prove every spirit and hear the voice of Christ onely once in the Lord and ever in him once a year and ever from year to year to keep a Sabbath on Earth as it is in Heaven and so stand free and effectual to stand and live and live and stand fast in the liberty wherein Christ hath made us free and be no more entangled under the yoke of bondage of Priests that are in so many mindes and know not the truth Twenty Ministers twenty mindes and yet Mediators of the letter and tie themselves to observe dayes and new-moons beggerly rudiments full of legality and superfluity of words I wonder the world is so miserably seduced by them as if they could teach Heaven in the Mass-houses or Churches as ye call them which if men could teach Heaven what need we then to look upon Christ having so many merit-mongers or soul-saving Ministers Oh but say they We declare the minde of God and Christ to the people as if God were not present in all places or as if he were afar off and must have Embassadours to satisfie his elect Oh ye blinde guides doth not God keep up the full creation by a providence then much more by his power for Almedium teacheth in the Mount of his power which is far above your teachings and truly it is for you to leave off teaching that have stood singularly in Christs place so long and done little good it is time now to call an assembly to sit and set up thrones for Justice Oh people ye men of Galilee that stand gazing I believe I shall see you abhor your earthly gods and look upwards I mean you shall abominate all those leaders of silly women that bewitch the world in their own forms Can we think God is tied to the outward means once a week Is not he the same every day yesterday to day and for ever Ye endworkers that object and say Ye be the means that God hath ordained ye false Christs Mediators that stand so high to limit that holy one of Israel Is not God and his Son wise enough but they must have your help Had not we Abraham Moses and the Prophets and the Son of God after them to confirm all that are once entered into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God which is a free state free from the teaching power of a man and being set at liberty by Jesus Christ Then let us be no more entangled under their Priestly yoke Ye silly simple Priests you must come under the teachings of God as all other men must do when Justice Divine Thrones of Justice are set up then God will purge all you sons of Levi. But methinks I hear some high Priests say Why do you not quote Scripture to prove what you write My answer is Christ is the end of legal Scriptures and you have quoted Scriptures long enough and could never make out truth Christ is the word and the end of all Scriptures and standeth in his place when all Scriptures shall be failable and every vision shall be unfolded at the beatifical vision of Christ Jesus and truly Scriptures are good but Christ is the principal then let us hold fast to the principal and wave the letter Christ is the foundation and every mans work ought to be built upon him Men and Prophets in the old time spake as they were moved by inspiration and yet it was but by the by or by the moving power of the holy Ghost so being written by the inspiration of Christ sheweth that he is the Word far beyond all Scripture written by men that stand but by Christ and are failable when he cometh in power He is the chief medium and principal Senator and we must throw off our earthly gods I mean all our Priests onely to rest upon him for until then we shall have no true Sabbath He is our Sabbath if we come out from the Priests then he will give us true rest he is our Vine to live under therefore my bowels yearne over the people to see them led off from Christ by legating Priests as wise-men and Lawyers standing in Pulpits when grave Christians shall be taught by some young boyes standing in their Priestly Office so high in Pulpits it is a great shame that godly men and women do not come out from them and stand upon their feet and say Christ alone is my Teacher I have been much deluded by proud Priests by covetous Priests by scandalous Priests by young Priests by ruffinly Priests by swearing Priests by literal Priests by historical Priests and by deceiving Priests that have kept us from the power of Christ and freedom of Sabbath tying the people to their set-forms or what they call a Sabbath Their mass and dirge shall down for every form shall cease but one and that is the Government of Christ that shall stand when all your Priestly power shall lie as low as Doctor Hill's bones Doctor thou canst prove but one calling and that was a Law to Adam That thou shouldst work and labour by the sweat of thy brows as others do none excepted and no other calling of Ministery canst thou prove Therefore thou must without dispute throw down thy trade of preaching at Christs feet of two Witnesses called the Law and Testimony writ in thy conscience People I can but controverse with you ye say ye know God and love God and fear God I say No ye know the Priests ye fear the Priests and ye love the Priests otherwayes ye would renounce their wayes contrary to Christs The Priests are dissemblers but Christ is our true Minister They tell thee a fair tale that Christ is simply good he is full of pure simplicity an high attribute so low yet above all the Priests how are ye married to Christ and yet follow after fained lovers If Christ hath redeemed you think it enough follow not after those that deceive silly men and women and lead them captive from Christ as if we could not enjoy Christ without the teachings of men having the Spirit of God and the Scripture with the example of Christ and the Prophets and having so much Apostolical divine light methinks they might guide us in the true way Methinks I see the Priests grow shamed the light discovereth their veile cast over the people and the people begin to see them so black and Christ in his brightness
