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A44798	The measvring rod of the Lord stretched forth over all nations and the line of true judgment laid to the rulers thereof wherein all governours and rulers, potentates and powers are measured, and all governments and lawes weighed in the true weight : wherein they all may see how far they are degenerated from the law of righteousness, and the rules of wisdome, which was in the beginning, before tyranny, and persecution, and rebellion had shewed it selfe : also shewing the end that will come upon all those rulers and governments, rulers and lawes that have been made in the apostacy, which is to all overthrown ... : also an advertisement to all the rulers upon the earth ... : published for the information of all the rulers upon earth ... / by one who waits to see the kingdoms of the world to become the kingdomes of the Lord ... Francis Howgil.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1658 (1658)	Wing H3171; ESTC R6600	23,099	33

of his strength who is comming up against you as a Lion greedy of his prey and will devoure at once all his enemies that thought in their hearts to reign for ever and to settle themselves in iniquity for ever now the time draws near when he will put down the authority of the dragon and of the beast and the beast with many heads and hornes and their rule shall come to an end and he will dash you one againe another as broken pitchers till you be consumed and brought to nought and be worn out as a motheaten garment and will overthrow your Lawes and customes which is made in the night of ignorance and blindness and will change your customes and the times and will reduce the earth again into its first purity and you that have ruled shall serve and be tributary and as you have had a time of rejoycing over the wittnesses who hath troubled your earthly and devillish peace and slayn them as sheep for the slaughter a time of mourning is comming upon you when you shall say alas alas for your glory shall pass away and your renown shall wither and for your dominion which shall grow so weake tht you shall not be able to resist him who travells in the greatness of his strength and treadeth the winepress of the wrath of God who is mighty and strong to judge the Whore and all they that have committed fornication with her and have drunk of her cup and are inflamed with Adultery and cannot cease from sinne but burnes in envie against the appearing of the manchild who is heir of the promise yea of life everlasting born heir to the inheritance which is incoruptible unto whom all power belongeth both in heaven and earth who will subdue the lower power and powers of darkness and tread them under foot and all who act from that power which is below the life below the truth below the light that power will he and all whom he brings out of the grave and raises above the grave tread down under foot which stands but in the earth wherein dwells unrighteousness Allthough thy teachers and diviners in the oh earth who preacheth a divnation of their own brain from the imagination of their own hearts hath made you beleive oh you powers of the earth who are in the fall in the transgression of the life that you were the higher powers every Emperour King Duke Earle Nobles Lords and that all were to stoop to your wills how contrary soever they have been to God but you and they must know there is one higher than the highest who is King of kings and Lord of Lords who alone will judge the hearts of his people and their consciences for he will not give his glory to another although you have long usurped it since the dayes of the Apostacy and would have had all to bow to that power which hath transgressed the life and is gone from the power of God oh long hath been the night of ignorance and darkness and great hath been the apostacy in the earth since the dayes of the Apostles and since the false Christs and false prophets entered into the World which Christ said should come and cry lo here and there and should deceive many yea all the world wondered after the beast and Iohn sa● it all ly in wickedness and the time that Christ prophesied of came to be fullfilled in the dayes of Iohn and he saw it Matt. 24. 23 24. that many false prophets and Antichrists were gone out into the World out from the life out from the truth cut from the light wherein the Saints had fellowship who wrote forth the Scriptures and he said they were gone into the World and he said the whole World lay in wickedness and so they went from holyness into wickedness and from the fathers love into the love of the World and Peter and Jude who lived in the same age they saw them that went in the error of Balaam and in the way of Cain and in gainsaying the Power being turned from it like Corah and also their hearts were exercised with covetuous practices So Iohn saw they were come 1 John 2. 18 19 ver. Little Chilldren it is the last times as you have heard that Antichrist shall come even now there are many Antichrists whereby we know its the last time and Peter saw that false Apostles should come who should make merchandise of the people and prophesied of it as you may read 2 Pet. 2. 