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A testimony for the Lord, the good shepherd against all the false shepherds and hirelings of the world and more especially, or particularly those of that sort in the nation of England / by Thomas Taylor.
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Taylor, Thomas, 1618-1682.
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A TESTIMONY FOR THE LORD THE GOOD SHEPHERD Against All the false Shepherds and Hirelings of the World and more especially or particularly those of that Sort in the Nation of England By Thomas Taylor Wo be unto the Pastors that destroy and scatter the Sheep of my Pasture saith the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel against the Pastors that feed my People Ye have scattered my Flock and driven them away and have not visited them behold I will visit upon you the Evil of your Doings saith the Lord Jer. 23. 1 2. Printed in the Year 1675. A Testimony for the Lord the good Shepherd and true Minister of the Sanctuary and true Tabernacle which God hath pitched and not Man against all the false Shepherds hireling Ministers and Teachers of the World under what Name or Notion or Form soever who have run and God never sent them and therefore cannot profit the People at all HEar the Word of the Lord God that is gone forth against you like a Flame of Fire in this the mighty Day of the arising of the Almighty Power of the Lord God Almighty who is jealous of his Honour and who is tender of the poor Souls whom you have deceived and do daily make a Prey of for filthy Lucre your End is come the Day hath revealed you and in God's Ballance are you weighed and found altogether wanting and therefore is your Kingdom departed from you and now the Lord God is setting up his own most Heavenly and Everlasting Kingdom in the Hearts of his People who in the Leadings of his Light are come out from amongst you and who through the Blood of the Lamb and the Word of their Testimony have gotten Victory over the Beast the Whore and false Prophet who have defiled the Earth with their Abominations Lyes and Lewdness and he will yet gather more from amongst you And now the Kingdom under the whole Heavens is and shall be forever the Portion of the People of the Saints of the most high God whose Kingdom is an Everlasting Kingdom and all Dominions shall serve and obey him who liveth forever who is arisen in this his glorious Day not only to reveal but even to destroy to the uttermost the Man of Sin that Son of Perdition in all the Earth which hath fate in the Temple of God as God saying he was God and hath long exalted himself above all that was called God which alone ought to be worshipped but the Lord is arisen to dethrone him even that wicked One who would not suffer the true Seed the true Heir Christ Jesus the true Light to reign but hath alwayes like an enraged Beast pushed with his Horns against the Lamb in every Appearance whereby the tender Buddings of Truth in many People have been often hurt and the Growth of the good Seed often hindered and some of the feeble Ones even in their Comings out of Egypt have been cut off by this spiritual Amaleck the Dragon upon which the Whore the false Priesthood and Ministry rides whom God will have War with forever and will destroy him to the End for now is the Ancient of Dayes upon his Throne and the Thrones of the Wicked are cast down and one like unto the Son of Man to wit the Lord Christ Jesus in and with his numberless Number is come with the Clouds of Heaven for as sure as he went up so is he certain come again and brought near to the Ancient of Dayes and is in the actual Possession of that Kingdom Glory and Power given him of the Father that all People Nations and Languages should serve and obey him for his Dominion is an Everlasting Dominion which shall not pass away and his Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed and now the Judgment is set and the Books are opened Glory to the Lord forever and now is the Revelation of all Things and fulfilling of all Things which have been spoken of by the true Witness since the World began And now the Tything Hireling Priests and Merchants of Babylon who by their Works deny Christ come in the Flesh run to the Powers of the Earth and cry out and say They will not pay us they will not put into our Mouthes they will buy none of our Merchandize any more Alas alas our great City But for all their crying God will not hear not help them for they have left off to do good and God hath shaken his Hand at their dishonest Gain and the Son of God that ever blessed Light is arisen and is at Work to lead out of Darkness the Souls of the simple that they may know him alone to be their Priest Minister and Teacher and may not be a Prey any longer to the Wolf in the Sheep's Clothing the Wolf who is inwardly gone from God and ravenned into the dark Wilderness and hath stollen the Saints and Christ's Words and makes a Trade on them to deceive withal for filthy Lucre Wo unto them they have gone in the Way of Cain and after the Errâ—r of Balaam for worldly Ends and shall pâ—rish in their gain saying of the Truth as Core did And the Lamb shall have the Victory and the Lord is at Work leading his Flock by the Streams of living Waters Glory to his Name forever And what shall I only complain of the Unrighteousness and declare of the Downfall of the Kingdom of falâ—e Teachers and Hirelings amongst the Turks or of the proud imperious Prelates of the dark See of Rome Or shall I not rather come nearer home to wit to the Place of my outward Nativity the Land of Old England who pretend to be nâ—â—her of the Spirit of Turks nor Papists but People of the Râ—formed Religion called Protestants as who should say Protesters against Romish Usurpatâ—ons and Antichristian Innovations But alas to the Shame of thy Nakedness O England England there is found in thee a Conspiracy a Company of lewd and treacherous Men who stand over thee as Teachers covered with black both Inwardly and outwardly who wear a black Garment now as the false Prophets of old wore a rough Garment to deceive who cry Give give and can never have enough for they are as Graves and if one put not into their Mouthes they bite with their Teeth and prepare War against them suing People at Law for Wages for whom they do no Work most unreasonable of all Men and contrary to all other People reaping where they never sowed neither spiritual nor temporal Seed they claim the Tenth of such Men's Labours and Encrease as they themselves excommunicate out of their Synagogues and in their false Judgment judge to Hell what doth not the Destruction of their Souls seem enough but you must destroy their Estates and Families and sometimes their Bodies and Life also by long and unheard of Imprisonments and Plunderings Shall not the Nations of the World who profess not as you the