so pure in a heavenly shape but the Priests are as Locusts that shall fall under Armegiddon Euphrates shall dry up Oh Army Army Arme of the Lord their power shall fall under thee Priest thou sayest thy power is a spiritual power yet it is but a civil power and therefore it must down and fall before Sion The overthrow of the Bishops was for calling it a spiritual and for their spiritual courts audacious to think upon full of blasphemies set up by an Antichristial power which now is thrown down as contemptible therefore all your civil Christs must down as your Spiritual Fathers the Bishops have done if you call your power Ecclesiastial it is equal with Christs if you call it Ecclesiastical you must prove it from Christs saying Go teach whose ordination ceased after the Apostles so that your Authority of Oxford and Cambridge is void and cannot stand Ephes 1.4 and 5. He hath chosen us in himself before the foundation of the world was laid he predestinated us to the adoption of children by Christ Jesus but not by your Ministery You see the Saints were first chosen predestinated and called before your Ministery stood up and yet you say you are called to convert souls in the Pulpit You Priests must have a hand in the work of renovation though you are not called yet ye run and are not sent to do such works of wonder for it is he alone that doth abound to us in love in wisdom and in prudency Having made known to us the mystery of his will vers 6. according to his good pleasure which he had purposed in himself and not by your means Ephes 3.4 and 5. God who is rich in all mercy hath quickned us which sheweth that it is not your teaching that can do it and elsewhere he saith By his grace you are saved and not of works Then down with these working teaching Christs that can learn the people salvation for it is the gift of God not of works left any man should boast Ephes 2.9 and 10. For we are his workmanship created to good works which God hath foreordained therefore it is properly and fully the work of God freely to our souls but let no durt-dawbing Priest have any hand in thy conversion for it is Gods work Let no swineherd meddle with such a pearl as if they were outward means of mens salvation He alone is our peace who hath broke down the mid-wall of our reproach having abolished the enmity even the Law of Commandments contained in Ordinances by making in himself of twain one new man for peace that he might reconcile both into one body by his cross having slain the enmity thereby Ephes 2.17 He preached peace to you afar off and to them that are nigh so that by him we have access to the Father and not by the Priests of the second hand which have little skill in the creation of salvation it is a secret work of God Let no man say he can teach but let us all be taught of God Minister and People from the least to the greatest let us all covenant to him with one consent and betroth our selves to him that he may take pleasure in his Spouse and his beloved ones may have pleasure in him the All-teacher and come out from their fained Priests the gods of their Temples that call themselves Ministers of God saying The people must reverence them as Embassadors for the works sake as if God had not power on earth aswell as in heaven he is present in all places by his omnipotency and omnipresence and by his immensity and by his all-seeing eye and by his providence that governeth the whole creation and by his inspiration and foreknowing what shall come to pass he spiritually beholdeth all things he alone hath created the earth then doth he not see and teach all and will bring all rule and power under himself Then lay down ye high Priests and say Ye are all taught of God for he will teach us of his wayes The Law shall go out of Sion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem which shall be Christ preaching from the Mount when the people shall give audience to him and cast off their fained Priests which are but as wood and straw whose stubble shall burn before the fire of his jealousie wangeable shall their power be when God shall give power to his two Witnesses and the Law shall preach out of Sion Revel 14. The everlasting Gospel shall preach to every language and nation when all your wrangling Priests shall be forced to lay down because they can establish nothing in order correspondent to his bright appearing therefore they must lay down and say We have spent our time in vain too long and besotted the simple people and yet we have said We were the ordained Ministers of God though we were destroyers and no builders historians that have preached this or that but what of the new work can we do it is not our talking of Peter and Paul that will serve the turn for God will make a new heaven and a new earth by a new discipline Ecclesiastical and Civil he will make all new to do away your carnal formes every form shall cease to a new formality God will make his latter temple more glorious then all the former All earthly builders shall not be found fit for the work of Gods house every flatterer shall be nonresidensed and cast out according to Gods extent and laid open to the sight of the grand Church to be excluded from the common community shut out of fellowship and society with the unsociable and rebukeable When God shall try