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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40340	Honest, vpright, faithful, and plain dealing with thee O army of the common-wealth (so called) without flattery, in true unfeigned love to thee with something more particularly unto the officers of the army, and those that join with them in the outward government of this nation : wherein truth, uprightness, and equity is declared for, and deceit, wickedness, oppression, and tyranny is declared against / by one who loves the prosperity of truth, and the good and well-being of all creatures, George Fox the younger.	Fox, George, d. 1661.	1659 (1659)	Wing F2005A; ESTC R37833	11,867	16

of the outward peace of these Nations which are under your command And take heed of hearkening unto such who in the kings time cryed him up ran to him to give them a law to settle them in their Worship then again in the Parliaments time ran to them cryed them up begging a Law to settle Church-government as they call'd it then in the late Protectors time cryed them up petitioned unto them with many feigned flattering words and begged a law of them to settle them in their Worship now these are the deceitful workers who teach for filthy lucre are time observers who through covetousness and feigned words makes merchandize of the people these quench the spirit and despiseth prophesying and changeth with the times Governments let them be never so contrary and these are neither true to God nor man but are men pleasers and such serves not the Lord Jesus but their own bellies and these wanting the power of God runs to the Rulers for an outward power to uphold them these are whored from the life of God in their own particulars and these seek to stop the life of God where-ever it appears therefore take heed of upholding or setting them up by an outward Law lest you become the beast mark that which carrieth the Whore which is to be taken with the false Prophet and the old Dragon the Father of all unrighteousness and cast alive into the Lake Now the true Worship and Religion which stands in the spirit and in the truth must be set up and established and upheld by the Power immortal and not by an outward Law But let your Law stop that in all where-ever it appears which wrestles with flesh and blood and fights with the creature about Religion for this spirit could never make manifest the true Worship Religion neither would it suffer others to do it who had the spirit of God if it could stop them by an outward Law or force so that which fights wrestles and strives with the creatures about religion is not for Christ but is ante against Christ the Apostles who wrestled not with flesh blood but with the power of darkness with the spiritual wickedness in high places that so wickedness deceit might be destroyed in the creatures and that the creatures might be preserved and their Weapons were not carnal but spiritual But they that cryes out to the Rulers for an outward Law to uphold their worship religion they war not with the spiritual Weapons but with the carnal and these destroys the creatures but cannot destroy the wickedness these have quenched the spirit in their own particulars and these would quench it in others will not suffer him that hath something revealed unto him to speak but cryes to the Magistrates or to the rude multitude for help and so flees to their carnal Weapons and those being stirred up by their Teacher some of them oft times beats those that have the truth to declare in their Synagogues hales them out railes on them spits upon them and sometimes buffets stocks whips imprisons and mangles the creatures so mars defaceth the workmanship of God and this hath been the work of Antichrist in all ages when Truth hath appeared against deceit and such cannot truly say truth hath prevailed on their parts when they have thus beaten and haled and stocked and whipped and imprisoned the creatures but violence there at that time hath prevailed by which they that have had the truth to declare oft times have been stopped from speaking it So let none do violence to one anothers persons or estates but let your Law take hold on them that would do so but let them alone in their profession and then it will soon appear who is in the truth and who are Ministers of Christ and of the spirit for those that are in the spirit of truth will assuredly prevail over them that be in the spirit of deceit and this will be manifested soon if there be no violence done to them who be in the spirit of truth thereby to stop them from speaking the truth and then the truth wil reach unto the Witness of God in peoples consciences then many who could not discern the Truth whiles there was such strivings fightings with the creatures wil come to see and feel it and then Truth shall prevail and deceit shall fall where ever it be and what covering soever it have got it shall be ript off and he that is in the Spirit of Truth and abides in it shall overcome all false spirits Now I know ye are not altogether ignorant how that the lives and goods of several in this Nation hath been made a prey upon by the Priests who hath robbed and spoyled both the fatherless Widows others hath prisoned several unto death by a Law made by the Popish Kings and since strengthened by those that are called Protestants concerning tythes these before-mentioned hath suffered thus for not paying tythes Now tythes in the Law given by the command of God unto Levi the changeable Priesthood who was to have no inheritance among his Brethren was for the maintenance of that Tribe also for the Fatherless the Widows and the Strangers but Christ being come after the order of Melchisedech he is the everlasting unchangeable High-Priest not made by a carnal commandment but by the power of an endless life he offering himself up once for all put an end to the changeable priesthood who were made by a Law which gave them tythes so this Priesthood this Law was changeable this Priesthood could not continue by reason of death so this Priesthood being changed ended by Christ the unchangeable Priest made by the power of an endless life there was a necessity also of a change end of that law by which the changeable Priests who could not continue by reason of death were made which gave them tythes then Christ the everlasting High-Priest made by the power of an endless life by the same power he made Ministers freely gave them gifts for the work of the Ministry which was for the perfecting of the Saints in the power of an endless life sent he them forth saying Freely ye have received freely give and into what house soever ye enter and they receive you ye may eat such things as are set before you for the workman is worthy of his meat These were Workmen they first planted a Vinyard then eat of the fruit thereof first gathered a flock then eat of the milk thereof sowed spiritual things reaped of their carnal things unto whom they had sown spirituals preached the Gospel lived of the Gospel these were not made Ministers by the will of man nor by an outward Law neither received they their maintenance by an outward Law nor compelled or forced any to pay them neither robbed or spoyled or imprisoned they any that

