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
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
but what he was now I cannot tell I hear you say he was Master of Trinity-Colledge This Doctor Hill was very well known and approved of through all the University of Cambridge This Doctor Hill was a man very well beloved in the Town it rung passing-peals for him at five Churches which I have seldome heard so many Bells of Aaron ring for one Priest You tell me he had neither Son nor Daughter what did he do with all his hundreds a yeer did he build Hospitals for the poor Ye tell me he was a man of little Hospitality then I cannot speak much in his behoof The words that I shall treat upon are from the mouth of those four Prophets Ezekiel 37. Matthew 28. Zachariah 11. and Rev. 11. These four Scriptures are the very ground-work of what we shall treat upon We even we the witnesses foreshow the mystery of those Evangelical Prophets and one Angelical amongst the rest Christ the first Ezekiel Zachary and John by inference doth plainly type out the two Testaments of Law and Gospel declaring of two Scriptures one before Christ came in the flesh the other by a Testimony of Christ and John saying I come not to destroy the Law but to fulfil the Law Now we may finde these Prophets were part of the Witnesses that were before and after Christ so that these four Scriptures make out one testimony which one Scripture cannot do so affirmatively for one Scripture must prove another and so make out truth which is undeniable These four Prophets though far distant in their times yet declared out the great things of God to come in our dayes the one by a foolish Shephard that God will raise spoken of by Zachary long before the other are the two Witnesses that God will raise and put life into and shall stand upon their Feet it is not one mans feet but feet of Witnesses it is one Priest one Prophet alone which is Christ Jesus singular of himself not for man to stand as Doctor Definator and as one man cannot prove a truth so two Scriptures must of necessity make out one truth which is a vindicated truth and tolerated of God by Law and testimony But you high Doctors may question me in this thing why one Scripture cannot be tolerable as well as two My answer is because the Mount Sion came between the Law and Gospel and changed the course of Sinai to Mount Sion which is one to the Lord for Christ standeth in power of himself to prove every Scripture which is an allegory or an all-power of himself which man cannot attain unto he is the high-Priest that first entred into rest he hath trod the winepress alone so that none can stand chiefe of himself but he alone after the order of Melchizedeck a Priest for ever ordained and sent of God he is our Minister and no other Doctor I pray throw down your power you are but as other men jointly to plead among your Low equals and not to stand Lord Priest above others preaching in your cause to silence others Therefore take to thy self the instruments of a foolish Shepherd Shewing that God will deliver his mind to some poor despised Shepherd that shall declare his hand of judgement upon the Shepherds to tell them they are but as other men and shall acknowledge themselves as Sheep among others and not think so high of themselves as to be called by the name of Shepherds for Christ is all our Shepherd and we are his Sheep both Minister and People neither shall you have power to tyrannize over the consciences of the People for all things shall be judged by the Church-Community to make out the Prophesie of the Prophet Zachary by way of allusion respondent or responsive to Christ or under Christ that some foolish Shepherd should declare and stand up as a Fool amongst the learned saying Take to thy self the instruments of a foolish Shepherd Now what be those instruments To answer they be two and of no less number for one is not to be numbered but accompted as one instrument it is one witness and that is Christs place from God and it not is tolerable for one man to preach and declare of himself in his own tongue to silence the people if he doth his testimony is not true for I will give power to my two witnesses and they shall prophesie meaning that two or three may prophesie preach or disciply and answer each other in order so that I finde one alone whether he be a Minister or a lay-man of himself cannot be tolerable to speak for the plural number shall extinguish the singular Christ excepted for he saith By the mouth of two or three witnesses every truth shall be established Christ saith his own testimony could not be true except his Father bore witness with him So that he always appeared to two or more the two Maries sought him early in the morning It sheweth to us that these women were two faithful witnesses in that he said Go make known my resurrection which was a calling of them by way of ordination which Calling all you Doctors and Senators cannot shew Again when he appeared to Mary and Elizabeth the babe sprung in her wombe for joy Again he appears to the two that were going to Emmaus which caused them to say Did not our hearts burn within us when he talked with us So that talking of God is the best preaching and will cause all you Ministers to come down from