Sion and search Jerusalem with lights when he shall purge the Sons of Levi and break the constellations that stand so high and remove the stars out of their places when the moon shall blush and be ashamed and all the stars come under his feet when this discipline that now standeth upon crutches shall be taken away then you may declare the great things of God saying He hath formed a new temple wherein all righteousness shall dwell Old things are become new and all fashions and forms are passed away but onely one which is called the formal Power and Government of Jerusalem and God and our Lord Jesus Christ is our Temple The Lord is our light within us he is our Sabbath the Sun shall not burn us by day neither shall the dark Night overshade thee thou shalt continually walk in the light of the Citie of the great King when thou shalt throw off thy fained lovers I mean thy Priests that erre in darkness and know not the true way for God will surely consume the smoak of Babylon and burn up all darkness before himself that he may dissolve the great blindeness and ignorance of the Priests that there may be light in the City that hath lain so long under darkness suspended from the truth lying under thick darkness Therefore we must all come
under the teachings of God which will be a stable peaceable Government when we shall strive no more for disciplying Ministers Your power that you hold up is full of many horns of the beasts pushing and persecuting in your thought such as will not come under your bow but God will have a peaceable dominion when your power lies as low as Doctor Hill's bones This is a hard doctrine to you which you have not learned at Oxford and Cambridge yet you must stoop to his dominion Christians and People how have you been deluded in your way and solely conceited in earthly Priests Is not Christ all in all Ye look upon mortal man to teach yet God hath a providence that teacheth and ruleth all things in heaven and in earth Doth he not guide Winter and Summer and every season declareth his wisdom and by his power dark things declare forth the light that the people may know there is an higher Ministery then that of men Doctor Pulpitian know this the more you tie men to your audience the more they shall break off from your tyecal ties and your hearers shall be few in number Further know this When they turn their backs upon you there will be a great consumption of your power as we may call a consumption of the lungs or an endless consuming so that you shall be a hopeless Ministery for Christ is the beginning and end of every work and all truth is from the Father and the Son Christ never resisted the powers but said Give tribute to whom tribute belongeth he further said Give Caesar his due He was circumcised he read the Law he went into the water and was baptized yet all things are failable when he cometh in power then all such customes and forms must be done away though he suffered all after the flesh yet he redeemed all by a spiritual power and shall controverse for every wrong done in the flesh contrary to the will of God Doctor there must be a falling away but not from God but shall bring them neerer to God It shall not be a falling from their Sabbath rest which is the endless Ministery of Christ but it shall be a falling away from your power that the mystery of iniquity may be dissolved or discovered for there must be a great falling away and then you Stars or Ministers called shall fall from your high perfection and shall dissolve before Sion Ministers you shall be much disconsolate at this great falling away when your sheep shall seek a new Shepherd and go to the right Shepherd Christ Jesus when the kingdoms and powers shall be all given into his hand when no man shall say I am a Priest or a Minister of God then you high Doctors may say How are the mighty fallen How be our weapons of spiritual warfare perished and we are counted as low as other men Babylon thy honour is going down thy Temple is rent for there will be a falling away from thee two parts of the people shall fall away and the other two shall be tryed in the fire of his jealousie for God will bring all things upon trial to prove who are sincere and who are not and who will lay down life and all for him and who will not This falling away from you will be a redeeming of the people to Christ by bringing them out from your adulterous power of Ministery which is not of Christ but of men and cannot stand for yours is the Gospel of men and not from above your power is literal and you as so many decoy-ducks that deceive and insnare many others so do you captivate all those that follow you and neglect the principal of all which is Christ Isai 20. and 23. The Lord saith He will make a consumption in the midst of the Land which is now to be observed by this great falling away as by a shaking or quaking of the people of God which sheweth they must fall from your Ministery and be restored to Christ their great Conquerour This Tribe of Christ called the North-Tribe shall grow and prosper until it come to be an invincible Tribe of the Lion of Judah This Lion of the North shall cause all the beasts of the field to quake and a terrible shaking shall be that have disobeyed him This great Conquerour Christ Jesus of the new covenant first appeareth to the Messenger of the covenant and so to the North-country by an alusion to Jeremiah saying As I have scattered them so will I gather them from the North country and from all the countries where they have been scattered Christ alone he shall gather the people he is King of the North-country and of all the countries when