establish yourselves in the honor fulness of this World but poor creatures ye could not settle your selves in a peace there for your Enemies daily plotted against you had it not been just vvith the Lord to have suffered your Enemies to have destroyed you because of your grievous back-slidings and wickedness O consider it consider it while ye have time and prize the Lords loving kindness that he should yet spare you and yet give you time to repent And seeing the Lord hath shewed you your backslidings with his eternal Witness in you and hath begun to frustrate the designs of those that vvould have cut you off in your backslidings and ye confess some of you that you are vvilling to take shame also to your selves wherein you have back-slidden therefore seeing it is thus all mind that of God in you which sheweth you your back-slidings and believe and wait in that to feel that nature judged and destroyed in you wherein all this Wickedness and Deceit hath lodged and keepe in the fear and dread of the Lord God that so ye may receive his pure Wisdom whereby ye may be ordered in the particular that ye in Gods Wisdom and Fear may come to rule in your places for God to be a terror to evil-doers and an encouragement to them that do well And take heed of a selfish earthly spirit in the particular and of the honor and glory and gain of the World for that the Lord is against Oh! there is a strong deep root of it in many of you which the Spirit of Judgement and burning and the Ax of God is to destroy therefore wait to feel its Work in you O ARMY in thee was I several years together in which time I saw the mighty appearance of God with thee even in the time of the outward War and when the War vvas ended I left thee in obedience to the appearance of the living God unto me who called me out of thee by his powerful Word in my heart through which he hath sanctified me and hath brought me into the life of that truth which I and many of you in the Army professed in Words And I can truly say in the fear of the Lord That my love hath been and yet is tender towards you for the good of your souls and I have seen your conditions and hath considered them in the spirit of the Lord and I cannot flatter any of you but must deal plainly and and truly with you and all people Truly in many of you there is an exceeding lofty proud covetous deceitful nature and in others of you there is a lofty proud lustful devouring wanton vain nature though many of you I know have felt a measure of the power of God yet verily ye have so back-slidden that iniquity hath gotten a strong hold and root in most of you that so ye must keep down to the Witness of God in you which searcheth your hearts and will let you see what is there that so the Lord 's righteous Judgement ye may all feel it and own it upon that nature in you which is contrary to the living God for if ye keep not to the spirit of Judgement I know whatever ye have declared in words that a selfish spirit will get up more and more to act in you and verily friends if you keep not your minds to the measure of the pure God in you a secret boasting will be ready to get up in you of what you have done and then you will soon forget where you are and your minds will run further and further into your Commissions and into your great Houses and Lands which many of you have got and others minds will run into your Souldiers places and ease and idleness and these things will beguile you if you take not heed you will soon forget the oppressions then that others suffer under and if ye should do thus verily the Lord God would soon overturn you break you to pieces Therefore all wait in the light which shews you sin and evil that so by it ye may be brought to deny your selves and to come out of the loftiness that ye have been in into the true humility which goes before the true honor and come into moderation both in your Dyet and Apparel in all things this would answer the Witness of God in people and that being answered it would beget again a love in them towards you which you lost when you went into the excess Therefore be sober and watch in the light of the Lord Jesus Christ which he hath enlightened you withall and believe in it that so ye may be preserved by it out of the deceitfulness of this World and that ye may be kept faithful in your places for the preserving of the outward peace and liberty of the Nation while ye feel a freedom in that which convinceth you of evil for the bearing a carnal Weapon know the manifestation of God's Spirit in you and wait to feel the motions of it and be obedient thereto and this will bring you to do violence to no man nor to accuse any falsly but it will bring you out of all such things if you keep to it and it will make you to be content with such wages as may find you food and rayment and things necessary and convenient for your places and this you would then be worthy of So know the Lord hath a mighty Work to do therefore wait in his light that ye may be kept truly sensible of your places and go not beyond them but keep in the fear of the Lord and wait to know what God requireth of you in your places lest the Lord cast you out So remember you are warned and it is in tender love to your souls This following more particularly concerneth the Officers of the Army 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Rulers of this Nation then the Army in general Take heed of raising or continuing War with other Nations in your own wills for to get your selves a Name and to get their earthly Treasures as some of you have been instruments to do for the Lord's hand hath been and yet is against that and he will not prosper you therein therefore be you warned and know that this is a warning unto you from the Lord God and seek peace and eschew evil and learn to do well that the blessing of the Lord ye may come to feel and that this destroying of creatures about Religion and the honor gain of this World may cease And take heed how ye meddle with Religion for that hath split broken many Rulers before you therefore set not up one sect and throw not down another by an outward law force for that is wrong the Lord is against that but wait in his light to receive his counsel that so ye may be kept in Gods Wisdom that therein ye may be instruments in the hand of the Lord for the keeping