A Seasonable Warning AND WORD OF Advice to all Papists BUT Most especially to those of the Kingdome OF FRANCE FOR Them to turn from their Idolatry and gross Superstition and speedily to Repent and hast to meet the Lord by amendment of Life least he come on them and smite them unawares Which is good Counsel from a Friend to your souls and a Lover of that which would make for your eternal welfare CHARLES BAILY LONDON Printed in the Year 1663. A Seasonable Word IN Love to all PAPISTS who are scattered on the face of the Earth and especially to those of the Kingdom of FRANCE OH ye Priests of the Nation my controversie is against you saith the Lord God of Heaven and Earth my fury is kindled against you which you shall never be able to quench saith the Allmighty your Idolatry is a noisomness unto me and your prayers are an abomination in my ears your Crosses and your Crucifixes shall not be able to hide you from my terrible irresistable Judgements which is nigh to be powred forth upon you except you repent Repent before the Decree be sealed against you ye make the people drunk with your abominable Idolatry saith the Lord God therefore will I make you drunk with my fury which shall be powred forth upon you which you shall in no wise escape weeping and howling shall be heard amongst you because you have made the Innocent to weep saith the Lord Your strong security shall become as rotten sticks before me And while ye shall cry peace peace suddain destruction shall come upon you the fire of my jealousie is already kindled in your borders which shall never be put out untill it hath consumed you root and branch saith God Allmighty whose power hath set bounds to the Sea and saith to the proud waves thereof Hitherto shall ye go and no further who will also bind and limit your power so that it shall not passe the determined counsel of my God Though you kick against him and say in your hearts Who is the Lord that we should obey him Know ye he is the same as ever he was in Might in Power in Glory in Majesty in Dominion and in Dread who will make all Nations to tremble before him and will render to every man according to his works an hypocrite shall have a hypocrites portion for he shall not be able to hide from his dreadfull presence nor a false god shall not be a cover for them saith the Lord who will roar out of his holy habitation and for his own names sake will he arise yea like a man of war and none shall be able to stand before him in Judgement an Idolater shall have an Idolaters portion money nor favour shall not be able to plead the cause of any saith the Lord but nakedly shall every one be judged and receive according to the deeds done in the body whether they are good or evil an Hireling Priest shall have an hirelings portion an unbeliever an unbelievers portion and a deceiver a deceivers portion the lyar a lyars portion they shall all be cast into the Lake saith the Lord God where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth for ever The mighty and terrible day of Gods vengeance is come Therefore Awake Awake ye people awake and consider what you are a doing will an Idol save you or an Image deliver you saith the Lord surely nay the Image and the Image-maker shall perish the Idol and the Idolater shall have their reward together In vain shall ye cry when ye would be heard seeing ye refuse to hear when I call upon you saith the Allmighty Your prayers to Mary John and James and to the rest of your imagined Saints shall stand you in no stead at all but on the contrary shall adde to your condemnation seeing you have chosen to your selves other Advocates and Mediators then my Son whom I have given for a Covenant of Light to all Nations that he might be your Salvation to the ends of the Earth Hear and give ear ye dull and uncircumcised in heart and ears Is there any other name given under Heaven for Salvation but His He is the Light of the world and he enlightneth every one that cometh into the world which Light shineth into every one of your Consciences checking and reproving every one of you for sin and evill though never so secret or private can any forgive when by this Light you are condemned Surely nay seeing it is my true and Faithfull Witnesse in every one of you which judgeth righteously between me and you without respect of persons saith the Lord drunkard it condemns thee for thy drunkennesse lyar it condems thee for thy lying swearer for thy swearing glutton for thy gluttony and whatsoever is sin or evil it condemneth in you whether pride presumption hypocrisie or covetousnesse which is idolatry it condemns the evil and justifies the good therefore shall ye be left without excuse in the day of Judgement though ye may buy pardons of men yet will not I pardon you saith the Lord God Except you repent This from the Lord is a Warning to you all therefore while you have time prize it least the day of your visitation passe over your heads unawares and you be left to perish for ever Mark the Word ever and lay it to heart before it be too late therefore be you warned whilest love and mercy is stretched out towards you Priest and People Kings Potentates and Rulers from the least to the greatest for if you refuse and reject this tender visitation of love the dreadful sword of Judgement shall bring you down saith the Lord for the Lord is risen to rule and reign over all Nations and none shall be able to stand before him though the Priest preach for hire and the Judges judge for reward and both take counsel against the innocent