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A81625 A door of hope: or, A call and declaration for the gathering together of the first ripe fruits unto the standard of our Lord, King Jesus.; Door of hope. 1661 (1661) Wing D1908; Thomason E764_7; ESTC R207107 22,969 16

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rise of the Witnesses the preaching of the everlasting Gospel the begining of the down-fall of Antichrist and the setting up the Kingdome of Christ the Churches of Christ and sincere professours of the Gospel with the addition of new converts will begin to appear with the Lamb on mount-Mount-Zion in all the Primitive Glory and Purity of the New Testament-Churches for Matter Doctrine and Order But so far as the Churches are in Babylon and by sinful compliance with Antichristian worship and the evils and Apostacy of the times have not kept but defiled their Garments and so far as they have left their first Love owned and stood by them that held the Doctrine of Balaam suffered that woman Jezebel to teach and seduce had a name to live and are dead have not kept the word of Christs patience and have been luke-warm and lost their favour their Candlestick shall be removed and the true mortified quickened spiritual Members that are in the flower of their virginity or have kept their simplicity will be gathered as the precious from the vile and with all the poor scattered stones and dust of Zion the living spiritual stones be built up the second time the great New Testament-Temple when also our Lord will appear in his Glory Psal 102. 13 14 16. For God we are perswaded has a great Controversie with the Churches who ought to be the ground and pillar of Truth for their corruption and Apostacy and because they have not received and contended for the great New Covenant-Truth of the Kingdome of our Lord Jesus 2. That all Civill Liberty and Rights of men which with every mans Propertie we assert shall rise alone upon the Foundation and grow upon the Root of the Visible Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ which we hope and greatly desire may from henceforth take place among us according to the Prophecies of the Scriptures and become a great Mountain filling the whole Earth 3. That the chief of the Spoil which shall be taken in Battell and all the Estates which shall be forfeited through Treason and Rebellion shall be brought into one common Treasury according to the Word of the Lord Their Gain shall be consecrate to the Lord and their Substance to the Lord of the whole Earth Micah 4. 13. That it may not feed the Fowls of Prey or enrich and corrupt particular persons as of late but carry on the Work of God with the Army of the Lamb in which every Souldier shall be sufficiently provided for by a certain honourable constant Revenue issuing out of the said Treasury according to his Place Degree Services and Family And for accomplishing and attaining these great and weighty ends we Declare also for the Razing Destroying and perpetuall Rooting out of the whole Constitutions and Foundations of the Antichristian Laws and Government of these Nations for the Removing of Taxes Tythes Excise and Customes also so far as Oppressive and unlawfull slavish tenures of Land Oppressions of Landlords Monarthy and Lordship as well in Church as State so also in Cities Societies and Families wherein the Rights of younger Brethren will be vindicated according to Law the nature whereof is Justice Mercy and Equity wherein is no footing for such sictions as this wicked Law teacheth to distinguish between Courts of Justice and Equity and the Nimrod spirit and Monopolies of elder Brethren unto whom as Kings in the Family the younger Brethren are Slaves and Subjects which is one grand branch of Tyranny and Interest of Monarchy pulled down whose Interest nevertheless by right of Primogeniture is asserted according to the Kings Law to wit two-fold For the ballance of Lands must be adaequate to the Government of the Commonwealth And as our great desire is to take off all yoaks and oppressions both of a civil and spiritual nature from the necks of the poor people so shall we endeavour to cast the wing of protection over them their Persons Families and Interests to preserve them from Free-quarter Plunder and all other injuries and violences whatsoever being resolved first to offer up our own proper Estates for our necessary maintainance For it shall be our great and indefatigable care to preserve an excellent and strict Discipline in our Army that not the least wrong of how small value soever may be done alwayes respecting Propriety so that all persons other then such as shall oppose and rebell against this righteous Interest may expect the fruition thereof in their peaceable demeanours of themselves in their lawful occasions and Family concerns And it is not the least thing to be looked at that hereby the Gospel will have free access which seems to be one of the first fruits of the Saints rendesvouze Revel 14. 6 7. and poor sinners will be converted unto Christ and be enlightened with the glorious light of his salvation And indeed that great and general conversion both of Jews and Gentiles which the Prophecies speaks of Isa 60. 5 will be one of the greatest blessings the soul-blessing that the Kingdom of Christ will bring with it under which both sin and Satan will receive so fatall a blow that his Kingdom will be destroyed the which doth commend the Excellency and Nature of this blessed Kingdom above the barren and soul-destroying Interests of Antichrist Rev. 18. 13. under whose Government poor ignorant souls are hardened and lost And it has been for some years past a rare thing to hear of the reall Conversion of one soul through the Ministry of the National Parish Ministers so dead dry dark and barren has their Ministry been so much have they desiled their Garments stumbled hardened and offended sinners kept out the Truth of the Kingdom from their Churches and Assemblies so losing abundance of the Power and Riches of the Gospel which nevertheless by the mouths of Babes and Sucklings has been conveyed to poor vile sinners so effectual has it been unto Conversion so little has the Gospel been powerfully and effectually preached by them whose hired Labours can never countervail the many Families they have wickedly destroyed for Tythes But the Remnant of Jacob shall be as a dew from the Lord when Magistrates and Soldiers shall preach the Gospel and teach the people knowledge as well as those appointed unto the Word and Doctrine for this Cheat of the Whore of Rome and Innovation of Antichrist Monopolizing the Work of the Ministry to make a Trade of the Gospel and Slaves and Souls of men into their own hands limiting and appropriating it unto Persons in Ecclesiasticall Offices shall be taken away And finally We most earnestly desire and call all that love our Lord Jesus Christ and wait for his Kingdom to offer themselves willingly with us in this Work that as in that Renowned History Judges 5. 9 14 15 16 17 18 23. Out of Ephraim there may be a Root of us against Amaleek after thee Benjamin among thy People out of Machir shall come down Governours and out of Zebulun they that