your high places I mean your Pulpits and to plead among your low equals for it is not the partiality of one mans tongue that can be found lawful for Christ ever appeared to two which were the least number somtimes to three somtimes to the twelve that they might make out the truth for the witnesses must prove a true testimony two or three witnesses may make a true discovery but one cannot He saith I will give power to two that is not to one Minister he cannot fully disciply truth for every divine truth is proved by witnesses That which one affirmeth in a Pulpit another may deny it is verily so in our common Churches The truth should be reasoned out by faithful witnesses Christ saith Where two or three be gathered in my name I will be in the midst of them which is a great promise or a calling forth of the witnesses to stand up and plead against the approbation of one Ministers tongue which is unlawful for one man to deffinate or define a truth of himself to sesserate or deceive the people calling himself a Minister of God Ye Diviners Flatterers and Soothsayers that carry the power in your own tongues and yet no faithful witnesses which of you will lose all for the testimony of Christ to vindicate thy life to sacrifice thy liberty or thy parsonage for the truth of Christ Alas you carry on the truth of God by flattery and so deceive the hearers you stand deffinating and temporing
own soul and say no more I am in Christs stead Doctor know that thine is an earthly authority but Christ is a Minister by an heavenly authority Then lay down thy false power You say you are Ministers of God and yet can minister but the outward letter and the letter shall non-residence you and suspend your authority for you are but false Christs Therefore Priest thou must lay down Christ is all thy Lectury he is eggal tyal and substantial You are but egg but he is eggal Therefore lay down and say We are no teachers but pleaders for righteousness mercy and justice and cannot teach the holy Ghost Christ is the altar then go no more to the Scribe nor to any earthly teacher If Christ be truely formed in thee go no more to the Wise-man or the Scribe which be inwardly ravening wolves and yet they come in Christs name which enjoy the tenth part of our Nation called the Tythes and Impropriations which might outwardly redeem the poor the blinde and the lame the fatherless and widow People you look for an outward speaking but the inward speaking is of God It is the holy Ghost that speaketh in thee and me and that is the surest teaching and ten thousand times more good it will do thee then all thy second-hand-teachers that cannot declare a true testimony Then all ye blinde guides that lead the blinde the Lord doth rightly teach Ministers dare not express themselves men dare not express themselves therefore the truth of Christ must needs suffer violence And I finde that these Wise-men and Counsellors are but the Witch of the world Ye Pulpittians there can be no election of Ministers but by Christ in whom he said Go it was in those days a work of election onely of Christ and from Christ an Ordination tolerated by the Son of God but now that power of election is of none effect and let him be what he will if a Minister or Lay-man if he take upon him to ordain or elect any to be Ministers of God or to give any such authority he falsly standerh in Christs place and cometh not in at the door but take Christs Office in their hand and they are not called to it The work of mans Priesthood failed long since for Christ is our high-priest once for all and he standeth a Priest for ever after the Order of Melchizedek He shall purge the sons of Levi that they may bring an offering in righteousness which is to throw down their power at the eternal power and live up to the endless Ministery of Christ and shall say I am no more a Minister of God I am but as other men Mens Priesthoods have been ever held up with money and outward territories but Christ teacheth freely and so did all they that he tolerated and sent All his disciples were without resting-places so are not ye he said The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests but the Son of man hath nowhere to hide his head Which of all the disciples of Christ held up personal proprieties to themselves I am sure amongst them it was not a common thing as it is amongst you for some of our Priests have large inheritances and will rather lose Christ then lose their Parsonages or great possessions of land But Christ did not ordain such disciples but such as were to carry neither scrip nor staff to trust to shewing that proprieties were not given them Learn of me saith Christ if I have nothing what can you expect if I be your example be as I am I tell thee if thou beest never so high a Doctor and eminent for gifts and yet dost buy and sell the creation thou art no Minister of God Therefore lay down thy authority for it is false At the first the Creation was not bought and sold for money it was to stand in its own original and not to be traduced or ingrossed by money and so to be changed from its original None of the Apostles bought or sold the Creation for money as some of our Doctors have done which is utterly unlawful Heaven is the Lords throne and the earth his