Priests and Prelates of England do rise up in Judgment against you For which of the Priests in Turky or Rome are more eager for their Bellies then you are What Means do you leave unessayed against those who for Conscience sake cannot put into your Mouthes Will any whose Eyes are open believe you to be Ministers of the Gospel who rather then loose a little of the Earth will expose both your selves and your Gospel to all the Blame and Shame that may be The very Name of Tythes shews you to be Jewish and of Easter-Reckonings and such like to be Popish and now where is your Reformation You may well confess there is no Health in you who have so palpably done and do what you ought not to have done and left ndone nwhat you ought to have done as in your Custom you confess Health nay nay how should you have any spiritual Health in you who live in such manifest Opposition to the Spirit of Christ Jesus the Heavenly Physitian Christ Jesus saith to his Disciples Freely you have received freely give but you are all for Money and great Earthly Revenues that you may live in Pride Idleness and Fulness of Bread Christ saith Seek ye first the Kingdom of God but your Care is how to get great Livings and fat Benefices and as for the Heavenly Kingdom which Christ compared to a Grain of Mustardseed you neither know it nor are willing to learn you will neither enter into it your selves nor suffer others but by your Traditions you shut it up against Men. Christ saith to his Swear not at all but you teach for Doctrine that Christians may swear and you do swear not only before the Magistrates but even some of you in your ordinary Communication yea and which is most abominable in your very Church-Service compelling the Men called Church-Wardens to swear and that oftentimes with an Unwillingness of Heart and Condemnation of Conscience to perform your Church-Offices which layes a kind of Impossibility upon them Oh sad may it not be said The Land mourns because of Oathes What have you no Shame nor Care of your Credit that can do such Things in the open Sun and not blush Will you never open your Eyes a little to see your Works What do you mean to do Or where will you hide your selves in the Day of God's Judgments when he calls you to an â—ccount and pleads with you in Flames of Fire for all your mighty Sins Do you indeed believe as in Words you say That you regenerate the little Infants by sprinkling a little Water on its Face and speaking a few Words of your own devising over it which it knows nothing of Do you indeed I say believe that by this kind of Baptism they are made the Children of God the Members of Christ and Inheritors of the Kingdom of God Or do you not rather do these Things to get Money by Oh Cursed Covetousness the Root of all Evil Oh how it hath drowned your Souls in Perdition how it hath blinded your Hearts that you can see nothing of the Kingdom of God You bring in a Company of poor deluded Souls who follow you blind Guides to promise for the little Infant That it shall forsake the Devil and all his Works then what shall these bold Promisers suffer if the Child do not so Will they or you their Teachers for them be content to suffer the Pains of Hell the Reward of such as break Covenant with God And when will you see that this Custom of undertaking for the little Infants greatly derogates from the Honour of Christ who is the only Undertaker for Man towards God But what if a Child through Grace be so strengthned when it grows up as to see your Wretchness and so to forsake and bear Testimony against all the Works of the Evil One that are done amongst you will you not call him Heretick and put him out of your Synagogues Yea yea for you can have no Fellowship with any that have Health in them for by your own Confession you are miserable Offenders all the Dayes of your Life and have no Health in you and so cannot endure to hear of Perfection or perfect Soundness on this Side the Grave Yea though you read in Scripture That Christ's Ministry perfects to God Ephes. 4. Yet there is not so much Faith amongst you as a Grain of Mustard Seed to believe any such Thing for if any come to be healed by Christ and so made perfectly sound to God and witness forth the same they are not for your Company even you who have no Health in you but are miserable Offenders Oh you that cry out against Separatists and Separation what a woful Separation have you made you are of them who have separated your selves from the Lord in Unbelief and are sensual not living in God's Spirit but in the broad Way of the World Oh when will you be weaned from the Breasts of Mystery Babylon and learn to suck at Truth 's Breasts and draw Water out of God's Well which in the Light and Life of Jesus Christ is opened to the true Hungerers and Thirsters after Righteousness this Day But you have transgressed the Everlasting Covenant and offered Violence to the righteous Law of the Lord Jesus and miserably wrested and perverted the Holy Scriptures which witness of him and his glorious Appearance in these latter Dayes and this you do that you may establish your own Traditions that you may keep your selves up in the Earth in the Glory of this VVorld and Esteem of faln Man who knows not Christ nor his Kingdom and therefore hath the Lord already discovered your Skirts and will yet daily more and more by the bright shining forth of his Light make you so manifest naked and bare that every Eye shall see the Shame of your Nakedness And to the Nations of them that are saved who walk in the Light of the Heavenly Jerusalem shall you be an abhorring forever and the redeemed of the Lord shall daily flock to Zion out of your frozen Land to offer their spiritual Sacrifices to God upon his holy Altar and shall see the Smoak of your defiled Sacrifices go downwards as Cain 's did which God had no Respect to And the Smoak of your Torment shall go up forever and ever for strong is the Lord that judges you because you have given his Lambs Gall and Vinegar to drink and have pushed them with Side and Shoulder and therefore a bitter Cup will God give you to drink Oh how hath the Lord born with you how hath his Voice uttered it self amongst you in your Streets in your Assemblies saying in your Ears O Repent repent Give Glory to God by giving over to deceive your own and the poor Peoples Souls which are precious to God O ye that have exalted your selves into the Place of Teachers and are untaught your selves into the