and so between Head and Tail the whole Body is bound down under oppression yet a day of restoration is coming and the yoak of oppression and the burden thereof shall be taken off from the necks of the poor and needy that they may look towards me saith the Lord who will assuredly plead the cause of the afflicted and deliver him from the hands of him which is too strong for him These things will the Lord do for his own names sake that he might be known amongst the sons of men for he hath been more a stranger amongst them though he hath created them then the Ox is to the Owner or the Asse to his Masters Crib many have professed him in name but in nature are wholly degenerated from him there is more than cause enough in this unrighteous generation for the righteous to be grieved and his soul dayly vexed to behold the wicked conversation of the Inhabitants of the Earth and none more than they who go under the name of Christians from the head to the foot of them and all this chiefly happens from that cursed
women captive laden with sin and divers lusts and though they are ever learning of their Teachers yet come not to the knowledge of the Truth which would make them free from sin and lust and bring into that life which was before a lie was And this is not the fruit of the Popes Ministers for the furthest they bring people to is to bring them to be zealous to pray to a dead stock or stone which they make like unto men and women and tell them it is the likeness or representation of God and Christ and the Virgin Mary St. John St. Peter and the like and the Mistery of iniquity hath so wrought amongst them that though they manifestly prostrate themselves before them yet they say it is not to them which is darkness unheard of in Generations past And they are not content to commit this abominable Idolatry themselves but would constrain all others to do the like as witness the Protestants in this Nation who are constrained to shun and avoyd the way when one of these their Gods is carryed about else the people are ready to stone them if they do not put off their Hats or bow unto them These things are cause of sadness to the hearts of the righteous to consider therefore God will overturn it and cast it into the pit of confusion from whence it sprang even from Mistery Babylon where the Whore sitteth who hath made all Nations about her drunk with the Cup of her fornication which hath been forced upon people by the power of the Beast through the Inchantments of the false Prophets but their torment is near and hastneth apace to come upon them for the Whore and painted Harlot which rides upon the Beast and the false Prophets which attend her shall be taken and cast into the lake which burns with fire and brimstone for ever These are true and faithfull sayings which shall shortly come to passe and blessed shall all they be in that day which have not received the mark of the Beast in their hands nor in their foreheads for they onely shall live and reign for ever with him whose right it is to reign over all Nations and for his sake will God overturn overturn overturn untill his holy will be accomplished and the Nations shall never see peace more untill that day for the mistery of iniquity hath fully wrought and he that hath let shall be taken out of the way in this the day of Gods Allmighty power in which he will thresh the Mountains to dust and will honour his Saints so that they shall have power to bind Kings in Chains and Nobles in Fetters of Iron who also will turn the wisdom of the wise backwards and will make the Diviners mad and turn the counsels of their Achitophels into foolishness In this day the churl shall no more be called liberall neither shall he that doth wickedly be called good light shall not be put for darkness nor darkness for light without a manifest Woe and Judgment upon him which doth it saith the Lord God Allmighty who hath been as a stranger amongst the sons of men as though he had not created them yea more a stranger and unknown unto the chiefest of men than the Ox is to his Owner or the Asse to his Masters Crib It doth even pierce my heart to consider the wofull degeneration of mankinde who was created in the Image of his Creator and whilest he remained in that holy Image nothing but righteousness was wrought by him and he enjoyed the peace of God in him and in this state there was no oppression but through disobedience he was driven from his maker by giving ear to another Teacher by which means he was lead unto lust and uncleanness and to commit it with greediness yea to drink up iniquity as the Ox drinketh up water so as he naturally did at first obey the will of his Creator by which means he was wholly a Servant unto God bringing forth the works of righteousnesse and holinesse so through disobedience he became a Servant to Satan bringing forth nothing but sin and corruption even to the grieving of his Creator so that it repented him that he had made man yet he bore their iniquity untill the measure thereof was full and then swept them away with the flood of his wrath and from that day hath born and forborn the iniquity of many People and Nations untill this your time even untill the filling up of the largest measure of iniquity that ever yet was known so that righteousness is not to be found in the earth nor in the Inhabitants thereof therefore as sure as the righteous Judge of Heaven and Earth destroyed the old world with the flood of his wrath so will he this by fire which is already kindled in the Nations