2 3. and in the 14 15. verses you may know them by their fruits having eyes full of adultery and cannot cease from sinne beguiling unstable soules and hearts they have exercised with covetuous practices and they were the cursed children and these had forsaken the right way Christ the way and his command also freely ye have received freely give and they laboured to keep the Gospell without charge who were true Apostles but these false prophets deceitfull workers Antichrists and false Apostles they were gone in Balaams way after the wayes of unrighteousness in Cains way in Coras way in Antichrists way cut of Christs way and these false prophets false Apostles they spoke swelling words of vanitie and did allure through the lusts of the flesh and they like the rest of the false Prophets gone before them cried peace and promised peace unto others while they run with them into riotousness and while they put into their mouthes and these promised libertie to themselves and others while they themselves were servants of corruption and Jude bore witnesse that they were turned from the Grace of God into lasciviousnesse and wantonnesse even from the grace that taught them to deny ungodlinesse and was sufficient to preserve them from these errours before mentioned but they went from it and from the light and life of men and denied him and owned another even him who abode not in the truth the foundation of God but went out of the truth and so are bottomlesse or without foundation and there is the very center ground and residence of all the false prophets Antichrists deceivers all comes from or out of the bottomless pit and leades to perdition And Paul if not in that age yet in the next age after lived he saw the mystery of iniquity already begin to worke 2 Thess. 2. 6. and Paul an Apostle of Christ wrote to Timothy his Son that the spirit spoke expresly some should depart from the faith and they should speake lies in hypocrisie 1 Timothy 4. 1 2. and in the 2 of Tim. he gave him notice what fruits they should bring forth they that departed from the faith Chap. 4. ver. 2 3 4 5 6. yea a great Apostacy from the faith there was while Paul was yet living for he writes to Timothy 2. Tim Chap. 1. this thou knowest that all they which were in Asia be turned away from me and there were a great people in Asia for great persecution he suffered in Asia and

THE MEASVRING ROD OF THE LORD Stretched forth over all Nations and the Line of true judgement laid to the Rulers thereof Wherein all Governours and Rulers Potentates and Powers are measured and all Governments and Lawes weighed in the true weight wherein they all may see how far they are degenerated from the Law of Righteousness and the Rules of Wisdome which was in the beginning before Tyranny and Persecution and Rebellion had shewed it selfe Also shewing the end that will come upon all those Rulers and Governments Rules and Lawes that have been made in the Apostacy which is to be all overthrown and all that which is acted out of Gods power to be thrown down by him unto whom all Power is committed Shewing also that they in whom the power of God is made manifest cannot be subject to any Usurper or to that power which is gone from the life of God Also an Advertisement to all the Rulers upon the Earth that they may wait for the Restorer to be revealed in the Nations to make up the Breaches and to crush that down which hath made the Breach that so Righteousness may cover the Earth and gladness of heart may possess the People Published for the information of all the Rulers upon Earth By one who waits to see the Kingdoms of the World to become the Kingdomes of the Lord and his Christ that he alone may rule for ever and ever called FRANCIS HOWGILL London Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1658. The measuring rod of the Lord streched forth c. LIsten oh World hearken oh Earth and all the Inhabitants thereof give eare oh all Nations that are therein and all the Isles thereof draw near ye Potentates thereof ye Emperours Kings Earles Dukes Nobles Princ●pallities and Dominions my mouth shall speake the thing that is right and my lips shall utter forth understanding my toungue shall declare unto you the Counsell of the most high and what he is bringing to pass in the latter dayes he that is higher than the highest hath said he that is greater than the greatest hath spoken the whole World lies in wickedness and thick darkness is over the World his way is perverted his Counsell is despised and all Nations is out of order notwithstanding the multitude of their Counsellers and notwithstanding all their wisdome yet folly is brought forth in the middest of the Nations Because they have asked Counsell and not at the Lord and taken advice and not at the holy One therefore violence is set up as an Ensign and wickedness runneth down as a river and cruelty and opression as a mighty stream the whole Earth is full of folly and madness and all the people thereof are degenerate and grown out of the Image of God into a monstrous and strange nature the prophets are all fooles the diviners thereof are mad and they being degenerate themselves from the life of God have not turned the people from their iniquitie but hath led them into further blindness darkness ignorance and deceit and hath made the Word of truth of none effect through their traditions hath taught for doctrine the precepts of men the traditions of them who are out of the Faith and out of the life and out of the power of God and the Counsellors they have established wickedness by a law they themselves being stranged from the life of God therefore violence is broken forth into the earth as a flood and now all Kings Rulers Potentates of the