his power doth arise it shall be as water in the bowels of the world he shall gather the people he shall sit and rule upon his Throne he is the Lion of the North-skâ—…t of the Jews whose power shall go forth This Tribe of the North is the Tribe of Judah to whom every Tribe shall stoop and fall Gen. 49.8 Judah thou art as a Lion thy hand shall he upon the neck of thy enemies Judah thou art as a Lion from the prey and shalt stand up for the Scepter shall not depart from thee nor a lawgiver from between thy feet until Shiloh come and unto thee shall the gathering of the people be So that I finde this Lion of the Tribe of Judah shall gather in all the lost Sheep of Israel to their fold that Christ may separate the Sheep from the Goats which will be a great shaking and falling away from your Ministery When God shall divide your Sichem and deliver his people out of your hands to be taught of Christ and taken from your mouth Then they may joyfully say Our Moon is set and no darkness appeareth The Lord is the light of our Temple The seventh and last part of this Sermon is set forth to declare the peaceable dominion of the Son of righteousness Obj. SOme Priests may say We have fasted we have prayed we have sighed and mourned for the people All this may be yet Christ hath done so before thee for he hath laid his life down and done the work thorowly for all that can believe Then Oh Priest look to thine own soul and take no charge of other mens souls though Noah Daniel and Job should pray for others yet they can have an answer but for their own souls for Christ is the end of all happiness and salvation he is the end of war look upon Sion the City of solemnisie to see Jerusalem a quiet habitation a peaceable dominion When the people see the Ministiners shall be ashamed when the Lord of Hostes shall raigne in Mount Sion and sit before his ancient glory to judge when Christ shall sit upon his throne by a Government called Mount Sion by an Auditory of twenty four or some twelves in other places to declare and effect condigne justice to all according as God shall
to forsake wife and children and calling too yet I must do it and that is my cross to follow my Saviour in his example and not to be led by false Christs or such as you call Ministers of God And for that I stand up which doth anatomize my life And as John lost his life for Christ so I lay down my life for him daily I know my self truly called to it night and day I can have no rest the Lord is with me continually moving me in the work of the new Creation and to go out a Disciple in the power of Eliah a Messenger to call in the Jews If any one would take up my place he cannot perform it neither can I deny it or put it off Therefore let all godly souls mourn with me for I shall be sure of a solitary life as an Anatomy shall I die and the end of my pilgrimage is not known and thus I give up all yet I advise not every one to do so but to walk up to that calling that God hath called them to I say Judgement must sit and the Saints must judge the ends of the earth for God is the beginning and the end of every work I speak as killed yet alive and though I die daily yet I live and my cross doth anatomize my life when I see the unstableness and brevity of life so changeable are all things under Christ his brightness putteth out every light he appeareth as the Sun Let all be silenced BAbylon shall down with all her merchandizes Gods people are commanded to depart out of her the world doth lament her miserable condition saying Alas alas and cannot help her and being thus taken in the same snare with her that they can do no less but mourn with her saying How is our condition changed and we brought low that were so high exalted The clamation is saying It is not your greatness but your goodness that God esteems which causeth her to mourn seeing her wants saying How art thou fallen from God in the world and art become odious in his sight destitute and art become the habitation of Divels and all unclean spirits saying We have recreated our selves in the world and sent gifts one to another in vain for in a moment our condition is changed and we left miserable and desolate cut off in our hopes our iniquities have reached to heaven and God is angry Alas poor Babylon how are we fallen our Idolatry it is all disclosed And thus Babylon must fall in all her practices of oppression and covetousness and from every unlawful act when all scoffers and jeerers shall be brought under this sad calumny of hell in the world which may then cause them to say We be ashamed of our smoak that ascendeth up to heaven and we justly see our burning saying Alas alas for in a moment it is come upon us when all prophane persons shall be laid out in the open view of Gods Church under the judgement of a community bar'd out from the inward temple being left under a dark and a fearful dispensation How may this terrifie the hearts of all unbelievers when judgement is inflicted upon them when they shall be shut out from the holy community of Saints burning under the fire of Gods jealousie and contempt hopeless and helpless I pity your condition all ye Merchants of the world for your earthly treasures shall burn and your sorrows shall come unawares and ye must fall at his appearing and all the dark corners of the earth shall be made manifest and discovered by his kingdom Alas poor Babylon we cannot hide our decayes upon Gods discovery it is not our curiosity that can keep us but if we be wicked we must fall for God will search Jerusalem with torches and much more you that disobey him he will prove all your works and what is