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A85310	Fire from heaven, falling upon the present army and the churches: or, Two words from the Lord to both· Held forth to the understanding of those, that make not flesh their arm, and whose hope the Lord is, that cease from man (a piece of earth) whose breath is in his nostrils. As also to the terror and astonishment of all those, who lean upon the broken staff of Egypt, and trust in horses, and strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and joy in the shadow of men; and cry to themselves, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord. / By a man of their councel.	Man of their councel.	1649 (1649)	Wing F954; Thomason E572_12; ESTC R202075	23,108	31

you cannot get off it O it is a command of God and you dare not omit it To which I reply First That when God had an outward Tabernacle and Temple Church and Ministery as under the Law he was very exact with the people in the observation thereof a Pin must not be left out nor a Naile out of its place but Looke that thou make them after the patterne which was shewed thee in the mount Exod. 25.40 And this day shall you observe for ever in your generations Exod. 12.14 And this the tenth day of the first month vers 3. And the seventh year should be a Sabbath to them and the fiftieth year a year of Jubile Levit. 25.4 11. There must be no swerving from the observation of these Secondly When the Lord leaves this house and will build another Cloathed with greater glory he tyes not his people to the outward observation of things he is not now as formerly exact in them Doth not command them to be baptized with water but into the Spirit Christ tells them They shall be baptized with the holy Ghost and with fire commands that they be baptized into the Name of Father Son and Spirit viz into the power and glory of these three and yet one into a clear knowledg and understanding of these And for the Supper doth not enjoyn them to the strict and absolute observation of it nor when as under the law such a day shall you observe the Passeover but now As oft as you do it do it in remembrance of me not telling them how oft they should do it But how long must this eating bread and drinking wine last during your continuance in the dark until the Lord comes and be a feast of fat things in the spirit and life to you until he be revealed from Heaven consuming this dross and earthly knowledg within you and then shall you drink no more of this fruit of the Vine but drink it new in the Kingdom You used signs and tokens of his death c. had many letters representing him but now he is come what need these he is come himself even his sweet self nay further as the Lord did not then binde his people to outwards so were they used by the Apostles as in them they might become all to all stoop to them and speak them in their own language and as children to deal with them 3. Those Churches with their glory ministry and all were to dye and wither away apostatize and fall back and this for time times and half a time as the Scripture plentifully witnesseth and the holy City under foot and when Christ cometh shall he finde faith on the earth And this should be until the Kingdoms of this world become the Lords his Christs and God take to him his great reign yea till the Tabernacle of God shall be with men and a new Heaven and Earth appear and God make all things new and this is the Church and the Ministry which the Scripture tells you shall be set up after the Apostatizing days Therefore dear hearts binde not your selves where God hath not bound you be free in what the Lord hath made you free 2. A second Reason why the judgment of the Lord shall from Heaven fall upon you is because you by reason of your narrow thoughts and apprehensions keep the Lord Jesus prisoner will not permit him to go any where or dwell in any save your selves You are offended if the Lord break forth in a further manifestation of Glory to others not of your rank and order Lord saith the Presbyter here thou must abide this is thy dwelling place never remove from hence And here saith the Independent And here saith the Anabaptist c. Do you think that he that hath the key of David that openeth and no man shutteth and shutteth and no man openeth will become your prisoner No no his glory he will not give to another The Lord if he rend the vail of this fleshly Temple and pass through it into the highest Heavens you will serpent-like wait for this man-childe brought forth by the woman viz. weakness that you may devour it and therefore you cry out Lo here is Christ and lo there and question people saying Are you a member of a visible Church of what society and so lessen that comfort and peace or at least endeavor it that poor souls have in God by reason they are not joyned to your societies But in all their afflictions he is afflicted the Lord in this weak brother or sister is afflicted and beareth all he beareth and thus you imprison and afflict the Lord himself 3. Because it is your shame to live upon a naked God to have the Kingdom of God onely within you you are unwilling to leave outward bread and wine for God the bread and water of life and he that is ashamed of God of him shall God himself be ashamed What say you shall we by men be accounted no more praying fasting