Earth who have given their power to the Whore who sitts upon many waters and the waters are kindreds and tongues and people and Nations yea all Nations have been drunk with the cup of her Fornication and being all gone forth from the life in which the Prophets and the holy men of God lived in and were established in the Nations are become as waters reeling to and fro hither and thither unsetled unstable there the Whore hath her seate and all having drunk of her cup of Iniquity and Fornication even of mystery-Babylons cup and are inflamed therewith and so reeles to and fro as the waters and are as the waves of the Sea unstable by her who hath made all Nations drunk and by them who have been made drunk with her even all Nations kindreds tongues and people have the Prophets been slain and the witnesses slain and none to bury them not in mystery-Babylon who is drunk with the blood of the Saints and they that have drunk of her cup of Fornication even all the Kings Nobles Potentates of the earth they have acted the like and have slain the appearance of God where ever it hath been brought forth and the red Dragon hath stood ready to devour the heir which is borne of mystery-Ierusalem which is the Mother of all who are borne from above who are heires of the promise of Eternall life and the powers of the earth hath joyned their power to the Dragon who cast out floods of venome after the Child which is brought forth by the woman which is clothed whith the sun and now the powers of the earth taketh part with the Dragon and their authority and dominion that they exercise is by his power which arises out of the bottomless pit and shall goe into perdition and he hath deceived the Nations long and all hath exercised their power against him who is the heire of the promise the first-born of every Creature who is higher than the highest and greater than the greatest and have changed his lawes and made them void and hath set up the law of sinne and death hath established unrighteous Lawes by the power of darkness in which all Nations hath been involved in since the Dragon hath power and whosoever would not obey those Lawes and customs and constitutions the Dragon hath had power and all that have joyned to him for a time to kill to imprison to destroy and they who have been exalted have had thought to weary cut the Saints of the most high and to root out the memoriall of the just that he and all his adherents might reign for ever in the Kingdome of unrighteousness and in the dominion of darkness which is the Devills dwelling place and residence for ever who is at enmity against God and the Children of light which worship God in spirit and truth in life and righteousness Now is the time drawing near and he who is the desire of all Nations appeareth the ancient of dayes is coming whose throne is established in righteousness for ever who will break the head of the Dragon and will lay hold upon him and chaine him up that he deceive the Nations no more and all you Emperours Kings Dukes Earles Nobles Lords and Potentates who have joyned to him your Kingdome shall be rent from you and your hands shall grow weake that you shall not be able to defend your selves against him who travells in the greatness

hath gotten over the words and can say them over now judges they have faith and are sound Christians when they are Ignorant of the first principle or of faith towards God and so are carried on in the mist of darkness and ignorance and knowes not yet repentance from dead workes Object But some of the Rulers and Potentates of the earth may say we have not persecuted them for well doing but for heresie and blasphemy and sowers of sedition and because they have not submitted to obey our constitutions and lawes Ans. Deceit hath never wanted a cover hitherto neither hath or can the serpent want subtilty for it s his nature by which he liveth Nabucadnezar made a law that whosoever would not obey should be cast into the furnace and might not all his magistrates have said to Shadrak Meshach and Abednego that they were not subject to the Kings decree and therefore judge they suffered deservedly and did not the Jewes who were uncircumcised in heart say when they took up stones to stone Christ we stone thee not for thy good work●s but thou being a man maketh thy selfe God and the Jewes stoned Paul and Stephen and put Peter and Iohn in prison they said they were movers of sedition and ring-leaders of Sects but the cheife Preists and the false prophets had allwayes their hands in conspiring against the life of the just but persecutors were ever blind and yet were so conceited that they saw that they said to Christ are we also blind but the seed of falshood hath fitten as Judge long and hath laid the heritage of God wast and hath set it selfe in Gods Temple as the true heir and judged the heir not worthy to live and thousands of thousands have been put to cruell deaths and a numberless number hath suffered since the Apostles dayes and since the apostacy came in yet these which have done these things would be called Christian Magistrates and Ministers of justice and those teachers who have called to the rulers to punish such as Hereticks and Seducers they would be counted the ministers of Christ and such Nations who are out of the life they would be counted holy Oh nay Christ came not to destroy mens lives but to save them and all you rulers in all Nations who goes under the name of Christendom who