though at present they perceive it not but it shall overtake them unawares Therefore this is sent as a warning unto this Nation of France that they may take warning thereby and repent least they be consumed by the flame and fire of Gods wrath and indignation which is ready to break forth upon them And now ye people of this Nation seriously consider high and low rich and poor bond and free male and female what ye are a doing and with the light of Christ Jesus wherewith he hath enlightned you search whose works ye are a doing and who it is you obey and whose command you have for the things you do whether from God or from men for assuredly according to the Traditions of men God cannot be worshipped nor served for God is a Spirit And the true Worshippers worship him in Spirit and Truth and by such only is he worshipped therefore cease from all your Task-masters which lay heavy burdens upon you telling you that you must pray to the Virgin Mary and to the Saints saying ten Prayers to her and one to God shewing that they exalt her in their Imaginations above God besides this is clear against the Doctrine of Christ who bid them ask in his name for saith he Whatsoever ye ask my Father in my Name it shall be given you Mark that and take good notice of it for he is the only Mediator between God and man 1 Tim. 2.5 For there is one Mediator between God and man the man Christ Jesus for he is the Mediator of a better Covenant than that which stood in outward meats and observations which is established upon better promises and for this cause he is the Mediator of the New Testament that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first Testament that they which are called might enjoy the promise of eternal Inheritance Therefore people are to come to Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel therefore see that ye refuse not him that speaketh from Heaven who saith What ye ask my Father in my Name it shall be
by their cruel usage they be made to conform to their Wills this is evident amongst them insomuch that many of them have been kept many years and not been told the cause why for if they have but a Jealousie of a man he shall hardly escape their hands And now what they have to be spoken against let the moderate Reader seriously consider if there be any thing else but abominable Idolatry in all their Worship even such Idolatry as all the Heathen of old never exceeded As for Example in Rome which is the Fountain from whence all this abomination springs they pourtray the likeness of an Old Man upon a Wall and they call him the Image of God the Father with a Cross before him with the Portraicture of a dead man upon it and the likeness of a Pigeon on the top of it and this in their Imaginations they call the Father Son and Spirit And this being openly tollerated in Rome the bordering Nations are made stark drunk with the same abominations and Idolatry So that if one in love and in pity to their souls speak to reclaim them from their gross darkness they are ready to tear them in pieces though it be plainly manifest that they are of those who have changed the Glory of the Incorruptible God into Images made like unto Corruptible men wherefore God hath given them up to uncleannesse through their lost and corrupt hearts who have changed the Truth of God into a lie and do worship the Image which themselves have made more than the Creator who is God blessed for ever This is such gross darkness as was in Egypt even such as might be felt And in God there is no ancientness of dayes who is a Spirit infinite and eternal who created all things by the Word of his power and upholdeth all things thereby unto this day To whom will ye liken me saith the Lord Heaven is my Throne and the Earth is my Footstool hath not my hand made all these things all things being created in and by the Word of his Power which is Christ Jesus for so is his Name who was glorified by his Father before the World began and is the express Image of his Father whose likeness cannot be made by the hands of men therefore it is horrible Idolatry for you to make the Image of a dead man and say it is the Image of Christ and so bewitch the minds of people with those false conceptions and imaginations woe be to them by whom these things are wrought and upheld for the Vengeance and Indignation of the Lord God is kindled against them for they are the unreasonable Task-Masters of Egypt who keep the Seed in bondage and slavery so that the people cannot come to the knowledge of the true God that him only they might serve honour and obey in all things who is the only King Judg and Lawgiver of his people who sheweth mercy unto all who come unto him in his Sons Name for there is no other Name given under Heaven for Salvation but his And all who are in the praying to Saints are in the wicked Idolatry and do forsake the Fountain of living mercy and have hewed to your selves Cisterns which will hold no Water For the true Voyce saith Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest And saith the Prophet All you which are a thirst come and you which have no money come buy and eat yea come buy Wine and Milk without money and without price Why do ye lay out your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not Heare and eat that which is good and let your souls delight themselves in fatness Incline your ear and come unto me hear and your souls shall live And I will establish with you my everlasting Covenant even the sure mercies of David Behold I have given him for a