men hearing and preaching men no more to weep and mourn but all tears to be wiped from our eyes to observe no Sabbath but the Lord God and to call him holy a delight honorable not to think our own thoughts nor speak our own words O this is your shame namely to leave the water in the cisterns and that run in the channels for that great river and fountain whose streams make glad the City of God It is to you a greater shame to be at your fathers house with the fatted calf then in the Country to feed swine and to eat their husks therefore he that helpeth shall fall and he that is holpen shall fall down and they shall all fail together II. A second word and that of advice and counsel First That you would assemble your selves to the Supper of the great God and this saith the Angel the Messenger of God that stands and abides in the glory of God Rev. 19.17 And I saw an Angel standing in the Sun and cryed with a loud voyce saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven Come and gather your selves together unto the Supper of the great God The Lord invites you the great and mighty God woos you by his Messenger by another appearance of his My advice is That you would go tarry not and that you may understand the Supper what it is 1. The flesh and blood of the mighty men of the earth the power and authority of the rulers of the world which are bound in chains Rev. 19.18 That ye may eat the flesh of Kings and the flesh of Captains c. Ezek. 39.18 19. Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the Princes of the earth of Rams of Lambs c. And ye shall eat fat until ye be full and drink blood until ye be drunken of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you You shall fill and satisfie your selves with the judgment of the Lord upon the

Reformation but a figure of it and after him cometh he whose san is in his hand and throughly purge his floor yet do you sit down on this side Reformation not approaching to that House made without hands eternal in the Heavens Yea others of you passing through all these arrive at a seeking what hath been and not reaching forth to that which is before Some of you are content with the borders of Canaan and think not of entering in and possessing the good Land expecting Moses that angered the Lord at the waters of strife a Minister of weakness to lead you to your Rest and not Jesus who is a Saviour and Deliverer from being captive to any thing below God whatsoever and therefore stay on this side Jordan not believing the waters shall divide and be cut off before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord born by the Melchisedec of God Therefore all of you whatsoever that are working in your six days under sundry and several dispensations tiring and wearing out your selves in your own vanities shall lie down in sorrow and be bitten by the Serpents in the Wilderness until you pass over into the Lord your Canaan and Day of Rest where you shall all of you rest from your labours and your works follow And this Day of the Lord is coming upon you it is near at hand even at the doors the fulness of the Gentiles coming in and all Israel shall be saved And in this Day who so will not come up of all the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King the Lord of Hosts upon them shall be no rain there shall be a famine in all their dwellings a drying up of all their gifts parts excellencies righteousness praying reading preaching yea all that they have be taken away For the Day of the Lord is upon all the proud and upon all that are lifted up and upon all that being taken up into this high Mountain a figure of the true say Come let us build three Tabernacles let us never move from this station let us never go beyond Moses his legal and carnal administrations let us retain what we have and seek not to attain what we have not O let not this mind be in any of you lest the Day of the Lord come upon you and your oyl being out of your lamps and you not ready are shut out of doors and cast into the fire that burneth and never goeth out The sinners in Zion are afraid Who shall dwell with devouring fire Who shall dwell with everlasting burnings The clean hands and upright heart Therefore cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils wait under your dispensations enquire under your old fabrick and in the desolations thereof for him that shall make all things new and then shall I be Yours new in the Kingdom Fire from Heaven Falling upon the present ARMY and CHVRCHES OR TWO WORDS from the LORD To Both. First to the Army YOu have had many words from the Lord many sweet invitations tenders embraces and kisses from the God of the whole earth You have been dandled upon his knees and gently led by his right hand but yet with Jesurun have you waxed sat and kicked They have been to you either words of contempt and reproach or of momentary excellency and good like the morning dew that by the glorious sun of outward good and prosperity have wasted and consumed away Yet behold one kiss more one cord of love more drawing you peradventure the last word of good you shall have I am at first to rebuke you then to advise you In the reprehension of you I shall tell you what you are viz. The executioners of Gods wrath and vengeance you are men conversant in the lower-most parts