footstool Now ye abominable Priests that buy and ingross the earth into your hands and tolerate all others so to do can a man buy the Lords throne for money No for it his place of rest neither can ye buy the earth which is his footstool Therefore ye Ministers are buyers and sellers and as money-changers in the Temple of God and for this cause of buying and selling the Creation your Temple is broken in pieces and there shall not be one stone lest upon another that shall not be thrown down So that I clearly finde that Ordination of Priests and Ministers ceased at buying and selling the Creation for then Christ came and put an end to their Ministery and God appears chiefly to us by his Son having him dwelling in us by the gift of the holy Ghost that is the Law and Testimony in us And God hath left power to his two Witnesses to plead for righteousness because there was no truth in the Priests therefore he hath given the two Witnesses power that shall hold to the end DOctor I see nothing but an end of all Traditional preaching for Mediumal preacheth in the mount of his power and requireth setting up thrones and to bring all things before the seat of justice Christ must sit upon his seat and judge the ends of the earth He is said to sit upon twelve thrones that is by an audiencee of twelve voices to vindicate and make out the full truth by Witnesses Then where is your preaching power your grinding in a Mill will cease Ye stand beating the Pulpit but all is in vain for the honourable seat of Justice will exclude all your seenal Witcherasts You have preached long yet no justice mercy nor truth is in our borders But the Prophet Zâ—chariah saith In those days and at that time many shall be joyned to the Lord which sheweth they shall throw off the Ministeries of men And the Prophet Hosea saith They shall be sowed to the Lord in truth in mercâ— and loving kindness saith the Lord I will betroth thee unto me That shews that every one should understand and know their Mariage union with Christ and come out from Priest and People It is not enough to say thou art a Christian but thou must prove thy self by an inward Law and testimony with the approbation of the grand Church that is by an inward and outward testimony that shall make them free Heb. 4.9 There remaineth a rest to the people of God and in vers 10. He that is entred into that rest hath ceased from his own works as God did from his This Christian rest is perfection of parts without toyl and legal cate having inward sanctity in the soul which is a sweet Sabbath-rest and I know no other Sabbath You observe days called Sundays outwardly and do not look to the
the old road but what is that to the setting up of thrones that all clear justice may proceed I can behold nothing but discovery discovery The Scripture saith The moon and stars shall be as the sun shewing a seeming brightness in them all or some equality with the sun which petypeth and prefigureth a great discovery of Christ and his Saints by some new disciplying way Ecclesiastical and Civil We must come to a higher beholding of God which shall be marvelous in the eyes of the remnant when they shall throw off your old customs and forms your Sacraments will be changeable Christ saith That ye do do in remembrance of me till I come And truly that is when he cometh by a new light then all your old forms shall be taken away and to that purpose he speaks of a new Covenant that he will make with the people not according to the old he saith All things shall become new That declareth that old forms must be taken away by a more excellent power that shall stand for the ordering of spiritual affairs and civil affairs brought all into one called The law of Sion that shall be governed by twelve or by four and twenty according to Ordination and so to cut off all forms that have been erected by Bishops and Priests The Lord hath raised me by the degrees of light and still one light hath frustrated another so that the Lord hath followed me with new lights caused me to throw off the old for the Sacrament and Baptism is declared to me as an outward thing and cannot stand when the Lord cometh in power by a new light He saith to his disciples Do as I have commanded you and lo I will be with you to the end It implieth that he will be with his people in the Old and new work but the new light shall do away the old Doctor Presbytian thou cryest Down with water-baptism then why dost thou baptize babes in clouts Paul saith Neither circumcision nor Baptism availeth but a new creature Christ went into the water and I think that to be more tolerable then to baptize babes that cannot understand or speak This difference of Baptism will not be ended until we lay down both the forms of outward discipline And if ye deny it to them of understanding then for shame leave off discipling of babes that have no understanding and let every one chiefly see himself to be a new creature baptized in Christ Jesus by a new Covenant for throwing off old forms and authors of men that be so failable and superfluous so that I find every form must come to the formal power of Christ for he is that all power to settle our differences and to make known the living Gospel to every creature it is far higher then the letter it is the