Witnesse to the people This is all free even the free gift of God Who hath so loved the World that he hath given his only begotten Son into the World that all through him might believe for whosoever believes in him shall not abide in darkness but shall have the Light of life who is the Way the Truth and the Life who hath enlightned every one who cometh into the World with his true Light and they which turn to the Light wherewith Christ hath enlightned them they come to Christ who is the free Gift of God This likes not the Pope and his Ministers for they make the people pay tenths of all their increase besides Money for Beads Crosses and Crucifixes and Money for pardon for sins and for Masses to be said for them while they are alive and after they are dead and Money for Christening of Children as they call it and Money for Marrying and all that they doe which thing sheweth plainly that his Ministers are not like the Ministers of the Gospel for that was and is a free Ministry and the Ministers thereof ministreth forth freely as they have received and are moved of God freely thereunto So the Pope is not with Christ but against him in all his actions for Tithes were only due to Levi and that from his Brethren yet they were not Levi's but the Lords and was to be put into the store-houses for to relieve the widow the fatherless and the stranger but how the Pope and his Adherents doth this let the wise in heart judge who devour the Tenths and much more upon their lusts as the Nations may witness against them which plainly shews they are neither of the Tribe of Levi nor of the Flock of Christ And the Apostle who was a Minister of the Gospel speaking of Levi said That Priesthood being changed there is made of necessity a change of the Law for the Priesthood being changed it is evident that the Law is disanulled which took them so that this paying of Tithes is but a usurpation of those which crope in in this dark night of Apostacy which Christ foretold us of saying The Night would come wherein no man could work And Paul saw this coming in For I know this saith he that after my departure shall grievous Wolves enter in among you not sparing the Flock And such did come in who taught things they ought not for filthy lucres sake The Pope and his Adherents will plainly appear to be of that stock and spring from that cursed Root and Spirit as his and their fruits will plainly manifest for they who forsook the right way did run on in the way of Balaam for gifts and rewards but they have far exceeded all their Ancestors and will not be content with a gift and reward but rob and take by force where they cannot have it otherwise so far as their power reacheth And this running out of the way and commandement of God is the cause why they profit not the people at all though they creep into houses and lead silly
the strength of the Creature being to stand still bearing his dayly cross and thereby is made subject unto him who is able to save to the utmost all who come unto him in and through Christ the Door Power and Wisdome of God who is the Light of the World Therefore Salvation is not of works but of grace which is freely tendered to all mankind upon the face of the whole earth for the grace of God that bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearance of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works Tit. 2.11 14. Therefore were your Priests truly in the knowledge of God and his Misteries they would bring you to the knowledge of the Mistery that hath been hid from Ages which without controversie is great to wit God Manifest in the flesh which was Christ in the Saints the Hope of glory and were you rightly instructed you would come to know the riches of the glory of this Mistery Col. 1.27 for it would be your glory also for it was the Saints hope of their glory which hope will perfectly save you and cleanse you from sin and evill and thereby purifie you as Christ is pure for this is the only and true hope which anchors and stays the soul And if you once come to this then their Trade is spoyled but they are as ignorant of it as you your selves but the true Ministers of the New Covenant preached nothing but what themselves were witnesses of therefore saith John That which was from the beginning which we have heard which we have seen with our eyes and looked upon and our hands have handled of the Word of life that they did declare to the people that the people might come to have fellowship with them and their fellowship was with the Father and with his Son because their living and walking was in the Light as God was in the Light 1 Joh. And this is the end of the true Ministers ministry who were Ministers of the Spirit and not of the Letter neither did they boast of other mens sayings made ready to their hands as your Priests do for what they pray preach and speak unto you are other mens works yea the greatest part of your worship which is the Masse and the rest thus they make merchandise of your for dishonest gain made and put in by the will of men and by the will of men are upholden and guarded by a Law that none must speak against their open abominations but the day of the Lord hath overtaken them as a thief in the night and their works of darkness must and will be brought to light let them fence themselves never so wisely and dig as deep as Hell for Counsel yea the day is come and though they should exceed all their fore-fathers in burning and persecution it would but add to their torment for the Sword of the Lord is drawn