of the earth in hell the place of Gods wrath You are Gods sword and it is in your hand to execute wrath upon the Heathens You are skilled in the wasting Kingdoms burning Cities Towns and Villages but not in the repairing the breaches that are broken down nor closing the gaps that are made nor raising up it ruines The way of peace you have not known you have declined the steps that lead to that blessed centre the foundations of love and peace are not founded and bottomed in your hearts therefore no marvel the buildings appear not Love and goodness meekness and gentleness cross your designs of greatness pomp glory safety and security You cannot make salvation your walls and bulwarks You cannot sing the Day of the Lord is not yet come upon you we have a strong City and yet without gates You cannot see Jerusalem inhabited as a Town without walls You cannot march forth like the virgins of Zion in their dances nor with Noahs dove return with an olive leaf in your mouth You have for many years faced the Nation with a sharp glittering sword in your hands executing vengeance but have not appeared in the majesty and brightness of God and thereby gathered them up into him Object But you may object and say Why what can we do have we a Will of our own thus to act forth that glory and brightness of God Answ No in no wise It is not in him that willeth nor in him that runneth but in God that sheweth mercy But you pretend it is God that acts you and carries you forth to act for the People and to be a wall between them and ruine and upon this account you break through all opposition and answer what ever is objected against your actions being in themselves as you your selves confess unlawful You pretend you are not mercenary and servile in the work you do but free and volunteer and all is for God and the People otherwise you would leave off A company of hypocrites and carnal Christians you are that plainly act the contrary Hath not God by a mighty hand of his own and through an unexpected way made you this day the lords and rulers of the Nation that all freely or forcedly pay tribute unto you serve and bow to you Is not the great Councel of the Nation your Councel your Election Are not all their actings and what ever is by them brought to the birth that which hath been first begotten and bred within you Have not you prescribed a pattern for the removal of the King and judgment upon his party and the house of Lords to be useless and they oppressing creatures and have not the great Councel writ after it Nay are not you soared so high that now we may truly say If any of the people of the Nation are in captivity if any Saint afficted it is you that afflict and oppress them either because you will have it so or neglect the relieving of them though you may and can All your pretences Oaths and Covenants have preached forth thus much to us if the Lord should ever set us up in authority O how would we relieve the oppressed help the fatherless What a joy would we

the Kingdom of Heaven God is coming upon you as a thief in the night of your beating your fellow servants eating and drinking until you are drunk and will plunder you of all you have and cast you into outer darkness you have a will within and among you that rules and reigns this will the Lord steal from you in the night and leave you none at all but his will shall do all and carry on all and be in you all And thus doth the Kingdom of God come not with observations saying Lo here is Christ or lo there for behold it is within you and thus shall the Kingdom of God take place and all Kingdoms bow and come in to it This is the onely King and Kingdom that shall be set up and there shall be but one in all the earth This is the time when God takes to him his great power and reign and then shall you be ashamed of all your doings And as you have cut off much of the unrighteousness of men and gross corruption of the world so shall the Lord in this day cut off all your righteousness holiness goodness beauty and comeliness leaving you none at all but you shall be the vilest among men 2. There is a second judgment which is proper to you and that you shall finde mentioned Zech. 13.7 8. Awake O sword against my shepherd and against the man that is my fellow and I will turn my hand upon the little ones And it shall be that in all the land saith the Lord two parts thereof shall be cut off and dye but the third shall be left therein Note the word his hand shall be turned against the little ones Two parts of you and two parts of the Land and Nation shall be cut off and destroyed God hath used you in this work you have wounded destroyed and slaughtered multitudes of people Captains mighty men and nobles have you cut off in one day Thus the Day of the Lord is begun and you see it not this is the day of Judgment and you say it is afar off Joel 3.12 13 14. Let the Heathen be wakened c. and Vers 14. Multitudes multitudes in the valley of decision for the Day of the Lord is neer in the valley of cutting off God hath rouzed up the Nation out of that careless and secure posture in which they lay God is a disquieting the whole earth multitudes in the valley of slaughter people gather and aslemble to this destroying Angel People muster their forces and march along with this destroyer they delight in blood and