are upon the earth and all you teachers that are therein whose actions and lives doctrines and principles and practices are contrary to the life of righteousness and contrary to the doctrine of Christ and the practice of the holy men of God you are all out of Christs nature and out of the divine nature in the Dragons natu●e and in the corrupt nature in the nature in which all the disobedient and the rebellious are in who are heires of wrath and eternall vengeance therefore repent ye of your iniquity and tremble before the Lord God of heaven and earth who is roreing from his dwelling place and uttering forth his dreadfull voice at the sound thereof all Nations shall fear and be astonished and the fenced Cities in which you dwell shall be horribly afraid Behold the time of restoring is come and coming and the year of Gods controversy with Sions enemies is aproching near you and he who sits and judges in righteousness hath shewed himselfe will rule over the heathen as with a rod of Iron and will pour forth his plagues upon all the families of the earth that calls not upon his name but despises it and tramples upon it the earth is filled with violence cruellty and opression yea it is broken forth as a flood and the Nations is covered with unrighteousness as with a garment the beast hath exercised his power and hath overcome and prevailed long over the heritage of God and the mountain of the Lords house is made desolate all is void and without form deceit inthroned truth trampled upon Judgement turned backward and the devill reignes a King equity hath found no place mercy is shut out of doores cruelty is entertained temperance and moderation hath no residence lust uncleanness excess riotousness and wantoness is loved as though it were the way to eternall felicity pride hipocrisie and dissimulation is taken pleasure in sobriety and meekness hath no dwelling place but is thrown aside folly and madness is set up as the greatest wisdome and the wisdome which is from above counted the greatest folly the fear of the Lord is slighted Gods pure law thrown behind their backes the Nations and the people therein are compassed about with darkness as a wall and with ignorance as a curtaine and with blindness as with a strong fence they are situated in the region of death and at the side of the pit and yet saith no evill shall come near us nor sorrow touch our tabernacle and is in a dead sleep of security wrapt up in the slumber of iniquity involved in utter darkness folded up in the deep pit of ignorance and desires not the knowledge of wisdome neither to walk in her path but her way is grievous unto them and the eye lid of the morning is unto them as the shadow of death Nevertheless he that weighes all things in an even ballance before whom all Nations are but as the drop of a bucket he is appearing in his power and thundring from his holy place who will make the Nations shake as an olive leafe and the Isles tremble before him who is uttering forth his voice as the sound of many waters which shall make all the Potentates and mighty of the earth bow the eye-lids of the morning is opened and the Sun is rising to his height and the darke Aire is scattering by the breath of his mouth and so all things shall appear in the earth as they are and every thing under the face of the Heaven shall be brought to light and all the powers of darkness discovered and the workes and workers of iniquity shall no longer be hid but shall be discovered by the light of the sonne of God and shall be judged and cendemned by the life of righteousness and blessed are they who know a hiding place in him when his overflowing scourge passeth over the Nations which is already made ready to execute his judgement upon the heathen that know him not oh who may abide his presence when he appeares in his power and maj●sty and glory all the ungodly of the earth sha●l be as driven stubble before his bow and shall fly before him nevertheless the pursues shall overtake and the destroyer shall lay hold upon them and all the ungodly shall hear the sentence go ye cursed from the presence of the Lord into the pit of everlasting destruction And when this day comes upon the Nations all your prophets diviners and teachers who are out of the life of Christ who have flattered you and told you you were the higher power and you must sit as judge in the things of the Father Lord it over the consciences of

gets head and is set up as a rule and the law of God both in the Ruler and the ruled is throwne behind their back and so deceit leadeth and the changeable mind acteth it self out in every thing that it hath to do withall and so tyranie and opression spreads over a whole Nation and the just suffers in it And hence it is that there are so many several Laws Ordinances and Constitutions and Traditions and Customs among men in many Nations and Countreys and Regions one differing from another and heaps of confusion that hardly in any Nations or few in a Nation knows what is Law there is so much variableness and changeableness amongst the Lawmakers one while setting up another while pulling down and as deceit advanceth it self in any particular Ruler then there must be a Law made and a penalty upon the non-performance as death banishment tortering whipping racking prisonment fining to the utter destruction of many and all the ground of this is because the Rulers are gone from that of God in themselves and then acts in their