and will never be sheathed until it hath cut them up root and branch yea the cup of Gods fury is filled even to the brim and they must drink the dregs thereof though they be made and upholden by men yet of a truth men shall not be able to save them for let them daub and flatter never so much to make them a wall or shelter the wall which is daubed and the daubers shall fall together This of a truth is the determination will and counsel of the most high God though bryers and thorns do set themselves against him in battel all shall be in vain for the breath of his mouth shall burn and consume them for ever for he of a truth is arisen before whom all Nations are as the drop of a bucket and as the small dust of the ballance Behold he taketh the Isles as a very little thing yea all Nations before him are as nothing and they are counted to him lesse than nothing and vanity He measureth the waters in the hollow of his hand and meeteth out the Heavens with a span and comprehendeth the dust of the earth in a measure and weigheth the mountains in scales and the hills in a ballance I say even he whose presence fills Heaven and Earth is risen to plead the cause of the Innocent the poor and the needy and to make way for the meek that they only may reign over the works of his hands in his Son who must and shall reign over all for ever and this will he perfect for his own names sake the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it therefore it is a vain thing for men to cloath themselves some in one habit and some in another and one saith he is of such an Order and another sayes he is of such an Order whilest they are all in the order of sin and uncleannesse the root thereof stands firm and untouched within them though they disguise themselves like so many Anticks in severall shapes more like men of unmodest deportment than like men fearing God which doth in no wise consist in such like disguised habits but in a clean heart for The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom which leads to the true understanding of the use of all the creatures of God and how to use them in decency and true order and in the moderation for which end they were created and made even to serve man and man his Creator in fear with a clean heart and pure mind but man being degenerated from this holy life gets into habits and meats by diversities and calls some holyer than other though in the beginning they were all created good as it is written Every creature of God is good and nothing to be refused But these men get into several habits and call them holy as though the wool that came from the sheeps back availed any thing and thus the Pharisees were in dayes past in outward observations of dayes and things and went in long robes esteeming one thing holyer than another for which Christ rebuked them saying Whether is it greater the gift or the Altar which sanctifieth the Gift And likewise in those days being ignorant of that which sanctifieth and maketh clean by which all things comes to be sanctified to the Creature whether meat drink or apparrel through the use of which only they should have had regard to the Giver who regardeth not nor respecteth the person of any man much lesse the cloathing or meats or drinks which desileth not the man but of all Nations He that feareth God and worketh righteousnesse is accepted of him as saith the Scripture But these things the Apostles saw was crept in amongst many in their dayes as Touch not tast not handle not which thing had a fair shew but it was but
talent and gift of God let him that readeth understand that his soul may live for untill this be read felt and understood professe what you will the soul lieth in death and misery therefore ye must diligently search and seek this seed in the field which is in the World in you where this precious Pearl lyeth hid that ye may be as the wise Merchant-man who sold all to purchase it so must ye if it ever comes to be yours yea you must dig deep to find it for it lyeth under all the mountaines of sin oppressed like a Cart which is laden with sheaves in you for the field is in you though wide for the field is in the World which is in your hearts and when the precious seed is grown watch and wait least the birds of the aire bereave you of it or else the enemy sow his evill seed in your ground and so choak the good seed and plant of God so that it cannot grow nor prosper for Friends it is truly so that straight is the way which leadeth to life and few there be that find it but broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which goe in thereat for it is the way of sin but the other holinesse and purity without which no man shall see the Lord as the Scripture saith for it is the onely thing which shall stand in stead in the day of account but woe will be unto them which then are or shall be found covered and not with the Holy Spirit of God all other coverings will be to short to cover or save them from the dreadful woe and vengeance which is ready to come upon the inhabitants of the earth for the Lord hath determined to bring Judgement upon the earth that the inhabitants thereof may learn righteousnesse for it is not to be found amongst men but every one is seeking his own way seeking and striving to exalt his own horn by oppression and deceit but the Lord will rebuke many because of these things for oppression shall cease amongst men and the oppressor shall surely be trodden under foot and the meek of the earth shall have the dominion for evermore