thus the people are consumed for their parts and destroyed out of the Land and blood toucheth blood And yet in these is the design of God carryed on in a slaughtering the pride of all flesh in putting a final period to the credit repute excellency goodness hopes and comforts of man blasting all that outward glory because the Spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it and now every man beginneth to be weary and ashamed of himself and of all others and doth hug and embrace to them a naked pure and divine God yea cry out creatures have been our destruction men have undone us we have built our hope joy and peace upon the sands O how have we bin deceived O how vile is every man how have we called good evil and evil good O how have we deified those which had any good holines or righteousness dwelling in them burying God the goodnes and holiness wrapt up in that earth and dwelling in those houses of clay and heathen-like have changed the truth of God into a lye worshipped and served the creature more then the Creator God blessed for ever 2. Now as I have rebuked you viz. that evil in you am I in the second place to counsel you and therein not I but the Lord And this is two-fold 1. To cast off your filthy polluted garments to wear your garments of blood no longer 2. To become a white Army clothed in white linnen therein following the Prince of Peace First Cast off your filthy polluted garments shake your selves from the dust strip your selves of your bloody garments leave off contending you have a long time been disciplined in war to the ruine of your selves and others And as you have ruined and killed others so the sword of the Lord hath killed you and stained your pride and glory self-interest self-preservation the outward liberties of you and the people You must dye to your outward peace and liberty and lay down your lives and thereby take it up again yea I mean all you that are the little ones of Christ shall thus have power as well as the man Christ to lay down your lives and take them up again Come with me my friends and dear hearts come with me from the Lions den from the fury wrath destruction and violence that have dwelt in your borders Come beat your swords into plow shares say to the people We will no more oppress you we will no more fight you O my hearts let the oppressed lord go free you have taken the Lord captive for these many years your God and King on high is your prisoner he preaches peace to the Heathens and compassion to the Nations and yet you take him captive and you preach blood contention and make laws to destroy every man that dislikes your government it must be called treason that you might thereby kill all that do oppose you What still sheding of blood Are you not wearyed in your vanities When when shall nothing binde but love Object But if we should thus leave off sighting our Liberties and all that we have striven for to obtain these many years will fall to the ground our righteous cause dye and the people return either to their former bondage or to Anarchy and Confusion and the godly party become the prey of their and the Lords enemies Ans In answer hereto I could first tell you that which every man knows That though you rule the people still remain in bondage and the righteous souls are cut off and many Saints afflicted and persecuted for their zeal to God and worshipping him according to their Consciences which may sufficiently discover your pretended zeal for God and how little truth there is in it but I forbear And in answer to your scruple know That the way to the pure and upright Government of the great God among and towards men is by Anarchy and Confusion This doctrine is strange yet true That the only way God hath declared he will use in the promoting and carrying on that design of greatness and Majesty he is intended to advance in the world is by depopulating defacing and wasting Kingdoms and People and this design of God hath been actually carryed on among us God hath hastened to this work of his in our days and his Charet wheels have run swiftly this way When we build a new house if there be an old one in the room we

be to the righteous and terror to the wicked How would we have separated between the precious and the vi●e And this have the people long expected from your hands but behold oppression ernesty and revenge slaying the innocent and righteous ones whom God would have kept alive You have discovered the covering of Judah and treacherously slain your friend and brethren and given up Judah to the sword and Israel to captivity And in that day did the Lord of hoasts call to weeping and to mourning and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth and behold joy and gladness slaying oxen and killing sheep eating flesh and drinking wine giving gifts and taking rewards and thus your are feasted with the blood of the righteous and drunk with their blood until you fall and never rise again Behold Tythes the great oppression of the Nation with its treble damages recoverable of the People if refused though you rule and your own consciences with others are against it yet will you have it so Who would have thought that you would have maintained such a company of Priests whom God as you know and say hath spued cut of his mouth and yet that you should support