within us and whether we be Hypocrites or Christians to know whether we be royal for him or no otherwise we must burn and fall in her idolatry and so be shut out of the land of the living and lie in eternal despair This Babylon shall fall first at the preaching of the kingdom Secondly it shall penetrate and fall at the discovery of the outward court Thirdly it must fall at the building of the inward temple Fourthly it shall finally fall after the little book is opened and the everlasting Gospel preached to shake both heaven and earth meaning the godly and the wicked There is a threefold shaking first of nations to bring them all into one which is to his kingdom for all the kingdomes of the earth must become the kingdom of our Lord and yeild to his golden scepter Secondly there must be a great shaking of heaven or the heavenly people Ministers others to drive them of their own bottoms so that every Christian way shall be broken to pieces and this burning from above shall cashire all your opinions that godliness may be one and all differences cease that Christ may be one and his name one and his nation one to him That unity may swallow up all differences that they may serve him with one heart in love and under one consent The third shaking is the earth or earthly mindes of men thus carried away from God And therefore they be called Babylon which shall endure a terrible shaking when the third part of the earth shall fall which is Sodom when God shall give up all her doings of cruelty to his holy ones This shaking shall shake down all her power and pride and all her domineering fashions which shall cause her to say Alas whither are we fallen now our condition is changed and we brought under our underlings when our pompe shall be turned into emptiness and our wordly joy into mourning it shall then shew apparently that thou art fallen and so soon as God calleth out his own people from out of thee in that very moment and hour thou shalt burn and consume till thou shalt be found no more O Babylon how soon will thy judgement come What city was like this and cry when they see her burning with spiritual fire for in a moment our great riches are come to nothing they that were made rich by her shall stand afar off and see her burning and dare not controverse for her nor hold up their hand to defend her but shall cry Alas alas such is our condition hopeless and helpless This shall be her condition when Sion raigneth and God shall sever the one from the other by a refining power Here is a use of trial to all your consciences to know and try your selves whether ye be of Canaan or not if thou beest not thou must burn with Babylon for God will burn up all idolatry he will consume the wicked from off the earth Therefore rejoyce over her ye holy ones come to the feast of the Lord to eat her flesh and burn her with fire for in her was found the blood of the
art and policy who shall learn him knowledge shall Oxford and Cambridge instruct his way their places are inferiour to him for Christ is our true word of prophesie far above all art or pretended skill God is the best University he will teach his people in all truth by an inward renewing the mind if God teacheth then let men lay down and say We cannot savingly teach we preach the letter but salvation is from above he ministreth the gift of healing and man cannot do it Ordination is ceased with the Apostles and God doth appear to us by his Son and under the name of two witnesses which is the Law and Testimony within that teacheth us better then all the Priests Therefore I desire we may all see and live under the teachings of God for he teacheth us the mystery of truth let God be true and every man a lyar you Assyrian Priests may prognosticate the people but Christ is the sure word of prophesie we will hear him with a laudable voice The Priests say Hear us we will not be silenced but for all this thou must be silenced Oh Priest for Kings and Lords and Nobles and Magistrates shall be silenced at his bright appearing There shall be silence in heaven for the space of half an hour Rev. 8.1 Who shall stand when he appeareth by a dividing of time I say all you Ministers have not yet preached the Gospel neither can any man preach the Gospel at all until he throweth down his own power of preaching and make Christ your Priest and Teacher and say you are no more a teacher of salvation but a keeper of cattel from your fathers and to work by the sweat of your brows for knowledge shall run to and fro and meet by voices and witnesses that shall throw off and extinguish all your negative voices that stand deffinating so high in Pulpits one witness of the Minister or Priest of himself is a negative untruth and is centred upon meesum which is by a singular vote and cannot stand for it is Christ alone that shall stand to preach for he is ordained and sent as a Mediator of himself between God and man Priests I believe in short time your people will be few in number for then and at that time the people shall betroth themselves unto the Lord and will refuse your teachings when they are inwardly taught of God they shall remove from you Pulpits and ye shall no more say to the people Know the Lord for they shall all know me that is they shall all know Christ to be the Minister and shall return to their first Love from whence they were fallen saying Come do thy first work as if Christ should say Christians come enter into your rest once in him and ever he is our Sabbath and Gospel of peace he is unchangeable to the end and that is a Sabbath indeed it is not your keeping a day once a week that can make a true rest it