power of Christ that is our true testimony by an inward law of conscience called The two Testimonies called The two Witnesses without which none can savingly prove themselves Christians so that every one ought not to live by the teaching of others but effectually to see something of God in themselves otherwise outward teaching will but intoxicate the brain and cannot restollize thy soul Then look not so much upon outward forms which have no substance in them It is not your Sacraments or Sabbaths or Baptisms or Preachings it is onely something of God within us that moveth us to work righteousness Outward ostentations or customs cannot do it for they are failable When Christ comes to us by true faith those forms must be done away by an higher light called his bright appearing that shall abolish all the Antichristian forms when men shall know God in spirit and in truth without old Popery The Papists look upon Christ by their Crucifix and you look upon Christ by your Forms so that all of you look upon the sepulchre or upon something below Christ giving your selves content and rest in outward shadows THe honourable seat of Justice or two Olive-trees the two branches standing on both sides the bank of the river called the conduit-pipes that receive the Oyl and declare it forth the sweet Odours these two Olive-trees are called the bowls on both sides of the Altar or the two Candlesticks or two Anoynted ones standing before the great God of the earth which indeed are the two Witnesses that shal faithfully plead for all truth at the right hand three on the one hand and three on the other those six shall attend one witness the other witness shall be attended with other six in the same order twelve on one side and twelve on the other four and twenty in number with two Witnesses standing on both sides which may be called the seat of Justice for Christ to sit and rule upon his throne he is the Sanctuary in the midst of them said to be the Altar of gold that shall sit upon the throne of Justice called Davids throne sitting upon twelve thrones which is the ends of the earth or remnant of the tribes Those two faithful Witnesses that shall stand before the seat of Justice shall plead for equity in all considerable places and nations and all such thrones shall be called the seat of Justice they shall put forth Queries and answer as the one declareth the other shall answer in due order so that twelve Senators shall judge and declare their sentence to prove every truth which shall be excellent sweet and amiable so that people shall abominate their earthly Christs that have deluded them so long and look upwards to the minister of God the highest teacher Our Priests are not like the Prophets of old that quaked and trembled when they saw danger at hand there hath been a great deal of difference between the Priests and the Prophets The Priests have ever been proud and high and much sought themselves by self-greatness which doth not prove themselves Ministers of God but stand in a Ministers place as if they were the very Christ which go in sheeps clothing yet ravenous and cruel as the Bishops if they had the same power But for all their Presbytian sting the pricking brier must be taken away that troubleth the Israel of God Christ is the fountain and finisher of the work he sets his foot on mount Olivet and it cleaveth in sunder so shall your Ministerial power be dashed in sunder and happie shall he be called that dasheth your power in pieces for the raising up the dry bone of Israel Christ sent his disciples or by two and two he called fishermen not one man One Priest ought not to stand so high to elevate his own tongue he will not have one speaker but by the mouth of two or three faithful witnesses truth shall be proved from one end of the earth to another though our blind guides see it not Therefore their tongues shall be no more an Allegator it must be two called the two Olive-trees that shall stand before the great God of the earth
ordain and appoint without the help of man Let no man say He can teach for no man can teach life and salvation Then down with all teachers that we may live under a peaceable Government our own Vine Christ Jesus for he will teach us of his wayes without all differing disputations Those that call themselves teachers they live as drone-bees by the sweat of other mens brows Therefore let them stop their mouths for the people will not give ear to them but will live under their own vine by a new Sabbath Covenantial and you shall bewitch the people no longer when fulness comes God will teach and the people shall declare what God hath done for their souls Then all these Dromidaries of Midian must break off your heavenly teaching and come under the peaceable Dominion of Christ You high Doctors blame me not for speaking where life is it will branch it self forth Who shall hinder my speaking the truth the silly Worm to the cold Earth the Sallamander to the Fire so all things to their proper use to the honour of God Oh that these rotten Priests would lay down their power and make Christ all in all Fat Priests that live as Drones belly-godded persons proud and delicious God is angry with you because no power will throw you down God will give his people wisdom to come out