their Diana and nourish those dark places of the Land called and reputed of many the two eyes of the Land the fountain and seed-plots of all good learning and become Doctors Masters and Fellows in Babels arts and sciences bringing stone timber and morter to the building that City and Tower whose top may reach to Heaven But this is a fruit of the blood of the Saints which you have shed and a return of praise to the Holy One who in his descension upon men was crucified by you Nay how can you suffer faithful members to be excluded the House for professing and asserting the pure Divinity of God no way mixt or compounded That God is not three but one and not many gods as you in your imaginations think That there is no such thing in God though to men as Father Son and Spirit but all one in God though not in man and is thereby onely distinct to men and that to the darkness of men not to the light of God within them which reads God under another notion for that Soul beholds him all love excellency and goodness and this in all his ways to all in all upon all and that this God neither is or can be divided not admitting a seam in his garment Nay what enmity is there in your spirits or at least in your actions to Papists not suffering them or men in gross darkness viz. the Prelates who being in the dark and under cloudy dispensations of God should therefore have the going forth of the morning among them that they might be brought out of darkness into light and won by that love and meekness that is or should be in you to them yea I say not admitting them into the liberty and freedom with your selves I know your hearts you could many of you tolerate Papists and Prelates among you but that the Nation look upon them under such a gross notion that you to please men dare not do it thinking hereby your repute and credit among men will fall to the ground and be esteemed by many such your selves And therefore to retain and keep up your glory among men will you break the rules of love mercy and goodness and make shipwrack of your own and others consciences Yea you can command the People to fast and restrain the Nation from working on those days annexing penalties as formerly to the breach thereof thereby bringing in those legal and Mosaical Fastings Jewish and National which Christ by a more pure and glorious ministration hath abolished Nay let me discover what I know of you viz. That many if not the most of you are wholy dead in your selves to fastings of that nature your souls loathing it but onely that the Nation may judg you to be religious and zealous to make every one your proselite and not deem you to be for such an universal toleration of all sects and sorts of men in their religion until the day and pure glory of God break forth causing all darkness to sly before it yea turning the Sun into darkness and the Moon into blood not admitting any thing save this pure light then to be and converse among men I say for this cause do you thus dissemble with the Nation and seem as if you accounted the peoples fastings a sacrifice that God accepts Object But you may peradventure say through the hardness and obduracy of your hearts This is sedition and a stirring up and enraging the people against you Answ Though I might or could by means procure it I would not lift up or have a sword lifted up against you nor a hand in wrath and indignation The worst mischief I would do you were it in my power would be to create a heart of love and peace among you to engrave upon all your hearts and upon the hearts of the whole Nation an entire perfect union and agreement in God and a beating of your swords into plow shares and your spears into pruning hooks and to learn war no more I am for peace but you are for war and in times of peace shed blood therefore hath the Lord prepared you a cup to drink and you shall drink deep of it Death shall swallow you up alive and the grave shall open for you and hell shall be your portion because they that have killed with the sword shall be killed by the sword and they that have led into captivity shall go into captivity This is a sweet word wait for the fulfilling of it The Lord will destroy you all the Lord will give you blood to drink you shall drink and be drunken with your own blood It is a mystery and you it may be understand it not and therefore admire it Remember you not the voyce of the Church of old In the way of thy judgments have we waited for thee O Lord Great is the mystery of godliness thus it is You have shed the blood of thousands thousands you have have wasted Cities Countries c God hath provided a double portion for you and both of judgment and destruction The one is to destroy your flesh to give it up to the sword A second to cut off two parts of you out of the land of the living First The Lord will destroy your flesh and make a great slaughter among you even of your reason wisdom judgment credit glory repute all that is flesh in you to lay your glory in the dust to turn your wisdom into folly to burn up your righteousness holiness to give you a new heart to destroy that warlike envious and bloody spirit that is in you to create peace in all your dwellings and love in all your hearts not suffering any thing of the earth to have a being among you in no wise admitting flesh and blood entrance into