is the Sabbath within having Christ dwelling in thee by a true faith that is a Sabbath and a rest that cannot be taken away the receivings of Christ in thee quickeneth thee every moment from day to day which sheweth forth in thee a continual Sabbath From yeer to yeer thou shalt worship the Lord and keep the feast of Tabernacles when a Christian walketh in all outward righteousness that is a feast of one Tabernacle and to walk by inward righteousness that is the other feast of Tabernacles Ye shall once a yeer come up to keep the feast of tabernacles Zach. 14. These two Tabernacles the one for an inward the other for an outward are called first and second Tables which shall be the worship that shall be set up from day to day and yeer to yeer until Shilo come Priests it is not for you to keep a day once a week and be as evious as ever it is not to keep a day and be as covetous as ever that is not a true Sabbath Christ is the Sabbath and he is our eternal rest And Minister thou must deny thy self if ever thou wouldst enter into his rest for Christ sweetneth all things to a Christian every doubt is comprehended and comprimized in him he is the end of trouble of war and of every conflict he is our Gospel-peace to still the rage of all obstruction and for want of making Christ our teacher it causeth us to follow false Christs I mean Priests and Jesuites that teach their own Gospel and set themselves up by fat parsonages feigned lovers to deceive the people as if they had the minde of God at their will Humble-bee-Priests fat belly-goded-Parsons to declare to the people once a week as if God were tied to their set times so as the Jews did so do you keep a day once a week and yet crucifie the Lord and so do ye not knowing his eternal Sabbath Ye silly people I much condole your weakness in that you so much idolize the Priests and neglect your onely true rest The Lord appeareth to us every day aswel as on that day which thou callest the Lords day and truely ye are as legal as ever the Jews were though cunningly you call your Sabbath the Lords day yet cannot take away your observed forms the Lords day is every day Therefore Priest throw down thy observation Christ is the Sabbath of rest his day is every day from yeer to yeer Ye Doctors and Priestical Ministers you are very censurous I cannot but further relate a Pulpit-story of this Doctor Hill by some godly persons of neer relation to him having some discourse with them they did not comply with his element but were a little contrary to his judgement not pleasing to his allegation which to affront them in their judgement he thought to met with them in the Pulpit took a text of Scripture to cross them but as I understood God met him in the way and frustrated him in his first text whereof he took another text and in the same manner God met him again and blasted him upon his third subject so that he judged himself stricken and came down from the Pulpit and related a sad story to some that God justly punished him by reason of his inveterated spirit of bitterness so that I finde God met him by way of etilliation as we have an example in Jacob and Esau the Lord punished Jacob for taking his brother Esau by the heel Therefore let no man think so low of his brother but that God can spiritually raise men to higher knowledge then Cambridge can do And let not Ministers and Doctors be so high now God appeareth to the weak things of the world to confound the haughtiness of the proud for we have a sure word of prophesie far higher then you can teach Doctors and Ministers ye preach of a Prince that ruleth in the Air I pray you what is that if you were as far from that as you are from right disciplying you would have but little to do with it Doctor I must tell you what it is that ruleth in the Air it is money which is the King of all the creatures that ruleth in the Air it buyes and sells and captivates all things under it silver and gold bewitcheth the world and you would spend your lives in the Pulpit for it and it is called but the Prince that rules in the Air and beguileth the Priests that preach for hire Christs is a free-Ministery and an endless Priesthood yours is failable I can give relation of a Priest that removed himself from about 40. l. a year for a place of 300. or 400. l. a year This Priest cunningly bewitched his people of the new place where he came and in the midst of his Sermon related to them That God had brought him thither in a cloud from the substance of 40. l. a year to 300. l. a year And was not this a cunning dawber to delude the people by a dark cloud Numbers Leviticus and Deuteronomy declareth That the Priests shall have no inheritances therefore I finde they that have bought Tythes and Impropriations have bought and sold that which was none of their own Lord Protector I desire you would give Tythes and impropriations to the widows the fatherless the blinde and the lame and to the poor as Christ would have it done so let it be that every Parish be eased of collection and praise God for the great good you have done for them A poor messenger a disciple separate for the kingdom of Christ I could have added much more to this work but in short I have declared some of the minde of God Daynus A messenger of the new Covenant under the Ark-angel of the Covenant As John was sent a messenger to the Jews to declare the kingdom of heaven at hand so I Daynus am sent to the whole Israel of God to shew the kingdom of heaven is come in power to me and I am the first upon the feet restored of the dry-bones of Israel Daynus to shew the day and year of the Lord and his year excepted FINIS