own wills and by their craft and deceit which stands in the Ground which is cursed and calls this Christian pollicy and wisdom and cruelty becomes a Law and the Devil keeps his Dominion in the Earth and deceit gets a Cover and hides it self Now it was not so from the beginning For as God is one and his Name one his Law is one which is pure and equal and unalterable and indures for ever and ever Now man being made in Gods own Image answered the pure Law of God and being Gods Image was one with the Law and the Law was not against him but was his life and joy and he had power to obey it for he was of its own nature for as God is pure and holy and the Image which he brought forth man in was pure and holy and that which was mans guide and rule was pure and holy here was unity and purity and he that created and man that was created was in unity and then there was no woe no condemnation no sorrow no death no tribulation nor anguish nor wrath revealed against man who was the Image of God and he stood in the Dominion of God and had dominion over that which was contrary here was no tyranie here was no cruelty no prisons no envie no persecution no killing nor destroying no defrauding no jarre no strife no devouring but all Gods creation at unity and man at unity with God being partakers of his Dominion whereby all the Earth was in order and in that wisdom which changed not and here man had dominion and power and ruled in Gods authority and was guided by the higher power and while he was subject to it death had no power over him now this was before sin entered and before death entred before enmity had appeared in the Earth but now was the Lord King and Law-giver and Judge who ruled in righteousness and man being subject to him there was no Law against him nor no guilt of any thing for transgression was not known in the Earth and there was no curse but all was in unity and peace no changeableness but all was in the covenant all the workmanship of his hand was united unto him and all that he had made was blessed and all the Creation were partakers of his blessedness and all stood in the covenant by which every Creature received power virtue and dominion here was one mind and here was no double no variation no mutation nor change but the dominion of the everlasting God was felt which indures for ever and ever and any other thing was not seen in the Earth but man crowned with honour dominion and dignity wherein could be nothing but rejoycing and pure peace and joy now no evill was known neither was there any such thing but goodness possessed the whole Earth and righteousness breathed forth it self in all things in the circumference thereof and all the works of his hends pleased him and man made partakers of his pleasure and was accepted and not rejected thus in part I have shewed unto you the state of the Earth and of mankind and the glory of Gods Creation and the blessedness thereof but if I could declare unto the whole World from years end to years end I should fall short and words would be wanting to express the felicity and happiness in which man was brought forth in neither shall any be able to see into those things or to declare certainly of those things who come not beyond time to him who is eternal who gave them a being But after man had taken of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evill and had eate of the fruit thereof and consented to the beguiler and to the Serpent sin entered and death by sin man lost his dominion and became subject to another and another had power over him and now the course of nature was set on the fire of Hell the curse entered and man dead while he lives and in that day he eate did die and death breathed forth it self in the Earth and Cain is brought forth in his own Image to wit in the Image of him who was gone out of Gods Dominion and he became a murderer and slew him that was accepted of God and here appeared now the enmity and its life was to destroy and to murder and to kill Abell who believed and offered up a sacrifice and Cain offered in the unbelief and was not accepted so Abell who was just lived by Faith but Cain who was in the envie and in the wrath this life was death to him and to his nature and so all who are out of the Faith are dead while they live Now after the transgression in process of time when the seed of fallen Adam began to increase in the Earth being driven out from the presence of the Lord they spread over the whole Earth and sought many inventions being gone from that of God in themselves by which they were united unto him having broken his covenant and joyned in covenant with death death acts forth it self against the seed which is not of its nature and alwaies sought to imbondage it and to kill it as Cain did Abell and Esau Jacob and Ismael did unto Isaack and unto his seed Now the seed unto which the promise was received the Law from the mouth of the Lord and they that persecuted the seed invented and made Laws of their own according to that nature in which they lived and so became heathenish in their Fashions and Laws and Customs and cruelty grew up as it was nourished and leavened into its own nature and unbelief grew into a mighty stature and monsters was brought forth in such a strange shape in every thing that the enmity did appear in as had not been seen in the Earth before and and so man being gone astray from the life of righteousness every thing is abominable and of a stranger nature