which is the mind and purpose of the Lord of heaven and earth therefore it shall surely come to passe and woe will be to them who do arise to oppose the Lord in this most glorious work for they shall be beaten to powder for the potsherds may strive with potsherds yet in vain will it be to strive against the Lord and his Holy Anoynted who is come and coming to take the Kingdome whose right it is for ever and ever for all the Kingdomes of the World shall become the Kingdomes of the glorious Son of God Therefore oh ye inhabitants of the earth prepare to meet the Lord and be ye warned that ye joyn not with the power of the oppressor whom God is purposing to overturn and chain down for ever least you perish with him This from the Lord God of heaven and earth is a warning to you all that ye may be warned and left without excuse when the day shall come upon you which is already dawned and hastens apace to shine in its glory whereby all the works of darknesse shall be discovered and made manifest though never so secretly hid as hath been already said It is high time for you to awake out of the deep sleep of ignorance which you have been cast into by the Magicians of Egypt who have long kept your poor souls in spiritual bondage and slavery through their deceit and lyes for their own profit and lucre of which they strive to cast a mist before your eyes telling you of the body of Christ and instead of which they make you worship the works of your own hands which will and doe perish with the using which the body of Christ can never doe inasmuch as it is incorruptible neither did or could see corruption yet notwithstanding your Priests have so far bewitched you as that you your selves commonly confesse that though they be never so wicked yet in the speaking of so many words they make the corruptible bread the very body of Christ and ye are so far inchanted with this lye insomuch that if all within your Dominions do not fall down before this piece of bread and worship you are ready to murder them by which means your fruits shew you are in the spirit of murther and envy envying those which will not own your lye and blasphemy calling earthly bread the Lords body which is held in and by the hands of corruptible men as you your selves are ready to say the Lords soul abhors these things for they are an abominable abomination before him Consider and lay it to heart can the words that proceed out of the mouth of a sinful man make any thing incorruptible nay they cannot seeing it is evident that out of one fountain salt water and sweet cannot be had neither can a bad tree bring forth good fruit as saith Christ neither can your deceivable Priests who thus deceive you doe any such thing as they tell you of neither have they any place in the holy Scripture which speaks of any such practices as those which they deceive you with that is that men should take a piece of bread and say such and such words over it that then it should become the body of Christ and that men should fall down and prostrate themselves before it nay they cannot cause bread to be converted into the body of Christ neither can they convert the body of Christ into bread let them speak what or as many words as they can over it And thus they keep you in bondage as much as in them lyes least you should search and find out their deceit and also from the reading of the Scriptures least their wickednesse should be manifestly discovered though Christ saith Search the Scriptures for they testifie of me but the Pope and his Priests forbid you to read them which sheweth that they are not of his mind who would that all should come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved and not to keep people in darknesse for in the Scriptures it is recorded that the Bereans were more noble than others because that after they had heard the truth declared they went home and searched the Scriptures to see whether those things were so or no yea or nay you may see they were commended for so doing and not forbidden as your Priests doe and the Apostles did bid try all things and hold fast that which is good which is far from forbidding any tryal in and for truth many of your own regular Priests will say themselves that they are forbidden to dispute You may easily be kept in blindnesse and darknesse when many of your own teachers themselves are not permitted to vindicate their own practises and works which they make you thus adore Surely it is high time for you to ponder your wayes
the end that the hearts of many be tryed and made manifest yet it shall be but for a season and the righteous their testimonies shall crown them for ever in the sight of all their enemies and this glorious work shall not be carried on by sword nor spear but by my Spirit saith the Lord that no flesh might glory in his presence even with the Sword of the Spirit that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lamb shall his enemies be overcome and put to flight and in his glorious power shall one chase a thousand and ten shall put Nations to flight a people hath the Lord already raised and sanctified for this work before whom the uncircumcised shall never be able to stand against them in battel the Lord hath made them his battle-Ax to cut up the root of corruption and destroy it for ever that the glorious plant of incorruption may take root and grow and spread over the whole earth for ever to the praise and glory of the Eternal God of all glory to whom all praise honour and glory belongeth from all things whether