from you and to live by a higher teaching which is from the holy Ghost for there will be a great falling away that the iniquity of the Priests may be discovered I have tried all your Ministeryes and can have no rest in them my spirit is so universally taken up with the appearings of Christ that I unfailably see an absolute doing away of your Forms your Sabbaths your Sacraments your Baptism your common-Churches your separate-Churches your Anabaptist-Churches your Papist Churches all your set forms must return to the ancient Church of the Jews which is the stable perfection of Christ for now he apeareth all your forms must be done away Christ at the first came under a state of imperfection yeilding to the laws of men but now he cometh in perfection and will do away all your forms and shadows for when that which is perfect is come the unperfect must be done away My desire is to see the Priests thrown down and let the Lord preach alone for all the Ministers under the cope of heaven are not able to define or make out the truth neither can they speak truth till they give up their Ministery to Christ for all teaching belongeth to him and I know not any as can teach but shall run themselves into errors for it is God that teacheth and not fleshly man for by mans teaching the curse hath continued on the earth to this day neither shall it be till Christ hath the full pre-eminency and all powers yeilded up to him by an endless Covenant saying When that which is perfect is come then that which is not shall be done away when he cometh in power your illegal forms and relecks shall be done away for his formal power shall throw off your shadows as all the creatures declare the glory of God and preach forth his excellency but not as a Priest to Minister in Christs place but to shew what the Lord hath done for the creation and to acknowledge Christ alone to teach life He preacheth forth peaceable dominion to them that are nigh and to them that are afar off from him righteousness doth arise which is the end of all preaching Christ is the stability of the Church I do not say of named Churches but of one Church without difference or dividual dividing he is the husband of one spouse his perfection shall guide us unto all truth and for want of setting up Christ in his oriency of power men set themselves up and destroy his heritage but the chosen people of God must act against every thing that is opposite to Christ for he is Prince of peace and Prince of power and for his cause sacrifice thy life otherwise thou art no Christian for we must look no more upon the Ark of the Covenant it must not be once named amongst us The letter of the Scripture shall be failable when the testimony truly dwelleth in us by faith then all our outward shadows shall be done away Christ hath redeemed us from all typical shadows and from the curse of the letter being once made a curse for us that the blessing may come upon the people by faith and not by literal forms and shadows Gal. 3.13 Cursed is every one that hangeth upon a tree Shewing the miserable condition of all such that hold so much by the tree of the Law and deny the freedom of the Spirit they might have in the Son of God for as many as rely upon works are men-workers lie still under the curse for Christ is the free Abraham he hath done all the work of renovation and we are free in him without works and saved in him without mens works if once in Christ then free indeed from all mens traditional teaching while we are justified in Christ we acknowledge our selves sinners in that we see nothing in our selves and Christ to be just in all It is the believing Abraham that shall be justified and not the working Abraham For grace is of faith and not by works lest any man should boast for if the inheritance be of the letter it cannot be of faith God gave it to Abraham as he believed so the Lord promised to him and to his seed for ever according to the Covenant of faith which is the Law and Testimony written in the conscience called two Witnesses within which do Christian a creature and baptize him into the promised Covenant of Abraham and Christ which is far above all your teaching forms and shadows I speak to the people saying Stand fast in the liberty wherein Christ hath made you free and be no more entangled with the yoke of bondage but know your selves at liberty as children of the day and rejoyce with Jerusalem all that love her be glad and rejoyce for the amplitude and stability of the Church when all the Churches shall be maried to Christ in the new Covenant that they may suck and be satisfied with the brest of consolation for the Lord will extend peace to his Church as a river and to the people as a flowing stream from a fountain of teaching from above GOod men may sometimes deny Christ not knowing the end of disciplying This Doctor Hill was an eminent man and without all question declared forth many good things in his time yet subject to erre as we be by relation of some of the Souldiers that quartered in the town of Cambridge as they told me I cannot tell but as they related a sad story of this Doctor Hill by relation he was intended to persecute with the tongue whether right or wrong his spirit knoweth it best I cannot prove it yet it was certified me