things above or in the earth beneath who will defend and make known his Tabernacle amongst the sons of men and his name shall be dreadful in the earth For he will establish Judges as at the first and Counsellors as at the beginning which shall not judge for rewards but in righteousnesse will they judge without respect of persons in the earth and untill this be accomplished there shall be no peace in the earth nor The will of God cannot be done in Earth as it is in Heaven though your Priests bid you say them words as Christ bid those who had forsaken all to follow him the which state ye never yet came to witnesse as you and your Priests fruits make manifest and bid you say that which they could never witnesse themselves which will be their great condemnation for none can call God Father but they who are born of him and such only forgives enemies as God forgives them and not in word onely but in deed and in truth and whoso saith Father forgive us as we forgive them which trespass against us are in a wofull condition being in the contrary nature biting and devouring one another the Priests suing the People and the People suing the Priests at Law and thus suing one another what forgiveness can you expect from God who desires this that ye may be forgiven as you forgive others the holy will of God is far from being done in you as it is in Heaven who are fighters one with another though ye call one another Christians and the like thus you ask a thing to your own confusion for ever Oh be ye awakened and consider these things and repent for of a truth just judgements will overtake you early unawares and all your talk of prayer will stand you in no stead though you may say them your selves or get others to say them for you as you are instructed in Rome as may be seen in a Book called Raris Sario or Lacorene daela madonae which is the common Book for the lay Peoples instructions in matter and manner of their Worship was there ever such abominable abomination as this that a man may have another to do or say his task of Prayer and it shall be all one as though he had done it himself doth not this make it plainly appear that they are Ministers of darknesse and know not the Spirit which maketh intercession for us and knoweth our wants Doth not the Apostle say He will pray with the Spirit and with Vnderstanding and again Pray alwaies and in every thing give thanks yea Pray alwayes without ceasing And you are ignorant of this pure spirit of prayer and supplication which is the promise of the Lord God unto his people insomuch that you must have a certain task of prayers and that they may be said by any other and as well accepted as though you had said them your selves and in truth it is so for neither of them both is accepted of God this is such gross darkness as might be felt and truly your task-masters are more wicked than ever any in Egypt were and are more unexcusable inasmuch as they professe and pretend to be Christians think you that God accepteth these your vain Repetitions and Oblations nay they are a stink unto him and an abomination unto him for ever for it is onely the sacrifices and prayers of a broken heart which God accepteth even they who have clean hands and pure hearts onely such he accepteth and such he will in no wise despise but taketh dayly care of them knowing their dayly wants and what they stand in need of before they ask and doth also answer their requests because the Spirit maketh intercession for them in and with sighs and groans that cannot be uttered The decree came forth at the beginning of Samuels supplications and was answered while he was yet speaking many at this day witnesse the same thing Glory be unto the Lord for ever who hath powred forth according to his promise the true spirit of grace and supplication upon many in and through which they are accepted of him in prayer but there are such the Apostle James speaks of which ask and receive not because they ask amisse even to spend it upon their lust and such is your prayers as plainly appeareth for ye have no answer from God for after ye have done all your task to the utmost which is laid upon you yet must have Indulgences from men and Pardons from men which if you had answer from God and forgiveness these things would appear unto you abominable and detestable for after all your Pardons you must give money to your Priest to be prayed for after you are dead which sheweth you have not yet received the remission of your sins in this life in and through Christ Jesus who saith Whatsoever ye ask in my name it shall be given whose Ministers preached remission of sins in this life through the man Christ Jesus and said His blood cleansed from all unrighteousnesse even theirs who did confesse their sins and forsake them And Peter saith Ye are not redeemed with corruptible things from your vain conversation as Gold or Silver but by the blood of the Lamb. Mark here the Saints did witnesse redemption from sin in this life for then was it that the Apostle did write unto them and such did not need a Purgatory to be purged in after they were dead neither did there need money to be given for them upon any such account to get them out quickly from thence as though prayers which are purchased by money could any way pacifie God or with-hold the just judgement of God which is due for sin Surely as saith the Prophet they that seek after lying vanities forsake their own mercies for it would have hardly entred into the heart of any man that such things should be believed for